r.
Shaw Launches $250,000 Campaign
D C. TRANSIT CO. REJECTS FEPC PLEA
LOCAL SCHOOL’S
GROWTH NEEDS
EXPANSJON
A drive lor a quarler-million
dollars to initiate the “Now^ De
velopment Program” of Shaw
University, was formally launch
ed at a dinner Friday evening,
January 19. attended by 300 prom
inent Raleigh Negro .itiezns.
Funds Lorn the First campaign
in connection with a long-range
piogrum of impiovenu-nts and ex-
pansions, will be used for an ud-
ministration building and a i,;elly
lu ided donnitury.
F;ii'mei (jovi'nair J Melvi.iv
Bioughtun. a iiiemb.-; t.,:
tee board for over a quart r ol a
eentuiy, is lionary chai::n.i:i •
'tate-wido campaign, 'i'he g-Tier-l
cbainiu.n an- Dr. C f Sp..
jei-.deni i-l N-'i’a Curoima Mu
ill..', Lite In-.uraii. (.''a.i; .
Duiliaiu. and C.yde A D.l.oa.
ijiiiiiiminl rtal'-igii le.n.O'i bu.
ii'.'., man. Ci.arles A HayAuod,
Ii.ultie-d .ilKl uutb’.aiul.lig e.V.-
I. (I i-liai:inaii ol f Ijcai
N- gr
div;
■['ae a.niiei lauiuii.nu
inailwi.g .'11 .'I'-i in_Nm,r.> C '.. . ^
i..inpa;gns, i.bied !iy (,}. i.- ...
Ci...liman .Spaulding, Ur. L
MrCauiev ol llal.-igb. .ml m-m-
bers of a .sp'-eiai gllt^ r- ■
Dr, McCauI.y ;ii.-..d cl a.-i .nan-
num of the gill-s comm.f-:' lb-
piugram was .iprivcl wiin a nie -d
meditation in honor ol tne nun-
dreds of Shaw aiunin. un.l ;
sludent.s now in military service
The principal speaker wa^ Dr.
M. C. Allen of Baltimore, cam
paign director fur Lynchuuig:-
Virginia Seminary and editor ■.
the Expected. Other .
were President Robert }b Danie.,
Raymond W. Coopei, lepivseimi-
tive of Uie Baptist Board o; r.d
ucation; the Rev. G. E. ClK.^k, o--
rector of public ielation.s of ihe
institution. and chairman Hay
wood. , .
Dr. O, S. Bullock, pastor of the
Fu-st Baptist Church, gave the in
vocation. Tiie benediction was
pronounced by the Rev. E. C.
Lawrence, pastor of the Congre
gational Church. Music was furn
ished by the univexrsity chou-.
Campaign Director Cooper cited
the fact that the Shaw admini
stration called for a survey of the
institution 18 months ago. A-
rnong the findings of Uie survey.
Cooper said, ‘ was the undisputed
VtiLl MF XXV. SO. 31
KALEiGH. NORTH CAROLINA
SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1946
PRICE FIVE CENTS
SSB Recommends
Increased Cover
age and Benefits
h. 1..11I.. lim^ ui a cain-
;■ quui ler-millioii dul-
ii'i d .11 erecimn a doi •
Jmitustrution
Capital Transit Co. Rejects
FEPC Plea To Hire Negroes
. ! It.A.Vt 1^1 I’KKK
capital ultiiiiptrd t
one maximum effmt to em- niar.y upei.ilui
.\.SHl.\U'luN — (>p.;n cliaiges pi^y Megroes. Mr Merrill said, the 'ii lheir ’I'ons
UN F..II hmpluyn.eiii Pmciice Com- ,.ynjpy„y tiaintd Mr. Ueinurd Sim- vaii.m fucilitie
iiiulee ii.enioeis -nd Uieir counsels ^ former teacher, who is al '' ''
i.iilecl lo dislodge the Capil.il T.xin-1 en plu.vfd a.s a clerk m the , , , ,
Mt C't ii.ptio li 'iii its posiiion of' \v;,ijhincton office of Henry J. Kais-(uiembeiii who paiticJr*»
i.g 10 tiuc Ncg* o bus opeialois, gp When the time for the ' ■* >•’«>■» * «* ev
initig of Ml Simmons insurance system,
ir ictused to go out
and some transpor-
wii'e held up for
More adequate benefits for work-
e.s now covered by the Social Se
curity Act and iiisurauce protection
ior ^0 million other workers, who
oTu excluded under the present law,
are aiiiung the lecommendations
made yesleiday by leli Social Se-
luiity Board in its Ninth Annual
iU.*{>oit. The propostals were among
me higlilights of the Social Security
Board s report, which is made to
Jongress as required by the Social
Security Act.
