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Arkansas State press., 1946-12-06
Crittenden Couple
Chosen BY Live
At-Home Judges

Will and Lola Virges, of Rt. :
Marion Crittenden County, were
chosen by the Arkansas Live-At-
Home Judging Committee as the
1916 first place tenant winners
in the Commercial Appeals ma
tionally famous farm contest, an
honor they have sought each
year since they have been follow
ing the Extension Program, stated
Jesse w. Mason, County Agent
a few days ago.
The Virges will be eligible for
$4,000 of the grand sweepstake
prize offered by the Memphis
Negro Chamber of Commerce.
The first place winners will re-
ceive a State award of $4,000 on
December 5th at the Annual Live
At-Home Program.
Arkansas State press., 1946-12-06
|;ISas ! ! : :! I;Iaa2

SHREVEPORT, LA. - Five
white men are fighting for their
ives to keep from appearing be-
fore the bars of Justice to an
jWer the Federal Grand Jury in
iictment of beating to death
John c. Jones, % year old vet
eran, and the beating of II year
old Albert Harris who escaped
fter being left by the mob as
being dead, The five men includ-
ing Minden's Chief of Police
Benjamin G.. CAN'T, are seeking
relief behind the l4th Amend
ment to the Constitution. They
alleged also that the Grand Jury
indictments returned against
them recently were based upon
prejudices testimony by Albert
Harris who survived an alleged
beating. Thirteen separate mo-
tions were filed before Federal
JUDGE Ben c. Dawkins in omen
,ourf here this week The iudac
took the motions under advise
mant and did not set a date for
a hearing on them In another
motion 10 dismiss the indictment
the five white men declared in
,he petition that an FRI aoent
WAS in the grand ury room,
uhuo evidence i'm fine case WINS
Being rr.erntad. and thov asser,
P1t for the prescot rf This ,pnnl
no urrr bin would have been no
Arkansas State press., 1946-12-06
Bargaining Instead of
Strikebreaking Urged
On Truman by WDL

NEW YORK CITY-(WDL)-
Condemning President Truman
for "resorting to the federal
courts IN an attempt to stop the
miners from exercising their le-
gal right to strike, the Workers
Defense League urged him OF
instead negotiate with the min
efs ON wage increases which are
necessitated by rising living
costs"
The Leagues letter to the
President, written by Rev. Don
Id Harrington, national WDL
chairman, went on to point out
that: when the government
runs a business, it has as great
m obligation to bargain collect
gcly rs the original employer"
The letter described how the
attorney general, after inform
lly unfolding the miners right
o strike, reversed himself and
btains1 a temporary injunction
9fohibiting the calling of a
trike. Recalling the railroad
stfiEe last May, in which the
President threatened to draft
trikers into the army and then
urged legislation to that effect
md the threatened maritime
strike in June which he ordered
the navy to break, Rev. Harring-
ton pointed out: For the third
time this year, you have placed
the federal government in the
role of strikebreaker."
Arkansas State press., 1946-12-06

The Fargo Agricultural cele-
brated its 9th anniversary Of
the founding of the school last
Thanksgiving Day.
The teachers and students as
well as the friends of the school
rejoiced in the progress of the
work of the school during the
past n years. The first celebra-
ton of the founding of the school
in 1919 was one room, 1920 with
one teacher and five little chill
dren.
The school now owns 1872 acres
of land, II frame buildings, much
livestock and farm machinery.
1t is a fact that the Fargo Agri-
cultural School is recognized as
an industrial school but at the
Arkansas State press., 1946-12-06
Philanderians
Charter Train
To State Game
BY G. H. Woodruff

Philander Smith College wrote
a new page in history last Thur
day when several hundred per-
sons, including students, faculty
members and boosters of the Col
lege rode a special Missouri Pa
cific train to Pine Bluff where
the annual turkey day clash be-
tween the Panthers of p. S. c. and
the Lions of Arkansas State A.
M. & N. was played.
When Pres. Harris announced
that two dollars would purchase
round trip ticket, plus trans
portation from the PSC campus to
Continued on Page u
Arkansas State press., 1946-12-06
"FULL-TIME CATHOLICS
NEEDED" NEGRO PHILOSO
PIER TELLS COUNCIL

