Memphis World Memphis World Publishing Co. 1950-01-03 Lewis O. Swingler MEMPHIS WORLD Three Lynching Too Many Dr. Frederick D. Patterson, President of Tuskegee Institute, through the school's department of Records and Research, announced this week three lynchings for the past year. "This is one more than the number two for 1948; two more than the number one for 1947 and 1946, and two more than the number one for 1945," states Dr. Patterson. Georgia, according to the figures, contributed two of these lynchings, while Mississippi contributed the other. Thus, for the five-year period from 1945 to 1949, 13 lynchings have been recorded. Technically speaking, there should be other lynchings than the ones listed by Tuskegee. No mention is made of a 70-year-old man and two others, who were slain in Macon, Georgia swamp last Spring. Again, no mention is made of a Negro tenant farmer in Mississippi only six weeks ago, who was reported shot to death outside of his home by law enforcement officials, who claimed he was apparently dissatisfied with the share he had received from his year's farming. The record on its face, may indicate a slight decline in lynchings in the South. But as Walter White has said on many occasions, lynchings are really not declining as such, they are going underground in the form of official slayings by law enforcement officers, taking place in jails and otherwise in the hands of the law. And thus, so long as there is a single lynching in the South all America stands to lose in prestige and influence. Repeatedly, the South has received a blackeye from northern jurists and governors who have refused extradition of escaped Negro prisoners because of such sordid stories as the Mallard murder trial, the Rome flogging and hundreds of other stories, which fail to command so much as a trial in many communities. The South needs to improve in its treatment and conduct toward the Negro, and if America hopes to reclaim its influence abroad, it too, must offer greater citizenship protection to Negroes by passing the Civil Rights program endorsed by both the Democratic and Republican Parties. Williams Hits meeting in December, 1950. Arthur D. Shores, Birmingham attorney, warned Thursday that Negroes must gird themselves to fight new restrictions and barriers class citizenship. Delivering the convention address to Alpha Phi Alpha delegates from the far corners of the nation at Clark College Thursday, Attorney Shores stated: "It is no exaggeration to say that with all the gains the Negro has made in his struggle for first class citizenship, in the South, new barriers are being raised, new techniques are being developed, new strategy worked out to circumvent the Negro's forward march." As a legal counsel who has figured in some of the most celebrated Civil Rights cases of the South, the speaker stated: "Long before the last great war and certainly after the war, this our Southland was and is looked upon as being the nation's number one problem. Every evil which h existed throughout the world has had its counterpart here in the South. Here in the South we still suffer the greatest degree of political autocracy in that only 30 per cent of the people vote against 70 per cent in the rest of the country. We have the highest percentage of illiteracy, we have the highest rate of tenancy; we have the nation's most acute race problem and our health conditions are the nation's poorest. "From all walks of life in the South, old and young, men and women, white and Negro, rural and urban, people are asking as never before some searching questions about what is best for the South to do in this time of crisis and conflict in the nation. The greatest test which our country and the South faces in this delimma is determined by its treatment of the Negro. The South's distinctiveness in its tradition, practice and legalization of segregation and its Negro-White caste system is in the spotlight as never before. With Alpha's citizenship program having been enlarged so as to embrace a more direct fight for first class citizenship for the Negro, men of Alpha, the nation over, must accent this challenge which the South offers, because the stability of the entire nation rests upon the solution of the South's race problem." Shores scored the new barriers raised following the federal court decision on the white primary, the barriers to equal educational opportunity and the other numerous blotches "on our escutcheon of Democracy." Further the speaker stated on the credit side of the ledger he could mention many improvements in education, in government, in the administration of justice as well as other fields of human activity, "but the fact still remains that as citizens of this country, we should enjoy all of the attributes of first class citizenship and enjoy it now ....The United States can no longer countenance these burden its conscience, these roads on its mural fiber. We must meet the challenge by the use of every legal device at our command, we must take the leadership, or at least join in every effort in increasing the Negro's voting strength in the south so as to help those congressmen from the South, who filibuster on progressive legislations." Mayor William B. Hartsfield gave a belated welcome address to the Alphas at the Thursday morning session. Another brilliant dance, given by the Alpha kappa Alpha Sorority, closed the evening. In a far reaching address, Aubrey Williams liberal white publisher of The Southern Farmer and former head of the NYA, hit those who would compromise or push for a course of gradualism in the Negro's fight for full complete citizenship. Williams said there might have been some reason for compromise on the segregation and discrimination issues twenty or thirty years ago, but that the shell has been cracked, that Negroes are entering the state universities of the South and that student and faculty polls show that their entrance to general schools is favored. "I would rather have shacks where equality and decency and democracy are taught than have all the other finery," Williams declared in pointing out the importance of equality on the American scene. The ex-member of the late President Roosevelt's cabinet circles also said the greatest enemy of Negroes is the kind of liberal who urges caution on everything when there is no need. Negroes need leaders willing to sacrifice themselves, unwilling to compromise, Williams asserted. Generally, Williams answered his text-subject, "Does Gradualism Work?" with a very positive and Pointed "no". He hit the Southern Regional Plan as concocted by racebaiting governors who wished to circumvent the Supreme Court decisions that equal education for Negroes must be provided. The speaker also called to task Negro and white educators willing to compromise with the plan and its working. Elmer Henderson, director of the American Council on Human Rights and plaintiff in the case against railway diner segregation explained the work of the council and the significance of his case on the Jim Crow issue. An elaborate program welcomed the Alphas to Atlanta. Among those delivering welcome addresses were: Mesdames Catherine Johnson, F. Earl McLendon, Louise P. Walker. Gleana Dobbs W. E. Inmon. Dr. E. C. Mitchell: Dr. Rufus E. Clenent, Rev. B. J. Johnson, Rev. William Holmes Borders—and C. A. Scott. Congressman Adam C. Powell and Hazel Scott were not present a previously sche QUESTIONS ASKED meeting in December, 1950. Arthur D. Shores, Birmingham attorney, warned Thursday that Negroes must gird themselves to fight new restrictions and barriers class citizenship. Delivering the convention address to Alpha Phi Alpha delegates from the far corners of the nation at Clark College Thursday, Attorney Shores stated: "It is no exaggeration to say that with all the gains the Negro has made in his struggle for first class citizenship, in the South, new barriers are being raised, new techniques are being developed, new strategy worked out to circumvent the Negro's forward march." As a legal counsel who has figured in some of the most celebrated Civil Rights cases of the South, the speaker stated: "Long before the last great war and certainly after the war, this our Southland was and is looked upon as being the nation's number one problem. Every evil which h existed throughout the world has had its counterpart here in the South. Here in the South we still suffer the greatest degree of political autocracy in that only 30 per cent of the people vote against 70 per cent in the rest of the country. We have the highest percentage of illiteracy, we have the highest rate of tenancy; we have the nation's most acute race problem and our health conditions are the nation's poorest. "From all walks of life in the South, old and young, men and women, white and Negro, rural and urban, people are asking as never before some searching questions about what is best for the South to do in this time of crisis and conflict in the nation. The greatest test which our country and the South faces in this delimma is determined by its treatment of the Negro. The South's distinctiveness in its tradition, practice and legalization of segregation and its Negro-White caste system is in the spotlight as never before. With Alpha's citizenship program having been enlarged so as to embrace a more direct fight for first class citizenship for the Negro, men of Alpha, the nation over, must accent this challenge which the South offers, because the stability of the entire nation rests upon the solution of the South's race problem." Shores scored the new barriers raised following the federal court decision on the white primary, the barriers to equal educational opportunity and the other numerous blotches "on our escutcheon of Democracy." Further the speaker stated on the credit side of the ledger he could mention many improvements in education, in government, in the administration of justice as well as other fields of human activity, "but the fact still remains that as citizens of this country, we should enjoy all of the attributes of first class citizenship and enjoy it now ....The United States can no longer countenance these burden its conscience, these roads on its mural fiber. We must meet the challenge by the use of every legal device at our command, we must take the leadership, or at least join in every effort in increasing the Negro's voting strength in the south so as to help those congressmen from the South, who filibuster on progressive legislations." Mayor William B. Hartsfield gave a belated welcome address to the Alphas at the Thursday morning session. Another brilliant dance, given by the Alpha kappa Alpha Sorority, closed the evening. In a far reaching address, Aubrey Williams liberal white publisher of The Southern Farmer and former head of the NYA, hit those who would compromise or push for a course of gradualism in the Negro's fight for full complete citizenship. Williams said there might have been some reason for compromise on the segregation and discrimination issues twenty or thirty years ago, but that the shell has been cracked, that Negroes are entering the state universities of the South and that student and faculty polls show that their entrance to general schools is favored. "I would rather have shacks where equality and decency and democracy are taught than have all the other finery," Williams declared in pointing out the importance of equality on the American scene. The ex-member of the late President Roosevelt's cabinet circles also said the greatest enemy of Negroes is the kind of liberal who urges caution on everything when there is no need. Negroes need leaders willing to sacrifice themselves, unwilling to compromise, Williams asserted. Generally, Williams answered his text-subject, "Does Gradualism Work?" with a very positive and Pointed "no". He hit the Southern Regional Plan as concocted by racebaiting governors who wished to circumvent the Supreme Court decisions that equal education for Negroes must be provided. The speaker also called to task Negro and white educators willing to compromise with the plan and its working. Elmer Henderson, director of the American Council on Human Rights and plaintiff in the case against railway diner segregation explained the work of the council and the significance of his case on the Jim Crow issue. An elaborate program welcomed the Alphas to Atlanta. Among those delivering welcome addresses were: Mesdames Catherine Johnson, F. Earl McLendon, Louise P. Walker. Gleana Dobbs W. E. Inmon. Dr. E. C. Mitchell: Dr. Rufus E. Clenent, Rev. B. J. Johnson, Rev. William Holmes Borders—and C. A. Scott. Congressman Adam C. Powell and Hazel Scott were not present a previously sche HARTSFIELD WELCOMES GROUP meeting in December, 1950. Arthur D. Shores, Birmingham attorney, warned Thursday that Negroes must gird themselves to fight new restrictions and barriers class citizenship. Delivering the convention address to Alpha Phi Alpha delegates from the far corners of the nation at Clark College Thursday, Attorney Shores stated: "It is no exaggeration to say that with all the gains the Negro has made in his struggle for first class citizenship, in the South, new barriers are being raised, new techniques are being developed, new strategy worked out to circumvent the Negro's forward march." As a legal counsel who has figured in some of the most celebrated Civil Rights cases of the South, the speaker stated: "Long before the last great war and certainly after the war, this our Southland was and is looked upon as being the nation's number one problem. Every evil which h existed throughout the world has had its counterpart here in the South. Here in the South we still suffer the greatest degree of political autocracy in that only 30 per cent of the people vote against 70 per cent in the rest of the country. We have the highest percentage of illiteracy, we have the highest rate of tenancy; we have the nation's most acute race problem and our health conditions are the nation's poorest. "From all walks of life in the South, old and young, men and women, white and Negro, rural and urban, people are asking as never before some searching questions about what is best for the South to do in this time of crisis and conflict in the nation. The greatest test which our country and the South faces in this delimma is determined by its treatment of the Negro. The South's distinctiveness in its tradition, practice and legalization of segregation and its Negro-White caste system is in the spotlight as never before. With Alpha's citizenship program having been enlarged so as to embrace a more direct fight for first class citizenship for the Negro, men of Alpha, the nation over, must accent this challenge which the South offers, because the stability of the entire nation rests upon the solution of the South's race problem." Shores scored the new barriers raised following the federal court decision on the white primary, the barriers to equal educational opportunity and the other numerous blotches "on our escutcheon of Democracy." Further the speaker stated on the credit side of the ledger he could mention many improvements in education, in government, in the administration of justice as well as other fields of human activity, "but the fact still remains that as citizens of this country, we should enjoy all of the attributes of first class citizenship and enjoy it now ....The United States can no longer countenance these burden its conscience, these roads on its mural fiber. We must meet the challenge by the use of every legal device at our command, we must take the leadership, or at least join in every effort in increasing the Negro's voting strength in the south so as to help those congressmen from the South, who filibuster on progressive legislations." Mayor William B. Hartsfield gave a belated welcome address to the Alphas at the Thursday morning session. Another brilliant dance, given by the Alpha kappa Alpha Sorority, closed the evening. In a far reaching address, Aubrey Williams liberal white publisher of The Southern Farmer and former head of the NYA, hit those who would compromise or push for a course of gradualism in the Negro's fight for full complete citizenship. Williams said there might have been some reason for compromise on the segregation and discrimination issues twenty or thirty years ago, but that the shell has been cracked, that Negroes are entering the state universities of the South and that student and faculty polls show that their entrance to general schools is favored. "I would rather have shacks where equality and decency and democracy are taught than have all the other finery," Williams declared in pointing out the importance of equality on the American scene. The ex-member of the late President Roosevelt's cabinet circles also said the greatest enemy of Negroes is the kind of liberal who urges caution on everything when there is no need. Negroes need leaders willing to sacrifice themselves, unwilling to compromise, Williams asserted. Generally, Williams answered his text-subject, "Does Gradualism Work?" with a very positive and Pointed "no". He hit the Southern Regional Plan as concocted by racebaiting governors who wished to circumvent the Supreme Court decisions that equal education for Negroes must be provided. The speaker also called to task Negro and white educators willing to compromise with the plan and its working. Elmer Henderson, director of the American Council on Human Rights and plaintiff in the case against railway diner segregation explained the work of the council and the significance of his case on the Jim Crow issue. An elaborate program welcomed the Alphas to Atlanta. Among those delivering welcome addresses were: Mesdames Catherine Johnson, F. Earl McLendon, Louise P. Walker. Gleana Dobbs W. E. Inmon. Dr. E. C. Mitchell: Dr. Rufus E. Clenent, Rev. B. J. Johnson, Rev. William Holmes Borders—and C. A. Scott. Congressman Adam C. Powell and Hazel Scott were not present a previously sche WILLIAMS SPEAR meeting in December, 1950. Arthur D. Shores, Birmingham attorney, warned Thursday that Negroes must gird themselves to fight new restrictions and barriers class citizenship. Delivering the convention address to Alpha Phi Alpha delegates from the far corners of the nation at Clark College Thursday, Attorney Shores stated: "It is no exaggeration to say that with all the gains the Negro has made in his struggle for first class citizenship, in the South, new barriers are being raised, new techniques are being developed, new strategy worked out to circumvent the Negro's forward march." As a legal counsel who has figured in some of the most celebrated Civil Rights cases of the South, the speaker stated: "Long before the last great war and certainly after the war, this our Southland was and is looked upon as being the nation's number one problem. Every evil which h existed throughout the world has had its counterpart here in the South. Here in the South we still suffer the greatest degree of political autocracy in that only 30 per cent of the people vote against 70 per cent in the rest of the country. We have the highest percentage of illiteracy, we have the highest rate of tenancy; we have the nation's most acute race problem and our health conditions are the nation's poorest. "From all walks of life in the South, old and young, men and women, white and Negro, rural and urban, people are asking as never before some searching questions about what is best for the South to do in this time of crisis and conflict in the nation. The greatest test which our country and the South faces in this delimma is determined by its treatment of the Negro. The South's distinctiveness in its tradition, practice and legalization of segregation and its Negro-White caste system is in the spotlight as never before. With Alpha's citizenship program having been enlarged so as to embrace a more direct fight for first class citizenship for the Negro, men of Alpha, the nation over, must accent this challenge which the South offers, because the stability of the entire nation rests upon the solution of the South's race problem." Shores scored the new barriers raised following the federal court decision on the white primary, the barriers to equal educational opportunity and the other numerous blotches "on our escutcheon of Democracy." Further the speaker stated on the credit side of the ledger he could mention many improvements in education, in government, in the administration of justice as well as other fields of human activity, "but the fact still remains that as citizens of this country, we should enjoy all of the attributes of first class citizenship and enjoy it now ....The United States can no longer countenance these burden its conscience, these roads on its mural fiber. We must meet the challenge by the use of every legal device at our command, we must take the leadership, or at least join in every effort in increasing the Negro's voting strength in the south so as to help those congressmen from the South, who filibuster on progressive legislations." Mayor William B. Hartsfield gave a belated welcome address to the Alphas at the Thursday morning session. Another brilliant dance, given by the Alpha kappa Alpha Sorority, closed the evening. In a far reaching address, Aubrey Williams liberal white publisher of The Southern Farmer and former head of the NYA, hit those who would compromise or push for a course of gradualism in the Negro's fight for full complete citizenship. Williams said there might have been some reason for compromise on the segregation and discrimination issues twenty or thirty years ago, but that the shell has been cracked, that Negroes are entering the state universities of the South and that student and faculty polls show that their entrance to general schools is favored. "I would rather have shacks where equality and decency and democracy are taught than have all the other finery," Williams declared in pointing out the importance of equality on the American scene. The ex-member of the late President Roosevelt's cabinet circles also said the greatest enemy of Negroes is the kind of liberal who urges caution on everything when there is no need. Negroes need leaders willing to sacrifice themselves, unwilling to compromise, Williams asserted. Generally, Williams answered his text-subject, "Does Gradualism Work?" with a very positive and Pointed "no". He hit the Southern Regional Plan as concocted by racebaiting governors who wished to circumvent the Supreme Court decisions that equal education for Negroes must be provided. The speaker also called to task Negro and white educators willing to compromise with the plan and its working. Elmer Henderson, director of the American Council on Human Rights and plaintiff in the case