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African Neighbors Tell Lumumba to Slow Down

1954-55 Muncie Star Stabbed On Detroit Street .

SHE LOVES ME? This is the question Abraham Horten, 34, 668 E. 23rd, appears to be asking hospital attendants after learning that Sadie Ross, 33 (inset), who shot him in the left leg Sunday night, told police that she shot him because "I love him." According To the police the woman, who has no listed address, broke a window to gain entry into Horten's house and theni fired six shots from a revolver at the fleeing Horten. (Recorder photo by Jim Burres)

Woman In Death 7 " w ° N - Y- Teenagers, 1 Negro,

1 White, Develop Formula

Cancer Cure

House Asks 1 Day To See Children

Jacksonville Toll Taken; Damage In Thousands

JACKSONVILLE (ANP) — Because white hoodlums wanted to “put in their place” a group of young Negroes quietly demonstrating for integrated lunch counters, this city was .torn by a week of unprecedented'violence that left its 250,000 inhabitants tense and frightened. But that was the least of the toll taken by the racial eruption. One man, Edward Davis, a 27-year-old Negro, was shot to death. Richard F. Parker, a 25-year-old white Florida State University student who had been participating in the lunch counter sit downs, suffered a broken jaw when viciously beaten in his jail cell by Merrill Imus, a hefty construction worker. ABOUT THREE SCORE other persons, many of them “innocent” bystanders, were treated for lesser injuries. Almost as many, both white and Negro, were jailed for various offenses. Property damage was estimated roughly in excess of $25,000. Finally loss of business ran into the thousands of dollars. And while Judge John Santora was passing judgment on the offenders, politicians and other leaders were trying to place the blame. Gov. LeRoy Collins blamed the people and elected officials of Jacksonville for the breakdown of law and order. He criticized Mayor Haydon Burns’ refusal to create a biracial committee “to talk out” race problems. Mayor Burns retorted in effect that the Governor ought to mind his own business.

He said order could best be preserved “where state officials withhold their actions and their comments until their assistance is requested by local responsible officials.” Assistant Chief of Police H. V. Branch said he believed that there would be no further violence. He said, however, that all police forces in the area would be on duty in ready reserve Saturday, Sept. 3 for the professional football game between the Washington Redskins and the Chicago Bears. The latter team has Negro olayers. LIEUT. J. O. Crews, head of the police intelligence squad, said most of the disturbances had been caused by gangs that had been known to the police for two or three years. He said that they had taken their cue from the racial clashes “to do whatever violence they want to against the community as a whole.” His analysis of the situation was borne out by Mrs. Ruby Hurley, southeast regional director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, who came here from the regional headquarters in Atlanta. She said that officials of the organization had contacted youthful gang leaders in efforts to stem the disturbances. Newsboys sold only half as many papers as usual in the downtown shopping area. Parking lots, ordinarily overflowing, were checkered with vacancies. Clerks and elevator operators reported that customers who normally (Continued on Page 3)

NEW YORK—'Waiting and hoping in the Death House at Sing Sing, 35-year-old Ella Mae Barber wants one day to be able to return home to her four children. Six months ago Mrs. Barber was sentenced to death in the electric chair, along with her friend, James Noble, after being convicted by the jury of persuading Noble to kill her common-law husband, Ernest Barber. While she awaits the date of her electrocution, four children ranging in age from 6 to 11. remain at home not knowing that their mother has been condemned to die. The children have been living in Brooklyn two years In the care of a friend whom Mrs. Barber paid when she worked. Previous to the slaying, Ella, through work, study and effort, had been employed as a practical nurse in a home for the aged, earning as much as $100 a week. Said Mrs. Barber at one point, “My mother gave me away when I was two weeks old. My mother never seemed to care for me ” The two defendants were illegitimate (Continued on Page 2)

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NEW YORK <A N P) — When scientists announce sometime in the future that they have found a cure for cancer, they may have to give some of the credit to two 17-year-old New Vork high school

students.

They are Patricia E. Bath whose father is from the West Indies, and Arnold Lentnek whose father

is a heart victim

The two have been credited with suggesting a previously unexplored avenue in the quest for new types of chemicals to attack cancer. They also were credited with perhaps throwing new and surprising light on the nature of cancer —and on how better to give nourishment to patients wasting

away from malgnancy.

