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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-05-23
MENTALLY SICK VETERAN Being
TRIED AS ORDINARY CRIMINAL
HA, AN ATTACK OF MENTAL
DISORDER In COURT ROOM HERE
Prosecutor And Jury Ignore Findings
g. Veterans Hospital Authorities In
( rial Of Local Negro Vet In Bus Case
V>F'ERAN FACES EIGHT NEW CHARGES
AFTER COURT ROOM SCENE

Jackson, Miss, May Is - @
SN) = Negro citizens of this CAPT.
toll city of the State of Mississippi
are deeply stirred over the trial
here last week of Leo "Bill" Bailey,
mentally sick Negro Veteran of
World War II who was tried for
the third time last week as an ordi-
nary criminal on charges growing
out of an incident which took place
several months ago on a local bus.
Bailey who had long period of
service in the South Pacific has
ben rated as having a sixty-per-
cent service connected disability as
a result of his mental condition by
Veterans Administration authoriti-
es and is being paid monthly dis
ability compensation by the United
States Government.
Suffering from a mental disorder
obviously the result of the army
OrientatiOn program of training for
democracy the Veteran is subject
to sudden reactions and OutburSt
against segregation and discrimi
nation and other nom Democratic
practices, the incident for which
he was tried the third time last
week taking place on Veterans
Hospital Bus when he objected to
being ordered to take back seat
when several white passengers got
on the Bus.
According to reports of the Incl
dent he hit the Bus Driver before
jumping off the Bus.
In the two previous trials the
case had been dismissed however
following the second trial a new
indictment was made on the same
incident.
At the conclusion of the two day
third trial last Thursday afternoon
held before Judge Luther Manship
with Attv Hugh Gillespie as the
Continued on Page Six
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-05-23
is Negro Firemen
To Be Hired

TULSA, OKLA, May IS - At
a special meeting of the Executive
Council of the Tulsa Urban League
Project council held Tuesday night,
Commissioner Jay L. Jones pro-
missed that sixteen Negro firenen
would be hired by the city.
The meeting which was held in
the office of Atty. Amos T. Hall,
had been called by the Executive
Director of TULPC to give the
council members and invited guests
an opportunity to discuss this i'm
portant matter with the Commits
sioner. At the suggestion Of the
commissioner, the industrial rela-
tions committee of the Urban
Continued On Page Severn
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-05-23

The Congressional Medal Of
Honor was conferred posthumous-
ly upon Sergeant Cornelius ".
Charlton on Abraham Lincoln's
birthday in 1852.
He received his medal for heroic
action against the enemy during
the early days of June, 1851, near
Chipo, Korea. For two days his
company had stormed a heavily
defended hill. His platoon was IN
an advanced position with no pos
sibility of turning back when the
platoon leader was killed by on
rushing communists. The Negro
soldier Immediately took command
Continued On Page Severn
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-05-23
First Negro Woman
Dentist Passes Away

CHICAGO, MAY Is = DR.. Ida
Gray Nelson Rollins, first Negro
woman dentist, died last Monday
morning in her home, 1862 South
Wabash avenue, where she lived
for 55 years.
DR.. Rollins, born in GAINESVILLE,
Tenn, went to Cincinnati, O., as
a child to live. She graduated from
Michigan university, Ann Arbor.
Mich, in 1890. She practiced in
Chicago for 40 years and retired
in 1888, having took up residence
here in 1891.
Her first husband was Col. Jam
es Nelson, affiliated with the form
err Eighth Infantry. who died in
Continued On Page Eight
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-05-23
Beauticians OF Six
States To Meet In
Little Rock, Ark.

LITTLE ROCK. Ark. = Beauti-
clans from six states will gather
in this city on May "a and % to
hold the second annual session of
the Southern Central REGIONAL of
the National Beauty Culturists
League.
In an announcement made this
week by Mrs. Elnoris Rollins, New
Orleans, Supervisor of the organi-
cation, the more than 1900 per-
sons expected here will be well
coined in a city-wide mass meet
ing at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church
at 3 O'Clock. A reception will be
held for the visitors from 5 to 7
and the officers of the organiza-
lion will hold a Board meeting at
s o'clock.
The group which will come from
Continued on Page Four)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-05-23
British Official
marries African

