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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-06-19
Local Woman
Found Dead
In Bed

Mrs. Matilda Hinton, AZ year
old widow, was found in bed at
her home dead, 319 Lemly Street
here early last Tuesday morning
Mrs. Annie Wright a neighbor
told investigation officers that the
dead woman had call her before
she was found dead askini for help
because she was feeling bad.
After administering aid to Mrs.
Hinton, who complained of a hurt
ing in the chest, Mrs. Wright re-
turned to her home later going
back to the Hinton's home to see
how she was doing when she found
her dead.
A coroners jury which investi-
gated the case reported the death
as having resulted from natural
causes.
The body of the dead woman was
sent to Arcola, Mississippi her for
mer home.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-06-19
President Reddix
Jackson College
Receives Special
Grant To Study
In Liberia

Jacob l.. Reddix' president of
Jackson College, a state teachers
college of Jackson Mississippi, has
announced that the phelps-Stokes
Fund of New York has made a
special grant to him for a study of
school facilities in the Republic oi
Liberia.
The Board of Trustees of Insti-
tutions of Higher Learning of the
State of Mississippi has recently
granted him a leave of absence to
accept the invitation from the
Phelps-Stokes Fund to study the
possibilities of developing an eff
fective program of rural education
and teacher training in the Re-
public of Liberia. He will also
study the possibilities of develop
ing a program of farm and COM
munity cooperative societies on a
level of the community life of the
natives. President Reddix Will
make his headquarters at Booker
Washington Institute and will also
act as a consultant to this insti-
tuition, looking forward to the pos
sibilities of training rural teach
ers and community leaders who
will be especially equipped to carry
forward an effective educational
program for the natives of Liberia
A native of Ocean Springs.
Mississippi, President Reddix
studied at the Illinois Institute of
Technology and at the University
of Chicago. He taught in the pub
lie schools of Birmingham, Ala
bama and was head of the DEPART
ment of Mathematics at Roosevelt
High School, Gary, Indiana for
IL years. He was one of the found
ers of the very successful coopera-
CONTINUED on page 81
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-06-19
Resent Two White Cir | Instructors In Camp
IL -
F.BI. Repored Invests eating Incident

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. June ID
Terror which spread among its
members following a night visit by
band of robed and hooded men
forced the closing of an Alabama
Girl Scout camp where two white
girls were instructing Negro
Girls Scout leaders from five
southern states by Girl Scout
leaders here Saturday.
The two girls, whose tent was
invaded by the night riders, said
the men appeared to be K0 Klux
Klansmen.
Federal Bureau of Investigation
agents repeatedly jointed local
authorities this morning in prob
ing the incident.
Girl Scout headquarters in
Birmingham reported that the
group of men entered the tent of
the two Memphis, Tenn in
structors. The girls were awakened
and questioned about the operation
of the leadership camp, while
other intruders went through the
personal belongings in the tent.
A spokesma for the girls or
ganization said that the man
warned the two white girls TO
"get OUT within "a hours. That
was late Thursday nipht at Camp
Pauline Bray Fletcher, near Bes-
semer, Alabama.
The two white girls were identi-
fled as Katrine Nichol, of Men,
phis, and Elizabeth Ijams of Knox
vile, Tenn, both working out of
the Memphis office of the Girl
Scouts.
They were training &c Negro
leaders from five southern states.
Leaders and students were occu-
plying separate quarters. The stu
dents were not disturbed by the
hooded band.
The two leaders told scout
headquarters in Birmingham that
"about 20 cars" were parked a.
round the camp when the men
woke them.
The F.B.I. was asked to enter
the case. Solicitors H.A. Sullinger
of Bessemer launched an investiga
ton when the visitation was re-
ported to him.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-06-19
King Hiram Masonic
Grand Lodge To Meet
July 4,5 In Greenwood
Largest Delegation In
City's History To
Attend Meeting

