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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-09-03
Youth Day
Program At
RuI|ocks SUNDAY

A Yooth Day Program will be
sponsored at Bullock Temple CINE
Church, 18th and Cross streets,
Sunday, August %, 1949 at 300
PM. The program will be spon-
soret unser the auspices of the
young people, headed by Miss
Helen Dyer.
One of the main features of the
program will be a Roun-table Dis
cusslon, do the Youth who
grow up in the Church, make
better Leaders than the Ones who
come in as Adults?" Discussion
leaders wi Il be: jamie Ruth Dyer,
The Home; Audra Taylor, The
Sunday School; Ester Lee Brown,
The Opening or Worship service;
Peggy Williams, The Church
Services; Norma Cleveland, How
the Leaders impress us. Cues
tons will be asked and answered
by the youth, with Miss Helen
Dyer summarizing the discussion.
Each young person will be in
charge of a pew under the spon-
sorshlp of an Adult Missionary
Lady The youth reporting the
highest financial amount and the
largest number of pew members.
VIII be entertained by the Matte
Coleman Circle.
The general public is cordially
invited, to attend, fill the church
and encourage the youth.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-09-03

walton championship on the basis
Of his remarkable achievement
in transforming a rundown. erod-
ed and abandoned farm into
modern, highly productive, agri-
cultural plant.
Following the presentation of
awards, the farm people were
served barbecue.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-09-03
vinerar F1ies

Vinegar fiies. those t,ny orowe
Hes that seem 70 cone out Of no
where and hover around overrips
mutt on fruit peelings and other
rsfuse. are pest the homemaker
must combat According 70 the de-
partment Of agriculture these fies
breed In decaying vegetable mat
YER and always ara strongly at
racted to fernenting fruits or fruit
products. To hold them In check
keep al garbage. overripe fruit
and refuse cleaned up. Wine and
vinegar should be closely covered
~ cholld Sarh.xA
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-09-03
River DiNer,eG

The small Pigeon river In Nora
Carolina has been diverted into a
pipe and carried eight miles through
the mountains to fall s6l f~s, Z,
power turbines
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-09-03

Rubbing Z mosquito bite with
moist soap relieves the itching, no.
cording to the U. 8. department II
agriculture. Soap also helps to pre-
vent Ivy poisoning. Wash the ex.
posed area thoroughly with soap snA
water, 20 that the Irritating Of,
TOR. the !enves ALL b. Fus.~d sror
- skfy
Crows as Mafimen
Crows were employed in ancient
times as letter carriers
Evening star., 1949-12-14
(COnLlnued on Page Az, Col. ID
Federal Worker Finds
His Wife Dead in Bed

Mrs. Alice Hulick, Al, mother
Of two children, was found
dead in bed early today at her
home, 1921 Twenty-ninth street
NV.
Police said an unsigned note
was found on nearby vanity
table, addressed to Mother" and
asking her to "love and take care
Of the children"
Charles Hulick, the husband,
a Government employe, told po-
lice he sumoned a private physi-
clan after discovering his wife
shortly after 6 am. but Mrs.
Hulick was dead.
The note stated the writer was
sorry"
Detective Sergt. Peter zazanas
Of the homicide squad said Mr..
Hulick told him his wife had been
highly nervous" and had been
under the care of a physician.
Sleeping pills were found in the
house. Coroner A. Magruder Mac
Donald said he would perform
an autopsy today.
The Hulicks have two sons,
Derek, 13, and Charles, jr., 8.
Evening star., 1949-12-14
Theft of IS Gents
In Purse Brings
80 Year 7erm

A robbery which netted the
bandit only IS cents and a wom-
ans pocketbook today brought
him a three to nine year sentence
in District Court.
Judge Matthew F. MCGUIRE
sentenced Arthur Vaughn, 80,
colored, listed as having no fixed
address, after noting that Vaughn
had long police record. He was
convicted today of robbing Miss
Mary E. Rowzie, "a, a counter girl
at the Raleigh Hotel Cafeteria.
Miss Rowzie, who lives at 210
Eleventh street S.W., said that on
October "a Vaughn grabbed her
around the throat and threatened
her at Twelfth street and Jeffer-
son drive NV. He fled with he1
pocketbook containing the 81
cents.
Evening star., 1949-12-14

