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YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
LXVll
' NEW HOME DEDICATED
The above glimpses of
sal Life Insurance company's
marvelous new home
Ship Officers Appeal To General
Fleming to be Restored to Jobs
State Supreme €t. Rules
Race Bias in Jury Selection
Delaware State College
Suspends Dr. Gregg
TO ATTEND OFFICERS
SCHOOL—Major T. J. Hopkins,
prominent electrical contrac¬
tor and leader in local veterans
organizations, who will attend
the Third Army Engineers
Sc'.iool at Fort Bragg, N. C.,
July 23 to August 8. Major
Hopkins is one of eight local
officers who will attend the
school, the other seven being
white.
ELECTED CHAIRMAN — At¬
tractive Ruth Edmonson, pres¬
ident of the Knoxville YWCA
Business and Professional girls
club, became the tirst Negro to
be elected chairman of the
Southeastern Business and
Professional and Industrial
conference last week at its
building dedicated in Memphis
last week, include. Lett
group of home office person-
nel; two technicians in medi-
DOVER, Del. (ANPi—Pres¬
sure from Gov. Elbert Carvel
and the Democrats in Deleware
f nally won out last week, and
the board of trustees of Dela¬
wary stats college suspended
Di*.'Howard D- Gregg as pres¬
ident of the sdhool.
Only a month ago the board
t'.nen headed by Judge Elwood
F. Melson of Wilmington clear¬
ed Dr. Gregg of all charges of
maladministration and gave
him a vote of confidence.
Judge Melson since has re¬
signed from the board.
Since then another board
chairman, Caleb Wright of
Georgetown, has resigned from
the board. Both he and Judge
Melson declared that the gov¬
ernor told them that unless
the board ousted Dr. Gregg,
the school would receive an
appropriation for a $500,000 new
school building.
Since the governor came in¬
to office this year he has work¬
ed to <*ist Dr. Gregg and use
the school for political ap-
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Racial Discrimination in Human
Relations Costs US Six Billion a Yr.
meeting at Camp Chelan in
Sallersburg, Ind. Miss Ed¬
monson, a native of Lebanon,
Tenn., is a home demonstration
agent of the U. S. Department
of Agriculture for the State of
Tennessee. She is a graduate
of A. and I. State college, in
Nashville—(ANP).
j cal department; right,
department and
investment department.— (ANP>
ATLANTA <ANP>—'The names
of Negroes must be placed on
jury lists ot Georgia counties,
the State Supreme Court ruled
here last week.
The court ruled that John
Crumb must have a new trial
in a case in which he was
charged with pointing a pistol
at another person. He appeal¬
ed a lower court decision on
the grounds that he was con¬
victed by an all white jury.
Pointing out that the U. S.
Supreme court and other state
courts had ruled likewise, the
Georgia judicial body declared:
‘Whatever may be the opin¬
ion of this court as to the cor¬
rectness, soundness or wisdom
of these decisions, it becomes
our duty to yield thereto.
“This being a government by
law and not by men, jury com¬
missioners in their officila con-
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CALLED TO BRYAN — Rev.
Richard M. Williams, well-
known young local minister who
Tu?s. night was extended a call
to the pastorate of F rst Bryan
Baptist church, which' lays
claim to being the oldest Negro
Baptist church in America.
The pastorate was made vacant
recently by the resignation ol
Rev. N. E. Holsey.
NASHVILLE (ANP 1—An esti¬
mate that discrimination
would appear to be costing the
U. S. economy a minimum ol
$6,000,000,000 every 12 months,”
was made by Joseph J. Morrow,
personnel manager of Pitney-
Bowes, Inc., Stamford, Conn.,
during an address before the
sixth annual session of the
Race Relations institute of the
American Missionary Associa¬
tion held at Fisk university re¬
cently. Morrow posed this
question to the 100 community
Jackie Robinson Says Negroes
Have Been, And Always Will Be,
To The United
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 18
-Jackie Robinson, star second
aaseman of the Brooklyn Dodg¬
ers bas ball team, appearing
today before the House Un-
Amer can Activities Commit¬
tee, gave the ID to Paul Robe¬
son’s statement that Negroes
would not fight for the United
States in a war against Soviet
Russia.
The hard-flitting, leading
hitter in baseball, vehemently
refuted Robeson's stat ment,
saying “No one has ever ques¬
tioned my race’s loyalty ex¬
cept a f.:w people who don’t
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NEW YORK (ANP) — The
question of finding jobs for
qualified Negro ship personnel
has t)£.en dropped in the lap of
Maj. Gen. Philip B. Fleming,
chairman of the U. S- Maritime
commission, Capt. Hugh N.
Mulzac, co-sponsor of a com¬
mittee seek ng employment for
licensed Negro ship workers,
announced last week.
Capt. Mulzac, 62, who guided
the liberty ship Booker T.
Washington during World War
II, said he had appealed for a
formal hearing on charges that
Negroes were being discrimi¬
nated against.
The maritime Industry, he
said, “has reverted to a pre¬
war policy of denying employ¬
ment to qualified Negro ship
off.cers.” He said less than 10
ol 200 Negro officers who served
during World War II are still
working in the merchant fleet
During the war he led the
Booker T. Washington for five
years across the Atlantic oceans
22 times, transporting 15,000
troops without a mishap.
The ship was withdrawn from
service on what the captain
termed a trumped up "smug¬
gling’’ charge based on th
finding of two cases of
ettes under some coal by
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Bishop Wright Sponsoring
Conf.-Wide Oratorical
Monumental AME
The presid ng elders, pastors
and laymen of the Georgia An¬
nual Conference arc complet-
ng plans for a mass gathering
of young people on next Wed¬
nesday, nignt. July 27, at 8
o’clock at St. Phillip Monumen¬
tal AME church.