The Most Worshipful King
Hiram Grand Lodge, Colored AT
& Am. of the State of Mississippi
will meet in Greenwood July As,
it was announced from the organi-
zation's headquarters early this
week by its Grand Secretary
Clarence Winters.
The meeting will be the quest of
Greenwood Lodge, I'll. Al. Allen,
NV. and Leflore Lodge, I'll. MS.
Hazard. NV.
The Meeting will open in Green
wood, July Ats at HIG HNOON,
with one of the biggest street
parades ever witnessed by a Fra
ternal organization. The Noble
Mystic Shrine and Daughters of
the Sphinx from al over the State
will join n the parade.
Sundays services will be held at
Wesley Chapel Methodist Church,
on Wathall Street. Sermon by Rev.
Edd. Jackson 80 degree Chapel
Chaplain, one of the leading Bap-
fist ministers of the State.
Hear III. Nathaniel Stubs %
Deputy Master explain the pro-
gress made by the organization,
I'll. Clarence Winters 33 degree
Grand Secretary explain the Ma
tional Affiliation. Hear the truth
and know the facts about one of
the biggest and best Masonic or
CARNATIONS existing in Mississ-
ippi at this time.
The purpose of the meeting to
elect delegates to represent the M.
w. King Hiram Grand Lodge in
the Biennial Session of the General
Masonic Congress, Supreme Coun-
ell and Imperial Grand Council,
which convenes, October SO, 1948
in st. Louis, Missouri. Delegates
will be the guest of st. Matthew
Grand Lodge, AT. & Am. State
of Missouri, Ill. IT,. Smith 33 de-
gree G.. NJ, Corner Washington
Blvd, and Cedar Street. Haiti, Mo.
Reservations are now being made
to carry hundreds of brothers and
sisters from Mississippi to the
meeting that they may see and
know for themselves the National
Standing of their Grand Ledge and
National Affiliation of the men,
bers. Ill. E. D. Love 33 degree
President General Grand Masonic
Congress, 1909 18th Street, NV,
Washington, D. c., Ill. John j.
Continued on page 81
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-06-19
New Methodist Bishop
Former Pastor OF
Central Church Here
Atlanta Meet Elects
Bowen By Large
Majority

DIR. John eWsley Edward Bower
of New Orleans, La, editor of the
Central Christian Advocate for the
past four years, was elected bis
hop in the Methodist Church Friday
at the morning session of the Cen
trail Jurisdictional Conference, now
in session at Clark College, DR.. J
P. Brawley, President: Bowen was
elected on the third ballot, with a
vote of 80. According to the laws
of the church a two thirds vote il
necessary for choice to his high
office. The 124 delegates gave him
80. Necessary for choice was 81.
The runner-up in the election was
DR.. RIG. Morris of Cincinnati, who
had 80 votes on the third and last
ballot, in this third quadrennial
session of the conference.
Born in 1889 in Baltimore, Md,
the newly elected bishop is the son
of the late DR.. 1--WE. Bowen, for
forty years, Professor and Presi-
dent of Cannon Theological Semi
nary in Atlanta, Georgia. At the
, time of his birth the new bishops
father, the first Negro to earn the
Pho. degree in America, was the
pastor in Baltimore, Maryland 5
Centennial Methodist Church. He
received his early training and
high school education at Clark
University and was graduated
from Phillips Exeter College, IN
Exeter, NH, in 1907. He received
the ALB. degree. cum laude IN
1914 from Wesleyan University,
Middleton, Conn, and received the
MA. degree from Howard Uni
versity in 1913. He spent four
years in grauate study work at
Harvard University, completing
the residence work for the Ph.D.
degree and also did work at the
Cannon Theological Seminary and
later was given the honorary Doc
tor of divinity degree.
The bishop-elect has served as
pastor of some of the outstanding
churches of the denomination. For
several years he was pastor of
son, Miss, and later transferred
to the Louisiana Conference, from
which conference he has been ele-
waited. He has also had teaching
experience. He has served on the
| faculties of New Orleans Univer-
sity, Walden College, Nashville,
Tenn. Tuskegee Institute, Ala
bama, and Claim College, Orange
burg, S. c.,
Bowen's ministerial career was
continued in Louisiana, the home
of his father and grandfather. He
Continued on page 81
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-06-19
Canton Lions Club
Light Negro
Playground

CANTON, Miss. June IL -
lSpecia)-The local Lions Club,
Ehite, using the proceeds from a
ecent minstrel show has furnish
d flood lights for a local Negro
playground
4 In a ceremony here Friday night
zion Club President, DR.. j. B.
rice presented the flood lights TO
#rof. Am. Rogers, principal of the
cameron Street Negro public
Hhool.
y The well lighted field on school
vned property comprises an en-
re city block.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-06-19
KHAN TERRORIZE GIRL SCOUT CAMP
GIRL FRIEND ARRESTED IN BARRIERS DEATH

