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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-01
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HERE ARE THE EASY RULES

4. This contest is for women only:
ANY woman sixteen or over, living
in Continental United States or its
Territories, may enter-except en-
ployees of Swift & Company, its ad.
vertising agencies and members Of
their families. Contest subject to
Federal and State regulations.
s. Contest opened March 81; closes
May 4, 1s47. All entries must be
nostmarked before midnight Of the
Closing date. No entries vii be re-
turned and no correspondence en-
tered into. You accept the condi-
tions of these rules when you enter.
4. Winners of major prizes will be
announced over Don McNe eo.1s
Am. New York Timel as 500 rs
possible after contest closes. Com.
tplete list of winners sent on request
to anyone sending in a self-ad-
dressed, stamped envslope.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-01
jacksonville Lions
Hear Judge Hamilton
Special to the Star

JACKSONVILLE, April 80. -
North Cardinals schools will waste
the 100 million dollars to be spent
this fiscal year, unless character
is taught the youth, Judge Luther
Hamilton, Morehead City, told
Jacksonville Lions at their meet
ing.
Featured speaker at the Lions
meeting Judge Hamilton declared
it a shame that 17-year-olds lead
in the age class of people com.
hitting crimes.
He stressed the building charac.
ter for the youth of tomorrow.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-01
SYNOPSIS

The wedding of vivacious Diane
farrell to Bill Arden, serious
young lawyer. was an important
event in Grandharbor society,
though some of its more conser-
vative members doubted the wis
dom of the groom's choice of
bride. Bill belonged to n Of the
towns oldest families, while Di-
ane's father, wealthy j. Emmett
farrell, and Paula, her step-moth-
er, yer comparative newcomers,
wit little or no background. It
was rumored, too, that j. Emmett
had come by his huge fortune
rather questionably. Among the
guests was Page Winston, who
had been in love with Bill since
childhood. Diane, about to throw
her bridal bouquet say Page quiet
ly standing in the background
and deliberately tossed the flowers
to her.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-01

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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-01
RoTA RY HEARS HATCHER

NEW IERN, April 30. - In an
address to the New Bern Rotary
club, Col. H. j. Hatcher, head of
the state highway patrol, placed
responsibility on the public and the
courts for the increase in the high
way deaths and accident tolls.
He said the patrol will concentrate
its efforts this year in endeavoring
to get strict law enforcement Of
all highway traffic regulations.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-01

Norway is only one-ninetieth as
large as Africa, but it has two
thirds as much coastline.
Evening star., 1947-12-03
the ribbons you loop
into beautiful bows

Whether your fingers are dexterous
or not makes less difference when our
festive royon ribbons dress up your
packages. For candy stripes and
Christmas trees, poinsettios, stors ond
eoroIers are just few Of their motifs
most of them in sparkling red, but
traditional Christmas green and white
background ribbons ore here, too 80.
some with q CLINT Of metal.
1o-yord spooIs------4oe to $3.50
Glowing Red Four-inch Royon Sotin
Ribbon for smashing big bows on pack
age or wreath. Yard -----------15e
Mery "extros," our Christmas clusters
thot dress up package osd loter;
a Iopel----------------o and -
w&-Trimmings. Aisle 20. First Floor
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-01-11
AYR Department
Gets Enlistment
Case

Washington, d. c., (NNPA). -
The War Department said last
day thatTuesday that it has re-
ceived copy of the suit filed in
Pittsburgh against Secretary OF
Wra Patterson and Lieutenant Col
onel Robert w. Springer, command
ing officer of the Army's Pitts
burgh recruiting depot which seeks
to enjoin the Army from further
enIistments until colored men are
accepted on equal tedms with
whites.
The suit was filed by Henry d.
Steward of Pittsburgh after his son,
Henry D. Steward, Jr., had been
denied an opportunity to enlist in
the Army because the Army cur
rently is not accepting colored en-
listments.
Asked if the Justice Department
would be asked to defend the War
Department in thes uit, War De
partment, rowever, said it has not
been approached by the War De-
partment on the matter.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-01-11
Polio Patients Get
disqualification In
Home States

