Memphis World Memphis World Publishing Co. 1950-04-07 Lewis O. Swingler Dean Gore Is Honored By Tenn. Tutors When the Tennessee Negro Education Association met in its 28th annual session at Tennessee A and I State College, Miss Lucy E. Campbell, instructor at Booker T. Washington high School, Memphis, presented a gift to Dr. George W. Gore, Jr., former executive secretary and now president-elect of Florida A and M College, on behalf of 3,000 teachers of the organization. The gift was an ornate desk set in recognition of his achievement and in appreciation of services rendered the organization during his 27 years of connection. In speaking of Dr. Gore, Miss Campbell said "His wise councit, sound advice, business management and his positive decision in grave manners brought us to this stage in our development." Likening him to a father, frier and master teacher, Miss Campbell further stated that whosever succeeds Dr. Gore will have a new place for no one can take his place. Gifts were also presented by the schools of Chattanooga, represented by Clarence Robinson; from the alumni association by Mrs. Carrie M. Denny and other schools of the state. Responding in his scholarly manner, yet with much emotion, Dr. Gore said. "I fell so humble when I think of the things I wanted to do and yet never seemed to get around to them." On the closing day of the meeting a banquet was held in the Jane E.Elliott Cafeteria in honor of Dr. and Mrs. Gore. Elks Oratorical Contest Tonight At Mt. Nebo Church Bluff City Lodge Number 96, IBPOE of W, will hold its annual Oratorical Contest this evening, Friday, at Mt. Nebo Baptist Church according to Frank Scott, Jr., educational director. Winner of the contest will be eligible to participate in the statewide Elks Oratorical Contest at Nashville. Contest participants this evening are Samuel Knowles, of Douglas high school; Marion I. Woodward. Hamilton: Jean Farris, of Booker T. Washington: Norma Jean Ford, Manassas; Ullilah Elmore, Melrose; and Mary Coleman, St. Anthony. Mr. Scott asserted that the contestants are seeking two major prizes aside from the official recognition they receive by patrons. There will be the $1,000 scholarship award to the winner of the Regional Contest in Montgomery, Ala and a trip to the national Elks Convention in Chicago next summer. In the event the student tops the national field, he will be awarded another prize of $100. The winner of the scholarship prize has the opportunity of attending any college of his choice. Rev. Howard Perry is exalted ruler, and Isaac Polk, secretary. Other officers include T.L. Spencer, cochairman of the educational committee; Ernest Thomas, regional director; and Lt. G. W. Lee, grand chairman of the Shriners, and a past exalted ruler. Magnolia Gives $100 To YMCA Fund Drive Magnolia School, the smallest school in the Memphis City School System with an enrollment of only 191 students, a faculty of only five, located in the Southeast section of Memphis at 2158 Wabash Ave., made an excellent contribution to the YMCA campaign in the sum of one hundred cash dollars. The faculty includes the following persons Miss Lula C. Byas, Mrs. Chestine Cowan, Miss Mary E Donoho, Mrs. Dorothy Williams Marsh, and Mrs. Anna Humphrey, Custodian. The principal, Miss Harry Mae Simon, finds words inadequate when she attempt to express thanks and appreciation for all the good things that have been done at this modernistic institution. Planning Committee, Backing AKA's Play Final plans for presentation of "All My Sons" the 4th consecutive dramatic production of local graduate Alpha Kappa Alpha Women are now underway. In the accompanying picture is shown Miss K. Perry, general chairman of the production, with her planning committee, composed of the chairman of the various committees responsible for the mechanics of the production-. Standing from left" Mrs. Ernestine Clark, scenic artist; Miss Katherine Perry, general chairman; Mrs. Alma Booth, properties; and Mrs. Georgia Harvey, promoter. Seated, from left: Mrs. Emma Tom Johnson, publicity; Miss Jewel Gentry, appreciation; Miss Margaaret Bush, program; Mrs. Ethel Per kins, ushers and Miss D.E. Todd, tickets. Those on the planning committee not shown on the picture are Miss Gertrude Walker, stage manager; Miss Georgia Rose Sylvers make-up artist and Mrs. Georgia Quinn music and sound. Miss Perry, general chairman, has announced that this will be the best production in the history of AKA. She has every confidence in the success of the play and asserts that with the cooperation of the public. All My Sons" promises to be the very best in dramatic entertainment for all. Miss Perry has had wide experience in working with plays before and she has received the full cooperation of all members of her committee. She is a graduate of LeMoyne college and a former mem ber of the committee of management of the Vance Avenue YWCA; chairman of the public relations committee of the Girl Scouts and a teacher in the junior high repartment of Manassas School. She also serves as president of the elementary school teachers. Her interest in civic and religious affairs is manifested by her continued participation in those activities for the betterment of people and the community. It was through the efforts of Miss Perry that Alpha Kappa Alpha fit