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Jackson advocate., 1952-12-13
SHOOTING TO Death OF
SECOND NEGRO THIS Year
IN EDWARDS JAIL SPREADS
FEAR OF NEGRO CITIZENS
19-Year-0Id Youth Is Second
Victim Of Night Watchman

EDWARDS, Miss, Dec. -
DSN) - The Town Watchman
here is being charged with ter
rorizing the Negro community fol-
lowing the shooting to death of a
19-year- Negro youth in the jail
house here last Tuesday night.
The youth shot to death in the
Jail Tuesday night was Alvain
Moss. 19-year-old son of Mrs. John
ME Harris, who was recently plac-
ed in class "a" for military ser
vice.
The shooting of the Moss youth
is the second Negro during this
year who is said to have been shot
to death by Town Watchman Cox
after being arrested and put in
jail. The first victim was Elmore
Watts, young Negro man arrest
ed by Town Watchman Cox last
January and who is said to have
been shot to death after being put
in jail.
According to reports the shoot
ing to death Of the Moss youth
Tuesday night followed his arrest
by the Town night watchman, who
is reported as saying that he heard
him cussing coming down the rail
road with young soldier compan-
ion.
The young soldier is reported to
have followed the night watchman
and the youth to the Jail and was
an eye witness to the shooting.
The young soldier is reported
as saying that the night watchman
took out his pistol and deliberately
shot the youth through the stomach
after placing him in Jail.
After the shooting the soldier
said that he was ordered by the
watchman to go and tell the youth
parents to bring a doctor to the
Jail before he died
Sometime after the shooting the
youth was rushed to Vicksbure
Hospital where he died the next
day.
According to reports Kinds Coun-
ty Sheriff conducted an investiga-
ton of the case and was told by
night watchman Cox that the gun
went off accidently. Sheriff Robin
son was reported at his home sick
and was not reached for a state
Continued on Page Two)
Jackson advocate., 1952-12-13
Police Freed
In Staying Of
Aged Deaf Mute

LOS ANGELES, Calf, Dec. T.
(SpeciaD-Following marathon
21a hour inquest Wednesday after
noon, a Coroner's Jury Of seven
men ruled that the Staying early
Nov. % by two plainclothes police
officers of a 72-year-old Eastside
deaf man in his home, was "justi-
fable homicide"
The jury returned the verdict
after several witnesses had terti-
fled in the long hearing which was
attended by Police Commissioner,
DR.. John Somerville and several
of the Police Departments stop
brass"
Acquitted of Staying. the elderly
deaf man, James Scruggs, 1882 "
East 81 street, were officers James
Davis and Francis Knowles.
According to police records,
Davis and Knowles shot Scruggs to
death after they had broken into
his home early Nov. %, seeking to
serve a warrant, charging failure
to provide, on Scrugg's stepson,
jefferson Adams.
Davis and Knowles testified they
shot Scruggs after the elderly man
had pointed cooked IL gauge
shotgun at them when they entered
the house. Both officers fired
two shots each from their service
revolvers into Scruggs' body.
Jackson advocate., 1952-12-13
Four Negroes
On Louisiana
Parish Juries

NEW ORLEANS, La, Dec. s.
Especially Nearby Jefferson
Parish already proud of it's splen-
did race relations and of Sheriff
Frank ]. Clancey had something
new to be proud of last week. Four
Negro citizens were selected to
serve on parish juries. Two on the
grand jury and two on petit juries.
Among them were 67-year-old
Henry Stewart, prominent Kenner
retired business man of TT Clay,
who is one of two Negroes now
serving on the grand jury of the
parish. The correct name of the
other Negro serving on the grand
jury was not obtainable at press
time.
The Negro petit or trial jurors
are Henry Johnson and Milton
Brown.
Stewart had been serving on
the grand jury since October 6.
When interviewed Tuesday, he
told reporters:
IL am proud to serve my parish
because | know that if anyone is
accused of a crime, regardless Of
race or his color, he will be given
Justice" Stewart is the father of
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Jackson advocate., 1952-12-13
GuIfport To Get
New $494,300
High School

GULFPORT, Miss, Dec. 6 =
(SpeciaD-This city's first Negro
high school was assured this week
when the u. S. department Of edu-
cation approved bids submitted for
construction Of the new 33rd ave-
nue. Negro junior-senior high
school.
A Gulfport firm was the sue
cessful bidder for the new build
ing which will cost $494,30O.
The building, ultra modern in
every respect, will contain eight
junior high and seven high school
classrooms, a commercial class
room, science lab, a health room
and visual education room.
It's show will be complete with
wood and sheet metal training de-
partments, general shop, finishing
room, lumber storage and tool
room.
A specious library, homemaking
department administrative offices,
music library, first-aid room and
teachers lounge and conference
rooms are also planned.
Gufport Negro high school stu.
dents are presently attending the
temporary facilities at the Gulf.
port Navy Base.
Jackson advocate., 1952-12-13

