PA TTERSON SOUNDS PEA CE IN Mia
I Still Remehcr
By William Henry Huff for AYP
Th*>? fold me how i was # fool
spend « lot of tmx- in school
They ■aid that I could never earn
from what / sacrificed to learn
That education did not pay
And I would live to curse the day
i ceased Jo plow the old gray mule
And chose to go away to school.
Vou-. since the year- have come
anti gone.
They're boasting how they urged
me on.
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GREAT SUPPORT
SOUGHT TO SAVE
FAMOUS MAN
WASHINGTON ‘ ANT’) ■ A iv>- :
tionwide protest mat come from
editors reporters of the Negro :
Press over the proposed -s :jl fj,-..
E Day tc serve with the pubic ■<: -
latiori division of the Eighth arm
in Yokohama. Japan Maj. Dav ha?
’-•or/cd as chief of the Negr- pr
division of the war department for
the/last two years.
Transfer of Maj. Day, former edi* j
hpial staff member of the Chicago!
Defender, is said to be the resultj
of difference over policy between ;
him arid Marcus Ray, civilian-aide !
to the secretary of war. although I
both principals make no comment
on the transfer
Newspapermen arc almost unan
imous in their praise for Day and I
criticism of Bay. who i* said to be •
antagonistic toward members of the j
press. Some of them point to u \
speech he made here a few weeks \
ago before a group of veterans on '
Servicemen’s day
Day is reported to disagree with j
Ray over the civilian side’s policy '
of ‘more intelligent Negroes for the j
army." a policy that caused the !
army to issue specia ’educational re - j
cprirements for Negroes that are !
not required f'-r white enlistee'' !
Day is scheduled to sail from Pit*;- ;
burg. Cal . .sometime this month. !
A movement is reported under- !
way here to mobolize the nation - i
newspaper men in Day's defense 1
by demanding that the war depart- j
ment rescind* the transfer order !
Maj. Day began his military career
with the old Eighth regiment. Illi
nois National guard, attended
Crane Junior College. Lewis Insti
tute and the Chicago Art institute
in Chicago and the American Uni
versity here
Ray. a former 92nd division artil
lery commander, is a graduate of
the University of Illinois and di
lector of the South Central Clinical
laboratory in Chicago before enter
ing the army in January, 1941. He
was appointed civilian-aide to the
secretary of war early this year
upon the resignation f Truman K.
Gibson Beth men are married smi
live here with their families
IN WRECK
SALISBURY—John Hall, Box
well white man. was placed under
5i.590 bond pending completion of
inquiry in connection with the
death of a 15-year-old youth who
was inemderated and his mother
and brother seriously burned in
the blazing wreck of the family
car.
The death car was struck from j
ihc rear by a second'car driven by j
Hall, H K. Kirder, husband and!
father of the victims, having pull
ed the youth and his mother from
the wreckage. Both were sent to
Rowan Memorial Hospital for
treatment.
France Takes Annexation
Issue Before UN Assembly ;
GOV. SAYS STATE
MUST EDUCATE ALL
GREENSBORO. N. C.-~(AND—
It is a sacred obligation of the
state of North Carolina to train arid
equip the youth of the land—re
gardless of race, color or creed, R.
Gregg Cherry, governor of North
Carolina, declared in a recent ad- ;
dress at A Sc T college here,
SCeynoting the A & T Founder’s
Day program commemorating the
service of alumni and former stu
dents in World War IT, Gov. Cher
ry insisted that “the coßtriißitipnf <
■ ■ 1 v iH ft /.\ ’ ri I I I I f\ um /*\
& f I XVV_ J1 v X JL*y X JLX X T
. Vrt , ’if V ' . valvyk
VOLUME XXVi. NO. 20
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URBAN LEAGUE UO.VSUI.-
| TANTS The National Urban
; League Board of Director.* ha ■
j .tu t announced appointment of
Mi-s Manet Fowler and Robert
j A*. Kinney, above, a* public rela
tions and trade union consultants.
