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III! i A Paisn which was launched actively Xtnt Usoaatson in 1W5. The N. A fi. spent mart than $8,000 hi rurvtys and lrgsl research prior t' 1935 ia laying the ground work tor the actual campaign. in 1935 Mr.

Houston, who wal then vica dean of the Howard University law. school, was invited to jom the A. P. staff as special counsel to conduct the active legal campaign He remained in the New York office of the N. A.

A. P. until 'last. July when he returned to private law practice Washington, Karyiaad Oast Wen tht' opening gun in the drive had been fired by Thurgood Marshall, Baltimore attorney, acting for the N. A.

A P. in a suit against the University of Maryland to compel the admission of Donald Gaines Murray, A. colored college graduate, to the taw school of the university. Mr. Marshall won his case in the lower court in Baltimore, but the university appealed to the Maryland Court of Appeals.

There Mr Mar shall won again and tht university admitted Murray to tht law classes. He was graduated and given his diploma last lone. Mr. Houston then began action In Tennessee and Missouri, winning a rmashing victory in the Mistouri case in the highest court after ha ring lost (as was expected) the lower court in Missouri and in the Missouri Supreme Court The tery rst attempt of the A P. in cases of this nature occurred in 1933 when William Has tie (now U.

S. judte in the Virgin Islands), appeared for the Association in. North Carolina seeking to have tht courts there open up the University of North Carolina law school to Hooutt Hocutt was disqualified because his scholastic rec ord was not deemed good enough for entrance to the law; school i i i i i i i i i i i ft i i NEW YORK, 'tiM; vy I 1 l. 1 FIRST with tfis 4 4fe rip i i I II II I III 1 t7 ,1 S2S2 I Lnl I I I I 1 A I 1 I 0 III 1 1 I 1 0. v.

'V. I' v. D. i Air A Yiforoui vrotnt tfaimt what il coiuiatrcd totally unwarranted i amotion oa the" part ci ihc United Sute War Department that the majority of the Nrgro citizens indont the principle of KtrrnatH armr units, at made this yeek by Walter White, executive iecretarr. of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peoole.

White had written to ecreury oi tr Harry H. Woodrinf, aikiivg the openinc no of the Army Air Corpa in Negro The War Secretary replied 'Following a well established oruv ciple that the race should not be mis ed within orianitations, a principle which is indorsed bv vour own teo it necessary to set up sped tic units to which' colored personnel mar be assirned, and these ortanizsv lions must hart a definite and prop rr in. the balanced force orjean ition of the Army as a whole. no colored units of the Air Corns are tworjded for in the Army the United SUtes. it is imposst nie for the War' oeparrmem to ac 1ccpt colored applicants at Air Corps Schools." Takinc issue, sharply with this statement in his protest White ad rised the Secretary that despite the fact that tome Nexro citizens may far or "segregated or Jim Crow' units in the United Stages the Association is not onlr unequivocally opposed to it but "states that the sajorfrr American Keener are ofosed to it '( Jv" aecretary the War Department head to "Taco this situation, and row lead enhip rrfewei tenrinl the ertaWhOV mettt of trne (raiocracT in the armed forces of the United DURHAWV N.

(CNA) The release of one of two youths held in the Durham County "ail on a framed rape charge and tht fact that no charges bare been preferred against other to date indicate that tht authorities are fearful that tht charg cs oi ueacune uin, is Tcar osa hite will not stick. Although she identified one of the ro brothers. Frank filKknell, 23, of Carboro as the man who she claims rucked her at the point of a gue on trt Bridge a mile outside of Chapel Hilt Sheriff J. T. LatU has yet to bring anr charges against the youth.

His brother. Edward, 32, was released after the girl's 'identification'' Saturday. The Sheriff aasd that Frank would be held on an open charge while certain undisclosed phases of the esse were mvestiiated. However, the girl's story already is shaken. The arrest of the two youths and the preceding lynching incitement in which search parties raided Negro in Carboro, iim crow section ef Chapel Hill, was vigorously sxo by residents of Carboro and by white students and faculty mem bti at the University of North Carolina.