Tws representatives from
each distret of the conference
will compete in an oratorical
contest during this meeting.
The winner of this contest will
be elgible to represent the
conference in th? state wide
contest during the annual ses¬
sion oi the Georgia State
Christians Educaton Leader¬
ship Congress which w.ll con¬
leaders from 33 states attend¬
ing the seminar on fair em¬
ployment practices:
“Why on earth should busi¬
ness concentrate its attention
and pin its hopes for expan¬
sion on foreign markets of any
and every kind when right un¬
der its nose is a tremendous
market which needs no expen¬
sive, high pressure selling, but
just an opportunity to increase
its power to purchase the goods
and services it is already will¬
ing and anxious to have?”
Throws Stench Bomb in
Defender’s Press Room
Favors Ending Racial Bias
In Univ. of Louisville
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ANP)
Members of the faculty of
University of Louisville
the admittance of Negro
dents to graduate schools on an
unsegregatpd basis, results of
poll taken by a
student revealed here
week.
According to Herbert
Dismissal Denied in Mississippi
T eachers’ Salary Case
GULFPORT, Miss—A decision
by United States District Judge
Sidney C. Mize denying a dis¬
missal motion in the Jackson
teachers’ salary case thus week
paved the way for a speedy
hearing on the suit brought by
the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People for equalization of the
salaries of Negro teachers in
the Jackson separate school
district.
Judge Mize, after denying the
defendant’s dismissal motion
and stating that a genuine is¬
sue of fact existed in the case,
set the case down for a hear¬
ing on its merits at the No-
V2mber term of the court. The
trustees and superintendent of
schools of the Jackson School
District had sought to have
the action dismissed on the
grounds that the plaintiffs had
not pursued an appeal to va¬
rious school authorities before
filing suits.
Since the original plaintiff,
Mrs. Gladys Noel Bates, has
been dropped from the Jackson
school system, Richard Jess
Brown, another Jackson school
teacher, has taken her place as
plaintiff.
vene in Atlanta August
through the 19th.
Twenty-five hundred
in scholarships will be awarded
winners in the State contest.
One four year scholarship,
three years, one two years and
one for one year.
Bishop R. R. Wright, the pre¬
siding prelate of
chancellor of Morris Brown col¬
lege, and one of the
educators of the nation,
this opportunity to youth as
help in acquiring
and finding among the youth of
the state young people
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j Charles H. Houston, a NAACP
lawyer, in his talk on “Ap-
! proaching Fair Employment
Practices Through the Courts,”
j cited the rapidly growing co¬
operation between various mi-
| nority groups in litigation
j against discrimination. the Dr.
j Charles Thompson, dean of
i graduate school of Howard
j university, emphasized that
| ; “racial integration is possible
now in many areas of educa-
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79 answers returned of 119 sent
out disclosed that 82 per cent
of the faculty did not mind
Negroes attending graduate
schools, and 72 t>er cent ap¬
proved of Negroes going to un¬
dergraduate schools on a non-
jim crow basis. (He said 73
per cent of the 79 teachers was
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NAACP Slits Proposed Pools Return
Jim Crow to R. C.
WASHINGTON — A strong
protest against the proposed
abandonment of the non-seg¬
regation policy in public swim¬
ming pools in the District of
Columbia, by transfer of the
operation of these pools from
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PASTOR R. M. GILBERT IS HONORED—Scenes taken at the Ninth Pastoral Anniversa¬
ry of Dr. Ralph Mark Gilbert at First African Baptist Church (Franklin Square)-
A. Some of the visitors attending the service last Sunday, Di\ and Mrs. Gilbert are
standing behind the pulpit.
B The Deacons and Trustees of the church- Bottom Row (Left to right)—Deacon J. F.
Brownlee, C. D. Bass. Charles Allen. J W. Marks. J. R-. Bryant. C- B. Burson; Second ro w , Dea.
J. H Johnson- Dea. Curtis McKinnon. Dea. James Brown. Dea Frank Chisholm. Deo. George
Morrell, Sr., Dea. James Washington. Dea B. Thomas: Back row. Trustees Mack Josey anti
Abie Futch.
In Pulpit (left to right)—Deacons W. J Ayers, Chairman of Deacon Board; Dea. Raleigh
A Bryant- Sr. Chairman of the Anniversary Committee; Dr. Ralph Mark Gilbert, pastor; Prof.
Elmer R Rufluer- Minister of Music; Deacon John S. Delaware, Co-chairman oi the Anniver¬
sary Committee, and Trustee Edwin W. Burke, Chairman of the Trustee Board.
Member Audit Bureau Circulations
Price 7c
CHICAGO A "stench bomb,”
thrown through an open win¬
dow of the press room at th'
Chicago Defender, 3435 South
Indiana avenue, last Thursday
night, injured one pressman
and resulted in a slight delay
of the publication’s city edi¬
tion. The national edition was
“on sale" as usual.
John H. Sengstacke, editor
and publisher of the Defender,
told chief of Uniformed Police
Ray Crane, that he knew of no
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Greenbriar Children’s (’enter
To Be Dedicated Sunday
Greenbriar Children's Cen-
ter, located on Mitchell Boule-
vard at 'Hunter Field, will
NUMBER 40
JOURNALISM CONSULTANT
—Dowdal H. Davis, newly-
elected president of the Negro
Newspaper Publishers Associa¬
tion, will be guest consultant
»t th? annual sem.nar in jour¬
nalism at Florida A. and M
college, in Tallahaassee, July
21-23. Mi*. Davis, who is man¬
aging editor of the Kansas City
Call, succeeds Thomas W.
Young, president of the Gwdn
Publishing company, as head
of the newspaper association.—
. (ANP).
J lormally dedicated Sunday af¬
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