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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-03-11
kIansnlan Not
Guilty Of Ala.
FIogging

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, March A
-Ku Klux Klansman Coleman A.
(Brownie) Lollar has been ac-
quilted of flogging while masked
for the second time in four months.
A circuit court jury deliberated
the case about six hours after
receiving it early this afternoon.
Lollar, an ex-special deputy
sheriff and operator of a small
coal mine, was charged with fog
ging Willie Stevens at Pumpkin
Center, 80 miles west of Bilming-
ham, the night of May 90.
He denied he accompanied a
band of hooded aid robed night
riders that whipped three persons
that night.
Lollar was acquitted last No
vember of a charge of flogging
Mrs. Hugh McDanal, 42-year-old
West Jefferson grandmother, on
June 10.
In that case he offered the
alibi that he was attending base
ball game.
He testified during this trial
that he was at a social affair of
the Veterans Of Foreign Wars at
nearby Quinton at the time Stew
ems was being flogged.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-03-11
President Truman
Halls Negro
Newspaper Week

KANSAS CITY-President Tru-
man has hailed the Negro press
as vigorous champion of minor
ity rights" and in his message to
Dowdal H. Davis, president of the
Negro Newspaper Publishers AS
ISOLATION, noted that Sin recent
years it has become increasingly
a reporter of the condition of
human rights the world over"
"The American people will al
ways want to be informed about
denials of human rights wherever
and whenever they occur" the
President added. Il am confident
that the Negro press will continue
to report the facts and to inter-
pref for it's readers the wide
spread efforts to improve the en-
joyment of human rights"
Governor |. G.. Mennen Will
liams of Michigan added his name
to those state executives who have
proclaimed the period ending Mar.
4, as National Negro Newspaper
Week" Gov. James H. Duff of
Pennsylvania issued a statement
on Friday describing the Negro
press as being vigorous in its
guardianship of constitutional
rights, and as defender against
Entertainments upon civil liberties.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-03-11

Educational Center.
A program of gradualism for
achieving civil rights for colored
people, the jurist said is the most
dangerous doctrine Of our age. He
urged his audience to protest the
limitation of minority rights and
to bring pressure on government
officials at all levels.
HELP NEED CITED
owe in the South need your
help" he said. "We've got to have
it. The cancer of segregation will
never be cured by the sedative of
gradualism. An operation is neces-
sary, and you can send us the
doctors"
Comparing Southern believers in
gradualism with alcoholics and
victims of mental disorders, he
said they all want to be left alone
to solve their own problems, but
this kind Of treatment has never
worked.
Judge Waring appealed for en-
forceable civil rights legislation.
when an autocratic despotic and
CONTINUED on Page Four)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-03-11
No Holy Year Race
Ban, Says Catholic
PreIate;; Says
Press Misinformed

Washington, D. c., March s.
(SpeciaD - Colored as we'll as
White Catholics are welcome to
take part in the official Holy
Year pilgrimage to Rome of the
Archdiocese of Washington. This
point was stressed here by arch
diocesan officials in reply to
stories in the Negro press than
pilgrimage officers had pointed
to possible embarrassments and
inconvenience for Colored pill
grims abroad and thus had dis
couraged applications from them.
Announcements were made sew
eral weeks ago in Washington
churches that the pilgrimage is
open to all, and Monsignor John
S. Spence, pilgrimage director, is
sued this statement: From its
initial planning stage the Wash
ington archdiocesan pilgrimage
has been and is open to persons
of all races and creeds. Never
Continued on Page Seven)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-03-11
ThurgOOd Marshall
Speaks To Group

MARSHALL, Tex.-Bishop col
lege played host to 230 top-ranking
Negro Texans who gathered on the
schools campus for the eighth
annual two-day session of the
Texas Council of Negro organiza-
lions here last week. The delegates,
representing 45 statewide organi-
cations, met to discuss means of
securing a more united front on
matters affecting Negroes in
Texas.
Highlight of the meeting was
the presentation of reports on the
Estate of Negro Affairs" by spec
ialist in health, civil and political
rights, education, press, recreation
and housing. A. Maceo Smith, a
Dallas lawyer and the vice-presi-
dent of the council, gave a review
and evaluating of a 54-paged
booklet, entitled "Charting the New
Year by the Panel on Administra-
tive Policy"
The publication covers the IS
point program of the council and is
"the most comprehensive forth
right statement of the position of
Texas Negroes on matters racial
and interracial that has been pub
lished."
In the afternoon Friday, reports
were made by the Councils officers
and by special 15-member fact
finding committee through which
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-03-11
BATES CASE CUSTER SEEN AS LEGISLATIVE CUE
kOSCIUSK0 KILLER TRIAL PUTS MISSISSIPPI NATIONAL SPINH
5O,OOONegro Voters
In Alabama Seen
For May Election

