davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Smyrna times., 1948-06-03
FARM NEWS
BroiIer Output on Inerease

Information on the placement OF
baby chicks in broiler houses in
the important broiler-producing
areas indicates that there will be
more broilers for market this sum-
mer. DIR. R. o. Bausman, head OF
the department of marketing and
farm management at the Univers-
ity of Delaware reports that
study of chick placement figures
shows that the number of chicks
started have increased substantial
ly over earlier months, and more
than seasonally.
Placement of chicks in broiler
er houses in the Delmarva area,
which account for almost half of
the broilers in the seven CONNER
cial broiler-producing areas has
followed this trend, says DR.. Baus-
man.
On the basis o fthese figures, DR..
Bausman, points out that broiler
prices may decline moderately in
the next few months. Although
placements of broiler chicks will
decline seasonally during the next
few months, they will be substan-
TALLY ahead of last year. This will
result in about 10 to Is per cent
greater marketings of broilers dur
ing the third and fourth quarters
of 1948 than of 1947. Broiler pric-
es then may decline somewhat.
In view of the larger feed-grain
crops which will probably be mar
keted during the fall and winter,
DIR. Bausman says, however, that
the relationship between broiler
and feed prices probably will be
more favorable than during the
same season of 1947.
Late Blight Disease Present
DR.. Russell A. Hyre, plant path
ologist with the Division of Myc-
ology and Plant Disease Survey of
the U. S. Department of Agricul-
ture reports that late blight dis
ease has been found on tomatoes
and early potatoes in fields in the
Cape Charles area of Virginia DR..
Hyre, who is stationed at the
University of Delaware, is study
ing and watching the development
of this disease. He says that the
disease in that area is producing
spores and if the weather contin-
ues favorable spread of the dis
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-03-26
Negro Priest
Assigned To White
Catholic Church

Kent. O.-(SpeciaD Father AL
len M. Simpson, Negro native of
Iowa who was recently ordained
to the Catholic priesthood, has
been named assistant pastor at
st. Patrick's Church here. Men,
bership in the parish is almost en-
tirely white. There are only a
few Negro communicates.
Believed to be the first Negro
native Of Iowa to become Cath.
Ollie priest, FIR, Simpson was or
dained last month in the Cathed-
raj in Youngstown, o.. by Most
Rev. James McFadden, D. D.,
Bishop of Youngstown.
The pastor at ST. Patrick's
Church here, to whom FIR Simp-
son will act as assistant, is FIR
John B. Holcomb.
st. Patrick's is the only Catholic
church in Kent. Affiliated with
the parish is ST. Patrick's school
conducted by the Sisters of the
Holy Humility Of Mary, with
1870 pupils.
SUPPORT THE RED CROSS
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-03-26
Seek Pardon
For Columbia
Riot Victim

New York-Upon the clemency
of Governor Jim McCord of Tenn.
depends the freedom of Lloyd
Kennedy, last of the defendants in
the tragic Columbia riot case.
Kennedy, convicted of assault
with intent to murder. was de-
MED a new trial by the United
States Supreme Court in a deci-
sion handed down March s.
Attorneys for the National AS
ISOLATION for the Advancement of
Colored People, who conducted
the defense of the 80 accused
men and women, prepared this
week to ask for pardon for
Kennedy following the Supreme
Court decision. OF the 81 persons
indicted. only Kennedy was con-
victed. He received a sentence of
not more- than five xeers, IN. The
state penitentiary
The famous Columbia ca $ e
grew out Of riot in the small
Tennessee town on the night Of
February 1926, 1916. On the pre-
ceding afternoon. Negro youth
struck white store proprietor
who had slapped the youths mo-
Their Immediately. the white
community was aroused and there
were rumors of lynching. The
state highway patrol and h e
state militia were called in. They
surrounded the Negro district and
at daybreak, followed by a mob
OF white civilians, invaded the
area Systematically searching ev-
cry Negro home, assaulting men,
women and children and destroy
ing their property Meanwhile
some of the Negroes had armed
to protect themselves. As the mob
composed of police, militia and ci-
villains, approached the Blair
Barber Shop. shotgun blast, al
See RIOT vlCTIM-page four
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-03-26

