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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-01-01
Shoppin' Aroun'
BY E. M. B.

If you're interested in discovering
six ways to luxurious comfort, have
a squint at the original Six Way
Pillow on display at the Kootenai
Mercantile. It is light as a feath-
er, pretty as picture and skillful
in design. What | liked especially
about it was its button and draw
string feature enabling the user to
make the pillow comfortably firm
or restfully soft . good meanS to
|soothe tired husband who must
wait for his dinneri While at the
K. M do stop in their hardware de-
partment and see that beautiful
Aladdin kerosene lamp for country
dWellers and those Coronet buffet
travs of mahogany effect wood
look expensive but aren't.
For something above the ordinary
in mems toilet sets see those Yard
ley of London sets for men at
Hough's. They have some dandy
ones in nice. mannish looking boxes
with tweed effect lining shaw
ling bowl with soap, after shave To-
ton and invisible tale in striking
silver. modernistic cpntainer with
handsome gold top
Wonders never cease--and these
are new ones to me-Silverice Balls
to be used instead of ice cubes!
The balls are silver. filled with
| filtered water and are to be put
into the freezing compartment and
when frozen dropped in liquids
biggest point in their favor is that
they chill without diluting. They
can be washed and used over again
and again. None of the sparkle of
| a beverage is killed nor is the most
| delicate flavor affected by Silverice
they're good for chilling butter,
fruits. olives. celery and milk too.
AT Welch's Jewelry and Gift Shop.
Want some really heavy book
ends that are beautiful as we'll as
serviceable-see those made of cop
per at Libby Pharmacy. In this
same copper, there are also some
most attractive ash trays and or
naments-also some copper and
glass arrangements for trays.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-01-01
FOE RENT

Modern cabins fer reHt7-The
Gables. 1t
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-15

sighed. It'll be easy"
ut won't. I'll get caught. But it
dent make no difference. I'm lost
any how. l was lost when / took
up with you. I'm lost and it don't
matter. Come on
he led her back to the car stop.
He said nothing as they waited in
the whirling snow. When he heard
the car coming, he took her purse
from her. opened it and put the
flashlight inside The car stopped;
he helped her on, put seven cents
in her trembling hand and stood
in the snow watching her black
face through the window white
with ice as the car moved off
slowly through the night.
He walked to Dalton's through
the snow. His right hand was in
his coat pocket, his fingers about
the kidnap note. When he reached
the driveway, he looked about the
street carefully. There was NO one.
He looked at the house; it was
white, huge, silent. He walked up
the steps and stood in front of the
door He waited a moment to see
what would happen. So deeply
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-15
NAACP Denies
Sending Money
For Elections
Officials Amused
At Charges Made
BY 5. Carolinians

NEW YORK-"T'here is no truth
in the statement of Judge Eugene
S. Blease that the NAACP is
sending money into South Carolina
to control the election" the As
ISOLATION stated this week, saying
that Association officials were
amused on reading the politicians
assertions made during his CAM
paign for the office of U. S.
Senator.
1.-THE Association does not and
never has gone into state elec-
tions," it was stated at the New
York headquarters. 1--WE do not
have 5000 to send anywhere, much
less to send to a state like South
Carolina to try to control an cleo.
ton.
"Judge Blease is obviously con-.
fused, and probably had in mind
the aggressive action of the Column.
bia, Sc, NAACP which has rails
ed $1,000 to promote its fight
/ against the exclusion of Negroes
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-15

conscious was he Of violating dam
gerous taboo, that he felt that the
very air or sky would suddenly
speak, commanding him to stop.
He was sailing fast into the face
of a cold wind that all but sucked
his breath from him; but he liked
it. Around him were silence and
night and snow falling, falling as
though it had fallen from the be-
ginning of time and would always
fall till the end Of the world. He
took the letter out of his pocket and
slipped it under the door. Turn
ing, he ran down the steps and
round the house. 1 done It! done
it now! They'll see it tonight Or
in the morning. He went to
the basement door. opened it and
looked inside; no one was there.
Like an enraged beast, the furnace
throbbed with heat, suffusing red
glare over. everything. He stood in
front of the cracks and watched
the restless embers. Had Mary
burned completely? He wanted to
poke round in the Goals to see, but
dared not; he tlinched from it
even in thought. He pulled the
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-15
NATIVE SON
By RICHARD WRIGHT