Training Camp For Ne gro Girls Scout
Leaders From Five So uthern States Closes
After Visit From ROBBED And Hooded Night
Riders. xawcsaxaNaneaAwsaw
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-06-19
Argument Over
Girl Friend
Leads To Shooting

Floyd Jenkins, Jr., of 22G West
Pascagoula Street was shot and
seriously wounded as a result of
an argument over a girl friend at
the Tri-State Bus station here ear
" Friday morning. .--- --.---- -----.-.
Gus Taylor of 500 Salem Street
was. arrested. and admit
ted the shooting. He was charged
with shooting with intent to kill,
pending the outcome of Jenkins
condition who was taken to the
Baptist Hospital.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-06-19
Share Chopper Sues
Land Lord For
100000

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. James
Hawkins, Negro sharecropper was
beaten, robbed an dthreatened with
death by the operator of Cox
Brothers plantation and some of
his friends.
AS a result he has brought suit
in US. District Court here for
500. OCO according to the Workers
Defense League, whose lawyers
are handling the ase.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-06-19
Pres. ST.. Green
Defines Use OF
Campbell College
For Testimonial
HOnOring Gladys
Bates

President Sherman Lawrence
Greene Jr., declined the use of
facilities of Campbell College for
testimonial honoring Mrs. Gladys
Noel Bates, young woman school
teacher, mother of two, who re-
Gently filed suite in the federal
court here for equalization of
Teachers Salaries.
Both Mrs. Bates and her hus-
band Prof. John Bates, Trades IN
structor at Lanier High School
were dismissed from service at the
close of the school term as a re-
suit of the suit.
The plan to honor Mrs. Bates is
being sponsored by the recently
organized Citizens Committee
headed b yDr. Lula Bell Stewart
and the local branch of the NAACP
and was put forwar after Mrs
Bates an dher husband were dis
missed from service, and after re-
ports began to spread that they
were subjected to unusual GOODNESS
from teachers as a result of Of
ficial pressure.
Campbell College, an A. M. F..
Church school is additionally
looked upon as free from in
fluence effecting the operation of
state supported and certain other
Negro institutions. On both sides
the families of the Bates have been
long active members of the Am.
E. Church.
Mrs. Bates is the daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Al. Noel, of West
Pearl Street, longtime members OF
Pearl Street A.M.E. Church. Mr..
Noel has long been an active work
er in the interest of and a contribu
tor to Campbell College.
According to a statement by Mr..
Al. Noel, who was appointed to
head committee to find place
for the testimonial dinner, he first
conferred with President Greene
with respects to having the affair
at the college on Sunday. July 4th.
Reporting to later meeting of
the committee it was suggested
that sicne both Sunday, July A and
the following Monday would be
holidays, it would be better to have
the affair Monday.
Returning to President Greene,
Mr.. Noel stated that the Presi-
dent told him that although he had
previously promised him that the
affair could be held at the college
on Sunday, July 3rd, after further
thought he had reached the con-
cIusion that the affair could not
be held at the college on Sunday
or any other time. Mr.. Noel stated
that President Greene did not
attempt to amplify his statement.
Carsie A. Hall, overall chair
man of the arrangement committee
stated early this week that eff
forts were being made to secure
the use of the Basement audi
forum of Christ Temple Church.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-06-19
Negroes On
Lauderdale County
Jury

MERIDIAN, Miss. - June IA
For the first time since Recon
struction Days the names of Ne
groes will be placed in the Lauder
dale County Jury Box for the
court term starting June goth.
Lauerdale County Supervisors
announced last week that the step
must be taken because of a re-
cent Supreme Court ruling on a
case in which no Negroes were on
the Jury.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-06-19

burg Ph.D. in School Administra-
ton. will serve as Dean of Instru-
ction and Dean of the School of
Education.
DIR. Oak, Clark University
Ph.D. in journalism and Econom-
mics. will serve as Administrative
Assistant to the President Dean
of the College and Director of
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-06-19
Ilcorn Hires A Ph.D's

|ALCORN COLLEGE - DR.. w.
Pipes, Present of Alcorn AIM
bllege, has announced the recent
hployment of four persons each
glding a Ph.D. degree for the
I48-49 School year. They are Drs.
lie. Scott, Wv. Oak, Emilia
boxer and r. Cram Lloyd.
IDr. Scott, University of Pitts
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1948-12-24