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - An es-
timated $4,000 Negro citizens will
be eligible to have voice in their
government in Ala. when the May
2 primary comes off.
Those figures, based upon a sur
vey made by Gov. James E. Fol
som, were revealed by Grover C.
Hall, Jr., editor Of the Montgomery
Advertiser, in speech Feb. IS
before the Junior Chamber of Com
merce here. Hall said that the gov
ernor compiled his figures from a
private check of voting lists.
The Advertiser editor admitted
that such figures collected by poll
teal researchers are often motor
iously subject to error but at the
same time predicted that if they
fell shy of Folsom estimate, they
would eventually reach that mark.
He cited his own check up which
he said indicated that the number
of Negro voters had climbed from
$40 in 1913 to 1880 and 100 in
Montgomery County.
Hall said that there was no need
for alarm for the rise in Negro
suffrage in Alabama because,
1.-THE figures teach that Negro
registration in Alabama is simply
following a southwide trend"
The Montgomery editor told the
group this was mass registration
of unqualified voters. He backed up
his observation this way:
.'The qualified Negroes have full
filled the requirements Of the law
and have been adjudged by white
board of registrars.
He skipped over the fact that in
several Alabama counties such as
Wilcox Lowndes and Henry, there
is not a single Negro voter.
Fifteen Negroes were among the
800 applicants registered in Lee
County during January.
1t is estimated that there are
5000 Negro voters in Jefferson
birmingham County,.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-03-11
Catholic
Scholarships, Inc.
Assists 20 Negroes

NEW YORK-(SpeciaD- More
than 70 deserving Negro students
have gone to college with the fl
nancial assistance of Catholic
Scholarships for Negroes, Inc, it
was announced at a meeting of
the directors here.
Founded in 1947, the organiza-
ton located at ZIG Central Street,
Springfield, Mass, has assisted
students from IA different states
and the District of Columbia. The
work is maintained entirely
through voluntary contributions.
1t has been organized under the
sponsorship of Most Rev. Richard
j. Gushing, D. D., Catholic Arch
bishop of Boston.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-03-11
NOTED JURIST SAYS SOUTH
SUFFERING FROM white
PROBLEM NOT NEGRO PROBLEM
Say White Supremacist Mentally iii

NEW YORK - Southern white
supremaeists are mentally i'll and
preoccupied with false doctrines
which threaten the freedom of the
world, United States District
Judge ]. Waites Waring of Char
lesion, South Carolina declared
here last Sunday.
"We don't have a Negro problem
in the South, we have a white
problem" the 7O-year-old jurist
said. at is hard for me to say it,
but it's true. The white men in my
part of the country are sick
menally, obsessed with their false
doctrines"
Judge Waring, who ruled in
1947 that local Democrat organiza-
tons are not private clubs and
colored persons cannot legally be
barred from voting in Democratic
primaries in South Carolina be-
cause of their race or color, adj
dressed an audience of 800 persons
who filled the Convent Avenue
Baptist Church to capacity. He
spoke for a Harlem Interracial
Platform sponsored by the Baptist
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-03-11
DR.. Bunche Among
Nobel Peace Prize
Nominees For so

OSLOW, Norway - DR.. Ralph
Bunche and six institutions named
for the 1850 Nobel peace prize.
A committee will study the
names which are submitted by in
ternational organizations, various
governments, university presidents
and recipients of previous Nobel
prizes. Usually the winners are
announced in the fall.
The United Nations Information
al Children's Emergency Fund and
the World Movement for World
Federal Governments were among
the institutions named.
Lord Boyd Orr, president of the
movement for World Federation
and former head of the UN Food
and Agriculture Organization, won
the 1949 prize and was given an
award of $21, $500.
Others nominated include Win
ston Churchill, Jawaharlal Nehru,
prime minister of India; George c..
Marshall, former U. S. Secretary of
State and Herbert Y. Evatt, former
foreign minister of Australia.
DR.. Bunche was nominated for
his work as UN mediator in the
oewish-Arba peace negotiations in
Palestine.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-03-11
FEDERAL AID TO EDUCATION NO
LONGER A MATTER OF
SAFEGUARDS FOR MIN0RITIES
SAYS kEA LEGISLATIVE Head
Says Bill Strongly Supports Public Schools
Maintained For Negro Boys And Girls

