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LOCAL AND NATIONAL NEWS ^ Per Copy AND WORTH IT— “To Sell It, ADVERTISE** L M HEWTOTHE LINE\ EQUAL OPPORTUNITY PHONE HA.0800 ~ i -—■ i Mu ———— * ★ ★ SATURDAY, NOV EMBER 30, 1946 Our 19th Year—No. 43 Entered as 2nd Mass matter at I'nst Offioe. Oni.'iLa. Nebraska, t'mier Act of --—... - " — ' ___ March S. 1874. 1*1 RI.INTTIXO niPFlPFS at oj>>n nitivr c'r LINCOLN, J 'OUR 1 GUEST . Column (Edited by VERNA P. HARRIS) THE CASE FOR EQUALITY By Melvin Douglas, Columbia Pictures' star, currently co'starring with Rosalind Russell in "The Guilt of Janet Ames" If it were not for the present, chaotic conditions surrounding the whole question of Negro equal ity, the race prejudice and lynch ingB which have disgraced the national social and political scenes it would be presumptuous for any white Americas to comment on the matter at all. But those conditions do exist, and I have been asked what is the case for Negro equality. My answer to that is there is the same case for Negro equality as there is, let us say. for white equ ality or for religious equality. In the first place, Negroes are people. As such, they are equal to ull other people, neither below them nor above them in the hu man scale. In a world gravely in danger of being blown to bits by its own Frankenstein thinking and acting, it seems to me some sort of new high in idiocy for one kind of human being to place himself in a superior position to any other And no contrary law of natural selection, to my knowledge, or ever has existed. In the second place, Negroes in this country are American citi- 1 zens. As such they are entitled to enjoy all the political rights and privileges enjoyed by other Americana be they white or red or brown or yellow or black. If political justice and and democra cy exist, there simply can be no dividing line between one sort of citizen and another. If they taught me nothing else | my years years in India with the American forces taught me that j bitterness and violence must al ways accompany race prejudice. It was evident 50 any observer in that field that much more detest ed than the economic exploitation which the people of India resented was the arrogance and assumed superiority of those who had been sent to govern them. In my opinion, the bill for a Fair Employment Practice Com mission is the most important piece of unenacted legislation in the country today and its early adoption should be urged by every one able to make himself heard. —APA— SEMPER GETS N. H. A. APPOINTMENT ' Appointment of Joseph Semper as reporting analyst for the region al office of the National Housing Agency was announced today by Clrarles J. Horan, regional ad ministrator for the agency. Semper, former assistant chief of training with Illinois State of fice of the United States Employ ment Service, will have charge of reviewing housing reports for the planning and program section of the agency, and will serve “as an administrative assistant to the pro gram planning chief. Semper has served with the USES in Chicago for the past six years. For two years Semper worked closely on studies of business pro blems in Chicago *areas with hea vy concentrations on Negro pro blems, and cooperated with the authors of “Black Metropolis” in making their study of this city. He is a graduate of Wilberforce ’ University and took two years of' graduate study in soci'al admini stration at the University of Chi cago. For three years he served as research assistant in social an thropology at Yale Institute of Hum*an Relations. Semper is a veteran of World War H, having served in the Navy in the United States and Hawaii. JEBR. White Students Join Fight On Texas "U” HOUSTON—That the fight for Equalized educational opportuni ties is not restricted to Negro ef fort was shown when a large group of University of Texas stu dents joined NAACP representa tives in discussing means of rais ing funds to carry on the court fight for Herman Marion Sweatt to enter the University of Texas Law School. Sweatt has emphatically declar ed that he plans to enter the law ' school if the “doors are opened." He has also indicated that he will not enter any State-sponsored school with facilities not equal to those of U. T. Sweatt applied for admission to the University of Texas Law School last February and was de nied admission. He later filed a suit against the Board of Regents. LINCOLN MO. PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICE TO SHOW MATERIAL IN OMAHA JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Nov. 23,—The Lincoln university office of public relations is preparing the third in a series of requested exhibits for display at the Public Relations conference, meeting in Omaha, Nebr., Dec. 1, 2 and 3. Injured In Auto Crash Syvella Brown, 26. 