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Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1947-12-17
Vojni ujetniki in razseljenci Sc
vracajo v domovino

V zbirno bazo ma Jesenicah
urihajajo skoraj vsak dan tran
porti vojnih ujetnikov, interni-
rancev, izseljencev in zapeljan-
cev iz Italije, Belgije, Francije,
Avstrije in il zapadne Nemci-
je. Preteklo soboto je posebni
vlak pripeljal 12O vojnih ujet-
nikov, Is razseljencev il angle
ske okupacijske cone v zapadni
Nemciji in IA nemskih delav-
cev specialistov. Povratnike so
predstavniki mnozienih organi-
zacij prisrcno sprejeli. Povrat-
niki so bill prijetno persenece-
nj in so izrazili veliko zadovolj-
stvo mad tenn, da so po dolgem
pricakovanju lahko stopili n a
svobodna tia svoje move domo-
vine, v kateri so bill pogosceni
in nastanjeni v ciste, topic So
be, cd koder bodo sli "a nekaj
dni Sc v zbirno bazo v Kamni-
ku, potem pa v svoje domace
kraje in ma nova delovna me-
sta. b.:
Med vojnimi ujetniki so tudi
en- podpolkovnik in diva kapeta-
ma. Pripovedujejo, da je v Ham
burgu, Padderbornu, Bonnu,
Duisburgu in v drugih mestih
britanske okupacijske cone v
zapadni Nemeiji Sc okrog a.
900 jugoslovanskih ujetnikov IL
leta 1941, Mihajlovicevci; ljoti-
cevci, nedicevci in ustasi iva
jajo hud terror mad tistimi, XII Sc
hocejo vrniti v domovino. Gro.
re jim najhujsimi represalija.
mi in jim pripovedujejo, da DO.
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1947-12-17

smo kar med hojo, naslonjeni ma
vozove. ..t=..
Nekaj dni pred bozicem smo
prispeli v zumberk, Tamkajsnji
partizani SO mas prijazno spreje.
Ii. Dali so ranjencem topic hra.
no mi pa smo dobili koscke kru.
ha in prespali pol ure v toplih
izbah. Med partizani je bio mia.
do dekle svetlih las z velikimi
modrimi ocmi. Njena ma jhna
postavica je bila kar otrocja v
vojaski obleki. Neumorno sc je
suka1a med ranjenci, previjala
rane in stregla cello nam zdravim
borcem. Men preresen obraz je
preletaval nezen nasmeh. Nj We
della, kaj maj bi vse naredila, da
bi bolj ublazila trpljenje tova-
risev.
" mani pojdi," so govorili
|ranjenci, ''bolje nam bo."
me morem. Tudi tn sem po-
|trebna vi boste kmalu v le-
|pih bolnisnioah v Splitu. Privo-
scim vam vse najlepse."
Govorila je o lepotah Jadra-
ma, katerih sama gotovo nj po-
znala, samo da bi ohrabrila ne
srecneze. Sc pozneje, ko smo 20
pet krenili ma pot, je sla nami
in nam dajala nasvete "a nego
ranjencev in nam zelela veselo
svidenje. Kmalu smo, Sc zopet
videli, a to svidenje je bilo vse
Iprej ko veselo.
Tho je prisla nasa izvidnica
do proge. Izkopani polozaji so
bill nezasedeni, zato smo sc hi
tro vgnezdili v luknje in cuvali
kolono vozov, XII je ropotaje vo-
Ella preko svetlih tracnic. Kon-
emo >. Zadnji voz je bill onstran
proge. ze smo Sc hoteli priklju-
citi zascitnici, ko je ma celu ko-
lone zaropotalo. Stotine svetle-
cih krogel je presekalo nocno
sivino. Mesec je izdajalsko OBJ
svetil kolono vec kot tristo vo-
zovi ranienci. Spredaj je bill
pravcati ognjen zid. Kolona Sc
je vraeala v redu. Po progi Sc je
priblizala se kolona ustasev. "a
seda Sc je krcevito borila, do
Dalje ma 6. stranl
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1947-12-17

