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Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1947-05-02
AGLOBAL COLUMN
LIFE At A GLANCE
Nv David Bethe

A round table of applause Tor
The old Mahatma OF Flatoush'
Whatever else ia said and DONE
there remains a place in history
for Branch Hickey for his act IN
bringing Jackie Robinson, the
first Negro in modern organized
baseball. Yes sir, and am sure
that long after Jackie has passed
from the scene as an active play
or in the national game, Rickey's
name will be read along with
such names as the Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher. william Lloyd
Garrison, Wendell Phillips and
Abe Lincoln. All of these mon
were what historians have chosen
10 eall reformers But | believe
referring to them as real humans
who regard humans would best
describe them. For they were I'M
deed men who believed In demo
cracy for all the filks
What's the matter with the go
getting statesmen Of Negro period
icals? What. no nationally known
adds7 Not even a beverage ad?
Yet there are more saloons and
places IN guzzle in Negro sections,
than there are In any other part
Of the various cities throughout
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FACISM AT WORK
tContinued from Page II


Nations can contribute to the well
fare and independence of the Afrl
can and colonial peoples, the sing
er said at the rally, which mark
ed the Councils tenth anniver-
sary.
Other speakers included the
Rev. Asapansa Johnson, born in
Sierra Leone. West Africa, Will
liam S. Gailmor, WIN news com
mentator: the Rev. WELLS Da-
vies and DR.. Max Yergan exeeu'
tive director of the Council on
African Affairs,
The rally also featured a spec
ial dramatization by John La
touche author of Ballad for
Americans and "Beggars Holi.
day. 1t was produced under the
direction of David Heilweil of the
American Theatre Wing.
Michael Quill, City Councilman
and President of the CIO Trans
port Workers Union, and w. A.
Hunton, of the Council Staff, pre-
scented a watch to Mr.. Robson
as "a birthday gift from the
Council on African Affairs and
the people of America.
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JOB JlM.CROW
Continued from pace I

gainst decent national standards
on minority group matters" He
named Stanley Rector. Counsel
for the Wisconsin Industrial Com
missions Unemployment Compcn
saiion Department, as n key fig.
nre in this organization.
So far only three states, New
York, New Jersey, and Massachu
setts meet the minimum stand.
ards which the NAACP believes
necessary, Mr. Mitchell said. He
mentioned that. even though Wis
consin and Indiana have state
FEPC laws, they have failed to
give specific commitments on all
Of the points raised by the Asso.
citation
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NAAcP BRANCHES
Continued from PAGE II

DRY O, Jackson. state president OF
the Alabama state Conference OF
Branches. Illustrative of the calf
hor of citizens helping TO form
branches Of the Association Is m
y. V iemison. president Of the
National Baptist Convention. who
g. the chairman of the executive
board OF the Selma branch,
Preparatory worl, for the phila
dnlphia campaign which has
goal Of 20 600 Is underway under
the direction Of assistant field
secretaries Rufus Smith ana Mar.
ion o. Bond Magistrate Joseph
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Addresses Grads
Of Con. HI School

DR.. T. j. Griffin. pastor OF Hav.
en- Methodist Church in Hot
Springs, returned from Pine Bluff
and Fort Smith and journeyed to
the Consolidation High School of
Columbus Sunday and delivered
a long to be remembered common
cement sermon there. He spoke
from Rev. 21;7, HE that over
cometh shall inherit all things
and | shall be his God and he
Ny SON. Subject, THE GLORY
Of overcoming He paid a glow
ing tribute to Prof o j. Cheat
ham. principal after which he
unfolded his subject step by step
He called the attention OF the
class to the fact that their race
according to white newsparr re-
ports. had made q bad record bY
being hauled into the courts OF
the land on charges which dis
plaved dishonesty, and low things
nj life He charged that as long
as he had been pastorins he hao
never seen any of his members
who were public school teachers
ever darken the door Of a PRAYER
service. He said, Ear too many
educators have gone before you
writing their record that the
more a Negro gets in his head the
loss no has in his heart when II
comes TO the grace Of God lie
said "ThoSe who have gone he.
fore YOU have written a bad re
cord in the world of sex life, the
evidence OF which stands to warn
you that clean living IS out of
order but remember said he in
tones so strong that they shook
the windows Of the auditorium.
that God Almighty Is still OK.
pecting every woman 10 stand as
% virgin IN the hour OF her first
marriage. The same said ne. as
expected Of mar You ga -
class. are TO rise above Those re-
cords set by those who have and
aro now preceding Won
Tie closed by speaking Of the
horrors Of the deep south and
admouishinc the class to- over
come those evils and stand In
the Judgment dav with clean
hands and pure heart
A visitor remarked that Dr
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Griffin's ability to preach an
old time revival gospel every
where is the main asset upon
which he will climb to the Bish-
OPS bench in his great church.
Two ears of visitors from Hot
Springs attended the service.
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hv Kermit Eby, Director, CLIO
pepartment Of Education and
Research
WASHINGTON

