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lows. I would recognize that cop again and would be willing to testify against him 'any time. In fact, I'm anxious to do thst There were no inctoi boats, no life guards. No one tried to help except a few amateur swimmers who couldn't do much." The writer, member of a picnic party ot The Veterans Justice Committee, knows of ten to fifteen members of that party who can corroborate the statement that no life guard was on the scene and thst no organized attempt was made to save (he victims for at leat three quarters of an hour after they went down. LAWSON TRACK STAR At the Lawson home on Sun day, members of the family sadly displayed the drowned vets army discbarge, shoeing liis entry into service May ot hut year and discharged on April It 17.

A doxn medals for victories in track events included one tor. the I'enn Relays and intcrscholastic competitions throughout the city. A graduate of Commerce High School, he had Just recently enrolled in the I'ace institute where he sought to become qualified ss a certified public accountant A member of an ampnihous truck company, he hud served at Fort Euhtis, Virginia. Lawson is survived by a wid owed mother, Mrs. Catherine Lawson, thrcs brothers and a sister.

Funeral services will be held for him on Wcndcsdsy morning. "iUrtln. a fltth nn blgh school student had Just recently twen confirmed and was aa usher at the Lutheran Church. VI West street, from which institution hU services were held on Tuesday evening (June 2. He is survived by his parents, Mr.

snd Mrs. Martin, one sister and four brothers. A tall, kindly woman, Mrs. Martin told the writer Sunday: "I am determined to find out exactly what happened as soon as my son is laid to rest" Mourning clad, soft spoken, Mrs Lawson felt the aie wcy. Guest Cokzaist V7 1 fy 4 The New Tork Age Is proud to present as' Its guest columnist this week.

Attorney Joseph 8. Mitchell, of Boston, who Is assistant attorney general Of Massachusetts. He wss educated at Talladega College, Harvsrd and Boston Unl versaties. He Is 'a former member of the Massachusetts Parole Board, former executive secretary of the Governor's Council of Massachusetts. HU article.

Individual Freedom" caa be found In the Guest Editorial column on page six. Pretest Agarst Increase la ResUls Of Projects A Bcore ot tenant, civic. Negro consumer and community spokesmen groups criticised lb demand of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company for rent Increases at Its two Jim crow projects Stoyveasnt Town and Wverton. MetropoliUa is requesting permission from the Board of Ettimste to Increase rents st Stuyveant Town from til to flT per room monthly aod from title to 111 at Itiverton Houses. Those who appeared In post ion to the company's bid 'were Nat Cohen.

East New Tork Tea sets and Consumers' Council, Coun. ell man Peter V. Caorhlone aad Michael J. Quill; ttle Rosa nonarte of the United omens' Committee of ParVhetter; Vt thw Pmllh. housing ehsirmsn Of the AW; Daniel Allen, N.

T. City re Special Envoy To Liberia Major It R. Wright, Sr, pres. ldent of. the Citlxcns and Southern Bank and Trust Company, Phlla.

delphia, and originator of Negro Freedom Day, has been named special envoy of the National Com mittee tor the Amerlcsn Celebration of the 100th anniversary of Liberia, and' will leave by plane next month to represent the committee at the Liberian Centennial ceremonies at Monrovia on July JMh. Harlem Membership Readies Record High; Dr. Tobias Honored The Hsrlem Branch of the TM CA opened Its fourtecat'i snmial activities weeK on Bunasy wnn a meeting at the brsn clubhouse. 180 West lS5th street Henry W. Tope of the board ot managers, presented the aenuai re port for 14.

showing the mem. bershlp st a recent high with 4, registered, Mr. Pope also pre. sented to Dr. Channing Ii.

Tobias. rormer tmca executive, a plague lor "meritorious service" to the branch and the national TMCA. Sixteen persons received scrolls as swards of merit exhibits of arts snd crsfts by Harlem schools and of photogrsphy. health, education and radio work were held at the clubhouse. Wb Scholarship winnon Hibbert, graduate of Harlem Evening High School, was one of two students awsrded scholarships by the Long Island University Club to the Brooklyn Law 8chool.

Rev. Willhiiis Left Visit But Is Nov At the ooset of World Wsr If. the Rev. Kenneth R. Wllllsmswas stationed here as a chaplain with the 172nd Infantry.

When he went overseas tor service In the South Pacific he waa a captain. When he left the service he held the rank of a major. Last week he returned to New Tork City to attend the national convention ef UNAVA. Bot he did not return as Just a Plata cltJten. Ht had a new title.

