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ALABAMA TRIBUNE, MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA FRIDAY; OCTOBER 24, 1947 fcAGE SIX 8y BREEZY W. J. Arnold T- 1 inert a rri ri nriMivr- win a 0OSajl TO TRY FOR DOUBLE ORygf -gj I WANT T0J p-XNOTOINCr. On SCHW Board MXJ flOvVrS-l 1 PIPNT EVEN Coj FLUNKED vTHE IA9T TIjuTI; BEFORE Vi School Of Social Work Fully Integrated Into Atlanta U. Peonage Situation Found Worse Than Anticipated After 27, years of successful oper atlon under a separate charter as an Independent the Atlanta University School of Social Non-Porter Service Is Protested ATLANTA, (SNS) A complaint has been registered with the Georgia Public Commission that there is no porter service for Negroes on several trains out of Atlanta to southern anu costal areas of the Chairman Walter R.

McDonald, of of the commission, has written H. W. i Bondurant, vice-president of the. Southern Railway System, asking him to look Into a complaint registered by the Rev. W.

W. Weatb-erspool, pastor of Mt. Olive Baptist churrh, Atlanta, that there Is no porter service on Southern Trains 26 and 27 between Atlanta and Brunswick, although at many times there are more colored passengers riding than white passengers. McDonald suggested to the railroad executive that the porter on these trains serve all passengers, since he noted the complaint stated that "many colored women on the train had heavy baggage and needed the assistance of the porter In leaving the train." Rev. Mr.

Weatherspool also aired his complaint to the General Passen ger Agent of the Southern Railroad, asking that conditions be 'Next Door" If You Be My Girl You 4- V- HOLLYWOOD CALLS NEGRO Admit First Hegro Medic To Hospital tep shearer Kin Have My Loose Tooth same hospital and had a similar position for one year in St. Mary's general hospital in St. Louis. He then located in Gary. Dr.

Grant is 36 years old, married and has two children. He resides at 2413 Delaware. His wife is a graduate of the Indiana State Teachers college, Terre Haute, and holds a master's degree in social work from University. GRATIFIED AT ACTION "I am gratified over the confidence the medical staff of Mercy hospital has placed in me," Dr. Grant said.

"I feel that the action of the medical staff of Mercy hospital has placed in me," Dr. Grant said. "I feel that the action of the hospital in respect to doctors of my race will make it possible to improve the health standards of a large segment of our population, which in turn will make for better health conditions in the entire city." Dr. Grant said that the step was an evidence of putting Christianity into practice and added confidence In the democratic way of life. Dr.

Grant also has made application for admission to practice at Methodist hospital, where the medical staff recommended to the hospital board at its July meeting that appointments to the medical staff -be made on the basis of qualifications without regard to race, creed or color. The board adopted this policy. Meanwhile, applications have been accepted from Negro doctors for admission to the staff and these are being investigated. The board will meet on October 20 to take action on new appointments to the staff. (These accomplishments are results of conferences involving the Urban League of Gary and the administration of Mercy and Methodist hospitals, and covering a period of a year and a half.

Outstanding in the discussions have been H. B. Snyder, president of the Urban League of Gary, and editor of Gary Post-Tribune; and Joseph C. Chapman, Urban League Executive The Northern "I'M." FOR CHXCAQO Veteran colored screen actress Jessie Grayson, profiled In November Ebony as the woman who has never made a role detrimental race, and soon to be seen as the housekeeper In MGM's "Cass Timber lane," adds to her stature In this picture when she becomes the first Negro credited and addressed as "Mrs." in a Hollywood film. MGM's version of the Sinclair Lewis best-seller star Spencer Tracy and Lana Turner with Mrs.

Grayson cast as Mrs. Higby, the housekeeper-confidant of kindly, lonely Judge Tlmberlane. This role In the film is Just as Lewis wrote it In the book- Wins NAPE District Post ATLANTA, Oa, SNS) W.J. Arnold, former national We) fare Director of the National Alliance of Postal Employes, was recently elected president of District 3 of NAPE, two to one, in popular balloting. Arnold had the endorsement of the Atlanta Branch.

