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FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1M5
■AN AWT0MI0 WO»»TKB
Thurgood Marthal! Hods U. S. Delegation
At Stockholm Crime Conference
By Negro Prra Iatrrnatlonil
WASHINGTON—Nrwljr draltnalnl Sollrllor Gm«r*l Thor«ood
Marihall left for Rtorklinlm, laat «Mk, M thiol of the Vnltoi
Hltln Mriallm to ■ Vnilnl Natlnn'i ronformre on rrlnif.
Marshall ha* bwn InaUi'drd to comfy to Uio ollirr d»lf«atf« th«
Prmldent'a dwv Intcrrat la the prohloma of (rime Mid to Inform them
«f hla Intention to open ■ "maaalvt attarli on Uie roota of crime in
the I'nitnl WUlea."
The ronfereneo la the third I'nlled Natlona tofifraaa on tho pro-
Tentlon of rrlme Mid the treatment of offender*.
The meet Inn are held ever)' fire j ean to diaraaa rmuaea and pre-
vention of rrlme, and tho rehabilitation of rrimlnala.
Nation-wide Hunt
On for Officer-
Killing Brothers
Chicago Policeman
Slain in Holdup
Of Food Store
Negro Prefli International
OltyCAGO—A nation-wide dragnet
wan launched here laat week for two
Kegro men, brothers, accused of alay-
Infr a police sergeant during a food
•tore robbery.
The auipecta were identified oh
Bichiird, and lJolice 1'. Black, aged
20 and 21, respectively. Hollce, re-
portedly estranged from hia wife,
Barbara, in believed to be the one
who pulled the trigger that aent a bul-
let counting through the brain of
Sgt. Charles Klchhorst, 43. The po-
lieeiua'n died Instantly.
Hgt. Kiohhorat had Interrupted a
robbery at the Treasure Island Food
store on the north aide.
The Blnck brothers became the ob-
jects of the masrive manhunt after
their cousin, Mrs. Ruth May John-
son, 40, reported that her husband,
Lindell. had driven the men hurriedly
to (»ary, Ind., a few hours after the
ahooting.
Johnson said he intended to drive
the Blacks only to a hua station but
couldn't find one. Therefore, he drove
|o (Jary and dropped them off. Ironi-
cally. in front of a jM.liee station.
Police suspicion of the pair was
strengthened nfter Johnson said Illch-
trd Btsek had told him as they got
out of the car that his brother. IIol-
Ise, was wanted. lie quoted Richard
as saving:
"Horry to make you do thia (drive
to Gary). We're In trouble, lota of
Iroubl* HoMee 4s wanted on auspi-
don of shooting a. policeman."
Sgt. EXchhorst reportedly had gone
to the vicinity of the ators to in-
vestigst* ft re|K>rt of a broken parking
meter. As ha arrived, ft witness shout-
ed to him that ft robbery waa in prog-
One of the robbers, a lookout, ran
across ths street, but the policeman
drew his revolver, stopped him, snd
was searching him when the other
robber tarns out of ths store.
Three shots rang oat snd Sgt. Eich-
borst fell mortally wounded.
Following the slaying, Chicago po-
lice spread a dragnet throughout the
dty tliftt was later extended to Gary
and nammoad, Ind., after learning
that ths men bsd escaped to the
"8t*el Oity." The dragnet later waa
sitended to Include California, when
It waa learned that the two had in-
tended to go there to look for work.
Meanwhile, ft murder warrant for
the arrest of the Black brothera waa
issued by Judge Daniel Ryan. A later
charge of fleeing to escape arrest
was added and made the men subject
to srrest In sny state. Mrs. Johnson
told police the two might be making
their way to Dodville, Miss., or To-
ledo, Ohio, where they have relatives.
The sxtenaion of the search to Cal-
ifornia waa the result of a remark
one of the Blnck brothers ia said te
hava made three days before the rob-
bery-slaying.
Richard, a former Golden Gloves
fighter, is aaid to have told Warnef
Saunders, director, Better Boys foun*
dstion, that he had lost hia job aa •
car hiker, and was thinking of turn-
ing to professional boxing and mov-
ing to California where "a guy has ft
better chance than here (Chicago).H
When asked how he and his weight-
lifting brother, Uoliee, would get the
money to go to California, Richard is
reported to have said "don't worry,
we'll fftid a way."
throughout the state showa 800 per-
sons registered In Coahoma county;
1,000 in Jackson; 1,700 In Natches,
and 721 In Vicksburg.
