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RACE APPLICANTS
MAKE COMPLAINTS
WASHINGTON NAACP PROTESTS
h LiLY -WHITE HIRING POLICY "
WashingtOll, Aug. 14.-Stirr~ I program. It was point"" out that
b growing complaints [rom applicants do not ha"e to meet
egro applicants for F .Bl cler- ci\"il service requirem('nts.
ical jobs charging J . Edgar AccordlDg to the .'A.A.C.P.
Hoover's department with gh'- spokesman. hundreds of Negro
ing egroes a "brush :' the I ~O\'ernm nt clnks. who are
ational Association for the Ad- about to lose thelf job in other
vaneement of Color~ People's agendt'S becau.·'e of r~ucti .ns.
Washington Bureau protested are applYlOg for th e openings.
what it term~ a "lily-white Many other experienced 'egro
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hiring policy." gover"ment ,,-orkers, who were _
Leslie Perry. .A.A.C.P. Wash- terminated imm~iately after
inglon Bu r e a u spokesman. the war. have also unsuccess-C H A moved by the steadily growing fully attempted to find jobs
number of complaints. today With the F.B.L
wrote the F.B.l. chief; " It is in- It was inescapably evident
creasingly difficult for thou..."""ds [rom the mass of complaints
upon thousands of American being reeei"ed by the N.A.A.C.P.
citizens to believe that an agency that Negro applicants are being
of the government whose per- given what amounts to nothing
GED ITH 0 , 'IN 0 A I
sonnel recruiting r""ord is so more than a "brush off" by WOULD badly tainted with racial bias, F.B.I. officials.
will, when it comes to protect· The N.A.A.C.P . protest to the
ing the rights of minority racial F.B.I. stated further: "~Many of QUIT THE I' E2~~~~I!;~ "IDENTIFIED BY . groups, glYe them a square I us have known for years that
deal" the Federal Bureau of Investi-
The situation which drew the I gation has followed a 'lily-white'
N.A.A.C.P. fire came as a result I hiring policy in its clerical as
oI a story which appeared in w .. ll as its investigation jobs.
the Washington newspapers on We continue to hope and urge.
WORLD ALLIANCE ~:~~~~~~~~f~!;~1~i~~~~~:~~f§~~~f~)::~;~§ YOUNG JANITRESS : cratic primary in Georgia for whitE$ only. • i Hcr~an. ~'ho desir~ to SUCC~L-d his late fath~r: Eu,ene Ta~- July 29. in which it was stated I however. that your agency will
that \be F.B.I. was accepting re'ise its personnel practices so ADVOCATED
applicants to fill 2.000 clerical that the basic qualifications of
jobs and ~gs for 500 addi- fitness of an applicant rather
tional agents. This increase in than skin color. will be the de­personnel
was apparently neees- termining factor as to whether
silated by the recently author- or not he will receive employ­ized
federal employee loyalty menL"
FOLL OWING COPENHAGEN I! ~ :;::;. ~".i'c~t~ ~~te:~f~~h~~~~ :t~ ~a~:~~a~~~~e [~':e h~ Georgia, ideas and practices which were bigoted. personal and SAYS SHE THOUGHT WHITE MAN WAS
ONE Of l ACCOMBDATING NEIGHBORS ni · CIDENT,· HEAD SAYS APOLOGY DUE o d~trimental to full citizenship where Negroes are concerned. he I not only had the support of an element of white citizens at
large in Georgia. but of officials of the Baptist Church with
Copenhagen. Denmark, Aug'ldid not care to share their living which he and his family were identified as ~embers . A white suburbanilc. Frcd around and came " .. "'It ... the
14.-1\ was with considerable quarters with Negroes. I :hat the pastor of the church stuck to his guns. ~nd grace- Williams. 27 . ..... as arrcsted and woman declared.
