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Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1945-06-08

Pineapple Salad" and Back
Fence Neighbors". Prof. M. B.
Wesley attended the funeral of
his mother in Chicago last week.
She was SO years old and was the
mother of l6 children; six still
survive. Mrs. Vada Jones is
home after nine months in Bishop
College in the School of Religion
where she is preparing for Mis-
sionary work. She will leave
shortly for Chicago, Ill. and
points East and Northwest for
her summer vacation. MT.
ZION BAPTIST CHURCH.: Sun
day School at 9:45 A. M. opened
by Assistant Supt. Bro. J. Davis.
The spring revival was sue
cessful. Five new members were
added to our church roll. A
picnic will be sponsored by the
Usher Board on the church
lawn June 49,. The quartet
union will meet at Mt. Zion June
10. We were very glad to see
Mrs. Wilder and Martha home
again. We were honored with
the presence of DR.. Randall in
our worship service May 27. =.
Mrs. Phillips is on the sick list.
The pastor will conduct
revival at DeQueen. A baptis-
ing was performed at 4;30 May
q by the pastor of New Hope
Church. The Semper Fidelis
Club group No. l gave their
monthly social at the Recrea-
tional Center of Stevens Courts,
Tuesday, May %. Games were
the feature of the evening, Those
winning prizes were: lst prize,
Mrs. Hughey Cannon, End, Mr.
Collins, Cut prize, Mrs. Mildred
Moncrief, BOBBY, w. c. Sims.
Out Of town guests were Mrs
Attic Powell Caldwell of Cali
fornia and 1t. and Mrs. Weldon
Simmons of Newark, N, J. .
The funeral of Mrs. Rosie Owens
was held at the Hopewell M. E.
Church, Friday, May 49, Rev.
Carl Mask, pastor. Richardson
Funeral Home in charge The
Kiddie Broadcast given by the
Bishop College Club Of Texar-
kama was a grand success. It
was given in the auditorium of
Dunbar High School under the
direction of Miss T. c. Williams,
assisted by Miss Pansy Rucker,
Prof M. f. Flewellen and Mrs.
Ruby Jones' The following
schools cooperated: Dunbar,
Grandview and Sunset. Lawrence
Keele, President, Mrs. Katie
Mitchell, Secretary. Rev. D.
Edwin Johnson, pastor of the
Sunset Baptist Church returned
May II from Philadelphia, Pa.
where he attended the Regional
Convention, Students from
various colleges are returning
home for their summer vacations.
The Semper Fidelis Club met at
the home of Mrs. Helen McNeal
on Buchanan Ave. Monday night. |
Mrs. Alice Garner, President
Mrs. o. p. Ferguson, Secretary.
. The Edwin Circle met at
the home of Mrs. Seleta Hamilton
on Lee Street, May 81. Mrs. Ruth
Tolbert, President; Mrs. Laga,her
Hilson, Secretary. Robert
Singletary, Jr. was presented in
a recital at Sunset Baptist Church
Friday, May rs under the aus
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1945-06-08
DEATHS

Fannie Pitts johnson, 1903
Victory Street, died May 20.
Dubisson Co. in charge.
Beatrice Pryor died May 80 in
local hospital. Dubisson Co. in
charge.
Mack Long of the r. II. Alex
ander plantation at Scott, died
May 20. Miller's Funeral Home
in charge.
Jasper Steel of AIS Victory
Street died May 20. Miller's
Funeral Home in charge.
Mckinley Burt of Detroit,
Michigan died at Little Rock
hospital May 20. Dubisson Co. in
charge.
Annie Hughes, Scott, died May
80. Miller's Funeral Home in
charge.
Hattie Ais, infant daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. James Ais of
Route 7 died in a local hospital
May %. Hubble Bros. in charge.
Matte Todd of Arkadelphia
died at her home May 81. United
Friends in charge. ...
Willie Wiley of Redfield, died
at a local hospital June /. Mil
ler's Funeral Home in charge.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1945-06-08

