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Evening star., 1950-09-20
Ramsey House Hos a Toker

If Alexandria doesn't want
historic Ramsey House, there's
a Maryland man who does.
Donald ID. D0n0hue made an
offer in \ letter to the City
Council.
Mr.. Don0hue said he would
move the 2OO-year- -old Struc-
ture--Or that part of 1t which
would stand the change-acrOss
the Potomac to land he owns in
Prince Georges County.
Council bought the house
the city'S oIdeSt-in 1914 and
has been waiting for the Alex
andria Historical Society to
raise $4,000 to restore 1t.
Evening star., 1950-09-20

District of Columbia-Mostly
cloudy. with high about IA this
afternoon. Low tonight about 60.
Tomorrow partly cloudy and a
little warmer, with chance of a few
showers.
Maryland-Mostly cloudy to-
night, few showers in the ex-
treme west portion. Low SIS to go.
Tomorrow mostly cloudy, with
scattered showers in the west por-
ton and a little warmer in after
noon.
Virginia-Mostly cloudy tonight,
Evening star., 1950-09-20
Truman Dedicotes Phones

President Truman was sched-
uled today to make the first call
over the modernized telephone
system in the Fredericksburg area
The Chief Executive was to talk
to Eugene Dickinson, World War
II veteran who lives about Is
miles from the Virginia town. Mr..
Dickinson, a dairy farmer, got a
telephone as a result of a tele-
phone company expansion f.
nanced by a loan from the Rural
Identification Administration. It
was the first such loan.
Evening star., 1950-09-20
Montgomery JoiIers Hired

Appointment of a jail super
visor and three new guards was
approved yesterday by the Mont
gomery County Council. The new
guards replace three men whose
age, it was said, made them poor
risk as guards.
The supervisor is Andrew c.
Warming, so, Of Rockville, who
retired recently after 20 years
experience as a Federal prison
official and inspector. His salary
will be 5000 q year.
Evening star., 1950-09-20
Young on Vacation

Joseph Young is on vaca-
ton. The Federal Spotlight
column will be resumed on
October 10. The Federal Spot
light radio program, however,
will continue to be heard reg
ularly at 6:15 pm. each Sat-
urday over WMAL,, The Star
station.
Evening star., 1950-09-20
Major's 'sWife, 30thers
die in Private Plane
|Crackup in Virginia
BY the Asseeiafsd Press

MECHANICSBURG, Va, Sept,
20.-A private plane which crashed
near Dismal Mountain late yes
terday had taken off from Raleigh,
N. c., to transfer the ailing wife
of Marine Corps major to his
home in De Kalb, III.
Four persons died when the
plane fell and flipped over in a
swampy, muddy meadow on the
Esca Mitchell farm, 2 miles
from this Southwest Virginia set
tlement. Witnesses said it's en-
gine "conked out" after 1t sue
cessfully negotiated a gap near
the mountain.
Police found slip of paper in
the craft which read: DE Kalb
to Raleigh IN. c. TOO miles"
1t was their only clue as to
where the plane was headed or
where 1t started from.
List of Crash Victims.
Victims of the crash were listed
as Lymon E. Sebree, A; William
Edgar Clark, 80, and Margaret M
Longton, IS. all of De Kalb, Ill.,,
and Jannette Barbara Acers. 80,
of Vallejo, Calf.
Mrs. Acers had been in the
North Carolina State Hospital at
Raleigh. Maj. Acers did not ac-
company her because he had re-
ceived transfer orders and had to
return to his station at the Cherry
Point IN. c. Marine Corps Air
Base.
All except Mr.. Sebree died in
stantly. Mr.. Sebree died en- route
to a hospital in nearby Pearisburg.
Witnesses said the aluminium
colored, four-passenger Beech
craft plane circled the meadow.
apparently in distress, before the
crash. Skies were clear at the
time.
Evening star., 1950-09-20

No food shortages. The Presi-
dent has stated that neither food
shortages or rationing are in
prospect, despite the fighting in
Korea. Don't hoard.
Evening star., 1950-09-20
Silver Spring Meeting Set

The Silver Spring Mems Chorus
will elect officers at $50 o'clock
tonight in the Meserole Studios,
905 Bonifant street, Silver Spring
Evening star., 1950-09-20

Let's be sensible. There is no
shortage of food in the United
States. The President has stated
there is no immediate prospect
of rationing. So let's be sensible.
Don't hoard.
Evening star., 1950-09-20

Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest. &C. on June "a.
Lowest, Is ON March 3.
High and Low Of Last "a Hours.
High. rs, at 4:55 pm.
Low, SO, at $50 am.
Evening star., 1950-09-20
temperatures in Various Cities.

