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•lear abuse of discretion on the part of the commission. ‘‘Fifty modern and, largely mod-M-n homes owned by families living in them, located on the North^ide of Tenth street and around Attacks High school, with water aivl utility and sewer connections md set along paved streets are to be taken and torn down. . . . •‘A head waiter, a preacher, several school teachers, a druggist, a cateress and a lawyer are among those I recall living there. The replacement of these homes is at least $5,000 each, a total of $250,000 of public money wasted. ■ “In addition, fifty good American families needlessly will become •displaced persons/ as no provision is made fqr their housin r .“ Judge Nibiack thought the commissioners right in planning to eradicate those sections of the designated area which undoubtedly are beyond reclamation and constitute a slum, but insisted the fifty existing modern or easily modernizable properties should have been excluded. ‘ The people in these homes are all citizens and tax payers who are sending their children to school and colleges. Over ninetenths of them belong to some hureh. according to the evidence. Their children were in World War II to fight for their homes. They are being turned out needlessly it a time when there are no homes to buy or rent.” The four judges said they relied upon the commission to see that no person shall be displaced from their homes until substitute housing is furnished. Legal obstacles have been thus removed, the commission is going ahead with plans to purchase properties by preparing price lists. Pricing, it is said, will be based or? appraisals made in the area prior to the commission’s final decision last February to proceed with the project. It was this decision that caused the property owners to appeal to the court. The slum area is the 178 acres bounded by 10th, 16th. N. West streets. Milburn avenue and Stadium drive. There are 357 dwelling units housing 1.6+8 persons in the district, which includes industrial properties and has long been designated an industrial area. The redevelopment project will
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Graham said, tnere Is much food for thought. Yet We must point mt, in the language of sports, that when the team has set the play up, some individual must still come along and make the goal. Miss Graham is a considerable star on
inmanity’s team.
She has previously written twoj biographies for young people, ‘‘Dr.
wife but she stood on her constitutional rights and refused to tes tify. Storms said that he could not understand Mrs. Davidson’s attitude in view of the fact that she had already made a statement to police that her husband shot In
self-defense.
In their original statements to detectives, the Davidsons stateu that they were at homa when May
George Washington Carver: Sclen- appeared and knocked on ihe door.
Funeral services for Wilson L. Grec n, age 59, 2441 N. Rural st., were held at OaliL e Baptist church Monday March 10th conducted by Rev. John Butler and D. B. Dudley. Burial was in Floral Park. He died at his home, Thursday
March 6.
Mr. Green had lived in the city over 30 years. He was born at Henderson, Ky. He was active in civic and political affairs of community and was vice-president of the Eastside Democrat club. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Jsssie Green; two sons, Walter Green, Cleveland, and Cable Green, Detroit; two daughters, Mrs. Betr ty Parks, Dayton, O., amj Mrs. Thelma Carr, Louisville, Ky.; two i half-sisters, Mrs. Alice Walton, of i Henderson, Ky., and Mrs. Estella Smi h, Spotsville, Ky., anfl five ! half-brothers, Nicholas Boy^, of Evansville; Abraham Boyd, Henderson, Ky.; Jesse Boyd, Milwaukee; Louis Boyd, Lima, O. and ] Frank Boyd, Indianapolis.
list” and ‘‘Paul Robeson; Citizen of the World.” She has had a ’ulMength opera produced with symphony orchestra; she is internationally known in the theater ind the dance. She has studied it the Sorbonne in Paris and the Vale University School of Drama, ind has received a Julius Rosenwald Foundation fellowship for
creative writing.
