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VXGBO HISTORY EVEBY WEEK
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON (1871.
KKW), was burn la Jacksonville, Fla,
where be later becuuie high school prlncl-
pal. He rose to world fame as a poet,
author, lyricist, journalist, composer, pro-
ducer of light operas, and u ■ lawyer
•nd statesman. Under President "Teddy"
Boosevelt, he served as U. S. consul to
Venezuela, to Nlcnjrngua, and Aioren. With
bis brother, J. Rosamond Johnson, be cuin-
poscd "The Negro National Anthem."
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WOMAN, FIRING AT ANOTHER, KILLS BOY, 11
Negroes Prepare
' To Fight School
Bondlssue^MayW
ConstructionEyed as Ruse
To Perpetuate Jim
Crow Schools
As Negro leadership was report-
ed girding to fight It at the polls,
the San Antonio Independent school
district approved a pro]>osed $17
million dollar bond Issue, at a
board meeting held Wednesday
morning.
The bond election was ordered
for May 111. /
At a two-hour bearing, Tuesday
night, at Son l'edro playhouse, Ne-
gro representatives tagged the Is-
sue as a plan to continue segrega-
tion In the schools, and under-
scored proposed plans for the con-
struction of new schools In predom-
inantly Negro sections, where nenr-
by schools, now designated for
whites, already exist, and, with
Integration, could accommodate all
children of the area*, without addi-
tional construction.
However, projionents of the bond
Issue, declared that careful studies
show that the school |w>pulntlon will
have Increased from 58,070 to 80,030
by 10(10, and ah proposed construc-
tion, in long range planning, Is nec-
essary.
Members of the CHlnens commit-
tee have served notice that they
will work and organize to defeat
the bond Issue at the polls, May 10.
NAACP Member
Drive Reaches
1,359 Mark
Theodore E. Ollmore, chairman
of the membership campaign now-
being staged by the local branch of
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, re-
ported. this week, that the mem-
bership roll, through Sunday, to-
taled 1,350.
Tenm No. 1, Emerson Mnrcee,
captain, which led Team No. 2, It.
C. Yates, captain, by three mem-
bers, last week, stretched its lead
to 31 during the week.
There has been no change In
the position of the various teams
from lost week although Team 11 has
drawn even with team 7, which It
trailed, last week. The leading
teams, in order, are: No. 1, Emer-
son Marcee, captain, 332; No. 2,
R. C. Yates. 301; No. 8, Mrs. Willia
McClure. 245; No. 4, Harry V.
Burns, 102; No. 8, Mrs. Annie H.
Gllmore, 101; No 0, Archie John-
son, 03; No. 5. Joseph Luter, 44;
No. 11, Dr. J. T. Daniels, 44; No.
7. Charles McClinton, 15; No. 6,
Xtev. W. J. Johnson, 7; No. 10,
Jodv Johnson, 4. Workers at large,
not affiliated with any team, have
reported some 11 members.
Individual campaigners who have
solicited at least i!0 members are
B. C. Yates. 242; E. M. Friday, 175;
JJmerson Marcee. 127; H. V. Burns,
118;. bonis J. Brown, 00; Archie
Johnson, 83; Willia McClure, 40;
Marjorle King, 44; J. T. Daniels,
44; T. E. Ollmore, 30; Bonnie
Calvert, 24; A. C. Davis, 24; M.
C. Drummer, 21; Joseph Luter, 20.
Additional organizations that
have received NAACP Booster cer-
tificates for enrolling 100 per cent
of their personnel are King's Badio
eervlce. 533 Dakota; Toliver's gro-
cery, 2138 Aransas; Cuney elemen-
tary school, and Douglass junior
(S<* DRIVE, Page 4.)
THOMAS C. JKRVAY
IN N. C. RUNOFF—'Thomas C.
Jervay, prominent publisher of the
Wilmington, North Carolina Jour-
nal and of the Bnlelgh Carolinian,
a candidate for the Wilmington city
council In the municipal primary,
last week, finished second In llie
race of five candidates for two
posts, and will face a runoff elec-
tion against W. Bonald Lane. Lane,
for 10 years a member of the city
council, is a former mayor of Wil-
mington.
