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Arizona sun., 1947-11-14
Co-Ed to Fight
Eviction Over Negro
Party Escort

MADISON, WIS, (UP)-A &c
year old University of Wisconsin
coed, evicted by her landloard be-
couse she permitted Negro stu
dent to escort her home from a
campus party, said today she would
present the case to the university
student board.
Miss Iris Alexander, a brunette
junior from New York City, said
she had been asked to vacate her
quarters in a private rooming house
owned by Wr. and Mrs. Arthur
Rupe.
The RUPEES said they also had
asked another student, Miss Con-
stance FELTON,, 10, Brooklyn, to
vacate her quarters for "sympa-
thizing with Miss Alexander"
University President E. B. Fred
said the matter had not been
brought to his attention, and de-
clined comment.
The Rev. Kenneth Patton, 81
Madison minister who renounced
the white race" and became
"colored" six weeks ago to better
fight discrimination against Ne
groes, said the action against Miss
Alexander was "a little extreme u
"But," he added, "it is quite
typical of racial prejudice"
Arizona sun., 1947-11-14

A signal honor has been bestowed
upon one of Phoenix leading Ne
gro citizens. Wade Hammond, MEM
Der of Phoenix Housing Authority
who left yesterday for New York
City as delegate to the National
Convention of Housing Authority
Officials which will convene next
week.
Mr.. Hammond, a retired army
officer, has made Phoenix his home
since retiring about 5 years ago.
Immediately after retiring he be-
came active in civic affairs in the
city. He was appointed on the City
Housing Board years ago, and
was selected last month by his as
sociates to represent Phoenix at
their National Convention.
Mr.. Hammond is prominent in
many other community activities,
such as the Urban League, of which
he is the father, public relation
man of William H. Patterson Elks
Lodge and member of a committee
to revise the city'S charter.
Arizona sun., 1947-11-14
w ashington Man
Honored by Army

Secretary of State George Z. Mar
shall, former Army Chief of Staff,
hastened from a Cabinet meeting
today to join General of the Army
Dwight D: Eisenhower, Chief of
Staff, and other high-ranking Off
GERS and co-workerS to pa ytrlbute
to 64-year-old James Mcintosh OF
Washington, D. c., messenger and
general factotum to Chiefs of Staff
since 1917.
The occasion was Mr.. McIntoSh's
imminent retirement after 80 years
service, and was marked by cere-
mony in General Eisenhower's Pen
tagon office attended, in addition to
Secretary Marshall and General
Eisenhower, by General Thomas T.
Handy, Commanding General, 4th
Army; Lieutenant General J. Law
ton Collins, Jr., Deputy Chief OF
Staff, and Lieutenant General Rob-
ert Eichelberger Commanding Gen.
eral, Eighth Army.
Every Chief of Staff since Gener-
al Peyton c.. March has expressed
gratitude to the Washington man
for his services. Today he received
an official Army Certificate of APP
probation from General Eisenlhow-
er, singned by the Chief of Staff
and Secretary of the Army Ken
meth C. Royal in recognition of his
services from October 10, 1917, to
October 81, 1947, the effective date
of his retirement. In awarding the
certificate, General Eisenhower
voiced his personal affection, ad-
miration and appreciation" to Mr..
Mcintosh.
Chief Messenger, Office, Chief of
Staff, since June "a, 1912, Mr.. Nc
Intosh lives at 244 Third Street, S.
w., Washington. Half hundred
co-workers attended the presenta-
ton ceremony.
Arizona sun., 1947-11-14
Seven Million Potential
Nearo Voters In the y. S.

