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i Friday, January 4, 1952 ALABAMA TRIBUNE Start Towards Ending Three Croups Commend Stand On Negro Nurses U. S. Afric Trade Dat; Bias In Housing Reported Is Release! NEW YORK (ANEP) Jewish and Protestant groups recently joined with the Catholic Inter-racial Council In commending a Catholic hospital in West Virginia for giving colored and white nurses equal status on its staff. UNITED NATIONS. N.

Y.J (ANP) The UN Dcpar.rfcent of Economic Affairs announc this week that the August 1951 imports by the United States from! Africa totaled exclusive of confidential uranium trade 'lth the Belgian Congo. Dr. John E. Moseley, physician of New York; the Rev. Marshall Soott, Presbyterian Institute of Industrial Relations; the John La-Farge.

associate editor of America, and Richard S. Zeisler, American Jewish Committee. Warning that there is sUll a great need to fight segregation and discrimination against Negro nurses, Dr. Moseley stated that the St. Francis incident is indicative of a trend toward their integration integration into hospitals generally.

He jwinted to the refusal of student nurses to Join the walkout as a good omen for the future. In the meantime, the $1,000 Lane Bryant Award of 1960 was awarded to the Catholic Interracial Council of Wilmington, Del. BOBlUN A successful start toward" ending the practice of segregation In public housing projects was -reported this week by the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (M. C. A.

D.v In its sixth annual report to the Governor, the state agency pointed to Boston as an example of a city which "has successfully integrated white and non-white families without friction" In the city's newest publicly financed homes A year ago the Legislature declared the practice of segregating persons by race or religion in state or municipally built projects to be a form of unlawful discrimination and turned the policing of the new law over to the M. C. A. D. A survey of all public housing in the state Is being conducted by 'the commission.

Specifically speaking, jlhls trade was: Anglo-Egyptian Sinan, Canary Islands, Came The action, in the form of a resolution, was inspired by the recent stand oP St. Francts hospital in Charleston, W. when it retained its three Negro nurses after some 20 white nurses of its staff struck to have them removed. The resolution was passed after a panel discussion on the problem of colored nurses before an interracial audience at the Catholic Inter-racial Council here. Panel participants Included: room, Freno Equatorial A Africa, Frencl I West Africa, cessed 217 matters Involving employment discrimination and 24 matters involving allegation of discrimination by places of public, accommodation.

Tlie employment matters were divided about equally between those allegatlng discrimination because of age and those alleging discrimination because of race, religious creed or ancestry. "Forty-eight percent, of complaints filed because of alleged discrimination in employment due to race, color, religious creed, na-tienal origin or ancestry, the report stated, were settled after investigation and conference and resulted In agreements which corrected an unlawful employment practice Another 41 percent of the complaints were closed for lack of probablv cause, five percent were disposed of for lack of commission jurisdiction, and six percent were withdrawn. "In 93 percent of the complaints and investigations concerning age some evidence of dlscriminatfion was found and corrected. the Gold Cafet, Nigeria, British West Africa, Madeira Islands, 1253-990; Angola, $1,194,142. CINCINNATI.

OHIO. -(SNS)- Inauguration Set For Jan. Through the cooperation of the Boston Housing Authority, Federal Liberian Program ter Lang, editor-in-chief, Gainesville, Dorothy Perthrone, society editor, Jacksonville; James Wyatt, associate sports editor, Norfolk; James D. Marshall, associate sports editor. Tom-pa, and Billie Morris, III, associate editor, Tallahassee.

Some 65 students from Florida and the Second Annual Florida A. and M. College nearby states are expected to attend. STUDENT EDITORS PLAN FOR PRESS WORKSHOP Editors of The Famcean, Florida A. and M.

College student newspaper, recently met to plan for the Second Annual Florida A. and Mrs. College Interscholastic Press Workshop at Famcee January 17 to 19. Left to right, Ebenezer Edwards, associate editor, Miami; Rupert Seals, managing editor, Lexington, Charles J. Smith, III; Wal- West Portuguese Africa.

