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Arkansas State press., 1949-05-27
Young Pioneers Of
Equality honored
Al Dinner

Mrs. j. Ruffin and Mrs. A. Beene
were hostesses at a dinner
party given in honor of Miss Ed
it'll Mae Irby, Medical student at
the University of Arkansas and
first Negro to enter southern
university established exclusively
for white on equal basis, and Miss
Ruth Lynch. student of North
Carolina college for Negroes, Dur
ham, N. c., who is taking her
field work in public health ed
ucation here another first in Lit
tie Rock
The guests were entertained in
the beautiful home of Mrs. Ruffin
at 500 E. 18th street. The guests
were greeted by melodious piano
renditions by DR.. G. r. Lewis,
jr., prominent local dentist, and
Clyde Webb, talented organist, who
charmed the guests with Clair De
Lune" by Debussy. Attorney ]. R.
Booker was the after-dinner
speaker, only his speech was
made before dinner.
Dinner was then served in the
sumptuous dining room of the
Rose Drive-In and the evening
was completed with the presenta-
ton of "Gradatim" by Holland
by Mrs. Tillie ingram Bogard
Mrs. w. l.. Jarrett made the pre-
sentation of gifts to the honored
guests.
Guests included Attorney J. r.
Booker, DR.. G. R. Lewis, H. L,
Terrence, Harry Jefferies, Clyde
Webb, Mr.. and Mrs. S. Dunn, Mr.
and Mrs. w. L. Jarrett, Mr.. and
Mrs. L. c. Bates, A. Beene, Mes
danes Tillie Ingram Bogard, Mary
Helen Diggs, e. Miller, Matte
Phillips, and W. H. H. Riley.
Arkansas State press., 1949-05-27

parade giggling and drumming
loudly on tin pans.
Last February, DIR. Samuel
Green, grand dragon Of the hood
ed order, told Klansmen in West
Columbia, S. c. that unless
white supremacy in maintained,
the day will come when black
buck Negro may ask for your
daughters hand in marriage" A
voice from the outskirts of the
crowd drew a laugh with the re-
joinder, well, she can always
say mo-, can't she, or If she wants
him, she can say yes, can't she?'
Most of the hecklers at the
meeting in which stencil bomb
was introduced were later identi-
fled as University of South Caro-
lima students.
When the Khan held its big
meeting called "Klanvocation"
near Stone Mountain, Ga. last fall
for the initiation Of new members,
a minister said he was hard put
to keep Negroes from taking pot
shots at the robed gathering.
Last February goth 12-year
See HERE and THERE--page forw
Arkansas State press., 1949-05-27

Comm on May Is. said Il have
been enormously encouraged by
the fact that the large audiences
we spoke to everywhere do not
want war and are very deeply
troubled because they find nothing
but direction towards war from
our government"
Mrs Robson, noted anthropo-
logist and expert in colonial af-
fairs, accompanied the Progressive
Party leader and his two European
guests, Michele Giua, Senator
from Italy and Lester Hutchinson.
Member of the British Parliament,
on a three-Week forum on for
eign policy" They travelled 10,
600 miles by air, visiting l6 ma
jor cities and talked to almost
5000 people in over 70 meetings.
In a statement issued at the
close OF the tour, Mrs Robson
said Il have been worried about
the war talk for a long time. |
don't feel at all subversive nor un-
American in wanting peace, talk
ing and fighting for peace I feel
particularly American and DEM
ocratic in challenging my govern
ment, my Congress and the State
Department on their was actlvi-
ties"
The wife of the internationally
famous Negro singer and actor
added that she has been very
much heartened by the anxious
and hopeful attention the special
group of people we met manifest
ed labor, ministers, educators
and Negroes. | am comforted to
find out from American people
and from our guests, Mr.. Giua and
Mr.. Hutchinson, that if I am SUBJ
versive, have an awful lot =. com
pany with me-
In her final speech Of the tour,
Mrs. Robson told her New Haven
audience that AS a Negro ! have
grown up in my country surround
ed on the one hand by elegant
conversation about Freedom and
Democracy and Christi"~''-- and
on the other by performance quite
the opposite
Terming the American way of
life for the Negro a forest of
doubletalk," Mrs. Robson said
"All men are created equal yet
my people are not equal. All
Men Are Brothers. yet my peo-
pie may not live, work, study,
eat worship. travel, play side-by-
side with their white brothers, "
The same kind of "double-talk"
is being used, she charged, to con-
fuse the American people about
See ROBESON-page eight
Arkansas State press., 1949-05-27

