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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-05-18
PIONEER COLUMBIA RIOT
VICTIM RETURNS FOR TRIAL

NEW. YORK (ANP)-- Julius
Blair. one of the most venerable
citizens of Columbia, Tenn, lett
here last week after an NAACP
rally tour, enroute home to stand
trial on an attempted murder"
charge in connection with the
February riots there. Blair and his
son, Saul, are among 40 coloreo
residents of the riot town who
face court prosecution beginning
MAY q. although white prison
guards, who killed two Negroes IN
the Columbia Jail. are free.
Blair, a druggist and property
owner. was one of the citizens who
at a suggestion OF Sheriff J. J. un-
derwood, aided prospective iyncn
mob victim to escape the night be-
fore the storm trooping" raid on
Mink Slide, the Negro section OF
Columbia. When he returned and
tried to provide bail for other Ne
groes arrested during the raid, ne
was jailed.
VIVID DESCRIPTION
An NAACP sponsored tour on
behalf of the Tennessee victims OF
mob terror eliminated last week
when the 75-year-old Blair arriv-
ed here. A witness to most OF the
terror. which began the week OF
February 26, he heard the shots
which felled the two imprisoned
Negroes. During his tour he de-
scribed the shambles which the
mob. state patrolmen and guards
men made of the Negro section OF
Columbia.
The disastrous disorders In the
Tennessee town stemmed from an
insignificant incident, a disagree
ment between two men
The mob spirit whipped up. fury
was directed at Mink Slide. Homes
were fired on, terrorizing occu-
pants who were obliged to lie fiat
on the floor to escape death. Be-
fore the terror period was over
state patrolmen and guardsmen,
armed with machine guns and
other weapons, had smashed thru
the enLlre Negro section.
A physician reports that his
medical equipment was damaged
beyond repair, and that surgical
instruments. drugs and valuable
clinical apparati were DESTROYED
or stolen. Records Of the Atlanta
Life Insurance Co.. were shame
lessly destroyed and some one Of
the mob left the letters xxx on
a coffin cover in one Of the sec
tons undertaking establishments
TWO MEN SLAIN
Staying Of the two Negro prison
ers by jail guards occurred be-
cause one of them had seized q
rifle presumably to attemp ar
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-05-18
YMCA MAKES
FINANCIAL
STATEMENT

A financial statement of the
Jackson Branch of the Y M, {. A.
signed by f. W. Banks, treasurer,
and Rev. A. Buxton Keeling were
iss . d this week.
The statement is as follows; Re-
ceipts: Cash received, $4,000;
checks received. ST, $4,000; cash re-
ceived. $1,000: checks received, 81
47OOO; total receipts, $4,035.oO.
Disbursements: Ida Reed. option
on SOC N. Parish Street, 100000;
purchase 300 NJ. Parish Street, 49,
o14.33; deposit Guaranty Bank, ex-
change, $500; Fl. @. L. G.. in full
payment mortgage, $469.10; A. Il.
Mccoy, expense in purchase 806s
$28.60: George Brooks. cleaning
louse), $500: City of jackson,
building permitl, $3.50; R.S.Flem-
ming, repair on 800 N. Parish,
S33.75; r. s. Thinning, repair on
SOC N. Parish, $4,000; Nelson VIII
lis, attorney fee for handling pur-
chase in Chicago, $4,000. Total
disbursements S3,802.28. Balance
on hand $231.72.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-05-18
State Democratic Executive Comm.
Declines Action On Question OF
Negroes Voting In Coming Primary

that it would be brought before the
committee at its meeting a Jew
days ago. ;u
The letter to the committee CHAIR
man was as follows:
Hon. Hubert Holmes,
Chairman Executive Committee,
Democratic Party of Mississippi,
Senatobia, Mississippi.
Dear Sir:
The citizens of Mississippi VINO
have qualified as electors desire TO
be informed by your committee as
your intention regarding the par
ticipatian Of these qualified electors
III iii. iostAcoaliais Etelasas'i's~tsc'
party election.
We, the. unassigned officers of the
above named organization, will be
very grateful TO your committee
for an early reply on this question.
A. J. Noel, ]. w. Dixon, I. b.
Wilson, W. A. Bender, president;
Louis G. Wilson, secretary.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-05-18

