MRS. ROOSEVELT DECLINES BID
CLERGY BACKING CIVIL RIGHTS DRIVE
ASSAIL CHARGES
OF RACE APATHY
IN RIGHTS FIGHT
Select ins its secretary, the Rev.
L. B. Russell, as its spokesman,
the Ministerial Alliance of Vance
and adjacent, .counties this week
delivered a stinging rebuke to
civil rights opponents who had
been attempting to make political
capital out of the relative silen e
of the state’s Negro citizens and
clergy on the subject.
Sharply denying the implied
"lack of interest" The Alliance
issued a three-page statement in
which it deplored the "unnatural
and altogether unwholesome dis
unity'' which has afflicted the
South since the first Negroes
were brought to its shores.
Describing civil rights as
"those essential rights of citizen
ship . . . which must belong in
equal measure to all citizens",
the group went emphatically or.
record as supporting Federal anti
lynch laws, and enactment of fan
employment legislation and op
posing compulsory or statutory
segregation.
The text of-the statement ap
peals on page —of the second
section
Fellow Citizens of America and
of the Southland:
I have been chosen by the Min ■
rsterial Alliance of Vance and
Adjacent Counties to make thfe
public statement of the attstudt
( i Negro citizens toward a legis
lative program which has been
<Continued on pace 8. 2nd Section'
Randolph Ready
To Call Protest
Strike on Draft
NEW YORK l AN P i At a
pres- conference held .xre Satur
day hi- <i'• 'ii hcaduyartf rs A.
Philip Randolph, p v.rjuit of ;he
Brotherhood of Sloe -r.:- Car pc.-i -
ter.-. AFL. and chairman of tho
newly organized League for Non-
Violcm Civil Disobedience Against
Military segregation said his gi,..u,>
is planning a nation-wide camps;„n
for "ion-compile i:v with the draft
law. unless President Truman is-
N.Y, FAIS SCHC9L
LAW IN EFFECT,
CHANGE SHOWN
New Voi'k {ANP) The new
state law. outlawing disci ■inunc
tion in education in New Yu, i .
went into effect last Thursday.
It will not be enforceable until
Sept. 15 but many schools are al
ready voluntarily cooperating to
stay within this law.
Negroes and Jew s will probab
ly benefit immediately, according
to studies to be published by
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey’s state
university commission.
A special interdenomination
al regents committee will admin
ister this law. It will choose
an anti bias administrator and is
sue regulations. They will hoc.
charges against schools and mak
rulings. Their actions will be en
forceable in the courts.
The three regents are William
J. Wallin, chancelor, of Yonke-y
and Dr. Stanley W Brady and
Roger W Straus of New York.
Forms Changed
Several colleges have already
changed their registration forms.
Dr. Algo D. Henderson, associate
commissioner in charge of high--
(Continued on pngo- f( Ist Sectioni
NA AC P Asks
Roya.ll Ouster
Kansas City. Mo. (ANP) The
NAAOP passed a resolution call
ing for the resignation of Secy,
of the Army Kenneth C. Roy ail
for his anti-Negro policies and
sentiments, last, week at its an
nual meeting here.
In asking for Royall’s resigns
lion the association also attacked
the other branches of tho armed
services for their policies toward
Negroes.
Royall was criticized for vari
ous statement accredited to him
declaring that he did not plan an
integrated army. Policies of seg
regation in the armed forces were
condemned.
A resolution culling foi lh e
support of other colored nations
of the world in the solving of
■
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16 Pages
VOL! MK XXVIII
OR GANIZE NEW RIGHTS BOD Y\
+ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★★★★★★ ★*★★★★★★★;
Heart Attack Fatal To Pastor;
STUDENTS FREED
IN SIGN POSTING
FOR THIRD PART!
RALEIGH .Edward Benner,
Ji.. and Charles S. Logan, stu
dents at St. Augustine’s college,
were fret d Tuesday by Judge
Paul F. Smith who dismissed
(Continued on page 8. Ist Section?
