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STATE ROLE IN NATIONAL AFFAIRS GROWING By JOE SHEPHARD Long overli:'»L •! o’’ consigned to a minor ruh in national at'fair:,, Dv T-.o hcd S;ate is at lum filming into its own as a mail*:- i'm-loi in tin -occd. i.vonomh and political al'faiis <>; tin* ;:ati;m. fjßjvMrara.' ON BROADCAST Mrs Mary IVli.-Cli-od Bylhunr*. top and Mrv manor t>. Roost* veil- Ih'Uhv, vi Ih> will discu*s thy work m the Na tional t’ouiull of Ni'“iu Wsiniii and launch the organisation's 'DMB noettibt rship drive tor on. hun dred thousand m e m*oihers on tin tri-weekly l*r« .tdcast ot Mr». Rooseult with In i daughter. Mrs Anna Uoov.tvrlt Boyttig«*r. At Federation Meet Women Hear Message From Welfare Aid State W; !f:;iv .-Halimi • Lt>d for presentation to the general as sembly vva? discus sed Saturday la Di. Ellen Wi*. -ton. state * mmis s’tiiier ot public welfare aid gut st speaker fa * ; • 1; JS l * meeting :;t tlu North Car<-!ui:i l*e<t * eration of N*-*:-m W.inur. C lub.- In * addition to oi 11. i m«r Hit* ]>t g:rnn which is to i • submitted t the 101' O* t .t/S: 1.0 W i ■ ron discus ed Hie baciu-Tuimd • plans Ji'u’ the M’uile l- 1 -*" 1 !ll ' 1 ' * nee on (’luldi • n • I';i --«:y V.l'. cli ; t.. be held ti! tV sii ington :i J fifit- On the ‘•tale reem- Di Winst-.n : cited ihe • cuU and gravt- need lor j boarding and foster hone.: lor ih** aged an chilren. In tins and several other areas ir.- speake- cited ap* port unit io.-, for service b> the Worrun- orgarv.itiot Mrs Ruth (5 Rush, president *1 the fedei.n in:. > rved as oil irman Following in: conference win, Dr. Winston the group met at she Arcade Hod he bus ness session. ■Reports *if the* ar-uviti*.- of the ■ t ;.anizatioti were made by Mrs. Rose fContiir.u-d on page tight i THE NEGRO AND JUSTICE SET AS AIBSHOW TOPICS NEW YORK "American Jus- ' f ee -old the Negro" will be divvu •• red on a nationwide American Broadcasting Company network . Mbnday night, February 14 it wa• .-in noun ceil today by the United Electrical. Had:-, and Machine Work* i ' of Ame lea UF.i. spon sors of a regulat weekly program I t.vt r the net v o\ Arthur Oao -<• one* ** Ar ica > roe radio m v reporters. w’ ,; cl;-- eefss specific ease*: o* e- legal discrimination .i n i Ni oc m; ifn; )’v. gr.ui v. :: h on’ mt moral, Negro History Week The pro:»r;>to f will original' i: N- York and ie itearcl coast-1 o-eu.i:t more 11«r*.; 110 sta'.'ions. Mr. Gaetl) r. bivught to a nation al audience- every Monday night by than 600,080 men and Women in Jo- , cal unions throughout the country j employed in the electrical matiufac- • tor mg industry 'Each week Mi flaetli brings to ! the an iniportani and informed. pdrsonalUies and poes into the homes at average families to uis cuss urgent issue of the day THE SINGLE * A 1G Pages | NOR TH CAROLINA’S LEADING WEEKL Y ; COP v lUC VOLUME XXVIII RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA _ _ WKKK EMUNC SATt UP AY, kTHkCAiA lii, 10 i:> NO. :Y2 FILIBUSTER WAR RIPPING RANKS OF MAJOR PARTIES ★ ★★★★★★ * ¥ * ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ★ * * ★ * ★ ★ * ★ NEW ‘SCOTTSBORO CASE’ UP DEMOCRATS NIP OOP ATTEMPT TO END FILIBUSTER WASH! Net TON. D. (' - J-ml'h - * ’> gaardlng tiieir newly-w-m > 15- ! • i as the Senate Democratic ; Mici::!).'; voted duv-.!, ~ Jiwti-.r. I ■ Mondaj to d;.-oha, «' ■ thr- lUites , j C« ninfUtec . ii< h i tui :Kn wlaud ~-ure which - • old | . j :■!. a !1; 1 ■ tu fllibust' i.' D.schargi ut tlie Ruier Commit- ! I tt-o. whici: i: conducting hearings ] .aid -duUyinp measm-e.