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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-10-26
To Circulate
Petition Against
Miss. Senator

washington, d. c.. Oct. =
(NNPA) - The Southern Con-
ference for Human Welfare last
Wednesday announced plans for
the circulation of a petition adj
dressed to the Senate urging that
Senator Theodore G. Bilbo, Demo-
crat, of Mississippi, not be APP
pointed chairman of the Senate
Committee on the District of
Columbia, which virtually makes
him mayor of Washington.
DR.. Joseph L. Johnson, dean of
the Howard Medical School and
chairman of the washington COM
mittee of the conference, said the
petition will reflect the deter
minaion of the people of the Dis
trio of Columbia not to have a Ku
Klux mayor for another two years
He added that an attempt would
be made to obtain 100000 sigma
lures.
"There is no reason why, in
view of his disgraceful record,
Bilbo should be appointed chair
man of the Senate Committee on
the District of Columbia for an
other term" said DR.. Johnson.
The text of the petition follows:
Whereas, we the voteless peo-
pie of Washington still have the
right to petition Congress, we
therefore solemnly petition the
Senate of the United States not
to humiliate further those of us
who live in the Nations Capitol
city by assigning as chairman of
the Committee on the District of
Columbia a confessed member of
the Ku Klux Khan, Senator T. G..
Bilbo. If we must be ruled as a
colony with taxation without rep
resentation, we implore our rul-
ers to assign to the District of
Columbia only Senators who be-
lieve in democracy, the Constitu-
ton, and the equal rights of oil
our citizens
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-10-26

Mr.. A. A. Alexander, Principal
of Alexander School, Brookhaven,
Mississippi, received notice of his
being appointed on the State Ad-
visory Council by the Mississippi
Commission on Hospital Care.
This and other appointments were
made pursuant to Public Law No.
725, Section 612 (a) Pos. (2) and
House Bill No. 430, Section 8.
DR.. d. V. Galloway, M. D. Exc
cutive Director, Mississippi Com
mission on Hospital Care, notified
Mr.. Alexander of his appointment.
Mr.. Alexander has the distinc-
tion of being one of the two first
Negroes to be named to such a
position to give much wholesome
council in this position. The APP
pointment is for one year.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-10-26
six Charged With Violation Of The
Federal Rights Statute
Attorney General Announces Return
OF Indictment

Harris, who had been left for dead
after a brutal beating, survived
and fled from Louisiana.
The evidence presented to the
grand pury was secured following
an investigation instituted by the
civil rights section of the Depart
ment of Justice and conducted by
the Federal Bureau of Investi-
cation.
United States Attorney Malcolm
Lafargue urged the presentation
of this matter to the grand jury
and conducted the grand jury pro-
ceedings which resulted in the in
dictment.
Albert Harris, Jr., the surviving
victim of the nib violence, togeth-
er with his father, was brought to
Monroe from the northern state
where they had taken refuge in
the protective custody OF United
State marshall.
Jones' body found on the bank
of a bayou near here August 8,
was marked with slashes and
bruises, which Deputy Coroner
Thomas Richardson said apparent
lyhad been inflicted by flat OBJ
ject, such a a wide leather belt, or
thick plank.
A coroner's jury attributed
death to multiple bruises and
abrasions at the hands of a per-
son or persons unknown. Sheriff
Haynes said he had no clues and
that he would not ask for state or
CONTINUED on Page 81
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-10-26
South Charged
With BanditryIn
Address to Youth

