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The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-03-04

of Juneau next week at the 20th Century Super Market, is one-sixteenth pheasant with the meaty thighs and broad breast of chick en. The demand for the first shipments of the pheasant chicken is expected to exceed the supply, so you who wish to be the first to try this super taste treat should make ar arrangements with the market right away.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-03-04
KENNY THIB0DEAU WINS
 IN COLLEGE ELECTION

Kenny Thibodeau, son of MT. and Mrs. Joe Thibodeau of Juneau. has been elected proxy of the Associated Students of St. Martins College at Lacey, Washington, according to the college paper, The Martian. The paper says:
 Close competitors were Otto Kovash and Bill Peterson. Thibo- deau's election was a defeat for the Progressive party which sponsored Kovash and for the independent candidate Peterson"
 Young Thibodeau is in his senior year, majoring in business admin stration.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-03-04
FROM PORTLAND

John H. Graf of Portland, Ore, representing McKesson, Robbins Company. is stopping at the Bara- nof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-03-04
COUNCIL DECIDES
 JUNEAU IN NEED OF
 GOOD D0GCATCHER

If possible. the city of Juneau is going to get a dog-catcher
 This was decided at the meeting of the City Council last night, when members ef the council unani- mously passed a motion authorizing Mayor Waino Hendrickson and Po- lice Chief Bernard E. Hulk to hire a dog-catcher to capture stray. un- licensed dogs at a per-dog rate ot pay.
 Tt would be well worth S20O if the number of stray dogs in the city can be reduced by l00," Mayor Hendrickson said.
 He told of an out-of-town man who was bothered by dogs as he slept in his skiff at the small boat harbor one night and the next morning offered to kill all the dogs in town for nothing-with his .30-30.
 We couldn't have anything like that" Mayor Hendrickson said But steps must be taken to rid the city of the stray animals"
 The rate of pay authorized for dogcatcher was $2 per dog
 The impounded pups will be kep' for three days in kennels at the City dump. Their descriptions will be advertised, and if they are not claimed within three days they will be done away with in a humane manner, it was decided.
 The councilmen indicated that they felt the action necessary be- cause large packs of dogs had been reported roaming the streets.
 A city ordinance states that dogs cannot run loose in the city.
 Donald Mines, president of the Anchor Fish Company, asked the council to release him from his application for permission to moor his floating cannery on the south float at the City Wharf. He said he had found more suitable moorage for floating cannery at the Juneau Iumber CompanV wharf
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-03-04
FROM YAKUTAT

MT. and Mrs. Frank McIlhardy and Cecelia, of Yakutat, are guests at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-03-04
FROM DIES MOINEs

Paul Kendall of Des Moines, Iowa is a guest at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-03-04
CORDOVAN HERE

Mrs. Don J. Miller of Cordova is registered at the Baranof Hotel.
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Floating Cannery


 Mayor Hendrickson said the city was glad to release him from his commitment. He pointed out that the city was anxious to encourage new industries in Juneau and that he and the councilmen were happy that Mines had found the more suitable mooring.
 Milnes said the floating cannery would be moved from Pelican to Juneau about March 10.
 A report on a 14hour conference Wednesday with Corps of Engineers officials on the problem of Gold Creek emergency work resulted in authorization of a S5000 expendi- ture to be added to the $21 900 Fed eral grant if this is necessary to carry out a permanent control of the raging stream.
 J. L. McNamara, City engineer, told the council that the conference with the Corps of Engineers off, cials had brought out the advan- tages of a change of plans which would provide for walls on both sides of the stream between 11th Street and Ninth Street and a con- crete stream bed to prevent the undercutting of the walls by the water
 The $5000 would be S2,000 more than the amount allocated in the current city budget for Gold Greek maintenance work. The sum of S8000 was spent on Gold Creek work last year.
 The council also authorized Mo Namara to talk with the contractor who will do the work to find out what the cost will be to extend the new walls and bottom beyond the Ninth Street bridge.
 The Corps of Engineers has not yet announced who the contractor will be.
 To Sell Piledriver
 The council also passed a motion calling for the sale of the city's piledriver. This followed a discus sion in which it was pointed out that at the time the city purchased the piledriver no bidders could be found for small piledriving jobs such as the city required.
 The motion also stated that the money received from the sale of the piledriver would be earmarked foI harbor improvements.
 Applications for card table li- censes by the Glacier Cab Company
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FROM SKAGWAY c. Brena of Skagway is registered 1t the Baarnof Hotel.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-01-21

