NORTH CAROLINA WHITES BOAST RACE PROGRESS . ' / v ‘ _ • ' iTA ■ ■ '/ ■-■■■■■ ■; '• - " V'OLUMF. .XXVI, NO. 28 RAL-FL H, NORTH CAROLINA WEEK ENDING SAT CRD AY. JAN! ARY li. M!iLL ij- Duke Endowment Reports Service * it * it * * ★ * * A * * ★ ********** * * * * Unions Outlaw Negro Ban Orphanages And Hospitals Get Aid From Fund CHARLOTTE « 'l :t beds p-, Av gr* (. and South Carolina with 1,133 Negro beds provided 1.4 beds for each 1,990 Negroes In the two states there were 16 hospitals car ing exclusively for Negroes, with 832 boar, and 105 white and Negro hospitals, with I.SB Negro beds " The colored orphanage of North Carolina located at Oxford was do nated ihe sum of $4.501.77. and the Jenkins orphanage at Ch;o ieston. S C.. s v-s eived 82 094.16 PRISONERS OET WDL PRESENTS New York—iWDLi — Christmas for 25 min imprisoned as a result of injustices, was made a little less glo my through gifts from the Prisoners Aid Bureau of the Work ers Defense League. Tee Davis, framed tenant farm er serving Hi years for shooting at a white sheriff, got cigarettes, which he- requested. Others got cash with which they can but smokes, candy and other items at the prison commissaries Among those- who received gift: were Willie Francis, who was sav ed from death when the electric chair failed to function: Walter Nteßaye. active unionist doing 12 Continued on back page Youth Beaten In Georgia Town ATLANTA, Ga. —Lamar Howard, f 18-; > ;o--old erriployee of a Momroe ■ lee house, was brought here so; medical :rearmr-nt and for an in- s terview with use FBI after he war; severely bt-alen Thursday by two white iren who c rtempted to force fr .m hire hi:; testimony be? re a grand jury which war investigating lyn rising of four men there last summer. He said two white met ap proached him «i the ice house look him to the rear at the point of a pistol arsd beat him stout the face and head for 10 or fifteen minu!«* with their fists and the gun •T was sitting S» the office of the ice plant about 4:30 yesterday afternoon,” Howard told the At lanta Daily World. “When the two men walked in. one of them knock - ed my hat off and threw it on the ft or Then out- of them asked me what J told the grand Jury and 1 said T -didn't tell 'em nothing to talise 1 didn't know nothing “One- of the men passed me and said, *you arc idling a 3‘p’ end started hitting me in the face with bis fit.i. Then be puilsd out & pi* ; HONEST MAN GETS 15 CENTS ELIZABETH CITY Richard Basnight. txlihcp .si South'.-r*t Ho le), received a total of 75 cents for rt-coveriite and : -et nnc to ' iiu: owner .twenty utu; ji-..cuy veu ued a: SB) “ftO after Iv-. o £r untie gue.-ts had discovered 'heir 1 ss and : Turned to the betel in quest for ; ii h-re Sunday. A Mr and Mrs. Anonymous ; ern-ekee out of the hotel early Sun : day morning, but after they hod been gone 45 minute, according to W. W. Stinemates, the clerk. Mrs Anonyniou.' rushed »n the hotel and took an elevator to the room th< y had occtrpic-ci. and vrus fdj ••R-’ved * y hiv-Eond ?:v« miraitcs later When they reported that they had lost money an d jewelry which : amounted To almost SIO,OOO and i Stinemates offered the assistance of the entire sir.ff in fitr ing it, it was not long before Basnighi who had removed the iuten fr; in the red Inquired whether she had lost Mimething and turned over to-? ) cash and jewelry 4 o the owners. After she and the bellhop had counted ail the money and found :i oil in the wailel. Mr.-. Anony mous breathed a deep sigh of re lics gave Basnighi 25 cents and s then joined her husband in the ! lobbv . Her husband haatfpd the beiifi- p :50 cents and said to Stinemates: i “Yon certainly have honors beH | boys around the hotel Gibson On Advisory Military Commission WASHINGTON. £> C.— (NNPA.) Truman K. Gibson, Jr., of Chicago formerly civil - -J aide to the Sec retary of War, was on.