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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1947-02-19
PORTLAND SOCIALS

Mrs. Leonard Crosswhite and
her mother, Mrs. Lena Turner,
We're in Seattle this week to at
tend the wedding ON Wednesday.
Feb. 10, of Miss Bernice Russell
of Columbia, Mo. and John Elvis
Anderson. The groom is the son
OF Mrs. Wilson Goodchiles of Sc
attic and the nephew and cousin.
respectively, of Mrs. Turner and
Mrs. Crosswhite. Mr.. Anderson
came down to Portland to join
his bride-to-be enroute to Seattle
They were entertained at a fam
lily dinner by Mr.. and Mrs. Cross
white. The groom, a student of
Lincoln University, is studying
10 be a mortician.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1947-02-19

fast for two table doll setting)
Mrs. Sherman Pickett; fortune
telling. Mrs. la Fuller; conces-
sions from the kitchen, Mesdames
Guy Neal and Jack Martin; pen
ny toss. Messrs Lloyd Flowers
and julie K. Lott; bingo. Mr..
Hamilton. On the door, Mrs. Nick
Banks and Messrs Guy Neal and
VIM. Diez. A large home made
cake was given each mite as
door prize. The committee in
charge, Mrs. Leonard Crosswhite,
chairman. with Mrs. ely Neal,
Mrs. Cora Minor. and Mrs. Elmer
Flowers. is due much praise for
the grand success.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1947-02-19
BROTHERHOOD

If you are old enough to read
and to think, you will be inter-
ested in the observance Feb. 16
to Feb. % of American Brother
boob Week. Suggested by a
Catholic priest, Brotherhood
Week was initiated in 1882 by
the National Conference of Chris
tians and Jews. 1t has as its an
nounced aim ito promote justice,
amity and understanding and CO.
operation among Protestants,
Catholics and Jews in the United
States" In this supposedly en-
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1947-02-19
PROGRESS NOT BASED ON SELF PITY
SAYS INES In ATLANTA ADDRESS

graded as slaves, they are today
alive to the great currents of
world-thinking and action, and
are winning their way not by
aims but by opportunity. He also
made clear that man is not made
fol the ruthless exploitation of
his fellows, and any system built
upon evil and greed must fail.
DR.. lines cited reason, reality
and righteousness as values of life
possible to evedyone who lives on
the highest possible 'avel.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1947-02-19
BOY SCOUT PLEDGE

ITO do my duty to God and
my country, and to obey the
Scout law; to help other people
at all times, to keep myself phys
ically strong, mentally aware and
morally straight"
Few boy scouts who take that
pledge are found in Juvenile
courts.
Errant scouts who break the
pledge and reminded, seldom break
it a second time.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1947-02-19
COLUMBIANS'
OFFICIAL Gets
l2-MONTH TERM

ATLANTA, Ca. Homer l..
Loomis, Jr., secretary of the anti
Negro, anti-Jewish Columbians,
Inc, was convicted last week of
Indictment to riot in a beating of
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1947-02-19

Mr.. and Mrs. John Leftridge
Jr. spent several days last week
in San Francisco. This was Mr..
Leftridge's first trip to the Bay
area and incidently the Sunday
spent there (Feb. 81 was his
birthday.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1947-02-19
FOR RENT

FRONT bedroom ,(upstairs) with
2 beds, kitchen privileges. 81
week. Prefer employed couple
Tor respectable railroad mem
Call evenings. 1888 N. AIbina.
Mrs. j. Nichols.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1947-02-19
WYATT w. WILLIAMS, Broker
FOR SALE

rWO-FAMILY DUPLEX. Home
with income; part furnished /;
clean; quiet neighborhood ;
fireplace downstairs; shown
by appointment; full price -
$1,000, with $4,000 down. See
Mrs. Ruth Flowers, 1906 N. e.
Victoria Ave. AT. 6571, Port
land, Ore. TR. $3.50.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1947-02-19

If you want a good tonic some
time, try this formula for one
full day: Look closely for the
other fellows viewpoint, pass
out some sincere, well-deseryed
compliments, and voice a few
extra shank you's" for little
everyday things usually taken
for granted.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1947-02-19

Every time a man drives a car
he becomes a public servant - and
his sole duty is to protect the
safety and privileges of his fellow
citizens.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1947-02-19

eff had it to do over again" is
phrase that was sharply illus
trated some years ago by a case
in our community. A man, dissat-
isfied with life, robbed his firm of
a large sum of money. For time
he seemed to have everything -
wealth, comfort, power. Then sud-
denly, while still rich in cash, he
knew that he was as poor as any
man on earth. He had lost free
dom, relinquished all peace of mind.
He had lost the things that money
can't buy. When / saw him, just
before he stood trial, he said, eff
/ only had it to do over again."
4 4 T.
Juvenile delinquency begins when
youngsters desert the old corner drug
store in favor Of place where theiT
schemes wont be overheard.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1947-02-19
COzy Inn Dinette

