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Jackson advocate., 1946-08-24
EIks Offer $4,000
Ga. Lynchers

WASHINGTON, D. C. (NNPA)
j. Finley Wilson, grand exalted
ruler of the Improved Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks of
the World, last Tuesday announced
that the order was offering a re-
ward of $4,000, in addition to the
rewards already posted by the
State of Georgia and other organi-
cations, for information leading to
the arrest and conviction of MEM
bers of the mob who lynched four
persons near Monroe, Georgia, July
25.
Jackson advocate., 1946-08-24
TIMELY Intervention
of F.BI. STOPS MOB AC-
ton N--SEE. MOTIVE IN TOU.
CALICO CROSS BURNING
OFFICER KILLS MAN Over abuse OF
NEGRO; ANIE MINISTER beaten

JACKSON, Miss. (DSN) - A
reign of terror was seen spread
ing over the state as a heavily
armed posse of more than 300
Sunday night, Monday and Mon
day night, carried their search
through several southeast Missis-
sippi counties in seach of two
brothers, both Negro veterans re-
Gently honorably discharged from
the U. S. Marine Corps. The
spread of the reign of terror over
the state is reported as seen in
the growing pumber of incidents
of violence towards Negro citizens
that have just recently become
almost a daily occurrence. While
Negro citizens of all classes are
being subjected to these acts of
terrorism and intimidation they
appear to be mainly directed
against Negro veterans.
The heavily armed posse COM
posed of law enforcement officers
from three counties, highway pa
trolmen, and citizens began form
ing early Sunday night after four
white persons, three of whom
were officers, were wounded in a
shooting affray in the Sullivan
Hollow area of Smith County with
group of armed Negroes.
According to reports the Sunday
night shooting goes back to a
fight between Johnny Craft, Ne
gro Marine veteran, and a white
man in Magee Saturday night.
Reliably informed sources report
ed that following the fight in Ma
gee Saturday night a group of
white men in a car attempted
to block the highway and stop
truck in which Johnny Craft,
his brother and other members
of his family were returning home
from church. When some one in
the. truck fired into the car the
occupants drove off but later re-
turned to the Craft home where
the shooting took place. Wound
ed in the shooting were Town
Marshall Wilson Dickerson, Depu-
ty Sheriff Glen Hester, Gree Aims
worth and Glaston Sullivan.
Following the shooting at the
Craft home, Johnny Craft and his
brother, Garfield Craft, armed
with what is reported as service
rifles, fled into the Sullivan Hol-
low Woods to become the objects
of the search Of the heavily armed
posse of more than 800 that
spread to several counties.
Early Tuesday morning the pos
sc was reported as having dispers-
ed without having found the trail |
of the two Craft brothers. In the |
however, eight Negroes,
members of the Craft |
family, have been arrested and
brought to the Kinds County Jail
in Jackson for safe keeping. All
of those arrested protested their
innocence and stated that they
had taken no part in the shoot
ing. Those arrested included w.
O. Craft, Albert Craft, Jr., Oliver
Cooper, Lee Cooper, Luther Coop
er, Horance Cooper and E. T. Hub
bard, who was slightly wounded.
Jackson advocate., 1946-08-24

