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Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1946-06-28

J. R. Booker, City; Attorney w.
A. Booker, Chicago, DR.. Walter M.
Booker, ward University:
James H. Booker, Washington,
D. c. and three sisters, Mrs. M. B.
Pearry, Chicago; Mrs. c. B.
Medley, Tulsa Oklahoma and Mrs.
S. B. Turner, Tougaloo College,
Mississippi. She was the niece
of DR.. r. M. Caver, former pas
tor of Mt. Zion Church, now To-
Gated in Cleveland, Ohio. Mrs.
M. c. Harris, an aunt of Nash
vile, Tennessee.
Her first Education was al
Arkansas Baptist College. She
t t e n d e d Hampton Institute
where she specialized in Home
Economics. She graduated from
the Illinois Technical College
where she received her A. B. de-
gree. Her advanced work wa,
being done at the University O
Chicago in the field of Admin
istrative Education.
In 1924 she began working il
the Little Rock Public Schools
where she taught in the grad
and Junior High Schools. Late
she became principal of Soutl
End School, and for the past fou
"a years, was Principal of Capt.
tai Hill School.
AS soon as the news of he
passing was released, more tha
three hundred kilograms an
messages flooded the Booke
home, 1922 Cross Street, wher
she lived and began spreading he
slogan: Look for the beautiful.
She tried to carry this slogan int
her life and program in the schot
system. 1t was learned that sh
was stickler for organization
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1946-06-28
Federal Grand
Jury Denounced
By Ky. Daily

The Louisville Courier-Journa
denounced the Nashville, Ten
nessee the latter part of February
its whitewash of THE unlawful
search and seizure by State
Patrolmen" in Columbia, Ten
nessee the later part of February
The Courier-Journal declared
that there was plain evidence
of violation of civil rights Of
Negroes, and that the "whitewash
covers up the community fail
ure.'
The paper rebuked the Grand
jury for not realizing that the
Negroes had good reasons to lock
themselves up in their homes and
a natural distrust for the police
men who professed to defend
them.
The article also pointed out that
two Negroes had been lynched
in the short memory of the town.
one actually on the courthouse
steps. THE Grand Jury labored
the whole irrevelent point that
the Communist press and in
flammatory writers and outside
organizations h a d concerned
themselves with the incident.
What this had to do with the
fact that officers of the law moved
against Negroes locked in their
neighbours homes, rather than
against a crowd of whites that
milled around Mink Slide, is hard
to see. Mink Slide is known as
the section for Negro residents.)
6. the Grand Jury, in short,
could have taken these truths
into account rather than huffing
Communists. -" the Courier
Journal concluded.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1946-06-28
Bishop Curry
To OkIohomo

AT a meeting in Kansas City
LIST week of the Bishops Council
the Bishops held that they had
no jurisdiction regarding the
verdict of Bishop George Curry,
and the suspension was auto
matically lifted leaving Curry to
again preside over conferences in
Oklahoma. Curry who was pre-
viously charged with maladmin-
istration and found guilty was
suspended until last week.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1946-06-28
Police Report
Negro Youths
Confess Murder

According to official reports,
two youths, Jim Bains, 10, 2l2)
w. Seventh street and Nose
Williams, Is, whose address is
not given, confessed Monday to
Detective Chief O. ~ Martin, De
tectives Wdshburn AID Mack y
and Prosecuting Attorney Sam
Robinson the robbery and muir
der OF the Consumer Ice Com
pany salesman on the night of
June at 1913 w. 9Th street
According to the confession,
the robbery was planned and the
bows met at 9Th and High streets
Saturday night and approached
the ice house by way of the
alley. Bains then entered the
building through a rear window,
obtained an iron bar which police
earlier had connected with the
killing. Bains, it is said crept
up and hit Rendell on the back
of the head, and got scared and
ran out the rear of the building.
Gaining their composure he and
Williams came back and peeped
through a rear window and saw
the salesman lying on the floor.
They entered the building
through the front and ransacked
the office drawer, obtaining
$1,000 which they agreed to
divide. Williams never received
any of the money, it is said.
Both youths are said to have
given the same account of the
crime after being grilled separ-
ately, according to the reports.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1946-06-28
Leaders From Four States Attend
Regional Resource-wSe Workshop
Al a. NJ. & N. College Last Week

