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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-16
Teen-Age Valentine
Party Held AT Center

The Teen-Age club at the Corne-
Illus Harnett Recreation center Fri
day night crowned their King and
Queen Of Valentine" at a gala cele-
bration of St. Valentines Day.
The party was held in the club
rooms, which had been beautifully
decorated with pastel colors ard
Valentine posters and backgrounds.
Louise Clark Jack Bishop and
Mrs. Mary Bessellieu director,
served as the decorating commit
tee.
The group played games before
refreshments re served; then
Peggy Grimsley and Jack Bishop
were crowned king and Queen Of
Valentine". After the coronation, a
Valentine Box was opened, and
each teen-age guest received greet
ings from the others.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-16
USE ABSENICAL SPRAY OR
DUST FOR WORMS

MRS. -. u. f., OF Miami, Fla,
writes: MY bougainvillia has
green worms, rather flat, about
an inch long, that eats the leaves
and flowers from the ends of the
branches. I've killed as many as
1 can find, but the vine is large
and l can't reach near half of it.
What shall I do to destroy these
WormS?"
Dust or spray the vine with an
arsenical poison such as arsenate
of lead, being sure that the poison
gets on the parts that the worms
r actually eating. They are
chewing insects and will take in
the poison along with the food and
will be poisoned. The two inesecti-
cidal preparations you mention are
not to be used on plants with safe
ty. I have heard of the first being
successful on beans against the
bean beetle, but it was used in
a very dilute solution and only the
minutest quantity put on in a fine
mist in the air about the plants.
Neither is safe to use on plants.
The butterflies you see about the
bush may be laying eggs to hatch
into other broods of worms that
will eat the leaves and flowers.
Spray or dust again with the stom-
ach poison if the trouble starts
again. Massey dust is good for this
also. 1t is a mixture of fine dust
ing sulphur and arsenate of lead.
Either spray or dust will be some
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-16

what difficult to get On all parts
of a large vine where the worms
are eating.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-16
Baldwin Jones Vows
S~olemnized In Civ

K. B: Jones of Kenansville, an.
nounces the marriage of his niece
Virginia Jones, Of Kenansville and
Wilmington, to John w. Baldwin
son of Mr.. and Mrs. H. G.. Bald
win of Thomasville.
Mr.. and Mrs. Baldwin were
married on February l by the Rev
E. w. Pate of Calvary Bantist
church of Wilmington.
They are making their home in
the city.
Poison ivy leaves differ areatlv
in shape, but they're always .ono
posed of three leaflets.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-16

son and your plants sbor,s
and bloom we'll and be , 1,
joy and pride. 81
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-04-19
FLORIDA STATE REPRESEN-
TATIVE AGAINST WHITE
PRIMARY

Jacksonville, Fla.-State Repre-
sentative, Bourke Floyd of Frank
lin County, West Florida, hotbed
of negro prejudice and racial dis
elimination, states that he will
vigorously oppose the White Pri-
mary Bill soon to he presented to
the Florida State Legislature at
Tallahassee by state Senator John
Matthews, of Jacksonville, Duval
County.
Mr.. Floyd declared that "any
move or method to circumvent con
stitutional guarantees is and
should be repulsive to conscien-
tous citizens. This white primary
proposal to deprive the negro OF
his right to vote is an old mistake
that sits awkwardly on the Shout
ders of our southland, and it is
high time that we rid ourselves
Of such hypocracy and stand forth
boldly for constitutional govern
ment." This is welcome language
from a representative from West
Florida, where until recently, most
candidates were elected on a plat
form of race hatred.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-04-19
Howard BaIks at
COP Kansas CITY
Meeting

Washington, d. c. Apr. (NNPA)
- Perry w. Howard Republican
national committeeman for Miss
issippi, has baked at attending
the meeting of the Republican ma
tional committee to be held in
Kansas City, April 81.
In a letter to Edward Bacher,
business executive of the Repub-
lican national committee, Mr.. Ho-
ward said he would not extend
tn meeting because kansas City
is strictly Jim Grow town."
81 regret exceedingly, so far as
colored Republican voters are con-
cerned," Mr.. Howard wrote, that
some other western city like St.
Louis, Topeka, Kansas, or Kansas
ity, Kansas, could not have been
selected
K He said the meeting is to be
UGlu III uLeM u61uUdCh I1OtCl WACI z
accommodation are not open to
the entire committee without re-
gard to racial Identity and added
that in 1928, when the Republican
national convention was held in
Kansas City, the Muelhback Hotel
did not allow colored persons to
ride it's passenger elevators and
said that as far as ne knows the
same thing is still true of it.
IF I appeared there as a mem
Der of the committee and was Sc
gregated, and if colored Republi-
cans were insu1ted by the hotel
management with respect to the
elevators and other facilities" Mr..
Howard said, II would be ridiculed
and castiated, alon with the Nat
ional committee, by the Negro
press as we'll as Nekro civil rights
organizations of this country.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-04-19
Hearing In The
Willie Francis
Case Is Set