Jervay ran a race that command-
ed the attention of the entire city,
with the campaign slogan, "We, too,
are Americans. Taxation without
representation is un-democratic and
un-Chrlsllan."
This wos nls first entry into
politics, and was the first time a
Negro candidate had reached a run-
off In a local election since recon-
struction days.
Jervay grabbed the lead In the
early balloting. Later, however,
veteran councilman, J. E. L. Wade,
pulled ahead, but when the final
votes were in, Jervay was second,
winning over former mayor, W. Ron-
ald Lane, a Wilmington druggist,
by 05 votes.
The runoff election will be held
May 8.
Five Injured
During Usual
"Wreck Period"
Five persons were injured In San
Antonio's usual "wreck period,"
during the past week, with property
damage being under $2,200, as 24
motor vehicles were damaged in IS
separate traffic mishaps. One truck
sustained no damages, and the ex-
tent of damage to three other vehi-
cles was not immediately ascer-
tained. Three of the drivers involved
had no license to operate a motor
vehicle, three were listed as "drink-
ing" or drunk. Three women driv-
ers were Involved.
A $400 accident resulted, Wednes-
clnT-morning, April 20, when Jesse
Brown, 44, 311 North Hackberry,
driving north on Cherry, Is report-
ed to have failed to grant the right
of way, and to have disregarded a
stop sign, with his machine col-
liding with one being driven east
on Nolan by Alva B. Hyde, 20, 811
Erie. Damage to Hyde's automo-
bile was $100, to Brown's $300.
Cars driven by Thelbert T. Wil-
liams, 42, 1050 Lamar, and Emll
Frank Bnlcar, 30, 122 West Camp-
bell collided at Pine and Enst Com-
merce streets Thursday night, April
21, when Bnlcar was reported to
have been speeding, and Williams
failed to grant the right of way.
Damage to Williams' machine was
(See FIVE, Page 7.)
Ike's Contract Committee
Gets Job Wage Complaint
By the Associated Negro Press
W/ASHINGTON—Charges of job discrimination filed by the
W NAACP against four oil companies and the AFL and CIO
nmions are expected to provide a severe test for President Eisen-
hower's committee on Government Contracts which meets here
tlfis week.
Attending the one-day conference will be representatives
•f 21 state and municipal agencies.
Announced purpose of the meet
lng is to acquaint agencies repre-
sented with the national equal job
opportunity program and explore
ways in which federal, state and
local ngencies can cooperate.
The NAACP charges, however,
were expected to essentially change
the atmosphere of the meeting.
They were contained in a mem-
orandum-complaint filed with the
committee In behalf of 31 Negro
workers in Louisiana, Arkansas
■nd Texas.
Charged with discriminating
■gainst the workers are the Esso
Ptandard Oil company, Cities Serv-
ice Refining corporation, Carbide
and Chemical company, and Lion
Oil company.
Also named as defendants are
tfet Independent Industrial Work-
ers association, Baton Bouge; Lake
Charles (La.) Metal Trades coun-
cil and Local 009, International
Brotherhood of Teamsters (AFL) ;
Galveston Metal Trades Council
and Local 374, International Union
of Operating Engineers (AFL),
Texas City, Texas; Local 881, In-
ternational Union of Operating En-
glieers (AFL), and Local 434, Oil
Workers International union (CIO),
El Dorado, Ark.
The unions act as bargaining
agents for the workers and are
bound by statutory obligations for-
bidding discrimination on account
of race, color or creed.
The companies are tinder con-
tractual agreements with the U.
S. government not' to discriminate
(See COMPLAINTS, rage t.)
NotedComposer's
Son Shoots
Self to Death
J. Rosamond Johnson's
Son Kills Self
In College Dorm
By the*Associated Negro Press
ANNANDALE-ON-I1UDSON, N.
