Insult Not For All Of Race-Lanham »TAkpArf. * ATLANTA, Oa. - (SNS) — friend of the Negroes continue to VOLUME 24, NUMBER 58 MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1956 While announcing that he has ne- try to interfere with the orderly vet >*n a member of the Ku Klux process of the courts of the state in Klgn. Hep. Henderson Lanham from their efforts to protect the women -I J Georgia declared on the floor of the of the South from "the black beast* House Thursday: "The good people who . attack them, the white men of 1 of Georgia and the Southland will the. South and even the good Ne- find a way to protect our Souttorn gtoM m the South will respond in womanhood from black rapists " a manner that will be surprising to IKE WOULD TAKE NIXON FOR RUNNING • “ »F y Lanham was supported by oilier the NAACP." members of the Georgia delegation The above statement came from which included Peps. Jack Flynt the office of Rep. Lanham in Wash­ James C. Davis ar.d E. L. Forres­ ington. ter. lanham had become ar ¡used over In a telegram to Rep. Lanham, an FBI investigation of the Cobb Mr. Scott said: MATE, INTIMATE FRIENDS DISCLOSE County Jury selection methods’ "You are quoted in an article by Cobb County is Lanham’s district. Ken Turner, in January 5. Atlanta The investigation in Cobb County Journal as referring to memoers of followed the U. 3. Supreme Court's Negro race as black rapists in re­ ruling in the case of Amos Ikece. a ference to Reece case in Cobb Expect Decision To Come Negro charged with the assault of County. I hope this is incorrect and 73 Students a wtjlte woman The ruling was that you will ask a correction by Mr. I • s Reece had been improperly indict­ Turnar To refer to people as beasts ed is highly insulting, and I am sure Sometime Late In March ATTENDS FIRST MEETING----- Meanwhile Pre'ident Elsenhower you and I want to act as repsonsible Cleared In NO Dr W 8. Davla, president of Tenne­ in his State oi the Union message persons in testing times like we BY WILLIAM K. HUTCHINSON Thj’fday ask«o full investigation of confront We cannot ignore this ssee Siate University, scotres an- Chief, Washington Bureau, International New« Service jthc, first in Tennessee aa he be­ of racial troubles in the 8outh. statement." WASHINGTON - (INS) - President Eisenhower has told inti- comes Gov. Frank G. Clemnt's ap- Disturbance . “It is disturbing." he said in his Jn his answer, Lanham raid: mote friends that if he runs for re-election, he wants Vice Presi­ pqlnte to the Commission on Youth State of the Union message, "that "... was discussing case of NEW ORLEANS- (IN8)-«eveMjr Guidance. dent Richard M. Nixon as his running-mate. in some localities allegations persist Reece, convicted Negro rapist and threezNegio college students who that Negro citizens are being depriv­ used words "black beasts" only with Es'ablished by the 1965 legisla­ His friends insist today the presi­ 1 were arretted Wednesday night «• ed of their right to vote and are like ture. the commission has a mem­ reference to such as he and had no dent's disclosure cannot be inter­ ter a disturbance on a New «»lea* wise being subjected to unwarrant­ idea of applying terms to race as bers): ip of nine appointed by the preted as a final decision to run bus have been cleared of all charg- ed economic pressures whole." He also inferred that his Governor. Replacing Morris Lang- again But they emphasize that he Checkerboard i'*’■ ■rJ' Lanham, said in a telegram to statement meant “any man who at­ ford of Johnson City, who reslgn- ft still holding the door wide open Tlie students, from Xavier Collate C. A. Scott "those who pose as the tacks a woman, white or black. (('intlnued On Back Page) I to seek a second term. tnd Dillard University, wars ar- , rated after a dispute involving the Í SAME TICKET Pattern Seen His intimates say there are any tmoval of a sign in the bus which number of eventualities which designatod where Negroes were to might persuade him to reHfeTThey sit. L & N. Railroad To End Passenger assert his request only means that In ICC Ruling The drlvet; of the bus, Franoll if he dpes run, he wants the same Roux, (alled-poliee when the atü» dents failed to obey his request to ticket that won in 1962; despite BY ROBERT H. DENLEY widespread democratic attacks Oil make room for a white passenger th International News Service Nixon in recent months 'he already crowded bus * The outlook today was for a White House circle« predict he Four oiflcero were sent to the Segregation In Tennessee Today checkerboard pattern of compliance