| Pa mi tega se nj nihGe rekel in
bojim Sc, da mi nikoli ne bo, ce-
prav VEN, da je ze marsikdo
spoznal to zalostno resnico.
80 jo vsi sibki, nladi prijatelji,
ki so Sc mi zaupanjem pribli-
zali, Sc me bojece oklenili in me
nezno prosili. "Daj, bodi mi to-
varis!" JAZZ pa sem jim obljub-
ljala, da Jim bonn vracala iskre-
most in ljubezen, katero SO me
obdali. V resnici pa sem hotela
il njih iztisniti vse, kar je mai
bolj njihovega, a o sebi sem Jim
molcala in svoje misli pred Mi
mi prikrivala ko skrivnost.
Utrujeni so pri meni iskali
topic besede, a naleteli so ma led
/ in sc znova odmaknili brez ocit-
ka, Sc vedno tovarisko prizanes-
ljivi. JAZZ pa sem ostala sama, s
pekocim spominom ma njihov
razocarani pogled in S trpko "a
vestjo, da so boljsi cd meme. Ia
yedam Sc, da so pri meni tako
redki trenutki, ko sem tudi JAZZ
TAXA kakor bi morala biti vedno,
ko sem podobna MIN, ko ljudi
okrog sebe ne gledam tako od-
maknjeno, neprizadeto in ko tu-
jih zivljenj ne opazujem lie kot
nekakih predstav.
Take lepe trenutke imam &C.
sto oh poznih dopoldanskih
urah, ka soucenci ze podrema-
vajo in postajajo tihi. Nj vec
slisati njihovega smeha. - Mr.
tvi predmeti tedaj v meni zazive
svoje zivljenje. To Sc tako RADIO
zgodi posebno, kadar je nebo
zunaj jasno in je soba osvetlje-
ma z lepo, zastrto svetlobo, XII nj
prozorna, temvec ina v sebi sre-
brnobele odtenke.
V razredu vlada tisina. Cuti
je lie tin sepet. Visoki okenski
okvirji objemajo sipe. Sonce je
obsijalo ledene roze ma oknih,
da zazarele v tisocih kristalnih
oeesih. crke ma papirjih Sc raz-
gibljejo, ne nekoliko odebelijo
in 1.-Two oznanjajo svoja pravila.
Cello tusi sc nekoliko zamajajo
in po vsej sobi Sc siri komaj Sill
Sen prasket.. ..,..
Ia sirokimi klopmi pa resno
sedijo soucenci. Tako so ljubki
in majhni ,tako drobne glave
imajo, in utrujeni jih naslanjajo
ma dodge roke. Vsec so mi. z
obrazov bi Jim clovek lahko raz-
bral toliko drobnih skrbi, XII Sc
jim danes zdijo morda velike, a
SO lie silno majhne v primeri z
velikim zivljenjem. Ponosna
sem ma te majhne ljudi, ker so
plemeniti. Sicer tega drugim ne
pokazejo in v navadnih urah
clovek le redko lahko vse zapazi.
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1947-12-17
Marija ":
TRENUTKI

Vcasih me je sram pred samo
seboj-in v takih trenutkih bi
Sc cutila olajsano, &c bi mi kdo
ze vendarle zabrusil v obraz
"Laznjivka!"
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1947-12-17
JESGO POLSkA NEZGINJELA