- - ' pcctirdy, for tt. Li-
Han League
Miss Fowler k a graduate of
the New York University School
Higher Teach
I
Feature Distri
TENN. NORSES
VOTE TO ACCEPT
knoxville" Tenn - , anp»~~
Following similar action taken i-•
crntly by the American Nursing
association a* its national convent,
plus that of Florida. Alabama and
Maryland groups, the Tennes;;e r
State Nurses association, meeting
in its list annual convention with
the 17th or.r ■ j s'ate conference :m
T< nnessee League of Nursing edu
cation at Andrew Johnson hotel
here l-'/st Thursday voted 76
28 "to accept qualified Negi • grad
uate nurses into full membership. ’
Viewed by some * being tn»
-waving facto! for the inclusion >f
Negro nurses in the association w-is
*he add re.--, give o by Miss F.tetn.
or. Palmqirit. white Nf-w York to.
assistant director of the National
Organization of Public Health nurs
es under the subject of "Meeting
Community Nursing Needs."
Miss PaJmquit. held! that commit
ity nursing needs have greatly in
creased and are still increasing
with c mmursities ail over the na
tion reporting the need for moic
nurs* and better trained nurse
"They want nurses who are able
to give all types of community ser
j vice--- -nurses in industry, schools;
j mental, municipal and tuberculosis
| hospital, public hea’th programs,
! etc.’’
Urging that a study of commun
ity neds be fostered oy local com
mittees to ascertain the amount f
nursing care for aged, in eonvales
<Continued on back p-.gel
of the Negro race mu t not be left
! to luck, but to the chance to devet
:op sound minds in sound bodies.
The F' under s day program ;s
held annually at A & T in recog
nition of the late Dr. James B.
j Dudley, former president of the
j college under whom the institution
| made its early and greatest develop
iment. Terming Dr. Dudley a real
educational leader, Gov. Cherry
! added that the early president was
lone of the great American erlrica
l tors
UALEKOU NORTH CAROLINA" WEEK EN DINf, SAH HID AY, NOVEMBER IH. 1 010
Wy* **&**** ■ vrit
ww
• | i m.
*- f Journa!i->m > i*H P* i
uew assignment from Ft. Worth,
Texas, where she was public re
lation? course! for the firm of
Edward L. Barnavs Mr. Kinney
is a former editor of the <<u!f
( oast New* Digesi. Mobile. \la
> ||>.< lurmer rrt-e.urcii r*.rector of
the Nttilonat CIO tVai K-lo'
f mnittlcc Divistoy: -ts f outmuTi
itv rrervtre
r\ nj-*
lers ray I o
ict Meeting
CHARLOTTE \) <-■: :•■!■
higher salaries for fcachcrr ;u ’■ h
ptibtjc Hchoois is expected uj he i !
principal fc-.-iturf of - 1 v meeting of !
: ttie Western Ihsincl 'i\’a: iif.-rs A.- <i
ci-'U'-o. which wii! coitvem- ;| i the
Second Wnid High Schmyt Kahn d..y
--« ith the pening sesttior- :-pi sot ten
m. Ti-r chief !h*tn<- of (be ;»«*o
ciatton's gatKfrj!- Pi v-m u,-. Educ-i
'ion f-i 'h< A tom if Age.' and Mr.
.tm-’f. W ,!liu-e Hi-mnlttlJ iii-;rn-i*. :■
of : l ir- Ah v.-iiKii- ;S1 •••(ci s>: h : :
here, and Pn-'-idcn? of tiv Assoeta- ■
'■Continued on back page)
| ELECTION
| ROUND-UP
l
i
i ßy the Associated Negro f'rrssi
NEW YORK 'AN Pi R'v A |
' j i.ayi it- n i r -fi--.- rat. : ■
ed to c- ngre - -.tilt' ■
CL-.nt Rryn-ilda. i i-.ia,
19.51 b. Four Dcrrocrdllc state as
mblym; r. j r-,ri.-.,y. City Council
: rr..--n P.rr D'o-i‘ niivung for Y-’-.v
York atU'»t ttr-y general, poll'd 87,
Vi; in city, hiacm total av';t
given a C'.itrtrnunist certdidtite -T
Finley Wil-on defeatt?d for st-atc
senate.
