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The Phoenix Jewish news., 1949-11-26
Election Menoces Jews

VIENNA, (JTA) - Austrian
Jews are seriously worried over
the results of the recent parlia-
mentary election, which will mean
representation for 16 neo-Nazis in
the House of Deputies, Ernest
Stiassny, World Jewish Congress
representative, told press repre-
sentatives here. His views were
substantiated by Emil Maurer, act
ing president of the Vienna Jew
ish Community.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1949-11-26

Israel is becoming a good Gus
toner of Turkey, with purchases
of eggs, fish and lumber in that
country.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1949-11-26

1000 See What Is Torah?
Presented by Youth Group
What is Torah?

Jew and non-Jew alike in Phoe-
nix are getting the answer this
season by means of cantata
which had its debut in 194S at
Carnegie Hall in New York.
Entitled "What Is Torah?", the
cantata has been presented to
numerous groups around Phoenix
by a group of 22 Jewish youths
using the traditional robe, talus
and skull cap. Mrs. Theodore Pozil
is the director and accompanist.
The cantata, originally written
by Judith Kaplan and Ira Eisen-
stein, embodies the story of the
great significance and symbolism
of the Torah.
Six Performances Given
The Phoenix group organized
early in the summer and has given
six performances to more than
1000 people, including members
of Jewish organizations and the
Central Methodist Church.
Participants are. Stephanie Null
ter and Lester Cohen, narrators
Marlene Wild, Michael Multer and
Michael Haskes, soloists, and the
following members of the chorus
Kenneth Abrams, Betty Bienen-
field, Sandra Berney, Sharlene
Doro, Maxine Dvorkin, Bernice
Eisenstein, Bill Fried, Barbara
Goor, Joel Goor, Arlene Henry,
Jackie Lowy, Sylvia Markovitz,
Harriet Schotz, Ronnie Silverman.
Joan Lee Sternfield and Seymour
| WiIIofcLv
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1949-11-26
SiIvermon Edits Poper

Ronnie Silverman, son Of Mr..
and Mrs. Nat Silverman of 1109
w. Willetta, was appointed manag-
ing editor of the "Sun DIAL" bi-
weekly publication of West Phoe-
nix High School, early in Novem-
Der.
Ronnie is also associate editor
of the year book.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1949-11-26
Teen Fefe Is Skipped
Because of ConcI0ve

The weekly teen-age social of
the Jewish Community Center will
not be held Saturday, Nov. 26, be-
cause of the AZA-BBG conven-
ton. 1t will be resumed Saturday,
Dec. 8, at the old Temple Beth Is
rael, 1872 E. Culver, and all teen
ayers are invited.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1949-11-26

Say you saw IT advertised In
The Phoenix Jewish News
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1949-11-26

DR.. julius Citron, chiropodist,
has moved his office from 1928 =:
Missouri Ave. to SIT w. Mcdowell
Rd.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1949-11-26
Square Donce Is Given
By Community Center

A session Of square dancing was
staged by the JEWS Community
Center Wednesday, Nov. 16, at the
old Temple Beth Israel, with Mil
ton Sachs as the caller and Sey-
mour Wildofsky and Sam Brodsky
on the violin and guitar. Wednes-
day will become regular square
dance night each week if desired
by the Jewish youth groups.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-02-05
Nashville Daily
Supports Move
For Negro
Members OF Citv
Council

Nashville, Tenn. Feb. 1 (Speci-
all - An outspoken Advocate of
States Rights in the recent Pre-
sidential campaign, The Nashville
Banner, leading Tennessee daily
newspaper. last Saturday an
Dounced its support of law that
would place Negro members on
the city council.
Speaking editoria ly the Ban
ner announced its support Of a
bill presented to the legislature by
State Senator Bill West, requir-
ing each member Of the council
TO be elected by the voters of the
district which he represents.
The editorial stated:
1T is no valid rebuke that the
proposed change would put Neg
roes in the council that pre-
dominantly Negro districts would
elect members of their own race
to represent them
I'VE believe they would exer-
else the responsibility of that
choice with care and credit"
The Banner, meanwhile, re-
mains a determined foe of Presi-
dent Humans proposed civil
rights legislation Managing edi-
tor Charles Moss, discussing the
Banners support of Sen. Vests
proposed revision of the council
manic law declared:
At least we're fair - which
IS more than can be said about
lot of the so-called civil rights
Go coolers who are not"
(Mr. Moss has a Jackson girl
as a wife, the former Elizabeth
Yerger, daughter of the late Hen
ry Yerger, outstanding Miss,
newspaper Of yesteryear.)
The Banner asked editorially
that II qualified Negroes are the
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-02-05
State Committee
On Negro Eduea-
ton Holds
Meeting Here
APPOINTMENT OF 'INTER-RA-
ClAL GROUP YE UNAN-
NOUNCED.

