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Bill Restores State Police
Patrol Of BeIVoir Roads

Virginia State Police could pa
troll parts of United States High
way No. l and other minor roads
through Fort Belvoir, Va, under
a bill passed by the House yes
terday and sent to the White
House.
The bill would retrocede to
the State concurrent jurisdic-
ton over the public highways
that cross the reservation.
Enforcement now rests with
the military police,
Evening star., 1953-05-20
Lincoln u. Alumni
Elect D. c. Officers

The Washington Chapter of
the Lincoln University Alumni
Association elected the following
officers at a meeting last night:
Perry Cook, president; Joseph
Harris, vice president; Robert w.
Brashears. ST.. secretary; Percy
j. Rayford, treasurer, and the
Rev. Everett A. Hewett, of the
Fairmont Heights Presbyterian
Church, chaplain.
Evening star., 1953-05-20

the cicada "the delicate flavor
of shrimp"
The young man went out to
the trees about his house. from
which choruses of the cicadas
were singing, and selected a few.
He took the milk white ones,
Evening star., 1953-05-20
5000 Guests Expected
At Trade Bourd OUTING

The Washington Board of
Trades 57th annual spring out
ing is expected to attract more
than 5000 persons. including
specially invited members of the
judiciary, military, and Federal
and District governments.
The outing will be held Satur-
day at Chesapeake Beach, Md.
The all-day affair will be high
lighted by two-hour stage show
imported from New York. and q
direct line broadcast Of the run
ming Of the preakness at Pimlico.
Evening star., 1953-05-20

Just out of their shells with
their wings still unfolded and
some of the dark adult ones. at
least "a hours old In their new
stage of life.
He French-fried some Of them
Evening star., 1953-05-20
Medical Libruriuns Meet

The District Association Of
Medical Record Librarians will
hold its annual dinner meeting
at 7 o'clock tonight in the Armed
Forces Institute Of Pathology,
Seventh street and independence
avenue S.W.
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Rubbi Poruth to Preside

Rabbi TZvi H. Porath will pre-
side at Sabbath services for the
Montgomery County Jewish
Community Center. 8402 Frey
man drive. Chevy Chase. at $50
pm. Friday.
Evening star., 1953-11-15

uICYu RYTUYNnA AlA Wis. Ave
Academy Award Documentary
"SEA AROUND US"
100. 3:35. 5:15. $50. 1928.
might Without Stars"
2:16. 4:60. $50. o:0b.
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Starts Tues. Request Engagement.
G. B. shaw's ''PYGMALION.
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Brahms piano Quartet. Flat, Op.
MARIA KoPULOs. piano recital. conti-
mental Room, Sheraton Park Hotel.
$50 pm: Bach's "Toccata, Fugue.. E
Nj Minor; Rsethoyen's "sonats. op;. q.
priccio. op:. 116, No. II; '.Intermezzi.
Iilla-Lobos ,"Homenasem . Chopin
Es!sss sSss's. dspa ersRsds sasifes 1Isls hs
F Minor
WEDNESDAY.
WOODROW WILSON HIGH SCHOOL
Music DEPARTMENT STUDENTS,
suditoriqm: sufE,Sadg :.rns gsd pm Gilbert and
Howard Mitchell, conductor; Rudolf
Serkin, pianist. soloist; Constitution
Hall, $50 pm. Dvorak's Carnival
No: A." Rayefs "paphnis and Chloe
Suite, No. o.; Beethoven's Concerto
No, g.. E-Flat Major" for piano and
THURSDAY.
NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA,
Howard Mitchell, conductor; student
Concert. Roosevelt High School audi:
overture. instrument demonstration
age of Gold" Finale" Brahms
symphony, No. q" Gould's "Ameri-
WOODROW WILSON HIGH SCHOOL
MUSIC DEPARTMENT STUDENTS.
Gladys /. Sanders, director; school
s1djtoTirm. snfl,Tah!. : upSado pm Gilbert and
THE SCHNEIDER STRING QUARTET,
Library OF Congress, $50 p m. ROGERS
Trio" Haydn's THE Seven Last
Words Of the Saviour. Op. 51."
FRIDAY.
FRIDAY MORNING MUSIC CLUB, Co.'S
mos Club, assembly hall, 1880 am.
Franck's Sonata. A Major" Virginia
Harpham, yiolinist; Dorothy Artaud.
pianist; 'Disons lie chapelet." arr.
BoHrgault, ,Duceurday; lie chifIonieTs" !"
mirault: LIE Roy a fait bsttre Tam
bour" arr. Ferrari; "L'Angelus," arr.
Bourgault-Ducourday La belle Mari
anne" arr. Ferrari. Genevieve Hughes,
mezzo-sopranO; Chopin's Sonata. B
Minor. Minna Niemann Bagss. pianist.
conductor; Ben Mitchell Morris. tenor.
soloist; Department Auditorium. $50
pm. ErkeFs "Hunyady Laszlo." Saint
Saens' "Phaeton," "Recondita Armo-
MIA" from Puccini's .Tosca," Mr.;
Mef1s csech Rhapsody iTso sus 81
d. c. CHAPTER AMERICAN COMPOS-
ERS AND CONDUCTORS, Robert Par
ris. Harry Mcclure, pianistS: Rafael
Salazar, violinist; Frederick J. O..
Blachly, cellist; Pan American Union,
ic%as. cas- Eyeft's "AiIesFo "canzona
Hands; caiindos .'sonata for violin
and Piano." Vegas "EpiErama for
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"SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS"
Co-Starring JOEL McCREA
and VERONICA LAKE
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News of Music
Coruso Brought to Life
Biography by T. R. Yburu Is Vivid
Account of CoIorfuI Career
By Alice Eversmon