CHICAGO William I, ftawson
Democrat, rcelrrted to cpngre*<
P t'ini "6.761 votes to dei'ch W:l
--liarn E King. GOP, who got 27.581.
County Commisioner Mike Sneed ;
and State Sen. C. C. V'imh-sh. both;
Democrats, reelected. Two Repub- j
liran. three Demon atic state a.; - :
-emblymen reelected
CINCINNATI Rev. David Tttr- ;
peeu. OOP, reelected slair- leg';.-
iContinued on back p»eej
By LUCILE SELZ c
Far the NNPA News Service \
LAKE SUCCESS. N. Y. }
Fa nee’s attitude toward the con- j*
troversial issue of annexation by *
the Union of South Africa of | '
Southwest Africa, raised at the *
United Nations Assembly, will be f _
I guided by the freedoms guaran i '
I teed in France’s new constitution, *
I it was learned last week.
Gustave Moutet, adviser on ov
jenseas affairs of the French i •
j Foreign Office, indicated strong- ] t
lly that France might oppose an (
jnexation of the mandated tevri- j■'
| lory, if it appears that the 300,000 <
‘lndians there and the native *
j population resist this move. i
The French overseas expert f
1 ! called attention to the preamble , «
of the French constitution which '
« 'Continued on page eight)
WAA REPORTS
AGENCIES SUS
PECTED OF SELL
ING FREE INFO
CHARLOTTE \ > ; ■ 1
j., ra*pn for fret- WAA itilornt-i
Vi on surplus propelry --aief '
f-hposa! prtwcriu v -.- we.-; '‘to
p. ri 11 *.-;-.v oy C hari ‘tc F. |
gional Ofiicc :n announe-.ng fha
T.v Hee! veterans, farmer? an-«
• jion.- owner- may hive Iv.’en a
n>ohg the victims of advertising
t,p:C< r* vvho have extorted a
smaJJ fortune national!}' by prom
ions short cuts to (he acquisition
of oijrpiu;; governor:! ni prop.;-rt.v
i -;,i;: was tovoalcd Knda.v by ’
A. Dcc-hmsn, din-ctot of C l --
•' i.'.rlottc Regional Office of the
Vi.-,r Assets Administration, who
iiiaunivi thal Washington W
A. report.:, ten organization
suspected of being involved iu
;'nis type of racket have been re
ported to federal enforcement
r< Tiuc-.s f.u investigation. *
These suspect, 'organ JZ'itiouL.
»mc of whom used legitimate
: 'vci!:it-;ng channels, ore said to
• have issued phony tip-sheets and
: questionable publications « -:
u’.i -tended to offer undos envoi
! access to non evw-t* us e: resor
ted surplus war propetry at oo
'Cofnutued on page 2>
l-AKMERS limit
vi ITT i\ cm
The mt-oC.'-.g oj Fann*:-.-.-- Ilom--
Admimstration was i-t-J-rs f’tt ihr*<
•lays this v ook n -Sir Waiter Ho- '
i '< :i
The purpn-'- of the organization
to provide credit and supervi* -
•mn !- farm (-.imilies "nabl- to an
: tain financial aid ihr nth other
, adequate credit sources
There are only seven Negro *u
> ;>» rvisors with Hr .-move agfney
jin the 'tale They are, Ivlr- M.!
i- st.ivk- Pi <->•■•". 'upcvvtsoi o'
| Je,n«-. Greer, i Hi id Lenoir cotmUf-s
l Mi-.-. T». - f ;» • ••• :i - i,d TVs -
i- t-oun
... ;vir* Niicmi U St-ttdeis and Mi
v Ilham E CTa*k of Tioot-t. n e.oar •
•> anrl Mrs. Sadie R. Joh • on and
Mr Winston Leno m of C'-sweli
county.
