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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-07-09
Southeastern
Federation OF
coIored Women's
Clubs To Meet At
Bethune-Cookmar.
College
BERTHA T.. JOHNSON
TROPHY TO BE AWARDED

Club women from the eight
states comprising the Southeast
ern Federation of Colored Wo-
mems Clubs will converge on
Bethune-Cookman College at Day
tona Beach for the biennial ses-
sion on July 81 = August 3.
The sessions will open with a
mammoth mass meeting sche-
duled for the auditorium of the
auditorium of the college on Sun
day afternoon at $3.50 at which
time Mrs Ella P. Stewart, ma
tional pre- s,- will speak from
the themF !, confab: Work
ing Tow sWorld Peace and
Prosperity. Mrs. Mary D. King,
of Tennessee, will direct pag-
cant which will depict the grow
tn and the development of the
federated club work in the South
east; and DR.. Mary Mcleod Be-
thune, president emeritus of the
college and internationally fam
Gus authority on women's mat
tiers, will make feature adj
dress.
The "Chain of States" will
end in the cornation of Miss
Southeastern Federation" who
will receive, the coveted Bertha
L. Johnson" Trophy named in
honor of the excellent work done
for the women of the region by
this well-known Mississippi club
woman. The advances made by
women will be depicted in the
estate Scrap-Book' exhibit.
Social affairs will include a
barbecue at Bethune-Volusia
Beach as courtesy of DR.. D.
D. Rogers, president of the Cen
trail Life Insurance Company OF
Tampa and a tea on the campus.
Mrs. F. M. Walker, of 100
18th Street, West Palm Beach.
general chairman of arrangements
has announced that board and
lodging for the entire session
NAV be available at the cost Oh
$12 and urges that club women
planning to be in attendance sc
inform her at once Mrs. M. b,
Gaillard, of Birmingham, Alabama
is president of the Southeastern
Region.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-07-09
Say Lake View Club Represented
Efforts To Establish A Respectable
Outing Place For Respectable
CoIored People Here
Owners Say No Previous Notice Was
Given About Disturbing Peace
Club Located In Area Being Sold
FOR Colored Homes

The raid Sunday night by
County Law enforcement officer in
which 65 persons was arrested on
charges of disturbing the peace
has brought and end to the short
lige of the Lake view club, its
owners told the Jackson Advocate
Tuesday. The Club located in the
Van Wrinkle section of the sub
urbs of west Jackson, in an area
being sold off in lots to colored
people for development as color
ed residential area was opened a
little more than a month ago by
Duke Huddleston, Widely known
and popular Band Leader.
In a telephone conversation with
the Jackson Advocate Tuesday
morning Mr.. Huddleston said that
the Lakeview Club represented an
effort to provide respectable out
ing place for the respectable
colored Citizens of the city.
In denying that there was any
disturbing of the peace going on
at the club SSunday night Mr..
Huddleston said the Club is locat
ed more than a mile from the
nearest home and it would be i'm
possible to have been disturbing
anyone that for away. He said
that daily lake fishing was pro-
vided at the club and that music
was provided on weekend and Sum-
day night along with food and
other licened refreshments
Sunday night he said without
any previous notice of disturbing
the peace, several trucks bearig
County Law enforcement officers
drove up in front of the club. The
officers got out fired several shots
then told every body that they
we're under arrest according to
reports most of the 65 persons
arrested posted bond of 8 dollars
each and were released Sunday
night. Most &C, but, not all of the
remainder were of jail after pay
ing a similar fine early this week.
According to reports the raids
on the club followed a protest
meeting held by white residents
of Van Wrinkle who charged that
the Lakeview club was a place
detrimental to the community.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-07-09
10000 Baptists
Attend National
Sunday School :
BTU Congress In
Memphis; Rev.
Jernagin Reflect
ed Presidnt
By Lewis 0. Swingler

