text: i Bans Negro Voters Spirit’s” Visit Highlighted by Maoy Events I City Edition VOLUME 13—NUMBET 52 i iffl*’ MK F aME, | gy ? aywiSSSSi MFh ' ■ 'W*' - J bL. «■;gM||H/ )k CwnK' rwI^EESF 4 'i h' ■' «i 3LaiiißF r t f ' > w• hipF WPjll F f + 1 |Sk A 1 I iba K». Wd JvKflHfr |-** %■■■■ ijh. - ». y- - <■ c f 9 X ■iSir'i -C Xi • B. a. "E & /■< -W K * ’wwwiA ‘ ■’ tsP 1 ' ’ lK_ A- sF x rw'ty* f I <Jf It if 1 ’ :, e ' 4 oBL PPp®BB i -JB r « * <cLl2- .BMi iL i IrL.jg-... -• "ji / -W /wHBMI P " J ’W® •**« [ *» ?■ '4 4S > ' ask >Os®L V v . . >«>*■ ' Js** .<'r~ s JRW* taßsrf r * ■». -.--w TWHaWg? 1-. ”*■ WEN THE "SPIRIT” COMES TO TOWN — Shown in the so- Hat left —Mayor Perry of North Little Rock is presented a sou ■:r bale of cotton by Miss Hendricks. Looking on from the rear are Jerry Carmichael and Ella Bizzell. Top floor—A group of local lovely girls who shared with the "Spirit" when she put on a brief exhibition of her lovely wardrobe over station KATV, as guest of the "The Woman's Touch." In the front are (1 to 2) Lois Moth, who has been in the role of Robbie Louise Davis (alternate to the new trial must be held in rape of a white woman. The court also refused to pass the state's motion for permission to correct the record. "Since a trial is necessary in any courts, opinion was by Associate Justice Smith. Justices Smith and Branton were given the opportunity to defend the motion for represenation. The position is vacated by the defendant, who is being opposed by Attorney Branton. The case is being opposed by Attorney Branton, a farmer of Alcorn. and Dr. Ha vis Capel, physician at Pine Bluff. FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1954 Associate Justice Ed F. McFaddin wrote a six-page dissenting opinion in which he said the court should review the case and reduce the punishment to life imprisonment. According to the court's ruling, Alfred must be tried again in Jefferson circuit court. In its original ruling, a few weeks ago, the supreme court held that reversal was necessary because of the admission of improper evidence and because the jury was not properly instructed. Assistant Attorney General Thorp Thomas asked that the court review the case. He said that the record in the case did show or should have shown the instruction to the jury which the supreme court said was omitted. The instruction dealt with the option of penalties. The sixth annual essay contest was held at Dunbar high school Friday. The contest is an educational project sponsored by the local TB association, through which students have an opportunity to learn the basic facts about tuberculosis and find out what is being done in their community to prevent the spread of the disease. Miss Martha C. Allis, executive secretary of the Pulaski County Tuberculosis association and Mrs. See CONTEST—page four. LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS "Spirit". Rochelle Spivey, The "Spirit of Cotton Makers Jubilee" Juana Hendricks, Ella Vera Bizzell, Carolyn Ward and Bob Lawrence. Bottom right—The "Spirit" gets a key to the city from the congenial mayor, Pratt Remmel, while the group looks on. Left to right—Billie Grant, public relation director at Philadelphia Smith College. The college was host to the "Spirit"; Thad D. Williams, who escorted the "Spirit" on her tour of the city; Mrs. L. C. Bates, regional director of the Cotton Makers Jubilee; Miss Hendricks and a group of her local models. — Press Photos by Davy Dixie Lawyers to Meet With Marshall MOUND BAYOU, Miss. — When Thurgood Marshall meets with Negro leaders of the south in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, on May the seventh, prominent Negro attorneys from seven southern states are to confer with him Dr. T. R. M. Howard reports that lawyers from Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Mississippi will hold a symposium, Friday morning, May 7, at 10:00 a.m. relative to the Supreme Court decision to be handed down in the SCHOOL SEGREGATION CASE Attorneys A. E. Walden of Atlanta, Georgia; Author D. Shores of Birmingham; Flowers of Pine Bluff, Arkansas; Tourreau of New Orleans, Louisiana; and Loby of Nashville, Tennessee, will lead the discussion with Thurgood Marshall in conferring with these prominent East End Civic League Opens Membership Drive According to J. L. Hawkins, president, the East End Civic League will open its annual membership drive Sunday with a program at the First Baptist church. The church is located at 901 Calhoun Street and Rev. W. R. Vaughn is pastor. Speakers for the occasion are Mrs. Gwendolyn M. Floyd, principal of Booker T. Washington School, and Wiley Branton, Pine