The gin st speaker: ri! the me-c
--ing were the Hon Jctcphou? Dan
iris -Hid Rep. Haroki D Cooley
The supervisors -> <r< the 1 '-••
g.:> sts of Mi it d Mrs William
Sanders of 23fi SmithOHH St ->f
this city
Dr. (r. 0, Builwk Shaw
Founder’s Da% Sjwakf 1 !
Dr, George O. Builo'-k, pastor of
Third Baptist Church Ai Washing
ton. D will deliver the, annual
Founder's Day ado fobs at Shaw Uni
versity Friday morning. November
22, at il "’clock as the 81 si anni
versary of the institution -■' celt
brated Dr. Bullock, it graduate of j
Shaw University is Chairman of its
Trustee Board.
The address by the distinguished ;
minister will come as the outstand- j
mg feature of the firt part of the -
day's observance, The second part
will tie devoted to a celebration of _
the Kith aniversary of the admin is-;
tration of President Robert P. Dan- j
iel. A tribute t<- 10 years of scrvic' '
by Dr. Daniel will 'oi- delivered ! "
Dr. C. C. Spaulding, chairman of .
the Executive Committee of the i
Board of Trustees, Dr. J T. Hair
ston. pastor of Shiloh Baptist |
Church, Greensboro, will preside
Two other features of the day - '
activities are the annual meeting of
the Executive Committee of the I
General Alumni Association which <
and that when the bus halted at "S
o’clock and a luncheon tor Trus- -
lees. Faculty, Alumni and Friends A
at, 1:30 o'clock. A luncheon pro- t
gram, including greetings from j >
educational .minister/; l, and Irate;--; t
oa! agencies of the state, has bee" ,«
arranged. >
f ----- - - ....
War Secretary Says More
Talk Won Y Bring Peace
Di-RHAM. I a:-;fh :•
•-! V- ,r Roi-crl ! P'dl'-T O' in -
. ;| *; /-ip Orsi-i,.. : ; Uhl<- .
fill Nvgrn' t-"M I! 1 !<--/.
cr:. Ja l v. - "k 'Evri-y -ir
: ;."It, //• -• r l . "-it /in '-no -Hiy
1 limit 'bon iv Th*- ttti.w tyn -
ti n poink---; nut. for ;* ; friun/CII’.
n/iii'-; 'USpiM - ; of th- Unit'd Nu
ll iv,i - fust If-ariiCfi 'Hal i’aU":
«8 g'.-itiß to s'- Tr*lns
dion •' or. “the part eoiietr/ :ii tilt’
play low arc) "dtu -tin ; -.tudent--" to
rnnkr- iii-n\ o-'inj: -»I *i:- i . ;hi be
chitnged his :-<dd ."Hi n ■ trif bi.
tirst public Cn-i.-r. ( 'll- ;H sot / -
*i. rmrnoni
Afr-r rt-viev-ing k" ;i;ont-o/i
struggh of North C.*.<ryiina Stai-
College for N'’r'ro(. ;hc pc re' ry
ieclared vve have m.tn.v j-robteu;
solve, but the hardest of ihi.r-i
Ml is the permanem prevention •>
war. the -.'.-inning ! ’■tn 7 -•>- Id
peace Evc.-r since the dawn of
history the vhre'- oviis of the wu -i
p en w-lf', DPsfttcr rs f;,
LYNCH FIGHT
GETS SSJOO
New York Coittr ir>tit too
!• tailing $5,000 wore voted if*
e -y I.;, four oraanizntions by *h>-
National Council of trie National
Maritime Union to help impi<
mint the Union'.-- vigorous fight
gainst lynch terror in 'he South.
