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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-08-18
WIDESPREAD and CONTINUED
'DISFRANCHISEMENT OF NEGRO
CITIZENS OF STATE SEEN AS
PROVOKING NEGRO ISSUE In
.RUN-OFF fight FOR GOVERNOR
Opposing Candidates Vie With Each
Other Disclaim Interest In Negro Vote
DixieCrat- Truman Civil Rights Over
Shadows Real Political Issue Of State

JACKSON, Miss, Aug. IA =
(DSN)-The Negro Issue, long
the sharpest and for the most part,
the only instruments in the arsenal
of Mississippi candidates for high
elective office, and one that has
warped, and sometimes burtalized
and disgraced Mississippi Politics
for the past seventy five years,
reaching its highest point in the
notorious 1916 campaign of the late
senator Theo G. Bilbo, is up again
as the most unimportant issue in
the second Primary Run-off cam
paign between former Governor
Hugh White, of Columbia, and Paul
B. Johnson, Jr., of Hattiesburg, the
son of a former Governor, seeking
the August 18th Democratic Nomi-
nation which is tatamount to cleo
ton to Governor of the state.
The widespread and the con-
tinued disfranchisement of Missis-
sippi Negroes, with only an esti-
mated at between $4,000 to 10000
Negro voters out of a state
population of mere than a million
Negroes, is seen as given rise to
the Negro issue as the foremost
subject of debate in the run-off
campaign.
The Negro Issue" almost total
ly absent, when not cleverly or
clumbily ruled during the first
primary, which ended with the
voting on August 7th was injected
at the very opening of the run-off
campaign, which the opposing can
didate being with each other in an
effort to disclaim interest in the
estimated fifteen to twenty thous-
and Negro vote, which could, under
certain circumstances be the deci-
sive factor in the August 18th vot-
ing.
The cue to raising the Negro
issue in the Second primary con-
test for Governor is seen by poll
teal observers in the widespread
publicity given to the fact that a
large majority of the voters in the
all-Negro town of Mound Bayou,
and in the Mount Carmel Prescinct,
an all Negro community in jeff
Davis County voted for Paul B.
Johnson, Jr.
In an effort to fasten johnson
with the Negro vote in the hope
that it would divert from him
enough white peoples votes to win
the nomination and assure the
election of the candidate Ex-Gov-
ernor Hugh White, the Jackson
Daily News in a front page edi-
torial last Sunday under the title,
The Real Issue in the Second Pri-
mary; pointing to those who would
be glad to see Johnson win the
election said: "Wild with Joy would
Continued on Page Five)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-08-18
New Hotel For
coIored" Cause
Storm OF Protest
In Jamaica

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Aug. ID
-(DSN)-The attempt, of Ameri-
can Jim Crow to fly further South
with tourist to the West Indies
through an endeavor to put over
the color line in the tourist Mecca,
Montego Bay, woke a storm of
protest and press and public con-
troversy throughout Jamaica last
week.
Resentment to the urge to intro
duce color discrimination in this
section of paradise Isle" (Jamai-
ca), was spanked when the Corn
wall Bathing Club, announced pro-
posals to erect swanky all-colored
beach hotel in Montego Bay. The
Clubs management gave as its
pretext, the view that the tourist
industry was being impaired be-
cause white Americans of Cracker
elements did not know whether on
visiting Jamaica, they would be
forced to lodge in hotels which
catered also to colored people.
Equally so, the colored American
tourist was shy Of coming to ia
maica because he believed the
hotels were milk white.
The widely circulated "Daily
Cleaner" newspaper sought to
clear the public's mind of confus-
ion by editorializing that the coun-
try had gone cracked over the
wrong view. The hotel would cater
specifically to colored folks, re-
move any doubt whatever from the
minds of the colored tourist as to
whether accommodation could be
found for him. But it would be
free to come in and mix. The
Continued on Page FOUR
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-08-18

tempted to cast their votes in the
August 7th primary at the County
Court House.
Each of the Negroes, Rev. ]. j.
Seltus, Samuel Carter, and John
Patterson, two veterans of the last
war, told the group that they had
been stopped from casting their
votes by subtle intimidation and
implied threats and named can
didate and an election official,
and another white man.
All three of the men have prom
ised the group that they are going
to file suit and stand behind the
suit until the final action of the
courts.
The group said that they would
go back to the Court House to
vote in the second primary on Aug
ust %, and if denied then, or in
terfered with they would file suit
Immediately.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-08-18
Negro Umpire
Gets Job In
Minor League

