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The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1942-08-22
Trustee Board Set Up
For Negro Reform
School

Last week, Governor Paul Johnson
set up the board of trustees for the
Negro Juvenile roformatory autho-
rized by the 1912 legislature and
said plans were under way for con-
structing buildings on the Oakley
farm, state owned tract in Kinds
county.
He named as two of the appointive
members L.. 0. Crosby of Picayune,
for a two year term, and Aubrey H.
Bell of Greenwood, for four years.
One member remains to be appointed.
Ex-officio members are Penitentiary
superintendent M. P. L. Love, acting
eleemosnary board chairman, Hugh
Wood and P. H Easom, state director
of Negro Education.
Governor Johnson said materials
salvaged from the former State In
sane Asylum buildings would be used.
The legislature appropriated 100000
for construction and $4,000 to ope-
rate the institution for two years.
The act provided that Negro juve-
pile delinquents might be committed
to the institution by any state court
of competent jurisdiction.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1942-08-22

Muriel Rain, brilliant young con-
cert soprano of New York City.
signed a contract this week to appear
with the Chicago Symphony Orches-
ira in the famous open air Grant
Park Concert series which are held
during the summer months for music
lovers of the Windy City. Miss
Rain thus. becomes the first Negro
artist to solo at the famous Shell"
which this summer has been the
scene of concerts by such famous
artists as Lily Pons, Grace Moore
and others.
This will mark the third appear
ance of the young singer in the city
of Chicago since last May. She has
also been selected for the title role
in the Bixet opera Carmen which
is being readied for New York
opening by Oscar Hammerstein
Carmen" will have an all Negro
cast and will not be Swung" or
''jazzed." 1t will have late FAN
opening
In the meantime the versatile
Miss Rain who is also an excellent
actress has signed contract to por-
tray an important dramatic role in
the forthcoming Alfred Lunt-Lynn
Fontanne play. THE Pirate" to open
on Broadway in September Last
January, Miss Rain became the first
Negro singer to appear with an all
white opera company at Carnegie
Hall. She won the opportunity to
do so by competing and winning out
in an addition with more than $50
young white singers.
Miss Rain was born in Boston and
reared in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her
father, Cornelius Battey, was for
years head of the Photographic di-
vision of Tuskegee Institute. She is
a graduate of 8uskegee, Atlanta
University and the Conservatory of
Music of the University of Nebraska.
She is also member of Delta Sigma
Theta Sorority, and in private life is
the wife of Dick Campbell, noted act
or and director of the Rose McClen-
don Players.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1942-08-22
Released Pending Investigation
In Death OF Son

William Mallet of Pocahontas was
released Wednesday from the city
jail pending further investigation by
the Kinds County grand jury on a
. charge that he murdered his Is year
old son, Floyd j. Mallet.
According to Chief Detective Rog-
ers of the Jackson Police force, Floyd
K Mallet of Route 1, Pocahontas,
Miss, was brought to the city Jail,
Monday, August 10, in a bad condi-
ton. The boy was taken to the
Charity hospital and three days later
died of wounds physicians said were
probably caused by instruments 9TH
er than a mans fist" An autopsy
was performed by DR.. Leroy Smith,
Sunday morning and it was found
that there was a fracture in the back
of the boys skull and an infection
in the left eye, the lid of which
had been pierced.
William Mallet, father of the boy
was picked up by the police for in
vestigation after an aunt, Antonio
Young had said that he had beat the
boy.
The Mallets had lived in Chicago
and had been in Pocahontas about 10
days prior to the death of young
Mallet.
Funeral services for the Mallet boy
were scheduled to be held at Society
Ridge and the Peoples Funeral Home
was in charge.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1942-08-22
Nurses Aid Course
Offered To Negro
Women