He Is now City Councilman of Winston.atem. N. C. the first Negro elected to city office there since 1111. Meeting the press Saturdsy afternoon.

Councilman Williams mo. dsetJy answered euoatioes eon rerninc bis election. 24yars ot be Is the pastor tea First tnstitw tlonsl Baptist Church, and baa been connected with that church for the, pest tea years. Youtb Congress Director Relates Tale Of King Of Pregnad Negro Mother The Southern Touth Congress of the Veterans Cafe." Trice re and Allied Veterans ot America have Jointly Joined forces to seek Justice In the murder of Mary Noyes, 22.year old mother ot three children, who was killed by a white cotton mill employee while she wasn a pregnant condition. The killings occurred May 4 in the Veterans Cafe at Camp Hill, Alabama was reported by Ar.

thur G. Price, SNTC executive, who was a delegate to the recent Iv closed UNAVA convention in New Tork. Price said that Albert Huey. a vhite, agltsted an altercation with Australia Farrow, a Negro veteran, returned to the cafe Ister with a friend who drew a knife on Far. row.

After this, he Is alleged to have returned home once more for a gun and gone amok In the Neicro district "Eventually he entered the rear i AD Regional Race Rehtions A3 visors To "Be Dismissed By Housing Members of fie nitlnn advls ory committee are. J. Wilson, Modjeaka Plmpclu, Levin's Brown, Mrs. Theodore Dreiser, Louis E. Burnham, H.

W. Williamson, Dr. Charlotte Hawkins Brown. Roscoe Dungee, Itev. Bertram Bar.

ton and El wood O. Bodte. Twenty members were elected from the floor to sit with the National Council, and all officers were unanimously elected by the membership. (See Editorial Page Six In an effort to check Housing Ex penditor Frank R. Creedon's order dismissing all regional race relations In the Vetersns Hounlng Program, effective June 30.

Eugene Knlckle Jones. National Urban League General Secretary, appealed to President Truman, Wcdnesdsy. Mr. Creedon's order. If carried out.

the Urban League official told the President would be "a severe sMback to the efforts to meet and adjust the gcute housing situation now faced by Negroes. The Ex. pendltors decision actually nut. lifles the constructive and experienced approach to minority group housing problems by the govern, ment" The Housing Expendltor'e notice of dlsmassau cuts off twenty.three professional and clerical workers, covering eight regions with bead quarters In Boston, New Tork, Chicago, Atlsnta. Dallas, San Francisco, Seattle, Cleveland, and Ave workers In the Wsshington, D.

C. office. It also ends a ten year govermental housing service which began with the work of Dr. Rob ert a Weaver In PWA further Here As Cbaplaia First Negro City A sensation waa creatsd In Winston Salem, when the Rev. Mr.

Williams emerged aa one of the winners the primary election on the Democratic ticket for City Councilman. Doubts were cast as to his winning la ths general else, tlon. May ith. however, because the Republicans for tho first time la msay years hsd a full ticket running, and It was fH thst msny voters would east their votes for a white Republican In 'preference to a Negro Democrat Both the A. F.

of L. and I O. endorsed tho candidacy of Rev. Williams, ss did the city's two dally papers, the Winston Salem Journal and the Tela Clty KeoU rei. owned by the same manse, ment la addition, C.

Keller, president of the kywl branch NA ACT, was his campaign manager. He ran to the door behind Negro young men sitting at a table, striking them with the butt of his gun. They ran out of the back lates. "lie attacked a group of them In order to block the exit and turned on the patrons who In this group were Mary Noyes and her friends. Tbey ran toward the white section of the csfe for the front door and Huey pursiiel, cursing and shooting.

One of his bullets struck Mary Noyes, who because of her condition of pregnancy, could not run as fast SS the She slumped to the floor. Huey kicked her and com. mended her to get up. She rose stumbled out of the Jim Crow bark exit. Huey followed her Into the alley and shot again.

Shs died minutes later. The Negro vet. ed and Is belhg held In Jail on If 1600 bond. Expeditor New Order developed with the establishment of the United States Housing Aa. thorlty, and now under the direc tion of Dr.

Frank S. Home and his deputy, Dr. Booker T. McGrsw. Three Arrested In North Carolina In Alleged Rape Try RICH SQUARE, N.

