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Dr. Sweet, Famous Triat Figure, Dead in Detroit

* DETROIT—Dr. Ossian H. Sweet, who 35 years ago was the central figure in one of the most celebrated cases handled by the NAACP,

is dead.

Death came to the 64-year-old physician on March 20 as the result of a self-inflicted wound. Ill for the past two years, he had given up the practice of medicine. BACK IN 1925, Dr. Sweet, his brother, and* nine others were arrested and charged with the murder of a white man who was killed in the midst of a mob which was milling around in front of a home the doctor had purchased here in an all-white neighborhood. The treatening, stone-throwing mob gathered to protest the moving in of a Negro family. The NAACP entered the case and retained Clarence Darrow, then the nation’s foremost criminal lawyer, to defend the accused. The trial resulted in a hung jury. After one defendant • was acquitted in a later separate trial, charges against the remaining defendants were

dropped.

The case reaffirmed the right of a man to defend his home against the attacks of a hostile mob. Judge Frank Murphy, later appointed a justice of the U. Si Supreme Court by President Frankfin D. Roosevelt, presided at the trials which attracted international

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of Peace headed by a secretary of peace with full cabinet status. The department would include a division of foreign and domestic evangelism and would employ missionary worker, both laymen and clergymen, “to preach and teach in the undeveloped areas of our country the doctrine of the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man."

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As Cardinal, Rugambwa will provide leadership for a growing Catholic Church which presently Conducts more than 53,000 schools in Africa, educating almost five million students. Some 1,900 native African priests and 5,000 Negro African sisters assist in this work of religious education and self-government THE CARDINAL has personally aided in preparing his countrymen for self-government by forming a National Union of St. Augustine to train selected members of the Catholic community who are playing a prominent role in Tanganyika’s work towards indepen-

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At the helm of the government in Tanganyika will be Julius Nyerere, a Catholic whom Time magazine recently called “the ablest of a rising crop of young African leaders.” The success of native Africans in self-government has been attested to by the united bishops of all French West Africa who have spoken openly for abolition of oldfashioned colonialism and have enj couraged their people in their aspirations to direct their own affairs. • Also, within the past year, native bishops have been placed in charge of Church government in Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaiand. But the elevation of Cardinal Rugambwa, whose name means “renowned", gives African Catholics their greatest assurance of their progress and dignity in the eyes of the Church. Cardinal Rugambwa has everywhere distinguished himself. When he visited

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pressed Americans by some, dignified bearing, his goodnatured smile, and his fondness for children. The Cardinal’s former college president, Fr. Francis Rosenbaum, SV.D., of St. Peter’s College in Rome, noted in him qualities which mark a leader: calm, gentle yet energetic, prudent in his judgments, constant in his application to his work, and at the same time humble, with “a good word for everyone.” The new Cardinal belongs to the. Basita nobility by birth, but as a priest he has shown that he belongs to a still poor people. When j he visited his former college president in Rome, he walked rather ! than take a taxi. When questioned about it he said simply, “I am a missionary and can t spend money for taxis"’’ Raised to the rank of Cardinal with him were six other bishops including the first Japanese and the first Filipino to be named car-

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South African Slaughter Brings World Censure

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WASHINGTON (A N P)—One of the most controversial sections of the civil rights bill passed by the house last week is supposed to make it possible for Southern Negroes who have been denied the right to vote to cast their ballot How good a job has been done is a matter of conjecture. The procedure to be followed is long and tedious and is still fraught with roadblocks that could render it

ineffective.

HERE’S HOW the procedure works, according to the bill which has yet to be passed by the Senate: 1. A Negro who feels that lie has been discriminated against on racial grounds makes a complaint, after trying in vain to register for voting. He can make the complaint, to the U. S. attorney in his city, to an FBI man there, or can send a telegram to the Justice Department in Washington! 2. The Justice Department investigates the complaint. If it feels that discrimination does exist, the Attorney General brings an action against the registration official. The Attorney General will ask a federal judge to find that a pattern of discrimination exists. If he wins the case, he will ask

reject the report. IF THEY APPEAL, the case will be heard by either the judge or the referee, with all parties present. 6. If the court decides again in favor of the applicant, ad rder is issued certifying that the applicant is entitled to vote. A copy of this goes to the appropriate officials.

