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The Omaha guide., 1948-03-13
FORMER OMAHA RES
IDENT RETURNS FOR
FUNERAL

Miss Margaret Starks, for
mer resident of this city re-
turned to attend the funeral of
her grandmother, Mrs. Mar
garet Jackson, of 2506 Jeffer-
son St. Who passed February
14th of this year.
Miss Starks left for her
home in Oakland California,
Tuesday morning, during her
three weeks in the city, she
was the recipient of many
courtesies extended by her
many friends.
The Omaha guide., 1948-03-13
FIRST PRIZE
Console Radio Phonograph
SECOND PRIZE
Deluxe Refrigerator
THIRD PRIZE
1o48 Electric Range
Florence Incident Not
Community Sentiment

| sincerely hope the recent
episode in our peaceful val
ley" of Florence will not cause
any white or colored people to
believe it expresses the senti-
ments of our community.
| have been a continuous
resident of Florence for 33 yrs,
and | know whereof / speak.
My two sons, have been grad
ulated from Florence School.
| am a past president Of Flor
ence P. T. A. and l have done
some teaching in Omaha.
When two fine principals
(Mr. Peterson and Mr.. Krebs)
have offered so much to Flor
ence School and this commun-
ity it is a downright shame
their planning to help youth
should be thwarted in such a
Senceless manner.
A Florence Citizen
Re f us al of permission for
the Lake School basket ball
team to play in the Florence
gym because of a colored boy
was very foolish. People of FL
orence, your children come in
contact with them every day
unless you are sending them
to private school. And SO far
/ have not heard of any con-
tamRation.
Mrs. Fornetta Elmore
The Omaha guide., 1948-03-13
TEST is NEAR ON
CIVIL RIGHTS
COP High Command
To Oppose Rider

The civil rights fight NOV
ed to the House floor Monday
with the COP leadership ap-
pearently ready to side with
Dixie Democrats.
The showdown test shaped
up over an antisdiscrimina-
ton rider to the $1,O17,851, 900
Labor Department-Feder sec
urity appropriation bill up for
probable late Tuesday.
The issue is: Shall states
that do not give equal educat-
ional and job opportunities to
citizens of all races, when
those opportunities are financ-
ed with Federal funds, contin-
ue to receive the money?
Representative Keefe (Rep.,
Wis.) said he would offer it
on the floor and give the en-
tire House chance to vote.
The announced stand of the
COP high command is that
the proviso has no place in an
appropriations bill and should
be concidered as a sperate bill.
AS for the prospect of a roll
call vote, one top Republican
said: 1--WE would just as soon
not go on therecord on this
thing"
Meanwhile, Senator Byrd of
Virginia told a radio audience
that his fellow Southern Dem
ocrats face a "very difficult"
task in trying to stave off civil
rights legislation.
The Omaha guide., 1948-03-13

arrangements for your improv-
ements. These merchants who
will list with us are reliable
and can be depended upon to
give you the best service at a
reasonable cost.
By George McDavis
PrOmotional Director
The Omaha guide., 1948-03-13
GU 2
Quest
Column

Little more than a year fol-
lowing the end of the second
World War to perpetuate
democracy" the status of the
Negro still made Of the word
democracy" a mockery.
Despite Abraham Lincoln,
the thirteenth amendment and
the Golden Rule, American Ne
groes are still underprivileged
and ill-used. They are the vic
tins of prejudice and fear.
They are guilty Of being a
minority.
A few Negroes rise to posi-
tions Of moderate honor among
Americans. Those who do rise
are : admired Historically by
their own people, but by most
so-called whites they are re-
garded affectionately as a sort
Of living proof that America
is the land Of opportunity.
In reality, they were just
part of the great mass Of AM
erican Negroes who make up
the problem" about which SO
much has been written, and
about which SO little has been,
decided.
The US. Negro is a tenth Of
Americas total population
there are IA million of him.
Some are Jet black, some are
as white as Mississippi's vol
uble Representative John Ran
kin. They all can trace at least
a part Of their ancestry back
to Africa. Some of their for
bears came from a long civil
ization, some were bushmen.
Today the Africans Ameri-
can defendant has made one
enormous jump. He was one
slave whose human rights were
non-existent. Now he is free
man whose rights are often un-
recognized. He is still living
under the triple curse of the
slave trader, his American
plantation master and Harriet
Beecher Stowe, who has typed
him in American minds as an
eternal Uncle Tom whose con-
versational abilities are limit
ed to "Yassuh, Boss" or 'Yuk,
yuk, yuk.'
Millions Of Negroes are 50
illiterate they cannot sign their
names. Most of them have the
equivalent Of a third grade ed
ucation. Some of them, such as
New Yorker w. J. Trent, Jr.,
director of the Negro College
Fund, are sa highly educated
that they insist the real prob
lem is education Of til whites
Politically, the way Is clear
er. This year, for the first time,
Negroes may vote id. any pri-
mary in the country because
the u. S. Supreme Court has
ruled that white primaries"
are unconstitutional. Only
seven states still have a poll
tax, and these are bound to
crumple under public pressure.
All the pressure it not from
the outside. The Southerners
who have reacted to their sense
of guilt since slavery days by
attacking the ause Of the guilt,
hte Negro, have recently
shown some inclination to ap-
proach the situation more ra-
tionally. Such organizations
as the outhern Regional Coun-
Gil, made up Of leaders of both
races, and the University Of
North Carolina Press, have
been plugging a better deal
for Negroes as way to bet
ter deal for the South. The
most ardent editorial crusades
against the poll tax (and Jim
Crow laws) are in Southern
papers.
Also, the CIO and the AFL
have gone into the South with
the announced purpose Of
making Negroes politically
conscious.
With anything like an even
break, economically and poll
itically, the Negro who is 10
per cent Of the U.s. might
we'll contribute more than 10
per cent toward US. progress.
For, as group, us. Negro =
have come further than any
other.
The Omaha guide., 1948-03-13

