‘DEMOCRACY NEEDED TO SOLVE SOUTH’S PROBLEM’
TRUMAN K. GIBSON
ON ROOSEVELT
COLLEGE BOARD
CHICAGO (ANP) Oiio of three!
p vsorii' recently elected to mem- 1
bership on the board of directors ;
for Roosevelt College was Ally. !
Truman K Gibson, Jr., former civ-j
ilifui aide to the secretary of war, ;
it was disclosed here last. Friday.
Companion appointees were Mar-,
shall Field and Lyle Spencer
Orders Hearing On Lautier
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Rapist Fonnd Guilty By White Jury
31 INDICTED IN
S. G. LYNCHING
Greenville, S. C. . <CNS> ... A
general Sessions Court Grand Jury
has. indicted thirty one men in con
nection with the February 17th
Jynch-slayinfi of 24 year old Willie
Earle. The indictment charges
Roosevelt Charles Hurd. Sr., a
Greenville taxicab dispatcher with
murder on two counts and names
die other thirty as accessories be
fore and after the fact AH thirty
one are being charged with mur
det and conspiracy to commit mur
der.
All but four of the accused men ;
are Greenville taxi driver;-. Earle
was taken from the Pickens Co.
jail by an armed me-b soon aftc
his arrest as a suspect with the
fatal stabbing and robbery of a
Greenville taxi driver.
RACES UNITE TO
FIGHT TALMAOGE
ATLANTA. Ga Fifty Negro
and white; youth of Georgia meet
ing at the call of the Georgia
Southern Negro Youth Congress
this past week-end pledged them
selves to join together in joint act
ion to defeat Talmodge and the
white supremacy forces of the
state of Georgia.
Denouncing all the recent ef
forts of the Talmadge government
to limit the number of Georgia
voters, the youth delegates drew
up a petition which is to be pre
sented to the Supreme Court of
Georgia with signature of thous
ands of Negro and white youth
BISHOP SIMS SEEKS
INJUNCTION AGAINST '
NOVEMBER RULING
YOUTH CONFAB !
SHIMS CO.NCKCSS !
NEW YORK Congress In Ac- J
tK>n will concern delegates to h\
youth conference sponsored by the !
Youth Division of the Washington,
D C branch NAACP on April 10,
1! and 12 at Howard University
The young people will study legis
lation affecting the social welfare
of the people, the forces lobbying :
foi passage of legislation inimical
to the welfare of the people and [
ways of lobbying for measures in* |
eluded in the NAACP legislative i
program for 1947.
Highlights of the conference will j
be a visit to the Capitol to Watch
Congress function and a talk with
representatives. The conference j
will adjourn at about 3 o'clock on |
Saturday afternoon so that the;
delegates may get back to theii
hemes in time to begin celebration I
of the 6th Annual NAACP Youth !
Week or. April 14.
ALLEGED KILLER OF
NEGRO IS FREED
GREENSBORO, Fla. After j
listening w the Rev. R C. Britt I
testify that he saw Keath Bryant, j
white farmer, shoot Wyatt True- i
blood, Negro sharecropper, an al! j
white Grand Jury on March 3 fail*!
ed to indict. Bryant after deliberat
ing for an hour and a half. Bryant j
was therefore discharged.
The NAACP legal department on !
January 31 had urged Attorney '■
General Tom Watson of Florida to I
open an investigation into the cir- j
cusnstanees surrounding the brutal |
killing of w Negro sharecroppe l ;
who war shot in the head and heat- i
on to death with an iron wrecking |
bet. last November as his two ter !
rjfjed. cblWrea ftoag ty. _ *
THE CAROLINAIAN
THE CAROLINIAN
\OLLMK XXVi. NO. 38 ALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA WEEK ENDING SATURDAY. MARCH 22. HM7 UiUT Ltc
Jury Deliberates
Only 30 Minutes
Before Verdict
Baltimore (ANP>—After only 30
minutes deliberation, an all-white
jury broke a precedent in the Hart- i
ford county circuit court lasi week
when it returned a verdict oi guil
i ty against Char- W. Redder, white.
