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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-02-26
Governors OF 3
States Call For
Observance OF
Negro Newspaper
Week

Norfolk.-Governors of three
states in which there is Ne
gro press have asked the people
of their states to join the seventh
annual observance of NEGRO
Newspaper Week" from February
q to March 5, Thomas w. Young,
president of the Negro Newspaper
Publishers Association, said this
week. sEsW
AS members of NNPA were con-
verging on Washington where the
executive board will meet on
Friday and Saturday. Young an
nounced also that q. M. Nickel
way, vice-president of the Amer
lean Society of Newspaper Edit
ors will discuss within a radio
network program, the topic, docs
Our Democracy Justify a Negro
Press?" The program will be
heard via the National Broad
casting Company facilities, from
IL to 1915 pm, Saturday, Feb.
Goth.
Mr.. McKelway is editor of the
Washington STAR, a director of
the Washington Board of Trade
and a longtime journalist.
Charles Batters of MICS Wash
ington staff, will be moderator.
The proclamation in which the
governors Joined, reads as fol-
lows:-
Whereas, this Nation and it's
people derive all their blessings
from a just God and just Con-
stitution; and
whereas, the Courts of Pub
Continued on Page 8))
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-02-26
New Wave Of
Vandalism Hits
Los Angeles
Negro Property
Buyers

Los Angeles, Calf. Feb. q =
Another outbreak of vandalism
against Negro property buyers IN
so-called "White" neighborhoods,
occurred last week in the southern
section OF Los Angeles, following
lapse of sevral months.
This latest outrage was commi-
ted last Thursday night, only q
few hours after Hollis C. Majors
and his wife had taken possession
of a house located at 10220 S. Wall
Street.
According to- Majors right af-
ter they had moved their first load
of their belongings into the small
cottage they purchased someone
splashed white paint on a front
door screen and then threw emp
ty liquor bottles against the house.
Not satisfied with their handiwork
! the hoodlums returned again last
Sunday night and repeated their
depredations in the same manner.
On each occasion Majors state
those responsible for the acts had
vanished when he went to the
door to Investigate. The police
he said, were notified but to his
knowledge no arrests have been
made so far.
Last Thursday night, when tn
hoodlums first visited his home,
Majors stated tt ~ della
so long before arriving that the
same or different persons returned
and tossed more bottles against
the property.
T When interviewed this week in
their neatly furnished cottage,
Majors who works as mainten-
ance employee, and his wife who
also works, both stated their in
tention of continuing to occupy
the house which they said they
purchased through Royal Realty
Company AGA IL S. Broadway.
Majors said he and his wife
bought the property solely because
the price and terms appealed to
their circumstances and the fact
that the properly was located in
desirable residential district.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-02-26
of Justice

per; Mrs. Marguite Oliver, Lau-
derdale; Mrs. Mildred Rushing,
Leake; Mrs. M. L. Calbert, Nesho-
ba; Mrs. Sophia Ruth Baggert,
Newton; Miss Bettye Jack, Scott;
Mrs. H. C. Harper, Smith; and
Miss Stella Mayhorn, Winston.
Mr.. E. T. Hawkins presented
the District Official Staff, includ-
ing other officers as follows; Miss
Fannie J. White, Secretary; Miss
Emma Dee Jenkins, Registrar;
Miss Jewel Merchant, Treasurer;
Mr.. w. L. Calbert, Program Direc-
tor.
The Annual District Activity
Day will be held at the Harris
Senior High School Friday, March
4th. The Wechsler Jr. High School
in Meridian, Mississippi, will be
host to the next annual session
of the 5th District Teachers Asso-
citation.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-02-26
New Jersey
Schools Learn; Ry
Experience Kids
Rnow No Race
pias

