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READER’S DIGEST POLICY IS TERMED ANTI-NEGRO Says Policy Is j Adverse To The j Interest Os Race j WAR DEPT, TO REVIEW 10F CONVICTIONS NEW YORK N. Y The Ad jutant General's office of the War Department. Thursday informed the NAACP that the c;ihj of Generai P: isoners William Gorman and Willie Bryant will be reviewed ns soon as the necessary material is prepared, The NAACP had submitted a briet ir behalf of Gorman and Bryant maintaining that they were unjust • Continued on back page) THREATS STOP BROADCAST OF AFRICAN DIALECT CHARLESTON. S. C <ANP> - Threats caused an elderly white woman last wek to discontinue he? program in GuHah. and ancient African dialect, over radio station wcsc. Mrs. Maria Ravenei Gaillard. who presented the GuHah broad casts, had been threat,rav'd several limes by anonymous telephone cal lers since the program was re sum ec several weeks ago, said John M. Rivers, owner of station WCSC (Continued on back page) White Primary Measure Killed By Thompson - $64,000 4PROPRIV TIOIS RECOMMFADEI) WASHINGTON.. D. C. i NNPA)-- J lie House appropriations comrait itc last. Friday recommended an ap prepriatoin of $64,000 for Governor William H. Hastie of the Virgin Is lands to meet a deficit of 5104.000 in the municipal government of St. Croix. Origir buugi led cxpcouilures of St. Croix in t.h; ; current fiscal year were 5396.000. Local revenues were estimated to be $43,000, leav ing deficit, of $153,000 which ex- 1 eroded the appropriation by SBI.BOO. South African Priest Draws fine For Living In Negro Section CAPETOWN. South Africa <ANP i White South African citizens, no matter what their call ing or 4 their views on the brother hood of man. cannot live with non whites -unless they have the approv al of the proper authorities. That in effect was what a Johan nesburg magistrates’ court told the Rtv. Michael Scott, an Anglican I priest, here early last week when they slapped u fine of S2O or a It I day-' prison sentence on him sot living m the Orlando Negro sec t-Km without the approval of the minister for native affairs. The prison sentence., which is j optional, was suspended for 12 * months on condition that he was! rot convicted under the native ur ban area* act in that, period. <Continued on hack page) TWO MINISTERS HELD FOR SAFE-CRACKING ! PHILADELPHIA TANP) Two men, described by police as ciders of the House of Prayer, were ac cused Saturday of attempting to steal $3,0.10 from Bishop Charles Manuel Grace, who heads the church. The Rev Randal! Roberts. 39 and &e Rev. Rufus King. 40, were slated on charges of burglary, con spiracy and attempted safe rob bery. Roberts, who has e church in Philadelphia and is in charge of s mission in Chester. Pa„ and King, who has a church here, made their unsuccessful attempt on March 20. while Bis Stop Grace we* its Havana, police s»id. The men are accused of Attempting to open s small safe in Lit main church of flu eor.gr < um t*er« , MEW YORK »ANP> --The Read- i er’g Digest magazine "nas establish ed » definite policy adverse to the h<.\t Interest of Negroes," according to a study made of the magazine’s i.iicedutcfi by Edmund Fuller, aut.h of the recently miblirhed life of Frederick Douglass. A Star Point ed North”, and Frederick Winter, a free lance writer. "in scope, this policy ranges from viciously intense anti-Negro propaganda to that >f benevolent, But more revealing ban the occa - ; onal articles is the stream of an ceduies. most widely read of any of the Digest features. Here the ■ i ditors abandoned the patronizing m nrs r of the benign uncle and 1 < YUy, brashly. crudely emphasis ,l its doctrine of white supreme -1 ;:y." ; The study based on findings of • Continued on hark paste' WHITE TEXANS FORM NAACP COLLEGE GROUP AUSTIN Texas - Standing be-1 [ fore a huge non-suss negated audi ence in this citv tow night, a youth- ! I fell, white Texan, ytudying law s* I the Umv-i rsity of Texas, said, that ] : he could sec no reason for segregat ed schools and that