P'AfTE EIGHT
THH CAHOLTNTAN
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VOTE DENIAL APPEAL SENT
ATrORNEY GENERAL
Kau'p* ivttli tin .1 jacial
•■’Hus L. ill t uiii«-il rvqufivt lJi4il
yuu tiiiiiK aL'tiiiii tu Lear
H-::poiitub;(- in denying me
niy riKnts undei ihv cunsiituliun
irt viulatiun of the )5th amend'
nient.
“I have returned safely home
hut many of my tomrades were
killed on foieikn soil. They died
fiyntmti foi u democracy that i
have returned lo find beinR muck
ed by racial discnmmation.
• ThoU!-aiid.s of Negro veteran!
will return just as I have lo find
their blood boiling with the injU'*-
tice they face.”
"Signed: Sgt. Harry L. Stamper.
It wa> the inclination of mosi
Atlantans to lay the fact.>i m
Clark's lap a.s a duty of the fed-
eial govtrnmini to enforce the
laws and statutes under the con.
stitution.
The case of Wallace Van Jack-
800 against RegLstrar T. E. Suttl*.'-
appeared won. since he sent the
names of Ne groes and whites I •
the polling places of the city pri
mary. the principal issue.s in the
case before Judge Marvin E. Un-
d« rwood of federal di.strict court
ASK ANDERSON TO BAR
V;AGE CFILING ON
COTTON PICKING
step Is authorized under the Wagi
Stabilization act of 1940, but only
rtcentiy have ihe planier.s souguf
to use the method of controlling
wage.s as a m>’ans of offsetting
union activity and demands for
higher pay. ^
lEPC COUNCIL HOLDS
STRAETGY MEETINC-
iie.ss, however, that full empuv-
nient might at the same time tmJ
unlaii' practice.s existing.
Kepoi'ts were made by the uffi-
cert, of the national couneil R'--
ginning with the executiv*- seeii-
taiy. Mr.s, Ann Arnold Hedge-
man, they told the -•>uppoi t-is how
the national ofliev liJj; rmulueled
llu tight, stiuggled fur tund^ and
h(.\v those funds wejv being ipeii*
Tney outlined techniguei for Jun-
bving the bill through llie two
chambers ot congress. The latu:
part of this phase of the w'ork
wa. discussed with the delegates
by Mrs. Beatrice B. Schalet, who
handles the senate, and Miss Ida
Fox, who covers the house.
An intensive course in "innuen-
cing youi' euiigreiisman'' was giv
en to'the group by >pokesrnen lor
various uigaoizations operating in
Washington. Thes.* included Mrs.
Ruth Mougey Wurrell. United
Council of Chuich wom-n; David
Sigman. American Jewish Com
mittee; Ben Mar-sh. People’s lob
by: Mis.s Doiothy Delzer, Women's
ihiernalional League . for Peace
and Freedom; Mrs. Claire Sifton,
Union for Democratic action; and
Mrs. Thomasina Johnson. AKA
Nonpartisan Council on Public af
fairs.
Later on Wednesday the dele
gates brokes up and visited ‘'the
hill” whore they applied some of
the techniques which they had
jtL«t eluined.
On Thursday morning the vari*
ous local councils were allowed to
report un dCtivilies back in their
tonimmuni’ies.' In the afternoon
Andrew Ransom of the legal com-
comittee of the NA.^CP discussed
th« two bilLs_HR 2232 and S 101.
Inspirational taik.s were given^al-
some of them have very cheriBhert
meieuries of the kind treatment
liiey ifei-ived from Negro troop*
remarked. She believes the von-
e>ct Wegiu iiur auU the kiiidnt‘>‘>
of Nei:ro Koldicm tu them will servi
to give Germuiis a irue^understanrt-
Ing of Negroci.
Lt, I'lerL'e, a griidmiii- of Genend
ho.;oital No. 2 at Kansas City, Mo.
has four years of army service Ic
her creait. She was one of the fhs*
nurses at Ft HmiChuca. whore she
I was stationed for more than two
years. She served also at Camp
Livingston, La., for a year before
being assigned tu her present pod
at the German Prisoner of War
ramp in Arizona.
atlantOa.
POLITICSBOIL
ATl..-\NT.-\ '.N.sPi While At-
•iiiia Ncgr'ie,-., still smarting undr«-
'i.' .'umniary rebuff at the polU
f the Scplcmbrr iS primary, pour
ed protLSts tu .-Vtly. Gen. Tom Clark
: rd tV;e deeartmetn ..f justice, see
eral new angles appeared on th*>
political scene.
