davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1949-10-23

Coon, jr.-C. Robinson: Vessel
Stewart-Vic Zeve and the Ber-
nard Rossons.
WBL Director Paul Golden's
initial compilation of cumulative
averages for the current session
puts Mrs. Virginia Mcintyre at
the head Of the "A" group t51 or
more master points, with q .6216
percentage. Mrs. r. H. Skinner
is second with .6140 and Charles
johnson. 6.103. third. In group
"B" Q1-50 master points Vic
Zeve is in the lead with .6025. fol-
lowed by James Lazard, .6023. and
H. A. Mayer, .5975. Top three In
group &C" Go points or under)
are Mrs. James Adler, 1912; AL
White. 1922. and DR.. L. Robins.
.5691.
Mrs. Gregg Custis-Col. H. A.
Walker and Mrs. Rose Robins and
her son. DR.. L. Robins. cornered
the master points last Monday
night at the La Sale Studio, Mrs.
Elizabeth Land Mrs. Florence
Millspaugh and Ray Fetzner-
Richard Freeman placing.
A silver trophy awaits the
Thursday matinee regular at the
La Sale who nets the highest
average with at least three dif-
ferent partners in the new four
month cumulative contest inaugu-
rated October /.
At the Riverside Bridge Club,
where play is restricted to Arling-
ton Farms residents and their
guests, Mrs. Bess holland and
James Guthrie captured the
monthly quota Of master points
in the October 13 Howell. Sec
ond honors to Frank Holmes and
Julian Series. Mr.. Guthrie was
awarded the clubs bi-monthly
prize for maintaining the high
est individual average during the
past eight weeks.
Bridge Calendar
TopAY-pistrist Of Columbia champion
~, and ,3d.n amaseur pairs. 1890 and g pm.
1900 New Hampshire avenue NV;
team-of-four and open pair rating point.
pm. La Sale Studio. 1923 Con-
necticut avenue NV; open pair rating
TUEsDAY-Agricultur Club, 1855
Euclid street NV: rating point. 7:45
pm. Buckingham Duplicate Club. 313
N. Glebe. Arlington; open pair rating
point. 7:45 pm. Count Club. 1914
Seventeenth street NV; open pair
DNESDAY-Stephan Studios. 1855
Euclid street NV. open pair rating
Leaeue, Hotel Roosevelt: open pair
rating point. 1880 and 8 PM; team
of-four, pm. only.
THURsDAY-La Sale Studio: open pair
rating point, 1 pm. Chess Club. Hotel
Gordon; master point, 7:45 pm. River
side Bridge Club, Arlington Farms; rat
ing point, 7:45 pm.
FRIDAY-Arlington Farms Duplicate Club,
Arlington Farms; master point, pm.
Stephan Studio; open pair rating point,
sATugRDAY-wB1. women's Auxiliary,
1855 Euclid street NV; open pair
master point, l. pm. Chess Club;
rating point, 7:4S pm. ,sl Walsh Glnb. "
raft tf,9 tnf
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-07-15
Dismissal Denied
In Teachers
Salary Case

Gulfport, Miss A decision by
United States District Judge Sid
ney c. Mize denying dismissal
notion in the Jackson teachers
salary case this week paved the
way for a speedy hearing on the
suite brought by the National AS
ISOLATION for the Advancement OF
Colored People for equalization
of the salaries of Negro teachers
in the Jackson separate school
district.
Judge Mize. after denying the
defendants dismissal motion and
stating that a genuine issue of fact
existed in the case, set the case
down for a hearing on its merits
at the November term of the court
The trustees and superintendent of
schools of the jackson School Dis
trict had sought to have the ac-
ton dismissed on the grounds that
the plaintiffs had not pursued an
appeal to various school authors
ties before filing suite.
Since the original plaintiff, Mrs
See DENIED-page four
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-07-15

In appreciation for the generous
contributions to the Florence Crit
tenden Home for unwed mothers.
the Hospitality committee has ar
ranged for "Get-together" of
contributors and workers at Boos-
tiers park, North Little Rock, Sun
day from 4 to 6 p. m. The affair
will be simple and allow an OPP
portunity for fellowship and re-
joicing for all present. The public
is invited
The following program has been
planned Congregational singing;
invocation, Rev. A. w. Kicks; solo,
Ocie Lee Smith, jr.; introduction
of speakers, Mrs r. c. Childress;
purpose of the home, Mrs. c. A.
Troupe; musical selection, South
ern Echoes, directed by c. L.,
Reynolds. student of Philander
Smith college; Introduction of in
spirational speaker, Ocle Lee
Smith, sr.; speaker, Rev. c. c.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-07-15
Girls Industrial
School Opens 10
Delinquent Girls

