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The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-02-27
Rev. r. 6. Lord Al
Methodist Church End

Next Sunday morning, March End,
the Rev. r. G.. Lord, of Greenwood,
District Superintendent will preach
for us at the eleven o'clock hour. At
two-thirty in the afternoon the
Second Quarterly Conference will
be held in the church. The officials
and members and visitors are invit-
ed to this Conference.
We would like to make next SUM-
day go to church Day" for the
Methodists of Lexington. It is Com
munion Sunday and it is our high
duty and privilege to observe the
Sacrament of the Lords Supper.
Let us find the Methodists of Lex
ington in their place at church next
Sunday. Let our presence in the
church indicate to our District Sup
erintendent our interest in and love
for the church.
In the Mems Bible Class next Sun
day morning Mr.. T. M. Williams,
teacher will bring us a lecture on
the early history of Methodism. The
story of the Wesley family and the
reformation begun by John and
Charles Wesley in England and the
subsequent organization and rise of
the Methodist church in the 18th CEN
fury is very thrilling one and a
very inspiring one to all Methodists.
We cordially invite all our Methodist
men to come at ten o'clock next
Sunday morning and hear Brother
Williams give this lecture on early
Methodism. We can assure it will be
and you will think more of your
both informative and inspirational
church after you hear this lecture.
Good interest is being manifested
in the Conversation groups on
church are meeting each Tuesday
Stewardship. The ladies of the
under the leadership of the follow
ing Conversation guides: Mrs. R. M
Gwin, Mrs. Miles, Mrs. Alton Park
er and Mrs. w. A. Ramsey.
The men of the church are meet
ing each Thursday evening at seven
o'clock at supper meeting in the
Educational Building under the
leadership of Mr.. T. M. Williams as
Conversation Guide. Every adult
member of the church is invited and
expected to attend and take part in
one of these Conversation groups.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-02-27
Cox3ury Leads County
Red Cross Fund Drive

Tho Red Cross Campaign opens
formally March 1st
On the morning Of February 22nd
Coxburg Community. Merrill Fakin
end Mrs. Lillian Hocutt, Chairmen,
reported their Quota met and over
the top.
This is the fourth successive year
this community has been the leader
in the Campaign.
February 22nd Thornton, Frank
Fakin and Mrs. James Peaster,
Chairmen, brought in their quota
plus 100 percent--They will have
more than double by March 10th.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-02-27
1,244-H Club Members In Holmes
County Observe Emphasis Week
Joycees Meet Tuesday
At City Hall 7::30

Lexington members of the Junior
Chamber of Commerce are request
ed to be present at the next meeting
which will be held next Tuesday
evening, March 4th, at the City
Hall at 7:30 o'clock.
The Jaycees have recently organ
lied and it is hoped to get the organ
ization back to its former position
of leadership in the community in
promoting worthwhile things for
Lexington and vicinity, according
to Mr.. w. E. Thurmond, president
Young business men of the comm
unity who are not members are in
vited to attend.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-02-27
Three New Candidates
Announced This Week

Hon. G.. j. Everett, dean at Holmes
Junior College, is candidate for
reelection to the Mississippi House
of Representatives
Hon. Pat. M. Barrett, county at
torney, is a candidate for reelection
to that post.
Both of their formal announce
ments to the voters of Holmes CO.
unity will be issued in this paper next
week.
Mr.. Joe H. Moore is a candidate
for the Board of Supervisors of Hol-
mes county, beat l. He opposes Earl
Fowler, incumbent, who has
already announced for reelection.
Mr.. Moore's announcement APP
pears elsewhere on this page.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-02-27
Mary Alice Harper Rites
Held Monday Afternoon

Funeral services for Mary Alice
Harper, two weeks-old infant dau-
ghter of Mr.. and Mrs w. B. Harper,
of Owens Wells, were held Monday
afternoon at two o'clock at the
Pleasant Ridge Baptist church,
The Rev. A. Y. Brown, Methodist
pastor, officiated at the simple ser
vices.
The child died early Monday
morning.
The parents, three brothers and a
sister survive: William Lee, Shirley
Charles Edward and Roy.
The Harpers have lived in Holmes
county for six years. He is native
of Attala county and the mother was
the former Mary Lee Tucker who
came here from Alabama.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-02-27
Support Local Industry
Says Rotary Speaker

