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COURT TO DECIDE WHETHER NEGRO MAY ENTER UNIVERSITY
ST. LOUIS YOUTH SEEKS TO
ENTER THE LAW SCHOOL
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MO.
Columbia, Mo.—(By Elizabeth R.
Cobb for ANP)—A hearing to de
termine whether or not Lloyd L.
Gaines, Segro, of St. Louis may
be admitted to the University of
Missouri law school, was held in
Boone circuit court Friday with
colored spectators occupying a
third of the court room.
After a day spent in hearing
witnesses, counsel for both sides
will submit briefs and Judge Dun
witte will render a decision, pro
bably not before 10 days.
The case is being pushed by the
N. A. A. C. P. Gaines was repre
sented in his mandamus suit by
Charles R. Houston Sydney Red
mond, Henry D. Espy and Wither
spoon. Then contended Gaines
could receive equaitly of of oppor
tunity only by being permitted to
study at Missouri U. Attorneys for
the university declared separate
schools had been provided by state
law and policy and university cura
tors had no choice other than to
refuse to admit Gaines.
Senator Rollins, president of the
board of curators of Lincoln uni
versity, the state supported color
ed school, contended that if a Ne
gro were admitted to Missouri U.
it would cause a breach of dis
cipline. Dean Houston immediate
ly asked if that had been the case
at the University of Maryland to
which a Negro was admitted after
a legal battle. Rollins answered
that he “didn’t know.”
Redmond in reviewing Gaines’
effort to become a student at the
university, said the youth had
been completely acceptable until it
was learned he was a Negro. Al
though it was suggested that
Gaines take advantage of the
scholarship provided by the state
for the instruction of Negro stu
dents at schools outside of Mis
souri in courses taught by the
state university but not at Lincoln
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U., Gaines merely renewed his ef
forts to enter the university.
It is the contention of the N. A.
A. C. P. that the Missouri law
school offers special opportunity
for the study of Missouri law and
this could not be obtained outside
the state. Sections of the unlver
sitl catulog and law review were
offered In support of this conten
tion.
The state’s defense is (hat the
establishment of separate schools
for whites and Negroes meets the
requirement of the 14th amendment
for equality of opportunity and the
state and United States supreme
courts have so ruled.
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No Decision Yet
In Bennett
Extradition Case
Chicago—(A N P)— Although a
hearing w f as held Tuesday, no de
cision has been rendered and prob
ably will not be until Gov. Henry
Horner returns from his vacation
on whether or not Sam Bennett, 55
year old sharecropper, will be re
turned to Arkansas to stand trial
for allegedly trumped-up assault
charges.
The case was taken under ad
visement by DeWitt Billman, sec
retary of the Illinois Legislative
Reference Bureau, after listening
to a number of witnesses at the
state capital in Springfield. Ben
nett, who joined the recent strike
of the Southern Tenant Farmers
union, is sought by St. Francis
county officials but fears a lynch
ing if he is extradited to Arkansas.
Four lawyers declared Bennett
would be murdered if he were sent
back to Dixie. One represented
Bennett, two the American Civil
Liberties league and the other the
Workers Right league.
The Rev. Claude Williams. Pres
byterian minister of Little Rock,
who with a prominent woman who
is a social worker of Memphis, was
flogged severely by Arkansas
whites as they investigated reports
of a Negro’s murder during the
recent strike, also testified in be
half of Bennett. The minister said
he believed the sharecropper would
not get a fair trial if he were re
turned South. H. L. Mitchell, white,
of Memphis, secretary of the un
ion, also spoke for Bennett..
A. M. Bradford, white prosecu
tor seeking Bennett’s return, said
the farmer would be token to Lit
tle Rock and placed under protec
tion of state rangers. He declared
there had “never been any violence
against Negroes” in this county.
Mourned
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TERRY PARKER, Grund
Chairman of the Pullman Por
ter’s Benefit Association who
passed away in Chicago recent
ly. For 41 years a worker in
the company, beginning as a
porter, becoming an Investiga
tor and finally heading the
Benefit Association which lias
gilt-edged assets of a quarter
million and has paid out $2,
000,000 in sick and death bene
fits. Mr. Parker is credited
with influencing the employ
ment of 4,200 skilled and semi
skilled men working in Pull
man Shops in Buffalo, Chicago,
St. I.oiiK Atlanta and Rich
mond, California, lie Is also
responsible for the 2,500 men
out as Pullman Porters during
his term as an investigatory.