-- aimed at .permitting the legislator.-- to put a 1 I I halt i<> ]i-i.. thy debate by a major*-:] , i ity vote. wouUI ha\ • t.u <-tfe< t t,f 1 bringing the measure t- the floor I | len- innnciiiaie act• -n D. feat . 1 the dSehai t: motion ; v. r.s Ev 0 votf of ;»G* !i 1 wjtii rcv (*n i i D* rviociTiih. AH 1 t :ho: *• v.iiu c-p-; While* -hr 0-. !* ,;! ol ihe motion | might fipiTor oi first glance to hr* j . vioforv t i S- uineri’ D- :,-vi■’ri —■ who h: ve been d-ut.tional use: - ,il the filibuster to block liberal leg- ( i.-lation. Capitol observer were in- i dined to | *--1a 1 : rhi.i. | np-'h ti, s side ■ 1 the in: '-m e ! had been me result of .1 previo .- ~.. !. ol ti)i- Dej-eoeratie leadc-i Hup t,< 'do tilings tlieli own wav and ■ V. * i ....... < . .. iduhl . VARINA FARMER WINS CONTEST 4TH TIME While many of Ihe nation's farmers are shcoling as a goal of 100 bushel, ot corn per acre W D Pe-gram ,f Vaiine, Roulc 1 is shooting at a goal of one and-one half times that. Mr. Pegr3m. winner of the Walt County Three .f. One corn contest far IS4B. made his acreage yield 142.5 bushels to the acre to make it four times in a row lnat ne has wen the c:.*npeii tion which is spitisoreq annually by the Raleigh Merchant s Bureau which awarded a total of SI DU in prizes Joe Louis Adams of Raleigh Route 2 won the 4 H club di vision with a yield of 76 1 bushels, while Otis Gill was runner-up in the adult division with 131.4 bushels and Robert Parham placed second in the 4-H bracket with 52 bushels Mr. Pegram and Adams won prizes cf s2o'each while- Parham received $lO Priest Blasts Va. ‘lnsults’ To Race ; RICHMOND Va --- A loeafcrth” |olio piit'.sf went to the microphone i Station WRNL here recently and deplored the burning ■.■( a cro.s in 1 the yard ol a Negro’s bnivu- or, | Richmonds Barton Hv.ght? Tf,< )..[• est wic Father Robert K , O'K.'.'u", who spoke over WRNL' ; Legion of Mary program. Fathei O'Kane pomted out that j th.o father of th * Negro family | hold; a bachelor or arts degree the ; mother expects to rew.vc an A. K. ! h orn Virginia Ur >n L m .’enuty this |>car; two <■» the daughter-, are high j school students and the son attend? : George Mason School where tns I tr.ther is a teacher Their home ;he said, u a tig corner house, well i furnished. .SHOCKED ■ Father O'Kane said white neigh -1 tors, whom he interviewed, were j stacked. He quoted one woman a? laying. "They've given us no trou ble, why should we tolerate arty on< giving them trouble ’ A.noth-j ■\ i*.; jo:* uvitipnee of ■ growing tinportfnK is to round in t’te > uinm. of the visitors who hav<* < unit 1 into or it .- plarwiing to '.'oim- info tin* state u-t op: ,-s or con.-vtili rnis. umi in th•..* types ol met.; mg or otlii'r jratliering?-. of national ur s'-.-tional irnpoilrnc" 1 J I \ l HAD IHI l DOM t> \\ HI 11 S —DiUgati* to tiic National Free dom Da\ A-•ociation eciemonies in I’liilatielpltl.i gather at "1 ( 1 herl> H.