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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-01-22
Two Negroes Among
81 Dead AS Tornado
Races White Section

Warren, Ark. - Devasted by the
January tornado that left death
and destruction in its wake, this
south Arkansas lumber city has COM
leted the sorrowful task of burying
the dead and is now rushing plans
for sheltering tn ehomeless and re-
pairing the property damages of more
than $1,000,000.
Spawned in the northwest section
OF Louisiana, the big wind, accom-
panied by rain, Tightening, and thun-
der, swept in on Warren from the
southwest, hitting with a force that
leveled 120 homes, practically de-
molished the Bradley Lumber COM
pany's sawmill and lumber drying
plant, turned over automobiles, dug
up trees and left the mangled bodies
of Sd residents, including two colored,
and 2 injured in the death-deaing
path it carved. 1t was the worst tor
nado in Arkansas history.
TWO NEGROES DEAD
The Negro dead were: Mrs. Ethel
Bryant, AZ, and Jim Simon, co. who
lived in the Childs Community IA
miles southwest of Warren.
The big storm, after flashing the
west end of the city, skipped over
the business section before playing
havoc with homes in the east end,
and was in full stride when it hit
the home of Jim Bryant.
81 had just come home from work
at the Bradley MILL said Bryant,
husband of the dead woman, ''and
my wife was preparing supper when
the tornado struck"
''She followed me into the bed
room, and we were sitting on the
her when suddenly she was hurled
past me out into the darkness. I
was picked up and tossed about as
the house disappeared.
''The next thing I remember was
oelHS vi lily pdCh anu HuSSHlSdIIee
some distance from where my house
had been. [ called my wife, but did
not get an answer" Bryant suffered
minor injuries and was able to assist
in the search for his wife before
being taken to the office of DR..
II. H, Rhinehart.
Workers found Mrs. Bryant's
body five hours later, buried be-
meath the derbies of the Bryant
home. She had been hit on the
forehead by some heavy object,
her shoulder and leg broken. She
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-01-22
Mems Day At
Big Bethel

January 30th is the day when the
men of Bethel A M E Church, Ninth
and Broadway, Rev. G. Wayman
Blakely, Pastor, Charley Hughes, Gen
eral Chairman and Prof. K. J. I.
Blakely, Co-Chairman, will conduct
most unusual mems day celebra-
ton on Sunday January Both begin
ming with the Sunday Sshool and
continuing throughout the day.
The following men will lead in the
driv as Captains: W. H. Boone, L.
M. Christophe, D. J. Bubisson, G.
w. De therd, J. U. Elston, C. H.
Gee, 1. T. Gillian, Charley Hughes,
J. V. Jordan, Archie Miller, Paul
Minton, Claud Mcclure, A. E. Ma
bers, J. NJ Robinson, E. S. Scott, w.
A. Singfield, J. G. Thornton, P. w.
Wade, George West, Fred Battles,
Eddie Bunch, Eddie Blanchard, Jerry
Carmichael, Virgil Crumie, Herman
Carter, B. H. Sozzell, w. B. Dickey,
Will Ester, John Glymph, Howard
Kirkland, B. C. McCurtain, Ed Rog-
ers, H. c. Ray, Samuel Stephenson,
L. D, Sharpe, Jr., Hosie Wilson,
Homer Winstead, K. J. I. Blake1y,
NJ. C.. Carlisle, Jasper Davis, G. D.
Fudge, S. F. Floyd, J. G. Gray, M.
B. Hampton, Will Marshall, R. B.
McLemore, L. L. Majors, Earl Moses,
VIM. Rodgers, Fred Scroggins, L. D.
Sharpe, L. N. Smith, J. H. Towns,
G. w. B rnham, George Bell, Ar
thur Boyd, Ernest Brooks, G. HI.
Clopton, B. J. Currey, Truman Gal
Ioway, w. E. Hicks, Don Hankins,
P. S. Jones, G. R. Lewis, Jr., P. J.
Lewis, T. H. Matthews, George Mays,
George McNorton, James Stocker,
Willie Spears, Willie Sloan and John
Wiley.
The Committee Personal is as
follows: PROGRAM; DR.. J. V. Jor-
dan, Chairman; Fred Scroggins, A.
E. Majors, Don Hankins, Herman
Carter, Jerry Carmichael, Paul Min
ton, B. HI Dozell, George West, 2.
S. Jones and George Norton. FIN
ANCE: DR.. J. NJ. Robinson, VIII
Marshall. Claud Mcclure, j. G. Gray,
E. S. Scott, Carl Moses, Willie Moses,
Willie Sloan, D. J. Dubisson, George
Doutherd, B. J. Currey, and w. A.
Singfield. MUSIC: Herman Carter,
G. R. Lewis Jr., Elmo Carter, Walter
Watkins, R. N. Smith, c. H. Gee,
Homer Winstead, Hosie Wilson, A.
E. Majors. COURTESY: P. w. Wade,
Archie Miller, NJ C. c. Carlisle, s.
F. Floyd, Jasper Davis, Howard
Kirkland, B. H. Dozzell, F. 0. Battles,
and W. B. Dickey. USHER: L. d.
Sharpe, Tr man Galloway, w. Z.
Hicks, l.. L. Majors, c. D. Fudge,
and Willie Spears. SUNDAY
SCHOOL: N. Elston, M. B. Hamil-
ton, George Bell. GENERAL COM
M1TTEE: Charley Hughes, Chair
man, K. J. I. Blakely, Co-Chairman;
]. V. Jordan, General Secretary;
Fred Scroggins, Co-Chairman; Rev.
J. Wayman Blakely, Pastor.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-01-22