2302% Grace Street, suffered face cuts Satur day night in an auto, truck col lision at Thirteenth and Dodge Streets. She was treated at Doc tor’s hospital and released. Miss Brown was riding in a car driven by Arthur Mitchell, 2807 Charles Street. Myron Nelson. 3332 North Thirty-eighth Street, was reported as having been the driver of the other auto. Police said both drivers were booked by them on charges of reckless dri ving. | FOB THE BEST IN NEWS. 1 READ The Greater OMAHA GUIDE' ilowans Give $1,000.00 To Isaac Woodard Fund NEW YORK. Nov. 21st—Isaac Woodard's appearance at mass j rallies held in his behalf have been heartily supported by NAACP branches throughout the country, as is attested by the returns com ing into the national office. Ike Smalls, president of the Iowa State Conference of branches which held a rally for Woodard when he was there on November 17th sent in $700 from the rally. In addition, the Des Moines NAA CP branch gave $300 making a total of $1000. i Harvey Parham, ^ treasurer of the St. Louis, Mo., branch brought a check into the national office for $500 as a contribution to the Isaac Woodard fund. Of this, $392 was raised at the mass meeting for Woodard on October 27th and $107.83 was contributed by the branch. Mr. Parham also brought with him, as a gift from the St. Louis branc, the original of a cartoon by D. D. Fitzpatrick which appeared in the St. Louis Post Dispatch during the Lawrenceburg trials, entitled, “New Method in Law renceburg, Tenn.”. The cartoon de* picts a judge referring to a big book, labeled, “Legal Lynching.” Inatl news I! I REVIEW i i Liberian Republic Buys Home In Queens NEW YORK—Global—Mr. Jas Suozzo of 29-04 Gilmore St., East \ Elmhurst, Queens, has sold his one family brick dwelling to the Re public of Liberia. The purchase was completed through Dr. Fred erdrick Price, Consul General of Liberia, according to the Corona Holding Co. U. S. Marines Manhandle Filipinos MANILA—Although a published report from the presidential palace issued last week supporting alleg ed manhandling of Filipinos by Marines, the report stated that these cases emanating from the Olongapo naval base, were isola ted cases, not following any set pattern. Rep. Ramon Magsaysay made the original charge. Crowd Boos Name of Field Marshall, Jan Christian Smuts at Meeting NEW YORK—Sen. H. M. Bas ner, white representative of four million natives in the South Afri can Parliament, brought jeers and boos from the audience of a mass meeting held at the Abyssinian Baptist church Sunday, November 17. Field Marshall Smuts is head of the African Delegation to the U. N. Senator Basner called Mar shall Smuts, the architect of a system which has reduced the na tive population to a shameful so cial and economic condition. Frank Anthony, who shared the speakers platform with the head of the Indian delegation, Mrs. Vi jaya Lakshmi Pandit, called the union’s incorporation plan a viol ation of the U. N. charter. He said 'what we want is the setting up of a trusteeship council to ad minister Southwest Africa”. The administration of the for mer German colony, now a union mandate, jhe said, has been so discreditable that he would not consent to the union’s being given administration of the territory even under a trusteeship council. It could not be trusted to ad minister a trust territory he said. Mrs. Pandit asked for fewer U. N. words and more U. N. ac tion. She said “the great need to day is a speedy implementation of the promises which the charter holds out to the people of the world.” Pvt. Lem as Woods Granted New Trial by Truman WASHINGTON, D. C—The War Department announced last week that President Truman had gran ted a new court-martial trial to Pvt. Lemas Woods, jr., Detroit G I who was found guilty of kill ing his tentmate in the Philippines. THE MORE YOU TEIX--THE MORE YOFXL BELL I ADVERTISE IT!!! * • • CNS NEWS ROUNDUP i On His Trail NEW YORK. (Calvin's News Service)—Now’ that Representa tive May has escaped investigation by a Senate committee, the docket is being set up in earnest to give Senator Theodore Bilbo the work3. It is predicted that Bilbo will only resume his seat for a few weeks, it at all, in the next Con gress. Meanwhile a petition that will contain one million signatures is being circulated to unseat ‘ The Man” on the grounds of fraud and intimidation. Boom—Then Bust! NEW YORK—Max Lerner. not- I ed newspaper and radio commen tator said in a recent broadcast, that the cost of living would rise another five per cent, mid..