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Democratic Cong. Diggs’ sign said '‘Republicans Support Your

Party Platform-Saty Out.”

Republican Cong. Helpem carried a sign saying "Democrats Support

Democratic and Republican plat- Your Platform — Stay Out.” forms dealing with this form of Perhaps the junior of the picketdiscriminatioen. He said the park er was 7-year-old Joe Flynn. The manager promised to relay his little white lad, who resides with message to the owners, Abram and his parents at Glen Echo Heights, Samuel Baker. Md., carried a sign which said Congressman Porter sain he "Don’t Buy Segregation at Glen

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Brothers who reside in Miami, before Congress adjourns. The Congressmen let it be known that "nobody disagrees with the principle of the strikers.” They ai-sured the management that "integration is not only morally right but it is also

good business.”

The manager privately admitted that the business at the park and greatly fallen off. On the day of the Congressmen’s visit the park had advertised "free hot-dogs” and re-

was carried by an 11-year-old white boy, Daniel Talpers. The sign warned: “Stay Out Kids — Your Folks Will Tell You Why.” Two Congressional employees also joined the line. They were Miss Gloria Correothers and Weston Diggs. Miss Correothers, who works in the office of Congressman James Roosevelt, carried a picket sign which said “Segregation is Unameri-

can.”

Diggs, a nephew of Congressman

duced the “rides” to 5c in an effort Diggs and an employee in the old to lure a bigger crowd, but even house building, carried a sign which these efforts failed. | urged citizens to “Spend for InteThere were apparently more gration — Not Segregation.' people on the picket line than inside j —- REGISTER TO VOTE — the park. It was estimated that 300 ! q ■ ■ 1 A I kc persons were on the picket line, DUnCnC l>OST IO 1-D5. about two-thirds of whom were nn ConflO AssianmCIlt white. The line was finally divided 00 WOn ™_ ****’«* -

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PHILLY PRINCIPAL CITED: Dr. Marechal-Neil E. Young of Philadelphia smiles broadly as she accepts the Lola M. Parker achievement award from Mrs. Florence Madison Hill, national president of the lota Phi Lambda sorority during its annual convention recently in Louisville. Dr. Young, principal of a Philadelphia junior high school and author, was voted recipient of the award made annually by the sorority in honor of the founder, o Chicagoan. The Fight To Save the Congo

NALC Asks Candidates To Debate Views On TV

NEW YORK—The Negro American Labor Council this week called upon the Democratic and Republican candidates to debate their views on civil rights on television and radio. In a statement criticizing the stalemate in Congress over further legislative action, the Council which is headed by AFL-CIO Vice President A. Philip Randolph, said: “Since neither candidate has stated his views clearly and forcefully in the present situation, we call uoon them to discuss the civil rights problem together on television and radio where they can reach maximum audiences and thus clarify areas of agreement and disagreement.” The Council backed the threepoint program of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights which asks for aid to schools proceeding with desegregation; empowers the Attorney General to initiate action in the Courts; and establishes a permanent commission on equal job opportunity.

It said that Negro wage earners were restless and suspicious of being fooled again with fine words that are only an opiate. “To seek excuses for postponing Congressional action can only be construed as evading responsibility in this area,” the organization warned. It questioned whether the head of a party divided on civil rights in the White House was capable of leadership in a “world which today demands equality for all men now.” The statement added that: "It is important to know whether in the field of civil rights, Mr. Kennedy will be more influenced by the Southern wing of his party and Mr. Nixon by the conservative wing of his party.” The Negro American Labor Council was founded in Detroit in May of this year. It is the vehicle through which the million and a half Negroes in the labor movement seek to eliminate racial discrimination in trade unions. — REGISTER TO VOTE —

Publisher Goodwin Ex-D. C. Lawyer

Joins Firm of Atty. Clarence Bolden

LEOPOLDVILLE, The Congo— doctor was speaking to one ‘ the men who can save the Conj. "Look!” he said. “There is

the nation on the operating

do not know where

they are going or if their hands are dirty, the patient will die.” The doctor was William T. Close of Greenwich, Connecticut, described by the Roosevelt Hospital, New York, as one of the most promising surgeons they had ever turned out. He came to the Congo three months ago at the invitation of the Congolese, not in the first place to practice medicine, but because he knew that if the cancer at the heart of a nation is not cured there is little value in curing the bodies of in-

dividual citizens.