-I, to join in the tribute South’s Progress Cited raid that white people should aid Negroes in helping improve the ni si Ivor. by allowing them to have ’ good home sitor mid other oppor ituriitier. Another, whom ifn priest described ii- "thoroughly Virgir»- isn,' crni'C sed the npini -n "it w , i v(? • iu:kin ’ 1 1 ting to ce A : fourth neighbor attributed the in* • cidenl to tec-u-agers. Negroes Dion Id bo given eneour ' at"< nurii. said Fathei O'Kune. and : in. refer:' , v to the Catholic • Church's fiUiutdo, he said that S : . • Peter Ciaver w.i • oil c of many i Continued on page eighti ( ONTKII. i MON FIRST FOR YOriti CENTER INDIANAPOLIS, Ir.d, -- Bnnd • leadCi Lionel Hampton made the ! IH4S dot tat •'on tow .rd the Youth Community Center to be erected here this year. Fathei Ber jnard Strange. Pastor at Si. Rita's ! Catholic Church lure, is chairman [of the drive. to tho-e who gave ib.i ir lives for ti feilom. I lu-y include, left to ‘it. Robert .Miller, Chicago; lit v. J. Quinten Jackson, Phila delphia; Mrs. !Yl. 15 Gaillard, ol Sharply disagreeing with some 'if. flic pi evisiotis of Hie President? 1 1 ivil rights pn gram, but prc-ser.t --\ ift? a glowing picture of improving jcr.ndtions in the South. Senator Es j ter, Kefauvcr tohl the Institute of I Religion Monday that the Soldi'. : is i n the vay out of being "The Nation's N amber One Economic ; Problem.” Senator Kefouvci who spoke on "Th: Recuperatin'..' South’*, declar .l’d that the region is mak : ng gteaf ] progress not only economu nl'y. but iin the ; cairn ■ f undersi undine be lt ween the races as well. "Wo arc making great headway iin our way. toward solving our admitted problem," he said. "It j would have been much more h> our mutual advantage if enforce - merit of moral rights had ji.it been proposed by legislative tint. Tins ‘ the opinton of thinking leaders ■of both faces." scii.'iiur Kefauvcr, who during his ;tenure, a- a member of tin Hoso lof Heprc sentatives .'icijuirod a rep utation as one of the more libor.il (Continued on page eight) ML G. HILL NAMED WINNER OF TOP SCOUTING AWARD M C Hill, leader of Expimur 1 ' ■ .\u 52 ■,(.)( I Cd f,.y t? ' !' if ’j Bn ;>tlsl Church of Rah L'.u, wt awarded th? Silvia Benve. Sou.lay [: during spec til service.:. ;l th. I church. : The award, the highest rr.ade by the Boy Scout? ot Amerlca te L ea! i ci! seoufc rs, b sot dis i ng i ? cd .-l \vice to boyhood and >.vas ore ? -r;tect by H. K. Witherspoon. Cota:-' ud treasurer. Assisting in the presentation were R. Brooks Peters, Jr., chatr ' Inian of the Wake District. Roy Tvl. • 'Liles, scout executive; Zacß Eli is, ' j divisional commissonei, George F. • Newell, feid executive and M H • j Crocket Wake divisional chairman. : 1 1 Tip' select ton of Htli war made l tC >ni hfijed ou pag< six.,} . 1:0 rneu'Uh first, although the mus-.’ ' . - tiiiii <-vicleuce i < >n)ch growing impo.rtr.neo vv va tfed d n<r 1 ‘ • probidentiai camptiign \v: -ti oil font of ihe ’“major” Presidential candidates fomd Alabama; .Mrs. A White, ot ( hi taso; .Mrs. liicanor Wallace. Mas sjihus-Us: Chaplain Aithut Wil liams, Pbiladelj’liia ■ and J. V ISanuue, North Carolina. Business League Ready With Plans For Meet Plans were completed by ihe Progressive Business League cn Monday night for the presentation of Dr Vernon Johns, noted lecturer Bnd business autl'.'.ity, at a city wide mass meeting , scheduled to be held at the Martin Street Eaptisf Church on Thursday night a 8 p m Slated to appea r on the program in addition to outstanding Raleigh businessmen are Sister Gary s All Girl Chorus and the Washington High School Chorus under the direction of Mrs E. M Kelly. Other business undertaken by the League at its Monday night meeting included discussVJn of plans for ia permanent i meeting place, regular ’ meeting dates, and completion of ihe j group's constitution and by laws. Charles R Frazier and George Mitchell were named as additional members of the committee i on e.miituticn and by laws. Marva And Joe May Re-Divorce CHICAGO Joe Louis, ihe ring champ who never \ had a close fight with the same man twice, seems to have u lost his second decision to Dan Cupid. According to a statement which the Champ issued here Monday his beautiful wife Marva, whom he married, by whom he was divorced and whom In remarried, e now in Mexico seeking a second divorce. L 4 is who 'has been <r , hi ■■■■if! tour in the South, e-t,.. 