NEW YORk-With the ap-
proach of the 1948 Presidential
elections, in which a knock-down,
liberal and reationary forces, it
drag-out fight is expected between
is interesting to note that there
are approximately seven and a
half million potential Negro voters
in the United States, according to
the 1946-1947 Negro Handbook,
edited by Florence Murray. More
than five million of them are in
the South.
The legal abolition of white pri-
maries in the southern states since
the last Presidential election points
to the fact that a larger Negro
vote may be expected during the
coming elections than has ever
registered in this country, Miss
Murray said in an interview this
week.
"It seems to me that the main
problem facing Negroes and pro-
gressive forces at this time" she
said, 'Is to educate the Negro
masses to the Importance of voting,
their rights at the polls, and to get
out their vote"
According to the 1910 Cencus,
there were 7,427,938 Negroes of
voting age in the country, 7,375,609
of whom were citizens. This marks
an increase of approximately one
million since 1880, the 1946-1947
~
Of this number, 5,457, ,239 were in
the South, 1,847,162 in the North,
and 123,537 in the West. Negro
migration from the South to the
North during the war years has
brought an increase in the fromer
areas since the 1910 Cencus was
taken.
The decision of the Supreme
Court in the Texas Primary Case,
on April 3, 1914, which aboliSheS
the white primary in that state,
was followed by the legal wiping
out of white primary systems in
other Deep South states, Miss Muir
ray points out: namely, Louisiana,
Florida, Mississippi, Alab m a,
Georgia, and most recently, in
South Carolina.
There are still some handicaps
to Negro voters remaining on the
statute books in some states, such
as the Boswell Amendment in Ala
bama, which requires all prospec-
tive voters to read and explain any
section of the Federal and State
Constitutions. This puts the voter
at the mercy of the opinion of the
registrar, Miss Murray points out.
Lily-white suffrage adherentS in
the South have greater reason now
to fear the Negro vote, especially
in local elections, in the 180 south
ern counties where Negroes are in
the majority. OF these counties
where Negro constitute more tlhana
fifty percent of the residents, the
Negro Handbook shows there are
46 in Georgia, 35 in Mississippi, %
in South Carolina, 18 in Alabama
and Virginia, Is in Louisiana, 9 in
Arkansas and North Carolina, 3
in Texas and Florida, and 2 in
Tennessee.
Arizona sun., 1947-11-14
Negro Railroad
Workers Win Fight


Keep your eye on a lot of small
organizations of Negro railroaders
scattered throughout the South.
Those groups, and some of them
have as many as thousand MEM
bers, were formed of necessity. The
Big i've railroad brotherhoods and
such uniins of shopmen, such as the
machinists, boiler makers, and
clerks, either don't admit Negroes
or segregate them.
Squeezed by Negro-hating en-
ployers on one side and Illy-white-
minded union officials on the other,
the Negro railroader is forced to
organize to safeguard his elemen-
tary right to earn living.
So they formed unions like the
Colored Trainmen of America in
Kingsville, Texas; International AS
Sociation of Railroad Employees,
Memphis; Association of Train
Porters, Brakemen & Switchmen
of Richmond; Association of Brake
men & Porters of st. Louis; AS
sociation of Colored Railway Train
men & Locomotive Foremen of
Ronanoke, Va; Association of
Colored Railway Trainmen, Savan-
nah. There are dozens of others,
some too small to have an office
or letterhead.
JimcrOW ruling
The full fury of jimcrow as an
economic weapon hit the Negro
railroaderS in the South in 1941
when the. Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Firemen & Enginemen en-
tered into an agreement with 81
Southern lines limiting Negro fire
men to no more than so percent of
the jobs, barring Negroes from
other classifications and virtually
eliminating them from "promot-
able" categories.
AS a result of the 1941 agree
ment thousands of Negroes were
squeezed out. One hears of cases
where Negroes of 20 and 80 years
seniority were taken off and re-
placed by young whites of year or
so employment, when it became
necessary to achieve the SO per-
cent limit.
Dozens of other squeeze-outs
practices have been invoked, such
as classifying most jobs as "promot-
! able" and therefore beyond a Ne
gro's reach. The all-white Rail-
way Adjustment Board, operating
under the Railway Act, was al
ways stacked against the Negroes
and ruled against them.
Finally, Tom TrunStall, who be-
longs to the Colored Railway Train
continued on Page So
Arizona sun., 1947-11-14
Imcrow Dominates
Wilson's GE Plants

| LOS ANGELES,-Jim domi-
mates the employment policies OF
Southern California General Elec-
trio Plants.
This, despite the glowing anti
discrimination recommendation of
President Truman's Committee on
Civil Rights, chaired by General
Electric President Charles E. Will
son, issued yesterday.
A check with the union repre-
Senting the giant coporation's en-
ployeeS in a half-dozen large and
small plants today revealed that
only a handful of Negroes are en-
ployed among GE's some 1900
workers in this area.
And that handful is jimcrowed
into janitorial work exclusively.
At the big plant at nearby On
tario, of 1150 employees there are
but 10 Negroes, all janitors.
At the GE service plant in Los
Angeles, Of 80 workers two are
Negro-both janitors.
In four other plants employing
a total of more than 100 workers
there are at least two, the light
appliance shop, with 20 employees,
and the supply house, with 35 en-
ployes, which employ no Negroes
whatsoever.
AT the heavy appliance shop and
the warehouse, if there are any
Negroes they are also jimcrowed
into janitorial work, the union said.
Carl Brandt, president and busi-
ness agent of the big CIO United
Electrical Workers Local 1421. said
that GE's employment policies re-
garding discrimination and rights
OF workers generally is zone of the
very worst"
He explained that Wilson's COM
pany made excessive use of in
functions during last years strike
by his union nationally against GE
and that there is a company policy
OF sending almost daily bulletins
to employees favoring the Taft-Hart-
ley Law.
Arizona sun., 1947-11-14
Negro Units In
ArmiStice ParadeS

