BY"U"OF KEN TUCKyl
AND LOUISVILLE
STATE'S AnORNEY AND TRUSTEES
STATEMENTS ISSUED BY ASSISTANT I WHY PAY M
The head of the nefarious Judge Ford's rulmg did not ~VO~L~U~ME~=:;3;=2= =================;S~A~TURD;:;;;;~A~Y;=, =;;MA;=;;Y~2;;,1 ==;=;194;;9;=================================­Day
Law was ra,sro th.s w ck I change Ih" applieal, n of Iht' ---- ======================:::::::===============================,,;;~~~
~n an ffort on thl' part uf tht D3'y L •. I\:, hu.-h rcqu n'- .
" .Il·-hard.·' to 5t m the t1 eo '·1 n .... tu.m. • '"egn n\ U.- t be I la:r and equal educatIon tor Te_ taught at diffl~r('nt tunl"$ In dlf ..
groes III Kentucky, and to hm f,'rent plac fmm Wh.tlS"
der progress under the r"""nl In the qu :111 n (t tll Day
rulmg of Fed ral JudI: H, Law an _ grpgatll,n wh,eh
~~W:~.~':~ su~~:7e:f ~e~ ~~I ~~~t:ras o;r.~",,:t~~a~~~~ 1
<!du tion stemming from both for ·egrN'S. Lyman J"hn.'On.
the Uni,:ersity of Kentucky and I Loubv.lle hIgh >ch, ,I Il acher
the Unl\'etSlty of ul~\'llll: I who won hi' ~Ult a~a~ru.t the
were m. adO' public Wedn('!;day. Univ('rsily of Kentucky a"d for
PresIdent. H. L. Donovan of equal education, was reported
:~:tUs~~~~~y~ ~~=:;:' ::~~ I :('~~:'~;on ~o '?aa~'i~te~~~n~
mdh'idual sehools of the Un!' build a fence around me." But
verstty would be open to egro he said, "The Important thm~
studen , but that they maybe IS getting equal rou l'ahonal op­unable
to attend classes WIth portunities;' and he added, " If
white students, and that to segregation prevents that, I am
complY "tully" with the Fed- prepared to stand my grounds
e",!- Court decision thro~gh and go to court." J ohnson "'­which
one Negro won adnuss,on tends to enroll at the University
to the Graduate School, the of Kentucky this summe r, for
University would offer courses the furtherance of work toward
to qualified Negroes in engineer. a doctor's degree in history.
BDNCHE HONORED, REMINDS NATION
PAID TRrBUTES iFEDERAL COURT NOTnTDRAITED IRACE PROBLEM.
ing. law and pharmacy. . In his ruling in fan)r of John-
Ill. B. HollJ\eld, AssIStant. scm Judge Ford characterized
State's Attorney Ge~eral, ISSU~ I the ' equal education plan as
a statem~nt In whIch he saJd, operated through the UnIVersIty
Kentucky s Day . Law w.ould be I of Kentucky and Kentucky
mvoked to prohibIt ~vhltes and State College for a Negro law
,BARS EXTRADITION AtSO IMPORTANT
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MAY BE NAMED
TO U. S. SENATE
SAYS PRISONERS ENTITLED TO DECENCY
IN DECISION AGAINST STATE OF GEORGIA
Ph,ladelphia, May I!}-Break· that serious and most freq uent
ing with pr cedent, Federal i>catings were among he minor,
Judge J ohn Biggs of the Third c:>"stant cruelties, said he.
Clrcu:t Court of Appeals. threw By a majority decl Ion of 5 to
out Georgia's demand that Leon 1, the court ove r ruled dL'Clslons
Johnson. 34-yelU"-old Negro who !n favor of Georgia's claim
escaped from Cobb County Ja'l hando!d down in the Allegheny
m 194.3, be returned to that County Court, Pennsylvania's
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HAS PRIDE IN ORIGIN, AND IN COMING FROM
RANKS, CONTRIBUTING TO CAUSE OF PEACE
N~w York, ;\1"" 1!}-'"As an, re:na in \\ ,th th .. ranks could be
American and a Negro, I can-I of resp(jn~Jblc service to the
not a,'oid reminding my f llow United Nations and the cause
Amencans that all of us who of peac for which it stands."
have a sense of justice and fair After telling of the coopera­play
must contrIbute to the tion gh'en him by th General
solution of a problem on our
. Year" by a Louisville sorority i~ I tence. . i Dislrid Court at A- E.