It.Mai pointed out that the ''ls undoubtedly, would hare resitlt ed in a lynching had the search par ties located tht alleged attacker. According to the girl's story, she aingnatlv asMulted by a. Negro ho she ragoely described 'as dark wrnned. thsclclipped and weanng shirt and checkered pants on Uectniber 6 whila was retuminc 7 rronj school The alleged attack was "wised to bare taken place near a "eel bridge, about a mile out on Airport Road, at two in. the after toon.

Howrrer, Chapel Hill High School ecords how that she had not attend c'asses that day. 1 According to reporters on tbrDafly arheeL dergeaduste newspaper, she a "bed reputation" and" is not rv intelligent. Although 15, she is "'v the seventh "trade. Her story is generally cmsideTed atd nrests over the arrest vt Duthanr trade smiont Je loiaed in thermoremegt lor Isremt Blafknetl' IMPORTANT. NOTICE Because' of.

tbi Chrittxaaa nd Keey bolidaja, tbt office of The' NtV York win bt cloud on Monday, Dr eember 26.. and Uonday, Jan ory 2. All news and adm Omenta for next wtek'l ut must rtach this offxs bj baturdajr DKtmber 24. All and advtrtlsantnU (or itiua of January 7th srutt in th offico by taturiif, VOU53 N0.29 0 rO nr Slpes Cc'jl Dacisb In Univ. Of Kiss useS C'JI The sweeping 'opinion' of the I United States Supreme Court is 1 rn.a a a sued December 12 ordering the State of Missouri to provide Negro students with the same facilities for jtndying law as.ars provided (or white students.

will be the entering wedge ia a campaign to the educatton'' of Negroes in tht South all down the line to the smallest rural school, it was announced here. Saturday, by officials of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored topic The University of Uiaaouxi case, where Lloyd L. Gaines, a colored college 'graduate; sought to enter tho University of ilissouri law school, was the eleventh victory of the A. A. and itt lawyers in the highest court of the land, Toe lawyers in tht Musqarl cast were Charles H.

Houston, special' counsel of 4he Association; and Sidney R. 1 Redmond of St Louis, Mo, president of tbe St Louis branch of the A. A. P. The high court 'declared that ti Jaws aasied br ttrtrtj sutea recently providing? Ut it payment of 4ssit9o of Negro Students in northern and western states were not, aaiUbctot td did not.in" ekTect Jrbvidtualtj.

'By the operation oi laws ii Missouri; a privilege has been ere ated for white law students which is denied to Negroes by the reason of their race. The white resident is afforded legal education within tht state; the Negro I dent having the same Qualifications is it there and tnustx to outside, the tate. "to obuln it that is a denial of the equality of legal right to the enjoyment of tht privilege which the state has sct tfp. and the provision for the payment of tuition fees in states does not remove the Mntt it Ival If teparatt N. A.

officials and their legal ataf point to another sentence in the broad opinion of the Supreme' Court as one of tht most significant in rhe whole opin ion and but toon which a. further campaign for eooality Of elementary and secondary education will be based. It 1 The admissibility of taws aep arating the races in the enjoyment of privileges afforded by the state rests wholly upon the equality of the priviliies which the 'laws give to the sepsrated groups within the state. This sentence. is regarded as re enforcinf and expanding tht past opinions of the Supreme Court on separata but equal provisions Jor the ram.

'On the basis of this prdnotjnee ment and others which have been made from time to 'time, 'but which have been ignored bv many states, tne a. a. r. proposes to redouble its efforts to improve education for Negroes in tht rural I I js and city elementary schools in the South: in' the high schools; in bus st. transporation for Negro rural, pu pils: and in tht allocation and ad ministration the millions of do! lars of.

federal funds given to the states each. year, for educational purposes, Evtn white Southerners noW id mit freely that "separate but eual" schools, do not exist tnywbert in tht 'South except in one or two local insuncck fflada Unequal "As for the administration of federal funds received by the state, a fair example is to be foond iu Missouri. In' his brief before the Supreme Court, Mr. Houston pointed out that out of 1408,000 received by Missouri in 19J4 from various feltal funds for education, about $3,000 went to the state Ne giro school and $405,000 went to the University of Missouri Mr. Houston that arthaugn Negroes 42 percent of the population of Missouri they receive A of one tcrctnt of the asoner nlot to tbt state fro federal funds.