Marshall, Texas-The Dis tr | c
Court OF Harrison County where
Writ of Mandamus was filed by
students Of Wiley College asking
that they be permitted to enter
Wiley College where they had
been thrown out" or kicked
out" or put out because they
were members of the Wiley Stud
ent Council and represented the
700 or more who walked out be
cause OF immortality practiced by
the male members of the faculty
including the dean who has since
resigned and the unorthdoxed
flunking of great number of
students who must fail regardless
of their scholastic ability. And
this was not all that was disclosed
on the witness stand the three
days evidence was presented to
the court, by faculty members and
mighty parade Of some of the
finest young men and young wo-
men born in the human family.
On the first day Of the trial,
"a parade Of intellectual" COM
posed Of Rhetoricians, Mathemat-
icians, Scribes. Preachers, Schol-
ars and Stewards in the dining
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-03-26

thoroughly and have found, with
out the shadow of doubt, that
this Is the most brutal murder in
the long and bloody history Of
Negro murder by the Gretna po-
lice.
The facts Of the case are these:
Roy c. Brooks, Negro got on a
bus in Gretna behind a woman
who had boarded the bus mistak-
emily inserted her nickle in the
Slot register, and then finding
that she waa on the wrong bus,
asked for the return OF her nickle.
The bus driver refused, saying that
the nickle had gone through the
register and that he could not re-
turn II TO her.
See NEGRO KnLED-page for,
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-03-26

room, and some few others, array
ed with legal talent from the white
race. appeared as witness against
a group Of students, (male and
female) Of whom they or some
body had picked their names and
presented to the court and said
in affect, These are they we pick
ed after careful consideration,
placed charges against them, did
not give them a hearing, neither
public or private, and do not
want them back In Wiley, they
must not re-enter for their pres
ence on the campus Of the famous
institution made famous by he
roes Of yesterday will not be con-
ducive to the best welfare Of the
college. Fifty-three students were
in the original petition, but up to
this report only nine were left,
and these nine were the ones who
swore out q Writ Of Mandamus.
During the trial. word 8
rode like ships upon the tides,
and these word in dominance tes-
titled to the ideals and conviction
OF an age we are living. From
words used and expressed, strange
See HERE and THERE-page 4
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-03-26

Meanwhile the House Judici-
airy Committee, hurrying to push
through legislative ratification of
Jim Crow colleges, on March l6
approved by vote of IL to Z the
regional college plan compact in
troduced by southern congress
men at the behest Of the southern
governors. The House Committee
unlike that Of the Senate, endors-
ed the plan without public hear
ings or any attempt to ascertain
pertinent facts.
Such action is dangerously
close TO totalitarianism." Walter
White, NAACP secretary charged.
Fifteen southern states have ask
ed that an expensive and un-
American caste system in educa-
ton be frozen with congressional
sanction.
The IL members of the House
Judiciary Committee who did not
even seek to ascertain the needs
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-03-26
PMS Future Hangs
In Balance; Destiny
Splits Three ways

New York; year old Marshall
Field--supported tabloid PM, a
hard hitter for the rights of min
critics, is now on the rocks. Boss
Field has given notice to all en-
ployecs that after March 26th he's
pulling out.
To the rescue comes California
publisher Clinton d. McKinnon--
but at a price. McKinnon will
take over providing he can fire
whom he pleases within three
months. Newspaper Guild has is
sued loud protests for 1t knows
that under the McKinnon regime
many left heads will fall. Al
press time. the Big Three, repre-.
senting McKinnon, PM and the
Guild are In closed conference a,
San Diego.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-03-26

The victim, Samuel Bacon, an
employee of the Firestone Rubber
Company was en- route to visit
relatives in Natchez when he was
murdered in cold blood by Mar
shall S. d. Coleman in the Fay
cite, Mississippi Jail.
Fayette, County seat of Jeffer-s
son County, is a rural town OF
GOT population. 1t is on the edge
of Mississippi's cotton producing
Delta.
The Youth Congress character
lied Sheriff Millsap Johnson's as
sertion that Bacon was killed in
self defense when he attempted to
attack the marshall with an axe
INIT md Been ieft m sise JAIL ~
etransparent and clumsy cover
up for the barbaric cruelty which
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-03-26

