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The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-05-06
Public Relations
Specialist Visits
Tougaloo College

Doctor r. S. Grossley, a consult
ant specialist in matters of public
relations of institutions, was a guest
of Tougaloo College for three days
During his stay, on the campus he
held a number of conferences with
executive heads and the chairman
of public relations committee for
the college.
During one of the chapel exer-
cises, DR.. Grossley addressed the
student body on the subject, 1.-The
Added Touch His treatment of
the subject was most unique and
fascinating as well as inspirational
Many practical applications to life
situations were pointed out by the
speaker during the discourse.
DR.. Grossley takes to his new
position rich background of ex-
perience. For number of years he
was connected with the State De-
partment of Education of Missis-
sippi. Following this, he was presi-
dent of Dover State College for
colored students for nineteen
years. He did his work for the
doctors degree at New York Uni
versity, taking as his speciality, pub
lie relations of institutions.
Any college or university wish
ing to improve its public relations
program or Systematically organize
such a program would do well to
avail itself of the services of this
specialist in these matters.
j. H. Owens
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-05-06
State Man With
Negro Division
Kills First Jap

Private James H. O'Baner, Box
345, Sidon, Mississippi, received the
personal congratulations of Major
General Oscar w. Griswold, Com
handing General of Allied troops
on Bougainville Island in the South
west Pacific, for killing the first
japanese soldier credited to ele-
ments of the 93rd Infantry Division,
the War Department announced to-
day.
The Mississippian fired the tell
ing shot at the close-in range of
10 feet. His division is fighting
alongside the veteran Americal Di-
vision at Bougainville.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-05-06
Miss Lee Crowned
Queen Of May Day
At Tougaloo

The celebration of May Day at
Tougaloo was one of the most
unique and colorful displays of
coordinated rhythm and skill in
performance witnessed since the
Inauguration of these exercises
three years ago. Certainly Miss
Lois Burns deserves much credit
for the painstaking efforts which
went into the making of such
celebration of this caliber possible.
Miss Bessie Lee, a senior, was
crowned by President Cross as
queen of the occasion. Her atten-
dants were Misses Moors, Burton,
Cole, Woods, McWilliams and Nc
Chez. George Fennell was the
crown bearer and jamie Owens the
flower girl.
The high school girls, neatly
dressed in beautiful green gym
suits, built human pyramids, per-
formed a series of calesthenic
drills, gave a demonstration of an
old fashioned square dance and
concluded with the Schottische.
Other high lights of the program
were the Cicilian Circle by the
freshmen girls, the Seventy-Fifth
anniversary dance dedicated to
President and Mrs. Cross, and the
marching tactics by the sopho-
mores. The latter feat was possibly
the best executed performance of
the entire program. The girls ex-
ecuted commands with the skill of
veterans.
The final number, as is custo-
mary, was the winding of the May
Pole. Sixteen lovely sophomores
logged in gorgeous evening attire
and working in groups of tours
wove in-and-out from side-to-side
to plat the multicolored streamers
around the pole.
The entire program was dedi-
Gated to the seventy-fifth anniver-
sary of Tougaloo College, which
will be celebrated at the close of
the present academic year.
j. H. Owens
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-05-06
Funeral Of Mrs.
Mary II. Redden
Held Monday

I've done my work
I've sung my song
I've done some good
I've done some wrong
And l shall go where l belong
The Lord has willed it so.
Carrie Jacobs Bond
We feel that those who knew
the late Mrs. Mary Hopson Redden
will agree with us when we say
that had it been possible for us
to have stood by her bedside be-
fore her passing we would have
heard her softly utter the words
of the immortal verse above-re-
signing herself to the merciful I'M
derstanding of our Lord, satisfied
in the full knowledge of His prom
Use of redemption and salvation to
the true believer.
Mrs Mary Hopson Redden, the
second daughter of the late Mr.
and Mrs. Will Hopson was born
and reared in Jackson. She depart
ed this life Friday, April %, at Zoo
a. M, after an illness of more than
a year in the family home al
847 DreyfuS Street.
A school teacher for several years
in 1884 Mrs. Redden became the
wife of the late Mr.. Redden and
went with him to make her home
in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. AT
ter her husbands death in 1912 she
returned to Jackson to make her
home with her sisters, and where
during her illness, she received
their tender and constant care.
Mrs. Redden was a member of
the Parish Street Baptist Church
Funeral services were held Mon
day, May l, at 8 p. m, the Rev.
c. A. Greer officiating. Interment
was in Mt. Olive Cemetery. Ar
rangements were in charge of the
Peoples Funeral Home.
Mrs. Redden is survived by two
sisters, Mrs. H. M. Mason, Miss
Willie Bopson; nephew, Mr.. Hop
son Mason; eight aunts, three unc-
les, and a host of other relatives and
friends Out-of-town friends at the
funeral were Mrs. R. Crawford
Clarksdale; Rev. Louis Rawls, Chi
cago; and friends from Piney
Woods.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-05-06
Red Cross ToHave
Regional Meet

