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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-10-19
Building Priority
Granted Rust
College

Holly Springs, Miss. - DR.. l..
M. Mccoy, President OF Rust
College and one Of the noted edu-
Gators of the South, has just re-
ceived the needed priority for the
erection of new buildings.
Immediate Construction of a
new administration building IS
getting underway. There will also
be Dormitory constructed IN
connection with this building.
Congratulatory wires and con-
tributions from alumni and friends
of the College are pouring into
the office of the president each
day.
The Executive Committee of the
Board of Trustees of which Blsh-
on A. N. Brooks of New Orleans,
La, is chairman, will meet at the
College to accept bids within the
next few days. DIR. M. 3. DAY.
age, Secretary of the institution
for Negroes of the Methodist
Church as well as DR.. H. w. Nc
Pherson, Secretary of the Board
of Education Of the Methodist
Church will also be present.
The faculty and student body
of Rust College gave an ovation
to DR.. Mccoy when he announced
thu good news concerning the
granting of the priority.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-10-19
State Convention
Elects Talmadge
As Ga. Governor
ACTS TO EXCLUDE COLORED
VOTERS FROM PARTY
PRIMARY.

ATLANTA, Ga. (NNPA) = The
Georgia State Democratic Conven-
ton acted last Wednesday to es-
tablish white democratic primary
excluding colored voters and for
mally nominated for Governor
Eugene Talmadge, who campaign
ed on platform of white sup
remacy.
Under party rules, delegates
were predominately pro-Talmadge.
Although his chief opponent, John
V. Carmichael, got more popular
votes, Talmadge won in the July
primary under the States county
unit system.
The 62-year old Talmadge was
still in a hospital at Jacksonville,
Florida, recovering from a stom-
ach ailment, and his acceptance
speech was read by his son, Her.
man, who managed his fathers
campaign.
"We Democrats who believe in
the democracy of our forefathers
believe that a Democratic white
primary should be restored in our
Southland" Talmadge's speech
| stated.
Acknowledging great progress
by colored people, Talmadge new
er-the-less insisted that "the Ne
gro has not demonstrated his cap
ability of casting Intelligent bal
! lots"
The delegates also voted to-
continue the convention as a func-
tioning organization by adjourn
ing subject to the callof the chair
man.
Roy V. Harris, floor leader, ex-
planned that this was precau-
ton in the event the Supreme
OOuTC Oh Lie OIlISO OIdCCo oAVuIU
rule in a pending case that the
States unit vote system is uncon-
stitutional, thus invalidating Tai
madge's nomination. 1t was con-
tended that the convention could
then renominate Talmadge.
Over the protest of Representa-
tive Helen Douglas Mankin, Judge
James o. Davis was recognized by
| the convention as the Democratic
naminee for Congress for the Fifth
| District.
In a bitter keynote speech pre-
pared for the Georgia State Dem
ocratic Convention, summoned to
ratify nomination of Eugene Tai
madge as next Governor of Geor-
gia, Representative Eugene Cox
Democrat, of Georgia, castigated
outgoing executive Ellis Arnall as
CONTINUED on page 81
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-10-19

ington. In the states of Georgia
and Mississippi colored veterans
continue to be barred from VA
hospitals.
The admission of colored veter-
ans at Louisville is in accordance
with a promise Major General
Omar N. Bradley, administrator
of veterans affairs, made last
March to Frank L. Stanley, presi-
dent Of the Negro Newspaper Pub
fishers Association, who protest
ed against the extension of segre-
cation in that community when it
was first learned that the VA
would open hospital there.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-10-19
Missiissippians
Stock Holders IN
Tennessee Bank
np r M. HOWARD OF NOUN
pAyoU SLATED FOR VICE
PRESIDENT

,,,h;s Tenn. lSpeclal) .
ms har Of prominent and widely
r nnmDef business sr and profsss staea
m aa,as rsS the h Tri-state 1 Bank Ne apa
T Trust .. o0aps to be opened 1 hsrs
Bank n. senJ 1st, 1916. The e oa0A
on Dees sio,, IS capitalized at szOo -
eorper enesent e in 1000 shares s,,t Ha
stock . at ' Of $4,000. All Of ,s, ere
par par, value nss f. fully subscribed before
the end Of July.
monp the Mississipplan MS. -
have subscribed to from
one hundred shares Of the STOCK
are DR.. T. R. M. Howard Mounu
vile; DR., A. Chas. Hunter anu
DR. J. L. Allen, Columbus ana IL
II. w. Hill, Clarksdale.
Slated to bel elected as pank
'officers at a meeting to be held
at the close of this month are:
DIR. Howard, Vice-president; Il. n.
Wright, Purchasing Agent; Wllber-
force University, Ohio, Cashier;
Elmer Henderson, Of Chattanooga,
Tenn, Assistant Cashier.
The president Of the bank will
|be DIR. j. E. Walker, President OF
the Universal Life Insurance Co.,,
his son, A. M. Walker, Executive
Vice-president.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-10-19
Chairman Praises
Womens Group
COMMUNITY CHEST
DRIVE SHOWS PROGRESS

