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V'OLUME XXVII, NO. 8 IIAS',EKSii, NORTH CAROLINA WEEK KNPINO SATI UDAV, -Aid ST ;’.(), OH7 Puli'E '< c
Beach Police Make Mass Arrest
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/V£G/?0 FIREMEN’S SENIORITY UPHELD
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50 ABE FINED
$5,90 EACH FOB
TBESPASSING
WILMINGTON - T. C Jervay.
editor of the Wilmington Journal,
Tuesday charred <h*- Can.Hna
Beach Police Depai 'went with
mass arrests of 50 persons on
charges of treaspassirsg at Carolina
Beach lasi Sunday,
Jervay issued the charges follow
ing a trip to Carolina Beach yester
day with the Rev. R 1 Boone- pres
ident of the Negro Citizens' Court- ;
ell. to investigate reports of the
wholesale arrests.
The arrests occur;™?, according'
to Jervay, when w,/.-.-. • ■
ently took tin- wrong rood t« reach
the Seabrerzo ocean beach and
found themselves on posted p roper
erty.
According to Editor Jervay,
C. B ParmeJe. Wilmington realtor,
gave the Negroes Permission to
travel over his property to the Ne-.
fro beach at Seabreeze, and the
Continued s»n page eight
Two Prisoners Escape,
Third Caught In Act
ST. LOUIS <NNPA> »~ Two pris
oners escaped from the S? Clair .
County jail at Belleville early last
Tuesday after preparation lasting j
more than a week in which they i
used a smuggled hack saw to cut
a hole m the steel Inttir '-vail of a
second-floor cell block. A third
prisoner was caphuo.l by jailer:- as
he was climbing over a gate in the
courtyard. *
Those who escaped were Theo
dore Gardner, held since April 4 on
a burglary and larceny charge, and
Delton Windoro, arrested July 22
for robbery. Both, gave East St.
Louis addresses
KKKUNDERCOVER
HINTS REVEALED
Chicago lANP) A series c
items in the “Ticker Tape”, fea
ture of the September issue o* j
Negro Digest, leads some observ- ;
ers to hint that the monthly pub
lication has an undercover ope
rative who is actually a men.- •
let of the infamous Ku Klux
Fsan
Items carried in the current
issue unde the heading KKK
KOMMUNIQUE and not covered
elsewhere ip the nations prose
are:
“The sheetlers arc- airborne
paw. They have been dropping
literature over Wash, by oJam..
Bill Mauldin's cartoons notwilL
standirvg. Klansmen don’t really
wear sheets. Matter of fact they
lev out. sls for corded robes,
crested with insignia and cheese
Cloth-lined hoods. Money goes to
p Georgia cotton mill, which gets
SI! 02 profit on each brothe
New York customer can duplicate
outfit for $3 98.”'
FTC Charged With Unfair
Practice Towards Race
WASHINGTON iNNPA* Tha
dismissal rrf a colored clerk-typist
by the* Federal Trade Commission
test week brought from the United
Public 'Workers of America a
r barge* that the agency is engag
ing in '‘unfair practices" tw*rds
its employees.
The work of the clerk-typist.
Miss Pauline A Manson. was rated
"unsatisfactory ” by Alfred D'Ales
sandro, a FTC supervisor, ant! a
no* ice of dismissal was sent to her.
Charring that Mist* Mention's dis
missal is the latest Step *n another
drive by the agency to rid Itself J
cf calf rod employees above the 1
grade of messenger, the union J
pointed out that her last efficiency •
rating v. as "very good" and direct- ;
*,/•! -,-HtMv, ion ia lit previous charge 1
avai.iM Mr D'A.iowsndro turn he
is biased against colored peop h. y
New Ehapiahi
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Rn. l.lovd M. Alexander, pi< -
lured ah<»\<, is the new St. Anc
u Stine's College chaplain, who
will assume his dulses on the
opening of the school year on Sep
tember 18. Kev. Alexander is a
St. Augustine's graduate and
served in the Chaplains < orp of
the Army with the rank of cap
tain.
MAN KILLS ITFE, 22
IN HERB DOCTOR R<W
REIDSVILLE Harry Neal shot
i his wit* Mrs Maxell Neal, to
I death following an argument while
lot lunch concerning hrr visit ing an
• in-i b uod’/r. VC vV.Turcis->n,
Reidsvflle chit f of police reported
acre Wednesday
Naval Veteran Cites Bias
in Many Service Ratings
New York <ANP> A story
; ..if how Negroes underwent c seg-
I r••gated recruit training in the
navy and how they were kept in
low ratings despite their capa
!. ’hies is told in an aritcie ap
; pearing in a *u: rent issue of Su. - .
j vey Graphic. The article “Yeo
j man. First Class: Negro” was 1
! written by Felix L. Paul.
