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Arkansas State press., 1947-03-14
brotherhood of Man
Called AntidOte To
Song of the South

NEW YORK CITc = (WDL) -
Congratulating Victor Reuther,
Educational director Of the United
Auto Workers on its production
Of the cartoon movie, Brother
hood OF Man. William Worthy Jr.,
field secretary of the Workers
Defense League described 1t as
"a healthy antidote to an Uncle
Tom cartoon-movie such as Dis
ney's Song Of the South.
He also pointed out that I'm
this undertaking the JAW has
made use for the first time Of
the cartoon-movie to show the
equality Of men. whatever their
race or color"
Brotherhood of Man Is based on
the well.known pamphlet Races
Of Mankind" by Ruth Benedict
and Gene Weitfish. Released by
Film Alliance OF America, 16mm
films are available in major cit
les. Proceeds OF all showings
abroad 90 to the trade union move
ment in Germany.
Arkansas State press., 1947-03-14
SHERIFF'S PROMPT ACTION
AGAINST LYNCHERS BRINGS
CONGRATULATIONS FROM WDL

ASHEVILLE, N. C.-(WDL)--
Sheriff r. H. Beardon of Green
vile, S. G.. received a congratu-
latory letter from Joe Felmet,
southern field secretary Of the
Workers Defense League for his
prompt action in rounding up the
lynehers Of Willie Earle, a Negro.
A total of 30 mobsters were
arrested after sheriff Beardon
swore out warrant charging
them with muf1e~. He said he
had obtained signed statements
from most of them that they were
members of moo which entered
the Pickens county Jail with
drawn guns and forced the jailer
to hand over Earle. Earle body
was discovered two hours later
with knife AMI snot wounds. The
lynching occur ed February II. the
second day of rotherhood Week.
A local WDL Investigation
found the unusual situation OF
Arkansas State press., 1947-03-14
OHIO POLICE
WH|TEWASHED
IN POSSE PROBE

Cincinattf, Ohio-A casual re.
mark by police officer in Gin
cinatti- O., was responsible for
assembling a posse of rs to 100
men in that town to hunt down
a suspect in an attempted rape
case, City Manager Wilbur r.
Kellogg said, but his report on
the incident to the city coucil
completely exonerated the city ad.
ministration.
The report, requested by the
Cincinatti branch NAACP, said q
Madisonville home had been bur-
glarized and As year old wife
criminally attacked. Shortly af-
terward, another home in the
neighborhood was robbed by a
Negro answering to the same des-
criptlon. A group OF armed men.
numbering rs to 100, gathered at
the scene to join the manhunt.
But other factors were un-
earthed by investigation made by
Ernest j. Waits of the Committee
on Democratic Action, Harold J.
Pierson Of the West End Civic
League, Arnold r. Walker of the
Division of Negro Welfare, and
Harold d. Smell of the Cincinatti
branch NAACP. This group in
terviewed the manager Of the ra-
do station WCPO over which
call for armed volunteers was
broadcast. The manager said the
call had gone out over WCPO in
response to a request from 1t.
Conner OF the Sixth District.
The group talked to City Man
ager Kellogg who gave them the
police version Of the affair. The
police say that a radio newscas-
ter asked 1t. Conner whether help
was needed and 1t. Conner said
1t was. Mr.. Kellogg refused to
issue public statement to the
effect that he police had not re-
quested civilian help and would
not tolerate 1t IN the future. He
said such a statement would most
likely result In riot against Ne
groes.
Arkansas State press., 1947-03-14

as to the proposition of law that
the state could only segregaae
when there were equal facilities.
In the absence Of separate law
school, Hall said, a writ of man.
damus should be issued To admit
her to the Oklahoma University
Law School. He said Miss Sipuel
had applied for law school In Jan
uary OF last year and she had A.
ready lost more than q year. A
white student who had applied 1t
the same time was now more than
year advanced In the Law sohool.
Hall said this was In violatioa
Of the 14th Amendment to the q.
8. Constitution.
Thurgood Marshall Of the NAA
CP national staff closed the A.
gument for Miss Sipuel. He a.
planned that It would not BE- I'm
possible to allow q negro to 20 To.
the law school at the University
of Oklahoma because graduate
lawyers took bar exams together.
were admitted together and prac-
ticed law without discriminatioa.
Marshall argued that II would rot
harm the state to move this prac-
tice ahead and allow Negro aAd
white students to attend school
together.
It was his position that tho
only way to sustain the separate
but equal law school theory voul1
be to have law school rea1y
whenever the plaintiff applied.
He said the constitutional rieAte
Of the plaintiff were personal ~
her and could not depend -
whether other NEGROES vAnto1 :.
legal training and oo~he. - -
held in allegiance until ~ olnon
made up it, mind 80 -
the State Of Oklahoma b 0v -
equal facilities made tim -
necessary and the only w -
provide equality in this 6ons.
would be to admit her 70 Tie ~
school.
Assistant Attorney General Han.
sen summed the case fos ~
school by arguing that the hvA
Of Oklahoma, both civfl and cYi0-
See slPuEL-paos four
Arkansas State press., 1947-03-14
If at First
Y0uD0n't
Try Again