The Jackson Chapter of the AM
erican Red Cross has organized its
first colored Nurses Aid class with
Mrs. Elizabeth F. Pillars, r. NJ in
structor. Mrs. Pillars is First Vice
President of the National Associa-
ton of Colored GRADUATE Nurses.
The course is designed to train
women as Nurses Aides and will
cover a seven weeks period with
practical work in the Baptist Hospit-
al of this city.
The women are very enthusiastic
and are willing to serve as Red Cross
volunteers in case of a disaster, and
also ON the home front when nurses
are needed elsewhere.
The course includes making beds,
setting up trays, taking temperature
respiration and many other things.
This class is now being held at
the st. Marks Episcopal Church at
Pearl and Poindexter streets. The
class members are: Mesdames
Bennett, Mary Brown Celeste Cham
bliss, Debora Ford, Annie Mae Hor-
ton, Plummer, Bessie Robinson, Hat
tie Smith, Nancy Mae Terry, Anna
Slaughter, Marie Ford Frisco, Co
rine jefferson Bracy, Maurine Pat
ton, Eliza ]. Boykins, Ada Jones, Ar
chic Beatrice Hopkins, Lucille
Rhodes, Minnie Parish, Carrie Wini-
fred Shepherd, Wilehmenia G. Samp-
son, Mae Eta Collins, Joanna Eat
man, Cleo Harrington, Gladys Camp
bell, Virgie Harris Brumfield. M
Ruth Goodwin, Geneva James, Flossie
B. Taylor Lois Cotton. Gertrude Hart,
reporter.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1942-08-22
Negro Educators To
Attend National
Institute

Eighteen noted Negro educators
have been invited to attend Ma
tional Institute on Education and the
War, sponsored by the u. S. Office of
Education Wartime Commission, at
American University on August 1881
inclusive.
The Institute, to which 500 dele
gates have been invited, will be ad-
dressed by Paul " McNutt, Chair
man, War ManpoWer Commission;
John w Studebaker, U. S. Com
missioner of Education; and repre-
sentatives of various war agencies,
and it will enable a selected num-
Der of school and college officials to
leearn about the total war effort
from the officials in charge of war
agencies.
Subjects to be discussed will in
clude: Mobilization of ManpOWer-
education's relation to Selective Ser
vice. Civil Service and industries,
Volunteer Services rationing, salvage,
Treasury savings campaigns, etc.; FL
nance and Price Confederation
Office of Price Administration, pri-
critics, tires, etc.; Educational prob
lens, teacher shortage, school hous-
ing, curriculum, etc.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1942-08-22
Two AlcOrn Teachers
Indicted Into Army

Alcorn, Miss, August 15.-John
L. Stewart, Acting Director of the
Division of Arts and Sciences and
Instructor of Chemistry and Biology,
and Claiborne C. Craddock, Line
Coach of the Football Team and
Critic Teacher in the Laboratory
High School, Alcorn A. & M. College,
were indicted into the army on Au-
gust r. They are scheduled to re-
port to Camp Shelby Hattiesburg,
Miss, at the end of their fourteen
day furlough.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1942-08-22
No Segregation In Dept.
OF Justice Cafe

Acting Attorney General Charles
Shay today made the following state
ment regarding charges of discrimi-
nation in the cafeteria of the De-
partment of Justice Building in
Washington:
mo employee is Disseminated
against or segregated in the cafeteria
of the Department of Justice on ac-
count of race, color, or creed. Pub
lished reports that Negrose are ex-
Guided from the cafeteria are I'M
true"
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1942-08-22
Educational Council
In Second Annual
Meeting

According to an announcement
sent out by A W. Wells, President
the second annual conference of the
Mississippi Educational Council and
a Statewide Mass Meeting will be
held at Mt. Calvary Baptist church,
corner Lynch and Poindexter streets,
Jackson, Miss, August 80 and 31st,
1912.
In the meeting which will open
Sunday morning at 10 o'clock the
following subject will be seriously
considered: Equal Educational OPP
portunites for Negroes"
The public Is invited to this state
wide mass meeting.
A. w. Wells, President; Rev. p w.
Whitfield, Secretary,
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1942-08-22

Lovely baby Joyce Harvey, 2 year
old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Lamar
Harvey, 1913 Hamilton Street, who
won first prize in a Baby Contest
sponsored by the Progressive Youth
Circle of Central M. E. Church, Rev.
Kermit Campbell is presidene of
the circle and bay Joyce was spon-
sored by Misses Vera Inez Jones,
Vera Smith and Dorothy Oliver. Over
$23 was raised by the young contest
ant
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1942-08-22
World War Veterans
TO Hold Meeting
August 27-28