Paul, who is a navy veteran
i advanced to the rating of yer.
in.on and was in charge of nm«.
I other yeomen and civuiar s at
; Lido Beach. N Y Here he e*x
; c mined over 100,000 service rec
; ovds from cover to covei. He
i counted 1,215 men who had >. n
I If-red the navy with advanced
. r ites. varying from petty officer
third class up to chief, thereby
valving boot training altogether.
Not one was a Negro-.
He also tabulated 1.008 cases of ‘
! rt:cr, who had skipped rates afte<
going through boot training for
! example, from firemen second
class to motor machinist second
Iclnss or from yeoman third class
!to yeoman first class. Only one
was a Negro.
Many Held Citations
He saw hundreds of Negroes,
■with high school education and
more, who had been in the navy
. i ears and longer, with outstand
ing records, who were being dis
cnarged as steward mates and
FIGHTS COLORED GROW
Henry C. Daniels, president of |
Local 3 of the mBwA. chargefl tha‘
the FTC has curried on a f.yht.
a gains: the group ot colored em
' y.lo.vees sver since they were •trans
ferred to dial agency from the Of
fice of Price AdtavirnstrsUms. They
are the first colored clerical work
ers employed by FTC.
Upon their transit--- to FTC that
agency refused to accept Ihc-iv. *un-’
j til directed to do >:n by the Civil !
Service Commission. According to;
’Mr Daniels, tne FTC has tried to
1 reduce their grades to compel j
j clerk-typists to accept training as I
I card punch operators, ha:; refused j
!to assign proper work to account- j
I ants transferred from Ob A. and!
; finally att'urvotad ar''«f.rnrily to re
jduct .. ;'v.viit£' . _ ,
INJUNCTION IS
SUSTAINED BY
APPEAL COURT
Rich,mCnd, Va, (NNPA)
The Fourth United States Cir
cuit Court of Appeals last
Wednesday affirmed a deci
sion of Judge Sterling
Hutcheson of the United
Slates District Court for the
eastern district of Virginia
upholding the seniority rights
vt colored firemen on the
Norfolk Southern railroad.
Judge John J. Parker, of
Charlotte, N orth Carolina,
who delivered the opinion,
declared that the policies of
the Brotherhood of Locomo
tive Firemen and Engine-men
had the “purpose as well as
the effect' of depriving col
ored firemen of their senior
ity rights.
He said the Brotherhood ap
patently brought up the facto:
. J “promotabiiity” to explain
v.hy it had compelled the No:
foik Southern to remove Ton:
Tunstall, a colored fireman, from
his assignment as locomotive
.fireman on a passenger run from
Norfolk, Virginia, to Mairden
; North Carolina, and give that
' run to a white fireman who war
:member of the Brotherhood.
Judge Parker pointed out that
the Brotherhood, as the bargain
ing agent of the entire class o
. c. aft of railroad firemen, had nc
r i'dated an agreement with
Southeastern carriers on Febru
ary 18, 1941. and a supplemental •
agreement on May 23. 1941. which
Continued on page eight
seamen. Some had survived the j
Slaking of ships and held cita- j
tiotiS. even from the chief of na |
ipersonnel. But they had not
i been promoted.
Paul maintained an average of j
• 4 in conduct, proficiency in rate.
i and ability as a leader of men. •
; Tms is the highest possible mark
•in the navy. And yet he never ;
; get higher than yeoman first
! ciass. And as Paul puts it. “Manv
! considered that excellent f,r ■■* i
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BACKWARD
FOLK WANT
TO LEARN
WASHINGTON *XNPA> - Util-!
■rates arc especially eager to learn ;
• to write their names and are gen- .
rally concerned with the immediate j
• pohlcms «f thier work That is one j
of the findings of Ihe project for:
i the adult education of colored peo
ple «i i--nmred by too United States ,
f fie•:• nf Education with fund.- pro- '
ided by the Carnegie Corporation
f Nov, York.
One example cited was that, of
worker in an airplane factory
vho wanted to learn how to till
, out forms and compute the deduc
tions made from his wages foi in- •
: su ranee and taxes. Another was
that of a weigher in a snufi factory
who was especially concerned V-th
1 the phase of arithmetic with which :
'he had to deal itt his daily work.
