Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 June 1947 — Page 9

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AF of L Leader Green Supports FEPC Bill

Senate Group Urged To Support FEPC Bill

SALES PROMOTION: Roberta Spencer Barr, Tacoma, Wash., educated at Wilberforce, Washington University and the New School of Social Research, has been named as a sales promotion apent for the firm distributing Old Gold cigarettes in New York. Her present area of operation is Uptown or Harlem. — (ANP Photo.)

South Bend Music Group Stages Opera, “The Bartered Bride” SOUTH BEND — A rhallenpina: cultural enterprise was to be offered to the public here Friday. June 27. with the performance of Friedrich Smetana-s comic opera "The Bartered Bride” by the Harry T. Burleigh Music Association. The presentation was slated for the Central High School auditorium. The music association, composed of local talent, is reviving its ambitious activities after a lapse of seven years. Founded in the early 193^8. the unusal group presented such works as ‘"Martha.” •‘Erminie” “Hiawatha” and ‘"The Nightingale.” All were pronounced artistic successes. Ringers in the group are drawn from church choirs and civic clubs, fdx months of study and rehearsal went into preparations for “The Bartered Bride.”

WASHINGTON (ANP)—Pre-war patterns of discriniina ion in employment arc reasserting themselves in the post-war p> riod, de^ pile a war-time experience which showed the benefits of no-discrim-ination pol'cies where they were applied. This statement was made by Walter P. Reuther, president of the United Auto Workers union, | CIO, here last Wednesday. He was testifying before the subcommittee on anti-d^crimination leg1 islation of the senate committee on labor and public welfare, as a pi rsonal representative of CIO i President Philip Murray, on behalf of the UAW, and in Irs own behalf “as a citizen and resident of Michigan.•’ “The CIO and the UAW-CIO endorse 8 984 (a senate m> asure proj viding for the legal enforcement of fair employment practices) out of the convict’on that full and equal economic opportunity for the minorities of this nation means a higher standard of living for all.” Reuther declared. ‘•Access to employment on equal terms for all Amer’cans in« ans releasing the majori'y as well as the minority from the burden of poverty, disease, crime and unused talents which represent the Irgh cost of discrimination. The lifting of this burden through the passage of S 984 and through energetic community programs to make the American creed a reality can mean opening the way to- | ward full participation in the national production effort by the onetenth to one-third of our people now denied this right. Fair employment is an essential component of any full employment program which seeks to reach the goal of security and abundance without ' sacrifice of democracy and basic freedoms.” He outlined the experience of f*e CIO and the UAW-CIO in com- ' hating discrimination in industries which the two groups cover, and said that the “vigor with which the UAW and CIO have pressed for the full integration of minority workers both into the union and industry, serves also to underscore the severe limitations of such action and the urgent need for th<J community to supplement and reinforce voluntary effort by legis- | lat've enactment of the laws upi holding fair play in employment.’’ He said that UAW’s fair prac* ! tices an danti-discrimination de ! partment has been successful in correcting discriminatory practices and anti-discrimination de"cquality of economic opportunity is a phrase without substance unless that equality exists at the hiring gate. “The UAW-CIO has no control over hlr’ng. Even where we have malntenanc of membership or union shop contracts, the union has no contractural influence over prospective employes. “It is incumbent upon government. as an agency of all the people. to Invoke sanctions aga'nst discrimination in hiring. Through such legislation the community could give substance to the phrase ‘the right to work.’ ”

