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Arkansas State press., 1947-05-09
Annual Published
By States Seniors

PINE BLUFF T h q
ARKANSAN. published by the
senior class of the A. M. & N
College Is off the press and now
on sale at the college. Joe w.
Wiley, Editor with Frank Bryant
as Business Manager and Miss
Lille Lee Jones sponsor.
Bound in black and gold, the
annual reflects one of the finest
ANNALS ever produced at the col.
lege by a seenior class. Pictures
of President Davis, Governor B.
Laney, Glasses, campus life, ath.
letics, student activities and fea.
lures make up the beautiful book
OF memories.
Friends and former students of
the college would find this years
prize edition worth having in the
home or as gift to friend
It shows in its pages the new
Ark. State. new student and
certainly the hard work behind
this worthwhile project by the
seniors. Individuals interested In
purchasing a copy may address
the editor or business manager
at the A. M. & N. College.
Arkansas State press., 1947-05-09
FIRST NEGRO
INITIATED BY
CALF. X. Of c.

Los Aneles---- First Negro to
be received into membership by
the California Knights of Colum.
bus is Charles Jones, Loyola Uni.
versity Of Los Angeles Freshman
the schools student paper report
ed in a feature story carried IN
its last weeks issue.
The Knights of Columbus Is an
international fraternal order OF
Catholic men repeatedly honored
by the Vatican and the hierarchy
during the last half-century for
its achievements in Catholic act.
ion.
Discharged from the Army last
year as a major, Jones was com.
missioned n second lieutenant al
ter two years In the ranks. Serv.
ing as a court martial officer In
the Eighth and Ninth Air Forces,
the hero Knight Of Columbus
was the first Negro to be promot
ed to a captaincy in England.
In the Normandy invasion he
served as commander Of an amo
shuttle battalion.
Jones Is pre-legal student at
tht Jesuit school. He Is married
to an alumna Of University OF
California at Los Angeles.
Arkansas State press., 1947-05-09
RACE CANDIDATES
ON NAsHvILLE's CITY
COUNCIL TICKET

Nashville, Tenn-oespite the
effort Of z. Alexander LOBBY,
Nashville attorney to have the
name Of X. Gardner, prom.
inent undertaken rubbed of
the ticket In the city councils
race his name remained.
Attorney LOBBY whose name
appeared on the ticket made
efforts to have Gardeners re-
moved charging Gardner az
not being a legal resident Of
the ward, but Chancellor p.
J. Wade denied the LOBBY
petition.
J.. J. Bell, a white man was
also a candidate In the three
man race. LOBBY was a defense
attorney In the recent Wllker-
son brothers trial In Pine
Bluff, Arkansas.
Arkansas State press., 1947-05-09
COLOReO WOMAN'S
MAGAZINE RECEIVES
AWARD OF MERIT

Chicago Circuit Publishing
company Of this city, publishers
of HOME CIRCUIT, The Maya
zine For Bronze Women was sci
ected for an award of merit by
the Alpha chapter OF Iota Phi
Lamda Sorority during its cele.
bration of national business
week recently The citation read
"for services rendered in be-
half of the community and for
outstanding business achieve
ment,' was presented in a public
ceremony at the Church of the
Good Shepard here.
Arkansas State press., 1947-05-09

Jim Grow in the United States
cannot be wiped out until there
is a new Reconstruction govern.
ment in the South, says Earl Con
rad, in his book, Jim Grow A.
merica,' Just published by Duell,
Sloan and Iearce.
Only new Reconstruction
government in the South such as
was so evilly and forcibly taken
away from the Negro and Pro.
gressive whites In the 1905, can
strike at the heart of the segre
cation evil in American institu.
tons and mems minds" Conrad
declares. Charging that the fail
ure to enforce the three amend.
ments brought In after the Civil
War condemns the Constitution as
document that has persisted in
failure, the author contends that
whether 1t can be made to work
becomes therefore one Of the ma.
jor ISSUES OF the middle TWEEN.
tieth century,.
Conrad. eolumnist for the Chi
casos Defender, says that ut
Arkansas State press., 1947-05-09
Clio OFFICIAL
URGES UNIONS
TO HELP NAACP

