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3 R St. coin Neb. , ttt t[ This Is Your Newspaper ;» What you are doing is news. H " - ; 'Please Phone Your News To ? This Is Your Newspaper HA 0800 B ^ I What you are doing is news, or send it to I Please Phone Your News To THE OMAHA GUIDE __ % HA 0800 :l... I HEW TO THE UNE\ * orsenditto EQUAL OPPORTUNITY Vol. 30 No. 15_Friday, June 15, 1956___10c Per Copy Dixie States Plot A Revolt Against the Supreme Court DIE-HARD RACISTS IN 12 STATES PLAN REVOLT ON UNITED STATES HIGH COURT MEMPHIS — Die-hard racists from 12 southern states, including a governor, several former gover nors, U. S. Senators and repre sentatives, met here last week to plot a revolt against the United States Supreme Court. The new group, set up to fight racial integration, calls itself the Federation for Constitutional Gov ernment. Among those holding member ship in the organization are: Sen. James O. Eastland, demo crat of Mississippi; Judge Tom P. Brady of Mississippi, author of a book called “Black Monday”, form er governor Fielding Wright of Mississippi, the 1948 States Rights candidate for vice-president; Her man Talmadge, the former gover nor of Georgia; and former gover nors, Sam H. Jones of Louisiana and Coke Steavenson of Texas. Thurmond Present Also present, senator J. Storm Thurmond, former governor of South Carolina; governor Marvin Griffin of Georgia; Reps. John B. Williams of Mississippi; F. Edward Hebert of Louisiana; James C. Da vis of Georgia. L. Mendel Rivers of South Caro lina and Watkins M. Abbitt and William M. Tuck of Virginia, former Virginia governor. Fathers To Be Greeted With Carnations Dad or Grandpa may come home from downtown Omaha this week sporting a nice carnation in their coat lapel. That will mean that he was picked as a typical wonderful Omaha Dad. A lady will tour the Downtown area Monday through Saturday next week from 11:30 to 1:30 car rying a basket of carnations. Dads will be stopped by her, greeted and congratulated with the pin ning of the carnation on their lapel. Mayor Rosenblatt’s proclama tion last week acclaimed our fine Omaha Father's and their contri butions to our excellent homes and community. The Associated Retailers in providing the “Lady and the Carnations” expect in this manner to recognize some of our fine fathers and to remind all of us that next Sunday on Father’s Day Dad and Grandad are entitled to some extra pray ers. congratulations and acknow ledgements. Methodists Name Wilkins MINNEAPOLIS — The Metho dist Church last week conferred the highest honor that can come to a layman when J. Ernest Wil kins, U. S. Assistant Secretary of Labor, was elected president of the Judical Council. Wilkins, who is the sole Negro member of the nine-man council, is the first member of his race to receive this honor. Wilknis' election as head of the “Supreme Court” of the largest in ter-racial Protestant denomina tion in the world was interpreted as a step in breaking down segre gation. He had been secretary of the Judicial Council since 1953. Clarence M. Dannelly, superin tendent of schools of Montgomery, Alabama, was elected vice-presi dent of the Council. Two other Southerns Judge Ivan Lee Holt, Jr., of St. Louis, and Rev. Dr. R. F. Curl of San Antonio, Texas, are members. The General Conference, com posed of 766 delegates from the 140 annual conferences in the United States and overseas, adop ted an amendment that will per mit the transfer of churches and conference: from the Central .Ne gro) Jurisdiction to another juris diction on the mutual agreement of both jurisdictions, thus break ing the pattern of “legal” segre gation unposed by the Uniting Conference in 1939 that brought about the merger of three Metho dist bodies. Hiram A. Bailey Mr. Hiram A. Bailey, 59 years, 1105 South 13th Street, passed away Wednesday morning June 6th at a local hospital after an extended illness. Mr. Bailey had been a resident of Omaha thirty eight years. He is survived by a sister, Mrs. H. T. Love, Rago, Kansas; two nephews, Mr. Harry C. Love, Ringo, Kansas, Mr. Leroy Love, Kingman, Kansas. Funeral services were held ten o'clock Saturday morning from Thomas Funeral Home with the Rev. M. J. Bradford officiating, assisted by Rev. D. G. Favors. Pallbearers, Mr. Frank James, Leroy Childs, Benny McGee, Early Ireland, Earl Brandon, Allan Plooper. Interment was at Forest Lawn Cemetery. 