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six. ALABAMA TRIBUNE, MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA FRIDAY, DECEMBER 34, 194B Smiles For You SJ Dr. Max Yergan Appellate Court Refuses To Enjoin Stuyvesatit Town I DIDN'T sue wont mum HMPH WAS INTRODUCED TO HIM 1 ltT tW AND Km-) non, Albert Colin aiid Bernard ypj MIIILIWIII wynwiu Mf-i Ill IMW, M1 'Hill. WIII-II (.... -i 'V V- 'V 7 'I 1-f "5TT i Shlentag, Was without written opmr ion.

CONTRACT CLAIMED. Tiic plaintiff pointed out that In 1943 the city, the Metropolital Life insurance Company, which final icec iiie development-, and the Stuyves-: jut Town "Corporation had entered a eoutiact uiiaer the State Rc uc.elopii.enl Companies Law where-V iiie city's, powers of condemnation and tax exemption were tnvoked for tui iily-llve jcitrs lo aid the housing 1 licy questioned whether' a project "crHted to achieve a public purpose juiiur' publ.i- uniquely en-duwetl by the stale and city with the teneiits of' all the precious powers uf govpj-naient, immune from restraints when It dlsr criminates on the. arbitrary ground ol race or color." I ne argued that Federal and State Constitutions rorbadu action that denied equal opr porlunity to housing on thr. ground of race. They also contended that discrimination by private agencies forbidden by the State Constitution when the agencies are sup- ported or made possible by state action.

Samuel Seabury and C. Frank Iieavis, counsel for Stuyvesant Town, held that the project was organized and financed as a private corporation and has the same rights every private landlord. "If the priy. ate landlord does not want, to rent apartments to colored persons, "Ibef argued, "nothing can be done about it. We are doing no more than any other landlord in New York is 'LISTEN, GAL! THE LADY SPEAKS FIRST!" Then children tnd their mathers are happy because the March, of Dlmei fr rter-effects of polio.

Soon the children will discard their crutches Dimes, January 14-31. guarantees continued treatment and walk again. Join the March New Report To Be Made On Jim Crow In Washington m-i iff Trim r-J im W.y Under Question For Loyalty NEW YORK (NNPA Dl. Max Ycrgcn, former executive director of the Council on African Affuii's, and Gaorge Hewitt, an ex-Communist, were questioned lost Wednesday by the Federal grand jury investigating espionage. Dr.

Yergan told reporters that in on the iccommeiidation of Pain Robeson no'ed concert artist and ictor, he appointed sister-in-law of Algar Hirs as a for the Council of United Nations sessions at Lake Suctcs dealing with colonial affairs. While in the witness rocm waiting to go before the grand jury, he said ne recalled only the woman's first which was something like "Kleiner' Dr. Yergan said Mr. Robeson latei 'eil the lctt-wlng group which ousted him as executive director of the Council on African Aft ails, an or ganization labelled Communistic in a list of organizations itsued by AMcnicy General Tom Ciurk. Dr.

Yergan denied at that time that the Council was Com munistic. Hewitt, who formerly was active In the Communistic party under the party name of Tim Hewitt, was in the grand jury witness room along with Dr. lergan. Hewitt renounced communism in 1944 and recently hai testified in several deportation cases as a witness for the Government. Dr.

Yergan, an educator, is a for aier president of the National Negro Congress which he said Communist had tried to sabotage. Both Dr. Yergan and Hewitt are believed to have testified secretly before a sub-committee of the House Un-American Activities Committee Representative John McDowell, Republican, of Pennsylvania, conducted the hearing at which Dr. Yergan testified. MUNICIPALITIES.

Mayors and other officials of 500 cities, attending the session of the American Municipal Association held in the nation's capital, mapped plans to get a share of tax revenues now going to the Federal and state governments. Congress will be asked to provide payments to cities to replace property-tax revenues lost through Federal ownership of city lands, such as ports, air-fields and office sites. Sewing Hints BY MARY ANN KNOWITT Christmas, 1948 just a memory New Year 1949 a year in which many things learned in the old year will be put into practice. Old Year a year in which we, in the pursuit of happiness, learned many lessons about many things, especially when it was time to buy Mary Jane that new dress that new knitted cap that new pair of gloves any of the thousand and one items that she always seems to need. New Year a testing ground for the lessons we have learned.