Hitler and Jim Grow would
have made a fine pair. Fortunate
". they had no opportunity. There
we're probably not enough Neg
roes In Germany to fill a segre-
gated telephone booth. But II
there had been, they'd hardly be
alive today. There were lots Of
Jews there. however and. unfor'
tunately for Thorn. most of them
are not alive. But neither is Hit
Ter.
Jim Grow IL alive, and kicking.
Many OF those who are kicking
back the hardest are American
Jews. They understand the null
tiple dangers lurking behind ra-
cial discrimination md bigotry.
They understand 1t in much the
same way the labor unions UNI
derstand It. History has taught
that minority-baiting and inter
minority warfare pave the path
TO dictatorship and oppression of
the majority. Those who strive
toward more. not less, democracy
cannot limit themselves to pro
tecting one minority group. Each
minority must understand It's in
terdependence upon the others, In
order to save its own neck ..
That is why progressive lead
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1947-05-02
MISSISSIPPI,
EXECUTES NEGRO
FOR KILLING NEGRO

Decatur, Miss. Mississippi liz
achieving one feat of which all
states cannot boast. A Negro has
been convicted OF numbering an
other Negro and has paid the
supreme penalty. Walton Ratcliff
90 years old died in he States
electric chair Friday for the muir
der of his fatherin.law In his
last statement RatcIiff left word
for his friends TO stay out OF
trouble"
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CAMPUS 1--WE
Around Arkansas
State
with "ERNIE"

One often hears that any news
Is good news 80. but there is
some news that remains uneiassl-
fled is either good or bad case
in point is the new type triangle
which l.. A. b. r. w. and ID. T.
have formed. There was time
when daggers We're shot by the
two femmes at every encounter
now they're supposed to be as
friendly as mud. We don't know
what is'up but it surely doesn't
seem like a sound proposition; so
we'll just wait and see what hap
pens.
Berniee seems to have the voice
under control 49,. al least that =
the impression one gets when
Lou begins calling them Uncle
49,. It's nice to see O. b. blush
ing and smiling all the time hut
| can't help wondering If its per.
manent -. Just cant seem to
get a statement.
James and 10 have been seen
together fagain) lately. Perhaps
fathers visit was the turning
point in the reconciliation.
l.. G. goes starry-eyed and all
that sort of stuff when someone
mentions "Monty'a" name but
when she learned that "T~. l."
was coming to the Dramatic Fes.
tival with the Riyerbend PLAYERS.
she also looked "starry.eved" but
vaguely discontented". The man
OF the year among the Debaters
80. could r. MeF be the woman
OF the year in his life -. They
made a lovely couple al the De
bate Banquet. Fl. r. and T.. C.
also made a lovely-to-look at two
some, but one would have thought
G. w the lady to he escorted.
-. Anzie Henry and Stafford
lose no time 49,. There couldn,t
possibly be any secret hooks on
the quadrangle to them az much
as they view the campus &C.. r..
Hughes and r. Gaylord deny that
there's anything between them
.... but you should see how their
eyes meet and cling, tho unknown
factor though is ZeImon ....
Where does he fit in F9
NJ w. says she and A. NJ arc
right in there but no one ever
sees them Mayho thcv visit
Elites too. Nelson may look small
and quiet. but he must come tt
life sometime. At least no othel
fellow has Young ladios bringing
him refreshments on the job.
say not bad, what do YOU say
With the SADSA meeting on The
campus this week. there shoult
he lots of interesting thjnRa tt
tell in our column 50 stick a
round
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IT, Rainey. president of the
branch and Mrs Elizabeth *.
Young. executive secretary. re-
ported enthusiastic response Of
workers to the campaign which
will be- "kicked.off' April 30th.
Campaigning for 5000 members
in Newark got underway Tuesday
April 22nd under the direction Of
co.chairman Wethas GAYLE and
Harry Hardwood Jr
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community and inadequate health
and education legislation.
Democracy has this a 8 I
chance for itself. warned Mr..
White, and the job can be
done only If the leaders Of Amerl.
ca have the courage and faith
which to do II. ! do not wish to
overemphasize legislation, but II
is the only tool to implement the
struggle 10 gain fun citizenship
for all Americans"
Evening star., 1947-04-05
PeIeIieu Forces AIerted
For Japs' Banzai Charge
By the Asseeioted Press