Hartford, Conn., May 19 -I the Reconstruction when several 1948 and recentlY paid more In his rule, Judge Biggs S3Jd, i it in effect frees Johnson from Race leader who has refused Palestine problem." Dr. Ralph. Trygve Lie,
Ever since Democratic Governor colored R:ep:",:eD~atlves were trib~tes because of her fine and a state canot extradite prisoners the Allegheny County Jail. to be d rafted as a candidate for J ohnson Bunche, retiring Act-I his address, in a very personal
Chester Bowles talked Repub· elected, MissISSIPPI sent. a col- varied act ivities and contribu- it has t~~ated "c,:"elly and in- . where he has been imprisoned the State Legislature. He told ing U~ited Nat i~ns M<!diator for manner.
lican Senator Roger Baldwin ored man to the Senate. liOns, she is also paid an editor- hu~anlY. Declanng m t~e ma- nearly SIx years. the Democratic "ch,efs" he had Palest me, saId In a~ address at i "U ~·ou will pardon a first
into giving up hIS seat m the 1 As fantastIC as the report may lal tribute on page 4. Jonty .opInion that pnsoners The Circuit Court ru};ng is rather remain on the State the annual a\\ anI dmner of the person r( fcr~nl·p, I may say that
august U. S. chambe~ tO
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beCO';''' sound, th~ ~ostd~tu~e pOht:C~1 are e~tltl~d t~ dece;~y and h.~- a;>plicable directly only m Pcnn- B.,ard of Education. ~~~~ca';.:aZ~~;·, a ~~~ f~~ :~: I ~"u~~~ (t~n~\C1~\.;'~~ ~h;~!~tit,:'e~
~a~~a~ej:d,~:~=;~~ca\\"h~;\~ ~~;;~,~el~yls :f~:~ t~l' IS~O~~\'.":~ WH!TE'S RESIGNATION ~~~'n;;," a~d g~he:g'~~tn::':~ ~~.at~~ ~i~~nJ~~~~d~I:r\\'~~~ Wal,lorf-Astolia, : Iondav nl(:h. I hm hp< ;''''bed I'f being
next mo,'e will be. afTair. I REfUrED BY uAACP testified that revoltin<: barban· helJ by tne Supreme Court, i DIES SUDDENLY WHLE The n'clpl( nt "f the annual pro or ,.ntJ o.lJ-,,, t p\erythin'l,
Th .. latest report IS that 111> r il:na :on pr 'ip,ta'ed • J n / Ites ... are hab Itually. perpe- would become national plactice. ON COURT BUSINErr award "f the ""L·N. Dr. Bunch~ ".!lh th' p( •. ·llp ~xl(pt,ons ur
Bowles WIll appomla prom!- ! \"l(llent cni1clsm among hI-- 7 -- I trated ~ stand~rd cham-gang I is nut likely. however, that JJ In a S('Vl'n-pact.' artdress told of Allah, Gc,u (lr J,-hu ·ah." hf'
ncnt N gro D mo(:ral1c lawyer erstwhile Republ;can ('()mrad I New '\ or,k. May 19 - The practice In Grorgl~. To perpetu- there \\ III be a Supreme Court rhe workinq- (If h'5 committee, cunt inu ed.
to succeed BaldWin. I who couldn't see how a talwart Bnard of Dlrec ors (.If the Na-I ate these ac ivit!('s-is to be I test. . RrJbert E. Malone, prominent and th.e progn· ..... made to brin81 "Sinc€: you ure' h •. nt.ring me,.