7. If the officials refuse to register the Negro after this, they can be held in contempt of a federal court order. The judge can also have the referee go to the polling place to see that the Negro gets to cast his vote, after he is registered.

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CHICAGO (ANP)—A sullen South Africa, smarting under almost universal criticism of its bloody suppression of a peaceful demonstration by Negroes against restrictive racial laws, has told the United States and the rest of the world to mind its own business. After conferring with American Ambassador Philip Crowe over the sharp critical note the United States sent to the government of South African, Eric Louw, the foreign minister in Johannesburg, is sued a statement. It said the discussion with Crowe does not mean that South Africa is “conceding the right of the United States government to concern itself with the domestic affairs of South Africa, just as the Union (of South Africa) does not concern itself with riots or racial disturbances in other countries.”

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violence here without knowing all the facts “regarding attacks by many thousands of Bantu (Negroes) on a small police force to whom w;as entrusted the duty of

maintaining law and order.”

Criticism of last week’s police violence mounted in world capitals. Three of South Africa’s partners in the British commonwealth, India, Australia and Cana-

da, expressed concern

In addition, nine African nations condemned the barbaric attack upon the Negro demonstrators, and the 29-natjon Asian-Afri-can bloc had scheduled a meeting for later in the week in New York at which it was expected to criticize South Africa’s handling of the race problem and perhaps propose

some course of action. Meanwhile, In the United

States, outstanding personalities voiced their criticism of South Africa and some saw in the tragic events of last week a lesson for America where Negroes are conducting peaceful demonstrations against racial segregation in the South, Here are some of the comments: LINCOLN WHITE, director of news division. U. S. State Depart-

ment:

“United States deplores violence in a’l its forms. It hopes the people of South Africa will be able to obtain redress for legitimate grievances by peachful means. “While the United States, as a matter of practice, does not ordinarily comment on internal affairs of governments with which it engages in normal relations, it cannot help but regret the tragic loss of life resulting from the measures taken again demonstrators in South Africa.” #

wanton slaughter as an instrument of state power.” ROBERT WAGNER, mayor of New York: “As mayor and chief magistrate of the greatest city in the world, I deplore and reject the use of violence by the constituted agencies of government except to defend government itself against revolt. No such threat was inherent in the South African incident where people were concerned only with demonstrating their repugnance for the severest kind of racial discrimination. We know there is no room either for violence or for racial discrimination in the world we live in today.” l*. B. YOUNG, Editor-Publisher, Journal and Guide: “While we look with favor upon the United States government, we believe that our own country’s long silence against these programs has been the rulers of South Africa encouragement and license to pursue their course.”

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CONGRESSMAN DIGGS: “There is a common objective in both the South African movement and the current demonstrations in America There is a similarity of methods. Birt the Africans are more prone to real sacrifice than American Negroes. “The American Negroes can learn a lesson from their African brothers in real dedication and sacrifice for a cause,” CONGRESSMAN FRANCES P. BOLTON, member of the House foreign relations committee: “The news from South Africa is utterly shocking. To shoot down defenseless citizens coming peacefully to protest the hated pass laws—the inequities of which I personally observed when I visited in South Africa—is indefensible. Apartheid In action is horrible, really inhuman. It really is not comparable to our South in the United States unfortunate though conditions there are. I am happy that our State Department has expressed so well the feeling of Americans.”

