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Arizona sun., 1947-09-26
War Dead To Be
Returned to the
United States Soon

WASHINGTON, D. C.-The War
Department has announced that
late in September the United States
Army Transport Honda Knot will
sail from Honolulu, bound for San
Francisco with the first group of
approximately 5000 war dead to
be returned to the States. A simple
ceremony at Honolulu will speed
the converted Liberty ship on her
voyage.
The Honda Knot will carry
the remains of war dead from all
branches of the service. In ad-
dition to the remains of Army,
Navy, Coast Guard and Air Corps
personnel, there will be a number
of civilians. Many victims of the
Pearl E1arbor attack will be in
cluded in the first returning group.
At San francisco it is expected
that the Honorable John Sullivan,
incoming Secretary of Navy, will
greet the ship. Shortly after ar
rival, caskets will be taken from
the ship and placed aboard United
States Army Hospital cars specially
adapted for the service, and will
be carried by train to fifteen Dis
tribution Centers which have been
designated through the country to
facilitate repatriation Of the dead.
Upon arrival of the bodies at the
Distribution Centers, military au-
thorities will notify the next of kin,
at whose direction the bodies will
be escorted from the Distribution
Centers to designated places. Each
body will be accompanied by an
escort.
Escorts chosen will be of the
same branch of service and of an
equal or higher military rank than
that held by the deceased. Where
ever possible the escort will be of
the same religious faith and race
as the deceased. It will be an obli-
cation of the escort to extend all
possible assistance to the next of
kin.
Covering the caskets during their
transit by rail from Distribution
Centers to homes or funeral parlors,
will be an American flag which will
become the possession of the family
buriel service.
The choice of time of movement
of the remains and the place to
which they will be moved rests
entirely with the next of kin. If
interment is in a National Gene
terry, the burial will be effected
at no expense to the family. If,
however, buriel is in a private
cemetary, the Federal government
will defray only the first $50 of
such expense.
Arizona sun., 1947-09-26
Attend Congress of
Maricopa Co. P. T. A.

Members of Parent-Teachers AS
Sociation attended the Maricopa
County Council of P. T. A. last
Monday, at the First Methodist
Church. Among them were: Mrs.
Lena Risby, Dunbar; Mrs. Juanita
Dickey, Booker T. Washington and
Mrs. Ruby Chevalier and Mrs. D. F.
Benson, of Carver High School.
After the morning session of re-
ports from State Chairmen, a sack
luncheon was served in the Church
cafeteria, at which time local pres
identS were introduced.
Committee Conferences were held
in the afternoon for Secretaries,
Treasurers, Membership, Health,
Safety, Congress Publications, Mag
azine, Parent-Education, Juvenile
Protection, Program and Publicity
Mrs. Jennie N. Engstrom is Coun-
Gil President.
Arizona sun., 1947-09-26
Pension Convention
OPENS in Phoenix
Monday and tuesday

The old age pensioners In a re-
sponse to a Radio Call by M. c.
Swan state organizer for the Ari-
zona old age pension association to
assemble in Library Park last Sun
day in protest against the proposed
cut in old age. assistance grants
about to be imposed by the Social
Security and Welfare Board as in
dicated in a published statement
from the public relations office
brought forth a large demonstra-
tive audience.
Swan in his talk pointed out the
fact that we have 40-cent food
dollar at this time compared with
the purchasing power of the dollar
in 1889. "Now if you are receiv-
ing the $50 maximum old age as
sistance, your purchasing power
value is so 49c dollars, the equiva-
lent of 500 per month" Swain said.
"This state of affairs makes it
impossible to comply with the law
requirements that the old age re-
ceipts be provided with sub
sistence comptible with decency
and health on 500 per month.
'The protective measures for
these hardship is for the oldsters
to augment the membership of our
pension association to the extent
that we command respect and
recognition as voting power"
Swan urged all the oldsters to
attend the big pre-Convention
meeting next Sunday, September
28th at 2:3O P. M. Library Park to
work our details and outline the
duties of committees for their first
annual Convention to be held in
Odd Fellows Hall, 81 North Bird
Ave-, September %, and 3Oth-
Meeting will open at 1000 A. M.
for members and invited guest.
E. c. Whitesette spoke on the
insufficient appropriations by the
last legislature to take care OF the
old age assistance requirements
and proposed that a committee OF
three be named to draft resolu-
ton to be presented to Governor
Osborn asking that he call special
session of the legislature and see if
something will be done to relieve
the hardship due to the high cost
of food with a 40c dollar.
The motion was put and un-
animously adopted.
Arizona sun., 1947-09-26