The FINE BLUFF NEGRO
BUSINESS LEAGUE appears
united in its purpose to improve
the civic and business life of
Negroes in this community. With
a revitalized program, and a new
ly elected group of officers to
carry it out, two spirited meet
ings have been held. The first
meeting after the election Of Of
ficers was tremendously success
sful with the members present.
ing a cash contribution of more
than two hundred and fifty
bucks. The treasury is worth APP
proximately five hundred dol
lars. SHAREHOLDERS
MEET at Gould, Lincoln County,
and plan for a mammoth July
4. celebration, at which time a
parade featuring floats and ban
ners, music and song. will open
the eyes Of those who see. I'm
der the leadership of Mrs. Car
RE Dilworth and her fine as
sociates, the event will be out
standing. My boss will deliver
the principal address under the
shade Of the old apple tree on
the Nichols farm, where the
parade will end and feasting be-
gin. Boss Harold made an in
spring speech which was well
received according to the prol-
fic praise given him by many
who heard him. Reciting the hec-
tic experiences which the early
organizers of the Southern Ten
ant Farmers Union had under
gone to make way for better
wages and working conditions for
Negro sharecroppers, the boss
FASTENED to add that it was hard
ly believeable that such a meet
ing is now held openly in a
Negro public school and attend
ed by preachers and teachers.
DUMAS KILLING we mean the
shooting of Negro soldier by
a white policeman, and the War
Department is said to be investi-
eating. No action has been taken
as yet, and we wonder WHEN!
The Negroes are talking about
it throughout the area and that's
about all; but that is some action
that's better than none. We
are going to urge you to join
any organizations that says it is
wiping out such conditions that
make for violence and injustice
toward Negroes. SWEET SIX
TEEN that was an EXPIRE
sion the girls delighted nj yes
teryears to talk about upon
reaching the age sixteen. They
felt that they had become of age.
When sixteen Negroes on an
executive committee of any Negro
organization meet approximately
o ntime, with all members pres
ent, they need a ninety-six
point streamer Of something big
in the print, That happened when
the executive committee of the
Local Negro Business League
met the other night. Here are
the names: E. M. Moore, DR.. G.
c. Taylor, W. Harold Flowers,
H. G. Barnett, Ivey Anderson,
Troy c. Alley, r. c. Williams,
M. Z. Moore, U. S. Brown, J. c.
Kahn. John Howard, DR.. c. A.
Lawlah, c. D. McKindra, Z. d.
PEBBLES, Jr., T. x. Jones, and A.
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A. Mazique. They are of age, and
we shall expect them to grow in
to social and civic manhood. :.
The League is expected to launch
its annual membership campaign
in the closing days of June, and
elect Bronze Mayor for the City
of Pine Bluff, on July 4. Keep
your fingers crossed for this
must win the approval of the
members Of the Organization on
June IL. The League is expected
to help my boss pay me more
money by voting the CT allot-
ment. Fifty bucks will be fifty
bucks pretty soon. Now, any col
lege graduate who'd like to make
a hundred a month beginning in
June might apply to my boss,
Harold Flowers, Masonic Temple,
Pine Bluff, Arkansas, provided
she knows how to type, take
dictation, and despite how slow
~ done. it must be done
WELL. -. Any takers? :. I'VE
JUST FOUND OUT that Taylor's
Lunchery at 1901 Indiana has
meat with every meal. and good
meat. we'll cooked. A business
League member-owned estab-
lishment, and he deserves your
support. In the West End,
where Uncle Bill and Aunt Ida
made enough dough to retire a.
cross the street to their modern
brick home, Johnny Boy and his
wife, Velma, have fine food at
reasonable prices, carrying on
the same service that has charac-
terized the place since its OPEN
ing way back FOUNDER. That
a prominent white woman ira
yelling by car out in Battleville
got stuck in the mud, and that
she has been working with the
Negroes of the community in
helping them get together to
ask for improved streets. Just
wish more Of the white women
would ride through the squalor,
mud and filth found in the Negro
sections Of this Garden City of
Arkansas. . that the new doctor.
Cleon A. Flowers, was having a
chat with his little niece Ramona
Chanay; during the discussion
Ramona asked and told a promi-
nent woman, who is the mother
of the lad who brings me a five
cent Negro weekly that a certain
white doctor is your doctor,
isn't ne? All done in the pres
ence of the Negro doctor. Our
children of tomorrow are think
ing, no matter what you say? A
natural resentment of the evil of
segregation, discrimination, etc,
huh? To the prominent lady,
what do you think your son will
think, if he becomes a doctor and
faces such a situation? That
May Johnson Moon, wife Of June
Moon, gave birth to a baby girl
