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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-07-13
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By HAZEL l.. GRIGGS

CHICAGO CAMP Impressive
funeral services for Anthony Over
ton, one of the nations most
astute industrialists, were held
here Saturday at Bethesda Bap-
fist Church. Inactive for several
months from injuries suffered in
a fall, Mr.. Overton died Tuesday
at the s.ge of 81.
Founder and director of the
Overton HYGIENE company and
publisher of the Chicago Bee news
paper. Mr.. Overton also organized
the Douglas National Bank, the
first, and only Negro owned and
operated national bank in Chicago,
and founded the Victory Life In
Surance Co.
Rising from birth into slavery in
Monroe, La, in 1865. Mr.. Overton
had a distinguished career which
reached its pinnacle in Chicago ap-
proximately 20 years ago. At that
time he was president of the Dou-
glas bank, headed the Victory Life
Insurance and Overton manufac-
turing companies, and was asso-
ciated with the Chicago Bee which
he later published until his death
MADE COSMETICS
The son of Anthony and Martha
De Berry Overton, the business
wizard moved from Louisiana to
Kansas as a youth. The Overton
Hygienic company, specializing IN
the manufacture of cosmetics, was
founded in Kansas City in 1898.
Moving it to Chicago in 1911, Mr..
Overton launched an expansion
program, and began to sell widely
his High Brown" face powder and
other products. His son, Everett
Van Overton, now vice president
and chief chemist of that company
has been part of it since his grad
uation.
The Douglas bank, organized in
1922, was under federal supervision
until it's demise along with numer
Gus other Chicago banks during
early depression years, 1929 and
1890, and the Victory Life Insur-
ance Co., started in 1924, was the
only Illinois corporation of it's
type operating under standards of
New York state.
Voted the outstanding Negro
business executive in the United
States in 1926, Mr.. Overton also
received the Spingarn medal for
achievement in 1927, and in 1923
became the first winner of the Har
mon award in business.
LAWYER, JUDGE
A law graduate of the Univer-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-07-13

MANILA, Philippine Islands,
(NNPA)-The Manila Chapter of
the American Veterans Committee
has asked the War Department to
investigate a charge made by the
Daily Pacifican, an army news
paper, that it's entire staff was
dismissed because it refused to
open it's columns to anti-Negro
material.
Early in June the entire staff of
the Pacifcan was summarily dis
missed and reassigned to the
Eighty-sixth Infantry Division in
Luzon after issuing public state
ment charging that censorship i'm
posed by command officers vio-
lated War Department directives
governing the CT press and refus-
ing to "be a part of plan that
twists, omits, buries and decept-
lively presents the news"
In a special resolution on the
attempts to inject racist material
into the Daily Pacifican, the Ma
Mia Chapter of AVG declared:
SUGGESTED HUMOR
"The statement from the Daily
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-07-13
Question Court-MartiaI
Verdict For Chief Steward

the Simas and the testimony of
messmen that that she had been
alone in Rollins room with Roll
Inns at the North Severn officers
club. the court was asked to infer
that he had misconducted himself
with Mrs. Sima.
The failure of the court to re-
turn verdict of innocence on the
adultery count left the impression
that it had found Rollins guilty on
that and four other charges, in
GLIDING gambling, theft of liquor
from the club and permitting
guests to create a disturbance in
his room on three other occasions.
! Under Navy practice, findings of
innocence are announced as soon
as the yare reached but findings of
guilt are forwarded to the Navy
Department for review.
Rollins arrest followed an all
night party in his basement quar-
ters at the officers club. Besides
Rollins and Musician 1/c and Mrs.
Sima there also were present at
the party Lieut.. William R. Sima,
ST., suspended Navy bandsman,
and his wife, and Mrs. Agnes r.
Thompson, white, Annapolis hair
dresser.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-07-13

sity of Kansas in 1888, he married
Miss Clara M. Gregg, aunt of the
present A. M. E. Bishop John A.
Gregg, shortly after receiving his
degree. Admitted to the Kansas
bar the same year, he later Serv-
ed as municipal court judge in
Topeka. A Republican, he became
active in politics and was nomi-
mated treasurer of KingfiSher
county.
Beginning to reflect the keen
enterprising powers, which mark
ed his climb to power, Mr.. Over
ton moved to Oklahoma where he
operated a general store for a
short while, is said to have named
the town of Wanamaker, and ap-
pointed his wife postmaster. The
Overtons resided in Oklahoma I'M
til they we're victims of daring
robbery staged by The Infamous
Dalton brothers
Impatient throughout his life
with ostentation and showineSS,
Mr. Overton kept to the sound
principle of putting his business
enterprises first, returning profits
to them to keep them growing and
progressive. Once in Chicago, he
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-07-13