The Fargo agricultural school
located at Forgo. five miles north
of Brinkley has been taken over
by the state and is now being
operated as a training school for
Delinquent and extremely De-
pendent colored girls, ...
Floyd Brown, who was president
OF the fargo agricultural school
for thirty years has been elected
by the new board as superin-
tendent Of the new school. Ralph
Abramson Of Holly Grove ic
chairman Of the board. Other
members consist Of DR.. S. c. Ketz
Of Batesville, Mrs. Horace Arthurs
of Cotton Plant, Mrs. Annie p.
Strong Of Mariana and Attorney
J. r. Booker, Little Rock.
The Fargo training school for
delinquent and extremely depen-
dent girls is now receiving such
girls who are eligible to enter
such a school. The Juvenile courts
and the welfare people together
with the officials OF the county
must pass on the girls who are
sent to this school. The Fargo
training school is very suitable
for handling such girls. because
it has all the facilities of the orr
ginal Fargo agricultural school
There are several teachers and
workers who are connected with
the school and the object of the
school is to rehabiltate these
girls and send them back to their
homes and communities as better
girls.
The State Of Arkansas has made
adequate appropriation for the OPP
GRAFTON Of the school, and IL is APP
preciate for this is much need
ed Institution and will help to
serve the needs of Negro girls.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-07-15
TOP XXX CHIEF
CALLED IN PROBE

Birmingham, Ala.-(Atlas)-Top
ranking Ku Klux Khan officials
have been called to testify in a
grand jury investigation OF mob
floggings in this area.
Summoned were DIR. E. P. Pru-
lit, president OF the Federated Ku
klux Klans, Inc. and E. E. Camp
bell, who have been identified by
State Investigators as the Grand
Cyclops Of the Robert E. Lee
Klan of Birmingham. The Crane
jury went into a special session
last Friday, and was specifically
charged to deliver deeply into the
mounting list of beatings, threats
of violence and cross buinings
BY white hoodsters who have be-
come night-riding terrorists during
the last few weeks
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-07-15
Charges Of Army
Bias Against
Negro Chap|ains

New York-"ViRorous condem-
nation" of an Army policy re-
lieving Negro chaplains from ac-
tive duty unless there is an open
ing in an all-Negro unit was ex-
pressed this week by the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People
In a letter to Major General Lu-
ther D. Miller, chief Of chaplains
in the Department of the Army
NAACP Assistant Special Counsel
Franklin II. Williams protested
the present assignment policy OF
chaplains as discriminatory lin
view of the Presidents recent EX-
ecutive Order and its implementa-
ton by Secretary of Defense Louis
A. johnson" The NAACP attorney
cited the relief from active duty
of former Chaplain Jacob A. Dyer
despite the fact that the Army lis
still engaged in recalling white
chaplains to active duty because
of a shortage of such men through
out the service"
III indignation OF the races
throughout the United States Army
is to be successful and complete
Mr.. williams wrote, them Negro
officers, including CHI ap | a ms,
should be assigned regardless of
their race or the race Of the men,
bers OF the unit to which such
assignments are made. An
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-07-15
Burning Cross
Set Before keqro
Homes In Miss.

Hattiesburg, Miss -(Atlas)-A
crude wooden cross was burned
last Sunday near several Negro
homes in this City
The cross, about six feet high
with a four-foot cross bar, was
burned shortly before 10 p. m. at
the head of a Negro street about
three blocks from the center of
the town
Police Chief, Hugh Herring said
his men were unable to find any
one who had seen the cross set
up, and he considered the work
OF Children or pranksters."
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-07-15
Law Of The Lash
Rules Suburban
Town, Reported

