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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-02-09
Bishop Greene Speaks At Funeral
Of Nine. Jennie @. Johnson-Mas0n

married q well-kuoWn Chlcagoan
she was a life long member of
Pearl Street AME Church and for
many years until her death was
active in behalf of Campbell Col
lege.
An able and recognized leader
among women of the state and ma
ton, Mdne. johnson was Grand
Matron. order of Eastern Star
stringer Masonic Grand Lodge of
the state of Mississippi from which
she received the final rites. Her
funeral was attended by prominent
members of the order from all sec
tions of the state.
The funeral grafton was delivered
by the Rev. DR.. r. A. Scott, one
time president of Campbell Col
lege and widely known and prom
inent AME churchman.
Other speakers included 3. 3.
Newman, G. r. Chambliss and S.
W. Miller, prominent member of
Pearl Street ANdE Church.
The funeral was directed by
Peoples Funeral Home.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-02-09
Saws FDR Kindled Freedom Fires
Shepard Heard BY
Large Audience

iisadvantaged of Americas largest
racial minority the genuine demo-
cratic idealism of your Sainted help
meet, the great humanitarian world
statesman of the Goth century, send
greetings to you on the occasion OF
its first annual FRANKLIN DE-
LANO ROOSEVELT BIRTHDAY
DINNER CELEBRATION, as you
and your colleagues collaborate In
fashioning the architecture OF
new world, the capstone and foun-
dalton of which shall be peace.
brotherhood and recognition Of the
dignity of human personality. We
salute you in your own right as
one of the truly great women Of the
modern world.
2 God bless you ana your aSso-
ciates and bring you safely again
to your native lard which Is already
Iyour debtor beyond its capacity to
repay.
AUSTIN T. WALDEN,
President
1.-THE South, In keeping the Negro
down, is hurting Itself" continued
Mr.. Shepard, as he deplored its be-
| setting sins. The richest farm lands
| in the South, he said, were owned
BY big interests in the North; cot
ION and textile mills move away
| from the northern centers merely
because they have the assurance
they can pay low wages in the
South and operate at high profits;
! not only are these ron5it'ons hold
| ing back the South, they are hurt
ing all the Nation, and they are
weakening the hand of our repre-
sentatiyes to the United Nations
barley, Mr.. Shepard warned.
Paying a special tribute to the
wisdom and foresight Of the Geor-
| gia Negro Democrats for the Splen-
Aid idea of a Roosevelt dinner, Mr..
shepard said: I'm this critical hour
when the filibuster threatens to
kill the FEPC and when the eyes
of the world are upon America,
who knows but that the most sig
nificant event is taking place at
this very moment in this banquet
room. I confess, I am impressed
with this gathering beyond my
fondest dream You are bound to
win your struggle for the forces of
moral Righteousness are on your
yde."
G.. A. Scott, President Of the C1tt-
gems Democratic Club Of Fulton
County, host entertaining chapter
spoke briefly on behalf of the men,
bership and extended an invitation
Continued On Back Page
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-02-09

TO review and modify discharges
other than "dishonorable dis
charges" given by courts martial.
third of the cases of "blue dis
charges" reviewed by this board
have been changed to honorable.
The committee SAID an inquiry
had convinced 1t that "blue dis
charges" were offensive, illogical
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-02-09

committee said should be stopped
from passing moral verdicts" on
soldiers. Under the G. I. bill OF
rights any soldier discharged under
conditions other than dishonorable
is entitled to the benefits pro-
vided by the veterans readjustment
law.
The committee suggested the fol-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-02-09

discharges" Army officers gave
them blue discharges" when they
regarded them as TROUBLESOME"
because they protested against dis
criminatory treatment in other
cases.
In other cases, inducteeS were
willing to accept blue discharges"
in order to get out of the army.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-02-09

and unfair" 1t said they had the
effect Of dishonorable discharges
and that in many cases the Vet
Grams Administration had refused
veterans with "blue discharges
benefits under the q. /. bill of
rights.
MORAL VERDICTS"
The Veterans Administration, the
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-02-09
BY v. w. HODGES