ourhs unless recruiting exceeds
stimates.
The first call is for $4,000
youths in September and further
calls will be made as necessary.
The size of the calls will depend
on voluntary enlistments.
Asked how will suspension of
colored enlistments affect the
Army's procurement of men
through selective service, General
Paul said:
1--WE have suspended enlist
ments of Negroes except in about
forty MOSS (specialists). Obvi-
ousyl, we are not going to call
them in selective service.
Negro eniistments We're run
ming about 16 or II per cent in
the monthly quotas We are try
ing to follow the Gillem Boards
report, getting down to the policy
of having Negroes in the same
proportion in the Army that they
are in the whole population. AS
soon as we do that we will call
Negroes in selective esrvice."
Jackson advocate., 1946-08-24
Truman WithhoIds
Approval Of Vet
Hospital Site
By JAMES. J.. HICKS
NNPA. Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. =
President Truman is still with
holding his approval of site in
Mississippi for construction of an
all-colored hospital, General Omar
n. Bradley, Administrator of Vet
Grams Affairs disclosed last Thur
slay.
Asked whether Mound Bayou or
McCmob, Mississippi, was includ-
ed in a list of fifty-five veteran
hospital sites approved by the Pre-
iident, General Bradley repliad
nat neither of the Mississippi
owns hal yet been approved as
lite for all-colored hospital the
Ieterans Administration proposed
0 build. He added that the matter
vas still under advisement.
General Bradley completed one
ear of service last Thursday as
administrator of Veterans Affairs.
took occasion to hold a press
conference and review the high
lights of his activities during the
year.
Of the seventy-eight hospitals
planned by the Veterans Admin
istration, he revealed fifty-five
already have eceived Presidential
approval. Four of the projected
new hospitals, he sail, have been
turned over to the Army Engineers
for alvisement for BIDS, awarding
of contracts and supervision of
construction. These are Grand
Junction, Colorado, Provideencee.
Rhodee Island, Minot, North OAK
ota and Sioux, Falls, South Dakota.
Two hospitals, one in Lebanon,
Pennsylvania, and the other in
Tomah, Wisconsin, are under con-
strhhtion. The Army Engineers
also have let eighteen contracts
with private ,'architect-engineers.
Highlights Of his statement were:
"The VA has two serious problems
in the medical field. The first and
the greatest concerns the location
and construction of hospitals. The
other is the scarcity of medical
personnel"
The VAS whole system of pro-
viding the best care is based on
locating key hospitals in centers
of medical study andpractice and
research. By doing this,th VA
gets leading specialists in their
fields to act as consultants in the
hospitals and it's resident doctors
gets the best instructions.
Psychiatrists are particularly
scarce. Over 60 per cent of veter-
an hospital beds are used for psy-
(Contin11od On pooo ol
Jackson advocate., 1946-08-24
MethodiistsF For
Rural Life and
Area Council

Life Council, and the Annual Area
Council will be the feature at
fractions of the summer activi-
ties of the New Orleans Area of
the Methodist Episcopal Church
at the Gulfside Association beach
and resort here. The Rural Life
Council will be held August 22-26,
and the Annual Area Council will
be held August 27-30. Bishop Rob.
ert N. Brooks. Resident Bishop OF
the New Orleans Area who led the
first of the phase of the Crusade
for Christi, being the first of the
bishops to pay out his quota OF
the worldwide goal of $25,000,000
will conduct the activities of both
the Rural Life Council and the
Annual Area Council.
For the Rural Life Council, Bish
op Brooks, with the aid of the
Area Secretary, has assembled
group of experts in Rural Life
as teachers and instructors foI
the Rural Life Council. The Rur.
al Life Council will also feature
inspirational addresses and group
discussions which will cover the
entire range of activities of the
Rural Church. Bishop Brooks
who will serve as presiding OF.
ficer at the opening session of
the Rural Life Council Thursday
night will speak Sunday morning
August 25, and will also deliver
the final message at high noon the
following Monday.
The Annual Area Council will
be devoted largely to the work of
preparing for the third phase of
the Crusade for Christi. The
third phase of the Crusade has
been designated the steward
Ship phase. In order to properly
infuse the Methodist of the Area
for the Stewardship" phase of
the Crusade, the Bishop has sum
moned to the Annual Area Coun-
Gil, aside from the regular dele
gates, all District superintendent
all host pastors of the Annual
Conference, all Chairman of An
nual Conference Commissions on
World Service and finance, and
all conference lay-leaders and
treasurers. The delegates con-
sist of layman and one member
from each District.
To implement the work of the
five-year world wide Crusade for
Christi, Bishop Brooks directed
the organization Of the District
Superintendent Council, which
was perfected last summer dur
ing the Annual Area Council here.
The second meeting of the group
was held last February at the
First Street Methodist Church,
New Orleans, La. The Council
already has underway movements
for the purchase and support of
District parsonages in which Dis
trict Superintendents may live
during their tenure of office. This
is the only single aspect of the
work of the organization adopted
as a long range program by the
Bishop.
Aside from putting over the
second, or evangelistic phase of
the Crusade for Christi this
year, the New Orleans Area has
achieved its budget OF $4,000, of
which sum $25,OOO has been ear
for the rebuilding of the
Lafon Old Folks Home in New
Orleans, La. The final site will
consist of two city blocks and the
total expansion program will
cost approximately $125,OOO. This
work is being directed by Rev.
Continued on Page 81
Jackson advocate., 1946-08-24