cessing, Wayne Fletcher, Little
Rock; Minerals, Dr., j. M. Payne,
professor of geologym, University
of Arkansas; Recreation rs a Re-
source, DR.. Mary Minis, extern
sion sociologist, Louisiana State
University; Getting Resouree-Use
Education into Secondary School
Curriculum, A. B. Wetherington,
and Getting Resource-Use Edu-
cation into the Elementary School
Curriculum, Myron Cunningham,
State School Supervisor, Arkan-
sas. Organization and Bulletin
Materials were under the super
vision of T. M. Stinnett, and a
Summary and Evaluation of the
Conference was given by DR.. Me
QUESTION during the closing session
Friday.
The following Arkansas repre-
sentatives were present. Mrs.
Fannie Boone, Little Rock; Ocie
Lee Smith, Little Rock; L. w,
Johnson, Pine Bluff; c. M. Creme,
Fort Smith; Henry W. Espy, Lit
tie Rock; f. j. Hellman, Conway;
Mrs. Ivy Foster, Pine Bluff; E.
d. PEBBLES, A. M. and NJ; r. C.
Childress, Little Rock; c. w.
Dawson, A. M. and ~, and John
Howard, A. M. and N, College,
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1946-06-28
Asks Question
But Refuses To
Accept Answer

Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-(WDL)
In a leading editorial, the Fort
Lauderdale Daily News asked;
I'VE are beginning to wonder
what answer such organizations
as the Workers Defense League
will have to offer in behalf of the
wave of rape cases by Negroes in
this area?"
After asking this question, the
News refused to print the WDL's
answer, which was written by the
Leagues Florida secretary, Lee
R. Halvorsen. Recalling how last
fall the News failed to print his
Wife's letter taking issue with
an editorial UNFOLDING the police
for breaking up an interracial
young peoples religious service,
Halvorsen prefaced the letted by
expressing the hope that the
paper now believes sufficiently
in freedom of the press to print
the WDL answer Apparently
the paper did not.
"On the rape cases, may we
point out that recently there were
two rape cases hereabouts which
involved white men," Halvorsen
wrote. One involved a Swear
old child and another a 13-year-
old girl. There is nothing racial
about rape.
"The WDL answer to injustice,
whether it be rape or any other
kind, is to fight for justice for all
people. You don't answer one in
justice with another. 1t is to get
more justice for the Negroes that
the WDL upheld the interracial
young peoples service. 1t is with
the same objective that the WDL
is pressing the 100000 damage
suit charging Broward County
officials with involuntary servi-
tude and illegal arrest of Negroes.
"Your editorial blames the in
telligent Negroes for permitting
northern carpet-baggers to come
among them and sell their peo-
pie on the idea that slavery
flourishes in the southland They
see it in this very editorial which
urges acceptance of the court
ruling UNFOLDING the closing OF
Dillars School during the winter
bean picking season. They don't
forget that Negro citizens were
jailed for refusing to work for
next to nothing on a third pick
ing of a bean field.
"Your editorial calls upon in
telligent southern Negroes to keep
their people subjugated. Intel
ligent Negroes will obviously fight
for more justice Tor Negroes and
will naturally join with the WDL
since it is sincerely for this OBJ
jective."
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1946-06-28
Last Rites Held
F or Prominent
L. r. Marion

More than two thousand people
packed the Mt. Zion Baptist
Church Friday afternoon to pay
their last tribute to the memory
of Mrs. Helen Booker Ivey,
Principal of Capitol Hill School,
who passed away Wednesday
Morning at local hospital.
Mrs. lvey was the daughter of
DR.. and Mrs. Joseph A. Booker,
DIR. Booker having served as
President of Arkansas Baptist
College for 80 years. Survivors
include four brothers, Attorney
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1946-06-28
CO URT RULES
jim CROW
0. K.

