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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-07-29

A poultry dressing building,
which Is expected to be ready for
occupancy by March /, 1919, will
permit dressing OF 10000 chick
ems daily. Cooling rooms and cold
storage lockers for their preserva-
ton also are included in this unit
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-07-29

Mr.. and Mrs. Kelly Williams, Of
Raymond and Mr.. and Mrs. Roger
Van Deventer of Delta State Teach
ers college, and Miss Nancy Sher-
rod of Yazoo City were Sunday
guests of their brother and uncle,
and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. M. Bed
well.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-07-29

In addition to the two farmers
sheds, the merchants shed, and
the packing shed. the Market
boasts an administration building
with cafeteria and modern barber |
shop, plus administrative offices
and news service facilities.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-07-29

Mrs. w. E. Marshall and son, Bill
ly, visited her sisters, Mrs. Dubard
and Mrs. Heath in Carrollton Thurs
day.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-07-29

A fellow approached me the
other day with this question:
"Why do you approve the legal
sale of beer? You're aiways
talking about the Mississippi
Division of the U. s. Brewers
Foundation and the job it does
IN wedding out beer dealers who
allow bad conditions to exist.
After all these years, It looks
like they would have weeded
EN- all out"
l confessed: "B O I b er, at
times I've been a back-slider in
the community. but there's al
ways someone to remind me
that l have obligations. And
I'm mighty glad to get back in
to the swing Of things and do
my part"
tits about the same with q
beer dealer" ! said. "You may
find q back-slider in the beer
business once in great while,
but the brewing industry IL
right in there pitching, to re-
mind him of his obligations
and TO set him straight on his
responsibility to the communi-
u.
Well, from where / cit, !
don't like to be q back-slider
and don't like to see one.
That's why ! like the Brewers
program for the public's pro-
lection.
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Pr noes lnforuat3no
M1sglss1Dp1 OevaG6so
q. = 0rsWess RoamAaa1so
0sso ia. Deposit 0uafoa0 NJ
JaelDoa. AtDissipD6
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-07-29

Mr.. and Mrs. CASTOR Lyon and
son, Lester, went to Memphis Mon
day. They were joined at Clarksdale
by Mrs. R. E. Carter, aunt of Mrs.
Lyon who made the trip with them.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-07-29

Little Mary Frances Samul Of
New Orleans is visiting her aunt,
Mrs. Mary Charley Vegezzi.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-07-29
Veterans News

Thousands of World War II vete-
rams may lose the opportunity to
reinstate Naional Service Life In
surance worth many millions of dol
lars unless they act before August
l, the Veterans Administration says.
After July 81, veterans whose
NSLI term policies have been lapsed
more than three months must take
physical examinations to qualify as
insurable risks. Before August l,
veterans have only to sign a COM
parative health statement.
Eligible veterans may reinstate
any amount of term insurance up
to $4,000 in multiples of $500 re-
CARELESS of the length of time it
has been lapsed under present libe-
raj regulations if they apply before
August L.
They need only fill out a simple
application form, in which they GER
tify that their health is as good as
when the policy lapsed, and pay
premiums for two months.
Authority of the Veterans Ad-
ministration to provide automobiles
or other conveyances for veterans
of World War II who in service
lost, or lost the use of, one or both
legs at or above the ankle, has been
extended until June 80, 1949.
The law granting vehicles to such
disabled veterans had been schedul-
ed to expire June 80, 1913. The ex-
tension and an appropriation of ST.
100000 for the program were con-
tanned in the Second Deficiency APP
preparation Act for 1948.
A veteran who qualities is entitl-
ed to an automobile or other con-
veyance costing not more than ST.
600, including such special equipt
ment or appliance as may be neces-
sary to enable him to operate the
vehicle safely.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-07-29

FOR SALE-Light weight concrete
blocks for sale. Winona Concrete
Products Company. Phone 1927.
Winona, Miss. 21-tfnp
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-07-29
CLASSIFIED ADS

WANTED inch green oak
lumber. Write Grenada Oak Com
pany, Grenada, Miss.
1546-3tp
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-07-29

w. E. Marshall made a business
trip to Jackson, Friday.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-07-29