Thj Uaitr of iiisttari 5atji(plia. Pa, really and trV lr, fmp.forrva, Gljrifltnafl By Frank yyashlnjton Oh, how I likf Christmas, The birthday of the Kinf. Ohi'how' I lijce Cbristmis, '7 To heir the church bells rinr. I lilce to look for the staff' The oe th'ft shines so I like for' that star. i That ctis cut Chfitttnsi niht I am going to seethenewtora Kinf.

i am goinjr to hear the anjjelg $mg. But "for jiftor the "Kin' ,4. The mighty God for I. lire; Oh. what can I giTe the 1 iVer ribl my 4fcaes.

Edr Ue. ViTiat. else, then, that I trcuure, i But my heart and my "souU h.r AGivtar it aort than WidV wmm ''S) it GccsToF n. vFcf Ki Fo It has been said that tht cjts of the law art always noon yea and if tht New York police can't i yon nobody catu Llroy cheeks. erly of Uarksn but rtccntlv ad 'i to have killed a man and immediately left town.

But ThurtcUt a New York detective went to fhiladelpbia turned down the covers while Cheeks slept soundly in his hideout and tanked him out of bed under the threatening, muzile of service revolvers. The. whole episode began in spring, polm; said, when Cheeks, a reported "reefer man" shot and killed one of his henchmen, one Harry Hall. 29. 48 West UJrd in a dispute over $10.

Hall, as tbt "risk mat in a hold up combine. He had, it is said, at the point of a gun, beld up a well to do Harlem Negro and robbed him of $1U0, amond ring valued at $1,000 andlmj' watch, then, Hall failed to split the proceeds keeping: all for himself.1 Cheeks Out for i vengeance searched" throughout Harlem's underworld, police until he found Hall in a reported "juke joint" in the basement of 163 West 129th street One buUet caught Hall in the forehead and two others straightened bim up so be could fail nice," He died instantly. But Thursday Cheeks was at the other end of a gun. He awoke ia hit bed at 145 North Mth street tfiil adelphia. to stare into the business end of a service irevolver in the hand of Detective Charles Baxts of New York's crack Squad.

Over on the other side of the bed the vet eran Sergeant Forgy, 'in charge of the Homicide squad of Philadelphia had a second gun trained on the fugitive. There was a calibre revolver under Cheeks' pillow but he left chert and got into his clothes hurriedly preparing the return trip to New York. Since' the beginning of the week when Detective Barts had taken the case frdm the tiles of "unsolved hom cdes Cheeks had beenirared from New York through a prison in Hotmesburg. and into the house on 54th street Snatched from be tween the covers of his bed and rushed to New York, Cheeka waa arraigned before Judge Koem'g in General sessions and held without bail for trial' here. Both tht deceased and the perpe trator have tong police records.

Tht pre nous crimes include assault with knives and guns, robberies, and narcotic charges, police 'said 0 'ii Fbriia Aiiicriib To Rc cito National hesdouarttn of tht International Labor Defense here this week announced that it had received telegram from its rwrai oivmon that three Negro lads two aged 15 and one atd 16 had been railroaded to a death arntence following beatings and forced The telegrsra." sent by Margaret of the Florida L. rra TIiim IiVuwvi'tU Vra. kn. i the oldest' 10 and two aged IS were Kteneetf loaev so or ciecirucsiea fur an alleged hold up killing. Claim they Were brutatlr beaten and forced into roeiieaioos Tl court aoUiiiited as countd Harry Silta who made no actuitui tort or retrial motion." The Florida dehrme orgam'atien rged protest wires to Gov.

