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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1947-12-25
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SANTA CLAUS is not always the
- merry, jovial, fur-clad saint be-
hind a team of reindeer. There are
Almost as many versions of Santa
as there are nationalities-Fath
Christmas, Kris Kringle, St. Mich
olas or even Babonska. But, what
ever his name, he is loved and well
coined by all children.
In America on Christmas Eve
there is a merry tinkling of sleigh
bells as Santa Claus drives up in a
sleigh drawn by eight. reindeer.
pauses just long enough to climb
down each chimney. From a huge
pack on his back he fills the chill
dren's stockings with toys and
goodies. Gifts too large to be
stuffed in the stockings are tied
on glittering evergreen trs es
adorned with tinsel.. gay ornaments
and lighted candles, or electrical
lights now in vogue.
It's not always Santa who brings
gifts to children in other lands. The
Dutch children anxiously await the
arrival of st. Nicholas. He was the
bishop of Myra, so he is dressed in
the traditional bishops robes OF
black. wears mitEe and carries
the crozier. He rides a white horse
named ''Sleipner" and is accompan-
led by Black Peter, his page boy.
Instead of hanging up their stock
ings, Dutch children place their
wooden shoes in the chimney corner
before going. to bed. On the win
dow sills they leave bunch of hay
for "Sleipner." 1t is customary for
St. Nicholas to overturn chairs and
leave the room in general con-
fusion for Christmas morning. :
THE English children look for a
l. Santa Claus who closely resem-
bles our own. They also find gifts
tied to green Christmas tree but
this custom has been in effect only
since Queen Victoria was young
bride. Her husband, Albert, Ger
man prince, introduced this Christ
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1947-12-25
JUNE IN JANUARY

1t may be June in January, &C
cording to the song writers, but
the National Safety Council would
like to see it April in both De-
cember and January. The first
and last months of the year are
the most hazardous, but, April is
the safest.
Around the Christmas tree,
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-04-26
Founders Day to
Be Observed
At Lincoln

Alcorn, Miss. April 81 = (DSN)
- May s, 1947 is to be busy day
at Alcorn College. Founders Day
will be observed in the morning,
with DR.. J. e. Walker of Memphis,
Tennessee, delivering the main adj
dress, and DR.. w. H. Pipes will be
inaugurated in the afternoon as Al
corn Colleges Twelfth president
with Honorable J. Oliver Emme-
rich, chairman of the Board OF
Trustees, delivering the main adj
dress.
DR.. Walker is one of Alcorn Col
lege's most distinguished gradu-
ates and Mr.. Emmerich is one OF
the most progressive newspaper
publishers in the country, and an
excellent orator.
Following are some of the &C
tivities planned for the season al
AlcOrn:
May 8 Saturday, 900 am,
Track Meet - South Central Ath-
letic Association.
May 4 - Sunday, $3.50 pm,
Concert; Band and Choir.
May - Monday.
11:O0 am. Founders Day Pro-
gram; speaker, DR.. ]. E. Walker
and the oldest graduates.
$3.50 pm. Inauguration of w. FL.
Pipes; speaker, the Honorable j.
Oliver Emmerich, Chairman,
Board of Trustees.
400 p. m. Physical Education
Department (May Day. and the
college band.
500 pm. Presidents reception.
500 pm. Inaugural and Found
er's Day Ball.
May 6 - Tuesday.
200 pm. Judging Contest, MIA
500 pm. Three one-act plays,
Dramatic Club.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-04-26
Fire Insurance
Company Organize
In Texas

Houston, Texas, April q (Sp.)
= The organization of the Safe
guard Mutual Fire and Casualty
Company of Houston, Texas, the
first business of it's kind organi-
zed in the state has been complet-
ed and the company is now ready
to do business, it was announced
here last week.
The purpose of the new company
is to give efficient and courteous
insurance coverage on homes, fur
niture and automobiles.
The officers of the company are
T. M. Shadowens, Jr., president,
Cecil o. Jordan, vice president and
comptroller; j. r. Roberts, secre-
tary; DR.. T. M. Shadowens, treas
urer; Albert Dorsey chairman Of
the board of directors; A. B. Rob
erts, secretary of the board; Will
lie Phelgh, advertising director;
B. Greenleaf, Production director,
and Earl Roberts, inspector and
claim adjuster.
Branch offices have been set
up in Navasota, Bryan, Temple,
Austin, San Antonio, Corpus Girls
ii, Beaumont, Galveston, Corsica
ma, Tyler and Huntsville.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-04-26
Woman's Club
Make First Report
On Drive