CENTRALIA, Illinois (CNS)-
The Ill miners killed in a mine
accident here last March Is paid
with their lives for negligent state
inspection.
Their widows, it has. been found,
paid an average of $732.78 to have
them buried.
There are burial co-ops in some
coal mining towns, but not in
Centralia. There are private under
takers in some cities who will
furnish a complete funeral for
$1OO-but not in Centralia. The
lowest price paid for the funeral
of any of the Ill accident victims
was $233. The highest was $1178.50.
The average was higher than $700.
Only six of the funerals cost less
then $500. Twenty-four cost more
than 5000.
There is no one," comments
the United Mine Workers Journal,
"who can calculate the financial
resources of a stricken family any
quicker than an undertaken" The
Journal says that ever since the
undertakers and dime-a-week in
surance companies have got to-
gether, undertakerS have known
exactly how much the traffic will
bear.
w. w. Chambers, outSpoken
Washington undertaken, told the
United Mine Workers Journal that
the prices charged in Centralia
were about twice what they should
have been. Chambers advertises
prices in Washington papers, with
the most popular price in his line
$295.
: His competitors, ne told the
miners paper, don't like my habit
of advertising funeral prices ir
black and white, because they'd
Arizona sun., 1947-09-26
7. w. Mcpherson
New Urban League
Executive Writes
An Open Letter to the Members
and Friends of the Phoenix Urb-

An Open Letter to the Members
and Friends of the Phoenix Urb-
an League:
Now that I feel that I am be-
ginning to get settled as the new
Urban League Executive and as a
new conner in the community, my
thoughts first turn back upon the
warm welcome that was and is be-
ing extended to Mrs. Mcpherson
and me, and which transformed
the arduous task of moving into a
new community into a pleasant
experience.
Many Board members, members
and friends of the organlzatlon
have dropped in with hellos, help
full suggestions, and other greet
ings. I have been pleased at the
number of persons who have tele'
phoned and visited the Office II
search of Urban League services
The official agency heads ane
other key persons of the commun'
itv I have met so far all seem tc
be really big people and quite
CAPABLE and willing to make thell
contribution to american Team
work at Home" in Phoenix.
All this, I say, is a good ome1
for Urban League work IN tn'
community, and I hope that many
more of the aforementioned sign
of a great day for the Urban Lea
que in Phoenix will be forthcom
ing. 49,.
Permit me to emphasize tina
the work of the Urban League Il
"social work among Negroes" Ou1
objective is through America
Teamwork at Home" to 1urtnel
integrate Negro Americans llil'
American life. This involves
among other things, the solving O.
problems sometimes peculiar u
Negro citizens. So, if you have
problem or a suggestion that vii
CONTINUED on Page A.
Arizona sun., 1947-09-26
Negro Officer Serves
AS Trial Judge
Advocate in MTO

LEGHORN, ITALY apta a n
Fred Allen, TAT Newton Place. N.
w., Washington D. c., is currently
serving as trial judge advocate in
the general courts martial Sction
of the Judge Advocate Generals
office, headquarters Mediterranean
Theater of Operations, the Army
has announced.
Commissioned second lieutenant
of Infantry in the Officers Reserve
Corps in 1888, Captain Allen ar
rived overseas as a first lieutenant
in January 1914. He received his
promotion to the rank of captain
while assigned to the Judge Advo-
cate Generals office in the PENN
sular Base Section last July.
Mrs Allen and three year old
Fred Allen, Jr. arrived overseas
this year and now live near
Viareggio, a popular Italian costal
resort. He has one brother, Lieu
tenant Colonel William E. Allen, a
former Medical Corps officer, now
attached as civilian physician to
the staff of Homer Phillips hospital
in st. Louis, Missouri.
Captain Aliens awards and
decorations include three bronze
campaign stars, the Victory Medal
the American Defense ribbon, the
American Theater ribbon and the
European-African-Middle Eastern
ribbon. He graduated from the In
fantry School at Fort Bennine
Georgia in 1911; from the Tank
Destroyer School, Camp Hood
Texas, in 1913; from the Special
Services School, Washington and
Lee University, Lexington, Virginia
in 1943 and from the Army's Edu-
cation Staff School, Rome, Italy
in 1945.
Captain Allen received the
Bachelor of Science degree from
Howard University in 1888. He also
holds a Master of Arts degree from
the same university.
Arizona sun., 1947-09-26
Trends In Interracial
Cooperation