Radar equipment was first used
experimentally aboard a United
States Navy vessel in 1888.
Evening star., 1950-09-20

There will be showers tonight scattered
tending from about the Mississippi River Rockies
Showers also likely in the Ohio Valley
Temperatures will except
for somewhat higher readings along the
Canadian border Humidity will continue high in the
States. -AP Wirephoto Map
Evening star., 1950-09-20
School Facilities Approved

The Prince Georges County
Board Of Education yesterday
acted to ease overcrowding in
county schools. The group
awarded a contract for new
Negro school at Naylor; approved
final plans for a ne-classroom
and gymnasium addition at the
Surrattsville School, and agreed
to land for sites at Berwyn and
Clinton.
The board also completed ne
gotiations with the Chesapeake g.
Potomac Telephone Co. for g
year lease of a building near the
Silver Hill Elementary School for
classroom space. There are 2,655
students on double shifts.
Evening star., 1950-09-20

River Report.
tFrom U. S. Engineers
Potomac River cloudy at Harpers Ferry
and Great Falls. Shenandoah cloudy at
HarperS Ferry.
Evening star., 1950-09-20
Maryland
and
Virginia
Alexandra Studies Use
OF Prison Work Gangs
News in Brief

Alexandria is making plans to
use city prisoners on work gangs.
Possibility of establishing a prison
farm outside the Virginia city also
is being studied.
The City Council last night Or
dered preparation of an ordinance
permitting the work gangs. Coun-
Gilman Marshall j. Beverley, chair
man of a special committee study
ing arrest problems, said he be-
lieves the city would have less
trouble with habitual drunks and
vagrants if they were faced with
the prospect of having to work.
Evening star., 1950-09-20

Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast and
Geodetic SlIrVeYl
Evening star., 1950-09-20
Precipitation,

Monthly precipitation in inches in tn
CAPITAL (Current month to da = y.
Evening star., 1950-09-20
The Sun and Moon.

Rises. Seta.
Sun, today - 6:53 40
Sun, tomorrow = 1854 7:OS
Moon, today --- 4:2S pm. 1888 am
Automobile lights must be turned or
one-half hour after sunset.
Evening star., 1950-10-20
hreot in Germuny-V
Chancellor Says West GemonsWont Make Pact With Russia

realize the attack will bring heavy
costs for themselves" DR.. Ade-
nauer said. "A totalitarian state
recognizes and respects only a
strength as strong or stronger
than its own"
Hail Big 3 Statement.
Like other Germans, DR.. Ade-
nauer believes his country was
given its greatest forward impetus
by the recent statement of the Big
Three powers, declaring that an
attack on Berlin or Western Ger
many would be considered an at
tack upon themselves. This, in
effect, extends the protective
clauses of the North Atlantic
treaty to Germany before it is
actually integrated into the West
ern system.
"The effect" the chancellor
said, was excellent. 1T was ex-
actly what Germany, needed to
restore its confidence and 60 to
work for the West" Z
DR.. Adenauer said that the ef-
fort of the United States since the
war to drive out Germany's old
autocratic ideas and install de-
mocracy is "unquestionably work.
ing"
Russians More Dangerous.
"The reaction against demo-
cratic action is far less dangerous
from the extreme right than from
the Communists" he declared.
THE utter right is lacking in ideas
and imagination. Any challenge
to what we are trying to do is far
more dangerous when the Rus
slams are actively back of it," )
But under DR.. Adenauer's gov
ernment, which has only a narrow
margin over DR.. Kart Schumach-
er'S Social Democrats, both Com
munists and neo-Nazis have been
losing strength. Both DR.. Ade-
nauer says, are now relegated to
a 5 per cent minority of represen-
tation in either fringe. Often in
Germany, as elsewhere, they are
found voting together on many
issues.
DR.. Adenauer is confident both
can continue to be handled with
out trouble. He said economic
conditions, except in Berlin, are
Evening star., 1950-10-20
Dark Bulbs Are Costly