Mr.. and Mrs. A. c. Conger spen
several days in Bolton last weel
with Mr. and Mrs. Sterling PEBBLES
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-06-26
Letters To The Editor
Dear Editor:

Dear Editor:
Programs ad projects sisters and
brothers, l am fed up. If all the
men and Observation-Disclosures, etc.
were put to work at some useful
task of producing something like
maybe corn, or cars, or shirts,
shortages would peter out, and
pronto.
Seems like we are not satisfied
any more with ordinary things like
the sun coming up in the East.
If we could just work it SO it
would come up in the North in
the summer time and in the South
in the winter, look how nice it
would make the weather-maybe.
And then next year the project
engineers and statisticians could
cook up an alibi for last years
failure, and Congress would blink
its eyes and gulp a coupla times
but PUNK down another 1G0 mil
lion or 200 million to find out how
come last years potato dumping
project, or long or short range
farm experiment was a fizzle. And
in the first place any Junior High
School student could have told
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-06-26
OUR PUBLIC LIBRARY

Of deepest citizens and to others IN
mutual understanding between the
of the officials of The jackson Library
TO allow Negro the books its shelves NUMBER
If white cit zen questioned regarding the incident expressed the
nn that ehe Coored should be allowed use OF the
facli Of tie library that Branch Library should oe
onened for the Negroes the community number OF Cooe
citizens when regarding the incident expressed the behef
that reasonable amount the support OF uc
institutions are supp Negro Czenty and that noo
tb he denied Of buildings the city consideration
oud he given and considerable reduction made IN the amount OF
taxes NEGROES now pay into the Golfers of the city
Several citizens upon seeking to boogs from tne library
er told mat the facilities available to them put at te
1i If Jackson College Lanier High School had been maze
ROAD ~ e b Negroes whether they students or not however
a~ to the schools question resulted in the knoWedge
o+ h libraries of College and Lane gn ochooi are ho
M ~ IF Students of those institutions and for their use alone
The srption that Libraries of needs be placed on e
I'm Crow s Is as foolish would be to build post Office
o factsn for Negroes bank south jackson Tor he
izc r. however Golfers of the city are to un as 70 DC
TO afford another library of the caber some OF our caes now
Tow NE world strnglv urge plans for the CONSTRUCTION OF ha
building begin immediately
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-06-26
Walter White
DenOunces Anti
Lynching Bill

NEW YORK Describing the
anti-lynching bill which was re-
ported out by the Senate Judiciary
Committee on June IA as quilted
and "emasculated", NAACP secre-
tary Walter White recently con-
demned the failure of the comm
ittee to bring to the Senate floor
a strong anti-lynching bill which
could effectively eliminate lynch
ing.
Mr.. White denounced the bill as
little more than pious de-
nunciation of lynching which, bas-
ed on the NAACP's 39-year ex-
perience with the question, will do
virtually nothing to stop that
crime" According the NAACP
secretary, the provision in the Anti
lynching bill which requires legal
proof of conspiracy between
lynch mob and derelect state or
federal officers before punish
ment can be meted means that the
bill would be of little, if any,
value. The provision of punish
ment fo rthose lynch mobs which
cross a state line would be of
little use, since in no more than
half a dozen of the six thousand
lynchings which have occurred
since 1889, have lynchers crossed
state line to execute their victims.
eve wonder if Republican and
Democratic Senators responsible
for this sellout of principle be-
lieve that the American people, and
particularly Negroes who are the
chief sufferers from mob violence,
are going to be fooled by this
patent fraud" Mr.. White declared.
The NAACP secretary predicted
that the Senate's failure to pass
adequate anti-lynching legislation,
together with Congresses refusal to
extend social security to he 100000
persons uncovered by its. benefits,
would result in the defeat, next
November, of those representatives
and senator's who are guilty of
these breaches of faith.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-06-26
Tax Evasion
Proves Costly
To ID. c.. Man
NUMBERS OPERATOR FINED
$4,000, GIVEN 4-MONTH
JAIL TERM

