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The Delta Democrat-Times from Greenville, Mississippi • Page 2

The Delta Democrat-Times from Greenville, Mississippi • Page 2

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Page 2 The Democrat-Times, Greenville, Monday, December 5, 1949 Fight For Equal Educational Facilities Being Fought Out In Georga: Other Suits Are Pending 1st state, won aa Important round when UM fourth U.S. circuit court ef aaptsb held that Pmlaikl eosmty It Mats III Nem Wjh school IB arwther eeutj, neWMftaiirif a 44-mile ridt. The Irwin county case covers ground and sponsors of the By Richard C. Glus ATLANTA, (UP) The campaign of Negro groups for equall educational facilities from grade! echools up will be fought out In Georgia this winter after ish victories in the fringe statt of! Virginia, a United Press survey showed today. The next major federal court suit the calendar and which both Negroes and the sUle have promised to fljht all the way lo the U.S.

Supreme Court, was broajht by 18 Nrcro parents of Irwin In Central Georsta. The supreme court's rulings to date have been in favor of equal facilities in the cases of professional school students. The Irwin county covers Krade a high schools, and other suits in either states continue the drive for exjual graduate schools. COMPLAINTS AOAINST I education offered Negroes as com-j Estimates run between 100 and court will hear Dec. 5 the case In which Gladys N'o 1 Bates, former Jackson teacher, sued for equal pay for Negro teachers.

NAACT officials said similar Sulla would be. filed In "every county In the state." Gov. Fleldlnl Wrlcht expects equal-facility suits, also. A school board petition was filed Lake Village Church Is Host To Annual District Meeting UIUI gtukulu UL UIC ln I suit promise to take It I -Nov. 12 in Clarendon County, S.C.! all the court, if necessary.

200 .1" I hope to win equal teacher salar- ual They clann here ies buildings, transporl.lion, 0 braries, quality p( Teachers and sc ho01 children, the buildm.i. are A. M. College for Negroes. The Negroes refused an offer of scholarships to out-of-state colleges.

Two Negroes are also trying to enter the University of North Carolina law school. The Alabama supreme court nao reeovied a petition maadlttj that Nefroes bo admitted to thi bar without the neeesoitr of paaainc tor examination. White (radialos of Ih. UnlTenlty of Alabama law school are not required, to take the tuts, and the Net- roes say they decerve equal preference because the stato Itself sponsors their out-of- state ksal tnLnlac. Negro Altorney A.

T. Walden of NEGROES OF DURHAM, N.C.,'Atlanta, directing the campaign In have filed federal court pleadings this state as counsel for the for a declaratory judgment that NAACP, laid moro suits are they are discriminated agaiast up. The Irwin county city schools. Complaints center case, first set for early Novem- about equipment, buildings, sup-jber, is now expected to be tried piles and the fact that Negroes in January. Talmadge has prom- million dollars for Georgia lhavo only grammar and i to light it all the way, and t- 'schools, while whites have a a appointed a special assistant Petitions seeking equal facilities grammar.

Junior high and high attorney general to handle it. The National Association for the were filed last week against thr system. I( the judgment is grant- "LET ME WARN you" tho fov- Advancemciu of Colored People.jBulloch, Walton, Baldwin and ed, they wilt ask an injunction ernor said in a recent radio ad- the elru'e. won thejGreerte county systems, and the against discrimination. first victory when King George city systems of Atlinta, Slates-1 Still pending in the Florida sup LAKE VILLAGE The annual Low AltHifc Flight meeting of the Monticello oher items.

GOV. HERMAN TALMA DOE I old and unhealthy and teaching! facilities are inadequate. White; schools, Ihc Negroes said, are a I i has laid It Is In fact a suit to end! modern and well equipped. segregation in the schools. Talmadge says no Georgia county, or southern state, can afford the alternative of building and maintaining two accredited and complete ichnol systems.

pared to whites arc on lite In VioyiOO finla, Alabama, Mississippi, FloflRlon Ida and North and South Carolina. Dls-l trlct of churches will begin Wednesday In the Lake Village Methodist Church. The Rev. T. T.

McNeill will preside and direct activities. Antonc those expected to attend the Conference are l.S. Cannon, supt. of the Methodist Children's Home; Dr. K.

T. Wayland, editor of tho Arkansas MethadUl; Dr. Matt Ellla, president of Hendrlx Cotlece: R. E. Slmpoon, supt of tho Mctliodlst Hoopltal; a Roy E.