‘after the boom has spent itself, the bust will come sharper and sooner.." A Full House BERLIN—If you’re wondering how the Army of Occupation is ^ making out in Germany, here is 1 an item that will give you a slant on one side of it. The Berlin jails are so badly overcrowded that on ly those persons accused of the most serious crimes are held for trial. Hot Bananas! SAN JOSE, Costa Rica—Despite a revamped labor policy, the Uni ted Fruit Company still has its troubles with the natives in this paradise of bananas. Recently it wras necessary to have troops sum moned to quell a disturbance by the natives who threatened to set fire to the plantations. Back Again! INDIANAPOLIS—The Ku Klux Klan and its spawn are under in vestigation in this community. Masquerading under a dozen inno cent-sounding names, the Klan off sheets are dedicated to the prin ciple of ‘‘White Christian Ameri canism” only. Gov. Griswold Designates Christmas Seal Week The Period of November 25 to December 25, 1946, has been offi cially named by Governor Dwight Griswold as “Christmas Seal Month” in Nebraska. “This year,” said Governor Gris' wold in his official proclamation "in keeping with its tradition, the Nebraska Tuberculosis Associat ion will conduct its Fortieth an nual Christmas Seal Sale to ob tain financial assistance in carry ing on the fight against tubercu losis. The sale began November 25 and will continue through the Christmas season’’. "People of Nebraska are well aware of the great and effective work that is accomplished through the use of Christmas Seal funds. L<ast year, tuberculosis claimed more than 173 Nebraska lives and there have been 523 newly-report ed cases of this disease in our state during 1946. The battle a gaint tuberculosis continues un abated, and I know that Nebras kans will give their support most willingly to this struggle which means so much to the health of our people. "NOW THEREFORE, I, Dwight Griswold, Governor of the State of Nebraska do hereby proclaim Nov ember 25 as the time for the in auguration of the Fortieth annual Christmas Seal Sale and respec fully urge the people of Nebraska to respond to the Association’s appeal and to cooperate by pur chasing Seals in keeping with their financial ability. “IN WITNESS WHEREOF T have hereunto set my hands and caused the Great Seal of the State of Nebraska to be affixed.” With 523 new cases of tubercu losis reported in Nebraska up to November 2—77 more than were reported during all of last year— the Nebraska Tuberculosis Assn, hopes to top last year’s Seal Sale figure of $131^273.45 in order to step up the tempo of the fight a gainst this highly contagious di sease. ~ha1l WORK OF CIO. In Fight For Race Equality NEW YORK, Nov. 21st—To the CIO convention, meeting this week in Atlantic City N. J. Walter White, executive secretary of the NAACP sent the following tele gram addressed to Philip Murray CIO president: "National Association for Ad vancement of Colored People ex tends heartiest greetings to the convention of the congress of in dustrial organizations. Negro A mericans and others active in tne struggle to secure equality of ec onomic opportunity and full citi zenship rights for miority groups hail the endeavors of the CIO in this area. Realizing that the goals of labor are identical with progress and security for all we have recent ly added to our staff a labor sec retary, Mr. Clarencce M Mitchell jr., in the hope that even closer cooperation will be developed in the future in our common right against bigotry, exploitation and poverty’, Louisville Branch NAACP Pickets Segregated Theatre LOUISVILLE, Ky., Nov. 15th_ To protest the policy of segrega tion in a municipal auditorium, the Louisville branch of the NAACP threw a picket line around the Mu nicipal Auditorium tonight where Billy Rose’s ‘‘Carmen Jones” is being presented. According to Alfred M. Carroll