TO room at the front of the
house 1t was feebly lit from the
street lamps outside; he switched
off the flashlight and looked around.
The room had six large windows.
BY standing close to any of them,
the streets in all four directions
were visible.
See, Bessie He turned to
look at her and found that she was
not there. He called tensely: "Bes-
SER There was no answer; he
bounded to the doorway and
switched on the flashlight. She
was leaning against wall sob
bling. He went to her, caught her
arm and yanked her back into the
rCon.
Come on! You got to do better
, than this"
lid rather have you kill me
right now" she sobbed.
Don't you say that againl"
She was silent. His black open
palm swept upward in swift mar
row arc and smacked solidly against
her face.
You want me to wake you up?"
She bent her head to her knees;
he caught hold of her arm and
again dragged her to the window.
He spoke like a man who had been
running and was out of breath
Now, look All you got to do is
come here tomorrow night, see?
Amt nothing going to bother you
I'm seeing to everything. Don't
you worry none You just do what
/ say. You come here and watch
About twelve o'clock a CARL come
along. It'll be blinking it's head
lights, see? Like this. Remember
that. Then watch that car. It'll
throw out a package Watch that
package, cause the moneyll be in
it. It'll go into the snow. Look
and see if anybody's about. If you
see nobody, then go and get the
package and go home. But don't
| go straight home. Make sure no
! DOdy 5 Watching you, nODOQy'S IOl-
| lowing you, see? Ride three or four
street cars and transfer fast. Get
off about five blocks from home and
look behind you as you walk, see i?
| Now look You Can see up ano
down Michigan and Thirty sixth,
You can see if anybody's watching
I'll be in the white folks house all
day tomorrow. If they put any
body out to watch, I'll let you
know not to come"
Bigger -"
Come on, now"
Take me home.''
you going to do it?"
She did not answer
you already in it," he said 'You
got part of the money" II reckon
it don't make no difference" she
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-15
Noted Agriculturalist
Passes Away At Hampton

HAMPTON, Vas N STU
neral services for j. B. Pierce, u
U. Department of Agriculture re-
gional field agent, were held here
where he died following an opera
ton at Dixie hospital.
Mr.. Pierce, who neared the
completion of SO years in the De-
partment, was busy with the Food
for-Freedom program when he be-
came i'll. He had been. determined
that the goals set by Secretary of
Agriculture Claude r. Wickard
should be reached. And in the
interest of the program had travel
ed throughout the northern tier of
the Southern states, his region urg-
ing farmers to increase their food
production.
REGRETS PASSING
Upon being informed of Mr..
Pierce's death, Secretary Wickard,
said, with the passing of j. B.
Pierce, the Department loses one
of it's best field men. He was loyal
and conscientious in his work, and
during the So years that he served
the Department much was done in
the way of improving farming
methods, health and living condi-
tionS among Negro farmers. We
will miss him, and his race will
miss him."
Mr.. Pierce, a native OF Green
vile, Ala, was a graduate of Tus-
kegee and Hampton Institutes. He
taught brick masonry in North
Carolina and agriculture at Hamp-
ton institute before being appoint
ed farm demonstration agent in
Norfolk and adjoining counties in
Virginia by former Secretary of
Agriculture James Wilson in 1906.
The appointment was made upon the
recommendation of DR.. Seaman
Knapp, founder of Cooperative Ex-
tentlOn Service, and upon the adj
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vice of Booker T. Washington and
DR.. H. B. Frissell, former president
of Hampton.
LAID FOUNDATION
When Mr.. Pierce received his ap-
pointment there was only one other
Negro, T. M Campbell, doing farm
demonstration work. Together they
helped lay the foundation for Ex-
ension work among Negro farmers.
During those early years Mr..
Pierce Travelled from farm to farm
in a buggy, not only teaching new
farming methods, but also en-
phasizing health and sanitation.
Beginning with only few counties,
his area finally extended to eight
states. West Virginia, Maryland,
Virginia, North and South Caro-
lima, Tennessee, Kentucky, and
Arkansas, with headquarters at
Hampton institute, Hampton, Va.
NOW SIS WORKERS
Largely because this pioneer help
ed to show how farm demonstra-
ton work could be effective means
of aiding Negro farmers, today
there are 555 trained Negro Ex-
tension farm and home demonStra-
ton agents scattered throughout the
Southern states, serving more than
10000 Negro farmers. He was also
instrumental in helping to extend
All club activities to Negro boys
and girls. Latest figures show that
there are $4,000 colored youths en-
rolled in All club work.
In recognition of the excellent
work done by Mr.. Pierce and Mr..
Campbell, ceremonial service was
held in their honor last November
upon their completion of IS years
in the Department. During the
ceremonial a special tribute was
paid them. by Secretary Wickard
and Director of Extension M. l..
Wilson.
Among the Department repre-
sentatives who attended the funeral
were Charles A. Sheffield, white
Extension field agent; and T. M.
Campbell, Extension field agent
with headquarters at Tuskegee.
Burial was at Hampton. Mr..
Pierce is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Beatrice Pierce, two sons and
daughter.
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War Work To Continue
At West Virginia State