In Madison county, ths MAA0P
has been successful In registering 013
persons this summer. Negroes out-
number whites by three to one in the
county.
In Meridian, 1,200 persons are now
registered voters. In Hsttlesburg
1,B00 bars l*en added and in Wash-
ington county, 1,563.
In the famous summer project of
1064, less than 800 persons were reg-
istered in the entire stste.
12,619 Added
To Voter Rolls
In Mississippi
(Spec ial to San Antonio Register)
JACKSON, Miss. — The appoint-
ment, thus far, of federal voting reg-
i ^r.T-s in nine southern counties, with
: itinnal appointments anticipated
lv, is expected to substantially
, t e XAACP voter registration
: ,ii being conducted this sum-
i • in Mississippi, South Carolina
it. -1 Alabr.mn.
i a t!r.-ec-duy period, Aug. 9-11,
j i persons registered in Natches,
1 s persons in ,l^:kson and 248 in
\ icksjurg. Sine, (he NAACP opened
its voter registration drive in Miss-
issippi on July 4, a total of 12,619
persona have become bona fide voters
iu tl>o state, Miss Althea T. b. Sim-
mor.n. coordinator of the three-state
>»roJcct, reported on August 12.
One of the registrars has been
h« ut to LeFlore county, Mi**., where
only 2.1 per cent of the Negroes are
registered. In this coKlnty, where
Negroes outnumber whites by ft ratio
of three to one, 71.5 per cent of the
white population are ffgtstered vot-
ers.
Ths NAACP plana to "blita the
areas that gel federal examiners,"
Miss Simmons said. Approximately
145 out-of-state and full-time local
volunteers have been sent to LeFlore
and Madison county, the other county
in Mississippi which hue received a
federal Registrar.
Buses have been chartered in tho
two counties, In addition to several
car pools, to take prospective vot-
ers to tl>t Tftgistration offices, site
fftld.
£ fltmyllng af registration figures
Texan Knows
Cotton Industry
All the Way
Farmer Expert from
Growing to Milady's
Taste in Fabrics
(Register Washington Bureau)
WASHINGTON, D. C—Rudolph
V. Braxton, Negro farmer of Kendle-
ton, Texas, who Is serving on the cot-
ton advisory committee of the Unit-
ed States Department of Agriculture,
knows the industry, except for manu-
facturing, all the way from growing
the fiber to rural women's tastes In
cotton fabrics, says Texaa state ex-
tension leader, Alton E. Adams.
''Braxton gained hia wide knowl-
edge of cotton," explains Adams, who
was hia county agent for many years,
"aa a farmer, cotton classer and
buyer, and as owner of a general store
whieh aells cotton garments and yard
good."
Tills knowledge and experience
make him a highly valuable member
of ths 30-man cotton advisory com-
mittee to which he and l>r. R. D.
Morrison, president of Alabama A.
and M. college, were appointed nearly
two years ago. Xhey ar$ the first
Negro members on this important
committee.
Braxton, who grew up on a cot-
ton farm, took a job as porter in the
local general atore in 1928 and work-
ed hia way to clerk, cotton classer
and buyer, and finally to owner in
1944 when hia laplsine -retired.
In sddltion to the store, which he
snd Mrs. Brsxton operate with the
help of three employees, he farms
200 acrea with the assistance of two
tenant families. This yesr he has 104
acres in cotton, 15 in corn, and 90
in hay and pastures for his 20 head
of beef cattle. Ilia cotton yield is usu-
ally more than a bale to She acre.
Equipment ou ths farm Includes
three tractors, a truck, and a me-
chanical cotton picker. When the
picker isn't busy harvesting hia own
cotton In the fall, it's picking for
neighbors at $.'10 a bnle.
Aa chairman of the county exten-
sion program building committee, he
keeps in close touch with his county
agent, Henry Hardeman, Jr., 1964
"County Agent of the year" for Tex-
as.
And Mrs. Braxton always turns
to her home demonstration agent,
Mrs. Georgians Thomas, when a dress
pattern doesn't seem to work right,
or she is uncertain about preparing
some fruit or vegetable for freezing,
or when other homemaking problems
arise.
