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MAMMA TWWNg Prdgy, July 31, 1951 (jJgyr ALABAMA TRIBUNE Survey May Cost Teacher His Job DIAL 2-5116 9 A. M. TO 5 P. One Of 4 May Escape Scare Death Charge' DALTON, Go. (UP1) Charges may be lifted against one of four white youths accused of accidentally killing an 11-yeor-old Negro here last month.

Mboya Denies Split Among African Council Court officials sard the trial of BUly Joe Rolen, 17. on an involuntary manslaugher charge has been postponed to the fall term of court starting Sept. 11. but observers said the charge may be dropped. Rolen claims he accompanied the oher white youths to a Negro fish fry here June 13.

but said he did not know a feud was in K. O. JACKSON C. L. HARGRAVE Publisher-General Manager Circulation Manager Months I1JSS; Copy lie Advertising Rates on Demand SUBSCRIPTION RATES 1 Tear KM Months tJ Let The Federal Government Move On This Denial Of The Right To Vote LOS ANGELES -(UPIi-A hgh school teacher faces the possible loss of his credentials because he conducted a 1 title Kinsey" survey amonj teenage students Cecil M.

Cook. 38. a science and math teacher at Van Nuys High School, faced some of the students a full-house hearing before the state Department of Voca' tonal and Professional Standards. The department is considering revoking his license The board was told of the survey by 17-year-dld Patricia Mather. who was among 30 s'udents.

aged from 15 to 17, who answered the ques. ons in Cok physiology class. Cook has been on leave since the disclosure of the survey. Students said Cook asked them progress. The other three boys said they were threatened by the group when they drove into the yard where the fish fry was being held.

They said they left and returned with a shotgun to "scare the people. On the reum visit the shotgun went off. They said they left but learned later the discharge had struck and killed Tommy Dwight, 11. One defendant. Herschel Eugene Elkins, was found guilty last week but the jury reduced the charge to a misdemeanor Whitfield Coui tv Superior Judge J.

Davis wi sentence Elkins Tuesday. The charge carries a maximum sentence of a year in work camp. six months in jail and a $1,000 fine. Kermlt Prichett 18. pleaded guilty and was sentenced to a year in prison.

Leroy Gentry also received a years sentence. The case of Macon County, Alabama in which the offices of registrars ore having serious difficulty in finding fakers, is only another of those incidents suggesting that there be set up a federal board of registrars for the availability of citizens to get duly prepared to cast their ballots at least for federal officials. A news item states that members of the new board of registrars at Tuskegee have refused to serve, as Governor John Patterson of that state also discloses. The governor gives as mak- check ma.ks whether reason for fear of being "hounded" by United States Civil MulXin" Rights Commission. pelting, and other inkma- Members of the former board, it will be recalled, resigned cies when the Civil Rights Commission sent investigators into the Miss Mather said at he hear-predominantly Negro county and scheduled hearings on com- the teacher asked the ques-ploints that Negroes were discriminated against and denied voting rights.

Inasmuch as the situation resolved into all members resigning, vs ith no registration machinery in the county since last December, it stands to reason that there is an added discrimination against all of the citizens of Macon County. The citizens ore denied their voting rights from the mere fact that they are She slid Cook asked the ques- tions the dignified manner and not being allowed to make first base, the registration books. i there was obscene or vile pL i I .1 i if i i about his manner of conducting Should there come up a federal office to be filled in which all citizens are entitled to participate, the election would not include the participation of all duly eligible citizens. The county, therefore would be liable for such denial. "No Gifted Child NAIROBI, Kenya (NNP A' Tom Mboya.

the Kenya nationalist leader. July 24 denied that there is a split among the African Council members in the Legislative Council. He was commen'ing on the organization of a new political group the Kenya Nationalist party The signatures to its initial policy statement include 10 of the 14 African members, six Asians and one European, but they do not include Mr Mboya, Dr K'ano, the Kikuyu leader and OKinga Odinga, chairman of the African Elected Members' organization. The new party's statement coincided with the announcement in the Legislative Council that the Government was prepare! to approve the organiza'ion of nationwide political parries on a non-racia! basis after an African member, J. Muliro, called for an end of the emergency in the colony to allow such parties to be set up.

