United Opposition To Race Bill

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28270, 7 May 1957, Page 14

United Opposition To Race Bill

(Rec. 11 p.m.) CAPE TOWN, May 5. Twenty-two churches, religious, and welfare organisations have decided to form a united body against the Government’s Native Laws Amendment Bill. The bill, read for the third time in the House of Assembly on Wednesday, seeks among other things to restrict attendance of Africans at church services in European areas. The organisations represented at a conference which decided on a united protest included the Anglican, Baptist, Congregational, Presbyterian, and Unitarian Churches. Senator’s Funeral (Rec. 12.05 a.m.) WASHINGTON, May 6. A Requiem High Mass will be celebrated today at St. Matthew’s Roman Catholic Cathedral. Washington, for Senator Joseph McCarthy, who died of a liver ailment on Thursday. Two hours later a service will be held in the Senate Chamber. It will be the first service of its kind for 17 years. It will consist mainly of prayers and readings from the Bible by the Rev. William Await, the priest who married the McCarthys in 1953. The official funeral party will leave by plane later for Appleton, Wisconsin, where final rites will be conducted.