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ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1954-02-24
Johnstown Lodge Backs Benefit Fete
Thomas Gojmerac
Is Highly Honored
Korean War Hero
Gets Silver Star

JOhnstoWn Pa. - At the
celebration which was given
in honor Of Thomas J. Col
merac by Lodge 5 of the Gro
atian Fraternal Union, Johns
town, on Sunday, January
31st, in the Croatian Home,
some 400 members of the
Lodge and friends looked on
as Colonel Walter D. Griffith,
representing the U nj t e d
States Army from the Second
Army Headquarters in Fort
Meade, Maryland, pinned the
Army's coveted Silver Star on
Johnstown's m st shot up
hero of the Korean Campaign,
Tommy Gojmerac.
Colonel Griffith said: "The
Army does not just give the
Silver Star Citation to any,
one-you must go out and
distinguish yourself in the
field of battle, for valor. Only
a boy proud of his American
heritage would. go out and do
what Tommy did, fight, and
fight hard against the powers
which are seemingly wholly
interested in material things
and who feel that religion is
an obstacle to the fulfillment
of their materialistic pro-
gram. They are occupied with
the very destruction of belief
in Cod"
Accepts With Modesty
Tommy was given a thun-
derous ovation by the audi
ence which included such hon
ored guests as Rev. j.. A. Sos
tarich, Pastor of the Croatian
Catholic Church, V. l. Man.
dich, Supreme President of
the C.F.U., and Congressman
John P. Saylor, representing
the 9th Congressional Dis
trict.
Choked with emotion, Tom
my, who looks more like a
lad fresh from high school
than a veteran Of the Korean
battles, modestly accepted the
citation, remarking:
II only did what any Amer
lean soldier would have done;
faced with the same obstacle
that faced me-fight, and
fight hard against the goddess
forces who are trying to i'm
peril the freedoms we, as
Americans, are enjoying" He
also thanked the members of
Lodge No. 5 for bestowing
this honor on him.
The Silver Star Citation
was sent by special courier
from Fort Meade so that it
could be presented at the
testimonial dinner.
Father John A. Sostarich,
pastor of the Croatian Cath
olic Church, spoke briefly,
and said that only God-loving
boys could be good soldiers
as Tommy was. Through his
religious teaching, he learned
the love of God, love of lib
erty and the dignity of free
men and learned to value the
democratic way of life and
government.
Proud OF His Record
The Supreme President of
the Croatian Fraternal Union,
brother V. I. Mandich, extend
ed to our hero, Tommy Col
merac, and his wife, the best
wishes of the membership of
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ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1954-02-24
United Lodges In Annual Meet At Etna Sunday
Societys Executive Board Will Join
United Lodges Committee In Observing
Sixtieth Anniversary Of Organization
Delegates To Enjoy Showing OF New Film
Following February 28 Meeting In Etna
By Stephen F. Brkich, Chairman United Lodges
BY Stephen f. Brkich, Chairman, United Lodges

Pittsburgh, Pa. - The United Lodges of Western
Pennsylvania Committee largest such working group within
the Croatian Fraterna Union of America will hold it's
nual Meeting Sunday, February %.
This very important meeting will be held in the Etna
Lodge Croatian Home, 40 Bridge Street and start
promptly 200 PM Every Lodge affiliated with the
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1954-02-24
Proud OF His Record

The Supreme President of
the Croatian Fraternal Union,
brother V. I. Mandich, extend
ed to our hero, Tommy Col
merac, and his wife, the best
wishes of the membership of
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The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1954-12-24
Kingdom of the Sun"

eral Assembly OF Israel's progress
In nuclear research. And mayoa
he wouldn't have talked about il
and we. would not know that
there is uranium in the Negev-
had moi the French delegate talk
ed first about Israels work in this
field of research. For French and
Israeli nuclear physicists have
become partners when the atomic
energy commissions of the two
countries s4sned agreements to
this effect. and they are working
closely together all the time.
The geologiSts found uranium
in the phosphate deposits (Which
have been named "Oron"). When
they found it nearly five years
ago, they did not know that all
phoSphates contain low-grade
uranium; every country jealousy
guarded its discoveries in nuclear
research and development, and
only year or SO later did it be-
come common knowledge. So call
ed rich uranium ores, of which
there are very few, contain OIL
percent uranium; phosphates con-
tain "a few grams per ton," says
DR.. Bentor.
Using a special process. local
pilot plant has produced small
quantities of uranium from these
phosphatas. But it is feasible to
produce uranium on an indus
trial scale. and with this process.
exploitation of low-grade ores
should be no more expensive than
the procedure in use in other
parts of the world for rich ura.
mum.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1954-12-24

