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NA \CP YOUTH LEADER IS JAILED ON FRAME-UP IN SOUTH CAROLINA COURT President of Youth Council, 19. Who was Active in Registering Negro Voters, is Convicted on Charge of Telephoning White Girl for Date; Case will be Ap pealed Greenville, S. C„ August 3 Wil liam IT. Anderson, president of the Greenville youth council of the NAACP. wa.< convicted here, July 24, on two charges, breach of peace and disorderly conduct. An derson was accused of having tel ephoned a fifteen-year-old white girl asking for a date. The jury was out more than fotii hour*. The trial was behind locked doors and non one was adm tted who did not have some connection with the case. Andeyson was put under a $5,000 peace bond and sen tenced to serve th'irty days or pay a $100 fine. The N.A.'A.C.P. bunch here announced that the ca-e would be appealed to a higher court It is generally agreed that An derson is the victim of a crude frame-up. The N A.A.C.P. youth council leader has beep active for the past few weeks in advising and registering Negro voters for the city primary wh.ch occurs here /yV»ViViV.V,*.V.*,VA*>*.VA CHOP SUEY Open from 2 p. m. until 3 a. m. King Yuen Cafe .. 2010% N. 24th St. JAckson 8576 American and Chinese Dishea UWWAW.W A'AVAV^ CHICAGO FURNITURE COMPANY "Where Thrifty Folks Buy" Furniture, Rugs, Floor Cover ings A Stoves JA. 4411 1833-35 N. 24th Evening Phone WE. 2261 Folks! BUY Living, Dining and Bed room Suites and SAVE Half or more. YES, rugs, floor coverings, gas ranges, oil stov es. SAVE REAL MONEY! CHICAGO | FURNITURE CO. 1833 North 24th St. Saptember 1-. He has been fear less in going about his activities and has not been intimidated by threats from the Ku Klux Klan or newspaper publicity. Failing to frighten Anderson from his activity, the leaders of the opposition framed a charge a gainst him involving a white girl I which, in this section of the coun try is regarded as a safe method of conviction. Anderson is the janitor of the City Junior high school. A white woman telephoned the police that her daughter had been annoyed by requests for dates ove rthe tele I phone. The call is supposed to have j been traced to the City Junior high school. Anderson told officers I who arrested him that three white boys had asked to use the tele pone and he had permitted them to use it- On the way to jail, one i detective told Anderson: “You’re the kind of Negro I would rather kill than take to jail and when we get through with you, you will not he able to use a telephone. Feeling has been running high here for several weeks as soon as it was noted that Negro citizens wei'e registering to vote in the ci ty primary. The Klan ha* issued a public call to all members to “de fend white supremacy.’’ Advertise ments from the klan have ap peared in the daily papers. Strea mer headlines have appeared in all dailies. Anderson has been ‘on the spot’’ from the beginning and ev eryone familiar with the situa tion believes that it is ridiculous to think that in this kind of an atmosphere Anderson would be guilty of any act which would in jure the cause. Furthermore, the fact that the jury was out for more than four hours and that once it sent in for a transcript of the testimony indicates that And erson must not be guilty, but his conviction deemed necessary in order to frighten Negroes away from the polls. The NAACP head quarters in New York City has sent word offering full coopera tion in the legal battle ahead. 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Indeed, had I been on the other side of the street and just a few minutes earlier I myself might have been the bruised, bleeding, and uncora cious victim lying face up in the middle of the sidewalk and pressed upon by scores of the curious. The assault victim was a 17 year old youth. Two others of ap proximately the same age stood over him, one of these also lacer ated and bleeding, while the po lice shouted at the crowd; to stand back and everybody awaited an ambulance. The beatings had occurred in 150th St. a few paces east of Am terdam Ave. The neighborhood is predominantly a “white” one. A side from the victim and h’s two friends, I was the only Negro a mong the hundred or more ex I cited spectators. Crowd Sympathetic Despite the fact that the as saulted youth were Negroes and that they had piobably been “punished” for ventui’ing into a neighborhood that of late has come to be looked upon a taboo even for Negroes hurrying by on foot, the attitude of the crowd was clearly sympathetic toward the victims and condemnatory