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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1941-08-30
Norman Henderson
Held On Pigeon
Dropping Charge

Norman Jack Henderson, well
known local character was being
held on charge of Pigeon Drop
ping after being arrested on COM
plant of Miss Mary Maxon of 1871
Barrett Street, who drew her saw
ings from the Post Office and
turned it over to Norman and his
accomplice, who promised to divide
large sum of money with her that
they had found in an old pocket
book. Henderson's accomplice was
Tollie Peoples, who came to- Jack
son sometime ago. He is also being
held by the police.
Henderson, who has a somewhat
lengthy criminal record was sent
to the Federal Penitentiary from
Jackson about three years ago on
a charge of robbing the United
States mail.
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Rev. J. c.. Austin
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onslaught This mistreatment OF
soldiers must stop lest America di-
vide against itself falls to pieces
in its morale.
"As commander-in-chief of the
army, we believe it to be your
duty to take immediate action and
guarantee full and complete pro-
lection to all soldiers regardless of
color or section of the country in
which they are being trained.
cit is tragic reflection on our
nation that many Negroes in the
North are mortally afraid to be sent
to any of the southern camps.
These men feel that they have no
assurance that even the uniform Of
thir country will protect them
against insults and violences. Many
Negroes of the north would rather
be sent to Europe to face the en-
envy than to be sent to certain
sections of our own country where
they must face like enemies with
theircountry will protect them
selves
'Mr President. immediate steps
should be taken to grant full pro-
hection to these men. Legislation
should be Immediately enacted, if
such legislation is necessary aside
from your own power as CHIEF of
the army, to give the federal power
to punish anyone who in any way
Injuries or insults soldiers of the
I1,,ifoI Cfnfoa
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Tales OF


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is the experience of George Smith,
49, gang boss who was working in
the front of the ship.
II was helping to pull a lighter
alongside the Panuco that had a
government cargo when somebody
yelled about the fire. Me and boy
named Arthur Daniels got down on
the dock and hurried to where the
fire started hoping to put it out.
IT was no one. 1t was too hot. One
fellow already there tried to put
his coat over the valve and turn it
but the heat was awful. The host
was limp.
Daniels and I ran back to the
deck of the ship and warned the
men in the holds. Then we turned
and just had time to get over the
side and hoped on cotton light
er. We figured if we could catch a
rope from the other pier We could
null the lighter over. The rope
thrown to us fell short and the tide
was against us. Only thing we
could do was to jump in the river.
By that time there were others and
it was just like a bunch of rats
the way the men were jumping in
I'VE all tried to reach Pier 26
but you never saw such Scrambling
and pulling in the water because
some could swim and some couldn't.
A few of the boys got pulled out
when they reached the pier but the
flames were licking SO close that
had to swim under the pier to the
other side before I could be pulled
out. Anderson, Watson and Easley
helped me-"
Hilton Anderson's story packed
all the fear and desperation Of any
that was told. Not only that, but
it carried an element of heroism.
AS he lay In bed at st. Peters
hospital, Brooklyn, recovering from
a back injury he calmly told of his
81 uelilllS ehpeIISIlCt.
There were "a of us working in
the three holds in the forward end
of the ship when we found out
about the fire. We could feel the
heat but didn't know how serious
things were. There was a scramble
among the men to get to the sim
gle hatchway, which measured
about Is inches by "a inthes. I was
the third one to come out. When I
got to the top of the hole it was
as black as night from the smoke
all around. The wind was blowing
the smoke and the fire over the
hold and made it hard to get out.
There was no way to go. The only
thing I could do was run for the
port side of the boat and jump in
the river
HELPED MEN OUT OF WATER
"One of the other men jumping
IN behind me struck my back pref
ty hard. 1t hurt too. Fortunately
L NOulO oWAAl, dl1Q uld1l1SCu w lCdCIl
the other pier about 100 feet away.
I helped some of the men as best
I could and pulled myself out OF
the water then dragged six other
men out.
Couldn't pull any more of them
up because my neck was hurting
me and I felt clills. 20 I called for
help. Police came and doctor
from the hospital gave me drink
of whiskey. This made me feel
more chills all over and I got
weaker and sick. I remember them
asking me Some questions at one
time but 1 don't exactly remember
them bringing me to the hospital
l must've been out"
Anderson is married and has
child nearly two years old. The
Sunday before this disaster, his
wife, Catherine, underwent an op-
Grafton at Harlem hospital.
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for the citizens of America, | am
appealing to you.
Negroes above all other citi-
zens are anxious to destroy Facism
and Nazism, for the reason they
have suffered at the hands of il
through the years in this their
own country. Please give Negro
mothers the reinsurance, and please
give encouragement to the Negro
soldiers by making it definitely
known now that full protection
will be given to those who wear the
uniform in any and all parts of
or country and the United States
government will prosecute and
punish anyone who would in any
way tear down the morale of our
fighting forces
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Christians Rescue
Continued from Page II