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 14.-An-
other racial pattern in baseball
has been broken on the West Coast
recently. The Southwest Interna-
tional League has hired Emmett
Ashford, SO, a Negro, as an UNI
pire.
Ashford is a football, baseball,
and basketball official of local
mote here in Los Angeles. He of
ficially joined the men in blue in
the minor circuit, July 81, when
he took charge of a game at Mex
icali, a California Mexico border
city.
His job came after two-week
series of trials.
Moving forces behind Ashford's
hiring was Les Powers, president
of the league, who had watched
Ashford's work for some time.
Following several conferences dur
ing which Powers urged Ashford
to try out for this job, Ashford
decided to take a leave of absence
from his 14-year job as a postal
worker. He was impressive in his
'look-see" games and was signed
Immediately.
The Southwest International
League includes teams in Yuma,
Bizbee and Douglas, Ariz.; Las
Vegas, New; Nogales, Ariz.-Mex.;
Ell Centre, Calf, and Ell Paso.
Tex.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-08-18
South Carolina
Negro Editor
Jailed For
Violating
Probation
Convicted For StOrie
On Rape Case

COLUMBIA, S. G.. - John H.
McCray, editor of the South Caro-
lima Lighthouse and Informer, was
jailed Wednesday for alleged vio-
lation of probation.
McCray was under suspended
sentence for criminal libel in con-
pection with by-lined stories on
interviews with Willie Tolbert, Jr.,
who was electrocuted in October,
1949 after conviction for criminal
assault upon a white woman Of
Greenwood County.
Tolbert's version of the assault
differed in details from that given
by the victim during the trial. Toll
bert had not testified in court.
McCray's story was based on
statements from Tolbert's lawyer
and Dilling Booth white repre-
sentative of the Associated Press,
who also was indicted along with
McCray.
On advice of council, McCray,
last June %, pleaded guilty to the
charges and paid $4,000. The
Judge ordered sentence of one year
imprisonment and a $4,000 fine,
the balance to be suspended upon
payment Of the $4,000 and effecu-
alton Of three years probation.
Booth, the Associated Press re-
porter, has appealed his indictment
through the lower courts to the
States Supreme Court, where it
now rests.
Spokesman Of the South Caro-
lina's Probation and Parole Board
said that Editor McCray violated
his probation by leaving South
Carolina.
Questioned as to the new jai
order, an Atlanta lawyer gave the
opinion that the order was Every
harsh and that such violations
are invoked "once in every thou,
sand cases."
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-08-18
Grabbing College
President onored
For rs Yrs Service

GRAMBLING, La.-(Special)-
Grambling College honored its
president, R. w. E. Jones, We'd
nesday for Is years of service to
the institution.
Over 1000 persons, including
faculty members, students, former
students and friends of the col
lege, gathered in the school audi
forum to pay homage to the man
who has been a dominant force
I'm the progress and the develop
ment of the institution.
Also present at the silver ami
versary celebration was former
President Charles P. Adams who
founded the school SO years ago
approximately two miles from its
Continued on Page Seven)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-08-18
NEGRO ISSUE UP IN STATE RUN-0FF CAMP Align
Arrest Husband For Staying Woman Found Canton
DR.. Bunche Asks
For Universal
Human Freedom

DENVER, Aug. ID = DIR. Ralph
j. Bunche, Nobel Peace Prize win
ner and a United States official,
Thursday told the University of
Denver world affairs institute that
peace in the world can be fully
secured only when there is univer-
sal human freedom.
He said:
"One of the most serious weak
nesses of the Free world is to be
found in the fact that so many of
its people are not really free and
do not enjoy those fundamental
rights and freedoms which inspire
peoples voluntarily to make heroic
sacrifices for their heritage of
freedom or, for that matter, to
understand clearly the essential
issues between Democracy and
Communism"
DR.. Bunche declared that the
successful United Nations inter-
vention in Korea may we'll prove to
be the decisive event in our times
and that those who speak of the
uselessness of the Korean action
speak falsely"
He said:
They deliberately ignore the
highly significant fact that the
Korean decision was the first in
stance in history of collective po-
lice action to repel aggression"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-08-18
Production And Subsistence
Loan Funds Available Through
Farmers Home Administration