while the receiver was convicted,
Governor Laney commented" This
is the principal reason for my &C
ton, and Il this point is not clarifi-
ed, do not plan to revoke the
furlough".
He added that after the fur
Tough is over, Il have no objec-
tons to the return of the man
to prison to serve his term. The
authorities can do whatever they
want to do with him." Governor
Laney said he acted on recon-
mendations of those who were fami-
liar with the case. The furlough was
requested by Attorney Sam Levine
of Pine Bluff, who defended lex
ander in court.
Judge Parham complained that it
is customary that court officials nd
police authorities be consulted be-
fore a furlough is granted, and
that this was not done in Alexan-
der's case. The Governors reply
was, Naturally it would be diff
ficult to confer with all court Of
ficials in every request that comes
up for furlough I plan to look fur
Their into the case" The Governor
agreed that it was unusual to grant
a furfOugh so soon after a sentence
was begun.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-01-22
Plans Fortieth
Anniversary

The local branch NAACP went
on record in their regular meeting
last Sunday, January 9Th, at the
Phyllis Wheatley YWCA, endors-
ing the proposed Gillian Park Bond
Issue on which an election will be
held February 1. The NAACP al
so made known to the members
present that the membership fee
for 1949 will be $500 per member
instead of the amount of $1.00 paid
in previous years. Mr.. Dave Wells
of the Dave Wells & Sons Print
ing Company, will head the mem
bership drive as chairman when
it opens February 1.
Mr.. I. S. McClinton, outstanding
civic worker, was responsible for
the local branch endorsing the
bond issue. After making a few
remarks preceding a motion for
same, Mr.. McClinton said that it
was time now for the NAACP and
every civic organization in the
City of Little Rock, to make known
its stand regarding the bond issue
for Gillian Park. Mr.. Mc1nitno
emphatically stated that it is time
now for Negroes to rally behind
such a movement ifthey sincerely
want a park. No other person in
Little Rock has done more to up
hold the movement for a Negro
Park than Mr.. McClinton, for he
has worked and spoke at the va
rious churches and civic organiza-
lions since the park controversy
began two years ago. Apparently
the organization attempted to
side track or pigeon hole Mr..
McClinton's request, SO the youth
full businessman took the floor
near the close Of the meeting and
demanded that something be done
for or against the bond issue. Pres
Ident w. Marcus Taylor then asked
The house to give some considera-
ton to Mr.. McClinton's suggestion.
Mr.. Fred G. Byrd made the motion
that the organization endorse the
bond issue, and it was seconded
by Editor c. H. Jones.
Plans were made for the For
tieth Anniversary of the organiza-
ton, with Mr.. c. w. Curtis elect
ed chairman of the special ami
Versary committee. During the
observance of forty years fpro-
gress made by the National Asso-
citation for the Advancement of
Colored People, all churches
throughout the city will join with
the organization, making mention
Of the unexcelled &C / tiles o. thu
organization through the years.
February 9th will be recognized
as religious and educational day
for local branches. The member
ship goal was set at seven hundred
and fifty for seniors one hundred
and fifty for the youth, along with
a quota of Three Hundred dollars
which will be reported to the ma
tional organization.
President Taylor admonished
the members not to accept the
Craftsmanship of any committee
unless they were willing to service
and to accept the responsibilities
involved.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-01-22

