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No Leniency for Knife Wielders

St Paul business reminds Of the fact that the
sZabe number cutting participants with
light sentences fines in the St. Paul municipal
Lenency individuals who deadly
differences conducive the reduction of such Incidents The
brawlers who resort knives pistols potential commuters Of
homicide Stiff penalties peace
support of the majority of the people Of st. Paul
Knife DULLES and pistol will leave their home
when enforcement officers the discourage them
and Jail sentences There justification for carrying deadly
weapons around their persons metropolitan cities.
WARNING TRAGEDY
The sudden tragedy which robbed ST. Paul and the
c. Hail. Of its promising young recently
ing should SOLDERING influence those who
boating, fishing and swimming this
The accident will perhaps be explained The truth
usually
Is before all to
people who can't
this How foolish this shown when is
swimmers sometimes drowned People who
without life
which be purchased at small cost
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Another Big League Player

They are hired to do a job which
requires coordination of mind and
muscle and a competitive spirit on
the ball field. II in addition to be-
ing a good fielder, pitcher or batter
a man is a gentleman, well and
good.
We hope the daily press sports
boys don't expect any more in
conduct out of a Negro player than
they do out Of the white lads.
Certainly we'd like to be able to
produce good Negro ball players
who have the training and modest
manners Of Jackie Robinson, but
we know that is impossible and
just so much wishful thinking. We
can preach all we want to but some
Of the Negro players who get a
chance in organized baseball are
not going to fit the average white
sports scribes idea of q NEGRO
gentleman"
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slaveholding male, what with col
ored women servants at his beck
and call, had but to call the most
comedy slave girl or woman to his
bed and violate her with no fear
of any sort Of punishment.
After Surrender" as the living
former slaves refer to the day of
their legal physical liberation, the
North is said to have bargained
with the South, giving the South
the former slaves to do with as it
might desire and taking for itself
the natural resources for develop
ment and exploitation. This marked
the beginning of the disfranchise-
ment movement and the economic
reinstatement Of colored people.
To achieve this, race segrega-
tiOn-the mother evil of evils
was imposed by statute, cheat
ing, chicanery, starving cOlOred
women into submitting their per-
sons to white men as sexual COM
modes, making il appear in every
way possible that the cOlOred
man was basically a sex fiend
who would impregnate the fair
est and most decent damsel with
bastard mOngrel babies.
The only thing that kept this
thing from achieving its purpose
was that lot of trashy white
women oyerplayed the cry of rape,
and white men who wanted to VIC
late some of their own women
blackened their faces to do their
dirty work, knowing full well that
they coud JOIN the mob after the
cutlery and quiet everything down
by lynching the first terrorized col.
Ored man the mob could lay its
hands on.
Some Of the fouleSt deeds against
humanity have been perpetuated by
white men in the South against col
ored women, and against decencS
and truth everywhere, while they
hid behind the played up, manu-
featured charge of violation o.
white women by colored men, 81
per cent of which is always un
true.
COlOred men who have not
been denied the opportunity to
live as human beings proved even
during the Civil War, when they
remained at home and protected
the daughters and mothers of the
men who were away fighting to
keep them in slavery. that the
charge that colored men are
prone to violate women is an
) unmitigated lie.
The foregoing are some of tn
reasons why colored people in tn
! New South pray that friends Of de
, cency everywhere will join in haV
. ing legislation passed in line wit
what President Truman pointed ou
e in his address at the closing Sc:
E sion Of the NAACP conference 9
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Southern Dailies
Over-Play Rape
StOrieS-R. Durr
By ROBERT DURR
The Southern Viewpoint

