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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-27

The measure was put in by
opponents of a bill already ap-
proved by the Senate and being
considered by the House to ex-
empt all boats under 100 feet
long from the personal property
tax.
The House took UP a recon-
mendation by Simon E. Sobe-
loft. new Solicitor General of the
United States, and voted to al
low the Court Of Appeals to lift
death sentences, as well as upset
verdicts in criminal cases. Mr..
Soheloff made the suggestion as
he stepped down as chief judge
of the States high court early
\ this month.
The vote was rs to 10, after
Delegate Jerome Robinson,
Democrat, of Baltimore. said the
bill would erect another safe
guard around the most absolute
power granted to man." that OF
taking life.
The House yesterday defeat.
Evening star., 1954-07-02
Congress Keeps an Eye On Roinmoking

dust on potential rainclouds.
Therefore. he argues, It makes
sense to treat clouds with sub-
stances like dry ice. He forecasts
that such techniuues should be
able to increase BY SO per cent
the rainfall In Australia.
Capt. Orville sums up the work
Of his investigators this way:
IL the advisory committee
finds that weather modification
projects cannot produce inpor-
tant results. 1t win 50 report
and thus deter farmers and
ranchers from spending their
money unwisely.
III the committee finds out it
can confirm the results claimed
BY reputable and scientifically
competent operators claims OF
rainfall increases Of from Z TO
so per cent and more then. the
dollar benefits TO agriculture. In
dustry and government win be
so great as to be incalculable.
.'In other words. this study
will produce direct and immedi-
ate Dement'S no matter what the
advisory committee iinds out."
Evening star., 1954-07-02

not think weather control on any
kind Of worthwhile scale win be
worked out.
THIS opinion Is echoed BY one
Of the top scientists in the
bureau. DR.. Harry Wexler. who
maintains that If rainfall in
creases claimed by commercial
rain making firms were real
".they would stand out Like a
score thumb land such has not
been revealed, at least in the
cases we have studied. !"
The advisory committee which
viii sift this material. along with
that from private sources, was
appointed last December. It still
Is waiting It's authorized appro-
priation Of $50 900. It may fur
ther be irnpeded II the Defense
Department goes through with
q tentative plan to withdraw
some Bits being used In gov
ernment experiments.
Foreign Data Sought.
The committee is seeking in
formation from more than q
dozen foreign countries where
control projects have been car
ried out. One Australian scien-
tist. DR.. E. q. Bowen, maintains
he has tapped individual clouds
for rainfalls ranging UP to l1a
inches.
DR.. Bowen has been quoted as
saying the logic Of seeding clouds
has been confined by nature.
When the earth passes through
areas containing ''meteoric dust
increased rainfall results. he
says, due to the effect Of the
Evening star., 1954-07-02
Hikers to Ride Bus,
Then Relax ut Beech

The Wanderbirds Hiking Club
Is planning q nearly -hikeless trip
Sunday.
The group win leave by char
tered bus at . am. from Twelfth
street and New York avenue NV
for Triton Beach. Md. where
according to Anne O'Donohue,
the clubs publicity director. the
trees on the beach give the .hik-
ers" the choice Of sunbathing OF
relaxing In the shade. Reserva-
tions can be made for the outing
with Miss O'Donohue. 40 Platts-
burg court NV.
Evening star., 1954-07-02
Joy Reiires Al Annapolis
After 40 Years IN Navy
By shs Asseeioisd rrsss

ANNAPOLIS, Md. July The
nag Of Vice Admiral c. Turner
JOY was hauled down here yes
terday In q ceremony marking
the end Of his two years as super
intendent Of the Naval Academy
and climaxing 40 years Of Naval
service.
The Admiral was given the
three-star nag that has flown
over the Academy administration
building since he came to AM
napolis after II months as chief
Of the United Nations truce team
in Korea.
Admiral joy turned over the
reins to Rear Admiral Charles A.
Buchanan. who will take over
Until Rear Admiral Walter r..
Boone becomes superintendent
In August.
Admiral Joy used the occasion
to advise the some LOO new
Midshipmen, who arrived only
this week. to. try and iit the
Navy's uniform rather than
worry how the uniform flts them.
The 50 year old st. Louis
native was choked UP several
times during his remarks and as
D nearby battery sounded out q
17-gun salute. signifying his re-
tirment rank Of full admiral.
Evening star., 1954-07-02
By Fronk Corey