'Negroes Can Help End Segregation' MINNEAPOLIS — The responsi bility of members of the Central (Negro) Jurisdiction in helping to bring an end to segregation in the Methodist Church was stressed by Bishop Matthew W. Clair Jr., in remarks at a banquet given in hon or of Bishop and Mrs. Clair at the Leamington Hotel by delegates and members of the St. Louis area. Calling attention to the oppor tunity of the conferences and churches of his 15 Midwestern states area “to work out something creative to lead in breaking down segregation in the denomination,” j : Bishop Clair said: “Because of our i | strategic situation we have the op I portunity to give direction and j , build a foundation for the things ! we are attempting to do in the J Methodist Church. Desegregation will not begin with the study com mission. It is to study the juris dictional set-up of the denomina ; tion and report to the 1960 Gen I eral Conference. It will simply, ! give direction and offer recom- j ' mendations for the next step. But the mood and climate must be 1 created down at the grass roots. ! This is our challenge.” Woodward is Head of Christ Scientists Clifford A. Woodward of Cam bridge, Massachusetts, was to day named President of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts. Mr. Woodward’s appointment was announced by The Christian I Science Board of Directors at the Annual Meeting of the de ■ nomination attended by thous ands of Christian Scientists from many parts of the world. The term of office is for one year. An authorized teacher and practioner of Christian Science, Mr. Woodard holds degrees from Harvard College, Harvard Gradu ate School of Arts and Sciences, and Harvard Law School. A native of Warren, Pennsyl ; vania, he became interested in Christian Science through a heal ing received as a boy. He joined i The Mother Church in 1908 and | has been active in various capaci j ties in the Christian Science movement for many years. Frank Berryman Mt\ Frank Berryman, 47 years, 2009 Willis Avenue passed away Monday June 4th at a local hos pital. Mr. Berryman had been a resident of Omaha twenty-five years and was a faithful employee of Capital Liquors Inc. He is survived by his wife, Mrs Cora Berryman, daughter, Sherrie Phyliss, of Omaha, son, Lannie Berryman, Minneapolis, Minneso ta, step daughter, Mrs. Mildred Adams, Cleveland, Ohio, step son, Roy Brooks, Omaha, father, Mr. Champ M. Berryman, San Diego, California, five sisters, Mrs. Lue Birda Arnold, Mrs. Helen Lean ord, of Omaha, Mrs. Rattie Thom as, Monroe, Louisiana, Miss Paul ine, St. Louis, Missouri, Mrs. Leola Cavanaugh, Kelly, Louisiana and I Women At State Convention Mrs. Ben Gardner, Commander of the U. S. Army Mothers Post No. 9, and Mrs. James Walker were delegates to the 10th An- j nual State Convention, held May 8-9* 1956, at Cozad, Nebraska. Mrs. James Walker was elected State Banner Bearer. The Army Mother’s Post No. 9, are the only active post in Omaha, Nebraska and bid for the convention next year. Oregon Is Sympathetic Of Negroes A news story in the Tribune of March 9 has inspired 7 white women of Portland, Oregon who are “active in the Council of Churches, denominational leaders, members of the board of the CWCA, Naacp, Fellowship of Re concilia tion, and American Friends Service committee” to write a letter to “Church Mem bers of Montgomery, Alabama, care of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., bus boycott leader, hum bly claiming “fellowship” with them. The Tribune story, on the boy cott and the philosophy of the leaders, gave them the informa tion and inspiration to write,” Mrs. Ruth Haefner of Portland, a regular Tribune reader, wrote. Referring to the description of modern churches by a national Presbyterian official as “warrens for spiritual rabbits who want some magic formula to save their tender skins,” the women’s letter wanted the Alabamans to know that, “We are not rabbits. “We believe in revolution,” they wrote. “We became aware of the world’s need for change from the Mission Study program ‘This Revolutionary Faith’. We, there-, fore, pride ourselves when we! recognize the boycott ... as a j part of the revolutionary move- ( ment in the world today and the j responsibility each individual Christian has to give it moral and economic support. . . “We sense what appears to be a movement—non-violent in char acter—toward correction of a very bad social practise. For some years we have observed „ . . a definite pattern ... in that dir ection. "We of the Northwest feel that you are far ahead of us. For if we had worked as hard as you, we wo dd have wiped oot the subtle practices of segregation ana would not nave waited until 1953 to pass a Civil RighU law. We still nave much to accomplish here in Oregon. . . "Humility does not come easy for us. Though humility is one of the first attributes of a Chris tian, we find it difficult to prac j tise. For sometime, we have wondered just how ... it would be for us to change. . . We have followed Lillian Smith’s analysis from the time as a child when she first began to doubt, until her forthright presentation, ‘Now Is The Time.” "We know that we have not made such a change. We gues tion our strength. Had we been situated as Lillian Smith, in Geor gia, Caroline Burks, in Oklahoma, and Thelma Stevens, in Louisiana, would we have been able to defy the traditions and cut new paths through the maize of segregation? "You are like the early Christians—the kind Rev, Payne refers to. You know the price