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68 YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
LX VIII
TEACHERS UNION URGES END
Of SEGREGATION IN *. C.
O. E. S.
51st Session
MRS. MARY L. AYERS
Grand Worthy Matron
Waycross, Ga. — The fifty-first
annual session oi the Prince Hall
Grand Chapter, Order of the East¬
ern Star of Georgia was held here
June 26-28. More than two hun¬
dred fifty representatives attend¬
ed from various chapters over the
state.
The welcome program was plan¬
ned by members of the local Great
Eastern Star Chapter No. 313 and
was held in the city auditorium,
Monday night, June 26. Greetings
were extended the visitors by Hon¬
orable A. L. Ball, Mayor of Way-
cross; S’. L. Ruff, City Managei
of Waytross; Rev. F. D. Jaudon,
pastor of Gaines Chapel A .M. E.
Church; Dr. O. C. Wynn; M. H.
King, manager, Afro-American
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Taft Mum on his Charges
NAACP for "Soft" FEPC
Firemen Win Injunction
Against Central of Ga.
Drops Course
Rather Than
Admit Negroes
St. Louis, (ANP) — The St.
Louis Board of education acted
last week to nullify a decision of
Judge Robert L. Aronson that
Missouri schools must offer equal
education to Negroes or admit
them to white schools.
To any possible action
by Negroes to take advantage of
their right? to equal education, the
hoard discontinued a course in
aeromechanics at the white Had¬
ley Tech high school rather than
admit two Negroes who applied
for the course or set up the course
at the Negro Washington Tech
high.
This fact was announced by
Philip J. Hickey, superintendent
of instruction. He reasoned that
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TRADE TEACHERS AND STU-
DENTS—Pictured above are the
contestants and teachers of the
Regional Trades contest held
recently at the Harris high
school, Meridian, Miss. Repre-
aMajmak ffiribw
Washington, (ANP) —
American Federation of
called upon the District Board
Education last week to
legislation to end the segregated
public school system in Washing¬
ton.
In a letter signed by Paul Cooke,
president of local 2, and Don Good-
lee, legislative representative, the
board was urged to ask the corp¬
oration Counsel to prepare such
specific legislation for submission
to Congress.
The union declared that separate
school system has resulted in “in¬
ferior education” for Negro chil¬
dren “from the kindergarten
through college.
It further stated that segrega¬
tion had festered a feeling of in¬
feriority in Negroes and superior¬
ity in whites. Segregation in the
oublic schools has set the pattern
for segregation for the city and
has resulted in “uneconomical ex¬
penditures of the taxpayers’
money.”
C IRST NEGRO GRADU-
\TED E. ST. LOUIS HI
EAST ST. LOUIS, 111—(ANP)
—The first Negro was graduated
from East St. Louis high here last
week when Wardell Brooks was
awarded his diploma.
He entered East St. Louis high
as a result of an Illinois statute
passed by the state legislature
which refuses state aid to schoo 1
districts that segregate students
: n their schools.
He expects to attend Normal col¬
lege to study for teaching. Ulti¬
mately, he hopes to have a medical
career.
Young Brooks lives with his
mother, Mrs. Canary Banks, and
his stepfather Will Banks.
New York, N. Y., June 30.—It
was announced in the headquar¬
ters of the Provisional Commit¬
tee to Organize Colored Locomo¬
tive Firemen in New York City by
A. Philip Randolph, Chairman,
that a signal victory was won in
the form of an injunction against
the Central of Georgia Railway
Company and the Brotherhood of
Locomtive Enginemen and Fire¬
men by the Provisional Committee.
“The decision was handed down
lune 24 at Bainbridge, Ga., by
fudge Conyon in the District
Court of the United States for the
Vliddle District of Georgia, Macon
Division.
“Various technical objections
aised by the Central of Georgia
tnd the Brotherhood of Engine-
men were overruled by the court,
■specially the contention that the
•ight of the plaintiffs were in¬
valid upon the grounds of limita¬
tions.
“The colored firemen will not
>nly have the right to exercise
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|sentatives came from trade
schools in Alabama, Arkansas,
Florida. Georgia. Mississippi.
‘North Carolina, South Carolina,
Tennessee, and Louisiana.—(A-
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SAVANNAH, GEORGIA THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1950 l!HI|||!|j;|j!llllU )■
Mo. Univ. Must Abolish Racial Bans
Mississippi 4-H’ers for Get $50,000
La. Strikers
Win Labor
Fight
New Orleans, La. (ANP)—A
waterfront strike of Negro labor¬
ers, which at one time assumed
giant proportions, has been won
by the union after more than a
month of picketing, conspicuous
for its police friction.