The State Committee on Ne
gro Education are an all-white
group named by Governor Field
ing L. Wright and Mrs. Laurie M.
Carter, president of the Missis
sippi Education Association, to
study Negr oeducation in the
state, met in an all-day session
at the MEA headquar ters here on
last Thursday.
The committee was named fol-
lowing closed-door meeting of
state officials. state. county and
local educators, called by Govern
or Wright here early in January.
Following this meeting the Gov
ernor also told officials of the
Mississippi Division Of the South
ern Regional Council that he
would also appoint a state Inter
racial Commission to work for
the welfare of Negro citizens of
the state. The appointment of
the Inter-racial committee has
been announced by the Governor
although an early announcement
has been predicted by responsible
sources.
In the meeting here Thursday
the group was expected to name
a subcommittee to make further
study.
Composed of legislators, P.T-A
officials lawyers and educators
the members of the committee
are: Rufus Creekmore. Jackson
attorney, Judge George H. Eth
ridge, assistant attorney general.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-02-05
Mrs. Leila Mae Johnson Divorced
Mother OF Two Children Found
Stabbed TO Death Here
Sunday Morning
Growing List OF killings Show Need
For Adequate And Proper Law
enforcement In Negro
Community

The body of woman found in
a ditch near the corner of Lynch
and Valley Streets, in West Jeck.
son. here, early Sunday morning,
with both her identity, and the
circumstances surrounding her
death, creating something of a
mystery upon the finding 70 the
body, was identified at Peoples
Funeral Home early Monday
morning.
The body was that of 36-year-
old Mrs. Leila Mae Johnson, di-
yOrced mother of two children,
who lived at 41O Easy Street. in
North Jackson. She was an en-
ploye of DR.. McLwain's Clinic,
on North State Street.
She was a native of Flora where
her parents, Mr.. Willie Simmons
and Mrs. Lucinda Simmons. are
living. Her two children live with
her parents.
The body was taken to Flora
for burial Tuesday afternoon.
he body of the woman showed
numerous knife wounds but there
was no sign of a fight anywhere
near the place where the body
was found.
A coroner's jury conveyed up
on finding the body, gave a YER
dict that the woman had been
stabbed to death at the hands of
a party or parties unknown.
Early this week there had been
no arrest in connection with the
case, but law enforcement officers
were reported conducting an in
tensified investigation.
Meanwhile the finding of the
wOman's body caused increasing
tiOns in the Negro community of
the city, especially in West Jeck-
son, which has been the scene of
a number Of killings following in
rapid succession, including the
Comic case, during the past few
weeks.
Responsible citizens are point
ing to the mounting list of homi-
cides and other crimes in the
Negro community, as due to the
lack of adequate and proper law
enforcement officers in the Negro
community of the city.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-02-05
Famed Southern
Editor Urge States
Fighters 70
Positive Stand For
Negro Rights
VIRGINIUS DABNEY u. OF
MISSISSIPPI PEAKER.

University Miss, Jan. 20. -
Virginius Dabney, editor of the
Richmond Times-Dispatch, Rich
mond. Va, in an address here
last week, urged tate's Fighters
supporters to abandon their neg
ative approach towards the civil
rights program" said: "take a
positive attitude toward correct
ing rejustices within their own
borders"
Dabney, 194S prize winner for
editorial writing, was speaking to
q forum at the University of
Mississippi.
States should protect the col
ored people in regard to their
own civil rights" he asserted.
They should urge industries. to
give Negroes equal opportunities
and should give them equal edu-
cational opportunities"
He pointed out that the South's
cause would be helped by passage
Of the Lodge-Gossett proposed
Constitutional Amendment to al
low electoral votes to be decided
in proportion to the popular vote
in each state. This. he held. would
aid the development of a two.
party system in the South; keep
an independent Negro block in
such a state as New York from
swinging the entire electoral
vote and make the South more
vital"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-02-05
nedmond's
Application For
Member ST. Louis
Bar Association
ponding