The Afro-American World War
Veterans Association will convene in
it's 32nd Annual State Convention at
jackson, Miss, August 27-28, 1912.
Sessions will be held at Central M.
&c. Church, N. Parish Street.
A large number of delegates from
many state posts will be in attend
ance. Meeting will be opened at 10
A. M, Thursday.
The annual parade will feature the
afternoon activities. Parade will
form on Commerce at Pearl at 2:3O
P. M, headed by military troops from
the local air base and march on
Pearl to State, north on State to
Capitol, west on Capitol to Parish
and north on Parish to Central
Church. The parade will be conduct
ed by Comrade j. W. Vann, Adjutant
of r. l.. Johnson Post, No. /.
The local Boy Scouts will be in
the parade. the Woman's Auxiliary
will also participate in the parade.
All ex-service men, whether mem
bers of this organization or not are
urgently requested to attend the con-
vention, as Mr. G. S. Vincent, Ser
vice Commissioner of the American
Legion has an important message she
wishes to deliver to them and to the
mothers and relatives of all men who
are now serving in the armed forces.
Mrs. w. d. Bradford will speak to
the public. VIM. Carter, State Ad-
jutant.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1942-08-22
Claire Collins Field
Worker For Youth
Fellowship

When in June, Miss Clarie Collins
was chosen as field worker by the
National Conference of the Methodist
Youth Fellowship Can interracial or
ganization) it was the first time in
the history of interracial Methodism
that a Negro had held this position.
Miss Collins is well prepared for
the responsibility because of her ex-
perience as a member of the Nation
al Student Council of YWCA during
hercollege days at Spelman( in At
lanta, Ga. In 1899 she participated
with hundreds of youths from many
nations in the World Conference of
Christian Youth, Amsterdam, Hol-
land Since 1910 she has represent
ed the Negroes of MethOdism as
youth member of the Methodist Cen
eral Board of Education and-will con-
tinue in this capacity through 1914.
In addition to these responsibilities
she is associated with her very able
mother, Mrs. M c. Collins, of Jack
son, Miss, as assistant manager of
their businesses, the Frazier and Col
Inns Funeral Home and Collins Burial
Association.
Miss Collins duties with the Ma
tional Conference of the Methodist
Youth Fellowship are carrying her
to numerous youth groups in the
states of Louisiana, Texas, Ohio,
Illinois and Wisconsin.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-05-20
JEROME LAv|GNE ESTATE S11,687
Inventory of His Property Was Filed in Probate
 Court Today
(NEA Radiophoto)

Jerome R. LaVigne, late vice. president, treasurer and general manager of the Waterbury Buckle O., left an estate of $11,687.32 according to an inventory filed with Judge Patrick Healey in probate court today. MT. LaVigne, a resi- dent of Middlebury, died March 9.
 The inventory lists real estate in the form of the family home on Tranquility road, Middlebury, as the principal asset. It is given a valua- tion of $7,500.
 Stock holdings include shares in the Waterbury Buckle Co.,, valued at $40O, and in the Waterbury Country Club, the later stock being given a nominal value of $1.
 A U. s. adjusted service certificate is listed at $920. U. s. Treasury notes held by MT. LaVigne amount ed to $2,S16.32 and travellers checks totalled $50.
 The well-known factory execu- tive's will provided that his entire estate should go to his wife, Kath- crime H. LaVigne.
 MT. LaVigne had been prominent in business and social circles for a number of years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-05-20
BUSINESS MEN IN
 SESSION TODAY
Gathered in Auditorium of C.L. &P. to Hear About
 Price Ceiling

Business men from Waterbury and many nearby towns gathered at the Connecticut Light & Power Co.,, auditorium this afternoon to hear an outline of the new price ceiling regulations, which went into effect Monday. The meeting was arranged by the Waterbury Chamber of Com merce.
 Prank E. Deane, regional price expert for the Boston headquarters of the OfIlce of Price Administrator, was to be the principal speaker. He was to outline the price restrictions in detail and to answer questions from the floor.
 Joseph L. Sugenheimer, chairman of the Merchants Bureau, presided at the meeting. The opening ad- dress was delivered by Mayor Vin- cent A. Scully.
 Retailers have run into numer- ous difEiculties in interpreting some of the regulations and many Of them had questions ready to ask Mir, Deane.
 Under the price ceiling rules, prices on thousands of items must be kept at the same levels or below the prices which were charged m March, Prices on hundreds Of items must be plainly posted,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-05-20
MURDER SUSPECT
 HAD COLLAPSE
Eli ShOnbrun Stops Trial During Cross Examina=
 ton of His Uncle