GREENWOOD, Miss, May 5-The
increasing part the American Red
Cross will play in assisting return
ing servicemen after the invasion
of Europe and at the close of the
war will be discussed here next
week at four-day regional Red
Cross workshop which opens Tues
day morning at the Irving Hotel.
Chapter representative from the
surrounding counties attending the
meeting will also discuss the ex-
panding programs now planned by
Red Cross for disaster relief and
Junior Red Cross.
Principal emphasis at the meet
ing, however, will be placed on
the obligation of Red Cross to as
sist ex-servicemen returning from
foreign battle fronts.
The general responsibility of Red
Cross Home Service for aiding ex-
servicemen on claims and benefits
will be discussed by Harvey New
ell, Red Cross field director at
tached to the United States Vet
Grams Administration in Jackson.
Miss Clara Kelly and Miss Thel-
ma Fite, Red Cross Home Service
field representative for Mississippi,
will assist Newell with the discus
! sions on obtaining for servicemen
and their families mustering-out
pay, assistance with applications
for pensions, death gravity, insur-
ance, along with guardianship in
vestigations.
The workshop will be presided
over by Mrs. Birdie Busey, Red
Cross general field representative.
John S. Givens, assistant director
of Junior Red Cross for the South
eastern Area, will speak on the
junior program.
The third afternoon of the work.
shop will be devoted to a round
table discussion on disaster relief
operations with respect to the dis
aster record of Mississippi. Red
Cross, in the first four months of
the year, has assisted hundreds of
families in five major disasters in
the state affecting some Is coun-
ties.
Givens, on the last day, will dis
cuss the expanding Junior Red
Cross program now planned for
100000 members of the junior or
ganization.
Similar workshops will be held
in Jackson, May 1919; Natchez,
May 1926, and Biloxi, May 80
June 2.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-05-06
Serni-Annual
J. M. B. Association
Meet May 10

The semi-annual session of the
j. M. B. Association will be held
at the White Chapel Baptist Church
on South West Street, Jackson,
Miss, Friday, May 10, according to
the church's pastor, Rev. R. w. C..
Smith.
One of the purposes of the semi
annual session will be to help
raise the $4,000 as pledged by the
late DR.. A. A. Cosey in an effort
to pay Natchez College out of debt,
take care of expense of the con-
vention, to pay the teachers SAL
aries, and standardize the College.
In cooperation with the program
of the State Convention, the j. NJ.
B. Association is asking that all
churches in the Associational Dis
trict with as many as 100 adult
members to pay not less than $500.
During the days session a SER
mon will be delivered by Rev. G.
w. Myers, alternate, Rev. c. P.
Simmons; address by Prof. B. B.
Dansby; Laymen's Hour, presided
over by G. E. Oats, Director; Ser
mon, Rev. E. G. Robinson, alter
nate, Rev. L. H. Newsome. At 8
p. m. the president of the Women's
Auxiliary will preside.
Rev. j. H. Taylor, Moderator; Rev.
R. E. Willis, corresponding secre-
tary.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-05-06
SLIPPERY SLIM
STILL IN MOVIES


HOLLYWOOD.-Victor Potel, ia
nous in early film days as Slippery
Slim, celebrated his 33rd anniver-
sary as screen comedian by doing
a long-legged sprint down street
the same sort of action he did the
first day he was ever before a mo-
vie camera.
Poteps dash was as a comical
bandleader in Preston Sturges' new
Paramount picture, Hail the Con-
quering Hero" which stars Eddie
Bracken and Ella Raines. Potel has
done a comedy sprint or fall for
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-05-06
Alexander High Wins In Big s
Track Meet At Laurel
Total 81 Points Show Improved
Methods In Health Education

