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Press Lauds Action Os Gov. Cherry Say FBI Giving Negroes 'Brash-Off' “LILY WHITE" HIRING POLICY OSEO BY FBI Washington Stirred by growing complaints from Negro applicants for FBI clerical jobs charging J. Edgar Hoover's de I at Intent with giving Negroes a • crash off”, the National Associ at ion for the Advancement of Colored People's Washington Bo reau protested what it termed “lily-white hiring poliey”. Leslie Perry, NAACP Washing ton Bureau spokesman, moved by the steadily growing number ot complaints, today wrote the FBI chief: “It is increasingly difficult tor thousands upon thousands or Arne! sc an citizens to believe that an agency of the government whose personnel recruiting record is so badly tainted with racial bias, wiil, when it comes to pro texting the'rights of minority ra ctal groups, give them a squar-, deal The situation which drew the NAACP fire came as a result of s story which appeared in the Washington newspapers on Jul> 29!h, in which it was stated that tire FBI was accepting applica tions to till 2,00 clerical jobs and openings for 500 additional agents. This increase in personnel was apparently necessitated by !he recently authorised federal employee loyalty program. It w, 1 ointed out that applicants do not have to meet civil service i equirements. According to the NAACP spokesman, hundreds of Negro government clerks who ate about to lose their jobs in other agen cies because of reductions, arc applying for these openings At any other experienced Negro government workers who were terminated immediately after the (Continued on hack page* 5 ARRESTED IN FIGHT ST WRECK White Man Who \r« net! Jr Beaten With Auto Jack RALEIGH Five men were »r- TVsted here Friday as the result oT « l'ig'hi at the intersection of Ha; grit .nd Person streets which grew cut of a wreck bMKwn two tars, one driven by s white woman am; the other bv Negri ns. about 5.30 Friday afternoon. police have reported. Arrested were James Boykin. '6CS Harrington stree* charged with hit-run driving; Roy Wall, while man ot Garner, Route ), charged with engaging in art argument; Wilson Boykin. 605 S. Harrington street; and James Saunders of 819 Ellington street, both charged with “disorderly conduct,'' and RNayal C. Winston of 422 S. Swain street who was charged with assault with a deadly weapon. Boykin was driving a truck which struck and dented a fender of a car driven by Mis? Bernice Poole. 82.'-; Fayetteville street white woman, and his bond was set at SIOO. Winston allegedly best Wall about the shoulders and back with ha automobile jack while they were fighting and the other defen xlaats were “disorderly by cursing fend swearing." Winston’s bond was set at S2OO and that of the other defendants 26 each All were scheduled to be tried in City Court Tuesday morn ing. REPRESENTS POPE PIUS IN LIBERIAN FETE VATICAN CITY Archbishop Giovanni Deliepiant. apostolic del egate to the Belgian Congo, was named by the Holy See to repre sent Plus Xlf at the centenary cele bration of the independence- of the Republic of Liberia which was held in the Liberian capital at Monrovia last month. The Republic was founded in 1822 through the American Colon ization Society as n place where freed slaves could return ot Africa, 'and continue under the Society until political exigencies with Eng land and other nations Forced it to declare its independence on July 28, 1847. Monrovia, the capital, is named in honor of President James Monroe under whose administra tion the colonization program be gan. The West African Republic now • l*as an area of 43,000 square miles ant! ,s population of ! .08? .000 .among whom sn> lo.iioo Catholics. I W ■! _ _ _ _ A The Carolinian MtiniF xXVII NO. '(> LAJLEIG H, N OKTH ( ’AUUIJNA WKKK KNI >ING SATIUPA ‘i .AtFI ST t(i. tIH7 pi ’ lcE Vr ST A TE SS ANDBTU END ANNUAL CONFERENCE 66TH ANNUAL SESSION HELD AT SHAW UNL RALEIGH .Meeting in its six . l.v-sixth annual session at Shaw i Univi rsity and Martin Street Bap ! list Church. here, this week (Aug. ! Ih. State Sunday School ! Baptist Traminu Union Convention | of North Carolina adopted resolu ‘ non-- lauding Governor R, Gregg . Cherry for ordering a re--.caring in j the efr-e of sewn men in Northamp i tot. County wiv, took one ‘'Buddy” I Bush from the county jail; and i commending the Raleigh News and jOfcsem-r for its staunch advocacy iof human justice arm tor its vin.di j canon oi the rights of all minoruv j groups. Another resolution endorsing and i praising (he action taken by Dr. P. ' A Bishop, president if the Gener jat Baptist State Convention, in j seeking to protect “Buddy Bush ' end to conserve interracial good i will in Northa'mpton county, was iadopted i The resolution referring to the a: non of Governor Cherry read m part-1 “Thv Sunday School Con vention of North Carolina, an aux |;l ary body to the General Baptist ; Convention, representing a consti tuency of approximately 300.000. ■Contmuc-d on tack page* SGTJ.H JEANS IGETSFRENCH COVETED MEDAL Fort Knox. Kv.(ANP) Firs* i Sgt. Julius H. Deans, headquav ters section, 2128 Army Service unit, has recently become the n . c-pient of the French Croix dr Guerre with Bronze star. T h • ' j coveted medal of the French gov j. eminent was awarded to Sgt Dean for “exceptional service j rendered during the course- of th< operations of the liberation o' France.” Sgt. Dean, a native of Detroit, entered the- army in December 1943. He spent 15 months in thr : European Theater of operations j with the 16915 t Labor Superv; 1: s?on company as general supervi ; soi- of prisoners of war and a I security inspector in the Northern ; France sector. Urban League Protests Jim j Crow Va. Veteran Hospital I < j Washington (AM 9 ) General . Orna.! Bradley, Veterans ad mini ■ strnti.r, received a sharply-word fed protest from the National Ur scan league opposing a bill to es | tablish a $2,000,000 hospital for ! Negro veterans at. the birthplace ft Booker T Washington in ■Fianklin county. Va, In his protest to Gc i. Bradley. Lt stei B. Granger executive sec ret ary of the Urban league, as st rted, ' There is tragic, irony in such action. Booker T. Washing ton. if alive today, would have ; been outspoken against a policy !ci racial segregation established by the federal government and inflicted upon Negro men ano women who have risked their I lives and shattered then health in ti war to defend democracy. “More than irony is involved.” ! j Mr. Granger continued, “it is an insult to the memory of a great ■ educator and a noble American i U: metnorialfoc him by erecting a segregated institution an the 1 ; site of his birthplace.” 1 j During the war the army and i t.vy }jo«j>i*e?s in this 'te-untry Nrn Drew ■ | „ , y Sir. Charles iaanOer Hill. Fur -1 : opr.an traveler and scholar the l j now president ot Wilberforc? S. ni , ; vrrslty brings to America s oldest i Negro College a new educational philosophy which sels goals more ambitious than any ever before . -rimed ai by the venerable- church . i school. Ihe new president hopes ‘ ulti matriy to lead Vtilberforec -into the very foreground of American ! duration OISMINJTION CASE THROWN OUT Os COIBT Warren. Ohio IONS•-The suit; against the Vets Swim Club, which operates the mu.nicip.ri fx L. -o'. (!!?■..-: iminating against; -‘femes Culver and Effie Hayden because of thei, race, was thrown cut ol court Aug. 5 by Common Pleas Judge George N. Graham. Mr. Culver and Miss Hayden, I ‘ who incidentally are officials cri me Warren Branch NAACP, had -<t up their case to attack the legality of the lease executed be- j • tween the* city and the Vets Swim Ciab for operating the municipal : pool. Judge Graham cited that com plainants Culver and Hayden . 