Steak and Chicken A-SpeciaIty
Party Reservations
Minnie Turner Payne
174o NJ. Benton - Phnoe MU-3430
Two blocks north of Broadway
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-06-21
Ala. Sheriff On
Trial For Civil
Rights Violation
MOTHER OF EIGHT
BEATEN AND ARRESTED

Montgomery, Ala, The wife
of Baptist preacher, Mrs. Mar
tina Mcmillan, 35 year old Ne
gro mother of eight young chill
dren, testified in the United
States District Court here Mon
day that she was unlawfully ar
rested in Union Springs, Ada
bama on September 5, 1916, put
in Jail and brutally beaten by
Joseph L. Pickett, Bullock County
Sheriff, and two other white men.
The mother of eight young
children was the chief witness
against Sheriff Pickett, Reynolds
G.. Cook and Vernell Green as
they went to trial here Monday
after investigation by the State
and Federal Law Enforcement
Authorities on charges of con-
sDiracy to violate her civil rights.
Cooks wife's brother in law,
CONNER f. Greene are also
named in the indictment charging
the violation of Civil Liberties.
The mother of eight children
testified that the Sheriff, and the
two other white men entered her
home on the night of September
5, after accusing her of stealing
rings belonging to Mrs. Cook, ar
rested her without warrant,
and took her to jail where she
said that she was kicked in the
mouth by Vernell Green and
brutally beaten before being re-
leased from Jail and taken home
in car driven by CONNER
Green. Later she said Reynolds
Cook and his wife came back to
her home and warned her that
the Sheriff ana the TWO Opler
men might visit her again if the
rings we're not returned to them
in "a hours.
The day following this visit her
husband, Rev. Nal Mcmillan, a
Baptist preacher, went to Mont
gomery to report the incident to
Capt. N. w. Kimbrough of the
State Enforcement Department
which started investigation of the
case.
The four men and the woman
were indicted last February Is
by a Federal Grand Jury.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-06-21
File Suit To Stop
Sale Of Property 10
coIored People

Washington, D. c., July (NNPA
Mrs. Blanche Simpson, $500
Wardner Street, Northwest, bra
ught suit in the District Court
last Friday to enjoin Mr.. and
Mrs. David Postal from selling
their property at 1888 Wardner
Street, Northwest to colored peo-
pie.
In her complaint, Mrs. Simpson
states that on October A, 1880,
property owners on the east and
west sides of Wardner Street,
Northwest, between Princeton and
Quebec Places, entered into a re-
stricted covenant noS to sell, con-
vey, lease, rent or give their pro-
perties to colored persons. The
covenant is to run for period
Of fifty years.
FORMER owners of the proper
ty at 1868 Warder Street, Mr..
and Mrs. Leonard G. Grimes,
signed the agreement, Mrs. Simp-
son AYERS.
The postals have advertised
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-06-21
ave Chapter Voters League Conduct
Citizenship Training Program At
Central Church Monday Night
Movie To Feature
Instructions On
Registering-v Voting

The Local Chapter of the Amer
lean Veterans Committee, a nat
ional organization of Veterans of
World War H., is holding a city
wide citizenship Training Mass
Meeting at Central Methodist CHI
urch, beginning at 7:30 o'clock
Monday Night. The Mass meeting
is being sponsored by the local
chapter of the AVG in conjunction
with the national citizenship train
ing program of the organization.
The State Progressive Voters Lea
que in cooperating in the program
which will include instructions in
how to register and qualify to
vote, the location of precincts and
wards in the city, the recent change
in the Primary Elections Laws
made by the Evtra-Session Of the
State Legislature and how they
will affect the rights of Veterans
and Citizens generally in voting,
and other matters respecting the
rights, duties and responsibilities
of citizenship,
The progra mwill include two
outstanding visual education pis-
lures on voting and citizenship.
These pictures have already been
shown in leading theatres and by
leading organizations throughout
the country and has been endorsed
by the outstanding organizations
and leaders in all walks of life.
The titles of the pictures are
TUESDAY IN NOVEMBER, and
IT'S YOUR AMERICA.
Letters from the Chief of Pol
ice of the City, and the District
Attorney have been received by
the Local AVG Chapter approving
the program. Copies of these let
tiers will be passed out at the meet
ing.
The offivers of the AVG as we'll
as the Voters League have also
contacted the Officers of the At
torney Gneral of Mississippi and
information on the rights Of Vet
Grams to vote in the coming elect
on without payment of poll-tax
will be given at the meeting.
The meeting will alo include a
number of speakers including Mrs
J. R. Chambliss, Mother of a
World War II Veteran, T. P. Will
son, State President, Progressive
Voters League, A. J. Noel, Sec'y.
Local Branch, NAACP, and Percy
Greene, Editor and Publisher of
the Jackson Advocate.
The program will also include a
number of special Musical select
ions. There is no admission for
this program and all Veterans and
citizens are invited and urged to
attend.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-06-21
A. & 7. R0TC
Cadets Begin
Summer Training

