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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-11-27

: Racking up their second straight
triumph of the season, Bluffton High
cagers overcame an early Convoy
lead to down the visitors, III to 33,
in a game Tuesday night on the
Bluffton court.
Convoy had all the better of the
going in the first quarter, leading
at one time, 13 to 8, although Bluff
ton closed the gap, 13 to 10, when
the period ended.
The visitors chung to the advant-
age throughout most of the second
stanza before Bluffton forged out in
front to take lead never there
after relinquished.
At halftime the Pirates held a
slim 20 to 18 margin, but by the
close Of the third quarter their lead
had been stretched to a 30 to ID
count. Jim Howe. Bluffton center,
then broke loose for 10 points to
pace a fourth-quarter scoring splurge
that clinched the victory.
Howe led Blutfton's assault with
Is points, although he was topped
for scoring honors by Center Wher-
ry, of Convoy, who netted nine field
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-11-27
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governors word for it and doubled
up on their first holidays.
Famine Stalks Pioneers
In 1889 neither settlement had of
ficially observed Thanksgiving Day
They were too busy lodging Indians
and trying to keep starvation away
That first year the settlers had little,
other than life itself, to be thankful
for.
There was famine and privation in
both settlements and some of the
pioneers were living only on cracked
and parched corn and bread made
from pounded roots of the bear-grass.
Of course there were wild turkey,
deer, bears and other game but they
did not come into the clearings to be
killed. And out in the wilderness
where game abounded-weli, the
Indians also were plentiful there.
First Thanksgiving in 1880
So on that first Thanksgiving Day,
1870. Cincinnati and Marietta citi-
zens sat in their own log cabins,
wished one-another a Merry, Merry
Christmas and were thankful. They
ate fillingly and drank deeply. On
the tops of their split half-log tables
were wild turkey, venison, bear meat
and raccoon. Johnny-cake, hoe-cake
and corn meal mush-all were there
and a product of the corn grown in
the little clearings around each cabin.
The whiskey, too, came from corn
and all desired could be gotten for rs
cents a gallon. Most of it was home
made. Every cabin had some kind of
makeshift little copper still.
Cincinnatians had something to be
thankful for-last year there had
been only II families and "a un-
married men and but 20 log cabins In
the town That Thanksgiving-Christ-
mas Day there were 40 families and
about as many log cabins.
One frame and two hewed-log
houses also had been built and the
future Queen City of the west had
two blacksmiths, two carpenters, a
shoemaker, a baker, a stone mason
and tailor. Also there was one law
yer-Thomas Goudy. That year, too,
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-11-27

Team personnel: Arthur Hilty,
Ronald Zimmerly, Kenny Moser,
Keith Kirkland, Robert Which, Ro-
manus Zuercher, Jim Herman, Kent
Cotterman, Bill Neff and Harold
Hunter. Harry Klay is manager.
The team will play on the College
gym floor every Wednesday night.
Two practice games this week
are: Monday night, Bluffton Brick
Co., Wednesday night, open.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-11-27
SDOrtsn1en Sponsor
Basketball Team

A newly organized basketball
team sponsored by the Sportsmen's
club has made its appearance on the
local athletic card. New suits have
been ordered and it is hoped to have
them on hand at the opening of the
winter schedule, Wednesday night,
Dec. 3.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-11-27
Pirate Cagers Defeat Convoy By
44-33 Score For Second Victory

goals for 18 points, more than half
of his teams total.
Which and Bracy each got IL
points for Bluffton.
In the first game OF the evening,
Bluffton reserves copped a 25 to 13
victory, after leading all the way.
Bauman had nine points to lead the
attack. Others in the lineup were
Balmer, Badertscher, Mathewson,
Burkholder, Hankish, Garmatter,
Diller, Marquart, Schmidt, Hofstet-
ter and Oates. ~
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-11-27
BedUerddnt Loses
To VdughnsUiUe