Radio has been taking its share
of blasts at Georgia's new regime
of race hatred and anti-democracy
Notable was a skit by comedian
Henry Morgan.
Henry r. Luce, publisher of Time
and Life magazines, has accepted
the Craftsmanship of the 1947 cam
paign of the Urban League Service
Fund. Lloyd K. Garrison became
president of the League. Among
those elected to the executive
Board was Winthrop Rockefeller.
In Seattle, Wash, a Negro and
White USO club have merged.
William P. Tolley, chancellor of
Syracuse University, has called on
colleges to voluntarily put an end
to racial discrimination"
The Connecticut mterracial Com
missions report on its three-year
activities cited the employment
Continued on Page ~
Arizona sun., 1947-09-26
Rev. w. H. Hilyard
Appointed Principal

Rev. w. H. Hilyard of Tucson
was appointed Principal of the Col
ored High School at the Eleven
Mile Corner near Eloy and Casa
Grande.
The school was opened Monday
Sept. IS. School busses are running
from Eloy and Casa Grande for the
convenience of the pupils.
The new Principal states that
Miss Pearlanna Jones has beer
added to the faculty.
Arizona sun., 1947-09-26
CentraIio Mine Victims
FIeeced In Their Coskets

rather keep the right to charge
six different prices for the same
funeral to six different people, ac-
cording to what they can pay.
I admit that on a $225 funeral
I make $95 profit; and they don't
like that either. Why, some of
these buns charge family 500
to bury a poor little baby in a
caSket that only costs $3.50.
Arizona sun., 1947-09-26

Let the ARIZONA SUN
be your shopping guide.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-05-22
Closing Date For
PO Clerk Extended

Because of insufficient competi-
ton the closing date. of the .exami-
nation for Substitute Clerk, Tchula,
Miss has been extended to May 20,
I947, according to Mrs. M. L. Turner
Civil Service Secretary in the Post
Office. @
There are no experience and trail
ming requirements for the examina-
ton but all applicants must be bona
fide patrons of the Post Office and
must pass written test requiring
about four four hours. Age limits
for the examination are ~18 to SO
year but these limits will be waived
for veterans.
Veterans will be given preference
in accordance with Civil Service
rules, particularly disabled veterans
whose names will be placed at the
head of the eligible list if they qua
lily in the examination.
Additional information and app
LEGATION forms may be obtained from
the Secretary, Board of U. S. Civil
Service Examiners, Post Office,
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-05-22
gHOh\E
M,e.,N'tMel.l,
14Aa|5!|H,.
R&A4@-
BY Virginia Smith