JACKSON, Miss.-Prof. T. b.
Wilson, President of the Missis-
sippi Progressive Voters League,
said here early this week that ev-
erything pointed to large dele
cation in attendance at the state
wide meeting Of qualified Negro
electors which will be held here this
week at Pearl Street A. M. +.
Church.
President Wilson said that let
ters have been already received
which indicated that every section
of the state will be represented at
the meeting.
In anticipation of the large dele
cation the president said that ac-
commodations have been tentative
ly arranged to take care of the
large delegation.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-05-18
MEMBERSHIP DRIVE OPENING
MAY oath


JACKSON. MISS.-In an en-
thusiastic meeting held here last
Friday Captain Leroy Percy Bass
was unanimously chosen as Nat
ional Association on Negro Veter-
ans. Captain Bass was elected to
succeed Captain Allen l.. Johnson
who was elected at the first organi-
cation meeting last November but
who declined to serve following a
RICH appointment in the far west
ern area of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church.
Immediately upon his election
CAPTAIN Bass announced the open
i1g of the membership drive ten
tative arrangement were made
for a series of public address by
the National Commander with
speech set for Meridian early In
une. Other cities in the state
where the National Commander
will likely be heard at an early
date include: Hattiesburg, Laurel
Gulfport, Biloxi, Vicksburg, Green
vile. Clarksdale and Columbus.
The National Association Of Me-
gro Veterans was organized
chartered and incorporated under
the laws of the state of Mississippi
In speaking of the purpose OF
the organization the National Com
| mander said the organization vii
wage a relentless fight for any and
Ill veterans who are denied any
benefits which they should right
fully have. Speaking further he
laid you are denied benefit as 6
| veterans, it is not because thu
government wishes to beat you. i
| is because your case has not beer
| dearly understood therefore you
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-05-18
Report Rivers
As Former
Khan Lecturer
Carmichael Hits
At Waving Fiery
Crosses" By Foe

Disclosures over the weekend
have brought the Ku Klux Khan,
nefarious anti-Negro organization,
out in the open as an issue IN the
aBproaching Democratic primary
election of governor
In an article published IN the
Sunday May IL, issue Of the Az
Ianta Constitution. it is reported
that Former Gov. E. D. Rivers. one
of the three principal candidates
for governor, is a former supreme
Lecturer for the Khan. A Khan
source is reported as having SAID
that since Rivers stand on the
white supremacy issue has not
been made clear he would probap-
" lose Khan support. The same
source is reported as having SAID
that the Ku Klux Khan will work
for defeat of candidate JAS. Carml-
ehael because OF his refusing tc
support the white supremacy issue
LASHES KHAN
In his speech at Moultrle Satur-
day Carmichael made laShlng at
tack on the Khan when he referred
to the racketeering parasites ana
asphalt-drooling profiteers waving
fiery crosses.
An investigation several years
ago revealed that nigh Klan o1flcl-
ais were connected with asphalt
and road building companies. In
most of the elections for governor
since the civil war up until the war
December l941 the Khan perhaps
played an important part behind
| the scenes. Now, the Negro quail
| fled to vote, the role OF the
Khan is being forced in the open.
Ex-Gov Eugene T'allnadge, the
other Of the three principal can
didates for governor, is reported &C
have openly asked for Khan sup
port. II want all white -Georgians
TO work for Talmadge. ! want
/ Catholics, the XII Klux Khan anc
| jews" He is the only candidate II
/ the race who has made an issue
of NOT wanting Negroes to vote
The Khan has recently disavowet
any opposition to Jews and Catno-
! CONTINUED On Back PageJ
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-05-18
Col. 6. 6. Johnson
Receives DIS Medal