COLUMBIA, s. c. = (NNPA)-
Delegates to the youth legislature
summoned !, by the Southern Ne
gro Youth Congress were told last
Friday that militant, courageous
youth of the South must organ
lie against banditry and human
exploitation"
Louis E. Durham of Birming-
ham, Congress secretary, said, 'it
is written all over the horizon;
now or never" He called for the
creation of ga truly democratic
and representative organization"
of students, labor and civic lead
ers who "can go into places
where you cannot go as individ-
uals' and make war on white
supremacy vandals who seek to
turn the clock back on progress"
Mr.. Burnham, a former student
of the College of the City of New
York, said that membership in
the congress, henceforth, would
not be limited to colored persons
and that the congress had ga duty
to teach Negro youth not to limit
our vision sectionally, regionally
or nationally"
1--WE must conscientiously make
an effort to tie up questions of
the South with peoples all over
the world" he declared, and
praised French newspapers for
publicizing ''the whole story of
Monroe, Georgia, lynchings on the
front pages" which subject, he
said, twas ignored by the Paris
edition of The New York Herald
Tribune"
Esther v. Cooper, a graduate of
Oberlin College and Fisk Univer-
sity, who received a Rosenwald
Fellowship last year for a study
of attitudes of colored youth to-
ward the war and postwar world,
said, new voices have arisen to
challenge the Bilbos," She praised
Senator Claude Pepper, Democrat,
of Florida, and Governors Ellis
Arnall of Georgia and "Big Jim"
Folsom of Alabama as progress
sives," but condemned "the Fas-
cist-minded Manuel Roxas of the
Philippines"
Clark Foreman, president of the
Southern Conference for Human
Welfare, praised the congress, and
said that the South and the ma
ton would be "better off" when
its people "elect their own Of
ficials."
"The recent postwar wave of
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-10-26

lynching and terror has focused
the eyes of the nation on the cor
ruption of much of our demo
cratic machinery in the South"
he said, adding that decent peo-
pie of the South hang their heads
in shame while Bilbo, Talmadge
and the other minority-elected
products of disfranchisement con-
tinue their outrages against de-
cency and democracy"
He asserted that the South was
ruled by feudal minority" and
that the Southern white worker
was Every often the victim OF
poverty and prejudice" and lived
in fear of losing his job to a
colored person. He accused
Northern and Southern owners
of industries in the South" of
taking part in the Organization
of prejudice" which he called "a
prelude to facism."
81 have seen in my native At.
lanta,' he continued, the shops
of a northern corporation which
employed both Negroes and white
workers on a fifty-fifty basis but.
kept them segregated and allow
ed very little communication
He said that segregation, pre-
JUDGE and discrimination had
been used to divide the two races
for the benefit of northern and
southern mill owners who think
of their profits and not of the Sc
curly and prosperity of the peo-
ple."
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-10-26
Orders Hearing In
Suit Against Ala.
Registrars

Washington, D. C. (NNPA) =
The United States Supreme Court,
in effect, last Monday ordered
a lower court to hear a suit chal-
longing the practice of the Board
of Registrars of Macon County,
Alabama, in excluding colored vot-
ers from registration.
In declining to review the case
the court remanded it to United
Federal Judge Charles B. Kenna-
mer of the United States Court
for the Middle District of Ala
bama in accordance with a ruling
of the United States Circuit Court
Of Appeals in New Orleans.
At Montgomery last Monday
Judge Kennamer said the litiga-
ton would start all over.
William P. Mitchell instituted
the suit against two members of
the Macon County Board of Regis
trars. Judge Kennamer dismissed
it on the grounds that Mitchell
had not exhausted his remedies
in state courts.
Mitchell charged that the board
refused to register him solely be-
cause of rece or color, and asked
$4,000 damages, permanent in
junction against the voting Off
Gals, and a declaratory judg-
ment against what he termed the
"policy, or custom or usage" of
refusing to register colored per-
sons.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-10-26
Mob Action
Averted AS Peace
Officers Act

Mt. Pleasant, Tenn. (NNPA) =
Two colored men were removed to
Nashville in custody of Maury
County officers last last Thurs
day after a crowd of white men,
described by Police Chief Gordon
Poore as "a mob" gathered about
the City Hall during questioning
of the men about an incident in
volving themselves and a white
man.
The men first were removed to
Columbia, Maury County seat, II
miles from Mt. Pleasant, where
Maury County Sheriff Flo Elem
ing took charge of them and
started for Nashville.
Columbia itself was the scene
of a racial clash last February rs,
but Editor John w. Finney, of
the Columbia Daily Herald, said
all remained quiet during the tenn
porary stop of the prisoners there
in the afternoon.
cts mob, and they want the
Negroes Police Chief Poore said
here as the crowd began cluster
ing in midafternoon about the City
Hall, in which the Jail is located.
The assemblage - between 80
and rs men began dissolving
an hour later when it was an
nounced the men had been taken
out of town.
Mt. Pleasant is twelve miles
from Columbia, where a race riot
occurred last February Is after
an alteration between Mrs. Gladys
Stephenson and her son, James,
and white radio repairman.
Chief Poore said apparently
none of the men clustering about
the City Hall last Thursday were
armed. Highway patrolmen from.
surrounding towns and police re-.
Inducements from Columbia were
brought here.
Poore reported the men were ar
CONTINUED on page 81
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-10-26
Discrimination
Protested In
Virginia Schools

