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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1952-06-21
Eartha Kit
New Sensation
OF Broadway
Night Life

NEW WORCESTERSHIRE new
sensation in Broadway night life
is Negro singer Eartha Kilt. This
week the new Broadway sensation
got big play from Time Magazine,
top publication of its kind in the
nation.
Speaking of Eartha, Time said:
Patrons Of the Blue Angel night
club, accustomed to hearing these
lines sung with folk-song inno-
cence, were wondering last week
whether they ever did understand
the old song. They were concen-
trating on Eartha Kit, a Negro
newcomer to Manhattan night life.
Eartha launched into the song with
a voice of husky sweetness, bat
before she had gone very far she
was wailing out the lyrics in a
first-class imitation of jungle cat.
A 1.-THE figure in skin-tight satin,
she followed up her folk song with
some smoldering blues ("Bury Ne
Where He Passes By"O, switched
to a playful chant for 81 Want To
Be Evil And Cheat At Jacks, )"
then to the piquant for a French
number. Whatever Eartha chose
TO give them, the crowd paid her
back with devout attention. Her
night club act was proving just
as much a hit as her Broadway
debut last month in New Faces Of
1852, which drew from the New
York Times Brooks Atkinson, the
fervent report: "Eartha Kit not
only looks incendiary =. she can
make a song burst into flame"
UP TO THE HIP. Eartha is
her real name. She was born "a
years ago on her family's cotton
farm near Columbia, S. C. "My
parents had hard time for a cou-
pie Of years, but the year | came
along they had good crop, so they
decided to name me after tho
earth" Her mother took her to
New York after her father died,
and at she surprised herself by
winning a scholarship to Katherine
Dunham's dance school. She had
bit parts dancing and some sing
ing) in three Durham shows, but
in the midst Of European tour
with the troupe, Eartha decided
she had learned all she wanted to
earn about dancing. She quit the
company to sing in Paris cabaret,
promptly learned something more
lust before she went out to sing,
the manager took one look at her
demure, opening might dress, then
and there ripped it up to the hips
on both sides. Fortunately, says
Eartha, 81 have nice legs"
One connoisseur was Orson
Welles, who called her "the most
exciting woman in the world" cast
her as Helen of Troy in a Paris
production of his own version of
Faust" The show Travelled to
Germany as can Evening With
Orson Welles," was soon being
dubbed can Evening With Eartha
kitt.' Last year she even got .
etter from Winston Churchill She
was singing at a London club
called "Churchill's" (no kim, and
a fan letter addressed to her was
mistakenly delivered to the old
statesman. Churchill forwarded it
with note of his own: my dear
Miss Kit, | presume that this ex-
traordinary document was meant
for YOU"
KEEP THEM GUESSING. Ear
tha returned to the U. S. six
months ago, and now, with her
ole in New Faces" and her after
the-show night club stint, is as
'usy as she has ever been in her
life.
Recordings are sure to come, but
so far she ard the record COM
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1952-06-21

panies don't agree on the songs
she ought to sing. To sell the
most records, they tell her, she
ought to work on songs like "Wheel
of Fortune" and "Cry." Eartha
is reluctant, feels they aren't her
type.
What is her type?
"That's the problem" says Ear
tina. "Nobody is able to put def
mite tupe on ME. All can do is
keep them guessing. I'm q lib
eral artist"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1952-06-21
PAGE SEVEN

Other officers elected included
Edward Lee and D. D. Shepherd OF
Jackson; Henry Beck of Biloxi, and
George Martin of Brookhaven. -
The 1853 Convention will be held
in Canton.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1952-06-21
State EIks
Continued from Page One)

Continued from Page One)
gainst Negroes through editorials
in many of the white papers of the
state and other leaders speaking
out against these practices;
ALSO BE 1T RESOLVED, That
this Association will continue TO
work to cut these practices.
FINALLY BE 1T RESOLVED.
That this resolution be made part
of the official record Of this Asso-
citation and be released to the pub
lie press.
2. WHEREAS, 1t is reported that
in some sections Of the state Of
Mississippi unlawful and unjust
discrimination is being directed a.
gainst Negroes in their attempt to
pay poll tax, register, and qualify
themselves as elect0rs-these dis
ordinations consist of refusal on
the parts Of sheriffs and tax col
lectors to deliver poll tax receipts
to Negroes and circuit clerks some
times refuse outright to produce
registration books. At other times
such intelligence questions are
asked as Glow many windows are
there in the White House," or
"What was the color of President
George Washington's hair?";
BE 1T RESOLVED, That this
pAssociation will go on recrod as
condemning these unlawful Gets Of
discrimination and intimidation g.
gainst Negro citizens Of the state
itand ask the policy-maker> at the
state and local level to take such
steps as are necessary to sec that
these Infringements will be discon-
litinued;
FINALLY, BE 1T RESOLVED
That this resolution be made a part
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1952-06-21