Mr. Arnold, who is retired is engaged in the real estate bust-less on Auburn Avenue but pro-nises to take time ut in setting up lew branches and Wing after old nembers. Mem-jers in the district consider Mr. Ar-told as a live wire ell and widely mown as influential in postal air cles because of his former connec-" Hons. National postal authorities in Washington, D.

highly commended Mr. Arnold. The Augusta Branch of iht Postal Alliance, knowing of Arnold's vs) uc to the government employes, i-vlted him to be their Alliance Da; speaker on October -12. Dedicate Park In Honor Of Jackie Robinson NAME DETROIT PARK FOR; JACKIE ROBINSON DETROIT (ANP) Possibly the first iVaseball park to named In honor of Jackie Robinson is the oid Dequlndre park here, the home of the Detroit Wolves. Robinson, who played with the.

Wolves as star attraction in a game Saturday against, the Holy Redeemer, team received great acclaim from, the fans. During the game won by. the Wolves, 11 to 6, the park owner, announced that the park was dedicated as "Jackie Robinson, flelcT.j and from this day on will fee known as such. It was a gai'a day for the lovef; of baseball here; as Mayor Edward J. Jeffries threw out the first tali and Councilmanic Candidate L.

C. Blount received it, making it look like a political battery, as. both men. are running for office and the ek ection is Nov. Many notables were among th spectators in the stands.

were Jackie's mother wife, and speech said among other that he was glad to meet auu know Jackie the most tajked of and publicized man in the country, the past two years. Other speakers lauded the Brooklyn Dodgers star to the skies and voiced their pleasure over the Negro had broken down the barriers, and- had entered the field of big league baseball Possibly the shortest apeech-on record was. made by; He saiid simply "I don't talk, I -play baseball," and the crowd, roared. Another mark of. distinction was the fact that the transportation, system had a coterie of big new buses lined up at the park to carry the tremendous crowd away, something that had never before happened, in the history of Dequindre park.

Some observers said it was the doings, of Mayor Jeffriea-whq was making po-? Otical capital.Yut lt.a,t Jeast rsyed a good purpose. Train NEW YORK A report i thai southern cities are arranging to have separate days for whites and Negroes to visit the Freedom Train, which was contained in Walter WlncheVs syndicated newspaper column October 15, is investigated by the i In a telegram to Winthroy Aid-rich, chairman of the Board of Trustees of the American Heritage Foundation, sponsors of the. Freedom Train, Walter White. NAACP Secretary, said: "I would appreciate your advising me what action the American Heritage Foundation wi.1 take when any city attempts this. Will he Train be withdrawn and appropriate publicity given of the reasons for such withdrawal? I believe this to be the only effective way of implementing the resolution passed by the Board on July 9." Indiana Medical.

Dental and Pharmaceutical Society has als? sought to bring lorces to bear to effect f-' Buffalo exchange for three years. In addition to his duties as chief, i the fifth largest in the nation, Ford Is also founder of the C. E. Ford company which last year, handled $1,419,991 in livestock trading, waf for 25 years buyer for Armour and Company. A canny haggler who can spot: a single sick steer in a lot or 100 cattle.

Ford li-X year acted as broker, for more, than 819,000 a record-. breaking turnover ror the liuffaln mart. II i I. WTi JM 'X -it 'J "St 8 I 4 1- 4 IK Group Says Threatened Selection Of Graham To Go To Indorva Praised ATLANTA. (SNS) The National Board of the South ern Conference for Human Welfare, meeting in Atlanta, Friday, saw the country being asked in peace time to give up its constitutional liberties in the name of protecting democracy.

The Board finds the pattern of totalitarianism evident in the rise of thought control, guilt by association, dismissal of government workers without hearing or legal protection, inquisition by Irresponsible Congressional committees, removal of liberal resellers and college professors. All these restrictions, taken in peace time, under the guise of national security, are more than at any time during the war, the board declared. The Conference cafled on southern patriots to unite in a drive to save the democratic rights still remaining to the people and recapture those recently stolen from us. The Board feels it is essential to the country's welfare" for the leadership of the Democratic Party to return to the humanitarian policies of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

NEW BOARD MEMBERS Newly ei'ected members of the board include: Vice Presidents: Roscoe Dunjee, Editor. Black Dispatch, Oklahoma City; Dr. Rufus Clement, President, Atlanta University. Board of Representatives: Helen Fuller, Washington representative, The New Republic, Washington (from Alabama); Percy Greene, Ed itor, Jackson Advocate, Jackson, Mortimer May, May Hosiery I Mills. Nashvii'le, Theodore Behre, Sec'y Treasurer, Pelican Ice Co.