Richmond, Va. (NNPA) = A
group of colored citizens of King
George County last Monday filed
suit in Federal District Court here
asking an injunction to restrain
county and divisional school auth
critics from "willful discrimina-
ton" in their alleged failure to
provide equal high school facili-
ties for white and colored pupils
in King George County.
The suit charged that the only
high school for colored pupils in
the county was lacking adequate
library, laboratory, and physical
education facilities, was un-accred-
tied, and suffered from an insuffi-
cient curriculum.
1t said further that the county
school board and Divisional School
Superintendent T. Benton Bayle,
named as defendants, had "failed
and refused" to make these school
improvements which would place
the school in a bracket with white
schools in the county.
The suit was filed by nine
adults, representing themselves
and 13 King George colored school
children, and charged that the act
ion of the defendants was in vio-
lation of the constitutions and laws
of both the State and the natino.
1t asked the court to enter a
Judgment enjoining the defendants
from denying an account Of race
and color equal courses of study,
facilities, adequate bus transpor-
tation, and opportunity for physi-
cal and cultural developments"
Oliver w. Hall, Martin A. Mar
tin, and Spottwood w. Robinson,
III, Richmond attorneys, are rep
esenting the plaintiffs.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-10-26

600 were "non-effectives' and
10000 men earmarked for de-
mobilization who were "backlogg-
ed" in the Pacific due to ship
ping shortages.
The non-effectives comprise Of
ficers and men on terminal leave
who are not carried on the regu-
lar Army rolls, and men hospit-
allied who will not return to the
regular service upon discharge.
1t is expected that about 200,-
600 men will be affected by the
wedding out" process within the
next seventy-five days. What per-
centage of that number will be
colored no competent War De-
partment official would hazard a
guess.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-10-26
FEDERAL GRAND JURY |uD|CTS SIX
IN LOUISIANA LYncH|uG
State Educator
Iowa Centennial
Speaker

Marshalltown, Ia. = (NNPA)-
Laurence Jones, educator and
former native of this Iowa city,
who founded and heads the Piney
Woods school in Mississippi, was
called back here recently to speak
at the Iowa Centennial.
After a two hour parade he
was introduced by Mayor Willard
Hull, a classmate in high school,
to more tina 10000 people on the
courthouse square.
The next evening he was the
feature guest of the YWCA Bus
mess Girls Club dinner
There were 80 present for the
meeting which started at p. m.
Following dinner and before Mr..
Jones' address, the club held a
short business meeting with Elaine
Klingbeil, president, presiding.
Ada Frazier, vice president and
program chairman, introduced
Mr.. Jones who in turn presented
Marion Dortsch from Pinel Woods,
who sang three songs with Rda
Schultz as accompanist
Mr.. Jones talked of his school,
telling of its beginning and growth
and how many Christian women
have been an inspiration to the
work of the school.
He credited the growth of the
institution to many Marshalltown
women including Susie Sauer,
Mrs. Audrey Horn, Virginia Horn,
Mary Hostetler and Grace Bird
sail.
Mr.. Jones also recalled the
help, teaching and inspiration, he
received from E. U. Graft, his
Marshalltown high school princi-
pal; A. II. Gilbert OF the central
Iowa Business College; Mr.. and
Mrs. A. A. Moore, formerly of
the local YMCA, and others.
In closing, Mr.. Jones said, "the
Marshalltown high school, and my
friends in Harshalltown who have
gone to join the majority and
those who remember me as a
boy and have watched my career
more than you know = have
been the inspiration and support
of Piney Woods school. Piney
Woods is the expression of the
soul that you awakened"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-10-26

