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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-07-26

of the death of Prof. Holtzclaw
the building and property and
equipment of Utica Institute was
valued at more than 100000. At
the death of Prof. Holt2claw the
principalship of the institution
was taken voer by his son, w. Il.
Holtzclaw, Jr., who it was an
nounced will take a position with
the Veterans Farm Training Pro-
gram.
County Superintendent of Edu-
cation. C. H. Smell also announced
last week that J. w. Grantham or
Collins had been appointed head of
the Kinds County Negro Agricul-
tural High School. A graduate OF
Alcorn College Prof. Grantham has
had wide teaching experience
and is well acquainted with the
educational needs for the develop
ment of better rural living in the
state.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-07-26
| Delta Oil Mill
Signs cI0
| Contract
NEGRO WORKERS BENEFIT
IN PAY RAISE

The Workers of Delta Cottor
Oil and Fertilizer Company have
successfully negotiated 8 IL t.
IL cent an hour raise completing
their contract for another year
In additions these workers, mem
bers of the FOOD, TOBACCO
AGRICULTURAL AND ALLIEI
WORKERS UNION OF AMERI
CA, CLIO, will receive two weeks
vacation next year with pay.
Six months ago these workers
han no union. At that time they
were making 45 cents an hour min.
imum pay. Now their pay ranges
from 60 to 50 cents an hour. Be-
fore these workers joined the Clio
the majority Of the mhad never re-
ceived paid holiday or vaca-
ton with pay. Now they receive
six paid holidays, including Christ
mas and New Years day.
1t is noteworthy that the nego-
tiation of this contract was car
ried out by a committee of Negro
workers, without outside assistan
ce; except at the final signing OF
the contract. Under the Leadership
of their president, Troy Apple
white, these workers have improv
ed their basic wage rates by 3;
percent in a period of little over
six months.
It is the policy of the Clio tx
develop leadership among the ranl
and file workers. That a commit
tee of Negro workers could NEE
with their employer and bring alb
out such advances in the wage!
and working conditions is a tri
butte to the effectiveness of thi:
policN
The Delta contract 1OllOWS TIT
successful completion of the Buck
eye Cotton Oil Mill contract b.
Eta - CLIO workers six weeks
ago.
Buckeye Cotton Oil Company nov
pays so 1-2 cents an hour to it
| floor sweepers, Skilled worker
make over 70 cents an hour. Thes'
workers have one of the best I'm
ion contracts in the city. They
too, receive two weeks vacation
with pay and six paid holidays.
IF a worker at Buckeye goe
down to work, he cannot be sen
HON ewith less than four hours
pay. This is a far cry from Oh
days when the employer paid nj
workers dollar a day and lei
them to believe they were forum
| ate to get that.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-07-26
4. M. Townsend
Charged With
Auto Death

Winchester, Tenn. = DR.. A. M.
Townsend, nationally known Bap-
fist leader, was arrested here last
week on charges of manslaughter,
growing out of a white laborer,
Roy Garner, 46 yer oald native of
Oak Grove, Franklin County, Tenn.
The aged Baptist leader waived
examinatio ia preliminary
hearing in Winchester, and was
bound over to the circuit court
on two charges.
DR.. Townsend was arrested by
State Highway patrolmen at his
summer home near Winchester. He
was traced through a license plate
left at the scene of the tragedy.
His arrest came as minutes after
the victim was hit.
The churchman protested to ar
resting officers that he was un-
aware that he had hit anyone. and
his two daughters, riding in his
1941 Cadillac at the time said they
were asleep and knew nothing OF
the affair.
Car Given Chase
Two Winchester men in front
of whose home the accident occur
red said they heard the impact
and found Garner lying dead, and
then gave chase to the death car,
at times reaching a speed of eighty
miles an hour. but could not over
take the hit-run vehicle.
The Baptist leader vigorously
denied that he had fled the scene
Of the crash and said that the de-
tails of the accident has been gros-
ly exaggerated. He admitted hav-
ing the accident, but denied that
he had driven his car at a speed
anywhere nea tribe alleged eighty
miles an hour.
DR.. Townsend has engaged two
Winchester lawyers to defend him
when the case comes up in Circuit
Court next term.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-07-26