CHICAGO, Dec. 14.-J. Edward
Nelson, II, has just whizzed
through four years of college in
30 hours.
TITS always been theoretically
possible" amazed officials Of the
University of Chicago said yester-
day.
Edward is the first student to
demonstrate by IA placement tests
that he possesses the equivalent OF
q general education. So instead
OF working on credits for a bach
elor's degree, he will begin imme-
diately to work on his masters
degree in mathematics.
The tests, introduced at the
college in 1912, recognize stu
dent for what he knows and not
for the number Of courses he has
taken. All students are given the
tests during q five-day period to
determine their academic stand
ing.
Edward. son Of . YMCA secre-
Evening star., 1949-12-14
Major Logues
Vote to Discard
Bonus Rule
BY the Assoeiossd Press

NEW YORK, Dec. 1.-THE
major leagues voted to junk the
highly controversial bonus rule
today with Commissioner A. B.
Chandler casting the decisive
ballot. The American League
voted to repeal the rule. the Ma
tional to keep it.
The minor leagues, who voted
to keep the rule last week in their
convention at Baltimore, now will
be polled again this time by mail
The rule will remain in effect
until 10 days after the minors vote
to discard it. II they vote to
retain it, it remains on the books.
Under the rule q player who
received more than $4,000 his first
year in organized baseball, either
as salary or as an inducement
to sign a contract, from a major
league or a top minor club could
not be sent down for more expert
ence without waivers.
Evening star., 1949-12-14
BY the Assoeiofsd Press

OAKLAND, Calf, Dec. A.
More than 1000 persons were
forced to flee their homes before
dawn today as waves of ammonia
gas spread through 20 square
blocks of West Oakland.
Scores were overcome and many
made i'll. Five were known to have
been hospitalized.
A tank car filled with liquid am
monia was being pumped out at
a fertilizer plant when a pipe split
and the cargo spilled into the
streets. Gas formed quickly.
Eight police cars. with sirens
screeching, moved slowly through
the residential area warning per-
sons to flee.
Gas-masked f1remen attempted
to wash away the ammonia with
streams of water. It was several
hours later before evacuees began
returning to their homes.
Battalion Chief Thomas Dolan
said the tankcar contained enough
ammonia to kill every one in the
area"
Evening star., 1949-12-14
Boy, II, Takes Only 80 Hours
To Bypass 4 Years of CoIIeue

tary in Rome, italy, attended the
Bronx High School of Science IN
New York City and completed his
junior and senior years at the
Institute Giovanni Verga when
his family moved to Rome.
He brushed aside suggestions
that he is a genius.
"It's all what you learn and
where you learn IL" he said. II
firmly believe, however, that
teaching methods and courses are
more comprehensive in European
schools"
In Rome he attended school
about four, hours a day, but al
ways spent at least another three
hours on his homework. Edward
told neWsmen.
He hopes to complete his mas
ter's course In three years and
then start D career Of mathe-
matical research. He had been
awarded q $1,050 scholarship be-
lfore he entered the college.
Evening star., 1949-12-14
Finland Rejects Charges
OF Soviet Pact Violation
By the Assoeioted Press

HELSINKI, Finland, Dec. a.
Finland rejected today a Moscow
accusation that Prime Minister
K. "A. Fagerholm violated the spirit
and letter of the Soviet-Finnish
treaty of friendship.
In an official reply published in
the morning newspapers the gov
ernment said it was VERY sur
prised" over the viewpoint that
had been expressed in an editorial
in Pravda, Soviet Communist par
ty newspaper.
Pravda charged yesterday that
the Finnish premier In his inde-
pendence day speech December 6
suggested that the Finnish inde-
pendence day be replaced as ma
tional holiday by the anniversary
Of the Soviet-Finnish war OF 1882
20.
Evening star., 1949-12-14
1000 Flee Homes Before Dawn
AS Ammonia Pipeline Breaks
Tank Car Empties Contents in Oakland;
Scores Overcome, Many Sickened by Fumes

AS the great fog-like clouds
drifted through the district,
shrouding cars. homes and build
ings, policemen helped remove
hundreds of people to safety.
Two churches outside the dan
ger zone were opened as shelters.
The ammonia was being un-
loaded at the Farm Service Co. Of
the Best Fertilizer Co. James
Whitty, %, an employe, had just
finished hooking pipe to the tank
Car from a tank at the rear of the
plant.
Mr.. Whitty was overcome quick
ly as the liquid ammonia formed
gas. Ten employees in the plant
escaped.
Plant Supt. Frank Golubin, 26,
summoned to. the scene, shut off
the flow after one hour, as f1remen
played hoses on him. AS he fin
ished, he collapsed and had to be
rescued by flremen. He was re-
leased from a hospital after emer-
gency treatment.
Police and f1remen used heavy
blowing equipment to dissipate the
heavy gas which settled in pockets.
Evening star., 1949-12-14
Aid Rushed After Shin
'ExpIodes in Atlantic;
Is Missing, 8 Saved
Coast Guard Search PIone
Locates Burning Vessel;
Siohts No Survivors
By the Assoeioted Press