ATLANTA, Ca tSNb)
Franklin II. Roosevelt IS not
dead. He can never die SO long as
the fires of freedom burn within
the hearts of men. For it was ne
more than any American, who
voiced the hopes and aspirations OF
the common man all over the
world" This was the tribute paid
10 the memory of the late Presi-
dent by Marshall Shepard in At
lanta Wednesday evening, as the
guest speaker for the Georgia As
location of Citize rs Democratic
Clubs, inaugurating the initial
Franklin d. Roosevelt Dinner cele-
bration for Georgia.
The Dinner, atTaccing more than
l25 Negro leaders in every avenue
Of civic and social endeavor and
from many of the leading Georgla
communities, was ably directed by
Attorney A. T. Walden, President OF
the Georgia Association, while the
arrangements and plans were ar
ranged under the leadership OF
Warren Cochrane, Chairman Of
the statewide Committee on enter
tairment.
The Rev. M. j. Sherard, Pastor,
First Baptist Church, Macon, Geor-
gia and President of the local
NAACE chapter, invoked the bless
ings upon the deliberations.
DR.. William Holmes Borders. Pcs
tor, The Wheat Street Bapaiss
Church, and lifelong friend of the
speaker, introduced Mr.. Shepard.
Brief messages OF fluctuations
were delivered by j. M. Atkin-
son, Treasurer of the Association on
behalf of himself and Mr.. Robin
son, President of the Brunswick
Democratic Club; Rev. Amos Q
Holmes, pastor OF the Methodist
Church of Brunswick, and Mr.
Modron Hadley of Waycross. Geor-
gia.
A cablegran, extolling the states
manship or Mr.. Roosevelt and
paying tribute to the vision of his
wife, was sent to Mrs. Roosevelt in
London, where she is attending the
United Nations Conference. The
text follows:
A CAHLEGKAM
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
United States Of America Delegate
United Nations Organization
London, England
GEORGIA ASSOCIATION OF
CITIZENS DEMOCRATIC CLUBS,
dedicated to the objective Of help
ing to bring to fruition among the
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-02-09
CONDITIONS LISTED

Under Army Regulations, blue
discharges" are given for happiness.
inadaptability for the military SER
vice, or undesirable habits or traits
of character.
The Secretary Of Wars Dis
charge Review Board has authori-
ty, under the G. l. bill OF rights.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-02-09
louise Military Affairs Body Urges Review Of Blue Discharges

the judgment of special court
martial or board comparable to q
special court martial for miscon-
duct, fraudulent enlistments, and
similar offenses.
4. "Dishonorable discharges" as q
result of court-martial.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-02-09

WASHINGTON, d. C. tNNPA)--
The House Military Affairs Com
mittee urged the Army last Wed
nesday to review all blue dis
charges" issued since the start of
the war and suggested new stand
ards for all types of discharges.
Colored inductees were dispro-
portionately the recipients of blue
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-02-09

lowing type of discharges for the
Army:
l. Honorable.
2. discharges under honorable
conditions" for inadaptability, In
aptness, and physical disability re-
sulting from misconduct.
3. General discharges" based on
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-02-09
CAPITAL
SPOTLIGHT
BY
LOUIS LAUTlER
(FOr NNPA)
Proud Of Hatred


I'm the lobby of the swanky May
flower hotel the evening the ma
tiona1 Council for a Permanent r.
+. p. C.. sponsored an emergency
dinner meeting, two fashionably
dressed women expressed amaze
ment at seeing white and coioreo
people passing thru the lobby TO-
gether on their way to the ball
room.
Mrs. Frances LaFoliette, wife OF
Representative Charles LaFoilette,
of Indiana. overhearing their re-
marks. remarked:
why, you're prejudiced!"
Eyes. l am and I'm proud OF /"
Indignantly replied one Of the
naughty women.
well, I'VE known lot of peo-
pie who were prejudiced, but
you're the first person I've known
to be proud Of it" was Mrs. La
Follette's squelcher.
4 =
Representatives Adam G. Powell
and Vito Macantonio. both of
New York, and Hugh DeLacy, of
Washington, Will spearhead a
movement of members of N e
House to get Speaker Sam Ray
burn, of Texas, TO overrule the
Standing Committee of Cores
pondents and admit colored
correspondent to the Congress
ional Press Galleries.
Bob Church, Republican leader
Of Tennessee, has been acting as
political adviser to the National
Council for a Permanent F. E.P c.
He has been here for more than a
week working in the interest Of
the bill.
Lawrence Oxley, technical e p
sentative, minority groups sections
United States Employment Ser
vice, wants to head a small Sec
ton in the Labor Department
where he began his service in the
federal government.
4
OF Senatorial supporters OF t n {
FEPC BILL Senator Wayne Morse
Republican, of oregon, appears tt
be the most sincere. There is OPP
position among colored voters o.
Minnesota to Harold E. Stassen
former governor of that state
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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-02-08

