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Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-06-19
FUTURE YANKEE ACE
HURLS IN SANDLOTS
An Af~~Ea.Aar0o


JACKSONVILLE, Fla.,-tR -
Don Bessent is pitching no-hitters
on the sandlots of Jacksonville
now but some day he may be
doing it in a New York Yankee
uniform.
A star in high school and Ameri-
can Legion baseball, where he
tossed several no-hit games, Bes-
sent signed with the world cham
pions after graduation. He pitched
in the Georgia-Florida League last
year, winning 25 games, including
one no-hitter.
This spring Bessent trained with
Yankee farm at Binghamton, NY,
of the Class A Eastern League.
Just before the season started
he was called to take his examina-
ton for the armed forces.
While waiting induction, Bes-
sent has headed r. c. Motor Lines
toward the city baseball champ
ionship. He won the first five
games he pitched, including three
shutouts and one no-hifter In
4S innings he gave up III hits and
six runs and struck out =.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-06-19
Need More Tests
Atomic Weapons
Improve So Fast

WASHINGTON,-tP)- Arnari-
can scientists are improving atom
ic weapons so rapidly it will be
necessary to increase the number
and frequency of full-scale field
tests like the series recently held
at Eniwetok.
This word came out of a news
conference by the civilian and
military scientists of the Atomic
Energy Commission (AEC) and
the Defense Department. The con-
ference was called to tell the
public something of what was
done at the Eniwetok experiments
In April and May.
The good progress indicated for
standard nuclean fission weapons
also appears to extend, in some
measure, to the quest for the
even mightier weapon, a hydro
ben bomb. DR.. Alvin c. Graves,
director of the test division of the
Los Alamos, n. M, laboratories
where bombs are made, said
cautiously that I'VE have gained
new information and understand
ing of the basis phenomena under
lying thermonuclear reactions"
and that much useful information
was secured
But the weaponeers were care
full not to specify precisely what
new information had been CLEAN
ed from the atomic tests toward
better understanding of hydro
gen bomb which probably would
have to be ''triggered" by the
multi-million degree heat of nu-
clear fission bomb.
Former Acc Chairman David
Z. Lilienthal, in broadcast from
New York, later said he was
Shocked" at what he called "the
helpful tipoffs" given the Rus
slams in the report. He said he
referred particularly to disclosure
of "our priority on weapons"
Talking about the Eniwetok
tests in general, 1t. Gen. Elwood
r. Quesada, commander of the
joint task force which conducted
them, said they were Success
ful in every respect"
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-06-19
Plan Unusual
| egal Move To
Save Bircham

LOUISVILLE, KY-tR - An
unusual legal move, tried in Ken
lucky only once before, will be
attempted to save Earl d. Birch
am from the electric chair, his at
torneys have announced.
Birchnan, convicted slayer Of
a Louisville policeman, Is schedu-
led to be executed June % at the
state prison at Eddyville.
The legal device is called
petition of appeal" 1t would
list alleged violations of Birch
ans constitutional rights. Robert
Zollinger, attorney, said If the
petition is accepted by Chief
Justice James Cammack of the
Kentucky Court of Appeals, it
will guarantee Bircham a hearing
before the U. S. Supreme Court.
The attorney said if Cammack
denies the petition, he will ask
the Supreme Court to rule wheth-
er it will hear the Bircham case.
Filing such a plea, for what the
lawyers call a writ of certiorari,
would carry with it a stay of
Bircham's execution until the
Supreme Court agrees or refuses
to hear the case.
Bircham was convicted of kill
ing Louisville patrolman John
Tennyson here the night of Aug.
ii, 1949. He also is accused of
wounding Tennyson's companion,
patrolman John Ross, and of rob-
bing several banks and business
houses in Kentucky, Tennessee
and Ohio.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-06-19
Growth Of Corn
Rapid In County

Madison County's corn crop is
ssq 1! 10 qonN 6Tp!deI 5u!moIS
been cultivated the second time.
Generally speaking, the stand
of corn is good, and it has been
responding to the moisture and
warm sunshine.
The cool nights do not seem
to have retarded it in any way.
Most of the corn has a good
start to insure maturity before the
usual frost time.
Evening star., 1951-06-07