-u.es an executive order banning
segregation in the a: my’ setup.
I--, disclosing nis campaign. R.m
--; dolph said thrd the mru.l step
whfch bee':m r, t'o-in ■ e. Io soi-i
field representatives ihroughuut the
countrv to establish contract- with
b"th Negro and white y -uths in the
i draft ago. urging them to join t.u
! civil disobedience moveo'ent.
■’’t may cost me my hooriy bu.
■fed that eveiy march fm-ward by
mankind has been achieved at v -e
I cost of soiti.■ suffering ” Ran 1"b :
“I believe that the peacetime
i draft law the enactment of ;s
: peacetime draft law ». nh no pro
- visions against the dim,nation of
jim crowism in n. will set back fee
: cause of civil rights lOu yards he
COMMITTEE
; The executive cornmiltec of the
new group is composed of 13 nfem
jhris and .. coordinating committee
! of 43
I Pamphlets containing the i-:vj
j disobedience" pledge will be cu *t
tributed for signatures, as well as
i lapel buttons saying "Don’t J an A
Continued on page 8, Ist Section>
Girl Scouts Officials
Defy Dixie Hate Mobs
NEW YORK Despite the in
vasion of a Girl Scouts training
camp near Bessemer. Ala., on June
ill ty a band of masked and robed
i men, officials of the organization
refused to be intimidated, it was
learned this week, when they an -
; nounced that they would! continue
■to conduct training centers the
■kind throughout the country
The camp was ordered broker, up
. 'by the men after two white women
instructors had been searched and
' their problems was also passed
by the group.
Other discussions of the meet
ing included one on the arivance
! ment of Negroes in various south
ern communities. In Chattanooga.
| Tenn., much progress has been
made since groups of whites and
i Negroes have mot and discussed
I various problems. In Corpus
(Chrisi, Tex., because ol' NAACP
j work and efforts, the town had
| its first colored mail carrier in
30 years.
I Labor advisor Clarence Mit
chell discussed educational pro
! grams for workers of the CIO
| and AFL. He added that the 3a
' bor outlook was improved, and
jno postwar attack on Nog roe.
i had come yet. . •
NOR TH CAROLINA’S LEA DING WEEKL Y
‘ RAl.hilGII, NORTH CAROLINA WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JULY 10, 19-18
"* WR " ; "‘XM'titf***
' # %
fi m M
A*
HEART ATTACK FATAL--
The Rev. M. W. Williams, out
standing Raleigh clergyman
and civic leader who died early
Tuesday morning from a
heart attack. He was £4 years
old at the time of his death..
Story on this page.
VA PUTS CLAMPS
ON VET COURSES
WASHINGTON - The Vet
eran Administration la- 1 week
eietninaU'd (faiunij;, photogra
phy. bartending and mixoiogx
idrinh mixing i as t.l training
course !"i which i will foot the
bill.
The agency al«o lamped the
ltd on free cmr-cx in person
ality development. entertain
ment. instrumental and voca!
music, public speaking, sports
and athlt ies.
. VA nil! continue paying the
ru-iemary subsistence allow
ance o \ ■ terans already enroll
ed until Ih<- \ complete their
courses but will authorize no
new allotments tinder the G1
< Continued on pag< 8. Ist Section)
. told that the re Meets of the areal
; "don't ‘like Negroes and whites liv
ing* together.' Unpleasant rumors 1
were later circulated about the
! camp end it-' occupants, all of whom
wi-:f ex, *pi the two in
structors.
The stand of thf national office
was •• \j ..■ :i ,n a resolution
adopted by the officer.-- and urn'.-
j hors of the natfonai exocu ive com
mittee on June 24 The resolution
I follows:
IO SERVE AM.