Washington, D. C.-Representa-
tive elements of Negro Army, Re-
serve and National Guard units will
participate in Armistice Day .cere-
monies and parade ito be held in
various parts of the country, it has
been announced.
In the First Army Area, embrac-
ing Maine, Vermont, New fIamp-
shire, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
New York and New Jersey all Ne
gro reserviSts have been invited to
participate in Return of Colors GER
emonies. In Massachusetts, the 272d
Field Artillery Battalion, Nation
al Guard unit has been invited to
march in the Boston Armistice Day
parade.
Among the units participating in
Armistice Day ceremonies in the
Second Army Area, embracing Ma
ryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, w.
Virginia, Indiana, Kentucky and
Ohio, will be the 758th Tank Bat
talon, an Army unit stationed al
Fort Knox, Kentucky. The 758th
will march in Louisville.
Negro troops are stationed in
only two States in the Sixth Army
Area, Washington and California.
In California on Armistice Day the
839th and 854th Transportation
Corps Truck Company will partici-
pate in a parade in Oakland. In
Seattle an equal number Of white
and Negro units have been alerted
by the Seattle Port of Embarkation
for parade in that city.
Arizona sun., 1947-11-14
Labor Officials of
Canada, u. S. Listed

The 1947 directory of state and
federal labor officials in the United
States and terrific ries and in Can
ada has been released by the divi-
sion of labor standards, U. S. de-
partment of labor. This directory
(Bulletin No. 81 brings up to date
the Divisions Bulletin number "a
issued in July 1945. ;.
Copies may be obtained from the
devision of labor standards so long
as the free supply lasts.
Arizona sun., 1947-11-14
Negro Fired
UnjustIX City
Board Rules

San Francisco, Nov. 6.-Earl
Maxey, Negro employee of the Mu-
nicipal Railway, was unjustly pro-
nounced unfit for work in a physi-
cal examination by city doctors, the
civil service commission admitted
today.
Maxey was discharged June Is
because commission doctors declar-
ed he was constitutional psyche
path" and had "high blood pres
sure"
Two subsequent examinations of
Maxey by his private physician, DR..
Carleton Goodlett, revealed his
blood pressure was normal. '"There
is no objective basis on which Ito
diagnose this man as constitution
al psychopath" DR.. Goodlett added
The commissions reversal of their
original decision resulted from
charges by the National Associa-
tion for the Advancement of Col
ored People and the National Ne
gro Congress that Negro employees
of the Municipal Railway were be-
ing discharged on bogus medical
grounds because of their color.
Following the NNC and NAACP
charges, the commission appointed
DR.. William Mckinney Thomas, Ne
gro Republican member of Mayor
Roger Lapham'S housing commits
sion, to re-examine three discharg-
ed employees who claimed discrim-
ination.
Maxey is the first Of the three ito
be re-examined by Thomas and de-
clared eligible to proceed with the
written examination required by
the commission.
Arizona sun., 1947-11-14
Inter-rociol Coop a Proven
Success Says Stoff Writer
"onIy Way to Live, U. c. L. A.
Students Say
BY HELEN TAYLOR

