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VOLUME XXVI, NO~ 12. ~ ” RALEIGH. N(/RTH CAROLINA WEEK ENDING. .SATURDAY. APRIL. DJ, 19-1 TPR ICL 7£
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Capital Praised In Post Feature
18 Ma/e Students
Suspended For
Using 4 Language *
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SCHOLARSHIP WINNER
Lincoln Robert Beit, i fi, 3 sen
tor at Dnßois High Si-hot of Wakr-
Forest, has been awarded one «f
the 33 four-year college scholar
ships bring granted this year by
the Prpsi-Cola Scholarship Board
to seniors of the jiwilhem col
ored school system. Best plans to
attend Columbia C n trees it y at
the completion of his high school
studies.
Ho wa rd Students
Stage 3rd Mass
Demonstration
MRS.GARVEY
MEETS AFRICAN
RELATIVES
BY HENRY B ‘OLE
ACCRA. GOLD COAST <ANF>
American and West India Ne-
H< oes. desirious of tracing their an
cestral beginnings back to Africa,
can well follow the -xamplc set by
Mrs. Amy Ashwoode Garvey, wife
of the late Marcus Garvey.
Last February 6, Mm. Garvev
v.as returned with her African re
latives in the town of Daman,
Jo a hen State. Kingdom of. Ashanti,
Gold Coast colony More than 10
ytars of painstaking effort to trace
her family tree had proceeded the
reunion. The story of her search
(Continued an back page)
NAACP Appeals To All
To Become Members
RALEIGH “The Southern i
States.*’ «aid the Executive Sucre- i
tnry of the Raleigh Branch of the j
NAACP. ‘are getting around the U. ;,
S. Supreme Court decision by let-|
ting the common CRWicrs separate;'
the races according to their col- : i
(>' " This practice is wholly unc.on- j
sUt'tsona! said the Executive Sec- j •
rotary, At. a meeting of the local 1
branch of the NA/u'.T they went
on record to seek ways and means j i
of making the Irene Morgan deck- ' ,
sion operative, in North Carolina. i
It was brought out fit the meet- j I
on June s. 184# had declared fcfeat
SKDAUA ■AN Pi In a dvns
t;e move to wipe out the use of
profanity by ‘ecn-H.;r youths. Dr
C'nai’oitf Hawkins Brown, presi
dent if rainier Men/,, Li Institute.
>: acred he suspension of 18 male
indents of the school for “persis- ;
ter i use of profanity, and failure
exert their influence to clear up
•his situation among the boys.’ All
<•; tie students wo •> seniors.
Commonly referred to as the i
■ twig - bender of Sedalia,” Dr 1
Drown took the definite stand that
1 -'a tan fi Memorial is 'committed ir j
character building and cultural at- :
tainment. If has no excuse for ex
isting if the common practices of :
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POLICE COStliM'K
FLOG PROBE
Decatur. Ga. (ANP) DcKaib
county police last week continued
their investigation into the flog
mg of Mr. and Mrs. Aggie Hern
don. of Kesley Chapel Road, hut
reported no sensational turn in
the case.
The Herndons were brutally
i beaten by a band of four un
masked white men Monday
uight, March 31. when the per
petrators entered their home on
a ruse of being officers in search
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WASHINGTON, D. C -NNFA > —
Howard University students staged
| their third mass demonstration in
three months last Tuesday when
r >oo students gathered on the cam
pus and protested the food, prices
and eating conditions in the uni
versity cafeteria.
The demonstration was staged al
a time when the board of trustees
of the university was holding ;■
meeting in tht Founders Library.
