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ELECTRIC CHAIR AWAITS TWO 15-YEAR-OLD ROYS Youthful Killers j Doomed To Die i • j For Slaying Man JACKSON, Miss. ■ ANP) Death, in the electric chaii await.-, two 15-year old Negro boy-, convicted tor the slaying of „ Wilkinson County white man last February on January 17. unless the U. S. Supreme court acts A threat to take the case to the highest court in the land was made here last week by the lawyer for Charles Trudel land James Lewis, the convicted youth, following a \ refusal by Governor Gielding L Wright to commute their death sentences to life imprisonment Beside expressing the hope of j such a legal maneuvf may save j the lives of the teen age boys, Airy | Walter D C* lemon, their lawyer, suggested ironically that Mississip pi .-cat he youths "on books in ; r.e ; electric chair like children at a' dinner table, so that their heads i might reach the let a! cap" and pre-j posed that the books include the Bi~ j b-Ie and the constitution mi that i REPUBLICANS ACT TO AVERT FILIBUSTER WASHINGTON D. C < NNPAI— Republicans la. 1 : Monday of fered resolutions to change Senate rules to ‘top filibusters which have enabled southern Democrats to block passage of anti-lynching, an ti-poll tax and fair employment practice legislation Tactics of southerners in block ing for two days the swearing u: - f Senators and the organization of the Senate while they sought to force the seating of Theodore G. Bilbo, gave impetus to the move for a change in Senate. rules. Bepubliaans had served notice niter the filibuster against the fair employment practice bill in the last Congress that they would seek a change in Senate rule's so as to limit debate by a simple majority vote instead of the two-thirds vote now required Senator Leveret? Salt,onsls.ll, Re publican, of ’Massachusetts, who was de-ignatea by the Republican Steering Committee to study the matter offered a resolution to &r*H® aefatt&e to a els*! by a ma jority vote of Senator? present ami voting Senator William F. Knowland. H-tpublhian, of California, on be half of himself and Senate,!- Homer Ferguson, Republican, of Michigan, introduced 3 resolution which would permit debate to be limited by a majority of ’he full member hip of the Senate instead of the two-thirds vote now required, Senator Wayne Morse. Republi can of Oregon, offered what be considered a companion resolution . 'Continued on back page) SHEPARD TELLS ELKS NO MASTER RACE WASHINGTON. D. C. <NNFA)- The Rev. Marshal] L. Shepard, Dis trict of Columbia Recorder of Deeds, tofd more ihan 300 Elks and their guests last Monday night that there is “no such thing as a master white race as the majority of the people in the world today are col ored people, and we are members of a great majority ” Mr. Shepard was the principal guest speaker at the semi-annual installation of officers of Columbia Lodge of Elks. No. 85 at the Eikr Homk Third Street and Rhode Is land Avenue, northwest. He was j ucr-cuxnpanied by the first deputy ' YOUTH CONGRESS DELEGATION TREKS TO 0. C. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. This week a program for immediate es- j sentisi legislation was presented to j President Harry S. Truman, mem - J her;.- f the 80th Congress and heads of governmental bureaus by an in- j lerracial delegation from the Southern Negro youth Congress j lee by Edward K. Weaver, Presi-j dent, and Louis E. Burnham. Ext- I entire Secretary of the organize- | tion Raising the slogan, DEMOCRA | CY STRIKES BACK, the delega tion summarized its program for legislation as ‘Eight Tasks for LV j Eightieth Congress.” (1) Passage of • an Anti-Lynch Law. i2i Passage of I an Anti Poll Tax Law, (3) Passage j of a Law Establishing a Herman- ! e.nt FE-PC, (4) Passage of a Sever:- j ty-five Cent Minimum Wage Law.! -'si Passage of a La w Restoring ; Price Controls. (6) Passage of a i Law Establishing National Health Insurance, <7) Passage of a Law Extending Social Security to Work- j ers in Domestic, Casual, and Agri> ; cultural Employ sment and (8) Pas-1 sage of n Lav Prov'dlng Fedora." Aid to Education, i : i “with one current of electricity the 