q Columbia, Tenn. Following
close upon the heels of the start
ling Federal Grand Jury report
on the Columbia, Tennessee
riot, Tennessee justice again
reared its head when Circuit
Court Judge Joe M. Ingram over
ruled the defense plea to abate
the attempt to murder indict-
ments against 81 Negroes.
The court, after hearing dra-
matte testimony for four full
weeks on the exclusion of Me-
groes from jury service, turned
down the defense on every ground
on every defendant. There was
only one exception. One defend
ant was abated only after test
imony proving that he had died
since the indictments were hand
ed down. Another defendant.
William Pillow, was being held
under the name Willie Pigg".
N. A. A. c. P. attorneys for the
defense introduced evidence to
show that the defendant had
been indicted under misnomer.
This plea was also turned down
by the court which said that it
would hold him regardless of any
difference in name.
The 81 defendants, ten of them
recently returned war veterans.
others leading businessmen and
respected men OF the community.
must now stand trial here in a
town over which hangs the con-
slant threat of lynch law and
Southern violence; where the
klan, encouraged by the Grand
Jury green light, is openly
active. N.A.A.C.P. attorneys, de-
PENDANTS and their families, live
under constant threat of Ku
klux Khan retaliation, and numer-
Gus threats have been made
against their lives.
During the hearings on plea
in abatement, the state introduced
several visibly shaken Negroes
who stated that they had been
called for jury duty in the Feb
ruary term, but it developed that
they were all excused without
ever even appearing in court.
White witnesses, among them
Sheriff Underwood, testified that
they knew Negroes who had been
called. The Sheriff, however,
suffered sudden loss of memory
when asked to cite names.
The state also attempted to
prove that the tax list, from which
the names of prospective jurors
were chosen, did not indicate
color of people listed, Thurgood
Marshall produced the 1896 list
which contained the identical
names where the letter &C" APP
peared after the name of each
colored person. The court re-
fused to consider this as evil
dence.
In ruling against the plea of
abatement, Judge Ingram ignored
testimony of 223 witnesses who
told of the Jim-Crow Jury system
that brought in the indictment
against the local Negroes. The
Judge based his decision on state
testimony that during the last
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Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1946-06-28

Bilbo, the man who is pleading
with his four opponents ito work
with me in persuading the Neg
roes not to vote in the white
Democratic primaries"
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1946-06-28

Due to the severe paper shortage and the increas-
ing demand for the STATE PRESS, il will be forced
to cut to four pages next issue. The management will
attempt to give you much possible of the
states happenings 1t is hoped that il will be able to
resume the original size in very short period
Thanks.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1946-06-28

efficiency, and devotion to duty.
She was a member of the Mt.
Zion Baptist Church, YWCA
Urban League, Delta Sigma Theta
Sorority and other civic organ
izations.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1946-06-28
Gaining Recognition

MRS VERNA NJ WELLS wife of D. NJ Wells successful Little
Rock business who resides 0 lizard Street heard
Sunday evening" June 6 The program originated
the Clarence White School Music and Allied Arts Chicago and
the closing of the regular school Well has been
studying voice and artistic whsng Chicago for time
She rendition Whistng and they both
beautifully the
presented certificate of from the Additions Committee of
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-12-21

equal facilities, he ruled that equal
protection Of the laws was not
provided through the furnishing in
segregated schools Of the same
technical facilities, books and
courses of instruction available in
the other schools.
The school boards and superin-
tendents Of four school districts,
including Santa Ana, the county
seat, sought to justify the seq
regation on the ground that most
of the children Of Mexican an
cestry come from homes where
English is not spoken apd that
pupils Of school age must be seq
regated for efficiency in instruc-
ton. Judge Mccormick held,
however, that the English-lang-
uage deficiency Of some Mexicans
did not justify general and con-
tinued segregation in separate
schools" up TO the sixth, OK in
two instances, the eighth grade.
Joel e. Ogle, Orange County
counsel, and his deputies, George
F. Holden and Royal E. Hubbard,
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-12-21

arguen that the district court lack
ed jurisdiction and erred in =
motion to dismiss the case.
1--WE contend" Mr.. Hubbard told
the seven appellate judges, chat
segregation Of itself alone is not
denial Of equal protection Of the
laws"
David C. Marcus, who with Will
liam Strong represented the plain
tiffs, all Of whom are American
citizens Of Mexican descent and
are taxpayers, contend that III we
accept the premise Is laid down
by the other side that = school
board can do anything it desires
and not be in violation Of the Fed
eral Constitution, q board can
start segregation with children Of
Mexican descent, go on with Ger
mans and other national origins
and end by dividing with respect
to religion, and we'll have the
same situation we had in Ger
many"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-12-21
US Court Stops
Bar Against Latins-
Mexicans