Pullman officials, porters, im
portant personages and the
public generally made his fun
eral held at St. Mark’s M. E.
Church one of the largest held
in Chicago. (A.N.P.)
Finds SIO,OOO Note;
Deposits It In Bank
Albany, Ga.— (ANP)—If it is
any good, Will Moore will be ex
actly SIO,OOO richer as the result
of a pocketbook he found in At
lanta on July 4 containing a gold
certificate of that denomination
.md u bill.
Moore kept the treasury note
several days before he decided out
of curiosity to see if it was any
good. He took it to the City Nation
al Bank which accepted it for col
lection. but it has not yet been
determined whether it is good. It
is of the size which was in circu
lation several years ago.
Sports Scribblings
(Continued from Page 6)
postponed from the original date,
July 23, to July 30.
A slight eye injury received by
Lewis in his recent victory over
Max Merak necessitated the post
ponement.
Lewis, as champion, has been
cleaning up all of the competition
in the light heavy ranks and is
now contemplatrng stepping Into
the heavier division and is report
ed to be seeking a fight with the
heavy title holder, James J.
i Braddock.
Lewis fought Braddock once be
fore the latter became champ and
was virtually robbed of the de
cision in the fight, so he has ample
reason to yell for a go with “Jer
sey Jim.”
i Owens At Berlin
1
When Jesse Owens steps into the
vast Olympic Stadium at Berlin
next month he will be the marked
athlete. The news of his unbe
lievable track exploits have reach
ed into the four corners of the
.earth and every sprinter that en
counters Owens cannot help but
have a slight feeling of inferiority
when he toes the mark. Therefore
with this feeling prevailing
around him, Jesse should be able
to clean up at Berlin.
Then on the other hand there is
Owens himself. What thoughts will
creep through his head as he finds
himself the center of attraction of
the 1936 Olympic Games. He will
undoubtedly suffer some mental
strain that may or may not hamp
er his running form. He will be
conscious of the fact that all of his
opponents are laying for him. By
that I mean that some of those
runners w'ould be as happy to go
home and tell the folks that they
beat Owens as they would to take
an Olympic title back with them.
Owens will also realize that the
United States is counting on him
to capture three first places. He
can’t disappoint his country. He
will also know that of the. 17 Ne
groes representing Uncle Sam, he
is the main hope of Black Ameri
cans at Berlin.
He is in something of the same
spot that Louis was in at New
York when he met Schmeling June
18th last. Experts all over the
world are conceding the 100 and
200 meters and the hroadjump to
Owens. The experts were almost
unanimous in their choice of Louis
over Schmeling.
Jesse is on the spot. Hitler will
be watching him as well as the 16
other brown skin Americans. The
whole stadium will be watching
them. But Jesse will be the marked
man at Berlin.
The experts say that past per
formances and records mean very
little at the Olympic Games. I dis
agree. i personally am cocksure
that he will come through one
hundred percent, but he will be
the marked man at Berlin.
THE DETROIT TRIBUNE SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1936
Vann’s Boasting About “His Money” May Change
Post Master General Jim Farley’s Flans
ECORSE, MICHIGAN
(By ALEX DOLTON)
Hello, my reading friends! 1
am very glad to be writing you
from Cordele, Georgia. At this
writing, it is quite hot here—almost
too hot for me.
Last Sunday, I attended Snowhill
Baptist Church, of which Rev.
Franklin is pastor. Rev. Frank
lin delivered a forceful sermon to
a well-packed house. After the
discourse, lunch was served in the
schoolhouse, and all present had
an enjoyable time.
People here all go to church on
Sunday and all the churches are
crowded.
I am in the section of Georgia
where the recent storm passed
through. The U. S. Government
has replaced all property destroy
ed by the storm.
It has been so dry here, that
farmers were afraid that their com
and cotton would not grow. Crops
were all drying up. but last Sun
day a heavy rain fell.
I was very much impressed by a
court trial recently held here, in
which a colored man, charged with
stealing a cow and selling it to a
white man, was brought into court.