A year to get nut. the needle and thread, the crochet hook and the knitting needle. A year hi which we will save, and salt away, one third to one half of Uvr cost of many of those things for Mary Jane by making them ourselves. We will cut n'-n- lr making over her olU drcis UkU still good that she feels all her friends have seen. We will cut corner there by making her glove, socks, scarf and hanky set ourselves Yes, wc will fix dad's shirt, too, which he says is no longer serviceable because of a ragged collar and cuffs.

Little Thomas; conies In for his share, too. We will malic him some new soclis mid even hirU and sweaters fix the holes that seem always to grow in his little pants at the knees and seat. The Home? Yes, wc have wtuUeo for a long tunc a new runner and NAACP Wins Veteran i Honorable; Discharge i WASHINGTON. D.C. IMI.iry a Edwards, veteran of World War II.

former appreut.ee seaman, V. I Naval Reserve, received an Discharge from he United States Navy a hearing was requested by the NAACP. Mr. Edwards had been discharged from the Navy cost of $325,000. Initially, the unit will have 50 beds, with another 50 being provided later.

About $100,000 of the construction costs will be provided for by the lederal govern ment. Msgr. Fulton J. Shcene, and former Congresswoman Clare Booth Luce assisted in raising the remain der of the funds through public donation. The hospital will replace a maternity institution for Negroes which has been in operation for several years.

The new plant will have a maternity section. In Birmingham, a group of Negro ministers, doctors and laymen met to discuss plans for constructing a Negro hospital costing between $300, 000 and $500,000, near the Medical College of Alabama. Bishop B. G. president of the Jefferson County Hospital association, pre sided over discussions, which were held at the Booker Washington Con ference rooms.

The hospital is to have 100 beds. Committees were appointed to sur vey past and future plans and re- port bark to the pniup ul it Jftnti- ary meeting. NEW YORK (NNPA) The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Monday, December 20, upheld a previous decision of Supreme Court Justice Felix C. Benvenga refusing to enjoin Stuyvesant Town and the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company from allegedly practicing racial discrimination in selecting tenants. The suit was brought by three colored war veterans, former Cap- tam Joseph Dursey, former Captain Monroe Dowhng und Technical Sergeant Calvin S.

Harper, whose applications for apartments in the housing development were rejected adm.ttedly on grounds of race or color. They were joined in the legal fight by the American Jewish Congress, tile National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The American Civil Liberties Union and ctlier groups. Charles Abrams, counsel for the three veterans, and Shad Poller, vice president of the American Jcwfcili Congress, said they wovd carry the case at once to the State Court of Appeals 'and to the United States Supreme Court lf necessary. The appellate court acted on two appeals, one pressed by Mr.

Abrams and the other by Mr. Poller. The decision, rendered by Presiding Justice David W. Peck and Justices John Van Voorhis, Edward G. Glcn- Rental Of Subpoenaed District Rent Control Board.

The buildings have been labeled "unfit for human habitation" by Robert H. Cary; chief of the Bureau of Public Health Engineering. Subpenas were issued against James F. Gilbert, a rental agent for Dingman Place property and Mrs. Mary E.

Slattery, who owns two Diiigman place buildings. Gilbert was located at the District Workhouse in Virginia On November he was convicted of violating alcoholic Beverage Control regulations and was sentenced to pay a fine of $300 and serve 90 days in jail. In default of payment of the line, lie was sentenced to an additional 60 days, according to Assistant Rent Control Administrator RulI'm A. Brantley. Director of Corrections Donald Cleinnier will be subpenaed to produce Gilbert at the District Jail for questioning, Brantley said.

ALLEGE VIOLATIONS. The Rent Control Board's investigation of alleged violations of the standard living conditions at Ding-man place, less than half a mile control law follows disclosure of sub-from the Capitol. Each of the Dingman dwellings is without electricity, gas, hot water or any form of control heating. Cold air and moisture seeps through leaking walls, doors and windows. Plaster has failed from virtually every wall in the twelve houses, which wera outlawed by act of Congress fourteen years ago, but which are still occupied today.