MISS VARON OWENS, one of the most chorming of the
cys younger set who has recently been showing signs of
becoming and outstanding singer. Miss Owens will be
heard in two numbers during the Eleven o'clock services at
Peorl Street AME Church Sunday morning. She will be &C.
componed BY Mrs Princess B. Jones who is one of the
ctys better young pianist Miss Owens is student of
Tennessee State College, Nashville Tenn, where she will
return when school opens in September
Jackson advocate., 1946-08-24
In the meantime, while the Off


GERS and posse were announcing
that they had abandoned the
search after being unable to locate
the two brothers, Johnny Craft
made his way to Jackson early
Tuesday morning where he sur
rendered himself to Kinds County
officers. According to reports
later in the day, the seach was
being continued for Garfield Craft
and another brother, Bill Craft.
Timely Action of Department of
Justice Stops Mob Action
The timely action of the United
States Department of Justice is
said to have prevented mob action
and terrorism among Negro citi-
zens at Magee and throughout
the Sullivan Hollow Area which
has long had the reputation of
one of the worst anti-Negro Sec
tions of the state. The action of
the United States Department of
Justice came in the form of a
message to U. S. District Attor-
ney Toxey Hall, in Jacksin, in
which he was instructed by Assis-
tant United States Attorney Cen
eral Lamar Caudle, in charge of
the Department of Justice Grim
1nal Division, to warn the law
enforcement officers and members
OF the posse to stay with the "Due
Process of Law. u. S. Attorney
Hall, upon receipt of the message
from Washington, left Immediate
ly for the scene of action of the
posse.
Following U. S. Attorney Toxey
Hall, Acting Governor Fielding
H. Wright also went to the scene
of action upon receipt of a mes
sage from Assistant U. S. Attor-
ney General Lamar Caudle, and
from Walter White, Executive Sec
retary, National Association for
the Advancement of Colored Peo-
pie.
In Jackson it was reported early
Tuesday morning that the South
ern Youth Congress, the Civil
Rights Congress and the National
Youth Council were already at
work to provide legal assistance
for those arrested in connection
with the Sullivan Hollow incident.
Jackson advocate., 1946-08-24
See Motive in Tougaloo
Cross Burning

The terror motive could also
be seen at back of the burning
of "Fiery Cross" of the Cam
pus of Tougaloo College, rs year
old educational Institution
miles north of Jackson a week ago
last Tuesday night. According
to reports the Cross Burning fol-
lowed an investigation by Agents
of the Department of Justice when
a member of the staff of the col
lege was not allowed to vote in
the July End Primary. Rev. w. A.
Bender said Monday that he had
been twice interviewed by Depart
ment of Justice agents after re-
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Jackson advocate., 1946-08-24
vertical Pupils

VertlcaT Pupils
An members Of the cat family d.
not have eyes with vertical slit pu
pills. Lions and the other large
''cats" have round pupils.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-07-12

substantial homes. Railroads, har-
bors, waterways, airports and
broad highways bring both Flori-
das = the playground and the home
ground = within 48 hours of any
part of the United States.
Americas re-discovered land Of
fers its magnificent mansions, Span
ish architecture, rich historic lore,
scores of delightful towns, miles of
farms and ranches, dozens of fac
tories and mills, airports and
smooth highways, to everyone. See
Florida's east coast; visit its west
coast. And in between the coasts,
see the Everglades = the strangest,
most unique, most mysterious, of
natural land formations on the con-
tinent.
Discover Florida for yourself. Mil
lions of others have!
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-07-12
West Coast Settled
Before EmSR C0dSf

Although much is heard about
Florida's east coast, the west coast
on the Gulf of Mexico is equally
notable. From 10 to 80 years before
st. Augustine was founded, there
were Spanish settlements at Tampa
Bay, Charlotte Harbor and Pensa-
cola. Much of the interior of west
ern Florida had been explored and
oranges had been introduced be-
fore either the Dons or the French
had erected their first fort on the
east coast.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-07-12
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AfzElzlssa53 R |1EQ9gIIER!|IIl

