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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-10-11
600 Negroes Vote
In Lagrange Ga.

LAGRANGE, Ca, (NNPA) - In
a municipal election last Wednes-
day colored voters cast 600 of the
approximately 5,400 votes cast.
The Progressive CT Party, won
the mayoralty Office by fifty-eight
votes. Duke Davis, the CT candi-
date, defeated Judson j. Milan,
administration supported candi-
date, by 1857 to 1850.
The GI's also won one place in
the City Council, electing G. L.
Wood over Alaude Daniel by 2,762
votes to 2,442. The other two plac-
es were won by administration
backed candidates, Raymond Fort
and Hudson Maddox.
Both groups campaigned on
primises of municipal improve
ments. The CT party is pledged
to reorganize the police depart
ment and the fire, and the fire
chief, J. e. Matthews, who has
held office for numebr OF years
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-10-11
some pick handles.

some pick handles.
County police Chief Henderson
is alleged to have driven to Brun-
swick, sixteen miles away, and got
a submachine gun. The warden is
alleged to have drawn his gun
and gone into the crowd of pris-
oners to bring out Peewee and to
have rdered the guards to '1et 'em
have it,
The warden denied this version,
saying that he shot Bell in the
leg when the latter charged from
tie group of convicts in the stock
ade and tried to disarm him.
It was the shooting of Bell that
precipitated the mass escape at
tempt, the warden said.
Conviction under the federal
civil rights statute under which the
warden and guards are accused
carries a penalty of $1,000 fine
or one year in prison, or both.
The Glynn County camp, opera
ted by the State Highway Depart
ment, has been closed since the
shooting.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-10-11
AIabamians Moved
10 Combat Denial
OF Citizenship
Right

Montgomery, Ala ~ Proposals
to combat voting laws aimed at
DISTINGUISHING colored people, to
compel admission Of colored stud
ents to state supported colleges,
and to end race discrimination in
public transportation swere made
here last Friday
The proposals were advanced at
the opening of three-day confer
ence of the Alabama Conference
of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People.
The chief business before the
conference was ways and means of
attacking the Boswell amendment
designed to limit the registration
OF colored voters through an edu-
cational test giving registrars the
authority to require an applicant
to read and interpret to his sat
isfaction any section of the federal
rstate constitution.
After outlining program to
nullify the Boswell amendment,
Emory Jackson, president of the
conference and editor of the Bir-
mingham World, suggested the fol-
lowing additional steps:
1. At least one and perhaps five
court suits be filed to compel the
admission of colored students to
the University of Alabama and AL
ALBANIA Polytechnic Institute.
2. An equally determined cam
paign be undertaken to end race
discrimination on railroad ad bus
lines, taking the matter into court
if necessary.
Mr.. Jackson presented his re-
concentrations to the executive
committee of the Alabama Con-
ference of the NAACP and said
he would ask full conference to
approve them.
He also proposed that fund
of $4,000 be raised to finance a
suit involving the legality of the
Boswell amendment.
The national office of the Ma
ACP, he said, has the answer to
the Boswell amendment. All we
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-10-11
ACL Back Fight On
Memphis Censor

New York, (NNPA) - The
American Civil Liberties Union of
fered last Sunday in a letter to
Eric Johnston, president of the
Motion Picture Association of A
merica, to support him in an i'm
mediate court test of the ban i'm
posed against the Hal Roach pro-
duction "Curley" by Lloyd T. Bin
ford, censor at Memphis.
Mr.. Binford banned the showing
of the picture in the Tennessee
city because it contains scenes
showing white and colored child
rem playing together.
We shall be glad to- participate
in action to challenge the consti-
tutionality of Binford's ruling,
the Union stated in it's letter. The
letter was signed by Elmer Rice,
chairman of the unions National
Council on Freedom from Censor
ship.
Local 1899, of the Screen office
and Professional Employees Guild
a Congress of Industrial Organi-
cations affiliate, also pledged to
support Mr.. Johnson in any more
action he may take in the matter,
in a letter addressed to him by
Sidney Young, president of the
guild. The guild also called for
he employment of more colored
persons in the Motion picture in
dustry.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-10-11
INVESTMENTS CITED

