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300 Whites Converge On Interracial Group DAVIS IN PROMOTION LINE Muriel Rahn Abused By So. Ry SOLDIERS PLAY PART IN EGGING ON DISPUTES Greensboro, N. C. fANP) Southern Railway system doesn't give a hoot about slate and fed eral laws banning discrimination against, first class inter-state pas M-i*>ers, according to F. E, New man, white dining car steward of the company's crack Piedmont Limited. Newman made this statement to Dick Campbell and his con• tort singer wife, Miss Muriel Hahn, here last week when the couple boarded the train after ** ss Rahn’s concert appearance &* the New Farmers,of America convention. The Campbells entered the din er and proceeded to the “reserved section" behind the curtain, where two tables were supposed *o be set aside for Negro passen gers. There they found one table occupied by three colored pa; sengers, and the other, across the s.sle. held by two white soldiers Thinking the soldiers were defy ins the jim-crow law- -more than 20 seats won available in the hit-- section--the couple sat down beside the soldiers and celled for a menu. Newman, answering their call . (Continued on pack page- Kansas Senator Ijrges Repeal Os Poll Tax WASHINGTON Senator Ar thur Capper. Republican of Kan sss. urged abolition of the poll fe>. and enfranchisement of the People of the District of Columbia in his weekly radio program, "Americans Ail", which is sponsor-; ed by the Institute of Race Rela tion?. lasi Sunday right He said that all citizens must be given the opportunity to vote and that he favors adequate education, recreation, and housing, equal op portunity. federal anti-lynching leg islation. and a lav,- to ban racial and religious discrimination In cm ployment. FREEDOM TRAIN ASKED TO CARRY FEPC ORDERBBO2 NEW YORK - Wi*h final oPns being launched for the visit of the Freedom Train to 300 communities beginning Septmber 17. it was an nounced here that a request was sent July 18 te the American Heri tage Foundation, sponsors of the train, to include among the histori-. cal American docuirients on exhibi tion Presidential Executive Order 8802. issued June 25, 1941. creating the wartime FKPC The request was. unde by WaUer i White NAACP secretary. who wrote Winlhrop AW rich, chairman ‘ of the Heritage Foundation board of trustees. "No document, issued during re cent year? has so aroused the in terest and enthusiasm to; the dem ocratic process among minorities.'' The NAACP said it has been as sured Informally that there would be nb segregation on account of' race in the viewing of the docu ments on Freedom Train Atty, F. J. Carnage Heads Local Advisory Set-Up; Mrs. Lockhart Named Sec, RALEIGH J ‘We have faith ?nd confidence in your judge ment and there will be times when you can render valuable assistance to the City,” was part of the message Mayor F D Snipes delivered to the newly created Advisory Committee at is meeting held last Wednesday. The committee, composed of lo cai Negro citizens, is headed by Atty. F. . Carnage, who i? active in Raleigh’s civic and interracial welfare. Other members of the committee are, Mrs. Nora S. Loch hr.rt. secretary; C. D. Haliburton. Laura Edwards, O. S. Bullock. M. W Williams. S T. Daley. L. E. McCauley and E. C. Hamlin. The purpose of the Advisory Committee is to promote and es tablish a closer contact between the city government and the Ne gro citizenry of th< city This committee was made possible roLi»'ugi* it» , p-p-"/s j 1 1 m-i.r.i h-y the City Council During Mayor Snipe's diwnur.-e, he W«k time .-' - > ’-'V- tA'-\ ■■■•' \ '• ;v L’- : - :v / R '> v-' "*v ‘ ' •'* . ■* AC ; ' yj'M - ' - .S* •'; V•: - V ' ' ' ?<r : v.- v - 1 F.' ■ . V, . ' The" Carolinian \jd K _XXY 1 l._X O 7 is ALTiCfI, XORT I I CAKOIiNA K> !)iNC SATCKDAV. Ai GI ST 2-J, PIT PH It K7c MEMBERS OF ft \EEILHS UIMSOID COMMITTEE f* n The Negro Advisory Commit ! ice of the Raleigh City Council met in the office of Mayor P. D. Snipes on Wednesday, aug ust 13 at 3:30 in the afternoon tor the purpose of organizing. F. j. Carnage, local attorney v/as named chairman and Mrs, REV, ALEXANDER CHAPLAIN AT ST, AUGUSTINE'S ; RALEIGH Rev Lloyd M : Alexander. current 1 v in charge < i St. Phillip? Schfs-i, An vast*. 1 ; Washington. has accepted the posi tion of Ch-M.tain <! Si Augustine's College here riccordingto informa tion received from the local insti j lotion las: week. Rev. Aiexaiub r. 41-year oid native Virginian. .