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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-11-20
Former Morehouse
Grad Becoming
Top Notch
Executive

By DR.. LEONARD F. MORSE
Jacksonville, Fla. - (G)-Ro-
lamb J. Yates, Floida state agency
director for the Central Life Com
pany, is rapidly becocing one of
the Anest executives of the state
in his field. He is currently direct
ing a huge colored program from
which he hopes to emerge a ma,
tional champion.
A graduate of Moorhouse Col
lege, Mr.. Yates started his climb
b serving as head of the Depart.
ment of Science at Fessenden
Academy, near Ocala, Florida,
back in 1880. After making an en-
viable record as teacher and as
acting principal over a period oS
seven or eight years, he moved
into the insurance fieeld. In ten
years he ras climbed from q col
lection agent to one of the most
importat xecutive positions in
the company.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-11-20
NhACp Presses
Prosecution OF
Pair Who Killed
Uoter

New York, Oct. 2S-Seeking to
establish the right to vote with
out fear of fatal reprisals, the Ma
tional Association for the Adj
vancement of Colored People an
nounced today that it would as
sist in the prosecution of the MUIR
ders o. Isiah Nixon, % year-old
Negro OF Aston, Georgia, who
was slain by two White brothers
on september 8th because he had
voted in the Democrat primary
election.
The case is scheduled for pres
entation to the Montgomery Coun-
ty Grand Jury during the first
week of November. Retained bv
Nixon's young widow, the Georgia
State Conference of NAACP bran
ches has employed w. A. Dam
pier of Dublin, Georgia to assist
the state in the prosecution OF
M. A. Johnson, charged with fir
ing the fatal shot, and his broth
er, johnnie Johnson, charged with
being an accessory to the murder
MRS. Nixon also authorized the
NAACP to raise funds for the
prosecution and for the mainten-
ance of herself and her children.
The NAACP has also been re-
tanned to handle the case oS D. V.
Carter, president of the Montgom-
cry County, Georgia NAACP
branch, whose left wrist was bro
Ken when he was assaulted and
beaten for carrying Negroes to
the polls in his automobils on the
day of the same election. In a
letter to Mr.. A. Abbot Rosen
Chief of the Civil Rights Section
of the FBI, NAACP Assistant
Special Council Franklin H. Will
iams wrote, I'VE request an i'm
mediate investigation by your
Office of this incident, and. if as
a result thereof you find a Fed
eral violation has been committed
prosecution of the parties guilty
of this assault.
The case also has been called
TO the attention of the Georgia
bureau of Investigation.
1T is not enough to win the
right to VOTE" Walter White MA.
ACP secretary, said in connect.
ing on these cases. 1--WE must he
able to protect Negro voters in the
exercise of this basic right. South.
ern Negroes have time and timeI
again demonstrated that thew are
not to be intimidated by threats
and violence. 1t is the response
'blllty os all of us to see that thew
are permitted to vote without
reprisals. All our resources must
be modified to this end Other.
wise, the long struggle to estab.
lish the right to vote will come
to naught."
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-11-20

urged Congress to adopt their re-
concentrations before the Pro-
gressive Party was founded. The
plank on civil rights contained
in the Democratic platform was
strengthened as a result of the
move at the Democratic National
Convention led by Mayor Hum
phries of Minneapolis, now elected
Senator from Minnesota, and
supported by the members of
Americans for Democratic AS
ton. HUMPHREYS as Hayor of Min
neapolis had put into effect a
fair employment practice policy
for municipal employees long be-
fore the Communists launched
the Progressive Party or Wallace
accepted as their cadidate for
President; and the organization
known as Americans for Demo
raiotc Action has been anti-Com--
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-11-20
Why The Wallace Vote COLLAPSED

One of the surprising outcomes of the recent election,
aside from the magnificent victory of President Truman
the small vote for the Proerssiv Party. TIL pooH
had expected to receive large Negro cote To its dis
appointment, but certainly for their best interest,
the outcome shows tho the number of Negro votes for
the Progressive extremely smoII
The interesting question of why the Wallace vote
collapsed is answered in the following article by Alfred
Boxer Lewis, of New York. Mr.. Lewis is member of
the National Association for the Advancement of Col
ored People, of the American Teachers Association AT
of L, Honorary Member, Transport Service Employees
Union, Clio Red Cops, and Americans for Democratic
Action. @~TWFYwW
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-11-20
Rev. Greene OF
Tampa Conference
Dies