Later in the hearing in the
course of an evasivc defense of
his conduct, Prosecutor Volpe adj
mitted to the court that 1--WE had
no fingerprint evidence
The appeal of the Civil Rights
Congress lawyers and the other
defense lawyers was supported by
amicus briefs filed by the Nation
al Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People, the A
merican Civil Liberties Union. and
the National Lawyers Guild. Mr..
Rogge quoted from the NAACP
brief which declared that the trial
of the six was prevented from a
search for the truth to search
for support Of the police depart
ment."
Mr.. Rogge, and other defense
lawyers, charged that the so-called
confessions" on which the state
based its case had been forced
from the men in violation OF tn
| due process clause in the lat
Arkansas State press., 1949-05-27
Since Defendants
White Judge
Changes Crime

Knoxville, Tenn, (Atlasl-Three
white youths of Mascot, who We're
charged by a Negro operator of
a beer place beyond Three Points
with breaking out plate glass
front, and smashing an electric
wall clock were bound over to
the Grand Jury with INSIDE
meanor charge upon a ruling of
Judge Bernard Gleason, instead of
a housebreaking charge from the
General Sessions Court.
Oscar Tippett, operator of the
beer place, claimed that the
youngsters ramsacked his place
on the night of May 7th. John
Osborne 81, and two brothers,
Park and Charles Williams, de-
PENDANTS denied their guilt and
each stated that they had occas-
inally brought white Whiskey
from Tippett. Charles told the
court that June Davis, who was
an employee of Tippett had fired
three shots at them as they left
Tippett's place. Davis denied the
charge
In reply to questions from their
own lawyer, the three youths
testified that both white and Ne
groes frequented Tippett's place.
Their bonds were set at $3.50 each
Arkansas State press., 1949-05-27
Lincoln u. To Honor
Cong. Dawson and
Sen. Humphrey

Lincoln Univ Pa, (Atlsa)-The
Honorable, William l.. Dawson and
Hubert H. Humphrey will receive
the MI Chapter Alpha Phi Medal
ion awards for 1949 on May 81,
according to a statement by Rich
and Tolliver, chairman of the For
nm Committee of MI Chapter The
ceremonies will take place in the
Mary bod Brown Memorial Chap
el on the campus of Lincoln Uni
versity at PM.
In designating Congressman
Dawson for the coveted award, Nu
Chapter pointed to his accomplish
ments as Democratic Representa-
tive of the First District of Ill
inois. He is chairman Of the Ex-
pendture Committee in the Ex-
ecutive Department, the first
Negro to head such committee
in the United States Government.
Senator Humphrey was hailed
for his liberal views and for the
part he played in placing the civil
rights plank in the Democratic
Platform at the last party conven-
ton. He has led the fight for civil
rights in the United States Senate
Arkansas State press., 1949-05-27
College Graduates
Short Changed"
Charges Dr.. Kerry

indianapolis, Ind.-Colleges are
short changing" their students on
religion, DR.. Colemon w. Kerry,
Baptist clergyman of Texas be-
lieves.
Practically every college in the
country is turning out religious
illiterates as result of their neg
lective attitude towards religion
Dr. Kerry charged this week in
addressing the 33rd Annual Session
of the Union District Association
of Indianapolis held at the Twen-
ty-fifth Baptist church, DR. John
A. Hall, Moderator.
Colleges justify this neglect by
claiming that religion is contro-
versial and that they would get
into trouble Kerry said. But
every subject worth teaching is
controversial, he pointed out, cit
ing economics, politics and gov
eminent.
Actually Religion is disturbing
to their academic calm said Ker-
ry.
THE chief problem in education
today, he said, lis how to re-
store a realization that man Is
meant to be not only a mechani-
cal workman and scientific meth
biologist, but also poet a
See CRADS--page four
Arkansas State press., 1949-05-27
Miss Irby To Speak
Union AME Youth

Miss Edith Mae Irby, medical
student at the University of Ark
ansas, will be guest speaker at
the l. o'clock services of Union
AME church Sunday when the
christian youth will have charge
of all departments of the church
on that day The public is invited
with a special invitation extended
to the youth of the city.
The young people will also have
charge of the services at night un-
der the auspicies of the Religious
Education department with Mrs.
v. M. Townsend and Mrs. j. A.
Hibbler as sponsors.
Arkansas State press., 1949-05-27
Negroes To Have
Armed Escort To
F|og Hearing

