WOMAN MAKES PLEA FOR TRUMAN AND BARKLEY SAYS BALANCE IN RACE HANDS WASHINGTON NEWS WRITER, FORMERLY WITH THE LEADER, DEMS RALLY SPEAKER Speaking before a capacity crowd at the Brock Building Auditorium, Tuesday night, Mrs. Alice A. Dunnigan, a member of the Speakers' Bureau, National Democratic Committee, pointed out how necessary it is that the "people of this country return the control of the United States Senate to the Democratic part, come next week." She urged this interracial group of Louisville citizens to cast their votes for Harry S. Truman, Alben W. Barkley, Ralph H. Logan for United States Congressman, Charles P. Farnsley for city mayor and G. W. Jackson for the local school board. Pointing out that the Negro vote holds the balance of power in this coming election, she said, "in this crucial year of decision, Negro voters, like all other voters, must evaluate carefully their goals and the end result of their individual and collective action. . . . It is necessary for them to combine their strength so that it might be used advantageously in setting America on the way to world peace and understanding; and to win for minority peoples both in this country and abroad the civil rights and human rights that they so rightfully deserve." Because of the gratifying promises made to minority groups by each of the three major political parties in an effort to win their votes, Mrs. Dunnigan said that a number of Negro citizens have become confused as to which party is really sincere in its pledge. "The best way to judge the sincerity of a party is by weighing its past record" she declared. She then sketched briefly the conditions which this country was in sixteen years ago when it was turned over to the Democratic party. "Franklin D. Roosevelt and a Democratic controlled congress stepped into this 'Republican-made-mess' with the battle cry that 'the American people have nothing to fear but fear itself.'" FDR's New Deal program, she declared, soon " restored the confidence of the American people in themselves and in their country," and set America once again on the road to prosperity. She then gave in detail the record of each of the major candidates tracing the political record of Harry S. Truman back to the time when he was county judge in Missouri and contrasting it with the record which Thomas E. Dewey has made as governor of New York. Likewise the record of Governor Warren was compared with that of Senator Barkley. "If the American people would turn out in full force on November 2 and elect the Truman- (Continued on page 4)
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ANOTHER MAN SHOOTS ANOTHER WOMAN Another woman was shot by another man, Negroes of course, at 652 S. 19th Street, Sunday night. Frank Elliott, 65, is said by police to have shot Pauline Martin, 38, three times during an argument. They lived at the same address, according to the report.
HEAD'S HIGH [Photo] Alfred Carroll Through the courtesy of The Louisville Times, we are reproducing the above picture of Alfred Carroll, local attorney and candidate for United States Representative from the Third District, on the Progressive ticket, as he spoke from the top of a sound truck at Hancock and Breckinridge, Wednesday night. The Times' reporter said the crowd was small. Nevertheless Carroll had his body up and keeps his head up, and he may after all receive an appreciable number of votes Tuesday. He at least is a courageous young Negro. That is a credit that cannot be taken away from him.
Judge Blasts South Southern Judge Blasts South Says It Should Not Be Let Alone; Treats Negro as a Favor, Not as a Right
Regional Schools To Get Going In South By September of 1949
RULES STATE HOSPITALS MUST ACCEPT NEGROES Frankfort, Oct. 28- In a letter to Dr. A.M. Lyon, secretary of the State Tuberculosis Sanatoria Commission, Assistant Attorney General N.B. Holifield said Monday that Negroes must be accepted at each of the six State tuberculosis hospitals. The statues specify equal facilities at each hospital for patients of each race in the hospital district, said Holifield. Dr. Lyon asked whether it would be legal to concentrate Negro patients in one building at Hazelwood Sanatorium with Negro doctors and nurses. Holifield said that while equal facilities must be provided at each hospital, the law permits transfers of patients. He added his belief that Negroes might prefer to be in a building where they could be served by their own race. But, he said, that in questions as to transfers, "all doubts should be resolved in favor of the patient, regardless of race."
DEMOCRATIC RALLY SPEAKER [Photo] Mrs. Alice Dunnigan Outstanding newspaper woman and a member of the Speakers' Bureau of the National Democratic Committee, who delivered a strong address at the Truman-Barkley rally, sponsored by the Colored District Organization at the Brock Building. Mrs. Dunnigan is standing on the Capitol steps in Washington in the above picture. She was the first race woman admitted to the Congress press-galleries. As a representative of the Associated Negro Press she was the only woman on the recent special presidential train to the West Coast. She is a Kentuckian.