If you prefer to close up the
shelves where your canned goods
are stored, try this trick. Fasten
worn out window shades, still on
rollers, to the top shelves and pull
down to desired length.
Zone meat ball' will go just
bit farther if you will only remem-
Der to add a little cooked maca-
roni to the meat mixture when
serving with tomato sauce.
Record the guests who have
dined at your table by having
them autograph the tablecloth.
Then, before the next dinner, you
can embroider each signature in
outline stitch.
If you make your own draperies
you might like this idea which
changes a tailored drapery into
something elegant. Select plain
colored rough material in your IA
vorite color and sew three rows Of
matching cotton fringe horizontal
ly on the draperies. These rows
should be sewed ON closely enough
to overlap. Leave space of II to
is inches between every three
rows.
In building easement window
in the kitchen remember that it
should open out, not in. And the
base should be at least a foot
above the sink.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-07-12

gars, etc. Likewise, Florida leads all
states in the variety of soils, crops,
fishes, trees, flowers, herbs and
birds. And Florida is big in area.
An automobile to reach Key West
from Pensacola, by way of Jackson
vile, must drive 100 miles farther
than Jacksonville is from Washing
ton, D. c.
Florida pineapples are real, too.
And the fields of cotton, tobacco,
peanuts, hay and other crops are
substantial. Poultry raising is a
large and growing industry. Florida
has nearly a million and a half
cattle = both dairy and beef types,
and many more ranges and pas
lures are available. It's ranches are
measured in thousands of acres,
with cowboys riding herd on Brah-
man and other steers! There are 10
million acres of good land as yet
undeveloped in Florida.
Industry in Florida is an actual
ity too. The playground" is being
utilized for workshops and factories,
shipyards and mills. It's paper
mills are producing, and new ones
being built. Florida cement plants
are always busy. Florida factories
make everything from glassware
and cotton goods to furniture and
ships. Approximately 10 per cent of
the fish business of the United States
is centered in the Peninsula State.
The only commercial sponge fish
cry in the United States is in Flor
ida.
Mine and Forest Products.
Nature gave Florida phosphate,
limestone, sand, kaolin, clay and
cement. It's lumber industry is great
and growing greater. The Florida
tidewater red cypress is known as
"the wood eternal" Florida's yell
low pine is produced in volume for a
variety of uses. Turpentine and ros-
in, naval stores" are liquid gold
from Florida pines. Tung orchards
are new and vigorous industry for
the state.
Millions of Americans visited
Florida for the first time during the
war. They were the men and wom-
en- of the military and naval forces
who were trained at Florida bases
= Pensacola, Valparaiso, Camp
Blanding, Orlando, Tampa, West
Palm Beach, Miami, Key West
and many others. Now that the
war is over, many of them are re-
turning to Florida where they will
make their homes, enter business,
and help develop industry.
Less than rs years ago Rockledge
was the most southerly settlement
on the east coast. Fort Pierce was
in the heart of the Indian country,
and Indian river was a wild, al
most unknown area, the haunt of
wild fowl and famingoes. St.
Petersburg was nonresident. Okee-
chobee, the largest body of fresh
water in all the southeast, was
scarcely more than a semi-lengend-
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-07-12

CHESS warriors and fantastic adven-
turers held sway.
When the Spaniards first arrived
on the mainland in 1913, they saw
Florida Indians wearing gold and
silver ornaments. Drawing largely
on their Latin inaginations, the
Dons sent word back to Spain that
Florida was land of golden treas
ure. Fact and fancy were so close
ly interviewer in the history of early
Florida that much of it must be
passed over lightly.
But Latin imagination is not re-
quired to add luster to Florida to-
day!
A Land of Fruits.
The palm trees are real; they are
not desert nirages. incidentally,
there were no palm trees growing
when Florida was discovered. The
palm trees came when a cargo of
coconuts washed ashore from a
wrecked ship in 1879 and grove
was started at Palm Beach.) The
citrus trees are real, too, and Flor
ida's grapefruit, oranges, tanger-
ines, lines, lemons and kumquats
are used in millions of American
homes. Likewise, Florida watermel-
ons, Strawberries and non-citrus
fruit are extremely edible and nour-
iShing.
No Pigments of the imagination
are fields of celery, potatoes, beans,
cabbage, cucumbers, lettuce, pep
pers, tomatoes and other truck
crops. Florida has no equal in the
production of phosphate, naval
stores, Fuller's earth, sponges, CT
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-07-12

ary lake somewhere in the heart
of the Everglades. There was not a
farm, plantation, settlement or
town throughout all the district be-
tween Jupiter and Biscayne Bay
and the Gulf of Mexico.
Yet st. Augustine is the oldest
town in America!
Those who see only beaches,
beautiful hotels and resorts, palm
trees and moss-draped oaks may
say: "This is Florida!" And quick
ly another may retort: Sand so is
this!" And he will be pointing to
agriculture, livestock, industry and
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-07-12

