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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-07-06
Ready Reserve
Army Program
|IsFalling Flat
Draff Law Should
BE Rewritten To
Force Training,
Officials Say
~ ELTON &. ray

WASHINGTON @-The Army )
program 10 maintain ! ready re-
serve 81 trained men made up Of
farmer draftees Is falling flat,
Only about Ill per cent Of draf-
tees who have dnlshed two years
0f active service are participating
in reserve training units although
he selective service law preseribes
q military obligation IN the re-
serves Of i've 0r six years after
discharge from active duty.
The trouble, say Army officials.
II this:
While the selective service law
states that upon completion Of two
years active duty ! man shall Be
assigned % 4 reserve training unit,
there is nothing IN the law that
compels hin 70 train. The law has
no punitive provision covering re-
serve duty, although il contains
definite penalties for draft evasion.
The situation has concerned the
Army for some time. Gen. J. Law
ton Collins, retiring Army chief Of
staff, said several months ago be
intended 10 recommend that the
law be amended to cut In half the
time Of q mans resefve obligation
Il be would volunteer to join an
organized reserve unit or the Ma.
tional Guard.
Draftees who were indicted prior
to amendment Of the selective SER
vice law ID 1851 were obligated to
ilve years Of reserve status, those
drafted after that date to six years.
Collins apparently prefers
amending the law to induce q man
to so into reserve training, rather
than Furnishing him II he donesn't.
He told Z congressional commit.
tee: There IS no punitive provi.
sion In the law, and we would be
very lOath to use one Il Congress
had included . plenalty for non.
comformists. =
Instead be recommended cutting
down the obligation time II form.
er draftee joins the guard or q
reserve training unit, saying:
II think that win Be fair to the
individual, ! think It win material
" help-I hope Il VIII help - i
passed, both the National Guard
units and our organized reserve
units. i"
About 3O0, 900 men TOW have beer
discharged from the Army aftei
two years Of duty. Since the star
Of the Korean War. the Army ha.
issued induction calls for mcrl
| than 1.411 900 men.
As each man Is discharged, hi
unit commander explains his re
maining reserve obligation to him
The soldier signs ! statement tina
he understands this obligation. Hi
papers are forwarded 70 Army al
thOrities III his hume state, VIII
also write him to can attention /,
his reserve status.
AT the same time, the stat
Army official notifies an instructor
Of 4 reserve unit nearest the man,
home Of the mans name and ad
dress. The unit instructor contact,
the man. II there IS no unit within
reasonable distance, tbs man /.
told he can earn credits BY CORES
pondence course and BY joining tht
unit In summer camp training.
The Army recognizes that ths
lack Of units in rural areas caE
make it difficult or impossible fol
men to train even II they want to
Il estimates, on the basis Of /
study Of urban and rural popula
tons, that about 50 per cent Of mel
with reserve obligations might b
unable to join units because Q
this.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-07-06
Reds Blast Mutual Assistance Pact

MOSCOW q Soviet nowSpapers
declared that proposals for .
South Korean.U. 5 mutual assIs-
lance treaty we're aimed II pre-
venting The quickest. signing Of
i Korean afminllel
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-07-06

president Eisenhower offered
last month 70 negotiate ! mutual
defense pact between TIE two NJ.
tons II South Korean Presideni
Syngman Rhee would agree 70 I
truce ID the war.)
The Russian reaction was out
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-07-06

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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-07-06

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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-09-12
Natchez College
Opens Session
This Week
Pres. Buck Sees This
AS Schools Best Year

NATCHEZ. Miss, Sept. @
(SpeciaD-Natchez Junior College
supported by the General Mission
airy Baptist State Convention
opened it's 1953-54 session with
faculty meeting Wednesday, Sep
TENDER 9th. and registration or
September 10th. Students will be-
Gin class on Monday morning Sep
TENDER 14th according to Prof. J
R. Buck, president of the College
President Buck says that he has
received a good many applications
and it seems as if Natchez Junior
College is in for its best year.
Natchez Junior College and High
School Department has the follow
ing achievements:
|. Natchez Junior College De-
partment fully approved State De
partment of Education.
2. Natchez Junior College fully
certified as Teacher-Trainina
Continued On Page Five)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-09-12
NEGRO EXTENSION field AGENT
PROMOTED TO NATIONAL LEADER

