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•RAINEY OUSTER THREATENED *! MAN BITES | POLICE jt>HU.Aiit.LPHIA lANP) A Saturday night family tight between tv»o brothers ended in a free tior ail with two poiice mtn Joining in and one suffer ing bites on the right hand. / Brothers Alfred amt Marry Alston ate said vo have been having it out so loudly that neighbors called the wagon When police came to quell the fracas, the brothers, once di vided, now joined forces agains. the cops, Fists fiev> and sticks bounced tn ana oft heads until the eider Alston was drag ged from the house to the wagon. its Alston was being lugged to the wagon, he struck out with hi; beet aa>d sen. Patrol man John Holden to the pave ment. it was here that the of ficer said Alston jumped on him and bit him in me right hand. At .he nos pita), the officer's hand required three stitches. At the hearing, Alston was beia without bait charged with mayhem. RANBOIMTO CONTINUE ‘CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE' WASHINGTON (ANP) ln a letter issued Finlay to’loaders of the major political parties, A Philip Randolph is quoted as savins he is still hoping that con gress or the President will ye! outlaw racial segregation in the a; my. The letter, addressed to Presi dent Truman, Thomas h. Dew ey, Carroll Reece, J. Howard Mc- Grath and others, stated that "the abolition of segregation in the armed forces is the only solu tion acceptable to a vast majori ty of Negroes and liberal Ameri cans.’" Mr. Randolph made it cleat That he has no desire to advocate siifh a drastic treasure tor ita own sake but that “under the circumstances' he has "no alter native but to counsel civil dis obedience'’ Randolph is quoted as desiring "all leaders in the nation to know tnst. the League lor Non-Violent Caul Disobedience Against Miii tary segregation -considers tin’ executive order establishing the President's Committee on Equal ity ot Tratrne-m and Opportunity in the Armed services as most inadequate.” The national coordinating com mittee of the league, which met in Chicago last, week went on record to denounce the Presi dent’s executive order as totally inadequate and voted “to con tinue the civil disobedience cam paign until sgregation in the armed forces is abolished either by congressional action or exeeu tive order even though thousands may face intimidation or impri sonment.” postal" aluance HOLDS INSTITUTE Thirty-three members of the National Alliance of Postal Em ployees from nine states and in eluding three national officers, three district presidents, and Mrs Alberta J. Braxton, National Vice President of the Ladies Auxiliary, were in attendance on July 30 31. ana August Ist at a week-end institute on worker education held at Ohio State University. The Alliance’s .Education Com mit tee in co-operation with the (Continued on page 8. Ist Section • OKLA. COURT DENIES 3 PERMISSION TO ENTER UNIVERSITY j Oklahoma City (AMP) —Three women, Mosdarnex Ada Fisher of Chicasha, Mauderi* Hancock Wil ma and Helen Maxine Holoiro, both of Oklahoma City, were de ■nod court orders compelling the University of Oklahoma to admit them for graduate study, here last week. The refusal to rule in their favor was made by District Judge T. JttsLin Hinshaw. in the Fisher case, the jurist held that a separate but equal law ' school had been established .by the state, offering Hw courses, in compliance with the U. S. Su preme court verdict. He did not say anything about the adequacy ~ of the. school. As fer the other two women, their pleas were denied on the contention that they had given uoiiee of their desire to pursue graduate studies In social work and commercial education only three days before the opening of the university’s winter season last January. Hinshaw did not make it dear whether the- ruling was based on _★★★★★★★ ★★*★★★ ** ★ & '★ ★ ★ ★ ★ * •k W W W : 30.000 VOTE IN S. C. iwf#|w#w w rara i ran RHI wp - f ""' 1 'at, • * • '’ ■ - ■ THE CAROLINIAN lB'rv::-v;V,T:^Liiw.Aw;: ; y,“ ---w-T--A/■■ -■■■■■- •- -----—— 16 Pages VOLI ME XXVIII POLIO CASE REPORTED HERE -jfc- ★ ★ ★ ★ T*r ★ ★★★★★★★ ★ '★★★★★ ★ if ★ TELLER 1N52,977 SHORTAGE . POLIO DOWNS 8- VEAR OLD BOY IN CHAVIS HEIGHTS 'North Carolina’s polio toll - climbed to the unprecedented to ~ • ltd ot l,3kf this we«A. with one i cgse reportc-i in the city's Chavis . Heights Housing project. '1 he stricken youngster, who . was admitted to St. A.;nes Hospi tai last week, was identified by s County Health Officer Dr A. C i Buiia as eight year old Louis Ha ; vi*, ?