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The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1943-12-11
State Cares For
Health Of Wives
OF Service Men

AT the end of October, 29O5 wives
and children of servicemen in GER
tain pay grades had maternity and
pediatric care paid for under the
Mississippi Emergency Maternity
and Infant Care Program, admin
lstered in the state by the Missis-
sippi State Board of Health.
In total number of cases author
lied the state ranks above SO other
states, many of which had their
program going before Mississippi
started the plan. Topped only by
states with much greater poulations
such as California, Illinois, Mich
igan-the state has ben authoriz-
ing applications at the rate of IT'S
a month.
Regarding the services that the
State Board Of Health is authorized
to pay for under the program, DR..
Virginia Howard, director of the
Maternal and Child Health Divis-
ion said that the wife of any man
IN the fourth, fifth, sixth and sew
enth grades of the Army, Navy,
Marine Corps, or Coast Guard, may
receive complete maternity service.
This includes care during the
prenatal period, during childbirth,
and six weeks thereafter" said DR..
Howard, "as well as care of COM
plications, operations, examina-
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1943-12-11
VIC. Avery Promises
Post War Employment
To Negro Employees
Affair Given In Appreciation Of
Fine Service Being Rendered

goodwill and cooperation, not
only between the white employer
and the Negro employee, but a
better understanding between all
groups here in the state, w. j.
Miller, Owner-Manager of The
Mississippi Enterprise, and chair
man of the planning committee for
the Avery programs, secured the
cooperation of officials of one of
Jackson's most outstanding orga-
nizations, the Negro Chamber of
Commerce, to take part in the
four nights programs rendered for
the Avery employees-and these
men, w. H. Duke Williams, Pres
ident-Elect, Jack Young, Vice
President and Carsie A. Hall, Sec
rotary of the chamber, did much
toward making the programs sue
cessful-all bringing to the groups
sincere messages that had one pur-
pose-helping them to see the
great Importance of planning for
themselves some form of economic
security in the postwar world.
The following employees were
on the programs:
Monday Night: Box Plant
Messrs. T. B. Smith, Julius Gatlin,
Charlie Madison, John Morris,
Charlie Williams, Steve Buckley.
Tuesday Night; Mays Street
Plant-Messrs. William Tillman,
Mark Smith, Hugh Lee billiard,
Charlie Smith, Governor Smith
and solo by Miss Emma Lee.
Wednesday Night: High Street
or No. 1 Plant-Messrs. Ray Brad
ford, Willie Lee Hicks, Gilbert
Carson, Burton Y. Smith, Isom
Bennett, Herman Smith, ]. S. But
Ter, Monroe Jones, Albert Broom
field.
On all these nights, Inspirational
talks were given by Mr.. w. c..
Avery, Mr.. Jack Young, Mr.. Car
sic Hall and Mr.. w. j. Miller.
Very entertaining music was fur
nished by The Golden Gate Quar-
tett, and the Jackson Jubilee Sing
ers and as a special feature, Mr.
Amos Williams played the Harp
and gave limitations. Rev. Frank
Williams had charge of the spir-
itual side of the affairs.
Refreshments were in capable
hands of Edward Lee, owner of
the Mill & Oakley Cafe, who is
known the state over for his cour-
teous and efficient service, as well
as well prepared foods.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1943-12-11
Give To The Christmas
Cheer Club Today
Send Contributions
To DR.. A. II. Meow

The Jackson Negro Christmas
Cheer Club, which gives baskets of
food for the holidays to the needy
and poor, held its annual meeting
recently at Central M. E. Church
and elected the following officers
for the sensuing year: DR.. S. D.
Redmond, president; Prof. B. B.
Dansby, first vice president; w. S.
Miller, second vice president; Rev.
A. B. Keeling, secretary; Prof. o.
B. Cobbins, financial secretary;
Prof. E. B. Tademy, assistant Sec
rotary, and DR.. A. H. Mccoy,
treasurer.
Members of the board of direc-
tors are DR.. A. L. Holland, Rev.
w. P. Whitfield, Rev. ]. H. Robin
son, A. M. Redmond, Rev. c. A.
Greer, E. W. Banks, Rev. B. ]. No.
Ian, Rev. P. E. Scott, DR.. c. L.
barnes, FroI. L. ,. Sanders, DR.. j.
L. Reddix.
When you give to the Negro
Christmas Cheer group you will be
giving to the William johnson
Bethlehem Center and helping to
bring a bit of cheer to the very
young and the very old.
AS usual, there will be a large
of INDECENT Negro poor in
Jackson who will be without the
Christmas cheer unless it is do
mated by the good people of Jack
son.
Both white and colored are asked
to contribute and to send their con-
trlbutions to DR.. A. H. Mccoy,
Treasurer.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1943-12-11
Negroes Rewarded
For Polling Jail
Break Here