New York-Special-"The in
tegration of the Negro in the life
of the Church and the nation
is the tset of full-time Catholic
iss,55 Dr.. Francis Monroe Ham
mond, brilliant young Negro
philosopher challenged members
Of the Catholic 1nterracial Council
at their weekly meeting here,
Arkansas State press., 1946-12-06
WHITE MISsISSIppIANs to

pay tribute to aged Negro Hero
Headlines an article originating
in Natchez, Mississippi near the
home of Bilbo I've done no
wrong" the man The Negro
hero, it appears leaped into a
burning butane gas tank and res
cued his boss suffering severe
burns himself, and for that he
is to be honored by the white
citizens. The citizens have even
presented his name to the Car
Continued on Page a.
Arkansas State press., 1946-12-06
ONE THING Georse cannot d,

ONE THING George cannot do
and that is go to the polls Tues
day, December II and vote for
you. So don't wait on George
you will have to do this your
self. Don't play your vote cheap
Pal, your vote Tuesday is just
as important as any mans in
Little Rock, and l don't mean
maybe. When you vote on the gas
issue you have two ways to get
satisfaction. If you are inter
ested in the welfare of your city
and the future prospect of your
dungeons, you can vote to keep
the government out of business
by voting against taking over the
gas company. Now, if you want
to vote for spite, remember there
has been no Negro officers ap-
pointed to serve Ninth Street as
promised. But by all means go to
the polls and vote. You do not
have to be a used of gas to vote,
all you have to do is have your
l945 Poll Tax receipt and live in
the city of Little Rock.
Arkansas State press., 1946-12-06
THE
Roundup
BY A. M. JUDGE

NOW THAT the AME's have
kicked Sims and Curry out of
the Bishopric, l am still ques-
tioning whether they have clean
ed the church out? AT any rate
they have appeased their vanity.
| hope! Yes the baptist have
little strategy too You note
the way they Unanswered Clark
out of office as president of the
Consolidated Baptist at FL Dor
ado. Yes Butch, the devil works
in mysterious ways and wonders
do performl
Arkansas State press., 1946-12-06

the lives of James Lewis, Jr, IA,
and Charles Truddell, Is, young
Negro boys, sentenced to die in
Woodvi lie for murder, Gov
Yielding Wright today told Nat
chez Democrat that he would
not commute the boys sentences
IN the basis Of their youth. More
violence than is necessary, said
lac governor in reference to a
petition signed by 20 "promin-
MT white citizens of Natchez
and Adams County Youth is
awful weak ground with me-,
said the governor. Meanwhile
Walter d. Coleman, local attor-
ey for Lewis and Trudell, con-
voted of numbering Harry Nc
Key, Centorvilie saWmill opcr-
3tor last February, said he would
continue the fight by filing a sug-
Eestlon of error with the State
supreme Court
ATHENS, GA. - Indications
are that conviction Of members
Arkansas State press., 1946-12-06

NATCHEZ, MlSS.--Although
that he had not had
time to study a petition to save
Arkansas State press., 1946-12-06

one week and perhaps two. In
addition to the brief, he will car
ry a substantial amount of pho
tConflnued on PAGE u
Arkansas State press., 1946-12-06

ATHENS, GA. - Indications
are that conviction Of members
Continued on Page AZ
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-02

MIAMI, Fla, Aug. 1-RAThe
body of Benjamin leroy Hobbs, 10
mysteriously slain aboard a U. S
destroyer at Key West, was sent
home Thursday to the little North
Carolina farm where his widowed
mother had long awaited his re.
turn from the Navy.
The mother had expected him
home this week to help her rur
the farm outside Nebo. She was
left a widow last March. The son
had been scheduled to receive his
honorable discharge last Monday.
Lifting a week-long veil Of
secrecy, the Navy announced
Wednesday night that Hobbs. a
second-class seaman, died of "slow
strangulation." The body, clad ir
shorts and bearing head wounds,
was found at $50 a. m. last Thurs.
day aboard the U. S. S. Stribling,
tied up at the Key West Naval
docks. 1t had been dumped behind
the steel shield of a 40-millimetel
gun.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-02

his pension based on the Fact that
his injury has gotten worse. The
government will defray no part of
the maternity costs in your case
OIL have been taking on-I.e-jos
training which was approved ty
the state and by the Veterans 40
mln1stration. 1t took S e e r a
months after l started to get my
subsistence payments straigh.en ed
out. missed the first two month
ly payments They tell me l can't
get them now. Is this true?
A-You shoIl get them if your
enrolment was approved by VA
before you started the training
course.
o. was drafted in 1941 and
served four months before being
discharged as average. Am I en-
titled to the 81 ,enefits?
Aft you served on active duty
o more than 80 days and re-
celveo a discharge other than dis
oCiS, Jou dIS ctISlUle lOT dJ
the CT benefits.
Q-My husband re-erl;sted Nov.
5, 1945, for one year. He immedi-
ately took his 60-day furlough. In
what month will he be dis
charged?
Ale will be eligible for dis
charge in November 1916
Q-My husband is going over
seas soon. viii the government
take me over there free? Does my
husband have to apply for my
transportation, or do I? TO whom
should application be made?
A-The government will take
you over without charge. Your
husband should apply, doing it
through his commanding officer.
Questions will be answered
only in this space-not by maiI.)
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-02
YourGIRights
Questions and Answers
On Servicemen's
Problems
Nv OOUGLAS LARSEN