The tour groups and Vo
amounts a located to them an
' National Negro Congress, $2.500,
Southern Negro Youth Congress,
iD'Ki'i S--»u the in Congt
; Human Welfare. SI,OOO i |hi:- /o
i" --tid Lvnehiru' SSOO
Asir-rting that ‘'Con’nvie-i
tnl»isP- f ion of ! \i.‘y A.)t>' i K'au p<’"
(ic is the only guarantee ih A
fa-scis* terror :n (he South will
!- biough! to an end." h / c-p'-i i
! udeptec! by the Council r.tecla/
r d
”C»ur Union was one of t h
nu.ny organixai ion.-* that ;pok
otk in horror against the rce>-e»
!viidlings m the S'.'/’h. We wens
further and posted a $5,000.00 i
it-ward for the capture of ih«
.i> ncht-rs Despite the demands :
'■ the Ame: ican people. Got - j
; eminent authorities have not y< *
.••jiprehendc-d the lynchei:, W-.- :
bei'eve they are known. It r*;
rumored that the FBi as wel 1 a.E
' the state authorities have their]
! names and ;! is therefore quite j
■ *’ • viou.-; that re'-ither the FBI nor
tb*- state has any intention ci I
• vfting and apprehending the i
i criminals."
POST SSOO REWARD
FOR INFO IN kH.UNC
OF FLORIDA COP ;
MIAMI i ANPi - A reward of |
sson has been posted py Negro r:.--, !
liremert and citizens for inform*- ■
'ion leading to the ari-esi and eon - i
victi- n of the person who shot and <
killed John Milledge, Miami’s first !
Negro policemen on November I.
Milledge was shot in the throat :
with a .32 calibre bullet while on ,
duty outside Dorsey park where >< •
football game was in progress He!
died within 20 minutes,
N. Students Win
Fisk Scholarship
NASHVILLE. Tenn. Two]
North Carolinians - Charlie Lu-j
cilie Davis of Oxford and NataHc |
E. Hemy of Winsion-Sfiicm i
were among the 59 students at Fisk]
University who won high i-eh -Fir- ;
ships hs f result of superior scholar- i
ship during the second semester of :
the 1945-46 school term, the Officer
of Public Relations at Fisk has an
nounced
PHiCL 7fy
PEE I* 1 ilcurr ;>n<i {. .«f»::*< • ••*; \yc>
t tf;C’ 'kVfi -I. ‘hi’ ■ u*r.
. ' •i'ElllP u,‘ .iiut .* f 1 frjtsfji f | .f v, ~
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pi-'tf ft. .'ji'.H'.ir.Diri' !»|.U • '*•
P’';.-r •• fff fduryl;oj«, -.. i;« »• mi ,l
; 1 H* ; *hr D'lnn*
. ’ilrl Ilf |(iP Vij r.{ w;-r,
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. <:n:A. at the iva r ir* lives. lit
< :, ni iiviiLV ti*<
..Gif -Ynt t ?} if u ipr»f :vxrv<".\t. mm
; j • ary i-jptlithmi-r-m
r■ . 11 LJri if- pec-ice Afi
i ! ppcCQ W e. know tiink froni
: rhu fui.iM elfrxts oi Hrif.nin uw\
! Fr#ii: U\ •'* fi I • » •»} E.-r»
n ? I! I• •! V. •Utl. * t (j i . It ; iinn;;
We kt '*’•• fh'v frf>ru ur nw:i
i»*i t-’ij? • In our A!* t.jyn* - - ’•■. u
‘Contniucrf u> b^<T\
STATE &BMTOB
in a YEARS
ri RVfv.AND tANPi Tlw Re
publican lid" which .-pi Thoma
'■ Htri-.t-H in'" ()>c ,'r>'"' , mor .hiri of
Ohm put into office Hi - in / n- "• •/
m (''i'- nut r j *-) -(,*
tui.'! n-flve alsn sweeping into of
f !, ' r t.htcc Nnaroc to ih-- .<->mhlv
Whn.esak- exodtt.- hr :!>c Uepubp
rat! pa-'ty, which included oil of :b
--fity's ps-edorn/n-hly Negro o-:!