MIAMI. Fla, Dec. IA Coast
Guard search plane found the
burning hulk of the Dutch motor
ship Doros 300 miles due east Of
Miami today and radioed tersely,
mo survivors sighted"
Sixteen men were missing after
an explosion and fire aboard the
craft. Eight others were rescued.
Cause of the accident was not de-
termined.
A Coast Guard PBM from St.
Petersburg said there wasn't any
debris near the smouldering mo-
torship and no sign Of other life
boats in the area.
The Doros was located at lati-
tude $500 north, longitude 74.15
west.
One Badly Burned.
Coast Guard Air Sea Rescue
headquarters said a plane planned
to meet the American tanker
Sparrows Point at the Hole-in-
the Wall about noon to pick up
one of the survivors who was re-
ported badly burned.
The Hole Wall Is at the
southern end of Abaco Island in
the Bahamas.
Meanwhile, air and surface
craft continued to search the area
in the hope of locating other sur
vivors.
Four Coast Guard planes, two
Air Force planes from MacDill
Field, Tampa, the Coast Guard
cutter Nocoma and several COM
mercial vessels were in the vi
cinity.
Captain Feared Lost.
The chief engineer was among
the eight picked up from life
boat. He said he believed the
captain and seven others were
lost. None of the men aboard
were identified.
The explosion and fire occurred
about 10:45 am. Monday. The
chief engineer said that in addi-
ton to the captain, he believed
the chief mate, second and
third mates, apprentice elec-
trician, second and third assistant
engineers and the steward were
lost.
The Sparrows Point picked up
Evening star., 1949-12-14
|PUC Will Not Reconsider
Order Increasing Gas Rate

The Public Utilities Commission
today refused to reconsider its
order last month for an increase
in gas rates here. A review had
been requested by the Federation
of Citizens Associations in petit
ton filed by Attorney Vernon v.
Baker.
The petition asked that the
commission reopen the proceed
ings and stay the execution OF the
increase pending full and careful
consideration"
In denying the reconsideration,
the commission stated its findings
were reached "after careful con-
sideration Of the evidence Of
record"
Evening star., 1949-12-14
Truman 10 Consider
Plans 10 Merge All
transportation Aid
Sawyer Report Points
To Conflict With U. S.
Regulatory System

Proposals to group the present
"bewildering array" Of Govern
ment-aid programs in the trans
poration field under unified di-
rection and controls" had Presi-
dent Truman's promise of "im-
mediate and continuing atten-
ton" today.
The President asked all Fed
eral agencies concerned with
transportation to give him their
views on the policy questions
raised In 116-page report by
Secretary of Commerce Sawyer,
which called for Critical re-ex-
animation" of all Federal activi-
ties in promoting transportation.
The report made public by the
White House last night said num-
erous programs to aid development
of air, highway, water and rail
transport are carried on with
little or no relation" to each
other, often at cross purposes and
in conflict with Government reg
ulatory functions.
Result Of Survey.
It resulted from a survey asked
by the President last August. 80
as the first step" in a long-range
move for unified and co-ordi-
mated Federal program for trans
portation," which he described as
Clearly essential in order to as
sure maximum benefits from the
Government activities in this field. "
urgent" consideration of merg-
ling all the Government transpor-
tation aid programs. along lines
recommended by the Hoover
Commission last year, was the
major recommendation in the
Sawyer report. 49,.
Chairman johnson Of the Sen
ate Commerce Committee said he
was afraid any such move would
only add to the confusion"
Other Suggestions Made.
Other suggestions in the Sawyer
report included:
/. A general system OF "user
charges" to pay the costs OF Gov
|ernment-financed transportation
facilities and aids, including high
ways and airways.
2. Changing the present system
of air mail payments to the air
lines, so that they represent "rea-
sonable compensation for services
actually rendered" with any sub
sidy payments direct and open.
3. Steps by regulatory agen-
cies to assure that rates charged
by rail and other carriers reflect
the full cost of the services per-
formed, ending a system OF per-
(see TRANSCRIPTION. A-2.)
Evening star., 1949-12-14
CAB Studying Report
OF Engine Failure in
Potomac planet Crash
Crew Member Soys
Crew Member Says
AirIiner May Have Lost
All Power in One Unit