Jackson, Miss, (DSN) - In a
letter written April 8 to the Jack
son Advocate from his cell in the
Parish Jail at eNw Iberia, La,
Willie Francis, condemned 70. a
second trip to the electric chair,
advises that the hearing for his
case has been set for April Is.
In his letter, he stated: IT am
having a hard time answering all
the people who want to know a.
bout what happened to mp case.
"The date of the hearing was
changed and now my lawyer, Mr..
Bertrand DeBlanc of Lafayette. La,
told me that the hearing before the
Pardon Board in New Orleans, La,
will be on April Is. He is asking
that my sentence be changed from
death to life in prison.
THANK you, sir, for your In
terest in my case"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-04-19
INTERRACIAL GROUPS ORGAN
IZE AT TAMPA UNIVERSITY

Tampa, Fla. Tampa University
white college of that Gulf City,
was the scene recently Of 80 or
ganizations and four colleges to
organize and apply for a state
charter to formulate the Florida
League for Intellectual Coopera-
ton. Representatives were negro
and white from religious educa-
tional, and civic groups. DR.. E..
C. Nance, president of the Uni
versity of Tampa, was elected
president of the new organization.
While Mr.. G.. D. Rogers, negro
was named vice-president. Mr..
Rogers is the son of Mr.. G. D..
Rogers, president of the strong
Central Life Insurance Co. 1t is
hoped that this new venture will
have for reaching results for the
betterment Of both racial groups.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-04-19
State Doctors
Meeting Here
Next Week

The State Medical, Dental, Phar'
maceutical and Ladies. Auxiliary
Groups will meet in Jackson April
%, % and "a, 1947. The public
meeting vii be held at Central
Methodist Church on Wednesday
April %, at 500 pm. Citizens
are cordially invited to attend
this meeting.
At this meeting, national and
local speakers will present to the
public modern advances in med
icine and allied sciences. Among
the speakers will be DR.. William
H. Thompson Of Chicago, DR.
Riley Thomas and DR.. Ira Nc
Cowan of Washington, Mr.. Chas.
Bynum of the National Founda-
ton of Infantile Paralysis Of New
York City and DR.. c. J.. Barnes
local dentist.
Music will be In charge Of Mrs.
Jas. Gooden.
The presidents of the state pro-
fessional groups include: Mr.. A.
C. Flemmings, Meridian, pharma-
cist; Mrs. R. e. Woodruff, Aber-
deem, Ladies Auxiliary; DR.. o. f.
Smith, Jackson, Dentists; and DR..
w. e. Miller, Jackson, Physicians.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-04-19
Youth To Die For Arme.s' Robbery
Granted Stay Of Execution

Jackson, Miss. (DSN) - How
ard White, youthful Copiah Coun-
ty negro who was convicted and
sentenced to death for the armed
robbery and whose execution was
set for Friday April IS, was grant
ed a stay of execution by Cover
nor Fielding L. Wright here Mon
day.
A request for second hearing
in the case of John Augustine,
another youthful Copiah County
Negro who was sentenced to death
in companion case was received
by the government.
No date for the hearig was an
nounced.
The case of the two youth at
tracted widespread attention when
the state Supreme Court, in up
holding the action of tbs lower
courts severely criticized the state
law imposing the death penalty
for armed robbery, under which
the two youth were convicted and
sentenced to die.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-04-19
Southern N. A A C.P Units Warns
AGAINST COMMUNIST INF|LTRATI0k
Howard Students
Demonstrate