Still another example was that of
■ lilts who belong to organizations
and wanted 1-e know hem !o con-
I dttet a meeting properly.
To train the adults, seven insti
tutions Atlanta University, Fort
Valiev State College. Virginia'
| State College, Hampton Institute
, and Tennessee State Agricultural ;
j rod Industrial College last year;
j offered an introductory course in
adult education for teachers.
Enrollment in these courses rang- I
, od from twelve to twenty-three and
i totalled H>s The anrstliees repre
-1 sealed lay leaders, undergraduate i
'•and graduate students, teachers
' and principals in oieme-tte-v. high j
->nd evening schools, ami teachers i
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Y 1 , f .mi-rmii' Endorses Bill (bins
Governor Gregg Cherry left,
is shown as he save -ri.vlul en
dorsement last Monday in Raleigh
to the current campaign to estab
lish the birthplace memorial for
the noted Negro educator and
leader. Others in the group. left
to right, are John R. Larkins. Ne
gro director of North Carolina
Tiihiie Welfare? Alexander W
Stephen, field supervisor for the
memorial campaign; and Warren
E. Allen, business manager of
THE CAROLINIAN. Stephens
announced in Durham that sev
er:!! Durham bark had purchas
ed the Booker T. Washington Me
morial 50-eent pieces in amounts
NEGRO UNIFORMED POLICE
URGED FOR RALEIGH
By SCOOP JOHNSON, Carolinian Managing Editor
The move now on foot by the Negro Citizens Commit
; tee to have Negro uniformed police, gets oil' on a move
I recently adopted by the Committee mentioned.
This committee is headed in )>1 W Washington, who j
calicd Cin Council’s attention to a‘cords of Negro police
| men in other southern cities.
rimtimied im pig«* fight
Pioneer leather Passes
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Mrs. Julia up. lists V, i Ilia ms.
oni* «f RaJrigh's pViwors in thr
irx-din; profession, passed swuy
; last wet after a fruitful serviev
rn bei < i vho«eti work. Mrs. IVii
baui* had the dfettnct-itst t*l oh- i
ranging up to 81.00 b. Many- per
-on- are securing the coins to
keep as souvenirs.
Limes E. Stephens, not pictured
anttve. a brother of the field sup
ervisor of the ETW Memo ia!
! inundation program, spoke at. St.
tmbrose Episcopal Church and
l edoral Street Baptist Church
last Sunday in connection with
the drive. Mr. Stephens, a lawyer,
is a former Assemblyman of the
N’ineenth District of New York's
Harlem. Dr. .1. O. Plummer of St.
Ambrose Church bought 50-rents
mt mortal coins for all women
present last Sunday morning.
lairing her Bj.fhfV.ir ©t Seienee
degree m th. ripe ngc of ?S» The
deceased was widely known
lk>«!ienmt iiif whm.-Wm*; «>•«!»«
©S' (hft <: - ‘ ••• «s r *' 'rtrohn :.
Crack So. Ry. Train Race
Segregation Stated As
Unreasonable Ry NAACP
THREE NAMED
TO COMMUNITY
CHEST CAMPAIGN
RALEIGH - The appointment of
j 'hrt-e colonels and nine majors to,
! serve In the Community Chest cam
j ; o.;n this fall was announced this
| week by F B Caudle, campaign
j general.
Rev. E C. Lawrence. pastor of
; First Congregational Church; E L.
Raiford. executive secretary of the
Blood worth Street Y MCA; and
Kev M. W Williams, pastor of Cal
vary Baptist Church were named
colonels on the campaign commit -
This comm;tt.ee controls the
tumpaign, sets policies, and. makess
f'tial dccisioti- on all matters. These
men were also appointed* majors
;i: the prospect rating, quota divi
sion which determines amounts to
hr- raised by each unit.
Other major-, appointed include;
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Whites Start Tyrrell
Affair, Writer States
s
Greensboro Whites imposed themselves on Negroes and
whites led in the series of events which finally led to revolt of
the community, W. T. Boss said in a 10-inch article entitled
"Among Us Tar Heels" following reports that white and Negro
students had been living at the home oi S. P. Dean, prominent
leader of the cooperative movement in North Carolina, while
working on a project, in the Greensboro Daily News last
Wednesday morning.