to contribute substantially ($500) to the recent drive for funds for a Children's Hospital by Le Bon Heur of Memphis. Members of the sorority are grateful to the public for their constantsupport and urge them to attend this year's presentation at the Handy Theatre, Friday night, April 21, at 8. PLOUGH TO CONSTRUCT NEW PLANT IN MEMPHIS Plough, Inc. a Memphis manufacturer of drug products, has awarded the general contract for construction of, its new plant at 3022 Jackson to S & W Construction Company of Memphis it is announced by Abe Plough Com pany president. Final plans and blue prints were completed in February and ten contracting firms were asked to bid on the job. Nine of them did so and the S and W Con struction Company was low bidder. Bids were opened publicly by Company officials on March 15. The contract includes all subcontracting except structural steel which was contracted for last November. Steel has already been fabricated and is ready for erection by the Virginia Bridge Company of Memphis. General construction is expected to begin immediately and is to be completed in about nine months. Costs of the 14 acres of land, the present building and the new construction, together with moving expense and architectural and engineering foes are estimated to approximate $ 1,80,000. Mr Plough said that the new plant would Consolidate under one roof all operation now carried on in eight Mem phis buildings. The new addition will more than than triple the size of the present structure on the premises, which was build in 1946. There will be a total of 225,000 square feet, including 70,000 square fee in the present building and 155,000 square feet in the new con struction. The new addition will include a research laboratory com pounding laboratories, production laboratories, machine shop and warehousing areas. All manufacturing areas will have tiled interiors and will be air-conditioned so that the utmost in cleanliness and pleasant working conditions will prevail. The plan is engineered for straight line production, which means that all materials will move in one direction–toward the finished product. The present building will be remodeled to include 20,000 square ft. of air-conditioned office space. It will also have air-conditional cafeterias, with provisions for one master kitchen. In the present building will also be located the printing and box manufacturing operations. The composing room, plate-making room and printing office will all be air-conditioned. In this present unit will be the personnel office, locker and rest rooms and a complete first air department equipped with treatment rooms, in which a registered nurse will be on duty at all times. In the rear of the new construction a tank farm will be built and processed piping will run from it into the manufacturing laboratories. Roadways are being built so that all trucks may be brought in from rear to avert traffic congestion on Jackson Avenue. The plant will be serviced by a private railroad spur and loading docks to accommodate 21 trucks will be provided. Parking areas will be built for convenience of employes and plans are being made for beautification of the grounds surrounding the plant. Mozella Gordon Wins Press-Scimitar Spelling Contest The 22nd annual Press-Scimitar Spelling Bee came to an exciting climax last Friday, March 31 when Mozella Gordon, 15 and eight-grade pupil of LaRose School spelled her way to victory every a filed of about forty contestants. Mozella is the daughter of Mrs. Odena Gordon, a widow of 1062 Beach Place. She is one of eleven children. Perseverance and determination played their part in guiding her to he championship. She has worked untiringly with her coach, Mrs. J. S. Brodnax and has build a vocabulary that will take her far. La Rose has shared in the prize money four times out the four bees held since the war. Mr. J. L. Brinkley is principal of LaRose. Etta Moten Will Give Concert At LeMoyne Festival The Annual LeMoyne College Spring Festival, to be held on the college campus April 18, 19, 20, and 21will feature a concert by the internationally famous mezzo soprano. Etta Moten. Miss Moten will be presented in a song recited at Metropolitan Baptist Church Thursday, April 20, at 8 p. m. The Concert of Miss Moten will be the only project during the fes tival for which admission will be charged. Other projects and exhibits the other three days of the festival are open to the public and Dr. G. S. Mitchell Speaks At St. Mary's Cathedral Tuesday Persons of all faiths and religious creeds have been invited to attend a public program sponsored by the Memphis Community Relations Committee Tuesday, April 11, at 8 p. m., at St. Mary's Cathedral, 700 Poplar. Guest speaker for the occasion will be Dr. George S. Mitchell, exe cutive director of the Southern Regional council, and author of two books on the race problem. The southern Regional Council was founded in 1944to study Southern problems with the belief that Southern problem are best studied and attacked by Southerners of both races. Its active membership open only to Southerners, numbers about 3,000. Staunch supporters of the Southern Regional Council have been organization of wide variety, including Methodist, Catholic Southern Presbyterian and the Episcopal Churches. Its headquarters in