WASHINGTON, d. C.. (NNPA
Howard University students sta
ged their third mass demonstra-
ton in three months last Tuesday
when 500 students gathered on
the campus and protested the food
prices and eating conditions in
the University Cafeteria.
The demonstration was staged
at time when the board of trus-
tees of the university was holding
a meeting in the Founders Libra
ry.
Wednesday that the trustees had
taken no official notice of the dem
onstration.
Complaints of the students CEN
tered around the cost of meals in
the cafeteria, the quality of the
food, and the methods used in
serving.
Student officials say they are
unable to explain why the uni
yersity cafeteria must charge
prices comparable to those charg-
ed in commercial restaurants,
when the cafeteria, which is To-
Gated in one of the dormatory
buildings, does not have any rent
overhead and is able to buy food
at discount by virtue of being
a part of the university.
They further argue that If such
prices are maintained, the quality
of the food should be as high, or
higher than that served in COM
mercial establishments.
Some members of the faculty
agreed with the students on the
matter of prices and quality.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-04-19
0Iivet Baptist
Church Celebrates
9th Anniversary

Chicago, ILL.,, (DSN) - The
9th Anniversary of Olivet Bap-
fist Church, oldest and largest
negro congregation in the Nation,
whose early history in connection
with the underground railroad"
is a story of the struggle for the
abolition of slavery and negro
freedom will be observed here
April 1918, with programs de-
signed to command the attention
of the entire city.
The pastor of Olivet Baptist
hurch is DR.. Joseph H. Jackson
woh succeeded the late DR.. L. K.
Williams as pastor of the famous
church. A native of Mississippi and
a graduate of Jackson College, DR..
Jackson hes served with outstand-
ing distinction some of the highest
upositions in the denomination
and is recognized as being top
most among the preachers and
church administrators of the ma
ton regardless to race.
DR.. j. Plus Barbour, editor of
the National Baptist Voice, Of
ficial organ of the National Bap-
Calvert Baptist hurch will be in
the principal speakers throughout
the celebration.
The annaul report for the work
for 1916 revealed that the church
not only raisel it's budget of $4,000
but went over the budget and rails
ed almost $4,000. During the per-
iod of the last years the cash
holdings of the church have been
increased more than $4,000. This
has been done while the church
has taken a lead in missionary
giving over every other church in
the National Baptist invention.
The numerical strength of the
church has so increased that in
the last five years the number Of
circles have grown from IA to 10.
The work of these circles is to
look after the members of the
church and to help develop a fam
lily feeling in it's organization.
DR.. Jackson said people are con-
stantly joining our fellowship by
christian experience, by letter and
as candidates for baptismf and our
visitors are counted by the hun
dreds from the different denomi-
nations and faiths from all walk
of life in the city of Chicago and
adjacent communities.
The youth work is moving for
ward in our BTU and in our church
group as well as our Christian
Center.
The greatest need of our church
today is more space to accommo-
date our Pensioners and friends.
Plans are now being discussed for
enlarging our quarters and expand
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-04-19
Mrs. Roosevelt
Speaks at Howard

WASHINGTON, D. C. >(NNPO
1t is harder for men to think
in terms of working with the rest
of the world than it is for women
because men have been doingg
things alone for so many years,
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt told a
group of Howard University wo-
men last Tuesday afternoon.
Speaking informally after she
had dropped III on the women
practicing their litany for the an
nual Women's Day Exercises, Mrs.
Roosevelt told the students they,
as women, had dougle response
bi1ity to change such a situation.
Commenting on her work in the
Unitd Nations, she said the United
States is getting scrutiny" from
foreign governments such as this
coutry has never had before, and
the most hardened Of us are be-
ginning to feel it.
Mrs. Roosevelt said she had
been particularly embarrassed dur
ing sessions of the UN by lynch
ings in Georgia. She said various
members of foreign delegations
came TO her with papers showing
stories of the lynchings and asked
her, What does this meant"
She said she would never be
happy until al minorities had the
same full rights of citizenship
as other groups.
Mrs. Anna Arnold Hedgeman,
assistant Dean of Women, introdu-
ced Mrs. Roosevelt to the students.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-04-19

