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Evening star., 1951-10-17
Woman PIunges to Her Death
After Getting Marriage License

In the humdrum routine of gov
Iernmental business. they're mark
ing Cancelled" today on slip OF
paper that only a few days ago
represented the ultimate in hopes
of happiness for a 40-year-old
Icareer-girl spinster.
The paper-a marriage license
Issued in District Court here Mon
days now worthless because the
Ibride-to-be, Miss Marjorie VIC
toria Enos, of New York. killed
herself a few hours later in leap
from a Chicago hotel.
Temporarily insane" was the
decision returned yesterday by a
coroner's jury after investigating
the plunge. The jurors could find
mo other explanation for the deci-
sion that prompted Miss Enos,
one of the country's best eye tech
Inicians, to end her life. She had
gone to Chicago to attend the con-
Ivention of the American Academy
Iof Opthalmology.
The marriage license was OBJ
tanned Monday by Miss Mary
Louise Zarger of 2701 Connecticut
avenue NV. Miss Enos had been
her roommate several years age
before she went to New York tC
join the staff of the Presbyterian
Medical Center there. In the Dis
trict a third party can be dele
gated to attend to the formalities
of obtaining a wedding license.
The license was for the mar
riage of Miss Enos to Stuart Hol-
lister, a. an employe of the Fed
eral Housing Administration ir
New York. They had planned te
be married here Sunday.
| Miss larger said Miss Enos
wrote her from New York last
month telling her of her engage
ment tn Mr.. HOlliSter. A week
Evening star., 1951-10-17
HeIicopter Blows Roft
! Ashore: e:2ChiIdren Saved
Nv the As.o.;e,.d Press


SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. ia
Coast Guard helicopter last night
used its rotor blades to blow to
safety two children stranded on
a raft in San Francisco Bay.
On the raft were 13-year- -old
Sharon Lee Bjerke and 9-year-old
David Priellip.
A Coast Guard boat could not
come close enough to the raft be-
cause Of shallow water. The hell
copter approached the raft from
the open bay side. The air push
from its rotor blew the raft a
quater mile onto mud fats.
Evening star., 1951-10-17
Woman Hurt by Burglar
She Surprised in Home

An assistant housekeeper at the
Mayflower Hotel was struck and
injured by an unidentified in
truder yesterday when she sur
Iprised him as she returned to her
home, 642 E street Sc.
Mrs. Nellie Talley, 40, said she
was about to turn on a light when
the burglar struck her from be-
hind. She was unable to describe
her assailant who ran through
the kitchen door. The house was
Iransacked but as far as could be
determined nothing was missing
she told police.
Mrs. Talley was treated at Prov
idence Hospital for a head cut.
Evening star., 1951-10-17
IIsruel's Troins Tied Up

TEL AVN, Israel, Oct. II tP.-
Military authorities moved food
and priority supplies by truck to-
day as Israers railways remained
tied up for a second day by a Wild
tcat strike of engineers and fire.
men.
Evening star., 1951-10-17

ago she telephoned and asked Miss
larger to apply for the marriage
license and make other plans for
the wedding.
"She seemed so happy. I just
can't understand what happened, y
said Miss Zarger.
Evening star., 1951-10-17
|Huks Free l8 cuptiyes

MANILA, Oct. 17lRl,-Eighteen II
registration officials kidnapped by
Communist huks 10 days ago were
released today and told by their
captors to keep away from the
elections" November 13.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-06-23
Biloxi Housing Authority Using
Eminent Domain Law To Take Lands
And Homes Owned By Negro Citizens
Sections Taken To Be Turned Into
White Residential Districts
Hint Action OF Biloxi Authority
Contrary To National Policy

BILOXI, Miss, June 6-(DSN)
The cry of slum clearance is be-
ing used here as an excuse behind
which to evoke the full power of
the state and federal law to seige
valuable property and homes own
ed by Negro citizens for many
years and located in what was
established from the very begin
ming as Negro residential sections
Of the city.
A large number of homes, some
of which the families have lived
in and owned for more than forty
years and much other valuable
rental property owned by Negroes
along Iroquois Street and border
ing on the Bayou Augusta Project
have been marked by the Housing
Authority in its "Slum Clearance"
campaign.
Although the homes and property
owned for many years by Negro
citizens in what has been long es-
tablished as Negro residential sec
lions has been marked by the
Housing Authority in its "Slum
Clearance" campaign, it is we'll un-
derstood here by both White and
Negro citizens that the Biloxi
Housing Authority is attempting
to take the property in order to
GUST its Negro Owners and extend
the city's white residential area.
Last week the Biloxi Housing
Authority in order to take the
homes and property of the Negroes
started legal action by calling upon
the Eminent Domain Law.
Here are samples of the in
credulous stories told by Negro
property owners who are fighting
to keep the Biloxi Housing Au-
thority from swallowing up their
land and homes.
John McNair, rs, a white-haired
resident at 902 Iroquois Street for
10 years, recalled how he had been
approached by one Housing Au-
thority negotiator.
81 told him | didn't want to SELL"
McNair declared, We'll John, the
government will put tractor in
there and shove your homes down,
Continued on PAGE Fiye)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-06-23
Group Votes To Hire Lawyer To
Aid In Prosecution OF The Case

