Brownsville Weekly News [Volume: 1, Issue: 36]

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~Dark Laughter..

~Can I run down to the corner to call up my mummer, sir, an~ tell her I been a bad boy

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~Man's Inhumanity To Man

Calls Attention
~to Truth Of Fine
_CRISIS Editorial

DURHAM,.N. C~(ANP)~In a
sermon~-delivered recently before
the faculty and student body of
~Duke university in the University
chapel, Dean Elbert Russell took
as his text ~Is It I, Lord?~ and

~~ told_ef. man~s inhumanity to man,

the brutglity-of totalitarian powers, Drawing a parallel between
treatment of Jews in Germany
and Negroes in America, Dean
Russell said:

~We ate most horrified today, I
think, because it comes closest to
us, af What Germany is doing to
the Jews. ~Confessedly their crimes
are that they are too: intellectual,
too jihdustrious, too prosperous, too
rich. But: for no. accusation of bad,Fervid

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character, nothing -~poin's
them out as bad citizens for nothing except the accident of, birth,
they are being subjected to such
programs and systematic persecution and pillage as_ civilization
has not witnessed for centuries. -

~We think it could not be here;
surely we could not do things like
that! Yet, I happened on an editorial in The Crisis ~Negro magazine) the other day, that throws
a strong light directly on our potentjalities in this connection, The
editorjal:

~As wise as has been the sympathy of:the rest of the world with
the plight of.the Jews, it is qoubtful if any sectioni.or race has symPathized more wholeheartedly and

keenly than Negro Americans, for |
they have known the. same type

of persecution ever since the beginning of America...They. look
around at the Americans who can.
be moved to protests against brutality jn another land, but who

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why the Supervisor js visiting my. school so much? _

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the Holy Ghost, and may have it
but don~t know it. My worry is
that my husband doesn~t> seem to
care for church. Will he ever be a
Christian?:
Ans; I am sure that you will receive the praises due you by our
Master as long as yOu continue to

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against the sate conditions within our own ~borders...Negroes
know what it is to. have school
doors slammed in. their faces,
churches and property destroyed,

instead of crime insult and humjliation heaped upon them in
~parks, playgrounds, theatres, res~qurcnts, hotels, beaches, trajns,
buses, and airplanes.

~Arkansas Court
Upholds Terms Of
College Robbers

LITTLE ROCK, Ark~(ANP)~
Finis Was apparently written to
the famous Shorter college robbery
case last Monday. when the Arkansas supreme court sustaineq a
Pulaski circuit court judgment
sentencing William M. Burns, Haywood Duckworth and Roma Ollison
to prison terms of 10 years each.

The trio was convicted of robbing Rev. O. Sherman, Shorter
college trustee, of $2,319.90 of the
institution~s money in a holdup
during which Rev. Sherman was
shot through the neck. Although
painfully wounded, the doughty
mjnister gave chase to his assailants who escaped in a car but were
later apprehended. Rev. Sherman
recovered from the wound and is
now active as AME presiding elder
of the Little Rock district,

Youth, 17, Given
20-Year Sentence

Charlie Harper, 17, Th y
convicted of shooting and attempt
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Influential White
Gathering Gives
Fine Ovation

ATLANTA, Ga~(SNS)~

Invited for the express purpose
of voicing his frank reaction to the
struggles, worthwhile achievements,
aims, and grievances ox Negroes in
Atlanta, Dr. M. S. Davage, president of Clark University, appear.
ed as guest speaker Monday before
the Rotary Club at its weekly meet
The meeting of the Rotarians.
influential group of leading white
business and professional men, was
attending by fully 200 citizens who

the well known M. E. educator
analized situations and developments. affecting Negro life locally.

CITY WITHIN CITY

In presenting Dr. Davage, Legare
Davis, presiding officer, said:

~There are, in the city of Atlanta which we know, about 200,000
people. We know many of them.
We. know that they think and

need. There is another city in Atlanta. It is within our city. In it
are about 109,000 people. We know
dttle of them. We know little or
nothing about their needs and
their opinions. That is the Negro

May know something of the needs

and opinions of these other citizens, the program for today has
been arranged~,

President Davage did speak
it
adequate~-recreational and park
facilities. sounded the need for
more teachers: to cover the heavy
student-load in the vastly over~crowded schools which, {ogether,
have more than 100 double sessions; scored the lack of first-class
hospital service, and paraded the
many evils of ill-housing existent
aMong Atlanta Negroes.

The South Atlanta administrator
received a@ fine ovation although it
was the first time a colored speak
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city. In order that we, as citizens, |/

er had ever been invited to address
the Rotarians.

NAACP..Wants Jim Crowism
Stopped At Illinois. Univ.

CHICAGO ~ (ANP) ~ This ing to give equal accommioda-~

week, as state and local authorities at Champaign, Ill., weré-investigating ~vicc conditions near
the University of Illinois campus, Ira W. Williams, president
Chicago branch NAACP, ~urged
that Jim Crowism and disoriminatory practices against colored
students be included in the official quiz.