V sobotu, rs. prosince svetem roz-
hlahol Sc opet radostna Vanocni pisen,
kdyz clovek Dude chtiti, ably on snim
jemu mill sdileli blahy cit, jez tajuplna
Vanocni doba clo%vecenstvu skyta.
V teto pred-vanocni dobe odporucu-
jeme ctenardtm TELEGRAPH by svojl
prizni a pratelstvim poctili vsechny,
kteri svoji oznamkou neb zdravici pri-
spell do naseho Vanocniho cisla.
Evening star., 1948-05-20
Message From Hawaii

To the Editor OF The Star:
Your editorials urging the early passage Of
legislation providing for statehood for the Ter
rtory of Hawaii are given front-page space in
our local papers.
I'm sure the great majority of people in
Hawaii are very grateful. We need help now
more than ever before. Our cause is just The
attainment of Our political rights as American
citizens has long been delayed by public apathy
rather than by actual opposition. Congress
must be given the word clearly, forcefully,
and unmistakably, by the people, that the po-
litical subjugation of half million American
citizens will no longer be tolerated. Congress
already knows from evidence compiled by many
Investigations that the territory is ready, will
ing, able and deserving. 1t remains only to
spur the members to action.
Our delegate in Washington is speaking and
working for the overwhelming majority of us
here. He has been working against heavy odds
in Congress because Of the popularity OF his
position as delegate, alone, and without vot-
ing privileges. I am sure he is grateful for your
actions. Please do not stop now Keep on fight
ing with us. RICHARD E. TUTT.
Wahiawa, Oahu, Hawaii
Evening star., 1948-05-20
Chance for Leadership

indicative OF the growing interest IN tne
proposal for a Metropolitan Area Public
Utilities Commission is the adoption by
the Interfederation Council of resolution
indorsing the plan. The council, repre-
senting civic organizations in the DlStflcC
and in the nearby Maryland and Virginia
counties calls for action" looking toward
legislation to effect the reform.
Action is what is needed and it may be
that the council is a good agency to get
things started. There has been lot OF
talk in favor of a joint approach to solu-
ton of Metropolitan Area public utility
problems, but action has Jagged because
nobody seemed to know just who should
take the initiative in the matter. 1t has
been suggested that an interstate compact
would be necessary to establish such a
system, but neither the District, Maryland
nor Virginia has evidenced any willing
ness to make the first move.
Yet number of citizens groups IN the
area and several officials have pointed to
the difficulty of trying to deal piecemeal
with utility questions affecting the mutual
interests of residents inside and outside
the District. Recent rate and route hear
ings covering suburban bus services have
shown the shortcomings of the present
arrangement. Fare hearings for the
Arnold Lines, extending from Arlington
and Fairfax Counties into downtown
Washington, were held before the Inter-
state Commerce Commission, although it
is doubtful that Congress ever intended
that national agency to be burdened with
problems of such limited local concern.
The Capital Transit Company finds itself
under jurisdiction of three agencies-the
ICC, the District PUG and the Maryland
Public Service Commission. Rates inside
the District are fixed by the local PUG and
outside the District line by the Maryland
commission. The ICC has overall inter-
state supervision and in addition, has
required the company to continue an out
moded transfer agreement with Virginia
buslines-a holdover from the wartime
days when Capital Transit buses ran to
the Pentagon. These various supervisory
activities at times are conflicting and
usually are confusing and burdenSome to
the utilities.
Under the proposed joint PUG plan, this
overlapping and duplication of effort
would be eliminated. Utilities whose oper-
ations are the common concern of Wash
ington and the nearby counties would be
under direct control of one PUG, en-
powered by interstate compact to act in
the interest of the whole Metropolitan
Area. Congress would have to authorize
such a compact and each of the juris-
dctions would have to ratify it-just
as was done with respect to controlling
pollution in the Potomac River. The Inter-
federation Council, because of its inter-
state representation, might well assume
the leadership in this worthwhile move
ment
Evening star., 1948-05-20
Extremes Meet in Latin America