Elbe Belts, who got rich as
Washington numbers operator, was
ordered by Federal Judge here
today to pay a $4,000 fine and
serve four months in Jail for evad-
ing income taxes.
What is more, Federal agents
announced they are going to insist
that the 37-year-old one-time hotel
worker pay about $4,000, it says
he still owes in taxes.
Ending a two-day trial Judge
w. Calvin Chestnut found Belts
guilty of willfully undertaking his
net income for 1912 by $4,000.
Belts reported early $1,000, while
the Government showed that he
actually made $4,000 in his num-
bers business and from District a.
partments he owns.
Judge Chestnut declared Belts
innocent on the two other counts
in the indictment, involving the
wears l941 and 1913. For 1941, the
Bureau of Internal Revenue con-
tends Belts earned $4,000 but re-
ported only $4,000. For 1943, he
listed his net income at $4,000,
but the Government says he earned
$4,000. Judge Chestnut said there
was reasonable doubt of intent to
defraud in these two years.
in Jail and a $4,000 fine.
The maximum penalty for each
count of tax evasion is five years
Judge Chestnut said he was CIV
ing Belts less than the maximum
Jail term and less than the custo-
mary six month sentence given IN
these cases because Belts had no
previous record. He was arrested
by District police in 1912 on gam
ing charges, but the case was later
dropped by the Government. This
was Belts only brush with the law
preceding the income tax indict-
ment,. returned in Baltimore last
February.
Defense Attorney G. G. A. An
derson said nothing about appeal
ing the conviction, but Belts
Washington attorney, Charles +.
Ford, indicated any civil action
by the Government to recover pen
alties on years other than 1912
would be fought.
Known as quit type among
gamblers, with no interest in night
life or flashy possessions, ne has
acquired, according to his own
testimony, $4,000 in bonds, five
houses, a Cadillac he bought new
in 1941 and an undisclosed amount
of cash.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-06-26

ference, June 27, in the Kansas
City Municipal Auditorium.
Other features of the Sunday
meeting will be the presentation
of the Spingarn Medal to Or. Chan
ming H. Tobias by Dr.. Edwin In
bree, president of the ROsenwald
Fund. NAACP secretary Walter
White, in addressing the meeting
will review the record made by the
8Oth Congress on civil rights legis
lation and other bills affecting the
security and welfare Of United
States Citizens.
More than $50 delegates from
thirty-four states sent in advance
registrations for the NAACP con
ference: the final registration il
expected to exceed 800. For the
first time, the NAACP branch ii
Hawaii will be represented at thy
the conference by a delegate.
A keynote address will be dehYi
cred on the opening night of tn
conference by NAACP assistat se3
rotary Roy wilkins. Other note
speakers who will address the COZ
ference sessions include FEEDER
Security Administrator OscS
Ewing: Willard S. Townsend, int
national president of the Unit
Transport Service Employees
America; DR.. Will w. AleXand@
and Mr.. Charles Houston. charm
of the NAACP National lie
Committee. NAACP Special Co
sci Thurgood Marshall will
cuss, on June %, Restrictive 9
nants and the Segregation
ture."
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-06-26
An Open Letter To The Next President
Of The United States
Dear Mr.. President;

Peoples the towards America as the land where
freedom embraces all who However find ysef won
derng what particular phase Americans best enoy
exercising If for state would say that Amer
cherish all of their liberties that the right to free
dom of speech constitution the one privilege
of the ship of state Won have ben
chosen pilot Americans speak up and expess
themselves They like the they their president
what they have right to of him all
sten or as Andrew Jackson said Get Mad Fishing
that as write do not know whether
Democrat Republican; unmportant The
important thing is that will be President The
and when millions people world listen and
when act they will observe you may
the of world years to come
Among predecessors whose shaped
destiny and made great Your duty sir with the help
keep great among
charges peoples many
God and one country America In serving our great nation re-
that whether they bishop you
their President They that should strive their A
merica working America where father has raise family
enough surplus They
expect that should strive America Peaceful America
land free from the dread diseases of
The people will expect to find in their President Statesman in
the halls decision, during the times of crises
and bapayer opening baseball Of such
things nation Of Baseball politics
pcnics; the blood who believed their
Certainly there attempt that De-
ocracy worked for all the people of
nation That is the realization of the few but indeed dream
CT the many 1t is then your duty President with
the blessings of liberty and Democracy to all
nlocracy all who dwell shores ~AYaoygcs
To strife the of those scott at our De-
your the liberty bell of freedom LOUD
heard the world Oof such nation born
the right warshp God was
the founding country 1t IS
forget not their God Nonao
live amidst the blessing of the earcn whose
God is the Loardo of Hosts. Of such born
of convictions Mr. President ana
oeme of prayers iclude the words OF the poet
Sail o Sovereign Ship Of State!
Sail on Union Strong And Great
Humanity with all its Fears
all it's Hopes For Future Years
Is Hanging Breathless On Thy Fate
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-06-26
BOTH CONGRESS RAPED
BY SIX MILLION NEGROES
PHILADELPHIA