Famed Negro Lawyer And One Time
Democrat Candidate For President
Argue Segregation Before The
United States Supreme Court
See Delayed Decision In Case Calling For
Abolition OF Segregation In Public Schools

WASHINGTON, d. c., Dec. g.
(DSN) = The United States Su-
preme Court, the court of last re-
sort in all matters affecting the
rights of citizens under the con-
stitution of the United States, and
its amendments, is this week, be-
ginning Tuesday, hearing the ar
guments of lawyers in one of the
most significant and far reaching
cases in the recent history of the
court; the case calling for the abol-
ton of segregation in public
schools throughout the nation.
The historic case will bring to-
gether in legal battle two of the
nations most able and outstand-
ing constitutional lawyers
Presenting the argument for tina
total abolition of segregation in
the public schools throughout the
nation will be Thurgood Marshall,
brilliant Negro lawyer, and special
counsel, and chief of the legal de-
partment of the National Associa-
ton for the Advancement of Col
Sred People.
With some twenty odd victories
before the United States Supreme
Court upholding the rights of Ne
groes to full recognition as citizens
of the United States, Thureood
Marshall has standing with the
Continued on Page Six
Jackson advocate., 1952-12-13
likes Battlefront
Visit Renews Hope

SEOUL, Korea, Dec. S.-Presi-
dent-elect EisenhOwer's battlefront
visits produced a note of optimism
among troops, renewed hope that
he will find way to end the war,
and several expressions of doubt.
Sgt. Joseph kilelea, a red headed
lrishman from Roscommon who has
served II months in Korea with
the l913th light liaison unit-Air-
borne spoilers for artillery fire
looked at Eisenhower's departing
back and said:
If anybody can end it over here,
it's Eisenhower" Kilelea fought
Communists in Malaga before ship
ping to Korea.
II don't give a damn where !
flight them, as long as they pay
me to do job" he added. IL
Continued Con Page Five)
Jackson advocate., 1952-12-13
DR.. Tobias Outlines Threats To
Freedom AT Education Meeting
Which Sees z Southern Associations
Hold First Joint Session

Memphis, Tenn, Dec. 4 = Dou-
Ne standards of citizenship must
beteliminated in the United States,
if freedom is to prevail, DR.. Chan
ming H. Tobias, Director Of the
Phelps-Stokes Fund, told the Asso-
citation of Colleges and Secondary
Schools for Negroes last week.
The former alternate delegate to
the United Nations set pattern
of thinking in his address which
led naturally into a scheduled Joint
conference meeting Of ACSSN and
the Southern Association of Col
leges and Secondary Schools which
met concurrently in this Tennessee
Continued on Page Six)
Jackson advocate., 1952-12-13
Church, Labor And Civic Groups
Join NAAcP In Call For United
States Backing OF Africans

NEW YORK, Dec. 5.-The Unit
ed States delegation to the United
Nations was today urged to take
"a course Of action which will
identify our country with the hopes
and feelings of millions Of Afri-
cans and which will bring ou1
Western friends and allies to q
realization that their own best in.
terests lie equally in such identi-
Hication."
This proposal was submitted te
Ambassador Warren Austin, Vice
chairman of the American delega.
ton, by Walter White, executive
secretary Of the National Associa
ton for the Advancement of Col
ored People, on behalf of the MA
ACP and representatives Of 81
other church. labor, civic and fra
CONTINUED on Page Eight
Jackson advocate., 1952-12-13
An Appetite For Land And A
Gift Calf Start Negro cropper
Toward $21, 600 Annual Income

An appetite for piece of land
und the gift Of a calf from white
neighbor started Mr.. and Mrs. Earl
S. Milburn Of Opelousas, La, on
the road to farming success, says
a report received last week by the
q. S. Department of Agriculture
from Assistant State Agent r. j.
Courtney of Louisiana Extension
Service.
Up from harecropping to the
ownership of 22l acres Of land
management of 700 acres more
and gross annual income Of more
than S2l 900 is the rise which the
Milburns have made since 1884.
1t was in that year that Mr.. Mil
burn went to a meeting called by
County Agent Leon Robinson. A
mong other things, the agent
stressed the Importance Of lane
ownership. Finally, he asked al
the owners to stand.
81 couldn't stand,' says Mr.. Mil
burn, because l didn't own a foot
Of land, but l made vow that
I'd sure be able to stand the next
kime."
He and his bride had begun to
make start up from sharecrop-
ping shortly after their marriage
in 1881 with only $3.50 between
them. Through the gift of a male
calf from a white neighbor whose
cow gave birth to twins, they made
Continued on Page Two)
Jackson advocate., 1952-12-13
-Four Arrested
As Pigeon
Dropping Suspects

