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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-03-20
STATE TEACHERS HERE next WEEK
NegionaI Meet Of
NAACP At uske-
gee Sat. Sunday
WHITE MARSHALL PAT
TERSON PRINCIPLE
SPEAKERS

Tuskegee Institute, Ala. Plans
have been cmpleted for the Re-
gional Meeting Of the NAACP
to be held at Tuskegee Institute
on March 20 and 21st. Joseph A.
Berry, President of the Tuskegee
Branch, announced that represen-
tatives from six Southern states
and countrywide national repres-
entatives are scheduled to attend
the meet.
Walter White, executive secre-
tary of the organization; Attor-
ney Thurgood Marshall, Special
Consultant and President F. D.
Patterson of Tuskegee Institute
will be principle speakers during
the two day meet which will hold
it's opening session in the Trade
"A Auditorium on the Institute
campus.
Gloster B. Current, National Di-
rector of Branches, Miss Lucille
Black, membership Secretary and
Clarence Mitchell, Jr., Labor Sec
rotary will highlight the speaking
for Saturday March Goth. Sat-
urday Night at 500 p. m. a ban
quet will be held in Tompkins
Dining Hall and Thurgood Mar
shall will deliver the address.
At $3.50 am. Sunday the nation
al officers will participate in a
radio broadcast over Radio Sta
ton WHO, Opelika, Alabama
which will be a round table dis
cussion.
Climaxing the meet will be held
at 800 p. m. Sunday March Il
in tie Institute Chapel and will
highlight Walter White, Thurgood
Marshall and President Potttrson
in principle addresses.
In weeks leading up to the Re-
gional Meeth, the speakers bureau
of the Tuskegee Branch, headed
by Saunders E. Walker, has been
sending representatives to rural
areas for the purpoe of publiciz-
ing the conference and explaining
tie significant work of tie organiza-
ton in areas which are remote and
more or less out of contact with
NAACP activities.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-03-20
Annual Y.M.c.A.
Election Set

Plans are being made for the
annual election of Board Members
to serve on the Board of Manage
ment of the Parish Street Branch
Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton for three year term begin
ming April /, 1913.
The nominating committee is
made up of the following mem:
Messrs. James Rundles, Edward
Lee, and j. l.. Reddix. This COM
mittee has selected the following
members to be placed on the AS
sociations Ballot, six Of eight to
be elected: Messrs. Victor ;. Jones,
C. F. Edwards, S. l.. Greene, Jr.,
w. K. Thames, P. l.. Abrams,
Jessie Villains, Mamie Lewis,
and Carsie A. Hall.
Polls will be open at the Far
ish Street Branch YMCA March
&c, from 800 am. until 500 pm.
All adult members of the YMCA
are eligible to cas- their vote and
will be expected to go by the
YMCA and do so.
All members fthe Association
should feel a sense of response
bility in the development of the
YMCA and the best way Of doing
it is through participating in the
running of the Association. If
the Y is to continue to progress,
each member will have to play
well his part.
The YMCA is a layman's move
ment - the entire success of it de-
ponds directly upon the interest
of it's members, Should the lay
men fail, the Association will fail
If they lawmen are active in the
programs and work of the Assoc
iation - the Association will de-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-03-20
State Music
Association
Meeting Here
Next Week

The State Music Association,
meeting in conjunction with the
Annual Convention of the Mates,
will convene Friday, March Goth,
at 300 P. NJ, in Room I'll, at
Lanier High School, it was an
nounced this week by Mrs. E. e.
Redmond, President of the Asso-
citation.
The theme of the meeting the
President said will be Musicians
of Tomorrow in Music Appreci-
alton Hour Today.
The program of the meeting is
being devoted to the young mus
icians throughout the state, and
a large number of music lovers
are expected to attend the meet
ing.
Mrs. L. w. Price is Secretary
of the Association.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-03-20
Natchez Business
Woman's Brother
Killed In
Fayette Jail
DAUGHTER In SNYC OFFICE