Trenton, Ga, (Atlas)-An armed
escort will be provided the seven
Chattanooga Negroes when they
testify here before special Dade
County Grand Jury which has
been investigating the flogging Of
the Negroes by a mob Of masked
men near Hooker, Ga. on April
Q.
Judge John II. Paschall said the
Negroes will be escorted here by
highway patrolmen and fairly
large group Of interesting white
persons. Trenton Is about 20 miles
from Chattanooga.
Solicitor-G General Warren Aiken
of the Cherokee Circuit, said he
had assured subpoenas for rs per-
sons--persons said to have been in
the mob on the night OF April Q.
Arkansas State press., 1949-05-27
Truman Asked To
Receive Mothers
In Ingram Case

The Nation Committee to free
the Ingram family has made re-
quest to President Truman to re-
ceive delegation of mothers led
by Mary Church Terrell on We'd
nesday. June /. These women
want to present to President
Truman signature on petitions
collected all over the country. i'm
ploring him to use the power and
See INGRAM--page eight
Arkansas State press., 1949-05-27

"A NORTHERN SC0TTSB0R0! SAYS 0.
JOHN R0GGE CHARGES PROSECUTOR
POLICE FRAMED MEN TO RAPE JUSTICE

The justices of New Jerseys recently reorganzed
Supreme Court had their composure shaken last O.
John Royce former Assistant u s. Attorney General told
them that the Of six Negroes sentenced death Trenton
and before the court appeal Northern Scots
boro in which the in collaboration with
Trenton Police Department in effect, raped justice"
In vigorous fighting oral argument before the full court
Mr. Rogge, who retained by the Civil Rights Congress-
told the judges that the of the parallels
what happens the SOUTH He specifically charged that State
Prosecutor Mario Vope had blocked defense efforts
police fngeprnt brought in the trial He declared
that this evidence would have the innocence the
accused II submit it the duty prosecutor
us what the fngepns were the murder weapon said Mr.
Royce Il charge that he deliberately suppressed this
Arkansas State press., 1949-05-27
Family Handicap
No Obstacle To
Girl In Contest

Georgia Ann Bell, 10 senior at
Samuel Huston College, Austin,
Texas, won this years intercolleg-
late contest sponsored jointly by the
Westinghouse Corporation and the
United Negro College Fund to
choose the most outstanding stud
ent now attending one of the 81
See CONTEST-page four
Arkansas State press., 1949-05-27

Amendment of the Constitution.
They urged, too, that the convic-
tons be reversed on the grounds
that the jury failed to specify
the degree of murder in returning
the verdict and that the judges
charge to the jury was preiudicial
and improper.
Other telling defense points
were that each of the accused had
proved that he was working or
otherwise engaged far from the
scene of the crime at the time il
was committed; that the defen-
dants were picked up in indis-
criminate raids on the Negro COM
munity. deprived of counsel. and
questioned by relays of police Of
ficers for five days and nights
while kept under the influence Of
drugs.
Mr.. Rogge pointed out to the
court that Of the three eye wit
nesses at the scene Of the crime two
said none Of the six accused looked
like any Of the three men they
had seen. The third eyewitness
Elizabeth Mcguire Horner. thu
mistress of the murdered man
| c0lsidf1 Z I identify them when they
were first bfe ers2t 5efare sl her ar
ter their arrest, but at the trias-~
! months later, she said their faces
had come back to her lin vis-
ion" and she identified them.
What she meant was she was ac-
commodating herself to the trump
ed-up case Of the prosecutor"
charged Mr.. Rogge. And he quot
ed the following excerpt from
her testimony:
@. You have gone over this with
the Prosecutor and the police
haven't your
A. No l haven't. '
@. Haven't you gone over Il
with the police?
A. Not that / remember, no.
@. You haven't gone over this
with the police7
A. Once in while.
@. Now have you or haven't
you? I'm just asking you.
A. Yes
QJYou have been shown pictures
OF these people haven't you
A. No.
@. No pictures7
A. No.
@. Well just answer the ques-
tons: have you been shown
pictures by the police Of these
different men?
A. No.
@. Not at all?
A. Yes l have been shown,
Mr.. Royce and the other law
yers also pointed out in their brief
that all six Of the accused produc-
ed iron-clad alibis which proved
they were working or otherwise
occupied far from the scene Of the
crime at the time IL was committed.
White employers testified to SUBJ
stantiate alibis; work sheets and
! payrolls were produced.
/ Those under death sentence ara
See TRENTON 6-page four
|
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will have a short stay at the
Crow hospital during the abb
sence of our medical officer,
DR.. G. S. Mclaughlin.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clark Stanton
and two daughters, Linda and
! Debby, were Billings visitors on
Saturday. They made the trip
with Mr.. Stanton'S parents, Mr..
and Mrs. James Stanton of
Hardin.
Miss Rae Mills of Billings was
a weekend guest of Mrs. Lor-
riane Johnson at Crow.
For that glow of health
Big Horn Dairy products, now
available at your grOcerS.-ADV.
The Crow Agency bridge club
had their regular party at the
John L. Glenn home on Friday
evening with Mrs. Glenn, Mrs.
Theodore Jamerson and Mrs.
Jane Lamey as the hostesseS.
There were seven tables in
play with high scores being
awarded to Mrs. Oliver CaSwell
and L. G. Lippert; low to MI.
and Mrs. Frank a. Nelson and
travel to Gordon Powers.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vernon Pereau
of the Fort Peck agency at
Poplar, Mont, spent the last
weekend with Mrs. Marie v.
Smart at Crow Agency. Mrs.
Pereau and Mrs. Smart are
sisters. Their parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. John BarSe returned to
Fort Peck for a visit there be-
fore returning to their home at
SiSseton, S. D.
Pat Murphy of Sheridan was
an official visitor at the Grow
Agency on Monday.
Barbara Lee James and Jim
ME James of Hardin spent last
weekend with Mrs. Lorraine
Johnson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gordon I. Pow
ers and children spent last
weekend In Sheridan and Buff
falo, Wyo., visiting relatives.
On February IL Jimmie Cas-
well appeared on the western
Piano Studios program over
KMBY at Billings, playing two
numbers ,one being his own
composition 1.-THE Sun Dance
and on February 26 his sister,
Karen CasWell, played two
numbers, over the same pro-
gram. They are the children of
Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver CaSWeIl of
the Crow Agency.
The Mobile X-ray unit of the
Montana Tuberculosis associa-
ton has been in Crow Agency
for the past week and will be
here until next Thursday,
March 10, to take chest x-rays.
Forrest Owens of the state
health department is in charge
of the unit and is being assist
ed by the ladies of Crow Ag-
ency.
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Liquor Report
Is Submitted