The importance of supporting and
encouraging local industry was dis
cussed in interesting detail by Ed
win White, Lexington attorney, at
the Friday meeting of the Lexington
Rotary Club.
IT is important that we bring in
outside industry, Mr.. White said,
and this should not be overlooked,
but. at the same time he added, it
was equally important to recognize
the industries we have in our town
and give them the fullest measure
of support possible.
Mr. White mentioned particularly
local industries such as the Chick
asaw Wood Products Company
whose payroll runs around Sl,2500O
per week: The feed manufacturing
mill started and run by 7. M. Will
Jams: the Lexington Concrete Prod
ucts Company, manufacturers of con-
crete building blocks and other con-
crete forms owned by f. w. Hooker;
the Henry Ice and Cold Storage Co
mpany, owned by S. E. Henry
which slaughters and processes a
tremendous amount of meat every
week and the Lexington Compress,
owned by a group of local business
men
We should all visit these places
and see what they are doing, the
speaker said, then we will realize
the real contribution they are max
ing to the industrial advancement
of the community of Lexington.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-02-27
Joe H. Moore Is
Cand. For Supervisor

To The Voters Of Holmes County
District No.
am asking your vote for the
office of Supervisor for the next
four years. I was born in Holmes
county and have lived in Holmes
county all of my life.
/ will do my best to make you a
good Supervisor. l need your vote
and also your influence.
Respectfully,
JOE H. MOORE
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-02-27

Being indicted by a Grand Jury
for neglect of duty sounds like a
pretty serious charge to us.
The trial will be watched with a
great deal of interest by a large
number of people in the state who
think the sheriff's office in Miss
issippi should have some safeguards
attached to it safeguards for the
people -. so that when man goes
in to office on false pretenses say
ing he'll enforce the laws and then
doesn't do one thing about it that
something can be done to GUST him
by an aroused people.
As the laws stand on the statutes
now it is practically impossible to
throw sorry sheriff out of office.
That law should be changed to
where sheriff who permits wide
open whiskey selling and gambling
to flourish is liable to custer proceed
ings if enough of the people demand
it.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-02-27
THROUGH
HAZEL
EYES
by Huzel Bronnon

/. Down in Copiah county the Grand
Jury has indicted the Sheriff for
neglect of duty, charging he has
allowed liquor sales and operation
of gambling houses without attempt
ing to suppress them.
The sheriff was arrested and put
under $4,000 bond and was at
liberty under that bond Sunday, an
Associated Press said.
The trial of the sheriff will be
held Saturday morning in Halle
hurst. If the Sheriff is found guilty
the District Attorney will ask that
he be busted from office by the
court and that Governor Wright APP
point a successor to serve until a
special election can be held.
The maximum penalty for the
charge under which the Sheriff
stands indicted is fine of 100000
and six months Imprisonment.
The Sheriff is reported as saying
that there is nothing to it. He did
not deny that his county was wide
open" as reported.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-02-27
annual Red Cross
Drive Planned;
$4,000 Quota
Community Choirmen
Named Today; Joe
Bermun Heads Drive