Faweett. executive secretary of tho I.ltUo lock Conference Board of Education. will be A. W. Davis, district stew- art; Forrest Cherry, a School superintendent; i 11' Sloan, charge lay leader; Mrs.

J. H. Hollaway, president of W.S.C.S. A pot luck dinner will be served by the ladies of the church during tho noon hour. County, floated a bond Issue and built a new high school dress, "that this move Imperils the basic structure of our southern 17-Yeor-OU Youth Identified As Eudora Robber: Nabbed By Polke EUDORA A 17 year old gun.

He had dropped to the flooi white boy, arrested near here! and had yelled for help. The at- Sunday afternoon by Constable! tempted thief ran away. iBill Ed Partain. was identified, The boy was taken to the Chl- by several persons as the youth cot county jai Lake Villag. who had held-them up in a series Sunday mjjhl by Slier oh of robberies and attempted i bell held a over the past The youth, i the chartes, admitted he was out on parole from a previous armed-robbery conviction in St I.oufa, Mo.

He said he had been plcklnr cotton a Shaw, Miss, last week, working for his uncle. He said his parents Hve at Ty- ironza, Ark. The youth was seen earlier Socket blast name sparing afternoon hiding along Skyrocket Irani-! the railroad south of Jennie. boro and Monroe in Georgia, ireme court is a suit in which fivt way of lilt. Let me sound the Such petitions are necessary be- Negroes.

The N'AACP dropped its fore a court lull can be filed, iuit In that instance. MJMtealpRi, a federal TO Aid Constriction Sheep Producers In County To Meet Tomorrow Afternoon Negroes seek admission to alarm that this move endangers University of Florida, for the that have been which are not offered at the state I handed down by our forefathers." YAZOO CITY W. Dunwoody has been by the Mississippi Chemical Corporation Project Engineer to work with engineers and construction contractors on the Corporatlon'i seven tnd one half million dollar, fer- tiliser plant to Ix- Incnlcd north of Yaroo City on U. S. Highway 49 jpast, according lo AH announcement by II.

L. Thompson, General Operntloni Manager. Mr. Dun woody comes Mbtlulppl from Kantu City, MUMurl where he WM ehtof engineer with Universal rlneerinf Corporation. Before war he a employed by E.

I. till Pont He Nemovra it Joplln, MlstoowH. After thU he In the and of the lirjre uwiw- Ufa and nitric acid Spencer Chemical Comptnr You Take No Risk When You Take BQR for Cold Symptoms Gives Relief Witk No Drmrti- ness or Bid After Effccti. New i At All Dcilen- tkc iniwcr ts Iht For HMIC olttn i ceU if Iht cold hM rfivibfij SMCt prompt ulrtl Item ctU IQt All km IQt III Alk row Juki for KKd lor bid cold trnpMM Mj bn i ill jfttr i or imprortj trtrtMK Ci KlMW A meeting of Washington coun- ihcep producer! will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at Collier and Taylor'i sheep pas- on Bo gut Phalim, three miles cast of LcUnd and Just south of Hlrhwiy 82. L- II.

MoMler. evHtu-al ajcent, Monday there will di.KUM.on of blema of nunAf etnent, feeding, vrsujnjf, Inc. ewt at UmbLnf tlipc, pant- care of nrphkn creep fecdtnf, Inf and other problems faclnf County Agent Moseley pointed out the great Increase in the county'i iheep population and need of iheep producer i to re- celvi more Itnowledgt of sheep raising. E. r.

GatlSSOM of State College, Exttiulon ihMp tptclaltit, and Waldemar Prlchard of Inverness, who hai attained outstanding lucctn with a flock cf 600 iheep, will help with the discussion. Sheep producers will at Tuesday meeting view I a i from native, western and i grade and several kindj of pastures. at Kuuu( f.rm- criy A a Works), aa Fnjeet Enxlnecr for Jvii prior hia Mmner-tton he Mrred FroJeek Enxtnetr for J. F. Prltchard Eniliwerinf Company ml Kamaa City.

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Floors and Your Fir DOOM, Porch'f, Froult, Whitker ar Out--Cull or Wrfit Ifr Tru IiHnatt Nolhinj Down Ttj Call or Write for meg ESTIMATES JONES Box 48 MANUFACTURING COMPANY CLEVELAND. MISSISSIPPI Phone 809 State- city- News Briefs -Delta (Continued from pags 1) AMCE BELL COLLECTING TOYS The Alice Bell Garden Club will Greenville Country Club Tuesday at 3 p. m. Memberl Instructed to i a Christmas toy with tbem. Thfae will be given to needy children In (he- conjimmlty.