This move. sen!=ational as it GOP-man would qUit, kn~winS! t Lonal Ac;sociutiun for the Ad- Ullf3.ir to the Ameri('"3n scene as. R. A. \Va rrcn. director of clt.lzen and edUf·at~r. d :~d :-;uri p"are In the 114,1.\" Land. yuu arC'. pI rho ~:-.. (·nt:tled to
would be, IS not \\.'h3t polltlC()~ that hIS plaC'e \\'as certam to I \.an.c~ment .. of Colored People a whole aO.d. to renect lit,. Ie Georgia's Corrections Depart- I d. (,nl.Y I.as~. F riday. In the Cutn- In thankmt: the AS5.oclation h.:wc the: Ic('o.d !'.tr:ught, and so
ha,'e expectro to take place. b(' taken y a Democrat. unanimously . refused late on I credIt. o~, th IS generatton .or I ment , sa id it was the duty of I miSSIOner S ofTlce of the ~I)urt for the award. the Acting Medl- I ","ke " .. "n~,,'ion. I do !n­'
Mos of them figured that some-I Since his election as ~overnor, Mo~day e\{'nmg. to a~pt. th~e 1 po::,ten~y. .. . his office to attempt to extradite H()u~e whl!e thc:~ o~ busln.<.' .. s a· f)r ~aid that "if I expcTI nee uN,d, h~\ t· .~ nun.b<.'r o{ vcry
where along the hne .GC)~'ernor Sf)m thing of a surprise 10 itself. re~J(:naLon (~f the organJzahon s ]~ h iS opInio n: Judge •. ~1~gS I eaped. murderers.. but "If 1n po connection Wltb hIS family. p~lde at lhi'> f If,p' ('n t. it IS pride ~!.~·ong l.i3~ (~
Bowles .would be reslgnmg to' Bowl s has been pushing civil na· lonal e xecut1ve secretary, c~nsorro G orgl3 . for fa lmg Pennsyh'anja wants to keep 1\1.. Ma]on~ who returned to pnncipally in I'" \' origin; pride " J ".2\',' ;; (;~'('P f-t:a:ed bias
be apPOInted to the 5 nate. riRhts measures through the Walter Wh,te. . .Ignally In I!S dUll s as (.ne of I them and make citizens of the LoUIsville. sC" e ra! .yt>ars ago. ha I,,, ho ha,. rome from and (Continupd on pa&e 4)
Should thIS tradlllon·smash- C,.nnccticut Assemblv. 1 The board. >nstrad. ""tro to the ~verelpt s a tes to treat a . . Ill. aftcr vaned .actlv,tJes >n edu- - ___ _
>ng appointment of a colored I . I grant hIm a year's I('a\"c of ab- convict WIth decency and hu- It can do Just a. far as rm con- catIon. mcludml: the preSIdency A r.an to the Senate take plac .. th!1c 1';::t~(~a/tI~~~r~~ra~,o~ a~~ stnce, With pay. as of June I, manity:' I is enough to s tate cerned." .,~ Arkansas State College, Pme B RKLEY ASKS Jt will probablv shake the cap,- . ht th,s Yl'ar. wh,ch was to have B.u . Ark; Langston. Oklaho-
,,1 from dome to founda Ion. I FEPC aha Se"era, otner ng s taken place more than SIX / rTAGE AN!) SCREEN STAR IN SURPRISE MOVE" ma, and A. and T Colleges,
C)t since the days of th C"'II ",lls. He I, rated 3$ "ne of the month~ ago. _ . I.J , Greensboro. N. C.; ,rved. a;;
_~~:r;;~~t~~e;;u~n; t':,:d:~'~ ~~ ;r~.' andl"g hberaL- In he c .. un- th~n~~rt~~~I~; :~~~:a:~:~ :~ PLEADS GUiLlY IN MORAL CHARGES ~~:~:I D~:a;~e~~e ~t1Pd~~~! REAL "DEMOCRACY tendering his reSIgnation. he / Knox, Ky., dun ng the past >IX
was carn'ing out his doctor's Topeka, Ka... May 12 - R " of the actor came after Ingram yca,.,;. YALE'S FOOTBALL CAPTAIN BECOMES FIRST ordm ';nd adVIce. and that Ingram, 53-year-old stage and had teen fully advised by hiS 1 A mem' cr of the pioneer ~Ia­wh,
le his health has not been screen star. Thursday entered a attorneys, WIlham H. Towers lone famIly, he is SUrviVPd bv RACE MEMBER OF EXCLUSIVE CAMPUS CLUB any worse, sinre he first appl'ed plea of gUI lty In the federal d ls- and Elmer C. Jackson, Jr , both \\"0 daughters, Mrs. Cora f-Iae Phlladelph:a. :,Iay 19-" 0 ita mful ' tu.~ti"n".
