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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-12-20
Miss Greene
Completes Plans
For Wedding
December ~

Miss Frances Lorraine Greene,
lovely bride-elect of Wellington
Lampley Parker of Atlanta, has
completed plans for her wedding,
which will be on outstanding So
cial event of December 81, and
is today announcing the members
of her bridal party.
The, wedding will be solemnized
at 6 o'clock in the evening at
Pearl Street A. M. E. Church
with Rev. Rufus X. Young Off
ciating and Rev. Sherman L..
Greene II assisting at the double
ring rites. Mrs. Jack Young will
play the nuptial music, and Lee
roy Ellis of Canton and Tougaloo
will be soloist.
Miss Greene will be given in
marriage by her father, Percy
Greene. She has chosen her cou-
sin, Mrs. Jesse MCGOWAN, nee
Gloria Topp as her matron of
honor. Her bridemaids will be
Miss Vera Smith, her cousin; Mrs.
Marion Officer of East st. Louis,
Mo-, the former Myrtle Gillian
Of Jackson; Mrs. Fred Butler of
Atlanta, formerly Miss Thelma H.
Jones of Jackson and Miss Ed
wilma DeVore of New Orleans and
Chicago.
Brady Cooper, Jr., of Atlanta
will attend Mr.. Parker as best
man. The groomsmen will be Hen
ry Dejoie of New Orleans; Louis
Mason Of New Orleans, John FL
ger of Detroit; Frank Comic, Lee
roy Jackson, Henry Denton, Jr.
Jonas Moore, Jr., all of Jackson.
Little Emily Young will be the
flower girl and Sherman Greene
III the ring bearer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Percy Greene, par
ents of the bride-elect, will en-
terrain with the wedding recep-
ton at their home on Pascagoula
street Immediately following the
ceremony.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-12-20
Wife Killer
EIecuted

Vicksburg, Miss. Dec. IL - In
one of the rare instances which
occur in the state where a Neg
70 is called upon to pay the death
penalty for the murder of anoth-
er Negro, Frank Campbell, con-
victed of the murder of his wife
went to his death in the states
portable electric chair here early
last Friday morning.
The sentence Of the lower court
affirmed by the State Supreme
Court, with his case having been
refused consideration by the U. s.
Supreme court, Campbell's fate
was sealed when two days be-
fore the date of execution Cover
nor Wright notified his Attorneys
that he would not interfere with
the decision of the court.
Campbell went to the electric
chair shortly after the stroke of
midnight and at IL minutes past
midnight was pronounced dead by
four Meridian doctors.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-12-20

Jackson, Miss - Dec Is - Ed
die Patton, Meridian Negro, con-
victed and sentenced to death for
the murder of j. NJ. Meadows a
white night club operator of Mer-
idian, whose conviction was re-
versed by the United States Su-
preme Court, in an opinion deli
vered by Justice Black last Mon
day, was brought to the mob
proof Kinds County Jail here last
Wednesday for safe keeping.
Sheriff w. Y. Bronze, of Lau-
derdale County said that Patton
was removed to the mob proof
Kinds County Jail in Jackson be-
cause of indication of racial ten
sion, but said that there were al
so other factors involved.
In commenting on Patton Lau-
derdale County jailor, M. L. Gray
said that Patton had been moved
to the mob proof Jail in Jackson
because the feeling which ran
high when Patton was arrested
last February had been rekindled
by the decision of the United Stat
es Supreme Court.
The Lauderdale County jailor
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-12-20
COP Plans
Legislation To
Lure Negroes

