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Evening star., 1952-06-11
Alexandra Council
Abandons Plan for
Negro Subdivision

Alexandria is abandoning plans
for a large new Negro subdivision
in the vicinity of Quaker lane and
King street.
The City Council. by a 5-1 vote
last night, told the Alexandria Re-
development and Housing Author
ity to drop the project.
The site is opposite the Virginia
Theological Seminary and is next
to the Chapel Hill subdivision of
expensive white homes.
Both coiored and white residents
objected to the plan as soon as it
was announced.
Slum Redevelopment Plan.
1t was one of two slum redevel-
opment plans that the housing
authority recommended and the
Council approved two months ago,
after a professional survey. The
housing agency just two weeks age
received word that the Federal
Housing and Home Finance Agen-
Icy had approved $65,O00 appro-
|priation for Alexandria to COM
|plete final planning of the two
projects.
The project being dropped is the
one that the housing authority
considered most urgent. The 80.
acre site now has 80 colored dwell
ings, most of them rated SUBJ
standard.
Plans called for city acquisition
Of all the property and redevelop-
ment into a community of about
$50 modern Negro homes for pri-
vate ownership.
The resolution to drop the pro-
ject was offered by Councilman
James M. Duncan, jr., and Sec
onded by Marshall J. Beverley.
Health Conditions Cited.
The only dissenting vote was
cast by Councilman Albert A.
Smoot, chairman of the Councils
Housing Committee. He said moth
ing had come up to change his
mind since the housing commit
tee gave the plan its approval. He
said there were serious health
conditions in the area that had
to be corrected one way or
another. He said he considered
the area one of the city's most
difficult problems and felt that
public assistance of the type avail
able from the Housing and Home
Finance Agency was a boon to
the city.
The Councils action does not af-
feet plans for commercial develop
ment of an area in the dowtown
business section which was ap-
proved simultaneously with the
Quaker lane plan.
r. s. Marshall, executive direc-
tor OF the housing authority. said
he expected that agency now
would select another area for re-
development in place of the
Quaker lane project. The profess
Sional surveyors recommended II
areas in the city for eventual re-
development.
Evening star., 1952-06-11
|Write-in Candidate Wins
In Surprise at Clifton

A write-in candidate pulled an
upset in biennial elections in Cliff
ton, Va. yesterday.
Mrs. Virginia Sweeney, an EN-.
ploye Of the Bureau Of Standards
In Washington and present clerk
OF the Clifton Town Council, re.
ceived 26 write-in votes to gain
one Of the four council seats.
She ousted Councilman Elmer T
Ayre, who received only 81 votes
Originally, it had been reported
that all incumbents were unop.
posed. The selection of Mrs
Sweeney came as a complete
surprise.
Other winners we're Mayor w
Sven Elgin, with 80 votes, ane
Ruel Fugett, 80; w. Edward Det.
wiler. 80, and Mrs. Delsie H. Buck.
ley. IS. all incumbent council
members.
Evening star., 1952-06-11
Telephone Cable SpIicer
Breaks Arm in Fall

A cable splicer. who fell Is feet
from a telephone pole. was nurs-
ing broken arm in Emergency
Hospital today.
He is Lester D. CLAIR, SO, Of 5207
w street. Bradbury Heights, Md
Police said he toppled from a pole
in the 1900 block Of Lowell
street NV.
Evening star., 1952-06-11
Virginia Voters
Officials
For Local Posts
6. o. P. Gains First
Roanoke Council
Seat in 30 Years
By the Assoeiofed Press

