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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-09-20
NAACP Confident
Court Will Uphold
S. c. Vote Ruling

Columbia, S. C. (Special)-Con-
fidece that higher u. S. Courts
will uphold the recent decision rem
dered on the South Carolina pri-
mary system by U. S. Court Dis
trict Judge. Waties Waring of
Charleston was expressed by NAA
CP leaders this week.
ALARM NOT JUSTIFIED
James M. Hinton, state NAACP
president said, lam very much
concerned that so many of our
people are disturbed over the re-
cent order of supercedas Judge
George Bell Zimmerman allowed
Richmond Democrats.
$50 many people ask me if we
have not lost the gains in the
Waring decision. Truth, is the
supercedas order is simply stoy
of execution which in no way at
fects the Waring decision or the
status of the primary. We have
MT lost a single thing by it.
"The Democrats have appealed
the decision just as we would have
done if we had lost in Judge
Waring Court. We don't think Ell
Their the Circuit Court at Rich
mond or the U. S. Supreme Court
will change the ruling and are per-
fectly wiling to let the Democrats
have their last try. They are en-
titled an appeal. We wouldn't
want to deny them a single pri-
vilege.
THERE rs NO ESCAPE
4 Mr.. Hinton saw mo escape"
now for Democrats still trying to
keep Negroes out of primaries.
Advised that a current cam
paign by the Chaleston News and
Courier seeks cutting the state
party away from the national par
y and return to the convention
system to insure while suprem-
acy, Mr.. Hinton said:
"When the Circuit Court OF ap-
peals OF the Supreme Court have
issued their rulings on the issue It
will make no difference what is
tried. Negroes win vote. DO It in
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-09-20
Negro Public
School Open With
/ New Record Enroll

Jackson, Miss Sept Is -
(DSN) - Jackson Negro Public
schools opened with a new re-
cord enrolment here last Monday
further overcrowding tn ecity's al
ready inadequate Negro public Sc
hool facilities.
Prof. o. B. Cobbins, Supervisor
of Jackson Negro Public Schools
said the enrolment was approx
mately $500 with an average tea
cher load of As pupils.
It is estimated that the enroll
ment in Negro public schools
would be increased by at least Il
percent if the state compulsory Sc
hool laws were enforced with re-
spect to Negro children.
THE Negro public schools Of
Jackson are: Lanier High, jim
Hill-Sally Reynolds, Junior High
and Martin, Mary Jones and Smith
Robinson, Grade schools.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-09-20
Death Strikes
Again In Editors
SwiingIer Family

Memphis. Tenn - SpeciaD -
Editor l.. o. Swingler of the Mem
phis World returned to his desk
Wednesday of last week after at
tending funeral rites for his I'M
Gle, Horace Smith, pioneer Okla
homan who died SUDDENLY at his
Tulsa, Oklahoma residence on Lab
or day. 1t was the second time
within the brieff period of three
months that the Memphis newspap-
er man was summoned to the So
uthwest metropolis by death. His
mother passed suddenly on Mo-
theirs Day. Mr.. Smith and Mrs.
Hattie Swingler Burton were bro
Their and sister.
A native of Florence, Alabama,
Mr.. Smith went to Oklahoma
shortly after Statehood. He was
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-09-20

one OF the organizers of the large
Friendship Baptist Church at Tul-
sa, now under pastorate Of Rev.
B. B. Moore. This church was
named for Friendship Baptist CHI
urch in Crittenden County, Ark,
where Mr.. Smith worshipped dur
ing his boyhood. Masonic rites by
thirty-second degree Masons of
Pyramid Lodge Number SO Prince
Hall Grand Lodge Oklahoma were
Editor SWingler was accompani-
ed to Tulsa by cousin Joseph
Smith of Marion Arkansas
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-09-20

Business and the business COM
mittee reports, $3.50 p. m. closing
vespers, 3:45 p. m conducted tour
of the Tinsley Oil Field.
Miss F. o. Alexander, chairman
of the progranAc committee states
that final progrS tails will be
worked out in committee meet
ing next week. Committee mem
bers are Mesdames: N. III. Burger,
Hattiesburg; L. T. Ellis, Laurel;
v. T. Jacobs, Natchez; G. A. Price
IA. M. Redmond and Ruth Hubert,
jackson.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-09-20
JACKSON COLLEGE ALI CORN FOOT
BALL GAMES played In Open
FIELDS - Negro Colleges Get None OF
Recent So, 900, 600 Fund
White College Stadiunas Valued At
More Than $4,000

