DENOUNCES iVUTH
Aim-NECRO SCHOOL STRIKE IN CHICAGO
WHITE STUDENTS
WANT JIM CROW
CHIAGO AM'. - Whiti- hi^h
hchool sludcnl-s o( iw-» local liiyh
schools f llu\v-d tht pattern of
Gaiy’s y.tiiliful unti-Negm strikers
last week by deinuiidinK .sepaniu
school buildiiiijs for white and Ne
gro students.
Taking the lead of students of
Froebel Hidh Schtwl in Gary. Ind.
white students of Morgan Park high
school signed a petition demanding
that the local board of educatioii
erect seiiarate schools tor students
of the two racis after refusing to
repoit to their ila‘ses They wr.i
dlssuadecl from continuing then
Stllke by the ei'>queiHe of the Re\
Glenn HaidtiiK. while, assi.stani min
ister of tile Morgari Park Methodist
church
Talking to the students bare
headeti in the ruin, he said
"Your older brothers were fight
Ing overseas ngainst just this sot'
of thiiiK It you go ahead with the
kind of trike, reinenibei you an
striking ugain-sl the oiisliution ui
the United States "
A group of 130 KngleMiKKi higti
Cchoul student', lead tiv C Giafrai
clscu, told George Casu. 11 .esistaiit
superintendent of local nigh schools,
their tl'Gubh Cassell .idvi i-d thein
to take up tie n.attci with tlnir
alderman through their parenf^ Al
ter the meeting, Giatranciscu said
the student strikers "'Viin’t go back
to school until condition' an- ‘«l-
tled. or until we hi-ai wh.ti the
school board is going to do ab«.ui
It."
Meanwhile the school situation
assumed suflicient magnitude to at
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The Carolinian
Postwar Segregated Negro
Aviation Training At
Tuskegee Inst. Denounced
VOM'MK XXVI. NO. IT
UALKl;iI. NOr.TH CAIiOLlN A WKFK KNDING SATCUDAV. ( TOHFU «. 1JII5 J’KICK 1 IVK CRNTS
INVESTIGATE
RAPE DEATH OF
HIGH SCHOOL GIRL
CONWAY, S. C. (AMP)—Ac
Invectigation into the raping
and murder of a 17 year old
high school girl on Pine is
land two weeks ago is being
made by leaders and organisa
tions. it was reported on Mon
day.
Registar Elected
FortValleyPrexy
It llUk
ATLANTA 'ANPi
V. Troup, for the pad
of Fort V-ll« > Sl.ile (’■ 1
'ItA.ilid to Die pi'sideniy
tllid liisllllltl.iii I...I wti'k by -h.
rgl.i IJo.ird of Kp.'- Tii.ip
S. L. Miivor (!ritii'i»‘il
lor Aflioiii til Nc’i-iif!'
>1 {>. M'.i
M.ii
Bond
It'd to
pi Do- pi
of T.im ohi I’m-. I'lly 'P.i
iiiultuneoUN with Ihr action
alint; Tio'ip. the h :i:d ..I
d the .um of S2.A nw' to •
■ n« nvhi iiimr the ' iftilly i
rvia Collei't in the home . c -i
grhiilfu
' itti .
..f I
John A. Jeyeux, slr>.did'> mate
• • - Cl • , L-'i.’.H L.iIIjIo N t ,
1- > ongiatuluted by (.'apt I. ^
Parks UbN Subtnaunt- sviuadi-.n
:iiiandr, iftei ifciMn»' lh-
c ovett-d Submarine t'oinb.it In-
l.'SS t
uL-.urd liu aubanne. th>
jvjIk-. Ill Ihf Pacific Ja>
i.x iii'.-ivcd th> iiiiivnia fo- lu^
tn-t 'Uicfolul war patrol coin
|,let«‘d before the Japs -ui-
leniicii-d (In the- ci-.i ■ tin sub
•-.i.r lime ineict'.mt iiip'- ..nd
a de'li .>er by t^rped.. attack and
I.tiled .md 'tmk iwo 'iiiatl ciaft
Jaycok wife. Maaie lives at 303
Myrtle Avfuie. Bi ffalo. N. Y
- Official U. S Navy Phutugraph
ing glad late -tudn
Ugte: In he n. .r fut'ae.