consternation that Negro dele- This announcement came after f~) adhered to the demand o~ the officers that he resign as the charged with detaining a woman After asking he; wh .. re ~he NEGROES VOTE gates to the seventh annual Rev. Marshall L. Shepard of spmtual leader of the Bock, gives e~'ldence that here and there against her ..... ill. in County was going. Williarr.s, accordin«
World Baptist AlliAnce learned I Philadelpbia. Pa.. d"."lared he we ha~'e . people .... ho .are at l~ast mak!-"g gest":"'s In the matter of C~iminal Court this week. after to tbe girl wit" . is .. j anitTess a t
. this .... eek that some of their fel-I would urge that Amencan Negro ~plifY 109 those things whlch. a,:" r~ght and Just-the democracy MISS Rosa Nell Lawless. 19, of the F,,,rdal High School, said
10'" members had caused them Baptists separate themselves whic\! we. teac.h. and the ~lstlaruty we preach. Coral Ridge swore out a war- she could ride", Ith h.i.rn. He at- - IN MISSISSIPPI to ~a::: ~:~':a~~!.~t~ I fr':c~; AJs':e::~.. p.vpos.cii I.: .. ~~ ~ ~~~~~~~.,~:p o~ ~; ::~:7~:~~·= ~~Jo:,.~~ 7~"r ~~ ~~e:C:~I~rn ~y~IT)~ ;:~ , Rev. C. O. Johnson of St. Louis, 1 move is based on the fact that i b::z- e Negro clUzens. and the spJnt that .he exhib,tcd tn rub- The young woman identificd sbe further .tated.
Mo .• newly elected president of the Am.dean delegation as such I mltt g to ~e will of the ch~. the Baptist preacher followed Williams as the man who pic.kcd Placing his anr.$ w4lUDd be.
the Alliance. said there was an did not lake steps to condemn a course which mtght have carr,ed a ~ age to the officers to her up in a gray Chevrolet sedan neck. the young ",hiw' maJI who
apology forthrnming to the the ill-advised action of a few I the elTect u:at he at least was attempting to reaffirm the G()l;~l early last Sunday morning on is the father of t~ chiIdftJJ,
Jackson. Miss1 Aug. H .-Few sissippi. Negro delq:ates for what he of its members, who h.~d advised of the creahon of all men out of one blood. ~nd of all men bemg the Old National Turnpike at 7 according to the n.other 01 Mis
Negroes were challe"ged ~ last' The new law.. whicb. was I termed .... ~a s the unwarrant~ ac- I D.~ hotel k~pe,:" of their I equal .... bether they. the officers. were willing or not to foUow o'clock and made advances to L:'w~.ess. asked the girl to ""lo-!'e
Tuesday'S Democratic prunary pa5sed by a special sessl.)n of tion of a number of white Sap- unv .. illingness to hve In the same 1 him. her. h,m. . •
election held here. according to tbe Legislature last March. states tists from the United · States botel with Negroes. Bruised on both knel!S a"d She said she jU'llped fro .. tbe
Negro oIlIcials of the Progressive that all voters must be in accord I who had taken the trouble to Commenting on the threat- DEAN DIXON FOLLOWS 1M LINE minus a large patch of hair in car at th· point. altboup Wa.
Voters' League. wbo were.satis- with party principles as set write the Iootels and say they '7'ed session of the Negro Bap- In the ~ews last .week was the announcement of the marriage the top of her head. Miss Law- liams d ecl~red he had a ~ aNI
Sed at U:e results. 10 SPite of forth hy the Slate Dem~ra.tJc .. tlSts. Doctor Johnson expre~ of Dean DIXOn, natJonally kno ... ;n muSiC conductor of color. to less said she got in the car be-I ~reatenCQ to sL4Xlt it ~ she
the drop '" ,·~~crs th"t went to Executive Cor'.'~l1ttee. which 10- PAY T RIBUTr T" the hope that Negro Baptists Miss Vivian Rivkin, a white pianist of Ohio. cause she thought the driver Jumped out. . " I •• ,
th~ polls. . . cludes opposl~on to Fcd.eral t U would no~ separate from the , Thus Dean Dixon follows in line with Father Divine. Max was one of the neighbors who County Poh~e= J. 8 . t.ac.:
T. B. W~an, presid';"t of the l~ch law anti-p?ll tax leglSla- World AllulDce. I Yergan. Richard Wright. George Schuyler. and a few others of are accustom~ to accommodat- fi Id. on of the o~c,:,s ~t!r.
League, said that things pro- tJon, .and the F~lf . £mployment F B RMSOM Note: Rev. Dr. D. V. Jemison. the Negroes of his thinking. of his type and of his class-Negroes ing each other whenev~r pos_ mg the call said Williams.rni«'t
~~ pe~cdu.llY. and be was Prac~Jces CommlSSlon. • • I presiden~ of the National Baptist ; who may be definitely stamped as intellectuals. sible. ha.ve hO.lIercd at "h~r or SOIJlQo
Jomed 10 his statement by Perry Wilson, eornmentIJ.g further -- Convention. Inc .• and leader of Of course the marriage of a Negro man to a white woman Sh lained tha h . thing like that. The -.ftku
Groene. editor of the Jackson on Negr,,:",s voting in the prj- lndi.ana!"'lis. August H .-The I the l~rgest group of. Negro Bap- ! is nothing ne":. although in particular cases it may De news. rush!gex~me in t~e s f:r ~~ added ~3t "~liss 1.."\.~ "",..