Announcement was made today
by Mr.. I. B. Fatherree, State Di-
rector, Farmers Home Admins
tration, that $3,60O,000 has been
allotted to Mississippi to be used
for making production and SUBJ
sistence loans to eligible farm
families. These loans are made
only to those applicants who are
unable to obtain needed credit
from local banks, private or CO.
operative lending institutions, and
to applicants who also agree to
follow and incorporate in their
farm plans the best farm practices
as recommended by experiment
stations and other agricultural
agencies. The interest rate on
these loans is 5 per cent.
Eligibility of all applicants must
be determined by the local County
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-08-18

Committee Of the Farmers Home
Administration. This Committee
is composed of three persons in
the County, at least two of whom
are farmers. In keeping with the
Farmers Home Administrators
policy, County Supervisors have
been instructed to again give elig-
ible veterans preference in making
loans this fiscal year.
Mr.. Fatherree pointed out that
all applications will originate in
County offices Of the Farm ers
Home Administration. Conse-
quently, anyone desiring to file an
application or desiring infornia-
ton should communicate with the
County FILA Supervisor serving
the County in which he lives. In
dividual County allotments are
being furnished to County Super
visors Immediately.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-08-18
Prentiss Institute
Club In California
Elects Officers

MONROVIA, CAL, Aug. o.
Especially - The Prentiss Institute
Friendship Club met at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Newton, 100
Maple Ave., Monrovia, California
July 90 from 4 to 6 P. M. with
Miss Flora Price as chairman.
Prof. A. L. Johnson, Dean Of the
Prentiss Normal and Institute,
Prentiss, Miss, was the guest
speaker. He gave some interesting
highlights about the Institution, it's
activities and improvements. Mr..
Johnson told about the Negroes in
Politics in the State of Mississippi.
1t was interesting to know the
State of Mississippi has more than
10000 registered voters among
Negroes in the State, this was done
Continued on Page Four)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-08-18
FILA Farm Tenancy Funds Available
For The Fiscal Year OF 1852

through the County Offices, which
are usually located in the county
seats of the various counties of
the State. At the local County
Office, applicants may obtain in
formation on eligibility require
ments for these loans. All appli-
cations are reviewed for determi-
nation of eligibility by a local
County Committee composed of
three members, two of whom are
farmers.
In the light of current real es-
tate values, it is of interest to
farmers to know that fund, are
available to qualified applicants
for the purpose of enlarging or
developing inefficient family-type
farm units into efficient family
type farm units.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-08-18
Labor Leader
Charged With
Race bombiinqs

DALLAS, Tex, Aug. IA g.
year-old Dallas labor leader Friday
was charged in series of racial
bombings which, for Is months,
kept large section of Dallas ter
rorized.
Dist. Atty. Henry Wade named
the suspect as Charles O. Golf.
He accused Golf of being master
mind behind the bombings of Ne
gro homes.
Officers said they had been gath
ering evidence for a month link
ing Golf to the bombings.
Goff said he is a business rep
resentative of a Dallas building
trades council. He is scheduled
for hearing.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-08-18
NATcHEz STARTS RAISING
FUND FOR VOTE SUIT
Action Follows Denial OF Right
To Vote In First Primary

NATCHEZ, Miss, Aug. IA
(DSN)-The long talked about
lawsuit to obtain the full right to
pay their poll tax and vote was
a step closer following a meeting
of group of more than so
prominent Negro citizens as a
planning committee here last
Thursday night that saw the be-
ginning of a $4,000 legal action
fund.
Pledging from $40 to 500 the
group had already in sight 500
as the result of the Thursday night
meeting, and Judging from the
character and financial standing
of those present the raising of
the funds for filing the suit will
be an easy matter that can be ac-
complished when needed.
The meeting was called Thurs
day night following the stopping
of three Negro voters who at
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-08-18

Mr.. T. B. Fatherree, State Di.
rector of the Farmers Home Ad-
ninistration, has announced that
direct loan funds, in the amount
of $1,O35,109, have been allocated
to the State Of Mississippi for
making Farm Ownership loans
during the 1852 fiscal year. Based
upon the Continuing Resolution
of the Congress, this ALLEGATION has
been made on the basis of farm
population and the prevalence of
tenancy in the State, and these
funds are available for making
Tenant Purchase, Farm Enlarge
ment and Farm Development loans.
As in the past, veterans will con-
tinue to receive preference.
The services of the Farmers
Home Administration are available
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-08-18
Tennessee masons
In Memphis
Convention