the moral conditions of men, wo-
men, boys and girls of every COM
munity.
Most obstinate cases have al
ready come to attention of the
Christian Rescue Mission Workers.
Stun life, degrading activities of
the present day youth have proven
to be a great problem to the Chris
tan World. Occasionally, a
drunkard can be persuaded to alb
stain-a worldly woman or girl
given a respectable home, or a res
pectable home given to travelling
minister in the night.
Colored people do not have such
organizations as the Salvation Army
to advance good moral ideas to
the outside world. Church circles
work within, but the Christian
Rescue Mission goes into the he'd
ges and into the bywayS and compel
them to come in. An appeal is now
made to all social and civic or
CARNATIONS to unite their efforts
with them and push this fight for
one common cause. Their motto:
Never too late to do Good"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1941-08-30
ASKS REAL NEW DEAL

Let Christianity no longer
regarded as sham and joke by
reason of un-Christian practices SO
evident among us. In the name OF
a real New Deal for America and
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IL Pounds

Continued from page II
Silas Lemuel and weigh eight
and nine pounds, making a to-
tai of seventeen pounds.
Mrs. Johnson is the former
Miss Alice Lee Freeman. Of
Atlanta Mother and sons are
doing nicely. There are two
other children in the family.
The attending physician said
these are the largest twins in
his practice.
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-07-25
JAPANESE
 RE5ENTING
 U. POLICY
Newspapers Print Sfdfe- ments Made by Roose-
 veIf on Far East Issue

TOKYO, July Evidences of official and popular resentment of the United States attitude toward Japan is increasing as the news papers gave great prominence to statements made by American Pres- ident Franklin D. Roosevelt.
 The Government officials, it is understood, are closely studying re- marks which the President is said to have made regarding possible revocation of the rights of Japan to secure oil from the United States.
 One newspaper devotes the first page to the Presidents utterances.
 References to the French Indo- China situation have been elimin- ated from all Japanese newspapers and they have not yet been per- mitted to discuss the program of bases in Indo-C China, not even the movement of troops to that area.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-07-25
By JACK sTINNETT

WASHINGTON. July 25 Con- gressmen and a good many other government officials have their noses to the defense grindstone, but, like little boys in school when they hear the first notes of the circus calliope, they are casting eyes out the window.
 In the case of Congress, ct al, the glance is toward Texas and what they are wondering is will Gov. w. Lee O'Daniel, newly elected Senator (to fill the seat of the late Sen. Morris Sheppard) try to play the same topsy-turvy with national politics that he has as two-time Governor of his state.
 About three years ago, com paratively unknown flour man who never had held public office jumped into the Texas political arena with both feet; six-piece "hill-billy" orchestra; wife daughter and two sons who cam paigned with him; sound truck and frequent radio programs.
 He announced his platform was
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-07-25

WASHINGTON = Those present are keeping mum about it, but Ad- ministration leaders almost had to call out the riot squad to get the Senate Military Affairs Committee to report out the War Departments draft property" bill. The com promise bill was approved only after what one Senator privately described as the ewildest committee meeting l ever attended" He wasn't exagger- ating.
 For a time, while debate was at its hottest. the closed-door session SC em e d like a waterfront braWl. Members threw senatorial dignity to the winds and all but slugged it out over the Army's demand for author ity to draft property for defense.
 Two Democrats, Sheridan Downey California's ives and noer" on for eign affairs and Happy" Chandler, militant anti-isolationist Kentuck- ian, almost did throw punches.
 It started when Wayne Coy. head of the Office of Emergency Manage ment. came from the White House with draft of the property seizure bill, which, it developed, was vir- tual facsimile of the War Depart ment's drastic original bill. There
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-07-25
FIGHTING WORDS.