Tampa, Fla.-(G) - Funeral
services were held at Allen
Temple, here, Tuesday afternoon,
sor Rev. A. e. Greene, prominent
presiding elder of the Tampa
Conference Of the AM.E. Church.
Rev. Greene had been Ill for
more than ayyear. The Rev. R. J.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-11-20

Blaine, pastor of Allen Temple,
delivered the eulogy. DR.. w. r.
Conference, served as master of
ceremonies with the assistance of
all the leading presiding elders
and pastors of the Conference
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-11-20
vitamin O In Tomatoes

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, 1948-04-28
WALTER WHITE.

6--EG . . tH4
keenly concious of what the
United States does toward
Caribbean possessions and par
ticularly the Virgin Islands
because of p~redominance of
Negro population. Many Amer
lean Negroes and whites are
equally concerned"
Pointing out that Congress
had already enacted such leg
~islation for Puerto Rico, Mr.
White continued: Denial Of
such return to the Virgin IS
lands is believed by many per-
sons to be due to the fact that
30 per cent of the population
is Negro. We are loathe to be-
lieve this. We hope that the
House Ways and Means Com
mittee with your assistance
will take up again the Craw-
ford bill and do everything
possible for its enactment"
, 1948-04-28
LEGISLATORS.

preparation and then work to-
ward focusing the attention Of
the American people on the
continent toward support for
the return of the Internal Rev
enue.
Some of the ways are: Get
ting organizations to help with
propaganda, get some word
across on the radio (which Of
course requires a considerable
amount Of money and any
medium that would bring the
plight Of the Virgin Islands be-
fore the continental Amer
lean.
, 1948-04-28
NoTIcE

No Hunting
or otherwise on Estate Cc4*ou
Valley and Tates Bay. 4.
Any one found on said Es-
tates win be dealt with &C.
cording TO law.
james Peter Skoy
, 1948-04-28
RESOLUTION

From the People Of the Viz.
gin Islands Of the United
States Petitioning the Senate
Judiciary Committee to take
favorable action on the renom.
ination of Honorable Herman
E. Moore. Judge Of the Dis
trict Court for the Virgin
Islands.
WHEREAS, the People OF
the Virgin Islands of the Uni
ted States are gratifed to learn
that Honorable Herman E.
Moore, of Illinois, has been re-
nominated for another term as
Judge of the District Court
for the Virgin Islands; and,
WHEREAS, During the nine
years that Judge Moore pre-
sided over the United States
District Court for the Virgin
Islands the Administration of
has functioned with dig
nifty fairness and with the
fullest regard for the Consti-
tuition Of the United States.
the Laws Of the Virgin Islands;
and,
WHEREAS, Due to the out
standing record Of Judge
Moore as head of the Judicial
of the Government of
these islands the people from
all groups of the population of
the Virgin Islands look to the
Courts of the Virgin Islands
with the higest esteem, respect
and confidence; and,
The American
Bar Association, after its in
vestigation, at the request of
the Senate judiciary Commit
tee, reported an unqualified
endorsement of Judge Moore
and recommended his confir-
nation on behalf of the Amer
IAN Bar Association; and,
, 1948-04-28

