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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
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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
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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.
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