The charge of a 17 year old bride that a Ne. gro attempted to rape her resulted In the arrest of three Negroes who were held In undisclosed Jails as THE NEW TORK AGE went to press. Tolice Chief Frank Outland said that the rase was reported by bride of two weeks while she was with her tnotherjn taw at the 1st' ter's home In Linker, a village five miles from Rich Square. Sheriff J. C.

Stephenson said that the woman reported a Negro rsme to the door, grabbed her and tried to pull her outside. She screamed and fainted and be fled the bride declared. Solicitor Ernest R. Tyler ssld that he was among the hundred or more men who set out to look for the woman's alleged attack er. About three hours after the woman said she was molested, two Negroes were arrested a mile and three quarters from the house.

Nyler said one would be charged with attempted rape end the other with aiding In unlawful flight Chief Outland disclosed the ar rest of the third man, but gave ao details. Of 372cd Infanlry; Returns For Ccaccflman Id Wmstci Saleni, N. C. When the votes wert counted' Rev. Williams had polled SMI votes, more votes than were ever received before by a candidate for City Council.

The Third Ward. In wblch hs reside! has soma I.00O registered voters snd approxlmstely per cent of them are Negroes. For the last eight years, Negroes have attempted to elect a member of the race to the Council but were always unsuccessful. At the first meeting of ths new City Council, Rev. WUIU.ms wss cordially received by the other Counctlmsn.

Ha was assign to committees and wss named chair snaa of two of them, tho ordlnsnee snd tight mmmlttlrs. He la a mem. bar of schools, health, library (0 4 To Tour In Europe Bishop W. J. Walls, of the AME Zion Church, will leave June 23rd as a member of the Church Obser.

vation Committee being sent to Europe by the Government 1. denominations will rent is aeftted thef toutf Mother Of Lynch Victim Plans To Sue For Damages Mrs. Tessie EarL whoose son Willie, was lynched In Oreenville. South Carolina, will bring civil auit for 1150,000 damages against the twenty eight defendants acquit ted of murdering the youth and 9330,000 against the town for not protecting him while he was in Jail charged with stabbing a white taxicab driver. Announcement ot the suit was backsUge Tuesdsy night at the Madison Square Garden after the widowed mother bad been present, ed to a large audience.

Herbert C. Cooke, national executive chairman of the National Negro Cay Committee, sponsors of the Csrden rally, said th committee will rhlie funds for the action. He added thst if any money is recovered. Mn Earle will not accept It, but wiir turn it over to Netro educational societies in the South, A. 11 Eca Conference TONKERS, N.

The llsth cession of the New Tork Annual Conference of the AME Zion Church will open here June 10th at the Institutional Church, 42 Irving Place. Tne conference will be held a week earlier than usual because Bishop W. J. Wsll. presiding bis hop, bss been selected by the Fed.

ersl government to be a member of the Church Observation Com mittee which will leave June Jlrd on an' Inspection trip of European churches. and recreation committees, and by inuioi nis membership is a mem. ber of the corresponding city boards. The term of office Is for two years and there Is no salary attachsd to ths position. It Is, however, the governing bod ef the city.

Councilman Williams Is married and lives with hie wife. Edythe, and their eons. Kenneth, t. snd Ronald, at 107 Cameron avenue. He received his collegiate train lag at Morsbouse from which he graduated In and his theolo.

rical tralalng at Boston University from which ha was graduated la lilt. 7xv A mil nt SHOZ" i uic a it an an a Artf Terk't Fvit NEGRO WEEKLt Amatca't Second C5issv YOL.62NO. NEW YORK, N. SATURDAY, June 7, 1947 ii TWELVE PAGES FIVE CENTS FIRST A. NEWS) Ml Veteran Gives life In Attempt To Save Friend; Probe Of Drownings Seen As Vitnesses Charge Neglect By ALFRED A.

OUCKETT YONKURS. N. V. While the sound of marching tevt echoed through city streets and shining brass flashed back the sold of the sun. a tale of pcacithno heroism and tragedy was enacted her in the seremly beautit'ul waters of Tibbets Brook, Memorial Day ai teroooa before the eyes of hundreds ef allocked spectators.

Leon Lawson, ninetecn ycar oJd veteran, discharged from service two months ago, gave liis Ufe in a futile attempt to save that of Erkk Martiu. his fifteen year old companion, after the boat in which they had been rowing capsized. A third youth. Herbert Gaston of 914 Union avenue, the Uionx. was leicued.

