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Says Ben Davis in

ATLANTA, Ga. -~ (Special)
Writing in a symposium onCommunism and the Negro in the
current issue of Phylon, Atlanta

_University~s review of race ahd

'~* culture, which is just off the
~ press, Benjamin J. Davis, New

York councilman and president

- of the Daily Worker, states ~it

'-is ludricous to observe the im
perialist troubadours of a World

War III attacking the Soviet
Union by referring to an ~iron
curtain~ allegedly maintained ~by
the Soviets against the World.
For the real ~iron curtain~ is
the one maintained in our country, separating the Negro Americans from their constitu
~tional rights as free and equal
_citizens. Out of my personal ex
periences as a Negro American,

_ and in quest of the liberty, free
dom and equal rights proclaimed in the Constitution, the Bill
of Rights and the Declaration
of Independence, I, like thousands of other Negroes - -and
white citizens - joined the Com
* munist Party.~

The symposium on Commun
ism continued by T. H. Kenhedy, head of the department
of sociology at. Washington

- State College, and T. F. Leary,

a member of the department of
psychology at.the University
of California, who jointly have
contributed the article ~~Communistic Thought.on the Negro.~

Metz T. P. Lochard, chief editorial writer of the Chicago
Defender, points out in the pro
_file of Robert S. Abbott, that

the Defender which was started

~ on. a quarter of'a. dollar ~was

the newspaper that moved 50,
~000~ oppressed people between

and

1916 and 1918 from the sweat
toil of the boll weevil
_ stricken South.~ The editor, he

~, aOn;

~ alleges,

epitomizes the. significance of the term ~race leader~
for staunch loyalty to his race,
uncompromising protests against discrimination, demand
for the recognition of equality,
and power to ~~ a mass
population.~

-In-the article entitled ~Geor
gia and Force Federal LegislaDevereaux McClatchey,

_Atlanta attorney and vice pres
~ adént of the Atlanta Board of
- ~Education, avers that ~time and
education are

making typical
Georgians more conscious of being Americans and less_ con
scious of being Southerners.~

Other writers are Therman
B. O~Daniel and William M.

Real ~Iron Curtain~ m America

~Phylon~ ~

Boyd, baat members of Fort
Valley State College; Margaret
St. Clair, novelist; and Miles M.
Jefferson of the
Public Library staff. President
Rufus E. Clement of Atlanta
University has written a tribute
to the late Jackson Davis.

Lee Richardson
Commences Tour

NEW YORK~tThey~re off a-|
sessions}

gain. Apollo record
completed, Luis Russell~s _band
and swoon-crooner Lee~ Richardson take the starting gun August 1 for another major tour,
commencing on the stage of
Chicago~s Regal _ theatre.

The -torchy' aggregation of
Russell men with vocalist Richardson, twenty-two year old
sensation ~who sent maidens
swooning and records spinning
with his ~All the Things: You
Are,~ hit the windy city from
New York where they kept re
cord dates for Richardson~s
next Apollo release, ~Gloomy
Sunday.~

Spotlight at the Regal will:

~romantic
rendering

play on dreamy-eyed,
voiced Richardson,
his wax hits, ~I~m in a Lowdown
Mood~ and ~i~m Yours,~ as well
as his forthcoming ~I~ve Been a
Fool Again.~

Apollo. Records, which boosts
Lee Richardson to major recording prominence, has _ also
picked up Luis Russcl~s opton.

Elephant a Trail Blazer

' The elephant is Africa~s highway
engineer, with a knack for avoiding
severe gradients. Many African
roads, and even some railways, follow its age-old tracks for distances.
It provided native tribesmen many
passes through the jungle.

Marine Emblem
The~marine corps emblem, showing the western hemisphere on
the shank of the anchor and surmounted by an eagle, has been kept
virtually the same as when adopted
in 1868.

Lights Aided Auto industry
Development of efficient automobile lighting systems which provide
motorists. with safe seeing at night
contributed greatly to the rapid
growth in automobile ownership in
the United States.

Linen Weaving
More than 4,000 years ago the
Egyptians were using the flax fibre
to weave beautiful linens.

