lH f"\ t> 4Hi HT'\T i'll' 4 I’s / Q i iiTin g gv JL i A.l % A A A JL/jl. 1.1 lliU 111 A • \J« DEM. DE FEAT LOOMS THREAT TO PARTY CHANCES SEEN IN ROW OVER RIGHTS By JOE SHEPHARD A strife-ridden and shaky Democratk Party went into na tionai coiivention this week con- 1 fronted by the most scrams threat to its continued ascendan cy which has faced it in nearly a generation Despite trumpeted cal is f.»: party unity and sn-uiaritv by Krynot- r Alhen Barkley and-' former Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, the grea'-.-st dancers to ir t within the party rather than continued Democratic rule st’i from the opposition. The key figure, about whoso utterances and policies developed first friction, then dissent ion and finally. downright opposition within his own party is the Party's chief and standard beare". Piesident liar S. Truman. Snatched suddenly from the relative obscurity arid calm ol the Vice Presidential spot to fill the over sized shoes of the late Franklin Delano Roosevelt during a period of extreme national emergency. Truman's popularity j has fluctuated with an almost we a ther-like ync c r ta.nl v durin g the years be ha served as Pit*. dent Rights Issue To Fore In addition r- the p-iedcins r.-f the late war years, i. conversin'!, and of permanent peace, the for mer Missouri Haberdasher found himslf bc>-’t by a host of serious, highly controversial and poten • Contmued ,m page a Ist Section i First .WAVE Enlirts In Regular U. S. Navy During D. C. Ceremony WA S HIX GTO N (A NPi— M i ss Edna Earle Voting, yeoman, second class, is the first Negro WAVE to be sworn into the regular navy. Miss Young was one of .he six women who took the oath of enlistment at the MV)- department Wednesday ad ministered by Rear Adm. Geo. E ftUbscii, ju'gc- advocate grn eral. Miss Young is a native of Sprlngfieiii, and received her education at Technical High school and Ray Patch Institute of Commerce of that city. She enlisted in the naval re serve in 1345 and received her reecuit training at the naval ALABAMA YOUTH GETS REPRIEVE MONTGOMERY'.. Ala - Schedul ed for execution early today, S. ro ue! Taylor, 20-year-old rape chaise victim, wa- at the last moment granted a reprieve on order of Jus tice Wiley Rutledge of the United States Supreme Cuuri Justice Rutledge issued his or der to stay -execution in respun: v to an appeal by Frank Reeves. N. A, A. C. P. attorney in Washing ton. Taylor’s lone fight to escape death in the electric chair followed con Negro Workers Barred j Only Doctor Deserts Practice in Tenn. Town PAL.MER, Term, (ANP) This East Tenn esse coal mining | community of 3,000 is without the benefit k*f medical proieclion, j as of las! Thursday because of the action of the only doctor in i closing up his clinic and moving lo the horn® of his mother .near Mcßae, Ga. Dr, Oscar H, Clements. 38, white, nvdved his family from Palmer and stored his clinical equipment at Chalianooge, after having practiced here for the last 14 years. His moving was in protest against racial discrimination that recently denied Ne groes the right to work on his new home. Accordingfc Clements, his construction foreman told him j that five men came to the house site after the foundation had j been laid and warned four Negro bricklayers from Chattanooga not to begin work. The foreman, Joe Creighton, said one of the live told the bricklayers, "We won't even allow Negroes to come inlo Grundy county, much less work here." The bricklayers had i been imported because there were no local workrs available. The townspeople want the doctor Ad return, but are unani mous in saying that Negroes are forbidden to work in Palmer because of racial discrimination. Deputy Sheriff Jim Dickerson at Tracy City investigated the report, but says he would take no action. "There may toe one ot two Negroes in the county, but I'm not sure." Grundy k listed as having 11,522 residents. The 16 Pages VOL! MK XXVI!I BISHOP DAVIS IN $5,000 SUIT +■ + + + tAt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ -tr V ★ tAt ir ★ V "*r ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ YMCA Begins Member Campaign Y DRIVE LEADERS NAMED, GOAL SET AT ICSS MEMBERS RALEIGH J W. Eaton, prior; p.d nf he I.iii-ire Hur.Ur Public I School or named genera; ■rhairmai To-wpii t, Stredwictc. j manage. Harris Bar tier College ha.