a iso iiavc renewed hno.> that Oino
would be the cvr-nf.h d:,|f to p.-.
an FFPO iriw. if Republicattr-/ keep
lire rlib promises mode in th-d
si. t- '-onv'eiition
Ohw, .. fim steb- -wteior
.John P Green "jr»t on, f >
d.'v '■ win be Aitv T-T."rr- F -
" : am in fouHit ■f ti rix
, Ire to il' '-hos.'l!. -a i! 1 1 172,177 vot- -
j 11-'." hr r-rved till-”'- i- "tn in the
. 1 e-.ce :.•!<-) IV;, en-v I^'-]; -t--.nl !,! ,-
] : ■ ■ t--i (i- ,s ;oj ;,!lth" ly OIJ
Mv- L■ wri in f It;;•. ~ '
; ' mat-evfor o iw-oi,-
til' übjeep Be i rcg.i'-deri
"f 'b-- lute-.; rr)o-:t in;!/, *
Ib'-vvcr:
21,-*';: <-| r-ied ''■ the iov.-er
j Mr,"- ;ir> A-- v WiFi ion >’■ Satin'!
r., spri Francis E Yo-ng, who cam. 1
; ■ seventh and el* nth, ,nf
; ' /V r Iv Wit h Ik eandidale* to h«
; -liosen
| Yii.i-im-HM. in Hvoilt-'ir. counts
j ' -ill 'nd !>'<<■!( to the bovi: "f rep
i resen/,-/I jves for the fotirfh con- '
j rut.ivp t.lirie the Rev David t > Tor
J pcoi vh poll' d Ivotes to
I defeat (-,ir- Negro running-mofc,
j Democrat Emc-t Whites. v>-h< pub
; led in 75.425 voles,
Cleveland's Al.tv. Fr ink C l yon
: who war conceded / co"h '-ht/ticc to
(Continued on back page'
S. C Jury Acquits Policeman
Who Brutually Beat Vet
OOLTTMBTA - ANl’t -After h-ss
1 than fi half hour’s deliberation, an
I all-white federal court jury hen
i last. Tuesday found Police Clue?
; Lynwood L. Shull, of Batesburg
IS. Cb, inr- cent of charges of vio
i Jating the civil rich;? of Isa- r
. Woodard, Jr. Negro var veteran,
I by beating and tortui ing him into
olinrinc.-s lest. Feb. 12 Over 309
spectators half of them Negroes,
1 crowded the courtroom in the ri.-iy
; long trial.
Woodard's version of the incident
jin which he lost the sight of his
i two eyes differed from that told
Iby Shull. A C. Blackwell, bus
j driver of Columbia and Police Offi
! eer Elliott Long, also of Batesburr.
j Woodard to id the jury he had
j boarded the bus at Augusta after ■
: bring discharged from the army.
; otid tat when the bus hahed at a
(Continued on sack page)
-
<iWCT Jj*:'
tUi S\Yn: IS BRA \ DEIS
< SiYEK srn - The Mhert lAn
(pin I'uttlMiation, inc. has just
;•: iKfu m ((! ihM th«* univur: Hy it
plains t<» op*‘M at W»UtT'un. Mass*.
nr --a year v. ill hr named a'M-rr th ,s
<;A" In uj ihr I’fiit-Pil Stairs.
Mijir- mi: ruuH, IvAIMa D
i? i . fl'■•?■(* ;m' in; lin .iid S.
If-iiplj 3 uiu-., . ni |he
■ ;:ft ;i ‘. urn, d* ,i n :Jn?i thr ozm?