from Columbia university, he
will act as liasion officer be-
tween Negro agencies and
SSPB directors in the inter
ests of church, social, frater-
nal, health, education and
neighborhood activities. Prev
iously he served as race rela-
tions advisor Of the us.
Housing authority for the west
and midwest, and was the
first housing manager for the
Pittsburgh Housing authority,
in a project now occupied by
both white and Negro famil-
les.
The Omaha guide., 1948-03-13

were sent 10 our engineering
consultants, Burns and M c
Donnell of Kansas City, they
agreer. with our findings anu
t h e recommendations" Mr..
Saunders stated.
He explained that when the
District acquired the propert.
les on December 2, 1916, the
Directors were faced with two
urgent duties. Our first duty
Mr.. Saunders said, was to
make certain the District was
properly financed. This h a $
been accomplished"
Our second duty was equally
important. Plans had to be
made for a program to insure
continued dependable service
for our. customers and take
care Of their growing needs.
Within the next two months,
a new turbine will be in oper-
alton at our South Omaha
plant. Construction of an add
itional $4,000 kilowatts of gem
Grating capacity is well under
way at the Jones Street plant
and over the period of the next
five years, the cost Of our pro-
posed expansion program will
be in excess of $l5.OOO,OOo," he
said.
"In addition to the cost Of
this expansion program" Mr..
Saunders continued, "the COM
mittee was also faced with the
problem of increasing costs Of
fuel, materials and labor. These
costs have increased more than
S5OO,OOO in the last year on the
basis Of price alone. And, Of
curse, the District continues
to pay nearly a million doll
ars a year, in lieu Of taxes, to
the state, cities, counties and
school districts in the territor-
les it serves"
All of these facts were car
efully weighed by the commit
tee," he stated, "but after COM
pleting our study, we still felt
there was justification for re-
ducing rates at this time. Nat
urally, we are highly pleased
that this substantial reduction
in the cost Of electric service
for our customers can be made
at this time substantial re-
urally, we areduction in the
cost of electric service for our
customers can be made at this
time.
MIR. J. M. Harding, Presi-
dent Of the Omaha Public
Power District, said, I'm vot-
ing this rate reduction, the
Board Of Directors is fulfilling
its promise to distribute to the
users of service the benefits
Iof public ownership.
The Omaha guide., 1948-03-13
HARRY KNUDSEN FILES
for CITY COMMISSIONER
Files independently

Files Independently
Harry Knudsen, one of Om-
aha's present City Commission
ers filed independently for re-
election
Mr.. Harry Knudsen issued
this statement at the time Of
filing:
Pm not on any slate or tic
ket I'm grateful to the people
of Omaha for having confiden-
ce in me and the matter is en-
tirely in their hands. | am Just
The Omaha guide., 1948-03-13
$4,000 in Prizes to be Awarded In
Cleanup Campaign"
Clean Up, Paint Up, Fix Up Campaign
MARCH 9Th to SEPT. 18th 1913.

ted by the Mayor will act as
judges. The home which is
judged the most improved will
be the winner of the first prize.
Select one of the local con-
tractors whose advertisement
will appear in this paper be-
ginning March 9Th, and make
The Omaha guide., 1948-03-13
SITTING WITH NEGROES
ILLEGAL; SAILOR
FINED