arrows into the Aurora Bo-
reals" The music was born
in complete form in the brain
of the composer during a voy-
age home from Europe. While
pacing the deck, he could hear
in his mind a band playing
rhythmically the same themes,
enlarging them and re-echoing
them. The band played cease
lesSly. And when Sousa reached
home, he wrote down for the
first time and without chang
ing a note, the piece his BRAIN
band had been playing. 1t was
"The Stars and Stripes For
ever"
In Morine Bond
The Marine Band and the
name of Sousa are INSOFAR
able. His father. member of
the Band, had him enlisted
as an apprentice when, at the
age of 13, Sousa wanted to
run away and join a circus.
He stayed seven years and
five months, re-enliSted after
wards to serve side by side
with his father for several
more years until both received
special discharges in 1875.
Five years later, he returned
as the 14th leader of the
Marine Band.
He compared himself once
to Theodore Thomas. "He
(ThomaS) gave Wagner.
Liszt and Tschaikowsky," he
wrote, sin the belief that he
was educating the public, I
gave Wagner, Liszt and Tschai-
kowsky with the hope that
I was entertaining the pub
lic." Deems Taylor, after
Sousa's death. pictured him
in the Elysian Fields. "'How-
ever did HE get in here?'
asks some disappearing shade
"a small town KapellmeiSter.
probably,-'Who got him IMP
The guide smiles. "The march,
ing men. The men who had
to go long miles on an empty
belly, under a hot sun, or
through a driving rain. They
made us take him in. They
said he made things easier
for them.'"
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Serkin to toAppeor
With Symphony

Rudolf Serkin, pianist, will
be soloist with the National
Symphony Orchestra Wednes-
day night at $50 in Constitu-
tion Hall. The program is
dedicated to the Steinway
Centennial anniversary. How
ard Mitchell will give the
world premiere to Spencer
Huffman's Symphony No.
4" and assist Mr.. Serkin in
the presentation of Beetho-
ven's Emperor" concerto.
There will be a Student
Concert on Thursday at 2
pm. in the Roosevelt High
School auditorium, sponsored
by the Junior League.
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Musical Programs of the Week

Piano." Paz' "Third sonatina for
Piano" Mr.. Paris; Fernandez ''Trio
Brasileiro. Op. 32.n.
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ORCHESTRA,
George Steiner, conductor; Mary LIE
Craw, violinist, soloist; Clendenen
Hall, university's campus, $40 pm
Fax's Overture on a Happy Theme, I"
Beethoven'S Romance, Major" Miss
LIE Craw: Critics 1.-THE White Pea
cock Mendelssohn's 'Sinfonia No 9
for Strings" Brahms "Serenade, No.
l, D Major. On. IL"
SATURDAY.
THE TRYOUT GROUP, benefit musicale;
Edwin Davis, pianist Gunvor Santil-
iuS, soprano: Felicia Rybier Studios.
2 Dupont circle. $40 pm.
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Coffee, With Our ComplimentsI
In the Piccadilly Lounge
z TO 10 Pm.
Evening star., 1953-11-15