mon Theological Seminary, Allan
ia, Ga, and Rev. W. T. Priett,
Winona, Mississippi.
The officers Of the Board of
Managers Of the New Orleans
Area Pastors School are as fol-
lows: Dr., c, H. Dubra, Gulfport,
Miss, Dean, DR.. T. B. Echols, Aus
tin, Texas, Registrar, and DR.. w.
T. Handy, New Orleans, La,
Treasurer.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1952-06-21

BY DR.. J. B
Martin,
President,
Negro
American
League
Evening star., 1952-11-23
By Lillian Arthur

Out in Montgomery County
there's q cookie project going on,
and from January to November
the women who are "in on" this
project have made 1,400 dozen
cookies. In November and De-
|cember they will contribute an ad-
ditional 280; dozen and another
200 dozen will be sent in by the
county homemakers' clubs at
Christmas time, making a total for
the year Of 1850 dozen or 34.560
cookies.
The cookies are made as 4 part
Of Q service carried on by the
volunteer workers Of the Mont
gomery County Chapter Of the
Red Cross in cooperation with
the Montgomery County Fedora
ton Of Women's Clubs. and each
cookie when baked and wrapped
lis sent over to Naval Hospital at
the National Naval Medical Cen
ter. And how the patients there
love them!
Mony Different Kinds
There are all kinds of cookies
in the boxes that are received at
the hospital-sugar cookies, choc-
|olate chip cookies. oatmeal cookies.
ginger cookies. nut cookies and
sour cream cookies-as many
kinds as there are women to
make them.
Mrs. j. Alfred Kay, president of
the Woman's Club of Rockville,
makes a mince meat cookie that
is soft and spicy-she got the
recipe. she says, when she was a
student in home economies at the
University of Maryland.
When it is her turn to make
cookies, Mrs. B. Peyton Whalen
bakes a delectable bite such as
she used to send to her son Horace
when he was q third-year man
at the Point" That was a long
time ago: her son is now Col.
Whalen. on duty at Carlisle, Pa.
He has just returned from a two
Evening star., 1952-11-23
Bethesdo-Lower Montgomery County
County Women s Groups
Have Big Cookie Project

year tour Of duty in England.
Mrs. Whalen still makes the West
Point cookies but she sends them
to the Navy instead of the Army.
Mrs. Roger Whiteford is an
other good cookie maker. She
made sugar cookies for the hos
pital for a number Of years. Then
her friends found out that she is
also good candy maker. So this
year at Christmas time she will
send candy instead of cookies for
the hospital patients.
Pet Recipe Used
Each contributor to the cookie
project uses her own pet recipe
and once in q while one of the
hospital patients asks for a spe-
|cial kind and that is always pro-
vided.
All of this cookie making is car
ried out SO smoothly that not SO
many people know about it. The
committee responsible for its
success is composed Of Mrs.
George Kelley. jr.. who represents
the Red Cross at the Naval Hos
pital; Mrs. Louis A. Gravelle, con-
tact chairman for the club women
and Mrs. Martha Spruill, repre-
|senting the Red Cross Motor
Corps. which picks up the cookies
and delivers them to the hospital.
Working with these women are
other women who keep the record
"of who makes cookies and when"
altogether there are more than
500 women helping with this pro-
gram during the year.
Mrs. Kester Hastings, who
worked out the details of the
plan for cookie-making when the
program was first started in 1948,
is back in Bethesda. She has
been in Tokyo for several years
while her husband, Gen. Hastings,
was on duty there. and she was
just as active in the Red Cross
work in Japan as she was in the
Bethesda chapter. When Mrs.
Hastings left here she was chair
man Of the volunteer workers in
Evening star., 1952-11-23

the Montgomery County Chapter
of the Red Cross. and while she
was in Japan she was chairman of
volunteer workers in Tokyo.
Under Mrs. Hastings direction
the Tokyo chapter made cookies,
too, which were sent to hospitals
i'm Korea.
Evening star., 1952-11-23
Robert Lipps
To Take Bride

