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Riot Victim Back

~In Tennessee. 13:Yr.-Old Julins
Blair Charged with

_ Attempted Murder
~NEW YORK ~ ANP ~Jul
iug Blair, one of the most venerable citizens of: Columbia,

~an NAACP rally tour,
home to stand trial on~an ~

enroute

nection with the February riots
Blair and his son, Saul,
ave among 40 colored residents
of. the riot town who face court.,procecution beginning May 27,,,althpugh white prison guards,

who killed two~ Negroes in the

_ Columbia jail, are free.

_ Blair, a druggist and proper
~ty owner, was one ~of the citi_ zens who, at a suggestion of
Sheriff J, J. Underwood, aided

' a prospective lynch mob victim

~to. escape the night before the

~storm trooping~ raid on Mink
Slide, the Negro section of Col
- umbia. When he returned and

~tried to provide bail for other
Negroes arrested during the raid,
he was jailed.

An NAACP sponsored tour on
behalf of the Tennessee victims
of mob terror culminated last

~ week when the 75-year old Blair

arrived here. A witness to moSt

~ of the terror, which began the

~week of February 26, he heard
the shots which felled the two
imprisoned Negroes. During his
tour he dscribed the shambles
which the mob, state patrolmen
and guardsmen made of the Negro section of Columbia,

The disastrous disorders in the
Tennessee town stemmed from

an insignificant incident, a dis-'; terracial movement fora _ res
~However, one. of the men hap.|taurant is gaining support ~and

agreement between two men.

pened to be a Negro, His arrest

week after | 1:
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charge in con-;

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SATURDAY, MAY 78,1945

Capital Plans
Interracial
Restaurant

WASHINGTON -~~ ANP
The ihe ablishinent! or a midtown restaurant that~ would. cat
er to all people is the objective
of a group recently organized
in upper Washington. This question of barring Negroes in pubreached

eatng places has

as | the point where it is openly dis
over the radio and

| bitterly denounced. by oftstanding whites, oF

At. the same time, a. ~radio
speech by Rep. Rowan Sunday
praised the.governmen:
cafeterias, the supreme court
cafeteria and the Union station
for their attitude in this touchy
matter.

It had been ~reported that one
restaurant on PennSylvania avenue had no objection to serving Negroes~or at least, the

| cussed

manager was so quoted as saying. Subsequently, quite a few
Negroes went there for service,
The- policy was rescinded and
bars drawn against Negro patrons..The manager said he
was a northerner and had no
Objection to Negroes eating in
the establishment, but his patrons objected and = since his
patrons were white, he had to
cater to their demands and refuse to further serve colored.

Several other restaurants in
the city serve Negroes, notably
the cafeteria in the Mellon Art
gallery, which is one of. the
best in the city, and the YWCA
cafeteria at 16th and K. streets.

But the big restaurants still
maintain their bar and invite
Negroes to stay away, The in
it is ~expected- that. an eStablish
~followed, and he became a po- ment Will ~be opened at an early

~ tential lynch victim. The only
Rew note in the entire picture
~was that this time the victim
escaped before the enraged mob

Teached the jail.

~ with
' Weapons,

The mob spirit whipped up,

date in a central part of the
city. Wothen shoppers in the
downtown area are forced to
stand at counters to eat hot

| dogs and sandwiches, They will

not be served if they sit like

fury then was directed at Mink! white customers using the same

Slide. Homes were fired on,

counter. This or go hungry

terrorizing occupants who were until. one of the colored restauobliged to lie flat on the floor ranis can be reached in upper
~to escape de ~ath, Before the ter- | Washington,

ror period was over, state pa- ~~

trolmen and guardsmen, armed
machine guns and other
had smashed through
the entire Negro section.