I charged with raping Mrs. Mary C.
j Lance on Nov. 13. 1946. Mrs. Lance,
the mother of four children, was
five month’s pregnant when she
’ was accosted and forced at the
pomt of a pistol to submit to Red
; der's demands. Suite's Atty. D
j Paul McNabb broke a own the de
| lcr.se alibi witnesses in a skillful'
cross examination.
On Wednesday afternoon, Nov
i 13, Mrs. Lance was returning from
Hopkins hospital where she was j
\ receiving care at the rn'iteynjtv
; clinic -in anticipation of a babyTh
i February. As she was walking along •
• the road, a ear. driven by a white
man. stopped beside her. Brandish-;
hiK a gun, tne man ordered her to j
got in and keep her mouth shut.
She was driven to a wooded spot. 1
forced from the car, criminally at
tacked. and then ordered back into
the car. Upon reaching the main
road she war pushed out. The man
turned off his lights and drove;
away. Mrs. Lance ran to the near
est farm house and asked to be j
! driven home.
Sheriff Gambel picked up Red-1
der on the description given by i
(Continued on back page)
i PHILADELPHIA (N.NPA.i A j
i preliminary injunction restraining 1
I Bishop Sherman L. Green., from j
j ptesiding over the First District of j
; the African Methodist Episcopal!
| Church, was. issued by Judge Geor- j
jge A. Welsh in the United States j
I Court for the eastern district oi j
: Pennsylvania here la&n Wednedays .*
| The injunction is to remain in j
I force until the cou -t decides wheth- j
|cr the General Conference of the I
I Church, which convened in special j
| session in Little Rock, Arkansas. I
; last November, had authority to on- |
I fiock Bishop David H. Sims anti j
| assign Bishop Greene to take over j
this duties unless the. order is j
: sooner modified or revoked.
Issued on the petition of Bishop |
i Sims, the court order enjoins Bisb- j
jop Green from “exercising or at-;
tempting to exercise the authority |
of the presiding bishop of the FT.h j
; Episcopal Church . . until final j
| hearing in this case or until fuith i
i er order of the court.”
The injunction war. issued after i
; the Third Circuit Court, of Appeals
• dt nied a petition filed by Raymond i
(Continued on back page)
The alleged murder was said to
•save occurred on the Bryant farm
near Greensboro, Fla., when the
victim, a sharecropper on the Bry
ant farm who owned his own farm
implements and was free of debt
went to the sy cup mill to remove
I the part Which was rightfully his.
jlt was said that Ben Bryant and
1 bis son Keath forbade Trueblood to
| remove his cans of syrup. The
iso recropper refused to give up the
I syrup, whereupon Keath Bryant
| snot him through the head with a ;
; 32-ealiber pistol. Trueblood stag- i
I gf.mi and Bon Bryant beat the
| '.rounded man vdfh an iron wreck -
! ing bar, even after it was obvtoua
> that he was dead, j
OFFENSIVE AO
WITHDRAWN
BY SANK -
The N’AACP has eftected Uu '
!v. ithdrsnval of on oovertisemnn! j
. with a caricature of a Negro, plac
• :ci by the Bank of America :u lh<
New Yorker, i! wa- revealed Fri
day 0} iVJadisou Jones, admiiasra
i live assistant.
j Jones stated in a letter to th>- i
! Bank of America that the picture j
•: . ' ' > . iiCC * ■ t t C*i YA "..-1 ac’rß i :
(ps offensive and derogatory
Jones -aid 'ft represents u gross ;
! exaggeration and a stereotype
1 which b nds to ridicule the Negro ' j
! Jones ivtjixcsted that the advertise- !
r.-ent be withdrawn from future
• Gradation arid also asked for as
sprancc that, ihe policy of the Bank
i Con turned on back page)
NO PLANS FOR
ALL-NEGRO
HOSPITAL
! WASHINGTON, D C. — 1 NNPA> \
, Although General Omai N. Brad
! k-y, administrator of veterans as
• fairs, told the American Legion 1
j last Wednesday that, he has the “go
i ahead" signal on the veterans bos
i.iial building program and work
: would soon begin on construction
;of seventy-four veterans hospitals
lit was latei learned that ihe all
-1 colored hospital recommended to
i be built by the VA in the Alaba
| mu-Mississippi area is not include-.