Natchez, Miss. March 16 (Spec-
iaD - Mrs. Ethel Morris, widely
known local business woman, OPP
orator of a popular cafeteria here,
was notified late Monday after
noon that her So year old bro
Their, Mr.. Samuel Bacon, we'll
known resident of Akron, Okla,
had been shot to death in the
Fayette, Mississippi Jail, early
Monday Morning.
The dead man travelling by bus,
was enroute to Natchez to visit
his sister and other relatives.
According to reports, Bacon
was taken from the bus on which
he was riding Sunday night by
Deputy Sheriff D. McArm, acting
for the Fayette Night Marshall.
Sheriff Johnson said that the Neg
70 was removed from the bus be-
cause he was using bad language
and raising a disturbance on the
bus.
Sheriff Johnson, according to
reports, stated that Bacon was
locked up in Jail after being re-
moved from the bus Sunday Night
Monday Morning when the Day
Marshall, S, D. Coleman, making
a routine check on the prisoners,
opened the door to the cell, Ba-
con lunged at him and attempt
ed to attack him with an axe
which had been left inside the
jail overnight. Bacon forced his
way outside and scuffle be-
tween Bacon and the Marshall
followed, and 1.-THE Marshall had
to kill the Negro in self defense"
the Sheriff said.
1NCNCA Ii11e3 " lCpCA 10 ClAS o14G1 Ill
said that Bacon appeared to be
either drunk or doped. He added
that the man had $106 on his
person, and that deposit slips for
two banks in Akron, Ohio show
ed that he had a substantial bank
account.
No Corners report and prelimin-
airy hearing have been reported in
connection with the case.
Reports reaching Jackson early
Tuesday Morning indicated that
the dead man has a daughter who
is employed in the office of the
Southern Negro Youth Congress
in Birmingham, Alabama. The or
ganization according to reports, is
already taken steps to bring a.
bout legal action in connection
with the case.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-03-20

full opportunity to adduce all ev-
idence and make full legal de-
tense in accordance with their
rights as American citizens. /,
therefore, urge you to instruct
the States Attorney on behalf of
the State of Georgia, to Consent
to the motion of the Ingrams for
a new trial and to take such steps
as may be necessary to guarantee
that the jury in the case shall
be selected in ccordnce with con-
stitutional requirements, giving
full opportunity to Negroes for
jury service"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-03-20
DR.. Charles S. Johnson First Negro
President Of Fisk University Principal
Speaker At Teachers Meeting Here
Next Week
Groups Demand For Action Seen As
Reducing Presidential Aspirants

Jackson, Miss, Mar. Is (DNS)
DIR. Charles S. Johnson, first
Negro President Of Fisk Univer-
sity, Nashville, Tennessee, will be
the principle speaker at the an
nual meeting of the Mississippi
Association of Teachers in Color
ed Schools which convenes here
March 25-27 at Lanier High Scho-
oil. DR.. Johnson is an information
ally recognized educator and So
cologist, whose works on social
problems is among the outstanding
contributions in that field.
Jesse o. Thomas, a native of
Mississippi who hos served as a
high official of the National Ur-
ban League, and who is now di-
rector Of Negro activities of the
National Red Cross will also de-
liver one of the principle address
ses of the convention.
President J. L. Reddix, Of Jack
son College will introduce DR..
Johnson whose address is sched-
ued for 1900 Thursday night, in
the Lanier High School Auditor
ium. Mr.. Thomas will speak Fri
day night at 1880 at the same
place. Mr.. J. o. Emmerich, Editor
and Publisher of the McComb En-
terprise, is also scheduled for an
address Friday night. He will be
presented by resident w. H. ipes
of Alcorn College.
The Convention will open Thur
sday Morning at 500 o'clock with
the welcome address by Mrs. Ada
L. Wilson, of Jackson, with the
response by Prof. w. F, Pope.
Retiring president A. L. Johnson
will preside at the opening SEES
sion
The filing of the suit for equal
ization of teachers salarys in the
Fderal court here a few days ago
by Mrs. Gladys Noel Bates brou-
ght to a climax one of the major
issues coming before the conven-
ton during the last three or four
years. The filing of the suit, how
evxer leaves other major questions
to be considered by the organ
ization. Although this is an ell
ection year, despite tie fact that
interest in the meeting is running
high all over the state, the de-
mand for action now on the part
of the rank and file membership
is seen as reducing the number of
presidential aspirants. Mentioned
among the candidates are w. Mil
am Davis, Kuscuisko, M. G. Dukes
of Indianola, o. B. Cobbins of
Jackson, with Prof. 1. S. Sanders
principal of Lanier Higmh School
here as a possible dark horse
candidate. Prof A. A. Alexander
of Alexander High School, Brook
haven, a previous encumbent is
mentioned as an outstanding cam
didate for treasurer. The venerable
and able Prof. w. w. Blackburn,
Executive secretary is still the
powerful influences in the affairs
of the organization.
At this session the association
may reach an agreement on the
vastly important questions of Re-
gional Universitys and colleges
courses not now provided at AL
corn and Jackson College the state
only two institutions for Negro
higher education.
Advance predictions indicated
that record attendance will come
to the city for the meeting.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-03-20

