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Evening star., 1948-06-04
Butisto Seen Elected
As Senator in Cuba
By the Associated Press

HAVANA, June 4.-Havana news
papers said yesterday that incom-
plete returns from Tuesdays ma
tional elections indicated former
President Fulgencio Batista had
been elected a senator.
Mr. Batista, strong man of Cuba
for II years, went into exile in
Florida when his term ended In 1914.
His party was defeated in the ma
tlonal elections that year.
Evening star., 1948-06-04

many OF UfleHl III Iilc SdAuc uCPdiI-
ment or agency.
Consequently, it was said, Fedora.
job seekers, including displaced
career employees, veterans and Others
who have passed permanent exami-
nations, "go around in circles in
their quest for Government employ
ment.'
Committee members feel the Civil
Service Commission should take
more responsibility in the hiring OF
employees and that many OF the en-
ployment Offices in the individual
agencies should be abolished, cur
tailed or consolidated. No imme-
diate recommendations were made,
however. These will be forthcoming
in a future report.
Would Curb Agencies.
The committee charged that. un-
der present conditions, well quail
fed employees must 60 jobless for
months and even years because OF
the endless shopping" they must
do for employment. And if an en-
ploye is rejected by one agency, it
frequently takes many months be-
fore the Civil Service Commission
certifies his name to another de-
partment for possible employment.
Examples Cited.
To back up its charges. the COM
mittee cited "a different employ
ment offices in the Army Depart
ment, and 80 in the Navy Depart
ment here in Washington. And
there are n different places in the
Commerce Department here where
one can file applications for diff
ferent types of employment. The
Treasury Department has "a en-
ployment offices and the Federal
Security Agency 10.
The comprehensive report was
part of the committees investiga-
ton of personnel offices practices
in the Government. 1t was filed by
Chairman Rees of the committee.
Those assisting with the preparation
of the report were George M. Moore,
the committees counsel, and Ed
ward Mccormack, the committees
chief investigator.
LESS RED TAPE-The Civil Serv-
ice Commission and its various re-
gional Offices have discarded LAOS
different types of forms and appli-r
cations that were being used in
their Offices. ,,
Commission oficials found the
forms were not only outmoded, but
very confusing to everybody. Many
other Government agencies would
save time and effort If they followed
the commissions lead.
,ysRAY@-Eederal psEyaise presp<ctA;
Sfe rrhtanuing tosihanfoye since the
setback It received last Monday
when the Republican leaders took
no definite action.
The latest report is that the House
Steering Committee, which is COM
posed of the top Republican leaders
in the House, has agreed to bring
the measures up for action during
the final week of Congress.
Some insiders predict Congress
will pass a $4oo pay raise for every
body-postal as well as nonpostal
employees. There are still a few die
hards in the House, however, who
want to give postal employees a pay
boost and leave the rest of the Gov
ernment's workers out in the cold.
Their views aren't expected to
prevail, unless something unforeseen
Evening star., 1948-06-04
Methodist Conference
Closes Today After
0rdaining Ministers

The ofdlnatlOn OF ministers In
the Baltimore annual conference of
the Methodist. Church was to take
place this afternoon at conference
sessions in Metropolitan Memorial
Methodist Church, on the edge of
the American University campus.
The $50 clergymen and lay dele
gates to the four-day conference at
the university were holding their
final meetings today. The Baltimore
Conference includes Methodist
churches in the District, Maryland
and parts of West Virginia, and Is
headed by Bishop Charles Wesley
Flint.
Bishop Flint and Bishop Edwin
Holt Hughes, who was Washington
area bishop until 1910, and is now
retired, were the principal speakers
at the morning meeting today.
Sincerity Urged in Sermons.
Bishop Flint counseled the min
listers on sermon making, urging
them always to be sure Of their
facts and to present both sides of
every question. The primary neces-
sity for "best-sellers" in sermons is
sincerity, he declared, comparing
sermons with literature.
Bishop Hughes expressed concern
over what he termed quite fright
full" numbers of traffic deaths among
Methodists ministers in all parts OF
the country.
Citing a dozen fatal automobile
accidents, he warned these remind
us how careful we must be when we
turn loose a self-propelled vehicle
and I haven't given the half of it.
Bishop Hughes, with 40 years serv-
ice, is the dean of Methodist bishops.
Now 81, he lives in Chavy Chase, Md.
Bishop Flint yesterday made clear
his stand on the political Affiliations
Of clergymen under his jurisdiction.
States "No-Action" Policy.
In answer to a question regard
ing the Rev. r. H. Bready. the rev.
ocation of whose license as supply
preacher was requested last March
by trustees of the Centenary Meth
odist Church in Cumberland, Nd,
on political grounds, Bishop Flint
said:
mo action will be taken on any
body for political Affiliations"
The action of the trustees Of the
Cumberland church was taken be-
cause of Mr.. Bready's connection
with the Progressive Citizens OF
America. He was vice chairman OF
the Allegany County Pea and OF
the Western Maryland Cooperative
Committee.
I'VE take no action on ministers
for their membership in the third
party or in co-operatives," empha-
sized the bishop. They have entire
freedom as citizens"
The bishop explained that Mr..
Bready is not an ordained clergy
man but is q layman licensed to
preach. The superintendents Of vari-
GUS districts of the Methodist
Church appoint supply" preachers
because of shortages of ordained
clergymen, he stated.
Among yesterdays reports to the
conference of the general session in
Leonard gymnasium was that Of the
Board Of Hospitals. The board re-
ported theA Swartzell' Children's
Home had cared for II children and
Sibley Hospital had cared for 12,055
patients in the past year. These two
Washington institutions are among
the 10 homes and hospitals in the
conference area which are main
tained by the church. 80"
Evening star., 1948-06-04
By the Assoeiofsd Press

