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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-08-06

| bllIlngSley, lHe oWHcI, dpaIt.
Billingsley, an ex-bootlegger of
questionable renown, happens to be
palsy with Walter Wichell. So
Winchell, who had previously pro-
fused his complete admiration for
Miss Baker in his column, leaped
aboard Billingsley's bandwagon
with a hate campaign against the
entertainer seldom surpassed.
| La Baker is anti-Negro, anti
Semitic, and prot Communist, Win
chell claimed. She retaliated with
100000 libel and SANDER suit
which may prove to be wordy Win
chell's greatest test. The matter
is still in litigation.
~ am a living example of the
mistakes he (Winchell) has made"
Miss Baker told me.
She debunked Wichelps claim
that she is anti-Negro by producing
photos of her mother and sister,
who along with other relatives,
live with her in France, and two of
her adopted children-a Senegal and
Colombian-all of whom are un-
mistakenly Negro.
Her transplanted family has
gained status in France on their
own initiative as businessmen and
civic leaders.
with these surroundings and
active participation in the NAACP
and Urban League, how can l pos
sibly be anti-Negro ?" she asks.
81 cannot and do not want to
escape being what l am"
Anti-Semitic Israelis recently
invited her to return to Israel for
nationwide appearances. She pro-
duced contract to that effect.
/ asked her fatty, what about
the Pro-Communist charge
She handed me her passport
stamped with friendly unlimited
entry" label, dished out sparingly
by the U. S. State Department.
The visa is good for two years
here.
read her clearance of any Com
munistic leanings in letters from
the State Department, Department
of Justice, and the immigration
and Naturalization Service.
This may not be good enough for
Winchell, but it's good enough for
me.
what about the anti-American
outburst you wrote in the Argen-
tine Newspaper, La Critica, de-
scribing the U. S. as a barbarous
land, living a false Nazi-like de-
mocracy' under conditions more
shocking than before World War
ii, with lynchings and electrocu-
tons the order Of the day." |
asked.
That really got her dander up.
She said she held press confer
ence on her arrival in Buenos
Aires and discussed her theatrical
plans and her work with humani-
tartan organization.
She said an associated press cor
respondent, Herbert Clark, needed
her on race relations in the United
States, and she wound up reciting
headlines she had read in Negro
publications. When the account ap-
peared in American newspapers,
she complained, it was false and
badly misquoted. Miss Baker de-
MED writing any articles for La
Critica.
Nonetheless, the report got her
in dutch with American Officials,
and the "cold war" she found her
self in since is just beginning to
unthaw.
| got the impression that Miss
Baker wasn't countering my probes
with cleverly planned double-talk.
Whenever l called on her to prove
what she said, she generally did
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of the state, were not without foun-
dation. From the states historic
all-Negro town Of Mound Bayou
came reports that the towns entire
vote of some ECO had been chal-
lenged on the ground Of party at
filiation. Mayor B. A. Greene
said that the Mound Bayou ballot
box contained a note bearing the
signatures of various candidates
saying that the vote of Mound
Bayou would be thrown out because
the voters were not members OF
the Democratic party.
The mayor, who was also the
election clerk, said that in spite OF
the challenge, the box would be sent
to the county election committee in
accordance with the law and the
usual procedure.
In Cleveland, which with Mound
Bayou is located in Bolivar County
in the heart of the dense Negro
population of the Mississippi Delta,
four Negro voters who went to the
polls in the face of the existing
threat, were challenged at the polls
and their votes taken and placed
in a large brown envelope. In
cluded in the group was the pres
ident and secretary of the local
branch of the NAACP.
In Bentonia, in Yazoo County,
Negro voters among several large
land owners, stayed away from
the polls after being warned q
few days before the election that
their attempts to vote might lead
to trouble.
Negro voters in Belzoni, where
the shooting to death Of Rev. G.
w. Lee recently put the spotlight
on the town regarding Negro vot-
ing, few days before the election
had asked the Governor to SEND
the militia to protect them in their
right to vote during the election
On election day several who went
to the polls, according to reports
had their votes taken after mark
ing the ballots and placed in ar
envelope instead of the ballot box
In another section of the state
at West Point in Clay County, the
sheriff is reported to have demand
ed the ballot of each Negro voter
and placed the ballot in a large
brown envelope.
According to we'll informed
sources the Negro voters in the
Tuesday election were challenged
on the ground of being Republi-
cans due largely to the fact that
many Negro voters who were
known as Democrats and registered
under the leadership of the Mis-
sissippi Association of Negro DEM
coats Clubs deserted the party and
the organization following the Re-
publican victory.
Negro voters in the larger cities
of the state which includes Jackson,
Greenville, Vicksburg, Meridian,
and Clarksdale, voted without in
cident but even in the larger cities
only a fraction of the qualified
Negro voters are believed to have
taken part in the election, largely
because of the attitude of the can
didates in regard to the Negro vote.
All of the candidates during the
campaign tried to create the i'm
preston that they did not want
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Before the closing Of the polls
at 6 o'clock Tuesday evening re-
POETS from over the state Indicated
that the fears known to exist a.
mong Negro voters, especially in
the small towns and rural areas
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ulations.
First Army officialdom has main
tanned that Mrs. Tait's dismissal
was "a matter of efficiency"
However, the Department OF the
Army is conducting the hearing in
absolute secrecy.
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Mound Bayou -.