ST. JUDE'S SOUTH KENNS-
INGTON-May ia British Of
fetal of the Gold Coast Govern
ment last week married the dau-
ghter of an African chieftain.
At St. Jude's, London, flemish
Miller Craig, younger son of Brit
ish captain and 35-year-old assist
ant financial secretary on the Gold
Coast, married the 28-year-old
daughter of Ohene, a Gold Coast
tribal leader.
CONTINUED on Page Four)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-05-23
Funeral Rites Held
For Mrs, Alice
Laws Tanner
Veteran Teacher
Serves 45 Years At
Alcnrn College

VICKSBURG, Miss. May 19 =
Final rites were held at Bethel
AME Church at 2 p.m., here Mon
day for Mrs. Alice Laws Tanner.
Veteran Alcorn Teacher after the
body had remained in view in Oak
land Memorial Chanel at Acorn
College for three hours followed
by special service at four o'clock
Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Tanner, instructor in arts
and dean of women emeritus died
Friday morning at Alcorn A. & M.
College where she has served for
forty-five years. She went to AL
corn College in January, 1908. as
a sewing teacher. At that time
certificates in sewing, cooking and
nursing were issued to students
because there was no college de-
partment of Home Economics. In
1885 she became Dean of Women;
in 1915 she was an assistant to
Continued on Page Six
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-05-23
REDBO0k MAGAZINE FEATURES
NEGRO HERO IN May ISSUE

NEW YORK, May Is - Great
er Love Hast No Man" is the title
of an inspiring and enlightening
article on a Negro soldier who was
awarded the highest military honor
the United States has to offer.
In the May issue of Redbook
Magazine feature article tells
the story of Cornelius H. Charlton
who became the second Negro OF
the Korean War to win the Con-
eressiOnal Medal of Honor for
gallentry in battle.
The article is a complete story
of Charlton's life as credit to
the military and to the youth Of
America.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-05-23
DADDY GRACE PAYS Cash
FOR 33-ST0RY SKYScRAPER

NEW YORK, May 18-The big
gest real estate deal involving Ne
groes in New York's history was
contaminated last week when,
Charles NJ. Grace, better known as
Daddy Grace" as trustee for the
Church of the House Of Prayer for
all People took title to Ell Dorado
Apartments at 800 Central Park
West.
The property was sold for an
undisclosed amount of cash over
mortgages totaling $3,8O0,OOO.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-05-23

The building whose twin Is
story towers are among the best
known landmarks on Central Park
West occupies the choice block
from on Central Park West be-
tween Goth and DIST Streets, fac
ing Central Park. The structure is
33 stories tall, probably the tallest
apartment building in the city.
White Tenants
1t was owned by the Central
Park Plaza Corporation for 81
Continued on Page Six)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-05-23
Negro Teachers
Complaints Are
Disregarded By
Legislative
Education
Study Group
Say Bad Features To
Stay In Proposed Bills

Jackson, Miss, Nav l8-DSN)
= The complaint of Mississippi
Negro Teachers against certain oh
vious defects in some of the bills
designed to bring about equal edu-
cational opportunity in the state
despite the strenuous efforts of
representatives of the State Negro
Teachers organization, according
Continued on Page Four)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-05-23
Vicksburg Host To 9TH
Annual Session Moses
Grand Royal Arch
Chapter And Extra
Session King Hiram
Masonic Grand Lodqe
Predict Record
Attendance At
Two Day Meeting

Vicksburg, Miss, May Is =
(SpeciaD - Delegates from every
nook and corner of the State will
meet Sunday. June 14th and Mon
day, June 18th, 1853, in Vicksburg.
Miss. to witness one Of the LARGEST
celebrations ever held by Fra
ternal organization. This City be-
ing located in the central part of
Continued on Page FOUR
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-05-23
DR.. J. n. Jackson
Is Endorsed By
Local Baptist
Organized Club
Native Mississippian
IS Candidate For
President National
Baptist Convention

DR.. j. H. Jackson of Olivet
Baptist Church, Chicago, Illinois
has been endorsed by an organic
ed body of constituents composed
Of Baptist ministers and laymen
in Jackson, Mississippi and other
Continued on Page Five)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-05-23
Special Committee
Meets To Name
Tuskegee President
Several Top Educators
Named AS Likely
Patterson Successors
Patterson Successors