WASHINGTON Here are some
general questions from veterans
and their rel9tives:
O-My husband has been out OF
mo service fol two years. He gels
pension Of SIS a month. He ,e-
co1tly had to quit his job becau-e
his old injury bothered ni2l 50
rn1ch. And rcw l am going 10
ave a baby. Is there an7 way
46e government will pay my hospi-
.sl and doctor bills? Or will The
government i n e a S e my hus-
bands pension?
A-Your husband can apply at
the nearest office of the Veterans
administration for an increase in
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-02
LADIES DAY

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. l -WD
- A two-alarm fire which swept
through the Pine street turkish
baths Thursday routing Is patrons
proved to be the answer to a fire
mans dream. 1t was Ladies Day.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-02

The city of Chicago has grain
elevator facilities sufficient for
more than 27,20O, 900 bushels of
grain.
Evening star., 1946-04-12
GeeIan 10 Speak Monday
AT Price Control RaIIy

Representative Geelan, Democrat
OF Connecticut, will be principal
speaker at a public rally in support
OF price control at pm. Monday
in Laborers' Hall, 523 New JERSEY
avenue NV. The meeting will be
sponsored by the Washington Cen
tral Labor Union, an American
Federation of Labor affiliate.
Mr. Geelan, a House freshman >
has been active in labor circles OF
his home district as a member OF
Retail Clerks International Pro.
tectlve Association (AFL) and is a
former vice president of the New
Haven Comm Central Labo,
Council. He is a member of the
House Labor Committee.
In announcing the rally Clem
Preller, president of the local labor
group. said it was "gravelv con-
cerned" over efforts to reduce the
powers of OPA.
Evening star., 1946-04-12
Meat Black Market
Increase Denied BY
District 0PA Head

The Office OF Price AdminiStra-
ton joined leading Washington
grocers today in taking issue with
statement made before the Senate
Agriculture Committee Wednesday
by r. J. Eggert of the American
Meat Institute that the number of
stores here selling meat at black
market prices had increased from
81 to 81 per cent during the last
month.
District OPA Director Vincent A.
Holmes asserted his Office could find
only 20 out of the total of 1904
District retailers who sold meat at
over-ceiling prices during March.
Mr.. Eggert told the committee his
assertion was based on a survey
made by research agency which
sent out housewives to shop for a
family Of four during February and
March. They found, he said, that
housewives now are paying 7 cents
a pound, or an average of 10 pei
cent, above ceiling prices.
"A survey conducted by the en-.
1orcement division of the Distric
office of the OPA during March O
81 known violators of retail ceilins
prices on meats found only IA O,
less than so per cent of all habitua
violators in Washington selling a
black market prices" Mr.. Holme
pointed out. Complaints against 81,
other stores on overcharges in mea
prices were made to the OPA pric,
panels. bringing the total OF over
charge cases in the District to 2,
for March, Mr.. Holmes said.
Overceiling sales are discoverd /,
TWO ways, Mr.. Holmes asserted
Monthly surveys are made by vol
unteer price panel assistants
groups of Washington housewives
some OF whom have donated from
1000 to nearly 1000 hours of theil
time to store surveys. Complaint,
from customers purchasing food.
stuffs at retail counters also come
directly to the price panels, accord.
ing to Mr.. Holmes.
Mr.. Holmes said he believed tina,
surveys of meat sales made ir
Washington by even well-inten.
toned groups or organizations art
not as reliable as the results ot
survey trained volunteer housewives
or experienced meat investigators
working for the price panels"
Evening star., 1946-04-12
Brothers Sentenced
In Safe Robberies