Long dormant Republicans thrc ''-
cned to enter a full slate in the Do-
• - . iiiiini. .j.ai ...niu iil elec
tion Bestkred b.' the announce
ment. Arthur John on, chairman of
the City Demii''ratic cunimlttee
which refused to permit Negroes 'o
cast ballots in the primary, an
nounced that v-iters in the Septeni-
li- .-> .-•election ‘•are honorbound to
-upporl the nominee."
Further Johnson declared what
may be the ba.'-is of ,iew court ac-
Tif»n In ■■ sVafemeni: "The city
white primary is non j.irtisun. beiii"
■ 'pt'iied lo all white citizens, wheth-
.-r Uimoerats, Republicans or oth-
rwise He aroused Henry C Davis,
vu e ‘.hairman of the Fulton Repub-
di-an romniiitee. of participating in
he Uimniialic p;imary and of now
•:\liig to d(seri to support a de-
' aled candidate Roy LeCraw,
foimer mavor who resigned his po^t
to enter the war after serving a
few menths of his four-year term,
was defetaed by incumbent Mayor
William B. Hartsfield by over 3,000
votes In the primary which sew
about 20.000 votes cast. It was not
'lated .-pecifically by Johnson
whether LeCraw was the "defeat
ed candidate” referred to in his
Mtcmpl to solidify "white v.iters”
in the Hce of a Republican threat
A co.iliticin of civic and political
Nesr,.> organizations, meeting short
ly after the primary rebuff, re
viewed re ussltaii .ien7 m mm m
viewed results :*nd heard express
ions from those present. The group
took definite action on a course to
be pursued, but would give out no
statement fur publication.
Negro Republican leaders were
loiiferring with while leaders f
the often-split party on the propos
al to enter a slate in the December
I’eueial election. H was pointed
out by some that Davis, who made
the Republican slate proposal, had
often been identified with the lily
white element of the state central
•orrrritle which lost .'ut in an at
tempt t ounseat the Georgia Negro
membered delegation to the 1944
Republican National convention
However, It Is believed unity w’tll
be developed if a slate Is submitted
fnr thp uenern) election balloting.
Southern Bell Telephone Company
Plans Great Expansion Program
RALKIGH — A $300,000,900 tu
Now we must
.'ear the fiooi
$40U,uOU.OU coiistructiuii and instai- reiiistaU the machines and
*alion program — ai.ned lo met I ‘ workmen before these pIunt^
ihe expanoing telephone needs of,manufacture telephone
the S-^utheast — was announced lo- equipment.
day by Hal S. Dumas, preside,,. ...
I the Southern Beil Telephone Com-
bimy, through Edwin A. Clement
‘ District monaaer
.'•Ir Dumas said the prugrum, inc
largest ever undertaken by the
, -outhein Rell Comoany, would ^x-
tend over the next five to six years
Some idea of the size of the pro
gram is given by Mr. Dumas when
he points out that H means that
•Wc must in this comparatively
.‘h.irt period of time spend a sum
for expansion about equal to the
dollar investment in the facilities
w,* now pos.«ess."
A large portion of the amount
to be spent by the telephone cu n-
Piinv m the mar futuie will go to
ward clciirinc up pending applica
tions for service, but bey- nd that.
Southcin Bell imticipat'^ a pcriml
of substantial economic develop
ment in the South whieh will nec
essitate further telephone expansif-n
to meet the growina requirement:
Mr. Dumas said Southern Bell's
post-war plans included many dif
ferent prtijects. some of which tv*
outlined a.s Allows-
Filling as guicklv ns possible ap
plications for service being held
because of the lack of facilities;
Extending and improving rural
tcleiihoue service.
Catching up with plant shortage?
to provide for the vohime of busi
ness now beina handled;
Expanding the long distance net
work
Extension -if service into olh- r
fields as the need dcvclopa.
President Dumas expressed tele
phone pvople'.s conference in the
ability of Southern econtimy to re
tain and exoand ttu- tuMtion it ha-
eained a- the result of it:; achieve-
tiicnl- uiidt-i- the liiipii'-t of the war
"As we ree it th*- S' .ib is wb ■'
yuu niight call a riaturai’ for rapid
ciCMth in the years lust ahead Vtt
tiavfr a bountiful supply of raw ma
terials. a matchles- climate, a greni
•lurce of native-born, intelligen*.
labor, which has acquired new skilh
in hundreds of Southern war plants.