there were no ! seasons why Negroes; and whites in Texas could not gc to schol ,'ogeth-; ; er. The young law student Marion \ ' Ludwig, speaking in a firm voice. , vibrant with sincere determination.; • Continued on back page) ATLANTA iASP) The Tai r; adge-sponsored white primary bill got the “thumbs down’ ‘tre-at r.iffit from Georgia's legal gover nor. M. E. Thompson here Thurs day. The veto, given without com ment, returned the legislation to Thompson’s political enemy, Her man Talmadge. who had pushed the measure through as a law dur ing has illegal reign. The bill provided that Negroes *•* ould be barred from participa tion in Georgia’s Democratic pri ,OS. rti-a .- sui>)>OrtS:-d lay th. Democratic state eonvemion last October, before the death of the late Eugene Talmadge. The ousted would-be governor (Continued on back page) METHODIST WOMEIV TO MEET AT BETH! AE-EtMIkVHN : DAYTONA BEACH, Fla <ANP) i -- Methodist women from 39 con-! ferences will meet here on April j It 1 -!'* at Betbune-CVookman Col- j lege tor the Woman's Society oj! Christian service of the Central j jurisdiction. j Principal officers include Mrs. J ; V' E Bowen. Jr.. New Orleans j president; Mrs Florence D. Car- ! roll, Staunton, Va., vice president, I Mrs, G Haven Caldwell, Dallas, re- j cording secretary, and Mrs. L. A. \ Greenwood, Port Arthur, Texas. I treasurer CiO PROTESTS NEGRO BUS AT CONGRESS : COLUMBUS. Ohio t'Globtal? ~i Discrimination against Negro dele-! : srtes in Neil House last Sunday 1 March 16. caused tber fellow white I delegates to the Congress of Indus trial Orgsr>i*a‘-i<w-Nr>t.ionßl Kdn- ' i ration Conference to effect an j cigfct-and-a-half-hour “sit-in” at the i i coffee ?hop to protest against what CCi-r.tiaues 00 back page) \ 1 ' -vm . VOLUME XXVI, NO. -1 i RALEIGH. .NORTH CAROLINA WEEK ENDING SATTUDAV. APRIL 5. UM7 PRICE 7c Asms Pi#e Into ¥Mms? Beating ★ *★■**■#* A ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ * Ask Federal Education Aid 85 Registrars, Deans Gather At Hampton HAMPTON INSTITUTE, VV - ; Eighty-five -Scans and registrars of i Negro Colleges .-necthiß here Fr: ! day in the concluding session of & this e-day r.atiuntil conference nave j i'-.sued a public plea for federal aid : t , cducat-ioo. with safeguards f ( .n fair distribution of funds. ". . Wc adjure the present i Congress/ rtacJ thr- rc-nfer-.nee res .’i.utioi.. ''f, ntakc liberto fmnniisil grants to the states for elementary i secondary, and higher education |We urgi shat such turds be dis | ■!' ib’ited among the states on the I basis of need, and that safeguards ■ provided that will insure equal xpcndilurc of funds on the basis of ps;-.iiialioß within the states.. “The fit i v.’Oi'K as she president'-- , Ooß»mj*a'iMi on Higher Education i has wtfets sufficient u> reveal the j grave n- *rs:utv for a contimong . v i ; 'Higher education. Therefore, we i urge that this commission be con tinued ; >ri that ndeouate funds be iContinued on back pages XAVIER GRAM \IE COIRSES APPROX E!) CHICAGO < ANP) The coin j rbsrion on universities and colleens j of the North Central Association at ' Us- 52nd annual session here las* ■week approved courses leading to the roast erV degree at Xavier Uni versity in New Orleans Acceptance r-y the NCA & goal eagerly soughi af-.cr institutions seeking i cent, nifkm in the educational world LOCKEBOORNE BASE PLANS FOR ARMY WEEK I OCK.BODRNE ARMY AID BASE ln keeping with the Wai D< parii-nent’s observance of Army Week fat 1947. Col. Benjamin O U. vis. Ba>' Commander, ..: incurve ' ■ that Lockbourne would hold i “Open House” or, Tuesday April B'it. ffigh.hjdit.ing the days’ program ' ill be an address by the Hon liomas j Herbert. Governor of the Cate of Ohio. Traditionally falling on April 6. anniversary of America s c*n once into World War 1, and ori ■ -nally sponsored by the Military ( rdci *World W.vs, Army Day r -s been set for April 7th this .veto : i* • Presidential Proclamation as t‘-t preceding day is Easter Sunday , - an added touch to the theme oi this year's celebration. "A Strong • America is a Peaceful America.” 