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~WASHINGTON, D. C. ~ Dr.: W: H, Jernagin, President of the

National Sunday School and B.
Y. P. U. Congréss, meeting inxits
42nd Annual.Session, Oakland,
California, June 16-22, announces
that the Congress program for

1947 will include class arrange-,

ments, -seminars, public demonstrations, visual! audo aids for
teaching; clinics in Home Department, Daily Vacation and other
church school work. There will
be visual instruction for church
Jeaders. )

In addition to study course offered last year special courses
will be offered this year for min-isters wives and ~also missionary
workers attending the Congress.
A complete outline of the courses
will be announced May 15 from
the office of Dean Fisher. The
Congress théme for this year is
~The Task of Christian Leader
Negro Prex
Reception.
Fisk~s First

CHICAGO.~(ANP)~Fisk university~s first Negro president
was honored here last week at
~a gala reception at beautiful
Parkway ballroom.

Local intellectuals joined Fisk
university~s alumni to pay homage to Dr. Charles S. Johnson,
the 53-year-old educator whose
academic aghievements date

back to World War I. Dr. Johnson, recognized as one of the

~nation~s foremost race relation

experts, was accompanied by his
wife, Mrs. Marie, Antoinette Burgette. Johnson.

Notables in the receiving line
included Dr. and Mrs. Edwin
R. Embree, of the Rosenwald
fund; Robert Le Cook, president of the Chicago Fisk club,
and wife; James E. Stamps,
~president of the General Alumni
association, and wife; Atty. and
Mrs.. James B. Cashin; Dr. Edward J. Sparling, president~ of
Roosevelt collége, and wife;
Lawrence A. Kimpton, vicepresident of the University of
Chicago; and Mrs. Helen Y.
Howard, chairman of the arrangements committee.

Vakland, Cali., Prepares for Baptist
Sunday School and B. T. U. Congress

ship Training for Social Action.~

Prof. E. W. D. Isaac, Director |
General, urges all B.T.U. work- |
ers to take the new course offer- |

DETROIT ~ State
Sen, Joseph A. raat only Negro member of *the Machigan~
State senate and one of the few ~

et in order to assure fficiency in! remaining Democrats, was 4 life

the enlargement of this program,

saver for little ~~~Sugar Chile~~

Outstanding among the various! Robinson, the child boogie-woo
committees is the Housing: Committee of which Rev. D. Haynes,
chairman and request for reservations may be sent to 927: Adaline Street. This committee has |
provided homes enough to take
care of 8,000 delegates and vis- }
itors that will attend the 42nd
Congress session. One of the conveniences at Oakland will be that
all General Assembly meetings
will be held at the Oakland Municipal Auditorium, and the class
room sessions will be held at the
First Baptist Church and First
Methodist Church (white).

Congress registration this year
will begin, Saturday, June 14 at
2 PM.

Find 4 Sugar
Stamp Gangs;
2 in Chicago

CHICAGO ~ ANP ~ Federal
authorities have traced the flow
of stolen and counterfeit: sugar

stamps to four separate gangs,
with two of them operating from

headquarters here. The other
gangs are in-New York ~ and
Georgia.

Difference between the first

and second local gangs is that
the first specialized in counterfeit stamps while the second ped
dled stolen ~ stamps, federal
agents revealed, Four persons
were arrested last week and

charged with being members of
the second: gang.

G.!, Who Hit at Army Courts
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FRANKFURT, GERMANY.~

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13 soldiers who complained last Au
gust that they had been confined in

an army jail for four to nine weeks
without formal charges, was sentenced to a five year prison term
and was fined $1,000. He had been
convicted by an army egurt of forg
ing currency control book ~S, ~ s

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| this state are concerned.