The International Brotherhood
of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Ware¬
housemen and Helpers of America,
Local No. 270 (AFL), filed
charges with the National Labor
Relations board alleging that the
Douglas Public Service corp., and
the Gulf Rhipside Storage corp.,
had refused to acknowledge them
as the bargaining agents for the
iforementioned companies.
Precipitating the flurry was the
.discharge of nine Negroes on May
3, 1950, which the union insisted
was improperly done. Pickets
were immediately thrown around
the areas in question and picket-
ns were obliged to contend with
oolicemen they even dared a loco-
notive once.
By June 20, the shooting war
had come to an end, and an agree-
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NEW YORK, June 29.—A de¬
mand that Senator Robert A. Taft
name the “high officials of the
NAACP” who allegedly told him
that a soft FEPC bill was “desir¬
able” remained unanswered five
days after the Ohio senator had
been queried by wire by Walter
White, executive secretary of the
National Association for the Ad¬
vancement of Colored People.
“Senator Taft’s failure to con¬
firm or deny his reported charges
or to name the NAACP officials
indicates that there is no basis
whatsoever to allegations,” Mr.
White said today. “This is a level
of political trickery and misrepre-
sentation which I thought was
beneath the Senator.”
According to a report in the
Tune 17th issue of The Cleveland
Call and Post, Senator Taft “main-
ained that he was sure such a
bill FEPC without enforcement
powers could pass the
and that high-officials of the
NAACP had secretly agreed with
him that such a bill was desir¬
able, hut these NAAf P officials,
Taft said, had told him frankly
that they must insist on ‘all or
nothing at all’ regarding FEPC.”
Informed of this report, Mr.
White placed it before the 41st an-
nal convention of the NAAf P in
session in Boston. The convention
joined him in asking Mr. Taft:
“1. Were you correctly quoted
hy Call and Post ?
“If you were correctly quoted
we ask that you give us name
of NAACP official or officials,
time, place and exact statements
made to you.”
Senator _ Taft , r was asked to
a reply ... before the ., close , of r the
convention. As of June 29, no
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Negro, White Teachers Almost Equal in All But Pay
Little Rock, (ANP)—According’ The figures, taken from the salary of $143, against $1950 for against 2.65 for whites. Negroes
to figures released here last week 1940-50 school year records show whites. have almost 10 years experience
by the Arkansas Education depart- j that Negro teachers had a median Job longevity is higher with Ne¬ on the against nine and
ment, Negro and white teachers j college training of three and one- average
are just equal in college training' half years. For whites, the figure gro teachers than with whites— a half years foi whites.
and experience. But when it j was a little more than four years, thus giving the former more ex¬ During the war years, there was
,
comes to salaries, Negro teachers In the pay picture, the Negro perience. With Negroes, the medi¬ less turnover among Negro per¬
are still on the short end. 1 teachers drew a median monthly an figure for tenure is 3.69 years sonnel than among whites.
Half of the $100,000 camp fund
appropriated recently by the
Mississippi State legislature will
go toward the establishment of
a 4-H camp for colored farm
hoys and girls, says a report re¬
ceived last week by the U. S.
Department of Agriculture from
the Mississippi Extension Service.
The camp will he situated near
Canton, Mis^., on'a 50-acre site
donated by Mrs. Flora Parrish,
colored home demonstration agent
who has been serving the county
since 1930. Colored farm people
throughout the State are raising
funds to equip the camp.
With the construction of the
Mississippi camp which probably
will get under way by fall, colored
4-IPers in five States will have
camps. The others are in Georgia,
Louisiana, South Carolina, and
West Virginia.
TEACHERS OPPOSE
CONVENTION WHERE
JIM CROW LAW IS USED
ST. LOUIS, July 5—Delegates
to the National Education As¬
sociation convention in St.
Luis today adopted a by-law to
their constitution prohibiting
the holding of future conven¬
tions in cities wrere Jim Crow
laws apply to housing and food
facilities.
The action was a direct re¬
buke to St. Louis where the k950
session is now in progress.
Several delegates reported
that some Negro N. E. A. mem¬
bers had refrained from attend¬
ing the St. Louis meeting be¬
cause they knew hotels and res¬
taurant facilities would be lim¬
ited for them.
Let’s hope that the youngsters
of Chatham County will be
careful in their swimming and
conservative of their lives.
Completes Work For
Ph. D. Degree
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James A. Colston, former
president of Savannah State
college, has completed all of the
requirements for the degree of
doctor of philosophy in the’
School of Education of New
York University. Although the
degree will be officially con¬
ferred at the next graduation,
Mr. Colston is now entitled to
all the privileges granted by the
i degree. ,
During a the past year Mr. Col-
ston has served , member . of .
