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E0UALIzATI0N BOARD
 MEETING LAST TIME

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 The City Clerk reminds taxpayers that a 3 percent discount is effec- tive if taxes are paid in full by September Is. One-half the amount can be paid September IS and the other March 15 without any penalty or discount.
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SEAVIEW APARTMENTS. Under new management. renovated. l and 2 room apartments. One block from Federal Bldg.
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Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1946-05-31
Army Releases
wo Films for
Commercial Use

WASHINGTON, DC. - Two
films, one dealing almost exclu-
sively with the Negro soldier in
the war just past and the other
dealing with intolerance and its
divisive effects, have been re-
leased by the War Department
Information and Education Divi-
sion for showing in commercial
theaters throughout the country.
The film Teamwork" depicts
many highlights of the service of
Negro soldiers in the Army's
Ground, Air and Service Forces
during the battle for Europe. It
includes action shots taken on
the beaches of Normandy and
emphasizes the integral role play
ed by these troops as part of the
great Allied team that defeated
the German armies.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1946-05-31
More Murders
In Texarkana

TeXarkana-Saturday evening,
Mrs. frankie Henderson of 525
Cedar street, killed her husband
by sinking the eight-inch blade
of a butcher knife in his chest up
to the hilt. He died in 6 few
minutes. 1t was claimed that
Mr.. Thomas had begun to strike
Mrs. Thomas with a chair; she
claims self-defense.
Rosa Lee Jackson of White Vii
lage Addition, died of knife
wounds near the heart and on
one wrist, and A. Richards of
Route 2 is in Jamison's Hospital
with serious wounds about the
stomach. The two were found
near the Hollywood Night Club
and the Buchanan street and Cot
ton Belt Railroad crossing.
One suspect has been quizzed
here, one in Hot Springs, and one
in Los Angeles in connection with
the phantom murders.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1946-05-31
Dr.. Rayford Logan. VIM. J. Faulkner
Commencement Speakers at AM. & N.

ginia Union University. From
1882 to 1888 he was assistant to
DR.. Garter G. Wilson, editor of
the Journal of Negro History.
From 1888 to 1888 he was head of
the department of history at
Atlanta University. Since 1898
he has been professor of history
at Howard University and is now
head of the department.
DR.. Logan is the author of The
Diplomatic Relations of the Unit
ed States with Haiti, l776-1891
The Operation of the Mandate
System in Africa; The Senate and
the Versailles Mandate System
and of the Negro and Post War
World; A Primer. He is also
editor and contributor to What
the Negro Wants, a book now in
its third printing. He also edited
the Attitude of the Southern
White Press towards Negro Suf-
frage, l932-l940. DR. Logan has
contributed articles and book re-
views to many of the leading
scholarly journals.
He received the degree of doc
tor of philosophy (history) from
Harvard DIVERSITY, 1886.
DR.. Logan has travelled ex-
tensively in Haiti, Cuba, the Do
miniean Republic, and Mexico.
He is considered one of the au-
thorities in this country on Latin
American relations and was at
one time a member of the Ad-
visory Committee to Mr.. Nelson
A. Rockefeller, Coordinator of
Inter American Affairs.
Probably the greatest contri-
button he has made to modern
scholarship has been with re-
spect to problems of dependent
areas. He attended the Sar
Francisco Conference as Advisor
on Foreign Affairs to the Pitts
burg Courier.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1946-05-31
NEW CLUB INVADES
CITY SOCIAL SET-UP

The Keen Edgers," new club
organized among the students of
Woods Barber College held their
first meeting Tuesday evening,
May 81. Officers of the club are:
F. S. Whitmore, president; A. w.
Brown, vice-president; l.. E. Mat
lock, secretary: F. w. Spottsville,
assistant secretary; Miss A. Z.
REESE, treasurer; and M. c. Brown,
reporter. Other members of the
club are Messrs M. Bradley, p. l..
Baker, w. c. Calhoun, E. Murphy,
T. Props, p. Nichols, c. E. Erby,
l.. M. Henry, c. c. Bynum, r. o.
Parks, S. d. Hopes, A. Tuggle,
G. 7. Hendris, w. T. Davis, l.. A.
Jones, A. Avery, o. e. Dewitt,
j. II. Willis, Jr., d. Smith and
L. W. Harris.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1946-05-31