disappointment of men who did
not receive mail from home, caused
him to be returned to the United
States as assistant editor of The
Helmsman, a Coast Guard publ
cation in New York. He later be-
came editor of this, and following
VI Day was assigned to the 3rd
District Public Relations section.
Haley's work as a public rela-
tions specialist has won him praise
from the various newspaper, radio,
magazine and television, agencies
with which he comes in contact
throughout the 3rd District which
encompasses New York, New Jer-
sey and Connecticut.
Within the past year all pros
pective Coast Guard journalists,
previously hand-picked fro m
throughout the service have been
assigned to him for training.
Continued on Page Seven)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-01-21
First Negro Chief Journalist
In History In u. S. Coast Guard

NEW YORK, Jan. Is - Coast
Guardsman Alex Haley has recent
ly been advanced to the rating of
Chief Journalist, becoming the
first in the history of the Coast
Guard to hold that rating.
Haley is %, and veteran of
ten years continuous service He
originally enlisted in the Coast
Guard as a mess attendant, third
class, and remained in this branch
for six years, advancing to stew
ard, first class, and performing
various clerical duties in addition
to those of his rating. He spent,
two years of the war in the Pacific
aboard supply vessel, participant
ing in three engagements. Aboard
this vessel he began a small MINI
eographed publication from which
several editorials were reprinted in
the United States One of these
titled mail CALL" depicting the
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-01-21
.HaZelhurst School
Teacher Killed
In Auto Accident

Hazelhurst, Miss. Jan. 17-(Spe-
ciaD-Mrs. Mary Ann Ellis Lotion,
a school teacher was instantly kill
ed in an auto accident about one
mile west Of Gallatin, on the Port
Gibson Road last Wednesday morn
ing.
According to reports, the teach
er, who was accompanied by her
sister, was on her way to school
when the automobile in which they
were riding stopped. They began
pushing it in trying to get it start
ed again. The car headed down hill,
began rolling to fast and turned
over in a ditch, crushing the teach
er as it turned-over. Her sister
was uninjured.
Mrs. Lotion was 24-years-old
and was teacher in the Wilder
ness of Judea School located in the
Western part of Copiah County.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-01-21
Prince Hall Masons Reemphasize
Opposition To Communism In
Nationwide Meetings Sunday
James c. Gillian OF Mississippi
On National Planning Committee

TULSA, Okla.-Prince Hall Ma
sonry, proud of its time-proven
loyalty to the American concept
of government, will launch ma
tion-wide program this month re-
emphasizing its opposition ito
Communism and stressing its cam
paign against the infiltration of
Communism into Negro groups.
According to Amos 7. Hall, PROM
inent Tulsa attorney and chair
man of the Grand Masters Confer
ence of Prince Hall Masons, an
important phase of the program
will be series of public meetings
across the country to be held 81
simultaneously on Sunday, January
%, a day designated by the Grand
Masters of the 3S Prince Hall
Grand Lodges of America as cam
ericanism Day." The meetings
will be held in the hundreds of
communities where Prince Hall
lodges are established and will be
addressed by able speakers who
will stress the abiding faith of
Negro Masons and their neighbors
in American Democracy. In plan
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-01-21

lay in bed. The mother escaped by
fleeing from the house in her night
clothes with baby only a few
weeks old in her arms as she fled.
The three children killed, were
Nell age 4, Mary age 7, and Mann
Harris age 13.
The crime, the most brutal and
-blooded in its history aroused
indignation throughout the state.
In Jackson where the state legis-
lature had just gone in to regular
session a resolution was unani-
mously adopted by the Senate
Wednesday condemning the crime
and urging that the convicts be
brought to justice Immediately.
The resolution was introduced by
Senator John Culkin, of Vicksburg.
Senator William McGraw of Ben
tonia, and Senator Maxwell Bran
cite, Of Woodville.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-01-21
Police And Possemen Complete
Capture OF Brutal Killer Trio

