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The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1943-01-16

ers who work with rural ministers
Dates were set for two institutes
for town and rural ministers, Cam
pbell College. Jackson, Miss, Janu-
airy % and 80. and Alcorn A and
M College, Alcorn, Miss, either
May to or May 10 to Is. The
program for these Institutes in adj
dition to presenting outstanding
church leaders, will emphasize BIZ
BILE Study, Sermon Building, Prob
lens of the rural church, Home
and Land Ownership, Rural YOU
tn and the Rural Church, Home
and Family Improvement, and He
alth Education.
A resolution passed to petition
the Mississippi Council on Inter-
acial Cooperation to contact the
leaders of the white denomina-
tons and try to get them to be-
come vocal on the problem of race
relations, especially in these trou-
bled days. The officers of the Mis-
sissippi Cooperative Church Coun-
Gil are Bishop S. L. Green, Presi-
dent, Rev. A. A. Cosey, Vice Pre-
sident Rev. w. H. Blackburn, vi
ce president, President ]. L. Re-
ddix, Treasurer, Rev. N. H. Jeltz,
Chaplain, Rev. r. A. Scott, chair
man, Executive Committee, Rev.
w. A. Bender, Asst, Sec, and Pre-
sident VIM. H. Bell, Executive Sec
rotary.
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ders literally lifted the roof off
the Security Life Home Building
with applause.
The president lavished praise on
the Cashier, Mrs. Mary Smith and
j. H. Coates, the marvellous ge-
neral manager.
w. H. (Duke) Williams, secre-
tary of the company made a fine
report, included the companies an
nual statement. He showed the in
come for all months in 1912 to be
over 80 thousand dollars which
brought the income for all months
in 1912 to be over 80 thousand
dollars which brought round of
applause from the stockholders and
J. II. Coates, made a bi-annual
directors.
report which was so great that
it called forth spontaneous UNI
animous vote of confidence in Mr..
Coates by the Board of Directors.
The motion was made by the Urea
surer, DR.. A. H. Mccoy and Sec
onded by the president, DR.. L. T..
Burbridge, with the great Merical
director, DR.. L. A. Smith standing
shouting Il third the motion"
All officers including J. H. Co
ates were reelected for 194S and
it was dedicated Victory year with
the public urged to investigate OPP
portunities Security Life Insurance
Company offers Negroes In Mis-
| sissippi,
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FEDERAL GRAND JURY MDCIS FIVE IN JONES COUNTY LYNCHNC
Price Of Milk
Goes Un Here
Elective January Is

A retail ceiling price of Is cents
a quart and eight and one half
cents a pint on milk in the Jack
son area, approved in Washing
ton order last November, will go
into effect generally on January
Is, the Office of Price Admins
tration said Tuesday Retailers and
distributors who have been char
ging lower prices have indicated
that they will raise their prices
on January Is to confirm with
the new ceiling price according
to OPA. The prevailing price for
milk has been ii cents and cents.
The Jackson area, as defined in
the order, including all territory
within radius of Is miles from
the State Capitol building and EN-.
braces Brandon, Clinton, Florence
and all intervening points, Yazoo
City and the towns located along
U. S. Highway 40 between ia
ckson and Canton, including the
Jackson Air Base and Mississippi
Ordinance Plant.
Only exception to the Washing
ton order is for Vitamin D milk
which can be sold for 16 cents and
nine and one half cents, accord
ing to OPA.
The Meridian and Vicksburg ar
ears are now selling milk Is cents
quart and in Birmingham and
Mobile areas, the quart is priced
at II and 10 cents.
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Brandon Students
Pay Respects
To DIR. Carver

In a program arranged by Prof
Anslen ]. Finch, principal of the
Brandon Colored School, the men,
DRY of DR.. George Washington Car
Yer, noted scientist who died re-
Gently was honored by students
and teachers of the school.
Talks were made by Mr.. B. L..
Burford, Secretary of the State
Y. M. C. A. Mrs. Mollye Young,
Sims, Jeanes teacher for Rankin
County and Mrs. H. c. Harper, Sc
cretary of the Luxis club, ne
gro organization. The program in
Guided patriotic songs and points
on How we can help to win the
war.
Recalling his first meeting with
DR.. Carver at the Utica Institute
in 1915 when he served the great
scientist as an errand boy Prof.
Finch said: His death takes from
humanity one of it's greatest souls
it takes from. the earth one of
her greatest servants. DR.. Car
yer detested every semblance of be-
ing important. He was interested
solely in being useful. He learned
from the humble; he dealt with
the lowly.
Prof. Finch said no member of
any race, despite his status, had
ever been spoken of unkindly by
DR.. Carver. While thousands en-
deavored to leave the soil, DR.. Car
yer struggled to get to it.
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COlOred Teachers
Invest 10 Percent
In War Bonds