Roanoke voters put a Republi-
can on the City Council for the
first time in 80 years yesterday
as Virginians went to the polls
all over the State to choose town
and city officials.
Republican John B. Waldrop
defeated Democrat Paul S. john
son, brother of former Defense
Secretary Louis johnson, by 48O
votes in the Roanoke election
Democrat Robert w. Woody ran
first in the race for the two seats
at stake.
Other highlights of the State
wide elections saw a Fredericks-
burg housewife, Mrs. GLADYS
Cooke, lead all male candidates
in the field for six council seats
and the Richmond Citizens Asso.
Citation slate drop two Of its pres.
ent eight seats on the Richmond
Council.
In a different sort of municipal
ELECTION, Warwick County citizens
approved conversion of the locality
to a first-class city. Known as
Warwick, it will have a popula-
ton OF about $1,000, eighth largest
IN the State, and an area of 61
square miles. tops for the Old
Dominion.
The Richmond turnout of some
5000 was one Of the city's heay-
lest for councilmanic elections
with % aspirants to nine council
posts. F. Henry CARRIER, backed
by the citizens group, led the
slate with 17,549 votes.
Norfolk voters elected a city
organization-backed four-m a r
councilmanic ticket, with Thomas
Nv. Young, Negro newspaper pub.
Usher, finishing fifth and last
BY narrow margin, 6,471 to g..
BAT. Norfolk approved daylight
saving time in a special election
The election retunrns included
Richmond-Coun c linn en-: F
Henry CARRIER, w. Stirling King
DR.. E. E. Haddock, Thomas P
Bryan, Richard Florance, Ran.
dolph Church, Phil j. Bagley, Har.
old H. Dervishian and Robert
Throckmorton. (All but last thre,
back by Richmond Citizens Asso.
ciation.)
Roaoke - Councilmen: Robert
W. Moody. 5.205:, John B. Wal.
drop, 1889.
Norfolk - Councilmen: Georg,
R. Abbott, 9.469; Ezra T. Sum.
mers. John M. Williams and Rob.
ert F. Ripley.
Lynchburg - Councilmen: Dear
Fred Helsabeck of Lynchburg Col.
lege, 1,089; Abe Cohen, 1,043; J
Heath Lewis, 994.
Staunton-Mayor: William A
Grubert. Councilmen: Roy r
Smith and Malcolm j. Reid. A
record ballot of 2,479 votes were
cast. Thirteen candidates were ir
the race.
Evening star., 1952-06-11
Visiting Hours Changed
At Arlington Hospital

Visiting hours at Arlington
Hospital will be changed on Sun.
day, administrator John j. Ander.
son announced today.
The present evening VISITING
hour, from Z to 8 pm, will bt
retained. The 2 to 4 pm. perioc
will be changed to 2:30 to 3:3t
pm.
Evening star., 1952-06-11
Registration Hours
Given in Falls Church

Falls Church residents may
regiAbsr to vote during business
hours at City Hall this week OF
from z to 9 pm. tomorrow or s
am. to l pm. Saturday.
Deadline for registering to vote
in the June Is Democratic pri-
mary Is Saturday.
Evening star., 1952-06-11

M. Price 78, and Mrs. Bobbie
Critzer, 78.
The sixth winner was Mrs.
Helen Benton, who received 81
votes to capture the Council seat
vacated when Mrs. Elizabeth
Racer got married and moved tc
Washington, D. C.
The lone male on the ballot
d. c. Updike, received 40 votes
Washington's Mayor is the wife
of George H. Davis. jr., an at
torney with the Justice Depart.
ment in Washington, D. c. She
is the mother of three children
Evening star., 1952-06-11
Whitehead Confirmed

The Senate yesterday approved
the nomination Of A. Carter
Whitehead to be United States
attorney for the Eastern District
Of Virginia. succeeding George r.
| lHumrickhouse. resigned.
Evening star., 1952-06-11

Mayor.
Mr.. Moore de-
feated M a 70 +
Jack j. Nichols,
Vienna's Mayor
for the last
four years, in
the most spir-
tied of the
t h re e to W n
e l e C tions in
Fairfax County
yesterday. The
vote was 152 to
1913.
In the town
Evening star., 1952-06-11
Moore Defeats NichoI,
In Spirited Mayora|ty
Race al Vienna

Residents of Vienna, Va, have
named Louis N. Moore, budget
officer for the National Capital
Housing Authority, as its new
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1952-01-25
81. Poui NAACP
Moy Hear DR..
Forrest Virgins

DR.. Forrest o. Virgins, dis
missed ~" teacher, has been
asked to be the guest speaker at
a special meeting of the st. Paul
branch NAACP to be held Monday
evening at s p. m. at st. Philips
church, Aurora and Mackubin.
At the regular meeting of the
branch, Tuesday, Jan. Is, the act
ing chairman, George Wills, ruled
a motion calling for support of
Virgins out of order in the middle
of debate over the motion. And at
the same time he made a motion
to adjourn the meeting.
The special meeting has been
called so that the branch will be
able to take position one way or
another on the Virgins case.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1952-01-25

