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Valley frontiersman., 1948-11-03
CHEST DRIVE OPENED HERE ON MONDAY

With drive details planned down to the tiniest detail, the board of directors of Palmer's Community Chest began the 194S campaign, which opened on Monday, confident that the $3,- 900 goal will be reached long be- fore the Nov. 21st closing date.
 Receipts were inspected and allotted to the district captains at last Fridays last pre-drive board meeting. Each solicitor has been given a list of every family to be visited, and has been sup piled with receipts enough for a contribution from every family on his list The receipts were dis tributed by chairman Les Ray and secretary Mrs. F. R. Sims early last Sunday morning.
 Red feathers, the Community Chest symbol of giving, will be distributed to every resident who pledges $1O or more in the cur rent campaign. On Red Feather day, to be Nov. 20 in the Valley, all contributors who have earned a feather are asked to wear it.
 It was reported that Wasilla prefers not to join with Palmer in the Community Chest drive. That community will shoulder a portion of the fund promised the Territorial Department of Health for public health nurse services, but feels that other Chest bene- ficiaries will not assist Wasilla materially.
 Drive chairman Les Ray re- ported that a thermometer, re- cording progress toward the $3,000 goal, again will be mount ed on the freight dock opposite the Palmer station.
Valley frontiersman., 1948-11-03
WosiIIo Boy Wins Trip

One Valley youth, Donald Din kel of Wasilla, will make up one third of Alaska's delegation to the national All Club conven- tion in Chicago this year. The convention trip begins on Thanksgiving Day for the three Alaskan winners, and for Miss Marilyn Johnson, home demon stration agent, who will accom- pany them.
 Other winners are Jack Brad , way of Fairbanks and Phyllis Dangler of Seward. Phyllis bro ther Richard was one of the ter ritorial delegates last year, as was Donald's sister Flo Alice of WaSilla.
 Donald's trip was awarded for his poultry project. He has been in All work for eight years, most of which he has spent in garden ing projects. He switched to poultry this year, when he won second prize for his exhibit at the Matanuska Valley Fair. Don aid is junior in WaSilla High School.
 Jack Bradway's project was gardening, the contest which was won by the Valleys Lynn Sand vik last year. The Fairbanks youth made a daily diary to re- cord his gardens progress from the time of his May 24th plant ing to his first sale on June 18th. That sale paid him $1.80, the price brought by 12 punches of radishes. Jacks total income from his half-acre plot was $114.9O.
 Phyllis Dangler of Seward made an outstanding record in several fields of All work this
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Valley frontiersman., 1948-11-03
Achievement Day For CIubbers Is Saturday

Although place and date still are only tentative, the All Club Achievement Day is scheduled to take place sometime next week, according to announcement from the Extension Office. The date, at press-time, was fixed for Nov. 6, but there is a possibility that it will be changed.
 This years Achievement Day program is to be a banquet, at which 56 Wasilla and Palmer A. Hers will be jointly honored. Pins and awards will be distri- buted at the banquet, to the eli gible club members who con- pleted their projects and turned in their record books.
 The evenings program in- cludeS short talks by club mem bers on the following subjects.
 My responsibility to my home by Margie Huntley; my responsi- bility to my club by Tim Miller; my responsibility to my church by Margie Huntley; m reSponsi- bilit to my community by Gene vieve DeLand; my responsibility to my country by Lynn Sandvik; my responsibility to my world by Alice Dinkel.
 Adults who will participate in the program include Mrs. Lou Sandvik, Rev. Kenneth Hughes and Neil Miller.
 The evenings banquet will be served by members of the Home makers Council. Guests will in clude Miss Marilyn Johnson, Parker Lester, school and com munity representatives and par ents of all club members.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-03-13
La.-Miss. African
Methodist Honor
Bishop S. |. Greene
For Sixteen Years
Outstanding
Service
DEDICATE NEW BUILDING
ON CAMPBELL COLLEGE
CAMPUS