Howard University.
Wilbur X. Jordon, president, Rad
cliffe College
Walter S. Mack, Jr., president
Pepsi-Cola Company.
Marjorie II. Nicholson, professor
of English, Columbia University.
Paul A. Rhemus, superintendent
of schools, Portland, Oregon.
John M. Stalnaker, professor of
psychology, Stanford University -
DIRECTOR
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-03-20
Miss. High School
Seniors Win Top
Honors In Pepsi
Cola Scholarship
Contest
COLUMBUS GIRL TOPS
WINNERS

Palo Alto, CAL, March 18th
Winning top honors among Negro
students in a nationwide $4,000
scholarship competition designed
to aid American youth, a Mississ-
ippi high school senior, Lois Tho
masine Herndon Of Columbus, to-
day received word that she had
been awarded a Pepsi Cola schol-
arship which will send her to col
lege with full tuitinon, a monthly
allowance, and travelling expenses
paid for four years.
Announcement Of the award
was made by Mordecai w. Johnson
president of Howard University
and a member of the Pepsi-Cola
Scholarship Board, who states that
Lois Thomasine was chosen from
among 80 Mississippi candidates
representing 81 public, private and
parochial schools Of the states
Negro educational system.
Ss@sA>ssF@>.
Mississippi's outstanding Negro
scholar is IL and the daughter of
Mrs. Resale Herndon Of TIC N.
Twelfth Street. A student Of I'm
ion Academy, where she is mem
Der of the Pep Squad, Thomasine
is local president and state sec
rotary of the Tri-Hi-Y, and she
represented Mississippi at Ma
tionai Youth Conference in Grin
mel, Iowa, this past summer. Plan
ming to be a concert pianist,
Thomasine has applied for emit
rance to Talladega College.
A total of five College Entrance
Awards were granted this year
to Negro students in Mississippi,
Stalnaker said. They were won by
Lucious Lee Daily, Jr., and Will
liam Marine Henley, both of West
Point Colored High School; Rose
Mary Hunt, Alfalfa County Train
ing School, Koscuisko; Arselene
Parker, Springfield Consolidated
High School, Hattiesburg; and
minnie cal Williams, Union Aca-
denny (Colored) Columbus.
In the three previous Pepsi-Cola
scholarship competitions, six Ne
gro students ave been awarded
-Four Year College Scholarships.
They were won by Hazel L. Evans
Springfield Consolidated High Sch
DOL who is now attending Tuskegee
Institute; Ivy B. Lloyd, Attala
County Training School in Kos
ciusko; Myrtle Terry also of At
tala County Training School who
is now at Tougaloo College; Mar
celia Ellis, Oak Park Vocational
High School, who is student at
Hampton Institute; Doris C. Nc
Cullum, also of Oak Park, who is
attending Howard University; and
Della E. M. Foster, Oxford
Training School, who is enrolled at
Spelman College.
In addition, 20 other Mississippi
Negro Students received the Col
lege Entrance Awards in the 1916,
1916, and 1947 competitions. They
are: Thomas Bellamy and Margar-
ct Hughes, Hollendale; Johnnie
Jackson, Jackson; Annie Burt and
Agnes Holsey, Kosciusko; Pauline
Buckley, Myrtis Edmondson, Inez
Hobson, and Francis Sanders, Lau-
rel; Beverly Clark, Meridian; Ma
ry Bateast and Ora Davis, Nat
chez; Mrs. Gladys Abbot Hoze,
Matthew Prophet, and Earlyne
Raspberry, Okolona; Elsie Buford
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-03-20