Cannon succeeds Charles ID.
Fist, who had served as board
president for nine years. Others
elected for the ensuing year in
cluded Miss Esther Sherwood.
first vice-president; Mrs. Frank
Fraser, second vice-president;
Mrs. Helen Whiteside, treasurer;
Mrs. John X. Mortland, assistant
treasurer; Mrs. Paul Curry, re-
cording secretary; Theodore
Woodland, corresponding secre-
tary.
Board members whose terms
expired who were reelected were
Mrs. Paul Curry, Fred Hadley,
Mrs. Alex Helmick, Mrs. John
Mathys. Miss Esther Sherwood
and Mrs. Helen Whiteside.
New board members elected
are Mrs. Lloyd Hale and Mrs.
Russell Duncan.
The community center is in its
9th year of service to the neigh
borhood in which it is located and
the community at large.
Many of the leading citizens of
both races have served on its
boards through the years
Mr., Cannon has had long and
distinguished career of public
service on both the local and ma
tional levels.
He is the past national presi-
dent of the Alpha Phi Alpha, a
33rd degree Mason and a National
Bar Association official. He SER
we'd in France in World War /.
After the close of that war he
finished the College Of Pharmacy
at the University of Minnesota
and he and his brother Miles
Cannon operated a drug store for
sereval years in Minneapolis.
While he worked in the drug
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1952-01-25

and such groups as the Chamber
of Commerce and various other
trade associations. Organizations
having procurement Service
Agreements with the Commerce
department are issued daily bull
letins by the Commerce Depart
ment telling what government
contracts have been awarded,
those open for bids and what ma
teriaLs and commodities the
government is seeking. And they
pass this information on to their
membership and other interested
parties.
IL IL believed that this IL the
first time that q social agency
In Minneapolis has made such
an agreement and Is the first
time that the Minneapolis
League has signed one.
Similar agreements have been
made by the Urban Leagues in
Pittsburgh and Cleveland and
have been successful in helping
employers obtain contracts and
opening new fields of employment
for Negroes.
The league says many employ
ers, particularly the smaller ones.
aren't aware or don't know how to
get the information that Is neces-
sary before they can obtain a con-
tract or bid on one.
Here In the Upper Midwest,
where businessmen claim they
aren't getting their fair share
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1952-01-25

After devoting all his life to
keeping the famous Georgia peach
pure (pure lilywhite, that isl and
after scufflin' all day long with
barefoot politicians in the Georgia
white house, a man jes naturally
expects to come home at the close
of the day and enpoy a quiet eve
ming Of television.
HE don't even ask for tcchni-
colored teevee Jes plain black and
white will do, so long as you don't
mix these two colors.)
But now, he gives a twist to
that lii OF dial, and what shows
up on the screen? Wal, by gum.
it's that OF debbil migration
Not once. mind you, but three
times.
Fust, its IA bunch of Riddles
having Christmas party.
White faces and brown faces,
smiling In childish glee around
"a Christmas tree. Now Of COu-
sin Human amt got nothing
against kids-nOr Christmas,
either, for that mattcr-but
there jes aughta be a limit 10
how fur this Christian business
goes. Sho, have a party for the
chiIlun-but have TWO parties.
Don't mix 'em up. faint fifteen.
Wal, that mightn't be too bad,
Case by the time our little south
crn younguns grow up through
segregated school system, wen
have that Indignation nonsense
drilled outten 'em.
But that amt all
Turn the lii OF dial again. And
up pops a quartet. Their music is
pure sCrumptious and Cousin
Human settles back in his wick
er chair to enjoy his mint julep.
Then he does a double-take and
the melody hits a sour note. Wal,
by Sherman, two of those Of sing
ers is Cullud
OF Human durn near Chokes
on his mint julep when he gives
another twist to his dial and there
before his unbelieving blue eyes
is a white woman entertainer,
chattin'. conversin' and jes plain
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1952-01-25

making merry with a cullud male
actor.
Wal, that does it! PO' OF
Pappy Talmadge Is turning over
In his narrow, unrecOnstructed
coffin. And iii OF Human has
jes gotta get down TO The
Statesman office and sound off
in his editorial column about the
injustice Of IL all.
He amt mad at Arthur Godfrey
for putting on The Mariners
quartet; he amt mad at Ken
Murray for staging that kiddies
party; he might even forgive
Clifton Fadiman for bringing tibet
white gal into sech close contact
with that Cullud actor. That kind
of stuff may be all right for those
uneducated Yankees. who don't
realize they're jes plain invitin'
biDOboii'd anu HUM Dtt WITCH
you put them shows on television
and beam them into the heart Of
the dear al Southland. wal. by
gum, that's too much!
II don't even make sense when
the Columbia BroadCasting sys-
TEN says II selects its perfor-
mcrs on the basis of ability and
not on color or creed. And Arthur
Godfrey is jes poor, misguided
infidel when he says that as long
as the Old Redhead is on the air,
the Mariners will be with him.
And the fact that the Mar
riners began singing together
during the last war and the fact
that the white boys and the
black boys are fighting together
in Korea tOday-well those
things just don't enter into II at
all.
The precious customs Of the OF
South have been violated And
lii Of Human CANT take IT,
We wonder IL it would be an
infringement of states rights TO
suggest to Cousin Human that
he just keep turning his television
dial until he reaches the spot
marked off" And go on back TO
his mint julep.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1952-01-25
Mrs. Roosevelt Blasts
Arizona Cemetery
For Delayed Burial