- «-x- ; pectfd t.r. arrive at the College j September 15 in time for the open • : ing date, which is scheduled for j September lit. The newly -vketed Chaplain is n • i graduate of Si. Augustine's and j .Bishop Payne Divinity School. Pet - ! ersburg, Vu. He received his M.r --i tor's Degree in Religious Education ' ’ from Columbia University, Now ; ■ York, in 1047. During rhe sumo j i year be became Chaplain at Fort i Valley School. Ga., serving until I i 1940. When Fori Valley became a . | state school. Rev. Alexander went ; to Braeey, Va. In 3943 he enlisted! 'in th< U. S Army Chaplain Cosp, ‘ serving m New Zealand and several i : Pacific Theatre holding the rank | of captain Aside from his duties as Ctap.p --i lam Rr\. Alexander will do :• nv j tend ling just what subjeei r <r sub- . jeets. are unannmmwd. He is well . qualified in Religious Education | Bbilosophv and kindred subjects i He is married, having one child and i will reside on the; campus. i out to express his appreciation to \ . the City Fathers for their act. City Manage! Roy E. Braden . ‘old the committee that it ha« j ; “wonderful opportunity to make , ; the citv a better place for your i race and for everyone.” He said that the committee could bring ■ j about a better understanding be tween the city government” and local Negroes, and the group’s re j . ummendations about matters 1 would be of great help to the | council. JERSEY GEAR!) TO BAS? SEGREGATION TRENTON. N. ,1. <NNPA> An ’ amendment, tentatively adopted by . , the New Je-sev Constitutional | j Convention fe n- last Wednesday. \ 1 woulci bar race seereeotion and 1 i discrimination in the New Jersey 1 h oil ird W. S Lockhart, Jr. was select ed as secretary. Pictured are those present at this meeting, left to right they are: City Manager Roy Braden, Mayor P. D. Snipes, F. J. Car nage, Mrs, W. S. Lockhart, Jr.. Miss Laura Edvards. V. C. U. S. Negro Preside Over Last World Youth Session liV GEORG! i i!MI NO HAYNES OSLO, Norway ■ ANPi An American Negro youth tendei pre sided over the final r--?-:,of 'Sic cermd Wel le Conference for Chris- • tian youth here- last vi <*«»E in which! young people from 70 nation*; of ’: all five continents and races par- ■ i'icpah-cl ■Miss Rene Weller;- .-vs.-ion uiopi-j d no resolutions, but did receive! ro-iorts from the steering commit . Georgia Convict Camp Abolished After New Probings In Killings Gascn Jones" Fireman Remembers lord Os Frstwhile Boss JACKSON. Trim. (ANPi Sint T. H'fbfc. who fired No, 382 when Casey Jones pushed it to its fast fateful ride 17 years ago. recalled the famed engineer's last words last week when a monument was unveiled on Jones previously unmarked grave. The famous Casey of song and star;, v, as extolled by the , spec rhmakers while the small 1 crowd stirred uneasily in the boiling Min in the quiet of near b% Calvary cemetery. Many nice things were said about < asey. But Webb, who was with Jones just before the crash, stole the show as he recalled fhr engineer's last words: “Oh. Nim‘ The old girl's got her high-heeled slippers on to night.'' -Casey was trying to make p the 30 minutes they were running late out of Durant, Miss., trying to take the south bound mai! from Memphis to ( anion. i\liss,| % ledif Gets D.izian Foundation Gram NEW YORK iANP; Or. David . W. 'Jones was awarded v. grant by the Dazitfh Foundation for Medi cal research to ‘'assist hi his clin- , ical medication." ii was announced , here Inst week. ! The research foundation was i established by the will of the late .Henry Dfczicn, white with SJ. 690,009 • < for the sludv of diseases f.r which ,I:ere ir nr -wn rurr Hamlin, C. D. Halliburton, Rev. S. F. Daly and Rev. M. W Williams. Members of the com mittee not appearing on 1h e picture are: Dr. L. E. McCauley and Rev. O. S. Bullock. tec on th<- maiiv rtis-’t .-cion groups ini- which ’.he delegates had been divided loi Btbie sTudy, for ques lions and considerations of many vital suspects such a.