A child labor law bill introduced in the senate a few days
ago dealing with ages and work
| ing conditions of children had a
professional or performers~
clause which designated that
children performers must be part

Two Receive
Music
Scholarships

COLORADO SPRINGS, Col,~
| ANP~Two music students of
Colordao college, one white and
one Negro, received last week the
' first scholarship awards of the
Cooper foundation, which operates the Uto, Trail and Tompkins

Checks for $500 each were presented to Miss Virginia Paris, Los
Angeles, and Erwin Winward,
Milwaukee, Mis., by Ivan Hoig,
city manager for the foundation,
in the presence of Miss Carol
Traux, executiye director of Colorado college~s music department.

Providing scholarships to Colorado college students is in line
with the foundation~s policy of
spending money in the state in
which it is earned, said Hoig.

Beauticians Make
$3,000 Gift to

Bethune Cookman

DAYTON BEACH, Fla. ANP~
The United Beauty School Own-.
ers and Teachers association presented Bethune Cookman. college
with, $3,000 for the school~s building fund, it was disclosed here
last Wednesday. The beaticians~
group was meeting, together with
Greek-letter affiliates, Alpha Phi

Omega sorority and fraternity, in
its first national annual convention at Bethune-Cookman between Feb. 27 and March 2

_came to Philadelphia.~~

Michigan State Senator ~Saves~
Sugar Chile As A Performer

| of a traveling theatrical company.
Sen. Brown says, after having
[read the bill, he immediately
thought of Sugar Chile whose
werk ~> mcr? er less of the solo
| variety. Through contact with the
senator who introduced the bill,
Brown was able to have it-altered so as not to effect the tny
boogei--woogie king or any other
child solo performer in this state.

Past Overtakes
Robber Fugitive

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Gave Up Good Life He Had
Built for Himself When
Faced With Old.

PHILADELPHIA.~In a few minutes of time one day recently, Frederick Lott, 47, quietly gave up the
new life he had built for himself
over six years in this city. It was
the life in which he was married to
a nice girl, had a comfortable
home, worked regularly, earned an
honest living and had a lot of fun
being an average guy.

But there had been the other life
before this one, the one he had
almost forgotten; there was the
past he could not quite escape, not
even in the ayerage home, his typical neighborhood.

It caught up to him finally, this
past, in the freakish manner that
so often delights the fates, and he
stood before Judge Harry S. Me:
Devitt in the city hall, and said,
very quietly:: *

~T agree to waive extradition.~

And there wasn~t anything else
he could do. It had to be the ehd,
for a time at least.

So he went back to New York,
where he has been wanted as a fugitive ever since 1940.

a Butglary Charged.

In 1940, Lott was captured by
New York police after a shot-punctuated chase. He was wounded in
the leg and hand, and charged with
burglary as the result of a series of
safe robberies.

With his partner, he went on trial.
Both of them were free under $5,000
bail at the time, and one day the
partner just didn~t show. He left a
note, telling of his runout. Lott decided he~d better run away, too.

He jumped through a window in
the Criminal Courts building and
escaped.

He came to this city, changed his
name to Miller and~ went to work in
an industrial plant. There he met
the 17-year-old girl who fell in love
with him,and became ~his wife.
They were married in Elkton, Md.

They set up their home in the
Kensington section of the city. They
were like most any married couple.

~T was living an honest life. I~ve
béen Honest ever since the day 1]

Glad It~s Over.

Then, early this year, there had
been another series of safe jobs in
this city. Detectives John McCrory
and Andrew Kelleher were working
on them.

Investigating in Kensington, they
picked up a safe robber and he told
them about a man named Miller.

They looked over the rogue~s gallery picture. They made the arrest.
It was as simple as that.

There was nothing Lott could say
except: ~~I~m the guy.~~

He admitted he was the one wantea in New York since 1940. The
appearance before Judge McDevitt
was. perfunctory. The detectives
from New York were waiting for
him. They took him into custody.
~ ~Now that it's happened, I~m glad
it~s over with,~~ Lott said, before
he began his trip away -from the
good life.

~I want to go back and face the
music, and take whatever penalty
I get. Then, some day, I.can come{
back here and really start over
right, without anything behind me.~

Countess Hit by Snowball

As She Christens New Ship

LONDON. ~ A snowball hit. the
Countess of Dudley squarely in the
face as she stepped forward to
christen a new 3,200-ton cross-channel steamship at its launching at
Birkenhead yards.