Trades Contest
Held Here

A statewide trade contest for
negroes was held in Jackson on
April 4, 1947 at Lanier High School
| in which winners from four area
, contest, previously held, partici-
pated. The following schools were
represented: Jackson and Canton
! winners in the southwest area,
Contest held in Vicksburg); Lau-
rel and Meridian winners in the
southeast area, Contest held in
Hattisburg); Greenwood, Clarks-
| dale and Koscusko winners in the
| Delta area, Contest held in Green
| wood; orinth and Okolona win
] ners in the Northeast area (Con-
test held in Okolona.
| The contest were in arpentry
and brick work. Each school had
a team of three boys. Each team
layed off and level up the founda-
ton of building ~ x TO-; using
| the method of g., s. and TO- with a
three post batter on each corner.
Level lines of the foundation were
two feet above the highest point.
After which the representative in
brick work build a corner pier two
gricks with a foundation, plumb
level and square to the top of the
level line of the foundation. While
the representative in carpentry
participated in rafter cutting,
(both common and jack rafters)
and step cutting.
First place winners in Carpentry
- Lanier High School, Jackson,
Mississippi was awarded 16 inch
trophy, a scholarship to Alcorn
College and $500 in cash. First
place winners in brick work -
Greenwood Colored High School,
Greenwood, Mississippi was award
ed 16 inch trophy and $500 in
cash. Second place winners in car
pentry was Myrtle High School
larksdale was awarded $500 in
cash. Second place winners in the
grick work Lanier High School
Jackson, Mississippi was awarded
scholarship to Jackson College.
Third place winners in carpentry
Oak Park High School, Laurel,
Mississippi was awarded a scholar
ship to Alcorn A. M. College.
Trophies were awarded to the
contestants by Mr.. E. F. Mitchell
State Supervisor of Trade and
Industrial Education. The scholar
ship given by Jackson College was
awarded gy Prof. B. c. Price, Pro-
lessor of Scence Jackson olleke.
Other pres were awarded by F.
o. Woodland State Itnerate Teacher
Trainer of Trade and Industrial
Education.
Judges for the contest were:
Prof. 1. P. Hunt Of Farest, Miss,
and Prof. ]. Y. Woodland Of Jack
son ollege.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-04-19

iHGl sN q ES
Jackson, Miss, (DSN) "It
is highly essential that women go
into maturity as citizens and take
their full responsibilities in the
world of today" declared Miss
Dorothy Height, national staff
member of the YWCA in an adj
dress to the WV leadership instit-
ute held in Jackson April S-11.
Miss Height spoke ion the sug-
| ject women taking their role
as citizens" to rs delegates from
seven southern states attending
the conference. In hr remarks
she said that the DENTON of a
good wife and mother has to be
groadened today because all the
things which women have cared for
and have worked for are in jeo-
pardy unless we can have peace.
full world.
Miss Height is a well known
social worgker and is secretary
for the National Boards Inter-ra-
cial Education committee. She
pointed out that in a democracy
citizens must be concerned with
the welfare of all groups and must
be- especially concerned with the
rights of minoroities.
Women have a responsible
ty to make sure conditions are i'm
proved in their home commun-
ities," she said. "By starting at
home to clean up conditions and
to work for the right of every in
dividual to have a fair and equal
opportunity to get on INF life, we
branch out in the state, the nation
and the world"
Miss Height said that today in
this country one out of every five
families live on $1,000 per year or
less; that so per cent of the fam
lilies in America make less than
$4,000 per year and 70 per cent
Of our families earn less than
$4,000 per year. She cited the fact
that 20 million Of Americans are
living today in substandard hous-
ing and that that conditions Of
poor housing or none at all are
worse among the 1ow-income group
and the minorities.
OF education she said that wide
discrepancies are apparent. Some
states, she said spend as little
as 500 per year each classroom on
education, while othesr spend as
much as $4,000 per year for each
classroom.
In closing Miss Height urged
that women support the United
Nations and stressed the fact that
"our greatest weapon In the world
on nations is to strengthen our
own democracy and offer a good
example of democracy at work.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-04-19
Negroes Serve For
First Time On
Arkansas Jury

Pine Bluff, Ark, (DSN) - In
the trial of two negroes charged
with murder of two white men,
which is set to begin here Mon
day, April, negroes will serve on
the trial Jury for the first time in
the history of the state.
Fourteen negroes were among
the 81 venrment who appeared
last week to serve on the jury n
the trial of 31-year-old Willie Will
kerson and 19-yaer-old Albert Will
kerson, who are charged with kill
ling Deputy Sheriff George Cletus
Bryant and G. w. Winston, of AL
theimer.
The call for negro Jurors re-
suited from a defense move for
a new panel on the ground of the
names of Negro veniremen were
omitted. The new trial. slated for
March 27, was postponed last week
by ircuit Judge T. G. Parham
until April Ii because of the i'll
LESS of an assistant prosecutor.
DR.. Alexander LOBBY, Nashville,
one of the South's leading ngro
lawyers, with the defense of the
Wilkerson brothers.
In move to be fair to both rae
es Judge Parham reserved half the
courtroom for negroes and half
for whites. Negroes out numbered
whites here in Jefferson county.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-04-19
Fisk j Head Tells
Story Of Better
Race Relations