NEW YORK--George LIP Wea'
YER Director Of the clio Com.
mittee to Abolish Discrimination,
today urged clio local unions in
twenty-nine cities throughout the
country to support the NAACp
nation wide membership cam.
paign. Weaver explained. in mes
sages to the unions, "The NAA
CP-an organization with which
We have been working very close
ly and on whose Executive Board
President Philip Murray serves
lis conducting membership
drive hoping to reach the goal Of
a million members this year" He
went on to tell Of the NAACP's
activities In the field Of civil
rights, and he asked the unions
to assist the Association in
achieving It's goal.
Arkansas State press., 1947-05-09

The ban within the last three
weeks on public meeting places
for the great Negro artist, Paul
Robson in Peoria. III. and AL.
bany, N. Y, and for Henry Wal.
lace in Los Angeles, Calf, is
the first brutally frank effect of
the thought-control drive of the
Thomas Rankin Committee on
Un-American Activities, directed
against the people as a whole.
No longer confined to unions
and the college campuses, the re
pressive effects of the campaign
to destroy freedom of speech
and thought are now reaching in
to the world of art and broad
political discussion. Unless there
Is an immediate and fortnight
reaction of the American people,
Arkansas State press., 1947-05-09
DoCkedDay's
PaytoMourn
boss'SDeath

New York City A sharp pro.
test against the action OF the
Ford Motor Company In dock.
ing their workers for the compul
sorry voorhees, day OF mourning
declared following the death of
the noted industrialist, was sent
to Henry Ford II by Rev. Donald
Harrington national chairman of
the Workers Defense League.
We urge you to correct this
gross blunder,' said the telegram
sent by the co-minister Of New
York's famed Community Church
"Depriving your employees Of
pay for the days mourning for
your grandfather does not con.
stitute a memorial to him which
you would want your workers 10
remember"
Arkansas State press., 1947-05-09
Chicago Teacher To Test
Illinois Civil Rights Law

Chicago For the first time,
the attorney general Of the state
of Illinois has taken up case
involving the violation of the
states civil rights statutes. The
plaintiff in the suit is Mrs. Eu-
gene o. Stands a Chicago teach
er who resides at 4637 Wabash
Ave, together with Robert Eng
fish and Mrs. Bertha Waller
This action against Jonnie's Rex
all Drugs, Inc, of Springfield,
ILL.,, was made known in Chicago
last week.
Mrs. Stands reports that she
Arkansas State press., 1947-05-09

able to reach the safety Of the
sidewalk alone. Funeral services
for Mr.. Ledden will be held at
Ebenezer Church, Scott at 1880
p. m. Sunday. The body will lie
in state from IL noon Saturday
until IL noon Sunday at Dubbi-
son Funeral Home. Survivors
are Mrs. Lille Ledden, wife, AL.
win Ledden son, Pine Bluff, Geo
Ledden. son, Omaha Nebraska,
Mrs. Willie B. Womack daughter
Mrs. Geneva Battles, sister. De-
troit, Michigan and Mrs. Johnnie
Giles, sister.
Arkansas State press., 1947-05-09
HERE and 7IIINHl

CHICAGO, lila $4,000
damage suit was filed in Circuit
Court against the Chicago and
Southern Air Lines last week by
Mrs. Gertrude Brooks, a5. Of 425
e. 44th st.. who charge she was
refused a seat on a plane in
Memphis. Tenn. because she is
a Negro. The airlines ticket Of.
flee in Chicago sold Mrs. Brooks
Arkansas State press., 1947-05-09
NAACP Official Exposes
Educational Expenditure
Under States Control