Jackson, Miss. March s - Bis
hop Sherman Lawrence Greene
born in the backwoods of Miss
issippi, where he pastored his
first church, who has risen to
the senior and perhaps the most
influential Bishop of the African
Methodist Episcopal Church, and
who has served with outstanding
distinction international interdo-
nominational meetings of religious
bodies both in America and a.
broad, was given the very high
est praise, for his sixteen years
service to the Sth Episcopal Dis
trict, during the Founders Day
Celebration at Campbell College
here March "a, which included
the dedication of the New Sher-
man Lawrence Greene Admins
tration Building named in his
honor, recently constructed on
the college campus at cost of
upwards of 100000.
Joining in the three day cele-
bration were number of Ma
tionally known A. M. E. church
men and presiding Elders, Pas
tors, Laymen and women from
throughout the Sth Episcopal Dis
trict, over which Bishop Greene
has presided for the past 16 years
comprising the states of Mississ-
ippi and Louisiana.
The principal speeches of the
celebration were made by Bishop
D. Ward Nichols, Birmingham,
Alabama, presiding Bishop of the
ninth Episcopal District, and Per-
cy Greene, Editor and publisher
of the Jackson Advocate.
Bishop Nichols, praising the
work of Bishop Greene in bring
ing the Sthe Episcopal District
upto one of the leading districts
Continued on Page s.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-03-13

Jackson, Miss, March 8 - The
first case in Mississippi dealing
with the subject Of Negro Edua-
ton, following patterns already
set in suit already decided in most
states oe the deep south, was filed
in Federal Court here last Thurs
day by Mrs. Gladys Noel Bates,
comedy teacher in Smith Robinson
School here, on behalf of herself
and other Negro teachers of the
Jackson school district, for equal
ization of Teachers salaries.
The filing of the suit with the
backing Of the local branch of the
National Association for the Adj
vancement of Colored People,
brought to a close a subject long
holly debated by the Mississippi
Association of Teachers in Color
ed schools.
The suit was filed by Attorney
J. M. Burns, long time Negro
lawyer of Meridian, who will have
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President Jacob l.. Reddix OF
Jackson College has announced
the appointment Of De Lare Fun
ches to fill the newly created
post, "to direct the Colleges pub
lie relations activities"
Mr.. Punches was graduated from
Lanier High School in 1910. He
taught in the Monticello County
Training School and the Crinth
High School prior to his entry
into the Army. Upon being dis
charged he served as a substi-
tute teacer inh the Jackson Public
School system.
He received his Masters degree
in Student Personnel Administra-
ton from Teachers College, Col
umbia University, and completed
a semester in Principles and Tech
niques of Publicity at The New
School for Social Research.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-03-13

We Stond With The
People, By The People and !
for The People No One /.
Is Safe Until We All
Are Soved
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-03-13
State Attorney General Says Nothing
Can Be Done About Khan Activities
Whose Charter Was Revoked Last Year
Negro Voters Frightened By Grand
Dragons Speech
frey Cross Burns Here

Wrightsville, Ga. (ANP) - No
Negroes voted in the johnson
county primary last week follow
ing the appearance of the Ku Klux
Khan in this county seat and an
appeal to bloodshed by the xxx
Grand Dragon.
aingNesgroe
Some 800 hooded and robed
klansmen paraded through the
town on the eve OF the election.
A Is foot cross was burned on the
lawn of the county courthouse.
Inside a circle of fully hooded
and robed klansmen, green-clad
DR.. Samuel Green, OF Atlanta,
grand dragon of the hate order
made nc direct reference to the
election slated for the next day
but openly attacked President
Truman's announced program for
civil rights and threatened that
blood would flow on the streets
of the south if the Negro takes a
place at the side of white men thru
force rfederal bayonets.
The grand dragon debated to
the throng:
1--WE reaffirm our loyalty to the
constitution our VOW to uphold
the laws, but there are some thing
beyond he law
The khan. will mot permit the
people of this country to become
mongrel race.
There are people in this country
who would deny you your very
lives in order to get the Negro
vote.
I call On you to write to your
representatives to protect your
rights.
President Truman is facing Ger
tain defeat unless he retracts
some of his statements. If he
wants to take the Negro as his
equal, that's his business
Further, DR.. Green declared that
sthis country was founded by white
men and that "those who don't
swant it to be white mans coun-
try should move to some other
bounty" In conclusion he told the
hooded kluxers: eve want to see
1the Negro treated fairly, but
Whenever the Negro takes place
at the side of white men through
force of federal bayonets, blood
will flow in the streets Of the
south"
q Another khan demonstration
had been held week previously
come 20 miles away, at Gordon,
"a Wilkinson County.
The country judge on the next
ay after the election claimed that
Negroes were not interested in
ounty affairs.
Only one Negro is known to
ave approached the polls in john
lbn county. He was said to have
sked if his name was on the
kgistration books and to have
lit.
Both Gov. M. e Thompson and
late Atty. Gen. Eugene Cook
the khan action, but claimed
ey could do nothing about the
Invites of the "vo1utary" assoc
ion whose charter was outlawed
st year
In Jackson Mississippi, on Sat
day night, March 6, six men clad
the White Regalia Of the Ku
tux Khan burned six foot fiery
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-03-13
Nationwide Radio Broadcast Mark
121st Anniversary Of First Negro
Newspaper
Schools Colleges Throughout Nation
Join In Negro Newspaper Week
President Truman Praises NEGRO
Newspapers