New Orleans; Dr. J. Frank Do- Die, roiessor. university oi iexa, Austin; Dr. James A.

Dombrowski, Director, Southern Conference Educational Fund, Leo Sheiner, attorney, Miami; J. Lewis Henderson, writer. Bay St. Louis, Raymond Tillman, International Transport Workers Union, C. I.O.

New Orleans. RESOLUTIONS PASSED During the course of the conference the board in a statement to President Truman and Gen. George C. Marshall congratulated the President on the selection of Dr. Frank P.

Graham, of North Carolina, as the American representative to soive the Indonesian dispute. In congratulating the President on the selection of Dr. Graham, first Dresident of the SCHW and currently its nonorary president, the board expressed confidence that no wiser nor more humane person could have been chosen for the difficult task. In a statement to the President of the University of Texas, the Board of Trustees, and the Governor of Texas, the board saw the dismissal of Professor J. Frank Doble from the faculty of the University of Texas another great loss to the country's educational system and further destruction of liberal culture by the reactionary politicians of Texas.

This action, by the University, said the board, must be alarm ing to aI persons who had hopt-d CURTAINS DONATED CLUB Hall Johr.sn, Internationally eonduLior, and members of the Festival Negro Chorus, are shown presenting Walter Roark, Director of W' i. ate Work (founded in 1920 as the Atlanta School of Social Work) on September 22, 1947, gave up its charter and became an integral part of Atlanta University. Since September 1, 1938, the SchooY of Social Work has main tained an affiliation with Atlanta University. Under the terms ol ihat agreement, the University awarded the Master of Social Work degree to candidates of the School who had met all of the requirement for the degree but the School had continued to operate under its own board of trustees and officers. The new relationship marks the consummation of a steadily increasing correlation of the work of the School and the University.

Dr. Forrester B. Washington, Director of the School of Soda. Work for the past 20 years and under whom the School has made remarkable strides, and Dr. Rufus E.

Clement, President of the University, both expressed pleasure in the fact that the action was recommended by the boards of trustees of the two institutions, and both leel that the new relationship will be mutually beneficial. Dr. Washington will continue as the Director of the Schoor. The former board of trustees of the School of Social Work will serve as a Board of Advisers and will have the responsibility of giving professlona? advice and direction to the program of the School. The program of the School Is expected to be strengthened by this action which places the resources of the University behind the Institution, and the excellent placement record of the School of Social Work will continue.

i FIRST TIME that of an intelligent, resourceful advisor and consultant. In eastine for the role director George Sidney tested ten women for the part of Mrs. Highby which Gray son eventually won. Ebony quotes Sidney as saying: "We didn't want a Mammy or comedy character. We wanted a normal, intelligent character actress.

"About six years ago," Sidney continues. "I think we would have cast a comedy performer in it. But the war made us conscious of the danger which lies in such roles. We are changing for the better." senior student. CULTURAL GIFT Recalling that the original Jubilee Singers were either former slaves or the children of former tlaves.

Doctor Johnson noted, "They to the world one of the greatest of cultural gifts the pure music of religious fervor and faith, unshackled by special musical traditionthe distillation of brooding centuries that had witnessed the struggle of Christianity to liberate the human heart. the way stands Jubilee Hall which they built with their voices." Elaborating upon Juan Juarez's statement, "We must take from the past its fires, not its ashes," President Johnson challenged the students to embrace th? courage of the Singers ard to use their tradition as an instrument as well as a heritage in blazing the paths of new careers and mounting the unsurveyed heights of excellence among the commonplace. The Jubilee Day celebration got underway Saturday, Oct. 6, with an outdoor dance on the tennis court. Following the Memorial Services Sunday morning in the university chapel, three bus loads of students toured the city and made a pilgrimage to the graves of the Singers.

populated by Negroes, an increase of over 4.00 was recorded while in Searcy county, which has practically no Negroes, poll tax payments dropped by 349. Madison county which boasts a few Negro families, lost al most two-thirds in its counting. In 1946, 6,068 qualified, while only 2,479 paid up 'or 1948. Considerable opposition to Negroes paying poll tax was encountered in several countries where Negroes were in the majority, but the pressure had little or no effect. LECTURE SCHEDULED GREENSBORO (SNS) cangresswomm H'lev Or.uni.is is slated Ut Toeluiv th'i Lyceum Series at A.

and T. college on January 15, JUBILEE SINGERS' CONTRIBUTION CITED The situaton in an adjoining, Ala bama county is equally as bad, Watts said. An additional investigatior ha been added to the WDL staff now probing peonage. Meanwhile, support for the league's antt-peonage campaign came from California wnere 11 Los Angeles unionists and civic leaders urg ed full support of the drive. They are Mrs.