1 - War Department has designated f -c week of April 6-12 inclusive as the celbratiou period. I i .Schools Plan To Improve Education STI DENTS PROTEST FREEZING OF REDDING FENDS BALTIMORE tANP) Seven hun dred Morgan Slate College students marched on Annapolis Wednesday to protest the freezing .>f building fund appropriations ny Gov Lane. They sang the alma mater in front of the state capitol and a stu dent committee sa*v the governor snd the ways and means commit •ee Sympathy with the movement was expressed but the chief-execu tive and the ways and means com mittee claimed they were power less to help the -lituatkm. F L A S HI BILL ON MEDICAL SCHOOL FOR NEGROES KILLED BY COMMIT! EE A bill, which was intro duced by Rep. Burg in of Henderson, wa s unani mously killed Wednesday, April 2, by The House Committee, Such a bill would have established a two-year medical school for Negroes at the North € arolina College at Dur ham An appropriation of ’ XXLOOO from the Gen eral r and was ba be used in establishing the school. N. C. TEACHERS TO MEET HERE THURSDAY The sixtytsixth annual convcii < "( d.v North Carolina Teach ti: Association will meet in Ra b-'f'inMing Thursday r.igiit ini irsl grpi-ral ion will bi: held m Greer;leaf H*Ji JShuw Um vi i>ity, .-nd will feature the Prcs iaent s annual addr'-.--s, rn address b> the Presidcn! of she America;': F< i.'oo! Board Association. Dr. D. ,T Rose of Goiosboro. rod -music hv t?;i Shaw T/niversily Choral So- TSv tmn- seetjonjs of ido Associe- f •'•-•• v id h-.Jd meetings st 30 Fn ' rooming. Some sod ions will t.C'ooi.irHK-d on back oase* BOTH PART NEC ROES-F WASHINGTON )ANp. - -The Negro today faces a most peculiar err-!- Poeticaiy he is caught be tween the millstones of the two m;=- kirity parries. xho are rapid is 'o'o-ing then- i-n.-ks upon FrankJic ii Ronsrveti and Abraham Ltn ■ ('in, declared Rev. Adam Clayton Powell in a speech delivered at th< hjinquel heid in his honor, at (he ih-tc! Diplomat last Wednesdav e\--ening. Th- cutigrrssman pri>;x>sed ih«t delegation of Negro clergymer) -houlri go to VVashingtor, to lay be the lenrirrship of the house and r tihte the problems of Negro peo ple NEW YORK <NNPA> Twelve 1 sored schools in five Southern , .Lev have been added to the five- I ,vv;-r program designed to improve college teaching, m IM6 by thr • Carnegie Foundation for the Ad j van.cement of Teaching, Dr. O. C Caemiachael. president of the I Foundation. announced last Friday. In the program Atlanta Univer sity k serving a? a focal point for 1 four local institutions More | house College. Speiroan College j Clark College and Morris Brown I College. The five other institutions j cooperating with Atlanta Univer- - i <?ity are Dillard University. New Orleans, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical College. Tallahassee. Fort Valley Slat-- College. For? . Valley. Georgia; Talladega College. | Talladega. Alabama; and Tuske- tey • •' ' wee . -..v..- - ■ -v.... • . mp?" PM # jtsjajk • L-g : tt;ss Hiptim- t.av-on tireens hiiro. nc'wlj ririicii pit.-i(icsU of ' >i«- Bfnneit College Graduate A relation, prornts i check for M..1H6 to President David 1' Jems -n hihalf of the P,i nnett alumnae, rtiit-.rig ihe retent vnior Day yv eroisi-s at the’ ■'■.vlie-ge- The money j This Week’s Editorial j ! _ ___ \or may m;ei* to nr.rasiFH Whether >«« favivnul the silt manager from of «<iv.