'‘T-!ir3 Prlntl".*
- n S. Firal;
_3:L:;Llle. Ky.
TWO VETS LYNCHED IN TEXAS
VETKK A.N CE.MEK
A\.N(UM;EI)
GhhKNVIl.LK A vWfijtis ivn-
(••r I' l kvi.rani- of th** Fill t’oonty
nas uH bcvii ofji-iK-d at (Ilf
lpp» - HikI* Scliol W H l)av» •
pen Gii’ftivilif Public Sch ul
Fnrtcipal t>u» uiinuunced
A (. tK.rlr: FciiM World War 11
V«ifiaii aiKl (r.iciiialf of A atid T
C.ilUff Mill Oder coui'-f' in brick*
tayiiui Carpentry tiui-haiiic
cthfr u'f>il 'kilK al itu- o-
The Carolinian
\’()Lr.\IK XXVI .NO. \)
KALKKUl. NORTH CAROLINA WKKK ENDING SATURDAY AUGUST .0. U.lKi
PRir?: 7c
U. S. CivU Service WiU Not Lift Bar
i, ii It it **★ h -k -k k k k k k k k k k k k *
LEGIONS MAKE DEMANDS
Commission Claims
t Can^t Stop Setup
Washington.
Tr.e United State
• NNFAi
All Seivu
JIRV HKOBIliM ro
AMECT Jl STK E IN
TEiNN. RIOT CASE
LAWHENCKBUHG. TVim. — A.-
(ri« trial of 2S Colunibin. Teiilies.iec,
Negroes charged with attcmpltd
nurdcr moves into its aeroiid week
in Negro-hatiiiR Lawreiiceburg
rounty It la bi'eoniinf> increasingly
evident that it Mill le inipoa.siulv-
10 pick a lion-prejudiced jury. .Af
ter three days of questioning, onl.'’
(M’c jurors haw been accepted out
of -iti all of M'hom admitted, in one
Digoied statement or another, that
hey cnuld nut givt- -■ Negro a fair
Trie!
Ont juroi W E Staggs u i>l-
yeai- old Mhite tarmer, told the
oourt he wuuldnt' give the same
credit to testimony offered by a
Negio at. he would to that of a
white mail He told Maurice Weav
er. NA.ACP attorney for the de-
lense. that he believed in separal-*
typo o! jusliee foi Negroes and
whl(-^ and added th’t he thought
fov.llll-SlOI. I- JA, .rll.-- to .-top t 1-
LVoM-d State* Kuiplovineiil heivi.---
Iioin pr.'iciu'iuy race discrmiinatiou
III lettriiiig Job applicants to >’j-
cjiicif in lederal agen.ies. Hairy
b ’.inct'-ell pi er idem of the Cl* .I
Service Commission .dnmted la-t
Thin.-day
In an mtervuM m In.*. oH^ce^ at
the Cuinmissiiii) here, Mr Mitchell
said Presideril Truman is the only
man wh./ «:iii -i.tuiillv order thi
agency to cease its discnmmalo’-y
; practices
I Under existing regulations. ,N!r.
' Mitchell said, all the Commission
jean do is to invesiiga'e charges of
I discrimmat'on. warn i^eiicies
jacainst such practice.s, and finall.’
i submit findings t. tbe Presiden*.
: for his action if the warmiig is not
; heeded.
i Hi admitted, however, that thi*-
, aciion had not yet been taken by the
! Commission since iCs first warning
to the USES M-as issutd.
' The Commission, according to
I Mr Mitchell, is presently waiting
' for the report of the investigation
! of the second charge of the Unite l
; Public Workers of Americ£> that
'USES IS stfll employing discrimiii-
] atory hiring practices against col
ored applicants in its local office.*;
The first of such charges, whi :h
POLICE CHIEF
ADMITS VET
SLUCGII^G
W.-vSHINGTON, D C NNPA) -
lilt- news beat of lliv N.NPA News
S. \iie that Isaac W- idaid. com-
bm letcraii, was blinded bj pohee-
min of Bale.-burg, ana not .AikiO.
