Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-11-30

The stage for the United States
Senate Hearing regarding the 49,
As State Democratic Senatorial
Campaign, opening here on next
Monday, December Q, was all set
last week wit hthe establishment
Of headquarters by the Senate
Campaign Investigation Commit
tee in the Post Office Building.
The Committee will inquire into
the July 2 State Democratic SEN
atorial Campaign during which
complaint has been filed with the
committee that Senator Theo. G.
Bilbo, who was reelected out of
the campaign resorted to appeals
to violence against Negro citizens
of the state to keep them from
voting, and used other illegal
means in order to win reelection.
The hearing will be based upon
a complaint recently filed with
the Senate Campaign Investiga-
ton Committee from citizens of
the State of Mississippi with most
of the signers of the complaint
being Negroes. After stating that
Senator Bilbo resorted to appeals
to violence against Negro citizens
of the state to stop them from
voting, and that he used other
illegal means in order to win his
reelection, the complaint contains
petition asking that he be de-
MED the right to take his seat in
the U. S. Senate upon the con-
vening of the 80th Congress next
January. Attached to the COM
plant are a number of affidavits
and statements from qualified Ne
gro electors from all sections of
the state who were subjected to
various kinds of violence asd in
timidation in order to stop them
from voting on July 2, Election
Day.
The complaint and affidavits
We're obtained and filed by the
Mississippi State Progressive Vot-
ers League and the Civil Rights
Congress. While the Committee
| Hearing will be based upon the
complaint filed by citizens of Mis-
sissippi there can be little doubt
that the committee action has
been also influenced by large
number of similar complaints and
petitions from groups and organi-
cations representing all section of
the country.
Recently the Civil Rights Con-
gress announced the formation of
a National Committee to Dust Bill
BIO, the goal of which is to obtain
and present a million signatures
to the senate when it convenes in
January Included on the commit
tee are religious, labor, business
and professional leaders among
whom are Bishop E. l.. Parsons,
Rabbi David DeSola Pool, David
20. Selznick, George F. Adde's, Al
bert Einstein, Mark Ethridge, DR..
Harry Emerson Fosdick, DR.. Char
lotte Hawkins Brown, Albert
Sprague Coolidge, Justice James
H. Wolf, Van Wyck Brooks, Aaron
COPELAND, Earl B. Dickerson, also,
John Garfield, Oscar Hammerstein
II, Paul Robertson, Sholem Ash,
DR.. Russell Bowie, Edgar Snow,
William Rose Benet, Christian
Gauss, Fannie Hurst, DR.. D. v.
Jemison Garson Kanin, DR.. Har-
low Shapley, Gene Kelley, Rock
well Kent, Cornelius Otis Skinner,
J. Raymond Walsh, Alain Locke,
Katerine Durham, Leonard Bern
stein, DR.. Anna w. M. Wolf, Os-
valid Veblen, Vilhjalmur Stefans-
son, Dorothy Parker, and DR.. Guy
Emery Shipler.
The Senate Campaign Investiga-
ton Committee which will con-
duct the hearings here is COM
posed of Senator Ellender (D-La)
Chairman, Thomas (D-Okla),
Maybank (D-S.C.), Hickenlooper
(R-Iowa) and Bridges (R-N.H.).
1t is estimated that the hearing
will take from 10 to IA days. The
committee has not yet indicated
its policy as respects witnesses
to be called to testify before the
hearing here. Senator Ellender,