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Jackson advocate., 1945-09-15

in Federal District Court asked that
Suttles be restrained from sending
out lists of only white voters to the
precinct managers.
That the names Of Negro voters
were at the polling places was es-
tablished. on at least three occasions
when-peisofs -ef light complexion
were at the pointsof voting only to
be asked their color and stopped up
on the reply that they were Me-
groes. They saw their names on the
lists and had signed the applica-
tions for ballot as required in the
procedure.
MANAGERS JAWS DROP
DR.. Ira De A. Reid, Of Atlanta
University. reported to the polling
place of precinct B in Third Ward
at 1856 Mitchell street with a wit
ness. He reported that the jaws OF
Box Manager W. r. Owens dropped.
DR.. Reid requested ballot from
the manager, He was refused with
'this is a white primary" DR.. Reid
then requested that the manager
look for his name OF, the voters
list. The manager refused, saying,
mo, 1 amt going to look at no
list. Only white people vote" When
DR.. Reid asked if he might sign the
voters declaration he was again
told mo by the manager. owens
was then asked his name and wrote
down wv r. Ovens" whereupon
DR.. Reid left.
John p. Whitaker, registrar OF
Atlanta University and president OF
the Atlanta Mutual Building and
Loan Association, reported to the
Lee street polling place of Fourth
Ward. Whitaker, light complexion
ed, was given a declaration form
and was proceeding in the line
when the person handing out bal
lots looked at him intently and ask
ed if he was white or colored. Upon
the reply that he was colored,
Whitaker was refused the ballot
and told the primary was for white
persons.
AT HARRIS SCHOOL .
Five persons, including G. A
Scott, editor and general manager
of the Atlanta Daily World MS wife,
Mrs. Ruth Perry Scott; Mrs.
E1nmeline Scott, j. A. Bats, mana
ger of the Atlanta district Of the
Afro~American Life Insurance Com.
pany and william A. FowlkeS,
World managing editor reported to
the polling place of Fourth Ward
G at J. c. Harris School on Lucille
Avenue.
The group entered past a court
eous policeman and proceeded to the
election officials. Editor Scott ask
ed for the manager and W. j: Lam
bert presented himself.
MY name il Scott" the news
paperman said. I'VE have come, to
vote
"You can't vote This is a white
primary" Lambert informed Scott.
The editor then asked the precinct
manager, SIS that the reason we
can't vote?"
Yes, was the reply.
Mr.. Scott then asked, Does that
apply to all these other people?'
yes" the election manager ap-
,1eared more confident.
Lambert was then asked 1t Regis
rar Suttles had .sert the names of
negro registrants to the polls, and
eplied, Il don't know"
rHE, JEERING JlgE
The group left quietly. Fowlkes
eturning after going out the door
o ask if any other Negro regis
rants had appeared at the polls.
lambert, his back partially turned,
yaS grinning gloriouSly and saying
Jackson advocate., 1945-09-15