New York, May 20 - CUP) - Eli Shonbrun, on trial with Made line Webb for the murder of Mrs. Susie F. Reich, wealthy Polish refugee, collapsed today during cross ss-examjnation of his uncle, the states principal witness against him.
 Shonbrun, seated at the defense table with Miss Webb and John D.. Cullen, the third defendant, slump ed suddenly in his chair and was carried on it out of the courtroom
 He has been 8 victim of a heart ailInent for two years, according to friends, and yesterday was seen to turn suddenly white and ask for a glass of water when Judge Jonan J. Goldstein informed the court room that a practice air raid alert had been sounded.
 Dr. Perry Lichtenstein, medical adviser attached to the district at torney's office, examined Shonbrun and said he had not suffered heart attack.
 Tt was due to nervous reac- ton caused by the tension of the trial and the difficulty he has had
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-05-20
White Russians, Who Fled To France In 1920. Must Aid Nazis Or Be Concentrated

the grand duke lives at St. Briac, in Brittany, where his father, the late Grand Duke Cyril, spent his years of exile.
 The duke returned recently from Germany and refused to issue the requested manifesto. He made no effort to cloak his pro-Russian sem timents and said he would not sup port any military operations against his homeland, thus breaking with his sister, Grand Duchess Kyra who married Prince Louis Hohenzollern, grandson of the late ex-kaiser \, helm.
 M. MakIakoff, the last pre-Com- munist ambassador to Paris, also has refused to enroll in the ti-Bolshe- yist Legion and has published his own manifesto in the name of 50000 emigrees stating their refusal to en- roll either as fighters or interpreters Monsignor Euloge, archbishop of the Russian Orthodox church, has an- nounced a similar stand. although 1t seems likely that all who oppose the German Crusade demands will be regarded as enemies and imprisoned in camps.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-05-20
Federal Judge Smith Did Not Agree With Prosecutor

mot a real sabotage case. It's a case of malicious destruction of pri- vate property, but it is no doubt a Wilful act"
 He said he was unable to find any foreign inspiration" for Russo's conduct, and asked that a jail term be imposed.
 Judge Smith did not agree with this view,
 He said that an investigation showed that from a history of the accused and other acts he allegedly had committed, he was "a danger to the community and will remain such" unless properly punished and submitted to treatment.
 Judge smith renlanded Russo into the custody of the attorney general, who will decide in which federal prison Russo must serve bis tagm.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-05-20

Jerebkoy's first action was to call for recruits. He formed group ot 52 officers, some of whom served with Wrangel and Kerensky, who will go among the Russians in the prison camps and persuade them to join the fight against their native land. Those who enlist or who vote favorably will be given special pass ports as proteges of the greater reich.
 The principal concentration town for hostages" is Compiegne, but while the Germans still hold $50 American citizens and several hun dred Latin Americans there, they have released all the non-Commu- mist Russians except the 10 officers of the Russian pretender Grand Duke Vladimir,
 The Germans offered to support Vladimir's claims to the throne or Russia if he would issue a call to all White Russians to rally to the Nazl standard, but he refused and they blamed his chief Of staff, naval Captain Graf, for his stand, The captain and his snbordlnates, subse" puently. are held In conlniegne while
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-05-20
SENATOR WALSH
 IS EXONERATED
New York Newspaper Had Made Very Serious
 Charge Against Him

Washington, May 20-(UP)-Sen- ate Democratic leader Alben w.. Barkley announced in the Senate today that the justice department has completely exonerated Senator David I. Walsh, D., Mass, Of charges published in New York newspaper that he had frequented a Brooklyn "house of degradation" where Nazi spies congregated.
 Mention of Walsh in connection with the case was due to mistaken Identity, Barkley said. He said the man actually involved was New England resident, not of Masaschu- eetts. He did not identify him fur ther.
 Speaking to a hushed Senate inl- meditaely after it convened, Bark lev told of charges published by the New York Post early this month. He said the Post made charges against Walsh in story in con- nection with the trial in 8 state court in Brooklyn, N. r., of man named Gustave Herman Beekman "under indictment and trial for an offense too loathsone to mention ia the Senate or any group of ladies and gentlemen"
 He said that Attorney General Francis Riddle had investigated the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-05-20