Senator Styles Bridges of New Hampshire, another COP anti-isola- tionist, exclaimed:
 If the President wants national unity and support from Republicans, he'd better give this bill back to the War Department"
 Downey and several others also joined in the attack. Meanwhile Chandler, in charge of the legisla- ton, kept shouting at the top of his voice:
 Property is no more sacred than human life. If the President has power to draft men for the Army, he also should have the right to draft property"
 The big blowoff came when Dow ney yelled, ''This bill means revo- lution."
 I'm surprised" shot back the truculent Chandler, that a re- sponsible member of the Senate would make such a wholly irrespon- sible and absurd statement. don't think man of your position should be loosely predicting revolution 4 q 4 fl
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-07-25
President Declares Specific Retaliation 10 Be An-
 nounted Tomorrow .ExACT MOVES ARE
 NOT TOLD NEWSMEM
Freezing of Credits, Assets Considered Inevitable
 Is General Belief

HYDE PARK, N. r., July 25 = President Franklin D. Roosevelt disclosed today that the United States would retaliate by specific action tomorrow against Japan's occupation of naval and air bases in French Indo- China.
 The President told the newsmen , at a conference that something will come out of Washington tomorrow but he would not say exactly just what.
 The most likely move appeared to be freezing of Japanese credits and assets in the United States.
 Drastic Measures
 Many persons, 1t is learned here, consider the step as inevitable and whether the United States is ready to take additional measures appear to be waiting for future determina- tion, it all depending how the in ternational situation develops on the Pacific.
 To the question as to whether events in the Far East have sharo- ly accentuated the dangers in the international situation the Presi- dent suggested that the answer could be put in this way, that events in the Far East are bring ing greater warning to public dangers in the present world situ- ation.
 I' To Change Policy
 In Washington, late yesterday, the President intimated that re- voking the policy under which this Government has been letting Japan
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-07-25
MAY PLACE BAN ON OIL
 T0JApANE5E
Extraordin dry Counter Measures Planned in
 Far East Situation

WASHINGTON, July 25-Aban- donment of the two-year-old policy of giving Japan access to United States oil in order to prevent ag- gressive action in the Pacific was late yesterday considered as dis tinct possibility now that the Jap anese forces have moved southward to occupy the strategic military bases in French Indo-China.
 Informed quarters agreed tha extraordinary counter measures are in the making as the result of the affair.
 Measures designed to express this country's opposition to action al- ready taken, as well as any fur ther Japanese steps in the direc- tion of Singapore, The Netherlands East Indies and the Philippines.
 Capitol Hill heard increasingly and frequent speculation on the use of the Navy to safeguard Am erican Far Eastern interests while immediate prospects were for some
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-07-25
BASES OF
 NAzI5ARE
 SET Al .A|!F|IRE
Royal Air Force Blasts Kie| and Emden, Also War;
 ious AirfieIds

LONDON, July 25-Great damage and number of large fires were caused by the R.AF. on German bases at Kiel and Emden as the English hammered the Baltic and North Sea military centers in a series of intensive night raids, an- nounced the British Air Ministry today.
 Other squadrons of British air planes blasted the airfields at Will helmshaven and Rotterdam as fierce offensive warfare was waged on all the major airdromes in oc- cupied France.
 Thirty-three German planes was the number shot down, declared the British Air Ministry. to five British planes downed by the de- lenders.
 Daylight attacks were also made on the 26,000-ton battleships Scharnhorst and Gneivenau. r
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-07-25
Indo-China Thrust Merely Start of Nipponese
 March South MANDATE OF FRANCE
 REFUSES PROTECTION
Emperor's $ Order BIatkouf of All Merchant
 Ships Radios
tBy ASSOCIATED PREss)

Japan's dream of the conquest of the Pacific moved toward grim reality today with reported mo- bilization of million men. At sea her ships, blanked out by silence. have turned away from American shores.
 British dispatches from Singapore said Frances colony of Indo- China has ignored recent offer of pro- lection by the British, United States, China and the Dutch East Indies against further encroach- ments from the outside"
 In Rome editor Gayda declared the Indo-C China thrust is the first episode of Japan's march to the south and was undertaken with the full agreement of the other Axis powers.
 Warships Near Singapore
 Dispatches from Saigon said con- sessions gained by Japan from In- do-China include the right to sta- tion warships in the strategic Cam ranch Bay on the southeast Indo- Chinese coast 800 miles from Sin gapore. Moreover. reports said the Japanese may station warships in the river port of Saigon and ob- tain several air bases in southern Indo-C China.
 Foreign intelligence reports reach ing Shanghai said the Japanese mobilization is the greatest since July. 1887, when the war with China began. Progress of the mobilization since July IT is still continuing with troops destinations being kept secret, but advance contingents are expected to occupy the newly won
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-07-25

was a brief pause after the bill was read-and then the battle began.
 All the Republican members and three Democrats, including Downey, jumped from their chairs hotly charging that the War Department was trying to put over fast one, and demanding that Coy take the bill back to the White House. Ordi- narily reserved, Senator Warren Austin of Vermont, a strong sup porter of the Presidents foreign policies, wrothily declared that he would not Ego along" on this legisla- ton, giving the President blanket powers to seize property"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-07-25
Eyes of Congress Are on
 Texas and New Role 10 Be
 Played byW. Lee 0 Daniel

the Ten Commandments and his motto, the Golden Rule. His polit- ical power was $30-a-month pension for folks over 65, talk of economy and a lot more talk about "the professional politi- cians." But with that, he blasted his way into the Governors. man. sion at Austin.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-07-25
ADMITTED HIS FAILURE