Vaughnsville edged Beaverdam, 38
to 36, in the Beavers second game of
the season last Wednesday night at
Beaverdam. Bowers, Beaverdam
center, scored Is points; and his
teammate, Weaver got nine; Fett,
eight; Recker, four, and Faulkes,
two.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-11-27
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-05-31
Howard Students
Study in Norway

versity are included in a group of
versity are Included in group of
200 who will leave on June 80
for six weeks of summer school
study at the University of Oslo
in Norway under the auspices of
the Institute of International Ed
ucation, it was learned last Thurs
day.
The six Howard students are
Judith Hedgepath, of Chillocothe,
Chic, Vera Branker and Margie
MCGEE of Boston, Lester Florent
of New York City. Pathicia Shaw
of Washington, D. c., and Aliene
Clark of Brooklyn.
The group of students will
spend six weeks in summer
school and then be given two
weeks to travel as they desire in
Europe. They will return together,
leaving Oslo for New York on
September 9.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-05-31
Commencement
Announced at
Touga|oo

The seventy-eighth commence
ment exercises at Tougaloo will
be held Saturday, May 81 through
Tuesday, June 8. The order of e.
vents will be as follows: Annual
! commencement play by the Robe
son Dramatic Club, entitled "The
Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman,
Saturday night, May 81 at p. M,
in the Cyrus Hamlin Auditorium.
Oh Sunday morning, June 1, at
1O:45 in the College Church, the
Baccalaureate sermon will be de-
livered by the president, Judson
l.. Cross. and the music will be
rendered by the Tougaloo College
Choir under the direction of Mrs.
Sara Booker Turner. At 1880 p,
m. Sunday evening will be the an.
nual address to the Christian AS
sociations by DR.. Vernon L. Whar-
ton at the College Church.
i On Monday, June 2, at 2 p. M.
will come the Class Day exercises
under the Tougaloo Oak. From 5
/ to p. m. on Monday afternoon
, the annual reception by President
and Mrs. Cross to the graduating
classes, faculty, alumni, friends,
and guests of the college will be
held in the Massachusetts Lounge
of "Judson Cross Hail.. At 6 p.
M. will be held the Alumni Re
union and annual business meet.
| ing in Holmes Hall Court. This
will be followed by the commence
ment concert at Sis, given by the
College Choir in the College
Church. The commencement ex.
ercises with the comforting of tn
degrees and the awarding of hon
ors and prizes will be held Tues
day morning at 10 a. m. in the
College Churh. The academic pro-
cession will form at p. m. at
the Mansion.
The speaker at the commence
ment exercises will be DR.. Harry
w. Richardson, Chaplain, and
head of the Rural Sociology De-
partment at Tuskegee Institute.
The public will be welcome to
all these services with the excep-
ton of the reception at Judson
Cross Hall which will, of course,
be open to friends of the grad
uating classes and of the college.
Immediately following the com
mencement exercises on Tuesday,
buffet luncheon will be served
on the lawn in front of the din
ing hall.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-05-31
PRESIDENT TRUMAN URGED TO ASK
CONGRESS FOR AMT|-Ly NCH Law
Publishers Condemn South Carolina
Lynch Verdict; Shows States Unable
10 Adequately Protect Negro Citizens