The women's group, Of the Ne
gro Division of the Community
Chest drive was highly praised by
the General Chairman, Rev. A. L.
Rice, as the drive got we'll under
way towards the middle OF the
week. Rev. Rice said under the
leadership of the finest group OF
civic and community minded
women ever to be found working
together here there was ever rea-
son to believe that the division
would surpass anything ever done
by the women's group. While he
did not state the figure Rev. Rice
said the women had adopted for
themselves a private quota that
would put the campaign over the
top.
Rev. Rice smilingly mentioned
a number of cash contributions
that ran into high figures and that
came from sources and individuals
which revealed a far reaching ap-
nreciation for the work being done
NV the Boy Scouts, Girl scouts
Family Service, YMCA and VIVA
Among the prominent women
oc+ive in the campaign under the
leadership of Mrs. Ruby Suits
1yells. who is President OF tue
cto+a Federation of Colored Wom-
80 rlub are a large number Oh
,rornen who are doing fine WORK
voluntarily and who have not
been identified with the orgahiza'
ton. h;o,,
Tho advance gifts Teams WHICH
..+artod work Thursday have JUST
ahout completed their work as OF
monday and in referring to what
bod been done Rev. Rice indicated
that although they had toucheo
only a relatively smlal nuinpel
.hey were moving toward tnei'
goal. a +bo
The Chairman again stated 'h"'
IN tbe campaign there was a
chance for everyone to sno" -
ao 60 community and civic re
sihilitv which would drive the
division far over its goal OIL s4'
10000.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-10-19
II Vet. Hospitals
Deny Negro Vets
Except mlergency
REPORTS SHOW GEORGIA AND
MISSISSIPPI WITH NO
BEDS FOR NEGRO
VETERANS
By JAMES L. HICKS
NNPA Staff Writer

'Nss - n sszIEf's
| WASHINGTON, D. C. - In
twelve Veterans Administration
hospitals colored veterans are not
admitted at all except in cases of
emergency and of 1852 colored
! veterans hospitalized in other VA
facilities as of August 81, 4y379
or nearly so per cent were re-
ceiving medical care under jim
Grow conditions, a Veterans Ad-
ministration report showed last
Friday.
of the 4,379 veterans hospital
;uod under Jim Grow conditions IN
tuontv-one VA hospitals located
n sixteen states and the district
of Columbia, 2,o40 were peine
treated at the all-colored h0spltal
at Tuskegee, Alabama, the report
disclosed. -. ,-,ovn
The twelve VA hospitals known
- refuse admittance to coloteu
Veterans except in emergenole'
ara located at Legion, Texas; Out
wood We kentucky; Augusta G Tar
@ia; Gulfport, Mississippi; Play ray
sia' -, Arkansas, Lexington,
Tentuckv: Tuscaloosa, AlaDama'
Amarolli, Texas; Eiloxiy Mlss np
ri: montgomery, Alabama heH0'
Nevada, and Atlanta, Georsia'
"A Although the twenty-0ne hospl .
+.1s admitting colored veterans
under segregation conditions pro
vide facilities for veterans IN SIX
+een states and the District OIL w,
umbia, at present only so4 BEDS as
are unoccupied and availaoie -
additional colored veterans seek
NO disqualification in those states
Two hundred sixteen of these I'M
occupied beds are at Tuskegee.
Under present VA policies when
colored veteran applies at hos
pital having segregated facilities
and no bed it available on the
i segregated ward he is placed on
waiting list" and hospitalzed
only when a bed becomes vacant
on that ward.
In Army and Navy hospitals
servicemen are not segregated by
race, but When the VA takes over
such a facility from the Army it
Immediately organizes the hospi-
tai according to the pattern of
the community"
The servicemen in the hospitals
are discharged and become vet
Grams under a blanket order. Col
ored veterans are Immediately
moved to Jim Crow wards if the
hospital is located in the south
| This had happened in more than
one instance.
While last years study showed
that the states Of Georgia, Missis-
sippi, and Kentucky did not pro-
vide any hospital beds for color
ed veterans, this years survey
shows an exception in Kentucky
The VA hospital at Louisville.
Kentucky, as of August 81, had a
total of sixty-eight colored veter-
ans receiving treatment on segre-
gated wards with nineteen jim
| Grow beds available but unoccu-
pied. Two other hospitals in Ken
lucky, however, continue to refuse
to admit colored veterans. Ihey
| are located at Outwood and Lex
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-10-19