EEvT7rySsEv-~-~ - --'~-
The total lack of facilities for
athletics and athletics compentit-
ion and recreation in the Negro
Public Schools and Colleges of Mis-
sissippi was subject of wide
spread comment among high Sc
hool and college officials and pat
rons last week in Mississippi as
news was received of the installa-
ton of lights for night games and
other improvements completing
the stadium at Atlanta State Tea
cheers College for Negroes mere
asing the value of the stadium to-
more than 100000. The compile
ton of the 100000 stadium at
ATLANTA State Teachers College
finds the State colleges of every
state in the south with a first
class stadium and facilities for
other forms of our door and in
door sports and recreation except
Mississippi. The State College for
Negroes in Tennessee, Arkansas,
Alabama, and Louisiana now have
first class stadiums. The stadium
at Southern University in Louis
lana an all conrrete structure with
built in dormitories for the hous-
ing of football teams valued at
more than 100000 is perhaps the
outstanding stadium in Negro state
colleges in this section of the
south. These schools also have
gymnasium for basketball and 9TH
er forms of indoor sports and re-
creation as well as for out-of-dooT
recreation and sports.
At Jackson College and Afc0rn
College, Mississippi's only two
estate colleges for Negroes, at pre-
sent there is nothing that could
even be called a decent playing
field for football games and no
facilities for out door and in door
athletics, recreation and sports
The football games at Jackson
College and Aleorn College are
played on what can at best be
called wide open fields which en-
ables those who desire to witness
the games played on the grounds
of these colleges without buying
tickets. The only provision for
seating of spectators are improv-
ised arrangement of boxes, bench
es and crude bleachers.
Neither of the states dozen or
more Negro high schools have
stadiums or other forms of ac-'
commodation for athletics and
sports with the possible exceptions
of Eureka High School at Hatties--
burg. where the installation of
lSu'S ~ lAlSAt 6oLuCo mohCS VA
a small space enclosed by wood
en- fence a sort of make stiff
fotba,l stadium.
Because of their lack of stad-
mum The game between Jackson
College and Alcorn College this
year the major attraction of Neg
70 football in the state will be
played at the stadium of the white
high school in Vicksbury.
The total lack OF facilities for
athletics, athletics compentition~
sports and recreation in the Neg
TO public schools and colleges OF
the state furnished one of the,
saddest commentary on the state
program of seperate but equal ed
ucation facilities.
During the past fifty years there
is no record of any money being
appropriated specially for the con-
struction of such facilities in the,
Negro high schools and colleges
| in the state.
While no such facilities exist In
! Continued on pags 81
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-09-20
RECENT ELECTION SHOW GREATER
EFFORT TO keep NEGRO FROM
VOTING in MISS. In SPITE0F
RECENT COURT RULINGS
Reveal New Approach To Problem OF
Preventing Negro Political Participation

Jackson, Miss, Sept. 18th (DSN)
The need for law suit IN MISS
issippi to further right of Negro
Citizens to vote in the state dem
ocratic primary, and other local
elections, and the enforcement or
Federal Criminal laws respecting
the right to vote in the state, In
spite of the fact that Negroes
voted in the 1916 Senatorial cleo
ton. and in the recent governors
election. and despite the decision
of the U. S. Supreme Court in the
Famous Texas Case, and the more
recent decision of Judge j. Wal
ties Waring in the South Carolina
Case, which confirmed the right
of Negro Citizens to vote in the de-
mocatic primaries after the State
Legislature, in move to prevent
Negroes from voting in the dem
ocrat primaries had repealed all
laws governing the cooudntc of ell
ections and primaries in that state,
became increasingly evident as
more and more information con-
corning the denial of Negro rights
to vote, and to keep from count
ing the votes of those who were
allowed to vote in the recent gov
errors election, was received from
many different sections of the
state here during the past several
days.
From the information received
from authentic sources, and as
seen in an article by Kenneth
Toler, its local staff correspondent,
in the Commercial Appeal last Sun
day, there is indicated new and
more subtle approach to the prob
lem of keeping negroe citizens
from voting in the Mississippi
Democratic Primaries. AS seen
from the article by Mr.. Toler, IN
particular, the fact that the Ne
gro Issue was not raised in the
governors campaign, and that 1T
may not be raised in the Campaign
for the u. S. Senate seat made
vacant by the death of Senator
Bilbo to be voted on November A.,
was evidence of no lessening OF the
determination on the part of poll
iticians to KEEP Negroes from vot-
ing, but was the results of sort
of Pound Robin" out of which
came an agreement among all the
candidates and politicians to say
nothing publicly during the CAM
paign and from there on out on
the Negro Issue, but to do more
than ever secretly and behind the
scenes to keep the Negro from
political participation in Miss.
How this new approch is work
ing and being worked can be seen
from a brief review of some or
the reports and information re-
ceived here.
In Natchez, in Adams County,
during the war years, stirred by
the promise of full democracy for
everybody, in tn estatement OF the
war aims, a large number of Ne
groes had registered, paid poll-tax
and become eligible voters. A few
weeks before the governors cleo
ton, a new registration was or
dered by the county election Off
Gals, thus cancelling all qualified
Negroes along with others. When
the new books were opened none
of the previously qualified Negro
voters were allowed to re-register
and sign the new books, the off
icials using various subterfuges
and devices. According to reports
only one previously qualified Ne
gro voter was allowed to re-reg-
CONTINUED on page 81
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-09-20