Helen Beardsley of the American Civil Liberties Union, J. Frank Burke, owner of Station KFVD, Oliver Carlson, publist. Rev. Owen Geer of the Vermont Square Methodist Church Rev. Allan Hunter of the Mount Hollywood Congregational Church, Paul Johnson of the Amcrcan Friends Service Committee Leonard Levy of the United Retail Wholesale Department Store Employes, Louis Levy of the Intl.

Ladies Garment Workers Union, Zane Meckler of the Jewish Labor pom-mi ttee, Loren Miller of the Natl Ass'n for Advancement of Colored People and Harry Sttllman of the Textile Workers Union. Intercultural Relations Program Mapped CHICAGO (ANP) A program for broadening and making more effective the intercultural relations program now taught in public schools here was announced last Friday by Dr. Harold C. Hunt, recently appointed superintendent of Chicago public schools. The new program is geared specifically toward a curriculum to foster better relations and understanding among the 32 nationalities reached by the schools.

It will begin in the kindergarten and follow the student right through to graduation from high school. Declaring that he was fully aware of the critical racial situation facing Chicago, Dr. Hunt indicated that a remedy for the recent outbreaks of tension in scattered parts of the city over racial issues lies in a strong program of education which would build up goodwill among the various racial and religious groups. EXCHANGE SUGGESTED "I believe if we can have a successful exchange of these cultures, raciai antagonisms will be greatly reduced," he said. He pointed out that there is no prejudices among youngsters, but "our troubles stem from the youngsters' home life, where parents often refute everything we try to teach about racial understanding and cooperation.

The success of the educational campaign against racial bias will bear its real fruit, when to day's youngsters become the adults of tomorrow." FREED OF ATTEMPTEP RAPE CHARGE; GUILTY OF ASSAULT AND BATTERY Gus Burton, charged with assault with intent to rape, was meted a six months sentence in Fulton Superior court Monday when the charge was reduced, to assault and battery. i Club is setting a new approach to community singing in New York. Mr. Johnson is music d.iisulLim at the Club. NEW YORK Contrary to deni als, the peonage situation in the deep south is "even worse than an? so reported Rowland Watts, National Secretary of the Workers Defense League, upon re? turning from a special trip to Mis-sissippi in connection with the Lea? gue's anti-peonage campaign.

1 Watts investigated in particular the case described by the WDL in its fund appeal of a Negro who was kicked, later beaten and finally flogged almost to death when he attempt ed to leave a plantation for a better Job. To protect the victim, his name cannot be revealed at this time. An atmosphere of extreme fear reigns in the area as a result of re cent discovery of the decapitated body of a Negro veteran by a roadside. Judge Takes Case Under Advisement BESSEMER, Ala. (SNS) Circuit Judge Gardner Goodwvn of the Bessemer cut-off took under advisement Oct.

13 the cane in which Miss Maenetta Steele is seeking restoration to her teaching jnb by the Fairfield Board of Education. She was dismissed last summer on charges of "insubordination." Miss Steele headed a CIO teachers union and previously had attached her name to a petition signed by the 50 Negro Fairfield teachers asking for a cost-of-living1 raise. Her counsel, Attorney Arthur D. Shores, instituted the write of mandamus on Sept. 9.

for great things from the University of Texas. The board added that the SCHW is proud to have such a distinguished scholar as Professor Doble as one of its number. In a statement to Chancellor Robert Hutchins of the University of Chicago the board declared that the selection of the Rev. John B. Thompson, of Oklahoma, former President of the SCHW and now vice-president, as Dean of the Chapel of the University of Chicago is highly commendable.

The appointment of Kev. Thomp-1s a great gain for Chicago, the board expressed, but a severe loss to the South. DuBois, Robeson To Attend Cultural Freedom Rally NEW YORK (ANP W. E. B.

DuBois and Paul Robeson will be among the participants at a conference of writers, actors, artists and others in the creative crafts on the subject of cultural freedom and civic liberties, -which will convene in Commodore hotel here Oct. 25-26. The meeting is being sponsored by the arts, sciences and professions division of the Progressive Citizens of America.V? Salvation Army Red Shield Community Club, with a set of new stage curtains for the "Skyroom" little theatre at the center. The Festival Negro Chorus at the Red Shield NASHVILLE, Tenn. atlng the 76th anniversary of the departure of the original Jubilee Singers- from Fisk University, President Charles S.