Thorough investigation and possible legal action appeared imminent as a result of the deaths of the two Bronx lads, both of whom lived at Vision avenue, thu Bronx. Eyewitnesses told tales of callous neglect on die part of and operators of the rowboat concession. The writer, an eyewitness to the horrible Incident, can corroborate the majority ot these lharges. The allegations were: That the rowboat rented to the drowning victims was leaky and bad no oarlocks. That, for the forty.

five minute elapsing between the capsizing of the boat and arrival ot crew with grappling hooks, no lifeguard appeared on the scene. That state police were derelict In their duty witl regard to tak. trig prompt measures to locate the downing pair. Mothers Of both victims. Inter i wed 'on.

Sunday, ever come with grief, but cxpressea a desire to "get to the bottom" of the tragedy. WAS NEIGHBORHOOD TRIP Along with a group ot eight Ouths of their neighborhood, Lawson and Mai tin had started out on a holiday excursion at about ten o'clock. Friday morning. Arrived at the picr.io grounds, they lunched and enjoyed them elves. In the early afternoon, Lawson.

Martin and Gaston went to the office ot the rowboat con cession and hired a boat. Joining a score or more ot rowing parties gaily plyin the lake waters. SutstantiaUng the charge that the boat was leaking was the tact that spectators from the shore could see Eric rowing and Leon Vailing cut water. Herbert Gaston, the only cne of the trio to scape death, relates that tlnce the boat was not equipped with the psual oarlocks, Eric found it Dec. geeeary to lUnd while rowing.

Dipping the oars in too deeply, he lost hie balance as tho boat overturned. The trio was thrown into the water, Erie going down, Leon clutching desperately at the capsued boat. An unidentified occupant ot a boat Jus. ahead of theirs jumped la tu Ut end helped Gaston to safety. la the meanwhile, Erie bad bobbed back up and 'was snatched by his vet (riend in an attempt to keep him above the water.

"I know Leon could have made it if he hadn't tried to aave Eric" Gaston told the writer. "He knew that he was a better swimmer than Eric, but when be let go ot the boat to ave Eric, they bote disappeared under the water. We never saw them alive again." M'ord spread among the hundreds of picnickers the out lis were drowning sod the shores were cowdtd with tense excursionists anxiously searching the expanse of the water. SUMMONS POLICE Arthur Wellbum, 17 jreyar old member of the party which bad come on the holiday trip with the two drowned lads, went out in a boat with one of the state police who arrived on the scene. Voung Wellbura told a bitter story on Bundsy in which be blamed the police officer for failure to locate the bodies at a time when the victims might havt still been fighting for tneir aves.

'1 wss Out in the host with this cop," Wellbum recounts. "He called soma of the bora from the thore to bring, the overturned ttoet la. Then he said he was going ashore because wis get ting wet. I wss diving la the eater snd I spotted a handker. thief.

1 came up and told him I trd ten it and thst the bodies acre probably la that vicinity. He told me to "mind my owe usiaess" and to get out of the ater and let the police department do its owa job. Later, ha handed me some soft soap about It nigh have been a murder and maybe I or somebody Cm wss Uyint to hide cities The tops think thst all Keg roes who com from the Bronx are involved in sonic kind ot gang or something. I believe they might have been able to save the fel Pob'ce Combing Harlem In Search For Mystery Toman lo Kidnapped Three Year Old From Luncheonettd Pres. Tnunan To Speak At NAACFs 38th Conference Washington, 1).

was announced by the White House Mon dsy that President Truman will speak Sunday afternoon, June 29th, at the Lincoln Memorial in the nation's capitol, to the concluding session of the arfnual conference of the National Association tor the Advancement of Colored 1'eople, Other speakers sharing the platform, with the President wilt be Mrs; fiearior Roosevelt; 'Senator Wayn Morse, of Oregon and Waiter White, executive secretary of the Association, It is expected ttat an audience as largo as ttiat which heard Marion Anderson at the historic 193) taster 8unday concert, will arain fill the Lincoln Memorial One hundred thousand people filled the national shrine to near the world famous contralto st thut time. following refusal of the DAK to allow the Negro artist to sing in Constitution Hall. The huge au diencei at the June 29lh meeting. will hear another great Negru singer, Carol Brice, a youthful tntxzo soprano, wbo bh appear. ed with the Boston Sympnony orchestra and other orchestras throughout the nation.