$271,473,. Liberia, the Belgian Congo, Eastern Italian Africa, $62,833: Ethiopia, British Somaliland, British East Africa. Mozambique, Madagascar. Northern Rhodesia, and Southern Rhodesia, $975,011. housing officials, various civic groups and the M.

C. A. successful experiment On Integration) has rapidly become the established practice" in Boston, according to the report. BY CLAUDE A. BARNETT Baptist Church.

iro Actors Featured In NBC Dramatization Post-inauguration day ceremonies and activities will take the international visitors past Monrovia to see the interior of the country. The whole day of Wednesday, Jan. 9 will be devoted to a tour of the interior of the nation. On this trip, citizens from other parts of the world will view the progress made in roads, agriculture, and industry in Liberia. When the Republic of Liberia holds Its lavish ceremonies, Jan.

5-14, for the inauguration of President William V. S. Tubman, presidentelect and William R. Tolbert, vice president-elect, it will actually present a pageantry symbolising its progress during its 104 years as an independent nation. Inauguration day Itself, Monday, January 7, will climax the progress of an African nation, illustrating Africans ability to run a democracy with peaceful elections.

0. J. Thomas Named Director Of Schools became a singer and played in Goln Home on the stage and appeared in MGM pictures Trader Horn and Tarzan and is currently acting, singing and practicing law: Jay Brooks, former Hampton Institute student who learned his first professional acting at the Pittsburgh Playhouse, played in Broadways Our Lan, New York radio shows and RKOs Payment on Demand," starring Bette Davis, Monogram's "Bomba and 20th Centurys Lydia Bailey, soon to be released and Toussaint Felix Nelson, who entered the theatre by way of dancing in a ministrel show in Robertson Bros Circus, acted for six years at a California playhouse, then served in the Army and returned to take part on the West Coast in Carmen Jones, the Greek Theatre and television shows Tn 66 percent of the complaints and investigations concerning places of public accommodation some evidence of discrimination was found and corrected. There are now four regional, unpaid Councils Against Discrimination, composed of representatives of business, labor, civic groups and the general public, and a state advisory council assisting the C. A.

D. In Its educational work. The greater Boston council Is headed by Clark E. Woodward, senior vice, president of the Library Mutual Insurance Company; the Springfield council, by co-chairman Roger L. Putnam, Federal Economic Stabilization Director and president of the Package Machinery Company, and Miss Alice L.

Halligan, Director, Bureau of Guidance, Placement and Adult Education, Springfield School Department; the New Bedford Council, by Anthony J. Snyder, assistant to the president, Morse Twist Drill and Machine Company. and the Worcester Council, by Philip M. Morgan, president of the Morgan Construction Com son choir, made Negro folk song recordings for Warner acted in Arch Obeler plays on NBC Edith Whiteman, who studies at Bennett College on a music scholarship and received her bachelor of arts degree, then studied with the American Negro Theatre, played in Anna Lucasta, toured with its New York, West Coast and London companies, and recently completed work in a film on the life of Booker fT. Washington: Actor-lawyer Vince Townsend who was graduated from Wilbcr-force University and Howard University Law School, where he received his bachelor of law degree.

In the first multi-unit project opened In Bostons South End since the passage of the law. 77 out at 808 units were occupied by colored families. In the next new development, in Brighton, "18 out of the 24 Negro families that applied found apartments. The latest report is signed by Mrs. Mildred H.

Mahoney, chairman, and Commissioners Judge A. Cohen and Owood S. McKenney. All three have served on the commission since the fair employment practice law was enacted. The state commission also revealed that.

In cooperation with the Civic Education Project in Cambridge, it has promulgated a new, revised "unit of study" for schoolroom use In disseminating Information concerning Mas.sa -chusetts statutes which outlaw various forms of discrimination. The unit, which will be ready tor distribution early in 1952, traces the history of the laws which eliminate discrimination in employment because of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ago or ancestry, and in housing and the use of public accommodations because of race or religious creed. During the 12-month period ending last November 30. the commission reported, It received or pro- Another special achievement of Liberia has been in the field of education. The morning of Thursday, January 10 will be devoted to this field.