He does mot seek social equal
ity for colored, the bishop de-
clared. This is not desired by him
or by us, he said. "It seems to me
the politica demagogues would
confuse equal justice with soc
ial equality.
The federation includes the A
colored branches of the Methodist
church in Greater Little Rock.
The Rev. V. M. Townsend presid-
ed, and Rev. G. Wayman Blakely,
Bethel church pastor, assisted.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-03-20
Wallace Asks Ga.
Governor For New
I Trail In Ingram
Case

New York, March Is, Especially
- The National Wallace for Pres
ident Committee ere stated Sat-
urday that Henry Wallace today
wired Governor Melvin E. Thorn
pson demanding new trial for
Mrs. Rosa Lee Ingram and her
two minor sons, who, he chaged
have been sentenced to death I'M
de cicumstaces which would clear
" indicate gross miscarriage of
justice.
Wallace wired Thompson:
81 have been deeply shocked
by the death sentence imposed
upon Mrs. Rosa Lee Ingram and
her two minor sons under cir
cumstances that would clearly in
dictate gross miscarriage Of JUS
tice. It is apparent that no ade-
quae opportunity was given to
prepare the case for the defense
or to present the evidence show
ing that Mrs. Ingram and her sons
were forced tao act in self defense.
In addition, the indications are
that Negroes were Systematically
excluded from the jury notwith-
standing numerous decisions of
the United States Supreme Court
which denounce this practice as
unconstitutional.
considerations Of simple hum
an justice requires that the In
grams be granted a new trial with
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-03-20
President Does Not
Seek Social Equal
ity For Negroes
AME's Told

Little Rock, Ark (ANP) -
President Truman's civil rights
program is being misunderstood,
Bishop John HI. Clayborn told a
group of ministers in the monthly
meetig Of the Federation Of Meth
odist ministers at Bethel AME
church, last week.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-03-20

velop. Contrary to the belief Of
many, the Executive Secretary or
other hired personnel cannot carry
the entire program
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-03-20

is being held without bond to aw-
ait the action Of the Kinds County
Grand Jury.
Evening star., 1948-12-21
Movement Against War

To the Editor OF The star
According to the press, the Student Council
of Georgetown University has adopted reso-
luton calling upon the students to pause for
one minute at noon each day in prayers for
world peace. The student paper refers to this
action as wholly unprecedented move"
But unprecedented moves" of this kind and
of other kinds, on an international scale, are
necessary If mankind is to be saved from an
unprecedented" new war. The student resolu-
ton calls for action looking to the enlistment
OF all American colleges in the movement,
which is reported to have started with an
American Legion post at Manchester, N. H.,
and is spreading to other groups.
1t Is suggested that since there are more
people who are interested in peace than there
are people who will make a habit of praying
for peace, other means also be sought Of
keeping this foremost question foremost in the
public thought
When, for example, will some congregation
upport It's minister in the initiation of a great
movement by devoting their entire principal
weekly service tuntil such time as peace shall
pe firmly established) to definite and concrete
means of taking individual, national and in
Uernational action against war?
The action of the Georgetown students is q
vastly encouraging step. Let every person who
Is an enemy of war take similar step or
some other step In the same direction. ana
let us never halt short Of lasting peace
Z. D. q.
Evening star., 1948-12-21
Twenty Years Missino

The people of Denmark still are search
ing for a ship which disappeared twenty
years ago this week. She was the training
vessel Kobenhaven with sixty hands
aboard. The craft sailed from Montevideo,
Uruguay, December IA, 1928. From about
four hundred miles east Of the River Plate,
she wirelessed "Alls WE'LL" Then silence
enveloped her, silence not yet broken.
At the moment of her vanishing, the
Kobenhaven was the only five-masted
square-rigger in commission in the world.
She was of steel construction, had auxiliary
engines and powerful radio equipment.
Under $4,000 square yards OF sail, she
seemed equal to any demand of wind or
wave. In case of accident, she had an
ample number of boats to accommodate
her crew-forty-five cadets and fifteen
officers
The destination of the ship was Aus
tralia. That meant that she was headed
around Cape Horn or through the Strait
of Magellan and into parts of the universal
ocean containing drift ice. Some students
of marine affairs have developed the theory
that she struck berg and sank before her
captain could call for help Others have
suggested that she was blown across the
South Atlantic and wrecked on the cliffs
of Tristan da Cunha. Nobody really knows
what happened. All that is certain is that
the Kobenhaven was reported missing on
March Q, 1929, and nothing has been
Evening star., 1948-12-21
Toxes Must Come First