BOGALUSA, La, Dec. 6-(Spe-
ciaD - Four out-of-town persons
here last week on dangerous ane
suspicious" charges for investiga-
tion in connection with a pigeon
dropping game" on Columbia
street, according to Police Chief
W. E. Boyd.
Among those arrested was an ex-
convict who told officers he had
served two years in Baltimore and
Ohio. He gave his name as Willie
"Youngblood" Ritten, "a.
Others held are Richard Harris,
81; Helen Brown, alias Laura, 40;
Dorothian d. Bracket, %.
Police said that the persons came
Continued on Page Seven)
Jackson advocate., 1952-12-13
N. ". Stringer
Masonic Grand
Lodge Closes 77th
Annual Session
Scholarship Awards
Total $5,OO0.OO

CLARKSDALE, Miss, Dec. s.
(SpeciaD - The M. w. Stringer
Grand Lodge, Prince Hall Masons
of Mississippi closed its 77th An
nual Grand Session here last We'd
nesday night. The three day ses-
sion. despite the cold and dreary
weather was attended by 1852 dele
gates representing $50 lodges and
81 1896 Prince Hall Masons in the
state.
Anoverflowing crowd packed the
First Baptist Church to witness the
solemn memorial services Sunday
evening. The Rev. r. w. Woullard
of Hattiesburg, Mississippi deliv-
cred message that paid fitting
tribute to the deceased and stirred
the souls Of the living who were
fortunate enough to hear.
A mammouth crowd braved the
Continued on Page SiX)
Jackson advocate., 1952-12-13

Pfc James Anslem Campbell who
was born in Brandon, Miss, is now
stationed in Camp Pendleton, Cal
ifornia. After going to Chicago
with his parents he graduated at
the Englewood high school and
was an outstanding athlete among
high school circles Of Chicago. He
holds trophy presented him as
winner in a baseball clinic, and
was also a star on the Englewood
high school football team. SO out
ttanding was Campbell that he
won membership with the National
Association of High School Ath-
letes.
After spending a few days with
his parents in Chicago his schedule
calls for day at Centreville, Miss,
where he will visit his uncle, Ans
eln j. Finch, superintendent of the
Finch High School there.
Jackson advocate., 1952-12-13
Liberia Celebrates
Pres. Tubman's
57th Birthday

Monrovia, Liberia - Liberian
President VIM. V. S. Tubman a.
rose at 5 O'clock on the morning of
his birthday, Saturday, November
20. He walked the block to the
First Methodist Church and humbly
prayed for guidance. In spite of
the early hour, the service was at
tended by people of many faiths,
races and nationalities, out of re-
spect for this truly democratic
man. By 6 o'clock, Liberians were
forming at the Executive Mansion
and the diplomatic corps Of which
U. S. Ambassador Dudley is Dean,
Continued on Page Two)
Jackson advocate., 1952-12-13
JACKSON ADVOCATE EDITOR
is MILLSAPS COLLEGE SPEAKER

editor pointed out that there was
ample reason to support the feel
ing Of a growing number of Amer
'ican people that the race problem
was the most important question
confronting the nation today a.
gainst a background of that ma
tion's history, the editor pointed
out that segregation and racial
discrimination was not a part OF
"our way of life" and over tradi-
Continued on Page Five)
Jackson advocate., 1952-12-13
Southern RAILWAY
To Buck Jim
Crow Decision

RICHMOND, Va, Dec. 8 = The
Southern Railway last week spear
headed movement among rail-
road companies, calling for no
change in their policy of segrega-
lion despite a recent U. S. Supreme
court ruling against Jim crow rail-
road cars. Representatives of the
Southern Railway, the Chesapeake
and Ohio Railway and the Sea-
board Air Line said the refusal of
the U. S. Supreme Court to review
a lower courts decision barring
segregation will not affect their
policy on segregation.
Jackson advocate., 1952-12-13
Jackson College
Laboratory School
PIT. A. Discusses
Religion In
The Home"