~A physcan reports that his

~medical equipment was damag~ed beyond repair,
+ preat

and that surinstruments, drugs and
valuable clinical apparatus were
destroyed.or stolen. -Records~ of
the Atlanta Life Insurance.company~ were shamelessly destroyed, and some one of the mob

left the letters KKK in a coffin;

cover in one of the section~s undertaking establishments,
Slaying of two Ne; prisoners by jail guards ofstirrsd; hecause one of them had ~Seized
a rifle presumably to attempt

_. an escape.~

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***Recalling life in Columbia before. the ~ ~program~

~"demsliltied, Blair said the town
of 12,0C0 to 15,000 of which: about 3000. are ~Negtoes, wasn~t
~409 bad.~ In. an interview he
Observed:

~I guess there ~must be som=
decent white people in Cclum* bia, who don~: like what hap
_. pened. Some of them go out

~Ot their way to stop me on the
Street, shake my hand, and tell
me they are with me. But they
don~: want their names men.
ticned. They~re afraid of their
_joks and what their neighbors
are, going to think, I suppose,

~One white man told my son,
Saul, ~I~ll be glad to help you
Secretly,~ but Saul replied, ~If
you can~t hep Me out in the

_@pen, I'd justsas soon not have

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Blair said Columbia Negro citizens have been voting right
along and that the polltax of fi2
each was paid through a voters~
organization. ~Often, it~s our
vote which swings an election, <
he asserted.

White tenants who occupy two
of Lis. houses in-Tennessee wanted to know if he would com.
pel them to. move, he revealed,

~I told them, no, you haven~t
a anything to me,~ he stated.

Mrs, Franklin D. Roosevelt is
heading the Committee for Jus_tice in Tennessee which is allied
With the NAACP to seek aid for
riot victims. Contributions, smal]
or large, are needed for execution of this emergency problem.
Checks should be made Payable
to the NAACP Legal Defense
and ~Educational Fund, Inc,, or
to Mary White Ovington, treas
urev; 20 W. 40th Street, New
Tork, 18, N. y.
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Role in Senate

NEW YORK ~ ANP ~ An|_

anti fillibuster resolution. was
utged for the U. S. senate here
last week by Sen, Wayne Morse.
an Oregon Repupiican,
1,500 dinner guests of
Friends of Democracy at
Waldorf-Astoria hotel,

There is no
in congress,~ he said. Legiclature is passed by a. ~mino-ity
of wilful men. Unless we pass
an _ anti-filibuster resolution,
democracy cannot prevail in the
greatest legislative chambe" in
the world.~

Rep, John Rankin, a puvl~cized Negrophobe and poll tax
advocant, was awarded the ~Ig
octore
tne
the

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noble. prize~ by the 1,500 din-:

ers as the person who has done
the greatest disservice to
America. He emerged victorious
over more than 20 natonallyknown candidates, including
~Senator Theodore &. Bilbo, his
fellow Mississippian, following a
detailed investigation by a GI
whose buddy was killed in
Burma, The GI once called his

dead pal ~un-American~ -~ for
raising funds for Loyalist
Spain.

The GI~s probe revealed that
Rankin demanded a negotiated
peace, in 1941; fought to keep
servicemen from voting; called
Jews communists, helped knife
the full employment bill and
tried to destroy the FEPC because he did not believe Negroes had a right to vote..

~Also rans~ for the ~Ignoble
prize~ included Gerald L. K,
Smith; Col. Robert -R. McCormick, Chicago Tribune publishUpton Close, radio comJohn O~Donnell and

er;
mentator;
Sen, Bilbo.

Mabel Fairbanks
Skates at
Kiddies Hour

Hollywood, Calif, ~ CNS ~
Mabel Fairbanks; the young and
vivacious ice skating star, took
a.run down to Hynes, California last week which is 25 miles
from Las Angeles, to visit the
coast~s famous Iceland Rink.
There, she donned her skates
and joined the ~Children~s
Hour~ session in which the kids
stopped their practice to get a
better view of the wonder girl~s
ability. -

Iceland had about 500 white

| kids that day and they swarmed

Miss Fairbanks for more. than
an hour, They openly compared
the bronze queen with every big
name skater in the business ~
from Sonja Henie to Belita.
They told her. they had never:
seen a Negro girl who could
skate like she could. And Mabel blushingly took it very
modestly. ~Of course I appreciate their attitudes,~ she confessed,

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Re-Election
JACKSON, Miss, ~ ANP ~
~The Man,~ Theo. G. Bilbo, U.
senator from this state, opened his Gampaign last week in
his home town of Pontotoo with
an atomic vocal biast on the
race question.

