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THURHDAY, APRIL 26, 1951
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■ THURHDAY, APRIL 26, 1951
PATTERSON (OF S.0. B. EPISODE) BEATS CONTEMPT TRIAL
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Ralph W. Brady, executive dirce. sional capacity,
tor of the YMCA said that fifty
letters have been sent out to or-
ganizations inviting them to nomi-
nate representatives. He said coun-
cil membership is open to any bona-
fide group that is interesting in
the promotion of the program.
Organizations may contact Mr.
Brady by phoning 4-8659 for the
purpose of registering name and ad-
dress if they wish to join the coun-
cil, or for the purpose of obtaining
further information.
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tests, in which colored r „
ticipated. also have been held
Constitution Hall.
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each room and are controlled by '
thermastats which give tem-
peratures. All pipes are heavily
insulated.
All children at the school have
been taken to the boiler room by
teachers, according to Principal
A. L. Morgan. The head custo-
dian. Johnell Williams, has ex- i
plained about the boilers and '
the heating system.
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NAACP Official
Makes Prophecy
ATLANTA, April 25— A ]
ion that Negro students will
rolled in the state-supported uni-
versities of Georgia and Alabama
withing a year was made here this
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WASHINGTON, D. C„ Apr.
25— A district Court Jury
which included three Ne-
groes last week failed to
convict William L. Patter-
son on charges of contempt
iof Congress.
Patterson, a Negro, is executive
secretary of the Civil Rights Con-
gress, a leftist organization. Last
year Patterson made headlines
when he was called “a black s. o.
b.” by Congressman Henderson
Lanham of Georgia during a hear-
ing by a committee of Congress.
The jury failed to reach a ver-
dict on the charges r,nd was dis-
missed by Judge Alexander Holt-
zoff last Wednesday, twenty-five
hours after it had received the
case.
Judge Holtzoff urged the Govern-
ment to dismiss the charges rather
than try Patterson again. In urging
the dismissal the judge said he was
convinced of Pattersons guilt, but
expressed the view that it was un-
likely that a District of Columbia
jury would return a verdict of guilty
against him in view of the “un-
fortunate episode”.
While not elaborating
Sees Challenge
For Students
ATLANTA, April 25-Dr. William
h. Hale, Chairman of the Depart-
ment of Social Sciences at
College, recently delivered ti
ors Day address at Morris
College.
Dr. Hale challenged the
of this generation, "born in depres-
sion and reared in world conflict”,
responsibilites "in
re-evaluating and reshaping the
values of the world to the end that
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Segregation
Out; Negroes* ^
Stay Away
WASHINGTON—Washington now
has four theatres which have no
racial bars. They're the Gayety,
a legitimace playhouse; the Dupont,
the Little and the Plaza, movie
houses. But none of them is getting
| much colored patronage, which is
furnishing other theater owners
with an argument against dropping
the bars.
H the bigots stay away and the
colored people won't attend, they're
saying, it may be good business to
change the segregation policy. Big-
movie theatre management is sit-
ting back grinning at the frustra-
tion of the nonsegregated theater
management.
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The council will have as its pur-
pose the planning and organization
of summer recreational activities
for youngsters and adults of the
commnunity, in co-operation with
state an increase of $48,000
single year.
the City Park Department.
The recreational council will be
made up of representatives
churches, lodges. Greek letter
ganizations, business establishments,
social clubs and independent groups.
The orinary concern of the Rec-
reational Council will be to organize
(15-17 yrs); " Senior I ^e5S0"®,att.en^*nf a® Patrons any af- J forces?
is there any racial segregation rule. , Presiding at the
The rule simply bars colored i * ‘ ~
from appearing there in a profes- i the
As a tesult of the controversy 1
which the incident aroused, several I „.w,
Eleanor Roosevelt and Mrs.” Clare
Boothe Luce, then a Congresswo- X rllK —
man from Connecticut, resigned !❖
their membership in the DAR. y
Later, permission was refused X
Miss Hazel Scott, pianist, to give a •!•
concert at Constitution Hall, and j X
her husband, Representative Adam ❖
C. Powell. Democrat, of New York. Y
sought to have Congress revoke the ' X
DAR s tax-exemption on its pro-I v
perties in Washington. X
When Mrs. Truman attended a tea •!•
given by a local chapter of the DAR ' T
Mr Powell referred to her as the | X
last lady of the land", which puts *•’
him in linn ftnv. « ....... zi. ’ i V
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from President Truman when the •!•
retires from the WhiteJ X j
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a jiiceting next month, i |
of the United Nations trusteeship j X 1
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screened by the DAR
Management.
