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Ho Progroai Without fltrof|te
"If there la no draggle, then it
no provrrH Thou who profeee to
favor freedom, and yet depredate
agitation, art man woo want oropa
without ploughing op tha ground.
... Power oonoedaa nothing without
• demand. It never did and never
will "
—Frederick Dnnglaaa
San Antonio Register
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Dirksen, Loag Hostility Kills Rights Bill
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SENATOR'S ASSISTANT GETS HARVARD SCHOLARSHIP-.United
States Senator Hugh Scott (R., Pa.) glvei a firewall gift to hie ataff
Militant, Mln Marva Paulette Jonoi of Dugueane, Pa., as ihe leavea
to accapt a icholarahlp to Harvard Law achool. Senator Scott, who
has one of the beet Integrated staffs In the Senate, hired Mlia Jonee
for his Washington staff after ahe graduated from Howard unlveralty.
Violence, Thefts
Keep Local
Police on Run
Knifings, (minings and a rash
of burglaries and thefta continued
to keep San Antonio police busy
over the past week.
James W. HUllard, 231 Mo-
bile walk, treated at the emer-
gency room at Robert B. Green
hospital, Saturday, for cuts on the
left arm and wrist, told police
he waa knifed at a Runnels and
Moore atreet address whan he at-
tempted to break up a fight.
11,000 Watch
Van Lee Lacey, 133 Joy, was
attacked by three men, and loata
$1,000 watch to the trio, In an
early Sunday morning mugging
which he said took place at Men-
chaca and Hamilton afreets.
Lacey told police he had picked
up three men In his automobile
with the understanding that he
would be paid one dollar for driv-
ing them to East Commerce and
East Houston streets. He declar-
ed, however, that upon arriv-
ing at the agreed location, the men
than asked to be taken to Men-
chaca and Hamilton streets.
Lacey obliged, but when they
reached their destination, he said
his passengers refused to leave
the car. When he opened the
door of the vehicle and asked the
men to get out he alleged that
one of the trio struck him with
(See POLICE, Page 3.)
Biggest Cities
Now More Than
One-Third Negro
Negro Press International
NEW YORK ■•Several of
the nation's largest cities
ere now more then a third
Negro — end Indications
aro that many of them will
hove Negro me|erltlee In
e few decodes, e now sur-
vey has revealed.
The notion's capital,
Washington, D.C. leads
the notion with e t) per
cent Negro peeviction.
In the "40a" ere Belli,
more, with 4) per cent;
Newerk, N.J., with 40 per
cent, aid New Orleone,
with 41 per cent!
Memphis end Atlanta
ore sold to bo 38 par cant
black. Detroit is 39 per
cent, and Chicago Is closo
to one-third Negro.
Former Wheefley
Teacher Dies
Suddenly in D.C.
Word was received here, Wed-
nesday, of the death In Washing-
ton, D.C., of former San An-
tonlan, Lieut. Col. John Welling-
ton Holland. His death was attri-
buted to a heart attack, suffered
Tuesday.
Holland, a native San Antonlan
(See FORMER, Page 3.)
Violence in AtlantaMay Prompt
Martin Luther King to Return
By Negro Press International
ATLANTA—The recent outbreak of rioting, brought on by
shooting of a teen-ager by a white man, has momentarialy dis-
rupted Dr. Martin Luther King's drive to open up the North to
Negroes.
The rioting in Atlanta, which spread over three nights, led
Dr. King to mull over plans to move the non-violent campaign
back to the capital and industrial center of Georgia to intervene
In the tug-of-war that has erupt-
ed between Mayor Ivan Allan and
the Student Non- violent Coordin-
ating committee.
Dr. King could be the "man In
the middle" who could put out
the fire In Atlanta and channel
pent - up racial anlmolaltlee In
this "progressive" cltylntoclrll
rights concessions from whites.
However, not all Negro At-
lantans approve of hla plana to
bring hla campaign back to At-
lanta, where hla Southern Chris-
tian Leadership conference has
Its headquartera.
The Rev. Samuel W. Williams,
chairman, Atlanta VAACP chap-
ter, reported that "Dr. King does
not go anywhere unless the local
leaders ask him In."