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Of Teachers, A.U.
Students Are Told

ATLANTA, Ga. ~ Since the
hope of the world is in the children, the future of the hemisphere
lies in the hands of the teachers,
Senor Jose Ricardo,Duenas, attorney from San Salvadore, told

Every possibility belongs to
~them, he continued, and they will
preserve or destroy the labor of
centuries. Teachers have the job

historical facts.,of the philosophy of the South
American countries,
Americans must understand the

| political philosophy of the Unit
ed States.

Senor Duenas; cufrently en the
faculty of Oglethonpe Univers ty,
was discussing the _ topic:
Role of Latin America in Inter
national Relations. He stated that,
the Good Neighbor Policy intitiated by the late President Roosevelt has done much to cement
the relations between the twa

continents. However, as he pointed out, progress has not been al
together what it shculd, because.
the Latin Americans: have de-.

Future of f Hemisphere in Hands | Q

he Summer School Asserpbly on~
| Tuesday at Atlanta University.

f teaching tolerance and understanding in the task, amd they:
should spread geographical and
North Ameri:
cans must have an understanding.

ling the rhumba. He believes that

and. Latin.

| based on political, moral and

The:

~ countrymen. toward other races,

Ri SOS om een

Summer

denies. on the persor of Roose-.
velt rather than the United
States as a nation.~

The United States is called on
to make the first move towards
getting together because of~ this
country~s wealth. Latin America
he stated, wants honesty from: ~the
American people and a friendly
attitude that will reach down into the hearts and minds of the
real Latin American, rather ~han
such Superficial practices as danc
we must start now if future disaster is to be averted in working
towards unity which will be the
only weapon to save us from
disaster. And the fight must be
for moral and physical unity

social principles.~

According to Senor Duehas, the
only racial prejudice in ~ Latin
America is found in Panama, a
United States possession. In
speaking of the prejudices of h's

he voiced the opinion ~We like
the white man but we love the
Indian.~ Like other Latin Americans, he* holds no colot prejudices, and regards the hue of a
mans skin as unimportant.

|President of Albany State College.
To Deliver Summer Convocation
Address to Atlanta University

ATLANTA, Ga. ~ President
Aaron Brown of Albany State
College, Ga, will. deliver the
second annual Convocation address at the Atlanta University
Summer School at 6:00 p. m., or
Thursday, August 7, President
Rufus E. Clemént has announced.
Degrees will be awarded on this
occasion to men and women who
have completed the prescribed
courses of study in the graduate

University. -
Atlanta Untiversity~s department

the bachelor
Talladega College and the doctor

versity of Chicago.

- Of wide teaching and. adiministrative experience, President
Brown:has served on the faculty

~

of LeMoyne College as professor

and professional divisions of the }
The apeaker is a graduate of |

of education in 1933. He earned |
of arts degree afi]

of philosophy degree at the Uni- 4

of science; as principal of the
Negro schools of Moultrie, Gzorgia; as deat of State Teachers
College, Forsyth, Georgia; as a
supervisor of the Negro schools:
of Athens, Georgia; as dean of
Fort Valley-N. and I. School, and
as registrar of Fort Valley State
College. ~He was elected to the
presidency of Albany State College in 1943.:

Se

Active in educational and civic organizations, including the
Georgia Teachers and Education.
Association, the Boy Scouts of
America, the-NAACP, the educator...recently was chosen to

represent State of Georgia on a
commission of 25 outstanding educators from all over the country
who will study the problems of
the tsaching profession for the
American Teachers -Association.

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PAYS,

| Large Increase Expected in All

Police Hutt Prankster ~
Who Filed With Engiiie:
GAINESVILLE, ELA. ~Polite
were.on the lookoyt for a prankster who stole an Atlantic Coast
Line switch engine here arid in
an attempted getaway collided
head-on with an idle locomotive
after cruising more than a mile
across town.
The impromptu éngineer was
described by railroad men as
wearing khaki clothes and being

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slightly crippled. A battered
army cap was found in the cab
of the engine.

Neither of the engines was
seriously damaged.

Record Rail Travel
Sure This Summer

_ Transportation.

CHICAGO.~With: plenty of coach
space available for today~s traveler
railroads are preparing: for the
gréatest summer travel ini history.

Coach travel has decreased more
than 25 per cent from a year ago,

-| winter.

~| on these trains are sold out about 45
} days ahead of the departure date.

- vations are necessary 10 days to two

tions on slewer trains runs a week

~} not easy to get.

according to officials of the major.
Carriers. ~

Pullman reservations were rolled
~tight.~.Now excess spacé is available.