Majority leader Charles A.
Halleck, Republican Leslie C..
Arends, Congressman Fred L.
Crawford, Congressman Roy
Woodruff, and Senator
Hugh Butler.
, 1948-04-28
WHEREAS. The Virgin IS

l1dIluS DdT association uAanI-
mously endorsed and recon-
mended confirmation of Judge
Moore's appointment in its
Resolution sent to the Senate
Judiciary Committee; and,
WHEREAS, Judge Moore's
strong stand for constitutional
government, his firm belief in
the orderly administration of
the laws, and his fairness and
Justice to all have inspired the
people here to cherish more
highly their American citizen
ship and the American way of
life to the exclusion of any
and all foreign ideologies; and,
WHEREAS, Judge Moore
has shown himself to be inn
minently worthy of the conf
ldence which the great govern
ment of the Nation has re-
posed in him during the past
nine years, and favorable ac-
ton by the Senate Judiciary
Committee for his continued
service will meet the greatest
satisfaction of the People of
the Virgin Islands:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT
RESOLVED, and it is hereby
Resolved, by the Legislative
of the Virgin Islands
which is duly elected repre-
sentative body of the People
of the Virgin Islands, in ses-
sion, That said Body hereby
unqualifiedly endorse Judge
Moore for confirmation and do
hereby commend and urge
the Honorable, the Senate
Judiciary Committee Of the
United States Congress, to
grant favorable and early con-
.sideration to the denomination
of Judge Herman E. Moore, of
Illinois, as Judge Of the Dis
trict Court of the Virgin Is
lands; and,
BE IT FURTHER RESOLV-
ED, and it is hereby further
Resolved that this petition be
forwarded to the Honorable
Alexander Wiley, Chairman of
the Senate Judiciary Commit
tee, the Honorable Homer Fer
guson, Chairman Of the SUBJ
Committee, and that copies Of
this Petition be forwarded al
, 1948-04-28


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Evening star., 1948-03-10

Embassy in London said be had nc
word of Mr.. Masaryk's death. He
refused comment.
Injury of Drtina Recalled.
Mr.. Masaryk's death recalled the
serious injury of another former
member of the Czechoslovakian
government two days after the Com
munists took over.
He is DR.. Prokop Drtina, minister
of justice before the Communist
coup. DR.. Drtina was found under
window outside his home Febru-
ary n. Prague police reported he
had attempted suicide and that he
had suffered serious head injury.
Some observers looked on Mr.
Masaryk's retention in the Com
munist = dominated government ot
Premier Gottwald as a politica.
maneuver. They felt, too, that per.
haps he was trying to be of further
use in helping to keep the govern.
ment toward a middle Of the roat
course.
On March 4 he came out in favol
of close kinship with Russia. Ther
he said in Prague:
"Our place is at Russia's side. W.
must be grateful if the Soviet Unior
allows us to stand there.
Close Associate of Benes.
when I hear of people who hav'
begun resistance, my heart aches
Resistance against Hitler-yes. Blu
resistance against our own blood
against our own brothers ant
against our own republic-never.
my place is together with tn,
people, with the Czechs and Slovak
that love. You may reckon OF
me. I am one of YOU"
He was one of the closest associ.
ates of DR.. Eduard Benes, Czecho.
slovak President, who has been re.
ported i'll since shortly after tn.
Communists took control of tn,
government.
Evening star., 1948-03-10
Czech Chief in London
Cites Pressure, Hints
Death Isn't Suicide
BY the Associated Press

LONDON, Mar. 1O.-Gen. Lev
Prchala, former chief of staff
of the Czech Army, said today
Jan Masaryk was under terrific
pressure to bring him into line"
with the new Communist gov
ernment in Prague.
Informed of reports that the
Czechoslovak Foreign Minister had
taken his own life, Gen. Prchala
said: e.
Suicide? It is possible"
A British Foreign Once Spokes-
man commented to a news confer
ence:
II can only say that nothing could
more clearly demonstrate the char
acter of recent events in that coun-
try and the betrayal of that coun-
try by a small minority taking its
orders from abroad than the death
by his own hand of the son OF the
late President of Czechoslovakia,
who Is warmly remembered by peo-
pie in this country who were asso-
ciated with him in the struggle
against fascism."
Gen. Prchala, as president of the
Zzecho National Committee in Lon
don, is the leader of a movement
resisting the new Communist regime
in his homeland.
He said the committee represents
national groups in Britain, Belgium
France, Italy, Germany and Aus
tria, as well as the Czech national
freedom movement in Bohemia,
Moravia and Silesia.
Reported Given Choice.
/ Commenting on the suicide report,
Gen. Prchala said:
1--WE were alarmed by reports re-
ceived yesterday that Masaryk had
agreed to join the Social Democratic
Party"
(The Social Democrats are
closest to the Communists in the
new Prague regime headed by
Communist Premier Klement
Gottwald.)
Gen. Prchala said Czech exiles in
London understood that Mr.. Mas
aryk, a nonparty man, had been
given the choice of joining the So
cial Democrats or getting out of the
government.
A spokesman at the Czechoslovak
Evening star., 1948-03-10
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Court Dispute Ended
with Bond Forfeit

