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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
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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.