! in ihe construction program.
.NORTHfESTON
m\ soo\ h\\t;
dormitory
i i
...
Chicago t ANP.» Northwestern i
! diversity may soon have a mixed 1
1 rnpus dormitory for Negro and i
| hite students.
Dr. Franklyn Bliss Snyder, presi- j
| nt, told a student body in Cahn •
| ditorium last week that, he ap- j
j i ved a recommendation by the j
| indent governing board for an “in- ■
manorial house ’ on the North- j
j western campus in which both Nr*- j
j gro and white students would i
I rvc
i He promised to urge the univer- |
| y board of trustees to give the |
i plan their decisive approval at their \
| • xi meeting, then added:
“1 think it. will be approved.” i
A campaign to open campus dor- |
i lories to Northwestern': 41 No- j
■ n under-graduates has been waged j
1 . the past two months by the j
Daily Northwestern, the student j
y oiication.
NAGWtOMEET
IN RICHMOND j
Richmond The National As- 1
sedation of College Women of the j
United States will hold their j
Twenty-fourth Annual Convention j
at Virginia Union University in
Riduncrrid on April 4 ar-.d 5.
According to Mrs Lavinia J. j
Banks, President, Richmond Branch j
jhi the organisation, members are :
i expected to be present in fills con- j
j vitiation from every section of the |
| country.
Outstanding speakers who will ■
i .(CoLtuxued on back page) j
WILLIE FRANCES
THANKS PUBLIC
NEW IBERIA. La. —Willie Frw
cs whose case is before the Louis
.ia ;- Pardon Board, thanked the
w: pap- i>. ministers and oth*"
organization? arid indi'. id««is lot
ileir cot-nbillions and for ’Aid
ing the Pardon Boat -.1 urging it to
chang.. his sentence *rum death in
• the electric chair to life im prison
’ uient in a leu or tn the CAROLIN
IAN ja<! week
Francis urged pcr. oi's who wish
: r to make contributions to do so
iin ouch local ministers or news
pi pers or send thorn direct to him •
: in jail, and said he answers all let
• Hr- personally
!
His case was receitliy postponed
• bid was scheduled to bo heard on <
F'.i r da* March 18
AFRO LIFE
PR&X-Y PASSES
J ACKSONVIULE. Fla.- < NNPA )
Dr A. L Lewis, eightv-three,
1 chairman. of the board and treas
urer of the Afro-American Life
Insurance Company, who was re
garded as cue of the wealthiest
■ colored' persons ir, the nation died
at lus home here last Monday.
ill was a Large contributor to
i elurcd schools thioughout i.hc LI
S and had served as Sunday
->• hooi superintendent of the Mt.
■ Olive African Methodist Episcopal
Cl ureh here for sixty year.?.
Mr Lewis was born in Madison
County, Florida, and with savings
; »cumulated while working for a
: local luftibci company he helped
! found lh e insurance company
which he headed. He was past pre
sident of the National Negro In
surance Association and ex-treas
urer of the National Negro Busi
ness League. He was a thirty-third
degree Mason.
CHARGES VA
mscKiMmTEs
WASHINGTON - The NAACP
: Friday directed a ,-trong protest to
!.‘>t American Red Cross over the ’
' •...so of a Negro vob-ran who lost
j iii*. leg in the \v<>i and whose claim
for vocational ivhabiliafion was:
I denied by Urn Veterans Adrmnis
j tration.
The veteran, Pete Brown, no'.' a:
| I'i-i-i Nostrand Avenue, Brooklyn. N
■ V., presented his claim while ht
; aas living in Jackson, Miss., with
. the local Red Cross office holdling
| hi: power of attorney. Brown ap
: plied for vocational rehabilitation
j and disability award for a single
| amputation, but his application for
I vocational rehabiliation was de
j n,ed.
