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WOULD LEAD (IVIL DISOBEDIEN(E I ~~;;=;;=;====~~~~===:=~~~::=====~::::::=====~~l W~H~Y~P~A~Y~M!O~R~E!1!1 AND RESORT TO GANDHI'S TE(HNIOUES I ~
A .. Philip Randolph. President I stat_ent and views were re­ot
the Brotherhood of Sleeping I )t'Cted by Elwood S. MclCenney.
Car Porters and 0\'''' the ye rs a member of the Massachuset
~ as one of the race's Fair Employment Practice Com­most
militant leaders. was not mission, and Truman K . Gibson,
speakinc impulsively and was la member of the President·s Ad­not
frightened into saying some- visory Committee U. M. T. who
thine which he did not mean to also appeared to speak again...-t
say, when he told the Senate Jim Crow.
Armed Services Committee in Randolph declared that he
W~on, Wednesday of last would propose that egroes be
week, that mill>ons of his race called upon to resist selective
would refUse to register and ser .... ice or the UMT in a ci\'i!
serve under the draft and U.M. dL""bedlence campaign in the
T. unless racial segregation and Gandhi manner.
discrimination are ended. Asked by Senator Wayne
Before hIS appearance before .torse (It. Ore.) if he was saymg
the Senate Committee, Randolph that colored cItizens should not
had a private meeting WIth light Cor their country, Randolph
PresIdent Truman, reported by rephro "That is correct. 1 would
Drew Pearson as being a ",tormy be domg my country a great
session", and he had released a service. II it does not develop the
statemeut to the press, democratic practices at home,
Randolph and Grant Reynolds, then is is not the type oC coun­New
York Commissioner '1C tr) .... orth fighting Cor."
Correction, appeared beCore the , 10""e then pointed out that
Committee as officials of the :such action bv any citizen W:IS
ComMittee ." gainst Jim Crow treason and w;'uld·bc dealt wi
in Military Sen'ice, wbkh had ill hat fashIon by the go\'cm­been
campaigning (or >everal men. Randolph a""wered t1wt
molUhs against tbe e\'ils oC dlS- he knew such ncUon would ca~e
cnrninatton. Reynolds saId he I terrorisn1 against Negroes but
would tallow any program pro- "lhat is one or the price~ we ha 't.!
po>ed by Randolph. But their (Continuea on page 4)
OFFICER FINALLy-I
KILLS A MAN
ARRESTED 33 TIMES VI(nM SHOT
BY MARVIN ALMON IN HOSPITAL
JIM eR W SHIT· . T IND
2-WAY'." ATTACK BY"
·S.TUDENT PAPER
DIS(RIMIN~TlON AGAINST WOMEN
I. Bloomington, Apri~N~~~~~~I~r~~M~~~ ~ ~~ pronged attack on rinuna· Cavor of a epyng them. When
lion against Negro students at the question. "brouglrt be-
Indiana University is la~ched fore bousinC utIIorities, the
1lI the current issue of ''The New I gu-ls wee Wormed that \be
Spectator," stud llublicaUon rooms WeI'e filled. The ~
~~C_hfo~_~~:~:g !:e!:!'~ ar~ ~::iY.
Rufui. E..CJe1lleU! _ lu:re. . , -1l"';~'. ""!!I~'oIR"rroi:m;;,r"dl~=--~~";
President of Atlanta Univer- Under the heaclliDe. "J!i.m! creased .pace,..!>}.. eon-sity,
who put the "lie" to Wa!ter Crow Diss In On Campus," two tin" ..... the U i!nrity has "tried
A cycle of viciousness against Mitchdl had been taken to I· White, Secretary of the N. A. articles expose discrimination unsuceessfutlY" ~.sJl\ . the be­A.