Birmingham, Ala.-(GlobaD-Ac-
cording to United Press reports
the residents of suburban Praco
charged last Saturday that hooded
mobsters have ruled their small
mining town by law of the lash
and have flogged or terrorizcd
more than a dozen persons.
Although the office of Sheriff
Holt Mcdowell and local news
papers were swamped with calls
reporting that hooded night riders
were sweeping once more through
efferson County, none of the re-
ports could be proven as true.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-07-15
Council Formed To
Combat Racial And
Religious Bias

New York, N. Y.--(GlobaD-For.
nation Of the Queens County
Council Of the State Commission
Against Discrimination, together
with list Of outstanding Queens
civic leaders who have accepted
membership in the organization.
was announced today by Commits
sioner Edward w. Edwards, acting
chairman of the State Commission
Against Discrimination. /
According to Commissioner Ed
wards, this is the eighth such
group set up in the State to com.
bat racial and religious discrimina.
ton. ~
Members of these councils, he
said, serve without compensation
and are charged with the task Of
studying the problem Of discrimin.
alton within their communities, 40
well as the fostering Of goodwill
and harmony among the various
elements in these communities.
Commissioner Edwards will act
as liason officer between the
Queens group and the State COM
mission. Each council in the State
works under the direction Of the
State Commission. 4
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-07-15
Contributors TO CRITTENDEN
HOME TO Be ENTERTAINED

Walker; congregational singing; in
PRODUCTION of board members and
visitors, Mrs. r. c. Childress; re-
marks, Mrs. H l.. Porter; clos
ing; social hour; music by the
Smith, jr. and ST.; mistress Of
ceremonies, Mrs. Gertrude Rut-
ledge.
The Florence Crittenden Home
is located on the Pine Bluff high
way about a miles south of Little
Rock, an imposing structure sur
rounded by Is acres of land. The
property was recently purchased
and operations will begin as soon
as necessary repairs can be made.
With the help of the Community
Chest, interested citizens and Or
CARNATIONS, a dream Of Arkansas
Negro citizens for a home for UNI
wed mothers, where girls may
have an opportunity to rehabilitate
their lives, has come true.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-07-15
NEGR0E S 0FFERE D uTL F HOPE
IN DEW|7TSCH00L CASE RULING
Communistie inclination Of Negro Is
One Of |ndustry's Failures To Institute
Democracy Says Big Industrial Tycoon

our free enterprise system are
meant for everyone, and are "a
valuable to everyone in direct pro-
portion to his ability to contribute
to the system no matter what
color his skin
Detailing indushry's resposibli-
ty, he said that the Negro can not
be expected to do constructive
thinking about his social or bus
mess system until he has "a job
which earns him a decent living.
Mr.. Morrow, who is member
Of the industrial relation COM
mittee Of the National Urban Lea
que, said that the Negroes economic
help should come from industry;
become honestly active in integral
ing Negroes within their organiza-
tons. and provide the needed jobs.
they must first be motivated
themselves by conviction that it
is right and helpful to the well-be-
ing of industry. and necessary to
the well-being of the country as a
whole. Such motivation.''will be
the result of t"' the helping of
management to help the Negro to
help himself.
See TYCOON--page four
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-07-15

Nashville, Tenn.-Industry's re-
Sponsibility for combating COM
munism in America extends be-
ypnd the more familiar field of
economic education to leadership
in soiing such specific problems
as racial discrimination and the
providing of skilled job opportuni-
ties to qualified Negroes.
This was the message which
Joseph J. Morrow OF Pitney-
Bowes. Inc. brought this morning
to the sixth annual Institute Of
Rase Relations at Fisk university.
Mr.. Morrow, who is personnel
director Of a Stamford, Connecti-
cut postage meter company noted
for its successful indignation of
Negroes in skilled white collar and
manufacturing jobs, told his au-
dienee of industry and labor lead
ers, educators. elergymen and SOC
ial scientists that If communism
has unerringly picked as our
greatest weakness the plight of
the marginal citizen. playing upon
mis- bitterness and Illustration, as
il knows so well how to do, who
is to blame? Not the Negro" sbe-
cause it is only human, when a
situation has become intolerable,
to grasp at anything which prom
Uses to relieve it.
In spite of communist efforts j,
he continued, the vast majority
of Negroes have enough faith in
their future in a democratic A
merica to repudiate foreign doc
trines as firmly as you or !. We
can help their faith TO stay strong
by proving that the benefits of
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-07-15
Bill Of Rights Conf.
Emphasizes Negro
Democratic Rights