that must be paid for freedom and have the Courage, conviction, and ask God for the Grace to see it through . . . "May we be worthy to claim fellowship 'with the church people of Montgom ery." other relatives. Funeral services were held two o’clock Thursday afternoon from Zion Baptist Church with the Rev. F. C. Wil liams officiating, assisted by Rev. S. H. Lewis, Rev. M. J. Bradford, Rev. Z. W. Williams, Rev. E. Chambers, Rev. E. R. McDaniels. Pallbearers, Mr. Emmit Gulley, Richard Graham, John Hart, Thomas Holt, Adam Lee, Ernest Wiggins. Interment was at For est Lawn Cemetery with arrange ments by Thomas Funeral Home, j I.HIM—III * \ At three-day national campaign conference of National Citizens For FJsenhower held last week in Wash ington, John Reed Kilpatrick, National Chairman, and Mrs. Dorothy D. Houghton, Women’s Division National Co-chairman, greet Mrs. Naomi Hatcher, left, prominent Citizens’ organizer in New Jersey, and Mrs. Irene M. Gaines of Chicago, President of the National Association of Colored Women. Fathers of Cards to be Given Gifts Just before the Louisville game Friday night the Associated Re tailers will reward all of the Cardinal players who are Fathers with a special gift. Their “Fatli er’s Day Advance Gift” will be handed to them at home plate just before the game - to acknowledge that Omaha salutes its Fathers including baseball Dads too. The leadership sportsmanship and inspiration that the players of our Omaha Cardinals bring io our community - particularly the many Fathers on the team - help contribute to a greater home life. Some of the fans who are Dads vill be rewarded too by the As sociated Retailers. Three prizes will be given—one to the young est father present, measured in the age of the child-second, to the oldest (in his age) Dad or Grand father who is present at the game -and the third to the Father who has the largest family with him at the game. All fans who want to enter the three contests will register at the ballpark Friday night before the finish of the fourth inning. Winners will be announced in the “lucky 7th" inning. So, Friday night at the Cardinal -Louisville game it will be the start of a happy Father’s Day weekend for Cardinal and Far. Fathers. 'Partiality To Races is Incompatible' LOS ANGELES. — (ANP) — Gov. G. Monnen Williams of Mich igan said in a speech here last week that discrimination of any kind against any citizen is a time bomb placed in the hands of A merica’s enemies. Williams said discrimination is repugnant to democracy. It gen erates friction and resentments which gravely damage the unity of our people. “The denial of equal opportuni ty to racial, nationality and religi ous groups plays directly into the hands of those who would destroy us.” Williams spoke at an affair giv en under auspices of the demo cratic national committees in the Golden State auditorium. H e pointed out that in every commun ity in this nation of ours—north, west, south, east—in which some of our citizens are not permitted to live for no other reason than their color, their nationality or their religion. “There are schools their child ren are not permitted to attend despite the recent Supreme Court decision.” The democratic governor, who has been mentioned as a possible presidential candidate, offered a four-point program to eliminate discrimination: 1. Abolish all distinctions be tween naturalized citizens and A merican-bom. 2. Repeal the McCarran- Walter Act and substitute for it the Leh man bill. Layne Photo 1 STANLEY ROBERTS, former ■ r. wsman. appointed Special 4s ) sistant to Richard L. Tobin, Di rector of Public Relations, Na tional Citizens For Eisenhower. Roberts will develop campaign literature on the Negro voter aud assist in fund raising and ctgan izal >n. / Student Is Fired For Criticism COLUMBIA, S. C. —A student 1 at the University of South Caro lina was fired from his job as State Senate Page last week for his criticisms of racial segregation in the student newspaper. Raymond L. Morton, a native South Carolinian, had served as a page since 1951. He lost not only his $44-a-week position but has since received “dozens of threatening phone calls.” Young Morton’s comments in the Gamecock said he is “a shamed to be called a ‘Southern er.’” He called Southern tradi tion, “a backward looking and odious attitude appropriately at tributed only to the United Daughters of the Confederacy.” He called southern governors and legislators “the embarrassing sound trucks (of) the South. . . . They speak with weighty, ob streperous and irrational voices. Never have they spoken for me and some of you. Never could they speak for those who feel as we do . . . Summer YW Camp Is Starting The summer program for girls, aged 9-15, at the Y.W.C.A. will begin June 19 and continue through July 24. This program will be offered at the Northside Building at 28th Miami and at the downtown Central Y at 506 South 17th Street. Included in the plans are