SoLth Carolina, was eonfiimed hy
the tw major press u5.sociation*
last Saturday
A NNPA news Slorv of Angus*
last said faceliouslv.
-Boy! Collect that Sl.Uhh reward
oflered by the .Nationi l A.ssoclutljn
for the Advancement of Colored
Pe.jple for Information leading to
the arrest and conviction of ih’
; policemen mTi brutally beat Isaac
Woodard, a discharged Veteran.
) completely blinding him by hilling
I him in the eyes with the butt »*nd
of their blackjacks.
"The incident occurri-d not in
Aiken but in Batesbing, South Car
olina, and the city of Aiken l.s burn
ed lo a enps over published report'
I that tM-o of its pulicmen had in-
Iflicetd the inercilcs beating.'
I Tlie United Press, In a news story
i from Bnte.-burg. dated August 17.
said lhat Police Chief L 1 Shaw
f Ba:t>bui'g, admiiti-d there that
he Had .stiuck Mr Woodard, suyiog
he was * runk on a bus and resisted
arrest The Ass dated Press carried
Equal Status Is Plea
Legion Convention
VINHU .\Th;i)
lir. E, I Kubinsim, retirini!
president of the National Medical
a'soriation. During the annual
se.s*iiun of that organicalloii. Kob
itison was utlackrd in resolu
tion presented hy the Cook Coun
ty Medical usioicitaion of Chica-
go. The Chiragoans declared lhat
Kutilnson had no authority to ap
pear before the S. S- Senate L41-
bor riimmJtlee and advocate sup
port ol tile Wagner health act.
Till* Chicagoans cundeniiied the
act calling it a step toward social
ized iiicdii-lne hut the convenlhiii
sustained Dr. Kohiiison voting to
approve the Wagner iiieasur.
H.Al.KGH
;i t:.lnU-d
iii| lie
Olli
i-mitled
I'llMSlllll
■UeM* Viriv-
.it until
NAACPSITSIF!
COOPJ-MAPJIAL
PROCEDURES
NEW YOHK - One by om-. sImv. •
ly and tirelessly, the decisions p..i-
n’un;.t.d by piejudn-eu cmirts-mar-
;.d nil N'egrn servicemen are belii>,
levKMed Thi.' light for justice is
hi-nig speiirhcaded by the NAACP
i.nd Its legal staff As a re.sull of its
^f ris. a reduction nf sentences
1 ..g ll.loii yeurs has been secur
ed 9 death sentences have be n
remitted and 6 life senteiice.s reduc
ed At present, petitinns are pend-
mii in behalf of S men .sentenced to
death and of 11 ■ thers serving ufe
■rms
able I
ha:
lu.'-l been
f funner ser-
•II who .snent
. . : ••iliiti n il ch..!
jtetisl and i.itified by the conven
lien. State CuinmanuiS' Wiill.iiu M
York, told 17.> Legionnaires from
, Ilf the states 71! P-"*l at a m'-mmc
' in the Blondw. rth Street branch
of Rah'iKhs YMCA. S.iluiday
Commander York .-poke at .
meeting called to consider tin* rt
port of committee apjHrintcd t'
.unfer With the Dep.irtment rel.'.-
tive to granting the Negroe full
-tatU' 11. ihe Convention Tlie n
port M-as made by .■'toriu-y J 3.
I Bowser f Cliarlotte. ehairniau if
the c.iinmittee .A minority r».pii.'i
Mas made bv W H GoiAlrum
World War II rnembei .f the Com
mittee.
Cominittee's Report
The Committee rep rted that i.
had held two meetings and that
the matter had been ably pr«aent-
ed. bill that it was not within the
power of the Executive Committee
or the State Commander to grant
the Convention request. W H.
