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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-04-22
Peonage Illegal
Says High Court

decision, dissented.
The case involved Emanuel Pol
lock, OF Breva1d County, Fla, a
Negro who pleaded guilty TO d
charge of obtaining $500 from j. V.
D'Albona for a promise to work
which he failed to carry OFT. He
was fined $4,000 for each dollar OF
the five and in default of payment
to serve in jail at the rate OF less
than nine cents day until the
the debt was discharged.
The opinion stated: Deceit is rot
put beyond the power of the State
because the device for swindline i
an agreement to labor. But when
the state undertakes to deal v IN
this specialized form of fraud, ii
must respect the constitutional
and statutory command that ii
may not make failure to labor III
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-04-22
Judge Rebukes
Hypocrites In
Assessing Fine
Defendant old
He's Against
American Way

NEW YORK - amp - Infer
ring that the defendant is one OF
a group that gives lip service TO
American principles of democracy
but practices race discrimination,
Judge Morris Rothenberg in the
Washington Heights court We'd
nesday fined Fred Ploen, white, 80
years old, $50 for insulting and
beating John c.. Hayes. a Negro
member of the city parole coninis-
sion, in a subway car
Magistrate Rothenberg, " h o
suspended a 6O-day jail sentence,
said:
apparently the defendant Is a
member of that minority group
who gives lip service to American
principles of democracy but who
in their hearts harbor feelings OF
hatred and i'll will toward other
minorities among our population
and against the American way OF
life
hey SO dUOuJ D lJi CdOiil5 Poio-
onous doctrines of race superiority
which are repellent to all decently
thinking American citizens and
which have been denounced by the
President of the United States, the
governor of our state and the may
or of our city as threat to the
peace of our communities and to
the unity of our nation, essential
in time of war.
Il would have imposed on the
defendant a muol more severe
sentence but for the fact that the
defendant is the sole support of
his wife and infant child. Defend
ant is sentenced to pay fine of
$50, the maximum allowed as a
penalty for this offense, or to
serve in the WorkhouSe for a period
of 20 days, and in addition thereto
to serve term of go days in the
workhouSe. The execution of this
latter part of the sentence is sus-
pended on condition that the de-
PENDANT will not repeat the Of
fenSe.'
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-04-22

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(NNPAl
Exactly a week after its historic
decision in the Texas Primary
case. which was based largely Oil
The 18th and 18th amendments TO
the Constitution of the United
States, the Supreme Court has
resurracted the third of that trio
of amendments passed right after
the Civil War, III outlawing a
florida peonage statute.
The To decision, rendered early
last week, declared that Florida
law making it criminal for person
TO obtain money by fraudulent
promise to perform labor violated
the 18th amendment prohibiting
Involuntary servitude. The decision
was delivered by Associate Justice
Robert H. Jackson. Chief Justice
Stone and Associate Justice Reed,
who delivered the Texas Primery
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-04-22

L. c. S. - 1 am tired of living
here and I am afraid that if I'm
here until my husband comes back
from overseas, I'll be here the rest
of nv life. l want to get away
and make a new life for our two
little ones. 1 love my husband,
though most of our married life
has been dominated by his mother,
who says this is the only place we
can make a living. He, believes her.
He wanted me to visit him in camp
but she thought it best that l
didn't, and of course 1 couldn't go.
Should I go where l plan or re-
main and let our marriage 60 on
the rocks? "a -
Ans. A change of cities
would not be at all practical.
Were YOU to leave now, the en-
tire care of both your children
would fall on your shoulders.
Whereas this responsibility is
shared to some extent, there
among your relatives. There Is
no happy solution to your
problem right now, and won't
be until your husband returns.
But, in the meantime, cOncen-
trate all your energies on max
ing and saving every cent that
you can in order that you and
your husband may have a
home wherever you wish.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-04-22

an enemy MeSserschmitt ITO to
his credit before his plane was shot
down in the Mediterranean Thea
ter of Operations April 26, 1943.
The 31-year-old sergeant entered
the service from Buffalo, N. Y,
though his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
CASTOR Mears, live in Greensboro.
Captain George H. Fitch, repre-
senting Colonel Victor R. Wood
ruff. Commanding Officer of the
AAF Technical Training Com
mand's Basic Training Center No.
10, made the presentation to Mrs.
MearS.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-04-22

in the scheme
The Army Medical Department
gives complete care to blind
soldiers and retains them in hos
pitfalls until they have received
the maximum benefit from their
treatment, including re-education
and training for adjustment to
civil life They are furnished with
guide dogs if they want them,
but thus fare no great need for
the animals has arisen.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-04-22