New York, N. Y.-Negro vic
tins of infantile paralysis receive
disqualification and medical care
in their home states through funds
contributed to the March of Dimes
annual campaign Of the National
Foundation for Infantile Paraly-
sis, according to Charles H. By
mum, director of Interracial Acti-
vities for the Foundation.
During 1916, my field acti-
vities took me into every state
with population of 10000 or
more Negroes" stated Mr.. Bynum
"and it was comforting to learn
that local chapters of the Nation
al foundation are providing hospi-
talization for Negro polio patients
in their home communities and at
hospitals in nearby communities"
Typical of such service is the
Mississippi Emergency Hospital
at Jackson, Mississippi, which not
only provides disqualification for
Negroes but employs Negro pro-
fessional personnel. Mr.. Bynum
disclosed that during the 1916
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-01-11
Democrats Give
Chicagoan $4,000
Jobs

Washington, D. c. (NNPA) =
Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Ech-
wellenbach last Thursday appoint
ed Alvin M. Rucker of Chicago,
Illinois, to an $4,000 post as a
territorial representative of the
Labor Department in Puerto Rico.
Mr.. Rucker, the first colored
man to occupy such a post, thus
becomes one of the highest paid
colored persons in government,
sharing this honor with Dr. Frank
Horne of the National Housing
Agency and Mrs. Thomasina w.
Johnson of the United States En-
ployment Service.
Born in st. Louis in 1904, Mr..
Rucker received his Bachelors de-
gree from the University Of Him
ois in 1929 and has done graduate
work at the University of Penn
sylvania, the University of Chica-
go and the graduate school of the
Department of Agriculture. He
attended the University of Penn
sylvanio through a National Ur-
ban League Scholarship.
In 1882 he was made first voca-
tional adviser and then office
manager for the Chicago Relief
Administration and later became
assistant manager for the Illinois
State Employment Service.
He came to Washington in 1910
as an employee OF the Social Sc
curity Board and in 1913 was sent
to Puerto Rico by the Labor De-
partment to organize the United
States Employment Services there.
While there he set up plans OF
operation of the USES offices
and selected it's personnel. Re-
turning to Washington he took
a position in the Standards and
Methods Division of the USES, a
post he held until given his new
position.
Mr.. Rucker will not leave i'm
mediately for Puerto Rico but will
spend some time in Washington
getting better acquainted with
Labor Department chiefs with
whom he now will be working, the
Department said.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-01-11
Join In Appeal
For Support Of
March OF Dimes

New York, N. Y. - In the wake
of the worst epidemic. of polio
myelitis in the history of the Ma
tional Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis, many important nation
al leaders have joined in appeal
ing for support to the March of
Dimes, January $3.50. Among the
many endorsements received by
the National Foundation are those
from: Archie A. Alexander, arch
itect and president of Willkie
House, Des Moines, Iowa; George
A. Beavers, Jr., Chairman of the
Board and Agency Director for
Golden State Mutual Life Insur-
ance Co.; Dr.. Roscoe G. Brown,
Chief, Office of Negro Health
Work, United States Public
Health Service; Mrs. Mary w.
Blocker, former president, Nation
al Congress of Parents and Teach
ers; DR.. George ID. Cannon, Sec
rotary of the New York City
Physicians Forum; Mrs. Mae
Wright Downs, national president
of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority;
Col. B. 0. Davis, Jr., of the U. S.
Air Corps; Karl Downs, president
of Samuel Huston College; DR..
William FL. Gray, Jr., president
of Florida A & M College; Mrs.
Edna Over Gray, national presi-
dent of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sor-
ority; Raymond e. Jackson, I'M
perial Potentate of the Shriners;
DR.. Charles S. Johnson, president
of Fisk University; Attorney
Poindexter A. Orr, president OF
the National Bowling Association;
Kelsey Pharr, president, Greater
Miami Negro Civic League; w.
H. Pipes, president of Alcorn Col
lege.
Also, Mrs. Fannye Aver Pond
err. past president, Florida State
Federation of Colored Women's
Clubs; Muriel Rain, concert art
list: E. Washington Rhodes, Pub
Usher of the Philadelphia Tribune;
Mrs. Gertrude Robinson, national
president of National Sorority OF
Phi Delta Kappa; Jackie Robin
son, first --zegro player in organ
lied baseball club; H. G. Russell,
president of West Kentucky Voca-
tional Training School; Frank l..
Stanley, president, Negro News
paper Publishers Association;
James B. Simmons, Jr., City Coun-
Gilman of Toledo, Ohio; H. Coun-
Gill Trenholm, executive secretary
of the American Teachers Asso-
citation; ]. Finley Wilson, Grand
Exalted Ruler Of the Elks; DR..
Walter A. Younge, president OF
the National Medical Association.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-01-11
Negro Teneal
Wins sSsoSIe,
Contest