The parents of the children in
the Jackson College Laboratory
School presented a stimulating and
beneficial discussion centered a.
round Religion in the Home"
during the regular monthly meet
ing of the Parent Teachers Asso-
ciation, Tuesday night November
25. 1862.
The leaders of the discussion
were Mrs. Odessa C. Patton who
presided, Mrs. Mary Ross Jones,
Mrs. Ruth r. Dease and Mr.. John
Dolph Rhodes. Salient contribu-
Continued on Page Two)
Jackson advocate., 1952-12-13
DR.. Moron Goes
To Caribbean As
j. S. Spokesman

HAMPTON, Va, Dec. 8
President Alonzo G. Moron of
Moron Of Hampton Institute was
acting United States Co-chairman
at the Fifth Session Of the West
Indian Conference held at Montego
Bay, Jamaica, a two-weeks con-
ference during the last week OF
November and the first week OF
December.
Speaking on behalf of the United
States national section Of the Car
CONTINUED on Page Seven)
Jackson advocate., 1952-12-13

The editor and publisher of the
jackson Advocate, Percy Greene,
addressed the class on race rela-
lions at Millsaps College last Fri
day morning.
Pointing to the rising protest Of
natives of Africa, the people of
India, the Philippines, against the
manifestations Of white suprem-
acy; and incidents in the United
States like the recent trial of a
Negro for rape by leering, the
Jackson advocate., 1952-12-13
Clark College
Coed Is Suicide
Victim

ATLANTA, Ga, Dec. - (Spe-
ciaD - A 16-year-old Clark col
leee coed was found dead early
Wednesday night at her residence
of a gunshot wound in the head.
City Detective NJ. A. johnson and
Detective Sgt. L. L. Hause, of the
Homicide Squad reported that the
wound appeared to have been self
inflicted.
Detective Johnson and Sergeant
Continued on Page Two)
Jackson advocate., 1952-12-13
Jim Crow Doomed
In D. c. Schools,
Educators Say

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.-Ses9e-
cation is doomed in the District
of Columbia thinks one of the, city's
leading educators:
Speaking at the Wesleyan FORUM
of the Asbury Methodist church,
DR.. Walter Hager, president of
Wilson (white) teacher college pre-
dotted that segregation might end
i'm the District within nine months.
Appearing on the same program
was DR.. Paul Cooke, professor at
Continued on Page Two)~
Jackson advocate., 1952-12-13
Joyce Nicholas
Has Poem
Published

A Dillard University Sophomore
has written a poem which will be
published in the "Annual Antho-
logy Of College Poetry"
She is Joyce Nicholas, 10, 25O7
London Avenue, New Orleans. Her
Lyric, "Our World, is among the
Continued on Page Five)
Jackson advocate., 1952-12-13

condition but was being kept under
observation.
Rev. Carnegie had been onaa fund
raising tour through the South in
the interest of the hospital foun-
dation and was enroute toaGhAt-
tanooge from Atlanta Georgia on
a Greyhound Bus when he was
beaten. *
The Associated Press Monday
gave the following report of the
incident:
The 67-year-old clergyman said
Continued on Page Seven)
Jackson advocate., 1952-12-13
Negro Preacher Bruta||y Beaten For
Refusing To Take Back Seat On Bus

WASHINGTON, d. c., 10 =
(DSN) = The Rev. Amos H. Car
negie, a 67-year-old nationally
prominent Negro Baptist minister
of this city and head of the Ma
tional Negro Hospital Foundation
is in a Chattanooga Hospital as a
result of having been brutally beat
en- by two white men Monday night
when he refused to move to a back
seat on bus.
A report from the Walden Hos
pital Tuesday said the aged minis
ter was not believed to be in serious
Jackson advocate., 1952-12-13
37th Session Of
orthWest Miss.
Annual Conf. Of
AmE Church Is
Great Success
Bishop Gibbs Holds
Last State Session
For Year

MARKS, Miss, Dec. 6.-(Spe-
ciaD-The thirty-seventh Session
of the Northwest Mississippi An
nual Conference convened during
the week of November $3.50 in AL
hen Chapel, Marks, Miss, Rev. c.
H. Ball, host pastor, and the Right
Reverend Carey A. Gibbs, Presid-
ing Bishop.
The Pre-Conference Welcome
program was held Tuesday night
The citizenry Of Marks extended
words that assured the A. NJ. E.
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Jackson advocate., 1952-12-13

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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1952-07-03
Notice
BEER & LIGHT WINE LICENSE