NEW YORK, June 4.-Gen. Eisen-
hover is quoted in the current issue
of Pathfinder news magazine as
saying he could not run for the
presidency on the Democratic ticket
because "he is Republican"
In it's column, Under the Dome, y
the magazine said:
In an exclusive statement to
Pathfinder the retired general said
that he could never run for the
presidency on a Democratic ticket
Evening star., 1948-06-04
Flood Victim Aid Accepted

The District Chapter. American
Red Cross, 1880 E street NV. is
accepting contributions for flood
victims in the State of washington.
according to Chairman John Cliff
ford Folger. Donors should specify
that the gift is for Columbia River
Relief.
Evening star., 1948-06-04
House Passes Cosmetics Bill

The House yesterday passed a bill
lifting the 10 per cent excise tax
from cosmetics used in personal
services in barber and beauty shops.
The bill now goes to the Senate.
Evening star., 1948-06-04

Additional netDs OF Gouern-
ment affairs and personalities
make up Joseph Young's broad
cast Dersion of the Federal Spot.
light at 3:I5 pm. every Sunday
on WMAL, The Star station.
Evening star., 1948-06-04

NoFCA AiAilCAlt .
confusing and
frustrating" the
a t t e m pts of
qualified persons
to obtain Fed
eral e m pl y
ment.
In a report
that pulled no
p u n c h es, the
committee said
that, in Wash
ington alone
there were 225
c ON pc e
Governmentp per-
sonnel employ
ment, office .
Evening star., 1948-06-04
Missouri Dismisses
Teacher in Morals Case
By the Assoc Il Press

COLUMBIA. Mo, June 4.-The
University of Missouri curators an
nounced last night it had voted
unanimously to dismiss E. K. john
ston, veteran advertising professor.
Johnston surrendered last week to
Prosecuting Attorney Howard B.
Lang, jr., on a charge of sodomy.
He is free under $500 bond pending
a preliminary hearing June II. d.
The boards resolution said the ac-.
tions we're taken for reasons
deemed completely sufficient" ..
Evening star., 1948-06-04

DREAM GIRL L. Miss Shirley
Talbot, 19-year-old Conover
model recently named Amer
ica's Dream Girl for 1948," is
spending the week end with
her grandmother, Mrs. Elva
w. Graham, lis Rittenhouse
street NV. Miss Talbot, a
Washington girl, also was
chosen Americas loveliest
model" last year and has just
been signed up by Harry Co.
mover until 1855.
Star Staff Photo.
Evening star., 1948-06-04

Fifty per cent of American cattle
are reared on the range lands OF
II Western States.
Evening star., 1948-06-04

Valuable deposits of anthracite
coal have just been discovered in
Chile.
Evening star., 1948-06-04
The Federal Spotlight
}Youna,

Service Commit
condemned the
practices H
Evening star., 1948-06-04

ONE HUNDRED PER CENT ALL
WOOL OXFORD GRAY SERGE -.
tailored to rigid Government speci6.
cations by one Of the country's out
standing makers of fine women's wear!
They're beautifully lined. with hand.
sewn button holes, generous hem and
hand set.in sleeves. Sizes 10 to 40.
Evening star., 1948-06-04

supporting the plan.
Evening star., 1948-06-04
Precipitation.