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'*? *f' F‘ < ill.* >" *iV,‘ i.i tr* n |S 111 Y<’ r -
.iU Th** pis tnre t>i nD I il
botur id tin tioicil
.< ** Plf
ifiMt'ftq f‘|jY
f\n if oho oil i
NAMES DEMO
us -\NS A A •‘] r V ; AN Pi - - -Ta uu j
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P hi Mi.-no-.n i/nnsc r,f |
e•{n < •-•■fnl-wlivrs T\wwi <y r.urvivljig i
' hf• .jwhich I
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1 ■ ‘iiHite ■, 1* I'll! li!v I )(*;DUCLrIi i l ’ i
t ron rrfa,jti
yp Ovfr.erri ,\ ti [• J nCy J( !
JM J f); !f: |; (f if 'flu* ul.HjDvf' frO.*7l j
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Jr,i,as SIC > U:_.l!/CSS IHC!:, ]
; • •- rit -u. s’ ore and Jon* t
hilliaid p trio- The .-nutp w .. : •
-- -' ; i, 7.511 .Tone . / ,57
Lc.-i r./eccuics ‘he lifs- NVgt O ]
over sen- in ihe j
'>*tcsjE'iuturo i mm K.an ox City |
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■’ (dy "VI . I it ;n the sc.Ttbl ■. |
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• ■ i • nil!" . vv.< : (-'"/-(-fi ri ‘ i
: Tie /"i/'orhoi; county comm 'sston-1
•' n- ! v-! -! ---he )j. . !,r!ri for foi'r
V' The couufy eomtafssioner:;, |
, 'iu'--e 111 mill'/!, condur.i !hc bu. ■ j
IT! f if |he * T»1 ?t> t\r A y !;' 4 f f-h'’ 1
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oi: !'• In- . !,,* jxislM' // i
-;’h disfoirhon
N;'r voter- 'ire ;/ti 'inrwrutttl lac- ■
■ o'i in K-ii. Ciiy. K;if . pclil.c j
MOP .at Yh-'U l.hcv a:-; m Kitusi-: i
Mn prineipfiHj nccau'-’C of the '
: . ;»c r proportion of Negroes in ti c]
popuF-ti-.il ill M-I- K'inw City Tn !
r>■ .-. ,1 /' CV. K-| -. O’ -P O'- ; i-cpi <-
.-■! jici ci-.i "I the p-..-;- ,
•> it in K-I/Si 'Mv. Mn !
c l in pp; cent of the pupt;!ati!ip j
W II m ?! Tnv < > . H< ; : -"b-i' ■/,-. j
’r J .-.in rn i:.s>r'i- *rf sh" K-*n • ~ \
3-'Uj V t )'<s<r \{ c\,r.~\ '
T” • fi.- Hr • ?<1 . 'pposjfit »n frt» ‘ •
T)rmnc*at?r parly.
SHAW (,KTS
sm im ii.ihv;s
RALEIGH -—Shaw Utuvet-f./ty is
one of the ntghi .-/outhcri cr-llcgu ;
which have boon alloted surplus'
govci i/ivi'-ni buildings to enable
'hem to handle student veterans,
it ha:', just been announced.
The building will be converted
for classroom purpose*- for com -
sc.-*- requiring no laboratory space
and will enable the University !<>
increase its ciipHcit;- from Rfi: io
900 students, ,j;k'i of whom at-.-
vcif ran:-:.
VETS IN CAMPAIGN
TO UNSEAT BILBO
CHICAGO < AJNPi —A national
, campaign to pass a federal anti
lynching bill and to unseat Thc~-
dorr (j Bilbo. Mississippi'- self
confessed klari senator-elect. got un
derway here last, week as thousands
I the national office of the- United
of petition forms were issued by
Negro and Allied veterans of Ameri
ca.