eight hours A.W.O.L.
eve had taken the stand re-
peatedly against the men that beat
us at Lichfeld," he continued,
"only, to see them receive $50 and
$50 fines.
ave have looked like fools on the
witness stand, serving from Z to
Is years in prison, while the
guards go free with only fines. We
sh.1 our blood on the battlefield
and the guards never saw a days
combat and boasted about it al
Lichfield."
REQUESTED CHANGE
Pvt. Blocker, high schooI
graduate and a former stockyards
worker, said he went to his com.
manding officer at Lichfeld, Col
James A. Kilian of Highland Park
just before the invasion of Nor.
mandy and requested assignment
to a combat unit but was refused
At that time he was assigned to
the replacement depot.
Blocker said he then went A.W
OIL. from his noncombat outfit to
join the invasion forces. 81 crossed
the channel and landed on Omaha
beach and was in action for about
"A days before / got wounded,
Blocker wrote. "At the hospital
told the truth about being A.W.O.L
and was court martialed. | was
given a 10 year sentence with g
dishonorable discharge"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-07-13

NEW ORLEANS (ANP) - A
drive to register $4,000 Negro vot-
ers here for the Louisiana pri-
maries in September was reported
last week to be underway by the
Peoples Defense league, sponsored
by local CLIO and AFL unions.
Already 1000 Negroes are on
the rolls, according to Ernest j.
Wright, league director, who dis
closed that the league is maintain
ing 10 voters schools TO instruct
Negroes on how 10 surmount bar
riers erected by local registrars.
He cited the example of color
on the registrars QUESTIONABLE.
My color is ...... The correct
answer is "col." If the applicant
fills in "Negro" or black" or
''brown," he is disqualified, Wright
said. The demand that new vot-
er be accompanied by two regis.
tered voters from his own ward
and precinct is the most trouble
some requirement encountered
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-07-13
Many At Freeing
OF Philippines

PHILIPPINE ISL IN DIS
(NNPA)-Senator S. H. Jones of
the Liberian Congress represented
the Liberian government at the
ceremonies held here July d pro-
claiming the independence Of the
Philippines. Liberia was one of
q nations represented.
Senator Jones was accompanied
here by Roland H. Cooper, vice
consul general of Liberia in the
United States.
Arriving in Washington June 20,
Senator Jones made a brief stop
at the Liberian Centennial Com
mission and spent the rest of the
day getting his credentials for the
remainder of his trip.
All 81 nations attending the
birth of the new republic are
among the so invited to attend the
Liberian centennial to be held in
Monrovia in 1947.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-07-13

Defense attorneys, who had
/ sought change OF venue, imme-
diately objected to the move to
Lawrenceburg as an "cut OF the
frying pay and into the fire" al
fair.
The defendants are charged
either with assault with intent to
commit murder or with being &C
cessories before the fact.
TRANSFER ORDERED
The transfer was ordered by Cir
cult Judge Joe Ingram in a decl-
sion on the defense motion for a
change. The defense had charged
a fair trial was impossible in Maui
ny county because of racial pref
udice.
1.-The record in this case indi-
Gates the defense motion was well
taken and should be granted
Judge Ingram said
Smiles appeared on the faces of
defense attorneys, but vanished as
the judge proceeded.
The record consists of affidavitS
from the defense and from the
state" the judge said. "All the de-
tense affidavits are TO the effect
that fair trial is impossible in
Maury county. The affidavitS sub
mitted by lie state do not contest
this. The state has offered nine
affidavits, six from white persons
and three from Negroes, all affirm
ing that a Fair trial could be OBJ
tanned IL Lawrenceburg, county
seat of Lawrence county"
GREATER PREJUDICE
Defense attorneys quickly OBJ
jected.
Your honor" saio Maurice
Weaver of Chattanooga, Tennes-
see, prejudice against Negroes is
far greater in Lawrenceburg ever
than it is here in Columbia Tt
move this trial to Lawrencebure
would be to tax. these Negro de.
PENDANTS from the frying pan into
the fire"
Judge Ingram said he would bt
forced to rely solely on the .'ecorc
in making his decision. It is un.
controverted in the record, he said
that Columbia would be an unfair
place for the trial and Lawrence.
burg fair place.
II move to withdraw our motor
for a change of venue" Weaver
said.
Motion denied replied the
judge. II hereby order this trial te
start August in LaWrenceburg."
Defense counsel said they would
launch a new legal battle to move
the trial from Lawrenceburg.
Two colored men were shot TO
death in the Maury county jail
during the rioting, which ragged for
two days and resulted in the send
ing c. state police to Columbia
Eleven persons, two of them col
ored, were wounded during the
| disturbance.
The defense staff is being financ-
ed by the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored Peo-
pie,
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-07-13
EVIDENCE AVAILABLE