Jackson, Miss. (DSN) April 81
- A major item on the agenda of
the recent meeting of the Execu-
tive Board of the Mississippi State
Federation of Colored Women s
Clubs was Mrs. J. e. Johnson S
report on the first phase of the
100000 drive to build a monument
to Progressive Womanhood in
Mississippi.
The Clubs responded to the tune
of $2,276.0O cash and pledges of
about 100000 more, to be paid
at the annual meeting in October.
The Phyllis Wheatly Club, Hattis-
burg, Miss. and the White Rose
Club, Harrisburg, won first and
second places on the Scroll of hon
or which is to be placed in the
proposed building. The Cheerio
Club of Meridian was the first
club to send in it's quota of 500.
and will have third place on the
scroll. Other clubs will be listed on
the scroll in Alphabetical order.
Clubs which paid all or part of
their quotas last Saturday are as
follows: Anding, New Concern
Club; Ocean Springs, Modern Wo-
mems Club of Biloxi; Brookhav-
en-, Bethune Literary Canton, Lucy
Jefferson, Bethune Junior, Excel
isior Literary, 7th District FEEDER
alton; Columbia, Bertha La
Branche Johnson Club; Columbus,
Matron's Art, Home Improvement;
Grenada, Excelsior Literary;
Greenville, Modern Art and Civic;
Harrisburg, Phyllis Wheatley,
White Rose; Hazelhurst, Annie
Bell Harper; Jackson, Terrell Lit
erary, Art Appreciation; Leland,
Deed-A-Day; Laurel, Health and
Welfare, Federated Garden Clubs;
Meridian, Cherrio; Monticello,
General Uplift; Pinola, Magnolia
Club; Piney Woods, Grace Memoir
ial; Prentiss, Eureka Art Club;
Natchez, Reapers Civic and Indus
trial, Young Matron's; Gulfport.
Young Women's Clubs; Vicksburg,
Carnation, Camille Art, Lucy JEFF
ferson Jr., Marchellneil; Yazoo
City, Paul Laurence Dunbar.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-04-26
Laurel Hospital
Plan Shows
Progress

Laurel, Miss (DSN) April 81
- Plans for the erection of a col
ored hospital here are showing
marked progress since the adop-
ton of the program little more
than month ago, according to a
statement made last week.
The hospital will be modern in
every respect and will provide
beds for q patients and will cost
approximately 100000.
The hospital which is COM
munity project is being financed
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-04-26

Cab Driver. According to Deputy
Sheriff Robert Jerigan, of Lownde
County the young veteran confess.
ed to the Staying after night Of
questioning by Hub Brown, him.
self, and six other officers, follow.
ing his arrest in connection with
the Staying last Wednesday light.
With no motive was giving for
the Staying Dickerson is reported
to have confessed killing the Cab
Driver after he had engaged him
to take him TO the home of a
friend.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-04-26

Baton Rouge, La. (DSN) April
% - White and Negro students,
in the first meeting of it's kind
in the recent history of the Deep
South met together here last Sat
urday in a regional conference OF
far reaching significance and i'm
plications respecting the future OF
the South and Of the nation.
Proposing a new national stud
ent organization, the conference
adopted resolution stating the
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-04-26

through public subscriptions and
is being sponsored by the men,
bers of the local medical and dem
tai profession.
The spokesman for the group
here said that money already in
hand, while the goal Of 100000 was
still far away, gave reason for the
assurance that the hospital plan
would be a success.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-04-26
White And Negro Students Meet Together In Louisiana

Sixteen delegates from Ne
gro calleges and students from
white institutions lin Louisiana,
Mississippi and Arkansas attended
the conference which was held in
the First Presbyterian Church of
Baton Rouge.
Among schools represented were
Southern Christian Institute, Ed
wards, Mississippi; Arkansas Am
and N College, Pine Bluff; Xavier
University, New Orleans and
Southern University, Baton Roug
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-04-26

primary purpose of the orgaiza-
ton as an effort to perpetuate de-
mocracy.
The meeting grew out of the is
sue which developed over wheth-
er or not Negro delegates should
be invited to the conference of
southern and southeastern col
leges which was held at the same
time on the Louisiana State Uni
versity campus here, and was call
ed by Lloyd Love, president Of the
L. s. U. student body.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-04-26
Presidents
Committee Hears
Race Leaders