J. H- Ingle, manager of the Rs-
.e.gn oiiice of the Social Security
Boatd, explained that workers now
covered by old-age and survivors
insurance are in the mum those who
, have jobs in business or industry;
that is, in factories, sliops, mines,
mills, stores, offices, banks, hotels,
restaurants, laundries, filling sta-
lions. and similar establishments.
Farm laBor, domestic service. Gov
ernment service, jobs in public
schools, charity hospitals, public li
braries, and other non-profit insti*
iutlons are not covered under the
present law. The self-employed such
aa farmers, merchants, lawyers, and
dentists are excluded; and many
tiave expresed the desire for cover
age under the old-^ge and survivors
s on which old-age and .^urviv•
ors insurance benefits are calculated.
Action on the Social Security
Board's recommendation to protect
the insurance righu of men and
women in the armed forces would
remove a cause of distress among
the families of service people," Ingle
stated. "The hardest thing we have
(See BENEFIT, Page 2)
to FEPC Conaniltea
In many sections of the countp^
farm workers have made a practice
of working on farms for part of the
! yoer and in canning plants or other
nutuiine
liccicar cunductors of j,ir. Simmons came the Smith of
id-.ued at ncirnis i‘Cld [ ,onducior appuinled for the train- Frederick Heissig
ck 111 the Couu ul Appeals L, , refused lo take him out It was man of Utc Citizen s Comittee
ijdMlUrr - during certain
^iTco^h.' war began, large numbers
,, , of »arm workers have gone into ^ar
religious organization, production work, devoting all, or
iwliite) chair-
road ' questioning were the Rev. E. C.
County Helped By
Past Polio Fund
-liup.ei u» uic
uiiu is p..^ au eAp^i.»0 iOi u..-
.uto aliu u'C4iaiibi.l w i.u.e Codes ui
iiuuu.iiu paiiiijsid ill iiie couiiiy .u
■iiu lost year, .virs. i.idic ^tiuid
tiaiiccr. County ciiciiriiiu:i, rcvcai..u-
.ouay.
Xnesc nine cases, a part ul thu tilB
vuscs iiouieu ol me n.c&uiy, ui or-
01U-, aiiu Uiasioiua iiuspiiois uuniia
lie Iti-i-i epiuen»c. icceivca uvip
>n oil uuciurs uiiis, lucot uospu^i
.vpe'iscs, aiiU pi'iNutc umuuionce
ei v.cus.
At lius tunc, Ails. Walker suiu,
>no Uttlu gin lioui Uaie.gii is at
vorm *z>priiiKS, ocut^ia, ior special
leatnieiii uiui liie W.iKe Cuiau'
-napicr paying me expenses, a
• egro ciiiiu U'oni Waxe curcsl,
RiD 2, will soon be uausierreu
roni tlic hickory huspiuii to Uie
lUskegee institute, Alaoama. ior
special treatment.
•One-haii of ail collections in the
■'March of Dimes' will remain ui
Wake County," Mrs. Waiker saio.
• The other money will do spent
111 nccdeu lesearch by tne NaUonai
axo County , Foundation. During 1944 the Nation
al couiiouiioo M Foundation sent a total of $438.*
pa..., I 474.17 lo North Carolina to help pay
peiise 101 u.^ I ‘he expenses of the epidemic we
suffered."
"This year," Mrs. Walker declar
ed, "we should give more than ever
before. The Wake County Quota ia
almost five times as large as before,
but wc know what the money meana
to those who suffer the dread dis
ease and the amount of money Is
not the question.”