Braxton, on an average day, during
the cotton growing season, spends
hours in the field, checking on boll
weevils, conferring with tractor driv-
ers, observing hired choppers, or just
walking up and down the rows study-
ing the condition of his crop, says
Adams.
Back In the store and post office,
he talks with scores of local farm
people—those who come to buy money
orders, or get gasoline or tractor fuel,
purchase groceries or a pair of shoes,
cotton sheets or yard goods for a
dress.
So, Braxton not only knows cot-
ton and something about cotton fab-
ric#, but he also knows a great deal
about local cotton problems and the
needs of his neighbors. This and other
first-hand information he has is at his
fiugertips when he goes to Washing-
ton to meet with the committee, State
Leader Adams points out.
Mr. and Mrs. Braxton once thought
that their son Craig, now a fresh-
roan at Texas Southern university,
would return to the farm and store
nnd further expand these enterprises.
Now they aren't sure. He's talking
more these days about being a biolo-
gist than a farmer. Their daughter
Erma is a junior In nurse training
at Prairie View A. and M. college.
Carolina Negro,
White Catholic
Churches Merge
Kegro Trcsa International
NEW BERN, N. C—Tho In-
tegrated St. raul'a Roman
Catholic eburrh la perhaps tho
boat example in thia aouthern
■tat* of tho denomination'! move
to "throw open tho door* of the
ehurrh to all who would wor-
ship" regardleaa of color.
Ijilt month, tho all white St.
Paul congregation effected a
merger with the Negro St. Jo-
aeph'a church, aome fivo blocks
awav. The new pastor of the
if»v: .1 or it Is tlie t:nv. Ttiomr.s
I . - , ■ ■ • —l- i for-
National Church'
Group Backs
Mississippi Ouster
Negro Preaa International
WASHINGTON—The Nation
a! Council of Chnrchea' Com-
mission on Race and Religion
haa Issued a "C all to Action" to
clergymen throughout the nation
to back efforta challenging the
aeatlng of five Mississippi con-
greaamen.
Churchmen are urged to write
their reapectlve congressmen to
vote for unseating of the Miss-
issippi congressional delegation
on the grounds that "if the right
to vote la denied, or the vote It-
aelf dllutid, then to that etlent
the membership of the voter In
civil society is diminished ami
his political personhood Impair-
Heat
(Continued from Page 1.)
dresa. The hubcapa were valued at
Ebony club. R550 Nebraska, wan
burglarized, Friday, Aug. Hi, and the
juke box looted of an undetermined
amount of money.
Mrs. Eddie Lee Sanders, 40, 2214
East Crockett, complained, Friday,
that a set of cookware, valued at
$269.98, was stolen from her fCftl-
dence.
Frank narrison, Gfi, 716 Indiana,
complained Monday, Aug. 16, that the
battery had lieen stolen from his truck
parked in his driveway.
In a two-hour period—between 8
and 5 o'clock, Tuesday, the home of
Mrs. Dorothy Wilson. .*17, r»12 Lin-
colnshire. was burglarized, and a
clock-radio and a Spanish guitar
atolen.
Ringo Limuel, 216.1 West Laurel,
told police that he entered u church
in the 000 block of Wool Poplar, at
9 o'clock, To today Bight* When ho
came out, at 10:30, a rim and tire
had been stolen from his 1957 model
automobile.
Negro Singers
Take Top Honors
In Chi Festival
Negro Press Internationftl
CHICAGO—Miss La Velio McKift-
nle, 21, snd Andrew W. Smith, SP,
were featured as sololsta In ths 86th
annual Ohlcagoland Music festlrftl
st MeCormick Place last wsek, ftftcr
they had taken top honors ftft mftls
and female vocalists in a contest that
preceded the festival. Both ftrs No»
groes and Chicago residents.
Miss McKinnie, s dramatic so-
prano, studied at the American Con-
servatory of Music under s scholar*
ship from the Kankakee (111.) Ki-
wania club.
Hmith, of Lexington, Ky., and a
graduate of Kentucky fltate college,
is a high school music teacher. lis
also slugs with the (Chicago symphony
choir and the Rockefeller Chapel
choir at the University of Chicago.
♦
Catholics —
(Continued from Page 1.)
talents and skills to the fullest is an
essential freedom In a Christian, mor-
al society.