A charter has already been
granted by the state of Tennessee.
The bank has been approved by
the Federal Deposit Insurance Cor
poration with accounts up to $4,000
insured.
The incorporators of the bank
are listed as A. M. Walker, Drs,
Walker, Delaine, Hill Walton, and
Kitrelle and Edward Kirk Of Mem
phis.
The bank will be located at 1886
Beale treet.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-10-19
Heliun Imitation

On giant airliners the weight Of
the air used to initiate the tires II
IN appreciable item. It has been dis
covered that lightweight heliurn
gas can be substituted for the air.
About 26 pounds Of helium will do
the lob that formerly took 100
pounds Of air. Thus the payload q
the plane Is increased.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-10-19
Existence OF
University Sign OF
Power Goodness
JOHNSON TELLS HOWARD
STUDENTS EXISTENCE OF
UNIVERSITY SIGN OF POWER
& GOOWNESS OF GOD
By JAMES L. HICKS
NNPA Staff Writer

Washington, D. c. (NNPA)
The very existence OF Howard
University today is evidence OF
the power and goodness of God'
DR.. Mordecai w. Johnson, Howard
president, declared last Tuesday
in extending greetings to the FAC
ulty and students of the unlver-
sity.
Referring to the Howard facul-
tv as the only one of its KIND IN
western civilization, DIR. Johnson
pointed out that it is composed OF
the sons and daughters OF the most
despised and exploited section OF
the human race.
He saw daring in the men VINO
bod founded a university for such
lowly people. Theirs was eh'
work of spiritual genius oe
o,ared DIR. johnson, adding that
uoward's founders would SUM
dav be rated among the most 1af-
s;gbted men in America.
u Pointing out that the schools
equity at times had embraced
Iews, Catholics, Methodists' Con
are9ationalists, Baptists and otn-
o. faiths, DR.. Johnson saio CIV. ale
founders would be proud al'ef :
seventy-five years, to see nnen w.
5:raent views, who formerly
,1,,ed one another, now working
together in harmony -,
Citing the growth Of the schooi
from / $40 students during the ue,
preston years to the more Una thal'
E ooo currently enrolled, DIR. john
son said Towards chief dlfficui-
ties have been student ana la'ui'S
problems. onrocted
One or the pioOi
u;th the student body in the pas.
4ran+v wears has been to ina
eme students to justify the
100 yearly expenditures OF the
In this connection, he recalled
IL r. of tho late Presl-
dent Franklin D. Roosevelt 70
word Howard. At times President
Roosevelt was collectively inhlo-
tied from spending more money
because of the obvious factor Oh
enrolment" DR.. Johnson said. 1T
;s tribute to him that he did not
reduce our budget" he added.
The difficulty of getting enough
students of high mental calioer
70 maintain high academic Level
was listed by DIR. Johnson as a
second student problem.
Directing attention to newly OPP
ened fields for colored people, III.
Johnson said there is no problem
in finding colored students today
because they realize that if they
are qualified, only God hlmsel1
can say how high they VIII De
able to rise.
In a numerous vein, using the
dental profession as an example
DIR. Johnson said the question no
longer is whether a coloreo aeh-
list will make any money, ou'
| rather whether the dentist VIII 40
anything other than make money
Dr Johnson's son is dentist.
The academic procession from
tho Founders Library to RANKIN
Memorial Chapel, where DR.. Jonn-
con spoke, was led by DR.. Jonn
Wesley Huguley. 1t was Dr' mug :,
uley's nineteenth year as marsnai'
Of the procession.
Evening star., 1946-06-03
Hearing Is SET on Bill
To Raise Police Paw