CIO PROPOSES ANTI-LYNCHING FIGHT TO COP

WASHINGTON. D. C. (ANP) — •‘Republican leadership should halt its crusade against labor and start —and finish—a crusade against lynching.” said President Donald Henderson of the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural and Allied Workers Union, CIO, in a letter to Senator Alexander Wiley an 1 Rep. Earl O. Michener. The letters to the respective chairmen of the Senate and House Judiciary Committees charged the Republican leadership with attempting to deceive the American people unless quick and decisive action is taken to pass the federal antl-lynching bill. Congress is required to adjourn July 30 and the federal anti-lynch-ing bills are still in the committees, therefore, the 1ibor executive urged the judiciary committees to report the bills out for a vote immediately. Mr. Henderson pointed out that the Southern worker who has to struggle against low wages r.iKl living conditions is constantly menaced by lynch violence. Thus, he urges his government to help the workers and Dm common people in stopping lynching. Sec’y-Treas. James B. Carey, who heads the CIO Committee to Abol ish Discrimination, sent a request Tuesday for congressional hear- j ing:; on the antttynch hill. ‘•The nation and the world were shocked at the verdict in the South Carolina lynching trial,” said Mr. Carey. “This verdict proves that state laws are inadequate to protect citizens from mobs and inadequate to punish lynchers.” Speaking for the CIO, the secre-tary-treasurer strongly recommended that hearings he scheduled immediately “in order that adequate legislation might he secured during this session of Congress to act as a deterrent to those who insist upon taking the law into their own hands rather than accept due process of law.”

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IND. G A.R. STAGES “ONE MAN” MEETING ELKHART — Commander John C. Adams, age 99, of Jonesboro, kept a long vigil here last weekend at th^ ft9ih annual Indiana encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic. The othm’ two Hoosier GAR mem-bers—Vice-Commander Frank J. Barton, age 100. of Knox, and Chaplain W. E. Whittingill. age 99, of Lebanon—were unable to be present at the historic “campfire meeting’ and other sessions. Commander Adams, who was r Slaveholders’ Rebellion.” said ai drummer boy In the ‘‘War of tin encampment will be held next year. The GAR once had 25,173 mem hers In Indiana. Ft. Wayne War Vet Named to Attend Citizenship Meet FORT WAYNE — Charles Pat t'Tson. a veteran of World War II was named last week by the local branch NAAOP to attend the En campment for Citizenship in New York City this summer, according to Rev. Aron S. ~Gilmartin, branch president. Patterson holds the Purple Heart. ETO Medal with three hat tie stars, and the Silver Star for gallantry in action. Ho is a stu dent at the Indiana University Extension Center. The Encampment for Citizenship, started in 1946, lasts for six weeks. Its aim Is “to help prepare young Americans for responsible, informed leadership and effective citizenship, without promoting any one particular theological dogma or furthering any politiral party or set economic doctrine.” The branch is now campaigning to raise funds to send Patterson to the encampment.

CHICAGO YOUTH LEADER CREAKS AT SOUTH BEND SOUTH BEND—Alfred Williams Jr. of Chirago, chairman of the youth division of the National Negro Progress Association, addtossed the second annual coronation hall of the South Beni Youth Council hero Saturday. The affair was held at the Erskine Park Country Club. Williams is also president of the Chicago Youth Council, and is employed as inspector for the Jack:.on Mutual Life Insurance Association.

FGION CHORUSES PRESENT CONCERT XT ANDERSON ANDERSON — A joint concert vas presented in the high school uiditorium Sunday afternoon by be George Hockett Post Legion horns of this city, and the Kingsuen Logion Male Chorus of Calu net Post No. 99. Gary. The interracial affair brought ngether the two leading Legion ■boruses of the state. The Hoc Jett singers won the state Legion ■horns contest in 1946, while the Kingsmen, directed by Mrs. Eloise \ron, were runners-up.

SCHW LEADER REPLIES TO RED SMEAR IN HOUSE

WASHINGTON. D. C. (NNPA)— Clark H. Foreman, president of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare, recently termed the report of the House Un American Activities Committee on his organization “a dull re hash of previously discredited material.-’ The report, released for publication last Sunday, branded the Conference as a Communist-front organization. It charged that “the common bond among its supporters is a certain degree of sympathy for the Soviet Union and/or the Communist Party, rather than any primary interest In human welfare in the Couth.” The report also charged ‘‘the professed interest in Southern welfare is simply an expedient for larger aims serving the Soviet Union and its subservient Communist Party in the United States.” Dr. Foreman said that ‘‘careful perusal” of the report did not reveal “the one new fact” which Representative J. Parnell Thomas, of N^w Jersey, committee chairman, said would be in it. He added that the report obviously has been hastily compiled for political reasons. Dr. Foreman revealed that he has conferred with Arthur Garfield Hayes, president of the American Civil Liberties Union, about, plans to conduct a large-scale impartial Investigation of un-American activities in the South.