Southeast Washington and asked
the board to avert a crisis out
there by seeking more schools. The
board took it under consideration.
Parents Object to Shift.
Mr.. Orlans said the eight par
|ents object to transfer of their
children to the Murch Elementary
School next year. The transfer
will come as a result of a change
in school boundaries ordered by
DR.. Corning.
DR.. Corning said the boundary
change was necessary because
Evening star., 1951-06-07

Asked for a $770 immediate an
nual increase for all educational
employees, effective July /, and an
increase in the present minimum
and maximum salaries of all ed
ucational employees Of $770 so that
the higher pay would be received
by new employees as well.
Heard report from DR.. Corn
ing that application to change the
High School Cadet Corps to a
Junior ROTC unit will be pre-
Sented to the Pentagon soon.
Evening star., 1951-06-07
THE EVENING STAR, Washington D. c. A
THURSDAY, - -

Lafayette is crowded, with classes
up to As pupils, while there is room
in nearby Murch. Adelbert w.
Lee, board vice president, who was
presiding in the absence of C. Mel
vim Sharpe, president, pointed out
that the setting of school bound
aries is an administrative matter,
up to DR.. Corning.
However, the board asked DR..
Corning to submit a report on the
Lafayette-Murch situation, in view
Of Mr.. Orlans' protest.
In other actions, the board:
Evening star., 1951-06-07

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general era, a sharp increase in
colored population has been ac-
companied by a corresponding de-
crease in white population. He
noted that, since 1915, seven white
elementary schools in the area
have been transferred to colored
students.
Cites Enrolment Drop.
White grade school enrolment
lin the area has dropped from
2,411 in 1945 to 1.451 this year,
he said--a decrease Of 1913 per
cent. On the other hand. colored
grade school enrolment is up
93.1 per cent for the same period,
having increased from 1,758 to
1896.
DR.. Corning said the transfer
Iof Stuart would give immediate
although not total and perma-
lnent relief" from the overcrowd-
ing of the colored junior highs.
DR.. Corning emphasized that,
along with the transfer of Stuart,
the school board should take i'm
mediate steps to assure the early
replacement of Hine Junior High
School and add a gymnasium and
other facilities to Eliot. These
projects have been on the build
ing program, but low enrollments
have given them low priority.
In protesting the proposal, Mr.
Stull said he had asked for in
formation on the transfer two
days ago, after seeing reports in
the press about the plan.
II came here today without
knowing if Stuart was to be trans
Iferred," he declared. II was curt
| ly told no information would be
given out by the superintendent
Office"
DR.. Corning hastened to explain
he wanted to present his report
to the school board first. He said
he had not asked for immediate
action, SO that citizens could be
heard.
Wrong School, Says StuN.
Mr.. Stull later said his grour
is not going to contend the COL
ored citizens are not entitled tc
relief. but that DR.. Corning has
selected the wrong school.
MIR. Knox stated that Stuart is
functioning efficiently and that il
1t is transferred, mo adequate
substitute will be available"
Stuart was built in 1927 at q
cost Of 100000, and an eight
room addition was completed in
1891 at a cost of SITS, 900. It has
Is regular classrooms, Is special
claSSrooms and shops and two
gymnasiums.
School Board members made
no effort to discuss the proposal
since it was new to them. They
spent some time, however, max
ing sure it was understood the
citizens would have an opportu-
nifty to be heard at q time to be
set later.
In another action, the board
approved, In principle, expansion
OF Miner and Wilson Teachers
Colleges to permit courses lead
ing to masters degrees.
DR.. James A. Cannon, board
member, hailed the action as the
most important educational step
the Board Of Education has taken
since I've been on it,"
Inter Racial Move Asked.
Then, DR.. Phillip T. johnson
colored board member, said it is
a good time to begin putting the
District schools on an inter-racia]
basis. He pointed out it would
cost twice as much money to ex-
pand both colleges and urged that,
on this highest level--as it is
done everywhere now-that this
Evening star., 1951-06-07