Advocate. also an oIIicer of the mary. saJd tbat many of the funeral fltes of F. B. Ransom. tlStS tn the world. d id not make I Fer years in communities like Chicaeo we ba\'e fOl1Jld inter- th to tt d S d Sch I she got m the car-Wtlliams 10ti
oreanizat!on. . voters of h is League were not ge .. eral manager of the Madam 0 !h~ trip to Copenhagen. although racial ~iages dotted amone the homes of certain sections!..'l :~er e;"'v~g ~;""t u:;)':~Lght ~ he~ not to 'holler'-she did 'bol~
The prtII'Iru'Y ejection was the made to subscribe to the party's C. J . Walker Company. held here 'l it 1S reportcd he had been chosen: the Windy City. town with her sistH. 1",: . and threaten . to 1W"P -
test of the new 1947-48 law. .. at Bethel A.M.E. Church last , a. on of the Convention's dele-I Early in the year Horace Cayton Negro author and sociolo-. . Wlihams stoppcd :h,. car aII4
to discourage Negroes pnnClples before they were per- Saturday. were marked with I' gates. e ist who spoke to an ~clusive group ~f J ewish citizens in Louis- MISS Lawless said sh.. . , was let ber ouL" 10
- going to the polls in Mis- milled to vote. sirn~licity and .dignity. ville. said that mixed marriages were all right-and that Negroes ::.!.kem;h:~~C~ec::ed o~~w~r! The Coun~y offi~;aJ failed ..
W.th the Re •. J ohn A_ Alex- I BEATEN BY COP sought social equality-adding "The Negro wants a free society .. explain ho", the "arraAt waa
SAYS NAACP SHOULD TEACH NEGRO
ander o~c~ating: many dist~- I I where he can mix socially with white6, sharing common interests lane and passed h~r. He went not exctut j :'lOti: four dooys
gulShed CIVIC. ~ellglo~s and busl- • and backgrounds." down the road a bit and turncd after the .!l~,...j CI ,n>e.
ness leaders. mdu dlng ex-Gov- ON BROADWAY On this matter we were prompted to reiterate rieBy. as we
TO DO SOMETHIWG FOR HIMSELF ~:~ ~~~~h~'Ck:;~N~~gr~~ . - ;~::~d~~~in~~. ~~~:.;~~:e;~o:~ ~~eth~ '::~~o~~gr::'c~~I~~: BISHOP SIMS man LoUIS Ludlow a.nd Ma~or Hardin W. Osborn~. 1106 S. that Negro intellectuals d id Dot seek social equality-which to
Chicago. Aug. H .-Branding I rather than teach the Negro to George 1.. Denny paid an Im- Twelfth Street. was boaten by us also meant that Negro mtellectuals were not concerned about
the N.A.A.C.P. as an organiza- do something for 'himself.' '' pr -i"e final tribute to one of a pohceman u. pia", cloth .. s at mixing and marrving outside of the race with which thay were
tion of excitation and denuncia· Speclf'.c failures of the N.A·l lndiana.s most prominent attor- Elc\'enth .. no Broad""ay, :l(on· identlflcd. - STILL FIGHTING liOn~ , aUthOr-COlum. nist Georg S A C.P. he .Cltes~ inc1ud~ lack of neys a nd busllle ,?,"n.~ Co~n. - day e'"'''''g. and was arrestcd ~ SlOt to us. D -an Dixon. If we may cl~ss h'~ a~ an '~ntellectual.