• , the .m, , i XL. a:i.. .r« i Louis Davis of 3 Asha Ter; at e, Chavis Heights. This case two others which were admitted to the Hex H- s-' > pita! during the week boo-fed the county’s total for the y.--:,r 28 t At St Agnes the Davis child’s condition was reported on Wei nes.lay morning a-, “tair". - Alate an 1 local health ofticiai Stated Htji if, CP.s llgM ot Uie . *3i ■ ,- tinued high in-idc-nee of the dir. t eaSe PXiStilig pdio ’ »-\t!' ICt > jUS would be continued m eifect. In the meantime a dreary-' pos t si-bilitv was offered bv Dr. Hav! i Van Ripe;, medical director for - i Continued on page. 8. Ist Section? ; ON UNIT BLASTS MARRIAGE BAN GENEVA (ANPi The commit tee on human rights of the UN f■■ ..iiomic and s-,0,, ai cour.cd , ■-r-d ia-ft in xa\ or ot « Caiiackan resoiii ; lion condemning all legal measures ■ against mixed marriages, ii was learned here Thursday. Six tiiem i :be is of the comrmtee abstained. The Canadian proposal was a ' compromise between conflicting re ; olntions advanced by Chile and ike iSov.et Union. Since the committee j Las the same membership as the [council, it is considered ccrtant That the council will also back the i j Canadian revolution which says the I j council deplored "all legislative j measures to prevent mixed mar l riages between persons of differ ? jent color, nationality, race or re • ; Jigion “ ? the fact that the applicants had j t not given sufficient advance no- j * bee to enable tW state u set. up i . the graduate course for Negroes ! t a«f they desired. * : According to Ally, Antes T. j t jHail of Tulsa, the -cases are to be ) * i appealed to the state and U. S. ! 5 ; supreme courts. Mrs. Fisher's j > cast has already been before the j <vo courts twice. Hall also said ' he would launch another ■vitack j •’ !tn the state’s segregation sta < | lues in the U. S. district court * I He will seek to compel admission - equal facilities feu the two races t | of Negroes to white schools when ■ r i cannot be provided. Meanwhile, the state govern ! . ; ment began work on a bill for the • 6 | next 1 egislature which would t i alter Oklahoma’s 40 - year -old “ ' segregation laws. This measure is { designed to open up white schools * jtc Negroes when the state urn s : versify at Langston does not of t : for similar and ectu&l work. The : atl-white university at Norman 1 bus 70 graduate courses which; i '■ Msngston doss hot offer. * NOR TH CAROL IN A ’.S' LEADING WEEKL Y RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA WEEK ENDING SAT! ED AY, AI'GC ST 11. 10-18 W \ t ifiqk y. -— y'. UR MINI)! 1> VISITORS Above are .mown Willutn and time- Rainr.*., <4 Sew York Oij who flew to Raleigh Monday to visit their parent* Mr. anti Mrs. E Rainer of 5?8 East i.enoit Street. tV.hiam .with earphones) u. the owner and pilot ~f the plane iturfag me war he v as a flight instructor in < ii.cagn and then at Tuskegee. He is now a practicing attorney in Sew York t H\ with otiii-r at t*l4*t geventh Avenue. Janies set i etl during the war with the Sea tees and now oper ates an electU-al business in New York till Carolinian Photo by Shephard Ready Plans For Negro Business imposition CHICAGO s'ANP) Heralding a new era of progress for Negro business, tire Chicago Neg; o . Cfcapaber of Uommeroe announ ced here last week that it is ra pidly comp;eting plans lot the ‘ forth.r iming Expofitioa on Ne ; gro business to be held at Giles Avenue armory, Sept. 4-6 A pro exposition conference