ed to the House on July 16.
Representative John Bell Will
liams, Democrat, of Mississippi, a
war veteran with an amputated
arm, read to the House part OF
an article which appeared in dali
ly papers alleging that the Re-
publican decision to bring the bill
to the House floor was a retalla-
tide mOvey lagain.t Southerners
who voted against the income tax
reduction bill.
Representative Charles A. Hal
leck, of Indiana, the Republican
leader, denied the charge.
No motive such as that was In
the minds of Republican leaders,
he said. "This is no retaliatory
move," he added, adding that it
had been determined sometime, ago
to bring pthe antipoll tax bill.
Williams charged that the act
ions of the Republicans was the
biggest piece of political demag-
oguery that has ever been perpet-
rated on the people of the United
States.
He said ''it proves that the Sou
tn has no corner on demagoguery"
At one point, Speaker Martin
refused to entertain a unanimous
consent request from Mr.. Pickett
to insert in the record two tele-
grams, one of which had inform
ed Mr.. Pickett that hearings on
antipoll tax legislation were to
be closed on July Is. The other
was from Mr.. Pickett to Mr.. Mar
tin asking that the hearings be
prolonged.
Mr.. Pickett at the time was in
New Orleans. He was accompany
ing the body of the late Repre-
sentative Joseph J. Mansfield to
Texas for burial.
Southern opponents of antl-poll
tax legislation contended that Fed
eral legislation on the subject was
IAN unwarranted assumption OF
legislative power not granted IN
the Constitution"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-07-26
Utica Institute
Comes To co|orful
End, Recently

Utica, Miss = (DSN) - July q
The colorful history of Utica
Normal and Industrial Institute
came to an end with the announce
ment last week by Kinds County
Superintendent of Education, c. II.
Smell. that the Institution plant
and property would be taken over
by the County and converted into
the Kinds County Negro Agricul-
tural High School.
Utica Normal and Industrial IN
stitute was founded in 1903 by
Prof. William H. Holtzclaw, who
also served as it's principal for
40 years until his death in Septem-
Der in 1913. A graduate of Tuske-
gee Institute and receiving the en-
couragement of Booker T. Wash
ington, Prof. Holtzclaw began the
work of creating Utica Institute
with barely more than the realiza-
ton and the need for education for
Mississippi Negroes. Travelling and
lecturing in this interest he early
gained for it wide acquaintance
and received financial aid from
some of the leaders financialists of
the nation. 1t was at Utica Insti-
tute that the Farmers Confer
ence of Mississippi started in 1905.
Under which much has been done
to raise the standard Of Negro
farmers in the state. At the time
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-07-26

Camp Barree, Barree, Pa. -
A drama, THE Building of Ma
ton" under the direction of Mrs.
Charolette Motion Hubbard (abOve)
was featured independence Day
presentation at the 35th Annivers-
airy International Girl Scout En-
campment, meeting at Camp Bar
rec, Barree, Pa. The play was in
spired by poem of Langston
Hughes. The production was wit
messed by Girl Scout delegates
from 20 countries and from every
state in the union.
Mrs. Charlotte Motion Hubbard
is a member of the Community Re-
lations Bureau of the Girl Scout
national organization and is cur
rently a member of the program
consultant staff of the 35th An
niversary Girl Scout International
Encampment.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-07-26

At Ahoskie, the Kiwanis Club
him the winning ticket.
last Wednesday decided to give
$4,000 Cadillac automobile to JONI
es. Directors of the club acted
after receiving telephone call
from their international president,
DR.. Carl w. Armstrong of Sails
bury, North Carolina, urging them
to see that Mr.. Jones received
car identical with the one given
away in the lottery.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-07-26