TRENTON, N. il like people
who are courageous enough to
keep trying to get Jobs" said the
manager, so six Negro girls won
posts as telephone operators in
Trenton, N. j., 1t was revealed by
Mrs. Ethel NJ. Nelson, chairman
OF the Trenton NAACP Labor
Committee.
Mrs. Nelson said she saw an
advertisement for operators by the
Bell Telephone Co. in the local
paper She sent six girls, two at
a time, chosen for their neatness,
personality and intelligence, and
each girl filled out an applica.
ton at the Bell Telephone office
When two weeks had passed with
no word from the company, Mrs.
Nelson sent the girls back to find
out why they were not hired and
the girls went back again and
again.
In the meantime, lfhold Lett
FEPC advisor in Newark. had
several conferences with the man
ager of the local telephone Of.
flee. The manager wayered under
constant pressure and h. said he
liked courageous people.
Now We have two Negro girls
as information operators and four
as toll operators" said Mrs. Mel.
son. I'VE shall try to get Other
girls In ~ operators and az
clerks and typists
Tn brief filed In support Of the
Arkansas State press., 1947-03-14
WILLIAMS STUDENTS
Congratulated ON
ANT|.J|MCROW FIGHT

NEW YORK CITY-For actively
fighting jim-ero in Williamstown,
Mass. barbershop. Williams Col.
lege students were congratulated
by the workers Defense League.
The congratulations letter went
went to Norman Redlich, editor of
the Williamstown Record, which
carried an editorial saying: the
vast majority Of Williamstown's
residents will join the students Of
Williams in eondemning this fla.
grant example of jimcrowism.
Redlich was also a witness when
the barber told a Negro student,
he would have to pay three dtS-
lars for $1-hair cut. The shop
was picketed by the students, who
are planning action under a Mass.
law against discrimination by bar
bers.
Rowland Watts, associate WDL
secretary, wrote Redlich. 1.-THE W.
Arkansas State press., 1947-03-14

equality Of mercy which b en- A.
tribute Of God and to whtca both
the Jewish and Christian religions
commends us.
Senator Bilbo might ponder hia>
as he lies abed In long-dead JudAh
fouros Hospital. He might -
greatful that judah Touro was net
the bigot Theodore Bilbo 10. H0r
II he had been, Theodore Bilbo
would not at this very moment -
receiving the services Of one Of
the finest medical institutions N
the entire South. Let Senator
Bilbo look about him here in this
Tnfirmary and see the memorial
of man who was too big for ~
cial hatred, the most eloquent ~
buke to the hate-monger. Yer.
let us all do the same thing.
The truth that inarticulate A.
merica resents attack upon ia
Bilbos because 1t resents attack
upon the beliefs and prejudices
which It's Bilbos adopt and per-
sonify. Bilbo, though he may b
in an Infirmary for some time. d
yet Mississ'ppi's grievances. h
is a sorry champion and some OF
the grievances are getting Z bin
dog-eared and ancient BY nov.
But Mlssisslpians have no more
use for remote control Of Mississ-
ippi conditions and Mississippi
problems than they had in 1891.
What happened in 1866 is st;ll the
biggest news in Mississippi. Nrr
is Mississippi alone in that matter.
Eighty years after the Civil War.
the Civil War Is not over, no far,
as the defeated are concerned,
conquest changes and government
and laws. But people remain the
same. They do In Mississippi.
Georgia. South Carolina, Louisiana,
Texas. and Arkansas. and please
don't forget Florida and . fsw
| others.
Arkansas State press., 1947-03-14

NEW ORLEANS, LA.-Senator
Bilbo who has shamefully abused
the Jews is improving in a Jewish
hospital-Touro Infirmary. Touro
Infirmary was founded LOG years
ago by judah Touro who was the
son OF Rabbi and whose father
was instrumental in establishing
Touro Synagogue in Newport.
Rhode Island which was recently
set aside by the United States as
a National Shrine. Under Jewish
management to this day. this hos
pital practices no discrimination.
1t is for Jewish and Christian alike
for friend and foe--it's only cor
cern being the practice OF that
Arkansas State press., 1947-03-14
WDL TEACHER
BACKS STRIKE