the committee was raising money
through churches and other local
organizations.
The chairman pointed out that
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
and the Civil Rights Congress
which was prominent in the MCGEE
case are both defense" organiza-
tons and therefore would not be
likely to enter this case even if
called upon. She emphasized that
the organization had no intention
of calling upon these nor any other
of the national organizations.
In meeting Tuesday night the
members present voted unani-
mously to hire lawyer to aid in
the prosecution after the commit
tee was informed that the District
Attorneys remarks referred only
to the organizations and lawyers
from outside the state of Missis-
sippi.
While the group is known to
have conferred with several local
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-06-23
W0mANH00D Defense committee
DENIES OUTSIDE FLUEMCE

attorneys, officials of the organ
ization declined to state that an
agreement had been reached with
a lawyer to enter the case.
Indicted last week by a special
grand jury, legal maneuvering in
defense of the 48-year-old white
man is reported to have started
last week although the trial itself
was not set to start until Wednes-
day. According to reports counsel
for the defense were making eff
forts last week to obtain a change
of venue in the case. Judge M.
M. MCGOWAN, before whom the
case is to be tried, said that he
had received no motion for a con-
tinuance Of the case Monday
morning.
The attorneys for the defense
are V. J. Stricken, Jr., E. B. Todd,
and Ernest Sheldon.
In preparation for the case
Judge MCGOWAN called for 45 adj
ditional jurors to be added to the
so already called for jury service.
The 14-year-old victim of the
rape was still under treatment in
local hospital after being taken
by ambulance to testify before the
grand jury which returned the in
dictment last week.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-06-23
Mass. Gov. Names
Negro Secretary

BOSTON = For the first time
in the history of Massachusetts, a
colored girl is secretary to a gov
ernor.
Governor Paul A. Dever admin
istered the oath of office Monday,
June II, to Mrs. Ruth E. Williams
of Cambridge. She took the place
of Miss Eileen Griffin, who is re-
turning to her home city of Spring
field to practice law for the Office
of Price Sterilization.
Mrs. Williams is regarded at the
State House as one of the finest
young women in the public service.
Not only is she a topflight secre-
tary, but she has a beautiful voice.
She sang for Archbishop Cushing
at the opening of st. Richards
Continued on Page Four)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-06-23
NEGRO SOLDIERS FIGHTING ABILITY
DISCUSSED NATIONAL MAGAZINE

out regard to MS race. Glven the
great morale boost that comes
from being accepted as an Ameri-
can soldier on equal footing with
every other American soldier, given
the steadying influence of white
men around him, given the chance
to rise in rank as far as his talents
will permit, he will fight as well as
any man."
The article stated that in outfits
where Negroes were integrated as
individuals in companies, no dis
culinary problems arose and they
were very competent soldiers.
The author concludes: 'To segre-
gate the Negro into units where
his resentment of the separation
and the strange working of mass
psychology caused him to do less
than his best is a waste of fight
ing talent the nation cannot afford.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-06-23
Trial Set To
Start Wednesday

JACKSON, Miss, June 49,
(DSN) = The Negro Womanhood
Defense Committee organized to
secure POUNDS to obtain lawyer
to aid in the prosecution of Hugh
l.. Morrow, a 48-year-old white
man charged with the rape of a
14-year-old Negro girl here a few
days ago, strongly denied that any
attempt was Being made to bring
any outside influence to bear on
the case.
The statement of the committee
was made following published
report that District Attorney Jul
Ian Alexander had stated that he
would accept no outside assistance
in the prosecution of the case.
The chairman of the Negro Wo-
manhood Defense Committee in
Denying that any attempt was be-
ing made to bring outside influ-
,ences to bear in the case said that
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-06-23
Transfers Negro
Aiirman From
Univ. Of Alabama