JACKSON BACKED BY MORE GROUPS; OPPOSED BY UNION; AT SCHOOL MEETS G. W. Jackson, candidate for membership on the Board of Education, was indorsed this week by several well known organizations, including the Louisville Christian Civic League the Jefferson County C.I.O.-P.A.C. largely made up of white members, and the Louisville Association of Teachers in the Colored Schools. These groups run the total number of organizations which have indorsed the Negro candidate up to something like 25. On the other hand Mr. Jackson, a retired school teacher, is opposed by the Louisville Federation of Teachers, of which a number of colored teachers are affiliated. According to The Louisville Teacher, official organ of the union, the deciding factor against Mr. Jackson is his age. Thevote for two white candidates, Morton Walker and Raymond C. Stephenson, was unanimous according to the union's organ. Declaring that the Board of Education should serve all the people of Louisville and every class of the city's population, G. W. Jackson, candidate for the Board of Education, addressed a mass meeting at Eastern Junior High School last Wednesday night. The meeting, sponsored by the Louisville Education Association and the Louisville Council of Parents and Teachers, featured all seven board candidates. Mr. Jackson further advocated a wider use of school buildings. "The availability of the school plant for activities designed to improve and enrich community life indicates good educational, cultural, civic and business judgment," he said. He further advocated that the Board resume its policy of free lunches to needy children as soon as possible. "Hungry and undernourished children are handicapped children," he (Continued on page 4)
OLIVE PREDICTS A DEMOCRATIC SWEEP Lewis C. Olive, chairman of the Colored Democratic Committee in the City and State, told The Leader this week that the Democratic Party would win a sweeping victory over the nation, Tuesday, November 2. He based his prediction on the votes of the working class, the farmers and the Negroes. He predicts that Truman and Barkley would carry Kentucky by 60,000; Chatman by 10,000, and he said that Farnsley would carry Louisville by 15,000 and Logan, the Third District by 5,000.
Student Fined Ten Dollars
ROUGH COPS LOSE FIVE DAYS PREPARED FOR COLLEGE, YOUTH REFUSED TO ADMIT TO CRIMES; ALLEGEDLY BEATEN Theodore Rowan, Jr., 23-year-old student at Fisk University, who lives with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Rowan, Sr., was fined $10 when he appeared in Police Court Tuesday on a charge of disorderly conduct. A charge of vagrancy was also placed against the college student, which was not dismissed but filed away. Following his arrest on the early morning of September 29, at 21st and Hale by Patrolmen John Merrifield and Frank E. Boyd, complaints were made by the father of young Rowan, before Mayor Farnsley's "Beef Session" that the youth was beaten up by the officers when he refused to confess to a series of break-ins which he knew nothing about. Both Mayor Farnsley and Director of Safety McCandless promised to thoroughly investigate the charges made by the father. And along with the fine of $10 placed against young Rowan it was made public that the officers, Merrifield and Boyd were fined five days pay each by McCandless. The story told at the Mayor's "Beef Session" by Mr. Rowan, a teacher in the Jackson Junior High School carried in The Leader of October 9, is reprinted as following: Mr. Rowan told Mayor Farnsley that his son said he was preparing to take a 2:30 a. m. train for Nashville to re-enter Fisk University, and to keep awake until train time, he went walking about 1:30 a. m. near his home. At 21st and Hale, said the father, young Rowan was halted by the policemen, who questioned him about recent break-ins in the area. Apparently dissatisfied with his answers, they "forced" the son into their police car. En route to headquarters, the father said, the youth was struck in the face and then he was forced to get out of the car in a vacant lot at [15th?] and Kentucky, where he was beaten further. "I am not protesting my son's (Continued on page 4)
Whites Reprieved; Negroes Die
OPEN HOSPITAL WARD IN WING FOR WOMEN Announcement was made this week of the opening of a 22-bed ward in a wing of General Hospital for colored woman. The wing was built by the government in World War II and used as a rapid-treatment center for venereal disease. It was purchased last summer by the City-County Board of Health. The new ward for colored women is on the third floor. The first floor is used by the City-County venereal disease clinic and the second floor is to be used for a medical ward for white women.
"People who skate on thin ice usually end up in hot water."
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