president of the branch, while the general policy of the auditorium years ago had been to segregate at all attractions, under former Mayor Wilson Wyatt, a new policy had been put into effect of no se gregation when Negro attractions appeared. To make clear to the citizens of Louisville that there were people and organizations which resented the present Mayor’s policy of se gregation, the NAACP will con tinue to demonstrate throughout the run of this popular all-Negro musical. PRESIDENT TRUMAN GREETS NAACP YOUTH CONFERENCE NEW ORL-ANS. La., Nov. 21— From the White House, President Truman sent greetings to Mrs. Ruby Hurley, NAACP. Youth Se cretary. in recognition of the NAA CP's Eighth Annual Conference, which is meeting this week in New Orleans, La. In his message, which was read at the opening session this morning, the President said: “I take pleasure in sending greet ings to the Youth Councils and College Chapters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People on the occasion of their Eighth Annual Conference “The Youth of today will inherit the world now being shaped—will inherit its hope and its despair, its idealism and its cynicism, its de* mocracy and its autocracy. Youth will have had little share in de termining the shape of that world yet from among the ranks of youth, the leaders must come who i can take that inheritancce, work with it, build on it, improve it and eventually pass on to other hands the task of guiding it. “The task of our future leaders will call for great skill and wis dom. It is well that the Youth of the NAACP should gather to dis cuss the great problems of our time—the achievement of a more perfect democracy in our own country, and an enduring peace a mong the nations of the world. “I wish you every success in your present deliberations and in your future activities. Pledge Respect To Negro Womanhood RICHMOND, Va—From now on if you’re a female of the Negro species in Virginia ‘and a white man comes up to you. tips his hat and calls you ’’Miss” or “Mrs." more than likely the tradition smasher will turn out to be a Baptist. Last week, white Baptists meet ing here in their annual state con vention passed an unprecedented resolution recommending that, ‘‘a Negro maid be called Miss, a Ne gro lady be called Mrs. and that hats be tipped to them by white men ‘as to white women.”'Only a few delegates dissented when the suggestion was introduced by the Rev. W. Wesley Shrader, pastor of First Church, Lynchburg. Des Moines YWCA Dissolves Branch; Ends Segregation DES MOINES,—The Blue Tri angle branch of the Young Wo mens’ Christian Association which has been in existence as the Ne gro unit o fthe YWCA since 1919 has joinned its forces with the Central association here as the first step of the local YWCA’s plans for complete integration. STEPS ON RIDER’S TOES; MAN KILLED vv aannwiu.'l, U. is_Police are vigourously searching for the trigger-happy street car ride who shot to death Geoge E. Janey, 34, early Sunday as the later attemp ted to ‘apologize for stepping on the stranger’s foot in a crowded tram. Passengers told police that the gunman whipped a .38-caliber pi stol and fired two shots at Mr. Janey just as the victim good-na turedly began to beg pardon for treading on the man’s toes. The shooting took place at Tenth and H Streets, N. E. The murderer then stepped on the treadle of the car’s center door and escaped before passen gers were aware of what h*ad hap" pened, according to police. Mr. Janey died several hours later in Casualty Hospital. THURGOOD MARSHALL, NAACP. COUNSEL NEARLY JAILED BY COLUMBIA POLICEMEN ! __ NEW YORK. N. Y._Thurgood Marshall, Chief Counsel for the NAACP was arrested and nearly jailed in Columbia, Tenn., on a trumped up charge of "drunken driving” when a determined con tingent of deputy sherriffs and members of the Tennessee State Highway Patrol set out to 'get' the lawyer who defended Negroes charged with participating in the riots in February. The car in which NAACP law yers Thurgood Marshall. Z. A. Looby, Maurice Weaver and re porter Harry Raymond were rid ing was stopped three miles out side of Columbia by State Patrol cars. The lawyers were on their way to Nashville following the end of the two-day trial of William Pillow and Lloyd Kennedy, which culminated in the acuittal of Pil low and a sentence of five years for Kennedy. The three patrol cars, con taining about