1 1 state of Mississippi can destroy all i ’ simultaneously." i! Remarks made by Gov. Wrignt j ; after visiting Trudell and Lewis J I have been calk'd '•calious.'' His i I whole attitude on the case has been I j criticized on the basis of his anti- ! i Negro prejudice, which many con j sidered renders hirn and other ' whites, affected by race hatred, un ; fit f> judge Negroes. Negroes here hold that all of Mis- j | sis-ippi's courts are tainted by race j | hatred toward Negroes, that Ne-j J groes are convicted before they are | i even tried, that no mercy can be. , | expected particularly for a Negro j | male, that all evidence points t* : concentrated hatred between white j j males and Negro moles. Only the N. S. Supreme cour! j can now save the two youth from i | certain death in the electric chair : | on- January 57. Attorney Coleman] ! said. JAIL COUPLE FOR HAVING NEW | CAR IN LA. LOS ANGEI.ES iANP) A vow nevei to return i - the south again came last week from Jack Ham* ] mend, proprietor of the Purple; Heart bar and eufc here, alter re- , porting u> the local NAACP branch ’ details of how envious white po- : iiccmen of Baton R uge, La., 'ar- ■ rated him arid his wife because of his shiny new 1946 Buick automo- i bile. Hammond, his wife and thre<-1 child! cu, has motored to Center.! T>- xus., to spend the Christmas holi days with Mrs Hammond's father, the Rev. Charles Bell, he said. But while there, he decided tc- motor so New Orleans, Hammond's home town. Mr. and Mrs Hammond started for New Orleans, without she chil dren, by the way of Bator Rouge, •he told Leon W Steward, acting NAACP executive secretary, and when they arrived in Baron Rouge they stopped to eat breakfast While they were eating, two white police men came into the restaurant, lo cated in the Negro section of the town, to find the owner of the shiny new car. With drawn guns, they demand •CoTst.iniiwl on new eight. recorder of deeds. Oliver Thornton, a past exalted ruler of Elks in S'. Louis "We arc living in s great age— an age of great responsibilities and tasks" Dr. Shepard declared, add ing that this is not 594? but '"2 A. K." meaning two years after Hiro shima. He said Russia and the United States, arc- the only two great na tions today and that during World War II colored people saw white people run and die. He put t!r United States in the No. 1 position and Russia in the No. 2 spot, and said he hoped this nation would always remain No. 1 but be was no so sure that it would. “The leading nation will be tt: oik that gets the allegiance of the maj rity of the people," he said, "and strange as it msv seem, Rus sia is being looked to by the var majority of people, who have been disfranchised, for leadership.'’ Hr added that Russia had no color lb u its borders. N. CAROLINIANS GET MARCH OF DIMES SCHOLARSHIPS NEW YORK Two Negro North p Carolinians were among the 194fc ti winners of scholarships awarded f by the National Founadtior. for In- \ fantiJe Paralysis. Miss Roberto Fav - I a ors of Greensboro anc Mr. Donald c vv ..tson of Durham are the fortun ate Norm Carolinians. stated Charles H. Bynum, director of in- j a terracial activities for the National i t; Foundation. j tl ti Mr. Bynum said that, the scholar- , > '-'hips enabled the recipients to ! » study physical therapy and modi- iti cud social work, respectively, both i a important in the care of inituUi'K ; f< i i ,i . i f j y j ■ . S, ' i tsCp . . . ... ,to,, ■ .’to • . VOLUME XXVI. NO 29 RALEIGH, NORTH CAROIJNA MTKK ENDING, i - Outlines Plans Foi 80th Congress ******* * * * * * * * * * * *** *****#*' 2 Million For Farm Work /% jtm ■< Am . It | COMMITTEE Above are member.- c.f the exe cutive of the Raleigh Citizens Committee which closed last year’s activities in a year end meeting at the Martin Street Baptist Church Sunday. They are, left to right frost row): Os. Nel son H Harris, director of educa NAACP Outlines 15-Point Program For Congress | NEW YORK —Th ■ National As- I Mciation for the Advancement of Colored People, at its annual meet ing, January 6th. looked to the new C -tigress with hope tempered with skepticism. Members of the Asso ciation, meeting for the thir: eighth time. in. the Wendell WUlkic Memorial Auditorium, called Congressional action on a fifieei:- point leg'islatjve program recom mended by Walter White, execu tive secretary, arid designed "u.