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Shown here are many of the
452 delegates and 5,000 visitors
who came to St. Louis from all
~sections of the nation to attend
the 2lst- General conference of

the CME church. Laws of the
denomination provide for -equality of representation of. laymen
and clergymen. The ~ scssion
which lasted two weeks, was

termed: ~epochal in a very remarkable degree~ passed a law
giving the layment equal representation in the annual conference and hereafter~ there will.. Sf
| ganization

ke one lay representative for
every pastoral*-charge in the 41
annual conferences.

The CME -church had its orofficially setup ~n

Jackson, Tenn,, Dec, 15, 1870.
Three new bishops. were ~ele
vated, Drs, Luthor. Stewart, edi
tor of The Christian Index,

) Jackson, Tenn,; Félix 'L, Lewis, ners-up for, the bishopric were | Doyle,

secrctary of missions and church
vextension, Shreveport; La., and
Roy L. Young, pastor of Newell chapel, Meridian, Miss., Run
SATURDAY, JUNE, 1946

Drs. J. D, Hudson, AuguSta, Ga,; |
Arthur W, Womack, Memphis;
B. J. Smith, Chicago; H. W. |
Chicago; Bertram W. |
Louisville; C! E, Chap-,

| Evans,

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man, Kansas City; J. C. Anderson, Shreveport; G, W. Washingion, Jacksonville, Fla.; C,H.
Washington, Lake Charles, La.,
and several others, ~ ANP Pho
~ACCUSE GOV.

DEWEY

IN: FREEPORT CASE

NEW YORK ~ ANP ~ Gov.
' Thomas E, Dewey is deliberately attempting to divert public..attention from the public slaying of two Negro bcothers. in

Freeport, L, I., one of whom wasy

in the uniform of an army private at the time, oy creating ~a
_ phony drive against tae Ku Klux
Klan,~ it was charged, today
this week by Miss Dorothy Langston, executive seci:tary of the

_ New York Committee for Jus
tice~ in Freeport 01 a letter to
Gov. Dewey,

Mss Langston declared that
Atty, General Nathaniel lL. Goldstein ~has shown belated and
- euricus interest in ta>. existence
of the Ku Klux Klan. in this
state, seeking and obtaining publicity for a non existence campaign against the Klan allegedly to have it outlawed. whilc
at the Same time deiberately altempting to obscure ~ie fact that
the existence of the Klan was
called to the attention of Mr,
Goldstein as the resvlt of a
threat made against the activi
ties of the Freeport committve.~._ Miss Langston charged in her
letter to Governor: Dewey that
the Republican ad:ninistration in
the 8tate ~is trying tc create a

hulabaloo in the press regarding~

a campaign against ~he Ku Klux
Klan for the obvious purpose cf.
creating political canital for th~
forthcoming elections, mean.
~while restrting to duplicity to
while restoring to duplicity to
of outright murder of two Negro residents,

~We have petitioned Governor
Dewey to uSe his powers to
supersede James N. Gehrig, Nassau County district attorney who
brazenly whitewashed policeman
Joseph Romeika of guilt in
wantonly shooting down Pfc.
Charles Ferguson and his brothe night of
February 5, and render justice
_in this case by setting up a spec-.ial grand jury. To date Governor Dewey has refused to see

our representatives, to see members of the slain victim~s family, or to consider our petition
in any manner or form.~ |

Miss Langston declared that:

she turned over to the New York
mewspapers a photostatic copy
of a threatening letter she received from. Klan which was
Subsequently published last April
9. Meanwhile, she notified Thomas Curren, New York secretary

of state, of the un-American
threat ~and shortly thereafter
conferred with Asst, Attorney

General John P, Powers in

Goldstein~s office here.

~Mr, Goldstein promised ~to
take swift action to run down
and outlaw the Klan leaders,~
Miss Langston said. ~However,
he failed to discover that one of
the incorporators of the Klan
in this state. was Horace A,
Demarest, deputy motor vechile
commissioner for Queens, and
a fellow Republican, until enterprising newspaper reporters
forcibly called that fact to Mr.
Goldstein~s attention.

