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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-10-26
Aspirants for RA
Commissions Must
Apply by Jan. First

Washington, d. c. - The Army
is seking qualified Negro male Of
ficers to help swell the commits
stoned strength to a recently au-
thorized ceiling of $4,000. APP
plications must be forwarded or
postmarked prior to December 81,
1916, in order to be considered.
Those who qualify under a pro-
cessing program which closely
parallels that employed to select
an initial increment Of 1913 Of
ficers late in June will be added
to the consideration list and Civ.
en- equal opportunity on the basis
of qualification with those already
listed.
formal application is required
of officers who have not previous.
ly applied and a supplementary
form is required of previous ap.
plicants who are eligible.
1t was pointed out that original
applications not among the initial
9,S13 given Regular Army com
missions may assume they are on
the consideration list unless they
have been formally notified by the
Bar Department to the contrary
Those who have been notified OF
rejection will not be eligible. 9th
ers will be permitted to restate
their interest in being commits
stoned as a Regular Officer and to
change their choice of branches,
if they so desire, before the in.
tegration of the $4,000 new Regu-
lar Officers is begun, regardless
of whether they are still on &C.
tive duty or have revedted to
civilian status.
Tentative plans for Indignation
of these officers call for appoint
ments to be made in four incre-
ments, in January, May, Septem-
Der and December of 1947. 1t is
anticipated that greater emphasis
will be given in the first inter
grafton.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-10-26
Registration
Plan Offered
By Baltimore

Since 1913 the Baltimore Branch
of the NNACP has been conduct
ing a Registration and Vote Cam
paign annually.
The President, Mrs. Lille M.
Jackson, was brought to the stark
realization of the lack of this civic
function among our people by a
political leader who flatly stated,
"You can't expect me to go about
for the repeal of the Jim Grow
Bill. Your people don't vote"
These were fighting words and
they were so construed, resulting
in our Registration and Vote Cam
paign. , :
The ministry throughout the
city were asked to support the
Campaign and responded to man.
Portions of sermons were dedi-
Gated to the Importance of the
franchise. Registration and Vote
| Clubs were formed within church
es. ~sAI WIN n III
Block meetings were organized
| in which an effort was made to
solicit the active support of each
resident Of the block, to work for
the registration of all.
Cards of introduction, direction
and information were arranged.
| The individual signed these, went
to the Court House and registered.
Court House Guides were on hand
to direct the registrants to the
proper office and get their cards.
Cummed stickers were designed to
be displayed on the windows of
cars which read = "I vote. Do
You?" Register today - NAACP
Registration Campaign"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-10-26
TAN TOPICS: working Late Again. Mr.. Pnchpenny.'

issue. l just don't know what
Pm to do"
Two suits resigned to keep Mr..
Scott from getting the coroner's
office were filed in Superior Court
last Thursday in behalf of Frank
lin D. Rogers, a real estate man.
One sought to compel the county
ordinary to appoint a coroner for
the unexpired term of Mrs. Paul
Donehoo Martin, who resigned.
The other asked a mandamus
against holding a special election
for the post.
Mr.. Scott supported Eugene
Talmadge, who was nominated for
Governor, because l felt he was
best qualified for Governor" Mr..
Scott, however, disagreed with
MMr. Talmadge on exclusion of
colored voters from Georgia Dem
ocratic primaries.
In New York, Lester B. Gran
ger, executive secretary of the
National Urban League, said that
the events in Georgia were "an-
other tragic instance that our in
ternational aims are frustrated
by contradictions at home.
at was probably difficult
judgment for Mr.. Scott to make
but severe criticism should be lev.
eled not at him but at the forces
confronting him." he said.
He regretted that "the Atlanta
electorate" was not having an op-
portunity ito redeem itself in the
eyes of liberty-loving Americans
by voting for candidates on their
merits"
Claiming H. Tobias, executive
secretary of the Phelps Stokes
Fund, who returned from Georgia
Wednesday, said that liberal ele-
ments in Georgia "now seem stun
ned' by developments of the Dem
ocratic party, which recently met
"for the purpose of getting Ne
groes out of the party"
Roy Wilkins, assistant executive
secretary of the National Associa-
ton for the Advancement of Col
ored People believed that colored
people would benefit if "Scott
should stand pat.' He said that
it was another instance of the
gia's Negro citizens"
Talmadge intimidation of Geor-
Roger Baldwin, executive Sec
rotary Of the American Civil Lib
critics Uniony haw Intimidation"
but hoped that Mr.. Scott twill
think better of it and remain in
the race" The incident appears
to be violation of Federal law"
he said, land of concern to the
A. C. L. u"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-10-26
Negro Officer
Helps Convict
War Criminals