Every teacher in the colored
schools of Jackson is now inves-
ting ten per cent or more in war
bonds, according to report made
to the Kinds county war savings
staff by E. w. Banks, chairman
of the Negro Board.
Mr.. Banks also reported that
more tina nseventl per cent of col
lege faculties were buying war
bonds and that ninety per cent
of the professional men were ma
king ten per cent investments.
During December the Negro b.
ard sponsored programs in the P.
t. A. organizations of the schools
to explain the war savings work to
the parents of students. There has
been a marked in crease in war
savings interest in the colored sch
ools, according to Mr.. Banks and
to date the students have bought
$1159.40 in War stamps and bonds.
Regular booths are kept in oper-
alton by women's divisions for the
Negro war savings board, and out
standing work has been done by
thes groups.
The excellent work of the negro
board was complimented at the
Kinds County War Savings meet
ing on Monday, and vote of ap-
probation was given for the report
made by Mr.. Banks.
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Negroes Acting
AS Instructors
In War Plants

Negroes are being trained as
job instructors in war plants Will
ch employ large numbers of ne
groes for war production, the war
manpower commission announced
this week.
Job instructors training progr-
ans are being conducted in more
than $500 war production plants
employing more than 5000, 900 men
and women. More than $4,000 SUI
pervisors, industrial foremen and
crew chiefs have been certified as
war production job instructors, and
the announced goal of 1850 ira
inees by the end of 1912 was rea-
ched.
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USO Lounge For
COlOred Soldiers
Dedicated At /. c..

At a brief ceremony Sunday
two new Uso lounges at the Ill
inois Central depot were dedicated
/; of service men passing thraugh
and formally opened for the use
/ Jackson.
Isadore Lehman, chairman of the
USO council, officially presented
the rooms to the members of the
armed forces, after expressing gra-
titude to the /. c. which provided
the rooms and to others who had
a part in arranging and decor
ating them. Mr.. Lehman was in
troduced by Mr.. j. Walter Mich
al, chairman of the USO troops
and transit committee under whose
auspices the lounges will be oper-
ated.
Accepting the rooms in behalf
of the service men, Maj. Edwin
0. Schultz of the u. S. Marines
and Col. Thad Foster of the Jack
son Air Base thanked the USO ira
vellers Aid Association and the
Illinois Central for their interest
in the boys and for providing a
comfortable lounge for them.
The lounges, one for white and
one for colored will be under the
charge of Mrs. George Parker, al
ded by volunteer staff. 1t is
planned to keep them open IL no.
urs a day, from 8 a. m. officials
said. but added that schedule was
subject to adjustment later on.
At the dedication ceremony the
colored lounge, in addition to ia
lks by Mr.. Michel, Mr.. Lehmen, Col.
Foster and Major Schultz, express
sions of appreciation were made
by Mr.. S. w. Miller, chairman Of
the colored reception committee
and Mr.. George Edwards, direc-
tor of the colored USO club. In
vocation was by Rev. w. Black
man and benediction by Chaplain
Newman of the Miss Ordinance
Plant. Others on the reception COM
mittee were Mr. Earl Banks, Mrs.
Thelma Jones, Mrs. NJ. M. Hubert
Mrs. Edna Redmond, DIR. B. B.
Dansby. and Mr.. Fl. c. Harper.
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I'd of directors of the Security Life
Insurance Company. He is chair
man of the Board.
On January IS, President Bell
attended the annual meeting of the
Executive committee fthe Inter-
racial Committee in Jackson and on
January Il he attended the Gulf
side INSTRUMENTATION Conferen-
addressed the Louisiana Conference
of the A. M. E Church over which
Bishop S, L. Greene presided.
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AlcOrn Prexy
Attends Meetings

On January 6, President William
H. Bell attended the monthly me-
citing of the Mississippi Coopera-
tive Council of which he is execu-
tive secretary at the North Parish
Street Baptist Church, Jackson,
Mississippi. On the following day
he was present at the annual me-
citing of the stockholders and boa
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1943-01-16
81, 500 BOND POSTED BY
MEN INDICTED FOR VIOLATION
in JONES COUNTY LYNCHINC