Dr Bond I signed f. >i, F'Ut V.tl
lef as of July 1. the icgciit:- voting!
le accept li..'. leaving trie (o1Ik- -i'
tten lonv.m • 'n'-'' Mis Itadei hip i'
Foat Valley had c>nan>-iidrd i.iti .
a.
uup IS a graduate of
NMA Disowns Drs.
Ask forJCHosoitals
Jruu|.
bKwn College and studied at Al
lapta University. University of W \
cdiwlfi and Ohio State Uiuver!ut>,|
tf» Wtei iiisliUjUun from whicu j
to win the doitur of phil-
COLUMBIA, S. C. (ANP)—
Mayer Fred D. Marshall of
Columbia is the target for bit
ter criilcism. it was disclosed
this week.
The criticism is being mads
by leaders of the Progressive
Democratic party which is
hoct to the National Council
of Negro Democrats meeting
here Oct. IS-li.
Marshall .as mayor of the
city, rejected an invitation to
welcome the council at the
Monday night sesaion without
a reason. Other sources, how
ever, reiport the refusal was
based solely on a racial issue.
John McCrey. state chair-
man of the Progressive Demo
crats. said Mondsy that learn
ing of the mayor's atlitudo.
several other city officials
have volunteered to appear in
the wekeminc spot.
NbW YORK UmjuuUfied i>p-
,H>siiivn tu the piupovid Army Air
1 l ice pl.-.'i to '.abli'li .1 "C'lmpv/sitv
ki jup" of Negro bombers and fight-
ctk .IS j Mgrcgatcd unit at the Tuv
xegrr Field wui voiced today
to Si-crelary of W.ir Robvrl P. Pat-
r on, by t^ie NAACP
The Av-iciaiion'.- stand in based
upon three points. Walter White,
.'ivc'ietary. itifoiincd the Sc'cretury
War
!> Wv- die unalterably oppoKei
' -^'grcgation in ihv pjstw\>r Air
- or Aiiny TL United Status
.ju excellent ex.imple of sue-
eisful iitegrallon m the expvr-
-f th 3J2nd Fl:4htor Gro'ip,
and particularly of the Wlh Pur-
->ult Seiuudri’ii in North Africa and
iDily which served without friction
' diffirulty With wtiite fighteu,
many of iheni from the Ue-.-p S ,ulh.
The racial a'rro^pliere of
Alaban a K 5U' h that : > elf re'spf ct-
li.g Negro inembt r ot n • An Force
roiild -erve th' i« without tlie risk
guate farililies fur tryining com-
mai.ity patieni uf .nll-Nfgroism.
In the i^uutlon >f the Air Force
: ; -Titi.y cxcell nt fields
. bf.tr equipped a-id suiU'd for
- r;- Mit; fi..hl i l-aimog than
" ■ fjrl'l at Tuskegee. which
field.; are* located in areas where
■.'•r -I ilicii wtv.-l i not lie !-ubiacte«l
to constant humiliation. Tu'kogee
' !iM d'e« not at pres- nt have aie-
.1 !'(' fapilltl''* fo nraining c-'m
mand or t.ictical unlD- N'r does it
riiivp ddegiiafe h-.u-ing and c/thcr
f.-H-llities for officers and cnll'tvd
personnel We reslize that mch fac
lllties can be created by the ex-
prndlture of considerable m'>n‘'y
But fn lit:, already creaed could be
used .«nd thus avoid une-on'-mical
‘.p-ndlng of n-cirey for the er-eU -n
'■t Idition 1 facilities at Tuskegee
'Ji Wi understand that the pro-
jpo'cd establishment o( a composite
I group for the tiulning of Negro
; fighters and bombers applies only
to Negroes being a device to com-
Ibine all training of Negro filers In
one place White flgnter units will
be asigned to one field and while
combi 1 units to anothc'r under dtl-
Ivrc-nt comin.uid.v Wc do not be
lieve that the same i xccllent and
efficiency can be attained by at-
• mptlnj to C'lniblne trie two m- -ely
to segri gaU Nt-gioCs in uiie n-
po.slle group.”
Ti SKFGfl-, FKKSlIiFN'T
Ul FRIED
When it was rcp*itred to the N.
A A C P that I>r Frederick D.