of the hoodlums. It was learned later that the victims were Marvin Jackson and Edward Meigs. The latter and the worse injured of the two lives at 417 W. 150th St. Jackson’s ad dress was not ascertained. Jack son is suffering from lacerations of the face and abrasions of the body. Jackson had concussion of the brain, in addition to other in juries, but may live. They are both in Harlem Hospital. From questioning persons in the crowd it was possible to learn that the three Negro youths were going up the hill from the direc tion of Riverside Drive, when a crowd of white youths, reputed to be Oouglinltctt, slipped upon them from behind and attacked them with crude piles and clubs. The attack was second within 24 hours. The night before, at 149th S-t. and Riverside Drihre, Walker Verne, a Negro cook, 31 of 411 W. 149th St. was set upon and beaten by a gang of white hoodlums while he was walking with his wife and child. He is still on the danger list at Harlem Hospital. During the pai-t month there ! havo been no fewer than five ca ses of assault on Negroes by Coughlinite gangs in that local ’ound murdered in th- Hudson, ity. A Negro boy recently was just off the place where these fightn have taken place. Members of the Communist Par ty and other progressive organi zations in Washington Heights are rallying their forces to combat the growing influence of the Cough linites there and their race ha tred propaganda. --uv/u .* Nationwide Stoppage Hits Relief Cuts Washington, August 19, (Charles Alexander for CNA)— One mil lion WPA workers downed tools throughout the nation this weak in a one day protest against the dras tic cuts on WPA ordered under the Woodrum Act. Called by the Workers Alliance, the Congress for Industrial Organ isation and the American Feder ation of Labor, the one manifes tation, designed to focus atten tion on the attack on WPA, was declared to be the most effec tive action taken by the WPA workers in their fight for revision of the Woodrum law. Reports from various states showed that hundreds of projects were closed down as the workers absented themselves from their jobs to voice their indignation. In New Cork City, out of & total pf 102,900 workers normally employ ed on WPA projects, 66,000 were reported to have responded to the stop wouk call. Figures from other large industrial areas like Pittsburgh, Chicago and Cleveland reveal the same high percentage. Leaders of the demonstration were especially pleased at the re sponse in view of a concerted campaign in the daily press to con fuse the workers, including pub lication of reports that the action had been called off. At the same time Ralph Burton, chief investi gator of the Woodrum Committee sought to intimidate WPA employ es by ordering WPA officials in New York City to report the names of all those who participated in the one-day stoppage. Incensed by this invasion of their democratic rights, WPA workers of that ci ty picketed the Hotel New Yorker where the committee was holding its hearings. Alliance leaders announced that the number of Negroes who took part in the demonstration far ex ceeded their estimates. Negro at tendance was said to have num bered several thousands with New York showing the highest figure. Tho Alliance announced it had started a drive to flood Senators and Congressmen with telegrams and letters urging favorable ac tion on Senator Murray’s resolu tion for an increased WTPA appro priation. Heads of the organiza tion said they planned to have a number of delegations in the na tional capital during thd next f§w weeks for the purpose of effecting Congressional action on necessary changes in the Woodrum law. ■-0O0 RtW YORK READY FGR ARTURS 'GUILD FiB New York, Aug. 10, >Vith en thusiasm running high and final preparations almost complete, all New York is pointing toward the highlight of the summer season— the Second Annual Moonlight Sail Monday nignt, August 7, of the Negro Actors Guild of America, Inc. Celebrities galore have already secured their tickets for the at fair, and headed by Vice-presi dent Ethel Watters, a throng of theatrical figures will be on hand when the boat, the State of Dela ware, leaves West 132nd Street pier. These will include such names as W. C. Handy, Georgette Harvey, Willie Bryant, Edna Thomas, R. Cecil McPherson, Fredi Washing ton, Noble Sissle, Ralph Cooper— not to mention countless more e qually outstanding in the enter tainment world. Efforts were being made ear ly this week to borrow Sister Tharpe, celebrated "holy roller” singer, from the Cotton Club for the evening as an added entertain ment attraction for the pleasure seeker*. The Mary Bruce Dancing Kids have already been secured for a number. Edgar Hayes, whose Blue Rhy thm orchestra will supply the mu sic. gives the excursion its theme in “Stardust on the Hudson.’’ With Hayes will be Jean De Metz, sen sational new sonbird from Brook, lyn. -oOo RENTS ON CHICAGO’S SOUTH SIDE FOUND HIGHER THAN IN RJTZY WHITE DISTRICT Chicago, August 10, (Howard Lawrence for CNA)— Tenants of Chicago’s South Side slums pay higher rents than t he wealthy whites living on Gold Coast, a rit zy district. This startling statement was made this week by Arthur Bohnen, white architect and former con sultant of the Chicago Housing Authorty, at a meeting of the Ci ty Council Committee on Hous ing. Bohnen told the subcommittee, of which Alderman Earl B. Dick erson, 2nd wal'd, is chairman that the rent per room in the Black Belt in many cases was $30 per ■month per room. In reply to a question by Aider man Paul H. Douglas, 5th Ward, the housing expert cited building on the Gold Coast where the rent was only $22 to $27 per month. In the case of Chicago’s Negro citizens, Bohnen declared, whole families of various sexes occupied one room, while on the Gold Coast a small family might use an a partment of several rooms. “Room for room and by floor space the rent is lower on the Gold Coast in many instances,” said Bohnen. Jirarcrow housing restrictions were blamed for the excessive rents, Bohnen explained.^ These restrictions were written into real estate contracts and are known as “restrictive covenants.” According to Bohnen, these cove nants created abnormal demands for space in the restricted areas where Negroes are permitted to live. Calmly reciting facts and fig ures, the housing expert dealt with the overcrowding of a large por tion of Chicago’s population into unsanitary buildings. Bohnen’s subject was the general economics of low-cost housing, in cluding the relation of the Negro population to those groups which lack economic opportunity. - I WHITE GEORGIA STUDENTS ASK CIVIC LEADER. “WHAT WOULD YOU DO FOR THE NE GRO?" Fitzgerald, Ga., Aug. 17 (ANP) Members of the senior class of Ben Hill County Training School (white), this city, recently wrote to William J. Schieffelin, New York City, nationally known civ ic leader and chairman of the board of trustees, Tuskegee insti tute, for first-hand information on the needs of the Negro. The so. ciology students asked Mr. Schief felin to frankly answer this ques tion.: “If you had everything neces sary—money, influence, even the gift of prophecy and magic—what would you do for the Negro?” Mr. Schieffelin interesting answer; iollows: “Your question suggests tnai it one were omnipotent what could be done in the behalf of the Ne gro. The fact that such a ques tion comes from a group of white students in the heart of Georgia itself is indeed an encouraging sign that the movement to bring about better condvtiops :s gaining momemtum. Your question used the term “magic” which may be interpreted as faith—faith that can remove mountains. So let us assume that faith has removed race prejudice and put in its place human sympathy based upon the knowledge of the aspirations, and appreciation of the achievements of many of our Negro fellow cit izens. “Your class in Sociology might well invite members of your coun ty or state interracial commission to picture to you how constantly local difficulties are removed and good will is restored through study of the situation and by invokng helpfulness in place of jealously or competition. The class should make a wider survey covering the crisis in which the share-croppers find themselves. Here of course is where money is vital and the example of Sherwood Eddy’s com munity plantation points toward a solution . “Most of us feel that Negroes should have the same opportuni ty for training and employment as other citizens have, there is no doubt if race prejudice is over come the labor unions would wel come the Negroes into their mem bership. “Negroes today do not want to have things done for them, but they do want the same opportuni ty to do things that other people have, therefore your question might be more wisely “What can the Ntgroes do for us? ’ This I would answer, they can teach us how to value the more important things in life—loyalty and laugh ter, music and song, sacrifice and friendship and last but not least, real appreciation of character, or what they call “quality. “The point of view oi oom me white and the Negroes would be truer, and therefore, freer from