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Youth Congress Fight James Byrnes
Removal of Bilbo Also
Asked by Youth Group
COLUMBIA. 3. C iAKP> -•
Among the 15 resolutions adopted
by the Southern Negro Youth coll
ides:.. ;;; it;; civiMiig ». •. i :i ht;e kt=;
Tuesday wen* two vatic h n-lctd t cs;■
’‘knrmdial.- removal" ,>i Jarre;; F
Byrnes ttont office ..! ..ei-roMf,, of
state, and 'ofusal to w*;i: S».. Pil
bc
hi Us. b v ou tar m-oHibon.
me secret,ar <of state •*■•. descxihed
a; being ••uni'.: .t. r. present the
American pvv>plr ii: tii*- Council;? v/ ,
the United N ttiom ' i*n«- view tak-
IDS INJURED IN
CRASH OF j
ELEVATOR !
CHICAGO (ANPI —Three nun
dred and nint N«?gi oes were m
j tired, 25 seriously here* lu; t •
week when two aii-stell. seven - !
cat elevated trains crashed at the
47th Street station in the heart i
ol the black belt. The eras’d oc
curred during the early morning
rush hour as all coaches were
ctcwded to capacity, carrying an
estimated I,GOO passengers.
Both trains were northbound, i
but the first train was running!
about eight minutes late and was j
standing in the station loading
passengers when the second
lr.Jn, running in a heavy iog
—crashed into the rear of the :
standing train. So jammed were
the cars that most of the persons
standing in the aisles an dun the
platforms did not fall to lh;
floor, despite the tremendous im
pact. The fact that the brakes of |
the first train had been released ,
in ali probability lessened the
shock.
The injured were rushed to
various hospitals throughout the j
city by police and fire depart
ment ambulances and police
squad cars Fireman raised lad
ders to the elevated structure to
assist in the rescue work Provi
dent hospital alone treated 86 ofj
the injured. Only two of the hos
pitalized victims were white.
~“ 17 Cadets Get ROTC
Promotion at A. & T.
GREENSBORO An announce- /
merit from the office of Major Ed
ward Johnson, head of the reserve
officer moiling program at A. & T.,
College here revealed that 17 ca- j
dels in the R, O T. C. unit have !
received appointments as cadet !
KILGORE CAUS FOR
COOPERATION
AMONG BAPTISTS I
I
CHARLOTTE Rev. Thomas
Kilgore, Executive Secretary of the i
North Carolina Baptist State Con j
verniers called for a renewed vigor \
and «ti increased interest in the more !
practical things • n the part of the
church as Use 78th annual conven
tion opened here Tuesday at tho
Ebenezer Baptist Church
Greetings were extended by rep
resentatives of various city groups
at the night sesiun. Kev G. W. Wat
kins of Oxford, responded to the
welcome.
Delegates representing the- 1,700
Najjro Baptist Churches with a
combined membership of nearly
275.000 members are pouring into
the dty
Hifehlighte of the evening session
included a message from Dr Bsmj, !
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V til. XX Vi, NO. is
en by convention delegates was
aptly express'd by Dr. W. E. B.
DuBoL. director of special research
oi NAACP, who. speaking ai the
closing mass meet, declared, •’James
Byrnes, thut favorit' son of :ni ••
i c-oriitnonwea! d.l. luid secretary ol
s'ate f the Umretl States, is today
! O'-cuping an I'ldcfetv-ib lj- a*if’ im
i possil% position and if lie survives
; m the nr..r. ury of met,. ie must tie
to ,-MablisJ. In lit- own South
'.ebuuihitf vanstdliiiis: it tiiai derive*
: racy v/tuch he has been lecenrlv
so loudly p caching to Russia
‘•Byrnes is the end of a I tig -» -
i ides of men whose eternal damna
, Lion is the fact that they look M
' truih in the face and did not see
l;t.' Lc- Dußois coniinuvd. -John
!(' ilhoiin. Wane Hampton and Ben
j Tillman are men whos. names
1 AIRS’. hr het.mii;*-tori b.\ U «■_
I fact "that they 1 ought against fr* ••
I dom and democucy in a land which
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ACTUITTE3 IN
WHIPPING CASE
LEXINGTON Mie <KNPA>
After ten minute.- dMiber.-itiim ia.-.t
i Tuesday night a Holm County
i jury acquitted five white men
• charged .nh man»l;uighter in the
; d*. nth oi Leon Me A to#. J3-year
] old tenant farmoi va. they ,k; ~
:mi tied wLippiSra bvo uuy .-• vefuie
! ;iis beaten nociv was found floating
' .n a bayou.
