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Evening star., 1946-01-15
By LoveH MeHeff

There Is no reason why I should
not contribute a little expert testi-
nlony toward adjustment of the diff
ferences between the telephone
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-09-21
Alabama Democrat
Open Campaign To
Halt Negro Vote

Mobile, Ala, Sept. - (NNPA)
Thre Alabama State Democratic
Executive Committee launched it's
campaign last Tuesday for adopt
ion of a constitutional amendment
to tighten voting registration laws
and avert a 'sflood Of Negro re-
yisterations and Negro domination
1t the polls of Alabama"
In direct appeal to the voters in
The orm Of a printed letter, the
committee said "we are now at the
crossroads" and Alabama must
surround the exercise of suffrage
with such legal safeguards as will
protect our State" from colored
domination.
The appeal, signed by Gessner
IT. McCorvey, party chairman,
pointed out that present laws per-
init registration of any person
by reason of the fact that he or
mis- wife has reeal or personal prop
erty of the assessed value of $500
without regard for educational re-
luirements.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-09-21
Negro Farmer
Produces Years
First Bale Of Cotton

Ernest Harris, colored farmer,
of Houston County, Texas, produc-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-09-21
La. Gets First
Negro American
Legion Post

New Orleans (NNPA) - Gil
making drive of several mon1ns
tie first charter of a colored past
of the American Legion in Louis
lana was granted to -Har-
rison Post No. 500, Scotlandvil.c,
September 4.
The State Departmental Com
mander presented the temporary
charter under which the post will
operate until the permanent char
ter is received from national
headquarters.
Under American Legion regula-
tons a post must first receive its
charter from the local organiza-
ton. The issuance of charter
is then automatically approved by
the national body.
For some time veterans in New
Orleans have been trying to set
up a post of the Union Labor Le-
gionaires, a division of the Amer
lean Legion composed of members
of labor unions. Tiny Scotland
vile beat them to the gun, how
ever, in making Louisiana the
third southern state to grant a
charter to a colored post in recent
weeks. Mississippi and Florida
have already established posts.
During the meeting, at which
the charter was granted, officers
for the newly established post
were elected and charged with
their duties by state officers.
Those elected were: N. l.. Lewis,
commander; Johnnie Jones, vice
commander; C. B. Robinson, sec
ond commander; Acie Bolton, THIRD
commander; Burlington Cox, adj
jutant; George C. Knox, temper
airy chaplain; Louis B. Scott, SER
geant at arms; T. j. Wilcoy, his
torian; G. E. Jones and Feltus B
Lee, color bearers; w. Fl. Braziel
and Willie Parker, service off
GERS.
Any veteran of World Wars
and II living in East Baton Rouge
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-09-21
Clio Calls for Non
Discrimination In
Employment

Washington, d. G.. -(NNPA)- -
Immediate abolition of sebrega-
ton and discrimination in the Dis
trict of Columbia office of the
United States Employment SerV-
ice was urged upon Secretary OF
Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach in
a letter addressed to him last
Wednesday by the Committee for
Racial Democracy in the Nations
Capital, of which Leon A. Ran
som is chairman.
In accordance with an act OF
Congress, operation of the public
employment offices will soon be
returned to the States and only
the District of Columbia office
will remain under the jurisdiction
of the Secretary of Labor. AS an
example to the country, the com.
mittee said, the local office should
be reorganized on a non-segre-
gated basis before the new law
goes into effect. The letter said:
1--WE are writing you to urge
that before USES isretu rned to
the States you isue an admins
trative order abolishing the dis
criminatory and segregated set
up in the District of Columbia Of
flee of USES and requiring that
all job referrals be made without
regard to race, creed or color. BY
SO doing you will eliminate one
of the most unjustifiable handl
caps to equal job opportunities
suffered by Negroes in the Ma
tons Capital, and at the same
time establish the sort OF prece
dent that the Federal Government
should set for the Nation."
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-09-21
Southern Churches
Condemned For
Negligence

