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The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-10-23
Lexington Baptists Have
Splendid Homecoming

Observing Home Coming Day and
celebrating its 101st Anniversary, the
Lexington First Baptist Church en-
joyed a great day last Sunday, Oct
ober 10.
AS DR.. H. L. Martin, a former pas
tor, was unable to attend this SER
vice because of sudden illness, the
church's own pastor, Rev. L. E.
Burnette, delivered the Home Com
ing message.
Other outstanding features on the
program were the presentation of
the Southern Baptist work under
the cooperative program, special
music, and the turning in of SIS bills
which were given to members of the
congregation several months ago.
A giant size dollar bill, 100 inches
long and painted by Mr.. Quitman
Mott, was shown to the congregation
and then turned on it's opposite side
where the dollar was divided into
sections marked by different colors
showing the exact number of cents
going to each phase of Baptist work
outside of I'LL local church.
The special music was beautifully
rendered by Mrs. S. M. Wells who
sang Gods Sunshine" written by
Rev. L. E. Brunette, and by the choir
who sang an anthem, Hymn Of
Praise" under the direction of Mrs.
Reggie Williams.
The most spectacular thing was
the turning in of the SIS bills. Each
person who had received a SIS bill to
invest or to increase its value for
the purpose of Baptist work outside
the local church marched to the
front of the church and dropped the
$5--plus into a barrel. Several peo-
pie told how they increased their
money by making and selling baby
dresses. crocheting, raising and SELL
ing chickens, cutting up a tree and
selling it for wood, selling miscel-
laneous cards and various other
ways. The largest earning turned in
by one person was $4,000. A few of
the members who were not present
when the bills were passed out and
who did not receive one were inter-
ested enough to make an offering TO
this cause When the people had
finished putting the money in the
barrel, it was found that the original
investment had practically more
than doubled.
Dinner on the ground and movies
taken of the crowd were other fea-
lures of this program.
Mrs. H. L. Martin from Senatobia
was one Of the prominent out Of
town guests. Many other former
church members. friends, and visit
ors we're present for this occasion /.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-10-23
Temple Sisterhood To
Meet Al CIarksdaIe

The Mississippi Federation of
Temple Sisterhood's Fifth biennial
Convention will meet in Clarksdale
on Sunday and Monday, October 26-
81.
Registration for the convention
will be from 2 to $3.50, Sunday, Oct
ober 26, at the Alcazar Hotel. The
opening business meeting for the
convention will be at $3.50 at Tenn
pie Beth Israel, Sunday, October 26.
Rabbi Mayerburg, Kansas City,
Missouri, will be the main speaker
for the inspirational program at 800
P. M. October 26, at Temple Beth
Israel, Clarksdale.
The convention will get under way
Monday morning at 1000 A. M. with
a business meeting at Beth Israel
Temple. This will feature reports of
the chairmen of standing commit
tees.
Time out at / P. M. for luncheon
at the Alcazar Hotel with Mrs. Sid
ney Livingston, of Ruleville, pre-
siding.
Business meeting convenes at 200
P. M. at Temple Beth Israel featur-
ing a report of the nominating COM
mittee by Mrs. George Hurtig. of
Leland, chairman, and election of
officers.
The closing affair of the conven-
ton is a banquet at the Alcazar
Hotel at $50 P. M. Monday, October
| 9th.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-10-23
CoImer Defines Labor.
Statutes
An Issue In Campaign
Best Qualified Man
Should Be Elected
To u. S. Senate