Mrs. Nettie M. Steele, of 1920
AtchisOn Street, st. Louis, Mo-, who
operates beauty shop there, has
returned to her home after visit
here, with her mother, Mrs Willie
Kennedy, and to see her grand mo-
Their Mrs. Anette HOmptOn, who was
very ill, and who passed during her
stay here.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-01-22
We Look Forward
To Democracy And
Brotherhood

We look forward to Democracy
and Brotherhood, Slavery is but
half abolished, emancipation but is
half completed, while millions Of
freemen with votes in their hands
are left without education is the
keynote of our prayer for world de-
mocracy.
Freedom of opportunity is the foun-
dation upon which we must build
our hopes for the brotherhood of
man. But, slow though it is, educa-
ton in all of its forms is the most
potent factor in obtaining the goal
for which we strive. Our leaders,
chosen to mold the minds of our
youth cropping for the answers to
life's problems, must be endowed
with insight, clarity of tn ought,
magniminity, and, above all, unbiased
attitudes, in order to prepare their
charges for the pitfalls and obstacles
they must overcome.
1t is the duty of every American
to insure the four freedoms and to
uphold the Constitution bill of Rights
upon which the democratic ideal is
predicted. We must band together,
regardless of the color of our skins.
despite our varied backgrounds and
religious beliefs, in an effort to hasten
the day when complete harmony
is reality and not a dream yet to
be realized.
Even hte aftermath of World
War II hurls many problems in our
way, the increased educational facil
tiles for those who participated in
the great battle for freedom will
help to erase the scars of fear and
heal the wounds of hate inflicted
with inimical fury by the oppressors
of tn world
Our young men and women en-
riched and made wiser by their re-
cent experiences, will now begin to
embark upon careers better suited
to serve mankind as we'll as their
own needs. We must stand behind
them, support them and urge them
on to make a better, kinder and
wiser world patterned after the ex-
pectations of our founding fathers,
not only for US here and now but
for the coming generations, our citi-
zens of the future.
Brotherhood is a word that strikes
a responsive chord in our hearts. The
brotherhood Of man means that we
are all children of the same God,
Who is our Father, not My Father
1t is not only sentimental catch
word; it is a reality which we can
ignore only at great peril. The
brotherhood of man is more than
slogan; it is the stuff from which
democracy is woven. It is more than
a prhase; it is one of the pillars
of our democracy.
We Americans have accepted this
brotherhood as one of our guiding
principles. However democracy does
not live by principles alone, but by
the practical application of these
principles in our lives. Democracy
is more than a word; it is 40 way
of life. And it is a way of life that
depends to a large extent on our
acceptance of all men, no matter
who they are, or what they are, as
our brothers, We shall preserve and
develop this democracy of ours only
by really living out the consequences
Of our belief in our brotherhood UNI
der tn comon Fatherhood of God.
We shall then live our lives together,
SO that we may reach our comon
destiny together We shall then work
together so that we can make of our
life here a fitting preparation for
We look forward to democracy
ife to come.
and Brotherhood.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-01-22
Cooking Bacon

Place bacon, without separating
strips, in heavy frying pan. Cover
and cook over very low heat 10 min
utes. Remove cover, turn strips
and continue cooking, IL necessary,
in the fat until strips are golden
brown. Drain on soft paper. Allow
two or three strips per serving.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-01-22

One of the featured speakers at
the national convention of the NACW
will lbe Mrs. Ruby M. Kendrick, ex-
ecutive secretary of the organiza-
ton, whose headquarters are in
Washington, d. c. The 1913 NACW
meeting is being held in Seattle
July 31-Aug. 7.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-01-22

Almost every u. S. industry
uses fats and oils in production
OF goods. Your salvaged kitchen
fat will help meet fat scarciias
at home and abroad.
Evening star., 1949-09-14

Oysters were among the first
foods to be canned in the United
States.
Evening star., 1949-09-14
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wartime years of party co-opera-
ton.
Calls Dennis 'Figurehead.'
The Communists, under the
label of Communist Political
Association" announced support
for Mr.. Roosevelt in 1914. but dur
ing the campaign he rejected their
backing.
Rushmore, according to his test
imony, was no longer member of
the party at the time. He said he
belonged to the party for three
years, from 1887 until late in 1889
Rushmore testified that "all the
responsible leading positions" in
the Communist Party Of the United
States are occupied "by aliens sent
here by Moscow"
He said that such men as Brow.
der and Eugene Dennis, present
secretary of the party. are mere
flgureheads."
|. Without its links with, Moscow
Rushmore said. the Communis:
Party in this country would
founder badly. both financially
and politically"
Gems Are Main Exchange Item.
He added that if the Nation had
Evening star., 1949-09-14
West Germany Will Issue
Two Reconstruction Loans
BY the Assoeioted Press