Greenboro, n G. = AS part of
their training leading to commits
sions as second lieutenants in the
army reserve corps, % cadets
from the ROTC unit of A. and T.
College at Greensboro, N. c., will
commence a six-weeks period of
ummer training at Fit. Benning,
Ga, this week.
Attendance at a summer camp
session is required of all A. and
T. students enrolled in the advanc-
ed ROTTC course, normally upon
the completion of the initial year
of advanced work, however, since
this years class represents the
first peace-time group of A. and
T. cadets taking advantage of the
summer training under the ROTC
program, senior students are also
in this group of aspfrants for re-
serve officers commissions.
Heading the North Carolina
group is Mapor Edward C. John
son, professor of military science
and tactics at A. and T. At Ft.
Benning he will be assisted by
First 1t. Otis zachary, First Sgt.
Alcus McConduit and Sgt. George
E. McLain.
Cadets beginning training this
week at the Georgia military re-
servation include Herman M. Bur-
ney, Salisbury, N. c.; Harold
HUTCHINSON, Oxford N. c.; James
L. Johnson, Birmingham, Ala;
Thomas B. Jones Jr., Irmo, Sc
NorrisMan, Covington, Va; John
E. Patterson, Ft. Mill, S. c.; Err
nest P. Robinson, Ashville, N. c.;
Thomas C. Hairston Jr., Winston
Salem, N. c.; John W.Tate, Lex
ington, N. c.; Harold L. Aldridge,
La George, N. c.; Charles E. Ben
nett, Wadeshoro, N. G.
Others in the group are Samuel
Clemens, Marven, S. c.; Thomas
Cooper, Jackson, N. c.; Leonard
G. Forbes, Greenville, N. c.;
John A. Hollingsworth, Owego,
N. Y; Malcolm Hunter, Hender-
son, N. c.; John M. jenkins, Mt.
Vernon, N. Y; Horace G. McDon-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-06-21

Washington Immediate Con-
gressional hearings on antilynch-
ing legislation were called for
last Tuesday by the Congress of
Industrial Organizations.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-06-21
Ellender Charge
FEPC Will Lead To
Social Equality
By LOUIS LAUTIER

Washington, d. C. = A clash be-
tween A. Phillip Randolph, presi-
detn of the Brotherhood of Sleep
ing Car Porters and co-chairnan
of the National Council for a Per-
manent Fair Employment Prac-
tice Commission, and Senator AL
len J. Ellender, Democrat, of Lou
isiana, added fireworks to the af-
ternoon session last Wednesday
of the Senate Labor and Public
Welfare subcommittee which is
holding hearings on the Ives-Cha-
vez bill to prohibit race and relig-
ious discrimination is employment.
They FLASHED after heated de-
bate about anthropology, during
which Mr.. Randolph told Senator
Ellender that the Louisiana did
not know him well enough to call
him simply Randolph. Senator
Ellender had addressed the wit
ness several times as Randolph
= in accordance with the custom
of southerners never to call a col
ored man Mister.
Mr.. Randolph objected, and the
committee sustained his objection,
but Senator Ellender did not chan
&c his form of address.
In the bitter exchange of re-
maks, Mr.. Randolph paid his re-
spects to the Louisiana Senator
in no complimentary terms. Sem
ator Ellender demanded that the
remarks be stricken from the re-
cord, but the subcommittee took no
action on his demand.
Senator Ellender contended that
political equality of colored peo-
pie would lead to social equality
and that ocial equality would mean
the degradation of the race.
II don't conider you a qualified
anthropologist', Mr.. Randolph told
Senator Ellender.
In the course of his testimony,
Mr.. Randolph said the Nationa Co
uncil for a PermanentFEPC and
the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car
Porters would oppose the amend
ment Senator H. Alexander Smith,
Republican, of New Jersey, had
suggested to give the States the
fright to nulliy the enforcement
provisions of the bill.
Il should regard it. Mr.. Ran
dolph said, "as a form of legal
lied secession. 1t would give the
South privileged position in our
economy. There would be an out
migration of workers from the
South to those places where they
would have protection in their
will do that Senator Ellender re-
marked. "There is no stopping. I
work. 1t would deprive the South
of the type of labor which helped
build the South
know colored people are ging to
When hearings were resumed
last Thursday morning, Senator
Smith said that headlines in the
morning papers indicated that
newsnen had misunderstood his
suggested same pools, be buried
in the same cemeteries what eff
feet do your think that would have
in causing intermarriage of peo-
pie ?"
''That is our trouble in the Sou
tn Senator Ellender added, "and
you people do not seem to under
stand it,
Mr.. Kovner told Senator Ellen
der that he respected his position
and was not trying to change it.
"The law you are advocating
CONTINUED on Page p
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-06-21
Rabbi Raises Tabooed Question Of Illegal
White Negro Social Relations in South
Call For Immediate
Hearing On
Anti-Lyneh Bill