Mrs. Phil Ma) hall will addrpsi the organization on Christmas decorations. NURSES WILL MEET TUESDAY The District Nurses Association will meet Tcesday at 7:30 m. in the home of Miss Flora King, 52C Arnold avenue. TWO MORE HIKES STOLEN Two more bicyclei were stolen In the ctly Sunday, police re- Hoover Given Chair For Bizarre Murder Of Wealthy Man NEW ORLEANS, (UP)--A district criminal court jury found Louis Eugene Hoover guilty Saturday of murdering multi-mil- lionairt James A.

Mahoney in French Quarter hotel room while Mirdi Gras danced end In the itreet below last February. HooYer, a 25-year-old veteran from heard the verdict with a clenched Jaw; It means that be mnat be tentenctfd to electric chair. But when he returned to cell, he broke down. He threw hii armi about deputy sheriff and deep ioba ahooV hij body. Five hours later, he was still crying brokenly, another murderer tried to comfort him through tht bars of an adjoining cell.

ports today shows. Aaa Williams, 403 Flunt street, made'a complaint I Kee J'cur courage, boy." that his Jim Brown maroon and while bikt was taken from murd rer Dal Simpson told Hoov- Parflmount Theater. Charles Victor, 153 Central, reported lhat hiai solid red Whizzer bicycle was taken from that address. SIMPSON KILLED a detective Both reports were made Inte Sunday afternoon within an 0 Labor Cay, 14S, and his death warrant has already been signed. EPISCOPAL WOMEN TO MEET ROLLING FORK--Episcopal women are invited to attend the Guild meeting here Monday at 2 p.

m. In Mrs. Jack Bagget'l home to hear Diocesan President Mrs. Dozier Lesler ol Inverness talk on ''The Triennial" meeting in San Francisco. CHICOT FARM BUREAU ELECTS LAKE VILLAGE--The 1958 effkers for the Chleet Fsrm Bureau have been elected.

They are John Gllliam. president: A. J. Wheeler, rlee-preildent; J. B.

Farmer, 2nd M. R. Glhbs, secretary snd Mike Maxantl, treasurer. According to the reports of the retent convention held at Ultle Rock, the Chleot county mmberahlp waa listed at 417 members, which Is an Increase if 55 per cent over that of 1141. Those attending the convention were John GU- llam.

BUI Ed Parlatn, R. J. Totey, Dallas Holbreok, Mr. and Mrs. E.

T. Frank, and Mr. and Mrs. Loyd Waters. The volinr delegates from Chleot eoanfy weri John Gllltam and R.

J. Poser. SERVICES FOR TRAFFIC VICTIM JACKSON (UP)-- Funeral vic to be held this ifter- noon (or Miss Susie SeLser, who was killed in a traffic accident late Saturday. EMPLOYMENT GOING UP MERIDIAN (UP)--The employment trend 1s npwird In Mlsalsalppl, It waa announced by the Employment Security OfHee here. An announcement released by the office said thai manufuclurtnr employment shows an Increase of seme 1900 workers, or 2.4 per cent.

In mld-Ootober as compared with the prior rnonth. NEGRO ESCAPEE SHOT JACKSON (UP)--L. C. McGill, a Jackson Negro, was shot and District Judge Fred has not announced when he will Hoover. "He ii taking the verdict very hard," aaid criminal Sheriff, John Grosch.

HooYer was so confident atqnftUl that ha and his sister, Mrs, Fattenon ftf JLonlrrme, bad aaadt hint to retara a long reat and try rehabllltaU nlaueK. Could Ike Carry South! $64 Question WASHINGTON, (UP) Speculation about Gen. Dwifht D. Eisenhower's futurs had political experts mullinf over this question today: Elsenbcwer. 1952 Republican PrealdenUal twmlnee, crack the solU aovth for first llnv.