Camden, N. J. Feb. 81 = Six
months ago, under the impetus
of New JERSEYS new model con-
stitution, Jim Grow was outlawed
in this city's &c grammer schools.
With apprehension in some cases
strong objection in few others,
the community's $4,000 youngs-
ters visited the school nearest
their homes and registered for
last years September term.
In several predominantly Negro
neighborhoods, handful of White
parents appealed for the right to
transfer their children elsewhere.
The appeals were denied. Some
gave in reluctantly, but a few
refused to accept the new law.
They placed their children in par
achial schools.
Today the apprenhension-it ex.
listed mainly in the minds of the
parents-is apparently dissipated,
and many of the small fry, with
the quick undergraduates of youth
cannot even remember the time
fsix months ago) when Camden's
School district was operated on
segregated basis.
NOTHING HAPPENED
AS one mother -White-put it:
II admit / was afraid. I'd heard
SO many things about what was
likely to happen. Well, nothing
really did"
Others might disagree. Anon
them Principal Mendel Tubs who
directs both the Kaigr and Cen
trail schools where about 40 Ne
groes attend each school with ap
proximately 200 Of their Whit
classmates. Turbis said:
cit has only helped the Oh
| dren; to has helped the community
1t has removed a break in the
normal lives. They have been
] CONTINUED on Page s
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-02-26
North Carolina Editor Ask South To
Show Goodwill On Civil Rights
Issue
Says Dixiecrats Have Succeeded In
Making Themselves Contemplate
Says Dixie Worried By Old Fears

the nation together contain. Mel
ther the South nor the nation
will be shelved by any Dixiecrat
gyrations in the coming congress.
1t will do the South no good to
win a fillibuster and win the In.
creasing impotence of the people
of good will in the country as q
whole.
To-day, the Dixiecracs have on
ly succeeded in making them
selves look contemplate. Their
fureisain retrospect looks comic
by the disclosures of their lack
of power even in the South. For
tunately, the South of good and
goodwill was not captured by
them. And it does not wish to
be represented by any men of
their spirit"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-02-26
Mrs. Robert Lee
Moffetf Jackson
allege Speaker

Mrs. Robert Lee Moffett whose
radio talks here during the past
several days have attracted
large audience of appreciative
listeners, was the principal speak
er on a program sponsored by the
Jones Hall Welfare Council Of
Jackson College, last Sunday.
The subject on which Mrs. Muf-
felt spoke was Patterns for
World Civilization A woman OF
wide world observation, expert
ence, travel and with deep un-
Outstanding of the growth and
background of world culture, Mrs.
Moffett's address was received
with deepest interest by large
and appreciative audience.
Under local auspices, Mrs. Moi
felt has been appearing in Jack
son as member of the National
Spiritual Assembly of the Bahais
of the United States and Canada.
The program included remarks
by Burford Holmes, president of
the Jones Hall Welfare Council
and a question period under the
| direction of Willie McLaurin.
The speaker was introduced nv
Mrs. Beatrice Broy Josey music
was furnished by the Jackson
College choir.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-02-26
Quitman Hight
School Host To
Fifth District
Teachers
Association

Qutman, Miss. - Feb. Il (Spe-
ciaD - Approximately 500 teach
ers and representatives of Parens
Teachers Associations from var
tous sections of the district met
i'm the Annual session of the Fifth
Educational District, Mississippi
Association of Teachers in Color
ed Schools, in the beautiful Audi
forum of the New Quitman Hig'
School, with enegertic and gra-
cious principal J. r. Cole enter
tanning.
The session opened at 1915 a.
M, with Vice President j. r..
Harvey presiding. Greetings IN
behalf of Clarke County Negrc
Teachers and the county at-large
were extended by Professor S
Owens, principal of the recent.
built West Enterprise School, ar
Mr.. NJ. M. Shirley, Suerintendent
of the Clarke County Jeanes Su-
ervisor, accepted for the district.
At intervals, music was exceliently
rendered by Quitman Glee Club,
under the direction of Mrs. Pearl
Varnado-Crawford, Clarke County
Jeans Supervisor.
The report of the district pro-
gram, brought by Professor w.
A. Reed, Jr., President of the
Fifth Ristrict Association, pointed
out progress in the way of new
schools and facilities, being made
IN the district. The objective
sought during his visits to seven
of the 10 counties of the dis
trict and the necessity for teach
ers of the district. to raise their
educational training status, if
they hope to continue in the field
of teaching.
At lis pm, at the direction
of Mr.. w. F. Calbert, presiding
the assembly disbandd, going
to various group meetings for
problem discussions. The Associa-
ton through these discussions,
discovered some worthwhile solu-
tons to teaching problems pre-
valent throughout the district and
it is felt that each teacher pres
ent left the meeting with these
problems and possible solutions
clearer in mind.
During the general session, re-
sumes of these discussions were
reported. Miss F. 0. Alexander,
State Intinerant Teacher, gave an
interesting evaluation Of these re-
ports.
During the afternoon session,
Mrs. C. D. Thompson, director Of
the Meridian-Jackson College Ex-
tension Center and chairman of
the District Alta committee, re-
commended that the district be
represented at the annual session
of the Alta, which was adopted
and the President, Professor W..
A. Reed, Jr- was elected as the
District Representative.
Among Jeans Teachers present
were: Mrs. Pearl Crawford, Clarke
County; Mrs. Estella Morrow,
Jasper; Mrs. Fannie White, Kem-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-02-26
Alpha Phi Alpha
Presents Attorney
Bedford Y. Lawson
At TougaIoo
College