The best qualified man in the race
should be the one elected to the
United States Senate to fill the UNI
expired term of the late Senator
Theodore G. Bilbo, said Congressman
Bill Colmer, of Gulfport, a candidate
for the office, in an address Monday
afternoon at Lexington.
The man who has the oualifica-
tons, the education and background
and the experience should be the
one most qualified to fill this i'm
portant position, Mr.. Colmer said.
That test and that alone should be
applied to the candidate for whom
we cast our ballots, he said.
Mr.. Colmer was introduced by
County Attorney Pat M. Barrett.
The speaker discussed in detail
his 14-year record in Congress as a
representative from his district. He
told of his work with the important
steering committee and with the
rules committee; one of his con-
sistent support of agriculture and
cation, farm to market roads, Soil
conservation and flood control.
Mr.. Colmer stated he was the Sec
ond man from Mississippi on the
House Rules Committee within the
past hundred years.
He told of the fight made on the
rules committee to keep anti-south
legislation from getting to the floor.
The work of the Colmer Postwar
Planning Committee was gone into
by the speaker and he warned of the
threat now existing to the American
mode Of life from the Communists.
He pointed out the fact that this
country needs men in the Senate
who are familiar with the world sit
uation and able to cope with 1t
through legislative and personal
perience.
If there is an issue in the present
campaign. Mr.. Colmer said, it is the
management-labor question. All OF
the big labor leaders say they are
going to elect a Congress that will do
away with labor legislation.
In connection with this important
matter Mr.. Colmer permitted the fol-
lowing direct quotations:
Continued on Page 81
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-10-23
Rites Held Sunday For
Mrs. Mettie Yarborouqh

Services for Mrs. Mettie Forbes
Marlborough. widow of the late DR..
w. F. Marlborough who died at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Mary D.
Bradley in San Antonio, Texas, were
held Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock
at the Pickens Baptist Church. The.
Rev. r. B. Gunter, pastor, officiated.
Burial was in Pickens cemetery with
Maxwell-O Owen Funeral Home in
charge.
Mrs. Marlborough, who was 76, was
the widow of the late DR.. w. F. Var
borough, former pastor of the Pick
ems Baptist Church, and lived in
Pickens until his death in 1910.
She leaves two daughters, Mrs
Bradley of San Antonio; Mrs. Lillian
Leavell of New Orleans; and three
sons, John M. Marlborough of Pick
ems; Forbes Marlborough, of Shawnee
Oklahoma; and James F. Marlborough
of Columbia, S. c.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-10-23

HAZEL
EYES
BY Hazel Bronnon

Holmes County's Battery B of the
Hath Field Artillery, Mississippi
National Guard, is now engaged in
a recruiting drive to bring the Bat
terry up to full strength of eighty
four men, under the capable direct
ion of Captain |. r. King, Jr.
There are now forty-four men in
the Battery. Forty O r needed.
The local recruiting drive is part
OF the nationwide campaign which
has been termed Operation $685."
This is the minimum goal of new
guardsmen sought for the entire
country.
This recruiting drive deserves the
support of the people of Holmes CO
unity because the National Guard has
played a very vital role in the de-
tense of this country both in times
of peace and war.
Practically everyone was at the
big Ringing Brothers Barnum Bail
ey circus in Greenwood last Wednes-
day evening.
We're indebted to Fred Taylor of
the Birmingham News-Age-Herald
for the following story related by
Allen Lester, a Ringing publicity
man with a national acquaintance,
Lester says this happened a few
days ago when the Big Show was
moving out of a Mississippi stand.
An elongated clown and a dwarf
one got tanked up together, after a
night performance. They made 1t
back to the runs" just as their Sec
ton Of the four-train Ringing en-
tourage was pulling out.
The big clown hoisted the little
one onto the vestibule Of the first
car at hand. It was the car of Jim
Haley, the circus president. Haley
took the fellow in and informed him
he would have to get back to his
own car when the train stopped.
Stop it did, and off clambered the
dwarf. But circus trains have no
schedule. Off it started again and
there arose a series Of yells and
whoops, from the toddling, short
legged clown. The conductor jumped
to the caboose window. He saw the
big body webbing along, apparently
almost legless. He thought the trair
had run over a conventional size
man and cut off his legs!
The conductor pulled the emer'
gercy cord. and when he did thu
train lurched to a sudden stop, pull
ing a drawhead. 1t all cost the show
200 bucks, the clown a piece of Pa
Valdon1s mind.
But clown alley on the Big Show
has been echoing with one series Of
outlaws after another ever since.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-10-23
Joe Berman Addresses
Lexington Rofaians