The colored tenants say they pay as high as $28 a month rent, although in many cases the buildings are rented from the owners by middlemen for less than $14 a month The subpenas order all records books, document and memoranda pertaining to rental of the dwellings to be produced in court. Meanwhile, a number of Washir.g-tonians have volunteered aid tor the Dingman place tenants. According to the reports, reservations were made for the Tammany delegation at a Washington hotel. It was then decided inform the hotel that there would be colored men in the delegation. When this was done, the hotel notified the leaders that' it could not house the colored men.

Efforts were then made to obtain reservations at other hotels but without success. The leaders met and decided not to attend the inaugural ceremonies. The Tammany Hall leaders in Harlem are J. Raymond Jones, deputy commissioner of housing; Jo- DO'S AND DON'TS: DO LET YOUK STUDIES COME FIRST. THEY ARE ALL IMPORTANT.

Board Approves of Rail Workers Minimum Work Week For Whites Denied To Negro Workers BY R. E. NICHOLSON NEW YORK A three-man aldential Board has put Its seal of approval on the practice of discrimination against Negro railroad workers. This became known with the publication of the recommendation of the Pact-Finding Board set up by President Truman last September. The Board held hearings in Chicago for 60 day and has just submitted its conclusions to the President.

The Board recommend the 40-hour-week instead of 48 for one million' non-operating railroad workers in 17 crafts. But it singled out dining car employees for special treatment' and refused these Negro workers the same 40-hour week, recommending instead a work month of 305 hours; about 50 hours a week. Dining 'car workers and Pullman porters since 1920 have worked on a monthly straight time schedule of 240 hours. The' Board's action in continuing the monthly-hours pattern freezes the hourly discriminatory spread between the non operating railroaders in ail crafts and those employed as dining rar men and porters. NEED IGNORED Presidential Board Ignored the jieed for giving the Negro rail-men" "American" treatment in the face of their own document which held that "the 40-hour week should not be withheld any longer from railroad industry" because "it is the prevailing practice in American industry" to which "the railroads now stand out In striking exception." The Presidential Board noted the Increased cost to the railroads in establishing the shorter week would be a diminishing sum because of the "Increasing productivity and declining employment." Daniel Benjamin, eastern vice-president of the Dining Car and Railroad Food workers Union, denounced the Board's denial of the standard 40-hour week to dining car employees.

He emphasized that the speed-up which the Board revealed was also taking place in his craft With the introduction of grill-cars and double unit diners. Benjamin scaif set to dress up the living room but the Homemakers Shop charges so much for them. We will sit down order the pattern for that beautiful set we saw yesterday in the paper, so that wc can have it all finished for the annual club meeting next month. Oh Yes the cutr and practical pot holders and aprons to match tho curtains we made last month. We must not forget those important items.

Now for the bathroom, let's see, we will make the bath mat and the matching cover for the bowl, and the matching trimming on those plain towels that we received for Christmas. Now for the New Year resolutions oh no; first, the budget book that wasn't used at all last year. We will list hi the back of it every thing we make this year, and compare the price of the same article at the stores downtown, with the cost of making the article. The difference will go into the household savings account. Minister Writes Christmas Message To All Georgians At this Yuletide season when mankind heralds the births of Christ and praise his philosophy of "goodwill to all mankind," a timely missive was received by the World which ordinarily would be classified A Letter to the Editor," but due to its deep and timely significance it would better be termed a "Christmas Message to Georgia." The Reverend I.

