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The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1950-02-13
By Alice A. Dunnigan

by Alice "A.
WASHINGTON (ANP)- The
provincial COP elephant rode
high, wide and handsome last
Monday night when $1,000 Re-
publicans came together at Uline
arena for an old fashioned box
supper in commemoration of the
birthday of Abraham Lincoln. .
Many Of the 10000 guests who
crowded into the arena, sat flat
on the floor, ate fried chicken
with their fingers, and joined in
the singing Of "Hail, Hail, the
Gangs All Here, while the other
5000 milled around in the lobby
and outside ofthe building unable
to get a peek inside.
AS far as could be observed, a
very few Negroes were among the
grand old party celebrants, who
have for year boosted of the fact
that their party gave the Negro
his freedom. Scarcely more than
one percent of this vast crowd
was made up members of the Ne
gro race.
Mrs. Thalia Thomas, assistant
secretary ofthe national chairman
of the Republican party, was
among the 20 speakers whose
voices were heard by some 20
million people over the National
Broadcasting company.
Among the celebrated platform
guests, including a number of
congressman and senators and
other program participants, were
Edgar G.. Brown and Perry How
ard, prominent Negro Republi-
cans.
Putting their chips down, the
Republicans let it be known that
they, too, are in the "dial" = not
the Roosevelt "new-deal" nor the
Truman "fair deal" but according
to Cong. James E. Van Zandt,
"The Republican party want no
part of this kind of political shell
game. We want a square deal'."
The Republican speakers took a
crack at the administrations tax
program, at deficit spending, at
the Brannan Farm plan, and at
socialized medicine, but no men
ton was made during the entire
evenign about civil rights for min
critics in this country.
Mrs. Thomas, the only Negro
speaker, express pleasure at hav-
ing the opportunity "to honor the
man who did so much for my
people = the great Abraham Lin
coin.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1950-02-13

form government paternalism $50
away from government handouts
away from government by de-
ception, that promises something
for nothing. The most basic Of all
freedoms, she said is "the free
dom to be let alone"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-01-14
President J. H.
White Discusses
Bldg. Program
And Operation
Of New College

ITTA BENA, Jan. 6-(SpeciaD
DR.. J. H. White newly elected
president of the Mississippi Voca-
tional College at Itta Bena, met
Wednesday with other educational
leaders to discuss the future build
ing and operational program of
the colored school.
The meeting was held in the Of
flee Of the Leflore county superin-
tendent of education, l.. S. Rog-
gers, with DIR. H. M. Ivy, chairman
Of the subcommittee of the Board
of Trustees of Institutions of
Higher learning, DR.. E.. R. Jobe
secretary; DR.. Fred McCusition
general board of education of New
York; DIR. P. H. Rawson, State De-
partment of Education in attend
ance.
This school was established by
an act of the 1916 legislature and
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Negro Farm Family All But
Wiped Out By Guns 0fConvicts
Seeking Revenge After Charge Of Attempted Rape Of Is
Year-0Id Daughter
POSSE OF 100 WHITE MEN FORMED FOLLOWING OUTRAGE
J MEN FORMED FOLLOWING OUTRAGE

KOSCIUSKO, Miss, Jan. 10
(SpeciaD-A Negro farm family
was all but wiped out by trio of
White escaped convicts at their
plantation home near here early
Monday morning. Three children
of the family was killed by shotgun
and pistol fire as they lay in bed.
A 15-year-old daug liter was
wounded, while the father of the
children was so seriously wounded
until he is not expected to live. The
mother of the family escaped death
or possible serious wounds as she
fled from the house in her night
clothes with a baby only few
weeks old in her arms. The crime
has been described as the most
henious and brutal in the history
of this section of the state.
The dead children are Nell Har-
ris, A; Mary Harris, z; and Mann
Harris, 10; the wounded are Ber-
lima Harris, Is, and the children's
father Thomas Harris. At a late
hour Tuesday the father was still
alive although his condition was re-
ported as serious.
According to reports here the
convict trio was attempting te
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March OF Dimes
Drive Head Named