C. P. as a result oC statement against Negro women stl¢ents glluung or the"semester .n 4zId
~~~~re;:go"':t: c~~I=a: I ~y ~~~P;~:~u:~~r f!~O~~::':': I 'l" made in regard to Dr, in housing facilities, and against roo.vs lor Miss CO~"k;nd Kiss
Clement and the p.reached the inevitable point oC earlier fight with fcur other offi, roposed re- student-teachers of the N~o O, bums, -..... ~ l'~. eir-- t . wuv v'> -.. w ....
its round ward swing early Fri- cers. I . f "- glOnal college (or Negroes, See group.. 'siPe living quarter«.' Only 50
day night, April 2, when Patrol· I The dead man's mo.ther, Mrs. . The "Ma~or of Harlem," Sherman ,Hibbett: Cormer Detroit resident who came to New York arhcle. Ne~o .gu-ls ,are harred .Irolll percent of 'NefTo women .ta-man
Marvin Almon, 828 East Opheim Petty, \017 W, Madi' 111 1941, was maugurated, March 23 at unpresslve ceremonies. Hibbett, who was elected in the dormItOries even where the ma- dents live in university,hous!Dc.
Madison, shot and killed Arthur I son, charged that one of the lirst popular. vole ever conducted for a locality may~r, received an additional honor when he was SPEAKERS PROTEST G I jo~it!' of White, gi~ls favor a~- sl1l! eStima&s. •
Mitchell at the General H",,' Cour officers caved in the back p resentro WIth a Cramed plaque by the Philip MorrIS Company famed callboy "J ohnny," a Cer- mlUmg them, It is charged JI\ hi9~ condit' . ~
pitaL oC h is head with a poker as she I tificate of Award "for distinguished achievement toward improving better race relations and B IAS; HIT EISENHOWER an a~C1e Py Ba;bara Meye~:' ho~ses for NI(;: s::enw ":
The slain man who lived at helplessly watched. "The police CIVIC government 111 terms of real democracy:' Looking on as Hibbett accepted the award are, __ Taking up the cases, oC Miss inferior to those fnr wm.e..
1118 Rear West MadISOn was pulled down the wl11dow shade I left to right, Reuben J, Patton, executive director oC the Unofficial Mayor's Committee of Har- The Universal Military Train- Glenna Conner ~d Miss M,"!Y Mils Meyer 8Jge:,. It ~
"halC-crazed" fro m drInking to keep the people on the out- lem; Hugo E. Rogers, Manhattan Borough President ; "J ohnny," Mayor Hibbett and Herbert ing program was opposed in Ogburns, the wnter declares: Reuse, she quo~ studenta as
wine, witnesses reported. SIde lookl11g 111," she stated Wright, Philip Morris representahve 111 Harlem. , peacetime until segregation is "A poll was taken at Hep- saying, :'There is .no stu4r
Shot Three Times woodenly, I abolished in the, armed forces, burn. House, WltC .co-op house, :'I)IC scanP'Y recreational tac:1l-
Al!:.:~::,:::r:~:nty~~':: I H~at~:I!:nCl~=eth SmJth HERE FOR K. N. E. A. CLEMENT PUTS ' :.',d\~:":~~:~I~~! ~~~.:e:~ ~~n~:O;:~a!,~eT;''!:,~~:t~OeWta;~ ItieS: (c:7 r::~:4)much
hospital, told superior oDicers and John Steele said Mitchell I Congressional testimony at the .. ,
~~~~~!~~~~~ , I LIE TO WHITE!~~~1~~ SCEONMTMEUNT'C EE,IN
TD
GRAL' IM'F -ES.I
leg, Almon charged with man' I carried him to the home of his cla tion respectively
slaughter, was paroled to Night ' mother aner he asked to be al- ha~al~~ N;t Cu.~P:,,!U;;:C ~ I ~ec7s~:~~ ~: ~~cu{;'~~n~'.:':r!: Will~~ who said that now •
Chief Charles Doyle. (Continu:C: .~_4>_ I would have told Walter White Court. For that reason, I can' IS the t,~e to en~ segre~~tion,
BISHOP WRI6HT AND OTHERS PAY • that he was telling a lie;' Dr'l not endorse it," and speaking ,:ged all ~enc~ CItizenS, Amer1cus, Ga" April S-Judge I grams has bad to underlo be­.,
Rufus Clement, president oC of the southern Governors he I' egro an,d white, to Impress on WlllJam M, Harper of thi cause of her' refusa l to e-*
TRIBUTE TO P RESIDING ELDER HUGHES Atlanta Umverslty. saId recent· SBJd, "SomebOOy ought to grab ' ~e~ leg~at~~ :~ ~~po,:~~e Southwestern Superior Court WIth ~ white sharecropptt.