"Without this freedom of equal op-
portunity a man ia aeverely handi-
capped in his efforts to provide a
home, an education, and personal
dignity for himself nnd for his family.
The Catholic church has a moral obli-
gation to point out the moral evil of
employment diacrimination, and to
use its economic resources In the func-
tions of hiring and purchasing to
bring an end to diMcriminatory em-
ployment practices."
Two oilier dioceses have already in-
itiated the project—the 8t. Louis and
Detroit dioceses.
The archbishop announced that he
PAOB
fc sending letters to all paators and
•Iftdnletrators of institutions In ths
4ffthdlocess concerning the equal em-
ffcrment opportunity policy in re-
fftrd to ohurch hiring, as well as
chnrdi purchasing.
He said that the project Is designed
to eliminate discrimination not only
in lilting practices, but In all phases
of employment.
a/The. archdlocesan aocial action de-
Mrtiusnt haa been charged with the
Implementation of the announced poll-
If. In the Ban Antonio archdiocese.
all yum
1 The archdiocese will now re-
quire sll firms desiring to do
business with parishes, schools,
hospitals, or other church Insti-
tutions, to submit a formal corn-
Bit ment to employment prac*
that will offer e<|iial op-
portunity* for employment and Job
advancement to Mexican-Ameri-
can*. Negroes and other minority
group* In the community.
Head —
Suit
(Continued from Page I.)
olina public schools.
Mrs. Wall, who has taught at Ne-
gro schools In Stanley county for
18 years, alleges that she and other
Negro teachers were dismissed in an-
ticipation of deereawed enrollment in
Negro schools for the coming school
year.
The county has adopted a "freedom
of choice" integration plan which per-
mits atudents to choose the public
school they wish to attend. About 100
pupils have requested transfer from
all-Negro to all-white schools this
fall, according to Mrs. Wall's com-
plaint.
Legal Defense fund attorneys, who
have been pressing a legal battle
against teacher diacrimination, will
ask the court for preliminary and
permanent injunctiona to prevent the
school board from "hiring, assigning
and dismissing teachera and profes-
sional school personnel on the basis
of race and color."
Attorneys of record in the case are
Conrad O. Pearson of Durham, N. C.;
J. Levonne Chambers of Charlotte,
N. C.; Jack Greeuberg, Legal De-
fense fund director-counsel, nnd Der-
rick A. Bell, Jr., of New York.
BIT ON HEAD
Mrs. John M. Street, 45, 90!) Poto-
mac, suffered a scalp laceration on
top of her head, in an altercution,
Saturday morning. She was treated at
Santa Itoaa Medical center.
I (Continued from Page 1.)
<|flee*«'. addressed the meeting on the
meaning <»f Project Equality, and
stated that the program is of affirm-
ative action using the buying power
of the Catholic church to support its
moral position. The branch adopted
a resolution endorsing Project Equnl-
ity.
Dr. Ruth Ann Bellinger, chairman
of the Political Action committee,
spoke on the proposal to increase the
numb*r of state senators from 81 to
'JO.
formed that because of b*w boun-
daries of formerly Integrated schools,
their children sro ftow assigned to
segregated schools.
"Home of the children Involved have
never goue to an all-Negro school.
.Some were actually In the first class-
es to bs desegregated back In 1961."
Laws stated that parents were be-
ing told that they had the privilege
of requesting transfera for their chil-
dren, but would be required to show
cause why their requests should ne
granted.
Hs said that the period set by the
Dallas independent school board this
year for requesting transfera was
August 5 through August 27.
Laws would not say what other
actions were contemplated, but atat-
ed that "this would not be taken ly-
ing down."
Regarding the new school bounda-
ries the NAACP representative said,
"On the basis of the partial re-
port on new boundaries, which we
now have, I would have to conclude
that tho DftHfts oahool hoard moot ho
accused of gerrymandering in the
most flagrant manner."
Boundaries —
(Continued from Page 1.)
Saturday by Clarence Laws, NAACP
regiotnl director.
Said ! , ws, "Many concerned and
some irate parents have contacted
the NAACP office during the past
week t" report that they have been in-
Fighter -
(Continued from Pane 1.)
a conversation piece—a 20-round bat-
tle in Matamoras, Mexico, in 1010, nt
the old Reforma theatre, against Son-
ny Goodrich, another outstanding
fighter, that resulted in a draw.
