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Conferences - ( According to an article in the Washington American on May 26, | #045, the 62nd annual session of the’ Washington Wethodist Conference was held y} during the previous week at the Ames Church in Washington, D.C. At that con- ference, a resolution was adopted which requested Hospital in Wash- ington abandon its policy of racial discrimination ag t+ patients. This resolution was adopted following the report of a conference committee on the incident which occurred on December 22, 1944, when a yomg colored mother was refused admittance to the hospital, and had given birth to a baby on the side~ walk within one-half a block of the hospital. Consideration was given to the appointment of a committee to investi- gate treatment of colored people in ethodist hospitals, including Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore, where ataff does not accept colored bed patients. ; . CHARLEY CHEROXEE reported in the Chicago "Defender™ on June 9, 1945, that the Natfonartowicfl of Negro Democrats gathered in the District of Columbia on June § and 9, 1945, that the members had for consideration a memo- randum which they took up before the election in 1944, in which they asked for various things but had not received very many of them. Moreover, the Council was considering an inquiry to Representative DAWSON of Illinois to ask him why he had not taken a more active position in party leadership. Courts An editorial appeared in the Washington "Tribme" on Jme 2, 1945, - entitled "Supreme Court Blunder,® which stated in part as follows: "The United States Court struck a blow at democracy hy refusing to review © of Mrs. CLARA » 2313 First Street, N. W., who is seeking through the highest co permission te remain in her first street home, which she purchased last year. Counsel for Mrs. MAYES are poanning on seeking a re-hearing before the highest tribunal. If that fails, Mra. MAYES would have to move from and sell her home solely because she is a member of the negro race. "tEgual Justice Under Law!