Med nedavno minulo vojnc
sem srecaval ljudi, s katerimi
me vezejo najrazlienejsa dozi.
vetja, a katerih linen Sc morda
ne spominjam vee. Mladi ceh
Janosa je poleg meme prelil svo-
jo mlado kri "a svobodo zasuz.
njenih narodov. Spominjam sc
svojega prvega srecanja rde-
cearmjcem pri Virovitici, spo-
minjam Sc se mnogo drugih, ven
dar ljudi ne hi spoznal, &c bi jih
zopet videl.
Ma Mladinski progi samac-
Sarajevo sem sc nedavno srecal
z mlado Poljakinjo, XII Sc je ma
nasi zemlji s svojimi tovarisi-
borci borila proti fasisticnemu
okupatorju. Nisem jo poznal ne
po imenu in ne po videzu, spo-
znal sem jo po petju, po start
poljski borbeni pesmi.
,Bitoljska brigada je priredila
taborni ogenj. Predmestne hise
Sarajeva so vtonile v temo. Ia
borni ogenj je zazarel in Sc bolj
zatemnil obrise his, medtem ko
so oh svetlobi. ognja vstale IL
teme mike, lesene barake. Oh
ognju je bilo mad vse zivahno. V
vecerni mir je prekipevalo wiki
kanje brigadirjev.
"Trikrat hura "a bratsko poll
sko brigade! Hura >. hura 80"
Poljska brigada je odlocno in
krepko prikorakala k ognju z
veliko rdeco-belo zastavo. Sc
bolj je zasumelo v taboriscu. Bri-
gadirji so Sc pomesali med sabo
in posedli po travi. Govorili so v
takozvanem "slovanskem espe-
rantu," kakor so to mesanico
slovanskih jezikov nazvali gra-
ditelji.
Govoril je komandant poljske
brigade. Malokdo ga je dobesed-
no razumel, vendar so vsi tho
in vso duso prisluhnili njego-
vim besedam in citali njegove-
ga nasmejanega obraza besede Q
bratstvu in vecnem prijateljstvu
nasih bratskih narodov. Ogenj
je do kraja objel suho vejevje in
prasketal, da so iskre svigale
visoko mad glavami vedre mladi-
ne. Zaceli smo peti. Peli smo
domala vsi. Makedonci so lepo
peli svoje THE, meme narodne
pesmi, vsi skupaj smo peli Pc
sem graditeljev: "samac-Sara-
jevo, to je nasa meta -" Nekje
v temi je nekdo ma yes glas "a
klical:
"Hocemo poljske pesmi!"
Njegovemu klicu Sc je pridru'
lilo ma stotine drugih:
"Hooo-cemooo! Poljski, poll
ski :" a "a tenn Sc je vse uni
rilo, da Sc je culo lie pokanje 60
reeih vel. Vsi smo prisluhnili
Udarce oh strune ma kitari j.
zacel spremljati cist .glas lepe
ga svetlolasega dekleta z veil
kini modrimi ocmi:
"Jesco Polska nezginjela -
Nehote sem prisluhnil, mords
bolj kot ostali. Bill sem prepri
can, da sem to pesem nekje q
cul. v mislih sem preletel nedav
no preteklost. Pred menoj j
vstalo zumbersko hribovje, vi
del sem tezke nocne pohode, spo
pad ma progi in oni ledeno-mrzl
predbozicni vecer. Nisem We
dvomil -.
Potem, ko smo, v crnomlju "a
man cakali ma letala, smo v "a
! cetku zine stiri in stirideseteg
leta krenili stiristo ranjenci n
pot Pisarovino. Cd tn so koie
no ranjencev spremljali v osve
boieni Split. Bio mas je okoi 8
Evening star., 1947-10-04
Hollywood:
Carson Demurs,
So His Script
Is Rewritten
Bv SheiIoh Grohom

Jack Carson is having a quiet bat
tie with Mike Curtiz-over the script
of Forever and Always" His best
gal, Doris Day, is in it, but Jack
says fun's fun, but work is some
thing else. P. S. They are rewrit-
ing the script for Jack.
What is happening to Glenn Ford
at Columbia? After "Gilda," Glenn
was the hottest film property in
town. Since then his pictures have
nat been enoimportapt.-and now lhe Is
posstarftngl with "a horse qIM MuttEl1e
ReturubUf October! '""" uohte ro1
BHunphrey Bogartis first movie for
ksLHHHinge4J is po1ee deanitetM
''KnoekIJon} AnyaDoor''.' Bngey will
be lawyer.
Cary Grant for THE Saxon
Charm? This is the second book
by Fred Wakeman, author of ''The
Hucksters." And Fred is keeping
his fingers crossed for Cary. It's
the story of a Broadway producer,
and would be something different
for Mr.. Grant.
X \ X \
Jack Benny, by the way, considers
Cary the funniest man in Holly
wood. Jack raves, like every one
else, over Cary's great comedy per-
formance in The Bachelor and the
Bobby Soxer."
Charles Korvin was hired by Il
national picture magazine to take
photographs of what he saw in Ger
many. Korvin took 1000 pictures
and then tore them all up. He de-
cided they were too sympathetic in
tone.
If Charles Boyer does not start
his next Enterprise picture by No
vember Is, they have to pay him
$50, 900 anyway. That's the agree
ment they made when Boyer signed.
When Jimmy Stewart returns to
town, it will be interesting to see
what happens to Rita Hayworth's
dates with Victore Mature. Rita
has a soft spot for Jimmy.
Robert Montgomery is listening
to Jerry Wald's persuasive speeches
for him to star in "Act of Violence"
one of seven movies Jerry will
nave in production at the same time.
Claude Rains is the only actor set
so far for 1.-The Patriots another
Wald movie. And you can make bets
now that when Jerry finishes his
contract at Warmers early next year
he will join his good friend, Mark
Hellinger. with David Selznick's re-
leasing outfit.
Here's a switch: When Enrol
Flynn made his first appearance in
tights for his wardrobe tests in THE
Adventures of Don JUAN" all the
gals on the lot fiocked onto the
sound stage to see him!
That Turhan Bey-Linda Christian
romance Is really on the level-as
far as Turhan is concerned I'm
wondering If Linda will forego all
the rich men who pursue her-for
matrimony with Turhan?
4 X X
Joan Crawford took "The Gay
Goddess" script with her to Homo
lulu. She has virtually promised
William Goetz that she will do it for
Universal international.
With William Powell dead Ger
tainty to win an academy award
for his Life With Father" Uni
versal-International is beginning to
crow already. AS you know, they
have Bill scheduled for four pic
tures-and they'll get the benefit OF
any prizes he wins. Now the studio
wants to buy Malvin Wald's play,
Father Was President" for Bill
It's about Teddy Roosevelt.
Here's a laugh: Mike Romanof1
has exactly one line to say in Arch
of Triumph" but Mike is the boy
throwing a big party-at Roman
off's-after the pictures premiere.
Released by
North Amsrieon Newspaper Alliance
Evening star., 1947-10-04