AFRICAN COMMUNITY OPENS STUDY ( ENTER: Shown above is a new community center recently opened at Asamanke.se, Gold Coast, West Africa, built and donated by a British firm. The center i.; operated by a local committee under a welfare director. It has 350 members. Activities include educational classes, lectures, sports and entertainment. For women arid trirls there are classes in childcare, domestic training and dress-making. The men’s favorite pastime is boxing, which attracts the largest audiences. The center has a well-equipped cafeteria, library, and reading-room. Dances are held every Saturday. Members are also taking an active part in social w r ork, raising money for local hospitals, homes for destitutes and for a leper colony, and paying personal visits to the sick. The picture shows: 1. Top left: The entrance to Asamankesc Center. 2. Left center: Deck tennis in the courtyard. It also serves as a dance floor and an openair theatre for film and stage shows. 3. Bottom left, Women and young girls take dress-making classes in the sewing room, equipped with sewing machines and cutting tables. 4. Top right, Boxing, most p >pular sport at the center. Classes are held three times a v, r eek. 5. Bottom righ t. The Omanhene of Akim Ahuakwa, Paramount chief, presents the stool and sandals of chieftainship to W. M. Hood, representative of the British company who donated the center—(ANP Photo.) U.S. Probes Lynch Case For Civil Rights Violation

By LOUIS LAUTIER

WASHINGTON, D. C. (N NPA) — Enactment of the Ives-Chavez Bill to prohibit race or religious discrimination in employment is essential to “make fully effective” the principle of equality of opportunity, William Green,

terre HAUTE—Dr. G. Duncan president of the American Hickson. Gary, was elected presi- Federation of Labor, told the

dent of the Indiana State Medical. Dental and Pharmaceutical Association at the annual session here June 17-18. He will serve during

1947-48. Dr. H. H. Stoner, well- Friday,

known Indianapolis pharmacist, j

president-elect, will succeed him as ]y[ r . Green appeared in sup'"'otho^cfdo.r:, elected Included P ort ° f P. Ur : L. H. Anderson, D. D. S.. Terre suant to a resolution adopted Haute, first vice-president; Earl V. i at the 65th convention of the Robinson, M. d.. second vice presi- American Federation of Ladent; Dennis A. Bethea, M. D., b or j n Chicago last Octo-.

Hammond, general secretary: Wm. ,

F. Dendy, D. D. S.; Evansville, as- | Der ’

sistant secretary; J. O. Puryear, Endorsoment of the Ives-Chavez Gary, statistician; J. D. Hoover. Bill by the convontion was nothTerre Haute, public health ; H. N. i irg new, Mr. Green stated. The Middleton. M. D., Indianapolis. AFL, he said, ‘ was founded on the delegate to National Convention, ideal of affording men an equal and James F. Smith. D. D. S.. dele- chance to employment” at tlw skills

gate to National Dental Conven- which they possess and

tion. equitable pay for their^y t hat

Nationally known speakers ad- j Sen. Allen J..^y could be

dressing the sessions included Dr. .crat, of Louishfc ag rumored W. A. Yonnge, St. Louis, president was more Moore, reof the National Medical Associa- than to any ot v Ja eIJt| declared

tion; Wm. D. Giles. D. D. S., Chi- ; peared before t|| r* a go; Orville L. Ballard. M. DE port of anti-di £ /Page 2 Louisville, Ky.; Walter H. Mad-! tion, asked wi - <iix. Indianapolis; Dr. Albert W. fact that “a loV

nix. inaianapoiis: ur. aiucii . idu mat a i.’-v Mitchell, Terre Haute and Charles was practiced jx