The Board of Directors of the
Negro Newspaper Publishers AS
ISOLATION, in a emergency session
here THURSDAY, May %, in tele-
grams to President Truman At
torney General Tom Clark and
Republican and Democratic lead
ders said, that the acquittal of
twenty-eight (2S) white men con-
fessed lynchers of Negro man
by an all white jury in the trial
held at Greensville, S. c., repre-
sents "the most contemptuous
disregard for moral law and hu-
man decency in the modern his
tory of our nation
The telegram to the President
said the Publishers feel it your
duty to recommend immediate
passage of anti-lynching legisla-
ton" 1t added that 1.-The country
needs and must have a restoration
of confidence in the willingness
and ability of the state to give
equal and adequate protection to
all of its citizens regardless of
race or color
Message with similar contents
were sent to Senator Arthur Van
renburg, President Protein of the
Senate; Senator Robert H. Taft,
Congressman Joe Martin and At
torney General Tom G.. Clark.
UNANIMOUS ENDORSEMENT
The kilograms carried the sig
natures of Frank Stanley, NNPA
President and Publisher of The
Defender. Others voting unani-
mously to send the wire were:
Howard L. Murphy, Secretary
Treasurer of the Publishers and
of the Baltimohe Afri-American
Newspapers; w. o. Walker, pub
Usher of the Cleveland Call-Post;
J. Orvil Mitchell of the ST. Louis
Argus; Thomas w. Young, Nor
folk (Va) Journal and Guide; c..
A. Scott, editor, The Atlanta Dali
ly World; J. Dowell Davis.
Kansas City Call, and Emory C.
Jackson, editor of the Birming-
ham World. The text follows:
TO THE PRESIDENT
Harry S. Truman
President of the United States
Hotel Muehelback
Kansas City, Missouri
"Acquittal of % Greenville
lynchers by jury of their peers
represents the most contemptuous
disregard for moral consciousness
and basic social laws in the re-
cent history of our nation. Can
the theory of democracy be cold
to waiting world on the basis
of such a record. The country
needs and must have a restoration
of conference in the willingness
and ability of the state to give
equal and adequate protection to
all its citizens regardless of race
or color.
We feel it your duty to recon-
mend to Congress immediate pass
age of Anti-lynching legislation.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-05-31
Piney Woods Holds
Comment cement
That's Different

p;nny " ools, Miss TIE Piney
Woods Co,n.ry Life >chool here,
founded by Laurence G.. Jones, its
Commencement here Wednesday,
Presiden, held its Goth Annual
May 81.
Announced by President Jones
as, "a Commencement that is diff
ferent," with the theme, "A little
Journey through Piney Woods
School; what happens in each
building; instead of delivering or
atoms, the high school graduates
demonstrated their skill in some
vocation and this proved their
worth as citizens of America, cap
able and trained.
The program began with the
laundering of Piney Woods Sc
hool twenty six years ago with it
first class of three students held
under a spreading pine tree where
the institution got it's name. This
year the school enrolment was
sgt with SO in the graduating class.
After the history of the school
had been given, including the Ro-
senwald School and the School for
the Blind. now a part of the in
Jstitution members of the gradual
ing class gave demonstration in
visual Education, Brickmaking,
Mechanic, Cement Finishing, Car
penty, Agriculture, Printing, Cook
ing, Butter Making, and in Photo
graphy, Electricity and Music.
The outstanding graduates who
were from the school for the blind
was Miss Pecola Husband, of Rick
ton, Valedectorian. Miss Helen P.
Smith of Ofohma was salutatorian.
Mrs. Edith Weber, Iowa Radio
Commentator, delivered the Com
mencement address. Atty R. G.
Remly, also of Iowa delivered the
address to the Alumni.
Other speakers included F. C.
Bond, Executive Secretary Of Miss
issippi Education Association and
E. P. Rosson, Asst, State Super
visor Of Negro Schools.
A feature of the program was
presenting diplomas to three grad
yates of the class of 1920. The
diplomas which had arrived late
for the 1920 commencement had
been preserved through the year
by the College.
Receiving the diplomas were !:
Mrs. Stella Otis Young, wife of
Bishop Young of Meridian, Miss,
Mr.. Oscar Norman, Mound Bayou,
Mississippi leading druggist, and
Mrs. Sweetie Cole Moore, widely
known bushes woman of Column
bus, Ohio.
The many visitors, parents of
the graduates, Alumni, and friends
of the institution, insluding MEM
bers of both races said that the
exercises were the most exciting
stimulating ad significant comen-
cement they had ever witnessed.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-05-31

Newly appointed assistant to the
Governor of the Farm Credit Adj
ministration of the u. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture. His duties
will include working with the gen.
eral agents Of the southern districts
of the Farm Credit Administration
and other officers in informing
Negro farmers of the credit facil-
tiles through the FCA. Fuhr, who
was for Is years a county agent in
Oklahoma, transferred to his pres
emit post from the Production and
Marketing Administration, where
he served rs = State contact repre-
sentative In OklahOma.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-05-31
Billie Holiday
| Held on Narcotic
Charge