"It will continue 1,.- be the policy
o; tl.i,.■ r;)Scout: . . ic serve all
J their members regard loss- of ran:
■,■ creed, and to oxk-nd -nen.bvr
! ship as rapidly a- possible to ad
| those wno wish to join. Wo shall
■ continue m-i country-wide program
J of training adults foi leadership and
(shall provide for this purpose the
(best available in vt motors drawn
I from local groups and the national
| staff."
| Shortly after the incident in Ala
! bama. the national director called
ion A: lortvt y General Torn Clark
j lo investigate the affair, but no rc
j ply has been received from the*
i Justice Department ;>p to this time.
! The camp site near Bessemer
i was rented for the occasion b.v the
Girl Scouts a-iri it not a Girl Scout.
■ camp as such. Its invasion by the
j hooded mob was “completely tm
| warranted." officials of the organ
| ization said this week, and subse
| quenlly rumors .-pread about the
■occupants "have been carefully
1 checked ,>m, found to be totally
i false.'
HENDERSON WILL
HEAD NEW NEGRO
INTEREST LOBBY
The- appointment, affective Aug.ist
firs;, of Eimu \V. Henderson. as D:
i io! of tin.' newiy-fornied \rr.er
ierm Council oti Human Right- was
:!ni!o'.!iH'vd today by Mrs. Edt'.a
Ova r Gt.i>. President of the 8.-.-rd
’the Council is a cooperative ven
ture of six national Greek letter eoi
legieto fraternities and sovoutt.'-'
Alpha K:.ppa Alpha. Alpha Pin Al
pha. Delta Sigma Ti.et i. Phi Beta
Sigma, Sierra Gamma Rho and
Z< :a Phi Beta
It was founded primarily to seek
Ur- extension of civil rights to «K
Amenc ns without regard to raw,
Col-'-r or religion. The Council :>)■■■•
is ate ji- : -spoilbbilitc• g
ive.ii'd 1 • international problems.
I' wiU n.ajdat:; an office ill Wr a
inst'.r Jo aid the passage of legisla
, , in vnnnort • r-f* thn 1
Council and io oppose legislation
considered detrimental to minori
ties It vein dissommate information
arid organize no action program.
OFFICERS
Offecr-' of the Board of Direc orx
Gray the president, arc: Mrs. Mae
Wi i-ht Downs, former national
pi t siden Delta Sigma Theta, vice
p‘t-idem. Dr. R O. Johnson, nation
i! presiden*. Phi Beta Sigma. re
cording secretary; Miss Emma V.
•Continued on page 8. Ist See?ion?
Baptist Groups
Support Civil
Rights Program
Cleveland (ANP; - - Support of
civil rights legislation at federal
as well as local levels was re
solved last week at the Nation
al Baptist Sunday School and
Baptist Training Union congress
here.
The congress also resolved to
raise membership fees for each
Sunday School and BTU from $o
to SB), io send representatives to
the World Youth council 1949
meeting in Stockholm, Sweden;
to select a permanent meeting
city for the congress, and to take
ether actions.
In implementing its civil rights
policy the conference- voted to
give active support to the pro
posal for an FEPC law in Clove -
1| Objects to ‘Boy’ Tag
I Storekeeper Slays j
Deputy and is Shot
HELENA, Ark. (ANP) Beau so a white planter insisted :
j on calling' grown colored men "boys." one white deputy sherifs
and one Negro storekeeper were killed here last week.
The storekeeper. Herman 'Dolphin. 22, while handcuffed,
j shot and killed. Deputy Sheriff L. D. Weaver, and then, war, >
killed by Deputy Sheriff Clay Oliver.
According to Sheriff Ed Hickey the trouble began when a
white planter, Milton Stewart, called some Negro men boys
when he asked them to help him repair a trailer. The store- j
"j keeper fold the planter there were no boys there and entered
his store. Th« white man said he came out and threatened him,
and he reported him to the sheriff.