for a leave of a'senre, e Ight tnct court h re to a charge of of Kans33 CIty, Kas. Hilton, Los Angel"". Calif; Mrs. natIon is compkt,·ly democrd\!c I V i~e PTl";ld rot Barkley was
ew Haven. Conn .. May 19- c,ptes I· ron,iderro one of the m"nths ago, ncithcr has his transporting a J5-year-old 5a- 1 The <"Qurt, two weeks ago, had EdIth J ackson, T,·lroo, Ohio; a as long as it (an reach into introdue ;d hy Albert M. GrP{'n-
LeVI J ackson, captain of the 'I campus' hl~ll .t honors. health ,mpr.oV.ed. any. I ~lna. Kas .• g rl to _ w York fO~ agreed to cont inu the case untIl ~ro.th. er. Claud .Malone. ·Wa.<h- (,"ery hom an,1 .~.nd a man field, chairman of th(' Philadel-
Yale Un;v rslty football team. Jackson, who IS the second During WhIte s a )senre. ~oy mmoral purpo:;es Ia.·t ptem I June 1. 101( '1 D. C.; t 4'0 sIsters. ;'I.1rs. acre the ,,"orlJ to figh for ph:a chapt r (,f Ih cunference,
became thE' first Negro member :oIegro football capta.n Yale ever WIlkinS, editor of the organt7a-1 ber. . I I Edltn Ward, Ch:ca~(.; M . Eth('1 dcrr.ocral'y-tn, n p revent him as the "Olio t fo,("('rul ~nd mosl
of one (,f the exclUSIve campus had and the fir~t In mnd m Il,m's pubhca IOn, "The CrlSI<," In~ m a l '0 pI aded "Ullty to nOBY SMASHES YANKEE lalon('. LoUJ.,'·ll, and t4'0 fmm partlclp" n:: m h 's gov- dynamic n.an" .r. th UnIted
clu m the colleg 's h,.tory Jruot I tIm's, IS 22. w,lI act !n hIS place, 3«·ordint!. a second c,.unt '" th(' hr('e- / grandchildren. '(>~nment a hom('," declarcd ta es.
week. t" Henry Lee Moon,th NAACP I count Indictm<"l. ThIS chargedi STADIUM RHORDI Fun ra l se,."lc s were hId V'c President Alb n W. Bark- _____ _
And at the same tIme h<' e\('('- TRIPLITS MAKE TOTAL publlclty director. hIm WIth mm1.ng an Indecent) __ from the Beckett Funeral Hom<', Jc'Y. Tu _day. 111 la.hro out at MeB KIDNAPS AND
trlfied the campus by rejecting lett r to the Irl In VIOla Ion of I The longest hIt known to I Monday, cond ucted by Fa:her th cnuntrl s "h "ad who perm I
he Invitation .of two of the best 20 DURING 11 YEARS MRS_ BETHUNE TO RETIRE I postal la~s. . veteran bas ball men and n ws- G. A. 5t~ms of the Church of the go"ernt'l'~n to SU~J cl the BEATS FARMER 7' known organlzaltons to accept I AS .COUNCIL HEAD The thIrd count whIch also ' t . led b Our MerCIful Sav,or. Interment <>rd,.nary peoplp 0 police pres- ,
that of a third club. -- w York, May I!I- Mrs. charged maJling or an Indecent i ~"; ;:~y~~'O;'~ :ro ou~ I in Greenwood Cemetery. ,ure and tactlc~ and later ca ll
Jackson .became a member of -:shevIlle, . C., May I!}-~lrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, noted Ie ter, was dIsmIssed I:y Judge' 6 lder WIth the World Cham-/ on th . san,c people dUring a 76~ul~;:~~. fa~m:; -~~~a~~!
the BerzellUS Club after repre- Ja k NorriS has been marned woman educator and race lead- Arthur J . Mellott. ' PIOn Clev land IndIans In the HOLD FUNERAL na lonal crlSl'\
sentatlves of Skull and Bones 17 years and each ear has had r has announced that she will Judge Mellott announced the ', . R rt St d ' h FOR DR. TAYLOR He spoke to .00 persons at the POlted he h~d been beaten anti
and Scroll and Keys had ten- a chIld. Th,s ason sh tripled re' ire as preSident of th Na- would Im;>osl! senten wh n . s~c:h us uppe y = IU;, kome Funeral service:; were held for "Brotherhood Day" runner at kldnappro" by a band of men
dered th If invitations. h r annual output. She gave tlOnal Cuuncll of egro Women the October t rm of the fed raI l ;h~ a"t't: or an ees, Dr. J. A. Taylor, d ntlst, WIth the Belle,-u • St ratford hotel last Sunday night.