With an aggregate total of 81 SIG
points, the Alexander school show
ed its opponents how a track team
for both boys and girls is supposed
to function last Friday when the
Big 8 Conference held its annual
track meet.
Five of the conference schools
took part, and the only team that
gave any competition to the Alex
ander tracksters was Eureka OF
Hattiesburg with 30 points. Laurel
came third with &c, Magnolia g.
and Forest O.
The track meet is proving to
those schools that are keeping UP
with the improved methods OF
Health Education.
Coaches Tanner and Thompson
feel proud of their teams, and will
end fine athletic year by the big
intra-mural track and field meet
to be held on the campus May 5,
and to Alcorn College May 6.
The school will in large meas
ure have most of its athletics back
for another year.
In basketball, Novel; Jacobs and
Charlestine Carter will go from the
girls team, and in track Charles
tine Carter. The boys teams will
not lose man, only as they go
into service.
w. M. Cain, Mgr.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-05-06
Father Of IS
Children Dies
In Water Valley

Mr.. Glib Dickens, section worker
of Water Valley, revealed this week
that his father, Wilkes Dickens, 95-
year-old ex-slave, who died last
week in the same house he had
lived in since 1868, was the father
of 35 children.
Married three times, Glib said
his father was the parent of 10
boys and II girls by the first mar
riage The first wife died after
living with Wilkes for 80 years.
Four sets of twins were included.
A check at the time of the fune-
raj revealed Wilkes Dickens in
Guided in his survivors 103 chill
dren and grandchildren. The de-
ceased was well known through
out the county of Holmes, where
he lived all his life.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-05-06
Woman Held
In Death Of
Husband

Annie Brewster, 1851 High Street,
is being held in the city Jail pend
ing hearing on charges that she
killed her husband, Elijah Brew
ster, Sunday night, according to the
police records.
According to arresting officers,
the woman admits the killing, say
ing that she stabbed him with a
pairing knife, just above the heart
in a fit of anger following a quar-
rel over money.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-05-06
Graduation
At c. NJ. Held
Recently

The graduation exercises at the
Christ Missionary and Industrial
College, located about four miles
from Jackson, were held recently.
Commencement speaker was Rev.
o. D. Henry of Newport News, Va.
The Baccalaureate Sermon was
delivered by Bishop w. M. Mitchell
of st. Louis.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-05-06
Buy War Bonds

People should be shamed. 1t is
absurd, this pretending to be low
ers of liberty, while we begrudge
paying for the defense of it.
Benjamin Franklin.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-05-06

Sturges in every one of the eight
films the latter has made as a di-
rector-Writer.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-05-06

Give to the Red Cross NOW!
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-05-06

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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-07-21

Continued from Page /

senatorial nomination. Disney.
whose score was zero on all
seven congressional bills that
vitally affected labor's interests
and the war, was doWned by
Sen. Elmer Thomas, Roosevelt
supporter. Thomas majority
approached 10000 with three
quarters of the precincts count
ed.
In Washington united AFL
and CIO political action won
overwhelming victory for Rep.
Warren G.. Magnuson of Seattle,
now Democratic candidate for
senator. Labor's candidate for
governor, Sen. Mon c. Wallgren,
won the Democratic nomination
without opposition, polling 40,-
22l votes in / 1,265 of the states
3,164 precincts.
Gov. Herbert B. Nav of Utah,
Roosevelt supporter, was assur-
ed denomination on the Demo
cratic ticket. He was backed by
the Utah labor movement. In
Minnesota Byron G.. Allen, sup
ported by progressive forces,
won nomination for governor on
the Democratic -FarmerL Labor
ticket.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-07-21
Western Union
Election He0rinu
Set

WASHINGTON, July Is (FP)
The Natl. Labor Relations
Board moved ahead July 13
with plans for a public hearing
on its proposed decision to call
a nationwide election among
the 10000 employees of the
Western Union Telegraph Co.
to determine whether they will
be represented by the AFL or
CIO.
In its proposal, the NLRB
suggested 6 geographical units
and the New York home office
as appropriate divisions for this,
the largest election in its history.
The AFL, through the Com
mercial Telegraphers Union,
wants a system-wide, single bar
gaining unit and the company
has concurred. But the CIO,
through the American Commu-
nications Assn. has asked that
units be set up in los districts
and divisional centers, but that
after the election all the AFL
and CIO units be consolidated
into 2 respective units.
Trial Examiner Samuel H.
Jaffe rejected both the AFL and
CIO contentious and he favors
the 6 units plus the New York
office. The hearing to be held
July Is here will see all par
ties present arguments and
briefs
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-07-21
CIOAward
For
Hero