Two brothers, Wexford R. Payne
26, and Daniel w. Payne, %, both
of Bradbury Park, Md, yesterday
afternoon were sentenced by Chief
Justice Bolitha j. Laws of District
Court to serve from Is months to
four years on five charges of house
breaking and larceny from drug
stores in which safes said to have
contained more than sf1 900 were
taken. They had pleaded guilty to
the charges.
All of the safes were taken into
Maryland, opened and thrown into
the Patuxent River, police said.
A third man, Wayne c. Bromley
25, of the TOO block of Fifty-frst
street Sc. who was indicted jointly
with the two BROTHERS, pleaded no,
guilty to all counts. He Is scheduled
to be tried on one of the charges on
May 2. Trial of Bromley last month
on one of the indictments resulted in
a hung jury.
Several persons were sentenced
yesterday in District Court on mar
cotics charges. Among them was
Georgiana Hamilton, 80, colored, of
the 900 block Of First street S.W.
whom Justice Jennings Bailey gave
from two to six years on one count
involving a large quantity of mar
cotics.
Others included Mae Reeves, 40
OF the 900 block of Massachusetts
avenue NV. and Helen Ennis, 40
Of the 1900 block of Massachusetts
avenue NV, each of whom was
given from one to three years by
Justice James M. Proctor.
Fred I. Crafty, 80, of the TOO block
of Newton place NV. was given
from one to three years by Chief
Justice Laws on charges of acquir-
ing marihuana without paying tax
on it and of transferring it.
Evening star., 1946-04-12
Kite Competition Begins
Tomorrow at 9 Play Fields

Kite contests for boys and girls
will be held starting at 10 am. to-
morrow at nine Fairgrounds by the
neighborhood centers division of the
District Recreation Department.
Contestants will be divided into
three age groups to include those II
to 18. The contestants will be
judged on workmanship, appearance
and performance.
Added attraction of the contests
will be demonstration of the Navy's
Target Kite" at three of the areas
10 am; Rosedale. II
am, and Takoma, IL noon. The
demonstrations will be conducted by
Comdr. Paul E. CARRIER, U. S. N. r.
The special kite is used to train
gunners.
Besides the three mentioned, the
contests will be held at Chevy Chase,
Turkey Thicket, Hoover, Buchanan,
Congress Heights and Hillcrest Play
grounds.
Evening star., 1946-04-12

dicated a hope that a primary
contest for the governorship would
be avoided on the Republican side,
although Herman L. Mills of Ha-
gerstoWn and D. John Markey Of
Frederick have filed certificates of
candidacy.
The announcement mentioned Mr..
McKeldin's previous record at the
polls, both in victory and defeat.
He said that in 1889, as a first
time candidate for Mayor of Balti-
more, he cut the Democratic major.
ity by $4,000 votes.
Opposing Gov. O'Conor's re-elec-
ton bid in 1912, Mr.. McKeldin re-
duced the Democratic margin to
about 3,700 votes and the State
wide margin to 1924.
1t was this election which estab-
lished Mr., McKeldin's prestige in
Statewide COP circles.
Biggest COP Majority.
Seeking the mayoralty for Sec
ond time, Mr.. McKeldin won in Bal
timore by 10000 votes, the biggest
majority ever given a Republican
candidate for municipal Office in the
city.
Evening star., 1946-04-12
Short-Wove Address
From Hoover Sought
For Food Rally Here

A spokesman for the United
Nations Forum disclosed today
the Mutual Broadcasting Sys-
tenn was making efforts to get
former President Hoover to de-
liver a 10-minute short-wave
broadcast from Europe to be
piped to Constitution Hall
Tuesday night when the forum
stages a food conservation rally.
Mr.. Hoover, honorary chair
man of the Famine Emergency
Committee, is making a tour of
the continent on famine condi-
tions for President Truman, and
will fly soon to the Far East as
a continuation of his mission.
1t also was disclosed that Mrs.
Harold H. Burton, wife Of the
Supreme Court justice, will
serve as chairman of the rally
which begins at 8 pm.
Evening star., 1946-04-12
Two Jima Photo Contest
Winners Announced

Winners in the Two Jima statue
Photographic contest, sponsored by
the District Savings Bonds Division
OF the Treasury Department, have
been announced as follows:
First prize, senior class, Joseph B.
Wertz. 2222 street NV; first prize
junior class, Marvin Maxwell, 1925
Georgia avenue NV; second prize.
senior class, H. w. Pelton, 1920 K
street NV: second prize, junior
class, Henry T. Ishino, 260l street
NV; third prize, senior class, Peter
G. Costas, 459 N street S.W., and
third prize, junior class, Pauline M.
Jarvis, 1884 Harvard street NV.
The winners received Savings
Bonds. miniatures Of the statue and
plaques.
Evening star., 1946-04-12
School Is First
|CPAApproved
Project Here
16-Room Building
For CoIored Pupils
Slated for Southeast