Technion, a small band of stu
dents and large band of guards
ne set out to map the Negev, rock
by rock, wadi by wadi. And every
now and then we read in the
papers that phosphates, clay. gyp-
sum, glass sands, iron and other
ores had been found, were being
further explored, already ex-
plotted.
We never heard that DR.. Ya'a-
GOV K. Bentor also found uranium.
That came TO light only a few
weeks ago when Israsrs chief
delegate TO the U. N. told the
Political Committee of the Gen
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1954-12-24

The Instructor was delighted.
With a colleague from the Haifa
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1954-12-24
OCAIA, FLORIDA
Israel Produces Uranium
BY NURA LASKY

copyright 1854 Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc0
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1954-12-24

JERUSALEM
Several weeks before Israel celebrated birthday and
medlaeY alter the blue flag over Eah
the Red Sea- geology instructor Hebrew University
asked whether he would like find out what natural r
the Negev holds The rock desert was fairly
Bedouin wild and cames
In It, but there were few roads and houses
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-21
metropolitan Scene
MetropoLiton Scene 81
Keeping Juvenile Arrest Data Secret
Sounds Like Judge CockriII's Idea
By John w. Thompson. il.

Decision Of the Juvenile
Court Advisory Committee TO
seek legislation TO compel po-
lice to keep secret all arrest
data on juveniles Is not sur
prising.
The group is appointed by
Juvenile Court Judge Edith
Cockrill and generally reflects
her thinking.
Police Chief Robert v. MUIR
rays vigorously expressed in
tention to fight any such plan
probably will be enough to de-
feat it If it reaches the Capitol.
The advisory committee ac-
ton stems from a ruling by
Corporation Counsel Vernon
West that, under the District
crime law of 1868. the police
chief has the discretion In the
matter Of closing or opening
arrest books both on adult and
juvenile cases..
Most media continue In the
case Of youthful delinquents-
as distinguished from near
adult juvenile felons-to pro-
tect their anonymity. But the
juvenile committee report of
the Council on Law Enforce
ment exposed completely the
fallacy that mere chronology
cal age determines ability to
commit a youthful peccadillo
or an adult crime. The mature
near-adult, who may be Just
under the arbitrary legal age
established by law as the point
at which the boy becomes the
man, deserves no such special
consideration or protection.
This proposition is entirely
apart from the sordid implica-
tons of secret arrest in a de-
mocracy. It is perfectly OBJ
vious why Chief Murray is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-21
Caracas Declaration Won't Touch the Reds in Latin Colonies

an anti-Britisn expression
than q pro- United States one.
Britain exercised good judy
inent In launching an investi-
CATION of Communist inflltra-
ton In British Honduras. It
had experienced q parallel sit
uation In British Guiana last
spring, when the Communist
dominated Peoples Progress
sive Party, in an election SINH
lar to the one planned In Hon
duras, won 10 of the "a legis-
latiye seats and gained sub
stantial control OF the colony's
government. Last fall Britain
charged this party was trying
to establish a Communist
state" and expelled it from the
Guiana government.
Several hundred miles out in
the Caribbean Sea are the is
lands Of Martinique and
Guadeloupe. French colonies
with more than a half million
people and almost 1000 square
miles. The Communist Parties
in both are affiliated with the
French Communist Party. pre-
sumably the source of their
indoctrination.
The Communist Party in
Martinique is the islands larg-
est political organization and
controls most of the labor
unions. Two Of Martinique's
three representatives to the
French National Assembly are
Communists.
In Guadeloupe one Of three
representatives to the French
National Assembly Is a Com
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-21
By Henry B. Lee