Washington - Immediate Con-
gressional hearings on antilynch-
ing legislation were called for
last Tuesday by the Congress of
Industrial Organizations.
James B. Carey, secretary-tre-
asurer of the CIO and head of
the CIO Committee to Abolish Dis
elimination, sent the request to
Senator Alexander Wiley, of Wis
consin chairman of the Senate Ju-
dietary Committee, and Repre-
sentative Earl c. Kitchener, Of
Michigan, chairman of the Houe
Judiciary committee.
Hearings were asked for on the
bills in trodacted by Senators Rob
ert B. Wagner, Democrat, of New
York, and Wayne Morse, Repub-
lican, of Oregon, and Represen-
tative Clifford P. Case Republi-
can, of New Jersey. These are
companion measures and are sup
ported by the National Associat-
ion for the Advancement of Col
ored People.
The text of Mr.. Carey's tele-
gram to Senator Wiley follows:
"The nation and the world were
shocked at the verdict in the So.
Carolina iynching trial. If more
proof were needed, this verdict
proves that state laws are made
quate to- protect citizens from
mobs and inadequate to punish
fynchers.
"The Congress of Industrial Or
ganization believes your commit
tee has a clear mandate, in view
of the history of the crime of
lynching, to approve federal leg
islation against denial of simple
justice.
"We therefore, strongly re-
commend that hearings be sched-
uled Immediately on the Wagner
and Morse bill, S. 1852, in order
that adequate legislation may be
secured during this session of Con-
gress 20 act as a deterrent TO
those who insist upon taking the
law into their own hands rather
than accept due process of law
The Wagner Morse bill would
make lynching felony punish
anle i,y a fine OIL not more rnan
$4,000 or by imprisonment of not
more than twenty years, or bo-h.
State and itunty officers, VINO
failed to make dlligent efforts |,
protect a perscn from lynchiEg
upon conviction would be subject
to fine of net more than $1,000
or imprisonment of not more than
five years, or beth.
TIE c. unity In which a lynch
ing occ1rs would be liable in civ
IL damages to the next of kin e
the victim CT a lynching or to
the victim of n,tb violence, e he
is not pU. to Death, in civil dam
ages of from e 900 to $4,000.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-06-21
Mayor Takes Negro
Charged With Rape
From Alabama Mob