Associated Press Science Reporter.
It may some day be possible
to cause torrents Of rain over
Russia by seeding clouds moving
toward the Soviet Union.
Or it may be possible--if an
opposite effect is { desired--to
cause destructive droughts which
would dry up food crops by
overs e eding' those same
clouds,
And fortunately for the United
States. Russia could do little to
retaliate because most weather
moves from West to East.
The possibility that such q
spectacular device as this might
be used in some future total war
should not be discounted" ac-
cording to the man who heads
q group set up by Congress to
advise it on the chances for sue
cess of plans to control the
weather.
Aided Doolittle Raid.
Capt. Howard oryille, q. S. N,
(Ret.), who charted the weather
for Gen. Doolittle's raid on
Tokyo and helped prepare the
forecasts for the North African
and Normandy invaSions, is
chairman of an 11-member ad-
visory committee charged by
Congress with seeing that cur
rent efforts at rain making and
rain suppression don't get out OF
hand.
It is Capt. Orville's personal
view that II the United States
would devote the same effort
and money to weather expert
ments that 1t does to atomic de-
velopment 1t could. in about 40
years, increase precipitation
over any area almost at will.
using favorable situations.
However. he emphasizes that
the advisory committee does not
take It for granted weather con-
troll win or will not work.
In the law setting UP the ad-
visory group. Congress said ap-
plication Of scientific advancel
to the problem Of weather "ap-
pears to be practical"
Primarily. Congress wants the
committee to determine whether
experiments, public and private,
strengthen possibilities of large
scale weather control.
See If Laws Are Needed.
But the committee has q cor
ollary job: to determine whether
Federal legislation is necessary
| to be sure that attempts at
weather modification don't re-
suit in disaster. such as 'cata-
strophic droughts, storms, floods
Il
and other phenomena =. !"
And finally, Congress wants
the committee to recommend to
what extent the Government
should experiment with or en-
gage in weather control activ-
tiles.
Some Federal work already is
under way. Army, Navy, Ali
Force and Weather Bureaus have
research projects.
The Weather Bureau has beer
conducting extensive cloud-seed.
ing tests in the Seattle area
Meteorologist Ferguson Hall. The
man in charge. says results still
are being evaluated. He adds
however. that ais Of now he doe
Evening star., 1954-07-02
viroinio Group Elects

CHARLOTTESvIILE. Va,
July 2 (SpeciaD Mrs. Trent B,
Terry has been elected president
of the Albemarle Chapter. Vir-
ginia Association for Mental
Health, to succeed Mrs. j. Teyis
Niche. who became second vice
president.
Evening star., 1954-07-02
Short Race Nets S.

DAWN. Mo. tR "A short race
down q railroad track meant q SIS
prize for Charles A. Wheelbarger
Of Ludlow, Mo. He caught D
coyote pup near the railroad sta
ton and claimed the $5 bounty.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-03
Bond SET al $1,000
For 4 More Indicted
In Contempt Case

Four persons, recently indicted
on charges of contempt Of the
House Un-American Activities
Committee. today pleaded not
guilty before Chief Judge Boz
litha j.. Laws In the U. 5. Dis
trict Court for the District Of
Columbia.
Judge Laws set bond at 81 900
for each defendant pending trial.
Those who appeared today
were Lawrence Baker Arguim-
bau, 48, of Foxboro, Mass; Mrs.
Goldie e. Watson Of Philadel-
phia; Bernard Deutch. rs. Of
Philadelphia, and, Lloyd Barren
blatt. 81. Pleasant Valley. N. Y.
Mrs. Mile Markison, SO, of
the 400 block of East Indian
Spring drive, Silver Spring. and
Marcus Singer. 40. Ithaca. N. Y,
previously had pleaded not
guilty and are free in $1,000
bond.
Still to be arraigned are John
r. Watkins, Rock Island, H.,
and Barrows Durham, 40, of
Cynwyd, Pa.
All eight are accused of re-
fusal to answer questions con-
corning alleged Communist
Party affiliations or to name
persons supposedly known to
them as Communists.
Scheduled trial dates are as
follows: MIR. Arguimbau, Febru-
airy rs; Mr.. Singer, February IS;
Mr.. Deutch, March IL; Mrs.
Markison, April /. Trial dates
for the others have not vet been
set.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-03
Move 10 Disbar 0ffuit
Ordered Held Up if
Count Isn't Dropped