(See POLIO. Page 2)
Tobias Calls Segregation
Heart of Race Problem
HAMPTON INSTITUTE, Va.
POLIO FUND DRIVE
LAUNCHED IN
CUMBERLAND
Fayetteville, N. C.—Cumborla ■
County, under the abl. i.a
ship of Mr. Ciarence r. D
Cumberland County C>,d. .
conducting as succcssiul caiiiH-*-
as a part of the annual appeal .u:
the National Foundation For In
fantile Paralysis. The drive runs
from Jan. 14 through 3isL
Mr. Hedrick in his appeal for
contributions reminds us of the
familiar but wonderful work that
has been done in North Carolina
this past summer m fijhtmg the
serious epidemic. The Emergency
Polio Hospital at Hickory, set up
and put m operation wiinin a few
days, has fully given the best
medical and nursing care to its
manpatients without regard to
race, creed or economic circum-
'Contuiueu on b..ck pagej
problems of adjustment and rela-
.tionship.
Stating that the segregation pat-1 jjg ajjd'd, "circumstances
tern is at the heart of the race have made it l.iat way. And we
problem in America, Dr. C.ian- make no progress by evading d*s-
nine H. Tobias ol Uie National “'“t be faced
Board of the YMCA cited ior uw , _ ... ....
January graduates of Hampton M" 'about it, seg-
InsUtule on Sunday morning, Jan.,
21, two signs of progress ts>u.-arJ j ixJBiAb, Page 2)
the eventual solution of this prob
lem in the increased awareness of
segregation as the real iss'ue and
in indications of courage and
forthrightness on the part of per
sons in high places m dealing
with it
Speaking at the baccalaureate
service which preceded the Jan-1
uary commencement ol Hampton
InsUtute on Monday, Dr. Tobias,; to aoieai itouse wesomuon w exteou ior another iwo years the be-
who is a trustee of the college, introduced by Reprcsentaive How- conuniiiee to invesucste Sxe-
m\mn dcclsTed tHat « is unlortun- ar W. Smith, Democrat of Virgin-
ate that an group in America ! la, which was favorably reported to
N AACP Opposes New Smith
G^mmittee as Anti-Negro
t a i l^^dors Of the liousc lo votc agauist
t ^ ~ measure. Tne resoJuUon would
fort to defeat House Resolution P°
should be compelled almost daily 1 the House January 18 by the Com
part time to war Jobs. In some think ahont. ibR own oarticular' mittec on Rules, the NAACP urged
cases, their employment in jobs that j. . -
ider the law is not lonj
f 1
cutive Agencies, popularly known
as the Smith Commit.ee. lo a tele
gram to House leader opp*ing the
continuation of thj Committee. Les-
be Ferry, aiuniniiitrauve assistant
of the Wa^luiigton njteau. said-.
gram to House leader oppwng the
continuation of the Committee, Let
he Ferry, administrative assistant
of the Washington Bureau, said:
'The major difference between the
Disc committee and the Smith com
mittee is ihat the tormer has re
ceived more publicity. Like the
Dies committe, which spent most
of its time looking lor Reds, while
ignoring the KKK and other for
eign and native Fascist groups, the
Smith committee as wholly failed
to investigate agencies like the Fed
eral Houseing administration, which
encourages the use of restrictive
covenants to keep Negroes out of the
hornet they so sorely need. Like
the Dies committee, the Smith com
mittee has been used by its chair
man and other reactionary commit
tee members to assail New Deal
agencies and liberals in government
that arc doing their jobs well.
"Government," Perry continued,
"will be considerably more demo
cratic and decent without tb«
Smith committee."