Investigation will confirm ac-
curacy of evidence already avail
able that state and federal laws
were wilfully violated, he said.
The Civil Rights congress urged
Atty. Gen. Clark to launch an inn
mediate investigation with suffi-
cient safeguards thrown around it
to protect Negro citizens who are
ready to testify or give evidence.
The congress also called for a
separate investigation by the sem
ate privileges and elections COM
mittee, which it urged include a
group of distinguished public citi-
zens. 1t urged the senate commit
tee to designate group of dis
tinguished public citizens to tour
the state of Mississippi for first
hand accounts.
The Gro. is confident that all
decent Americans will back the
senate in refusing to seat Sen
Bilbo.
"By his action in the past and
his conduct during these elections
Sen. Bilbo has brought the name
of our senate into disrepute and
has undermined the faith of our
citizenry in our democratic form
of government" the Gro said.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-07-13
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-07-13
Chanqe Of Venue Granite d In Tenn.
Riot Trial; Lawrenceburg Chosen
FRYING PAN INTO
FIRE: SAYS DEFENSE

COLUMBIA, Tenn.-(NNPA-A legal "fast one last
Tuesday resulted in the transfer from here to Lawrence
burg Tennessee thirty four miles to the SOUTH OF the pro-
posed trial of colored facing charges
result of race riot here last February Is and e.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-07-13
Start Drive To Register
$4,000 Voters In n Orleans

thus far, he acknowledged.
Many registrars hope that by
injecting technicalities new appli-
cants will give up, Wright said.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-07-13
Says Christianity Lost IF
Church Keeps Caste System

NASHVILLE. = (ANP) = DR..
Buell. G. Gallagher, professor of
social ethics at the Pacific School
Of Religion, addressing an open
ing meeting of the third annual
Institute of Race Relations at
Fisk university last week, declared
the Christian church today must
choose between the maintenance
of it's caste system and true Chris
tianity.
Speaking to approximately $50
community leaders. teachers, reli
giouS and social workers from 35
states here Tor the three-week Sc
ries of meetings which will fea-
ture 62 of the nations specialists
in human relations problems, DR..
Gallagher pointed out that the
Christian church began as an in
elusive church for all races of the
Mediterranean.
Only one-half of one per cent
of the 100000 Negro Protestants
in the United States worship with
persons of other races, DR.. Gal
lagher said, referring to the state
ment of Sen. Bilbo of Mississippi
in 1914 that "the white man is
the custodian of the Gospel of
Jesus"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-07-13

that such incidents as the Column
bia, Tenn, affair are national and
eventually international problems.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-07-13
Dewey Orders
Probe OF
Ferguson Case

NEW YORK-(NNPA) = Gov
ernor Thomas E. Dewey last Fri
baum, New York attorney and
day appointed Lawrence S. Green
chairman of the State Board of
Social Welfare, to INQUIRE into the
so-called Ferguson case"-the ex-
oneration of a Freeport. l.. L., po-
liceman in the killing of two
colored brothers in February.
The action was taken on petition
of three Freeport citizens who
charged District Attorney James
n. Gehrig of Nassau County with
improper and unfair handling of
the grand jury action that cleared
the officer. The petition asked the
Governor to name a special prose.
cutor to reopen the case.
The document also accused Free
port public officials of prejudice
against colored people and asked
that new grand jury investigate
"matters of public peace, public
Justice and public safety" in the
village.
Signers were listed as Adele G
Smith, Ruth Hughes and Richard
Sanders.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-07-13
FULL AUTHORIZATION