The war with its abundant source
of headline material is over. There
is n desperate scramble in many
daily and weekly newspaper circles
for headline material. Often when
material is not to be had many UNI
scrupulous journalists manufacture
such material by magnifying inter
racial incidents n thousand times
beyond their actual truthfulness.
The crime of violating the per-
son of any woman is indeed the
most revolving Of all crimes except
perhaps when accompanied by cold
blooded murder. 1t is not to be
condoned under any circumstances.
Any man guilty of such a crime
should be imprisoned for life. This
is, | think, the feeling of most de
cent people-white and colored-in
the Deep South.
Many daily newspapers here in
the Deep South run wild in play
ing-up all out of proportion, stories
of alleged rape upon white women
by mentally deranged and over
sexed Negro men.
Nothing in the world fans the
fires Of race hatred and the de-
termination by white supremacists
to keep colored people nailed to
the cross of oppression and ex-
ploitation more than this crime by
newspapers guilty of this sort of
thing.
A goodly number of these hate
breeding newspapers spew hot and
cold on the crime of rape when
both the perpetrator and the vic
tim are white. AS a rule, the edi-
torial writers approach the subject
when the perpetrator is colored in
realistic, sober and sensible man.
ner, but the news editors play il
up on the front page and go all
out to fan the fires of race hate
and mob violence.
These same papers got millions
and millions Of dollars from cOlOreC
subscribers and from advertiser,
who sell TO cOlOred readers. At thu
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During hearing bill prohibit discrimna
ton employment Senator Allen j. Eender who the floor
leader the Louisiana legislature during the heyday of Huey Long
harangng Mildred Mahoney of Boston, chairman of the
Massachusetts FEPC.
The him by telling him reply his questions
coored friends Massachusetts, that she
invited them her home that she down with them at the
Finally approved of inter
marriage.
81 don't ntermarage tragedy she told him There
equivalent this country she added
"Of course admitted Eender, himself warhy cOmpexoned
have who have astray don't have
white who have"
No There's probably been mscegenaon and Capitalization
white with coored Louisiana than other state
in the
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papers today. His was the first Of
its kind in any of the weeklies.
Grownups found it interesting for
the numbers of new Give" words
and expressions.
Some good people thought the 10
year-old cOlumnist sounded too
sophisticated until they began to
listen to the conversations of the
high school youngsters all over the
two cities.
Donald is the worst speller on the
paper. He has had to learn almost
all he knows about columning by
himself because everybody who
works on this sheet has more to do
than they should, hence the novice
gets little instruction.
Donald hasn't decided what he
intends to follow as a career. He
may develop into a top writer. He
has a way with words.
His chief worry now is how to
transform his 500 words weekly
into a different tenor and keep the
interest of his army of readers
Cecil Newman.
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Lautier Urges More Democracy
In n. A. A. C.P. Operation; Says
Convention Heard Only One Side
BY LOuls Lautler

