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ra YE AR DLD BOV KILLED EAGLE ST Special Correspondents Over North and South Carolina FIRST IN NEWS AND PICTURES. THE MOUTHPIECE OF THE PEOPLE VOLUME 10 SSOO. RAISED FOR F.E.P.C. MORRISTOWN COLLEGE NEWS Morristown College Homecoming Saturday, November 10, climaxed all previous Homecoming events. The day, being an ideal one, brought from far and near, a rec ord-breaking crowd, which Jammed the Burke-Toney Stadium. The festivities started Friday night with a rousing bonfire and an unprecedented demonstration of school spirit which boded ill for the boys from. Haines College who had arrived from Augusta, Georgia, during the day with firm confidence in their ability to puncture Morris town's undefeated record. If any of them happened to be at the bon fire and observed the fighting spir it of the student body, especially of the girls, they must have retired with some misgivings. Before the game Miss Morristown, in person o fthe attractive Miss Billie Patricia Morton of Abingdon, Virginia, was carried through the downtown business section of Main Street in her special limousine fol lowed by a number of class cars, each decorated in the schol colors and carrying its contingent of gaily cheering students. The game being called promptly at 2 p. m. the mammoth, audience of homecomers centered their at tention upon the scrimmage be tween Haines and Morristown's Red Knights. Coach Mackey had instill ed into the Red Knoghts power, speed, punting, god long and short passes and great defiance. The game ended with a score of 26-6 in favor of Morristown. At 6:30 P. M. the Alumni Ban quet was held in Kenwood Refec •tory, every detail of which Mrs. Mackey, the dietician, had pain stakingly perfected. A turkey din ner with all trimmings was served. I Mrs. H. R. Walker acting as mis. I tress of ceremonies introduced Dr. I M. S. Davage, secretary of the l Board of Education for Negro Schools of the Methodist Church. Dr. Davage lauded Dr. Boyd for his splendid work at the College and exhorted the Alumni to keep faith in what he is doing here. Dr. Dennis Branch discussed the ne cesity for a financial program and some means of carrying it out. Dr. Boyd gave a brief resume of some accomplishments during his ad ministration. Cash to the sum of $150.00 was raised for the school, besides a goodly number of pledges. At 8 p. m. the Alumni Prom began in the Kellokk Gymnasium with the arrival of Christine Chat ham and her Decca Recording Or chestra. A capacity crowd filled the beautifully decorated gymnas ium and ended the celebration in fine spirits. CMJBS NO. 3-4 GIVE TEA FOR FRIENDSHIP HOME Recently Club No. 1. with the assistance of Clubs 3 and 4. and the General Club, gave a musical tea at the home of Miss Jennie Allen. 77 Hill Street, for the ben efit of The Friendship Nursing Home. The table was beautifully decorated with the Halloween style. Principal speaker was Mrs. 1,. B. Michael, her subject was, "We Are Our Brothers Keeper”. > Miss Juanita Weaver gave a musical reading; Mrs. Gladys Cowans and her group of chil dren rendered two numbers; Mrs. Mamie Howell presided at the piano. Mrs. Pearl Jones rendered a solo; Mr. Weaver a solo. The hostess with Miss Jannie Al len and Mrs. Madara Hughes Serving at the tea tables were Mrs. Estella Barnard and Mrs. Watts. In charge of tickets were Mrs. Mary Gordon and Mrs. Josephine Spells. Mrs. Bettie Av ery’ was in charge of the pro gram. Proceeds from the tea amount ed to $54.00. ASK U. S. TO PROBE FLORIDA KLAN CROSSES New York —A request that Tom C. Clark, United States Attorney _ General, institute an immediate in vestigation of the burning of five fiery crosses near Negro homes in a subdivision of Miami, Florida, November 2, was made last week by Thurgood Marshall, chief coun sel of the NAACP. "This method of intimidation by the recently rejuvenated Ku Klux Klan and kindred organizations most certainly deserve the immed iate attention o fthe Department of Justice,” Marshall wrote, “This is especially true in the light of the recent lynching in Florida.” Marshall also wired Governor i Millard 1 F. Caldwell of Florida, urg- i ing an investigation of the incident 1 by the Governor’s office. , Whe 9 LIBERTY SHIPS REMOVED FROM “GRAVEYARD” FOR TROOP TRANSPORT SERVICE ■» Joseph Curran, President of the National Maritime Union, announc ed today that as a result of the Union's nationwide campaign, sup ported by the general public and servicemen, to speed the return of Gl’s stranded overseas, the War Shipping Administration this week removed