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hole desk. Her home agent, Mrs.
Bessie r. Gay, assisted her in
planning the room improvement.
During All Week, Olivia and
Thomas will make plans for this
years projects, take part in local
program designed to call attention
to All work, and help recruit ad-
ditional members for their club.
There are % in it now Theme of
the observance is: working To-
gether for World Understanding"
The parents of Thomas and Oil
via, Mr.. and Mrs. Abednego Davis,
have been sharecropping since
1913 when they lost their farm
because of a cotton crop failure.
However, now that they are
growing more of their own food,
and increasing their production of
feed, the Davises think the outlook
seem bright for their climbing
back into ownership.
They may try renting this year
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-03-10
Steals Draft
Papers, Jailed

CLEVELAND - A 17-year-old
Lorain, o., boy who pleaded guilty
to stealing draft registration cert
ficates and peddling them to his
teenage friends at so cents each
drew an 18-month reformatory
sentence here.
Federal Judge Emerich b. Freed
sentenced Maurice Louis Ferraro
for stealing SO certificates last
October.
Ferraro said he sold them to
high school classmates and other
fteen-agers so they could use them
in getting jobs and gaining adj
mission to taverns and night clubs.
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drawn into all types of employment
but when the crisis is over, they
are released to basic jobs.
Williams blamed the housing
plight of colored people on a ''rig-
ged, controlled monopoly" housing
market which exacts Gold Coast
rent" for converted garages and
crowded tenements.
The recreation problem also is
attributable to racial restrictions,
Williams said, adding: "As soon as
he (the colored MANI goes beyond
his restricted area he does so with
great deal of apprehension, not
4 known what to expect"
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not communist and was against
communism.
He stressed however, the pos
tive aspect of being for democracy
rather than the negative position
of being against" some other
governmental form. He denounced
hates and prejudices for causing
THE failure of citizens to live to-
gether on friendly terms by say
ing: "Some people have an idea
they are thinking when actually
they are only rearranging their
prejudices."
According to DR.. Turner, medi-
cal authority states that preju-
dices which become deep-rooted in
an individual PERSONS thinking can
disturb the mind to such an extent
that they also produce physical
illnesses such as heart disease,
stomach ulcers and various skin
allergies.
direct your conscience toward
important things such as inter
groups relation which further I'M
+ Outstanding and tolerance" he
said. Brotherhood is sportsman
ship, it is good business, it is
science Brotherhood in democracy
and it is religion"
/ Dr. Turner spoke before the
various assemblies on the behalf
Of Brotherhood Week. Two more
speakers spoke on the same sub
ject Monday; DR.. Ralph Newton,
] Mercer University and DR.. Lewis
Bats, also of Mercer.
II know I can feed workstock,"
says Mr.. Davis. "All before | have
been afraid to rent because !
haven't had enough corn to carry
mules through the winter"
The Davises' larger corn supply
is due partly to last years cotton
acreage quotas which made more
land available for planting corr
and other crops, and to aid from
their county agent, S. L. Hilton
who showed them how to increase
their corn yield.
If their plans go through, Mr.
and Mrs. Davis are going to buy {
couple of mules and rent piece Of
land on a cash basis this year. "The
next step will be to begin buying
they say. "You know, we've got tc
have some land for our children"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-03-10
Five Africans
Accused OF
Predicting
Ganniba!isr,,

JOHANNESBURG, South At
rica-( ANP)-A tale of cannibaI-
ism in which 12-year-old half
brother of a Swaziland chief was
stewed and then eaten by the chief
toy restore his prestige, was un-
folded Saturday at a preliminary
hearing of six Africans at Bre-
mersdorp, one time capital of Swaz-
iland.
Principals in the case are Chief
Mahlabindaba Dhamini and four
witch doctors, all of whom pleaded
guilty, and 12-year-old Solinye
who was the victim of the weird
ritual of magic.
The rites were undertaken as
a means Of restoring the chiefs
prestige in tribe. According to the
testimony given, Solinye was Sc
lected by the witch doctors as the
good medicine" for the chief. He
was tied to a fig tree on river
bank until he became a living
skeleton.
Then a witch doctor slashed his
throat, and a piece of his flesh
was cooked in the presence of the
youths Christian mother She
was the only one who did not par
take of the meal.
Other portions of the boys body
were put into pieces of corn bread
and passed around to the partici.
pants in the feast. The remainder
was thrown into the river.
All five have been committed
to trial in the high court at Mia.
bane in April.
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housing. and recreation in Chicago.
His talk. "How 1t Feels To Be A
Negro Man In Chicago" was part
of the Kiwanis' Club observance of
Brotherhood Week.
Regardless of the colored mans
skill, Williams said, he usually is
RELOCATED to laboring jobs in heavy
industries or the lower paid trans
portation jobs. In times of crisis,
colored people take on the role. of
"shock troops" he said, and are
Evening star., 1951-01-01