Florence, Italy = The U. 5.
Military tribunal before which
First Lieutenant Clarence W.
Burks, a Negro Infantry officer
from Pittsburgh, presented the
governments case against three
Italians held as war criminals for
numbering a white AAF flyer IN
February, 1915, has sentenced one
to be shot by firing squad and
another to life Imprisonment.
Proceedings of the Commission,
which opened September Is with
Lieutenant Burks as assistant
trial judge advocate, lasted ten
days. Lieutenant Burks did most
of the questioning for the prose-
cution throughout the trial.
Convicted were Cap tain Italio
Simonitti and Private Benedetto
Pilon, former members of the
Monte Rosa division which contin-
ued to fight with the German
army until the end of the war
in Italy. General Mario Carloni,
commander of the division, was
acquitted of the same charge.
The U. S. government charged
that the Kansas City, Missouri,
pilot had been shot and placed in
to previously dug hole behind a
cemetery in Camporgiano after
being captured THE SAME DAY.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-10-26
Attempt Made To
Disqualify Negro
For Ineligibility

Atlanta - A white candidate
for Fulton County (Atlanta) cor
oner attacked the candidacy of
Negro educator for the office to-
day, October II on the grounds
that the latter had not lived here
long enough to qualify.
In a petition George M. Kirk
land alleged that Aurelius S.
Scott had been a resident of JEFF
ferson County birmingham Ala.
and had taken a voters oath there
as late as September %, 1915.
Georgia law requires a candi-
date to have been resident of the
state for at least two years prior
to the general election in which
he seeks office. /
The petition was handed to
county clerk Eugene Gundy, who
said he would summon Scott for
a hearing Monday to show cause
why he should not be disqualified.
Kirkland is one of the % white
candidates who announced for the
coroners post left vacant by resig-
nation After Scott announced his
candidacy the County Democratic
candidacy, the County Democratic
Executive Committee at first de-
manded his withdrawal which
Scott tentatively offered. The
committee then expunged the re-
quest from it's records and Scott
declared he is in the race.
The committee designated Ed
Armand as the party's candidate
for the post and asked other
white candidates to accede to its
decision by withdrawing and sup
porting Armand.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-10-26
Justice Dept. Acts
In Case of
Blinded Veteran

New York - The NAACP'S
seven month battle to secure just
ice for blinded veteran Isaac Wood
ward reached a dramatic climax
when the Department of Justice
using seldom invoked statute,
brought action against the veter-
ans self-confessed, Leonard L..
Shull, chief of the Batesburg, S. c.
police department
Public interest was further ex-
cited by the Justice Departments
decision to prosecute the Bates
burG trooper under seldom-used
statute passed by Congress in 1870
to give civil rights to Negroes and
implement the 14th Amendment
to the Constitution which abolish
ed slavery. 1t is one OF the few
evil rights statutes in Federal law
The statute however is so narrow
and the penalties it prescribes are
so light the Attorney-General Clark
has announced he will ask Congress
to broaden the entire civil Liberties
laws n order to give the Federal
, Government more power to inter
vene where states, as charged by
the NAACP in the Woodward case,
fail to uphold tkcm.
The fight ii insure federal action
in Woodward's behalf, first in
stituted by the NAACP in May,
touched off a nationwide wave
of public indignation in the South
as we'll as the Ncrth The shocking
parallel to recent Nazis storm
troopers sadism was widely noted
in the foreign press after Stuart
Gelder, famous British war cor
respondent and now chief of the
London News Chronicle office in
New York, broke the story in Lon
don and Calcutta. American public
attention further commended by
Orson Welles, who devoted several
of his ABC network broadcasts to
the Woodward case with informa-
ton supplied by the NAACP in
vestigators. AS a result of his I'M
precedented demands for justice,
Welles' pictures were banned from
the theatres in Aiken, S. C. and he
was hung in effify in a demon
straton in that city
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-10-26