the convention or in an outlawed
PARTY. There viii then be no es-
cape"
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1947-04-21
WEIGH FARM HOME
BURNED SUNDAY

The farm home of Mr.. and Mrs.
James Welch, miles west of Ma
rySville on the Bellefontaine rd.,
was completely destroyed by fire
Sunday morning. Only the furni-
ture in the first floor could be
saved by neighbors who came to
the aid of Mr.. and Mrs. Welch,
as soon as the alarm was spread.
1t was believed that sparks
from the chimney caused the fire.
A passing truckman, whose name
was not learned, discovered the
fire and stopped to tell the coup
lie their home was on fire. That
was about 6:45 a. m. and by l1:30
a. m. the dwelling was smould-
ering ruins.
The Marysville fire department
was Immediately called, but the
flames had gained such headway
that the firemen could do little
to combat it. The entire roof was
ablaze when the truck got there.
The nearest source of water was
a small stream 500 feet away, and
by the time that much hose could
be coupled together, the flames
had gotten into the partitions.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1947-04-21
GRAND, PETIT
ARE DRAWN
FOR MAY TERM
New Session To Begin
On May 8; 40 Persons
Selected for Service

Grand and petit juries for the
May term of Common Pleas court
were drawn here Saturday morn
ing by Jury Commissioners w. C..
Southland and Carl A. Rausch.
Present for the drawing were
Clerk of Courts Harold Cameron,
Sheriff II. S. Roosa and Judge
Richard L. Cameron. The juries
are:
Grand Jury-William Treese,
Redwood, r. 2; Glen E. Gabriel,
.Marysville, R. 3; Hugh Wagner,
West Mansfield; Virgil Salyer,
Redwood; j. G. M. Greenbaum,
Plain City; Flora Hamilton, Mar
ysville, R. l; Elmer Rausch, Plain
City; John M. Noelp, Marysville,
R.; 2
George r. Jewell, Marysville,
r. /; Martha Mccarthy, Marys-
vile; John Curry, Plain City, r.
3; Irene Meifert, Marysville; Will
lis Shearer, Marysville; Stella
Pennington, Marysville, R. and
Verna Mcdowell, Marysville, r.
3.
Petit Jury-Robert Reese, Mar
ysville; Miriam Hildreth, Marys-
vile; Guy Newhouse, Redwood,
r. 2; Howard Lingrel, West Mans
field; Eugene Amerine, Marys-
vile, R. 3; C. c. Webster, Plain
City; Vera Black, Marysville, r.
3; Carl Beightler, Marysville, r.
5; Walter S. Simpkins, Plain City;
Roy Garrett, Plain City; Pearl
Thompson, Plain City; Charles
P. Fletcher, Redwood; w. A.
Rodgers, Marysville; Loren Cook,
Magnetic Springs; D. K. Davis,
Redwood, R. 2; Frances Laymas-
ter, Marysville;
y A. w. Squirting, Marysville; r.
r. Robertson, Redwood; Orlen
R. Clark, Peoria; Erma June
Bumgarner, Redwood, r. 2; Joe
Davis, Marysville, R. A; Merle
Shirk, Magnetic Springs; Elmer
Barry, Redwood; Ilene Belt, Mar
ysville; and Arthur Cook, Mar
/, ysville, r. 3.
The Grand Jury will meet at
$50 a. m. May IL to open the new
term and consider several Grim
inal actions to be presented to
them by Prosecptor William l..
Coleman.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1947-04-21
TWO HANDSOME TROPHIES AWARDE
M. HIS. AT ATHLETIC BANQUET FRIDAY