Tolson, general manager of the
Washington Terminal Co., which
operates Union Station.
Evening star., 1947-10-04

name of a son expelled from naval
college under suspicion of petty
theft.
London critics who caught sight
of it first unanimously hailed THE
Winslow Boy" as Rattigan's best
play to date.
Jean Paul Sartre's mo Exit, "
which got as close to Washington
as Baltimore In the summer season
of the Hilltop Theater, will finally
make its bow here on October 81.
The first existentialist play. which
created rather a dither on Broad
way in brief run last season. will
be the opening offering of the King
Smith players on that date.
There is no limit to which a movie
press agent will not 60 for a COM
parison, irrespective of the odious
reputation of all comparisons.
The latest one across drama desks
points out that Red, the horse star
of "The Red Stallion" is a far big
ger money maker than Harvard
graduates, the average one, to be
sure. Ten years after leaving Cam
bridge, Reds proponent says, the
Harvard man is making $1,000.
Red, who is only s, is paying in
come tax right now on $4,000.
That Is what Reds press agent
says, at least.
X X X X
Blossom Time" and 1.-THE Student
Prince" may have been shelved for
this season, but the National will get
couple of other perennials which
are almost as hardy. The Shubert
revivals in question are Rose Marie"
and "The Merry Widow" which will
open a fortnight's stand here on
October 20.
The Friml 'operetta will come first
with the second week taken over by
the Lehar work. The latter, you
might want to know, will open with
matinee on Sunday, October 26.
X X X
The st. Paul Players are looking
for actors, as what amateur group
is not at this season? So, the St.
Paul company will hold tryouts on
Monday night at 1921, v street, at
8 o'clock. The groups first offering
will be "The Importance of Being
Earnest"
Evening star., 1947-10-04
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time of Showing

Stage.
National - Lady Windermere'.
Fan; $50 pm.
Screen.
AmbassadOr-"Dark Passage; l
$40, $40, 7:30 and Gas pm.
capitalization of the Movies"
10 am, 12:45, $3.50, 6:15, 9 and IL: As
pm. Stage shows: 1855 am, 2:40
5:25, $40 and 1885 pm.
Columbia-"The Vigilantes Re.
turn; 11:10 am, 1855, 2:45, 4:3O
$40, sos and $50 pm.
Hippodrome-"Th Adventures"
2:15, 4:10, 6:10, 7:55 and $40 pm
Keith's-"Si Singapore; 1850 am.
1:5O, 1855, 5:55. 8, 1905 pm. and
1910 am.
Little-"Mayerling'; 11:25 am.
1:25, $3.50, $50, 7:35 and 9:40 pm.
Metropolitan Red Stallion"
11:40 an, 1:4O, $40, $40, TAO ano
9:45 pm.
Palace-"Desire Me-; II am.
10, 3:15, $40, 7:30, s:35 and II AZ
pm.
Pix-"Monsieur Verdoux'; 1l:2(
am, 1:30, $40, $50, 8, 1910 pm
and 1920 am.
TRANSFORMATIONS and Shorts
Continuous from 1915 am.
Warner-"Dark Passage; 10:4s
am, /, 800, $50, 7:45 and 10 pm
! and 1910 am.
Evening star., 1947-10-04
Bors Hove Truffic Liqhts

Traffic control lights now gleam
| in the bars of the York Hotel, Derby,
England-green indicating open, yel-
low, five minutes to closing and red
closed.
Evening star., 1947-10-04
Five Rail Officials Invited
To Smoke Nuisance ParIey