PARIS tANP)- Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt in her column. MY
Day, last week denounced the
racial policy of Greenwood Mem
orial Park cemetery which delayed
the burial of Pfc. Thomas c. Reed,
19-year-old Negro soldier killed
in the Korean war, in Phoenix,
Ariz
In the face of opposition from
three veterans organizations and
an aroused public, the cemetery
changed its policy and Pfc. Reed
was buried last week after his
body had remained in a mortuary
for six weeks. He was buried with
full military honors.
In denouncing the racial policy
of the cemetery, Mrs. Roosevelt,
writing her column from Paris
while serving as an American
delegate to the United Nations
General Assembly, said:
Il cannot overlook one piece of
news which has been in our us.
newspaper of late-namely, the
story of the long wrangle as to
whether a Negro veteran, Pfc.
Reed, can be buried in a certain
cemetery in Phoenix, Ariz.
1T is understood that his father
was willing that the effort should
be made to gain for him the right
of burial without being in a segre-
gated plot, and we can well under
stand why his father would be
willing to make this effort.
private Reed fought In KOr-
ca for all of the free world, for
its freedom and protection from
aggression. The bullet that Kill
led him might just as well have
killed a white boy, and neither
would have died only for his
own race.
Somehow it saddens one great
ly, as one works for freedom and
human rights throughout the
world, to have these rights flouted
in our own United States"
The cemetery has a rule that in
order for a Negro veteran to be
buried in its veteran plot his par
ents or relatives must obtain let
ters from the three veteran or
CARNATIONS. This Pfc. Reeds
father refused to do. White veter-
ans do not have to get letters for
burial.
However, the three veteran
groups did send letters to the
cemetery asking the cemetery to
permit burial of any veteran
without special notarized letters
of request. The groups are the
Luke-Greenway Post of the
American Legion, Post 720 of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars and
the Disabled Veterans.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1952-01-25
Minnesota Still Has
Racial Problem Says
Governors Commission

Racial problem areas, reIa-
lively untouched, still remain
in Minnesota" according to the
Governors Interracial Com
MISSIONS Annual report sub
mitted this week to Governor
G. Elmer Anderson at the State
Capitol.
The ten-page report also called
attention to the growing accep-
lance Of the Interracial Commits
sion in situations involving con-
Citation and reviewed the state
wide educational activities of the
Commission during the year.
Among situations listed are: A
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1952-01-25

store he studied law.
Unmarried, he has been one of
the eligible bachelors in the Twin
Cities for years.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. o. Cannon, his
parents, live now in Los Angeles.
Mr.. Cannon usually finds time
from his busy law practice and
his civic activity TO visit them at
least twice year.
Mr.. Cannon said Monday that
he felt that his election as board
president reflected the growth
and progress of the Minneapolis
Negro community and its accep-
lance as worthy community part
ners in community projects.
The annual banquet of the
Phyllis Wheatley Auxiliary win
be held Thursday evening. Feb.
81.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1952-01-25
Theodore Woodard Is
Reelected President
Credit Union Board

Theodore Woodland, Minneapolis
business man. was reelected presi-
dent of the board of directors of
the Associated Negro Credit
union Tuesday night, January %.
Others elected were w. B.
Walker. Tce-president; Talmadge
B. Carey. sec'y-treas.; Rosamond
Johnson, ass't.-sec'y.
Other board members are Cecil
z. Newman, Rev. Denzil Carly,
w. A. Young, Harry s. Brown and
j. w. Hutcherson.
The credit committee of the
union now is composed of Clifford
Smith. Brutus Cassius and Jeff
d. Anderson. The supervisory
committee is chairmaned by
James Crowder and members are
Eli Martin.
The 18th annual financial state
ment of the union appears on page
five Of this edition.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1952-01-25