The Fair Employment Practice
Committee has been the chief tar
get of the Smith committee. Dur
ing December, 1943, the >mtih com
mittee ransacked FEPC 1 tUee be-
„me curricula, IdcnUc.l taache. - |
(Continued on back page) I (See OPPOSES, Page 2)
;i xnai uio liiic .Ncgiu ous cpeialois. 1 ' ' when the time for the road ■were uic ul.. u. workHK IIIIVI yUUf UIUI l|
alration called « | -alS
mong the findings of the suiToy, | • —
Cooper said, "was the ^disputed •
part time to war jobs. In some
coopei aaiu, >rT«M — r- „ .1
' A a.afc.i,enl made a. .he conelu-
irtTho'i'id brSo'w' obtain K;;"a,'''chamn,a;'.'‘'ul‘‘o.e^-EPC
bZTZ deS
“'‘"ir'ss.orief“ ?‘s“';L.r.ihru,.d?;'fhe''^.™e;:
‘’"presidri KcT hailed ihe l-,o,ldcni iioese.ell .hat ihe
ealhcr an indication of the L'TC he n-quired to oh.u.doi. ns ad-
fuvL- thA Raleigh citizens ana nutted piaclice of discriminulio...
neiehSrs have for Shaw," and re- Rucailiug a similar
viewed the many improvements Los Aiigelc.s. Mr. Ross said that the
m^do durindlhe^t eight years. FEPC "went head' m face of the
which he said is largely due to the Los Angeles fear of a gene.ul trans-
unaualificd support of North Car- pyrtation strike
olina Baptists. , , . . ■"Ihree days ufur me
He emphasized the fact that j-onipimy put Negroes to woik, n.
Shaw has the largest enrollment -ihe situation Imd solved it-
in its history. ,. self. There was no violence and only
Spe-aking on the purpose oJ sporadic protest, Tod iy .'’w Negroes
church supported school, the y,.^. v^,lrk perf.'rming platform
Shaw head pointed out that a the L.nisidcuible unprovc-
major reason for any denomma- tratuportution.
tional institution "is the training Wiule d'-clai ing in was vmburiass-1
— • '*■ -u.— «..,JrtKa
leU at L'onaiictor apponiieu iO« n»v v.»... ^ 4W Twmt —
iho Couu of Appeals refused to take him out. It was man of f^®...Citizen s Comittee on employment In jobs that
/« 1““' s .u- (See TRANSIT. Page 2) 1...,. i.
that angfoui- .
should be compelled almost daily I the House January I8 by the Com-
- think about its own particular! mlttee on Rules, the NAACP urged
Washington, D. C-
also repoited that because of the
Local YWCA Starts Second
Membership Drive
Raleigh, N. C.—The Sojourner
TrJih YWCA Branch started one
year ago in March with 236 mem
bership. Nine months later the
inemlx'rship included 236 adult
memberships and 184 Girl Re
serves. Today there are 331 Girl
Reserves between Washington
High School, Lucille Hunter and
Crosby-Gaifield Schools.
There is a Business and Indus
trial Girl's club. This grew out of
club that operated under the
"is the training
it gives in ChrLstian thinking and
character building of you^.
"Shaw University,” he said, ^ - . -
"stands for a belief in and the ,j,u cTC, i-aid tiiut thi 7 under the leadership of Mrs.
philosophy of the religion ol Jes- nut change Its po.si- Alberta Levingston and Mrs. Lu-
■j.s Christ.” , , ,,,,n betmi'C uf «he preponderence .jg Myers. Miss Deloras Hines is
"There is something about cou- ■ 4,.,. iVi,U , -r /-ucc that
til t.v the slow piogress made by ji)_.ad\.‘rship of Mrs. E. M. Kelley
h..- company in fulfibn^^g Pfomises ['j-jjj.j.g arc two adult claves that
iraU'
pany in k*"*—- 1 mere aie i.v*>a «iv4w»i.
, till FEPC. K. D. Mcrriell,'luuet ^n Tuesdays and Thursdays
What Your Memberahip Will
Mean lo the Smourner Truth
YWCA Branch
1. You will be
. come under the law is not long
enough nor the amoimt of their
wages large enough to Justify Insur-
^ nnee benefits, although their wages
while engag^ in covered employ
ment are subject to social security
taxes. The Social Security Board is
recommending that every worker,
regardless of his occupation, be giv
en the security provided by the old-
age and survivors insurance system.