The missile was a stray toss~from
a lively snowball fight among playful workmen impatiently awaiting
the launching in a heavy snow
flurry. ~

The countess laughed, heaved her
bouquet at the battling workmen.
turned: to the ship and said, ~I
christen thee St, David."

Hiding Six Six Years.

gram, ~Night Life,~

~Bow Tie Jim.~

A hit on records, on radio, in movies and nite clubs (which, by the way, is four other
F cat they have clicked with their original compositions
ide,~ Will 1 Ever~ and the Apollo disc ~Bow Tie Jim.~

wavs the boys hit the ja
~Whitlaway,~ ~Let It

LOUMELL MORGAN, TRIO CLICKS FOUR WAYS.

There's ga worn-out paraphrase that reads: Long deep, wide and handsome~or words
to tHat effect. A look at the record will indicate that the Loumell Morgan Trio has been
around a long time, deep in the groove, their fame has reached world-wide proportions,
and, yes siree Bub~they~re a handsome lot. Currently featured on the CBS network proevery Tuesday night frcm 10 to-10:30 p.m., the boys have, among
other things. scored teeinennousy with their Apollo recording of ~Blues in the Night~~ and

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MORE WHITES THAN
NEGROES IN S. C. PEN

COLUMBIA, 8. C~(ANP)~
The number of white prisoners now in South Carolina
State penitentiary slightly exceeds that of Negroes, according to a report issued here last
Friday by Sol. A. Roy Ashley, superintendent of the state
prison. -

The ~state pen currently has
1,007 prisoners, of which
whites are in the majority. Ex
act figures to show what number is representative of each
roup was not available, however. Sixty-eight prisoners are
at the women~s penitentiary,
with 778 at the Columbia
prison and 23] on the three
farms operated by the prison,

South Carolina has a total
population of 1,899,804, of.
which number, 814,164 or 43
percent are Negroes.

New York Bans Child
Welfare Agency Jim Crow

NEW YORK.~(ANP)~Warning child care agencies that discrimination against Negro children will not be tolerated by
those agencies, the city department of welfare has issued an
ultimatum saying that financial
aid will be denied these agencies failing to comply.

Coverly Fischer, chairman of
the Council of Affiliated Federation of Protestant Welfare
agencies said that his group
with other agencies should cooperate to see that these instructions are carried out..

New York has been notoriously negligent of colored children and although there are a
number of denominational homes
operating within the city, most
of them are for white children
and refuse to accept colored although they receive funds from
the city on a non discriminatory
basis.

Fischer said there is discrimination and as hateful as it is,

5 African Slayers
Win Fifth

~Reprieve

apriey ANP ~ A virtua!
llth hour intervention by the
London colonial office saved five
Africans, condemned for the voodoo killing of a Gold Coast subchieftian, from a mass hanging
in the Gold Coast colony. early
last week.

The doomed men were scheduled to meet the hangman at.6 a.
m. last March 4, but during the
night before, Gov. Alan Burns,
60, received a cable from the colonial office informing him that
members of the parliament were
in an angry mood and had demanded a stay of execution.

there are those guilty of racial
prejudices. However, he called
upon his group to meet the issue
squarely and -to treat all children as equal individuals regardless of race. All affiliates of
the organization were urged to
follow the same pattern.

Protestant agencies have not
worked out adequate programs
for the care of Negro children,
Fischer said, and because of
this, white children are placed
much faster than colored children. The Negro children now
comprise 59 percent of the waiting list of children to be placed.

~We must remember,~ he said,
~that much as we abhor racial
prejudice, it does exist. We must
spread the truth of our conviction, not with an attitude of
self-righteousness, but with
abounding faith in its ultimate
realization by example and demonstration. And finally, there
must be unfailing support and
a sense of responsibility on the
part of our Negro fellow-citizens
themselves.~.

