* CIVIL RIGHTS FILIBUSTEffTIES UP U. S. SENATE
WASHINGTON The legist;!':v* vvh'.w ~•> > i
tlu* l . S Senate ground to a halt this wee,, as .
group of southern Senators plumbed their re.is of
bitter oratory in an effort to talk to heath a inoton
to halt filibusters in the nation's iiiyhcst !eyislati\<.
RELIGIOUS WEEK
MEET TO HEAR
DAYTON PASTOR
Religious Emphasis Week f.ev-i
vices will l»< held • : Sn;.w Culver-|
Fity Tuesuav through Friday *» ,
next wf.k The annua! '
religious urs will be dirt '■ ; i
by Dr H Laurence McNeil
tor of Zion Baptist Chinch in D;.y
ton. Chi ;. Service'- Tor ..ivy
Thursday morning-: will b; l 1
at 11.30 and Wednesda;- and Fri
day morning 10
Dr. McNeil, a ernduate of Virgin
ia Union University, Richmond,]
comj leted h:.- vv.! r. in Theology at j
McMaste: University, men located
in Torot.n. a,da In groat <>e
. round a . r, . i-n Ru ■ rr, • ,
ticipant, n • .UcN* il ha- t on ry.a-r
speaker at na-.ny of the < ir..-. «..f •
the coiiiivy At Shaw lA'>7. he
took part in a panel dm a n n 1
Race Relations with D. X ~d :
and Pr,,f F- : • d< ■
In Dayton. Dr McNeil is influ, n- :
tad in oi\ a , : It. ■i,
of the Interraratl C- ■■•nn i e.-e
Better Hon i: ... chairman of th
May r’s Committee on Employ-;
inent; <> ! m.dc: of the Dayton:
Urban L< . u<- and a membra of it' 1
Board <4 I'nrc-ctotr: Chairman ,-f
the Civic Committee again';’, dis
criminati. r :n Flo'd S« : \ico Tea
militant minister prosecuted two
fuxXi rti <t ..on e;,.-<-- ,n ope.’
court n.d w. iked picket to secure
employment .-l Negv< es as clerks.
These are ony few "t Inc ca: >
paigns he ha. waged a-’amst sec
ond class oil zenship
At Shaw University 'hot:, n
classes will be held ■ -
extra-curricular activities .
i.’! taimn: * fiatcre- will sus
pended during the Rel.im,:, K
; basis sene; Th( r-n* re .
will cooj erate to encourage eve.
krenter than usual enif.has up
11 religious life for the week Inst, ~e-t.
t. .- cu. tomariiy det* r ies
w ritten assignments in keepin: with
KE\ \ -\AC;P LEADERS
TO ADDRESS PARLEY
TO BF HELD \\ (TTY
A w ip -.4 key N A AC" ■
j i: the South will address a meet
ing f the s uthe astern Regional
Cmti-renec the National Ax- )-
cintion fee the Advancement of
Colored People to he held here
March 2hth and 27th.
S -utherr leaders scic duied to
address ’ the- conference are:
William Madison Boyd president
of the Geoivks State Conference it
NAACP branches Harry T Moore,
executive of the Florida State Cm
ference f branches; K< liy Alex-v.-
der, president ot the North Caro
lina State Conference; and Rev. J.
M. Hinton, president o.t tin S-.-r.ii
Carolina Suite Conf* re:a
The •.-»•?.- 1: ms, which deleevc
will discus? plans t • hvrcasmg
the Negro elec:- and lie
t i.tiing civil . lxhi.- log!: «.'.!• :.
their respective states, v. ill be hoi.'
at the Firs’ B ptist Chu: h ; , ’
Raii.-igh Mi .-intrial Audit; -a an. Th
NAACP National Office ■-> .il ;
jrre-sented >:y Glister B. Cu re-,
d.rector of branches, and Miss Lu
eilc Black, membership secretary
Waite-! White, exec’.itivi seerc
taiy of the organization » schedul
ed to speak the fa ■ • r
which vi!i chi i>; t.a.e '-.li-rci.e
at th.- Raleigh Memorial Aeditor
ium on the 27th
COL, PACE QUITS
NY POST WITH YA
BY AI. BERT ANDERSON
NEW YORK (ANP)-Col. David
P. Page, deputy administrator of
the Veterai,.'' administration’s New
York branch, resigned unexpected
ly last week The resignation
effective immediate!;
Negro newspapermen knew C’ol.