During the war, she Was USO director at Fort Uuachuca, Afiz. She has worked with Hall John-
son ih New York. An Active Liberal
In versatility Miss Graham compares with one of her subjects and heroes, Robeson. Besides the above-listed cultural achievements and numerous others, she was among the organizers of the Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts. Sciences and Professions, the national political group of liberals. She revealed that on her return East she was to go to Washington with a delegation of the Progressive Citizens of America, the body which has now taken the place of the ICC. And she finds time to serve on numerous other
When her husband an. weied the door after catching a view of the caller through use of a system of reflector mirrors, he asked who it was and May allegedly stated that he was a policeman and pulled back his coat as if to flash a badge Davidson never saw a badge, he said. In the following events May allegedly shot through the door, one bullet creasing Davidson’s stomach as he crouched down and returned the fire. Davidson said -he continued to fire through the door until he could no longer heat his adversary firing. May attempted to flee down the steps but ie.1 and rolled down to the sidewalk. His revolver was found a few feet
from the dying man.
Mrs. Davidson said she began to shout to her husband from the head of the steps asking him if be had been shot but Le refused to answer for fear that May was still alive and would locate him through the sound of his voice. After a few : minutes, Mrs. David son came downstairs and she and her husband saw May dying on the sidewalk. Davidson sent his
wife next door to get Detective | the people whose children
WM. E. BAUGH PAID TRIBUTE BY NEWSMAN
deeds are inseparably adied with; would be overwhelmed in performyou and with what you will do in ing this task assigned me by the the future. ... I humbly perform Omega Psi Phi Fraternity.**
this duty with full belief that 1 echo the thoughts of the people of this community who labor m the foundries, who teach in public schools, who fish in
In accepting the medal with the inscription, ‘‘Baugh Achievement,” young Burris said that it was the the I happiest moment of his life. The the ; lad, who wants to become a great
Canal; who walk the railroad | violinist, rendered a violin solo, tracks, and who finally make their Percy Jones, president of the
William E. Baugh, for over two way to some church on Sunday Lampodos Club which is an auxdecades principal of Public School and worship there. Without this iliary of Zeta Chapter, was masNo. 23, was eulogized as a humani- thought of the people in mind I 1 ter of ceremonies,
tarian and fraternal leader in memorial services at Simpson Methodist Church Sunday eveping by Opal L. Tandy of The Recorder. For three terms Baugh was grand basileus of tbe Omega Psi Phi
Fraternity.
Tandy, principal speaker for the j Lampodos (hub of the Omegas at their annual memorial day serv-
ices, declared:
•‘Mr. Baugh struggled in the early pcst-Civil War era for an education at a time when it was almost suicide for a Negro to have ambitions above knowing how to spell his name. And yet he forced himself into education against overwhelming odds. He succeeded in graduating from Cornell University with honors. If It had not j been for men like him we would not have made such gigantic strides in less than a century. ■
Baugh could not have foreseen that 3 Highest Grade Attained
his educational and cultural en-1 (leavers were to be multiplied thousands of times before bis life
was ended.
“Therfc may be a monument erected some day in some corridor of fame for Mr. Baugh. It may be of bronze or stone, but none of this can surpass the enduring monument he built in the hearts of
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committees dealing with emc a - (j eor g e j-jneed, who lives there. Jn- steered on the path to success.
fairs of New York.
Born in Evansville, Miss Graham was the daughter of Rev. and Mrs. D. A. Graham. Her father, now deceased, was pastor of -the Bethel A. M. E. Church in Indianapolis and of A. M. E. churches in Kokomo and other communities of the state. Her mother, Mrs. Etta Graham, now lives in
Richmond.
“I am not going to talk about
aware of the immediate circnm- Lawyers who practice before our stances Sneed arrekted the David- highest tribunal; surgeons who per-
sons and sent for the homicide
squad..
McMurtry said he ordered Davidson slated for murder because there is yet no definite proof that there was robbery in the case. If it was a gang war then there was
form miraculous deeds In medicine; and soldiers who fought at Bastogne, were the product of the William E. Baugh school of
thought.”
Student Gets Medal
In presenting a bronze-medal to
simply a shooting In a fight ,‘ and Gerald Btir<:ife. : age the killer must always be arrest- the outstanding .stud
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discrimination and segregation, as has been suggested/’ Miss Graham said in opening her talk Monday. ‘ There have been so many studies on these questions, so many committees set up, so many long reports. You know all about segregation and discrimination. The question is—what are we going to do about it?” j
The speaker then sharply criti- ■ . „ oized one study of these questions. | the masses naturally. They
Di-
ed in these instances,
said.
