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Evening star., 1952-06-01
Massacre Inquiry
Turns 10 Records
Lost al PentaaOn
BY the Assoeio..d Press

A worldwide Congressional probe
into the massacre of. II 900 Polish
officers in early 1910 will be re-
sumed Tuesday with the spotlight
on the Pentagon.
Chairman Madden, Democrat,
of Indiana, said his special House
committee will attempt to deter
mine whether American officials
suppressed an official report of
the Katyn Forest massacre tot
avoid embarrassing the Soviet
Union.
Representative Lantaff, Demo-
crat. Of Florida. a former Army 4
lieutenant colonel serving at the /
Pentagon, and Maj. Gen. Clayton
Bissell, retired, former Chief of 4
Intelligence. will testify at an open
hearing. ~
They will be asked about the
disposition of the first official re-
port on the massacre which the /
Pentagon received May %, 1945. 1
Chairman Madden said the report !
subsequently, disappeared into
thin air and we want to know
what happened to it,
Hearings Held Abroad.
The committee recently COM
pleted series of hearings in Lon
don and Frankfurt. It received
additional testimony from 43
European witnesses concerning the
massacre near Smolensk. during
World War II.
Moscow has denied responsible
ity and has blamed the Nazis. But
the committee has heard repeated
testimony that the Russians herd
ed the Polish officers into the for
est and shot them. Some wit
nesSeS said it was an attempt to
eliminate the Polish intelligentsia
Mr.. Madden has twice invited
the Soviets to testify. The first
invitation in Washington was in
dignantly refused and the second,
in Frankfurt. was ignored.
Two Russian. witnesses also are
scheduled to testify Tuesday
against the Soviets.
Committee officials said one was
a former Soviet Foreign Office Of
fetal, unidentified, who issued in
structions for the massacre under
higher orders.
The second, Boris Voron Oh 1
shansky, is reported to have been
told by the chief Soviet medical
officer that the Russians did the
shooting. Mr.. Olshansky now is a
political refugee in this country.
German officials announced dis
covery of the Katyn graves in
April, 1943. when they recaptured
the Smolensk area. They took IL
doctors and scientists of all ma
tionalities to investigate. Pictures
Of those autopsies are in the COM
mittee files.
American in Party.
The party included an American
war prisoner, now Col. John H.
van Vliet.
Upon his release two years later,
Col. Van Vliet hurried to WASH
ington to make an official report.
He talked first to 1t. Col. Lantaff.
then chief of secretariat, who took
him to Gen. BiSSell.
MIR. Lantaff told a reporter yes
terday that Col. Van Vliet had
dictated and signed a formal re-
port which was classified top
secret" and filed. Mr.. Lantaff
said the report was still reposing
in the files when he left the serv-
in late 1945.
Congressman later were told
the report was lost. Col. Van Vliet
subsequently dictated another
from memory and it spurred the
current phase of the committees
INVESTIGATION.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1952-04-19


Thousands go out to the church to-
day
Just to look and there be seen
Those are the lovers of some movies
And would love to be on on some
screen.
Our churches are full of tip tops
Paying more than Christians can
They want to see and there be seen
AS tip top woman and man.
This modern day has changed the
life
Of thousands of women and men
They are trying to pay their way
into heaven
But | am afraid they can't get in.
Thousands Of big men today
In the church and there they stand
Paying their way in the house of
God
And in hell Pm afraid they will
land.
| expect to be a little child
In the sight of. God each day
And love each one and another He
said
And heaven will be my pay.
There is only one way to heaven
And that is that high way of love
Money won't pay for a single star
In Gods beautiful heaven above.
The world has gone crazy about
money
Money is ruling some of Gods
churches today
The love of God is being pushed
out
And money is having its way.
Whenever you put Christ in the
church
And allow money to rule its way in
The world it has the church in
charge
And fill it up with sin.
A church when Christ abides
therein.
His love it rules and guides
No place in there for the hypocrite
To slip in there TO hide.
We can not live in sin today
And expect our Savior's care
Love one another He said
And then we will have no fear.
BY Rev. John R. Perkins
2611 Lilly st.
Jackson, Miss.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1952-04-19
Houston Insurance
Firm Elects New
Prexy, Board Head