After pointing to the large in
vestments in southern colleges for
Negroes both by private interests
and by increasing appropriations
from state legislatures, as well as
calling attention to the fact that
the southern states have clauses in
heir constitution establishing the
separate but equar' doctrine
which has been upheld by the U.
S. Supreme court Wesley contin-
ues that segregation will not be
removed within generation at
least.
eve hold" writes Wesley, THAT
where it may be effective and
proper to file for equality on the
elementary, high school and coll
eye levels today. Negroes should
take advantage of the provisions
for equality, by insisting that If
the white want segregation, then
they must made the separate Sc
hools equal"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-10-11
need is the money.

need is the money.
He said the battle for reglstrat-
ion of colored voters would pc
the housekeeping campaign ever
undertaken to Alabama and that
the initial litigation would be filed
in State courts, carrying the tlgnt
70 the United States Supreme
Court if need be.
lust what the formula for at
lacking the Boswell amendment
will be. Mr.. Jackson did not dis
close, but he said it might be
brought out during the conference.
Mr.. Jackson said the proposed
campaign would be primarily a
NAACP affair, but he invited lab
or, religious and fraternal organ
izations of both races to join. He
suggested that white person be
named as co-director of the fund
raising drive.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-10-11
10 Million Spent
Negro Gets 10000

Washington D. c. N(NNPA)-
Of Ss1O,214,174 awarded for basic
medical research by the United
States Public health Service, in
the past tweny months, only $40,
385 went to colored institutions
it was disclosed by report re-
leased last Friday by the Federal
Security Agency.
The report showed that the Pub
lie Health Service had awarded
grants to 629 scientists in 1913 in
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-10-11
Greenwood Hi Use
Leagion Field

Greenwood, Miss, Oct - (Spec-
iaD - Arrangements have been
made by, the Greenwood Baseball
company with the Greenwood Dod-
gers, who have the local legion
Field under contract, to lend the
use Of the field to the colored high
school for the purpose of playing
their regular football games this
season.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-10-11
CHAIRMAN RICE Name COMMIT
Tees FOR NEGRO DIVISION
Community CHEST drive
Earl Banks Co. Chairmna
Division Goal $4,000

Following a series of prelimin-
airy meetings concluded last week
Rev. A. l.. Rice, pastor of Mount
Helm Baptist Church, and Cen
eral Chairman of the Negro Divis--
ion of the 1947 Community Chest
Drive announced that his organiza-
ton was ready fer its task of rails
ing $6,000.O0, set as the goal for
the Negro division. The chairman
said that increase services for
Negroes through the Community
Chest agency including family SER
vice, boy scout, girl scout, YWCA
and INCA calls for an increasing
amount of support from Negro
citizens and express the opinion
that in the assertion of a newly
found civic and community sense
Of responsibility the division ex-
pected to find little difficulty
in reaching the $6,OOO.OO goal.
In announcing the completion of
the organization, Chairman Rice
annouced the appointment of the
following committees: E. ".
Banks, Assistant Chairman, B. B.
Dansy. W. j. Stewart, S. L. AL
len, L. J. Marshall, Father A. Bux-
ton Keeling, II. L. Denton, W. J.
Stewart, Jr., Clarence Evans, viii
lard Johnson, DR.. o. F. Smith, Ed
ward Lee, DR.. G. R. Price and w.
j. Miller.
Territorial Committees: Mrs.
Ruth Sanders, Chairman. Section
I Under the Hill, Mrs. Willitt Don
aldson. Section II South Jackson,
North Pearl street East-South w.
Street, South - City Limits, West
Gallatin Street, Miss Maude
Brown. Section LII Washington
Addition North y & NJ. V. RR,
East - Poindexter & 81 H. w,
South - 80 Highway Miss Pecola
Haley. Section w Taylor's Addit-
ion, North = Robinson street,
East EastYiew Street, South -
Y. & M. v. RR, West = City Linn
its Mrs. Grover Washington. Sect
ion V North West section MIS-.
Minnie Burkes. Section VI George
town North = Highway 40, East
Highway 40, South - Woodrow
Wilson street, West - Jackson
Airport Mrs. Annie Mae Miller.
Secion VII Virden Addition Mrs.
Osborne. Section VIII Prosperity
section Mrs. Edno Whiting. Sect
ion X North Jackson No 1 North
Adell street, East - Grayson
street, South - Fertilization street
West Mill street, Mrs. Annie
Mae Williems. Section X North
Jackson No. North = Fortifi-
cation street, East = Grayson ST.,
South Monument street, West
Mill street; Mrs. A. B. Hopkins.
Section XI North Jackson No. 3
North Monument street, East
- Grayson street, South - Church
street, Vest Mill street Mrs. D.
Comic. Section XII Central Jack
son, North Church street, East
Grayson street, South - Crit
fin street, West = Mill street, Mrs.
Lille King. Section XIII West
Jackson No. 1 North - Woodrow
Wilson street, East - RR Avenue,
South Fertilization street, West
Bailey Avenue, Mrs. L. F.
Bailey. Section XIV West Jackson
Nc. 2 North - Fertilization street,
East ICRR, South - ICRR,
West = Bailey Avenue, Miss D.
H. Hoard. Section XIV West Jack
son No. North - w. Wilson ST.,
East Bailey Avenue, South -
Ash Street, West = City Limits,
Mrs. L. Randall. Mrs. Miles and
Mrs. Bently.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-10-11
Warden and Four
Guards Tried For
Staying Of Negros
INDICTMENTS CHARGE VI
OLATION OF FEDERAL CIV
IL RIGHTS LAW