something to the others. He appear
ed startled with this reporters re-
turn, but composed himself FROM
an apparently II put it over on
'em" jibe and answered the query.
J. w. Dobbs, president Of the At
lanta Civic-Political League. re-
ported that he went to the Forrest
Avenue School where Ward 5+F WIS
located and sought ballot. The
election manager replied, Il am
very sorry. but this is a white
primary"
Dobbs asked the manager, "Does
this mean that I'm not allowed to
vote" 5e.
ut does under this setup," was
the reply. Dobbs thanked the mana
ger and walked out.
COLOR QUESTION
Warren Cochrane, eyecc.:vs Sec
retary of the Butler Street sYMCA
reported to the Marion Hotel where
his voting place Is located and had
been handed an application form to
fill out when the question Of Ills
color. arose. After he explained that
he was colcred. Cochrane was re-
fused the ballot
Jackson advocate., 1945-09-15
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the number Of Negro workers, ha
revealed. He added that they will
he affected by cutbacks like
white workers and based his con-
tention on the filing of unemploy-
ment compensation claims. He
questioned the probability of Ne
gro workers being re-employed on
the same basis as whites.
Probably the most severe cut
back affecting Negro war workers
will be on the northwest coast
According to L. G. Stell, VINO state
director, 7,47O Negroes were among
the 100,936 workers in the Portland
Ore area. They were employed
mainly in shipyards and foundries
He limited that. all workers, white
as well as Negroes, will lose their
Jobs at the three Kaiser shipyards
unless they convert to some in
dustry not now indicated" Cut
backs in the area will not be ave'I-
Jackson advocate., 1945-09-15
AtIantans Refused
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of citizens on the basis of color and
race, even by decree and brutal
obstinance, than did the City. Exc:
cutive Committee and the precinct
managers conducting Wednesdays
primary.
TT HAPPENED HERE
The only difference was that the
Nazi-fascists were In Germany
where. a pattern OF alleged racial
superiority of so-called members OF
the Aryan race was the issue which
forged Hitler, Goebb bels and
Himmler into power and set off q
treatment Of man by man that the
world never before had witnessed,
while Atlanta's white primary
authorities we're in America, which
used and still is using millions of
black Americans to win fight for
Jackson advocate., 1945-09-15
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cording to reports OF the killing
a few hours after an argument be-
tween the two men concerning the
conduct of a woman in the busi-
ness establishment operated by the
Stamps Brothers. Magnum came
up behind Stamps near the Graves
store and hit him crushing blow
over the head with heavy timber
and when he had fallen took a
gun Stamps was carrying and shot
him Stamps died at a local hos
ltitai without regairblng con-
sciouSneSs --.--
Jackson advocate., 1945-09-15
UNDER FEDERAL CON.
USES
TROI

The President also called on
Congress for continuance of the
United Employment Service under
federal control until the expiration
of the Mobilization Act juno
IT, tg47, and asked for an increase
hl.,appropriations for the employ
ment service to help find jobs for
demoDilized veterans and displaced
war workers.
His 21-point program further
suggested a traditional tax BILL a
public works program; continued
induction of men 18 through 25
for periods Of two years: a broad
and comprehensive housing bill;
and legislation strengthening the
DEPARTING of Labor and giving 1t
supervision of collective bargain
ing, Cancellation and voluntary ar
bitration.
Jackson advocate., 1945-09-15

Beatty, president Of the NAACP
Branch is asking that all persons
interested to join this branch thru
him.
The family of Mr.. Eddie Bryant
has our deepest sympathy. Mr..
Bryant departed this life last Thurs
day.
Jackson advocate., 1945-09-15
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Evening star., 1945-11-18
A Shocking Accusation

In the news columns OF tOday'S
Star there is reprinted the full text
of letter to the Des Moines Regis
ter from Navy Chaplain Lawrence
L. Lacour, U. s. N. r. In substance,
the letter charges that the Navy
authorities at Yokosuka, over the
unanimous protest of chaplains as
signed to fleet units there, have set
up what amounts to an organized
system of prostitution for the per-
sonnel of the feet. According to
Chaplain Lacour, this has been
done in a manner which virtually
lends official Navy sanction to the
practice, despite the tact that all
or nearly all of the Japanese girls
involved are afflicted with venereal
disease.
This shocking accusation has been
brought to the attention OF the Navy
Department by the Register, and
Admiral King, asserting that such
practices would be in conflict with
Navy policy, has given assurance
that an investigation is under way.
The investigation is one which
must be pressed with vigor and
without regard to any individuals
who may be involved. If 1t is as
certained that the charges made in
the chaplain's letter are true, the
responsible Navy officers should be
brought to this country and court
martialed. If the investigators con-
clude that the facts do not support
the charges, the Navy should make
public full statement of the basis
for that conclusion.
The American people-and espe-
cially those with sons in the Navy
have too vital an interest in mat
ter OF this kind to tolerate anything
which smacks of complacency or
whitewash. And If the Navy values
its good reputation, it will see to 1t
that its investigation and subse-
ouent action are of the kind which
will leave no room for doubt or
suspicion.
Evening star., 1945-11-18
Left Ericsson Monument