"Land of the Decotahs," by
Bruce Nelson, University of Min
nesota Press, S3.75, tells the his
tory of the Decotahs fro nYthe
early days Of the French until
today. Written with a sense OF
historical pattern and a flair for
the dramatic. A must for enter
tainment and knowledge of the
Dakota empire.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-07-26
GRAND jury Ex0MERATES WARDEN AND
GUARDS IN GEORGIA PRISON MASSACRE
killing Of Prisoners Called JustifiabIe;
Further Action In Case Doubted


Brunswick, Ca A Glynn Coun-
ty Grand Jury Friday exonerated
Warden w. G. Worthy and five
guards here for the notorious
prison Massacre" of eight negro
convicts after the % members of
the jury rould frnd no .evidnce
that Warden Worthy had plotted
the mems death by shouting Let
EN- have it, as the prisnors fled
in panic from his drawn gun.
The verdict came as a sequel
to the brutal slayrng of seven
convicts which had brought natl
onal consure against the warden
and the guardes who allegedly
moved the men downas they at
tempted to flee the prison camp
near Brunswick.
The % member Grand Jury re-
turned a presentment which said
evidence showed "the wanden and
guards were justified IN their &C.
ton under circumstances"
Warden Worthysaid the break
attempt and the volleys from the
officers guns followed an attempt
of one of the convicts, Willie E.
Bell, to charge and disarm him.
The jurors questioned more
than 80 persons, including prison
ers, county police ond guards, as
well as the warden.
They covered during the three
day periodof investigation the
whole area surrounding the GIynn
County horror camp and talked
with most of the witnesses who
viewed the mass Staying.
Although the jury had delib-
Grated three days, the verdict was
not unexpted yet early reaction
to the jury's findings stunned
the some observers who had ex-
pected the group to condemn the
method of handling the convicts
prior to the camp sloyings.
Earlier at a corners hearing,
camp guardes had admitted that
they had threatened the prisoners
| with punishment in the outlowed
"hot box" where prisoners are
| crowded into an unventilated
sheet metal shed under a broil-
ing sun.
Prisoners had testified that
Worthy was drunk and he whipp-
ed out his revolver and ordered
Willie H. Bell known as pee Wee"
to step out of the irowd. When
Bell refusedto do so, Worthy is
reported to have opened fire and
the punched prisoners ran.
The Georgia Board Of Correc-
lions had Indicated that they
would take no action if the court
afiled to act. Wheather or not
the board would reconsider it's
decision Is doubtful. Asst Director
J. B. Hatcher of the Board of Cor
rections had taken the same view
of the boards course in the case.
Members of the Citizens Board
are Wiley Moore, Louis Blalock.
Ben Lambert, Turner Price and
Rev. L. M. Twiggs of Emory Uni
versity.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-07-26
House Passes Anti-PoII Txa Bill; Rep.
Williams Charge Republicans Passed
Bill Because South Voted For Veto