Mr.. and Mrs. Roland Fuller
and children have moved back
to Pascagoula after several
months residence in the home
of Mrs. Fuller's parents, Mr.. and
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-02-08
Woodloi Can Be
Vital Factor In
Farm Success

Farming of pulpwood and O.
ther forest products can make
the difference between success
and failure on thousands Of small
farms throughout the nation, ac-
cording TO Lyle F. Watts, chief
of the Forest Service, United
States Department of Agriculture,
whose annual report to the ma
tion on Forests and Employ
mcnt' has just been released.
"The importance of the farm
woodlot is likely to be under
estimated" Mr.. Watts declared
in his report. "The relation of
farm woodlands to farm business
needs wider recognition, even III
az 'icultural circles.
Timber will grow on land un-
suited for other crops, on steep
or eroded hillsides, on poorly
dfained bottom land, and on light
sandy soils. Wood can be harvest
ed during seasons when other
work on the farm is slack, and
it does not commonly suffer from
seasonal variations in the wea-
thef," the report stated.
With Mr.. Watts predicting that
thousands of men will seek to
settle on the land after demobil-
ization, he warned: There is
strong evidence that the food
the United States can reason
ably consume may be produced
for wears to come without ex-
panding the acreage now in cul-
tivation.
THUS the demand for farms
is likely to be far in excess o.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-02-08

Mrs. J. A. Ramsay. Mrs. Full
Ter was teacher in the local
school but illness in her family
caused her to tender her resig-
nation. She will be greatly miss
ed. She is an accomplished mu-
sician and a fine teacher both
of music and literature
Mr. and Mrs. j. NJ. Alexander
and Miss Lizzie Ware vent tc
Bayou Cassotte Sunday to Wis
il in the home of the Alexandef's 5
son, Liston Alexander, where
dinner was served in honor Of
his birthday and the birthdays
of two of his daughters and h.i
mother, all of which fell within
the week.
Mrs. Earl Davis is in Mobile
for treatment OF a painful car
buncle on her neck.
cliff-Chi Dees spent the week.
end at his home.
A quiet wedding at the Metho-
dist parsonage Friday night was
that of Riley Holden and Mrs.
Agatha Holden, both of Mt.
Pleasant, who were married by
the Rev. w. j. Walters.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-02-08
the sound opportunities .

the sound opportunities
In contrast to this, Mr.. Watts
stated that farmers who grow
trees for pulpwood and other
forest products, face period of
increasing wood scarcity. Small
scale forest farming on good site
may, therefore, meet an import
ant need"
The forest chief stated that
woods requirements for pulp and
paper are expected TO remain at
levels far above pre-war produc-
tion.
Pulp and paper plant capacity
has been greatly increased dur
ing the past decade" he said.
Additional installations are
planned. 1t is doubtful if ever
again imports will equal pre-
war levels. Thus our enlarged
wood requirements must be met
from American forests"
This statement reflects the
present urgent need for more top
quality pulpwood.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-02-08
Pfc. Glen R. Heflin
Now Stationed At
Newfoundland Buse

Announcement is made that
Pfc. Olen r. Helm, age 10, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry r. Hell
fin of 1904 East Polk street,
Pascagoula, is now stationed at
Harmon Field, Stephenville, New
foundland, one of the most i'm
portant bases of the North At
lantice Air Command where he
is serving as supply clerk.
Pfc. Helfin is a graduate of
the Pascagoula high school and
member of the National Beta
Club. Prior to his entry into the
Armed Forces he was employed
by a construction company in
Pascagoula.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-02-08

New YORK City has aoout sew
en- per cent of all the telephones !
in the United States.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-02-08
More Headaches for the Farmer

if applied throughout the industry would amount
to S1350OO0OO
Steel workers are already ofnofg the high
est paid wage -eurners in America. Before the
strike their average earnings were approximate
ly Sl.l6 an hour. S9.26 doy and 1862 week
on q forty hour week The U. S. Steel offer would
hove given them about $I.3l an hour $l0.46
q day and $52.32 week. But they refused it,
and accused the steel industry of conspiring to
ruin the union with an offered woge increase of
SIS month. the highest increase in the in
dustrys history.
The strike is direct violation of the contract
between the union and the steel companies. The
union wanted long-term contract and got it.
The union agreed not to strike during the life of
the contract. Yet the union struck on january 21
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-02-08
Fighting for a Way of Life