by LOUIS
The closing session of the 3Sth
annual conference Of the National
Association for the Advancement Of
ColOred People was appropriate in
every respect. The program was
eminently good. The speeches Of
Senator Wayne Morse, Republican,
Of Oregon, and Mrs. Eleanor Roose-
welt, United States representative
on the United Nations Commits
sion on Human Rights, fitted the
occasion nicely. And President
Humans emphasis upon civil
rights in his fortnight speech was
all that was needed to climax a
great occasion.
1t would be pleasant to say that
the other public programs Of the
association were as good as the
program at the Lincoln Memorial.
Unfortunately that cannot be said.
The other programs were ordinary.
AS d matter Vi TACT 'heie Seeneu
to have been no specific subject
embraced in any Of them except the
the one on which Percy Julian was
pfesen'eu 'he 0Pinsaih ineuai anu
'ne ias' o"e III WHO" civil is"'S
tuag tha Lavypnfa
was '"e AeSno'e'
Washington abOunds with
many persons competent to en-
tighten any audience on current
problems. But the speakers on
the evening public programs
seemed 10 nave been selected at
random and a program arranged
around them.
For instance: On the first eve
ming DIR. Louis I. Wright, eminent
New York surgeon and chairman OF
the Board OF Directors OF the
NAACP, delivered the report OF the
board for the past year. DIR. Wright
reasserted the associations tradi-
tional policy OF non-partlsanship in
politics. But no sooner had Roy
wilkins, assistant secretary OF the
NAACP, completed announcements,
and the Rev. Stephen G. Spots
wood, who presided, had introduced
Leon Henderson, chairman of the
executive committee Of Americans
for Democratic Action, than was
Mr.. Henderson making a political
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the Lincoln Memorial.
1t is the reason why the Ameri-
can people must call upon the
American press through its news
columns not to become so Jealous
in the business of getting headline
material that it becomes the chief
gloritier and promoter of mob vio-
lence.
The major Hollywood producers
ought give US a series of top-flight
pictures exposing the crimes which
have been and are being commit.
ted by punks and towards who hide
behind women's skirts. | sometimes
think the movies are inclined to
be lined up in this conspiracy to
butcher colored Americans at the
bar of public opinion.
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Of Industrial Organizations, ad-
dressed the public meeting. Of
course, he damned the supporters
Of the Taft Hartley labor control
law.
Now, there is nothing sPecif-
cally wrong in any Of these things.
But taken together they repre-
sent the same political philosophy
and the same point Of view to-
ward labor relations.
Inasmuch as branches of the as
ISOLATION are continuously called
upon TO pass resolutions Of indOrse-
ment and write letters Of protest
upon various problems that arise
from time to time and come before
the Congress or the executive
branch of the government for &C
ton, 1t appears that 1t would have
been much better for conflicting
points Of views on topics Of moment
to have been given to the delegates
who gathered here.
There is the question of universal
training. Colored people are diyid
ed in their thinking on this sub
ject. Some are for it and some
are against it. Why should not
ranking prepayment and ranking
opponent Of this subject have dis
cussed it before the delegates
The same observations may be
made and the same question
asked with respect TO labor Tela-
tons, housing, federal aid to edu-
cation, national health insurance
and the other subjects upon
which there is a great division OF
opinion.
The difficulty lies in the organl-
rational setup of the association. A
small group believe themselves ON
niscient and restrict participation
by the membership to a minimum.
They pick the speakers to address
the annual conference. They make
decisions as to whether a pending
bill shall be supported or opposed
without any consultation of the
membership.
There is also that anachronism
by which three members of the as
sOclatlOn are elected to serve on d
committee of seven to select candi-
dates to fill vacancies on the Board
of Directors. The dramatic prac-
tlce would be for the membership,
through their duly elected dele
gates, to elect the members of the
Board Of Directors. But, no, mann
ma knows best"
These criticisms of the associa-
ton are not intended to imply that
the association has not done a good
job. AS Mr.. White pointed out in
his remarks just before President
Truman went on the air the asso,
citation has made a remarkable con.
tribution to the advancement of col.
ored people in the 80 years of its
existence. But it is believed that il
can become more democratic
broaden its program to include
problems of all minority groups
and do a greater job.
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Another Negro player is now
playing in Big League baseball. This
was the news which flashed over
the wires last week. Larry Dolby,
4 20 year old youth, got into a
Cleveland, American League, uni
form Saturday. This is as II should
be, another milestone.
Other Negro players will follow
Robinson and Dolby into the base
balls big-time. All of them won't
be men like the college-bred Jackie
Robinson and all Of them won't do
as most white sports writer's seem
to think all Negro athletes must
do "deport themselves of and on
the field as gentlemen" Some Of
the players who will be hired for
those teams are not going to have
the training and background to
qualify as gentlemen. Many white
baseball players we know are not
gentlemen In the perfect sense.
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Likes Common Sense
Approach Courageous
Fight for People

Editor: I want to express to you
my thanks for the courtesies ex-
tended while in your city.
From all that | heard and saw,
| can only be convinced of one
fact; namely, that you are carry
ing on a courageous fight for the
Improvement of the Negro people
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Dear Joe
By JAMES L. HICKS

WHAT CHA KNOW, JOE?
How much do veterans of World
War IL know about their Govern
ment benefits?
In order to find the answer to
this question the VA recently con-
Quoted study and came up with
the ten questions most frequently
asked by veterans on specific bene-
fits to which they are entitled.
Here are the ten questions most
frequently asked by veterans about
Gil home loans. The answers which
the VA gave to the questions are
here too so keep reading, Joe, and
get hep to yourself:
Q. Where should a veteran go
to get a CT home loan?
A. He first must find bank or
savings and loan association or
other private lenders willing to
make the loan.
q. Where does the Veterans Ad-
ministration come in?
A. VA guarantees up to $4,000,
but no more than half the loan,
made by the private lender to the
veteran. This guaranty helps pro-
tect the lender from loss. VA does
not lend money to the veteran.
Q. How much can the veteran
borrow?
A. AS much as the lender is will
ing to lend, but the maximum VA
guarantee will be $4,000.
Q. What are some of the advan-
tages of a Gil home loan to the
veteran?
A. CD Because of the VA guar
anty, the lender is more willing tC
make loan; (2) the VA guaranty
encourages the lender to make the
loan without requiring a down pay
ment, and 90 the interest rate a
per cent maNlmum) Is low.
Q. Doesn't the veteran also get
a gratuity payment of some kind?
A. Yes, VA pays to the lender
for credit to the veterans loan, ar
amount equal to per cent of the
guaranteed portion Of the loan. Fol
example, II the guaranteed portion
is $4,000, the lender will receive
SIZO from VA to credit to the debt
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