PHILADELPHIA, Spokesman for national Negro
civil rights organizations
before the Republican
Platform Committee the disappointment of Negro
Congress and demand action by the
Republican Party civil rights legislation
the Committee
combinations committee Of the Ne the CINE
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-06-26

gro organizations declared: eve
would be less than honest with
you and ourselves if we did not
say frankly that the members of
our organizations havee been deep
ly disappointed by the complete
failure of the Repubhcan-controll-
ed 8Oth Congress to enact any Of
the civil rights legislation pledged
in the 1914 platform. lndlvld-
ual Republican and Democratic
senators and congressman have
sought in vain to secure action
upon the fair employment practice
committee, the anti-lynching and
the anti-poll tax bills. But COM
bination of conservation Republican
and Democratic members of Con-
gress have used every possible
legislative device to avoid enact
ment of this promised and sorely
needed legislation.
Calling the attention of the Re
publican Party to the fact that the
Negrovote, which holds the po-
tential balance of power in reason
able close elections in seventeen
states with 295 electoral votes, has
become increasingly an indeper-
dent vote during the past thirty
years, the Negro spokesman de-
the Republican platform for 1913
is to be meaningful. They urged
manded to know whether or not
the convention to taken an I'M
equivoeal position on each of the
issues outlined in the Declaration
of Negro Voters, which was draft
ed on March 27 by representatives
of the twenty-one organizations,
This declaration was presented to
the Republican Platform Com
mittee.
The members of the continual
tions committee are Dk Charming
H. Tobias, Social Action Com
mittee of tie CINE Church; George
LIP. Weaver, CLIO Committee to
Abolish Racial Discrimination; 5.
F. McLaurin, Brotherhood of
Sleeping Car Porters; E. Albert
Norris, National Alliance of Postal
Employees; Miss Mabel S. Lewis,
National Association of Negro
Milliners, Hair Stylists and Dress
Designers of America; Mrs. C.G.
Johnson, Beauty Culture League:
Walter White, National Associa-
ton for the Advancement of Col
ored People; DR.. Rayford Logan,
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity; DR..
J. E. baltimore, National Medical
Association; DR.. M. B. Hutto, Ma
tional Dental Association; Mrs.
Mary Mcleod Bethune, National
Council of Negro Women; M. c..
Clarke, National Negro Insurance
Association; and Thomas Young
Negro Newspaper Publishers As
The spokesman for the twenty
one organizations at the Republi-
can Platform Committee meeting
were NAACP secretary Walter
White and DIR. Charming H. Tobias
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-06-26

them in advance that it would be
like pouring dinero in a gopher
hole.
Well, says Henry, I think /
catch on. If the programs worked,
he says, then the statisticians, etc.
who have been riding around and
supervising and looking intellec-
tual, they would have nothing left
to fix-and next year they would
maybe have to go to work where
they would need perspire bit
and also pay for the gas they used.
For once, l say, Henry, you are
making a sage remark.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-06-26
Ingram Story
Featured At NAACP
Conference

KANSAS CITY, Mo- A first
lind story of the famous Ingram
case will be presented to the dele
gates at the 39th annual con-
ference of the National Associa-
ton for the Advancement of Col
ored People, which will be held
here, June 22-27. Mrs. Geneva
Rushon, the oldest daughter of
Mrs. Rosa Lee Ingram, will give a
full account of the tragedy which
was inflicted on her mother, who,
along with her two teen-age sons,
was sentenced to life imprison-
ment for the self-defense Staying
of white sharecropper in GeOr-
gia. Mrs. Rushen, accompanied by
Robert, another of Mrs. Ingram's
twelve children will speak at the
closing mass meeting of the con-
Evening star., 1948-06-03
Greatest Telescope

