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The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-04-20
NOTICE TO SELL OLD MOTOR
PATROL

Pursuant to an order of the
Board of Supervisors as the same
appears of record in Book 20, page
sci, notice is hereby given that
the Board of Supervisors of
Holmes County, will receive bids
at their Regular May, 1850 Meet
ing for the purchase from it of
one old used Gallon Motoc Patrol,
the same now being used by CRU
ger Separate Road District. The
Board reserves the right to re-
Ject any or all bids.
Ordered this April 8, 1850.
Parham H. Williams,
5l-4tnp Clerk.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-04-20
NOTICE TO PURCHASE NEW
ROAD MACHINE

Pursuant to an order of the
Board of Supervisors as the same
appears of record in Book 20, page
$40, notice is hereby given that
the Board Of Supervisors of
Holmes County, will receive bids
at their Regular May, 1850 Meet
ing for the sale to it of one new
motor patrol to be used for the
benefit of Tchula Separate Road
District. The Board reserves the
right to reject any or all bids.
Ordered this April 3, 1850.
Parham H. Williams,
51-4tnp Clerk.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-04-20
NOTICE TO SELL OLD MOTOR
PATROL

Pursuant to an order of the
Board of Supervisors as the same
appears of record in Book 20,
page $40, notice is hereby given
that the Board of Supervisors Of
Holmes County, Mississippi, will
receive bids at their Regular May
1850 Meeting for tn purchase from
it of one old Caterpillar Motor
Grader, Model No. liz now be-
ing used by Tchula Separate Road
District. The Board reserves the
right to reject any or all bids.
Ordered this April 3, 1850.
Parham H. Williams,
51-4tnp Clerk,
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-04-20

s21s North West, 18th Place,
Miami, Floria.
You are commanded to appear
before the Chancery Court OF
Holmes County, Mississippi. on
the Fourth Monday of May, A. D
1850, to defnd suit No. 1926, in
said court, of Jimmie Hazel
Booth, a minor by Next Friend,
Complainant, wherein you are a
defendant.
This the 9th day of March A.
D. 1850.
Paham H. Williams,
(SeaD Cnaiicery SieIk
p. P. Lindholm, Sol.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-04-20
ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS

Notice is hereby given that the
Board of Supervisors OF holmes
County, Mississippi, will receive
sealed bids until IL o'clock noon,
on the LIST day of May, 1871 for
the sale to it, for the use OF DIS
trict No. l of the following road
machinery and equipment, toWi''
One new Motor Patrol.
In Purchasing said equipment
the Board intends to take ad-
vantage of the provisions OF sec:
6 Of Chapter 253 of the Laws OF
Mississippi of 1910.
Published by order OF the Board
of Date April 3, 1850.
Parham H. Williams, Clerk,
51-4tnp
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-04-20

Mr.. and Mrs. j. R. Patterson.
Ann and Eleanor, visited in Kos
ciusko.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-04-20

HOLMES COUNTY.
MISSISSIPPI.
BY M. S. Rogers,
president of Boardl
ATTEST:
Parham H. Williams,
Clerk Of Board.
51-4tnp
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-04-20
SUMMONS TO NONRESIDENT
DEFENDANT

The State of Mississippi
County Of Holmes:
To James Edward Booth, whose
Post Office and Street Address is
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-05-27
Judge And Mrs.
Warning Honored
By Negro Groups

BEAUFORT, S. c., May 22.-
Federal Judge j. Waites Warning
and his wife, on whose lawn a
Khan cross was burned a few
months ago, were the guests of
honor today at an "open house"
held in Negro physicians Beau
fort home and attended by 200 Ne
groes and several white people.
Local Negroes donated every
thing from chickens to flowers to
the party for the Judge whose de-
cision in 1913 opened the South
Carolina party to all races.
Mrs. Waring had aroused the
anger of many Southerners short
ly before the fiery-cross incident.
In a speech to a Negro audience
she called Southern whites ode
cadent."
This afternoon, the Warnings Wis
tied both white and Negro beaches
at Hunting Island State Park.
On their way back home tc
Charleston, S. c., the Judge and
Mrs. Waring stopped briefly al
Mount Carmel Baptist Church il
the small Negro community of Lo.
beco. They were greeted by &
large group despite the rain.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-05-27
NNPA To Aid
McCray Defense

