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MEM PER COPY VOLUME 22, NUMBER 33 MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1953 ► PRICE SIX CENTS « Non-Discrimination Order To Effect 23 Departments WASHINGTON—(ANP)—The Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, Wednesday, ordered a policy of racial non Holding 46th Convocation discrimination to go into effect immediately in the 23 government agencies over which it exercises control. BY ROSA BROWN BRACEY The Churches Of Ood In Christ The four-page order, made It was this exception in the are engaged- in their 46th annual public by Commissioner Samu^ order" which drew protest from convocation at their hendquarters el Spcnoer, made an excep most of the prominent Wash here In Memphis, Tenn. Thousand tion, however, to the contro ington Negro leaders. Delegates from all parts of America versial fire department where Dr. O. Herbert Marshall, out and from the areas abroad in which a movement has been under standing physician and president the church is at work lire in Jit- way lor several months to es of the Federation of Civic Asso tendance. tablish a policy ot integration. ciations, declared that lhe order High point of the meeting tor tills In listing tills department as an "lacked courage." He referred to week will be Saturday December 5th exception, the order stated that It as lhe weakest passible state- at which time the official dedica racial integration of fire fighters ■ment thal could be made. tion of Mason Ave. formerly known will be undertaken as soon as the, If the order aims to pacify, he ns 5th Street will lake place. At commissioners deem tlie public In said, it has failed "and in the the request of The Churches Of terest will permit. first place we don’t want pacifica Ood In Christ both locnl and Na- Commissioner Spencer claimed tion vof the old Ku Klux Klan tional and granted by the clty that tlie. city heads felt that the theory that "the time Isn’t right Commission. This honor Is extend fire department “is not quite yet.” ed to The most worthy Bishop Eugene Davidson, president of the Mason. ready for integration.” But it is hoped, he added, that an atmos District NAACP branch, said they The ceremonies will take place phere favorable to carry out a were afraid that the "eyes of the on Crump Blvd . at Mahon St., non-segregatlon policy would be dark-skinned world will note the Saturday at 3 P. M., December 5, developed in a relatively short exceptions rather than the five at which time The Mayor. Frank time. Of the 44 fire companies in brave words of the policy and the Toby of Memphis will unveil the the District, five are manned en areas in which the evil has been name plate of newly name Street (Continued On Page Eight) The processional led by the Senior tirely by Negroes. Bishop Mason, a score of bishops, 500 Ministers will be escorted by a Police guard to the music of The Booker T. Washington High School Band, to the Auditorium of the Mississippi Moves To Church at 958 So. Mason Street. The Temple Is said to have the < AT THE BLUES BOWL GAME were the following ed and played his Golden Trumpet and Rev. largest seating capacity of - any left to right: Mayor Frank Tobey, of Memphis; C. Polk, Exalted Ruler of the Bluff City Lodge Np, building owned by Negro’s in the world. End Public Schools Lt. George W. Henderson, Founder of Blues Bowl 96, who sponsors the Blues Bowl Game each year This year a new balcony was pro 1 Classic, founded to raise funds to provide Christ and the Jug of Dimes. vided which ’ wil accommodate a In an. effort to hold to the dying remnants of a segregated so mas Baskets for the needy at Christmas time; Will The game was a tilt between Booker T. thousand more worshipers. Taylor, a staunch supporter of the Beale Street Washington Warriors and the Manassas High Bishop Mason founded the ciety, Mississippi has come forth with a proposal to abolish its pub church 46 years ago in an old Gin lic schools if the Supreme Court rules against segregation.* Elks and Committeeman of the Blues Bowl Clas Tigers with the Tigers winning1 with'a score of House. His church has prospered sic; W. C. Handy, Father of the Blues, who return- 9-6.