NEW YORK.-Once an electric
light bulb turns dark, it's time to
throw it away. even though it isn't
burned out. When the bulb is
dark it gives off only about half
as much light as 1t should, yet
burns the same amount of elec-
tricity.
Evening star., 1950-10-20
Accident Rate Drops

TULSA.-In the oil industry the
chances of an employe being in
jured fatally are now almost 4,4o0
to /, compared with an average of
$500 to l in 1916. The chances
of being disabled by injury now
are As to l. against 81 to /, four
years ago.
Evening star., 1950-10-20

The chancellor would like to
place Germany in a position, how
ever, where it could handle" with
the help of its Allies. its continu-
ing threat from the East-Russia.
Evening star., 1950-10-20

relatively good. He is not prepar-
ing any unilatera1 rearmament by
the Germans. The seed of the
United States of Europe" is grow
ing rapidly in German soil.
Evening star., 1950-10-20
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-12-30
DR.. Ralph Bunche
Received obeI
Prize From
NorWay'sk King

OSLO, Norway, Dec. 26 =
(ANP)-Dr. Ralph j. Bunche, only
Negro to win the Nobel peace
prize, received his SOL ,674.O8 award
from Norway's king Haakon in a
grand and solemn ceremony here
recently. The award was given DR..
Bunche for his work as UN media
tor IN the Palestine conflict.
In accepting the award. which
incidentally the treasury depart
ment says is exempted from taxa
ton, DR.. Bunche said, "May there
De IN our time at long last, full
peace"
The treasury department in stat
ing the prize money was not sub
Ject to tax, explained that had the
winners performed their work for
the Nobel committee, the money
would have been classed as income
and therefore taxable. In DR.
bunche's case, his income for SER
vice as UN mediator had already
been taxed, and the prize money
was not considered as renumera-
ton for services rendered the Noha,
committee.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-12-30

and he wanted to build or improve
a farm house that the veteran
could include in the amount of his
loan for that purpose, sufficient
money to release part of the farm
land from the existing mortgage
so that the farm home site would
be covered only by the VA mort
gage
Veterans who are interested in
this type loan should write direct
to the Loan Guaranty Officer, Vet
Grams Administration. Jackson,
Mississippi, or call personally at
any one of the seventeen VA Con-
tact Offices throughout the State
of Mississippi. These seventeen
Contact Offices are located at
Biloxi VA Center, Clarksdale, Col
umbus, Greenville, Greenwood, Gre
NADIA, Gulfport (downtown), Gulf
port VA Hospital, Hattiesburg,
Kosciusbo, Laurel, McComb. Meri-
dian, Natchez, Pascagoula, Tupelo,
and Vicksburg, Mississippi.
To qualify for a direct loan the
applicant must be a veteran of
World War II or an unremarried
widow of such veteran. The full
loan guaranty entitlement must be
available, the property must be
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-12-30

located in an eligible area, the
property must be a single resident
ial unit, and the veteran must have
sufficient income to meet the pay
ments on the amount of loan APP
piled for. The purchase price or
cost to the veteran must not ex-
ceed the reasonable value as es-
tablished by a Veterans Admin
istration appraisal. The veteran
will be required to deposit with
his application an appraisal fee and
$500 to cover credit report. The
veteran will be required to make
a down payment under applicable
credit restrictions depending on the
purchase price. There is a time
limit on these direct loans and no
direct loans can be closed after
June 80, 1851; therefore, veterans
who are interested should make
their plans as soon as possible.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-12-30
qhotesian Prime
Minister Wants
More Iroop s

