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was announced last week by Will
liam E. Doar, Jr., the fraternity's
National Executive Secretary.
Conclave headquarters have been
established at the Parker High
School for all business sessions,
according to Chester Halves and
Robert Williams, chairman and CO.
chairman, respectively, of the ar
engagements committee. Tau Sigma
Chapter of Birmingham, Alabama,
and Sigma Chapter of Miles Col
lege will be hosts to the Conclave,
and are going all out in prepara-
ton for this affair.
On Thursday, December 81, at
900 AN, registration of delegates
and visitors will begin. At $50 A.
NJ. of the same day, and preceding
the opening of the convention,
meeting of the General Board will
be held.
The opening session will be call
ed to order by DR.. Felix J. Brown,
National President. at HOO Am.
The devotions will follow with
presentation of the founders of the
fraternity, national and regional
officers and former national Off
GERS. Greetings will be extended by
R. H. Beasley, Director of the
Southern Region.
On Friday, December 20, bust
ness sessions with reports of Reg
ional Directors and National Of
ficers will be the order of the
day.
On Saturday, December 20, the
final session will be spearheaded
with an Auditors Report, presen-
tation of members of the Distin-
guished Service Chapter, Commit
tee Reports, presentation of Omega
Chapter and election of officers.
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was announced last week by Will
liam E. Doar, Jr., the fraternity's
National Executive Secretary.
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than the suggested program, which
upon study, us rather limited and
lacks a great deal of being what
the title suggests.
The United States has gone into
two world wars in a state of ghast-
ly unpreparedness and, despite the
losses that this condition entailed,
reduced its armed strength to mill
tary impotence almost Immediately
upon the cessation of hostilities.
The proposed plan is an effort to
assure that this country will have a
minimum body of experienced SOL
diers, ready for an emergency.
While it is somewhat limited in its
present scope, the presumption is
that as the present manpower
shortage relaxes, the regular and
orderly training of all young men
will be expanded.
Universal military training, ac-
cording to General of the Army
George c. Marshall, will be "a
greater deterrent to possible ag-
gressors or murderers of world
peace than even the atomic power,
now in rapid state of develop
ment." Because the threat of war
will prevail for many years, the
former Secretary of State thinks
that, "to be unprepared these days
would be a tragic risk Of our free
DOM" He wants program of
military training that will be
reasonably secure against sudden
fluctuations of public opinion
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spent by ECA to rebuild some fac
tories in Europe which can produce
needed ornaments. This raises the
objection of some that U. S. money
will be used to rebuild the plants,
then used to give the plants orders,
and that in the end the U. S. will
ge. nothing out of it-except ex-
pedited armament production in
Europe today. 1t also raises the
same old objections that have bob
bed up before about the special
interests in many European coun-
tries, which will stand to gain most
of the profits from the reconstruc-
ton of these plants-owned by
wealthy and monopolistic families
and groups in many cases.
The problem is big one and it
is being called the problem of off
shore procurement, which means
the purchase of ornaments beyond
the shores of the United States.
Some u. S. officials abroad who
advocate the off-shore procure
ment plan realize that Congress-
men and Senators in Washington
who must vote the money for this
program are likely to be put on the
hot seat by business men in the
United States if they Support a
large off-shore procurement pro-
gram. Likewise, they say, General
Eisenhower's mobilization plans
will be in for rude failure if some
off-shore procurement program
isn't pushed with vigor.
Military aid mission officials
seem generally agreed some pro-
gram of this sort is necessary if
the NATO countries are going to
meet the mobilization and rearma-
ment goals General Eisenhower is
urging Some admit caution will
be necessary in the selection Of
plants to the aided by ECA, and
those to be given large defense
contracts. Aid officials in Greece
have helped that country's defense
program greatly by restoring fac
tories and stabilizing the country's
economy. In Turkey U. S. dollars
have built ordnance shops and have
been used to keep defense plants
going, until they could stand on
their own feet, in addition to the
more generally appreciated func-
ton of buying U. S. equipment for
the Turkish Army.
In Greece and Turkey most AM
orleans believe the limited amount
of off-shore procurement (Which
has been infinitesimaD, the de-
velopment and construction of de-
tense plants, and other related pro-
grams have been successful. The
larger program being talked in
London today, to affect many coun-
tries, may or may not be diff
ferent kettle of fish. Chances seem
to be that some sort of enlarged
program will be undertaken, and
that protests will come from some
quarters in the U. S.
Unpreparedness Risks
Our Freedom
Early in 1852, the United States
will be called upon to approve the
report of civilian commission,
which recently recommended a pro-
gram for the development of uni
versal military training at the
earliest practicable moment.
There will be considerable de-
bate about the issue, with many
people fighting the phrase, uni
versal military training, rather
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State Group.
Continued from Page Onel