Sunday, February 81, 1s4s. at
4 pm, Alpha Epsilon Lambda
Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fra
ternity, Incorporated, presents a
dynamic speaker in the person OF
Attorney Bedford v. Lawson OF
Washington, d. c., national pres
ident Of Alpha Phi Alpha Fra
ternity, in public program hon
oring the new Undergraduate
chapter at Tougaloo College. 9th
er national officers will also he
on hand for this occasion.
The public is cordially invited
to attend.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-02-26

/ ieoiOiSH, ~. u, req. I'll Inc
South has a task today greater
than any which ever confronted
it. 1t will be secure at home i'm
its customs and its culture only
as it succeeds in demonstrating
not bitter reaction, but generous
progress in nation which is
determined to defeat and dem
onstrate true democracy to the
concludes an editorial appearing
in the Raleigh News and Observ-
er, edited by jonathan Daniels,
climaxes a searching analysis of
situation which the South de-
clares is being imposed upon it.
Taking each of the debated
steps in Mr.. Truman's Civil
Rights program, Mr.. Daniels
carefully analyses each impas-
sionately and with forward
ioohlHS view.
1T is time the South faced the
civil rights, cne by one, and fac
ed them squarely,' say Mr. Dan
ieps editorial" Here they are:
"The poll tax. Nothing is so
clear as that the poll tax as
prerequisite to the right to vote
is a device to limit and deny
democracy to poor white men and
Negroes. 1t was long ago rejected
in such a Southern state as North
Carolina, and no southerner can
suggest that the results here
have disturbed either racial re-
lationships or the equality of
government provided. The poll
tax should go. The thing so bad
and does not become any better
because of long arguments about
states rights.
"The anti-lynching law. If an
anti-lynching law can be passed
which meets the test of constitu-
tionality, let it be passed. The
South has no special interest in
preventing law. which is de-
signed to end such crime. II
should not act as if it did.
"FEPC. Many Southerners and
Northerners, too, believe that
this legislation would do more
harm than good. Yet it certainly
touches the most serious question
in this whole field. Lynching is
disappearing, the number of pol]
tax states decline. But the need
for increasing economic oppor.
tunlt1es for more and more train
ed and educated Negroes remains
Nowhere is it more necessary to
improve the economic status OF
the Negro than in the South it
self. Obviously, this region can
not be permanently prosperous
SO long as a fourth of it's pea
pie are permanently poor.
Segregation in Interstate
transportation. This involves not
proposal Of the Presidents, but
a decision of the supreme court.
That court held in effect that no
state could impose local Jim
Crow laws on travellers on inter
state trains, airlines, buses. etc
the President has only insisted
that the decision of the Supreme
Court be enforced, as every de-
cision of that court should be.
Nobody, North or South, should
suggest that these four fuestions
present simple problems. They
are complex and emotional They
are rooted in old faiths and old
fears of new ones, too. But the
very difficult and emotional equal
ity of these questions should
mean that they receive the best
intelligence which the South and
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-02-26

Turf GREEN'S BAND STRUCK
DOWN In GRIM HIGHWAY
TRAGEDY
Band Leader Three Others Hurt