J. Yancey, of Antioch Baptist church, Augusta, wrote: "Since it is now an open secret that (he political leaders of Georgia are planning to pass a legislative act that will vitiate Georgia's present registration, and prohibit many from re-registering; and since it is also opcnlv stated that, the avowed purport of the move is to an estimated 80 percent uf Negroes." I humbly ask the following questions: 1. Who is most responsibk' U.ir Hie ignorance of Negroes? 2. Who set. the "Work voltug" pa Urn i fur Nrgroer-V Will Irpt'sUnn ktIwI.

rrliglotis staHic Cieor-S'it? 4. Will lite aid lesitlHtion satisfy the ryiiscitms "1 Bible reading tJud-feaiiiig people? 5. AVi'l il make for tood reputation anions the other people of our country, and the other of the world? WILL IT CONFORM TO THE WILL OF JEHOVAH, OUR GOD? Slating that it is the last ques-that concerns him most, the xiulstor asked the united prayers the righteous and the just. "If is God's will then, we ought to our benediction upon it. Jtit, if it is- not the will of God.

ve should ask Him, earnestly, to frustate it." The minister terminated his Christmas message, saying: "Our heavenly Father can and will rule in the affairs of man. If imuifcind is concerned about the will of God being done In earth, as it Is in heaven, then, they ought to pray Thy will be done." NAACP Leader Warns S. C. Demos COLUMBIA, SC. (SNS) James M.

Hmton, president of the State Chapter of the NAACP served warning to the state Democratic party leadership here Monday that they are prepared "to go the final mile" in their fight for full membership in the party. The NAACP spokesman made public that declaration in a letter to Democratic State Chairman W. P. Baskin. with a Bad Conduct Discharge for having a fight with a white seaman.

The Navy Board for the Correction of Naval Records ordered Mr. Edwards naval record corrected in this regard. Jesse O. Dedmon, Secretary, Veterans' Affairs, NAACP, represented Mr. Edwards before the iavv Department Board for tho Cor ci'Uon of Naval Records.

SIM ll f'i li 4 i Mi i it I Und Remus Acror Dies At Home Here; Age Given At 97 Yrs. "Uncle Remis" is dead Joe McElroy, of 494 McDaniel S. W. who portrayed tho character, "Uncle Remus," dur- ing the Atlanta premiere of the movie, "Song of the South," died at his residence Tuesday afternoon. Detective R.

E. Little reported, Reputed to be around 97-years-old, McElroy was the life of the party at the Joel Chandler Harris Memorial Home, known as the "Wren's Nest," during a revival of the writer's works and the first showing of the Walt Disney movie He is believed to have no living relatives. Term. State Teachers Study For High Degrees NASHVILLE, Term. Thirteen in struotors from Tennessee A.

and I College, ten of whom are Working toward their Ph. D. degree, arc now studying in graduate i schools throughout the country, according to Dr. G. W.

Gore, Jr. dean of the College. Twenty of the 170 faculty members now hold the doctorate degree. Those on leave studying toward the Ph. D.

degree arei in agricul-. ture, Hazo Carter, University of Illinois and Neal McAlpin, University of Wisconsin; in education, Mrs. Roberta P. Seats, Columbia Jniversity and Miss Velma Wat-cers, Columbia University; in his-. tory, Kenneth A.

Univer i 3ity of Minnesota; in geography, i4iss Mazie Tyson, Syracuse University; in English. Crawford B. Ljr.isay, Cornell University; tn. romance languages, Mrs. Alma- T.

Watklns, Cornell University; in physical education, Miss Lua S. Bartley, University of Michigan; and in Mathematics. Miss Sadie G. Gusaway, University of Illinois. Working for their masters degree are; in business.

Miss Helen Glov- r. New York University: in physi cal education. Miss Eddie Morel Jenkins, New York University; and ji industrial education, John G. Sanders, Wayne University. Dr.

Gloster Gets NYU Summer Post HAMPTON, Va. Dr. Hugh M. Gloster, Chairman of the Communications Center at Hampton Institute vill be guest professor of English at New York University during the 1949 summer session, it was learned here recently. Dr.

Gloster, who received his Ph. D. degree in English from New York University in 1943, will offer two advanced courses in American Litera ture, one of which will be "The Ne- in American Literature." Author of Negro Voices in American Fiction, an anthology ot Negro iterature published last Spring, Dr. Gloster is currently working on a volume, Negro Voices in American Poetry, scheduled for re- ease in 1949. He has also written numerous magazine and newspaper articles on Negro life and literature.