The Conference this year, ac-
cording to v. T. Anthony, has a
special urgency due to the tragic
toll polio has taken among the
colored people. 1--WE must insure
the March of Dimes overtaking the
March of Polio in Mississippi" he
concluded.
1t has only been generally recog-
nized in the last year or two, ac-
cording to the National Foundation
for Infantile Paralysis reports,
that colored people are as suscepti-
BILE to polio as the white people.
This year almost half Of the polio
cases in Mississippi have been a.
mong the negroes, with the disease
striking hard among the children.
The total polio cases in Mississippi
this year now total 670, almost
double the number in any previous
year.
Mississippians attending the
Tuskegee meet will be: Mrs. Ruth
Moore, of Cleveland; Mr.. A. P.
Johnson, School Principal of Lex
ington; Mr.. O. M. McNair, of Lex
ington, President Of the Colored
Dental Health Council; Mrs. Velma
w. Jackson, school teacher of Can
ton; Mr.. James Smith of Indianola;
Miss Amanda Ellzy, school teach
er from Greenwood; Ann Jarratt
Britton of Greenville; Miss Emma
Hines Thornton of Meridian; Mrs.
H. l.. Knaive of Laurel; and Dele
gate from the state-at large,
James c. Gillian of Clarksdale,
Grand Master of the M. w. String
er Grand Lodge F & R. M.
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mechanical. The tractor is now
a farm necessity and | expect to
see the day when the mechanical
cotton picker will be recognized in
the same light. | say | am glad
to see the mechanical cotton picker
coming to existence, and / say this
because | believe that we will see
more and more come to the south
to absorb our labor problem.
Mentioning the fact that Negroes
were not being allowed to vote in
his section of the state President
Davis said that if he had been
able to vote he would have voted
for Hon. Hugh White because of
his balance agriculture with in
dustry program.
State Superintendent of Eduea-
ton j. NJ. Tubb expressed appre-
citation for the efforts and the
advances which the Negro farm
ers of Mississippi are making.
The rally was under the super
vision of District Supt. J. J. Nor
man, Institutional On-Farm Train
ing. The devotional was given by
Rev w. D. Gibson, pastor Faith
Presbyterian church, Jackson. Mus
zeal solos were given by Lonnie
Mccain Norman and Prof. J. D.
Williams, Clarksdale.
Visitors were welcomed by Percy
Greene, Editor Jackson Advocate,
and J. R. Otis, President Alcorn
College, gave the response. The
speaker was introduced by J. R.
White, President Mississippi Voca-
tional College, Ltta Bena, Miss.
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Delta Youth
Continued from Page One)

night of September 2, after dis
turbance which police said took
place earlier in the night when the
youth was chased from the filling
station.
The youth was arrested about q
week after the filling station OPP
orator died in Greenwood hos
pital from bullet wounds in his
neck and chest.
Judge Arthur Jordan, before
whom the case was tried, delayed
passing sentence.
According to legal practices in
the state, q plea of guilty to a
charge Of murder, when accepted
by the court, operates as a stay
of the desth penalty.
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Sigmas Prepare
For 37th concIave

LOUISVILLE, KY. - (Global)
Lavish preparations are being
made for the 9th Anniversary
Conclave of the Phi Beta Sigma
Fraternity to be held in Birming
ham. Alabama, December 81
through % inclusive. The theme
of the Conclave will be "Sigma's
Role in Changing World" it
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-15