Memphis, eIfn FeUf 10 kopeCldi
Grim Tragedy this week STRUCK
down one of the most romisins
young musical aggregations t
start here since Jimmie Lunce
ford started the band that became
nationally famous.
1t was the fatal and injurious
accident in which members Of
Richard "Tuff" Green's orchestra
were involved last Tuesday morn
ing on Highway 72, several miles
west of Germantown, Tenn.
In a collision with a transport
truck, Green's automobile was
destroyed, three members of his
organization killed outright, and
four others, including Mr. Green
were injured.
The dead include: Is year-old
Marcellus Druham, popular young
vocalist and musician, as we'll as
one of the best high school athle-
ties of recent years he lived
I'm Foote Homes.
26 year-old Rufus Watson, of
1898 Quinn, originally of Nash
vile, Tenn.
q year-old Leonard Campbell,
of 1904 S. Wellington.
The injured besides Mr.. Green,
who suffered severe head and face
injuries include: Ben Branch, 81
of 1904 Calvert, decorations to the
face and head, 40 year old Phi
meas Newborn of 582 Ashley, arm
injuries and Clinton Waters, of
B66 South Fourth, chest injuries.
According to Green's account of
what happened the orchestra had
filled a Valentine engagement
Monday night in Tuscumbia, Ala.
and left town around 6 am. en-
route home. He said the men were
tired and began to fall asleep.
Dosing himself he was awakened
by terrific impact.
Then was knocked unconscious.
When he regained consciousness.
he found two members of his or
ganlzation already dead, a third
Durham was dying. Others var
Fously injured as he was himself
One half of his bus was sheared
off, the other half had been showed
over to the right shoulder of the
road in the same direction Durham
was travelling.
The accident occurred about $50
i'm the morning. Deputies r. G.
McElroy and Oral J. Billings of
the Shelby County Sheriff's Of
flee say the bus, operated by Dur
ham was travelling toward Mem
phis from Tuscumbia, Ala. The
bus is said by the officers to have
been in the process of PASSING
another car going in the same
direction and operated by w. T
Wade of Rossville, and attempted
to do so on hill.
w. r. Turner, of Atlanta. Ca,
operator of the empty auto tran
port owned by Complete Auto
Transit, Inc, Atlanta, Ca, wit
which the Green auto-bus collid-
ed, said he saw the 6us comir
his way and went off onto T
shoulder of the road to avert a
head on collision.
News of the tragedy was flash
ed to Memphis via a radio tele-
phone operated by Sam Qualls Of
S. w. Qualls Funeral Home A
Thompson Bros. Ambulance also
went to the scene. Several of the
injured band members were brou-
ght to Memphis in the Thompson
ambulance. The Qualls ambulance
picked up the fatally injured.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-02-26
Charge Political Motive Behind Ad-
ministration Will Soft Pedal Civil
Rights Legislation
Call Discrimination, Iynehing Poll Tax
country's Greatest Shame
Civil Rights Commission Backed

Washington - Feb. 81 - Sen
Hubert H. Humphrey 3D., Mimi,
made a sharp retort to "the un
forgetful and the revengefur
whose rumors that the administra.
ton would soft pedal civil rights
legislation "are not without poll
teal motive" He scotched The
rumors with an emphatic state
ment that "the fight for civi
rights has only begun; and we who
pledge our services to the elimin.
jnatlon of our country's greatest
shame will continue to lash ~
discrimination, at lynching, at DO
taxes, against bigotry until These
bliShts are felled by law"
The senator's rebuke was deli
vered at the last Tuesday after
noon session of the Conference 0,
Unfinished business in Social le~
islation, held at the Interdepart-
mental Auditorium, Department of
Labor, Monday and Tuesday of
last week.
The Minnesota senator declared
that 1t is not only necessary to
enact legislation to abolish the poll
tax, lynching, segregation in the
armed forces and job discrimina-
ton, but there is need for civil
rights commission in our federal
government to vitaliZe the law en-
forcement and educational pro-
cesses.
TO INTRODUCE BILL
He said he intended to introduce
bill to establish such a commi-
ssion in the very near future.
Mr.. Humphrey STRONGLY advo-
Gated federal aid to education
school construction, ability to pay
adequate teachers salary a pro-
legislation which means aid for
vision for means and scholarships
so there will be equal opportunity
for education for all, adult edu-
cation, and labor extension SER
vices. There must be federal aid
for health and welfare facilities
for school children" he declared
Sen. Humphrey was introduced
by DR.. Sadie Alexander, a mem
Der of the presidents committee
on Civil Rights. Mrs. Alexander
told the 600 delegates representing
the leading national organizations
of the country, that they should
urge their congressman to fight
for the enlargement of the civil
rights section of the deartment
of justice.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-02-26