I .... .
j - ;
I Medical School
[Proposed For j
N. C. College
RALEIGH—Fearful lest Negroes
' . cek admission to the white medi
al school at the University of
North Carolina, Rep. L. L. Burgin
of Henderson Monday sent to the
Senate- a bill providing for an ap
propriation of SBOO,OOO for estab
lishment of a two-year medical!
school at North Carolina College, j
The bill was accompanied by an
i (xplanatory statement in which
; Burgin touched the question of ra
; cial discrimination and expressed
; ‘he opinion that establishment of
: medical schools should be deferred
j until county hospital needs hao.
| beer, met and added:
“If the state should decide to
build a four-year medical school
lat Chapel Hill, than tip? slate sift
Committee Will
Inquire Into
Press Rejection
URGE TO BAN
ill GROW
!N HOUSING •
l WASHINGTON. D. C.-iNNPAi
Two of the three sponsors of trie
; Taft-Wagner-EiJonder housing biii.
i •:’> -igned to encourage construction
of 15.000,000 city and rural dwell
• i’.j.*-. in Jjtte m.#*.: vr-ii-g; \n-r-rn
■ .-.god last Thursday to write pro
lubitions '..gainst race discritr.ina-:
*• the measure
The bili ;ntrod■■■•.• ssci ,ast 1
Monday by Senators Robert A.
V r ‘ Republican, of Ohio: Robert!
F. VViigrici. of Nev. - York, and A
F-Hende of I.ui.iisiari;), Demo- !
In letters to Senators Taft and
(Con!mned on back ptgei
ZEBULON MAN
HEADS LOCAL
LESION POST
RALEIGH 'Following this war
the American people will do three
things: Forget God. forget the na n
who fought the war; and forget the
Constitution of the United States,’’ I
Col. Faui R. Younts, Executive ,
Vice Commander, o f the North!
CiiioliriH Department of the Ame
rican Legion, told the Negro Le- j
gjonmiires at a District Meeting in ■
, Raleigh Legion Chib House Fri
| day night.
1. E . Patton of Aebukin was !
elected District Commander re
'Continued on back page)
'Negroes Resentful.
Frustrated, Granger
Tells Conference
CHICAGO- iNNPA) Colored j
people in this country are resent- j
tul over wrongs suffered, frustrat- i
cc. over betrayals and reversals i
and disillusioned concerning thi '
irto fion or ability of white peo- |
oie to make good their professions j
of democracy and brotherhood,;
Lester B Granger, executive sec- :
fContinuen on back page)
or be comp; lied to admit Negroes!
at the Chapel Hill Ivledica! School
or build a medical school for Nr- '■
groes.
Ke said he preferred a medical!
i school lor Negroes and pointed out ’
the decision in the Gaines case in ,
1 which the United States Supreme :
I Court ruled educational facilities
provided for white and Negro ci
tizen;; must oe equal in ail re- ,
specia and that sending Negro stu
j dents out of the state to study
would not avoid discrimination.
Since there is already a two
! year medical school at- the univer
i sity of North Carolina and no •;
| medical school for Negroes. But-■
j gin contends that l';" legit’ l ’ r re'
I on be.es page;
WASHINGTON. 0 C i NNPA>■—
Sinatra C. Wayland Brooks, of
Illinois;. chairman .-f the Senate
Rules Committee. announced last
Saturday that he had scheduled a
: rueting of Ins committee for Tues
day ifternoon ro insquirc into the
• rejection of the application o'
: Louis R. Lautier correspondent fox
the Atlanta Daily World and chie!
of the Negro Newspaper Publish
ers Association news service, for
admission into the Congressional
press galleries.
In a statement released for pub
i limtion Sunday. Senator Brook.-
i i
"To provide an opportunity for
«t airing of these charges. 1
j have '.ydjed a meet in* of the full
i membership of the Committee for
i Tuesday. March 18. at 2 p. m. At
that time, ail interested and affect
lid parties will be asked to appear
nd give their testimony.
"The rules governing the Senate
Press Gallery provide in effect that
ail requests for admission thereto
snail be referred to the Standing
i Continued on back page)
<;OV. IIEWEY ASKED
TO 01T-L4l JIM
CROW Cl ARD
NEW YORK - The National As
sociation lor the Avancement of
Colored People continued its es
-1 ;..rt- to have all units of the New
] York State National Guard opened
all citizens of the state regard
| '• s.- of race.