Washington, D. G. CNNPA) -
Three topflight leaders in public
welfare and race relations at a
public hearing today gave the
Presidents Committee on Civil
Rights the benefit of their expert
ence.
They were Walter White, secre-
tary of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People; Thurgood Marshall, Ma
ACP counsel, and Lester B. Grang-
er, executive secretary of the Ma
tional Urban League.
! Their proposals ran the gamut
from social legislation respecting
employment, housing and health to
complete revision of existing fed
eral civil rights laws and the Gre
alton in the Department of Justice
of division of civil rights with in
vestigatory and enforcement staff.
Mr.. Granger specified five right
which he contended the federal
government should guarantee to
every American.
They were:
THE right to work and earn a
fair wage.
The right to a home which gives
decent protection to its members.
The right 70 good health as far
as the community can possibly pro-
tect it's members.
The right to an education which
refines and improves the citizen S
possibilities for service.
The right to public services
which are vitality necessary for
sound community living in this
highly vomplex social age"
The denial of human and civic
rights is one of the surest ways
of bringing about communism in
this country, Mr.. White told the
committee.
Mr.. White condemned the at
titude of the people of this coun-
try toward civil rights. eve rend-
er lip service to them during the
period of national emergency" he
said, "but as soon as the war is
over we go back to old ways
Making a legalistic presenta-
ton, Mr.. Marshall, who has tried
civil rights cases in various sec
lions of the country, told the COM
mittee that the majority of state
officials in the south have no re-
gard for the rights of minority
groups and that the Supreme Court
in it's early Interpretation of the
thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteen
tn amendments of the Federal Con
stitution had emasculated the right
guaranteed by the Civil War "a
|mendments.
He said it was necessary that
the committee recommend Iegis-
lation setting out the public policy
of the United States as being OBJ
posed to discrimination because of
race, creed, color or national ORR
gin by any agency subjecte to the
legislative jurisdiction of this
country.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-04-26
Richardson Heads
Prince Hall
Masons

Tulsa, Okla. Apr. - (NNPA)-
Grand Master Cornelius r. Rich
ardson of Indiana was elected
president of the Grand Masters
Conference of Prince Hall Md
sons last Thursday at the clos
ing session of a three-day meet
ing here. Grand Master Richard
son had been serving as acting
president since the death last Au-
gust of Grand Master John L.
Webb of Arkansas.
The conference which met here
as the guest of Grand Master Amos
T. Hall of Oklahoma, second vice
president voted to change its name
from the International Conference
of Grand Mosters, Grand Secre-
taries, and so forth, to the Grand
Masters Conference of Prince Hall
Masons. This change was made to
establish definitely its identity
with Prince Hall Masons, and out
of Difference to the recent victory
of the Most Worshipfu1 Prince
Hall Grand Lodge of Massachu-
sets.
This recent recognition of the
Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Mass
achusetts by the Grand Lodge of
Massachusetts (white), definitely
establishes all Prince Hall Ma
sons as the only legitimate Ma
sons among colored people in the
United States.
Grand Master J. wesley Dobbs
of Georgia, conference secretary,
reported the following grand lodge
represented:
Arkansas, Delaware, District of
Columbia, Georgia, Illinois, In
diana, Louisiana, Maryland, Mass
achusetts, Mississippi, Missouri,
New Jersey, New Mexico, New
York, North Carolina, Oklahoma,
Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, w.
Virginia and Wisconsin
The conference closed last
Thursday afternoon, to meet in
Washington, D. c., for it's 1948
session, as guest of the Most Won
derful Prince Hall Grand Lodge
of the District of Columbia. The
invitation was extended by DR..
Melvin J. Key, grand master of
the District of Columbia, on be-
half of the grand lodge which is
meeting next year in its centen-
NAL communication.
Other officers of the conference
are: Amos II. Hall, grand master
of Oklahoma, first vice president;
Morris J. Hicks, grand master of
Massachusetts,, second vice presi-
dent; =. Wesley Dobbs, frand mas
ter Of Georgia; secretary; DR.. G.
b. Key, grand secretary of North
Carolina, chaplain; II. Steward
Mann, grand master of New Jer-
sey, sergeant-at-arms; George w.
Smith, deputy grand master of
Georgia, chorister, and Rudolph
Johnson, past grand lecturer of
Illinois, director of publicity.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-04-26
Three Die In
huto-Train Crash