with Negro businessmen throughout the mid ; die western state* is scheduled jfoi Sept. 1-3 in the Ida B Wells j-i.Ontitit.ua on pay.. S Ist Section) RACF PROBLEM IS Sill) TO BE SCUTE M SOUTH AFRICA ! I.OUISVTLLF < ANP; Better J polict- projection, bettet vocational ■ gtiid,-u-. fi and more opportunity for Negro physicians were borne of tiv improvements askvj for bj an in terracial group aftei completing a siA./ev of Negro problems in Louis ; iHc lasi week J The interracial committee, of 50. i headed b\ Po-'tmastev Joseph D Scholtr, reviewed' a ’’7s page .re port of the study completed ;o April, The repot > will be publish ed in September. J. Harvey Kerne, assistant di rector of the departm-snt of re search and •community projects of the National Urban league com i pleted the report, and the in terra • i (Continued on vagi 8, Ist Seuticc) Robeson And Wife | Named Communists NEW YORK (ANP) Paul Robeson. c<> chairman or the Progressive patty aiut hi-, wife, Mi-. F-landa iioode Robeson an anthropologist in infield, < timt., vs tio is running for sec retary of .rale on the i'fofn-s --ttve party’s six e in that state, were termed member-, oi the ('uiftiuunifct part's in an article written by Frederick Wellman *>i the World Telegram on August A Who's Who of Henry Wai- WA s I‘rogre- -.re party ccwi vintion unclosed today .hat ?'♦ of ihe key figures who founded the new party vvtre ' x " ' «***•*»-' CAMPAIGNER —-Vat Wash ington (lefts confers with Her bert Brownell, Jfr. Campaign Manager far Dewey - Warren open or secret members of the < oiitmunity party,” the • ruy begun Continuing, the story said that "the survey was marie pub in- tn Counter-attack, ami <Mmmunist newsletter publish ed by former I BI agents.’ At ei stating "among other leaders listed as Communists were Paul Robeson, Airs. Robe son." etc. The story said, Mrs. marietta Bass, co-chairman of Women For Wallace, has sup ported Communist candidates tor office anti backed no less than eight organizations on the government's subversive list.” I Ticket daring a mcHmic in Wash ington iti vitiich Mr- Washing ! tffia accepted an appointment as 1 Assistant C&mpaijre Ma®ag-«r. SINGLE . COPY IOC NUMBER 6 GIRL HOilS USE OF FUNDS FROM BANK ACCOUNTS The- need tor money and the handling of large sums of it proved too strong a combination tor Miss Leo la Lee, an employee of thi Raleigh Branch of the Me chanics and Farmers’ Bank who was reported last week as being $2,99? short in her accounts. According to the bank official;, Miss Lee who has been employed by the bank for nearly two years . and was in charge of Christmas ; savings accounts, admitted re- ! sponsibility for the shortage The loss, which was covered by the employee’s bond, was im mediately reported to State Banking Commissioner Gurney Hood who in turn reported it to John Hall Harming, federal dis trict attorney and to an agent of the Federal Bureau of Inver tigatiOii wrnch is making an ia -■ est igatioii. Miss Lee, who could not Vie reached sot comment, was ques- . Coned Tuesday by agents of the ; FBI whom she was reported to j have '.old that she had appropri- j • a ted the money for her own use [ over j period of several months, j J. H. Wheeler, vice president in charge of the Durham Branca, | and J. E. Strickland vice press- j dent in charge of the Raleigh Branch stated that the loss was j the i;rst in the history of the. B. :k since it was organized 40 I years ago. This was borne out by Com missioner Hood who described i the nank as one of the soundest I in the state and said that he had j not heard of any other shortage : since coming to Raleigh 17 years i ag"- C C. Spaulding, president of | : < Continued on page 8, Ist Section' j Baptists Fo Raise J' Million For Seminary LYNCHBURG, v a . iANPi —! . Baptist leaders ot Virginia backed, •by Baptist lenders in several other I 'states and the District of Columbia | approved a plan here August 3 to j rais. $1,003,000 for Virginia Thco-j i logical Seminary and college over; ! a five-year period. One hundred Baptists of Virginia I and leaders of the denomination i from other states were .