Colored performers who have ap-
peared on the stage of the hall re-
cently are the Hampton Institute
Choir. the Howard University
Glee Club, and the Catholic Uni-
versity Choir which included some
Finals of talent
-J persons par- [where to write
‘ . h.’.J in man and to i
I to demand an end to segregation
in the armed i
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sional or high school sch< ol
formers, all applications lor
lormances in the hall since
Marian Anderson incident, have been between officers
scrpnnpd hv ihn had d......., r Mr Mn«-ok..n «
on the problem.
In Washington, said Mr. M a r-
shall, he saw white Americans
waving Confederate flags during
MacArthur's triumphant visit to
.that city.
“It could mean that we want
military dictatorship in this coun-
try,” said Mr. Marshall. He said
he could not understand how a
Negro could believe that “he
ihoice under mili-
He said his-
that minorities al-
under dictatorships.
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furuished. Good
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Haven school. 50-9468.
APARTMENT furnished. 2-7914.
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episode, Judge Holtzoff was obvl-!
ously referring to the incident in-
volving Representative Henderson
Lanham, Democrat, of Georgia, and
Patterson on August 4. during a
hearing at which Patterson was a
witness before a House Committee '
investigating lobying activities. Lan-
ham was the acting committee chair,
man on that day.
After Judge Holtzoff had dis-
charged the jury last Wednesday,
Patterson said:
"I think the courage of the Ne-
gro jurors who held out for me
was something to be proud of in
view of the fact t:.„.
branches of Government were com-
bined to send me to jail.”
Patterson was charged with
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Christian Association has
completed plans for eslab-
jishment of a recreational
council in North Tulsa.
Civil Rights Congress, which Had
been subpenaed by the committee.
The committee hearing broke up,
according to testimony, after Lanham
had twice called Patterson a liar
for charging the State of Georgia
with lynching colored people. When
Patterson called Lanham a liar back,
the Georgian became enraged, call-
ed Patterson “a goddam black son of
a b---•” jumped up from his seat
and ran around the committee desk
to assault Patterson. He had to
be restrained by two Capitol police-
men.
It was because of this “episode"
that Judge Holtzoff urged the pro-
secution to drop the charges against
Patterson.
Mr. Fay said a decision on
whether to retry the case will re-
quire “ a complete study of every
factor to determine what course
will produce the best result from
the Government's standpoint.”
The judge called in the jury
and asked the foreman the chances
of its reaching a verdict. The fore-
man said he was hopeful
Miss Frances E. Armwood. 31,
a teletype operator at the Penta-
gon. one of the colored jurors, told
judge Holtzoff that she and some
other jurors did not think Patterson
had willfully refused to produce
the. records. On the contrary, she
said she believed he had failed
to do so as a result of the clash
with Lanham.
After more u—
Holtzoff said to William
. ter's
I around
in Tokyo. '
In his last talk with MacArthur
and his aides. Mr. Marshall asked
for an official message for the
American people on the pr-
of racial integration in the
East Command. He said he
I “Tell them0 we w.°rd (■ | so!ncboc1y else and cheer.”
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and no questions
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REAL-ESTATE
HOUSES & lot for SALE
3-1789 643 E. Pine
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McAlester, Apr. 25.—
Individuals who refuse to
spend two dollars for mem-
bership in the National Asso-
ciation for the Advancement
of Colored People are usual-
ly first to call on the as-
sociation when they are in
trouble, according to Attor-
A --- rn > » a a
supplementary zoning
was the principal speaker making it a misdeameanor
public meeting white persons to reside in <
residential sections and for
cd persons to reside
sidential sections.
Mrs. Means applied for a build-
ing permit to build a house which
she proposed to occupy as a resi-
dence. Her lot is in a district '
which has been zoned white since
1926. The permit was refused in I
accordance with the zoning ordin-1
ances. She brought suit.
The case was tried before a
judge without a jury. The judge
-------- ------v.n- f0l?nd as a faet that it was the
through NAACP efforts cstabllsbed and universal custom
■-------------------- „„o °f c,7 officials to deny building;
tried to get to them to join the 1PC’!mit.s to construct homes for
MAAr,n (Colored occupancy in areas zoned
tor white occupancy, and that if I
dwellings were erected on the1
properties the plaintiffs or
colored persons could not .,eee
them without becoming subject
ciminal prosecution.
