TRUMAN ST A TES EQUALITY VIEWS
MISS WILLIAMS
TALKS ON CIVIL
RIGHTS PROBLEM
Greensboro The '.wont, re
turf of the President s C Mnninii."
on Civil Rights will become poe
etfui only as the people ad was
Sue assertion made here las! week
at Bennett Collet"- b*. M-is
Francis William--. assistant to th
executive secret ary of the corn
rail tee.
Further Mis- Williams df lan' 1
that the answer to ' 1 e our. .
"How wii! we «( i aot'o!) no the
report? rests w i’h the President,
Congress, and ’he State govern
ments who h:m • itiionU to tai; •
such action as mat b n- cc I .v
to enrrv r rw • t- .
niendati-'n' ,< : \ '■■■>■
Sneaking at the chapel she : -
reeled the thinking if the ;?*.«-
dc-pts to ctmsHr- .*i -
ernes!ion nt wh. t -K \ ;
dur-ls nv.wm - ; -
report She -aid that hr .. eoort
contained new !>ot rueie
h the things Neyr -e-. h 0.-
v. a.v> w anted from Atm-neap de
irtocraev
Among the .- . grs'jr - me
hv students speaking f >
floor was me that th- , v. ;
< C oi-.tm-a-d . .1 , ti■
FISK SPFtKI R
T'~ !TW
■
Marsha.il t-ietd. rditor and pub
lisher of The Chicago Sun will
he one ot the four speakers u>
discuss 'Human Rights and In
terftfttional Relations' durtng tin
intßgvrai program of 'Or. Chailes
S. .fohnsfm as president of ! isk
University. November
OlltiJßts with Mr t ield on
this panel arc: Mrs. Franklin 1>
Hoosnck, Govcnmi William H
Haside. Virgin Islands: and Mark
Ethridge. publisher. Louisville
Courier Journal, Ralph L.'nnrhe
new serving with V \ is chair
man.
N. C, Methodists Elect
Conference Delegates
.•ReidsvjlJc Fhe ciecxion of
delegates to the General Con ft*,
enee and the Jurisdictional Con
ference of the Methodist Church
to be held next year was an jm
portaut feature ..i the eighty
.ninth session of the North Caro
lina Conference held here recent
ly at St. Paul Methodist Church.
To the General Conference
which will be held in Boston text
Abril were named the Kev. J.
E. Brower, superintendent of th--
Greensboro district and Pres;
dent David D Jones of Bonnet!
College.
KOI CVTORS STi ill VWERK VS METHODS
Recent visitors te Tuskegce
Institute were left to right. Mis?.
Margaret Wwnrts. secretary of !>'•
futtnatl-JM! 'intniitU . or Chris
So UuMart for As- i; Or.
J««r 11. lots iter, siw*rotar> nf
AgrtpniUrsl MlssJ.uis, Inc., M
Teacher Urges No Racial Bias
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La. NAACP Launches J.C. right
judse mm
C ECRIES HA r E
AND PREiUOiGE
PHILADEI .PiPA NNPA
i-KUidice ar.d bate are keeping
'the nation divided and until a
- d States «annul oe a napp
. . .1. ti.
.m.cla red last Sunday m his first
public address since his _appoint
n>tnt to the Municipal Court.
He spoke at a eommumor.
breakfast of tn>- Catholic lalor
ru-ial Council if Philadelphia at
1.. Catholic You*.:', AssociaUu:;.
3.. Arch street. The breakfast
h. norc-d tin rncniorv of Mrs. Lon
ise Drexell Morrell.
Judge Gerald F. Flood of Com
mon Peas Court. Council chair
vqf.n. praised Judge Millen’s ap
pointment as a big step tower d
breaking down prejudices in this
st a.
IT rated States Commiss u-oe
Norman J. Griffin guest speaker,
deplored political discrimination,
»r.d urged better housing an:! ice
roationai sacilitir-s rn the c.-t
slum areas.
Other speakers included Mrs.
I- an tine Asks and Martin Fields
Mere than fifty persons who
t( nded the Corn mure'on Mass rele
b rati on bv th- ‘Rev. Edwa--’ F
Cur-nie. Council moderator nnrt
•'•ctor of S’ Elirabr-ih F. • : ;
took part o the breakfast.