Complaints of the students cen
tered around the coat of meals in
the cafeteria, the quality of the
food, and the methods used in sev
’ j ins-
Student officials say they are
unable to explain why the univer
■ sity cafeteria must change prices
i comparable to those charged in
. I commercial restaurants when the
cafeteria, which is located In one
i nt the dormitory buildings, does
• not have any rent overhead and is
> able to buy food at a discount by
virutre of being a pats. of the uni
: versify.
inf? that, the U S Supreme Court
the Jim Crow law of Virginia ''im
posed undue burdens on interstate
commerce’' and •‘w-nsre uniformi
ty is essential for Foe functioning
of interstate commerce, a state may
not interpose its local regulation."
In effect this ruling declared ail
Jim Crow laws (interstate ira»el
lu wsi unconsti tutionai.
However the Court left to the
companies, said the speaker, the
right "to adopt rules and regula
tien.s fur the government of then
business.'' The Raleigh Branch of
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Attorney Fred .?. Carnage can
didate for City Council of Ra
leigh's new City Manajrr Form
of G-ovcrnrocnt, is congratulated
!>v Itrv. S. F. Daisy president «*f
the Fa’-t Ralcijrh Civic Fnrtim.
Civic Leader Urges
Charlotte Negroes To
Register And Vote
TELLS Os POI ITTCAC
ACTION INSTITUTE
CHARLOTTE Rev M S
Dickinson, president of the local
NAACP Chapter called upon all
Negroes to register and then vote
intelligently for the local elections
now underway. Said Rev Dickin
son today. 'Charlotte can be the
i lightpost for South because of its
large number of Churches. Let us
; exemplify the depth.- of this ree
| ognition by discharging our Chris
tian duty which is to register and
! vote intelligently This pro :!. g
; ran be preserved only when we ex
ercise our two fold citizenship
which L toward God and our
country. Only the largest possible
vnt r exercised by all of us will
a nr l the best type of government ■
i under which Negroes and whites
imp live alike. Our needs are too
I Rival to pass this repsonsibility by."
! i Rev. Dickinson also stated that
thi NAACP recently completed a
. political action institute conduct
eo by M. S. Bluford of Smith Uni
■J v< ity which taught several per
s< ’ how to exercise their right
. with the ballot Kelly M. Alexan
di,. Executive Secretary of the
. NAACP. did s good job. Rev. Dick
. | irson continued in recruiting huge
. i numbers of adults who attended the
, j Id.st itute.
Co.iivi.cted Rapist Wins 1 ommutation
Os Death Sentence; Wife Slayer Dies
it t SPEiRHKMIS
, I $25,000 DRIVE FOR
HAITI'S CHH.DREN
JACKSON. Miss i AND; - A
; s2'.»,fiOD drive y, aid Haiti'';, poor
| children is being spearheaded bote
j by a committee «•’ prominent men!
; , women, who plan to sponsor a tea
‘ l on April 27 fit the Summer hotel
; Chairman of the women's com
) j rnttt.ee Is Mrs Daisy S. Reddist. who
1 1 explained that the movement to aid
l Haiti's homeless, unde rprivilegeci
j poor children was darted by a
’ | letter she received from Mrs. J.
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Many oreantonttons have en
dorsed Mr. Cis.nia.gf. primary will
he y nri! ‘’Xfh and firm! electioo
May gtb. The newly elected of
ficers will take scat Tuly Ist
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HEADS KFPC Above is El
mcr Vt. Anderson of Chicago
whose appointment as i-yeeutivf i
secretary it the Nailona! Conn
•lS for a Permaiwnt lair Em
ployment Practice f ontmiUee has
been announced. The Rev. Alien 1
Knight Chalmers and A Philip
Kandloph are co-chaimen of the
Council.
RALEIGH ANP> Thomas
Liv,-js. 21-year-old cot victed rap
ist of h v.-bi’p woman hitch-biker,
■i or, a commutation oi a death sen
tence here las: Thursday when
Got Che. ry backed the recomrtnen
c’; tions of a trial judge that his
s- rttcncs- be chapped to that of
. Lei' imprisonment.
Lewis was convicted during the
February term of Granville Super
ior court cl raping >lrs. Willie Mae
Johnson, white, of Granville, last
July Testimony given showed that
Lewis offered to assist her tr, hitch
i hiking to Norfolk, Va Witnesses.