WASHINGTON, d. CA mini.
mum OF $50 per pupil and "appro.
priations for each succeeding
year to be progressively in.
creased until each child in every
state is guaranteed by the feder.
al government minimum per
capita expenditure Of $780,, was
proposed by Leslie Perry, NAA
CP Washington Bureau, when he
testified before the Senate Edu.
cation subcommittee. The SUBJ
committee is holding hearings on
S-1sS and S-472, bills to provide
federal aid to elementary and
secondary schools.
Pointing to the difference in
school expenditures among the
states. the NAACP officer said:
Arkansas State press., 1947-05-09

was denied her civil rights on
two counts while attending a
convention of the Illinois Educa.
tional Association in the state
capital at Springfield last Dec,
Goth.
AS the only colored member in
a group of 81 delegates, Mrs.
Stands was denied the right to
occupy a room in the Abraham
Lincoln Hotel there. Following
this, she went to Jonnie's Rexall
Drug store to get something to
eat and was refused service
Spurred by the NAACP Sena-
tor C. C. Wimbish, and labor or
CARNATIONS, attorney general
George Barrett filed a criminal
See TEAcHERs-pase tour
Arkansas State press., 1947-05-09
NAAcP REGISTERS PROTEST
OVER ROBSON CONCERT BAN

NEW YORK--The barring OF
Paul Robson from concert halls
In Albany, New York and Peoria
Illinois,, was sharply criticized by
the NAACP In wired messages 70
the mayors Of those cities. hTe
Association also placed It's legal
facilities at the disposal of the
worid-famous singers attorneys.
Arkansas State press., 1947-05-09
CLIO TRANSPORT WORKERS
GO ON STRIKE

New Orleans, La-Around
$50 transport workers, mem.
bers Of the CLIO, went on a
strike last week affecting 9
drayage firms and paraIyzing
to a certain extent. steamship
and railroad freight.
The strikers are demanding
a Is cent an hour increase, and
observers say there 10 no op.
tir,istic views over an early
settlement.
Arkansas State press., 1947-05-09

ft WV
Little Rock Po-
lice Force q
few months a
go on the ad-
vice Of his ply
stefan. While
on I h Q force,
Mr.. Ledden was
a splendid Of
ficer, and con-
trary to reason
Ing, was held :
hlgh IN the esti
nation of all
Little Rockians
law violators as
well as honest
citizens. Jus t
before M. Led
den was attack
ed by a heart
ailment that re-
suited in h s
death, he assist
ed q drunken
man from I h o
middle Of t h e
streets to safe
Nv who was nm
Arkansas State press., 1947-05-09

a round trip ticket without speed.
flying compliance with the Tenn
essee Jim Grow laws, according
to her attorney. Claud Holman.
On the round trip, June -, 1s4s.
she resisted being moved to ne
back Of the plane and was forci-
bly, evicted by the Memphis %
lice, her bill stated. He complaint
See HERE sns rH4RG-pass Z
Arkansas State press., 1947-05-09

The Federal government must
take immediate steps to assure
that child will not begin liz
with the severe handicap Of Z
second class system Of publio
schools simply by the sheer -
cident Of having been born IN :
Southern state or rural area. The
broad gap which currently o.
tains between the educational %
portunities among and within u
states will be brideeA
only when the federal govern
ment itself provides substantial
financial assistance to the more
impoverished states"
Perry told the COMMITTEES that
educational conditions q he
South for Negro children anA
teachers were 'intolerable" He
said that Mississippi expends
"4s9 per cent" more on . white
child than on a Negro one. n
spends only s11.s6 ON Z colofed
child as compared with $71.s5 a
a white Dor or girl.
He said school expenditures
are but one index 10 the plight
Of the Negro pupil in the soutA.
In general appearance school
structures assigned 20 Nsose
children especially in the towns
and rural districts in the dep
South. are delapidatsd one and
two-teacher frame shacks''. ~
statement said. Also school terms
for Negro shorter and they ~
ceive only 8 percent Of expsndt
lures for free school bus trans
portation.
Attention OF Congress Wae CALI
cd to the fact that Negro teach
ers are victims Of huge salary
gouges. Mississippi. It Was point
ed out, paid white teachers -
average Of S11o7 q pear ~ com
pared with sS42 for Negro teach
ers, "inspite Of tho fact that Ne
gro teachers usually have . twsar
ty-five percent higher pupil loads
and "hold identical State teach
ers licenses" M
Perry declared that IN est
Southern states have shown .
settled determination to distri-
butte funds In an unequal manner
and urged that every possible
precaution be taken against this
where federal funds are involved.
The NAACP proposed an q
mendment to the bill which
would require the United States
Commissioner OF Education to
audit state expenditures and that
such audits "at all times 10
available for public inspection"
The amendment also provided
that II ANY person shall com
plain to the Commissioner that
he has reason to believe that any
portion Of the funds appropriated
,'.' have been expended by any
state contrary TO the provisions
OF the Act, the Commissioner
shall afford such person a hear.
ing on his complaint. The a..
grieved citizen would also b.
able to appeal from the Commits
sioner's action or inaction to Z
United States District Court.
Arkansas State press., 1947-05-09
STA Re
EDITION
WHITE 70 RloHT-DELIGve
JACKSONVILLE NEGROES