“The Tyrel! trouble seems io have been precipitated not
by Negroes, but by whites’", the article reads, “and it is evi
ihe ms elver. upMa the Negroes.
"Perhaps not entirely, but all the signs are that the whites
dent from the fragmentary reports that white people Imposed
led in the events which finally led to a revolt of the community
which perceived in this mixed residence of whites and Negroes
an attack upon what we call 'our cherished traditions'. It is
evident that they were not invited to make their abfcdc wilh a
Negro schoolmaster.
, . . "Sometimes one feels that certain whites are saving
more about segregation than certain blacks are saying.”
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Equal Military Policies
Seen As Guaranteed
WASHINGTON -NNPAI -Fair,
i and equitable military policies as- j
f'Ctinp colored personnel were
virtually guaranteed by the ap-:
poir. tmeTsls of a Secretary of the i
Army, Secretary of the Navy and
Secretary of the Air Force by Pres
ident Urumnn last. week.
The three men. who will head
. th- department comprising the Na
tional Military Establishment un
. der Secretary of Defense James B
Forrestal, are Kenneth C. Royall.
Secretary of the Army; John L.
NCCGRADUATE IS
UNDER $209 BOND E
IN BUS DISPUTE
BY S. n. JOHNSON JR.
SUFFOLK. Va. i NNPA) W. L
Hamilton. Jr, son of the Rev. W. L.
: Hamilton, well known Norfolk
j minister and a World War II vet
' crac. who was injured while serv-
E ing with the Ninety-second Division
in Italy, was arrested August 14,
land jailed in Nansemond county,
i charged with violation o.f section
4533-A of the Virginia lev,
i Young Mr. Hamilton vas ei,route
ifiom Kinston, North Carolina, to i
his home in Norfolk. Occupying i
ihc second seat from the rest he j
1 was ordered by the bus driver to j
move to (he re r of the bus. Being j
E an interstate passenger. Mr. Hamil
ton loiri trie driver of the “Irene
Morgan Supreme Court ruling."
which forbids segregation of inter
state travelers on buses, and did
■ not move.
The Vras driver summoned a Suf
' folk police officer in nr, effort to
have Mr. Hamilton move or leave
the bus After some discuss ion with
die driver the city officer would
not interfere in the affair.
A S'afe police officer was sum- j
rnfmed and. after more deliberation j
wiih the driver. Mr Hamilton was ,
Hold that it iie did not move that;
he would be put under arrest.
Contendin', for his rights, the
1 passenger refused to move and was
! arrested Mr. Hamilton reports that j
! the officers were courteous while
| making the arrest and during the
; four hours he was in custody ;
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NEW’ YORK The requirement by the Southern
Kail way Company that Negro passengers be segregated
on the Southerner, crack’train from New York City Lo Nevv
Orleans, is unreasonable and should be set aside by the
interstate Commerce ('omission according to a brief filed
by the National Association for the Advancement of Col
ored People with the ICC last week in a suit on behalf
of V a slit? Brown, Lillian Falls, and Muriel Hoicome against
the railroad.
The brief was filed in support 1
of exceptions to a report of an ;
examiner of the ICC and was
; ix.pared by Attorneys Spotts
wood W Robinson, 111, Thurgood
Marshall, and Robert L. Carter.
The examiner’s report had
1 found that a regulation requiring
segregation is reasonable.
The brief took the position tha.
the railroad is without authority
t, adopt such a regulation bas
ing much of its argument upon
rlu logic of the Irene Morgan de
cision where the Supreme Court
itruck down a Virginia law re
quiring segregation of interstate
bus passengers because “It seems
clear to us that the seating ar
rangements for 1 he different races
in interstate motor travel require
. <1 single, uniform rule to pro
mote and protect, national travel ’
Regulation Unreasonable
(Continued on pag. 8)
j
Sullivan, Secretary of the Navy,
and W. Stuart Symington, Secre,- j
’ary ,-.f the Air Force
; Os the three men. Mr. Roy all, i
! who has been the Secretary of War !
I since July 24. is the only one who’
is not considered liberal in his
views toward colored people A
North Carolinian and said to be an
aspirant for the governorship of
his native State, he is not expected
to take any action which may be
regarded as offensive.
It is believed that he is most
likely to pass on to one of his assis
tants matters involving colored
| people where a decision may place
I him in a position regarded as un-
I friendly by colored people or as
| too friendly $0 colored people by
j white North Carolinians.