INSTITUTE, w. Va-tSNS)-
The activities of the West Virginia
State College will not stop with
the Summer Convocation on Aug
ust Is.
The war training services will
continue their 24-hour schedule of
three eight hour shifts which in
clude the radio communications
and radio repair and maintenance
courses, the classes for welders for
the shipbuilding industry.
President John w. Davis an
nounced a twelve point war pro-
gram which offers extraordinary
opportunities for both young men
and young women students. The
Enlisted Reserve Corps, which de-
fers students from military service
until they have completed their
college work, has left approximate
ly 200 vacancies.
/ The Field Artillery Senior Unit
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INSTALLMENT "a

I'D rather do anything but this, F"
she said.
"Stop now. We're in it."
Bigger, honey, I'd run off with
you I'd work for you, baby. We
don't have to do this. Don't you
believe I love you?"
Don't try that on me now"
The car came. he helped her on
and sat down beside her and looked
past her face at the silent snow fly
in gwhite and wild outside the
window. He brought his eyes
farther round and looked at her;
she was staring with blank eyes
like a blind woman waiting for
some word to tell her where she was
going. Once she cried and he
F! gripped her shoulder so tightly that
she stopped, more absorbed in the
painful pressure of Steel-like fin
gers than in her fate. They got
off at Thirty-sixth Place and walk
ed over to Michigan Avenue. When
they reached the corner, Bigger
stopped and made her stop by grip
ping her arm again. They were in
front of the high, white, empty
building with black windows.
Where we golng::"
Right here"
Bigger" she whimpered.
Come OH, now Don't start that!'
But l don't want to-
you got to-"
He looked up and down the street
past ghostly lamps that shed long
series of family shimmering cones
OF yellow against the snowy night
He took her to the front entrance
which gave into vast pool of inky
silence. He brought out the flash
light and focused the round spot
on rickety stairway leading up
ward into still blacker darkness
The plafks creaked as he led hel
up. Now and then he felt his shoes
SINK into a soft, cushy substance
CobWebs brushed his face. AL
around him was the damp smell O.
rottlng timber. He stopped abrupt
ly as something with dry whispering
feet fitted across his path, emitting
as the rush of it's flight died a thin
piping wall of lonely fear. "Ooow!'
Bigger whirled and centered the
spot OF light on Bessie's face. Her
lips were drawn back, her mouth
was open, and her hands we're lift
ed midway to white-rimmed eyes.
What are you trying to do?" he
asked. Tell the whole world we
are here?"
ooh, Bigger!'
Come on!"
After a few feet he stopped and
swung the light. He saw dusty
walls, walls almost like those of the
Dalton home, The doorways were
WIDER than those of any house in
which he had ever lived. Some rich
Iolks lived there once, he thought.
Rlch white folks. That was the wav
most houses on the South Side
were, ornate, old, sinking: homes
once OF rich white people, now in
habited by Negroes or standing
Ozark and empty with yawning black
WINDOWS. He remembered that
bombs had been thrown bv whites
into homes like these when Negroes
nad first moved into the South Side.
he swept the disc of yellow and
walked gingerly down hall and in
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-15
Was Sought In
Attack On 49,
Year Old Woman