Farmers have big stake in continuous steel
production. They have opportunity to say
what they think about unchecked labor monop-
olies which bring to stop the nations recovery
efforts through excessive wage demandswhich
could only add to initiation and cause soaring
prices.
Not until enough of them protest unfair,
dctatorial actions and urge proper safeguards
against arrogant, needless union leadership and
one-sided labor laws will the country get back to
sane, profitable production where everyone
works together toward better standard of
living.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-02-08

Once more the farmer is being asked to
break all food production records To pillow more
acres, feed more livestock and harvest more
crops than ever before. He is being asked to do
this so that America may continue to feed and
clothe the needy throughout the world, as well
as our own folks at home.
To carry out this job the farmer must have
tools of production. Most of those he owns have
taken terrific beating. They can't be tied to-
gether much longer with rusty fence wire.
In the teeth of this situation. the farmer ran
into strike in the steel indusfrY-u strike which
hit at the heart OF food production.
When the steel plants shut down. manufac-
turers of farm machinery and equipment farm
trucks and tractors cannot get steel for their
products.
This year the farmer won't receive as many
of the requirements he desperately needs. He'll
fight ahead with his old, broken machinery try
ing to crack another food production record, but
the cards are stacked against him..
All this means more headaches for the far
mer-oss of vital food production, and bad
dent in his pocketbook
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-02-08
Focts Too frequently Omitted

The steel strike was called by the United
Steelworkers of America -CIO, which insists on
a wage increase totaling S166, 100000 The U. S.
Steel Corporation has offered wage rise which
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-02-08
RAMES KHAYAT GOES
TO MARKET

Rames Khayat of the X and
X Store at Moss Point departed
Sunday on a buying trip to st.
Louis markets. Mr.. Khayat re-
turned home Thursday.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-02-08

A rat poison so powerful that
one pound can kill 100000 rats
has been discovered.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-02-08

Before the war, there were a.
bout $4,000 privately owned air.
planes in the United States.
The Valley settler., 1946-09-12

PUBLIC WELFARE FUND DECREASED (coht. p.l2) increased cost of services whom it request cd from the 1945 Logi sleturc an epproprie- tion Of $4oo ,ooo. to moot tho requirements of the Program. The Logi s1oturo, eftor cling fully advised of tho noeds for tho appropriation, appropriated the sum of $500, ,Ooo. decrease of 25% in the esti- mated funds necessary to meet the demands, he soid.
 lr. Nnyncrd's 8 statement al 80 reveal cd that tho Special Session of tho egislaturo in l946 had been requested to mcloe supple mental oppropr iot ion in oroor to meet tho then existent incrcos sod demands for rol icf but failed to provide any odoi iona1 funds Moro than tvo-thirds of tho toto1 appro- priotion has been expended, sc i'd Mir. Maynard for hospital izati ion and medical relief: It is not DO ssible, tho Director stated, to cstirneto how raany people will be in neod of this typo of service nor to est irnto the length of time such sortico will be required. It ues fore soooblc, he said, that on increase of such requests for service would toko p1aco dur ing 1o45 and l94e and on that basis tho approved budget for tho Program was submitted to tho Legislature.
 Approval of tho restricted policies p1ac cd in effect September l, it vas stctcd, vas granted by tho Board of Public Welfare following receipt of informant on by tho Board from the Directors offico thct ash funds were insuffic iont to moot the cofl- tinuing needs throughout tho Territory.
The Valley settler., 1946-09-12

Mir. end Mrs. Frank Heller are vi sitting in Anchorage this week with the RE. Shelleys and the Clarence Rhodes.
 Bill Cook, Eorl Cook and Mrs. Elmore loft by plano Thursday noon for Seattle whero +hoy woro called by sudden illness of the i neither. Mrs. Bill Cook Dorothy cook) who just returned. reported thct she hnd visit )d ;lrs. Cook in Seattle j',at beforo she
 icft and she -as apparently in good heal tn Fc-d was received here et 4 o'clock on nosdoy that she vas ill ana the party loft ct l:3O p.m. on Thursday.
The Valley settler., 1946-09-12

farmer cooperat i've is an organizati comprised of farm people determined to secure for themselves their proport ionate share of the consumers' dollar. This puts them in position to take the ir place in organized civil ization, to send their boys and girls to schools and colleges to have some of the luxuries of life on njoped by other people.
The Valley settler., 1946-09-12
THANK YOU,