Savannah, Ga, (NNPA) = A
federal grand jury last Wednes-
adv indicted the warden and four
white guards at a Georgia high
way prison CAMP in Glynn Coun-
ty, Near Brunswick, Georgia,
wheer eight colored convicts were
massacred last July II.
The indictment charges all five
men, under the federal civil rights
statutes, with depriving the eight
murdered prisoners of their life
without due process of law.
1t specifically accuses them OF
deprvlng the dead convicts of their
constitutional right to be secure
in their prison while in the Gus
tody of the State of Georgia, and
to be immune from illegal attack
at the hands of officers and en-
ployees of the state of Georgia
while in custody, and not to be
subjected to punishment without
due process OF law, or deprived OF
lief without due process of law.
The Indictment charges that the
warden and guards fired shotguns
wontonly, unnecessarily. and with
out jusa cause at the eight pris-
oners who were killed and two 9TH
ers who were wounded for the
purpose of imposing Illegal sum-
mary punishment.
A state superior Court grand
jury previously exonerated the
warden, H. G. Worthy and the
guards. 1t returned a special re-
port in which it reported that the
evidence showed the warden and
the guards were justified in their
action under the circumstances.
Named with Worthy in the fed
eral Indictment last Wednesday
were guards Guy McNabb, Remer
Bazemore, H. l.. Holmes, and w.
C. Lawler.
One version of the killing was
that the warden and guards open
ed fire with shotguns when even
ty-seven prisoners. who had re-
fused to work on the road project
attempted to escape from the
stockade. Five prisoners were Kill
led instantly and three died later
in hospital.
The prisoners themselves, dem
led this version. They said they
had not engaged in sit down
strike, but had refused to go into
a rattle-snake infested swamp
without boots. Uuder only two
guards, the prisoners returned to
the stockade.
The prisoners said the warden
first ordered five men to step out
but they refused to do SO when
they saw he was Keeling drunk.
AT the inquest, Charles Veal, a
convict, testified that the warden
ordered Willie (Pee Wee) Ball to
come out so he could kill him. The
prisoners said when Bell refused
to step out, the warden sent for
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-10-11

situations in the period from jan
uary /, 1916, to September Is,
last.
The Howard University Medical
School and Meharry Medical Col
lege were the only colored schools
to participate in the program.
Howard received 81. "a and Me-
harry S15,701.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-10-11
EcumenicaI Con-
ference Race
Statement made
quate =