Severn have already been built
and work on the steel super
structure has been started.
But the portion of the express
way under construction is only a
stretch about 2 miles long that
ends at the Defense Highway near
Parole, a little community just
west Of Annapolis. 1t is planned
to make the Defense Highway a
dual road all the way to Wash
ington, but the work has not been
started. When the bay bridge is
completed next year its links with
Washington will be the same old
blacktop winding high crowned
roads.
Here in Wilmington, Col. McWil-
liams. the man who supervised
the building of the Delaware
Bridge. is not discouraged by the
lag in the construction of con-
meeting highways. AS a highway
engineer he is certain that once
the bridges crowd the Anticipated
roads with traffic modern high
ways will be built.
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two food control projects in Texas
Dallas floodway and Trinity
River. and Buffalo Bayou anc
tributaries.
Senator Lehman, Democrat, oil
New York offered an amendment
to restore the So million budget
estimate for Niagara power de-
velopment. The item was disap-
proved by the House and the Sen
ate Appropriations Committee.
AS recommended by the Senate
committee, the bill carries $l22,-
850.813 more than approved by the
House. 1t includes money for q
number Of new projects requested
by President Truman as a result
Iof the recent floods in Kansas
Missouri and Oklahoma.
Besides food control and navi-
CATION projects, the bill carries
funds for national cemetery ex-
IpenSes and government in the
Panama Canal Zone for the veal
ending next June 30.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-15
House Ready 10 Pass
ST. Billion in Funds
For Defense Housing
BY the Associated Press

A Sit billion defense housing
bill was tabled for final approval
in the House today. Even Rep
resentative Wolcott. Republican,
of Michigan, who opposed several
provisions of the measure. con-
coded its probable passage.
The administration lost only
one significant skirmish after the
opening of debate yesterday.
BY a shaky three-vote margin,
subject to possible overturn on a
later roll call, Mr.. Wolcott pushed
through an amendment calling for
suspension, rather than relaxa-
ton, of Regulation X building
credit restrictions in critical hous-
ing areas. The tentative vote was
108 to los.
Curb on Building Beaten.
BY the Sturdier margin of 1877
to 102, the House rejected another
Wolcott move to bar the Govern
ment from constructing perma-
nent-type housing where private
enterprise does not produce the
number of dwelling units needed.
A third Wolcott amendment, de-
feated 125 to 1872, would have
barred the Government from OPP
Grating (but not from construct
ing) such community facilities as
hospitals. waterworks, sewage svs-
TENS and similar works in areas
unable to finance them locally.
Some members of the House
said they feared the language of
the section would let the Govern
ment interfere with local opera
ton of schools, even opening up
the possibility of delegating their
operation to religious groups.
Saying he wished to keep the
bill clear of religious controver-
sizes, Representative Spence, DEM
ocrat, Of Kentucky, manager for
the measure, announced he would
move to strike out all authority
for Government construction or
operation of schools.
Mortgage Fund Increased.
MI. Spence. who is chairman
of the Banking Committee which
developed the legislation, said 1t
gives private enterprise every OPP
portunity to build the houses
needed around expanding defense
plants and military installations,
with the Government authorized
to step in only when private build
ers cannot or will not do the work.
One of the principal helps
would be a SIS billion expansion
of the Governments mortgage in
surfing authority. The bill also
sets up $75 million for public
housing, if needed; 500 million
for community facilities and serv-
ices; SIS million for pre-fab loans
and $40 million for acquisition of
sites in isolated defense areas.
The Senate voted only $50 mil
lion for public housing and $50
million for community facilities
and services. Mr.. Wolcott said an
effort would be made in the House
to cut the total authorization back
to the Senate figures.
All housing programs in the bill
not already set up on a perma-
nent basis would be extended
through June 80. 1858.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-15
India and Pakistan
Mark independence
with Angry Words
BY the Associated Press