Arraigned before Circuit Judge
Hugh B. Gillespie, two Negroes who
came to the aid of Kinds Jailer E.
II. Currie and foiled an attempted
Jallbreak here last Sunday night,
were rewarded with suspensions
OF their sentences.
They were named as Norris
Cannon and Joe Burley. Cam
mon, who was charged with grand
larceny, entered a plea of guilty
to trespassing and was given a
90-day suspended sentence. Bur-
ley, who fought side by side with
Currie throughout the attempted
break, had previously been senten-
ced to six months on a plea of
guilty to trespassing. He was call
ed back before the court and his
sentence suspended.
In rewarding the two Negroes.
Judge Gillespie pointed out that
had their charges been more Sc
rlous he would not have been able
to give them suspended sentences.
The judge observed that because
the two negroes had been faithful
to the jailer, they were entitled to
some reward for assisting in pre-
venting what might have been
more serious crime.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1943-12-11
Negro Delinquent Is
Ordered Indicted By
Draft Board Here

A. D. Shavers, colored, has been
ordered by the United States Dist
riot Attorney in Jackson to report
to the Rankin county local board
for immediate induction into the
army as draft delinquent.
Shavers was arrested last week
by Meridian police for not hav-
ing his draft classification card,
and an investigation by the FBI
revealed that he was delinquent
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1943-12-11

ton after childbirth, and medical
care of the newborn infant" Hos
pltaI care can be paid for but, the
physician explained funds cannot
be used in part payments for more
expensive Accommodations than those
provided under the EMIC plan.
The pediatric phase of the pro-
gram allows funds to purchase
and hospital care for acute
illnesses in EMIC babies during
the first year of life.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1943-12-11
EX-ACTOR

Irving Pichel forsook a success
full acting career in Hollywood to
become a director. His latest We
hicle is Paramount's "And Now To-
morrow" from the Rachel Field
best seller, co-starring Loretta
Young and Susan Hayward.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1943-12-11
Prominent
Churchrnan
Here Dec. Il

The Rev. R. w. Harris, Arch
Deacon and National Secretary for
all the Negro work in the Episco-
pal Church will preach at ST
Marks Episcopal church, Sunday,
December II, at HOO a. m. Arch
Deacon Harris has been the rector
of some of the largest Negro
churches in the Episcopal denom-
ination, and is the highest rank
ing Negro official in the church,
excepting Bishop Demby.
Members and friends are urged
and cordially invited to hear him
at ST. Marks Sunday, December
18th at HOO a. M.
A. Buxton Keeling, Rector.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1943-12-11
NEXT ISSUE OF MISSISSIPPI

In an effort to give both our adj
vertisers and our readers a better
Christmas issue, the management
has decided that instead of our
regular issue on Saturday, Deem
Der Is, our special Christmas issue
will come off the press, December
Fl. We wish for all a Merry
Christmas.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1943-12-11
9TH Liberty Ship
Named For James
Weldon Johnson