jacksonville, FLA Negro
candidate for public office In
jacksonville Florida has been
defeated Tor the office no wac
seeking. AZ fate would have Il
generated BY white psychology
the majority Of the Negro
votes went to the white can.
didate, cIaud Smith who won
the election.
Arkansas State press., 1947-05-09
Banning Of Robson. Wallace Stems
The Attack On Free Speech and Art

We may expect that In every
city Of our nation. We shall be
permitted to enjoy the art and
political views only OF those who
have passed the" Aryan" test Of
purity.
THE FACTS
Peoria: A recital for Paul
Robson at the Mosque Auditor
ium. seating 1000 was cancelled
by the local manager under
pressure after the Un-American
Activities Committee had an
nounced in Washington that Ro-
beson was a sponsor OF Ameri.
can Youth for Democracy, and a
score Of other front" organiza-
lions. The City Council April 6
adopted a resolution declaring
any person guilty of subversion
or advocating overthrow of the
government was not welcome in
Peoria. 1t was openly directed at
hobeson. A citizens committee
finally prevailed upon the mayor
to make a small hall in City Hall
intended for public use, to be
made available for a reception
on April Is. Counter pressure
See RosERsoN-paoe four
Arkansas State press., 1947-05-09
Death Claims
Former Officer

VIII Ledden of 722 Arch st.
died suddenly Saturday of a
heart attack. Mr.. Ledden whose
health has been impaired for
several months was forced to re-
Evening star., 1947-09-07
World Body Formed
To War on Cancer
Earlier Story on Page A-31.J
By the Assoeiotsd Press

ST. LOUIS, Sept. 6.-An Interna-
tional Cancer Research Commission
to act as a worldwide general stan
to coordinate and speed urgent re-
search on cancer was launched to-
day by scientists from A nations.
The plan was approved at a dinner
tonight by delegates to the fourth
international Cancer Research Con-
gress and should be operating IN
year.
All nations, including Germany
and japan, would he invited to join,
and the principal financial support
would be made as part OF the or
ganization's objectives Of co-ordi-
mating, promoting and encouraging
the research war to conquer cancer.
The commission would meet once
a wear. never consecutively in the
same country. Each country would
have one member on the commis-
sion, with equal voting power.
Members would serve three years.
All existing cancer organizations
would be invited to lend their sup
mort. DR.. e. v. Cowdry Of st. Louis,
nresident of the research congress,
said. The new commission would be
an action organization. The con-
press is a meeting of scientists, held
only every three years, to pool their
knowledge on cancer research ao-
yancements.
Evening star., 1947-09-07
Rainstorm Causes
Minor Accidents