Springfield, Mass. (NNPA) -
Bishop w. j. Walls, of Chicago, a
delegate from the African Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, last Thur
sday protested to the Ecumencial
Methodist Conference that its
draft of a statement on race rela-
tions was inadequate.
The statement was contained in
a mesoge to the Methodists of the
world, which was drafted by DR..
Edmund D. Soper of Evanston, Ill.
and DR.. Harold Roberts of Surrey
England, and will be distributed
to the congregations of the con-
stituent bodeis.
To compete with organizations
and the Roman Catholic Church
for the souls of minorities in this
country and the world, Bisop Wall
declared, the conference should
specifically condemn such exam
pies of racial intolerance as lyn-
ching and the failure of Meth
odist preachers to condemn lyn-
ching from their pulpit.
The same conditions potentially
exist in this country, Bishop Walls
said, which existed and led to ma
tional socialism in Germany.
Racial intolerance in the Uni
ted States, he said, is icreasing,
not decreasing, and a vigorous
stand should be taken by the con-
ference.
The coference adopted the orr
ginal draft of the message, with
the agreement that in formulat-
ing the final text the co-authors
would take cognizance of Bishop
Wallis remarks.
The paragraphs of the message
dealing with race relations said:
We in the conference have been
brought face to face with the pro-
blem of the races. In the confer
ence itself, there was no discrim-
nation; black or white, Indian or
Chinese met together with no
sense of incongruity.
But that condition does not ex-
tend to the citizens from which
many of the delegates came. That
is no issue which is facing the
Methodists todary more menacing
than that of the race problem
which has raised its ugly head
so widely that it has become a
world issue.
We are all guilty before God.
Hold can we claim to be Metho-
dists, not to speak of being Christ
ians, with our cherished doctrine
of a universal atonement when we
turn aside and treat our Negro
brother almost as if he were am
outsider. We do not minimize the
difficulties: we recognize that we
are in the after math of the mas
ter slave condition, and yet, with
all that, we acknowledge and urge
upon all our fellow Methodists
to realize that this problem is
pressing upon us as never before.
We cannot sit supinely by and
take our cue from the more or less
worldly communities in which we
live and do nothing.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-10-11
CARTER WESLEY AND THURW00D
MARSHALL Chief kAACP COUNSEL
CLASH ON SEPARATE SCHOOL
ISSUE !.
Citing US. Supreme Court Wesley Says
Negroes Should Insist Separate School
Be Made Equal

Houston - October (SpeclaD
- Carter Wesley, editor and pub
Usher of the Houston Informer,
took issue with Atty Thurgood
Marshall, chief counsel for the N
AACP again last week on the
question of indignation VS.. equal
led segregation in the schools or
the South. Wesley charged in the
issue of September % that Mar
shall's insistence upon complete
indignation of Negro students in
white schools at all levels is, for
the next 20 years at least, "un-
sound and unrealistic.'
Wesley also answered Marshall $
charges that he-is an "apologist'
for the existing segregated pattern
in the south.
Said Wesley, "Thurgood knows
that I am no apologist for segre-
cation, and that I believe as streng
" as he and the NAACP that there
is no such thing as separate but
equal. He knows that I know that
the South cannot afford dual
system of education, particularly
if it is forced to equaliZe them.
He knows that our difference is
on the matter of thebestangleof
attack. rather than on the need for
the attack"
Evening star., 1947-05-22
Husband Leads Police
To Wife Who Killed
Rival in Brooklyn
By the Associated Pres.

NEW YORK, May 22.-An at
tractive mother of two children was
slain with a blast of five shots yes
terday, police said, by an irate
housewife, who was pointed out to
authorities as the slayer by her own
husband.
Mrs. Philomina Scavone, Al, the
92-pound housewife, and Mrs. Mar
garet Jannazzo, 81, the victim, once
had been close friends, police said.
However, they added, Mrs. Sea-
vone recently had accused Mrs. jan
nazzo of running around" with her
husband, Rocco Scavone, 38, and he
had been named as correspondent
in a divorce suit fled by the slain
woman's husband, Anthony jan
nazzo, SO.
Police said witnesses told them
the two women engaged in heated
argument on busy Brooklyn corner
as Mrs. Jannazzo was going to work
and that Mrs. Scavone finally chased
the other woman half block,
trapped her In hallway and fired
the shots into Mrs. Jannazzo's chest.
Il killed her." police quoted Mrs.
Scayone as saying. I'm glad of 1t.
I'm q free woman and I'm happy
now. I told her to keep away from
my husband and she wouldn't.
Then I took things into my own
hands. I don't have to worry any
more"
Charges Of homicide and Illegal
possession Of a weapon were filed
against Mrs. Scavone, herself the
mother Of three children. .l n,'n
Evening star., 1947-05-22
Sparkman Sees IVA Aiding
South in Federal Bar Talk

