Sunny Smiles From Th^ .South OhlMBo'a eurrant oontrlbMtlon to the pulohrltud* aMambltd now at| lh« Lord Calvart Hotal In Miami ara; atanding, Mardia Themaa and { Jaakla Oratnweod of Chleago. Senator Irving Supported By NAACP In Taft-Hartley Change NEW YORK The efforts of Sena^pr Irving M. Ives to secure ena'ctment of an amendment to the Taft-Hart ley Labor Act to prohibit dis crimination by employers or labor unions will have “the \vhole-hearted support and gen uine appreciation” of the Na tional Association for the Ad- vancement of Cdored People, Walter White, executive secre tary, has assured the New York Republican. Following testimony before the Senate Labor Committee by Clarence Mitchell, Director of the NAACP Washington Bu reau, Senator Ives, on May 5, introduced the amendment to curtail job discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin. The amendment, drafted by Mitchell, won the support of all committee mem bers except Senators Robert A. Taft, Republican, r of Ohio and Lister Hill, Democrat, of Ala bama. Ten other senators joined Senator Ives in co-sponsorship of the amendment. Under terms of the amend ment it shall be illegal for an employer or a labor imion "to discriminate against or to agree to discriminate against any member of a labor organization with respect to hiring, firing, upgrading, promoting, tenure or employment or any term or con dition of employment on ac count of race, religl|»n, color or national origin.” Pirate Netters Win At Home HAMPTON, Va. On their home courts, the! Hampton Institute . Pirates smashed Virginia Union 6-0 on April 23 and dealt Howard Uni versity some of the same medial cine by defeating the Bisons S-2. In the match with Virginia Union, the Pirates took the first two sets of each match. In the silkies, Robert Martin defeated Miles Fisher of Union 6-0, 6-4; John Mudd, Daniel Henderson of Union 6-1, 6-0; Eric Black, Richard Johnson 6-0, 6-0; andf aesesB IHLLARD’S SELF-SERVICE * Market And Grocery * "WB SKLL THI BB8T FOB LBSS” 1S12 FATBTTEVIIiLE STBEET TBLBPHONB S-S5SS On Those Special Occasions At THE DO NUT SHOP 336 East Pettigrew Street Phone 9^747 South’s flnMt Battng BrtabUafamaBt” W. O/PBABSQIf, n, Mm—w SEE US FOR PARTY AND meal' reservations Try Ow *^SpecUd af The Da/* Only %0C Rocky Mount's School Musicians Get Top Ratings In Band Festival; Hillside Band Cops "II" Rating GREENSBORO The Booker T. Washington High School Band of Rocky Mount, N. C., topped all other in the state in ratings made at the North Carolina Band Festi val held at A. and T. College last Friday, May 1. Rated No. 1, or excellent, this band directed by Charles Woods, was con sidered easily the best in the “A" division. Nearly 3,000 young musicians from through out North Carolina participated in the big event. Other ratings in the "A” di. vision included: Williston In dustrial High School, Wilming ton, clarinet quartet, saxaphone quartet and band. III each; Second Ward High, Charlotte, woodwind sextet, I, Saxaphone solo, II and Band .II; Dudley High, Greensboro, band III; Hillside High, Durham, Band II; William Penn, High Point, band III; Hillside High, Durham, Band II; William Penn, High Point, band II; Jordan Sellars High, Burlington, Bass II, Bari tone, III and comet solo I; West Charlotte High, Charlotte, band II; Washington High, Raleigh, band II and Plato Price High, Charlotte, band III.- Class “B” ratings for bands included: Price High, Salisbury, I; J. J. Jones High, Mt. Airy I; Columbia Heights Elementary, Winston-Salem, I; Stephens Lee High, Asheville III; Freedman High, Lenoir, II; Lincoln Heights High, Wilkesboro, II; Carver High, Winston-Salem, IH; Lincoln High, Chapel Hill, III; Darden JUgh Wilson, iV; Central High, Newton, IV; Hill side High, Durham, II and Hen derson Institute, Henderson, I. Also included in the Class “B” ratings for bands included; P. S. Jones High, Washington, I and also trumpet, II and clarinet Quartet I; P. W. Moore High, Elizabeth City, I; E. E. Smith High, Fayetteville, I; Lee County Training School I; G. C. Hawley High, Creedmoor II; John' R. Hawkins High, Warren- ton. I; Randolph County Train ing School, Asheboro, III and Washington High, Reidsville I. Those bands in the "C” di vision were rated as follows: Rosenwald High, Fairmont II; Caswell County Training School, Yanceyville, II; Person County Training School, Rox- boro III; Carver High School, Mt. OUve, II; J. A. Chaloner High, Roanoke Rapids, II; Up church High, Raeford I; Kim- Theodore Megginson, Albert Fisher 6-9, 6-0. In the doubles, Pirate Theo dore Megginson teamed'up with Eric Blake to win over Albert Fisher and Richard Johnson 6-1, 6-0; while John Mudd and Ro bert Martin defeated Daniel Henderson and Miles Fisher 6-2, 6-1. On April 25 the Pirates had to fight a bit harder for their victory over Howard. The Bi sons took two matches but the Pirates won 5. berley Park Elementary, Win ston-Salem 1; Hillside High, Durham (imder a student con ductor) II and East Fourteenth Elementary School, Winston- Salem I. The festival was conducted under the supervision of the North Carolina Bandmasters Association in cooperation with A. and T. College. Philmore