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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-06-24
AIcorn President
Says Negro Losing
Ground In Sou.
Agriculture

Tuskegee, Ala, June 19-Dr. J.
R. Otis, President of Alcorn Agri-
cultural and Mechanical college OF
Mississippi told the Rural Life
Council meeting at Tuskegee Insti-
tute tonight that the greatest farm
INFLAMMATION in the south is TAX
ing place in the production of cot
ton, sugar cane and peanuts.
DR.. Otis said, further the Negro
is losing ground in Southern Agri-
culture both from the standpoint
of land area formed and the num-
Der of operations.
The Mississippi college president
added that in order to stem the tide
of the diminishing role the Negro
is playing in Southern farming the
Negro farmers must make the
same adjustment to change, pro-
duction and marketing that the
pace-setting farmers in the South
are doing.
Earlier in the day, DR.. Arthur
Raper, a top social scientist with
the U. S. department of agriculture
in Washington, said if "a small
Southern farmer can make adjust
ments to new ways Of life, he may
come out on top after ALL.
Raper said that although the
tenant farmers are being displac-
ed, "real progress is beng made"
The Bureau of Agricultural Eco
nomics official spoke at the open
ing session of the three-day confer
ence.
Leaders in Agriculture, educa-
ton, health, public welfare and Of
ficials of number of government
agencies are meeting with the rural
life council to discuss the displace-
ment of men by machines on Dixie
farms.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-06-24
Rally Set For
MCGEE Freedom

NEW YORK-The fighting at
the Garden" Rally on June %,
will serve as a gigantic demon
stration for executive clemency
for Willie MCGEE and for the free
dom of 81 other Negro victims
facing death in eight states, the
Civil Rights Congress announced
Thursday.
The Madison Square Garden
meeting, first in many months, sis
to let the lynchers and the jail
ers know the peoples anger" CFC
said.
Together we can K.O. the Jail
ers, the jimcrow fascists, the anti
semites," Gro continued. "To-
gether we can win the freedom
of the real Americans-the peace
fighters"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-06-24
Trustees To Discuss
Problems OF
Negro Education

Problems of Negro education will
occupy top spot in the delibera-
tions of the board of trustees of
State Institutions of Higher learn
ing coming up Thursday of this
week, DR.. E. R. Jobe, executive di-
rector said Monday.
In addition, the board will make
its annual check-up on all agricul-
tural activities in the colleges, in
Guiding the Prairie Trades Training
Institute; State Experiment Sta
tons; State Extension Service; and
other associated agencies.
Overall policies and coordina-
tion of activities of the agricultural
units will be studied and possible
new programs inserted by the board
of trustees.
In the field of Negro education.
the trustees will study existing in
stitutional training and graduate
school programs, scholarships for
Negroes out of this state and
graduate programs in Mississippi.
1t is said that in years past, the
leaders in Negro education in this
have favored building up the I'M
der-graduate study classes rather
than concentrating on graduate
programs.
John w. Backstrom, of Leakes-
vile, president of the board of
trustees will preside over the ses-
sion here this week. 1t IS expected
that in view of the Importance of
the topics to be discussed, the
meeting will extend over a two day
period.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-06-24
0. B. Cobbins
Elected Teachers
Delegate lost.
Louis Meeting

The Jackson Teachers Associa-
ton elected Supervisor 0. B. Cob
bins delegate to the representative
assembly of the National Education
Association, which meets in St.
Louis, Mo-, July 2-7. The Jackson
Teachers Association, through the
efforts of Supervisor Cobbins, was
the first Negro group in Missis-
sippi to organize a local unit of
the National Education Associa-
tion and to receive charter from
the National Education Associa-
ton.
Mr.. M. J. Lyells is the president
of the Jackson Teachers Associa-
ton and Mrs. Ernestine Suits is
secretary.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-06-24
South Africans
Support Bill
On Segregation

CAPETOWN, Union of South
Africa (SNS) Administration
supporters argued here Wednes-
day that a government bill to out
law the Communist party is need
ed to maintain racial segregation
in South Africa.
At the same time bitter cries
that the bill would foster depotism
set off a riot outside the parlia-
ment building.
Members were debating the bill
at its second meeting. The debate
Continued on Page Five)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-06-24
Supervisor Negro Schools Lets
Weight Responsibility Fall On
Wife Teacher Job Sale Racket
Popular Local Teacher In
Confessed Role GO-Between
Many Questioned
After Break In
Racket Last Week
Hint Long List of
Those Who Bought
And Paid for Jobs

