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The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1949-01-15
Stevenson takes over
hedges on his promises
Continued from pace l

SOhthhhSu IfcHt pUSS
port, Stevenson declared: "Bosic
differences between Democrats
und Republicans on national is
sues have little bearing upon
stote and municipal problems. !"
Equally surprising TO liberal
supporters Of Stevenson wos his
perfunetory handling of the
need for q stote fair employ
ment practices law, dismissed in
two brief paragraphs politely
asking the Assembly's thought
full consideration of such legis-
lation.
Nor was there any mention of
the need for general overhaul
of Illinois civil rights laws, to
strengthen bans on discrimina-
ton in public places and nipple
ment free speech and assem-
blage guarantees.
Although the need for much
creased state aid to local schools
had been a key Stevenson cam
paign issue, he made no specific
proposals on m e h o d or
amounts of such aid. The joint
legislative session to which he
was speaking was referred in
stead to the forthcoming report
of the Revenue Commission, ap-
pointed by the last Assembly
and chaired by Senator Merritt
J. Little.
berals and prOgressives
generally approved the Gov
ernOr's plea for improved mine
safety legislation and for adOp-
ton of mOderniZed system of
personnel administration.
To assist in his reform of I'LL
nois government, Stevenson
called for substantial salary in
creases" for the men at the
top" However, trade union OBJ
servers were surprised by his
failure to mention the need for
general wage boosts for thou
sands of other workers en-
ployed in state departments and
projects.
Trade uniOnists were also dis
turbed by his request for a re-
ductiOn in employer cOntribu-
tons to unemployment cOmpen-
satiOn funds, in view of recent
indications the "b o o m" may
shortly turn in a bust"
The new governor coupled the
need for increasing old-age pen
sion payments to "at least $50 a
month" with the need for re-
ducing the number of aged per-
sons now in state mental insti-
tutions.
Those who "are merely aged
and infirm or senile," he said,
should be discharged and main
tanned on their own or in foster
homes with the aid of old-age
pensions. Health and welfare
experts wondered how the
senile aged would fare on the
$55 month he proposed.
The urgent need for radical
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1949-01-15
Ordower returns
to the air

Chicago Speaks, news
commentary by Sidney Or
dover will be back on the
air this Sunday. Sponsored by
the Byron Home Equipment
Co., 1912 S. Michigan Ave,
the new series will be heard
every Sunday at lis pm. on
station VIVID (1160 on your
diaD.
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1949-01-15

Meantime, the FE board as
serted that it "set its sights on
preparations for the coming
fOurth-rOund wage increase bat
tie, the fight against furnishing
speed-up and 'phony' escalatOr
clause proposals, for pension
plan and security program"
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1949-01-15
Chicago is model
for fur increases

Recent increases of 10 to IL
cents by Chicago leather work
ers were cited this week by CLIO
Fur and Leather President Ben
Gold as the keynote for a fourth
round wage drive in the entire
industry.
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1949-01-15

the L. Communist Party lead
erS.
Sponsors of the Illinois dele
CATION are John J. DeBOer, Uni
versity of Illinois department of
Ronald b. Levin,
Roosevelt College professor;
Father Parker, and William F.
building contractor.
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1949-01-15
FE board says reoI
unity can be found

President Grant Cakes of the CIO Farm Equipment
Workers this week the opinion that possible
achieve genuine labor unity among all workers in the
farm equipment industry.
Cakes comment based sentiment of the FE
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1949-01-15

NEGRO HISTORY Week officially for Feb 10 13 by Mayor
Martin Kennedy Port Of delegation Witnessing signing of poco
by the citys chief includes Bishop W. j. Wos.
AE Church; William Jones. director OF Neor West
side nerroo Committee; John Gray executive director of d.
Sable Community Center Sidney Ordowe legislative director of
the Progressive Pory and Broon. Hope Bible School.
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1949-01-15
Sixty C...ieagcans board
CRC freedom, Special