The special committee invest
igating the state liquor mon
opoly submitted its report to
the house of representatives
Feb. 81. The 24-page report was
signed by Reps. McKenna, D.
Fergus, chairman; Tierney, d
Silver Bow, subchairman; Cor
coran, D-Golden Valley; and
Michaels, D-Sheridan. Rep.
Standish, R-Teton, fifth mem
Der of the special committee,
did not sign teh report.
The committee found that
the states liquor income in 1948
was SIS, 455, 561, but auditors
employed by the committee es-
innate that the state lost IAN
amount in excess of $1,000, 900"
Through the purchase of dirty
and unsaleable liquor, princi-
pally tequilla, Mexican run and
more or less undrinkable rot
gut Whiskey."
Among the fifteen recon-
mendations made by the spec
ial committee is one suggesting
that the attorney general bring
action on the bonds of officers
and individuals who may be re-
Sponsible for loses to the state
Through acknowledgement or
neglect"
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Increase Noted
lii Livestock

There were 1,995,0O0 cattle
and calves on Montana ranches
Jan. 1, 1949, an increase of
148, 900 head over 1913, the fed
eral agricultural economics bu-
reau has announced. The total
included 10000 beef cows,
$4,000 beef calves, $4,000
steers, $4,000 milk cows, and
Al, 600 bulls. Total value of cat
tie and calves was placed at
$281,295,0 900.
Montana ranchers had 1925
900 stock sheep at the first Of
this year about the same num-
Der as one year earlier.
A total of 100000 hogs Jan. ]
showed a nincrease of 10 per
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AHardin Trbune-Herald. Thursday. March 8. ls4s
One Arm Bundit
Measure Passed

The legislature last week had
deity by-paSsed the red hot
slot machine question by okay-
ing a measure that would let
the people vote Eyes" or mo-
on the legality of one arm
bandits. The bill would put the
measure up to the people at the
November election in 1850. The
bill needed one more voting
success in the house before it
would be ready for Gov. John
w. Bonner.
If MontananS should vote
against slot machines, they
would be illegal after January
1, 1851. The bill would not af-
feet the legality of slot ma
chimes between now and the
time of the election. The ma
chimes could be voted out in
any one county.
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Florida Report

Shudda Haddim. reporting from
Hialeah, writes:
ut is a good season with me so
far, as / have only to walk back
from the track about three days a
week. Last year my average was
four.
IT am not getting rich, but | am
having more fun as there is more
room to get around. A lot of racing
fans are out of circulation and are
not sending in substitutes. Once !
could sit near a mutuels window and
see somebody / knew pass. but no
more. / think it is because there
are too many horse tracks. People
don't have to come to Florida to
lose dough fast no more.
II got a room in a private home
with use Of the family Racing Form
cheap. And the eating problem is
not so tough. Some lunchrooms are
letting me look at the house tip
beet free if l spend over 80 cents.
I've never seen so many hotels as
at Miami Beach. The gulf stream
takes the chill off mortgage money
by 20 degrees. / guess"
LONGFELLOW MODERNIZED
Under a spreading chestnut tree
The village smithy stands;
The smith Is being picketed
By all the hired hands. C.T.K.
The philosophy of the new Ameri-
a way seems at times to be ex-
pressed in a wearisome. Whatever
you are doing it is firing me out"
Now that he is being allowed $780,
600 a year for expense money the
President can afford an Idaho baked
potato with the steak.
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FESTIVAL