DlliAC AAoAAiudJ, 20 yOdI oiu
blues singer who fled from a
raid on her Philadelphia hotel
May Is with the bullets of Fed
eral narcotic agents whizzing past
her ear. was held in $1,000 bail
last Tuesday by United States
Commissioner Norman j. Griffin
on charges of receiving, conceal
ing and transporting narcotics.
James Assemble, her road mana
ger, of New York City, was held
in $4,000 bail on the same charges
but similar charges against her
accompanist, Robert N. Tucker,
Of Morristown, New Jersey, were
dismissed.
Commissioner Griffin set June
8 for a further hearing at the
request Of the Federal narcotic
agents, who said they hope to
locate the source of the drug.
At the time of the raid on her
suite. Miss Holiday was about to
start for New York, where she
appeared the night of May IT.,
the first night of her engagement
at Club IS, 131 West Sind Street.
Federal agents said that she
told them she used heroin person
ally but was not a distributor.
They said that in her getaway
her automobile narrowly missed
one of the agents.
Miss Holiday, who escaped the
Philadelphia raid, was arrested
May 10 in the Gramption Hotel,
1872 st. Nicholas Ave-, New York
City, where she was staying and
was held in $4,000 bail by Gar
rett w. Cotter, United States
Commissioner, who paroled her in
the custody of her agent, Joseph
Chaser, Mr.. CHASER produced her
in Philadelphia for the hearing,
which was held before a court
room crowded with Federal en-
ployees.
A narcotics agent, Max HI. Ro-
der, testified he had followed Miss
Holiday and the two men on
May Is from the Earle Theatre
here, where she had appeared, to
the Attacks Hotel, sol So. 18th
Street.
Roder said Miss Holiday re-
NAMED in her car while the two
men went to their room. A search
of the room, Roder said, disclosed
a package containing a woman's
stocking. in which was wrapped a
broken spoon with it's bottom
charred, two narcotics needles
and sixteen full and ten empty
capsules.
The drug is that type that is
treated over a flame and then in
jected into the arm, Roder ex-
planned.
After questioning, Assemble adj
mitted the package had been
given him by Miss Holiday.
Assistant United States Attor-
ney Joseph Hildenberger said an
unemployed orchestra leader ar
rested with her, Joseph Duke Guy,
had been held in $4,000 bail in
New York for his appearance be-
fore Commissioner Griffin.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-05-31
Chicago business man. [,

Chicago business man.
Also at the business session
the association will award its an
nual scholarship of one hundred
dollars to the high SHOOT graduate
who has maintained the highest
four-year average. Officers will be
elected for the next three years.
The retiring officers are: j. III.
Noel, President; A. J. Noel and
@. L. Toler, Vice Presidents; w.
B. Nelson, Executive Secretary;
P. S. Bowles, Treasurer; Ruby E.
Suits Lyel1s Recording Secretary
and temporary Acting Executive
Secretary.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-05-31
ALCORN ALUMNI HOLD RO-
WAN MEMORIAL SERVICE

The Alcorn A. & M. College AL
umni Association will hold a mem
orial service and business ses-
sioh at the College at 2 p. M.
June /. J. H. Moseley is president
of the organization and will pre-
side over the sessions.
The Association proposes to
make final plans for the erection
of monument to L. j. Rowan,
who, at his death in 1884 had
given thirty-odd years of service
as President of the institution.
Each year the organization holds
a memorial service for DR.. Row
an. The memorial address will
ge delivered by J. E. Johnson
of Prentiss. Other Alumni to
the late L.. M. Parker, the first
Negro Boy Scout Executive II
the State, and Oliver Slaves,
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-05-31
uNAVA Honor
Mississippian At
NY. Meet