Mr Mbova said he had not signed the declaration because he disagreed with the way ir. which it was brought forward. He felt pressure lor constitutional changes should be put first, but he made It clear that he might join Effective Action On Civil Rights Would Enhance Our Leadership Columbus District (Continued from Page One) To Receive Dr. Horace M. Bond Johnsons Look Into Brazil's 1 Race Relations 1 Four Tells A.u.

Siudents 4-H Club Awards The federal government, therefore is duty bound to make it possible for all citizens to have access to registration. Under the Macon County plan, it would be easy for any county In that state, or any other state, which has shown a reluctance in providing Negroes voting facilities, to simply dissolve its registration board, or permit the board of registrars to resign. height to the occasion when he mas'erfully admonished his hearers in "Sacrificial Service For God" from the text: "Sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasur- Dr. F. D.

Patterson, former presi- en; amerences created by man not aem ol 'U5cycc now head of Brown shall be long remembered ment take over the registration machinery, since it is proving by God or the genes. Dr Horace Fund, will be one of four to receive awards at the 12th Annual and appreciated for the time and efforts evidenced in the message. Registration was larger than aiter- many a previous Session, declar- rf noon ot August 16 in the Engin- ed jhe old sident of Philander Smith College, Architecture Building Little Rock. Walter S. Scott, mpst of tile camp sessions The Chief Pastor of the Empire president of Guaranty Life and Howard's campus.

Episcopal Dis'rict of African nn ltV TnenrnnnO TY TVS mt BOV. 1 1 1 i Via i. ID nl the to be an "escaping ground" for those who have failed other- Mann Bond sad. as he attacked Regional 4-H Club Camp. August 9-17 at Howard University, wise in many subterfuges to keep Negroes from exercising their concentrated attention on the so- Tlie otiler lhree to be honored voting franchise.

r7chlld' Speaking at 3 i Atlanta University Summer School Assembly, Dr. Bond, who is dean on the School of Education at Atlanta University, made a strong plea for an equalitarian education. An educational system which ngles out for attention the child who excels in aptitude tests will inevitably bo ld up a meritocracy The denial of facilities for the registration of citizens to based on verbalism, with the re- suit that in the end the offspring them on the vote, constitutes a denial of the right to vote. Ehvin Peterson will be awards speaker. This will be one of the major of the encampment which thel28 club delegates from the Southern region will part in a number of activities, these: visits to the White Methodism, Bishop William Reid Wilkes, was in attendance.

The Bishop was loud in words of corn-events week mendaiions regarding the highlev-dunng ej program that was in orbit. Being take r.n episcopate of his calibre a prince ir. his breeding and experi-Among" enee, he should know. The Presid- of the professional classes will be the bos and girls in the carrTin? House Capitol, Mount Vernon, and ing Elder. Ministers, laymen and out of club projects and in de- veloping effective State-wide 4-H programs.

Regional 4-H plaques will the Department of Agri- of this, Columbus district cul urc's research center at Belts- a0ng with the other Presiding El-ville, Md and a discussion of rters in the State agree in opportunities led by Miss the forth coming General i WASHINGTON, C. (NNPA) George M. Johnson, former dean of the Howard University Law School, left Wednesday with Mrs. Johnson for Rio de Janeiro to do research into the eurrent legal, education and voting aspects of racial relations in Brazil. Dr Johnson, who is traveling under the auspices of the Rocke-: feller Foundation, nas received a General Education Board grant for research at Georgetown University Law Center.

He will spend three weeks in Brazil and probably visit, in addition to Rio de Janeiro. Sao Paulo, I Brasilia, Recife and Salvador. While In Brazil he will confer with the American Ambassador and other United States officials. According to Dr. Frank 3.

Dugan, dean of Georgetown Universitys graduate law school, Dr. Johnson is making a pilot study of the role of law in race relations In western civilization. Dr. Johnson is a member of the Civil Rights Commission, having been recently appointed by President Eisenhower and confirmed by the Senate to succeed the late J. Ernest Wilkins.

He was dean of the Howard University Law School for 12 years and served as director of the Office of Laws. Plans and Research for the Civil Rights Commission until he was sworn in as a member. Thurgood Marshall (Continued from Page One) zens in the Americas. Earlier the convention will be keynoted by Booker T. Alexander.