- - ’ eniithcn the democratic system" and rpreod its benefits to all citi ! zens. Thurgood Marshall, chief counsel, 'outlined a legal program for 1917 which will include intensified court action against "discriminatory reg istration practices.” Tbv legist ,-tve program recom mended bj Mr. White follow.- L A Federal anti-lynching bill 2. Adequate Federal Civil Right,-: legislate..n. 3. A strong FEPC bill 4 A bill to abolish the poll-tux. 5. A bill for federal aid to a low - cost housing program, with proper safeguards for the rights of- rnin paralysis victims, at. two of the na tion':: great training centers Miss Favors is now studying at New York University and Mr, Watson is at Simmons C liege School of So cial Work in Boston. Physical therapy scholarships awarded by the National Fiunda lion, through funds provided by the March of Dimes, include- tui tion. maintenance, travel, book; and uniforms, without obligating awardees to the National Found,. Cion and its chapters These sehol &rships rang: torn $L2Gii to SIMM) for one /tar's stud/. tion and teacher training at Shaw Ci.iversitj: the licv E C. Laurence, pastor of the First Congregational Church; the Rev. M. VI . H iiliams, pastor of the First Baptist Church, Franklin ton and the >pr»ngi'ield Baptist • hiiicth, Auburn, who was re flected president; VY. L. Green. ' oriues. 1 C. A bili amending immigration laws f reestablish lapsed quotas ’’ and aherwise perro.t. displaced per -1 sons in Europe to enter the Unit ed Str.tes. 7. A bill to include domestics and Jgr:p,p...-r--l v. .-uriei the So ck! A t 8 A bill to provide Federal aid to the slates for education with proper safeguards for the rights of minority groups in states bavin:; separate school systems. 9 A minimum wage bit] for workers producing goods for inter. - fluti commerce. * ! 10 A national health bill. * 11. A bill to prohibit the segrega ' , tion of passengers in interstate travel. A. &T. College i | i Enrollment Nears 3,001) Figure i i GREENSBORO - Already recog- ' jiihcd u„ North Carolina’s largest' Negro * liegt and one of the mast | progressive Land Grant schools in ! the country the North Carolina A.! I arid T. College, had registered over i sf)t) new students for the Winter Quarter at. the iriiddk of last week. During the first quarter of ’he ! : school year the rapidly expanding ! I Carr lina school broke all previous' i enrollment records with an unpre- : ! cedentcd 2.102 students. Another! ! record for the college was set last' | week when this mark was topped I hi Si 3 during the recent registra- j ; tion. giving the college an enroll- I B»oni figure of Z7(W with an addi- I turn of appr<. -tirm-tely 208 other stt/rients in Ihe process of register : mg. The teaching staff has been fur ther strengthened by the addition . T' several new who be- , •jgan then class iqqin duties with * executive secretary of the North * ae-olina Teachers Asgewiaiiois; arid t f'arles G. Irving, secretary. Second r. w .left to right: Leeu- Was Frazier, titty, j-'. j Carnage, the late Spurge on Hayes Law rence T. S.ishtner and E. 1.. Ra.i ford executive secretary of the Bioodworth Street VM( A. 12. A civil rights bill tor -he Dis trict of Colmfsbia. 13. Abolition oi the Woob•Ran kin Committee on On-American : Activities. 34 Amendment ol the Senate rules to inv kc cloture against fill- ! blistering ny :> major. 3.v. instead of ! a two-thirds vote. 35 Maintenance of rent controls Four new member- elected to the NAACP board of directors for three year terms ending Decent- j her 31. 194 ft. were: Eric Johnston | wend Philip Murray, both of Wash ! > region. D. C.; Dr. George D. Fiem- j jomgs. of Fort Worth. Texas art-si | Dr. .Nathan K. Christopher, of . Cleveland. Ohio Directors re-elect - ! «d were: Dr. Louis T. 