Washington - Republican lea
ders are reported to be publiciz--
ing plans to esjouse same legisla--
ton on next year which obser--
vers here think will serve nice
ly to catch gullible Negro voters,
One of the measurers, a federal
rti--lynching law, was put on
the COP legislative agenda be-
fore to attract Negro votes.
New Jerseys Sen. Hawkes. has
promised COP support for the
anti--mob bill. Other Republicans
have made promises of support
for measures of special interest
to Negro voters recently.
The COPS pledge to support
FEPC seems like other party
pie lges to be mainly vote solicit
ing gestures. Sen. Taft, plomin--
emily mentioned for his party $
standard bearer in next year S
presidential election, has been &C.
cussed of teaming with Sen. H.
Alexander Smith (R., n. j. to fos
ter depaying tactics against the
FEPC which the party pledged to
support.
Hawkes. bill provides fines up
to $4,000 and Imprisonment for
five years for officials who do not
make all diligent efforts to pro-
tect . person from mob violence.
In a statement on the bill last
week Sen. Hawkes. said:
Il have discussed this import
ant bill with senatorials leader.
ship and have been ascured that
it will be given a position on the
Republican legislative program
for 1948."
Mob law in the United States,
especially in the south, has elicit
ed unfavorable comment all over
the world. Last week Russia's de-
legate to the UN subcommission
on human right is at it's session
in Geneva, Switzerland described
lynching in the United States as
most widespread among Rus
slams who have a keen interest
in the American race problem, as
serted that 40 lynchings have &C.
cured in the United States since
D--Day on June s, 1914.
mo good American can con-
done mob violence or the denial
of due process of law, Hawkes.
said, referring to>his bill. while
believe this feeling is shared by
practically all Americans, the fact
remains that at least six per-
sons in the United States were
lynched by mobs during 1916"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-12-20
u. S. Supreme Court Decision Rekind-
les Mob Spirit
Meridian Negro Rushed To Jackson For
Safe Keeping
Governor Wright Again Lashes Outside
Groups

said further that, there was no
gathering of people near the Jail
but that there was a lot of talk.
The United States Supreme
Court based it's opinion, in revers-
ing the conviction of Patton, on
the exclusion TO Negroes from
Jury service in Lauderdale Coun-
ty, and in Mississippi, over rull-
ing the opinion recently render
ed by the State Supreme Court
respecting proportional represen-
tation of Negroes TO rjury service
in accordance with the number of
Negro qualified electors which
would make it possible to contin-
ue to excluded Negroes from jury
service with the sanction Of the
law.
In commenting of the opinion,
County Attorney w. L. Clayton
said that it is the consensus OF
legal opinion in Meridian that the
County Supervisor will have to in
clude Negro names on the jury
box in furture.
Safe in the mob proof Kinds
County Jail in Jackson, Patton
gave vent to his feelings by ex-
claiming praise of Lord for the
Supreme Court.
Meanwhile from the executive
officers in Jackson, Governor
Fielding l.. Wright took the dis
cision as a opportunity to again
lash out at Outside Groups" in
terfering in State affairs.
Expressing reluctance that he
should be placed in the position
of having to defend the States
Courts, the Governor said, that
he did not feel that he could
pass without notice" the decis-
ion in the Patton case. And con-
cluded his statement by declaring
his satisfaction with the State
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-12-20

the commission cannot achieve
perfection in its present meet
ing, its endeavers are in the right
direction and it holds the promise
of progress in the field of human
rights.
The meeting which opened on
December 2, is scheduled to close
in the third week of December.
Nations participating besides the
United States, are: Australia,
Belgium, Byelorussian SSR, Chile,
China, Egypt, France, India, Iran,
Lebanon, Panama, Philippines,
Urkanian SSR, Uruguay, USSR,
United Kingdom, Yougoslavia.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-12-20
Dr.. Carver
Honored In Town
Hall

New York George Washing
ton Carver, world famous scien-
fist was immortalized here at
Town hall Thursday evening an
chair unveiled in his honor by
Mrs. Ogden Reid of the Herald
Tribune. The chief speakers were
DR.. E. D. Patterson, president
of Tuskegee institute; DR.. Nevil-
lie Woodward, William Lawrence
of the New York Times and Miss
Ethel Alpenfels of New York un-
iversity. The meeting was chaired
by George v. Denny Jr., and
special music was rendered by
the New York Interracial singers
directed by Clifford Kemp.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-12-20