crafts, swimming, sewing, cake decorating, sports, tennis, drama tics, painting, sketching, games and story telling. Girls are invited to bring their lunch and spend the day. Inter esting trips to Omaha businesses and parks are planned. Registration begins June 1 and continues through June 19. For a folder with complete details call the Y.W.C.A. at JA-2748; Jewel Robinson, Northside Y, PL-6299; or Elinor Van Steen burg at the Central Y, JA-2748. Washington i Bar Would Ban Negroes Washington, D. C- (CNS) Seven members of the District Bar As sociation-angered over the As sociation’s recent vote to admi Negroes and to drop the wor “white” as a membership qualifica . - n_pave gone to the District Court to seek to nullify the vote of the group. The seven lawyers assert^ that a voice vote was taken and that thi* was illegal and contrary undw the circumstances to Roberts Buies) of Order governingparliament y procedure. Plus they claim^ hat unqualified persons were presen when the vote was taken. The voice vote of the group amended the by-laws so that Nc gro lawyers could be admitte . Under the by-laws a two-thirds vote of the membership is required for such a change. The measure was deemed so unanimous as to be carried by a voice vote alone. Norton At Boys Town 36 Years Friday marks 36 years of ser vice at Father Flanagan’s Boy’s Home for Patrick J. Norton. Pat came to the home 2% years after it was founded by the Rev. E. J. Flanagan, who called upon his nephew after his gradua tion from college at St. Anthony’s -on-the-Hudson at Rensselaer, New York to assist him with his work. Since then he has served in various capacities, including wel fare director, counselor, person nel supervisor, first postmaster, business manager, and purchasing agent. One of Mr. Norton’s first as signments was directing the troupe of entertainers Father Flanagan sent out to raise funds for his boys, visiting every state west of the Mississippi and tel ling the story of Boys Town. “It seems only yesterday,” he recalled, “that I used to take a team and wagon and a group of boys, driving from the German I Home on south Thirteenth Street to Florence to work, pick berries, gather eggs and bring back milk for the dinner table. Mr. Norton was awarded the papal decoration, “Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice’’ (for Church and Pope) in 1941. He is an executive board mem ; ber at large, Covered Wagon | Council, Boy Scouts of Amerioa; past state and National president of the American War Dads, Past National Honorary President of the Boys Town Alumni Associa tion, present National secretary of Te Deum International, past president of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, a trustee of the Valley j Forge Foundation, and a major in the Air Force Reserve. He accompanied Msgr. E. J. Flanagan on his War Department ; Mission to Europe in the spring j of 1948, and was at the side of the | Boys Town founder when he died \ of a heart attack in Berlin, Ger j many. Lawyers Guild Review To Review the Principles of Integration and Civil Rights Chas. Kimberling Mr. Charles S. Kimberling, 91 years, 3018 Ohio Street, passed away Monday afternoon June 4th at his home. Mr. Kimberling had been a resident of Omaha thirty years. He is survived by one son, Mr. Fred B. Kimberling. Los An geles, California, three daughters, Mrs. Vera Cowan, with whom he made his home, Mrs. Ruth K. Morris, Mrs. Flora P. Morris, of San Francisco, California, five grand and eight great grandchil dren, sister Mrs. Jessie Cox, Kan sas City, Kansas, brother, Mr. Frank Kimberling, Leavenworth, Kansas and other relatives. Fun eral services were held ten o’clock Thursday morning June 7th from Thomas Mortuary with Father S. N. Jacobs officiating, assisted by Father S. G. Sanchez. Honor ary bearers, Mr. Russel Bryan, Willis Gray, Frank Blackwell, E. Glaspie, active bearers, Mr. Burns Scott, Clarence Smith, Lloyd Grant, Paul Roberts. Interment was at Forest Lawn Cemetery. Negro Is Elected At Gary, Ind. GARY, IND. — (ANP) — Benj. F. Wilson, Gary City Councilman, is the first Negro in the history of I the city or state to be elected president of the city council. In its first regular meeting of the year the Council elected Wilson President by a unanimous vote. It may be recalled that Wilson became a national figure in 1944 when he was appointed Chief, Mi nority Groups Service, War Man-1 power Commission, in Washington,; D. C., by the late Paul V. McNutt, former governor of the state, and at that time, W. M. C. Commission er. Last November Wilson was elec ted for a third four-year term to the City Council. He has previ ously served as Vice-President of the Council; Chairman of the Or dinance Committee; Chairman of the Police and Fire Investigations Committee, which he still retains chairmanship of; and on many other important committees. In civic life, Wilson has served on the Board of Directors of the Gary Urban League; President of Gary