Go drum in a minoritv report con
tended that the Dcnartment had
riven 'In- Negroes the ‘lun-a-
rauiid." iimi that if this situati.vi
HAMPTON SUMMEB CON
VOCATION — Hampton Insti
tute, Va. — Clark Foreman
(left). Presidejtt of the South
ern Conference for Human
Welfare, chats with Ralph P.
Bridgman (center). President
of Hampton Institute, and Wil
liam M. Cooper (right). Direc
tor of the Summer Session,
here at the Summer Convoca-
ion Exercises August 16. Dr.
Foreman sounded a vigorous
call for citizens to organize
against racial violence and re-
iirtion in the South.
—Photo by W. R. Brown. Jr.
WALLACE RAPS
USESBI^
washing rox, o. c. 'Knpa) —
Svcrtlaiy ol Cummei'cv Henry A.
Wallace last Tuesday called upon
hi> (fllow-Cibinct officer, Secrc-taiy
•jf Labor Lewis B S.riwellpnbarh.
to end race segregatiuo and dis-
* criminatK-n in the iJisCici ol Co
lumbia office of the UnPed States
Employment Service
Mr. Wallace's letter waa in c n-
formily M'ith an ugrtemen, reachi'd
July 29 by representatives ol the
UiHUfd Public Workers of me-i-
cu «C10i and ei the Ofiice of In
ternal Trade, a part of the Com
merce Department, that Be.nard
L Giadieiix. executive assistant to
the Secretary of C- mmerce. would
ask Mr. Wallace to take certa.n
steps to have the Commerce De
partment and the ,'JSES adhere lo
the Govetnineni pol'cy -if non-dl-;
WHITE HOUSE RE
PORTER SUES
FOR 10 GRANDS
HY CONR.Al) CLARK
WASHINGTON 'ANPi — Louis
Latiiier, Negro White Hoii-e corres-
poiiikiit. tiled a SIO.OOU damage sul*
.igainsi Hurry McAlpin and Alfred
Smith, alias "Charley Cherokee."
^|-.•ulIlol'^ ot 'Muimscript,'' in ihs
-h'tncl court here. August 21-
Th- .'>uit states that Manuscript
ill It** issue of July 9 said "an ft*
taciie of the White House called Ne-
cro papers and correspondents last
M-eek to tell thm he had intrusted
tile Wiiite House release on the
final FEPC report to Louis Lautler
I "He 'the attache) asked Lautier,
I who promised to deliver, but, in-
I stead. Lautier wrote a supposedly
I. xclusive story."
' Ml Lautier alleges in his suit
I ugain»t the co-authors "that the
'^talelnellt and charges (hat he mis
used u trust by withholding froii-
felloM'-newspapermen information
’ that had promised to dissemindle
; among them and used It lor his own
i personal prufi and gain, implied
! lhat he u^itruskworthy. a cbeet
and a liar "
The plaintiff further states that
(Purges and malicious statements,
M hich facts the defendant knew or
.should have known, and that said
malicious statement and charges
injured his reputation and profe«-
hional standing in the community
/
.j 4C all III wtiom admitted, in one
ciigt.ted ^lateiiienl or another, that
hry could not give h Negro a fair
trial
One juroi W E Staggs, a- 'H-
yefei- oid while tarmer. told the
roiirt he vouldnt give the same
redit to testimony offered by a
Negri. he would to Uiai of a
white mail He told Maurice Weav
er, NAACP altorney for Hie de
fense. That he believed in separat-*
type- of justice for Negroes unJ
whites and added tint he thought
some of the principles of the Ku
,Klux Klan were "very good ' Af-
unsuccessfully moving f-ir
Stagg.s r.-jtction for cause, lawye-s
lor the defense surprised the court
by aecepliiig this biased man .is
the fir.-t Juror. Possibly Staggs' pre-
‘ence on the jury can serve later,
in the tv’cnt of any or all Ihe de
fendants' conviction, as a major re
versible error :ind cause for a re
trial
heeded.