Five officials of railroad companies
using Union Station have been in
vited to meet Tuesday with Brig
Gen. Gordon r. Young, Engineer
Commissioner, to discuss ways OF
improving the atmosphere in North
east Washington.
Representatives of Northeast Citi-
zens' Associations met last Septem-
ber IS with Gen. Young, complain
ing that smoke from trains was an
annoyance in their section of the
city. At that time, the Engineer
Commissioner promised to see what
could be done about the matter.
Tuesdays meeting, which will be
closed to the public, is the first
subsequent development on the
smoke front.
Railroad officials invited to attend
the session are c. w. Van Horn of
the Baltimore g. Ohio Railroad, E.
w. Smith of the Pennsylvania line,
w. A. Aiken of the Richmond, Fred
ericksburg & Potomac; H. A. De
Butts, Southern, and A. r. Law
master, Chesapeake & Ohio.
Also at the meeting will be B. r.
Evening star., 1947-10-04

block from their home, killing the
man and woman aboard.
With others, they rushed to the
scene, wondering who the occupants
were.
The pilot was Earl Henry, SO,
Alhambra, Calf, who operates a
cafe at the Monrovia Airport. The
passenger was Mrs. Vera Williams,
40, wife of Mr.. Williams and mother
of Jeanne.
Evening star., 1947-10-04

A STAR RETURNSAAtter ap-
pearing erclusiDely in, Merican
films. for the past telU years,
Dolores Del Rio 1DiH soon be
seen here again in John Ford's
latest production, "The Fugi-
tiUe," Which Was filmed en-
tirely in her natiUe country.
Henry Fonda has the leading
male role in the drama.
Evening star., 1947-10-04

Katharine Hepburn may have
been reading the script of Look
Homeward, Angel" and Van
Heflin and Robert Walker may
be Under consideration Tor roles,
but when the recording angel
last looked, the film was being
planned as an independent pro-
duction by a gentleman named
Arthur Riley. According to our
best information, M-G-M does
not enter into the picture, al
though with all those Metro
names being banded about, the
confusion Is inevitable,
I hesitate to say that you have
cried Wolfe once too often. In
fact, I almost hesitate to say
that Look Homeward, Angel"
might not be an M-G-M release.
After all, Frank Capra of Liberty
Films, which is now a part of
Paramount, is making State OF
the Union" at M-G-M. Walter
Wanger of Walter Wanger, on
the other hand, is making Joan
of Lorraine" for RkO although
we had busted of all the armor
in our shop in preparation. And
United Artists is rumored to be
buying a lot of RKO pictures to
release for United Artists. The
position is almost as confusing
as that of a Dodger fan who
spent two afternoons shivering
in Yankee Stadium.
The world is just upset, that's
all. Only today I saw a letter in
which some one referred to
brand Whitlock," the Washing
ton publicity man. Mickey
Rooney is playing grown men
in his new pictures, Van john
son has become rough, tough and
terrific; Jane Russell has been
cast in a comedy about the West.
I suppose you have read Dirty
Eddie" Possibly you're con-
vinced that if Look Homeward,
Angel" is made it will be called
"You Can't Look Home Again,
Angeline," will be produced IN
Technicolor by Daryl Jessel, and
that the music will be available
at your nearest grocer's.
You might be right. at that.
But I still think it will be made
by M-G-M.
All the best, DAN.
X X
Terrence Rattigan, author of 9TH
Winslow Boy" which opens at tn
National Monday night, is a play
wright in quite a different moo
from that which dominated his las
here. That exhibit, II
Mistress Mine" with the Lunts, wa
Rattigan the light-hearted.
THE Winslow Boy" is not with
out its humor, but it is closer
than to comedy. 1t
theme is the long, discouraging f19h
of an English father to clear tn
Evening star., 1947-10-04

The Ethiopian Air Line lost
s23e, ,055 in 1916, its first year of
operation.
Evening star., 1947-10-04
George BeIcho, II,
British Artist, Dies
By the Associated Press

LONDON, Oct. George Belch-
er, u, an artist noted for his sketches
of London characters. died last night
at his home in Chiddingfold, Surrey.
His best known picture, II Dreamt
That I Dwelt in Marble Halls" was
selected as the Royal Academy's pic
ture of the year in 1886.
Evening star., 1947-10-04
Daughter, Husband See
Crash FutuI to Women
BY the Associated Press