ments later, battalion takes over,
and there are quick flashes all
along the front as 105-rinm.
Howitzer shells go over.
The light remains and the guns
worry at it, off and on all night.
Thus begin the long II hours
of watching, waiting and freezing.
At the advance point one man
watches an hour and half while
the other huddles in a sleeping
bag. Every three hours an extra
man relieves one Of them.
Out on the bluffs point, Pvt.
Albert MiStiatis, 81, hears some
thing and stiffens. He picks up
the Browning automatic rifle of
his sleeping partner. Corpl. Cor
don j. Zorn, %. and goes forward
to the edge in a low crouch.
There is q. cracking sound in
a paddy at the foot of the hill.
The noise in. the paddy field
Mistiatis wakes Zion and goes
back to get Williams.
Williams hears it, too. He goes
to the radio and almost immedi-
ately from the rear "I' company's
mortars send three high explosive
shells, followed by nine of white
prosperous.
Bitterness .Overflows.
The men, hurting through and
through from the cold. curse Army
clothing with overflowing bitter
ness. Some curse their rubber
bottom shoe pacs, some their
leather combat boots. Others
curse the shortage of wool gar
ments. These men definitely have
the best. but they are still cold.
Their feet are in agony after the
first few hours, from lack of
movement. God, what I'd give
for a cup of coffee" murmers one
voice.
God, what I'd give for a
blond" echoes another. "Ah, you
amt gonna see a blond for 10
years"
1.-The Chinks will get here first. !"
We'll, wish some of 'em would
come right now-about five would
be just right--so we could pass
the word and fall back off this
damned hill. I'm freezing to
death"
Finally, when even talk is no
help, dawn comes and "Porter's
relay" orders "Okay, you can come
home now"
The troops. fingers aching end
feet numb, tumble their gear to-
gether and slide and slip down
the reverse slope.
An hour later. ringed about their
big watch fire, they are brewing
coffee and eating c rations.
Says the lieutenant, "I'll bet
those BARS Drowning automatic
rifies) are frozen. Give them a
few rounds to warm 'em up"
The blasts set the valley echoing.
There is no reply.
Evening star., 1951-01-01
Death Of Renner, 80,
President, Savior
/
Mourned by Austria
BY the Associated Press

VIENNA. Austria, Jan. Aus
tria's traditional New Years OBJ
servance was overshadowed today
by national mourning for the
death of President Karl Renner
80-year-old savior of the father
land"
Hundreds of New Years eve
celebrations were cancelled when
word spread that the aged leader
had died early yesterday Of q
heart ailment at his villa in SUBJ
urban Grinzing.
Chancellor Leopold Figl an
nounced that national mourning
would begin formally today. DIR
Renner's body lay in state in the
presidential palace in central vi
emma where his countrymen could
have a final gaze at the remains
of the founder of the first and
second Austrian republic.
Burial will take place Friday In
a plot in Vienna's central ceme-
terry.
The government announced that
Mr.. Figl would act as president
for IA days. Meanwhile. the Aus
trian Assembly will meet to ap-
yrryft,t a y1yayy s1rp sjfleY,f
Evening star., 1951-01-01
Truman Sends Message
To Austrian People
BY the Asseeiased Press

ef ms AsSoCtoteQ FfBtt
President Truman sent condo
lences today to the Austrian peo-
pie on the death Of President
Karl Renner.
Mr.. Truman described DR.. Rem
ner as one of Europe's outstand~
ing elder statesmen"
The text of Mr.. Truman's
message to the Austrian govern
ment:
"I was saddened by the news Of
the death of Karl Renner. whom
always regarded as one Of
Europe's outstanding elder states
men in the cause of democracy"
Mr.. Truman wrote. His long
career of patriotic service to his
country and his work in national
reconstruction after two major
wars are widely recognized by the
American people.
'pr. Renner's efforts have fur
thered the objective of a free
Austria, which I had hoped would
be achieved during his lifetime.
i extend the sympathy of the
American people to the Austrian
people and government.
Mrs. Truman and I particularly
desire that our sympathy be ex-
pressed to DR.. Renner's family"
Evening star., 1951-01-01
New Years S Just Work Day
For Budget Bureau Officials