~In the meantime,~ Miss Langston continued, ~with Governor
Dewey~s removal of Demarest
fronf office, there the alleged
drive against the Klan has, to
all~ intent: and purpose as far
as fesults are concerned, bogged
down... ~ bye t

~Tf Governor Dewey and Atty,
General Goldstein think they.
have accomplished their aims
in diverting attention from the

| scandalous: miscarriage of juStice

in the Freeport murders by the
Demarest incident, they are mistaken,~ Miss Langston | stated,
~Our committee, with the support of tens of thousands of
citizens in this State, and outside
the state boundaries, are idetermined to compel Governor Dewey to wipe the stain: of a legal
lynching from the name of a
State that-has heretofore been
known for its democratic traditions.~

South Carolinians Seek Ways
To Curb Negro Vote

COLUMBIA, S. C. ~ ANP~
A frantic effort to curb Negro

ted here dast. week during

whieh took an ostrich-like attitude to the qu@stion of Negro
suffrage to the extent that even
use of the word ~Negro~ was
tattooed, 2

No actien was taken during
the one-day convention on a
request by James M. Hinton,
president of the state NAACP,
on~the question that Negroes be
permitted to vote in the pri
backed
~right to

local residents that
~qualified~ Negroes~
vote in primaries,

A resolution, defining a ~Dem-_
ocrat,~ was adopted by the del-4
egates on.the theory that it
~might prove a legal barrier to
-Negroes. The resolution said:;

~That the word Democrat as
used in the party rules means
said word as understood in
South Carolina since 1876, and
not necessarily as understood

party: and is to include those
~who believe in local self government as against the idea of a
~strong centralized, paternalistic
government; and excludes those
whose ideas or leadership are
inspired by foreign influences,
communism, Nazism, fascism,
Statism, totalitarianism, or fair
employment practice commission
or some such purely race committee, the idea being that the
traditional American Democrat
by the boring from within~ or
these. who believe the American
democratic way of life is inferior to Some other way not traditional in this country and
state,~

Crum urged supprt of his resolution with arguments that ~we
need some way of determining
what a ~Democrat~ is.~ He said
such a definition would give
the enrollment committzes and
eourts a definition which would
Permit the exclusion of persons.
not because of race or similiar
considerations, but because they
are not Democrats within the
meaning of the definition.

State Senator J. Carl Kearse,
also from Bamberg county, suceeeded in his effort to:add additional. qualifications for. membership in the Democratic party. His proposal changed the
wording to Rule 6 of the party
code so as to add the requiremerts that a person seeking
to enroll shoud be abe to ~read
or write and interpret the constitution.~

This additional qualifying requirement is not intended io be
used, he said, unless ine word
~wnite~ ~is stricken from the
present rule whica requires that
a club member be, 2mong other
things, a ~white Democrat.~

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Pig Breeders
Electric pig brooders help to
save one extra pig per litter and
give ar earlier pig crop, especially
in the colder sections. The brooder
provides a warm hover for the pigs
when not nursing.

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Bilbo Would Atom

-OKOLONA, Miss, ~ ANP -~
Sen. Theo. G. Bilbo, speaking
ere last week in his campaign
for reelection to the United
States senate, said that ~the
leader or leaders of the Mississippi Progressive vaters, a.
posed of a number of politic
ly ambitious Negroes who have
challenged the right of any one
to, prevent them from voting,
should be atomically bombed.
and exterminated from the face
of the earth.~

Presented as the crusading
champion of southern customs
and defender of the ideals of
the south, Bilbo branded socialism, communism and mongrealization as the ~greatest,
most damnable, undermining
forces of evil today that would
destroy the white race, white
civilization, and the white man~s
scheme of government,~ ~

In a speech earlier in the day
at Iuka, Bilbo said: ~Our Ne
yj

Bomb

' Mississippi Negro Leaders

froin the fountain of-outside in.
fluence that profit from strife
within our borders.~

Stating in his speech that at
least one of his opponents says
~there is no race queStion in
Mississippi today, Bilbo said:
~IT tell you we are living on a
volzano that may erupt at any
how, I tell you thére is one of
the most destructive drives on
lagainst the principles of.the
south we have known since the

War,~

Maintaining that the solution
of the race problem is the con.
tinued separation of the races

cial and political equality, Bilbo
added that anyone who coddles,
encourages or otherwise tends
to influence the Negro to vote
in the white primary ~should
be horse-whipped, tarred and
and feathered and chased out of

gro troubles today are stemming

the state.~

carrpetbagger days of the Civil |

and absolute taboo against so-.~

Georgia Attorney Convinced Appeal
Useless in Primary Case

ATLANTA ~ ANP ~ Georgians will hear no more of this
primary repeal talk if it is left
to Attorney Charles J. Bloch,
former head of the Georgia Bar
association and principal coun.
cil in the fight against the Rev.
Primus E. King primary suit,