On the left is Dr. Fred Patterson President of Tus
keoee Institute and President of the United Negro College
Fund He will deliver the 18th Annual Founders Day id
dress at Di|Iord University Sunday October 9th, OF
4 80 o'clock.
On the right is Judge jones A. Cobb of Washington,
c. He will be the featured speaker at the DIIord Uni
versy Alumni banquet which will be held on Friday even
inq October 18th Judge Cobb is motive of Louisiana
He was at one time Vce-Deon and Professor of Consu
onoI Law at the Howcrd University Low School, He
appointed Judge of the Municipal Court in Washing
ton by President Coolidge ond later eopponted by Pres
dent Hoover He is now serving member of the APP
peoIs Boor dof SeIectNe Service.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-10-26

Minden, La. (NNPA) = A fed
eral grand jury here last Wednes-
day returned a sealed Indictment
charging six white men with vio-
lating the federol civil rights sta
tute in connection with the lynch
ing of John G.. Jones, %, a former
army corporal, and the brutal
beating of Albert Harris, Jr., IT
year old youth.
Attorney General Tom C. Clark
in Washington last Friday an
nounced the return of the indict-
ment, which was not opened until
that day in order that the offend
er might first be taken into GUS
tody.
The six defendants named in the
indictment are Oscar Henry Hay
mes, Jr., Is, son of Sheriff O. H.
Haynes of Webster Parish, and
Charles M. Edwards, both deputy
sheriffs of Webster Parish; V.
Geary CAN'T, chief of police of
Minden; Samuel Clinton Maddry,
Jr., SO; Harry E. Perry, Sc, and
w. D. "Slim" Perkins, AZ.
All of the defendants were ar.
rested last Thursday with the ex-
ception of Police Chief CAN'T, who
surrendered the next day. They
were booked in the United States
marshall's office in Shreveport and
released on $500 bond each.
The indictment contains three
courts, the first of which charges
Haynes, Edwards, Maddry and
Perkins with violating the conspir-
acy section of the federal civil
rights statute in injuring and
depressing Jones and Harris In
the exercise and enjoyment of
rights secured to them by the
federal constitution under the
fourteenth amendment not to be
deprived of life or liberty without
due process of law, to enjoy the
equal protection of the laws and
to be tried according to due pro-
cess of state law.
The second count of the three
officers, Haynes, Edwards and
CAN'T with violating the section
of the civil rights statute for
bidding the deprivation of con-
stitutional rights by persons "un-
der color of law in that they
subjected Jones and Harris to de-
privation of rights secured by the
fourteenth amendment of the Con-
stitution by causing Jones and
Harris TO be released to and
handed over to a mob who then
inflicted a beating upon both
Jones and Harris, causing the
death of Jones and seriously in
juring Harris.
The third count charges Haynes
Edwards, Maddry, Perry and Per-
kins with conspiring to violate
the section of the civil rights sta
tute forbidding deprivation of
rights under color of law by caus-
ing Jones and Harris to be handed
over to the mob to be beaten and
manned without a lawful trial.
Jones and Harris had been held
in the Minden Jail from July 81
to August 8. During that time
Harris had allegedly been sub
jected to beatings and intimida-
tons in an effort to make him
implicate Jones in some alleged
offense.
The two men were released Au-
gust s from the Webster Parish
jain and handed over to a mob
waiting with automobiles in the
Jail yard of Webster parish Jail.
The body of Jones was later found
in a wooded area near Minden.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-10-26
Discharge OF CoIored Troops Seen As
Primary Purpose Of New Army Order
New Educational Requirements For
Negroes Only