Sixty Chicagoans will board the freedom Special
Sunday Jan. IT, prepared to take part in two-day Wash
ington lobby civil rights
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-06-03

of Kentucky to admit qualified
Negro applicants to its graduate
school the University announced
this week that courses ii engineer
ing, law and pharmacy VIII also
be open to qualified Negroes b.
ginning this summer.
In a decision handed down on
March 30 in case brought by
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People.
Federal Judge H. Church Ford rul-
ed that Lyman T. Johnson, gradu-
ate student from Louisville, and
all other Negroes similarly situat-
ed, must be admitted to the Uni
versity because of the states fail
ure to provide equal educational
opportunity,
DR.. II. l., Donavon, president of
the University of Kentucky, said
in announcing the opening of fous
schools of the University to Ne
groes that the action was being
taken ito comply fully" with the
federal court decision.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-06-03
Gre Denounces
Truman's Betrayal
Of Civil Rights

Announcement of Senate Major
ity Leader Scott Lucas that the
Truman administration has aban-
doned the civil rights program
which was a keynote of the Pres
idents election campaign was de-
nounced by the Civil Rights Con-
gress as, another betrayal by an
administration notorious for its
desertion of the mandate given to
it by the voters in the last cleo
ton"
President Humans campaign
pledge TO fight for the enactment
of FEPC, anti-poll tax legislation,
AMI an anti-lynching bill stands
clearly revealed as cynical cam
paign demagogy," said William L.
Peterson, Executive Secretary of
CRC. THE Dixiecrats and white
supremicists, not only in the south
but throughout the country, have,
in effect, been given a green light
by the administration to continue
and intensity their vicious attacks
on the rights Of the Negro people
The announcement of Senator
Lucas comes at a time when civil
and human rights of Negro Ameri-
cans have reached their lowest
level since the era of Reeonstruc-
ton. It is no longer Klansmen
and hoodlums alone who do the
dirty work Of terrorizing the Negro
people and enforcing jimcrow and
segregation The state apparatus =
police, courts, state executives,
legislatures, the FBI, and other
agencies of government carries
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-06-03
Special Session
Urged To Pass
Rights Legislation

New York-Announcement by
Senator Scott w. Lucas, majority
leader, of the administration
decision to abandon all welfare
and civil rights legislation for this
session of Congress comes as a
great shock to millions of Ameri-
can Negroes, Roy Wilkins, as
sistant secretary of the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People, said in a wire
to the Senate leader today.
In the name of the millions of
Negro citizens who voted for
the President and his party last
November on the strength Of the
Philadelphia platform and the
promises Of Mr.. Truman himself"
Mr.. wilkins urged the Truman
administration "to call a special
session Of Congress this summer
for the purpose of acting upon
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-06-03
GIRL SCOUTS news

Recent visitors to the Girl Scout
Little Hot Sc were members o. the
Committee Chest and Council,
namely, MIR. Lowry, Mrs. Canady'
Mrs. Louise Thalheiner, and Mrs.
r. l. Forenoon.
There is now a registered troop
at Capital Hill school under the
leader, hip of Principal II. II. Dat
ton.
Troop 20l, under the Leadership
of Miss Dorothy Watson and Miss
Doris Walters, will hold regular
meeting at the Little House each
Thursday at p. m, during the
summer.
Girls who wish to go to camp
this year are asked to register
now since limited number of
girls will be able to attend. Reg
istration fee is so cent and camp
fee is $500. Register now at the
Little House, 1908 lizard street.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-06-03
Man Free Under
$1,000 Bond After
Killing Negro Man

Cathage, TeXas-Chie Pipes.
white pulp wood hauler from Cen
ter, was released Wednesday night
under 81 900 bond, accused of muir
der in the shotgun Staying late
Tuesday on u. S highway SO
south of the business district of
John l.. Thomas % Carthage
driver of one of Pipes trucks.
Sheriff Corbett Akin said inves-
tigaton disclosed Pipes had gone
To the mans house, six blocks
east of the business district, during
the afternoon Tuesday on a bust
ness matter,
A fight had ensuer, he said. in
which Pipes fled in his truck, got
the aid of Bill Barnett, Carthage
service station operator. found the
sheriff and deputies out on other
calls and got help from f, E. Hen
ry, Carthage police officer, and
Thomas Birmingham, city night
Waterman.
Sheriff Akin said Pipes and Bar
nett sought aid of officers when
they learned Thomas had gone to
a theater. Thomas, found later
walking on the highway leading
south. was slain by a shotgun
blast as he apparently attempted
to make a break after being or
dercd to surrended by the city Of
ficers. The city officers were arm
ed with revolvers.
District Attorney Emmett Will
burn and County Attorney Mar
cine Holt joined in the investiga-
ton. II was indicated the persent
grand jury might be recalled to act
on the case, or that the case might
be carried over to the September
grand jury.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-06-03