- of nitv members of u civilian advisory commission appointed V make re commendations on universal mili tary training, with whom Presi dent Truman met last Thursday morning to! and grabbed me by the arm end said. ‘3 ought to shoot you." “They took me :-ut the back info a cow stall there and uirttd beat ing me with their fists some more, 1. didn’t try to fight back because I was afraid if .1 did they would kill me. "They asked if I had told the grand jury that they came to th-. ice plant on the day of the lynch ing and cleaned some guns. I told them J. did not. One of them was r-king me questions, but the other one- was beating me in the face so that I couldn't answer. I void them if they’d just stop beating .me may be 1 could tell them something. They stopped a minute, then hit me some more with their fists and ■ vsr the head with the pistol. They finally quit and told me. 'Yov go out there and get in your car and go home- and don’t let it quit til you get there ’ I went on horns . ".nd inc-y followed me in their car. ! but they didn't come to the house. ’ Howard’s eye was almost, closed, his rigid eye swollen, his lips puff ed and bruised and his face mar red by lacerations. x*. Or Russell W. Brown, director of she uv.tt WashJagUir. Carver foundation at Tuskegee which is carrying on the work b., e'en by Dr. Carver. He is currently spend ing three months visiting the most important research labora tories in the Vnifeu states ' I amnia to observe their work and methods. iANPi Seek To Wipe Out u No Negroes Allowed '* Policy SB. KALI QUITS FREEMN'S WASHINGTON D C.—tNNPA > —Dr Cbarie-- Drew- organizer of the first blood bank in America. w..-r last Wednesday appointed to the newly created position of Med ical Director of Freedman’s Hospi tal where he ■ rmerlv held 'he po sition of ClJicr of Staft At the same time. Charles E. Eubridgr. .issintant super ir.te.mlen; of the- hcapital war appointed sup erintendent in c?targe of adminis tration replacing Dr. .J; ... L. Hall, who resettled to resume has medical practice in Chicago. Dr Otis And-; .-on. Chief of th'- itosn-ttal division of the United Public Health Service, last Wed n-: jv expressed deep regret over Dr. Hall's resignation, which be came* effective December 23 Dr Anderson said Freedmcn: Hospital had nr.de "considerable progress" under Dr. Hall. Dr Hall has been superintend ent at FrmJmens Hospital for the past two years NAACP BRIEF FILED TO HAMPER SENATOR THEODORE BILBO FROM SEAT IN SENATE New York January 2nd—United I j States Senator. 1 - Friday we.it given \ eep’ev of ihe detailed and contprc-! i.Ensive brief filed witr- the Special | Com.mtuev t-o Investigate Senator ial Campaign Expenditures by the 1 National Association for the Ad- i vancement of C.tinted People, cis- .; tng precedent and te;-b argument-.; j for denying to Senator Theodore G, Bilbo a seat m the 80th Con gress. on tot basic of the conduct j l of his primary campaign in the : state of Mis-ursiwpi lasi spring Prepared by C'fchrare:-; Houston. 1 and Tfcurgood Marshall, counsel for the NAACP. arid legal staff of the Association the brief is written tn show that "Senator-el**-. Bilbo war ; guilty of arte and conduct which • were centrnry to sound public pol- ! ! icy, harmful tn the dignity and honor of the Senate, dangerous to tne perpetuity of free government. • end h* such nature os to taint with fraud and corruption the ere dentials for a seat *n the Senary presented by him; and that based Uterson the Senate should exclude SECT, OF war NAMED IN SOU Washington, D. C (XNPA) 2 h A : Depui tmerit raid laG ; Tuesday Hi at n has received a copy of the suit filed in Pitts buigh ugairts: Secretary of War ,-.jn and Lieutenant Col Robert W. Spiingei-. coinmand •mg i-fiieer of the Army - .- Pitts burgh recruiting depot which sft-ks to eojutn the Army from further enlistments until rolore s men are accepted on equal terms with whites. The 'UP wfK f>ieq hy Henry 13. Sit-v. :J id i '.11!-.u-'bit aiic: had been denied on opportunity bte son. Henry D. Steward, J'-„ ter enlist ir. the Array bevau.st the Army currently is not ac cepting colored enlKtments Assc-ci it the Justice Depart rru nt would be asked to defend the War Dcportrnem in the suit, a War IX-partntetit spokesman said he Led no further comment cm the matter. The Justice -De partment. however, said it has nci been approached by Ihe Wat D- paitment on the matter NEW YOBK. 1 ANp. Effort? -rs the Kt-w York State Commission Agi-mst discrimination to wipe out "No Negroes; Allowed- practices of th* more than 30 labor organJsun tirm- operating in New York have met with success, according to an end of the year report released by Hettry 0 Turner, commission chair man The report disclosed that with one exception, unions have agreed to outlaw bans against Ne groes seeking to become members. The one exception is +he Brother hood of Locomotive engineer*. The commission came into being last, January, following ihe passage ■ a bill known as The law against biscrimination" in the state legis- T 1 bill -*- unlawful employment practices o.i labor or ganizations to euctude or expel anyone from membership because of l-i.