Deid Coo. at TaHahtsset' tudre Milts Lewis td Mayur Blum, both of lackaowrilk, SAfallDAY DECEMDEB i(i (wa Pkjsidqa Erre JDr, Uteri Corfrad Vinesqt. the first NOo to serve an internship at Bellt riva HottHtal and one of Harlem's most sxejmifwnt pltveiciant, died at his home. 251 West 133th street, Sunday afternoon. Tcembr la, at the age of 43.

Whisr 1st bad been in poor health for several months he was abMe us continue bjs proftoicaul duties un tif Saturday night" His sudden death WM.aV1 Shock to fir medical profession and i host of jhe tldest child of the last Rev. Vincent, once a arofessor at Shaw Uuirvrsitj, Jcakigh. N. nd tbt Mrs. Cora Vincent, tht young rsicin bad been a resident of Har for twenty years and "had buTS large prattice.

apecrfllting in tsVsn Ten years ago he built a large private heapnal at. 2348 Seventh avert but the depression came and bt i to ahaodon, hit plans for a time. fcsnymi now houses several fA' arts projects, mcluding classes jarJoos braacoes ot msjsic. Viattnt. arachated from the University of Pvyrffrw) Medical L'je4 hi ll and snaw to New Vs.

hnsBtdiatety to enter "Seflwsue at in snserae. Aboat tht stmt tijne he. csrrird Miea rKansal Ttisssti vst Wtv onstry. A.aV t.jnaet tafcnuMnatslt waaaVta aaCwV tie vi ftarkm. In A snort time he had won epofatsfln as one of tht most prtmismg of the young medicos, and was one of the first Negroes appointed to the vistrrsg staff, at Harlem Hospital.

'Besides his widow! he'Ti lurvid by four chldrea, Cbext, Sylvia, Jac queline uamtrar tour sisters: Mesdarnes FeaiT YincenL Morten and Reba Ragsdate and Misses Ruth ant isemice vnctst; ana 4 brotistr. Allred Vincent. Funeral srrvkea wtfTiP Tnuri day from' M6thetrX JL E. Zioa Church, at 1 p. nm with tho Rev.

Dr. Bentamin Bobeson orhciating. assisted by Revs. John Hi Johnson. Lorenso H.

'Xtng and A. Powell. Burial will bt at Wtoalawn Cemetery pnder direction of 1 Wain wright. and SostTnT Honorary pallbearers at the funeral will be Editor Fred R. Moore, Spaulding, Dr.

Charles H. Roberts; William Joseph Tanner, fames Thomas. Dr. Tho. mas Johnson, Dr.

Clifton Norshan, Dr. Willis Ctsmmings, Robert Harris, Everett Johnson. Herbert Bord and Theodore Jones. On Monday, the flag Harlem Hospital was put at half mast out of respect to bis rnrmorv. i Gycj To Schccl i i I WLUAMSBURG.

Va. lt was smmunced Thursday, tliat Mrs. John D. Rockefeller. Ir, has given $54000 towards the estimated cost of S24S.00O fnr a new Negro school building here.

Construction work will, begin short ly. i If Ycl fct A 24, 19 lJ VStJ lJ aM' .4 4 Lau ecu ccrrup nrcarr. fnvictcd Monday ty.Jtsttft DonsnaaV k' Ftfcoy C'PartTIIl ofrklnnansi abdudioa, ata pairlnsr sjsr merals am further, mis 29. 219' West' I28tli street and his iHrear old wifi. Pearl were held for sentencing Jarmary 4th.

Tht pair is isid to have brought a 12ear old girl from her home in Philadelphia on last lulv 17th to New. York for irmnorat purposes. Tht wife it also arcosed i of having witnessed bar husband's vjoUtion 'of the. child without makint aay at ttmpt to stop him. Tht young fir 11 name and address by The New Yosk Act because "oj her age "IT Police said the' oouole lodged for a few 'weeks in' the boarding house of which the child's father, it proprietor until they had won her confidence, then ouit the city for New York.

