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Evening star., 1953-12-18
Spy Hunters 'OverzeoIous'

With Attorney General Brownell'S
assurance that persons suspected of
communiStic tendencies "are all out of
Government now," the Defense Depart
ment seems to have picked up the in
cendiary issue to ignite new areas.
Robert Applegate, director of the De-
fense Departments industrial security
division, has called attention to the
fact that although his department has
authority to investigate and withhold
security clearance from any person
working directly in classified defense
plants, it lacks the direction to inves-
tigate persons working in plants not
presently engaged in defense work. but
which might be vital in time of war"
General Electric is already spear
heading this security risk" cleanup-in-
industry movement Mr.. Applegate has
sounded the clarion call to alert the
United Electrical Workers Union and
such industries as power plants and
aluminium factories. Since every con-
ceivable industry. down to the level of
fertilizer plants, can be classified as
vital in time of war;" the new in
veStigation, when and if given the green
light by the administration. should do
much to supply the numerous spot
lights needed for field day of pub
licity for our superpatriots.
It seems to me that one important
aspect has been overlooked in this
jealous crusade. The vagueness of the
Interpretation of the definitions listed
as security risk" could well lead to
Nationwide mass layOff program which
could result in new army of unem-
ployed ''un- Americans What to do
with them? To quote Gen. George Mar
shall: 1--WE have to recognize that
(these) democratic principles do not
flourish on empty stomachs and that
people turn to false promises Of die
tators because they are hopeless"
We could, of course, build our own self
styled concentration camps for these
"UnemployableS" and call the project
"The House That Frankenstein Built"
Jessie B. Solomon.
Evening star., 1953-12-18
Questions and Answers

A reader can get ,the answer to any Ques-
ton Of fact by writing The Evening Star In-
ington 5. D c.. Please inclose cents for
return postage.
Evening star., 1953-12-18
Office Purties

The article on Drunken Ofdce Par
ties which. appeared in This Week
was q most timely and much-needed
one. We need more periodicals which
have the courage to speak out against
the spreading idea that drinking is
universal convention.
Hazel Davis.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-06-27
Meridian Man Dies
From Sun Stroke

Meridian-June % = The heat
claimed its first fatality of the
year in Meridian Friday at 1915
p. m.
Booker Love, colored, age about
40, employee of Southside Plan
ing Mill on B. St.. died ten minutes
after admission in Rush Memoir
al Hospital following sun stroke.
He was taken to the medical
center in a Harris Ambulance hut
every effort to prolong his life
failed.
The temperature went to 101
Friday at 1870.
Perspiring Meridianites Friday
looked backward at the time =
backward on 20 consecutive days
in which the mercury had reached
90 degrees or higher and forward
to another 100-degrees forecast
for Friday afternoon.
The past 29-dav sustained heat
wave, one which shattered all exist
ing local weather bureau records.
has enveloped Meridian area with
temperatures that have been in the
upper COS for the most part.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-06-27
State Pythian
Head Still
Seriously III

Sir H. H. Young, Grand Chan
cellor Of the KNIGHTS Of Pythias
of the State of Mississippi, was
still reported as being seriously
i'll at his home at 1903 Smith Rob-
inson street here.
Although his condition is still
regarded as serious he is believed
to have taken turn for the better
when visitors were allowed to his
room this week after having been
excluded for several days.
The illness which recently be-
came serious has confined the
Grand Chancellor to his home fol
the past several weeks.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-06-27
K. c. Negroes
Win Suit To
Use CITY Pool

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, June %
Declaring that city pool for Ne
groes here is not equal to that
provided for whites, United
States Court of Appeals last week
ruled that three Negro plaintiffs
must be admitted to a swimming
pool in Swope Park.
While holding that Kansas City
had no right to deny admission to
the three colored plaintiffs, the
court refused to broaden the ruling
to class relief and extend the bene-
fit of its decision to other Negro
residents of Kansas City.
In making this reservation the
court conceded it was upholding a
viewpoint which is perhaps bit
technical and unrealistic.
The plaintiffs in the case are:
Mrs. Esther Williams, Miss Lena
Continued on Page FOUR
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-06-27