FRANKFURT, Germany. Sept.
1.-two big bond issues to finance
rebuilding of wrecked Ger
many were announced today by
the West German Credit Bank for
reconstruction.
One issue of 100,000.00o deutsch-
marks (about $30,000,000) will
finance industrial, commercial and
agricultural enterprises, rebuild
ing plants and purchase of new
equipment. The bonds will bear
I51a per cent interest, and be re-
deemable within IS years.
A second issue of undetermined
amount will be used to finance
building of homes to overcome
the serious housing shortage
caused by wartime bombing. This
issue will bear 312 per cent.
Half of the 00.000-marE
issue has already been subscribed
by 10 West German banks.
The remainder of the bonds will
be offered to the public. To en-
courage buyers, the earnings or
the bonds will be free OF taxes.
Evening star., 1949-09-14
Hof Rodders Chase Cars
Off Los Angeles Road
By the kssociotsd Press

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 14.-About
$50 hot-rod auto racers early today
terrorized motorists on busy Sepul-
veda boulevard, forcing many off
the road.
Police managed to capture eight
of the wild speeders but only after
two of the stepped-up homemade
racers had crashed. injuring two
drivers. The others easily got
away.
Police Chief John H. Stroh OF
suburban Torrance said the youth
full speed demons. doing IS miles
an hour or better, OUTRAGED six
patrol cars from Torrance to Re-
dondo Beach.
Sepulveda boulevard in that
area is the heavily-traveled U. .
Highway 101, the Pacific Coast
highway.
Chief Stroh said the racing has
been a problem for some time in
the area but that the super-tast
racers always manage to flee squad
cars. He added that the time and
place of the races are pre-
arranged by word-of-mouth ad-
VertiSing.
Evening star., 1949-09-14
Last Big Rebel Stronghold
In Bolivia Gets UItimatum
Nv the Assocjofed Press

LA PAZ, Bolivia, Sept. 14.-Gen
Felipe Rivera, army commander
in chief, sent a surrender ultima
tum last night to Santa Cruz. last
big stronghold of rightist rebels
who tried to overthrow the Boliv-
ian government.
Gen. Rivera's message gave the
rebel commander, Gen. Frollan
Calleja, 48 hours to surrender or
face an all-out attack on Santa
Cruz by government forces.
The city in the Eastern Bolivian
oil fields has been in rebel hands
since the ultra nationalist Revolu-
tionary Party revolted 18 days ago
against Bolivia's middle-of-the-
road government. Government
troops have retaken all other i'm
portant towns seized by the rebels.
Evening star., 1949-09-14
NeeIy
Continued From First Page.

= SAAA N-~e
contending that real estate own
ers now are carrying all the tax
load they can bear.
Home Rule Bill Backed.
Several group spokesmen ex-
pressed hope for enactment OF
the District home rule bill which
has been passed by the Senate,
but blocked in the House.
One of these was Mrs. Char
lotte Sillers of the Women's Aux
iliary of the United Public Work.
ers, CIO. She also called for a
higher Federal payment. repeal
of the sales tax, bond issues for
capital improvements and for
non n-segregated public schools.
A similar program was recon-
mended by Mrs. Gertrude Evans,
executive secretary of the Pro-
gressive Party of the District, who
also urged more funds for city
hospitals, expansion of child day
care centers and an increase in
unemployment compensation.
Mrs. Evans also urged the adop-
ton of civil rights measures as
did Edgar G. Brown, president OF
the National Negro Council. He
called Washington the Jim
Crow Capital of the Nation"
Senator Nicely resorted to
quotations from the Bible and
poetry when Mrs. Bertha Voor-
horst, president of the Women S
City Club, took the stand to urge
greater employment opportunities
for elderly people and gardens
for school children.
Neely Quotes Poetry.
Mrs. Voorhorst, who said she
was IS, told OF being retired from
Ia position when she was fully
capable of continuing work.
Thinking she had referred to her
self as old, Senator Nicely. who is
"a, said for her never to regard
herself as old but to keep on
working in Gods vineyard" since
"even some fruit the Oldest tree
may bear"
He then quoted Longfellow:
"For age Is opportunity no
less than youth itself. though
in another dress,
"And as the evening twilight
fades away. the sky Is filled
with stars invisible by day"
Mrs. Voorhorst liked the poetic
thought. but said:
II didn't say I was getting old,
because I'm not. I'm in better
shape today than I was"
Senator Neely, who makes quite
point Of keeping appointments,
lectured witnesses on the impor-
tance of being present on time.
Several were not.
Rabbi Norman Gerstenfeld OF
the Washington Hebrew Congre-
CATION opened today's session with
a prayer, and Senator Nicely. who
said no discrimination would be
shown by the committee. an
nounced that a colored preacher
would give the opening prayer
Tuesday.
Evening star., 1949-09-14
London
Continued From First Page.)