New Years Day was just an
otncr workday today for top Bud
get Bureau officials as they han
died final details of the 1852 fiscal
budget request that will be sub
mir1ed soon to the new Congress.
The presidential budget message
is expected to be sent to Congress
on January Is.
Budget officials said the total
estimate won't be as large as some
Of TIE appropriation amounts dur
ing World War II years, but that
it would be considerably more
thar the $43 billion estimate sent
to Congress last January for the
current fiscal year.
Evening star., 1951-01-01

States 9th Army, was at the
front directing Allied defenses. He
took over command of the U. N.
forces in Korea only last week,
and said then: II aim to stay"
Correspondent Macbeth report
ed in two field dispatches from
the front that the Chinese were
using tactics similar to those en-
ployed in driving Allied forces out
Of the Chongchon River front in
North Korea last month.
While the one division north
of Seoul was routed. another divi-
sion was pushed back an unde-
termined distance north of Chun-
chong. 46 miles northeast OF
Seoul" Mr.. Macbeth added.
Between the two sectors, other
United Nations troops fought of
a determined attack by an esti-
lmated Chinese corps-about 3d.
900 men. However, these U. N
troops, with their flanks exposed
also were forced to withdraw.
"At last reports, small enemy
groups were said to have pene-
trated toward Uijongbu, IL miles
north Of Seoul. This is an i'm
portant town on one of the main
roads leading to the Republican
capital"
Planes Kill 1.500 Troops.
The United States 5th Air Force
observed New Years Day with a
full scale attack on enemy troops
and supply lines.
The 5th Air Force reported more
than 1900 enemy troops had been
killed or wounded in the New
Years Day attacks. Two enemy
tanks were destroyed. One anti
aircraft gun and five gun emplace-
ments were listed as destroyed or
damaged.
A new threat to Allied forces
was voiced by Kim II Sung, North
Korean Premier. In his New Years
Day message he called on men
and women guerrillas to. "anni-
hilate the fleeing enemy by any
method"
Peoples Army North Korean)
units remaining in the rear of the
enemy continue heroic activities
inf1icting vast losses On the ene-
my" the North Korean Premier
said.
Evening star., 1951-01-01
By John Randolph
A 4 - ~ 4 :

AT THE 38th PARALLEL, Ko-
rea. Jan. There is a hill in North
Korea, just over the 38th Parallel.
which becomes a tiny part of
Allied territory evry night.
During the day it is just one
OF a thousand hills in the no
mans land between the Commu-
mist hordes and the. outnumbered
soldiers Of the United Nations.
At dusk, whatever the weather,
a little band of Americans from
"a famous infantry regiment steals
across the frozen rice paddles and
takes possession of the hill.
Instead of a flag the patrol
plants a couple of Browning auto
matte rifles, unslings Garands
and carbines, loosens pistols, tunes
in field telephone and a two-way
radio.
Then for IL hours, the enemy
willing, these men crouch and
freeze and curse in the zero tenn
perature, waiting.
They are what the Army calls
a listening post. They hear and
see many things-the irregular
thump and crash of American ar
tillery, the pop" and brilliance
of magnesium flares, the sound
less flashes to the north that show
where the Air Force is working.
Job Has to Be Done.
They are the eyes and ears
that will warn of the long-awaited
Red rush down the opposite slope
that will throw whole armies OF
fanatic Chinese and Korean Com
munists into the final battle for
South Korea.
On hills-all across the jagged,
uneasy border--othef squads have
the same duty.
If these men can fall back and
escape after doing their duty,
we'll and good. If not-the job
still has to be done.
At about a quarter to six each
Evening star., 1951-01-01
GIs Shiyer, Curse and Wait at Listening Post