Group Endorses UN Intervention In Riddled Como

Woman Shot Critically Asking

Why Nephew Was with Rowdiesl £'.,T-,'XX

LEOPOLDVILLE, Congo — Patrice Lumumba's hopes of getting at least moral support for his program to hold the

U. S. Govt. Agency Orders Klan Signs Removed from Ala. Roads

Tex. Gov. Opposes Further Fight To Retain Segregation HOUSTON (ANP)—Texas Gov. Price Daniel last week dashed what Houston school officials called their last hope to stave off integration of first graders when the new school term opens this week. “The state has no authority to interpose in a lawsuit of this nature,” Daniel said of the federal court order to integrate the first grade Sept. 7. He said interposition had failed in Virginia and was involving Louisiana in federal court injunction suits. Three Negro families tried to enroll their children in two white Houston schools but were turned back under a school system rule that all childrea of the same family must attend the same school. The Negro families all have other children attending Negro schools.

J MONTGOMERY (ANP)—Go y. John Patterson said last week he had challenged an order issued by the Federal Bureau of Public! . Roads which called for the re-1 movak of the Ku Klux Klan signs from highway rights of way. Patterson revealed that the Highway Department had received a letter from the federal agency explaining that it permitted certain organizations to erect signs on the rights of way if they were “in the public interest.” “The letter said further that it had been determined that the Ku Klux Klan was not in the public interest and that the sign was a form of intimidation,” Patterson said. The governor said he had failed to find any place where Congress had given the agency the power “to decide which clubs are in the public interest and which are not.” “I have written the bureau of Public Roads asking them for a list of the organizations which they think are in the public interest,” he said. "I hate to see anybody get in the field of censorship, and they have no right to do it.” — REGISTER TO VOTE —

Jamboree Drinks Land 2 in Jam

Fines of $65 and sentences of 60 days on the Indiana State Farm were given to Conrad Donaldson, 19, 2740 Baltimore, and Milton Duerson, 18, 2553 Hillside, recently after being arrested for being drunk at the city football jamboree September 2 at Tech High School. The two young men were told, “It’s men like you who destroy the moral fiber of our young people by drinking at these events,” by Municipal Court 5 Judge John C. Christ. Appeal bonds were fixed at $500 by Judge Christ. Duerson had been convicted of being drunk in July and was fined $1 and costs and sentenced to a five-day jail term. Approximately 50 policemen patrolled the jamboree area to prevent rowdyism. There were no other arrests. — REGISTER TO VOTE—

MISS BATH, a Negro girl whi grew up on the crowded streets of Harlem is a graduate of Charles Evans Hughes High School and is new attending Hunter college. Lentnek of Rockaway Beach, was graduated from Far Rockaway High School last June and plans to enter Columbia University

this fall

The adult scientist who collaborated in the report on the work of the two youngsters said their firdngs, taken together, may open the way to this: “Examining or re-examining thousands of mold fermentation products for possible anticancer action from the standpoint of desirable growth promotion of certain cells rather than from the standpoint of killing cells.'’ The two were listed as the “senior” or principal authors of a report prepared for the fifth International Congress on Nutrition. Their adult co-author was Dr. Robert D. Barnard, consultant to the Cancer Research Division of the New York Cty Health Department, who told of their researches. It was this wav, he said . . . The teenagers, who didn’t know one another at first, worked on separate research projects at Harlem Hospital during a 1959 summer science training program conducted by Yeshiva University under a grant from the National Science Foundation. But ultmately, alert adult scientists saw a possible relation between their projects and brought them together Lentnek had been searching for growth and reproduction stimulants in a one-celled protozoan tConti^uec on Page 2)

Mrs. Nannie Shovan, 36, 1806 Northwestern, was shot around 10 p.m. September 2 after stopping her car at 16th and Mill to see what her nephew was doing standing among a gang of toughs. She was taken to General hospital in critical condition with a wound in the right side of the

stomach.

Thelma McGill, 20, 532 W. 17th, who was walking near the

intersection, was grazed s the calces of both legs by

a stray bullet. She was treated at

General hospital and released.

Gilbert Derrickson, 33, 745 Roache, was arrested two hours after the shooting on a preliminary charge of assault and bat-

tery with intent to kill.