Fourteen bands have already
accepted invitations to the
Havre music festival May IA
and six or eight more are ex-
pected to enter, according to
Earl Bronson, a festival offic-
ial. High schools bands will in
clude those from Big Sandy,
Chester, Chinook, Conrad, Dod-
son, Harlem, Havre, Hinsdale,
Malta, Rudyard, Saco, Shelby
and SunburSt.
During the war, Navy person
mel consumed one pound of
meat per day, twice as much as
they were accustomed to as
civilians.
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APPROVE CHANGE

A bill to reorganize the state
health board has been approved
by the senate by a 40-to-11
vote. 1T would substitute a
board of three physicians, a
dentist and three lay persons
for the present board. Other
health board powers also would
be changed in the act.
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cent over last year.
There were 1885, 900 chickens.
about the same as last year.
The turkey total increased 5000
to $4,000 birds.
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A new six-pound quart press
ure cooker automatically retains
"a maximum of Is pounds cook
ing pressure.
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Omen Of Better Days!

Unen OF Better Days!
The five-cent cigar is reported
back. II is creeping into the cigar
cases of America again, and few
things have made the country feel
better. The nickel stogie stands as
an emblem of a smoother-going life,
uncomplicated by almost every
known type of worry. It marks an
era when men trusted one another.
hated nobody to speak of, and never
tossed all night, harassed by
thoughts of taxes. assessments, new
bites. etc.
The five-cent cheroot marked an
age when you could know nothing
about economics and still not be
considered a hillbilly a time
when Index" was generally thought
to be a mountain goat and when a.
spiral was widely accepted as
some type of tropical fish.
49, E 49, 49,
When the five-cent straight
smoke reigned supreme the only
tax a man ever had to pay was
a S2-a-year poll tax, unless he
owned property. Anybody who
talked of income taxes was
laughed off as a radical, a nut
or both. The word question
naire" hadn't come into our lam
guage, tax forms wer for land
lords only. America vas safe
from invasion, Mart Badger was
selling shoes for So a pair, you
could get a tailor-made suit for
$50 lsilk Iined) and you could
take the family to dinner for
what it now costs to get q
shrimp cocktail.
You can't think of the nickel sto-
gle without recalling the days when
only the village bum sneered at
thrift, when hard work wasn't jeered
at and when a fellow wasn't scut-
Ting the labor movement if he went
back to the office and did some
nightwork. j
It was a time when a fellow could
meet his grocery bill without out
side financing, argue for horse
sense in government. hold out any,
where for honest bookkeeping, adj
vocate operation of government on
a business basis and even denounce
trick budget-balancing without fear
of reprisals. y
In the day of the nickel cigars
. spendthrift got no applause
except in a saloon. Everybody
thought economy was q good
idea. A man always had some
idea where he stood financially
at any hour. Only gypsies lived
In tents If a man had the
wisdom and frugality to saw
up enough money to provide for
his family after he kicked the
bucket, he could determine with
out consulting q staff Of legal
experts whether they would get
more than 81 of his estate.
AL life was sweeter when most OF
the cigars in the showcases were
five-centers and a Decent one was
regarded as something Of an extra
vagance. People let their major
worries center on the common cold,
the weather for Sundays picnic.
dandruff, slippery sidewalks and
how many quarts Of soup could be
made from a l0-cent soup-bunch.
-
We toss a lid into the air at the
five-cent smokes sreturn. And we
feel better now about China, the
Russian war danger. President Tru-
mans policies. the crisis in South
Africa and the world mess general
ly. Gotta match. bud?
- -,--E@--=E- $50 -#- - Il *
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The five-cent cheroot marked an
age when you could know nothing
about economics and still not be
considered a hillbilly . a time
when Index" was generally thought
to be a mountain goat and when a
spiral was widely accepted as
some type of tropical fish.
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You can't think of the nickel sto-
gle without recalling the days when
only the village bum sneered at
thrift. when hard work wasn't jeered
at and when a fellow wasn't scut-
Ting the labor movement if he went
back to the office and did some
nightwork.