1SHT A suggestion that could can heard among Republicans and Southern Democrats aUke. THK SOUfHTRN states hsYl gone solidly Democratic since Herbert Hoover carried five of them in 1028. Four gave their electoral lage said contact was being with law officers at. check on his story about his uncle there. Small Damage To House After Fire On Sunday Morning Fire broke out In a small eonie research plane, piloted was captured by Constable Par- between two unoccupied Gene May, 45, flashes barely 50, tain about 2:30 ind taken lo 1he.

rooms on tht? second floor at 310 feet above the dry lake bed at Mu- Van Story store near here, on Alexander street at 10 o'clock rot Air Force in It second Highway 65 where he bad report; Sunday morning and caused llyhl max Imam burst of rocket power. bought a cold drink on Mon-; damnge. maximum speed was day jg shortly before Rcyce withheld by Navy officials, May PaUerson accompaneid by two admitted the Mlchl was one Kudora women, was held many the so-called sonic an armwl roi)bcr barrier. No other aircraft has, ever flown faster than sound HE WENT TO THE restroom such a low altitude, officials being searched and there NKA Telephoto Virginia Colleges Among "Si-spect 7 BT.ACKSBURG, (UP) NCAA's "suspect seven," and said they would fight the sanity code regulations accusations rather than plead innocent to violations. NCAA announced Saturday that seven schools have been Firemen of Companies 1 and responded to an alarm and armed wjth a booster Uink quelled the i danuced a small area between apartment buildinr is oocst- pied by several families.

A run was made at 11:57 Mon- iy morning to North Broadway two teen-aged boys, laler found a .38 pistol and a 32nd degree Masonic ring set with a diamond, lit identified as having been stolen where Firi from a Lake Village motor court company No. 2. used a booster patron Saturday night along with. a lo ue ii flames caused whet? two five dollar bills. i of garbage set fire to The boy said the articles were; leaves and the fire threatened his, he had bought them from a -a hedge arid an automobile park- Three Virginia colleges admitted other nian in Lak Village for ed nearby, Monday that they are among the 1011 ha SCAFrOLDING and debris from la five feet Inches tall, weighs 138 pounds, was wearing blue denims, a lirht shirt, brown Jacket and with blond hair, Brought to Eudora, the youth Jmplement building, south- was confronted by Miss Julia B.

east of the telephone company cused of violating recruiting pro-iSimpson, who had been with Pat- building, Hedaquarters Fire Corn- visions of the code, that all 7 face'tersou when he was held up, She pany No. 4 extinguished tht expulsion at the association's an- "positively identified" him, offi- Mmnes, construction work on the new Southern Bell Telephone Company building on North Edison street, caught lire at 12:05 Mon- afternoon. The scene of tht fire waa In the rear of the DclU nual meeting ifi January, NCAA announcement did not Identify the colleges, but three! cers said, THE J. E. RABORNS, whose store was held up and $80 taken lahoma visiting this weekend but were reported to be on the way back to make i ification.

There was bery at thi but the cashier snid he could not of them--the University of Virginia, i i i a Military Academy and Virginia Tech--voluntarily owned up today. They insisted, however, that they were following an honest a not hypocritical policy, and thatl'dentlly anyone, having they would defend their policy be- fore the NCAA in a solid block, Loping to lick the threatened ouster. Expulsion would be i-erlous, since it probably means no A A universities could play the offenders in any sport. Almost all colleges NCAA members. in Ok- also an rob- 2 drops "of Fenetro Drops depot Friday night, to each 1 BROADWAY Collecting turtle eggs a the shores of the Orinoco River in Venezuela Is big i Gathered by Indiana, the eggs yield an oil cMled maniega, sold commercially as a fuel for lamps or a seasoning for food.

killed "as an escaping felon" early yesterday morning by a member votes to J. Strom Thurmond, of the cily police force. jStates' Rights Democratic noml- A coroner's Investigated the death of McGill, and last year in a revolt against tliot the Negro, who was charged with theft of clothing from! President Tniman's Civil Rights a Mobile and Ohio Railroad shipment, refused to halt when i program ordered to do so by police officers. C. Of C.

FATHER GETS OK DF.NTON, Tex. (UP)-- I i i from patfo 1) silil, and they a a (lal a of milk If the dairy Is built here. Tentative for i a i a was a welder, she ihe i i would call for a 50. d- per cent a loan with the addi- i a $20.000 being borrowed with local endorsers. Any addition Meaker, ia, Norlh Texas StiiU College sophomore, is the second girl in the 39-year history of the industrial arts department take a welding coune.

Her Eisenhower hai not yet declared party affiliation, but many Republicans and Democrats believe he will be available for the GOP nomination jn 1952. Grand Dam. rhird highest dam In the Is 550 feet cost above $40,000 would be borne lo tmi bv a a Farms. AT THE MONDAY i i nine members of the com mil tees themselves or, i i to endorse for i i a A i i a endnviEers will i be sought at a meet in set for m. Thursday at chamber of" rornmerco.

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