Holmes county's quota in the 1947
Red Cross Fund drive is $780,, ac-
cording to Joe E. Berman, drive
chairman.
Last year Holmes county raised
S5,96900 for the Red Cross with a
$4,000 quota.
Community chairmen for the drive
have been announced as follows:
by Mr.. Berman and w. f. Thurmond
OF Lexington, co-chairman.
Lexington: Herman Flowers, w.
E. Strider, Eugene Herman, George
S Patterson, Jr., Mrs. ID. T.-Ruff, Re-
sidential.
Durant: Miles Ray, w. P. Taylor,
F. V. McCullar.
Tchula: j. E. Gwin and Mrs. o.
w Nixon.
Pickens: Ed Atkinson and Mrs.
Jesse Maxwell.
Goodman: Hugh Cowsert and Mrs.
Stanley Allen.
Cruger: S. F. Buchanan and Mrs. G.
G.. Griffen.
West: w. T. Hand and Mrs. c. B.
Cade.
Bowling Green Mr.. and Mrs. c. o.
Sudbeck.
Richland: Mr.. and Mrs. ]. E.
Chisolm.
Owens: Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Fowler.
Coxburg: Merrill Eakin and Mrs.
Lillian Hoccutt.
Emory: Andrew Smith and Mrs
Roscoe johnson.
Acona: x. F. Downer and Mrs. M.
J. Evans.
Howard: George w. Ellison and
Mrs. Peyton Jones.
Ebenezer: Ezra O'Reilly and Mrs
Glenn Burwell.
Oregon: H. M. Garnett and Mrs.
E. F. Rathell.
Franklin: j. M. Powers and Mrs
Robert Lipsey.
Brozville: Mr.. and Mrs. T. A. Bar
rentine.
Centerville: H. c. Ellis and Mrs
Wilburn Grace.
Thornton: Frank Eakin and Mrs
James Peaster.
Mileston: Carl Bardin and Mrs
Cunningham.
.Beulah: Mr.. and Mrs. j. F. Boat
wright.
Bethesda: A. E. Ellington and
Mrs. Joel Gulledge.
Meeting Held Wednesday
A meeting of community chairmen
was held on Wednesday of last week
at the City Hall in Lexington. The
meeting was well attended and pre-
sided over by w. H. Counts, Durant,
chairman of the Holmes County
Chapter.
Mr.. Counts made comprehensive
talk on present day needs of and
reasons for the Red Cross.
Representative Here
Miss Mildred Stephens, Field re-
preventative, Atlanta, gave valuable
information covering the overall
program of Red Cross and calling
special attention to the record OF
our Holmes County Chapter in its
''over the top" Fund Campaigns,
which record, she stated, is one that
is recognized by National Red Cross
Mr. Berman then gave an outline
of the plans for a speedy Campaign,
asking that reports be made to his
office and setting March 10th for
final report showing quotas have
been met, and he hopes gone above
requirements
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-02-27
Attention. Negro School Teachers

All negro school teachers will
meet in the Ambrose Vocational
School Friday afternoon, March z,
l947, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
All teachers are required to have the
Educable Lists in for his or her
school and the fifth months report
must also be in on this date.
DOROTHY McBee, Superinten-
dent of Education, Holmes County.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-02-27

Mrs. Mildred White Wells, of Flor
ida. was in Lexington last Thursday
70 attend the funeral services of her
aunt, Mrs. Fannie Hoskins Smith.
The Rev. and Mrs. L. F.. Burnette
are expected home the latter part of
the week by plane from San Diego,
California. They are expected to be
here for Sunday services.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-02-27

Friends of Mr.. A. C. Weathersby
win regret to know he underwent
another operation at the Baptist
Hospital in Jackson Tuesday. Mr..
Norman Weathersby has been at his
fathers bedside this week.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-02-27

Holmes county All Club boys
and girls, 1854 strong, will observe
next week as All Emphasis Week
The Holmes county All Club
members, both white and colored,
have an ambitious program mapped
out for the year of 1947. Their OBJ
jectives are set forth elsewhere in
this issue.
There is no other club or organ
ization quite as comprehensive in
its teachings to the boys and girls
who live in Mississippi and other
rural sections. The All Club calls
for the dedication of the head, heart,
hand and health to the services OF
the club, the community and our
country.
Every boy and girl brought up in
a All club is better qualified as
citizen and they are trained to
make for themselves greater oppor-
tunities on the farm.
The list of accomplishments OF
Holmes county All Club boys and
girls is quite long and covers a long
period. They are doing a splendid
work and deserve every bit of en-
eoucagement which we can give
them.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-02-27

Holmes county is still wide open.
Slot machines are out all over the
county. Crap tables with open gam
bling are still operating in at least
two places. Negro crap games
every Saturday night at another
carry on. Whiskey is sold at almost
any joint along the road.
Absolutely nothing is being done
about it.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-11-14
Lewis To Stooge
In Coop Attack
CnnIlnned frOm Page ]

C0ntinueu from rage
sumner co-ops and one COP
committeeman declaimed for is
minutes that capitalism Is also
"jeopardized" by the fact that
churches and colleges are OPP
Grating factories in direct COM
petition TO industry"
The committee, headed by
Rep. Harold Knutson (Rr
Mimi, whose "rob-the-poor"
tax bill was twice vetoed by
President Truman, listened hap
PLY to a parade of ID co-op-hat-
ing witnesses including the exc
cutive vice-president of the
United States Wholesale Gro
GERS Assn, the chairman of the
Conference of American Small
Business Organizations, the
manager OF the Natl Small
Businessman's Association, and
a dozen assorted representatives
of the grain and milling, seed,
processing and fertilizer indus
tries.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-11-14
RR Unions Ask
1920 Wage Hike

