."V— f -V ■ 1 f 4 i 'f J 'J / + + + + + A Newspaper 1^ * PRICE With A •» T 5c Constructive I « Policy c PER COPY 4 MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1950 VOLUME IB, NUMBER 73 • X PRICE FIVE CENTS - Sweatt, McLaurin Senate Votes To Establish V * Cases Awaited I BY LOUIS LAUTIER WASHINGTON, P. C. (NNPA) - Identical arguments Rights Commission against the 54-yeor-old "separate but equal" doctrine are made ♦ in briefs filed last Tuesday in the Sweatt and McLaurin cases which will be heard by the Supreme Court during the week of April 3. Tennessee Solon Seeks According to the briefs, in enunciating that doctrine in Plessy against Ferguson, the Supreme Court did not properly construe the intent of the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment To Stall Proposal Action but misconstrued the amendment itself by following state court decisions rendered while slavery still existed in this country. WASHINGTON. l>. ( . (NNI’A) - The Senate Com- In both cases, it is contended that, Fllli'I A BAK tit Jit nt it tee on the District of Columbia last Tuesday voted, 5 to The grief stricken parents of. 8- the Plessy vs. Ferguson decision is 1, to report favorably the Neely bill providing for the estab­ not applicable to the issues involv­ year-old Furnia Baker. Jr.. werd joined by his third grade classmates lishment of a.Commission on «Human Kights in the District ed, and that the question of the Plans Studied Thursday morning at St Augustine constitutionality of race segrega­ of Columbia.« Catholic Church as last rites were tion in state-supported higher edu­ said by Father Betrand Kock for The vole came after Senator Estes cation may be decided without re: the youngster who drowned last Kefauver. Democrat, of Tennessee For Observing ference to that opinion. Monday afternoon under the Mc­ If, however, the court bhould be­ had sought to stall action on the Lemore Avenue viaduct. lieve that the Sweali aiid McLaurin proposal. Mr and Mrs. Furnia Baker Sr., Attempted SÆ ï rSpÆ* -r »2K Oil the roll call only Senator Ke­ Insurance Week fauver voted against reporting the 4 Plans for the annual observance al their home, 49 S. Paarkway, measure. Senator J Allen Frear, Jr. equal" doctrine, the briefs main­ *4“ of National Negro Insurance Week West. Monday cvcntog after tile Democrat of Delaware, voted “pres­ tain tiiat the Supreme Court bhould Lynch Probe were worked out this week end news of their sons drowning had ent.” reexamine that case and repudiate when a two-day conference was jfone like wild fire about the com- Voting to report the bill were its doctrine. held In the offices of B. O. Olive, fmunity. Senators Matthew M Neely, of West THE CASES Jr, Director of Agencies Univer­ Though the parents could not ex­ Virginia, committee chairman and Underway The two cases involving race seg­ sal Life and President, National plain why the child had decided to authoF of the measure; Lester C 1 regation in state-supported institu­ Negro Insurance Association go into the waler, testimony of the Hunt of Wyoming; Edward L. Leahy LELAND, Miss. - <ANPl - In- tions of higher education were Meeting with Mr. Oliw were izthildren, with whom little Furnia of Rhode Island, all Democrats, vestigation got underway here last brought by Hernan Marion Sweatt,1 Walter W Butler,« Director of was coming home from school, led and Joseph R. McCarthy of Wis­ week on charges that a Negro farm a mail ciftrier," of Houston, Texas, Agencies, Union Protective Assu­ I hem to believe that he had decid­ consin .Htid Margaret Chase Smith hand was an attempted lynching and G. W. McLaurin, a retired pro­ rance Company, and Chairman. ed Io go into the water while the ol Maine, Republicans; victimt fessor of Langston University. Agency Officers Mid-Year Confe­ other boy looked on. Absent committee members were Odell Moore, 23, made sworn Sweatt's application for admis- rence, and E. E Fort of Detroit, A bruise on the right side of his given an opportunity to register statements that he was beaten by ai to the University of Texas Law Secretary of the Agency Officer»' head indicated that he struck a their votes. It was known that Sen-, while men who Recused litm of ool was rejected. Sweatt then Mid-Year Conference and. official sharp object in the water which ator Olin D Johnston. Democrat of stealinif two slot machines. Moore brought legal actloh to compel his of .the Metropolitan Funeral Sys­ evidently knocked him .unconscious. South Carolina, would vote in llie stated that one man held a gun, admission. After a hearing, Ute tem, Detroit. Funeral arrangements were in negative II was not known how ; end he