Spears inet all comers, fighting
from middleweight to heavyweight.
II« was a middleweight.
Spears fought all the top battlers
of his day. including Hill Tate, Jim
Johnson, Jim Flynu, Sam I/fliigford.
He left Texas to move to California
in the very early twenties, where h*
had numerous professional fights.
There he lost his sight, and moved
back to San Antonio, where he be-
came well-known as n fight promoter.
Such world-famed professionals as
Sam Langford, Harry Wills, and
Tiger Flowers were brought to San
Antonio under his sponsorship.
In later years he turned to the
entertainment fielu, nnd headed his
n email oombo, which played all
tho top area hotelw, night clubs, and
resorts, snd was hesrd on rsdlo. He
established many contacts in this
field, snd, during ths period when
many more famous musicians were
without work, Spesrs and hie band
wers constantly in demand. He re-
mained an entertainer uutll hia death.
He and Miss Mauds Young were
married. There were no children.
He became ft menil»er of St. Jamea
AME church, with his later joining
St. Paul Methodist, where he waa a
loyal and dutiful member until hie
death.
Funeral services were held Mon-
day from St. Paul, with the Rev. T.
M. Bruton officiating, Lewis Funeral
home in charge, V. E. lyarremore,
mortician. Interment wua in East-
view cemetery.
Survivors include two nieces. Mrs.
Ruih Spalghts and Mrs. Leverta Al-
len of Sim Antonio; ono grsftt ni««-e,
Miss Rachel Spalghts, San Antonio;
two great nephewa. James Spalghts,
New York, and Edward Spaights,
Washington, D. C.; one great, great
niece, Lauren Spaights, Newark. N.
J.; and a cousin, Silas II. Mosbay,
Chicago, 111.
Chicago
(Continued from Page 1.)
Fire Commissioner Robert J. Qulnn.
flthough denying thnt the rioting had
influenced the move, ordered six Ne-
gro firemen and a white officer to
man the station.
Acting Chief Fire Marshall Frank
Thielmann aaid the integrated action
whs taken "to provide better fire
protection."
Several civil righta leaders joined
in appeal to the rioters to disperse.
AI Raby coordinator of the Coor-
dinating Council of Community Organ-
izations, composed of several civil
rights groups, hustled back to Chi-
cago from Birmingham to help.
At one point, he intercepted a
group of rights pickets headed for
the home of Mayor Richard J. Daley,
and told them that the usual daily
picketing of tho mayor's haao wm
being called off becauee of the rioting
on ths west side. Police had appealed
to Raby to suspend the picketing ef
the mayor's home to permit the po>
lice guard stationed there to be «hlflr
ed to the west side riot srea.
Dick Gregory, another of the lesd-
ere of the dslly marches on the may-
or's home, was away In Los Angelea
Gregory suffered a bullet wound ift
his left leg In an even larger racial
outburst in Los Angeles. He wao
trying to persuade Negro rioters to
disperse, when he received the wound,
The Injury, hoU tfOT MM i;"t serious.
Meanwhile, the three men who
staffed the fire engine which killed
Miss Williams, were auepsnded bf
Qulnn. They were Capt. Wadoy
Wleringa; fireman James P. Toiler,
the driver; ami fireman Lloyd Tuttis^
the missing tillerman.
The suspension was obviously for
violation of fire department regu-
lations which provide that the hook-
and-ladder truck should not be drive®
out of the station without a tiller-
man.
ROCK 111 It! Kit. 10, SLAPPED
A 27-year-old C«»dy street mother
complained to police, last we«k that
a 30-year-old man bad alapped hsr
10-year-old son. The man. a neigh-
bor, said that the boy bad hit hia au-
tomobile with a rock.
U.M«i
Funeral Director
430 N. Cherry St.
CApitol 6-7283
AGGRAVATED ASSAULT
On complaint of Mrs. Erin Brown,
30, 448 Pace, Joe I^cster Harris was
filed on Monday for aggravated as-
sault on a female. She alleged Harris
struck her during an argument nt
Roberta and North Zarzamora street.
DEAD IN BED
Joe Stevenson, 42, 1224 Sherman
(rear), was found dead in bed Wed-
nesday night, Aug. 11. Stevenson suf-
fered a heart condition.
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