Courts and charging that groups
outside Mississippi continually
grasp every opportunity to place
US in false light and paint a
picture of intolerance and dis
elimination.
The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People,
through its Attorney, Thurgood
Marshall, carried the Patton APP
pton appeal to the United States
Supreme Court, with Patton's at
torney, L. ]. Broadway, a white
lawyer of Meridian.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-12-20
Mt. Helm
Christmas Program

The eight Annual observance of
the Special Christmas Carol and
Candle Lighting Service will be
held at 7:30 o'clock Sunday night
December 81, at Mt. Helm Baptist
Church.
The program at Mt. Helm is al
ways one of the outstanding
Christmas programs in the city.
Thte public is cordially invited.
Come early so you will have a
chnace to read the program thr-
ough before the program starts.
A merry Christmas to all, Rev.
A. L. Rice, Pastor.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-12-20

Mr.. and Mrs Aaron Turner of 254l Prosperity Street,
Jackson Mississippi have announced the engagement OF
their daughter Dolores Louise to Mr. Harry L. Wright
SON of Mr. and Mrs Reober Wright, also of this city.
The brde-eIect is lo47 graduate of Tougoloo Coll
ege Mr. Wright was graduated from Tuskegee lnstit-
ute, AIoboo spent four years as Sergeant Moor in the
IT, S Morine Corps, and is now q Research Analyst in
the New York Office of the United States Department of
Justice
The ceremony will take place Sunday, December 2S,
l947, in the New Mount Zion Church, Jackson, Miss
ssppi 9-@.'ssHaG -
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-12-20
United Nations
Seeks Ways To
Combat Race
Prejudice
BY Juliette Lombard

Geneva - Under the chairman
shpi of Mrs. Franklin D. Roose-
welt, the United Nations Commits
sion on Human rights, now meet
ing in Geneva, has decided to
draft a program attacking race
prejudice everywhere includ-
ing the United States.
AS a first stop, the commits
sion plans to draw UP two docu-
ments:
1. A draft declaration of human
rights, which will be a statement
of the ideals towards which man
kind is striving.
2. A draft convention on human
rights, which when ratified by
the nations of the world, will
bind them by law to observe its
provisions.
In International law, a de
claration" is not legally binding
on the nations which sign it. A
convention is Obviously, the
major problem in the commits
sion's future work will be to trans
late the ideals of the "declara-
ton" into conventions" which can
be enforced through international
agencies.
Here are some of the provisions
which special UN sub-commis-
sion has recommended for inclus-
ion in the two documents men,
toned above:
Everyone has the right to take
an effective part in the govern
ment of the state of which he is
a citizen.
Each state has the duty to re-
quire that every child within it's
territory receive a primary edu-
cation. 1t shall also promote fac
iliticS for higher education with
out distinction as to the race, sex,
language, religion, class or veal
tn of the persons entitled to bene-
fit therefrom.
Everyone shall have equal op-
portunity to engage in public en-
ployment and to hold public sof-
flee in the State of which he is
a citizen. Access to examinations
for public employment shall not
be a matter of privilege or fav-
or"
In addition, the sub-commis-
sion recommended that the pro-
posed declaration and conventions
condemn Indictment to violence
against any religious group, race,
nation or minority.
Mrs. Roosevelt and representa-
tives OF IL other nations are at
present discussing the above re-
concentrations submitted by the
sub--commission. Within two
weeks, they will decide whether
to accept them, and if so, wheth-
er to include them in the declar-
alton or ina convention.
Several delegates to the human
rights commission have expressed
the determination to get as much
as possible into conventions,
which will be something more
than just pious phrases and pro-
misses.
Some observers here predict
that when the question of wheth-
Their the u. S. ought to sign any
conventions drawn UP by the hui
man rights commission arises,
there will be bitter debates be-
tween upholder of jim-crowism
anil those favoring putting an end
to racial discrimination.
Commenting on the commits
sion's tasks, Mrs. Roosevelt told
newspaper correspondents here
the other day that there are many
differences of opinion, which must
be ironed out, among the dele
gates to the human rights COM
mission. She added that it will
be long and complicated task
to translate the commissions +
deals into reality. Nevertheless,
Mrs. Roosevelt declared. although
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-12-20