CHEVERLY Martin and
Lewis, "THE CADDY"
At /, 3:05, $50, 1885, $50.
Evening star., 1953-11-15

RETVY(MA PRESTON FOSTER
O6 GA6OO3s In Mickey Spillane's
IT. THE JURY" at l. 2:4O. 4:25, 6.
1850. 9'40.
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TODAY.

isENBERGH, Clarinet; EDWIN EARLE
FERGUSON. pisno; Barker Hall,
,2,V2, ,YWCA, Pm. pm. MI Milhauds as, suite for
turian's Trio Ferguson's Three
Idiomatic Exercises"
MARK ELLSWORTH, NANCY HARBERT
ELLSWORTH. two-violin recital. Phil
nonie sonatas' No. 1 in G and No. 4
viottIs, Dug NO: l, op. 29.; Wis;-
ProEofeff's Sonata. op. 56.'
BRITTON Johnson, flute; HUGH
oMEAGHER; harpsichord; recital.
Saier sTafe the LeSairs dsSss sae sGnate hap4 cat
E!ssfnabyss !s Tower Hin, GiSSons'
Les Ssrriesdes msterfeuses scans
latti's "sonatas: b Major. D Minor,
E Minor. F Major. g Major, g Minor.
Major Flst MaIO5 HaSGels sGlsrs snnsta sSnata So
Major; Bach's Sonata No. g. E
Major. for Flute and Clavier."
THE ARLINGTON CHAMBER MUSIC
SOCIETY. Norman Lamb. conductor;
Stratford Junior High School, & pm
Mozart's ''Woodwind Octet; music BY
Bella Bartok.
TOMORROW.
FATHER FLANAGAN's BOYS TOWN
CHOIR, Father Francis Schmitt, d.
rector; Constitution Hall, $50 pm
Program includes works by Palestrina
Johann Strauss and folk tunes.
GENE A. YENNI. tenor song recital
Phillips Gallery. $40 pm. PurceIi's
.'5 II 5m.StI Music Be the Food Of Love" +"
Me Wander Not Unseen" "Or Let the
Merry Bells. Ring Round: Beethoven s
AN die. ferne Geliebte," song cycle;
ofenssshs s GoIbssu Barcarqlis" g Benedits
maninoff's me Yer Mne Drug NE
phenia," Hageman's Little Things"
Warlock'S "AS Ever I Saw" Birch's
There Shall Be More JOY" Finzis
"Budmouth Dears."
TUESDAY.
JUNIOR OPTIMIST BAND OF THE
BOYS CLUB OF WASHINGTON. An
drew G. Bodnar, conductor; Sousa
Junior High School. 8 pm. Sousa' S
FaireSt of the Fair" overture to
Weber's "Oberon," Clarke's Maid of
made; .sousa's "Corcoran Cadets
THE Gladiator; 1.-The Red Man, ="
from Sousa's "The Dwellers of the
Western World; under the Ameri-
can Flag" from Sousa's "Cubaland": :
Sousa's Stars and Stripes Forever"
THELMA STEIN. pianist; IRVING LEAN,
yioIinist; NORMAN BUTLER, Gellist;
Community Center; SIS pm; Bee
ment from Mendelssohn's Trio. D
Minor: second movement from
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HYATTSVILLE

DOUBLE FEATURE
BoWERY BOYS. PRIVATE EYES"
at l. $40. 6'20, 9, and LOUIS HAY
WARD, royal AFRICAN RIFLES
(HnlnrN af Al 200
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BELTSVILLE DRIVEN

ALLEN Double Feature
BowERY BOYS, PRIVATE EYES"
at Jiy ]; 3;35' 6:15; s;55' and r5 L9UIs SET e
RIFLES" Color. at 2. 4:40. 7:20,
Evening star., 1953-11-15

Matinee Today. Doors Open 1:45 Pm
Feature at 2:07, 4:o5, sos, Sol, R:5e
pm. FREE PARKING.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-06-20
WASHINGTON, D. C., RESTAURANTS BOW
TO RULING OF u. 5. SUPREME COURT