Schuyler says m the ptember a cooperaltve farm movement or less other basm"",, and C.'IC and cnarged wltb disorderly ~ follows m hne-anJ despi the t"ct that wlthm hiS o .... n pre-
Negro Digest that I executives' bank plan. no "ooperat",e con- lead rs of the Clt~ a~ !tcnd!d. In-. c<>rod"c: . nd drunken driving. I scnb<..-d race therc the rare opportun,ty oC finding women of
visits are concerned With klalk_ sum"rs establishment for urban eludmg many of nallOnal re- I Rev. A. J . Lively. "'ell-known every bue and char3tt"r-)legro ,", omen. possessed with rare and
inC" and "collectmg tithes." Negroes. no united Negro trade known. mlnlSter and manager of the aUr2ctJve personahti ;-and of th" finest capabllillc,. I Philadephia. Pa. ~Aug. 1-I-1t dunn the \Jugat ~. n here and
"It is all very well to slage movement. no cooperat,,'e hoas- The r~monl'" Includ~>d t"e LoUlS\'lJJe M lodizers, lading "'..... that B,-hop Da"id H. pcrrrulll-d him t. ~ct in the
big mass meetings packed to the ing proJects, and fatlure of rollo~ ing: Oogan prelud" hy slngmg grouP. who sa .. : the In· YELLOW CAB APPOINTS TRA-tFI Il ~ims will not down. He b con- capacity or Pn: Idl~C Bish P 01.
rafters with Widely cheermg ad- board of dLrectors to pra~bce SylVia Roach: prayer by Dr. cldent. said that Osborn vas \, ltnUlDg his legal fight agamst the Yu'St Ep"copaJ District
herents," say. Schuyler. "but the democracy 1\ preach . Cleo W. Black urn. supennten - neither disorderly nor drunk. Is. L Green and thc A. M .. E. .
these should serve some sounder dent of the Flann r House; songs He ,aid that on Broadway at SUPERINTENDENT IN LOS ANGE LES Churdt La.~ week thro h hi· JANI R B .
purpose than ex.citatron and de- CHURCH LEADER by the Y.:M:C_ .... Fnster Hall Elulnth, wh n the ~ars had I coucil, . the de~ prela - TOR 0 S
J1unciation. Quartet: Scripture readmg by topped for t.he rcd light. Os· filcd an appeal in the United 0
"Otherwise the people b"gin the Rev. ~. H. Black. and a song borne blew ~lS hom a~ the car Lo~ Angel • Aug. l4-Al bert As traffic .~perinlendent, I SIa!($ CLrCwt Court of AP" THE CHUReR
to think tha t they have actually DIES IN JACJ(S1JN I by Bothe! S chOLr. 0 In front of h.m when tne green I S. Smith, a col red [1""'" was South I.S eqwpped WI~ a I peals from the decISion handed
dccomplidtcd methine when • hght cam(>~. H". said that the appomted traffic supermtendent coupe W1th two-way radio by down July I by District Court I -_ ..
they have filled a big audito- - .- HOLD BAPTIST MEET I o~~r. who In plaln cl & .• h'ere on m ans of which he can get re-I Judg" George A. We~h. who Entering a dark 1 years o[ age. IS wifc. Katheryo who. he . ays, of the Annual Con! rence of the at $ lOO-added up to grand.
be sent to bored publIC officials." :en~n:,: be~ro~m":ackso~: tcJlding the annual meeting of ~at h'::.~~~ :d ~~an~ married and has two children, has alw.ays been his inspiration, chun:h in ovember. 11146. was I larceny ~ w~ "'hen policeoo
The N.A.A_C.P. has won many TelUl
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Monday. August 11. Mr. the ~iation of Kentuc? I across the t;;;! ~
Continumg Scbuyler s a I d , I Ia ' ed ACE ban He was employed by the d ·th b 'm . ., _~ I his arms. WOOClS wbo W8!I jaM-
-rh ho foundcd th 0 gan' _I think that he was of such illness • D re 10 ttorney . u .' I college one ay WI a fI ant I Little ' ........ Ark. ~ t& of the dIIurch ..... za1=:OO whose p~p~ a mi ht cause an early passing. I ~:l ~~~e Chestnut Street ~~er intopo~n~~ theWc':: I ~;~~ye~~{o~w!c CO~ idea for simplifyiJ'lg ~ ho~ It .... as ~e C~rcull C~u~ of I ~ a $2008 OOlU '::t bGuM
still dommates it, are zealous to Mr. Porter was ~ Louisville Note; Alore fu.neral debi was continued to Tuesday. Au-j ~tion with the Yellow Cab ~rk. (Or at 1 ... t belp"'lr With ~P~ whi~ lifted an ,"June- , ~ver 1.0 the ptBnber lSI .,...
do somethill& 'for' the Negro in J une as guest speaker on next weelt. gust 26. Company. it.) lion laid al(amst Bishop Greene , Jury.
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