ever, a highly cautious and skep-
tical attitude seems to be clearly
indicated as the course Of wisdom
for investors"
'Pious CIaptrap' Assailed.
Referring to what it termed
the "pious claptrap" Of the com.
munique, the Conservative Daily
Mail said:
"The only mystery is why Bevir
and Cripps should look so pleased
with themselves.
"Is it because they think they
have won the next election ir
Washington-or do they know
something which has not beer
revealed?"
The Liberal News Chronicle
said the Washington communique
Evening star., 1949-09-14

to feel that their experience ir
dealing with Communist China
offers little basis for hope Of do
ing business with the Commu-
nists, so that this country in
general should follow a policy OF
hands off.
Britain, however, has a much
greater commercial stake than
the United States in China, and
is interested in protecting it to
the fullest extent possible. Dip
lomatic officials say they would
not be surprised if the British
undertook to develop a working
arrangement for trade with Com
munist China.
The Bevin Acheson political
talks-following up the British
economic conference which closed
here Monday-opened at the
State Department yesterday with
a three-hour session. The two
foreign policy chiefs were aided
by their experts on Far Eastern
and Middle Eastern affairs.
Persons familiar with the initial
discussions said that it was the
kind of heart-to- heart talk which
provides more clarity of under
standing between men who make
policy than any amount of diplo-
matte note exchanges. 1t was
said not to be designed, however,
to produce immediate decisions
and did not produce any.
Evening star., 1949-09-14

nations participating. Mr.. Gutt
told reporters he saw mo indica-
ton" that any country had
changed its mind.
And Sir Stafford Cripps, the
British Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, in a brief speech follow
ing the public remarks of Mr..
Black and Mr.. Quit, confined
himself to polite formalities.
Mr.. Quit revealed that one
country raised its voice in opposi-
ton to devaluation in the closed
meeting. This was later discov-
cred to be Czechoslovakia. whose
delegation yesterday demanded
unsuccessfully that the bank and
funds discussions be opened to
the public and the press.
American officials opined that
the British are satisfied that the
10-point agreement reached in
last weeks Anglo = American =
Canadian conference will tide
them over the present dollar
famine and afford time to work
out longer-range methods Of bal
ancing the foreign trade accounts.
However, it was predicted that
the fund will not relax its rule
barring the lending of its money
to any country receiving Marshall
Plan assistance. as long as some
fund countries are dissatisfied
with the par values prevailing.
Prior to the meeting, the Brit
ish were understood to be plan
ming to request repeal of that rul-
ing. Whether they will enter such
request now is uncertain.
Mr.. Quit, still without naming
Britain specifically, noted that the
funds charter forbids any re-
valuation study until the nation
concerned proposes a change.
Therefore, despite the fact that
a general currency revision is now
under study py the IuIlQ, aCtloIl
cannot be taken unless England
moves, Other European countries,
'aliIaHghs some arg reportedly
ready to@revalue, are unlikely
to act unless Britain does.
The bank and fund talks went
behind closed doors today and
will remain there until Friday, the
closing Of the sessions. Some $50
financial leaders are attending.
One committee was to take UP
a South African proposal to raise
the price of gold. Favorable ac-
ton appeared unlikely in view OF
American opposition. stated fiat
ly yesterday by Secretary Of the
Treasury Snyder.
Evening star., 1949-09-14
Grips Calls on Johnson,
Renews 1912 Friendship

Sir Stafford Cripps, Britain s
chancellor of the exchequer, paid
a. call on Defense Secretary john
son at the Pentagon today to re-
new a friendship started in In
dia in 1912.
They became friends when Sir
Stafford headed a mission to In
dia which studied problems prior
to Indian independence and Mr.
johnson was there as personal
representative of President Roose-
velt.
After pictures were made In the
Secretary's Office. Mr.. johnson in
troduced Sir Stafford to top de-
fense officials.
To reporters, later. the two
agreed that: Our mutual job is
the peace of the world"