1 -". me of whom were the woman's
, noghbors testified that she had. a
reputation for drinking and n po
, !■";• !'eco»-d dating from 1-93#
l Judge R Hunt Parker, presiding
Jack Alexander
fe
Pens Article On
N. CPs Capital
RALEIGH - A municipality of
00 population with an atmos
phcrc or: a small sca'e like that ol
\V: shingvor- minus foreign lega
tions, cocktail lounges and giddy
social columnists - is the Jack
Alf xander diseription of the City of
flrieigh in the current issue of The
.Saturday Evening Post.
In a thorough, study of the folk
v. -:ys of Raleigh folk, centering his
•lory largely around Josephus Dan
: Is and the News and Observer,
thr story disevibes the newspaper
as ■,< daily with a circulation of 93.-
;)fu, six -seventh of which is ir.
Eastern North Carolina and the
RGeigh Times as ‘'much smailc;
•,nci mere- influential locally."
• Continued on back page)
SOLDIEIiS IMI MM
IN PLANE CRASH
SAN ANTONIO To;. iANTi
Me in hers of a Negro soldier base
: ~i! :. ,n: en route from Kelly
Reid to Davis Mountain field at
Tucson Ariz., were arm»ng the
t•if it ally injured last Wednesday
•tight when an Army C-47 trans
ir.it crashed and burned shortly
fiftei yaking off. No names were
made •■v’ai'ablif by Kelly Field of
ficials.
• ..nit! rluie f.H witnesses, the pirn.*
developed trouble almost immed
iately after the take off barely
cleared some houses near the field
ji: d tta( n plunged into a cot!or
patch. A total of 21 soldiers were
hurt in the crash
0. Si ARMY
SEERS OFFICE?
APPLICANTS
WASHINGTON. D. C. :N r PA
Ceptain Benjamin L. Hur on of
the ‘Howard University Military
Df tacliiv,.mt has Informed the dear,
os' men oi the univ"rsil\ and its
veterans advisers ihal Army
i; seeking applications roin col
ls ge students who wen formerly
Army officers and wh< have rot
applied for Regular Arm commis
sions because of a desire to com.
piete their education.
In u letter to the dear: of men
C, plain Human said that any male
N'urienl interested in Regular Arm)
Careers in the Coast Artillery Cal
vary. Field Artillery,
ter Corps, Infantry, Corps of En
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the trial, ordered investiga
• | lion into he womai , character
. J in;.do by the stale bur hu of inves- !
i ligation The report r timed "sub
i j stantiated the inferences and ad
j TBit ted statements of Use prosecu- :
i i irix."
' In passing the death sentence.
Judge Parker said "It is the law
' of this state that evety person who
is convicted of rape .shall stiffen
death ! sm not autnor“teed to pass
rny other sentence. However, I an.
. - firmly convinced that Thomas Lew- i
is should not suffer death in this
rase."
Addressing his recommendations
to Gov. Cherry, he held tha* "the J
ends of justice do not require that j
the ‘death sentence be rn-ried nut" '
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ujncoln grad ym;e-
CONSt L TO 1 IBERIA
Jefferson City, Mo. Twenty*
I r.ine-yer.r-olcl Albert Wileelir, «
j 104?, graduate of Lincoln univer
' sity (Mo.) with a major in poti
j ticai science, has been .appointed
1 a- vice consul to Liberia, accord
ingto information received her •
recently.
The new appointee, son of Mr.
end Mrs William Witcher. Roan
oke. Va. served in the Army .1
y ears.