'Wright. New l • L'onilntnd or: back page) ’the opening of the new quarter last j week. New coiTnei s t - (, i it- A .and T. i faculty have been added in the ! English agriculture rind mechani- i I i-:ii arts departments. New short courses in poultry pro ; duettos, dairy husbandry, ice cream manufacturing, greenhouse man : agement and swine production ! have been added in the school of i agriculture. To accommodate this most recei ’ I inf] jw of new students and in pn - , Tor fiirit'jc?’ » 1 -. College has consummated the ac- ! I ipdsition of the 50 acre site- former ly housing an Army Air Forces in sinuation adisrent 1a the campus This are complete- >rtfh mess , halls, living guaricis for both ; teacher.? and students, administra-■ ! tion building classrooms, gymna sium physical education building j anti l:*b' • calories. has to disignat ed North AUSTRALIAN PRESS SLANDERS NEGRO SEAMEN -Nil. to N OHK Tb, Nmioniii Negro Cot? rests tiii.- week c < denoted the article .>pp< 'Smith» Weekly a Sydney. A . tralia publication, which atleiupi eri to stercoiyne all American Ne gros* as "badmen. sex-crazed, te ms; coons, and drunkards.” In a communication to the Aus tralian Ambassador to the Unite.' States. NNC Exoc\.Ti»'i St-.. : ■ Revels Cayron. protest'd the . fik* practice. The loiter, in part. f Hows: deeper repcrcusions thint < leavog, of Negro-white relation-- We trus! that "Smith's Weekly' Handero-i • propaganda is unprecedented in the press history of your country a-, violates moral slardam' of j m a istic code in Australia. Neverth"- less, such propaganda is severely . In jura, as it. the American Aftpo and can oasiiv neeprv 'ndn.moiid in dispelHng the cooperctoin ac quired. by yr-ar-: of'-v-w 'iffty;jos As the reprosentaii w of ;ot .7 instlisr; Govemraetu we request a ’ s'-a: rni-- i ifiaSicaiing y nr mem's sentiments in this matter** LANDLORDS BEATEN M HOOSING FIGHT CHICAGO, ill. Decisive ..cue. by the Tenure L,? League of the Chi cago Council, Notional .Negro Cor.- g-e.js, resulted in the rasfirati'on of eiectricity end prevented the hr from bein.i: turned off at 3100 ElVtv Avenue. Another history-minting prece dent established as '.‘orisequence of 1 She vigorous work ot ’hr Congree 1 triarts League, war an order from Lrated States DuslJ ici Court ront r,landing the owners -nd operators • f the buidling to c< retinue beat, light, water and other services. Further rv-uits of tenants el- 1 forts itfled many people at 3300 : Efifcs Avenue rent refunds ot two : to four dollars per mwsth Albert ’ George. NEC Organization Secre tary in Chicago commenting on ib<- 1 successful ■-> <i k said: the peopL ’ wiii not be kept down if they goth- 1 their frength and move in one 1 direction. This is but an indication of what unity of groups and peo- :• p.e- must accomplish during the t costing year " t Happy new Khmer new year. PLAN CENTER FOR NE GROES IN N. C. Six presi dents of North Carolina Colleges and other educational and profes sional leaders of the state met with Dr. William Sharpe, prom inent New Ycrk brain specialist, to make plans for are educational and recreational center for Ne groes to be established in Onslow C ounty. The waiter, to be known as Hammocks Reach, will be established on a 4.300 tract, of land donated by Dr. Sharpe. The is shown above jis- 278 Extension Workers Added To Present Staff WASHINGTON - Ou-« s2.oito • (Cc is being, spni? this year for ag riculture Extension work amoi,'.-; colored farmers, according to & re po:’ released recently by Extension Sci-vict of the V S. Dcpatmem of Agriculture. This reptesento an in crease of ’l4 r*cr cv.-rit duTliig ' dst five years, 1 fir enlarged all-otment pjakes ii. -' --;Oie ro. L:-.;C*i:sii.l. s: i Vu'C ip •be Southern States lo cun’-lov 27k nr re colored workers ihn,, were on ne stall at m< outbre::*; ft the war. The total numbn < ; : eoio: c-.i agents end supervisor-' r-.-.y, work ?n» in the 15 Southern States si ;•!!•;:; at 817. bi commentirig on the report. Special AsHLer-Ls to 'be Sociv-ten ■t'kiurie A. E; rneti -.it the .v «S Negro Bress, and Dr. F D. Pat rs-ui- of Tuskoger -o> ’hr 1 *>■■<- iarsrd staff of caJoi'id ' 4 .-, agents will make- i: possible to ex tend Lhe SC: : ■ X'S Os ft •' - ■ - -, - n good many farmer-’ w!v- f.nv.' California Girl Holds Ranking Post In United Nations Press Division B1 GLADYS 3*. tilt Ail AM LAKE SUCCESS. N V. :ANP.t i Pnsdil;,- 1, • !