-•lied herei bv Dr M Allen, president of] Virginia Theological Seminary and j .-ollege. who delivered the main ! add res- to the leaders who gather-' (Continued on page 8, Ist Section l j OKLAHOMA SUIT j SCHEDULED FOR !; STATE COURT ! NORMAN, OkTa Denied ad- c mission to the University of Okla- v homa by a decision of District c Judge T. Justin Hinshaw, Mrs. Ada t [Siputl Fisher, Mis: Helen Maxine I Holmes and Mrs. Mauderie Han- f rock-Wilson prepared to carry their i ease to the State Supreme Court, C Amos T. Hall of Tulsa, who togeth- j 1 - r with Thurgood Marshall, N A s A. C P. special counsel, represent- s ed tiie young women, announced !r today. ; f For more than two years Mrs. jfc ; Fisher has sought admission to the i/ ' university lav. school, The United; j State;; Supreme Court last January i I ordered, the State of Oklahoma to t i (Continued on €» Ist Section; jP ELECTION ODIET,! NEGROES CAST ! PRIMARY VOTE i | ; COLUMBIA, S. C. For the j ; first time since the days of Re- j ; const: action, Negroes went to the i polls Tuesday and cast approxi- ! : matcly 3U.OUU ballots in a Demo- '< 1 era tic primary in the Slate of j | South Carolina. The voting, made possible by rulings handed down by Federal . Judge J. Waites Waring, a na j live South Carolinian, was car- j j ried out without incident despite j j the fact that the State’s Cover - j nor, J. Strom Thurmond, is the J | Dixiecrat candidate for President ■ and one of the most staunch foes I j of President Truman’s civil rights j program. The rulings, the first of which ! ! was handed down by Judge War ! mg more than a veai ago, disal- I lowed the party’s contention that \ | it was a social club and therefore j | entitled to restrict its membei-j ship to members of the Caucasian j i race. Only Impartant Election ! This first ruling maintained k that the Democratic primary was : ! the only real and important elec- !' lion held in the state and was ; therefore an integral part of the 1 State’s election machinery anc! ’ consequently open to qualified ' »lectors regardless of race. The party then complied with ! the better of the law and permit- ; 1 ted the casting of votes by the (Continued on page 8. Ist Section? 1 CITY TO DONDOGT i RACE RELATIONS SCHOOL FOR COPS: LOUIS Vi LLE (ANP) five < irst course in race relations giv- ‘ on by a southern city to its rookie policemen will be started about j Sopt. 20, according io an an- } nouncement made here last week j bv Safety Director Davis A. Me- * Landless. The course will consist . c< a series of lectures presented 1 during the next eight week train- ’ ing school for police. ‘ The decision to have the course 1 Continued on page 7. Ist Section * $20,000 Offered For | New Palace Designs NEW YORK (AMP) lt was : f announced here by John A. Shaw, c Ethiopian 'counsel general in New s York, l.bat hu native country was 1 1 offering prizes totalling $20,000 10 1 ,he architects and engineers de- j j ■ igr.ing winning entries for the new \ emperot’s palace in Addis Ababa, i First prize to the winning design 11 will be $10,000; second prize, $6,000 j and third prize, $4,000 j t Those wishing to enter the con- j i test may get regulations by writing; ; to Shaw at 78 Water Street, New j s York. All entries must be submit- 1 c ted to his office by Dectember 10. ; Judges will be announced later ;i FIRST jl T'fis new palace wi]l be the first ( COLUMBUS, OHIO IS HOST TO LOTT CAREY MISSION CONVENTION The Fifty-first Annual Session of t ’he Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mis- 1 sion Convention, USA will be held ; % at the Trinity Baptist Church, Co- j p lumbus, Ohio August 31-Scptetrr jii ber 3, according to Rev Wendell ] J C. Somerville, executve secretary j s More than twelve hundred offi- i eial delegates from nineteen states jii will be present at Columbus. Ac- V cording to the Rev. Mr Somerville, 1 C the Lott Carey