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(SNS) =
The War Department issued a
warning to the public today to DE
on guard against fraudulent So
licitation of funds based on pleas
for aid to blinded soldiers.
Despite the fact That the Army
Medical Department has announced
that thus far Is men have SUI
fered total blindness in this war,
medical officers have reported
Gil culation of misinformation and
rumors that there are thousands of
blind casualties.
Several hoaXeeS already have
been detected. In one instance
in a West Coast city three blind
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-04-22

ABERDEEN, Miss CAMP = A
former sheriff and four other mer
of Lowndes county, charged with
conspiring to deprive Negro pris-
oners Of their civil rights. were
given heavy fines and suspended
sentences by Judge Alien Cox,ac-
cording to an announcement Tues
day by Hubert Stephens, federal
court clerk.
The indictment charged tat Me-
gro prisoners were whipped ana
otherwise mistreated TO obtain
confessions. Former Sheriff William
j. Propst who placed himself on the
mercy of the court WIS fined $500;
j. Ellis McCrary ard James AM
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-04-22
Slain Air Gunner
IsAwarded Medal

WASHINGTON, D. c. = (SNSJ
"A Negro flying sergeant, killed in
action over Italy, was honored
posthumously April 2, 1914, by the
Army Air Forces at a ceremony
held in the ST. James Presbyterian
Church, of Greensboro, N c., when
Mrs. Louise Mears, the mother
of Technical Sergeant William G.
Mears, received the Air Medal with
the Oak Leaf Cluster, the War De-
partment reported today
Sergeant Mears had completed
five missions as an aerial gunner
on a Flying Fortress and had
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-04-22
Sheriff And Four
Others Draw Fines

brose McCrary, Jr., were fined $500
each; j. Elem Goolsby, S2OC, and
Jailer William Luther Cole, 800
The latter four according to
Stephens, pleaded guilty of the
charges.
Each of the five men was given
a suspended jai, sentence of Is
months and placed on probation
for two years. Propst and Cole are
also alleged to have beaten two
other prisoners in an effort TO OBJ
tain statements concerning cont
plants which the prisoners arc
said to have made against their
Ill treatment.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-04-22
FDR GreetS Recorder
On 10th Anniversary

dent used in signing a bill raising
his salary to $4,000 per annum. Mr.
Randolph was sponsor of the bill.
Letters of congratulations received
by the Recorder were arranged n
an album and presented TO him. to-
gether with a huge bouquet CT
flowers, by employees of the Rec
order of Deeds Office
DR.. Thompkins was appointed
Recorder April II, 1884 His ten
years of service marks the longest
period of service of any previous
Recorder.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-04-22
Warn Against Bogus
Aid For Blind Vets

men, none of whom ever had been
in the military service, were repre-
sented in q newspaper story IS
veterans who had been blinded in
action against the Japanese in the
South Pacific. The bind men did
not know that they were to be
described as eX-soldiers and reDG-
dated efforts to use them as oawns
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-04-22
Suits Will Follow
Denial Of Ballot

Atty. Marshall, who repre-
sented LOnnie e. Smith, HOus-
ton dentist, in the primary
vote ease before the supreme
court, said. ITO my mind, the
decision (opening Texas Demo
cratic primaries to Negro VOt-
ers) is tantamOunt 10 election.
If person deliberately violates
this law, he ought to go 10 jail
now that the supreme court is
on record"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-04-22

