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xpose Wt" World today! XjGeorte 5. Schuyler saintly, shrewd 'Ma Gandhi restored a note unity in India by calmly to starve nimseli death. Supposedly great on the other side of the who regard the dark leader as racially in fer possess no such power, only prepare for more fedahed, It has been cen lies since European spirit I leaders could order peace, rget ii. jUETINQ UP, the U. 8, State wment releases the Joey Ppen captured la Ger )tj, provlnr tht Stella and Hlt emplred to Unach World War ul divide the loot btwe a TheM revelalloas rarprtaod at ruiiibia wno Haltorad Bad SUUa made him first to Hltier la April, 139.

ttt0 inarr, 1939, and wm roundly seed by the Commualfta aad Cmjathlxert. Tuna marfhca has come to rich In with the sieninsr of a between Dutch and na leaders. The Dutch rec the native Oovpmmprit Jeep the richest parts of iana under tneir ronfml fuer victory for Lend jfotHniwi on Pag Col CMW IN WAMINSTON JOD egro Directs of Bias Post Office JSfflNGTON The promised VM UA7 XKCaaU Ol. to the Poet Office De fTU cheduled to gt tinder I ffle near utn is kt. "JOQn jusnei gton.

directing the probe. "ruy appomi litigator for the Sen oeirice CommlttM. whlf 1 1 .1 wuliam Laager dj a Congressional now probing com American AcUvitles Com flrst. C0MPLAIICE3 Cic probe was prom senator Laager following aiacrlminatlon made by'Clar wneii, NAACP labor Pt the time that the eon Cr1 or M. Donaldson as late lor investigation first Llr aneeed to have a verv record as far as Negrol ia ana trMtmmt: aM and th.

Aa1ua OJIlfB vkUh of unfair amnlovmeat 1 were nnti ImmIIsa tt 1 Wamhlnm. munism and the FKPC The following pledge wm be pre sented to prospective voters and candidates, according to Committee Chairman W. Brinson: "I favor, the white primary. "I favor preservation of segregation for the races as now exists in Georgia. "I oppose communism.

oppose any organisation that seeks to destroy the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of Georgia. "I oppose enactment Into law the rules and regulations as promulgated by the Federal Employment Practice Committee. "I will support the nominees of this primary la the general Continues on" Pag f. CoV) Army Duke Sued by Vife I nv I 1 i 1, i i i DJ I r. i D) (H l(cJ li I I I 1 ram mmMmmwwmm irtfrirr 1 mm i i iiriiJBi uiiir ii i i 1 (f UVI HATUtn fo)L XXXIX No.

5 Uacftrln 'Acf virtfctng. Circulation on News clean PITTSBURGH, PA SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1918 Scheme H1W TOBK ANP) Drama critic Fredl Washington. Brown, sis tr of Ccgressman A. Clayton Powell's flrst wife. Iliad a fepara Uum suit against her famous trom hons nlavlna husbend.

Lawrence, last week and asked, for iou week as. alimony According td FredL. who nntu re cently was a featured columnist for the local newspaper. People's Voice, the Duke Ellington soloist has "played awfully "hardr wita less! elsht dlffsrsnt glamorous young women during the past few vaars. doming Your Vay Next Vlpch Firtf in a Strips of Rivaling: ArticUs on State Capital Jtoret of Courfaf wrlfevs end ewponofif.

0f sa'htrlng Facts for ffclt ftofwe. Tfcey wfll fall Vow what yevr Sfaf ft for hntl doing to maka democracy a nottty, i Bar iAJiyJiuJUljvJya Georg Id Scheme Exposed WRIGHTS VILLE. Ga. Another insidious scheme to keep Neero citizens from vot ing tne Torthcomine pri marv has been cooked un bv Johnsdn County's Democratic itatecuiive iJomnuttea. i Tne plan to demand that Tot em and candidate sign a even point pledge which states that they favor white supremacy, racial segregation and are opposed to com AND rtOwUSSIYI SHEPARD'S SUCCESSORThe new first family at North Carolina College, Durham, N.

Dn and Mrs. Al phonso Elder. He was named president to succeed the late Dr. James E. Shepard and took office last week.

Rivera Photo. (Story on Page 5.) pes A few days following this nouncement by Grant Reynolds, national chairman, and A. PhUtp Randolph, national treasurer of the committee, the Army released prepared talk urging troops to forget race bias. The pamphlet on Is sued In Army Talk 210, was distributed to soldiers In both do mestic and overseas commands last week." COTS DANGERS This Indoctrination pamphlet, de signed to correct some of the myths and illusions which Inspire prejudices and encourage racism. examines tne manner in wxuen (Continued on Pag 4, if JIB CROW AMIgfM Ousted Students Await Court Rule Ijfl pgTTAT.T.