"As the South develops so must
the telephone system which serv-e*--
its busineu; and social life. O'.ir
aim is to contribute to that develop
ment through the provision f an
ver-exi undlng, ever-improving ser
vice.”
Piima'v emphasis at first will
placed on the installation of equip
ment and ('Utside facilities needed
to care for the more than 24,u0U
orders for service now pending.
•The planning, engineering and
manufacturing ph-jses of providing
the tremendous quantities of equip
ment needed for this purpose a.
already well under way,” Mr. Du
mas said. "Some equipment has
beeii delivered, and installation
-work has begun in some cities
where the need is most acute.
••We are beginning to ' -celve
more telephone instruments from
our supplier now. and the intsalla-
tlon.s which are being delayed be
cause of a shortage of instrumenlB
only can therefore be handled more
quickly than those being held up
!)y lack of switchboards and other
central office equipment.
I to the fStAdi,”* adding that the end!
of the fighting In the Pacific does
not eliminate the need for contin-
. uea vigilance on the home front.
'The Governor's statement in full:
••Since December 1941. when the
[Opvernur of North Carolina flm set
tire rationing boards in every
■oifntry. thousands of patriotic p>er-
ijnifhave given their time and ser-
_ -.'ices in aomlnlstenng our wartime
RALEIGH - Vointecr workers ’■•H-'ning »nii prlcc control pro-
r.ims. Many of them havt been on
GOV. CHERRY
PAYS TRIBUTE m
OPA VOLUNTEERS
Poston Resigns From Daughter of Walter
OWI To Accept Post Jo|) White Gets Lead Roll
~ III •‘Strange Fruit”
•Although telephor.. manufactur- connected with local War Price and «««,.
c’^ at tnis Bliigei nave only .scratch- Ration board who have rcmaified on for more than three years
ed the surface us far 0.1 the total 'he job during the war ^rlod were /oing their
rcQuirements are conc-erned. wc arc praised '
giving this job all possible speed
.n order to pruvioe service us quick-
V IIS wf ciin for tho.Bc now on our
•"‘iting lists”
The Company is already well
•ilont. too. in the planning and en
gineering stages of its rural devd-
•.o.ncnt nrogram, which was inter- '*outb to New OrJean-s. intersecting
iipted in rnid-lfl42 because of wir the Southern Transcontinental at
e d= for materials and manpower. Jacks.n. Mississippi. Still other mediatei'v done awav with
•Southern Bell is keenly inter- Projects caU for the completion of -Manv^oersons thJouah '
by Governor Chery this without thought of compensa-
•Mk m a pi-epured statement in “>" without fanfare, some it
which he emphasized the continued uer'-onal sacrifice,
importance of the fight against in- "The work these people have
. . done, and are doing, is a direct con
Governor Cherry urged these put- tribution to the welfare of our state
riotic citizens tb ."see the job thru :‘nd nation With the end of the
. ■ ^ fighting in the Pacific and the com
ing of peace all of the condition^
make price, rent control, and
rationing necessary will not be im-
inprovidini? service to more '■‘‘’ksonville-Miami section of
I more rural dwellers throughout cable and for
'he S.iuth.” Mr i^uma': said. "For
•he three years before the war. wr
spent more than-$3,000 000 bu.lding
■ r.il linra „,d added noarlv 30,000 ..rclwjrk Hic
'iiral telephone.,. Arlueliv. since ■" ’
■033. Bell.operated farm telephone,
r> the Rnuehenst hav" more than
idnipled
‘Many persons through though*
U’ssnes will want to see the con
truls thrown wide open and the
pressures for inflation — that havi
ImpiTtant
backbone route.s to be built will be
of the coaxial cable type When
properly riuipped, these cables will
make for greater speed and con-
■T,:i-r>ne oevelepmenl in rural venlence nl InnK dl.lance scrvlee as
well as provide for the transmission
of television when the need for tele
vision c9irnneLs arises"
Service tu motn- vehicles is also
in the offering, and this and other
•ilttc-Aflanta route by way of
•T„ I been build up in other narts of the
In these extens ons of the long , . . n-w.
world —.hit our state. This means
;hat Ihe job the volunteer workers,
.md others in OPA. htive to da Is
not yet finished. The end of the
war means that the job has been
finished on foreign soil, but thers
remains work to be done here unless
all the good that has been accom
pushed thus far Is lost. The way
m which the job is compleed will
determine the direct results
Govemar of the State of
.in le cxnected to aecolernie,
as future years bring increasing re-
‘tf-ation of Southern farm lands
and improved rural economic con-
ditl'ns.