He had no witnesses and no at
torney, although the plaintiff had
both. The colored man’s inno
cence was so evident that he was
acquitted. Now, he will have to
leave this part of Georgia, because
he believes those who tried to con
vict him will continue to pick at
him, until he is forced to commit
some serious crime. Had he been
found guilty by the courts, he
would have been sentenced to two
years on the Georgia chain gang.
Wages are very cheap. Men are
forking on turpentine farms in
this vicinity, for fifty cents a day.
Even the colored WPA workers
get only $3.50 a week, sometimes
less. Food, however, is rather
cheap and no sales tax has to be
paid here.
Next w'eek. I shall write you
more about the South and living
conditions of the colored people in
this locality.
The terrific heat spell in this
Screen Showings
At The Local
Theatres
(Continued rrom Page 6)
ing the picture. The outstanding
topic of conversation concerning
the picture centers around the
thrills of the “earth-quake” scenes
which surpasses In shock most of
the spectacles heretofore staged for
the screen. Spencer Tracy, Jack
Holt and Ted Healy support the
popular stars in the drama,
two popular stars in the drama.
“Two Against The World,” with
Humphrey Bogart, the screen’s
number one “bad man”, and Bev
erly Roberts in the leading roles,
is now showing at the State Thea
tre on the same program with Ross
Alexander in “Hot Money.’ “Two
Against the World” concerns a
/oman who is pilloried by the greed
of a radio syndicate, catering to
the whims of a sensation loving
public.
Just as her daughter is about
to be married to a wealthy youth,
the radio company digs up a story
from the past, to dramatize it for
airing. Disgrace drives the mother
and husband to seek death, leaving
the daughter to face the criticism
of the world.
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Negro “High-Brows”
Take Second Place
WASHINGTON —>(C) —The “full
blooded” American Negro is sec
ond among the highbrows’’ of the
world, according to Dr. Oles Hrd
licka, anthropoligist of the United
States National Museum.
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state was broken Sunday night
and Monday, when a severe storm
swept through Athens, Macon, and
neighboring areas, damaging the
corn and other crops considerably.
Many people were injured. One
boy was killed by lightning, which
also injured other members of his
family and damaged the house.
The crops here will be very
small, due to the drought and
storm.
Roosevelt Collins, a young col
ored man of 25 years, was recent
ly arrested here as a suspect in
connection with an afisault on a
white woman. A mob of 1,500 con
gregated around the jail in which
the prisoner was supposed to be
lodged; but Collins was secretly
spirited away in a highway patrol
and taken to Kilby State Prison,
! near Montgomery, Ala., to avert a
I possible lynching.
John Henry Thomas, colored,
was convicted iu Athen last week,
for the murder of a white filling
station operator, and sentenced to
die in the electric chair, August
(5. During the court trial, the pris
oner was protected by national
guardsmen and civilian authori
ties. The jury returned a verdict
in nineteen minutes. There was
no demonstration. Witnesses
claimed that Thomas attempted to
hold up Charles L. Rice and that
the latter was killed. After the
trial, Thomas was taken to Ful
ton Tower, under guard of several
militiamen, where he will be held
until the day for his execution.
Snowhill Baptist Church, at
Pittsburgh, Georgia closed its one
i week of service Sunday, with Rev.
Street, of Macon, Ga. conducting.
I The pastor of the church is Rev.
Franklin. Ministers in this local
ity often pastor as many as four
i churches, preaching at each church
'once a month. The majority of
| people attend church. There are
I no places here, where young flock
1 can hang out on Sundays. Start
! ing, next Sunday, services will be
held at Pine City Baptist Church
j and will continue every night for
one week.
in a report published by the
sured were “full-blooded,” sug
world, in a report published by the
Smithsonian Institution. In mea
suring the height of the forehead
of different races, Dr. Hrdlicka
finds Eskinmos first, with 2.81 in
ches, Negroes second with 2.47,
North American Indians third, with
2.60, Irish fourth, Old Americans
(first families) fifth, Tennessee
mountaineers, sixth, etc. It was
pointed out that the Negroes mea
sured were ((full-blooded”, sug
gesting that mixed bloods were in
ferior in intelligence quotients.
The doctor has measured heads for
40 years.