Attention was focused on the
i ami-jim-trov. National Guard pro
' gram this week when Governor
'lnomas R, Dewey was notified by
| TAACF officials, of h re rent state
j mint by Assistant Secretary of
| War Howard C. Peterson. This War
Department, assistant chief stated
| -The recruitment of officers and
| Hie policies with respect thereto
I are u function delegated the Na
; tional Guards of the several states.
WESTTNDIES SEEK
$15,00011 S. Alb
Chicago l AN Pi The West In
die is petitioning its American
trieiids for aid in launching a pro
posed all West Indiana conference
the latter part of this month to
i consider the question of a iedera
ion of islands.
The West Indies, like many oth
: cr -cgmerits of the British empire,
j has or is emerging to o newly
found freedom from unaci the
| yoke of imperialism. In order to
'aurtch a program of development
and independence, representative
'of progressive political groups in
j the area proposed to hold an all
: Wes': Indian conference, ottt of
v. hich a federation ni islands might
'ti formed for then mutual benefit
FEPC LIQUIDATED
WASHINGTON. D C. (NNPA)
Liquidation of the President’s
; Committee on Fair Employment
; Practice has been virtually com
pleted, K. W. Maxwell, commiss
ioner of accounts, Treasury De
partment. told the Treasury and
Post Office Departments appro
priations subcommittee, according
to hearings made public last Tues
i dsy.
Mr Maxwell said the records of
I the defunct FEPC were not in "too
good a shape" and the Treasury’s
j Bureau of Accounts had ;.o audit a
number of its accounts, checking
the amounts due. and sent, a nvffl*
I her 'm? t,c th.- General Ac
-1 counting Office for seiU«tfl«nt.
Ex Gov. Arnall
Views Ga . '$ Fight
As Wo rid’s Figh t
NO CONNECTION
','URHAM The proposed idea
that a medii’iil school no establish
i»f.l at North Cavolii; i College did
, not originate with the college, arid '
f rsi knowledge of it was gained
'i.lough the newspaper-. Dr James
; F Shepard, president of the col-
I!i ge announced her? lasi week.
| He said hv had no comment to
j make usd that he would prefer to
I wait until he has more informa
| tion
i Lynch Victim s Mother
Entitled To $2,000
GREENVI! LE, S C tANPi -
. Mr;: Tessie B Earle, mother of 23
• year-old Willie Earle,, who was
; Luthfd ir; Greenville County on
Fcruarv 17 is entitled to $2,000
: tvc.ni Greenville County, legal ctr
j ties agreed ibis week,
i The sum is a statutory provision
1 ihe state constitution and there
i appears little chance of Mrs Earle
I not receiving the stipulation.
i Section 6 of Article 6 of the
state constitution says: “In the case
t.. any prisoner lawfully in the
caarge. custody or control of any
officer, state county or municipal.
. bring seized and taken from ‘-■aia
. •■Hirer through hb negligence, per
fCnntinued or. ba.-k page)
JAIL TW'O STUDENTS
FOR KNIFING
POWELL
AMENDMENT
DEFEATED
WASHINGTON, D. C (NNPA)— |
Representative ! Ada® Clayton |
• Poweii. Democrat, of New York,;
last Thursday lashed on! at House'
Republicans after an anti-discrim
ination amendment he had offered
to th..- bill to establish permanent \
nurse corps in the Army and Navy
was defeated by a standing vote of |
j 187 to 47
The Bill itself was passed by a j
voice vote after rejection of the
?ow!l amendment which would
' have banned discrimination on ae
(Continued on back page)
28 STATES HAVE
LAWS AGAINST
DISCRIMINATION
WASHINGTON, D. C. — (NNPA)
1 Race discrimination and segrega
| gation -ire practiced in many
‘ j places because of ignorance of the :
'; average citizen or his negligence in
taking ad van lag? of civil rights
. leu the Anti-Discrim inis t ion Com
’ j mittee of the congress of Industrial
j Organizations reported last Tues
i day.
in j handbook outlining civ.ii
rights laws in twenty states, the
cc.mmitree of which George L P
Weaver is the director, urged ah
: citizens to take full advantage of
those laws.