st. Louis, Jan. 21.-The ques-
ton Of admitting a colored law
yer to membership in the Bar AS
ISOLATION of st. Louis, was sched-
uled to come before the admis-
sions committee for the first time
when the application of Sidney R.
Redmond, an alderman. will be
considered by he group.
Redmond's application for adj
mission has been pending for
almost six months. At a previous
meeting the committee failed to
take action on it for the reason
Redmond was absent from the
city and could not appear before
the committee in person.
The association, a voluntary
group Of lawyers distinct from
the integrated Missouri Bar of
which all licensed attorneys are
members, has never had a colored
member in the seventy-five years
of its existence. However, a
slight change in attitude became
apparent recently when ma
jojrity of members voted in favor
OF a proposal to admit colored
students to the Law School of the
University of Missouri instead of
separate facilities provided for
them here.
The admissions committee con.
ducts secret ballot on each an
plicant. and if two negative votes
are cast in the seven-man conn
mittee the applicant is reelected
II ne wins approval of the COM
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-02-05
President peddiix
Articles On Africa
Starting Hext
Week

President Jacob L. Reddix of
Jackson College. now in Liberia,
Africa, is writing a series of
weekly articles for the Jackson
Advocate.
The first of these articles which
will bear the title, 'Liberian
Travelog" will appear in the
Jackson Advocate next week.
Readers of the Jackson Advo-
cate will find these articles by
President Reddix educational, in
formative and entertaining.
Watch for the first article CIV
ing account of President Reddix
and his travels in Africa, starting
in next weeks issue of the Jack
son Advocate.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-02-05

CONTINUED on Page 81
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-02-05

We Stond With The
People, BY The People
and For The People.
No One Is Sofe Until
We All Are Soved.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-02-05


choire of the voters in their dis
tricts, why aren't they entitled
as citizens and tax payers to the
representation?
Answering its own question
the Nashville newspaper said:
I'VE believe that they are, le-
galy and ethicaly, on the same
ground that the city of Nashville
Negro teachers, policemen and
firemen."
There have been no Negroes on
the Nashville city council since
shortly after the Civil War.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-02-05

and Judge e. w. Stennet, city
attorney; Senator John B. Farese,
Ashland. Sen. John Kyle, Sardis;
Rep. ELMER Mccoy. Bonneville;
Rep. ]. F. Stuart, Poplarville;
Rep. Curtis MS wango, Sardis;
Sen. H. H. Thompson. Jackson;
and Rep. D. H. Waits, Leland;
Mrs. Laurie Mae Carter, Nerd
ian; Miss Florence Cooper, Cor
NTH, Miss Odin Haas, Biloxi; w.
Margaret Hutchinson. Jackson; J..
9. Rogers, Greenwood; j. M.
Tubb, Jackson; K. P. Walker.
Jackson; Sam Carter, Quitman,
and Mrs. L. w. Aston, Hatties-
burg.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-02-05
Youthful Pair Arrested In Chicago
For Brutal Rob1efy-Alurder OF
j. :. Comic Prominent Local
Business Man
Lonnie James Nichols And Martha
Jackson Named As Principals In
Worst Crime In Local History
Pair Valves Extradition Brought
Here This Week