WASHINGTON, d. C.-(SNS) =
President Roosevelt headed long
list of notables who sent cCngra
tmatory messages TO DR.. William
j. Thompkins. Recorder Of Deeds
for the District of Columbia, in OBJ
servance of the Tenth Anniversary
of his appointment.
In surprise ceremony at Free
mems Hospital. where the Rec
orer Is convalescing, Congressman
Jennings Randolph, of W. Virginia
Chairman of the House District
Committee, presented DR.. Thomp-
kins with the pen that the Presi-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-04-22
CHILDREN DIE IN FIRE

SOUTH BOSTON, Va. - CAMP
-Four children, ranging in age
from 2 to 9, were burned to death
early Sunday morning in a fire
which destroyed the 2-story farm
home of Tom Logan, while the
parents were attending a sick
neighbor.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-04-22

HOUSTON - amp - eff
outsiders try to keep Negroes
from primary polls, we are go
ing to take them TO federal
court" ThurgOOd Marshall of
New York and special counsel
for the NAACP said in an in
ierview Wednesday.
"Such persons will be viOlat-
ing the supreme court decision
just the same as election
judges" he declared.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-04-22

E. M. W. l am young woman
separated from my h3sDand. During
the time We were apart, l was liV-
in with settled man. He has good
money and anything l want he
gives it to me. But he wouldn't
take me out. SO I started slipping
around with a boy my equal ano
fell for him. 1 promised him l
would run away with him and just
when was planning to go, 1 re-
ceived letter from my husband
and also my allotment saying that
l was all he had and please wait
for him until the war ends and he
would make me the happieSt Wo-
man in the world. Help me to
figure out what is best?
Ans: The seriousness of this war
has SObered your husband tremen-
dOusly and for the first time in his
life he really knows what he wants.
You are his only inspiration. You
were led to believe that. he no
longer loved you, you wandered,
made friends and found new
life but you must admit that
something was lacking.
The old. the young one, too
young. Now you have the chance
to put the past behind you and
accept the love which yen once
thought was lost. When you do so.
you must put other men out of
your life entirely.
M. t. MI am minister pas
toring here in this little town. Ny
husband emo 1 have begun buying
place in the city where he works
and we plan to build as soon as
we can. Neither of us really want
to live there but just to have a
home as we both are getting well
along in years. He really wants TO
buy in the country in West Texas,
/ don't mind going west but l don't
like the country. Tell us what to
do?
Ans: This place you are buying
is a good investment even though
you do not intend to make it your
future home. But if you wish to
dispose of the place, now is the
time to do il as prices are high and
property is in demand. Which IN
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-04-22

ERE pleasant little will you message
every day 1t numerical puzzle designed spell
fortune Count the letters number
of letters subtract
add The
of the every key
left Then
checked figures you. a 10
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-04-22

turn makes it undesirable for
you to invest in a country place
Save your money when the war
is over you and your husband
can get together and decide
where you want to live and buy
accordingly.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-04-22
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CHOIR & MINISTER'S GOWNS
Choir Gowns, Black MOhair, Long Sizes
$500 Each Ministers Gowns with Black
Velvet $1,000 Each. IINDNER. Dept.
IBID. 33rd street. New York |. Cataios
Mailed Upon Request.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-04-22

discharge of a debt any part of a
crime. 1t may not directly or in
directly command involuntary
servitude, even if it was voluntarily
contracted for
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-19
WASHINGTON SCENE
By George Dixon

WE GOT into a very intellec-
w tual discussion in the pool
room the other evening and one
of our profounder minds said
Prime Minister Churchill seems
10 be losing ground with many
OF the British people.
This sage said the prime min
ister had better watch his step
or he'd get blown from under
his bowler hat.
The above remark so agitated
another member OF our set, he
ehalked three fingers and the
nose OF another player instead
OF his cue.
Our little group is always mix
ing metaphors that way. We
keep special salad bowls, well
rubbed with garlic, for metaphor
mixing.
'1t Is ridiculous TO say Church.
III IL losing ground" ne snorted.
Didn't the House of Commons
just give him a vote Of conf
dence ."
THAT doesn't mean anything"
said Mr.. Paul Ward. "Parlia-
ment and Churchill have to
stick together these days. They
can't afford to quarrel. The
House OF Commons had no
alternative.
"For the House of Commons
10 turn on Churchill now would
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-19
One Word Led to Another
BY Patterson
: BY Arthur Bugs" Baer