Y.—The son of the late composer
J. Kosamond Johnson, shot and
killed himself last week In bis dor-
mitory room at Bard college while
another student wns in the room.
Dist. Atty. Raymond Barratta
said the shooting of the 20-yenr-old
student was apparently suicide, but
James H. Case, Jr., president of the
college, said that whether the "self-
inflicted wound wbr a suicide or ac-
cident has not yet been established."
If it was suicide, no reason was
known. Arnold Warwick, who was
in Johnson's room, said be was re-
moving theatrical equipment from
Johnson's bed when he heard two
shots "like a cap pistol." He said
be turned around an<\ saw Johnson
ou the floor with a bi llet wound in
the head.
Police said the student missed
with his first shot from a .32 cali-
bre pistol.
Johnson's father, J. Bosamond
Johnson, died last Nov. 11. He was
one of the most famous of Negro
musicians. In ndditlon to his com-
posing talents, he was a Broadway
actor of note and directed the Music
School Settlement for Colored Peo-
ple in New Y'ork City.
Johnson wns also the brother of
James Weldon Johnson, famous Ne-
gro poet who wrote "Lift Every
Voice and Sing," sometimes refer-
red to as the Negro national anthem.
♦
Former Joyce
Maynard Dies
In California
Word was received here Thurs-
day night, April 21, of the death In
Jjoh Angeles, California, of Mrs.
Benjamin Harvey Johnson, of that
city. Mrs. Johnson wa9 the former
Miss Joyce Yvonne Maynard, 117
Boston street, this city.
Her death followed a short ill-
ness, with her having been critically
111 one week prior to her death. She
was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
B. Harry Maynard, this city.
Mrs. Maynard and a sister of the
decedent, Mrs. J. Paul Chretien,
Jr., were In Los Angeles at the
time of her death. Her father and
brother-in-law, J. Paul Chretien,
Jr., left for Los Angeles, shortly
after she succumbed.
Funeral services were held there
Monday morning, April 25, at 10
o'clock," with burial taking place
in that city.
In addition to her parents, she
Is survived by two sisters, Mrs.
Jeraldlne Lehman, California; and
Mrs. J. Paul Chretien, Jr., this city;
two children, one who wns three
years old on the date of the moth-
er's death, and another 10 months
old; her widower, Benjamin Ilar-
vey Johnson, Los Angeles, Califor-
nia; and other relatives.
Three Weeks Remain
To Enter Baby Contest
ONLY three weeks remain to enter the Carnation company's
second annual Home-town Healthy Baby contest, San An-
tonians are reminded this week.
All entries must positively be poitmarked no later than
midnight, May 14.
Every baby who is cute and heaShy looking has an excel-
lent chance to win the top prixe of $300 «ftsh—little girls, little
Local NAACP
Youth Council
Seeking Members
A special appeal wns being made
this week for members in the Youth
council of the San Antonio branch
of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People. In
1054, the local council received the
Ike Small trophy as the most out-
(See MEMBERS, Page 3.)
♦
Hot Water Burns
Woman During
Tiff With Mate
An abusive husband wns arrested
and placed in the city jail, Sunday
evening, following an altercation
with his wife who came out second
best In an argument at their Albert
walk home.
Mrs. Gertrude Clark, 40, 418 Al-
bert walk, Buffered second degree
burns about the face and right arm
when, according to her statement
to police, her husband Melvln Clark,
25, "came home drunk" and start-
ed argnlng and abusing ber.
Clark is reported to have struck
his mate on the face with his fist.
She went into the kitchen where
she picked up a bucket of hot water.
Clark struck her again causing the
water to splatter on her right arm
causing second degree burns.
Mrs. Clark was taken to Robert
B. Green hospital by a Morales
ambulance. Clark was booked for
aggravated assault. 1
boys, chubby babies, tir.y newborn
babies. Even Imbles who were en-
tered 1. last year's Healthy Baby
contest have another chance to win
this year, provided they are still
three years of age, and did not
win a cash prize In the 1054 con-
test.