The seventh Liberty Ship to be
named for an outstanding Negro
American, the SIS JAMES VEL
DON JOHNSON, will be launched
at the Wilmington yards of the
Calofirnoa Shipbuilding Corpora
ton in December, the Maritime
Commission announced this week.
The vessel will pay tribute to the
noted poet, essayist, lawyer and di-
plomat who was killed in an au-
tomobile-train collision near his
summer home at Dark Harbor, Me-,
on June 26, 1888.
Mr.. Johnson, who also achieved
note as a song-writer and a pro-
fessor of literature at Fisk and
New York universities, was borit
in Jacksonville, Fla, on June II,
1871. Completing public school
study in his native city, he later
received B. A. and M. A. degrees
from Atlanta University and did
graduate study at Columbia in New
York City.
His career began as a teacher in
the Jacksonville public school,
which was elevated to high school
grade during his tenure as princi-
pal. During this period he studied
law at night, and, in 1897, was adj
mitted to the Florida Bar, the first
of his race to achieve this honor
since the Civil War.
In 1901 he went to New York
City and with his brother, J. Ros-
amund Johnson, and Bob Cole, col
Elaborated in the successful writ
ing of popular songs and light OPP
eras. Later he was appointed u.
S. Consul, first to Venezuela and
later to Nicaragua. Returning to
New York in 1910, he married Grace
Nail and two years later his first
book, the fictional Autobiography
of an Ex-Colored Man," appeared
anonymously. It's authorship was
not acknowledged by Mr.. Johnson
until 1927.
He edited book of American
Negro poetry and two of Negro
spirituals; and also wrote the Eng
lish libretto for the opera "Goyes-
cas- which was produced by the
Metropolitan Opera Company in
1915. AS a New York resident, he
became contributing editor for The
New York Age, and later executive
secretary of the National Associa-
ton for the Advancement of Col
ored People This organization
awarded him the Spingarn Medal
in 1925 for his work in behalf of
the Negro.
Finally, without ceasing to write,
he returned to teaching in 1880,
to become professor of Creative Lit
erature at Fisk University, Nash
vile, Tenn, and from 1884 until
his death, visiting professor of Lit
erature at New York University.
Among his best known books
were: Fifty Years and Other
POEMS" "Self-Determining Haiti"
Black Manhattan" "St Peter Re-
lates an Incident of the Resurrec-
ton Day." Negro America, What
Now?' and "Along This Way"
Other Liberty ships that have
been named for Negroes are the
SIS Booker 7. Washington, George
Washington Carver, Paul Laurence
Dunbar, Frederick Douglass, John
Merrick and Robert L. Vann.
The Navy Department has named
q navel vessel, the Destroyer Es-
cort Leonard Roy Harmon, in hon.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1943-12-11
BY SARAH M. HARVEY


Pledging that he would do ev-
erything humanity possible to keep
every one of his present Negro
employees in jobs after the war,
Mr.. w. C. Avery, owner of the
w. G. Avery Body Company here
in Jackson, this week, further en-
deared himself to his 1000 or
more Negro Iaborers and gave to
them a greater incentive for put
ting forth every effort to do a
100 per cent job in seeing that
he gets out every contracted war
job, now on the company's files,
weeks ahead of schedule.
Mr.. Avery made this promise of
postwar employment to his en-
ployees during the past week,
when beginning Monday night, De-
cember 6, the w. C. AVERY
BODY COMPANY here in Jack
son, entertained with Programs,
Music and Refreshments the men
and women who are employed at
the Company's four plants located
in different sections of the city.
And, it is believed by those at
tending these affairs, both employ
ers and employees, that never be-
fore in the city or state, has any
working group been more lavish
ly entertained.
Classified by the VINO as an
Employer of Essential Labor" and
a 1000 War Industry" the w. G..
AVERY BODY COMPANY thru
its four local plants is doing a
splendid job of not only contri-
buting to the WAR EFFOP~ but
also contributing to the Economic
Security of Negroes in Jackson.
During the four nights affairs, it
was learned that the Avery Body
Company employs Negroes almost
1000. That this company, with
its highly efficient and we'll
trained Negro labor, is now and
has for the past two years, fur
nished over half of all seats that
have gone into army vehicles that
are being used in every theatre of
war where the Allied forces are
fighting this company, with
its Negro labor, was the first to
make the ammunition boxes that
are being used by our armed
forces-that the other articles
made in the Avery Body Plant by
Negro labor, are playing a most
important job in the winning of
the war. It was also learned that
most Of these employees who are
now considered skilled laborers,
able to man all of the machines
used at the plants, are men, who
just some two, three and not more
than ten years ago, were I'M
trained and had no knowledge Of
the kind Of work they are doing
today.
Because of the large number
employed by the company, four
nights were used for the celebra-
ton and on each of these nights,
a program, high in entertainment
value was enjoyed and served.
Always having in mind the
great need of a better spirit Of
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1943-12-11

The brisk way things have been
on the Russian front, Hit
Ter sarmies in Italy had better
start doing something to avert en-
trapment.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1943-12-11
NEXT ISSUE OF MISSISSIPPI