Wllllama, a leader of the At-
lanta, Summit Leaderahlp con-
ference and a member of SCIC'a
board, added that "We have not
made any auch request and we
do not Intend to."
He did not explain why Atlanta-
born Dr. King, whoae church and
SCK headquartera have long been
In Atlanta, would have to be
"asked Into" Atlanta.
Some of Dr. Klng'a aides have
urged lar|e marches anddemon-
atratlona to curb Negro rioting
and to force concessions from the
white community.
The dlaturbance waa aet off by
the alaylng of a Negro youth by
gunfire from a passing car. Wil-
liam Haywood James, a 42-
year-old white man, waa charged
in the slaying of the 16-year-old.
The alaylng touched off three
nights of racial violence in
Atlanta, which resulted in tha
Jailing of Stokely Carmlchael.
Carmlchaal waa charged with
inciting tha riot and later In-
dicted on riot charges. He waa
accused of hiring a SNCC truck
to crulae through a Negro area
and give residents a SNCC ver-
alon of the wounding of a Negro
(See VIOLENCE, Page 3J
N.O. Has More
Negro Than White
School Children
New Orleans Has 65,779
Negro, 36,800 White
Children in Schools
By Negro Pren International
NEW ORLEANS—According to
reports from the depsrtment of
superintendence, New Orleans
public schools, there are now
6,238 Negro children attending
formerly all-white schools.
A breakdown shows that 3,133
are In 40 desegregsted schools
In grades kindergarten through
six; 1,112 In gradea seven
through 11 and one In a senior
high school, grade 12.
In addition there are mora
Negroea In the New Orleana pub-
lic schools than whltei--63,779
Negro children and only 36,800
white.
In an attempt to find out why
there are more Negro children
now than whites, the concenaua
seems to be that the whites left
the public achools to attend pri-
vate and parochl.il schools to
escape integration.
It waa alao reported that there
were 23 white children now at-
tending achoola heretofore all-
Negro and one -vhlte child in a
Junior high achool formerly all-
Negro.
There haa alao been aotne In-
tegration of teachera with white
teacbere being tranaferrod to
formerly all-Negro achools and
vice versa. Four Negro teachera
have been transferred to white
schools-three la John F. Kennedy
new high school and one In Mc-
Donogh 10, an elemerlary achool.
At the eame time five white
teachera have been transferred to
all-Negro schools—one each In
Clark, Bell, and Phllllpa and two
in McDonogh 35 high school.
In the Catholic achoola, no
number of students or teachers
transfers were given. The de-
partment of superintendence said
"We are teaching children and
not races." It was ascertained,
however, that Integration had oc-
curred In every grade of paro-
chial schools In considerably
larger numbers.
United Negro
CellegeFund Gets
s50,000 Gitt
NEW YORK, N.Y.,—The Max
C. Flelschmann foundation of
Nevada has contributed ISO,000 to
the 1966 United Negro College
fund appeal, It was announced
Monday by Dr. Stephen J. Wright,
president of the fund.
The gift, which will help
support the fund's 33 member
colleges and universities, sup-
plements $310,000 contributed by
the foundation in previous years.
"The foundation contribution,"
Dr. Wright noted, "marka an
Important milestone In advancing
educational opportunities for
thousands of Negro youth who are
struggling to achieve social and
economic equality through educa-
tional attainment."
Speaking on behalf of the
college fiuid'a foundation com-
mittee, vice - chairman Harold
Halm, who la also chairman of
the executive committee of the
Chemical Bank New York Trust
co., declared:
"The generoalty of the Max C.
Flelachmann foundation, through
lta gift to the UNCF, will help
fulfill the aaplrationa of a great
many of our fellow Americana for
improved educational opportuni-
ties.
"B will be used to bolster
scholarahip aid to mora than
16,000 needy students, to buy
essential equipment, develop new
educational programs, improve
faculties, and etrengthsn library
holdlnga. It will be spent entirely
for teaching and laarnlng--for
human beings and the actual tools
needed to provide more and better
education."