Atlantic City, N. 1.-THE matter
of safeguards for minorities is no
longer an tissue in the campaign
for federal aid to education" Moss
H. Hendrix, NEA legislative repre-
sentative, told groups meeting here
this week in conjunction with the
annual convention of the Ameri-
can Association of School Admin
istrators.
"There may have been day, pos
sibly in the not too distant past"
noted the speaker, when minority
racial groups would have been
vitality afraid that the passage of
any federal aid to education bill
would carry numerous loopholes
through which state and local
school authorities might discrimi-
nate in the distribution of federal
funds for school uses.
To-day, due primarily to activi-
ties of Negroes, civilizations that
they have made with members of
Congress, and the long-standing
attitude of the NEA and other or
CARNATIONS which support federal
aid to education, the federal aid to
education bill, now in committee
of the House of Representatives,
strongly safeguards the rights of
boys and girls who are enrolled in
separate schools"
In support of his contention that
the matter of safeguards for mi
norities is not at issue in the cam
paign for school aid, Mr.. Hendrix
emphasized his belief by suggest
ing that he doubts that there is a
single member of the House OF
Representatives who would propose
lessening the safeguards of S 24e
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-03-11
Texas Negro Leadership Unites
Under Council OF Negro Groups
$50 Meet At Bishop College Under
Guidance Of Militant DR.. J. ]. RhOads

the council offered cases seeking
equal educational opportunities for
the race, between Attorney Carter
Wesley, Houston editor and pub
Usher, and Atty. Thurgood Mar
shall, legal counsel for the NAACP.
Final remedial action was left to
the executive board of the Texas
State conference of NAACP to
whom the Councils report was re-
ferred.
DIR. Arnold Rose, sociologist on
the University of Minnesota facul-
ty and an associate of DR.. Gunner
Myrdal when he prepared the book,
Americas Dilemma" conducted
two two-hour seminars on segre-
cation.
The climax of the meeting came
at the formal Douglas Day Dinner
Saturday night when the council
cited Heman Marion Sweat, plain
tiff in the suit against the Univer-
sity of Texas, for distinguished SER
vice to democracy in education.
Both Sweat and his wife were
presented gold medals by President
Joseph j. Rhoads of Bishop college.
DR.. j. S. Scott, president of Wiley
college, was POSTMASTER and prin-
cipal speaker of Prof. j. X. Haynes
president, Louisiana Education as
ISOLATION, Ruston, La.
Among other prominent persons
attending the meeting were Atty
U. S. Tate, and L. Herbert Hene.
gan FLA information specialist.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-03-11

which are guaranteed to the en-
rollees of public schools maintained
for Negro boys and girls"
Pointing out, however, that there
are vital issues involved in federal
aid to schools, the NEA staffman
related that these have to do not
with safeguards for minorities, but
rather with the safeguard of basic
American principles. The most i'm
portant of these principles was de-
scribed as the right of people at
state and local levels to determine
for what purposes public funds
may be used in the operation of
school programs.
Mr.. Hendrix defended the Ma
tional Education's position which
supports the right of states to de-
termine whether or not federal
monies should be used in any de-
gree for the support of non-publ;c
schools functions. S GAG, the s3oo
million federal aid to education bill
passed last May by the Senate. nar'
mits federal aid funds to be nsad
as stipulated by state constitutions
and state schools laws.
At the time of the NEA ren,o
sentative's statements to Atlant;o
City groups, S 246 was tied un !,
the House Committee on Educat;on
and Labor with the leading ;ss,,a
being whether or not school fnr5s
from federal sources should hv
pass state authorities for use X,
non-public schools. Groups hearts,
Mr.. Hendrix were Land Grant Col
Iege Presidents, Alta Fellowsb;r
Dinner gathering, and the Nat;ona,
Advisory Council on Education for
Negroes. LOT
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-03-11
JUDGE APPOINTS BRILLIANT
ARRAY OF LEGAL TALENT TO
Defend K0SCIUSKO KILLERS
DISTRICT ATTORNEY TO ASK
DEATH PENALTY IN CASE
CRIME SEEN AS MOST BRUTAL AND
INHUMANE IN STATES HISTORY