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Continued from page one)
Ill for some time. but only lately
had her Illness been such as to
interfere with her performance of
her duties. Her death broke up a
Beautiful comradship between her
and her daughter, Mrs. Vivian
r. Tate Haywood.
Mrs. Doss came to Little Rock
in 1924 and began her service in
the public schools as a primary
teacher under Superintendent Hill.
She continued to serve until her
recent Illness ineapacitated her
She was interchangeable in her pur-
suit OF new techniques and new
knowledge to make herself more
efficient in her work, just as she
.p,usued with tireless zeal the OBJ
dectiyes Of making home for
her daughter and herself and CIV
Sng her daughter professional in
SEPARATION.
She made an indelible impress
sion on a host of persons whom
she taught in their tenderest and
most responsive years.
Last rites were held in the home
AT 1919 Pulaski street with the
United Friends Association offic-
Eating, the sermon being delivered
by the Reverend G. F. Upton, Of
Wesley Chapel Methodist Church,
of which Mrs. Doss was a men,
Der. ie,M
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-06-03
CONGRESS CAN NOT PASS OFF FEPC
BY FAILURE TO PASS IT SAYS WALLACE

Washington, d. C.-Progressives
Party leader Henry A. Wallace
declared this week that "if this
Congress should fail to pass FEP
C" the Progressive Party will not
let the matter rest.
you may put these bills out Of
sight, but we will keep them on
your mind. and millions of Amer
leans of all eolors and creeds will
help us do just that" he said in
a statement presented to the Po-
well Subcommittee of the House
Committee on Education and La
Dor, now conducting hearings on
FEPC bills.
The former vice-president charg-
ed that the handful of men" who
profit from inequality are pre-
petuating Jim Crow with the aid
Of leaders of both Democrats and
Republican parties.
Wallace pointed out that when
the Republicans controlled Con-
gress they failed to pass an FEPC
and that now that the Democrats
are in control an equal number
OF Democrats joined the Republic
cans in perpetuating the filibuster
against FEPC.
These Senators would not hs
50 bold in flouting the human
rights OF Is million Americans II
the President Of the Hunted States
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-06-03
COLLEGE Station

Fifty-nine persons were present
in Sunday School Sunday. Banner
class was No. 7 with Miss Annie
Mae Bankhead, teacher, Money
raised during the II o'clock SER
vice was $84.ll..R Rev. Alexander
of Helena conducted the evening
service. The Aged Rally was con-
sidered a success with Bro. r. C..
Barns winning first prize - Mem
bers of the church gave Rev. Key,
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-06-03

the pastor, a surprise birthday
party Saturday night at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs, Chester Ward -
Sunday members of the church
gave Rev. Key a shower at the
church Mrs. Lizzie Mae Allen.
who is confined to a Little Rock
hospital, is reported improving go.
June 26 is Mems Day at Pilgrim
Rest church...M Miss Bernice Ward
was married to Willie Guess of
Gollsburg i'll. recently
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-06-03

civil rights legislation
The complete text of the wire
to Senator Lucas follows;
Your announcement that the
administration has dropped all
welfare and civil rights lesisia-
ton for this session OF Congress
came as a shock to millions OF
American Negroes who voted lof
the President and his party last
November on the strength OF me
Philadelphia platform and lne
promises of Mr. Truman himself.
No one expected support Tor
the Truman program IRON the
Dixiecrats. The coalition between
Republicans and Dixiecrats was
certainly not unexpected, But the
faint-heartedness and outright de-
lection of some liberal Demo-
Gratis was not anticipated.
The session began with the Sem
ate not only refusing to uphold
the Barkley ruling no shutlingl
off filibusters, but adopting al
new rule which abandons demo-
cratic processes and establishes
government by filibuster Il
Unwilling or unable to halt
adoption of measures which make
a fortnight civil rights program
practically impossible of attaln-
ment at this session, administra-
ton leaders failed to support anti
segregation amendments to hous-
inc and education bills.
Now comes open abandonment
of the whole program for this ses-
sion. Mr. Truman still insists, as
of May Is. that he is for his civil
rights proposals and will continue
to press for them, The Republic,
cans, who share the blame for the
failures in this session, insist that
the pew filibuster rule is better
one than the old, that civil rights
bills can be passed under it, and
have challenged the Democrats to
bring up such legislation for a
test.
We therefore call upon the Tru.
man administration to call spec
ial session of Congress this sum-
mer for the purpose of acting up
on civil rights legislation.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-06-03
Complete Equality
For Negroes In u. 5.
Predicts Speaker