A crew members report of en-
gine failure was studied by in
vestigators today in the crash of
a Capital Airlines plane in which
four persons were killed here
Monday night.
Flight Attendant Joseph w.
Buell., jr., told Civil Aeronautics
Board agents that the right en-
gine of the DC-3 sputtered and
possibly quit altogether just be-
fore it plunged into the Potomac
River.
He will be questioned further at
a public hearing to be held here
by the CAB in the next 10 days
At that time evidence from other
witnesses and transcription Of
control tower-pilot conversation
will be heard in an effort tt
assess blame in the crash.
Congressional Inquiry Planned.
Congress also moved toward an
inquiry. Noting this crash, and
another here November costing
SIS lives, Chairman Crosser OF the
House Interstate Commerce Com
mittee today announced the group
will begin an investigation OF air
safety when Congress reconvenes.
The Ohioan introduced a bill in
the last session to establish a
Federal air safety board.
OF the 10 survivors in the Mon
day accident, only one was said to
be in critical condition today. He
is George c. Harrison, Al, Of 1921
North Sixteenth street, Arlington.
Mr.. Buell., former George Wash
ington University and Mckinley
Tech High School football player,
was seated in a right rear seat
when the plane fell as it was COM
ing in for an instrument landing
at fog -shrouded National Airport.
Engines to Be Studied.
eve started to climb to the left
at about 800 feet high," he said.
1.-THE starboard engine sputtered
Il think it quit completely-then
we spun off to the left"
CAB spokesmen said both en-
gines would be dug out Of the
river mud and torn down to de-
termine if there was a power
failure. Actions of the plane in
dicated that such failure was alto
gether possible, they said.
Other evidence pointed to the
possibility that the pilot, aware he
had drifted to the right of his
instrument landing system ap-
proach, decided to pull out alto
gether and get back into the
traffic pattern for a new approach.
it was said.
Wheels Were Retracted.
Wheels of the plane were re-
tracted when it hit the water, in
no position for a landing. and
there is evidence that the pilot
"gunned" the plane just before
the crash. so as to gain altitude.
It was altogether possible that
the sudden burst of power caused
the engine to stall, sending the
plane spinning off to the left and
into the river.
Killed were the pilot, William
j. Davis, As, of 209 Belle View
Evening star., 1949-12-14
Atomic Probers
Listened 10 Wild
Tale, UreySays
Far More Important
ToHeod Off NewWur,
Scientist Declares
Rv Poheyf K WnIeh
By Robert K. Walsh

DR.. Harold c. Urey, atomic
scientist, attacked the House Com
mittee on Un-American Activities
today for listening to wild tale'
about shipment of atomic mate
rials to Russia years ago.
1t is far more important for this
Government and like minded
countries in the Atlantic Union
group to act Immediately to ward
off third world war that would
last 10 years, he declared.
The Nobel Prize winner, who
heads the University of Chicago's
Institute of Nuclear Physics, de-
voted much of a news conference
at the National Press Club to
urging steps to counteract Russian
dictatorship and tyranny"
But he was equally emphatic in
citicizing the House committee for
staging hearings at which former
Air Force Maj. George Racey Jor-
dan testified about reported Ship
ments of uranium and other
atomic materials to Russia in
1943.
Sees Cause for Russian Laugh.
"The Russians must have
laughed themselves SICK" DR..
Urey exclaimed. "They already
have the atomic bomb and they
hear us talking about shipping a
few pounds of uranium to Russia.
It is all unimportant. Why should
we be stirred up when somebody
tells crazy story about ship
ments to Russia?
"The Committee on Un-Amer-
can Activities has done very little
good for the United States. I am
ashamed when we do things like
that and it is discouraging that
such a wild tale can occupy the
attention Of responsible officials"
Explaining he read the testi-
mony only in a general way, DR..
Urey remarked that he wondered
why Maj. Jordan wasn't court
martialed for taking things out Of
planes" Mr.. Jordan had testified
he examined contents of suit
cases aboard planes that stopped
of at the Great Falls (Mont.) Air
Base in 1943, en- route to Russia.
| Fears 10-Year War.
DR.. Urey maintained that lit
is much more important" to take
a first step at once toward world
government to prevent another
, World War. Such a conflict is
unlikely until both sides have
enough atomic bombs or think
they have" he said. If it does
come it will continue for 10 years.
he predicted.
Atomic bombs, even if increased
a thousand times beyond their
present destructive power, could
not end such a war with a sud-
den knockout blow, he said. A
bomb Of that force could wipe
out New York City or Washing
ton. DR.. Urey added, but nu-
merous other problems such as
delivering the bomb and invad-
ing and holding territory would
remain.
DR.. Urey is to speak at the In
terror Department auditorium to-
night under auspices of the WASH
Evening star., 1949-12-14
(See PANAMA, Page A-2D
RomuIo to Spend Week
Resting at Walter Reed
BY fhe Assoeiofsd Press