In the Carnation advertisement
on Page 4 will be found a free
official entry blank, and complete
contest rules. These entry blanks
may also be obtained at neighbor'
hood groceries, drug stores, Ice
houses, the office of Beglster, and
community business establishments,
CHANCE FOR OUtiANIZATIONS
There is a chance for social
organizations, clubs, fraterni-
ties, sororities, church groups
to win some prize money for
their respective treasuries.
To the organization or group
entering a first or second prize
winner, will go a special cash
S. A. Airman Gets
Decoration from
UN Commission
Air Force Staff Sergeant Charles
W. II1U of San Antonio, recently re-
ceived the Commendation ribbon
for meriiuiiux* ««fvlce from Major
General Leslie D. darter, senior
United Nations command member
to the inllltnry armistice commlS'
sion in Korea.
Hill distinguished himself as a
senior clerk in the United Nations
command military armistice com-
mission.
Hill, son . of Mrs. Lena II111, 2210
Wyoming street, entered the air
force In December, 1053. and was
last stationed at Travis Air Force
base, California. His decorations
include the Purple Henrt, Combat
Infantryman badge and the UN
and Korean service ribbons.
— * ,
New York Sued
For Half-Million
In Slaying by Cop
By the Associated Nesro Press
NEW YOBK — A $500,000 suit
against the city of New York,
brought by the widow of a Brooklyn
cook slain by an off-duty policemar,
opened last Monday before Supreme
Court Justice J. D1 Glovanna.
Charges Include wrongful death,
false arrest and pain and suffering
of Arthur Battle, Sr. He was report-
ed shot by Patrolman Stanley Davis,
one of three policemen who had
gone to Battle's home May 25, 1052,
in search of a gun lost by Davis.
Battles died December 20, 1052,
from a bullet In his spinal cord.
Patrolman Davis, who claimed
self defense, was Indicted, convicted
of manslaughter and sentenced to
8-15 years in Sing Sing. The appel-
late division reversed the lower
court's decision on the grounds that
the assistant district attorney In
his summation bad made "lnflamma-
award «f $'25 from the Cama-
Uon company.
It Is interesting to know that
healthy table* have been the first
concern *f Carnation for many
years. Carnation research Is a never-
ending job that extends into each
of the company's 35 eva|K>rated
milk plants in the U. S. and Cana-
da. As astfesult, mothers and doc-
tors everywhere have complete con-
fidence in Carnation's safety for
baby's formula. No other form of
cows mlltols so nourishing nud di-
gestible.
From Carnation's world-famous
Holsteia herd of "contented cows"
nt the Carnal ion farms near Seattle,
Washington, have come the blood
lines that have produced nearly half
of the woDd* championship butter-
fat and ililk producing cows of ail
time. ,
EST, Page 4.)
San Antonian
Arrested in Rape
Of 6-Year-01d
58-Year-Old Former
Beau of C h i 1 d's
Mother Accused
A 58-year-old 2800 block Wyoming
street man was arrested, Thursday,
April 21, nud booked for rape, in
conuectlon with alleged mistreat-
ment of a six-year-old Mittman
street girl.
The attacker Is said to have for-
merly gone with the little girl's
mother.
The mother told investigators
that, while she was at work, she
had left at home her children, one
of whom is 12 years old.
When she returned, the six-year-
old child told her that the man had
come to the house about noou, car-
ried them to the store bought candy,
then returned them to the house.
He carried the little girl into
the bathroom where the assault
occurred. The child said that the
man admonished her not to tell her
mother as she would have him put
in jail.
Officers arrested the suspect as
he sat in his automobile in front
of his residence. He denied the
charges, and refused to make a
statement. *
Bullet Goes Through Arnii
Into Body of Youth
Riding Bicycle
AN ll-year-old boy, who was riding his bicycle out of a driven
way in the 600 block of Sterling, was shot and fatally wounds
ed, Saturday, by a brawling 41-year-old woman, with a .22 calk
bre rifle, who was shooting at another woman.