commentator, Conger proposed
Virgins promotion to assistant
professor. This was Officially ig-
nored' by Dean Mcconnell as an
other year remained on his pre-
vious appointment.
Dean Mcconnell, in a letter to
Conger on Nov. %, 1919, said in
reference to an address made by
Virgins in Duluth on March 20,
1949, Il wonder how analytical,
systematic, rational and objective
his teaching really is =. ="
In 1852 Prof. Wilfred S. Sell
ars, then acting head of the phil
osophy department, recommended
that Virgins be retained as an in
structor. He said that although he
continues to be a valuable mem
Der of the department" and "a
popular and stimulating lecturer"
there is another side to the ques-
ton: perhaps too great a pro-
portion of his energies are direct
ed to matters of practical rather
than technical and scholorly char
acter."
Conger asked Virgins to write
a confession of faith" stating his
beliefs in the fall of 1851 when he
was recommended for promotion.
When Conger received the state
ment he suggested revisions and
wrote to Virgins, Il wish you
would retype the document in ac-
cordance with my suggestions
see then if it honestly represents
your viewpoint, as have toned
it down. Il think, frankly, that
you tend to go off in cliches
which either do not stand up I'M
der examination or which arouse
needless antagonism.)
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near-rlot in Breckenridge. MINI.
involving some $50 Air Force stu
dents who resented the use Of
epithets and an attack on one of
its Negro members by a local resi-
dent.
A complaint of overcharge for
refreshments in Rochester, Mimi;
the refusal of accommodation by
northern Minnesota resort op-
orator to an out-of-state party;
the removal of two "Colored Trade
Not Solicited" signs in widely
separated parts Of the state; a
change in policy of a Minneapolis
Continued on page ~
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Of government contracts this
should be a step towards solv-
Ing that problem.
And II this new service by the
league proves to be helpful 10 en-
ployers 1t will eventually mean
more jobs.
The Urban League is primarily
concerned with opening new fields
Of employment for minority
groups. And it is felt that this
agreement will help the staff de-
termine in advance what the
racial employment of a company
having a defense contract Is.
II for example, il is learned by
the league 1t is the policy Of an
employer holding a defense con-
tract not to employ Negroes. the
league would then try to get him
to change his employment poll
cies.
When the larger contracts
are awarded, they are usually
publicized. But this agreement
gives information on all con-
tracts OF $500 or more.
It is with the smaller companies
that the league hopes It win be
able TO be of most service In CIV
ing them information about OBJ
tanning contracts ana in changing
their employment policies II It ID
learned that they have q Jim
Grow policy.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1952-01-25

to retain DR.. Virgins.
The philosophy department is
not unanimous in feeling that DR.
Virgins should be permanently
retained Three members OF
the department expressed to the
committee present uncertainty on
this matter"
Dean McDairmids conclusion
that Virgins Conflict in the
Social Order" speech showed a
lack of scholarship seems valid
and was reached in good faith
The philosophy department has
never appraised as a group "the
professional qualifications of DR.
Virgins" This oversight was an
administrative shortcoming to
say the least"
@. A department may wish
to retain an instructor because he
is a stimulating lecturer for I'M
dergratuates, but "the dean,
viewing the problem in a wider
perspective, many conclude that
the factor stressed by the depart
ment is over-balanced by the APP
pointee's lack of scholarly pro-
mise"
No Freedom Violation
While it is easy to understand
how persons could Jump to the
conclusion" that the Virgins case
Is a violation of academic freedom,
no evidence has been found to sup
port this charge.
The report stated that at the
time of Virgins appointment T.
r. Mcconnell, then dean of SLA,
and Pres. Morrill, mutually held
the opinion that DR. Virgins was
not as outstanding a candidate for
the position as they wished to OBJ
tain"
Thus, the report continued, ut
was correspondingly desirable
that an outstanding person be ap-
pointed"
On March 8, 1e47. after Wig
gins had completed his one-year
temporary appointment, Dean Nc
Council informed Pres. Morrill,
he was ready to recommend him
for a regular appointment" He
said students had reported Wig
gins teaching to be unusually
consistent and favorable"
On March IL, 1947, Dean Nc
Connen in a letter to Conger re-
minded him that Virgins ap-
pointment carries no presump-
ton of permanent tenure. If we do
decide later that he should not be-
come a permanent member of our
staff, he cannot charge US with
any particular prejudice in his
case"
appointment Not Permanent
Conger, in his 1947-4s budget
statement said, about Virgins,
He is a man whom we should
wish to retain permanently"
In the 194S-49 budget state
ment, Conger said, Recommends
ton for promotion will be made
in another year or so in order to
advance this exceptional man to-
wards permanent tenure"
And in the 1949-50 budget re-
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PARENTS OF KOREAN
WAR CASUALTY
RECEIVE DECORATION

Mr.. and Mrs. Walter McElroy,
4041 Clinton So, received the
Purple Heart decoration, Deem
Der 10, 1851, from the War De-
partment in honor Of their late
son, Pvt. Augustus o. McElroy,
who was killed in action, in Korea,
October IL. 1851. Pvt. McElroy's
body Is to be sent TO Minneapolis
soon.