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Social Work Conference
Features Talk on Race
CHICAGO, III.—“The Psycho
logical Impact of Race Upon the
Negro Community” will be dis
cussed by Dr. Kenneth B. Clark,
associate professor of child psy
chology at the College of the City
of New York, Tuesday afternoon,
• May 27th, as one of the features
of the 79th annual meeting of the
National Conference of Social
Work.
The National Urban League, an
associate member of the Confer
ence, will present Dr. Clark at
the luncheon meeting in the Con
rad Hilton Hotel, according to
Lester B. Granger, executive di
rector of NUL, who is also presi
dent of the Conference. Mrs. Lee
Wilson Hutchins, president of the
Grand Rapids Urban League, will
preside at the program.
Following the talk by. Dr.
Clark, who is also director of the
Northside Center for Child De
velopment, New York City, and
a board member of NUL, there
will be discussion by members of
a panel composed of Henry von
Avery, director of community or
ganizations, Urban League of St.
Louis; A. A. Liveright, director,
union leadership training project,
University of Chicago; James N.
Williams, executive secretary,
Providence Urban League; and
Paul Siihon, associate prcfessor,
School of Social Work, University
of Illinois.
The National Conference of So
cial Work, comprised of over
100,000 members representing so
cial work agencies in the nation,
will meet May 25-30. As an asso
ciate member, the National Urban
League will be prominently fea
tured at the sessions and will
have a large exhibit at the Con
ference which will be attended by
over 6,000 delegates.
Masons Honor
Henry Ford II
DETROIT — (ANP) — Henry
Ford II, president of the Ford
Motor Company, was presented
the Industrial Citizen Citation of
the Prince Hall Grand Lodge,
F. and A.M. Wednesday night.
J. R. Davis, Ford vice president,
accepted the citation on behalf of
Ford, now on a West Coast busi-|
ness trip. Davis told the lodge
members:
“Ford is well aware of the
splendid work Prince Hall Lodge J
is doing in civic and educational
affairs, in the advancement of
civil rights and in effective oppo
sition to threats of Communist
subversion.
“We at Ford Motor Company
look upon better human relations
as both a responsibility and an
opportunity. And our interest
goes far beyond industrial or em
ploye relations. It se#ms clear to
us that, until all Americans learn
to live together in peace and
harmony, we can never achieve
our full potentialities as a free
people.”
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TV ‘Surprise’
From Nebr.
HOLLYWOOD — Ralph (Aren’t
We Devils?) Edwards flew the
Rev. and Mrs. J. E. Johnston of
Omaha, Nebr., to Hollywood last
Friday for a surprise stunt on
his NBC-TV show (KNBH, chan
nel 4—12:30 PDT).
Surprised were their daugh
ter, Mrs. Harry Bowman of
Pasadena, and son, Joseph
Johnston, psychiatry professor
at UCLA. Mrs. Bowman and
Mr. Johnston were invited to
attend the Edwards’ show, but
had no idea their parents were
in Hollywood and at the show.
The surprise was carried off I
with the Mount Moriah Baptist
Church choir and its minister of
music, R. L. Hatter, singing three
spiritual selections as background
for the Rev. Mr. Johnson’s visit.
Noted for its unusual stunts and
democratic practices, the Ralph
Edwards show is heard daily over
the NBC network.
Indict 13 Former,
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Members of Klan
WHITEVILLE, N. C.—(INS)—
Thirteen True 3ills against al
leged former members of the Ku
Klux Klan were returned by a
Columbus County grand jury
Monday afternoon—only hours
after true bills by another grand
jury had been disallowed.
Judge Clawson L. Williams al
lowed solicitor Clifton L. Moore
to consolidate the cases that in
volve the flogging of Woodrow
Johnson on Dev. 8, 1951. The 13
men are charged with conspiracy
to kidnap and conspiracy to as
sault.
Judge Williams is expected to
order a> immediate trial and to
summon a special out of county
venire of jurymen.
After returning the indictments
against the 13 the grand jury im
mediately took up the case of 14
more men allegedly involved in
other floggings .n the county.
The original indictments were
quashed because the grand jury
was illegally constituted.
In dismissing the grand jury
which returned indictment charg
ing the 27 men with conspiracy,
kidnapping and assault, Judge
Williams told the jurors:
“You gentlemen do not have the
power to function as a grand jury.
In an ill-advised moment the
legislature passed a staggered
grand jury system.”
“This is an outstanding example
why the legislature ought to keep
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Courtesy The Lincoln State Journal
DR. RALPH BUNCH
Bundle Speaks
At Arkansas U.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Dr.
Ralph Bunche spoke at the Uni
versity of Arkansas last week. . .
The public was invited to the
free lecture, given under the aus
pices of the Distinguished Lectur
ers Committee. “The United Na
tions and the Prospect for Peace,”
was discussed by Dr. Bunche, who
since 1947 has been director of the
Department of Trusteeship of the
lUnited Nations.
Judge Waring
Speaks Frankly
NEWARK, N.J.—(ANP)—In a
precedent making challenge South
Carolina’s ex-Judge Waties War
ing called on Newark citizens to
come from behind the iron cur
tain of jimcrow and not to wait on
time to solve an eating cancer.
The jurist, who enabled Negroes
to vote for the first time in the
South Carolina primaries spoke to
a mixed audience of several hun
dred persons at Hotel Essex for
the 35th anniversary program of
the Urban league of Essex county.
its hands off the procedure of the
courts.”
