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I ftlSENT AND PAST The present Imperial Genoa Weshinaton el Chicago. Poaa da Potentata of the Imperial Council, Ancient fsatad Washington aa impressive shew Egyptian Arabic Order of Nobles of the of streagfk, by a to margin, in Pitts Mystic Shrine, Thomas F. Poag llaftl, for burgh Uit, week. Washington's defeat was mar Deputy Imperial Potentate of Winston largely, according to the rank and file Salem, N.C.. and the outgoing Potentate, nobles, because he didn't do anything." Potentate PHA By WOODY L.

TAYLOR PITTSBURGH Thomas F. Poag. a school teacher who is prominent in civic and religious circles in his hometown. Winston Salem, N. in a surprising show of strength, was elected Imperial Potentate of the Imperial Council, Ancient Egyptian Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, at the ejection of officers during the 62nd Imperial Council held here at the Penn Sheraton Hotel.

Thursday. Poag was moved up from Deputy. Imperial Potentate. He tarfeaied We incumbent Potentate, Genoa Washington, by a to 1 martin. Rank ami flla Noble uM they defeated Washington "bmntue he did at do anything." Mrs.

EreeUe Harmon Moore, Buffalo, N. was re elerted Imperial ConunandreM of the Imperial Court, Daughter of taring election of officer the Imperial oart. Imperial Potentate Poag announced hi program for the Shi hwra as piarmg rrophasb registration and as sisting the legal reTta faadJalize. Poag urged the Nobles, in acceptance of the position of Imperial Potentate, to" em mirage youth to stay in school. THE NEW Imperial Potentate also took the position that economic education is most important to Negroes.

Poag consider that the Negro's campaign for democracy ha this coBjntry of prime significance. "It Is not a cam paiga of pettiness and 1ndtr SfTeaeaa again! any man. The objective are higger than that. The campaign ia to help America aave for ihemNelvea the freedom they have enjoyed so long. "We will work with other Bishop Ball Drops Purse String at Ed JACKSONVILLE.

Fla Prolonged picketing and the threat of the entire student hody of 1.000 at Sfryearold Edward Waters College here to quit and gn elsewhere has finally "persuaded" AME Bishop William V. Ball to hand over the reins and pui se7 strings to ol lege president William B. Stewart. nam u. Mcwari.

This remarkable action os aiiivlr frnrM I Via tensibly stemmed from the Bishop's own hand, for UJasj he who called tne extraordinary, session ot the college's board of management which early thi morita strippru hiin of arbitrary power over the college and the Bishop him aeif who made the proposals! By so doing Bishop Ball saved face, and qualified tor the old saving. "I wasn't fired I quitf BKSIDKK CALLING for his i own demise, the Bishops four agement inciuoeo aoopuon oijviwin new bv las ior the college (depnvine him of executive u. and fiscal connoli. piovtsionj for an audit ol college lunds. and me future bonding ol all persons having stress lo sucii lunds.

When the board voted approval ot all lour of Bishop Balis moti' 'n. Dr. Stewart. who has beer pitsident of td ward Waters i.oiirge ior me past 12 years who was in Oark Issues Plea BATON ROUGE In a aiming summer commence mest address here. President reJton a Claik of Sojthem University called the present era "a period of romance ot tha present and future." and said ita only p'oblem ueslKho only in the in which we approach.

Shri organization far freedona aad civil right." Poag eoortaded. The. Nobles backed up their new Potentate's position by enthusiastically passing resolution endorsing the March on Washington and supporting all of its objectives. A PBE COCM1L rumor that the once powerful forces led by past Imperial Potentate Raymond Jackson of Buffalo, arojikl stage a drama tie comeback failed to mater. bad fiear aygtaaUstd by the iacJutonrtea tried mm rr era! eotnatona to stir dhv sension'bart they were ignored.

Officers of the Imperial Council. Ancient Egyptian Arabic Order Noble of the Mystie Shrine, aa now ceaatt tated are: IMPERIAL POTENTATE Thomas r. Poag. lit! X. Highland Wla toa Kaleea.

X. DEPUTY IMPERIAL PO TEXTATE Xoacoe C. Wah ington. S4M Crery Dr, Los a.JIiIL. i uiruiiAi.

him susav RAX John Henry Hester. Mi strtimental in elexating it from junior to senior college status. arose from the floor lo say: "I am happy: I anew cf no college presMeat ht the Matioa) wh has beea gtve so Bmarh power ami aathorirr as jroa have given me here, today." Vindicated together with i (NlQeridnS OUCSrS AfNMA Sessions LOS ANGELES ANP Two of Nigeria's most prorr inent governmentai figures attended the 6Sth annual mtnw tion of the National Medical Association, an organization composed of nearly 5.000 Negro physicians which closed its five day teuton in the Stat ler Hilton Hotel here last week. The two guests of honor were Dr. K.