against railway diner segregation explained the work of the council and the significance of his case on the Jim Crow issue. An elaborate program welcomed the Alphas to Atlanta. Among those delivering welcome addresses were: Mesdames Catherine Johnson, F. Earl McLendon, Louise P. Walker. Gleana Dobbs W. E. Inmon. Dr. E. C. Mitchell: Dr. Rufus E. Clenent, Rev. B. J. Johnson, Rev. William Holmes Borders—and C. A. Scott. Congressman Adam C. Powell and Hazel Scott were not present a previously sche HITS GRADUALISM meeting in December, 1950. Arthur D. Shores, Birmingham attorney, warned Thursday that Negroes must gird themselves to fight new restrictions and barriers class citizenship. Delivering the convention address to Alpha Phi Alpha delegates from the far corners of the nation at Clark College Thursday, Attorney Shores stated: "It is no exaggeration to say that with all the gains the Negro has made in his struggle for first class citizenship, in the South, new barriers are being raised, new techniques are being developed, new strategy worked out to circumvent the Negro's forward march." As a legal counsel who has figured in some of the most celebrated Civil Rights cases of the South, the speaker stated: "Long before the last great war and certainly after the war, this our Southland was and is looked upon as being the nation's number one problem. Every evil which h existed throughout the world has had its counterpart here in the South. Here in the South we still suffer the greatest degree of political autocracy in that only 30 per cent of the people vote against 70 per cent in the rest of the country. We have the highest percentage of illiteracy, we have the highest rate of tenancy; we have the nation's most acute race problem and our health conditions are the nation's poorest. "From all walks of life in the South, old and young, men and women, white and Negro, rural and urban, people are asking as never before some searching questions about what is best for the South to do in this time of crisis and conflict in the nation. The greatest test which our country and the South faces in this delimma is determined by its treatment of the Negro. The South's distinctiveness in its tradition, practice and legalization of segregation and its Negro-White caste system is in the spotlight as never before. With Alpha's citizenship program having been enlarged so as to embrace a more direct fight for first class citizenship for the Negro, men of Alpha, the nation over, must accent this challenge which the South offers, because the stability of the entire nation rests upon the solution of the South's race problem." Shores scored the new barriers raised following the federal court decision on the white primary, the barriers to equal educational opportunity and the other numerous blotches "on our escutcheon of Democracy." Further the speaker stated on the credit side of the ledger he could mention many improvements in education, in government, in the administration of justice as well as other fields of human activity, "but the fact still remains that as citizens of this country, we should enjoy all of the attributes of first class citizenship and enjoy it now ....The United States can no longer countenance these burden its conscience, these roads on its mural fiber. We must meet the challenge by the use of every legal device at our command, we must take the leadership, or at least join in every effort in increasing the Negro's voting strength in the south so as to help those congressmen from the South, who filibuster on progressive legislations." Mayor William B. Hartsfield gave a belated welcome address to the Alphas at the Thursday morning session. Another brilliant dance, given by the Alpha kappa Alpha Sorority, closed the evening. In a far reaching address, Aubrey Williams liberal white publisher of The Southern Farmer and former head of the NYA, hit those who would compromise or push for a course of gradualism in the Negro's fight for full complete citizenship. Williams said there might have been some reason for compromise on the segregation and discrimination issues twenty or thirty years ago, but that the shell has been cracked, that Negroes are entering the state universities of the South and that student and faculty polls show that their entrance to general schools is favored. "I would rather have shacks where equality and decency and democracy are taught than have all the other finery," Williams declared in pointing out the importance of equality on the American scene. The ex-member of the late President Roosevelt's cabinet circles also said the greatest enemy of Negroes is the kind of liberal who urges caution on everything when there is no need. Negroes need leaders willing to sacrifice themselves, unwilling to compromise, Williams asserted. Generally, Williams answered his text-subject, "Does Gradualism Work?" with a very positive and Pointed "no". He hit the Southern Regional Plan as concocted by racebaiting governors who wished to circumvent the Supreme Court decisions that equal education for Negroes must be provided. The speaker also called to task Negro and white educators willing to compromise with the plan and its working. Elmer Henderson, director of the American Council on Human Rights and plaintiff in the case against railway diner segregation explained the work of the council and the significance of his case on the Jim Crow issue. An elaborate program welcomed the Alphas to Atlanta. Among those delivering welcome addresses were: Mesdames Catherine Johnson, F. Earl McLendon, Louise P. Walker. Gleana Dobbs W. E. Inmon. Dr. E. C. Mitchell: Dr. Rufus E. Clenent, Rev. B. J. Johnson, Rev. William Holmes Borders—and C. A. Scott. Congressman Adam C. Powell and Hazel Scott were not present a previously sche Mays Tells an countries and yet there are great areas of this nation, the South particularly, where political freedom does not exist, the noted educator declared. "Educationally the United States holds leadership for less than half the people in the world are literate, he asserted, while we have the largest assembly of universities, colleges, secondary and primary schoof any people on earth. "Religiously the United States leads the procession with its freedom of worship and its separation of church from state, but he added, because of this leadership which we enjoy in so many of the important phases of life, we have responsibilities which are commensurate." Dr. Mays declared that every great civilization in the world, from the Egyptian, 3500 years before Christ, the Syrian, on down through the Babylonian, Persian. Grecian and Roman eras had reached a certain peak and then declined. "How," he asked "could the United-States avoid toppling from the heights which it occupied as the leader of the current period of civilization?" Dr. Mays pointed out three imperatives. First he said that we must do everything possible to preserve the peace of the world. He described the conflict of ideologies between Russia and the United States declaring that he hated Communism because it meant enslavement from the top to the bottom. Secondly, he said, we must find a way to solve the problems of unemployment. Nearly half the population of the world is near starvation. Thirdly, we must erase all kinds of racial discrimination. Hunger, desperation, segregation and confusion are fertile areas for the growth of Communism, the speaker said. "Communism is an idea," said Dr. Mays. "The only way we destroy one idea is to replace it with a better idea," he continued. "We must make democracy work. If she cannot make are the foundation of democracy, then God have mercy on the souls of the people in the United States." Cong William L. Dawson, another speaker, appealed to the Omeggas and all other fraternities and sororities to take upon themselves the responsibilities of shaping the thinking of our people. He pointed out that the masses of people have a sight to look for leadership in social, business and political affairs to those who have had the good fortune and privilege to secure training. THREE IMPERATIVES an countries and yet there are great areas of this nation, the South particularly, where political freedom does not exist, the noted educator declared. "Educationally the United States holds leadership for less than half the people in the world are literate, he asserted, while we have the largest assembly of universities, colleges, secondary and primary schoof any people on earth. "Religiously the United States leads the procession with its freedom of worship and its separation of church from state, but he added, because of this leadership which we enjoy in so many of the important phases of life, we have responsibilities which are commensurate." Dr. Mays declared that every great civilization in the world, from the Egyptian, 3500 years before Christ, the Syrian, on down through the Babylonian, Persian. Grecian and Roman eras had reached a certain peak and then declined. "How," he asked "could the United-States avoid toppling from the heights which it occupied as the leader of the current period of civilization?" Dr. Mays pointed out three imperatives. First he said that we must do everything possible to preserve the peace of the world. He described the conflict of ideologies between Russia and the United States declaring that he hated Communism because it meant enslavement from the top to the bottom. Secondly, he said, we must find a way to solve the problems of unemployment. Nearly half the population of the world is near starvation. Thirdly, we must erase all kinds of racial discrimination. Hunger, desperation, segregation and confusion are fertile areas for the growth of Communism, the speaker said. "Communism is an idea," said Dr. Mays. "The only way we destroy one idea is to replace it with a better idea," he continued. "We must make democracy work. If she cannot make are the foundation of democracy, then God have mercy on the souls of the people in the United States." Cong William L. Dawson, another speaker, appealed to the Omeggas and all other fraternities and sororities to take upon themselves the responsibilities of shaping the thinking of our people. He pointed out that the masses of people have a sight to look for leadership in social, business and political affairs to those who have had the good fortune and privilege to secure training. Aid To Education ties in more than half of the states with similar shortages for rural schools in one-fourth of the states. The survey pointed out that the national average salary for the instructional staff is estimated at less than $3,000 for the current year. The estimated average salary has a prewar purchasing power of little more than $1,500. The average salary for Negro teachers in many of the southern states is far below that of white teachers or even below the average salary paid in that locality, while salaries have been equalized in some of the southern states. The report concluded that "the deterioration of the war period" in our school system has stopped "Strenuous efforts by state legislatures, local school boards, the organized Profession, and the public Producing results," but added "mch remains to be done." "The gains of recent years," the report pointed of, "have not repointed out, "have not removed the undesirable educational inequalities among the states. Substantial in equalities in school opportunities exist within most states. Even the relatively large gains in local and state revenues have been less efficient than hoped for because the have not provided the teachers an facilities needed to meet the increasing enrollments; they have not have been adequate to over come the wartime lag in teacher education and school building construction: and they have not completely offset the decreased purchasing power of the school dollar." With the passage of federal aid legislation, these conditions might be temporarily remedied and eventually completely corrected. In proposing the passage of federal aid to education, Negro voters are urging that any bill offered to the Congress will include an equalization amendment which will safeguard benefits in Negro schools in the sections of the country where segregation is practiced in the school systems. MUCH REMAINS TO BE DONE ties in more than half of the states with similar shortages for rural schools in one-fourth of the states. The survey pointed out that the national average salary for the instructional staff is estimated at less than $3,000 for the current year. The estimated average salary has a prewar purchasing power of little more than $1,500. The average salary for Negro teachers in many of the southern states is far below that of white teachers or even below the average salary paid in that locality, while salaries have been equalized in some of the southern states. The report concluded that "the deterioration of the war period" in our school system has stopped "Strenuous efforts by state legislatures, local school boards, the organized Profession, and the public Producing results," but added "mch remains to be done." "The gains of recent years," the report pointed of, "have not repointed out, "have not removed the undesirable educational inequalities among the states. Substantial in equalities in school opportunities exist within most states. Even the relatively large gains in local and state revenues have been less efficient than hoped for because the have not provided the teachers an facilities needed to meet the increasing enrollments; they have not have been adequate to over come the wartime lag in teacher education and school building construction: and they have not completely offset the decreased purchasing power of the school dollar." With the passage of federal aid legislation, these conditions might be temporarily remedied and eventually completely corrected. In proposing the passage of federal aid to education, Negro voters are urging that any bill offered to the Congress will include an equalization amendment which will safeguard benefits in Negro schools in the sections of the country where segregation is practiced in the school systems. No Substitute bilization will register at the Twelfth Street YMCA, 1816 12th Street, N. W. The afternoon of Sunday, January 15, will be devoted to briefing delegates on lobbying techniques. That evening a mass meeting will be held. On the following morning, delegations will visit their respective congressmen and senators in an effort to get commitments of support for FEPC and other civil rights measures. Monday night, Senator Scott Lucas of Illinois, majority leader, and other congressional leaders will address a mass meeting. Tuesday will be devoted to the follow-up work of visiting congressmen and reporting to the conference on results of these visits. The conference will also be addressed by leaders of the cooperating organizations and by congressional sponsors of civil rights legislation. TAKE IT AS A TONIC PEP-TI-KON Dean Hancock we may as well face the ugly fact. Pranking with deadly weapons has ever been a dangerous thing and when these weapons are atomic and the prankers are nations, we are on the eve of dire events. New meaning may at any time be given to the beatitude which says "The meek shall inherit the earth," for when the warlike nations destroy themselves the Africans and pacific Islanders may inherit the earth or that part of it that will be spared the earthly damnation of atomic warfare. By every token our own great American should be the John, the Baptist nation among the nations crying in his wilderness "prepare the way of the Lord and make his paths straight." But the voice of our great country is muffled by those who would make the word of God of none effect and deny before the world the only truth by which the world may be saved and that is the brotherhood of man. The hands of our nation are tied by the cold-blooded and high-handed proponents of a white supremacy that negates God, the Bible and Jesus Christ. Race prejudice is a mill-stone about the neck of our great country and threatens to sink it upon the abject sea of materialism and moral perfidy. The fact remains, this nation has a god before our God and that god is white supremacy and all its hellish concomitants of prejudice and hatred and intolerance, and hypocrisy and blood-guiltiness and shafe and remorse and deceitfulness and kukluxism and a depraved sense of justice. President Harry Truman, today is the man of destiny. He is in truth the prophet of the age. He is this nation's John The Baptist call our nation into repentance before God and the world. If the nation will hearken and turn unto God, it will unto God live: but if it stones Truman as Jerusalem did her prophets we like Jerusalem will perish and be brought low among the nations. All of the great nations that slumber today in the tombs of time were once mighty and proud as are we. Babylon was once the capitol of the United States of Mesopotamia with walls 80 feet high, thirty feet wide and 40 miles long; but imposing Babylon with its hanging gardens, wonders of the world passed away when moral canker and spiritual gangrene set in. Babylon at its worse did not have a more serious sin than the race prejudice that is fast sapping the moral strength of our nation. In modern times Great Britain, once the gem of the ocean and with possessions in the uttermost parts of the earth, is being dismembered before our eyes. Little Mohandas Gandhi just took one precept from Jesus Christ and broke the back of Britain's mighty empire. Nations, that sin like the soul that sinneth, shall surely die. It is quite conceivable that the fate of civil rights legislation will determine the fate of our nation and of the civilized world this year of years! MAN OF DESTINY we may as well face the ugly fact. Pranking with deadly weapons has ever been a dangerous thing and when these weapons are atomic and the prankers are nations, we are on the eve of dire events. New meaning may at any time be given to the beatitude which says "The meek shall inherit the earth," for when the warlike nations destroy themselves the Africans and pacific Islanders may inherit the earth or that part of it that will be spared the earthly damnation of atomic warfare. By every token our own great American should be the John, the Baptist nation among the nations crying in his wilderness "prepare the way of the Lord and make his paths straight." But the voice of our great country is muffled by those who would make the word of God of none effect and deny before the world the only truth by which the world may be saved and that is the brotherhood of man. The hands of our nation are tied by the cold-blooded and high-handed proponents of a white supremacy that negates God, the Bible and Jesus Christ. Race prejudice is a mill-stone about the neck of our great country and threatens to sink it upon the abject sea of materialism and moral perfidy. The fact remains, this nation has a god before our God and that god is white supremacy and all its hellish concomitants of prejudice and hatred and intolerance, and hypocrisy and blood-guiltiness and shafe and remorse and deceitfulness and kukluxism and a depraved sense of justice. President Harry Truman, today is the man of destiny. He is in truth the prophet of the age. He is this nation's John The Baptist call our nation into repentance before God and the world. If the nation will hearken and turn unto God, it will unto God live: but if it stones Truman as Jerusalem did her prophets we like Jerusalem will perish and be brought low among the nations. All of the great nations that slumber today in the tombs of time were once mighty and proud as are we. Babylon was once the capitol of the United States of Mesopotamia with walls 80 feet high, thirty feet wide and 40 miles long; but imposing Babylon with its hanging gardens, wonders of the world passed away when moral canker and spiritual gangrene set in. Babylon at its worse did not have a more serious sin than the race prejudice that is fast sapping the moral strength of our nation. In modern times Great Britain, once the gem of the ocean and with possessions in the uttermost parts of the earth, is being dismembered before our eyes. Little Mohandas Gandhi just took one precept from Jesus Christ and broke the back of Britain's mighty empire. Nations, that sin like the soul that sinneth, shall surely die. It is quite conceivable that the fate of civil rights legislation will determine the fate of our nation and of the civilized world this year of years! Ten Year Plan territories, including Tanganyika, where 20,000 square miles are being cleared under the Sukumaland Development Schemes affecting a population of nearly a million people. Planned settlement on newlycleared, tsetse free lands not only permits the wider distribution of both human population and stock also allows more scientific methods of agriculture to be carried but. In Nigeria, Britain's largest and most populous African territory, intensive research to improve the uality and range of crops will ring far-reaching benefits to the 5,000,000 inhabitants of the protectorate. At the Moor Plantation in Ibadan, the Nigerian Agricultural Department is constantly experimenting with crop plants, seeking new varies which are higher-yielding, less sceptible to disease and more able withstand drought. Many schemes are in progress to improve and expand Africa's existing industries. As a result of new dams and Government loans for the purchase of mechanical equipment rice production in parts of Tanganyika rose by 200 per cent in 1948. In Kenya, Britain's principal African tea-growing territory, tea acreage under cultivation is to be increased by 30,000 acres. Modernization of century-old techniques is taking place in thousands of villages throughout British Africa. The Nigerian Government, for example, has improved the production and export of palm oil, by providing modern press mills to replace inefficient local methods of extracting the oil. It has also trained instructors to teach villagers to use new spinning wheels and looms, thus improving the textile industry. Efforts to increase the productivity of British Africa have already resulted in a larger volume of exports and improved economic conditions. But whether development takes the form of ambitious projects like the Sabi Valley Irrigation Scheme in Southern Rhodesia—expected to open up 500,000 acres of and for cultivation—or of methodical surveys to find suitable sites or cocoa farms on the Gold Coast, he net result will not be known for several years. Africa's development is a longterm process. But it will bring with revolutionary changes, higher standards of living and greater prosperity. EXPERIMENTS territories, including Tanganyika, where 