Smith, the board asked DR.. Corn
ing to make a study of the posi-
bility of offering the graduate col
lege courses on an inter-racial
basis.
The board also heard two other
speakers-Earle Odom, an attorney
and resident of Naylor Gardens
and Bernard Orlans, representing
group Of eight parents who have
children at Lafayette Elementary
School.
Mr.. Odom presented a detailed
study OF the school needs In
Evening star., 1951-06-07

level. at least, be put on an inter-
racial basis"
Mrs. James w. Williams, an.
other colored member, backed DR.
johnson and asked that DR.. Corn
ing report on the "Hager report.
That was a recommendation made
by DR.. Walter E. Hager. president
|of Wilson Teachers College, last
year, that the two colleges be com.
|bined. The report was to DR.
Corning and has never been pre-.
Sented to the board.
On motion by Mrs. Philip Sidney
Evening star., 1951-06-07
Pro-Red Skids Into Jail

SINGAPORE (P.-Seven ba-
nanas and nine pieces of Com
munist literature sent Wong Tai
Kock to jail for three years. Wong
was charged with using the ba-
nanas as paste to put up posters
containing RED slogans on Singa-
pore walls
, 1951-06-18
FOUR GET

last October the Board is Civ
en- the task of preparing a com
prehensive and general plan
for other physician develop
ment Of the Virgin Islands.
But the Governor criticized it
as being inadequate and with
out sufficient enforcement
authority butt merely carry
ing authority of preparing the
master plan.
He is prepared to submit a
revised planning Act for sub
mission to the next Legislative
Assembly when it meets later
this year.
, 1951-06-18
ELECTION NOTICE

A Special Election for the
unexpired term of the Of the
End member for Christiansted
Country District and the un-
expired term of the member
at-Large to the Municipal
Council will be held on
SATURDAY June %, 1851.
The poll will be opened at
the Police Court House Chris
tiansted from 8 am. to 6 pm.
on the specified date.
The following candidates
have been nominated.
For Christiansted Country
District
John Wilfred Benjamin
S. Christian Chase
Alfred 0. Edney
Frank Elmore Jacobs
For Member t-L Large
A. S. Forbes
Henry E. Rohlsen
The Registration Board
for ST. Croix.
June II, 1851
D. c.
Chairman
, 1951-06-18
JOB PRINTING
SHIPPING NEWS

The SIS Fort Amherst" is
scheduled to sail from New
York on June 18th and is due
at Frederiksted June goth, ac-
cepting freight for Dominica,
st. Lucia, Puerto de Heirro,
Trinidad, Grenada, Barbados,
st. Vincent, Martinique, Anti
qua and st. Kits
N WITTY 81 Co.. Ltd
Rob't L. Merwin & Co.. Inc.
, 1951-06-18
ST. CROIX

81. CROlX -.
tons including money, private
ly-oWned historic documents
and relics, have already been
made. However, the Folmer
Anderson>carib relic collection
which is the largest and finest
of its kind, will form the nu-
cleus of the museum.
Governor de Castro, earlier
this year, named the following.
citizens to the commission:
Atty. R. H. AmBhlett Leader
Erik Lawaetz, sCharles H.
Emanuel, Mrs. Rachael Arm
strong, DR.. D.: G. Canegata;
Cyril L. Marshall and Mr.. Van
Ripper.
, 1951-06-18
RED CROSS

gency and also to care for the
sick in their own homes.
In St. Croix there are three
instructors but a recruitment
campaign is now under way
as many more are needed.
Anyone who is DESTROYS Of
taking advantage Of this op-.
portunity to take the Red
Cross Home Nursing course
may enroll with the local Red
Cross Chapter, Mrs. Petersen
said, or Mrs. Hilda Bastian,
Chairman Of the Home Nurs-
ing Committee, or Mrs. Vivian
Home Nursing In
structor.
Places for enrolment and
classes for Frederiksted will
be announced at a later date.
, 1951-06-18