Montgomery, Ala. - May Is =
A ten-man committee headed by
Basil O'Connor, of New York City,
chairman of the board Of trustees
of Tuskegee Institute, was schedu-
led to meet Saturday. May Is, to
recommend successor to DR.. F..
D. Patterson. who resigned the
presidency of the famed Black
Belt institution in March,
The full board is scheduled to
meet Saturday, May 80 at Tuske-
Continued On Page Eighty
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-05-23

DR.. Sterling w. Brown. General
Director of the National Confer
nee of Christians and Jews, will
re the guest speaker on Saturday,
Nay %. during the educational
Continued on Page Five)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-05-23

GRAND SEC'Y: Steve Edwards,
above, Grand Secretary, Moses
Grand ROYAL Arch Chapter, M. w.
Hiram Masonic Grand Lodge
whose 7th Annual Session has been
set for June 14-15 in Vicksburg,
Miss.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-05-23
Campbell College
To Begin 63rd
Commencement
Season Sunday
Bishop S. L. Greene
Senior AME Bishop
Commencement
Speaker

Campbell College, one of the old
est and most historic educational
institutions of the African Metho-
dist Episcopal Church will begin
it's 63rd Annual Commencement
Season Sunday May oath, accord
Continued on Page Two
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-05-23

PAUL R. WILLIAMS, Los An
geles architect, will receive the
3Sth Spingarn Medal at 44th
annual convention of National
Association for the Advance
ment OF Colored People in st.
Louis, June 1923.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-05-23

PatrOnize Our Advertise
ers - Their Advertising
in this paper shows that
they appreciate your
trade.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-11-20

Born in Glendale, N. D., in 1906,
Anderson, in 1909, went with his~par-
ents to Conrad. There his father be-
came the community's first superin-
tendent of schools and also home
steaded nearby. Anderson now OPP
crates the farm raising wheat and cat
tie.
Anderson attended country school,
graduated from Conrad High at Is,
and received his chemical engineer
ing degree at Montana State College
in 1927. When II, he enlisted in the
Montana National Guard, and upon
graduation rom the college ROTC was
commissioned a lieutenant. In 1929,
he married Jessie Taylor of Cascade,
a graduate of Montana State Univer-
sity. They have son, now president
of the senior class at MSU, and
daughter, also an MSU grad, whose
husband, lieutenant has been serv-
ing in Korea for the past year.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-11-20

veloped in the Havre area, and it be-
came necessary for MDU to secure ad-
ditional revenue to supply the area.
The first impression made by MDU
was that gas would have to be brought
from the Bowdoin field near Saco.
The utility then launched publicity
campaign emphasizing the need for
higher rates and new 25-year fran
chises in order to finance construc-
ton of the approximately 100 miles
of pipe line.
The publicity campaign also con-
veyed the idea that rate increases in
order to bring additional gas to the
area would have to go up about Is
per cent, although MDU was careful
not to say Is per cent in so many
words. Result was that there was lit
tie or no opposition to the proposed
increase-that is-little or no opposi-
ton until the consuming public be-
gan to realize that under the new
rate schedule approved February IL,
1862, gas charges rose Is cents per
thousand cubic feet-or more than
SO per cent!
Public indignation was further
heightened, after, having received
new 25-year franchises from Havre,
Chinook and Harlem, MDU began
bringing additional gas supplies from
nearby Utopia field north of Chester
instead of building new supply pipe
line from the distant Bowdoin field
the latter being the principal basis
on which the utility asked rate in
creases averaging better than so per
cent.
Still another item has given rise
in consumers minds that they were
'flim- flammed" in their acquiescence
to the rate increases in late 1851
and early 1862. In asking for in
creases MDU proposed = and the
commission approved = the alloca-
ton of 10 per cent of the entire Cut
Bank, Shelby, Kelvin production area
valuation and operational costs to the
Havre division. INDUS argument was
hat 10 per cent of this production
vas available to the Havre division,
hence it should be charged with 10
Der cent of the plant and operation.
Continued on page four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-11-20

as the result of widespread feeling
by loyal Republicans who realize
that the Republican party will be
discredited by opposing a project
beneficiary to this regions growth.
Republicans must be awakened to
the fact that special interests are at
tempting to use our party to put
across a scheme harmful to full de-
velopment of our rivers. We want to
emphasize the belief that full multi
purpose development of the Columbia
Basin is not a partisan political mat
ter. 1t is job that must be accomp-
lished through the cooperation of
all political factions, with the bene-
fits shared by all the people of the
Pacific Northwest"
The group made plans to organ
ize Republican for Hells Canyon =
Dam Clubs in each of Washington's
seven Congressional districts. Irwin
H. Jones, Wenatchee, Washington,
was named vice chairman, and R. A.
Perkins, Ajlune, Washington, secre-
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-11-20
COP HeUs Canyon Group Organized