TUSCALOOSA, Hla.-(SNS)--
After his arrival here for a train
ing course at the University of
Alabama, a Negro airman was
transferred Friday without having
attended a class.
Pfc. Phillips j. Evans of the
Saith School Squadron and "a other
soldiers arrived at the University
Thursday from Lakeland Air Force
Base, San Antonio, Texas.
Pfc. Evans spent the night in
McCorvey Hall, new three-story
brick dormitory on the campus, but
his bags were left packed. 81 don't
know what the trouble was" he
said. at was because I'm a colored
fellow, | guess"
The University of Alabama has a
contract with the air force to train
a number of soldiers as clerks. An
Air Force spokesman said Pfc.
CONTINUED on Page Four)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-06-23
NEGRO IS CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR OF LOUISIANA
Program Set For
NAAcP Cow.
In Atlanta

NEW YORK, June 14.-Alger-
non ID. Black, leader of the ETH
cal Culture Society, New York, a
recently elected member of the
board of directors of the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People, will share the
platform with Roy Wilkins, NAA-
CP administrator, at the opening
session of the Associations forty
second annual convention in At
lanta, Tuesday, June 26.
The six-day conference will close
on Sunday, July 1. with a open
air mass meeting III Herndon Sta
dunn, to be addressed by Walter
White, NAACP executive secre-
tary, and DR.. Ralph J. Bunche, di-
rector of the United Nations Trus-
teeship Division and winner of the
Nobel Peace Prize.
Other speakers at the evening
sessions include. DIR. BENJAMIN E.
Mays, president of Morehouse
College, and Philip Willkie, In
diana state legislator and son of
the late Wendell Willkie; Wednes-
day; Thurgood Marshall, NAACP
special counsel, Walter Caring
ton, Harvard University student,
and Alvin Krebs, editor of the
University of Mississippi student
publication, who editorially advo-
Gated the admission Of Negro stu
dents to the university, Thursday;
and Miss Lillian Smith, author of
"Strange Fruit and KILLERS of
the Dream" who will present the
Spingarn Medal to Mrs. Mabel X.
Staupers for leadership in break
ing down racial barriers against
Continued on Page Two)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-06-23
Wife 0fProfessor
A. N. Rogers Dies
AT Home Here

Mrs. Erin Wiley Rogers, wife Of
Professor A. M. Rogers, principal
of the Cameron Street Public
School of Canton, Miss, passed
away at her residence, 1897 Deer
Park Sunday afternoon.
Funeral will be held Thursday
at 2:30 p. m. from Central Metho-
dist Church of which she was a
faithful member. Interment will be
in the Elmwood Cemetery.
Mrs. Rogers was a graduate of
Rust College with graduate work
done at Fisk University.
For thirty years she has taught
in the public schools of Mississippi
and was held high in the education
al circles of the state.
Her christian leadership made
Continued on Page Four)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-06-23
NEGRO GI DESTROYS MACHINE
GUN Nest IN BLOODY FIGHT
ON KOREAN battlefield
Hero Who Rushed Beyond Call Of
Duty Recommended For Decoration

WITH THE 7TH INF. DIV. u.
S. ARMY IN KOREA-He's a
short man, just a little more than
%, and his clothes hung on him
as they would clothes rack. He
looked out of place with the big
war weapon slung over his Shout
der. And judging from his slow,
shuffling gait, he couldn't have
wen a race with a turtle.
But Pfc. William Jackson, Jr.,
of Brooklyn, N. Y, proved that
looks can be deceiving and at the
same time earned the deep respect
of his fellow soldiers in "King''
company of the 31st Regimental
Combat team.
The company had been called
upon to fulfill mission. The OBJ
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-06-23
Mrs. ThreadgiII
To Head Women's
DemocraticAux.

GREENVILLE, Miss. = Mrs.
Ophelia Threadgill, prominent re-
ligious and civic leader of Green
vile, was elected chairman of the
Women's Auxiliary of the Wash
ington County Negro Democratic
Club at a well-attended meeting
of women voters on last Sunday
afternoon, at Miller Memorial Gen.
ter.
Others elected to serve with Mrs.
Threadgill were Mrs. Alberta Tay-
Tor, vice chairman; Mrs. Ertha
Chapple, secretary and Mrs. Leila
Beatrice Holmes, treasurer.
The meeting was called to order
by Levye Chapple, president of the
County organization who explain
ed the general purpose of the or
ganization. He was assisted in the
organization by w. M. Holmes,
James Edwards, VIM. H. Greene
Continued on Page Eight
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-06-23
Negro Candidates Seeking Election To
State Offices In Louisiana For First
Time Since Reconstruction Period
State Democratic Civic Association
Backing Negro Candidate For Governor
Eight Negro Candidates For State Legislature

