Negro Teachers Lose Mandamus Plea In Salary Equality Fight
Negro principals and teachers in Norfolk, led by Aline Elizabeth Black, lost a mandamus bid to force the city school board to pay black educators equal salaries to white teachers with same qualifications. Judge A R Hanckel ruled the board has discretionary power in setting wages and denied the petition. Lawyers for the plaintiffs announced an appeal to the Virginia Supreme Court.
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Norfolk City School Board
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Circuit Court
Aline Elizabeth Black
Booker T. Washington High School
Thurgood Marshall
Baltimore
69 Fifth Avenue
New York City
Leon A. Ransom
Washington
Virginia State Supreme Court of Apt
Hanckel
Supreme Court of the United States
Alfred Anderson
Jonathan W. Old, Jr
United States
Virginia State Teachers Association
Virginia
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Governor appoints seven to budget advisory board
Richmond June 1 Governor Price named seven General Assembly members to serve on his budget advisory board. The panel will help prepare revenue estimates and fund allocations for the 1940 1942 biennium. Notable changes include replacing Lt Governor Holt with Sen Robert W Daniel and Delegate T B Stanley with Delegate Berkeley D Adams.
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General Assembly
Saxon W. Holt
Newport News
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Stapletown
Berkeley D. Adams
Charlotte County
A. Garrett
Henry
Senate
Finance Committee
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Front Royal
House
Ashton Dovell
Williamsburg
Frank Moore
Lexington
House Appropriations Committee
William N. Neff
Abingdon
Garrett
United States
Holt
Weaver
Assembly
Daniel
Senate Finance Committee
Neff and
Adams
Orchard Soil Experiments Considered
Blacksburn Virginia June 1. Experiments show organic fibre in orchard soils profits from mineral fertilizers. Dr. Hofmann reports rye cover responds to calcium cyanamide alone and with acid phosphate and potash, yielding major growth increases and apparent profit.
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Blacksburg
Fred W. Hofmann
Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station
Hof Mann
Morton to Seek Funds for Virginia Apprenticeship Council
Richmond June 1 Thomas B Morton state commissioner of labor and secretary of the Virginia apprenticeship council said he would recommend the next legislature provide at least six thousand dollars to carry on the council s work The act creating the council carried no appropriation and Morton said lack of funds has hindered organizational progress He hopes money will allow a council representative to organize local apprenticeship committees Homer L Ferguson chairman of Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company heads the council.
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Thomas B. Morton
Virginia Apprenticeship Council
Morton
Council
Homer L. Ferguson
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company
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