during the closing days of May!
MAY MAMA and JUNE PAPA
That Bertha Washington
Thompson has been at the A. M.
& N. College for a good long
while. and that rumor hath
it that she is considering open
ing an office in Pine Bluff. Z.
Little Rockians, please confirm
by calling the blue eyed cutie on
East 10th Street. That Negro
doctors may not treat their
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Tic Relations.l
patients at the Davis Hospital,
and that Negro doctors and
patients seem satisfied except
that it IS reported that Mrs. Gen
try Thompson, Jr., who was un-
able to get bed at the Links
because of the ailing superinten-
dent, E. E. Bright, went to a
Little Rock hospital. to be
exact, the United Friends, where
Surgeons White and Ish, Negro
physicians, performed the sue
cessful operation. Now it is
rumored that subsequent to the
inability of Mrs. Thompson to
get admission to the Links that
white physician secured the
operating room and bed and per-
formed an operation. Mrs.
Thompson had a Negro physi-
cian--and he was unable to go
to the Links with his patient.
don't bother thinking about TAX
ing his patient to the Davis. Lord,
have Mercy upon US! . That a
new beauty school will be open
ed in Pine Bluff. giving the
city two. more later, maybel
That the Cotton Belt trains
serve the best meals on their
dining cars. Had dinner the
other evening enroute to Brink
ley, and my what service with
the miles and smiles! The
State Conference of Branches of
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
will be held here beginning June
81, with Roscoe Dunjee, Okla
homa City editor, and National
Negro Business League prexy as
keynote speaker. That folks in
the local branch are making ex-
tensive preparations but that
they are running behind time. :.
That a law suit has been filed
against Mrs. Alice B. Mosby, of
West Third Avenue, wife of the
late Jake Mosby, involving a
piece of Main Street property.
Our folks and their advisors,
may the Lord have Mercy upon
us! That 1t. Herbert Clark,
reported missing in action some
months ago over Italy is now re-
ported safe and probably on his
way to the United States. That
DR.. w. E. O'Bryant will attend
a church meeting in Cleveland
in June, and will go there via
Louisville for the Kentucky
Derby . hay, hay, for the
horsesi incidentally, it is quiet
ly rumored that II. T. Perry may
or may not make Louisville for
the Derby. Don't ask me.
Consult with David Davis.
That Fred Altheimer, whose son
is in the Armed Forces station
ed somewhere in England, is CO.
owner of the business down on
East Barraque in Pot likker.
but that Fred was afraid that
there would be retaliation should
he give Negro Notary a fifty
cent fee in making application
for the renewal of his beer lie
ense. The sins of the fathers
shall be visited to the sons. etc.
l. REMEMBER That kuth
Cave Flowers might work on her
electorate at Catholic University
at Washington, and next June
receive Phi. d. and l.. l.. B. What
prain-power. That many new
faces will be in the administra-
ton of Lawrence A. Davis at
A. M. & N. during the next
regular school term. That Joe
Bailey is publishing NEW WIS.,
TAS which we'll talk about next
week. You remember him as
Head of Department of Social
Sciences at the college. His wife,
Jean Latting Bailey is his edi-
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tors was present from Kansas
City, st. Louis, and cities of
Illinois. Total offerings for the
morning, $4,000 Rev. J. It.
Criswell, pastor; Gladys Smith,
Reporter.
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torial assistant and has left for
Chicago to join him via a visit
to Helena.
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pices of the Sr. Choir of which
Ross Richardson is president.
Won Charleton of Prairie View
College an expert at the piano,
was his accompanist. Immediately
after the recital the choir and
Mr., and Mrs. Robert Singletary,
Sr. entertained with a reception
in the Recreational Center of
the Church. On June at 100
p. M. Mr.. and Mrs. Singletary,
Sr, entertained in their spacious
home. Out of town guests present
were: Mrs. Dedmond and Miss
Dedmond of Memphis, Tennessee,
Louis Hill of Prairie View Col
lege and Mrs. Laura Price of
Marshall, On Saturday mite, DR..
and Mrs. A. Fl. A. Jones enter
tanned the group in their home
on Buchanan Avenue. Mr.. Single
tary and the Charletons left Sun
day for Prairie View where Mr..
Singletary will attend summer
school.
CARD OF THANKS
We take this method of ex-
pressing our appreciation to our
many friends especially the
Ministerial Alliance and the
many churches of Texas and Ar
kansas for contributions, sym
pathy cards, kilograms and
flowers sent in respect of our de-
ceased husband, Rev. N. F. Wes-
son.
(Signed) Mrs. M. l.. Wesson,
wife
Mrs, Ruth Morgan daughter
Mrs Rissie Wesson, mother
Sisters and brothers.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1945-06-08