Ihe 1-og'uto.- tn ill l .li.u isrlit ti
. C'.'nforencf.- to bt held :r. Allan 1 a
tu.xi June art T ,-i . tj M
Jneips. .;wisto: • , tee Si M; :
t ie,vs Methodist Chu. eh, Gret-te.-
b(/ro '.hr Kc , P A 7! .
Gunimor) T-- -iug:. h Sv... -
-Atlanta: Miss I. R. Joni-s, Ashi -
Mile: and S. T. ,k.-. I-urnlx
' Ts.-n.
The conferenet- reports reveal
•eu that a xoihi uj .sJiy.Tdc ... -
raised for all purposes during th«
last year. Bv districts the sums
Here: Greensbortt $48.421; L‘:n
(Continued t-. i> >■ ; patje
Ntw York; t'hri-iop’ser ( os, F.d
ucr.Hu.vaf .AAvisoi to the Krisi-l.
Secretary i»t State for the colon
ie.s: J»hn K. Williams, member of
the C’oiontat Office staff in 1 on
don with -peris! r< spon.dbilit;.
i-wfiJeratlon of Olopim
RAT HIGH, v -■(.’! if ’ \U<>l J N -\
SliAVi PR! \T UONU: » l)R. H. t TiitM,
President and Mrs. Har»>d i...
t'r.'gg ov >!.. \ugustmcV i «Ueg,
«i»' ticnorcri .si a rcwptten giv
en o> Pi csidvn'. and Mrs. Robert
P Panic! Sunday rvenlnc at
-. «>p look in the Rer.re-stion
Building «n th< chan campus,
s oOcsc official -od ibcir w ives
v,-!io ecmpcsc.-i ihr »•<reiving Tine
Ktvi Lniss Seeks Tit
s ocaif* !,<K*al Sraman
RALEIGH -- The Wake
County Rea Cross is anx - aus
:o locate Johnny Haves,, of
Rah ;gh, who served In the
war as a seaman first class.
A former buddy of Hayes,
who now lives ;n Detroit, is
unable to draw cbmpensafion
for ar. injury to his arm un
less Johnny' can be located ic
give an aflidavij about how'
The buddy was injured.
Hayes and the Detroit mats
were stationed or the AMC
-3?.. USS Grouce, Sar. Pedro,
California, In 1944, the bud
dy stales, the Raleigh man
was about 20 years old.
Anyone Knowing Jo’ cy
Hayes c.r his whereabouts wilt
be doing a god turn for ar.
ex serviceman if they w ill
communicate -v.Jn the Rod
Cross in Raleigh.
wmmne proMem* ami Mrs. Wil
li ;i in -. his wife.
The . roup from Enid a nil spent
three days and a half on th
campus and visited other Nw>fi>
j schc-fK n> planning new develop -
tnoht.fi in Negro education. <AM
arc pH-niri'd - - - ; com it ft to
right arc. seated Or. arid Mrs
! . Met aw ley Raleigh: Fvrstdcol
anti Mr-. Rfttwr »'. f>s» ..-l i...
Sfta-.c President ..ruT Mrs. Harold
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f a>rtt*:\ilJe I'eathers Va\
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f artt»t*r , *cs. , >iuu , :iis verc adopted.
| 70-Year Man Obtains
First Patent Papers
By JAMES B. LaFOURCHE
MIAMI i AMP' It all g/v
well with William Thomas Pavk
.cj . retired railroad employe wh> -•
bare it e>:isting on a $55 •
month pel’s;on here, he'll have to
she an income tux ret.uin b> next
March IS, and here’s whv
The 70 ode .o u; Parker has ob
tained his jjroiirninary patent pa
1 pens of an invention which. if ■'
scows practical will out l<- on.
one for all times the possibilities
v»i railroad wrecks.
There are a. lot of people who
Jeivc fantastic dreams and who
depend on some powers of occul
Msn t . giime ’hem into :.ht ; ..-aim ,
o: invention, hut not so with
Parker. He hrs worked on rail
roods and in railroad shops ail
of his l;fo. and when he tells you
v by his invention is as sound as
.the prove chip! dollar, he off/, rs
the proof at the same time
This invention of Parker's h:
ito do with 1 rinie wheel surface-.,
and ail on the same axle. Should
t.m occasion w:s< for the main
m h<*el to leave the rails, c see
] end wheel surface would atomafi
|"'>T'V corrie into hoinv and support
;f nr car This second surface is so
i formed that ho runtiinp H alone a
i ;*>'< ”nlVr Which would no sot
; *hc roadbed the main wheel
rut face would he restored tn (he
rei!