Although they held the young girl from July tht actual crime oi rapt was. not committed, it was brought out ia the until. October 27th at the Morrison's apartment 'October 31st the two were, arraigned' before Judge McGee and held in $1000 bail tor further examination after the child had been located in New York by the Missing Persons Bureau. On November 3rd bail was denied the husband and later the month he was remanded to "the Tombs prison to bt held there until the trial. Last week the parents and aunt of the child escorted by Sergeant James Hudson of Philadelphia arrived ia New York for the trial which began on Wednesday and ended In, conviction on Monday.

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HUWry yr' IT3 7 RcdhcHs Pc ce NEW ROCHELLE. N. Y. 38 uniformed offkert and detectives surprised residents of this city Thurs dty. night in 13 raids in which 14 men and women were arrested as bootleggers.

Charges of possessing policy slips were lodged against some, of the prisoners pleaded guilty in court gnd were immediately sentenced while others asked for jury trials saying they were innocent One of these who Mid she was Mrs. Gertrude Simpson, 50 Wiothrope avenue, said she was having a private party with friends and was sot selling lienor. Her cast will coat tru on Jan tary 9th. Others arretted said they were': Mrs. Mary Hall held for jury trial on January 5th; Rupert Jones of Morris street who pleaded guilty' and was sentenced to 60 days and a fine of $200: Alex Weeks, Uxicab driver, 42 Winyah avenue, pleaded guilty.

.90 days in Jail and $200 fine: Frank 33 First ttreet, $100 fine and 50 days; Mrs, Nancy Jackson, IS Brook street, held for jury trial on liquor and policy charges; Man Gardner, Fifth avenue, jury trial lanuary 10th; Charles Ferry, 10S Winthropt avenue, jury trial lanuary 12th Abe Lewis, Morris jury trial' this month Barter CoWwMk 50 Win. shrone avenue, tsohev ants, fined $1(9 at." 3ft days BaeUssJeintsT Lewis and wife, Hattie. 70 Umthrop avenue, ntjw sor JU7X. scmuar isc, i lsnlignarrt cirirens said that' totic( had obtained their evidence by mini high' school students Is stool pigeons. They indicated that thev intended ight this practice of the police.

iaO cf Liber's Vivre IIcar WASHINGTON. D. An offia will be created in the Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor to protect the rights of Negro workers under the new Wage Hoar Law, it became known this week. T. Arnold HilL director of tht Na tional Urban League's Department of Industrial Relations and recently appointed WPA Consultant on Negro Affairs, has been loaned to the Department of Labor on a part time bas is by the WPA for the purpose of setting up the oroct and getting its work under way.

Mr. Hill will receive no salary from tbt Labor Depart merit for this work, his tssignment being bt line with the WPA't policy of tssisting other divisions of the government wherever possible. Tht presence ef Mr. HiU in the Wagt and Hour Division was requested by Administrator timer F. Andrews, who ia reported to bt an liout to set that Negro workers re ceive an benefits from tbt new law.

He will not be a perman ent employee, according to present plans, and will continue his work with tht Urban League and the WPA while a definite program for tht Wage Hour Administration is being formulated. J. Arthur Wciseger, assistant to Lieut. Lawrence 'A. Ozley has been assigned to work with Mr.

Hill ia setting srp the new office, EJ Lilian 1 1 Ed Ca Driver Held in. high bail io Homicide Court Monday for assault, leaving the scent of an accident, passing a red light and having no lights on his car, a youth who said he was Har ry 20, of 2340 Belmont avenue. Bronx, will hare a bearing January 10th; Police teid itbey chased him for two tod a half miles Sunday about 10 JO' p. wu before they arrested bim after tbey said he struck and critically injured Archie Peyton, 36, of 143 143rd street, at the comer of Seventh avenue and 143rd street Scis Sdird? 'HANOVER. N.