Charging that they had violated
the Federal Civil Rights Statutes
in the lynching of Howard Wash,
Negro at Laurel, Miss, on the
night of October 16, 1943, afed-
eral grand jury this week, brought
forth two indictments against four
private citizens and a deputy sher-
if of Jones County.
Frank Coleman, Roanoke, Va,
special assistant to the u. S. At
torney General, announced the in
dictments and declared that his
departments investigation indica-
ted that the four citizens were al
legged ring leaders of a nib es-
timated at so to 100 persons. He
further summarized the lynching
as follows:
Wash had been convicted in
the local court on October Is,
1912, fo1 the mu der o. o..... Well
born, white resident of the COM
munity, and was awaiting sentence
to life Imprisonment. He was tenn
porarily lodged in the Jail at Laurel
whic his described in the indict-
ment as being accessible only thr-
ough a single mob proof steel
door, the key of which was in
Holders, the sheriff's possession
On the evening of October 10,
the individuals named in the in
dictments conspired as a mob to
go to the Jail and there to coun-
sci, command, induce and produce
Holder to turn over the keys and
deliver Wash to them, in order that
they might lynch him. The mob
went into the Jail and took the
prisoner and hung him to a bridge
several miles away in Jones county
two counts.
The first indictment contains
two counts, charging Shots, Pry-
or, Jones and johnson with con-
spring to persuade state officers
acting under the cover of law to
deprive Wash of his life without
due process of law, to deny him e.
quail protection under the law, and
to inflict upon him unusual and
different punishment because of his
color, in violation of Section So,
T. Is, u. S. c. Sec SO and Sec.
$50, T. Is, u. S. c. 2. Conspiring
themselves to Cypress and injure
Howard Wash in his enjoyment
of his constitutional rights in vio-
1ation of the CODE
The second indictment also con-
tains two counts, each of which
names the four foregoing indivi-
duals and in addition the state
officer, Luther Holder. II was
charged that Holder did unlawfully
and wilfully refuse TO protect Ho-
ward Wash, using those reasonable
means which were available to him
and particularly by locking a sin
gle mob proof door, the key TO
which he had in his possession.
The five men, IL Is said have ap-
peared before ". 8. Commissioner
W. r. Estes In Hattiesburg. Miss
and posted $500 bond each.
Officials described the indict-
ment as the first OF this nature
since 1908. In that year a similar
indictment was returned In Ala
hama but went out on a demurrer
before the United States Supreme
court and was never tried.
The special assistant attorney
general was quoted as saying that
the indictments were based on a
theory of law not yet passed upon
by the supreme court, which would
chart a new law course in such
matters.
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Institutes For Town
And Rural Ministers

The Mississippi Cooperative Chu-
rch council, an organization to
promote spiritual unity in denomin-
ational relations, held it's regular
meeting Wednesday, January 6, at
200 P. NJ, North Parish Street
Baptist Church. Jackson, Miss
The Council has three field work
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take her own life by drinking
the sleeping medicine.
Poor Margaret, who must
have been so torn between di-
vided Royalties that she temper
arily lost all reason. Margaret,
whose fear OF what Derek might
do TO Kathy was balanced on the
same side of the scales as her
fear o. what the law might do to
Derek. Margaret, the faithful.
who could not bear the thought
that harm or the threat OF
harm should come to any OF the
Kraiks, and Margaret who
dreaded to see the wild, tempes-
tuous Derek become a shifty,
hunted thing To her deranged
and clouded mind, there must
have appeared only one solution.
She'd seen the gun in my desk
drawer that day when she NOV
ed my letter files, She carried
il under her black shawl when
she went out 10 tell Derek good
by. She shot him through the
heart when he bent 10 kiss her.
God rest her poor old soul!
THE END
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release her"
Everything" George look
ed at me uncertainty. He was
willing, / waited for him to sit
down.
There's something you still
don't know about that elope-
ment of Derek's and Kathy's,
George" II wasn't hard for me
10 look ashamed. really was.
Walter and | found them that
time and brought her back
home-but we didn't find them
until the next day you un-
derstand."
Well, that did il. George de-
parted | had seen no need TO
tell him that the night Derek
had spent with Kathy he had
been too busy dosing her with
bicarbonate of soda for an acute
attack of indigestion 10 make
love 10 her. II was a very sick
girl and a very frightened boy
Walter and | had found in that
hotel room.
Deputy Shaw looked at me
somberly when the day came
that | could tell him the truth.
You know there are a number
of things / could do, Mrs. Kraik.
A number Of things that in the
line of duty | should do
"Yes-you could put me in
jail for suppresslng evidence, for
helping a murderesS escape the
penalty for her crime. But now
that she is dead I crushed the
telegram from Will Grady in
my hand, Are you going to-"
Damn il, no.
SO he took the little black
shawl with the bullet hole in
one corner TO the sheriff, the
sheriff gave a statement 70 the
press, and that was that.
For il was Margaret who kill
ed Derek. Margaret VINO took
the discriminating wallet and
money and ring from his body
and buried them in the woods
that night, Margaret, still wear
ing the shawl. who blundered
into me on the path IN the
dark; Margaret who tried 10
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SOLUTION
CHAPTER XVI