CONFER--Poatmaeter General Lawrence F. O'Brien (right)
confers with Henry W. McGee, personnel director of the Chicago
postal rsglon, whose appointment to be acting postmaster of Chicago
was snnounced recently. McGee will be the top ranking Negro In the
postal field service In his new position, and is to be Installed lntc
office as acting head of the Chicago office on September 26.
A careerist, McGee entered the postal service In Chicago In 1929
as a substitute letter carrier. Ia 194! he was made responsible for
hiring and processing all Chicago post office employees.
Hs has also served as general foremui in charge of finance, and
atatlon aupervloaor under the Chicago pott offlce.In 1963 he was se-
lected from among 66,000 employees U all federal agencies In the
Chicago area as "Outstanding Federal Supervisor of 1963."
MobbedChildren s Ke«,° *• -elected
Medictl Expenses 01
To he Paid % W#"
■ ^ BF W I Ik M ■ in P.asa Leansi
(Special to San Antonio Register)
NEW YORK--Any medical ex-
penses incurred from whit* ra-
cists' attacks upon Negro child-
ren as they attempted to attend
school In Grenada, Miss., last
week will be paid by staff mem-
bers of the board of national
missions of the United Presby-
terian Church UjS.A.
That announcement was made
by the Rev. Dr. Kenneth G.Nelgfc,
general secretary of the de-
nomination's home missions
agency.
In announcing the staff's dec-
laration of intent, Dr. Neigh
deplored "the violence brought
upon those children going to
school according to the law,"
"We have compassion, concern
and sorrow for those children and
adults - -both Negro and white--
whose injury to themselves and to
our country Is so much deeper
than the physical blows per-
petrated or sustained by their
Nogro Press International
SAN FRANCISCO-Fam-
ous concert pianist Louis
Ceesar, the first Nogro to
ser e a> director of the
Sen Froncisco Symphony
foundation, was over-
whelmingly re-eleetad to a
throe yeor term ending,in
1949. and moy hove be-
come the first person of
any roce to be so "im-
minently re-elected."
Among her most out-
standing achievements as
director of the foundation
was the establishment of
a "Start a Symphony Fam-
ily" plan under which an
oward was provided to oid
deprived persons.
The Son Francisco Sym-
phony organization is
ranked among the "elite
eleven" in the nation.
(See CHILDREN, Page 3.)
S.A. Woman
Sidewalk Liquor
Vendor Nabbed
A 35-year-old San Antonio wo-
man, under surveillance by the
vice squad for the past two weeks,
for the suspected Illegal sale of
whiskey, was arrested Saturday
night, after allegedly making a
sale to an undercover agent.
Booked at city Jail for selling
whiskey without a permit was
Mrs. Peggy Joyce Murphy, JS,
103 Vargas street.
According to policy reports,
Mrs. Murphy conducted her rath-
er unique "business" enterprise
from a chair which she occtgriad
on the sidewalk In front of bet
home. As cars would drive up
to the residence, Mra. Murphy
reportedly took the customer's
order and would promptly fill It,
For several nights, prlortothe
arrest, officers had watched the
operation In progreas and, on
occasions, an taidarcovsr man ®akfc
Negro fo Direct
U.S. Information
Agency in Chad
Register Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, D.C.-John H.
Thompson, of 4243 Don Marino
drive, Los Angeles, California,
a Negro, is en route to Chad to
direct United States Information
agency work in that African coun-
try.
Leonard H. Marks, USIA direc-
tor, appointed him USIA country
affairs officer there, after
Thompson completed a year of
African studies at the University
of California In Los Angeles.
Thompson Is no stranger to
Africa. He Joined USIA as a
foreign service officer In 1955
and was sent to Ibadan, Nigeria,
where he opened and operated
a USIA branch post until 1957.
He spent the next five years
working for an oil company In
Ghana, then returned to USIA,
which assigned him to Nigeria as
Information officer. On comple-
tion of that tour of duty he was
sent to UCLA.
As country public affairs
officer for Chad, Thompson will
his headquarters In Fort
had made purchases. The
procedure was followed on Satur-
day night and, after Mra. Mur-
phy had made the aale to an agent,
she was promptly nabbed end
taken to vie* squad headquartera.
Confiscated and placed' la
police property were some 61
bottlee of assorted whiakloe and
wines.