Miss Maynor
Continued from Page 1
came up on April 14 jus* before
the Continental Congress ol the DAK
convened. There was some opp >:-
tion, however, and no one raised,
the question of changing the board’s 'l"'
policy, Mrs. Patton said.
Although she did not remembe-! J.1?*
exactly. Mrs. Patton thought there ,lce was --- -- nvsrws
were two or three dissen.ing votes. a? against two tor whites. He point-
Sne added that the proposal was'ed out thnt in units where Neg-
cairied "by a preponderant major- roc! lavc been
t.v". (grated, no Negro has been
Mrs. Pattm said she personally [ martla.!ed for cowardice, a
was disposed to favor th > request ! percent;l«e of disciplinary
of the National Symphony for Miss < 'eiy ^ow'
"°r 10 appear as a guest artist
s Hefliuse the orchestra has been a
"good customer” of th; DAR in
using the hall
With the exception of nonprofes-
per-
per-
the I
\\ ■mi <iuali i, ,f p.u-ty to t:ik over
/.'j"',":s I'mtul lo w furniture it..
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set, .>.|,jer, |.ofi .-l..|in i lirone
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TAKE 65 WEEKS To PAY
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Nice furnish'd APARTMENT -ti
ROOMS. $5 weekly. Syl's AparL
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Call 54-9485.
The W. L. Hutcherson
bi ancb of the Young Men’s- m;
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He said Negro outfits -•
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who have little confidence
moral stamina of Negroes,
these officers, in turn, c*
respected by Negro GI's.
Where mutual disrespect exist
m ,------’ and men” said
Mr Marshall, “It is the surest
way to lose a war.”
Mr. Marshall said the interest
shown by Negroes in the plight of
f on the battlefield i s
gauge of the Neg ro's
ney Amos T. Hall.
Mr. Hall v ' •
here on Sunday at a p„’_
of the NAACP. The meeting closed
a two-day convention of association
branches in the southeast region of
Oklahoma, Roscoe Dunjee, Editor
of The Black Dispatch, and Pro-
fessor Tolson, of Langston, were
speakers at Saturday's session.
The Tulsa branch of the associa-
tion was largely responsible for
many jobs which were opened to
Negroes in the Douglass bomber
[Plant, in Tulsa, during World War
Two. Mr. Hall said that many of
those who obtained profitable em-
ployment f ;;
turned their backs on solicitors who
NAACP.
Mr. Hall said many of these in-
dividuals are now swamping his law
office with phone calls, calling on
thC»NdACP t0 takc steps 10 assure
that Negroes will be employed in
large numbers when the bomber
plant opens in the nexr future.
said ,hat thc Oklahoma
NAACP has successfully defended
Negroes who were wrongly accused
of crime. He listed Jess Hollins,
Jake Lyons and Leroy Benton.
He said Negroes are now attend- ■
jng Oklahoma University and Ok-
lahoma A & M College because of
court suits won bv the NAACP. He
Wid the association waged the fight
1?. .0(?yaVze the salaries of teachers,
teachers of the
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discussion. Judge
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sisted United States Attorney, who
prosecuted the case:
"While I think there is no doubt
of the defendant’s guilt, yet in
the light of the unfortunate epi«
sode that took place at the end
of tbe hearing, it appears practi-
cally impossible to get a conviction
before a District of Columbia jury
We must consider the practical as-
pect of the possibility of getting
[verdicts. If you decide to dismiss!
,the case, the court would be glad
I to order it.” ** n 1
i Hitz said the decision
his to make.”
As Mr. Marcantonio emphasized
to the jury the wav Lanham's pro-
nunciation of the word “Negro”
sounded to him, the way the judge
said he understood the pronuncia-
tion, and told them what was im-
portant was the way they under-
stood Lanham's pronunciation, he
drove his argument home by pound-
ing on the railing in front of the
jury box.
•'Please don't pound the furni-
ture. Holtzoff interjected
n ' ’.u ■“ -His voice s,iu raised
that the three'pitch, f'
bined to send me to
Patterson was charged with re-1 furniture."
lusing to produce records nf th„i nt ...
Continued from Pare 1
fore a jury as he tore into Negroes
who have been “crying" in sym-
pathy for General Douglass Mac-
Arthur, who was stripped of his
commands by President Truman. I
Mr Marshall thought this be-
havior “ridiculous." and he pro-
ceeded to tell why. He said Mac-
I Arthur, by following the pattern '
of race prejudice prevalent in
this country, had helped impress
the people of Japan that Ameri- ---------»
can Negroes are inferior beings. Nati(>nal Symphony, said
As Mr. Marshall sees it. Gcncr- *" '
al MacArthur was harmful to Ne-
groes because he was in position
to do something in their
!j!; and ncfilcctcd doing it.