NEW YORK CITY (WDL)--
Indorsing the statement of the
Buffalo Teachers Federation that
"the battle-ground Is Buffalo. but
the frontiers reach to every corn.
err of the United States" Layle
Lane. former vice president of
the American Federation of Teach
ers and vice-chairman of the Work
ers Defense League voiced full sup
port of the teachers strike.
In a letter to Raymond j. AIT,
president OF the Buffalo Fedora
ton, Miss Lane emphasized the
importance of your struggle for
tie rights of teachers to decent
living standards"
The strike of 2,400 teachers
was called by the Buffalo Fedora
ton, an Independent union, but
Is supported by both AFL and
CLIO teachers union In Buffalo,
which have joined the picket lines
One OF the biggest teachers
strike ever called, 1t spotlights
the substandard teachers wages
prevailing throughout the country
The annual minimum for Buffalo
elementary school teachers Is 81,
IT'S.
Arkansas State press., 1947-03-14
OKLA. LAW SCHOOL UNDER FIRE
HIGH COURT LIFTS
RESTRAINING ORDER
IN anne CHURCH FIGHT

The circuit court Of appeals in
Philadelphia, Penna. handed down
a ruling Friday, March ith and
lifted the restraining order that
Rev. d. II. Sims, former Bishop
of the A. M. e. church, had
secured against Bishop S. l..
Greene of Little Rock, through
Federal Judge George A. Welsh
Of Philadelphia.
The ruling of the high court
and the lifting of the restraining
appeal taken from the lower
court by Bishop Greene through
his attorneys Raymond Pace and
Sadie Alexander who had asked
that the case be taken out of
Judge Welsh's court on the
grounds of lack of jurisdiction
and the fling Of a certificate of
prejudice. The high court did not
allow this but instructed and
directed Judge Welsh to limit his
inquiry to three questions and
to sit from day to day until the
case is completed regarding an
injunction. The three things to
be considered are: 1. Was the
Extra Session of the General Con.
ference which met in Little Rock
last November properly called?
2. Did 1t meet at the time and
place announced? 3. Was Bishop
Greene assigned to the Philadel.
phia and Delaware conference?
Bishop Greene's assignment to
this field came as a result or the
unfrocking of Sims by the Extra
Session of the General confer nee
for mishandling correctional
funds, mal-administration and dis
obedience to the order and dis
cipline of the church.
The high courts acton makes
it possible for Bishop Greene to
proceed with the work OF the con
ferences mentioned which has
been tied up since December 2
and is hailed with delight though
out the A. M. e. church since the
Philadelphia conference Is the
mother and largest conference in
the connection.
Arkansas State press., 1947-03-14
SRCSCCRES
GAS WHITE
PRIMARY

Atlanta The executive committee
OF the Southern Regional Council
has condemned Georgia's white
primary legislation as "un-Christ.
IAN and undemocratic" in a resolu-
ton made public today by DR.. Guy
Is. Johnson, Executive director of
the organization.
How can we reconcile the un.
ristian and undemocratic white
Urinary scheme with our nation.
al Constitution and with those
principles for which the youth of
our land, regardless of race or
creed, gave up their lives in the
recent war;" the resolution said.
Dr. Job .,on, in announcing the
resolution. pointed out that
although the Southern Regional
Council is a South wide organiza-
ton several members of the exec.
utive committee and many rank
and-file members of the group
are Georgians.
Nobody can call this outside
interference DIR. Johnson said.
Nor are we mixing in politics,
for this resolution is based
wholly on the moral fact that the
White Primary is wrong"
Full text of TIL resolution fol-
lows.
I'VE view with shame and
regret the passage Of the White
Primary law by the Georgia legis-
lature. At a time when our watch
words should be progress and
unity. Georgia has retrogres sed
and il following a course which
can result only in greater disun-
ity and confusion.
How can we reconcile this
un-Christian and undemocratic
White Primary scheme with our
national const tuition and with
those principles for which the
youth of our land, regard ess of
race or creed, gave up their lives
in the recent war?
1--WE commend those citizens
from all ranks of life who had
the courage to appear before the
Senate Judic airy Committee and
point out the folly, the uniairness,
and the injustice OF the White
Primary bill.
in making this statement the
Executive Committee of the
Council is reaffrming policy
which was announced three years
ago.
This resolution is adopted not
In opposition to or support OF any
political party or fact on, but as
a declaration Of the Councils
stand on strictly moral issue
Arkansas State press., 1947-03-14
Act To Stay Execution
Of Mississippi Youths