His inaugural was held in the University of Texas football sta- dium and the crowd was reported at 50000. Two years later he ran again, using almost the same tac- tics. but adding to it the frank admission that he had been a fail- ure and asking the people to keep him in office so he could whip the legislature and the professional politicians" into line. Once more it was ODaniel all the way.
 Last month, by a margin so mar row Oess than HOO votes) that 1t won't be official until another can-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-07-25
Leningrad Threatened by Finnish Forces from
 North, South
NAzI DIVISION AT K
 BORDER WIPED OUT
Russian Air Force Turns Back Night Air Raid
 on Moscow

BERLIN, July 25-The German. High Command today reiterated that the current offensive against Russia is continuing according to plan despite stiff fighting" h. formed sources said the battles are marked by Russian orders to de- fend the Stalin line at Smolensk ! to the last man.
 Military spokesmen announced that Finnish forces are threatening the Leningrad to Murmansk rail- way northeast of Leningrad, hav- ing forced a passage between the former Russian capital and Lake Ladoga. F
 Also reported are threats to Len ingrad from the southwest an d southeast where it is said German units are making steady progress on both sides of Lake Peipus and Lake linen, each about 13O miles from Leningrad
 The German High Commands brief summary of action on the Eastern Front added, "a large num- Der of prisoners of war and ma terial are being captured daily Individual planes bombed military objectives during the night in the eastern part of Moscow and north of the Kremlin"
 NAZI DIVISION MASSACRED
 MOSCOW, July 25-Soviet troops defending the road to Moscow arc reported here today to have wiped out an entire German infantry di- vision near Smolensk.
 Further war bulletins in the Soviet capital said the air defense is credited officially with beating off the fourth successive night at tack of the Luftwaffe on civilian areas in Moscow.
 Bitter battles, war communiquc said, continued all night. not only at Smolensk but also in the Zhito- mir sector west of Kiev, the Pet rozavoosk sector on the Finnish front north of Lake Ladoga and the Porkhov, Nevel and Polotsk areas south of Leningrad. In all sectors the Russians are said to be battling stubbornly.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-07-25

John Secrest had recovered suf- ficiently from a mine injury to bt dismissed from St. Ann's Hospita this forenoon.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-07-25
FAIRBANKS AREA DESIGNATED NEW
 DEFENSE REGION
Means Operative Builders May Sell Houses With-
 out Down Payment

WASHINGTON. July 25.-Presi- dent Roosevelt has approved of 2l localities as defense areas, including Fairbanks, Alaska, in which the Fed eral Housing Administration may insure mortgages in amounts suf- ficient to permit operative builders to sell houses without any down payment.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-07-25

BUY DEFENSE STAMPS
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BUY DEFENSE BONDS
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tCOntiAued on Page Four,
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E.nd Of ar cccnom'c "ction.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-05
Who Wants Dog Racing?
nant of the

DoG racing is racket disappearing remnant of the
II gangster era. . f..
1t outlawed in all but few states and in these
its future legal status is precarlous.
Michigan legislators should remember this when the
bill to egalze this shoddy form of gambling before
the House of Representatives Tuesday.
They face The fact that il is racket conceived
and exploited by gangsters and that nowhere in this
nation is the business now considered sport
Reports from Lansing indicate the measure has
strong support the House, where the proposed law
has been approved three times in the past.
low does Floyd Fitzsmmons, promoter of the bill,
l l obtain this hypnotic power over the lawmakers?
The public does not want dog tracks scattered
through the state enrchng promoters at the eXpense'o
the DOOR Aside from the sponsors nowhere in Michigan
is there anybody with good word for the bill.
1t has no public support. Yet for some mysterious
reason the apparently leapng toward passage
SIDE from the gambling interests behind the nuisance,
a the bill is a bad because of the manner in which
the dogs are trained and handled. The Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty Animals correct in its vigorous
campaign to defeat 1t.
Ii is a gambling game, and nothing else.
The Legislature should kill the bill promptly and de-
vote the few remaining weeks of the session to the many
of real Importance to the people of Michigan