Charles T. Davis, first Negro to receive a sen ior fellowship at Dartmouth College, and son of Don Davis of Hampton Institute, is up again in a contest for one of the highest scholastic honors open to ant uadcrgraduatt ia America. He wit named it one of the two representatives of the State of New Htsmhsrt, who will appear before a 4'rtrxt eomnuttet this week to com ajet a Rfescs wtoltramp at Ok LrtTsrty, Expand, TWELVE PAGES BY KG Vfcht Cfia As Wm Of Brcsks (fcl Upb vm Tan wnmcnis.r, imini persons who met violent deaths in Harlem over the weekend. Tht most mysterious was the shooting nil Miuidii nl 42.vrir nlii iiu man, later identified by finger prints ts Amanoa vaiemine, on tnt downtown platform of the" station at 145th street and Eighth avenue. The woman was shot through the left side of the head bv a man whn ran down tha atairir immediately.v The ticket agenti Fktrick Connelly, 56 West 91st street, told Detectives Brown and Webber of the 32nd annait shas tia itw a man running from the scent' i I.

vui cvuiu no i icu wneiner ne war white at enrTA Fmm lb. she fell dead at the foot, of thg stairs teaaing to tne upper express piaisorm st p. until gyo, the woman araa TSiaa. it was revealed from "fingerprint vvau am iiati iKiKiaxi at 271 West 145th street, an addtsu the wroman hail nivaa m' iiuu' iout arrest on a petty larceny charge. The other tVoman, Eva Booker, 26, 207 Wtst 134th was stabbed to death Friday night at sht.sat ihe aupper table 7t Am apartmtat Accordia tba wesnatt was eating aupper har reOorted" COtflman.iaai hllkmla4 one Timothy Zesiteno.

and. Eddie Garcia, a Mexicad boy friend 'at former years. She and ientetto began an argument to which Garcia it said to have objected. In the fight which followed the woman was stabbed through the i left' check by the boy friend and died instantly. Garcia, police said, also' stabbed her husband in the' left" hand and waa in turn, stabbed in the back.

Both meq.were taken to Harlem Hospital for 'treatment by Dr. Lubkin. Garcie was held without bail in Homicide' Court by Magistrate Ford, Monday night, one Ressie Kearney, 27, 2027 Seventh avenue was fatally stabbed in the left cheek and under the left arm as he stood in front of 2055 Sev tntl avenue talking to one Dorothy Walker. 22 rrnnr1A. man a common law wife, Tht young "womtn i Husband, taid by Harrison, 24.

142 West 112th street, is asid to have been extremely jealous of her and had his friends to wttch her ectivities when the wu not in his personal company. Kear given medical treatment by Dr. Granger but hit injarks proved fatal three hours Uter tt Harlem Hospital. Detective O. Connor of the 28th Squad arrest ed Harrison.

Rogers MorrelL 559 Leno avenue, who was shot last Son day evening during the hold op of drugstore at 22 Eighth died at Harlem Hospital Sunday. Sunday afternoon Patrolman Ptrler. the 32nd Precinct ar rested one Frank Schuler. 33. 10 West 133rd street, and charged him with the Kt pick murder of ent Clsudt Rows of tht stmt tddrtss.

Rowt died Saturday nor nwa; of tub woundt of the head. WA RelcSls Ex3 Of fcj SiTtse Just a few hntira aft U.t ww a maa of Th k' Vi, 1.. 't aMjr ed on tht streeu with the exclusfca iwy inai hiss Augusta Savage, cele pratea afulmrv. ki4 lu ajctor of the Harlent Art Center. Lenox avcrme, tne ytirens Spon sorms; Grooo met for its second 'tn mal meeting and election of officeri iot ine cniuinc ytT.

While tha niwtm, i a njm icq peacefully and with well oiled prtxs. "on. was a new rem that prblica hon of the fact that Miss Stvtgt had been ousted by "connivars and reariserr'of some of her subordin Stes had rlnr4 nAVI. v. er and of tht sponsoring committee um hi eac A.

Philip Randolph, chairman of the crtwens; group, presided it the election which resulted the droe png it an officer the Rev. John H. mtu a Cfcurch. In hit was" electej James R. Stavenita, white, was dropped es secretary and wis succeeded by Harold Jackman, school teacher.

No mention wu made at the mrf. of Mist Sa rage's otatrr and ef torts to a rt aeViaU sm changes were in yam. i a xxw rumi laad "laal ef te aww seavtre ry a iaa iia Tsga, sa wvw.