1 j ?, Chicago Monday ;.nd told 1 ' ’j't'w- men that upon hi? return ho found that hi- wife had hone to i' IvL.-xico. < ATHOLIC HOUSE ADDS STAFF WORKER i T/ASI’ 11VGTOM, D C. - To as-L ■ s-r i in the rapidiy-expantling pro-!, an- «d the Saint Peter Ciaver efrn- ! j 1 ■ e ; (>re, Miss .lean Lanfc of St L Cloud, Minn., has joined the staff j 1 a ■ a fulltime worker. Located at i • ; 151.3 You Street N. w , thi center | was iounded sevsßhJ weeks ago . undo. Catholic auspices as "a meet- J. ing place r ■ ’.' people of all races.’: SEVEN AWAITING HEARING ON VA. ASSAULT CHARGE M A RT. IN S V IU..K. V a.- Me mories of Uie notorious Scottsboro cose ie winch nine Ne*ro boys spent' .men- than .; itornde t:ghtmg for : the-i;- lt\, a;i-itedont rater they : wt-fe cb.-a-ged with criminal .-atilt upon a white v.*onian were ; ;ed in Mi.rtinsvillf- last vvp. h The eci.a-: was the am-;.: ’ i a group of »i i. boys and men, jail ,osidents cf Fast Martin»viiLe. : on charros -.if engaginp In a crimi .ll.; :.=s„ U r. M. ■ Glen Floyd, ] a ..12-yc-av ow. w .w- ~n rn no ! dt-'iil <-1 tilt-: town. The prisoners, Wtio are being \ ht L;1 iii two jaib: outside of Mar ; tinrviiiC, were sonecJuleci lor a |*i-c --|Himr,ary hearing to be held on Fn idi y i f lh::s week. The victim of the alleged nttacji, however, i • treatmeiti ai Dtiki Hospital at Durham. N. V. wore imhetea dv her assaji^ni^’. A. a ie: iilt Common wealth Ai torney ! VV. Cubim- said that Uw hearing.* would be postponed- “in-: dclmitelv". T a seven defendan:-. wiio have 1 'been imprisoned since January 9.1 : the day following the incident, in-] from n, vo"so and two men 21 and; At that time neither Leu is no. i ’:. iHomey. Truman K. C.ibi.oTi, \\ ni’d confirm or deny runwi • , that til'.- puipo.,l of Mr?. I. U!i Hip was Unat of obtaining a di \ owe. i On Tuesday, kwever, the j an which he said that. "I received . Champ issued a second statement i pear before the- Mexican Counsul j a request from her today to ap- I to sign and forward my consent j to her proceeding. "I appeared thi*: afternoon be fore the Mexican Coamsul and j ’signed ail of the necessary pa- I (Continued or. page eight) • i expedient to appear and to speak in the state President I runian's visit marked the ‘ *• isT. •o the state by a Chief l£yveutiv < ot the nation during ’‘ e lifetime’s, of mo * o' ,u hi!.ab:t• ■ it’s. (Continued on uai.-e 8; first »•.* :> ;m ■ ' ■ v "SMfes- m ; ■ M/ -Jitf ■: CIPID KAYOED AGAIN—Mr. Mat .a i. mis. wife of Heavyweight Champion. Joe Louis ,who is now in Mexico seeking a second divorce aeordun' - ?»> a islemeuv issued Monday by Shouts in t hu ai : The couple was divorced in Air. after Mvs Lie . vh‘urged the chaiupi'm v. ah deer; aa, m>\ »•< e■ - u t vied shortly before the btrtJi oi t heir second child, a liti fe more than two years ape. They were first married in New Y ork in Chance To Speak Denied Publishers 1 NORFOLK Ya- - The S.