QUE QUE, South Rhodesia, Dec.
rs - (ANP) - Prime Minister
Godfrey Higgins appealed here
Friday for an increase in the size
of the Rhodesian African rifles a
regiment of native Africans, to aid
in defense of the country against
"a bitter scramble for Africa
(Which would begin if an upset
We're to occur in Europe or Asia
tomorrow.
Some people in Southern Rho
desia, would approve Of this, but
we cannot hold Africa by ourselves.
Natives heavily out number whites
IN this country. According to 1916
figures 80 per cent Of the 1,746,OOO
population, is native.
Higgins expressed the belief that
the natives who are also Rhodes
ians, SHOULD be given chance to
defend their country"
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Negro Platoon -.
CONTINUED from Pace Onel

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oazooka man killed 10 eenemv
troops with a single shell but thew
kept coming for more than II
hours.
Once the North Koreans fought
their way into the trench and
turned the Americans own ma
chine gun down the ridgeline. II
was then that Pfc. Elijah Whitley
OF Toledo, Ark, silenced the ma
chine gun with his Browning auto
matte rifle.
1t. Sutton and his men then
rolled hand grenades down the
slope and as dawn broke. thew
saw the Communists crumple and
tumble down the slopes. Bodies
were strewn on the slopes.
AS reinforcements reached them
United States mortars thumped
down on the enemy-held right
hand ridge nipple. 1t. Sutton
led a counter-attack and the en-
envy was driven off.
eve gave them everything VIC
had," 1t. Sutton said.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-12-30
Africans Clash
With Mounted
Policemen

HARRISMITH, Orange Free
State-After clashing with mount
ed police, Monday night, approx
mately 5000 African natives fled
from their homes on the Vitzie-
shock Reserve in Drakensburg and
went in hiding.
The "free-for-all" started when
police attempted to break up an
unauthorized meeting. About 600
natives, armed with spears, axes
and sticks Joined in the affray in
which two officers were slain and
fifteen injured.
When police returned to the
scene of the fight, the following
morning, most of the homes had
been abandoned. The officers found
only wounded, sick or very young
natives left behind.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-12-30
AIcorn Professor
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formally accepted into the organi-
cation whose purpose is twofold.
First, to afford mutual profess
sional aid and inspiration to those
engaged in Educational endeavor:
and second, to promote the social
life and fellowship of its mem
bers."
Presiously, he received a letter
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-12-30
Postal Employees
Raise $4,000 For
gnterraciaI
Hospital

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Dec. 81
Special-Proceeds from the Postal
Employees benefit dance and
breakfast for the st. Augustine
Westview Hospital have added
more than $4,000 to the hospital
fund, Postmaster Michael D. Fan
ming, Hospital Board president,
has announced.
The hospital, which will be op-
Grated by Catholic nuns known as
the franciscan Sisters of the Sac
red Heart, will be a 1OO-bed, non
profit, non-sectarian, interracial
institution.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-12-30
VA Head Says
Money Available
For Home Loans

Chauncey Camp, Regional Of
flee Manager of the Veterans Adj
ministration Office in Jackson,
Mississippi, states that there is
still money available for VA direct
loans to those veterans who have
been unable to secure a CT loan
to purchase or construct a home or
to build or improve a farm house
on land owned by the veteran
These loans are available for the
entire State of Mississippi except
the thirteen larger towns and their
immediate surroundings where 4cc
financing is available through Ma
tional or private investors who
usually make these loans. These
direct loans do not apply to bust
ness or farm equipment. Neither
do they apply to the purchase of
farm land
Mr. Camp stated that if veteran
owned farm that was mortgaged
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-12-30
Carnegie Hero
Winner Denied
Use Of Award

CINCINNATI, O., Dec. >26 -
(ANP) - Jimmy Walker, Carne-
gle award winner last week was
denied the use of his prize as a
down payment on mortgage for
home.
Trustees of the Carnegie Hero
Fund, donors of the award, answer
ed mo" when he sought to use his
$500 as down payment on a &c.
600 home mortgage.
According to M. H. Floto, the
Carnegie Commission manager, the
house Walker wants to buy needed
repairs that he would not be able
to repair, Floto added.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-12-30
North Carolina
Sheriff Names
Negro Deputy