A public hearing has been sched.
uled for 10 am. Thursday by the
Hebert Subcommittee of the House
District Committee on the Mcmillan
bill to extend the IA per cent Fedora
pay raise to Washington police anc
firemen.
The bill, introduced recently by
Chairman Mcmillan of the full
House District Committee, woulc
apply to members Of the Metropoli.
tan, White House and park police
and to members of the District Fire
Department.
Chairman Mcmillan had planned
to have the full committee consider
this bill, if favorably reported by the
subcommittee, at the session of the
full committee scheduled for Thurs
day at II am.
He said, however, this and other
measures on the committee calendar
might not be reached at the Thurs.
day session because 1t was called
primarily to report out the slum re-
development bill.
Other measures awaiting full com
mittee action include those propos-
ing summertime daylight saving for
Washington, a ban on erection OF
television towers in residential-use
districts and reorganization of the
Board of Trustees of Southeastern
University.
Evening star., 1946-06-03
Jewish Groups TO Hold
Festival Of Shouvuos

The Festival of Shouvuos or the
Feast of Weeks" will be observed
by orthodox, conservative and re-
formed Jewish congregation S
throughout the District.
The holy day, one of three festi-
walls celebrated in Biblical days by a
pilgrimage to Jerusalem, occurs ex-
actly seven weeks after the second
day Of Passover and is particularly
noted as the traditional date on
which Moses received the law of
God on Mount Sinai. The other two
festivals entailing pilgrimages to
Jerusalem were Passover, celebrat-
ing the exodus from Egypt and the
Feast of Booths, fall harvest festi-
val Of Thanksgiving. Shouvuos is also
observed as the time of the early
wheat harvest in Palestine.
Reform congregations tradition
ally observe the day by confirming
children in the faith. Orthodox and
conservative congregations also OBJ
serve the following day with memo
rial services.
Evening star., 1946-06-03
Car Title Case Dropped
On Prosecution Motion

A case in which Bryan Dorsey,
former Metropolitan policeman, was
charged with forging an automobile
assignment title was dismissed on
Government motion today after JUS
tice James M. Proctor of District
Court had overruled a defense mo-
ton for a directed verdict.
The motion for dismissal was
made by Assistant United States
Attorney Edward Molenof, who said
the Government did not wish to
proceed as the alleged offense was
based on technicality. This, he
said, was in view of the fact that
the woman owner of the car had
agreed that Dorsey be made CO.
owner
It had been contended by tho
Government that Dorsey had al
tered the papers to show himself
part owner of the car. Dorsey re.
signed some time ago from the force
to enter private business
Evening star., 1946-06-03
Circus Comes Back to Capital
with Its Own Postwar Problems

Big red balloons blossomed today
for the first time since the war under
the white canvas Of the biggest of
big tops as the circus got under way
for six-day stand.
Men who year ago were sweating
it out on Okinawa or waiting for the
boats to bring them home from
Europe swung again from the flying
trapeze.
Midgets-more than a score OF
them-who left the circus to weld
in the wings of bombers were trottine
again around the green sawdust
track of the circus and fighting it
out in the clown fest of the bar
gain sale"
On the performers side of the
cook shack again came the babble of
foreign tongues. OF the foreign acts
imported since the wars end only a
few Of the performers could speak
any English at all
Reconversion Not Complete.
These were the sights and sounds
Of Ringing Brothers, Barnum &
Bailey Circus in the postwar world
but-like everywhere else-recon-
version is nowhere near complete
for the show that today began a six
day engagement at Benning road
and Twenty-sixth street NE, with
performances each day at 2::l5 and
1915 pm.
Two-thirds of the hundreds of
performers and show hands who
went to war or the war plants have
returned, but the circus is still suf-
fering from a manpower shortage
and the draft.
AS one of the bosses explained it.
We're missing the 18-year-olds.
The draft swallowed them up. The
kids used to join up as hands to see
the country with the circus, but we
haven't seen them for a long time
Do you think they're going to start
drafting the kids again?"
The manpower shortage got so
acute when the show made its first
move under canvas from Philadel-
phia to Washington over the week
end that candy butchers" had to
pitch in and help pull down the
big top. Even so, the 276 rolling
pieces scheduled to arrive here in
the early morning yesterday were
still getting in at sundown.
Balloons Are Back.
The balloons are hack with rat
faces and tiny cat ears, but some
of the other concessions are still
feeling the wartime pinch.
1--WE ran out Of hot dogs three
times last week." commented Frank
Miller, head of the concessions,
"and of course we've cut down on
hot dog rolls-for starving Europe,
you know. Then there's the cotton
candy. We're still rationed on
sugar."
But the headaches of the hot dog
men are nothing to those of George
Blood, veteran comn1issary chief,
who feeds 1,400 people three times
a day. He and his brother Archie,
assistant chief, agree that it's
harder to get food now than it was
during the war.
The circus voluntarily took 30
per cent cut in its customary 400
pounds Of bread a day and the
Bloods say they haven't seen q case
of butter for a month. Sometimes
they run out of oleomargarine and
the circus folk eat jelly and peanut
butter on their bread. '.'--.
II used to plan my meals" said
Archie Blood with a housewives
Evening star., 1946-06-03
u. ). Bond Drive
In District 10
Open Thursday
Publicity. Campaign
To Stress Danger
Of Initiation

