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Hartford chronicle., 1947-02-22
EDUCATION PAYS OFF

Jackson, Miss.-January 31, was bad day in Mississippi for those reactionary folk who have been anxious to conceive of the ways and means of barring Ne groes from exercising the fran chise. Thousands of young Ne groes, mostly war veterans fiocked to the tax windows to have themselves qualified to register and vote in the next democratic primary.
 Because 1946 law permitted veterans to skip paying the poll tax in that year they now only have to pay for this year to qualify. That was Mississippi s first problem. The second was the fact they found their ex- aminations on the Constitution, not in the least baffling to the Negro candidates.
 Negroes in Mississippi are quietly snickering to themselves about this latter mystery. For while it is a great mystery to their white brothers, to them, 1t is merely reaping the harvest of twelve years of deliberate eff fort. For twelve years Negro school teachers have been drum ming the Constitution in to the minds of their students. They have required that they under take the colossal task of learn ing it verbatum. So more and more young people are now able to rattle it off in parrot-like fashion; then if needs be name the sections and articles under which various statements come.
 It is rumored that this whole development is causing endless confusion and making the ex- aminers frantic with thumbing
Hartford chronicle., 1947-02-22
YALE OFFERS
 INDUCEMENTS
Page Three

New Haven-While a great many sources are theoriZing about the matter of better race relations Yale University has recently announced a program of action in the field.
 The Budget Drive Committee has just announced the offering of two $12OO freshman scholar ships to qualified Negro appli- cants. And along with this wholesome gesture of good will MT. A. B. Crawford, chairman of the committee points out that this is merely an offer of spe- cial welcome to Negro students and does not represent any change in general policy. For as he said, "There is not now and has not been during the twenty-five previous years dur ing which I have been connected with scholarship matters here, any policy of discrimination for or against Negro applicants for, scholarship aid.''
 These scholarships are temp orary and open only to stud ents whose secondary scholas- tic records and character seem to indicate that they are of col lege calibre. At the end of the freshman year, these individual must then compete for regular scholarship aid along with all other students.
 Contrary to the opinion that many people have that most Yale students come from famil- ies of great means and there fore have no need to be self sustaining, is not borne out by the records. The facts seem to indicate that a very large per- centage are young men in the student body must rely upon part-time work and the win ming of scholarship assistance.
 Yale is to be congratulated upon this additionally progress i've step that loks to the devel- opment of leadership within the general American picture.
Hartford chronicle., 1947-02-22

of pages trying to catch the candidate and for the first time having to learn the Constitution themselves.
Hartford chronicle., 1947-02-22
CONFED. GENERALS WIDOW DENOUNCES WHITE PRIMARY

the other day when he widow of Confederaet Army General appeared at the legislature hearings on the White Primary bill and denounced it in no un- certain terms.
 The aged Mrs. James Long, street is the widow of the Con federate General James H. Longstreet who was General Lee s chief aid in the Civil War. The words of Mrs. Longstreet will go down as a hamburger of a rising white liberal attitude in the South that is girding it. self to stem the tide of fascism and race hatred. Mrs. Long street read the following pre- pared statement:
 q come before you at the end of life's long trail. It would have been pleasanter to sit in a rocking chair in my sunny living rom.
 Foreign fields sodden with Negros' life blood, foreign skies in which he fought, and foreign seas on which he died to give peoples of other lands rights denied him in his own country, cry aloud in protest. This monstrous measure should have been christened the "black corruption bill". This infamous measure insults the intelligence of Georgians. It shames the white banner of Colonial Geor- gia unfurled on the bluffs above Savannah.
 There are only two ways by which the Negro can be legally disfranchised by having the US. Supreme Court reverse its de- cision, and by amendment to the U. s. Constitution. And the sun of our national progress is too high in the heavens for either action.
 This bill would establish a dictator at whose whims count less white men and women can be barred from the white prim- ary. We have been led too easily by glibtongued speakers. Pass this white primary bill to satisfy the lust for power of a dangerous clique, and Georgia will sink lower in the esteem of honest men than she has ever been before.
 A race that can produce a George Washington Carver and a Booker T. Washington, al ready has paid the price in ser vice to their country of the highest privilege of American citizenship .. which is the bal lot.
 I implore you to turn the scorn of honest men against this infamous bill, repudiate it. Bury it too deep for resurrec- tion.
 Thus you can announce to all the world and to millions yet unborn, that the old Georgia,
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1947-09-26
Browning Man
Wins Place In
Book OF Poetry