Hurtsboro, Ala - Jimmy Harris,
10, who at noon last Tuesday was
standing with a rope around his
neck under a tree in front of a
house where he had been found
with a screaming white woman, is
awe and unframed in the state
prison at Montgomery.
His escape from lynching was
repeatedly due to the determined
action of Mayor Hugh Vann and
other white men.
Sheriff Ralph Mathews Of Rus
sci County said Mayor Vann and
the three volunteer assistants push
ed their way through a white mob
surrounding Harris and took the
rope from Harris neck.
They then placed Harris in an
automobile while the mayor adj
dressed the mob, made up for the
most part of neighbors of the wo-
man who had been attacked by
Harris at her home. The mayor
appealed to them to let the law
take it's course and succeeded in
geeting them Gained down to a
point where he was able to enter
the automobile with Harris and
drive away.
Mayor Vann halted briefly at
the Hurtsboro police station where
he made arrangements for an Of
ficer to notify Sheriff Mathews
at Phenix City, the county seat
thirty miles southeast. The mayor
then started driving toward Phen-
Xix City and at Scale, Alabama,
eighteen miles south, met the sh-
eriff and squad cd deputies.
The sheriff said he took Harris
to Phenix City and lodged him in
the county Jail there but decided
after hearing details of the alleg-
ed attempted rape that Harris
might not be safe there. He then
took Harris to Montgomery, where
Harris was placed in a cell in Kill
by prison.
The sheriff said Harris entered
the home of middle aged woman
shortly hebore noon last Tuesday.
The woman, who was alone in the
house, screamed. Rufus Streetman,
her next door neighbor, heard the
screams and rushed to her assis-
lance.
Streetman said he opened the
door of the woman's home and
found Harris with an arm around
the woman's neck.
A crowd collected quickly in the
woman's front yard as Streetman
rushed in and grappled with the
intruder. Several men came to
Steetman's help and Harris was
carried struggling out of the house.
A call was made for village pol
ice officers but the crowd in front
of the home increased rapidly, the
sheriff said, and some one pro-
duced rope before police reached
the scene. Mayor Vann drove up in
an automobile to see Harris with
a moose around his neck and lead
ers in the mob surveying neigh
borhaad trees looking for an ade-
Guate branch.
The sheriff said the woman was
not raped. He said Harris admitted
after his rescue that he had rap
ed woman in New York year
ago.
Mayor Vann said he recognized
members of the crowd but he did
not think charges would be placed
against them.
aid. SWannOnOa. N. c.: Willie III. |
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-06-21
u. S. EDUCATED CHINESE
BECOME CHINAS LIBERALS

New York, (Giobal( Chih
Meng, director of Gina Institute
in America at 125 East 65th st.
told the press last week that Chi
csc students educated in the US.
s. had become "the dynamic core
of liberalism and democracy" in
their homeland.
DIR. Ming said 10000 Chinese
ahd been graduated from Amer
lean universities since 1947. Many
of them are leaders in China to-
day, he added.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-06-21

aid, Swannonoa, N. c.; Willie H.
Taylor, Hookerton, N. c.; Sandy
A. Johnson, Littleton, N. c.; Rob-
ert M. Lee, Birmingham Ala;
Cornelius A. Woods of Birning-
ham, Ala.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-06-21
ELLEMDER CLASH over
Use OF MISTER F.E.Pc. HEARINGS
So. Conference For
Human Welfare
Defended


Foreman, president of the South
ern Conference for Human Well
fare, last Saturday termed the
report of the House Un-American
Activitise Committee on his organ
izati no" a dull re-hash of pre-
viously discredited material.
The report, released for publ
cation last Saturday, branded the
Conference as a Communistic-
front organization. 1t charged
that "the common bond among
its supporters is a certain degree
of sympathy for the Soviet Union
and or the Comnnunistic party,
rather than any primary interest
in human welfare in the South"
The report also charged "the
professed interest in southern
welfare is simply an exledient for
larger aims serving the Soviet
Union and it's subservient Com
munist Party in the United States.
DR.. Foreman said that careful
perusaF' of the report did not
reveal "the one new fact" which
Representative J. Parnell Thomas
of New Jersey, committee chair
man, said would be in it. He add
er that the report had been hasti-
~ compiled for political reasons.
DIR. Foreman revealed that he
has conferred with Arthur Gar
field Hayes, president of the Am
ericna Civil Liberties Union, a
bout plans to condust a large
scale, impartial investigation of
un4American activities in the
South.
The Southern Conference, he
revealed, has offered to be the
first group to be investigated. DIR.
Foreman said he would be de-
lighted to have Mr.. Thomas and
other members of the House I'M
American Activities Committee to
appear and present their evidence
at public hearings.
After the investigation Of the
Conference, plans call for the in
vestigation Of other organizations
suspected of un-American activ-
tiles, including the Ku Klux Klan,
the Columbians, Mr.. Thomas and
the House Un-American Activities
Committee.
In no case, it was said, would
anybody be investigated without
public hearings.
DR.. Foreman said the public
should know that the committees
report was prepared without tes-
timony from any officer of the
Conference.
"We will be glad to cooperate
with any Congressional Commit
tee in its efforts to uncover I'M
American activities in the South"
DR.. Foreman said. There is plen-
ty of it there but not in our or
ganization."
The committee report charged
that Public records fail to reveal
that the conference has ever Of
ficially denounced Communism
or opposed Soviet policies"
From an examination of the of
ficial publication of the Confer
encee and its activities but with
out holding hearings and giving
officers ON opportunity to ans
wer allegations, the House I'm
American Activities Committee
said the Conference actually is
being used in devious ways to
further basic Soviet and Com
munistic policy" adding that key
posts care i'm most instances con-
trolled by persons whose record
is faithful ot the line of the Com
munistic party and the Soviet I'm
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