in your areas of social action.
| was particularly interested in
the common sense practical APP
proach which you have made to the
problems. | hope you will not
break under the strain.
Very truly yours,
Whitney NJ. Young,
Lincoln Institute of Ken
lucky, Lincoln Ridge,
Ky.
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A. VA can guaranty a secondary
loan for the balance, provided the
secondary loan does not exceed 20
per cent of the purchase price.
Q. Can a veteran repay all or
part of his loan at any time during
the life of the loan?
A. Yes, and without paying any
fee or premium.
$64 QUESTION???
What happened to the prediction
made here a year ago that General |
Omar N. Bradley would succeed
General Eisenhower as Chief of
Staff? Read your daily papers, son
but the $64 question is: Who will
take Bradley's place at the VA?
It's a vital question to l,264,0O0
colored veterans and the time to
start thinking about it is now!
READY CASH
Told you to hold on to that termi-
nal leave bond! The House Armed
Services Committee last Tuesday
approved a bill which will allow
you to cash your bonds on Sep
TENDER l. The bill comes up in the
House this week and the odds are
three to one that it will be passed
and sent to the Senate. And three
will get you five that the Senate
will pass the bill too and put cash
in your pocket by September l.
Wanna bet?
"A country where the fascist
doctrine of white supremacy is as
serted with a new fervor and bold
ness, where member of the high
est legislative body in the world
can defy the mandate of the su-
preme court, the constitution and
democratic decency by urging even
the use of force to prevent citizens
from voting, is hardly ready to
convince the world of its moral
preparedness for world leadership.
If democracy is to justify the
bloodshed and suffering that have
made its survival possible, the DEM
ocratic countries must better pre-
pare themselves for leadership and
for the full discharge of the respon-
sibllities placed upon them in this
atomic era" Albert l.. Turner,
dean, North Carolina College Law
School.
THE Fifth Earl of Hardwood,
who has just died, married a daugh-
p ter of King George V. The vast
fortune of this family was founded
upon their ownership of slaves and
, land in Jamaica and Barbados.
y Slavery has been the source of
p wealth of numerous British fam
lies who in many cases have also
4 shared Negro blood" =. DIR. W. f.
b. Dubois.
You folks are trying to give
US advice on a situation you have
> never seen or lived with or known
, anything about except what you
have read about it, or what some
:, propaganda has told you
a challenge you on anybody else to
; go Down South in plants we have
and in the sugar mills and find
!, the discrimination you hear about
e. . Senator Allen J. Ellender.
: We've not enough housing,
- enough transportation or enough
jobs. It's a crime to invite vet
Grams out here" E. Urban F. Stew
art, Sacramento, State Employ
ment Service.
Terrible reactionaries have filled
!. the land with legislatures, a free
= press, churches, laboratories and
thousands of schools. l suggest we
continue to suffer the evils of right
ie wing freedoms" Herbert Hoo
yer.
re ADVERTISERS IN YOUR COM
If MUNITY PAPER RATE FIRST
rs CONSIDERATION FROM READ
to ERS.-ADVT.
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DARWIN r TURNER

DARWIN r TURNER,
THE I6-YEAp.oLD BOY WHO RE.
ICENTCY GRADUATED FROM THE
uNIvoF CINCINNATI AT THE AGE
OF 15WTHTHE HIGHEST HoN0Rs
POSSIBLE rs THE YOUNGEST
MEMBER Or THE Phi BETA KAPPA
CHAPTER. he ENTERED JUNIOR HIGH
At 9-AND THE UNIVERSITY ATS.
HE nAJoRED IN ENGLISH.
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ADVERTISERS IN YOUR COM
MUNITY PAPER RATE FIRST
CONSIDERATION FROM READ
ERS.-ADVT.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-04
DUKE JAYVEES WIN
OVER STATE, 10

DURHAM, Oct. 3-tP)-Duke
universitys Jayvee team dupli
Gated varsity win over N. c.
State last week as the Blue Imps
downed the baby Wolfpack here
today by an identical score, 10,
George Skipworth, divinity
student from Columbus, Ca, SET
up the only touchdown early in
the first quarter with two passes
to freshman wingback Jack
Jones. The first was good for SO
yards and put the ball on the
State Is yard line. Two plays
later Skipworth hit Jones with
another that carried to the two
yard stripe. John Shaffer Balti-
more, fulback, scored for Duke
on two line smashes. J. H. Mead
placement kick was true, anc
point-making was over for the
| day.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-04
Tar Heels Favored To Win
Tilt With Texas Longhorns