A three-ju Judge Federal Court
today voted. with reservations. to
stay all disbarment proceedings
against attorney Dorsey K
ORutt pending outcome OF his
scheduled trial on q contempt Of
court charge.
The District Court Committee
on Admissions and Grievances
had brought five counts against
Mr.. Offutt. involving different
trials, accusing him OF conduct
prejudicial to the administration
Of justice.
One of the counts involved his
conduct before Federal Judge
Alexander Holtzoff during the
trial of DR.. Henry L. Peckham
on abortion charges in 1852.
In the event that the disbar-
ment count which is based on the
contempt case is dropped, the
four other disbarment charges
will be heard without delay, un-
der terms of today's ruling.
Curran Dissents.
This ruling was shared by
Judges Luther w. Youngdahl and
Walter M. Bastian.
The third Judge, Edward M.
Curran, dissented. He held that
the four counts should be tried
without undue delay regardless
Of whether the fifth count is
dropped.
Attorney Francis w. Hill,
representing the bar told re-
porters the grievance committee
would confer on the advisability
of dropping the count involving
the Holtzoff contempt so as to
proceed with the charges on the
remaining counts involving diff
ferent trials.
The contempt case arose after
q series of verbal clashes, in
which Judge Holtzoff held Mr..
Offutt in criminal contempt
and sentenced him to serve 10
days in Jail. This later was cut
to 48 hours by the U. s. Court of
Appeals for the District of
Columbia.
Reversed by High Court.
Subsequently, the Supreme
Court reversed Judge Holtzoff
and remanded the contempt
finding back to the U. s. Dis
trict Court for the District of
Columbia for trial before a diff
ferent judge.
The High Court, at the time,
criticized Judge Holtzoff for par
ticipating in the verbal ex-
changes.
Today, attorney Warren Ma
gee, representing Mr.. Ohutt,
argued that disbarment proceed
ings involving the Holtzof con-
tempt. action would be unfair
until Mr.. Offutt either had been
convicted or acquitted Of the
charge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-03
Aiorn-Dusied Fishermen
To GET Hospital Leave

YAIzU. Japan. Dec. 81
Twenty-Five fishermen Of the
Lucky Dragon. busted with
atomic ash March / near Bikini,
viii shortly be given week-long
home passes from two hospitals
in Tokyo. Katsuhisa Omura, .
government health official said
today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-03

Mr.. omura said doctors de-
cided the passes win help train
the patients for non-hospital
life. Mr.. omura came to this
home Of the Lucky Dragon to
tell the townfolk Of the decision.
One crew member died last
September.
Mr.. Omura said he did not
know when the "a patients win
be permanently discharged from
the hospitals.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-03
Maryland
and
Virginia
News II, Brief
Falls church-Foirfox
School Accord Near

Falls Church and Fairfax
County appear to be nearing
agreement on q plan to transfer
title of a 14-roon1 elementary
school from the county to the
city.
The City School Board dis
closed last night architects viii
meet December 13 to consider
the value of the Oak Street
School. owned by the county but
lying within the city limits. The
city has about 1927. 900 in bond
issue funds available for pur-
chase but the county has not
yet agreed to the figure. A court
order changing the township to
a city a few years ago left title
to the school with the county.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-03
Yes, We Have No Bononus

Many small sugar cane growers
In Northwest Jamaica are plow-
ing up their cane fields to plant
bananas. The world sugar mar
ket situation Is considered UNI
certain, but there's an apparently
unlimited demand for bananas.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-03

partment Of Mental Health. an
nounced after an inspection at
Brownsville that some of the
Negroes will be transferred Elm
mediately" to the Rosewood
Training School near Baltimore
for white children. DR.. Perkins
said up to 300 may be shifted,
a move that was bitterly and
successfully opposed by parents
OF Rosewood children in 1852.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-03
East Leeds in OIdsters

BOSTON.-Although many old
persons have settled in Califor-
mia and Florida in recent, years.
New England is still the section
Eof the country with the largest
Eproportion of oldsters.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-03
Court NoturoIizes 28

Three members of a Latvian
family who escaped wartime
Russian invaders but were cap
tured by the Germans and held
in prison camps until the Ameri-
cans freed them, were among %
new citizens naturalized in
Prince Georges County Circuit
Court yesterday.
The trio are Eric Upmal and
his wife. Aida Zenta, and his
mother. Mrs. Helen Upmal. They
changed their last name from
Upmalis and live at $500 New
ton street, EVANSVILLE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-03
Mental Hospital Checked