A member of Hampton's faculty nee 1946, the native Tennessean Morehouse College in At-inta, Georgia, where he-received B.A. degree in English, later Master's degree from Atlanta Jniversity. After teaching at Le Moyne Morehouse and Atlanta Uni versity, Dr. Gloster was appointed. ssociate Regional Executive ill Charge of U.

S. O. Services to Ne- rroes in the Southern States, a post held from 1943 to 1946. He is President of the Association Teachers of Language in Negro Colleges, and a member of the Nt- tional Council of English Teachers, he Modern Language Association, And the English Graduate Associa tion. seph Ford, Joe Pinkney and blyman Hulan Jack, who recently replaced C.

Mntt. Shavers as a dls trict leader. WASHINGTON (ANP) A new more complete report on segregation with remedies for problems in the nation's capital will be out soon. Dr. Frederick E.

Reissing, executive secretary of the Washington Federation of Churches, told the NAACP last week. Dr. Rsissig, was a member of the committee which recently published a report depicting the evil effects of segregation on Washington. The next report, he said, will be "more dynamic, more controversial," and it will recommend improvements. As the group's first step to get action on civil rights in D.

Dr. Reissig said, it will see that every member of congress gets a copy the report. Three groups thn government, the educational institutions the churches are responsible for spreading the "truly democra tic" ideals in this nation, he added. WATCHING ERRORS "Some of these," he continued, "are living up to these American ideals as they should. "The whale world is watching our American experiment in democracy.

All errors are Dlayed As a "Christian minister," he pointed out, his only duty was to condemn segregation. He declared "I in the church live in a glass house." On the topic of segregation. Dr. Howard Jenkins of the Howard university law school faculty, denounced a report on the school buiicUnt? needs in the district recently mucic by Dr. George D.

Strayer of Columbia university for congress. This report, Dr. Jenkins said, stuck to the same old pattern of segregation. He did laud the report, D.C. Citizens Honor Policemen WASHINGTON (ANP) Two U.

S. Park police officers, a man and a woman, were honored here last week for their heroism and alertness to duty by the Lincoln Civic association. The honored officers were Pvt. Walter R. McEwen, 28.

They were praised for their work as a team last Dec. 6 in arresting a suspected rapist, Willie H. Massey, 36. Dr. E.

F. Harris, president of the association, when presenting the two privates gold honorary membership cards in the association said, "Too much praise cannot be given to these two officers." The Rev. Edgar Newton, pastor Mount Lebanon Baptist church, also spoke and praised the officers for their -prompt action in mis case. left the country as a result of the communists taking it over, ht reported. i Unless a similar "incident" occurs In another country, he added that the IRO expects to clean up the refugee problem by 1950.

He hinted that special efforts were being made to aid those escaping the com munits. The 250,000 refugees still left in Germany want to go to the United States, Canada, Australia, South America and South Africa in that order, he said. Declaring that this unrest is caused by a desire tor a free life, he pointed out: "The same thing that produced the population that is American is now in effect in Europe. They are tired of not knowing when thov Fnav have to run." SAFE INVESTMENT He also noted that 99 percent of tho are considered a investment" mainly because they are however, for its recognition of the Inadequacy" of colored schools. This point of view, he slid, helped to prove the falsity of the "separate but equal" facilities myth.

$1,000 Reward For Identity Of Cross MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. (SNS) A $1,000 reward has been posted by a Citizens Committee here in an attempt to discover the person or persons who burned a cross in front of a home of a local editor recently The group agreed on the reward during a meeting called to discuss what they called "recent outbreaks of lawlessness." The editor at whose home the cross was burned was Jere N. Moore, who had assailed the Ku Klux Klan for certain alleged tcrrolst acts against Negroes here. Puerto Rico Looks Ahead On U. S.

Rule Anniversary SAN JUAN Puerto Rico, which last week celebrated 50 years under the U. S. Flag, was discovered by Columbus on November 19, 1493 The United States took over control of the island on December 10 through the Treaty of Paris when .1 ceded Puerto Rico to the U. S. at the end of Hie Spanish-American War.