BEER 4 LIGHT WINE LICENSE
Notice is hereby given that APP
plication has been made by:
Frank Ciarrocchi
Hilda l.. Ciarrocchi
and Norman C. erosion
For a Glass B, On and Off Sale
Beer and Light Wine License for
the premises to be occupied by
The Mommie and Poppie Kestaur-
ant, Incorporated, which premises
are located at:
227 Diamond Avenue
Gaithersburg, Md.
A hearing on this application
will be held in the Hearing Room,
Dispensary Building, $500 Coles
vile Road, Silver Spring, Mary
land on:
Thursday, July IT, 1852
At 1U:U0 AM.
Any person desiring to be
heard on said application should
appear at the time and place fixed
for said hearing.
Board of License Commission
ers for Montgomery County.
By: A. Morton Thomas,
912 Secretary
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN.
that the subscriber of the Mont
gomery County has obtained from
the Orphans Court of Montgomery
County, in Maryland. Ancillary Let
ters of Administration eta. on tbs
personal Estate of
WILLIAM l.. CLARKE
late of Monmouth County, state OF
New Jersey, deceased. All persons,
resident and resident, having
Claims against the said deceased
are hereby warned to exhibit ana
file the same, in said Court, with
vouchers thereof, or, or before the
18th day of December next: they
may otherwise by law be excluded
from all benefit of said Estate. All
persons indebted to said Estate are
ioquested to make immediate pay
ment. ,.
Given under my hand this 11th
day of June in the year of our LORD,
one thousand nine hundred fifty
two. s...,,,,
HAROLD G. SMITH
Anc. Admr. eta.
Rockville, Maryland SO1
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1952-07-03
Simpson and Simpson, Attys.
Rockville. Md.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

NOTICE rs HEREBY GIVEN, that
the Subscriber Of Montgomery Coun-
~, has obtained from the Orphans
court of Montgomery County, IN
Maryland, Letters Parliamentary on
the personal Estate OF
CHARLES s. THOMAS
] ate of Montgomery County. de-
ceased All persons having Claims
against the deceased are hereb y
warned to exhibit the same. WITH
vouchers thereof. legally authenti-
Gated to the subscriber on or before
the goth day Of November next. they
may otherwise by law be excluded
from all benefit of said Estate. Al
persons Indebted to said Estate are
requested to make immediate pay
ft7ent.
Given under my hand this 22nd
day Of May In the year OF our Lord.
one thousand nine hundred nfty-two.
LILLIAN NJ. THOMAS FOWLER
E%ecutrix
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Takoma Park, Nd. 500
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Law Offices
Conroy, Williams and Nylen
1920 Hamilton Street
Hyattsville, Maryland
Trustees Sale

Of valuable improved property
located on 1924 Judson Road
Silver Spring, Md.
By virtue of the power and au-
thority contained in Deed of Trust
from Michael P. Nugent and Cath
crime F. Nugent, his wife, to E.
M. Bros and Howard Larcombe,
Trustees, dated October 25, 1949
and recorded in Liber 1909 Folio
81 among the Land Records of
Montgomery County, Maryland,
and at the request of the parties
secured thereby, default having
occurred in the terms and condi-
tions thereof, the undersigned
trustees named in said Deed of
Trust will sell at public auction
at the premises on Monday, July
81, 1852 at 400 pm, the prop
erty conveyed by said Deed of
Trust and described as follows:
Lot Numbered Fourteen (14) in
Block Numbered Two (2), in a
subdivision of land known as and
called, "PLAT NO. 1, GLEN
MONT VILLAGE, BLOCKS 2, 3,
a, 5 and 6 and PARTS OF
BLOCKS l, 7, 8, 9 and 49," as
Book "a, Plat No. 2297, one of
per plat thereof recorded in Plat
the Land Records of Montgomery
County, Maryland; being the same
property conveyed to the grantors
herein by deed recorded prior
hereto.
The property is improved by an
attractive one and a half story
four room frame house.
TERMS OF SALE
A cash deposit of ten per cent
of the purchase price will be re-
quired at the time of sale. The
balance in cash with interest at
six per centum from the date of
settlement payable within ten days
after final ratification of sale.
Adjustments on all taxes, public
charges and special or regular as
signments will be made as of the
date Of sale and thereafter be as
sumed by the purchaser. Title ex-
animation, conveyancing, state tax,
Federal revenue stamps and all
other costs incident to settlement
are to be paid by the purchaser.
Compliance with terms Of sale
shall be made within ten days af-
ter final ratification of sale or de-
post shall be forfeited and the
property resold at the risk and
cost of the defaultant purchaser.
E. M. BROS and
HOWARD LARCoMBE,
818 . Trustees
John M. Conroy
Atty. for Trustee