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MARK COURT TURNS DOWN PLEA FOR REVIEW OF EQUAL PAY TO NEGRO TEACHES New Light Weight Tractor Demonstrated Washington, Oct. 28—The supreme court refused today to interfere with a circuit court decision that negro teachers in public schools are entitled to the same compensation as equally qualified white teachers. The tribunal turned down an ajw peal by the Norfolk, Va. school board from the decision by the fourth fed eral circuit court. Only one word—“denied”—was used in refusing to review the litiga tion, filed originally by Melvin O. Alston, a negro teacher, and the Nor folk Teachers’ association, composed of negroes. Today’s action sends the litigation back to the eastern Virginia federal district court for trial on the merits That court previously dismissed the suit on the ground that Alston had voluntarily entered into a contract with the school board at $921 a year. In appealing to the supreme court, the school board contended that “equal school facilities” must be pro vided “but it does not follow that salaries in public schools must be equal when determined by voluntary contracts.” Alston and the teachers association said the school board officials had been “maintaining the policy, custom, and usage of paying negro teachers and principals in the public schools of Norfolk less salary than white teachers and principals possessing the same professional qualifications, certificates and experience, exercis ing the same duties and performing the same services as negro teachers and principals. “Such discrimination is being prac ticed against the planitiffs and all other negro teachers ana principals in Norfolk, Va., and is based solely upon their race or color,” the brief added. They asserted the circuit court de cision “is so clearly sound and con sistent with precedent thnt i* should not be reviewed.” ‘Discrimination because of race or color,” they added is clearly arbi trary and unreasonable. This court has repeatedly so held in cases aris ing out of a variety 1 of factual situa tions.” GEORGETOWN JEFFERSONIAN SIGN RIPPED Georgetown, Oct. 28.-—The banner over the Jeffersonian headquarters was ripped down tonight. The banner was on the balcony of the South Caro lina National Bank building, directly opposite police headquarters. So far as was learned tonight, no anest of the vandals had been re ported. The banner said: “No Third Term. No Man is Indispensable. Jeffersonian Democratic Headquar ters.” Harold Kaminski, state executive committeeman, said the banner would be back up tomorrow. He said it was* in place when he went to a mo tion picture show tonight, and by the time he came out about 10 o’clock, the banner was tom down and wrapped around a barber pole. EN ROUTE TO PRISON HE ADVERTISED AND DID A $10,000 BUSINESS THANKS CLERK OF COURT FOR SERVICES EMPLOYMENT IS REPORTED AT HIGH LEVEL New York, Oct. 28—Total employ ment in the United States rose to 48,- 404,000 workers in September, highest since October, 1929 when there were 49,033,000 employed, the national in dustrial conference hoard said today. The board added, however, the na tion’s labor force increased by more than 6,500,000 during the eleven-year interval. Unemployed workers declined to $6,829,000 in September from 7,698,- 0000 in August, an 11 per cent drop, the board said. The sharp contraction brought the jobless to the lowest to tal since October 1937, and repre sented a decline of 1,363,000 since September last year. Normal seasonal trends in employ ment in manufacturing and construc tion were upset as the national def- j ense program got under way, the board said. A nincrease of 307,000 per. sons employed in agriculture was much greater than normal. Manu facturing claimed 348,000 more work ers and contsruction 68,000. The conference hoard is a research organization supported by business concerns. MORE BLEASES The Columbia Record a few days ago carried an editorial about differ ent names of those who had register ed for conscription. It stated that many registered who were named for George Washington, Thomas Jef ferson, Alexander Hamilton, and other personalities, but appearing more than any other name was that of Cole L. Blease. Chevrolet Builds 16,000,000th Unit i ud * r " - : I,v-T1 The following is contained in a let ter to Dr. H. K. Boyd from Governor Maybank: “Please let me take this opportun ity to thank you for the fine and patriotic service that you redered to your county, to your state, and to vour nation, in handling the registra tion called for by the Selective Serv ice act of 1940. Without your untir ing efforts and the efforts of those working with you. our task would have been impossible. To sav that 1 am pleased with the way that the registration thruout the state took place, is putting it mildlv. It was a masterful job done by faithful and conscientious, as well as patriotic workers, and I want you, please, to accept