BATON ROUGE, La, June %
(SpeciaD-Public opinion here is
on the side of the NEGRO boycott of
the local buses. started last Friday
when White Drivers struck against
enforcing a new seating ordinance
for White and Negro passengers.
This became evident in two let
ters from White Readers, the only
two on the subject, published in the
Sunday Morning Advocate.
The two letters follows:
Dear Sir:
In the controversy of bus drivers
with City Council over the Coun-
ciPs ordinance on the seating of
white and colored passengers in
buses. consideration of fairness
strongly favor the Councils posi-
ton. A portion of the regulations
assign the majority of seats in a
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-06-27
Southerner Says
Jim Crow Must
Lose In Southland

WASHINGTON, June 22.-The
Negro cannot lose in the battle
against school segregation, de-
clared DR.. Guy B. Johnson, Uni
versity of South Carolina Sociolo-
gist, last week.
Addressing the final conference
session of the Association of For
mer Interns and Residents of
Freedmen's hospital, the sociologist
expressed his belief that the su-
preme court will deal the knock
out" punch to segregation declar-
ing it unconstitutional.
But on the other hand, he con-
tended that if the high court only
declares that facilities must be
separate but equal" the emphasis
will be placed on equality which
will result in placing too great a
financial burden on the South, and
segregation will gradually disap-
pear.
In referring to the abolition of
segregation in the schools, the
Continued on Page FOUR
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-06-27
Navy To Abolish
Separate Facilities
at Stewards

WASHINGTON. D. c., June %.
The Navy will abolish segregated
drinking fountains, restaurants and
rest rooms for colored and white
civilian employees in Navy Yards
at Charleston, Norfolk, and other
shore installation in the South,
Charles S. Thomas, Under Secre-
tary of the Navy, disclosed last
Thursday.
But he knew of the issuance of
no such order yet, Mr.. Thomas
said.
The Navy Under Secretary adj
mitted that there is racial segre-
cation in the Charleston and Nor
folk Navy yards. He attributed
such segregation to local customs.
but indicated that it would be abol-
ished through "an evolutionary
process"
Mr.. Thomas praised the Navy
for following a Every constructive
approach" toward racial problems
with the goal of establishing "only
! Continued on Page Eight
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-06-27
BUS COMPANY CALLS BOYCOTT
1907 effective when NEGROES
REFUSE TO RIDE BUSES after
White DRIVERS STRIKE AGAINST
new SEATING ORDINANCE
Separate Franchise For Buses With
Negro Drivers Serving Negroes
May Be Asked Of City Council
Negro Citizens Rally With Money To Back
Leaders In History Making Events

BATON ROUGE, La, June 22.-
(DSN) - Negro citizens of this
thriving city on the bank of the
Mississippi River along which ran
the great slave plantations of the
days before the Civil War that
brought an end to Negro slavery
in this country, standing now be-
meath the great capitol building
and monument to the late Huey P.
Long, began a boycott of the city
buses here Friday morning after
the white bus drivers went on
strike against city ordinance set
ting forth new rule for seating
white and Negro bus passengers.
The bovcott was still going in full
force Sunday.
The boycott began a few hours
after the strike, which started last
Monday, hard ended.
The ordinance in question was
passed on March II by the city
council, who said the Baton Rouge
Bus Co. had requested it to permit
fuller occupancy of the buses.
1t provided for seating of pas
sengers on what was virtually a
first come, first served basis, re-
eardless of race, but prohibited
the occupancy of the same seat
by mixed races.
The following is an excerpt from
Continued on Page Three
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-06-27
See Southern
Negro As Coming
Economic Asset

Biloxi, Miss. June % -
(DSN) = The Southern Negro
is fast becoming an economic as
set and is yielding the position of
an economic liability, ]. 0. Emme-
rich, Editor and Publisher of the
Enterprize-Journal, Of McComb,
Mississippi told the Mississippi
Travellers Association here Sat-
urday.
Speaking to the organization in
it's annual meeting at the Edge
Continued On Page Eight
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-06-27
Delegation From
6Foreign Nations
Visit WinstonviIIe

WINSTONVILLE, Miss, June %
"A tribute was paid to the bust
ling little town of Winstonville,
Miss, on June II by a group of
seventeen persons of six different
Nationalities from the following
Countries: Formosa, France. Indo
China. Korea, Philippine Islands,
and Tailand.
These visitors seemed very much
impressed with the visible progress
beino made by the greatest of all
Continued on Page Six
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-06-27
See Public Opinion Backing The
Baton Rouge Bus Boycott


bus to be filled on what is eff
fectively known as a first come
first serve basis. This seems more
reasonable and fair than the pre-
vious regulations governing seating.
The remaining regulations make it
impossible for whites to keep Ne
gro passengers standing when by
doubling up on seats in the white
section more seat for Negroes could
be provided, and vice versa. This
makes for maximum utilization of
seats and assures that no special
privileges pertain to passengers of
either race.
1t appears evident that the City
Council has taken a position for in
creased fair play in this situation,
and any retreat from this stand
will be retreat from fair play. 1t
Continued on Page Eight
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-06-27