eoive his eyes. Mrs Wilmer Cox
of 1922 Mccoy Place, Roscland
Homes Housing Project, wrote
Francis after reading about his
first scheduled execution which
had to be postponed when the
electric chair failed to work, ask
ing that his eyes be willed to her
blind brother if the death sent
ence was carried out. This week
Mrs. Cox received from Francis,
now held at New Iberia, La, a
communication saying that he
had willcd her brother his eyes
"if 1t Is Gods will | should be
electrocuted again | want him
to have them IL he can. So if
anything happens, yours truly
Willie Francis" Accompanying
the letter was a mimeographed
plea asking that petitions for a
change Of sentence TO life i'm
Continued on Page 8
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1946-05-31

democratic racial practices are
wrong as politicians, radicals, and
publicity seekers If Mrs. Tai
madge's position is to be upheld
by the Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution, it will still fur
ther be held up to scorn and ridi-
Guile, not only in the United States,
but throughout the world. For
your own sake, we vigorously
urge you to remove the for white
artists only from your leases.
Marian Anderson is so great an
artist she can sing anywhere in
the world, except Constitution
Hall. You hurt yourself, not her
and other great non-White artists
by continuing a policy which is
more worthy of Hitler's Germany
than of a democracy"
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1946-05-31
Truman Asked ID
Remove Bilbo
AS DC. Mayor

NEW YORK CITY-Following
Senator Theodore Bilbos recent
speech in which he referred to
himself as Tex -officio mayor of
Washington and declared that
the people of Washington would
never be allowed to vote so long
as he is chairman of the Senate
District of Columbia committee,
the Workers Defense League urg-
ed President Truman to have him
removed from that office. Need
less to say Senator Bilbo's reason
was that if the capitals people
should vote, the Negroes would
take over.
If such a speech had been made
by the mayor of Berlin under
Hitler, it would doubtless have
gone unnoticed," Morris Milgram
national WDL secretary wrote the
/ President. But coming from the
mayor Of Washington, it will have
the effect OF making both the
US. and democratic government
the laughing stock of the entire
world
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1946-05-31

with two companions. Later the
police arrested the trio. A charge
of first degree murder was placed
against Christine Ferguson Sat
urday. The violence is said to
be the outcome of long stand
ing feud
Five people have been killed
on or near the corner of Tenth
and Apperson in the last three
years. A double killing occurred
on the same day when Paul Wat
son was killed by Leo Liggins,
and Leo was killed near the same
spot by Watson's son. One man
was killed by his brother. Of
The killers, one is awaiting trial;
one, mentioned above, was killed
on the spot, and two are free.
Sunday, Lester Green, 1910 Z.
Seventeenth, was killed in a knife
fight at the Susie O.. Previous
to this duo of killings within two
days, Hattie Owens was shot and
killed on May 8; Maceo Perry was
shot and killed on May 10; and
Harvey Jones was shot and seri-
ously wounded on May 10.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1946-05-31
Jim-Cro Smashed
In Boilermakers'
Union

New York--As a result of legal
action on the part of Negroes
against the International Brother
hood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship
Builders, and Helpers of America,
the Executive Committee OF that
organization adopted a resolution
providing for the abolition of aux
iliary lodges in California and
the admission of Negro workers
to regular locals in California
upon the exact terms, conditions
and privileges as are held, en-
joyed and possessed by non-Negro
workers The unions action
came as a result of series of
court actions by the NAACP in
California and Rhode Island.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1946-05-31
WHITE BLASTS
BIASED OAR