Galveston, Tex. (AP)-Clar-
ence Jack Peterson, 27, sea-
man from Brentwood, Wis,
was fined SIS and court costs
Friday for sitting with Negro
es on a Galveston Bus.
The Omaha guide., 1948-03-13
Going Through Red Light
Charge Dismissed

>>S>>~eSS~0
DIR. H. Wiggins, 3O16 En-
met St. was dismissed in pol
ice court on Monday, March
8, 1e48 on charges of going
through a red light on Wednes-
day March 8, 1948. After his
explanation to Judge Nimitz
his reason for having to go
through the light, the Judge
granted a dismissal of the char
ge. The reason being that the
light turned red while he was
in the middle of the intersect-
ion at 3Oth and Lake ST., two
other ears blocking his turning
East.
The Omaha guide., 1948-03-13
awards to be Judged by a
Committee Picked by Mayor

Anyone having any repairs
made on their home during
this period are qualified to en-
ter. Call the Omaha Guide and
register. A committee appoin-
The Omaha guide., 1948-03-13

laceration under the right eye.
He was treated by DR.. A. L.
Hawkins, and sent home.
Reported to Rim and Weide-
man. hf
The Omaha guide., 1948-03-13

Named director of commun-
ity relations of the South Side
Planning boarl, Chicago, was
William E. Hill, former field
representative of the Ameri-
can Council on Race relations.
A Johnson c. Smith univer-
sity graduate, who received an
MA. degree in economics
The Omaha guide., 1948-03-13
Nothing New Here

In 1904 the Pierce-Arrow had
gearshft lever on steering column
and a single lever controlled the
Gas-au-lec.
The Omaha guide., 1948-03-13
Omaha Public
Power Reduce
ElectricRates

Omaha Public Power District
to Reluce Electric Rates by
1,250,0OO
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R
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U GNh
The Valley settler., 1948-07-30
TIE Re
HERE

From Mir. John P. Thomson, Soil Scientist, TO 1oorn that Frod McIntyro Is employed at tho Inland croomory in Spokane flashing ton, and is 1ono some for Alaska. Mir. and Mrs. Einar Husoby, former rosi- donts Of tho Val1oy and nov of Anchorage, uoro visitors in tho Valley on Monday of this uook.
 Ray Grioso, formor colon ist on tho co. Huntloy p1aco, visited in tho Valley this last rock. Mir. and Mrs. Schoib1 uoro vory much surpr isod vhon thoy oponod tho door to his knock.
 Mrs. Haltor Eunt1oy informs us that tho Kenneth Fosters arc start ing on tho ir TO- turn trip to Alaska. Just os t loy storto to 1oovo Seattle, Mrs. Funt1oy's and Mrs. Fostor's brother ron into a truck on his mot orcyc1o. Mrs. Fo stor remained thcro until tho oxtont of his injuries uorc do- torminod. Upon 1o arlnng that thoy uorc not sor ious, they re sumod the ir homoUord journey
 MT. and Mrs. Carl Rasmu sson visited th6hr grandson, Jimmy Ehrhort, uho is in tho Anchorage Hosp ital Uhoro he had surgery recently.
 Lo1r onco Arndt, father of Mrs. Los Roy,is visiting in tho Ray homo this rock.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-08-20

IS THERE AN iron CURTAIN"
AROUND YOUR STORE?
There Gre two kinds of neishborhood me-
chants One accepts as his trade urea the few
Blocks immediately surrounding his store. He
is content to remonn small. He shuts himself
off from growth by the Iron curtain" of his
own limited horizon.
The other has broader vision larger plans.
He makes oil Jackson County his neishbo-
hood by advertising in The ChoncIeStu!
Mr. Merchant urey you using the tremendous
misunderstanding power of The Chronicle
Stur? It will increase your market q hundred
fold. However small your stores and where ever
located, If you have real values and advertise
them consistently in the ChronHte-Stur. buy
eYw will search you out from the futhest limits
of the ureu covered by this poper!
The Chronicle>Star
cm@aw Wi The
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-08-20

the use of the new sugars is
DR.. Robert T. Steele.
To make atomic sugar, plants
are first put in total darkness
for three days. In the dark the
leaves no longer manufacture
sugars. But the sweet is the
plants food and as it lives
in the dark it eats the sugar
already storel in the leaves.
At the end of three days all the
leaf sugar is gone. Then the
leaves are cut off and placed,
with their stems in water, in
side a sealed chamber about the
size of a small trunk. Hun
dred-watt electric bulbs substi-
tute for sunlight and the leaves
resume their sugar making.
The leaves do this by taking
carbon dioxide gas from the air
and hydrogen from the water.
In their chamber the carbon di-
oxide is radioactive and the ra-
dioactive part of this gas is its
carbon. The leaves pick up
the carbon from the air, atom
by atom, and they use six
atoms of carbon to make each
molecule of sugar.
Ordinary air contains only a
small amount of carbon diox-
ide, but in the chamber the ra-
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-08-20
Ordinary Flowers, Vegetables Used BY
Laboratory To Get Radio Active Sugars