Seeking renomination to the
U. S. senate, he declared in his

opening speech:

~Personally, I had rather see
my race destroyed by the atomic bomb than to see it gradually destroyed within 300 years
by mongrelization of the white
and black raées,~
declared that two
of his opponents in ~the July 2
Democratic primary Ross
Collins and Nelson T. Lovings~
~have said there is no race question. |

~There is a race question in
Mississippi and America today,~
Bilbo added, ~It is alive and
shculd be a live issue, because
if something isn~t done to solve
the race question in America
in the proper manner ~ which
is a separation of the races ~
the white race-and our white
civilization are headed for bankruptcy.~

He advocated aboliton of the
poll tax aS a prerequisite for
voting in ~our white Democratic
primaries,~ because, he said, ~it
prevents many white citizens
from. voting.~ a

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Trolley Strike

Hits Atlanta

ATLANTA.~ ANP ~ Miss
Ann and Mr, Charlie were out
bright and early last week going to get their servants when
the frolley and bus. operators of
~the Georgia Power company
went on Strike. So heavy was
the traffic that extra patrolmen
had to be placed at practically every intersection in the up
town sections. Traffic accidents

showed considerable increase,

| prietors, ~

U. 5. ARMY

Yes, your tuition up to $500 per ordi
riary school year paid for 48 months i
of college, business or trade ~school.

You also receive $65 per month
livirig allowance~$90 if you have
dependents. This is the opportunity
open, upon their discharge, to men

_ over 18 (17 ~with parents~ consent)
who enlist in the new Regular

Army before October 6, 1946, for 3
years. Get all the facts at your U.S.
~Army Recruiting Station.

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| New ~Catholic.
Church Built
In Boston

BOSTON, Mats, ~ ANP~St.

~Richard~s, church -of ~Rorbury,
regarded as one of the most
beautiful Catholic chutches in
the Boston archdiocese, was dedicated at solemn s=rvices recently by the Most Rev. Richard
Ae Cushing, archbishop of. Boston. asa shrine and spiritual
center for the ~olored people
of the Boston area who wish to
worship there.

Archbishop Cushing said that
te new church was not to be
interpreted as a move toward
segregation im the city~s Catholic churches. ~Negroes, like any-.
one else, may worship at what\ever church they desire,~ he declared, ~

~T have hoped for a long
time to establish a shrine for
the colored people,~ the
bishop continued. ~But it is not
to be considered in the slightest as savering of segregaton.
The colored people know me
better than that, The rights of
others are the rights of the Negro. Except for te. cathedral,
[ undoubtedly will> be at this
church more than at. other,~

Local Protestants had rumored that the new Negro Catholic church indicated a jim crow
move by white Catholics, since
large numbers of Negroes have
been attracted to the Catholic
church by its open policy against racial segregation.

CIC Union Sues
N. J. Restaurant
For Race Bias

ATLANTIC Ci 2 ANP --
T:- United Pabl:+ Workers of
éuncrita (CIO). last week filed
1 ee counte*-suits on ~bhalf of
~'o delegates tc: the récent convention here who were arrested
cz, disorderly charges after ~4C
unicn members had _ started
keting a brocdwalk restauravt which reftige] to serve two
Negro delegates,

~The seounter-suits, wh'ch
named | ~thie: ~City,: ~two ~policemen
and Hackney~s. restaurant ~pro~grew out ~Of the ~arrast of James V, ~King, ~Brodklyn, international ~vice ~presidént
of the union, and Mrs. Marion
Foss Baker, Lansirig, ~Michigan,

Ga. Chain Gang

Seeks Ex-Gl on

|Burglary Charge

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.
ANP ~ Jay coum Cexten, a 20
year old ex-GI, is beifig-held at
the Monmouth County jail pend
~ ing hearing in his extradition
| to a. Georgia: chaingang ~to com-|

plete a 10 to 20 year sentence

arch
A tor burglary #m Savannah, Cot| ten escaped~ from the chaingang

~tr 1940 after serving two weeks

~lof his sentence when he wit-}al | messed the guards~ brutality to

adult priséners.