eight troopers, pull ed up in front of the lawyers’ car and charged them with carrying liquor in their car. In their inves tigation for the imagined liquor, the troopers ordered the men out of the car, tore out the seats and demanded that th four men submit to a personal search of their cloth ing. Looby and Marshall refused to allow a frisking unless a war rant was shown. The police then produced a John Doe warrant, charging that] liquor was being transported ih violation of the Maury County local option law. The officers seemed considerably i puzzled by the presence of Harry Raymond, a white man whom they apparently could not identify. Finding not contraband, the troopers held a quiet discussion among themselves, out of earshot of the NAACP counsel, after which they came back to the car and told the group to be on its way. Five miles further on. the law yers were again overtaken and stopped by the same three cars • of patrolmen, who flashed bright i lights inside the car and demand ed that Marshall show his drivers license, although Looby had by now taken over the wheel from Marshall. Upon seeing the license, the troopers let the group continue on its way. Just as they started the car the troopers returned and said to Mar shall, “We’ve got to charge you with drunken driving,”. Then then insisted that Marshall get out of his car and into theirs to be taken to Columbia. Instead of heading in that direction, however the 3 cars, bearing Marshall, turned into a dark back road, which did not lead back to town. looby, Weaver and Raymond, after a hasty conference, decided to follow the car. After they had gone about ten miles further, the three cars ahead stopped, realiz ing they were being tailed, and turned around, setting off this time in the direction of Columbia. The procession turned in at a magistrates in Columbia, where Marshall was charged with drunk en driving. Said Marshall to the judge, “If you believe I’ve been drinking, smell my breath”, and he blew it into the magistrate’s face. The magist. had to admit that Marshall a, arently had not been drinking. He therefore re fused to hold him. This apparently angered the policemen, who seem ed to want to see Marshall put in to the Columbia for ‘safe keeping’ This is the same jail where two Negroes were shot to death by ] State Commissioner of Safety Lynn Bomar's patrolmen follow ing their arrest after the riots’ Following his release by the judge. Marshall, Loobby, Weaver and Raymond drove to the Negro business section where they felt they’d be reasonably safe. There Negro residents provided them with another car, and, getting into the lawyer’s car themselves, all drove out to the main road to Nashville. This ruse successfully threw the trooper filled cars off the trail of the NAACP laywers. In their borrowed car, the men reached Nashville safely, via a back road. Immediately upon arrival in Nashville, Marshall sent a tele gram to Attorney General Tom Clark demanding an investigation of the matter and asking that cri minal charges against the officers who participated in the outrage be pressed. Said Marshall: “This type of intimidation of defense lawyers charged with duty of de fending persons charged with crime cannot go unnoticed.. ” TEACHERSTELL OF RACE STUDY Speaking •at an Omaha meeting of the National Conference of Christians and Jews Saturday noon. Mrs. Lillian J. Doherty of Kellom School said the Chicago Worshop of Human Relations which she attended last summer considered it improper to refer to racial or religious groups as “ty pical”. * Other teachers who appeared on the program were Mrs. Laura Heacock, principal of Howard Kennedy; Miss Mary E. Patterson Mammouth Park; Miss Lucille J'alas, principal of Florence and Miss Verna DQIow, Benson High. The Workshops were described as seminars in which most races and creeds are represented and where students study inter-cultur al problems. They learn tolerance by association as well as study, the te'achers said. Northside Branch YMCA To Move Into New Quarters Atty. Charles F. Davis, chair man of the Committee of Manage ment of the Near Northside Branch YMCA, announced this week that the “Y” would move to 2307 North Twenty-fourth Street on December 10th, since the lease on the present quarters expires on that date. The present lease was secured last December by the Youth Cen ters Inc., affiliate of the Commu nity Welfare