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H. Bynum. New York, director .of .. Nry> Rot a 'nterracial Relations of the Nation- <~; reen ‘‘Thei d Infantile Paralysis Foundation. that j s b pj 11g " Papers were read by Drs. Horn- Mr Green

er L. Wales, E. D. Moten, H. N. ‘‘very ra^v ■■ 1 f Middleton. Fred R. Fmith, Lucian e jj m j na ^j ng ■ Meriwether. Frank Chowning, S. 1 ranks. Onl**^^ w® ^ w

D. Meriwether, H. N. Stoner and (rades, he said*

James B p rry, all of Indianapolis, j ( > r j] ri j n ation, Drs. W. D. Jones and J. J. Hoo- mucb a mattei £ ver, Terre Haute and G. Duncan ; ma ^ er 0 f proteC, Hinkson, Wm. Matthews, D. W. highly g*

Turner, G. H. Ross and Leroy The AFL he sai g „ has taken a Bingham, Gary. Sixty members ver y strong position agajnst dis-

of the group were in attendance The 1948 session will be held at

Evansville.

WASHINGTON (ANP)—A thor ough investigation into the possibilities of civvl rights violation in the recent acquittal of 26 selfconfessed South Carolina lynchers is being conducted by the department of Justice. Officials of the department of just’ee hinted last week that members of the mob that lynched 23-year-old Willie Earle last February, and who were exonerated by a Greenville, S. C., jury, face federal prosecution. Earle was removed from the Greenville jail by the 26 white men and lynch'd on the belief he stabbed T. W. Brown, a white taxi driver, to death on Feb. 15. The 14th amendment of the Con solution as well as sections 51 and 52 of the United States code are the basis for studying the lynch case for ckvil rights violations. officials of the department said. The 14th Amendment states

that “no state shall make or enforce any law \vh : ch shall abridge ! the privileges or immunities of ; citizens of the United Slates, nor shall any state deprive any ner- : son of life, liberty or property without due process of law, nor I deny to any person w : thin its jur1 isdiction -the equal protection of laws.” Section 51. Article 18, provides; ‘•If two ore more conspire to injure, oppress, threaten or intimidate any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right secured to him by the UonstituMon or because of his having so exercised same, or if two or more per sons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premise of anotner, w^h intent to pr vent or hinder his fr e exercise of enjoyment of any right or privilege so secure, they shall be fined not more than $6,000 and imprisoned not

more than 10 years.” Section 52 reads: ‘•Whoever, under cover of law. wilfully subject or cause to be subjccled, any inhabitants of any state to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, secured by the Constitution and laws of the United States, or shall subject any such inhabitants to different punishments, pains or penalties on account of such Inhabitants being an alien, or by reason of his color, or race, than are .prescribed for punishment of citizens, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year or both." The justice officials explained that “o'vil rights” is the only angle on which there can be basis for further consideration of the lynching case.

War Vets Housing Project, 92 Units, Planned for Gary

GARY—The way was cleared U>construction of a 92-unit rental housing project for Negro war veterans here, as the project was approved Tuesday by the Federal

Housing Administration.

Known as Ironwood Apartments.

crimination of any kind in employ-

ment.”

Mr. Green told the committee that the experience of the AFL in dealing with race or religious discrimination demonstrated that the most powerful single force behind such discrimination was ‘‘economic

discrimination.”

Paul D. Williams, Richmond, Va., president of the Southern Regional Council, told the committee that he believe-cl the Ives-Chavez Rill, if enacted, would work satis-

factorily in the South.