Prof. NJ. J. Lyells, of Lanier
High School, for a long time ac-
lively identified in the civic and
community activities of the city
will be the Chairman Of the 1850
March of Dimes Drive, January
1851, the annual Embarrassing
campaign of the National Foun-
dation for Infantile Paralysis, it
was announced last week.
Other officers and workers OF
the division, as we'll as its quota,
were on the agenda of a meeting
called by Chairman Lyells, to be
held Tuesday afternoon at Lanier
High School.
Meanwhile, the Chairman, in a
statement to the JACKSON AID
VOCATE, said that the resurgence
of Infantile Paralysis throughout
the nation during the past year,
had been the cause of grave con-
Germ among all citizens, and the
effort to meet its new attack had
exhausted all funds available any
! where, and that all citizens should
give more than ever before to the
March of Dimes Drive for this
year.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-01-14
CONGRESS TO GET ARK. CIVIL RIGHTS PLAN
Jefferson College
Affairs Closed Says
Defense Secretary
Praise Officials For
Refusing Bias Offer

Washington, d. c., Jan. 9-{Spe-
cial) - Defense Secretary Louis
Johnson has informed Rep. Arthur
G. Rlein, New York Democrat, that
the announcement of jefferson
Military College, Near Natchez,
Mississippi; that it would not teach
racial superiority in order to obtain
a gift of $50,000,0O0 brought the
matter to a satisfactory close.
Mr.. Klein had sent President
Truman a telegram, urging him
"as Commander in Chief (to) take
the only act which appears to be
open under existing law to express
the deep disapprobation of all true
Americans by ordering the removal
of jefferson College from the list
of recognized accredited school for
the Naval and Military Academies.
The President asked Mr.. John
son to reply to Mr.. Kiein's tele-
grams. In making public Mr.. John
sons reply last Friday, Mr.. Klein
commented that Seldom have the
basic principles of minority status
in a government based on demo-
cratic processes been more clearly
stated"
With the announcement of JEFF
ferson Military College that "su-
periority of one race over another
has never been taught in Jeffer-
son College," and "No such study
is anticipated" and the withdraw
al of the $50,000,O00 offer Mr..
Johnson wrote Mr.. Klein that he
thought it was reasonable to as
sumo that the matter has come to
a satisfactory closing not only the
credit of jefferson College bat also
to the cause of education in free
society"
Continuing, the Defense Secre-
tary said:
"For your promptness in de-
nounclng blgotry when 1t arises, l
wish to offer my congratulations,
as we'll as to all like-minded citi-
zens who pay the price of liberty
by their eternal vigilance.
Racial and religious prejudices
are inimical to freedom and demo-
cracy, just as the proponents of
the extreme fight and left who
foment intolerance are saboteurs of
our way of life, making democracy
work is a basis ingredient of the
national security, and therefore, of
world peace and freedom 1t is the
number one job of all Americans,
as we'll as all citizens of the demo
cratic countries in the world.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-01-14
U, S. PROPOSES REVISION
OF HUMAN RIGHTS DRAFT

and the fear we have of them,
makes it difficult to get ratifica-
ton of the Covenant.
"But in spite of the cold war,
we will get maximum value from
Cur Covenant after we do develop
greater confidence and less fear
Of one another.
The Human Rights Commission
is meeting again next March, when
it hopes to complete the drafting
of the main Human Rights Treaty
and refer it to the full economic
and social council for final action
Ly the 1850 assembly.
Adoption of the u. S. suggestion
on free speech and a free press
would shelve the separate Cove
nant on freedom of information
drafted by Human Rights Com
mission after two years of laborous
work. In the letter, the U. s. also
proposes pigeon-holing of all the
so-called economic and social rights
at present included in the Decla.
ration of Human Rights.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-01-14
Building Plans
Approved For
Negro Auditorium