The sheriff sent the two deputies lo see the storekeeper, j
They then arrested Dolphin, whom they handcuffed. He re
entered his store after asking them to let him go in to cut oil
I his refrigerator,
, When ho came back out he started blasting. One of b’.s
j bullets caught Weaver in. the chest and killed him. Oliver then
riddled him with a rifle and a shotgun.
r "zwAßpßf
FIRST NEGRO ’’RES^OFN’ 1
; —Dr. P.cbesrt P. Daniel, above.
1 President ot Shaw University,
was elected president of the
Association of Northern Baptist
Educational Institut ens at its
annual meeting Jure 24-20 at
Greer. Lake, Wisconsin. The
association is composed of 63
institutions, of which 8 are Ne
gro schools. Dr. Daniel, who
succeeds Dr. George H. Arms
cost. President of the Univer
sity of Redlands, California, is
the first Negro to be elected to
the office. He auiomafically
becomes a member of the Na
tional Protestant Council ort
Higher Education.
land promoted by Councilman
Harry Jaffe and to ask all three
parlies to pledge and act to pa.es
such legislation. Delegates aim
voted to send Idlers of condem
nation tr President Truman for
his civil rights stand and to tho
U. S. Supreme court for its re
strictive covenant decision.
The group proposed that the re
presentation fee for member Sun
day schools and BTU's be nosed
by constitutional amendment
1; ,m S 6 to Id because of the in
crease in expenses,
Tlu* Fraternal Council of Ne
gro Churches of Amo; io;. the
Youth Council of the World Bao
list alliance and the World Yor,;.i
(Continued on page 8, Ist Section *
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COPY 1 |
NO. 1 !
REV. M. WILLIAMS
FALLS VICTIM TO
SUDDEN SEIZURE
RALEIGH - The- Rev. M. W.
Williams, well - known Raleigh j
j civic loader and pastor of the!
Springfield Baptist Church of l
Wake County and the First Bap - :
list Church of Franklinton, died :
early Tuesday morning of a
heart attack at his home at 73? •
Fayettev ;!k- St,
The <54 year-old minister, who i
had been active in the civic and .
religious life of the community i
ftw many years, was editor of the j
weekly Sundav School lesson fo ■■ i
the CAROLINIAN lor the pa-.i
::ix vears.
As i ha:> :t >: i:..- Raieigit X'e ,
fe-v, f t'"itirm:lee he h'. i .
/avtn e iin effe *.: .
feuyard :>i;tt»'rment "f race rcltt
dens and eommunitv condition.-.
hi t.ita State ’s Capita! ar. d in :
W- ke County
A graduate ;:-r Nig:'. Carolina
A trieultura! and Technical Co’-!
k'ge. he did graduate work at 1
Ihe University of Chicago and
-k-rvvd for a number of vgars aa
'.Continued on page 8 Ist Section* i
S.C, VOTE BATTLE
HEABSTGUOOUBT
IN BEAUFORT CO,
Columbia. S. C. (ANPi Beau- |
fort Countv Democratic party of
- fscials face court action if the ’
names of Negroes are struck from
party enrollment books fee imp <y
oecause they ar- Negroes, ;,<■ :
.•erdmg to State Chairman Job t
H. McCrti,. of the Progressive
IX mocratic patty here last week.
This :-:f.•dement was made after :! !
was reported that 250 Negri- os.
enrolled in Beaufort county, had
Ivon told pc:: to county;
■Continued on page 8. Ist Section, l
$250,000 Suit Charges
Store Owner With Rape
Chicago (ANP) - A fantastic
>tory of rape and sexual ho or
was told by a white divorcee t->
Chicago police last week as she
• filed suit foi $250,000 damages
, against a wealthy Negro fu.nt- ‘
! lure store operator in superir. ;
j court.
Miss Helen Tii pac, 23, in this •
; suit, accused Maurice- Scott, 43.,
j owner of the Maurice L A. S Scot ;
furniture warehouse on the neat
j south side, of beating, attacking i
.old torturing her for three da;--'
I in his apartment,
j He: suit, filed by Ally. J. W.
i!lorwitz. claims thru Scott forced :
, iit-r to go naked before his em J
| ployes. i
j Scott and the two employes. :
1 Albert J, Brown 2,4, and Frank '
j Martin, 34, have already been in
! dieted by a grand jury, and are '
j scheduled to appear before Chi, !
j Criminal Judge Cornelius J. Har
' ringlon this week.