-ce, creed, color or national right. This applies also jto the formation of segregated auxiliary locals for minority group tnemßers. Under its provisions, the cemmis sioti is empowered to bring con iempt proceedings against any of fending union Unions, like the Airline Pilots as sociation. Commercial Telegraphers union of North America. Wire iContinued on harts paa him from e sea? a? the time he j presents himself in take the o;>‘b j of office- Stating that- the “testimony fir. i the Senate hearings) shouts a state- | wide condtion of intimidation not Omegas Hold Grand Conclave In Texas Ft. Worth. Tex. The Thir ty Third Annual Grand Con clave of the Omega Psi Phi Fra ternity which convened in Fort Worth. Texas, December 27 - 30. a at presided over by Col. Camp bell C. Johnson. Administrative- Assistant to the Director of Se lective Service. Grand Basiieus |of the Fraternity. The business sessions of the Grand Conclave featured the re port? of rh<’- -N«f*orinl Social Ap~ lion Committa winch the dels ■ gates at the 11*45 Conclave «#- NETWORK WRITER VISITS SCENE OF CROSS BURNING -81 T ( HKVAY Editor WILMINGTON SO?'RN Ai ami staff Writer. N'crth Carolina Newspaper Network WILMINGTON A crow was tunned ns ai the home of Mr. anti Vi ii.oiiiue Dudley •;iic vicinity of the Greenville Sound areas near '.ere last Monday night. Also at ■ v.a* hung from the limb Os a ;»;-e snmt yer:k, from the home of :hr c uple. New Hanovci Courtly officers :> neve the act to be the work of prPr Kilerr. ailhs eat 'he KKK symtioi was smelled >-.* the high : way • by «;,♦ eff : gy burning. At 1 trt ate m tbs i ease V-... color. This venter visited the scene oi i.o<- stops bvr'iine Slid in evidence i on the highway in front < t th: Dudley residence, which is an at • tractive cottage is the outline of the c. v • which tvas enadp by s>: nt until i? were called i,. their attention by neighbors, i. rme Dudley i bed-ridden, whi; hss wife is employed by t prom - • men I. white family. y.inee the incident. colored res'- dent* of the Sound have received numerous telephone calls. One call laid the "Xian will come and ge! voo Tbw a er. i s t rbr.rv i “wed be (Continued on back page? ; YOUTH IGNORE? IN ARMY EXPERIMENT Washington. D C. (NNPAj Although" War Department plans for universal military tranung provide for inclusion of colored ;; men. a spokesman for the dt rartment las: Monday admitted that colored youth are being ig nored in an experimental unit 1 which will foe set up at Fori Knox, Kentucky The unit will comprise a group ; of 664 teen-ape volunteers who 1 w il! undergo as a test the uni - versa! military training program 1 v hich the Army hopes Congress • will adopt. The War Department • said no colored teen-agers will - foe included in the group of 18 ■ end u) year old youths, who will represent an educational and • geographical cross-section of the s country. The group will have its own > Continued «n mtek oase* merely of jndividal Negroes but of large blocks of Negroes " the brief c ntinues. "the tacts- conclusively . demonstrate that Senator Bilbo did not receive the nomination by ar : expression of a majority of th: tabiished to work in such field? ; as public education, housing, full • rnd fair employment, civil right:. the franchise and social securii;- j The program was designed to • .in motion machinery that would . , cause the fraternity to occupy u progressive an d constructive ! place in thf civil life of the na ! iion i The Chairman of the National ; Social Action Committee is Dr. . Irtt A r-vrr-irtpni i legist of Atlanta University. The tContinwßl on page eight) Church h Race’s Besi • Friend, Says Priest ! NEW MAYEN. Coon The Cf>- j Uiolic Cnuroti •- mo Negro's >acs: j secure friartd. -nd ibio enduring ! Irieni'fh ip i- i.'