1t has been necessary to
close the road at the sea to
Estate Richmond for all traf-
and dumping, any viola
ton will be dealt with accord
ing to law. /,
Chr. Moller Jorgensen
, 1951-06-18
COMMITTEES

Peter Thurland gave a most
favorable report as to the or
ganizing of a Band for the &C.
LIBERATION. The volunteer mem
bers are practicing regularly
Alphonso Forbes very kindly
loaned music and instruments
that were required to this
group and will play with the
band.
The Program Committee
are still making plans and not
completed as yet.
There will be prizes for the
best masquerade group, and it.
is hoped that five or six mas
querade groups will enter the
contest.
The next meeting Of Com
mittee'C hairmen will be June
18th, at $3.50 pm. in the Cham
Der of Commerce office.
, 1951-06-18
SENATORS

SENATORS
ings this week with special ad
visor to the President w.
Averill Hartman as the wit
ness.
Committee Chairman Rich
ard Russell said he hopes to
terminate with ten additional
witnesses divided equally be-
tween proponents and oppo-
nents of the Mac Arthur view
points. The committee has al
so extended an offer, not an
invitation, to General Mac Ar
thur to appear again in rebuff
tai testimony, if he so desires.
Without word from the Gen
eral the betting around the
committee is that he will re-
ject the offer with thanks.
, 1951-06-18
REPAIRS
Limited time only.

Limited time only.
At the corner Of Company ST.,
Christiansted, (Heywood Build
ing).
Angel Corneiro-
Ralph de Frietas
Will be here until Saturday.
, 1951-06-18
FOR SALE
P I A N O
l949 JEEP
KEROS E STOVE
IRON BEDS and
MATTRESSES

Apply r. F. FISKE & CO. or
to: Mrs. Fiske. Club Cruzana.
Evening star., 1951-10-28
Georgia Mound Yields Details of Lost Early American People

and far more intricate and elab-
crate burial customs.
Development Well Organized.
Some believe these people came
from south of Mexico, somewhere
between the Yucatan Peninsula
and Peru. They merged with the
Weeden Islanders and became
known as the Temple Mound
people.
"These people," said Mr.. Sears,
were not naked savages living like
animals. Hundreds of well-built
homes, made Of light poles and
thatch. were clustered in great po-
ilitical subdivisions. Hunting was
still important, but farming with
corn and beans. perhaps squash
and pumpkins and other vegeta-
bles was the most important
means of providing food"
AS for their political develop
ment, Mr.. Sears says it must have
been well organized and efficient
or the people could not have built
the great temple and burial
mounds.
Everything considered, we do
not have to go too far back in
history =. to find parallel stages.
Perhaps the classical states
are the closest equivalent. In any
event, they had gone a long way
Evening star., 1951-10-28
0'BoyIe Invites All
To Rosary Rites Today
On Monument Ground

The Most Rev. Patrick A.
O'Boyle. archbishop of Washing
ton. in radio talk over Station
WRC yesterday extended a per-
sonal invitation to Catholics and
non-Catholics in the Washington
area to attend the Family Rosary
Crusade Rally at $3.50 o'clock to-
day at the Monument Grounds.
More than 10000 persons are
expected to attend the rally, which
will climax the Family Rosary
Crusade held here during the
month Of October to pray for
world peace and for welfare of
nation. family and friends. The
Rev. Patrick Peyton of Norte
Dame. Ind, noted radio priest,
will be the principal speaker at
the rally.
Appearing on the radio program
with Archbishop O'Boyle was the
Dunbarton College Glee Club, di-
rected by Sister Victoria, professor
of music at Dunbarton College.
Archbishop O'Boyle was intro
duced by the Rev. Francis x.
Walsh. assistant pastor of st.
Francis de Sales Church.
Archbishop O'Boyle also, an
nounced that hundreds of men
will make house toulouse calls in
every parish this week to solicit
pledges of families to say the
rosary daily for world peace.
Evening star., 1951-10-28