The first peacetime Savings
Bonds drive-a publicity campaign
without quotas or solicitations-will
begin Thursday, second anniversary
of the D-Day landings in France,
and continue on through July 4,
Independence Day, Wilmer j. Wal
ler, chairman of the District Savings
Bonds Division, announced today
The nationwide campaign will
emphasize the danger of imitation
and bring to the public attention
the wisdom of putting away every
possible dollar in U. S. Savings
Bonds. Treasury analysts estimate
Americans will have about $22,000,-
100000 more in 1916 income than
they can spend on consumer goods
at legitimate prices, and the drive
will seek to place this surplus in
non-infiationary channels.
Our country's need for our saw
ings is as urgent today as during
the war;" Mr.. Waller said" Every
bond dollar invested is a telling shot
fired in the battle against imitation
"a battle in which every one of
us has a personal stake.
Savings Bonds represent money
wisely diverted from the markets,
where needless buying of scarce
goods tends to push up the cost of
living prices. Our Savings Bonds
dollar continues to help out veter-
ans. The men still in hospital cots
continue to look to us for their re-
covery and readjustment to civilian
life.
THE millions of discharged vet
Grams continue to receive we'll
earned benefits which the law pro-
vides for. There is a self-interest
reason for buying bonds, too. They
are still the finest investment we
can make. paying back 81 for every
So when held to maturity.
"The Savings Bonds Division
urges all residents to buy an extra
Savings Bond during the special
promotion campaign June to
July f."
Evening star., 1946-06-03
Montgomery Hospital
Called Understaffed
In Report on Health

The Montgomery County General
Hospital at Sandy Spring is under
stated" to such degree as tc
"endanger sound medical and bed
side care" it was charged today in
report made public by the Metro
politan Health and Hospital Survey
On the other side of the picture
the report, prepared for the entire
metropolitan area by the Council
of Social Agencies, declared the
Washington Sanitariun at Takoma
Park 'is rendering excellent service
to selected group of patients on
its own terms, in almost luxurious
facilities"
In general the report, prepared
by DR.. Claude w. Munger, of New
York, recommends that most hospi-
tails in the nearby Maryland and
Virginia area be increased in bed
capacity, and in one instance in
personnel, and that an arrangement
be effected with the District where
by serious cases could be taken to
Gallinger.
Taking up Montgomery County,
the report finds that the hospital
bed ratio there is approximately
3 per 1000 persons.
1T is our opinion" the report
continues, that many persons from
this comparatively prosperous area
will continue to seek disqualification
in Washington. We hesitate, ac-
cordingly, to recommend any major
increase in bed capacity until local
demands develop to the point where
it becomes clearly necessary"
Singing out the county General
Hospital, however, the report as
serts:
"It's active staff consists of two
physicians who engage in the gen.
eral practice Of medicine. Wash
ington specialists are infrequently
called for consultation purposes.
Physicians service is not readily
available during evening hours and
nursing care was quantatively in
adequate at the time of our visits.
The hospital has been greatly over
crowded and require significant al
teration and expansion of facilities,
particularly for the care of obstetric
patients"
OF Suburban Hospital, Bethesda,
the report finds it's administration
progressive and resourceful;" while
it adds that the Seyenth-Day Ad-
ventist-managed Washington Sani-
tarium is rendering excellent serv-
ice." 1t adds that a contagious ward
could be established to advantage
at the former hospital.
1t was recommended that more
beds be provided in the Alexandria
Hospital. 1t suggests that beds. per
1000 population should be the ratio
at Alexandria to take care of the
overflow from Fairfax County with
its continuing lack of hospital de-
ve1or,yoent -