Unusual Salad
For an unusual salad, combine
orange sections. banana slices and
prunes stuffed with cottage cheese.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1945-02-16
Dutch Designs for
Painting, Stenciling

bright designs in typical
- Dutch colorings are Just the
thing to decorate your kitchen
cupboards, the chair or table you
have just repainted or that old
chest of drawers in the children's
room. Never mind if you are not
a free-hand artist, you can cut a
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-02-06
F0RRE5TAL PROMISES REPORT
ON SEAMAN IN SOUTH PACIFIC

WASHINGTON, Febe 5 (ANP-
Jane V. Forrestal, navy secretary,
promised last week to learn how
Negro seaman assigned to some 25
auxiliary vessels in South Pacific
last August, are making out, and
to make this information available.
During the secretary's news con-
ference Rear Admiral Richard l..
Gonelly Of Waukegan, Illinois, who
commanded amphibian craft in the
South Pacific during the. landings
on Guam, Leyte and Luzon was ask
ed whether any of those Negro sea-
men were aboard ships under his
command. He said that to his knowl-
ledge they were not.
Forrestal injected the observa-
tion that there were Negro marines
at Guam because he had seen them
in films of the landing on that is
land. The secretary was then asked
whether he had received any reports
of the manner in which the men in
question were performing in their
new roles. Indicating interest in the
matter, Forrestal promised that
1--WE will get some information on
that for you."
Earlier, department spokesman
had said that only one report had
been received to date and that this
was good" He did not expand, nor
was he able to give any details.
The men are all part of the fleet
train in the Pacific and are working
aboard store ships, ammunition
ships, cargo ships, oilers, and mis-
cellaneous auxiliaries. Several petty
officers were included in the or
iginal group, and others who had
no ratings repeatedly have since
been given rating.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-02-06
Man WHO KILL D BANK FRI
REPuDIATES CONFESSION

ATLANTA, Feb. 6 (ANP)-
thirty-year-old Horace Blalock,
charged with the 1943 Staying of
Henry C. Heinz, former president
of international tary an
wealthy banker, denied that he con-
fessed to the killing asserting that
he had no connection with the muir
der and knew nothing about it.
Police Chief Leo Nahlich of
neighboring Decatur, two weeks
ago had displayed a confession to
the Staying to newspaper men, de-
claring that it had been made freely
and voluntarily without coercion.
The confession was purported to
have been signed by Blalock.
In denying the statement, Bla-
lock told a group of Negro news
papermen that he had been grilled
by group of detectives for II con-
tinuous hours, who had constantly
abused him, before affixing his sig
nature to the document, which he
claimed was dictated by the detec-
tives.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-02-06
OFFICIALS PRAISE HARLEM
WOMEN FOR ANSWERING
URGENT WORK CALL

NEW YORK, Feb. 6 (ANP)-
The successful four wheel campaign
carried on in Harlem to recruit
women workers for the Picatinny
Arsenal at Dover, New Jersey, re-
ceived the praise of army officials
during a testimonial luncheon here.
One thousand seven hundred Negro
women responded to the urgent call
to work in the Picatinny arsenal.
eve are grateful to Harlem, y
said Mrs., Anna M. Rosenberg,
VINO regional director, "for show
ing that New York can do a COM
munity job no matter how large the
city is" Then, she paid tribute to
the work of Col. w. E. Leonard,
commanding officer of Picatinny
arsenal, whose faith and appre-
citation in the colored workers had
encouraged others to join and which
should serve as lesson to those
who show less enthusiasm for en-
ploying Negro workers"
At least 5,703 additional workers
are needed, said Brig. General Stew
art E. Reimel, regional representa-
tive Of army service forces. Other
speakers were 1t. Col. Charles W.
Ballon, chief of the labor branch of
the Army's second service com
mand; Henry K. Craft, executive
secretary of the Harlem branch OF
the YMCA, and Morris J. Kaplan
assistant area director of the VINO
Kaplan presided over the luncheon
and meeting.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-02-06

Defense Counsel Joe wing
Wednesday asserted that he would
demonstrate at the trial set for the
March term of court, that a great
deal and an important part of the
confession is untrue and that the
words in it were dictated to Blalock
by police officers.
Blalock is now being held in the
DeKalb county Jail without bond,
following his Indictment Friday in
the Staying. Curiously enough, a
large number of white residents of
Decatur have come to Blalock's de-
fense, expressing the belief that a
white man had slain Heinz. A de-
fense fund is being collected among
interested white friends, it was
said. The Heinz case until January
9, 1916, had been placed in the an
mails of an unsolved mystery, when
Blalock, a boilermaker's helper for
the Louisville and Nashville rail-
road, was arrested on a burglary
charge.
The report of the department OF
Justice that Blalock's fingerprints
had resemblance" to a smudgec
print found on a venetian blind ir
the Blalock home and Mrs. Heinz
who earlier had told police her hus-
bands slayer was either a white
man or a light-skinned Negro
identification of Blalock, who is ex.
tremely dark as the killer, clinchec
the police case against the suspect
The Atlanta branch of NAACF
is interesting itself in the case, ano
began raising funds to insure Bla
lock fair trial.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-02-06
FEp( SAYS DIXIE STILL
AGAINST NEGRO LABOR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 (ANP)-
The south is still proving recalci
trant in it's attitude toward utiliza-
ion of Negro Labor, report of the
FEPC discloses. During the year
1914, 1886 cases were docked while
1921 were closed. Of the cases
closed, 1924 or 35.7 per cent re-
suited in satisfactory adjustment.
The smallest total Of satisfactory
adjustments anent the regions in
which there are field offices was
that Of Region VII where 368 cases
were docketed during the year, 214
closed with satisfactory adjust
ments. The region embraces Geor-
gia, South Carolina, Tennessee,
Florida and Mississippi.
The pending load of 2,054 cases
as of January 1st, 1945 showed an
increase Of 123 over the figure as
of the preceding January 1st.
An additional suboffice will be
opened shortly by the committee in
Cincinnati, it was said to help in
handling an increased number of
cases originating in that area.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-02-06
"LITTLE SC0TTSB0R0"
CASE AWAITS VERDICT