will not announce his decision on i scene, but their effort* to quiet the and defiance when conflicting fede­ whether h'«*will seek re-election 1 undents were met with loud guf* ral and state regulations governing DY R.4YMOND F. T1SBY coach. with It a while and see how it until late in March or possibly af­ I taws. They closed the doors of the racial relations bump heads again DEPOTS TO BE MIXED; NO The I. and N's-action is being works out.” ter Easter Sunday (April 1.) They , bus and chlled tor reinforcements. in the south next week. This time it CHANGE IN MEMPHIS taken to comply with an Inter­ Joiitnsg th: L and N in announc­ ]X)int out that Senate Democratic Thq Ncvroes were taken to a ata- will be in the fiel dot transportation. state Commerce Commission order ing the desegregation move was leader Lyndon Johnson was not ion and booked for disturbing the On Tuesday, an Interstate Com- ..Racial segregation of interstate Issued Nov. 25 directing racial seg­ the Southern Railroad which also ¡pronounced fit for his duties un­ peace and loud and boisterous een- pasaugert on the L and N Rail­ meice Commission order barring se- 1 duct They -were paroled eeverai regation on interstate (state to operates thru Memphis. , til 26 weeks alter his attack. If Ike’s grevation will go into effect. road will end today (Tuesday) in state) trains and buses to be ended A xjickesmrn for the Southern ¡doctors take the same time to de­ hours later to Dr. Albert W. Dent, Oil k lais of seme deep south states (Illes thruout Tennessee, but not in by Jan. 10. The order also banned line, which operates thru Memphis (resident of DUlard. termine whether he can stand the however, maintainedjthat state laws Memphis. segregation of interstate passen­ Union Station as do the L and N ¡phyaleal pressure of another term, One of the students, Fanny Car- requiring that very segregation re­ ..Last weekend in Nashville!. It. gers in public waiting rooms........... said the railroad company will com­ .their decision will be delayed unltl RETURNS FROM LANGUAGE MEET - Dr. Al.no T. Wolkins, head ver. 17. was charged with inciting 4 main in effect and will be enforced dot, but Judge Andrew G. Bucato C. pParsons, L and N vice presi­ Psrsons said separate coaches ply with the ICC order. Today, Jam. March 19. of Tennessee State University's Modern Foreign language Depart­ dent and general manager, an- Left in the middle are the rail­ aid he found no evidence that any will be provided for Negroes in in­ 10th is the deadline for compliance. LIKES NIXON ment, has just returned from the meeting of the Modern Foreign roads and bus lines to whom the ICC ! one perwin was responsible for the nswiced that racial segregation^ tra state (from place lo place with­ Iromcajly, passenger integration .. The President's choice of Nixon order was directed. Language Association in Chicago. She is shown with a part of: disturbance. on aspecta, involving interstate pas­ in the state) travel “This has to will not come to Memphis by the as a running-mate, if he seeks re­ Tl’i order bars racial discrimina­ her valuable objets d'art collection which represents some of her- T;f judge remarked that ths to- sengers of the L and N line will be done to comply with state laws acts of the L and N and Southern flection, surprise no one in the Re­ tion among interstate p»esengers extensive travel abroad and in this country. Since Spanish i’i Dr ‘den' *HS lhe end today thruout the L and N requiring segregation," he added. !mqs b< cause, according to a re- publican Parly, Ike thinks highly on trains and buses and at the train some mood" brought on by t tw- system. jxtrt credited, to N N. Hopkins in cf lik-k and hag shown it. The Watkins ma|or interest (she ogrned the doctorate at Cornell in krioai; Ulllnt. ’■ He (jointed out that the separate and bps terminals. ketball game between the M .. Pai sons said the move will in­ a daily papa. no changes will be president has trusled him with very that area), much of her tiipe has been soent in travel and study in I schools. The................... students __jhad just, ¡¡ft (waiting rooms will still be main­ The ordei does not bar discrimina­ volve removing ail signs designat­ effected at .Union Station here be- important .taignmrnU, greater by tion among travelers within the Mexico ond Spain. In addition to leaching, writinq and publish- the came when they boarded thf tained and. theoretically, intrastate caus? the Memphis station is a ing separate waiting rooms and far than anv ever given any other borders of a single state.