Memphis, Tenn. 4 ANP)-Over
10000 Baptists from the length
and breadth of the nation con-
verged on Memphis last week to
carry out one of the greatest
sessions in the long, colorful his
tory of the National Sunday
School B. T. U. congress.
"The Task of Christian Leader
ship Training for Education in
World Community was the
theme of this great religious and
educational program which en-
braced 1874 separate courses taught
and directed by leaders whose in
dividual vocations touch every
area of community life.
Rev. w. H. Jernagin of Wash
ington, D. C. following his cleo
flying annual address Thursday
morning at Ellis (city) audi
forum, scene of the general ses-
sions, was reelected without op-
position. All other officers of
the congress were also returned
their posts. They are:
DIR. O. c.. Maxwell of New
York vice president; Rev. H. T.
Sims, Wichita, Kansas, recording
secretary; Mrs. Bessie S. Estell
Birmingham, assistant secretary;
Matthew Burgess, Chicago treasur-
er; Miss L. E. Campbell, Mem
phis, music director; Rev. E. w
D. Isaac, Nashville, director
general; Rev. E. C. Estell, Dial.
las, Tex, assistant director-gen-
eral; DR.. A. Franklin Fisher,
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-07-09
Achr Calls For
Passage Of
Rights Bill
DIRECTOR APPEARS BEFORE
JUDICIARY HOUSE COMMITTEE

WASHINGTON, Elmer w. Hend-
erson, director of the America
Council on Human Rights called
on Congress last week to pass the
Civil Rights Act of 1919 and not
be swayed from it's solemn duty
by dwindling minority of racists
and bigots.
Appearing before the House Jud.
icary Committee on June % in
support of the administration
measure, Hr 1852, he expressed to
the Committee disappointment that
so little action on civil rights had
been ike to date.
The civil rights bill, introduced
by Chairman Emanuel Celler of the
House Judiciary Committee, would
abolish segregation and discrimin-
alton in into = travel, prevent
interferen' a,a2 ing and streng
then - against conspir.
ac-- b,ention and convic,
80 -. fair trial. The bill
sTalso create a commission on
civil rights in the executive branch
of the government and joint on
gressional Committee on civil
rights.
The arguments for the passage
of the legislation has been set
forth cogently in the report of the
Presidents Committee on Civil
Rights, Henderson said, and its
detectives were recommended either
explicitly or implicitly in the 1948
platforms of both major parties.
Those who oppose the report and
this bill have sought to play upon
the fears and prejudices of groups
in certain sections of the country
rather than meet the problem
squarely.
He urged the Judiciary Com
mlttee to report the bill favorably
and said it could be passed by the
full House of representatives be.
fore adjourney this summer.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-07-09

Atlanta, dean; Rev. F. L. Sand
ers, Rome, Ga. and Rev. Horatio
Hill, New York, assistant deans.
In aforthright statement "a
gainst Communism, President
Jernagin declared:
Communism is materialism.
1t S objectiv els the sharing of
the wealth of the cart; dividing
it according to mans concept of
equality. Thete is no divine or
equality. There is no divine, or
shall we say, scriptusal authority
for this concept. God has not
made all men brothers and equal
ly members of the one human
race, but He has not given all
men equal capacity in talents or
mentality.
Dr.. Jernagin's annual message
delivered to one of the largest
assemblies during the 44th An
nual congess, added that "Ne-
groes love, desire and will fight
perpetually for social and econ
omic freedoms, but we want
them unde democracy, not Com
munism.''
"The Community Party's pol
icy is knock and cut down any,
woy you can get it down.
"Our race has travelled a long
way in 80 years, from the aur-
ton blork of slavery. But the
Negro has not done These things
alone. We have had white friends,
north and south, who have ban
nered the ostrarism of their own
people,
Memphis, Birthplace of B. S.
BTU Congress
Opening session of the con-
! gress on Tuesday pas marked by
messages of greetings from prom
inent eaders of Memphis in
Guiding Mayor Watkins Overton
Thee Grief executive of the Buff
City told the mammoth delega-
cation that Memphis has become
a splendid and profitable place
for both Negro and white citil
zens. He was enthusiastic in his
account of the strides Negroes
themselves had made in the re-
duction of infant mortality rate
homicide rate caused by the kill
ing of Negroes by Negroes and OF
the progress of the race had made
here in the field of business and
education.
Other greetings came from DR..
IS. A. Owen, president of the
Missionary and Educational Bap-
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list convention of Tennessee,
Prof. B. T. Hunt, principal of
Booker Washington high school;
and DR.. Robert Lee, president of
the Southern Baptist convention
(white).
1t was in Memphis thirty-three
years ago ahat the Sunday School
and BYPU departments were
merged into a single body aid
officially named tie congress.
Since 1916. the congress has
continued to develop until today
it represents the largest reeeli-
gious educational training poject
TO the Negro youth.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-07-09
Court Cited Points Show Gross
Injustice OF Trial
People Called Upon To Gust Prose
cutor And Police Charged With
Frameup OF Case