With a yield Of 999 pounds of
lint cotton per acre, VIII Mcleod,
colored tenant farmer, won the
Scvotland County, N. c., five-acre
cotton contest, according to re-
port received by the u. S. De-
partment of Agriculture from the
North Carolina State Extension
Service.
A check for $50 was presented
to Mr.. Mcleod by the president
of the local Chamber Of Commerce.
Farmer Mcleod won the award
with Caker 100 wilt-resistant cot
ton.
The county's three-acre< corr
test was won by ]. G. Parker with
yield of 70.7 bushels per acre.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-01-11
Wilkinson County Case Focus New
National Spotlight On State
White Lawyer Says When EIectroeuted,
Children Should Sit on Bible, Age Of
Reason and Constitution to DESTROY All

The following is a full text of
the statement made by attorney
w. d. Coleman: "The Governor
of Mississippi has refused today
to commute the death sentences
imposed upon the two Negro chill
dren, James Lewis, Jr., and Char
les Trudell. l learned from the
public press that the Governor
journeyed to Woodville and ques-
toned the boys before revealing
his identity. This is regrettable.
l wish that the Governor had seen
fit to take me, as council for the
children, into WoodVille with him.
Again they have been question
ed in secret and while they were
without counsel, and their state
ments SO obtained have been used
to persecute them. | resent trial
in the absence of counsel for the
defense, whether it be while the
children were hidden in a VickS-
burg Jail, in Woodville court
room, or while locked up in coun-
ty Jail, and whether the prosecu-
tor be hast of armed men,
District Attorney, or a governor.
l hope that some day during the
course of this sad affair these boys
will stand before an impartial
tribunal, represented by counsel,
and will be tried according to the
law and the evidence.
1.-THE necessary steps to appeal
both cases to the Federal Supreme
court are being taken. The cases
involve violation of the right guar
anteed by the 14th amendment to
the u. S. constitution, that is: that
no person shall be deprived of his
life without due process of law.
Neither boy had fair trial,
and they both were convictedsole-
ly on their own iuncorroborated
statements which were legally in
competent evidence, and they are
mere children.
at occurs to my mind that Meth
er of the children is sufficiently
, large to fit into the various at
tachment of the elecric chair.
Therefore, I should like respect
fully ruggest that we seat them
as we do our children at the dinner
table, that we place books under
meath them in order that their
heads shall be at the proper height
to receive the death current: and /
further urge that the books used
for this purpose be the "Age of
Reason" 1.-THE Rise of Democracy
in America" a copy of the "Consti-
tuition of The United States,' and
an appropriately bound edition of
the Holy Bible. Then, with one
current of electricity the State of
Mississippi can destroy all stimuli
taneously.'
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-01-11
u S. SUPREME COURT TO HEAR CASE AS GOVERNOR DENIES
FURTHER CLEMENCY TO CONDEMNED YOUTH
Negro Question Is
Important Role In
BiIbo Case