There will be a special education program at that time. International harmony between Liberia and other nations of the world will be demonstrated Tuesday January 8 when the secretary of state will receive members of the special missions and the diplomatic corps. Another example of Liberias march of progress will be exemplified in the formal opening of the Liberian Institute of the American Foundation for Tropical Medicines, Friday, January 11. The Hon, Edwin A. Morgan, president pro tempore of the Liberian senate, will administer the oath of office to President Tubman as he assumes his second term, and President Tubman in turn will administrate the oath of office to Vice President-Elect Tolbert.

The extensive pageantry of the occasion will picturq, an army of peace working for the Republic. Guests of the occasion coming from nearly every country of the world will demonstrate the international recognition now afforded Liberia. Invited to the ceremonies have been world dignitaries who not only will observe, but also will participate in a number of other events scheduled. Visitors will be made to feel at home, Saturday, January 5 at the Inaugural Gala Show in massive Antoinette Tubman Stadium, Sunday, January 8 will be devoted to the spiritual side of life with a special divine worship at Provident NEW YORK Veteran actor Jay Loft-Lynn and six other Negro actors and actresses dominated the 11 member cast of The Trader's Wife, a dramatic radio play heard recently on NBCs Short Story, a coast-to-coast program presented each Friday evening. Star of the show was Loft-Lynn who played Atemba, proud son of an African chieftain The Traders Wife is principally the story of Atemba enslaved young jungle nobleman, and of Lucy (played by Kay Stewart), naive and bewildered little Bostonian schoolteacher-wife of pre-Civil War days, who eventually frees Atemba and his fellow slaves, then dies in the heart of their country.

Jay Loft-Lynn, 36, was born in Philadelphia Following graduation from Eastern schools and Cheyney State Teachers College, he went to New York City to continue singing studies begun at college, where he had been a soloist in the choir. As a first tenor he eventually became soloist in the choir of the Abysinian Baptist Church, in the American Negro Theatre and in Langston Hughes Harlem Suitcase Theatre, all in New York. He later toured California with the Hall Johnson choir and appeared in motion pictures with Lena Horne, Kay Thompson and Red Skelton. He has also been on Family Theatre and the "Dixie Showboat television show. He has also danced in Carmen Jones, Showboat and the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles.

Negro Judge To Hear Second Trial Of White Policeman PRAIRIE VIEW (ANP) O. J. Thomas, prominent state educator, has been appointed state director of the Inter scholastic League of Colored schools. Thomas has been associated with league programs for many years. Some 20 years ago he served the league as county and district director and later as chairman of the state Rules committee and chairman of the State Meet Committee.

For the past two years he has served as state director on a part-time basis. Besides activities with the league, Thotnas has served as an instructor at Texas college, principal of the high school at Cameron, Tex. which was ncmed in his honor, and more recently as state intinernnt teacher trainer and state advisor to New Farmers of America in agricultural education. Thomas has held many offices of honor. Among them were: President of the Colored Teachers Association of Texas; first vice president of American Teachers Association, and president of Prairie View Alumni Association.

He also is a member of the National Education Association and of Phi Delta Kappa, national professional education fraternity. Organized 30 years ago at Prairie View college, the league runs football and basketball games, track meets, and band contests among Negro schools in Texas, pany. State Commissioner of Education John J. Desmond, is chairman of the state advisory council. For business achievement, there will be the Saturday, January 12 formal opening of the Liberia Mining Company at Bomi Hills.

For many Liberians and visitors the inauguration not only will be memorable because of its international importance, but also because of the various social affairs of the season. public service. Among the positions he had held are; He is a member of the Masons, and Kappa Alpha Phi fraternity SCS Annual Report Calls For CHICAGO (ANP) Wendell E. Green, Negro judge of Criminal court here, will hear evidence in the second murder trial of Michael Mo-retti, suspended white policeman, set for Monday January 7. Moretti is charged with shooting fatally Arthur Gamino and Eddie Salvo, 21, and wounding Leonard Monaco, 21, all Chicagoans of Mexican decent, as they sat in an automobile parked in a vacant lot.