San Francisco, Calf. (NNPA)-
The Ninth Federal Circuit Court
of Appeals took under advisement
last Monday the appeal of school
authorities of Orange County in
Southern California from a deci-
sion of the Federal Court for the
southern district of California en-
joining them from putting chill
dred of Mexican and Latin decent
in segregated schools.
AS friends of the court" the
American Jewish Congress, the
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-12-21

National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People, the
American Civil Liberties Union,
the National Lawyers Guild, the
Japanese-American Citizens Lea
que, and Attorney General Robert
w. Kenny Of California were al
lowed to intervene in the case.
They filed briefs attacking the
legality of the segregation policy
as violative of the Fourteenth
Amendment to the Constitution.
Counsel for the Japanese-Ameri-
can Citizens League participated
in the argument of the case.
Judge Paul ]. Mccormick of
the District Court issued the in
junction against segregation on
March 81. He held the practice
to be Unconstitutional, illegal and
void" Regarding separate but
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-01-03
U. 5. SOLDIERS ALERTED As
Crisis DEVELOPS IN LIBERIA

MONROVIA, Jan. 3-(ANP)-
Negro soldiers stationed in Liberia
have been placed on the alert and
Monrovia declared off limits to all
military personnel as the result of
a crisis which has developed here in
a strike by dock workers against
the Raymond Concrete Pile COM
pany of New York, the Associated
Negro Press is able to reveal despite
rigid censorship which has been
clamped down on all outgoing
news. An American warship is also
expected to arrive here shortly.
The Raymond company is build
ing the American naval base here
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-01-03

and recently flew Brazilian work
ers into Liberia to do construction
work on the harbor, which is being
financed by American lend lease
funds.
All of the Liberian dock workers
for the Raymond company went
out on strike on Dec. 16 in protest
against low wage scale of As cents
a day, and against alleged pressure
by the company on the government
for a railroad and mining conces-
sion said to eventually embrace
about 100000 shares of Liberian
territory.
The strikers claim that the COM
pany's report that they were we'll
paid was untrue, and that they were
forced to work even on Sundays un-
der the threat of being prosecuted
for vagrancy. The exorbitant sal
aries of a minimum of $500 per
month paio to imported Brazilians
were also cited by the Liberians
who claim to have done all of the
unskilled and most of the semi
skilled and skilled work at the low
est possible wage. No Afro-Amer-
leans are at present employed by the
company here, and passes are being
denied beyond the gate of the extra
territorial scene of operations of
the company even to Liberian citi-
zens not working for the company.
Former president Edwin Bar
clay has come out openly against
the rail and ore concession, which
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-01-03

he claims "would tend TO make ano-
ther Haiti or Puerto Rico out OF
Liberia and imperil the small land
owner and the national sovereignty
as WELL" Members of the Liberian
Supreme court and some legislators
have threatened to resign rather
than sanction the rail and mine con-
cession, which has been approved by
President Tubman. An American
warship is said to be on the way to
Monrovia and American Negro
troops stationed at Roberts field
have been put on the alert by Col.
Graham, commander of the post.
Fighting has ragged in Monrovia
since Sunday and a heavy censor
ship has blanketed outgoing news
on the true state of affairs in the be-
sieged country.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-01-03

the SIS Abraham Rosenberg, sailing
the $3.50 mile Pacific voyage in
record time of 25 days, sailed into
the harbor here Monday.
Negro troops-many redeployed
direct to the Pacific Theater of Op-
GRAFTON from the ETO - formed a
large contingent of the 800 return
ing Pacific veterans aboard the
vessel.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-01-03
SHIP BREAKS RECORD
RETURNING CTS; RACES MIXED

SAN FRANCISCO, Calf, Jan. 3
-(ANP)-Thre days were clip
ped from the 28-day record set by
the first converted liberty ship,
returning Pacific veterans to the
United States from Manila, wher
Evening star., 1946-05-02
1hree-PIatoon System
For Firemen Backed
By Oldest Inhabitants