Instrumen tal musio will be furnished by the I'niUd Marios Corps Hand. The President's speech, whiro will be broadcast over eetal major is being engtilv anticipated in domestic as well as international circle, sine it is expected that Mr. Truman will make a major declaration of got enum nt policy on racUl tension both at home and abroad, it is known that the rise of blgoto sine ths war's end bss bcn a I matter of major concern to the I President, aa evidenced by bis' appointment of a Commission on Civil ItigtjU. headed by Cnarlea E. Wilson, president oi General Electric.

The front page nonce and unprecedented edituul em inent which tfe foreign press has devoted to lynching and L.l discrimination in the United HUtea, particularly when Secretary of State George Marsaail issued bis definition of democracy during the lecent Moscow Conference, are known to have been a matter of crave toncern in in. Preaiuenl, according to Sources close to the White Houe Jantcrs, Srctecdects, fed For Negligence Eight Janitors, supers aod agents for Harlem apartment bouses were fined a total of Hi on Wednesday for letting filth and garbage pile up In the courts and yards of the buildings, One agent complained that tenants threw stuff oat of the windows, but Msgistrste David P. saia tt was hie Job to keep the premises clean and get summonses agaiest misbehaving tenant. Mi uhsca (h Cc Truman K. Gibson, Jr.

formerly a uviuan Aide to the Secretary of War was one ot the ntne mem. ber AdvisorrCOmmiseloa oa Col. Ttraal Military Tralaia wbick est last Thursday tamed over to Preo ident Truman a report which art among other things, six monlas army training for aighUen jeai hla. Detectives are combing Ilarlenf in search of a woman aged aj' proximately twenty live, weighing) about 110 pounds wearing her dartl hair pompadour style In front, When, last seen In the vicinity of I47 Eiplilh svenue, she was wear Ing a Mack dress, hlgh heeleft shoes. She has a very noticeably scar on both legs.

If successful In their search as) thoritlcs believe they will havd apprehended the mystery womas who kidnaped three. yea old Carol Edward, daughter of Mrs. Gloria Edward, 2471 Eighth avenue, eft Thursday morning. Oa Jliursi)JJEdwardskav. 4 brother, Robert Clark, went tJ Forbes Luncheonette at 247 Elghi th avenue, taking: little Carrol and the little girl's four and one.hali year old brother.

Richard. The mother and brother Tef the restaurant momentarily, tear Inff the two tots at a tahle. i Calvin Washington, manager ef the luncheonette, saw the mystery woman enter the shop and order 0 packs of cigarettes and a glasd of milk. She gave the. milk to th child and then took her hand anal walked off with her.

Waehlngfof. became puxiled. but assumed thst woman would return with tha child. When she did not snd Mr Edwsrds came back he reported ta the mother what had happened, Police announced on Monday thai if the woman were not located within a matter of a few hour, the search would become nation wide. Persons residing In th neighborhood said that the womag had been seen In ths srea several times reeently.

Okay Jimcrow Housing, But Dissenting Judge WASHINGTON The fniti States Circuit Court of Appeals on Ti.eiJay uil el ths whim covenant here excluding Negroes! from owning or occupying certain houses tn the loo block of Dnant strett in northwist Wsjihingtn The court atfinued decisions ad the Federsl 1'utrUt Court by. vote of 2 1. However, in a Uilllant aad' powerful dissenting opinion, Juae tics Henry W. Edgerton denouaw ced bousing segregstion Of Nngns roes ss violative of the Filthl Amendment to the Const it ulig( and Civil Rights Art. The ruling waa against Rapnaa.

O. Uricclo, a real estate operalogj who sold several house eomlnfl under the covenant, and alas against James M. Hurd, a Ngro In his dissenting eplnioa Justice Edgerton wrote: las been contended ots forcement of covenants which exclude a race from a neighborhood does not Involvs discrlminaUoa because it permits reciprocity. Toat amounts to saying teal Negroes, excluded from decent housing, mar retaliate by excluding whites (rum slums. HI added that "tthe rleht ta buy aid ue an thing that Whites may buy snd use is conferred ope on Negroes implicity by the disS process clauses of the Fifth aa4 Fouiteeoth Amendments and ex 4 plicit by the Civil Rigll Act.

04 the civil rights so conferred, nondj is clearer aad few are mora Tie tat than the fubt lo buy a nousf and live in 'it i Tbe dissenting Justice pc4ate out tbst Canadian Court hs rmVs tag against rselsl ewrmsnts. ran lied on the Charter of fee VatU4 Nations aad he noted that tat failed Sis ts too. is pledged If that Charter. 4 r..