- the attitude of Christian youth toward govern ments and how the •'•hurch can face out disordered world More than a score nj rhe young people from different national and racial groups g-.vt hi icf frank (Continued on back page! At!A> 1 u (NTP/,} The State convict camp system v. a- aboiished in Georgia las l Monday in an order dis closing a new investigation into the massacre July 31 o!’ eight prisoner:- on a road gang by prison guards at a camp at Anguilla, in Cuynn County, near Brunswick. The Georgia State Board of Corrections decided to close the two remaining camps at a hearing at which Sam Levine, a member o:S the Glynn County Board ol ( oiu missioners, branded the slayings as "murder. Georgia chain gangs were abol ished. under the State Penal Re form Act of 1943. The book and motion picture, “1 Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang. ' brought nation-wick criticism u o o « Georgia. Governor Ed River 1 abolished the use of shackles in r~ “ ' “ | Gov. Orders Rearrest Os Seven Men In Mob Case Jackson —Seven Rich Square white men were under arrest again here Saturday night on charges growing out of the attempted lynching of Godwin "Ruddy” Bush oi Rich Square who was charged with attempted rape of Mr- - Margaret Alien Bryant. Rich Square white woman, at Rich Square on May 28. Bench warrants issued bv Su perior Court oidgc J. Paul Friz v.i IF; of Snow Hi! charging the men with conspiracy to break and enter a jail with intent to injure prisoner -were served or. the de fendants at 2 p.m. Saturday by i-rn riff J. C. Stephenson of North - ' Hampton county, and the arrest® '-ere made in the office of Buck Weaver of Rich Square, one of tore- local attorneys who n, de fending the defendants. Men R ©arrested The men—Robert Van. Russell Bryant Linwod Bryant.. Gilbert ; • Brvant. Glen Collier Joe Cun ningham and W. C. Cooper—tU ' jnKrnitt.-'-H to arrest, and were re- 1 : '.cased under $250 bond each, the ! -.line amount set after the first BRIG, GENERAL RANK SEEN AS NEXT STEP OP WASHINGTON, D. C. <NNIV\ • Kocog!!:’ oil of the Army Air ?o- cs. which iin.'.r ihc National x-i ur.tv Act of i 947 becomes ;Ue •1 St U j Air F< "Co may affect a sweeping change at I i.ekbourno - Air Base. Columbus, Ohio, v/t-.-i j the 332nd Fight r Group. <■ ' mandt ■'! by Colonel Benjamin (i. Davis. Jr , is based, it was Scam <••• lasi Wednesday. Under present plan- ihc ba,s-: and its permanent duty units will be .tuvaitu as a "wing base,’' and the 332nd tighter Group will be reoe sign.ik-a -- the '.'i32d Tactical Wing." composed cf a combat ' group an airdrome group, a main tenance and supply group, and a hospital group Tables of organization call for a general officer to command the vri ng, and Colonel Davir. who also commands the Lockbourne Army Air Base, fe in tine for promotion to brigadier general. Under him tvsll four- evdoneia. • Comprising the 3.12 d Fighter Group are the 99th, the SOflth and the 301st Fighter Squadrons. The 99th is commanded by Major Wil liam Campbell of Tusk ogee. Ala.; the 100th by Major Andrew J. Tur ner of Washington, and the 301st by Captain Charles I. Williams of Lama, Ohio. WOULD BE SECOND GENERAL If and when he is promoted. Col v.ncj Davis will be- the second col ored brigadier general in the his tory of the United States Army. The other one is ins fathci, Briga dier General Benjamin O Davis who was promoted to his present (Continued on back page* 3938. Governor Ellis Aroall con . tinned the reforms by eliminating many of the medieval tortures like the “sweat box." Mrs. Bis lock Made Motion Mrs. J. C Blalock member at 'Continued on bock page) ' a.rt est. Less than two weeks ago they walked out of the Northhampton county court room here as free men after the grand jury, fol- I i'>wjng a day and a half o # de liberation failed to indict then noi Bush who was changed with , j attempted rape Following the action of the th' i grand jury. Governor R. Gregg Cherry ar.ounced that Judge Friz* i<‘Ue had been assigned to con duct the hearing following the , nsw indictment here on ; bei- 2. the- date on which the war- j i rants served on the mob mem-1 • hers are returnable, and said bt ! i('nr ’: ' r, ' fwv*» Vfins Decision % c - f}' .1 Leonard Lewis. General Coun sel and executive vice president, Afro-American Life insurance Co., Jacksonville, Fla., who won a sweeping decision some time ago from the Floiida Supreme court affirming th: purchase <>l the Industrial Insurance Co, i AM*; COUPLE t.IIAIJTALES LAI IF. MAKTIAI IA\S SAN FRANCISCO <AN V< -A; challenge was flung at the old i i state law here last week banning; the marriage of whites and Ne- \ ; ; f?rijf»V 1 The Cnliforniii