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The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1946-01-05
Over 200 Negro
Units Get
Battle Stars

Washington, d. C.-War Depart
ment General Orders, issued dur
ing the months of October and No
vember, list over 200 Negro units
that were awarded battle credits
for participation in campaigns in
the Balkans, Sicily, and Italy. The
units comprise Air Corps groups,
ground forces and service COM
panies.
The orders also listed the combat
zones and time limitations used to
determine the award of battle cred
its. In the air only one credit was
awarded for air combat regardless
of the number of engagements out
side of specified campaign areas.
Listed for awards in Balkan and
Italian combat zones were the goth
and Tooth Fighter Squadrons of the
famed 332nd Fighter Group. The
366th, 370th and 371st Infantry Reg
iments of the 92nd Division also
are listed for their service in Italian
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1946-01-05
AKA. Sorority
Ends Busy Year

The Beta Delta Omega chapter
of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority
will close busy year Christmas
Eve Day when it raffles off 2 five
pound bags of sugar to the persons
holding the lucky numbers Money
collected from the sale of chances
will go into the budget of the Chap
ter which contributes to local and
national projects.
Among the agencies which bene-
fitted from AKA charities are the
local community chest, the Missis-
sippi State Federation of Colored
Women's Clubs, the William John
son Bethlehem Center, the Christ
mas Cheer Fund. The national sor-
GRITTY sponsors an health clinic in
the Mississippi Delta each summer
and non-partisan council in Wash
ington which seeks the interests of
Negroes in connection with national
legislation.
Soror F. o. Alexander (Jackson)
heads the local chapter. Members
of the Chapter are Sorors Zenobia
Coleman, Dorothy Gordon, Annie
Davis (Tougaloo), Sorors Jane
Watts Lovelace, Doris Comic, Clai-
re Collins, and Ruby E. Suits
Lyells (Jackson). Soror Helen Bat
tie of Texas participates in the ac-
Invites of the local chapter.
The final meeting of the year was
held at Tougaloo College last week.
Among other items of business at
tended to was the unanimous vote
to give a scholarship next year to
a high school graduate who meets
the standard set by the sorority.
Students will be considered from
the following high schools which
are rated by the Southern Associa-
ton of Colleges and Secretary
Schools. Lanier High School (Jack-
SOM, Southern hristian Institute
Edwards, Tougaloo High School
(Tougaloo), and Alcorn High School
(Alcorn College,.
Themost outstanding social event
of the year was a banquet last April
at Tougaloo College honoring Soror
Lyells upon her election as presid-
ent of the Mississippi State Fedora
ton of Colored Womens Clubs and
her appointment as Special Library
Assistant, Iowa State College, Ames,
Iowa.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1946-01-05
Harding's "444"
Recommended
For Rheumatism

Made and distributed by Harding
Drug Company, the HARDING'S
444 TONIC is recommended for the
Blood and for Rheumatism.
All persons with minor blood dis
orders and rheumatic conditions
arising from blood deficiency and
systemic Impurities will find that
this famous tonic will give relief.
"444" is a well balanced combi
nation of tests medicinal ingredi-
ents which are favorably accepted
for their value in treating minor
blood disorders.
Persons suffering from rheuma-
tism and minor blood disorders are
advised to get a bottle of "444" at
Harding Drug Company
500 i. Pearl ST.. or call 3-2444
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1946-01-05
No Fathers To
Be Indicted
After Jan. II

State Headquarters of selective
service announced today that all
local boards of selective service in
Mississippi had been advised that
no fathers" would be indicted in
the future. The last day of Undue
tons during December for Missis-
Sippi registrants was the 18th. Janu-
airy inductions do not begin until
January 7th. Local boards were
advised to postpone inductions on
fathers" who were ordered for
induction beginning in January. A
father is man who has one or
more children. A child is a legiti-
mate or Legitimate offspring from
the date of conception, legally
adopted child, step-child, a foster
child, or a person who is supported
in good faith by the registrant in
a relationship similar to that of
parent and child but shall not in
clude person Is years or over
unless they are physically or men
tally handicapped.
Colonel L. w. Long, state director
of selective service, stated that only
registrants between the ages of 18
to 26 years are now eligible for
induction The new ruling now pre-
vents the induction of any man
who proves to the local board that
his wife is pregnant. He further
added that fathers with less than
8 children can volunteer up to the
age of 35, but no registrant with 3
or more children can enter any
branch of the armed forces.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1946-01-05
Prominent Local
Woman Commend
March of Dimes