Jackson, Miss, Feb. 1 (DSN)-
A petition bearing the signatures
of a number of well known and
influential citizens was presented
to Kinds County law enforcement
authorities here this week urg-
ing immediate indictment and
, prosecution of the guilty parties
in the brutal December 10 rob-
bery-murder of J. E. Comic, wide
" known and prominent local bus
mess man.
he petition was presented fol-
lowing receipt Of information here
Of the arrest of Lonnie James
Nichols and his girl companion.
Martha Jackson, in Chicago, last
, Thursday.
Lonnie James Nichols has been
named as the principal in the
crime which is regarded as the
most brutal in local history.
According to information Civ
en- THE JACKSON ADVOCATE,
the youthful pair was arrested by
agents of the Chicago office of
the FBI upon information furnish
ed by the Kinds County sheriff's
office. The arrest was made soon
after it was found that Martha
Jackson had a brother in Gary.
Indiana, not far from Chicago and
that she was going back and forth
between the homes of her broth
er and a sister of Lonnie James
Nichols in Chicago. An intercept
ed telephone call set the stage
that made it possible for the FBI
agents to arrest the two at the
same ime, while attending house
party.
According to reports, when ar
rested Nichols had on him a con
siderable sum of money and the
22-calibre pistol believed to have
been used in the brutal crime.
here.
] Upon information furnished nv
Martha Jackson FBI agents were
able to obtain the watch taken
from the body of Mr.. Comic. in
a Chicago pawn shop.
Following their arrest in Chi.
eago the pair waived extradition
and were returned to Jackson
early this week.
The brutal undergraduates, -
Mr.. Comic was revealed when H.
body was found floating in a nond
on the property of the Jackaor
Brick Company, on West Ivnoh
street, shortly before noon -
sunday, December 10Th. moro
tnan week after he had baon
last seen by his wife as ha ,oft
MS home on East Church stroot
early Friday afternoon. December
10th. iOer
AS the mystery of his dison
Continued on PAGE o.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-02-05
Mrs. ARENA G..
Mallory Only
Negro Woman
From Deep South,
Invited To
Inauguration

Observation-Disclosures by Pres
ident Truman's orthright inaugur-
al address reaffirming his unshak-
en- belief in the equality of all
men ARENA C. Mallory, lone Ne
gro woman from the deep south.
invited to Mr. Truman's Inaugural
ton, returned to her school in
Lexington, Miss, determined to
secure better opportunities for
Negroes in the Mississippi Delta
where she has labored for %
years.
Asserting that equalization IA
cillties and improved economic
and health conditions are the i'm
mediate fronts on which the bat
tie to improve the south must be
Waged, Mrs Mallory said: 'Tt is
difficult to interest people in the
responsibilities of full citizenship
which is their ultimate saliva
tion-so long as they are under
educated and underfed."
Giving substance to this asser-
ton, Mrs. Mallory pointed out
that of the 5000 Negro teachers
in Mississippi, who form the lead
ership group among Negroes, ap-
proximately 2,400 have had some
high school and college training.
while the remaining have less
than high school graduation. Ac.
cording to Mrs. Mallory, a recent
survey of nine selected counties
in Mississippi, including Holmes,
where she founded the Saints In
dustrial and Literary School %
years ago, reveals that 297. or 81
per cent, of the total number of
teachers employed, had only three
years OF high school education
Another 27, or per cent. had
educational training ranging from
seventh down to third grades.
Salaries paid to these teachers
can hardly be called a living
wage" Mrs. Mallory said. She dis
closed that the average salaries
OF teachers in the five and six
months schools range from $500 on
TO $4,000 per school year The
exceptions to this rule are the
vocational teachers under the
Smith Hughes Act, who are paid
an average Of $4,000 per month.
Four such teachers act as prin-
cipals of Holmes County Schools
Mrs. Mallory said.
Abiding to the low economic
status of Holmes County with a
'o'dl population OF 39,000,, 10000
q whom are Negroes, Mrs. NAL
Tory said that only "A per cent
Of all males are painfully EN-.
ployed in trades. While "a per
cent. of Negro males and 81 per
cent. of Negro females are in agri-
culture, only 767 colored farmers
are full or part time owners" she
declared.
Turning to civil rights in Mis-
sissippi. Mrs. Mallory stated:
The people there are beginning
to condition their thinking to the
Continued on Page 81
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-02-05
Southern Regional
Council Points To
Huge Cost OF
Separate But
Equal Education
SEE BILL OF $31,000,000 FOR
EACH STATE.