GREENSBORO, N. c., Dec. 26
-(ANP)-Sheriff John E. Waters
last week announced that he had
appointed Negro deputy sheriff
for Guilford County. The new depu-
ty is Johnnie D. Marable.
He will work in Negro sections
OF the county. He will serve civil
process action on Negroes and also
will help in criminal work in color
ed communities in other parts Of
he county outside Greensboro.
Marable is the first member of
race to be appointed a deputy in
any part of the state of North
Carolina. He formerly worked as
chauffeur and butler of Mayor
Ben Cone of Greensboro.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-12-30
I uskegee Prexy
And Wife Visit
In Germany

KIN TZING GEN, Germany
(ANP)-Dr. Frederick D. Patter-
son, president of Tuskegee Insti-
tute, visited Kitzingen Training
Center recently where he was
presented as the guest speaker for
the regular Sunday morning chapel
service.
DR.. and Mrs. Patterson are
touring Europe and West Africa
observing various systems of ed
ucation and the role Of the occu-
patton forces on the spot. They
came to Kitzingen Training Cen
ter as guests of the Tuskegee
Alumni in this area.
DR.. Patterson was we'll pleased
with the facilities of KTC which
he observed closely, as he was con-
Quoted on tour by Capt. Cecil
W. White, Selma, Ala, president
OF the European Command Tus-
kegee, Alumni Club.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-12-30
United Nations
Votes Broadening
Of Human
Rights Pact

LAKE SUCCESS-(ATLAS)-
BY a vote of 38 to Z, the General
Assembly of the United Nations
approved a proposal directing the
human Rights Commission to re-
vamp the entire United Nations
Treaty on Human Rights and re-
quested inclusion in the covenant
OF clear expression of economic.
social and cultural rights, together
with the civil liberties already laid
down in the document"
The State Department took q
cautious position in fear that the
Senate would not ratify a covenant
including economic and social
rights or the right of private petit
ton.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-12-30

showing his the biographical sketch
which the editor of Who's Who in
Colored America will use. His wife,
Mrs. Verbie A. Rand, remained at
Alcorn where she is teacher. They
have two children, Earlyne and
Randye.
Il plan to go back to Alcorn-
| consider it fertile place for
education" Prof. Rand further
stated in an interview.
The 39-year-old professor was
born in Lodi, Texas. He attended
Bishop College, Marshall, Texas,
Cor his A. B. His M. S. is from
Atlanta University, Georgia. He
also has done further study at
che Colorado State College of Edu-
cation and the University of Chi
ago, before coming to Indiana
University.
He has been at Alcorn for the
past three years. Before going
there he was Dean at Jarvis Chris
cam College, Hawkins, Texas, Di-
rector and Supervisor of Wood
County Schools, Texas, and at AL
,orn, he is the Director of Arts
md Sciences.
Prof. Rand has been active in
contributing to the field of educa-
ion. For in 1913, he wrote, en-
service Education in the Negro
Land Grant Colleges" While his
masters thesis is entitled: The
Vitamin A Content of the Hens
Egg Yolk, as influenced by Indi-
sestion of Cod Liver Oil.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-12-30
To Investigate !.
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\SOitkiiCCo ~ OiiA 4 CSS OiiSJ
part:
1--WE are being trained by some
Negro-hating white officers who
are Southern bred. They are alb
solutely no good.
Eve are cursed at and berated
and the Southern Negroes are
afraid to move. They have tied up
our money and will take an act
of Congress to get a red sou B..
For Heavens sake see if you can't
get me out of this He'll hole"
Stone said Negro soldiers were
prohibited from going into near
by-towns, and that he and others
lacked even proper clothing. He
wrote that since he had only one
eye, he did not understand why he
was sent to Camp Rucker, rather
than to another for specialized
training.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-12-30

GatemOuth Brown of Houston,
Tex, sensation of the guitar and
blues vOcals, who in a series of
battles against local talent through
Texas and Louisiana, has won the
coveted but unofficial title of
King of the Blues" in the great
Southwest. A youngster of %,
Gatemouth is a whole show by him
self and is causing the SRO sign
to be put out wherever he plays.
He has toured the country for
some time and has several hit rec
ordings out. He is linked by the
Peacock Recording Company of
HoustOn.-(ANP)