He said he liked its emphasis upon conciliation, education and

the project will he constructed by persuasion hut he thought the enAlfred Polland. Chicago’ builder, at fnreement provision were neces-

an estimated cost of $800,000. It , sary.

will he financed by Mid-City In- | Mr. Williams said the South is vestments. Inc., with a mortage of , “at the threshold of a new indus$631,300 to be in-mred by FHA un- | trialization" whii h will bring it der the National Housing Act. : economic prosperity on a par with James Bobbin, superintendent of | other sections of the country. For

j thp project, said construction will i start in about two weeks. He added that the company plans to build another project of about the same sizp fer low income groups in tht

area.

Ironwood Apartments will consist of two-s*ory row houses, built of cement blocks in groups o. fours or eights. Robbin said. Each apartment will have a living room

this new era to come to pass, he said, “the South must utilize all her human and natural resources and not waste them as has been -o tragically true in the past.” He declared that “Many fine groups and individuals are striving hard to rid the South of" old fancies and ancient prejudices.” He added that the South is now looking ‘ to the future when all men

dining room and kitchen downstairs I can walk with dignity each strivand two bedrooms and a bath up ing to reach his greatest staturo

? fairs. Rentals have not yet been as a human being.”

-T. WAYNE NAVY VET' 1ETS SCHOLARSHIP FORT WAYNE—A $50 scholarship was schoduled to he presented to Emmit Hatch, veteran of World War II, by the Wheatley Gcrt^r Men’s Civic Builders Club at the first annual youth prom Friday in the Elks Ballroom, j Hatch, a Navy veteran, returned ! from the war to finish his studies 1 it Central High School with honj ors. He plans to study two years j at the Indiana University Extension Center, and then to enter Howard University Medical School. He is widely known for his singing in churches and elsewhere. The award was voted to Hatch in honor of his ‘‘scholarship, character. leadership and persoverI ance.”

ALA. YOUTHS GET JAIL TERMS AT MARION MARION — Two te°n-age Alabama youths were given suspended 15-day jail sentences here Monday, follc/wing a dispute on a Pennsylvania Railroad train. Ti. C. Hawkins, age 19, Town Creek, Ala., and Sammy Mason, age 19. Price, Ala., were taken off the train Sunday morning at the request of train officials, who said the youths were riding without paying fare. The two pleaded guilty to malicious trespass charges. Mayor Edward Wert suspended the sentences.

ANNUAL CONCERT PRESENTED BY CHOIR OF SOUTH BEND CHURCH SOUTH BEND — The choir of Ep worth Memorial Methodist Church presented its annual concert Sunday night at the church. The program included sacred -music, secular classic works and spirituals. Hugh Aughinha ugh direct ed, and Mrs. Lester Finney provided organ music. Soloes were sung by Miss Hope DeVries, mezzo soprano, and Miss Beverly Anne Aughinbaugh, soprano. Ralph McCoy played marimbaphone numbers.

Wallace Peace Fight Gets Aid of Robeson

NEW YORK (ANP)—A vow to help Henry Wallace “build a great force for peace” was made here last week Paul Robeson, ceh ebrated progressive stnger-actor, before more than 14.000 persons at Madison Square Garden during a rally of the International Workers Order. Jewish People’s Frater nal branch. Robeson sajd the program was “symbolic of the /.nion and common struggle of the Jewish and Negro people." Democracy is in ‘‘the nands of the people and no nation shall take it away from them,” he said. “Fascist forces which escaped destruction are conrng into the open and are trying to change the course of history,” he declared, adding that “American reactionaries, including officials in Irgh places, have placed themselves against the people struggling to keep fascism from raising its ugly head. “Th : s struggle is to the death,” Robeson said, ‘ and the people will

never give up. We will help Wallace to build a great force for peace." Rep. Vito Marcantonio, a foe of Rankin’s un-American activities committee, warned that the military struggle against fascism had been won. but “the polilical struggle has still to won.” American reactionaries have effected “the most vicious gang-up of imperials! ami fascist 4 forces ever witnessed in the history of the world,” he declared. “Even before the last shot warf fired in World War IF” he charged “the men of the trusts conspired to steal the benefits from the common people. To achieve this conspiracy. they destroyed price control, abolished OPA, plotted the destruction of rent control and now, hav J ng depressed wages and destroyed decent living standards, are ganging up to impose fascist legislation like the Taft-Hartley anti-labor bill and to promote imperialist enterprises throughout the world.”