Bluff attorney and president of the Pine Bluff branch NRA. Others appearing on program will be Rev. T. G. Gilliam, Mrs. Estella King, Nathan Dandy, and Mrs. L. C. Bates. The program is slated to start at 3 p.m. PRICE TEN CENT Among attorneys, Dr. Howard states, "All agree, that now is the time for comprehensive and intelligent planning on the Supreme Courts decision." A record number of Negro attorneys from all over the south will be on hand to join in the greatest Freedom Rally the south has ever known, and to greet Attorney T. Marshall. The one-hundred-piece band from Tennessee A & I State university at Nashville, Tennessee will lead a dozen or more. College and high school bands in the great Freedom March. Mayor B. A. Green will welcome the thousands to this all-Negro town. Philander Smith Observes 87th Commencement Exercise An impressive 87th commencement program was held Sunday afternoon on the lawn in front of the administration building at Philander Smith college. Fifty-two seniors received their diplomas. Presiding at the exercises was Dr. M. Lafayette Harris, president of the college. Dr. W. H. Pipes, dean of education, presented the candidates for degrees. The commencement address was made by the Rev. Robert E. L. Bearden, district superintendent, the Conway district, North Arkansas conference and the Methodist church. He said that the most important lessons for graduates to learn in life are that genuine tolerance, free moral must be practices in our democratic society and the only realistic attitude to take is to accept people where they are and how you find, then - thus helping them grow." All of this may be done through a sense of “cooperation and free will.” Students receiving degrees were: See PHILANDER—page four Attractive Juana Hendricks, the 1951 "Spirit of Cotton Makers’ Jubilee" and Robbie Louise Davis, 1954 "Spirit of Cotton" for Arkansas and Philander Smith college shared honors in an exciting round of events last week in Little Rock and North Little Rock. The pretty young women were accompanied throughout the two-day visit by Mrs. Ethyl Q. Venson, tour director and traveling companion for Miss Hendricks, who is also the wife of the prominent Memphis physician, Dr. R. Q. Venson, founder of the "Spirit of Cotton." Makers' Jubilee; Mrs. L. C. Bates, Arkansas Regional director for the Jubilee; Miss Billie Grant, director of public relations at Philander Smith, Attorney Thaddeus Williams, Miss Hendricks' escoit; Miss Frances Walton, junior at Philander Smith; Misses Rochelle Spivey, Jerry Carmichael, Lois Mothershed, and Ella Vera Bizze, all students at Dunbar high school. Miss Hendricks and Mrs. Venson were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Fontaine while in the city in their beautiful home, 1951 Sec "SPIRIT" — Page Four ANNOUNCEMENT — Mr. and Mrs. C. Franklin Brown, 1019 Cross street, announce the betrothal of their daughter, Alice Lucille Love, to Walter H. Tarpley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Tarpley, 1049 Pekin Place, Canton, Ohio. The wedding date, Sunday, September 5. The bride to be is a graduate of Dunbar high school, spent two years at Philander Smith college before entering Central State college Wilberforce, Ohio, where she received a B. S. degree in social administration. She is associated with the Girls Industrial school, Delaware, Ohio, as recreational therapist. She is a member of Alpha Kappa sorority. The groom to be is a graduate of the Canton high school and received a B. S. degree in social administration from Ohio State university. He is a member of the Gallery players of Columbus and is associated with the Franklin county juvenile court as probation officer. He is a member of the Alpha Kappa Phi fraternity. Mml Jbi I’7 i s V' v-w S». s£ “Tiiiiiiniii —M mi- • — ——******«* JHk «. » «■&.. iMkaxMx w*wai —J I.'LL... 1J o|xl TrHt * ® —TrtriTfP tt****' ’ f F'IWS ********** l *** > *" |> BJi •« fIWMD tfrir M inn "■ JMF ™ ISSST -dMk, '' • /'V" • • • '_ _ —^** W T ****v9 Kit ÜBi E.l. ’dMn- JMC % A < — v "w --.i'T w n^r ~* z •wmwOy v Jk «.IHIe «» " ~t!E SSg Jail M ■. mm.. y' M. TIL, 1954 GRADUATING CLASS—Fifty-two young men and women seniors at Philander Smith college, posed on the steps of the administration building at the college after receiving their academic degrees in commencement exercises Sunday afternoon. The address to the graduates was made by the Rev. Robert Bearden ANNOUNCEMENT— Mr and Mr McKinley Green, 734 South Smith street, El Dorado, announce the engagement of their daughter, Jean Evelyn, to Winfield Thomas Reynolds, son of Mrs. Ida Reynolds. Miss Green, who attended AM &N