nine Liberty ships from the James River anchorage for re pair and use as troop carriers. Curran asserted that "This action, involving vessels laid up months ago, is a start in the right direc tion. It proves the correctness of the position taken by the National Maritime Union that no ships should be laid up while a single ■ GI abroad awaits transportation home.” The vessels are the ANGUS MC DONALD, BENITO JUAREZ, | THOMAS H. SUMNER, JOHN | SHARP WILLIAMS, JAMES B. | HICKOpK, GEORGE G. CRAW FORD. ARLIE CLARK, GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE and the ROB ERT RODGERS. Thousands of letters and tele grams have been received by the Union, Curran said, in support of the Union’s determined stand not to provide crews after December 1 to vessels other than troopships, unless the Government allocates in creased shipping facilities to troop transport service. Most of the com. munications are from wives and parents of servicemen and from stranded Gl’s overseas. One cablegram received today by Curran was sent from England by twenty officers and forty enlisted men. It stated: "Please accept our heartfelt thanks for your courageous and righteous protest against the shame ful delay and Icallous indifference of the War Department in return ing our troops home. You have I won our admiration and gratitude I by your forceful stand on the re- I deployment muddle. Be assured 1 your statement has given us our first real encouragement in many months. With renewed hopes and best wishes we remain, twenty of ficers and forty enlisted men." A wounded sergeant, writing from the 115th Evacuation Hospital in Bremen, Germany, declared: "I appreciate the interest you and. your organization is taking in helping the Gl’s to get home to their loved ones before the holiday season, Christmas and New Years. It would mean more than anyone could ever begin to realize the happiness that would reign in the hearts of thous ands of families throughout the United States. I have 56 points and have been in the service of our country 39 months with no ideas as to when I can expect to get home to my wife. I have spent 3 holiday seasons away from han e and now that the war has ended, I would like to be sent home. The boys over here surely appreciate the grand effort that you and your organization is putting forth to get us home by this Christmas season.” Signing themselves "Ten Dis gusted Gl’s”, a group of servicemen in France sent a V-mail letter, to Curran hailing his statement de manding more ships for Gl’s as published in Stars and Stripes. "We wholeheratedly agree with you”, they wrote. “We are in an outfit of approximately 600 men and have been waiting in the Marseilles Staging Area for a ship for twelve days and as yet we don’t know when we'll leave. All the men in our unit have over 80 points. We have been in various camps in France awaiting shipment for a month. There is definitely some thing wrong with the shipping as you say, and we are wholehearted ly behind you and agree with you j on your policy concerning troop ships.” STUDY THE ADS. ALL BUT THREE FEPC OFFICES ARE FORCED TO CLOSE "The President’s Committee on Fair Employment has been forced to close all but three of its regional offices exactly at the moment when unemployment is growing at a ter rifying rate and at the time when their services are urgently needed to prvent a reconversion to pre war discrimination against minori ties,” said Anna Arnold Hedgeman, Executive Secretary of the National Council for a Permanent FEPC in a statement released today. Congressional action thus far in dicates that the United States Em-, ployment Service is being defed eralized and turned back to the states. Congressional Inaction on Permanent FEPC, and the closing of all but three of the regional of. ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1945 WILL APPEAL ICC RULING IN MAYS CASE Washington, D. C.