Los Angeles, NOV. Owe ike II
we all get along fine and we
wouldn't have it any other way. It's
the only way to live"
You can hear this from almost
any student who lives at Everett
Robson hall just off the campus OF
the University of California at Los
Angeles, when you ask him what
he thinks of the inter-racial aspect
of this mems cooperative.
The Everett Robson Association
runs five houses for UCLA stu
dents, one near the campus and
four others in various parts OF the
city. All are inter-racial and are
among the few of their kind in the
nation.
Here are Negroes, Chinese, Japa-
nese, Filipinos, PersianS, occasion
ally a student from India or some
other ASiatic nation, and whites
rooming together, playing and eat
ing together in the same houses.
It's a successful experiment In
community living.
The main near-campus building
of the Robson Hall Association Is
a big modernistic affair.
1t was bought ten years ago when
it proved a bit too moderniStic as
an apartment house for the con-
servative neighborhood and real es-
tate men were trying to get it of
their hands.
"We turned it into dormitory,'
said Tom Crowley, the engineering
student who is president of this
house, land, it sure was good in
vestment."
"We got about 95 fellows in this
house." he said, "and there are
about 200 altogether in all five OF
the houses. Our charge for board
and room is $40 a month"
This low cost for food and hous-
ing is a boon to. the men, most OF
whom are vets who must work on
the side to exc out CT subsistence
pay from the government.
Crowley believes the inter-racial
setup sis a good example for all
other campuses and for the wom'
ems dorms, too. Everything is on
a first-come-first served basis and
it's worked out fine"
All but the YWCA among the
women's dormitories exclude Ne
groes. The Robson hall students
invite the women residents OF these
dorms to mixed dances at their hall
and hope by this means ito show
them how inter-racial living can
really be carried out" as one stu
dent put it.
There's a friendly, boisterous at
moSphere about Robson hall but
there's a lot of seriousness, too.
There's a growing awareness OF
the need to participate in the tight
to solve some of the problems fac
ing the nation.
The lounge is the scene OF week
ly bull sessions, to which the STU
dents usually invite a prominent
speaker, then ply him with ques-
tions during the vigorous discuss
ion~of the more controversial sub
jects of the day. These topics don't
seem so tough now that the stu
dents have faced and conquered
one of the most controversial sub
iects in the world-inter-racial
community living.
Evening star., 1947-12-07

ALEXANDRIA, AAUW PLANS BENEFIT.
With Alexandria Branch OF the AAUW preparing to
sponsor Barter presentation OF The Baretts OF Vim
pole Street, Leo Caten center) and Miss Edna Harvey
to the Library OF Congress to look first
editions Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Bro
ng They shon oith Frederick R. Gof chief OF the
Hbrars Duson. The play riU be presented
December George Washington High School auditorium
Mrs. president of the branch and Miss Barr heads the
committee for the benefit. Star Stat Photo
Evening star., 1947-12-07
]. H. Scarff Guest
OF Maryland CMb

John H. Scarf, secretary of the
Society, for the Preservation of
Maryland ANTIQUITIES and member
of the council of the Maryland His
torical Society, will be guest speaker
at a meeting of the University Park
Woman's Club at pm. "Wednesday
at the home of Mrs. Charles Piozet.
6902 Pineway, University Park, Md.
The program will be sponsored by
the Fine Arts Committee, of which
Mrs. Piozet is chairman, and the
Preservation of Maryland Antiqu-
tiles Committee, of which Mrs. w. S.
Movers is chairman.
Features will include piano selec-
tions by James Cerde, l6-year-old
pianist st-composer.
Copies of the clubs cook book are
still on sale. The book, composed
of favorite recipes of club members.
was gotten up by the Home and
Garden and Nutrition and Con-
sumer Interest Committees.
Evening star., 1947-12-07
Club Arranges
Stephen Foster
Entertainment

A Stephen Foster program will be
presented by the music section Of
the Woman's Club of Chevy Chase
at $50 pm. tomorrow at the club
house. The program has been
planned with great care, particular
attention being given to appropriate
settings and costumes. Mrs. Ross
Gum is in charge Of makeup and
Mrs. Myron Writer'S will serve as
stage director.
Soloists will include Mrs. Frank M.
Osens and Mrs. Floyd Jennings, So
pranos: Mrs James Steel Williams,
contralto: George A. Myers and
Floyd Jennings, tenors, and Thomas
N. Leef. baritone. Dolp Bishop will
be the narrator and Mrs. S. j. Nc
Cathran will be the accompanist.
Following the program, refresh
ments will be served, with Mrs.
George w. Kelley, jr, acting as
hostess.
A luncheon meeting of the French
section of the club will be held at
1890 pm. Thursday. Mrs. Robert
Newman will speak on North Africa.
Piano solos by Percival Rogers and
Christmas songs by Mrs. Ida Han
son will be presented.
Evening star., 1947-12-07