Unless Montgomery clears up he knows, police will continue to press the murder charge and look for the second man, the chief
stated.
not a moral question
tion of profits! “Prejudices don’t
it is a ques-
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the widely-quoted “American lemma" by Gunnar Myrdal. ‘ I take exception to the basic philosophy of this work, and in the first place to its title,” she said. “Webster defines ‘dilemma’ as ‘a situation involving choice ... be* tween equally unsatisfactory alternatives.’ There is no dilemma— there are no two choices between equally unsatisfactory solutions!
“Not a Negro Problem”
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be financed by tax money raised by a 10-cent levy on city property. Tbe commission now has $550,000 to start the program and will receive about that amount each year to keep the project going indefi-
nitely.
The site will be acquired by the commission, cleared of unkempt buildings and the lots sold to any prospective home builders, at a price to be determined by the commission. No preference will be given present property owners, It is understood.. Anyone purchasing ten or more lots will receive
a substantial discount.
This, critics say, opens the door to unbridled speculation. By agreement among mortgage-lending institutions. realtors, bankers, build-
ing and loan associations and .. property owners in white sections, he is not going o ea\e 1
Negro home buyers are now re- I am not a " Afl uf n— "Y, vp I DeFrantz presided. ■•WriMBd t*M8o-ca*l®d JJasro-districtSif great-gran^fsither helped - .. . /, - -
Indiana. When it comes to peo-
pie who are generations back, there J fl] dofri T)lpt€S is a larger proportion of Negroes UfnfJieiCB than of white people. Thus there Jlpd CrOSS COUrSC III
Negro problem, but an
McMurtry 23, Tandy said: ‘-I present you
this medaT in honor of a naan who. lived and workteti before ycKir day 1 and age. And yet his works and
ll Memorial Service On Sunday Monster \ Meeting Program
stirred up in order workers divided, for
greater profits.”
Miss Graham concluded her talk With an impassioned plea for the people to use the ballot in order to bring about desired changes. “We have this thing called de-
The Thomas E. 1 aylor Memorial service will be held at the Senate Avenue YMCA Sunday, March 23, at 3 p. m. The Thomas E. Taylor, Jr., Joseph Ward, Jr., Charles By-1 bee and Elbert Gardner awards for 1946 will be presented to the
winners at this time.
F. E. DeFrantz, executive sec-
I mocracy, and it’s up to us to use re tary of the Senate Avenue “Y.” : it and to see that the people use nationally known in YMCA and ! ft,” she declared. civic affairs will be the principal I Miss Graham was introduced by speaker. Mr. DeFrantz will speak America and i i h er former co-worker Mrs. Louise on “Diving Memorials.'
Battles, executive secretary of the Phyllis Wheatley YWCA. F. E.
The supply of Negro homes is woefully unequal to the demand and will remain so in the foreseeable future, experts say. Consequently a mere replacement of .substandard homes with modern ones will serve only to appreciate property values to almost unreachable
heights.
Only the speculators, money lenders, builders and contractors will gain in such a situation, critics
declare.
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is not a
American problem. “Mr. Myroa! says this is a moral problem. As far as I am concerned, America can stop ‘struggling for its soul* and start thinking a little bit about the bodies of its peo-
ple.”
Miss Graham then launched into a witty description of the changes in New York City since the United Nations headquarters were located there. “They are cleaning up Harlem since the United Nations came,” she observed. “They don’t want Mr. Gromyko walking around Harlem. They are afraid that maybe those Russians * are spying on our way of life! . . . Mr. Gromyko always makes those long speeches in Russian, but I heard him at a dinner, and It turned out that the man can speak perfectly fluid English! Also French, Spanish and Italian. Whatever you think of the Russians, they are not stupid.” “Question of Profits” The root cause of the American problem is the “stark, profit-seek-ing core,” Miss Graham continuetl. “We had slavery for only one reason—because slavery was profitable. Today, the sharecropper system is profitable to some people—'Negroes working at starvation wages are profitable. It is
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