"On the contrary the said knights
of the Ku Klux Khan Of New Jer-
sey is an unlawful organization
destructive of the rights and liber-
ties of the people and does operate
n violation of the constitution and
laws of the United States and the
state of New Jersey and does
advocate the arousing Of racial and
religious prejudices, formenting
disorder and encouraging riots and
unlawful assemblies in contempt
of the state of New Jersey"
New Jersey was the scene of a
joint meeting of the Klan and the
IS, 1900, at Camp Nordland in
Andover, Sussex County, which last
week was mentioned by the Federal
Justice Department as a basis for
outlawing the organization nat
only. Il II
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-10-26
Givens and Gray 10
Address Virginia
Teachers

Richmond, Va. - DIR. Willard E.
Owens, Executive Secretary Ma
tional Education Association of
the United States, Washington,
D. c., and DR.. VIM. H. Gray, Jr.,
President of Florida A. and M.
College, Tallahassee, Florida, will
speak at the fifty ninth annual
convention of the Virginia Asso-
citation for Education which will
be held in Richmond, Virginia on
November 26, 81, % Thanks
giving) and 20, 1916.
According to an announcement
by j. Rupert Picott, executive
secretary of the Virginia teachers
professional organization both DR..
Givers and DR.. Gray will speak
at the Wednesday evening session
Of the convention, November n.
AS chief executive of the N.E.A.
DR.. Givers is official spokesman
on the national level for all of
the teachers in the white and col
ored schools throughout America.
During DR.. Gray's brief tenure,
Florida's State college has made
rapid strides. One of the young
est college heads in the country,
DR.. Gray is already regarded as
one Of the nations leading educa-
tors.
Other speakers of national repu-
tation who will address the con-
vention besides DR.. Owens and
DR.. Gray are G. Tyler Miller
State Superintendent Of Public In
struction for Virginia, DIR. Heller
M. Robinson, Director of the Uni
versity of CHICAGO Reading Clinic
Chicago, ILL.,; DR.. Raleigh Schorl.
ing, Chairman of the Commission
on Post War Plans of the Nationa
Council of Teachers of Mathema.
tics, and Professor of Educa ton
University of Michigan; Ann Ar
Dor, Michigan; Mrs. Thomasina w
Johnson, Chief, Minority Group.
Section, U. S. Dept. of Labor
Employment Service, Washington
D. c.; DIR. Richard l. Mckinney
President of Storer College, Har
per's Ferry, West Virginia; Mrs
B. E. Morgan, Vice President
National Congress of Colored Par
ents and Teachers, Gainesville
Georgia and others.
The theme chosen for this year..
annual session is Working for thu
(! New World Through Education
! All of the general session, depart
mental and sectional meetings vii
be influenced by this topic.
| This will be the first full con
vention of the organization since
the end of World War II. In ad.
dition, to the general sessions
numerous division and sectional
meetings, and innovation this year
will be the Reading Clinic for al
teachers.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-10-26
Meeting Hailed
AS Successful In
South Carolina

Columbia, S. C. = The South
ern Negro Youth Congress adopt
ed a sreolution calling for "the
immediate removal" of James F.
Byrnes from the office of secre-
tary of State.
Byrnes is unfit to represent
the American people in the coun-
ellis of the United Nations" the
resolution said.
Another resolution called on the
United States Senate to declare
the reelection of Senator Bilbo
null and void and to refuse to
seat him.
Expressing satisfaction for a
conference held comfortably and
peacefully in one of the most
reactlonary states of the nation -
he Congress adopted a wide range
of other resolutions.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-10-26
' Vegetable saIaay

70 preserve the crisp. fresh ap-
pearancs Of garden vegetables In
salads. have them thoroughly
chilled. Prepare foods for salads the
day before serving and keep them
IN the refrigerator over night. For
texture contrast, just remember to
combine something crisp with any
thing soft. Examples: Use celery
tn hsh. egg and vegetable salads;
uss shredded cabbage or lettuce in
shrimp, vegetable or fruit salads.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-10-26
Candidacy Of Scott
For Ga. Coroner
Called Untimely
Though Reversed Candidate Who
Supported Talmadge for Gov.
Quits at Request of
County Committee.