night the leader of IT Com
pany's first platoon stands UP
and breaks off the joking talk
around the watch fire.
He is 1st 1t. Solomon L. Hay,
jr., 81. and sight. but leader
and well liked.
"Okay, boys, it's time to get
going" he says. Get ready,
willya? Gypsy, you stay here
(MlSergt. Clarence F. Martin, 27,
of Harrisburg. Pa, is a Hungarian
gypsy with four rings and tiny
red sparklers in his ears.
"Honeycutt. come with me and
check the wire tonight. Have you
all got the password"
Parallel Runs Through Field.
The seven-man detail files
around big hill that shields the
campfire from the enemy, then
stumbles and slips down the slope
to the icy rice paddles that stretch
ahead for a quarter of a mile.
Through the field runs the 38th
Parallel.
! The squad crosses the invisible
border and approaches the obser-
vation hill. Honeycutt-Pfc. Cleve
D. Honeycutt, 18, of Lenoir, N. C..
the platoon runner, checks the
field telephone wire foot by foot
for breaks.
At the bottom of the hill, every
one crouches low. Chinese or
North Koreans may be up there,
also waiting.
Two men start up the slope
while the others get ready to blast.
Last night the two were Pfc.
Cleon Ecker, Is, and John H.
Cara. %.
Cautiously. they reach the top.
The rest begin to ascend the 300
foot ridge. Sleeping gear and the
radio are put in a little depression.
Two men fan out to a foxhole on
the right for fire support.
Two more crawl out on bare
bluff that juts northward where
the enemy are concealed in the
mountains.
The assistant squad leader,
CnIpl. Harold E. Vincent, %, has
the radio.
"Porter's one to Porter's relay
/. We are in position you
got anything for us? Over"
"Porter's relay to Porters one
!. okay, we got you Porter
! says check the light in front of
the fire on your left !. can NOR
tars get it? Over"
IL Hours Of Watching
Battalion headquarters had
spotted a light from a higher hill
to the rear, and wonders what it
means.
The squad leader, Corpl. George
]. Williams, %, says mortars can't
reach it but Howitzers can. Mo-
Evening star., 1951-01-01
Franco Says Spain
Wants 10 Aid West
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Jan. General
issimo Francisco Franco yesterday
told the Western world he would
like to be included in its plan for
containing Communism, but said
that Spain does not lack conf
dence in herself"
Gen. Franco made his assertion
in an interview with David Scho-
enbrun, Paris correspondent of the
Columbia Broadcasting System
The interview was recorded at
Gen. frances palace at Ell Pardo,
outside Madrid, December 18 and
broadcast here yesterday.
1T is incredible in view of
today's danger to find SO many
countries divided by weakness,
selfishness, hesitations j" T." Gen.
Franco said. I'VE would all be
more secure if we could get
together on a common policy
against aggression"
If Spain must stand alone
against any future invasion, Gen.
Franco said. it is prepared for a
struggle in which many millions
OF aggressors will die" Ff
Evening star., 1951-01-01
Koreu
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| NSontAiuCo T1Om 8 Aot EdSc.S
sald the impact shattered one of
two Allied regiments.
AS the Communists boiled
through along a 1,000-yard front,
a third regiment rushed in to
stem the tide.
The third regiment blunted the
attack. With daylight, 5th Air
Force fighters and carrier planes
hit the Reds.
American artillery pounded out
a heavy tattoo on the charging
lines as an Allied division pulled
back to avoid being cut off.
Navy Planes Join Attack.
Associated Press Photographer
Ed Johnson was with an artillery
unit that was so close to being
cut off it started firing its guns
on the Chinese moving in the
hills behind.
BY pm. g am. EST, 5th
Air Force planes had flown $40
sorties. This was supported by
lib Navy sorties.
Associated Press Correspondent
William j. Waugh said roads be-
hind the enemy penetration were
heavy with traffic and towns 20
miles north of, Seoul and closer
were being evacuated.
Mr.. Randolph said Allied Off
GERS did not conceal their dis
appointment that well-dug-in
U. N. troops were unable to stop
the attack.
The waves Of Chinese man.
power rolled through barbed wire
and across a cracking pattern of
artillery. They just kept coming
until the U. N. defense dam
finally broke.
8 Chinese Armies i'm Push.
Not all of the 100000 Red
troops smashing south were
across the Parallel. But the 9th
Army spokesman said three
Chinese armies and nine recon-
stituted North Korean divisions
were either in contact or facing
U. N. forces along 20-mile front
in the west.
They were identified as the 39th
Chinese Army. south of Kuhwa:
the 38th. south of Yonchon, and
the 66th, in the Changam area, II
miles southeast of Yonchon.
In addition, the reconstructed
4th, 7th, 9th. 9Th, 17th, 3Sth,
43d and 47th North Korean Rife
Divisions were in the attack.
Other enemy units facing the
thin U. N. line were elements OF
the North Korean 9th Rifle Divi-
sion Sd Brigade and 9Th Rifle
Regiment.
Artillery Pounds U. N. Lines.
Gen. Macarthur had predicted
the attacks.
Before the assault, Red artil-
lery barrage poured shells into the
U. N. lines. 1t was the first use
of big. Chinese guns since the
bitter Allied retreat from Pyong-
yang. the Red capital, December
5.
1t. Gen. Matthew 3. Ridgway,
new commander of the United
Evening star., 1951-01-01