The island is mountainous, 100 miles long and 35 miles wide and is the most easterly of the Greater Antilles. Fourteen miles due south of New York and 1000 miles southeast of Miami, Florida, Puerto Rico has no true rainy season, the heaviest fall cominz from September through November. Puerto Rico is abundant with a wide variety of plant life, though little of its original forest remains and the area of soil fitted for economic farming is limited. The tillable soil covers roughly 1,000,000 acres. On this island of 3.435 square miles is an estimated population of 2,180,000, or about 635 people to the square mile.

According to Luis Munoz Marin who takes office January 2, as the first native Governor to be elected in 450 years ol Spanish and American rule, industrialization must outstrip the collapse. Mobile Takes Bids On New Negro Nursing School MOBILE, Ala. (ANP) Seven bids on the first unit of a new gen eral hospital and nursing school for Negroes, that will be one of the largest in the south, were taken here last week by Charles A. Mc- Cauley, white Birmingham architect. The proposed unit will be known as ths Blessed Martin De Parres hospital, and will be managed by the Sisters of Mercy.

It will be ouilt at an estimated anti-communist and many of them are well qualified to be useful in new community. Most of them, he said, are willing to work to prove themselves. Speaking of the Jews, Buford related that most of them want to go to Palestine even over the United States. Only a few with relatives in America want to Come here, he said. About 4,000 are being sent to Palestine each month.

"But then there is the problem of the 60.000 displaced Arabs," be added. "Plans are being made to do something about them. They mayv or may not come under the IRO Summing up the character of the refugees and their tnf free- limit, he concluded, Records On D. C. Project WASHINGTON, D.C.

(NNPA) All records and memoranda pertaining to the rental of slum dwellings at Dingman Place northwest, were subpeiiaed lust Tuesday by the Champion Louis Accepts Service Faulkner Suit CHK'Atio, lil. World llravywr'g'ni. Champion Jot- louis gciiiy to slu it "til in ciiti'l. witn the (Onusc that, alienated the al-frctious of tile wife of tin: Rv. Army iiivcoj to accept service cl the heart blm suit in Su pcrior court when his Truman Gibson, and Sol Frieu man, attorney for Rev.

Mr. Faulk' ner, thrashed out preliminaries. The champion, since May, had held that two attempts to serve him with the papers in the illegal. In one attempt the summons was handed to Louis' wife, Mrs Marva Louis, in her Chicago homo In the other Louis was served whilt playing in a golf tournament here Louis contended his legal residence is in New Jfork City and that he must be served there. Attorney Gibson hopes to have tlw suit dismissed.

Rev. Faulkner clatrru that Louis alienated the affections ol Mrs. Mattie Carrleaulkner, no ted New Tiork model. The chaplain maintained residence in lanta some months ago. Visitors To Be Housed At Famcee At Inauguration TALLAHASSEE Arrangements have been made to house all persons attending the Inaugural Ceremonies at Tallahassee January 4th, in tht Florida A and College dormitories.

Anyone who 'desires housing for that time is requested to write to Mr. Wm. H. Wiggins, Director of Personnel, Florida A and College, Tallahassee, or to register on arrival in the lobby of Lee Hall (Auditorium). Joe DiMaggio, Williams set pace for league sluggers.

XI. S. concerns report dividends in November. Buford Explains Refugee Conditions Among Europeans LOUISVILLE, Ky. HANP) Except for jconditions in Czechoslova-during the holidays, Buford gave a word picture of how the IRO is taking care of refugees in the old worldt His uncle is W.

C. Buford, kia the plight of displaced persons and refuges in Europe is improving, Ligon Buford of the International Refuge organization revealed here last In Louisville to visit his uncle chairman- of the board of Mam-mothjfliife and. Accident Insurance company. r. Young Buford has spent1 six years in overseas relief work.

He heads a large staff of workers of 14 nationa-nitiesf jn Area' 6 of the IRO. He will return to his post In Munich after the first of the 15,000 LEAVE Large numbers of refugees from Czechoslovakia since the recent, coup has hicrcrirfrf! the work of the fRO, he said. More than 15,000 have.