Methods of increasing the bene-
part of the fits ns recommended by the Social
only imeinarional Women's group Security Board ‘nclude; (1) exten-
still active in 52 countries in slon of coverage to all types of em-
spite of war condition's. 2. You ployment so that all wages earned
%vill be a part of 567 other worn- by a worker In atiy sort of Job may
-n and girls in Raleigh, building be counted in building up his social
YWCA. Pay.v 2)Fecurity account, (2) changing tne
C. G. Irving Addresses
Legionnaires at Goldsboro
Eoi.ihoinci'.^ I
rage Iha. never comes to fte,£oro ^
until it IS tried in adversity, de- s
dared Dr. .'tllen m-giving the •ao-n
principal address,
sought in this camnaign can
I Continued on buck page)
• I.lf )0IIUVIVIIS.V . n Mvepc MISS ucioiaa iiiut-a 4a -- -- -- - _
W..tliin»lo.i, the tlimge of a dancing class by' constitollonal authority, with
c;o,,D.30Ho - ^ b;.,.,dotting^ °5i^r“^?'
patUin of Ills .Kldiv^ a«amst Dm divlslo ndesignated divi
sion A of the Noilh Curolijia pc jg charged,
with
Plans For Negro Schools
Adopted by Board
RALEIGH - At a call session of^'Drary sarvice, guiauace service.
Including vocational guidance.
The elementary schools, the re-
,s Sing"«'§w^-S^
bership renew their memberships ; iiiusl have = ■'"f J*slUy German bigots, like HiUer,
thei month and bring in a ‘'J' “a, ,o„p- "ttose vaunted superiority eora-
memborship as well. , . | The dii ner ''J'plexes are the underlying cause ol
During the first two weeks in non lot 'hi state vie. prese„, world casirophe. Since
February the YWCA reprosen-1 at.d wa. heM at tl^e ,he Legion began division "B" has
tative will conlact clubs r‘^ a worked, amicably, to bring an end
organ^ation for memberships and “JraLer: >0 ■">*
National Selective Service
Act '^Slavery, ” —NAACP
icrigkK- bv racial discrimination _
, ^Ro^’_,,!)ii.-s^ 'iniisqence "Colored citizen • will u-mcmbcr “
President Rooseti l-S^^ insi^^j^,^!^ Imemorandum ol Attorney odate,the Sojourner Truth YWCA !
Francb: Biddl'
.inoriiioii, leiuiwi at4.u - 4,,j,4f„n
..land adjutant of the post present-, however much we may! W Negro sehooU now bci^oper
Upon a National Service t ,
will oraft all men and women »n OenLi-al
fnr- thru Wftr fkfiort.l
the State Board of Education, at
which Leiutenant Governor L. Y.
Balientine was unanimously elected
chairman of the board, the adop
tion of a>,report by the Committee
on Negro Lducaflon was one of the
highlights.
'The committee, headed by Dr. L
M. Maaey of Zebulon, was appoint
ed by former Govoronr Broughton
m 1943 for the purpose of cooi>er-
atiiig with Dr. N. C. Newbold. di
rector of the Division of Negro
Education in formulating such a
program, with special emphasis on
consolidation, oetter buildings and
equipment
The recommendation by the com
mittee for consolidation and better
transportation for both races, to be
realized within ;>ix years after the
war, was estimated at a cost of 15,-
000,000 for the consolidation pro-
cruin. and an additional $1,600,000
for transxwrtation.
lire suggestion was made that the
picscnt General Assembly help with
ways and means of lending aid to
the consolidation program, either u
the form of a loan with a low rale
of interest, as part loan and grant,
or as an out and out grant.