CHICAGO, Nov. II (LPA) -
Five "oper atin g" Railroad
Brotherhoods are pushing for
quick action by the railroads on
a 30%o wage increase for nearly
10000 workers in the train,
engine and yard service.
Though still negotiating with
the managements on a program
of changes in rules governing
working conditions, the five
Brotherhoods have also initiated
bargaining for the 800 raise.
Seventeen other railroad d
unions, representing more than
], 100000 incorporating" en-
ployes, settled last September
for a 15l2c an hour increase,
but the operating groups are
demanding more.
Pointing out that the workers
in question have not received
an increase since May 1916, the
five Brotherhoods declared the
employees must have a pay boost
soon to cope with skyrocketing
prices.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-11-14
ACW Demands
Waqe Boosts

NEW YORK, Nov. IL - The
Amalgamated Clothing Work
ers-CIO last week served formal
demands on the Clothing Manu-
facturers Assn of the u. S. for
a 15c-an-hour wage increase,
second weeks paid vacation and
election day as an additional
paid holiday. The demands were
made on behalf of $50, 900 cloth
ing workers.
The constant rise in living
costs compels the wage in
crease, ACW President Jacob
Potofsky told the employers,
Although the ACW obtained a
12i2c raise a year ago, that in
crease has been whitfield away
by mounting prices with the re-
suit that I'VE are worse off than
before, he said.
Potofsky quoted President
Truman's statement that food
costs have risen 40q6 and that
the overall cost of living rose
23 % since midyear 1946. He
pointed out that the proposed
hike in wage scales would be
substantially less than the price
rise during the past year.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-11-14
Wage Difference
CUT TO One Cent

DANVILLE, Va, Nov. IL -
(LPA) - Probably the greatest
victory ever recorded by the Tex.
tile Workers Union.CIO In the
south was claimed here last week
with the settlement of a threat
ened strike that might have in.
volved 100000 workers through.
out the south.
The TWUA victory brought a
go raise to the union members
but of equal significance was the
fact that the increase brought
the southern minimum wage to
81 cents an hour compared with
88 cents in the north. Less than
two years ago the north-south
differentials were often as great
as Is to II cents.
1t was expected that the In.
crease would spread to non-union
mills throughout the south which
have a total of $4,000 textile
after the TWUA settlement,
workers. Almost Immediately
three of the south's largest non
union chains, Burlington, Spring
Mills, and Clark Thread, an
nounced that they would follow
the go pattern.
The wage raise will cost the
southern textile industry about
110,000,000, it was estimated.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-11-14
cIO Hits At
MagiII Tex
Lip Service

WASHINGTON, Nov. IL -
nPA) - The CIO last week
blasted the report of the Masil
advisory tax committee for pay
ing "only lip service to the In
terests of the 46,OOO,OOO taxpay-
ers whose net income is less
than $4,000 a year"
CIO Legislative D ir &c t o r
Nathan Cowan charged that
most of the tax changes pro-
posed by the Magill group TO
the House Ways & Means Com
mittee "give tax relief to corpo-
rations and high-income indivd-
uals.
The report ran true to form,
said CoWan. 1T was exactly
what was to be expected from
a 1O-man committee which has
nine members representing bust
ness interests, Wall Street and
the railroads"
The 46,000,OO0 with incomes
under $4,000 constitute $50 oi
our income recipients" Cowan
pointed out, yet the only recon-
mendation in the report affect
ing this group, is that individual
taxes should be reduced with
due regard for the cost of living
of those in the lower income
groups and for the individuals
of the balance of the economy.
"The Committee made no spe-
cific recommendations on how
individual income taxes should
be reduced. Magill, who proba-
bly, cannot number among his
tax clients a single individual
earning less than $4,000 a year
has expressed his opposition or
many previous occasions to in
creasing personal e X e m ptlon'
which is the most basic way tC
give tax relief to the needy"
At least four of the committed
members, including Magill, have
advocated a sales tax, Cowar
pointed out. "It is no wonder,
he said, that the report of this
! Citizens Tax Advisory Commit
tee advocates tax relief for thu
high income individuals and foi
corporations and gives only liz
service to the low-income people
who are most vitality in need o
tax relief"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-11-14
Reuther> Gosser
Win In Landslide

the hope that once the unions
elections were over that harmony
could be restored and that the
union would go forward in unity.
Asked by newspaper men in a
press conference following his
address if he favored a slate,
Murray refused to commit him
self and told them that it was
the business of the delegates to
elect whomever they pleased.
Hits At Congress
Murray spent a considerable
part of his talk in hitting at Con-
gress, particularly Senator Taft
for the Taft-Hartley Act and
knocking out price controls. He
said that the Taft-Hartley Bill
was not secured over the bar
gaining table and would not be
repealed that was as he urged
the meeting to take political
action in 1948.
There is some evidence that
CIO would like to save George
Adde's from defeat in this con-
vention. Murray gave a slight
clue to this when he referred
to the UAW Secretary-treasurer
as "a man of integrity"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-11-14
Union Heads Hear
Lobor ParfY Plea