The oyster she'll is good for some
thing. Put it in the bottom Of the
tea kettle and it will prevent for
nation of hard-water scale.
To soften putty for removal from
window panes, draw a hot solder
ing iron over the material, being
careful to keep the heat away from
the glass. Most putty, however.
when it needs to be replaced, can
be removed with a small screw
driver.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-07-12
By EDWARD EMERINE



DARADOXICALLY the oldest part of the
L United States, in point of settlement, was only
recently re-dscovered by the people of America.
1t is the state of Florida, where only half CEN
fury ago the first train rumbled into the station
at Miami, and the highway to the Keys was not
opened until 1884. Only in recent years have
Florida agriculture, livestock and industry, as
well substantial year-around living, been
brought to the attention of the United States The
"empire of the sun'-old in history and tradition
is new to millions of people.
Florida is than sweeping coastines, broad
beaches beautiful hotels and resorts. It is than
playground. 1t is commonwealth Of stability, offer
ing the last eastern frontier and tremendous for
development.
Florida has known procession of discoveries and
conquerorsSpanish cavaliers and grandees tonsured
riars and soldiers Of fortune villains and heroes
of incredible daring and of endish cruelty dream
ers who sought Utopia and the Fountain of YOUTH
who murdered in their lust for gold.
Back of the Florida of today with its bathing beaches
golf courses, tracks, social events fishing agrcu
ture, livestock and industry is the romance of centuries
when of many nations battled and fell, where mail
clad Spaniards struggled through morasses where In
dams resisted bitterly their white aggressors where
thousands murdered because of their religion and
where swash-buckling pirates, mer-
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-07-12

A S PRETTY a summer frock as
"A you'll see is this fiattering
yoke charmer that makes up so
nicely in contrasting fabrics. Wide
extended shoulders accent tiny
waist, darts insure neat fit. Try
it in a heavenly pink stripe with
a plain fabric or white eyelet for
yoke and sleeves, and trim with
oversize ric rae.
Pattern No. 1927 comes in sizes -, IA,
16, IS, 20; 40 and AZ. Size IA requires 2ss
yards of fabric in IS or 39-inch for lower
part Of dress; " yard for contrasting
yoke and sleeves.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-07-12

D11PKV, VUVH1 OU1hAHUH 0HWH0
II ERE'S A wonderfully simple
l. L dress to make for that young
daughter of yours. Brief cap
sleeves are cool and comfortable,
and she's sure to like the full skirt
and narrow belt that ties in back.
Why not make it now to have
ready when the first day of school
rolls around. !
Pattern No. 1921 is for sizes 8, 8, 10, II,
and IA years. Size 8 requires 2 yards OF
SO or 39-inch fabric; 31z yards ric rae.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-12-25

Bedaultovi krScanski demokrati so mu rekli, da ga bodo podpirali,
&c on vzame vajeti
Francija je sedaj V eni najtezjih kriz. Manjka il kruha, mani
ka kuriva, tovarne so napol v zastoju vsled obrabljenih strojev
in delavci pa lie "a silo producirajo, ker so podhranjeni.
Treba je drasticnih odredb - takih, XII bodo ljudstvo Sc bolj
udarile, cato da 81 hi drzava S casom v ce1oti opomogla.
Pc nase temu pravimo, da 81 je treba pac Sc boil zategniti.
In naloga Blumovega kabineta je, da vrsi to najbolj nehva-
lezno deo.
Sociaisticni teoretiki so razlagah, da DO tudi v socialistiGni
druzbi nekdo moral snaziti stransca in pometati ceste. Ampak
naloga, XII 10 je prevzel Blum, je slabSa.
Zameril Sc DO vsem in morda DO vsed tega konec tudi ME
COVE stranke, XII je v minulih par volitvah re itak precej izgubila.
Toda OBJ enem DO resil Francjo, &c so Meme druge stranke toliko
patrioticne, kakor je Blunova.
Leon Blum je prevzel Waldo v casu, ko je nekdaj mogoena
Francija ma najnizji stopnji V Mi je nastala inflacija tudi pc prvi
svetovni vojni, toda takrat je bila (Francija) zmagovalka in mir
Nemciji so narekovai francoski generali.
V drugi vojni pa je bia porazena, okupirana in izzeta.
Blum 10 maj sedai resuje. Njegov termin cd casa, ko je sprejel
to nalogo, pa do dine, ko mu potece, DO trajal kakih pet tednov.
v ten peih tednih Sc DO odigralo veliko, morda najvaznejSe
pogavje francoske zgodovine.