Kosciusko, Miss, Jan. II - The
capture of the three brutal killers,
White escaped convicts, who all but
wipedout a Negro farm family
near here last Monday morning
was complete with the capture of
38 year-old, Leon Turner, and "a
year-old Wendell Whit early last
Wednesday. Malcolm Whit, 80
year old brother of Wendell was
captured by the posse composed of
over 100 White men a few hours
after the brutal crime was COM
mitted.
The trio returned to the home
of Negro Farmer, Thomas Harris,
where few days before they had
been reported in an attempted rape
of his 15-year-old daughter, SER
iously wounded Harris and the Is
year-old daughter Belinda, and
killed three small children as they
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-01-21

ming the national program, Mr..
Hall, who is Grand Master of the
Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Okla
homa, is being assisted by the fol
lowing committee of Prince Hall
Grand Masters: DR.. G.. Bernard
Key, Missouri; Lous Fair, Jr.,
New York; Ashby B. Carter, Hi
nois; DR.. William ID. Washington,
Massachusetts; John w. Dohbs,
Georgia; James c. Gillian, Mis-
sissippi; William 0. Greene, Mich
igan; E. ]. Brown, Washington,
and l.. L. Lockhart, Texas.
A statement issued jointly by
the SO Prince Hall Grand Mas
ters set forth the position of Ne
gro Masons. 1t says, in part:
prince Hall Masonry enjoys and
protects one of the MODEST heri-
tages that has come down to any
group of Americans in the history
of our beloved land. Generated
and nurtured as it was by Free
Continued on Page Two)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-01-21
Truman Honors
Memory Of Dr..
George Carver

JOPLIN, Mo. - President Tru-
man and 500 persons honored the
memory of the late George Wash
ington Carver, noted Negro
Educator, at a banquet last Friday
Night.
The chief executive in a tele-
gram to the dinner described DIR.
Carver as "a great American" He
asked that the memory of "this
humble citizen, who served hu-
mainly so generously and unself-
ishly, serve to inspire all our fell
low Americans to work unceasing-
ly to attain the goals we strive
for and to hold fast to those free
doms we cherish"
Carver claim to fame rests on
his many accomplishments with
the socalled "lowly" peanut and
the humble" potato.
He labored and taught many
years at Tuskegee institute where
he urged upon the South the diver
sification of crops, soil conserva-
ton, increase of live stock, motive
industrialization and the dissent
nation of all related information
to the southern farmer, black and
white.
The quiet little scientist found
over 300 uses for the peanut.
Working assiduously in his labora-
tory, he made from it milk, butter,
flour, soap, shaving lotion, break
fast foods, coffee, shampoo, build
ing boards, axle grease, ink and
many other commodities.
From the sweet-potato he made
molasses, candy, starch, vinegar,
library paste and shoe-black.
Carver developed from corn
stalks building boards; from claws
and loamy soil, many dyes and
paints and from Alabama red clay,
the fabulous blue paint once known
to King Tut Ank Kamen's artist.
A mcologist and a student of
fungus growths, he found many
cures for crop blights and diseases
He fathered whole new science
Chemurgy, which is the study of
soil constituents.
When Carver died in 1943, at the
age of SO, he was known through
out the world. He had received
degrees from famous Northern
universities.
tie had been made director OF
the Department of Agriculture
Research, a member the ROYAL
Society of Arts in London. The
Spring-arn medal and the Roose.
welt Medal for Achievement in Sci.
lence had also been awarded him.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-01-21
Alabama Governor
Names 11-Man
Committee Probe
Voting Rights Vets.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - An IL
man committee appointed Friday
by Alabama Gov. James E. Folsom
to investigate complaints that vet
Grams are being denied the right
to vote will meet for the first time
next Tuesday morning.
The governor promised just
punishment for those members of
country boards of registrars who
are violating either the federal or
state constitutions.
And Folsom added that violation
Of federal law would take preced-
ence over state law when the two
are in conflict.
The committee is composed en-
tirely of veterans including one
Negro. It's formation is an out
growth Of an open hearing in the
governors office three weeks ago
when State labor leaders charged
that members of the Mobile and
Jefferson Boards of Registrars
were discriminating against union
members nearly all Of whom were
veterans.
The communication which Fol-
som asked full protective, prose-
cutive and investigative force"
from the Department of Public
Safety and all circuit solicitors
is made up of:
Lucius Smiley, an instructor at
the George Washington Carver
School in Montgomery, Billy Part
low, Tuscaloosa, commander of the
Alabama VFW; Arch Terrell, Phe-
lix City, State American Legion
commander; j. Paul Pitts and Roy
j. Grimmitt, Montgomery; Fred
Watson Enterprise; George Hud-
dleston, Jr., of the U. S. District
Attorneys office in Birmingham;
Hugh Overton, of Wadley; Thomas
B. Dean Gadsden; and Joe Morri-
son of Decatur.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-01-21
Carver Branch
Library Opened
Last Friday
Gifts Of Books
w elcOmed