priest-chief for whom the mound
was built.
Around this were eight graves,
probably those of wives, servants
or relatives, who were strangled
with bow cords to accompany the
chief into death-a great honor.
LAst Ceremony at Site.
Before they were strangled. Mr..
Sears says. they probably were
drugged with tobacco pellets, a
lprimative anesthetic.
The other bodies probably were
prisoners. slain in continuing cere-
Imonies-as an offering to the sun.
Each of the pottery remnants
had been carefully killed; that
is, broken to permit It's spirit" to
accompany the chief into the next
world.
Mr.. Sears believes that mound
ID" represents that last great
ceremony at the Kolomoki site,
then the capital of a-political di-
vision ranging over Georgia and
Florida.
Why they left is a mystery. It
lis believed. though, said Mr.. Sears.
that these people were the ances-
tors Of the Muskhogean Indians
who made up the Greek confed-
|eracy In later years.
Evening star., 1951-10-28

on the road to civilization.
When Mr.. Sears began digging
into mound 3D. he found the re-
mains of about 100 people clus-
tered about the central grave of
the great chief.
Ornaments of Hammered Iron.
There were ornaments ham,
mered from iron-the first such
ever found dating from before the
arrival of the white man. Mr..
Sears thinks the iron was meteoric
in origin. He is. awaiting an
analysis.
There were copper ornaments
from the Lake Superior lodes,
pearls and conch shells from the
Gulf Of Mexico and large, disc
shaped ornaments Of mica.
The pottery went far beyond the
'utilitarian. Mr.. Sears said 1t is
the most elaborate ever found in
eastern North America. There
were clay effigies, strongly remi-
niscent Of Mexican art, of birds,
deer, opossum, panthers. wildcats,
rattlesnakes and humans.
Deep inside the mound. 100 feet
in diameter and % feet high. Mr..
Sears found a tomb. once sup
ported by stone slabs and logs,
which he thinks was that of the
Evening star., 1951-10-28
BY the Associated Press

BLAKELY, Ga. Oct. 81. - The
discovery of a great new mound
of evidence that a civilization was
building in the southeastern Uni
ted States long before the white
man arrived was reported today.
Whence these people came,
where they went or why. nobody
knows. They vanished as COM
pletely as the lost tribes Of Israel.
The existence of these people,
known to history only as the 'Ko-
lomoki culture" long has been
known.
This latest discovery, reported
by William H. Sears, assistant
archaeologist at the University of
Georgia. indicates they reached
their peak in the twelfth and thir-
teenth centuries. They had evolved
a high level of agriculture, de-
veloped a hitherto unknown ar
tistic standard and had an efficient
theocracy.
Discovery Accidental.
The discovery was purely acct
dental. For two years Mr.. Sears
and corps of assistants have
been digging patiently at the bur-
ial mounds in the Kolomoki State
Park Of an earlier culture, that
OF the Weeden Island indians.
Mr.. Sears thought he was tack
ling another such mound when he
started work on one charted simp-
ly as ID"
The artistic caliber of the pot
terry found quickly convinced Mr.
Sears that he had found an in
valuable cache of a higher order.
He also became quickly convinced
he had found the burial mound
of one of the great priest-chiefs.
The mound builders of an earlier
day ranged from Illinois into Flor
ida. Then along about TOO A. D.
from out of the west came a new
people. probably sun worshippers,
with a higher level of civilization
Evening star., 1951-10-28
Proposal for Dog Tex
Is Bone Of Contention
by the Associated Press

DENVER, Oct. 27.-A move to
slap new State tax of 81 a year
on every dog in Colorado is being
treated gingerly in official circles.
Money collected from the tax
would be paid to farmers and
ranchers who claim mans best
friend has caused damage at their
places by chasing and killing poul-
try and running the fat of sheep
and cattle.
The tax would be in addition
to locally levied dog taxes.
The proposal was put before the
State Agriculture Commission
when 1t met to consider recon-
|mendations to the legislature.
Evening star., 1951-10-28
HESUNDAY STAR, Washington, D. C.
SUNDAY. OCTOBER
YoIe Club to Heor Miller