—(Peoples and Williams Photo). to the point where there are 3 mil Mississippi’s challenge to efforts lion followers and is established to putlaw segregation came Tues W; throughout the United States Of Sterling Roberts day in a proposed amendment to America in Indio, Haiti, Africa, lite state's Constitution giving the legislature power to abolish the p Bermuda, and in The Republic Of Speaker For Mexico Sunday Dec. 6 will be public school system. celebrated as Bishop Masons Day. The proposal came during a spe Standing by his side in his great Housing Banquet cial legislative session following moment of triumph will be a score Mr. Sterling Roberts will speak closely on the heels of Attorney of bishops, a Thousand Ministers, Brownell’s brief filed before the BISHOP C. H. MASON at Clayborn Temple, 294 Hernando Supreme Court recently. Brownell’s Clear Picture Of Problems and a throng of ten thousand ileo Street, 8:0 P. M., December 5. 1953. pie who adore him. brief stuted that the Supreme Court Tills will be Mr. Roberts first had lhe power to abolish segrega The Churches aToimti' thè"’nation appeal’ance before an audience ot. _^P.et?fxle in jlhq.Sauth,should gel.a cluar-pictbre of the problems ’would-no-.Alpubt be;: oompletely Cip- tion In public schools. terraclal. ' - ,; i.;. and thfe foreign fields will engage In Negro citizens in the interest of Heading the list of authors of the dealing With public education, said Dr. Phillip H. Combs at. Le- a period of fasting and prayer as a Federal Mortgage Loans for Ne proposal was House Speaker Wal Moyne College Tuesday night. He Is Director of the Research Fund The conference will continue testimonial of their appreciation to groes, as the state director of (he through Friday of thia week, , with their leader. ler Slilers who . backed the Elsen of the Ford Foundation. Federal Housing Administration, he hower presidential ticket last year. such top educators as Dr>..P.4lL The denomination of The Church has shown an intense interest In Several members of the House The occasion was the first , ses woijld benefit regardless to the Troup, president, Fort Valley State es Of God In Christ has grown In alleviating the difficulty in Negroes however, feared that the proposal sion of a four-day meeting of the t h e. outcome of. the Supreme College, Fort Valley, Ga.; Dr..-»5 less than half a century to be the obtaining federal loans. He ’will would interfere with plans already Association of Colleges and Sec Court’s decision. He said race re R. Brazeal, Morehouse College, Jfe’ fourth largest denomination in the speak on federal loan opportunities outlined to equalize schools in Mis ondary Schools. The occasion also lations fn the South and in this lata, Ga.; Dr. Mordecal'Ifr.?J<&iT world commanding largely Negro for minority groups, Mr. Roberts sissippi. Others indicated that the marked the twentieth annual con country could go only one way and son, president Howard univjtttaty, communicants. It has within it’s Is án accomplished administrator in that way “in the right direction." Washington and Dr. Charles; membership a number of white public affaire with a superb back proposal would serve as a protest vention. worshipers. ground. •” measure against action already Using as *a theme “Next Steps He predicted that , by 1963, such a Johnson, president, Fisk University session now being held at LeMoyne and many others. ' • / Associated with Bishop Mason as Mr. Roberts was elected Mayor taken by Brownell on the school In -Public Education in the South" ■ 'V host are Bishop A. B. McEwen, óf the city of Kingston in 1949, a Issue. hundreds • of college presidents Tennessee state Superintendent, position which he presently oc- Educators and business people. deans and educators have assem md Bishop J. A. Patterson Pas eujiles and is, currently on leave of Negro and white in Memphis have bled' in Memphis to''discuss and Soldiers Fined In Bus Jimcrow tor of Pentacostal Temple on Wel absence. He taught in the Roane remained silent on discussing the outline programs in the field oi ' * ' ■. e’, lington, Bishop McEwen Is pastor County Public School system one issue of segregation. The excuse education and to determine how ’■'è' of the Lane Ave., Church Of God year prior to military service. a?id given Is “wait and see what the best to meet the problems destin In Christ . ' ' (Continued On Page Eight) Court will do ” ed to emerge in the future. Dr. Combs, who substituted for Incident To Get NAACP Support Dr. Clarence Faust of the Fund COLUMBIA, S. C.— (ANP)—The-] Circuit Court in .the case ofLt. for. the Advanement of Education local NAACP has come to the de Sherard, who was charged vtilth warned against the growing prob fense of some 48 soldiers fined here disorderly conduct- and interfering lems in the field of education hr last week when one of them re with a police officer and fined BISHOP C. H. MASON, Senior Bishop and founder of the Church of general and pointed out that these fused to move from a seat beside $200. God in Christ, was reading from the Book of Books when he was problems know no racial bounds.