'~ru::~ ~::;;'::~:SS0~0 :J:ee ~~ I them and Sit them down." I draf~:S p!senuy sct ::wn 0: commuted the sentences of Mrs. I At a heariag jor a new trial
ImprCllSJVe f~neral servICes by BIShop Wright, paId high I Teachers ASSOCiation. . He S~ted ~t th~ recent ~. I paper" The young attorney Rosa ~ll Ingra
t
,: ~ ~ t~o two weeks ago, lIefenae attonl-wrre
hr ld Cor Rev. B, M Itrihutu to Re.. Hu;:hcs as = I ,, ' ! p~eme ourt eclSJons m e said, "It ,",ould be h~rd for him sons, a ace, , an mmle eys contended that the JUrY
Hughes, Presiding Elder of the I outstandmg ch'urchman ' an d After talkIng WIth me .a.OOut SIPUel ease and others, are as I to tell hIS own SOb to regISter if I Lee, 14, to life unpnsonmen" l went 'hog wild' in CGDvidmg
Louisville District o( the A.M.E. ' leader, a Criend who was a real an hour regatdlllg. my ";ISII to much the cause o! th~ :>ou~em he had to set apart 111 a labor here Tuesday. the mother and ~ two _ .
Chl1n'h at QUJnn Chapel, ),1on' \ friend, ":ho at all tImes got joy John W. Work the Southern Go~ernors con- I revolt as Truman s CIvil RIghts, I battalion beneath his ability Judge Harper ruled that the It is not known wlleCber the
day afternoon. Rev. HugheS suc. , out of helpmg otbers, and in Professor of music theory at I (er~nce m Flo:ld1l; Dr. Clement ' an,~ Dr. Cle~ents added: and be humliated time and time three. were .COnVlCted on cittum- commutation ~f the death 9I!D-cumbed
at Red Cross Hospital I givmg rath r than receIving. Fisk UnJVerslty, who will ap- . dec ar~ angrIly, 'Walter White I America IS the last outpost I after time and m place aIter stantiaJ eVldence and that thts I lienee to bfe DJlpo~l will
Where he had been confined for I A d I te to th ! th pear 10 UlSViJle as director of then went . away and made 3 of freedom, and we are lacing a pia c." permitted him, under the Gt!or- stop ft.., numerous darts In
more than six weeks. ng A,ri Gen .. r.1 e Cn
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;, .. ::; an AIl-5tate chorus of 200 ~h stating that I . approved war ~at nught see the last of I Rev. Offutt, militant $On of gia law, to set aside the deAth behalf of the r.,,-. ~
A leader of hIS denomination ' at Kansas CIty In May, Rev. voices to .be presented on the .::;~~n Educallonal R"-r cCo..,\rnuea or. ~e 4) , the Rev. W. P. Offutt, Sr, pas- penalty, whJch was meted out ease. attrwted ....aan-wtde at-ill
this section, servlllg In an (Conhnued on...., 1) openmg night of the K.N.E.A. g1 . . ' tor of Calvary Baptist Church, to ).he ~ams for the alleged tention and appe6 .., bee.
oftkal capacty n the A.M.E. Na- Monday, April 12. Dunng hIS hour-long talk to DULW DE£lARES ' and a former LoUISVIlle public fatal beating of John E. Strat- made to Ooft~ ~
_I conneclJon and WIdely ~ &110 SEIZES TOP .. the teachers, Dr. Clement de- FOR ~ I school teacher, saJd that he was ford, 66-year-old white ~ and President Tr..a.