John H. Schlenske of Brown
ing is one of the authors, whose
work has merited a place in
Rhyme m Rythm," this years
most outstanding volume of ly-
RIGS and poetry.
Thousands of manuscripts were
submitted from every corner of
the globe. Competition for a
place in this volume was very
keen. Many of the authors rep
resented have been previously
published in other import a t
books, magazines and newspap-
ers. Some of them have auth
ored outstanding volumes of their
own, so that to have won a place
in this volume is an important
literary attainment.
announcement of Schlenske's
achievement was made by Ruth
Lawrence, Editor. The Haven
Press, New York City. were pub
lishers).
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1947-09-26
Tribal Council To
Assume Increased
Financial Function

The Blackeet Tribal Council
are to be entrusted in the near
future with responsibility of sole
supervision over a major portion
iof their credit program on the
Blackfeet Reservation, according
to Tiff Mckay, Tribal treasurer.
In the past, he said, supervis-
DRY power was exercised by the
Agency superintendent and the
district credit agent at Billings
over all revolving credit loans
recommended for approval by
the credit committee of the Trib-
al Council.
Under the new program, he
explained, the credit committee
of the Tribal Council will have
final approval of all loans made
to members of the tribe, which
do not exceed 1000.
An initial deposit of $780, 900
will be deposited in the First Ma
tional Bank of Browning, he ex-
planned, for disbursement. The
program provides for the main
tenance of this amount at a reas-
enable level during the existence
of the program.
All loans. he explained, that
are made under this additional
authority must be of productive
character, or loans for produc-
tive'enterprises. Subsistence loans
or those of similar character will
not be available.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1947-09-26
Autumn Weather
Again Prevails To
Replace Snow, Cold

Grazing lands were g r e a | y
benefited. However. w h e a t
farmers and others raising grain
crops of various other kinds are
awaiting a needed spell of dry
weather so that harvesting can
get under way. Considerable
wheat had been cut when the
storm struck. Completion of
harvesting under such circum-
stances is the urgent need.
Motor traffic is back to normal,
cy, with buses back again on reg
ular schedule-not having to be
stalled at Browning on their trip
westward.
However, anything can hap,
pen on Logan Pass at this time
of the year. There is no Official
word from park authorities tell.
ing Of the condition of the pass
since the storm. In this case nc
news can be either good news OF
bad news.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1947-09-26
New Garage Being Built
By Handy & Son On
Site At Fuel Yard

Construction of a garage on
site at the fuel yard is under
way by Handy & Sons, the work
being under contract to VIM.
Lancaster.
Dimensions will be 80 feet by
60 feet. The foundation, which
was completed several days ago,
is of reinforced concrete. Walls
will be of concrete blocks. The
building, which will be exclus,
lively for repairing of cars and
trucks, will provide for six stalls.
New equipment will be installed
to augment that used in the pres,
ent shop. Chas. Handy will
continue to have charge of oper'
ations.
With continuance of good
weather, Handy & Sons a r
hopeful of being able to occupy
the building some time this fall
Advertising brings results.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1947-09-26
Two Law Offices
To Operate With
Joint Responsibility

For the convenience of resi-
dents of Browning and vicinity,
the law offices of Murrills & Fris-
bee of Cut Bank, and w. R. Nc
Donald of Browning, announce
their association for the practice
of law.
The offices heretofore main
tanned by each of the parties will
be continued, but each Office will
have the services and RESPONSE
bility of the other. Either Mr..
Murrills or Mr.. Frisbee will be in
attendance at the offices of W. R.
Mcdonald in Browning Thursday
and Friday Of each week. Clients
desiring to consult either may
rely upon finding t h e m in
Browning on those days.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1947-09-26