Promotion Of John w. Mitchell,
Extension Service field agent Of
the Z. S. Department of Agricul..
ture, to the newly created post of
national leader on the staff of the
Director of Cooperative Extension
Work was announced this week By
Secretary of Agriculture Ezra
Taft Benson.
Mn Mitchell, who began work
for Extension Service as buggy
driving emergency agricultural
agent in two North Carolina coun~
ties SO years ago, is the first color
ed Extension worker to be promot-
ed to national leader. His head
quarters will be transferred from
Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va,
to the Department here in Wash
ington by September Is.
The promotion broadens the
scope of Mr.. Mitchell's duties from,
regional to national level. And al
though the larger part of his work
will still be with State Extension
directors and Negro Extension sup
ervisors in the South, he also will
counsel with Extension Director
c. M. Ferguson on national prob
lens relevant to the agency's pro-
gram.
Il regard Mr.. Mitchell as high
Continued On Page Eight
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-09-12
1ougaIoo College Has
Record Enrolment

Tougaloo College freshmen will
begin their week of orientation on
September tenth with the largest
enrolment in the history of the
college. President Harold c.. War
rem announces new full-time men,
bers of the faculty which complete
a staff unique for it's number of
advanced degrees. With no men,
Der of the faculty having less than
a Masters degree, one half of the
members have Ph.D's or equivalent
(M.D., J.D., Ed.DD. Within the
past year $200,C00.00 have been
spent in campus improvements;
and during the summer all build
ings have been reprinted and the
road through the campus has been
hard-surfaced.
Substituting throughout this
year, while DR.. Ernst Borinski is
away for advanced studies at the
University of Pittsburgh, DR.. Phil
Continued On Page Five
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-09-12
PROGRESS IN The Enactment
CIVIL RIGHTS LAWS MEET STIFF
OPPOSITION IN MOST STATE
LEGISLATURES DURING 1858
Proponent Of FEPC Suffer Sorest
Defeats In State Campaigns
Oregon Leads With Ban On jim Crow In
Hotels, Cafes And Other Public Places

NEW YORK, Sept. 9 - Pro-
gress in the enactment of civil
rights laws met with stiff oppOsi-
ton in most state legislatures
during the 1858 sessions recently
concluded.
According to a survey conduct
ed by the American Jewish Con
gress, only % laws pertaining to
civil rights were passed by state
legislatures this year. And only
few of these are significant. The
apo Commission on Law and So
cial Action describes this crop as
disappointing"
Proponents of civil rights legis-
lation suffered their "sorest defeat
state campaigns for FEPC," ac-
cording to Will Maslow, director
of the Commission on Law and
Social Action.
Among those states which pass
ed relatively significant legislation
were Oregon, Florida, North Caro-
lima, Iowa, Washington, California,
Michigan, Connecticut, and Massa-
chusetts.
y Legislation passed did not APP
ply to Negroes alone; it aided Jew
ish persons, Catholics and Other
minorities. A rundown on civil
rights legislation passed showed
this:
Oregon enacted a law forbidding
racial or religious discrimination
by hotels, restaurants and othe.
places of public accommodation
Florida. the scene of series of
bombings in 1851 directed against
a Negro housing project, Carver
Village, synagogues and Catholic
church, moved to cope with this
by enacting a law regulating the
sale and possession of dynamite
and other explosives.
North Carolina also enacted a
similar statute. The Tar Heel state
Continued On Page Two
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-09-12
Revival Starts
Monday, Sept. "A

The revival you've heard about,
read about and we have prayed
about, starts Monday night, Sep
tember IA, at the Metropolitan
Missionary Baptist Church on N.
Parish Street, and will run through
/ the 25th.
The meetings will begin prompt
ly at 7:30 pm. each night. This
great evangelistic effort, the first
to be launched among Negro citi-
zens on a city-wide basis, is being
sponsored by the Jackson Evange-
Flistic Association, an organized
group of Negro preachers and pas
tors of Jacksons, and cooperating
churches.
The Rev. G. w. Staffney will
be the speaker.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-09-12
Returning PW Brings Joy To
Hearts OF Wife And Mother Here