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Feb. 6
(ANP) - Five Negro boys are
awaiting their fate in the ''little
'Scottsboro' case" here for the al
legged raping of a white woman.
Names of the boys are David Law
less, Daniel Rucker, Herbert Ste
phenson, John Billingsley and
Tommy Rawlings.
The white woman, Annie Bell
Morgan, accused the boys of raping
her on October 9th, when she left
a black and tan tavern. Miss Nor
gan, 10, a native of Sweetwater,
Tennessee, is described as attrac-
tive and well dressed.
The five youths carried her to
the rear Of a skyscraper building
and assaulted her on the night of
October 9th, she charges. But ac-
cording to the testimony of a col
ored maid of one of the smaller ho-
tells here, she has solicited male
companions for the young white
woman at the rate of $40 per date
The colored maid testified that she
received 81 of every $40 date she
solicited for Miss Morgan.
The all-white jury and the over.
packed court room heard defense
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attorney Herbert Atkins, one of the
boys four defense lawyers, say:
''These are not colored boys-they
are American citizens" Then, he
continued:
81 am glad that here in this state
color is not tried in the courts.
Here we recognize neither race,
color nor creed; Jew nor Gentle.
This country is fighting now that
democracy, our way Of life, may be
preserved to all here, regardless of
race, color or creed, and that the
state has not proved it's case against
these boys, we ask you to do your
clear duty and free each one of
them"
According to the testimony of
the physician who examined Miss
Morgan, there were no perceptible
bruises or scratches anywhere on
her body and she admitted under
questioning that she had been SEX
ually intimate with men besides her
husband.
While the entire history of the
case has been unique, the local press
has been ultra conservative in re-
porting it. No effort has been made
to appeal to racial animosity by
either side and the trial scene is one
of calm and sobriety.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-02-06
CIGARETTE RATI0NING
PLAN TO BE ADOPTED

Voluntary rationing of cigarettes
here will probably be mapped out
in plans to be announced tomorrow,
according to S. H. Mendell of the
Keilson Tobacco Co.
The voluntary plan, which may
or may not be adopted by Dayton
dealers, provides for distribution Of
ration cards to customers. Sup
plies of cigarettes would be allotted
dealers on the number of cards is
sued. Hotels and large downtown
stores would not be included in the
plan.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-02-06
MAN IS QUESTIONED
IN ASSAULT CASE

Police were questioning Doyle
Couch, 26, of 223 Washington
street, for an attack last November
on Raymond Collins, 81, Of 261
Lafayette street. Collins told police
he was hit on the head with a pop
bottle in restaurant at 440 West
Third street, November 10, and re-
ceived various cuts and a skull frac-
ture.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-02-06
ARRESTED AFTER COLLISION

Police arrested Mona Elizabeth
Begley, 33, of 327 West Fifth street,
for improper driving and violation
of the drivers identification law
after a two-car collision near her
home yesterday.
Nogales international., 1945-06-22

packages will reacn their destina-
ton.
While there is no breakdown to
show the percentage of parcel post
packages intended for servicemen,
the San Diego post office cited 1914
figures to give an approximation of
the task which lies ahead. Last
year 81, ,639 packages were handled
during September, 28,328 in October,
and 1892 in November. These
totals are expected to be surpassed
by substantial margins during the
coming months.
To expedite shipment it has been
recommended that parcels not ex-
ceed Is inches in length and Sc
inches in length and girth COM
bined and that they not weight in
excess of five pounds. Senders are
permitted to ship not more than one
package a week to overseas personnel
and they must be wrapped in con-
tainers of sufficient strength to
withstand frequent handling during
transportation.