With unbelievable dramatic
swiftness, last weeks spell of
unprecedented winter gave way
to the most acceptable of wealth
er, warm and comparatively gen.
tie winds disposing of the deep
snow within 48 hours after the
storms abatement.
The change began last Thurs
day and by Tuesday, official op-
ening of fall, all traces of whit
ry conditions that had prevailed
several days previous had van
ished.
However, the fleeing bitter
ness of last week has advanced
autumn, causing foliage to take
on appearance characteristic of
November.
Fortunately, the brief spell
did negligible harm to sheep
men, whose flocks for several
days got scattered in the snow
depths.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1947-09-26
II Indicted Into
Green Hand Degree
OF Local FLA

At a regular meeting of the To-
cal high school FLA Chapter
Tuesday night at the high school
II freshmen were indicted into
the Green Hand Degree, the in
ductees being Joe Butterfly, Ken
meth Conway, Wayne Racine,
Bobby Martin, Robert and John
Powell, Robert Mailman, Victor
Vielle, Keith McCurdy, Lee Will
son and Louis Murphy.
Also joining the Chapter were
several upper classmen, W h o
are transferring to the Ag course.
They include Vern Meeks, Ed
ward LeMiex, James Racine and
Jim Lair. Dennis Harris also
came in as a transfer from the
Flathead Chapter at Kalispell.
Jerry Show was elected to fill
the unexpired term of Eugene
Kipp as vice president and Will
bur Kuku to complete the term
of George Plummer as reporter.
Young Kipp has gone to Has
kell Institute and Plummer has
also gone away to school.
Steve Barcus, Chapter presi-
dent, has made some changes in
standing committee chalrmen,
the new roster being as follows;
Supervised farming -Winslow
Devereaux and Wilbur K u k u,
chairmen.
Cooperative activities-Wilbur
Kuku.
Community service j m e
Running Fisher and Dennis Har'
ris, chairmen.
Leadership-Vern Meeks.
Earnings and Savings-Bil
McCurdy.
Scholarship-Jack Wood.
Conduct of meetinga-J a C
Wood.
Recreation-Floyd Gervais.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1947-09-26
White Initiates
Move To Aid
Next YearFaiir

Enthused at the success of the
recent Blackfeet Junior F a ir,
Ernest White, who in OF h I
years has befriended the institu.
ton, this week initiated a move.
ment towards the success of the
1913 project.
Realizing that it takes money
to make the wheels go round,
White Wednesday afternoon con.
tacted number of fair-minded
individuals of this community fol-
assisting in the forming of a fund.
White headed the subscription
with $25.
Other subscribers were:
H. L. Patterson SIS, O. R.
Paeham SIS. R. A. Finley $25,
D. C. Cooper SIS. J. E. Hilton
$40, R. L. Waddell $40.
The sum collected and turned
over to the Fair Board totaled
SIPS.
Others have given assurance
that they will contribute to the
fund, indicating that as time goes
by next years Junior Fair will
be afforded growing encourage
ment.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1947-09-26
Fireproof Vault Under
Construction At Tribal
Office At Present

A fireproof vault, an improve.
ment planned for construction
last year, but which was post.
poned because of failure of bid
ders to submit satisfactory pro-
posals, is being constructed at
the Tribal office. the site being
at the exterior IF the west wall,
The Improvement will be of re-
inforced co..crete, with dimen-
sions IL feet by ID feet. The
ceiling will be eight feet. Walls
will be eight inches in thickness.
The foundation will be approx
mately three feet in height as to
provide a floor level the same as
that of the Tribal office building.
The work is being done by AL
bert Spearson.
The improvement will avail Sc
curity against fire and o t h +
agencies Of destruction for the
growing accumulation of Trib-
al files and records, which up to
this time have endured risk and
hazard safely.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1947-09-26
Jason Back From
St. Marys Venture

Jason Devereaux, Jr., who dur
ing the summer had charge of
the St. Marys branch of the
Blackfeet Craft Shop. arrived
home last Saturday, the estab-
lishment there having closed for
the season.
Jason said he met people from
every section of the country dur
ing the summer, most of them
evincing keen interest in the
Craft Shops stock of Indian.
made goods. A considerable mum.
Der of them were buyers. Many
of the girls left him their ad.
dress.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1947-09-26
Ski Club Meeting
Thursday Evening