>• Id m Puvuavuu. ! Cal , is the only Ncsgru girl work ■<Uf ir< the press division o' the United Nations. She is assigned as i secretary airci junior assistant j Stanley Ryan, chief press oLieer. and handles all high powered doeu- 1 mems for her division. Leaving Washington for .V vs T j Turk City, she was employe by ! the Bureau of Child Guidanc and tne Office of Price Adminisu a- ; 'ion Resigning to take an ap- oixu- ! merit v/jtli the United Nation?, Miss i McDonald said be was th< first Ol ' • —-. group U SV-.V! i; ; .iiurm''- | College and took notes of t first mowings of the security .-ouncil i which convened there. The notes 1 were incorporated into tfc. press, releases issued to sh: papers all ! over the nation. She attended the 1 meeting with the Chief prete Os- ! 'ice. L, Berry. The young secretary -aid that she found her assignm- -ii at se curity affairs at Lake Success most thrilling. In the midst of 'he largest ! cussinc the project From left ire right, seated, are. E. M. Barnes. Wilson; President 11. L. McCro ~<y, Joimsreti C, siuti.h Vniversi ty. Hr N. C. NetvbflM, Director, Division of Negro Education, State Department es Public Tin • struct ion; Miss. Marie Mtlver. Supervisor of Elementary Educa tion State- Department of Public Instruction. Dr. Sharpe; Janies V. Taylor, President ret the N. { T~H'. her- A soriatian. Acting Chairman «f the tiewlv fermeti liammorka Beach corporation; FYred Oi Manslaughter PLYMOUTH -- .1 s- ■ James Southi.-rbmd of Wilson Thursday was acquitted in Superior Gourt in a charge r s manslaug>hw in the • death of John Punish. Asheville white mar who was instantly kill ’d in a cuHis’oij of tmtnsfei truck •I l ', mi by SouliirJand and a Jeep ’• whi h Parrish yas ri-iiug, it was vported hire Friday. T'he • • videut happened in No vember abi-ut two mile-, from Ply rru-uth on Highway H 2 ■u ver been effectively reached. Th« > add however, that while this . repr- rein.- a substantial forward stop in the ShcSdnsion program, 'hero is ;-fill need for additional colored Extension w ' p kers. Both Mr Barnett and Dr Patter ’son h.-y beer: conferring with Ejbcij-i;,)i direct''ir* fmm time : !•■:'.■ in si;.- nw'i-i as > nuii-e Oi’ ! i - in-ograii! fu! coi.'ited ;.» a !n 'le appointment of new • r ’to. NorU', Carolina lead:-, with ■ G cor in ais • <>■: : -with 34, -and -V; -ipo; is third with 30. In the oval ; umber v. k Mississip pi Wk first with 107 farm and i.dt.Tfi- 0.-’iativs: agents am? sujxv\ isort fo.l iu; UO,OOO colored tsnr.er*: Tcx->t- mso second wiili 'too' H 1- ;atti :’Us’<-rvi»or for its ito 'kti! col 'co fa'-iii,;-., and North C ‘ colir;:-:. tb :d with fit) ageuta for tos 57.0011 Negro fai'roers. , melting pot in the history of inter : national pffairr the security tdtbXtu. which she said covered the sccur' ,sy council; intern* MonoS court of justice; anilita/y staff committee i :<>iirn;> energy <:«*nmi:-::ion and po ' iitieal aid :-vai:.:.-. committee, she • :s kepi .-pinning :(• Ifotirs- » day ot 1 more. •She attends ail the meetings f ! '.he div ision open or closed, isSas* dictation when necessary and I» ! connection prepare - ' he- texts of (he delegates who rome from 5S countries ail over the globe. . v- RECORDER OF DEEDS TO GET LARfil APPROPR'I \TION WASHINGTON D C (MKNPA)—■ ihi Federal Government Budget 'or IS4B. sem u.< Congress by Pres ident Tt uniat! lasi Friday, carried :-iii estimate of $217,9f>0 for salaries and expenses of the office of the Roc- rder of Deeds. This sum represents an increase of 527.C50 over the estimates far this office of a year ago. President Robert P. Daniel, Shaw University; Attorney F. J. Car nage, Raleigh. Standing: J. H. Wheeler. Nice President and Cashier ref the Mechanics aud Farmers Bank. Durham, acting secretary cf tSu« corporation; Dr. M. C. Kins,. FranklintoU; fmi, dent F. I>. KSuford, A. and T. Gtsi lege; Pmidto .1. W. FayetcviUe State Teachers Col- U‘«e; President E. L. Atkins W iiifiton-Salem State Tv*a*>hers Col h-ze: President E. H. GmM, , St. Aesus4ine'a College.
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