ft Progress In Soil Conservation Army Blamed For "Flagrant Waste Of Manpower, Money Washington, d. The rapid progress in soil conservation for the last 20 years is the keynote of the annual report of the Soil Conservation Service for the 1951 fiscal year, released this week by the TJ Department of Agriculture. The report also emphasizes the need for soil conservation to aid the current mobilization effort of the Nation and stresses the fact that total, conservation, not partial conservation, is essential. CM consin, where racial segregation and I consisted of instructing men fa the discrimination are said still to be care and upkeep of cemeteries. The state contends that the shoot ing was unprovoked; but, the defendant maintains that it was in self-defense.

His first trial ended with the jury of six women and six men deadlocked. Discussions on when the trial be heard became so sharp that Judge Green admonished them to conduct the trial with dignity and to speak calmly. Khama Case Is Others in the cast were: Vivian Baber, who attended New York University, began her dramatic career at Hedgerrow Theatre and played in the Braodway shows Harlem, The Lute Song and "Bathsheba, starring James Mason in radio, television and film plays and sang at a Paris nightclub: Clarence Hargraves, who attended Shaw University, Virginia Union, Columbia and City College of New WASHINGTON, The Senate Armed Services paredness subcommittee last Wednesday accused the Army of flagrant, inexcusable and indefensible waste of manpower and taxpayers dollars The accusation was made in a report of the subcommittee headed by Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, Democrat of Texas. (NNPA) rvices Pre- Under Study In setting the date for January 7, he told the defense he would hear motions at any time until then.

Judge Green, who was elected York, toured with the Hall John- judge in 1942, has a long record of Baptist' Launch Drive To Improve Bath House 181 686 acres last year making a total of 376,323,538 acres inventoried" up to July 1 The report stresses the need for complete and scientifically coordinated conservation to maintain our national productive capacity. It points out that American farmers and ranchers have been called on, year after year through the last decade, to produce more than any comparable group of people ever produced in the history of the world "We cannot achieve the sustained production that our national economy Is likely to demand, with piecemeal action or by half-way conservation measures, Bennett said We must have full and complete conservation total conservation A new system of conservation planning was put into effect by the Service during the last year, the report states. Thissystem is designed to reach an increased number of farmers each year. Th new system however, does not change the basic concepts and operations of the Service It merely provides for helping farmers start with simple practices, applied according to the scientific needs or capabilities of the land, and to work toward the complete farm conservation plan. The procedure, which the Service had been developing for three years, was instituted last spring to help carry out the greater coordination of the Department's conservation work called for by Secretary Charles F.

Brannan. The increasing importance of soil conservation districts, of which there are now about 2,400 organized and operated by farmers and ranchers under State laws is emphasized. A financial statement shows that the Service spent a total of some 64 million dollars for the fiscal year. Of this amount, about 52 million was for regular operations In soil conservation districts Around 7 million was used for flood control work About one and a half million was for research While the report did not classify by race or color men in various units which have been endlessly repeating training cycles, apparently marking time for utilization, an Army spokesman admitteed that the Army has always employed its colored personnel wastefully. Despite studies on the use of colored manpower and the issuance of special regulations calling for equality of treatment and opportunity, the Army has not yet attained maximum use of colored men, except perhaps in the Far East Command where the integration of colored personnel has been effected The waste of manpower through repeated training was revealed in a report on investigations made by the subcommittee at Camp Atter-bury, Indiana; Camp McCoy, Wis- LONDON (ANP) This week John Foster, Parliamentary Undersecretary, Commonwealth Relations made the first statement of the Churchill government policy in the Manangwato situation which involves both Seretse Khama and his uncle, Tshekedi Khama.

Foster told the House of Commons that the government ultimately will allow Tshekedi Khama, a prosperous cattle raiser, to return to the reserve and live there as a private person. On the question of Seretse Khama the tribes chief, the official asserted that the present policy of the Government as stated in March, 1950, will be continued for the time being. Thr Parliamentary Under-Secretary stated that Tshekedi Khama had already renounced the chieftainship and that officialdom has the intention of making his exclusion from the political life of the tribe effective in the conviction that this was in the interest of peace in the reserve. As soon as this was shownlto have been achieved, Tshekedi would be allowed progressively greater freedom to look after his private interests and ultimately, if all went well, to live there. This is the 17th and last annual report of H.

