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THL. Climbing rapidly to the top bracket in radio appeal, the John Howard Choir is
an a' ‘ion which broadcasts every Sunday afternoon from the National Broadcast¬
ing Co: -i station, WTAM, in Ohio. The choir, directed by John Howard Ogletree
(right), h -erf of thousands of WTAM listeners, and many radio columnists in tne
state are Itsir.day afternoon "must”.
Student Strike Leaders Arrested
In Demonstration
Chicago. (AN P)—Police from
Gresham station arrested 11 white
student strike leaders here Thurs¬
day to effectively block the latest
anti-Negro demonstration by 1,700
Calumet High school students.
The 1.700 students, representing
more than half the school's en¬
rollment of 3,026, stayed away
from classes to protest the pres¬
ence of 29 Negro pupils at Calu¬
met. They had also planned to
stage picket demonstrations in
front of the Chicago Vocational
school where a large number of
•-Negro students are enrolled.
A Acting Capt. Bart J. Maron,
Gresham station, immediately dis¬
patched police to the scene at
Calumet High school to break up
li^t anti-Negro demonstration and
9 r prevented the pupils from
throwing picket lines around Chi¬
cago Vocational.
After arresting 11 of the strik¬
ers and taking them to the station,
he joined in advising them against
participating in anti-Negro demon¬
strations along with Thomas
Wright, executive director of the
Mayor’s Committee on Race Rela¬
tions. The parents of the 11 ar-
rested strikers backed Capt. Mor-
an and Wright by pointing out
that their action was “undemo¬
cratic and un-American” and ex¬
plicitly forbidden by law, where¬
upon all of the strike leaders
agreed to return to class and
promised to use their influence
to persuade other Calumet stu¬
dents to do likewise.
Child Bias Studied
More than 300 housewives, edu¬
cators, clergy men and social work¬
ers met here Wednesday to map
an attack or, child prejudice. The
group agreed that Negro teachers
should be permitted to teach in
public schools with predominantly
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NAACP Halls Release
Of Men For Mutiny
New York.—-The restoration to
duty of 52 soldiers who were con-
victed of mutiny last fall in
Hawaii was hailed by the NAACP
last week as a vindication of its
original contention that the men
were provoked to action by the
operation of color prejudice in the
outfit.
The « -, via- brought to the
a 11 e n t ion of Walter White,
NAACP secret ary, personally
visited Hawaii last De-
The NAACP requested
a trance riot of the court martial
proceed? i e.gs of Lt. Gen. Robert C.
Richard: .on. Jr., with a view to
filing' a n appeal, in response to
pi leque from Private William
: of the 1320th Engineer
General Service Regiment, and
tith r*rs. Upon his return to
sea lust April from a four-month
tour of Pacific base?. White eo c.-
fared ii , Washington with Under
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Truman Appoints Mollison
To Customs Judgeship
Chieago. (ANP) — President
Truman appointed Atty. Irvin C. j
Mollison last week to the judge- j
ship of the U. S. Customs court
in New York City, marking the 1
first time in American history a
Negro has been named a federal |
judge within continental United ]
States,
The United States Customs
with headquarters in New ’
court,
York City, is one of the nation’s j
most important federal courts
where questions affecting govern-
raent revenue and custom duties,
which vitally \ affect the nation's
industry, business iwtir usmess an<k,i anc^itf cpmmer?
ciai iyip4s>i "4p-
lions of
Mollison, a graduate of the Uni-
versitv of Chicago Law school, has ]
had an extensive law practice here
since 1923 and is a member of U. J
S. Supreme court bar, the U. S. j
Circuit court of appeals, 7th cir- j
cuit; the district court of
United States, northern district of
Illinois; the U. S. Emergency
.ourt of appeals, the U. S. Tax
court and is also licensed to prac¬
tice before the treasury depart-
ment.
The appointee, born in Vicks¬
burg. Miss., is also a member of
the Cook County Bar association,
Illinois State Bar association and
National Lawyers guild, a member
of the board of directors of the
Chicago chapter of National Law¬
yers guild in 1944 and 1945 as
well as a member of the City club
of Chicago. He was elected to the
Phi Beta Kappa society upon grad-
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SPEAKER AND MASTER OF CEREMONIES AT CATHOLIC LAYMEN'S
CONVENTION
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j Hon. \ndrcw J. Kyat), Jr. wlm
will deliver tlic address ol wcl)
[ come
Prof. John W. Hubert
Dies In Montgomery
Constitution
Hall May
Drop Col. Bari
By LOUIS LAUTIER
Washington, \\ asnmgto D. C„ (NNPA) —
jters of the American
?\»iP decide next weefc
to drop the bars against
colored artists performing at Con-
stitution Hall,
Mrs. Julius Y. Talmadge. DAR
president general, said last Tues-
day that the question of allowing
Scott, swing pianist turn-
classical, to give a coneert
in the haii will come before a
meeting of the Executive com¬
mittee here between October 8 and
11.