Imperial Potentate from Detroit, when he delivers his annual address. In addition to the report on the growth and s'ability of the Order, he can be expected to point up the Shrine view on international affairs relating especially to the championing for freedom by various African nations, and to spell out a construc'ive program for the na'ional economic and educational problems faring his racial group. The Shriners are expected to begin pouring into the convention city on Saturday. August 15. Preconvention events include several workshops, worship on Sunday morning and a Sunday evening memorial service to deceased Nobles.

Worshipping Nobles will attend services Sunday morning at Holman Methodist Church. The message is scheduled for delivery by the Rev Charles M. Sexton of Minneapolis, Minn. Meantime, the Rev. John Henry Hester.

Atlantic City, N.J., an Imperial High Priest and Prophet, wall i deliver the memorial oration at services conducted at Second Baptist Church. According to advance reports, Shriners will be called upon to seriously develop a program for voting and registration in the Deep South states, to act upon an expanded economic policy and to ap- prove a report on the Shrine Tuberculosis and Cancer Research Foundation. Other speakers scheduled to appear before the Shriners in their general meeting and workshops are Thomas F. Poag, Winston-Salem, 1 N.C., Paul E. X.

Brown, Atlanta, and Rudolph Stewart, Wash- ington, C. pray-rareer Con-Roberta Church and Samuel B. ference for bis return to the Capitol District of African Methodism. This request represents the heart beat, labor, and every conceivable effort of from the humblest Mission to the Metropolitan Ca h-edral. This request represents the orbit thinking ol all high class citizens of the entire ate of in all phases of our participations, whether religious, moral, social political or otherwise.

Vour favorite efforts manifested towards this request are highly apprecia'ed by all of Georgians. Danley of the Departmen; of Labor and Sterling Tucker of the Washington Urban League. Also the 4- w.ii head ad dresses by Dr. Wills B. Player, president of Bennet College, Greensboro, N.

Federal Extension Administrator C. M. Ferguson; and National 4-H Director Air Terminal (Continued from Page One) African Leaders (Continued from Page One) specific form African unity should take, so that it would be satisfactory to all and spontaneously supposed by all. Dr. Nkrumah would like to see the Independent African States join in a tight union in which each would surrender an important part of its sovereignty.

Furthermore, he wants 'his union now. He suggests that Ghana, Guinea and Liberia form a "nucleus of immediate in all positions of power, he sad Dr. Bond deplored tests based on verbal aptitude as being unfair to ch Idren from underprivileged backgrounds, saying that this is preved by the compar'ive re-! suits tests of white and Negro In a current survey by the Southern Regional Council, it children in Atlanta The fference is revealed that facilities in airline terminals are being rapidly he explained as a difference in desegregated; that the same facilities in train stations are still fotaI education, education net only i I the school but that gained largely segregated, but ere slowly becoming desegregated and from a mating home back- that facilities in bus terminals remain almost completely segre- ground. gated. i In order to recompense for the From this resume made by so resourceful and reliable an deficiencies the environmental organization as the Southern Regional Council, it would appear or lond iommendS: that the airline people are more progressive and more actively schools, superior teachers with in the market for competitive travel; that the account of the air- higher salaries and beater condi- lines taking most of the travel trade would go back to their tions of tenure, improved iibrary practice of equal accommodations for all who patronize the classes- pre' 3 ferably only ten to fifteen students services.

per ciass. The trains are the heavy losers of travel trade. The Council would infer that desegregation is going on slowly in that area and that concern could be exercised in making better facilities for the people who insist on using the trains. was due to unfamiliar; and also In the city of Atlanta, the bus terminals represent just tune si1 resolut- what the Southern Council would state as a general average of bus terminals. Branch in time to give it suffic- or.oar 1 The Institute and Workhop phase union and that other African ter- cities and terminals "'b1 aPP-a 0f the program was conducted by titories should be invited to joiD to have deliberately left their poi- nd ambiguous.

tries confused the following persons: Leadership Idlewild and city debate disaster control. AIR LINES President Tubman has expressed i All 20 cities (Portsmouth does feelings that the creation of an as- not have air line service i have non-sociation should be delayed until i segregated waiting rooms, and 17 Nigeria. Togoland, the Cameroons 0f the cities offer non-segregated Education, Rev. A. R.