—NAACP law. . yers will file exceptions to the re port of .an Interstate Commerce * Commission examiner who found that the Southern Railway had not shown prejudice or any violation I Qf the ICC Act in denying dining ( car service to Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, president of Morehouse Col- 1 lege, Atlanta. I Dr. Mays filed suit in May of this ■ year against the Southern, alleging 1 ■ discrimination on account of color j I in their refusal to serve him on the company’s diner. A hearing was | held on July 19 before an Inter | state Commerce Commission ex i aminer here. Briefs were filed on . . September 20 supporting his claim j of discriminatory treatment by the carrier. The exceptions filed by the NAACP will be in the nature of an appeal to the entire Interstate Commerce Commission. COUNCIL OF NEGRO REPUBLICANS FORMED The National Council of Negro Republicans begins its organiza- I tional career this month. Formed recently at a luncheon at i Hotel Roosevelt, attended by Chair- ; man Browner,, the Council was i launched with wide approval from i labor and i/Mustry. “We will raise our own money j: and speak our own mind,” said Council Chairman, Joseph V. Baker, i of Philadelphia, executive secretary for Negroes in American Industry.! Baker said the Council function would be to advise the Party, the National Committee, to disseminate 1 information, sponsor meetings, and I to publish a monthly magazine commencing this month. I ■ Welcomed by Brownell Commenting on the new organi zation, Chairman Brownell said: I "The formation of the National Council of Negro Republicans is 1 gratifying evidence of a growing ■ 1 realization on the part of American ' Negroes that their interests are identified with the Republican Par- 1 ty. We welcome their cooperation ' and support. “For three-quarters of a century the Republican Party has exerted itself unceasingly to protect the rights of the Negro. It will con tinue such efforts in the future. The Republican record in this re spect speaks for itself —in marked contrast with the record of the op position party, which depends, for its very existence, upon the con tinued support of a section in which millions of American citizens are persecuted and denied the basic rights of citizenship. “The fact that the National Coun cil of Negro Republicans is an or. ganization completely independent o fthe Republican National Com mittee does not in any way decrease our gratification at the formation of the new group. The issue of inter-racial justice transcends par ty organization. “I am confident that American Negroes know that their prospects for victoy in the long up-hill fight so justice will be enhanced tre mendously by a Republican victory in 1946. The Republican Party wel comes the opportunity to render this service to the cause of human justice.” Directorate Named The Council’s directorate, in the process of formation, already is national in scope. Named to the , board to date, in addition to Chair ' man Baker, are: Harold Burton, Assembly District leader, New York, vice chairman; Sidney R. Redmond, St. ouis at torney and former Western cam- fices of wartime FEPC definitely parallels the pattern which emerged after the last war and resulted in industrial confusion, widespread discrimination and joblessness, and ultimately in riots and violence. Positive action by the Congress may still prevent widespread dis crimination before unemployment 1 reaches its peak. If the Senate,, where the bill establishing a perma nent FEPC is high on the calendar, and the House, where only about 60 signatures are needed to bring the bill to the floor, pass the bill, hope will be given to the desperate and disillusioned minorities of the country, and the basic forward step towards democracy taken. EDITORAL EDITORIAL ANOTHER HOMICIDE There have been six murders this year in the city of Asheville—three of them on Eagle street. This newspaper along with other civic organizations has asked the city council to appoint Negro officers in order that law and order may be enforced among Negroes. Two of these murders happened in the last two weeks. Last month another Negro shot one block from police head quarters and the bullet went through a business firm and like to have killed the owner. To the members of the city council with such reckless ness and carelessness of Negroes killing one another will not stop with Negroes alone. Again we ask. that Negro officers be appointed that they may help to break up these dives and joints that are just incabeta for crime. If‘this is not done very soon Ashe ville will be the leading city of the state in homicide. Negroes have been killed on Ralph street, Brick street, Valley street and Eagle street. Will it be Pack Square, Pat ton avenue or Haywood street next and it may not be a Negro. 