-uieJ )>v the tact i tha* fci-UviP-l elite ii> i 'in- .. ti.:e !cf !!k life ot Chi'ist’i church, ;he Rev. Basil Mat thews. Benedict if»' - 1 priest, deehqed m >n addrese :** , ihe annual conmnuii'-’.. forealcfaH Irf the Bleated Marfa', d-v T*crr;:-; i eonft at* rnity hen; last week. ■ ■ • •••:•. o •'■-■- .av.v.v. .AW* m»b IH'MMTV AT GKEFNTH,i.f SOTND Here i tin dummy biunt! hang in.? from the limb «i a tree near tUr ji'.'ini where a fiery cross was burned last Monday night j osi Greenville Sound, near Wil mington. Complete story by North (Carolina Newspaper Net work representative appears else where on this page. Photo, eaur tc-vv Wteiofton Rventng Post V MAN FO? NT) DEAD WELDON Mack Solomon was found dead on the Roanoke Rap iris-Wtildon highway by his wife after he had been missing, from j home since Monday night, it was : reported here Thursday Officers -aid he apparently died : of heart attack and tost there was no evidence of foul play. qualified Democratic voters ir> Mississippi . . and under MI; yi'.-ippi lav Vi-;:., improperly on tlv ticket . . . his election as therefore irregular and void ” Later, the brief states. “Stair courts have clearly established the principal ih*a where qualified elec tors, sufficient in number to have changed the result, of the election, were corruptly and fraudulently deprived of »*> opportunity to vote, the election is void . . Senator Bilbo merely claim.:- a -primary ma jority- of 3.1534 votes, but when trie i.-irge Negro population and <56.872 discharged Negro veterans in Mis sissippi arc considered it is plain hit- majority v.,n!.-;he.-. ' The brief asserts therefore, th&r since it. has been established by the courts that "The right to vote in the primary in Mississippi without | discrimination because- of race or • color is protected oy the Federal ■ Constitution .. . there canot be a lawful "whir; Democratic Primary' ir- Mississippi as alloyed by Sena ■ tor Bilbo in Ms testimony." 1 Laud. Negro For Achievements Since Slavery RALEIGH ■ ANP* -- Env.nripa tio i: day celebration here provc-t! North Cai'olina whi!:-« with the opportunity to boast about wiv.t 1 Negroes i.av" accomplished in th; ■ ! state since slavery. An editorial, appealing in The tef itc, a wh;t' oaily newspaper ! -umanarized the achivements of | North Carolina's Negroe:* since Kmancipation. Progress is generally slow," the i State's editorial said. “Sometime* : c lakes many, many generations jto make any material’ progm-: i along cultural, educational, rcligi* 1 ■ us professional or business lines. ; At other times there is a sudden te yurt di - progress that is truly re markable “When you consider the progress ihat tile Negro vr-.ce nas made in North Carolina wt believe ycu will ' -;g! that it lies ir; the latter of th ? w o classification* mentioned > above. Il you ned any proof of this, i vi- call your attdtti-cm to the fo»- i lowing; N rth Carolina has total of 12 ; Negro Colleges; five state-support • cd, five denominational senior and i two denominational junior "There are 186 accredited Negro ; schools as of 1945-46 1 “There arc 32 accredited Negro WOMAN WINS S3OOO FROM SEABOARD FARM AGENTS IN CONFERENCE I KALEIGH Addressing the : Conference of Farm Exten.sior Agents new in session here this week, Dean I. Q. Schaub.. director lof N. C. Exten -ion Service, assert ed that to spirt of the comparative ; iy Jew salaries non . paid in the : state, ibis is h year of opportunity j for adjustment in salaries, based, or. ; increased budget from the Legisia ■ ere according to efficient's and xperience. A. ...H-onci problem af -1;-“.in.;.;;-“.in.;.; us r 1 *■ r. 0,0 >' • ,Hng fc- Negro subjci-, vu Lar to the : iechiUc-d lines, including agrono my. livestock and p uftry etc . . which lie promised would be cor ( ontinuetl on back page Colored Man Termed “Ally Against Fascism “ Wa-hingtou. D. C. The colored man is ih * white >nm"? greatest ally in the fight against fascism • Mrs Katherine Shryver, whit:, pv.hlk relations director of the Na tional Council of Negrc Women told ;. current problem: study group at the Washington Unitarian Church last Sunday In hoi work with colored people -hi i- constantly awed by the courag.