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Aug. Ia =
More than 800 Masons are expect
ed to be in Memphis for the giant
convention of the colorful Prince
Hall Grand Lodge of the Jurisdic-
ton of Tennessee, which will con-
vene in the Bluff City August 5
through the 9Th, week preceding
the National Dental Association
Convention which will begin it's
sessions August Is.
Memphis, the city of good abode,
is getting ready to show the warm
hospitality it is so well remember
ed for.
The Masons will begin their con-
Continued on Page Five)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-08-18
Woman Found In Woods Near
Canton Identified As Member Of
Prominent State Family
Staying Took Place At McComb Home
Lynching Threat Heard AS Town
Is Aroused By Brutality OF Crime

McCOMB, Miss, Aug. IA =
(DSN) = The badly decomposed
body of Negro woman found on
July 81, in the woods some sixteen
miles northeast of Canton, and
more than a hundred miles from
here was identified here last Fri
day as that of Mrs. Henrietta Brent
Haynes, 32-year-old expectant
mother, a resident of this city and
a member of one of the most wide
ly known and prominent families
Of the state, and mother of three
children by previous marriage.
Included among members of the
family and close relatives are:
Miss F. O. Alexander, Teacher
Trainer of Jackson College, and
the State Department of Educa-
ton; Prof. A. A. Alexander, Prin-
cipal of Alexander High School at
Brookhaven, and neice of Mrs. Ole
via Wallace, of Jackson, wife of
Rev. Eugene Wallace well known
Baptist Minister.
The body which had been buried
without identity in Canton on
Thursday August End, was exhum-
ed Saturday. Identity was estab-
lished by brother, Huriah Brent,
of Jackson, a number of friends
and neighbors and DR.. George Wal
lace, McComb Dentist, who recog-
nized two gold teeth he had put
in her mouth, and later by her
husband Lewis "slick'" Haynes who
was arrested Friday on suspicion
of murder in connection with the
case.
Suspicion Aroused By Advocate
Story
After it had become we'll known
to neighbors Of the family that the
woman was often threatened with
death by her husband, the suspic-
ion of the neighbors was aroused
by the story of finding the body
and its subsequent burial without
identity, published in the August
18th edition of the Jackson Advo-
cate, widely circulated and read
here.
Neighbors and friends who had
been missing the woman for sew
eral days, seeing that her house
had been locked up during the
daytime, before the publication of
the story in the Advocate, thought
she was out in the country visiting
her mother, Mrs. Jessie Brent, who
was then, and is now seriously i'll,
in fact her illness is such that she
has not been told of her daughters
death.
With the appearance of the Jack
son Advocate here Friday after
noon arousing the suspicion of the
neighbors, someone recalled that
shot had been heard in the Haynes
house late in the night of Sunday
July End, and then some others re-
called that they had heard and seen
Continued on Page Six
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-08-18

jackson College
Teachers Piece
In Congressional
Record
Prof. Edgar Rogie
Clark Given
High Honor

WASHINGTON = Sen. Herbert
H. Lehman 3D., N. ", had print
ed in the Congressional Record
last Monday a brief statement by
Edgar Rogie Clark, Mississippi
musician and teacher.
Clark's article, called "The Faith
of an American" outlined the
historical record of the Negro in
America and his ambitions and as
pirations for the future.
The story told how the Ameri-
can Negro today sees two Ameri-
cans:
First, there is democratic
America, the ideal of the Consti-
tuition Of the United States. But
there is also the America in real
ity which falls short of these DEM
ocratic ideals, the one the Negro
must face every day."
Some believe that education,
not legislation, will solve our prob
lens of racial differences, Clark
said, but education is slow.
Clark spoke of America as
land of promise and expectation,
the real testing ground for the
democracy we preach.
"The past, present and future
of the Negro lie here" he con-
tinued, because their seeds are
planted here. The ships are burned
and there is no returning.
THE joys and sorrows, the
sweat and blood have fortified
Continued on Page Four)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-08-18
PRAYER SERVICE

The Public is invited to at
tend an open door prayer SER
vice, especially for the sick and
afflicted, at the home of Sister
Thelma Ford 214 Grayson Court
from 8 p. m. to II noon begin
ming Tuesday August p. This
Spiritual meeting will be held
every Tuesday and Friday here
after.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-08-18
knights And
Daughters OF
Tabor Set For
Chicago Meeting