Ozuomba Mha Nigerian Minister of diw e. and Julius M. I'dorhi. Ambassador to the States. Ray Charles to Face HOLLVWOCD Judge Pfaff has et Sept.

3 eanrg "Jn ihe pamf wtablished natcmitv cai e. nlty charge filed against Mr. Soul and Ortiuc" Ray Charies. Filing the su't tgainst Uie famous singer is pretty 21 yei i Sr.nora Jean BetU Of Lna Angriea. In a statement to the pre.

her attorney. Peter J. Kapiaeis said: "Miss aVtta rrry sorry she had to rwaort to the aad prayed the rould ka heeai aa died frteaaetr a ahat America's Best Weekly 14 VelM Nv.S5 PHtsburth, Pa August SI. 13 Mew Of ners X. Ohio Ave AUaatie CUy.

mrESiAL Assr kabban Ourta A. Dargan. 4tfc St, Xirhetas PL, New York JA DIPEK1AL HIGH PSIrXT AXD PEOPHET Wliaarn Howe, till CaUowMB rWiadetpara, IMPERIAL ORIENTAL GUIDE JaY 3lartu. Fta State Baa. DeaMlte.

OLPfcaUAU TJIKASUKEK Tottx Hifang. UM Broadway. Detroit, IMPEB1AL RECORDER Alfred A. Dixen. 1117 HhUe lork St, BalUmore, IMPERIAL FIRST CEREMONIAL MASTER Marshall S.

Johnson, llt4 Larimer Ave, Pittwhargh. IMPERIAL SECOND CEREMONIAL MASTER L. L. Meetoa. ITS Gtadr SL, BVaav saawt.

IMPERIAL CAPTAIN' OF; THE GUARD Eugene Dirk ersMs, SU Florida Aw, Wash ington, a 1 1 i ZJl ALT i Harry Smith. Toledo. Ohio; I iatcDt a rfann' IMPERL4L ALDrrOR AH (Continued on Page 4) Reins, Waters President Stewart was the Ed 1 HUNN Sr ward Waters student body.il. which toward the eiul of the last school year, as repoHed I mr TATLOR (Woody I CouH' 'ldf GARLAND i Phyllis I picket line and series or pi test demons! rations aimed an I GARLAND natal! the Bishops handling of col ROIINSON Robert 1 lege affairs, and calling for executive power to be central aed in President Slew art. THE STUDENTS threaten ea lo uVrt Edward Waters en masse, and enroll this fall at Jacksonville University in stead, it tneir demands weie not met The Slate of Florida, and various accrediting agencies as had previously made it ciear that the college's future qualifications would depend upon its putting an end of the dual cor.troi oi Bishop and President under which it had ia bored.

In the past, no cvJlege hecks could be issued p.Kir e. the Bishop's signature. (Coetinaed oa Tag 4) c'k. is rr.eii vtine as Ti nf 'VTe rioht support and moinMisnce." rsu Ui rr porter was un3 to contact represnutiv for the' Ray Charies organization. Continuing.

Attorney Kan Uais said Miss Be aff idav it filed with s' it estimated Charles' assets at more than "Mr. harW has made sari of raring fnr ON THE UARCH The dlanca from Wavhlngion Monument to Lincoln Mtmorial was indaod short for those 1 4 members of ffco Nw York CORE who walked the 230 miles to Washington to participate in tha fa mad "March gmnisiitwawiiamiaMirg "MARCH Oil I 1 1 Complete Courier Coverage Pictures (Exclusive) News by i sum i iroio i i jl 1 AH the color, glamour, aicittment, depth. pathos, highligtiti will 1 in 3ETAIL THE COURIER 3 I I cil is the originator of tlie 1 KK a tf a manh on Washing advance civil rights. i (Next Week) ibRDER NOW! Negroes Pass Test BATON ROUGE Some 2S Negro studenis are scheduled to deseeregate local fornw they passed a scnecaing test; here last week. i Randolph's Long Realized in D.

C. WASHINGTON ANP) i Au. 2S was Maith on p. ashmgton Day. KeganJloss ho tie got 'idea.

Randolph has h.d murhl Regardless how tie got But to many Who have (civil nehts movement fori tsui 10 manj wno naei followed the histoiy of the the last several decades, it Perhaps gieatost su was Philip Randolph Au5 Dav." It was Randolph, a pioud en e. gotK and tireless campaigner pvrscn was responsible for tnc a rDlt hoci1 of Car Porters i rim I I 1411 aSaanaa llaa iHarU ni World War II when Negroes were ia defense plants, actually originated with Jacob A. Covey, who led a march on IWashingtaa Tt years ago de manding relief for onero ployed worker during the de predion of I1BX. UK rargly proceviioa' of VA followers; rTtri reHpwing j. ne rapitoi grounds and Te episode won foi the! aJer the derisive title of sio of her and him.

stated Ksp'sms. Letts assures that il he had the ttnv, he'd do the prcj thing. He 'vas srn td with a stunmons last week He accepted the papers like a gertleinan," "he is sere it ii. not a nut "ter i aicmteresi on ms part 1 I I i 1 Dadhood Hearing naaov. k4h medical and fi nanrialty.