Tex. A complete peering to determine whether or not suspension of students rrom Wiley College was legal, wm be held here Feb. In a brief hearing two" weeks ago the court declined to rule whether the suspension of the fifty three students was legal. The Fab. 2 hearing will involve Injunctions granted against twenty five of the total number suspended.

at Bias As UMT Fight' Grows WAfvFTTNGTON Shortlv after the emergency Committee Aeainst Jim Crow in MQi farv SUrvic and Trainine had: announced an all day conference to be held in Washing ton Feb. 0. tne aeparunent ox Array came out wim amusmenc conueinimis rauoi picju A Jl oice tne armea services. i I in Lost Plane Now Believed Dead NEW ORLEANS The Rev. W.

H. Hlghtower, pastor of Wesley Tabernacle llethodlst Church of Galveston. Texas, who has been itttg nearly a month, following a probable plane mishap, was paid line tribute here last week by Bishop Robert N. Brooks of the Uethodlst Church. If eahwhOe hopes that the Rev.

Mr. Hlghtower, B. J. Strode, the pilot, and lira, S. M.

Strode, who made the plane trip together, might be found alive were virtual ly dismissed after a twenty three day search revealed nothing. The plane bearing the trio which left Galveston headed for New Orleans Is believed grounded somewhere In the vicinity of Lake Charles, PRICE TWELVE CENTS mm teirs hi Chicago Pattern Praised By TED COLEMAN (Courier Chicago Bureau). CHICAGO While millions of Americans await the U. S. Supreme Court's announce mentxOf ita decision the segregating real estate cases, white and colored residents of the Oakland Kenwood area for years a hotbed of conten tion over biased residential pacts this week announced a trace and proposed to term! nate a series of restrictive suits.

In giving the Nation a splendid pattern to follow, the two former ly feuding groups In Chicago have gone one step farther. They have also adopted a new kind of pact called a community conservation agreement which is being circulated throughout the area. The Oakland Kenwood Property Owners Association, a white group formerly opposed to Negro occupancy, has merged its In terests for community better ment with the Ken Oak Improve ment Association, which is oem posed mostly of colored property owners. The groups were brought togeth er by a series of conferences between representatives of both groups and leading Negro organl under the auspices of the Mayor's Commission on Human Relations and the Metropolitan Housing Council. NO RACIAL.

CLAUSES' The agreement, which has no racial restrictions whatever, was developed through two I years ot careful study, research aad plan ning under the guidance of the Nation's leading race relations Its underlying theory is to make every owner responsioie to tne community generally for the proper maintenance of his property and to give to each affected owner a means of enforcing this respon sibility. The agreement is expected to ln (Continued on Pag 4, Cot. 9) DID JIB OtOW WASSINTTOS 'Freedom Train Fines (Br Appealed NEW ORLEANS Remaining firm In their charge of Injustice, three Booker T. Washington High School teachers, fined 15 each for refusing to 'move on" while visit ing the Freedom Train here with 700 students, appealed their case to Criminal District Court here last week. Judge Alwyn Justrabo fined Maurice E.

Provost, Bruce EL Neale and Charles Speaker for report edly disobeying police Mi. Speaker was fined an additions! SI for resisting arrest. Loud bragging bespeaks a weak character. Ir II tate Jim Crow (Special to The Pittsburgh Courier) OKLAHOMA CITY. Okla.

Oklaho ma's separate "Negro" faw school was open Monday morning but it had no students for Mrs. Ada Lois Sipuel Rsher, the Negro girl for whom it was born on the strength of a decision by the united states supreme uourtf last week was at Norman, seeking entrance into the white law school of the University of Oklahoma. Her counsel, Atty. Amos T. Hall of Tulsa bitterly de nounced the maneuver setting up a segregated law school con nected with Langston, which he said was unaccredited and wai "the worst Negro school In the Na tion." He charged that Its law school would likewise be unaccred ited and thereby fair to meet the requirements of the Supreme Court order for "equal facilities." Accompanied by Dr.

3. Boyd of El Reno, Okla State NAACP treasurer, and Dr. J. A. Cox of this city, Mrs.

Fisher was not accepted. In accord with informa tion given to The Courier Monday by the Dean of the Law School of the University of Oklahoma, who said the Board of Regents would not order her admission into their school. Mrs. Fisher promptly Ignored the Jhsfc erow law school set op fas the State Captser fjere and designated aa the "Langston University School of Law," by not making aa appearance there. Re liable reports said a young local Negro man was being "high pressured" to enter the Jim crow schooL but he had declined to enroll.

Meanwhile, at the State Capitol, Dean Jerome Hemrl and his fac ulty of two part time Instructors, waited In vain for Mrs. Fisher to appear. He told The Courier Monday: "Classes win begin on Thurs day whether we have any students or not, and all salaries will be paid." The makeshift school establish ed after a direct order of the Oklahoma Supreme Court had been handed down last week, consisted of two classrooms In the Capitol Building and the library of the State had been designated as the law Behoofs Dean Hemrl said this library was "better than that at the State's white' law school at Norman." Mrs. Fisher was told last week when she applied for registration at the University of Oklahoma that her application would be received. (Continued on Pag Cot 3) UB JIM 'CROW IN WASSIRCTOM Sweatt Case Facing Showdown HOUSTON.