The struggle for Negro democ-
ratio rights will be emphasized at
the Bill Of Rights Conference to
be held in New York City at the
Henry Hudson Hotel, Saturday
and Sunday.
Sponsored by leaders in 10 states
the conference will seek to dram
atize before the whole nation the
urgent necessity TO fight against
the current wave of repression.
Negro leaders have been invited
TO play a strong role in the con-
ference for the sponsors hold, the
drive against free speech and free
association involves special
threat to the Negro people.
Effective struggles for the dem
ocratic rights Of the Negro people
are bound up with the fight to
preserve the Bill Of Rights, Clark
Foreman, conference director and
~ Ter President Of the Couthern
difference for Human Welfare,
.eclared today,
The two day conference will
draw UP and project a concrete
program Of action for the several
states.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-07-15
Southern Negro
Mob Tries To
Lynch White Man
Ted HOllinswOrth

Winston-Salem, NJ CA change
has been wrought. Here II Is in
the Southland. A mob OF 500 Me-
groes last week gathered to
lynch a white man. and only the
alertness and the quickness of the
police department in speeding the
white man to safety save him
from the Negro mob who shout
ed. Lynch hint
0. L. Werst, a white cafe opera.
tor, is the man who was saved
by quick police action as shouts
of Lynch him! hang HIM" ac-
eompainied by hurled rocks,
thrown bricks followed the po-
lice car that sped Werst to the
safety of the city jail
He was charged with shooting a
young Negro woman in the head
when she and group of approx
imately fifteen or twenty compon-
ions entered his home mistakenly |
thinking it was part of a dance |
hall, eSi- - IL y ~
Mrs. Hattie Cook, the woman, is
in the hospital here with a right |
jaw fracture and other head in
jurles. Her condition is considered |
serious and the white mans life
is in great danger if he is re-
leased.
The incident occurred last week
early in the morning when
Wersts wife supposedly report
ed TO her husband that a group
had entered their apartment. The
cafe operator claims that he warn
ed the group to leave, and then
fired into the crowd that was in
the street.
The cafe owner makes his living
in the Negro neighborhood from
patronage of Negro customers,
and il is believed that he has be-
come erich" from selling cheap
food to Negroes, and maintaining
a dance hall as we'll as spare
See NEGRO MOB-page four
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-07-15
The q Reasonable Time
Clause Kills All Effect
Dewitt Negroes Still Without School:
Whites Permitted To Finish bui|dinu

The status of school facilities for Negro school chill
oren OF Dewitt school district No. remains the same at pres
en according to ruling Of Federal Judge H. Leey last
week. In memorandum opinion filed in the United State
District Court the Judge stated that the district must pron
for Negro school children facilities equal to ose Of white
children within "REAsoNAeLE TIME" In accord mn Ia
past experience of Negroes in similar matters reaaa
time mentioned in the decree removes hope OF any o
diate action educational facilities.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-07-15

vide separate schools for w111n
and eolored children" IN pun.
suanee Of the segregation theme,
the Judge also stated that BE-
cause of the small number Of Ne
gro enumerates. 1t is Impractical
for the defendant district to estab-
lish a Negro high school within
its boundaries.
| In relation to the white build
ing in progress, the Judge point.
ed out that no one had protest.
ed or taken any steps to prevents
its erection.
The penalty for not making
needed improvements for Negroes
is that otherwise nothing except
the building in progress may be
done for white. The whites have
enough to get along with for q
considerable time. 10y.
Action was brought by a num-
Der of colored citizens-Frank
Pitts and others. and the attorney
for the plaintiff was W. Harold
Flowers Of Pine Bluff. Mr.. Flow
ers was assisted in the case by
the junior member Of his firm.
Attorney Edward v. Trimble.
This case is not the first case
filed in Arkansas to equalize edu-
cational facilities for Negroes
but 1t is the first case to be ar.
gued in the Court, ana is consid-
cred the "ice-breaking' case.
Mr.. Flowers has filed two other
cases that are similar to the De.
Witt case and has third one
that is threatening.
The text Of the decree Is found
on page seven this issue.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-07-15
Negro Teachers
Invited To Learn
How To Drive