Gardens are about 2 weeks later
than usual. But with better weather
the past weeks, / have seen good
well planned gardens as / Travelled
over the county.
Three bad gardening years in a
row haven't stopped gardeners. They
planted their gardens to help out the
family food budget, in spite of cold
wet weather.
Here is a list of vegetables that
can be planted between now and the
end of May. The list includes pole
snap beans, collards, sweet corn okra
squash, cucumber and New Zealand
spinach. Tomato, egg plants and pep
per plants can be set out, too.
Side dress your early-planted or
ops with 2 pounds of nitrogen ferti-
lizer to each 100 feet row. Put the
fertilizer 2 to inches from the pl-
ants and work into the soil well.
Plants such as beets, turnips, mus
tard and carrots need plenty of room
if they're to grow as they should. If
the plants in your garden are crow
1ed, you'd better thin them. Leave
2 to 3 inches space between beets
and carrots and ] = inches between
mustard and turnips.
Early tomatoes which have been
set out for 3 or 4 weeks should be
Staked before they fall over. Three
tieings should do the job. Put the Sc
cond and third ties 10 to IL inches
apart and above the first tie. The
first tie will be to IL inches above
the ground.
Watch out for these 10 bugs in
your garden: Mexican bean leaf bee
tie, Colorado potato beetle, Harle-
quin cabbage bugs and cabbage wo-
rms, blister beetles. tomato horn
worm, squash bug and the striped
cucumber beetle.
I can give you information on con-
troll of these bugs.
Keep your garden cultivated re-
gularly There is no set time for do
ing this job Just get busy when the
grass and weeds show their heads.
Cultivate shollow so you won't dis
turb the plant roots too much.
You can see the food you waste
in full garbage pail. But the food
value lost by keeping food imprope-
rly or too long can't be seen. A hou-
seville must avoid both of these
kinds of waste if she's going to give
her family the most in health value
from food.
Studies show that such vegetables
as peas, broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce,
spinach, endive and kale lose viii
min c rapidly at room temperature.
bYou're losing vitimins when you let
I them stand and wait on the kitchen
table, or keep them in an open bin
in the kitchen. In the refrigerator,
the loss takes place much more slow
| ly.
Vitimin A is not as easily lost as
vitimin c. But even this vitimin
gradually disappears from green We
getables if they are kept too long.
A study of lettuce shows that its vi
timin A value drops markedly when
kept too long in the refrigerator.
The loss corresponds to the amount
of whiting.
Leftover cooked vegetables also
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-05-22
TchuIo Girl Wins
Honors At Memphis

Miss Sue Henry daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. William NJ Henry, Tchula
has been elected junior representa-
tive to the Honor Council and the
Christian Union Cabinet in South
wester at Memphis.
The Honor Council helps to up
hold the system of honor maintained
at Southwestern. The Christian IN
ion Cabinet directs all religious ac-
tivities on the campus.
Miss Henry is member OF the
sophomore class, Y.W.C.A., and the
Delta Delta Delta Sorority at the
college.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-05-22

MIR. and Mrs. Eugene Hermann
will attend the State Insurance Con-
vention at Biloxi this week. They
will be accompanied by Mr.. and
Mrs. David Brewer, of Greenwood.
Mr.. Willie D. Wiles of Raymond
spent the weekend with his sister,
Miss Lois Andrews.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Barton, Bonnie
and Burgess, spent Saturday in jack
son with Mr.. j. D. Fades, who Is
still confined to Foster General Hos
pital.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-05-22
LOCAL NEWS

Mr.. George Bunch, Miss Ann Nit
cheH and Miss Eva Priest of Troy,
Tenn. Mr.. Ohio Byrd, of Hollandale,
Misses Alice and George Byrd were
dinner guests of their parents Mr..
and Brs. 0. M. Byrd and family
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Harrison, sp-
ent Sunday with Mrs. H. H. Griffin.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-05-22
Ebenezer Man Advances
In Army Air Forces

T-Sgt. William o. Killebrew of
Ebenezer, has recently graduated as
an Advanced Propeller Mechanic. at
the AAF Technical School, Chanute
Field, Illinois.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-05-22

lose value as they stand. It's thrifty
it's thriftier to plan so all the vege-
tables will be eaten at one meal
to save and use all leftover food, but
Studies show that foods continue to
lose vitimin c as they are kept in
the refrigerator. The amount de-
ponds on the time they're kept. I'm
covered foods in the refrigerator
lose more than covered foods.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-05-22
COUNTY NEWS

Mr. Robert E. Gilmore was bu-
siness visitor in Lexington Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. r. McCarley of
Tupman, Calf, are expected on
visit May 26, by her parents DR..
and Mrs w. B. McCarley.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. A. Murff and family
of West Point, spent the weekend
with her brother, DR.. and Mrs. j. A.
McCarley. ~
Mr.. and Mrs. w. L. Rogers visited
their mohter, Mrs. Henry Mclean,
of Eden, Sunday.
1t. C. A. Hartcock of Florida, sp-
ent Friday with his sister, Mrs. Hen
ry Mclean, of Eden.
Mrs. Jim Tate was shopping in
Lexington, Saturday
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1947-02-21
Hits Poor Representation
At Hotel st. Paul Trial
For Race Discrimination