Washington, D c = Beating
back a Southern Democratic fill
ibuster, the House last Wednes-
day passed and sent to the senate
the Bender anti-poll tax bill.
The vote was 200 to 112. A two
thirds majority was required for
passage inasmuch as the bill was
brought up under a suspension OF
the rules.
Caught mapping by the Repuhr
lican move to push through the
bill before Congress adjourns, pro-
badly Saturday. Southern Demo-
Gratis resorted to every parliament
tary maneuver they knew to block
passage.
The Republican majority was
determined to have the bill boted
upon. Speaker John w. Martin
Jr., of Massachusetts, used pow
ers that have seldom been invoked
since Speakers of the House ruiz
ed in czarlike manner.
He declined to recognize Sou
thern demands, for roll calls, a
dilatory tactic, and for unanimous
consent to insert speeches in the
Congressional Record. The prece-
dure to which he held the House
was contrary to that allowed by
Speaker Sam Rayburn in the Sew
entn-ninth Congress, who allowed
Southerners so many roll calls
that Representatives Adam c. Po-
well, Democrat, and Vite Marcan-
tonic, American Labor Party, both
of New York, were unable to br-
ing up the fair employment prac-
tice bill under the Calendar We'd
nesday rule.
Mr.. Martin brands demands for
roll calls and requests for unani-
nous consent to insert speeches
in the Record as dilatory and an
nounced he would not entertain
them until after the bill has pas
sed.
Procedure under a suspension
of the rules permits only forty
minutes of debate, but the Sou
therners stayed off a vote on the
anti-poll tax bill for two hours
and forty minutes.
The motion to suspend the rul-
es was made by Representative
Ralph A. Bamble, Republican, OF
Ney York, chairman of the House
Administration subcommittee viii
CHI held hearings for several week
on eight anti-poll tax bills before
reporting favorably the one intro
duced by Representative George
HI. Bender, Republican, of Ohio,
to the full committee which for
thwith voted it favorably to the
House. aegy,
The bill would. make unlaful
the requirement. for the payment
of poll tax as prerequisite to
voting in a primary or other ell
ection for Federal Officers. Sew
EN- Southern States would be at
fected by the measure.
Such legislation has been pass
ed by the House in three previous
sessions but has been killed each
time by Southern filibusters in
the Senate.
The motion of Mr.. Gamble to
suspend the rules brought Repre-
sentatives John E. Rarkin, OF Mis-
sissippi, and Tom Pickett of Texas
both Democrats, to their feet with
demands for quorum call. Mr.
Rankin is the leader of thew hite
trash bloc i'm the House, and Mr.
Pickett led the opposition to an
ti-poll tax legislation in the sub
committee.
Republican leadership disclosed
last week their intention to bring
up the bill but they did not re-
veal that they would seek an inn
mediate vote through suspension
of the rules. The bill was report
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-07-26

A mature cow gives off in
breathing about eight and one-half
quarts of water in "a hours. AIDE
quate ventilation and insulation in
dairy barns will control conden-
sation of this moisture. ~ !
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-07-26

A 12-inch tree has twice as much
wood in it as 10-inch tree. The
larger tree not only has more tim
Der but it is of better quality.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1947-12-17
LOOKING FORWARD
TO HOMECOMING

Continued from page y
pings sent by William to his
parents recently, was one
showing a picture of the Mill
tary Band of which he is a
member. Under the heading
"2nd Reg. Band Adds Color
to Constabulary Games" is the
following item:
"Adding color to the week
end football games, the End
Constabulary Regimental Band
under the direction of CWO
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1947-12-17

Chester H. Helmet, is demon
strating intricate drill forma-
tons during the half-time per-
iods. AS far as is known, the
trumpets who opens out in a
End Constabulary Regimental
Band is at the present the on
ly &c Army Band to put on
this type of drill. The Band
plays marches continuously
throughout the ten minute
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1947-12-17
The TheOCraf

drill. Stepping off to the stir
ring march, "Them Basses,"
the Band parades on the field
through the fanfare of the
gate-like formation. Follow
ing the opening movement, the
Band marches into the circle
formation, the Information,
the rotating block formation,
and the pin wheel maneuver.
The various maneuvers were
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1947-12-17
Wednesday, Dec II, 1947

originated by CWO Chester H.
Helmet with the assistance of
the Bandsmen. Additional
formations will be augmented
during the next few weeks.
"To support the End Regi-
ment Dragon football team,
the Band anticipates accom-
panying the team to Berlin and
other out-of-town tits where
they will also perform between
halves"
Shortly after his enlistment
in September, 1916, Wills ex-
perience in Zion Junior Band
led to his being chosen for the
position he now holds.
Tvs VIM. P. Cornell
(16228189)
End Constabulary Regt.
Band
APO 178
clio Postmaster, New York
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1947-12-17
GOV. GREEN APPEALS TO
PUBLIC TO DRIVE CARE
FULLY