Financial assistance to embat-
tied John H. McCray, editor and
publisher of the Lighthouse and
Informer IS. CO., on behalf of
NNPA is being worked out with
McCray by two publishers repre-
senting the association. They are
John Sengstacke of the Chicago
Defender and Carl Murphy of the
Afro American Newspapers.
Speaking for his elder brother,
Arnett Murphy said last week
that McCray had been told that
the Association would meet within
its limitation the costs of retain
ing a local attorney to help fight
the case along with the NAACP's
special counsel, Thurgood Marshall.
The case is scheduled for trial
on June 19, in Newberry, S. c., to
which a change of venue from
Greenwood had been granted. Nc
Cray was indicted for criminal
libel growing out of his report
concerning the conviction Of one
Willie Tolbert, who had been con
victed and executed for criminally
assaulting a young white girl.
Deling Booth, reporter for the
Associated Press, is also under in
dictment on a similar charge, but
is having the defense Of his case
handled separately.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-05-27
Equal Facilities
Suit Filed In
South Carolina

COLUMBIA, S. c., May pa
suit asking for equal school facili-
ties for white and Negro children
in Clarendon county was filed in
Federal Court in Columbia We'd
nesday.
The plaintiffs in the first such
complaint brought in South Caro-
lima are 1902 Sabotage Negro chill
dren and their parents and guar
dians.
Regarded as a test case for SINH
lar action under consideration in
other countries, the suit charges
discrimination is being practiced
"solely on account of race and
color" in violation of the 14th
amendment.
The plaintiffs attorneys in the
case against the trustees of school
district No % and the Clarendon
county Board of Education are
Harold Boulware, Columbia Negro
attorney, and Thurgood Marshall
and Robert L. Carter, of the legal
staff of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People.
The complaint also charges that
Negro School Children are denied
free bus service which is furnish
ed white children. and the Negro
school buildings and facilities are
inferior.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-05-27
School Children Find
5000 UncOunted
People For Census

Negro school children here last
week found and counted 5000 Ne
groes who had not ben counted bv
the Regular Census Takers and
turned them over to the Census
Bureau for official checking.
The Jackson Negro Chamber of
Commerce, of which Victor Jones
is president, and the Jackson COL
ored Schools of which o. B. Cob
bins is supervisor, cooperated in
the project. More than 5000 stu
dents in Negro Schools assisted in
obtaining the information. The
Negro school whose record in Sc
curing the names is the best will
receive special recognition and re-
freshments from the Negro Cham
Der next week.
John Lumpkin, district director
OF the Census, stated that his offica
would check the names submitted
to see how many persons ACTUALLY
had been missed in the regular cen.
sus during the month of Anr;l
Some people are enumerated and
do not know it, because census an.
umerators can accept information
from one member of a family On
Continued on Page Eighty
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-05-27
CINE CHURCH
ELECTS TWO
BISHOPS

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, May o.
DR.. Bertram w. Doyle, prominent
educator and churchman, was elect
ed to the bishopric of the C. M. E.
church last Thursday. DR.. Doyle's
victory was clear-cut on the first
ballot which gave him 236 votes.
The number of votes necessary
for election was opt.
DR.. Doyle led a field Of "A can
didates for the bishopric; the
nearest runner-up to him, receiv-
ing 189 votes. Bishop Doyle for
IL years was a professor at Fisk
University, before becoming pres
ent executive dean of the Louis
vile Municipal College, Louisville,
KY.
The election took q surprise
turn on the third ballot and the
Rev. Arthur w. Womack, pastor
of Phillips Temple C. E. E. Church,
Dayton, Ohio, became the second
new bishop elected.
The. Rev. Mr.. Womack defeated
DR.. B. Julian Smith, who ran
ahead of him on the first ballot.
The second ballot was declared
Continued on Page Four)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-05-27
bunche Elected To
Board OF NAAcP