The 1916 March of Dimes, nation
wide appeal of the National Founda-
ton for Infantile Paralysis, January
1871, has been endorsed by Mrs.
Ruby E. Suits Lyells, well-known
Librarian. Her statement commends
the organized fight to conquer po-
liomyelitis, one of the most ex-
pensive diseases known to medical
science, and urges the support of
the March of Dimes by every manu-,
woman and child in Mississippi.
Founded in 1888 by the late Presi-
dent Franklin Delano Roosevelt to
lead, direct and unity the fight
against infantile paralysis" the Ma
tional Foundation is dedicated to
the conquest of the disease. It's
chapters in nearly all of the 3,O70
counties in the United States uphold
a pledge to aid polio patients, re-
CARELESS of age, race, creed or color.
This year the March of Dimes,
January 14-31, is dedicted to the
memory of the great war president.
Half of your contributions to the
March of Dimes remains with your
local chapter of the National Foun-
dalton for research, education and
emergency aid during epidemics.
Join the March of Dimes, January
1881. Flight infantile paralysis"
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1946-01-05
Trades, Industries
Needed To Boost
State S Income

That industrial development is
essential to prosperity in any state,
the lack of which offers key to
the often-discussed low average in
come in Mississippi, is indicated by
a study of average per capita in
come in number of southern states
as reported by DR.. Frank j. Welch
and H. P. Todd, economists for the
Mississippi Agricultural Experiment
Station.
In the United States as whole,
these research men determined from
the 1910 census that Oil percent of
the workers are producing raw ma
terials, 234 percent are in manu-
featuring and construction, and sos
percent are in industries and pro-
LESSONS.
The average per capita income
throughout the United States was
DoO0 III tllG CGiiSuS year. 1NO SOQtIl-
ern state had an average income
as high.
In Mississippi $50 percent of he
workers were engaged in produc-
ing raw materials, more than twice
the national average; only 1876 per-
| cent of the workers were in manu-
featuring and construction; less
than half the national average; and
28.5 percent of the workers were in
service industries and professions,
slightly more than half the national
average.
Mississippi was highest in per-
centage of workers producing raw
materials, next lowest in manufac-
turing and construction, and lowest
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1946-01-05
Federation
Members In
Bond Contest

According to an announcement
by Mrs Ruby E. Suits Lyells, pres
ident of the Mississippi State Fed
Grafton of Colored Women's Clubs
Inc, club women over the state
are participating in the National
Vicory Bond Selling Contest. The
contest was initiated by the Inter-
racial section War Finance Di-
vision, Treasury Department.
The contest, originally set to
close December Is, has been ex-
tended through December 81. The
contestant reporting the highest
number of bonds sold to date is
Mrs. A. B. Johnson of Canton,
Miss.
All persons taking part in the
contest have been asked by Mrs.
Lyells to send in their names and
addresses Immediately, in order
that they may be registered in
Washington. Two national prizes
each a $500-bond will be given to
the contestant reporting the high
est number of individuals to
whom bonds have been sold and
the contestant reporting the great
est amount in cash maturity
value of the bonds.)
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1946-01-05

in service industries and professions.
The average income in Mississippi
was $2O1, much less than half the
national average and lowest among
Is southern states.
The smallest percentage of work
ers producing raw materials were
in Louisiana, Georgia, Tennessee,
North Carolina, Texas, Virginia, and
Florida In these states, on per-
centage basis, there were about one
half as many workers producing
raw materials as in Mississippi;
about twice as many workers in
manufacturing and construction, and
nearly twice as many in service
industries and professions. The av
erage per capita income in these
more highly industrialized states
ranged from $500 in Georgia to 1884
in Louisiana, $402 in Texas and
Virginia, and SAP in Florida; much
less than the national average, but
much more than the average for
agricultural Mississippi.
These studies,' commented DR..
WEIGH, indicate clearly the i'm
portance of industrial development
along with agriculture as the basis
for sound, healthy, prosperous ag-
ricultural economy as we'll as a
prosperous general economy"
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1946-01-05