The arrival here last Thursday
of Sgt. Excel Moss, the first re-
turning Korean prisoner of war to
arrive in this city brought JOY to
the hearts of his wife, Mrs. Annie
Lee Moss, and mother, Mrs. Rob-
bic Moss, of 744 Luckett Street.
SGT. Moss, who spent "a months
in a Korean prison camp, was the
first Jackson soldier freed in OPP
Grafton Big Switch. He entered
the Army in October 1850 at Cham
paign, H., where he went to marry
his wife. Annie Lee. He was
shipped to Japan on April ii of
the same year, then to Pusan and
the Korean War. On August 81,
1851 he was wounded i'm the back
and captured just north of the
3Sth Parallel by North Korean
troops and sent back to the famous
Camp at Kaesong. He was freed
by the Reds on August 8, and after
one day in Korea was shipped out
to San Francisco, CAL, landing
two weeks later. He was met by
his wife and as soon as his leave
papers were signed the happy cou-
pie went to Los Angeles where
they bought new car and started
driving to Jackson to see his
mother.
Sgt. Moss did not mind talking
about his experience as a prisoner
Continued On Page Seven)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-09-12
Edwards Jr. High
School Announces
Its Opening

The pre- school Conference of
the Edwards High school was held
with the members Of the faculty
September 4, 1853.
Registration began Tuesday,
September 9Th. All children enter
ing school for the first time were
asked to bring their birth certifi-
Gates before enrolling.
The faculty members are: L. P.
Johnson, principal, r. B. Catch
ings, assistant principal, A. A.
Barron, Vocational agriculture, w.
n. Byrd, Veteran Instructor, Mrs.
L. r. Kelly, Home Economies, H.
c. Clayton, Social Science and
Continued On Page Five)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-09-12
u. ). Commission
Study LSU Case

NEW ORLEANS, La, Sept. s.
u. S. Commissioner is studying
the petition of Negro student at
tempting to enter the undergrad
uate school at Louisiana State
University.
In dispositions preliminary to a
hearing before U. S. Judge J.
Shelly Wright in New Orleans, the
commissioner heard university Of
,ficials recently argue against the
proposed entrance.
But A. p. Threaud, Jr., II, said
in his petition that LSU offered
more advantages than Southern
University, the second largest Ne
gro school in the nation.
The hearing before Judge Wright
Continued On Page Six
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-09-12
Bishop Love To Head
GuIfside Board

Waveland, Miss. - Bishop Ed
gar A. Love, Resident Bishop of
the Baltimore Area, The Metho-
dist Church, Central Jurisdiction.
Baltimore, Nd. at the Annual
Meeting Of the Board of Trustees
here last week was elected Presi-
dent of the Board of management
of the Gulfside Association. sue
ceeding Bishop Robert f. Jones,
founder of the Assembly. The
meeting was held at the Gnlfside
Assembly in Jones Hall. Bishop
Jones was elected vice president.
Dr.. 7. B. Echols, Austin, Texas,
was elected secretary and DR.. w.
Talbot Handy, ST. New Orleans.
Continued On Page Five)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-09-12
CHICAGO POLICE
BREAKUP ANTI
NEGRO MEETING

CHICAGO. Sept. 9 - Police broke
up a so-called mass meeting pro
testing the housing of Negroes in
the Trumbull Park Homes project.
and the Chicago Housing Authori-
ty announced a new policy, the ad
mission of tenants to all local pub
lie projects. regardless of race.
creed or color, last week in the
latest Developments in the recent
anti Negro riot at the former all
white development.
In the meantime, the Chicago
police department is maintaining
it's 750-man 24-hOur- day guard
for the third straight week around
Continued On Page Five)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-09-12
BEE BOP DOLLS
EkTERTAINS At
v. a. HOSPITAL

The Bee Bop Dolls a talented
group of young ladies, who featur-
es fine selection of vocal as well
as instrumental numbers entertain
ed the patients at the local Vet
Grams Hospital last Thursday night.
The members of the group are
Misses Shirley Mayes, Josephine
Lomax, Mary Jenkins, Flossie
Thigpen, Beaverlyn Anderson and
Elnestine Gibson.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-09-12
NEGRO WAR PRISONERS
RETURNING TO AMERICA
SAY end OF DISCRIMINATION
HARDEST BLOW AGAINST
COMMUNISM I'M KOREA
Say u. S. Needs To Enforce
Constitutional Guarantees To
All Americans Without Further De!ay
Say Not One In Group OF Negro Prisoners
Taken In BY Red Propaganda

