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eT gee 1s “AH es Se es | The National Scene— ——9 Jataran 6) roup #UIGiU ans Jemands Probe! ‘n Mississippi Ultra-Liberals Seek Action Against White Citizen Council Heads By FRANK VAN DER LINDEN ournal Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON — The, vmerican Veterans Commit, se, a small, piltra-liberal ‘ roup, wants Ayly Gen. Rob-} rt Kennedy Ao. investigate lisSissippi and “prosecute he leadership of the White Hizens Council.” Mickey “Levine, AYC national iairmar, who made the demand : a letter to: the President's other, failed to specify what laws if any—the Citizens Council may uve broken. ‘s Levine apparently Was upset by cws stories that Jackson (Miss.) ‘alice hed used two German shep- -erd dogs to disberse a crowd of segroes from a courthouse where | ‘ine Negroes were convicted of vio- ating a cily ordinance in a local | ibrary sit-in demonstration. * * Plans for 30 Washington police have 19 such ops for use in controlling crowds | md caiching criminals, and intend | i have 50 on duty by the end of re ee eel Le VETS 7 rom Page One fee ede from a dishonest, apart from Mississippi "| reited: more urbane interpositiontion, sychology of its sister states in ‘ithe senescent Confederacy. “It is known that voting in that ‘state is a hollow mockery, that the great part of the should-be elec- 'terate is disenfranchised, that a Negro resident cannot vole and al- tempts to do so at the risk of his 4 job, his home, and his very Jife. os 8 ' Policy of Officlais + “Terrorism and official] murder ' has been the policy of the officials I who have both condoned and con- ‘nived at lynchings, beatings, kid- ‘ naping, and even outright murder. Our Federal Bureau of Invesliga- tion has been surprising)y ineflec- liyé in ils spasmodic efforts to in- rvene. “The entire population, while and | Negro, are cowed by a brutalfpolice ; stale rivaled only by the degenerate + police states so prevaient in the present generation. “The White Citizens Council is ‘ihe de facto ruling body of the | state. Judges, police officials and, according to the New York Times,’ the governor himself, are mem- bers, or controlled by, this neo-Ku Klux Klan. Every possible method of force and blackmail is openly utilized, including economic boy- cotts, withholding of legal federal rights ¢ of cilizens, and, when neces. cone; bene oe entingn Anae sary, bald LEITUr and Puce ups. The AVC, which calls itself the “only non- segregated vetcrans” | group,” is a small erganization of World War I] veterans which lists i several big-name (iberals ong ily officials. “Honorary members” inckhide former President Harry S. Trurmmn, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and Ralph J. Bunche. Among the National Advisory Council members are Orville Free- Levine said in his open letter to! “For too long the sovereign tate of Mississi pi has defied the laws of this ry and all of the ‘radiiions, rul ord tenets of de- mocracy. ‘the despicable police dog . netivilies of the other day are only + che culmination of a series of acts 1 Bee VETS, Page 6 fA eee . Pf Vv ge a7. ey i- ’ f . woe i C4 hy: MY, 5-6 / Jas “LUE sina ; St Js > tfeaed , <— ho- Faye et OF ‘man, President Kennedy's secre- tary of agriculture; Adlai Steven- son, twice Democratic Presidential idate: Sens. Paul Douglas of Hlinois, Harrison Williams Jaw: Jersey and Stephen Young Jess code which sets the defiarceand Robert R. Nathan, former head theof Americans for Democratic Ac- of New of OnioT qe re oe Mo. Toelsen oo... wioars The Ph ote Ty, To oan I “ - 1 Jw VW alitsan Tele, Rom... li Ine Aenean ame Mics Gandy... wee eee —— Ke SHREVEPORT, JOURNAL rk 4- 1964 SHR"VEPORT, LA, NEW ORLEANS OFFICE SEGR"GATION MATTERS IN MISSISSIPPI RM BUFILF 100~135-33 g 3 fMh—P1 \ : -