KOSCIUSKO, Miss, March G.
(DSN)-The trial of three white
men charged with the brutal killing
of three young Negro children and
wounding their father and older
sister is expected to start here
sometime this week with the Ma
tional Spotlight focused on this
North Central Mississippi town.
According to reports the District
Attorney will ask the death pen
atty.
The crime regarded as the most
brutal and inhumane in the history
OF the state which took place last
January 9th focused the National
spotlight on the state. 1t was pub
licly condemned by Governor
Wright, and a resolution adopted
by the state Legislature calling for
the immediate trial and punish
ments of the killers.
The three young children who
were shot to death in bed in the
early hours of the morning were !:
Sonny Man 10, Mary z, and Nell 4,
children of Thomas Harris who
was seriously wounded along with
his Is year old daughter Pearl.
The wife and mother of the chill
dren escaped possible death by flee
ing to the home of a nearby plan
tation owner in her night gown
with three month old baby in her
arms.
Charged each with three counts
of murder in the brutal crime are
Leon Turner SO, Malcomb Whit 80.
and his brother, Windol Whit "a.
all of whom are escaped convicts.
The trio is believed to have set
out to massacre the family after
they were reported to law enforce
ment authorities for attempting to
rob the Harris home and ATTEMPT
ing to rape the 15-year-old daugh-
ter.
Although the crime is looked
upon as the most inhumane and
brutal in history of the state full
benefit of every lagal process has
been assured the men by the action
OF Judge j. P. Coleman who will
Continued on Page Seven)
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IDENTIFY man WHO BEAT AND
FORCED YOUTHTO JUMP IN
RIVER HE CHARGED With
STEALING SLOT MACHINES
No Warrant For Arrest In Case

LELAND. Miss, Mar. 4.-(Spe-
ciaD-Charges may be pressed to-
day against a man identified by
Deputy Sheriff Ed Campbell as
the man referred to as Mr..
Thompson" by Odell Moore, 90
year-old Negro tractor driver for
Dean and Company, who was beat
en- at the point of a gun and
forced to jump into the lev waters
of The Bogue Phalia Saturday
night.
Deputy Campbell, who is invest
igating the case, said that 10 COM
plant had been made out officially
against "Mr. Thompson" whom
Moore said was the "slot machine
man. who forced him into his
car with pistol, beat him ard
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-03-11

accused him of stealing two slot
machines from a Tribbett store.
The other white man who Joined
Mr.. Thompson at the Bogue
Phalia bridge near Rexburg and
who held the pistol while Mr..
Thompson beat the Negro with a
rope, was identified Tuesday
morning, Mr.. Campbell said, but
added that the other white man
was only incidentally involved and
just got in on the thing accident
ally.
Meant No Harm
Mr.. Campbell said he had talked
to plantation hands and the store
keeper at Tribbettt who had any
Continued on Page Four)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-03-11
NEGRO EDUCATION SUBJECT
OF ST0P-GAP MEASURES IN
STATE Law MAKING BODY
Proposal To Create Negro School
Districts Seen As Move TO Impose
Unequal Tax Burden On Negro
Land Owners
Both Houses Adopted Governor
Sponsored Equal Salary Plan
Bates Case Headed To T.. S. Supreme COur

JACKSON, Miss, March c.
(DSN)-The dismissal Of the suit
filed by Mrs. Gladys Noel Bates
here two years ago for equaliza-
ton of the salaries of Negro and
White school teachers in the Jack
son Separate School District is
seen in certain quarters as being
taken by the majority of the mem
bers of the State Legislature now
in session here as a cue for fur
Their action regarding the vastly
unequal system of separate Ne
gro and White education IN the
state.
As result Of the decision rem
dered by Federal Judge Sidney
G. Mize in the Rates ease. OBJ
servers here pointed out that the
subject of Negro education in
the state, regarded as the worst
in Ire South, has already per-
verified to series Of stop-gap pro-
posal by the states law making
body.
Meanwhile however by last
week both houses had adopted the
Teachers Salary Equalization Plan
sponsored by Governor Fielding
L. Wright, with the senate adopt
ing a $42 million school appropri-
alton program containing a So
million fund, referred to in the
press as a "Pork Barrel to in
crease the salaries of Negro
Continued on Page Seven)
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HAZLEHURST MAN SHOT TO
DEATH In ARGUMENT OVER FARE

The white man was freed follow
ing an investigation the Grand
Jury which is already in session
here when he entered a plea of
self defense in the Staying. The
Negro man was shot twice both
wounds being fatal. He was shot
once through the head and once
through the heart.
According to reports the Grand
Jury investigation found that the
slain man died with a pocket knife
clinched in his hand.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-03-11
Catholic Negro
Judge Reappointed