Found Innocent were Jeff Di.dd.
’a in; operator of Crc rv ,od.
inephew. J '.r..-.. f: T . '3. und
Sp enter Ellis.
The verdict came as a quick
; conclusion to 2-day trial in which
the State introduced as evidence a
statemen t from the elder Dodd t<
a deputy sheriff tat he and his
. companions had flog re ■ McAtee “a
few ticks" on July 22. MeAtee’s
i body was found July 24.
Dodd testified ki t Tuesday that.
: on July 22. after he had MoAte;
; arrested on a charge of stealing a
'saddle t’rom him lie withdrew 1..-
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t commissioned personnel
Listed as the t p cadet officers at
the North Carolina school were
Cadet Captains Reginald Reeves.
Greensboro, and Lewis R. Morris of
Ossining. N Y„ battalion com in und
er and executive officer, respect
ively.
Harold Hutcherson, Oxford, and
Chandler D. Gibbs of Greensboro,
appointed cadet adjutant and plans
(and training officer, respective! >.
i were promoted to ibe rank oi iusi
lieutenant.
i Included among the company
eomanders listed as first lieuten-
| ants were Donald Dawkins. Jack
' sonville, Fla., John W. Tate. Lex
] ington, Robert Page, Durham and
i William R. Tollc® ol Seattle, Wash
i ington.
Ellis Haris, Portsnr uth, Va„
Johnny L Stiggers, Birmingham,
Ala., Thomas B. Jones* Irmo R C
and Thomas C. Hairston. Jr., of
Winston-Salem, all cadei compart ’
executive officers, received proms
turns tc the- rank of cadet secono
lieutenants.
Other promotions to second lieu
tenant were Norris Mann, Jr , -Cov
ington. Va.. David Denver, Jr.,
Richland, Emest P, Robinson, Ashe
ville, David H. Wagoner, Lexington
John E Patterson Ft. Mill, S C
Herman Burney, Salisbury, and
! James Lee Johnson of Birmingham,
Ain all piq toon lessors
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1 I VVVC.t FESTIVAL SCENT.'
Above is i lobby scene <>* the
IMoodu-orth Street VAIL A where
1 the -\diitf Activity Comittee of the
SoJournw I'rtith > VVf ’A recently
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St. Augustine’s Professor To
Head Voorhees Institute
I'roli-.so! Karl H. McCienney of
iSi Augustine'.' College. Raleigh,
j til become the h**ad of Voorhees
{Normal and Industrial School and
• Junior College, Denmark. S C..
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PROF E H. MeCLENKET
noum-ement just made by Bishop
John J. Uravan. President of the
! Board of Trustees oi Voorhees.
| Principal J. E. Blanton, who has
1 with effectiveness arid devotion
World Student Executive Speaks
at A. & T. in Plea for Students
At TO CRASHES
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INTO WOMAN
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RALEIGH Sa basilar* Scholl,
j |67~ye:>r*old- Angier white man, was
-1 placed under SH'O bond pending
i further investigation i an accident
~ in whici Miss Queenie Watson of
! 217 W. North Street sustained an
. ; in.jnn rl leg and lacerations as she
f was cros'iag South Street at the
■ intersection of South and Salisbury
; -about 3:j .00 Susida.v :aar;i
--:• j ing.
Mis~. Watson is confined to the
• jSt. Agnes Hospilat where attention)'
•) said Sunday night her conditio;
.. . Whs “iair "
- . C G Bullard and E E. Perry, in
>. '■ vostigating officers said the cor
struck the woman after she had
i ■ alighted from a bus and headed
i, j across the street. Scholl s car was
! traveling East on South Street.
sponsored its seeojui annual feat
of the Criismitf.ee for over 150
Y" members amt friends Other
attractive booths were centered
throughout file lobby
served as the Principal to; tvvt-r
tv-five years, which is half the lib
time of the institution, has ••ept-;.: -
edly expressed the desire to retire
after the Semi-Cenlenniai Celt* bra
tion of the founding of Voorhees
which will ha observfd shis Spring
.After Prtn. Bland n’s resignation was
presented u the Board of Trustees
very thorough and careful consid
eration was given to 1 a * selection
of his successor. Finally the Bon;cl
of Trustees unarutpnpusly elected
Professor McCleimy. end feels very
fortunate and nappy in having se
cured lbs acceptance.
Tie was born in Marion. Alabama.