Methodist Women’s Group in Annual Meet at New Castle NEW CATTLE—Tim seventh annual meeting of the Woman’s SoI eipty of Christian Service. Indiana District Lexington Conference Methodist church was hold here [ T une 19-20. Sessions were held at the Wiley Methodist church. Rev I. P. Dorsey was host pastor. I- Mrs. Vir°nda Adkins is president of the Indiana District W. S. C. S. and Mrs. F. Russell is I president of the local society. Caeakers include Mrs. Artie Wallace, president of the Conference W. S. C. <S.. Mrs. Adkins. Mrs Russell, Mrs. Nora Roberts ano Mrs. Lula Bean. j Music was furnished by fh° Junior | and Senior choirs of th^. Wiley I church. Work shops were held by vari ; <ms secretaries including Mes dames Ruth Wales. Lula Bean, Ada Ranks and Florence Holliway. Highlights of the session were the demonstrations by Mrs. Nora It iherls. Mrs. Lula Bean and Mrs. Florence Holliway. Visitors included the district su rrrintendent Rev. and Mrs. H. O McCuthins; the Conference W S. C. 8. president, Mrs. Wallace and her husband. Rev. Wallace and the Conference W. S. C. S. treasurer, Mrs. J. W. Patton and her 1 husband, Rev. J. W. Patton.

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EVANSVILLE CARVER CENTER PRESENTS YOUTHS SPORTS AWARD EVANSVILLE — Awards wer. presented to 42 youths at the an nual sports dinner held by the Carver Community -rganization on Monday. Activities for which recognition was given included basketball, boxing, dramatics and motion picture projector operating. Taking part in the program were George Gray. Carver president: Andrew Johnson, president of th- j Carver Adult Council; William Smith. Jr., executive director; Dorothy Lauderlale, acting mayor of Carverville; Mel\ in Rouse, chairman of the dinner, and 1 Dick Shively. sports editor of WG>BF. Special guests included William E. Best, principal of Lincoln High School; Edward Niles, Lincoln nhysical director ana coach, and Coleridge C hurchill. assistant

coach.

FX-GA. GOVERNOR TO TALK AT EVANSVILLE EVANSVILLE — Former Gov. Ellis Arnall of Georgia will appear on the Washington Avenue Temple Forum program here Oct. 16, it was announced Sunday. The outstanding Southern liberal

Other witnesses who appeared before the committee last Friday included Mrs. Sylvia Wubnig. representing the National League of Women Shoppers; Col. Charles I. Schottland. New York City, national executive director, Jewish War Veterans; Robert Lathan, WinstonSalem. N. C., international vicepresident, Food, Tobacco, Agricultural and Allied Workers Union (CIO), and Mrs. E. Pauline Myers, representing the Civil Liberties Department. Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of

the World.

NEW RECREATION PROJECT PLANNED BY MARION CARVER CENTER MARION — Carver Community Center will open a new recreational building at 10th and Nebraska sts. within a few’ weeks, according to Thomas Ross, director. The center is an affiliate of the National Urban League and the Marion Community Chest.

RICHMOND BRANCH NAACP REORGANIZES

RICHMOND —A reorganization meeting was held by the local branch NAACP at Townsend Center on Tuesday evening. John

and foe of the Ku Klux Klan will (Fletcher reported on financial speak on current affairs, according • statements covering the past year.j to Sam Weil, chairman of the for- The president, Rev Bruce Bennetti

um committee. The title of the talk will he the same as that of Arnall’s recent book, ‘-The Shore

Dimly Seen.”

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Robert Bennett reported li week that 71 new members li joined the branch since Jan. 1.