The grand jury inquiry fol
lowed the recent fatal shooting.

of Student William Spurrier
(white), allegedly by Mrs. Margaret Strethers, proprietor of
Champaign~s Pullman hotel,
scene of the crime. Assisting
Attorney General John E. Cassidy, Wallace Butler has been
appointed special prosécutor in
charge of the probe into vice
conditions at the state university~s twin cities, Champaign-Urbana,

To Law-Enforcers Cassidy
and Butler and to Arthur C.
Willard, president University of
Illinois, President Williams of
Chicago~s NAACP wrote protesting treatment of Negro students on~ the campus. Typical
of the three is Williams~ letter
to Attorney General Cassidy,
which follows:

~The public press relates that
you are conducting an investigation: into law violations in
Champaign and Urbana. We
wish to call. your attention to
the fact that practically every
place of public accommodation
consistently, constantly and
daily violate the criminal code
of the State of Illinois by refus
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tion and service to Americans
who happen to be colored. Students of the university who are
called. colored frequently have
to walk long distances in order
to find a place where they are
not insulted in addition to being refused, contrary to the
law, accommodation and service

rants, taverns, theatres and
places of amusement. As Attorney General of the state of Illinois, you are certainly familiar
with. the statutes covering such
refusals.

~We are reluctant to feel that
it requires the violent death of
a citizen in order to make ap
parent to law-enforcing agencies of the state that laws of the
state are being. violated. We
see, however, the possibility of
further violent death in Champaign~and Urbana, as well as
elsewhere in the state of Illinois growing out of these refusals of service and accommodation to colored citizens. We
feel that this is an admirable
time for you to investigate the ~
matter of violation of civil rights
of citizens and particularly of
students in Champaign and Urbana. |

~We are asking that you utilize the same personnel and legal
facilities which are probing vice
conditions to probe discrimination made on account of race or
color in public places in Champaign and Urbana.~

Free African Of
Counterfeit Plea

ACCRA, Gold Coast, W. Africa
-~(A-N P)~Emmanuel Kofi Ansab
Johnson, well-known artist, formerly of Accra Rayol school, was
freed of counterfeit charges here
when arraigned before Justice St.
John Yates in Assize Court. Johnson answered to charges of being
in possession of two counterfeit
West African currency notes of oRe
pound denomination, and other. articles. allegedly intended for coun
terfeiting purposes. His dismissal |
by the jury followed contradictory |

evidences introduced by the two

witnesses or the cfewn, both detective constables.:

Joe Predicts Quick
Win Over J. Roper

VICTORVILLE,
Joe-Louis ~Thursday confirmed the
belief of California fight fans that

he would make a quick fight.of the:

Jack Ropey affair in Los Angel
oh April 17.

Louis admitted that if the cash
customers miss the first round of
the championship fight, they probably won~t see much of the. pout.

Joe: said in a drawl: ~I like to
get ~em quick,~

Louis jndicateqd he wanted to
squelch any report that he intended to carry Roper~for a few rounds
to make the fight more interesting.

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Pretty Memphian Joins Newspaper Staff|

because this

esses, has an eye for business, at least it appears se,Memphis World. She is a product of Tennessee A
- week announcement was made of herand 1. State college and a member of Delia Sigma

Theta Serority.

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Miss Margaret Bush, senior of honor rank at Talladega College, who
has Been selected by the Juliette Derricotte Memorial ~Scholarship Com~mittee for a year of study in the Orient. An AKA, she hails from St.

sentative of the international
the demands of the latter. He
tiae, Flint, Saginaw and New

noticed.

This, they said, was due to the
fact the union officials do not fully
understand that problems of Negroes must be dealt with as such

the regular membership.

Main grievances complained of by
colored unionists; differential in
pay between whites and Negroes
doing the same type of work, some--
times in the same department;
discrimination against Negroes ip

_ \At Sunday~s meeting, Joseph Billups,

the union of Negro members,

and apart frem ~those problems of |

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DETROIT.~(ANP)~Hopeful sign of progress in the
more to end discrimination against Negroes in the auto
factories was seen in last Sunday~s conference ealled by
the United. Auto Workers~ Union, as result of which pro- ~
posals are being drawn up for presentation at the forth-_
coming UAW convention in Cleveland on March 27.

colored repre
union, reported in detail the

relationship between the union and the Negro workers and.

cited many eases of discrimi
nation. Present at. the conference were delegates from Pon
Haven, who told of losses to.
whose grievances went un- ~
Of Og aa
factories; departmental seniority
rights, which force Negroes to
have seniority rights only in their
segregateq departments.

As an aid in remedying the situ.
ation, it was decided that sesolutions committee be appointed te:
draw up proposals, based on the
findings of the confererce and
covering all thé demands of the
Negro members of the United Aute. -

Workers~ union. < '

opportunity for apprenticeship in

PENSACOLA, Fla.~(AN

his wife were in the house at
the scene.

Tolbert, employe of | the Armstrong Cork Co., is one of a group
who recently signed up with CIO
and announced an agreement with
the company. After his home was
fired upon, he found a note in the
front yard which read;

~This is a warning to you and
your friends te not vote on anything or join anything, if you want

| to live and do well. Tell the party
that~s. going from heuse to house,/ the
telling you all what to do, that hej.

is on the spot if he stays here. And
if you Negroes want to live O. K,

is just a sample if you don~t take
warning!~ ip

Labor Troubl
Flares In Fla. |

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P)~Local police ascribed to la
| bor trouble last Wednesday~s shooting at the home of Joe Tolbert, when several shotgun blasts were fited into the front door
and windows. No one, however, was hurt. Tolbert said he and
the time, and saw an auto fleeing

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Catholic Writer.
Says U.S. Should -
Examine Her Own ~

ERIE, Pa~~Where is the fellow
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