'id failed to state a cause lot action. Dismissal came when ! ! ounso-1 for the Vets Swim Out ! < Continued on page eight i . rid overseas accepted Negro and white veterans together on the i basis of their service and need, ret her than their race. It this i could be done during the war ! there is no justification tor its i not being done during peace, the League executive argued. In concluding his. eorrsmunica- ! 'lion, he urged VA to reconsider ] the policy inherited by the ad - ! ministration of separating Amer ican veterans on the basis of rucc. He warned that “25 years of racial malpractice in the vet ; erans administration may make such a decision difficult to es tablish and equally difficult to • : administer.” * *■ Pledges SI,OOO Los Angeles (A!NP) At the t pening meeting of the drive to ; raise funds for a $2,000,000 Los | Angeles Memorial Cancer hospi 1 |tal, Pastor Clayton Russel! of the ! People’s Independent Church of Christ pledged SI,OOO from his 1 congregation Miss. Negroes Pledge To Support White Supremacy In Older To Vote JACKSON. Miss. - -ANR> Dt tvrmih. d • ma.tHai:! wt-.iu supre iv c y. the D; moi ra: 1 pany ■ fJ'■ - rials compelled tt< '.ike ;uresr •- w best inter a- ’.];<• price of vo'irg in the stale primary iv re last Tut-*.! ty ; Voters were requhoh to swt nr ac cord with “the tint honored and cherished traditions <>f the south. Included among the “cherished traditions" w-.-re oppositivr to a federal FEPC a federal anti-poll ti>: and ami-lynch legislation. The Mississippi law requiring . ihese •Jests" was parsed at a spe cial ses-sion of he legislature L-.st March to discourage Negroes from v line. pi-mocTstiv party leaders Ik came alarmed lari year at the relatively large number of Negroes : who turned out as the polls in : spite of Sen. Bilbo's campaign to I ki-ep them away finm the votis.g booths. I Last, week ■ r estimated 6.000 out of 12.000 registered Negro voters cast tli- i: hallo's, approximately t! i twni: number as voted in the ruevious ciecti.in. T P.. Wilson, p. tsidcr; jf thi- Mississippi Piv grtssive Voters' 1< ague, said all the members of his otv.-mization had ; hi-..n cautioned agains* creating Ga. Hits Purge Attempt; Urge Registration Drive MACON, Ga. —iANP) -Any fu : tv.re trends in Georgia to deprive Negroes of the right to vote in any ai.d all elections will see vigorous reaction from the Georgia Associ feiion of Citizens' Democratic clubs. The association held a one-dav • session here A ,g 2. Delegates to the meeting do nrunred .-i ■■ --r ■. 1 G n-rgia House Speaker I-red Hann to have Acting Gov. M E. Thompson call J. special session of the legislature so pass legislation r.criing up voter education clinics and through i which Negroes would be denied registration by subterfuge. The Negro democrats went on record as approving plans tft begin :.i statewide registration campaign. ! setting up voter-education clinics and seeking favorable attitudes io : wards those registrants striken I from the voters’ lists prior to the ; 1946 Democratic primary. Delegates scored election off*- I rials in the second congressional | Once Doomed To Hang , j Gets 3 Years For Murder i By CARL WILLIAMS | San Francisco (ANP) ■ — Three ! years at hard labor was the ver ! diet handed down here Thurs day by eight officers, who made i up the army's court-martial jury. , uj end the second trial of 24-yeat j old Pfc. Lemas Woods, Jr., forth ! slaying of Pfc. Thomas Patterson. . j a tent mate, in the Philippines on March 23. 1946. During a hasty court-martial . t ial in Manila last year. Wood as convicted and sentenced to hang on evidence introduced in • I a confession by agents of the ; •army’s criminal investigation de -1 psrtment. which Woods signed iin voluntarily. The army main ; ' ained Woods killed his ientmafe ; in a quarrel over a girl. The! ; doomed man wrote his father, a j ! Detroit auto worker, about the. ide ath penalty. | “1 -was beaten very badly and : ! had to make- u statement so they , wouldn't bent me any mure,” he. ■ wrote Sis father. “Because I anb i r'.ti: b-.usccs of any kind should r-:< votes be challengtyl. .Although rii.rt woii- no report.