Uk Secretary General Choose Dr.. Ralph
Bunche For Palestine Patition JOB

Lake Success = Secretary Gen
eral Trygve Lie, was revealed
here this week, was the man be-
hind the choosing of DR.. Ralph J.
Bunche to head the U. N. Sec
retarist which will prepare the
Holy Land for partition.
DR.. Bunche, 43 year old Calf
ornia educated Negro, impresses
Lie by his work last Summer in
Palestine as a leading adviser to
the U. N. Special Committee on
Palestine.
Bunche as a correspondent for
the Chicago Daily News Foreign
Service said here this week, is
"one of the ablest, most likable
and most experienced man in the
United Nations Secretariat' The
job he was picked for, which will
take almost a year, is "just "a
bout the toughest job on the in
formation horizan'', the same cor
respondent said.
Bunche must help lead Pales-
tine Jews and Arabs into state
hood by October /.
Director of the U. N. Division
of Trusteeships, Phi Beta Kappa
fro mUCLA with a Doctor Of Phil
osophy from Harvard, Bunche is
40 years old, was born in Detroit.
Here is his impressive record
since receiving his Bachelor of
Arts from UCLA in 1927:
A. M. from Harvard, 1928. Phi.
D. from Harvard, 1884. Post doc
trinal work in colonial policy
and anthropology, Northwestern,
London School of Economics, I'm
iversity of Capetown, 1867.
Field work in comparative col
onial policy: West and North At
RIGA, South and East Africa; NAL
ava and Indonesia, 1868.
Positions: professor and head
of Department of Lolitical Science
Howard university since 1928. Con
leave since Sept, 194D.
Co-director, Institute of Race
Relations, Swartmore college, 1886
Offoce of Strategic Service as
chief of Africa section during the
war.
State Department as associate
chief of the division of Depart
ment Area Affairs, 1914.
U. S. Commissioner, Caribbean
Commission, 1914
Director of the U. N. Division Of
Trusteeships at present.
DR.. Bunche was assistant secre-
tary to the American delega ton at
Dumbarton Oaks, 1914; adviser to
the American delegation to the
International Labor Ckhference at
Philadelphia, 1914; member of the
American delegation to the San
Francisco Conference which Or
ganized the U. N; adviser to the
Preparatory Committee for the U.
NJ, London, 1915; adviser to the
U. S. delegation at the LILO Con-
ference in Paris, 1915; and adj
wiser to the U. S. delegation at
the General Assembly, London,
1916.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-12-20

students only.
There are no recognized Pre-
medical courses at Alcorn College
and Jackson College the states
two Negro Institutions for High
er Education.
Evening star., 1947-05-18
D. ihs Assoeiassd Press