Senator Taft, with others, has put him
self on record as favoring the same pay
increase for municipal employees that was
voted last spring for Federal employees.
1t would be difficult for any one to oppose
such an increase It's denial last spring
in the closing days of the regular session
represented an unfair discrimination
which cannot be remedied until the in
crease for municipal employees is approved.
The merits of the pay raise, however,
are not at issue. There was little or no
opposition to it before Congress adjourned.
The issue, which still remains, Is where
to get the money to pay for 1t. Failure to
provide the answer, together with the
delay in asking Congress to give the
answer, was what killed the pay increase.
The answer was to approve sales tax.
Senator Johnston of South Carolina was
ready to block the sales tax in the Senate,
already approved in the House. When the
tax bill died, so did the pay increase.
The pay increase for municipal employees
still depends on approving the taxes re-
quired to furnish the money. If approved
for the current fiscal year and made retro
active to last July, as it should be, the
pay increase will cost about $5,5o0000.
There is not that much money in the till.
In fact the budget which will go to Con-
gress early in January probably will show
deficit for the fiscal year that begins
next July. It will be an unbalanced budget,
showing that the city, even without pay
increase, will be spending next year sub
stantially more than 1t is taking in
through current taxes.
It is to be hoped that the Eighty-frst
Congress will give serious attention to
revenue-raising legislation early in the
coming session. That is what must come
first. Until 1t is out of the way it is
idle to talk Of spending money that is
not available. The sales tax is the most
productive and the least burdensome
method Of producing revenue to meet the
pay raise and finance other municipal
necessities. It's early enactment is the
practical method of paying higher munic-
ipal salaries.
Evening star., 1948-12-21
1t Should Be independent

1t is hard to think of anything that
would be better calculated to destroy con-
ndence IN the impartiality of the National
Labor Relations Board than to put that
agency in the Department of Labor.
This has been recommended by John
W. Gibson, Assistant Secretary of Labor.
In his view the board should be In the
Department of Labor under the Secretary
Of Labor.
II this were done the board would lose
its status as an independent agency. It
would become an instrument for the fur
therance Of the policies of the Department
OF Labor, and those policies are wholly
and openly prolabor. This may be all right
for the Department of Labor, for it is
supposed to be labor's representative in
the Government. But this is not true OF
the labor board. 1t has the status of
quasi-judicial agency. It's function is to
sit in Judgment In disputes between in
dustry and labor, and it is supposed to
interpret and apply the law even-hand-
edly.
In its early days the board was flag
rantly partisan, and especially biased in
favor OF the CIO from whose ranks Mr..
Gibson came to the Labor Department.
The scales were heavily weighted against
any employer, and the situation got so
bad that the AFL successfully fought the
reappointment of some of the board men,
bers on the ground that they were mere
tools of the CIO.
This condition has been cleaned UP in
recent years The judicial and prosecuting
functions of the board have been sep
arated, and its present members are gen.
orally credited with being impartial in
the discharge of their duties In the
opinion of any one who is not an out
and-out union partisan this has been a
distinct change for the better And it is
an improvement which ought to be MAIN
tanned. In all probability Mr.. Gibsons
proposal whatever its intent, would have
the opposite effect. 1t is one of those
things which deserves to be filed and
forgotten.
Evening star., 1948-12-21
G. P. O. Veterans Claims


With the many activities tending toward an
increase in Federal pay getting the spotlight,
1t seems possible that an adjustment will be
made. Not many will disagree that such
adjustment is advisable, II our Government Is
to have eficient people in executive positions;
and it is the hope Of the average citizen that
by granting top-bracket people substantial
increases we may get the people justified in
receiving such improved wages.
While this adjustment of Federal pay is in
the making, it Is hoped that consideration may
be given also to the G. P. o. forgotten men"
who had Is days leave taken away 16 years
ago. This money was earned, and means
provided for it to be paid. but we have not
received it. Some have died during the years,
but there are many left.
AS King Saul said to his guards when he waS
harassed by the giant: rs there not one Of you
who will venture forth and slay this demon?"
We "old-timers" are asking: "Is there not one
among you Congressman who will take up our
cause and secure for US that which Is due us?"
DISABLED PENSIONER.