Houston, Tex. = Two persons
were elected recently to high of
fees in the Watchtower Insur-
ance Co., it was announced.
Charles A. Shaw was elected
president and Mrs. M. E. Fair
child, chairman of the board of
directors. Shaw formerly served
as executive vice president and
director of the company.
Before coming to Houston he
was assistant to the president and
secretary of Victory Life Insur-
ance Co., in Chicago. A graduate
OF Howard University in Washing
ton, Shaw is a founder and mem
Der of the National Negro Insur-
ance association; member of the
executive committee Houston In
terracial Commission, board of di-
rectors, Julia c. Hester Center.
Houston, and member of the Hous-
ton Negro Chamber of Commerce.
He also is member of the NAA-
CP and Omega Psi Phi fraternity.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1952-04-19
Politics
(FrOm The Arkansas WOrld)

From until next November is long time to
subject the National and State governments to the in
terest of political campaigning. For nine months and
more, those who govern and control the foreign and
domestic policies of this nation will be interested in get
ting votes rather than in the validity of their govern
mental decisions and activities. Capable and sincere
as Kefauver and the gentleman from Oklahoma"
handicapped by their political traditions of state rights
which they and their constituents define in terms of
dictionary attitudes toward minorities of race religion
and labor
Colored voters must choose among those who
strong enough to disregard the political temptation of
joining up with the Dixecrats in order to get votes
has been shown that the solid south cannot win against
the liberal group of their party and the independent
vote.
The voters of this nation regardless of
ligon national origin will not support return to
statusquo political economics a return to bygone
defunct regime Politicians must understand that the
economics and policies of country today not
what they generation ago. We are building upon
the firm foundations of democratic and humanstic
principals and ideals but interpreting and defn-
ing those principles and ideals in terms that do not ap
pear to be acceptable to Republican reactonaries and
Dxiecratic anachronsms. The United States and the
Western world accepting the validity of human
rights and the universal virtues of freedom justice
equality of opportunity, and the equality of protection
and fair play.
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trade certificates.
This year marks the 45th ami
versary of the founding of the
school. It's co-founders, Prof. ano
Mrs. J. E. Johnson, will be hon.
ored on this occasion. 1t is fitting
and proper that DR.. Patterson viii
be present at this time. Mrs
Johnson is a graduate of Tuskegee
and the Institution has maintained
a close relationship with Tuskegee
throughout the years of its exist
ance. In fact, it was modelled after
Tuskegee from the beginning. 1t
has always followed the precepts
of the late Booker T. Washington
in its educational program for Ne
gro youth.
This has been a most successful
school year. This is all the more
remarkable in as much as Prof
johnson has been incapacitated for
more than fifteen months. How
ever, the faculty, students, and
friends have evidenced a spirit of
unprecedented cooperation in car
rying on in the spirit of the found
ers.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1952-04-19

heard and read about the lynching
in America. They have heard a
bout the Jim Grow cars. They have
heard about the separate schools.
In fact, they have heard about the
whole catalog of injustices which
exist here.
"The burden, therefore, is upon
us to prove in our relationships to
the 100000 Of America that this
great experiment which we have
been successful in applying to the
hundreds of races who live within
the confines of the U.S.A. can be
applied just as successful to our
Negro population.
There is nothing especially diff
ferent about the Negro He has
techniques and skills which he has
been able to develop despite the
handicaps and barriers which have
been established to deter him." In
explaining her reasons for calling
the conference Mrs. Bethune de-
clared:
81 have made this call to you
| because you are the women of
valor. You have shown by your
activities in America = and the
world, that you are courageous
women. | want you to bind your
powers, your faiths, and your skills
together to make in our world a
powerful awakening :"
The general brotherhood which
prevailed in the formal sessions of
the conference also prevailed dur
ing social activities on and off the
college campus. A striking ex-
ample of which was the garden
party given in honor of the dele
gates at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Roy McWilliams, prominent White
residents of Holly Hill, where local
White residents were invited to
share the hospitality with the visit
ing white and Negro delegates.
Several hotels contributed accom-
modations to Negro delegates.
The conference was highly at
tended by top women in labor,
government, religion, education,
civics, politics, and fraternal
groups. The list of delegates reads
like who's Who in Women"
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conference grew out of five panel
discussions covering education, en-
ployment, religion, government,
and family and community life,
with outstanding women in these
fields leading the discussions.
Highlights of the conference
were the two public mass meetings
held in the college auditorium with
Helen Gahagan Douglas. former
congresswoman from California,
and Edith Sampson, former U. S.
alternate delegate to the UN Gen
eral Assembly, as principal speak
erS.
Mrs. Douglas said:
"We won't be headed for war if
we will be as determined to have
peace as the Russians seem to be
to upset things talk of stop
ping communism isn't enough. 1t
publicizes communism but it never
tells about democracy.
"The road of self-discipline
should be the route back from i'm
morality, graft, and corruption. If
you talk about dishonesty and COR
ruption in government remember
this: Government reflects the peo-
pie it speaks for. Pm not excusing
anyone, Heavens no! But I'm not
leaving anyone out either ;"
Mrs. Sampson told the women
gathered here for the "Women's
Conference on World Peace:
"Your greatest contribution to
world security lies right here at
home doing your part in develop
ing a more peaceful America and
in helping to secure full first class
citizenship for the 100000
Negroes in this Country.
"The eyes of the world have been
focused for some years on the So
called race problems in America,
on the differences between races,
upon the discriminatory practices
which exist here and which affect
the 100000 Negroes in Ameri-
ca. The people throughout the
world where have travelled have
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1952-04-19
U P
A N D
d @ w N
F A R Is H
S I R (: I /
BY PERCY GREENE