New York-NAACP Secretary
Walter White today blasted the
recent action of the 55th Con-
tinental Congress of the Daugh-
tiers of the American Revolution
when it ordered dissolution of
the Committee Against Racial
Discrimination in the use of Con-
stitution Hail. headed by Rep.
Glare Booth Luce (R., Conn.,
Mrs. Luce's l7-woman committee
sought to have the words white
artists only" deleted from rental
contracts for the OARS Consti-
tuition Hall in Washington. The
resolution ordering the commit
tees dissolution was approved by
1000 delegates to the Congress.
Lashing out at the OAR and
Mrs. Julius Young Talmadge of
Georgia, President-General of the
society, Mr.. White stated:
"Unless the Daughters of the
American Revolution repudiate
the specious arguments in the adj
dress opening the Fifty fifth Con-
tinental Congress of the Daugh-
tiers of the American Revolution
by Mrs. julius Young Talmadge
of Georgia, the public has no
other alternative than to believe
your organization should be re-
named Daughters of American
Reaction. You boast of being de-
scendants of those who dared to
challenge discrimination against
and mistreatment of the American
colonies. But today your Presi-
dent joins with another Talmadge
of Georgia in defending racial
discrimination and bigotry, justi-
flying it on the grounds that others
also are guilty of the same viola
ton of human decency and demo-
cratic process, obviously ranking
under countrywide criticism for
attempting to defend an indie
feasible position. Mrs. Talmadge
labels all who believe that un-
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1946-05-31
URW.CI0 Hon.
ored Friday Night
With Go Officials

The United Railroad Workers
Go were given timely and con-
structive advice at their regular
Friday night meeting, when Wal
ter H. Harris, CIO Illinois director
and A. B. Martin, national URW
director spoke to the group.
Mr.. Martin was in the city to
direct organizational activities on
the Missouri Pacific southern
routes. He explained to the men
that he had just attended meet
ing in Tallulah, Louisiana the
day before, and with good re-
suits"
MI. Martin told the men that
"our membership has grown
since our organization in '43 to
approximately 100000, and we
plan to organize every class of
workers in every railway craft
from a pick to a throttle"
George w. West, URW orga-
nicer and who served as master
of ceremony, presented William
r. Henderson, sub-regional di-
rector. Mr.. Henderson spoke
briefly and presented Mr.. Har-
ris who will direct the organiza-
tional activities for Arkansas.
Mr.. Harris stated emphatically
that there is no room in the Clio
for Communism, and any member
of the organization found to be
Communistically inclined def
nitely will not be tolerated.
Mr.. Harris told the group that
Arkansas will be organized, and
the laws of the state will be OBJ
served as we'll as the laws Of the
United States,
Mr.. Harris explained that so
cial equality that has been hurl-
ed toward the Clio, is just a word
with no material existence. so
cial equality in its reference"
stated Mr.. Harris, doesn't even
exist among any people"
The meeting was held at the
Congregational Church.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1946-05-31
Miss Jones Weds in Atlanta

Mr.. and Mrs Edgar Jones an
nounce the marriage of their
daughter, EDW1NA CARRIED
BEA JONES to MIR. WILLIE
BERNARD GAINEY, a student
of Atlanta University Miss Jones
is a former student of Dunbar
High and Junior College here
She received her Bachelor degree
at Tenn. State, Nashville, Tenn
in l943 and will receive her Mas
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1946-05-31
BTW Memorial
Coins Asked

ROCKY MOUNT, Va.-On May
%, companion bills were intro
duced in the Senate and the
Senate and the House asking fol
authorization for the Director Of
the Mint to coin 100000 silver
fifty-cent pieces to be used as
Booker T. Washington Birthplace
Coins in connection with the de-
velopment of the Booker T. Wash
ington Birthplace Memorial in
Franklin County, Virginia.
The Bill was introduced in the
Senate by Senator Barley, act
ing as proxy for Senator Carter
Glass, and in the House by Con-
gresham Thomas H. Birch, who
is representative from the Vir-
ginia District where Franklin
County is located.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1946-05-31
Church Sets Precedent

Asbury Methodist Church, Rev.
Robert Moten Williams, pastor,
Washington, ID. c., purchased the
fashionable Roydon Apartment
House at 1919 r Street N. w.
through the Thos. w. Parks Real
Estate Company, 207 Florida
Avenue, ~ w. This apartment
house is considered one of the
finest and well built apartments
in the city of Washington and is
located Just off fashionable 10th
Street. The Church plans to buy
a million dollars worth of apart
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1946-05-31

ment houses and this is the first
in a series.
AS soon as the church can gain
occupancy they will give pre-
ference to returning veterans and
their families. It has 38 units
and will be able to accommodate
200 people. II is a modern 6
story apartment with marble
floors and elevator service.
The pastor revealed that the
church bought the apartment
house to help the housing con-
dition in Washington.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1946-05-31
Thomos' Entronce
Into Trinity U.
Breaks Record