WASHINGTON, D. c. (NNPA-
Colonel Campbell c. johnson, Exc
cutive Assistant tc the director
of Selective Service Friday was
awarded the distinguished service
medal by Major General Louis 3.
Hershey for exceptionally meri-
torious services" The award was
made at brief ceremony IN the
Selective Service Headquarters
here.
The citation accompanying the
award said Colonel johnson was
responsible for the solution OF pro-
blems pertaining ito the rights.
privileges and obligations OF MI
nority racial groups affected by
the selective service act"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-05-18

escape"
Recalling life In Columbia be-
fore the ''pogrom' during Whlcn
his own drug store was demolished
blair said the town of $4,000 TO
$4,000, of which about 5000 are
Negroes, wasn't too bad" In an
interview. he observed.
IT guess there must be some de-
cent white people in Columbia,
who don't like what happened
Some of them go out of their way
to stop me on the street, shake my
hand. and tell ne they are with
me. But they don't want their
names mentioned. They're afraid
of their jobs and what their neigh
bors are going to think, suppose.
WANTS OPEN HELP
lone white man told my SON
Saul. I'll be glad to help you
secretly but Saul replied, If you
can't help me out in the open1'd
Blair said Columbia Negro citi-
lust as soon not have it. Thanks.
zens have been voting right alone
and that the polltax of 81 eacf
was paid thru a voters organiza-
ton. Often, it's our vote which
swing an election" he assorted.
White tenants who occupy two
of his houses in Tennessee wanted
to know if he would compel them
to move, he revealed. I told them
no you haven't done anything &c
me-" he stated.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt Il
heading the Committee for JUS
tice in Tennessee which has al
lied with the NAACP to seek aiO
for riot victims. Contributions,
small or large. are needed FOL
execution of this emergency prob
lem. Checks should be made pay
able to the NAACP Legal Defense
and Educational Fund, Inc, or tt
Mary White Overton, treasurer
90 w. 10th ST., New York Is, N. <
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-05-18
Large Delegation To Attend Voters
Meeting Slated Here This Week

Observing the charge in some
quarters that outside influence were
behind the efforts of the qualified
Negroes of the state to gain the
right to vote, President Wilson
said that the meeting was the re-
suit of the planning, thinking and
ambitions of Mississippi Negroes
in Mississippi who were as much
desirious of their right as citizens
as Negroes in other states and
were intelligent enough to carry
their effort forward in the same
manner as has been done by Negro
citizens in other states.
In closing statement the presi-
dent said Negro veterans and all
other Negro citizens interested in
their right to vote should attend
this meeting.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-05-18
DR.. Mary Mcleod
Bethune Canton
Hospital Speaker

CANTON, MISS DR. Mary
Mcleod Bethune, founder-Presi-
dent Emeritus of Bethune-Cookman
College, founder and President OF
the National Council of Negro
Women, and who is at the top
among the outstanding leaders IN
the nation today regardless of race
or sex will speak in Canton, at
1880 p. m. Wednesday May, % at
the Cameron Street High School.
DR.. Bethune is speaking in the
interest of the Negro Memorial
Hospital under tn auspices of the
Emma B. Miller Federated Club Of
Canton
The Negro Memorial Hospital
project was launched several
months ago with a goal of 100000
and is backed by all the leading
organizations of both races III tbs
city.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-05-18
DR.. Wesley Campbell
Commencement
Speaker

JACKSON, Miss.-Dr. Chas. H.
Wesley, President of Wilderforce
University, nationally known A. M.
E. Church leader, who recently has
been prominently mentioned for
president of Fisk University, will
deliver the commencement address
for Campbell College at 10 o'clock
Thursday morning, May %, it was
announced by President S. L..
Greene, Jr., of Campbell College,
early this week.
The commencement season will
open with the baccllaureate SER
mon at Pearl Street at II o'clock
Sunday morning, May 10. The SER
mon will be delivered by DR.. Rus
sell Brown Of st. Louis, Mo.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-05-18

Mrs. Mary Mcleod Bethune,
founder and President Emeritus OF
Bethune Goodman College, ana
President OF the National Council
Of Negro Women who viii speak
for the benefit of the Negro Me
mortal Hospital of Canton, Mississ-
ippi Wednesday night May az at
Cameron Street High School.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-05-18
Mural Artists Wife
Visits Nashville