dioactive gas amounts to about
As times more than normal. In
"a hours in this air, leaves
make sugar with all its carbon
radioactive.
AS in all atomic energy, a
little bit does big jobs. Only
ten grams, hardly a handful of
leaves, is placed in the radio
active chamber. The sugar
from these leaves is about
enough to equal the size OF
the head of a pin, or if liquid,
is a droplet not greatly larger
than a piece of mist.
But this enough. For the ra-
dioactive carbon is really shot"
Mixed with ordinary sweets,
of the same kind, the radio
active sugars make patches big
enough for large experiments.
A pin-head of radioactive sug-
ar may mix with a quarter of
a pound.
These sugars can be eaten
just like any other sweets.
Human bodies, animals and
plants accept the radioactive
stuff in exactly the same way
as the non-radioactive sugars.
Or in any kind of chemical ex-
pertinent, the radioactive sug-
ar acts the same as ordinary
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-08-20
Business And
Professional
Women Meet

The dinner meeting of the Bus
mess and Professional Women's
club for the month took place
at the Pascagoula Country club
with Mrs. Warren B. Seely, pres
ident, Monday evening.
The table was arranged in the
lounge of the club and it was
lovely with arrangements of zin-
MAS, star jasmine and roses, the
work of the hospitality commit
tee headed by Miss Dottie Daniel.
The club had as guests Mrs.
10 Wilkes Reicker, a member of
both the Gulfport and Biloxi B
and PW clubs, and DR.. Lenore
Bajda, chairman of the health
and safety committee of the Gulf
port club.
Mrs. Reicker gave highlights
of the state convention and told
of changes made in the constitu-
ton and bylaws, districts and
dues.
DR.. iBajua's talk was on the
health and safety workshop and
the projects and program for the
year.
Mrs. Ralph Farrell, also a guest
of the club. give a short program
of piano and vocal selections.
Miss Dottie Daniel, serving in
the absence of the membership
chairman, Mrs. j. M. Epting, in
troduced several new members.
They r Mrs. Lima Lunsford,
Mrs. G. F. Rooney and Misses
Mary 10 Butler, Jane Chennault,
Rita Nelson and June Conn.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-08-20
NEW T PLANE
NEARLY A

LONDON CAP = The Grapes
will be taken off Britain's New
Look" aircraft, which is built of
non-inflammable magnesium and
has its propeller at the tail, at
the Society of British Aircraft
Constructors flying display at
Marlborough. hampshire, in Sep
TENDER. The plane. the Satellite.
made by the Planet Aircraft Co.
has a top speed estimated at 20s
m. p. h. with a cruising speed
of 1870 m. p. h. Its range is
1000 miles with a full load, or
2!450 miles-equivalent to an At
lantic crossing - with only the
pilot.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-08-20
BY HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE
Associated Yress Science Writer


N. y
String beans, sunflowers, dahl
las and other plants are grow
ing radioactive sugars at the
Brookhaven National Labora-
tory.
The string beans produce glu-
cose, the kind of sugar in hui
man blood. Dahlias make
fructose, used in chemistry.
Sunflowers make ordinary
table sugar. All of them are
radioactive.
Another plant, Byrophylhum
Calicynum, makes iso-citric
acid, a white liquid, valuable
because it is present in the hu-
man-body. The liquid is ra-
dioactive. Tobacco, barley and
many other plants can be used
and all of them make radio
active sugars.
The plants do, easily, an other
wise difficult and tedious chem
ical job. The sugar laboratory
is in the biology department,
headed by DR.. L. F. Minis. The
sugar-grower is DR.. Martin
Gibbs, assisted by Mrs. Rose
mary Dumrose and Miss Francis
Acher. Assisting DR.. Gibbs in
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-08-20
BRAZIL WELCOMES SWISS

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP)-A
plan to bring three thousand
Swiss farmers to Brazil is being
carried out by Brazilian immi-
grafton officials. These immi-
grants will settle in the central
mountainous state of Minas
Gerais. They had previously ask
ed to 60 to the southeast state
of Parana where the climate is
cold. The initiative to bring the
immigrants came from the Young
Mems Christian Association of
Brazil.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-08-20
Wofnons Society OF
Eustlown Methodist
Church Hos Meeting