PELELIEU, April 5.ArMarir1e and
Navy personnel were alerted yester-
day against possible banzai charge
by 80 Japanese holdouts hiding in
the caves of Bloody Nose Ridge on
this Pacific island.
A Japanese naval enlisted man
who surrendered Thursday in
formed Capt. L. O. Fox, island COM
mander, that the fanatical little
band, which has. hidden in the hills
for more than two years, was dis
cussing such an attack.
Capt. Fox Immediately ordered
Navy families living in the base 20
area, a half mile north of the air.
strip, to move into a subbase area
east OF the airstrip, where they will
have the protection Of heavily
armed Marine guards.
Thirty-two families now are in
this protected area, where the COM
manding officer is confident they
will be safe from even the most de-
termined japanese charge
Seven machine guns have been
set up on the roofs of buildings
around the airstrip. All patrols
have been doubled and equipped
with flares to give warning in case
they are attacked.
Evening star., 1947-04-05
Fires
Continued From First Page

tCOntlnueQ FROM F1rSC Page.)
after 4 am. when she heard Miss
Gordon throwing things out her
window. She smelled smoke and
gave the alarm.
More than 20 girls occupying
rooms on either side of the center
of the fire lost all their clothing and
personal property. Other occupants
came to their aid, giving shoes,
dresses, house coats, stockings and
money to those who were burned
out.
Some mystery surrounded the
burns suffered by Mrs Briggs, whose
room is more than 80 yards from
the place where the fire broke out.
Her room was untouched Miss
Stella Rohrbaugh, assistant direc-
tor OF Alcott Hall, said Mrs. Briggs
may have gone to Miss Gordon's S
aid when the fire started.
Mrs. Mary Ethel Sherman and
Johnnie Seymour, night guards at
the barracks, said the girls fol-
lowed the fire drill procedure and
evacuated the flaming wing in good
order after Miss Walton gave the
alarm. The fire swept the first
floor hallway and several rooms
of Wing F, but did not penetrate
to the second story.
Officials of the Public Building
Administration congratulated fire.
men for their quick work in quell-
ing the flames. They pointed out
that Alcott Hall is a temporary
wooden structure, not fire. -proofed.
No defect was discovered in elec-
trio wiring in Alcott Hall, firemen
said. It could not be learned i'm
mediately how the fire started.
Deputy Commissioner Harry G..
Hunter of the Public Buildings Ad-
minstration, which constructed Al
colt Hall in 1913, inspected the build
ing after the fire. He assigned j. w.
Dunham, Nathan G. Baker and Roy
Hunt, PBA officials, to investigate In
behalf of the Government.
Evening star., 1947-04-05
hosIem League Chief
Visits Mounfbaiien
BY fhs Associated Press

NEW DELHI, April 5.--Mahomed
Ali Jinnah, the president Of India's
Moslem League. conferred for an
hour and SO minutes today with
Viscount Mountbatten, the new
Viceroy, in what was described off,
cially as. friendly and informal
conversation"
It was Jinnah's first meeting with
Lord Mountbatten and occurred as
reports circulated that leaders of
the predominantly Hindu All-India
Congress Party were willing to try
again to negotiate with the Mos1em
League for settlement Of India S
snarled political-religious troubles.
What Mr.. Jinnah's attitude would
be only he knew and he wasn't say
ing. He has consistently demanded
an independent Moslem state of
Pakistant as against Congress in
sistence on a unified India and
there is no reason to believe the
powerful league leader has changed
his mind.
A usually well-informed Congress
source said leaders of his dominant
Hindu party would be willing to try
for a settlement within the frame
work Of the British cabinet mission
plan issued last May. The league
first accepted the plan as limited
Pakistant," then rejected it be-
cause of Congress interpretations.
While political talks continued in
New Delhi, scattered outbreaks of
violence continued to emphasize the
troubled political situation.
Both the Punjab and Northwest
Frontier Province, where the league
seeks power in its efforts to achieve
Pakistan, still are scenes Of CONF
munal violence.
Evening star., 1947-04-05