TRENTON, N. Y. July q The
Supreme court of New Jersey
last Thursday by unanimous vote
reversed the conviction of six
Negro citizens of Trenton Con-
victed and sentenced to death for
| the murder of White man.
+ William L. Patterson, National
Executive Secretary of the Civil
Rights Congress which defended
the six men termed the courts
unanimous reversal of the convic-
ton, "a great victory to day in
the fight to maintain the consti-
|, tutional liberties and the civil and
human rights of Negro people,
and therefore of all Americans.
He urged that letters pour in.
to the offices of Governor Driscoll
and Attorney General Parsons of
New Jersey, damandng that the
case be thrown out, and that Pro.
secutor Volpe and police officials
responsible for the frameup be
removed from office and punished
The New Jersey Supreme Court
unanimously reversed the lower
court on the following counts:
% 1t was impermissible to pro.
noounce death sentence against
the six men because the jury
brought in verdict of guilty, but
did not convict the defendants OF
murder in the first degree:
CD The trail judges charge to
the jury was improperly made,
improperly worded, and too gen.
eral;
CD Fingerprint evidence re-
quested by the defense, was with
held by the prosecution
(4) The decision cited a United
States Supreme Court ruling of
the last few days Tin the Turner
case) in which Justice Frank
furter, speaking for the majority,
| disallowed confessions obtained
under duress. The New Jersey
upreme Court said that Justice
Frankfurter's criteria should be
! should be borne in mind in the
+; re-trail Of the six Trenton de,
| fendents.
Mr.. Patterson, Bessie Mitchell
| the sister of one of the defen.
dents in the death house and
brought them the news of the
reversal.
They urged prison officials to
Immediately remove the six de-
fendents from the death house.
but were told that this would take
at least ten days.
he complete text of Mr.. Pat.
terson's statement follows:
The America people have won
a great victory today in the fight
to maintain the constitutional
liberties and the civil and human
rights of the Negro people, and,
therefore, of all Americans.
'The vigorous and president
campaign of the Civil Rights Con.
gress on behelf of the defendants,
a campaign that reached millions
of persons in the United States and
abroad, has been rewardedby this
decision.
The confessions extorted froh
the defendants which were obvior.
ly illegally obtained could hav
Continued on Page 81
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-07-09
Annual NAACP
Report 10 Nation
Says Million
Negroes Qualified
To Vote In South
In 1913
LEADERSHIP AND INCREASE
IN SOUTHERN BRANCHES
CITED

New York = The long legal
battle to re-establish the right
of Negroes in the South to vote
prove increasingly fruitful last
year according to the 1948 An
nual Report of the National Asso-
citation for the Advancement of
Colored people published July /.
The report points out that ap.
proximately 100000 of an esti-
mated one million qualified Neg
roes in the southern states vot-
ed in the November presidential
election.
The NAACP report, entitled
the Fourtieth Year in the Cru
SADIE for Civil Rights" summar-
ICES activity of the association
during 1913 on all fronts with
sections devoted to branch acti-
witty. Legal accomplishments, the
legislative work of the Washing
ton bureau, labor, veterans af-
fairs, church, public relations, re-
search, and the annual conference
of the Association.
In the North as we'll as the
South, the NAACP emphasis dur
ing 194S on the struggle for civil
rights through political action,
conducting an intensive campaign
to encourage Negroes to value
the right to vote and to exer-
else it judiciously. Early in the
year, the Association called
conference of % national Negro
organizations, which formulated
Declaration of Negro vot-
ers" to serve as a guide in the
selection Of candidates to sup
port in the November election.
Perhaps the most signal vic
tory of the year on the legal
front, the NAACP report indi-
Gates, was the unanimous United
States Supreme Court decision in
May, declaring racial restrictive
real estate covenants unenforce-
able in state or federal courts"
Other outstanding legal victor
les were won by the NAACP dur
ing where the barriers of aggre-
cation and discrimination con-
tinued to crack under legal pres
sure; and in transportation, en-
ployment, the armed services,
and criminal cases.
The NAACP report noted sew
eral instances of mob violence
and brutality in the South, par
ticularly in Georgia. The reign
of terror in that part of the
country was climaxed by the
lynching of Robert Mallard. a
moderately successful Georgia
businessman; the murder of Is
aiah Nixon, who voted in the
Georgia primary despite warn
ings" from whites not to do so;
and the beating of D. v. Carter
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-07-09
DR.. W. A. Hinton
Named Clinical
Professor Of
Bacterio|ogy And
lmmunology
At Harvard
Medical School
HAMPTON SCHOLAR
NAMED TO BROWN
PROFESSORSHIP
Cambridge, Mass. - Dean