Council of the Com munity Chest, for the establish ment of the Northside Commun ity Center. With the *advent of the YMCA program into the com munity the Northside Community Center was dissolved and the lease on the building was assigned to the Omaha YMCA for the balance of its term. The building has been repurch ased by Mr. James C. Jewell to be used as *a business center. Da vis also announced that although the new location is somewhat smaller than the present quarters the same program will still be carried on in an effort to meet the needs <and interests of the ci tizens of the community. The gymnasium of the Urban League together with other com munity facilities will be used by the “Y” groups. Renovation and decoration of the quarters will start on December 10th, with an official opening scheduled before the holidays. No interruption in the activities is anticipated during the moving and renovation. The committee of man agement and staff appreciates the cooperation of the entire commu nity in the “Y” program and con tinually urge them to participate in the “Y” <activities. COLUMBIAN" FLOORED ATLANTA—Assistant Attorney General Dan Duke, with a single blow of his fist, floored .Emory C. Burke, hate-crazed president of the Columbians, Saturday in the Fulton County Courthouse after the two had engaged in a verbal tilt. “I’ve taken all I can stand from you”, shouted Duke before drop ping Burke on the courtroom floor. Burke sustained a gash over his eye as a result of the blow. Recovering shortly after he hit the floor he shook his finger and yelled, “You’ll answer for this.’’ He was quieted by his attorney. The cl’ash occured after Burke TWO AME. BISHOPS Expelled at Gen’I. Conference LITTLE ROCK, Ark_African i i Methodist Episcopal church dele- 1 | gates and members of the extra j session of the General conference j meeting here in the Joseph Rob- j inson Memorial ^auditorium Nov. i 20 to 22, votSfH unanimously to I expell tw» bishops, suspend a third and exonerate a fourth. Bishops David H. Sims of the New York conference and Bishop J George Edward Curry, formerly of the 12th Episcopal district were erpelled as bishops of the AME church by a vote of 999 to 35 and 812 to 94 respectively. There were i 1183 eligible to vote. Bishop W. i A. Fountain Was exonerated. Bishop Sims was accused, and found guilty of actions which dis played no respect for the laws, doctrines or government of the church and was in open rebellion causing humiliation to the church, j Sims did not appear. Bishop Curry was accused snd ; found guilty of four charges, seek ing to nullify the authority of the Bishop’s council in a decision made in June, 1946, in Kansas City, Kansas, embezzlement, fraud and maladministration. Bishop H. M. Davis was sus pended without pay from now un til the regular session of the Bi shop's council which will be held in February of next year. If the Bishop’s council sees fit it can however, extend the suspension. Savs Act Illegal Sims said Saturday that his ex pulsion as a bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal church was “illegal”. He added that he had protested the action by a special general church conference at Lit tle Rock. Arkansas. Mr. Sims declared that under laws of the church he should h ave been given the privilege of appear ing before the conference to an swer complaints against him. Distribute “Oust Bilbo” Buttons Gloria Chaplain of Ashville, North Carolina (left) and Kitty \ Reed of Oxford, Mississippi, joined the “Oust Bilbo” Cam paign by filling bushel baskets with Oust Bilbo Buttons at the Civil Rights Congress headquarters, 205 East 42nd St., N. Y. C. The buttons, along with petition* urging the Sen ate to refuse to seat Bilbo, are being circulated throughout the country by the National Committee to'Oust Bilbo, which is sponsored by the Civil Rights Congress. ‘BILBO IS NATIONAL ISSUE’ -CIVIL RIGHTS CONGRESS A strong plea that the open hearings on the fitness of Senator Theodore G. Bilbo to take his seat in the new Senate not be confined to Mississippi or to residents of Mississippi was directed today to the Senate Campaign Expendi tures Committee by the CRC. Applauding the decision of the senate committee to open its in quiry in Jackson, Miss., on Dec. 2 the civil rights organization warn ed that certain witnesses, espec ially Negroes, would be reluctant to give testimony in the "restric tive