Feeble minded Negro children
in Maryland were promised a
long-awaited break today. which
will take them out of over
crowded and understaffed faclli-
ties at Brownsville and give them
the same opportunity for re-
Mobilization the State gives
retarded white children.
Gov. McKeldin and DR.. Clifton
T. Perkins. director of the De-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-03
Conodion Orchards Biggest

NEW GLASGOW. - In the
Evangeline country of Nova
Scotia, Canada, are the largest
apple orchards to be found any
where in the British dominions.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-03-06
The Tunica Grand Jury Makes
A Timely Decision

Up in Tunica, Mississippi the other day, all
White Grand Jury refused to return true bill against
a Negro who had been arrested for killing white men
whom he is reported to have shot to death few
days ago in the town of Tunca.
This decision by the al-White Tunica County Grand
Jury could not have come at more needed time. An
opinion voice without any regard whatever to the
principals in the immediate Indeed it is view
that more rigid application of the Biblical Injunction
eye for eye, and tooth for TOOTH all along the
ine would reduce the homicide rate in the state
and in the nation.
Since American Jurisprudence has established the
principals of mitigating circumstances in of homi-
cide thus reducing the rigid application of the Biblical
injunction of eye for eye and tooth for TOOTH
state the opinion that the decision of the Tunica
County Grand Jury could not have at need
ed time only in the hope that will begin the establish
ment of precedent in such that other Grand
Juries will not be afraid to follow.
Those who acquainted with the existing psy
coogy of the Negro in the South do not have look
current reports contemporary history to find
that the Southern Negro having been forced to bear
the last of the burden of fear and humility becom
ing involved with member of the opposite race
often than not every member of the opposite
as anything but sympathetic friend.
The decision of the Tunica County Grand Jury hits
at the basic psychology and fear of the Southern
Negro and it could well be the beginning of real i'm
provement in relations in Mississippi well
throughout the southland
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-03-06
Mrs. Bethune Is
Founders Day
Speaker At
Southern Univ,

BATON ROUGE, La. Feb. "a,
1954-Dr. Mary Mcleod Bethune,
Founder of Bethune Goodman Col
lege, Daytona Beach, Florida, will
be the Founders Day Speaker
Tuesday, March 8, 1854 at II, when
Southern University celebrates it's
Founders Day.
Mrs. Bethune is we'll known
throughout the nation for the ma
jor roll she played in the Nation
al Youth Administration. The out
standing achievements made in
governmental affairs by Mrs. Beth
une and her forth right determine
ton in Higher Education has given
rise to q composition of many books
and articles on her life. Readers
Digest, Time, Life, and other sim
liar publications have all paid tri-
butte to this international figure.
In 1885, she organized the Ma
tional Council of Negro Women
which has now united almost a mil
lion Negro Women into its ranks
Mrs. Mary Bethune is a shining
example of growth from utter
poverty and dependence at enamel
patton to free full living and lead
ership today.
A calendar of events for the
celebration begins Sunday, March
when Rev. Henry L. Bradford
Chaplain, Alabama A & M College
Normal, Alabama, will be Found
ers' Vespers Speaker. Monday
March. s at 10 am, the Labora.
tory School will pilgrimage to the
grave of DR.. J. S. Clark, Found
er; Monday at noon, the Founders
Day Student Convocation; Tuesday
at 10 am, the Founders Day Pa
rade by the Southern University
ROTC Unit; Tuesday at II a. M.
the Founders Day Service; i'm
mediately afterward the audience
will pilgrimage to the grave OF
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-03-06
jackson College
Sets Competitive
Scholarship Exam.

March 20, 1854, has been set as
the date for the Sixth Annual
Competitive Scholarship examina-
iton sponsored by Jackson College,
according to an announcement made
recently by the College Since Jack
son College inaugurated the pro
gram six years ago, more than
two hundred high school graduates
have enetered the College on schol-
arships won in this scholastic COM
petition. The College will award
a limited number of general, aca-
demic, and special scholarships to
entering freshmen for the aca-
demic year, 1954-1955, on the basis
of the March 20 competition. The
examination will be given at the
following locations: Thirty-Third
Avenue High School, Gulfport;
Wesley Chapel High School, Garth
age; Scale Street High School,
Corinth; Oak Park High School,,
Laurel; X. +. Hunt Hlgh School,
Columbus; Royal Street High
School, Hattiesburg; T. j. Harris
High School, Meridian; Broad St.
High School. Greenwood; Sadie
Thompson High School, Natchez;
W. A. Higgins High School, Clarks-
dale; Coleman High School, Green
Vile, Alexander High School,,
Brookhaven; jackson College, Jack
son.
High school seniors wishing to
participate in this years compe-
tit;on should ask their principals
to notify the Scholarship Com
mittee of Jackson College of their
intention. The number of students
and center they will attend should
be specified by the principals.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-03-06
Electrically
Yours