NEW YORK, May 18.-Election
OF DR.. Ralph ]. Bunche, director
of the United Nations Department
OF Trusteeship, to the board of
directors of the National Associa-
ton for the Advancement of Col
ored People was announced TODAY
by DR.. Louis T. Wright, chairman
of the board. DR.. Bunche will fill
the vacancy created by the death
of Charles H. Houston of Wash
ington.
Members of the board are
eleted for three-year terms bv the
branches. voting annually for one
third Q6) of the directors. Vac
ancies for unexpired terms are
filled by vote of the members of
the board. The vote on DR.. Bunche
was taken at the boards regular
monthly meeting on May s.
Notified of his election, DIR
Bunche wrote DR.. Wright: 81 am
pleased to inform you that | shall
be happy to accept this response
bility."
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-05-27
ADAM POWELL
WILL RUN FOR
REELECTION
Will Not Seek
Support American
Labor Party

NEW YORK, May 22.-"I do
not care anything about coalitions
to be made to try and defeat my
running for reelection to Congress-
this year." Congressman Adam
Clayton Powell, Jr., said during
an interview at the annual S1OO-
a-plate dinner of the Democratic
State Committee of New York.
held at the Grand Ballroom of the
Waldorf Astoria.
The Congressman also said that
bis campaign manager would be
the same political leader who
heads the Witoka Democratic
Club (12th Assembly District in
Harlem) Joseph E. Ford, his cam
palgn manager ever since he first
started in poliics as member of
the New York City Council, prior
to his being elected to Congress.
Powelps opponent in the coming
primaries is expected to be At
torney John T. Doles, who is try
ing to get the endorsement of both
the Liberal and Republican parties,
in addition to his running on the
Democratic Party line.
Dole will not seek the endorse
ment of the American Labor Party
and when the suggestion was raised
to one of Mr.. Doles' lieutenants
Continued on Page Eight
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-05-27
TRUMAN AGAIN CALLS FOR CIVIL RIGHTS LAWS
Negro Leaders
Back Mid-century
Peace Conference

NEW YORK, N. Y.-Pledging
their full support to two-day
Mid Century Conference for Peace
to be held in Chicago, May 29-30,
three hundred and seventy-one
leaders of religion, labor, youth,
business, education, women's and
fraternal organizations from thir-
ty-six states signed a Call issued
by Bishop William J. Walls, which
declared that the Americans peo-
pies insistent demand for peace
in the world today is in harmony
with our demand for freedom.
The Conference will be held at
the st. James Methodist Church,
4611 S. Ellis Ave-, Chicago.
Among those who signed the
Call, which included 200 Ministers,
7 Bishops and 8 college presidents,
were: Miss Charlotte Bass, Editor.
"The California Eagle; DR.. Char
lotte Hawkins Brown, President,
Palmer Institute; Prof. E. Frank
lin Frazier, Howard University:
Rev. DR.. w. H. Jernagin, Frater-
nal Council of Negro Churches;
DR.. Benjamin E. Mays, Morehouse
College and Mrs. Mary Church Ter
rell, National Association of Col
ored Women.
Bishop Walls, Honorary Chair
man of the Committee for Peaceful
Alternatives, which is sponsoring
the Conference, released the text
of the Call today from the Com
mittee's offices at 1853 West seth
Street, New York City.
Pointing out that III Bombs can
bury our country's destiny of full
democracy for all in the same
grave with our shattered hopes
Continued on Page Four)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-05-27
PAKISTAN'S PRIME MINISTER
REGISTERS PROTEST AGAINST
SEGREGATION In SOUTH AFRICA
Thinks America Should Interest
Itself In Peace Of Total World
Views Expressed
In Chicago
Round Table

NEW YORK, May % = Paki-
STAINS Prime Minister Liaquat AL
Khan had a sage observations to
make here Sunday while partici-
pating in a discussion on the NBC
coastwide University of Chicago
Round Table of the Air radio pro-
gram.
He criticized the United States
role in working toward the peace
of the world and said:
"A worldwide peace effort
would require the United States to
see that conditions of the people
in the East is made better and that
these countries are developed more
economically.
"On that depends the
peace of the world, because on the
peace of the Asia depends the
peace of history"
In his criticism of the U. S.
Peace policy, the charged that
Asiatic people were under the i'm
preston" that this country sis in
terested only in tn possibility of
war with Russia and not in the
peace of the world"
He suggested that the United
States stake more active role
in the dispute between India and
Pakistan over Kashmir as a step
toward world peace.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-05-27
president REVIEWS CALL FOR
PASSAGE OF FEPc AFTER SENATE
FAILS TO STOP FILIBUSTER
THREAT
Cities Progress OF Army
lntegration Program
Calls For Racial Equality
Throughout National Life