Page when he was in cherge of Me
Negro verticil: <. th pres; dtvi.->:<>'.
of the wa: department. p:io to
the establishment f the sect; r:
with Nop.ro officers Then I .cut
Coi. Page, h- wa- ..-'.erred Tie
American Military fen'ernm -nt
school at the Univrr?:t\ of Vir
pauk - ; ■ .'o-ropk.tl i
course, he served abroad.
Coi. Page paved the way for the
first Negro war correspondent, ac
cepted in World War 11, and saw
that ether - followed. All had to
clear through his office.
On terminal leave at the end
of World War IX, Coi. Page was
persuaded to enter the veterans
administration by Gen. Bradley,
tbe administrator at the time. He
was given the difficult New Yetk
area to hand!-’. It is the VAV !arg
<rt sttb-dlvls'.on.
With more than 2.100,f!00 veterans
:n New York, the bran- n operau'S
ar a cost of $600,000,000 a year.
Eleven hospitals arc Included in
branch. No. 2. six. regional offices,
more than 50 field offices, and 13-
00® employees.
When Co;. Pago first came to
the branch he was assistant to the
deputy administrator, Col. Oliver
{Continued on page 8. this section)
THE CAROLINIAN
SINGLE ■* A
1 6 Pages j NOR TH CAROLINA’S LEADING WEEKL Y C OPY lUC
VOU'ME XXVIII RALEinil, NOllTil CAROLINA WEEK ENTENC Sa i'i:i;i)A x -', M VKOi r.. I!MP NO, K
DR. J. E. SHEPARD HONORED
DC STATE hEOISIiATURS
★ ★★★★★★
MISSWG ATTORNEY FOUND
URGE BUNGHE
TOR NOBEL PRIZE
I. AK I. ?* i ('< i - >S. N. V
iAM !>r Ralph J. Bunch'
ruling UN mediator in Pales
tine. is being nominated for
the Nobel peace prize by some
of hts closest friends at IN
b. hU;uarter , it was l .inuyt
hete last Thursday. The nom
ination is based upon Bunches
success in winning tiie UgtP'
tian-israeii armisdee against
such odds as age-old feuds and
tugging ill-health.
The acting; mediator is set
to leturn to the I S. after fin
ishing his Palestine assignment,
li .-pend sis we el . in a hospi
tf. He is sani te be ,«uf: • dm
• *
NEWSPAPERMAN
IS PRESS WEEK
RITE SPEAKER
,'h (*(>«; ;*j( ; i S1 >f;} • t 1?i
orv <] o;: ine naH the NorfOiG
J«a.: ? 4 al UJid Guide the v e.ou.-’
s'.f>r’j K<i tor urjd ci\frsea?> war cot~
JOE LOUIS RETIRES TO
BECOME PROMOTER
Miami Beach. Fla - The Chimp
has abdicated.
The (jm.-stivn of who Joe l-oni.
was ItOinc, a; hr,: a; -i 1 a glove:-',
j.. ; Siiic-'a nmoi, •••ports fro
aj-.d v. ri’for n; re thai. a vo.ar
i k a B m. v. ;-■ ... 1... rcsjg.ta
tion to tiie National Box!!’,;' As
sociation .i.-d requested permission
to stage a championship bom be
teci Ezzard Charles and Jersey Joe
Wale tt.
Louis submitted resignation
Truman Offers Two
New Fair Deal Bills
WASHINGTON (ANP) ln an effort Jo extend his "fair
deal” polity to the -aged end unemployed President Truman
presented two bills to the House Wtys and Means committee,
last Monday in which he spelled out his broad Social Security
program
The administration’s old age insurance bill would extend
coverage to some 20 million more persons including farm labor,
domestic servants, self - persons, governmental employes,
and active members of the armed forces.
