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Jury Hangs;

SEEK $25,000 FOR

NEW YORK CITY~Racial

~Even Her Picture Is Barred

prejudice may have something to

do. with the failure of the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D. C.,
to invite Paul Meltsner, internationally known painter, to show this

portrait of Marian Anderson, Negro contralto, Mr. Meltsner believes.

His paintings have been invited in the past, and many of his pictures hang in prominent galleries all over the world, but the com.

mittee, after viewing this portrait,

failed to issue an _ invitation,

though he feels this his ~best work to date.~(Acme).

Alabama

Teachers

To Get Equal Hike

MONTGOMERY~(SNS) ~ The
Alabama,State Board of Education
last week-end removed diseriminations against Negro teachers in its
minimum salary. schedule: The
move was intended for state com
pliance with a recent United States;

Supreme Court decision.

Under former schedules Minima
for Negroes. had been fixed. at 75
per cent of that for whites. Under
the new scale, effective next fall,
the same schedule is Provided for
both.

The nite; States Court ruled
against discrimination as to race or
color of equal training and experience. Although the new schedule
raises former minima provided for
Negro teachers and lowers that for

Special Notice To

All Eligible

For Employment

By HENRY G REYNOLDS
Machinery by which natives 9i
other States now residing in Michigan may secure credentials: corres
ponding to bifth certificates has;

set up by members of the Michigan
supreme court.

Circuit ~court rules have been
amended to make sible the presentaticn of proof in~epen- court, is
authorized to determine the.

time:

gah residents. born. elsewhere,.. to |
obtain birth certificates from thelr

white teachers, Dr. A: H. Collins,
state superintendent of education,
~said no reductions were contemplated::

Salary increases) to colored teachers are expected to total more than
$200,000. Some $300.000 more will
~go to. white teachers who move in
to higher salary brackets through
added-training and. experience.

The néw minimum salaries are
as follows:

Cid Old
Rew, Negro White

Rank I....b:.: $70 $63.75 $85
Rank II $60 $56.25 $75
Rank Ill......-$50 $48.75 ~ $65
Rank IV...... $45 _ $45.00 $60
Rank V $40 ~$37.50 $50

Rank I generaily requires a@ master~s degree and. five yearg of col
degree; Rank III three years of college: Rank IV, two years. of college

~

college. i ~

lege training; Rank II a bachelor~s |

and Rank VY, less mee two years of |

arbour Bill ~
Is Introduced

~WASHINGTON, D. C.~(ANP)~Deterntined to protect if possible the interests of Negroes in the national defense program, Sen. Warren W. Barbour, of New Jersey, introduced a resolution in the senate Saturday asking a special
committee be appointed with a fund of $25,000 to investigate
the participation of all Negro citizens in all industrial and

other phases of the program.

Attorneys |
Indicate

Are Promised

ATLANTA, G.a~ (SNS)~

W. F. Sutherland, Atlanta officer accused of violating tke civii
rights of Quintar South, 16-yearold colored boy, will face a second
federal trial on March 17, government ~attorneys~ announced ate
Friday.
~ Earlier in tit gay whey nad announced that prompt action would
bé taken in the case whick: saw
Federal Judge E. Marvin Underwood declare a mistrial after the
jury trying Sutherland cotld not
break a deadlock. The jury was,out 30 hours, the _ trial having
started Monday of last week.

Ajthougk details were not disclosed, Assistant United States Attorneys Raymond Martin and Har
~vey H: Tysinger, who handled the

first prosecution for the govern:
ment, indicated a nuniber of new
witnesses would be called and that
~surprise developments~ may come
in the new: trial.

Sutherland is accused of using
~a. photographer~s. electric drying
Piao Gna gels nig oct rag
' sion to burglary from him:

Two Tried For
~Bug~ Tuesday

Two persons charged with, ith aiding
in operation of a lottery were

Tuesday morning in lower division
of Pulton Criminal Court. One was

AUGUSTA, Ga.~(ANP)~Struck

White Ambulance Leaves:
Woman On Road To ~ i

In cOoperation with Sen. Wagner
of New York, Sen. Arthur Capper
of Kansas and Sen. Prentiss M
Brown of Michigan, the resolution,
known as Senate Resoiution 75,
reads as: follows:

SUGGESTS COMMITTEE

~Resolved, that a special committee. of eight senators, to be
appointed by the president of the

senate, as goon as.
practicable ~the ~results of its study.
and ihvéstigation, together
its: recommendations:. for legislution: or other governmental action
designed to integrate Negro citti-.
zens into; the national defense program without discrimination as to
race or;color,