Mr.. Greenbaum' appointment
authorized him to examine wit
nesses and ito make such dis
closure of evidence as in his judg
ment may be in the public inter
est"
Paul E. Lockwood, Mr.. Dewey's
secretary. who announced the ap-
pointment in Albany, said Mr..
Greenbaum would act as the
Governors personal representative
to help Mr.. Dewey decide what
action to take on the petition.
The Ferguson case" has been
the subject of heavy agitation in
recent months. particularly by Left
Wing groups. Representative Adam
Clayton Powell, Jr., New York
Democrat, referred to it at one
protest meeting as "a northern
Scottsboro case"
One of the men killed was a
soldier. Private First Class Charles
r. Ferguson, twenty-seven, and the
other, Alfonso Ferguson, twenty
five, was civilian. They were shot
near the Freeport Bus Terminal
about a. m. on February by
Joseph Romeika, a provisional pa
trolman, while he was attempting
to arrest them and two other
Ferguson brothers on disorderly
conduct charges. The Fergusons
live at Roosevelt Village, near
Freeport.
FIRED TWICE
Patrolman Romeika related that
the four men became abusive and
threatening, and that Charles made
a gesture as if to draw o pistol.
The officer fired twice, one bullet
killing Charles and the other kill
ing Alfonso, and wounding Joseph,
twenty-three.
The grand jury which cleared
Patrolman Romeika, District At
torney Gehrig told the Governor,
gave the case unusual attention"
1t heard twenty-five witnesses, he
said, and took 299 pages of testi-
mony before coming to its decision.
Mr.. Greenbaum lives in Mamaro-
neck, N. Y. A law partner of Nor
ris Ernst with offices at 285 Madi-
son Avenue, he is a member of the
National Association for the Adj
vancement of Colored People and
member of the board of visitors of
Harlem Valley State Hospital. In
1886 he conducted for Governor
Herbert E. Lehman an investiga-
ton of alleged anti-Negro activities
at the State Training School for
Girls, near Hudson.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-07-13

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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-07-13
NO PARALLEL

"There is no precise parallel in
earlier Christian history for the
present racial heresy that intects
Christianity" the speaker de-
clared.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-07-13
Calls Bilbo
Election
A Fraud

NEW YORK.-(ANP)-The CT
vii Rights congress Wednesday
night renewed its charge that the
election of Sen. Bilbo was per-
meated by fraud, and issued a de-
mand through it's counsel, Eman-
uel Bloch, that the department of
justice and the senate privileges
and elections committee immedi-
ately launch separate investiga-
tions to substantiate the charges.
Bloch, who just returned from
Mississippi where he made an on
the scene investigation, declared
that latest available reports which
cast doubt on the outcome of the
senatorial primary race make a
thororgh-going investigation i'm
perative.
"The techniques used to intimi-
date Negro voters away from the
polls consisted of actual assaults
on Negro veterans, admonition to
leading Negro citizens to keep all
Negro voters away from registra-
tio,. and from the polls and, final.
ly, continuous threats by public of.
ficials and private citizens that
Negroes seeking to exercise THEN
right of franchise would be sub
ject to bodily HARM" Bloch as
serted.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-07-13

"The notion of race as we know
it has been injected into history,
scarcely a century and a half ago,
and is flat denial of the funda-
mentals of the Christian religion,
he continued
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-14
Crosby '26
 Holds Dinner

The 10th reunion of the Crosby High Schcool graduating class of 1926 was held at Diorio's Restau- rant Saturday night with 53 mem- bers attending. Arthur E. B. Tan ner, a member of the class, was toastmaSter
 Speakers included members of the Crosby faculty who had taught students in the class. They were Miss Margaret Croft, William FL well, J. Francis Roland and Sher- man Smith. Other faculty mem bers attending were Miss Mildred Goudy, Miss Helen Haugh, Albert Paul, James Murphy and John De- laney.
 Members of the class who ar- ranged the affair were Idris Alder son, Jr., Jean Archambeault. MT. and Mrs. Daniel P. Butler, William F. Dillon, Edna M. Harmon, Atty Stephen A. Homcik, Mary c. Mul- cahy, Herman Sanditz and Mrs. An thony Termine.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-14
FormerLocoE Couple Guilty
 Await Sentence
 In Long Island