I'atleisoii. the Pn-ldcnt of Tusk*-
gee Iislliuti-, was iiiging the estab-
lishniirit of u' segiegated unit at
■Juskegee. the NAACP ti-legiaphed
Dr I’.i'if-T^on that "We are infi rm-
id Dial vi.ii have aii'^oached the
t.'ar D. lanmuit w.tn a prnpoM)
: that the NegiO Units In the Array
: '-.II- Ki.oi., ail be aligned to the
lTu>k'gce Army Air Field in a seg-
: ei:.it«-l po-.twar composite group
' n.-DLng uf fighters and bombera
nd that you have urged approval
i f tl.is piogram by the Army Air
Forces. We are also advised that
white fightri units and white bomb-
-r units are aibigned to different
, c 'inmands and stationed at differ-
' ent field! and that your proposal
eoiistitules a variance from Army
Di.i'ii e applicable to Negro fight
ers only."
Dr Patterron tvlegiaphed the
NAACP ot. S'pten.ber 25th, "I have
sui'i.i sted io W II Deoartment that
Negro fighter units now kcgrltfated
whei- t-ver they aie located be bas
ed at the Tuskegee Army Flying
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K nesi, suarocr
PfWCili^ « Ma-
Brunswick, wtwre
: he ft a native. He affected notable
expansion in the physical plant at
the c*'J»stal city •cctiool and succetd-
ed in fiaving it Mciaiit/ed by th.-
SouDiern A'lWK'ialion of Coilegt- and
S vondury t«'l;i*>.l.'*.
Foil V.iDty is I.- .. ..ited ii- t-
Ii ;jlitiv Nei-ro unit iindet th*- G u.
VETERAN I61ST
TANKERS EN
RniiTF HOME
50 SenatOTs To Vote
For Anti-Poll Tax Bill
WASHINGTON (ANP)—A t»lJl fpiing with a substantial ma-
• 1 5o inviiibtTjt of the Sonalu arc ii.rilv
HIGHSCHOyiRL
CONWAY, S. C. (ANP)—^
InvMtigation Into lh« rtplng
and murder of • 17 year old
high school girl on Pino is
land two weeks ago is boing
made by leaders and organisa
tions. ii was reported on Mon
dsy.
The girl's body was discov
ert late one afternoon after
from making a purchase at a
she had fail^ to return home
store some distance from her
home. Violated and with much
of her clothing torn away, her
head had been submerged in
a water-filled depression.
County officers have failed to
eet on numerous accounts
which connect a white insur
ance man with the incident
and last week, tailed the girl's
father and uncle for a reason
yet not disclosed. It is felt the
two men jailed either to in
timidate them into remaining
quiet on demands for the
agent's arrest, or. because
they have vowed to take their
own revenge out on the man
if the county doesn't act.
vied Siibiiiuniie Combat lii- ^♦•Ild«‘m^ On Die cruise bui sub | — Official U. S. Navy Photograph
■A
NMA Disowns Drs.
Ask for JCHospitals
NEWAHACK
LOOMS IN EQUAL
PAYBAniE
S.C. COPS BEAT,
JAIL MAN AND
FRAME CHARGES
Color Bar Hits White
Glendale Sehool: Negro
Child Withdrawn
LOS ANOELF-S lANP) — The
HEMINGWAY. S. C, lANP) -
, How Police Chief Walter Britton
I and a special deputy named Mor-
! ris beat into insen.xibility Isaiah
W'rlght, seciton hand vvorkoi for the
Seaboard Railroad comp.-iny. Mon
day night and then threw his blood-
dvneh^ body in jail without
chiirgi s was told to a citizens' meet
ing here Sunday afte''noon.
A s|)erial committee providing as-
sislanre for the young man said it
had the statements from eyewit
nesses 0 the beating and Wright,
transferred to the county jail at
Klngstreet, when they Interviewed
Thursday.
Wright was returning home from
a carnival the night of the incident
hush-hush policy was applied here Morns is said to have walked up.
last week to the withdrawal of an grabbed him and said “you're un-
unnanud Negro child from the lily- der arrest." Wright is quoted as
white Glendale School saying, "Yes sir, but what am I be-
The child, whote miother is a | ing arrested for?”
maid in one of the nearby white Told to "keep your damn mouth
hoiTies. was taken out if the all-’ shut" but asking again, to know
white scho.,1 after a few days at- why he was being arrest^, Wright
tendance. Efforts to secure addition- - lown bv Morris who told
al information from the principal him. “No nigger’s got any business
of the suburban school proved f-.i- i,>i> tioiung j whiti man '
tile She took the attitude that noth- After In-lng struck several times,
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New War Sec*ySays Tan
Yank Policy To Be Set
NEW YORK — "The Nationa'
Mtiiical A.ssutiatian is definitely op
posed to establishment of segreg.l-
ed veterans facilities,” Dr. E. J.