well as Negroes.
Here's an example of how a le-
gal lynching takes place and re-
ceives but a line or two in the
local press
Committee Reports
The Provisional Committee for
justice in the Brooks case re:
ports as follows:
Last Friday. Feb. q, 1913. at
3:l5 p. m, in the City Of Gretna,
Roy c. Books, a decent, law
abiding citizen Of this state and a
longtime member Of Local 800,
FTA-CIO, was deliberately MUIR
dered In cold blood by policeman
Alvin Bladsacker Of the Gretna
police.
We have investigated this case
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-03-26

vistas Of slavery or the squalid-
ness of reconstruction to this SOL
id worth. 1t does not look outside
Of itself for anything.
The message of the day was
brought by the Reverend Ira A.
Brumley, executive secretary of
the Conference Board of Education
of the North Arkansas Conference
Of the Methodist Church. Rever-
end Brumley pictured. deplored,
and presented the challenge of
three tendencies of the day
materialism. self-endulgence. and
unitarian.
The days just ahead. he said,
"are going to be difficult Chris
tan life and education were al
the center of the ideals of our
fathers %. A large percent of
American youth are attending COL
leges religious in their inception
.... But three trends face US.
This country is more materialistic
now than it has ever been in our
history ... The tendency to reach
out after gold without caring how
we get it is a force that Is seeking
to destroy the spirit of our civil
ization. .... We spent 8 billion dol
lars for liquor in 1916 and three
billion for tobacco .... We stand
See PsC FOUNDERs-page four
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-03-26
Stop Segregation
In South's Colleges
Educator Urges

Dallas, Tex. Especially r c e
segregation in Southern colleges
and schools can be eliminated
with profit and without serious,
if any, untoward consequences"
according to Dean Charles H.
Thompson of Howard University,
Washington, d. c. Moreover, he
insists that "the South cannot az
ford to take the intransigent at.
titude toward the question which
it has been wont to take in the
past"
Dean Thompson discusses this
civil rights issue, which Is now
before the courts of Texas and
See OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES eight
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-03-26

What constitutes a lynching
is of paramount Importance
for a real appreciation of the
status of civil liberties in the
deep south. There are we'll
meaning people who define a
lynching only when a mob
takes the law into their own
hands and uses a rope and
tree as Judge and jury to hang
a defenseless Negro.
Such definitions. no matter how
kindly the source, can only gloss
over and hide the constant daily
lynch atmospher that hangs like
a pail over the entire south, main
tanning the south In a semi-colon-
ial status with ball and chain
around the necks of whites as
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-03-26
Wallace |ntercedes
For Mrs. Ingram
And Two Sons

Henry Wallace wired Georsia's
Governor Melvin =. Thompson
last week demanding . new trial
for Mrs. Rosa Lee Ingram and
her two minor sons who. he chars-
ID. have bsen senfsncsd 70 death
under .circnmstanees which would
cisafiy inaisats ! sross misear-
- = isa11aess
wsllaep wired Thompsoa:
4 have bsen dstg1y sclsoshsd
BY the dsath sentence impoesd
upon Mrs. Rosa Lee Insrsm and
her two minor sons under circum-
stances which would Clearly indi.
cate a gross miscarriage Of jus-
tice. It il apparent that no ade-
quate opportunity was given to
See wALLACE-pags eight
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-03-26

Three Negro presidents OF col
leaes and a Bishop and a Negro
Dean Of Theology sat on the piat'
form. There were six Negroes, De-
sides other guests, who wore aca-
demic robes-most of them de-
noting the doctorate. Behind these
high points of the local education
al world, their voices rising in a
crcscendo Of harmony that no col
lege chorus Of any other race
could surpass-or perhaps even
equal, A Negro press representa-
tive covered the event. The scene
was 81 ON the modern pulpit
stage IL historic Wesley Chapel
the latest word in pulpit plan
ming and architecture.
Out in the auditorium sat an
audience Of several hundred -
most OF them college graduates,
nearly all of them representing
high points of home-ownership,
exquisite home taste. and general
culture and well.being. That group
is socially solid, Is satisfied with
its culture, and does not believe
there is any social outside worth
its seeking. Far cry from the dim
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-03-26