Col. Julian Finds
Competition At The
Airplane Game
NEW YORK— (C)— When
Col. Huberto Juliano arrived
in New York last week from
his tour of his new country,
Italy, he found his old foe,
Col. John C. Robinson, with
whom Julian had a fistic en
counter in Addis Ababa be
fore the Italians took the
country, had “horned in” on
what is termed by some as
Juliano's exclusive “racket”,
airplane promotion. Juliano
found an organization busy col
lecting funds to give Col. Rob
inson, and not him, an airplane.
This is the first time such a
thing has ever been suggested
to leave the Colonel (Juliano)
out in a public subscription for
an ariplane.
Knoxville Doctor
Dies Suddenly
KNOXVILLE—(ANP—Fune-..
..ral services for Dr. W. F...
Flack, who .died suddenly in
his offices Wednesday, were
held at Logan Temple A. M. E.
Zion church of which he was a
member Tuesday afternoon.
He had served as physician to
the city-schools for a number
of years, was a member of
Phi Delta Sigma fraternity and
a civic leader in Knoxville.
Detective “Cold
Waters” Race
Angle of Murder
NEW YORK—(C)—While the
sensational element of the daily
press, and even some of the so
called conservative newspapers
were busy putting the word “Ne
gro” in the largest type they could
find, a flash came in from Ashe
ville, N. C., that Chief of Detectives
Fred Jones announced Saturday be
expected the immediate arrest of
a white suspect in the mysterious
assault and killing of Miss Helen
Clevenger of New York, who was
slain in an Asheville hotel room
Thursday night. Joseph Urey, 27,
an employee of the hotel, had been
questioned by detectives, and the
daily press seized the story in ty
pical “Negro fiend” fashion even
before police had finished ques
tioning Urey. Some of the papers
printed a retraction, saying “Bell
boy Quizzed, But Not Accuused,”
after such front page headlines had
appeared as “Negro Bellboy Is
Accused of Murder of Girl Student:
Bloodstained Shirt Found In Room
Os Hotel Employee, Charged Witli
Killing Helen Clevenger.”
Thos. C. Wilcox
To Run For Sheriff
The many friends and support
ers of former Sheriff Thomas C.
Wilcox, are enthused by the recent
announcement that he again will
be a candidate for that office. It
will be remembered that Mr. Wil
cox, a former police commissioner
of the city of Detroit, served as
Wayne County Sheriff in 1933 and
1934, and after a close race for re
election was made the victim of a
recount. Mr. Wilcox states that
one reason that he is in the race
is his conviction that he actually
was re-elected in 1934, and that the
Supreme Court, to whom the mat
ter has been referred for decision,
will vindicate his belief.
Mr. Wilcox while in office had
an extremely fine record as a pub
lic servant. He proved to be al
ways concerned with saving money
for the taxpayers, records at the
County Building showing that dur
ing the second year of his term
approximately SIOO,OOO was either
earned or saved by his careful ad
ministration of his office.
In an interview granted today
Mr. Wilcox said, “I am also very
proud of the splendid record made
by my deputies in the important
duty of patrolling the outlying
roads of Wayne County. As over
of the county is entirely out
side the jurisdiction of any city
or village this must be regularly
patrolled by the Sheriff.
“There should at all times ex
ist perfect co-operation between
the Sheriff and the Prosecutor of
the co*nty and that same co-ope
ration should be extended to all
peace and police officers in the
various cities and villages of the
county. During my tenure in of
fice this condition did exist in the
highest degree and should I be re
turned to office it will again be in
force.
“I have made a careful study of
the question of further reducing
costs of government by the possi
ble elimination of the Sheriff’s of-
Legal Notice
ATTY. A. B. DAVIDSON
911 Gratiot
NO. 25746S
STATE OF MICHIGAN. In the
Circuit Court for the County of
Wayne, In Chancery.
LOTTIE FIELDS, Plaintiff, vs.
ALBERT FIELDS. Defendant.
ORDER OF ITBLICATION
At a session of said Court, held
at the Court House in the City of
Detroit on the 21st day of July, A.
I). 1936. Present: Hon. Homer
Ferguson, Circuit Judge.
In this cause it appearing that
the defendant herein, Albert
Fields is a resident of this State,
but his whereabouts are unknown,
therefore on motion of Arthur B. j
Davidson, attorney for the plain
tiff, it is ORDERED .that the de- j
fendant enter his appearance in
said cause on or before three
months from the date of this OR
DER, and that within (20) days,
the plaintiff cause this ORDER to
be published in the Detroit Tri
bune; said publication to be con
tinued once in each week for six
weeks in succession.