Plans for building a school for
the education and training of Ne
gro preachers, lay-men and lay
women church workers here ran
into a snag last week when a group
of white citizens moved to protest
the building of the school after the
property for its location had been
purchased by the Mississippi Bap-
fist Seminary whose temporary
headquarters has been located at
$40 North Parish street here for
the past several years.
The property in question is To-
Gated at the southwest point of the
intersection Of Whitfield Mill Road
and Highway 40 North and was
Continued On Page Eight
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-06-27
Tobacco Firm
Hires Negro TO
Executive Post

NEW YORK CITY, June 23-
The American Tobacco Company,
makers of Lucky Strike, Pail Mall
and Herbert Tareytown cigarettes,
has announced the appointment of
John w. Edghill as sales super
visor for the Eastern Seaboard area
from New York City to Washing
Continued on Page Severn
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-06-27
DR.. HI. Lang
Calls Movement
To Block Building
OF New Seminary
ProVidentiaI

DR.. H. L. Lang, president and
founder of the Mississippi Baptist
Seminary, in an interview with the
Jackson Advocate here Tuesday
afternoon said that he regarded
the movement to prevent the build
ing of the new Seminary in George
town as "providential."
Except for telling a story to
show how attempts to do harm
sometimes do a greater good he de-
clined to elaborate. He did point
out however that the negotiations
for the purchase of the property
was conducted by an inter-racial
Continued on Page Seven)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-06-27
Carl Murphy
Named President
Negro Newspaper
Publishers Assn.

F BALTIMORE, Nd, June %
Carl Murphy, president of the
Afro-American newspaper, was ell
evated from vicepresident to pres
ident of the National Newspaper
Publishers Association at the as
sociation's 18th annual session at
Morgan State College here. Elec-
ton was held at the opening ses-
sin.
He succeeds Louis E. Martin,
publisher of the Michigan Chron-
icle, who was elected to the exec
Continued on Page Eight
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-06-27
Pythians ToMeet
In Hot Springs

Hot Springs, Ark. - June % =
The 9Th biennial session of the
supreme lodge, Knights Of Pythias,
and Court Of Calanthe, will con-
vene here Aug. 1921, with some
1000 delegates from SO states
expected to attend.
According to DR.. H. H. Phipps,
Continued on Page Two)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-06-27
Justice Douglas
Hits Growing
Intolerance In
United States

NEW. YORK, June 23-United
States Supreme Court Justice Will
liam 0. Douglas last week took a
blast at what he called "Growing
intolerance in the United States"
Speaking to the AFL Hatters'
union convention here, Justice
Douglas said we have seen de-
cline in respect for the Bill of
Rights since World War II.
Continued on Page Eight
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-06-27
maIan Victory
Puzzles Africans

JOHANNESBURG, So. Africa,
June 22-One Of the results of the
recent smashing victory in which
Prime Minister Malan and his Ma
tionalist Party won in the recent
elections has been to develop con-
fusion among opposing political
groups.
The United Party which went
down in defeat is composed of
British descendants particularly.
It's segregation policies were not
Continued on Page Six
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-06-27
Vets CITIZENSHIP
Club Hold Annual
Election Meeting

The members of the Veterans
Citizenship Club held their annual
election meeting Sunday, June p,
with Mr.. ]. Hall Bolden presiding
as chairman.
The newly elected officers are as
follows: Mr.. Ben Farrier, Presi-
dent: Mr.. Eddie J. Smith, Jr., vice
President; M. O. T. Anderson, Sec
retarv: Mr.. Dampeer Thornton
Continued on Page Five)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-06-27
MendenhaII Negro
Soldier Dies In
Nations Worst
Air Disaster

Washington, D. C. = June 22-
(DSN) = Pfc. Johnnie R. Fetch
err, a Negro soldier from Menden-
hall, Mississippi was listed among
the 129 victims killed in the nations
worst air disaster when the CHA
Globemaster, one of the worlds
largest airplanes crashed near
Tokyo, Japan last Thursday.
The name of Fletcher appeared
as the only Mississippian in a list
of the victims made public by the
Continued On Page Eight
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-06-27
Congressman
Williams Letter
To Constituent
Stirs Racial Pot

WASHINGTON, D. c., June %
GDSN)-Congressman John Bell
Williams, Democrat of Mississippi
who won his last election by ap-
pealing to white voters only, and
who according to rumor here plans
to run for the United States Sen
ate in the next election in his state
continues to stir the race pot in
Continued on Page Eight
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-06-27
Racism Costs USA $3.50 Billion
Yearly SAYS Welfare Secy.