The Carver Branch Library, To-
Gated at 144 East Davis Street,
sponsored as community project
by the Jackson Junior League
(White) was opened Friday. Lo-
Gated in Negro residential Sec
ton, and in close proximity to
Negro schools the project which
was begun last summer will be
operated on a trial basis for two
or three years to determine its
need.
Mrs. Thad Ryan, and Mrs.
Sherman Wood Wise, of the Junior
League, took the lead in the pro-
ject and the Junior League SET up
$4,000 for the initial collection of
books and the remodeling of a
house to serve as the library.
The Library will open with
about 1000 books, 100 of which is
being loaned by the Jackson Public
Library. In the next six months
the. League hopes to raise the num-
Der to 5000 volumes.
A $4,000 per year maintenance
budget has been fixed by the
League from funds raised through
the Annual Carnival Ball, Style
Show, and the operation of Ham
burger Stand at the State Fair.
Shelving now installed can ac-
'data 1000 books, and can be
eXpahuou TO take care of even
more than that number. Gift of
books will be welcomed.
The Public directed the selection
of books, and the League hopes to
prove the community need to an
extent that the city will take the
project for operation after two or
three years.
Members of the Board, which in
clude three Negro members are
Mrs. Thad Ryan, Mrs. Sherwood
Wise, Mrs. Joseph Blythe, Mrs. w.
+. Hester, Jr., Mr.. Ramsey Rob-
erts, Mr.. Barron Ricketts,, Mrs. r.
o. Hubert, Mrs. j. L. Reddix, and
Prof. |. S. Sanders. Advisory Board
members are Mrs. Jack Barksdale.
President of the Junior League,
and Miss Pearl Sneed, City Libra
rian.
The Librarian at Carver Branch
will be Miss Virgie Bracey, former
Librarian at Jackson College. Miss
Sneed and her staff will assist in
the selection of books approved by
recognized Negro Librarians, Mrs.
Ruby Stuttz Lyells, and Miss No
via Coleman. Books were process
ed at the City Library under the
supervision of Miss Sneed and her
staff with volunteer assistance
from members of the Junior
League.
The activation of the Library
was aided by individuals and clubs,
both White and Negro.
Continued on Page Four)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-01-21
Southern Lawyer:
Support Negro
Students Right
To Enter Texas
Law School

New Orleans, La, Jan. 18-
(SpeciaD Eighteen Southern law
yers have signed a brief to be pre-
scented before the u. S. Supreme
Court in support of Negro law
student suing for admission to the
law school of the University of
Texas, Aubrey Williams, Presi-
dent of the Southern Conference
Educational Fund, Inc, of New
Orleans, announced today.
The brief, filed in belief of the
Educational Fund, attacks the
principle of separate but equal"
facilities in education as involved
in the case of Herman Sweat, who
is challenging the right of the
state of Texas to force him to at
tend a segregated Negro law
school, Williams said. The case is
scheduled to be heard January
30th.
Signed by lawyers representing
all Is Southern states, the brief
denounces educational segregation
as being equally harmful to all
races involved, declaring, "White
law students who become lawyers
in the South do not live in a world
populated only by whites. No law
yer of general practice in the
South can avoid, and few would
wish to avoid, having Negro eli
ents.
"The lawyer who has been edu-
Gated in a segregated law school
must inevitably find the attitudes
ingrained in him by that segre-
CATION carried over into his prac-
tice, with consequent embarrass-
ment, failure to adequately repre-
Continued on Page Fourl
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-01-21
AFRICANS
WILL Fight
FOR FREEDOM