and threatening atmosphere which pervades, the state.” Call ing such witnesses to Washington would assure fuller and freer tes timony, it was asserted by Milton Kaufman, executive director, in a letter to the senate committee. Testimony concerning Senator Bilbo’s campaign statements can hardly be confined to Mississippi sources, since the campaign was covered by the newspapers and ra_ dio on a national scale, Kaufman stated. The Civil Rights Congress also urged that the inquiry should ex tend beyond the issue of denial of suffrage resulting from the cand dates open exhortations to violate the constitution and incitation to lawlessness.” “No inquiry into Senator Bilbo'* fitness to sit,” he declared, “can fail to include his espousal on the floor of the Senate of policies of anti-Semitism, rabid race supre macy and the approval of Nazi , doctrines. His correspondence with i citizens throughout the nation, on ' Senate stationery, vituperative and | insulting to their race, religion or birthplace, should be also studied’’ "We also urge a public declara tion by the committee as a whole or by the chairman in behalf of the committee, that all Mississippi witnesses who appear to testify will receive the fullest federal pro tection of their person. Without such open and unconditional as surance, considerable evidence that the committee has the right and duty to study, will be with | held.” Asserting that it had assisted in the preparation of the material now before the committee, the or ganization offered "the services of our counsel and investigators who had helped gather the statements and^affidavits from citizens in centers throughout the state of Mississippi - - — ----- and his attorney had been confer ring with two judges over the state’s suit to revoke the charter of the anti-Negro, anti-Jewish Columbians. NEW YORK V. NAMES NEGRO ‘MISS VARIETIES’ NEW YORK.—The forces of democracy took another step for ward when New York university broke a precedent in the spirit of real Americanism. The college magazine “Varieties” named Miss Edna Besson, 21, a junior in the school of education at NYU, ‘Miss Varieties of November.’ Miss Bes* son is the first Negro girl to be thus selected in the school’s his tory. MAXINE BROWNLEE Dismissed O n Slaying Charges - i Maxine Brownlee, 21, of 1831 North Twenty-third Street, charg ed with manslaughter in the fa tal stabbing of Raymond L. Union last Saturday morning, was dis missed by Judge Perry Wheeler after a preliminary hearing in Municipal Court Wednesday, Nov. 27th. The Judge said evidence in dicated she acted in self-defense when Union started beating her. Maxine claimed Union, who also lived at 1831 North Twenty-third Street, began beating her about 1 a. m. last Saturday morning after the had left a tavern at Twenty-fourth and Cuming Sts., in the company of Leonard Wilson 2623 Seward and Mary Johnson of 1806 North Twenty-second Street. Maxine Said she picked up a knife dropped by Union and stabbed him once. He died an hour later at_ Doctor’s hospital. Urge Pres., and OPA TO RESIST LIFTING RENT CEILINGS NEW YORK, Nov. 20th_Alar med at the rising cost of living Walter White, NAACP executive Secretary, today sent an appeal to President Truman urging him to resist pressure to increase rent ceilings. In a strong telegram to the President, Mr. WTiite said: On behalf of all Americans, we urge you to stand firm against pressure to increase rent ceilings. Record shows lowest vacancy rate in history, almost no expenditure* for repairs and redecorating, and profits of real estate operators above 1939. Contrasted with these profits are pinched budgets of American families forced to pay inflation prices. Any increase in rents now will will cut into food and health expenditures of Am erican people and seriously en danger standard of living of the country. Rent controls mutt con tinue at present levels.” In addition to this message, the NAA£P wired its larger branches and those in strategic areas, ur ging that they and their members telegraph Paul Porter, Admini strator of the Office of Price Ad ministration in Washington D C demanding that he, too stand firm against pressure to eliminate rent controls. This action is in line with a tele gram sent by the New York Con sumers’ Council to Prevent Pres ident Truman urging him to act to prevent lifting of rent Ceilings Over a dozen organizations, in S!SLU“' NAACP