The boy, Lloyd Miller, 827 Sterling, was hit in the left armi
with the bullet passing through and lodging in his chest. Shot
shortly after 5 o'clock Saturday afternoon, the boy died at 1:30,
Sunday morning, iu Baptist Mem-
(See COP, Page 3.)
REV, PR. P. 8 WILKINSON
TO SftBAK IN LONDON—The
Rev. D£.P*; K. Wilkinson nationally
known clefgymau. and pastor of
New Light-Baptist church, has been
singularly firaored by the Baptist
World allUlnce, which has Invited
him to speak in the golden Jubilee
session of the alliance which will
meet in London, England, July
16-22.
Dr. Wilkinson has been program-
med to speak ir the continental con-
ferences, and will speak in West-
minster chai>el on the subject,
"Evangelizing North America."
+
Extortion Charges
Filed Against S. A.
Woman inUS Court
A complaint was filed, last week,
before U. B. Commissioner P. A.
Lockhart, against Mrs. Ada Mae
More, SO, 1047 Gorir.an, charging
her with a violation of the extortion
statute.
Mrs. Moore, was charged with
having sent ft threatening letter
through the mails, invJnnuary, ad-
dressed to Mrs. K. McCampbell,
1803 Iowa street.
FBI authorities had arrested her
the same day. She was arraigned
before ■Comml?si",'er Loekliart, her
bond set at $1,500, and released.
'Sippi Intimidation, Economic
"Squeeze" Fail, Says NAACP
By th
J
Auto Inspection
Seal Theft Leads
To OtherCharg es
The investigation of the theft of
a state auto insi>ectlon sticker led
to four serious charges against a
16-year-old youth, Saturday.
Frank Knyk.ndaU complained
that a gttefcer Imd been stolen from
uit> service station at 2C02 Freder-
icksburg road.
A suspect wns traced through a
license number. The car was found
to have been registered to another
man, hut had been sold to the 10
year-old youth.
The teen-ager and car were lo-
cated, with the stolen automobile
Inspection sticker—which had been
altered—being on the car. Under
questioning, the youth confessed to
tuklng the sticker. The following of-
fenses were listed against him.
Theft of auto Inspection slicker;
operating a njotor vehicle without
(See SEAL, Page 3.)
■■ ■ ♦ .
Woman Slashes
Another in Row
Over Boy Friend
A Spellman walk woman who re-
ceived kuife slashes at the hands
of another woman, early Sunday
morning, April 24, iu the 200 block
of Ezell street, later found her
assailant to be the "wife" of the in-
jured woman's "boy friend."
Mrs. Clara Foster, 222-A Spellman
walk, told investigating officers
that she was cut by a woman later
identified as Mrs. Thelnia Morris,
43, 3009 Howard street, who had
walked up to her and said, "That's
my husband," and started cutting
her.
The complainant's boy friend,
Cleveland Williams, Goldsmith
street, had left before officers ar-
rived. Mrs. Foster was taken to
Robert B. Green hospital, by a Hope
ambulance, for treatment of a four-
inch cut on the right shoulder and
a four-inch cut on the right wrist.
Mrs. Morris was arrested and
booked for aggravated assault with
a knife.
orial hospital.
Arrested as the boy's slayer was
Mary Lou Williams, 41, 212 Dalton
alley, who was arg#ing with Mrs.
Ethel Faye Phillips, 24, 019 Ster-
ling drive, and her mother, Mrs.
Helen Mcknight, 40, of the same
address. The bullet apparently was
intended for Mrs. McKnight.
The boy was riding out of the
driveway at 621 Sterling, next door
to the McKnight residence, when the
shot was fired.
The argument concerned a razor,
the return of which Mrs. Williams
had demanded, and the alleged dat-
ing of Mrs. Williams' man friend
by the other women.
Mrs. Phillips said that Mrs. Wil-
liams had come to her residence
and asked for a straight razor
that, about two months before,
Mrs. Williams had asked Mrs. Phil
lips to keep for her.
Mrs. Phillips stated that she,
would have to look for it, and said
that the invited the woman inside
Mrs. Williams refused to come in,
but told Mrs. Phillips to get the ra-
zor, that she would he back.