WASHINGTON, D: c. A N p
-Climaxing a fight covering a
period of a year, the case of VII
liam Mason Wellman, %, was de-
cided against him and the de-
PENDANT returned to North Caro-
lima to face rape charge pre-
ferred by a 73-year old white
woman.
On May 81, 194i. Justice F.
Wilkinson Let's ordered the man
turned over to Sheriff John w.
Moore, of StateSville, North Caro-
linaa, but after defense attorney
Edward Berger a few days later
swore out a writ of habeas corpus,
Sheriff Moore was ordered TO re-
turn Wellman here.
At a subsequent hearing, Justice
Alan Goldsborcugh heard test
mony from a tfme-keeper at Fol
Belvoir. Va, where Wellman work
ed to the effect that Wellman was
at work at the time of the alleg-
ed attack in North Carolina.
The testimony was contributed
by the complainant and a Negrr
woman who identified Wellman 81
the attacker.
When Justice Goldshorough rrll.
ed the conflict could be resolved
only by the trial court in North
Carolina and orderG Wellman ex
tradited, the case was taken t.,
the court of appeals which uphelG
Justice Goldsborough
Leon Ransome, general coun-
sci for the NAACP, participated il
the defense before the appeal!
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-15
Jimmy Blanton Of
Dukes Band Dies

LOS ANGELES-(A N P)-Jimmy
Blanton, 22-year-old former bass
player in Duke Ellingtons orches-
ira, died at the Outdoor Life and
Health association Sanitarium in
Duarte last evening. He had been
there and at other local hospitals
Tor nearly year, suffering with
tuberculosis.
He was native of Chattanooga.
Tenn. The body was shipped by
Angelus Funeral home back there
Sunday.
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of the Reserve Officers Training
Corps will give openings to 400
men to enroll for officers educa-
ton
The college and the r. o. T. c.
Band with 100 pieces of musical
instruments will give training to
that number of students in the
field of band music.
The Engineering, Science. Man.
agement War Training now operat.
ing in the college, will give stu
dents, taking certain courses lead
ing to the fields of engineering
chemistry. physic. mathematics and
production supervision, training
without tuition charges.
The United States government is
also offering loans to persons en-
rolled in the above courses, plus
pre-medicine, veterinary science
pharmacy and dentistry of not
more than $4,000 per II months. =
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-15

This was one of the several reso-
lutions adopted by the various de-
partments of the Ancient Free and
Accepted Scottish Rite Masons OF
America at the close OF their bien-
NAL session neld here.
A copy OF the resolutions was
sent to the President.
The resolutions also called for
better protection for colored SOL
diers in the south and more oppor-
.tunities in National Defense work
for colored citizens.
The body elected John L. Cor
don, grandmother of New Jersey
the president-general of the Gen.
eral Grand Masonic Congress; M
l.. Taylor, to be Imperial Potentate
of the Shriners; O. l.. Pilgrim, OF
New York City, Grand Command
er of the Knights Templars; ano
Lence Richardson, GrandmaSter OF
Ohio, Most Eminent High Priest
of the Royal Arch Masons. Mrs
Georgeanna Robinson of New York
City was returned as Supreme
Grand Matron of the Grand Or
der of the Eastern Star and Mrs
Mary Stillyard of West Va, SUI
preme Counselor of the Daughters
of the Sphinx. Charles H. Isaacs
Grandmaster of Mississippi was
elected Sovereign Grand Command
er of the Supreme Council Lin
wood Roger was chosen again as
the Supreme Attorney General and
Grand Minister of State Grand
masters in attendance in addition
to MeSSrS ISaacs, Gordon and
Richardson were: B. F. Chisolm of
Md, Rev. L. G. Bowman of S. c.;
G. M. Riggs of Mass; and N. M.
BOOzier of Texas.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-15

The lire caused the death of AZ
animals from burns or gunshct
and did damages estimated at more
than 100000. The destroyed ami
mails included elephants, CRATES
camles, lions and tigers.
Adams said Ford implicated an
other former circus employee
known only as Jeff. Both were hir-
ed as roustabouts at Pittsburgh.
lever Tor more coal, then went to
his room.
(TO BE CONTINUED
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-15
Relatives Sought

ATLANTA, (SNS)-
Relatives of Mrs. Sarah Calhoun,
who died in 1888, are being sought
by the management of Hanley Fu-
neral Home. 1t was pointed out
that the estate of the deceased cam
not be closed until relatives are
located.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-15

their home, July %, and dismissed
at Cleveland for laziness. He quot
ed Ford as saying jeff suggested
that they throw lighted cigarets on
a pile of hay under a tiger cage
'to get even with the circus for
firing U.S."
Ford was picked up by Fem
sylvania railroad detective while
riding a freight train in nearby
Duquesne Wednesday night. He
was turned over to county authori-
ties because he possessed circus
meal tickets.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-15
Hold Roustabout
For Circus Fire