) as a
the . staff ..... of the department of
higher education at New York
University.
Congrega¬
tional ists
Dr. Gray
CLEVELAND—(ANP) — De¬
mocracy was made a living axiom
of the Congregational Churches
last week at its 10th biennial Gen¬
eral Conference when a Negro was
elected to head the executive com¬
mittee and 2,100 delegates passed
a resolution denouncing bias and
segregation.
Dr. Arthur D. Gray, pastor,
Church of Good Shepherd in
Chicago, was elected chairman of
the church’s executive committee.
In this office Rev. Gray 43, will
head the group that will run the
Congregational church until its
next biennial meeting in 1952.
A native of Sheffield, La., Dr.
Cray is the first Negro to ever
hold this position in the Congre¬
gational church. He is a graduate
of Talladega college and the
Chicago Theological seminary.
He replaces the Rev. Dr. Philip
G. Scott, pastor Westmoreland
Congregational churchy Washing¬
ton, I). C.
On the civil rights front, the
Congregationalists praised their
own churches for “an intensified
effort to reach the goal of non-
segregated church life.” They
passed a resolution which said in
part:
“We renounce the pattern of
segregation in race relations as
unnecessary and undesirable and
a violation of the gospel of love
and human brotherhood.”
The resolution further rated
the nation’s capital, Washington
D. C. a flagrant abuse. of our
Christian and democratic ideals."
It demanded “the immediate elimi¬
nation of all phases of segregation
in our nation’s capital.”
To Pay Her Honor
Monday
Daytona Beach, Fla. (ANP) —
Bethune-Cookman college will
honor its founder and president-
emeritus, Mrs. Mary McLeod Be-
thune, on her 75th birthday an¬
niversary here Monday, July 10.
A purse containing monetary
contributions will be given Mrs.
Bethune “in appreciation of the
services she has rendered man¬
kind.”
Nobody objects to the taxes
that support law and order
when they need the officers of
the law to protect them from
attack.
Jefferson City, Mo. (ANP) —
The University of Missouri and
five other state colleges must ad¬
mit qualified Negroes as students.
Judge Sam C. Blair of Circuit
court ruled last week in an oral
decision.
This is the first state decision
favoring admittance of Negroes to
state schools of higher education
ever given out here since schools
were segregated in 1805.
Declaring that the U. S. Su¬
preme court actually had already
made his decision, Judge Blair said
the all-white state schools must
admit colored students in any
course not offered by Lincoln uni¬
versity, the stale Negro school.
The case came up as a result of
a suit filed by the board of cura¬
tors of the university. Named as
defendants were three Negro stu¬
dents denied admission to the uni¬
versity and Lincoln.
In their complaint the curators
declared that they had refused to
admit the colored applicants al¬
though they were .fully qualified
because of their color. The stu¬
dents involved were Elmer Bell,
Jr. and George Everett Horne, St.
Louis, for admission to the School
of Mines and Metallurgy, a di¬
vision of the university at Rollc,
and Gus T. Ridgel, Poplar Bluff,
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Senate Again Delays Action
On Hastie Confirmation
WASHINGTON, June 29.— With
hearings on the confirmation of
Judge William H. Hastie for the
Federal Circuit of Appeals sche¬
duled to continue today, not a
single member of the Senate Ju¬
diciary Committee showed up to
conduct the session.
After six months of delay, the
committee called *Iudge Hastie
in for private hearings on June
27. The hearings continued the
next day and were scheduled to
continue today. However, when
no mepiber of the eommitee was
available today, the entire mat¬
ter was postponed until after the
July 4th recess. There has been
no indication of how long the
hearings will continue or when
Senate action may he anticipated.
Friends c»f Judge Hastie are
alarmed by the increasing dangei
of delay until the end of this
session of Congress. In that event.
Judge Hastie’s present recess ap¬
pointment would end because of
the failure of the Senate to act.
The Senate’s dilatory tactics in
this case are in sharp contrast
with the prompt confirmation vot¬
ed Judge Austin L. Staley who
was nominated for a Court of
Appeals judgeship six months after
Judge Hastie was named and who
was confirmed on June 27, while
the Senate committee continues
to postpone action on the first
Negro to be nominated to such
a position.
34th Victim Tram-Truck
Disaster Dies
Chicago, (ANP)—The 34th vic¬
tim of the street-car-truck crash
at 63rd and State streets several
weeks ago died here last week. The
victim, was Mrs. Fannie Etta
ell, an employe of the Veterans
administration.