We would like to express our sincere ep- preciet ion for the generous contributions to tho gift fund collected for Jackie Smith. Tho total amount co Il octod ucs $97.
 Vivian Meier.
 Georgia Small
Evening star., 1946-08-11
Protecting 81 Truinees

With the signing by President
truman of the bill to tighten
restrictions on the veterans on-the-
job training program, Veterans
Administrator Bradley has received
the administrations signal to pro-
ceed with his battle to forestall
what he described as threatened
national scandal" The threat
arises from unconscionable abuses
of the liberal provisions of the CT
bill in the field of apprentice and
on-the-job training.
The amended law ends the "sky-
is-the-limit" arrangement under the
original legislation, whereby it was
possible for INSCRIPTIONS veterans
to apply for subsistence allowances
on training" jobs paying them
as much as $700 a month, to cite a
specific case mentioned by General
Bradley. The new law imposes a
ceiling of 5000 on total income of
married beneficiaries of the training
program and SITS on salary and
allowance for single veterans.
The revised statute also will bring
an end to the confusion resulting
from lack of uniformity in training
standards among the States, which
have the responsibility of admins
tering the program under general
supervision of the Veterans Admin
istration. Heretofore it has been
theoretically possible for the veter-
ans in the 48 States to have 4S
different sets of standards emitting
them to Federal assistance in learn
ing a trade. A veteran in training
for sales job in one State might be
required to spend two or three years
in training, whereas an adjoining
State might provide a six-month
course for the same instruction.
The Veterans Administration had
limited authority to deal with such
growing evils until enactment of the
new legislation. Some fragrant
abuses could be handled, such as
subsistence payments for work
obviously not related to training,
and there was legal authority for
removing chiselers of this sort from
the rolls. However, this authority
was seldom invoked, perhaps due in
part to the desire of Congress,
expressed when the CT bill was
under consideration, that the States
have the major share of response
bility for carrying out the training
program.
The States will continue to have
Evening star., 1946-08-11
Trees in the Dunes

Long years ago, when the last
Glacial Age ended and earth and
ocean fought their first epochal
battle to establish a line between
them, there must have been a scene
of horrendous confusion as torrents
shot forth from the bottom of the
retreating ice wall and spewed rocks
and gravel into the dark waters.
Then the heaving undertows washed
the materials back and forth and
eventually broke part of them into
fine pieces of sand
AS the centuries rolled on the
ocean washed sand into certain bays
and along stretches of the coast.
Great storms at full of tide in spring
and fall carried it farther back. That
was the beginning Of the hauntingly
beautiful and lonesome sand waves
that extend back from the ocean.
Here and there in the sand are soli-
tary trees or groups of them-fight-
ing a never lending battle against
the constantly shifting sands. There
are stunted gray birches, poplars and
red pines. Sometimes, when great
winds come and the sand dunes are
dry, the sand covers the trees en-
tirely. Then after a period of
months, or even years, conditions are
right as the wind blows from an
other point of the compass, and the
gaunt, tragic black limbs are un-
covered, to stand a while as stark
memorials to the power that sweeps
over land and sea.
There is something of life's un-
fathomable currents in the shifting
dunes. The tortured, twisted trees
are part of nature. Years ago a
bird or the wind dropped a seed.
Conditions were right as to sun and
Evening star., 1946-08-11

this responsibility, but they will
have new and reasonable standards
to guide them-standards that will
eliminate discrimination between
veterans of one State and another
and restrictions that will make it
difficult for unethical veterans or
employers OF trainees to take i'm
proper advantage of the generosity
of the Nation toward it's fighting
men. The miscreants undoubtedly
are few, relatively speaking, but it
usually takes only a few outstanding
irregularities to bring whole
undertaking into disrepute. The
vast majority of deserving veterans
participating in the essential GI
training program would be the losers
if the national scandal" feared by
General Bradley should develop.