Robinson of Los Angeles. President
- i’ the National Medical Association
Inc., teltgraphed the NAACP to
day in response to an Inquiry made
of the Ntaoinnl Medical As.sociattoi
President following General Omar
Brodley's statement th«t certain
Negro doctors had been urging him ..■..m k c ^ /xxrnv a
tc set up separate hospitals for Ne- COLUMBIA, S. C. (ANP) -—A
vcti rans .possible new attack on Inc state's
“Any minority group of Nrgr« new s.vstem for eimtinuiny ii^qual
doctors de.^iring segregated veier'an^ i.ialaries loomed this wt'ck wh®h
f.'.cilitios arc not known to the Na learned that state NAACP
lional Medical A.ssociation and cer-were studying one phast
tninly expresses a very small min haslilv adopted plan from
ority opinion rectuesting segregated angle.
vclcrims h ipitals," Dr. Ri binson's Under the new certiftcafion plan
telegram declared further. 'T cannot Of teachers, each teacher is requir-
envision any member of our nation- 'd to submit to rxamin.otion on
ill organization making any such re- identical questions. But their scor-
qiKst, I wish that the Veterans j ir g does not determine the rate of
Corrmlttce of the Natoinal Medli al - PtO’-
institution from whicu
IQ win the doctor of phil-
■difr. .^-hwlL^diiswiek, whrr^
he is a native. He affected notable
expansion In the physical plant at
the coastal city school and succeed
ed in having it recognized by th.
Southern As.-iuciatiuii of College and
Si-cotidury Schools.
Fort Valky is now rated as thi
loading NcKro unit under the Gi oi
Board of Regents, having re
ceived a budget aproximutlng $7H.
000 it the July meeting, the addi
tional gaS.oon grant lust week mak
ing the budget almost as much
the lombined total of the other two
stall's units for Negroes ,
There had been several entries In
the race for the Foil Valley presi
dency.
have VQlunieerea lo bpp«w »«
the welcoming spot.
of i.ddition.'l facilities nt Tuskegee^
"(^^KiTniuSnT^acl^WBT*
ftETEllintieiST
TANKERS EN
50 Senators To Vote
For Anti-Poll Tax Bill
Lhar«?
LoldbImMi
Murder of Mis.s. Voiith
hr Trexzvant W. Anderson
Association could have ronfcrence
with 'Generali Omar Bradley I
am chairman of committee ti m.ike ^
appointment 'The National Medica’
Assixiatlon is loo per cent with the
NAACP in Us fight against segre- -
gtaed veterans facilities I
Walter White, NAACP Secreta v, ,
has telegraphed Dr. Robinson of- ‘
fertng whatever aid the NAACP
can give in arranging an appoint-
m-mt with General Bradley, Ad-‘
•nlnlftrstor of the Veterans Admin- ,
' -tration and suggesting that a joint i
•‘.pference "f the NMA and N |
' A C I’ wUh G« neral Bradley !
held to demonstrate the unity
of thoughtful .Tnd irit“lligeiit Negv ;
opinion agaiii-t the segregation of
Nevro veterans m American hos
pital;; after they have been Injured
in fighting fur democracy overseas
An elemenfarf teacher may
score the identical rating of
e high school teacher on the
examination but is paid leM
money because she is an ele-
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With the Tdlst Tank Ikittalion
in Euiopi (ANP) With 33 vet-
i.-un tankers of the crack 761.'l
Tenk Batluliim having already
Ront on the iiigh seas enrouH
home, another group of 137 high-
pointera from the first Negrti-
coni!>0'(od jitmored unit to evr
enter combat under the American
flag. Ls now on the high seas (n
rr ute to America and discharge.