-nat • Labor Committee up t.» S»nci.i> i morning' had ignored me request of ! the Negro Ne-.v-pap r Publisher! ;Association president tor an opii'.,,- 1 1unity to testify during cur. eiu (hearings on the proposed new labor : law. A telegram dispatched last Thurr.- Iday to Senator Elbert Thomas ; chairman oi the Senate Labor Cora ] mil tee. by Thomas W. Youtn;, JNNPA president, included the tex |of a suggested provision to be in i'eluded in any now legislation to- I safeguard "the right to work of all • minority grofips. including 1 tie n I million American Negroes.' It foi | lows: “Any agreement between an • employer and a union requiring »rrrployees, as a condition of employment, io lie members of any union which by its oonsti j tution. bylaws. regulations, j rules or long estahlistied prao • (ices, denies full membership to any person because of his nice, religion, color or national < rigin is hereby declared eon trary to public policy, and shall b < unenforceable in the courts of the United states or of (he j several states, or by the Nation al Labor Relations Board.” Young's request to l>e heard by ' the Committee, lie raid wat "in pre i.-rnt evidence showinp necessity I for such a provision In new iabci LAST BITES HELD If! RALEIBH FOB FRANK WILLIAMS Mr. Fr im. W .. nt* a i • "'ll vei c- .; of W ild v - , I. used at Ms . home. 7id Son'u East Sheet allot .-a brief illttCoS. j Ke is survived by one h'-oLacr, ! Fred Williams, five metes. Mis. j lsa Mae licks. Mrs. Alice Henry. (Misses Lula, Dorothy and Mary j Williams mid two nephews, Richard land .James W iliams Funeral service was held at the ■Manley Street Christum Church |with (he Rev. Hainan? officiating. ! Burial was completed at the N-a Itional cemetery. ‘ l.sv. if freed m of employment i? to p,-c- t: . ■-d f.,i tvoiktus and. (m ---. ’ The present Taft-liartlcy law in * (j'uic.-; it :-ection un.vtuFUng isniuiis L. because of discriminatory rules or ! cons tit ut-oual re.-ti'icuon i;'--"- Tore in r ( en';plu>-ers io dircuri. ■* fen* - plryees wi a union, shop U ihr-y arc • not room be vs of the union, In core:- of such <iiscrimination, the-. union v-hop ...givenu-nt is not : bindiru; upon the employ er. *lll-6 lexi of the Taft-Hartley ■'Hb ,n »■! dealing with th y- reads: (Continued on page .six) l; ‘ P At Freedom Day Fete FDR’s Widow Is Heard In Keynote RoSe i Thi climax us the 1949 National F Day ••ia-crvaiu'c was ched :■ . n ;.i• v ! at Town Halt, with a dra 'in a; io appearance of Mrs. Eleanor K;. -, r. widen- oi tm- late PrC sidi-ni Delano Roosevelt. M j: Ron even, was inti oduced to U-, t . v,i.;jy Lv the National I reed-.m Dry A‘-.-\h uitif.,-1 j-.:-!'. -iic:.', Fman- C Wright, who procured her l with -italion in behalf of the h an outstandini ciitzen of t!- t vsvd Stan. "Ti •i. .-I'l also ' r; i Mi- Rttis-.-veR ior nc-a ' timious eft'ort m spreading the ,- . ( j 'Fa erdorn il;n.;,|,h. ut the i ; J, jv»:po.. -.0. Ilia 1, Tit .•'idtTlt'S \ wid . \(>: < used )'■' '■ "i m U.e vi i i'l - Li mint'" i N«»- ‘lor. •-• • ' a't . i-e.'ii’ t\ tu-r •••U'lndi I , ili 1..0 1 a>- tliat • os. R, ■ ' i obtai. ui a wOi.e: > | reel- . V. La a apt:. .-act oi. Mrs. ; Roo. -Veit aon.-utuLmt the hign poi;. n the time day aromonlea c.irnme,';j j ing the forwarding to . Cnitiress ■ j then Pivsidc-m Abra , ham L.ncc.in of the molution re t questing the abolition of sioveiy, other distinguished giL-ita paid tri ■ bate to the occasion which was i : i.'-unded by the loti Major R. R. i Wright. Si . in 1941. ! This year'? observance was the ; tConUtikCd |a pape six)
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