~For the purpose of this resolution; the--committee, or any. duly
authorized~ subcOmmittee thereof,
is authorized to hold such ~ hear
report to 4

and places during ~the sessions,
recesses, and adjourned~ periods
of the 77th eongress, to utilize
such volubtary: and uncOmpensated. services, and to employ such
experts and clerical, stenographic
and Other ~assivtants,as it may
deem necessary. The committee
may utilize the services, information; facilities and personnel of
~the - various departments and
eaenicien of the government
committee, or-any duly

seta Subcommittee thereOf,
shai]. ~the power to require by
su -or-otherwise the attend-.

anee of such witnesses, and thet

senate, es
| and > tie: in- |

courses ~and |;
tice S tretninae ~The comninittet, ~shall

with |

ings, to sit and act at. such times |

Speaks To |

be 79
Has Archilles
Sulked In
His Tent?

By HENRY G. REYNOLDS
_FLINT, Mich.~Small mindedness and indifference. played a
large part in the defeat of Atty.
Van Dyne in the primaries in Flint
last Monday, February 17.

Conspicuously absent - from the
support of Mr. Van Dyne,..was tha.| so ~alled ~Voice of the People~ the

~Flint. American.~. If. that Negro
paper had been as.active~ in the interest..of its own candidate as it
was for the -election of.a Mayor,
the added: votes, necessary to make
our.group successful at the polls,
would have been ~ received. We.
therefore. question whether that organ~ is~ sincere when it proclaims
race~ loyalty in ~its~ endeavors to |
make~ living~ Detter ~for Negroes in
Flint. We Rg Phen lone

Undertaker
VAN DYNE

| Detective

| Youth Council
~Names Officers

Miss Marian Wright was appointed assistant secretary. Miss
Wilma Stuart, Keeper of scrapbook; Caro Wright, clerk of attendance, and Claybourne Mitcheli, chairman of membership, jat
the mi g last Sunday, by the
president, John Gibson. ~Misses
Marie Smith and Christine Hines
ere the new. members welcomed
at this meeting.

A striking impression has been
registered by the members of the
Youth Council lamenting the fact
that the council was not invited to
take. part in the National -Negro
History ~week programs. The ~Youth
Council is the only club dedicated
to the advamement of the Race in
Flint. 4/ H, Ward, reporter

Man Shot By

t

iat Grady iy hae "Tuesday
ing shortly after.4:30.o~clock.. The
victim was shot: Sunday: by. Oity
Detective H. F. Brown.. According to reports, city police
men received a call to
Little Street.

~The~ officers~ found 1,
the man in the house ~
cher when the suspect is. alleged
to have flashed a knife.

Welcher~s death gave Atlanta its

arrest Welcher at 19
and Detective Brown shot: -:Weli6th colored slaying of ~the ina

NEW YORK~( SNS)~Jeck

boxing lesson.

weight boxing champ, gives. Abe Simon (seated) ~1
how to handle Joe Louis when Simon meets the ps
king in a title bout at Detroit, ~Mich., ~March at. ~Th
at Stillman~s Gymnasium, New York City, where Johns:
will don tights and gloves tomorrow to vs Pasion _

Johaven,

First tady

Virginians; 2 ooloualngeag rel

given equal ~Opportunity in the

Army, in thé nation~s industrial |t
program notin education, but ex- | #

pressed~ belief ~thefe is going te
be inereased opportunity because

of the ereesed~ number ~of 10b0

tint ane teing ciqated:#
She discussed. the~ place of youth

~Quarterman, 26, plumber~s~ agsist~ant, lost his life here Saturds in|)
a main attempt to save the life of
| his employer's son, Inman

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. ~ James.

Race Helper Gives ee
To Rescue Employer's: Se

himself almost overcome when he
ipeeped into the pit to aseertain
~the cause of the cries for assist~ [ance But. struggled away and
} stoped. a passing City truck to
ishout. the~ denger., It was practically, twenty minu
tes before city firemen obtained
gas Masks and descended into the
aman-hole to bring out thé stricken

lis |;men.-Even then two of. the 7
~men were so badly ~ ~ ~
hospital attention Boge gts

Placing the men side by side on
the side-walk and wrapping them
~in blankets; the firemen, physi
_}clans and nurses worked. diligent-.

ily, for four hours in a vain attempt
P to. Prins me vi

A small lad passing nearby was.

ee

(recalling.
of recent