/ PARISH STREET SATURDAY
NIGHT: DON'T FOOL YOUR
SELF !. is another one of those
old sayings that | used to hear
back FOUNDER in the days of my
grandma, and the meaning of
which has just dawned on me here
IN these late days, | had to think
about some of the things that my
Grandma used to say about DON'T
FOOL YOURSELF, when | heard
some children of the tribe talking
about the $150,000 "Y" Building
Fund Campaign now going on here
for a New "Y" Building up on the
1arlem-End of the old Avenue, the
need for which it amt no used to
bring up no argument about
We jest amt got nairn :. What
| started to say about what |
heard, while l was eating my fish
and drinking my beer (ny regular
Satdee Night Repast) was that
some of Amt Haggar's Chillun,
who amt been so lucky, was talk
ing about the aforesaid campaign,
and like some other folks that |
have heard say, They was saying,
Now less watch what all them big
folks gonna do now, sthey's ridin'
round in big new Cadalliacs { |
amt got muffin but a Henry-D
and some with two big cars, what
everybody is looking at and knows
amt muffin but a-helping your
self, and which is making a lotta
-olks draw up wnen it comes to
helping Amt Haggar's Chilluns
that used to be ready to pout down
something ever time they was
aked, and now since us done gone
to acting big as, and talkin' big
as everybody else, less jest
watch this "Y" money campaign
and see whose gonna "DO" big as
anybody else, cause the time COM
ing when somebody's gonna have
to take up that slack that comes
from folks Tightening up on they
| pocket books because while they
be's hearing Amt Haggar's Chill
iuns crying they be's looking out
at the same time at'em riding up
and down de street in the biggest
cars that the why-folks sell /.
taking this 'Y" money Drive as a
cue, if you've been. thinking and
acting big, now is the time to 'DO"
big, cause you'se being watch by
them little Amt Haggar's Chillun
/. and other folks too y. and as
my Grandma would say and
that's True i. f.. AND DON'T FOOL
YOURSELF.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1952-04-19

List of Organizations Represent
ed At the Women's Conference
were: Women's Department of
Volunteer Services of Anti-Defa-
nation League, Christian Science
Church, National Board of The
YWCA, Women of the Turkish
Parliament, Republican National
Committee, German Women's
Trade Union, Democratic National
Committee, Women Bureau of U.
S. Dept. of Labor, League of
Women Voters, Student Movement
in the Methodist Church, Parent
Teachers Association, United Coun-
Gil of Church Women.
United Women of the National
Council of Churches, National
Council Of Negro Women, Nation
al Council of Jewish Women, Ma
tional Council of Catholic Women,
Anti-Defamation League of B'Nai
Birth, Society of Temple Sisters,
Women's Society of Christian Ser
vice Methodist Church, National
Association of Colored Women,
Federation of Women's Clubs, Gen
eral Women's Christian Temper
ance Union, CIO-AFL, National
Council of Women of America,
American Society of Friends As
ISOLATION, American Association of
University Women, International
Council of Women, National AS
ISOLATION of Business and Profess
sional Women's Clubs, Inc, Delta
Sigma Theta Sorority, Alpha Kap-
pa Alpha, Zeta Phi Beta, Sigma
Gamma Rho, Iota Phi Lambda. The
Board of Education of the Virgin
Islands.
Women's League For Peace And
Freedom, Women's Auxiliary To
The National Medical Association,
Imperial Court, Daughters of Isis,
and Daughters Of Elks.
Messages of Congratulat ions
were received from the following
persons:
Pres. and Mrs Harry S. Tru-
man, DR.. Ralph Bunche, Mrs. Full
Ter Warren, Senator Robert Taft,
Mrs. James Wyker, Mrs. Harper
Sibley, Mrs. Douglas Horton, Mrs.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1952-04-19