Washington, D. c., Jan. 49,
(Special) THE struggle for free
dom and independence in Africa
may break out into guerilla war
fare" after the fashion of Pales-
tine and Malaga" declared DR..
Nnamdi Azikiwe, before a crowd
that packed and damned the Ban
neker High School Auditorium in
this city at the 35th annual Con-
clave.
DR.. Azikiwe is the leader of the
liberation movement in West At
RIGA and is considered to be such
a symbol of freedom that the
colonial authorities were afraid to
permit him to land in Accram for
his presence there, they felt,
might ignite the powder key of
revolution.
He was presented by DR.. L. d.
Continued on Page Four)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-01-21
Pres. ]. R. Otis
Speaks AtAIcorn
College Alumni
Meet Here SUNDAY

DR.. J. R. Otis, who is serving
his first term as president of AL
corn College, will address the an
nual business session of the Alcorn
College Alumni Association at 3
o'clock here Sunday afternoon.
The meeting will be held be-
ginning at ! o'clock in the offices
of the Universal Life Insurance
Company at $40 N. Parish Street.
Matters scheduled to come be-
fore the meeting include the cree
ton of an Alumni Building on the
college campus, the employment
of a full time executive secretary
and the establishment of Alcorn
College Clubs in all sections of
the county.
Announcement of the meeting
was made early this week by Prof.
]. w. Grantham, of Utica, Presi-
dent Of the Alcorn College Alumni
Association.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-01-21
Alabama Ballot
Fight TO Be
Taken To Court

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - "Your
fight for the ballot will be carried
to court declared Emory O. Jack
son last Friday before a group of
students at Booker T. Washington
Business College.
Jackson is slated to address an
other section of the student bodv
today. A large number of the SIN.
dents are veterans.
Applicants for registration told
Birmingham World reporters that
Registrars were taking turns in
going to dinner to prevent a Onor-
UNI and making prospective voters
wait long hours before being in
terviewed.
Citizens in the mining commun;
ty of Muscoda will hear jackson a.
3 o'clock Sunday afternoon wban
he speaks at Starlight Bant;st
Church on the status of registra
ton and voting in Jefferson Co,a
ty.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-01-21
South Africa's
MaIan Attacks
u. S. Policy

PRETORIA, South Africa -
(GlobaD-Prime Minister Daniel
F. Malan vigorously attacked the
United Nations for its interference
in the domestic affairs of member
states, meaning their cutlery at
the treatment of South African
natives under his vicious regime.
He declared that the United Ma
tions was Christening toward its
own end through such interfer-
ence."
This attack was launched in a
New Years broadcast to offset the
filing before the International
Court at the Hague of a U. N.
request for an advisory opinion
on a South African question Of
the international status of man.
dated Southwest Africa. -
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-01-21
Buster Patton
Dies In The
Electric Chair
Communication Plea
Denied By Governor

MERIDIAN, Miss, Jan. 14-Ed-
die Buster Patton 38-year-old Ne
gro man died in the electric chair
in the Circuit Court Room of the
Lauderdale County Courthouse
here early Thursday morning.
The condemned man was attend
ed by one white and four Negro
Ministers. During the last hours
before the execution he was visited
by an uncle and two aunts. His
mother who resides in Jackson did
not come to bid him goodbye. She
is reported as not having visited
him at anytime since his arrest
and sentence to death in 1916.
Patton went to the electric chair
after Governor Wright denied a
plea for executive clemency pre-
sented by more than 200 White and
Negro Citizens, including members
of the White family by whom he
was raised.
Patton was convicted and SEN
fenced to death for the killing of
Jim Meadows, White Lauderdale
County Night Club operator, and
always contended that he acted in
self defense. There were no eye
witness in the case.
Vigorously defended by the local
branch of the NAACP his case was
twice appealed to the u. S. Su-
preme Court. On a third appeal the
court declined to review the case.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-01-21
HASTE NAME
SENT TOSENATE

WASHINGTON, D. C. - Presi-
dent Truman last Thursday sent
to the Senate the nomination of
William H. HASTE to be a Judge
of the United States Third Circuit
Court of Appeals at Philadelphia.
Judge HASTE is serving under
recess appointment President
Truman nominated him for the cir
cult court bench in the closing days
of the last session of Congress, but
the Senate failed to act on the
nomination before Congress adj
journed.
Under the law, the President was
required to submit a new nomina-
ton. The Senate Judiciary Com
mittee will probably hold hearings
on the nomination.