HOMER FERGUSON
Circuit Judge ■
DOUGLAS G. MOCLE
Clerk 7-25—8-6
Claims To Have Become A Rich Man During
The Depression While Holding A Big
Federal Position
NEW YORK—(Calvin Service)—
Robert L. Vann’s boust that he has
become a rich man during the de
pression, a large part of which
time he held a high Federal posi
tion and was head of a newspaper
at the Bame time, may cause Chair
man James A. Farley of the Demo-
Motor City Elks
Hold Initiation
There was a large attendance al
Elks Rest on Chene street, Sun
day afternoon, July 12 to witness
the initiation ceremonies conduct
ed by the Motor City Lodge of
Elks No. 962, of which Exalter
Grand Ruler Gregory is head.
Many candidates were initiated
into the obligations and secrets of
the fraternal order. Fallowing the
initiation inspiring addresses
were delivered by the Exalted
Grand Ruler an other prominent
officials, including Hon. Brazil J.
Bryant, who instructed the new
members in the secrets of Elkdom.
Following the ceremonies re
freshments were served in the
club room on the second floor.
THhe Motor City Lodge is con
ducting a drive for new members
and a special dispensation is of
fered for a limited period. All per
sons eligible for membership are
invited to take advantage of this
dispensation.
o
Father Divines’
Followers In
More Trouble
(Continued from page 1)
extinguisher on the bus, but he
faces a more Berious charge later.
It would Beem that upon arrival
in New York City through the
Holland Tunnel, Gordon’s bus did
not have a certificate of inspection
given by the city from which he
had journeyed.
The driver who came from Van
couver, said the bus didn’t belong
to him, he just drove it because he
was paid to do it and made the
trip here in record time, driving
the entire distance himself. His
helper or assistant was of little
assistance sleeping most of the
time they were en route to New
York. Many in the party were
white and were welcomed here by
Father Divine’s white aid.
fice. This office, which antedates
every other county office, was
founded in 1788 with the duties
then much the same as they are
now. However, if it is at all possi
ble to eliminate it thereby reduc
ing the, cost of government I am
very much in favor and will lend
all my aid to accomplish such a
change in Wayne County.”
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PAGE NINE
cratic National Committee to
change his plans about letting Vann
handle all the money among color
ed folk of the $2,000,000 Demo
cratic drive to be made in the na
tion.
Vann, according to an interview
published in a daily newspaper last
week, said he had about ail a poor
man could want, and boasted that
he owned a $50,000 estate in
Pittsburgh. Vann sent the Olym
pic Committee a check for SSOO
last week, and all of this, coming
so soon after it had been announc
ed that there had been a reshuffle
in the colored Democratic “High
Command"’ which narrowed] the
one-time “Big Pour” down to a
“Big Two”, with Vann as chief of
the new set-up, is causing the
small-fry politicians to become res
tive, lest these straws indicate
that not even the crumbs will
fall from the “Big Two” table.
Already attacked in his home
state as “a most thoroughly dis
liked man”, Vann has now added
to his woes by announcing to the
white folks that he is rich when
thousands of Negroes are on relief
and yet insisting that he handle
ALL the funds to get those relief
voters to mark their ballots for
Roosevelt. New York politicians,
who opposed Vann anyway as an
“outsider”, now say if Big Jim
Farley still insists on letting Vann
run the show, it will be just too
bad for the Democrats. A drive
is already under way on Farley to
force him to change his plans for
Vann.
HELP OTHERS
If you are riding with a friend
and you notice that he apparently
is not familiar with the traffic re
gulations, or that he ft unaware
of the fact that his manner of driv
ing is dangerous why not call his
attention to it.
You are indirectly protecting
yourself, you can do no harm, and
your calling his attention to these
actions may some day save him
from being involved in a serious
accident.
Remember, we are our brothers
keeper and the greatest joy in life
is helping others. What better way
could we help than to show our
friends how to drive an automo
bile safely. Let him have the beni
fit of our experience, for after all,
we are all striving for that same
goal—that of less accidents
These suggestions to motorists
are offered by the First Precinct
Safety Officers of the Detroit
Police Department.
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