ATLANTA (NNPA)-Aurelius
S. Scott, candidate for coroner in
a race with twenty-three white
persons, withdrew last Friday at
the request of the Fulton County
(Atlanta) Democratic executive
committee, which then promptly
reversed itself and ordered the
entire procedure stricken from its
records.
The reversal came after an At
lanta attorney, George Finch,
warned the committeeman that
they might be liable to Federal
prosecution because "the law pro-
vides penalties if two or more
persons conspire to withhold the
rights of any citizen.
Meanwhile, Mr.. Scott had writ
ten out his withdrawal, handed it
to the committee and departed.
His status was in doubt, since he
left the room when the committee
reversed itself.
Mr.. Scott is a brother of c.. A.
Scott, editor of the Atlanta Daily
World, and is a former professor
of education and psychology at
West VIRGINIA State College.
The meeting of the Democratic
committee was called last Thurs
day soon after Mr.. Scott quail
fled. The members were said to
fear the possibility that a solid
colored vote would elect Mr.. Scott
in view Of the twenty-three other
candidates.
Colored leaders were upset by
the situation, and the candidates
brother called CLOSED" meeting
last Friday night to discuss it.
Editor Scott said that he did not
know his brother had qualified
until he had read it in the Atlanta
newspapers, and that he would
not be supported by lis newspa-
per.
"At this stage of our political
development in the State" the
editor said, 81 do not think it
expedient for Negroes to run for
public offices. However, at the
praper time, / think qualified Ne
groes have as much right to seek
office as any other citizen"
In turbulent three-hour ses-
sion, the twenty-three white can
didates bickered among them
selves as to whether one of them
should be chosen ITO keep a mig
ger from becoming coroner of
Fulton County," The committee
finally voted on the fourth ballot
to nominate a former COUNTY
commissioners, Ed Armand, for
coroner.
Politically, this leaves the %
other candidates, including Mr..
Scott, as independents, which
in Georgia would be tantamount
to defeat. Seventeen said they
would abide by the party decision,
but six white men indicated they
would carry their cases to the
voters. Mr.. Scott, who left the
committee chamber after writing
his withdrawal, was completely
baffled.
81 withdrew" he said, "because
the committee asked me to. /
don't know where that leaves me.
I don't want to make a racial
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-10-26
The Danger Of
Overwhelming
BY RUTH TAYLOR


fects of group thinking is it's
tendency to create over-reaching
ambitions within the group itself.
That is, the group itself. That is,
the group may start with a good
idea, a worthwhile fight for a
deserved right, but once this is
attained, its members are not con-
tent. They have tested the wine
of power of teamwork, and they
over-reach themselves to go out
after privileges. Then, in their
search for power, they, too often,
in turn trample on the rights of
others.
Afain and again in history has
this happened, from the Rule of
Ten in Rome in the year 367 B.
G. - and even before - up to the
present time. There is nothing
so intolerant as the intolerance of
those who have fought their way
to power. They have so concen-
trated on their own struggle that
they have been prone to overlook
the fact that other people have
, to live too.
Up to now one of the great adj
vantages of our republic has been
that it was never static long
enough for any group to keep con-
troll too long. The country was
too big, to varied in its resources,
| to be anything but fluid. Found
ed upon religious freedom, religi-
. Gus autocracy has never been al
lowed to gain foothold. Not
erected upon a class structure,
I it has not devided into classes -
for in each generation men have
found their own level as individ-
uals, not as group or groups.
The classic phrase is three gen.
erations from shirt sleeves to
shirt Sleeves
Lately, however, there has been
an increasing tendency to sepa-
rate into groups, or cliques, gov
erned by ideas. This trend is
definitely dangerous for any
group which claims unique re-
Violations or political perferment,
is a divisive influence aiming at
physical, economic or mental DOM
nation over others. 1t is the
breeder of dissension, intolerance
and trouble among our people.
When Americans put the inter-
ests of their own group before
the interest of America as a whole
they are setting up in our coun-
try the breeding grounds for dis
putes, the like of which have
laid waste Europe for centruies.
Whether those interests be spec
ial concessions for Industry or
special privileges for Labor;
whether they be special consider
alton for any religious group or
special favors for any minority,
they still spell over-reaching.
There is no group whose record
is guiltless in this respect.
Justice for all, equal in it's ap-
plication, should be our aim as
Americans. Before we make a de-
mand, we should figure out if we
are asking for favor or right
and if we are willing that the
same right or favor be granted
to everyone. The primary fallacy
in logic is arguing from the in
dividual to the group
We are a government of the
people, by the people and for the
people. But we can fulfill our
destiny as a nation only as the
individual citizens, acting not as
groups, but as Americans, work
for the good of all the people for
I'll A,,,orioo
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-10-26

Drying. one Of The oldest ways
Of preserving fruit, makes the most
Of the natural sugar In fully ripe
fruit. Fruits do not need sugar In
canning to keep from spoilage, but
sugar helps hold flavor. color and
shape.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-10-26