Under this bill the maximum monthly old age insurance
would be increased from SBS to $l5O a month and the mini
mums would range from sl7 50 for an aged widow to SSO for a
widove with two children
■ This ‘home relief" program would extend federal assistance
to "ail needy persons ' as weii as to the needy aged, and blind
and dependent children.
The second bill a new "federal disability insurance pro
gram' would provide payment of benefits far short periods of
sickness- and for extended periods of disability,
These '‘must" bilk were placed in the- politics! hopper by
.Rep Robert L Dough ton (D- N. C.) at the reguest of President
: Truman,
Spearheaded by t’onnail' us Texas and George
of Georgia the Ex vie oloc he)a the iioor intothe thin 5
day of their battle i > use unlmiled tieoate as a wea
pon to bock a Senate rules change which would per
N,C, LEGISLATIVE
PAYS TRIBUTE TO
FOUSBtR OF KSG
DURHAM ln the February
17’ ii s-ssiun of tiie North Carolina •
General Assembly in Raleigh a
joint iesolution, was passed by both
house.; expressing appreciation of
tho ike and work of Dr. James E.
Shepar-.i, founder of North Caro- j
Tbe rcsoiution was ’.ntrociiared by
Representative Robert M. Gannt
Carolina Collet’o of Trustees, and
i. • described Dr Shepard as an ed
m r.., -greater than Booker T.
» »
,u k-.ve :;.c late educa: r credit
the - 'acocas of the college ar.'i for
li* present;;!.-. e Gaunt v. as joined
- . - mi urns to Dr. Shepard
. . it -ci arras H i. Ha.-: is ,
YWCA Secretary Wins
Woman of Year Award
:■ a nadiy !.-; a !.•::* . ’o NBA Ca.vi
-:, a'a: .. , Afcc J Grct iic and NBA
President Flainon B Adac.
Th.-• Utter, which was presented
!/ NBA of.’icia)?: by Harry Men
del, L< ui? j.-irbficity director, in
formed the ring officials that Louis,
,\*2'.,i,, . l/. Jun.t i. *4. *\oi i .-.
had organized the International
R.-ixin Club which will stage die,
fight- to determine the row charn-j
pi on.
I pointed out that the new club
(Continued on page 3, sins .section)
ji.r , - " r
Bl\ fE ' 'll
1 1 1:%, " * M
|
f ‘ -
SPEAKING UP for justice in
'be case of ti\ I-enton. N. .1
i..en who have liec-n caiid’-rn, t
to death in a "northern Scoits
l’(»ro” are i-10-r .Miss Bessie Mit
chell, fist or of one of the ce:t-
Oer.rO'it nun; t nited EUvfrieal
Work* rs Commentator Aritiur
(ru th, and former t , S. Assis
tant Attorney General O .John
Reg go, defense attorney for the
- O’’ Sanda;, February 27, Orni
c.a, 2( . i Or;.icon inters of
• Zcta Phi Beta Sorority of Raleigh
,t; -maxed their c-bs, r vr;ion of No
t a- '. F mu- Womanhood We-.k by
prcrer.ttor. Mk Emm.-; perry Boyei
• ,Vumar of the Year,” for her
: outstanding; character and achicve
-9 «
I .afc Mm%
V- *
ir'VtoW**!*' ~f;
♦ m':? A
MKS BOYEK
;iagnts in her work.
Mrs N. Evans Lockhart. basileus
!of Onhc.-i'ii zc*v <h..ip'< , rcr
!d.uced Mrs. Boyer at Fust Baptist
iChurch and Shaw University.
| A: o ik-.V.-c!’. -d along with Mrs.
j Sdyor Mrs. Velma C Bunch of
jXorf ik Vu., who delivered the ad
jdref:, ai Shaw Vesper service on
/'Women as Bolder-; of Tomorrow.”
! Mrs. Bunt it is .. mn-nonr of Beta
iThet: Ze'.-s chanter of Zeta Phi
1 u;,M t su
jyionai Due for of 7. i-i phi Beta
' Sorority, Inc.
Above i , picture of Mrs. Emma
;r. B ycr, r--aider,t of Raleigh.