Hattisbury, Miss April 22nd. -
James Thompson T. CT MCGEE and
Twill Currie, all Negroes met their
death here Sunday morning when
the car in which they were rid.
ing was struck by a southern
railway passenger train.
Theree others injured in the
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-04-26
Nations Business Leaders Open 4th
Annual United Negro College Fund Drive
Rockefeller Says Higher Education
Increases Negro importance as Buyer


opening meeting Thursday, April
II, of the United Negro College
Funds fourth annual campaign in
the Rainbow Room of Rockefeller
Plaza, John D. Rockefeller, Jr.,
described his association with the
Fund as a privilege and traced his
interest in the Negro race to his
parents and grandparents.
This interest has been streng-
thened throughout the many years
of my life by association wi b
members Of the Negro race, whom
I have thought of as friends and
fellow workers and for whom I
have high admiration and esteem"
he continued.
Mr.. Rockefeller was introduced
by Frank NJ. lotion, national chair
man of the $1,300,000 campaign.
His speech was broadcast over the
nationwide Columbia Broadcasting
System network that carried the
opening meeting program.
More than $50 Negro and white
guests crowded the main Rainbow
Room and spilled over into the
two adjoining lounges which had
been wired with public address
systems. A colorful flare of Unit
ed Nations flags formed the back
drop for the speakers table. The
Hampton Institute singers pro-
yided the musical emphasis to the
program.
Harvey S. Firestone, Jr., presi-
dent of the Firestone Tire and
Rubber Co., and Andrew w. Rob-
ertson, chairman of the Westing-
house Electric Corporation, and
President Albert w. Dent Of Dill
lard University University, New
Orleans, were the principal speak
ers.
Brief talks endorsing the fund
also were made by Mrs. Chauncey
L. Waddell, daughter of former
Chief Justice Charles Evans Hugh
es and chairman of the Greater
New York Women's Division;
Byrnes Macdonald, chairman of
the Greater New York Committee;
Winthrop Rockefeller, chairman of
arrangements for the meeting. The
Rev. Warren Scott, rector of St.
Phillips Protestant Episcopal
Church, delivered the invocation.
Mr.. Firestone cited education as
the most effective way of engend-
ering the admiration and request
necessary to good race relations.
Higher education, Mr.. Fire
stone said, "has also greatly in
creased the Importance Of the Ne
gro as purchaser OF goods. To-
day it is estimated that Negroes
have total annual income of S.
000,000,000 compared with ST.
5O0,OO0,OO0 forty years ago.
"Our one world thinking has led
to the conclusion that it is import
ant tina tall nations and peoples
should be reasonably prosperous to
assue a prosperous America" Mr..
Robertson said. ''If this is true as
a world wide proposition, how
much truer it is that thirteen mil
lion Negro citizens should pros
per-"
The campaign, which will be
conducted in so principal cities
throughout the country, will as
sist 80 Negro private colleges ex-
pand their physical facilities and
faculties to meet unprecedented
enrollments; extend scholarship,
aid deserving students, purchase
college equipment and provide.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-04-26
Vet Held On
Confession Of
Drivers Death

Columbus, Miss, April % -
Jessie Lee Dickerson, 81 year old
Negro Veteran of World War II,
is being held without bond here
in connection with the death Of
Howard Wallace local White
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-04-26

accident were reported by Hat
tisburg hospital physicians as hav-.
ing good chance to recover.
They are Matthew Brown, T. c.
Everett and Louis Walker.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-04-26
Fire Destroys
'GuIfport High
School

Gulfport, Miss (DSN) Apr.
FL The 33rd Avenue Colored
High School here was completely
destroyed Sunday, April 18th by a
fire, the origin of which has so
far remained undetermined.
The principal of the school is J.
B. Greene.
Glasses of the school are now
being conducted in the recreation
building.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-04-26

out the country will form a coali-
-tion to oppose the bill.
Evening star., 1947-12-12
Patro|man Rams Cal, ,
Ends 115-MiIe Chase
BY the Assoeioted Prsss

KANSAS CITY, Dec. 12.-Five
armed men were captured
here early today after a spectacular
115-mile chase at speeds up to 80
miles an hour across Western Mis-
souri, which ended when a State
highway patrolman rammed their
motor car with his own.
Capt. Otto L. Viets Of the Mis-
souri, Highway Patrol and Kansas
City police Immediately began ques-
tioning the men about a series of
holdups and burglaries in Indiana,
Illinois, Colorado, Missouri and
Kansas. Police said the car they
were driving was stolen at Bloom
ington, Ind, December 6.
The chase began at Warsaw, Mo-,
with two patrolmen in pursuit. In
formed of the chase, the sheritf's
Office here set up road blocks. The
car crashed through the first block.
1t was halted at the second one
when Patrolman Shelby Abney
rammed the fleeing car.
He said the five came out with
drawn guns, but quickly surrendered
when confronted by officers with
riot guns.
Capt. Veits said the men gave
their names as Glenward Marvin
Alvey, %, the driver; Floyde Alvey,
jr., 81, his brother; James Emory
Mosby, %. Charles Floyd Davis, 10,
and Hubert Judge Winchell, 81, all
of Tell City, Ind.
He said Davis was on parole from
the reformatory at Pendleton, Ind,
Evening star., 1947-12-12
Invalid, 20, Trapped by Fire
Rescued by Three Women