_ Imown, the funeral services, unJLAft degree m JOurn.lis~ at Colum- nounced Southern GovemoJ'S( rllJO'lAIIEIT FEPC' N1'prised at Mr. Eisenhower for cropper, last November'" '1
Monday, were , largely attended AfRKAN LEADERS bla Umverslty, Barnster E. Alt- Henry Wallace, Walter White, - __ ' I his backwood Misllissippi state- Evidence presented at the DOIIIIS :=" . Rev. E. 1. Hickman served as ~Atr!~ w~~o~ ~~:~%It;~ :;;'bolSm·
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Commun.JSD1 and Ran- New York, April I.- A fed- I ment on the question of segre- thtrial I mcludetinnfetestimon
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~ ro_ • d th -- , ISm. e was m an alljp'Y If ' Itt' ""\.Jon in the armed (occes. engrams c as to -- ""1 lit ...... TemonJes, an e I Lo d A il 8 (G)-As Barrister E. 0 , Lampley, LL.B mood d ced rds "era 8Jr emp oymen prac Ices ,,: he tin f th d . .vi. r:
by Bishop non, pr an London and W OCori Atta B.A ~" ,an rom no",:,o., m act was advnc:ated last week hY IElSellhOWer said, "The human a I 0 e man, urmg-of
Wilber- afte,nsath of the recent West Cambrkl e ' , ., setbng the record s~ .. ght as ""vera) leading citizens here at race someday may grow up to arllUJDeDt Over damace to a com BuIr ro-:;;;-
.Ual"-ersity, pre sId J n g A!r?n Gold Coa t riots the g '. to where he stood on unportant a dinner for officials of the the point where there is no race fleJd by a mule owned by \be Sou ~ --. AI!riI'
the 13th Epi"copad British government has .arrest- SeriOUS repercussJons are ex· matters that face the world to- National Council for a Penna- I prejudice. When you try to pass Ingrams. On the ot~ band, bolt their ~
wtUd> com rises Ken- f ed many of West Afnca s lead- peeted over the Gold Coast at- day. I ' , laws to force someone to like Mrs. Ingram m as interview ~
. P ing intellectuals. Those beld farr and ~e subsequen~ arrests He expla.ined that .... hile he nent ~~ E,,?ployment PraclJce someone ,eise, you're loing tOlgiven ~egro ~per report- no oIIwr ,r.e to MIl
~ . are: Dr. J . B. Danquah, top m· of these Intellectuals, 8lDCe Dr. and four other eolirge presi_ CoIllJ1lJSSJOD m the Waldori·As· get mto trouble. en, said th8\ the beatJnc _ DO ~ ,,~
tt. ~m::~:~A.;- ~~ and longtime polio Banquah is the brother of \be dents were m Florida a month toria botel. "'The Necro is Ie. wen edu- dOOle ID Rlf cW_ and tbe ~ ~ Iteny s.
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'1IIfttiDc, hida me. John Foster Du.lles, Repub- of that, if J'O'l try to make a tbaa ....... o...n.. ~
~ la1erdenomiDatloDal AI- in the U. s., ~;:~re M .ecured ra- Gold CoMt poteatate. _=--~ at the :me =- Ucaa fGftip upert wrt'Ie that comP~ ~u-. the He- motioll onll ;.. ~." P ....
u..; L Wi1lla Cole, Methodist 1 h& ILA. IUIII Master of ~ AU aI. West Africa ia ill a tur- Tbq accepted the . vitatiall to ....... Ita a)aWm of free gro ... ~ - reJepted to the Bn, OIfutt .... tlut \be .0...
~ mel EvaDeelist Mar- . 1ft. lower jot. and .Ilk m- of A.CP.'. atand OIl the 01. *'
.... Keys, African Methodist deer-. ~; Mr. Ako moil and \be United JtinIdom ..... weIIt. Bl~ tile UDftecI States promotioIl wiU be Ie. becaue _ -.a.d ID a ta ... 1181 ~
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.. tile be euloQ delivend dpieat aI. a Mater aI. .... _ ill tile _ ~ II __ I Bu\ I tbIDII: 111M It. _.1IIt equal opparIuaity. edunted wtdta _> ,.. P"O" (c-t1a11e4 - ftIet . )