Hi admitted, however, that (hi-
ac'.ioii had nut * et been taken by the
Commission since its first warning
, to the USES was issutd
i The Commission, according to
I Mr Mitchell, is presently waiting
; for the report of the investigation
of the .second charge of the Unite!
Public Workers of America that
! USES is .stfll employing discrimin-
I utory hiring practices against col
ored applicants in its local office.-;
The first of such charge.*;, whi .h
I was investigated by the Commission.
I resulted in the charges of the union
I being upheld by the Commission. At
I that time the Commission ordered
the USES to cease suen practices.
Mr Mitchell would nut say defi-
' mlcly whether the Commission
would refer the matter to Presideri
Truman if the second charges of
the union are substantiated.
He said he had chteked only a
• Ci-ntinued on ba"k page)
"DONT JUDGE SOUTH BY BUBO'S"
SAYS MISSISSIPPI PUBLISHER
bo^t II (ANP) — Declaring that
Ihe south would be d ing a grave |
uijiiMice If It were interpreted th''U '
Its Bilbos. HoCdiiig Carter. Green
ville Miss, publi.ihCr. .said here Iasi
Mei-k lhat the race-ranting seii-a
loi sits ill llie senate "as a horii-i
fyiiig warning of what the combin-;
ed forc«.s of big tiy, anger and fear
fail piodjee in j !em«jcracy"
Carter .-aid as a ci'izeri of Mis- '
sissippl and of the United States,
he believed It might be a goed
thing if Bilbu had returned to Wash
ington curbing hi;, \enom us ac
tivity in hi- own state.
"Surely, il is better for us that
ht should be ex-offiefo Mayor of
WnshliigtoTi than again governor --f
Mississippi,'' the publisher obse-v-
ed
Carter, publisher of the Green-
villtr Delta Democrat-Times, and
this year's winner of the Pulitzer
prize fir a series of editoifals on
racial, r.-ligious and ec nnmlc tci-
erance. sjioke In reply to a broad-
-ast by Eilbo last week.
Riferring to Bilbos two term'-
•Is- go\ern.,r of Mlsslsisppl, C.iiter
charged "he left it bankrupt. Its
univi-r-ities in di^repllte and bfack-
It.- in-stituliims in p lilica!
and moral chaos, and Its name a
by-wnrd for political degrr*d;.tion '
dividual actinn in support of tiii-
prograin
of th-.ir blackjacks.
"The incident occurred not in
Aiken but In Batesbuig. South Car-
c olina, and the city nf Aiken Is burn-
I ed to a crips -.ver publb-hed report'
I that two of Its policemen had tn-
I flicetd the inerclles beating"
Tlie Unlt-d Press, In a news sto;-)-
i from Bate.'burg. dated August 17.
j .said that Police Chief L 1 Shaw
I 'f Bau.'burg, admitted there thit
j he had stiiick Mr Woodord, .soyiiig
' hi- was »runk on a bu.s and resisted
c arrest. The Ass ciated Press carried
I a similar story.
NEGRrNlTIONAL
;GUARDUNITIN
SOUTH ISJRGED
ATLANTA -ANPi - Establish
ment of Negio National Guard units
throughout the south was proposed
last week by C, A Scott, editor-
general manager of the Atlanta Dai
ly World, in a letter to Gov. Ellis
.■\riiall on the feeling of physic.il
insecurity of . juthern Negr- es fol
lowing the recent quadruple lynch
ing in Monroe. Ga.
Scou told Gov. Arnull lhat 's'oniL-
'hing definite, perhaps dra.stic.
should be done by the na‘i '
j-*at- '.'oveinmeiits to ul*.w..u l...-.
feeling of insecurity um-mg t***;
great ma.sses of Negroes in ih's
>t.iti. and, at the sam; time, caus^
'he maieies of white people to realize
that We have ccstain elemenary
-igl'.ts secured by the constitution
that :nu>t be rt'pectel.