She returned in about five min-
utes with a rifle, accused Mrs. Phil-
lips of "partying" with her boy
friend, called her a double-crosser.
and allegedly threatened to kill
her.
Mrs. Phillips said that she sent
her 10-year-old daughter to auk
Mrs. Phillips' mother, Mrs. Mc-
Knight, at a nearby tavern, where
she was employed, It sbe knew
where the raeor was.
Mrs. McKnight,. who said that
she had carried the razor to the
bar, "to put away," picked it up,
and walked to the house.
When Mrs. McKnight approached,
Mrs. Williams told her to throw her
the razor, not to get close enough
to hand it to her. Mrs. McKnight.
tossed the razor to her, with its
landing by Mrs. Williams' feet.
Mrs. Williams is then reported to
have asked her:
"Are you trying to hit me?
You think you're bad, but I'll
show you."
Then the rifle was fired. Just as
young Miller rode out of the drive-
way, next door, with the slug
hitting him.
Mrs. McKnight disarmed Mrs.
Williams and threw her to the
(See BOY, Page 8.)
♦ .
J. Crow, as Usual,
At N. 0. Schools
Founder's Day
By the Associated Negro Press
NEW ORLEANS—The New Or-
leans parish school board sent out
notices that the usual Jim Crow
procedures will be observed in the
celebration of Founder's day, Fri-
day, May 6. x
This day has been observed for
years. School children pass by the
monument to John McDonough and
(See USUAL, Page 9.)
Action Not Likely (
Against Graves -•
Reagan Wants Job
Caldwell's Killer Probably
Escapes Further Action; •'
Reagan Sues for Job
Thomas Reagan, fired white su-
premacist cop, is making an all-out
fight to regain his job, in the moat;
recent developments in this case.
At the same time, further action
against Oma R. Graves, anoihee
former police officer, who wns ac-
quitted in the "mistake" killing
of Johnny Caldwell, now seems to
be dwindling. The United States
justice department has decided
against taking any action, as the
case has been prosecuted in state
courts.
Graves killed Caldwell, 58, on
Feb. 23, 1W54, in the course of a
bootlegging investigation. Caldwell
was shot in the head as he sat)
in the office of a North New Braun-
fels avenue tavern.
Two fellow officers and Grave®
fabricated a "self defense" story
and planted a knife by Caldwell'^
hand. Although obviously phony to
close observers, this frame-up wa#
immediately accepted by police of-
ficials.
However, indignant protests by
citizens forced an investigation with
the fabrication being confessed.
Graves admitted that Caldwell waa
slain as Graves snapped an "empty'*
gun at Caldwell's head as the lailer
sat In the office of the tavern. He
said that it wns "an awful mi*
take."
Graves wns indicted for murdef
with malice, but, surprisingly, se-
cured n change of venue, with the
trial being transferred to Jourdan-
ton "due to prejudice against
Graves in San Antonio."
The transferring of the trial t4>
Jourdanton, with that area's well-
known mores and customs relative
to Negroes, was tantamount to ac-
quittal. Few persons had any hope
that Graves would be convicted in
Jourdanton, regardless of evidence
or facts.
The jurors hardly left the jury,
box to return a "not guilty" ver*
diet. The case was explored to see
If there was basis of action by the
United States department of justice
for civil liberties violations.
A transcript of the trial was for-
warded to Thurgood Marshall, famed
civil liberties lawyer, and head of
the legal defense division of the
National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People.
After examination of the tran-
script by the NAACP's Washing-
ton bureau, the local branch of the
NAACP recently was apprised of
the results of this study.
J. Francis Pohlhous, counsel,
Washington bureau, has advised the
i (See ACTION, Page S.) '
By the Associated Negro Press
[ACKSON, Miss. — Efforts of
reactionary elements in this
state to Intimidate Negro rights
spokesmen have "failed," and
the financial structures they im-
posed upon Mississippi civil
rights leaders have been con-
siderably eased by business
loans from on out-of-state
bank, it wa;, asserted here,
Monday night by a national
officer of the National Associa-
tion for the Advancement of
Colored People.