CHICAGO, Nov. IL (LPA) -
More than 200 AFL, CIO, coop
and farm leaders from all over
the nation gathered here last
week to participate in the 9Th
Annual Midwest Workers Edu-
cation Conference sponsored by
the American Labor Education
Service.
Representing 81 different in
ternational unions, the labor de-
legates joined the coop and
farm representatives in a series
of discussion panels and work
shops dealing with such subjects
as collective bargaining under
new federal and state legisla-
ton, labor's community rela-
tions, m in a in ing union
strength, in the face of infla-
tion and depression, and politi-
cal action for labor. Overall
theme was Defining and Ad-
vancing Labor's Objectives in
1947-48."
America needs a labor party,
the conference was told by Her
man Finer, professor of political
science and economics at the
University of Chicago.
After describing the origins
and the development of the
British Labor Party to govern
ment power, Professor Finer
stressed the need of an Ameri'
can counterpart of the British
Fabian Society to furnish politi-
cal directives and plan strategy
collect information and make il
available to unions and other
groups.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-11-14
Ballard Elected
Director Of 2-B
Continued from Page l

AAUAAA = eSS
infantry. Upon his return, he re-
sumed his post on the regional
staff and seved there until his
election.
Mr.. Ballard is married and
has one son, Donald.
In a statment to cypress, Mr..
Ballard said, "this convention
has given a mandate to the Of
ficers of the International Union
by an overwhelming majority.
1t has elected our Regional
Director to the vice-presidency
by a great vote and shown me
that it wants the policies in
augerated by Vice-President
Gosser continued.
acce ept the responsibility
which has been given me as a
member of the Gosser right wing
group of our union and will con-
tinue to carry out the policies
and program which have made
Toledo and Region 2-B one of
the brightest spots in our union"
The newly elected officers will
return to Toledo next week.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-11-14
Poll Takers Find
NAM A New
Friend

WASHINGTON, Nov. IL -
(LPA) - Southern poll-taxers
found a new ally last week in
their fight against anti-lynching,
anti-poll tax, FEPC and other
types of progressive legislation.
The ally was the Natl. Asso-
citation of Manufacturers which
disclosed that it was now op-
posed to any legislation that
would put an end to filibuster-
ing.
Labor leaders here declared
that the MANS new policy was
inspired by a growing fear that
the 1948 Congressional elections
will not be the Republican walk
away it had expected.
COP strategists, it is known,
pay more than a little attention
to the Gallup Polls and the la
Dor men pointed out that while
a year ago the Republicans poll
ed $50 against 47% for the
Democrats the most recent
sampling by Gallup shows $50
of the people favoring the De-
mocratic Party and only 44%
the Republican. The Nov. 4
elections, which the Republicans
confidently predicted woul d
give them overwhelming major
tiles in Kentucky and other
states, handed the COP addi-
tional cause for concern.
Consequently, the labor men
contend, the MANS position in
favor of filibustering indicates
fear of such legislation in 1948
as a permanent fair employment
practices law which 1ould in
Fterfere vii h an employer S
right" to hire and fire as he
sees fit.
In support of filibustering the
NAM went to the astonishing
extreme of citing as the horrible
example of limited debate the
recent plans of the British La
Dor Party "to curtail the power
of the House of Lords"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-11-14
cIo Wins NLRB Vote

NEW YORK (LPA) - The
first consent election on decerti-
fication of a union under the
Taft Hartley law in this area
was won this week by the
Window Trimmers and Display
-CIO in New York City. A
group Of artists and sculptors
employed by the Staples Smith
Display Co., had asked the
NLRB to withdraw bargaining
rights from the union on the
basis that it no longer had the
support of majority of the en-
ployes. This is the fifth such
election held in the nation, the
third in which the union won.