.March 1907, is mai ried and ha.-
two sons. He received the B S.
degree .from the A. & T. College,
Greensboro, N. C., and the M. S.
degree from Cornell University He
has taken graduate work at Cornell
iii School Administration and Ru* al
Fell : : ']”-!. .od j adidate for
' ..--c.or's ucg-ei- at Pennsylvania
State College, He is now .-serving
as the Director of the Department
of Education at St. Augustine's Col
ic ro. Raleigh.
He is Vice-President of the Nortn
Carolina College Conference, and
Executive Director of the North
Carolina Crown and Scepter Club.
He is an active member of the Epis
ropal Church and President of the
local Chaptet of the Laymen's
League
Heip the Chest Drive*
: GREENSBORO Declaring it to
' he wthin the province of all Amer
ican college and university stu
| dents to aid in bubdiag a better
I world. Miss Clara Yates, represen
j lative of the World Student. Sct
j vice Fund, urged A. and T. Col
; lege .-•indents to extend the hand oi
• fellowship to displaced students
! suffering from ti: r- ravages oi
; World War II throughout, the world
|in an address at Oreensbor. lasi
! week
The speaker a 1945 graduate oi
: Spelmnn College in Atlanta, Ga..
j her hometown, painted a graphic
i picture of the European student sit
uation and told of her experience
while studying the problem dur
ing the- pas' summer in several
Europaii counrig.
In me kin gher plea for aid to tint
worldwide organization Miss Yates
reminded the capacity audience in
Richard B. Harr<s«o Auditorium
that American student*- are the iuwst
fortunate in the world and that
Richmond Police
I Held Under Bond
• RICHMOND. Va. (ANP>
jCharges ol rapt were made a
{gainst two white polio*.* officers
'of Richmand here last week, by
fto'rs. Nairnn Struyhorn a wait
k-ess of this city. The two uffi
jeers—one a regular and the oth
r .ci on the auxiliary forces —were
| released unde: bond of $2,000
I fetch on charges of rape by fore**.
II The rape alleged! v uircui a.’lx m
1;s police patrol ear in suburban
; DETECTIVE “ELD
ON KIDNAPPING
MAKE IN MISS,
ii AZELHURST, Mis*. iNNrAI --
Sheriff R. i . Milter said here last
: ucsday Jucksu:. private do
■ tective, a Jackson justice ol the
P ace and ... Copiah County men
chant have been'arrested and charg
.| ed "Mth, “kidnaping a bunch of
Copiah County Negroes *nd carry
img them out of the county."
Sheriff Miller said Dm Goodin,
private detective, wa;. arrested -a
warrants charging kidnaping and
carrying a concealed weapon, and
. posted $3,000 bond -»n ihe first
,! charge and $430 or; the Utter. The
, sheriff said Justice of the Peace J.
i ! B. Beil also was arrested on a kid -
mi?niig charge, was J. N. Grit
flth. the merchant. Both made bond.
Sheriff Milter refused to divulvt
u-js but iifii asserted hi
Jackson 1;..-; Tuesday that he is in
nocsiii of all charges: Hr declar
ed that Griffith called him Sun
day and asked that he request
i Goodin to come to the Griffith home
; to investigate a break-in the night
j before in which a colored man en
tered Mrs. Griifit’s bedroom
, Bell said he took the detective
, to the Griffith home. v/':er•• Mrs
\ Griffith described the man Later,
ho said while a colored man living
near by was voluntarily answering
, , questions asked by Go- .dir;., th *
j 1 man’s brothe. walked up. As he did
J so Bell said, Mrs. Griffith called
out, “that's the Negro that whs iii
{ my room,"
~ Bell said Goodin called District
s Attorney returned the two men to
the Copiah County jail in Hazel
burst. There, Beil said, the men
swore out affidavits which resulted
'm the issuance of warrants for Beil’s
rrent
a they should be glad of the oppor
- (unity to cement, the bonds of
- friendship with students in othe r
r parte of he world by giving them
' help through the WSSF.
Speaking of the poverty of Chiu
, ese youths attending school in their
. native land, the forceful young
f speaker stated that so exhorbitant
j is the price of oil in China that
‘ ! often, as many as 50 gather around
:i single lamp to study Miss Yates
, ' further declared that many of the
students in Europe are suffering
" from mental fatigue and strain
brought c-r. fey the horii ibis years
„ of war. For these and other stu
” • dents who arc- physically ill the
,1 World Student Service Fund has
established 30 rest centers throug
s out Europe. These centers are staf
! fed by volunteers and paid per
“ ; somiel whose job is to render aid
t" the displaced .students who come
. to the centers for issiistance an,!
r ; Tieatment.