Lamy and direct a seven-man
staff in establishing understand-
ing of United States Ideals and
objectives by using all media,
including press, publications,
motion pictures, exhibits and a
library program.
Hla wife, the former Leone E.
(See AGENCY, Page 3).
Sippi School
Kids Finally Get
Some Protection
But Federal Court
Order is Necessary
To Cheek Brutality
By Negro Press Internationa]
GRENADA, Mlss.--Offlclals in
this sleepy town finally agreed
reluctantly to protect Negro
pupils attending previously all-
white schools--but only after the
federal government took the case
to United States district court.
Some 50 Mississippi highway
patrolmen In riot gear protected
Negro pupils after turning their
heads the other way as white
roughs harassed them for two
days.
Two key factors appeared to In-
fluence city and state officials to
protect the pupils
1. As Mayor J.D. Qulnn put It
Mississippi officials had the
choice between calling In the
highway patrol and having federal
marshals move In and the Nation-
al Guard federalized.
2. The nation's major wire ser-
vice - - Associated Press and
United Press International - •
complained bitterly that their re-
porters were being harassed and
beaten In Grenada during racial
dlstrubances accompany local
school Integration.
With a bad enough racial Image,
Mississippi officiate recognized
the "power of the press" and de-
cided against further worsening
that image, If that were possible.
Meanwhile, Justice department
attorneys succeeded In obtaining
a temporary restraining order
directing Grenada authorities to
provide protection for Negro
children. At a later hearing
federal officials successfully
sought to have that order made
permanent.
Federal officials called wit-
nesses to the stand to testify that
Grenada police stood idly by while
white toughs taunted Negro stu-
dents with bricks and clubs.
United States District Judge
Claude Clayton, Friday, made
permanent his order that Negro
children In Grenada be protected
from attacks by whites enraged
by school desegregation.
He said the attacks on the
children, last Monday and Tues-
day, by white men swinging ax
handles and chains were "savage
and senseless."
"I am astonished that such vio-
lence could happen once," Clay-
ton said, "but It is absolutely
Incredible that It could have
happened as many times as It
did with so little reaction on the
part of public officials."
His ruling came after two days
of testimony on the violence out-
side schools newly desegregated
under court order. In many In-
stances, police merely watched
the beatings.
Failure to obey the Injunction
(See SOME, Page 3.)
Young Womanr
Crossing Street,
Struck by Auto
Mrs. Mildred Allison, 20,1614
North New Braunfels avenue, was
treated at Baptist Memorial hos-
pital, where she was taken by San
Antonio ambulance, for lnjuirles
sustained when s*he was struck
by an automobile, early Friday
evening, at 2100 East Houston
street.
Mrs. Allison, according to
police reports, was attempting
to cross the street at th» above
location, after alighting from
a bus when the accident occurred.
Driver of the automobile was
listed Charles W. Williams, 30,
159 Michael atreet, traveling east
on Houston street. Although the
traffic light waa In his favor at
the time of the accident, Wllllama
was cited for failure to use proper
lookout and was booked tor ag-
gravated assault with a motor
vehicle.
Texans Split Vote;
Yarborough For,
Tower is Against
ft \SHINGTO\--Combined top Democratic and Republic op-
position sounded the death knell on the open-housing civil
rights bill, Monday, when the Senate refused, for the second
time in less than a week, to limit debate on it.
The old Dixi e-Conservative Republican clique suceeded in
preventing the bill from seeing the light of day in the Senate,
as Republican leader Sen. Everett M. Dirksen (R-Ill.) made it
known that he would not support
the bill, which he called "un-
constitutional." Dlrksen's sup-
port had been needed to save
previous bllli from Dixie fili-
busters and this was no excep-
tion.
Another vigorous campaigner
against the bill was top Demo-
cratic leader Sen. Russell B.
Long of Louisiana, who joined
other Dixie aenatora In a fili-
buster against paasage of the
measure.
The Dlrken-Long combination
proved unbeatable as senators,
both In the South and In the North,
apparently took heed of the
"white backlash" against the
bill's housing provision, which
would ban discrimination in some
housing areaa.