7 turned my neck cautiously
II would be sore for a week. And
10 think | was going 10 have the
big-handed ape for a grandson
in-law!
Madison had collapsed on the
davenport, his head between his
hands. Suddenly he lifted his
head and looked at me warily.
a new suspicion hardening his
eyes. Where's the proof-have
you any proof of this?"
| nodded emphatically. "Ill
show il 10 you" l admitted
grudgingly. First, though,
you'd better get rid Of that poi
soned cocktail. Throw it in the
fireplace
He started to rise, then set
tied back i'm his seat and looked
at me shamefacedly. 1t isn't
poisoned. | was just bluffing -
II was my turn 10 glare at
him.
After a moment I snapped,
Hand il here. then. / need il.
He got up and handed me the
drink and stood there watching
me drink IL, still with that
shamed little boy look on his
face. Il guess there isn't any
thing | can say TO you" he vent
ured at last. you'll never for
give me-
| set the cocktail glass down
and looked up at him, SIX feet OF
dominant, stubborn. humbled
manhood. Michael had been big.
] like big men. | sighed.
Did you mean what you said
about marrying Kathy?"
He stared at me. DO YOU
think I'd have taken a chance on
killing you 10 clear her If
didn't mean it?"
| felt my neck, 7 guess he
meant il all right. 1T would be
awkward not speaking, wouldn't
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WOMEN WON'T TALK
eT RENE .RYERSOfN MART
c~opYeiorr. ts4S.
NEA SERVICE. INC

il, If you're going 10 be in the
family?' | said thoughtfully. Il
suppose I'll have TO forgive you
on one condition.
What's that
That you let me handle this
affair from now on
But that took a bit of arguing
when he learned my plan. He
said holly that it was inhuman
to let Kathy stay in Jail when l
could
"Oh, rot" | broke in impa-
tiently, Jail won't hurt Kathy,
And il may take some of the ar
rogance out of her. You'll thank
me for that one Of these days
if you marry her.
He grinned then, a slow wick
ed grin, made a sudden lunge,
picked me up bodily and Rugged
me tight.
over Clint's shoulder ! saw
the living room door open.
George Baker stood on the
threshold.
II occurred TO me then that
Clint and | had rather overlook
ed George in our little scheme.
George came in trying to wipe
CONSERVATION from his face. Il
brought the lawyer, Mrs, kraik
| thought there we're some
things you'd better tell him be
fore he sees Kathy."
II was that SNUG outraged
look on his face that gave me
the idea. | simply had 70 save
Kathy from being grateful to
him the rest of her life.
Its no use, George. Kathy
won't see the lawyer-unless
YOU release her from her en-
gagement."
Il can't told her that yes
terday. How would II look
George She'll have to tell
everything 10 save her own
neck And she won't unless you
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BRAKES AWAY

BERKELEY, Calf. - A big
bus became a roller coaster yes
terday when its brakes failed.
A score of passengers held
their breath as the vehicle ca
reened down a hill at 90 miles
an hour-but the student driver
coasted II right up another hill.
AS il started to roll backwards
again, Driver Frank Olson
cramped the wheels and put the
vehicle in a front yard - I'M
damaged.
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HOROUGHFARE

MARTINEZ. Calf. School
Superintendent B. O Wilson re-
ported a prowler had entered
his office and made off with
$50.
The only entrance 10 Wilson'S
offie is through the sheriff's
office.
The Hagerstown globe., 1943-03-05

looks upon the bill as aimed direct
ly at it though it contains no men
tion Of labor or labor unions.
Most on the spot in the Maryland
delegation was Freshman Congress-
man Daniel Ellison. The Hobbs
bill has him flOored. Should he
vote for the bill he knows that his
labor following may accuse him of
the double cross. And yet the bill
is so eXpertly drawn in the pas
sages where it refers to eXtOrtiOn,
Interstate commerce and rob
berry" that it is almost impossible
to vote against it on its face value
SO Ellison probably will vote AYE"
when the measure comes up.
The Marylander who probably
will have the most to say in endors
ing the bill is another freshman
Congressman H. Street, Baldwin.
whose maiden speech kicked off the
house revolt against the administra-
tiOn's crop-and-acreage program.
Fact is, Baldwin has asked for ten
minutes time to make a speech in
which he will cite some concrete
examples of eXtOrtiOn in the Balti-
more produce market.
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Maryland Merry
GO-ROund