Edward G. Miller, jr., Assistant
Secretary of State for Inter-
Affairs. will address a
luncheon meeting of the Yale
Club of Washington 1890 pm.
Wednesday at the Burlington Ho-
tel. Mr.. Miller is graduate of
Yale's class of 1893.
Evening star., 1951-10-28
Rep. Mack Lunds in Berlin

BERLIN, Oct. 27 (R.-Repre-
sentative Peter F. Mack, Demo.
crat, of Illinois, arrived in Berlin
today. He came here from Stock
holm, where he learned that the
Russians had refused him per-
mission to land in Moscow on his
round-the-world goodwill flight.
Evening star., 1951-10-28
Crush Kills Girl SINGER

KAUFMAN. Tex, Oct. 27 up
A girl singer and dancer was
killed and Perez Prado, Mexican
orchestra leader, was injured in
the crash of chartered bus near
here today. The dead girl was
Della Romero, 10. Prado, known
as the Mambo King, and eight
others are in a Kaufman hospital
Evening star., 1951-10-28

Walk Up, Ride Down
Walking downstairs taxes weak
hearts more than walking upstairs,
says the Medical Journal of Aus
tralia. reporting experiments.
, 1951-02-22
Dunbar Concert
Plans Complete

Plans have been completed by
the Dunbar High School junior
class, which is sponsoring the
world-famous Morehouse GleeClub
in concert at 5 pm. Sunday,
March 4, in the school auditorium.
The 28-voice choral group is
composed Of students at More
house College, Atlanta, Ca, un-
der the direction Of DR.. Kemper
Harreld. They have been heard
frequently on the radio and con-
cert stage.
, 1951-02-22
9Th Ward Democratic
Women Meet Tonight

The Sixth Ward Women's De-
mocratic Club will meet at s pm.
tonight at headquarters of the
Montgomery County Democratic
Club, 400 S. Broadway. The group
will complete plans for a martha
Washington Tea" scheduled in the
club social rooms at 8 pm. Satur-
day, Feb. "a.
Mrs. May Byrd is president of
the club. Mrs. Macie Brown and
Mrs. Emma Russley are co-chalr-
men of the tea.
, 1951-02-22
recting the Detroit schools.

recting the Detroit schools.
Detroit has 5000 public school
teachers. There are about 80 pu-
pills per teacher, or more than
100000 boys and girls entrusted
to the care of those teachers.
These youngsters represent future
assets or liabilities to Detroit
much dependent up their teachers.
I feel, however, that the re-
sponsibilty goes back to the school
board as far as their education is
concerned. First, the school board
has the responsibility of selecting
or keeping in office a school SUI
Continued on page ~
, 1951-02-22

81 LEFT BECAUSE they would
not let me work outside" was the
story told Wor,zhouse officials by
Rufus McCargo, 33, of 1547 W.
Fifth st. three-time loser via the
AWOL rule who returned to the
institution after making his escape
Tuesday. McCargo was found in
the Lineup" Wednesday in time
for breakfast and, according to the
officials, admitted saving his way
back just as he had sawed his way
out. According to Acting Superin-
, 1951-02-22
West Side YWCA
Will Sponsor Play

The membership committee Of
the West Side YWCA will present
the Wilberforce Players in a three
act play, kiss And Tell" at 8 p.
m. Friday, March 9, in the Cen
trail YWCA Auditorium.
Tickets are on sale at both the
Central YWCA and the West Side
YWCA. Reservations may be Sc
cured by calling Adams 1925 or
Adams 1922.
, 1951-02-22
Gay Companions Club
Elects New Officers

The Gay Companions Club has
elected new officers for 1851.
They are:
Mrs. Marcella Kitchings, presi-
dent; Mrs. Rebecca Harvey, vice
president; Mrs. Cathleen White
and Mrs. Marie Webb, secretaries
Mrs. Velma Wilson and Mrs.
Thelma Turner, t~reasurers.