The discovery and uncovering a
what appears to be a fairly large
scale Negro Teachers Job Selling
Racket by Police here last week
came as a sudden and stunning
blow to the City's Negro Communi-
ty.
Identified by Police as possible
principals in the racket are Prof.
0. B. Cobbins, Supervisor of Negro
Schools, his wife Mrs. Elva Cob
bins, Miss Picola Haley, Sixth
Grade Teacher of Smith Robertson
School, and her 57-year-old mother
Mrs. Bettye c. Haley, a substitute
teacher.
Taken into custody Ey police
during the latter part of the week,
Mrs. Elva Cobbins and Picola Haley
were charged with obtaining money
under false pretense and later re-
leased after posting bond of $4,000
each.
While no formal charge was
placed against him, Prof. Cobbins
was also required to post a bond
of $4,000. The bond of $4,000 in
each case was recommended by
District Attorney Julian Alexander
and a preliminary hearing in the
case set for Wednesday of this
week.
Following the breaking of the
case last week the police are re-
ported to have questioned the Prin-
cipals of the schools, scores of
Continued on Page Six
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-06-24
Methodist To
Hold Annual
Leadership School
AtWaveIand

Nashville, Tenn. - The annual
Leadership School for the Central
Jurisdiction of The Methodist
Church will be held at the jurisdic-
TONS Gulfside Assembly, Wave
land, Mississippi, July 6-13, it has
been announced by the Rev. M.
Earl Cunningham, director of the
Leadership Education Department
of the denomination General
Continued on Page Six
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-06-24

Mi Amaa Oilennu, a member of
the Gold Coast Legislative council,
is to be included in the British
delegations at the forthcoming
session of the general conference
of UNESCO to be held in Florence.
Mr.. AlIenuu (Nii is local title)
will represent the British non
self-governirg territories with W.
E. F. Ward, deputy educational
adviser to the Secretary of State
for the colonies, at the conference.
He was nominated by the governor
to be member of the Legislative
council in 1916 and was one of
the members of the Gold Coast
delegation to the African confer
erce held in London in 1948.-
CAMP.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-06-24
Halle SaIassie
Urge Ethiopia
Eritrea Unity

Adds ABABA, ETHIOPIA -
(ANPl-Emperor Halle Selassie in
an interview here last week, dis
closed that he has been urging that
the former Italian colony of Eritrea
be reunited with Ethiopia.
The now 57-year old ruler of
Ethiopia said that his country's
claims to Eritrea are based on "cul-
tural, racial, ethic and religious
identity and upon economic nee
Continued on Page Four)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-06-24

Stephen A. Griffin of Chicago
can look back to a continuous SER
vice on official boards at Olivet
Baptist church for over so years.
He has served in that capacity
under four ministers. three of
whom were the late Rev. Elijah
J. Fisher, the late Rev. l.. X. Will
liams and Rev. ]. FL. Jackson. He
was on the pulpit committee at
the time the three named were
called. Married and the father of
two boys and two girls. Griffin
and his wife celebrated their gol-
den wedding anniversary last year
by visiting relatives in California.
-(ANP).
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-06-24

DIR. Paul Prince Boswell, out
standing Chicago dermatologist,
recently received the distinction
of being elected to the Chicago
Genealogical society, an honor
cry organization composed of lead
ing dermatologists in the Mid
West. DR.. Boswell, who is a grad
uate of the University of Mime
sofa Medical school, is a member
OF the medical faculty at the Uni
verstiy of Illinois.-(ANP).
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-06-24

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Evening star., 1950-04-04
Search Is Pressed
In Baby kidnapping
Special Dispoteh TO The S,or

WINCHESTER. Va, April A.
A young woman whose mother
formerly worked in the incubator
ward of New York hospital was
sought for questioning today in
the kidnapping of a premature
baby from a Bronx IN. " hos
pital incubator.
Since yesterday the search by
New York detectives. FBI agents,
State and local police has CEN
tered in this area.
The 2-week-old, 2-pound IL
ounce baby was taken Thursday
from the Lincoln Hospital oy a
young colored woman. Doctors
expressed doubt that the baby,
Chaneta Holden, colored, could
live more than an hour outside
the incubator.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford Holden
parents of the infant, could offer
no explanation for the kidnapping
Of their only child.
BY questioning Of cab and bus
drivers, authorities established
that a woman answering the de-
scription Of the suspect boarded a
bus m Washington Friday and got
of at Winchester.
Investigators yesterday ques-
toned Winchester physicians,
nurses and taxi drivers and
checked the Winchester Memorial
Hospital, nursing homes and tour
ist camps. They also set up a a.
hour watch at the towns bus ter
minal.
Evening star., 1950-04-04
Glenn Dale Sanitorium
Ruled District HOSPITAL