NEW YORK, July II -
(LPA) - Honoring an out
standing war photographer
who died in the invasion Of
the Marshall Islands, the Ma
tional CIO War Relief Com
mittee this week announced the
establishment of an annual
award to the CIO union MAX
ing the greatest contribution to
the welfare of returning serv-
icemen.
Named in memory of John
A. Bushemi, an American
Newspaper Guild member from
Gary, Indiana, who was a COM
bat photographer for "Yank"
after he entered the Army, the
awards first recipient will be
announced in the near future,
Leo Perlis and Irving Abram-
son of the CLOS committee an
nOunceQ.
Hearty approval of the CLOS
plans come from Sgt. Marion
Hargrove, author of the best
seller on Army life, "See Here,
Private Hargrove." He writes:
1T seems especially fitting to
me that Johnny's name should
have been chosen for this me-
mortal to our soldier dea. If
any one more typifies the
American soldier who has given
his life in this war, / think he
is Johnny Bushemi.
Bushemi sent to "Yank"
vivid pictures of the fighting on
N eW Georgia, Guadalcanal,
Munda, Vella Lavella, TaraWa
and Kwajelein before going on
his last assignment at Eniwe-
fOk
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-07-21
Women Map
Minimum WAGE
Lew Drive

ST. LOUIS, Mo, July II
(LPA)-A drive for a minimum
wage law in the state of Mis-
souri, has been started by a joint
womens legislative committee
including CIO and AFL unions,
as we'll as welfare and civic
groups.
A report from the Laundry
Workers Union on starvation
wages in the laundry industry
in the state was one of the fac
tors leading the group to plan
several conferences in coming
months to decide on the exact
form of legislation, and on a
drive for enactment.
Participants in the initial
planning include representatives
of the League of Women Voters,
st. Louis Social Planning Coun-
Gil, Women's Trad e Union
League, and National Consum-
ers' League, as well as the AFL
and CIO unions.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-07-21

adelphia daily is expected to
help counter the vicious un-
truths of the nations anti
labor. press and present in its
true perspective labor's role IN
the coming elections.
The Record editorial stoutly
defends the National Citizens
Political Action Committee -
established by PAC to collect
funds from individuals, includ-
ing union members, for the
coming campaign.
Names Dewey ContribU
Stressing Republican fears
over labor's individual contri-
buttons, the editorial names the
high-powered interests known
as heavy contributors to
Dewey's fund.
Trading under the name of
the United Republican Finance
Committee for Metropolitan
New York" says the Record, :"
Dewey's political action donors
and their donations include:
winthrop Aldrich, Chase
National Bank, Mr. and Mrs
Nelson Rockefeller, $4,000
apiece; Alfred P Sloane, Gen
eral Motors, and Mrs. Sloan,
$4,000 each; John Foster Dulles,
Wall Street adviser to Dewey,
81 900; Walter Clifford, head of
American Telephone and Tele-
graph, $500"
Comparing the monied in
terests behind Dewey with the
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-07-21
VICTORY'S SONS

H REASON the ssaanes Europe have become safer lately
FkVbeeause like Lieut. Robert Williams USNR paone
e cold waters Of the Atlantic Flying Gumman torpedo bomber
Williams and his took of daily from the tiny flight deck Of
Navy escort carrier and ranged about the convoy they
teetne.
IN owday period It. Williams and his hung spectacular
record They sighted three submarines Each fine It. Williams swooped
low and at the precisely right instant his eodof released the depth
charges Each time they successful and they could because
they eeed about and took pictures of the weeaee oedt the
surface. Then too Naval vessels picked survivors Of the Na1
sub
Six weeks later Williams and his boys sighted another submarine
Again they sank all these L. Williams managed to keep
clear Of enemy fire. and bring his plane back unscsfhed.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-07-21
Hoover Controls
COP-HilImon
NEW YORK, July II