Hartford. Conn, May 2O.-(UP)-- Characterised by Federal Judge J. Joseph Smith as a danger to the community" Prank J. Russo, 23, New Haven war worker, was sentenced to- day to five years in a penitentiary for causing the breakdown of a lathe used to turn out machine gun parts.
 Russo was accused of Wrecking the Ieathe gears of the High Stand- ard Manufacturing O.. New Haven. last February,
 He pleaded nolo contendeFe to the charge In court q week ago, and his case was continued until today pending an investigation of his gec' ord,
 Assistant U. s. Attorney Joseph P. Cooney told the court that it was
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-05-20
By RALPH E. HEINZEN United Press Staff COrrespOndent)

lUntte0 Fress pGaH Co''cspop"c"V
 Vichy, May 20 -(UP)- White Russians who fled to France when the Communists came to power in 1920, must throw in their lot with the Germans or, in all probability go to concentration camps, it was learned today,
 There are approximately 6O,OOO White Russians in occupied France ard probably 10000 are of military age, Some, sons of the original em- igres who fled when the armies of Baron Wrangel and Gen. Alexander Kerensky, were born in Franca and fought with the French in the first days of the war.
 A Nazi manifesto that the Rus sians must support the "ant!-Bol- sheyik crusade" came within a few days after Marshal Semyon pimo- shenko's call for all Russians to fight . sIiberatiop war" against the Germans, and . Nazi sympathiSer named Jerebk0v was named to ars range the plebiscite in which all must vote before Sept 5,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-05-20
900 LOCAL AUTO
 OWNERS ACCUSED
Face Federal Prosecution if They Don't Return
 Their X Gas Cards

A total of 300 Waterbury car own- CTS face federal prosecution unless they return illegally-secured x gas- oline rationing cards by Saturday, J. N. Mcclure, administrative officer for the Office of Price Administra- ton in Connecticut, said today. He emphasized that virtually all of that number undoubtedly secured the cards innocently but said that nevertheless they must turn them in or their names will be filed with the enforcement division of the OPA.
 Approximately 325 x cards have been turned back since the close of gas rationing registration last week, MT. Mcclure said. A total of over 1900 x cards were issued, of which, MT. Mcclure estimates, about 700 went to persons entitled to them.
 Cooperation Good
 The public's cooperation, the OPA official said, has been splendid up to now and most of the 300 will probably return their x cards be- fore Saturday. Marvellous coopera- tion," he said, has also been given by Mayor Vincent A. Scully, by factory and hospital officials, and many more.
 There's no question but most of those who got x cards to which they were not entitled did so with out the slightest intent to do any wrong," said MT. Mcclure. "NoW that the mistakes have been pointed out, the people have ben doing all they can to help us. They've shown that they want to help the war ef- fort all they can. Of the cities I've visited, Waterbury seems to me to
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-05-20
Nazi High Command Throws In All Its Available Tanks
Gen. Doolittle, Who Bombed Japan, Had Eight New Englanders In Crew
Daredevil Flyer Hands Out Praise for All That
 Brave Group
By SANDOR s. KLEIN Limited Press Staff COrrespOndent)

(Un1tc0 FFeSS SCaW COrfeSpOnueHLD
 Washington, May 20-(UP)-The base Brig. Gen. James H. Doolittle and his intrepid comrades used in bombing Japan still was a closely guarded military secret today, in- dicating that the Japanese are to see American air raiders again, perhaps soon. ..
 A repeat performance of the dar- ing raid depends upon how well that secret is kept. Officials here are determined to keep it well. They hope to create again in Tokyo the panic and excitement Doolittle and his men precipitated when they ap- peared over the city at noon on April IS.
 Doolittle, the dare-decil speed flyer of more peaceful days, when asked if he was going to try an- other raid, replied:
 That I don't know. It's in the laps of the gods and the war de- partment."
 But those who watched him re- ceive the Congressional Medal of Honor from President Roosevelt yesterday and later listened to him answer questions at a special press conference had no doubt that the short, baldish, 45-year-old flyer was eager to try it again.
 Base Is Still Secret
 Doolittle revealed virtually all de- g T- cept where the two-engined North American medium B-25 bombers took of, where they landed and how
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-05-20
ALLIES MUST WIN
 BEFORE 1945 COMES

Cambridge. Mass, May 20-(UP) President James B. Conant of Harvard University believes that the United Nations face defeat lln- less they win the war before l945.
 Beyond that date," he said, it seems to me this country faces de- feat-at least defeat for our cen- tury's hopes for human freedom"
 Conant, chairman of the National Defense Research Committee, spoke yesterday before an Institute on War Problems" conducted by the Nieman Foundation at Harvard and attended by about 50 newspaper editors from all parts of the country.