LAKE SUCCESS, Dec. IA
Brig. Gen. Carlos P. Romulo,
president Of the United Nations
Assembly, will 60 to Washington
tomorrow for q weeks rest and
a check-up at Walter Reed
Hospital.
Gen. Romulo said he feels fine
and there is nothing wrong as far
as he knows despite the strenuous
schedule he followed during the
Assembly. Anyway he wants q
good rest.
He plans to return to New York
after his WASHINGTON visit.
Evening star., 1949-12-14

LONDON, Dec. IA (P.-Wendy
Hitler, who scored an outstanding
success in the New York produc-
ton Of 1.-THE Heiress" in 1947,
takes over the lead in the London
production in January. Miss
Hitler will succeed Peggy Ash
croft, who is joining the Shakes
peare Memorial Theater at Strait
forS noyf COO coy,
Evening star., 1949-12-14
Late News
Bulletins
Six Killed, 100 Injured
In Pockinq Plant Biost

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (P.-At
least six persons were killed and
100 injured in an explosion at
the main office building of the
Swift & Co. packing plant In
Sioux City about noon today.
The National Guard was sum-
moned.
Kostoy Sentenced to Hang
SOFIA, Bulgaria R).-Trai-
cho Kostov, former Commu-
mist vice premier Of Bulgaria,
was convicted of treason tonight
and sentenced to death by
hanging.
Earlier Story on Page A-17.)
Evening star., 1949-12-14
Is Indonesian States
Sign Constitution for
Independent Regime
Dutch Plan to Transfer
Sovereignty on Dec. II
After 300-Yeor Rule
By the Associated Press

BATAVIA, Java, Dec. 14.-Rep-
resentatives of 16 Indonesian
states and territories signed a
constitution tonight which will
join them in an Independent
United States of Indonesia, SOW
ereign though linked with the
Dutch crown.
The constitution becomes ef-
fective the moment The Neither
lands transfers sovereignty, prob
ably December a, surrendering
the fabulously rich islands after
300 years of Dutch rule. Within
two weeks the constitution prob
ably will become the supreme law
of a new nation of 100000 peo-
pie in the Southwest Pacific.
The constitution sets up a Fed
eral state patterned after Eu-
ropean democracies. Govern
ment power will be exercised by
the President and his ministers,
along with a House of Repre-
sentatives and a Senate.
Deputies to Pick President.
The constitution calls for the
selection Of president by deputies
from each of the 16 states. An elec-
toral body already has been formed
and is scheduled to pick the chief
of state Saturday at Jogjakarta,
Java. The president will choose
three cabinet members, who, In
turn, will select three others. The
government, in abbreviated form,
is scheduled to accept sovereignty
December 27 and go ahead later
with formation of the senate,
house and other organs Of govern
ment.
The Dutch -Indonesian indepen-
dence agreement, signed six weeks
ago at The Hague, was ratified
last night by the Parliament of the
independent Indonesian Republic,
largest of the group which will
make up the U. S. I. Previously
the Is federal, Dutch-sponsored
Indonesian states and the lower
house of The Netherlands Parlia-
ment approved the agreement.
The parliaments Of all the
states also ratified the draft con-
stitution.
Invasion Delayed Plans.
Negotiations for the granting OF
sovereignty to the people of this
group Of fabulously rich islands
began early in 1912. They were
interrupted by the Japanese in
vasion of the islands. After the
war the negotiations, although re-
sumed, were marked by bloody
fighting between Dutch troops
and Indonesian Republicans be-
fore the United Nations stepped in
early this year and demanded a
truce and peaceful talks.
At Lake Success. the Soviet Un-
ion cast its 42d and 43d vetoes in
the United Nations Security Coun-
Gil on resolutions commencing the
Dutch and Indonesians for peace
ably ending their civil war. But
A. G. L. McNaughton Of Canada
Co. IHIrONTCIA DarA0