recorded by Ivory Joe Hunter, has
reached the 100000 sale mark, and
it is expected to be a summer hit.
This writer also signed last week
with Mellow Music Company, pub
fishers of Cry" to publish his tune:
"Since You Broke My Heart" which
is scheduled to be recorded on Mer-
curry Records Singer Arthur
Prysock is beginning to come into
his own as a Decca Recording art
list The Orioles are popular
among bobby soxers >. Billie Hol-
iday captivating hearts out on the
coast Duke Ellington clicking
in Seattle.
Billy Bowen of the Inkspots to
sing with MGM Records with his
own group, known as BILLY Bowen
and His Harlem Scotchmen." :.
Eartha Kit still going over big at
the Village Vanguard Howell
and Bowser open at Chicago's Re-
gal Theatre April IL. In Chicago,
the famed comedians will do TV
work, and then move on to Phila-
'delphia, where they open at the
Earl Theatre April %. They will
play Broadway's Paramount in
July.
MGM considers Lionel Hampton
as its top band artist. This is
what Swig Garlintong, New York
theatrical reporter, had to say a.
bout "Hamp." Booked for 81 con-
secutive engagements already this
year, Lionel Hampton will be MAX
ing only brief stand in the east
before heading into the hinterlands
once again. The perennially sue
cessful leader topped even his own
spectacular ten-year record on his
recent seven month swing through
the west and midwest. Hampton,
one of the jazz immortals who rose
out of Benny Goodman's famous
swing band of the sos, ran ram
pant over attendance records set
by the late Glenn Miller when his
dance orchestra was at it's peak on
the Pacific Coast"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1952-04-19
heatriicaIIy
Yours
By RIA BARLEY

NEW YORK (GlobaD Billy
Eckstine and Fran Warren opened
Wednesday at Broadway's Para.
mount Theatre. The two MGM
artists performed to a sold out
house Phyllis Branch is en-
chanting customers at Harlem's
Baby Grand -. Eddie Haywood at
midtown Manhattan's Embers Club
Nat King Cole playing for a
dance Easter Sunday mite at Har-
LENS Kenny Casino =. Rose Hard
away looked enchanting as she
dined at Broadways Turf last Fri
day evening F.. The Shalimar by
Randolph is not for sale as report
ed. Yet, "Red" said, eff anyone
offers me 100000 in cash, I'll be
a fool not to accept it." the
Ravens clicking at Birdland.
Harry Belafonte knocking them
cold with his folk songs at Cafe
Society Doc Bagby, exponent
of the Hammond Organ, clicking
at Baltimore's Comedy Club i.
Sarah Lou Harris, the prettiest in
show biz, is all set for Shuttle
Along" opening y. In my opinion,
singer Herb Lance should be
pushed more by his recording COM
pany (Mercury). Lance really has
what it takes +. New York news
men are saying that Billy Eckstine
should have taken Earl Hines on
that package deal with him through
the south, since it was Hines who
first gave the singer his break /. . :.
Comic Jimmie Rogers is the talk
Of Broadway After almost thir-
ty years In the business, they're
beginning to recognize Jimmie as
a top flight comedian.
Edna McGriff, who sings on Jub-
jlee records, her own song: "Hea-
venly Father" won't get any of the
profits from her song. She sold
the song to her manager for TWEEN
ty-five dollars MGM artist,
Camilla Williams, soprano, has
high class MGM album on the mar
ket called: "a Camilla Williams
Recital" with Borislav Bazala Z. :.
Churchill Coleman, the Negro who
wrote Cry" will become richer,
because a West Coast publisher
took the same tune and the Johnnie
Ray recording arrangement of
"Cry" and had Capitol Records re-
cord it under the title of "Try."
Only the words were different, as
he initiated Johnny Ray. Coleman's
publishers, mellow" at 1919
Broadway, has an injunction a.
gainst that West Coast firm for
peddling the number, which is SELL
ing lots of Capitol Records. The
firm tried to settle for twenty-five
percent, but Coleman's publishers
said, mo dice" His firms attor-
heys are fighting for one-hundred
percent.
This writer's song: Laugh
(Tho You Feel You Want to Cry
recorded on MGM Records, is hit
ting heavily throughout the South,
midwest and far West. Laugh"
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Sturtevant by a vote of $50 to ISL
Grimes and Sturtevant represent
wards heavily populated by colored
people, and most colored voters
were disappointed at the failure of
Mr.. Younge and Mrs. Wheeler to
win.
In Petersburg, James A. Jack
son, a funeral director, placed
fourth in a seven-person race for
three councilmanic berths. Jackson
rolled up 936 votes in his second
unsuccessful bid for a council post.
A fourth place finish also failed
to win a spot for w. Hale Thomp-
son, lawyer in Newport News. In
a field of seven campaigning for
three places, Thompson received
,438 votes AIS votes less than the
lowest winning candidate.
Colored candidates also lost out
in Charlottesville and Lynchburg,
George E. Hardy, a cook at the
University of Virginia, was the
fourth man in a four-man race for
three berths in Charlottesville.
DR.. Herman E. Thompson, the
lone colored candidate in Lynch
burg, Jagged far behind in the race
for three vacancies. Ten men were
in the running. He received 1,441
votes to place seventh, trailing the
third place candidate, j. Heath
Lewis, by 836 votes.
Hardy received 404 votes to
1925 for Dexter Forbes, the win
ming third place candidate.
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this will also enable him to do g
better job. He lives with his wife
and children at the Kelly Street
address.
Delegates who attend the Saith
quadrennial session of the general
conference, which will convene in
Brooklyn May 7-21, will hear quite
a lot about Mr.. Francis.
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church circles. 1t is to be remem-
bered that he is the son of the late
w. D. Francis and it was as child,
with his father and mother, as mis-
sionaries to Africa, that he caught
the spirit of carrying the mission
touch. He feels that this on-the-
scene experience gives him par
ticular advantage.
He has been called upon to rep
resent the church on many occa-
sions. He is a specialist in the
field of medicine and feels that
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1952-04-19