20,000 square miles are being cleared under the Sukumaland Development Schemes affecting a population of nearly a million people. Planned settlement on newlycleared, tsetse free lands not only permits the wider distribution of both human population and stock also allows more scientific methods of agriculture to be carried but. In Nigeria, Britain's largest and most populous African territory, intensive research to improve the uality and range of crops will ring far-reaching benefits to the 5,000,000 inhabitants of the protectorate. At the Moor Plantation in Ibadan, the Nigerian Agricultural Department is constantly experimenting with crop plants, seeking new varies which are higher-yielding, less sceptible to disease and more able withstand drought. Many schemes are in progress to improve and expand Africa's existing industries. As a result of new dams and Government loans for the purchase of mechanical equipment rice production in parts of Tanganyika rose by 200 per cent in 1948. In Kenya, Britain's principal African tea-growing territory, tea acreage under cultivation is to be increased by 30,000 acres. Modernization of century-old techniques is taking place in thousands of villages throughout British Africa. The Nigerian Government, for example, has improved the production and export of palm oil, by providing modern press mills to replace inefficient local methods of extracting the oil. It has also trained instructors to teach villagers to use new spinning wheels and looms, thus improving the textile industry. Efforts to increase the productivity of British Africa have already resulted in a larger volume of exports and improved economic conditions. But whether development takes the form of ambitious projects like the Sabi Valley Irrigation Scheme in Southern Rhodesia—expected to open up 500,000 acres of and for cultivation—or of methodical surveys to find suitable sites or cocoa farms on the Gold Coast, he net result will not be known for several years. Africa's development is a longterm process. But it will bring with revolutionary changes, higher standards of living and greater prosperity. Barriers Fall Dawson (Dem., Ill.) was honored at a testimonial dinner in Washington, D. C. February. NAACP asks Truman to ban FHA segregation policy Talmadge reregistration bill passes Georgia Senate... University of Oklahoma admits Negro woman. Atlanta Interracial committee named after housing flareup in Mozley park . . . Federal court enjoins railroad brotherhood from dis criminating against Negro firemen . . . Ralph Bunche presides at Palestine pact sign . . . Truman congratulates Bunche for obtaining armistice between Israel and Egypt . . . Mrs. Anna A. Hedgeman named assistant to Federal Security Administrator Oscar Ewing . . . Montreal beauty, Beryl Dickinson Dash, named queen of McGill university's famed winter carnival . . . Marva Louis obtains second divorce from Joe Louis. Joe Louis announces retirement as World's Heavyweight Champion after successfully defending the boxing title 25 times ... Louis R Lautier, Whitehouse Correspondent for the Atlanta Daily world wins a Wendell L. Willkie award for Negro journalism "for distinguished coverage of significant events, The award was made by the Neiman Foundation of Harvard University . . . Mrs. Julie Hubert, 58-year-old Philadelphia housewife, identifies jackpot tune on "Stop the Music" radio show and wins $35,250 in cash and prizes . . . Secretary of Labor Tobin urges law against job and wage discrimination . . . Negroes registered in Fulton County ruled eligible to vote in city primary . . Molotov replaced as Foreign Minister of U. S. S. R. by Vishinsky . . . National Negro Newspaper Week observed with nationwide broadcasts . . . Ralph Bunche awarded 34th Spingarn. Medal by NAACP "for priceless contribution to the settlement of armed conflict in the Middle East . . . Mrs. Bethune paid tribute by NBC documentary pro gram, "This Is Your Life." . . . The Atlanta Daily World adds to its press and photo services the vast network of International News Service (INS) . . . Joseph T. Brooks, Atlanta school teacher and veteran Navy Boatswain's Mate, becomes first Negro commissioned officer in the southern area with the rank of Ensign . . . U. S. Supreme Court upholds ruling which outlaws Alabama's Boswell Amendment Dr. Frank Graham, former president of University of North Carolina, takes oath as U. S. Senator. Georgia Teachers and Education Association call on state officials to equalize educational opportunities and pay . . . Court rules University of Kentucky must admit Negro students . . . Alcorn prexy resigns . . . James Hinton, South, Carolina NAACP head, is kidnapped by band of white hoodlums . . . Recordbreaking crowd sees Jackie, Campanella and Newcombe play with Dodgers against Crackers . . . Leader repudiate Robeson's stand on war with Russia . . . Navy commissions negro . . . . . . Dr. Alonzo G. Maron named first Negro President of Hampton ... Seven Negroes flogged near Trenton, Ga. Gov. Alfred Driscoll signs New Jersey civil Rights bill . . Georgia voters turn down expanded state services. . . Armed services told to erase discrimination. The Board of Trustees at Hampton Institute unanimously elected Dr. Alonzo G. Moron president . . . The senate defeated to bar racial and religious segregation in public elementary and secondary schools receiving Federal aid . . . U. N. admits Israel as 59th member . . . National Negro Insurance Week observed. . . Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, noted historian and vice chairman of Council on African Affairs, attends World Peace Congress held in Paris, France . . . University of Kentucky announced policy to grant use of facilities by Negroes in engineering, law, pharmacy and history. . . Ralph Bunche turns down post of Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern and African Affairs offered by President Truman . . . Georgia leads nation in first lynching in 1949 when Caleb Hill was dragged from a jail cell by two white men who lynched him . . . Bunche named father of the year . . . Russian blockade of Berlin and Western counter-blockade lifted. Wesley A Brown U. S. Navy Ensign, Became first Negro to graduate from U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md. Moss H. Kendrix, originator of National Negro Newspaper Week celebration, initiated a series of Washington, D. C. radio broadcasts of station WWDC called "Civil Rights Inventory" . . Republican-Southern Democrat coalition successfully blocks TaftHartley repeal . . . Joe Louis, retired at Morris Brown college, where the "Joe Louis" gymnasium was named for him . . . Duke Ellington internationally famous composer-conductor, receives Doctor of Music degree from Wilberforce University. . . Nation's first regional education program as conceived by southern governors gets underway with 40 universities and colleges in 13 states registered . . . At Langston University in Oklahoma, the jimcrow law school closed up with only one student enrolled... Alabama Senators vote 23-3 to unmask Klan . . . Ezzard Charles defeated aging Jersey Joe Walcott to claim heavyweight title vacated by Joe Louis, who dominated the ring for 12 years as champ . . . Dowall Davis of the Kansas City Call elected president of the National Negro Newspaper publishers Association at the 10th annual meeting. C. A. Scott editor and, general manager of the Atlanta Daily World, elected to a two-year term of the eight-man board of directors at the confab. Dr. Howard Gregg is suspended at Delaware State . . . Jackie flays communism before House Un-American committee . . . Mob burns home run wild Groveland, Fla. . . . Negro rape-suspect raped in Florida . . . Walter White, Poppy Cannon married . . . Tom Clark nominated for Supreme court . . . police quell disturbance at Capitol swimming pool . . . Court rules new trial for Trenton six . . . Alabama legislature votes to unmask klan . . . NAACP reveals 700,000 Negroes voted in South during '48 election . . . Bunche flays Washington Jim Crow . . . After much controversy Ohio sends Joan Rankin, "Girl Governor," to Washington . . . Texas passes Anti-Lynch Bill . . . President Gray resigns at Florida A and M . . . Ga. Supreme Court rules counties must put Negroes on jury lists . . . Police chief, 14 others arrested in Birmingham Ku Klux Klan probe. Atlanta policeman suspended after kicking, Negro Prisoner . . . Chicago mob attacks home of Negroes who moved into so-called "white neighborhood." . . . Masked mob beats woman in Alamo, Ga Imperial Wizard Green orders Klansmen to unmask . . . Irwin countians sue for equal schools . . . Homes of two Birmingham ministers bombed in Birmingham . . . Mob beats youth in Bainbridge, Georgia...Grand Dragon-Green dies suddenly . . . Atlanta censor bans "Lost Boundaries" . . . President Colston resigns at Georgia State . . . University of Texas accepts first Negro student. Paul Roberson returns to Peekskill where state troopers and policeman join veterans and youngsters in second riot . . . President P. D of Tuskegee, raps white Birmingham editor for ing his name in housing troubles . . . Hollywood is charged with bias for bypassing Negroes . . . Prisoner escapes lynching in Atlanta courtroom Negro vote is decisive in Atlanta election . . . Senator Graham, of North Carolina, appoints Negro to West point . . . $500,000 grant insures new Grady colored hospital . . . Ingram brief is presented UN officials . . . Ezzard Charles returns to Georgia . . . Southern churchwomen blast Talmadge Voter law . . . Mrs. FDR says in Atlanta that Civil Rights are needed today . . . Prominent Winston Howard shot and killed in Pershing hotel, of which he was part owner by his partner, Charles Cole . . . Moron is inaugurated at Hampton. . . Nehru in Chicago speech says inequality is cause of war . . . Benjamin Mays voted alumnus of year by Chicago school . . . Walden answer Talmadge attack on Irwin county school suit . . . Pennsylvania railroad ends Jim Crow on its lines . . . Eleven Red leaders are Nehru seen as more to allay race suspicion . . . Baltimore judge upholds regional school pact . . . Atlanta Negro Police mount new cars . . . U. S. Justice department files brief supporting Elmer Henderson's contention that segregation is discrimination . . . Patterson reelected head of United Negro College Fund drive . . . Dr. H. V. Richardson installed as Gammon prexy . . . NAACP turns down demand to fire Walter White . . . William Hastie, Governor of Virgin Islands, named judge of Third U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals . . MMississippi school turns down Mississippi school turns down premacy . . . WERD, first Negroowned Radio station begins operation. Army defies intergration order — Dr. M.F. Whittaker president of S. C. State, dies . . . Forrester Washington proposes non-J Crow social work schools at fiery regional meeting . . . Earl Brown defeats Benjamin Davis . . . Talmadge forces seek repeat of GA. vote law . . . Dr. Ferbee succeeds Mrs. Bethune as head of National Council of Negro Women . . . Frat conference repeals bias clause . . . Victor E. Crichton, is first Negro president of Columbia university freshman class . . . Dr. Bunche takes South to ask in West palm Beach speech . . . Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, fabulous showman and famous dancer, dies at age of 71 in New York City . . . Negroes, in several Georgia counties file petitions asking equal school facilities for their children . . . Blind Claxton, Ga., woman flogged by band of hooded white men . . . Strayer committee says seven million dollars needed for three Georgia Negro colleges . . . Mistrial declared in Rome flogging case . . . Bham zoning laws held illegal . . . Harper named to seventh term as Atlanta NACCP head . . . Macon firemen seek injunction to halt rail union discrimination . . . Mistrial declared in B'ham flogging probe . . . Dedication exercise held for Atlanta "Whiteway" . . . Jim Crow issue causes two walkouts at City Auditorium. . . Racial discrimination ruled out of housing . . . . Minnesota governor issued order opening of Minnesota National Guard to Ne. . . . Augusta Negroes lose their bid for seats on City Council . . . Dr. Ferbee succeeds Mrs. Bethune as NCNW president . . . Congressman Dawson elected vicechairman of Democratic National Committee . . . Hastie sworn in as Federal court judge . . . Alabama church quits Federal Council of Churches after the latter takes Stand on segregation . . . Florida parents file $100,000 equal education suit . . . Minister flogged in Claxton . . . Fulton DeKalb Hospital authorities approve $1,439,609 Contract for construction of 150-bed private Negro hospital . . . Department of Records and Research at Tuskegee Institute reports 3 lynchings in 1949. Two occurred in Georgia. FEBRUARY Dawson (Dem., Ill.) was honored at a testimonial dinner in Washington, D. C. February. NAACP asks Truman to ban FHA segregation policy Talmadge reregistration bill passes Georgia Senate... University of Oklahoma admits Negro woman. Atlanta Interracial committee named after housing flareup in Mozley park . . . Federal court enjoins railroad brotherhood from dis criminating against Negro firemen . . . Ralph Bunche presides at Palestine pact sign . . . Truman congratulates Bunche for obtaining armistice between Israel and Egypt . . . Mrs. Anna A. Hedgeman named assistant to Federal Security Administrator Oscar Ewing . . . Montreal beauty, Beryl Dickinson Dash, named queen of McGill university's famed winter carnival . . . Marva Louis obtains second divorce from Joe Louis. Joe Louis announces retirement as World's Heavyweight Champion after successfully defending the boxing title 25 times ... Louis R Lautier, Whitehouse Correspondent for the Atlanta Daily world wins a Wendell L. Willkie award for Negro journalism "for distinguished coverage of significant events, The award was made by the Neiman Foundation of Harvard University . . . Mrs. Julie Hubert, 58-year-old Philadelphia housewife, identifies jackpot tune on "Stop the Music" radio show and wins $35,250 in cash and prizes . . . Secretary of Labor Tobin urges law against job and wage discrimination . . . Negroes registered in Fulton County ruled eligible to vote in city primary . . Molotov replaced as Foreign Minister of U. S. S. R. by Vishinsky . . . National Negro Newspaper Week observed with nationwide broadcasts . . . Ralph Bunche awarded 34th Spingarn. Medal by NAACP "for priceless contribution to the settlement of armed conflict in the Middle East . . . Mrs. Bethune paid tribute by NBC documentary pro gram, "This Is Your Life." . . . The Atlanta Daily World adds to its press and photo services the vast network of International News Service (INS) . . . Joseph T. Brooks, Atlanta school teacher and veteran Navy Boatswain's Mate, becomes first Negro commissioned officer in the southern area with the rank of Ensign . . . U. S. Supreme Court upholds ruling which outlaws Alabama's Boswell Amendment Dr. Frank Graham, former president of University of North Carolina, takes oath as U. S. Senator. Georgia Teachers and Education Association call on state officials to equalize educational opportunities and pay . . . Court rules University of Kentucky must admit Negro students . . . Alcorn prexy resigns . . . James Hinton, South, Carolina NAACP head, is kidnapped by band of white hoodlums . . . Recordbreaking crowd sees Jackie, Campanella and Newcombe play with Dodgers against Crackers . . . Leader repudiate Robeson's stand on war with Russia . . . Navy commissions negro . . . . . . Dr. Alonzo G. Maron named first Negro President of Hampton ... Seven Negroes flogged near Trenton, Ga. Gov. Alfred Driscoll signs New Jersey civil Rights bill . . Georgia voters turn down expanded state services. . . Armed services told to erase discrimination. The Board of Trustees at Hampton Institute unanimously elected Dr. Alonzo G. Moron president . . . The senate defeated to bar racial and religious segregation in public elementary and secondary schools receiving Federal aid . . . U. N. admits Israel as 59th member . . . National Negro Insurance Week observed. . . Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, noted historian and vice chairman of Council on African Affairs, attends World Peace Congress held in Paris, France . . . University of Kentucky announced policy to grant use of facilities by Negroes in engineering, law, pharmacy and history. . . Ralph Bunche turns down post of Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern and African Affairs offered by President Truman . . . Georgia leads nation in first lynching in 1949 when Caleb Hill was dragged from a jail cell by two white men who lynched him . . . Bunche named father of the year . . . Russian blockade of Berlin and Western counter-blockade lifted. Wesley A Brown U. S. Navy Ensign, Became first Negro to graduate from U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md. Moss H. Kendrix, originator of National Negro Newspaper Week celebration, initiated a series of Washington, D. C. radio broadcasts of station WWDC called "Civil Rights Inventory" . . Republican-Southern Democrat coalition successfully blocks TaftHartley repeal . . . Joe Louis, retired at Morris Brown college, where the "Joe Louis" gymnasium was named for him . . . Duke Ellington internationally famous composer-conductor, receives Doctor of Music degree from Wilberforce University. . . Nation's first regional education program as conceived by southern governors gets underway with 40 universities and colleges in 13 states registered . . . At Langston University in Oklahoma, the jimcrow law school closed up with only one student enrolled... Alabama Senators vote 23-3 to unmask Klan . . . Ezzard Charles defeated aging Jersey Joe Walcott to claim heavyweight title vacated by Joe Louis, who dominated the ring for 12 years as champ . . . Dowall Davis of the Kansas City Call elected president of the National Negro Newspaper publishers Association at the 10th annual meeting. C. A. Scott editor and, general manager of the Atlanta Daily World, elected to a two-year term of the eight-man board of directors at the confab. Dr. Howard Gregg is suspended at Delaware State . . . Jackie flays communism before House Un-American committee . . . Mob burns home run wild Groveland, Fla. . . . Negro rape-suspect raped in Florida . . . Walter White, Poppy Cannon married . . . Tom Clark nominated for Supreme court . . . police quell disturbance at Capitol swimming pool . . . Court rules new trial for Trenton six . . . Alabama legislature votes to unmask klan . . . NAACP reveals 700,000 Negroes voted in South during '48 election . . . Bunche flays Washington Jim Crow . . . After much controversy Ohio sends Joan Rankin, "Girl Governor," to Washington . . . Texas passes Anti-Lynch Bill . . . President Gray resigns at Florida A and M . . . Ga. Supreme Court rules counties must put Negroes on jury lists . . . Police chief, 14 others arrested in Birmingham Ku Klux Klan probe. Atlanta policeman suspended after kicking, Negro Prisoner . . . Chicago mob attacks home of Negroes who moved into so-called "white neighborhood." . . . Masked mob beats woman in Alamo, Ga Imperial Wizard Green orders Klansmen to unmask . . . Irwin countians sue for equal schools . . . Homes of two Birmingham ministers bombed in Birmingham . . . Mob beats youth in Bainbridge, Georgia...Grand Dragon-Green dies suddenly . . . Atlanta censor bans "Lost Boundaries" . . . President Colston resigns at Georgia State . . . University of Texas accepts first Negro student. Paul Roberson returns to Peekskill where state troopers and policeman join veterans and youngsters in second riot . . . President P. D of Tuskegee, raps white Birmingham editor for ing his name in housing troubles . . . Hollywood is charged with bias for bypassing Negroes . . . Prisoner escapes lynching in Atlanta courtroom Negro vote is decisive in Atlanta election . . . Senator Graham, of North Carolina, appoints Negro to West point . . . $500,000 grant insures new Grady colored hospital . . . Ingram brief is presented UN officials . . . Ezzard Charles returns to Georgia . . . Southern churchwomen blast Talmadge Voter law . . . Mrs. FDR says in Atlanta that Civil Rights are needed today . . . Prominent Winston Howard shot and killed in Pershing hotel, of which he was part owner by his partner, Charles Cole . . . Moron is inaugurated at Hampton. . . Nehru in Chicago speech says inequality is cause of war . . . Benjamin Mays voted alumnus of year by Chicago school . . . Walden answer Talmadge attack on Irwin county school suit . . . Pennsylvania railroad ends Jim Crow on its lines . . . Eleven Red leaders are Nehru seen as more to allay race suspicion . . . Baltimore judge upholds regional school pact . . . Atlanta Negro Police mount new cars . . . U. S. Justice department files brief supporting Elmer Henderson's contention that segregation is discrimination . . . Patterson reelected head of United Negro College Fund drive . . . Dr. H. V. Richardson installed as Gammon prexy . . . NAACP turns down demand to fire Walter White . . . William Hastie, Governor of Virgin Islands, named judge of Third U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals . . MMississippi school turns down Mississippi school turns down premacy . . . WERD, first Negroowned Radio station begins operation. Army defies intergration order — Dr. M.F. Whittaker president of S. C. State, dies . . . Forrester Washington proposes non-J Crow social work schools at fiery regional meeting . . . Earl Brown defeats Benjamin Davis . . . Talmadge forces seek repeat of GA. vote law . . . Dr. Ferbee succeeds Mrs. Bethune as head of National Council of Negro Women . . . Frat conference repeals bias clause . . . Victor E. Crichton, is first Negro president of Columbia university freshman class . . . Dr. Bunche takes South to ask in West palm Beach speech . . . Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, fabulous showman and famous dancer, dies at age of 71 in New York City . . . Negroes, in several Georgia counties file petitions asking equal school facilities for their children . . . Blind Claxton, Ga., woman flogged by band of hooded white men . . . Strayer committee says seven million dollars needed for three Georgia Negro colleges . . . Mistrial declared in Rome flogging case . . . Bham zoning laws held illegal . . . Harper named to seventh term as Atlanta NACCP head . . . Macon firemen seek injunction to halt rail union discrimination . . . Mistrial declared in B'ham flogging probe . . . Dedication exercise held for Atlanta "Whiteway" . . . Jim Crow issue causes two walkouts at City Auditorium. . . Racial discrimination ruled out of housing . . . . Minnesota governor issued order opening of Minnesota National Guard to Ne. . . . Augusta Negroes lose their bid for seats on City Council . . . Dr. Ferbee succeeds Mrs. Bethune as NCNW president . . . Congressman Dawson elected vicechairman of Democratic National Committee . . . Hastie sworn in as Federal court judge . . . Alabama church quits Federal Council of Churches after the latter takes Stand on segregation . . . Florida parents file $100,000 equal education suit . . . Minister flogged in Claxton . . . Fulton DeKalb Hospital authorities approve $1,439,609 Contract for construction of 150-bed private Negro hospital . . . Department of Records and Research at Tuskegee Institute reports 3 lynchings in 1949. Two occurred in Georgia. MARCH Dawson (Dem., Ill.) was honored at a testimonial dinner in Washington, D. C. February. NAACP asks Truman to ban FHA segregation policy Talmadge reregistration bill passes Georgia Senate... University of Oklahoma admits Negro woman. Atlanta Interracial committee named after housing flareup in Mozley park . . . Federal court enjoins railroad brotherhood from dis criminating against Negro firemen . . . Ralph Bunche presides at Palestine pact sign . . . Truman congratulates Bunche for obtaining armistice between Israel and Egypt . . . Mrs. Anna A. Hedgeman named assistant to Federal Security Administrator Oscar Ewing . . . Montreal beauty, Beryl Dickinson Dash, named queen of McGill university's famed winter carnival . . . Marva Louis obtains second divorce from Joe Louis. Joe Louis announces retirement as World's Heavyweight Champion after successfully defending the boxing title 25 times ... Louis R Lautier, Whitehouse Correspondent for the Atlanta Daily world wins a Wendell L. Willkie award for Negro journalism "for distinguished coverage of significant events, The award was made by the Neiman Foundation of Harvard University . . . Mrs. Julie Hubert, 58-year-old Philadelphia housewife, identifies jackpot tune on "Stop the Music" radio show and wins $35,250 in cash and prizes . . . Secretary of Labor Tobin urges law against job and wage discrimination . . . Negroes registered in Fulton County ruled eligible to vote in city primary . . Molotov replaced as Foreign Minister of U. S. S. R. by Vishinsky . . . National Negro Newspaper Week observed with nationwide broadcasts . . . Ralph Bunche awarded 34th Spingarn. Medal by NAACP "for priceless contribution to the settlement of armed conflict in the Middle East . . . Mrs. Bethune paid tribute by NBC documentary pro gram, "This Is Your Life." . . . The Atlanta Daily World adds to its press and photo services the vast network of International News Service (INS) . . . Joseph T. Brooks, Atlanta school teacher and veteran Navy Boatswain's Mate, becomes first Negro commissioned officer in the southern area with the rank of Ensign . . . U. S. Supreme Court upholds ruling which outlaws Alabama's Boswell Amendment Dr. Frank Graham, former president of University of North Carolina, takes oath as U. S. Senator. Georgia Teachers and Education Association call on state officials to equalize educational opportunities and pay . . . Court rules University of Kentucky must admit Negro students . . . Alcorn prexy resigns . . . James Hinton, South, Carolina NAACP head, is kidnapped by band of white hoodlums . . . Recordbreaking crowd sees Jackie, Campanella and Newcombe play with Dodgers against Crackers . . . Leader repudiate Robeson's stand on war with Russia . . . Navy commissions negro . . . . . . Dr. Alonzo G. Maron named first Negro President of Hampton ... Seven Negroes flogged near Trenton, Ga. Gov. Alfred Driscoll signs New Jersey civil Rights bill . . Georgia voters turn down expanded state services. . . Armed services told to erase discrimination. The Board of Trustees at Hampton Institute unanimously elected Dr. Alonzo G. Moron president . . . The senate defeated to bar racial and religious segregation in public elementary and secondary schools receiving Federal aid . . . U. N. admits Israel as 59th member . . . National Negro Insurance Week observed. . . Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, noted historian and vice chairman of Council on African Affairs, attends World Peace Congress held in Paris, France . . . University of Kentucky announced policy to grant use of facilities by Negroes in engineering, law, pharmacy and history. . . Ralph Bunche turns down post of Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern and African Affairs offered by President Truman . . . Georgia leads nation in first lynching in 1949 when Caleb Hill was dragged from a jail cell by two white men who lynched him . . . Bunche named father of the year . . . Russian blockade of Berlin and Western counter-blockade lifted. Wesley A Brown U. S. Navy Ensign, Became first Negro to graduate from U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md. Moss H. Kendrix, originator of National Negro Newspaper Week celebration, initiated a series of Washington, D. C. radio broadcasts of station WWDC called "Civil Rights Inventory" . . Republican-Southern Democrat coalition successfully blocks TaftHartley repeal . . . Joe Louis, retired at Morris Brown college, where the "Joe Louis" gymnasium was named for him . . . Duke Ellington internationally famous composer-conductor, receives Doctor of Music degree from Wilberforce University. . . Nation's first regional education program as conceived by southern governors gets underway with 40 universities and colleges in 13 states registered . . . At Langston University in Oklahoma, the jimcrow law school closed up with only one student enrolled... Alabama Senators vote 23-3 to unmask Klan . . . Ezzard Charles defeated aging Jersey Joe Walcott to claim heavyweight title vacated by Joe Louis, who dominated the ring for 12 years as champ . . . Dowall Davis of the Kansas City Call elected president of the National Negro Newspaper publishers Association at the 10th annual meeting. C. A. Scott editor and, general manager of the Atlanta Daily World, elected to a two-year term of the eight-man board of directors at the confab. Dr. Howard Gregg is suspended at Delaware State . . . Jackie flays communism before House Un-American committee . . . Mob burns home run wild Groveland, Fla. . . . Negro rape-suspect raped in Florida . . . Walter White, Poppy Cannon married . . . Tom Clark nominated for Supreme court . . . police quell disturbance at Capitol swimming pool . . . Court rules new trial for Trenton six . . . Alabama legislature votes to unmask klan . . . NAACP reveals 700,000 Negroes voted in South during '48 election . . . Bunche flays Washington Jim Crow . . . After much controversy Ohio sends Joan Rankin, "Girl Governor," to Washington . . . Texas passes Anti-Lynch Bill . . . President Gray resigns at Florida A and M . . . Ga. Supreme Court rules counties must put Negroes on jury lists . . . Police chief, 14 others arrested in Birmingham Ku Klux Klan probe. Atlanta policeman suspended after kicking, Negro Prisoner . . . Chicago mob attacks home of Negroes who moved into so-called "white neighborhood." . . . Masked mob beats woman in Alamo, Ga Imperial Wizard Green orders Klansmen to unmask . . . Irwin countians sue for equal schools . . . Homes of two Birmingham ministers bombed in Birmingham . . . Mob beats youth in Bainbridge, Georgia...Grand Dragon-Green dies suddenly . . . Atlanta censor bans "Lost Boundaries" . . . President Colston resigns at Georgia State . . . University of Texas accepts first Negro student. Paul Roberson returns to Peekskill where state troopers and policeman join veterans and youngsters in second riot . . . President P. D of Tuskegee, raps white Birmingham editor for ing his name in housing troubles . . . Hollywood is charged with bias for bypassing Negroes . . . Prisoner escapes lynching in Atlanta courtroom Negro vote is decisive in Atlanta election . . . Senator Graham, of North Carolina, appoints Negro to West point . . . $500,000 grant insures new Grady colored hospital . . . Ingram brief is presented UN officials . . . Ezzard Charles returns to Georgia . . . Southern churchwomen blast Talmadge Voter law . . . Mrs. FDR says in Atlanta that Civil Rights are needed today . . . Prominent Winston Howard shot and killed in Pershing hotel, of which he was part owner by his partner, Charles Cole . . . Moron is inaugurated at Hampton. . . Nehru in Chicago speech says inequality is cause of war . . . Benjamin Mays voted alumnus of year by Chicago school . . . Walden answer Talmadge attack on Irwin county school suit . . . Pennsylvania railroad ends Jim Crow on its lines . . . Eleven Red leaders are Nehru seen as more to allay race suspicion . . . Baltimore judge upholds regional school pact . . . Atlanta Negro Police mount new cars . . . U. S. Justice department files brief supporting Elmer Henderson's contention that segregation is discrimination . . . Patterson reelected head of United Negro College Fund drive . . . Dr. H. V. Richardson installed as Gammon prexy . . . NAACP turns down demand to fire Walter White . . . William Hastie, Governor of Virgin Islands, named judge of Third U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals . . MMississippi school turns down Mississippi school turns down premacy . . . WERD, first Negroowned Radio station begins operation. Army defies intergration order — Dr. M.F. Whittaker president of S. C. State, dies . . . Forrester Washington proposes non-J Crow social work schools at fiery regional meeting . . . Earl Brown defeats Benjamin Davis . . . Talmadge forces seek repeat of GA. vote law . . . Dr. Ferbee succeeds Mrs. Bethune as head of National Council of Negro Women . . . Frat conference repeals bias clause . . . Victor E. Crichton, is first Negro president of Columbia university freshman class . . . Dr. Bunche takes South to ask in West palm Beach speech . . . Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, fabulous showman and famous dancer, dies at age of 71 in New York City . . . Negroes, in several Georgia counties file petitions asking equal school facilities for their children . . . Blind Claxton, Ga., woman flogged by band of hooded white men . . . Strayer committee says seven million dollars needed for three Georgia Negro colleges . . . Mistrial declared in Rome flogging case . . . Bham zoning laws held illegal . . . Harper named to seventh term as Atlanta NACCP head . . . Macon firemen seek injunction to halt rail union discrimination . . . Mistrial declared in B'ham flogging probe . . . Dedication exercise held for Atlanta "Whiteway" . . . Jim Crow issue causes two walkouts at City Auditorium. . . Racial discrimination ruled out of housing . . . . Minnesota governor issued order opening of Minnesota National Guard to Ne. . . . Augusta Negroes lose their bid for seats on City Council . . . Dr. Ferbee succeeds Mrs. Bethune as NCNW president . . . Congressman Dawson elected vicechairman of Democratic National Committee . . . Hastie sworn in as Federal court judge . . . Alabama church quits Federal Council of Churches after the latter takes Stand on segregation . . . Florida parents file $100,000 equal education suit . . . Minister flogged in Claxton . . . Fulton DeKalb Hospital authorities approve $1,439,609 Contract for construction of 150-bed private Negro hospital . . . Department of Records and Research at Tuskegee Institute reports 3 lynchings in 1949. Two occurred in Georgia. APRIL Dawson (Dem., Ill.) was honored at a testimonial dinner in Washington, D. C. February. NAACP asks Truman to ban FHA segregation policy Talmadge reregistration bill passes Georgia Senate... University of Oklahoma admits Negro woman. Atlanta Interracial committee named after housing flareup in Mozley park . . . Federal court enjoins railroad brotherhood from dis criminating against Negro firemen . . . Ralph Bunche presides at Palestine pact sign . . . Truman congratulates Bunche for obtaining armistice between Israel and Egypt . . . Mrs. Anna A. Hedgeman named assistant to Federal Security Administrator Oscar Ewing . . . Montreal beauty, Beryl Dickinson Dash, named queen of McGill university's famed winter carnival . . . Marva Louis obtains second divorce from Joe Louis. Joe Louis announces retirement as World's Heavyweight Champion after successfully defending the boxing title 25 times ... Louis R Lautier, Whitehouse Correspondent for the Atlanta Daily world wins a Wendell L. Willkie award for Negro journalism "for distinguished coverage of significant events, The award was made by the Neiman Foundation of Harvard University . . . Mrs. Julie Hubert, 58-year-old Philadelphia housewife, identifies jackpot tune on "Stop the Music" radio show and wins $35,250 in cash and prizes . . . Secretary of Labor Tobin urges law against job and wage discrimination . . . Negroes registered in Fulton County ruled eligible to vote in city primary . . Molotov replaced as Foreign Minister of U. S. S. R. by Vishinsky . . . National Negro Newspaper Week observed with nationwide broadcasts . . . Ralph Bunche awarded 34th Spingarn. Medal by NAACP "for priceless contribution to the settlement of armed conflict in the Middle East . . . Mrs. Bethune paid tribute by NBC documentary pro gram, "This Is Your Life." . . . The Atlanta Daily World adds to its press and photo services the vast network of International News Service (INS) . . . Joseph T. Brooks, Atlanta school teacher and veteran Navy Boatswain's Mate, becomes first Negro commissioned officer in the southern area with the rank of Ensign . . . U. S. Supreme Court upholds ruling which outlaws Alabama's Boswell Amendment Dr. Frank Graham, former president of University of North Carolina, takes oath as U. S. Senator. Georgia Teachers and Education Association call on state officials to equalize educational opportunities and pay . . . Court rules University of Kentucky must admit Negro students . . . Alcorn prexy resigns . . . James Hinton, South, Carolina NAACP head, is kidnapped by band of white hoodlums . . . Recordbreaking crowd sees Jackie, Campanella and Newcombe play with Dodgers against Crackers . . . Leader repudiate Robeson's stand on war with Russia . . . Navy commissions negro . . . . . . Dr. Alonzo G. Maron named first Negro President of Hampton ... Seven Negroes flogged near Trenton, Ga. Gov. Alfred Driscoll signs New Jersey civil Rights bill . . Georgia voters turn down expanded state services. . . Armed services told to erase discrimination. The Board of Trustees at Hampton Institute unanimously elected Dr. Alonzo G. Moron president . . . The senate defeated to bar racial and religious segregation in public elementary and secondary schools receiving Federal aid . . . U. N. admits Israel as 59th member . . . National Negro Insurance Week observed. . . Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, noted historian and vice chairman of Council on African Affairs, attends World Peace Congress held in Paris, France . . . University of Kentucky announced policy to grant use of facilities by Negroes in engineering, law, pharmacy and history. . . Ralph Bunche turns down post of Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern and African Affairs offered by President Truman . . . Georgia leads nation in first lynching in 1949 when Caleb Hill was dragged from a jail cell by two white men who lynched him . . . Bunche named father of the year . . . Russian blockade of Berlin and Western counter-blockade lifted. Wesley A Brown U. S. Navy Ensign, Became first Negro to graduate from U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md. Moss H. Kendrix, originator of National Negro Newspaper Week celebration, initiated a series of Washington, D. C. radio broadcasts of station WWDC called "Civil Rights Inventory" . . Republican-Southern Democrat coalition successfully blocks TaftHartley repeal . . . Joe Louis, retired at Morris Brown college, where the "Joe Louis" gymnasium was named for him . . . Duke Ellington internationally famous composer-conductor, receives Doctor of Music degree from Wilberforce University. . . Nation's first regional education program as conceived by southern governors gets underway with 40 universities and colleges in 13 states registered . . . At Langston University in Oklahoma, the jimcrow law school closed up with only one student enrolled... Alabama Senators vote 23-3 to unmask Klan . . . Ezzard Charles defeated aging Jersey Joe Walcott to claim heavyweight title vacated by Joe Louis, who dominated the ring for 12 years as champ . . . Dowall Davis of the Kansas City Call elected president of the National Negro Newspaper publishers Association at the 10th annual meeting. C. A. Scott editor and, general manager of the Atlanta Daily World, elected to a two-year term of the eight-man board of directors at the confab. Dr. Howard Gregg is suspended at Delaware State . . . Jackie flays communism before House Un-American committee . . . Mob burns home run wild Groveland, Fla. . . . Negro rape-suspect raped in Florida . . . Walter White, Poppy Cannon married . . . Tom Clark nominated for Supreme court . . . police quell disturbance at Capitol swimming pool . . . Court rules new trial for Trenton six . . . Alabama legislature votes to unmask klan . . . NAACP reveals 700,000 Negroes voted in South during '48 election . . . Bunche flays Washington Jim Crow . . . After much controversy Ohio sends Joan Rankin, "Girl Governor," to Washington . . . Texas passes Anti-Lynch Bill . . . President Gray resigns at Florida A and M . . . Ga. Supreme Court rules counties must put Negroes on jury lists . . . Police chief, 14 others arrested in Birmingham Ku Klux Klan probe. Atlanta policeman suspended after kicking, Negro Prisoner . . . Chicago mob attacks home of Negroes who moved into so-called "white neighborhood." . . . Masked mob beats woman in Alamo, Ga Imperial Wizard Green orders Klansmen to unmask . . . Irwin countians sue for equal schools . . . Homes of two Birmingham ministers bombed in Birmingham . . . Mob beats youth in Bainbridge, Georgia...Grand Dragon-Green dies suddenly . . . Atlanta censor bans "Lost Boundaries" . . . President Colston resigns at Georgia State . . . University of Texas accepts first Negro student. Paul Roberson returns to Peekskill where state troopers and policeman join veterans and youngsters in second riot . . . President P. D of Tuskegee, raps white Birmingham editor for ing his name in housing troubles . . . Hollywood is charged with bias for bypassing Negroes . . . Prisoner escapes lynching in Atlanta courtroom Negro vote is decisive in Atlanta election . . . Senator Graham, of North Carolina, appoints Negro to West point . . . $500,000 grant insures new Grady colored hospital . . . Ingram brief is presented UN officials . . . Ezzard Charles returns to Georgia . . . Southern churchwomen blast Talmadge Voter law . . . Mrs. FDR says in Atlanta that Civil Rights are needed today . . . Prominent Winston Howard shot and killed in Pershing hotel, of which he was part owner by his partner, Charles Cole . . . Moron is inaugurated at Hampton. . . Nehru in Chicago speech says inequality is cause of war . . . Benjamin Mays voted alumnus of year by Chicago school . . . Walden answer Talmadge attack on Irwin county school suit . . . Pennsylvania railroad ends Jim Crow on its lines . . . Eleven Red leaders are Nehru seen as more to allay race suspicion . . . Baltimore judge upholds regional school pact . . . Atlanta Negro Police mount new cars . . . U. S. Justice department files brief supporting Elmer Henderson's contention that segregation is discrimination . . . Patterson reelected head of United Negro College Fund drive . . . Dr. H. V. Richardson installed as Gammon prexy . . . NAACP turns down demand to fire Walter White . . . William Hastie, Governor of Virgin Islands, named judge of Third U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals . . MMississippi school turns down Mississippi school turns down premacy . . . WERD, first Negroowned Radio station begins operation. Army defies intergration order — Dr. M.F. Whittaker president of S. C. State, dies . . . Forrester Washington proposes non-J Crow social work schools at fiery regional meeting . . . Earl Brown defeats Benjamin Davis . . . Talmadge forces seek repeat of GA. vote law . . . Dr. Ferbee succeeds Mrs. Bethune as head of National Council of Negro Women . . . Frat conference repeals bias clause . . . Victor E. Crichton, is first Negro president of Columbia university freshman class . . . Dr. Bunche takes South to ask in West palm Beach speech . . . Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, fabulous showman and famous dancer, dies at age of 71 in New York City . . . Negroes, in several Georgia counties file petitions asking equal school facilities for their children . . . Blind Claxton, Ga., woman flogged by band of hooded white men . . . Strayer committee says seven million dollars needed for three Georgia Negro colleges . . . Mistrial declared in Rome flogging case . . . Bham zoning laws held illegal . . . Harper named to seventh term as Atlanta NACCP head . . . Macon firemen seek injunction to halt rail union discrimination . . . Mistrial declared in B'ham flogging probe . . . Dedication exercise held for Atlanta "Whiteway" . . . Jim Crow issue causes two walkouts at City Auditorium. . . Racial discrimination ruled out of housing . . . . Minnesota governor issued order opening of Minnesota National Guard to Ne. . . . Augusta Negroes lose their bid for seats on City Council . . . Dr. Ferbee succeeds Mrs. Bethune as NCNW president . . . Congressman Dawson elected vicechairman of Democratic National Committee . . . Hastie sworn in as Federal court judge . . . Alabama church quits Federal Council of Churches after the latter takes Stand on segregation . . . Florida parents file $100,000 equal education suit . . . Minister flogged in Claxton . . . Fulton DeKalb Hospital authorities approve $1,439,609 Contract for construction of 150-bed private Negro hospital . . . Department of Records and Research at Tuskegee Institute reports 3 lynchings in 1949. Two occurred in Georgia. MAY Dawson (Dem., Ill.) was honored at a testimonial dinner in Washington, D. C. February. NAACP asks Truman to ban FHA segregation policy Talmadge reregistration bill passes Georgia Senate... University of Oklahoma admits Negro woman. Atlanta Interracial committee named after housing flareup in Mozley park . . . Federal court enjoins railroad brotherhood from dis criminating against Negro firemen . . . Ralph Bunche presides at Palestine pact sign . . . Truman congratulates Bunche for obtaining armistice between Israel and Egypt . . . Mrs. Anna A. Hedgeman named assistant to Federal Security Administrator Oscar Ewing . . . Montreal beauty, Beryl Dickinson Dash, named queen of McGill university's famed winter carnival . . . Marva Louis obtains second divorce from Joe Louis. Joe Louis announces retirement as World's Heavyweight Champion after successfully defending the boxing title 25 times ... Louis R Lautier, Whitehouse Correspondent for the Atlanta Daily world wins a Wendell L. Willkie award for Negro journalism "for distinguished coverage of significant events, The award was made by the Neiman Foundation of Harvard University . . . Mrs. Julie Hubert, 58-year-old Philadelphia housewife, identifies jackpot tune on "Stop the Music" radio show and wins $35,250 in cash and prizes . . . Secretary of Labor Tobin urges law against job and wage discrimination . . . Negroes registered in Fulton County ruled eligible to vote in city primary . . Molotov replaced as Foreign Minister of U. S. S. R. by Vishinsky . . . National Negro Newspaper Week observed with nationwide broadcasts . . . Ralph Bunche awarded 34th Spingarn. Medal by NAACP "for priceless contribution to the settlement of armed conflict in the Middle East . . . Mrs. Bethune paid tribute by NBC documentary pro gram, "This Is Your Life." . . . The Atlanta Daily World adds to its press and photo services the vast network of International News Service (INS) . . . Joseph T. Brooks, Atlanta school teacher and veteran Navy Boatswain's Mate, becomes first Negro commissioned officer in the southern area with the rank of Ensign . . . U. S. Supreme Court upholds ruling which outlaws Alabama's Boswell Amendment Dr. Frank Graham, former president of University of North Carolina, takes oath as U. S. Senator. Georgia Teachers and Education Association call on state officials to equalize educational opportunities and pay . . . Court rules University of Kentucky must admit Negro students . . . Alcorn prexy resigns . . . James Hinton, South, Carolina NAACP head, is kidnapped by band of white hoodlums . . . Recordbreaking crowd sees Jackie, Campanella and Newcombe play with Dodgers against Crackers . . . Leader repudiate Robeson's stand on war with Russia . . . Navy commissions negro . . . . . . Dr. Alonzo G. Maron named first Negro President of Hampton ... Seven Negroes flogged near Trenton, Ga. Gov. Alfred Driscoll signs New Jersey civil Rights bill . . Georgia voters turn down expanded state services. . . Armed services told to erase discrimination. The Board of Trustees at Hampton Institute unanimously elected Dr. Alonzo G. Moron president . . . The senate defeated to bar racial and religious segregation in public elementary and secondary schools receiving Federal aid . . . U. N. admits Israel as 59th member . . . National Negro Insurance Week observed. . . Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, noted historian and vice chairman of Council on African Affairs, attends World Peace Congress held in Paris, France . . . University of Kentucky announced policy to grant use of facilities by Negroes in engineering, law, pharmacy and history. . . Ralph Bunche turns down post of Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern and African Affairs offered by President Truman . . . Georgia leads nation in first lynching in 1949 when Caleb Hill was dragged from a jail cell by two white men who lynched him . . . Bunche named father of the year . . . Russian blockade of Berlin and Western counter-blockade lifted. Wesley A Brown U. S. Navy Ensign, Became first Negro to graduate from U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md. Moss H. Kendrix, originator of National Negro Newspaper Week celebration, initiated a series of Washington, D. C. radio broadcasts of station WWDC called "Civil Rights Inventory" . . Republican-Southern Democrat coalition successfully blocks TaftHartley repeal . . . Joe Louis, retired at Morris Brown college, where the "Joe Louis" gymnasium was named for him . . . Duke Ellington internationally famous composer-conductor, receives Doctor of Music degree from Wilberforce University. . . Nation's first regional education program as conceived by southern governors gets underway with 40 universities and colleges in 13 states registered . . . At Langston University in Oklahoma, the jimcrow law school closed up with only one student enrolled... Alabama Senators vote 23-3 to unmask Klan . . . Ezzard Charles defeated aging Jersey Joe Walcott to claim heavyweight title vacated by Joe Louis, who dominated the ring for 12 years as champ . . . Dowall Davis of the Kansas City Call elected president of the National Negro Newspaper publishers Association at the 10th annual meeting. C. A. Scott editor and, general manager of the Atlanta Daily World, elected to a two-year term of the eight-man board of directors at the confab. Dr. Howard Gregg is suspended at Delaware State . . . Jackie flays communism before House Un-American committee . . . Mob burns home run wild Groveland, Fla. . . . Negro rape-suspect raped in Florida . . . Walter White, Poppy Cannon married . . . Tom Clark nominated for Supreme court . . . police quell disturbance at Capitol swimming pool . . . Court rules new trial for Trenton six . . . Alabama legislature votes to unmask klan . . . NAACP reveals 700,000 Negroes voted in South during '48 election . . . Bunche flays Washington Jim Crow . . . After much controversy Ohio sends Joan Rankin, "Girl Governor," to Washington . . . Texas passes Anti-Lynch Bill . . . President Gray resigns at Florida A and M . . . Ga. Supreme Court rules counties must put Negroes on jury lists . . . Police chief, 14 others arrested in Birmingham Ku Klux Klan probe. Atlanta policeman suspended after kicking, Negro Prisoner . . . Chicago mob attacks home of Negroes who moved into so-called "white neighborhood." . . . Masked mob beats woman in Alamo, Ga Imperial Wizard Green orders Klansmen to unmask . . . Irwin countians sue for equal schools . . . Homes of two Birmingham ministers bombed in Birmingham . . . Mob beats youth in Bainbridge, Georgia...Grand Dragon-Green dies suddenly . . . Atlanta censor bans "Lost Boundaries" . . . President Colston resigns at Georgia State . . . University of Texas accepts first Negro student. Paul Roberson returns to Peekskill where state troopers and policeman join veterans and youngsters in second riot . . . President P. D of Tuskegee, raps white Birmingham editor for ing his name in housing troubles . . . Hollywood is charged with bias for bypassing Negroes . . . Prisoner escapes lynching in Atlanta courtroom Negro vote is decisive in Atlanta election . . . Senator Graham, of North Carolina, appoints Negro to West point . . . $500,000 grant insures new Grady colored hospital . . . Ingram brief is presented UN officials . . . Ezzard Charles returns to Georgia . . . Southern churchwomen blast Talmadge Voter law . . . Mrs. FDR says in Atlanta that Civil Rights are needed today . . . Prominent Winston Howard shot and killed in Pershing hotel, of which he was part owner by his partner, Charles Cole . . . Moron is inaugurated at Hampton. . . Nehru in Chicago speech says inequality is cause of war . . . Benjamin Mays voted alumnus of year by Chicago school . . . Walden answer Talmadge attack on Irwin county school suit . . . Pennsylvania railroad ends Jim Crow on its lines . . . Eleven Red leaders are Nehru seen as more to allay race suspicion . . . Baltimore judge upholds regional school pact . . . Atlanta Negro Police mount new cars . . . U. S. Justice department files brief supporting Elmer Henderson's contention that segregation is discrimination . . . Patterson reelected head of United Negro College Fund drive . . . Dr. H. V. Richardson installed as Gammon prexy . . . NAACP turns down demand to fire Walter White . . . William Hastie, Governor of Virgin Islands, named judge of Third U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals . . MMississippi school turns down Mississippi school turns down premacy . . . WERD, first Negroowned Radio station begins operation. Army defies intergration order — Dr. M.F. Whittaker president of S. C. State, dies . . . Forrester Washington proposes non-J Crow social work schools at fiery regional meeting . . . Earl Brown defeats Benjamin Davis . . . Talmadge forces seek repeat of GA. vote law . . . Dr. Ferbee succeeds Mrs. Bethune as head of National Council of Negro Women . . . Frat conference repeals bias clause . . . Victor E. Crichton, is first Negro president of Columbia university freshman class . . . Dr. Bunche takes South to ask in West palm Beach speech . . . Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, fabulous showman and famous dancer, dies at age of 71 in New York City . . . Negroes, in several Georgia counties file petitions asking equal school facilities for their children . . . Blind Claxton, Ga., woman flogged by band of hooded white men . . . Strayer committee says seven million dollars needed for three Georgia Negro colleges . . . Mistrial declared in Rome flogging case . . . Bham zoning laws held illegal . . . Harper named to seventh term as Atlanta NACCP head . . . Macon firemen seek injunction to halt rail union discrimination . . . Mistrial declared in B'ham flogging probe . . . Dedication exercise held for Atlanta "Whiteway" . . . Jim Crow issue causes two walkouts at City Auditorium. . . Racial discrimination ruled out of housing . . . . Minnesota governor issued order opening of Minnesota National Guard to Ne. . . . Augusta Negroes lose their bid for seats on City Council . . . Dr. Ferbee succeeds Mrs. Bethune as NCNW president . . . Congressman Dawson elected vicechairman of Democratic National Committee . . . Hastie sworn in as Federal court judge . . . Alabama church quits Federal Council of Churches after the latter takes Stand on segregation . . . Florida parents file $100,000 equal education suit . . . Minister flogged in Claxton . . . Fulton DeKalb Hospital authorities approve $1,439,609 Contract for construction of 150-bed private Negro hospital . . . Department of Records and Research at Tuskegee Institute reports 3 lynchings in 1949. Two occurred in Georgia. JUNE Dawson (Dem., Ill.) was honored at a testimonial dinner in Washington, D. C. February. NAACP asks Truman to ban FHA segregation policy Talmadge reregistration bill passes Georgia Senate... University of Oklahoma admits Negro woman. Atlanta Interracial committee named after housing flareup in Mozley park . . . Federal court enjoins railroad brotherhood from dis criminating against Negro firemen . . . Ralph Bunche presides at Palestine pact sign . . . Truman congratulates Bunche for obtaining armistice between Israel and Egypt . . . Mrs. Anna A. Hedgeman named assistant to Federal Security Administrator Oscar Ewing . . . Montreal beauty, Beryl Dickinson Dash, named queen of McGill university's famed winter carnival . . . Marva Louis obtains second divorce from Joe Louis. Joe Louis announces retirement as World's Heavyweight Champion after successfully defending the boxing title 25 times ... Louis R Lautier, Whitehouse Correspondent for the Atlanta Daily world wins a Wendell L. Willkie award for Negro journalism "for distinguished coverage of significant events, The award was made by the Neiman Foundation of Harvard University . . . Mrs. Julie Hubert, 58-year-old Philadelphia housewife, identifies jackpot tune on "Stop the Music" radio show and wins $35,250 in cash and prizes . . . Secretary of Labor Tobin urges law against job and wage discrimination . . . Negroes registered in Fulton County ruled eligible to vote in city primary . . Molotov replaced as Foreign Minister of U. S. S. R. by Vishinsky . . . National Negro Newspaper Week observed with nationwide broadcasts . . . Ralph Bunche awarded 34th Spingarn. Medal by NAACP "for priceless contribution to the settlement of armed conflict in the Middle East . . . Mrs. Bethune paid tribute by NBC documentary pro gram, "This Is Your Life." . . . The Atlanta Daily World adds to its press and photo services the vast network of International News Service (INS) . . . Joseph T. Brooks, Atlanta school teacher and veteran Navy Boatswain's Mate, becomes first Negro commissioned officer in the southern area with the rank of Ensign . . . U. S. Supreme Court upholds ruling which outlaws Alabama's Boswell Amendment Dr. Frank Graham, former president of University of North Carolina, takes oath as U. S. Senator. Georgia Teachers and Education Association call on state officials to equalize educational opportunities and pay . . . Court rules University of Kentucky must admit Negro students . . . Alcorn prexy resigns . . . James Hinton, South, Carolina NAACP head, is kidnapped by band of white hoodlums . . . Recordbreaking crowd sees Jackie, Campanella and Newcombe play with Dodgers against Crackers . . . Leader repudiate Robeson's stand on war with Russia . . . Navy commissions negro . . . . . . Dr. Alonzo G. Maron named first Negro President of Hampton ... Seven Negroes flogged near Trenton, Ga. Gov. Alfred Driscoll signs New Jersey civil Rights bill . . Georgia voters turn down expanded state services. . . Armed services told to erase discrimination. The Board of Trustees at Hampton Institute unanimously elected Dr. Alonzo G. Moron president . . . The senate defeated to bar racial and religious segregation in public elementary and secondary schools receiving Federal aid . . . U. N. admits Israel as 59th member . . . National Negro Insurance Week observed. . . Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, noted historian and vice chairman of Council on African Affairs, attends World Peace Congress held in Paris, France . . . University of Kentucky announced policy to grant use of facilities by Negroes in engineering, law, pharmacy and history. . . Ralph Bunche turns down post of Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern and African Affairs offered by President Truman . . . Georgia leads nation in first lynching in 1949 when Caleb Hill was dragged from a jail cell by two white men who lynched him . . . Bunche named father of the year . . . Russian blockade of Berlin and Western counter-blockade lifted. Wesley A Brown U. S. Navy Ensign, Became first Negro to graduate from U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md. Moss H. Kendrix, originator of National Negro Newspaper Week celebration, initiated a series of Washington, D. C. radio broadcasts of station WWDC called "Civil Rights Inventory" . . Republican-Southern Democrat coalition successfully blocks TaftHartley repeal . . . Joe Louis, retired at Morris Brown college, where the "Joe Louis" gymnasium was named for him . . . Duke Ellington internationally famous composer-conductor, receives Doctor of Music degree from Wilberforce University. . . Nation's first regional education program as conceived by southern governors gets underway with 40 universities and colleges in 13 states registered . . . At Langston University in Oklahoma, the jimcrow law school closed up with only one student enrolled... Alabama Senators vote 23-3 to unmask Klan . . . Ezzard Charles defeated aging Jersey Joe Walcott to claim heavyweight title vacated by Joe Louis, who dominated the ring for 12 years as champ . . . Dowall Davis of the Kansas City Call elected president of the National Negro Newspaper publishers Association at the 10th annual meeting. C. A. Scott editor and, general manager of the Atlanta Daily World, elected to a two-year term of the eight-man board of directors at the confab. Dr. Howard Gregg is suspended at Delaware State . . . Jackie flays communism before House Un-American committee . . . Mob burns home run wild Groveland, Fla. . . . Negro rape-suspect raped in Florida . . . Walter White, Poppy Cannon married . . . Tom Clark nominated for Supreme court . . . police quell disturbance at Capitol swimming pool . . . Court rules new trial for Trenton six . . . Alabama legislature votes to unmask klan . . . NAACP reveals 700,000 Negroes voted in South during '48 election . . . Bunche flays Washington Jim Crow . . . After much controversy Ohio sends Joan Rankin, "Girl Governor," to Washington . . . Texas passes Anti-Lynch Bill . . . President Gray resigns at Florida A and M . . . Ga. Supreme Court rules counties must put Negroes on jury lists . . . Police chief, 14 others arrested in Birmingham Ku Klux Klan probe. Atlanta policeman suspended after kicking, Negro Prisoner . . . Chicago mob attacks home of Negroes who moved into so-called "white neighborhood." . . . Masked mob beats woman in Alamo, Ga Imperial Wizard Green orders Klansmen to unmask . . . Irwin countians sue for equal schools . . . Homes of two Birmingham ministers bombed in Birmingham . . . Mob beats youth in Bainbridge, Georgia...Grand Dragon-Green dies suddenly . . . Atlanta censor bans "Lost Boundaries" . . . President Colston resigns at Georgia State . . . University of Texas accepts first Negro student. Paul Roberson returns to Peekskill where state troopers and policeman join veterans and youngsters in second riot . . . President P. D of Tuskegee, raps white Birmingham editor for ing his name in housing troubles . . . Hollywood is charged with bias for bypassing Negroes . . . Prisoner escapes lynching in Atlanta courtroom Negro vote is decisive in Atlanta election . . . Senator Graham, of North Carolina, appoints Negro to West point . . . $500,000 grant insures new Grady colored hospital . . . Ingram brief is presented UN officials . . . Ezzard Charles returns to Georgia . . . Southern churchwomen blast Talmadge Voter law . . . Mrs. FDR says in Atlanta that Civil Rights are needed today . . . Prominent Winston Howard shot and killed in Pershing hotel, of which he was part owner by his partner, Charles Cole . . . Moron is inaugurated at Hampton. . . Nehru in Chicago speech says inequality is cause of war . . . Benjamin Mays voted alumnus of year by Chicago school . . . Walden answer Talmadge attack on Irwin county school suit . . . Pennsylvania railroad ends Jim Crow on its lines . . . Eleven Red leaders are Nehru seen as more to allay race suspicion . . . Baltimore judge upholds regional school pact . . . Atlanta Negro Police mount new cars . . . U. S. Justice department files brief supporting Elmer Henderson's contention that segregation is discrimination . . . Patterson reelected head of United Negro College Fund drive . . . Dr. H. V. Richardson installed as Gammon prexy . . . NAACP turns down demand to fire Walter White . . . William Hastie, Governor of Virgin Islands, named judge of Third U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals . . MMississippi school turns down Mississippi school turns down premacy . . . WERD, first Negroowned Radio station begins operation. Army defies intergration order — Dr. M.F. Whittaker president of S. C. State, dies . . . Forrester Washington proposes non-J Crow social work schools at fiery regional meeting . . . Earl Brown defeats Benjamin Davis . . . Talmadge forces seek repeat of GA. vote law . . . Dr. Ferbee succeeds Mrs. Bethune as head of National Council of Negro Women . . . Frat conference repeals bias clause . . . Victor E. Crichton, is first Negro president of Columbia university freshman class . . . Dr. Bunche takes South to ask in West palm Beach speech . . . Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, fabulous showman and famous dancer, dies at age of 71 in New York City . . . Negroes, in several Georgia counties file petitions asking equal school facilities for their children . . . Blind Claxton, Ga., woman flogged by band of hooded white men . . . Strayer committee says seven million dollars needed for three Georgia Negro colleges . . . Mistrial declared in Rome flogging case . . . Bham zoning laws held illegal . . . Harper named to seventh term as Atlanta NACCP head . . . Macon firemen seek injunction to halt rail union discrimination . . . Mistrial declared in B'ham flogging probe . . . Dedication exercise held for Atlanta "Whiteway" . . . Jim Crow issue causes two walkouts at City Auditorium. . . Racial discrimination ruled out of housing . . . . Minnesota governor issued order opening of Minnesota National Guard to Ne. . . . Augusta Negroes lose their bid for seats on City Council . . . Dr. Ferbee succeeds Mrs. Bethune as NCNW president . . . Congressman Dawson elected vicechairman of Democratic National Committee . . . Hastie sworn in as Federal court judge . . . Alabama church quits Federal Council of Churches after the latter takes Stand on segregation . . . Florida parents file $100,000 equal education suit . . . Minister flogged in Claxton . . . Fulton DeKalb Hospital authorities approve $1,439,609 Contract for construction of 150-bed private Negro hospital . . . Department of Records and Research at Tuskegee Institute reports 3 lynchings in 1949. Two occurred in Georgia. JULY Dawson (Dem., Ill.) was honored at a testimonial dinner in Washington, D. C. February. NAACP asks Truman to ban FHA segregation policy Talmadge reregistration bill passes Georgia Senate... University of Oklahoma admits Negro woman. Atlanta Interracial committee named after housing flareup in Mozley park . . . Federal court enjoins railroad brotherhood from dis criminating against Negro firemen . . . Ralph Bunche presides at Palestine pact sign . . . Truman congratulates Bunche for obtaining armistice between Israel and Egypt . . . Mrs. Anna A. Hedgeman named assistant to Federal Security Administrator Oscar Ewing . . . Montreal beauty, Beryl Dickinson Dash, named queen of McGill university's famed winter carnival . . . Marva Louis obtains second divorce from Joe Louis. Joe Louis announces retirement as World's Heavyweight Champion after successfully defending the boxing title 25 times ... Louis R Lautier, Whitehouse Correspondent for the Atlanta Daily world wins a Wendell L. Willkie award for Negro journalism "for distinguished coverage of significant events, The award was made by the Neiman Foundation of Harvard University . . . Mrs. Julie Hubert, 58-year-old Philadelphia housewife, identifies jackpot tune on "Stop the Music" radio show and wins $35,250 in cash and prizes . . . Secretary of Labor Tobin urges law against job and wage discrimination . . . Negroes registered in Fulton County ruled eligible to vote in city primary . . Molotov replaced as Foreign Minister of U. S. S. R. by Vishinsky . . . National Negro Newspaper Week observed with nationwide broadcasts . . . Ralph Bunche awarded 34th Spingarn. Medal by NAACP "for priceless contribution to the settlement of armed conflict in the Middle East . . . Mrs. Bethune paid tribute by NBC documentary pro gram, "This Is Your Life." . . . The Atlanta Daily World adds to its press and photo services the vast network of International News Service (INS) . . . Joseph T. Brooks, Atlanta school teacher and veteran Navy Boatswain's Mate, becomes first Negro commissioned officer in the southern area with the rank of Ensign . . . U. S. Supreme Court upholds ruling which outlaws Alabama's Boswell Amendment Dr. Frank Graham, former president of University of North Carolina, takes oath as U. S. Senator. Georgia Teachers and Education Association call on state officials to equalize educational opportunities and pay . . . Court rules University of Kentucky must admit Negro students . . . Alcorn prexy resigns . . . James Hinton, South, Carolina NAACP head, is kidnapped by band of white hoodlums . . . Recordbreaking crowd sees Jackie, Campanella and Newcombe play with Dodgers against Crackers . . . Leader repudiate Robeson's stand on war with Russia . . . Navy commissions negro . . . . . . Dr. Alonzo G. Maron named first Negro President of Hampton ... Seven Negroes flogged near Trenton, Ga. Gov. Alfred Driscoll signs New Jersey civil Rights bill . . Georgia voters turn down expanded state services. . . Armed services told to erase discrimination. The Board of Trustees at Hampton Institute unanimously elected Dr. Alonzo G. Moron president . . . The senate defeated to bar racial and religious segregation in public elementary and secondary schools receiving Federal aid . . . U. N. admits Israel as 59th member . . . National Negro Insurance Week observed. . . Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, noted historian and vice chairman of Council on African Affairs, attends World Peace Congress held in Paris, France . . . University of Kentucky announced policy to grant use of facilities by Negroes in engineering, law, pharmacy and history. . . Ralph Bunche turns down post of Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern and African Affairs offered by President Truman . . . Georgia leads nation in first lynching in 1949 when Caleb Hill was dragged from a jail cell by two white men who lynched him . . . Bunche named father of the year . . . Russian blockade of Berlin and Western counter-blockade lifted. Wesley A Brown U. S. Navy Ensign, Became first Negro to graduate from U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md. Moss H. Kendrix, originator of National Negro Newspaper Week celebration, initiated a series of Washington, D. C. radio broadcasts of station WWDC called "Civil Rights Inventory" . . Republican-Southern Democrat coalition successfully blocks TaftHartley repeal . . . Joe Louis, retired at Morris Brown college, where the "Joe Louis" gymnasium was named for him . . . Duke Ellington internationally famous composer-conductor, receives Doctor of Music degree from Wilberforce University. . . Nation's first regional education program as conceived by southern governors gets underway with 40 universities and colleges in 13 states registered . . . At Langston University in Oklahoma, the jimcrow law school closed up with only one student enrolled... Alabama Senators vote 23-3 to unmask Klan . . . Ezzard Charles defeated aging Jersey Joe Walcott to claim heavyweight title vacated by Joe Louis, who dominated the ring for 12 years as champ . . . Dowall Davis of the Kansas City Call elected president of the National Negro Newspaper publishers Association at the 10th annual meeting. C. A. Scott editor and, general manager of the Atlanta Daily World, elected to a two-year term of the eight-man board of directors at the confab. Dr. Howard Gregg is suspended at Delaware State . . . Jackie flays communism before House Un-American committee . . . Mob burns home run wild Groveland, Fla. . . . Negro rape-suspect raped in Florida . . . Walter White, Poppy Cannon married . . . Tom Clark nominated for Supreme court . . . police quell disturbance at Capitol swimming pool . . . Court rules new trial for Trenton six . . . Alabama legislature votes to unmask klan . . . NAACP reveals 700,000 Negroes voted in South during '48 election . . . Bunche flays Washington Jim Crow . . . After much controversy Ohio sends Joan Rankin, "Girl Governor," to Washington . . . Texas passes Anti-Lynch Bill . . . President Gray resigns at Florida A and M . . . Ga. Supreme Court rules counties must put Negroes on jury lists . . . Police chief, 14 others arrested in Birmingham Ku Klux Klan probe. Atlanta policeman suspended after kicking, Negro Prisoner . . . Chicago mob attacks home of Negroes who moved into so-called "white neighborhood." . . . Masked mob beats woman in Alamo, Ga Imperial Wizard Green orders Klansmen to unmask . . . Irwin countians sue for equal schools . . . Homes of two Birmingham ministers bombed in Birmingham . . . Mob beats youth in Bainbridge, Georgia...Grand Dragon-Green dies suddenly . . . Atlanta censor bans "Lost Boundaries" . . . President Colston resigns at Georgia State . . . University of Texas accepts first Negro student. Paul Roberson returns to Peekskill where state troopers and policeman join veterans and youngsters in second riot . . . President P. D of Tuskegee, raps white Birmingham editor for ing his name in housing troubles . . . Hollywood is charged with bias for bypassing Negroes . . . Prisoner escapes lynching in Atlanta courtroom Negro vote is decisive in Atlanta election . . . Senator Graham, of North Carolina, appoints Negro to West point . . . $500,000 grant insures new Grady colored hospital . . . Ingram brief is presented UN officials . . . Ezzard Charles returns to Georgia . . . Southern churchwomen blast Talmadge Voter law . . . Mrs. FDR says in Atlanta that Civil Rights are needed today . . . Prominent Winston Howard shot and killed in Pershing hotel, of which he was part owner by his partner, Charles Cole . . . Moron is inaugurated at Hampton. . . Nehru in Chicago speech says inequality is cause of war . . . Benjamin Mays voted alumnus of year by Chicago school . . . Walden answer Talmadge attack on Irwin county school suit . . . Pennsylvania railroad ends Jim Crow on its lines . . . Eleven Red leaders are Nehru seen as more to allay race suspicion . . . Baltimore judge upholds regional school pact . . . Atlanta Negro Police mount new cars . . . U. S. Justice department files brief supporting Elmer Henderson's contention that segregation is discrimination . . . Patterson reelected head of United Negro College Fund drive . . . Dr. H. V. Richardson installed as Gammon prexy . . . NAACP turns down demand to fire Walter White . . . William Hastie, Governor of Virgin Islands, named judge of Third U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals . . MMississippi school turns down Mississippi school turns down premacy . . . WERD, first Negroowned Radio station begins operation. Army defies intergration order — Dr. M.F. Whittaker president of S. C. State, dies . . . Forrester Washington proposes non-J Crow social work schools at fiery regional meeting . . . Earl Brown defeats Benjamin Davis . . . Talmadge forces seek repeat of GA. vote law . . . Dr. Ferbee succeeds Mrs. Bethune as head of National Council of Negro Women . . . Frat conference repeals bias clause . . . Victor E. Crichton, is first Negro president of Columbia university freshman class . . . Dr. Bunche takes South to ask in West palm Beach speech . . . Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, fabulous showman and famous dancer, dies at age of 71 in New York City . . . Negroes, in several Georgia counties file petitions asking equal school facilities for their children . . . Blind Claxton, Ga., woman flogged by band of hooded white men . . . Strayer committee says seven million dollars needed for three Georgia Negro colleges . . . Mistrial declared in Rome flogging case . . . Bham zoning laws held illegal . . . Harper named to seventh term as Atlanta NACCP head . . . Macon firemen seek injunction to halt rail union discrimination . . . Mistrial declared in B'ham flogging probe . . . Dedication exercise held for Atlanta "Whiteway" . . . Jim Crow issue causes two walkouts at City Auditorium. . . Racial discrimination ruled out of housing . . . . Minnesota governor issued order opening of Minnesota National Guard to Ne. . . . Augusta Negroes lose their bid for seats on City Council . . . Dr. Ferbee succeeds Mrs. Bethune as NCNW president . . . Congressman Dawson elected vicechairman of Democratic National Committee . . . Hastie sworn in as Federal court judge . . . Alabama church quits Federal Council of Churches after the latter takes Stand on segregation . . . Florida parents file $100,000 equal education suit . . . Minister flogged in Claxton . . . Fulton DeKalb Hospital authorities approve $1,439,609 Contract for construction of 150-bed private Negro hospital . . . Department of Records and Research at Tuskegee Institute reports 3 lynchings in 1949. Two occurred in Georgia. AUGUST Dawson (Dem., Ill.) was honored at a testimonial dinner in Washington, D. C. February. NAACP asks Truman to ban FHA segregation policy Talmadge reregistration bill passes Georgia Senate... University of Oklahoma admits Negro woman. Atlanta Interracial committee named after housing flareup in Mozley park . . . Federal court enjoins railroad brotherhood from dis criminating against Negro firemen . . . Ralph Bunche presides at Palestine pact sign . . . Truman congratulates Bunche for obtaining armistice between Israel and Egypt . . . Mrs. Anna A. Hedgeman named assistant to Federal Security Administrator Oscar Ewing . . . Montreal beauty, Beryl Dickinson Dash, named queen of McGill university's famed winter carnival . . . Marva Louis obtains second divorce from Joe Louis. Joe Louis announces retirement as World's Heavyweight Champion after successfully defending the boxing title 25 times ... Louis R Lautier, Whitehouse Correspondent for the Atlanta Daily world wins a Wendell L. Willkie award for Negro journalism "for distinguished coverage of significant events, The award was made by the Neiman Foundation of Harvard University . . . Mrs. Julie Hubert, 58-year-old Philadelphia housewife, identifies jackpot tune on "Stop the Music" radio show and wins $35,250 in cash and prizes . . . Secretary of Labor Tobin urges law against job and wage discrimination . . . Negroes registered in Fulton County ruled eligible to vote in city primary . . Molotov replaced as Foreign Minister of U. S. S. R. by Vishinsky . . . National Negro Newspaper Week observed with nationwide broadcasts . . . Ralph Bunche awarded 34th Spingarn. Medal by NAACP "for priceless contribution to the settlement of armed conflict in the Middle East . . . Mrs. Bethune paid tribute by NBC documentary pro gram, "This Is Your Life." . . . The Atlanta Daily World adds to its press and photo services the vast network of International News Service (INS) . . . Joseph T. Brooks, Atlanta school teacher and veteran Navy Boatswain's Mate, becomes first Negro commissioned officer in the southern area with the rank of Ensign . . . U. S. Supreme Court upholds ruling which outlaws Alabama's Boswell Amendment Dr. Frank Graham, former president of University of North Carolina, takes oath as U. S. Senator. Georgia Teachers and Education Association call on state officials to equalize educational opportunities and pay . . . Court rules University of Kentucky must admit Negro students . . . Alcorn prexy resigns . . . James Hinton, South, Carolina NAACP head, is kidnapped by band of white hoodlums . . . Recordbreaking crowd sees Jackie, Campanella and Newcombe play with Dodgers against Crackers . . . Leader repudiate Robeson's stand on war with Russia . . . Navy commissions negro . . . . . . Dr. Alonzo G. Maron named first Negro President of Hampton ... Seven Negroes flogged near Trenton, Ga. Gov. Alfred Driscoll signs New Jersey civil Rights bill . . Georgia voters turn down expanded state services. . . Armed services told to erase discrimination. The Board of Trustees at Hampton Institute unanimously elected Dr. Alonzo G. Moron president . . . The senate defeated to bar racial and religious segregation in public elementary and secondary schools receiving Federal aid . . . U. N. admits Israel as 59th member . . . National Negro Insurance Week observed. . . Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, noted historian and vice chairman of Council on African Affairs, attends World Peace Congress held in Paris, France . . . University of Kentucky announced policy to grant use of facilities by Negroes in engineering, law, pharmacy and history. . . Ralph Bunche turns down post of Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern and African Affairs offered by President Truman . . . Georgia leads nation in first lynching in 1949 when Caleb Hill was dragged from a jail cell by two white men who lynched him . . . Bunche named father of the year . . . Russian blockade of Berlin and Western counter-blockade lifted. Wesley A Brown U. S. Navy Ensign, Became first Negro to graduate from U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md. Moss H. Kendrix, originator of National Negro Newspaper Week celebration, initiated a series of Washington, D. C. radio broadcasts of station WWDC called "Civil Rights Inventory" . . Republican-Southern Democrat coalition successfully blocks TaftHartley repeal . . . Joe Louis, retired at Morris Brown college, where the "Joe Louis" gymnasium was named for him . . . Duke Ellington internationally famous composer-conductor, receives Doctor of Music degree from Wilberforce University. . . Nation's first regional education program as conceived by southern governors gets underway with 40 universities and colleges in 13 states registered . . . At Langston University in Oklahoma, the jimcrow law school closed up with only one student enrolled... Alabama Senators vote 23-3 to unmask Klan . . . Ezzard Charles defeated aging Jersey Joe Walcott to claim heavyweight title vacated by Joe Louis, who dominated the ring for 12 years as champ . . . Dowall Davis of the Kansas City Call elected president of the National Negro Newspaper publishers Association at the 10th annual meeting. C. A. Scott editor and, general manager of the Atlanta Daily World, elected to a two-year term of the eight-man board of directors at the confab. Dr. Howard Gregg is suspended at Delaware State . . . Jackie flays communism before House Un-American committee . . . Mob burns home run wild Groveland, Fla. . . . Negro rape-suspect raped in Florida . . . Walter White, Poppy Cannon married . . . Tom Clark nominated for Supreme court . . . police quell disturbance at Capitol swimming pool . . . Court rules new trial for Trenton six . . . Alabama legislature votes to unmask klan . . . NAACP reveals 700,000 Negroes voted in South during '48 election . . . Bunche flays Washington Jim Crow . . . After much controversy Ohio sends Joan Rankin, "Girl Governor," to Washington . . . Texas passes Anti-Lynch Bill . . . President Gray resigns at Florida A and M . . . Ga. Supreme Court rules counties must put Negroes on jury lists . . . Police chief, 14 others arrested in Birmingham Ku Klux Klan probe. Atlanta policeman suspended after kicking, Negro Prisoner . . . Chicago mob attacks home of Negroes who moved into so-called "white neighborhood." . . . Masked mob beats woman in Alamo, Ga Imperial Wizard Green orders Klansmen to unmask . . . Irwin countians sue for equal schools . . . Homes of two Birmingham ministers bombed in Birmingham . . . Mob beats youth in Bainbridge, Georgia...Grand Dragon-Green dies suddenly . . . Atlanta censor bans "Lost Boundaries" . . . President Colston resigns at Georgia State . . . University of Texas accepts first Negro student. Paul Roberson returns to Peekskill where state troopers and policeman join veterans and youngsters in second riot . . . President P. D of Tuskegee, raps white Birmingham editor for ing his name in housing troubles . . . Hollywood is charged with bias for bypassing Negroes . . . Prisoner escapes lynching in Atlanta courtroom Negro vote is decisive in Atlanta election . . . Senator Graham, of North Carolina, appoints Negro to West point . . . $500,000 grant insures new Grady colored hospital . . . Ingram brief is presented UN officials . . . Ezzard Charles returns to Georgia . . . Southern churchwomen blast Talmadge Voter law . . . Mrs. FDR says in Atlanta that Civil Rights are needed today . . . Prominent Winston Howard shot and killed in Pershing hotel, of which he was part owner by his partner, Charles Cole . . . Moron is inaugurated at Hampton. . . Nehru in Chicago speech says inequality is cause of war . . . Benjamin Mays voted alumnus of year by Chicago school . . . Walden answer Talmadge attack on Irwin county school suit . . . Pennsylvania railroad ends Jim Crow on its lines . . . Eleven Red leaders are Nehru seen as more to allay race suspicion . . . Baltimore judge upholds regional school pact . . . Atlanta Negro Police mount new cars . . . U. S. Justice department files brief supporting Elmer Henderson's contention that segregation is discrimination . . . Patterson reelected head of United Negro College Fund drive . . . Dr. H. V. Richardson installed as Gammon prexy . . . NAACP turns down demand to fire Walter White . . . William Hastie, Governor of Virgin Islands, named judge of Third U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals . . MMississippi school turns down Mississippi school turns down premacy . . . WERD, first Negroowned Radio station begins operation. Army defies intergration order — Dr. M.F. Whittaker president of S. C. State, dies . . . Forrester Washington proposes non-J Crow social work schools at fiery regional meeting . . . Earl Brown defeats Benjamin Davis . . . Talmadge forces seek repeat of GA. vote law . . . Dr. Ferbee succeeds Mrs. Bethune as head of National Council of Negro Women . . . Frat conference repeals bias clause . . . Victor E. Crichton, is first Negro president of Columbia university freshman class . . . Dr. Bunche takes South to ask in West palm Beach speech . . . Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, fabulous showman and famous dancer, dies at age of 71 in New York City . . . Negroes, in several Georgia counties file petitions asking equal school facilities for their children . . . Blind Claxton, Ga., woman flogged by band of hooded white men . . . Strayer committee says seven million dollars needed for three Georgia Negro colleges . . . Mistrial declared in Rome flogging case . . . Bham zoning laws held illegal . . . Harper named to seventh term as Atlanta NACCP head . . . Macon firemen seek injunction to halt rail union discrimination . . . Mistrial declared in B'ham flogging probe . . . Dedication exercise held for Atlanta "Whiteway" . . . Jim Crow issue causes two walkouts at City Auditorium. . . Racial discrimination ruled out of housing . . . . Minnesota governor issued order opening of Minnesota National Guard to Ne. . . . Augusta Negroes lose their bid for seats on City Council . . . Dr. Ferbee succeeds Mrs. Bethune as NCNW president . . . Congressman Dawson elected vicechairman of Democratic National Committee . . . Hastie sworn in as Federal court judge . . . Alabama church quits Federal Council of Churches after the latter takes Stand on segregation . . . Florida parents file $100,000 equal education suit . . . Minister flogged in Claxton . . . Fulton DeKalb Hospital authorities approve $1,439,609 Contract for construction of 150-bed private Negro hospital . . . Department of Records and Research at Tuskegee Institute reports 3 lynchings in 1949. Two occurred in Georgia. SEPTEMBER Dawson (Dem., Ill.) was honored at a testimonial dinner in Washington, D. C. February. NAACP asks Truman to ban FHA segregation policy Talmadge reregistration bill passes Georgia Senate... University of Oklahoma admits Negro woman. Atlanta Interracial committee named after housing flareup in Mozley park . . . Federal court enjoins railroad brotherhood from dis criminating against Negro firemen . . . Ralph Bunche presides at Palestine pact sign . . . Truman congratulates Bunche for obtaining armistice between Israel and Egypt . . . Mrs. Anna A. Hedgeman named assistant to Federal Security Administrator Oscar Ewing . . . Montreal beauty, Beryl Dickinson Dash, named queen of McGill university's famed winter carnival . . . Marva Louis obtains second divorce from Joe Louis. Joe Louis announces retirement as World's Heavyweight Champion after successfully defending the boxing title 25 times ... Louis R Lautier, Whitehouse Correspondent for the Atlanta Daily world wins a Wendell L. Willkie award for Negro journalism "for distinguished coverage of significant events, The award was made by the Neiman Foundation of Harvard University . . . Mrs. Julie Hubert, 58-year-old Philadelphia housewife, identifies jackpot tune on "Stop the Music" radio show and wins $35,250 in cash and prizes . . . Secretary of Labor Tobin urges law against job and wage discrimination . . . Negroes registered in Fulton County ruled eligible to vote in city primary . . Molotov replaced as Foreign Minister of U. S. S. R. by Vishinsky . . . National Negro Newspaper Week observed with nationwide broadcasts . . . Ralph Bunche awarded 34th Spingarn. Medal by NAACP "for priceless contribution to the settlement of armed conflict in the Middle East . . . Mrs. Bethune paid tribute by NBC documentary pro gram, "This Is Your Life." . . . The Atlanta Daily World adds to its press and photo services the vast network of International News Service (INS) . . . Joseph T. Brooks, Atlanta school teacher and veteran Navy Boatswain's Mate, becomes first Negro commissioned officer in the southern area with the rank of Ensign . . . U. S. Supreme Court upholds ruling which outlaws Alabama's Boswell Amendment Dr. Frank Graham, former president of University of North Carolina, takes oath as U. S. Senator. Georgia Teachers and Education Association call on state officials to equalize educational opportunities and pay . . . Court rules University of Kentucky must admit Negro students . . . Alcorn prexy resigns . . . James Hinton, South, Carolina NAACP head, is kidnapped by band of white hoodlums . . . Recordbreaking crowd sees Jackie, Campanella and Newcombe play with Dodgers against Crackers . . . Leader repudiate Robeson's stand on war with Russia . . . Navy commissions negro . . . . . . Dr. Alonzo G. Maron named first Negro President of Hampton ... Seven Negroes flogged near Trenton, Ga. Gov. Alfred Driscoll signs New Jersey civil Rights bill . . Georgia voters turn down expanded state services. . . Armed services told to erase discrimination. The Board of Trustees at Hampton Institute unanimously elected Dr. Alonzo G. Moron president . . . The senate defeated to bar racial and religious segregation in public elementary and secondary schools receiving Federal aid . . . U. N. admits Israel as 59th member . . . National Negro Insurance Week observed. . . Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, noted historian and vice chairman of Council on African Affairs, attends World Peace Congress held in Paris, France . . . University of Kentucky announced policy to grant use of facilities by Negroes in engineering, law, pharmacy and history. . . Ralph Bunche turns down post of Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern and African Affairs offered by President Truman . . . Georgia leads nation in first lynching in 1949 when Caleb Hill was dragged from a jail cell by two white men who lynched him . . . Bunche named father of the year . . . Russian blockade of Berlin and Western counter-blockade lifted. Wesley A Brown U. S. Navy Ensign, Became first Negro to graduate from U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md. Moss H. Kendrix, originator of National Negro Newspaper Week celebration, initiated a series of Washington, D. C. radio broadcasts of station WWDC called "Civil Rights Inventory" . . Republican-Southern Democrat coalition successfully blocks TaftHartley repeal . . . Joe Louis, retired at Morris Brown college, where the "Joe Louis" gymnasium was named for him . . . Duke Ellington internationally famous composer-conductor, receives Doctor of Music degree from Wilberforce University. . . Nation's first regional education program as conceived by southern governors gets underway with 40 universities and colleges in 13 states registered . . . At Langston University in Oklahoma, the jimcrow law school closed up with only one student enrolled... Alabama Senators vote 23-3 to unmask Klan . . . Ezzard Charles defeated aging Jersey Joe Walcott to claim heavyweight title vacated by Joe Louis, who dominated the ring for 12 years as champ . . . Dowall Davis of the Kansas City Call elected president of the National Negro Newspaper publishers Association at the 10th annual meeting. C. A. Scott editor and, general manager of the Atlanta Daily World, elected to a two-year term of the eight-man board of directors at the confab. Dr. Howard Gregg is suspended at Delaware State . . . Jackie flays communism before House Un-American committee . . . Mob burns home run wild Groveland, Fla. . . . Negro rape-suspect raped in Florida . . . Walter White, Poppy Cannon married . . . Tom Clark nominated for Supreme court . . . police quell disturbance at Capitol swimming pool . . . Court rules new trial for Trenton six . . . Alabama legislature votes to unmask klan . . . NAACP reveals 700,000 Negroes voted in South during '48 election . . . Bunche flays Washington Jim Crow . . . After much controversy Ohio sends Joan Rankin, "Girl Governor," to Washington . . . Texas passes Anti-Lynch Bill . . . President Gray resigns at Florida A and M . . . Ga. Supreme Court rules counties must put Negroes on jury lists . . . Police chief, 14 others arrested in Birmingham Ku Klux Klan probe. Atlanta policeman suspended after kicking, Negro Prisoner . . . Chicago mob attacks home of Negroes who moved into so-called "white neighborhood." . . . Masked mob beats woman in Alamo, Ga Imperial Wizard Green orders Klansmen to unmask . . . Irwin countians sue for equal schools . . . Homes of two Birmingham ministers bombed in Birmingham . . . Mob beats youth in Bainbridge, Georgia...Grand Dragon-Green dies suddenly . . . Atlanta censor bans "Lost Boundaries" . . . President Colston resigns at Georgia State . . . University of Texas accepts first Negro student. Paul Roberson returns to Peekskill where state troopers and policeman join veterans and youngsters in second riot . . . President P. D of Tuskegee, raps white Birmingham editor for ing his name in housing troubles . . . Hollywood is charged with bias for bypassing Negroes . . . Prisoner escapes lynching in Atlanta courtroom Negro vote is decisive in Atlanta election . . . Senator Graham, of North Carolina, appoints Negro to West point . . . $500,000 grant insures new Grady colored hospital . . . Ingram brief is presented UN officials . . . Ezzard Charles returns to Georgia . . . Southern churchwomen blast Talmadge Voter law . . . Mrs. FDR says in Atlanta that Civil Rights are needed today . . . Prominent Winston Howard shot and killed in Pershing hotel, of which he was part owner by his partner, Charles Cole . . . Moron is inaugurated at Hampton. . . Nehru in Chicago speech says inequality is cause of war . . . Benjamin Mays voted alumnus of year by Chicago school . . . Walden answer Talmadge attack on Irwin county school suit . . . Pennsylvania railroad ends Jim Crow on its lines . . . Eleven Red leaders are Nehru seen as more to allay race suspicion . . . Baltimore judge upholds regional school pact . . . Atlanta Negro Police mount new cars . . . U. S. Justice department files brief supporting Elmer Henderson's contention that segregation is discrimination . . . Patterson reelected head of United Negro College Fund drive . . . Dr. H. V. Richardson installed as Gammon prexy . . . NAACP turns down demand to fire Walter White . . . William Hastie, Governor of Virgin Islands, named judge of Third U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals . . MMississippi school turns down Mississippi school turns down premacy . . . WERD, first Negroowned Radio station begins operation. Army defies intergration order — Dr. M.F. Whittaker president of S. C. State, dies . . . Forrester Washington proposes non-J Crow social work schools at fiery regional meeting . . . Earl Brown defeats Benjamin Davis . . . Talmadge forces seek repeat of GA. vote law . . . Dr. Ferbee succeeds Mrs. Bethune as head of National Council of Negro Women . . . Frat conference repeals bias clause . . . Victor E. Crichton, is first Negro president of Columbia university freshman class . . . Dr. Bunche takes South to ask in West palm Beach speech . . . Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, fabulous showman and famous dancer, dies at age of 71 in New York City . . . Negroes, in several Georgia counties file petitions asking equal school facilities for their children . . . Blind Claxton, Ga., woman flogged by band of hooded white men . . . Strayer committee says seven million dollars needed for three Georgia Negro colleges . . . Mistrial declared in Rome flogging case . . . Bham zoning laws held illegal . . . Harper named to seventh term as Atlanta NACCP head . . . Macon firemen seek injunction to halt rail union discrimination . . . Mistrial declared in B'ham flogging probe . . . Dedication exercise held for Atlanta "Whiteway" . . . Jim Crow issue causes two walkouts at City Auditorium. . . Racial discrimination ruled out of housing . . . . Minnesota governor issued order opening of Minnesota National Guard to Ne. . . . Augusta Negroes lose their bid for seats on City Council . . . Dr. Ferbee succeeds Mrs. Bethune as NCNW president . . . Congressman Dawson elected vicechairman of Democratic National Committee . . . Hastie sworn in as Federal court judge . . . Alabama church quits Federal Council of Churches after the latter takes Stand on segregation . . . Florida parents file $100,000 equal education suit . . . Minister flogged in Claxton . . . Fulton DeKalb Hospital authorities approve $1,439,609 Contract for construction of 150-bed private Negro hospital . . . Department of Records and Research at Tuskegee Institute reports 3 lynchings in 1949. Two occurred in Georgia. OCTOBER Dawson (Dem., Ill.) was honored at a testimonial dinner in Washington, D. C. February. NAACP asks Truman to ban FHA segregation policy Talmadge reregistration bill passes Georgia Senate... University of Oklahoma admits Negro woman. Atlanta Interracial committee named after housing flareup in Mozley park . . . Federal court enjoins railroad brotherhood from dis criminating against Negro firemen . . . Ralph Bunche presides at Palestine pact sign . . . Truman congratulates Bunche for obtaining armistice between Israel and Egypt . . . Mrs. Anna A. Hedgeman named assistant to Federal Security Administrator Oscar Ewing . . . Montreal beauty, Beryl Dickinson Dash, named queen of McGill university's famed winter carnival . . . Marva Louis obtains second divorce from Joe Louis. Joe Louis announces retirement as World's Heavyweight Champion after successfully defending the boxing title 25 times ... Louis R Lautier, Whitehouse Correspondent for the Atlanta Daily world wins a Wendell L. Willkie award for Negro journalism "for distinguished coverage of significant events, The award was made by the Neiman Foundation of Harvard University . . . Mrs. Julie Hubert, 58-year-old Philadelphia housewife, identifies jackpot tune on "Stop the Music" radio show and wins $35,250 in cash and prizes . . . Secretary of Labor Tobin urges law against job and wage discrimination . . . Negroes registered in Fulton County ruled eligible to vote in city primary . . Molotov replaced as Foreign Minister of U. S. S. R. by Vishinsky . . . National Negro Newspaper Week observed with nationwide broadcasts . . . Ralph Bunche awarded 34th Spingarn. Medal by NAACP "for priceless contribution to the settlement of armed conflict in the Middle East . . . Mrs. Bethune paid tribute by NBC documentary pro gram, "This Is Your Life." . . . The Atlanta Daily World adds to its press and photo services the vast network of International News Service (INS) . . . Joseph T. Brooks, Atlanta school teacher and veteran Navy Boatswain's Mate, becomes first Negro commissioned officer in the southern area with the rank of Ensign . . . U. S. Supreme Court upholds ruling which outlaws Alabama's Boswell Amendment Dr. Frank Graham, former president of University of North Carolina, takes oath as U. S. Senator. Georgia Teachers and Education Association call on state officials to equalize educational opportunities and pay . . . Court rules University of Kentucky must admit Negro students . . . Alcorn prexy resigns . . . James Hinton, South, Carolina NAACP head, is kidnapped by band of white hoodlums . . . Recordbreaking crowd sees Jackie, Campanella and Newcombe play with Dodgers against Crackers . . . Leader repudiate Robeson's stand on war with Russia . . . Navy commissions negro . . . . . . Dr. Alonzo G. Maron named first Negro President of Hampton ... Seven Negroes flogged near Trenton, Ga. Gov. Alfred Driscoll signs New Jersey civil Rights bill . . Georgia voters turn down expanded state services. . . Armed services told to erase discrimination. The Board of Trustees at Hampton Institute unanimously elected Dr. Alonzo G. Moron president . . . The senate defeated to bar racial and religious segregation in public elementary and secondary schools receiving Federal aid . . . U. N. admits Israel as 59th member . . . National Negro Insurance Week observed. . . Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, noted historian and vice chairman of Council on African Affairs, attends World Peace Congress held in Paris, France . . . University of Kentucky announced policy to grant use of facilities by Negroes in engineering, law, pharmacy and history. . . Ralph Bunche turns down post of Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern and African Affairs offered by President Truman . . . Georgia leads nation in first lynching in 1949 when Caleb Hill was dragged from a jail cell by two white men who lynched him . . . Bunche named father of the year . . . Russian blockade of Berlin and Western counter-blockade lifted. Wesley A Brown U. S. Navy Ensign, Became first Negro to graduate from U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md. Moss H. Kendrix, originator of National Negro Newspaper Week celebration, initiated a series of Washington, D. C. radio broadcasts of station WWDC called "Civil Rights Inventory" . . Republican-Southern Democrat coalition successfully blocks TaftHartley repeal . . . Joe Louis, retired at Morris Brown college, where the "Joe Louis" gymnasium was named for him . . . Duke Ellington internationally famous composer-conductor, receives Doctor of Music degree from Wilberforce University. . . Nation's first regional education program as conceived by southern governors gets underway with 40 universities and colleges in 13 states registered . . . At Langston University in Oklahoma, the jimcrow law school closed up with only one student enrolled... Alabama Senators vote 23-3 to unmask Klan . . . Ezzard Charles defeated aging Jersey Joe Walcott to claim heavyweight title vacated by Joe Louis, who dominated the ring for 12 years as champ . . . Dowall Davis of the Kansas City Call elected president of the National Negro Newspaper publishers Association at the 10th annual meeting. C. A. Scott editor and, general manager of the Atlanta Daily World, elected to a two-year term of the eight-man board of directors at the confab. Dr. Howard Gregg is suspended at Delaware State . . . Jackie flays communism before House Un-American committee . . . Mob burns home run wild Groveland, Fla. . . . Negro rape-suspect raped in Florida . . . Walter White, Poppy Cannon married . . . Tom Clark nominated for Supreme court . . . police quell disturbance at Capitol swimming pool . . . Court rules new trial for Trenton six . . . Alabama legislature votes to unmask klan . . . NAACP reveals 700,000 Negroes voted in South during '48 election . . . Bunche flays Washington Jim Crow . . . After much controversy Ohio sends Joan Rankin, "Girl Governor," to Washington . . . Texas passes Anti-Lynch Bill . . . President Gray resigns at Florida A and M . . . Ga. Supreme Court rules counties must put Negroes on jury lists . . . Police chief, 14 others arrested in Birmingham Ku Klux Klan probe. Atlanta policeman suspended after kicking, Negro Prisoner . . . Chicago mob attacks home of Negroes who moved into so-called "white neighborhood." . . . Masked mob beats woman in Alamo, Ga Imperial Wizard Green orders Klansmen to unmask . . . Irwin countians sue for equal schools . . . Homes of two Birmingham ministers bombed in Birmingham . . . Mob beats youth in Bainbridge, Georgia...Grand Dragon-Green dies suddenly . . . Atlanta censor bans "Lost Boundaries" . . . President Colston resigns at Georgia State . . . University of Texas accepts first Negro student. Paul Roberson returns to Peekskill where state troopers and policeman join veterans and youngsters in second riot . . . President P. D of Tuskegee, raps white Birmingham editor for ing his name in housing troubles . . . Hollywood is charged with bias for bypassing Negroes . . . Prisoner escapes lynching in Atlanta courtroom Negro vote is decisive in Atlanta election . . . Senator Graham, of North Carolina, appoints Negro to West point . . . $500,000 grant insures new Grady colored hospital . . . Ingram brief is presented UN officials . . . Ezzard Charles returns to Georgia . . . Southern churchwomen blast Talmadge Voter law . . . Mrs. FDR says in Atlanta that Civil Rights are needed today . . . Prominent Winston Howard shot and killed in Pershing hotel, of which he was part owner by his partner, Charles Cole . . . Moron is inaugurated at Hampton. . . Nehru in Chicago speech says inequality is cause of war . . . Benjamin Mays voted alumnus of year by Chicago school . . . Walden answer Talmadge attack on Irwin county school suit . . . Pennsylvania railroad ends Jim Crow on its lines . . . Eleven Red leaders are Nehru seen as more to allay race suspicion . . . Baltimore judge upholds regional school pact . . . Atlanta Negro Police mount new cars . . . U. S. Justice department files brief supporting Elmer Henderson's contention that segregation is discrimination . . . Patterson reelected head of United Negro College Fund drive . . . Dr. H. V. Richardson installed as Gammon prexy . . . NAACP turns down demand to fire Walter White . . . William Hastie, Governor of Virgin Islands, named judge of Third U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals . . MMississippi school turns down Mississippi school turns down premacy . . . WERD, first Negroowned Radio station begins operation. Army defies intergration order — Dr. M.F. Whittaker president of S. C. State, dies . . . Forrester Washington proposes non-J Crow social work schools at fiery regional meeting . . . Earl Brown defeats Benjamin Davis . . . Talmadge forces seek repeat of GA. vote law . . . Dr. Ferbee succeeds Mrs. Bethune as head of National Council of Negro Women . . . Frat conference repeals bias clause . . . Victor E. Crichton, is first Negro president of Columbia university freshman class . . . Dr. Bunche takes South to ask in West palm Beach speech . . . Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, fabulous showman and famous dancer, dies at age of 71 in New York City . . . Negroes, in several Georgia counties file petitions asking equal school facilities for their children . . . Blind Claxton, Ga., woman flogged by band of hooded white men . . . Strayer committee says seven million dollars needed for three Georgia Negro colleges . . . Mistrial declared in Rome flogging case . . . Bham zoning laws held illegal . . . Harper named to seventh term as Atlanta NACCP head . . . Macon firemen seek injunction to halt rail union discrimination . . . Mistrial declared in B'ham flogging probe . . . Dedication exercise held for Atlanta "Whiteway" . . . Jim Crow issue causes two walkouts at City Auditorium. . . Racial discrimination ruled out of housing . . . . Minnesota governor issued order opening of Minnesota National Guard to Ne. . . . Augusta Negroes lose their bid for seats on City Council . . . Dr. Ferbee succeeds Mrs. Bethune as NCNW president . . . Congressman Dawson elected vicechairman of Democratic National Committee . . . Hastie sworn in as Federal court judge . . . Alabama church quits Federal Council of Churches after the latter takes Stand on segregation . . . Florida parents file $100,000 equal education suit . . . Minister flogged in Claxton . . . Fulton DeKalb Hospital authorities approve $1,439,609 Contract for construction of 150-bed private Negro hospital . . . Department of Records and Research at Tuskegee Institute reports 3 lynchings in 1949. Two occurred in Georgia. NOVEMBER Dawson (Dem., Ill.) was honored at a testimonial dinner in Washington, D. C. February. NAACP asks Truman to ban FHA segregation policy Talmadge reregistration bill passes Georgia Senate... University of Oklahoma admits Negro woman. Atlanta Interracial committee named after housing flareup in Mozley park . . . Federal court enjoins railroad brotherhood from dis criminating against Negro firemen . . . Ralph Bunche presides at Palestine pact sign . . . Truman congratulates Bunche for obtaining armistice between Israel and Egypt . . . Mrs. Anna A. Hedgeman named assistant to Federal Security Administrator Oscar Ewing . . . Montreal beauty, Beryl Dickinson Dash, named queen of McGill university's famed winter carnival . . . Marva Louis obtains second divorce from Joe Louis. Joe Louis announces retirement as World's Heavyweight Champion after successfully defending the boxing title 25 times ... Louis R Lautier, Whitehouse Correspondent for the Atlanta Daily world wins a Wendell L. Willkie award for Negro journalism "for distinguished coverage of significant events, The award was made by the Neiman Foundation of Harvard University . . . Mrs. Julie Hubert, 58-year-old Philadelphia housewife, identifies jackpot tune on "Stop the Music" radio show and wins $35,250 in cash and prizes . . . Secretary of Labor Tobin urges law against job and wage discrimination . . . Negroes registered in Fulton County ruled eligible to vote in city primary . . Molotov replaced as Foreign Minister of U. S. S. R. by Vishinsky . . . National Negro Newspaper Week observed with nationwide broadcasts . . . Ralph Bunche awarded 34th Spingarn. Medal by NAACP "for priceless contribution to the settlement of armed conflict in the Middle East . . . Mrs. Bethune paid tribute by NBC documentary pro gram, "This Is Your Life." . . . The Atlanta Daily World adds to its press and photo services the vast network of International News Service (INS) . . . Joseph T. Brooks, Atlanta school teacher and veteran Navy Boatswain's Mate, becomes first Negro commissioned officer in the southern area with the rank of Ensign . . . U. S. Supreme Court upholds ruling which outlaws Alabama's Boswell Amendment Dr. Frank Graham, former president of University of North Carolina, takes oath as U. S. Senator. Georgia Teachers and Education Association call on state officials to equalize educational opportunities and pay . . . Court rules University of Kentucky must admit Negro students . . . Alcorn prexy resigns . . . James Hinton, South, Carolina NAACP head, is kidnapped by band of white hoodlums . . . Recordbreaking crowd sees Jackie, Campanella and Newcombe play with Dodgers against Crackers . . . Leader repudiate Robeson's stand on war with Russia . . . Navy commissions negro . . . . . . Dr. Alonzo G. Maron named first Negro President of Hampton ... Seven Negroes flogged near Trenton, Ga. Gov. Alfred Driscoll signs New Jersey civil Rights bill . . Georgia voters turn down expanded state services. . . Armed services told to erase discrimination. The Board of Trustees at Hampton Institute unanimously elected Dr. Alonzo G. Moron president . . . The senate defeated to bar racial and religious segregation in public elementary and secondary schools receiving Federal aid . . . U. N. admits Israel as 59th member . . . National Negro Insurance Week observed. . . Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, noted historian and vice chairman of Council on African Affairs, attends World Peace Congress held in Paris, France . . . University of Kentucky announced policy to grant use of facilities by Negroes in engineering, law, pharmacy and history. . . Ralph Bunche turns down post of Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern and African Affairs offered by President Truman . . . Georgia leads nation in first lynching in 1949 when Caleb Hill was dragged from a jail cell by two white men who lynched him . . . Bunche named father of the year . . . Russian blockade of Berlin and Western counter-blockade lifted. Wesley A Brown U. S. Navy Ensign, Became first Negro to graduate from U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md. Moss H. Kendrix, originator of National Negro Newspaper Week celebration, initiated a series of Washington, D. C. radio broadcasts of station WWDC called "Civil Rights Inventory" . . Republican-Southern Democrat coalition successfully blocks TaftHartley repeal . . . Joe Louis, retired at Morris Brown college, where the "Joe Louis" gymnasium was named for him . . . Duke Ellington internationally famous composer-conductor, receives Doctor of Music degree from Wilberforce University. . . Nation's first regional education program as conceived by southern governors gets underway with 40 universities and colleges in 13 states registered . . . At Langston University in Oklahoma, the jimcrow law school closed up with only one student enrolled... Alabama Senators vote 23-3 to unmask Klan . . . Ezzard Charles defeated aging Jersey Joe Walcott to claim heavyweight title vacated by Joe Louis, who dominated the ring for 12 years as champ . . . Dowall Davis of the Kansas City Call elected president of the National Negro Newspaper publishers Association at the 10th annual meeting. C. A. Scott editor and, general manager of the Atlanta Daily World, elected to a two-year term of the eight-man board of directors at the confab. Dr. Howard Gregg is suspended at Delaware State . . . Jackie flays communism before House Un-American committee . . . Mob burns home run wild Groveland, Fla. . . . Negro rape-suspect raped in Florida . . . Walter White, Poppy Cannon married . . . Tom Clark nominated for Supreme court . . . police quell disturbance at Capitol swimming pool . . . Court rules new trial for Trenton six . . . Alabama legislature votes to unmask klan . . . NAACP reveals 700,000 Negroes voted in South during '48 election . . . Bunche flays Washington Jim Crow . . . After much controversy Ohio sends Joan Rankin, "Girl Governor," to Washington . . . Texas passes Anti-Lynch Bill . . . President Gray resigns at Florida A and M . . . Ga. Supreme Court rules counties must put Negroes on jury lists . . . Police chief, 14 others arrested in Birmingham Ku Klux Klan probe. Atlanta policeman suspended after kicking, Negro Prisoner . . . Chicago mob attacks home of Negroes who moved into so-called "white neighborhood." . . . Masked mob beats woman in Alamo, Ga Imperial Wizard Green orders Klansmen to unmask . . . Irwin countians sue for equal schools . . . Homes of two Birmingham ministers bombed in Birmingham . . . Mob beats youth in Bainbridge, Georgia...Grand Dragon-Green dies suddenly . . . Atlanta censor bans "Lost Boundaries" . . . President Colston resigns at Georgia State . . . University of Texas accepts first Negro student. Paul Roberson returns to Peekskill where state troopers and policeman join veterans and youngsters in second riot . . . President P. D of Tuskegee, raps white Birmingham editor for ing his name in housing troubles . . . Hollywood is charged with bias for bypassing Negroes . . . Prisoner escapes lynching in Atlanta courtroom Negro vote is decisive in Atlanta election . . . Senator Graham, of North Carolina, appoints Negro to West point . . . $500,000 grant insures new Grady colored hospital . . . Ingram brief is presented UN officials . . . Ezzard Charles returns to Georgia . . . Southern churchwomen blast Talmadge Voter law . . . Mrs. FDR says in Atlanta that Civil Rights are needed today . . . Prominent Winston Howard shot and killed in Pershing hotel, of which he was part owner by his partner, Charles Cole . . . Moron is inaugurated at Hampton. . . Nehru in Chicago speech says inequality is cause of war . . . Benjamin Mays voted alumnus of year by Chicago school . . . Walden answer Talmadge attack on Irwin county school suit . . . Pennsylvania railroad ends Jim Crow on its lines . . . Eleven Red leaders are Nehru seen as more to allay race suspicion . . . Baltimore judge upholds regional school pact . . . Atlanta Negro Police mount new cars . . . U. S. Justice department files brief supporting Elmer Henderson's contention that segregation is discrimination . . . Patterson reelected head of United Negro College Fund drive . . . Dr. H. V. Richardson installed as Gammon prexy . . . NAACP turns down demand to fire Walter White . . . William Hastie, Governor of Virgin Islands, named judge of Third U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals . . MMississippi school turns down Mississippi school turns down premacy . . . WERD, first Negroowned Radio station begins operation. Army defies intergration order — Dr. M.F. Whittaker president of S. C. State, dies . . . Forrester Washington proposes non-J Crow social work schools at fiery regional meeting . . . Earl Brown defeats Benjamin Davis . . . Talmadge forces seek repeat of GA. vote law . . . Dr. Ferbee succeeds Mrs. Bethune as head of National Council of Negro Women . . . Frat conference repeals bias clause . . . Victor E. Crichton, is first Negro president of Columbia university freshman class . . . Dr. Bunche takes South to ask in West palm Beach speech . . . Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, fabulous showman and famous dancer, dies at age of 71 in New York City . . . Negroes, in several Georgia counties file petitions asking equal school facilities for their children . . . Blind Claxton, Ga., woman flogged by band of hooded white men . . . Strayer committee says seven million dollars needed for three Georgia Negro colleges . . . Mistrial declared in Rome flogging case . . . Bham zoning laws held illegal . . . Harper named to seventh term as Atlanta NACCP head . . . Macon firemen seek injunction to halt rail union discrimination . . . Mistrial declared in B'ham flogging probe . . . Dedication exercise held for Atlanta "Whiteway" . . . Jim Crow issue causes two walkouts at City Auditorium. . . Racial discrimination ruled out of housing . . . . Minnesota governor issued order opening of Minnesota National Guard to Ne. . . . Augusta Negroes lose their bid for seats on City Council . . . Dr. Ferbee succeeds Mrs. Bethune as NCNW president . . . Congressman Dawson elected vicechairman of Democratic National Committee . . . Hastie sworn in as Federal court judge . . . Alabama church quits Federal Council of Churches after the latter takes Stand on segregation . . . Florida parents file $100,000 equal education suit . . . Minister flogged in Claxton . . . Fulton DeKalb Hospital authorities approve $1,439,609 Contract for construction of 150-bed private Negro hospital . . . Department of Records and Research at Tuskegee Institute reports 3 lynchings in 1949. Two occurred in Georgia. DECEMBER Dawson (Dem., Ill.) was honored at a testimonial dinner in Washington, D. C. February. NAACP asks Truman to ban FHA segregation policy Talmadge reregistration bill passes Georgia Senate... University of Oklahoma admits Negro woman. Atlanta Interracial committee named after housing flareup in Mozley park . . . Federal court enjoins railroad brotherhood from dis criminating against Negro firemen . . . Ralph Bunche presides at Palestine pact sign . . . Truman congratulates Bunche for obtaining armistice between Israel and Egypt . . . Mrs. Anna A. Hedgeman named assistant to Federal Security Administrator Oscar Ewing . . . Montreal beauty, Beryl Dickinson Dash, named queen of McGill university's famed winter carnival . . . Marva Louis obtains second divorce from Joe Louis. Joe Louis announces retirement as World's Heavyweight Champion after successfully defending the boxing title 25 times ... Louis R Lautier, Whitehouse Correspondent for the Atlanta Daily world wins a Wendell L. Willkie award for Negro journalism "for distinguished coverage of significant events, The award was made by the Neiman Foundation of Harvard University . . . Mrs. Julie Hubert, 58-year-old Philadelphia housewife, identifies jackpot tune on "Stop the Music" radio show and wins $35,250 in cash and prizes . . . Secretary of Labor Tobin urges law against job and wage discrimination . . . Negroes registered in Fulton County ruled eligible to vote in city primary . . Molotov replaced as Foreign Minister of U. S. S. R. by Vishinsky . . . National Negro Newspaper Week observed with nationwide broadcasts . . . Ralph Bunche awarded 34th Spingarn. Medal by NAACP "for priceless contribution to the settlement of armed conflict in the Middle East . . . Mrs. Bethune paid tribute by NBC documentary pro gram, "This Is Your Life." . . . The Atlanta Daily World adds to its press and photo services the vast network of International News Service (INS) . . . Joseph T. Brooks, Atlanta school teacher and veteran Navy Boatswain's Mate, becomes first Negro commissioned officer in the southern area with the rank of Ensign . . . U. S. Supreme Court upholds ruling which outlaws Alabama's Boswell Amendment Dr. Frank Graham, former president of University of North Carolina, takes oath as U. S. Senator. Georgia Teachers and Education Association call on state officials to equalize educational opportunities and pay . . . Court rules University of Kentucky must admit Negro students . . . Alcorn prexy resigns . . . James Hinton, South, Carolina NAACP head, is kidnapped by band of white hoodlums . . . Recordbreaking crowd sees Jackie, Campanella and Newcombe play with Dodgers against Crackers . . . Leader repudiate Robeson's stand on war with Russia . . . Navy commissions negro . . . . . . Dr. Alonzo G. Maron named first Negro President of Hampton ... Seven Negroes flogged near Trenton, Ga. Gov. Alfred Driscoll signs New Jersey civil Rights bill . . Georgia voters turn down expanded state services. . . Armed services told to erase discrimination. The Board of Trustees at Hampton Institute unanimously elected Dr. Alonzo G. Moron president . . . The senate defeated to bar racial and religious segregation in public elementary and secondary schools receiving Federal aid . . . U. N. admits Israel as 59th member . . . National Negro Insurance Week observed. . . Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, noted historian and vice chairman of Council on African Affairs, attends World Peace Congress held in Paris, France . . . University of Kentucky announced policy to grant use of facilities by Negroes in engineering, law, pharmacy and history. . . Ralph Bunche turns down post of Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern and African Affairs offered by President Truman . . . Georgia leads nation in first lynching in 1949 when Caleb Hill was dragged from a jail cell by two white men who lynched him . . . Bunche named father of the year . . . Russian blockade of Berlin and Western counter-blockade lifted. Wesley A Brown U. S. Navy Ensign, Became first Negro to graduate from U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md. Moss H. Kendrix, originator of National Negro Newspaper Week celebration, initiated a series of Washington, D. C. radio broadcasts of station WWDC called "Civil Rights Inventory" . . Republican-Southern Democrat coalition successfully blocks TaftHartley repeal . . . Joe Louis, retired at Morris Brown college, where the "Joe Louis" gymnasium was named for him . . . Duke Ellington internationally famous composer-conductor, receives Doctor of Music degree from Wilberforce University. . . Nation's first regional education program as conceived by southern governors gets underway with 40 universities and colleges in 13 states registered . . . At Langston University in Oklahoma, the jimcrow law school closed up with only one student enrolled... Alabama Senators vote 23-3 to unmask Klan . . . Ezzard Charles defeated aging Jersey Joe Walcott to claim heavyweight title vacated by Joe Louis, who dominated the ring for 12 years as champ . . . Dowall Davis of the Kansas City Call elected president of the National Negro Newspaper publishers Association at the 10th annual meeting. C. A. Scott editor and, general manager of the Atlanta Daily World, elected to a two-year term of the eight-man board of directors at the confab. Dr. Howard Gregg is suspended at Delaware State . . . Jackie flays communism before House Un-American committee . . . Mob burns home run wild Groveland, Fla. . . . Negro rape-suspect raped in Florida . . . Walter White, Poppy Cannon married . . . Tom Clark nominated for Supreme court . . . police quell disturbance at Capitol swimming pool . . . Court rules new trial for Trenton six . . . Alabama legislature votes to unmask klan . . . NAACP reveals 700,000 Negroes voted in South during '48 election . . . Bunche flays Washington Jim Crow . . . After much controversy Ohio sends Joan Rankin, "Girl Governor," to Washington . . . Texas passes Anti-Lynch Bill . . . President Gray resigns at Florida A and M . . . Ga. Supreme Court rules counties must put Negroes on jury lists . . . Police chief, 14 others arrested in Birmingham Ku Klux Klan probe. Atlanta policeman suspended after kicking, Negro Prisoner . . . Chicago mob attacks home of Negroes who moved into so-called "white neighborhood." . . . Masked mob beats woman in Alamo, Ga Imperial Wizard Green orders Klansmen to unmask . . . Irwin countians sue for equal schools . . . Homes of two Birmingham ministers bombed in Birmingham . . . Mob beats youth in Bainbridge, Georgia...Grand Dragon-Green dies suddenly . . . Atlanta censor bans "Lost Boundaries" . . . President Colston resigns at Georgia State . . . University of Texas accepts first Negro student. Paul Roberson returns to Peekskill where state troopers and policeman join veterans and youngsters in second riot . . . President P. D of Tuskegee, raps white Birmingham editor for ing his name in housing troubles . . . Hollywood is charged with bias for bypassing Negroes . . . Prisoner escapes lynching in Atlanta courtroom Negro vote is decisive in Atlanta election . . . Senator Graham, of North Carolina, appoints Negro to West point . . . $500,000 grant insures new Grady colored hospital . . . Ingram brief is presented UN officials . . . Ezzard Charles returns to Georgia . . . Southern churchwomen blast Talmadge Voter law . . . Mrs. FDR says in Atlanta that Civil Rights are needed today . . . Prominent Winston Howard shot and killed in Pershing hotel, of which he was part owner by his partner, Charles Cole . . . Moron is inaugurated at Hampton. . . Nehru in Chicago speech says inequality is cause of war . . . Benjamin Mays voted alumnus of year by Chicago school . . . Walden answer Talmadge attack on Irwin county school suit . . . Pennsylvania railroad ends Jim Crow on its lines . . . Eleven Red leaders are Nehru seen as more to allay race suspicion . . . Baltimore judge upholds regional school pact . . . Atlanta Negro Police mount new cars . . . U. S. Justice department files brief supporting Elmer Henderson's contention that segregation is discrimination . . . Patterson reelected head of United Negro College Fund drive . . . Dr. H. V. Richardson installed as Gammon prexy . . . NAACP turns down demand to fire Walter White . . . William Hastie, Governor of Virgin Islands, named judge of Third U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals . . MMississippi school turns down Mississippi school turns down premacy . . . WERD, first Negroowned Radio station begins operation. Army defies intergration order — Dr. M.F. Whittaker president of S. C. State, dies . . . Forrester Washington proposes non-J Crow social work schools at fiery regional meeting . . . Earl Brown defeats Benjamin Davis . . . Talmadge forces seek repeat of GA. vote law . . . Dr. Ferbee succeeds Mrs. Bethune as head of National Council of Negro Women . . . Frat conference repeals bias clause . . . Victor E. Crichton, is first Negro president of Columbia university freshman class . . . Dr. Bunche takes South to ask in West palm Beach speech . . . Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, fabulous showman and famous dancer, dies at age of 71 in New York City . . . Negroes, in several Georgia counties file petitions asking equal school facilities for their children . . . Blind Claxton, Ga., woman flogged by band of hooded white men . . . Strayer committee says seven million dollars needed for three Georgia Negro colleges . . . Mistrial declared in Rome flogging case . . . Bham zoning laws held illegal . . . Harper named to seventh term as Atlanta NACCP head . . . Macon firemen seek injunction to halt rail union discrimination . . . Mistrial declared in B'ham flogging probe . . . Dedication exercise held for Atlanta "Whiteway" . . . Jim Crow issue causes two walkouts at City Auditorium. . . Racial discrimination ruled out of housing . . . . Minnesota governor issued order opening of Minnesota National Guard to Ne. . . . Augusta Negroes lose their bid for seats on City Council . . . Dr. Ferbee succeeds Mrs. Bethune as NCNW president . . . Congressman Dawson elected vicechairman of Democratic National Committee . . . Hastie sworn in as Federal court judge . . . Alabama church quits Federal Council of Churches after the latter takes Stand on segregation . . . Florida parents file $100,000 equal education suit . . . Minister flogged in Claxton . . . Fulton DeKalb Hospital authorities approve $1,439,609 Contract for construction of 150-bed private Negro hospital . . . Department of Records and Research at Tuskegee Institute reports 3 lynchings in 1949. Two occurred in Georgia. Police Dragnet being sought for questioning in the fatal shooting of Benjamin Brown of 358 Cain Street, N. E., Apt. 4. who died of a bullet wound shortly after being rushed to the J. J. Gray emergency clinic at Grady Hospital late Friday night. Homicide Detectives Newton and Preston who were assigned the detail of probing the incident, said the Pate, Georgia school principal was reportedly killed by a wild bullet as two youths in a scuffle for possession of what proved to be the death weapon during an altercation in a drugstore at Auburn and Butler. Rueben Miller, of 22 Butler St., who grappled with the gunman told detectives that "Shorty" had the pistol in his hand when several shots were fired during the tussle. One of the bullets struck the school principal in the back of his head. He died a few minutes after admission to the Grady emergency clinic. POPE PIUS XII AND PILGRIMS CELEBRATE HOLY YEAR leads Holy year pilgrims as they parade in St. Peter's Square as part of the Holy Year celebration in Vatican City, Rome, Long lines of the faithful filed into the Square and the entered the Basilica, the great shrine of the world's 350,000,000 Catholics. () with a red mozzetta, Pope Pius (center)walks through the Holy Door at St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, Rome, for Holy Year prayers. In the role of an humble priest, the Pontiff led thousands through the door. His visit was a Holy Year requirement. Chivers Consultant At Famcee Family Clinic Jan. 7-8 On January 7 and 8 The Social Science Department is sponsoring a Family Clinic under the direction of Robert H. Smith, who joined the A. and M. faculty after completing work for the Master's Degree at the University of Illinois. The theme for the clinic will be followed by questions from the audience: Williams N. Smith, Psychologist, who has completed all residence requirements for the doctorate degree at New York University; Dr. Regina M. Goff, Child Education Specialist; Miss T. J. Wheeler, Home Economies; Rev. Father David H. Brooks, Rector St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church-Tallahassee. Walter Chivers, Head, Department of Sociology, Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia will serve as consultant and feature speaker on the afternoon of January 8, 1950. Workmen clearing away the ruins left by a bomb have unearthed the remains of four churches, all built on the same site. The first church was built on piles and dates from the Eight Century. The second was erected about the middle of the Eleventh Century, while the third, showing Gothic, characteristics, was built about 1772. Although Anton Henry Albert has been dead for 26 years, people still recieve Christmas presents from him Albert left $16,000—the bulk of his life savings—and directed that earnings from the money be distributed every year at Christmas time to the people over 70 and in need. Checks of cases of infantile paralysis in any to 29 of Spokane's elderly citizens. Elevator man in New York spends most of Christmas stuck between the floors. FOUR CHURCHES ON SAME SITE On January 7 and 8 The Social Science Department is sponsoring a Family Clinic under the direction of Robert H. Smith, who joined the A. and M. faculty after completing work for the Master's Degree at the University of Illinois. The theme for the clinic will be followed by questions from the audience: Williams N. Smith, Psychologist, who has completed all residence requirements for the doctorate degree at New York University; Dr. Regina M. Goff, Child Education Specialist; Miss T. J. Wheeler, Home Economies; Rev. Father David H. Brooks, Rector St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church-Tallahassee. Walter Chivers, Head, Department of Sociology, Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia will serve as consultant and feature speaker on the afternoon of January 8, 1950. Workmen clearing away the ruins left by a bomb have unearthed the remains of four churches, all built on the same site. The first church was built on piles and dates from the Eight Century. The second was erected about the middle of the Eleventh Century, while the third, showing Gothic, characteristics, was built about 1772. Although Anton Henry Albert has been dead for 26 years, people still recieve Christmas presents from him Albert left $16,000—the bulk of his life savings—and directed that earnings from the money be distributed every year at Christmas time to the people over 70 and in need. Checks of cases of infantile paralysis in any to 29 of Spokane's elderly citizens. Elevator man in New York spends most of Christmas stuck between the floors. UNUSUAL YULE GIFT On January 7 and 8 The Social Science Department is sponsoring a Family Clinic under the direction of Robert H. Smith, who joined the A. and M. faculty after completing work for the Master's Degree at the University of Illinois. The theme for the clinic will be followed by questions from the audience: Williams N. Smith, Psychologist, who has completed all residence requirements for the doctorate degree at New York University; Dr. Regina M. Goff, Child Education Specialist; Miss T. J. Wheeler, Home Economies; Rev. Father David H. Brooks, Rector St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church-Tallahassee. Walter Chivers, Head, Department of Sociology, Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia will serve as consultant and feature speaker on the afternoon of January 8, 1950. Workmen clearing away the ruins left by a bomb have unearthed the remains of four churches, all built on the same site. The first church was built on piles and dates from the Eight Century. The second was erected about the middle of the Eleventh Century, while the third, showing Gothic, characteristics, was built about 1772. Although Anton Henry Albert has been dead for 26 years, people still recieve Christmas presents from him Albert left $16,000—the bulk of his life savings—and directed that earnings from the money be distributed every year at Christmas time to the people over 70 and in need. Checks of cases of infantile paralysis in any to 29 of Spokane's elderly citizens. Elevator man in New York spends most of Christmas stuck between the floors. LAFF-A-DAY "Why, Marvin Slink. I hardly recognized you without your glasses."