Four members of the United States
Senate have joined to sponsor q
resolution providing for the erection
of a monument to Lett Ericsson IN
Washington. If the proposal is
approved, "the first known European
discoverer Of North America" will
have an appropriate memorial In
the Federal City where Christopher
Columbus already is commemorated
abundantly. The rivalry between
the partisans of the two venturers
probably never will disappear, and
there is no particular reason why it
should. Dozens OF men probably
found the New World from Europe.
The American Indians and the
Eskimos- of thousands of
both groups-came to 1t from the
Orient perhaps as much as ten
millenniums ago.
Left Ericsson's visit is interesting
because it was convincingly recorded.
He was a son of Eric the Red, the
founder OF the earliest Scandinavian
settlements in Greenland. In 900 he
went to the court of King Olaf
Tryggvason in Norway and was COM
missioned by him to return to
Greenland and proclaim Christianity
there. Driven far out of his normal
course by contrary weather, he came
in the year 1000 to a shore "of which
he had previously had no knowl-
edge"-a place which he called
Vinland, vineland or Wineland the
Good. The name indicates the
presence OF grapes in quantity. No
body knows certainly what area was
meant, but it may have been South
ern Nova Scotia or even Rhode
Island.
The saga designated Numbers 544
and 557 in the Arne-Magnaean col
lection in Copenhagen tells how Left
Ericsson took samples Of sell
sewn" wheat-more likely corn-and
"mosHr' wood and carried them in
his ship to his fathers home in
Brattahlid in Greenland. Thorfinn
Karlsefni, scion OF prominent
Icelandic family, two years later led
an expedition OF a hundred and sixty
men and some women, including his
wife and daughter OF Red Eric, to
country they described as Hellu-
land from its large slabs Of stone
theoretically Labrador - and subse-
quently to a thickly wooded territory
they called Markland-maybe New
foundland. Still later Thorfinn and
his companions sailed south "fors 4
long time" to the mouth Of i river
conceivably the Connecticut or the
/ Hudson-and attempted SETTLE
ment there. Skraelings, supposedly
Beothuk or Micmac Indians, after 4
few weeks drove the coloniSts north
! to Streamfiord. Eventually, IN 1904
Evening star., 1945-11-18

ton to facilitate the surrender Of
Japanese forces in China. The Com
munists couple demands for our inn
mediate withdrawal with threats as
to what will happen II We do not do
so. Our Government has officially
stated that our Marines will be with
drawn when their mission has been
accomplished and that our commit
ments to aid the Chungking govern
ment will be honored. II the Com
munists try to force the issue,
trouble is inevitable.
Evening star., 1945-11-18

the vinland enterprise was aban-
doned and the survivors returned to
Greenland.
But the legend survived the failure
and it still makes good reading,
especially as told by Maurice Hewlett
in fictional form in "Gudrid the
Fair" No one, admittedly, knows
what Left Ericsson or Thorfinn
Karlsefni looked like. If either or
both of them are to be represented
in the projected monument. the
sculptor must rely upon his imagina-
tion. Even so, 1t will be fitting and
proper for them to be remembered
In Washington.
Evening star., 1945-11-18