and other officials ol the Univoe.
sity Of Oklahoma. The motion ~
= new trial in the STATE ccurt1
followed refusal to admit Ma
Fisher to the. law school sftss ~
United States Supreme Court m
decreed that the State a okla-
homa was required 10 provids ~
with an opportunity for Z lsgnl
education forthwith.
AT the trial on April s." NJ.
Marshall said, I'VE expect to Pre-
duce even more expert testimony
than we presented in tie Uaivur-
atty Of Texas eass - dsmenunaas
clearly that II = innnnpooulha6 =
ut equal educational faciiues =
. separate law schosl. W win
have experts not only n ~ fIe1a
Of legal trainine. ~ do Y -
fislds q sociology snd anlnreooa.
ogy.'
~ : rssl1it = ~ o1Uooo
Cent ru1fng r - 80
! - ~ - Z I| lll| =
b1inU = - - - q
Y. -. 6nls.-3 111f SiG.. 1880 -
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-03-26

is the ingrained habit of Southern
gestapo-cops."
Pointing out that the SNYC had
special interest in the case, the
letter to Clark, signed by Execu-
tive Secretary Louis E. Burnham,
stated that the daughter of the
murdered man, Mrs. Frances
See YC CONGREss-page eight
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-03-26
Negro Social Superiority Seen In PSC
Founders Day Speaker Questions
Mi|itaristic Democracy In Message

Tenth Annual Achievement and Public Relations Week Of
Phander Smith College, NJ Lafayette Harris president got OFT
to thrilling Tuesday at 1890 m. when friends and
Of institution got together to do homage to the
Founders Founders Day Program could be
thrilling?
day Of discussion Of "cv rights when the chief
AGAINST assertion that they would lead
social mixing thrill to the demonstration Of culture
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-03-26
PROTESTS AGAINST REGIONAL
SCHOOLS THREATEN PROJECT

NEW Y0RKPopar rssistance to congressional approval
- sasEeuatsa ssgisnul sdneHtnnal ~ suuud q
mount throughout the nation this week e National
citation for the Advancement Of Colored People projected
into the political through appeal members
and friends to let their congressman know that they opposed the
southern PLAN .--.-,.~.-~---
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-03-26
Mrs. Fisher Opens
Her Fight Again
10 Enter University

NEW YORK-Mrs. Ada Sipue Fishers fight for adms-
sion to the law school of the University Oklahoma b
reopened Monday April with trial In the District
Court Thurgood Marshall special for National A.
ISOLATION for the Advancement Of Coored People, announced
this week. Associated with Mr. Marshall conduct Of case
is Amos T. Hail. attorney of Tulsa Oklahoma.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-03-26

and wishes Of their constituents
and voted for this compact should
be condemned without reserva-
See THREATEN--page eight
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-03-26
Negro Worker Killed;
Cop Still Walks Beat
BY Victor Savage

NEW ORIEAN LA brutal murder Zinc
the Mississippi
n
have free The focos
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-03-26
Youth Congress Demands Action In Mississippi Killing
OKLA. Law SCHOOL FACES FIGHT

In Next Weeks Issue
The full text Of the Presidents civil Rights" Message
that has verbal disturbance in the south,
and caused southern politicians to them
selves and show how warped minds be twisted in
such fashions keep democracy from working. We
are publishing the in full because everybody is at
tempting to discuss the "cvi Rights proposal way
or the other and less than one-fourh knows what is
all about. Look for it in April End issue.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-03-26

Ola prison tonight had even-hand-
ed justice been meted out" Mr..
White asserted. Their conviction
Is a challenge to decency in Ga,
in the south and everywhere. Let
the decent elements in the south
come forward and demand justice
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-03-26

for this helplsss famlly."
In wrightsvills. ~ pslnAsd -
the reactionary slsmsats are
evidently following ths aAviss -
the late Senator Theodore Hlbe
who admonished his followers -
Sc REvOLT--pass sigAS
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-03-26
White Denounces Revolt
Of Southern Politicians


Of
asure equal and
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-03-26
Youth Congress Demands Justice Dept.
Action in Mississippi Killing; Sends
investigator To Scene Of Brutal Killing
Negro Murdered BY Police Officer
Was Father Of SNYC Office Worker

BIRMINGHAM, Aa.-Attorney General Tom Clark was
challenged today initiate speedy and vigorous investigation
by the Department police killing
of Akron, Ohio, Negro rubber worker
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-03-26