\ f PRI.iAV, N’OVKMRKR 15. in 17
V-r, ;\i;& Mi's. K b«-: t ,?«ihiHoiv
Wilson: '-tamli?*#. {lean Mrs.
n. Halliburton l : »«*att foster. F.
ra?*K\ run;- V. u
1 .vrsrb V>r. and Mrs 11. K. lisa< k
Man «r*l r harlot nr; Miss Mane Mi*
Ivor, Mr. and Mr>. b. h, ftancan,
and l'»r. ami Mrs, Niison II Har
ris.
Ds {.italics S, Johnson
( o- UiiSbors \<'V> Uook
DR. CHARLES S. JOHNSON
NASHVILLE Tennessee
Bringing il-e white sordid
:ory of race resiriciivc cove
rants before the American
public at a strategic moment
just before supreme court
arguments are presented. Dr.
Charles S, Johnson a net Her
man L. lo.:g have just sr.-
nounced publication of a sum
mary of several years of re
search in iheir asw bonk.
People vs Property".
In a study ot 600 race re
-tiiCive .“due ,-ig covenants,
the co-suthcis i»y bare the
whole- array of facts -an one of
the most di.tasiious blind
tjjois. in our democratic way
of life.
One of the oldest arguments
against ending segregation of
minorities has been the a? -
•sertion that integration would
brng racial tension and race
riots, but Johnson and Long
demonstrate that the con
trary is true because it shows
dial trouble s- caused by seg
regation and. the patterns, it.
creates.
This method Parker claims,
would allow a train to run oft iho
i tacks for m'ics and then grnd
u.il'iy re-rail itreli without ev n
ti: wine down.
"Thev could equip a whole rail
road for the p:of one or two
w . r-k” the- old .timer remarked.
.Si )nce 1835. the inventor has
vv rked in yards in Mobile and
( om H'tion Reversed
in CoL Robinson (lase
ADDIS ABABA The :m
per ini supreme court Satur
day set aside the conviction
of John JRobinson, colonel in
the Ethiopian Air Force, by
a vote ci 2-1 alter the cot
one! had been charged with
assault and battery against
Count Gusiai von Tvo-sen,
Swedish chiei of the air tores.
Judge Sigurd Lind of Swe
den casx the dissenting vote
in a decision which seal the
case beck fc the court »1 ori
gin after Robinson who war
sentenced io three months on
September appealed or. the
basis that he was c&nvicted
unde - Italian penal law in
i fiteyb <- f BP -5 y.
APPrM
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TO 81 HEARD
111 BALTIMORE
\i]Cl { M M v.)\ 1). Va. =NNt > .■ \
Artmrnerits will ru-ard bv ..bt
i Fourtil Circuit
v _.our 1 oi Ao }y ii•;iii- in ii<•». 1 ti-nv:• • ■;* in
orvals uv; (itcisio; - >■ dl'- 1 ■
L7.iA' ii 1 )IS\ nd C-O;.- i : -L-'
i' lt '.j;n :i:ctrici of Soul 1 ; v,3i'
! cin-a, it iv.ts Learned la At Tir.-sdax.
• :o}■;x ol c' ; -iei’v.. : peopje to vote
l\- iV University of Sooth Coroh ta.
ij. 1 1 Ine V-b*sencc oi eQ .ia» < at*»iitios
; i South Carolina StaL.e l\>i!eso
;oi Oran«ebm-*>, S. C.
: Opini’jiis in the two prob- j
tire of too olei K of iho courts .
' Cjoude M, Dean.
• K-rn ralondaved for ari*uniont •
"V \ embo: 18, and the appeal of.
1 the board ol tyuotees ot the Uru-
Fed'oral District Judge J. Waites
’o' both oases.
: :■ uied/’ that 'Hoouil dLiinehon; j
Virginia Registers Short
On Standard Teachers
Richmond. Va \AKP) -- The
s.vvi.'igc ot teachers :Pto cfn
crtd and white schools of this
a ■.< is si'i’-k'!in rr-ccni rcnoris
f i division SUpunnTcLTICICSiTIS who
S-.V :i is still :s'a-ssirv t;. cm
-5.1 i '/ teachers holding substandara
i; tiliralt'S. :l .vas UiStiOSfli • IC-i ::
r«-.' ( v nt by G. T- ier Miller, stai •
super imendent oi public insti uv
: nm. This condition. Mr Miller
s«id. '.vas reported by the local
, viper in tendon is showing a situa
tion which was brought on by war
. •'inditions.