- vi ieiicc. Di. James A. Dratn- Uirecun of the educational t-.aid i >r the Southern Com'-.*; *--nce i Hunirti welie v said he ivici <• ••• >'•,-.** nsLme.s :t, which Ne -5'...es r.ad been ruled -'delinquent I riven ihouga they hold poll-tax r. - , ; ißts. i . Back in Wascringt -n. -\ Phillip ; r.mco'ph. co-chairma!i of the N’a ; ; j.'iial couno i lor .. permanent FE . | H . said he red asked the U. C. ; j Icparinv r.i of justice to prosecute i j n-ycase trying to enforce the new | Mississippi primary law. Lamar Purvear of Ravmond, i M-ri -a member of the Hinds '•‘tmrriy DemoerMic FxeftHix*© com : rnittee. was quoted by a press asso ciation as saying that federal in tervention in Mississippi affairs v. ouid receive a warm reception. A tty. Gen. Tom Clarke, said the •x levies had "better not come down here with the idea of med dling in our business. If he does he’d better come a’mod. It’s a s. utht rn ciisiom to tend to cur business and we expect other peo ple to do the same. ftetrict. who. by fear and imimi • Cation of Negroes, bad halted ail Hi arts in this area to seek the , . bi-Jkat. Mixed reaction greeted del . UgtiteS' stories ot fear, terror and beatings which were identified ith efforts of Negroes to vote. Le gal : ction was pnimisc-d Negroes in those districts denying the feat ! lot to the group. The work of John \V. McGloek- I ton. of Savannah, in pushing to ■ a successful conclusion the fight for Negro police in the Georgia i coastal city was bailed by the i Democratic group. McClockton headed a group in registering 2C.~ , 060 Negro voters, resulting in aj Negro advisory committee to the. mayor, nine Negro policemen, two ; police matrons, a Negro supervisor of recreation and a dozen of othet opportunities for citizens of that city. The Citizen;-' Democratic clubs scored t'n- high crime rate among (Continued on back page) 1 Negro, they- gave me a death sentence and I don’t see what for dfdd'y.' 1 Woods always maintained the ’ he shot. Patterson, whom he c. Sled his best friend, accident ally He took his .45 calibre re volver, which he* obtained from supply Sgt, Robert Bryant o* New York, the night before to a lied Cross movie as protection against being beaten by gangs o' Filippinos. On the morning of the fata’ shooting, he Arose to clean and inspect his gust, he said. The half <. ocksd hammer slipped and ex ploded a cartridge, he said and the bullet hit iPfo. Patterson, who was asleep -behind the tent’s mosquito netting. Frightened by agonizing cries from Patterson, plus the fear of being caught with the weapon in his possession that should have beer, returned the night before, Woods made an effort to hide the (.Continued on t rk page* Succumb.'^ ; I - fp illlpitfi, " : -# f J-lSu MRS, J, L. LEVISTEB RITES HELD FOR MRS. J. L LEVISTER RALEIGH Funeral services for Mrs. Kathleen Walden l.evister widow of Professor Joshua L. Lev : .is ter, were held August 4si2 P. M at the First Baptist Church, with the pastor. Dr. O S Bullock, in : charge. At the age of 77. Mrs. l.evister i died at her home. 117 West Cabar rus Street, following a long isloses. , Abe was a native of Winters. Hen- : ford County and attended Shaw University. In u 39, while teaching j at Waters Normal Institute, she ! married Prof Lev'tier in Shaw ! Chapel. For more tints 40 years ! she had been an ac'ivc member of • the First Baptist Church here and ; was always interested in Sunday • School arid Missionary Society work. She was a charter member j ~! the Woman's Club. Surviving Mrs. Lev islet are Jour •: children: Mrs. Lydia Gasden ot Raleigh; Mr.;. Rc-salyn North of i Charlotte: Mrs. Altee Thomas j and Joshns: W I.evis'er of Raleigh; 1 ’ thre;* sisters. Mrs Sallie Eaton of : Henderson Mrs. Annie W. Junes , of Winton. and Mrs-, ffi.