When the Congo army mutinied and all hell broke loose, Europeans poured across the Congo River to Brazzaville by the thousands and the shortage of doctors was acute. As the Belgian troops fought their way into Leopoldville, Dr. Close decided to go over to the big 1,800-bed Congolese hospital in an unprotected area and offer his services. He found there the acme of dedication. A Belgian surgeon was working singlehanded. Heroic nuns were walking unescorted from the conI vent to the hospital in a part of j the city where there was no police or military protection, at a time when assaults on Europeans were the order of the day. Yet despite all that, he found between European and Congolese in the hospital the same intense bitterness

knowing the answer, he began to ask: “What is in the mind of that patient? Why is that man bitter? How do you think that man in the cast feels about what was said in the operating room about the Congolese when he was on the operating table under a local anaesthetic?” Very often the answer was: “I have never

thought.”

Once during an operation a Sister whose task it was to hold a clamp began ordering people around Vight and left. The doctor stopped and with a twinkle he said: “Look! It is very good for you both physically and spiritually to do nothing—nothing— except quietly to hold that clamp.” The nun said: “I know you are right.” One day the chief surgeon said to her: “That man keeps after us.” She came right back like a bullet: “We need to. Unless we Christians keep after each other, the Communists will take us ati over.” The Belgian doctor had to take a patient to Brussels and Dr. ^ Close found himself the only surgeon in a 1,800-bed hospital. He got no’ franc of salary. He did more surgery in three weeks than in any three months of his work in New York. And where in New York he had a laboratory, an Xray technician, an anaesthetist, several assistants and nurses, here he had the help of one nun. Yet with this mass of surgery his central concern remained how to give the leaders an ideology to save the nation. One typical day he operated throughout the morning, did his round of the wards in the afternoon and then spent the evening with eleven Cabinet Ministers. Along with

me same fo . Mau Mau leaderS) Nigerias anywhere in the outside world nii :inf , whit ,. Afri .

It was dead clear that goodwill and hard work without an ideolo-

Admitted to Low

Practice in Okla. TULSA (ANP)—E. L. Goodwin, editor and publisher of The Oklahoma Eagle newspaper, announced last week the forming of a law partnership with Charles L. Owens, veteran police officer. Graduates of the Tulsa University Law school and recently admitted to the Oklahoma bar, the pair will share law offices. Goodwin, who came to Oklahoma from Water Valley, Miss., in 1912, attended Tulsa public schools and completed his undergraduate work in 1924 at Fisk

University, Nashville.

Though his earlier ambition waste become a lawyer, plans were terminated when he decided to marry and rear a family. He is married to the former Jeanne Osby of Springfield, 111., and the couple has nine children. first the projects will work. To the operating team Dr. Close gave this vision: “We, black and white, Congolese and Belgian and people from other countries can live the answer to division, bitterness and ambition and take it to the nation. In this age of crisis in which we live it is the job of the medical profession to get people into shape physically and ideologically, to take on curing the diseases of the nation.” The Minister of Health told him simply: “We cannot thank you enough for what you are doing.” — REGISTER TO VOTE—

Lizzie Simons

Funeral services for Mrs. Lizzie Simons, 72, who died Aug. 30 in General Hospital, were held Sept. 2 in Peoples Funeral Home, with burial in Crown Hill Ceme-

tery.

Mrs. Simons was born at McHenry, Ky., and came to Indianapolis in 1957 to live with a daughter, Mrs. Lillian Crider, 3697 Crescent. Mrs. Simons was a member of Wesley Chapel AME Zion Church, Greenville, Ky. Survivors, besides Mrs. Crider, include three sons, Gerald, Leroy and William R. Simons; another

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Jacksonville

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crowd the stor.es in the week before school opens were staying home at week’s end. Mayor Burns said he had repeatedly refused requests of merchants that he order integration of the lunch counters. “The merchants are trying to duck the decision by going to city officials and asking them to make the decision for them,” Burns told the Jacksonville Ministerial Alliance which had invited him to a meeting on the issue. Merchants hit by sit-ins and picketing “are caught in a crossfire,” Burns told the ministers. “If they do not integrate their lunch counters, they face boycotts by Negroes. If they integrate, the whites threaten to boycott. “My position is that this is an economic decision that must be faced by the merchants themselves. They know the feelings of the people.” LEADERS of the youth council of the NAACP which was spearheading the campaign against jim crow lunch counters were critical

of oolice at the outset of the stiife. They said that when white hoodlums marched on the peaceful ^demonstrators, police were reluctant to arrest the whites who were armed with clubs, baseball bats, handles, wheelspokes and stones. However, they added, when Negroes sought to defend themselves, the police arrested them as though they bad been responsible for the violence. It was not, they pointed out, until some of the disorderly whites began attacking the police that they moved in and began to arrest them. “If the police had not acted as though they were in sympathy with the white hoodlums, the matter would never have gotten out of hand,” one of them said. — REGISTER TO VOTE —