my heartfelt thanks for giving so generously of your time and‘your efforts to this cause. Your efforts will always he recorded in the history of South Carolina. Won’t you please express to those working with you my sincere appre ciation and gratitude.” S. C. IS ALLOTTED $926,132 BY W. P. A. Washington, Oct. 28 — During the first half of October the WPA allotted $962,132 of defense funds to the first South Carolina district. Most of these expenditures will be used for army and navy purposes hut they far ex ceed contracts made and funds ex pended in the state by the war and navy departments this month. Allotments made for WPA projects in South Carolina include the follow ing: To improve facilities at the Charleston ordnance depot, near the North Charleston, $16,608; to improve buildings at the Charleston ordnance depot, $3,553; to construct a naval hospital and improve grounds at the Charleston navy yard, $809,000; and $96,971 to improve the road on Hilton Head Island to provide access from Seabrook’s Landing to the U. S. ma rine camp, near Bufort. Since June 13 the WPA has spent $1,885,565 on defense projects in the state. COTTON GROWERS BALLOT DEC. 7TH ON SALES QUOTA Newberry county cotton growers will vote on Saturday, December 7, along with other cotton growers of the nation, to determine whether they wish a marketing quota to ap ply to their 1941 cotton crop. The quota will go into effect only if op- proved by two-thirds of the farmers voting. Marketing quotas have been in ef fect for the last three yars. The 1940 quota was approved last fall by 91.2 per cent of the nation’s growers who voted for the referendum. As in former years, the county AAA committee will he in charge of the referendum. Plans are now be ing made locally for lidding the vote in each community. The Secretary of Agriculture de clared a 1941 marketing quota in September when it was determined that the supply of American cotton, on August 1, 1940, totaled 24,900,000 bales, or 137 percent of the “nor mal” supply, which is 18,200,000 bales. Under the Agricultural Ad justment Act, a marketing quota must be declared when supplies reach 107 percent of normal. The national quota for 1941 is the same as the one in effect this year, and will make possible the market ing, through the quota program, of about 12 million bales during the year beginning August 1, 1941. \VHh a million?car model year just behind and a goal of 1,100,000 for the new selling year, Chevrolet announced production of its 16,000,000th unit, built in less than ten working months after No. 15.000,000. Announcement of Chevrolet general manager, with W. E. Holler, general this latest “milestone car” spotlights attention on Chev- sales manager, beside the 16.000,000th car. rolet’s unique record in the automobile industry of having built and sold an average of a million units per year during the past seven years. Shown above (left) is M. E. Coyle, SCOUTS ENJOY HALLOWE’EN PARTY % Troop two, patrols three and four of the Newberry Girl Scouts, enjoyed a Hallowe’en party Friday night at the home of the troop leader, Mrs. J. D. French. The basement of the attractive French home on Walnut street was appropriately and spookily decorated for Hallowe’en. In the fortune tell, ing booth was Mrs. Griffin Coleman, •dressed as a gypsy, telling each per sons fortune. Many Hallowe’en games were play ed. Joyce Fellers drew a prize, and Mary Ford won the prize for having the best costume. For refreshments, the scouts enjoyed apples, for which they bobbed, popcorr, doughnuts, and orangeade. About fifteen scouts were Through advertising in the Mem phis (Texas) Democrat, Raymond Ballew, shortly before being sent to prison, did business of around $10,- 000 in one month, says an article in a recent issue of the Panhandle Pub lisher. In May he was sentenced to two years in prison on a charge of assault with intent to murder—a charge growing out of the wounding of a policeman two years ago. Ballew got busy. Two doors west on Main street from his automobile and electric appliance store he walk ed to the Democrat, handed Publisher J. Claude Wells a quarter page ad: “Yes, folks, it’s true Ihn not go ing to be with you much longer! For in a little while I’ll me stripping sor- hum and hoeing peas instead of ped dling refrigerators and radios. . . . I want to sell at least 24 new G. E.’s so I can leave some bean and potato imomey fotr the wSfe aimd child(ren while I’m eating off of Uncle Bud. . . . Frankly, I’ve been sold out—so now I’m selling out.” Under his signature, Ballew penned a postscript: “If I had the wings of an Angel—over these prison walls I would fly.” Many a Hall county cotton farmer to whom the merchant had extended liberal credit in years of drouth and poor cotton prices piled into his store in response to his ad. The first day cleaned his shelves of about $1,000 worth of stock—all he had. He laid in more goods including a truck- load of