Washington, ID. c. OSN)
The negro question and the APP
peals to the white people OF his
state,to use intimidation, fear and
violence to keep negro citizens
from voting in the Democratic
primary campaign, in which he
was reelected TO rthe third time
as a member of the United States
Senate, prove to be of equal, II
not greater Importance as that OF
accepting graitudes from war con-
tractors in the outcome Of the
Bilbo case before Congress today.
This fact proved true despite the
many predictions that this ques-
ton would be of little Importance
and would receive only minor
considerations the movement to
Dust the race-baiting Mississippi
ian. 1t appears now to all well
informed observers that the queS-
ton will be of major importance,
if and when the Mississippian re
turns to Washington to face the
Senate. in a final fight to take
his seat.
The importance of the question
is seen in the fact that Senator
Taylor, the outstanding democra-
tic opponent and Senator Taft,
the Republican leader devoted
most of their remarks in the case
thus far, to the charges of in
timidation of negro voters in
Mississippi.
Of greater importance is the
fact that Senator Taft, who is
considered the outstanding auth
GRITTY on Senae rules, procedure
and precedent, says that on the
question of intimidation of negro
voters in Mississippi, it will only
require a majority vote to GUST,
but on the question of his deal
ingS with war contractors, a two
thirds majority would be requir-
ed. This view, that arises out of
the fact that in his appeals for
the use of intimidation, fear and
violence to KEEP negroes III Miss
issippi from voting, Senator Bilbo
violated his oath of office, the
constitution and Federal statutes,
is also held in a preliminary brief
prepared by former Congressman
Charles Nj. LaFollette of Indiana
and final brief in the case pre-
pared by attorneys Charles ID
Houston, Thurgood Marshall, Ro-
bert L. Garter, Marion w. Perry
and Franklin H. Williams and
presented to the S0th Congress
on behalf of educational Assocla'
ton for the Advancement of Col
ored People.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-01-11
Arkansas All Club
Winner Named

For netting $1,000 from his Al
demonstration projects during the
last three years and for all-round
leadership achievement in 1916,
James D. Campbell of Lee Coun-
ty, Ark, won the State Champion
ship for colored All boys, accord
ing to a report received by the
U. S. Department of Agriculture
from the Arkansas State Exten-
sion Service.
First prize for girls was won
by Ruby Lucille Loudd for out
standing club work. Both Alters
received $25 awards.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-01-11
Liberia To Build
Medical School

New Yord, (NNPA) - Presirent
William V. S. Tubman of Liberia,
West Africa, has announced that
an international research institute
for tropical medicine will be built
there during the year, it was made
known New Years Day by the
American Foundation for Tropical
1edicine, Inc, 270 Madison Avenue
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-01-11

which will sponsor and maintain
the institute.
A $250,00O grant to the Liberian
Government for buildings and equip
ment was made last August by
Harvey S. Firestone, Jr., American
rubber manufacturer. The foun-
dation has assured the mainten-
ance and operation of the institute
at an estimated primary cost OF
100000 a year. The Liberian Gov
eminent has contributed build
ing site of approximately 100 acres
adjacent to Roberts Field.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-01-11
President Truman Says Nations Goal
Collective Security For All Mankind
Crime To Deny People To Vote In Local
And National Elections