Washington is to get warmer
cloudier and more humid weather
today, following a rainstorm last
night that caused minor automobile
accidents and flooded Easements In
several parts of the city.
The Weather Bureau said the
temperature probably will climb to
the middle sos during the afternoon
During last nights rainstorm
electric power went off for s25 min
utes in the Metropolitan Apartments
at.200 Rhode Island avenue NE. ano
trapped Mrs. Bernard Orlans in 9
self-operating elevator for more
than an hour. Mrs. Orlans said she
was only four feet short OF the
fourth floor, where she lives, wher
the power went off and trapped hel
In the dark. Firemen finally sue
ceeded in removing the fourth-f1ool
door of the elevator and lifting hel
out.
Firemen also were called to pump
out eight feet of water that flooded
the basement of the Pepco substa'
ton at 1946 Fifth street NE.
Police said the storm appeared tt
be centered in the Northeast Sec
tion, although rain fell all over thu
city. Seven automobile accident.
were reported during the downpour
hut none was serious.
Evening star., 1947-09-07
By Joseph A. Fox
Stcr Staff Correspondent.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept. g.
President Truman's Brazilian
visit had a narrow escape from
tragedy today when, on the eve
of his departure home, the
limousine in which he was riding
skidded on a narrow, unpaved
mountain road and stopped only
after a rear wheel had mounted
a low stone retaining wall.
Rushing to the spot, reporters and
photographers were met by a smiling
President, who waved his arm and
laughingly invited them to help
police and soldiers dislodge the auto
mobile.
The point of the mishap was back
stopped by a grassy knoll, trees and
rocks for about 20 feet, minimizing
the danger, but elsewhere the clay
rainsoaked road was under construc-
ton and there were places with
sheer drops hundreds of feet to the
valley below.
The heavy limousine-"Queen
Mary'-was back on the road in
short time and the party proceeded
Evening star., 1947-09-07
By the Assoeiofed Press

Americas unknown soldier of
World War II will be brought home
from overseas near the end Of 1949
to lie in honor in Arlington Ma
tional Cemetery, under present War
Department plans.
In Arlington, he would rest with
the Unknown Soldier of World War
T. Whose tomb bears the inscrip-
ton that he is known "but to God" /"
Maj. Gen. Thomas ]. Larkin,
Army quartermaster general, said
yesterday that this second symbol
of American men and women who
lost their identity in the supreme
sacrifice for the country will rep
resent Army, Navy, Marines, Air
Force, Coast Guard-enlisted man
and officer
Just as it is intended that no one
shall ever know in what branch OF
the armed forces he served, Gen.
Larkin said that it is to remain
forever secret in which tneater he
died.
At some rendezvous when the time
comes nine bodies-each unidenti-
fied-will be brought from nine zones
Evening star., 1947-09-07
U. 5. Jury Convicts }
Of Conspiracy in Vote
Fraud at Kansas City
Face 10 Years, IS, 900 Fine
In First Cose Tried;
Two Others Acquitted
" The A.sseipisd Press

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Sept. g.
A Federal court jury today re-
turned a verdict of guilty in the
trial of three men charged with
conspiring to injure and oppress
qualified voters in the 1946 Kan
sas City primary elections.
Convicted were Morris tSnag)
Klein, Democratic precinct captain
in the 10th Precinct of the First
Ward; Henry Burke, deputy sher-
III, and Frank T.. Holmes, both DEM
ocratic workers.
The case was the first to reach
trial in the investigation of alleged
voting. irregularities in the 1916
primary. Maximum penalty is 10
years Imprisonment, a 5000 fine OF
both, Judge Albert A. Ridge told the
jurors. r.
Two Men Acquitted.
Originally five men were brought
to trial on charges of conspring to
injure and oppress qualified voters
in the primary, but two Of them had
their motions for acquittal sustained
last night.
They were the first persons to be
indicted by a, special grand jury
which began work last July 8. II
later returned indictments naming
20 other persons. -,.'
The inquiry was begun by the
Kansas City Star, which sent on,
special Investigators to look into
alleged voting irregularities.
The prosecution, headed by Rich
ard K. Phelps, closed the Govern
ment's case last night. The de-
fense presented only seven witnesses
among them the two former defend
ants, John Melham, Democratic
election Judge, and william B. Will
son, Republican election judge.
Charged "Stiffs" Transported.
Mr.. Phelps. who charged in his
opening statement that "stiffs ano
ghosts were loaded into motor cars
and carried from one precinct to
another from central clearing sta
tions" In the primary, brought q
parade of witnesses to the trial.
Forty-four Of them testified they
had been deprived of the right te
vote in the precinct.
In the final arguments, Will Har-
gus, chief defense counsel, agreed
with Mr.. Phelps there was illega
voting in the precinct, but declared
the Government had failed to linl
the defendants with those irregu'
larities.
The primary had involved tht
Democratic nomination for Congres!
from the Fifth District. Enos Axtell
choice Of President Truman, de-
feated Incumbent Roger c. Slaugh'
ter in the primary, only to lose u
q Republican In the election.
Evening star., 1947-09-07