character Of an independent Nation
seems to have been destined by some
token Of Proyidential Agency"
As We give thanks for the end OF
the war, We will remember the 260, 900
Americans who gave their lives and
who stood between their loved
homes and the wars desolation." BY
their sacrifice they made another
payment on the price Of our liberty
and purchased for us another chance
to biild better world. Now Thanks
TO the Yanks' is good, but not good
enough,
We have to do something. The war
is ended, but peace has not yet come
to the bleeding world. The head
lines and subtitles in our news
papers are eloquent of the turmoil
that still exists. The guns are silent,
but there still is fighting-even here
at home. The real peace Is still to
be won. Real peace does not inhere
in treaties, but in the hearts OF men.
Real peace is not generated by
armies of occupation, but by right
eousness. The Bible for centuries
has been saying that. The scriptural
order, the eternal, immutable order
is righteousness and then peace.
When will we learn it?
The greatest motif Of this years
Thanksgiving should be the dedicat-
ing of our hearts and lives to in
augurating the right relations be-
tween us and God and between us
and our fellowmen. That would build
the better world our boys died to
make possible. We are all hope
lessly in debt to our dead in this
war, and to the brave men and
women who for 300 years have given
their lives in order that we might
have something to be thankful for.
How, then, shall we express thanks?
"Oh, thus be it ever when free men
shall stand,
Between their loved homes and
the wars desolation;
Blest with victory and peace, may
the heaven-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made
and preserved us q Nation.
Then conquer we must. when our
cause it is just,
And this be our motto: In God Is
our trust'
And the -Spsngled Banner in
triumph shall wave
Ger the land Of the free and the
home of the brave!"
Evening star., 1945-11-18
Balkan Elections

AC otdJC 0CHAI tllCIlbS du-
nouncement that the elections
scheduled for today in Bulgaria will
not, in its opinion, be fair or rep
resentative has both local and gen.
eral significance. So far as Bull
garia is concerned, this means that
we shall not recognize its ruling re-
gime nor conclude a peace treaty
with country which has failed to
live up to the terms OF the Yalta
Agreement concerning the establish
ment OF truly representative gov
ernments elected by democratic
methods. This decision has been
arrived at as the results of reports
made by Mark Ethridge, who went
to Bulgaria as special investigator
for Secretary Of State Byrnes. Mr..
Ethridge finds that there is single
list of candidates, put up by the
Communist dominated "Fatherland
Front" and clear indications of CO.
ercion and later reprisals against all
opponents of the present dictatorial
provisional government. AS mat
ter of fact. the opposition parties
are boycotting the election in pro-
test against its farcical and arbi-
trary character.
Washington's Arm stand on Bull
garia naturally raises the question
of what we plan to do regarding
other countries in Central Europe.
Elections will soon take place in
Romania, the other subject of Mr..
Ethridge's investigatory tour. There
the prospects of fair voting appear
equally slim, with a similar Com
dominated regime in full
control and apparently determined
to maintain its arbitrary rule by CO.
ercive methods. Although the State
Department has not yet announced
its attitude toward Romania, the
logic Of the situation indicates an
attitude on our part similar to that
already taken toward Bulgaria.
The recent elections in Yugoslavia
pose slightly different issue. There
the Communist-domina regime
of Marshal Tito set up voting IA
cilities which were technically fair
and assured a secret ballot. But the
prediction acts and methods of
the Tito regime were so coercive
that the opposition boycotted the
elections and the population was
obviously intimidated. Thus, only
the government ticket appeared on
the ballots, and voters had no real
choice.
In refreshing contrast to all this,
the elections in Hungary fulfilled
the requirements of the Yalta Dec
laration, and diplomatic recognition
of the government there has been
extended by Washington. Provi-
sional recognition has also been ex-
tended to the Hoxa regime in Al
bania after the receipt of pledges
that elections there will be free and
fair. And the indications are that
the forthcoming elections in Austria
will conform to the Yalta test.
Evening star., 1945-11-18
Time for the Question