Atlanta has been an outpost of the grievances of both Negrroes and whites and many problems have been solved by the members who have dedicated themselves to better living. Dr. Mitchell was born in Richmond, Va., and has studied at Oxford University, England and taught at Columbia university in New York City. He has been awarded the Rhodes Scholarship and is a member of Kappa Alpha and Phi Beta Three white men were under arrest at City Jail Tuesday on charges of criminally attacking at 12-year-old Negro girl The arrested men were identified as James Elders, 24 of Rockmart; Louie Byars, 20 of Rome and Gerald Hicks, 23, of Dallas. According to Detective Oscar Williams, who investigated the case evidence indicates each of the white men assaulted the girl in turn, as two held here. The officer said the girl was attacked in a wooded area of the city while on an errand for her mother to get a pail of water from Reece's Spring. Evidence indicated two women companions of the three men witnessed the ordeal. The party of whites was allegedly sitting in a care when the girl approached. The detective commented: This is one of the worst sex crimes I have encountered in my entire career. The crime was reported to us and when we arrived at the scene the men and women fled, leaving the girl naked in the wooded area. She was bruised from rough handing." The mother of the alleged victim swore rent warrants for the arrest of the men. The crime occurred at dusk Monday, according to the detective. Sigmas, Zetas Holding Joint Regionals Here Delegates from Tennessee, Alabama, Virginia, West Virginia, Mississippi, Kentucky and Arkansas will converge on Memphis this week end for the two-day point regional of Zeta Phi Beta sorority and hPi Beta Sigma fraternity. Local chapters of the two Greekletter organizations are headed by Mrs. Bernadine Holmes and Richard Davis. They have headed the committees making extensive plans for the housing and entertainment of the Bluff City Visitors. The two-day session will get off to a start Friday morning as delegates of Zeta Phi Beta register at Miss. Bivd Christian Church. Members of Phi Beta Sigma will register Saturday morning at LeMoyne College. A Motorcade will take the guests and hosts through the city Friday afternoon, pointing out the many beauty spots and landmarks of the city. Highlights of the sessions will be the public program tonight, Friday, April 7, at centenary Methodist Church, Miss and Alston. Dr. Willam H. Pipes, dean of men at Phiander Smith college, will deliver the main address. A former president of Alcorn college, Alcorn, Miss Dr. Pipes is advisor to Sigma's National Director of Education. Dr. Nancy Woolridge, Grand Basileus of Zeta Phi Beta, will also be prominent platform guest. Other guests will be Dr. R.O. Johnson, Mrs. Lullelia W. Harrison, and Mrs. Pauline Allen. Immediately following the public program, members of the Memphis Pan-Hellenic council will entertain a private cocktail party at Club Del Morrocco. The Regional will close Saturday night after a closed formal, sponsored by the Zetas and Sigmas, at Hotel Mens Improvement Club. Manassas Givers $503 To YMCA Building Fund Manassas High School was still way out in front when the report meeting of the Lauderdale Branch YMCA was held Wednesday night at 7:30 p.m. with Attorney A. A. Lating as guest speaker and the Unity Cash Grocery Singers as special guests. More than $6,707.11 was reported with other gifts still coming in Manassas, through its beloved Principal, Prof. J.A. Hayes, brought in $65.51 making a total of $503.64, and placing the school tops on the list of Memphis educational instiutions. The smallest school in the city, Magnolia, reported $100 and the Board sent thanks to Miss Harry Mae Simon, principal, and her faithful corps of teachers who have aided the drive in every way. Mrs. Addie Jones is recruiting a women's group to help in the expansion program and she reports that the women are really working to do their bit to insure that the total of $31,00 is reached. Prof. B. T. Hunt, chairman of the drive, greeted the many committee members who were present Wednesday night and thanked them for their fine cooperation which was making it possible for the YMCA Drive to reach the allocated goal. Dr. Drew Killed In Car Accident A fatal traffic accident deprived medical science and the world at large of a brilliant career when Dr. Charles Richard Drew, medical director, Ereedmen's Hospital, Washington, D.C., was killed last Saturday, April 1st. He was enroute to Tuskegee Institute to attend the Annual John A. Andrews Clinic. Two other companions driving with Dr. Drew suffered arm fractures and laceration. The accident occurred near Haw River, North Carolina. Dr. Drew, who gained world-wide fame during the last war through his development of blood plasma for wounded American and Allied Ser vicemen, is shown in accompanying picture at the home of Dr. and Mrs. N. M. Watson, 741 Walker avenue, with Dr. Robert Jason, head of the department of Pathology, Howard University's Medical College. Both physicians at the time this picture was made by the Memphis World photographer in Mrach, 1949, were in attendance at the National Cancer Conference at Peabody. In 1948 Dr. Drew was also in Memphis as guest speaker for Omega Psi Phi Fraternity's