Instead o; getting beit.e . tn->
dcation in tht schools seems to
■ v as bad as it was. dining rht
Avars ;irui this year it up
: i'ears that the number of sub
s’aridard teachers WiL be ifr-nter
tii. r las: vear. Compiafe reports
1 from the HO school diviston.-
'i -'a 'v that idS mere substandard
license? either have been granted
or requested than was the easy
last year this note
Incomplete reports of ih« divi
sion supcflnteadonis during the
Production of pi aciivTK all maiv
ulectured dsivj product.- in »n
■ C:-u• >!ina except i tic iei cream te.r
int liM>: showed moderate to sir.rp
. j declines from 1945,
Civil Rights Law Attacked
In Michigan Court Ruling
President Truman I>
Invited To Tuskegee
r
WASHINGTON AM’
PresiUcnt Hasp S. Truman lis
been Invited to attend the first
sub of tbe George Washington
l «rvM f (imirtf itKOailvt- .stamps,
vo be held »l Tnsfeegre Insti
tute in .funosrt, according to an
announcement bv Or. Frederick
I*. Fatterso.n presuieni of the
"famous school.
Or. Patterson said that the
dak* oi the sale would he set on
whatever day is convenient for
! the President, became congress
. t,- - -ih ‘ :05th.
Says All Have Right To
Opportunities To Jobs
And Education Status
HOUSES DROP
COLOR BAR
NEW YORK - The Okla
hema Nurses Association vot
ed to admit qualified Negro
nurses to full membership at
its annual convention at Law
ton. Oklahoma. lasi Thurs
day, and Oklahoma became
the second southern state
during October ik> act to ban
. . imiration in nursing.
The Oklahoma Nurses As
sociation makes the fourvt
such organization to admit
Ncgrcci within the past year,
nurse associations of 14 states
which Previously barred Ne
ts y o nurses from membership
having remeved such bar
riers.
The other state orqaniza
tiers which admit Negro mu
ses are Florida, Delaware.
Maryland- Tennessee and
Kentucky.
WINS IN I SSVI
Miv, Atthea l*roctor won first
prize in the nations! essay con
test -nensorert bi the Nhiimt
Tabcrcwlosis association. \ st«-
<1«-nt of Maryland Slate Teachers
* • th*);- Bowie M(t, Miss Proc
tor received SSO and a gold mod
al for her essay. "How Can I In
My Chosen Profession Help to
< onirol Ttibercnlosis."
President A. M . Ornt of Dillard
l T niversity. \oh Orleans served
a-, chairman of the commit ice of
-i\ judges. AM':
PRI! E I
5;,,-i .ndu-sbid that cuniirttons
>(. -*' imp: uving. Ut Mi.lci sain.
A- til,-c neared fur the opening ol
sehou-li tor the 19*0 4(i >:es
.- ui,. however. the svta&tkvi
< r:--)c, herau-e :t vas toonf ne
el t - fall back on substana
:■ .-, •, mlto eomplotc ‘lit ros
e-: -,f tc-aeht-rs ior the term.
Students, Alumni Hjnor
Late Dr. James E. Shepard
Durham - Last week, the stu
; dents and alumni of the North
Uwiina College here took pa; t.
, speeio; pi; -grair. in memory
; the hie Dr. James E Shop
.l 0 fouiKi'-r oi Tht college, whoso
birthday was observed November
At the ivgul;.• Monday chapel
hi. as Miss Ruth <5. Rush, dean oi
\ omen and a rm mber of the In
ti rim Committee appointed to di
rect the affairs of the college.
; 1 reed the early history of the
fchooi .in a .brief speech. A! 3 p.m.
radio station WI>NC was in
rharge of a special James B.
S' epieri Memorial Broadcast sea
t.urittg the music of the 75 voice
WASHINGTON CJNPA'
The constitutionality of the Michi
gan civil rights law is attacked
iby the Bcb-Lo Excursion Com
paii-. >f Detroit in a case now
pending in the United States Su
: pri.-me Court
The Bob-Lo Excursion Company
| or. June 21. MB'S, compelled Miss
. Ste <th R.av to disembark from one
of its vessels ai Ok- wharf in De ■
ir-.it and refused to carry hi”- to
I Bob-Tio Island. Ontario. Canada.