Washington, d. C.--The final
step was taken this week in the
long fight to save the lives OF
James Lewis and Charles Trudell,
the IA and Is year old Negroes
sentenced to electrocution in Mis-
sissippi, when Thurgood Marshall,
special counsel of the NAACP,
filed a petition In the United
States Supreme Court to obtain
review of the convictions.
The petition and brief charged
that the youths were not granted
due process Of law; that they did
not have fair trial and compar'
ed their conviction with the
Scottsboro cases and with other
famous trials Of Negro victims OF
legal lynching which have been
reviewed by the Supreme Court.
Arkansas State press., 1947-03-14
WOODARDTO
TRAM AT
BIND SCHOOL

New York-Issac Woodard
blinded Negro veteran, whose
assailant, Police Chief Lynwood
Shull Of Batesburg, s. c, was az
quilted BY an all-white jur~ In
twenty.eight minutes recently, left
New York City this week for the
Avon School for the Bind where
it Is hoped he will be sufficiently
rehahilitated to enable him to ad-
lust to a normal life. Woodland
was accompanied by Franklin II
Williams of the NAACP legal
staff
At the Avon School for the
Blind In New Haven, Conn,
where Woodland was sent through
efforts of the NAACP and the
Veterans Administration, Mr.
Woodland will be taught to read
Braile to write, use the type
writer, walk alone and prepare
himself for a trade or profess
sion.
Woodlands admission to the
training school marks the final
chapter In one of the most shock
ing stories in southern anti-Nogro
sadism in the history Of Ameri.
can racial strife. The horrible
torture beating OF the Negro sol.
der, still in uniform and fresh
from more than two years In the
South Pacific, became a cause
celebre and was widely publlcized
In newspapers n every section OF
the globe when the facts were
first discovered by the NAACP In
April, 1916. Through efforts OF
the Association, Woodland receiv-
ed medical care from some OF the
nations leading specialists but 1t
was discovered that HIS eyes were
totally beyond aid NAACP In
vestigators tracked down his at
tacker, Police Chief Shull who
was eventually tried and acquitted
in record time in South Carolina.
A trust fund OF s10,500 was set
up with proceeds from individuals
and funds collected on n nation
wide tour OF NAACP sponsored
mas meetings.
Arkansas State press., 1947-03-14
BOOKLET SUM MARIZES
WORKERS. LEGAL RIGHTS

NEW YORK CITY (WDL)--
Workers rights regarding compen.
sations, unemployment insurance,
tenant problems, wages and hours,
loans and civil rights in general
are summarized in the booklet,
The Worker and the Law"
The booklet, issued by the Work
mems Benefit Fund of Brooklyn,
n. Y, and written by its general
counsel II. d. Margulies is illus
trated with cartoons and charts.
Copies may be obtained at the ma.
tional office of the Workers De.
Tense League, 1l2 East 10th St,
New York 3, N. Y.
Arkansas State press., 1947-03-14
An-White Jury
Frees Lynchers

New York, March 6 535, 1000
members of the National Asso.
citation for the Advancement of
Colored People, whose contribu-
lions had created the fund which
made possible the escape from
Minden, La, and eventual hiding
In northern Michigan OF lynch.
mob.fugitive Albert Harris, were
notified Of the acguittal In Shrave.
port, La, Saturday by an all.white
Arkansas State press., 1947-03-14

petition fos certiorari says: The
barest examination of the record
in this cfse shows that the ele-
ments Of Tue process, as they are
known In American democracy,
have been fagrantly violated. The
requirement -. Of our judicial
system cannot be satisfied by
mere symbolic trial in which the
court, the prosecution and the
defense proceed ruthlessly TO a
conviction based upon an exploita-
tion OF the defendants ignorance
and helplessness."
Arkansas State press., 1947-03-14

ness Albert Harris, serves az a
declaration 70 every Negro In The
South and particularly those who
fought for tn ctr county IN the
last war, that they are nov en-
tirely at the mercy 1T white su-
premacist lynchers, that the avs
Of our land which consider muir
der and toture a crime, do not
apply TO the murder and torture
Arkansas State press., 1947-03-14