No, said Mr.. Molotov-items in
hand r1ust be worked out before we
take up something new. Had he
felt differently, the Council would
not nave had to miss its meeting
yesterday.
In one sense, Of course, it is true
that almost nothing can be really
decided here unless one big item
in hand is settled first. That item is
the economic problem of occupied
Germany-a complex snarl involv-
ing reparations, level of industry
economic unity of zones and an ex-
port-import plan.
It is this snarl which Gen. Mar
shall is quietly trying to loosen by
offering the Russians one small
highly conditioned hope that if they
make enough sense on other eco-
nomic problems in Germany we
may agree to their taking a very
limited amount of reparations from
Germany's current production.
The price we are asking. however
is an enormous one from the Rus
sian point of view. The feeling
here is that if Mr.. Molotov's state
ments SO far can be taken as any
indication at all of Soviet attitude
Russia would have to be very des-
perate indeed for reparations tc
rise to such a small piece of bait.
Evening star., 1947-04-05
Army Posts TO Hear
Special Prayer

A special Army week prayer by
Maj. Gen. Luther D. Miller, Army
chief of chaplains. will be used by
chaplains at all Army installations
here and abroad from tomorrow
through next Sunday.
Copies of the prayer, nonsectarian
in context, have been distributed to
pastors of the Catholic, Jewish and
Protestant faiths through the Ma
tion's religious press for possible use
by churches.
The prayer follows: .
Almighty God our heavenly
Father, Who are a Shield and
Buckler to all those that put their
trust in Thee, bless us Thy servants
and the Army in which we serve;
lead us and guide us by Thy good
Spirit, strengthen and defend us
by Thy might, that we may be to
our land a sure defense against
every enemy; support us in the day
of battle, and in the time of peace
keep us safe from all evil: endow
us with courage and loyalty, and
grant that in all things we may
serve Thee without reproach.
"Let the light of Thy countenance,
o God, shine upon our comrades
departed, that they, increasing in
knowledge and love of Thee, may
go on from strength to strength, In
the life of perfect service, In Thy
heavenly kingdom.
Grant to us who, at this Easter
tide, are still in our pilgrimage and
who walk as yet by faith, that hav-
ing served Thee with constancy
here on earth, We may at length
fall asleep peacefully in Thee and
awake in Thy presence. Amen"
Evening star., 1947-04-05
Painter Sues Union.
Over Contract Fund

Dietrich Egbers, of the 5000 block
of Adams street NE, member Of
the Painters Local Union 1853 and
a contract painter, has brought suit
in District Court charging union Of
f1cials with reducing competition
for painting contracts by requiring
contractors to post a $3.50 welfare
fund.
The purpose of the welfare fund,
according to the suit, is to provide
for the painters insurance fund
of washington and vicinity and to
set Up sick benefits.
Arrangements for posting the
fund resulted from a collective bar
gaining agreement, according to the
suit. The complaint expresses the
belief that many small union paint
ing contractors In the District Of
Columbia and the adjacent States
will be unable to pay the !" sum
of $3.50 upon the signing of the ="
agreement and will, consequently,
be forced out of the union painting
contracting business
The suit names as defendants
John H. Davis, president of the
Union Painting Contractors Asso-
citation; Max Schriber, secretary of
the Union Painting Contractors As
sociation, and Joseph P. Hillock and
r. G. Richmond, both of the Paint
ers' Local Union 1868.
The suit asks the court to deter
mine whether the agreement pro-
viding for posting the $3.50 fund is
valid and whether the plaintiff will
subject himself to civil or criminal
liability under the antitrust laws if
he signs and executes said agree
ment."
Mr.. Egbers is represented by At
torneys Michael F. Keogh, j. Rob-
ert Carey and Richard H. Love.
Evening star., 1947-04-05
Police. Search Woods NeorM. u.
For Two Men in Safe Robbery

Detective sergt. James Anderson
Of the same police force. took charge
of the combined forces.
About 80 policemen were taking
part In the hunt.
A woman standing near the inter
section where the automobile ran OF
the road told police one Of the men
stumbled twice as he fed across
sColesyille road. She believed he
was injured when the car left the
road.
The safe was believed to contain
about $135 Police said the men
entered after, jimmying the front
door.
John r. Parrish, 400 Carroll ave-
nue., baker at the Electric Maid
Bake Shop, on the first floor of the
building in which the loan company
has offices, saw the men when he
was going to work, police said.
They apparently had dragged the
safe down the stairway from the
second hoor otlice Of the company
and were hauling 1t out Of the front
door, he reported.
AS he went for the telephone, he
added, they dropped the safe and
jumped into their car, which he
described as a large 1916 sedan. &
Corpl. Wheeler put his plane down
briefly in Queens Chapel Airport
later and reported that he was
certain the fugitives were not in the
area.
With no leaves on the trees he
said he could see everything very
clearly in the scrub woods. He did
dush one man out OF the woods,
who was questioned by police but
apparently was not one Of the
fugitives.
Evening star., 1947-04-05
|WAA S Lost Balloon
Falls in Chesapeake