Victor Raul Haya de la Tore is one OF
the outstanding intellectual figures, not
only in his own country, Peru, but also In
Latin America as a whole. He is best
known as leader of the Aprista movement,
dedicated to Peru's egeneration-cultural,
economic and political alike. This move
ment is crystallized in political party of
which Haya de la Tore is the head and
designated candidate in the presidential
elections scheduled for 1851.
With such background, anything this
man says is worthy of attention. There
fore, the interview he gave on arriving in
New York the other day for brief visit
to our country may be deemed significant.
The main theme of his message is
warning that Latin American Communists
are aligning themselves with the most
extreme reactionary forces in many of
the republics to the southwark, and that
this sinister combination constitutes the
gravest immediate threat to the democ
racy of the New World. Those reactionary
forces include the traditional sTtreme-
Evening star., 1948-05-20
Crusade for Children

1t is too bad that weather conditions
interfered with plans for spectacular
opening on the Monument Grounds of the
American Overseas Aid-United Nations
Appeal for Children. This Crusade for
Children" deserved to be launched in a
spectacular way so that maximum
amount of public attention could be at
tracted to the cause. For here is an. appeal
that is so worth while and so compelling
that every citizen should know about it.
The campaign, of which General Eisen-
hover Is honorary national chairman, is
being waged here and elsewhere through
out the country in behalf of 100000 900
children under fifteen in Europe and Asia
who are suffering from the ravages of war
and its aftermath AS General Eisenhower
and his campaign associates point out,
ERP and other leng-range aid programs
will not assure the immediate relief needed
in many lands by children "up against
starvation" right now.
In Washington no definite goal has been
set, but the campaign organization hopes
that the citizens of this area will con-
tribute generously through novel "give-
a-chance" plan. Instead OF being asked
to take a chance as in lottery, those
solicited will be offered an opportunity to
give some child or children chance to
live. Chance" books containing dollar,
five-dollar and ten-dollar tickets will be
sold. A dollar ticket will assure month
of supplementary feeding for one child.
A ten dollar ticket will provide child with
one year of supplementary feeding at the
rate of six hundred calories day, or will
give medical care for a sick child for
month. 1t is not easy to ignore an appeal
couched in such understandable terms.
Those who do not wish to await the call Of
solicitor or who wish to learn more about
the drive should get in touch with cam
paign headquarters at 1922 H street North
west. The telephone number is Sterling
$500. ....s a4 H1s .
Evening star., 1948-05-20
Should the Scale Slide Back?

It Is news when the Potomac Electric
Power Company asks for an increase in
rates. For. twenty eight long years Gus
toners of the company have learned to
look for decreases rather than increases
In their electricity bills. The sliding gscale
arrangement, effected in 1925, has followed
a one-Way track-in the customers favor.
Rate reductions from 1925 through 1943
aggregated 100000, on top of which came
last years refunds totaling more than
three million dollars.
When the sliding scale was adopted
the District Public Utilities Commission
pointed out that it conceivably could slide
up as we'll as down; that there might
come a time when either the commission
or the company would feel justified in
considering an adjustment in the "om-
pany's favor. The company argues that
this time has now come.
1t cannot be said that this news, how
ever disturbing, catches either the PUG or
the public by surprise. Last March the
company warned the commission that
rising costs of coal and other increases in
operating expenses made a request for
higher rates inevitable The company's
petition presents some figures that are
striking Coal which accounts for ap-
proximately half of the expense of produc-
ing electricity, costs the utility 80 per cent
more today than it did five years ago.
Operating costs, as whole, have nearly
doubled, the petition asserted. Mean
while, Pepco expects to earn this year
about 81 100000 less than the 51a per cent
return permitted under the sliding scale
agreement.
What makes the outlook worse, from the
company's viewpoint, is the fact that new
construction planned during the next five
years will require an outlay of about
sS6OO0,0O0. This program, it is empha-
sized, is necessary If the generating ca
pacity and distributing facilities are to
keep pace with conservative estimates of
future needs. New capital obviously will
be essential to carry out such construc-
tion But new capital will be difficult to
obtain unless the company's financial
status Is such as to attract capital.
Thus. the f5roblem that confronts the