The worlds greatest telescope will be
dedicated today 1t stands on Mount Palo-
mar in Southern California has been
under construction during fourteen years
and Is designed to search the universe to
a depth of six sextillion-6,0 600 900, 900 900,
900 600, ,000-miles The "eye" of it is
two hundred inch reflector, twice the width
of the glass previously rated the biggest
ever made. Produced at the Corning Glass
Works in New York State in 1884 this
huge disk weighed more than twenty tons
before grinding. 1t was moved across the
continent in special train in 1886. Polish
ing and mounting were delayed by the war,
but now at last are finished. Carnegie and
Rockefeller funds have financed the work.
What thu astronomers operating the new
instrument hope to find is their own secret.
The light-gathering capacity of the "eye"
will be four times that of its neighbor on
Mount Wilson. Employed for research in
spectrum photography, it may disclose
values never before imagined. The prac-
tical result of such revelations might alter
human thinking tremendously. Already,
the two hundred-inch has multiplied the
dimensions of the cosmos 1t will bring
the heavens closer to the shrinking Earth
yet It's dynamic of visual attraction will
expand the area of the field of investiga-
ton. The canals of Mars may be recorded
as they never were before. Meanwhile, the
stars beyond the nebulae successfully pho
Evening star., 1948-06-03
Race Issue and Draft

Both the Russell and the LANCER amend
ments should be eliminated in Senate
debate on the draft bill or Withdrawn by
their authors.
Each of these amendments deals with
racial segregation in the armed forces.
Senator Russell, favoring segregation,
would give each drafted man the power OF
decision whether he will serve in Segre-
gated or a mixed military unit. Senator
LANCER, opposing segregation, would tack
the Presidents civil rights program to the
draft bill.
Both of these amendments are out OF
place in a draft bill. Neither has much
chance for adoption. Each is designed as
a tactical maneuver in the controversy
over segregation and either one is capable
Of obstructing essential action on the draft.
We are resorting to the draft again only
as a necessary precaution in military de-
Tense The heads of our Army and Navy
have testified concerning the alarming
menace" of Soviet military strength. We
cannot shut our eyes to- that menace.
Necessity for the draft is a real and solemn
one Only that sort of necessity can justify
the compulsion of the draft, give Govern
ment the right to snatch young men from
civil life and put them in uniform. 1t Is
as wrong as it can be to use this grave
necessity as a vehicle for any cause save
the strengthening of our national defense.
It is wrong to seize this opportunity for
a debate that is essentially political and
unconnected with the defense issue at
stake.
The practical effect of either amendment
would be damaging to the Nations inter-
ests, for either one would handicap the
development of a fighting force. The
proper method of eliminating segregation
in the armed services is being followed
now, by careful trial, correction of error,
gradual education. That method does not
interfere with the cardinal mission OF the
armed services-adequate defense. Any
method that detracts from this mission
must be avoided
The services are making intelligent prog
ress in dealing with the segregation issue
now That progress should not be re-
tarded The perfection of our national
defense should not be complicated by
using the draft for any other purpose than
to fulfill the Nations military require
ments.
Evening star., 1948-06-03
A Sensible Move

Justice Goldsborough's effort to work out
an amieable settlement of the latest
ruckus kicked up by John L. Lewis is
endowed with the virtue of being sensible
Mr. Lewis has taken the hair-splttlng
position that he will not bargain with the
Southern Coal Producers Association and
its president, Joseph E. Moody, but says
that he will bargain with Mr.. Moody as
the representative of the fourteen opera
tor groups which compose the Southern
association.
On It's face, this is about as silly as
anything Mr. Lewis has done in some
time, and. the Government, under the
Taft-Hartley law, is seeking an injunction
to compel him to bargain with Mr.. Moody.
Justice Goldsborough is right, however, in
his feeling that the courts should not have
to devote time to extensive legal proceed
ings growing out of such tweedle-dum-
tweedle- dee controversy as this.
If the dispute can be settled by agree
ment, that is the best way to settle it.
But if an agreed settlement cannot be
made, then presumably the injunction will
have to be issued. For while this tempest
is of the teapot variety, Mr.. Lewis has
amply demonstrated that he can and will
seize upon trivial differences and initiate
them into major controversies.