Mighty Atom *

Atoms are so small that it takes
109,000,000 of them laid side by side,
to extend over a linear inch. Nuclei
are so much smaller yet, that it
would take 100,000 of them to span
the diameter of an atom. Neutrons
and protons inside the atom have
properties in common with the
earth: they rotate on an axis and
they are magnets. These tiny
bodies circle and spin, and maker
edllisions with each other of whict
the consequences are described b;
physicists as closely as though they
had before them the report of a
traffic accident. These descriptions
defy the old notion of the solidity

THIS IS AMERICA,_
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VISITED.
Austin, MUNN,
AS A wool
BUYER FOR
CHICAGO FIRMA

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of solid matter and the deadness o
dead weight.

Dad Goes to Bring Mother,

Baby Crawls to Icy Death
PRINCETON, ILL: ~ A ~father
told authorities that his 15-monthold son, Kelly Powers, was snug
asleep in his crib when the child
was last seen alive.

Four hours after Glenn Powers
left his child to bring his wife home
from a Princeton hospital where
~she was employed, the child~s
frozen body was found in the yard.

The infant apparently had
crawled from the house into the
near zero temperature. A coroner~s
jury found the death accidental.

Star Shell Kills Sailor on

Missouri at Target Practice
WASHINGTON. ~ The 45,000-ton
battleship Missouri was hit by a
star shell during target practice in
the North Atlantic, the navy revealed. One man died of burns.

Boy {s Rescued From
~ Pond by Helicopter

CENTRAL FALLS, R. 1.~Edavzrd Koussa, 14, was rescued
(iv @ helicopter after 20 firemen
x.8re unable to save him from
irowning in an ice-covered ~
at Valley Falls park.

The youth fell through the ion
after accepting a dare to cross the
large pond. He crashed through
the ice when part way across.

Husband Loses Out
in Race With Death

rincs Wife Dead ot Telephone
iter Calling Him.

ATLANTA. ~ E. M. Cossitt~s coworkers lovl:ed up in surprise when
he banged down, the telephone receiver and da shad qut of the office.
They didn~t know that Cossitt was
racing against time~

Cessitt had been talking to his
wife. She had calied from home to
say ~~Gocd-by, darling. I love gou.~~
Then he heard a thurrp as if her
body hadi fallen to the floor.

Cessitt, who works for the U. S.
Forestry service, got into his automobile and drove home in _ breakneck speed. di

The door was locked.
the bell. He shouted.:

Then he broke down the door,
Cosstt found his attractive 38-yearold wife slumped beside the télephone, wearing her white. satin
wedding nightgown:

There was a note still clutched in
her hand. ae
~Dear Floyd, I've always loved
you better than life itself,~ the
letter said, ~~so please don~t ~think
too harshly of me.

~Darling, it. won't be necessary.
for you to see a lawyer now. To me
anything would be better than that.

~Without you I wouldn~t be ~
anything, anyway.

~T~ve loved the children, vr I~ve
tried to make a home for them, but
apparently I've failed, and I don~t
like failures.

~All my love, Sally.~ F

Cossitt didn~t read the letter until
the police had arrived. First he had
called for medical help. The doctor
summoned the police.

Cossitt said they ~had quarreled.
It wasn~t as serious as his wife had
thought, he said.,

Physicians told Cossitt that his
wife had died of an overdose of
sleeping tablets.

Veteran Risks His Life to
Rescue Dog on Mountain Side

He rang

The accident occurred December

ing cruise to Argentia, N. F.
The victim ~was Coxswain Arthur
Fountain of Thorndyke, Mass.

flewborn Infant Saved From
tarwation by Operation
Bardia ~ A surgeon's

skillful hands saved the life of a
newborn infant who otherwise
would have starved to death.
| When Kenneth Oresti was born,
he was unable to take nourishment
because his~ oesophagus, through
which food passes, ended in: a
closed pouch not connected with his
stomach.

