Evening star., 1954-10-07
Operation Segregation
Operation Segregation
Founder of NAAWP Is Everywhere at Once;
Police Records Show He Was Elsewhere, Too

FOuCe K6COFOS
Bryant w. Bowles, founder of
the National Association for the
Advancement of White People,
appears so suddenly in so many
places and talks SO freely about
his collective crusade that the
public has trouble keeping Up
with him.
His outside activities centered
recently in and around Milford,
Del; Baltimore and Washington.
His inside avocation resembles
financial fountainhead supplied
by a stream of IS membership
fees at NAAWP HEADQUARTERS
here. He also serves as a segre-
cation strategist planning beach,
heads elsewhere. His avcwed
aim everywhere is to prevent,
peacefully. the integration of
whites and Negroes, particularly
in public schools.
From last December IA when
it was incorporated in Delaware,
until this week when the Della
ware Attorney General asked a
State court to revoke its charter,
his organization ran rapid
course of reorganization. 1t
dropped some of its original
directors, shifted a few officials,
and frightened its high command.
Encounters With Law.
Mr.. Bow,es, personally, also
has run into questions about an
earlier record of court convic-
tions and other encounters with
the law.
AS for NAAWP. it's bustling
main Office seemed to be burst
ing at the seams today in a two
room suite on the ninth floor at
1919 F street NV. Stacks of
mail, assorted checks and cash.
and jangling telephones left the
visitor with little room to dis
pute a Bowles prediction that
the membership total soon will
hit $4,000. Mr.. Bowles hints it
now exceeds 81 900. He estimates
5000 in the District and at least
1000 in Maryland-with Glen
Burnie rally being staged Sat-
urday to seek more. On this
basis, he already would have COL
lected about $150,000.
AS for any mention of police
record or pattern of personal
misadventure with law-enforce-
ment agencies, the 34-year-old
president of NAAWP says he is
glad to have the matter brought
up so that he can clear it up. In
voice that is softly Southern
with a slight drawl, the former
Marine sergeant, who was born
in Florida and moved to Arling-
ton from Baltimore, blames it
mostly on what he calls mistakes
or mischief of other persons.
Excerpts from criminal court
records in Baltimore contain
this information concerning Mr..
Bowles:
Failure to pay wages-Bryant
w. Bowles, May 6, 1853, "un-
lawfully with intent to cheat
and defraud" obtained service
in amount of $46.61 from Harry
Hugelmeyer. Sentence suspended
to pay costs, 2/27/53.
False pretenSe-February 26,
1858. "unlawfully and knowingly
by false pretense" obtained
from Charles F. Pasqua, $73.
July q, 1854. sentenced to one
year House of Correction, sus-
pended. put on probation on
good behavior, and to make re-
stitution.
Failure to pay wages-Febru-
ary IL, 1853, "unlawfully did,
with intent to cheat and de-
fraud" obtain services from John
P. Gnatt in sum of $26. Fined
$25 and costs.
Failure to pay wages-May "a,
1858, to John RAINIER, $48.
Fined $25 apd costs.
Failure to pay wages-April
Is, 1858, Timothy Mitchell, $45.
Fined $25 and costs.
False pretense-February q,
1858, obtained certain labor in
construction of certain building,
Louis A. Plummer, $71.22. Fined
$25 and costs.
False pretense-February 20,
1858. John Gray, $500, in con-
nection with construction and re-
pair of a building. Fined $25
and costs.
Larceny after trust-October,
1852. "Feloniously and fraud
lently converted to his own uses"
SIS, 900 entrusted to him by Capt.
Edward w. Erickson. a New York
tugboat operator, to be applied
in building Of a six-unit motel
at La Plata, Md. Contract be-
tween Erickson and Bryant Roof
ing and Home Improvement
Corp. March 10. 1858, Bowles
signed agreement following civil
action, handled by Sherbow &
Sherbow, 1916 Munsey Building,
Baltimore, to pay Erickson 81 200