Acordmg to umverslty trad l-I bIrth to triple Monday to whIch she founded in Novem: court conv nes In Karu;3s CIty,' ay moon. offIces '" the Pythian Temple. marking the 21st aQoiversary of Shelton Lorick, the farmer,
tion all Juniors assembled '" brmg her offspring up to 20. ber. Mrs. Bethune ;s 74. • Ka ., on or about October 1. " The d lstan 0' from home-plate a Plymouth Congregational the NatIOnal Conference of Id IS unmasked men hM
Branfield Courtyard to await the ' Mrs. NorriS IS only 33 y ars old Ingram was permItted by the ' to the bleach r s.eats whIch Church, Wednesday afternoon. Chrlsltans and J c ws. draued . h,m Into a motor c:ar.
arrival of the representatives of I and presumably IS good for ANNUAL HEALTH AND court to remain at large unltl ' bord~r cent~ Id IS 407 feel. R v. A. D. PInckney, pastor, of· Barkley said that America taken hIm to a .wood~ sectJon
the ix secret societies. many more years. WELFARE COUNCIL th t ti d ed bo d f I Doby s h me run trav led 450 fielatmg. Dr. Taylor, who llved must I ad othpr nallons in the and beat hIm wUh th Ir lists.
Th tt . Ik I H r husband and a friend 2 a
500
me an post a n 0 feet-plus- veral· ats over '" at 2611 W. Chestnut died at baUe for tolerance and rri nd He could gIve no r eason tor
th es;: :prese"ct~;Ves rd wa d were the only ones In altend- The annual meeting of the Th ·.' I the stands. Nothing like It was Red Cross Hospital after an ill· sh;p He prai ro the Conferenc - the assault but raid h had ~n
roug t e crow ya an ance when the first boy arrived Health and Welfare Council of e surprise move on the part I ever accomphi h by u.ch n of three weeks. He was 49 lor 'the work It had done in accu by on of th memtxrs
~"tap .. :Ch t;! ~he IS m::,.:::~y but before the others got here the Community Chest was held WOULD EKD I swatters as Babe Ruth, Lou He was an officer of Plymouth Ameflca and throughout the of the band 01 "cncouragu..
av:;, :" th or mem d:' she was being attended by a at the Woman's. Club on South IMMIGRATION B. ANS Gehrig and Joe DeMaggio, ~ay I CongregatJonal and a member world in making men realize white peopl to vi it his fann."
As ey ? so ey comman ~ I physician. The mother and th F~urth ~l., Fnday aftern~n, .. the baseball experts. of the Loui ville and National the "brotherhood" of all. When he n,onstrated that he
~~~eeoa/~f :~e ~~e ~n':'~r three new arrivals were taken WIth Kelt~d ' C. S~rs, Ch~r- li New
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Yor.~ ~ay 19-:Elu~lna-1 Not onlY d id Doby smash the Dental AssocIations, Alpha P~, lJe in i ted that all r ligious SOI~ eggs
h
and chIckens the 0~17
I to a hospital where the bab'es man, presl mg. e spea er on 0 rac, ans m lmmlgra-I IOng t of the Yankee stadium Alpha fraternIty the Masonit d IT lk th . d IT rep y e got w that "we whIte
~~ • o::ti:O .:::t"~j:':':~:: were placed in an incubat~r. wfasthRONbeti~ E.al Soc:iBo~dYt' dwirect
lf
or tEiod n wrdas JsugSghesledhnSaturdday by hom rs. !::at he batted in all of ~ a.nd a Shri~er. Dr. Taylor e~c:::''':;, ";a~_m:d:rand I t~~ folks .. are gomg to n this
Th <!d ds 0 e a on eye are wa . aug es5Y, Jfec- IS surv,ved by h.is wife Mrs state.
day for mo.t of the.cJa:>smen, all lOy avera, . three poun Assembly. Subject: "National. tor of the New York District of 'I the thre~ Cleveland Indian runs. LoUIse Taylor, a niece ;"'d ~ the cooperation o~ :>:ll peopl,,! Lorick r<'Called that 10
of wtIom have .asPlr8tions. ea~ The bab.es were . named Dev~opments Alfectmg ~ I th~ Immig;ation and Naturaliz- . The indians beat the Yankees neph w, In nnent in Eastern was necessary to elinunate thes_ ago be sh t a whIt manY:,!
Membership In one of the so- DaVId, Donald and Damel. Health and Welfare Programs. ahon ServIce. 3-2. Cern tery. A. D, Porter Funeral, undertakers. dispute O\'H a chkken.
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