NEW YORK, July II
Herbert Hoover has ra 90
control of the Republican party,
says Chairman Sidney Hillman
of the CIO Political Action Com
mittee, who branded the COP
platform as ticket to disaster
not only for labor but for the
entire nation at war.
ITS no use discussing Dewey
or Bricker," the PAC leader said
in his first press conference
since the Republican convention.
They are just spokesmen for
Hoover, who has recaptured the
p; rty. We know what Hoover
ism means. 1t means isolation
ism, do-nothingness and chaos"
Dismissing the talk of young
and fresh and vigorous" leader
ship in the COP as a hollow
mockery, Hillman pointed out
that the real clue to the Repub-
lie position on foreign and do
mestic policy was to be found
in Hoover's much applauded
convention address wherein
unregenerate nationalism and
distrust of our allies stood out
most clearly, wherein partisan
hate supplanted reasoned con-
Sideration for the nations well
fare and stubborn nostalgia for
the diScredited past obscured all
vision of thu future"
Party Is Bankrupt
Rejection of Wendell L. Will
kie's thoughtful and construc-
tive" platform draft by the COP
Old Guard signaled the complete
bankruptcy of the Rpublican
bankruptcy of the Republican
Condemning the Republican
platform as a 'hodge-podge of
appeals to self-interest, war
WEAKNESS and petty prejudices"
he pointed out that it pays lip
service to social reforms achiev-
ed under the New Deal but un-
der the guiSe of states rights
proposes to destroy them. The
foreign plank il vague, ambigu-
Gus and contradictory" he said,
with promises to remove bar
riers to foreign trade and XStnatl
the same time demanding
protective tariff. 49,
"The extraordinary fact iSllrat
in this year of 1914 an unchang
ed Herbert Hoover has been able
to recapture the Republican
party" he concluded, charging
that the election of the Hoover
mouthpiece, Thomas E. Dewey,
as president would be nothing
less than a national calamity"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-07-21
Unions Deny
Labor Lack

WASHINGTON, July II
(LPA)-There's joker in
the charge Vice-Chairman
Wilson made this week that
there was an emergency
in steel production due to a
labor shortage.
Bemoaned Wilson, "Steel pro-
duction has dipped to 943 per
cent of capacity this week. "
Replied steel union leaders,
Remember, last week there was
the 4th of July?"
More serious is the fact that
Wilsan has seized on the dip due
to company shut-downs over the
vacation period to make his
perennial plea for more labor in
the steel industry.
Washington newspapers have
been quoting "steel industry ex-
ecutives" on WPB's steel indus
try advisory committee to the
effect that $4,000 men are
needed in the steel industry at
once. When LPA's reporter
tried to find where the shortage
was, and in what kind of labor,
he couldn't find any government
agency to substantiate the 50,-
600 figure. Finally, a helpful
soul found the origin of the
magic number. Some weeks
ago, Wilson inquired in a meet
ing of the industry committee
what their estimate was of their
needs. No one, ap-
parently, had a ready answer.
But one industrialist casually
made personal estimate of
$4,000 men.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-07-21
Labor Press Praised

Basil O'Connor, President of
the National Foundation for In
fantile Paralysis has sent out a
letter praising the labor press
for its fine support of the annual
fund raising appeal.
Mr.. O'Connor in his letter to
the labor press stated, To-day,
with infantile paralysis again on
its summer march, l want to ex
tend our sincere thanks to you
on behalf of the thousands of
chilren and adults who will be
aided through your efforts and
through the contributions from
labor generally"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-07-21

wealth of Americas workers,
the Record declared cit would
take 10000 union members at
a buck apiece, just to equal the
contributions of the seve n
Dewey contributors. And they
were just few on the long
list"
The Philadelphia daily rips
bare the practice of family"
contributions, noting particular
ly the Pew family's gift of
S108,525 and the Dupont family
contribution of $186, ,270 to the
Republican 1910 campaign. In
all the COP fund was SIS, ,0OO,-
600, three times as large as the
Democratic fund.
The Pew family didn't mind
aiding brother Republicans in
neighboring states. All the
Pews Clipped in when Senator
Arthur Hawkes. triumphed in
New Jersey. Dewey was blessed
with a $4,000 gift when he
copped the New York govern
or's seat.
But now, when PAC follows
suit, the Record declares, 1--WE
hear piteous cries rending the
heavens. The Republic is about
to collapse, the Nation is i'm
periled. Democracy totters. All
because unions threaten to chip
in a buck apiece, while the ma
tons millionaires write checks
in four and five figures"