the highly successful season. he
referred to both the team and the
season as unusual in that all
the local "dopesters" were rath-
er sceptical of Marysville's chan
ces before the season started, yet
it was one of the best gridiron
seasons the school ever enjoyed.
1t ended in Marysville's second
consecutive Mid-State title, after
a 7-Won, 3-lost record.
The gold footballs went to Dale
Bell, Douglas Beasecker, Nanny
Rogers, John Dayton, Bud White,
Jerry Kingsmore, Jack Mcclure,
Bob Keirns, Claud Sharf, Harold
Goedeking, Art Brandt, Everett
Alexander, Harold Hill, Jim
Haines and King Forty.
Review Cage Seasin
Coach Widner drew an anal
ogy between his basketball season
and the football team. Local fans
had been rather pessismistic over
the Monarchs in basketball, too,
especially when they dropped
their first three. But when they
started rolling the first of Feb
ruary, won IL straight before los
ing to Plain City in the district
tournament in a heart breaking
double overtime game. But they
did end their regular season in a
tie with Sunbury for the Mid
State title, later defeating Sum
bury in the quarter finals of the
district meet.
The basketball medals, award
ed by Coach Widner on behalf
of the district tournament man
agement, went to Rogers, Bell,
Dean Scheiderer and Alexander,
the only seniors on the team; Art
Streng, Kingsmore, Bill Wall, Nc
CURE, and Harry Evans, all jun
iors; and Dayton, a sophomore.
Praises Coach Kingsmore
In her remarks, Miss Mills laid
claim to being the champion
sports events attender" for the
entire community. Very few
games has she missed during her
years as high school principal. "In
the earlier days." Miss Mills re-
called, Il used to wonder why
MIR Kingsmore, then the coach,
would do some of the things he
did, such as taking boys out of a
game at a crucial time. But his
judgment proved much better
than mine, and / quickly learned
not to question it.
Miss Mills was high in her
praise of Mr.. Kingsmore's sound
judgment, both from his teams
and outside, and of his success.
She was also commendatory of
TWO HANDSOME -. CON 2........
fContinued on page 2. col. 81
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1947-04-21
EIGHT ARRESTS
MADE BY RAMSEY

Eight traffic arrests were made
by Highway Patrolman H. G..
Ramsey Friday and Saturday, one
of them the result of an auto
mobile accident.
Jean West, 26, Dayton Rt. 2,
will be arraigned before Mayor
Forbis, of West jefferson, next
Friday, for driving without lie
enSe. Driving toward West JEFF
ferson on Route 40 at II a. m.
Friday, Mrs. West West ran into
a concrete island" dividing the
highway, lost control of the car
and crashed into a guard rail on
the left side of the road. She Suf-
fered badly bruised ribs and her
husband, George West, received
face abraSions.
Ray Crawford, Upper Sandus-
ky, was fined $40 and costs by
Mayor Willis, of Plain City after
he had been arrested on a charge
of speeding on Route AZ, south
of that village. Patrolman Ram
sey said Crawford was driving
70 miles per hour.
Parker Adkins and Frank
Westlake jr., both of Columbus,
were fined $40 and costs each in
Mayor Yeagers court in Dublin,
Friday evening, for speeding. The
Patrolman clocked both of them
at the same time, doing 65 miles
per hour south of Halls Corners
on Route 33.
Donald West, Powell RI. |, was
fined $40 and costs by Mayor
Yeager for doing 65 miles per
hour on the OShaughnessy dam
rd,, Saturday afternoon.
Saturday evening, George Har-
ris jr., Liverpool, Ill, was arrest
ed just north of Dublin for fail
ure to register a new motor We
hicle. He was driving a new In
ternational pickup truck without
a license and was fined $40 and
costs.
Harry Buckerfield, 26, of Co
lumbuS, was handed the stiffeSt
fine of the lot, $35 and costs by
Mayor Yeager early Sunday
morning. Patrolman Ramsey chas-
ed him south on the O'Shaugh-
messy dam rd. toward Dublin, do
ing IS miles per hour. When
Buckerfield came to the approach
to the bridge over the Scioto river
and tried to make the jog to the
right underneath the bridge, he
threw his car into a spin and
ended up in the driveway of a
nearby service station.
John Southland, Columbus, was
fined SIS and costs by Mayor
Yeager for failure to stop at the
stop sign at the junction of Routes
33 and l6l, early Sunday.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1947-04-21
MHS SCHOLARSHIP
TEAM SELECTED
Will Compete May 3
In District Contest