CONTINUED from Page One).
CATION In the public schools Of the
state at any and AL cost.
Arizona sun., 1955-05-06
Who Gets Executed?

Eqhtytwo persons got the deoth penalty in the United
sotes year. Fortyhree Of them Negroes len OF me
fory-three under nineteen years OF oge
Ten Of thiryfve persons who were executed IN
the California gas chamber Negroes. -
Since 1890 1905 Negroes have been executed ond = 9
whites got the death penalty
Who these figures add up is the toet thot the poor
and dsodvontueed get the death penalty the United sote
The rich the influential manage to save their neeks.s
The California Assembly has Just passed bin rov4dIng
that vries the penalty in eoP ease me low
otherwise the Jury the buck 70 the Judge py
refusing request Ieneney Tho leoves i up TO the page
to order the taking Of human lHe =,
We think have sold before, that the deoh Penoy
hanover of and that ought to be nbolished
We think Assembly should have token ho step buf m
the obsenee Of much do applaud the Judgment
Of the LEGISLATORS putting the natter sqUorey up to Jurors
stostics show that few vries will order execution
As with all progressive Legislation in this ofe'
the bill oce touqh hazard in the Senate where the back
country Legislators operate the theory tho hof was eoo
enough backward enough for grandfather GOOD enough
for them
We think that about time thot California got out OF
Of numbering for the crime OF moroern9
onother. Neither is justified.
Reprint Courtesy Of the California Eogle
Arizona sun., 1955-05-06
Share Your Wisdom
BY DIR. THOMAS r.. GAINES

NEW YORK (GlobaD-If weak
ness was Gods intention for men,
there would be less sunlight, less
fresh air, less natural food and
less vital force in the world. But
strength for you and every human
being is undoubtedly Gods plan.
Never be content when assailed by
weakness. Realize weakness is un-
natural. Years ago, people believed
the earth was flat and they unhes-
itantingly accepted as being true
such an erroneous conclusion. Make
mental picture of yourself every
Gay seeing yourself dynam C,
strong, young. Think of yourself
as channel through which
strength is intended to flow.
Arizona sun., 1955-05-06
STRAIGHT AHEAD
BY OLIVE A. ADAMS

(until they get away from home).
They just don't dare buck the sys-
tenn. With the proper support, they
would.
This recent separate but equal
deal some of the Southern commu-
mites have been trying to work
out, has brought gleam of light
to a lot of people down there. In
order to make the Negro schools
equal" they have had to dig down
deep into their treasures and re-
place some broken down shacks
with modern buildings. We under
stand that, as result, there are
many white people in the South
who are now about to contend for
the privilege of sending their chill
dren to "some of those nice pretty
new colored schools" For some rea-
son, they don't even seem to mind
that they would be sending their
children to school with Negroes.
Somehow, Southern governors
and congressman notwithstand, the
people who up to now have had no
representation nobody to speak
up for their rights to associate with
whom they please =. are going to
begin to make their wants and
wishes known. There is a nice hard
core of youngsters coming up in
some of the colleges who are going
to take good look at the pat
tern of segregation and realize it's
an expensive and meaningless thing
they can't afford. r..
Arizona sun., 1955-05-06
Memory
Lone