She s the daughter of Rev. and
;Mrs. William A. Perry of Raleigh j
|and the wife of Mr James A. Boy- •
i«r, (the younger.', son of the late, j
{ •.Continued on page 8, this section)
mit the invoking of cloture (calling of a time limit
upon debate) in the Senate.
The aging and florid Texan'charged on the floor
of the Senate that the rules change G being pushed
as the opening wedge of an effort to enact three of
men wlio hav* bc-cn sentenced
i to death in the slaying #f -> Tren
mn funmuj, dealer.
Although only two or three
»!<-n were said to ha ve been
involved in the kiHiiift by wit
ne.sscs. jj| of the six have been
condemned to death, despite the
faet all six iiad a!i;.‘>.s which
proved that they could not have
b< en near the scene of the slay
; ins'
MARSHALL DEMANDS
FHA POLICY CHANGE
New York - Thurgood Marshall,
s; ecial couuael f r the National
Association for Mic Advanceme:;t
of Colored People, changed today
tl.at : v circulation of a “secret
;; ;:! ' nieire rand ;in \v it.k-iri
iheof f c t t the Federa Housing
Admiiii-i atiixi d.-cs not ce-iistitcil-.s
an effective policy change as de
manded in a recent NAACP mem
Cross Burning Stirs
Citizens To Action
UNION, N. J (ANP) A flaming wooden cross five feet
high, bound in. burlap and soaked in kerosene for better burn- j
■ing planted in a schoolyard in the Negro neighborhood, here
recently misfired in its intent to frghten cinaens instead, a mil
itant group composed of Jewish, Christian. Negro and white,
was formed last Wednesday under the leadership ot a Baptist
minister to combat focal bigotry and promote better group
relations.
Named head of the permanent organization is the Rev Carl
ton A Whillach, white, pastor of First Baptist ch'uxh.
The cross burning incident came at a time when a meeting
was held m the . chcol in protest against a death sentence given, j
j s:x Negroes in Trc-nlor. tor the murder of a furniture dealer
It was sponsored by the- Progressive
The Rev, James William King, leader in the Vauxhall dis
trict where the cross was burned and where 3,000 Negroes live,
said ox Hie incident:
“I am. sure the cross wasn't burned So scare people out of
politics- The people here are frightened. The racial tension is
- acute. You see li everywhere you turn. And: there isn’t u Negro i:
anywhere who doesn't have somewhere hi his soul the image of
ihe flaming cross.'' ,'
Town officials end the police chief "poohooed" the idea
I that tho cross-burning represented anything other than a prank.
However, citizens recalled ihe fCKK days after World War 1
and the Bund in ihe ’3Ps. The "hate- sheet ‘‘Commons* Sense” Is
still published in this, town, ]
RANSOM FOUND
IN JERSEY AFTER
4-DAY SEARCH
WASHINGTON A four day
■ search for Leon A. Ransom, na
! tic-0.-ily-known rights crusader and
: former Howard University Law
; Sd.:-:-oi dean, ended Sunday night
' n the prominent Washington
I), C attorney was found at the
'home of a friend in Union City,
, New Jcisey.
M" Ritii-itn, who has played a
m jo r role in fights for equality of
edncnfional opportunity and teach
er salaries as a member of the
NAACP legal shift, was first re
pi.-,ri, i missing I'.v his wife. Mrs,
VVda cm Fruvsy morning, af
ter he failed to return home or to
Keep engagenji-nts which he had
s' hod tew Thursday.
At about n a. m. of that day.
Mr; Ransom said, be husband cail
±c her to say that he planned to
gc to his office froqj the Municipal
: Colli t building.
Although Mr Rai'-sorn r,ride stons
Municipal Court Judge James A.
Cobb and his partner. George E. C.
Hayes and with Josi ph Waddy, he
• revet- reached h: s own office."
Fear that the attorney might
have been the victim of an attack
of amnesia was sir* ngiiieaedl by the
. iv.ct ndit his health had not been too
‘ g-'-od since rhorlj after his pa:-tid*
, V" os associate defense counsel,
; the uuy Cuiumbia riot trial in
v. hk-h he and Z. Alexandei Looby
v. cro Euceerful in defending 23 of
■ue 25 Nefrot-s accused and indict
- <C iikitm:- 1 .-n page 8, this .section)
t. random exposing FHA’s discrim
inatory actions.