NEW YORK (Global) Sarah
Vaughan still out California way
Enrol Garner still one of the
finest ION the SO" in this reporters
book Organist Kelly Owens
and his quartet are very good :.
Little Rita Faye has proved her
self to be the best-selling child art
ist on records today. She is
pretty little nine-year-old and is
already one of MGM Records big
gest. Reports show she is heading
the list of children who record
pop" or hillbilly, including all
labels.
Theatre folk shocked over the
untimely death of Eddie Matthews
in an auto accident near Washing
ton, d. c. Though he did extensive
concert work and a good deal of
teaching, he was best known for
his work in "Porgy and Bess."
Quite a versatile artist.
Duke Ellington and his famous
band at Harlem's Apollo last week
Slim Gallard still at Broad
ways Birdland Basin Street
on West 51st Street seems to be
going well since it turned into a
jazz spot Louis Armstrong
set to be the next attraction there
:. Lucky Millinder and his band
opened three-way stay at the
Savoy Ballroom. Joe Medlin does
the vocals and packs a wallop with
the gals.
This writer picks the top artists
this way: Best male vocalist, Billy
Eckstine; best female vocalist,
Joni James; best child vocalist,
Little Rita Faye; best big band,
Duke Ellington; best small eombo,
Johnny Hodges; best arranger,
Fred Norman; best pianist, George
Shearing. The ten best-selling rec
ord artists are Joni James, Billy
Eckstine, Tommy Edwards, Nat
Cole, Lou Douglas, Patti Page,
Little Rita Faye, Eddie Fisher,
Frank Sinatra and Betty Madigan.
Big John Greer and his sax very
popular in the south l.. . Rene Hall
and his orchestra gaining in pop
ularity e. . Shirley Hammer has a
bright future on wax.
March Is is the date set by
Friends of the Y. M. C. A. for a
combination birthday and farewell
party for Nat King Cole at the
Savoy Ballroom. Proceeds will go
to the Harlem "Y." Soon after
the affair, Nat will 60 to London
where he opens at the Palladium.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-03-06
Southern cagers
Four-Time
Conf. Champs
By S. w. AUSTIN

When the weary Southern Uni
versity Jaguars closed their home
schedule, fourth consecutive
Southwestern conference champion
ship had been added by the hard
working five that dropped only
one circuit tilt during the long,
hard title-march.
Unlike the spectacular team of
four years ago, which consisted of
at least ten men with two or more
years of experience, the Cats of
this season, with but two senior
regulars, won 26 games and lost
five, thus posting the highest aver
age of any of the previous champs.
Led by Captain Jimmie Singleton,
the lanky Lafayette prep sensa-
ton, the Jaguars received aid from
a sophomore trio, Robert Gray,
Voris Peters and Clarence Cum
ningham, but the backbone of their
defense was the untiring Ellis
Wise, a senior with natural ath-
letic ability who played hard and
was the Cats key floor-man. Sup
porting this first contingent were
Robert Lewis, Robert Brown, Eu-
gene Ballard, Emmanuel Robinson,
Clinton Miles, Agis Bray, and
Cleveland Forbes. The latter two
are seniors.
Conference crowns for versatile
Coach R. H. Lee are not confined
to basketball. He has also pro-
duced three conference champion
ship baseball teams, and had a
big hand in helping the Jaguar-
gridders cop five Southwest and
three National titles.
Lees 1860 quintet ended that
year with a 22-7 record, and the
following season his dream team"
Won 20 and lost five. Last year
was actually the beginning Of a
cinderella crew" for then, Lee
took handful of lettermen with
very little experience and nodded
an aggregation that garnered %
triumphs while losing nine.
This year also marks the third
time that Southern has represented
the Southwest in the regional play
offs in Nashville, Tennessee. Pre-
viously the Cats have won third
in this meet and have placed their
star players on the all tourney
team on both occasions.