The anti-Communist decla-
ration Of the 10th Inter-Amer-
lean Conference at Caracas
fails to hit international COM
muniSm at its strongest bases
In this hemisphere. This new
twist Of the Monroe Doctrine
may protect the American re-
publics against communism
but cannot deal with serious
threats Of creeping Subversion
In the colonial Caribbean.
While communism threatens
only one sovereign American
republic, it menaces at least
four European colonies in Pan
America.
These European outpostS
along the strategic approaches
to the Panama Canal are
French and British territories.
But they are our headaches.
Whether these colonies are in
the purview of the Inter-
American system is debatable.
The Coroeos Decision
When the Caracas Confer
ence recently branded commu-
nism as an immediate threat
to the peace and security Of
the Americas, it resolved to
consult on collective measures
If an American state becomes
. Soviet puppet. The United
States promoted this action
because communism was sub
verting Guatemala's political
institutions.
But this declaration cannot
apply to British Honduras,
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now falling under the influence
of Communist agents operating
out Of Guatemala. Nor does
it apply to British Guiana,
which became the first Com
munist-controlled government
outside the Iron Curtain. Nor
does it apply to powerful Com
munist influence in. the French
colonies Of Martinique and
Guadeloupe.
Is communism a lesser
threat in these colonies than
in a neighboring republic? Are
they Lessor more-yulnerable
to Communist infiltration? 1t
would seem that the answers
depend on the colonial admin
istration and political develop
ment of these colonies-once
rich sources of empire profits,
but now running in the red,
financially and ideologically.
British Honduras is the best
current example of Commu-
mist strides in. the colonial
Caribbean. This Central Amer
lean colony of only $4,000 peo-
pie and 1857 square miles was
scheduled for a general cleo
ton April "a under q new con-
stitution granting loca, auton-
omy. When Britain found the
only effective political party
there, the Peoples United
Party, had been Subverted by
Communists from Guatemala,
an investigation was launched
that will perhaps result in
postponement of the election.
Several recent visitors to the
colony have observed unusual
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traf11c in and out Of Guate-
mala. In addition to the activ-
ity Of Communist agents. the
government of Guatemala is
also repeatedly involved. It
claims British Honduras is part
of It's territory and Britain
occupies it illegally.
international contocts
pup leaders are in con-
tact with communist agents In
Guatemala and are receiving
money and propaganda from
them" T. s. Steele, London
Daily Telegraph correspond
ent. reported after a recent
visit to British Honduras.
These leaders are formulating
PUP policy in Guatemala"
He added that the party was
using the colony's largest labor
union, the General Workers
Union, as a political arm.
British Honduras. like other
Caribbean colonies. has sew
eral characteristics that deter
political development. The IL
literacy rate is high. The liv-
ing standard is low. It has a
multi-racial composition: So
900 descendants Of African
slaves. 1880 American In
dians. 1.700 East Indians.
5000 Carib Indians and 1900
CaucausianS. Some of these
diverse people have expressed
an emotional brand of ma
tionalism by singing THE Star
Spangled Banner" in front the
British Government House in
the capital of Belize-more Of
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President. Vice President and
voting. representatives in the
House. Three generally SINH.
lar resolutions still are pend.
ing in the House Judiciary
Committee. The noticeable
difference between the Case
proposal and these others is
the omission Of representation
in the Senate.
Senator Case explained that
he left 1t out through fear that
a situation might develop sim
liar to that which has held up
action on the statehood pleas
Of Hawaii and Alaska. In gen.
eral this Is a problem of up
setting the political balance Of
the upper chamber. Senator
Case pointed out that the pro-
posal could be amended to
provide senatorial representa-
ton If it seemed feasible.
Detroit Court Plan
That was an interesting de-
cision of the District Bar As
ISOLATION to send three mem
bers to Detroit to examine it's
friend of the court" system of
handling domestic cases. The
association opposes the pro-
posed separate family court
here. It's interest in the De-
troit plan probably stems from
the fact that it operates with
in the framework of the court
system of that city and is not
a separate court.
&A&
All Crockpots'
Quote of the week-T-om
Virginia Assembly Delegate
Frank Moncure of Stafford:
II have said that all crack
pots who didn't go to Holly
wood or Los Angeles wind up
in Arlington and Montgomery
Counties in the Washington
area and I'll stand by that
statement. I meant nothing
personal, however. It's a mat
ter of principle"
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rnunist. The two islands are
considered integral parts Of
metropolitan France and are
thus granted representation In
the nations legislative body.
This representation does not,
however, grant them a politi-
cal voice equal to Frenchmen.
These strong forces Of In
ternational communism are
embarrassing to the United
States. In difference to its Eu-
ropean allies, it has held that
these colonies are not subject
to any action of inter-Ameri-
can conferences. The Latin
American republics have gem
orally held otherwise for many
years, asserting the European
colonial powers should get out
and grant their colonies inde-
pendence.
Study Needed
Between these two positions
there is probably a more logi-
cal course Of action. France
and Britain could be asked to
study the causes Of Commu-
mist affinity in their Caribbean
colonies and seek q cure. Both
the cause and the cure may be
found in economic and politi-
cal development.
Perhaps they should study
the colonial administration and
political development of Puerto
Rico. That Caribbean island
has advanced both politically
and economically under United
States guidance. Communist
strength there is infinitesimal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-21
NotionoI Representation