The weekly meeting Of the wo-
mans Society of Christian Ser
vice ef the Eastlawn Methodist
church took place Monday at 1880
p. m. at the church.
The meeting was directed by
the president. Mrs. J. H. billiard,
and 1t was opened with a song.
An interesting program on
puerto Rico" in the form Of a
mock trial was given with Mrs.
Dillafd as judge assisted by Mes
danes Ross Glass, Hicks. II. p.
Hinniah M. o. Poe, ID. G. Tisdale,
and N. w. Golf.
The devotional with which the
meeting was closed was conduct
ed by Mrs. billiard.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-08-20
Nuzdrene Youth To
Sponsor Series Of
Revived Services

A series of Revival services
will be held by the Nazarene
Young Peoples Society beginning
August % through the 29th with
Miss Marie Bankston of the Ire
vecca Nazarene college as the
guest speaker.
Special music will be furnish
ed by Toxic Calhoun and Mar
lowe Miller. who will be in charge
of the music during the services.
Services will be held at the
Church Of the Nazarene, 944 S.
Pascagoula street, each evening
at 1880 p. m. and the. public is
cordially invited 10 attend.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-08-20
MRS. THUlTT
ON ANNIVERSARY

On Friday afternoon Mrs. H.
G.. Rabby entertained a small
group of mutual friends honor
ing Mrs. Joe Truitt in celebra.
ton of her eighth wedding an
~niversary.
Cooling drinks were served
with sandwiches and cookies.
Besides Mrs. Truitt and the
hostess those present included
Mesdames E. NJ. Bartlett, H. c.
Wright, Lawrence Lusk. Orrie
Pierce and ]. l.. Nelson and
Misses Sally and Jewell Rabby.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-08-20
Moss Point
Churches
METHODIST

The WSCS met in the church
on Monday afternoon. Mrs.
Downer Stewart opened the meet
ing with a prayer and Mrs. c.
T. Lyons presided. Mrs. w. NJ.
Alexander was presented with a
life membership for long and
faithful service in the missionary
society. It was pinned on by
Miss Otille Swan. Mrs. w. B.
Mcdonald gave the devotional
on House on the Rock" and
Mrs. John cirlot gave the study,
I'm My Church" after which Miss
Swan dismissed with a prayer.
BAPTIST
The WMU met in the church on
Monday afternoon when the mis-
sion study book review was Civ
en- by Miss Willie McInnis. Mrs.
Leonard Robinson gave a report
on the society project of send
ing Nettie Walden to the Color
ed Baptist study course in Jack
son. Mrs. T. L. Delashmet. Sr.,
gave a very interesting talk on
her visit to Baptist churches in
Mexico. The meeting was closed
with a prayer.
PRESBYTERIAN
The Auxiliary met in the church
on Monday afternoon. Mrs. Bert
Wood led the program on Our
Hobbies and Interests in the
Home" Mrs. A. w. Head presid-
ed over the business meeting and
the meeting was closed with a
prayer.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-08-20
Lions Club Will
Observe Ludies
NIGHT AT Meeting

Ladies Night will be observed
by the local Lions club at its
regular meeting on Friday eve
ming. today, at 7:30 p. m. at the
18th Street Auditorium.
Plans for a special dinner are
being made and the showing of
a movies will be the entertain
ment feature, it was announced.
II is the custom of the Lions
club to observe a Ladies Night
every six weeks, when they en-
terrain their wives and friends.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-08-20
ATTEND FUNERAL SERVICES

Out of town relatives and
friends attending the funeral SER
vices of Pfc. Ted B. Hinson on
Sunday afternoon We're MI. and
Mrs. w. W. Hinson of West Mon
roe, Mrs. Bessie Norman, Miss
Gladys Ham,, Mrs, Josephine Bris-
tow and daughters, Miss Willie
Mae Bristow and Mrs. Hunter
Oliver of Mobile. Mrs. I'D. Wood
of New Orleans. Mrs. jimmie
Moss, Mrs. Elby Alleman and
Beverly Ann Alleman of Mobile.
Mrs. Lee Wise and Max Ham of
Lucedale. Mrs. Claude Lee and
Houstan Lee of Carriere, Miss,
J. d. Lott and Edward Saucier
of Poplarville.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-08-20

Moses may look like tiny
evergreen trees, roses. ostrich
plumes or any Of hundreds of
bizarre shapes.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-08-20

sugar. This makes possible a
large array of biological ex-
periments.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-08-20

There were $4,000 0 tractors
on United States farms in Janu-
airy, 1947.