S**preme Court; was petitioned for writ of man date by Sylvester S. Davis, Jr., and Mis- Andrea D. Perez to direct J. j F. Morony. Los Angeles County: clerk b is-eie -hem -- marriage ' license. Davis was ; dcntificd as a j Ni.ro M;s : . Per::;: ea white won:-I ! — j Hand (Continues To Fight I-or Extra Ha, Primary Session ATLANTA (ANT; Al though House Speaker Fred Hand, a Talmadge stalwart, i ontinueti efforts to secure the ; call for an extra legislative ses sion to bar Negro voters, the move was appearing to bog down last week. Hands has sent, out queries to legislators on the extra session, j in an attempt to ec-t a new set of rules designed to keep “i!lH erate" Negroes from voting in I the primary. The Georgia press anti radio particularly have been vocal against the extra session idea. A leader of the state's anti- 1 Taimadge faction has challeng ed Hand to show why legisla tion is needed In prevent two 1 primaries next year and has declared “there will be but one > Democratic primary." Gov. Thompson has refused to call the legislature ‘or the voter ban session. | outh Drowns In Wilmington Lake Wtt/MTNGTON Bobby Gene' R-'binson, 12. of 101-D Worth ! Drive. Muffin Village Wednesday I I lost his life when he, drowned in Greenfield Lfcke, policfc reported I Thursday. The youth and a group of others I were swimming near the swim ming pier when, the accident hap * pened, officers reported, and his j body wjjis recovered 45 minutes 1 i later after a puilmotor was rushed U> ihe sisevut- bj J. Liiulv CroOlV.. , -. ' ,Tt-u fii-p rhi-T, Mixed Student Project in Tyreii County Forced T o Abandon Summer Camp Students Take To Field I 'pun Arrival Os Crowd To Serve 24-Hour l Itimalum; Sheriff Says Members orderl> And 1 nartued Columbia, X. C. Following closely on the heels | ol several interracial experiments from various sections oT the country, comes a new one from this little town of sev eral thousand. This one just about resembles, the rest It is a matter of white and colored living in the same house. In this case, it was a matter of .via white students liv* j ing in the home of a Negro. And among this group of . whites, one was the wife of one of the white students. AH 1 had been living there since June. MOVES TO AVERT POSSIBLE BADE TROUBLE IN CHI BY LUTHER V TOWVSLEY j CHICAGO (ANP> City offi : ciali and civic leaders rnovrd fast j ! last week to avert the possibility of j ! a race ; lot hc-rc before the sum- j I mer ends. Following- close on the heels of j rep* its that whJte-Negro tempers; are on edge in borderline cornmun- | it.: Aid. Archibald J. Carey con- | terrod Monday with police Com- j mission'.'!' John C. Prcndergast | about a telephone rati from an un-; identified woman who predicted aj .rural flat-.:up within the- nevt two] - • . .ks ! Already rumors had been clrcu- - about whites beating* three Cegro youth- in the Jackson park i .tea. '-'.here members of both races] iho city's recreational facili- j ties. City officials hod been warned] 1 Latimer executive secretary of the Chicago Liberties committee, about *he possibility of a riot dur ing tin torrid summer days. Lati t liter advocated a specially trained j orps -of policemen to form a race 1 relations detail. Blamed for the racial feuds If | Chicago's acute housing shortage,] ! especially the intense overcrowd- ] Negro ghetto where more than j ■'i>S)o _ . -:.iju S ace •• ,-*• packed ’’do , j,m area originally planned to ac I j commodate less than 100.000. As Ne- i ; crocs dare to break into the so- : ! railed all-white vicinities in search , f homes, whites meet the invasion ; • by force, either bombing the homes] ; of !hc Negro newcomers or resort* i ing to other forms of organized vio- j \ ience. NAACP To Defend Vet Shot By ‘Quick Triggered’ ; Rookie Cop Os 25 Minutes ; NEW YORK The National As sociation for the Advancement of ] Colored People demanded the im- ; mediate suspension rookie pat- j rolman Francis LeMaire, who shot ! ’ and critically wounded Lloyd Cur- j is Jones, 29-year-old disabled vet i ! eran. in New York’s busy Columbus ! Circle a week ago. At the same time it was learned ; that NAACP attorney Amos C. j ; Bowman of the Harlem branch bad ! been retained to represent the voung voice student who is being j held under arrest at Roosevelt Hos- i S pitiil's prison ward where he is J ! still on the critical list. DEMAND REMOVAL i A statement by the NAACP de- 1 mended the immediate removal of ‘■quick triggered troopers who ask . questions later," was issued by Walter White, secretary. ‘Officials and members of the j NAACP are shocked and horrified I over the cold-blood shooting of a | defenseless, peaceful citizen by a j man who was sworn to protect the Lott Carey Convention’s Golden Jubilee Sessions In Roanoke, Va. Sept. 2-5 WASHINGTON, D. C.