Kansas City - Many schools
and colleges throughout the ma
ton are planning special pro-
grams in observance of Negro
Newspaper Week, March 7-13,
concentrating the 121st ami
versary of the founding of the
first Negro newspaper, Freedoms
Journal, by John Russwurm, Dow
dial H. Davis, chairman of the
National Negro Newspaper Week
Committee, announced last Thurs
day.
Student convocations, special
classroom projects, speaker and
articles in student newspapers
will be included in the tribute
to Negro Journalism. which has
grown since Freedoms Journal
was established in 1927 to more
than 200 papers published through
out the forty-eight states and
with a total circulation of al
most two million.
Some Of the schools which have
indicated that special programs
will be held include BluefieId,
West Virginia; the University Of
Chicago, through it's student news
paper, The Maroon; Philander
Smith College, Little Rock, Ark;
the Florida Agricultural and Me-
chanical College, Tallahassee, Fla;
Tillotson College, Austin, Texas;
Bishop College, Marshall, Texas,
and Lincoln University, Jeffer-
son City, Missouri.
Highlighting the weeks activit-
les will be three radio broadcasts
over nationwide network. Thurs
day over ABC at 1920 p. m. EST
and Saturday at 1915 EST net
works. The feature of the radio
show will be John Garfield we'll
known stage and screen star.
The Russwurm Awards, given
for the first time this year to
newspapers and newmen for out
standing public service will also
be announced Saturday over the
National Broadcasting Company
network.
In addition, high schools in
great many cities and communit-
les are planning their own obser-
vance of Negro Newspaper Week
in the form of student meetings,
convocations, projects in journal
ism classes and special speakers.
President Harry S. Truman join
in the observances in a letter to
Thomas w. Young, President of
the Negro Newspaper Publishers
Association, citing the growth of
the Negro Press and its import
ance as segment of our great
American Press.
Negro Newspaper Week is spon-
sored by the Negro Newspaper
Publishers Association. In addi-
ton to Mr.. Davis, members of
the associations National Negro
newspaper Week Committee are
William G.. Num-, managing edi-
tor of the Pittsburgh Courier,
and Frank L. Stanley, editor
and publisher of the Louisville
Defender.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-03-13

the money paid out in the form of
dividends remain with the COM
pany to boost the output of the
company. They also decided to
sell another seventeen thousand
five hundred dollars worth of
stock. The shares will have par
value of thirty-five dollars each
and will be sold for thirty-seven
dollars and fifty cents each. The
added two dollars and fifty cents
will cover a part of the promotion
cost.
Aside from the manufacture of
building supplies the company
sells all types of building access
series.
CONTINUED on Page 5
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-03-13
Criterion milIwork
& Mfg. Company
Declare Dividends

In an enthusiastic meeting the
stockholders of the Criterion Mill
work and Manufacturing Com
pany voter dividends totaling 1878.
90. All persons present were fav-
orably impress with the many
machines owned by the company.
There were drill presses, shaper,
jig saw, band saw, table saws,
and the latest addition planer
capable of dressing four sides of
a piece of lumber six inches thick
and fourteen inches wide. The
company has invested more than
six thousand dollars in machines
and tools.
In the meeting many of the
stockholders made plees to have
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-03-13
FILE SUIT FOR EQUAL TEACHERS SALARYS
Postoffice
Investigation
Starts Here
OTHER FEDERAL AGENCIES
MAY BE PROBED