' The immedi...e establishment of
•1 Negro unit or units of the Na
tional Guard in this state would
‘Continued on back pagei
sessioii of that organization. Rob
inson was attacked in a resolu
tion presented by the Cook Coun
ty Medical asaocltaion of Chica
go. The Chicagoans declared lhat
Robinson had no authority to ap
pear before the S. K. Senate I.a-
bor committee and advocate sup
port of the Warner health act.
The Chicagoans condemned the
act calling It a step toward social
ized medicine but the conventimt
sustained Dr. Robinson voting to
approve the Wagner measure.
(ANPi
... — ..V, Wf.rid w.ir II memoei tne com-
levuwed. This fight for justice is 1 mittee
betiig Spenrheiidcd by the NAACP 1 committee's Report
;.nd MS legal staff. As a result of iU j The Committee rep- rted that !-
j/fv-ts, u reduction of sentences, hgpj meetings and that
u.tH 2 100 years ha*i been secur-1 matter had been ably pr-s«»l-
ed. but that it was not within the
power of the Executive Committee
or the State Commander to gr.nni
;he Convention request. W H.
Go drum in a mlnori'.v report con
tended that the Denartment had
eiven the Negroes the '‘run-a-
rounri." and that if this situation
had existed for more than 20 yenra
not now prob.ibly that any
Dr. H. L. Fleming
Siiceiimbs Here
reduction
ig 2 loo years ha*i been secur.
ed y death seniences have be-tn
remitted and 6 life .sentences reduc
ed. .M present, petitions an- pend
ing in behalf of 5 men sentenced to
death and of il others .serving ufe
terms
Favorable news has just been .'t-
eeived in the case of former ser
viceman. LeRoy Steen who spent
over IS months in the death celL
charged with violation of the 9and ,
Article of War His death >enten-'c 1aif-cted al the'
has been commuted and his period ' Convention. Mr. Go*>d-
of confinement reduced to twen'y, ''Uftt- along with others expressed
years imprisonment. opinion that the DiviBlon should
Steen hnd been awaiting execu- ' withdraw from the Departmen*
since May. 1945 Tliis extended ’tnd set up an it.dependcnl organ-
period of confinement without any ization. Attorney J. S, B wscr,
fter an cx* ] information about the action taken spi*iikit>s for the majority, on the
upon his sentence was denounced , other hand, contended that the m.il*
he NAACP ns I’njust. unfair ter had not been pre;ented to the
inhuman. Department before .nd that the
1 to a chance
d Democratic
cncy on his behalf, and urged tlut presentment
•Aill be held hl.s .-;enlence be drastically reduc- -Vrunt Shelves Doubt
Paul A. M. E. ed. as they were convinced of the , .
man's innocence 'rontinued on back page)
Employment Service .>sed a trust by withhi-kting froip
Mr Wallace’s letter was in c n- letlow-newspeperroen iiifonnalion
furmity with en agreemen. reached that had promised to dissemiRA*
July 26 by representatives of the j among them and used it far his c
United Public Wockers of * me*-)- : personal profp and getn.
ca ClOi and ei the Ofttce-vf Ih-;lh«l he w*« cetrusftwerRiy, s cheet
te.nal Trade, a part of the Cum-' and a lisr"
merce Deparlmert, that Bernard The pls'atiff further states that
L Gladieux. executive assistant to charges and malicious statementl«
the Secretary of C> mmerce, would whieh facts the defendant knew or
3sk Mr. Wallace to take certa.n should have known, and that said
steps to have the Commerce De- malicious statement and charges
partmeni and the USES adhere to injured h‘f reputation and protc«-
the Government policy of non-di-; sional standing in the comro'jnlty
crimination in federal empl> ymeni. and high official places."