Governor Dwight HI. Green
has appealed to the Illinois
public for increased care and
courtesy on the highways dur
ing the Christmas season to
check the increasing number
of traffic accidents. The Gov
errors message forms part of
a countrywide traffic safety
campaign being carried on by
the national safety council and
numerous other organizations.
The Republican., 1947-11-06

VALUE WISE PARENTS WILL TAKE
FULL ADVANTAGE OF THIS EXTRA
ORDINARY OFFER AND OUT FIT
THEIR DAUGHTERS WITH THESE
BETTER VALUE DRESSES. THEY
COME IN THE NEWEST STYLING
AND BRIGHT NEW COLORS-DRESS-
rs FOR SCHOOL, DRESS OR PLAY
MANY STYLES TO CHOOSE FROM.
Evening star., 1947-02-13
IT,. n.

CONTINUED From First Page
posal as whole Is voted on this
afternoon after preliminary ballot
on q final detail.
Paragraph was offered in paral-
Evening star., 1947-02-13

the first battalion Of enlisted wAcs
to be assigned to General Mac
Arthur's headquarters in Tokyo, &C.
cording to 3 dispatch received from
Japan,
Evening star., 1947-02-13
Soviet Tyranny Hit
|At Anniversary Rites
|At Kosciuszko Statue

With no representative of the
Polish government on the speakers
stand, Polish h-Americans and mem
bers of Congress yesterday paid
tribute to Tadeusz Andrzej Bona
ventura Kosciuszko at his statute
in Lafayette Park.
Charles Rozmarek, president OF
the National Polish American Con-
gress, referred to the situation of
the Poles in Poland as white
slavery" and said the Soviet Union
was exercising worse tyranny than
that Of Hitler and Mussolini on
Poland through puppet govern
ment.
The Polish Embassy officials had
paid their tribute to Kosciuszko an
hour earlier and departed. Josef
Winniewicz, the Ambassador, laid a
wreath with an inscription, ITO one
who built Polish American friend
ship" A wreath from the Embassy
personnel was inscribed, ITO the
great hero who fought for den1o-
cratic ideas" M
sasEsIttCS EIllUdooyssssp pVVPlC WS%N5a SSAAsl
when the Polish Americans met for
their ceremony. The Embassy
.wreaths were not disturbed.
Senator LANCER, Republican, OF
North Dakota, member of the
Senate Committee on Immigration,
pledged his vote to lowering the
immigration bars to all Poles who
want to come to America because
they make such fine citizens" Sen
ator LANCER is of Czech and Nor
wegian ancestry.
Representative o O'Konski, Repubn-
can, of Wisconsin asked the 500
persons grouped about the statue to
come to the House galleries after
the ceremony and hear his speech
on Kosciuszko which he was to de-
liver after the speeches on Lincoln.
Both were born on February IL,
The National Guard Of Honor Of
the American Legion under the COM
mand of Legion Capt. j. G. Clarke,
stood at attention to form an ave-
nue. for the wreath bearers. An
Army Air Force band played.
Gen. Kosciuszko, who was born in
Poland 201 years ago, was commits
stoned in the Continental Army, and
,his military engineering helped win
the decisive Battle of Saratoga IN
the Revolution.
Evening star., 1947-02-13
1916 U. 5. Tax Returns Top
SO Billion, PeaceiiIne High

The largest peacetime tax pay
ments in history, $3s $40, ,o57 800 for
the whole country. including ST.
20l ,375, ,l07 from the collection dis
trict of Maryland and the District
of Columbia, were reported today
by the Internal Revenue Bureau for
the calendar year 1916.
The bureau said 1916 collections
were exceeded only during the wal
years of 1s45 and 1914. In 1875
payments totaled $43, $50 7l5,621 and
in 1914 $42,125 ,sss, $50.
AS usual, heavily populated New
York led all States by paying In
81, ,73o, 1856 $50 during the 1916 cal
endar year. Illinois, California and
Pennsylvania followed inthat order
Collections in the Maryland dis
trict were $67, ,728. .812 below 1915
The 1916 figures included $632, ,003,-
142 from individual income taxes
and $223, 98,297 from corporation
income taxes.
Evening star., 1947-02-13
Atomic
Continued From First Page.)