City Building Permit Director
J. H. Martin announced last Thurs
day that building plans have been
approved for the erection OF a
Negro Municipal Auditorium to be
located on West Lynch street.
The city council is expected to
set a date for the advertising OF
bids for the work, with contracts
to be let probably some time IN
February if bids are acceptable.
Plans approved include the gen.
eral plan, the wiring plan and the
plan for plumbing, heating and
ventilating.
Official approval was given fol-
lowing meeting at city hall IN
which Burt Lomax, Jr., consult
ing engineer, went over the plans
with Josh Halbert, city engineer;
George Hurts, head of the city
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AUGUSTA, Ca, Jan. 8 - DR..
Mary Mcleod Bethune, renowned
educator and Observation-Disclosures
of Bethune- Goodman College at
Dsytona Beach, Fla, told an as
sembled crowd of more than 1000
spectators here that one sure way
to obtain economic and political
freedom is through the use of the
ballot.
In her usual forceful and effec-
tive manner she stated that those
who don't have the use of the bal
lot should get it, and those who al
ready have it should use it."
Assembled at the Charles T.
Walker school here, those attend
ing the Emancipation Service
represented every phase of Angus
ia Social, Civic and Community
life who after joining in the Eman-
cipation Celebration, came to. pay
honors to one of Americas most
eminent leaders and educators.
With interest strongly focused
on DR.. Bethune, the real meaning
of the Emancipation Celebration
seemed to lose all significance as
the crowd settled down to listen
to one of the most forceful and dy-
manic speeches in the towns his
tory.
The occasion was the S7th ami
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New York, n. Y, January g.
(SpeciaD = Fifty thousand living
alumni of the member colleges of
the United Negro College Fund
will be represented by the national
heads of their Alumni Associations
at two-day Conference to be held
in New York City January 18th
and 14th, it was announced today
by Thomas G. Weaver, president of
the New York Inter-Alumni Coun-
Gil, host to the Conference dele
gates. Mr.. Weaver, New York
city Attorney, is a graduate of
Talladega College, Fund member
institution, and Brooklyn Law
School.
The meeting will be the Fourth
Annual Conference of the National
Federation of General Alumni As.
sociations of the colleges and uni.
versities participating in the Fund
and will be presided over by James
E. Stamps, Field Office Manager
of the Social Security Board, Chi.
cago area, who is president of thu
National Federation.
One of the highlights of the Con
ference will be reception to homo,
the presidents of the 90 college
of the Fund, presidents of the ma
tional Alumni Associations an,
Inter-Alumni Councils, and Alumni
Secretaries, to be held in the Sky
line Room of the Hotel Theresa
Friday, January 18th, from 6 to
P. NJ. William P. Inman, presiden
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-01-14
BARRIERS AGAINST NEGROES
FALL ON MANY FRONTS AROUND
NATION DURING PAST YEAR
Jim Crow, Bias Suffer Some Knockout
Blows In Dignity Struggle
BY LERONE BENNETT. JR. And
ROBERT E. JOHNSON

ATLANTA, Ga, Jan. 6.-(Spe-
ciaD-Bold, black headlines spelled
out a momentous story of prog
ress for Negroes during 1949.
Despite entrenched opposition
by professional bigots human
rights were on the march and mi
noritis moved forward, making
new strides and recording new
and significant gains.
In 1949, the Negro was not
alone in this titantic struggle.
More than ever before private
groups, church organizations and
agencies of the state and national
government were in the vanguard
of the struggle for human decency
and dignity.
On the political front, there
was progress. The NAACP re-
ported that a million Negroes
were registered to vote in the
South Negroes in Atlanta
adroitly used their votes to elect
liberal and fair-minded represent
atives. President Truman re-
peated his strong stand on civil
rights and named William HASTE
to a high judgeship; thereby in
dicating that the Negro vote is
in demand. William Dawson
became the first Negro in Con-
gress to head committee and
was appointed vice chairman of
the Democratic party.
SEGREGATION went with the
wind in the Air Force and Navy.
but the Army doggedly refused to
bulge. Several national organ
izations and the U. S. Justice de-
partment asked the Supreme Court
to rule that segregation is dis
elimination. Arkansas, Okla
homa, Texas, and Kentucky adj
mitted a few QUALIFIED" Negroes
to their graduate schools
Equal salary and facilities suits
sprang up over the South like
wildfire.
Ralph Bunche was a brilliant
beam of light on the international
scene. Although honors were
showered on him from every cor
ner, he lost no opportunity to lasl
cut against the injustices and in
capabilities of his native America
Also highly honored was jackie
Robinson who scared to the toy
Of the baseball field. Jackie, too
spoke out against Jim Crow anC
intolerance.
On other fronts, Negroe:
were thoroughly integrated int
the social life of the Inauguration
of President Truman. Joe Loui:
retired" as heavyweight champion
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LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y. = The
United States proposed Tuesday
that the incomplete Draft Treaty
of Human Rights be revised to in
clude guarantee against govern
ment interference in free speech or
freedom of the press.
In a letter to UN Secretary
Tryegve Lie accompanied by docu-
mented suggestions for simplifying
controversial points of the Human
Rights covenant, Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt offered also on behalf of
the U. S. Government a formula
for dealing with violations of the
proposed pact.
Mrs. Roosevelt, Chairman of the
Human Rights Commission, sub
mitted the letter in accordance
with request to all governments
by the 18-nation commission for
comment on the Draft Covenant as
it now stands.
Mrs. Roosevelt said, at news
conference: "This is very bad
period. The fear other have of us,
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-01-14
MOBILIZATION
TO PUSH
PASSAGE
OF FEPC