"A non-discrimination policy can
rut be made * ffective by pussy
'■■■.ting around.” declared Mr. Mar
shall. asserting tiiat the memoran
dum currently being circulated :n
FHA offices is j-rniseu m vague
and iiuiircct language and makes
(Continued en page 8, this section)
the basic measures embraced in President Truman’s
civil rights program, anti-lynching, anti-poll tax and
FEPC legislation.
This was not denied by advocates oi' the rules
(Continued on page 8: first section)
JOB LAG HITTING RACE
DECLARES GRANGER
NEW YORK (ANP) Easier B. Granger, executive director
of the National Urban league, said here last week that Negroes
throughout the country ar«. alre&djy feeling the effects of a de
pression.
Addrssing the urban league at its annual meeting in the
Russell Sage foundation, he said f.hol the increasing dropoff in
business is being heralded by the loss of jobs among Negroes. He
cited the bureau of labor statistics which pointed oul that na-
Ran wide unemployment may come close to 5,000,000 by the
end of the year
In Detroit 71 percent of all relief cases are Negroes, while
in Omaha, one of every tour Negro workers is out of a job.
“If these figvires are typical of the country as a whole, our
Negro population is already in the midst of a depression, even
though the nation as a whole ha:, not tell the shock" he said.
He urged the 56 regional league croups to continue improve
ments of race relations i their work and with relief, employ
ment and social security officials, as well as among union mem
bers and leaders,
Lloyd K Garrison was reelected president of th» league at
the meeting, and Elmo Roper and Willard S Townsend, reelected
vice presided.;
Wilkie Awards
For 1948 Listed
The Wendell I. Willkie Awards
for Ni .ro journalism in 194,8, given.
•by Mrs. Agnes E Meyer of Wash- !
ingtnn. D. C . were announced to
dm by th* Nienian Fondation at I
. Harvard Diversity.
.. fur the t 1 .duo ser
vice by a Negro newspaper went to;
■ • Norfolk urua! and Guide "so;
Hie qualiiy of its overall perfor-,
uu.-nce. based m-. a variety of en-I
1 od f ( . the Wiilk e
Av ard. and in particular for- the
: e'is’ently high calibre c.f its edi
. page,’ i:r.d«r the
; tv:; of P. Bernard Young, Jr., edi
• tor »
The award for objective report--.
in, -vent to Louis R Lautier. Wash- j
! ing’-m cotrespondent of the Allan-;
a Daily World, “for distinguished
: correspondence afforded member
; news-mpers ’},<■ NNPA clear,;;
; ci-inprchen.-.tve and oojective cov- j
High Court Gets
Railroad J C Case
WASHINGTON (ANP) Th
e of Elmer Henderson against ,
Southern Railroad company i
v-- is appealed to the U. S. Supreme
Court.
Tire suit started back In 1942
i when Henderson, then an employee ,
; for the President's Fair Employ
; n.cnt Practices committee, was de
{nied service on the diner while
;' w iir. . iiet.vveer, Atlanta and
| Washington.
| H’ uderson claims that, the two :
j iables nearest the kitchen, which : i
v c normally f vt aside- for colored
■ •'arsmigers were occuuicd by white ; 1
j i ass- ngers when he went into the .
id.inc-r for service. He was told that
| he could not be served then as the
i colored section was already occup
: ied. Although there were vacant
tabli In the other part of the din- ;
v.g cor, Henderson %vas not per-’;
: nitted to use them. ;<
LEFT DINER
Following Instruction ot the per- ;
s--n in charge. Henderson left the 1
doling car for a while and return
ed later, expecting to find the jun ■!