Of Negroes. At n time when our
nation ia attempting to create an
atmosphere in the world OF peace
and mutual trust based on inter.
national law and morality, this
verdict which Indicates that IN n
large section Of America, the laws
are for the prot ectioh OF whites
only. win be received all over the
world with the gravest appre.
tensions
Arkansas State press., 1947-03-14

jury, OF the five men identified
by young Harris as the lynchers
OF Negro veteran John Jones
last August sth. Walter White,
NAACP executive secretary In
an Unprecedented statement to
the membership, stated. "Acluit'
tai OF the five alleged lynchors
OF Negro war veteran, all OF
whom we're Identified by eyewit.
Arkansas State press., 1947-03-14
Fordyce Choir at Union

The Gospel Choir Of st. John A.
M. u. Church, Fordyce, of which
Rev. Lois Patrick is pastor, will
appear in musical with the Uu-
ion Gospel Choir Of Union A. M. T..
Church Sunday at 5 p. m. at I'm.
ion, Wright Avenue and Pulaski.
Arkansas State press., 1947-03-14

d., which helped Lincoln Univer-
sity students figh jimcrow in Ok.
ford, Pa, congratulates you and
your fellow-students on your OPP
position to the timcrow barber
shop"
Arkansas State press., 1947-03-14
VOL SEEKS TO TESTIFY
AGAINST ANTl.LABOR BILLS

An opportunity to join labor's un.
tied opposition to pending anti.
labor Legislation was asked by the
Workers Defense League in let
ter to Representative Fred A. Hat.
ley, chairman OF the House Labor
Committee, which recently started
hearings.
Arkansas State press., 1947-03-14
White Memorial Church

Rev. NJ. d, Willet will preach at
White Memorial Church. 18th and
Valmar STREETS, Monday at 7:45 p.
m, Rev. A. C. Cabean is pastor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-10

Miss Evlyn Hoyle Day, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Willard F. Day of
Wyoming. Ohio, formerly of Beth
esda, and Ensign Henry Beckman
Latimer, u. S. N, son of Mr.. and Mrs
Henry A. Latiner of Bethesda. were
married Saturday in the Bethlehem
Chapel of the Washington Cathed-
raj Of ST. Peter and ST. Paul by
Canon Theodore C. Wedel. Follow
ing the ceremony, buffet supper
for the out of town guests and
relatives was held at the Wardman
Park Hotel. Yesterday the couple
went to Key West, where Ensign
Latimer is stationed
The bride was escorted by her
father and wore white Alecon lace
and a veil that fell from a tiara of
illusion and seed pearls. She wore
a single strand of pearls, a gift of
the bridegroom, and carried a
bouquet of white roses and steph-
anotis.
Mrs. Robert F. Russell was the
matron of honor and the maid of
honor was Miss Eleanor Latimer,
sister of the bridegroom. The
bridesmaids were Miss Ann King
man and Miss Belle Hart The
attendants wore American Beauty
faille. The matron and maid of
honor carried pink roses, with
matching headbands, and the others
carried pink gladioluses with match
ing headbandS.
Mr.. Richard L. Latimer was best
man for his brother and seating
the guests were the Messrs. Willard
F. Day, jr,, brother of the bride;
Robert H. Young and John Nc
Chesney Latimer. jr.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-10
Convent Alunznae
Heads to Meet

The Executive Committee of the
Georgetown Visitation Convent
Alumnae Association made plans
yesterday for a meeting of the
heads of its 16 chapters to be held
here October 24-26 for a discussion
Of the associations building fund
drive.
The organization recently an
nounced a campaign to raise $780,
900 for a new classroom building
in connection with the converts
150th anniversary, to be celebrated
in 1949.
Mrs. Frank A. Allen, jr, president
of the Alumnae Association, pre-
sided at yesterdays meeting, which
was held at the convent. Miss
Christabel Hill is chairman of the
Sesquicentennial Building Fund
Committee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-10
History club Notes
anniversary

The Capitol Hill History Club will
celebrate its golden anniversary this
year. with an interesting series of
programs designed to illustrate the
last so years of the club.
Mrs. Jason Waterman, president
Of the club in 1909-1910 and holder
OF the record for longest continuous
membership, will open the first fall
meeting on October with review
of the programs of the past.
Throughout the coming season pa
pers will be presented by various
members on such topics as Fifty
Years of Communications" Fifty
Years of Vehicle Travel" "Rise OF
Women in World Affairs" and other
subjects relating to the change and
progress during the past half Gen.
tury.
Mrs. Morris r. Bevington is presi-
dent of the club. Other officers are
Mrs. Frank Grosvenor, vice presi-
dent; Mrs. Ernest C. Rowland, sec
rotary; Mrs. Edward M. Wallace
treasurer, and Mrs. Percy w. Jones
and Mrs. Harry F. Patterson, direc-
tor and alternate, respectively, OF
the District Federation of Women's
Clubs