NEW ORLEANS, La, June 18.
I-DSN)-With a Negro candidate
for Governor included in num-
Der of announcements made here
Last week, Negroes are seeking
election to public office in the
State of Louisiana for the first
time since the Reconstruction Pc
riod, which followed the War Be
tween the States that ended with
the abolition of Negro slavery.
Aside from the candidate for
governor of the state there are
eight candidates for membership
in the State Legislature.
The candidate for governor is
Kermit A. Parker, 40-year-old
pharmacist. graduate from
Xavier University and member
of the Board of Commissioner
for the state Industrial School for
Negro youth.
After filing his papers in at the
ctate capitol in Baton Rouge last
Thursday Parker said, 81 feel that
this move will give our country
another example to point to in her
effort to show that all citizens
share some of the equality of OPP
! poftunity, which is one of the
points stressed so much as regards
Democracy.
The candidate for governor is
being supported by the Louisiana
Democratic Civic Association, a
statewide political organization of
which he is president.
Out front is the number of cam
didates endorsed is the Peoples
Defense League with Ernest j.
Wright at its helm. After a week
of caucuses, the Pol announced
five candidates it will support
all Negroes-in the approaching
House of Representatives election.
They are:
Carroll Boldine. labor leader,
from the Second Ward. He is ex-
ecutive secretary of the Transfers
Local 956, AFL. He is considered
by some as the most astute and
energetic man in his sphere. He
is active in NAACP affairs, Louis
Continued on Page Six
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-06-23
Second Negro
Child Rape Case
Recorded In State
Memphis Police
Arrest Two White
Men For Rape OF
12-Year-Old Girl

BATESVILLE, Miss, June IS.
-OSN)-The second case of rape
of a Negro child in the state of
Mississippi during the past few
DAYS was recorded last Thursday
night when Memphis police ar
rested two white men for the rane
of 12vear-old Negro girl of this
city. The rape is said to have oc-
Cured near CORTLAND Park in
Memphis Thursday night.
The men booked as Augusta
Woody McGarrh, %. of 1856
Pierce, and Glenn Mccain, 20, of
381 S. Waldran. Sheriff E. B.
Wilson revealed that the men were
arrested by Memphis police Sat-
urday and Sunday.
After waving a preliminary
hearing in the court of Justice of
the Peace w. T. Westmoreland,
the two men were bound over to
the Pamela County Grand Jury
which is scheduled to convene in
October. Neither man was able
to post the $4,000 bond.
Although the men at first de-
MED assaulting the 12-year- old
child, Sheriff Wilson reconstruct
ed the crime as follows: On last
Thursday evening, the two sus-
poets, McGarrn and Mccain, went
to the home of the victim. They
asked that the child be allowed to
Continued on Page Two)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-06-23

Among the 400 commissioners
from the assembly's 85 Presby-
teries were eight Negroes. One
was a representative of a white
group. The meeting was unsegre-
gated-the Negro delegates sit
ting and eating with the rest of
the group.
There is no segregation in either
of the four seminaries of the
Presbyterian Church. These SEM
inaries are located in Austin. Tex;
Louisville. KY; Richmond, Va, and
Decatur, Ga.
According to Mr.. Bachelor,
"There is general population
trend from rural to urban areas.
Negro home groups in many cities
Continued on Page Two)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-06-23
King David
Masonic Grand
Lodge To Meet
Here Next Week

The NJ. w. King David Grand
Lodge of Mississippi will convene
in its 9th annual district meet
ing in Jackson, Miss, for three
days starting June "a.
More than three hundred dele
gates are expected to attend the
meeting from all over the state.
W. j. Oates, Grand Master of Nat
chez, Miss. will preside over the
meeting which will be held at Hills
Hall on Parish Street.
The religious and memorial SER
vices will be held at New Hope
Baptist Church on n. Roach St.
Highlighting this program will be
the annual memorial sermon to be
delivered by the Rev. f. Lewis Fod.
Continued on Page Fivel
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-06-23
SOUTHERN PRESBYTERIAN :,
CHURCH PROPOSE DISSOLUTION
OF NEGRO SYNOD IN is STATES
Say End Of Segregation Needed To Bring
Leaders OF Both Races Closer Together