Mrs. Shovan told police that she was driving past the intersection when she saw her nephew, Alphonso Harris, 20, 1808 North-

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western, standing on the corner' with a gang of youths with clubs, i She stopped and went back and ! asked Harris what he, was doing, i The answer was the' shot that | was fired by someone in the crowd. ! At the time of this writing she j was still on the critical list at;

General hospital.

— REGISTER TO VOTE — U.S. to Probe Nov. Vote Violations WASHINGTON (ANP) — United Slates Solicitor General J. Lee Rankin said last week the Justice Department will resort to the courts “where there is good cause of action” if Negroes are not allowed to vote in the South in the November election. He spoke on a television program. — REGISTER TO VOTE —

NBA Adopts Resolutions to Safeguard Negroes' Rights

PHILADELPHIA (ANP)—The 300 delegates of the National Bar Association meeting here last week from 30 states, by resolution endorsed and supported the current sit-in lunch counter demonstrations. The resolutions committee, headed by Judge Lewis .Clymer of Kansas City, Mo., and Former NBA president Sidney R. Redmortd, St. Louis, also adopted the recommendations of the association’s judiciary committee, headed by Edward B. Toles of Chicago, that more Negro judges be appointed or elected especially in the Federal courts. The association also denounced the “unjust, unfair, and discriminatory insurance practices by some fire and casualty insurance companies against Negro applicants on account of their race or color.” The association also denounced H. R. 3216 and similar proposed

legislation which would restrict applications filed in the Federal courts for the issuance of writs of habeas corpus. It called upon the Attorney General of the United States and the Department of Justice to withdraw their support from such proposed legislation, and upon all members of Congress to vote against the bill. Other members of the resolutions committee were Miles Stevens, Kansas City, Kan.; Richard Atkinson, former NtJ\ president, Washington; Arthue C. Thomas, Philadelphia, president of the Barrister’s Club and chairman of the convention committee; Mrs. Arneda Hazel, Philadelphia; Prof. Herbert Reid, Howard Law School, Washington; Louis E. Saunders, Jersey City; Charles P. Howard, Jr., Baltimore; Elijah M. Gram, and Joseph C. Morris, New York

City.

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j UN int’ervention were set bock when delegates from 13 African nations which he summoned here voted instead to support

the United Nations.

The d e I e go t e s warned Lumumba in a private meeting that such incidents as the beating of* eight American airmen and two Canadians "must come

to a halt."

The implication was that if the Congo Army and police continued to mistreat white United Nations personnel Lumumba could no longer count on pan-African support. DR. SADOK MOKKADEM, Tunician foreign secretary and dean of the delegates, acted as the spokesman at the meeting, just before the final public session of the Pan-African Conference. Asked what Lumumba’s reaction to the warning had been, a delegate remarked, “It was a wise

reaction.”

Lumumba had expected to influence world opinion which has not been favorable *to him by invoking the support of the PanAfrican Conference. It was reported that he had arranged that a demonstration enthusiastically backing him be staged while the issue was being discussed by the delegates. However a faction of Congolese—willing to leave the matter in the hands of the UN—staged a counter-demon-stration which became so viollent that the Force Publique was unable to contain it and UN troops from Ghana had to be called in to disperse the

rrowds.

It was an unmistakable an-ti-Lumumba demonstration that was whipped into a fever by the chant of “Kill Lumumba,” “Dowm with Lumumba.” The Ghana troops, giving every j indication of being well disci-1 plined, refrained from force and ( broke up the demonstration without any casualties. This was just one of several instances in which the troops from Ghana have won commendation because of their exemplary con(Continued on Page 2)

JOHN CASTERLOW Special to The Recorder DETROIT — John Casterlow, former Muncie Central basketball and football star was brutally stabbed and beaten to death Wednesday afternoon as his horrified bride of less than 10 months and her teenage niece and nephew looked on. The 6-foot, 6-inch Casterlow was attacked by one of a trio of young hoodlums after he took exception to some "remarks" they made to his young wife, Sgt. Angus McIntyre of the Detroit police department told The Recorder Thursday afternoon. During a telephone interview with a Recorder reporter, Casterlow’s 18-year-old wife, Annie, sometimes almost incoherent with emotion, related the details of the tragedy. “I was visiting with my aum and John had come to pick me up after his job at the Chevrolet plant. He had just driven up and we (Mrs. Casterlow and her niece and nephew. Annie Murray, 13, and Richard Murray, 13, were standing on the curb talking to John who was still seated in the car when an old model sedan containing three young men drove up and stopped near our car. “One of the men in the car got out and went in o a nearby house. While he was gone the two who had remained in the car began to make insulting remarks to my niece and me.” As near as could be learned from the sobbing young wife, Casterlow, who had made his home in Detroit since 1956 after a stint at Southern University in Baton Rouge, La., asked the men to stop and got out of the car when the men refused. Mrs. Casterlow, who said she didn’t remember when the third man came out of the house, said an argument ensued and the man pulled a long-bladed pocket knife and stabbed Casterlow in the left side of his chest. The blade punctured the heart. After being stabbed the star athlete, who was named all-state in both football and basketball while at Muncie Central, slumped (Continued on Page 2)