Joe Berman, well known Licking
ton business man and a member of
the Lexington Rotary Club spoke
Friday on 'The Rotary Club and
the City of Lexington-How Can We
Improve Them"
MI. Berman gave in an interesting
way his own personal ideas on how
the Rotary Club could help support
the growth and development of
Lexington. He said he felt that the
field of service for the Rotary Club
was very broad; that it could support
civic enterprises and help the un-
fortunate and underprivileged to live
up to its motto of Service Above
Self, He profits Most Who Serves
Best"
He said an effort should be made
to interest business and professional
members of the club in civic enter
prises and help provide leadership
for same.
Among the list of things which MI.
Berman proposed that Rotarians
either sponsor or cooperate in spon-
soring to help the club and the city
of Lexington was the following:
l.. Intersections in Lexington
need widening.
2. Lexington needs a first rate pic
ture show.
8. Some streets are dangerous and
need widening.
4. Some corners should be rounder
and narrow streets widened and in
some cases Strengthened.
5. Lexington needs a fish or sea-
food market and
6. A 1880 room hotel.
z. The school band needs addit-
ional money now to buy needed in
struments and music.
8. The high school gym is not re-
gulation size so no basketball
Journeys car be held here as in
Tchula and some other schools.
8. An annual cleanup and paint
up project should be sponsored every
spring.
10. Get a new courthouse.
IL. Enlarge the high school and
build an auditorium for it and make
the gym regulation size.
IL. Sewerage should be expanded
to cover the whole city.
10. A 75-bed hospital is needed in
Lexington so that nurses can be
trained here thus insuring an adequ-
ate supply always of nurses.
Mr.. Berman suggested that all of
these things would involve work or
sacrifice. some both, but he con-
cluded that everything worthwhile
entailed as much. He said that what
every citizen does and says is of i'm
portance and suggested that we not
only wave our flag for Lexington
but do the work necessary to pro-
mote the community's welfare.
c. c. Taylor, manager of the local
office of the Mississippi Power and
Light Company, was welcomed as a
| new member of the Rotary Club.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-10-23
Hornets Play Hosts To
Sails Eleven Friday

After a week of rest the Lexing-
ton Hornets will play to-
morrow night at 8 o'clock at Beall
Athletic Field when they take on
Sails High.
The Hornets are rated a slight
favorite over the visitors and the
local boys are going to make GER
tain that when the contest is over
they are more than just favorites.
The Hornets will be led in tomor-
row nights tussle by John MurreIl
McRae, hard running fullback; their
capable field general, Henry Paris
and a forward wall led by P. H,
Williams, Rufus Netherland and
Aubrey Rodgers.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-10-23
Lexington Garden Club
Sponsors Concert 18th

The Lexington Garden Club will
sponsor a concert at the Grammar
School Auditorium or Tuesday even
ing, November 18th, at 7:45 o'clock.
Proceeds from the concert will GO
in the piano fund of the Grammar
School.
The public is cordially invited.
A o complete announcement
follows next week.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-10-23