Smith and Mr. Z. B. Anderson: Youth Work in the Church Miss M. E.

Harvey and Miss A. C. Haywood: RAYC Miss Carolyn Parker; A. C. E.

League Mrs. Dorothy Kitchen and Miss Clara Charleston; Boy Scouts, Mr. T. in terminal restaurants, at service SENTOR MIKE MANSFIELD "If we weren't fighting among ourselves we wouldn't be least to some degree. Rest rooms Mr gamup) and reportedly are segregatd in omy Ho(v and Somaliland can become Charter Members.

All three territories are scheduled for independence next year. President Toure has expressed four of 19 cities from which inform gunday Ander-TRAINS15 reCel'ed' son: Vacation Church School- strong feelings in favor of the uni Still traditionally distilled for IMPORTED QUALITY! ty of African States, but his exact position on the timing and shape of a union" or "'association has not been disclosed. As early as last November President Toure and Dr. Nkrumah signed a declaration announcing their I Seven of the cities surveyed have non-segregated waiting rooms in train terminals. In 10 of the remaining 14 cities, Negro interstate passengers have used the general waiting room.

Negroes are allowed to sit in the same The Union Station here has been lately renovated. What was known as the large colored waiting room has been taken up for enlarging other quarters, which would indicate that the use of the general waiting room was meant for all passengers. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled out the segregation of passengers that travel between two different states. But some states hold on to segregation for passengers traveling within the states.

Segregation in travel continues to disappear and the pace by which it will continue will be largely up to the people. intention to form a "nucleus for a restaurant or at the same lunch fu.ure United States of Africa. COunter as white travelers in five of the cities surveyed Rest rooms i in train terminals are non-segre-I gated in eight of the cities. BUSES Only two of the 21 cities sur- favor of untouchabihty (an at.i- veye(j have completely non-segre-tude once prominent in India that gaed us station waiting rooms although Negro interstate passen- the persons who did the dirty work ient consideration. But something is better than nothing or not deal-! ing with it at all, observers stated.

The draft resolution presented by i thr Chicago branch, of which The-I odore A. Jones is pres dent, dealt with the matter in an effective manner and called for effective legislation, and people in Chicago have had more experience with the problem, Chicago delegates stated. The resolution on fire and casualty insurance which was adopted by the NAACP, stated in part as Mrs. Lyda Hannan: The Missionary Society Mrs. Susie Herte and Mrs Lula Rogers: YPD Miss Clara Charleston; Improving Church Music Mrs.

E. J. Winston. Sermons were given by: Rv. W.

L. Brown; Rev. R. Smith; Rev. R.

L. Tyson; Rev. J. Hurley of Atlanta Conference: Rev. R.

L. Coachman. Visiting guests in attendance at the Congress were: Bishop R. Wilkes and Rev. J.

R. Hurley, Atlanta, Rev. H. Boddy; Rev. G.

B. Hannan, Dublin District; Rev. J. H. Hall, P.

E. Donaldson-ville Rev. C. K. Knight, E.

East Columbus Rev. W. J. Johnson; Rev. J.

M. McMath, Pastor CME Church, Columbus, Ga. Mrs. Susie Herte, Conference Branch Missionary Society, Southwest, Ga. Annual Conference was the main speaker on Friday afternoon The Y.

P. D.s under the direction of Miss Clara Charleston conducted a panel on "The Life of Richard Allen." The Senior Missionary Society of the District closed out the three day session with a Vesper service, Panoramic Repre-sentalon of the Women of the Bible directed by Mrs. Lula Rogers. The Congress directed by Rev. A.

R. Smith, host pastor, Rev. J. Frank Rogers, Presiding Elder, Bishop W. R.

Wilkes; Presiding Bishop. were undesirable and untouchable). Reddick said. 'This is not to say that some of them do not privately favor un-touchabi ity, but no one would dare say so mbliriy of rat-al segregationists in this country? Pointing out that the government of India had taken an "affirmative" view for the equality of opportunity, Reddick concluded that the United States could well take a lesson from the efforts of India to raise the standards of all her citizens. Later that afternoon at the In- The Broader Responsibility ((From The Christian Science Monitor) The great injustice of racial segregation by law can be stated simply: It ignores the criteria of individual merit of character, education, ability, and value to society and sets an individual apart solely on the test of mass biological inheritance.