WASHINGTON, May % - The
President of the United States
again called upon the Senate today
to allow vote to be taken on his
administrations Civil Rights pro-
gram and called for complete racial
equality throughout our entire Ma
tional life.
Praising a committee he appoint
ed to increase the opportunities of
Negroes in the armed services. Mr..
Truman said he hopes the Senate
will permit" his Fair Employ
ment ito come to a vote"
Southern Democrats bitterly OPP
posed the bill, which would set up
Federal commission to prevent
discrimination in the hiring and
firing of Negroes and other mi
norities.
Truman Democrats in the Senate
failed last week in an attempt to
shut off debate on a motion to
bring the bill formally up for con-
sideration. Democratic Leaders
Lucas Qll.) is expected to make
another effort to do so again to-
morrow or Wednesday, after the
chamber completes action on
group of President Truman's Fed
eral reorganization proposals.
However, the chance that the
Senate would reverse last Fridays
vote was exceedingly dim. The
! Truman Democrats and Repubh-
cans at that time lacked II votes
Of the two-thirds majority of the
entire membership which would be
needed to cut off the debate.
Mr.. Truman's statement COM
mented on report from a COM
mittee he appointed two years ago
to study armed services policies
toward minorities.
"The Work of the presidents
committee on equality of treat
ment and opportunity in the armed
services shows what can be accom-
plished by a commission in this
admittedly difficult field" Mr..
Truman said.
Equality of treatment and OPP
portunity in the armed services is
right, it is just, and it will streng-
then the nation" he added.
THAT is true throughout our
entire national life.
The Committees report predicted
there will be equality for all per-
sons in the armed forces within
the reasonable near future" and
Continued on Page Two)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-05-27
Chancellor University
Of Mississippi Rust
Commencement
Speaker

HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss, May
22-Dr. j. d. Williams, Chancellor
of the University of Mississippi
will deliver the commencement adj
dress of Rust College, at 10 o'clock
Wednesday Morning May 31st, ac-
cording to announcement of DIR. L.
M. Mccoy, President of Rust Col
lege.
Included in the college COM
mencement calender which begins
Friday afternoon, May &c, at
o'clock, with the class day exercises
is the Baccalaureate Sermon, May
%, by Rev. John w. Bostrum, SUI
perintendent, Markato District,
Minnesota Conference, Mankato,
MINI.
The alumni address, at 8 O'Clock
Tuesday night, May 80, will be de-
livered by Prof. Henry c. Harper,
President, Conference Board of
Education Y. M. c. A., Jackson
Mississippi.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-05-27

School Holds
29th Annual
Commencement

PINEY WOODS, Miss, May "a.
The Piney Woods Country Life
School under the direction of its
president and founder, Prof. Law
renee c. Jones, held its goth an
nual commencement exercises here
today.
Heralded as a commencement
that is different, in which instead
of grafton the graduates demon
strate their skills in some voca-
ton and thus prove their worth
as citizens of America.
Capable and trained, the Piney
Woods commencement is becoming
a growing subject of national in
terest and comment both in and
out of educational circles.
Following theme, Education
in Democracy" this year the grad
yates gave demonstration in the
operation of all type of office ma
chinery, music, reading for recrea-
ton, building and caring for the
home, gardening, beauty culture,
caring for the tractor, physical
education, teaching, clothing the
family on small budget, using the
bank, using the post office, wom-
ems work about the house.
The baccalaureate address was
delivered by DR.. Jonathan Mel
sen of Iowa.
DR.. Grace Long Line delivered
the commencement address.
Rev. Claude Harris of Chicago
delivered the address to the
alumni.
The honored guests for the COM
mencement were Mrs. T. A. d.
Cockrell, Colorado; Rev. Claud
Harris, Illinois; Mr.. and Mrs. c.
A. Park, Nebraska; and Mrs. Amy
c. Alpaugh, New York and Flor
ida.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-05-27
CHARLES H. HOUSTON NAMED
35TH SPINGARN MEDALIST