Anselm Forum, a very out standing interracial group; officer in the Gary Bar Association (in tegrated); former Vice-President Gary Council of Churches; city wide Co-chairman March of Dimes and numerous other organizations. He did his under-graduate work at Howard university, and obtain ed his law degree at Boston uni-1 versity School of Law. Wilson is a widower, having lost his wife, I Louise, at Christmas time of 1954. He has one son, John, who is pres ently a junior at Howard umversi ly, ana who expects to study law. The entire city of Gary seems' quite satisfied and in many re spects elated over the action of the Gary City Council in recogni zing its senior member and for , many years its only lawyer. ! Atty. Wilson first started his career as a lawyer at St. Louis, ; Missouri, having been admitted to | and still being a member of the l Missouri Bar. Ask Probe of White Council The Department of Justice has i assured the Jewish Labor Commit j tee that the activities of the White Citizens’ Councils in Mississippi “are receiving the Department’s careful attention”, the Los Angeles office of the committee announced last week. The letter to the JLC was in reply to a telegram sent on No vember 28 .requesting the Depart ment to investigate the Councils, particularly with regards to the shooting of Gus Courts in Belzoni, Mississippi. “Appropriate measures will be taken should the investigation es-! tablish the Department’s jurisdic tion and authority,” the Justice Department letter said. The entire forthcoming issue of the Lawyers Guild Review, quarterly publication of the Na tional Lawyers Guild, will be de voted to the subject of INTEGRA TION, SUFFRAGE and CIVIL RIGHTS, it was announced today by Earl B. Dickerson, member of the Executive Committee of the Guild. One article, “The Uncon stitionality of Interposition.” is by Professor Mitchell Franklin of the Law School of Tulane Univer sity, “a leading and internation ally known scholar in the field.” Another article, “Legislation Protect Civil Rights,” is by La ent Frantz, “a lawyer and writ who is a specialist in the subject discussed by him” The issue, to be published June 30, 1956, will, in addition, contain a survey of every desegregation case that has arisen in the areas of public schools, colleges and universities, public accommoda tions, and reprisals against those favoring integration. It will also contain a survey of Legislative proposals against integration in the South. Mr. Dickerson called attention to the “timely nature of this issue and the exceptional competence of those writing for it” stating also that the publication will be of “invaluable aid to all those in terested in civil rights and inte gration, especially as a quick source of reference on the pro gress toward integration since the Supreme Court decision on May 17, 1954.” The Review may be obtained by writing to the National Law yers Guild, 40 Exchange Place, New York 5, New York, and en closing $1.00. Tighten Up On Traffic On Narcotics The Senate has passed one bill and the House is considering an other directed at traffic in nar cotics. Senator Price Daniel, speaking of the former, calls it “the strongest blow against the cancerous narcotics traffic that has ever been passed.” Certainly there are features in both measures that promise aid to law-enforcement agencies in attacking this scourge. For one thing, the bills recognize the especial menace of heroin. This derivative of morphine is said to account for over nine-tenths of drug addiction in the underwork and is a large factor in juvenilt delinquency.! In recent years heroin has been rarely prescribed medically. Its manufacture in and import into the United States are already forbidden by law. To outlaw its possession under any circumstances (except under permit for research), as does the Senate measure, should greatly aid police and narcotics agents in their war against the menace. By setting stiff penalties for use of mails, telephones, etc. incident to the drug traffic the Senate has given society another weapon while wisely avoiding the dangers inherent in the sanctioned wire tap. The severe sentences pre scribed by both bills for convicted traffickers (up to death by the Senate, to 40 years by the House) show how strongly the lawmakers feel on the subject. But designa tion of heavy punishment always calls for admonition as to its ef ficacy. Too many assume that merely upping the punishment deters the criminal. Actually, extreme penalties often make courts and juries hesitant to convict. It is the high probability of arrest, trial, some significant punishment, not just the degree of punishment, that makes the would-be offender pause. The JLC simultaneously asked the U. S. Senate Internal Security Committee to investigate the White Citizens Council. To date, there has been no reply. The JLC is composed of affil iated unions and labor fraternal organizations representing 500,000 Jewish workers.