There will be a meeting of the
Glacier Park Ski Club in the
Yegen Coffee S hop banquet
room next Thursday evening at
7:3O. Nomination of officers for
the new term will be made. Ell
ection will be held at a later
meeting.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1947-09-26
Mrs. Ernest Gray In
Hospital, Victim Of
Recent Car Accident

Mrs. Ernest Gray is at the
Cut Bank Hospital recovering
from a fracture of the lower jaw,
suffered one night recently in an
automobile accident.
The accident occurred on the
road between Browning a n d
Babb. According to Mrs. Gray's
husband, who suffered a d e p
cash on his lower left leg, the
couple were returning home from
a dance at Babb in a Ford pick
up, owned and driven by Delbert
Connors of Dupuyer. Connors,
Gray said, appeared to h a v e
dozed momentarily and lost con-
troll of the car. Leaving the road,
it plunged into a deep barrow
pit, one of the wheels being torn
off. The driver was unhurt.
Gray said he left the car ir
search of help at a nearby farm.
In the meantime a passing cal
picked up Mrs. Gray and took
her to the Blackfeet Hospital,
where she was given emergency
treatment, the need of dentaI
attenuation in connection w t h
treatment of the bone fracture
occasioning her removal to the
Cut Bank Hospital.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1947-09-26
Loving Tribute
Paid Venerable
Indian, Wades

Services for the late Wades-In-
The-Water, venerable Blackfeet
who died at the local hospital
last Saturday, were held at the
Little Flower Church Tuesday
at 2 p. M, with Rev. FIR. Corner
officiating. Arrangements were
in charge of the Beck Funeral
Home.
Active pallbearers were ]. L.
Sherburne, Harold Zimmerman,
Joe 1ronpipe, Theodore Last Star
and Reuben Black Boy of Brown
ing and Wilbur Werner. Hon.
orary pallbearers, token of the
departed's wealth of devoted
friendships, included citizens in
various walks of life in this and
neighboring communities as we'll
as in various cities in Montana
and the country at large.
Wades-In-Th Water, ful l.
blood Blackfeet, attained the age
! of 76. He was the son of the
late Running Crane, one of the
last official chiefs of the Black
feet Tribe.
A man of courage, with char
acter as firm as was the environs
that nodded him as child Of
Nature, he was regarded high
ly by all who knew him.
At the grave service in the
Browning Catholic cemetery a
beautiful tribute was paid the
departed by an admiring friend,
Warren L. O'Hara, superintend-
ent of the Blackfeet Agency.
The speaker said:
Friends, this is one of the sad
dest hours in my life. Wades-
1n-The-W has passed on. l
have lost great friend. This
may sound terribly selfish, be-
cause all Of you share this loss
with me.
l want to say a few words for
Wades as the man he was, a CO.
worker, always a defender of the
right, which naturally made him
a leader and friend of the Black
feet people.
l have known Wades-1n-The-
Water a good many years. | have
never known of him to wilfully
do an unkind act. | have never
known of him to do anything sell
fish for his own gain. l have
never known of him to turn
down an Indian in need of help.
Before l left the Blackeet Res
ervation a number of years ago,
Wades-In-T he-Water was my
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Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1947-09-26
LEGION Auxiliary Fall
Meeting To Be Held At
Conrad Tomorrow

~ The annual fall meeting of Dis.
trict No. 8, American Legion and
Auxiliary, at which Browning
and Cut Bank groups will be ir
attendance, will be held at Con.
rad tomorrow. Vic Overcast,
commander Of District No. 8
will preside. In attendance will
be department officers, including
Commander Denton and Mrs
Howard King, department presi
dent.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1947-09-26
Weber Fountain Installed in Steak House

Todd's Steak House has in
stalled the latest type Weber
fountain, equipped with ice cream
compartments with a capacity of
20 gallons. Other compartments
are for fountain syrups a n d
juices. An additional unit pro-
vides deep freeze facilities for
ice cream and various products
requiring low temperature.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1947-09-26
Bids Acceptable

Bids on $50 gallons of diesel
fuel stored at Browning by the
Glacier County Electric Coop
may still be submitted, accord
ing to the Cut Bank office.
Previous announcement was
that bids were to be opened an
September Is.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1947-09-26