*rn»nen( for Raleigh or not. beginning, July 1 ,3ii<i for ihr following: too yews Raleigh will he under that form. Plan "ft. .... One of the most important .v --pm* ol the my manager form i* the city council of seven men. Th • council will make the bud get, detenahic she lay rate make alt the city laws, and other ptdi c.u-s of the < fly government over m hich the citt lias any control, and will hire and supervise the city manager. Vow ssfeiHiltl vote in hoth the, primary on April in which fourteen of those who will have Jimwnwd thfir candid ary will he self < ted for the final election. You should vote again on May «. i» help .scire* fron the fourteen 7ES IGNORE *0 WELL He also called for ■< mass riemnn stratum of Negro people- and their friends at Madison Square Garden ■ oil June 16. He suggested that Ihe meeting be eon;rolled by the Peo ple's committe and the Women's Action committee, and ask. that all clergymen representing 650 00C Ne tv fins of the (netrqprdiian area serve as ;»dvisors. He concluded by urging this in terdenominational, non - partisan tii oup to go forw-pd front that i night, “a people with one purpose :to make America sate for demo cracy o dor l ' tcivtcy of Lincoln i and Roosevelt.' gee institute. Alabama. Also par ticipating in the Carnegie program ere North Carolina College Dur ham and Fi.sk University, Nash \ Hie. Matching No! Crime. C Rules RALEIGH ‘Get nut of hi re, tin ain’t gambling." Judge Paul F. Smith told * defendant charged with gambling in City Court, here Thursday after he had “matched” another's coin to see which of them ; would play a juke 1 '~". Chargee agfti;:.. ....••• ~c (...missed, will be turned ever to the coi !.»' alt. fund winch gives '■■■ho! j :•-(;;}> aid l<> vvrlhy iiich • ' hoot graduates »* h< desire to lusth- r their rdiK-aiior, and are finaneially unable to defray a!) n? th‘-ir college expenses a tiWMtrs m tls- primary wisich - vrn hal! a--t --cat <m thy c»#n eii. tor CANNOT DO EITHER CNLESm VO! VRE REGISTER-- ED ON 'I HI I ITV ELECTION l!f>( >K S. Nutnhi rs of |V!st,ns were iui ;*.- cd away from the polls on March 16 hr cause they were not regis tered on the CITV books It docs not make any dlt'vrettcr buw long xni have lived in Raleigh, or how tong your name has been on the county books, which de ermine eligibility to vote in township. eeu»> \. stair .<»« na tot’4'l primary and final elections, to pariieipate in city elections you must be regwk'red »,n tin* vtiy book. 'I ner»* wifi Iw ;t new opportun - * i rrgisler Iron; 6 A M Sat urday April 5 until sundown -attirtto v, April j ft. Void jircciiu-t iegistrai will be -i you* prcentv.t polling place each Saturday dar ing that period, and may fee con tacted at home atv- day within the time limits. If yon know you are n«t on tin city hook, register. If yon arc absolutely sure you are, check with your registrar. It is . o«r privilege and duty to vole. Don't miss the privilege or fail iv, your duty by not being regis bred. No neyy registration for every body is being held. This ss an op portiimty for those who are not registered to qualil v Those al ready on the city books are al ready qualified. Rp« br sure that your name )- there, and make •isre ),cl'(»r« sundovrn April Jb, H HR TO SI mm RING IS FARM CREDIT POST WASHINGTON • ANP> Gov ( romeni insiders are saving that H Ruhr, Oklahoma contact rep resentative for the production and ur rketing administration of t)»e department of agriculture, will succeed Cornelius King as race re lations director of the Farm Ore ..Hi adtr'iiii-tration. It ir expected thm Fuhr will he j brought to Washington for the posi tion by the first of April The post ir, said to curry a salary of $6,500 a (.Continued oil back page) Claims Soldier Beaten When He Wrote NAACP NEW YORK - One of ihe most sii.-cking Cfist-s of army brutality v.'us revealed when the National Ass.-ciarion f<» the A'ivgncement of Colored People disclosed the find ings of itis investigator who had been sent to Camp Kilmer in New Jersey to track down report* of a -erics of beatings and other forms -••f inhuman treatment to which & Negro soldier was exposed for al legedly having written a letter to the NAACP i--questing aid. The bruised and battered soldier, pri vate Townsend Horton, of Chattan - Tennessee from all indications was still confined to the camp’s fe iOC is P.CiC, Horton, when seen by the inves was suli visbily suffering fi om hi- allied ord« ul. details of which were indignantly substanti ated by other prisoners in the camp s'H'K-nie. one of them a white pri s-. ;v: one - n ■:, >;i ft 'Continued on back page) NAACP CONFAB TO WASHINGTON NEW YORK N V The 38th ' toil- i •••onference *1 the NAACP ■li meet in Washington D C., ; ■ hi) inciusivv. instead of At •' m -y \ j, K announced < i headquarters. The ••■.ii',. ■ v;:s m )(.