Republican, Of Oklahoma, and
IO'Daniel, Democrat, of Texas.
Senator Myers, Democrat, Of PENN
sylvania issued statement q few
hours later in which he said he had
seen nothing in the evidence to in
dicate that MIR. Lilienthal is not "a
perfect choice" for the post.
The hearings were in recess today
while one of Mr.. Lilienthal's prin-
cipal critics, Senator Mcclellan, Dem
ocrat, of Tennessee tried to round
up additional witnesses In his effort
to prove that the nominee coun-
tenanced leftist activities in IVA.
| No member of the committee, with
the possible exception of Senator
Mcmahon, Democrat, of Connecticut
has indicated how he will vote. Sem
ator Mcmahon told Senator Nickel
lar the other day that he would have
| to present a lot more compelling
evidence to sway him away from
Mr.. Lilienthal Senator McKellar
lis not a member of the Atomic
Committee.
| LlucutIdi SlSitS Uhitc HOuSc.
Several Republicans have sug-
gested this week that Mr.. Truman
withdraw the nomination in order
to avoid a bitter fight on the floor,
/ Mr.. Lilienthal visited the White
House after yesterdays committee
session and there was a brief furry
of speculation that he might be
suggesting such course to the
President.
4 Mr.. Lilienthal himself, however,
insisted he had arrived only to dis
cuss routine matters" with Clark
M. Clifford, Mr.. Truman's legal
ADVISER.
Evening star., 1947-02-13

lei alternate forms BY the Confer.
ence Committee, which had put
together the resolution to merge
divergent viewpoints.
HALFWAY down, the American ar16
Russian viewpoints were identical
In favoring an arms commission
which would report within three
months on general regulation and
reduction of arms and for practical
and effective safeguards in that
connection.
The Russians baked, however, at
the part Of Paragraph 8 which said
among other things. that "those
matters which fall within the COM
petence Of the Atomic Energy Com
mission shall be excluded from
the iurisdiction Of the commits
sion -
CadegsAD fers Amendment.
The detail remaining for vote
this Afternoon before the final bal
lot on the whole resolution would
call on the Councils Military STAFF
Committee to submit "as soon al
possibles itsFrecommendations lead
ing to formation Of q world police
force. s
Sir Alexander Cadogan Of Great
Britain offered an amendment yes
terday demanding committee re-
port by April 80 with regard tc
the basic principles which should
govern the organization Of the
United Nations armed force" De-
bate but not much difiiculty was
anticipated IN this phase,
The Military Staff Committee
Evening star., 1947-02-13

TRIBUTE TO KOSCIUSZKO-A trumpeter Of the Army Air
Forces Band taps in honor Of Tadeusz
Kocuszko yesterday the 2o1s anniversary of the birth OF
the Poisbon brigadier general in George Washingtons
army ceremony at the Koscuszko statute in La
fayette Park Star Staff Photo.
Evening star., 1947-02-13

composed Of ofHcers representing
the chiefs Of stan OF the Councils
Big Five permanent members, has
met internationally for nearly q year
without q report Of progress. It
had a session scheduled for today in
customary secrecy In penthouse
topping q West Side Manhattan
hotel.
Evening star., 1947-02-13
D. e. WAcs Reuch Jopon

Stan Sergt. Ada. M. Smith, l347
Bryant street NE, and Sergt. Mar
jorie A. Purcell, l220 Delafield place
NV, recently arrived In Japan with