While figures haven't beer compiled on the number of passengers
going South last winter, traffic men
said the total easily equaled the
boom figures of last season.

The same held true for persons.
traveling to the west coast for the

Coach accommodations are freer
now than at any time since 1940.
This is true generally éven where
such space is reserved. |

Exceptions to this include North
Western~s streamliners to San Francisco and Los Angeles. Reservations

Pullman space on crack ~trains
still is in such demand that reser
weeks in advance.
The time margin for accommoda-~

or less, although even this space is
~$pokesmen for. seven? ~Hines said

| advance inquiries point.to a record |
~summer for the railroads.

All travelers will be accommodat-; ed, they: said, je Tepes per cay he
/ new cars and engines places the |

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ores in a better~ pee to: meet
demand.

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~Sorel Serves Falls fo
- Solve Puzzle.

PHILADELPHIA. ~ ~Probably év
eryone lias dreamed at some time
or other of finding buried treasure,
but Benjamin~ Lit erman, 44-year
old bookkeeper, actually found it~
$92,000 worth of i d right in ~his
own cellar.

After three days of investigation
by police and U.S. secret service
agents the mystery of how the
treasure hoard in modern $10, $20
and $50 treasury and bank notes
came to be in the cellar of this modme org remained just that~a mys
pedi ~ Lieberman feels about
the windfall of weaith which will become his if nobody steps forward to
claim it. could. not be ascertained,
because.the fpolicé held~ him and
members of his family under guard
~for their twn protection, the
police @xplained.~- And the police
would permit fto She to talk to them.
- - ~tiv Cairdboara~ Box.

Discovery. oft the tréasure, police
reported~ navi ear as saying, was
a result ofa sétfes Of misadventures.

Several bieeteié ~bulbs blew out in
Kis home, atdording, to: the~ story.
Lieberriah went. into the cellar to
look for light~ bulls." In doing so,. he
accidentally Knocked down a shelf.
This: made a tepair job necessary,
so he began éearching for. repair.
materials. ~Durjhg this. search he
came~ ee a corrugated cardboard
box: sud! as is used ~to pack canned
goods, ~ ~He opened it and found the
money.~

iat @. called his wife, She knew noth
ish the ~mo ja She questioned
Ae te ies fesen tly discharged
from ge, attending

Temple ~yniversif ae his -yearos Rpg io Regina, They knew
g of the money. -
en he t Kerlan hjs_brotherin-law,- Morri Kaplan, 69. The latte~ Held gonferente with the Liebermatis, iy end As a ~Fegult Lieut.
Frank~ May and "Dbiectives Charles
Steinberg and. wit am. Simmiler
were called fo ~the hho Re.
~In the Bregence of the Ligbermans,
they counted a retoney. 3 then placed

it in a ga a
ic 6 ~Puzaled,

But the ice thémselves did
plenty of ~t ising, although all they
were|able to~ say gr certain was that,
improbable 4s fhe | tale of treasure
trove sounded, it y was true, and that
every bit of ~the. ~Morley was ~good.~
There wére no cotinterfeits.

Puzzling feature o discovery
of thé Hoard,~ actardirig to p lice, is
that the: money is coriparatively
new money, and could not have been
hidden in thé house prior to 20 years
ago when Lieberman and his wife,
Jessie, moved {nto ~it.

All the bills found were the modern small-size currency. Prior to
July, 1829, the, large-size old-fashioned ~bills wer~: used.

Mo ér; polite béliévea the
money vhad ~found~ its~ Way into the
house withiti thé last year. Neighbots pointed out that last July a

' heavy rain had fldoded all cellars in

the neighbothood to & depth of two
feet. The bills iri the treasure hoard
had never béen soaked in- water.
One suggestion given to police
about how the money might have
come to be in the house was that
~somebody, might have hidden it
there, intending to return for it, during a 16-month period in. which the
house was virtually unoccupied.

Forty Flee Prison Camp;
Yanks Quell Riot in Austria

VIENNA, AUSTRIA.~Inmates of

a civilian internment camp near
Salzburg rioted for two hours after
40 prisoners escaped by ramming

an American truck through the -

barbed-wire barricades.

| Ten. inmates commandeered the
truck and ran a gantlet of -ineffec
tive~ gunfire by the Alistrian guards.. Thirty other prisoners followed in
the wake of the truck,

American troops arrived in short
order and the escape route was
blocked. Inmates still within the enclosure started a demonstration.