In his letter lo Mr Schwellen- ’ The correspondent, naiionat col
, L Fleming. ^
dentist died
RALEIGH—Dr H
prumiiit-ii! Raleigh
Wediie>(hiy tvening
tiiided illness. Dr. Fleming had
sumed a part-time practice and was; hy
.nppareiitly improving when he wa-i
stricken and died suddenly :if*er On June 2.5. the NAACP petition- Department was en
having bec-n in his office during the v(J the Secretary of War for clem- (.fter an intelliKen
afterniiun
Funeral services
Sunday at the St.
Church.
Lynching Terror Flares Up
In Marshall, Tex.; Two Killed
WHITE FEUD
BLAMED IN
MISS. CLASH
Jackson. Miss. — The buttle ul
Sullivan's IL-llow m which four
white and one Negro were wound
ed last Sunday was the result of
a cniouldering fiied between white
faniihes, the Jackson Clarloii-Led-
gcr reported F'rlclay night
Authorities are investigating the
possibility that all four of the 11-
fleers were not shot by Negroe-.
Out by white persons, according
0 the Ledger, which said the feud
was born during the war years
when Negro help was scarce, and
members of 1 ne family attempted
to liire Negro i-mployees of anoth
er family at a higher wage.
(Continued on back page)
■'JEW York Lynch terror con-
11.ued iiiiubat(Hi 111 -••-v.-iul Souih-
•;ii Stales todri.'', tliiring up i-i
'-luishall, Texas, where two Nei;iu
■ ■’tti'uns mi-l death jt the hands of
"unknown persuiih.'' Although
Texas police attempted to charac-
eiize the lynchings as isolated mur-
iei's. Nt-gioes in .Mar.^hall liv*- uii-
ii'i the pall of lynch law,
NAACP mve.stigiiturs have re-
•Juried what they believe to be two
new lynchings to the National Of-
ice ill New York and are contin
uing their iiive.stigation in spite of
in omiiii>u.s lack of cooperation by
the town's ptilice. The two new
vKtims of the terror, both former
Gl's, were Richard G. Gordon. 31.
■nd Aloiiza Brooks. 2.5.
Gordon's death, according to po
lice, was at the hands of u hit-and-
run driver. But one i.f the people
who saw his body lying on the ro^d
before it was taken to the morgue,
r-'ated that his throat had been
slashed from ear to ear. undoubted
ly by a knife, that his head and
oody were bonibly cut and bruu-
id, and that prints on the r«aJ
liading to where the vet lay. show-
»d that he had been dragged
ilUoiigh the -street.s lied lo the rear
of an automobile. Negro residents
in tiu- vicinity of the killing said
they were awakeiit'd early in the-
day by iw*. automobiles containing
group.-, of white men. who were
makiir; a great deal of noise, uno
j‘-\h j remained on the scene of the
killing until the police arrive!,
leading to the belief that the lyncli-
-Ts and police were in a ennspirmy'
together
Several day.s before hi? death.
Gordi-ti had been questioned by th'*
police on a charge of stealing hi?
weaPhy white employer’s whiskey
.Although he hud no knowledge of
Ihe theft, and vehemenly told ihc
police so, he was fired TNvo days
later .he was rehired. by his form
er employer, and was killed et
dawn the next morning.
There is even more mystery ubou*
the death of Alonzu Brooks, w'ho
(Continued on back page)
-C'.ntinued on page eight?
Cong. Powell Gets
Setback in Primary
NEW YORK 'ANP) — Congress- Maicaiitonio's group in one ot the
mail Adam Clayton Powell was dc- worst political defeats the ALP
fcaled last week by Grant Reynoldi ever suffered. Realizing that a blt-
for Republican nomination for con-, ter battle Is ahead for his party, tb*
zre.ss in the 22nd congressional ' fiery Italian congressman told 300
district, but was nominated for the party member that “we accept the
office by the Democratic party challenge of reactionary Republi-
Reynolds tallied 2.168 GOP votes to; cans and Democrats in name only.’’