•, Cun unued on sask psgei
Etch mono early the previous
Sunday morning. Polite Mag:.-;
trke George E Williams Idents
Hod the officers as Cur) R Bur •
it son, 27 and auxiliary officer
L< uttard E. Davis, 42.
According to the warrant. Mrs. (
Strayiiorn, a mother of two, had ,
i left a party with h>.j escort and
after driving about the city u .
rhort time, an argument develop >
<_d about her going home. They -
parked on a main thoroughfare ,
in Richmond’s north side and a ,
few minutes later the police car {
drove up and the officer.-, offered ;
tr; taka her home. She reported ,
to police that instead of driving
her home, the officers stopped ’ j
.on a deadend street and attack . -
•led her. Later, they let her out of j |
he mm a- shor: dtit-anc..- -tfmx i u ■■■ ' ‘
residence i
PRINCIPAL ASKED
TO EXPLAIN
ABOUT FUNDS :
Wilmington Students of Wi; g
lifton Industrial high sciu.-ei '
long disgruntled over certain con- . j
F. J. ROGERS
i
I aitions at that iagtitution, threat
| ened to strike Tuesday, but : \
j quick action on the part of F. j
•J. Rogers, principal, held up >
!strike action for the time being, L
la student spokesman told a staff I +
iv.riter of the North Carolina!
1 Nt vvs.papt-r .Network.
Rogers hearing of the threat, j’’
quickly called a chapel session, jj.
and at that meeting he attempt-;
c-d to explain to the students
facts concerning the issues which j
(wore disturbing them.
In reply to questions directed {
.! at the principal from the floor ;
; students wanted to know about ij
1 tin ’poor" food being served in j f
J the school cafeteria, about the!’
; delay in purchasing a school bus -
j for which they have contributed, 1
; and about the lack of lockers for ;2
; Looks foi the students. jt
Rogers cited the acute food j v
I: shortages prevalent in the covin
. j try as the reason foi interior
.lunches. *
t Regarding the bus, he said that f
| the money collected was on de
posit- in the Morris Plan Bar.!: }
[ ol Wilmington.
, Lockers, he said, were scarce. c
.; due to the shortage of material. £
! | Earlier in the day students i £
had picketed the cafeteria. No]
upper classmen are reported to j c
have entered the place, which j *
..was patronised only by students j£
v#*i-uv cjvii7.vitvo.ij g.ioici -kwh j
; After chapel services however,''
j v
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Charles W. L. Junes who served as & first lieutenant during World
War 11, is the first colored air steward. He Hies with the Flying Tiger
Line Jones has been acting as steward for Hatchet Paige's All Si Pit,
famous Negro baseball team. The tram has been Hying with Boh Keller
and his team in a cro>» cmn.iw tour Pilot >< S-kippy Lane •
Federal Grand Jury
Acts In Jones Case
PRICE 7 c
NEW YORK Six men named j
by Albert Hants. Jr., as member;-
oi the mob which lynched his wb- :
•-in. John Jones, and best Harris, in
Minden, Lu., or. August Bth. we*-* ’
muici d on Oct. 18th by a ircderai ;
Grand Jury for x role!ion of civil :
rights statutes Young Harris and •
his fathc-r. Albert Harris, Sr., niudc I
a» dramatic trip U; Mviiroe, L«.. lam
week, unde; the proteviion ol U. S ;
LIBERIAN i \
FETED 4TOF N. k
WALDORF HOTEL
NEW YORK ANP* r.ibertari f
delegates t< the United Nation; !
jtnera! assembly were guests of
hone- on the Starlight roof 'f the
Waldorf Astorv. hotel Friday and
each lady vv.i- presented a si!ve< ;
lapel pin
Air.eng the notable; present were
A*iy Genera) ."id I*lrs C. Abayuim ,
Cassell. Mr and Mr- H. LafnyeH* j
Harmon. Dr. F. A. Price. Liberian
Comiscl general, and wife; Mr. and
Mrs. Lester A V.'al’on, Mr. and Mrs.
D-- la Rue Mrs. Grace Nail Johnson,
Mrs. Estelle Mcttee. of Baltimore:
Miss Olivia Edwards, Monrovia.
Liberia. Judge Otto Schounrieh,
Baltimore Baltimore: Thomas S.
i .yjieli, J<pi i t ; ■ . -V* el;
Lynn.