New York, March 9-(SpeciaD
Miles Paige was sworn in for
another 10-year term by Mayor
O'Dwyer recently as a Judge of the
Court of Special Sessions. Judge
Paige, prior to his appointment to
the higher court 10 years ago, serv-
ed as city magistrate.
He attends Holy Rosary Church,
BROOKLYN.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-03-11

Signing the letter as individu-
ais, and not on behalf Of the Town
Hall or of the organizations they
represented on the Seminar, the
nine stressed the damage to Am
erican prestige" caused by racial
discrimination in the Uni t e d
States.
I'VE appeal to each of you to
Continued on Page Six
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Armed Cab Driver
Free On Plea OF
Self Defense

HAZELHURST, Miss, March 6
Observation-Disclosures Sumrall, 35-
year-old Negro man was shot to
death here early last Thursday
morning by Freeman Taylor, As
year-old white man, taxi Driver
during an argument over Cab fare.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-03-11
ROUND-THE-W0RLD TOWN
Meeting OF THE AIR seminar
GROUP URGE NO FILIBUSTER
AGAINST CIVIL RIGHTS
Letter To Congressman Cites Racism
Damage To American Prestige Abroad

NEW YORK, Feb. 2S.-Nine in
dividuals who represented national
organizations on the 'Round-the-
World Town Meeting of the Air
Seminar in 1949 today sent a
round robin letter to all members
of the 81st Congress appealing
against filibuster on the civil
rights program.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-03-11

PatrOnize Our Advertis-
ers - Their Advertising
in this paper shows that
they appreciate your
trade.
Smyrna times., 1950-11-16

are sometimes necessary if soil
drainage is very poor. says Nc
Henry.
Smyrna times., 1950-11-16
Greenwood Team Wins
NJVGA Demonstration Contest

Millard Calhoun and Robert Jes-
ter, Greenwood, won the state Ma
tional Junior Vegetable Growers
Association demonstration contest
at Caesar Rodney School last
week. Their team demonstration
on BE Productive-Adapted Vari-
eties Plus Fertilizers Equal High
Yields" earned them trip to the
NJVGA National Convention in
New Orleans, December lila.
There they will compete with DEM
onstrators from all over the coun-
try.
Noah Cain, vocational ag in
structor at Greenwood School,
helped the boys. Cain and William
Mcdowell will accompany them tc
New Orleans.
Robert F. Stevens, extension
horticulturist, reports that about
six or seven youths will represent
Delaware at the New Orleans con-
vention.
Smyrna times., 1950-11-16

Biloxi, Miss, told about their ex-
periences.
Following a box luncheon, Miss
Jean Lee, State All Leader, told
What Our Alters Are Doing"
Miss Louise R. Whitcomb, Home
Management Specialist awarded
the living room contest awards.
This contest has been running for
a period of eight months, in which
time the contestants improved
their living rooms. The judges
were Mrs. Louis Edgell, Dover, and
Mrs. Eleanor Cavanaugh, Dover.
In Class 1. spending less than $50,
Mrs. Fred Fifer, Dover; Mrs. Ed
ward Cooper, Wyoming; and Mrs.
William Wheeler, Harrington were
the winners. The Class II winners,
spending over $50 were: Mrs. Will
liam c. Davis, Frederick; Mrs.
Francis Thomas, Marydel; and
Mrs. Leonard French, Lynch
Heights, Milford.
The guest speaker for the after
noon was Mrs. Nancy E. Wallace,
Bridal Consultant, McCutcheon's,
in New York City. Her topic was
the Romance of Linens"
Smyrna times., 1950-11-16
Delaware Farmers Take
Pennsylvania Fruit Tour

A group of Delaware fruit grow
ers and packers took three days
off this week to inspect fruit
orchards, packing and processing
houses, and the Arendstville Ex-
pertinent Station in Pennsylvania.
They left Monday afternoon for
Adams and Franklin counties, in
the heart of Pennsylvania's fruit
growing region. They visited the
Kelsey Orchards, Wertz Orchard
Gillen Brothers Orchard, the Nauss
Food Corporation, and the expert
ment station Tuesday and Wednes-
day. The Arendstville Station, con-
nected with Pennsylvania State
College. is devoted to horticultur-
al research projects.
Robert F. Stevens, extension
hortieulturist at the University OF
Delaware, organized the tour.