But be cast from dxr daw hmhWhi' mK Ik. i mme he i "She has repeatedly attswpt ea so niaaie use nuttier pn far. a. traC" he added? Karens c.t itis a'xi 1 waits shoti dye resoect tc Wy ted Mr. aU concerned reeosniaes i oownt man he is a ius, a grt artist ver' Z'J ot h5m But he a'c a human be.n5 of mai vr invoivt a hiid to Kap.an!.

be horn and a pn image." don 'ther. J'pi sure we SHE AFatAID the puhlic couid wc onscihiiig out." might get tha wrong impcea concluded. for Frtedom and Jobs" on Aug. 28. The group Uft from tha Downtown Medical Canter in Brooklyn, one of their favorite picketing spots, on Aug.

IS. and "Coxey's Arm r.is When tha; hapner.ed I w.as fom. yea, Ran wore uw wksi his march lotCllIfVeU Willi 'rill alliUdl march bul with a tttirat to To head on march, Presiilent Randolph's rakhn U. ucd Executive Order S802. uhuh btHarne the model for f.iir omplovmint les now enacted many states and toal govcrnnvvnts.

law is of proposal included in Ken nIy's civil pakrfjr. in ha inlni 1 ft tt hifh I Ka ftiftii. Inav follow ei I Dream March bit of marching to Washing lem alnne or with mall drte cation, in haif "fXegro righl rue Preklrnt Cal Herhert Hooser. Koosrvell. Harry Truman.

TJ ere is me senseoLcom Dwight rjenhuwer and Kea ipVte and dedKated coopera nedhae beard kH. elnqii. at ition between the various plea in hehalf of eqaal stice brr of Fe Vrai and Dis for all Ameriran ritixefts. itrkt goverr.rrier.t. i hargepfa prayer pilgnmagp for reeoVim for freedom to Washington in 1957.

He also hcartefl youth marches or .,1 Washington in 19.Vi and to urce more infestation of public st bools. Wi.en the lai st tx ivil rights organaatton frr cw nht, rgrar nn. Randolph was te lokat hot for chaiimr.n depit? I Kitw Tl aoaiic (la nrwr eniu I. Xn hi itrun noniiTon in tha I i i Randolph dtme sttf'lhuv prrvious riutuiin, KANDRA JKAX M.TT& I iV''' i i rf' I 'J I i i i dlaVl wuat paUe 9emmz NATIOHAL EDITION IS Page Price tOe Historic Event Has U. S.

Rapt By ROBERT ROBINSON (Special The Courier) WASHINGTON. D. Thia is being written two symbolic, morale gripping days before the historic, "March on Washington." Its being written in an atmosphere of high emotionalism and aui charged drama. It's the tut story of the 19G0' the No. 1 news drama of the 20th century.

It's a story of faith and courage and humility and one hundrei years of wajtmj. It's a story which won't he ftnaiiv answered this But a story which is He manc'jig not only an immediate answer hut immediate rartioa. Tnfcjataue wiO not stand against our desire to he free?" "God of Justice God of Prrer? Can America deny freeaoni in thi "We iear thi oath. America be tree!" "We march together. Cath Je.

for iDijTVTv and Brotherhood AH Me i'noer God. No "No marter how you polish at djrtjvrotten, 'eir" Thr are me piinied signs dozens of similaf rpe slogans which will appear hrsghtiy coiored ry sters he. the demom.tra Dor. beyir.s. i Tr.e pnrted however, are mere manifestations of the Ideep.

irr ergkm which one mu. feel, a he observes the Irene slot: ta of organizing and correlatirg hKh is going oa TherejrULbe oe rxouhlel r.n K.n th ahhl No on rwvrj hate yreups. whn are heir.g fenced in aits Thoe ho ill )oin this "Freeaorn know ha? goal aie being sought. Thoe whe Hi join this "Freedom Caravan" know nines Wednesday I. they will turn the other if necessary.

estimate a siirarauir of ICC X) pfople in the demonstrsiions. But some iiis'. aiiiung ofS cials here, who have checked 'out the bus stations, the rati the air hrtes. have et their shts at almost twice Jthat number. Final determi'vation of the i number airecUy inv lved.

mill the mv in which tt BoriMaed Page 4 JFK Narrates On Dropouts' NEW YORK V. Prj a Kenrtedv hs nai iiei a rpecis! lour telc i fiim and a one mil i Ciiwd nv. jjf abvul tiis, dr jp out At request of tr White K'JOse. the Acwertioins Coun cil is divtr.utlng the 51ms to every teievWkei station in the rtivT the Krto In action, the Council serdtng ret3rrViS cf thrie Bteaagew to aS raaio sJxtons i and Ia these thvs iM record jags, the FYeit rt persocaily appeals on camera i to Ameri na youth to return la school stay..