•Experience gained in the pre- developments will be studied CaroVinl’ 1. R. Gregg'cherry.
war construction program, plus adapted to fit the needs of the that these oatriotic citlzenr
experience gained through war use **" s®”'' practicable. „thors who might care to con-
*■•!» phone facilities, will be "Thf kind of projects ahead can tribute to the cau' ^he future,
brousht into play in a large mea- be announced now with reasonable continue to lend a. is in their
sure to exoand .service on the farms, afsiirance.” Mr Dumas declared, power to complete toe fight against
"but many, of course, cannot be ac- inflation and unfair distribution un
"One of the big factors in future complished with the spied we til such a time that such controls
farm development is a high-8tren:(th wjuld like to see them accamplish- are unnecessary."
'leel wire which enables us to place ed simply because of the tremen- "Our board chairman, clerks, and
'lies farther apart than previously, (’ous ' avklug of equipment which volunteer workers have done a good
Ifsf f electric power linp.s to irans- must be manufactured. The avail- job. Let's see the job through to the
inif telimhone mervages offers an- ability cif money to do the job and finish"
'>*her nusslbility which can be adapt- the level of busines conditions will- V—■—
'■'I to rural teleph'ine devt-Iopment determine the .swed with which our'
••Steii- are heieii takiqi now and piograin objective- an- .lecumplhh- Peanuts are ready to dig (Wben
■Hiliona) iin-asurek- will be takci >'d the inide of the hull turns darx
■ouii a:. po:'‘lb1c to improve .md "F'lnaiicing this program iifcouise, veins rppear on the outside of
xlcfid loiiv di-^tance facilities in pieseiii? a very real piroblem the hull
•h* S-.iith A new cable, rrilled the Wage*^ taxes, coasts of materials
oiithero Tianscrntinental, will and services have all gone up while A IS-vegr old Indian girl
-‘£•“5 throiioh Sr.tuhern Bell territory the price of telephone service has nented Sakajawea guided Lewis
HP tine such k--y points in Dixie declined. Along with the decline in and Clark thro'Jgh part of their
Charlotte, Atlanta. Birmingham, the price of telephone service has
“ridtan .Tackson. and Shreveport come a decline in telephone earn-
The cable terminates at Los An- ings which investors will regard as
safe and adequate
"Work on the Wa'hington-Char- ••Looking ahead, the stage Is set
Ictfe link of thD cable nas just b*-- for expanding activities; and in the
I'un while construction an the At- telephone industry the proper mar-
hnta Mviidlan leir has progres.-.ed shalliiig of men. monev and mater-
'o j Douit considerably west of laL will speed up the muchto-bo
Birmingham Ji sired objective; — more service
"Another important cable route 'or ih-* S»uth. more jobs fnr Its men
u ill be from Chicago and Si. Louis Ji d woim-n."
WASHINGTON (ANP) — Theo
dore R. Poston, veteran newspa
per man, resigned his post with
the Office of War Information last
week in order to take a position
with the New York Post.
Poston has been chief of tf.
Negro news section of OWI f
three years. Resignation returr i
him to a job he hold before com
ing here four years ago as a labor
trouble shooter for the old Office
of Production Management. He
aided in the integration of Ne
groes into the nation’s defense
program.
Considerable pressure is report
ed to have been exerted upon the
veteran newsmen by administra
tion officials to persuade him to
(main in government service
here. He had established himself
during the last Roosevelt term .v
an unofficial policy adviser on
matters affecting Negroes.
osion becomes the second Ne
gro journalist in the employ of
white New York dailies. Edgar T.
Rouzeau is employed by the Her
ald Tribune.
The Louisiana Purchase nearly
doubled the area of the United
States.
“Springfilled
NEW YORK—Miastne White,
daughter of Walter White, N. A.
A. C. P. head, was select^ last
w eek to play the lead role in the
stage production of "Strange
Fiuit”, which will be based on
Lillian, Smith’s rt'^ent widely read
ntvel.
Miss White, who has no en
rience on the professional ftiu
I is u 1944 graduate of Smith 4
lege. She studied modern dancinlL
jV'nile in college and had the dU4
tinction of being elected president^
:of the student council while then
'and was the only Negro even
elected president of the house o4
livpresentatives. one of the threfl
governing bodies of '.he studenq
' jounciL
She took no dramatics in school
but did take part in one or twn
plays. She took a ten-we^ court
at the New School for Social n
search here after graduation an;^
is employed at the Research In ''
tute of America.