Continued From Page One)
is likely that Tydings will be fore
ed to wedge himself into city fight
for which he had no appetite Such
Z fight would increase the breach
between Tydings and Jackson who
are not quite SO bosom" as they
used to be.
O'CONOR REPAIRS FENCES
By the same token, if OCOnOr
and City Boss VIM. Curran Chose
former arch foes of JacksOm per
sist in backing to the hilt their
own slate of Jackson for mayor,
Conlon for city council and Howard
Crook for City Comptroller. they
will find themselves in a total"
political war with O'COnnel OF
jhis they already have been warned
by OCOnnells supporters. If this
threat of war was a left-handed
hint that Senator Tydings would
come into the fray. it didn't faze
the governor a whit,
An eXpedienCy or make-shlft
slate Of O'COnor Curcan-JacksOn ct
al looks formidable enough to
wrest control Of Baltimore away
from any other single faction in
Guiding that of the growing Repub-
lican one. But marriages of con-
venience don't always last. This
type of admonition however, doesn't
faze the governor, either.
At all odds, the changing set-up
gives the Tydings hackers some
thing to worry about and indicates
to them that the man Tydings even
tualIy will be obliged to beat is
cagev Governor O'COnOr who learn
ed a big lesson from the November
elections when the Baltimore vote
slipped from his grasp. He is now
determined to guarantee for him
self and his party q real hold on
the Baltimore vote.
The expediency Of his rapproche-
ment with the Jackson city hall
tribe and the surprise appointments
The Hagerstown globe., 1943-03-05

the House Ways and Means Com
mittee to provide in it's 1943 reve-
nue. bill for the taxation of State
and municipal bonds. In a letter
dro, Dean of the Maryland delega
ton, Tawes said he had learned
and was surprised to learn that a
move was on foot by the Treasury
Department to revive the issue, kill
ed before passage Of last years s
revenue bill. Briefly Tawes holds
that taxing Of State and municipal
securities would be a violation Of
State sovernity."
Accepting the responsibility as
watchdog in the matter. Tommy
turned right about and requested
Tawes to do a chOre for him in the
State Legislature. Maryland is
one Of the few remaining States
where citizens cannot deduct their
federal income taxes from their
State income tax forms. So Tommy
has asked that the comptroller
confer with leaders in the Legisla-
ture to introduce bill at Annapo-
lis which would provide this tax
relief for Marylanders
NOTE: The Treasury wants to
tax State and municipal bonds for
the obvious and simple reason that
it constitutes a tremendous loop
hole to escape taxation. Not even
Federal bonds today are tax-ex
empt.
The Hagerstown globe., 1943-03-05

Of his old friend. Elk Congressman
Ambrose Kennedy to the State I'm
employment Commission is con-
vincing evidence to those in the
now that Herby is out to brand
Baltimore City as his oWn-that he
seeks forgiveness and is equally
willing to forgive. That single ap-
pOintment of Kennedy has already
included acres of broken political
fences of last November.
All of which is answer to a lot
Of beWilderment about what Herby
is up to, as we'll as Willie Curran.
O'COnor will make peace with old
enemies where he can and renew
ardors with sprned political suitOrs
where he must. He will prove a
lot more cagey than Tydings and
Jackson put together, and for the
purpose of Out-maneuvering Tyd-
ings for the big showdown in 1914
in Baltimore City.
The Republicans supporting Nc
Keldin sense these fundamentals
in the Democratic MayOrality scrap
and have done their best to preserve
peace within their oun party, not
by appeasement but by military
unity" talk. But despite the
pleasant euphony of unity" there
are practical political minds in the
State who hold that if the Curran-
O'Conor clan hang together III 1943
by supporting Jackson, and thus
beat McKeldin, they will have Bal
timore in the palm of their hands
in 1914.
MD. TAX. EXEMPT BONDS
J. Millard Tawes, state cOmptrOl-
ler, has constituted the entire
Maryland delegation in Congress
The Hagerstown globe., 1943-03-05
LABOR RACKETEERING

When Congressman Sabbath Of
Illinois succeeded in returning the
contentious Hobbs, anti-racketeer
ing bill to committee for further
study, a sigh of relief eXuded from
Capitol Hill. Reason is that labor
The Hagerstown globe., 1943-03-05

MD. TAX EXEMPT BONDS
j. Millard Tawes, state comptrOl-
Ter, has constituted the entire
Maryland delegation in Congress
as vigilantes to block any move in