Would you mind strOlling down
Memory Lane with us while we
relive the social and other events
of five years ago, when
Mrs. Marie Grant of 171O S. 3rd
Ave, accompanied by. her daughter
GoIdie Mae, returns from a two.
week business trip in New Orleans,
La.
The home of Mr.. and Mrs. Dan
Kimbrough, 1922 E. Adams, was
the setting for surprise gift party,
honoring Miss Marian Nalle OF. De-
troit, Mich, niece of Rev and Mrs.
F. D. l.. Mcdonald Of TANNER
Chapel. - ....-
Mrs. James Poole of 1914 81,
Woods st. announces the marriage
of her daughter Mary Lee Rhymes {
to James Dunnigan of Los Angeles, !.
in Tijuana, Mexico. - n
Mrs: Richard Ready returns. to5%
home in Brooklyn, N.Y. after d !
pleasant visit here with mother;
Mrs. Cleo Watson, and her aunt,
Mrs. Jennie TannehilI, both of 1000
s. 7th Ave. I
Royalettes is the name given a :.
new social and charity club un-
del the sponsorship of Fleeeie Jor-,
dan. Officers are Eleanor Rags
dale, president; Dorothy Williams,
vice-president; Jean Comedy, re-
cording secretary; and Ludia John. =.
son, treasurer. "
Tucson School for the Blind gives
a concert featuring Hewlett Splith,
son of Mrs. Josephine Smith, at En- L
canto Bandshell. -.
Van Blackman, II, popular. Car
yer High student, wins Phoenix
OrpheuS Clubs annual music Scho-
larship award at Phoenix College.
1t provides one years flute lessons
during the freshman year.
In recent issue of Daily Barona- 3
eter, Oregon State College student
announces election of
Williams MAXWELL Phoenix boy
and Carver graduate as first vice
president for 1851. He led his OPP >
ponent by vote of more than
TO l. -
Arizona sun., 1955-05-06

in a special account controlled by
the Chaplains Committee.
Rev,sA. r. Snipes, Memorial Hos
pital Chaplain, in a letter to pas
tors throughout the Valley says,
Ministers. often experience the
Illustration of being unable to help
their people, in times of. distress.
The Mothers Day plan, used for
Years in other sections of the
country, brings the sick bed to the
side Of your pulpit and reinforces
your preaching voice with the
healing hands tof Christianity"
The Mothers Day program will
be administered as follows:
1. Funds collected will be used
to provide medical care only TO
those deserving, church-going peo-
pie of the area who cannot afford
disqualification.
2. Funds collected shall not be
used by Memorial Hospital as a
lump sum to pay off any past op-
Grating charity deficit, or to subsi-
die any current charity operation
outside the scope Of the fund.
3. The overall disposition of the
fund shall be under the general
supervision of the chaplain's Com
mittee of Memorial Hospital.
Colorful posters and folders de-
Scribing the Mothers Day program
are available at Memorial Hospital
at no cost and will be delivered TO
any church that requests them.
Arizona sun., 1955-05-06

@. What is a. good way to CONF
bat a fresh calluS on the foot?
A. Nightly applications of cold
cream are effective.
@. How can Sweeten cream
that has turned slightly sour?
A. 1t can be sweetened and be
used for coffee without curdling or
tasting sour, if a very small guam
tity of baking soda is added to it.
Arizona sun., 1955-05-06

NEW YORK, (GlobaD = When
ever anybody talks civil rights to
the Southerner, he always hears
that it's nobody's business how they
run things down there. People
shouldn't be allowed to mix if they
don't want it that way. And they
don't want it that way, sub.
We wonder if it ever occurred to
these people that they, themselves,
are often interfering with other
peoples personal choices of friends.
BY enforcing segregation laws,
they are imposing injuStces upon
people woh don't want to be seq
regated. Further, they are impos-
ing their laws on visitors who may
not share their beliefs that the
Negro has no rights which a white
man is bound to respect.
We have in mind a 12-year-old
girl who was planning trip South
with her family. 1t would be nice,
she said to her mother, if her best
friend could go along, and she be-
gan a campaign of persuasion. OBJ
jections were knocked out one by
one, until the child finally had to
be told the cold, hard truth-She
could not visit the South with her
best friend, because her best friend
was Negro. They would not be
allowed to stay together, nor to
visit any of the places of interest
together. The child was hurt and
confused, and urged her parents
not to make the trip at all if her
friend couldn't go along.
This young girls impression of
the South is anything but favor
able, but she doesn't have to live
there. There are many other chill
dren who have been asking their
parents for years, why can't ]
play with so and so" and have not
been getting very satisfactory an
sWers. For, as Lillian Smith has
pointed out many times, the South
erner has never found a direct
answer to the child who asks "that
awful question, 'Why?'" 1t is oft
en- difficult for a young Southern
er to accept the separation of the
races. Some of them solve the
problem by moving away; others
stay where they are and enjoy
whatever relationships they can
But not too many have the cour-
age to speak out openly against il
Arizona sun., 1955-05-06
A Memorial
ForMother

