MAKESHIFT LAW SCHOOL UNDER NEW PATTERN CHANGE HIT BY COLLEGE HEAD PLAN VIOLATES THE AGREEMENT, SAYS KENTUCKY STATE PRESIDENT ATWOOD Determined to continue the segregational pattern in Kentucky public schools on the basis of race, at any cost, state officials this week added four Frankfort attorneys to the seven University of Kentucky Professors who have been teaching one Negro law student since September. The student is John W. Hatch, Springfield, Ky., the only Negro to avail himself of law courses under the State plan to meet the Supreme Court ruling on equal education by using the University of Kentucky professors to teach special courses not offered to Negroes at Kentucky State College. Under the equalization-of-opportunity program, the university sends books and instructors to K.S.C. to teach Negroes U. K. courses not available at the colored school. K.S.C. does not teach law. When Hatch enrolled to study law, the university began sending books and seven professors to teach him on the Kentucky State College for Negroes campus. The seven University of Kentucky professors will discontinue their instruction. Hatch will be required to go to the State Capitol for library work. Dean Elvis J. Stahr, Jr., of the U. of K. said, "The teaching will give Hatch 'a more normal schedule.'" He terms the change as improvement. R. B. Atwood, president of Kentucky State College criticized the plan and said it violates the agreement to teach Negroes what they cannot get at U. of K. at the Negro school. In his objection President Atwood said: "The new plan violates both the letter and spirit of the agreement entered into by the State Board of Education (the board governing K.S.C.) and the board of trustees of the University of Kentucky. "Among other things that agreement stipulates that courses (Continued on page 4)
Bunche Makes Threat To Quit
Truman Victory Buoyed Hopes Of Thousands of Federal Employees
FISK PRESIDENT IS FELLOWSHIP SPEAKER President Charles S. Johnson of Fisk University was the guest speaker at the Fellowship Hour at Christ Church Cathedral Sunday afternoon. Among other things, Dr. Johnson, speaking on the subject of "Race and World Democracy," told an appreciative mixed audience, that if America would challenge Russia as the one competitive nation in her quest for world leadership and would have democracy as the governmental pattern for the other nations, rather than to have a world with both democracy and communism working in an understanding accord, the nation would have to first put her own house in order by seeing that all of its citizens were subjects of democracy in all of its fullness. Dr. Johnson urged in substance the passage of President Truman's Civil Rights bill with- (Continued on page 4)
Raid On Gambling
CRACKDOWN ON NEGRO GAMBLING CONSIDERED REPRISAL AGAINST POOR SUPPORT GIVEN REPUBLICANS Lack of enthusiasm on the part of the gambling fraternity in supporting the local Republican ticket in the November 2nd elections, is believed by members of the underworld to be the cause of the present crackdown on gambling in this city. Although minor raids on handbooks and crap games have been conducted by city and county officials, it was not until this week when a suit was filed in Circuit Court to prevent a lottery from continued operation, that the whole lid on gambling was threatened. Mitchell Edmonds, 623 South 8th seeks to have the Square Deal lottery closed by injunction. He said he has lost more than $1,100 over an extended period trying to "catch" the numbers. The plaintiff also declared that he was forced to settle with the syndicate for $600 after "hitting" for $2,500. The Square Deal lottery is reliably reported to do more than $500,000 net business annually. Named in the injunction were John "Snow" Walker, 632 West Walnut, local sportsman and owner of a juke box business; Leroy Spears, 632 West Walnut; Walter Cisco, Jeffersonville, Indiana; Ollie Ware, 1704 West Walnut; Pete Hargrove, 532 West Walnut, and Steve Calandrino, 2312 Dundee Road. All the men except Cisco and Calandrino are colored. The 632 Walnut address is listed as The Avenue Pool Room. The injunction is a sequel to an attack on the numbers racket launched more than two years ago by Captain MacAleese of the 3rd Louisville Police District. At that time MacAleese arrested Walker, together with certain lottery paraphernalia on a gaming charge. The case was filed away in Police Court by Judge Homer McClellen. Atty. Edward Ogden, who represented a numbers runner affiliated with the same house, received a fifty-dollar fine for his client. MacAleese carried the case to the Grand Jury and received an indictment. Walker was fined $1,000.
Millionaire Is Jailed For Attack On Colored Man With Cane
Amherst Fraternity to Initiate Negro
End park discrimination.
PLENTIFUL FOODS FOR THANKSGIVING [Photo] In preparing for Thanksgiving, the economy-minded director of home economics at Howard University, Dr. Flemmie P. Kittrell, center, gives two of her students tips on food cost savings by pointing out the advantages of buying plentiful foods. Her Thanksgiving menu for Howard's Home Management House includes such relatively low-cost nutritious food items as dried fruits, carrots, cabbages, grapefruit, potatoes, cranberries and pecans. These are some of the plentiful foods which give you more for your money than alternative foods which usually are higher in price. A month by month list of foods in plentiful supply is issued to interested organizations by the U. S. Department of Agriculture. The students with Dr. Kittrell are Miss Rita Barnes of Reading, Pa., and Miss Jean Terry of Washington, D. C.
Mrs. Roosevelt Advocates Banning of Dixiecrats From Democratic Party
PUBLISHER BUSY ON HIS 83RD BIRTHDAY Cincinnati, Nov. 18--Wendell Phillips Dabney, dean of Negro newspapermen, observed his 83rd birthday Nov. 4, by working as usual. He got out the regular weekly edition of his one-man newspaper, the Cincinnati Union, which he has published and edited for more than 40 years and which is unique in its use of rhyme in headlines and stories as well as Dabney's own personal column, "Gossip and Reflections," in which he recreates in vivid and satirical fashion many of his experiences. That night he was guest at a surprise birthday dinner given him at the Crawford Old Men's home of which he is board chairman. He [regaled?] the 28 guests with his stories of his life from his birth in Richmond through service as paymaster for the City of Cincinnati.
BRUTAL WOMAN ATTACK REVEALED RACE OFFICER TELLS STORY WOMAN IN SCHOOL YARD STRIPPED OF EVERY PIECE OF HER CLOTHING The attack of a colored woman in the yard of the S. Coleridge Taylor School at 13th and Liberty, Wednesday, November 11, is reported by Jesse Taylor, race officer as being one of the most brutal and sordid known by him as a member of the Louisville Police Department. Taylor, regarded as one of the most capable members of the Department, admits that he has made mistakes. He made his share of them, perhaps, because of his over-zealousness and ultra-aggressiveness. For Taylor is definitely serious about the idea of having something done about the prevalence of crime of one sort or the other among Negroes, and in the community generally. And this particular case reaches a climax with him. It was last Monday night that Officer Jesse Taylor and James Ratcliff noticed a group of young Negroes in the school yard at 13th and Liberty. They fired shots in the air when the group tried to make their getaway, and five of the youths weer seized. They were arrested in connection with an attack on a 24-year-old colored woman. According to Officer Taylor the woman was surrounded by at least eight youngsters at 12th and Walnut, ad forced by them to go to the schoolyard, where they pushed her over a four-foot fence, and there raped by at least two of the boys. When the officers reached the scene the woman was stripped of every piece of her clothing, according to Taylor. Among the Negro youths held in the attack were John Edward Murphy, 21, charged with rape; Samuel aGtson, 21; Moses Scott, 22; William Lewis, 19; Tommy Johnson, 20, all charged with detaining and banding together.
Air Demand For Segregation End
Anniversary Tribute Paid Late Educator
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