Her announcement came after
protests had been made from Cap¬
itol Hill against the exclusion of
Miss Scott from the hall.
Mrs. Talmadge said she person¬
ally saw “no reason at all” for
the- restriction against colored art¬
ists because “there are great art¬
ists of ail colors and nationali¬
ties.” As chairman of the ex¬
ecutive committee of the National
Board of Management, Mrs. Tal-
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Wilton C. Scott who will <rcp
as master ol ceremonies al tl-f
public meeting
I!. S. S. Court Refuses To Hear
Teachers’ Soil For Equal Pay
WASHINGTON'. D. C., Oct. b
In a decision handed down to-
iay he Supreme Court relus-
:d to hear the suit of a Negro
chool teacher charging the
Oade county. Fa . public school
board with “discrimination"
n payng white eeacher- larger
iaiaries.
Herbert C. Reynolds brought
;he suit on beha.f of himself
and 262 other Negro teachers
;n the Dade county public
school system
The appeal to the Supreme
Court was brought after tire
Southern Florida Federal Dis¬
trict court and the Fifth Cir¬
cuit Court of Appea s failed to
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Funeral Here Yesterday
Afternoon
MONTGOMERY. Ala . Oct. 5
Prof. John Wesley Hubert, for
twenty-live years principal df
Beach-Cuyler high school of
Savannah, Ga. died here today
at the home of his daughter.
Mrs. F. A DeCosta. dean of woi
men of the Alabama Statr
Teachers cdl^ne. His
body will be carried to Savan¬
nah, where his funeral will be
held Wedne-day afternoon at
the First African Bapt. t
church. Interment will bo in
Laurel Grove ceme tery that
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James J. Farley of llic NtCSU,
who will be the principal -
speaker
CATHOLIC LAYMEN TO
MEET HERE SUNDAY
Bishop Gerald P. O'Hara who
will address the convention
Savannah will be the scene
of the big Catholic Lay con¬
vent on Sunday. Oct, 14, when
lay delegates front Atlanta.
Augusta, and Macon will assem
ble to make plans for the devei
opment of tne state during
the post-war era and make the
1945 convention an epoch mak
ing assembly. Many delegates
are expected to attend includ¬
ing a record number from Sa¬
vannah.
An elaborae program! has
been ptanned and the public
-s invited to atter,^ the sow
mass at 10:30 a. m. at St. Ma¬
ry’.- church. The Most Rev.
Oera d P O'Harf bkmcp
of Savannah and Atlanta. is
celebrating the mass. Other
events on the Sunday calendar
include a breakfast for out of
town guests. 8:30 a. m. in the
VVe-t 36th Street USO Refresh-
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Parents Back
White Race
Hating Pupils
Gary, Ind. (ANP —Four hurt- I |
died white mothers and fathers
have organized here to back their
sons and daughters in a strike
against attending the same high
schools with Negro children.
A meeting of the parents and
students was staged here Friday
at Spanish hall where ne adults
expressed by informal speeches
their approval of the anti-Negro
studnt strike. They denied they
were “warring” against Negroes,
but said that their grievances
were against school officials for
not enforcing discipline imparti¬
ally and in allowing matters to
drift to the present situation.
Leonard Lavenda. 17, chairman
of the student strike committee,
outlined the student’s stand, then
included a demand for the ouster
of Richard Nuzum as principal
of Freebel High school. He asked
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REGISTRATION OCT.
12 FOR VOCATIONAL
EVENING SCHOOL
The Evening j
Vocational |
school will be opened for regis-
trat on on Friday evening, Oct.
12. at Cuy’er street school from
7 to 9 p. m. and again on Mon¬
day evening. Oct 15, at the
-ame hours.
A 1 ! persons Interested are
asked to register on these two
night-.
Courses in ta lorlng. cooking,
radio repair, sewing, etc., will
be offered. Other courses win
oe added a.< the m-ed is maui-
f r itfd for them.
Cla res will begin Tuesday
even jv,’. October 16. at 7 p. m.
at Cuyicr SU'ccl achouL
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Farmer Accuses Sheriff and
Henchmen of Atrocities
EXTENDS BUSINESS
Donaid Thoma-, who-- well
known busine-s a 312 Jeffer¬
son street has -erved Savannah
-o w*’.' for the post 2} year-
has extended hi- establishment
hrough the entire block to
-r a man street, The main
entrance to the busine-s re¬
main- at 214 Jefferson street.
but ca-tomers approaching the
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Medical Colleges Guilty of Race
and Religious Riscriminalioii
New York. (tNP)—Systematic
discrimination, on racial and reli¬
gious grounds, is being enforced
by virtually every medical school
in the United States, Dr. Frank
Kingden, former president of the
University of Newark and author
of many books on religious, edu¬
cational and social affairs, charg¬
ed here last week.