STEVENSON, Wash. = Organiza-
ton of The Republicans-for-Hells
Canyon-Dam Club was announced by
Republican party members from the
state of Washington, who said the
action was taken 'to emphasize that
multi-purpose development of the Co.
lumbia Basin is not partisan po-
litical issue"
"T e Republicans-for-H Tells Can
yon-Dam Club was organized to OPP
pose those interests seeking to twist
Republican Party machinery into a
device for their own selfish ends" "
said Clyde w. Riddell, newly-elected
chairman of the organization and an
active Republican worker for more
than 40 years. Riddell is Republican
precinct committeeman.
Recent activity shows that enc
mics of river development are at
tempting to take over the party ma
chinery to make it appear that Re-
publicans generally are opposed to
the idea Of multi-purpose dam at
Hells Canyon. Formation of the Re-
publicans-for- Hells-C Canyon Club came
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-11-20

change from the September level,
though it is 200 above that of Oc-
tober, 1862. Manufacturing indus
tries had 800 more on the payroll in
October than in September, largely
due to the stating of four sugar
beet refining plants for the fall run.
Lumber and logging decreased 600.
Increased unemployment, as rep
resented in claims for unemployment
insurance, mounted steadily through
October, though still far below levels
reached in 1850, 1949, and 1947.
There were 1924 active claims the
last week in October, as compared
with 1,546 at that time in 1947, L.
562 in 1850, and 1884 in 1949. The
present level is above that of 967
in 1852, 1929 in 1948, and 1925 in
1851.
Another index of unemployment,
the number of persons applying at
state offices of employment service
for new jobs, records 1858 jobseek-
ers the last of October this year,
about 730 more than a year ago, 700
fewer than in October, 1850, and
almost identical with the $3.50 in
October, 1851.
Active hiring of workers in Mon
tana labor markets during October
is reflected in the 6,670 job place
ments recorded by the employment
service offices for the month. A year
ago the placement figure was 6,647;
two years ago 1892, three years ago
800, and four years ago 1925.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-11-20
CONSTRUCTION EMPLOYMENT UP
in OCTOBER, UCC REPORTS

Montana industries had 161,20(
wage earners on the payrolls the
middle of October this year, the larg.
est number for any October in the
states history, according to an en-
ployment summary issued this week
by unemployment compensation com
mission. That is 1000 above the fig
ure for October, 1852, the previous
record, and is only 2,100 below the
all-time high figure for any month,
reached in September, 1853.
October is additionally the time
downward seasonal trends become ap-
parent, approaching the mid-winter
employment low of ten to fifteen
per cent below the summer level. The
decline this October was relatively
slight, 1000 as compared with $500
a year ago. Seasonal jobs such as
those catering to tourist trade, the
timber industry, outdoor construction,
and other outside work, are ordinari-
ly closed down or on a reduced scale
beginning with October. The seasonal
decline this year is slowed because
of open weather and above normal
temperatures.
A surprising disclosure in the en-
ployment report is that construction
employment actually gained slightly
from it's September level. While the
gain was only about 100 workers
over the 1890 in September, it con-
trasts strikingly with the usual de-
crease of 1000 or 5000 September
to October.
Mining employment shows no
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-11-20
UNCLE SAM MAKES COOP
MOVIE FOR USE ABROAD

LONDON -(CNS)- World Wide
Pictures has completed new movie
of Europe's farm co-ops for the u.
S. Foreign Operations Administra-
ton. Scenes were shot in Sweden,
Denmark, Germany, Holland, Italy,
and Franco. International Federation
of Agricultural Producers helped with
script and locations. The film is in
several languages for use throughout
the free world.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-11-20