Editor: am "A white person, in
terested in fair, decent treatment
for all members of the human fam
lily. | attended the trial two months
ago of the Hotel St. Paul for race
discrimination.
Most disturbing to me was that
| saw only two prominent colored
people at the trial throughout the
testimony. | was told that their
names were Vincent S. Owens and
Charles Rogers of the St. Paul
Urban League. | did not see over
four or five others (colored per
sOns) during the entire trial. This
case was important to the civil
rights Of your people and | could
not understand why there was SO
much apathy. There was no rep
resentation from your NAACP or
der during the testimony and | am
told that this is the group which
usually looks after the violations
If civil rights.
Your paper did not mention this
disappointing lack of interest by
colored people in this trial and |
feel that the finding of the hotel
mot guilty" was due in some de
gree to the apparent apathy OF
your people As a regular reader of
your paper I did not see anything
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1947-02-21
Publishers
Corner
:a99'.

There's great deal of newspapers staff know
ing paper pleasing readers There Is no more con-
elusive evidence Of whether the publication pleasing than
circulation increase In 1916 circulation continued
steady climb salesman the field selling the
paper except newsboy We haven't put on circulation
drive don't believe too much IN
measuring pepe to take the paper Usually those people who
often do for the
year persons sold by the papers news overage
policy feature the people who renew their paper year
after
One such family is the C. W. Glenn family Minneapolis.
is the Over There Others too numer-
There growing number of mail subscribers who
nav for the paper two years in advance-ke Virginia Hill of
Beverly Hills people their hadcarnd money down
something and
% VIM determined to keen irving to merit such confidence
stability enterprise lifetime subscriber who
with for mentioning his Three years ago
taking the he the ST. Paul Office
and left check enough have
the paper lives. We'd be willing
betting that there very few newspapers in this
country, who have lifetime subscribers!
Mrs Lawson Porter chded US little Sunday
in story of meeting covered omitted inadvertently
and gentleman another mans
the guests of the ladies who was
waitress! Well like point while make
they things when reporter trying
of these large gatherings Certainly we are sure no one
thinks make those which in on purpose
1t would help immeasuabIy in charge of these
large affairs would prepare type lists and check
off those not present the This
everybody much happier all around
The old newspaper shop accepted by
abore on this paper gospel For of its size
journal unusually large each week For
February 1917 edition had total of Si5 names Of
local people of Duluth readers and Al
d. subscribers and others These
did include those in national stories
Try writing the of 50 people sometime If you
spell each correctly you'll be wonder
For the past three weeks spending doing
the editor reporter job many weekly publisher
Formerly knew everybody in the Minneapolis Negro community
by their Sunday Marks Cathedral good
number of strange but friendly faces and most OF all
call the of of our old friends Getting DID,
son!-Cecil E. Newman
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1947-02-21
Minneapolis Dares to Probe Itself u. .


Few American communities have the and foresight to
anayze relationships religious
which racial Most such
studies until human explosion like the
them they determine the of catasrophes
Minneapolis has decided find whether
portion Of its population suffers from discrimination
presumably that determinations help build
and religious misunderstanding and discOrd
The Minneapolis SeSurvey initiated by the Mayors Council
Human Relations and by yde committee of 200
citizens of the population
Quoting clinical study of this phase of the communitys life In this
undertaking the which
probe it's pues ntoeran which adversely
affect the life and happiness Of portion Of its people.
There those who honestly by Why
the obvou?" These folks be the individuals who
that discrimination employment housing the rule
rather than the exception Minneapolis, is metropolitan
those who the consider
thousands Of fair minded white Mnneapoans do realize
which members minority economically
socially spiritually discrimination
community will any city
conditions which tensions
self-survey will only falsiy
there discrimination Minneapolis will
bring those who personally part the study
which do know recognize Some Of these will
individuals who help
religious discrimination the confines Of Mime
apos.
the Self Survey vitality the people
Minneapolis should cooperate
that the truth Of the situation be shown Only il the
obtains picture will it profit the and its people
Socaed minority which
readily and truthuy will harm their immeasurab
the results not conclusive