1946 NAACP CONFEREECE f TO MEET IN CINCINNATI .... New York—The 1946 annual con- I ference of the 850 branches and ' youth councils of the NAACP will meet in Cincinnati, Ohio, it was de cided here November 12. The na tional Board of Directors received an invitation from Theodore Berry, president of the Cincinnati branch, add promptly votedj a.ycepL I Cin cinnati had bpin b7.ftp* the confer ence by the delegatesT.l Chicago in 1944, but the wartime ban on con ventions forced the cancellation of the gathering in 1945. paign leader, secretary: Attorney Joseph S. Mitchell, Jr., Massachus etts; James M. Stockkett, Jr., at torney, Rhode Island; William O. Walker, editor, the Cleveland Call- Post and member of City Council, Ohio; William A. Dart, Assistant City Solicitor, Atlantic City, N. J.; Sidney Davis, Assembly District leader, New York; William C. Win gate, cosmetic manufacturer; Jos eph W. Givens, Assistant to the Attorney General and Bishop David H. Sims, both of Pennsylvania; and Dr. Emmett J. Scott, District of Columbia. TO SING IN EUROPE > MM > ANNE BROWN, the glamorous soprano, will sail for Europe in May to fulfill engagements in the opera houses of Paris, Copen hagen, and Zurich, and recitals in Stockholm, Copenhagen, Paris, Lon don, Lisbon. Zurich, Amsterdam, and other capitals. Miss Brown re cently turned down an offer to do the greatly controversial "St. Louis Woman” in spite of the attractive fintpcial bait held out by the pro ducer. She will Instead fulfill her contractual obllratlons on the con- 'NAACP INCREASES LEGAL iSTAFF TO HANDLE VTE 'cases, housing, jobs New York—The legal staff of the NAACP has been increased to four full-time lawyers, it was announced this week, to care for the needs of veterans, and increased activity in housing and employment problems. In addition, the staff will care for cases involving educational inequal ities, teachers’ salaries, and the ii&J ual criminal cases. The new additions are Franklin Williams .himself a veteran of World War 11, who will handle cases dealing with members of the armed services* courts-martial cases, blue discharges, etc.; Miss Marion Perry who will handle hous ing and employment cases. In ad dition there will be Thurgood Mar shall, chief counsel, his assistant Robert L. Carter, also a veteran of World War 11, and Miss Con_ stance Baker, part-time legal clerk. Grandpa put on two suits of "long-handles” last Thanksgiving and was sadly disappointed. He got a gizzard instead of a bliz zard. cert stage and will be heard in re cital this season in Baltimore, Washington, Cleveland. Chicago, Minneapolis, Tulsa, Durham, throughout Canada, etc. She will also appear as soloist with the Buffalo Symphony en Dec. 4; the Denver Symphony, Dec. 18; the De troit Orchestra, Feb. 14, and as her final engagement before leaving for Europe, with the Philadelphia Or chestra on May 4th at what is prob ably the biggest musical event in the country, the Ann Arbor Music Festival. EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD BOY KILLED ON EAGLE STREET I E. W. Coleman. 123 Poplar St., was cut to death by Louis Arnold. . This resulted from an argument in a gambling game. Arnold cut Colesman’s jugular vein. Coleman | ran about 75 feet and fell. He | was carried to the Asheville Col- 1 ored Hospital and died. WOULD LOWER DISCHARGE PETITION NAMES TO 10 Washington. D. C.—Leslie Perry ' of the Washington Bureau NAACP said it would support and press for early consideration of Legis lation to amend the- rules of the House of Representatives so as to substantially lower the number of signatures required to bring a bill up on a discharge petition. Cur rently, 218 Congressmen, a majority of the House membership, must sign a petition but recently Con gressman Matthew M. Neely (D., W. Va.) introduced House Reso lution 353 which woul dlower the requirement to 109. -1 A change of the House rules along the line of the Neely measure, the NAACP said, would make it possible to get a vote on the FEPC bill which, accord’ng to informal polls, has 147 signatures and the anti-lynching bill which has 118. Perry pointed out that prior to 1935, when the present 218 rule , adopted, it was only necessary to secure 145 signatures, or one-third of the House membership, to pry a bill loose from a committee. He declared that a further change in the rules is imperative "because it is increasingly apparent that the present requirement only serves to frustrate the plain will of the peo ple.” Probe Syrup Sale By Sugar Mills WASHINGTON. Nov. 10— The ; Agriculture Department is prepar ing to investigate a group of Louisiana raw sugar mills for ; possible violations of price and I rationing regulations, with “pros- ! ecution contemplated” if viola- , tions are discovered. The department announced its plans for the inquiry following reports that the sale of syrup in place of sugar is widespread in some parts of the country. Syrup is not rationed. EDITOR SPEAKS AT ALLEN HIGH SCHOOL NAACP HOLDS SESSION ON VETERANS’ PROBLEMS Washington, D. C.