Toastmaster foi the occasion was
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DR. JOHNSON PROMISES TO KEEP
HOWARD FREE OF ALL POLITICS
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WASHINGTON, D. C. WNPA)
Dr. Mordecai W. Johnson, president
of Howard University, last Tues
day night vigorously affirmed that ■
institutions' right, to freedom from
political interim cnee in academic j
affairs
Tin educator addressed more than
500 persons who gathered at the
Interior Department Auditorium in
a testimonial to hi? completion ol
twenty years as president of the
University
With his wife ai his side, Dr.
Johnson himselt cb sed the program
with a brief talk in which he par
tially disclaimed credit for the im
provement and expansion of How
ard.
'Y/l sti ver little contribution I may
have made,’' he said, “has been uw
MOTORMAN I
FREED IN SLSYINGi
ATLANTA (ANP)--W. D. Let-,.
22 year old white streetcar mo-j
terman, was exonerated last
week in recorder’s court in con
nection with the slaying of Wal- •
ter Lee Johnson, 22 year old Ne- |
gro veteran.
Judge A. W. Callaway, accused
fov Drew Pearson of being a
klansrnan, ran true to form in.
dismissing the case which had;
been prosecuted by the Atlanta
branch NAACIT Said Calloway:
“T don’t believe this man got
c££ the car with intent of com
rotting murder I think he went
cut to remonstrate with him.!
This mar? had no ides of cotnnv'..
ting murder.. No jury on earth i
VvC-uld convict him, su 1 iuii go- !
ing to dismiss the case." i
l marshals, and ace mpanlea by tits
Ds< <■ Hvt, Secretary of an NAACP
. brunch, to present then evidence t Q
•.ho grand jury.
Th. ii v-ietmc/.t charged that Chit?
:of Felice 8. Geur-v Gantt, Deputy
; Slv .■•**■> Charle. Edwards and O. H.
| Haynes, Jr, deprived the Negroes
!of lia.-ir CoDfitituHona) rights by
; ’‘causing to be relec-ed from
iuii and handed v. ir to a mob
which Infiieted a beating upon
• both. The filers named were Sam
uel IVlaCius-y, Sr., H. E. perry, and
: W. D. Perkins.
The indictments follower an
ve«waation by the FBI at the re
quest of the civil rights section of
the Justice Department, before
l '••.hero Albert Harris. Jr, presented
: his testimony last August after his
•■si-aur from the lynch mob through
NAACP intervention.
In a Inner to Attorney General
•T. m dark, Walter White, Bxecu
: iivr- secretary of the NAACP stated'
Ti, NAACP is very happy about
ih» Federal Grand Jury’s indict
ments ot six men who participated
in the iynchir.g of Jobs; Jones, and
Hit* btv.ing of Albert Harris, Jr... in
Mirden, La., on August. Bth. We
h i’:, however, tha! the only way to
insure a full arid correct presenta
tion of the cose v.‘ ulci be through
the apopintment of a ,Special Pro
seeutor by you.
“The record of United States At
torney Malcoim LaFargue, in re •
guar.-: to Negroes, which is well
known to >...u and to us, seems to
make this imperative.**
; result of things 1 received from
! otoher persons. Most of it I got
; from my mother and almost all of
the rest from my wife.
Ht said he did not intend to de
viate from a policy he established
shortly after he tok office, when
he was requested by 3 high Inter
ior Department official to muitg ®
political appointment to the Umver
- sty staff of a man obviously un
qualified to hold the job.
Dr. Johnson said he refused to
make the appointment and inform
ed r.h* official he would not do so
in the future.
"1 have not engaged in crooked
politics to seek this position," tee
declared, “and I shall not do so in
order iu hold si. '
I
j Witness® testified that th*
| street car stopped near where
| Johnson was standing, and the
1 motorman yelled, “Don’t repeat
i those remarks.” The operator 2a
j tea said that Johnson had cuxaed
jat him. A scuffle ensued whan
; tht operator left his car and the
j young veteran was shot,
; It marked the third time dur
ing the year that motor men have
killed Negroes in Atlanta arid
: been exonerated.
: MIXED liIYTiWS
PICKETS GUILTY
.y—
WINSTON-SALEM ~ (ANP)—A
mixed jury, containing five Negro
jurors, found three labor pickets—
one white and two Negroes—guilty
of “resisting arrest, here last week,
I The Incident grev/ out of a clash
j between picket-.;. and police #:t the
! Piedmont. Leaf Tobacco company
' last Aug 23.
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