Two workshops on the Auchin-
Gloss plan for home rule and re-
organization of the District will be
presented by the Legislation Com
mittee of the District Branch
American Association of University
Women, this week.
Mrs. Robert Leonard, past presi-
dent of the Voteless District League
.of Women Voters, will present de-
tails of the proposal at work
shop to be held at 1:30 pm. tomor-
row. Mrs. Dalton B. Myers, of the
Social Studies Committee, will lead
the discussion.
The second workshop will be held
at 7:3O pm. Wednesday with Ed
ward Ryan, of the Washington Post,
as the speaker and Mrs. Helen Duey
Hoffman, vice chairman of the
Social Studies Committee, conduct
ing the discussion.
Miss Hilda w. Smith, chairman
of the National Committee for the
bdUOl IduSdtloAA, NAAA
be guest speaker following the club
tea at 5 pm. tomorrow. Miss Smith
will discuss recent events In the
workers education movement and
the bill for a labor extension serv-
ice. Miss Smith is a former dean
of Bryn Mawr College and director
of the F. R. A. Workers Education
Project. Mrs. Sybil Lentn~r Daniel
son will be hostess.
Silver Spring Branch
Violin and piano music will be
featured at the Christmas meet
ing of the Silver Spring Branch of
the AAUW at 8 pm. Tuesday at
the Jesup Ball Community House
Mrs. Everett E. Smith, violinist. and
Mrs. Jack Tourin. pianist, will be
the soloists. The meeting will close
with Christmas carols.
The Junior group Of the Silver
Spring branch will also hold a
Evening star., 1947-12-07
St. PaHPs GHild
Flag Dedication

Ceremonies dedicating American
and Papal flags in memory of the
late Rev. Cornelius j. Dacey, will
highlight the meeting of the St
Pauls Academy Guild Tuesday eve
ming at the school auditorium, 1921
v street NV. The flags are being
given to the school by the guild.
The Right Rev. Msgr Edward
p. McAdams will deliver the eulogy
and Fred G. Fraser, past national
vice-commander of the American
Legion, will speak on Our American
Heritage" The advancing of the
colors will be led by the Nationa
Guard of Honor of the American
Legion. Robert Barry will offel
several vocal selections and Mrs
RAYMOND E. Schmidt will preside
Following the meeting refresh
nents will be served by Mrs. Leor
Amaducci and her committee.
Evening star., 1947-12-07
Plan YHle Party

The annual Christmas party OF
the Town Club will be given to-
morrow afternoon at the home OF
Mrs. D. F. Lady, 1880 Argyle ter
race NV. Luncheon will be served
at 1890 pm. and short business
session also will precede the party
Gifts to be distributed among chill
dren of the Thomson School will be
brought by members of the club.
Mrs. Clinton S. Raynor is IN
charge of the party program and
is assisted by Mrs. Ernest M. GOWN
Evening star., 1947-12-07
Com m unity Clubs
Mt. Vernon Society
Christmas Dance

Final plans for the Christmas
dance of the Mount Vernon Society
Children of the American Revolu-
ton, will be made at 3 pm. TO-DAY
at the home OF the newly elected
president, Miss Betty Milne, 4So2
Leland street, Chevy Chase, Md.
Mrs. Cloyd Heck Marvin will speak
at the meeting and Mrs. Ray E
Brown, senior State PRESIDENT Will
be an honor guest.
Members have been asked to bring
books wrapped as Christmas gifts
for the approved school at Tamas'
see, S. c.
The dance will be held December
26 at the Washington Club. Tickets
are in charge of Robert j. Boyd
Junior State president.
Evening star., 1947-12-07
Legislative Committee
To Studv Aucbimcl0ss Plan

| Christmas party at 8 pm. tomor-
row at the home Of Miss Louise
Whitney, 1919 Eastern avenue NV
Miss Whitney will be assisted by
Mrs. Ben w. Miller, chairman of
recent graduates, and Mrs. E. C.
Elting.
Mrs. Frank Garfield, past presi-
dent of the Montgomery County
League of Women Voters, will be
guest speaker at meeting of the
legislation group of the Silver Spring
branch at pm. Wednesday at the
home of Mrs. L. o. Regeimbal. Mrs.
Garfield, who is also chairman of
the Planning Division of the Mont
gomery County Community Chest
and Council, will speak on Local
Government"
Evening star., 1947-12-07
Church Bazaar

A turkey dinner and bazaar, for
the benefit of the reserve fund of
Grace Epicopal Church, Ninth and
D streets S.W., will be held at the
parish hall from 5 to 7:30 pm.
Wednesday. The committee assist
ing the rector, the Rev. Meade Boil
ton MacBryde, consists Of Mrs.
Frank E. Walker, Mrs. George w.
Hart, Mrs. Ida Saur, Mrs. Gladys
Hughes, Mrs. Leonard Helwig, Mrs.
Norman Britton, Miss Mary Faunce,
Miss Mary Latimer, Mrs. Olive
Stowe, Mrs. George S. Stephens,
Mrs. William w. Carney and Mrs.
Thelma o. Herring.