H. Bennet, who was Chief of the Soil Conservation Service from its beginning until he was succeesed last November by Robert M. Salter, the present Chief Bennett begins his report with the statement: The progress that Xbeen made in the science and ttcal application of soil and wa- ter conservation during the last two decades Is almost beyond belief." He points out that almost nothing had been done about permanent conservation on most farm and ranch land of the Nation prior to 20 years ago; but that now, more than a fifth of the basis conservation job needed for full of farm and ranch land has been completed He states that he, and probably no other informed person, expected such progress when the Soil Conservation Service program was started in 1933 The Service helped 128,502 farmers and ranchers to develop conservation plans on 36,259,299 acres last year This brought, the total as of June 30, 1951, to 883,348 plans covering 246,740,009 acres of farm and ranch land Farmers applied the needed conservation measures to 25,596,642 acres last fiscal year, making a total of 140,404,405 acres on which conservation measures have been applied Soil conservation surveys, to provide the basic information for planning and applying complete conservation plans, were completed on HOT SPRINGS, Ark. (ANP) A drive for $265,000 to cover the cost of renovation and improvements at the Sanitarium Bath House here operated by the National Baptist Convention, USA, was launched recently. The project is directed by the Finance Commission of the convention.

Heading the drive is Dr. A. M. Townsend, executive secretary of the Sunday School Publishing Board at Nashville, and secretary of the Finance Commission. Authorization of the campaign was made in the passing ol' the resolution on expansion at the 71st annual session of the convention held last fall in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Plans of the. campaign call for presenting Memorial Awards t. persons who contribute to the effort. The sponsors are seeking five persons to give $10,000 each, eight to give $5,000 each four to give $2,500 each; 25 to give $1,000 each; 5 to give $500 each; ion to donate $25 each; 200 to contribute $150 each; 400 to provide $100 each, and 400 to give $50 each. The commission is urging churches, districts, state and national religious bodies, Sunday School and Another example was a college graduate assigned as a duty soldier in a graves-registration unit.

This man had applied for officers candidate school in the Armored or Infantry branch of the Army. His main job was to cut laws and receive instruction, in the care and upkeep of cemeteries. Both of these examples are typical of the malassignment which colored men have suffered because of the pattern of segregation which the Army has maintained. The report said they point out the need for the more intelligent and realistic assignment of personnel. The subcommittee questioned the necessity for golf courses at five installations.

Fort Belvoir, where an NNPA reporter found flagrant segregation, had two golf courses. In addition, there are forty-one golf courses installations eighteen in the European command, seventeen in the Pacific and Far Eastern command, seventeen in the Pacific and Far Eastern command, one in Alaska, and five in the Carribean command. The report said recreational facilities are essential, but listed these among those available at Fort Belvoir, where the NNPA reporter found segregated facilities; Seven swimming pools, two golf courses with clubs for use free, a sportsmans club on the Potomac River equipped with boats and motors, three service clubs with television and organized entertainment, three theaters, two field houses, four basketball courts with stands for spectators, one football field and complete track layout, two baseball fields, one lighted softball diamond, ten permanent softball diomands and many temporary softball fields in unit areas, eighteen tennis courts, fifty volley ball courts, twenty-four bowling alleys, a library with three branches, an amphitheater seating 5,000, one photo laboratory and dark room, ten sets finishing equipment (rod, reel, line, etc one skeet range and four skeet traps, small-arms practice at Rifle and Pistol Club, and two recreation areas on the Potomac River with facilities for group picnics. Similar recreational facilities are available generally at the other installations, the report said flagrant; Fort Devens, Massachusetts; Camp Edwards, Massachusetts; Camp Kilmer, New Jersey; Fort Belvoir, Virginia; Fort Lewis, Washington, and Camp Rucker, Alabama At Fort Devens, where 90 per cent of the colored troops are in the Quartermaster it was found that quartermaster specialist units have been engaged in basic training for over a year. Antiaircraft gun battalions at Camp Edwards, the report said, hace repeated training cycles over and over.