out of the game as he cashed in
his chips.
Two other witnesses testified sub
s~tantially the same thing regarding
Olander Powell operating the dice
game, indicating that n Powell re-
lieved the other as operator of the
gambling table.
The defense charged that the first
witnesses were intoxicated, in fact
drunk, and were unable to make a
positive Identification of the men
who were running the crap table.
A fourth witness, who was not
accused by the defense of drinking,
testified that both Powells we're
taking turns operating the dice table.
The third witness, when asked,
testified that he knew the first two
witnesses in the case for the state,
that he talked to them that evening
at the Rainbow and they definite
ly were not intoxicated.
Marshall Powell admitted on the
stand that he owned the Rainbow
Garden property. He said, under
sworn oath, that he had nothing
whatever to do with its operation
and management except the dining
room. He said he leased the property
to j. G.. Layne who had in turn sub
leased the gambling room to a Mr
Payne. He said he only ran the cafe
in the place and that his brother,
Olander, was, in fact, a used car
dealer, and had nothing to do with
running the place except that he
was in charge of the music for the
dance hall.
Marshall Powell said he was a
farmer having fifty acres or so. The
| District Attorney asked him If he
grew cotton and Powell replied that
he grew corn.
When questioned by the state on
the whereabouts of Payne (who was
supposed to have sub-leased the
gambling room from Layne) Mar
shall Powell was very vague.
M. Powell admitted on the stand
| CdSIllIlk q CilCCh hA hC 6oiiA0AS
room for one of the parties present
in the gambling room but claimed
he did it as a personal favor rather
than as the operator of the game fol
the house.
One Of the witnesses for the de-
Tense employed as a hostess at the
Rainbow, on examination by
the state, said that she was working
for "all three of them, Mr.. Mar
shall, Mr.. Olander Powell and Mr..
Layne." She said she thought they
all three ran the place.
It was also brought out by the
state that J. G. Layne held the beer
license at the Rainbow Garden ano
the state submitted this as further
evidence that he was, in fact, inter
ested in the operation of the place, a:
much so as the two Powells.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-10-23

w. E. Strider Qeft) County Super
visor, Farmers Home Administration.
is shown above presenting the real
estate mortgage to Mr.. and Mrs, j.
E. Jones after the Pickens couple
completed payment on their farm.
Mr. and Mrs. Jones purchased the
farm, formally part of the A. B,
Holder farm, May 25, 1912 and were
allowed 40 years in which to pay the
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-10-23
Bingo Purty Tuesday Night
At Taylor Memorial Home

The Daniel w. BeaIl Post No. 10,
American Legion will sponsor a SEES
SION OF bingo next Tuesday night,
October 28th at 7:30 in the Alb Tay-
Tor Memorial Home.
Nice prizes will be awarded to the
winners. Admission will be 10 cents
per game.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-10-23
TchuIu Gurden Club To
Sponsor Benefit BRIDGE

The Garden Club Of Tchula is 60
ing to sponsor a Benefit Bridge We'd
nesday, October goth at the City
Hall in Tchula, at 2:30 o'clock. Pro-
ceeds will be used for a war me-
mortal.
Anyone desiring reservations for
the Benefit Bridge may make them
with Mrs. Edwin McKibben or any
member of the Garden Club.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-10-23
Assault Case Against
PoweIIs' Continued

The case of Marshall M. Powell
and his brother, Olander Powell,
charged with assault and battery
with intent to kill, was continued
until the next term of court, on a
motion made by attorneys for the
state, at the Tuesday morning session
Of criminal court in Holmes county.
The motion for continuance was
based by the state upon the fact
that it did not have all Of its wit
nesses available to successfully pro-
secute the cas
The motion for continuance was
fought unsuccessfully by attorneys
for the defendants.
This assault with intent to kill
case grew out of a disagreement in
the gambling room of the Rainbow
Garden September goth in which
three patrons of the Rainbow, who
were engaged at various intervals
in shooting craps there, were hit in
the heads with blackjacks allegedly
welded by Marshall and Olander
Powell.
This last will be prosecuted at the
April term of court.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-10-23

Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Scott attended
Ringing and Barnum Bailey Circus
in Greenwood Wednesday. They
were guests of their old friend Merle
Evans, director of the Circus Band.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-10-23

Planters who have complied with
Delta Council Identification plans by
repairing and repainting tenant
houses report substantial savings
through improved farm labor.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-02-22
"oII men are created equal. :"