DELAWARE, Ohio, June %
Racial prejudices in the U. S. A.
Is costing taxpayers from $15,000,-
100000 to $3O,0OO,C0O,OOC annually,
Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby, secretary
of the Department of Health, Edu-
cation, and Welfare, told gradual
ing seniors at Ohio Wesleyan Uni
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-06-27

Walter Nathaniel Ridley, head
of the department of psychology at
Virginia State college, probably be-
came the first known Negro to re-
ceive a decorate from state-sup-
ported Southern university when
the University Of Virginia awarded
a Doctor of Education degree to
him Monday, June Is.
A native of Newport News, Va,
DR.. Ridley maintained straight
"a" average in all courses except
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-06-27
African Prince
To Star In Movie:
Afraid To Go
Home
Home

Los Angeles - June % - What
happens when an African student
bicycles from Chicago to Califor-
MIA, signs a contract with a Holly
wood studio, co-stars in a monitor
picture, takes to narcotics and gets
duped into a forgery racket, is
CONTINUED on Page Eight
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-06-27

versity here last week.
Delivering the commencement
address, Mrs. Hobby said that
many Americans blame a persons
faults on his race or national
origin. She pointed out that some
economists have brought forth
Continued on Page Two)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-06-27
Barnes Resigns AS
Pres. OF Chamber
OF Commerce
Mrs. Clare Collins
Harvey Is Successor

DR.. C. L. Barnes, widely known
Jackson dentist resigned from the
position of President of the Jack
son Negro Chamber Of Commerce
Continued on Page Eight
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-06-27
billiard Pres. First
Negro To Head
Natl Health Group

NEW YORK, N. Y, June %
(DSN)-Dr. Albert w. Dent, Pres
ident of billiard University, New
CONTINUED on Page SIX
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-06-27

one. For that one, he earned a
B-pius average.
Besides his outstanding academic
record at Virginia, DR.. Ridley was
initiated into Kappa Delta Pi hon.
or society for professional leaders
in education.
A graduate of Howard univer-
sity, the VSC psychologist later
earned his Master of Arts degree
there. He then did graduate work
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-06-27
NEGROES CONTINUE BATON ROUGE BOYCOTT
AS TO BUILD SCHOOL FOR NEGRO PREACHERS HERE HITS SNAG

WHITES MOVE 20 PROTEST
BUILDING FOR NEGRO PREACHERS
HERE after MISSISSIPPI BAPTIST
SEMINARY BUYS PROPERTY
Inter-Raeia| Committee With Majority
White Members Handle Negotiation
For The Purchase Of The Property
$780, 900 SET AS INITIAL OUTLAY
FOR NEW INSTITUTION
Evening star., 1953-12-20
Miss johnson
Makes Bow
OSOciety

Among the first of the Christ
mas seasons debutantes to make
her bow to society is Miss Eliza
beth Campen johnson, daughter
of Mr.. Joseph Campen johnson
and the late Mrs. johnson of
Norfolk, Va.
Miss johnson was presented
last night at the Army and
Navy Town Club at a dinner
dance given by her uncle and
aunt, Col. and Mrs. Lawrence D.
Lally of Washington. McWil-
liams and his orchestra played.
The debutante, who received
with Mrs. Lally. and another
aunt, Mrs. Rob Lee Cathey of
Norfolk, wore a white nylon
tulle dress. A white sequin spray
was appliqued on the bodice and
repeated on the voluminous skirt
which was underlaid with a wide
f1ounce of finely pleated tulle.
She carried an old-fashioned
bouquet of red sweetheart roses
with small white orchids at
tached to streamers, a gift of
Mr.. and Mrs. Cathey. Her IA
theirs gift, a string of pearls, was
her only jewelry.
Mrs. Lally's gown was of pale
gray-green satin embroidered in
pearls and she wore an orchid
corsage. Mrs. Cathey wore pale
blue-gray taffeta and lace and
an orchid.
Miss Johnson, attended the
College of William and Mary in
Williamsburg, and is now a STU
dent at the Abbott Art School
in Washington. She is a de-
scendant on her mothers side of
the Cromwells of Maryland, who
were early settlers in Norfolk.
She is the granddaughter of
Thomas Mercer Dey and the late
Mrs. Dey of Lynnhaven, Va.
Other parties honoring Miss
johnson include a tea being
Evening star., 1953-12-20
Diana HuIsten
EnQdQed to We'd