' The first group of 33 left aftei
jtiansfer to the bomeward-botmd
NFW OKI FANS (ANPi — A Chemical company,
w,* l.^r«cr ,roup U ,n the |-.on.bly
1... we.lc m.k. .Hor. ' h ‘hr ^M8th
to 0bt.-iln pr.«ccutlon of persons re- ^ ^
sponsible for the death of Tom . ‘vTr.. T'’ •'‘i""ne 'v«r
Jones. Jr. 17, who was sh-d to "f 7who o’-
dt.alh In Dfld.on,, Ml„^rplpmbnr ,
8. in what was d**#ri. t>ed as o ld- ’ . 5-. .
blooded minder. ; . , rs. and the t}' i"
According to affidavii*: submit'ed yeteian ir.-nthne tank plu-
by witnc'ses of the mcidi nt, tht- j. ,..,. , ommaniL ra who lad beer-
youth was shot to d-ath while his j., thii of the fighting ever
hands were upraised because he since the inituil battle enirag--
faili'd to say "Yes, Sir" to bus driv- ^.^nts ''h th(- enemv v.l.i n tli'
Appeal To Be Lifted On
La. Vote Registration Case
;ep. A Might watchman sumniond«Kl 7^|st juniped off ia.'t NovniiL r
!to the Bcei.e by the driver it said I'ri-* the crack G ;maq lltn
(Continued on hack pj* - i I'..n7er d-visur; in the Saar hatin
ith the 26th Yankee” Inf nt-v
BY F.RNEST E. JOHNSON
WASHINGTON (ANP) — Secy
of War Robert P. Patterson, at his
first news conference s.nce his ele
vation I >m undersecretary, said on
Thursday that the lessens of World
War II with regard to the utilization
of Negro sotdien. will be among the
matters to be reviewed in light of
the future organization uf the army.
The nt-w secretary led off with a
tribute to his predecesur, Henry L
Stimsun. and declared that the prob
lems occasioned by the iwhco wnnld
bo large and handled with the same
diligence us was the case durlns
the 'A ,ir years.
new »xpeiience gdined iii this war '
The secretary refltcted a moment
hen :aid-
Negro Representation
On (iourts Martial
Reiiew Boards Urged
•n..'
of course.
Her
under ctinstant study
brio fly and add'd
experience of this
Inqiniy was n xl made us tu started u review of Individual ca;-
whether any stn-eific proposals had of 35 000 n.ilitary priSmer;' now
The eompanv commanders are
Clip’s Ir\ n McHen V. Leaven-
vd'iii. Kans Richard W. Eng.;sii.
N w brh ans. and Jami i T, Bax-
. e. of Indianapolis
The i lan platoon comman i
cry. both t x-cavalrymen. arc 1st
I • T'l >ma. E. Bruce, of Fort
S'.'of K-in;!. and Haiold B Gray,
f Abtleni , Kans.
Having faced a change to occu
_ NEW YORK — Promptly upon
He pauMd . ennouiicement by Secrrtarv of War '*nd .'ther Negro citinns asked lot
>11 uthei Robert P Patterson that War De- a declaration judgment, and injunc-
partment Clemency Boards have Don and $.5,000 damages NAACP
lawyers are pr'‘>>arlng to appeal the
(M the United States Circuit
NEW YORK Judge Caillouet u-,,. ;,!gimi.-nt, the case *
n S(pi*mher 17th, 1945, dismissed under .‘dsisi m nt . nd u (
V Iih .ut opinion Die tompUinl filed expected within two wi-
n. the cu^' uf Edwai.l Hall againrt discover- j Vionii’'tio.»ps. t..e 76l8t is nor
!n' ed thla althaugh the ca e filed by r.-i-izing while assuming its ml-
the Biiptisf Pariah Louisiana j the NAACP again>l th ■ hKtal legis- („ the military policing of Hill* r's
Lon.pldintjdleg d that h^clwardHU i.r^ughl about tli« send.iig of r. ,ailed "Bavarian Rod"t)>t.”
a (lualified Nearo. was denW the ^re- hiRh-pointers and men bo'tween
riijhl to register by T J Nagal lac^d Election Day Septem- ,35 and 3ayears old are beinw pr'
rcgiDrar. who subjected Hall and ber 5th. nevertheless loc«i elec- . d for dcharge to be .(‘placed
tion officinU refused to permit Ne- b' men with low puints from oth-
groes t * vole in the "white prirr.ary ’ . , un..'