PEARL HARBoR. May 1.-THE
tragic battleslip Oklahoma, raised
from a shallow grave after the Japa-
nese assault on Pearl Harbor, sank
quietly In mid Pacific today, thWart-
ing the mainland junkyard for
which she was bound.
The venerable warship. symbol OF
American sorrow and pride, went
down without q soul on board at
|1:40 am, $40 miles northeast OF
Pearl Harbor.
One week ago today she had left
in tow of the tugs Monarch and
Hercules, and was due in San Fran
cisco Bay on Memorial Day.
The hull was shipshape when she
left. Suddenly and inexplicably she
began to list heavily late yeterday.
Last night Capt. Kelly sprague OF
the Hercules radioed that waves
we're washing over the Oklahomas
desolate decks-long since stripped
of guns and superstructure. He was
ordered to head back for Pearl Har-
bor, but a little later-as II deter
mined to escape the ignominious
fate on the scrap heap-the Okla
homa parted the tow lines and
plunged toward the bottom OF the
Iocean-three miles down.
Seamen compared her end with
| that of the famous British batt1eship
Warspite, which on April % was
wrecked on the Cornish coast, also
while being towed toward breakers
yard.
The tugs stood by until daybreak,
but SO cleanly had the Oklahoma
died that not even scrap OF flotsam
was to be seen.
Thus closed the colorful but un-
heroic career of a ship that never,
in two wars, succeeded in fulfilling
her intended destiny She never,
in all her 81 years, had fired a shot
at an enemy.
The 29,0O0-ton ship was laid down
IN 1912. launched March 23, 1914,
and finally commissioned May 2,
1916. The authoritative directory,
James Fighting Ships, listed her and
her sister ship, the Nevada of
Bikini fame, as per-dreadnaughts
first of the everything or nothing
theory Of ship construction, with
tremendous armor. ten 14-inch guns,
sixty 5-inchers, and myraid smaller
weapons. She was 583 feet long;
lot feet, II inches wide, and had
places for more than 1900 fighting
men.
In the first World War she was
based at Berehaven, Ireland, but
saw no action.
In the peacetime years, while
training thousands of cadets and
sailors, she made headlines by col
liding with railroad barge at Brem-
erton, Wash, and with the battle
ship Arizona on another occasion.
The Oklahoma was anchored at
Pearl Harbor when the Japanese
planes struck on December 7. 1941.
The nearby Arizona was destroyed.
Pierced by five torpedoes, the
Oklahoma herself was on the bottom
and capsized within II minutes. She
went down so fast that her crew
did not have time to man the guns.
Many died in their hunks, and
others fell as they raced to battle
stations. Thirty-two men, trapped
deep inside her, were later rescued
alive with the aid OF cutting
torches.
Proudly determined to raise and
fight her, the Navy finally sue
Evening star., 1947-05-18
|OkIohomo Sinks IN Mid Pocific
While BEING lowed to Junkyurd

,ceeded 10 months later. She was
Ito be rented and gain vengeance.
IAs did the Nevada, the Maryland,
1.-The Tennessee, the West Virginia,
1.-THE Pennsylvania and the califor-
lnia. 'ts.5
It was not worthwhile. Battered
land obsolete, stu reeking of violent
death, she was abandoned late N
1914.
Througllout the rest Of the war
| she lay at anchor In Pearl Harbor,
Ia gruesOme reminder OF the attack.
The Navy debated long whether It
would be best to sink her or cut
her up for scrap.
Eventually she was sold to the
Moore Drydock Co., OF Oakland,
Calf, for $4,000. She had cost
S75, ,000, 900 to build and untold
Sums to raise.
Recognized as Gamble.
Navy men said the attempt to tow
the ship to the mainland was rec
lognized beforehand as big gamble,
but that the buyers had stood to
make big profit on the scrap had
they succeeded.
Rear Admiral Louis Dreller, COM
4 mandant Of the Navy Yard, said the
sale was on where is and as IS
basis but the Navy made all repairs
requested by the Moore company.
sThen the work was inspected and
/ we gave them all files and informa
/ tion," he said.
i Capt. j. r. Ryssy of the Coast
Guard said that since there were
no passengers, formal certiflcation
I of seaworthiness had not been r1ec-
essary.
| It was not known here whether
/ insurance was carried. More COM
pany members in Oakland also were
uncertain on this point in the
absence of the official handling
i insurance matters.
The company had planned to start
cutting her up in June. Only this
week, Joseph Moore. head OF the
company, said he had received word
that nearly 500 Oklahomans, In
/ cluding Gov. Roy ]. Turner, planned
a special visit to Oakland to pay
I their final respects to q gallant
but un1ucky ship.
Instead, the Oklahoma died at
Evening star., 1947-05-18
Paper Collections
Reach w,4OO Pound,
In 5tar-pTA Drive