Of the 370th Major Port Unit, a reserve unit from New Orleans, the report said it was repeating elementary courses-, such as scouting and patrolling field fortifications, basic infantry formations, and Army parades and ceremonies. Either there are objectives for these units or there are not, the report said. If there are none the Army should explain the expenses incurred in the organization and maintenance of these units. Investigators found still too many combat-fit men in the Chair Corps able-bodied men in jobs which could be capably filled by limited service, female military or civilian personnel. Total military personnel at the eight installations surveyed was approximately 164,000 men, military overhead strength was 17,251, and civilian employees, 167,107.

There were 814 WACs on duty, representing less than 5 per cent of the military overhead strength. But Camp Edwards and Camp Rucker had no female military personnel. Investigators found physically qualified men still assigned as typists, clerks, light-vehicle drivers, PX employees and to other jobs not requiring class A physical fitness. The report said only a few installations have made real progress in using limited service" personnel. "There are almost unlimited opportunities for replacement of combat-qualified men by the so-called IV-Fs the report asserted.

The abuses from which colored soldiers suffer malassignment or misuse is a waste of time and money, the reported declared. One example of such waste found was a law-school graduate, classified as a truck officer, assigned to a gra-ves-registration unit. His duties BTU groups, civic, social, fraternal, labor and business organization to give money to this cause. New Hospital For Negroes Proposed MARTINSVILLE, Va. (ANP) If present plans run according to schedule, the 30-bed Martinsville Community hospital for Negroes will open formally on February 1.

The building is nearing completion, and hospital officials expect that it will be ready for the opening date. Only the installation of certain equipment was to be completed last week. C. E. Taylor, chairman of the Jaycee Committee handling the finishing of the project, announced last week.

The one-story T-shaped masonry building when completed will cost about $141,000. A total of $60,000 was originally spent on the building three years ago. An additional was raised by the Junior Chamber of Commerce last year, and $50,000 was collected during the Martinsville joint hospital campaign held early this year. pre-wa. Italian line regaining status with new building.

30 Patents Released For Use By Atomic Energy Office WASHINGTON Descriptions of 30 patents owned by the U. S. Government and held by the Atomic Energy Commission have been transmitted to the U. S. Parent Office for registry and listing in the official register of patents.

The Commission will grant nonexclusive, royalty-free licenses on the listed patents, as part of its program to make non-secret technological information available for use by. industry. Commission-held patents and patent applications re-? leased for licensing now total 372. The list of patents giving number, title, inventor and abstract Is attached. Applicants for licenses should apply to the Chief, Patent Branch, Office of the General Counsel, U.

S. Atomic Energy Commission, Washington 25, D. Identifying the subject matter by patent number and title. Copies of these patents may be obtained from tha U. S.

Patent Ofiice. GI DEPENDENTS The Armed Forces reports that 6,700 dependents were embarking from the United States each month to join husbands or fathers serving overseas. About 3,000 go to the Far East and the remainder to European or Carribbean areas. In general, only officers and enlisted men in the top grades may have their dependents Join them. AMERICAN FLIERS AFTER RELEASE BY RED HUNGARY The four American fliers who were held for ransom by Red Hungary are shown at Tulin Air Base shortly after they were released at the Austria-Hungarian border.

They were flown from Tulin to their base at Erding, Germany. The -fliers (from to are: Sgt. Jess A. Duff, Spokane, Capt. John J.

Swift, Glens Falls, N. Capt. Dave Henderson, Shawnee, who commanded the C-47 transport forced down in Hungary by Red fighter planes after it accidentally crossed the Hungarian border, and Sgt. James Flam, Kingslond, Ark, (Inter-national) HUNGARIAN CONSULATE ORDERED CLOSED A passerby is looking at the door of the Hungarian Consulate in New York after fhe State Department announced that this and the Red Hungarian Consulate in Cleveland will be closed immediately. (International) i.