~There~s no way in the world
Gene Talmadge or anyone else
can preserve the white primary
in Georgia without stirring. up
more snakes than they~d kill,~
Bloch declared. The statement
was seen as a move ito offset
some of the keen diSappointment which Talmadge followers would feel at his inability
to make good his promise to
repeal the primary,

At the time of the primary
hearings in Macon, Attorney
Block argued that King~s. suit
was ~untenable because it was
based upon the. assumptions of
the Smith Allwright decision in
Texas and the Classic case in)
Louisiana, in that in both
these-states the- primary is;
separably tied up with the
state, becauSe the states. regulate how. and when the primaries~ will be held. He had. declared that in Georgia ~no reference is made to~ primaries,~

Faderal~ District._ Judge T,

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es Po!

~~. ae

Hov! Davis ~overruled Bloch~s
~contentious and declared in
favor of King. The decision was
upheld and enlarged in a New
Orleans ruling by Judge Sibley.

~Repealing all statues ertaining. to primaries would
open the door to all kinds of

graft fraud,~ Mr, Bloch admitted. ~I stood right here in this
same auditorium in 1916 and
saw the short of shenanigans at
the state Democratic conven~tion which an aroused | legis.
lature next year passed the
Neill Primary law to end. You
can't have a white primary in

Georgia without jeopardizing
the county until system, en-couraging machine politics of
the worst kind and inviting
elections irregularities on an
unprecedented scale,~
Nat'l. Junior
atl. Junior
ST. LOUIS ~ ANP ~ The

St. Louis chapter of the National Junior League will be
hosts to delegates. to the annual conference, July 24 to 30,

{it was announced last week by
~Mrs, Mary F, Hanna, president,

Plans to raise a building fund

&| for erection of a National Jun
ior League house, will be emphasized on the agenda, Mrs.
Hanna said. Local chapters are
urged to bring ideas and suggestions for League house to

i the meet,

| Army Nurses

Make Shift

CAMP BEALE, Cal, ~ ANP
~Fourteen Negro nurses, who
were engaged in training white
nurses and working with white
Physicians; and patients at~ the
station hospital here, received
orders last week to report to
Holloran General hospital at
Staten Island, N. Y,

ter. It~s the competition @f file |

Even if there are 20 jobs b
only 10 applicants, ability to pay
has nothing te do with the case.
| The men may ask so much that
the employer can afford to hire
nene of them.,

LETS NT LE SL TT = t

Leaving 42 nurses on:
to care for 875 patients, the
murses ~transférred re: Lis.
Britton, ~Bown, Gladys Bailey
Betsy R. Campbell, Sarah Taylor, Millie Hooks, Rose Lewis,
Beatrice Stevenson, Beatrice
Homes and Evelyn Decker.

duty

New Corn Syrup.
Produced by an enzyme conversion process, a new corn syrup 50

per cent sweeter than other types |
|of the church, spoke briefly, |

has been developed.

Corn sticks~muffiings~Johnny cake~
all can be deliciously made with this
one recipe. Ever since the early settlers discovered it, this all-American
grain has added its rich, nutlike flavor to our favorite es. For a
wholesome, nutritious meal, serve
these hot breads with a crisp green
salad, For an extra-delicious dessert,
serve them with honey, molasses, or
maple sirup.

Here~s an easy, sure way to get
light, tender, wonderfully delicious
corn bread. Make it the Spry way.

Mia
| hot breads
\

ing cuts into the dry ingredients
quickly~saves the flavor, too~lets the
nutty rich goodness of the corn meal

find out for yourself. Serve one of
these tempting golden corn breads
today and hear your family cheer.

Real Ainerictni Favorites

This creamy all-vegetable shorten-:

come through. Clip the recipe and -

Corn Sticks
1 cup sifted 2 teaspoonssalt
flour %4 cup Spry
114 cups corn 2 eggs, beaten
meal 134 cups milk

3 teaspoons
baking powder
Sift flour with corn meal,
baking powder, and salt. Cut
in Spry until finely mixed.
Combine eggs and milk and
stir into corn meal mixture.

Heat corn stick pans in
even. Brush with Spry. Fill
hot pans with batter. Bake in
very hot oven (450~ F.) 15 to
20 minutes, or until brown.
Makes 1% dozen.

