DU BOIS ATTACKS POLITICAL POLICY OF NAACP
SAYS IT'S ACTIVE FOR TRUMAN
Charges Leveled at Walter White, Association Secretary, Report
NAACP Drops Doctor Du Bois
PORO BEAUTY SCHOOL SUPERVISOR [photo] Mrs. Grace Cox Young Talented, versatile and accomplished former instructor in Cosmetology at West Kentucky Vocational Training School, will assume duties as supervisor of the Poro Beauty School located at 928 West Chestnut Street, Louisville, October 1. Mrs. Young's nine years association at the West Kentucky school as instructor in Beauty Culture, sets a standard and a record in Kentucky, and her experience as supervisor at the institution should serve as an asset to the business and professional field in Louisville. Mrs. Young is the daughter of Mrs. Muscoe Z. Co , one of the oldest and highly respected families of Henderson, Ky., and is the sister of Mrs. E.W. Jones of Louisville. She is a graduate of Wilberforce University, Poro College, E. Clarke School of Beauty Culture of Chicago, a registered masseuse from the College of Swedish Massage, and has attended other leading beauty schools throughout the country. Mrs. Young has had twenty years experience in the Beauty Culture field and is one of the most qualified instructors in the State of Kentucky. She is a member of the First Baptist Church at Henderson, a member by Christian experience of Washington Street Baptist Church, Paducah, a member of the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Sigma Pi Honorary Society of Wilberforce, First Vice President of the Kentucky Barber and Beauty Congress and is associated with numerous other social and civic organizations.
Detective Beaten COUNTY COP BEATS RACE DETECTIVE JUDGE HORACE BARKER ADDS HIS BIT BY MAKING BOND $25,000 Prather Walker, 39, a ace police officer of Lexington, Ky., was held to the grand jury under a bond of $5,000, when arraigned in Quarterly Court here, Monday morning, on the charges of breach of peace, resisting an officer and pointing a deadly weapon. According to County police, last Sunday Walker was a passenger in an automobile driven by Roy Woods, 21, also of Lexington, the two men being accompanied by two women whose names were not obtained, enroute to Louisville, when stopped by Captain Louis Snyder of the County Police force and charged with reckless driving and operating a motor vehicle without a license. And that when the officers attempted to arrest Woods, the driver of the car, Walker drew his pistol and said, "You are not going to take him in. I am a Lexington policeman," and threatened to blow the County officer's head off, said the County officer. Snyder said that he backed away to his own car and radioed for help which arrived in two or (Continued on Page 4)
RACE POLICE NOT OUTSTANDING BUT MAKE CONTRIBUTION, SAYS HEUSTIS Under the head, "Louisville Took Lead in Hiring Negro Police for Limited Area," the following articles is the second of a series currently appearing in the Memphis Commercial Appeal:
"Our Negro officers are not outstanding, but there is no doubt they have contributed in maintaining reasonably good race relations both on patrol and in courts." This is Police Chief Carl E. Heustis' summation of the value of Negro police in Louisville, Ky.- a city which has had 25 years experience in policing its "Black Belt" with Negroes.
Today Louisville has 31 Negro officers, including 16 Negro uniformed offices. Only Miami, with 20 Negro uniformed officers, has a greater number among Southern cities. Louisville also has three Negro police sergeants, six plainclothes detectives, four park policemen, and two Negro women detectives working in the Crime Prevention Bureau. Other Cities Surveyed The Commercial Appeal is presenting this series of articles, reviewing experiences of other Southern cities with Negro police, since some Negro groups in Memphis are pressing re (Continued on page 4)
EFFORTS MADE TO IMPROVE WORKING CONDITIONS AND HEALTH FACILITIES In an effort to improve working conditions as well as more efficient operation of City-Council Board of Health facilities, Dr. John J. Phair, director this week announced the inauguration of a five-day schedule. Effected by the reorganization will be Louisville General Hospital, Waverly Hills Tuberculosis Sanitorium, Administrative Offices, and three health centers as well as three health centers as well as three out-lying clinics. "With this new five-day schedule there is no curtailment of services being made," Dr. Phair said, "By working longer hours for five days we feel assured of greater efficiency than under the five-and-a-half day plan which has been used until now." Working hours, now 30 minutes longer, are from 8:15 a. m. until 5 p. m. With the new 45-minute lunch period instead of the previous hour, the total work week in hours has been increased from 39 to 40 hours. Effected immediately is the Preventative Division under Dr. William F. Lamb, deputy direc- (Continued on Page 4)
FIVE CAUGHT IN RAIDS ARRAIGNED Five men were arraigned in Magistrate Rollin Gibbs' Court Tuesday on charges of breach of the peace following gambling raids by State Alcohol agents. Four were fined $5.00 fines and the case of the other was filed away. John E. Patterson, arrested at Daubs' Tavern, 1667 Gallagher; Elsworth W. Boyer, white, at Boyer's Place, 18th and Cedar; Porter Claypool, at Clifford Wade's, 15th and Madison, were fined on charges amended from setting up and operating a game of chance. John Young, said to be the "buzz man" at Daubs' Tavern, was the fourth man fined. A like charge against John Lee Jackson, arrested at Wade's place, was filed away.
CONFER, ON EDUCATION [Photo] A.E. Meyzeek [Photo] Dr. J.A.C. Lattimore [Photo] Dr. J.H. Walls [Photo] I. Willis Cole The above are members of a committee of citizens, who conferred with Fred H. Willkie, member of the Board of Trustees W. Taylor on matters pertaining to college education problems among the colored people of the city and state. Other members of the committee are Eugene Clayton, G.W. Jackson and Rev. D.J. Hughlett. The group will also go into other mattes pertaining to the advancement of the race in these parts.
MUNICIPAL COLLEGE ANNOUNCES OPENING AND NEW FACULTY MEMBERS Dr. Bertram W. Doyle, Dean of Louisville Municipal College, announces the addition of four new faculty members to the college staff for the 1948-49 school year and named the dates of registration for the fall term. Miss J. Elizabeth Lacey, B.A., M.A., University of Cincinnati and additional study at the American University of Classical Studies, Athens, Greece, will assume her duties in the Division of the Humanities. Randolph Leon Blackburn, graduate of Kentucky State college and member of the football squad from 1936 to 1940, will be an assistant in Physical Education. Miss Jackaline Newhouse, recent graduate of Wilberforce University, has been appointed as lecturer in physical education for women. Mrs. Evelyn Gaddie Smith, former member of the faculty of Western Elementary School and presently the principal of Douglass and Benjamin Bannecker Elementary School, will offer basic courses in Elementary Education, such as Survey of Elementary Education or Child Psychology in the Evening School. (Continued on page 4)
National Bar Group Meet In Atlanta
Would End Army Segregation 
Seven Point Plan Submitted
Report Castigates Policies of Army, Navy and Marine Corps
Wallace Expects 700,000 Votes
Negroes Vote But Talmadge Is Back
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