Sidney Burwell Wednesday night
announced the appointment of
DIR. William A. Hilton as Clint
cal Professor of Bacteriology and
Immunology in the Oarvard Med
ical school.
DR.. Hinton, who ras been on
the Medical School staff more
than Is years, thus becomes the
first Negro to rold a professor
ship in Harvard University.
An authoity on the detection
and treatment of venereal disease
DIR. Hintons name is known among
medical me for the Hinton Test
and the Davies Hinton test for
syprllis. The latter test was
worked out in collaboration with
DR.. J. A. V. Davies. DIR. Hinton
had done extensive research earl
Ter in the case of tn Wasrman
and Karn lists.
DIR. Hinson has been since 1915,
Director of the Laboratory De-
partment of the Boston Dispen-
sary and chief of the Wassarman
Laboratory Massachusetts De-
partment of Public Health. Since
1886, he has serve d also as
Chief of the LABORATORIES of thee
Boston Floating Hospital. He is
a special Consultant to tie Uni
ted States Public Health Service
and Consultant to the Massa-
chusetts School for Crippled
Children.
Born in Chicago, H., on De-
cember Is, 1883, DR.. Hinson was
graduated from Harvard College
in 1905 and from Hazard Medi-
cal. School in 1872. He served as a
Voluntary Assistant in the Path
illogical Laboratory Of the Mas
sachusetts General Hospital
from 1912 to 1915.
After eight years of Labora-
tory practice in the Boston Dis
pensary and the Massachusetts
Department of Public Health DR..
Hinton joined tire staff of the Har-
ward Medical School as an assis-
tant in Preventive Medicine and
Hygiene in 1923. Now a lectur-
er on Bacteriology and Immune
ogy, he has held teaching posi-
tions on the Medical Scrool staff
since 1923 also has been lee
turer at Simmons College since
1919.
At almost the same time it
was announced that Prof. Jay
Saunders Redding has been nam
, ed visiting professor Of English
at Brown University for tire first
semester of next year. He is the
first Negro to be appointed to
the Brown Faculty.
Professor Reddin gwho is a
Professor of English at Hampton
| (Va.) Institute will lecture in
his speciality, the Negro in A
merican Literature and will teacr
other courses in the English De-
partment. His special course will
include a study Of American
writing by and about Negroes.
with emphasis upon their racial
life and craracter.
Author of two books, "To
Make a Poet Black" 1889, and
! mo Day of Triumph" which won
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-07-09

the eMayflower award for dis
tinguished writing in 1914, Pro-
fessor Redding took Bacrelor of
Philosophy and Master Arts De-
grees at Brown in 1923 and 1882,
respectively.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-07-09

brates its 5Oth anniversary this
year. The league will hold its an
nuaI convention in Detroit Aug.
2426.
(ANP)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-07-09

Spectacles in 1285
Spectacles were invented by q
monk in Florence. Italy. in 1885.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1949-06-29
'Sondy and Bill

Northwest radio fans report a
new melodic breeze blowing in
from KxA. Seattle. each Saturday
afternoon at Two; Sandy and
Bill, known in normal walks as
Emerson Knighten and Bill Tun-
stall, are directing the course of
this afternoon refresher from
their record nook atop Rhodes De-
partment store In KXA's trans
mitter room. The boys just re-
Gently merged their talents and
are already labeled as weekend
favorites with legion of loyal
dial twisters. During their fifty
five minute stint each Saturday
afternoon, they run the gamut of
Pop platters and answer as many
requests as possible. Their style is
Fresh and listenable; a welcome
reflection from a none too lumi-
nous local radio horizon. They're
at home to the whims and fancies
of platter patrons every Saturday
afternoon, via KxA = ITO - Sc
attic.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1949-06-29
MORE ABOUT
Prince Hall Masonry
CONTINUED from page y