washington, ~, wv \]NANA ~
An order to discharge enough
personnel to bring the strength
of the Army tfi its authorized
strength by December 81, announc-
ed by the War Department last
Thursday, will affect larger pro-
portion of colored men than the
fixed ratio of colored to white
strength, Informed sources here
believe.
The order was a move to put
the Army on all volunteer basis
and at the same time to raise the
efficiency Of the service. Only col
ored men have completed a high
school education may enlist, ex-
cept in certain scarce categories
of specialists.
One means of affecting the re-
duction was a direction to COM
handing officers to screen care
fully auu personnel under their
commands and to discharge in
dividuals who are untitled to per-
form the duties assigned them or
who have demonstrated an map
titude for military service.
While no mention of race is
made in the War Department cir
cular directing commanders Of ali
echelons and all officers serving
on boards of officers considering
inaptitude of soldiers to apply more
generally Army Regulations pro-
viding gor the discharge of soldiers
for inaptitude, at the time Of its
issuance in August it was believed
that its primary purpose was the
discharge of colored men whom the
Army no longer wanted.
The circular stated that there
are in the Army certain unsuitable
enlisted personnel whose retention
in the service binders the devlop-
ment Of an efficient postwar Army
and that chronological develop
ments, together with necessity OF
funds, require that personnel who
cannot economically trained be e.
Eliminated.
SSSuch personnel were Gescrib-
ed as soldiers whose score on the
Army General Classification tset
is below 70 or those who, because
of repeated commission of minor
offenses requiring disciplinary act
ion, cannot be economically util-
lied.
At the time this circular was
issued the Army had taken the
first step to bar colored men from
the service by suspending their
voluntary enlistment. Later, when
the draft holiday ended and the
Army asked Selective Service to
furnish it $4,000 men in August
and September each, Selective Ser
vice was notified to cancel induc-
tions of colored men.
Since then, as a result OF the
suit brought by Robert B. Kelly,
49, year old graduate of Arm
strong High School, the Army
added to it's list of. fortyzeight
scarce categories of specialists a
forty-ninth allowing colored men
who had high school diplomas to
enlist. No such requirement has
been set for white applicants for
enlistment.
The discharge program will re-
duce the Army's total strength
from 1,745, 900 on September 30
to 100000 by December 81. Of
the Army strength of 1,745,0 900 on
September 80, approximately 200,
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1946-07-20

paper, was made by the Robert S.
ABBOTT Publishing company through
its president, John H. Sengstacke.
Factors to be considered by the
School of Journalism faculty in
choosing the winner are:
Scholastic average: The applicant
should have grade point average
the equivalent of B transcript of
record or statement from the col
lege registrar must accompany APP
plication).
Formal training in journalism:
Applicants who have had high
school or lower division college
courses or have done work on
newspapers or. magazines will have
these facts taken into consideration
by Journalism Scholarship board
References: Five characterize
ability references from qualified
persons must accompany applica-
tons.
Specimen copy: Along with the
application, the prospective jour
nalism student must file a type
written 300-word sample of his
writing on any subject.
Educational status: Applicants
must be eligible for junior place
ment in college at the time the
scholarship is awarded.
The same criteria will be used
in choosing winners of the Curator
scholarship, which, unlike the Alb
bolt scholarship, are open only to
Missourians.
All inquiries and applications
should be addressed to: The Direc-
tor, School of Journalism, Lincoln
University, Jefferson City, Mo.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1946-07-20

along with businessmen, scientists
mathematicians, surgeons, and other
individuals of vision, had already
laid part of the foundation
Pointing to the weaknesses in
Red Cross societies, he said that
they would only become strong in
what they accomplish to prevent
and mitigate human suffering and
in creating and promoting condi-
tons favorable to peace. Our in
dividual societies are as strong as
their popular support" he continu-
ed Membership in the Red Cross
is unlimited. The qualification
from Arabia to Zanzibar is hui
manitarianism."
Mr.. OConnor said that "as good
citizens of the world, we must
bring to maturity on every leve
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1946-07-20
Black Market Tax"

The so-called "black market" tax,
which is tax on the illegal sale
of whiskey in the state, brought in
$51 ,283 in the first six months of
1916 according to a statement by
Tax Collector Craig The new joint
committee, known as the Rowing
Committee" is making an investi-
cation into the BLACK market"
situation in connection with the sale
of liquor in the state.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1946-07-20

the first major meeting since 1888,
appealing to them to promote the
brotherhood of man ''Whie we await
the coming of the one world under
law that is implicit in the United
Nations Charter"
He pointed out that before Pearl
Harbor the great majority demand
ed the abandonment of our ira
ditional isolationism," and that they
proved it again in their eagerness
ito aid the distressed populations
of Europe and Asia" while those
officially in charge of relief were
still debating and passing resolu-
tons. Starving people can't eat
resolutions" he said.
Speaking of structure for in
ternational peace, Mr. O'Connor
went on to say that laboring men,