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Says NAACP Drafted Both Rights Planks NEW ORLEANS—(ANP)—Gov Ross Barnett of Mississippi says the “NAACP and other groups dedicated to the total destruction of the South” drafted the platforms of both political parties Barnett lolu the Young Men’s Business Club of New Orleans last week naming of independent presidential electors would give southerners a chance io vote for their principles. He denounced the civil rights planks of both parties. — REGISTER TO VOTE—

WILLIAM C. SPINKS Atty. William C. Spinks is presently occupying suite 309 in the Walker Building, as an associate of Atty Clarence D. Bolden. A graduate of Howard University Lav. School, Atty. Spinks is also a deputy Marion County prosecutor. He practiced law in the District of Columbia before eomng to Indianapolis He is a communicant of Christ Church Cathedral Episcopal church, a member of the Indianapolis Human Relations Council. The Elks NAACP and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. He resides at 2340 N. College, the home of Mr. and Mrs. .Tewette Lacey, the daughter and son-in-law of Mrs. Cora Elliott, a former fellow Tuskegan.

daughter, Mrs. Edith Johnson, Atlanta, Ga.; a sister, Mrs. Eva Godson, Menlo Park, Cal.; four brother, Clarence Hall, Los Angeles; Roy Hall, Cincinnati, and Reginald and ’Russell Hall, Chicago, and 12 grandchildren. — REGISTER TO VOTE—

gy break down in a crisis. His offer of help was gladly accepted. Among his first patients were wounded Congolese soldiers; and there is no more bitter man in the world today than a Congolese soldier shot by Belgian bullets. They operated morning,

noon and night.

Things were often near a stand-

an nationalists and white Afri cans, he fought that the Minis-

ters deal as radically with the evils in themselves and their nation as a doctor does with his patient. He presented the ideology that can cure the body of a nation that is critically ill. As he was about to go to bed that night, the telephone rang and he had to return to the hospital to deal with a man who had just come

in with a knife wound.

of^the^Congoles^againsT the^BeL With the Sisters, he decided to gians and vice versa. One morn- make a further assault on the

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ing things were particularly tense. Dr. Close was operating on a Congolese soldier, doing an open reduction of a thigh with badly shattered bone and muscle. His young medical assistant was the ringleader of a bitter Congolese group and had _ encouraged the other medical assistants to stay out on strike. The atmosphere was so tense that something had to be done. Dr. Close paused for a moment, turned to the technician and said: “I was thinking about you early this morning.” The technician was very much

frustration and bitterness of the patients. Two nights in succession he brought in the all-African film “Freedom.” Mme. Irene Laure, former Secretary-General of the Socialist Women of France, spoke after it. Simply she said: “We white people asx your forgiveness for what we have done in Africa.” From their plaster casts, hardened tormented Congo 1 e s e soldiers shouted: “We forgive! We forgive!” Next morning some of the patients who for weeks had only glowered at the head Sister stopped her and spoke to her.

on his guard. The doctor con-1 The Catholic Chaplain could not

tinued: “I just realized again with real j>ain and with a heavy sense of responsibility that it is the arrogance and superiority in white men like me that has created the bitterness in men like you, and I am really sorry.” There was a long silence. “You are right,” said the Congolese. “I have never heard a white man admit he was wrong.” There was a dramatic change in the atmosphere of the operating room. The fracture was rapidly reduced, plaster applied and the patient taken to the ward. Following the morning’s work, the doctor asked the assistant for a niece of gauze to clean the plaster from his shoes. The technician insisted on doing it and went down on his knees. The doctor sat down on the floor and they \vere equal. They have worked together since that moment. Day by day he fought to answer the superiority of the whites and the bitterness of the Congolese. The key question to him seemed to be, “What is in the mind of the other person?” Not

get over it. He took the doctor and his friends over to meet the Provincial Father Superior to tell what was happening. The Father Superior asked for the film in the Cathedral Hall. It was shown in the nuns’ convent. Following the show the head surgical Sister answered a question from a colleague: “I know what I am talking about. We have experienced Moral Re-Armament in our operating room and with our team. Where there was terrible tension and hate, there is friendship and

love.”

From time to time a United Nations’ team has come marching through the wards counting beds and patients. The doctor got talking with one of them and asked: "Do you ever stop to think what goes through the hearts an<J minds of the staff and patients when you march through like this?” He blinked. It was a new thought, but he was genuinely grateful. They talked about the futility of putting projects before people and that if you put people

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