Baptist Foreigr !1< Mission Convention has 9,j R foreign missionaries currently serv- ; F mg in Bermuda, Belgian Congo,; b China, Haiti, India, Portuguese Is-. N land and West Afirca. ;3V The executive secretary further R states that the convention is cur- g rently erecting a one hundred and V fifty thousand ($150,000) dollar j building program in Liberia, Wes'! ft Africa. Iv SPEAKERS ! v Among the outstanding speakers jcl to address the Convention are: Miss; Paomal Das, Indian educator, Ai- (( Prisoners Pull Plows MONTGOMERY, Ala. (ANF) Negro prisoners have been l used in the place o l mules to I puli plows in the fields. State ! Prison Director Frank Boswell admitted here task week. 15c was testifying before prison investigators making a study of conditions in state penal insti ' tutious. According to Boswell, the | convicts "voituVarily" fonmstl ] teams of four, six or eight to plow the fields- According to his explanation, at Kilby prison farm the ground j vs as too »of. for the mules to work there. The prisoners de cided •'that it was better to puli the plows themselves rather than hoe the area. So, be added, they formed their plow teams and went to work. Men hni dragged plows at Atmore prison farm before his regime, Boswell said. He told of this 'workhorse” group to a legislative - public, committee which will eventually work out a reform program for state pri sons. PA. MAGISTRATE DEFIES WARNING TO QUIT RACE j PHILADELPHIA - Faced with ! the threat of criminal impeach ment unless he resigns from the | bench or withdraw.*, as the Pro gressive Party candidate for Can cic-s from the Fourth Pennsyi i vania District, Magistrate Josepn H. Rainey this week branded the threat as an attempt to halt the progress of the Third Party in the Quaker City. The Philadelphia jurist an : for mer New Deal Demo leader was warned r Deputy Attorney Gene; H. Eldredge- that his e dated the Magistrates’ j passed by the Pa. Sian . . s.a ;lure in 1537. A3fha« ■' .Jndge ’am: .-.as Warn;-.d m 3 letter from Elareaga mere than a weelt ago, no such warning has been .received by Mag istrate Hobson H. Reynolds, who is candidate for the State Senate on the Republican ticket for the S venth District. Commenting upon the letter to Rainey. Eldredgv said that he had intended the letter to be a "friend ly warning'’ and that he had also “in 1 ended’’ writing one to Magis trate Reynolds since he interprets the Magistrates Court Act as being designed to keep the judges out of politics. iContinued on page 8, Ist Section) government-owned ruler’s resi dence in Ethiopian history Any style of architecture may be used in thr- designs, Shaw warned, however, of article 14 of the regulations of the Public Works department of Ethiopia, say ing that "the palace ensemble shall be of a sober and majestic style.” It must be noted by architects that “the Ethiopian dynasty draws its origins from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.” facts that should be considered in making the designs In the past, Ethiopian rulers have used their private estates as their homes. (Continued on page K, Ist Section) torney Eva Parker Crosby, prom inent Oberlin Ohio, Atorney, Dr. Vernon Johns, brilliant scholar and philosopher; the Rev. C. B. W. Gor inent. Oberlin, Ohio, Attorney', Dt. J. Vance Mclver, Orange, New Jer sey Other prominent speakers will include Dr. J. M. Ellison, President Virginia Union University, Dr. M. C, Allen, president, Virginia Theo logical Seminary and College; the R*v. C. M. Long, Jr., McKeesport, Pennsylvania, the Rev. H. T. Myers, Norfolk; the Rev, J K. Burkes, Newark, N. J., The Rev. Corscy O Mitchell, Berkley W. Virginia, the Rev E. E. Smith. Richmond, Vir ginia, and the Rev, R. M. Pitts, Winston-Salem. N. C. Professor V* E. Pat< 'Tv. folk, Virginia will dry*. • mention Chorus, con ,; '. - mi: voices, made up ot u n>u sfaoirs of Columbus One <*f the 1 ighliptua ■ 1 <*n (Continued on pajge tt, Ist Peruaa!
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