was about to be hanged 126th District Court of Travis In announcing the annual obser­ ¿large of T H Hayes and Sons. Senator. Claude Pepper, Democrat of from a bridge when he Jumped off County, Texas, on June 26, 1946. re­ 4 vance of National Negro Insuiance Florida would vote. , into the icy water, and swam to fused to order his admission at that Week May 8 May U, Mr Olive Is­ SIMILAR COVERAGE • safety. -- _ . time but gave the State of Texas Mrs. S. D. Ross Woman sued a stitomentdcrianng that the Senator Kefauver said he did not Moore reported the incident to six months in wjiich to establish a purpose of the national celebration wish to delay the vole on reporting his plantation mauager, Neal Mas­ Day Speaker At First i BRIEFED ON DUTIES- Six Atlanta traffic police women are shown receiving instructions from h to “educate the public ,to the ' separate but equal” law school for tlie measure but thought that if sey, who called th« County Deputy Chiefrk:-i of PoliceB_h— HerbertLi—i__ . tT. Jenkins.i_ i< tiThey__ will<ii lbe gin patrol, rfuTTes» .. at. _ ..l —i needs and benefit of life rnmance cocolored^rc^ students . Baptist, Sunday, Mar. 12 voluntary fair employment prac­ Sheriff to investigate. «•! r_,_____________________six elementary' school to- « and to-emphasize to whaT^tenfb «Me M111' Mesdames Myrtice H. Rawls, Nellie Sellers, ' A national figure and leader of 1tice legislation, if enacted -would morrow morning. Reading left to right are Mesdames Myrtice H. Rawls, Nelli insurance can play an important the Texas Court of Civil Appeals, a I he Ministers' Wives Department of 'cover about the same things provi­ Momie H. Wiggins, Emma Hughley, Sarah G reene and Mayme C. Bondu. — (Adair Photo). \ part in the development of Negro W« law*'h°0L.l,Br ^orrd the Natiunal Sunday School and <ded for to Senator Neely's bill. Louisville Leader, " ■ 1/ ■ Jl'A economy New homes and establish, i ?iude’lltn*!‘i.-Csiab ls icd« and, ,,n BTU Congress. Mrs S. D Ross, After Senator Neely disagreed cd businesses generally elevate the Man-f> 1M7' he was invited to will be guest speaker for the annual ’with this view. Senator Kefauver Publisher Dies standard of living.'' en™“' „ , , , ,, said he thought it would be “a lit­ Prospective Tutors County Judge Asks Woman's Day at First Baptist National Negro Insurance Com- , P,c appellate court set aside (he LOUISVILLE, Ky. -(ANP1- Church, Lauderdale, Rev H C tle inconsistent" to criticize jieople 4 Death brought to an abrupt ckito'. pany represents 62 Companies; |“d8Pe,,1A °,L.»’C trial C0!lrt 1,11 Nabrit, pastor,, Sunday, March 12, who were obeying District of Co-- Retention Of Home more than 100 million dollars in March 26, 1947, and a trial on the tile life of I. Willis Cole, 68-year-old at 3 p m iumbia laws sanctioning racial seg­ publisher of the weekly Louisville Interne In Schools assets and 4 million policy holders ntenls was lated held to the lower regation. Demonstration Agt. who cJTTy more than 1 billion dot- court- 011 June ,7« lw7« Sweatt'» I Thr wife of Rev S. I) Ross, pas­ Again Senator Neely disagreed, Leader and well-known bi local ;• ■1 BRENHAM, Tex. - (ANP) - A tars Insurance in force. More than peUtioi: was. dismissed.. Tliis de-1 tor of Shiloh Baptist, Detroit, Mich pointing out Hurt the commission­ business, civic and church affairs, Hv MARKIN WHITE Ann Terrell, a native of Kerrville, county home demonstration agent's M(s Ross lias many accomplish­ ers of the District of Columbia Into in Ills home here last week. His 'lite prospective graduates of Uns Tennessee, practiced at Hyde Park 15 thousand people are gainfully cislon was affirmed by the Court of work can be of such a high calibre Civil Appeals and the Texas -Su­ ments in her own right, among recently ruled that an 1872 civil passing was unexpected for. a|- year's class at LeMoyne are con­ school under the supervision of Mrs. employed with these Companies. scious of t lie need for leadership in as to make him an invaluable asset preme Court. Attorneys for Sweatt them is her election as First Viec- rights act was still in effect and : though he had suffered a heart ail- E. W Shivers Miss Constance Organized In 1921, the National the various fields of activity, esi»e- to fanners and citizens in the area then asked the United States Su­ Presidi nt of the Woman's Auxiliary asking for a court test to be made of ment for some time, he had been 'Pickett interned at Carnes school Negro Insurance Association will cially tlie field ol education, the to which he is assigned. One agent, I Convention. She is the author of a active up to the time of his death. under Mrs. F. E Nesbit.