Nashville, Tenn-In an address
at Fisk university commencement,
DIR, Ralph II. Bunche predicted
that the Negro will eventually at
tain complete equality in America.
I'VE Negroes he said" must be
great realists. The road over which
we must travel is clear, through
the prospects may not be pleasant,
We suffer Gripping disadvantage
es because of our origin But we
are Americans, in basically
democratic American society.
While nothing is easy for the
Negro in America, neither is any
thing impossible The barriers of
race are formidable. but they can
be surmounted. Indeed, the entire
history of the Negro in this coun-
try has been a history of continu-
Gus, relentless progress over these
barriers.
Like Old Man River, the Ne
gro keeps moving along, and if
I know my people, the Negro will
keep moving resolutely along I'M
til his goal of complete and I'M
quivocal equality is attained
Dr. Bunche further predicted
that mankind will finally achieve
"a world of peace in which all
men shall walk together as equals
nl .,r;th linr,ifu -
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-06-03

through jimcrow and segregation,
President Truman now openly in
dicates he will put nothing in the
way of this policy. The fruits OF
this policy is seen in legal lynch
ipgs such as that prepared by the
police and the courts in the case
of the Trenton Six in New Jersey:
in the case of seven Negroes sem
fenced to die in Martinsville, Vir-
ginia; in the murderous shooting
by police of helpless Negroes; in
the police brutality cases that
feature every issue of the Negro
pre- in every major city of Amer
lea.
There is a deadly parallel be-
tween these acts of terror against
the Negro people in America and
the attacks on the Jewish people
that accompanied the rise of Hit
Ter.
The statement of Lucas can only
be accepted by the xxx. the Dix
iecrats. the lacists and the po-
lice and the courts poisned with
the virus of white superiority -
as a mandate to intensity the ter
This fits in perfectly with the
ror against the Negro people.
drive against labor, minority po-
litical parties, and progressive or
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-06-03
WEST ROCK

The annual picnic was held at
Riverside school Monday. This is
the last term the children will
attend school at Riverside Miss
Barbara Jean Sanders is doing fine
after having had an operation .....
Sunday School at Pilgrim rest
church was conducted by Mr. Da-
Wis. The lesson was reviewed by
Bro T. Weekly. The banner offer
ing class was No. S which was
taught by Mrs. Sweat.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-06-03

CARNATIONS. II fits in with the
determined efforts to pass
Mundt-Ferguson police state mea-
sure and the attempt TO outlaw
a political party by heresy trial
Divide and conquer the people is
the slogan of the rulers of Amer
lea
Negro Americans, in fact, all
progressive Americans, can have
only one answer for their bl-par-
tisan enemies - that is relentless,
unified struggle of Negro and
white for the democratic rights OF
the people
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-06-03

municipal governments from the
obligation to hire on the basis OF
merit rather than color seems to
me to subvert rather than ex-
tend the concept of equality Wal
lace said.
3. THE exemption of religious,
charitable, and other non-profIt
organizations is a bit of irony that
would be hard to duplicate else
where" he pointed out.
1.-The Progressive Party insists
on the elimination of these exenp-
lions. Let's not leave any can
cerous roots from which more Jim
Crow can grow Wallace conclud-
ed.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-06-03