Tex. The widely publicized case of Heman M. Sweatt, who filed suit for admission to the University of Texas Law SchooL Is scheduled for a showdown In court Thursday of this week. Recently both Sweatt and Atty. Gen.

Prlae Daniel of Texas, when questioned concerning the ruling in the University of Oklahoma Law School case, declared that It wi not comparable to the Lone Star State controversy. 2 raraiii Posoiii Set up Mrs. Ada Lois Sipuel FLsher's fight to be accepted as a student in the law school of the University. of Oklahoma was tossed right back into the U. S.

Supreme Court Monday morning. The NAACP legal staff asked the court to issue a writ of mandamus against the State Court, the County Court and the Board'of Regents. Mrs. Fisher was denied admission to the "white" law school when she made her second trip there Mon day, and she promptly ignored the makeshift law school set up for her in the State CapitoL Langston Called 'Worst in Nation' LowerlCouft Rule Hit by NAACP By XJCU GRAVES JR. WASHINGTON The NAACP legal staff Monday asked the United States Supreme Court to issue a writ of mandamus against the Oklahoma Supreme Court, the Cleveland County District I Court and the University of Oklahoma IN REGULAR NAVY Ensign Edith DeVoe of Washington, one of four 'race nurses commissioned in the U.

S. Navy during World War II, has been sworn into the regular Navy. U. S. Navy Photo.

"Med" Student Wants in ftsoara or Regents in the Ada lA' A 55 Sipuel Fisher law school case. filed simultaneously with the clerk of the Supreme Court was a motion for leave to file a petition for writ of mandamus to petition itself, and a brief in support of the peuuon. The purpose, as stated In the brief. Is to obtain a writ to compel compliance with the opinion of the" United States Supreme Court. which, on Jan.

directed Oklahoma to provide for Mrs. Fisher legal education afforded for' a State institution in conformity with the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and "pro vided as soon as It does for anv other group." i The petition charges that' In haading down Its mandate following the Supreme Court decision, the Oklahoma eourt added that the study must be provided In conformity with "the prevt sloas ef the Constitution and stas utee ef hts State requiring seg regattaa of the, ss sea tot the schools ef the State." It Is charged that Oklahoma Is not providing the petitioner with the relief to which she is entitled. The brief points out that nt is completely 'Impossible to set up, within a period of one' week a law school which would offer ade' quate facilities tor the acquisition of the professional skills necessary Continued, on Pag 4, Col. Another 'Problem' Upsets Oklahoma NASHVILLE Tenn. A Nashville, medical student served another "hot potato" to University of Oklahoma of ficials this week and at the same time further spotlighted the shaky financial condition of Meharry Medical College.

Ben Del Love sophomore stu 9 dent at Meharry, said he I has applied for admission to the University of Oklahoma's Medical School chiefly because, of reports the school here may be forced to close and he would be unable to continue his medical education. He said the Jan. IS Supreme Court 'mandate ordering Oklahoma to provide equal facilities for Negroes was "a secondary reason" for his application. The application for admission was mailed last Sunday, he 'said, after a group of Southern Gov ernors, members, of special education committee of the Southern Governors Conference, had Inspect ed Meharry with the view of including the school. in a proposed regional educational setup, i Mr.

Love said Sunday night he had not received a reply to his letter; but expected his application "to receive the same consideration (Continued on Pag $, CoL t) fry South to Hurry Regional School, TALXJLHASSEC Fla The South may move one step nearer the real isarioa of its desperate fight to keep Negroes out of "white" schools, when the educational committee of the Southern Governors Conference meets here Feb. 7 8. At that time formal acceptance of the offer ot Meharry Medical College for use as a regional college may be made. Governor Mdard Caldwell of Florida, chairman of the committee, announced the meeting upon the urgent request of Governors William P. Lane of Maryland and Continued on Pago 4, CoL ft arm Exposed By J.

DON DAVES Courier taff Correspondent) 1 DALLAS. TeXdIt was beoJuse God was with us that some of vs didn't get kffled." Thusa prisoner described how he and his mates escaped death when a guard hit an inmate over the head with a shotgun whicn exploded mto tne group standing nearby. Given a sordid tale of camp conditions and brutalities, the NAACP has asked Governor' Beauford Jester for an investigation. 'V The story came from Camp onea of the Ramsey State Farm at Otey. Tex, and was revealed in an unsigned letter to tne najur regional office here by an inmate who said "I am not making my self known, although my record is snotlesa untn I am able to talk with someone whom I can "THE FORGOTTEN S00" iMwrfiiir fa ttia letter.

nam Utrec hundred Lumul. ell are at Ramsey' Farm where they call themselves "Uxl forgotten three hundred." The claim that they are forced weri 1 I.