New York, N. Y. - (NNPA) -
Mayor William O'Dwyer told
1000 members of the African
Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
last Tuesday night hat he felt
it "his secular duty" to dedicate
himself to the proposition that
all people had a right to housing,
better health, education and en-
ployment. Bishop P. A. Wallace,
retired, of Brooklyn, presided.
Speaking before the sesquicen-
tennial celebration of the Zion
Methodists, which was held at
Mother Zilon Church, 40 West
18th street, the Mayor said that
"as far as it is humanity possible
he would see to it that the city
will provide equal work opportun-
tiles for all it's citizens.
until democracy has fulfilled
that mandate, we have not full
filled our task, he said.
Mrs. Ruth Whitehead Whaley,
who accepted the Mayors address
on behalf of the celebration, cali
ed him "our greatest Mayor, our
most sincere Mayor
Bishop Cameron c. Alleyne OF
Philadelphia declared that Chris
tianity frequently leaves one be-
wildered," and condemned the
Christian churches of the South
for negligence. He charged that
"the lynchers of the South are
for the most part members OF the
Christian churches
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-09-21
RACIAL PREDJUD|CE,FEA
HATRED AND IGNORANCE
HIT IN NEW FOREIGN
POLICY SPEECH

IbOOoS FClCs
Mention the name of Governor
Thomas E. Dewey also was booed
and Paul Robson, actor and sing
er, was given innovation when he
denounced the lynching of colored
people in the South.
Besides denouncing the lynching
Of colored people in the South, Mr..
Robson attacked Govedor Dewey
for giving the green light" to
terrorism by refusing to reopen the
case involving the killing of two
colored veterans i'm Freeport,
Long Stand, and attacked Great
Britain or helping to crush the
peoples struggles toward democra-
cy, freedom and independence in
China, Greece, Palestine and other
place.
The meeting adopted resolutions
calling on President Truman to call
a special sssion of Congress tc
pass legislation on lynehing, pdice
control, housing and relief Of re-
ing Senator James M. Mead and
fugee Jews in Euoper and endors-
former Governor Herbert H. Leh-
man, respectively candidates for
Governor and United Estates Sem
ator on the Democratic, American
and Liberal party tickets.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-09-21
Wallace Says Georgia Lynchings Illustrate
Prejudice That Makes War Inevitable
See Federal Grand
Jury Investigation

New York, N. Y. - A new fed.
eral grand jury investigation of
the police raid on the Negro com
munity of Columbia, Tennessee,
would help prevent lynchings and
riots, DR.. Benjamin e. Mays,
president of Morehouse College,
said today in signing the Civil
Rights Congress petition asking
for federal action against local of
ficials responsible for the raid.
'Lynchings continue primarily
because the persons who do the
lynching know in advance that
nothing will be DONE" DR.. Mays
said. IF nothing is done in Col
umbia, in Monroe, and in the re-
cent case in Louisiana, we may
expect many such instances to oc-
cur within the next few months
"The federal government should
take the initiative and put down
mob rule and lynchings," Sc
stated"
Addressed to President Truman,
the Gro petition calls for a new
federal grand jury investigation
for the purpose of fixing the re-
sponsibility for the raid and for
the vandalism and murders oc.
curing in connection with it.
Full text of DR.. Mays state
ment follows:
Il am in favor of new fed
eral grand jury investigation
in columbia, Tennessee, be-
cause it may serve to prevent
lynchings and riots which are
now on the up surge in this
country. Lynchings continue
primarily because the persons
who do the lynching know in
advance that nothing will be
done. If nothing is done in
Columbia, in Monroe, Ga, and
in the recent case in Louisiana,
we may expect many such in
stances to occur within the
next few months. The federal
government should take the in
itiative and put down mob rule
and lynchings."
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-09-21
Demand Abolition
Of Court Martial
System

New York = Radical changes,
and not few surface reforms,
are necessary in the court-martial
system, the War Departments
Advisory Committee on Military
Justice was told today by two
spokesman of the Socialist Worries
Party. The Committee held an
open hearing at the U. S. Court
House at which interested parties
could present their views.
Abolition of the general court
martial, and civilian court trial
for serious offenses, were .advo-
Gated by George Breitman, New
ark, N. j., SWP candidate for
u. S. Senator and veteran of the
recent war.
Declaring that military trials
are cut-and-dried affairs decided
as commanding officers wish them
decided, he urged that all soldiers
charged with serious offenses be
trial by civilian court "just as
any other citizen would be-"
Associating himself with this
position, a New York veteran, Mil
ton Richardson, SWP candidate
| for 1t. Governor, called for a new
procedure in military trials for
less serious offenses, in cases
where the maximum punishment
would be six months imprison-
ment. His proposals were:
/. In order "to guarantee trial
by jury of your peers,' no mill
tary trial jury should be composed
of soldiers of higher rank than
the defendant.
2. Jury members should be Sc
lected from military units other
than those involved in tie trial.
3. Negro soldiers should have
the right to sit on juries where
Negro soldiers are tried.
| 4. The summary court-martial,
where one officer acts as judge
and jury, should be abolished; the
Articles of War and Court Martial
Manuels should be rewritten to
effect these changes.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-09-21