CXFRIEND 1.1 NESS NOT NOTED
There is nothing in the record of
! the other two appointees which
| would stamp them as; unfriendly in
i their attitude toward colored peo
|oh Mr Sullivan is a native of
New Hampshire and lias been Un
der Secretary oi Ihe Navy since
June 13, 1946. He is a lawyer by
i profession and a veteran of World
Wai 1. in which he served as a
bluejacket in the Navy. He served
in the post of Assistant Secretary
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’ interracial Church’ 1 Group
Is Ordered Out Os Halifax
ROANOKE RAPIDS -- A group'
of 30 white and Negro traveling
missionaries Thursday moved out
of Halifax County in compliance
with health department regulations’
that their camping stout-d was not
sanitary.
The order to move was given af
ter the missionaries had spent Wed
nesday night in the house and on
the groudm of Mrs 1 Ir/ k Clark
where the group had stopped on
; their way from Florence, S C..
| where a new church has just been :
| founded to the headquarters of the
Church of the Lord Jesus Christ of
the Apostolic Faith in New Jersey,
with which the inte-rnical body is
i affiliated.
E. A. Hasting, sanitarian of Hal
ifax County said Wednesday he
i had ordered line group to nteve j
i ebu where because there was not. -a i
VILNFJTS HOME
IS DYNAMITED
Birmingham, Ala. iNNFAI—
\ coal miner's new home, the
object of throe recent court suits
involving a city ordinance pro
ii bit in s - colored persons from
living in property stoned for
whites and whites from !i virlg in j
property roned for colored, was
(iatr.aceci bv a dynamite blast
last Monday night. Sheriff Doit
McDowell reported last Tuesday.
The ordinance had been de
clared unconstitutional by fed
eral District .fudge Clarence
Mullins on the ground that it
violated the Fourteenth Amend-. 1 -
merit to the Federal Constitu
tion. but the owners, Samuel ami
Issic Mar Matthews, had not
i
I yet moved into it.
Mr. and Mrs. Matthews built
the house but were refused an
occupancy permit after it had
bet n approved by the city build
ing inspector's office. Judge
Mullin- had issued sr. injune
lion restraining city authorities
from interfers-ir.g with Mr. and
Mrs. Matthews. One side of the
house was destroyed by the ex
plosion.
Racket Baron* Flee
From Miami Dragnet
y
BV JAMES ». LAf'OfUCHE
MIAMI (AJj’P' Cadillac rid
ing barons of Miami's Negro un
derworld. and Buick driven mani
pulators of bolito and Cuban lot
teries here, are fleeing the city
: following an edict to “stop gamb
{ ling." A police dragnet, in the Ne
-1 am section of the city last week,
: spread by Lt. O. W. Faircloth, net
ted the city $4,420 in jail fines,
i It is estimated that more than
. $10,000,000 is extorted from Negroes
l yearly, living in greater Miami, by
number racketeers whom the police
head says he will “drive from th*
i streets.”
VETS PROTEST
JIM CROW LAW
j
RICHMOND. Va. -- Negro le
| gionnaires walked out of the tnorn
i log session df the twenty-ninth
! annual state convention of th?
American Legion here Inst Tues
i day morning when Robert B. Crav;-
: ford, state commander, who was
: presiding at the session, read the
I Virginia Jim Crow Law U the col
| uved veterans and upheld the sog
regatta! laws against their pro*
1 te-I.
Trouble began when the Negro
veterans who were provided hous
ing at the Monroe Center while
white veterans were provided
lodging 1 in the John Marshall Hotel,
insisted on sitting in a space al
; located to white delegates, aftsr
the convention committee had
promised representatives of tha
I John Marshal! high school where
> the convention was being held.-
that state Jim Crow Laws against
mixed seating of white and. Negro*#
1 would not be violated.
-. camping sit in the county whidt
could comply with regulations gov
erning rest room facilities, adequate
fresh wafer supply and bafbag#
disposal
Since no approved trailer carnlj
in the county accepts both wfclfe
and Nejrro patrons (he order to
the group of about 15 whites -and
i.s Negroes of noth sexes wigs tan
tamount to a demand that th#
group leave the county.
It was the second time within
the past few- days that repr«*#nt*r
lives of an organzatlon faVoriM
non-segregation of Negroes atid
whites had beer, asked to movh «Ut
of the northeastern North CM*!ton
county.
mwKLi., covsrr Arv&m-i
in Columbia in Tyrrell cotwMy
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gMJVfcftSM pvuuvu‘o v» mv >««mi
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