The Tennessee Valley Authority
probably will help to bring about a
better balance between agriculture
and industry in the South, Senator
Sparkman, Democrat, of Alabama
told the Federal Bar Association OF
Washington yesterday.
Senator Sparkman reviewed the
progress the South has made in
agriculture, farm living and work.
ing conditions, forestry and educa-
ton.
"All are issues which must be
solved largely by the South" he as
serted, but which in the final
analysis are national in scope and
of national concern"
Federal aid to education will be
necessary, the Alabaman said. to
equalize educational opportunities.
With about IA per cent of the Ma
tion's children, the rural South has
only 2 per cent of the Nations in
come, he explained.
Harold Lee, national president of
Evening star., 1947-05-22
Congress Library Sets Up
Emp!oYe Loyalty Program

The Library of Congress has an
nounced issuance of a general order
setting up an employe loyalty pro-
gram which stresses every safeguard
against violation Of civil rights.
A recent order from Luther H.
Evans, Librarian of Congress, ex-
planned that while the executive
order regarding loyalty "does not
extend to the legislative branch, 1t
is welcomed by the librarian admin
istration." s,..,5
The library plans to call upon the
FBI and the Civil Service Commis-
sion in connection with the pro-
gram. So far no cases of allegeduts-
loyalty have been brought before
the loyalty board.
The board is composed Of three
library officials: Werner w. Clapp,
chief assistant librarian, chair
man; David G. Mearns, director OF
the reference department, and Her
man H. Henkle, director of the proc
essing department.
Evening star., 1947-05-22
Six Slightly Hurt as Autos
Collide and 0verturn

Six persons escaped serious injury
early last night when two cars coll
lided and overturned on the Wash
ington Baltimore boulevard at
Beltsville. according to Maryland
State police at Waterloo.
Police said one of the two cars
side -swiped the other. No charges
were placed against either driver
Immediately, police said.
The six persons injured were
treated at Leland Memorial Hos
pital.
Four sailors who were occupants
of one car were identified as James
D. Whiteside, Is, Shelbyville, Tenn. /;
Frank S. Kiles, %, Chicago; Albert
E. Martin, 10, Monticello, Ark; and
Michaelangelo Tacoma, l8, Provi-
dence, r. I. ALI were treated for
minor injuries at Leland and later
transferred to the Naval Hospital
at Bethesda, police said. All are
stationed at Bainbridge, Md.
Occupants of the second vehicle,
a taxicab. were listed as Richard
Gorney, College Park, Md. who po-
lice said was driving the taxi, and
Richard Nokes, 20, East Riverdale,
Md
Evening star., 1947-05-22
Clearing Skies Expected
After Niqhf Downpours

Clearing skies were promised for
today by the Weather Bureau after
heavy downpours last night and
early this morning.
A total of IL inches Of rain was
recorded in the 24-hour period end
ing at 7::30 o'clock this morning. A
total of 2.94 inches have fallen so
far this month, which is about aver
age, the bureau said. The average
for the month for the past so years,
is $40 inches.
The rain came in two heavy down.
pours. The first began at 1890
o'clock last night and lasted 80
minutes. The other occurred at $50
am. before most Washingtonians
were out of bed and continued until
7 am.
The Police and Fire Departments
reported no unusual damage other
than broken tree branches, one
fallen tree and several broken power
lines. A number of low-lying inter-
sections were flooded, but the water
soon drained off.
Evening star., 1947-05-22
Honduras Bans Livestock

Honduras has prohibited impor-
tation of all livestock, to avoid hoof-
and-mouth disease being brought
into the country, and ordered all
infected animals killed and burned,
along with their stables.
Evening star., 1947-05-22

Singapore will compel all business
to register anew. japanese having
mutilated the old registers during
their occupation. n