The wisdom of consolidating the
small schools was pointed out by the
committee, as the survey indicated
the superiority oi the consolidated
schools over tlie one-teacher, two-
I teacher schools. For instance, the
1 iiOt> Maorn cpVinrtla now bciiui ODCr-
Y.--Desp! , .„r4wA ,-,a..nK ...ah a4.,.vki..-
“n' amd iii the Stale might well be re
-irlduccd to 471, with only 188 havln{
thu country Sf'^e-rcttorlJJ "irfoltowing the De- uLroj; he V.-.wS folak" hi: mclugfio we
the :‘n'a Sta*c- ’tfuit no'. Allhuufih he dented the PJ jg^iimited at least 350 mem- weryon-^ of the 40 post broadening fertilization’ of Hitler's As for improvement in the high
wev^ ^ jnctooranduni. Ia taWy well novded now W help or n.rtowtog '^ajaats aa ^ luous f„d“^,I„. achoo.a, the report recommended a
LoS ience dui in", the firit I cstabllihcd that .\Ir. Biddle aug-.pu, the program “/'l ^ue th, time and ^
'h- b'cHcni that one „„.,„hcr.hina are .imlted to worn- . ■ • Otthe Amer- louna_upon me ” fa^iiUeV homemaking Instruction,
nci-d^d now to help or narrowing the tacts presented as continuous
oaram over While'the time and occasiom demands. I se^s of re
"Fvnorience dUim", luo i i» ■'M y-iaDliLncu uiat a>4»- A-.--.— —re ;jju» Hit. I ... V I'h I
World Wm demonstrated clearly.’.'festal to the President that one nivmberships are -imited to worn-• » N ;>-J '
S ute NAACP statement, "that f^nedy for the Detroit situation only, men cim contribute ,
anv -work-or-fjchf bill means was to keep any additional N-- wards the YWCA funds. ican L__^—^
any work-or-fjghf --- . .
that Negroes will be rostiictid
and ordered about on the basis ol
color, rather than on the basis o'
llu country's need.
"Under this legislation, it is en
tirely possible Utat local and
state administrators will restrict
Negro workers lo certain types
of employment, will bar them
from free inovemcnt to improve
themselves, and will enforce all jcould be
manner of onerous rales dictated \n severe
_ ~7.r„ J, limit to
found upon the high principle
The white division and 'iContlnued on back page)
groes irom going -to Detroit.
"This is merely a saiiipU- »i
what would happen under a Na
tional Serv--o act. Negro workers
could be barred from white collar
entployment. They could be con
fined to farm labor. They couM
be from high-paying factory jobs
and restricted to hard, hot, heavy
labor such as foundry work. They
INVESTIGATION BRINGS FEDERAL
GRAND .11IRY HEARING IN FLORIDA
port continued, would be of a high
er calibre if the proviiiion were
aeded fur a supervisor ol instruction
every county where needed and
an aadltional supervisor on the State
level. A program for the accerdl-
ment ol these schools should be cn-
ouraged, also.
Weak points In higher institutions
or Negroes could be strengthened
through higher salaries for the
teachers, additional leaching per
sonnel, library and laboratory fac
ilities, and additional bousing,
equipment and supplies.
Progress made in recent years in
the field of Negro education was
cited in the report — an equaliza
tion of school terms for both races.
Fayetteville Woman Held
For Husband's Murder
Fayetteville, N. C.—Saturday
night marked a death uagedy al
lege to have resulted from an old
family quarrel, when Mrs. Liillie
B. Marsh u ^ gressmen an affadivit from Adeiene
bed her huab^d. Jeswe Pearl McBean. a Negro, who declared that
Marsh, of Fayetteville, of Route 7.
Mrs. Marsh, age 24, who lives
Winston St. is being held by
sue. told the House Military Affairs
Committee that "a labor draft is un
necessary, and would be a step to
ward fawism."
Rev. Harrington read to the Con-
•>- « toen .„d wo.4„ ; SrslS'rX?=tT fS;
■■ “ tS" iTn!! ’ sScoTiaa^- to appear txitora thv iTI^i' the" “vtoS iVtoe'^arV^'^'i^ilct on Lauderd.lo who obtained thirteen
^^h ^ Feheuarv 9, .»«. when the, tetoaed
I
I
Tunc In Station WRAL
Friday at 7:30 p.m.