Paasage of the highly contro-
versial bill had long since seem-
ed almost hopeless, and, on tome
daya, ao few aenatora ihowed up
for roll calli that the Senate
had to adjourn.
The final vote on cutting off
filibustering was St to 41 - -10
short of the two-third margin re-
(See BILL, Page 30
Auto Brakes fail,
BuildingKnocked
Off Foundation
The entire front wall of the
Gaicla cafe, 413Sprlggsdale, was
moved three feet off Its foundation
and two plate glass windows
smashed, as a result of a one-
car traffic accident, Saturday
evening.
Driver of the automobile was
listed as Mrs. Mary Gler, 435
Bundy. According to police re-
ports, Mrs. Gler was attempting
to park her car In front of the
cafe, when her brakes failed and
the vehicle ploughed through the
front windows.
Damages were not Immediately
set, on either the building or the
automobile.
Ambassadorial
Post Tops State
Appointments
Columbia I . Professor
Sworn in as tpper
\ olta Ambassador
Register Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON - Heading the Hat
of a group of recent ambassador-
ial and officer level appointments
of special Interest In the de-
partment of state If Elliot P.
Skinner who was recently sworn
In as American ambassador to
the Republic of Upper Volta.
Ambassador Skinner Is on
leave of absence from Columbia
university, where he li an
associate professor In the de-
partment of anthropology. He Is
the only Negro American who
awtti Morrt, tan lan»«usCt»
Moesl tribe, which accounts tor
nearly two million of Upper
Volta's over four million people.
Skinner Is wall acquainted with
Upper Volta, and since 1954 has
visited tbe.e three times. On his
last visit he spent several months
working on a research project.
In addition to Morrl, he speaks
excellent French. Abassador
Skinner received his B.A. from
New York university and his M. A.
and Ph.D. de- • ees from Colum-
bia university. Mrs. Skinner and
their four children are accom-
panying hira to the embassy In
the capital city, Ouagadougou.
Another notable recent ap-
point ee Is Miss Barbara M.Wat-
son, who was sworn In, this
summer, as a special assistant
to the deputy under secretary of
state for administration, William
J. Crockett. Miss Watson has
since been named deputy ad-
ministrator of the Bureau of Se-
curity and Consular Affairs.
(See APPOINTMENTS, Page 30
GettingPoliceProtection Bigger
Problem Than Police Brutality
By Negro Press International
WASHINGTON—Getting police protection from criminal ele-
ments is a bigger problem in the Negro community than police
brutality, a survey released by the Senate subcommittee on ex-
ecutive reorganization has reported.
According to the survey, crime and housing are rated as the
two major problems in the ghetto.
"The apparent meaning of putting crime at the head of the
list. . ,1s that more police pi in-
fection Is wanted," said the re-
port, prepared by John F. Kraft,
Inc.
The survey noted that even In
riot-scarred Watts, a plurality
of those Interviewed, 47 per cent,
looked favorable upon the police.
"The Negro, like anyone else,
wants to preserve his family
from harm, and for this there
must be adequate police protec-
tion. . . .What exists in the
ghettos at present Is apparently
a situation whereby a small mi-
nority-the crlminals--tyrannlze
over a large majority, making de-
cent living all but Impossible."
The survey described the "av-
erage Negro" as living In "near-
anarchy."
An example of this need for
police protection was found on
Chicago's south side, where par-
ents In the neighborhood of Betsy
Ross elementary school were
pleading for police protection of
their children as they go to and
from school.
Teen - age gangs make the
streets unsafe In that area--
especlally for teen-agers. Rival
gangs have declared war on each
others' "Turfs," and gunfire Is
frequently heard.
Even the school principal has
put In an urgent call for police
protection at his school, where
beatings, extortion, trespassing
by non-students, and break - Ins
are an everybody occurrence.
"I cant Imagine any school
having any more of a problem
than we've had here." said Wil-
liam McNerney, Betsy Ross prin-
cipal, as he pleaded for at least
one policeman to be stationed full
time at the elementary school.
Meanwhile, parents at a near-
by pdbllc housing building threat-
ened to keep their children out of
school unless police beef up pro-
tection for them. Police offered
this, but parents still had to
(See BIGGER, Page 30
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