The Association of Oldest In
habitants last night urged adoption
of the three-platoon system for the
Fire Department and abolition of
present IA and 10 hour work days
for firemen.
The proposed schedule change,
already Endorsed by the Federation
of Citizens Associations, was sug-
gested in letter from the District
Firemen's Association. The change
would give firemen an 8-hour day
and establish the three-platoon
system now used by the Metropoli-
tan Police Department.
Evan H. Tucker, president of the
Northeast Citizens Association for
more than so consecutive years, was
unanimously elected vice president
of the Oldest Inhabitants to fill
the vacancy left on the roster of
officers by the recent death of L. A.
Carruthers, former Federation pres
ident.
. The association acknowledged re-
ceipt of a letter from Commissioner
John Russell Young thanking the
organization for its vote of conf
dence in him. The Oldest Inhabi-
tants had urged President Truman
to reappoint Mr.. Young to the Board
of Commissioners just before Mr.
Truman named him for third term
The group moved to consider a
plan for installing public address
system or hearing aide for members
of the association who are hard of
hearing. John Clagett Proctor,
acting president of the association
said it has been brought to his at
tention that some elder members
were finding it hard to hear all that
was said at meetings.
The following new members were
unanimously elected to the associa-
ton: Herbert p Leeman, Raymond
v Ryan. Edward S. Dove, Elmon
Carr and Frank J. P. Cleary. The
death of S. M. Faulkner member
was reported to the association. The
meeting was held in the Old Union
Firehouse, Nineteenth and H streets
NV.
Evening star., 1946-05-02
Ukroinions Reported
Ruiding Poles Again
By the Assoeioted Press

WARSAW, May 2.-Ukrainlan
Nationalist bands were reported
yesterday to be continuing to raid
Polish villages in the Galician sec
tor around Krosno and Sanok
clashing with Polish Army and
militia units
The bands in one instance drove
to the Czechoslovak border. They
attempted to cross, but were thrown
back by Czechoslovaks.
Fighting between Ukrainians and
Poles was said to be continuing in
the San River sector, where Rus
sian Army planes were reported to
have bombed Ukrainian concentra-
tions.
Evening star., 1946-05-02
Pruitt Faces Sentencing
In Second Larceny Case

After celebrating only a few min
utes, a District Court jury yester-
day afternoon found Lanceford j.
Pruitt, 80, of the 1900 block of
Twenty eighth street Sc, guilty OF
larceny after trust of $3.50, which
he was said to have obtained from
Mrs. Hazel Van Dyke Rainbolt, 100
block of Eleventh Street NE, to buy
an automobile.
The trial had lasted about three
days. Pruitt was prosecuted by AS
sistant United States Attorney Ed
ward Molenof.
In March Pruitt, who said he for
merly was a pitcher for the st. Louis
Evening star., 1946-05-02

Browns, was sentenced by Justice
James M. Proctor Of District Court
to serve from to is months on a
charge of larceny after trust of $500
from Hyattsville Md woman,
from whom he also was said to have
obtained the money to purchase an
automobile. An appeal is being
taken. however. from the March
conviction, so that Pruitt is not
Evening star., 1946-05-02

people right through the front door
of a tavern.
MY gosh," she gasped as she
reached the counter Il thought 1T
was for nylons."
She was standing in beer line
the result of rationing imposed by
dealers here.
Evening star., 1946-05-02

The cash value of Series E Saving,
Bonds increases each six months
after the first year. In ten years you
get four dollars back for every three
invested.
Evening star., 1946-05-02

serving the sentence on the earlier
charge.
Sentence on yesterdays conviction
is still pending. Justice Alexandet
Holtzoff presided at the second trial
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-12
-DelCo Music
Pupils Will Give
Program Thursday

twenty-five music pupils of Mrs.
T. E. Paterson will take part in a
recital Thursday night at 8 O'Clock
in Acme = Delco high school audi
forum.
Pupils taking part on the pro-
gram will include the following:
Piano: Ludy Trondsen, Nancy
Bordeaux, Yvonne Bullock, Fran
els Carroll, Virginia Lewis, Mary
Wehrhahn, Vernell Peterson, lila
Mae Blake, Becky Workman,
Alice B axe, Macelene Bordeaux,
Re5a Lennon, Hilda NJ. Marks,
Marguerite Brown, Fay johnson,
Thesia Roberts, Evelyn Malpass,
Hazel johnson and Dorothy Cole
man.
Voice: Letha Flynn, Agnes A.
Baruhardt, Bette Hilburn, Hazel
Johnson, Becky Workman, Yvonne
Bullock, and Mona Peterson.
liza Mae Blake will recite
''Music APriceless Heritage" anc
the Marshalls. will be Miriam
Williams arG Bette Lou Hilburn,
Following the recital a reception
will be held.