—Accord i ing to a statement issued by Dr. : Wendell C. Somerville, Executive i Secretary, the Lott Carey Baptist 1 Foreign Mission Convention will ■ hold its (Fiftieth) Golden Jubilee ! Session at Roanoke Va.. Septam ! her 2-5, 1947. The Golden Jubilee Session | Program will be highlighted by j addresses given by Misses Doro thy Moses and Partmal Das of Calcutta, India. Other foreign i speakers will be Miss Eugenia ! Holmes, Liberia. West Africa, Mr. I Anosike Nwokeufeu. Nigeria, and i Mi. S. B Sankoh, Sierra Leone. ; Trie Rev- D. A. Timpson, Nicara gua, Central America, will also speak. Dr. Bullock Speaker Dr. George Oliver Bullock, Pas for 'Third Baptist Church, Wash ; ' ingtor., T> C. will deliver the J,u --: Diiee Sermon. Di. EfccitEy j Secretary 'Foreign V ' ns Con According to Sheriff Ray Cal loon, on Monday of last week a gang of from 200 to 300 whits nen order the six white students including the wife of one, to leave the 'home of the Negro resident. There was a 24-hour ultimatum and the students complied with i this. 11 is said that the Sheriff under stood that the white students in l solved were from Harvard, Yale 'and the University of North Caro i lina. The Sheriff stated that the stu dents came here last June to as sist S. P. Dean, former principal ui Columbia High School (coi | oifcd) in the work of Tyrell, a | Credit Union Columbia happens |to be in this County of Tyre!!, j S3S.DOO Raised According to statements, the j Credit Union had raised approx j imately $35,000 from Negro citi -1 rns in the area, most of which I v. as used to purchase lands of [some 300,000 acres. This land was (Continued on page eightl | - j Samaritans Endorse ; Scholarship Fund NEW YORK Speaking. an the motion of Rev. J. n. Brown for the establishment of a scho larship to aid pre-medical stu | dents and nurses, |>y T. f*. Pat terson, National Grand Sire of the Independent Order of Good Samaritans and Daughters ai Samaria, endorsed the campaign to raise one hundred thousand dollar* to establish * scholar ship fund by the '(Wntis he' available to qualified pre-ntetM eal students and for training of nurses for much needed services for sirsderpriviicged people. Fur ther announcement will be made from the National Grand Secre tary's Office. lives and safety of all our citizens,' he said. “From all the evidence thus far I presented there was absolutely no provocation for Patrolman LeMaire , even to have beaten Lloyd Jones j with his nightstick. When he drew his revolver and pumped bullets - into the dazed veteran he became a madden menace to every single ; person in our city. “We are Immediately demand ing that this man be suspended from out police department and : that he -be prosecuted. Quick trig gered troopers who ask questions j later can no more be tolerated tn - New York City than they can in Batesburg, South Carolina. VICTIM MUSIC STUDENT Jones, a music student who had j hopes of securing a Guggenheim ; Fellowship, was shot down by the patrolman at the Columbus Circle entrance to Central Park, where discussion groups and park bench (Continued on back page) ferenee of North America will give the Feature Address. Fridsj ! September the sth. Secretary Somerville states that the Lott Carey Baptist Fore ign Mission Convention is cur.- rt titly supporting ninty-three mis j nonaries in the Belgian Congo. Bermuda, China. India, Haiti Fcrtugeuse Island and West Afri ca He further states that the Lott Carey Convention is the only dis tinctly foreign mission Conven tion among Negroes in the world. Delegates from nineteen states will attend the Session fn Roart | oke. Virginia. The Convention : therm, for this Session is “Fifty Years of Ceaseless Service -to Others." Dr. N L. Scarborough, Pastor | of Trinity Baptist Church, Colwn ; ons, Ohio is president of toe Con ; i option. Dr. W T... Ransorne, Rich--, j jfior.d, Virginia- ir, chairrr.au of the' ' Executive Board.