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1 EAXCEs FIRST NEGRO
roiAm preside: vt
Gaston Monncrvillc, fifty-year
n’d native of French Ganna, he
fame Test week the first Negro to
rte as president of France’s
• oueil of the Republic. A success
Sul lawyer, Monnerviilc broke
into French politics in 1933 when
hr was elected to serve a fonr
> ear term a> deputy from French
Guiana. Oaring the war, he was
•» im'fnhi'r <»f rr»T«f’p'c covistanci*
movement and was decorated by
Gen. DeGaullc with thr Medialle
dr la Resistance. (ANPI
BOWSER AND
HARRIS RETAINED
AS COUNSEL
The Low firm of Bowser and
; Harris was retained to represent
‘hr State NAACT’ in the slaying ot
Fletcher Htit Melvin by an At
•antic Coast Line Conductor, it
• a announced by T C Mangum
of Statesville, president of the or
; ganizatiori iodj.-v Mr. Mangum
-cited that the firm long active in
• ci\ tl rights of individuals will in
sure a vigorous protest of one
the most, brutal murders happen
big in N C in marry years.
Mr Melvin, a Baltimore. Md,
hospital orderly was slain while
minute to see his parents ;*t Dunn
The slaying witnesses stated took
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uudspif gets
POST WITH
CIJvTELAJVft UK
Cleveland (ANPt —The Cieve
! lund Bar association nominated
Aty. Chester K. Gillespie- for
membership on its executive
committee, it was announced
her last Tuesday.
A.tty. Gillespie’s election will
bo automatic at the annuel .meet
ing of the association on Tues
day, Mny R He will serve lot a j
peiiod. of three years, * *
Bodies Os War
Dead Separated
By Color Os Skin
WASHINGTON. D. C. INNPAI--
; An authoritative source said last :
i Friday that the War Department j
as reopening the question of seg
: rctidion by race anti rank of de
-1 ased soldiers in national cetne
I teties
This issue came to the fore re
• •:< ntly when an information bulle
| fin published by the Office of
1 the Quartermaster General disclos-
Icd that sections of new national
i c< tneteries were to be set apart tot
i the burial of white officers, white
enlisted personnel, colored ofiicc
T<? and colored enlisted personnel.
This bulletin was reported to
have been recalled and new study
of the question of r ice segregation
in natoinal cemeteries was ordered
Meanwhile, it was learned that
the Wa: Department was the only
agency concerned with government
' a meterics which carried out prac
tices of segregation even in death.
Pointing out that the informa
tional bulletin was the “first otfi
-lal order giving sanction to a prac
! ice which in our opinion should
r-ver have been allowed to de
velop.’ Leon A Ransom, chairman
a- the Committee for Racial Demo
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ICC ASKED TO END
DINING CAR BIAS
Chicago (AMP) “Stop dis
' crimination in any form or man
; nei against. Negro interstate pas
sengers in during cars,” asked a
b: ief filed with th t Interstate
Commerce Commission h e r c
April 1.
Filed by Att.vs. Sidney A.
Jones. Jr., ,nd Earl B. Dickon
son of Chicago; and Bel ford V
Lawson, Jr., Washington, the
; brief named the Louisville and
1 Nashville Railroad company at
| : violator of the interstate corn
■ 1 <nt-Tee act which forbids discrim
ination of passengers traveling
from one state to another
The complaint was filed on be
half of James E. Stamps, manat
ei of the Chicago southside of
fice of the Social Security board,
and Ennis Powell, manager of
Supreme Liberty Life Insurant
company’s West Virginia branch.
The two men were traveling
from Nashville to Cincinnati on
March 1.7. 1946 after attending
an executive committee meeting
of the Fisk University Alumni
association. On that day, they
went into the dining car so 1
breakfast about 10 a.in. and at
tempted to take a vacant table
•in the middle of the diner.
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Senegalese And
Moroccans Clash
In Casablanca
CASABLANCA. Morocco <NNPA>
A clash between Senegalese troops
unriet French command anrt Moroc
cans last Monday resulted in the
death of sixty -three persons and
the wounding of 119,
The riot grew out of an argu
ment betwers two Senegalese sol
diers and an Arab prostitute. It de
veloped with amazing sv. iff nos.-
and violence.