It's another days to Christmas. Goal to go.
All shopping is and you up to your in
good wishes, colored ribbon and excelsior.
When they yell Goal to go" that doesn't mean the
works 1t means you've got to go faster than
ever. / have pointed out that like collegiate
sprints
In 100-yard sprint you going faster at the
finish than at the start. That's why you break tape
instead of humping into stone wall.
Goal to go isn't like waving red flag at bull. They
say bull doesn't know red from green but is attracted
by motion. l don't know I'm color blind myself. But
do know when Mr. Bull starts to go places he doesn't
waste any time at the ticket window.
When you are down to the short end Of the details
when they yell Goal to go" that doesn't discipline
relaxes The linesmen keep their marks Just in case
you don't make it in four official tries.
In that case the other side takes And possibly
in few minutes you may hear the old stenced chirp
Goal to go" with yourself the fractional side of the
decimal point.
Then it's your turn to stifen your upper lip, starch
your shrtta and reinforce your old red gauses I'll
one thing about this old incubator of democracy. We
hatch Che eggs
Copyright 1914
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-19
THE BRIGHTER SIDE

q platter of veal scsllopinL Him
that could"
"That,l do,-Jaeksen,"' said
Durante. Don't try to make
10 q case for Jerry Geisler. You
always eat enough for all three
OF US, anyway-Clayton, Jack
SON and Durante."
EDDIE JACKSON was sing
II ing at the Alamo in Harlem
with a partner named Dot
Taylor years ago and Jimmy
Durante was playing piano for
them. Later Eddie and Jimmy
and anather-cafe singer named
Harry Harris were promoted
into putting money in a speak,
easy in West 5sth street that
became famous as the Durante
Club.
A chap named frankie Nolan,
dead these many years, pro-
NOTED them. They put up 81, 600
apiece 10 open the joint which
made plenty. Harris, around
Detroit the last / heard of him.
sold out early and Lou Clay
ton, dancer of vaudeville note.
joined the trio that was to
create an uproar in the night
clubs of New York for the next
10 years as Clayton, jackson
and Durante.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-19
BETTER HEALTH
BY DR.. Logan Clendening-

TT ISN'T the young who need
4 TO be instructed In the facts
Of life. They learn them en-
tirely too soon as II Is, and they
are taught by the best of ali sex
educators, Mother Nature.
lis the adults who can't
seem TO get the facts OF Life
straight. My mail invariably
contains five letters a day with
some variant on the question:
What endocrine product should
/ use to keep my hair from
turning gray"
Let US get the record clear.
Nobody on earth knows why
hair turns gray. Nobody on
earth knows just what happens
10 hair when IL turns gray. No
body who now lives, or ever
lived. succeeded in turning
hair from gray back 10 its
original color, leastwise by any
process that could not be sus-
pected when In a strong light,
preferably sunlight.
A dye. or a rinse. will do II,
and there rest my case. That
is almost all have 10 tell my
little class Of adults in the facts
of life. Or almost all.
There is one practical thing
TO be said. If you could turn
your hair from gray back TO its
original color, or TO some other
fancy color, you would not gain
any new friends. Your husband
or your wife might still love
you and your children: maybe
your grandchildren. II they can
keep from laughing. But no.
body that you have just met is
going 10 be attracted to you.
In fact, Just the opposite. They
will regard you with suspicion.
Your hair will not match your
face or your memory.
IF PONCE DE LEON had
4 succeeded in his quest. and
had returned 10 Spain. he would
have been the loneliest man in
Europe. Even in modern Florida
he wouldn't have made any
friends except among the
queeroS.
Since we are close to the
celebration of the most beloved
of all saints, il might be worth
while 10 point out that Santa
Claus Is endeared in our hearts
largely because Of his gray hair.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-19