The winners of the four nnal
prizes of $25 In The Sunday Stars
Amateur Snapshot Contest are:
Robert r. Krout, 6Sl7 Fifth street
INV.
Henry Gichner. 6l15 Thirty third
street NV.
Miss De Anne Hays, 1915 STRAIT
ford road. Bethesda.
s. w. Morris, SIT Montana ave-
nue NE.
Their photographs are reproduced
on pages 3 and 8 Of today's Pic
toriaI Magazine. along with a de-
tailed story of the contest.
A total of ATS snapshots were
entered In the contest, 720 more
than in 1912, the year the contest
was suspended because OF wartime
shortages of Photographic materials
|Sixty-one pictures were received
after the final deadiine, however
Evening star., 1947-09-07
First Byrd Polar Ship
To Go on Auction Block
By the Associated Press

DETROIT, Sept. 6.-The little
steamer "Peary." which carried Ad-
miral Byrd on his first voyage of
Arctic exploration, made port today
to await the auctioneer's hammer
after Is years on the Great Lakes.
The United States Lakes Survey
retired the 155-foot vessel to make
way for more modern Diesel ship
In 1925 the Peary was one of two
ships which carried the Navy-Mac-
MILAN expedition to Greenland. She
was commanded by Admiral Byrd
then a lieutenant commander, who
followed this voyage with a notable
career of exploration in Arctic and
Antarctic regions.
Evening star., 1947-09-07
What the Russians
lAre Saying of Us:

The MoScOG radio, bro1dcdStinl
n German to Europe last week, said
ITO subjugate Germany COM
pletely and to turn it, with the
aid of the Marshall plan, into
United States protectorate-this
is the real essence of United
States policy in Germany.
Influential monopolistic circles
of America, and partly also OF
Britain, harbor their own selfish
expansionist aims in connection
with the partitioning of Ger
many. They intend a complete
economic and political subjuga-
ton of Germany and the exploi-
tation of her resources for the
subjugation Of the whole OF
Europe.
United States monopolists and
their British debtors are the ad-
vocates of Germany's dismem-
berment. In a dismembered Ger
many it would be easy for them
to issue orders and to run her
economy. Inside Germany these
outside forces are being supported
by those who scream Historically
about the Communist danger and
at the same time behave as II
they did not notice that the real
and not imaginary danger at the
present does not lie in her Soviet
ization, but in her transformation
into a colony of Anglo-United
States monopoly capitalism"
Evening star., 1947-09-07
School Supplement
Part of Star Today

The Sunday Star today pub
fishes it's special going-back-
to-school supplement in Sec
tion E.
Guest writer's include DR..
Hobart M. Corning, Superin-
tendent of District public
schools, and willard E. Givens.
executive secretary of the Ma
tional Education Association.
Evening star., 1947-09-07
Winners of Four Final Prizes
In SNAPSHOT Contest Announced
. could not be colasid-

,and therefore could not be consid-
lered.
Judges Of the Newspaper National
SNAPSHOT Awards, In which The
Stars winners will compete for
prizes totaling $4,000 will be Yousuf
Karsh, portrait photographer; Toni
Frissell, Photographic illustrator; :;
Kenneth w. Williams, head Of the
Photographic division Of the East
man Kodak Co.; Charles w. Phelps,
jr, president, Photographic Society
of America, and Lowell Thomas, ra-
dio commentator, who happens also
to be an amateur snapshooters.
Both Mr.. Krout and Mr.. Gichner
are veterans of The Stars contests,
the former having won two Of the
weekly prizes in 1893 and 1910, and
the latter two prizes in 1941 and
four in 1912. In this years contest,
1See PHOTO CONTEST. Page A-7.)