Glenn Dale Sanitorium is Dis
trict hospital and not a Federal
one, Corporation Counsel Vernon
E. West has ruled for the Commits
sioners against the opinion of the
United States Employees Compen-
sation Board.
A stenographer employed in the
Treasury Department had applied
for compensation to the board,
after she had been treated for tu-
berculosis at the sanitorium. The
board refused to compensate her
for the money spent at Glenn
Dale. saying it is a Federal insti-
tuition and she could be sent there
by the Federal doctors.
The question of whether Dis
trict institutions are Federal ones
came up several weeks ago when
the Agriculture Department re-
fused to sell surplus potatoes to
the Workhouse at Occoquan, Va,
and the Reformatory at Lorton,
Va, on the grounds they are Fed
eral institutions.
Roland M. Brennan, District
purchasing officer, appealed to
the Commissioners against the de-
cision. Subsequently. the Agricul-
ture Department changed its rul-
ing and agreed to sell the potatoes
to the Department Of Corrections
at l cent per 100 pounds, plus
freight from Maine, where the
potatoes are stored.
Evening star., 1950-04-04
II Entertainers Due Here
To Open Cancer Rally

Eleven entertainers who will
launch the cancer rally tonight at
Constitution Hall we're scheduled
to arrive at Union Station this
afternoon.
They are Helmut Dantine and
Dick Sykes, actors; Mary Beth
Hughes, Martha Scott and Nancy
Carroll, actresses: Lanny Ross,
David Street and jeff Clark,
singers; Dean Murphy, comedian;
Hal Leroy. tap dancer, and Mollie
Mcneil, television and radio
actress.
The performers will be whisked
to Constitution Hall to rehearse
for the 1850 Cancer Crusade rally
at 7:30 o'clock tonight. -,
The show will be televised from
10 to II pm. over WTTG, accord
ing to Charles c. Koones, cancer
drive chairman. The entertainers
will talk by telephone to those
who call in cancer fund pledges to
start the drive for 5000, 900 in the
District. The national goal is
$14, 4,565, 900.
Faye Emerson, actress, and
Mary Jane Hayes. Miss Washing
ton" will help with the telephone
calls and also appear on the show.
Evening star., 1950-04-04

This is the second OF a series
OF fue articles on the District
income tar.
Don't be misled into thinking
the new $4,000 exemption on
1850 income applied to last years
income.
On the 1949 District income
tax return. due April Is. your in
dividual exemption is $1,000. You
also may claim a $1,000 exemp-
tion for your spouse, and a credit
of $500 for each dependent.
When you file your return next
year. things will be different. Be-
cause the sales tax, which went
in effect August l. 1949, hits all
residents, the income tax was
changed to raise the basic ex-
emption, beginning in 1850. to
the first $4,000 of taxable income
Carries Old Exemption.
But this years return. covering
last years income, still carries the
old exemption.
A dependent is a person more
than half of whose support for
the taxable year was supplied by
you, and whose gross income did
not exceed $500.
The dependent must be:
Your son or daughter, or a
descendant Of either.
Your stepson or stepdaughter.
Your brother, sister, stepbrother
or stepSister.
Evening star., 1950-04-04
DR.. zappa|a Appointed
Aide 10 Dr.. Wexbero

DR.. Anthony Zappala, 36, of
9518 Seminole street. Silver
Spring, today was appointed as
sistant director of the alcoholic
rehabilitation program OF the
District. He will aid DR.. Leopold
E. Wexberg.
The Commissioners announced
the appointment at board meet
ing today. The position pays
$1,000 a year. DR.. zappala will be
stationed at the Alcoholic Clinic
at Twenty-third and M streets
NV.
DR.. Zappala was born in Nico-
losi, Italy, and came to this coun-
try with his parents as a child.
He attended elementary schools
here and Central High School. He
took his pre-medical studies at
George Washington Medical
School and received his medical
degree from Georgetown Univer-
sity.
He interned at Providence Hos
pital and then became medical Of
f1cer in psychiatry at st. Eliza
beths Hospital. He left st. Eliz-
abeths to enter the Army in July,
1943. and remained until Feb
ruary, 1916. There he was psy-
chiatric medical officer to soldiers
and their dependants.
DR.. Zappala is married and has
two children.
Evening star., 1950-04-04
Daylight Saving Ballots
Being Counted feverishIy