The petition, addressed to Pres
| idem Truman, urged the chief-ex
ecutive to ‘‘recognize the threat to
democracy in the United States that
: comes from the growing wave of
' H \fU/ i f iK. W' n the Celt*
■i> ■• i !!j.th io r >’ -T ' ’ . tn-iet, Hie
jMsibs'jy Hitil bebon). Os
, ii' a football game nere "1
M■. .■ •■•■!!i>ol' 30th ,ai Memorial StaU*
: in.. iot«*r- racial '.ports problem
iiH i. ■■• h. 'vhi"i'i may, or may
ir ■'■ i sport . unit ir to tlife UIV
. ._■ * .■ y of v.-v '■la-Mi vippi game
of o rck:. ,ico. f’eabody has sev
i< ■ ij .'/•.on mit • on i'-: fir i '.trii-.g,
uni i! t'-- planned 'o bring the
I c .i.ord player, to »h 'Friendly
iV - ■:.?! od'nmre t r-ervatliyns
ip i ■ .->ii-«.-»dy been made for their
! W,r! • ; -oi !v!r- here The
i problem 11 ill be vhcthei or not 4c
j'i.i' high ' hoo! officials will
• • !o; -V; iff. ir, jrsirfh f>
■ it,, . i-;ti High glide
,or Mu iiMcrlmu h> • resulted in
in., pin .io\f. relation - hips of ihe
•a. ■•.•hools .and no emotional feel-
I : have lUmwir-e been tarred
i ;,., r e. The citizens ar< looking ask
■i. . ~nd awaiting the outcome fl
hie rni red lads arr allowed to play.
| (iiv»-fam>mst- of interracial good
will iky it will be s; alep.
; J( better ft wrfl
i „ ,•< 1 !- d oil Movemb'.'S 30th, at the
Memorial Stadium
(unis. Si f n,4 J« <*t Speaks
\\ Bmnrft Founders
t
Ib\ Program
i ,■
(; TIKEIJKKORO “Etl ft? at tort
it.,. , the mo,:' dal need of
-’-opie in.ti>is post-war
: n'i coul'.vovki. uatod Gov
,ll i>r Raymond E i>a 1 dw■' l n
-1 Connecticut, speaking at th“
: rounders’ Dmv exercises at Ben-
I , u *U College m observance of the*
; i n ci,jtul ion’.' .M'vcdty -third year or
vie: In Negro youth
! On task :n America in the
! i - id -if education," continued the
jv H ct'-i Connecticut sen
,, :<>; i:c short and Haig term
! Congress, ' i.- to teach our
I young penpb uni only how to
. hut how to earn a living.
| Mr. . orrtplicated world it
.... nr, to <ne that n< leaf* the
. e ,:v;ik-n! ul’ a high -school ed-
I,in necessary to teach tl*e
r rage individual his or her
:: R ; ' and some of the re
ponsibilities of citizenship."
Illustrating the importance of
.mm .-- opinion being based on
f.,<-is .-,nd intelligent conclusions,
ihe Connecticut executive assert
.■d, “The world today, more than
i-ver before. wants peace. Ws
i want peace- as does every country
in ihe world W<; do not want to
hi subjected to an atomic war at
:r me future date when all our
l>“opl(: in cities. and countries as
v< H would be subjected to ex
to ruination; nor do we want to
subordinate ourselves and sacri -
f ■*■ our sovereignty to a world
'Continued on back page)
lynching and mob terror directed
against the Negro people.
“Wr demand that you rail up®
the 80th V S. congress to pass a
anti-lynching bill,” the pe
tition read. ‘Wc demand that you
cal! upon the U 8. Senate to deny
a seal to Sen.-elect Theodore Bil
bo of Mississipi, an open disciple
of the Ku Kltrx Klan."
The petition forms will be cir
culated throughout the country by
chapters of the United Negro anJ
Allied Veterans of America, an in
terraciai veterans organisation. or
ganized here last April.