SCOVEL RICHARDSON, federal judge, New York: “Enforcement officers should use their powers to protect people in the exercise of their rights, not destroy them Nonviolent attempts to be accorded equality, dignity and respect should be met with consideration and understanding, not bullets.” ROY WILKINS, executive secretary NAACP: “The Association has urged that the United States cut off relations with South Africa and cut off all economic aid and commerce with that country. The NAACP urges prompt action to avoid* any conclusion in the minds of the peoples of the world that the United States of America, itself born of protest against tyranny arid oppression, condones

LESTER B. GRANGER, execut i v e director, National Urban League: “Americans of good will applaud the statement from our State Department deploring these police atrocities to which the native people of South Africa are being subjected. American official leadership in the past has been constrained to follow a policy of hands off Africa. The United States must take advantage of every opportunity to demonstrate to the free world that we will not stand aside and permit these inman practices to continue. “The situation in South Africa presents a lesson to us here in America, The sit-in demonstrations in the South highlight the racial inequities in our own country. They call for stronger action by Negro and white Americans to remedy the intolerable conditions ”

MOSES McKISSACK IV Moses McKissack IV, architectengineer, has been elected to his second term as president of the firm McKissack & McKissack Inc. He has been with the firm since graduation from Howard University in 1939. The Indianapolis branch office has handled the building of an annex to Christ Temple, building cf Mt. Zion Baptist Church, the Church of God, New Bethel Baplist Church and a number of other structures. The home office is located in Nashville, Tenn. McKissack and his wife, Natalie Ctuart McKissack, live at 640 W 38thj

house to protest the arrest-of about 60 luncfi counter sitdown demonstrators. While this group was retreating about-a block, another 40Q Negroes crowded the district courtroom and could not be removed for two hours.. Negroes outnumber whites in the east Texas city. Swiftly spreading across the entire South with the exception of Mississippi, and with sympathy demonstrations breaking out widely in the North, the movement was the greatese popular, upheaval ssince the labor sitdown strikes of the 1930's. It was approaching the dimensions of a peaceful, non-violent revolution. Linked with the mass struggles against apartheid in South Africa, it marked the highest point of the world’s “rising tide of color ” HERE AND THERE signs of at least partial victory appeared. In Houston, Tex., Mayor Lewis Cutrer said he would appoint this w-eek a committee to study local biracial 'problems. Earlier, he had said he would not appoint such a committee as long as protests against segregation continued. The action was requested by the Retail Merchants Assn, and others. A resolution commending some San Antonio stores for integrating lunch counters was passed by the .Harris County Young Democrats Club.

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HORACE MANN BOND, Atlanta University: “The mass killings in South Africa horrify me as they must every person remembering the pit into which the human race fell 25 years ago when Hitler began to use his murderous power to deny human dignity. I urge our national government to take the lead in affirming the complete equality of al| human beings at home and abroad and in quarantining South Africa as one would a mad dog dangerous to the securitv of all human beings.” * CARTER WESLEY, publisher, The Informer Papers, Houston. Tex.: “The slaughtering of Negroes, peacefully protesting the restriction of their rights, is an example of what happens when the authorities attempt to put the law against the rights of human beings illegally. It also suggests needless clashes that we may have in the South because of a misuse of the laws and the machinery of governments.” CLIFF MACKAY, editor AfroAmerican: “South Africa’s wholesale slaughter of m^n, women and children for wanting to walk with human dignity is a shocking and wicked thing. It is one more bloody price of soul-crushing segregation. And it £dds but one more brutal item to the growing debt white South Africans will soon be called upon to pay-/”

Masons Set 1st Spring Banquet •

The first annual Spring Festival and Dance Saturday, April 9, of the Central District Masonic Association, F&AM, will precede the official opening April 10 of the newly purchased Prince Hall Masonic Temple at 653 N, West, where the dance will take place. Supported by the district grand deputy, the worshipful masters and all Masonic lodges of the city, the affair, beginning at 9, will feature the music of the ever popular Three Souls. According to Robert Skelton, district deputy grand master, the following lodges will participate: Trinity Lodge No. 18, Central Lodge No. 1. Meridian Lodge No. 33, Southern Cross Lodge No. 39, Fidelity Lodge No. 55, Sumner Fumiss Lodge and Waterford Lodge No. 13. Also the Daughters of Isis, OES: Pride of West, Purity, Union, Leah and Nellie M Strong.