Mr.. and Mrs. Donald James
johnson of Galesburg. H.. an
nounce the engagement of their
daughter, Alice Lee, to Mr.. Robert
Paul Lipps, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert L. Lipps of Alexandria.
Miss johnson attended Knox
College in Galesburg where she
was affiliated with Phi Mu soror-
ity. She is now with American Air
lines in Washington. Her fiance is
an alumnus of the University OF
Virginia. He is at present asso-
ciated with the Advertising De-
partment of The Evening Star.
The marriage will take place in
Charlottesville on December 6.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1952-02-22

sEGREGATONST OPPONENT CITED At one of the LEADING
social functions of the the ball of the TwenyO Night
hawks w Harold Flowers leader civil rights
OF Arkansas and of the nations foremost lawyers was
named Arkansas Man of The Year for his outstanding
achievements in the field for equal rights dignity
for the Negro people Mr. Flowers the lawyer and thus
far the only lawyer who has accepted to abolish
ton in the Arkansas school system. For his fortnight fight
against the evils of segregation he has target
cuton and the recipient of threats his life Shown in the
foto from right to left Mr. Flowers c. Franklin Brown local
businessman presenter Flowers on be-
half of the TwenyOne Nghhawks and Charles Hughes bust
Mr. Brown and Mr. Hughes officers of the Twen
y-One Nighthawks The ball held in the Robinson audi
orum Friday night Mr. Flowers has selected as Mems
Day speaker Sunday at II Wesley ChapePress toto
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1952-02-22
Rose Festival
Buttons On Sale

The Rose Festival button sale
VIII begin today When a button
Is purchased registration for a
1852 model car will also be taken
a drawing will be held out in the
open for the car on the day OF the
parade. The person will not have
to be present TO win the car. The
advisory committee to the Rose
Festival IS composed of ]. r.
Booker Ella Hunter, D. NJ Wells
Dr. Leroy Williams Booker Day
Arthur Russell, Dr. j b. Woods
Rev O sherman and A. A. Arm
old Buy your button today and
register for the car.
The rose bush sale was a sue
cess According TO q report at
noon Tuesday the following sales
have boon made. Zetas u BUSH
es. Carver school. 20. North Lit.
tlc Rock pTA. 30, Frances Harper
club. ] and Mrs Jack Bum n
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1952-02-22
Mrs. Eo!a Moore
Injured In Fall

Mrs. Eola Moore Of 1901 South
Garfield encountered serious fall
from the back steps Of her home
Sunday and seriously fractured
her left shoulder and complete
ly shattered the lower portion Of
her left leg
Mrs Moore was rushed to the
University hospital She was re.
turned home Monday evening
Mrs Moore's son. r G, Moore
Of ST Louis, arrived Monday
night Her daughter. Mrs. Eloise
Cain. Of Hot Springs is home to
remain with her mother during
her illness.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1952-02-22

Funeral services for Albert L.
Witherspoon, quiet, successful and
unassuming businessman were
conducted Saturday at Mt. Zion
Baptist church, with DIR. Fred T.
Guy. minister delivering the eul-
ogy.
Mr.. Witherspoon passed last
Wednesday noon at a local hos
pital after only four days illness.
He was president of the State
Press corporation, and owner Of
the Spoon hotel and the Spoon &
Carson cleaners He was a MEM
Der OF Mt. Zion Baptist church.
where he Joined II years ago. He
was also member Of Trinity
lodge, FRAN and was buried with
Masonic rites In the Fraternal
cemetery.
Mr.. Witherspoon is survived by
his widow, two daughters, one
son and three brothers.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1952-02-22
New Mexico Civ
Passes Civil
Rights Ordinance

Albuquerque, N. M.-Passage by
the City Commission of a strong
civil rights ordinance places this
New Mexico city in the forefront
OF local communities combating
racial discrimination. The new
ordinance, banning racial discrim-
nation in places Of public accom-
mediation, is believed to he the
first such law passed by city
legislative body, Other evil
rights statutes have generally
been passed by safe legislatures
rather than by CITY councils.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1952-02-22
Irwin Gets Second
Sentence to Death

s,,i a'-ror second time Walter Lee Irwin sole
surviving defendant in the notorious crovelard 60" . o
mas oeeh condemned to die by awhite male r in Florida
ne verdict of guilty returned late Thrsdav f,aroan
we Jury nau been out for an hour and 90 minutes
ROOM Judge T. j. Futoh promptly sentenced tba IA
veteran TO death Thurgood Marshall special counsel for b
onal association for the Advancement of Coord peon
oced mat motion for trial would be filed within
the next few days -'''' "i'''"
irwin, with three other Negro youths Ernes, T,or,,s
Caes Greenee and Samuel Shepherd was accused bv Young
white farm housewife of beating husband and attacking her
Oh Oe night OF july 1919 Ernest Thomas was shot and killed
See DEATH-pase eight
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1952-02-22
Bishop Reed
Ito Be Founders
Day Speaker