persisted in talking to him
while Alex was engaged in CAB
with a friend.
Shaping him on the wings he
beloved: "Hy. Alex. Remem-
Der ne, don't your"
Woollcott gave him the frigid
eye and stified: 81 don't recall
your name and please don't tell
IL to me-"
Frank Cases thumbnail de-
Scription OF bore "When you
ask him "A question, It's like
taking your finger out Of
dixie"
TALE of the town: Std
Il denly My Heart Sings" is
the biggest selling song on the
counters, they say Hide
garde heard il In Paris over
five years ago. She brought a
copy back with her II Is
based on the notes OF the scale
With new American word
age she introduced II al the
Persian Room and II caught
on swiftly.
The composer Is Jean Blan,
a French prisoner In a Nazi
camp. captured in Paris when
the Nazis invaded Hide
garde is holding the royalties
for him, which already assure
him Of a happy future.
MEMOS of midnighter:
WI Judy Garland's parody on
"Aint Misbehayin' is the cas-
lest way Of being killed we ever
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-19

MISCHA AUER knows suf-
A'I fering; he is a child of the
Russian revolution. And so.
Mischa Auer has been expelled
from a Observation-Disclosures soci-
ETY. in Hollywood because he
voted for Dewey and because.
as they put it, he uttered re-
dictionary sentiments.
Cecil B. De Mile is a great
artist whose program on the
radio Is one of the best and
most refreshing.
Because he is on the radio,
he has TO belong to a union.
His union assessed him one
dollar for a fund to oppose a
public measure that he favored.
To contribute tn a dollar
meant TO impeach his intel
lectual integrity.
AS an American citizen IL is
his privilege to favor or oppose
or ignore any bill before the
legislature of his state.
His union denied his right to
think; il denied him freedom
of conscience.
And because he would not
compromise on a moral ques-
ton, this union ordered him of
the radio.
And De Mile took the posi-
ton that he would render unto
Caesar the things VIII C h are
Caesars and unto God the
things which are Gods.
/ do not know whether he will
be permitted to earn his living
on the radio, but he will have
the satisfaction come what may,
that came to those early Ameri-
cans who dumped chests of tea
In Boston harbor.
THESE instances of oppression
l. are being multiplied all over
the country.
A mother telephoned 10 me
10 tell of her daughter in a New
York City high school who was
insulted and disciplined by a
teacher for bringing an editorial
of the New York daily News"
to class, on the ground that this
wspaper was part Of the
Hearst Mccormick axis.
I Offered to take the matter
UP with the board of education
but the parties ran out on me
frightened.
Another parent writes me
that in a Jewish district in
Brooklyn children were told by
their teachers that IL Dewey
were elected, the schools would
be open on the Sabbath and ex-
aminations would be held on the
most holy fast day.
A publisher sends me proof of
a book with a section critical of
the New Deal marked out be-
cause the printer refuses TO set
up that bit OF type.
I asked him for permission 10
publish the details, names. quo
tations, etc, and he tells me
frankly that he fears he would
get into further trouble.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-19
Brain Game Answers

IA quay is built roughly
parallel to the water front.
a pier at a right angle to
the shoreline.
2-False. A large part of SUI
matra lies west of Singa.
port.
3-(a) Is generally believed to
be correct.
4-"Bell for Adano," Hershey:
Hard Facts" How d
Spring; Earth and High
Heaven" Graham; Leave
Her to Heaven" Williams;
The Green Years." Cronin.
$50, 900 is correct.
6-The pesny. iris, asparagus
and rhubarb are perennials.
Peter.
S-Robert Louis Stevenson.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-19
TuCSE nANS By George E.
AANSE AIAA - Sokolsky

I suppose he is afraid of los
ing his paper allotment.
4 get a circular asking for
funds TO deposit at Columbia
University for general use of a
file of books, documents. cts,
gathered to fight Pan-German-
ism in this country. not now,
but forever more, although this
is one of those wars fought to
end human hatred.
Oppression, bigotry. persecu-
ton is abroad in the land.
Haters of freedom of thought
have organized for mastery of
our minds and spirits.
They call themselves liberals:
they are the prisoners of the
wells of human liberty.