Hunn, . TN plant a he nnGIlb1D.
~ fAmfy, pgod,Ieos the stfMeeoe
known vegetable dber.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-10-26

Kotino Poxinou (rght) Greek actress who performed
the Aristophones comedy Lysstroto mony times in her
native land before the war; shown giving few pointers
to Etto Moten stor and to james Light who directing
the revival which opened this week at the Beosco theatre,
New York City Mme Poxnou, who scored as Pillar in the
film For Whom the Bells Tolls, visited Miss Moten on
the Of her departure for England and more film
making.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-10-26

Wooded State
National forest areas cover almost
one-fourth Of Oregon.
Evening star., 1946-01-09
DC. Women S Groups
Cited for Bond Sales
OF 1OO,000,000

In a colorful ceremony last night,
the Treasury Department saluted
District Women War Finance vol
unteers and their A organizations
for raising in excess of 100000 900
in War and Victory Bond sales dur
ing the war.
In presenting citations for dis
tinguished wartime service, in the
Hall of Flags at the United States
Chamber of Commerce, w. ]. Wal
Ter, chairman of the District War
Finance Committee, declared: THE
support of our District war financ-
ing program by women of Wash
ington was in keeping with the best
traditions of American patriotism"
Other speakers were Robert w.
Coyne, national field director, war
finance division of the Treasury;
DR.. Mabelle Blake, head of the ma
tional women's section; Miss Anita
Phipps, president of the American
Women's Voluntary Services, and
Mrs. Arthur C. Houghton, District
chairman of women's organizations.
The meeting was sponsored by the
women's division of the District
committee, whose chairman, Mrs.
Howard G.. Nichols, presided. Ar
rangements were in charge of Mrs.
George M. Morris, who represents
the AWVS on the Executive Com
mittee. The Navy Band Orchestra
played.
individuals Cited.
Twenty-six groups received the
Treasury Distinguished Service Cita-
ton and the Surgeon Generals Ci-
tation. The groups set their Victory
Loan quotas in terms of veterans
hospital and rehabilitation costs.
The remaining 18 groups received
the Treasury Citation for outstand-
ing work in War and Victory Bond
selling.
Individual Treasury Citations were
awarded to more than 500 women
who, through their activities in bond
booths and various organizations,
gave outstanding service to the war
finance program.
Treasury Citations were awarded
the following: Blue Star Mothers,
B'nat Birth Young Women, Beth
Sholem, Ladies Auxiliary, Chevy
Chase Women's Club, City of Hope
Auxiliary, National Society of Co.
lonial Danes of America in the Dis
trict of Columbia, Federation of
Women's Clubs, Hadassah, District
Chapter; Housekeepers' Alliance,
American Legion Auxiliary, League
Of American Pen Women, District of
Columbia Branch; Petworth Wom-
ems Club, Puerto Rican-American
Women's League, Quota Club,
League of Republican Women,
Evening star., 1946-01-09
Operetto Scheduled

Music students Of Anacostia High
School will present the Gilbert and
Sullivan operetta, 1.-THE Pirates OF
Penzance," ut 8 pm. tomorrow and
Friday in the school auditorium,
Sixteenth and r streets Sc. Miss
Eva Henderson, head Of the schools
music department, will direct the
production.
Evening star., 1946-01-09
Sunshine and Community Society
and the Tuesday Club.

Sunshine and Community Society
and the Tuesday Club.
Surgeon General Citations.
Surgeon General Citations were
awarded to American Women's Vol
untary Services, Adas Israel Sister,
hood, Beta Sigma Phi Sorority
B'nai Birth, Business and Profes-
sional Women's Club, Catholic
Daughters of America, Daughters
of the American Revolution, Daugh-
ters of Colonial Wars Society, Con-
gressional Women's Club, Women's
National Democratic Club, Inc. ;:
Washington Alumnae Chapter of
Gamma Phi Beta, Business and
Professional Division of Hadassah,
Hebrew Burial Society, American
Women's Hospital Reserve Corps,
Council of Jewish Women, District
Chapter.
Also Junior Alliance, Order of
the Eastern Star, Sodality Union
of the District of Columbia, Sorop-
timist Club, Twentieth Century Club.
United Daughters of the Confed-
Evening star., 1946-01-09

eracy, Gen. Lewis A. Armistead
Chapter; Union Station Bond
Booth, Veterans Supply Service,
American Association OF University
Women, Washington Club and
Womens Christian Temperance
Union.