capacities to learn and to transmit
information and technique in handl-
ing the job.
The basic courses will run thirty
two hours, although shorter outlines
of sixteen hours and less are given
the headquarters stats to familiar
ize them with the project. Present
schedules call for the course to be
given throughout most of 1916 and
to reach every leader and super
visor of work throughout the four
teen states in which the railroad
operates.
Mr.. Rountree and DR.. Humes are
graduates, respectively, of Pennsyl-
vania State College and the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania. Both have
been engaged in adult and indus
trial education in Illinois through
out the war years, the former hav-
ing supervised war production
training programs involving some
165 courses used by 1000 war in
dustries and the armed services.
Both men have had extensive in
dustry and worker contacts, with
practical teaching experience in
foremanship training covering the
steel, aluminium, coal, rubber, glass,
wood working, radio, refrigeration,
utilities and allied machine and tool
industries. Both have likewise held
jobs in industry and have studied
the problems of job leadership at
close hand from worker and super
visor standpoints.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1946-01-05
State Boy Among
IA Winning
Bronze Stars

With the 93rd Infantry Division
on Mindanao-For meritorious ach-
levement in direct support of mill
tary operations against the enemy
three officers and eleven enlisted
men of the 93rd Infantry Division
Medal by Brigadier General Leonard
have been awarded the Bronze Star
Boyd, commanding general of the
division
The man from Mississippi includ-
ed in the group was Staff Sergeant
Wallace A. Brown, ST., husband of
Mrs. Hazel Brown. 34O3 10Th Street,
Gulfport.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1946-01-05
Negro Chamber Of Commerce
Will Present The
Southern Harmonizers Jan. Is
Program At Lanier High
School Sunday, 400 P. M.

Music lovers of Jackson will be
given rare treat Sunday, January
18th, when the Southern Harmon
izers, famous radio and concert quar-
tet, max their appearance at the
Lanier High School at 400 p. m.
This group of singers brings
different and Unique Interpretation
to the old spirituals, folk songs and
Gospel humns that endear them to
their listeners from their opening
theme song, Jesus I Love You"
until they close with Steal Away
Jesus"
This ensemble has been singing
together for some II years, with
a few changes in personnel. The
home of the group is Indianapolis,
Ind, and they appear on the radio
every Monday, Tuesday and Thurs
day evening at 10:45 over WHO,
and each Saturday morning at 9:15
over Mutual coast to coast network.
Like many colored quartets, they
often carry a fifth man, and oc-
casionally have a fine soprano SOLO
ist for obligato effects, which adds
more variety to their program. Mem
bers of the present ensemble are:
Edward Jones, 1st tenor: VIM. Hay
den, End tenor; Douglas Tandy, a
baritone: Herman New, basso; with
Professor Floyd Jones, known all
throughout the nation as the Ameri-
can tenor, filling in to lead some of
the selections Mrs Madeline Shanks
is the soprano soloist and Mrs. Es-
sic Hayden is the pianist-accom-
PIANIST. This season the Harmonizers
are under the exclusive direction
and booking of Professor Jones, a
prominent Indianapolis musician
who travels with the group.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1946-01-05
Sergeant's Reason
For Enlisting
Is Typical

Fort Devens, Massachusetts-A
typical example of why men are
enlisting in the postwar Army was
brought out when Major Melvin A.
Kelly, WDPC Recruiting officer,
asked Staff Sergeant George j. Nit
chell why he had re-enlisted.
Sergeant Mitchell became very
serious and said: Il thought about
it all the way back to the States.
/ figured that / had worked hard
to help win a war so that l could
have things little easier for N.Y.
self. I wanted a better education,
a steady job and income and ad-
vancements. The Army can give me
all of these"
Sergeant Mitchell, son of Mrs.
Fannie B. Mitchell, 1923 Both Ave,
Meridian, Mississippi, is % years
old. He has been in the Army over
four years, two of which were spent
overseas. He wears the European
Theatre Ribbon and two battle stars
for service in England and North
Africa
Assigned to duty with a port ba-
talon, Sergeant Mitchell became a
forman of a detail that loaded and
unloaded Liberty ships before and
after invasions.
Sergeant Mitchell was seriously
injured when ship that his detail
was loading, in a Liverpool harbor
for an invasion, was bombed. An
enemy bomb hit the hatch that was
being loaded and huge timber hit
him and pinned him to the deck.
He spent several weeks in a hospital
recovering.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1946-01-05
Negro els Pace Enlistments
In Regular Army
37,343 Join Up
Comprises Better Than.
IA Percent of Total
Enlistments of 261,705