*- : been chosen campaign director of : tii' Bh-odwortb Street YMCA Ti-irti - Continued in page- 8. Ist Section) venter, Hunter college. New York. She is currently on duty in he bureau of naval operations where she experts to remain. In his welcoming; remarks, Sec y of Navy John I„ Sullivan stated* that ;ne ceremony ac cepting- the first six women into tne regular navy marked a milestone in tha department. Although there arc only 2,000 women in the WAVES today. Sullivan said, (he navy hoped to enlist 6.500 within the next two 'ears There are six Negro WAVES among the 2,000 who arc on ac tive riif y now. - vi< tion by an Alabama jury in Mu - j bile oii November 19. ',946. Ar :: rested with three other N• gi -.• i youths, he wo- charged with t:.o - rape of a 14-year-old while 1 |in the small south Alabama town |of Prichard. Beaten and threaten-, • jed by police, he confessed to the . crime. Later he . epudiated this . confession. The NAACP. through a local white attorney. Nesblt Elmore, un i derrook Toy! a's: riefense appeal • (Continued on page 8, Ist Section. NORTH CAROLINA’S LEADING WEEKL Y RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA YVK.KK EXITING SATLRRAY, JGLY 17 19 1H x A'a NS#? c%t "H iijjrV ' 'r . SN : "h life mm WASHINGTON, 1). < I ishop II T. Med I'ard. newly elected ol t'icial of the VMI- Zion ( onfrn-nc to- the 1:: h District rempn the foreign conferences of the church including West Africa ha been appointed to superintend the Albemarle and Virginia t'omV: • ('Continued -c page 8 Ist Section) Civil Rights Would Mean Slavery Claim Va. Demos RICHMOND (ANP By a peculiar twist ol logic and slave | psychology Virginia white Dem ocrats see in Iste rivil right.-, program for Negroes the en slavement of the white popu lation. The legit- is it Negroes enjoy civil righ.s. whites will be slaves '!b: is the kind of appeal that white leaders made Sa-I week at th.- Virginia I)rm« cratic -Tate emirentimt The keynote speaker assailed S’fcsi- % \ - I KECK! VMS SCHOLAR SHIT Martin Katsman of Berkley. ( al., j receiving the certificate -l award ior Ihe SBOO Alma Wells Givens scholarship of lit,- Women's auxi liary to the National Medical as ! mentation. Mr. Katsman is pictur ed with Mix EeCou'ii Matthews of Washington vbe served as proxy for Mss. Givens, o'gani*ri • f he w omen's auxiliary, and for j Mr*-. Wilbur E. Pannc-li, chairman I of the Alma Wells Givens Scholar ship fund. (ANT) M, H, DAViS SUED SY BALTO, ATTY, FOB LEGAL FEES BALTIMORE -ANP; - Bishop Monroe H. Davis is "no longer pre i iding over the second Episcopal fi.-lrict but h- is still piagueci by -nils even though located in :VT:s --! iss ll . The sr,A>3s suit i-nimrl i court here Jul; ti was based, of j i nurse. Oi ; a,; old case instiluLd ry n Baltimore a'.-or j nry. the p&’ilion charges ;he A the - I an Methodist F.n -.-opal bishop j veteran in otty#'. litigation, v. bo l T tjilure to pay fee- charged for lit".:: i services oi several cases in i vliving the prelate. .1 s.- .h F. Henry, J r „ the attos ! »jo.v. said in his suit presented heie ni.il ];■■- defended Biskon Davis be i tore the Federal court and e.ccle | -oastHail bodies of the AME church or, charges of embezzlement and i fraudulent use of church funds. The lawyer also said he repre sented the bishop before ecclesias tical bodies and the federal court 1 (Continued on page 8, Ist Section) dent Truman’s civil rights pro gram us a "hydra-headed fed eral bureaucrat' leading the 48 -• ate:, and their peop.e into bondage.’’ The warning was jittered by \Y Taylor Murphy, of Warsaw who added: "file illusion of additional civil rights i- what the program offers. Control of the destiny of the American people is what the program seeks.’’ Though Virginia Democrats •' < Continued on page 8. Ist Sect ion' __ j i GOP Congress’ Failure j !On Rights Bill Rapped ! i « NEW YORK - Not a sint.lv ma-1 ' jor Civil Rights recommendation , has been adopted hv the 80th Con- | | press end that administration lws: I failc-d to take any measures to i r »- ! piement •he Committees report, aft I Civil Rights Plank Urged As Democrats Organize Platform Ph i ;adcl ph ia Endorsement of ire recommendations of the President's Committee on Civil y; . o *:i \ ,r. e : ji IP me era tie Convention was urged today by Walter White. NAAC-P secre- . v speaking before the conveu ti-.-n's platform com it ittee on be half of 21 national Negro organ • ts Nations with a combined ; mem ' bership of more than 8,000.000 STATE BEPT.MUM .CHKEWIMSTO! FOR LANIER POST Washington (ANP) State Do . . partment officials r.s well as the President remain nmm on the j Question of who is being ronsid "red as next minister to Liberia, i as the termination of Dr. Raphael I O’Hara Laniers so vires in thi ft"i having served so: two years ,i> --nvoy extraordinary and mini ster plenipotentiary to Liberia, Dr. Lana i spent a week, at the ; state department on consultant . .-vice !•• !* :e lea ng Washing ton last Wednesday to take up !ii- new duties as president of tb, Texas State univt-isily for No- Daring ids stay hen he had an oppoi tunit 1 to talk with • Per > iden: 7 ' uinan vrhicn was re ported as a very friendly and e.noitble visit. But the official na iCmtimiKl .a! pagr 8. Ist Section) , I • itnaiysis of the legislative statu? >1 j nhe niajoi recommendations of tiiei ; President's Committee on Civil j ■ Rights and t,ne IJH44 Republics:!' j Party platform has revealed. ■.Continued 'on page #, Ist Section) ' SINGLE H „ COPY 10c NO. 2 “We urge and insist”, Mr. White toid the committee, “that the! platform of the 1048 Democratic’ 1 convention endorse without oqu. • '■ vocation the entiic program of j the President's Committee on ; Civil Rights and especially ihos> provisions to suppress lynching and mob violence, to ban the poll ■ tax as a voting requirement, to : aff-.rd equality of job opportun ity, and to abolish discrimination , and segregation in the armed ser- \ vices, education and transporta- ! ’ ion.” Support Cited Mr. White icminded the Demo- i crats of the .support which Negro j voters have given that party and ; pointed out that “in reasonably close elections, these voters arc a vital factor in some 75 congres- i siona! districts in at lea«t 17 bor . o’er and northern states with a ’ota! of 295 electoral votes. In ; 944, this vote was essential to the victory of the Democratic pm ty. In northern and border states. 1 iContinued on page* 8 Ist Section) 1 Va. Schools May Equalize j Schools In Ihe State RICHMOND f ANP> Funds for a suit to compel Princess Anus 'County to equalize educational iac ! ililies for Negro and while children have been set aside by both the na tional NAACP office and the slate conference here, it was revealed tfis' week The NAACP has been icady for months to go into the courts to | force a showdown on the nasty ! situation in the court, but hesitant Negro leaders in Princess Anne have continued to look to the school ernard the supervisors and the ef i torts at two referendums on bond ' is'ues which were defeated in both i instances A spokesman, for the NAACI* j state eo! Terence said last week that . victory e. practically assured once . j the school equaltaation issue is eat - ; ! ried to era. p!>‘U’d for the coininp convention i iuf the National Negro Business j League, the National Real Estate 'Broker's Association and the Ift* j t.ional Housewives League, which i 1 i! ! convene in Atlantic City, N. •J. July liith to 20th. Attorney William A. Dart,, presi -1 deni of the Atlantic City Board of ' Trade. .id general t-haii man of a I four group preparatory committee ’ ha.- gone to great lend I', v'ith the j hope that this year's convention of *h. ■ • >.a;lonal nocies will be a vety I great success. John Harmon, executive sccrc of the notional body, has »r --j ranged a most interesting and in rhcctivc piogiam Many well , know n business men of both groups : will participate in Iht \ arious dis j ciissioTv .-nil Mrs. C. M, Fuqua, president of the Housewives .Lea rue. promises a program that Will (Continued on page 8. Ist Section)