NASHVILLE, Tenn Mrs. Alta
Douglas, of New York City. prom
inent as an educator and active in
civic and social affairs of the ma.
tons leading city, is enjoying a
spring vacation with her widely
known husband Aaron Douglas,
mural artist, on the faculty of Fisk
University. Mrs. Douglas is well
on the way to complete recovery
from an operation for appended
tbs, much to the qualification OF
her friends legion in many parts,
Mr.. Douglas returned home on
Sunday morning from Topeka,
Kansas where he was called on ac-
count of the death of his sister.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-05-18
TO REPRESENT FUND

NEW YORK. - (ANP) - DR..
Charming H. Tobias, who assumed
full duties as director Of the
Phelps Stokes fund here on May
/, will represent his organization
at the West Central African Re-
gional Missionary conference in the
Congo during June and July. DR..
Tobias is slated to leave the coun-
try the latter part of this month
for Africa.
Evening star., 1946-04-07

Miss Anita Viner, Mrs. Muldausll
Madden of Boston and Miss Mary
Louise de Garuro Of Stanford Conn.
They wore dresses of marquisette,
two in sea-moss and the other in
daffodil yellow. They were like that
of the matron of honor.
Mr.. Benjamin S. Andrews was
his brothers best man and the
ushers were 1t. w. William Forster,
1t. Robert Files, 1t. H. G. Wells,
1t. Theodore Baker and Mr.. San
ford Tennyson, brother of the bride.
The couple left after a reception
at the Admiral Club for wedding
trip. They will make their home
in East Orange. The bride attended
Fairfax Hall and George Washing
ton University. Her husband at
tended Blair Academy and was
graduated from Colgate University
in 1912
Evening star., 1946-04-07
Miss T ennysom
Becomes Bride
|Of Mr.. Andre1Us

The wedding of Miss Nancy Lee
Tennyson, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Harry Tennyson. to Mr.. Howard
Shakespeare Andrews, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Howard E. Andrews of
East Orange, N. j., and West Corn
well, Conn, took place yesterday
afternoon in the Church of the
TRANSPORTATION.
The Rev. J. J. Queally officiated
at 4 o'clock before the altar which
was decorated with gladioluses and
palms.
Escorted to the altar by her
father. the bride wore a lovely gown
OF white satin made with a full
circular train. Her finger tip veil
was held in place by coronet of
braid and she carried an arm bou-
quet of white orchids and sweet
peas.
Mrs. William F. Spenny was her
sisters matron of honor and she
wore a gown of sea moss maroui-
settle and carried yellow snap
dragons.
The bride had as her other at
tendants her niece, Miss Jane Dar-
ley, Mrs. T. B. Collins of Cleveland,
Evening star., 1946-04-07

NJ. Stuart Cast, rector of st. Steph-
ems and the Incarnation Church
will present his valuable collection
of these prints. An Offering will be
taken for missions.
Mrs. George Haselton is chairman
of the committee, which is COM
posed of Mrs. Elvin Heiberg, Mrs.
c. Corbusier, Miss Augusta Conrad,
Mrs. Thomas Shepard and Miss
Aida A. Haines.
Evening star., 1946-04-07
Exhibit I T0m0rr01V

The Woman's Auxiliary of St.
Johns Church, Lafayette square,
will sponsor AN Evening of Cur
rier and Ives" tomorrow night at 8
o'clock in the parish hall. The Rev.
The frontiersman., 1946-11-20
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Evening star., 1946-03-10
Volcanic Islands