; crow table vacant by flxaf time, but
SEEK DISMISSAL OF
LYNCH DAMAGE SUIT
| GKEF.NVILLE, S. C. —ln an es-.
fort to evade payment of SIO,OOO j
damages for the lynching of Willie
Earle, attorneys for Greenville and
i ickons counties this week served 1
IniOU- ns to dismiss the complaint ol‘j
; Mrs. Tessie Earle, the lynch vie- ;
inn’s mother, filed last- month by
| the National Association for the j
| Advancement of Colored People. :
Argument on the motion to' dls- .
miss is scheduled to take place at
■ the County Court House here on
i Marcn 31. The NAACP suit iilec
a’ the request of Mrs. Earle, seeks
$5,000 damages from each of the
two counties involved in the lynch- ;
ing of Earle two years ago. ;
SHOOTS FOUR, GETS
18 MONTHS ON ROAD .
Charges of assault with a deadly
weapon which were the outcome
of a shooting fray in which lour
persons were shot resulted in a 18-
month road sentence for one of
the participants and a 12-month
suspended sentence for another,
Sentenced to .18 months on charg
es of shooting Jour persons with a
shotgun was Leon Miller of IS
West Johnson Street. Given a sus-.
pended sentence of one year and
placed on probation, for five wao
erase of events significant to their
; readers.’’
The award [■ : articles other than
■ new. went to Simeon Booker, Jr.,
of the f.'h've'! md Call-Post, “fat a
! searching series of feature article*
■ xpe, discr'tnim 1 n*y conditions
in Clfveland’s public fccho Is."
The judge.-, were four Nieman
Ft ’lew • Alan Barth, edi' . sal writ
er me W.ishiii.'-.oa Post Grady
K Clay. Jr.. reporter on the Louis
- Cour:* r-Journal David B.
Lre iman, science writev on ‘.he
Minneapolis Star; and E L. Hoi*
Void- Jr. editorial writer on she
Birmingham Nc-ws, who served un
ci': hrmanship of Louis M. Lyons,
Curator of the Nieman Fellowships.
s the request oi the Willkie
A-' a rds Committee.
. \v..- wore $250 in ca-'h to
e.-'-.h. winner, and a league to the
Norfolk Journal and Guide.
o Vi Ihe contrary they were still oc~
cup i d and were not vacated aur
!ru> ;he entire dinner hour.
•
In-.'; r s refusing to be nerved in the
c ( ■ a c 1 1 ,
A complaint was flird, with the
Tnt<w trie (Mituyutco commission
:<M2 The ICC hold mat
'J o ■.•tt’tv: .w r. *!iition was art a
mlrno.i of the ICC act a;;d dts,
irmsod the complamt on Septem
ber 5. 1947.
T. case was appealed to the
L* M District Court of Maryland
ir. October. 1948 which upheld 'the
dismissal of the complaint.
VERDICT UPHELD
The M u viand Fcde: :il court held
'dial the regulations of tee railroad
. ... ..!i’.y did : ot si • up any in
equality or unjust d'scrimtnatlon
rai that . egrrgallon of interstate
-•singers is n- t forbiddow provid
ing there is no real inequality of
•.refitment of passengers, v
The appeal was made to'the VI.
S, Supreme Court last week. 'B<*w
tContinued on page 8, this sseetiohi
The young Negro was murdered
i by ft mob of white men for *J*e»
: alleged robbing and fatal star-bite#
|of a white taxicab driver. Follow*
'mg a spectacular trial held hfere
! the accused slayers were acquitted
Iby an all-white jury.
Early Ih.r yea: NAACP
i neys Harold H. Boulware of the Co
i ’ umbia, S. C and Thurgood B#ar»
t.hall and Franklin H. Wi lh. -.ms fit
the National Office filed suits for
damage under Article VI, S#cHei>
' the S orb Carolina Constitu
tion. which makes the county in
which a lynching occurs liable in
the nun of £B,OOO to the estate of
(he lynch victim.
• Marvin Peacock, who fired u pis®
. tol twice at Miller. '
| According to police- the shooting
| took place on February 19 at the
l corner of Lenoir and Rloodworth
! Streets, near the Bloodworth Street
] YiMCA. i
j Those (struck by pellets from
Miller's shotgun included Milard
Griffin of 3!4 Brag Street, Marvin
i Teyor of the YMCA, Owens Evans
i of 513 Patterson Alley and Peacock.
(Continued on page 8, this section)