-or.eia Mitch ell of Cleveland Ohio. Five grand ! children also survive j!double rvrxv bonds j Savings Bond dollars do drm ; bie duty they protect the saver : and they protect the national; ! economy. ! Texas Ims more than 1.990 types | of soil. Woman With I Discharged In i ; Was! igton (ANP) Mrs. Lil- : : lian Ev Thompson of Liverpool. ' hnglan- who was married to a ; Negro i-l in Washington three i months ago, was recently dis i charged from her job as clerk ir ; the Karin’s, Department store when it was discovered that her : j husband was colored. When Mrs. Thompson -applie 1 : for a charge account in the office ;of the store in which she wa. ; employed, she was asked whose ' | her husband was connected When she replied Howard university, ’ ! she said there was a slight change ! ; it. attitude. Shortly afterwards she was no | hfied that her application for crc jdlt had been denied. The follow ing day she was called into the ; office of the employment rnanag jcr and informed that, she would I have to be let out as they were ; ; over-staffed and had to let some |of the people go. Disgusted With Capital \ Mrs, Thompson assured the em s p’oyment manager that site knew eery well that that was not the ] r-mn. I.- -“sard to the soldiers : Herald Tribune Article Says Governor’s Action Sets Example For South New York (JN’NPA) The New , 'York Herald Tribune last Thins uay praised Governor R Gregg C retry of North Carolina for hr- • lotthright action in ordering s , Superior Court judge to bring to i trial in an adjoining county the seven white men exonerated by | grand jury for attempt to lynch Godwin (Buddy) Rush, but de nounced the new Misissippi pri mary law which requires pro spective voters to sweat vicco' - d : . v. ith party principles. Under the caption, “Good an.l Lad News from the South,’’ The Herald Tribune said editorially: Govern' o Chets y of North Carolina has just set the South a signal example by refusing to accept the verdict of freedom giv- j on by a Northhampton County ; Grand Jury to seven white mob ster.-. who kidnapped Godwin , Bush, twenty-four-year-o Id Ne gro from jail where he was being held for alleged attempted rape c a white woman. The jury, in j cidtn tally, returned no indict t lent against Bush (who fortun ately escaped his captors), but t; at is beside th epoint Fo. Bush had identified one of the would-be lynchers, and the Fed eral Buieau of Investigation had j obtained a confession naming the seven As Governor Cher ry remarked, the grand jury sh- uld have re turned a true bill in order that . the evidence could have been (Continued on back page) Danes Rebuff America; Open Homes To Baptists Copenhagen, Dehmat k’ (ANP) More Danish homos were opened to Negro delegates to the World Baptist alliance, following « move by U. S. white delegates to import American race hatred •here, than Negro delegates to ac cept the housing accommodations First reports of white Am.eri can delegates writing letters to • Danish hotel owners protesting ■ I’m- accommodation of Negro dele gates came in the form of a Mate-, men! from the combined group of Negro Baptist delegates to the newspaper Ber’ingske After, a vis. White American delegates to the seventh congress of the Baptist World alliance were accused of ' disgraceful behavior” in at tempting to promote racial hatred ; here against Negroes. Dr. Marshall L. Shephard, of Philadelphia, is present of the ; Negro Baptist group, and Leonard I. Carr also of Pennsylvania, v . v.oe president. The statement NEGRO POLICE ASKED FOB IN ATLANTA,GA, ATLANTA —< ANP)- The all out drive for Negro policemen in Atlanta got another re st, last week i when the American Veterans ctffli i niiuee appeared before the police ; committee and expressed approval of hiring Negro policemen. The AVC backed up their un qualified endorsement of Negro policemen with lengthy statistics : citing the success of Negro offs - cers in dozens of cities over the south. In nearby Birmingham, the Bir mingham