WASHINGTON, June IL - The
United States Supreme Court rul-
ing banning the exclusion of
Negroes from restaurants in the
District of Columbia appears to
be working out as it should in the
capital of the worlds greatest de-
mocracy," Clarence Mitchell, d.
rector of the Washington Bureau
of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People,
said today on the basis of personal
experience and reports received
from various parts of the city,.
Meanwhile, the Washington
Restaurant Association advised its
members to comply with the de-
cision, Robert ]. Wilson, the WRA
executive secretary, announced.
The unanimous decision of the
Court, handed down on June 8,
became effective on June 10. The
Court upheld the validity of the
so-called lost civil rights laws pass
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-06-20
NEGRO LABOR COUNCIL HEAD IN
SHARP REPLY TO CHARGE OF
united STATES ATTORNEY Gen.

DETROIT. Mich. June 12.-
Coleman A. Young, Executive Sec
retarv Of the National NEGRO Labor
Council, issued the following state
ment to the press todav from the
national headcnarters of the NNLC
in Detroit. The statement comes
as result Of the recent action Of
the U. S. ATTORNEY General. who
announced his intention of desig-
mating the National Neo~o Labor
Council as coming within the
framework of the Presidents 10y
altv Order:
The National NEGRO Labor Gown
Gil unenuivocallv rejects, and has
officially protested, the recent ac-
ton of the ATTORNEY General Of the
United States when he saw fit to
publicly label the NNLC as a SUBJ
versive organization.
Without benefit of previous no.
tice or hearing. the ATTORNEY Gen
eral, setting himself up as JUDGE.
jury and prosecutor. has chosen nv
newsnaper proclamation to "desig-
nate" the NNI.C as guilty Of "dis-
LOYALTY" to our country.
This arrogant and nresumptn-
ouslv undemocratic action on the
part Of the Attorney General is
another examine of the reckless
manner in which the Eisenhower
Administration is stepping up the
assault on the basic democratic
rights of the American people.
This is a thinlv DISGUISED action
to get hack at the National Negro
Labor Council. The Attorney Gen.
Continued on Page Six)
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Industry Talks Of
Ending Prejudice

MARRIMAN, N. Y.-June IT.
WAYS and means of eliminating
racial and religious prejudice from
American industry were discussed
by 100 representatives of industry,
labor, government and civic organi-
cations here Thursday at the third
annual Teamwork in Industry IN
stitute.
The institute, held in the Arden
House, is sponsored by the Nation
al Conference of Christian and
Jews through its commission on
labor organizations.
The theme of the institute, which
ended Friday, was Industrial
Leadership for Strengthening the
American Way of Life"
Speakers at Thursdays sessions
Continued on Page Three)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-06-20
NEGRO THEATRE TALENT MAY HAVE TO
RETURN TO HARLEM, SAYS ACTOR

NEW YORK, June Is (Special)-
Perhaps the Negro will have to
build his own theatre, "for only
then will we be able to tell the
rest of the country Of our cultural
contributions and of our real daily
life" writes William Marshall, well
known stage and moving picture
actor in the current issue of Thea
ire, nationally known magazine.
1t seems ironic, he writes, that
while the nations theatre is seek
ing renewed vigor, a sement of
the nation must be seeking express
sion in isolation. "The American
theatre could do we'll to exploit
truly native sources of talent"
Marshall declares, adding that "in
all the areas where it may seek
new vitality, it will find Negroes
prepared and available"
Marshall had the role Of "De
Lawd" in "The Green Pastures"
Continued on Page Six)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-06-20
president DECLARES There
MUST BE NO SECOND CLASS
CITIZENSHIP IN THIS COUNTRY
Reply To Letter From n. Y. Negro
Congressman Adam Clayton Powell
Powell Terms Letter Magma Charta
For Minorities And Second
Emancipation Proclamation