Government job as is Mr.. Wilson.
has issued speed-up ordeis. Pro-
curement officers have been in
structed to negotiate more con-
tracts directly instead of inviting
bids, to save time.
Mr. Small repeatedly also plans
to bring men from industry into
the board, if he can induce them
to come, to supplement the Mill
tary personnel with which his
agency is largely stated.
His primary aim, it is reported,
is to cut the interval between the
decision on requirement." the
estimate of particular weapons
and supplies needed-and the
actual placing of orders.
Evening star., 1951-01-01
Fire Picks Up cofe Tob

NEW YORK, Jan. l @.-A
stopped kitchen .fiue took care Of
the checks for 300 diners at the
Red Coach steak house last night.
Homer Halpin, manager of the
restaurant, told police that q
cloud of smoke from the f1ue rolled
into the dining room and forced
customers to leave swiftly. He
added that none paid their checks.
Evening star., 1951-08-10
MengeI Modern
LINED Oak Or Grey Walnut
Bedroom Suite
8 Pieces; - - earn
HoIf-YeorIy 80
SoIePrieed -

Who's Menee Only of the best known respected makers
of tasteful modern furniture America That's why sole of MenqeI
furniture such mpoont for you Take this group for
example, Who else puts such handsome hardware bedrooms
low 1895? Who else achieves such glowing finishes any
the eostles woods? Who else makes drawers deep
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prices up? Set consists Of bed chest dresser with Big yourself
mirror. might tobIe shown 3e.e5l
The Hecht Co. 4th Floor Washington; Floor Spring
Evening star., 1951-02-14

Valley" the M-G-M western at
the Capitol will do a repeat week,
giving it fortnight at the Capitol
Lee Brady. poet-playwright-
novelist teacher director actor at
Catholic University will play the
Iago role in "Othello," opening at
the campus theater March 2
ski Champs" a full-length film
made at Aspen, Colo, will be
shown tomorrow night at 8 pm.
at Cafritz Auditorium, Jewish
Community Center {. The Wash
ington Ski Club is sponsoring the
event, which is open to the pub
lie Two extra performances
of "The Silver Whistle" will be
presented by Theater Lobby, st.
Matthew'S Court, on Friday and
Saturday nights :. Caroline Bea-
trice Macy, formerly of Dublin's
Gate theater, will play the lead
in Kensington Players production
of Kind Lady," Feb. 22-24 j..
Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark
will be principal speaker at
Variety clubs Valentine luncheon
at the National Press Club on Feb.
10 A special model submarine
display will be shown by the Navy
in connection with the presenta-
ton of Operation Pacific" at the
Bethesda theater on Saturday.
Evening star., 1951-02-14

accepts every degradation to pro-
vide Manon's hearts desires. When
his black market deals fail to sup
port them in the fastest circles of
underworld life, she resorts to her
own devices.
These are narrowing enough to
drive any husband to justifieble
homicide. Not the deranged Rob-
ert. He keeps coming back to ask
her forgiveness for not being able
to buy her the jewels, gowns,
nights. ETC.. that other men are
so much more competent to pro-
vide.
Ultimately, Robert does commit
murder with Manon's sleazy broth
er as his victim.
Here, at flagrantly long last,
she rises to an occasion, taking
flight with the tormented boy on
steamer smuggling refugees into
Palestine. 1t is not too late for
Robert. but the odds are consider
able that the moviegoers will find
himself taking a far less patient
view of what has happened to his
time.
There is a bitter current of
humor running through "Manon,"
but as tragic joke of love. it fire.
quently gets out of hand. Neither
Mile. Aubrey, Auclair nor any of
the other players in the film is
able to suggest an underlying re-
ality or sincerity in the film. These
were the qualities that make the
earlier Devil in the Flesh" work
of redeeming dignity and honesty.
"Manon" looks rather like the
exploitation of Sensationalism, a.
treatment that reaches it's over
done climax when Manon's dead
body is dragged across the African
sands by her tormented lover In
its gruesome way, this is a mem
orable film scene. but not one that
anyone will care to remember.
Bulletin Board: Born Yester-
day" will hold for a third week at |
the Warner starting tomorrow,
which will make missing it ones
own fault And Vengeance