acclaimed to be very beautiful
structure, and when completely
finished and furnished will cost
approximately $1O,OO0.OO. Serv-
ices will begin at 2:30 p.m., at
which time Rev. H. H. Humes of
Greenville, Miss, President of the
General Missionary Baptist State
Convention will preach the dedi-
catory sermon.
Col. Roscoe Simmons will speak
at 500 pm. Dance after IL
o'clock.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-09-21

ed and ginned, on August 10, the
first bale of cotton OF the season,
for his county. The bale, which
Weighed 47O pounds and brought
$3.50, was placed on display in the
lobby of the First Netional Bank
Of Crockett.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-09-21

The mass lynching of fuor persons
near Monroe, Georgia, July 13, was
cited by Secretary of Commerce
Henry A. Wallace last Thursday
night as an illustration of the kind
If prejudice that makes war in
evidable.
Secretary Wallace spoke in Mad
Dewey, anti-Republican rally spon-
ison Square Garden at an anti
sored by he Independent Citizens
Committee of the Arts, Sciences
and Professions and thee Nation
al Citizens Political Action Comm
ittee.
The subject of Mr.. Wallace's
speech was s'The way to Peace"
In it he set forth a detailed for
eign program which in effect mark
|ed out spheres of influence for both
Russia and the Western Powers.
"The cost of peace" Mr.. Wallace
declared, lis to be measured not
in dollars, but in the hearts and
minds of men," Continueing, he
aid: "The price of peace, for Us
and for every nation in the worl0
is the price of giving up prejudice.
hatred, fear and ignorance.
Let get down to cases, here, at
home. First we have prejudice,
hatred, fear and ignorance of cert
ain races. The recent mass lynching
in Georgia was not merely the most
unwarranted, brutal act of mob
violence in the United States in
recent years, it was also an illust-
ration of the kind of prejudice that
makes war inevitable.
Hatred breeds hatred. The doc
trine of racial superiority prod
uces a desire to get even on the
part of it's victims. If we are to
work for peace in the rest of the
world, we here in the United States
must eliminate racism from our
unions, our busliess organizations,
our educational institutions and our
employment practices. Merit alone
must be the measure of men.
"Second, in payment for peace,
we must give up prejudice, hatred,
fear and ignorance in the economic
world. This means working earn
estly, day by day, for a large
volume of wolrd trade. 1t means
helping undeveloped areas of the
world to industrialize themselves
with the help of American techi
nal assistance and loans"
Secretary Wallace was Kissed
several times during his speech.
The first outbreak occurred upor
/ his mention of President Truman's
name when, after Mr.. Wallace sait
he was neither anti-British MOI
prof. British, neither anti-Russia no.
pro- Russian, he reported that whel
President Truman read these words
he said "they represented the polio.
| of his administration"
In Washington, at his press con
| ference Thursday afternoon before
the delivery of Mr.. Wallace's speech
was begun, Mr.. Truman said he
approved the speech in its entirety
The second outbreak of kissing
came during a discussion of Amer
lean aims in China.
The kissing of Secretary Wallace
was in contrast with the cheers
given an Immediately preceding
speech by Senator Claude Pepper
Democrat, of Florida, who charged
that the President, whom he die
not name, had been captured gen
orally by men who in many case;
never in their hearts believed IL
either tn New Deal or the goot
neighbor policy of Franklin d
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-09-21
CHARGE ELECTION faint
Ed WITH FRAUD, DURESS
ILLECAL|TY, FORCE AND.
VIOLENCE
Ask Denial OF Seat In January
Complaint Filed
Against Senator
DiIbo of Miss.