! WASHINGTON, June l6.-De-
claring that "There must be no
second-class citizens in this coun-
trv," President Eisenhower said
Wednesday that his administration
is pursuing" a policy of eliminat-
ing racial segregation at all fed
erally-owned installations.
The president wrote Rep. Adam
Clayton Powell that 1--WE have not
taken and we shall not take a
sinele backward STEP"
Powell termed the Presidents
letter Magma Charta for minori-
ties and second Emancipation
Proclamation"
Three Officials
Only last week Powell wrote Mr..
Eisenhower and cited three cases
OF what he called "insurbordina-
ton" by three administration of
ficials who repeatedly reversed the
administrations order to wipe out
SCSIcSdtlOu.
Upon receiving the Presidents
letter, Powell wrote Mr.. Eisen-
hover that his, answer Completely
Justified my confidence in you.'
Powell pointed out that heretofore
this confidence has been con a per-
sonal basis" but now "my conf
dence is in you as President of the
United States"
Powell had charged in his letter
to the President that:
L. Adm. Joel T. Boone, chief med
ical officer of the VA, had ap-
proved segregation in veterans hos
pitfalls.
2. Welfare Secretary Hobby, in
memorandum, supported segre-
gated schools on army posts. Sub
sequently, Mrs. Hobby denied this,
explaining that she only noted GER
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-06-20
new YORK SADDEnED BY Death
OF REV. A. CLAYTON POWELL. SR.

NEW YORK, June II - Rev.
Adam Clayton Powell, ST., pastor
emeritus of Abyssinian Baptist
Church. and noted author and lead
err, died at the age of SO Friday
night in Hardness Pavilian Of the
Columbia Presbyterian Medical
Center.
He is the father of Or. Adam
Clayton Powell, Jr., New York con-
"ressman and present pastor of the
church, which is believed to the
worlds largest Negro church.
Rev. Powell. a staunch fighter
for NEGRO rights, served as pastor
of the Harlem Church. at 1873 West
12Sth Street, from 1908 to 1881.
His father. Anthony, and his
mother, Mrs. Sallie Dunning
Powell, had been slaves.
DR.. Powell. ST., served as pastor
Of the church at 1913 West 139th
Street from 1908 to 1881, when he
was succeeded by his son. He was
Continued on Page Five)
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U. ). SUPREME COURT DECISION ORDERING
new ARGUMENTS IN SCHOOL SEGREGATION
CASES SPUR TO INTENSIFIED ACTION BY
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE
ADVANCEMENT OF C0l0RED PEOPLE
Lawyers Pass-Up Vacations To Prepare
Answers To Questions Posed By Court
Local Branches Called Upon To Raise
''Fighting Fund For Freedom" To
Meet Added Cost OF Cases

New York, N. Y, June Is -
Observation-Disclosures by the de-
cision Of the United States Sup
RENE Court ordering re-argument
of the school segregation cases the
National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People is
preparing an intensified campaign
AGAINST Jim Crow in education. The
NAACP position was set forth in
an appeal to the branches sent out
today and in a resolution passed
by the board of directors at its
regular monthly meeting here this
week.
The board resolution gave assur-
ance that answers relating to the
vital issues raised in these cases
will be supplied to the specified
Continued on Page Five)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-06-20
The Most Rev. Joseph
0. Bowers First u. :.
Negro Catholic Bishop
In First Radio
Broadcast Sunday
"Our Lords Last Will
And Africa" Subject
On CHS Church of Air

New York, NY, June Is -
Especially - The Most Rev. Joseph
0. Bowers, S.V.D., Bishop of Ac-
era, British West Africa, first
Negro ever consecrated as Catho-
lie Bishop in the United States,
will make his first network radio
broadcast on CHS Radios "Church
Of the Air. Sunday, June q, from
the Chapel of St. Augustine Semi
nary in Bay St. Louis, Miss,
where he originally studied for
the priesthood, and was recently
consecrated as Bishop.
Bishop Bowers address, entitled
"Our Lords Last Will and Africa"
was recorded by CHS Radio short
ly after the solemn ceremony pre-
sided over by Archbishop Francis
Cardinal Spellman of New York,
in April.
The all-male Seminary Choir of
St. Augustine Seminary, under the
CONTINUED on Page Three)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-06-20
Negro Preacher
Farmer Leaves Family
Of Twelve In Flight
From State Cotton
Plantation
Tells Story OF Slave
Like Treatment OF
Share, Chopper Family

MEMPHIS. Tenn. June 15.-
(DSN) - Rev. Bonnie Towns, a
broke and frightened 34-vear-old
Negro preacher-farmer, the head
of a family Of IL, stopped here
briefly last week in his flight to
Columbus, Ohio. where he hopes to
make a new life for his family
and told newsmen the story of
peonage and slave-like conditions
on Mississippi delta cotton plan.
tation.
Rev. Towns said his present pre-
dicament was the result of his re-
fusal to drop work on crops in
Continued on Page Six
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-06-20
Seven Nafiona|ities To Be Represented AT
GIobaI's Annual Conference Minority Press