«• uft * i ll ‘.vw found 'i.iU if :-..-, large conventions are >vtt< 'I.: -n lor Atlantic Ci’> G*e i,*i. ’luiier pun of tpuc and tnat w’equjc.e facilities sot mass meet ing? ..nd other gatherings art* mil t.livretore av'isilatile A mail Says Future Os Liberalism Rests With Governor Thompson ATLANTA i ANP,' Former Gov EJlis Arnall. back in Georgia following a lecture 'our of the east' and midwest, said last week he v. ouiv be able to predict the future ■. Jn.-u-felism io Geoigja only aftei Acting Governor Thompson decid -1 v. bother he will sign <>i veto the Teiji !dge-s(n.nsored white primarv bill in response to a question. Arnall siatcn : here is no possibility of a :v.o-party system in Georgia be *’ *Um "Georgians don’t like Repub Hears. ' However, when another n.ember of the audience queried Lin. hr adtnittc-d “there will be son ; effort made to keep corrupt t lections from being the only sys tem iffcrc-d voters” in the event Thompson does sign the Talmadgc primary act. U. S. FAILS TO CANCEL PAID-UP LOAN TWO MORE FEPG BILLS SENT 1 TO SENATE WASHINGTON Th C • NNPA) -- i Companion bills to the bi-partisan< s.iti-discrimination in employment HU introduced in the Senate were 1 offered lust Thursday ir, the House' : or Reprcsnalivf IVLry T. Norton. *;.»• moerst. of New Jersey, and L.mo.: G. Fulton. Republican, of ; Pennsylvania {Continued on back page! SMITH TO OBSERVE FOUNDER’S IMY CHARLOTTE -- Johnson C. j Smith University will observe the eightieth Anniversary of the found* :i. of the institution it; a program or: Monday April 7 at 3:00 p. m. Dr. Walter L. I.,ingle. President Knn i-itus of Davidson Colleger. Davidson. North Carolina will de liver the main address. Dr A. L. BlaOKWood. class of 19)7 of Colum on’. Ohio, will deliver the main ad* H-oss. EAST RALEIGH CIVIC FORUM FOR CARNAGE RALEIGH The East Raleigh C.vic Forum, meeting a week ear* ho to avoid a session that other iy<: would have faiien on Easiet, ■ rafted” Fred J. Carnage, local Nt sco Attorney as a .•and-date lot i ouncilman in the newly adopted Raleigh City manager form ol government Mr Carnage was oof present nor was he cognizant of the action of the body. The action y without a dissenting vote. R-..-"-stvatieß « 0 primary w ii; o Saturdays, may 12th and ikth at the regular voting place;* Tnntinned on back page) 1 PT'F TO BROADCAST HEALTH PROGRAM RALEIGH ln commemoration Nat : oßal Negro Health Week. Static-.; WPTF yvitl broadcast h special HtoHh Week program, sea turine the Howard University C uir of Washington. D. C.. on Fri day right. April -1 "it 10:15. ’.! 1,, firi: ! concert by the glee club of North Carolina College, on ■' i.■ ~y).. i.'fi for April 4 -it 1c.45 J a been cancelled in ordei that H". special Health Week broadcast may be heard. LEADERS FIOHT WHITE PRIMARY BILL IN FLORIDA BY i»r. Leonard F. Morse JACKSONVILLE. Fla. OGlobalW Florida leaders of both the Negro end white races are meeting, in a special state conference Saturday March l at Winter Park to pro itr:! Stare Senator John T. Mat thews' activities to have a "White Primary” law enacted in (he im pending State Legislature. •'Continued on back page) fn JAMES L. HICKS .VNPA Staff Writer WASHINGTON D. C. CVNPAt- Tbe financial control, which the United States exercises over Haiti, was brought into sharp focus here last Thursday when an exchange of corespondent* between the State Department and the Haitian Em bassy disclosed that Haiti nas paid this country gSfMWO.OQO or. ft S2S. 000.000 loan and still owe? 5 1-2 • million dollars cm the same loan The correspondence, which cam® •to light after the Exoprt-Import •”ank of Washington had turned ~ !© wn Haiti's request for a refinsne I tog of her national debt to the ?’ tilted State# exercises such cor. ti cl over 'Haitian finances that .(Continued on back page)
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