college, Pine Bluff, is a graduate of Deluxe Beauty college. Mr. Reynolds, teacher of mathematics at Washington high school, El Dorado, is a graduate of Southern university, Baton Rouge, La. He is a member of Omega Phi fraternity. Sheriffs and Circuit Clerks in Jeopardy of Federal Court Fight MOLIN BAYOU — Mississippi Negroes will be asked to raise a $100,000 Fund at the Third Annual meeting of the regional council of Negro leadership, which will be held in Mound Bayou on May 7th and which is expected to attract 10,000 people. The request will come in the Annual Report of the Committee on Voting and Registration, headed by Levy Chapple of Greenville. Chapple has made a survey of voting and registration conditions in 30 counties during the past few months. His finds show that 80 percent of the sheriffs have refused to accept the payment of poll tax from Negroes while 100 percent of the circuit clerks have refused to let Negroes register, although they had receipts to show payment of poll tax. The $100,000 will be used to correct these conditions, the "American Way" is to appeal to the courts of the land for justice and civil rights. The $100,000 will be used to correct these conditions, the "American Way" is to appeal to the courts of the land for justice and civil rights. The National Cancer Institute, a branch of the National Institute of Health, this week, awarded to Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn., the sum of $50,000 to support a 2-year research project on Ring Devivatives of Phenothazine under the direction of Dr. S. P. Massie, chairman, department of chemistry, Fisk University. Dr. Massie will be assisted in this work by Dr. Ivar Cooke, Ph. D., Geneva, Switzerland, and graduate assistants. It may be particularly significant that the parent compound of these studies, phenolasmium, is also North Side Negro files. Pledge for the city council. Roland A. Smith, 35-year-old, North Little Rock businessman, has filed and paid his fee for a seat on the North Little Rock council. Mr. Smith holds a position on the Democratic Central committee for Pulaski county, and has served on that committee for the past two years. Mr. Smith filed his corrupt practice pledge Tuesday, and paid his $150 filing fee before the deadline Wednesday. This makes him the first Negro to file for that position in the history of the city. See FLES—page five. Dr. Terrell Leads Crusade for Mrs. Ingram's Freedom. The distinguished Dr. Mary Church Terrell, venerable fighter for civil rights, has announced that she will lead a National Mother's Day Crusade for the freedom of Mrs. Rosa Lee Ingram and her sons. Mrs. Rosa Lee Ingram, a Negro woman, and her two young sons, Wallace and Sammie Ingram, have served over six years. See CRUSADE—page five. The baccalaureate sermon was preached by the Rev. James S. Thomas. Freshman, sophomore, junior, and in-service students prepared this week to begin summer school classes which begin at Philander on Saturday, May 1. The parent compound of methylene blue, the first synthetic drug studied by Paul Ehrlich, the father of modern leukemia and the discoverer of the magic bullet. This award is one of several which have recently come to Dr. Massie, who left Oklahoma, where he was president of the Oklahoma Academy of Science in 1953, to return to Fisk in August, 1953. In March, 1954, he was one of the six master teachers throughout the nation selected to participate in a special symposium on "Putting the Plus into College Chemistry Teaching." He has been invited to be assistant director of a workshop to be held by the Division of Chemical Education at Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, in June, 1954. Dr. Massie is the son of Mrs. Earlee Massie Taylor, and the late S. P. Massie, and the brother of Dr W. Jack Massie, prominent Northside medical student. Arkansas Author Writes Novel of Violence-Passion "Strange Sinner" by Elsie Jordan, a gripping novel of violence and passion, which will terrify and spellbind its readers, has just been released. It is a story of a woman who can drive a man to murder. The warm and exotic beauty of Joan Blake conceals a cold and calculating heart. Here is a woman, not satisfied with the pleasures of married love, who is always looking for excitement. Her husband loves her deeply and refuses to lose faith, even when he watches her with a lover - even when he kills a man because of her. What happens the night of the murder is a secret that Joan can never tell. During the years Larry is in prison, she lives in fear that she will lose her secret or the lover with whom she shares. See AUTHOR—page four. 