D.. Emile Holman, chief surgeon
at Stanford hospital, removed three
ribs from thé baby~s right side, then
connected the _oesophagus with the
stomach.

Canadian Aid in War Put at

Close to 4 Billion Dollars

OTTAWA. ~ Canada, in addition
to financing her own war effort,
contributed close to four billion dollars worth of supplies, foods and
war materials to warring nations
ard liberated countries, the government said. The Canadian Mutual
Aid board's final report said that
materials. and supplies furnished
the United Nations from September
1, 1943, to Septembe~ 1, 1945, totaled
$2,471,212.000.

20 Per Cent Increase Asked

* For Gadets and Middies

WASHINGTON. ~ A 20 per cent
pay boost for cadets at West Point
and midshipmen at Annapolis was
asked of congress. Rear Adm. J. F.
Galloway from the naval academy
and Brig. Gen. G. J. Higgins from
the military academy told the
senate armed services committee
the boys are ~~going into the red~~
on their present $65 a month. The
two officials suggested a base pay
of $78 a month.

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N RANCK

AQEBUILDING IT, SCRAPED
YOGETHER A FEW MORE
DOLLARS AND BOUGHT OLD/
CREAMERY BUILDING,
CONVERTED IT INTO

UNKNOWN, HE BUILT
~ HIS OWN, STOCKED WITH
* BLOCKS CUT FROM

THE FROZEN RIVER...

~
OURED -
PROFITS
BACK INTO.
BUSINESS,
TODAY HIS
PLANTS HAVE
CAPACITY OF
5,000 Hocs
DALY ~
COMPARED WITH
WO A YEAR WHEN
FIRST STARTI~:

p Sane 3 |

4 while the Missouri was on a train-'
'. risk of his life/by rescuing an old

ATLANTA. ~ Sonny Wells, 21,
balanced a debt to dogdom at the

hound dog trapped several hundred
feet down the sheer side of Stone
_mountain. ~

Years ago ~an old hound dog~
saved Wells from drowning and he
vowed he would never forget.

When he found the trapped dog,
the ex-G.I. climbed down the sheer
facing, using spikes left in the
mountainside by workers who once
labored on an unfinished Confeder- ~
ate memorial in the granite. Wells
found the dog on a ledge. ~~When I
picked her up,~~ said Wells, ~~she
lapped my face.~~

Two friends lowered a rope and
the dog was pulled to safety. Wells ~

* returned the way he came. When he

reached the top he exhibited deep
cuts in his feet. He had removed
his shoes to make the descent.

5-Year-Old Boy~s Alertness

Saves Baby Brother and Home.

SOUTH BEND, IND.~Five-yearold Johnny Owens of South Bend
was left home by his mother, Mrs,
Mary Owens, to watch his two-yearold brother, Joe, while she went
shopping.

Johnny saw the stove get firey
red and then begin to pop. He ran
to the phone, dialed the operator
and shouted:

~Our stove is red hot. It~s gonna
bust any minute.~~

Police found _Johnny standing on
the sidewalk <mseang little Joe. Officers dashed inside and cooled off
the blazing stove. They reported it
would have~ set the house afire with
in a few moments ~
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Injured Mother Rescues Two

Children From Fire in Home
CORRY, PA.~Although painfully
seared by flames which destroyed
oher home, a mother tossed two
youngsters out a second story window to safety~then jumped out
herself. She was unable to save an.
other child, who burned to death.
Witnesses said Mrs. John Silvis, 28,
dropped her daughter, Rose, 5, into
the snow and her niece Margaret
Ruffner, 7 months old, into the
hands of neighbors who had gathered about the burning house. Her:
son, Larry, 2, burned to death.

~ | Four Children Die, Mother

Is Burned in Blast of Stove
CHESANING, MICH.~Four children were burned to death and~
their mother was critically burned
in a coal stove explosion and fire at
their farm home north of here. The
four dead were childfen of Mrs.
Mary Courter, 26. Two other children were reported to have suffered
burns. The fire was blamed on ~an *
attempt to refre the stove with
kerosene. a

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