Corn Muf Bake in
Sprycoated muf ans in hot
oven (425~ F.) 25 to 30 minutes. Makes 1% doz. muffins.

Johnny Cake, Bake in Spry~eoated 12% x 8% x 2-inch pan
in hot oven (400~ F.) 25 to 30
minutes. 4

| CHICAGO
housing dilemma, which became
acute for Chicago Negroes duzing the war yeals and has remained critical - since ~host'lities
cewed has ~~all the ~elements of
sociel poison and explosion,~ the
Major~s. Commission on Human relations reported last
week,

~Our city cannot ignore. this
situation and remain;an_ organized democratic community,~ report advised, pointing
out that similar: conditions in
1919 preceded -the race riot of

Chicago Housing Situation

Reaches The Critical Point

race relations in Chicago dur
ing 1945, Edwin Embree, chairman, and Thomas H.. Wright,
executive director,
1946 trends.

The report described how
300,000 persons ~bottled up and
~hemmed. into the chief Negro
area, are forced to live in the
indescribable filth and horror
of a crowded khetto.~

The commission, proposing a
mass united effort toward provision of additional homes for
Negro citizens, said most: cas
Marshall -E. Williaths, qualifications examiner in the civil
service commission, has been
loaned to the United States to,
help reorganize its personnel
division, the state -department
announced this week,

Mr, Williams: i8* expectcd to
leave for New York during~ the
first week in June. His: office
wil! be.established at - Hunter
~college where, he will be associated with Wilam P. Lehman, civil service representative.

One of the -maio-> problems
wnich Mr. Will'ams will face
in helping to cavry out the re
NEW YORK ~ Calvin~s News
Service~ In..a special. service
in which three thousand persons attended, Mother African
Methodist Zion Church burned
the $160,000 mortgage on its
property, -Built.. in 1924, _ the
church is now -free of debt.
Bishop William J. Walsh of
Cnicago, presiding bishop of
the New York Conference and

the Rev. B. C, Robeson, pastor

that year. es of racial friction ~in 1945
The statement was part of| have stemmed from the housa 5d page commission:report on | ing situation,
a ea ae N
Race Specialist Loaned to UNO
sete r ~~ 3
To Reorganize Personal Setup
WASHINGTON ~~~- ~ANP ~J organization of the personnel

division is the establishment cf
an apportionment system whereby all member naticns of UN
may have proper. representation in the personne] force.

Mr, Williams, who has done
two years of g~aduate work in
personnel administration at
American university and the
University of California, is a
native of Bryan, Texas, and is
a graduate of Prairie View State
college, Currently, he is studying law at Howard universiiv

Pen~s Views
On ~Negro

Problem~

NEW YORK ~ C ~ In the
third of a series of- articles appearing in ~~Taday~s Woman~
a monthly magazine, Clare
Boothe Luce pens her attitudes
en racial discrimination. The
title of her afticle is ~My Answer Qn The Negro Problem~
and it is scheduled in the July
issue of ~Today~s Woman.~

Honey Measure.To measure honey use a moist or
greased cup or spoon.

| vocating a Dixie-line lynching.: analyzed

~Killed by M. P.~s in

NEW YORK Cc ~ its
one year since Pfe: Allen Leftridge and~Pvt, Frank Glenn
were killed near St, Baline,
France where MPs sought to:
eject them from a Red Cross
tent. The first anniversary is
being marked by a memorial
meeting at the Golden Gate
Ballroom to mark the reopening of the case. -

Memorial Set for Two Soldiers ite

France

Buddies of the men, all members of the Negro Engineers
Regiment, charged the MPs
were illegally enforcing: orders
that Negroes were not to talk
to French~ girls, Though the
MPs were exonerated, the slain
boys~ buddies came home, formed a Veteran Justice, Committee and forced a reopening of
the case.