Atlanta. Ca, Jan. 31-(SpeciaD
The Southern Regional Council
said here last Wednesday that
some day a bill for $545,0OO,O00
or more, is going to be handed
the South for Negro education.
That day, the council said, may
come sooner than you think. It
pointed to the case of King
George County Va.
Last April a Federal Judge
ruled that the county would have
to equalize educational facilities
for whites and Negroes-or else.
The council said the South
could begin making down pay
ments now rwait to be "goad-
ed by cort decisions"
The council said that already
in Virginia so sits have been start
ed in as many counties OBJ
tain equal educational opportuni-
ties for Negroes.
To solve its particular prob
lem the county first tried minor
Improvements in the Negro school
and then, when the Negroes still
objected lit dropped certain
courses from the white school.
The result of {his latter action,
said the council. brought protest
from the parents of the white
students.
In the end, the council went on,
the county had to float a $780,
coo bond issue for the construc-
ton Of a Negro school, plus equip
ment.
Then the council turned to the
job of estimating the cost to the
South, but first it pointed out
carefully hat its figures by no
means represent the total bill
only the cost Of equalizing book
values of elementary school
plants in II Southern states.
The figures make no provision
for equalization fsalaries for
Negro teachers or for school trans.
portation, nor do they include es-
Inmates for Tennessee and Okla
homa because the information was
In any case, the council found
the value of school property for
each Negro pupil enrolled was
$63 as compared with 1921 for
each white pupil"
ITO make the two amounts the
zane, would have required in
1915 en- expenditure" the coun-
Gil continued, "of $158 per Negro
an average of some
$31000,O0O for each state"
But, the council observed, in
creased construction costs have
liked that sum to $40, 100000.
Thus, it calculated, the cost in
1876 would have been $342,7 900
whereas today the figure would
lie $545.973,987.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-02-05

nittee he still may be denied
membership when the committees.
recommendations come before a.
ASSOCIATION where one NEGATIVE
vote in every five cast will o.
clude the candidate.
BESIDES the Bar Associate.
tnere Is the Lawyers Assoc;a+;o,
'oi 81. Louis, and the Mound Cir,
Bar Association.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-02-05

Small fruits and berries already
established should be pruned during
their dormant season before they
~gin spring growth
Evening star., 1949-06-05
Delicious little ready-to-eat
oat doughnuts
made from nourishing oats!

Oats is natures favored grain. the richest of
them all in Vitamin B-l (important growth and
energy vitamin). Cheerios-made from oats
gives you this essential vitamin in full whole
grain richness, plus minerals and other vitamins
:. {. each vital to your good health. Try these
nourishng little oat doughnuts. They're delicious.
They're ready to eat. You'll love 'em.
General Mills
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-05-19

Friday, May 20, 194e, for con-
struction of the following.
(a) One 81 x 32' classroom adj
dition to the Lebanon Negro
School, located about five miles
north OF Lexington, and repairs
to existing school building.
Cb) Two 40' x 49, classroom ad-
dition to the Tchula Negro School
located in Tchula, Mississippi.
Separate bids for (a) and (b)
NAV be submitted
Plans and specifications may be
examined in the office of the
County Superintendent of Educa-
ton. Lexington, Mississippi.
Bids must be accompanied by
certified check in the amount OF
not less than 5 per cent of the
total amount Of bid.
The County School Board re-
serves the right to reject any and
all bids.
This the 28th day of April, 1949
L. r. THOMPSON, President,
Holmes County School Board.
2~-33-4tnp
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-05-19

Use The Clcssiffeds 1T Poys
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-05-19

NOTICE AND ADVERTISEMENT
OF BOND SALE

Pursuant to the directions of a
resolution passed, approved and
adopted by the Board of Supervi-
sors of Holmes County, Missis-
sippi, on May 2, 1949, notice is
hereby given that 100000 Of
the serial bonds of Coxburg Con-
solidated School District of Holm
es County, Mississippi, will be Of
fered for sale at public auction
at the County Courthouse in the
City of Lexington, Holmes Coun-
ty, Mississippi, at HOO o'clock A.
M. on Monday, June 6, 1949. Said
bonds shall be in the denomina-
tons of 100000 each and shall
be dated May 2, 1949, and the in
terest thereon will be payable
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-05-19
SUMMONS

The State of Mississippi
To Laverne Pickett, Charles Pic
kett, Reginald Pickett, Betty Jean
Pickett and Dorothy Pickett,
minors and non-residents OF the
State of Mississippi, Bernice Pic
kett Berry, a nonresident Of the
State of Mississippi, being the
mother and natural guardian OF
each of said minors, the post Of
flee and street address of each OF
said minors and of the said Ber-
nice Pickett Berry is 2437, Chase
Street, Gary, Indiana.
You are summoned to appear
before the Honorable c. D. VIII
liams, Judge of the Chancery
Court of the County of Holmes
in said State on Saturday, the
21st day of May, A. d. 1949, at