shorter college viii celebrate
Founder Day March an and 5th
Bishop Frank Madison Reed Of
Nllh Carolina. will address the
".ding elders. ministers and
0ymen OF the school John Gam
pom president of the Negro farm
OUeau viii deliver the Foun-
us' day address at 10 a. M In
Pc chapel Bishop Wilkes is the
Presiding Bishop Of the twelt'H
l'Ni.ci Robert "A Alexander Is
'e president Of Shorter COLLEGE.
Bishop ! II Bonner viii spelt
N The evening Of March 4th NJ
o'h'I AME church. 9th and
Broadway
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1952-02-22
Patterson Forced
From Detroit
Hotel By FBI

Because he filed "a petition with
the United Nations charging the
U S Government with genocida
killings of American Negroes
William /. Patterson, New York
head Of the Civil Rights Con-
gross, was recently forced TO va
cate his room at the Gotham ho-
tel in Detroit under orders of the
FBt and local police. the CRC
reported this week
Earlier the State Department
had confiscated Patterson's pass
port on his return to New York
See PATTERSON-page eight
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1952-02-22
J. A. Rollins Heads
Boys School

John A. Rollins of Pine Bluff.
Will assume the duties as super
intendent of the Boys Indus
trial school on March According
to reports Mr.. Rollins is the
second Negro to serve as head of
the school He has held the po-
sition of education director at the
school and will succeed X. u.
Moore. white, who recently re-
signed the post as superintendent.
Mr.. Rollins is a product Of AM
an college.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1952-02-22
Ask Dissolution Of Panel:
Appears Sailing for Time
Flowers Declares. The Suit viii Be
Prosecuted Regardless To The Court

warning note was sounded Monday morning by Harold
Flowers Pine Bluff attorney that segregation would be the is
sue In all future court actions for adequate facilities and op
pornes for school children when he opposed motion which
challenged the jurisdiction of three judge federal which
had been organized hear school segregation cases brought
by infant plaintiffs in the Fodyce Hughes school districts
The lawyer who has pearheaded fight
improved school opportunities Arkansas
cared answer argument that the question
brought by professional agors Il member
native this father
will entered whether
tains jurisdiction not.
The following the plea of white attorney
Meek the refuse jurisdiction ground
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1952-02-22
zetas Observe
Finer Womanhood
Week At Wesley

Alpha Mu 2cta and Tau chapter
of Zcia Phi Beta soru Ity wi
observe Finer WomaHhood week
Sunday at 400 p IN in their ana.
uual vspcr at W alty Chapel
church. lllh and State streets
sor1r Marion p Baker second
anti blr.lcus Of New Orleans.
Louisiana will b. The guest
speaker 2ytls Woman OF the
Year wll bc presented 90, '1s
service Soror Annie NJ Gi'l.sp.t
Is bas.lcus Of Alpha NU ch1pt
and Soror Alberta Guuntls IS
basilcus of Tau chapter
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1952-02-22

GREAT PROTECTIVE GRoUP-These guardians of public CON
dence symbol of the Great Protective association and Miller
funeral home met February 18th in the chapel to renew ac
qanances and faith in the association many of whom repre-
scented 26 years of work in Arkansas.
The combined years of service represented here number
than 400 of public service and experience Shown
the toto left to right front row: T. H. Matthews secre
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1952-02-22
|IM Head Pleads
10 NAACP For
All Negro Unity

oIoFtly after Walter Irwin was
I. Nenced TO death in Florida.
'Iam L. Patterson. head Of the
WI Rights Congress. issued an
urgency appeal to the Wash
''on Civil Rights Mobilization
'nR the NAACP leaders to t.it
end TO the artificial Sc 5ara-
va Of The Negro people" and ask
Tor Unity. regardless Of orr
,Flng political philosophers or
'lglous beliefs"
" an open letter 10 Water
We uNirY-page eight
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1952-02-22

Help Your Favorite Contestant
Rose Williams Jones I'll School
Rubye l.. Cherry Dunbar &c
Mary I. Crayton Ark. &c
Cleo Lay Dunbar 10
Jean Cole Catholic III
Sarah Ann Patterson = Catholic M
Herbert ,. Hendrix Dunbar I'll
And Helena Contestant
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1952-02-22