1llouSdnQS OF lSldnQS are OF VOL
canic origin, and the latest crop,
rising in the Pacific two hundred
miles south of the japanese naval
station at Yokosuka, represents only
the continuance of a development
which has been going on since long
before men appeared upon the sur
face of this constantly changing
planet. So long as the earth re-
mains warm and alive at its center,
vapor will rise, mud and ashes
occasionally will be tossed against
the sky, large rocks now and again
will be thrown out by some especially
turbulent mountain, lava will flow,
tremors will run through strata
disturbed by the inner turmoil, entire
continents will seem to stagger.
What now is happening in the
far Pacific is not vastly different
from what happened at Crater Lake
in Oregon uncounted centuries back.
The so-called Phantom Ship" which
visitors to that beautiful place in
variably find fascinating once was
deep in the hidden heart of the
Cascade range. 1t rose to its present
position by grace of a power of
atomic proportions, was pushed up
by the force OF flame and steam,
solidified as it cooled, eventually
was surrounded by "a sea of sap
phire" as it is shown on the 6-cent
stamp of the National Park series,
issued in 1884. Wind and weather,
of course, are working on 1t. Gen.
turies hence it may disappear for
ever. A law of the mutable universe
is involved in its coming and going.
Perhaps the new volcanic islands
off the coast of Japan might be
regarded as symbols of the dynamic
confusion of life itself. The peace
and the serenity for which millions
of ordinary people yearn seem never
to be achieved. Some tremendous
dynamic beyond the governance of
humanity appears to defy the best
intentions Of civilized nations. Ergo:
Wars and revolutions and many
lesser tribulations which perversely
afflict society despite its natural
longing for quiet and an honorable
contentment.
The problems of mankind, how
ever, are not susceptible to sterile
and fatalistic acceptance. The spirit
Of millions rebels against the notion
that nothing can be done about mass
murder and wholesale destruction.
The human soul, too, is possessed
of atomic power, not merely to wreck
but also to build. The submarine
volcanoes which raise up islands in
the midst OF unpathed oceanic
Evening star., 1946-03-10
CuttIefish Diplomacy

The chief defensive device of the
cuttlefish family is to squirt out a
quantity of inky fluid when under
attack, suffusing the surrounding
water with an Opaque cloud behind
which the octopus can either avoid
detection or make its escape.
Evasive tactics of this nature so
characterize Soviet diplomatic prac-
tlce that they have become a pat
tern. Whenever Moscow is annoyed
by foreign representations concern
ing its external policies, it can be
counted on to raise some counter
charge in an utterly different field,
regardless Of the validity of its &C
cusations. This was strikingly ex-
emplified at the recent meeting of
the Security Council of UNO. An
gered by Trans protest over Russian
conduct in Azerbaijan, with which
London was assumed to sympathize,
Moscow brought countercharges
against Britain's conduct in Greece
and Indonesia, despite the fact that
those charges were soon proved to
be f1imsy and untenable. The aim,
OF course, was to distract attention
from the original issue and either
to confuse it or to induce Britain
to change its policy because of the
trouble engendered elsewhere.
Similar motives are apparent in
the Soviet note to Washington &C
cusing our Government of violating
the Moscow agreement by send
ing the recent memorandum to
Bulgaria urging the Communist
dominated regime there to find a.
mutually acceptable basis" for the
inclusion of "two truly representa-
tive members of the opposition
parties" Such action was specif1-
cally prescribed at the Moscow
meeting of the Big Three Foreign
Ministers last December. Accord
ingly, the department called the
Bulgarian regimes attention to this
fact, also notifying both Moscow
and London of its action.
Despite all this, Moscow now con-
tends that the departments COM
munication to Bulgaria constitutes
a violation of the Moscow agreement
as "unilateral action" intended to
encourage the Bulgarian opposition
to resist the decision of the Big
Three Conference. Moscow COM
plains that the United States sent
it's memorandum to Bulgaria with
out consulting the "other interested
governments"
The record is so clear that the
State Department will not find it
hard to make an apt reply. But
Moscow can be depended on to pro-
long and intensity the issue. The
reason is not far to seek. Over a
month ago the department made
representations to Moscow concern
ing Soviet conduct in Manchuria
contrary to its treaty agreements,
and more recently has made similar
representations regarding Soviet
conduct in Iran. To those protests
by our Government Moscow has
made no direct reply. It's counter
charge regarding Bulgaria is the
"cuttleflSh" answer.