jackson, Miss. - Over so Negro
and White qualified voters of Miss
issipip including editors, ministers:
educators and veterans, filed q
sworn complaint, in Washington.
early this week, with the special
committee to investigate campaign
matters charging that Senator Bill
bo's election in the Democratic Prl-
mary for United States Senator
last July End was tainted with
fraud, duress and illegality and
achieved by force and violence and
the use of criminal, extra legal and
illegal tactics and asking that he
be denied his seat in the Senate
next January.
The complaint was sponsored by
he State Progressive Voters Lea
que, the Local Branchh of the
NAACP, and the Civil Rights Con-
gress.
The original was filed with the
Special Committee to Investigate
Senatorial Campaign Expenditures
and a duplicate was fled with the
Committee.
The complaint charges that Sen
ator Bilbo"conducted an agrees
i've and ruthless campaign. with
the purpose, object, design and cal
culation to effectively deprive and
deny the duly qualified Negro ell
ectors of Mississippi of their con-
stitutional rights privileges and
immunities to register and vote and
otherwise legally participate in the
said primary election"
1t further charges that Senator
Bilbo had knowledge or reason to
know that the overwhelming maj
,rity of Negro electors of Miss
issippi" would vote against him and
cit was the intention of Senator
Theodore G. Bilbo to Illustrate, sup
press, stffle and overcome the
opposition of the duly qualified
3 Negro electors" to his candidacy.
The complaint alleges that Bilbc
-'incited the white population Of
Mississippi to commit acts of VOL
ence and intimidation against thu
8 Negro population, that the comm
ission of such acts were "crimes
against and violations of the Grim
inal statues and laws of the United
i Estates of Americe and the State
of Mississippi" which Bilbo cad
vocated, conseled, aided and abbot.
ted"
The complaint asserts that Bilbt
by these acts violated his oath Of
ofice of United States Senator tx
support and uphold the Constitu
tlon OF the United ESTATES" ant
hence cannot reasonably be reliet
upon in the future to honor tht
path of the office required to b.
made by United States SSenators
AS additional evidence of his un
Fitness for office, the complain
charges that Bilbo has been AM
now member of the Ku Klu,
klan, secret, conspiratorail ant
Illegal organization with past con
hections with known enemies of tn,
United States, to wit: the German
american Bund and has subscribe,
nd still does, to the principles AM
ctions of the said Ku Klux Khan
Which has committed acts of lynch
CONTINUED on page 81
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-09-21
WD To Investigate
South Carolina
Disturbance
200 NEGRO SOLDIERS EN-
VOLVED FIVE ARRESTED

Florence, S. G.. - (NNPA) =
War Department officials last Fri
day promised an investigation OF
the circumstances connected with
a disturbance here involving civ
ilian, military and railroad police
discharged veterans en- route to
their homes and 200 northbound
troops.
The disturbance started when
two military policemen, acting on
a tip from Fort Bragg, North Car
DINA, where the men had been
earlier discharged, boarded a
southbound train to see how the
men were behaving and found
only one slightly under the wealth
er.
About 200 additional colered
soldiers waiting in the station
saw the MP's arrest this one sol
der and began to grumble. When
station officials asked the MP's
to clear the soldiers away from
the gate so that passengers could
board a northbound train, the
soldiers refused to move.
The MP's saw a colored serge
ant in the crowd and asked him
to assist them. He talked back
to them, which they did not like,
and they arrested him. His ar
rest caused fighting to break out.
A half hour later two soldiers
approached the ticket office in
the station and one of them asked
the woman ticket seller for a
ticket. She told the soldier to
wait until she was through wait
ing on the first soldier. He said
something in reply, which she
did not like. She called over the
loud speaker system for the MP's.
A major and a captain seeing
the disorder attempted to assist
the MP's and restored order. The
captain was struck in the mouth
and knocked down. Four or five
soldiers were arrested by the
MP's.
When the situation grew worse,
H. F. Swilley, railroad police
man, INTERVIEWED He had a riot
gun in his hand and attempted to
hold the soldiers at bay. At that
moment the city police arrived,
surrounded the soldiers and
marched about 139 of them off
to the local Jail.
Two men were released. The
others were held. At about 5
O'Clock the next morning, the
men were tried in police court
here. Of the five individuals ar
rested during the fracas, two were
fined 500 each or thirty days in
Jail, two were fined $50 each or
thirty days in Jail, and one was
fined SIT or fifteen days in Jail.
All the others were fined SIT each
or fifteen days in Jail.
All of the men except three
paid their mes. The mass trial
was completed in about a half
hour and at about $3.50 a. M, the
men were marched to the railroad
station and put aboard south
bound train. They had been dis
charged at Fort Bragg, N. c., and
were lush with terminal leave
pay. They were going to their.
homes at scattered points in the
South, some as far as st. Louis.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-09-21

rlsn, north OF Monte Sane,
vited to join. Meetings are h
cry first and third Wednesd
1 SCOTS Bluff Auditorium !
80 pm.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-09-21
Simmons-hume
Dedicate New Elks
Building