Saturday over Georgia, the
team that whipped the Tar
Heels in the Sugar Bowl last
New Years day.
The Tar Heels have two All
America candidates in left half
Charlie (Choo-Choo) Justice
and right tackle Len Szafaryn.
Justice is considered by many
the finest broken field runner
in the country.
Compimenting the Tar Heel
running attack is the passing of
fullback Walt Pupa, who whip
ped two touchdown aerials for
the decision over Georgia.
Blond Bobby Layne, the ma
tons outstanding passer in
1916, spearheads. the new t at
tack installed by a new coach,
Blair Cherry, at Texas th i s
year. Layne is a clever field
general, has taken to the ball
handling job at his up-under
position, and has demonstrated
he is still hot on his aerial
Workm anship this season.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-04
WHITEYILLE EKES
WIN OVER CONWAY

CONWAY, S. c., Oct. 8. -
Coach Earl Brinkley's Whiteville
Wolfpack racked up their third
win tonight in defeating the Con-
way Devils, 18 to IL.
The thrilling climax came in
the last seconds of the hard
fought tilt when co-captain Joe
Innman, of Whiteville, inter-
cepted a Conway pass on his own
35 yard line and zig-zagged down
the field to score and put the
game on ice for the Pack.
Both teams scored in the first
quarter. Conway's score came
when julie Stavley passed to
Joe Cannon in the end zone.
Whiteville knotted the count
four minutes later when Eldred
Williamson swept around his left
end for 38 yards and a touch
down.
The Wolfpack went ahead mid
way the second period when Inn
man passed to Max Afford on
Conway's 38 yard line. Bill Ellis
went Is yards off tackle and E.
V. Horne lugged the pigskin
across the goal line to give the
Pack Il to 6 lead at the half.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-04
Series Play-By-Play

four bad ones for a base on balls NOV
ing Jorgensen to second.
Joe Page-lefthanded ace-and Randy
Gumpert, a highlander, started warm
ing up In the Yankee bullpen.
Stanky dropped a sacrifice bunt in
to Stirnweiss who covered first with
Jorgensen moving to third and Gregg
to second.
Reese bounced to Rizzuto who flipped
to Johnson who tagged Gregg sliding
into third. Jorgensen scored on the
fielder's choice and Reese was safe at
first
Reese stole second and continued to
third on Berra's wild throw which
bounced off Rizzuto's glove and rolled
into centerfield.
Robinson went down swinging.
One run, no hits, one error, one left
Sixth Inning Yankees
McQuinn was called out on strikes.
Hermanski raced in for Johnson's fly.
Lindell walked.
Rizzuto lined to Furillo in dead center.
No runs, no hits, no errors, one left.
Sixth Inning Dodgers
Walker walked.
Hermanski popped to Stirnweiss.
Edwards struck out for the third
straight time.
Furillo flied to Heinrich in right.
No runs, no hits, no errors, one left
Seventh Inning Yankees
Bevens struck out.
StirnWeiss walked.
Heinrich bounced to Gregg who started
double play, Gregg to Reese to Robin
son.
No runs, no hits, no errors, none left.
Seventh Inning Dodgers
Jorgensen lined to DiMaggio.
Arky Vaughan, lefthanded hitter,
was sent in to hit for Gregg.
Vaughan walked.
It was the eighth base on balls issued
by Bevens, one short of the record of
9 given UP by Jack Coombs of the
Philadelphia Athletics In the 1910 World
Series.
Stanky popped TO Rizzuto behind sec
ond base.
McQuinn made a fine stop of Reese's
torrid smash along the first baseline and
stepped on the bag for the unassisted
putout.
No runs, no hits, no errors, one left.
Eighth Inning Yankees
Hank Behrman, a Highlander, now
pitching for the Dodgers.
Berra grounded sharply to Stanky
who threw him out.
Jorgensen fumbled DiMaggio's easy roll
error.
Hernanski raced over to 1eft-center to
haul in McQuinn's high fly.
Jorgensen came in fast to scoop up
Johnson's roller and threw him out,
No runs, no hits ,Sone error, one left.
Eighth Inning Dodgers
Robinson smacked Bevens' first pitch
on one bounce directly 70 ycsfnson Nho
|tarew him osat,