Dr Ralph J. Bunche, as anyone knows, is a Nobel Prize Congress of the U. S. to investigate the unfair and unjust wmner and Under Secretary of the Umted Nations He is also ion the jssuance renewal an American Negro. His son being interested in tennis and carLCeua.ti0n of fire and casualty having friends among junior members of a famous tennis insurance on account of the fore- dub, Dr.

Bunche inquired of its president whether on applica- going reasons. tjon would be welcomed. He was told that there were no Jews or Negroes in the club and that there were not likely to be. follows: Because the several states have not, in the 10 years since the enactment of the McCarren Act law 15 (enacted legislation designed to remove unjust and unfair discrimination by insurance companies based upon race, color, religion, or national or gin) the Association requests the The Association calls upon the Congress to enact appropr ate leg- designed to eliminate this widespread evil." gers are allowed to use the general waiting room in eight other cities. In six of these cities.

Negro intrastate passengers ly use the "white" waiting room. i There were no non-segregated restaurants reported, but limited service, such as snack bars, on a non-segregated basis was reported in three cities. Two cities have non-segregated rest rooms in bus starions. AIR LINE LIMOUSINES AND TAXIS The Council survey reveals that in this related field 17 cities offer non segregated limousine service to and from air line terminals and 13 cities offer non-segregated taxi service. stitute.

Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy, pastor of Montgomerys First. Bap -islation ust Church and co-leader with M. L.

King, in the famous bus boycott, sounded the cry of all Negroes who "want to be free." USED TO RUN Abernathy said there was a time when the mention of Jail would cause an outspoken Negro to run to 'he hills, but the minister said, "the new Negro is willing to fill every jail in the country if that Ike Defends (Cont'nued from Page One) in order to recognize or In recog-ion, understanding and regard for i nition of Its responsibility to see He made his statement after a i that all Individuals in our country reporter had asked him to com- i had equal opportunity, in both the ment on a statement made by Rov economic and the political fields. Wilkins, NAACP executive secre- i "Now, there Is no need to go tary in a speech at a mass meet- into that record. You people know Ing at the Polo Grounds Sunday, I it from the services, and here, closing the 60th anniversary con- i and one and one bill tha had Now, the West Side Tennis Club of Forest Hills, Long Island, is a voluntary social organization. As such its members have the legal right under the American system to choose their associates. This is, indeed, a very fundamental right one fully as valid os the right to the ballot, to nondiscriminatory enjoyment jlea the argument.

She public tax-supported facilities, to "equal protection of the silc was unable to prevent. owl the shooting. Monroe apparently shot his wife 3.10 h's bid for total freedom. But in the exercise of that right a voluntary association Lhe back with a 38 caliber auto- AbemaJny said all Negroes muf also consider the matter of wisdom and of implication Sbe ata88red out the back door and he followed her perhaps not spelled out by either the Bill of Rights or statute. and fired another round into her The courts at Forest Hills, like those of Wimbledon, England, head.

hove long hod international significance as the arenas where Then he returned to the front the tennis greats of nations strive for world preeminence I porch where his two children were j. ia ili and shct bolh of them, once each Happily, the West Side Tennis Club's board of governors In the head. Two-year-old Charles hove recognized this. They have disclaimed any racial bar 1 D. Monroe III died Instantly and and have invited Dr.

Bunche to apply. In so doing they have the le-month-old youngster Mar- eod nan. of the club's right to select it, own members, Ttwn children oct' underlined its right and ethical obligation I Monroe placed the gun to his own i deLvei ed to the masses by tihe lead yg select them as individuals. head and pulled the trigger. ere of the people.

want to be free, and not just those few men who prejudiced whites ventlon of the association to do with voting, which to my In that speech, Mr. Wilkins said moral standards are necessary. colored people are sick and disgusted over the Dlxiecrat chairmen" In Congress and may have to vote the Democrats out of control of the Congress. The President commented: mind, was the most Important of all of the legislation proposed. "There has been progress and Its slow and I can I never can fall to say this program is not going to be made entirely by law.

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