Ballot counting was going on
feverishly in the city's police sta
tions today as the Commissioners
daylight saving poll neared its
climax.
The tellers we're so busy they
did not have time to stop for a
progress report. They indicated,
however, that the trend still is
decisively on the daylight saving
side.
Supt. Robert j. Barrett has
asked for returns from the IA pre-
cinct stations tomorrow. He will
pass them on to the District
Building, where the Commissioners
viii take them into account in
deciding whether to move the
clocks ahead an hour this summer.
The latest preliminary returns
gave the summertime change as
much as 4 4-to-1 edge.
Evening star., 1950-04-04
Woman Arrested Here
In Store Forgery Case

A 30-year -old housewife was ar
rested yesterday on forgery
charges involving 100 cases OF
credit-buying at Washington de-
partment stores.
Arrest of Mrs. Margaret Brandt
of the 400 block of Evart street
NE. in Kann's Department Store
yesterday halted an operation
police say has been going on since
1946 without detection.
A salesgirl who sold the woman
one bottle of hair lotion and then
saw her buy another from a Sec
ond clerk and sign a different
name on the sales slip apparently
cracked the case.
The clerk notified a floorwalker
who called store police.
Detective Sergt. Frank Dodson
said the woman has admitted at
least 100 cases in which she used
various names including a color
scheme-Gold. Green, Black and
Gray-as signatures.
Sergt. Dodson quoted her as
saying she didn't "do it for profit, "
but rather for her own use.
Mrs. Brandt waived a prelimi-
nary hearing before Municipal
Court Judge Thomas D. Quinn
this afternoon and was held for
the grand jury on a bond of
$4,000.
Evening star., 1950-04-04
Red Cross Drive Here
Hits 90 Pct. Of Goal

Daniel w. Bell, general chair
man of the Metropolitan Area
Red Cross campaign, has an
nounced the drive has reached the
80 per cent mark of it's $1,039,0OO
quota.
Still behind $1O6,344 and lack
ing some $1,000 gifts to date, as
compared to last years mark
241 ,438 contributions totaline
$932,656 have been reported.
Mrs. Morris Cafritz, chairman
OF the Booths and Diplomatic
Committee of the campaign, has
announced topping the commit
tees goal with lis per cent of its
quota, amounting to $8,066.
Contributions may be made
from 9 am. to pm. at the Dis
trict Red Cross Chapter House
1870 E street NV.
Evening star., 1950-04-04

Your father or mother or an
ancestor of either.
Your stepfather or stepmother
A son or daughter of your
brother or sister.
A brother or sister of your
father or mother.
Your son-in-law, daughter in
law. father-in-law. mother-in-law
brother law, or sister-in-law.
The brother or sister may be a
half" brother or sister. A legally
adopted child in considered as a
natural child of the taxpayer.
Dependents may not include a
person who is citizen or subject
of foreign country. unless he is
IA resident of the United States
Canada or Mexico.
l Per Cent Tax Rate.
The tax rate, If your taxable
income is not over $4,000, is
per cent.
The rates go up this way in re-
lation to the amount of youl
taxable income:
Over $4,000 but not over $40, 900
the tax is $50. plus ~ per cent
of the excess over $4,000.
Over $4,000 but not ovel
$4,000, the tax is $125, plus
per cent of the excess over $40, 900
Over $4,000 but not over
100000. the tax is 1928. plus "a
per cent Of the excess over SIS, 900
Over $4,000, the tax is $3.50
plus 3 per cent of the excess over
$40 600
Evening star., 1950-04-04
Hearing Here Bares P|igh'
OF Near East Students

An immigration hearing has di-
rected attention to the plight OF
students from the Near East
studying here and whose funds
have been cut off.
John Nuseibeh, 23-year-old
Palestinian Arab, appeared yes
terday before Hearing Examiner
Albert Bloberger to fight threat.
ened deportation. He was repre-.
sented by Attorneys Alfred M
Lllienthal and Frank c. Sakran
The examiner will make his re-
port to immigration COMMISSIONS,
Watson B. Miller.
Mr.. Nuseibeh has been attend
ing the University of Nebraska
but was forced to drop out be-
cause Of financial difficulties. The
Holyland Emergency Liaison Pro.
gram. 1880 Nineteenth street NV.
which became interested in his
case, said Mr.. Nuseibeh is typical
Of hundreds Of Near East students
studying in the United States
Their funds have been cut OF a.
the result Of recent hostilities in
Palestine.
Evening star., 1950-04-04
Three Directors Added
To Board Of Boys Club