and Mrs. Nyman beat on the door
There was no response. The door
was locked.
Another neighbor, Mrs. Alice Mar
tin, TOO Twelfth street Sc, who
takes care OF Mrs. Grinnelsman
hurried up with key and all en-
tered.
They found the invalid lying help
less as the flames moved toward her.
Mrs. Nyman and Mrs. Davis carried
her outside while Mrs. Martin tried
to extinguish the flames. Soon the
Fire Department arrived to save the
home.
Neighbors recalled that Mrs. Ny
mans 13-year-old son Charles dis
tinguished himself last September
by rescuing boy from the Potomac
river.
Evening star., 1947-12-12
|S29,375,o0o Asked
For Reclamation Jobs
BY the Associated Press

President Truman asked Congress
today to appropriate $29, ,375, 900 for
the Reclamation Bureau to enable
it to continue work on four big
Western reclamation projects.
He asked that $11, ,725 900 be ap-
propriated for the Columbia Basin
project in Washington; $1O,70O,0OO
for the Central Valley project in
California; $4,15O,0O0 for the Colo
rado-Big Thompson project in Colo
RADIO and $2,800,00O for the Davis
Dam project in Arizona Nevada.
The President said these addi-
tional amounts are required to per-
NIT continuation of work during the
remainder of the fiscal year, ending
June 80, On existing contracts and
other work underway; to award
small contracts incidental to the
big ones and to permit ordering at
the earliest possible date of three
addit::cc..-l turbines and generating
units for the Wright powerhouse at
Grand Coulee Dam.
The Presidents request was trans
Evening star., 1947-12-12

The quick action Of three neigh
borhood women was credited today
with saving the life of a 70-year -old
invalid, trapped in burning bed.
Flames were eating at the bed OF
Mrs. Minnie Grinnelsman, 10, of 716
Twelfth street Sc, yesterday when
the neighbors, aroused by the smell
Of smoke, rushed to her aid.
Mrs. Grinnelsman is in Casualty
Hospital in serious condition from
smoke inhalation, but not burned.
First to notice the smoke we're
Mrs. John E. Nyman, ITO Twelfth
street Sc, and her sister, Mrs. Alice
Davis of Hillside, Md, who was visit
ing.
When they located the smokes
origin, they hurried to the home
where Mrs. Grinnelsman lives alone,
Evening star., 1947-12-12

nitted to the House Interior De-
partment Appropriations Subcom-
mittee by the Budget Bureau.
The committee was called into q
closed door session today to consider
the request.
The amount asked by the Presi-
dent is approximately $4,000, ,0OO
less than the Reclamation Bureau
has said is necessary to continue
work on the four projects this fiscal
year.
Evening star., 1947-12-12
Ethical Society to Meet

Jerome Nathanson, director of
the John L. Elliott Institute of New
York and a member of the board
Of leaders of the New York Society
for Ethical Culture, will address
the Washington Ethical Society at
1l:l5 am. Sunday in Friendship
House, GIG D street Sc.
Evening star., 1947-12-12
Furboy to Talk on ireland

DR.. John Harvey Furbay, author
and educator, will address the Ma
tional Geographic Society at 8:15
o'clock tonight on THE Spell of
Ireland" His talk will be illus
trated by a color film.
Evening star., 1947-12-12

meeting yesterday at the De Soto
Building, Bethesda, include: Walter
H. Norman, president; Robert C..
Slay, secretary, and Howard M.
Maruuardt. treasurer.
Navy and Marine officers and war;
rant officers who rose from the
ranks are eligible for membership.
Evening star., 1947-12-12
Forum to Heur Dirksen

Representative Dirksen, Republi-
can, Of Illinois will speak on What
Congress is Up Against" at the
meeting Of the Charles Carroll Fo-
rum at 8:15 o'clock tonight in the
Evening star., 1947-12-12
Officers From Ranks
To Form CupituI Post

Organization of a Washington
post of the Association of Naval
Officers from the Ranks has been
announced. Officers elected at
Evening star., 1947-12-12

Tea plants grow from sea level up
to an elevation of about 1000 feet.