Gloster B. Current, NAACP
director of branches, told per-
sons attending a public meeting
sponsored by the local branch
of the association that It has
been "clearly demonstrated to
those who oppose desegregation
that they cannot frighten the
Negro into submission any long-
er."
NAACP work In Mississippi
"will not cease until we have
integrated the puhlie schools,
obtained employment opportuni-
ties for Negro youth, opened up
public and Iwivate housing on
a non-discriminatory basis, and
secured for the Negro citiiens
in MissiiUrW every right and
privilege extended to any other
citizen of this state," Current
declared.
Dbcosslnr the economic
squeeze on Neero rights advo-
cates applied by so-called Citi-
iens councils'in the state, Cur-
rent said that not only had
business loans made by the Tri-
State bank of Memphis alleviat-
ed the financial hardship threat'
ened by the councils, bat that
the NAACP was "successful in
preventing local representatives
of federal agencies from discrim-
inating against. militant Ne-
groes in the extension of federal
" credits."
that the NAACP In
recently has re-
.■eased financial snp-
more members, the
. .iwAesman called for
an additional 20,100 citiiens of
the state to join and help the
NAACP In its ""«ht ,#r
dom"
Woman Knifed
LastMonth,Again
Target of Slasher
Ms. Annie Mae Ford, 44, 650 Bel-
mont street, slashed less than a
month ago by another woman in a
tavern row in the 2300 block of
East Commerce street, was back
in the hospital, Saturday, again
the victim of a blade-wielding wom-
an.
Mrs. Ford suffered multiple
wounds on the breast,\ chest, arm,
shoulder, and side.
The oi»erator of a bar in the 2200
block of East Commerce, Thomas
Jordan, who witnessed the alter-
cation which occurred in front of
his establishment, said that the
woman who wounded Mrs. Ford
used a dagger with an eight-inch
long blade.
Police were unable to immediately
apprehend Mrs. Ford's assailant.
Monday, Jordan carried Elsie Leon-
ard, 1522 Gibbs street, to homicide
offices, where she was booked for ™—«
aggravated assault * knlf*. | the nine-nation growa including II-
African-AsianMeetCondemns
Racism-Powell in Spotlight
By the Associated Negro Press ,
BANDUND, Indonesia—The momentous African-Asian confer-
ence—entering its final stages—saw a resolution passed last
week condemning racial segregation, particularly South Africa'!
apartheid system.
While the political committee was potting its stamp of ap-
proval on an Indian anti-Jim Crow resolution, Liberia joined
eight other African and Asian nations in introducing a resolu-
tlon condemning "nil types of co
lonlallsm Including International
doctrines resorting to methods of
force, infiltration and subversion."
Meanwhile, Congressman Adam
Clayton Powell held the spotlight
when he told a press conference
that "it Is a mark of distinction to
be a Negro in the United States.'
Supported by Turkey, the Phil-
ippines, Pakistan. Iraq, Iran, I/Cb-
nnon, Libya, the Sudan, as well as
the only Negro republic In Africa,
the resolution was an open slap at
Communism.
It was introduced to the politi-
cal committee which had appointed
a sub committee to attempt to re-
concile various resolutions on colo-
nialism proposed by Red China,
Egypt, India and Indonesia, and
beria.
Fears that the conference would
turn Into a Red picnic proved 10
be groundless as several nation!
hammered away at the Commu-
nists.
Ceylon Premier Sir John Ivotel-
awala drew the wrath of both'
China Premier Chou En-Lai and
Indian Prime Minister Nehru whoa
he called upon China to disavow
the Comlnform, denounce Commu-
nist subversion and come out tot
the liberation of the so-called Rus-
sian satellites in Eastern Europe.
It was feared that the confer-
ence might split In half becauso
of the ferocity of the attacks npoa
the Communist world. However, tho
China premier went out of h!« wSf
f '
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