PIITSBuRGH-(ANP) = desire for revenge over
being discharged caused Lemanrq Ford &c. to set fire TO
the menagere tent of Ringing Brothers circus last
day in Cleveland according to District Attorney Russell H.
Adams who said the youth signed a confession
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-15
President Called
Upon To Speak
AgainstIn1 Crow
Strong Resolution Is Passed
By Masons At Natl Concl,ave;
Gordon Named President en'l

NEW YORK-(SNS) --President Roosevelt Saturday
called upon to proclaim his dstaste loudly and often
American czers everywhere in order to reduce to
immediate minimum and final ending OF segregation and
discrimination because of race color national origin
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-15

from participation in the Demo
cratic primary election in that
state.
1.-THE national office is cooperat-
ing with the columbia branch"
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Loses Extradition Battle;
Must Face Trial In ~ G.

/ court. Wellman was turned over
to the United States marshall for
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-15

delivery to the North Carolina ou-
thoritieS.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-15

vice OF Booker T. Washington ant
DR.. H. B. Frissell, former presiden
of Hampton.
Evening star., 1942-06-02
Jeffries Rollers Nab
ST. Mafin's S Flag
By Total Pins
Thomuses Miss LuureIs
In Loss by One Stick
In Lust-Set Come

Total pins producing an over
whelming margin Of nearly 1000 to-
day gave the Ed Jeffries team the
championship OF the st. Martins
Mems Club League over the Sonny
Thomases after an exciting season
windup which left both outfits dead
locked in first place with "a wins in
lit games rolled.
But this big Jeffries advantage
would have meant nothing had the
Thomases not lost by one stick the
middle game of their set with the
Boardees last night at King Pin.
A sweep would have given the
Thomases the pennant by a one
game margin for the new champions
dropped the rubber game to the
Taylors.
The Buddy Cosimanos finished
third, one game back of the leaders,
while the Joe Lo Jaconos were
fourth, game out Of third place.
Billy Towles, the city's boy cham
pion, was tops for the season with
an average Of 1879. Other season
marks were Millard Finch, 1853 game;
Johnny Fish, 431 set; high strikes,
Fish, 80; high spares, Fish, 260;
high team game and set, Ed Jeffries,
649 and 1,766; high fiat game, Char
ley Ryan, 80.
Post Of11ce pinman, despite being
on the short end of 81 decision
with Yeatman Hardware in last
nights windup, won the Arlington
County League flag at Rosslyn. The
runnerup Sher and Cohen quint
missed its chance to grab the bunt-
ing on the final night by dropping
two games to the third-place Mos
ley's Pharmacy. Goss Co. was
fourth. League champion with ia
plus average, Lloyd Tubbs of the
flag winners topped Johnny Stump
Of Mosley's only by few pins. The
latter's 447 and Sol Cohen's 176
were season records. Water Shade
Shop with 642 and Union Clothing
with 1926 bagged team highs.
In three women's matches, Brook
land Recreations trimmed Takoma,
1854 to 1852, while Bethesda Bowl
ing Center nosed out Lafayette.
1923 to 1921, and Clarendon
swamped Penn Recreation 1,675 to
1878.
Aline Fairchild's 1880 featured
the Clarendon victory, Boots Petit
sparkled for Bethesda with 131-374
and Evelyn Sebastian's 1884 led
Brookland.
Ethel Heflin, Brookland Church
League, won the Penn Recreation
handicap with a gross score of 737
while the runnerup was Ted Cha
conaS, Penn Saturday Night
League, with TIA.
Evening star., 1942-06-02


would make it four-way race, with
Alsab and Ten to Ace. the Canadian
champion, added to the field.
Market Wise's program is filled,
Tufano added, and he suggested that
the race be held sometime in early
fall on the Belmont oval. He sug-
gested that receipts go to war relief.
Other details, such as distance and
weights, still are under discussion.
Jones challenged the Market Wise
camp after Whirlaway, voted the
horse of the year in 1941, was de-
feated for a second straight time
by the Tufano color-bearer in the
Suburban Handicap Saturday.
Rider Suffers Fractured Skull.
Tommy Roby, 31-year-old steeple-
chase rider, suffered a fractured
skull, a fractured left wrist and in
ternal injuries in spill at Belmont
Park yesterday. Doctors say his
condition Is serious.
Roby was up on Knights Quest and
the Bayard Sharp jumper failed to
negotiate the eighth barrier, throw