He warned the Congress against
the punitive labor legislation. He
recommended, however, the en-
actment of legislation to prevent
'uniustifiable jurisdictional strik-
es and the prohibition of second
airy boycotts to accomplish I'M
justifiable detectives.
He also recommended the eX-
tension of the facilities within
the Labor Department for assist
ing collective bargaining and the
extension and broadening Of Soc
ial legislation, including the SOC
ial security system, better hous-
ing, a comprehensive national
healt hprogram, and provision
for a fair minimum wage.
Other recommendations inclu-
ded:
The appointmet of a Temporary
Joint Commission to inquire i'm
to the entire field of labormana-
cement relations.
ASSistanc to small business.
Special attention to the decen-
tfalization of industry and the
development of areas that are
now under-industrialized.
Comprehensive housing lcgis
lation t oopen the way for slum
clearance and investment of pri--
waite capital in Iarge-scale rental
housing projects, the improvement
of housing in rural areas, the con-
struction over a four-year period
of half million units of public
law-rental housing, and the crea-
ton of a single peace-time fed
eral housing agency to assure eff
ficient use of resources.
The balancing of the budget and
the continuance of war excise tax
rates which are due to expire June
80, 1947.
Protection of the farmer while
he adjusts his acreage to peace
time demands.
The establishment o ia Depart
ment of Welfare.
New legislation to permit the
entry of larger number of displac-
ed persons into this country.
Merger of the armed forces and
universal military training.
Mr.. Truman said the country
needs well-equipped, well-trained
armed forces, adding that eve
must be able to mobilize rapidly
our resources in men and material
for our own defense, should the
need arise.
He disclosed, however, that the
Army is having difficulty in meet
ing it's authorized strength which
will be reduced to 100000 off
GERS and men by July 1, next
He has not been advised yet whe-
Their extension of the Selective
| Service is necessary, but he said
the War Department will make
it's recommendation in time fol
Congressional action before the
expiration of the present law or
March 81.
Except for minir adjustments
the President said, he believes
that the program of benefits fol
veterans is now complete.
"The spirit of the American
people can set the course of worlG
history the President concluded
eff we maintain and strengthen
cur cherished ideals, and if we
| share our great bounty with war
stricken people over the world
then the faith of our citizens il
freedom and democracy will
spread over the whole earth ant
free men everywhere will shar,
!! our devotion to these ideals"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-01-11
Writes Best Ally In
Fight Against
Fascism
By JAMES l.. HICKS
NNPA Staff Writer

w dSHlHS lOIl, ~. III TIC CololCu
man is the white mans greatest
ally in the fight against fascism,
Mrs. Katherine Snryver, white,
public relations director of the
National Council of Negro Wo-
men, told a current problems
study group at the Washington
Unitarian Church last Sunday.
In her work with colored people
she is constantly awed by the
courage that enables them to fight
fascism on all sides and at the
same time continue to "clasp the
ideal of democracy to his bomos,"
she said.
Mrs. Shryver related her exper-
fences in trying to convince color
ed groups that she was not Gust
another of the thousands of white
people who seek to betray the col
ored man." She advised her au-
dience that they too faced the
same problem if they wocld win
the confidence of colored people.
Emphasizing that difficulties
could be easily overcome by sin
cere effort on the part of the
white persons, Mrs. Shryver warn
ed about such things as shaking
hands or breaking bread" with
colored persons.
She directed attention to cour-
tesy for which colored people are
famed. She emphasized that she
referred not to the servility OF
sterotyped colored people but to
the courtesy based on a regard
for others" of intelligent colored
people.
She told her audience that the
titles, "Mr." and Mrs" were APP
propriate for colored persons
whenever and wherever they were
appropriate for whites and they
should never hesitate to use them,
adding that looking a colored per-
son straight in the eye is a pre-
requisite to good race relations
and that a white person who cam
not do this will never gain the
respect and confidence of color
ed people.
Mrs. Shryver noted the "per-
manent shockability" of colored
people. She said in Europe the
white man after exposure to the
evils of fascism for period of
time becomes so calloused that
nothing will arouse him, but in
America the colored man never
fails to be shocked by the latest
acts of fascists against him. She
saw hope in his non-acceptance of
fascism.
She urged her audience to con-
slider what the two-party system
means to colored people. She dir
ected attention to the Congress-
ional race in the fourteenth Cali
fornia district where Representa-
tive Helen Gahagan Douglas, Dem
ocrat, "who had voted right on
all issues vital to colored people, :
was opposed by Fred Roberts.
She reminded her audience OF
the struggle which must have TAX
en- place in the minds of colored
voters before they decided how
they would vote.
Mrs. Shryver said colored peo-
pie have a stake in all legislation
which will come before the Eight
ieth Congress, but their special
interests should be anti-lynching
| anti-poll tax, fair employment
practice and national health legls-
lation.
The race question is far from
being insoluble, she said, citing
DIR. Mordecai w. Johnson, presi-
dent of Howard University, who
/, she declared, "tells to anyone who
will listen that Russia already
has solved her race problem"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-01-11

epidemic local chapters Of the Ma
tional Foundation in 80 states ex-
hausted their funds and said that
there is more urgen need for gen.
erous support than ever before TO
the 1947 March Of Dimes.