| The twenty state* listed as hav- j
ij ng anti-discriminatory statutes;
..are California. Colorado, Connec
. j ticut. Illinois. Indiana. lowa. Kan- |
i i sas. Maine, MassachnssWs, Michi-
I gan. Minnesota. Nebraska. New
j Hampshire. New Jersey, Ne w ,
I York. Ohio. Pennsylvania, Rhode
i Lianri. Washington and Wisconsin !
j The CIO research department,
I ft,, nd that eighteen of these twen
i tv states prohibit race discrimina
-1 Ron in restaurants and other eat
(Contmuf'rt ori back phe;
BARRING OF NEGRO
I NEWSMEN ATTACKED
j
i NEW YORK -- The National
, Board of Directors of the National
~ Association for the Advancement
'i ol Colored People today "urged
| all possible corrective action' m the
barring of Louis Lautier, Wash
! iugtou Bureau chief for the Negro
Newspaper publishers' Association
’ i and special correspondent for the
■ S Atlanta Daily World, from the Sen
ate press gallery,
Walter White, NAACP executive
f! secretary. i n announcing th c
i i Board’s action, declared that the
; Association had already made its
i stand known to members of thr
; Smatr Rules Committee m at-iffly
■ worded tek-strims to each member
- i of the* Commitse. The NAACP pro*
1 tcsU clearly indicst-sd the belit
Atlanta <ANP) “llliteracy ♦»
'• to seed-bed of fascist ideas of in
tolerance and discrimination," said
\ Gov. EUiss Arnaii here last
••ccli He was speaking of the link
. between Georgia's fight against
scisi rule and that of the entire
j world
'/There is no problem in the sou
'.r.crn states of America cr clse
v. here in the world that cannot be
-clved by applying a good dose of
democracy. Ours is not primarily
.( racial problem. It is economic.”
Pointing out that fascism m
(Continued on back page)
TO TAKE PART
IN EXPOSITION
Phi TER SBURG Va. -XNPA • - A
State Department official said here
las; Friday that She United State;
will take part in a celebration of
i: first centennial of Liberia's in
dependence- and that Congress will
si on be asked for funds to finance
this nations' particpation.
Speaking at Virginia State Col
lege at ceremonies dedicated to th>-
memory of Joseph Jenkins Roberts
(Continued on back page)
Camden. S C <ANF) Sheriff
Aiva Bush said Monday that two
; Mather academy students whom he
i identified as Mose and William
Wu; 11 nU iv were being held w ith
out bond pending the outcome of
| James Merriminger. a student at
S Burke Industrial school at Charles
i run. knifed during an argument ov
; it a basketball game.
Bush, and investigating officers
reported that the three men ar
igued over a misunderstanding that
si.cluped u nil eitoe teams of the
! two schools were playing during
; the annual basketball tournament
of i.he South Carolina Athletic con
| ferem.l . held at Mather hero Thurb*
i day. Friday and Saturday.
Continuing the dispute after the
game, the Whittaker brothers ire
i bring charged with slashing Mtm
niinger a bout the face and body.
One slash, from the hairline to the
mouth, required 4)1 stitches to
I close it. Bush said
PROTEST QUERY
IN INSURANCE
APPLICATIONS
NEW YORK The legal depart*
r ent of the NAACP Friday de
manded that the question "Arc
you A White Male?" be struck out ~
!ot the application blanks of the
s Commercial Traveler; Mutual Acci
dent. Association of America, an in
surance company
The protest, in the form of a let
tin to the Department of Insurance
|of the State of New York, stated
j in part,
-It U- dear from reading this ap-
I plication that the purpose of this
i question is to discriminate against
ron-white applicants n the grarit
ieg of membership in the Associa
tion In view of the- fact that the
public policy of the State of New
Kha! Mi Lautier hats been barred
Hrom the press section solely or, the
tbasis of race
Griff ins Bancroft, of the Chicago
. Sun, who was the only member of
the Standing Committee of Carres*
i pendents to vote ri favor of Mr
Lautier. was warmly compliment
ed on his lone stand by the NAACP
executive. “We most warmly thank
and congratulate you on the stand
? you took with respect to the adrnis*
? son of Louis Lautier to the Senate
s Press: Gallery We greatly admire
•ou for your courage in standing
,■ up against the inexcusable posi
; cion of the other members ot the
- committee," wrote White, in a tel*
ester to the Ohicagi newsman.