Belzoni, Miss. - Hill Lodge No.
81, 1. B. P. 0. E. of w. Belzoni,
Miss, will dedicate it's new build
ing on September 10Th. This is
Milford chronicle., 1946-12-20
In Short

Filed: BY United Steel Workers
against two u. S. Steel subsidiaries,
suit for $120,000,000 for portable por-
tai pay in last six years.
Announced: By the Supreme Court,
review of test case to establish Wheth-
er foremen should be considered en-
ployes under the Wagner Act.
Recalled: BY Egypts King Farouk,
former Premier Nokrashy to head a
new government.
Died: Damon Runyon, 81, author and
columnist, of liver ailment in New
York.
RumOred: Princess Elizabeth. heir
apparent to Britain's throne, engaged
to Prince Philip of Greece, though
British court circles as usual denied
the story
Rescued: BY British warships, 700
Jews shipwrecked on Syrina Island,
near the Dodecanese, while trying to
run the blockade into Palestine.
Planned: By American Military
Government in Germany, decentral-
ization of Reich banks in the u. S
zone, starting Jan. L.
Integrated: BY Russia, South SAX
halln into the Communist system.
Milford chronicle., 1946-12-20
CoIurnbians
1t Con Happen Here

The ! roGrcSSivc administration OF
Gov. Ellis Arnall will be succeeded i'll
January by Eugene Talmadgc. Before
he bows out of offic1, Gov. Arnall
would like to root out of Georgia such
organizations as the Ku KluX Klan
and ColumbianS, Inc, self-styled anti
Negro, anti-Semitic group. Last week,
Arnal'S attorney general came up
with evidence against the ColumblanS
which might do the trick
The state had evidence to sustain
criminal charges against Columbian
leaders and members, said Attorney
General Eugene Cook, and also testi-
mony accusing them of seeking to eS-
tablish Nazi-like state in this coun-
try.
In formal report TO the governor,
Cook summarized statements of state
prosecutors and former members of
the organization that showed, he said,
that the ColumbianS planned to intim-
idate and injure members of minor
ity religious and racial groups, planned
arrests of innocent Georgia citizens on
false charges, assembled a private
arsenal of deadly weapons, melted
youths to crimes against the state
1T is evident" charged Cook, "that
the philosophy and detectives of the
Columbians are taken almost without
change from Nazi ideology"
Milford chronicle., 1946-12-20
- - :
BIG FOUR: End Of Round One

MYTH Britain's Ernest Bevin
w and the Soviet Unions V. M.
Molotov scheduled to sail home
together aboard the SIS. Queen
Elizabeth, the Council of Foreign
Ministers rushed to wind up its
New York conference.
In six weeks of close discussion IN
the Waldorf-Astoria tower, high above
Manhattan'S swank Park Avenue, the
diplomatic chiefs of the United States,
Britain, France and the U.S.S.R. had
hammered out peace treaties for Italy,
Finland, Romania, Hungary and Bull
garia This was the first phase of the
peacemaking in Europe, apparently
successfully concluded.
March i'm Moscow
The second, and more difficult
phase, will be negotiated in Moscow,
where the Big -Four foreign ministers
are to convene March 10.
Though they had reached agree
ment on a plan for Trieste, calling
for free zone around the disputed
Adriatic port; and for the Danube (by
adopting the principle of freedom of
navigation on the Central European
waterway, such problems were seen
as merely a warming-up exercise for
those that would be posed by peace
plans for Germany and Austria.
Paramount among such problems
would be the conflicting programs for
Germany's future. Should the former
Nazi Fatherland be weakened and dis
membered, as the French proposed,
so that Germans would lose the Saar
and Ruhr industrial regions with their
immense war-making potential? Or
would the Russians put forth de-
mand for a strong Germany that
might build itself to new power with
in the Soviet orbit?
Against these two extremes it
seemed likely that the United States
and Britain would put up firm front
for compromise plan of their own,