MONROVIA, Calf, Oct. A.
Walter D. Williams, commercial
air pilot, and his 17-year-old STEP
daughter, Jeanne Johnson, watched
yesterday as small airplane exc
cuted snap-roll at a low level and
then saw it crash to the ground half
Evening star., 1947-10-04

ADJUSTMENTS
Evening star., 1947-10-04
Wolfe Novel Won't Be Metros
Film, Its Man Terrell Says
By Jay Cormody

Dan Terrell of Loews mighty with typewriter
and he
lowing a
EenkOI he fash
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-11-29
NEW BASIS FOR SELECTING
Continued from Page II

(C0HCIHueu ITUm rage
board of supervisors is required
to use the registration book as a
guide and that in April of each
year a list of potential jurors is
made up and the names placed in
a box and sent to the circuit clerk.
Mr.. Marshal tod the court that
the testimony showed that no
colored person ever got a chance
to be selected jury duty because
his name was never placed on the
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-11-29

When Bilbo took the floor to
filibuster against the fair en-
ployment practice bill, Rankin
said, "he was, advised by his
physician that exertion would
cost him his life, which it did"
Even after Biblo had been den
led a seat In the Senate and had
returned to his Dream Hopsep at
Poplarville, Miss, enemies with
in our gates continued the most
ghoulish attacks on him have
ever known, and some of them
are continuing them today"
Rankin said when the impartial
historian writes the history Of the
Eightieth Congress one OF the
most shameful chapters will be
the mistreatment of this man who
gave his life for Americanism
and American principles and that
our government might endure.
Other members of the Mississ-
1ppi delegation also eulogized Bill
BIO but none in the extravagent
language Bankin used.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-11-29
Buy Scholarship
Stamp Help Dental
Students

The Scholarship Fund, made "a
valuable by the National Dental
Association for needy Senior Den
tai Students at Howard and Me-
harry Dental Colleges is financed
by the sale to the members Of
the Scholarship Stamp as pictur-
ed here.
DR.. H. Cicero Edwards, Wash
ington, D. c., Chairman, Scholar
ship Committee distributes thr-
ough his office these stamps
to all dentists of the National
Dental Association to be used this
year round on their stationery
same as the Christmas Seal
Stamps are used in season. DR..
Edwards says that through the eff
forts OF this fund the National
Dental Association has alloXSd
limit Of $225.00 per student and
specified that this money must
be necessary to aid the graduation
of the student and is not depend
ent upon the highest grade rank
ing, but rather upon the need OF
deserving seniors and particular
1y If it will permit the student
to graduate.
Other Scholarship Fund Com
mittee men distributing stamps in
their areas are DR.. H. s. Collum
Chicago, H., DR.. J. W. Jamer-
son, Savannah, Ca, DR.. W. n. Gu
thbert, Pittsburgh, Pa, DR.. R
L. Bradford, Charlestown, W. Va,
Dr.. s. G. Shirley, Elizabeth, y
J., DR.. N. Doles, Baltimore, Nd.
DR.. c. B. Absolom, New York, DR.
M. R. Dean, Secretary, Washing.
ton, D. c., and DR.. II. G. Ed
wards, Chairman, Washington, D.
c.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-11-29
Rep Rankin
Eulcgizes Senator
biIho

Washington, D G - Represen-
tative John e. Rankin, Democrat,
of Mississippi, who was decisively
beaten for the Senate seat of the
late Theodore G. Bilbo, last Mon
day eulogized The Man in the
House.
No man who ever served in the
United States Senate, Rankin de-
cIared ever suffered the unjust
treatment meted out to this hum
BILE representative of the toiling
masses of Mississippians,"
The man who promised to out
Bilbo Bilbo If elected to the SEN
ate said Bilbo "stod for the ira
ditions which have characterized
the people of the South from the
earliest settlements, and for those
policies of segregation by which
alone the two races can live to-
gether in peace and security in
that great section OF the coun-
try. For that he was abused and
accused of race prejudice"
Rankin added that GAS mat
ter of fact, colored people In
Mississippi have enjoyed more
peace, more happiness, more pros
perity and more security than
they have ever enjoyed elsewhere
in the United States or anywhere
else In the world under similar
circumstances. As governor of
the state. he never failed to see
that they were protected"
EDITORS note: More than 500
colored persons have been lyn-
chsd in Mississippi since 1892
Responsibility for the death OF
Bilbo was placed by Rankin on
Communist" who swarmed into
Washington and demanded not
only that he be denied the seat in
the Senate to While hhe had been
elected but also the right to de.
fend himself ON the Senate flor