Arthur has i ;
X upliftment. Mr Marshall
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[ installed at a cost of $137,184.
J. Roy Inbody, assistant super-
intendent in charge of business
service, said general rehabili-
tation work will be started at
Johnson school as soon as funds
are available, probably this sum-
mer.
The heating system includes
two of the latest type horizontal
boilers, new pipe and new con-
vector-type radiation throughout
i open-type
Johnell Williams i
shows three students at the
Charles S. Johnson elementary
school how the new ' '
work as a part of 1
plete new hot water
system at the school. The stu-
dents are Ralph L....d.
Marilyn Terrell and Mary
Hunigan.
A complete new hot water
heating system and a complete
new electrical system have beeti^ the school. It Ve’piaces
when Lanham was on the court
witness stand testifying about the
incident " hec ould not refer to Mr.
Patterson as a Negro but used the
word ’Nigra.”
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Reward to finder
asked. Call
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him in Lnc for a punch in the
from President Truman when
latter retires from the White
House. IX
Constitution Hall already has been , !«!
rented for a meeting next month, , •!•
at v hich Dr. Ralph Bunche, director Y
of the United Nations trusteeship ' X
division and Nobel prize winner, ■ ¥
will receive an award. | X
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Howard-Mitchell, conductor of thc ’ .j.
w. —1 no ,
has been set for Miss Maynor’s
pearance.
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pound the furni-
His voice still
- Mr. Marcantonio
week by Roy Wilkins, administra-
tor of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People.
Addressing mass meetings of the
Atlanta branch and of the Ala-
zoning | branches in Birmingham.
City Seeking
Continued from Page 1
ed the engineering firm of Morris rtuuIlla ulantn ana oi lnc Ala.
Knowles of Pittsburgh to prepare I bama State Conference of NA‘,Sjn'
theCc?tyrehenS1Ve Plan f°r zoning Ibranches in Birmingham. Yixjst
In 1926 Birmingham was zoned
by a zoning ordinance providing
for “equitable residential segreg-
ation.” Residential property was
zoned either white or colored.
The residential districts
divided into A-l for single
families, A-2 for single colored
families, B-l for mutiple white
families, and B-2 for multiple col-
ored families.
The ordinance made it unlawful
for a colored person to use or oc-
cupy a building in a white resi-
dential area and for a white per-
son to use or occupy a building
in a colored residential area.
More than thirty areas in Bir-
mingham were zoned colored resi-
dential corresponding to a similar
number of areas zoned white re-
sidential. About 40 per cent of the
population of Birmingham is col-
ored.
...L” ■ ’f49 ,BilrninRbam adopted a
I ordinance
for
colored i
• color-
in white rc-
it
behalf
In seeking to prove that Mac-
A'!h.ur has no interest in Negro
out that the’Navy'aiid ’the'
A grated Negroes
Y , seemed to fit.”
Xj He said ne failed to find a sin-
Igle Negro in MacArthur's honor
? I ?U?rd'.in MacArthur's headquar- [ would have a iho
1 rS »,d’ . Or anvwh«'e else tary dictatorship."
MacArthur s headquarter.1 tory has shown “
ways suffer i
I f military dictatorship
come to this country said
Marshall, the Negro will be ‘
ky to remain alive.”
He said the trouble,“with us is
that wc like to go along wih
Mr. Mar.hall was bitter as he
on Negroes every-
to President Tru-
members of Congress
colored | and discrimination
Softball Leagues: Pee/a‘Lhe d ‘n Constltuti°n Hall. Nor ;
----- , meeting was At-
ari ists |'t,’rncy Amos T. Hall, president of
told of his investigations of the
courts-martial convictions of Ne-
gro GI's. He said his finding dis-
closed "quickie” trials of forty-
two minutes duration, preposter-
ous charges in view of attending
circumstances, and denial of right
to Negro GI's who went on trial.
In the 25th Division, he said
<e personnel ratio was one Neg-
ro for every four whites. He said
„ie ratio of convictions for cowar-
thirty-two for Negroes
| cd out that in units
i completely inte-
•i court-
and the
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Will sell nij shar? in Lol 5(1 feet
by 110 fed. Square Deal Addi-
tion. Tel 54-1933.
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