Miss White was selected to ptayi
the role of "Nannie” from a longl
l.at of applicants, many of themi
professional troupers. Jose Fnrerl
i:; producing the stage version ofl
"Strange Fruit” which will begin |
rehearsals here soon.
MOTHER and DAUGHTER
FASHIONS HAVE IT !
Your Fall
Coat and Suit!
Cardigan and dressmaker suits—casual
Chesterfield topcoats ready to take you
anywhere at an.\*time in comfort and
good looks. Softly fashioned that re
present the finest in workmanship,
tailoring and detail—
I-I
, W.ilu.-...iay t‘» «1 !•-
biuk'-’ up anil visited "tli*-
h,U' where lh* y applied .-ioin.' of
tin- tt-chniquea which thev iian
)IL-t eluined.
On Thui.->da.v moiniiig the van-
ou-x l«x.iil rouncilB were allowed tu
report on aclivitis back in their
conimmuni'ies.’ In the afternoon
Andrew Ran.som of th- legal com-
con.ittep of the NAACP discussed
thf two bills—HR 2232 and S 101,
In.'piratinnal talks were given lat-
ei bv the rcpre.sentatlves of a half
du7(*n national organiaztions, so
cial. labor and religious.
A dinner wa.s held at the Con
tinental hotel Thursday night.
riTIZF.NS FIGHT OfSTER OF
ELEVEN' TEACHERS
NAACP The court action be hand
led by Thuriiood Marshall of the
New York offiee of 'he As.fuciatinn.
in looperation with Louisiana at-;
torneys.
V-
PKOliE ORnEREl) INTO POLICE
Kl.AYING OF FATHFR OF FIVE
a cummi’.i»-«- headed by the Rev
Geurre \V Brown, pa^l,r of Genw
Street Community Ch'jrcb
The district atlornev has order
ed an Inveftlgtaion of the fatal po
lice .shooting through a coroner's
inquest, which might set aside .i
furnier coroner's verdict that the
rtayiiig was justifiable h-mlcide.
At the next inquest. Mrs. Jones
win be a.s.sisted by the NAACP's
legal committee and a .-core if
other urganizatoins The victim is
otlu-r organizations The victim is
survived by five rhildren between
lh« ;ii:es of two and !1 years
NAZIS LOSE SI PFRMAN COM-
P14.V IS PRISON CAMP CON
FINES, KAVS ARMY SI RSF
According tu Lt Ora I) Pierre,
oi.e 111 the 30 Negro army nurses
atailcnrd at the Gcrnian Prisoner
of War camp at Fl orence, Ariz.,
they display none of the anti-Negro
attitude that Herr Hi'ler iiistilled
In th'^m LI Pierre made her revel
ation here laM week where she is
•pending her 21-day furlough with
a sister. Mis Htnrlft Rogers, and
twin brother, Otis Pierre.
"TlieY show na resentment toward
Negro nurses." she Mud "In fact,
they seen, to be very much impres
sed ■■
'■ cqticnlly one of them will give
d. tails about hi-' exneiii t.ee?; with
K, grots in a letter to Germaiiv
tilt- ,ften-split p..ity un the pi.ip*.-;-
al to ent'-r a slate in the December
I'.ntial election It wa pointed
out by some that D.^vi•.. who made
Ihe Republican slate piopt.>sul. had
often been identified with Iht lily
white element of the state central
--rit itte which lost .ut in an at
tempt t ounseat the Georgia Negro
membered delegation to the 1944
Republican National convention
However. U Is believed unity will
be developed if a slate Is submitted
for the general election balloting,
since a two-party representation
l.mg hfs been sought here.
The Chinese vert- the first to
discover a practical method of
paper making by the weaving of
fibres,
expedition.
ou?. salil ■Si.me iquipint-m ha?
deliverei'. und installation
■work has begiin in some cities
wh-ro the i.ted is must acute.
"We are beginning to receive
mure telephune instruments frnm
nur .«uppHcr now. and the infsalla-
tlon« which are being delayed b*--
cause of a shortage of Instruments
onl" can therefore be handled more
quickly than thuse being held up
by lack of switchboards and other
central office equlpment.
"Manufacture of this Intricate
equipment used in switching calP
lequires much time When the war
broke out. the vast Quantities of
specialized m.achincry necesury fnr
the manufacture of this equipmer.i
was removed and stored away. It.**
place w.is taken by other machin
ery fnr making dariars and many
other war cmmuniraloins item?.
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