Samuel |. Thomas. husband of
Mrs, Emma Slaughter Thomas of
this city has been admitted to
Trinity University, Hartford, Con-
necticut. He is said to be the
first Negro to matriculate there
in the history of the school. Mr..
Thomas was a resident of this
city for eight years. He gradu-
ated from Dunbar High School,
and was indicted into the armed
forces in l94l, continuing in serv-
ice for -four and a half years and
receiving honorable dischal &c
with the rank of sergeant.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1946-05-31
.UAW.CI0 Head
Conference
Speaker

Sterilization Director Chester
BoWles and UAW-CIO President
Walter p. Reuther will be princi-
pal speakers during sessions of
the NAACP Annual Conference
in Cincinnati, Ohio, June $3.50.
Mr.. Reuther will be heard at a
mass meeting in Emery Auditori-
UNI Thursday night, June 9th,
while Mr.. BoWles will be the
principal speaker at an outdoor
meeting closing the four day con-
ference in the University of Gin
cinnatis Nippert Stadium Sunday
afternoon, June 30th.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1946-05-31

Pine Bluff-Two of the nations
greatest leaders will speak at the
1916 Commencement programs at
A. M, & N. College, June 2 and
June 4. Fifty-seven students are
slated to receive degrees during
the eonvoeation. President l.. A.
Davis will make the awards.
The Reverend William j. Faulk-
ner, Dean of the Chapel, Fisk
University and Meharry Medical
College, Nashville, Tennessee,
will deliver the baecalaureate
sermon, Sunday at 400 p. NJ in
the college chapel The Reverend
Faulkner has lectured extensive
ly in white and negro colleges on
race relations, religion and negro
folklore, and has conducted a
research project in negro folk
stores. He has been guest lee
turer for many years at Summer
Conferences for youth of the
white Methodist Church and Con-
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Churches.
The Commencement Address,
June 4th at 1000 A. M. will be
delivered by Rayford w. Logan,
Chairman, Department of His
tory, Howard University, Wash
ington, d. C., DIR. Logan is auth
or of the recent widely discussed
book WHAT THE NEGRO
WANTS.
In 1921 and 1923, DR.. Logan
served as secretary and inter
prefer at the Second and Third
African Congress in Paris. He
travelled extensively in France,
Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany,
Poland, Austria, Switzerland,
England, Spain and Portugal un-
til 1924. Upon his return to the
United States he acted as secre-
tary and interpreter at the
Fourth Pan-American Congress
in New York, 1927.
From l925-30 he was head Of
the department Of history at vir-
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1946-05-31
Woman Stabbed
To Death

Friday night about 1890 o'clock
Mildred Johnson, rear of $40 APP
person street, was summoned
from Tabs Place" on Apperson
near Tenth, and as she stepped
from the doorway in answer to
what had appeared to be a friend
ly call, knife was thrust sud-
denly into her heart by Chris
tine Ferguson, 1920 East Sixth,
according to reports, Miss John
son died on the street almost i'm
mediately and her assailant fled
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1946-05-31
HERE and THERE
Ted IIollinsworth

New Orleans, LATHE Louisi-
ana Supreme Court ruled that a
man may be required to sit more
than once in the electric chair.
The Supreme Court Justices un-
animously refused to interfere
with the scheduled electrocution
of l8-yoar-old Willie Francis of
St Martinville parish who made
one trip to the electric chair and
came away Unframed because the
equipment failed. Attorneys said
they would seek the only ave-
nues of escape which remain
the state pardon board and the
Federal courts.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1946-05-31
Columbia. Tenn.
Trial May e

Columbia, Tenn.-May 28th has
been the date set for hearings on
pleas ins, abatement flied by ~
torneys defending the 81 Negroes
facing trial under indictments Of
attempted murder following the
February 25th disturbances in
Columbia, Tennessee. The pleas
in abatement filed in each of the
indictments raise the question Of
exclusion of qualified Negroes
from the Grand Jury which re-
turned the indictments.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1946-05-31

ter degree in social work June 3.
She is a member of Alph Kappa
Alpha Sorority. Mr. Gainey halls
from Philadelphia, Penn. Mr..
and Mrs. Jones and their young
est daughter, Mrs. Walker, will
attend the graduation. Mr.. and
Mrs. Gainey will live in Phila-
delphia where they will be en-
ployed
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1946-05-31
RED CROSS TO
RECONSIDER UNION
RECOGNITION