A slight increase in paper collec-
tions in The Evening Star-PTA
salvage campaign was noted yester-
day when the total moved from
%, ,02o pounds for the previous week
to 81, 400.
Falling prices for paper on the
wholesale market have brought q
cutback here starting with the first
collections in May. The price now
is 81 per hundred pounds for
magazines and 10 cents per hundred
pounds for newspapers. The high
mark was set in March and April
when the prices stood at $l.l5 for
magazines and 80 cents for old
newspapers.
Individual school collections not
yet reported are: Janney, 1850
pounds: Murch, 3,058; Westbrook,
343: Mann, 575; Key, $40; Hardy,
1888; Stoddert, 1850; st. Thomas
Apostle, sic; Oyster, 800; Lafayette,
1872; Hyde, TOT; Sumner Magruder,
500; Stevens, LILO; Congress
Heights, 1925; Woodbridge, 3,488;
Hilton Peabody 5 ,203; Benning, 877;
Smothers, $751; Kingsman, 1896,
Blair, 1,018; Hayes, 727; -Four Cor
Collection schedules for tomorrow
in District /, together with the
Lao darS ora aS follows.
Evening star., 1947-05-18
Hospital Group to Meet
AT Salisbury Friday
By the Associated Press

SALISBURY, Md, May 1.-THE
Hospital Association Of Maryland
and the District of Columbia will
hold It's spring conference at the
Wicomico Hotel here Friday and
| Saturday.
Presiding at the 2-day session will
be DR.. j. H. Capossela of Emergency
Hospital, Washington, who succeed~
DR.. Edwin l.. Crosby, director of
the Johns Hopkins Hospital, as
president.
The Nome nugget., 1947-12-10
One Or Two Atom
 Bombs Could Grip ole Pacific Fleet
Continued from Page One)

Continued from Page One)
 eXtent-the strategic plans of the army and navy" and added:
 "In one instance in particular, we were advised flatly that an important installation is located in this area for economy reasons only, although the location ack- nowledgedly is strategically poor"
 The report said, however, that Congress should provide constant "prodding and inquiry to spur consolidation of separate facilities maintained unnecessarily by diff ferent arms of the service.
 It urged secretary of defense Forrestal to initiate extensive studies between the services on the topnost level, at the earliest possible date, to insure that local consultations are made"
 The inspection was made by Reps. J. z. Anderson R.-CalifO, Ridley R.-DklaD, Havenner O. CalifD and Holtfield, D.-CalifJ.
The Nome nugget., 1947-12-10
1AR. AND MRS. PETE READER LEAVE FOR STATES

MT. and Mrs. Pete Reader and family, who have been at North Fork all summer, left yesterday
 for the States where they will
The Nome nugget., 1947-12-10
rannIIN mnnION inhEo STATES VACATION

Martin Marion, mining man from the Bluff district, who has not been out since the "early days" departed with the Pan American for a trip to the States.
The Nome nugget., 1947-12-10
OTTO WILL. CLOSES CAMP IN KOUGAROK

Otto Wihl, well know Kouga- roker and one of the last to close camp for the season arrived in town. He plans to leave for the States for the winter and return in the spring.
The Nome nugget., 1947-12-10
NELS SWANBERGS. SIR. LEAVE FOR SEATTLE

MT. and Mrs. Nels Swanberg, Sr., left with Pan American for Seattle, where they plan to sell their home and return early in the spring.
The Nome nugget., 1947-12-10
IUNNAn kAASONS TO
 WINTER IN THE STATES

MT. and Mrs. Gunnar Kaason departed for the States for the winter and plan to visit in Seattle and see friends in California.