ORLANDO, Fla, June 18.-The
white members and ministers of
the Presbyterian Church in the
South proposed closer cooperation
with the Negro members in its
DIST General Assembly on Mon
dav. A vote was proposed to dis
solve the only Negro Synod in the
16 states of the Assembly.
eff the Synod is dissolved" said
Alex r. Bachelor, secretary of
the division of Negro Work, sit
will not affect Negro church work.
Dissolution would distribute it a.
mong various white Presbyteries
and main bringing leadership of
both races closer together so that
problems might be better consid-
cred by all involved"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-06-23

Mrs. Pearl B. Davis, widely
known Beautician and business
woman who with her husband
Chauncey B. Davis was the founder
of the once thriving Davis Beauty
Products Mfg, Co., and the Davis
Beauty Shoppe and school, and who
owns and operates the Chop House,
a popular Parish Street Cafe, was
critically hurt and is being given
only slight chances of recovery, as
the result of a highway, accident
Friday night.
The Accident took place near the
Junction of Hi-way IA and 81 some
twelve miles south of Rolling Fork
while Mrs. Davis was returning to
Greenville where she has recently
opened Beauty Shoppe and
School.
Continued on Page Two)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-06-23

jective was Hill 1863, and the en-
envy was firmly entrenched on the
slope. As the company approached
the base of the hill. the enemy
opened up. The fight was on.
A bar man, lying in a forward
position, was hit. Smoke and rust
ling trees where bullets whistled
through gave evidence Of the po-
sition of an enemy machine-gun.
For Jackson, a rifleman at the
time, it was the first taste of
combat. He spotted a wounded
man so yards distant.
He ran the distance in a hail
of bullets, and moved the bar to
a new position. Working quickly
he managed to help the wounded
Continued on Page Six)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-06-23
j. D. Rockefeller.
'Jr., Appeals For
College Fund

NEW YORK CITY - John D.
Rockefeller, Jr., chairman of the
National Council United Negro
College Fund, appealed Friday
night for contributions for the
funds eighth annual drive to ex-
tend educational opportunities
for Negroes in this country.
In a speech over Station WNBC
and the National Broadcasting sys-
tenn Mr.. Rockefeller appealed to
the public to contribute 81 100000
to help support thirty-two private
colleges and universities of the
United Negro College Fund. That
Continued on Page Two
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-06-23
FOUR MORE NEGRO OFFICERS
ADDED MEMPHIS POLICE FORCE

MEMPHIS, Tenn, June 18-
(SpeciaD-Announcement is being
made this week of the addition of
four new officers to the Police
Force, giving a total of sixteen.
The new officers, who have sue
cessfully completed the rigid train
ing course required for positions on
the Memphis Police Division are
James A. Presley, $40 L. LeMoyne
Court; Elmore S. Burnley, 962
Cahoma Place; Thomas Marshall,
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-06-23

1913 Eldridge; Benjamin Whitney,
812 Randle Street.
Negro police officers, since going
on the force during late fall of
1913, have made an outstanding
record in law enforcement. The
recent wholesale arrest of the pro-
fessional gang Of con men and
women (pidgeon droppers) by Of
ficers Wendall Robinson and Pee
pies, elected national commenda-
ton of the local police department
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-06-23
Compensation In
Eminent Domain
Suit Awarded
By Court

BILOXI, Miss, June 18-A jury
in Harrison County Court has
awarded $4,000 Compensation and
damages to four dependents in an
eminent domain suit brought by
the Biloxi Housing Authority to
condemn certain lands in Biloxi
for construction of low-rent hous-
ing project.
The court, presided over by
Judge Leslie B. Grant ruled that
the housing authority could take
over the lands upon payment of
the damages. compensation and
court costs to the court but re-
Continued on Page Five)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-06-23
SEGREGATION TN ARMY CALLED
WASTE OF MONEY, MANP0WER

The principal field of study was
the all-Negro Oath Infantry Regi-
ment which has drawn both praise
and reprooof for its actions in
combat. Martin stated: "At one
time or another, every company in
the regiment fought magnificently.
At one time or another, every unit
broke and ran-except 1t. Col.
Walter Preston's hardfighting ALL
Negro 10th Field Artillery"
Martin further stated: The only
way to make efficient use Of the
Negro infantryman is to integrate
him into the line companies with
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-06-23

The fighting ability of the AM
erican Negro Soldier under two
different sets of conditions is dis
cussed at length in an article ap-
pearing in the Saturday Evening
Post" magazine for June Is, The
article is written by Harold H.
Martin a staff-writer for the At
lanta Constitution.
After a survey and evaluation OF
the Negroes role in Korean con-
flict, Martin concluded that the
policy of segregation in the army
was waste of money and man.
power.