NEW YORK CITY-The Am.
erican Red Cross will reconsider
The question of union recogni-
-ion for its employees. So stated
Douglass Poteat, executive vice
president of the Red Cross in an
wer to letter from Rev. Aron
5. Gilmartin, national chairman
IF the Workers Defense League.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1946-05-31
Negroes Witness
Derailmeni Of
Choctaw Rocket

The fast Rock Island stream
liner the Choc aw Rocket expe-
rienced its first mishap about
5.35 Monday morning on its last
lap of the l,522 mile daily run
when it was derailed five miles
Continued on Page 3
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1946-05-31
Crowned Little Miss Union"

Little M i S S CHARLENE
HUGH, with Mrs. Ruth Ballard
as sponsor, was responsible for
the raising of $190.63, and won
an $l875 War Bond, first prize,
in the Baby Contest that ended
May q, at Union AME Church,
Rev. H, Ralph Jackson, pastor.
Gwendolyn Marie Strong, Mrs.
j, f. Jackson, sponsor, won Sec
ond place, and Bateman Harris,
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1946-05-31

Dallas, Texas-1f the Louisi-
ana Supreme Court decides that
Willie Francis, convicted of slay-
ing a druggist, should face cleo
trocution second time, a blind
Dallas man, Rufus Allen, will re-
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1946-05-31
MAJOR DAVID A. LANE. JR..
ASSIGNED TO WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON, DC. Major
David A. Lane, Jr., Washington,
DC, was ordered here last week
for assignment with the War De-
partment Information and Edu-
cation Division.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1946-05-31
LITTLE HOCKrAN DIS
CHARGED FROM NAVY

Jimmie L. Tyler, of 1915 Pu-
laski Street was discharged from
the Eighth Naval Base, Person.
mel Separation Center, May 20.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1946-05-31

Jr, with Mrs. M E. Rutledge,
sponsor, Won third. Other con-
testants were Alice Louise Flake,
Donald Ferguson, Evelyn Scog-
gins, and Faye Yvonne Arnold.
Their sponsors were respectively
Mines. Edith King Flake, Mary
Cherry. Pernella Hill and Miss
Evelyn Arnold. Total money
raised in contest was $507l6.
Evening star., 1946-02-08
A Dram Of Her
F4U0r1te Perfume
in This Jewel Topped Bottle!
For Your Valeutine.,

Take a tip from Cupid Perfume is romance
in bottle! So if you'd make your Valentines
heart beat faster, remember her with one of
these famous fragrances :. and she'll re-
member you every time she uses it! Charm
ing jewel-topped bottle with applicator given
with each dram purchased.
Evening star., 1946-02-08
RubinStein
Erya,,
CarOn

FIeur de RocoiIIe $3.50 dram
Evening star., 1946-02-08
SchiapareIIi

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Floor
Evening star., 1946-12-17
Mrs. BaId1Uin
H0nOred at ca

A tea honoring Mrs. Harris r
Baldwin. president-elect of the Dis.
trict OF Columbia Legislative Coun.
ell and other members of the coun-
Gil was given yesterday by Mrs
Louis Gutenberg at her home. 161a
Buchanan street NV.
The Legislative Council is q
clearing house" for matters of in
terest to the District and is COM
posed of % local women's organiza-
tions.
Officers of the council who at
tended the tea included Mrs. Milton
Dunn, vice chairman: Mrs. Wilbur
La Roe. treasurer, and Charles v
Morris, secretary.
Mrs. Bandwin, honor guest, was
formerly vice chairman of the Ma
tional League of Women Voters and
legislative chairman of the league.
Presidents of women's groups who
were special guests were Mrs. Rob-
ert Leonard, Voteless District League
of Women Voters; Mrs. o. G. Han
kins, District Congress of Parents
and Teachers: Mrs. Morris Gewirz
washington chapter, National Coun-
Gil of Jewish Women; Mrs. Gertrude
Parks, District Federation of Wom-
ems Clubs and Mrs. Sara williams
District of Columbia Womenis Bal
Association.
The Legislative Council meets the
third Tuesday of each month ano
will hold its next meeting Janu.
ary 81.