Pupils who will represent Ma
rysville high school in the dis
trict-state scholarship contest to
be held at Ohio Wesleyan uni
versity May 3, have been select
ed. They are the two highest in
preliminary every pupil" tests
given several weeks ago in each
subject taught at the school.
Members Of the scholarship
team" are:
English 9-Janet Hardman and
Joan Woerlein.
English 10 Beth Linzinmeir
and John Dayton.
English 11-Jane Beasecker and
Jack Mcclure.
English l2-Douglas Beasecker
and Violet Stierhoff.
Latin MARY Ellen Haggard
and Jean Conrad.
Latin II-Dorothy Coleman and
Margaret Reams.
Spanish l. Marilyn Coleman
and Barbara Asman.
Spanish II-Jane Rausch and
Ann Carr.
Bookkeeping Virginia Dolan
and Erma Rausch.
Algebra - Elizabeth Weidman
and Eugene Cook.
Geometry-Annc Kingsmore
and Bill Palmer.
American history-George Hen
bricks and Ethel Monroe.
World history-Gayle Williams
and Jeanne Daley.
Biology-Marjorie Rausch and
Nancy Elbin
Chemistry-Bill Woodson and
Dwight Wooley.
Physics-Charles Swink an d
Marion Luh.
General Science-John Hay
worth and Jimmy Gabriel.
The district-state contest is be-
ing held at Ohio Wesleyan this
year, instead of Columbus as in
the past, in order to reduce the
congestion of hundreds of Schol-
ars at Ohio State university. Sew
eral additional testing centers
were added this year, but all
papers will be sent to Columbus
for grading.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1947-04-21
Life, Customs In Indio Described
In Letter to Gobriels from Son-i11-law

pipes, the first week is rather a
haze. | remember coming up to
a familiar looking Indian, open
ing my mouth to tell him the
latest gossip or pass the time of
day, and finding l couldn't say
anything. / knew what / wanted
to say, but l just stood there
until the poor fellow called on
his gods to protect him from the
evil eye of this mad sahid, and
fled After getting Alfie, our
goods and chattels to my parents
home we took ourselves to the
mountains to study Urdu. Here
for the first time we began to
unravel the mysteries of running
a household in India and of
avoiding dysentery and silver
moths. The biggest item of the
year, and any year of course, was
the arrival of James Gabriel
Campbell on September the 3rd.
Jimmie, being a very obliging
son, came three days after the
closing of Language School which
his mother attended. We had a
last ditch race with the stork but
with help of a chair carried on
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1947-04-21
ARMY OFFICER PRAISES FACILITIES
AVAILABLE TOONG COMPANY HERE

vile company is in phase 8 of
its organization, but expects to
be in phase 2 by the first of May.
eve must have % enlisted men
to advance to phase 2,' Lit. John
w. Spain, company adjutant,
said. "At the present time, we
have 10 men. The full strength
will be rs enlisted men and sew
eral good ratings are still open"
A considerable portion of the
equipment assigned to the Marys-
vile company is due here any
day. Expect at once are two
heavy tanks, two jeeps, and two
trucks, in addition to smaller e.
quipment.
"The tanks will weigh 60 tons
each, carry 80 nm rifle, and
are valued at 100000 each," 1t.
Spain said. The company will
eventually be equipped with nine
such tanks.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1947-04-21
COUNTY ROADS
TO BE- REPAIRED

Bids for the repair of several
secondary state routes in Union
county are being asked by the
State Highway Department, to be
received until 10 a. m. May 6.
Included in the project are:
Route 739, SGT miles in Jack
son and Washington townships,
18 foot pavement.
Route 739. 2.89 miles in Jack
son township, Is foot pavement.
Route 81, 3.24 miles in Lees
burg township, 18 foot pavement.
Route 347, 2.20 miles in Lees
burg township, 18 foot pavement.
Also included 5.51 miles of
Route 81 in LaRue, Bowling
Green and Montgomery town
ship in Marion county.
All are to be resurfaced by
applying bituminous treatment.
Estimated cost for the five pro-
jects is S35,962.29 and all are to
be completed by Aug. IS.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1947-04-21
FBI ARRESTS MAN
AT REFORMATORY

A man identified by the FBI
as William James Myers, 38. was
arrested Saturday by agents dur
ing a visit to a sister-in-law at
the Marysville Women's Reform
atory.
FBI agents said Myers, a truck
driver, was wanted at st. Louis
on a charge of embezZling S400 in
cash from a branch of the United
Van Lines. Myers will be ar
raigned before u. S. Commits
sioner Robert w. Newton and
returned to st. Louis for prose
cution, the FBI said
Mrs. Marguerite Reilley, super
intendent of the Reformatory.
said today she knew nothing of
the particulars concerning Myers
arrest there.
"The F. B. l. men showed us
their credentials, went back TO
the visitors room, and left few
minutes later with their man,
Mrs. Reilley said. They volun-
teered no information about how
they learned the man was here.
and we make it a rule to ask no
questions under such circumstan-
ces."
Myers had gone to the Institut-
ion with members Of the inmates
family.