NEW YORK-(GlobaD Repre-
sentatives of various minority
group newspapers will exchange
ideas on the role of the minority
press in the community and in
world affairs, when Global News
Syndicate holds its third annual
Press, Public Relations and Adver-
Using Conference at the Hotel
Theresa Friday and Saturday, June
26 and 81.
The two-day Conference will be-
gin with the annual Press Awards
Dinner on Friday evening, June
&c, when IL individual awards and
one special citation will be made
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-06-20
5 From Marion Go.
Attend Natl New
Homemakers
Meeting

: COLUMBIA. Miss, June Is =
Especially - The Seventh Annual
Convention of New Homemakers
Of America was held at Prairie View
College, Prairie View Texas, May
25-29.
This organization, composed of
Negro pupils of homemaking in
junior and senior high schools in
Is states throughout the nation,
is sponsored by the United States
Office of Education in the depart
ment of Health, Education and
Welfare.
Delegates of some $4,000 men,
bers were in attendance at the
conference. Mississippi was repre-
Continued on Page Two)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-06-20
Anti-coIor Bar
Fight Spreading

JOHANNESBURG, South Afri-
ca = Definance of the color bar
which excludes Negroes from pub
lie places and requires them to be
served at separate counters in gov
ernmental offices seems to be
spreading.
1t has spread from the Union of
South Africa to the Britisb-held
territory Of Northern Rhodesia
where Negroes have started enter
ing white bars and asking to be
served.
Still in it's infancy, the move
ment may spread with unfavorable
consequences for the partnership"
between white and Negro on which
British hopes to build a new i'm
perial bastion in the federation of
Continued on Page Three)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-06-20
NAACP Returns
To St. Louis ):
For 44th Annual
Convention

ST. LOUIS, June 20 - Return
ing to this city for its yearly con-
ference for the first time since
1885, the National Association for
the Advancement Of Colored Peo-
pie opens its 44th annual conven-
ton in the Kiel Auditorium on
Tuesday, (June 23). Some 700 dele
gates from branches in all sec
tons of the country are expected
to attend and participate in dis
cussions during the six-day con-
Continued on Page Five)
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Parish Street YMCA
Secretary Quits

Otis C. Statham, Secretary of
the Parish Street Branch Y.M.C.A.
resigned his position and left town
last week. A graduate of Palmer
Memorial Institute. Mr.. Statham
who is a native of Chattanooga,
Tennessee came to Jackson last
year.
C. C. Mosley, who was already
employed at the Y.M.C.A. succeeds
Continued On Page Eight
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-06-20
Negro Farmers Get
Awards For Excellence
In Pasture Farminu

The Jackson Chamber Of Com
merce last Friday announced its
annual awards to outstanding
Negro farmers who EXCEL in pas
'ture management and livestock
production.
A total Of $3.50 in cash awards
were given under the supervision
Of Negro County Agent Chester
w. Owens, and assistant county
agent Alonzo Henderson.
Charlie Horton of Terry won
first place in the senior division
CONTINUED On Page Severn
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-06-20

Prof. Walter Washington, Prin-
cipal at the Utica Institute has
been granted a scholarship to do
study at Yale University, New
Haven, Conn. this summer.
Enroute to Yale, Mr.. Washing
ton will stop at Indiana University
where he has been invited to par
ticipate in a panel discussion on
Alumni day. 1t was from this Uni
versity that he received his Mas
tiers Degree in 1852. From Indiana
Mr.. Washington will stop in New
York three days to observe and
study functions Of the United Ma
tons which is currently in session
before proceeding to Yale.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-06-20

for distinguished community SER
vice. Tex McCrary, noted news
paper editor and radio news COM
mentator, will make the principal
address.
The Saturday session will open
at 10 am. with discussion on
"How Can A Class Or Group News
paper Influence National Or World
Wide Opinion Appearing on the
panel, under the craftsmanship Of
DR.. Max Rubinstein, Principal Of
James Fenimore Cooper Junior
High School, will be DR.. James Egg
bert Allen, District School Com
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