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 - With
President Truman repeating his
demand for enactment of civil
rights legislation in his State of
the Union Message to Congress,
supporters of this program prepar-
ed this week for an about fight
to secure passage of the FEPC bill
and other civil rights measures.
In an effort to assure enactment
of this legislation, hundreds of
delegates from all sections of the
country will converge upon this city
for a three-day conference, Janu-
airy 1917, under auspices of the
National Emergency Civil Rights
Mobilization initiated by the Ma
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People and spon-
sored by more than so national
church, labor, civic, fraternal and
minority group organizations.
CGmaxing a grass roots cam
paign in hundreds of localities
throughout the nation. the Wash
ington conference will bring to this
city representatives of the coop
Grating organizations who will but
tonhole their congressman and
senators in a drive to secure from
them commitments to work and
vote for passage of the Fair En-
ployment Practice Commission this
month. and early enactment of
anti-lynching, anti-poll tax and
other civil rights measures.
The conference program, an
nounced today by Roy wilkins,
general chairman of the Mobiliza-
ton and acting NAACP secretary
includes addresses by Senator
Scott w. Lucas of Illinois, MAORI
ty leader, and other congressional
leaders as we'll as by some of the
heads of the sponsoring. groups.
Delegates arriving Sunday, jan
uary Is, will register at the Twelf-
tn Street YMCA, 1915 Twelfth
Street N. w. All delegates will be
met at the Union Station with in.
formation as to where to register
each day. While delegates are urg.
ed to make housing arrangement;
before arriving, if possible, Mobili
cation officials will undertake t.
find rooms for limited number o.
delegates who will be assigned t.
them upon registration.
Sunday afternoon will be devot
ed to a meeting of delegates at thu
Twelfth Street YMCA. Following
a keynote address by Mr.. Wilkins
delegates will be briefed by well
known labor and liberal lobbyists
on the civil rights program and il
Continued on Page Seven)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-01-14
Greenwood
School Gets
$4,000 Annex

GREENWOOD, Jan. 6 - T h e
Mississippi State Building Com
mission has approved the use of
$4,000 in state funds in the pro-
posed construction of the McLaurin
street colored elementary school
annex, E. S. Bowlus, Greenwood,
school superintendent stated We'd
nesday.
These funds are part Of $4,000
allocated to Leflore county for
classroom construction during the
last biennium Of the state legisla-
ture. Bids for construction of this
addition to the colored school will
be opened at school board meet
ing this week. Bids will be receiv-
ed at the same time for an addi-
ton to the East Greenwood ele-
mentary school.
L. S. Rogers, county school sup
erintendent, said that Of the re-
Continued on Page Seven)
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Arkansas Rep Fears Consequences
Of Mandatory FEPc Legislation
Comedies Rights To Jobs, Ballot.
Schools, Protection Of Life And
Liberty Must Be Greatly Extended
Will Insist On Extending The
Franchise To The Negro In The South