Baton Rouge, La--(GlobaD Me-
gro college representatives from
seven states in the South have
been invited to attend an institute
on driver-education to be held at
Southern University, here, from
July 10 to 22nd.
The Conference Is designed to
provide basic materials and
methods in traffic safety educa-
ton and drive education. College
teachers will also be prepared to
teach driver education classes,
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-07-15
Indians Chief
Prepares For
Little Squaws

Cleveland. Ohio-tAtlas) -Presl-
dent Bill Week of the Cleveland
Indians. and the most democratic
of the American prexys, has pre-
scented gifts Of bathinettes to Mrs.
Larry Dolby, Mrs. Gene Bearden,
Mrs. Allie Clark, Mrs Dale Mitch
ell, Mrs. Bob Kennedy and Mrs.
Steve Gromek, all expectant mo-
theirs.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-07-15
TEXAS BANS
LYNCH Law

Austin. Texas - (Atlas)- The
Texas legislature has just passed
bill which will make lynching
punishable by prison or death.
This will be the states first
specific law against lynching in
hts history, and promises to pro-
woke repercussions throughout the
South.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-07-15
Southern White
Woman Sponsors
Bill Of Rights Conf,

New York-(GlobaD-A lead
ing Southern white woman is a.
mong the 400 prominent Ameri-
See WOMEN-page four
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-07-15

The Judge painstakingly point
ed out that In accordance with
the provisions of the constitution
OF Arkansas and certain statutes
Of that State.........the defendant
district has undertaken to pro-
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-07-15

See TYCOON-page four
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1949-02-03
MT. LAKE PARK METHODIST
CHARGE
Dnr4o. D II HILL.
Pastor, Il. E. Hitler

Bethel-Sunday School, $3.50 a. M;
Morning worship, 1920 every Sunday;
Methodist Youth Fellowship, Wednes-
days, 700 p. M; WSCS meetings,
first Thursdays, 2:30 p. m.
Deer Park-Sunday School, 10 a.
M; Worship, 1st and 3rd Sundays,
1870 p. M; MYF, Sundays, Gas p.
m; mid-week services, Thursdays, at
1880 p. m; WSCS, LIST Thursday, 1880
p. m.
Wesley Chapel = Sunday School,
1920; Worship, End and 4th Sun
days, 11;30 a. M; MYF, Sunday even
ings; WSCS, last Thursday, 10 a. NJ
p. m.
White-Sunday School, 1920 a. M;
Worship, 11;3O, 1st and Bird Sundays;
WSCS, First Tuesdays, 1870; Steyer
Sunday school, 10 a. M; Preaching,
3rd Sunday, 2:30 p. m.
Kurtz Chapel-Sunday school, 2:3O
p. M; Preaching services, 2nd and 4th
Sundays, 3:15.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1949-02-03
Along the Potomac
to Washington
By j. Glenn Beall

1t is passing strange to many
Americans that President Truman,
who said last fall he was campaign
ing up and down the country to help
the poor and needy, and the homeless,
should be the first person to obtain
any tangible benefits from the So
called "Fair Deal"
The only bill to pass Congress from
January 3, when the new Democratic
controlled legislature convened, until
January 20, when Truman was inau-
gurated again, was a bill to increase
on a lavish scale the President
salary and tax-free expense allow
ance
When he called the 80th Congress
back into special session last July, it
is recalled by observers here, the
President said that his whole catch
all program could be enacted in Is
days. Yet, by January 81, Congress
had been in session "a days without
passing single bill-except that one
to increase Mr.. Truman's salary and
expense allowance.
The Presidents new salary of
$780, 00-a substantial increase over
his old salary of $4,000 a years.
only a part of the story. Under the
new bill, the President receives a tax
free expense allowance of $4,000.
He will be able to keep, after taxes,
approximately $4,000 of his salary
and Of his expense money. All ex-
penses of the White House are paid
out of other appropriations.
Any man in private industry, to re-
tail $4,000 a year under present tax
laws would have to receive salary
of $3,500,000 a year. The President,
whether he is the wisest American or
the most efficient administrator or
the best executive, now is the highest
paid man in the United States, by
any standard.
In addition, of course, the President
has the free use Of large yacht,
fully stated and conveniently moored
in the basin near the White House.
Also, he has the use of a sleek air.
liner, with full crew, in case he wants
to fly hither and yon. Furthermore,