FORMER AMEN STUDENT TO STUDY ABROAD Mrs Jose.
ne Fair Scott, former AM&N college art student is shown
above completing 9x5 feet backdrop in oil for the Womens
Medical auxiliary of Pine Bluff be used in stage prodc-
ton by the white group for city benefit program in Pine Bluff
Mrs Scott is former student of John Howard art head al
M&N college She graduated from the college in 1912 Follow
ing her graduation she granted scholarship to study al
Atlanta university under Hale Woodruff nationally known Ne
gro artist who is professor of New York university
After spending years Atlanta Mrs Scott went TO Jack
son college to head the newly created department at the
Mississippi institution While Jackson she assisted Vertis
Hayes, outstanding muralst and painter of Memphis with
mural on the walls of the library Later she entered Art ns
ue Chicago RoSenwald Fellowship She completed two
years Of study the institute and did outstanding work in
ge and landscape paintings. Mrs Scott will leave for Ger
many Join her husband Captain William Scott sta
TONED there with the L. S Army While in Germany she will
continue her art studies in that country and Italy Making the
Trip with Mrs Scott her sons William, ir and Gregory
Mrs Scott is the daughter of Mrs Edna Fair of Pine Bluff
-Fot0 by Grice
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1952-02-22
Health Leaders Attend Workshop

Health specialists of national
importance will attend the sec
ond annual school health educa-
ton worship to be held April 81
25 in Hot Springs at the nation
ally known National Baptist
Sanitorium hotel. The workshop
is sponsored jointly by the state
health committee, composed of
representatives from the state
health department state cduoa-
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1952-02-22

ton department, Arkansas Tu-
berculosis association and the Ne
gro colleges of the state, Fifty
Arkansas educators and other
community leaders have been
selected for invitations. Outstand-
ing consultants have been chosen
for the workshop. The planning
committee is composed Of the
following persons; Kenneth John
See LEADfRS-page eight
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1952-02-22

stantial constitutional question
was involved. Meek, who had
joined in the argument of Richard
Mccullough, white attorney OF
Forrest City who represented the
Hughes school district, told the
court that a Negro dominated
legislature had enacted the 'sepa-
rated school law. In a fighting
tone Meek declared that the pres
ent generation Of Negroes was dis
satisfied with the work of me
previous generations.
Flowers Charges Delaying
Tactics
Mr.. Flowers told the three Judge
tribunal, presided over by Circuit
Judge Walter Riddick. of the
Eight circuit court of Appeals.
that the last minute motion was
delaying tactic brought on to
stay the determination OF the is
sue of Segregation in the Arkan-
sas public school system. Press
ing world conditions make ii inn
perative that we decide the issue
OF segregation once and for all,
and make this the type Of country
that II ought to be-, said Flowers
in an imprisoned plea to the
court which was composed Of
Judges Riddick, Harry J. Lemley,
and Thomas c Trimble.
When arguments had been con-
eluded, the three judge court,
thru Judge Riddick requested
briefs TO be filed on the question
involved within twenty days, and
granted the plaintiffs twenty Gays
in which TO answer.
In a statement TO the Press, NJ
Flowers declared that the iss.e
night finally be determined in
the Supreme Court OF the United
States, but that in the meanwhile,
he would file suits in several
schoo districts asking the end Of
segregation together with immedi.
ate equalization Of facilities.
The courtroom was crowded and
man" spectators had come from
all over Arkansas.
Among white spectators was
Hold ms Carter, liberal newspap.
err editor Of Grcenville. Mississippi
Kodiak mirror., 1952-01-12
Dizney Elected Welfare Head

Clarence Dizney was elected president of the Kodiak Health and Welfare Council last Friday evening during a meeting at the Legion Hall Community center).
 Dizney succeeds John Gib- bons as president. Rev. R. N. Wilkinson was elected vice president, Mrs. Herbert Spie- gel treasurer, Miss Vivienne Green as secretary.
 Representatives from the various social and civic or ganizations are as follows: Maurice Briggs, Chamber of Commerce; Herbert Spiegel, American Legion; Mrs. Spie-
Kodiak mirror., 1952-01-12
Baby Flown Here From Perryville

A Coast Guard PBY flew to Perryville Monday, despite the high winds and frequent gusts, and brought a two months old baby to Kodiak for medical attention.
 A letter from MT. ard Mrs. Phillips, parents of the baby. was sent to Dr. A. Holmes Johnson describing the con- dition of the child.
 The PBY departed from the Navy station at 8:30 am and returned from the 800 mile flight at 4::3O pm. A Navy Corpsman was on the flight to