'oI men are created equal"
Whot we need today is not Federation" between the
many groups of diverse races, notonoties and creeds
which 90 to moke up this America of ours but spirit Of
understanding knowledge Of the good and the beauty
and the wisdom each group contributes to the common
whole Whot we need today mutual understanding ITO
understand" according TO the dictionary is Ito compre
bend the relation of things to know through information
And one of the definitions of Understanding possess
ing comprehension and good sense"
Mutual understanding mutual trust the be-
lief in and knowledge of each other that is the great unity
ing force which weld into nation nvincibe to at
tack from without because it mmunzes to attack from
within The menace need to fear most that created by
racial and religious preudices, often unconscious
but far opt to break out at the wrong moment and
to destroy our oby think clearly and to judge wisely
No, tolerance is NOT enough There must be no divid
ing lines between people We must be Americans all
understanding and believing in each other and working
together to keep country union Of people wei
union of States.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-02-22
LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL

One of the most popular tunes being played on the
luke boxes whenever coIored folk finds hole in which
stick their nckes and dimes, and sometimes quarters is
one bearing the title, let the Good Times Roll"
Thinking of the momentum with which the Good
Times rolling, occurred to US to record here that
of the leading agencies of it's kind in the country in
cent report economic trends reported that money cir
cuotion during the past month had dropped off to the
tune of S9OO,OOOOOO.
While it is normal condition for the amount of
ey circulation to decline during the month of January
following the heavy Christmas shopping, the report states
that the sharp decline noted indicates continued foil off
in the amount of money in circulation which may not in
dcote the coming of another depression understand
ne meaning of the word DEPRESSION but it certainly
indicates that from the good times "Aint going to
be whot they used to be-"
One of the most intriguing lines in the tune let The
Good Times Roll" is the that soys ." got dollar and
half but don't play cheap, fot fiftycens thon
I'm gonna keep"
With whot indicated in the report here referred to-,
the sisters and brothers who moved by the implications
the tune going oil out in letting the good times roll
hod better stort keping of hem ycents because
there who not old enough to remember the re-
cnt depression years.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-02-22
Virginia Fireman
Files $4,000 Suit

Norfolk, Va. = (NNPA) = Da-
vid H. Hinton, locomotice fire.
man of Raleigh, North Carolina
Carolina last Wednesday filed suit
in the United District Court for
the eastern district of Virginia a.
gainst the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Fireman and the Seaboard
Air Line Railroad for damages of
$125,000 for his removal from a
preferred run on that railroad
and replacement by a white fire.
man.
The suit follows the test case
OF Tom Tunstall, a fireman of the
Norfolk Southern Railway, who
recently was ordered restored to
his run 'and awarded damages in
the United States District Court
after the United States Supreme
Cour had ruled that the agree
ment between the carriers in
southeastern territory and the
Brotherhood was illegal.
According to Hinton's COM
plant, prior to September 80,
1916, he was holding a regular
assignment as a locomotive fire
man on trains Nos. 1872 and 5 be-
tween Raleigh and Richmond. On
that date Diesel-electric locomo-
tives were substituted for steam
locomotives, making the assign
ment more desirable than ever.
He charges that the Brother
hood, in furtherance of it's pur-
pose to drive colored fireman out
of employment or seriously cur
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-02-22
HATS-OFF TO MISSISSIPPI

Mssissippions hay the lowest per copito incomes in
the country In its poverty, their state overridden by
moorio syphilis, tuberculosis, hookworm peogro infant
and maternal mortality and bad teeth And yet Mississippi
has taken great strides in mnnysided curative public
health compogn which shomes the efforts of richer stotes
Missouri, for one" as F. A. Behymer summed up com
porison in Everyday Magazine "And for one of the
worst"
This judgment Missouri, unfortunately for our
citizens true one In hie ir0orton resnect Missouri
ions must toka eff Their hats to the superior example of i'm
provement on The oort Of Mississippi And Missouri blush
inc TO what Msesioni has done with much smaller
noncol raeourcee ehoud reeove to eliminate its own
bockwordness in public health
The St. Louis Post Dispotch.