EL CENTRO, Cal. ~ ANP |
An alleged rape-kidnap charge
against three Negroes has precipitated mob fever among many
of the local white southern migrants, some of them even ad
Awaiting- court action on the
chargés in Imperial county ail
here are Prentice Alderson, 28;
Bryant Thompson, 27, and Milton Foster, 27, All three of the
mei. have denied charges they
raped and kidnapped Miss Phyl.
lis Mattox, a 27-year-old white
women, but do admit having sex
relations with her for a price,

The: men claimed they picked
Miss Mattox up after she thumb...
ed a ride as they were driving
along one of the local streets.
She asked them to take her
hom? but when:seated comfortably in the automobile changed
her. mind and suggested some
secluded spot for. a ~date~ at $5
each they said. They accepted,
paid her the $5, and forgot the
incident until arrested,

Anxiety against the possibility of a fair trial here had been
expressed before last week by
Atty. Crispus,Wright, the men~s
lawyer, and. was verified by a
secret afvestigation on the Anti-Negro temper of the local
white population. A trial was
postponed here Wednesday. and
he is now trying to secure a
change of venue.

Threats against Atty. Wright~s
life have been repitted from
lynch-minded whites, or ~rebels~
as they are called here, Most intense anti-Negro hatred was

Fights for
June 3rd
Primary Seat

WASHINGTON CNS ~
j mane the, Several. early primaries that will be keenly watched throughout the nation will
be New Mexico~s senate contest
with Senator Dennis Chavez.
champion of the Fair Employment Practice Bill and Gover.
nor John J. Dempsey, leading
contestants. The primary is
scheduled for June 3rd,

Governor Dempsey, a veteran
Administration Supporter and
forraer member of ~the House,
has the backing of the State
Organization. He was born in
N. Y, and later lived in Okla-; homa,

However, Senator Chavez, ~is
a native-born New Mexican and
because of ~his Spanish decent
has an important influence with
the voting populace, 40 per cent
of whom are Spanish speaking,
| Too, because of his liberal pol.
|icies, Chavez maay be suppor:led by the CIO. Political Ac:ion
| Committee. He is also backed by
| his Democratic ~colleague, Sena
| tor Carl Hatch,;
The victor of the primaries
| will be opposed in November

| by former Segretary. of War,
| Patrick J, Hurley. Hurley serv
ed as President Roosevel~~s
| special envoy to China and has |
| now taken up residence in New

| Mob Fever Rises Over
Rape Charge Against Negroes ~

checked in vicinities where there
are few Negroes,~ Mexicans and ~
Hindus, reported Ray Lunday of
Pasadena, who -comdycted the
investigation on public sentiment regarding the case,
A large group of ~rebel~ white
southerners. mived ~to the Imperial valley towns.of Indio,
Calipartri, El Centro and. Mexicaii during the wartime abor
shortage, a local newspaper,
with a county circulation of 11,600, is responsible {dt mob spirit
~and anti-Negro- fever that has
gripped this cormmunity since the
rape-kidnap cate was first reported,
- gluar ups; of Negroes were
hole Anebe hr ied 20 years
ago from Oklahoma and Texas
to work on. the cotton, farms in
Imperial Valléy. Until "the war
~brought southern whites in large
numbers here, no racial clashes
had developed nor had any great
degree of anti-Negro sentiments
been expressed as is common in
most southern communities. Ne.
gro children frequently attendd
schools with white children, but
separate ~sehools were maintained for Mexicans, _;
~Developments here are said to
be under the wetchful eye of
governor and state~s: attorney.
Meanwhile, Atty. Wright ig still
trying to secure a change of venue in order to conduct a fair
tria! for the three accused men.
An effort to obtain freedom on
bond for the men in face of
treacherous anti-Negro sentiment is considered unwise, _

Columbia U.
Denies Charge
Of Discrimination. NEW YORK ~4 Calvin's Wews
Service) ~ Leading officials -of
Columbia university are denring charges of disermination
against incoming students p*.
cause of Trace or color as the
City Council (Rules Committee)
is preparing ~to press an investigation of the whole setup

A- public hearing was ~held
late list week, which was, instigated by Councilman Eugene
P, Connolly who requested that
the university be denied its tax
exemption privileges should. discrimination be found. Charges
were denied by Frank OD.
Fackenthal, acting presidzat of
the university and by Dr. Wil.
lard C, Rappleye, dean of the
College of PhySicians and Su:geons. Stated Dr, Fackenthal,
~Columbia University has always been and now is strengly
opposed to any discrimination
whatsoever against any person by reason of race, color, or
creed,~

Holly Sacreé

The legends regarding the hofly
date back to the Druids, who be
lieved the evergreen leaves of the
holly were proof that the sum never
deserted it and it was therefore
sacred. Legend also says that the
crown of thorns was composed of

| holly, and that before the crucifix
ion the berries were white, but
turned crimson, like drops of blood,

| Mexico,

afterward.