NAACP lawyers are preparing for' Officers shifts, following tt e
filing additlo I rases again*! I(;al tT.n.sfer of four of Its six whit*'
election official* At th'’ vtme time jc fficers to the lOfh Armored -1>
they are insisting that the Depart-[\ision, alxo headed for home, hay *
ment of justice prosecute these elec- ciused the following changes in
tion offlriah for the violation of officer poeilions;
ftderal «tafute3. * i Capt Ivan H Harriaon. of De-
Allor,.... in th,. All.nt. w.rr "OA- tho
...1. - Ju ... t.ve Officer, coming from the com-
'niurgi*..d Marshal^. NAACl hixml wrvice oompanv which
WASHINGTON (ANP)—A total
of 50 members of the Senate are
committed to vote' for pa.ssage of
the the anti-p()ll tax bill, accord
ing to the National Committee to
Abolish the Poll Tax. Of this num
ber, the name.s of 44 are being
iii.’Ue public.
Consideration of the bill by t.he
full membc-rship uf the senate
judiciary coinmiUt'c was schedul
ed tu come up on Monday morn
ing. It was repotted by a sub-
c'lmmitlee last week.
besides the six pledged sena-
turs who asked that their names
not be publicized, a substantial
number of other senators have
t/iven informal assurance of their
support, or have been pledged to
the bill in prcvicHi- congresses,
the natimal committee uaid on
W« dnesday
S;xtct (1 of th(; 5(1 are associated
with Sen. P* i*pcr and .Sen. Fergu-
- in the senate bi-paritsan st-ter-
iijij c
I '.’‘gumenth against the i-onsii-
4 tioratity 'f aboDshmg the poll
ili.x by rongri-.'.'ional enactment
lh:ivc not stood up in two previoas
iscnsu- judiciary committee re-
Iports.” ’“•i.- Kafhi vn Shryvei.. ec-
,,.tary of the national committee.
‘They were further weakemd
,when *he governor uf Alabama, in
‘h. audie^i, •'! t) 1945 le^isla-
tUif stated unequivocally that the
jpoll tax la a condition tmd not a
IquaL.ication of voting. That has
D).en the position of the national
.(• immittev since the first bill to
laoc'fcih the poll tax was intro-
.dared by th' lat econgressruin,
ILee Geyer of California.^’
! The bill passed the house last
spring with a substantial m:
jorlty. ^
KILLS WHITE
MAN WHO CAME
TO BEAT HIM ...
MIAMI (ANP) — Police 1«
W(*ek were inuestigating the sho
gun slaying ofa white farmer w)
n-portcdly went to the home
a Negro to beat him. Offieli
had asked an inquest over tl
body of Coleman Marlow, 45, wl
was killed on the front twch
the home of Austin AddisoOt
C oconut Grove.
A shotgun was recovered fro
under a house next to Addlscr
which police said Marlow w i
r'irrying when he was shot D
tective Sgt. John L. Deas ouoti
the white widow as saying sne h
the gun after her husband vt
shot
Shortly bofero midiUghl tho
day of tho shooting. Marlow,
his wift and a Nagro amploya
of Marlow. Saabrook Coopar,
went to Addison's houta and
Marlow callad to Addison to
coma out to halp him put out
a lira at a Nagro farmar's
housa, according to pollea.
iDaas said Marlow ialandad
to taka Addison to his homo
and giro him a boating.) A
'Continued on back page)
Ben Davis Bests Rankin
In Dies Committee Tiff
'Dier Negroes to Dsts not required
of white registrants and thereby
d‘-nied them the equal protect..jfi
of the laws as guaranteed by the
Constitution of the U' itrd States.
'The complaint on behalf of Hall
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Cir
cuit
111 a '■imiliT rn-e from Tu«kegee.