Judge Williams asked the pros
pective grand jurors several times
if they had “At any time been a
member of an organization known
as the Ku Klux Klan.” One juror
was dismissed vhen he answered
“Yes” and another when he stated
his cousin had been a member of
the Klan.
J. R. Nance of Fayetteville, one
of the defense attorneys, who ar
gued that the first grand jury
had been illegally constituted,
based his motion on a 1949 law
which provides that the first nine
men drawn each May for service
on a Columbus grand jury should
serve for one year. He said the
jury rotation plan was set up in
June, 1949, instead of May as
provided by law.
White Pastors Work Quietly
To End Jimcrow in Virginia
RICHMOND, Va. — (ANP)—.
Pressure is being brought quietly
by a few liberal white pastors in
Virginia, mainly to break down
the segregation of the races in
special evangelical campaigns and
missions in the state, it was dis
closed here last week through a
check of activities in a few min
isterial groups.
Within the past year white and
Negro groups have met here at
the Mosque for religious and civic
meetings without any forced
segregation of the races.
Last October, Commonwealth
Atty. J. Lindsay Almond Jr. ruled
that since the membership of the
NAACP is composed of whites
and Negroes, an NAACP meet
ing would be regarded as a pri
vate meeting in which Virginia’s
law requiring the segregation of
the raees in public places would
not apply. Richmond’s attorney
general concurred in this opinion.
| A religious meeting was held at
the Mosque soon after the
i NAACP meeting and H. Carwile,
local white attorney, deliberately
refused to sit in a section reserved
for whites in order to challenge
Virginia’s segregation law. Police
officials tried to make a case out
of the lawyer’s action, but the
case was dropped without carry
ing it far enough to test the state
law.
An effort was made in Norfolk
last February to face the question
of racial segregation at Norfolk’s
Preaching Mission. The Norfolk
Ministerial association voted
unanimously to sponsor the 1953
Preaching Mission as an inter
racial project in which there
would not be any segregation o»
the races at the Municipal Audi
torium where the mission has
been held since it was started in
1946.
Because Norfolk’s attorney gen
eral disagreed with Almond’s in
terpretation of Virginia’s segrega
tion laws, the ministers in that
city are having difficulty shaping
a definite policy on the question.
The white Norfolk Ministerial
association last week voted to re
commit a statement of its execu
tive committee recommending
that the Association abandon the
Preaching Mission until such time
as it can be held under interracial
conditions.
For all practical purposes this
action means that Norfolk prob
ably will not have a Preaching
Mission next year. The ministers’
action might also place some ob
stacles in the way of another
move in Norfolk to establish an
interracial and inter-faith federa
tion of churches to promote unity
of action in city-wide religious
undertakings.
Richmond white and Negro
ministers have cooperated more
in recent years in city-wide re
Iligious activities. This effort has
been greatly encouraged and in
some cases led by the Virginia
Council of Churches.
I Two Negro ministers in Vir
ginia are presidents of their min
isterial groups. They are the Rev.
A. A. Womack', president of the
Clifton Forge Ministerial associa
tion, an interracial body; and the
Rev. Morris H. Tynes, of Staun
ton, Va., president of the interra
cial Augusta County Ministerial
association.
Women Share
Limelight At
Conference
When the General Conference
of the AME Church met in Chi
cago, May 7-21 it found many
women in the limelight taking an
active part in the big two-week
meet.
Women were there as general
officers, delegates and alternates.
Hundreds attended a^visitors who
are either members of the Wom
ens Missionary Society or the lay
organization.
Mrs. Alma Baber, supervisor
of the Fourth "Episcopal District,
has organized the Fourth District
Women into a unit.
The first of purely social af
fairs was a reception honoring the
delegates and visitors of the
thirty-fourth General Conference.
This affair was held in the
parkway, 4459 South Parkway,
Saturday, May 10, from 4 to 7
p.m. Presidents of the various
conference branches of the dis
trict were hosts. They are Mmes.
Lucille Thomas, Chicago Confer
ence; Grace H. Blake, Michigan
Conference; Minnie Bailey, In
diana Conference; Juanita Stew
art, Illinois Conference; Winona
Allen, Northwest Conference; and
Mrs. Martha Stewart, Canadian
Conference.
Another affair in which women
were interested was the mission
ary mass meeting held Sunday,
May 11, at the Grant Memorial
Church. The Rev. H. E. Wal
den, minister.
Judge Upholds
Freedom Press
LAKE CHARLES, La. (ANP)
—The Negro and white press of
this state may continue their
criticism of public officials with
out fear of intimidation, accord
ing to a recent decision handed
down by Judge J. Bernard Cooke.
As a result of the decision, five
white newspapermen were ac
quitted, Judge Cook declared:
“Any citizen or newspaper has
the right to criticize the public
acts of officials. Without that
right, we would have a dictatorial
form of government and the dis
cussion of important public issues
would be only such as might be
permitted by those holding au
thority.”
Trial of Seven Cicero
Officials May 19
CHICAGO—(ANP)—The trial
of seven officials of the suburb of
Cicero, scene of an anti-Negro riot
last summer, will begin May 19 in
the U.S. District court. All seven
men facing trial are generally ac
cused of violating federal civil
rights statutes in connection with
the attempt of a Negro family to
move into an apartment in Cicero,
an all white town.
Judge Walter LaBuy last week
refused to quash a two-count fed
eral indictment against the de
fendants.
In past court action Cook county
prosecution of persons guilty of
fomenting the riot which attracted
mobs of several thousand last July
failed.
Facing trial are:
Henry J. Sandusky, recently re
elected town president; Erwin
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