If members of the Senate Judiciary
Committee were deciding for them
selves whether or not they should
have representation in the United
States Government as voting cih-
zens, there is no doubt about how
they would answer. No man worth
his salt is willing to forego without
protest the exercise of right that
in this country is so closely linked
with the dignity of the individual.
The fact that members of the
Senate Judiciary Committee are not
deciding a question which concerns
them or the people whom they
represent nearly so much as 1t
concerns the people of the District
of Columbia should make no diff
ference in their approach to the
basic issue of the right or wrong
Of voting representation in the
American Government.
Nor is the responsibility which
rests on them narrowed to the point
where their own votes will decide
the matter. AlEthey are asked to
decide is whether the question Of
voting representation for the people
of Washington should be submitted,
first, to Congress and, later, to the
people of the United States. How
can anybody oppose putting zach
a question?
Some friendly skepticism has been
expressed as to whether the people
of the States would be willing to
admit the people of the District to
equal representation with them
selves in Congress. Even II the
people of the District had equal
representation in Congress, however,
they would not be on an equal status
with the people of sovereign State
for Congress, representing the
people of the States, would remain
in exclusive control over the seat Of
Government. This is as it should be.
But there is no reason to believe
that the people of the States would
oppose the pending Summers -Capper
resolution, if they understood 1t. 1t
merely empowers Congress, repre-
senting these people, to give the
people of the District such repre-
sentation in Congress and the elec-
toral college as Congress may con-
slider wise, so long as it does not
exceed the representation of any
State. How can any American citi-
zen object to that? The people OF
the District, at any rate, are willing
to submit the question to Congress
and to the States for decision. Let
us have an answer to this question,
an answer given in accordance with
the procedures laid down in the
Constitution for determining the
popular will. Let us have an answer
in the open, where men stand up
and make known their views so that
all may hear them. ALI the people
of the District are asking now is for
a day in court.
Evening star., 1945-11-18
A Grim Prospect
From the London Daily telegraph and MornI

From the London Daily telegraph and Morning
Post
The Minister of Food, Sir Ben Smith,
gave grim forecast. In meat, fats
and sugar the world balance sheet
shows deficiencies over the next. II
months. In this country we may have
to 60 on rations for some of the few
foodstuffs so far unrationed Famine
conditions in parts OF Europe, can only
be avoided this winter and next spring
by adequate wheat imports. BY De-
cember we shall have sent from this
island to European countries 1000, 900
tons OF food since the German collapse.
Supplies suficient for widespread relief
can only be made available by larger
contributions from the food-exprting
countries, and Mr.. Bevin did not nince
his words when he said that they had
feiled to make their maximum contri-
button. Given the necessary funds
and the share we are paying is the
same fractions of national income Is
the United States promised -UNRF1A
can do much TO alleviate the present
distress. II Is, impossible that any re-
lief work from outside should cope with
Europess permanent needs.
Evening star., 1945-11-18
Come, Let Us GiDe Thanks
By the Rep Peter Marshall D. D.,
Minister OF the Neo York Avenue Presbyterian Church

Not since 1888 have we had q
Thanksgiving without war. This one
therefore should have deeper mean
ings and more feryent spirit than any
of the last six. 1t Is impossible that
any one in this good land could fail
to be grateful. impossible not to have
yelling up within us profound thank
fulness that the fighting has stopped
: and the awful carnage of war been
brought to an end. We have 80 much
to be thankful for, 1t is hard to follow
the injunction of. the old hymn
Count your many blessings, name
them one by one, and Il will surprise
you what the Lord has done" But
we need to do Just that-to count our
blessings, II we can.
Originally, Thanksgiving was an
observance OF the Pilgrims who, In
the fall of 1921. rejoiced in the boun-
teous harvest reaped during the first
year In the Plymouth Colony. Even
in those years when they were not
favored with good fortune, the colon
lists were grateful for what they re-
ceived, however meager their har-
vests. But gratitude is a fading vir-
tue, and so is the grace to see and
acknowledge Gods hand In the provi-
sion Of good things In recent years
there have been those among us who
If they felt gratitude at all for things
to eat. thanked the corner grocer who
kept something under the counter or
a friend who knew where he could
secure some scarce item Of food.
If Thanksgiving were only an occa-
sion for gratitude for good things to
eat, 1T were enough to indie: us all,
who certainly have abundance. When
we remember the millions of our
fellows in other lands who this week
and during the weeks to come this
winter will surely starve to death,
each mouthful will choke us unless
we have done all in our power to
share with them the necessities of
life.
Since far too many Of us fail to
see and acknowledge Gods hand in
the provision OF our blessings, we
need to hear again the words of
George Washington. spoken at his
first inaugural: mo people can be
bound to accept and adore the In
visible Hand which conducts the al
fairs Of men more than the people of
the United States. Every step by
which they have advanced to the