Came To Store Furniture
i According to the woman';, story '
; she first came up to Scott’s firm ’
to store her furniture after ob~ j
taming her divorce. She had I
i broken up her apartment and
! gone to live with her parents.
When she dropped by the ware•
the furniture. Scott told her he
! bouse May 1!) to pick up some of
| wanted to show her something ;
i on Ihc second floor which turned
out to be his apartment.
There she saw a red haired
| woman who told her to submit
|to Scott in order “to be treated .
i well.'’ After the other girl ’eft,
j Miss Trepac said. Scott beat he:* i
■ when she tried to leave, too. i
Mrs. FDR Will Not
! Run For V.-Pres.
Or Other Office
I
WASHINGTON <ANP -- Mrs,;
(Eler-nor Ttoor.ev. It guv: n positiv.'
|no to the possibility of her run
i nie.g fo* vice- president of ihe Unit
ed States in the 1948 election.
I Ht'r answer came last week fol
j lowing a suggestion by -Mrs. Clnt«t .-
j Booth Luce that a Truman Mrs
I FDR ticket would be the Oernocra
! tic Party’s only hope for victory,!
Pri siderit Ti tmtan had later stn'et!
that lte would not mind having lur
as a tunning mate
j The -jiicsUon of Mr--. Roosevelt s
i k'r' .didacy came up after Mrs. Luce, „
1 former congresswoman and ardent
| Republic an. wrote in a newspaper
jaWiele ti ml the President could
; capture the Negro vote from the i
! Wallace Third Parly only if Mrs
! Roosevelt ran for vice pre d:h a;.
| Mrs Luce :• iid:
••She 'Mis Rooscvrit» is the only
I person in th- p.arty wiio could take
i i; from Walh.cc the Nr■_-)'> vote
: the labor vote, the underd - r ; minor
j ity vote.
! "That is because she is the only
! person in the parly qualified to tear
Ihe Rooseve't mantle off Wallace
and by sharing i! with Truman.
: p irtiaily restore ii lo him. S c
: would keep a ‘iron?* lien on the
■-.a-: pi o-Boos-, v.-li vote !ha< still
Dewey Promises
Fight For Rights
Lgw If Elected
MV MARK HVMAN
PHILADELPHIA (AN* When
•Gov Thomas K. Dswey of New
' York leit Philadelphia Saturday a
! ;,he Republicati canaidafi. for the
i presidency oi the United States, he
: left behind linn an open statement
j that, if elected, hi will use all of the
! powers of his office to enforce i
,vi n 1 civil 1 1gilts owasiue.
A few niiinn.es before hi- depar
; lore Dewey mot with a mixed
committee- which put the civil rights
; resolutions: to him bluntly. Amo ia
'he member- of this committee were
Edgar Brown president of the Na
> inn •! Negro Council. Perry How-j
National Ropnoho..: ffniimr
teem.in t«u M's-isisipp:: George W.
; Lea. delegate from renne.-se'.' C B.
■ IV,ulei io' Mississippi, ana secretary
lof the executive committee; Ti C.
Giant delegate from Nashville;
Mai . 800/e. of Mound Bayou. Miss ,
: • • • • Negro com mi U et‘worn a n
, iif ; !jC National Republican com
mittee. and Ccrella Warfield of
i Bi-ei-ixiinon. W. V.c. a member of
■ th, committee on arrangements.
Thus ended one of the most dra
m;;iic Republican conventions of ad
ti.. a: d. indeed one of the mos 1
hopeful t- r Negroes. There seemed
She did not get out of his
apartment for three days she said,
until he went away to New York
on business. She went straight to
’Lh police then.