In an article. “Discrimination in
Medical Colleges," based on the
fin<i /ngs of a survey of the medic-
colleges in this country and
^ anada just completed, which ap-
P^ ar: ’ ’ n t * le October American
Mercury, Dr. Kingdon points out
that the principal victims happen
to be Jews, but the undemocratic
system also strikes at other minor¬
ity groups, particularly Catholics,
Italians and Negroes.
“While the science of medicii
is making magnificent progress,
prejudice on a voodoo-doctor level
prevails in the choice of its future
practitioners , . , Privately th#
medical deans acknowledge that
they apply a ‘quota system’ design¬
ed to keep out minority-group ap-
plicants. But not one of the 78
Grade-A medical .colleges in the
United States and Canada inter¬
rogated by questionnaire would
admit this fact in writing," he de¬
clared.
However, evidence of anti-Jew-
ish discrimination is overwhelm¬
ing. writes Dr. Kingdon, and he
reports the following facts reveal¬
ed by the survey:
The number of Jewish students
in medical schools has been re-
duced by roughly 50 per cent in
the last twenty years, although
annua! applications for entry by
Jewish Americans have not declin-
Of a total of 6,500 students
enrolled annually in medical
schools, only between 5Q0 and 600
are now Jews.
Every year the medical college-
receive between 35,000 and 40.000
applications from about 14.000 in¬
dividual students. Medical offi-
sstimahcd that from 3*> to i>0
per ni of (he applicant!.'—that i:
froi ,7,090 to 7.000—are Jewish,
Of the m-n-Jewa-. 1 - students, some
arc aumitud; of the Jewish
Memphis. (ANP)—Sensational
charges of brutality and barbaric
practices almost as revolting as
those reported from enemy prison j
camps were leveled against a Miss-,
liam McKinley and Theodore j
Roosevelt.
iff and a party of henchmen."
Will Brown, 55 years old farmer,'
of near Joiner, Ark., now bed-!
ridden at the Friendly Clinic. Mem- ,
phis, allegedly from injuries in-1
Dieted by the men, said that the 1
deputy sheriff held a gun on him ,
while a band of five men, including
three Negroes, put him through)
the “third degree.”
Those accused were Deputy J.’
A. McLendon, white plantation
owner; Nathan Chambers, George
Furr and James Yasir, all Ne¬
groes, and Jack Renew and Rex
Chisholm, both white.
Brown said that McLendon had
accused him of going with the
wives of the Negro men living*on
his (McLendon’s) plantation. Ex¬
ercising his authority as an officer
of the law, McLendon allegedly
ordered him to a joint where one
of his tenants lived and operated
a gambling table on Sept. 2-
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applieants, only about 500 get in.
Practically every medical college
asks the applicant for his race or
religion or both.
Dr. Kingdon charges that the
following medical schools have a
igid quota system “denied in
words but applied in fact:”
Yale University School of Medi¬
cine; Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine; Harvard Uni¬
versity Medical School; Dartmouth
College Medical School; Columbia
University College of Physicians
and Surgeons; Cornell University
Medical College; University of
Rochester School of Medicine and
ATTENDING HARVARD TRADE UNION
FELLOWSHIP COURSES
:
Members of the Harvard university teaching staff shown
with the ILGWU members of the Trade Union Fciiow - hip.
l eft to right (standing): Prof. Sumner H. Slichter. Sam Liuis,
Harry Shugar. Dr. John Dunlop? (seated' Bernice la; >r,
Mabel Durham.
New York.—Mabel Durham, a
young Negro underwear worker,
until last week assistant to the
chaplain of her WAC unit, was
dr 'grated member of a team of
four garment workers belonging to
the International Ladies’ Garment
Worker#’ Union, to attend the
Rev. Bolden
Dies Sudden¬
ly In Phila.
WHERE HE IK4S ON
VACATI0N
Funeral Here Yesterday
Afternoon
The funeral of the late Rev.
Mark George Bolden who died
suddenly Friday of la.t week in
Phi.ad' ohia. was held here yes
terdav at K!h Bethel Baptist
church, the Royals Undertakui
Establishment in charge.
News of the pas-ing of Rev.
Boiden was a shock to the
members of his church and his
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Dentistry; Duke University School
of Medicine; Bowman Gray School
of Medicine of Wake Forest, N.
C.; University of Virginia De¬
partment of Medicine; Northwest¬
ern University School of Medicine?
Syracuse University College of
Medicine and Baylor University
College of Medicine. •
“Major medical colleges that
come closest to a non-quota poli¬
cy are unhappily few,” reports Dr.
Kingdon. “The Medical School of
New York University and the Uni¬
versity of Illinois School of Meiii-
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Harvard Trade Union F
Courses at Harvard U
” Ma.-».. a> a
for the year I.*J ,,,,
der a fr»« scholar-hip arra
tUCllY
Miss Durham
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