‘I 't'-fT.a filed oil lieli ilf of WilliafT
P Mitchell against local registrars
of Miicon County. AUoama. argu
ment on Moti in to Dismiss took
CounseL and A. T. Walden of At-
• the
bi. ix'on taken over bv Ut I.t
'^.iW'Jli.im H Griffin, of MarshaH-
Ale.
been set forth on the subject to serving General Court Martial sen-
-vhifh he replii'd that they "haven’t teiiees. the NAACP urged the ap-
taken concrete form vet lo discus-s pointm>-nt uf qualified Negroes, both
tvday.” from the Army and from civili.in
The matter of levi-ion of basic Ufx. to these Clemency Boards,
olu-v i- unc that the Afs«Hl;itt*d Nt- The request war addressed to
gro Press has learned was raised United States Circuit Judge Sher-
more than six months ag within man Mint'-n. Chairman of the War rilace in the Peal federal court in
Unlike his predecessor, however, ‘ the department, and even more re Department Clemency Board, un- Mi.ntgomery on September 2(Kh
Secy. Patterson received the spon-iccnlly than that. If could not be der whose direction the Special '"ouii'cl for the registrar, including
taneous questroninf of reporters! said, however, whether the view--* Clemency B'ards. earh consisting r rmer Judge "Spi-ed’' Callaghan,
with facility and where he could have reached the attention of the of a civilian and two Army offic- Todpe 'f the Scotl-boro trials, argu-
glv» dlKCt answers Under these secretary ers. will serve Walter While. N A ed that the federal court did not
circumstances, he was asked by this When the expansion of the army A. C. P Secretary, Informed Judge have jurisdictim to consider a ease Negro voters through-iot the South Fii 't I.t John P Hairston, of
corfetpondent to say whether “the began in 1940. Negr >es were accept- Minton that "on recent lours to on the refusal to register Negroes It Is expected that many other cases Toh'do, O., is now the commander
department intends to revise its "d throitrh selective serv'lce atiH battlefronts in both the European because of race or color He argued will be fil-’d in these and other jof headquarter* company, replac-
baslc policy regarding the utlllza- Incorporated into the organization and Pacific theatres of war. I re-,that the case .should be tried in the states wherever Negroes are denied’mg
ti(Ri at Nvgro soldiers in light of (CemUnued on Dacx oaaei ' iCoiit.iTued un buck page) 'local state courts. After completion the right to vote. ‘
Rl FRNFST K JOHNSON
ianta in the N-w Orleans ca
counsel were Mr Marshall ana A’,^,||p
P Tureaud and Joseph 'Thornton of ^ Charles A. Gates, mod
New Orleans In the M'.nlg..m. ry pirated *fficer in the 761st "
case, counsel were Mr. Marshall and haftalion S-3 officer, an 1
Arthur D fjhorc^ of Birmingham. Unmard P, Taylor, formerly
the adiutnnt, i.*; now the S-3 for
Tht NAACP announced that theve ;.i^ and '•ommunications, with 1st
eases are purl of i Southwide, ' James C. Lightfoot. of W'ash-
■tepped-up policy lo attack all ington. D C.. having been mad-’
tj'in against Jiho aiijutant.
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WASHINGTON (ANP) - City
{'■uncilman Bi-n)arrln J. Davis of
\'w York, called on the carpet as
:i Communist leader by the old Dies
crjTrmi’ie, t.'ieglcd with Rep. John
R.nnkin of Mississippi last Wednes
day morning, and on Thursday
I’ arned that he had come off the
Littei of the two.
The house C'lmmltte on un-Amer-
--an affairs had callcj Davis and
* :irl Browder, dopoeed leader of
•he Communist p’uty in America,
to explain their activities When tho
fcmmittee convened Bri.wder was
put on the stand for questioning
first. His testimony was not yet
(imipleted when the house went
into session and R.'inkin declared
that questioning of Browder might
last "several days."
Davis, who was sitting in a front
row of the hearing room, jumped to
his feet and strode frrward and
demanded that the committee hear
him that day
“I want to testify today because
1 am now running ■ campaign 1
r. election and this is taking ve
valuable time.” he argued. “7 wa
iin opportunity to testify and get
'jver with."
Chairman John S. Wood of Gee
eii informed Davis that they we
running the hearing end not hi
whereuprn Davis branded the hea
ing as a "witch-hunt" and an i
t' mpt to interfere with his chanc
for reclecllon.
"'Thn*' contempt of this commJ
•(>e.” dec]ari>d Rankin, "and it mu
be so construed." '
Davis again shot back that *it
un attempt to defeat me in tl
election."
Wood Interrupted with the remai
that "1 am not intere’‘ted in wh
you Dunk.” to which Davis reJoL
ed that "It is a most un-Amerlct
way of conducting its (the COE
mittee’s) affairs." He then chargi
Rankin with trying (o keep "N
groea in New York from being elec
ed to public office just becau
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