The new trial which will be
held in Norman. the site of the
University, comes a. the result
Of a motion filed on behalf Of
Mrs. Fisher on. March II, petit
tioning the court for further re-
lief against the Board Of Regents
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-03-26

MRS. Rosa Lee ingram ana hef
two teen-age sons would not be
under death sentence in q Geor-
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Exclusive
i'm The Standard

ranges about 81 per hundred
weight since the high peak this
summer.
Will the Democrats m k e
good their promises to the farm
ers, now the election is in the
bag? Or will they let sleeping
dogs lie, especially large finan-
cial dogs that might get real
gruffy if disturbed?
Big Business wants to put
farmers through the wringer by
having them pay their share,
and more, of the cold war costs.
They want farmers to turn out
food very cheaply, even though
it bankrupts thousands of them
in the process, by taking away
from the farmers most of their
farm program, if not all.
They want f a m RS to be
super -rugge individualists,
selling their farm products on a
highly competitive market while
they buy machinery and tractor
fuel from monopolies.
A glance at the publications
and reports of the large finan-
cial houses a ong Wall Street
finds them all saying farm price
supports must go.
In a nutshell, the Roosevelt
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is a real "farmer-labOr" party.
But if farmers think for a min
ute that the Democratic Party
will hand them farm prosperity
on a silver platter, they have an
other think coming.
Two days after the election,
the Department of Agriculture
issued a re1eas headlined:
"Signs Indicate Farmers Future
to Be Less Rosy" Farm costs, -
according to the release, 6. .
can be expected to eat up more
and more of the farmers cash
returns as income gains slow
down and expenses continue to
climb" The cold truth is that
already in 1948, weeks before
the election, farm operating
costs had risen IA per cent since
early January.
On the other hand corn now
is selling on the farm for as low
as 81 cents a bushel, less than
half of what it was a year ago.
Other grains are in a somewhat
similar position and livestock
has slipped in price ON the
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Commission to grant it an
average Is per cent rate in
crease.
For Illinois Bell, which seems
to be getting into a rut, it would
be the third postwar rate in
crease. 1t got one in July last
year and then came right back,
hat in hand, to get another in
December.
The phone company's plight
has invariably brought sympa-
thetic signs and quick action
from the Republican-cOntrOlled
Illinois Commerce Commission.
But this time the people of
Illinois have every right to ex-
pect a fair shake. The phone
company increase is expected to
be one Of the first items of bust
ness on the agenda of the new
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-11-20

Wallace advised. ut is right and
proper that we should give Mr..
Truman as President-elect in
his own right the opportunity to
demonstrate whether or not he
is prepared to change the cold
war policy. 1t certainly will not
be many weeks before we know.
If the decision is to continue
the cold war it will not be many
months before it becomes APP
parent that progressive domes-
tic program cannot be made to
live in the same world with a
reactionary foreign program.
Either the Democratic Party
program must become reaction
airy or the foreign program must
be made progressive.
With the words, Personally
have just begun to fight" the
former Roosevelt Truman cabi-
net member told reporters he
will continue activity in the
Progressive Party, helping to
extend the organization into
new localities, as planned by
this weekend conference. Asked
by newsman if he would help
the PrOgressives by being their
presidential candidate again in
1852, he said if it were to help,
he guessed he would.
During the sessions, the
party's labor secretary, Russell
Nixon of the CIO Electrical
Workers outlined plans for
elevating trade unionists to "a
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ICC, which will be appointed
by Governor-elect Adlai Stew
enSon.
Stevenson campaigned up
and down the state on a program
calling for a housekeeping of
political hacks and toadies. He
promised to give the people
honest, efficient government; he
promised to safeguard their
welfare. They believed him.
The manner in which his ICC
handles the Illinois Bell case
will be one of the first indica-
tiOns of Their Stevenson
meant what he said.
Heretofore, the phone COM
pany has romped through ICC
hearings like a dog frolicking
in his own yard. Hearings were
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Progressive leaders meet here
HENRY. WALLACE
SAYS: NOW LET'S
HOLD THEM TO IT

All Progressive Party groups called upon last
weekend by their national committee to lobby into reality
the New Deal election for which the people voted
Harry Truman and a Democratic Congress into office.
Committee members heard Henry Wallace declare that
had orced compete with PrOgressives
a peace program and that the Democrats, result
of pressure campaigned forward looking
gram than before in history