Washington, D. C.-Thirty- seven
thousand three hundred and forty
three Negro soldiers had enlisted
voluntarily in the peacetime Regu-
lar Army on November 80, 1945, the
War Department announced today
They comprised better than ID per
cent of the overall Regular Army
postwar enlistments for that date
of 26l, 705.
The total Negro strength of the
Army was 589,362 as of October 81,
1915: commissioned officers, flight
and warrant officers made up 1898
of this figure, with 386,l01 officers
and enlisted men listed as being
assigned to overseas stations.
A partial breakdown of Negro
strength in the Army as of October
81, l945, follows:
Infantry, 1887.
Coast and Field Artillery, 15,440
Engineers, 115,250.
Air Corps, 70,806.
Transportation Corps, 76,795.
All Others, 273,184
Total, 589,362.
Officers, 6,293.
Including: Dental Corps, 95; nur-
ses, 426; other Medical Corps Off
GERS, $50; chaplains, 201.
Serving overseas, 386, 101.
Including: Pacific Theater, 200,-
1888; China and India-Burma The
aters, 22.231; Alaskan Department,
Alb; European Theater, 1926;
Mediterranean Theater, 31,246; AT
rica-Middle East Theater, 853; Car
ibbean Defense Command, 1925.
Including: Women's Army Corps,
600.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1946-01-05
War Goods Vet
Plan Is Outlined

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Backed by
the demand of the Legion's Ma
tional Executive Committee for "ac-
tual preference to veterans in the
disposal of surplus property" Ma
tional Commander John STEELE has
submitted a program to Administra-
tor W. Stuart Synington to achieve
that objective.
1t calls for:
l. Adoption Of a uniform policy
pertaining to ex-servicemen by all
offices with which they have con-
tact.
q Giving of broad publicity
among servicemen so as to present
the story of surplus property and
the veteran accurately.
3. Aiming of the publicity, first
to servicemen overseas and next
at discharged veterans at home
f. Requiring each disposal office
to maintain personal contact with
the staffs of principal separation
centers so that correct information
may be given regularly to interest
ed men.
5. Requiring each disposal agency
to maintain a personal representa-
tive in the offices of the Smaller
War Plants Corporation SO that the
position of more popular items.
g. Requiring each regional office
to supply the central office with
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1946-01-05
Oakley Training
School Brings
Out Talents

Many of our Negro boys have
latent talents which they never
have chance to cultivate. There
are few who have been sent here
whose aptitudes have already come
to the foreground.
Some of them have become past
masters lin farming, cooking, car
ing for stock, and milking. One
boy, with only the meager equip
ment provided, has become profit
ent at making ax-handles, lap rings,
single trees, etc. at the trade shop
A lot of the sewing for the boys
is done by a lad of thirteen who
knew not a thing about a sewing
machine when he arrived here.
Now, he makes pajamas, shirts,
trousers, and even shorts. Those
who saw the exhibit at the State
Fair in Jackson, saw his handiwork
A few of the boys have been
made Majors and have under their
control a certain number of boys.
The boys also have a student coun-
Gil which triets slight misdemeaners
and mstee out the punishment. AT
present there are fifty-one boys
here.
This is the last of our series of
discussions on Oakley. We hope the
public is more familiar with the
policies and administration here.
Again we would wish to invite
you to visit the institution at any
time.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1946-01-05
SEND GREETINGS

Mr.. and Mrs. j. D. Hicks, of 932
East Adams Blvd, Los Angeles, Cal,
who took time out to extend season
greetings to all their friends here
in Jackson.
The Hicks are well known here
Mrs Hicks is the youngest daugh-
ter of Mr.. George Suits of Jackson.
MIR. Hicks is a popular and progress
sive business man.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1946-01-05

The need for salvaged fats con-
tinues despite the end of the war.
according to the Agricultural Ex-
tension Service.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1946-01-05

