The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-23
S5,784,321 Fund
Voted For Fight
On Discrimination

Cincinnati (LPA)-A budget OF
$5,784,321 for 1861 has been voted
/ by the Joint Defense Appeal to
fight bigotry and discrimination
The funds will go to the American
Jewish Committee and the Anti
Defamation League of B'nai Birth
The Council said "the existence OF
prejudice today is a threat, not
alone to minority groups but to
the very foundation of our demo
cratic order"
I'm Conway, sc, Sheriff C. E.
Sasser warned the Ku Klux Klan
that the FBI and postal authorities
had traced to the Klan threatening
letters received by law officers,
and that arrests would follow.
(Leaders of % unions have ap-
pealed to the federal government
to halt xxx violence in South
Cardinals tobacco country. They
acted after Klansmen whipped g
bed-ridden farmer because he
"drank too much," and forced two
of his young sons to run from the
house in their underclothes. Two
days later the Klan staged huge
cross-burning ceremony in the
same area. Last August a Conway
policeman, wearing a Klan robe
over his uniform, was shot and
killed while Klansmen were firing
into Negro night club.
(In Opelika, Ala, an ex-police-
man who was acquitted in a state
court of beating a Negro to death
with a truncheon, was convicted in
a federal court on a civil rights
charge and given 10 months. A
former ow-officer, also acquitt
ed in state court, got six months.
I'm Washington, the Interstate
Commerce Commission ruled that
the Southern Railway Co. had vio-
lated the ICC act by segregation in
dining cars. The case was that of
Elmer Henderson, a Negro, who
has battled for six years, lost be-
fore the ICC previously, then went
to the US Supreme Court which
ruled the ICC in error and ordered
it to reopen the case. Previously
the ICC had permitted the South
ern Railway to partition off sec
tion of its diners for Negroes.
(In Atlanta, Roy Harris, spokes-
man for Gov. Herman Talmadge,
said that if segregation bars in
Georgia schools are ended, all Ne
groes will be chased out so that
"there will be no Negroes in thesel
particular communities to attend
the public schools. The Southern
Conference Educational Fund esti-I
mated that 200 Negroes are nowI
enrolled in II previously all-whiteI
Southern colleges, mostly at thel
graduate level, and that although
the politicians howl, students seemI
to be calm about ii.
(In Columbia, sc, Father Anth-
ony J. McCabe, who used to be in
suited by whites for his help to
reported he has won over
the whites. He was a wartime chap-l
lain.
(In New York the National Asso-
,iation Of Colored Graduate Nurses,
formed in 1908, announced it would
in January because it's
has been all but accom-
)lished.
Gn Indiana liberal groups ann
,unced they would seek more strin-
gent penalties for racial discrim-
nation and enactment of state
Fair Employment Practices Law at
he 1851 legislative session. TheyI
allied the states present FEPI
commission mere fact-finding |
'oard since there is no provisionl
or enforcement. |,
(In Connecticut the State Inter-
facial Commission urged legisla-l {
ion broadening its powers to en- s
orce anti-discrimination laws. It'll
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