During those three days he is'
supposed to have beaten her, rip
ped off her clothes and raped he;
; n front of employes, bathed her
ancl taken her to his bed, accord
ing to her story.
Draft To Drop
[ Quota System
_
—— -
Washington (ANP.) —The quota
i system of admitting men into ihc
army will probably be dropped i
under the administration of the ;
new draft law. Socv. of the Army |
Kenneth C. Royal! revealed last.,
i week in a press conference.
| Tloyail said that although no j
: definite decision had been made i
on the quota system, he knew ;
that there would be no reference
made to race in selecting men;
for the peace time conscription j
rimy. j
This action would be a reversal
of the policy followed during
World War li which limited the \
nunibe; of Negroes in the army
j to 10 percent to correspond with i
■ the percentage of Negroes in the j
j total population. i
i Recommendations of' the Qil« i
■ I'enu h : *in ciailOli where it b’ ; -
camo an article of faith that FDR,
;with all his faults, was for the poor
man. '
When a.s'.tcd about the article and
its suggestion of Mrs Roosevelt as
his running mate. President Truman
1 told reporters it would be nil right.
; tie said that he had not seen the
; story, however
Miss MaK inn Thompson Mrs.
Rqok' v. it’s secrctaw. speaking tor
' the former tirsi lady said that .site
had “no intention of running for
public office at any time whaiso
cver."
RUMOR REYNOLDS
FOR TOP GOP POST
PHILADELPHIA <ANP> •- Be
fore the Negro Republican leade's
• left this convention ctiy. they n*ld
u meeting among themselves to de
cline ;■ program for the coming cam
paign. They were in agreement that
one Negro should have a top post
: in the Dew -y-Warren combo, with
other Negroes scattered throng. t
• the. division,c! headquarters. Hobs m
Reynolds of Philadelphia •.vaa
; Continued ojj page 8. Ist Section>
to Cave been an -air of confidence
:and h-pc emoftg many Negro dele
gates after Dewey's win, oven
though some of then were staunch
Taft supporters. Admittedly they
liked DeweyV record as Governor
of New York and expressed pro
found hope that be would dupli
cate his record on a national scale
; when in the White House.
FIRK WORKS
Saturday and Sunday, prior to
the official opening of toe convert
: iContinued <m page 8, Ist Section)
OVER VOTE ISSUE
GREENVILLE, S. C • ANP'i
White people in the state of South
Carolina a) split into two camps
on the question of whether Negroes
■I should be allowed to vote.
The break in the Democratic par
ity is between the Tidewater aristo
jorats r i the upland farmers. The
upland' - mo detenu/g the right
'of she Nerro to vote but the low
danders are opposing it.
Liberalism however, is not the
reason for the support T the Nc
. oc-. vi h ran observe.":- -av. Tradi
tional individualism of the upland
u-s and differences between the two
, groups dating back to the days of
Andrew Jackson are the roots of
This division.
The open brittle carn< to the front
after May ID when the Stale Demo
cratic party convention decided to
set up two primary laws, one for
. Neemes and one for whites. Whites
could then vote merely after regis
• tering in the party enrollment
•bool:.-, but Negroes could vote only
if they present registration certi
i ficates showing they arc “qualified
! voters."
•' (Continued on page 8 Ist Section)
Rondolph and Grant Reynolds,
! co-chairman at the Committee
j Against Jimcrow in Miltary Ser
; vice and training, went on with
| their plans for either an integrat
ed armed forces or civil dis-
I obedience.
The’, have requested an early
j conference with President Tru
; man to discuss with him the pos
sibility of his issuing an execu
tive order calling for integration
iof the troops.
ff such an order is not issued,
1 they plan to institute their pro
. posed civil disobedience program.
|ln this actvity ail men of draft
age would refuse to register and
■ go into a segregated army.
I Willard S Townsend, labor
! leader, and the Congress of Ra
| (Continued on page ft. Ist Section)