—A nation wide attack on the problems of Negro veterans was launched here November 9-10 at a conference called by the Veteran’s Bureau of the NAACP, headed by Capt. Jesse O. Dedmon, Jr. Delegates meeting in Carver Hill heard discussions of employment, education, loans, health, and legal ■ aid and legislation. Discusion lead- i ers included representatives of the ; United States Employment Service, i Selective Service, War Department, j ; Veterans Administration. Federal ; Public Housing Authority, Depart. : ment of Agriculture, National Bar i Association. National Medical As sociation. Howard University. Am- i erican Council on Race Relations. ; and the NAACP. Walter White, NAACP secretary, welcomed the delegates and pledged : that the Association would spare : no pains to see that the special i problems of Negro veterans receiv- i ed proper attention. Thurgood i Marshoil, chief counsel of the j NAACP, stated that legal action would be instituted where discrimi nation could not be wiped out otherwise. The Veterans Bureau of the NAACP was set up last Jan uary 1 in the office of the Asso ciation's Washington Bureau here | at 100 Massachusetts avenue, N. W. Capt. Dedmon. who served in World War II with the 366th Infantry at Fort Revens, Mass., liegan his duties at that time, M’Arthur, Premier Confer Secretly TOKYO, Nov. 10—Gen. Douglas ' MacArthur today disclosed a new meeting with Japan’s Premier. Baron Kijuro Shidehara, on what was termed "routine matters of administration.” The uncommunicative announce ment followed the Premier’s con troversy with Supreme Allied Headquarters over the question of food imports for war-tom Nippon. PRICE 7c NUMBER 2 . The local FEPC Council raised j $500.00. Rev. L. A. Brown, chair man. announced this week that the j campaign would close Friday night ' at the headquarters of the Southern News office. All committeemen and workers are asked to make their final re port. PRES. TRUMAN ASKED TO I END JIM CROW IN FEDERAL PRISONS , WASHINGTON, D. C.—President Harry S. Truman was urged this week by the NAACP to isue a di rective "forthwith to the Bureau of Prisons to be transmitted to the wardens in all Federal prisons di recting them to discontinue all rules, regulations and policies with respect to all prison activity and endeavor based upon race.” Describing conditions in Federal prisons as “shocking,” Walter White of the NAACP requested im inetiiate action by the President His letter declared: “The policy of arbitrary segregation and dis crimi nation in Ashland Federal Prison. Ashland, Kentucky, has led to dis ciplinary measures such as soli tary confinement by the prison au thorities against conscientious ob jectors, Jehovah’s Witnesses and Negro inmates who have gone on food strikes rather than submit to these unconscionable policies. Sim ilar disciplinary measures were im posed on the inmates at Milan Fed eral Prison. Milan, Michigan, for the same reasons." The letter asserted that for three years the NAACP has been active in investigating and protesting dis crimination and segregation in Fed eral prisons and that the matter i had been brought repeatedly to the i attention of James V. Bennett, Di ' rartnr of Prisons, j « I "All of our efforts to obtain a directive from the Bureau of Pris- I ons to abolish segregation during i these three years have been un successful,” the letter said. Pinning the segregation policy on Director Bennett, the NAACP I quoted from a letter he wrote Aug | ust 22, 1942: “It is, however, a fact * that for administrative reasons we ■ usually house the Negroes sep arately." NAACP action was taken follow ing severe disciplinary measures used against persons in the Ash land Federal Prison, who protested against dining hall segregation of Negroes and whites. Editor Eugene Smith, spoke to the student body and faculty Mon day at 9:30 a. m. His subject was Youth of Tomorrow. He stated that Negro youth would find his place in this great country in which, we live in the way which he pre pares himself. Public conduct among Negroes were eighty per cent of social jus tices and equal rights. f eS By Mary Smith REV. JAMES HENRY DAV IS, age 76, was born in Elabon Russell County, Virginia, Sep tember 20, 1869. Rev. Davis entered the ministry in 1396. Joined the Zion connection in 1900. He was ordained elder at Hopkins Chapel, A. M. E. Zion Church in 1915. Rev. Davis pastored in Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina and Georgia. Rev. Davis served in the ministry forty five years.
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