lI0uIIuHtu Ai0Hi HaHt -
bership in a lodge. but asked for
demit (letter TO transfer his
membership and has not placed
1t IN any other lodge, or one who
was dropped for non-payment of
dues, and the like. AS this class
of Freemasons contribute nothing
to the revenues nor to the streng-
tn of the Order. while they are
always willing to partake of its
benefits, they have been consid-
cred as an encumbrance upon the
Craft, and have received the gen.
eral condemnation of Grand LODI
ges.
The following principles may be
laid down as constituting the law
In the United States of America
on the subject of unaffiliated
Freemasons: ID An unaffiliated
Freemason is still bound by all
those Masonic duties and obliga-
tions which refer to the Order
In general, but not by those which
relate to Lodge organization. (2)
He possesses, reciproeally, all
those rights which are derived
from membership In the Order,
but none of those which result
from membership in a Lodge 90
He has right to assistance when
in imminent peril, If he asks for
that assistance in the convention
al way. "a He has no right to
pecuniary aid from a Lodge.
80 He has no right to visit
Lodges, or to walk In Masonic
professions. (6) He has no right
to Masonic burial. 90 He still
remains subject to the govern
ment OF the Order, and may be
tried and punished for any Of
Tense by the Lodge within whose
geographical Jurisdiction he re-
sides. (S) and, lastly. as the nom
affiliation is a violation of Mas
onic law. he may, IL he refuses
to abandon that condition, be
tried and punished for 1t, even
by expulsion, IL deemed necessary
and expedient, by any Grand
Lodge within whose Jurisdiction
he lives.
All that am trying to say in
this article is that just because
a man may be wearing pin or
some other masonic emblem, or
that he proclaims himself to be
a Freemason; this is not proof
that his claims are well-grounded
and that he is entitled to the es-
TEEN and honor of the public or
the help and support of the true
Masonic Craft. Only as the public
becomes well informed about
this Ancient and Honorable Insti-
tuition will its true potency and
influence for good be properly
understood and felt.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1949-06-29
WOMEN FROM ALL OVER COUNTRY
FAVOR NEGROES IN A.A.U.W.

SEATTLE. Wash.-(ANP)-In last weeks historic
biennial meeting of the American Association of University
Women from all over the nation particularly the
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1949-06-29
OFF TO THE
u. S. ARMY

To my friends and associates in
Tacoma, FIT. Lewis and The North
west Enterprise, Seattle, | wish to
bid you all a bon voyage on the
Goth of June, 1919.
/ have answered the call to my
country and I am both happy and
proud to be one of the many girls
that have already answered the
call before me. have enjoyed my
eleven years here in Tacoma and
I am going to enjoy eleven years
and more in the U. S. Army.
To the boys at FIT. Lewis in the
service, keep up the good works
and stay ready to be of service
wherever you are placed. Be
proud that you are able both
physically and mentally to serve
your country.
have enjoyed working with
you as a civilian and I know you
will enjoy me working with you
as nurse in the U. S. WAC.
TO Sergeant Alice L. Turner,
Cpl. Gran Mason and LIST 1t. Hall,
Recruiting Officers, l want to
thank you all and you will be
proud of me some day.
DR.. Kylis, Lawyer Broomell and
Sister Marie Cralda, thanks for
the references and experience you
have given me.
Again / say-Bye Bye.
Miss Laura e. Lawrence,
251 Winlock-Salishan 5, Wn.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1949-06-29

would not accept them, but Gus
toms and traditions are so strong.
They are afraid of Haunting of
the segregation laws"
DIR. Flora Ross, professor. James
Milliken university. Decatur, ILL.,,
brought in the angle of discrimi-
nation in the north when she said:
81 am hoping that the AAUW will
go on record with such force that
it will shame my own branch in
Abraham Lincoln county, into in
viting as a member a talented
young Negro musician who is a
graduate of our SCHOOL,
Mrs. H. Paul Kelsay. Indiana
state resident and native of Ten
nessee-'"The only basis of mem
bership should be the college from
which a woman is graduated"
Numerous other W I'm e n ex-
pressed similar ideas at this revo-
lutionary meeting. The A.A.U.W.
does not have any laws refusing
membership to Negroes but vari-
GUS local groups have practiced a
bias attitude against colored mem
bers.
This issue came to head two
years ago when the Washington,
d. c., chapter refused to accept
the well known educator, Mrs.
Mary Church Terrell, as member
although she had been approved
as member of the national body.
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r. Banks. A lovely time was had
by all who attended.
Mr.. and Mrs. Grover Whitmore
and children were weekend visit.
ors In Pasco. Washington.
WANTED
Reliable woman between the ages
Of 30 and IS TO make hone IN
Walia Walla; private room and
bath and small wages. n inter
ested, please write Mrs. Martha
BuebIer, f4f2 lsaacs Avenue,
WalIa Walla, Washington.