Mr.. and Mrs. c. Herbert Hal
stem Of Hyattsville have an
nounced the engagement of
their daughter. Diana Mary, to
Mr.. William Arthur Brockway,
son of Mr.. Hansen l.. Brockway
and the late Mrs. Brockway.
Miss Halsten formerly at
tended the University of Mary
land. Mr.. Brockway is serving
with the Navy aboard the U. S. S.
DeS MoineS.
Evening star., 1953-12-20

MIR. Edgar l.. Harrison III.
The engagement of Miss Page
Wilmer of Baltimore and Ches-
tertown, Md. to Mr.. Edgar
Lockhart Harrison II of Arling-
ton was announced this week
at dinner party given in her
honor by her mother, Mrs. Con-
rath Wilmer, at the Marylander
in Baltimore.
Miss Wilmer is a graduate of
the Hannah More Academy,
Reisterstown, Md, and is a
senior at Duke University. Mr..
Harrison is a graduate of In
diana University and is now
stationed at Fort Knox, KY.
Evening star., 1953-12-20

given by Miss Joan Brownell and
Miss Dana Dewey at the latter'S
home. The tea will also honor
Miss Patricia Priest.
Mrs. Charles Silas Baker will
entertain for Miss johnson at
Evening star., 1953-12-20

a cocktail party at her home on
December q. Mr.. and Mrs. Lally
will again entertain for Miss
johnson on January 2, this time
at a reception for their 6ontem-
porarieS. \,
Evening star., 1953-12-20


Miss Jane Soule. daughter of
DR.. and Mrs. William LamSon
Soule of Belfast, Me, became
the bride on December 19 of
Mr.. Roderick Morrison Engert.
He is the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Cornelius Van H. Engert of
Washington.
The wedding took place at
All Souls Unitarian Church here
with DR.. A. Powell Davies off,
ciating. There was a reception
at the Westchester. Following a
wedding trip to Canada. Mr.. and
Mrs. Engert will reside in
Washington.
Evening star., 1953-04-15

particular fight for this particu-
lar channel is that Zenith is the
developer of Phonevision. Much
of it's experimentation has had to
do with the feasibility of sub
scription television. The en-
trenched network broadcasters
have not been cheering it from
the SidelineS.
Evening star., 1953-04-15
Sullivan Has ANHoIIwood
Admitting Video Is Here
On the Air
By Horry Macarthur

If you were watching Toast of
the Town" Sunday night, you
saw history, Of a sort. being
made. That, excerpt from
Trouble Along the Way" was
more than an entertaining dem
onstration of the style of a bril-
liant and beloved actor, Charles
Coburn. Maybe it was not a
milestone in television's progress,
but it was at least a kilometer-
marker.
Trouble Along the Way" is
a Warner Bros. film. Appear
ance of a clip from it on tele-
vision marked the bowling of the
last of the two remaining major
Hollywood hold-outs to the in
evitable. The other, RKO-Radio
already has announced that it
has given in to Ed Sullivan's
Establishments. Rosalind Russell
and a scene from Never Wave
at q Wac" will be featured on
"Toast" next Sunday.
The anti-television attitude at
Warner Bros. has been a stub
born one. It has consisted al
most of a refusal to admit that
TV existed, even after NBC
moved into the neighborhood
and built a house virtually next
door to Warmers sprawling Bur-
bank home.
The Warner attitude kept such
a milestone of Robert E. Sher-
woods career as the Warner film
of 1.-The Petrif1ed Forest" out of
the playwright's life story on
Toast" The studios ownership
of some picture rights also is re-
ported to have kept 1.-THE Moss
Hart Story" off of the television
program. Hart and Kitty Car
Isle wanted to do a scene from
"The Man Who Came to Din
ner," but the proposal was We
toed.
1t is possible that Sullivan
may try again on this one now.
He also is continuing to make
Hollywood happy with TV biog-
raphies of movie big-wigs. Cecil
B. DeMille and David o. Selz-
nick are scheduled for Sullivan's
"Toasting" soon.