GREAT FALLS-LeRoy Ander-
son, 47-year-old Conrad legislator,
farmer-rancher and World War II
veteran, Tuesday announced here he
would be a candidate for the Demo-
cratic nomination for Congress in the
Second EASTERN Montana district.
81 am prompted to seek this nomi-
nation because of my growing con-
Germ over national developments as
they concern the lives and livelihood
of Montanans," Anderson declared.
AS a legislator representing Pom
ders county, Anderson served in the
House beginning in 1947, and in the
senate from 1949 to the present. On
several major committees, he gained
recognition for his energetic defense
of the rights of the people of his
county and the state.
The Democratic candidate for NOM
ination as Congressman, is member
of the Masonic and Elks lodges, Lions
club, Legion, VFW, Sons of Norway,
Flying Farmers and Ranchers and
the Conrad Rod and Gun Club. He
IS an elder in the Presbyterian church.
An Army reservist, at the start of
World War II, he entered combat
as an armored force leader. He took
a tank battalion into Normandy short
Iy after D-Day and brought it sue
across France and to the |
ultimate American victory in Europe. |
He was awarded the Silver Star for
gallantry in action. Returning home,
he again became reservist and form
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-11-20

reasonable level.
The consumers have also requested
that the commission grant them per-
mission to have experts go over
INDUS books in Minneapolis that
more information may be obtained
on the full extent of the unreason-
ableness of rates charged by MDU
in the Havre area. This request, bas-
ed on Sec. 70-109, ROM 1947, has
been unanimously denied. The com
mission having taken the position that
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-11-20
SCHOOL BOARDS ATTORNEYS BACK
OIL LOBBY ON LEASE LEGISLATION

Attorneys Otto Habedank, Sidney,
and Randall Swanberg, Great Falls,
representing the State School Board S
Association have filed an amicus
curiae Friends of the court) brief
with the State Supreme Court sup
porting the constitutionality of per-
petual oil lease legislation governing
school lands passed by the 1858 Leg
islature.
Habedank and Swanberg, both of
ficials in the School Boards Associa-
ton, repeatedly prepared their brief
in support of the oil lobby legislation
(Sub. H. B. 49, following decision
by the executive board of their as
ISOLATION to enter into the case.
Attorney General Arnold II. Olsen,
and Assistant w. F. Duke" Crowley,
acting in behalf of a majority of the
State Land Board, have questioned
the constitutionality of the revised
oil leasing legislation passed by the
Republican SD Legislative Assembly
and signed into law by Gov. J. Hugo
Aronson, on several major premises.
Olsen, supported by land board mem
bers Sam w. Mitchell and Mary M.
Condor, contends that:
The amendment to the Enabling
Act, which extended total length of
any oil lease to 20 years was not
properly approved by the State of
Montana. The Legislature approved
the amendment. Olsen contends that
since the Enabling Act governs the
terms of the State Constitution, and
any revision of the Constitution must
BE approved by direct vote of the
electorate, similar direct vote of
the people must be had before any
amendments to the Enabling Act may
become final and binding upon the
State of Montana.
2. Should this contention by Olsen
not be sustained by the court, thus
leaving the way open for considering
the new leasing law, then, Olsen
contends the new law is in conflict
with the Enabling Act as amended by |
Congress in 1945, in that Sub. House
Bill 48 sets no definite term of years
on the length of leases wherein oil
production is achieved. The new law
says that leases shall run for as long
as coil and gas are produced in pay
ing quantities" Under the amended
Enabling Act, Congress very plainly
stated that such leases should be for
a term of years" with definite num-
Der of years to be determined by the
3. The new leasing law in effect
amounts to a sale of resources of
lands held in trust for the education
of Montana children. Accordingly,
says Olsen, once oil and gas is
brought into production, the State
Land Board will for all practical
purposes lose control over the adj
and regulation of the ex-
ploitation of those resources.
q. Because the Land Board will be
without authority over the leases once
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-11-20
z $zuctant PS Commission Turns
C1af Ear On MDU Gas Patrons

Gas of the HavreChinook have problem
their hands, How, oh how, persuade reluctant Public
Service Commission in what the Commit
tee considers the public interest.
The group composed Of people in
Havre Chinook Chester and Harlem think that
rates charged by Utilities unreasonaby
high that result unreasonaby high
of MDU from the uttys Havre division Accordingly, the
organization has peoned Messrs Henry Young
and Middleton request MDU to show why rates
charged the Havre division should not be reduced