Charged with stealing $209 last August 25 by virtue of the old Bad ger Game an ex-Waterbury couple, found guilty of second degree lar ceny in Queens County Court, L. l., Friday, will be sentenced Oct. 23 by Judge Thomas Downs.
 The couple, who told police they formerly resided on East Liberty Street, are Fred Joseph Seidel, %, and his wife, Rita, 35. Seidel, a former Army Air Corps staff serg- cant, served as dispatcher for the War Department at Fort Totten, L. l., until his arrest. The Seidels, now in Long Island City jail, face a one to two year state prison term.
 According to testimony of Denver c. Smith of 47-30 42d Street, Sun nyside, Queens, he was robbed of his wallet containing $209 in the early morning hours last August 25. He told the court he had known Mrs. Seidel for some time, and the night before the robbery received a telephone call from her asking him to meet her in tavern.
 He said he did and drank with her for a while after which she in- vited him to her apartment where he was robbed. Police said they were called to investigate and discovered the husband hiding behind a porch swing with the money.
 Seidel, father of three children, was recently divorced from his first wife who is now living in Water bury.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-14
AA4is

We have the promise that the gates of hell will not prevail against the Church of Christ.
 '"The gospel is adequate to the needs of this and every age. We can be certain that men will con- tinue to find courage and strength in Jesus Christ whatever may hap pen, or fail to happen, to our civili- zation. We may not be able to forecast the trend of events through the next generation, we may not be able to exert all the in- fluence we should hope to exert on prime ministers, diplomats and statesmen; nevertheless the Church will stand firm and secure if she be true to the genius of her found- CT. We have not been cast adrift even in times like the present when there is so much uncertainty and insecurity in the world. We have a message and gospel even in an atomic age, make no mistake about it!'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-14

Levesque, Ernest Benson, Richard Landry, Edward Lane.
 John Baltrush, Robert Vanyo, William Feest, Richard Feest, Rich- ard Renins, Donald Cavanaugh, Richard Leblanc, Woodie Cyr, David Fiomani, Francis Lynch, Charles Oulette, Francis Tedesco, James Quirk, Gerard Collins, Alex ander Dickman, Ronald Strachan, Anthony Manini, Raymond Frisbie, Martin Toomey. John Begg, George Frisbie, John Kiliiker, Thomas Mc- Hugh, Maurice Bary, Richard Brown, George Albino, Vincent Monroe, Andrew Matrianna, Robert Rubiro, Leon Saunders, Louis Mon- tello, Frank D'Amico, John Reno, Nicholas Reno Michael Gallichio, Joseph Perugini, Jeremiah Druan, Robert Santi, Louis Perrore, Royal Saunders, James Cook, Alfred Gomeo, Rocco Greco, Thomas Fox, Thomas Harris, Romno Mattrella, James King, Francis Guerrora, Ed ward Rosenbeck, Bruno Pucci, AL bert Gyllenhammer, Peter Amado, James zorrella, Edward Carey, AL bert Ferreira, Cosmas Daddone, Robert Coatta, Calvert Green, and Walter Darlington.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-14

 Incorporate

A certificate of incorporation and organization has been issued by the secretary of state in Hartford to Musical Merchandise Mart of Wa terbury, which has listed authorized capital at $50O00. Incorporators are Richard DeCirilac, Anthony DeCiri- lac, both of Wethersfield, and Er- hard Dahlstrom of Waterbury.
 Also incorporated was Master Block Corporation of Waterbury, which has authorized capital of $15,- GOO. Incorporators are Floyd H. Rasmussen, Weslet Rasmussen, and James Duncan, all of this city.
 Others certificates of incorpora- ton have been issued as follows:-
 Waterbury Metal Stamping Com pany, $5O,O0O capital; Antoinette Ci- minera, Mary V. Blacker, and H. John Weisman, mcorporators.
 Lacy Floor Covering Company, s. 100 subscribed capital; John J. Lacy of Thomaston, president.
 Smith Brothers of Torrington, $5O,OOO capital; Michael Waldman and Rose Steinberg of Bronx, N. Y., and William s. Brody of Brooklyn, N. Y, incorporators.