that President Truman's failure to
end Jim Grow in the Army and in
the Panama Canal Zone and his
failure to direct the Justice De-
partment to protect the civil rights
of Rosa Ingram, the Nixons, the
Mallards and the Trenton Six has
given the green light to Senate
and Congressional enemies of FE
PC.
Wallace also attacked Senators
Tom Connally (D.-TeXas) and Ar
thur Vandenberg (Rep,--Mich) /,
the Senatorial leaders Of the BIZ
partisan foreign policy who led
the fight to retain the filibuster
Wallace asked;
Can bigots and Jim Crow adj
vocates be entrusted to author a
democratic and peaceful foreign
policy
Can our delegation to the In
tied Nations, which voted against
United Nations resolution for
bidding raee-incitement, be en-
trusted to enforce democratic and
peaceful sentiments in the world
body?
Can an administration dedicat-
ed to Jim Grow at home be en-
trusted to support democracy a
broad?"
Wallace stressed that Jim Crow
is costly not only to Negro Amer
leans but to the American people
as a whole. He pointed out that
by paying Negro workers less en-
ployers are able to keep the wages
Of white workers low and by
keeping a pool Of Negro unem-
ployed they force down the wages
of everyone.
Il say that if we are interested
in full employment economy
we must abolish discrimination in
If we are interested
in getting all our people to pro-
duce what they cam we must a
bolish discrimination" he declar-
ed.
Especially injured are the Ne
gro people themselves. The last
to be hired. the first to be fired
they are also the first to feel the
pinch of general depression and
the last to share the benefits of
recovery.
Millions of Negro workers are
unemployed today This is
clear warning that to the millions
Of white Americans already job
less, millions more may soon join
them.
by underwriting Jim Grow, the
Executive and the Congress are
also underwriting a major depres-
sion whose victims will lumber a
hundred and fifty million Amer
icans,' Wallace declared
On behalf of the Progressive
Party he endorsed HR 81, 1878 and
1872 which establish the beginnings
of a fair employment practices
pattern, but recommended three
changes in the bills:
/. He said the bill should PEN
alize employers who discriminate
against men and women of their
political beliefs. Otherwise the
dangerously loose CONCEPT Of 10y
atty, administered by race haters,
will be used to accomplish the
same purpose as race barriers
now accomplish, He cited the
case of a number Of postal en-
ployees in Cleveland, most of them
Negroes, who have been charged
with "disloyalty" for fighting a
gainst discrimination in unemploy-
ment.
2 The exemption OF state and
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-06-03
Continued from page 0ne)

tOntInueO IrOm page UieJ
open with w. L. Jarrett, N, Little
Rock, presiding
One of the most elaborate pro-
grams in the history Of the organ
fzation has been arranged for the
meeting. Among the outstanding
speakers of the profession will be
Dean baltimore Of Atlanta college
of Mortuary Science. Atlanta, Ga,
and Paul Griffin, member of the
State Board. Several lectures and
demonstrations will be given on
the latest Announcements OF the
morturary profession.
According to Mrs. Bessie Ben
son, chairman OF the housing COM
mittee, large number of embalm-
ers and funeral directors
throughout the state have made
reservations 10 attend the meeting.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-06-03

In loving memory of First 1t
Charles Lloyd Frazier who gave
the last full measure of devotion
to save the life of a comrade
He was killed in line of duty Sun
day morning May 9th, l945 in
Reims, France.
For is it not said Greater love
hath no man that he lay down
his life for a brother
SADLY MISSED BY: Mrs. Dor
othy Gaines-Frazier, wife, Charles
Lloyd Frazier, daughter; Farch
Frazier. father, Mrs. Louise Mil
Ter. Mrs. Mary F. Holt, Mrs. jan
ice F. Thomas and Mrs. Lavera
billiard, sisters; Andrew A. Fra
zier and William H. Frazier, bro
theirs.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-06-03
Kentucky Univ. To
Open Graduate
School to Negroes

Lexington, Ky.-Following a re-
cent United States District Court
decision requiring the University
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-06-03

Iaring Cross Gro. & Mkt
Bennetts Gro. a. Mkt.
Bob Evans ESQ Serv. Sta.
Brrk's Drug Store
Clements Food Store
Golfers Mems Furnishing ard
Ready To Wear
II, W. Days Grocery
Eden Rcxall Drug store
Fabric Center
Finney's Grocery & Mkt.
Guenter-Ma Furn. Col
Guenter-Martin Furn. Coz
Gucnter- Wayman Services sta.
Kortc Tire & Service sta.
Williamson
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Roy Lewis ESQ Serv. STA
LOring's Grocery
Louie's Grocery
McSpadden Drug store
Prothro Junction Grocery
Rose City Gro, 4 Hdwc
Satterfield, The Cleaner nrt
Laundry
Ed Skinner Tire & Scrr ~,
SANKEY'S Jewelry Store
Tarkington's Grocery
Todd Appliance Co.
Value Hat & Clothes aop
Victor's Shoe Store
Vests Grocery
rug Store