prejudice, if the more enlightened, better educated and most suc cessful Negroes were given oppor tunity to discuss these questions with their white neighbors, and I think your class might well seek out ten or twenty of the leading colored men and women in your county and ask them to confer with you from time to time. What you will learn and what they will learn will bring about great good.” JAILED FOR TRYING TO GET “DEPORTED” TO EGYPT Los Angeles, August 3 (By Har-, ry Levente for ANP)—As fan tastic a scheme as some in the tales of the Arabian Nights was that of four colored cultists, W. j H. C. Jackson, Ola Bell Oliphan,' Elizabeth Johnson and Elyvia Hicks. Not satisfied with follow ing the precedent of other Ne groes who overnight transformed themselves into Yogi, Egyptian sneers and other mysterious be ings with itching palms by the mere procedure of donning robes and turbans and performing mys tic rites, this scheming quartet planned to secure a trip to the tombs of Pharoahs in Egypt. I There they would secure sacred emblems of Isis and Osirus, relics and scrolls thousands of years old. WTth these bona fide symbols, they figured to outrank in im portance all o*ier aspirants to oc Graduate Nurses Announce Pro gram for Annual Meeting Washington, Aug. 3 (ANP)— Plans for the 32nd annual conven tion of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses, to meet at Howard university Aug. 21-25 are announsed. Among subjects to be discussed are the national health program, place of nursing in a welfare movement, current concepts in good psychiatric nursing, national, accreditation of nursing schools, place of the nurse in the student health program of a college, and relationship of the NACCN to other National nursing agencies. The subsidiary wcfker and the value of registries will also be discussed. On Tuesday evening at the public meeting, Mrs. E.-telle M, Riddle, president, will make her annual address and the Mary Mahoney award will be presented to Miss Perta Pinn of New York. On Thursday evening a panel of tuberculosis has been arranged. Among speakers who will appear on the program are: Mrs. Mary Ellen Manley, director, division of nursing, New York City depart ment of hispitals; Miss Gladys Sellew, department of sociology, Catholic University of America; Miss Edith Hayden, superintend dent of nurses, St. Elizabeth’s hos pital, Washington; j Miss Claribel Wheeler, executive secretary, Na tional League of Nursing Educa tion; Miss Pearl Melver, senior health nursing consultant, and Dr. Roscoe C. Brown, health education specialist, U. S. Public Health public health nursing consultant, Childrens bureau; Dr. Virginia Alexander, student health service, Howard university; Mrs. Roscoe C. Bruce, secretary citizens com mittee, N. Y. Local Association of Colored Graduate nurses; Dr. Numa P. G. Adams, dean, medicaF schood, Howard university; Dr. T. E. Jones, surgeon in chief Freed men’s hospital; John W. Davis, national secretary, National Ne gro congress; Mrs. Loma Doone Mitchell, director of nursing. Sea View hospital, N. Y.; Mrs. Ernest Grant, director, District of Col umbia Tuberculosis association; Msr. Josephine Prescott, director, pursing division, District of Colu mbia Health department; Dr. Howard Payne, tuberculosis clin ics, Freedmen’s hospital; Dr. Bark lio Coulter, director of clinics. Dis trict of Columlbia Health depart ment. The Student Section had been planned this year to give the stu dent nurses the opportunity to be present at many of the graduate sessions, which will bring them in close relationship with situa tions that will effect them later as graduate nurses. Two closed ses sions however have geen planned especially for them. Miss Lulu G. Warlick, director school of nurs ing, Mercy hospital, Philadelphia; Miss Virginia Harrison, director, school of nursing Homer G. Phil lips hospital, St; ICuis; Miss Hulda M. Lyttle, dean, school of nursing, Meharry Medical college, Nashville; Miss Anna Sewell., science instructor, Harlem hospi tal, N. Y. City; Dr. Ruth Moore, instructor of bacteriology, Howard university, have been invited to address the students pt these two sessions. Other features of the program are a garden party on the cam pus of Howard, a tour of the White House, and a sightseeing trip ending the placing of a wreath on the grave of Frederick Doug lass. .. .Mil. cute prominence. Temples were to be established all over the coun try, and in a little while “Yogi Jackson” would have a following that would make Father Divine's look puny. But they intended to get this costly