Jackson, Miss. March 9 - In
vestigation of the employment
practice of the local postoffice
to determine the extent of discrim-
ination in the hiring of Negro
workers was started here today by
investigators of the Postoffice
committee Of the United States
Senate, under the direction of John
T. Fisher, a ntive of this city VIII
has resided in Washington, D. C.
for the past thirty years, and who
is the first Negro to head a U.
S. Senate investigation in the ma
TONS history.
According to reports number
of complaints respecting the hir-
ing policy of the local postoffice
are already in the hands of the in
vestigators.
Among the charges that will be
probed is one charging that for
the last fifteen years or more the
local postoffice has been using a
lilly white hiring policy.
According to reports, the evid-
ence in the hands of the committee
shows that no Negro has been
employed at the local postoffice
in the last fifteen or more years
in any branch of the service.
The evidence further shows that
all Negroes previously employed
in the custodian service were dis
missed and that there are no Ne
groes now employed in that branch
Of service.
Investigation by a representa-
tive of the National Alliance of
Postal employees, reported in the
hands of Investigators, is said to
have revealed that a number of
Negro letter carriers were rail-
roaded out of the service during
the past few years, in keeping
with the existing lilly-white pol
icy.
No Negro clerks have ever been
employed in the local office.
1t was also revealed that the
investigation authority of the
group is not confined to the post
office but to other Federal agen-
cies giving rise to the report that
the investigators may also loon
into the employment policy of the
local Veterans Administration
where among hundreds of employ
ees only a few are Negroes serv-
ing as tmporary mployee, mostly
in mental jobs.
According to reports upon his
arrival here Monday night, Mr..
Fisher stated that the investiga-
ton would be completed in two
or three days.
Jackson is among some thirty
cities in the south whose employ
nent policy has been ordered in
vestigated by the Post Office Com
mittee of the United States Sen
ate.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-03-13
1903 Year Old
Mother Passes

Greenville, Miss. March 5 (Spec-
iaD - Mrs. Hannah Armstrong of
Greenville, Miss, died at her home
on Wednesday, March 3. She was
born in Wilkinson County in 1910.
Mrs. Armstrong has been Gan in
valid since 1927, and lived with
her daughter, Mrs. Dolly Price,
who had cared for her number
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cross near a Negro residential
district near High Street in the
fair ground area of East Jackson.
Most of the Negro residents Of
the area live in homes owned by
the w. G. Avery Body Works,
wher a large number of them are
emplyed, and where attempts have
been mdae to organize the work
ers by the Go.
Jackson Police after investigat-
ing the incident attached little
significance to the cross burning
saying that it was the action Of
few malicious individuals rather
than that Of an organization.
Evening star., 1948-12-02
Natures Children
By liIIion Cox Athey

Little did Joel Poinsett OF South
Carolina dream that the flower he
found growing wild in Mexico and
that he sent samples of to friends
would, in slightly over 100 years,
become an important part OF the
commerce of Christmas sales.
Joel Poinsett was our first Min
lister to Mexico, a Representative
from his State and later Secretary
of War. He was an extensive trav-
eler. a sincere student of nature and
diplomat of distinction.
1t was during 1828-9. while In
Mexico, he became so intrigued with
the Mexican flame leaves. He Sc
lected an especially fine plant to
send to Charleston, later one to Mi.
Buist, collector and student OF
unusual plants, Mr.. Buist was de-
lighted with the gift. After studying
it for some time he sent it to the
Botanic Gardens of Edinburgh. Mr..
Poinsett had during this time been
in touch with DR.. Henry Perrine,
one Of the outstanding naturalists
of the day. Upon receiving a plant
from Mr.. Poinsett, DR.. Perrine de-
scribed the plant, giving it a scien-
tifc name honoring its discoverer,
Poinsett.
The glamourous poinsettia belongs
TO the Spurge family, in which you
find the castor bean that yields
Evening star., 1948-12-02
AUTOMOBILES WANTED.