Monthly precipitation in inches in tn
Capital tcurrent month to date:
Evening star., 1948-06-04
High and Low Yesterday.

HiKh and Low Yesterday.
High, Il. at ! .54 pm
Low. SO. at IL SO pm,
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, 90. on May IL.
Lowest, 8, on January IS.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast ana
Geodetic Survey
Evening star., 1948-06-04
By Joj

The House q
tee today shat
Governments
Arkansas State press., 1948-09-03

The writer has served for eight years as
Chairman of the Advisory Council of the Bir-
mingham and Jefferson County Community
Chest. This Council has had the responsibility
of selecting some outstanding Negro citizen
each year to organize and lead the Negro
community in the solicitation of and contribu-
ton to the Community Chest.
During that period, l came to see the dire
need of a unit of the National Urban League
for Birmingham, and have given a great deal
of time to getting the Birmingham Urban
League organization affected. The purpose of
which will be:
To encourage and engage in improvement
of economic, industrial, social and cultural
conditions of the Negro population in such a
way as to lift the total community.
To discover community needs affecting
Negroes and to interest individuals and groups
in undertaking to meet them.
To stimulate cooperation of existing a.
gencies and organizations to further its aims.
To promote the improvement of race re-
lations and to further cooperation of all groups
in behalf of the common welfare.
Birmingham is an industrial city to which
people come to make steel, money and a living
and not a life. In time of peace and war, Biz
mingham is one of the most important cities
in the nation, There is enough iron and coal
in its valleys and mountains to last at the
present rate of production for upward of sew
enty-five years.
It has one of the most fluid populations
Of any city in the nation - white and blacks
fleeing the plantations of the Deep South
which have been robbed of their fertility, from
whose bowls a living cannot be dug, stop here
to get out of the Darrell" for the most part
by the strong taking from the weak, and the
smart taking from the strong as it were. Here
strong backs have been broken and virgin
minds so Supplied that few of the survivors
nave power to want what they need. The great
mass of greedy, sensual, selfish, superstitious
| pepoles must be made to want what they should
| want, for as they pass from here to other sec
Arkansas State press., 1948-09-03

tons of the nation they carry with them all
the backwardness which has been imposed up
on them. Those who do not pass, for the most
part become a part of the living dead against
whom racists and opportunists - cry out in
in matters of Fundamental civil rights, social
justice and community.
1t is admitted that those who do not want
to be helped invariably cannot be helped. 1t is
therefore most essential that every effort be
made in larger urban centers like Birmingham
that enlightened whites and blacks work to-
gether to get people to see their needs, want
what they should want and join hands in get
ting done what should be done to lift the
whole community.
Birmingham is an industrial city. We have
not been able to get the assistance from in
dustry we need in raising our budget. And
what with the multiplicity of calls upon other
segments of the community for contributions
to charitable and benevolent organizations and
the difficult task ahead in raising the upwards
of $4,000 necessary to sustain the Birming-
ham Urban League, | am pleading to former
Birmingham Citizens everywhere, also to men
of goodwill, churches, clubs and other organ
izations to give us a hand in raising the money
we need for the work in Birmingham, to send
us a contribution. Make your check or money
order payable to the Birmingham Urban
League. Mail to G. w. Lee, Treasurer, 1880
5th Avenue, North, Birmingham, Alabama.
Your contribution will be like bread cast
upon the waters which will come back to you
and yours many days hence multiplied in the
form or bettered human relations Birmingham
is, as you know, one of the most tense cities
in the United States today. Despite the height
ening of this apprehension by the anti-Negro
Dixiecrat Conference held here following the
walk OUT of half Alabama and all of Missis-
sippi's delegates at the Democratic National
Convention, the Birmingham Urban League
has been oragnized and is trying to raise its
budget in a hostile atmosphere. We need your
help. Give us a hand.
Arkansas State press., 1948-09-03
-. 5 49,.
When Is A Negro Not A Negro