In an effort to give both our adj
has decided that instead of our
regular issue on Saturday, Deem
Der Is, our special Christmas issue
will come off the press, December
81. We wish for all Merry
Christmas.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1943-12-11

or of a Negro messman who re-
ceived the Navy Cross posthumous-
ly for heroic conduct at Guadalca-
nal
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-08
BRITISH BOMBER
DOES A LOOP
lBx Associated pressl

LONDON, Feb. 8.-"You can't
loop a heavy bomber" is a long
time axiom in flying circles but
a British Lancaster, one of the
heaviest planes in the air, re-
Gently did a complete loop dur
ing a raid over Germany and did
it with full load of many tons
of bombs.
1t wasn't an intentional loop,
but happened while the four-en-
gined plane was in steep climb
and a large shell exploded just
beneath it, tossing it over on its
back. The pilot retained control
and carried it on through the
loop, coming out of it in a dive
that probably shot the ships
speed past 400m.p.h. The plane
not only was unframed, but flew
on to its objective and dropped
its bombs. After its return to
base it was examined carefully
from propt to rudder. No struc-
tural damage was found.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-08
GHOST CAR PLAQUES
OPA ORGANIZATION
Cry Associated s'reSsl

BALTIMORE, Fed. 8.-When
the Office of Price Administra-
ton. on the lookout for violators
of the pleasure driving ban, asked
Eugene L. Bell how his car came
to be parked in Broening Park one
night recently, Mr.. Bell was sur
prised.
So was the OPA when Mr.. Bell
protested he had sold his car for
junk last September after wreck
and hadn't laid eyes on it since.
After hurry-up investigation,
Mr.. Belli was soothed with the
information the wrong license
number had been jotted down in
transcribing police department
records.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-08
THUMBS MADE TO
ORDER
By H. w. BLAKESLEE
AID Science Editor

1
| NEW YORK, Feb. 8.-The
American Jouraa. ca Surgery tells
of woman milliner who has a
new thumb, including bone, all
built by plastic surgery.
She had lost about half of her
left th-Elb due to On infection.
She was unable to thread a
nee lie. The joint remained, and a
stump of bone extending a litlle
beyond it. heconsIruction of this
stump into a full-sized thumb is
described by Maxwell Maltz, Md,
Of New York City, who was as
sisted by r. Preston, Md, IN the
bone Part of the work.
The rebuilding was in several
stages. First a roll of flesh was
transferred from her abdomen,
trunk handle fashion. % form a
new thumb end. In 4 few weeks
this flesh XII, ed TO the stump
ana TOOK The contours OF tnump.
The end, however, was left open.
Next a lciece of bone 252 inches
long WIS taken from her leg. One
end of tits bone wes sharpened
like lead percil point, so that
it could be inserted in the bone
stump. There il united with the
old bone and in a few weeks be
came a living part Of the thumb
The end of the thumb was closed
and shaped.
In this stage the milliner mad
perfectly useful numb for thread
ing needles aGai l, but no thumb
nail. An artificial thumb nail was
added. The nail is realistic in
shape and takes rouge like her
other nails.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-08
KITTENS SURVIVE
NAVAL SMELLING
nv Assoei.ted l.ressl

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY
IN FRENCH MOROCCO, Feb. 8.
When our naval shells accident
ally struck the Hotel Miramar
during a pattern bombardment to
silence obstreperouS Ere n c h
coastal defense guns on Cape Fe-
GALA, l5-year-old witchen boy
scooped up five tiny kittens in a
basket, showed them into a stove
oven, slammed the door and fled.
He returned half an hour later
and found his kitchen in ruins
from a direct hit. The mother cat
lay dead on the floor He heard a
faint mewing. Opening the stove
door. he found the kittens alive
and well in the basket but badly
frightened.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-08
GREATER KILLER "a.
THAN NAZI LEADER
APP Features

NEW YORK, Feb. 8.-The
number of United States fighting
men reported killed in the war
is less than the number of Amer
lean lives saved by a decrease in
traffic deaths due to the gas and
tire shortage.
According to a compilation of
the magazine Public Safety, there
were l0,l90 fewer automobile ia
,talitieS in the first IL months of
1912 than in the corresponding
period for l94l. The Office of
War Information has recently an
nounccd a Sotal of 1851 u. S.
fighters killed since Pearl Har-
Dor in a period of Is months.
'. The Owl figure includes men,
berS Of the merchant marine and
the Philippine Scouts. 1t does not
include 42,740 missing-many of
whom are presumed, but not
known, to have lost their lives.
The total number of auto fatal
tiles In the first IL months of
1912 was $3.50. In 1941, for the
same period, iti was 35,770--7an es-
timated drop, of 80 per cent for
the year. ''''
Recent further reductions in
automobile traffic in the eastern
states are expected to raise still
higher the number of Americans
who escape death as an indirect
result of the war.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-08
4OO-FOOTF JUMP GOAL OF
U.S.. SKI KING ART DELVIN
ON THE SPOT
BY DILLON GRAHAM
AP Features Sports Editor