w ASHlNGION, IL. u, Jan. g.
(SpeciaD - Rep. Brooks Hays,
Democrat of Arkansas, announced
last Thursday the Arkansas Plan"
on Civil Rights, would be present
ed to congress at this session. The
administrations determination to
bring up very early in the new
session the FEPC bill threatens to
interrupt interracial progress in
the south, he said.
Mr.. Hays is neither Dixiecrat
nor a race-baiter. When he first
ran for Congress in 1941 his op-
ponent charged he was to friendly
to colored people. Mr.. Hays, how
ever carried six out of eight coun-
tries comprising the first district
of Arkansas, in which Little Rock
is located.
A lawyer by profession, he has
a social work background. He has
served as president of the Arkan-
sas Conference of Social Work and
was one of the organizers of the
Little Rock Urban League.
The author of what he calls the
Arkansas Plan for Civil Rights
Legislation" Mr. Hays differs with
President Truman chiefly over the
method of strengthening and pro-
tecting civil rights. His chief OPP
position is to the factor of COM
pulsion in Mr.. Truman's program.
The Arkansas Plan calls for no
on the subject of racial
segregation, outlawing of the poll
tax by constitutional amendment,
an anti-lynching law limiting Fed
eral jurisdiction to those cases
where the State fails TO function,
and a counseling service to work
for n-discrinination in industry.
Mr.. Hays conceded that equal
rights to jobs, ballot, schools and
protection of life and liberty must
be greatly extended, hut he ex-
pressed "regret to learn that the
Administration has scheduled the
FEPC bill for immediate consid-
GRAFTON by the Congress and has
determined upon an about fight
for it.
"The inclusion of coereive and
punitive provisions advocated by
the Administration would. If car
ried out, impair and even destroy
in some industries the basic free
doms of both management and la
Dor unions" he said, adding: E
Further it would be a great
disservice to racial and religious
minorities whose grievances and
aspirations l concede are very real.
This issue is fundamental and 1t
must not be evaded either for poll
teal reasons or through q desire
to avoid offense to those pressing
for this legislation.
For many months ! have adj
vocated the adoption of a nom
cocercieve FEPC and other civil
rights measures. There is a limited
field for Federal functions in the
strengthening of minority rights.
"At the same time, it should be
apparent that substantial progress
Continued on Page Five)
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Police Committee
Asks For Additional
Negro PatrOlmen

ATLANTA, Ca, Jan. 5-(Spe-
cial)-The NAACP Committee for
Negro Policemen, headed by Chair
man c. A. Scott, last night called
for additional police on the Negro
patrol division to increase the
complement to % law enforcement
officers.
Request for additional police
men was voiced at a committee
meeting in the Butler Street YIN.
CA. The body noted that the
present strength of the Negro Pa
troll division is embodied in an
eight-man complement.
Meanwhile, the committee, meet
ing with the eight patrolnen and
1t. E. B. Brooks, commander Of
the Negro division, commended
two of the officers for their good
judgment during an alteration
with a cab driver last week.
The Committee said Officers
Ernest H. Lyons and Claud Dixen
exercised "cool-headedness in the
shooting and showed considera-
ton for the lives of the passengers
in their decision not to fire at
the cab operators car" (Officer
Dixon was wounded in the arm
by the driver who opened fire
upon them.)
The committee, however deplored
the low bond $4,000 given the de-
PENDANT, James Lawson. when he
was bound over to the Fulton
county criminal court.
In other action Committeeman
w. r. Cochrane, Rev. M. L. King,
j. w. Dobbs and Rev. w. H. Bor-
ders, unanimously:
/. Reaffirmed their pledge to
cooperate with the Police Depart
ment in fighting to make Atlanta
better place in which to live.
2. Restated their request for q
fire station on the heavily, popu-
lated west side where Negro res
licences, businesses and homes are
located.
3. Reiterated that their stand
for Increased Negro patrolmer
had already been endorsed by the
Mayor and other city officials
during the recent primary cam.
paign and election of city gov.
| erning body
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$4,000 Alumni To Be Represented At
United Negro College Fund Conference

of the Hampton Club of New York,
is chairman of the Reception Com
mittee.
A five-point program of the Ma
tional Alumni Federation includes
stimulation of year-round alumni
interest in the United Negro Col
lege Fund and its 80 member insti-
buttons; a public information pro-
gram concerning the contribution
of the Alumni to Civic progress;
to encourage young men and
women to seek opportunities for
higher education; the stimulation
of increased alumni campaign ac-
tivities for the Fund, and the es-
tablishment of a continuing COM
mittee, to serve on permanent
basis and assist the Fund in plan
ming and executing the program OF
increased opportunity for higher
education.
Included in the two-day meeting
program are panel discussions OF
the Conference 1850 theme Of
building permanent interes
among Alumni in the cause O.
Education; a general session a
which David McCord, Executiv,
Secretary of the Harvard Funt
Council, will be the principa
speaker, scheduled for the mornin,
of January IA, at the YWCA, II!
West 18th Street; a report OF
Alumni participating in Fund
campaign, and the election of Ma
| Continued on Page Seven)
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