MOUND BAYOU, Miss, Aug. ID
-(SpeciaD = The nineteenth Tri-
ennial Grand Session of Interna-
tional Order of Twelve of Knights
and Daughters of Tabor will meet
August 21-24, in Chicago at the
Progressive Community Church, Sc
East 48th Street.
The Knights and Daughters of
Continued on Page Three)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-08-18
AIcorn College
Pres. Regional
.4-H Club
Speaker
Meeting At Ark. State
College Next Week

Pine Bluff, Ark, Aug. IA
(SpeciaD-Nearly 125 of the Ma
TONS most outstanding farm boys
and girls will assemble next week
at Arkansas State College, Pine
Bluff, Ar, for the fourth annual
Continued on Page Six
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-08-18

DIR. John P. Turner, distinguished
Philadelphia physician, is general
chairman of the local committee in
charge of arrangements for the
seth annual convention of the Ma
tiOnal Medical association, Aug. 20
"a in Philadelphia.
Through his work and that of
his assistant, DR.. w. c. Atkinson,
the NINA delegates will be housed
in the best hotels in the city, and
will utilize the facilities of the
leading halls and medical centers
for their activities.
DR.. Turner is a past president
of the NMA.-ANP)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-08-18

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The Wrangell sentinel., 1951-07-27
SOCKEYE RUN THIS YEAR ON SOUND DOUBLE
 LAST CYCLE YEAR

SEATTLE (AP) - sockeye sal mon landings in Puget Sound for the first 15 days of the 1851 season were double those of all 1947- previous year of the current cycle the state department of fisheries reported yesterday.
 The American take through July 20 amounted to 173,6O0 fish, com pared with SS,00O for the entire 1947 season. The Canadian catch through last Friday was 18S,400, about half the 1947 total of 354,- 900.
 The International Pacific Sal mon Fisheries Commission, dedica- ted to the building up of the runs. reported only 21,O00 fish were landed by July 20 on both the 1899 and 1943 runs in this cycle
The Wrangell sentinel., 1951-07-27
ELEVENTH MEETING HELD ON KOREA CEASE-FIRE

IN HDQS., Korea lAPJ = An eleventh brass tacks" meeting to- wards an armistiee in the Korean war adjourned after an hour and a quarter session in Kaesong yester- day. No immediate announcement of developments during the confer ence was given in which lN and Communist delegations tackled iou vital issues on which the cease fire depends. The conference w-= to be. resumed today
 Earlier the Peipng .au.o ,s.a firmed the five point agenda. h added and agreed tAat a higher level meeting was needed To dlsta=- the touchy question of fofeIgu troop withdrawals from Korea. NO indications were given when suca a meeting would be held.
 The current agenda includes fix ing a military demarkation line, ar angements for cease fire inelud- ing neutral patrol and exchange of prisoners.
 Meanwhile, artillery supported Chinese stopped three allied attacks cold on the eastern front as actiy- ity was considerably stepped up.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1951-07-27
FOUR ESCAPE INJURY IN PLANE CRASH

A Seabee single-engine seaplane turned turtle in Gastineau Channel on landing Tuesday but the four occupants escaped serious injury though they got pretty wet.
 The plane was piloted by Sheldon Simmons and was on charter to the Alaska Road Commission from a Juneau company, Flying, Inc.
 Pilot Simmons, veteran Alaska flyer and chairman of the Alaska Board of Aeronautics, said the hydraulic landing gear system ap- parently failed, The wheels were down when he landed.
 Simmons sustained minor cuts on his face. Uninjured were George Tapley, Rev. Raffaele Forni and Walter Yost.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1951-07-27
#&#x%#*
A feudin' an a fightin'

A political feud which is likely to draw considerable attention next year when the elections roll around is the Stan McCutcheon-Mark Jen- sen argument. As may be recalled, the boys had it out a few times when both were members of the House in 1949 and Jensen was a member of the famous Investigating committee which kept on investi- gating after the session was over and gave Stan bad time about the Palmer airport deal in which he figured as attorney. Jensen was de- feated in the 1850 election in his contest for reelection from the First Division while McCutcheon was successful from the Third but some Investigating was carried on in the 1851 session which Stan credited to being inspired by Mark. Come next year and McCutcheon is not going to be a candidate for reelection, he says, unless Mark Jensen runs" The latter hasn't in- dicated whether he'll file. Oh well, boys will be boys.