CHEVROLET or Ford will pay cash for
good used car; need one Immediately.
Call Executive 1870. 4
GENTLEMAN driving west desires to buy
low mileage; pay highest cash price. MR..
THERRELL; oW; 4o1O: %
Jeeps wanted; le36-1e4s, original paint.
low mileage high cash price" SH. 1921.
SPECIAL-Drive any make. model or con-
dition' wrecked or old cars. etc. sH.
SEE US BEFORE YOU SELL, poHANKA
iksfi BARNES l SANDERS Nj MoFoks PH u slF! I!n.
sssrdsss o4d Of poBss Iss Ref v
See Mr.. Barnes Of Mr.. Sanders between
$50 ps an oTn1s sna $40 9od pm s-sAN-
III. MI. 9214. Closed Sundays.
will pay premium prices for extra clean
$40 am $50 pm. at the TREW
MOTOR CO.. 1926 14th st NV. or call De.
MORE CASH FOR YAUR CAR. new or
cash. e. WOLFE aMso5ToRs. 18th and <
Gf sss ssrs sFs a. assureS HE at oa6d MREEPoNT1Ac
es aehp p. Ts1 2 1ou MUat gf sa g sc, n na
ssf5 fs5 a5F6k R5Ss in e call P0 ksod sss1
WS Win .@ sss to os Soai
car: No delay, Open 9 am. to pm
Open sundaya 10 am to pm, WJHMs INNS
TRY TRIANGLE-We want the extra
clean cars and will paw premium prices 70
get them; phone DE. 6303 for buyer
MOTORS locations 3OlO r. ave. e..
BUSINESSMAN wants 1910 or 194l Chew,
Ford or Plym.: orig paint and low mileage,
R ,T9m oENs NrE swpsH sH VII pay top cash price
WILL PAY ALL CASH for clean cars
new or used Call me- me- nov or, or SEye 5y.
1870 Bennines rd. ne. FIR. 523I
GET THE HIGHEST PRICE for your car.
We are one OF he largest used car deal.
see Us hrst poNAlp MoToRs INC;
LIS, ls7 St ne ns sogP Opposite B & O. Freight
5af ~ aof9R di 6T'yf rIa e Sas ss
sio ae aq sG 81 Mimi sSs se'r
Benning rdD L. 400.
WANTED. USED CARS. any year, any
make or mode! model for for export i 1mmsdiate
SALES. INC, i7s1 BIadensOurs I'd ne.
AUTO At ssOg NEEDED for business; 1854
494s or ia. 1898. IS
Is4ss-47s-4ss for special sale Friday eve.
to 10 p Pm, IA, At the big l-acre re- Used Car
possible. s e. coLUMBfA MoToRs, Columbia
pike and and Glebe rd.' Arlington. OK. 4oe0.
WANTED 1s47 chevrolets must be low
pa4nes pssss 'aE R psy Is ess Ms
80 800 i4th St. NV No. I'LL. Closed
Sundays -
Evening star., 1948-12-02
Goren on Bridge

On our recent visit to the Argen-
tine we had rather fancied our
selves as emmissaries Of good will
until the above hand came to be
plaved in the course Of one OF the
principal events.
This time the good neighbor
policy had emanated from the South
and as guests Of the Argentine
Bridge League we were the recipi-
ents of a brand of hospitality to the
like of which none of us had ever
been exposed. The troupe consisted
of Margaret Wagar of Atlanta, Mrs.
VIM. Tucker, Wingate Bixby, Peter
1eventritt of New York and your
rambling reporter.
We were of course deeply touched
bv the cordiality that had been ex-
tended to us by our South American
cousins and were gratifed to learn
that there was so much that We had
In common with them. So that
despite the fact that the above deal
resulted in clear win for the
United States team We experienced
mental reservations over Peter
Leventritt South in the above
hand having practiced such du-
plicity on his charming hosts. But
let the incident speak for itself.
The final contract of spades was
logical enough. Mrs. Tucker having
passed the North hand quite prop
erly jumped the bid in response
and Leventritt having a perfectly
acceptable opening bid, despite his
emaciated trump suit accepted the
invitation and went to game.
When the jack of spades was
opened, the prospects for fulflllment
were not at all bright. That West
hold the ace of hearts now became
perhaps better than an even chance
and if the queen of diamonds DID
not drop, the potential losers were
club, a diamond and two hearts.
An end play therefore, had to be
plotted against West. In order to
attain this goal both hands would
have to be stripped of clubs and
then the lead given to West late in
the play, with the queen Of diamonds
Gf he had it, and thus compel him
to lead heart.
At trick two, therefore. Leventritt
after winning the opening lead with
the queen of spades, led the OF
clubs from dummy, hoping to pass
the club trick into the West hand
and thus protect the king of hearts
against an immediate attack. East
however, foiled that part OF the
scheme by inserting the jack OF
clubs, which declarer ducked, Here
West committed an indlscreLlon.
He signalled with the of clubs.
He hoped that the club continuation
would permit him to make the 10 OF
spades on an over-ruff This was
not sound reasoning He should
rather have welcomed a shift to
hearts and should not take any step
that might influence his partner
away from that line of defence. East
noticing his partners 9 OF clubs
continued with tit suit This was
doubtful strategy. Even if partner
held the ace of clubs, there was no
hurry acout it and East should
employ his cne chance to lead to
do something for his partner.
Leventritt won with the ace OF