This question came to attention when a young Pine Blaff
businessman and political leader was arrested and fined, charged
with circulating marked ballots,
Whether the accused man is guilty of circulating marked
ballots, is not for us to say. The courts will take care of that
angle. One court has already declared him guilty and assessed
a $4,000 fine. The attorney for the defendant is appealing to
another court. Now just what disposition the other court will
Even if this young leader has violated a law in his meth
DDS of instructing a newly franchised people how to properly
use the ballot, since the south is so backward on certain issues,
we will say that he has rendered an inestimable service to the
Negroes of Jefferson county. This young man should have the
support of every Negro in the state of Arkansas in his legal en-
tangement.
Now, don't get us wrong-we are not advocating the viola
ton of any laws in the state. We believe in upholding all laws,
regardless how one-sided or idiotc they may seem. The only
time we will violate any law Intentionally is to test the constitu-
tionality of it. @"@
When is a Negro not a Negro?-When he becomes a white
mans niger. And we are thinking solely of the man who adj
mitted in the presence of some fifteen or twenty men, that it
was he who took the news to the white people about the marked
that manner, are dangerous. They are far lower than the Biblical
version of the betrayer of Christ. Their presence among men is
a disservice to progress. They are more detrimental than the
white man who made him his Niger.
The men must be exposed as well as Stunned; and above all.
he white man must be told that we do not appreciate the lead
Is he has made for us,-that we are fully capable of making
c II own leadership.
Arkansas State press., 1948-09-03

care Of any old time Well that is exactly what Wall street thought
back in 1929.
or course, Politicians are so prone to seeking out means by which
they can feather their own little nests, the future OF America never
looms before then. The spy cases are really occupying the spotlight
but it hasn't blurred the sight Of the housewife who has to figure out
how to feed her little brood on the husbands fifty bucks a week, no."
that the nickle is not in vogue anymore You see the politicians have
not thought about such matters like that but such things are the
things you have got to watch.
The southern boubons, they have been having a Field Day try
ing to keep laws out of the constitution which would enthlc all ci-
zcns to rights prescribed to them by the greatest document ever written
They are so blind to realities, they harbor infitlc disilusions about the
advancement of human ability They are more interested in the color
or race Of American Citizens; the immediate question before them,
are too. merely trivial matters. Only one thing is uppermost in the
mind Of average southern legislator the maintenance Of White Su-
prcmacy They are SO immune TO logical Imagination, they don't know
the theory OF White Supremacy Us bearded and outdated They think
Of one thing, and that Is Keep The Negro in his place IL is
Arkansas State press., 1948-09-03
L.o3k To The Times

Aga 70 we see all the signs, as
well as feel all of the fangs of an
approx ling depression. Colored
people ways do, 1t is a trad
itonal ing, but we do not need
to keep / SO.
In all Of the widespread ghet-
toes a. rlems) scattered all
over this p~rejudiced country, the
same p torn that presented it.
self befo-e the dreadful depres-
sion of 1919 is again presenting
it-olf b. there are some things
that re en- do ourselves to pre-
vent the holocaust Of misery and
Arkansas State press., 1948-09-03

whites. She will also work in
the experimental laboratories with
the white students.
This, of course, is a challege to
long established traditional prac-
tees, and is a slap-in-the-face to
rank prejudices. Whether the board
violated any law of the state, I
am not prepared to say. That
question I leave to the lawyers
and the courts. But if the board
has violated a law, it is elevating
itself to the modern level. School
laws are violated wholesale every
day. There is more thumbing of
the nose at school laws than at
any other division or subdivision
Of statutes in the book. The very
constitutional provision of educa-
ton is violated flagrantly and per-
~petually by every authority. Here
it is: Intelligence and virtue be-
ing the safeguards of liberty and
the bulwark of free and good gov
eminent, the state shall ever main
tain a general, suitable and eff
eient system of free schools where
by all persons in the state be-
tween the ages of six and Il years
may receive gratuitous instruc-
ton"
Arkansas State press., 1948-09-03
President-And Also Gentleman

A phenomenon rare in the annals of educational institu-
tons has occurred. A president who lost himself in his considera-
( on for his teachers, his students, his board of directors, and his
& neral public, has appeared among us. 1t is not uncommon to
4 an educator distinguished for his scholarship, or his drive, V
o. his effective administration, but to find a president who is
n. lest, unassuning, always tactful, and who regards himself
a. ne servant of all, is a rarity in this day of craze for publicity.
IN. ia of self-importance, disregard for surbordinates, and total
CO. antraton on money and Disqualification,
20 one who ever worked under President S. S. Morris can
fail , regret that he is no longer with us. The world of profess
sd Negroes can well strive to emulate his sincere regard for
the satisfaction Of surbordinateS and common people.
Arkansas State press., 1948-09-03