New York, Especially Rev. w. A.
Bender, Assistant President OF
Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, Miss.
who played an important role in
encouraging and aiding Negroes
in that State to register and vote
in last summers Democratic State
Primary Elections and influencing
Negro citizens to testify against
Senator Theodore G. BilhO dur
ing the Senate Investigation held
in Jackson Miss. last summeh, and
Napolean Lewis of McComb City
Mississippi, an outstanding leader
of Mississippi Negro yeteAans,
will be among ten Americans
honored by the Unied Negro and
Allied Veterans of America dur
ing the, first constitutional Con-
vention to be held here May 30
June l.
Z Jackie Robinson, first Negro
player to be signed by a major
leaugue baseball club, and In
grid Bergman of Movie and stage
fame, will aslo be honored by
UNAVA.
The renawned first haseman of
the Brooklyn Dodgers and Miss
Bergman will receive UNAVA
Freedom Awards" for outstan-
ding contributions to the Negro
peoples struggle for freedom IN
America. Award winners were
designated by the organizations
national council.
Other award winners are Isooc
Woodland, negro veteran, whose
eyes were gouged out in February
1916 by Batesburg, S. c. police
officer, following an argumen
with white bus driver to whom
he had talked back" Rev. Robin
son, who won the worlds weller
weight championship in 1916; Lee
Sabinson, producer of the Musical
"Finian's Rainbow" which satir-
ICES Bilboism and the South|s
hacist theology; Branch Hickey,
president of the Brooklyn Dodgers
Baseball Club; Rev. Kenneth Will
liams, world war II veteran and
veterans spokesman, who recent
ly was elected to the City Council
of Winston-Salem, N. c. becoming
the first Negro to hold such an
office in North Carolina since the
Reconstruction period; and Shirley
Graham, author. of the prize win
ming novel about the life of Fred
erick Douglass. There was once
Slave.
"These Americans" statement
issued by the National Council OF
United Negro and Allied Veterans
of America explained, ''have in
their respective fields made dram
attic contributions to the struggle
of the Negro people for an all
embracing freedom"
FIVE yof THE award winners,
Jackie Robinson, Isaac Woodland,
Napoleon Lewis, Rev. Kenneth
Williams and Ray Robinson are
Warld War III veterans. The first
four name dare members of the
UNAVA.
The freedom awards will be pre-
sented at Town Hall here ON the
evening of May 81 when teh Neg
70 veterans of World War II will
be honored at a UNAVA sponsor
ed program, Salute to NeNgro
Veterans" Speakers will include
DIR. William H. Jernigan, president
of the Fraternal Council of Negro
Churches in America, and J. Fin
ley Wilson, leader of the Mathis
Negro Elks. Among stage and
concert entertainers appearing
will be Muriel Gales, Hope Faye,
Bill Smith, "Deekf' Watson's
Brown Dots and the Harlem Sy-
mphonic Choir.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-05-31
Southern Regional
Council Hits
AcquittaIs

The acquittal of the accused
lynchers of Willie Earle in
Greenville, S. c., is a burden to
the conscience of the South" the
Southern Regional Council said in
statement issued Thursday by
it's director, George S. Mitchell.
"And, although many people think
so. it is not in line with the best
of southern justice.
The statement said the acquit-
tai also showed the educational
problem the South faces in its
efforts to free itself from the fear
and prejudice that hamper it's
progress" 1t also stated that
credit was due the State Of So.
Carolina for pressing for arrest
and conviction Of che lynchers,
and that Judge Robert Martin,
who presided over the trial, de-
served commentator for refusing
to admit appeals to race preju-
dice in the arguments.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-05-31

other time as "the uptown edition
of the Daily Worker" indicating
some geographical confusion"
I'VE can't think what We may
have done to deserve all this in
one warm and muggy week." said
the Post, "but we dare say we
can take it
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-05-31
Dr.. P. H. Easom
Speaks at A|corn
Commencement

DR.. P. H. Easof, State Agent,
Department of Education of the
State of Mississippi, will deliver
the commencement address to the
graduating classes at Alcorn A. &
M. College On Junee 2.
DIR. William H. Gray, President
of the Florida A. & M. College,
Tallahassee, Florida, will deliver
the Baccalaureate sermon on
June 1.