Johnson, principal speaker, reminded the student body that the efforts of those singers had become a tradition of the university, and called upon the students of today to transmit this tradition and reshape It so that it links with the future. The annual Jubilee Day ceremony was held in Fisk Memorial Chapel on Oct. 6. After relating iw the original Singers had toured the Untted States and Europe for four years and returned to Fisk with $150,000 by which means Jubilee Hall was constructed, Mrs. Helen Young Howard, Alumni Secretary, cited examples of prominent alumni who had carried their spirit of courage down through the years.

In keeping with the yearly custom, the audience Joined alumni all over -the world obbwving high noon with a moment of prayer in memory of the Singers. Miss Mary E. Spence, "78, daughter of the second principal of Fisk, read the scripture lesson. Telegrams of greetings from graduates and alumni groups throughout the country were read by June Borders, -GARY, Indiana The medical staff of Mercy hospital October 1 approved kmanimously the action of. the hospital's executive committee in accepting the application of Dr.

Benjamin F. Grant, Negro physician, to become a member of the hospital it was announced today ty Dr. Joseph Donchess, staff chairman. Dr. Grant becomes the first Negro doctor admitted to practice in the hospital.

application of a second Negro physician is now being Investigated. Negro, doctors must qualify, professionally the same as other physicians. The proposal lo admit qualified Negro doctors to the staff was made to the hospital board by the Sisters of the Poor Hand Maidens of Jesus Christ, the order that administers the hospital. EXTENSIVE TRAINING Dr. Grant has been practicing medicine in Gary for two years.

He has just returned from taking a post-graduate, course In surgery this summer at the University of Buffalo medical college. He is a native of Munice, a graduate of Munlce high school, and holds a bachelor of science degree from the Ball State Teachers College. He studied medicine, at Howard University, Washington, D. and took his internship at the Homer G. Phillips hospital, a St.

Louis city the largest hospital in the United States for colored people. He spent a year as a resident physician in surgery at the 870th Q'Master Inactivated LEGHORN, Italy (NNPA) The last Army Quartermaster unit with Colored troops in the Mediterranean theater was inactivated here October 4 as part of the phase-out plan for the MTO, it has been announced. The unit was the 870th Quarter- master Laundry company which was commanded by First Lieut. FredeT rick D. Coleman, 1811 Peyton St, Little Rock, Ark.

For the past several months members of the unit have been used to guard the huge Quartermaster sup. ply depot First Lieutenant Harvey L. Wil cox. 83 oeniiwortn "iace, nasi Orange, N. was personnel direc tor of the 870th.

Inactivation of the 870th Laundry company leaves ten more colored troops In the MTO to be inactivated before December 14, when all American troops must leave Italy, with the exception of American troops in the Free State of Trieste and in certain graves registration units. No colored troops are slated for assignments in Italy after expiration of 90 days following the deposit in Paris of the ratification of the Italian peace treaty by the Big Four September 15, lout. ilium iii Li Arkansas Disturbed Over Large Croup Registration NEGRO RUNS BUFFALO LIVESTOCK EXCHANGE LITTLE ROCK (ANP) White voters are markedly apprehensive over what the final tabulated figures released by the state auditor's office here last week on the insu-ance of 1948 poll tax receipts, reveal. The figures show that a record 458,406 Arkansas citizens, an increase of 58,099 over 1946, will be qualified to vote in the 1948 Democratic party elections. The anxiety caused by the fact that Negroes in the heavily Negro-populated countries have accounted for a major part of the increase in poll tax payments.

This presents a situation where Negroes, as qualified voters, either hold, the balance of power po itijally or constitutes an lo thi continued lelsn of "white supremacy." In Jefferson county, the largest CHICAGOr-Only Negro to climb to the head of the livestock business, America's largest in gross Income, is Charles Ford, pro-filed In November Ebony as chipper 76 year-old who is president of the Buffalo Livestock Exchange, a buyer for Cu-dahy, and clearing agent for five other companies. Ford's reputation as, an astute cattle buyer and trader is not strictly local. "Ebony says, 'for he is also one of the able vice presidents of. the Matinrml Livestock Exchange." Ford has been president of the.