dents are bad wrong. The ethics
of medicine recognize no shade of
social pride-in the way the term
is normally applied. that is.
Need More Negro Doctors
The more Negro doctors we
have in Arkansas. the less asso-
Citations Of races there will be
The more Negro doctors, the more
time the white doctors a give
to their own race. Arkansas owes
it 10 both races 10 provide the
state with more Negro doctors.
In the case of Edith May Irby.
we have a person who is probably
a genius, or near so. Any person.
who is'able to capture a B. S de
gree at the age of 20 is out Of the.
ordinary-regardless of race. And
they don't go in droves who car
rank 18th among $50 applicants
in the stiff competitive methods
used in selecting students for en-
trance. Given a chance, this Negro
might rank with Booker T. Wash
ington and George Washington
Carver in accomplishments for the
good of both races.
| remind you again that I ann
discussing this case from the stand
point of cold logic-not from any
prejudice you and l might have.
And remember this: The case of
the Negro in the University of
Arkansas School of Medicine is
in a class to itself. 1t cannot be
compared to last years case of
admittance of a Negro to the uni
versity's School of Law. The cir
cumstances appertaining are Sc
varied as to render absolutely no
connection.
Arkansas State press., 1948-09-03
WARNING ORDER

State of Arkansas,
County of Pulaski, SIS.
Sellers Thompson, Plaintiff
VS.. No. 84067
Luvenia Thompson, Defendant
The defendant, Luvenia Thompson
is warned to appear in this court
within thirty days and answer the
complaint of the plaintiff, Sellers
Thompson.
Dated: August 3. l948
J. r, Booker
Solicitor for Plaintiff
R. G. Limerick. Jr.
Attorney ad Litem
H. S. Nixon, Chancery Clerk
BY Martha Akin, D. c.
Q.fo 90 Or.0.2 A.
Arkansas State press., 1948-09-03
THE BELL TOLLS
By n II. BELL

deprivation that overwhelmed us
before.
We can act now to wipe out
the young wolves that infest these
little Harlems. preyiug on pri-
waite citizens and merchant alike.
to steal that which does them lit
tie good, and helps to wreck the
community
We can curb the cver.growing
prostitution. which is so prevail
ent in times of need among our
girls-the flower and hope Of our
generation.
We can set UP a louder clamor
Arkansas State press., 1948-09-03

for economic and employment
opportunities for both our young
and old people.
We can seek to ebb the flow Of
cheap wine (sneaky Pete that
both saps the strength and the
mental capacity Of u youth,
Yes. we can and must do all Of
these things. IL we would avoid
the cataclysmic riots the whole
cvictions of outstanding citizens,
the h%cart-rending poverty that
warps the sould and the harsh
individualism that not only
wrecks a nation, but tears asun-
der the sacred ties that bind to-
gcther the hopes and dcs'ines Of
q minority people
Pay Your Poll Tax
Arkansas State press., 1948-09-03
New Value For
College TRAINING

Boys and girls who are drop
ping out of college because Of Job
opportunities which seem attrac-
tive will take note of a recent in
cident Texas University has Of
tered 100000 salary to a profess
sor and sent him 5000 with which
TO come by way of air for an in
tervieW It is now worth while for
a bright young student to remain
in school until he gets his Phi. D.
il takes two years beyond the
a. - TO satisfy the residence re-
qulrements for a Phi. d., but those
two additional years may make a
difference of from one to four
thousand per year in the young
mans earning capacity as long as
he lives and retains his mentality
Study in college has a new value.
PAY YOrI- Pail Tax-
Arkansas State press., 1948-09-03

to the recent decision of the Board
OF Trustees to permit Edith May
Irby. 20. Hot Springs Negro, to en-
ter the fre3hman class of the Uni
versity of Arkansas School of
Medicine. Hundreds Of others will
likely see cye-to-eyc with Mr. Lam
ey. This is a natural consequence
as the act Of the board was a rug
ged violation of an old tradition.
Because of shortage Of facilities
in the medical school, there can
be no segregation, the board an
nounccd. That means that the Ne
gro girl viii attend the required
classroom sessions along with the
Arkansas State press., 1948-09-03
WARNING ORDER


State of Arkansas,
County of Pulaski, SIS.
In the Pulaski Chancery Court
Charles Fellows, Plaintiff
VS.. No. $4,000
Mary Fellows, Defendant
The defendant, Mary Fellows is
warned to appear in this court
within thirty days and answer the
complaint of the plaintiff, Charles
Fellows.
Dated: August 3. 1948
Ralph Morrow
Solicitor for Plaintiff
r. c. Limerick, Jr.
Attorney ad Litem
H. S. Nixon, Chancery Clerk
BY Martha Akin, d. c.
8:l3-29-27;9:3 At