NEW DELHI, India, Aug. 15.-
India and Pakistan celebrated
their fourth year of independence
from the British today, but their
leaders took no holiday from their
war of words with each other.
midas Prime Minister Java
harlal Nehru told a vast throng
the hand of peace is extended to
nelghboring Pakistan, but he
warned that I'VE have to be pre-
pared for the worst-and we are
PakiStan'S Premier Liaquat Ali
Khan told his people last night
to be ready for an emergency at
any moment.
The center of the feud between
the two countries is the former
princely state of Kashmir, which
lies between them. And that feud
started only two months after the
great subcontinent was divided
into India and Pakistan and given
its independence.
Fighting started almost imme-
diately in 1947 and ended in an
uneasy truce, sponsored by the
United Nations. Armies of the two
countries rattle sabres at each
other across a ceaSe-flre line in
the Himalayan state. Each charges
the other with having started the
aggression and plotting new at
tacks to grab Kashmir.
In his independence day address
Liaquat Ali charged India with
Selling Nepal, Hyderabad anc
Kashmir by force. He said Paki-
stan never would accept Kashmir
as part of India and he would
shed his own blood to defend his
country.
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New Delaware River Bridqe
Dedicated as War Memorial

us million a year or an average
of $1,000 a day.
When the 4l2-mile-long Chesa-
peake Bay bridge is completed next
year, the Washington motorist
will be able to arrive at the ap-
proaches of the Pulaski Skyway,
which scars over Newark Bay on
the way to New York, without
passing through a city.
To one motoring here it is ap-
parent that bridge construction,
which has Jagged through years
of war time steel shortages, is now
getting ahead of highway con-
struction. The new turnpike
which is being built through New
Jersey to connect this bridge with
the Holland Tunnel entrance to
New York probably will not be
completed until January.
New Roads Planned.
While the Dupont Parkway, a
dual highway from Wilmington to
Dover, makes a splendid approach
to the bridge from the South, it
is at an angle from the direct
line to the Chesapeake Bay bridge.
Maryland is constructing 9 miles
OF concrete dual highway at the
Eastern Shore approach of the
Chesapeake bridge. The rest of
the direct highway between the
two bridges is only a dotted line
drawn across maps to indicate
something proposed rather than
under construction.
The target date for completion
Iof the Chesapeake Bay bridge is
still July, 1852, but to the OBJ
server watching it from the ferry
completion In less than a year ap-
lpears to border on the impossible.
The bridge has been built out
about mile from each shore,
which leaves more than 2 miles
in the center unspanned. One of
the towers for the suspension span
over the ship channel on the west
ern side of the bay has been COM
Ipleted. The other is nearing
completion. Stringing cables will
start late this year,
Main Span Not Started.
The cantilever span which will
bridge the ship channel on the
eastern side of the bay has not
yet been started.
But Bruce Herman, supervising
engineer Of the j. E. Greiner Co.
OF Baltimore, the consulting en-
glneers on the job, says the bridge
will be completed on schedule if
the coming winter is not too
rough.
An expressway is to be built
between the bridges western end
at Sandy Point and Washington
that will avoid the bottleneck of
Annapolis by going around behind
that city. This expressway will
cross the Severn River far up-
stream from the present Annapolis
bridges. The piers for the bridge
that will carry it across the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-15
Virginia Legion Slated
To Act Today on Move
| AGAINST State Bonus
BY the Associated Press

ROANOKE, Va, Aug. 15.-The
American Legion was to close its
1851 State convention today with
the election of officers.
The Legionaires also were sched-
uled to act on several resolutions
one of which. sponsored by the
departments executive commit
tee, expressed disapproval of a
State bonus for veterans.
Last night the convention heard
an address by 1t. Gov. Preston
Collins deploring the breakdown"
of the Nations moral fiber.
Our concept of Government
has degenerated from one of fixed
and enduring philosophy to a
WiShy-washy system of opportu-
nism," Gov. Collins declared.
Gov. Collins called the West
Point scandal "the most startling
symptom of decay" and added:
i think the situation is just as
rotten at William and Mary as it
is at West Point"
He was referring to alleged
"malpracticeS" by the w. & M,
athletic department in the grad
ing of athletes.
Communism and subversive ac-
tlvities held the attention of the
LeglonnaireS yesterday as Repre-
sentative Harrison, Democrat, Of
Virginia called for houseclean-
ling Of Communist carpetbaggers"
in the United States.
About 1000 of the Legionnaires,
holding their 33d annual conven-
ton, already have signed anti
Communist oaths. And they have
heard several speakers denounce
communism and urge Legion mem
bers to lead the fight against sub
'verSives.
Mr.. Harrison said that Com
munists-in the guise of political
refugees. persons active in the
arts and professions and diploma
tic representatives of Iron Cur
tain countries-have gained en-
trance to this country to carry
out missions of espionage, sabo-
tage and Subversion.
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Hampshire, to send. the bill back
to committee with Instructions tc
cut $50 million from food control
navigation works, or other items
An amendment by Senator Mar
tin, Republican, of Pennsylvania
to add 5000 million to deepen the
navigation channel in the Della
ware River from Philadelphia to
Trenton. N. j., was ruled out of
order. Chairman Mcclellan of the
Appropriations Committee said
the project has not been author
lied by Congress.
Senator Williams. Republican,
of Delaware, served notice that
he would seek to suspend Senate
rules to permit an amendment
1t would prohibit expenditure OF
funds for any project not certi-
fled by the President or the De-
tense Department to be in the
interest Of national security. Two
thirds favorable vote will be re-
quired for adoption of the amend
ment.
A similar amendment proposed
to the Interior Department ap-
preparation bill was beaten re-
Gently by a substantial majority
Texas Project Proposed.
Senator Connally, Democrat, oil
Texas has proposed amendments
to appropriate 81 million each FOL
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By George Kennedy
Stcr Stoff Coryespondent