Forfeiture Of $500 bond posted for
Daniel Singleton. 23, presumably
ended a dispute between Municipal
Court Judge Almond w. Scott and
the United States attorneys Office.
The bond was ordered forfeited
by Judge John p. Mcmahon, who
occupied the jury court bench yes
terday.
The case, had been postponed to
yesterday by Judge Scott on Feb
ruary "A, when he granted the
bondsman, William J. O'Neil, further
time to find the defendant.
When the case was called by
Judge Mcmahon, representative
from the bonding ofice told him
that Singleton, who is colored, had
not yet been located. The Judge
then ordered the bond forfeited.
Judge Scott scored the United
States attorneys Office, when a
prosecutor announced that four of
five Of the false pretenses charges
had been dropped by the Office, thus
relieving the bondsman of $500 of
the $1,000 bond he had put up for
Singleton.
In answer to the judges charge
that his Office had acted "in the
interests Of the bondsman," United
States Attorney George Morris Fay
first conceded his assistants had
made IAN error in judgment" Later
he demanded that Judge Scott either
prove or retract his accusation.
Judge Scott replied he had not
meant to imply the action was
"couusive."
Evening star., 1948-03-10
Army Reserve Pay Bill
Is Approved by House
BY the A.soeiotsd Press


A bill to give inactive duty pay
to the Army's Organized Reserve
was passed by q unanimous voice
vote In the House late yesterday.
The measure goes to the Senate
which passed a slightly different
measure. House hackers of the bill
said they expect quick Senate ap-
proval, sending the legislation to
the White House.
The legislation would standardize
pay Of Army, Navy and Marine
Reservists, both officers and enlisted
men. The House Armed Services
Committee estimated 1t would in
crease the cost Of the Reserve pro-
gram about $4,000, 1000 a year.
Men in the Army Reserve Corps
would receive 1/13th of a month s
base pay for each training or drill
period. The periods would be once
week or every other week, depend
ing on the type Of unit in which a
man was enrolled.
Navy and Marine Reserves and
the National Guard already are paid
for regular training periods. Their
pay would not be changed by the
hill
Evening star., 1948-03-10
|WhuttheRussiuns
Are Saying Of Us

The Mosco,D radio, brondcnsting i
French to Europe, said:
. what first strikes the New
York-bound passenger is the
Statue Of Liberty. The Statue
of Liberty conceals Ellis Island.
On Ellis Island are detained 'sus-
picious' Democrats who thought
they might enjoy the freedoms
proclaimed in the United States
Constitution and who for this
reason may be deported.
In other words, Ellis Island Is q
concentration camp on a small
scale. With Ellis Island, the
American reactionaries openly
threaten aggressive men in the
United States. A concentration
camp behind the Statue Of Lib
erty is good symbol Of present
liberty in the United States"
Evening star., 1948-03-10