IDEAL FINER WOMEN: Pre-
sented as the ideal Finer Ebmen
of the Community a. the Annual
Observance of Finer Womanhood
Week of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority
at Jackson College last Sunday was
from left to right, Mrs. M. C.
Collins, Collins Funeral Home,
Mrs. NJ M. Hubert, Pat-President,
State Federation of Colored Wo-
mems Clubs President of the
Mary Church Terrell Literary
Club of Jackson, and Miss F. o.
Alexander, Teacher Trainer at
Jackson College and member of
the State Board of Education.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-02-26

FINER WOMANHOOD WEEK
SPEAKER: The principal address
at the program in observance of
Finer Womanhood Week, spon-
scred by local and State Chap
ters of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority
was Mrs. Maude Alexander Jack
son of Chicago, Ill. A naive of
Mississippi and a graduate of Jack
son College, she is the wife O.
DR.. Joseph H. Jackson, pastor of
Olivet Baptist Church of Chicago.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-02-26

We Stond With The
People, BY The People
and For The People.
No One Is Sofe Until
We All Are Saved.
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-23

Third District Court in Anchorage will hold a hearing on Jan. 5 to decide the case.
 Meanwhile, spokesman for the dairymen said he had not given much thought as to what he would do with his milk until the matter is settled, but guessed he would seek immediate legal advice.
 AS the matter stood last night, the six farmers are without mar ket for their milk.
 And not so far from here, An chorage will pay 50 cents a quart for that milk.
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-23
Son To Take Up Mothers Job

THOUSAND OAKS, Calf. (P)- True to circus tradition, an 18- year-old boy who endangered his own life in futile attempt to save his mother from death in the jaws of lion will take over her animal act.
 Mother was training the act for me and I know she would want me to go through with it now that she's gone" explained grief stricken Michael Kovar.
 Mrs. Mary Kovar Schaefer, 42, widely known animal trainer, was breaking" a powerful and newly acquired lion named Sultan, Tues day when the beast sprang at her and bit her in the neck, severing the spine.
 Michael and his sister, May, l4, rushed into, the cage and tried to beat the enraged animal off with clubs. But the lion ignored them.
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-23
Milk War Breaks
 Out In Matanuska

PALMER, Alaska, (P)-A milk war broke over the Matanuska Valley yesterday,
 The backdrop appeared to be rugged individualism vs. collective enterprise.
 The Matanuska Valley Farmers Cooperative Association, formed about the time this federal colony was launched in the depression '30s, Thursday succeeded through court action in temporarily enjoin- ing six farmers from selling milk to anyone but their coop.
 The six farmers are Arthur Holebrook, Arvid Johnson, Leon ard Moffitt, Ernest Harrington, A. A. Rempel and Frank McIlliSter.
 Apparently outside the argu- ment is Merle Anderson, who brought Is cows in by air from the Pacific Northwest Thursday and who plans to import more for the rich Anchorage milk market.
 The six farmers named in the injunction left the Coop associa- ton last month to begin shipping milk to the Alaska Daily in An chorage.
 The Alaska Daily now pays $ll per cwt. for milk while the coop, after a recent raise, pays $10.50.
 The cooperative court conten- ton was that the six farmers were breaking their market contract by wholesaling their milk to the Alaska Dairy.
 Contracts are renewable annu- ally. and farmers are required to give notice between Feb. Is and Mar. Is if they do not intend to renew.
 Dairymen say the Alaska Dairy'S higher price for milk makes mar keting through the Coop econo- mically unfeasible.
 Judge Anthony Dimond of the
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-23

Doris Barnes. former Mayor of Wrangell is a candidate for cleo ton to the Alaska Legislature. She is a Republican and one of the three women in the last Legisla- ture.
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-23

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