at the expense of Uncle Sam, so as Unele Samuel deports aliens, they thought all they had to do would be to deny their American citizens, but wished to return to Egypt. Jackson said his name was Herfe Tashari, the women were Keturah Zion, Ru homa Jion and Hamela Teshari, and that they were born in Egypt of Abyssinian parents. They yearned for their native homes on the banks of the great Nile, they eloquently declared, so the quicker Uncle Sam booked passage for them, the better. Unfortunately for them the au thorities refuser! to be convinced even by their attempts at broken dialect, so they were all arrested and booked on charges of sus picion of false representation. So last Friday the federal grand jury indicted them on the charge. They are now back in the county jail, awaiting trial. Conviction carries a severe penalty. Britisher Proposes Afri can Buffer State To Solve World’s Color Problem London, Eng. Aug. 8 (ANP)— A. J. Siggins’ proposal for an African Buffer state seems to find greater favor among African people than the fantastic plan of fered by America’s Senator T. G. Balbo, according to press dis patches received here. Outlining his plan in a statement printed in the British Australian and New Zealander magazine, Mr. Siggins, prominent wihite Britisher, said: J “The proposal is that a Great Britain, France, Belgium, Poj-tu gal, Italy, Spain, Egypt, Abys sinia (because the conquest by Italy has not been recognized by USA, USSR and the majority of colored peoples) and the Union of South Africa should agree to the formation of a free and indepen dent Buffet state between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn in Africa to replace the present colonial possessions. “Abyssinia and Liberia shall be recognized as independent states withi nthe Buffer state, but shall be part of the latter’s framework. The Buffer state (shall be admin istered by a regency council while research is being made for the form of a constitution, codes of law, monetary system and all the machinery of a modem state; bearing in mind, however, that the new state will be an african state, and the regency council will fulfill all the duties and as sume all the responsibilities of ideal trustees. TEXANS COLD TO GAJtNER. INTERVIEW Houston, Aug. 17, (By J. Don Davis for ANP)— Negroes re ceived coldly Vice President John Nance Garner's interview released by the Washington bureau of the Associated Negro Press, in which the veteran Texan said he was op posed to the “lily white” primary in Texas. “Garner has been in the posi tion to use his influence in break, ing down the primary bar,bu‘ has he ever uttered a word before ”, is the query being placed by Tex ans in all walks of life. The ma jority opinion is that Garner is at tempting to use his off-the-record opposition of the Texas primary as bid to secure support of the disfranchised Texas Negroes in his bid for the 1940 presidential nom ination on the Democratic ticket. Many Texas Negro leaders ex pressed the opiniop that Garner’s social equality talk in his home was the result of his forgetfulness that the day of "Uncle Toms” is over in Texas and to expect the support of Texas Negroes in his presidential aspirations, Garner must speak on the record as be ing in favor of the state’s large colored popular receiving its full political rights. r ormer congressman, Maury Maverick, present mayor of San Antonio has openly expressed him. self as being opposed to the Gar ner candidacy and it goes with out saying that Texas Negroes will follow the lead of Maverick, to whom they look as a future polit ical saviour. Maverick has expressed the o pinion that Garner is far too old to effectively guide the destinies of the nation in this turbulent period and predicts a victory for young Robert Taft if the Repub licans throw him in the race a gainst Gamer. Maverick will be remembered as the sole Southern Congressman to vote for the anti lynch bill. Recently a group of Texas lead, ers approaehed Gamer supporters in Texas and queried them on Gar ner’s racial attitude. Nothing def inite was given and Texas week lies have all come forth with bur ning editorials admonishing Gar ner and his supporters that he and they must get right on the primary question, for many prominent Texans of color will tour the coun try during the presidential cam paign and tell the nation of con ditions in the Lone Star state should a resident of a state that interprets democracy as being the disfranchisement of 1,200,000 of its citizens, be in the race for the highest post in this great common wealth.