Three new members were named
to the Metropolitan Police Boys
Club Board of Directors last night
at monthly meeting at the No.
S Club. Ninth and K streets Sc.
The new directors are Judge
Richmond B. Keech of District
Court, Frank E. Weakly, president
of Washington Properties and of
the District Hotel Association,
and Edward J. Flynn, managing
director of the Washington Grim
inal Justice Association.
Prizes were awarded for ex-
hibitors of aircraft and woodcraft
from the eight boys clubs. VIM
ners were:
Midgets-Mark Francis, Z: Jack
Ward. 10, and Buddy Lee Gegar, 8.
Juniors-Wayne Robinson, a.;
Roosevelt Johnson, 13, and Bruce
Boswell, IL.
Seniors-Robert johnson, IT;
Albert Sunday. Is. and Daniel
Halwick, 18.
Evening star., 1950-04-04
Chambers Hearings Set
In Child Sex Cases

Municipal Court Judge Thomas
D. Quinn today was committed to
a policy of holding in his cham
bers all hearings on sex cases in
volving small children.
Judge Quinn initiated the
policy, believed by court attaches
to be somewhat of a precedent,
when police brought to court yes
terday a 34-year-old man charged
with sodomy. The complaining
witness was a 5-year-old child.
The jurist recessed court, and
the principals in the case ad-
journed to his chambers. At the
end of the hearing. Judge Quinn
ordered Rudolph K. Fairfax of
Baltimore. Mo-, held for grand
jury action under $4,000 bond.
Assistant United States Attor-
ney Martin j. Mcnamara, jr., said
the child involved in the case is
a daughter of a friend Of Fairfax.
The defendant is the father of six
children, MIR. Mcnamara said.
Evening star., 1950-04-04
Nathan W. Robertson
Found Dead in GARAGE;
Veteran Newsmdn

Nathan w. Robertson, 48, q
Washington newspaperman for a
quarter of century, was found
dead early this morning in the
garage behind his home at 116
Shepherd street, Chevy Chase, Md.
The motor of Mr.. Robertson's
automobile was running and the
garage was filled with carbon
monoxide. The Bethesda-C Chevy
Chase Rescue Squad applied arti-
f1cial respiration for a half hour
in a futile effort to revive Mr..
Robertson.
Mr.. Robertson had been in i'll
health for a number of years.
His wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Robert
son, said he left the house early
this morning explaining he could
not sleep. She awakened later to
hear the motor running in the ga
rage and found the body.
Hose Attached to Exhaust.
Police said a hose had been at
tached to the exhaust of Mr.. Ro-
bertson's car and stretched into
the back seat where his body was
found.
In 1914 Mr.. Robertson was
awarded Nieman Fellowship to
Harvard University and the Amer
lean Newspaper Guilds Haywood
Broun Memorial prize. He was a
charter member of the Washing
ton Newspaper Guild, and a for
mer vice president of the Amer
ican Newspaper Guild.
A native Washingtonian, Mr..
Robertson attended Central High
School and the University of
Michigan. Soon after graduating
from the University, he joined the
staff of the Washington Times.
He later covered the Senate for
the United Press and the Associ-
ated Press until i'll health forced
him into temporary retirement.
Wrote Washington Column.
When he returned to Washing
ton after regaining his health,
Mr.. Robertson worked for the
Farm Security Administration for
a short time and then Joined the
Washington Bureau of the New
York Newspaper PM. In recent
years he has written a Washing
ton column for Labor Press AS
sociateS, labor news agency.
He also taught journalism brief
ly at George Washington Univer-
Sity.
Mr.. Robertson is the son OF
Thomas E. Robertson, former
Commissioner of Patents. Be-
sides his parents and his wife,
he is survived by a son, Donald
18, a daughter, Judith, is, and
two brothers, Thomas Robertson,
of Atlanta, and Louis Robertson,
of Chicago.
Evening star., 1950-04-04

D"S~ SCuQleO IOr Cne
ministry at Nashotah (Wis.)
House and the General Theolog-
ical Seminary, New York. He
was ordained to the diaconate in
1925 and to the priesthood in
1927.
Father Duncan served as rec
tor of the Church of the Advent,
Pawtucket, r. l., before going to
Chicago. He will succeed the
Rev. Albert j. du Bois in the post
here. Father du Bois will leave
here after Easter to become ma
tional executive director Of the
American Church Union of the
Episcopal Church.