Chapel Hill, N. c. especially :
DR. harles S. Johnson, elected tC
head the S1-yead old Nashville
Tenn, institution last December
told the story of improved racial
relations in a volume "Into the
Main Stream, released Sunday by
the University of North Carolina
Press.
The first negro president OF
Fisk University Sunday reported
steady 20-year progress in South.
rem racial conditions respite "sen.
sational" flare-ups of violence
that grabbed the headlines but
made a pretty spotty failure.
johnson, who prepared the book
with several co-workers in the in
terracial field, said many encour-
aging things are actually happen
ing in the South that are little
known because constructive Incl
dents and problems are usually
less dramatic and newsworthy than
conflict situations or noisy race
demagoguery."
Despite noisy clamors for white
primary laws in several states
he said Southern political leaders
and statesmen are increasingly
aware thatma ny of the problems
of the RECON are not raca1 but
rather economic, geographical and
social
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-04-19
Mississippi Represented at Six State
Meeting; Call for Federal Prosecution
OF Lynehing; Police Brutality Hit

Charleston, S. c. Especially
An aggressive program on hous-
ing, labor legis- alton and civic
rights was formulated by a South
ern Regional Conference of Ma
ACP branches when 237 delegates,
representing S4,599 NAACP mem
hers in Alabama, Georgia, Florida
Worth Carolina, Tennessee and
Mississippi, met here last week at
Avery Institute. The delegates al
so issued a statement on political
action leaffirTling their stand
against political infiltration of
NhACP branches.
The conference supported til e
-Ellender-Taft Bill as
vitality needed enabling legisla-
ton and urged the sponsors to
include safeguards which will
insure the benefits to all, regard
less of race, creed, color or orig
in" Citing the need for progress
sive labor legislation, the confer
ence declared, There must be a
National Fair Employment Prac-
tice Law with adequate Senate Bill
984 as a step in the right direction.
The Taft-Smith Bill and the
Case Bill were attacked as anti-la-
Dor.
The conference said that 'The
crime of lynching must be elimi-
mated in the U. S." and called upon
Congress to prevent such atrocities
by Strengthening the Bill of Rights
to permit federal agencies to pros
ecute fully those responsible for
lynching and ether forms Of mob
violence. The delegates reiterated
their support of the NAACP's pro-
gram which favors the abolition
of the poll tax, broadening of So
cial security to include domestic
and agricultural workers, federal
aid of education minimum wage
legislation health legislation such
as the Wagner-Murray-Dingle Bill
federal legislation to eliminate
segregation of interstate passeng-
ers and amendment of Senate rul-
es to invoke cloture.
The conference denounced po-
lice brutality and urged that po-
licemen be trained in the proper
use of their authority. Use of
racial stereotypes by press, radio
and screen was attacked and the
delegates called upon newspaper.
editors and producers of radio
shows and films to present a
rounded view of the Negro more
in accordance with the present.
day American group life"
The statement on communism
said that the NAACP in all its
history has always stood for the
democratic way of life,' since
there is today a 'communistic
scare we feel it necessary to
reaffirm our faith in basic dem
ocratic processes In order to at
tain that for which we have striy-
en- for the past 3S years of exist
ence, namely, full indignation and
first class citizenship" The state
ment went on to say that the dele
gates did not favor communism
or communistic tactics. Branches
were called upon to scrutinize
carefully any elements such as
communists or other dissident
groups who may try through in
filtration or other means to hind
er the Association from attaining
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-04-19

ing the facilities of our work.
In commenting on the celebra-
ton, DR.. Jackson said.
"The church enters the celebra-
ton of its 9th Anniversary un-
der the special theme of "Grati-
tude to God" and in an atmos-
phere of joy and deep apprecia-
ton for recent achievement across
the years"
Olivet Baptist hurch is one of
the Oldest religious institutions
in the city of Chicago and it has
made across the years its con-
tributions to the social, civic, and
religious life of the city, state,
nation and world.