Th former Gl. who sw acton in threc batties with the
armv combat engineers, 2anv0ear~d before Jndge Joseph B_ P+rskie,. of.. the Tersev Sunreme
eourt. Monday after Gov. Walter
~: Edge signod- the extradition
arder for his return to Georsia. Judge Perskie,
hear an /argument bv Attv. Robert Qi-en, a Trenton Jawyer
retained bv Frederick Dempey: post cf. the Ameriesn Te.
tion, on the legality of Cotton~s. conviction. suggested an
anven! to the higher courts of
the state, and if necessary, to
the U. S. Supteme Court.

Judge Perskie~s decision will
be appealed to the court of errors and appeals, highest court
in the state. Qneen announced.
which prevented C. J, Purdy,
dapuiy sheriff of Chaham. Ga.,
from taking Cotton back to
Georgia.

Cotton escaped the chaingang
when he was 14 years of age,
flew~ to New York where he
registered for the draft as Mark
Cotton, his father~s name. then
went to Richmond, Va. He enlisted there in May, 1942, at a
given age of 22, when in reality
he was only 16.

The army discharged him
with a 50 per cent diSability
rating, but the FBI was looking
for ~Mark. Cotton~ ~as a draft
evader. He was caught ~nedr
Freehold, N. J, on April 14, after he had been shot by a Jersey state trooper for attempting
to escape. Discovery that he was
a Georgia chaingang fugitive
was made after his arrest.

Cotton. contended, in pointing
out that 10 to 20 years is a
harsh sentence to mete out to a
14 year old boy for burglary,
that -he was not given a fair
trial in Georgia.

who were ordered to post $100
bail each although $10 is the
maximum required on a diserderly conduct charge.

Motor Patrolman Tim Conally, who arrested approximately 50 delegates after they formed a picket line around the
restaurant, but held only the
two previously mentioned, refused ~to pres8 charges against
the cdlored patrons who had
attempted to get service in the

| establishment. They were Ew+ art G. Guinier and Miss Eleanor

Goding; ~ both of ~New York
City.

Guiner- slid that ~he and Miss
Goding were about to join a
party at a table in the <~

rani when the head. waitress

told him: ~Our. waitresses refuse to serve colored trade
here.~

Proprietors of Hackney~s told
police that the two had attempted to sit at a table where
no waitresses had been and that
they were asked to sit at anOther table,

After the picket
formed around. the
Patrolman Connally is report~ed to have asked them to
~break it up~ because, he Said,
there was no labor dispute in
line was
restaurant,

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~With Dolores Calvm

Ingram, who recently,
pestponed the hearing Pg
Actors~ Equity of the Mur: al
Rahn case, shocking petitions in |
the Automat. on the: Ave, of
Americas: ~ ex. ~Stewart in 4!
weeks at Kellsy~s S:ables ~ Negro College Fund may want to
sponsor ~Beware~ premiere since
the film ccncerns a college ~
though fictious Mrs. Nat
Cole, still.on the sick list, will |
join her husband a week later
in New York. _

Mrs, Noble S~ssle breakfasting
in the Theresa patiently listening to her children~s wails of
~I want bacon and eggs~ and
~I want toast and milk~ ~ Andy Kirk has arrived in New
York from one nighters. Larry
Steele boasts the Club Baron~s
new show. Ethel Waters goes.
into it on the 15th. Because he~
feeis France the nation of na-]
tions, Richard Wright will move
to Paris with his wife and
daughter, Jetta~ Kelly, smart~
Chicago representative of Allure}
Magazine at the Theresa a few |
days,

Erskize Hawkins leaving the
Lincoln~s Blue Room for tour.
President Roxas of the Philippin?s expected the middle of
the month. Youthbuilders, Inc.,
designed for kids from 10 to 15,
are having Kate Smith and
~Superman~ on their city-wide

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conference at Town Hall this
week. Andy Kirk, Jr, just at |
~that age,~ talked with pride |
of his own band and their new
home-made records. The Elks
Rendezvous could well stand a
change of both chorus girls and
waiters,

Dixon Gayer, Phil Moore~s
enthusiast, out on ed-umming up new ~pusiniess.
Dix is one of the few well
rounded writers in the current
journalistic field. Canada Lee
arrived in from tour of ~On
Whitman Ave.~ just in time to
make the New York debut. Nat
Cole and Trio will Stay in the
big city~s refined Hotel Biltmore on Madison Avenue. The
deal to switch Lena Horne to
the Zanzibar and Pearl Bailey
to MGM may not get through.