Senagalese soldiers ri.-d the city
with theii arms and hid out in
the nearby wooded hills. The na
tive quarter, in which the riot oc
curred. was placed under a heavy
guard.
The dead included French Police
Brigadier Paul Colonna who was
slabbed to death; fifty-nine Moroc
cans and three Senegalese of the
French colonial army. The wound
ert included 100 .Moroccans sixteen
Senegalese and three Frenchmen.
The two Senegalese and the pros
: fltute started their quarcl in a nar
row, winding street in the native
quarter. in which Casablanca’s as
s.gnafion houses are located. A
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Larkins Explains Work
Os N. C. Public Welfare
1--AVF.TTEVILI.E - Public wel
fare attempts to assist individuals?
it two way? through direct fi
nancial assistance and with ser
vices, Jonn R. Larkins, consultanf
: ot Negro work for the State Board
r-* public Welfare, said in a speech
ai Fayetteville State Teachers' Col
lege; this week.
"If America and civilization i?
to survive people must he assisted
in securing the neceslties of life
Without contented people, overv
i boy or girl today in North Caro
; linn is a potential delinquent or !
i ivimiaal. Security phyicaj and ’
INTERRACIAL
GROUP FORMED
AT TAMPA 0,
j TAMPA. Fla. - Timiia Univer
sity. while college of that. Gulf
jCity, was the scene recently of 33
jot utilization;: and four colleges to
l oigamze and apply for a Stale char
:ti i to formulate the Florida Lea
gue fo> Intellectual Cooperation
jRi preseii tatives were Negro. and
t whit;- from religious educational.
: c-r-d civic groups.
Dr. E. C. Nance. president of th*
• University of Tampa was elected
president of the new organization
While Mr. G. D. Rogers, a Negro.
; was named vice president. Mr
Rogers is the son of Mr G. D
Rodgers president of the string
! Central Life Insurance Company.
:T is hoped that this -.tew venture
I v ill haw far reaching results for
: the betterment of both racial
groups.
TRUMAN ASKED
TO APPOINT
NEGRO JUDGE
NEW YORK (ANP)-~ A plea
for more Negro representation on
the federal .judgeship bench was
contained in a letter forwarded
tr President Truman here early
last week The letter was written
'..*y Attorney J. C. Thompson, for
est-! New York state commander
i.f the Veterans of Foreign wars
The piea centered around the
rilling of a vacancy left by ti e
late Judge G M. Moscow!tz who
cued last March 29 in Kings coun
ty. -N. Y. At present, there are
three openings in New York city
and Brooklyn.
Asking if “the 14 million Amer
icans of African descent are to
wait until a vacancy in the fed
eral district court is caused nv
the death of one of their number
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NEGRO WORKER
GOT BREAK UNDER
HENRY FORD
BY ROBERT CRI MP
DETROIT 'ANPi Thr- name of
In nrv Ford was. perhaps, more
widely circulated than any other in
history, being stamped on the front
■ of the 25.000,000 cars he built which
I found their way into almost every
'civilized country on the globe.
"Negro hands handled many of
, th« parts tha! went into these cars.
The percentage of Negroes employ
ed in the Ford setup is said to be
ill.;) percent, as against 15 per cent
in Chrysler and 8.1 percent, Gen
eral Motors.
Necrose al least in this city, will
mourn the death ->i Mr. Ford be
cause it was he who granted them
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• j mental must he given everyone
• ,f;i rn the cradle to the grave.’' hr.
- ! Said.
•Public education, health and
wi-ifnre are three services organ
izations with common objectives to
assist in producing a literate, heel
- thy. well-adjusted citizenry that
' will make a contribution to the
d-mocratic way of life
"The only juet-ifieatiou for any
form of government is that it ns*
its paramount objectives the gen
era! welfare of all *ts people and
an assurance that the welfare of #5.1
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