Negro-White Congressmen Join Pickets At Jimcrow Amusement Park in Washington

WASHINGTON (ANP) — The Democrat of Colorado, lent moral presence of five congressmen in the support but refused to carry a picket line at Glen Echo Amuse- picket sign. He contended that ment Park last week, resulted in a negotiations should be held first conference with the lawmakers and and the picket line should come the park management. only if negotiations failed. Expressing their disapproval of Woodie Jenkins, newly elected segregation practiced in a public chairman of NAG (Non-violent Acpark on the edge of the nation’s tj on Group) said they had tried capital, four Democratic Congress- again and again to discuss this men and one Republican appeared matter with Leonard Warnoff, manon the scene of the picket line a ger of the park, but he had refused

which has been thrown around this to see them.

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months.

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center for several

Congressman Johnson stuck to

of the five crabbed siens contention until an impromptu and marched with the^cketfrs conferfince was arranged with the Si, manager and the Congressmen.

They were Congressmen Charles Porter of Oregon, Adam Clayton POwell of New York. Charles C.

At the close of the hour-long conference, the Congressmen said

Diggs of Michigan, and Seymour they had stated their case to WarnHalpem, Republican of New York, off, and read planks from both the CONG. BRYON JOHNSON, (Continued on Page 3)

Interracial Fight Erupts After Space Film Showing SAN FRANCISCO (ANP) — The “battle of outer space” might have provided the impetus for a fight between Negro and white youths at the Paramount Theater here recently. Police reported that a total of 40 Negro teenagers attacked five white youths in the theater between the showing of two science fiction films, cutting the ear of one and brandishing knives at adults who tried to intervene. No one was seriously injured, however. — REGISTER TO VOTE —

White Boy Jailed for Brandishing 'Molotov Cocktail' at Beach Sit-In

CHICAGO (ANP). — A white youth arrested for carrying a gasoline bomb at the scene of a wade-in-demonstration was sentenced last week to four months in the House of Correction. He is James A. (Alfie) Southhard, 18. A second youth, Adrian Jones, 17, who admitted in Boys Court that he made the “Molotov Cocktail” bomb for Southhard, was given a seven-day sentence by Judge Saul A. Epton. Police arrested Southhard recently at Rainbow Beach on Chicago’s

South Side, the scene of a wade-in sponsored by the NAACP Young Jones testifibd he made the bomb for Southhard after Southhard threatened him. He said Southhard said he wanted the bomb “to frighten the colored people.” To Southhard, Judge Epton said: “You had the bomb and you planned to use it. I shudder to ihink what would have happened if you had.” Judge Epton praised police for ther alertness in handling the potentially dangerous beach situation.

Nixon Launches Nat'l Campaign Here Sept. 12 Presidential hopeful, Vice-Pres-ident Richard M. Nixon, launches his campaign for -the presidency in this city September 12, consistent with announcements from his Washington office and the Nixon Indiana headquarters. After his release from Walter Reed Army Hospital, Sept. '11, where he is under treatment for a knee injury, Nixon is scheduled to make Hoosierland his first stop on a 9,000-mile, six-day, 14-state tour. The stop to Indianapolis is expected to be relatively short, although no official timetable has been issued. Later the Vice-Presi-dent will make stops at Dallas and San Francisco, travelling on a chartered jet airliner. During his 1954, 1956, and 1958 campaigns Nixon made early appearances in the state, the most recent one being February 23, when he attended the University of Notre Dame to receive a patriotism award presented to him by

the senior class.

The Vice-President will leave from Baltimore, although it will not be a stop, because the Washington airport is not equipped to

handle jet transports.

Mrs. Pat Nixon will accompany

her husband.

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