The Civilian Production Adminis-
tration has cleared" for construc-
ton the first municipal building
project since the Wyatt housing or
der of March 26 halted all building
projects for screening" in the in
terest of low-cost housing for vet
Grams, it was disclosed today.
The project is the proposed Rich
ardson School, 16-room building
for colored students to be built at
Fffty-third and Blaine streets Sc,
with an appropriation of $430,000
made in the current District budget.
Disclosure of CPA approval was
made by Assistant Engineer Com
missioner Joseph D. Arthur, jr., who
also is director of District construc-
ton. Col. Arthur said he saw in
the clearance an indication of a
very reasonable" attitude on the
part of CPA toward essential public
construction when its necessity can
be demonstrated.
Gives Commissioners Support.
| Although several minor repair jobs
have been cleared for the city by
CPA, this is the first major con-
struction project to be approved, he
said.
The action also was seen as giving
additional support to the District
Commissioners, now arguing before
a Senate Appropriation Subcommit-
tee for restoration of several school
buildings projects knocked out of
the 1947 District supply bill by the
House few days ago. These in
clude the Bell Vocational School, the
Taft Junior High addition, the
Logan School addition, the Cranch-
Tyler replacement and 7-room ad-
dition to the Anacostia High School.
School Is Overcrowded.
In Justification of the project,
school officials have pointed out that
the only existing school for colored
elementary pupils in the area is
the Smothers School at Forty
fourth street and Washington place
NE, which now has an enrolment
of 303 beyond its capacity
!, In addition, they said, three big
housing projects now are under way
and fourth in prospect, which will
; ultimately provide more than 1000
family units of housing in the area.
These families are expected to pro-
, duce an enrolment for the Rich
, ardson School of some 800 pupils
, which, in addition to the excess at
Smothers, should give it a total en-
Irollment of about 1900.
Evening star., 1946-04-12
Star Staff Photo.

Saturday, my husband and counted
II different types of birds outside
the window. have learned to
identify more than so by their
songs"
Books on Birds, Too.
Her husband, younger in appear
ance than his 54 years, came home
then from work. Yes, he liked birds;
it had been no hardship on him when
his wife had him get special birdlife
records and phonograph from the
Library of Congress. They had books
on birds, too. He showed them.
Mr.. ,Tasker said the housekeeping
job would fall on him for a while
since his wife is making a trip to
Glendale, Calf, where their daugh-
ter, Miss Elnore Tasker, %, is ar
instructor of nurses in a hospital
The mother had been blind seven
years when the daughter was born
While Mrs. Tasker was bringing
out samples of her patchwork quilts
another caller told how precise Mrs
Tasker was in her housekeeping. II
seemed that when company comes
and a visitor helps her with the
dishes, it usually takes days before
the hostess knows where each dish
has been placed. She has twin
shakers, one for onion salt, the other
for garlic salt, and she distinguishes
between them by keeping a rubber
band around one.
Pride Of Needle Experts.
Now if you will come in here, ,
said Mrs. Tasker from the bedroom
door, "Ill show you a few of the
quilts I've made"
There were a dozen or more o1
those oh-fashioned, multicoloree
affairs which are the pride of needle
experts everywhere. Not stitch was
out OF line, not a quilt that had ar
incomplete color scheme or design
Mrs. Tasker said she has some one
arrange the tiny squares in stacks
of identical color, and then she
keeps the stacks in place with pms
After that, she said, it's plain sailing
and ony one could do it-any one
that is, who can both sew expertIy
and produce design without once
looking at 1t.
Evening star., 1946-04-12
Allen Retires From
Commissioners Roce

William Prescott Allen, publisher
of the Bethesda Chevy Chase Trib.
une, announced today that he ha.
withdrawn as a candidate fol
Montgomery County commissioner
''As the publisher of a newspaper,
he explained, "I. feel that I car
be of greater civic service in my
present position by bringing before
the public all issues with which
they should be familiar"
Evening star., 1946-04-12
Glen Echo Park TO Open
Tomorrow for Season

Glen Echo Park, with it's 40 acres
OF old-fashioned carnival thrillers
swimming pool, picnic grounds and
ballroom, will open its season at
l pm. tomorrow.
The swimming pool, which was
not operated last year because of
transportation difficulties, will be
open after tomorrow from 10 am,
to 1890 pm. daily, the manage
ment announced.
Jack Cory and his band will
be featured in the ballroom nightly
except Sunday from pm. to mid
night. The carnival rides will again
be in operation including the roller
coaster, whip, derby racer and the
world cruise. In addition, the man
agement said Sensational new
ride named the 'Cuddle-up' will be
installed soon"