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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
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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
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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-
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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'
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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) '
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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. <n view of recent Fed- 1
' oral court decisions on similar cases !
|i n which equal school facilities foi '■
I the two races vvetc ordered by the ■
! court.
j An official canvas or. the bond i
i tContinued on page fi. Ist Section* ,
MIGHT DROWN AS !
BOAT CAPSIZES
1
Roredeie. La. (ANP;
j While enjoying a night of
boating during Fourth of
July weekend, eight perrons
were drowned, when their
power boat capsized in the
| Atchafalayo. river spillway at
Hamah, three miles west of
! T^-scdele.
Sheriff C. A.. Griffin said
that the dead included two
children and two women. The
victims wore from Baton
Rouge.
The riders drowned when
the boat. ferrying them j
across the half mile «piU- I
| way, overturned in the mid- ;
j Ale of the river. Ali the pas- ,
aengers. drowned before help
could be provided.
Acording So 1 the sheriff, the |
boat was overcrowded. It was
i only 1.2 feet long and was i
run by an outboard motor,
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KIRS 5 AM.I I (< AN BISHOP—
History was made at Canterbury
( atliedial in England when the
primate consecrated the first col
ored bishop ever io be installed in
the mother church of the Angli
can communion. He is (he Rev.
Percy John .limes a Wes'. Afri
can vv he is the ax-istanl bishop
of Sierra ! cone. Photo -hows the
\rehbistiep of Canterbury with
Rev. Jones after the ceremony at
Canterbury. iA.NT;
Dr. Marshall Shepard
(rives Invocation \l
Don veil lion Session
The Rev. Marshall L, Sbep
; aid, S. Recorder of Deeds
j for the District of Columbia and
j pastor of She Alt, Olivet Taber
nacle Church oi Philadelphia
delivered the invocation to op
en .he Wednesday morning
Session of the Democratic Na
tional Convention which was
held in Convention Hall at Phil
adelphia.
Dr. Shepard s Mt-cceil ed Dr.
William 11. Thompkins as p. s.
Recorder <.f Deeds upon the lat -
ler's death several years ai;o.
The post is one which tradi
tionally has been held by a
Negro as a reward for politi
cal serviie since the days of
Frederick Douglass
reiirtwswp won
in Shaw student
RALEIGH Dorothy Mills Chech!
of Hi-ndcr.-on, N. C , a 1046 graduate;
iof Shaw University was among the j
i&8 recipients of fellowships, and'
scholars!!,ps awarded by the Gntd
■ uati- College of the University ;-f j
Illinois for aovanccu study auring |
tin corning academic year. Miss j
Cheek has bom granted a S7OO 00 j
schalurship in Education.
The awards arc given to outstann
-1 mg college graduates to help them
■ finance further study, and are for
j the purpose of stimulating interest
iin advanced study, the principal
J aims of winch arc to develop the
I Continued on page 8. Ist Section)
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Jimcrow Forces White
Students To Abandon
School Building Plan
EDGEFIELD, S. C. (ANP) Because white residents of
the community objected, to the intermixing of white and Negro
i students at Bettis academy. 28 while student* were forced 1©
give up their plan to helping io build a new wing on one of
the school dormitories. The group, consisting ©j 22 girls and sis’
boys, came to the junior college last nth’nth from the American
Friends Service commit tea, Philadelphia, but left the school
Thursday without accomplishing their announced purpt.se.
Acording to Clements, his construction foreman told ’him
that the white youths, ranging upward in age iiMm 1$ years,
had been slaying el the academy and asked that they be m«da
j ! to leave. He and Sheriff Price Fallow of A then county made four
trips to the school and urged the group to leave "because you
are wrong place and it would be. best to get Out."'
White said he d|id n.*t try to invoke the state lew which
1 forbids mixing of the trees at meals or in living quarters. He
said that the school, a private institution straddling both Edge
field end Aiken counties, passed out pamphlet* advocating that
! all races spend summer vacations together.
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NO SEGREGATION
IN PROGRESSIVE
PARTY PLATFORM
WASHINGTON (ANP) - A
.'runs anti-jim crow prank was in
! eluded it< the new party platfcrni
made by the Washington committee
• r Wallace Wednesday.
; The platform pri sen led at fho
; .'onven'ion held in Washington Sal
j urda.v. July 10. pointed out that
•: racial discrimination is the iv.o.J
undemocratic situation existing in
ihe District of Columbia.
“We demand the obolliion by
law nf ratal segregation in tlie
public schools and recreation sac-
Li. i-s in all housing build, fi
i naneed or loan-secured by the fc)-
: oral govei'ntr.ent, in the National
j(1 \. •. d. in the hospitals, and in all
i",her places of public accommoda
| !ion:- whether publicly or privately
i.,'--ned. We demand legal sanctions
1 tgainst discrimination in public or
j p:-ivate employmen! on account of
: race, color, creed or national origin;
and we cal! for a fair employ met it
j'Continued on page 8. Ist Section)
BUSINESS GROUP
MEET READY FOB
ATLANTIC CITY
Plans arc now practically com
> 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)