WILMINGTON, Del, Aug. 15.-
The 2-mile suspension bridge
across the Delaware River to New
Jersey which will enable the
Washington motorist to avoid
cities on his way to New York
and New England was opened
with ceremony today.
Gov. Ebert N. Carvel of Della
ware, the State that built the
bridge at a cost of $43 million
cut the traditional ribbon. He
and Gov. Alfred E. Driscoll Of
New Jersey were in the first car.
crossing the long, graceful span
President Truman gave thu
occasion his blessing with a mes,
sage to Gov. Carvel. 1t read:
May this memorial to YOU
honored war dead serve you vel
through the years of prosperit,
and peace"
Only official cars crossed today
The bridge will be opened tt
regular traffic at 1901 tomorrow
at tolls which will start at x
cents for passenger cars.
War Heroes Memorial.
The bridge is a memorial tt
those who sacrificed their live.
for their country in the Worlc
Wars. James P. Conner, Della
wares only living Medal of Honor
man, and Carlton Routh. Media
Iof Honor man of New Jersey, took
part in the dedication by laying
wreaths at the foot of a bronze
plaque at the bridge entrance.
The bridge was started in Sep.
TENDER, 1913, and it's completion
does away with the Pennsville
Ferry, a bottleneck that motorist:
were all too familiar with on sum-
mer week-ends and holidays.
1t spans the Delaware about
miles south of Wilmington al
Pigeon Point which is about hall
way between that city and New
Castle. The New Jersey end Of
the span is near Pennsville.
AS Col. William A. McWilliams
head of the Delaware Crossing Di-
IviSion points out, this is the one
country" bridge among the great
suspension spans that have been
erected in this country since John
A. Roebling built the Brooklyn
Bridge in the '80s. There is no
city at either end of it.
5 Million Vehicles Forecast.
The bridge is built primarily to
facilitate the North South traffic
which its sponsors are sure will
provide the revenues necessary to
amortize its tremendous cost. Col.
McWilliams said that it is esti-
mated that the traffic volume will
be almost S million vehicles in the
first year or an average of $4,000
a day, and that by 10 years this
volume will increase to more than
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-15
Army Civil Functions
Money Bill Is Near
Final Vote in Senate
BY the Associated Press

The Senate approached a finaI
vote on the $637,27S,21s Army civil
functions money bill today after
beating two attempts to cut funds
for navigation and flood control
projects.
Only a few minor amendments
remained to be acted upon as the
third day Of Senate debate began
BY identical votes of 48 to %
the Senate yesterday defeated:
l. An amendment by Senator
Douglas, Democrat, of Illinois tt
cut $500 million from funds rec
commended by the Senate Appro-
priations Committee for rivers and
harbors projects.
Ferguson Motion Loses.
2. A molten by Senators Fergu-
son, Republican, of Michigan, and
Bridges, Republican, of New
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-15
Boy Wins Camper Award

Michael Ryan, 12-year-old son
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Max F. Ryan OF
5000 Queen Anne drive, Silver
Spring, Md, has won the out
standing camper award for the
third period Of the 1851 Merrick
Boys Camp.