A native of Royston, Ga., Mrs
Powell was formerly a school
teacher. She was the cousin of
Fred Downer, distributor of the
Chicago edition of the Pittsburgh
Courier.
Member Audit Bureau Circulations
Price 7c
NAACP Lawyers Map
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NEW YORK, June 29.—The Na¬
tional Association lor the Ad¬
vancement of Colored People is
prepared to launch an all-out at¬
tack against segregation in public
education from the highest grad¬
uate and professional school level
right down through the kindergar¬
ten, Thurgood Marshall, NAACP
special Counsel, announced here
this week. The fight, he said, would
also include a final drive to end
all Jim Crow transportation.
The announrement was made at
the culmination of a two-day con¬
ference of lawyers from all parts
of the country, meeting to map
strategy for implementing and ex¬
tending the recent unanimous anti¬
segregation decisions handed down
by the United States Supreme
Court in the Sweatt, MeLaurin and
Henderson cases. Attending the
confab were 43 lawyers and 14
NAACP branch and state confer¬
ence presidents from 22 states and
the District of Columbia.
The plan for the concentrated
battle against segregated educa¬
tion was agreed upon by the con¬
ference without a dissenting vote,
Mr.Marshall sajd. He anounced
that at the present time special
attention will he given to a law
school case pending against the
University of North Carolina, an
undergraduate college suit against
the University of Delaware, and
cases pending on the grade school
level in Virginia, Texas, Georgia,
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Parents Oppose Unequal
Jim-Crow High Schools
ANACOSTIA, Md—(ANP) —
The Consolidated Parent Group,
an organization of Negro parents,
last week demanded betel- educa¬
tional facilities in Anacostia.
in a letter to the hoard of edu¬
cation, the group charged specifi¬
cally that the junior high school
facilities for their children were
not equal to those of the white
students.
Six specific complaints were
cited in the leter which was signed
hy Gardner L. Bishop, president
of the organization.
NATIONAL LEADERS TO
jPEAK AT REGIONAL
;-H CAMP
Five nationally known leaders
will address the third annual Reg¬
ional 4-11 camp, August 8-15 at
Virginia State College, Petersburg,
Va., Camp Director T. M .Camp¬
bell announced last week.
The speakers will be Ralph Mc¬
Gill, editor of the Atlanta Con-
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SIGN SCHOLARSHIP C O N -
TRACT—Jesse H. Jones, former
secretary of commerce, and Dr.
F. D. Patterson, president of
Tuskegee Institute, signed a
contract last week from Hous¬
ton Endowment. Inc., granting
I’uskegee a $10,000 Scholarship
und. The fund will provide
schilarships to promising young
NUMBER 38
See End Jim
Crow Schools
ST. LOUIS, June 29. -Attor¬
neys for the St Louis branch of
! he National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
today expressed the opinion that
this week's Circuit Court decision
ordering admission of Negro st»-
dents to the University of Mis¬
souri has ended Jim Crow edu¬
cation in Missouri, at least on the
graduate and professional level.
The doors of the University
were opened hy Judge Sam C.
Blair of Cole County Circuit Court,
who directed the board of curators
of the university to admit Elmer
Bell, Jr., and Georg# Everett to
the School of Mines, and Cur T.
Ridgel to the graduate school.
Handling the case for the NA-
\CP were Sidney R. Redmond,
Henry Espy and Robert Wither¬
spoon of St. Louis. The former
t wo were associated with the late
Charles Hamilton Houston in the
famous Caines case in 1938, in¬
volving the University of Mis¬
souri law school.
Carl R. Johnson, president of
the Kansas City branch of the
NAACP and a member of the As¬
sociation's national hoard of di¬
rectors, filed a brief as friend
of the court on behalf of another
Negro student seeking admission
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Tan Troops
May Be In Ac¬
tion In Korea
Tokyo, (ANP)—Thousands of
Negro'troope in this area have
been alerted for possible move¬
ment and action along with mixed
and all white grounn and six units
pending the outcome of the North¬
ern Communist advance Into South
Korea below captured Seoul.
Three colored units were sched¬
uled to return to the United
States and to take station in the
First Army area. These move¬
ment were cancelled along with
all planned changes of all kinds.
Negroes are stationed within 330
miles of the actual fighting it was
learned Thursday night. There
are quartermaster and ground
force units in and around Itazuke
Air Base which is southwest of
Continued on Page Seven
men and women enrolled at
Tuskegee institute who would
find it difficult otherwise to ob¬
tain a college education. Hous¬
ton Endowment, Inc., is fi¬
nanced by Mr. and Mrs. Jesse
H. Jones and seeks to serve
worthy charitable, educational
and religious organizations.—
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