Mothers Day has a very special
and serious meaning to an 11-year-
old Phoenix boy who was one of
the first babies born at Memorial
Hospital, in Phoenix.
He visited there this week on
the eve of the lunching of the
Mothers Day Hospital Fund . q
program designed by ministers of
the Chaplairs' Committee to en-
list the aid Of churches to defray
hospital expenses of their members
unable to pay.
His name is Junior" Perez,
and he was born at Memorial Hos
pital on Feb. 16, 1914, just two
days after the hospital opened its
doors. In the intervening years,
Memorial Hospital has served sew
eral hundred thousand patients and
ever $4,000 babies have been born
in its obstetrical department.
According to Mr. Pete" Perez
juniors father, of 1913 S. 9th Ave.
Junior is a typical American boy,
playing baseball, kickball and vol
ieyball at Grant School. He tells
me that he also enjoys studying
math at school, but sometimes I'm
afraid baseball might come first. ,,
Mr.. Perez, now in his 14th year of
employment with local contrac-
tor, has three other small children.
Their mother died five years ago.
During the years Junior Perez
has been growing up, Memorial
Hospital too has grown, adding sew
eral buildings and many new Serv-
ices for the people of Phoenix. In
1914, a new Nurses Home was
and in 1945 the hos
pita!'S modern ~ wings were add
ed for general patient care. The
year 1949 signalled the addition
Of the vital polio ward, caring for
hundreds of children and adults
during the dread polio summers.
An Interns' Home was built in
1916 and in 1854 a general pSychi-
airy wing was established to care
for those patients needing immedi-
ate psychiatric attention.
While visiting with Junior Pc
rez and his father who brought a
gift for the Mothers Day Fund,
Superintendent Mclaughlin point
cd cut that Memorial Hospital has
been a great influence on the
good health of Phoenix and the
surrounding area. In the IL years
Of its existence Memorial has con-
tributed more than $1,000,000 in
free services to the people of Phoe-
nix, and in 1854 alone, Memorial
Hospital gave $780, $50 of free medi-
cal care. According to Superintend-
ent Mclaughlin, "If you include
free care Of it's cancer clinic, pre-
natal clinic and other clinics, Me-
mortal Hospital donated over $780,
GOO to needy sufferers in 1854"
These monies have never been
repaid nor does Memorial Hospital
receive any state or municipal as
sistance. The hospital wants to
continue in 1855 and during the fu-
ture to render the same needed
service.
The interdenOminational Chap
lains' Committee of Memorial Hos
pital is now asking every church
in the Phoenix area to take up
a special collection on Mothers
Day, May 8, 1855, to provide hos
pital care for those unable to pay.
These funds are to be impounded
Arizona sun., 1955-05-06
CHARM
BY LOU LuTOUR

NEW YORK, (GlobaD The
foundation of good grooming is
first of all, cleanliness. This law
of charm embraces not only the
articles of clothing that are worn,
but also the care of the body it.
self. The daily bath is must and
the woman who makes it a ritual
is able ito reach her goal of being
accepted socially with much more
ease than she otherwise could.
Some bathing tips that pay big
dividends are these: First run
warm water into the tub-not too
hot. Add bath salts, bath oil, or a
portion Of your favorite cologne,
in order to impart "a fragrance to
your skin and insure a. dainty and
delicate effect. This fragrant set
ting viii do wonders in helping
you to relax. Remain in the tub
long enough. to scrub the body
thoroughly. using your choice of
soap. Rinse well and dry the body
with a fresh Turkish towel.
Arizona sun., 1955-05-06

Q. Can you tell me what some
of the causes of dry skin are?
A. Dry air, poor circulation, too
much sun, nervousness, hard water,
extreme fatigue, illness, and UNDER
nOuriShment
Arizona sun., 1955-05-06

O.. What is the proper eyeshad-
ow application if the eyelids are
heavy. or thick, or if they drOOp?
A. Apply beneath the eyebrows
and blend downward toward the
laSheS
Arizona sun., 1955-05-06

nOuriShnnent
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1955-03-31
DIED
ROY WESLEY CASE