News, editorializing to : citizens of the Alabama metropolis, called upon the city commission to explore immediately the possibility of hiring Negroes on the police 'Continued or., hack page' Negro Hubby Washington j all fighting together, she pointed I ; out that as soon as the guns wer: ; put down jim-crow and preju dices started rearing their ugly heads again. The English bride declared that she is disgusted with the nation’s capital and thinks the' ] : something should be done abort' | \ conditions here. Her .mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Hcwish, who came to the states for the wedding, sailed Friday on The; Queen .Elizabeth for her home in 'Liverpool. Before leaving the city she ex- ; 1 pressed her surprise at the dis- j crimination and segregation prac- ] tired here. On Sunday prior tc | her leaving Washington, the Eng lish visitor declared :n a radio ; interview that there were two things in Washington which she j considered unbearable, one was the weather and the other was segregation. Nothing can be done about the- weather she said, bui : a great deal can be done about | ; segregation. Hr go* fStore Boycott (Continued on byck page) 1 i Rescues Fishermen Stewards Mate Lawrence C. Leveston son of Mr. and Mrs. Leveston of 3LSS W. South Street, above, was a member of the crew which rescued 11 fishermen who were marooned on Afongank Is land, Alaska, He is a member of the crow of the Fleet Jug ESS Palawan!) which has participated in six rescues duru»s the past > ear. threatened possible* withdraw’ ol the Negro Baptists m the U. L from the World Baptist alliance, c; an apology from the other delegates. Dr C. Oscar Johnson, of St. Louis, the newly elected president . f the World Baptist alliance, ex pressed a w illingness to apologize end a hope that the Negro Bap Lists would not withdraw from ihe alliance. The letters urging segregation against Negroes were written by a few individual who were not representative of the organization, he said Other than comments from a tew Danish hotel proprietors, who .omitted receiving letters from white Americans who protested living in the same hotel with Ne groes the Danish hotel associa tiofi denied officially that there wag any discrimination agains* Negroes. Meanwhile Danish citizens here (Continued on back page) FAYETTEVILLE WOMAN PIES IN AUTO WRECK Fayetteville. N. C. The 500 block of the Murchison rood became the scent of a tragic and fatal accident, on Teusday night, August 51b, üboyt 8 *lO p m„ when Eleanor Louise Hariee, a resident of 430 Chaiam >■' reel is reported *o have been crossing the street, when she was stiuek by a taxi drive* driven b.v Ralph T. Gerald, age twenty. The alleged driver responsible for the accident was placed under a $5,000 bail bond. The car war owned by his ga ther Mr. O-iin Gerald. Sr. of the Hillsboro iaxi 00., and who lives on Cumberland Street. Ralph according to Coroner Joe Pinston would have a charge <>i (Continued on back page) TO HOLD TRIAL :0F OFFICERS WHO KILLED iAN PRENTISS. Miss. (NNPA i The trial of three white officers who killed Versie Johnson a rape, sus- ] ppet,ct, will be a -mere formality,” | District Attorney E D. Williams said hare last Saturday. Mr. Williams filed manslaughter charges last Monday against Sheriff G. O. Berry, Highway Patrolman Andry Hopkins and J. Spencet Puckett, after Sheriff Berry said > all three of them fired on Johnson j last Friday when he tried to grab j Patrolman Pickett's pistol from the ! holster. I Trial of the officers was sched uled for Wednesday. Mr. Williams said, adding: “As far as I can see frofn the evidence, these officers were perfectly justified in what they did, I consider the trial a mere formality to clear the names of white men.” The three officers took Johnson to th« seen* of 'The alleged crime. , snd the suspect -vas in the process 1 (Continued m pack page*
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