A debated hArrage balloon today
was returning over the road 70
Washington from Rock Hail. Md
where it collapsed eight hours after
drifting away from the War Assets
Administrators surplus sales cen
ter here. 1t was to arrive by Truck
at the center about pm.
Its aerial spree came to an end
in Chesapeake Bay last night near
Rock Hall on the Eastern Shore.
During the afternoon the 35-toot
gas bag. with WAA en1blasoned on
its sides, had led Army and Navy
planes q merry chase as menace
to air traffic
For two weeks the helium-flled
balloon had swung aloft as an ad-
vertiSement over the WAA sales
center at Fourth street and Jeffer-
son drive S.W. It broke from its
nylon moorings shout II am. yes
terday.
The Civil Aeronautics Admins
tration sent out q warning Of .
danger area for aircraft from Balti-
more to Boston and Buffalo and
west to Pittsburgh. The Army sent
a plane and the Navy three in pur-
suit Of the runaway. The planes re-
turned when the bag wandered on
main air routes.
A WAA spokesman said today the
agency will welcome the prodigal.
He was unprepared to say whether
it would have another chance to
conf1ne, its flights to Washington.
WAA, he reported, has sold Is of
$500 similar surplus balloons at $I04
each.
Evening star., 1947-04-05
Moves
Continued From First Page

problem Of setting up a provisional
government for Germany. This re-
port will show nothing remotely re-
sembling agreement has been de-
veloped except regarding the estab-
lishment of general administrative
agencies.
The committee sat more than
eight hours yesterday. Its failure
TO produce anything meant that
the ministers, after waiting around
for an hour at the Flyers Club,
had to cancel yesterdays Council
meeting.
And Thursday. for instance, when
a special committee brought in a
report showing substantial agree
ment had been reached on a variety
of points concerning Germany's de-
naziflcation and characterization, as
well as population transfers af-
fecting the Reich, Mr.. Molotov OBJ
jected to the phrasing of most OF
the agreements on demonstration
and insisted that they be sent
back to committee for redrafting.
Further, he made it clear that Rus
STA did not want the Council to
act on any of the material in the
committees report until it had
agreed on all of it.
Mr.. Molotov was in typically good
delaying form Thursday At the
end of that meeting. British Foreign
Minister Bevin tried to get him to
agree that the Council should move
on to the question of four-power
pact to keep Germany disarmed.
Evening star., 1947-04-05
Louise 0yereII Plans
To Wed Fiance Held
In Parents Murder
BY the A.seeiaisd Pres.

SANTA ANA, Calf, April 81
Scheduled to be released from jail
today on $4,000 bond, 17-year-old
heiress Louise Overel was making
plans to. marry George Gollum, 81,
her co-defendant on charges Of
numbering her parents.
Gollum, husky, blond premedical
student, was not admitted to bail
and II Miss Overell succeeds in car
rying out her plan to marry him on
her 18th birthday, April 80. the cere-I
mony will have to be performed in
the county Jail.
Long before the 47-foot yacht of
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter E. Overell was
blasted by dynamite to the bottom
of Newport harbor, March Is, Louise
and Gollum conf1ded to friends they
would marry as soon as she reaches
her majority.
Because she still is a minor and
would not be subject to the death
penalty If convicted, and because
Superior Judge Franklin G.. West
held that the grand jury indictment
did not indicate sufficient presump-
ton of her guilt, she was ordered
released as soon as bond was ar
renged. Her joint trial with Gollum
starts May 26.
To marry Gollum on her birthday
she would need the permission of
the court, of her legal guardian,
Fred Jungquist, and of Sheriff
James Musick, who has custody of
Gollum
Lawyers pointed out that If the
young couple were to marry, the
State could not force either to
testify against the other during
the trial.
Miss Overell has repeatedly ex-
pressed unshakable love for Gollum,
and yesterday, when both pleaded
innocent to the murder charge, they
talked during a recess of their
wedding plans. ...
The girl, sole heir to her parents
100000 estate, was to go into seclu-
sion today but her lawyer, Otto A.
Jacobs, refused to say whether she
first intended to visit her parents
Flintridge estate.