Liston To
THE NEGRO NEWS
OF THE WEEK”
A Weekly Feature of
THE CAROLINIAN
CHARLES A. RAY
Announcer
r limit to me ways u. January 30 and 31 have been issued .‘T *r"'' a to nick ^ahs on the farm of Dewey false arrest wave. These affidavits
i citizena might ••‘"i; to tz^e”:: including 13 Negro HawkL “t 0,kUn?™.rk. nln^were sent by the WDL to the Ju,-
del- this lypu> workers of Fort Lauderdale. Fla., „ no^th of Ft. Lauderdale. afUr. tice Department-Assistant Attorney
would be httlo better than slav- ^ave the workers Defense Lea- that the bean., General Tom C. Clark kept
Wilkins, acting secretary ^ Snry‘**lh^ortfrs ouL ^ .-io
of the NAACP, said that the 800 h..d been falsely ar^stea on vagran u^der wh
local chapters of the organization ^^^ifariion^dica efthat^he Justice idle in the city streets were
arc being advised by the nation^ his acceded to the de- subject to arrest,
headquarters in New York lo op- Workers Defense Lea-1 A nurrber of the arrested Negroes
pose this legislation and to write 'y^^feunems of thosljwere members of Local^ 1526. In-
thcir congressmen and senators „ ^ County officials responsi- Ucrnational Longshoremen
BjllOn lAfl-l viiijjiuyL-w 4^6-4-..., v.
' Port Everglades, a commercial har-
The War FoiS Adminlslratiun development, ' to^on ■tho-wnterfront at Ft. Lauder-
urse, former, to keep more ,ow, by the ,dale, and >11, the.WDL _lnve_,U8.-
wTkort'ietolJLTeasue In M.r'i', 1 tom sSSwe^!*’
the
‘usued^lart had' ben prck^~twlM”before andlori^nils "in case they
hich persons were not abundant enough to make useful In prosecution of the case,
the work profitable to them. In the. he wrote.
second case which the WDL Invest!-1 WDL chairman Rev. Aron S.
gated, approximately thirty-five ciimartln had appealed to Gover-
men were charged with vagrancy nor Holland and Senator Pepper for
and fined on March 24 and 2S. after; an . Investigation of the cases, and
they had been arrested In the Ne- -the tenor against the Negro inhabP-
gro business district during their ants’ of Fort Lauderdale. Governor
hours off from work. Holland whitewashed the local offi-
Last June, after bringing the cases dais: Senator Pepper promised his
to the attention of the Justice De- cooperation.
local officers for thte murder of
her husband. The couple were
married in 1937, have two chil
dren but are reporU^ to have
been separated and living apart
for the past several years.
According to reports, the Marsh
es met at Daisy’s Cafe on the
comer of Winslow and Blount Sts.
and began to quarrel with cacii
other. It is alleged that the man,
Jessie took his ex-wife’s purse
arid when he would not ret'rm H
after she had followed him into
the street, she opened a knife she
was carrying and slabbed him
through the heart. The faUl cut
result^ in immediate death. Mrs.
Marsh was given a prelimmar’
hearing in Mayor’s Court Monday
and bound over to superior Court.
UBORDRAFTWOULD
BE STEP TOWARD
FASCISM SAYS WDL
NEW YORK — Charging that
dfsertmination against Negroes is
the major weakness of U. S. man
power policy. Rev. Donald Harring
ton. Minister of the Community
Church of New York, testifying In
behalf of the Workers Defense Lea-
.McBean, a Negro, who declared that
she had registered for employment
with the United States Department
Service in New York on July 3,
1944. and had not been offered any
employment to date.
Among the points Rev. Harring
ton made in his testimony against
a labor draft were these: It Is un
necessary, for minority groups are
not utilized: it would not produce
the required results; it creates the
false impression that labor Is to
blame for the present manpower
situation; It would give power over
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DR. MORDECAI JOHNSON
AT N. C. STATE SUNDAY
DURHAM — Dr. Mordeeal
Johnson, president of Howard
University, Washingtoou D. C.
will speak at North Carolina
College for Negroes Sunday af
ternoon. January 28.
Other college presidents to
speak at the college will be Dr.
Charles Wesley, president of
Wilberforce University: Dr.
Horace Mann Bond, president
of Fort Valley State College:
Dr. William Stuart Nelson,
former president of Shew Uni
versity and Dillard University:
Dt. Rufus Clement, presHent
of Atlanta University: and Dr.
Charles Stewart, former pr*s^-
dent of Killrell and n~w dea ■
of the ^hool of Rcligici
Wilberforce.