to Prague, when, Czechoslovakia was
/ liberated from the Germans in 1945
and kept the foreign affairs post.
A nonparty man, he was retained
as Foreign Minister when the Com
munists took over the government
on February Is. There were rumors
soon after that he had been i'm
prisoned. The Communist press
denied these rumors.
The press section Of the Foreign
Ministry early today unwillingly con-
flrmed the report of Mr.. Masaryk's
suicide.
DR.. Anton Chmela, head of the
section, responded obscurely at first,
by saying:
"He is not dead, in a certain
sense"
Then, asked directly whether or
not Mr.. Masaryk had ended his life,
he said:
Eyes, it Is true.
He broke off the conversation then
and several moments later another
press section attache, DR.. Even
Klinger, came on the telephone to
say:
II know nothing about it."
He promised to check.
The Interior Minister said: I'VE
have no information"
The Foreign Minister, suffering
from bronchitis, remained in sick
bed during the recent government
crisis and refused to see reporters.
A bomb plot against Mr.. Masaryk's
life was foiled last September. The
conspiracy failed when explosive
parcels were found in the mails
addressed to Mr.. Masaryk and two
other Czechoslavak officials.
A number of Communists were re-
ported to have been held on charges
of making the bombs.
Mr.. Masaryk was considered last
September as possibility for the
presidency of the United Nations
Assembly sessions. He headed the
Czechoslavak delegation to the AS
sembly.
While Mr.. Masaryk was in New
York, dispatches from Prague re-.
ported attempts by the Communist
Party to put representatives Of So
called Communist-front organiza-
tions into the government in the
face Of opposition from other par
ties.
Questioned by newsmen about the
crisis, he said, II feel constitutional,
democratic and parliamentary proc
esses must be maintained" in Czech
oslovakia.
Earlier, in 1s45, Mr.. Masaryk
headed the Czechoslovak delegation
to the San Francisco conference
which founded the u. N.
Mr.. Masaryk was born septem-
Der IA, 1886 in Prague. He COM
pleted his education at Charles
University, Prague. Later he
studied in Boston.
He made his first visit to the
United States in 1907, and worked
for Charles Crane, the father of
Richard Crane, who became first
United States Minister to Czecho-
slovakia. He remained In the
United States until 1918.
During the first World War Mr.
Masaryk served with the Austro-
Hungarian Army and was dis
Evening star., 1948-03-10

charged with the rank of first lieu
tenant.
Was Minister to U. S.
After the war he entered the
Czechoslovak diplomatic service and
was assigned to the Czech Legation
in Washington as Charge DAT
faires, a post he held through 1919
and 1920.
He was then transferred to Lon
don as legation secretary, remain
ing until 1923, when he was called
to Prague.
For two years, 1924, he was
secretary in the ministry Of for
eign affairs. Then he was sent to
London as Czechoslovak minister.
He remained in London until 1888,
resigning after Munich
Later, he went to the United
States, and while still in America,
was named minister of foreign af-
fairs of the Czechoslovak govern
ment m London. AS such, he signed
for the Czechoslovak government a
treaty with the Soviet Union which
renewed friendship ties of the two
nations, and which gave the Czech
government the right to form an
army on. Russian soil.
Mr.. Masaryk was a heavy-set g.
foot man fluent in several languages.
His famed black homburg hat-a
type he wore for 40 years, was almost
a Masaryk trademark.
IT never planned on my own
future" he once said. II have al
ways been pushed into success. /
entered diplomacy without merit or
qualification. I merely chose my
father well"
Mr.. Masaryk's wartime broad
casts were a source of consolation
to the Czech people who had to
bear the brunt of a German-run
economy. They bore Mr.. Masaryk
Evening star., 1948-03-10
Musuryk
CONTINUED From First Page }

out of a window In his official fiat
IN the (Czernin palace"
Right to the last minute, he
showed no sign Of depression" the
announcement said. ITO the con-
trary he was full of lively optimism.
The circumstances are being in
vestigated."
The government said Mr.. Mas
aryk voluntarily took his life" The
Evening star., 1948-03-10
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Census Hits 145,34O, 900
After 1947 Birth Record
BY the Assoeiofsd Press

The population of the United
States reached a new high Of 49,
$4,000 at the start of this year
after 1947 proved the biggest single
year Of growth in history.
The Census Bureau said today a
record number Of babies, 3,908, 900
we're born in 1947.
Continuance of a low death rate
and a net immigration of about
215,000 persons also helped the net
increase last year.
Evening star., 1948-03-10

no I'll viii for being out Of the
country.
One Of his first acts on arriving
In Czechoslovakia again after World
War II was to lay . wreath on the
grave Of Karel Capek, one of the
nations greatest writers.
When he returned to his car he
found this message chalked on, a
door:
I'VE love you."