Achieve ment Award Program. News of his tragic death was flashed over local radio stations last weekend. Conference on Race Business April 13-15 A public exhibit of materials and commodities that are manufactured produced or created by Negroes has been arranged as a visual feature of the Fifth Conference on the Negro in Business to be held in Washington, D.C., from April 13 to 15. A model of a shoe manufacturing machine invented by Jan E. Matzeliger, a Negro from Guiana, is one of the features of the exhibit. Officials of the United Shoe Machinery Corporation, by whose courtesy the model is being exhibited, claim that the invention revolutionized the shoe manufacturing industry by making possible the production of shoes by machinery. Discoveries of Negro scientists in American industries, including those of Dr. Percy Julian who recently discovered a drug for the treatment of arthritis are being assembl- Circulation Winners Announced Today More than 10,000 new persons were added to the long list, of MEMPHS WORLD readers as a direct result of the Sam. Armou Circulation Contest which ended this week. Winners of the five coveted prizes which will be awarded this week, wero: First Prize, Wilbur White Second Brize, Arthur Spruell; Third Prize, Garnett Henning; Fourth Prize, Willie Harris, and Fifth Prize, Alvin Spicer. Honorable Mention men to William Troul, Jr. Wilbur Whitney Osaque Browniee, Young Fong, and Augustus Jones. C.W. Rolark, Circulation Manger., who promoted the contest, stated that he wishes to personally thank al the carriers and their paents for the 100 per cent cooperaion received. "The carriers did a splendid job and showed what can be done to enlarge their earning power, Many boys have earned up to $18 weekly selling the MEMPHIS WORLD." 106 Students Are Presented Home Nursing Citations The American Red Cross is one of the cooperating agencies in the promotion of National Negro Health Week, which was featured the 36th Evaluation Anniversary during the past week. In the observance of Negro Heath week the Memphis-Shelby County Chapter of the Red Cross, emphasized its year round health and safety work which reaches into Negro schools, churches, club and community life, by presenting certificates to 106 pupils of B.T. Washington High School, in a home nursing course which the class completed under the direction of Mrs. Lillian Garter Thompson a graduate and registered nurse on the staff of the Red Cross nursing service. Mrs. Thompson is a graduate of Freedmen Hospital, Washington, D. C., and has been on the Red Cross nursing service staff of the Memphis Shelby County Chapter for the past 18 months. In private life, Mrs. Thompson is the Wife of Arthur Thompson, local letter carrier, whom she met at Camp Lee Va., during Hold Three On Not Guilty Murder Plea Three men were bound to the state in City Court Wednesday morning! Two charges of murder and the third on a charge of assult to murder. All three entered pleas of not guilty. noon murder of his neighbor Charles Brown, 52, of 357 N. Dunlap noonmurder of his neighbor, Charles Robert Lester Jones, 41, of 353 N Dunlap, faces a murder charge in connection with Saturday after. Brown was shot with a .12 gage shotgun at 2:30 p. m. in front of his home. Police say the blast almost HIGH U.S. COURT HEARS SEGREGATION CASES Attorney General J. Howard McGrath and Solicitor General Philip B. Perlman argued Monday before the United States Supreme Court that racial segregation, under compulsion of law, is forbidden by the constitution. They did so in asking the court to reverse a Federal district court upholding the action of the Interstate Commerce Commission in approving a regulation of the Southern Railway requiring the segregation of colored Passengers from whites in its dining cars. Fully two hours before the court convened to render a decision and hear oral arguments in three civil rights cases, the courtroom was jammed to capacity and persons wishing to gain admission formed a line three deep the length of the corridor waiting to get in. The section reserved for lawyers who are members of the court was packed to capacity and all reserved seats were taken. The Marshal received several telephone calls from Senators requesting admission for constituents. Mr. McGrath and Mr. Perlman appeared before the court in behalf of the United States, a nominal party in the case of Elmer W. Henderson, director of the American Council on Human Rights, who was denied service on a Southern Railway dining care Mar 17, 1972, because white persons were seated at the two tables conditionally reserved for colored passengers, although at least on seat was vacant. The matters involved in the case, Mr. McGrath said, are of "great national interest." He added that they "affect the lives and well be- Justice Dept. Joins Lawyers Against Customs Attorney General J. Howard McGrath and Solicitor General Philip B. Perlman argued Monday before the United States Supreme Court that racial segregation, under compulsion of law, is forbidden by the constitution. They did so in asking the court to reverse a Federal district court upholding the action of the Interstate Commerce Commission in approving a regulation of the Southern Railway requiring the segregation of colored Passengers from whites in its dining cars. Fully