CHICAGO RIOTING BRINGS OUT EXTRA I • ■ • 4 - Conference Called READ THE Brawl Sets Oli NEWS WHILE IT IS NEWS FIRST Rights Progress IN YOUR CHICAGO, Ill. — A stone-throw ÌAMEUiC^S STANOA MONTGOMERY Ala.—Dr. Mar­ ing brawl involving Negro and MEMPHIS WORLD tin Luther King, Jr., Is calling' « white plncinkers provided the meeting ot the Negro Leader» of the South in Montgomery, Afabama spark Sunday which set out spo­ VOLUME 27, NUMBER 3 radic rioting on Chicago’s South­ MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, WEDNESDAY JULY 31, 1957 PRICE SIX CENTS on Thursday. August 8, beginning side and resulted in 500 policemen at 10:90 a. ni. being summoned to extra duty Tills will be an official meeting Monday to curb violence. of the Southern Leadership Con- The Incident was provoked when ferenc« of . which Dr. King 1» Pre­ some 75 Negro picnickers and 50 sident. Tills organization was form­ white men earlier were injured in ed bj January. 1957 In Atlanta. The a brawl at Calumet Park picnic last session of the conference .wia grounds which resulted in two cars held laat Spring in New Orlear& being set afire. At least four per­ where tlie orginlzution agreed ta sons were Injured in later alter­ lead the Prayer Pilgrimage f’o^r cations. School Bill Defeat Freedom to Washington, D. O. Ttiie The rioting set off a series of will ’ be tlie third meeting of thia retaliatory violence against Neg­ BY KENNETH WEISS organization. It will be held at the roes in apparent reprisal for the WASHINGTON, — iINS) Holt Street. Baptist Church pt outbreak. A- crowd of 3,000 wit­ President Elsenhower declared his which Dr A W. wltaon is pastor, nessed the outburst and 100 police •'great ‘ dispointment” Friday that 100 LEADERS EXPECTED were required to restore order. the House killed tlie school bill According to Dr. Kbig, more than Torrid tempers still prevailed but Democrats retorted that de­ one hundred1 leaders from at.least Monday as the Chicago Police De­ feat of tlie measure was his own nbie southern slates are expected fault. partment launched an all-out drive to attend tills meeting. "We hope The legislation which would have to curb further violence and to stem I to have every major southern dty hoodlumlsm and vandalism against provided one and a half billion represented at Uie conference," said Negroes who were returning to dollars to help the states build new Dr. King. work in wake o fthe weekend racial school facilities was beaten by a He 1ms a'so announced that se­ explosion. 208 to 233 vote Thursday. veral Important Issues Mil be dls- SHORTAGE OF SCHOOLS oussed in ttie conference, ’the CAR SBURNED Assistant White House news sec­ No Negroes were on the streets niabi item on the agenda Is the retary Ann E. Wheaton issued the problem of Negroes registering and in predominately white neighbor­ following statement: "The Presi­ hoods but bystanders told reporters voting. Dr. King'stated: .e dent expressed great disappoint­ "Wltiÿs. and means through which that several Negro-owned cars ment that the House did not see were burned and others had win­ We may bicrease the number, «t its way to pass an appropriate Negro voters In the South at (hla dows smashed in the backwash of measure to meet this critical short­ the furor. They belonged to Neg- particular tbne will be our mgeg age of schools.” t Important concern In this meeting.? However. Rep. Augustine Kelley roes living in the area. -----, SOUTHEASTERN TALLADEGANS' PRESENT CHECK TO PRESIDENT Important on the agenda will b?i WRIST WATCHES FOR SAFETY were presented I Depot Commander. They were chosen "Softi- (D) Pa. chief Democratic sponsor GRAY — Mrs. Rosalyn M. Ware, of Birmingham, presents a check discussion of the Civil Rights qin The new violence followed an of the bill, contended blame for Incident at a park in which Negro­ to (left to right) Bob Fargo, foreman, and Hay- Centive" supervisor and employee for the year for $330 to President Arthur D. Gray of Talladega College as a Each community represented WÎ& wood Walker, exterminator at the Memphis ____________________ ____________ _ the rejection of, the program “lies be asked for a report on progress picnickers were stoned by a group because of their outstandihg contributions to the squarely at the feet-of President contribution to the scholarship fund,, by the members of the of white men. A squad of 100 police­ made toward desegregation In that General Depot by Colonel Ottmar F. Kotick, safety program at the Memphis General Depot. Eisenhower/’ y alumni in this region. C. R, Hamilton, recently elected regional particular community. men broke up this fight and, the Kelley tol'd-'newsmen: ”1 think if vice-president of. the alumni association, looks on approvingly. Injured were treated at South Side Woe Fivo »11 mn v. ' f i' EXECUTIVES MEET he had come out -with a strong This was the climax feature òf meeting Is tlie fourth to be es­ hotels. the three-day meet held In Pfeiffer The Executive Committee of th« Most of the injured suffered cuts statement We could have won .... tablished. The Fox Lake, Indiana Southern Leadership Conference we only lost by live votes.’’ Hall of Clark ’College. Talladega Regional was the first followed by will meet a day earlier to discuss and bruises. Seven injured Negroes City Bus Service For Beale One hundred and eleven Repub­ Alumni of Georgia, Alabama, South were women; four were children. tile Eastern, held at Vassar College, Important organizational matters ta licans and 97 Democrats voted to Carolina and Tennessee assembled Poughkeepsie, N. Y„ and the Gulf make for the smooth operation The white man was slashed across spike the bill while 126 Democrats for a week of fellowship and dis­ neck and shoulders with a knife. Coast, at Bethune-Cookman Col­ the conference and the and 77 Republicans sought to keep cussion on "Tlie Plight of The Pri­ lege In Daytona Beach. These Re- crganlzan.iu more eirectlve in' the St. Raises Question Mark , it alive. Among those voting' for its vate College in Light of Present gionals are held each year to keep South. Tlie meeting o® the Execu­ rejection were assistant GOP lead­ Economic and Social- Trends".1 Dr. alive tlie interest In Alma, Miater tive Committee will begin at 12 er Charles Halleck of Indiana and James P. Brawley of Clark College à‘- Will city bus service be restored rights. * created another by denying a lot of and rekindle fellowship among Tal- clock noon on Wednesday 1 Âügust 20 Win Awards GOP whip Leslie Arends of Illi­ led the discussion. Dr. Herman Hl ladegans and Friends. The atten­ 7. The Executive Committee 'oS- to Beale Street or will it not? That The group, pawn brokers also ex- people public transportation on nois. Long, ofj Nashville acted as modera­ is still the big question, in the minds ■ plained that many of their custom­ Beale. dance at all these meetings report­ sists of tlie Officers at the rirgard- SECOND YEAR IN ROW tor for the panel. Dean A. A. Mc- edly Is growing. zatlon and dne representative. Trom of two groups of Beale Street mer­ ers who come to borrow money, bring The hearing resulted' after the Pheetors and Dr. Gray contributed For Personnel chants. One group is for restoration It marked the second year in a each di the southern states. ';- ; televisions, refrigerators, motors and “East” group, called the “Beale St: .their experiences and views on the row that the House has turned The Atlanta Talladega Club was Officers other than Dr.'King art! of, bus service and the other opposes other bulky appliances In trucks. Transportation Committee,” peti- subject.. Talladega. -College, is a down a school aid bill wi(,h auranti- host for tills meeting and al) mem­ . .Rev, C. K..Steele, Taltahàwe^, Fta- 'V'; •''< ‘ They- also said buses- would inter- tlonqd two,city commissioners apd member of thè UNCF and ilsralum-' segregatlon ¿amendment playing, a bers extended themselves to en­ 1st Vict. president;- A city '’Transit Committee told fere -.with loading-arid .unloading," Mayor Orgill, several .months ago. ir! And friends pledge strong suppoi-t key role both■ times.— ..a -■■■' 7, •? tertain the visitors and to show to is. Now Orleans, 2nd Vice-presi­ both sides it would "take the matter “A member of the “East” group The Tr&nslt Committee gave no lfi- xiT the fund. to them tlie highlights 01 this'great r Twenty top military -and civilian told the Memphis World following The legliat►tlon was considered dent; Rev. t. j. Jemison, ^ton executives of the Memphis General Under advisement” after both sides (Continued on Page Six) before debate This first Southeastern Regional city. 1 (Continued on Page Sli)-''11 presented arguments during an in­ the committee meeting, "if the pawn in serious trouble Depot today received certificates brokers’ customers are required to even began .because the President ■ from Colonel Ottmar F. Kotlck, formal hearing the City’s Public lukewarm en- Works office, Friday. use trucks to bring and carry items, gave the bill only a commanding officer, for completing then the pawn brokers should de­ dorsement. Adoption of an amend- a 15 hour course in Personnel Man? Merchants east of Hernando St. ment which would have denied on Beale are’ petitioning for the clare themselves heavy duty indus­ Jurors Of Clinton Schopf agement for Executives. funds to any school district refus- restoration. Those west of Hernan­ tries.” Such heavy equipment should t SÇv This is the first time such a not be permitted to be loaded and ing to end racial segregation doom­ workshop has been offered at the do St.