refrigerators and employed more salesmen. At Newlin he sold new electric re frigerators to 9 of the 13 families. By the end of the second week he had moved $8,000 worth of merchan dise and had recorded numerous sal able items. His sales, when ended, saw at least another $2,000 worth moved. With one week to go, he addressed a final plea to his customers: “Folks, it’s just like the monkey said when the lawn mower ran over its tail—it won’t be long now. We must clean uip our stock before we join the ranks of the state’s non-paying guests.” This week he bought his biggest ad of the campaign in the Democrat Said he: “GOODBYE Friends, Competitors, Enemies. Professional Politicians and Perjurers.” To his friends he wrote: “ . . . I am proud of the fact that my friends are real friends instead of the fair- weather kind. Going away is hurt ing me more because it is hurting my friends and family than because I will lose my freedom ...” He added that Mrs. Ballew would main tain the store, said: “I will appre ciate any business you can bring her ft Poem for Competitors. To his competitors he addressed a poem: “When the One Great Scorer Comes to write against your name It isn’t whether you won or lost But how you played the game.” To his “enemies” he was kind: “I only wish that we could have been friends! Too often slight misunder standing will cause bad feelings. Understanding would translate ene mies into friends.” To the “professional politicians” he directed a plug for Gov. W. Lee O’Daniel: “Being childless, there fore heartless, not much can be said. I will let “The People’s Friend,’ W Lee O’, tell you.” To unnamed “perjurers” (“who can see anything at any distance on the darkest night and see through brick walls and around corners”) he was also kind: “May the Good Lord forgive you. And may He bring that same forgiveness into my heart . . .” Merchandiser Ballew signed his name at the bottom of the ad, as usual. And he added a postscript: “Formerly of the House of Qual ity. “Now in the House of Correction.” Yes, this story is true; it is not a fairy tale. WHEAT CONTEST FOR 1941 IS ANNOUNCED MUST ATHENS BE DESTROYED Italian airplanes roared above the ancient City of Athens Monday, but no bombs were dropped. Piraeus, the city’s seaport four miles distant was bombed and many persons were kill ed and injured. Much property dam age resulted. One wonders whether Athens is to suffer a fate similar to that of Lon don and Berlin, the two great capi tals of Europe. The city of Pericles, Socrates, Plato, Phidias, Demosthenes and a galaxy of other distinguished ancients is no stranger to destroying armies. The ruins of the Acropolis testify to the ' city’s travail. If Mussolini should order his airmen to follow the example of vandals of the past will he not be inviting similar treatment for Italy’s proud city of Rome?—Spartanburg Herald. Clemson, Oct. 28—A state-wide wheat contest for South Carolina fanners, with substantial cash prizes, to be conducted by the Extension ser vice of Clemson college was announc ed here today by Director D. W. Wat kins. The wheat contest will be conducted on a three-acre basis and upon the same principles as the five-acre cot- ■ ton contest which has been so suc cessful and benefical. The scale of prizes, the donors, and other details will he auuounced in the near future, by the extension agronomist who will supervise the contest. County agents will furnish contestants with rules of the contest and entry blanks. “South Carolina farmers are now growin about 200,000 acres of wheat, but they need 400,000 additional acres in order to provide an adequate supply of wheat for farm use,” says H. A. Woodle, extension agronomist, discussing the wheat contest. “It is also imperative that we increase our average yield of 10 bushels of wheat per acre. The wheat contest should prove a decided stimulus in this con nection. ‘If we are to do our part in the National Defense program, our farms must produce sufficient food and feed to supply home needs'. This means that every farm must grow enough wheat td furnish food for the whole family. Better farm living has always resulted from ample food sup plies produced on the farm. “Adequate supplies of good plant ing seed can he ubtained by every farmer. Some of the improved var ieties of wheat not only produce high yields but are highly disease-resist- ant. Since most of the wheat in South Carolina is usually planted immedi ately after the -first killing frost, far mers are urged to procure planting seed now in order to avoid delay when planting conditions become favorable.” HUNTING SEASON IN STATE TO OPEN NOVEMBER 21ST Columbia, Oct. 28.—South Carolina hunting seasons which run from “Thanksgiving Day” will be opened Nov. 27, Chief Game Warden A. A. Richardson, announced today in ans wer to “hundreds of inquiries.” He said his department would con sider Thanksgiving the day des ignated by President Roosevelt. present. r‘