' Maj. Gen, Harry. J. Collins, com
mander of American forces in Aus-..tria,

addressed them by loud
speaker and persuaded them to return, to their compounds.

Boy, 5, Wanders for 22 Hours

Over Desert in California

SAN DIEGO, CALIF. ~ Twentytwo hours alone in the desert left

5-year-old Danny Spencer tired and |
hungry ~ but apparently otherwise.

in good condition.

The youngster, who wandered
away from his parents~ camp in
search of his dog, ~~Goober,~~ was
found by a posse. He had walked
about three miles.: 4

Canadian Mother Found

Guilty of Slaying Baby
HAMILTON, ONT.~Mrs. Evelyn
Dick was convicted of manslaughter in the slaying of her baby, Peter.. Donald White MacLean.
Trial of the 27-year-old widow,.
convicted last fall of the torso-slay
ing of her husband, John Dich, only
to be acquitted at a. second trial
earlier this month, lasted two days.

| laugh, The bandits ordered Dick to

"GREENSBORO, N c. ~ The
A. ana 2. Cosdege aggies ar
Greensporo, N. U., nave vuuKea
eignt griaivon contesis fur. ie
+cumung L00bpall scasun: Coacn
j Ju. betl~s outnt, wa.ch won nve
dames against aS Many iusses

~|4aSt year, wiu uSher.n its 1y4/

24ason On Sepiemver 27 wnen 1
encounters the *Green Wave~ o1
Wilberrorce University in.an intersectional:tist. at Grethsoorv.
The Wilberforce game is an addition to the Aggie card. Only
other om the Aggie slate is Virginia Union Universivy, with the
match scheduled for Norfolk, Va.,
on October 4th.

In their Homecoming attraction
the A. and T. aggregation will be:
opposed by W. Virginia State
College- in a home game at
Greensboro on October 25.
Thanksgiving Day the Aggies
meet:Johnson C. Smith for their
annual Turkey Day tilt at home.

A. and T. will wind up its grid

att Aggies Open With Force;

canpaign in a battle at Durham.

2:: E af

N.C. with. the Eagles. of ~Nort
Carolina College furnishing ~the

opposition on December:6: Coath f,
~stwe. ~open {.
dates, October 18 and November |

Bell~s charges ~ha

8. All Aggie home games will be
played in Memorial Stadium.
The schedule: ~~

apt. 2%~Wilberforee, Greensboro.

Oct. 4 ~ Virginia Untion, Nor- |

folk, Va.
Oct. 11 ~ Hampton, Greensboro.: wate

Oct. 18 ~ Open.

Oct. 25 (Homecoming) W. Virginia State, Greensboro.

Nov. 1. ~ Morgan State; Baltimore, Md.

Nov. 8 ~ Open.

Wov, 15. Virginia State,
Petersburg, Va.

Nov. 27 (Thanksgiving) Johnson C. Smith, Greensboro;

Dec. 6 ~ North Carolina Cclliege ~ Durham.

ATLANTA, Ga~wWith a star
and faculty actors of exceptional
ability, the Atlanta University
~Summer ~Theatre this week ~ ~ended its fourteenth season with
three successful performanc?s of
the stage and screen success The
Barretts of Wimpole Street.

~Under the direction of Anne
M.' Cooke, the seasoned cast in
three acts and five scenes bréught
to the stage of the Little Theatre the love. story of Elizabeth
Barrett and Robert Browning as
written ~by Rudolph Besier. In
beautiful costumes of the Victorian era, the play was performed
against a background, designed
iby Artist Walter A. Simon of
New York. The set gave authenticity to the drama of the upper
middle-class English | family,
which is dominated by the stern
and unforgiving father, Edward
Moulton-Barrett, superbly played by Raphael McIver of Atlarta.

Billee Geter ~Thonias, also of
Atlanta, who brought to life the
invalid sister, Elizabeth, won~
new. laurels for her dramatic
ability and contnuing to receive
the plaudits of the. audience for
their sincere performance ~were

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Summer Theatre Closes 14th Season
With ~The Barretts of Wimpole St.~

Marian @Mavis of New Orleans,

stud:led cast, made up of studen% | who played the spirited Henriet
ta; Miriam Harris of Atlanta, in
the role of Arabel; amd. Sara
Braswell of Monroe,
who skillfully portrayed Bella.