NEW YORK, May 23-The post
humous award of the 35th Sping-
arm Medal, for outstanding achieve
ment of Negro American, to the
late Charles H. Houston, was an
nounced here today by the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People.
Presentation Of the award will be
made to a member of Mr.. Hous-
toms family by Dean Erwin Girls
void of the Harvard Law School
at the closing session of the dist
annual convention of the NAACP
in Boston on June 25. In consent
ing to make the presentation, Dean
Griswold said: "We are very much
pleased to learn that the medal will
be awarded to the late Charles HI.
Houston. He was one of the dis
tlnguished graduates of this school.
and | shall be happy to have a
small part in your honor to him."
The Spingarn award was estab-
lished by the late Joel E. Spingarn,
one-time president of the Asso-
citation, who set up a trust fund
ito perpetuate the lifelong interest
of my brother, Arthur B. Spingarn
of my wife, Amy E. Spingarn, and
of myself in the achievements of
the American Negro"
Mr.. Houston, chairman of the
NAACP National Legal Committee
and one of the outstanding consti.
tutional lawyers in the country
died in Washington on April % OF
heart ailment. He was fifty-foul
Continued on Page Two)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-05-27
Natchez Called
Hotbed OF
Number Racket

NATCHEZ, Miss, May %. :
Natchez is now the hotbed of the
numbers racket, at least that's
what legal and law enforcement
authorities here charged last week.
The district attorney, a county
attorney, and an influntial lawyer,
are in agreement that evidence
has been disclosed showing that
the racket abounds here, in all its
viciousness. Said the attorney:
at does not bother me to any
great extent that some sap loses
his money in a gambling game, but
when white people conduct lot
terry that is patronized mostly by
our Negro citizens, and when a
substantial amount is won at the
lottery and white people refuse to
pay off the Negro winner get
steamed up"
Testimony was introduced to
show that a white lottery COM
pany, known as the Indian Head
lottery, had WEIGHED on paying the
sum of $435 to a Negro winner.
Charles F. Engle, the attorney
pushing the disclosure further said:
II have names, dates and facts
to submit to the district attorney
and the county attorney in the
event they feel a compulsion OF
duty to such an extent that they
will take steps against the opera.
ton of this lottery. | have ad.
vised the operation of the lottery
that if he does not pay his debts
and conduct an honest lottery
will take steps to have it stopped
and that l would advise the client
who came to me to bring suit
against him in the courts for the
amount lost in operation"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-05-27
AzikiWe Forced
To Cancel
Lecture Trip To
United States
Nigerian Crisis
At Boiling Point
Many Noted
Leaders jailed
England FOrments
Religious War

ATLANTA, May %. = The po-
litical crisis that has gripped Nj
geria within the past few weeks
has caused DIR. Nnamdi Azikiwe,
Nigerian politician, to cancel his
trip to speak at Howard Univers-
ity, Lincoln University, Spelman
College, Morehouse College, Nor
ris Brown College, Fisk Univers-
ity and Wherefore and various
cities throughout the country dur
ing the month Of May.
"He may be able to come later"
said DR.. L. d. Reddick, of Atlanta
University, who had arranged the
tour for him.
The crisis in Nigeria has been
precipitated by the arrest of lead
ers of the Kikist Movement who
have been charged with plotting
the assassination of top colonial
OI4iIidiSs ALlhiWlcy filllScll, Is IlOb
implicated in these ALLEGATIONS. He
is not even member of the Kikist
Movement which is composed of
young nationalist elements who
propose to achieve complete indie
pendence for Nigeria.
Azikiwe is a member of the Leg
islative Council of Nigeria which
debated in its April session a new
constitution proposed by the CO.
lonial authorities. This constitu-
ton is highly controversial. It's
opponents say that by dividing
the country into ethnic and re-
ligious subdivisions, Britain is
paving the way for the kind of
conflicts-Hindu versus Moslem-
that have torn India apart.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-05-27
Chambliss Indicted
For Manslaughter
In Auto Death OF
Belhaven Student

Cary j. Chambliss, young world
war IL veteran, Instructor at Lo-
cal CT. Training School, and son
of J. r. Chambliss widely known
local Businessman was indicted for
manslauehter by the Kinds Coun-
ty Grand Jury here last week in
connection with the death, in an
automobile accident of young
woman student of Belhaven Col
lege.
Chambliss who was seriously in
iured in the accident was already
free on a $4,000 bond.
No date has yet been set for trial
of the case.