Frank Sinatra due here the
16th. The gay white way will be
crowded with celebrities, Duke
Ellington at the Paramount to
be followed by Louis Jordan
takes care of their manager~s
Zanzibar i~eud for co- -op billing
~by appearing separately they
bcth get top Starring roles,
Count. Basie, after the Apollo
date next week, goes. into the
Roxy on the 29th. Bill Robinson
hasn~t yet recovered from the
60th anniversary celebration in
which he had more publicity
then any Negro in show business, Besides: the daily press}
honoring him with full page
color pictures and life stories,
the ~Zanzibar~s owners threw! a
gigantic party fot: Bill - ii
which every celebrity of not
who was in town attended.

Fanniz Robinson-Dabney, hap- | 2

Py over her new husband, is

busy designing her new home!

in New Jersey. She says the,

bridgagroom, Jack Dab - g |e lap
* eee neys 2) ceataiinnnint

mortician, got So much extra

Tabernacle

The 1946-47 NAACP Membership Drive is on, The goal is
30,000 members. ~The Tabernacie
team is led by. the following
captcins: John H,- Warren, Annabelle Glenn, and James Tate.
The workers include: Eddie~ Perkins, Clara Harris, L. K. Edwards and Albert Atkinson.

We extend our sympathy to
Mr, and Mrs, H. C, Carter and
family who mourn the passing
of a loved one. Also to the Hugh
Brown family of 329 ~Liecester
Court. Mrs. Brown mourns the
Pagsing of her mother, Mrs. An
Sick Lst this week includes
Mr.Sigfield Tyler, Mfs*'Tommfe
Mrs,-Evelyi ~ Beverly,
Mr. Ben Cecil, Mrs. Ella Tur
coast | ~

business sk around. their honaon tir ynat she spent her
hours by ti 2 phone Waiting for
~him to eal: ~after. each funeral.
~fee grueés ane;: Leon. Hardwick,
executive réeretary of the In
rastions. ~film ~and Radio
Guild; of which ~Léna Horne,
Joha Go seid and Nat Cole are
Vice Fr -widents, is searching for
a suita'ue skating Tink to hold
theic ~Salute.to. Mabel Fairbanks.~ He~s not expected to
find it, however, until near season ~~losing ~time,

~Mrs. ~Emma | Clement, ipnosén
~American Mother 6f ~1946 will
arrive ~in town. this ~week with
~Boy ~Scouts meeting ~her - at ~the
station, ~She'll be - Shooed ~off to
Harley ~to appear at a fally after ~the réception at the Waldorf
~Astoria. King Cole Trio; played
their latest récording, Capitol
~Route 66~ at their ~San Diego
~one-nightéer ~in -whiéh they wéte
~on the. bill, with. ~gonnay, ' ~Otis~
band. ~OCatterbox,~ ~in Li ~A,
~teen-age newspaper recently
featured the ~Trio boys in ~a
sts"y in which Nat -Cole ~made
~a, true ~statement: ~~Teén -agers

are our best audience. In fact,

without ~them We probably
would not be where we are today.~

Where Name
Bands Are

Louis ying (Aquarium) ~

New York City, _

Charlie Barnet (Adams), Newark,.N. J.

Tiny Br eet: (Club. peor
St... Louis, -Mo...

~Cab Calioway {troy ~New
York~ City. > 4

Benny Carter ~ (Trianon)
Southgate, Calif.

Jimmy Dorsey (Palace) Ak
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ron, Ohio.

Duke = Ellington: (Howard)
Washington, D, C.

Dizzy Gillespie (Spotlight) ~

New York City.
Benny Goodman (Earle) Phil
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Licnel Hampton Earle 2) Phil
adelphia,

Erskine Hawkins (Lincoln)
New York City.

Fletcher Henderson:(DeLisa)
Shicago.

Weody -Herman (Sherman)
Chicago.:

Earl Hines (Orpieum) Los
Angeles,

International Sweethearts of

Rhythm. (Paradise) Detroit.

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~Gene Krupa~ (400 Rest.) New
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