A mistake in buying farm may
result in years of wasted effort and
the loss of lifetime's savings,
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1946-01-05

By letting animals harvest crops,
farmers can save time and money,
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1946-01-05
Railroad Workers
Slated To Study
Human Nature

A course of study in human ma
ture-why people think what they
think and do what they9do is now
being offered some $500 Illinois
Central Railroad executives, key of
ficers and supervisory workers as
a result of arrangements between
that company and the Extension
Division of the University of IL
linois.
The plan was developed by w. A.
Johnston, president of the railroad
in conjunction with Dr. R. B. Brow
ne, university extension director
1t is being carried on under the
guidance of c. R. Young, director
Of personnel of the Illinois Central
In direct charge of the duty periods
are H c. Rountree, assistant direc-
tor of university extension, and Dr.
j. F. Humes, assistant professor of
psychology.
The twin aims of this self better
ment course are to develop indivi-
dual personality and to improve job
relations. Studies are made by the
men themselves of the organization
of the railway family and of human
interests, wants, ambitions, emo
tons, satisfactions, responsibilities,
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1946-01-05

Farmers should check their lay
ing houses to see that they are
comfortable and not drafty,
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1946-01-05

complete information about filing
of requests by serVicemen.
z. Changing the law and regula-
tons to permit a veteran to buy
surplus property for his personal
use instead of only for business
purposes.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-04-21
ARMY COMPLETES
Minis INSPECTION
Administrative Check = Tn
On Unit Pleases Service
Command Officer

Declaring he was well-pleased
with the administrative organiza-
ton of the ROTC IN New Hanover
High school, Mayor F. M. Robert
son, returned to Atlanta yesterday
after conducting the annual ad-
ministrative inspection of the local
organization.
Major Robertson came to Will
mington from the Fourth Service
Command headquarters, Atlanta,
Friday for the purpose of conduct
ing the inspection.
He gave a comprehensive exam.
ination to Capt. r. S. Andrews,
professor military science and
training and to technical instruc-
tors Tech-Sgt. Cary NJ. burden and
Cpl. James L. Green.
Major Robertson said of the ad.
ministrative officers "I am i'm
pressed with the wholesome atti.
tude of the administrative offic.
ers of the ROTC, particularly the
splendid spirit of cooperation be.
tween the principals office, the
school authorities and ROTC head
quarters. -"
The Major explained the forma.
results of the inspection would be
announced later.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-04-21
Blue CROSS help
EXTENDED EX-WAC
Brunswick County Girl
First Of Sex To Receive
disqualification In Area

A former WAC is the first Bruins
wick county veteran to be hos
pitalized under the Blue Cross plan
Of hospital and medical treatment
for ex-service personnel.
Mocha McCumbee, Ash resident,
has been admitted to J. Arthur
Dosher Memorial hospital, South
port, ]. J. Loughlin, superintendent,
said Miss McCumbee is probably
the first WAC in the state to be
admitted in any institution under
the plan which enables former SER
vicemen and women to receive
medical treatment at home
The Southport patient entered
the service Nov. 7, 1914 and took
her basic training at Fort Ogel
thorpe, Ga. After six weeks she
was assigned to the 432nd Army
Air command, Portland, Ore.
She was discharged from the
service Sept 7, 1915, and has beer
i'll with service-connected disabili-
ties since that time.
A former empioye of the North
Carolina Shipbuilding company
the Blue Cross patient was a file
clerk and welder in civilian life.
She has two brothers, Gardner
recently discharged from the
Army, and John B. now stationed
in Japan with the Army. She is
the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. w
A. McCumbee, Ash.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-04-21

Conscription is known to have
existed in the form of a national
militia in Anglo-Saxon England,
but its first use in modern times
was by Napoleon in 1898.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-04-21

Density of the atmosphere at
sea level is about one eight-hun-
dredth the density of water.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-04-21
Parents To Present
School Life Comedy

Parents of children attending
the Bradley Creek school will
present meiy, "Ye Olde Fas.
hioned School, IN the school au-
oitorium Friday, May 26, at ..
M, according to Principal Wallace
West.
The setting of the play, which
is the last of a series being given
by the parents, is what the title
implies and depicts the parents
in the roles of adolescent children.
A small admission will be charg-
ed, West said.