SAN FRANCISCO, Calf. Sept.
Sin the great port city of San
Francisco where hundreds of thou
sands of returning war veterans
have debarked in past years, none
saw such excitement as greeted
the arrival last week Of the first
group of prisoners of war from
Korea, according to a report filed
by Carter Jewel Of the Associated
Negro press.
The first man to walk down the
gangplank was tan Yank, Pfc.
Roosevelt Lunn, of Baltimore. He
was swarmed by TV, radio and
newsmen while being rushed to a
waiting ambulance.
Tremendous welcome greetings
were accorded him and Maj. John
c. Harlan, highest ranking POW
aboard the ship. Maj. Harlan, as.
of Institute, w. Va, was met at
the pier by his son, John, Jr., and
two lifelong friends, Mrs. Daniel
A. Collins, of Mill Valley, Calf,
and Mrs. William c. Hines of San
Francisco. (John Harlan, Jr., is a
student in the School of Pharmacy
at Howard University.
Major Harlan looked well and
hearty Notwithstanding 80 months
Imprisonment at POW Camp No.
2. He said there were 10 other
colored officers at Camp No. 2
and that all had survived the or
deal. The only statement he would
Continued On Page Eight
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-09-12
Governor Gives
CIemency TO
Negro Mother

NEWTON, Miss, Sept. S.--lSpe-
cian-A Newton county Negro
mother of five small children last
Friday was granted an indefinite
suspension from the state peniten-
tiary where she had been sentenced
after conviction of murder. She
has been out of prison several
years.
Gov. Hugh White said he grant
ed Bernice McSwain Saulter an in
definite suspension after many of
her white friends" pleaded for
clemency in her behalf.
The woman was given six
months suspension from her prison
Continued On Page Eight
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-09-12
New Orleans Area
Council Closes
Successful Session
Bishop J. w. E. Bowen
Presides

Waveland. Miss. = The Rev.
Bishop, j. w. E. Bowen, resident
bishop of the Atlantic Coast Area,
Atlanta, Ga. and President of the
College of Bishops of the Central
Jurisdiction, The NJ e h o d 5 t
Church. presided over the session
of the New Orleans Area Council,
here last week. He was assigned
by the College of Bishops to con-
vene the Area Council, in the alb
sence of Bishop Robert N. Brooks,
Continued On Page Four)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-09-12
High U. 5. Dept. OF
Agriculture Official
Says Banks Can
Scratch-0ut Nom
Discrimination Clause
In Farm Loan Law
Strong Southern
Protest Led BY
Gov. Byrnes Of
S. G. Gets Action

The U. S. Department of Agri-
culture has dropped the provision
in its contract calling for no ra-
cial discrimination by banks max
ing loans to farmers under the
Commodity Credit Corporation law.
The departments action came as
the result of storm of southern
protest led off by Governor Jimmie
Byrnes of South Carolina, staunch
Republican supporter in the last
Continued On Page Eight
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-09-12
Sou. Christian Inst.
Closes After Is Years

EDWARDS, Miss, Sept. 8-Sou-
them Christian Institute after 70
years providing educational oppor-
tunity for Negro youth will not
open this year, it was officially an
nounced this week by DR.. John
Long, superintendent of the school.
The school is closing because
Continued On Page Four)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-09-12
Local Preacher
Hurt In Car Wreck

STAR, Miss, Sept. 7.-(SpeciaD
Rio Bonnie Davis, 47-year-old
Negro preacher of 1850 Eprowles
Ave. in Jackson was painfully if
not seriously hurt in an automo-
bile crash near here Saturday af-
ternoOn.
He was treated for cuts and
bruises about the head and face
at the Baptist Hospital in Jackson.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-09-12
Million Convictions In South Africa

PRETORIA, S. A.-C. R. Swart.
South African Minister of Justice.
has just reported to the South AT
rican Parliament that total of
1891 Indians and Africans were
arrested in the act of protesting
against the Unions policy of apar-
theid during the course of 1852.
Of that number, 1874 persons were
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-09-12
Mississippi Negro
Leaders Lambasted
For Comp|aceneYIn
Regard 10 Citizenship
Rights All National
Bar Ass n. Meeting
Atty. Harold Flowers
Is Elected President