! solely because she is cnlarnd. Ti
tendered to he*, in rwWfcvnieoi t:v
price of m tick el which she re
| fused,
The companv owtis Bob-Lo I«
i l,iv- except fn four lots, and on
elates recreational and amuse
mont facilities there.
(Owiimied o, ire..
WASHINGTON (NNPAI Pres
id. u’ Truman last week told Dr.
U Oscar Johruou pastor of the
Third Baptist Church of St. Louis
. ;'il newly elected president of the
V/uild Baptist Alliance, that all
v s and creeds have a right to
i. .ii.it industrial and educational op
pi: (unities in the United State?
Dr Johnson reported to the
White' House on the Alliance’s mot
ini rode for world peace. The a!.
L.<noc met last summer in Ccpen
.<nri sonic delt-gaie-s from the
U:tiled States were accused of eav
i’ior with them then racial pre
judices The Alliance later denied
: tit. charges
Di John-on told v< porters th«‘
I.* • !’»)> visited Birmingham
Alabama, and found the people
’•<• '‘heated up” about tim recent
report < ( the President's Commit
•<v on Civil Rights, assailing tl*
•.•I'.ieitahiott and segregation of coi
i red people.
■>ld the President that he cor
hoely stuck hi- n ck out in Bir
nnn .jt..: '.. ' D; Johnson said. 'But
tC'-.iilinued on Pack page)
WENOELL GREEN
IN RUNNING FOR
OH! JUDGESHIP
1 !Hi VGO AN'Pi Wendell F.
■i n ■ or., >f nine municipal
on;. . nic'gts •.v-rifud a? bong eli
c. ip ; . ren rain r. a Hon to the bench
. .a xt ApnJ's primary according
a majority of the 1.542 lawyers
: polled b> the Chicago Bar Associa
I ,- on hen last week. Green and 1?
j other voters will complete then
tuirnt tcrtri t office in November
! >948.
To- poil. in which lawyers wen'
. asked to rate incumbents on
.icnu-vl '.nudities such as diligence.
| patience. courtesy, attentiveness.
: legal .ability and integrity, placed
Judge Green second to Chief Jus
tice Kdvard S Schcffler. who re
ed 93.03 per cent fm judicial qual
i ita-s and 1.168 votes for renomina
te, v to 120 against. Greene was
rated 92.82 per corn, with 1.-J9B
votes fm and 115 agtamst.
RANKIN SUNK
IN NEGRO TOWN
Mound Bayou Mrs. ANP'
Out of the six candidates
in the recent senatorial race
the only candidafe who got
nary a vote in Mound Bayou,
the all-MFegrc town, was John
Rankin. Congressman Ran
kin. whose name is anathema
wherever people of color are
proved he- was not much,
more popular with the white
folk of his stste ior he war
snowed und'-. by a mar;
whom folk out of Mississippi
had never even heard ot.
Judge John biennis. Stenosis
conducted a decent campaign
college ebe undo the direction
D Jan vs Elmo Dorsey, and
.ip 4-30 oi'f ials of the alumni as
sociation .-c n to Beech wood
Oemctc ; ■ . here they decorated
the iate P osidvtrt - grave with a
huge wre th.
For the special broadcast which
originated in B N. Duke Audi
torium on tht campus. Norfler
• Wnitted, Negro staff announcer
ft-: WD'i:. v. as the narrator an 1
he gave graphic word picture
of the educate 's 50-year caret* •
which was highlighted v/ith the
founding of the N. C. College and
its dev* opment in 37 years to
om of ■ too Negro institutions
• (*• ir.u-d -.
Brothers Start Farm
With Three 'Turkeys
Chicago ! ANP 5 -- How *
trie c i breibert bomywMi
land and thte< rurkeys which
they here built imvto Onts
rie's most protperious and
thriving turkey farm it. iold
in « December Ebony photo
viory ststinp that their gobb
iif»: h v’ v"”- s*l prim*! hn
fort oh. Royal Winter fab*
since 1935.
"George. Donald and £!-
wood Land started the first
turkey farm in Western 0»-
turie," Ebony says, and Ha*»
Sxwtn mowing a record flaek
of gntobl«n, «ipo» ■&,