on a burglary charge Although not convinced her son tok part in the actual break-in. Mrs Anna Thomas said she holds no malice -or Williamson. “Some fellows told me they had been talking to Ronnie about two minutes before they heard the shot. It looks like he wouldn’t have had time to break into the place. I figure he knew what was going on and went avound there to look. “But he was on the man’s property, and he had no right to be there. “Of course i’m sorry it happened —he had .never been in any kind of trouble before — but I can’t bold anything against Mr. Williamson. SERVICES FOR THOMAS were held V/ednesday at St. Mark Baptist Church, King and King Funeral Home in charge, with burial in Floral Park Cemetery. tie had been employed for two weeks at Scottie Crait Boat Co. Survivors include his 17-year-old wife, Marie; a daughter, Connie; a sufpson, Moi;ris Shotwell; his parents, Robert Thomas of Pueblo, Colo., and Mrs. Anna Thomas, Indianapolis; two sisters. Roberta and Martha Thomas: a brother, Richard Thomas; his paternal grandfather, Robert Thomas Sr. Jackson, Tenn., and his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs Walter Osborn, Indianapolis.

At Lenoir, N. C., authorities revealed six Negro school pupils used the public library Saturday and again* Monday. No effort was made to deny them the facilities. This was in contrast to the action at Memphis, Tenn., where 23 students were arrested at the public art gallery and a library. THE NORTHERN SYMPATHY actions to seemed to include more whites and Negroes. Protests swirled across the Ivy League like antidavery demonstrations in New England before the Civil War. Students of Yale Divinity School, Brown, Skidmore College, Yale University, Harvard, Wheaton College and numerous others took action. Jeremy Dodd, the son of U. S. Sen. Thomas J. Dodd (DConn.), was a leader at the University of Connecticut. When a g oup of Skidmore girls were lectu.ed by the police chief for picketing a variety store, they came back the next day with 200 students and 20 faculty members. About 125 Indiana University

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HE WILL-ALSO ask the judge to appoint a referee who will take applications from qualified voters who have been frustrated in their attempts to register. 3. After this, the Negro goes back to the registrar again and tries to register to vote. 4. If he is turned down again, the Negro goes to the referee, says he is qualified to vote and has been refused registration The referee takes down his qualifications, and an affidavit that he has tried vn vain to register. Then the referee reports to the federal court that, on the basis of his examination, the Negro is qualified to vote. 5. The federal judge directs the U. S attorney to serve a copy of this referee’s report on the registrar and any other defendants. They have 10 days to accept or

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All Democratic precinct commit teewomen and ward chairwomen in Indianapolis and Marion County have received invitations to attend n “spring brunch” at II Saturday in the Riley Room of the Claypool Hotel.

Congressman Joseph W. Barr and M 1 s. Barr will return from Washington to be hosts at the party. A committee of local women will he p Mrs. Barr with advance preparations for the event. The group includes Mesdames Andrew B. Bicket, chairman, John McCarley, Rose Gatto, Theodore F. Watts, William Downs, Josephine Miller, Walter Harrold, Wesley Hoard, Milton E Craig, li Ann L. B”own. Lenore Gundlach^ and Opal Cremer.

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AS GUESTS OF the Bloomington Alumnae of Theta Sigma Phi, honorary for women in journalism, at Matrix Table, three Attacks journalists will attend three special meetings in April. They are the Misses Beverly Corley, Rosalind Taylor and Beverly Hockett. Speaker for the event will be Mary Kimbrough. ATTENDING A YEARBOOK clinic Thursday, April 7, at Anderson College, sponsored by the Anierican Yearbook Company, will be the Misses Beverly Hockett^ Rosalind Taylor. Madora Lewis and Fontaine Tutt and Michael Brown. REPRESENTING ATTUCKS at the Easerh Indiana Journalism Conference Saturday, April 30, at Ball State Teachers College will be the Misses Fontaine Tutt, Beverly Hockett, Irene Gibson, Cleotria Frye and Beverly Corley and Messrs. Marvin Williams and James Williams.

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