Hall of Durham is president of the sponsoring group. Samuel L. Green, Instructor of Art at Shaw Univertity since 1991, has been awarded a Ful- bright 'foreign scholarship to study during the school year 1953-54. The grant provide* for study in Art at Courtland In stitute of the University of Lon don. In addition provisions are made for Green to visit and study art galleries in England and on the Continent. His special study at London voill he in the area of museum curatory. as guaranteed by the Constitu tion is now illegal and is a vio lation of the 19th Amendment,’’ Marsiiall explained. By an 8-1 vote, the Supreme Court'^Tuled that the Jaybird Democratic' Association, better known as the "jaybird party" in Ford Bend County, Texas, was a political party whose ex press purpose was to prevent Negroes from voting in the pri maries, “the only election in the county that counted.” Since 1889 every candidate for office in Fort Bend County was en dorsed by the Ja>^ird party. Texas 'Jaybird' Primary Killed By High Court NEW YORK The rights of Negroes to vote in the South was guaranteed by the United States Supreme Court in its decision outlawing the “Jaybird primary’’ in Texas, Thurgood Marshall, NAACP special counsel said today in a statement election authorities a statement following the high court’s historic judgement. The decision, handed down on May 4, also rules out all other schemes Southern election au thorities might devise to pre vent Negroes from voting, Mr. Marshall asserted. “The ‘Jaybird primary’ de cision,” he declared “should end all such devices as the ‘white primaries and other clauses used to segregate or discriminate against colored voters.” “The Supreme Court has now made it clear that any and all devices and methods of prevent ing qualified Negro voters from exercising his voting privilege Cancer Kills More Mfen Than Women NEW YORK In recent years the death rate for women victims of cancer re gardless of race or color, has fallen below that of men. This trend is being strengthen ed by the increasing use of cy tology, a technique for detect ing cancer in various sites and particularly in the womb. A new technique, known as the smear test, permits detection of can cer of the womb at a very early test, permits detection of cancer of the womb at a very early stage. Last year more than 16000 women died of cancer starting in this site. In nearly allrxases the disease could have 'been found in time for cure by a smear test. A broad program for training pathologists and technicians in using this test is supported by the American Cancer Society. This is only one of the new can cer detection techniques that ACS is fostering. So that this work, and the ACS’s research, education and service programs will not lan guish for lack of financing, the Society is holding its Spring crusade. The goal is $18,000,000 and its achievement is the re sponsibility of everyone. GIVE. New Trial In Tex. Rape Case AUSTIN, TEXAS The 99-year prison term im posed upon 19-year old John Taft Roseburough of Brown- wood, convicted for the alleged rape of a white woman, was re versed here last week by the Court of Criminal Appeals. The decision was reversed on the grounds that the trial court, the District Court of Brown County, errored in refusing to let Roseburough testify con cerning a 7-hour inquisition he was subjected to by a bondsman Who encbufagea' flfe'T)oy“t?r^Tgn a “house-peepinS” confession with the promise of getting him out of trouble. Roseburough was first arrest ed in San Angelo, Texas, Dec., 19, 1951, on suspicion of house- peeping.” He was held in jail four days before any official charge was made against him. He was then charged with rap ing Mrs. Dorothy Bartlett who NEI/l/f Smooth Smoking BOOEES T BITE lUST PERFECTOS Enjoy the cigar that lives up to its name I LIKE A MAN WHO SMOKES A lOOEER T PENN8TATE CIGAR CORP. OF PHILADELPHIA Th« llrit and largest Mnpioyers of skilled Inter racial labor In the Cigar Manufacturing Industry. DlS’nOBDTBD BT CUFF WEILL, Incorporated SATCBDAT, BIAT l«tb, ItSt ram cabouma mtn LABOR COUNCIL REJEHS GE REPLY ON HIRINO POLICIES DETROIT, BMCH. The National Negro Labor Council’s Resident Committee, meeting in Chicago, Illinois on April 25th and 26th, laid plans on intensifying its drive against the biased hiring policies of the General Electric Company in its Beuchel, Kentucky plant, and called for an all out drive na tionally to force the General Electric Company to hire Ne- gfoes on production jobs in this new appliance plant. This was the Council's re action to a reply recently re ceived from the Manager, Eim- ployee and Plant Relations of the Appliance Division, C. M. Lynge, to a letter written March 12th, by NNLC President, William R. Hood, in which Mr. Hood demanded an end to the discrimination against Negroes 'as production workers in the new GE appliance plant in Beu chel. The letter of Lynge is report ed to have said in part, “Na turally we resent the false ac cusation that we are ‘refusing to hire negro production work ers, and as to your demand that we hire negroes on a percentage basis, we are convinced that this is the rankest sort of discrimi nation!” Lynge’s letter is re ported to liave stated further, “Our Company policies with re spect to racial discrimination is well known and has been pub licly enunciated at Louisville. In addition, our policy is w^ understood by representative agencies who have the interest of minority groups at heart.’’ A spokesman for the Resident Committee of the NNLC said, “Mr. Lynge’s letter is both in sulting and dishonest, indica-. tive of the arrogant altitude of a representative of a giant c6r- poration, cloaked in the Jim Crow of the South. Is it any wonder that where the masses of the people desire a Federal FEPC, such action is perenni ally blocked by congressmen whom these same corporations control?” It was further stated that the Urban League repudiated the GE story, and it seems that no organization in Louisville is willing to accept Lynge’s label of “representative agencies,’’ which would be tantamount to an endorsement of discrimina tion'; The Council statement said that in its drive to change the biased policy of the GE corpo ration in Beuchel, the fight will testified that she had been at tacked two months before in her home by a Negro she could neither idenHfy nor descnbe. ultimately lead to the use of the “boycott” If a democratic policy is not instituted. According to Council repre sentatives, the GE Corporation moved to this southern area in order to escape the hii^er wages paid in other areas such as Bridgeport, Connecticut and Erie, Pennsylvania. The wage rates in this new southern area appliance plant is 20 to 40 cents lower than in the northern area. Indignant clti2ens, Negro and white, have protested to the GE management, but, no Negroes have been hired on production jobs. The Board of Education in Louisville, at the request of the Louisville Area Negro l>abor Council, started a trairting course to prepare Negro workers for the GE plant and other pro duction jobs. Hundreds of Ne groes took these courses, how. ever, to date, the Council said, no Negroes trained by the Board of Education have been employed in any capacity. Durham G. I. Serving With 7th In Germany STUTTGART, GERMANY Army 1st Lt, William D. Glo ver, son of Mr. and Mrs. Will Glover, 308 Red Oak St., Dur ham, N. C., is now serving as assistant administration chief of the Quartermaster ' Section at Seventh Army headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany. Before his latest assignment. Lieutenant Glover was with the Seventh Army Food Service School and later with the 35th Quartermaster battalion in Ger many. He has been in Europe since 1951. The Durham officer was com missioned through the ROTC in June 1950 upon graduation from the Reserve Officers Train ing Corps program conducted at the Agricultural and Technical College at Greensboro. necswry to ptovld* • fMtf-nlll' ion man eomtaat army ntth evarything It neads to Ml fight. In the “clasaroom war,'* fu ture logistical support oCfletrs will gain valuable exporicaM bT maintaining continuous serrlews and supply under advene ter rain conditiooa and in the fmt* cot an enemy atomic, chemical and Mologlcal weapons. Captain Melvin is commander of Company D, id Bettalion ai the Transportation Replacemeat Training Group at Fort Buatia, Va. He formerly attended North Carolina Agricultural and Tech nical College. WITH THE 29TH INFANTRY DIV. IN KOREA—Army Pvt. Charlie Henderson Jr., son of Mrs. Carrie Glenn, 611 Broad St., Beaufort, N. C., recently ar rived in Korea for duty with the 25th Infantry Division. Now the senior American di vision on the peninsula, the 2Sth landed in July 1950, shortly after the CoRununists attacked the Republic of South Korea. Private Henderson has l>een assigned to Company E of the division’s 35th Regiment. A graduate of Queen Street High School in Beaufort and a former student of North Caro lina A. and T. College in Greens boro, he entered the Army in May 1952. CAMP PICKETT, VA. Capt. Houston L. Melvin, son of Lee A. Melvin, Hope Mills, N. C., is now at Camp Pickett, Va., where he will participate in the Army’s fifth annual lo gistical support maneuvers. May 4-9. Two thousand Army, Navy, Air Force and Allied officers from 16 Army schools in the U. S. will perform all the techni cal aW^dfnTnTstratlVfr furrettons Roberts, Caliver Finals Speakers At KC June 1 KNOXVILLE, TENN. Fifty-five KC'eans are expect ed to receive degrees in the college’s commencement pro gram when the annual exercises honoring the graduates of the class of 1953 are held here on Monday, June 1. Activities of commencement week begin on Friday, May 19, when President and Mrs. James A. Colston are hosts to members of the senior class at 0:30 p.m. The annual alumni reunion is scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday, with class night exercises to be held at 7:45 p.m. that night. The Baccalaureate ae ;T1o:i will be delivcrtd i) e Kcv. Joseph L. Robeiti oT Deuoi’. Michigan. mi.ni;ter of ' “I AME Church. Dr. Ambrose Caliver, of the Un'.ed Stati j Office of Education. Washini- ton, D. C., will be the commence ment speaker. HUNTER $930 $^65 M PINT W4/5QT. WstWI— Ce., lac., Leaisvllla, Ky. MmiM WMikey M rrMf W% SralB NMrtral Spirits.