Mary Rodgers is now employed
Thy the International Harvester
Company at Great Falls.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1947-09-26
Pressing Wool

4 good tailor does not press won!
completely dry, for it scorches very
easily. Rather, he lifts the wool gar
ment from the pressing board while
tie last bit Of steam Is still rising
from It. Then he pats or beats out
that little Whit Of steam with his
hand. This keeps the wool from
having hard-pressed look.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-16
BY NOEL YANCEY

RALEIGH, March, Is. - up -
AS the General Assembly headed
into its closing weeks today, many
legislators looked forward to the
possibility of a final showdown
next week on the much discussed
~"gag-rule."
The legislator made giant strides
toward sine die adjournment-noW
expected early in April-by pass
ing a record-breaking $311, 593, o86
BIENNIAL appropriation bill this week
and clearing the way for final
passage next week of the revenue
bill.
The gag rule, which requires that
a bill must receive a two-thirds
vote after it has been reported
unfavorably by a committee before
the House can consider it and its
opponents say was designed to
block liquor legislation, came up
in the house twice this week.
Rep. Odus Null of Cleveland,
who was speaker when the rule
was adopted in 1941, circumvented
the rule Tuesday when he attached
to the biennial revenue measure,
an amendment to prohibit the sale
of wine and regulate beer sales
in Cleveland. Null has introduced
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-16
AT HOME
BECOME RESTLESS
Senator's Agree That Rec
ord OF CONGRESS- Would
Affect '48 Votes

WASHINGTON, March 15.-Pl-
Chairman Carroll Reece OF n
Republican National Committee
agreed tonight with Senator Bald
win (R-Conn) chat "the republicans
sack home are Impatient for &C
ton by Congress on important IS
sues and renewed his call for
"party unity and team-play.
It was this party unity plea
nv Reece in an editorial in the Re
publican News that aroused the Ire
of Senator Morse (R-Ore). Morse
in a Senate speech called the edl-
torial a ''brazen demand for re-
dictionary control of the Republican
party"
Reece did not mention the Morse
attack in replying to a letter from
Baldwin in which the Senator ex
pressed deep concern about the
party's obligations. But Reece
wrote:
"As chairman of the Republican
National Committee, allow me to
make it clear that the committee
recognizes full we'll that the prl
mary responsibility for the formu-
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-16
Financial Workers File
3O-Day Strike Notices

bankrupt the firm. I don't
know"
The union won a Labor Board
election at the Kidder firm last
October. 1t has demanded from
the company a Is per cent wage
increase, saying the average union
member there earned less than
$40 weekly.
Company officials countered by
saving union representatives twice
had walked out of mediation con-
Iferences.
If a strike comes, Schram said,
1--WE will have to get along the
best way we can"
He said the members "dio their
own work" during a two-hour
strike by the union last August
and would do so again.
The stock exchange head de-
clared it would be Impossible to
estimate losses which might re-
suit from a strike.
The union strategy board con
ferred this afternoon on when
cancellation notices would be sent
and whether they would be sent to
all exchanges and member firms
simultaneously or at different
times.
However, board members de-
clined comment on their delibera-
tons beyond saying that the can
cellation notices would not be sent
out today.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-16
Ganey Sentenced To Serve
80 Years In Penitentiarv
Assembly Showdown
On Rule Looms

the first day of the session a
bill to dry up Cleveland. but he
told the House that he had been
unable to get the finance committee
to act on it.
Under a compromise plan an
nounced Wednesday, Null agreed
to Withdraw his amendment, but
secured approval by the Finance
Committee of an amended version
of his original bill. Some IS counties
were added to the measure.
Rep. Rex Gass of Forsyth, chair
man of the House Rules Committee,
told the House Friday that the
Finance Committee had voted down
his bill to ban wine and beer in
Forsyth's Bethania township.
Asserting that the gag rule was
adopted as the result of a ''trade'
between Null and legislators in the
states wet eastern counties when
the Cleveland legislator was cam
paigning for the speakership, Gass
told the House that he planned to
introduce another bill to dry up
Bethania.
If the resolution does not bring
results, Gass served notice that he
would then introduce the strongest
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