Roy Wesley Case, 54, owner and
operator Of Mill Stone lodge at
Aurora, W Va, died last Thursday
March "a, in Memorial hospital.
Cumberland, after a short illness.
Born June 30, 1902, at Naugatuck,
Conn, he was a son of the late MIR.
and Mrs Arthur Case Surviving
are his widow, Mrs. Margaret
Stemple Case two brothers and
four sisters, all of New York and
Connecticut
A member of the Aurora Metho-
dist church. he also was a charter
member of the Mountain Lions
club of Aurora and held member
ship in Bethesda Md lodge 204,
A., F. and A. NJ; in Rose Croix
chapter, Morgantown, West Vir-
ginia Consistory, Wheeling, and
was a 32nd degree Mason.
Funeral services were conducted
Sunday afternoon at o'clock from
the Aurora Methodist church, with
Rev. Hugh Smiley, pastor, officiat-
ing Rowlesburg lodge 165, A., F.
and A. NJ, conducted Masonic rites
at the grave in Aurora cemetery.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1955-03-31

viii be mailed to any additional
farm family who enrolls, Swisher
said
This booklet" Swishcr eX-
planned, is a short course IN good
farming. 1t lists the better farm
practices in the major enterprises.
The booklet was prepared with the
advice of farm and home specialists
from the Extension Service of West
Virginia University A section of
the book is for recording the activi-
ties of each family on its farm dur
ing the 1855 farm year. This infor-
nation, plus farm visits, will en-
able the county Farming for Better
Living Council to select the county
winners this fall
The Farming for Better Living
program, initiated 16 years ago by
the Upper Monongahela Valley AS
sociation. is sponsored in Garrett
County by the Garrett County
Farming for Better Living Council
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1955-03-31
HENRY A. SCHAEFFER

Henry A. Schaeffer, IS. retired
miner, died Saturday morning,
March 26, in Meyersdale Communi-
ty hospital, where he had been a
patient for one week with bronchial
asthma and a heart condition.
A native of Homecoming, he was
a son of the late Henry and Christi
ma Leinsetter Schaeffer and moved
to Grantsville in 1902 He had been
residing recently with daughter,
Mrs. Lois Yutzy. at Garrett, Pa.
Also surviving are a son, Donald
Schaeffer Baltimore; a sister, Mrs.
Elizabeth Lohr, Baltimore: two
brothers, William and Leonard
Schaeffer, both of Grantsville; and
three grandchildren His wife, the
former Fannie Lohr died several
years ago.
Mr. Schaeffer was a member of
Grantsville Lutheran church and
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1955-03-31
1t Runs Through
My Mind
nv DOLLY i HANSY
Glazed Bricks
BY POLLY J. HANST

This story was told to me several
weeks ago. Since can't shake it,,
I'll unload it on you. It's one of
those things that the more you give
away the more you have for your
self.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1955-03-31

downs throughout the night.
Wages-board and room plus a
few clothes and little spending
money-usually very little
Type Of worldwide range, from
garbage collector to mind reader
Vacation-Some more of the same
thing
Health-You'd Just as well be
healthy, for you've got to keep go
ing.
Seasonal or permanent-If you
make it seasonal-it won't be
permanent
Opportunities for advancement
All kinds You'll soon learn to do
in one minute what you once did
in two.
Duties-Too numerous to men
ton.
Advantages-And here | could
write two pages-for am fully con-
WINGED that of all the careers there
are, nowhere can one find so many
satisfying experiences as in mar
riage and homemaking, and in this
profession it's not the facts that
count.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1955-03-31

Four Of % passengers died when
airliner plunged into Pacific.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1955-03-31
MRS. RHODA ElkE

Mrs. Rhoda Fike GO, wife of S.
X. Fike, died at her home in Pied
mont w, Va, Wednesday, March
Is, after an illness of several years.
Deceased was born at Avilton,
this county, the daughter of the
late Rev. David M. and Mary E.
Beeghley Merrill but had lived in
Piedmont for thirty-seven years.
Mrs. Fike was past Noble Grand
of Miriam Rebekah lodge No. TO-
and was lifelong member of the
Church of the Brethren. She served
for nineteen years as president of
the Friendship Bible class and had
a 23-year perfect attendance record
in the Sunday school.
Surviving besides her husband.
are two daughters, Mrs. Helen De
Witt Westernport; Mrs. Ruth
Walker Piedmont; three sons, Paul
Fike, Arlington. Va; Ralph Fike,
WeSternport; and Frank Fike, Pied
mont; also one brother, Jesse Mer-
rill, Avilton; four sisters, Mrs.
Grace Johnson, Geneva, ILL.,; Mrs.
Clara Sample, Mt. Pleasant, Pa;
Mrs Anna Kelly, Masontown, Pa;
and Mrs. Edith Railey, Deep Greek
Lake; and four grandchildren.
Funeral services were conducted
Saturday, March 49, from the Boal
Funeral home in Westernport with
Rev. Byron Flerey, pastor of the
Westernport Church of the Breth-
rem, and Rev. Arthur Scrogum
pastor of the Living Stone Church
of the Brethren of Cumberland, of
ficiating Burial was in Philos Gene
terry, Westernport
Four Of % passengers died when
airliner plunged into Pacific.