Powell's 1.598 His Dem’craUc pat- "Never before have reactionaries
triumph over Harold E. Sim^lk-
jiur wu> by 7,643 to 690 votes.
An American Labor party nom
inee. Powi-ll went down with Rep
NAACP HEAD
CALLS FOR ANTI
LYNCH LAW
NEW YORK Walter While.
N.N.ACP Executive Secretary in an
nwrgency appeal to more than
l.oDii NA.ACP Bratichi*s and mo^'c
than Ul) national organizations co-
'pcraliiig with the NAACP in the
ucstni lynch crisis now facing the
t'atiun, emphasized the imperative
■1 (id tor immediate Federal Aiif-
‘.yitv-h k-gislallon. In the appeal 'l
N as pointed out that local units of
■uitioiud • rganizations and branches
■hould call upon Senators and Con-
gressincii to discuss issues.
Mr. Wiiite’s action is considered
i-f major political importance in-
olving millions of voters among
whom are more than 600,000 NAACP
I.ranch members. This potential
bloc will watch Congressional repre-
entatives, taking careful note of
their uction.s or failure to act on this
ritical issue.
-Senators are urged to pledge to
oti- for cloture, while members of
(he l.-wer house are expected lo
'igii the discharge petition if they
have not already done so They a^*
also jictitloncd to change rules of
House and Senate on me first day
of session to prevent filibustering
in Senate and throttlin.; of legisla
tion by House Rules Commlilc.
(ContinuM cd back pa|a^
Supreme Knight of the Order of Siunt Peter Clever makes obeisance to His Eminence Samuel Car
dinal Stritch. when the great Catholic leader opened the national convention of the order with
Pontifical mass in Chicago Monday. Left to right: Train-bearer George Clemmons, a student at
Quigley Seminary, Chicago: Josiqih Robichaux, prominent layman; Cardinal Sibrie, general chair- |This would be in support ol a pro
man of convention: Supreme Knight John H. Clauser of Galveston. Texas: Sir Knights Harvey Rob- pusal already made by Senator
inson and John T. Bra^ey, __ _ _ Wayne Morse.
t
fascists, money and power unloos
ed such viiifacation against one
ciiididate," he said.
Custiguiing his opposition as
•venomous'' and ''degenerate.'' he
I called for united effort "on the part
I of the people," Negro, white, Cath
olic, Jew and Protestant." assuring
iriem that 't'he power of the Bilbos
and the Rankins" Is retreating.
Besides Reynolds and Powell,
other Negroes seeking politica) of
fices in the primary were Charles
Collitu. who defeated Harcid Ira
Panken by 1,S16 to 214 votes in the
21st ALP district of Manhattan;
Cyril W. Stephens, who won over
William E. Prince by 314 to 57 in
the Seventh ALP district (Manhat
tan) and William T. Andrews vic
tor in the 12st district (Democratic)
by 2.297 to 2,070.
Powell, who leaves soon for a
month's vacation, thanked members
of the Oemocrotic party for sup
porting him and wired Reynolds a
.ongratulations on hLs Republican
victory, "The loss in the Republi
can primary was distinctly a
triumph of machine Republican!
over independent Republicans,"
Powell .'itiUtid.
DEWEY CLAIMS NO
BILBOISM IN N. Y.
ROCHESTER^ N. Y. (ANP) —
Pledging himself to flghr against
the Ku Klux Klan and any traces
of "Bilboism’’ in New York stale
Governor Dewey last week promis
ed re-doubled efforts against the
forces of bigotry and intolerance.”
Speaking to the New York State
Federation of Labor convention, the
governor also attacked the federal
administration's labor policies. He
declared the present industrial dis
putes may be settled in favor of
either business or labor, "depend
ing upon which way political winds
,ol the moment are blowing.”