* As the handsome. romantic
poet, Browning, Edward N. Palmer of the Summer School facul-:
ty, made his first appearance with~
the Summer:Theatre group. Magdalene Harris, also a newcomer
from Savannah, Georgia, made
the role of Wilson important, and
Henry Thomas, of the Summer
School faculty, was convincing as
Dr. Chambers. 1

Mr. Barret~s sons were played
by Charles Stewart of the Summer School faculty, who~ provided many of the lighter moments
of the evening; Vernon White of
Fort Worth, Texas; Preston Cochran of Gadsen, Alabama; and
Marvin Collier of Chattanooga,
Tennessee. Well cast were Ed
mund Kemp. of Atlanta as as

pompous~ Henry ~Bevan;
Theophilus Neal of G gers
North ae tas * say eri {
~tees Cook. z

Eloise Usher headed~ the production staff, and Eddie Sandiford was light technician.

Ohio Bank Robbery Bungled
By Three Would-Be Bandits

CIRCLEVILLE, OHIO.
would-be bandits were held for attempted robbery after bungling the
job.

Two of the mien strode boldly into
the First National bank at~ nearby
New Hollanti. One of them pulled a
gun and barked:

~This is a stitkup.~~

Then the cylinder of the gun fell
out and dropped to the floor with
a loud thud.

The bank president,: George Kirk,
and Cashier J. T. Dick began to

surrender his wristwatch. The cashier guffawed loudly. ~

The bungling bandits bolted for
the door and fled in a car driven by
an accomplice. Thirty minutes later
the trio was arrested at London,
Ohio. Police identified them as Donald. Neff, 17; Carson Rice, 18, and
Charles Maley, 25, all or
Ohio..

Death of Dog Stirs Campus;

Pet Was Used in Experiment

LIBERTY, MO. ~ Brownie was
just a perk-eared mongrel but his
death in a biological laboratory
through an error brought these results:

A mass demonstration. by more
than half of the 800 students at Wil- |liam Jewell college, where the ue:
~dog had become a campus pet.

The hanging in effigy of a proton |
sor.

Brownie~s death came ~ilar the
supply of specimens for the study
of mammal tissue and tapeworms
in biology. class had been exhausted.
Dr. Leland Jacob Gier, biology department head, said he had picked
up two stray dogs for use in the
biological laboratory.. Through ~a
regrettable error,~.

happened to be Brownie.
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Bullet Ricochets and Strikes

Bandit in Attempted Robbery, SAN FRANCISCO.~An attempted
holdup bac

kiired when a robber~s
bullet ricochetéd and hit- him instead.;

Patrolman Harry Lahey disclosed
that a man identified as Charles E.
Bamberg, 38, fired at a-customer
who tried to halt his getaway with

from a tavern. The bullet missed

wiih charges saeict Wnt oe
with charges against him

~ Three |..

one of them |
fhe customer @ricocheted from a |.
ill and struck Bamberg in the leg, |.

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'Polar Bear Cub Catches ~

Head in Aluminum Keg
NEW YORK. ~: A two-year-old
Polar bear cub, frolicking in a
Bronx zoo pool before several hundred spectators, made a sharp dive
~in the direction of a floating aluminum keg and hit the target with
such force that its head Pierced the
~thin sheeting. i
Scrambling out of the water with
the keg, placed in the pool to en-'
liven the water antics of. the ani- |

mals, the cub clawed blindly at the ~

cylinder about its head for an hour
before zoo attendants were able to
remove it~and then, ~uninjured,
2 ie plunged hacks into the
poo.

Dirty Face Is No Offense

Under Law, Court ~Decides:
TRENTON, N. J. ~ To have a,
dirty face is not a legal offense, the:
New Jersey Supreme court ruled in
clearing ~Susan Bower,~ blonde
mystery girl, of a disorderly con
fad

~| duct charges~ *

Chiet Sealide Clarence E. oe
ruled that the complaint should
have been ~dismissed at the.time of.
the 20-year-old~ Hitch-hiker~s arrest
in Palisades Park, N. J:, last fall.
She ~was convicted. and served: 40
days of a reduced six-month sentence in jail.

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