NEW YORK, Feb. 8.-Once in
a long time you can spot a kid
fighter, going a few rounds in
one of the preliminaries, and tap
him IS certain champion-to :
be.
He'll have class. He'll be fast
and a clever boxer and hard
hitter and he'll look good any
way you consider him. You'll
go away from the arena salts
fled you've seen a boy who one
night will win a world cham
pionship.
Allie Stolz was a kid like
that. Four years ago the sports
writers were predicting that
a crown would be Allies.
He came along all right
un il PeteY Scalzo kaYoed him
lite in 1899. All the next
year he had only two fights.
winning both. But again in
ls4l. he came along fast. In
May. 1912. he got his chance
at the lightweight title. That
niG.t!. Champion Sammy An
gott was just q trifie too good
fer him. a little later. Allie
whipped Chalky Wright. TIE
featherweight titleholder. in a
non-title bout.
His second chance at the light
weight title came late last year.
Sammy Angott retired and Allie
was matched with Beau Jack
with the winner likely to move
on to the championship. But
Beau Jack stopped him with a
badly gashed eye in seven rounds.
The other night, Allie took on
Willie Pep, Chalky Wright's sue
cessor as featherweight ruler,
and was roundly beaten.
Four years ago he was
( champion in the making. And
! less than a year ago. when AL
lie made his first challenge.
against Angott. few fight fans
had ever heard of Beau Jack.
the little negro kid from Hart
ford. or the skinny iWllie Pep.
But these two newcomers. in
rapid succession. have shut the
door in Allies face and won
world championships.
:! This Pep is quite a boy, He's
a thin, frail looking youngster,
with unsupported power in his
slender arms and small fists
He's fast as rumor, fast on his
feet, and fast with a punch.
II Williets good strafesist.
tco. a chap who can change
+. his cwn style as the occasion
demands. He was a slippery
hit-and-1un boxer in winning
the featherweight honors from
wise old ChalkY Wright. and
then an entirely different fight
er. a cher who barged in and
! banged away. against Stolz.
He's won So straight fights,
the longest consecutive streak
on record, and from the general
outlook, he can stretch that
String if he says in his own class.
Willie is considering a bout with
heavier Beau Jack and may be
giving away too many pounds.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-08
FROM THE NORTHROPS'
SCRAPBOOKS

Jap experimental station on
Ponape has helped make Mice
nesia the only self-supporting
mandate island in the world, eX-
cept for military rosts.
Exports are sugars alcohol
.phosphates, copra and dried fish.
Pohape's great rock of JokaJ
is "a 900-foot landmark for SAIL
ors. -----
Ponape is the largest isfand. in
Micronesia. 144 square miles.
New Bedford whalers used to
put in here. Now Japan has big
commercial docks. Japs allow
five native. tribes to survive.
Sugar mill and donkey engines
are part of the Japs' thriving
sugar industry, centered at Sal
pan, most developed and popu-
lous island. This is on neighbor-
ing island of Tinian.
Phosphates on Angaur IN the
Palan group are mined from an
Gent bird dropping (guano).
Angaur has 100000 tons OF
suano. which is dwarfed by Nau
ru in Gilberts.
Angaur phosphates supply ~
per cent of Japan's normal phos-
phate needs, not much, but a
help.
Japs do most of the work, ma
tives very little.
The harbor of Kusale, often lg-
nored but a very possible base
has big commercial piers, stands
at the easternmost end of the
Caroline Islands. IS
Palan islands at the western
end of the Carolines include this
bay on Koror and the large har-
Dor of Malakai, which is typic-
ally just beyond, out of sight, be-
hind islands.
Harbor work at Saipan was
legitimate under Jap mandate,
but the costs reported to the
League of Nations were out OF
line. Defense works were for
hidden under the mandate.