two hours before the court convened to render a decision and hear oral arguments in three civil rights cases, the courtroom was jammed to capacity and persons wishing to gain admission formed a line three deep the length of the corridor waiting to get in. The section reserved for lawyers who are members of the court was packed to capacity and all reserved seats were taken. The Marshal received several telephone calls from Senators requesting admission for constituents. Mr. McGrath and Mr. Perlman appeared before the court in behalf of the United States, a nominal party in the case of Elmer W. Henderson, director of the American Council on Human Rights, who was denied service on a Southern Railway dining care Mar 17, 1972, because white persons were seated at the two tables conditionally reserved for colored passengers, although at least on seat was vacant. The matters involved in the case, Mr. McGrath said, are of "great national interest." He added that they "affect the lives and well be- Involves Racial Segregation In Education Attorney General J. Howard McGrath and Solicitor General Philip B. Perlman argued Monday before the United States Supreme Court that racial segregation, under compulsion of law, is forbidden by the constitution. They did so in asking the court to reverse a Federal district court upholding the action of the Interstate Commerce Commission in approving a regulation of the Southern Railway requiring the segregation of colored Passengers from whites in its dining cars. Fully two hours before the court convened to render a decision and hear oral arguments in three civil rights cases, the courtroom was jammed to capacity and persons wishing to gain admission formed a line three deep the length of the corridor waiting to get in. The section reserved for lawyers who are members of the court was packed to capacity and all reserved seats were taken. The Marshal received several telephone calls from Senators requesting admission for constituents. Mr. McGrath and Mr. Perlman appeared before the court in behalf of the United States, a nominal party in the case of Elmer W. Henderson, director of the American Council on Human Rights, who was denied service on a Southern Railway dining care Mar 17, 1972, because white persons were seated at the two tables conditionally reserved for colored passengers, although at least on seat was vacant. The matters involved in the case, Mr. McGrath said, are of "great national interest." He added that they "affect the lives and well be- Marshall Brings Court To Grips With Bias Issue Thurgood Marshall, special counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, brought the United States Supreme Court to grips with the question of the legality of Jim Crow law schools supported by the State. The case of Heman Marion Sweatt, of Houston, Texas, a postal employee and a veteran of World War II, which he argued, Mr. Marshall said, was different from all other cases involving the question of equal educational opportunity. The issue of segregation was made "crystal clear" from the very beginning in the Sweatt case, he asserted. Attorneys for Sweatt, at every stage of the case, based their attack on the validity of Texas laws as they operated to prevent Sweatt from entering the University of Texas Law School, he said. Attorney General Daniel Price of Texas joined the issue on this one point, Mr. Marshall said, and to make certain there would be no misunderstanding called Sweatt as a witness at the trial of the case and developed the point from him that he would not attend any law school no matter how equal the physical facilities were so long as it was in fact a segregated school. Mr. Marshall pooh-poohed the arguments of Mr. Daniel about what would happen in grammar, elementary and high schools if the Says Jim Crow In Case Made Crystal Thurgood Marshall, special counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, brought the United States Supreme Court to grips with the question of the legality of Jim Crow law schools supported by the State. The case of Heman Marion Sweatt, of Houston, Texas, a postal employee and a veteran of World War II, which he argued, Mr. Marshall said, was different from all other cases involving the question of equal educational opportunity. The issue of segregation was made "crystal clear" from the very beginning in the Sweatt case, he asserted. Attorneys for Sweatt, at every stage of the case, based their attack on the validity of Texas laws as they operated to prevent Sweatt from entering the University of Texas Law School, he said. Attorney General Daniel Price of Texas joined the issue on this one point, Mr. Marshall said, and to make certain there would be no misunderstanding called Sweatt as a witness at the trial of the case and developed the point from him that he would not attend any law school no matter how equal the physical facilities were so long as it was in fact a segregated school. Mr. Marshall pooh-poohed the arguments of Mr. Daniel about what would happen in grammar, elementary and high schools if the Rev. Brook is a graduate of Lane College and studies at the University of Kansas. He is a former teacher of physics and chemistry at Daytona Beach High School in Florida and held the same position at Merry High School in Jackson, Tenn.