- that enables them to fight i'oyesn, ;n all sides arid bl the same time continue t. “clasp the ideal of democracy to his bosom, she said. Mrs. Shryver related her experi ence# in trying io convince color ed gronpE that she was riot “just .another of the thousands of white pe pie who seek io betray the col ored man." She advised her audi ence that they too faced the same problem if they would win the confidence of colored people. Emphasizing *- h a i difficulties could be easily overcome by a sin- ConUnued on back page Gets SBOOO Post lit Puerto Rico Washington, D. C. NNPA > Secretary of Labor Lewis B S(.:hweilenbach last Thursday | appointed Alvin M. Rucker ol Chicago, Illinois, to an St? ,006 post as a territorial representa tive of the- United States Laboi - Department in Puerto Rico. Mr Rucker, the first colored [ man to occupy such a post, thus becomes one of the highest paid colored persons in government, sharing this honor with Di frank Horne of the National i Housing Agency an d Mrs Thomasina W. Johnson of the - United States Employment Ser : vices. In 1»32 he was made first vo cational adviser and then office manager for the Chicago Relief : Administration and later became ‘; assistant manager far the Illinois 5 ; State Employment Service. : He came to Washington in ' 1946 as an employee of the So -1 ciai Security Board and in 194 : i was sent to Puerto Rico by the T.nhor Department to organize - the United States Employment i Services there. While there he elementary schools. •W. have :c‘ Nee;., high schools that me membe -of the Southern "•■ociaUcirt if Secondary Schools ..•id Colleges. “There- are 1.142 certified In-Ser vice Negro school teacher.- as ot 3344-45. “A i tai of 167 Negro physicians are nov, giving splendid service in all party of the State. “There are 68 Negro dentists, Si Negro lawyers 3nd eight certified Negro newspaper#. “According io the 1936 study of religious bodies, thee* was a total Negro church membership in North Carolina of 434. 951 and Negroes in North Carolina own church prop erty totaling $13,304,156. “The 1340 census showed that there were 57.428 farm oper tors in Norh? Carolina and that the total valuation of all Negro-owned farm nrojx-rtj and buildings arc valued at $100,293,392 “if that doesn’t spell Progress, v.-t don't know what it does spell Not only that hut it proves that the opportunity foi advancement along all lines can be found lor member-' of the Negro race in North Carolina." NEW YORK Mrs Nina BeU ram of the Bronx who asked far $75,900 damage* from the Seaboard A : * T,im Railway o;i u -.-harge ibit si-., was forced into a Jins Crow coach in North Carolina hats ac cepted 53.000 «eitte«sent front the railr ad. her anoroeys announced acre Saturday Sh- claimed that she was en route to Columbia, S. C,, from New York with her five-year-old •or. when at Raieigb N. C she as ordered to sit in a different car she said she found no vacant .-cai jrt there und returned to the "whit-.- ccarn" where she was al legedly ''punched ' by a Hamlet, 74, C . policeman who forced her to re - enter the'Jim Crow err. Th-. suit was filed in Federal 3»* i rid C-oart iv-ct for injury and. -vio lation of civil rights and her at torneys termed the settlement “a great victory in the light to end Jim Crow in the country" DAWSON ANSI POWELL INTRO DUCE BILL WASHINGTON. D. C. — His observations on the opening day of the Eightieth Congress leads inns to believe, declared Represen tative William L. Dawsc-c. Demo crat. of Illinois, that the present session prefects “a wonderful partvnlty to promote the influence of the United Stales among the na tions of the- world.” He added that he also hoped that “under the present Congress we will not lose ground in our efforts to obtain first class citizenship and the right to work.” Bills introduced by Mr. Dawson Continued on bar* page set up plans of operation of the USES offices and selected its per sonnel. Returning to Washington he took a position in the Stand ards and TYTeihinvi Division of the USES, a post he held until given Jjjs new' position Mr. Rucker will not leave im mediately lor Puerto Rico bti t will spend some time in Wash ington getting better acquainted with Labor Department chiefs with whom he now will be working, the Department said. NSNW OFFICE WORKERS GET UNION REPRESENTATION Washington