John Foster Dulles, Miss Dorothy
Thompson, Hon Frances Perkins,
Mrs. Alice T. Mclean, Pres. Sarah
Blaming and Mrs. Virginia Gid
erslieve.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1952-04-19

SEEN ALONG THE OLE AVE
NUE.: DR.. Dewitt A. Buckingham,
onetime Jacksonian and Native
Mississippian, who now lives in
Oakland, California. Not only has
he distinguished himself as a medi-
cal practitioner in the Golden State,
but he has also won his laurel as
a fighter for human rights and
dignity for his stand in the Cali
fornia Restrictive Covenant cas-
eS
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1952-04-19

ORCHIDS TO THE PAYNE
BUS COMPANY One of the
biggest crowds ever seen at the
Paris Cleaners Easter Egg hunt
was out last Sunday, numbering
some 600 school kids . everyone
of who rode to the hunt FREE on
the buses furnished by the Payne
Bus Company :. which is some
thing, along with something else
to remember about the Payne Bus
Company.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1952-04-19

CUPID ALONG THE OLE
AVENUE Word has just
reached this Column that Mrs,
Clarence Graves, widow of the
we'll known onetime Parish Street
Barber no longer answers to that
name. She and her new husband at
tended church together Easter
Sunday :. Talk about SURPRISE
and GREETINGS
WEEKLY QUOTATION: at is
more blessed to give than to re-
ceive," - The Bible.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1952-04-19

WHERE TO GO SUNDAY .
A good place to go Sunday is the
College Park Auditorium where
Lanier High School will present
it's Annual Spring Musical, featur-
ing the loo-voice Chorus, 40-piece
concert band, and 35" member
speech choir, Faculty ensemble
added ADMISSION FREE !. !. /.
See you There.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1952-10-24
ST. THOMAS EPISCOPAL
CHURCH

Cor. Second and Jefferson
Rev. Perry M. Blankenship, Rector
October 26, the twentieth Sun
day after Trinity.
8 a. m. Holy Communion.
$50 a. m. Church School.
10:45 a. m. Holy Eucharist and
sermon by the Rector The Corpor-
ate Communion of the women OF
s the parish with the ingathering OF
the United Thank Offering.
Z p. m. Evening prayer with
High School class following.
Tuesday-Choir rehearsal at
7:30.
Wednesday-Christian Educa-
ton class at II a. m.
Thursday-10 a. m. Holy Com
munion.
Friday p. m. Junior choir.
Halloween party for Church
School at 7 o'clock in the Guild
Hall.