NEW ORLEANS, La, Sept. T.
(DSN) - Mississippi Negro lead
ers. and the look of Negro leader
ship in the state got some lam
basting and fortnight if not harsh
criticism at the meeting of the
National Bar Association held at
billiard University here last week
The discussion of Mississippi
and Mississippi Negro leadership
came up during a panel discussion
of action for citizenship rights by
Negroes in the various states.
A number of speakers touching
on the subject charged that Negro
leaders, or those having the re-
Continued On Page Two
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-09-12

convicted, 157 charges withdrawn,
and 57S cases still pending.
Swart also indicated that there
were 1,1S3,967 convictions of per-
sons, mostly Africans, in the course
of the year. The breakdown. with
respect to Africans, was:
Cd Breaches of peace or ''likely
Continued On Page Severn
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-09-12
Civil Liberties
Union In Reply
ToLegion

ST. LOUIS, Sept. 9-Replying to
yesterdays demand by the Ameri-
AN Legion for a Federal investiga-
ion of the activities of the AM
ai.ican Civil Liberties Union, the
Continued On Page Six
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-09-12
Captain Richard I.
Middleton Graduates
From Chaplain School
Visiting Family Here
Before Going
To Korea

New Rochelle. N. Y. Sept. s.
(SpeciaD-Chaplain (Capt.) Rich
ard T. Middleton, a native of
Vicksburgh, Miss, was today
awarded a diploma during gradua-
ton ceremonies, upon successfully
completing the prescribed course of
study here at The Chaplain School,
Fort Slocum, New Rochelle, N. Y.
Chaplain Middleton, husband of
Mrs. Johnnie B. Middleton, 626
Rose ST., Jackson, Miss, received
his commission in the US Army
Chaplaincy in March, 1913. During
his attendance of classes at The
Chaplain Chool, he was a student
of Class 54-4, Associate Chaplain
Officer Advanced Course, and re-
ceived extensive training over a
four-week period, in the duties and
responsibilities appropriate to field
grade chaplain officers.
The guest speaker for the COM
mencement exercises was Colonel
Charles P. Munske, Military Adj
Continued On Page Five)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-09-12
Falcon Farmer
Represents Cotton
Growers Association

FALCON, Miss, Sept. 9 -
(SpeciaD-N. B. Brooks, promi-
nent Negro merchant and Farmer
here has been appointed an official
representative of the South
Cotton Growers Association Of
Continued On Page Seven)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-09-12
Georgia Teacher
Locals May Lose
Charter Because
Of Bias

ATLANTA, Sept. 9-Some locals
of the American Federation of
Teachers, AFL, already have felt
the effects of a recent ruling of
the group outlawing segregated
locals.
Four Georgia local unions, with
a membership totaling several
Continued On Page Two)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-09-12

PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECT
OR: The above is Rev. r. H. Tuck
er, widely known New Orleans
businessman and AME minister,
and Director of Public Relations of
the 8th Episcopal District whose
work contributed much to the great
success of the Leadership Training
Institute recently held at Camp
bell College here.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-09-12

HIS WORK PRAISED: DIR. George
N. Collins, Pastor, Bethel AME
Church, New Orleans, La, and
prominent candidate for Bishop,
who won the highest praise from
both students and faculty for his
work as the director of the Leader
ship Training Institute recently
held at Campbell College here.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-09-12

PatrOniZe Our Advertis.
ers - Their Advertising
in this paper shows that
rhey appreciate your
trade.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1953-03-27
Mobile, ALABAMA
Children'S Corner:
The Passover Story

of Canaan, there was a crue
and selfish king named Ahab
He ignored the true God and lei
his foreign wife, Jezebel, bring
her foreign God, Baal, into the
kingdom.
There were many prophets,
however, who tried to tell the
people about the evil King Ahah
was bringing to them. A prophet
is a wise man who, it is believed
can talk with God and who
urges the people to keep the
laws of the Lord.
One of these prophets was
Elijah. One day he came to the
palace and told the King, "You
have led the people of Israel to
forsake the God of their fathers.
I tell you that there shall be no
rain, nor even dew, in all Israel,
until the people return to the
worship of God"
The king was angry and
wanted to arrest Elijah, but he
had disappeared. The drought
Elijah predicted came to pass.
No rain fell, the grass grew dry,
the crops failed and all the peo-
pie grew thirsty and hungry.
After many months, when all
the people were sick and un-
happy, Elijah once again ap-
peared before Ahab. He ordered:
Gather all the people of Israel
on Mount Carmel. And tell the
prophets of Baal, the evil for
eign God, to come too.
Ahab was frightened and did
as Elijah asked. On the appoint
ed day, Elijah addressed all the
people. LET the prophets of Baal