INuttOHuI representation
Let no one persuade you the
move for national representa-
ton for the District Is not still
alive.
President Eisenhower called
for it in his state-of-the- Union
message.
A nationally recognized poll
has shown wide support for it
throughout the Nation.
Senator Case. Republican, Of
South Dakota has introduced
a resolution for q constitu-
tional amendment giving Con-
gress the power to give the
District the national vote.
The constitutional amend
ment method is the only way
lawyers say it can be done.
The Case plan. now in the
hands of the Judiciary Com
mittee. covers the right of
District residents to vote for
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unwilling to accept any such
q heavy responsibility.
Meanwhile. on anoth er
front, Judge Cockrill found an
ally in DR.. Bertram Beck Of
the Federal Children's Bureau
in opposition to removing from
the Juvenile Court Judge dis
erection whether the culprit
should be tried in that or adult
court. There have been sug-
gestions that this waiver dis
erection should be vested in the
United States attorney or that
he should participate in reach
ing such decisions.
DR.. Beck told the Commits
sioners' Youth Council the
other night that, while some
social workers and Juvenile
Court judges may not con-
slider sufficiently the interests
of the community, the remedy
does not lie in changing the
function of the court. Instead
he urged holding those re-
sponsible for such failures &C
countable.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-21
Nearby Votes

Votes Of Maryland and Vir-
GINA congressman on major
roll calls during the period
March 1919:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-21
House

Motion by Jere Cooper,
Democrat, of Tennessee to
strike from omnibus tax bill
tax cuts on dividend income of
stockholders, substituting in
crease in personal income tax
exemption from $500 to $700.
Rejected, 204-210.
AGAINST: HYDE fR.. Md.b. Small (R,
Md Broyhill tR., Va. and Smith
3D., Va.
Bill revising internal reye-
nue. laws. Passed, 1890.
For: Hyde, Small and Broyhill.
Against: Smith.
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Senate
Amendment by Morse, in
dependent, of Oregon to re-
commit bill exempting from
Natural Gas Act persons
transporting or selling natural
gas consumed within the State
which receives it. Rejected,
25-52.
tR.. Md. Byrd Cd. Va.J. and Rob
ertSon 3D.. va.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-10-09
Nkrumah Explains
Gold Coast Plans

UNITED NATIONS = Prime
Minister Kwame Nkrumah recent
ly addressed the Trans-Volta Togo
land regional council at HO and
referred to the Gold Coast gov
ernment's development plans.
DR.. Nkrumah stated that the
construction of Toma Harbor,
which is destined to play an i'm
portant part in the development
of the region, was due to begin
in 1854 and would be completed
in 1858.
A second project is the Adomi
bridge over the Volta with a sim
gle span of $40 feet. Repeatedly
tenders for this particular project
are being invited from many inter
national firms.
As is generally known, the Volta
River project will dwarf all the
other, projects if it proves eco
nomically sound and technically
feasible and if satisfactory ar
engagements can be made between
the various parties concerned.
DR.. Nkrumah asserted that pro-
gress had been made on the first
development plan and the plan
would be paid for from interna-
tional resources. This was made
possible because the outside world
had paid high prices for cocoa and
the government has pursued a
CONTINUED on Page Five)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-10-09

Kinds County has been desig-
mated by the Secretary of Agri-
culture as being eligible for the
grain feed program as a result of
the recent drought.
Applications by farmers will be
made through the local Farmers
Home Administration or the Agri-
cultural Sterilization Committee
office. The County Committee of
the Farmers Home Administration
will determine eligibility.
An established farmer or stock
man whose principal occupation is
farming or ranching and whose fl
nancial condition is such that he
requires assistance under this pro-
gram - maintain his foundation
herd Of livestock and continue his
livestock operations is eligible for
assistance under the emergency
grain program. Assistance under
this program will be provided only
for the maintenance of foundation
herds Of cattle, sheep and goats.
Assistance 10 any one applicant
will be limited to that for him to
obtain a 6O-day supply of grain
for his foundation herd. Feed sup
plies of the applicant already on
hand will Be taken into considera-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-10-09
Evansville Parents
Picket School For
Admitting Negroes

Evansville, Ind - Desegregation
is having troubles in the North as
we'll as the South.
Four parents picketed in front
of a Harwood school just north
of Evansville last week protest
ing because 80 Negro pupils have
been admitted to the school.
The big difference, however, is
that school officials intend to make
the parents behave.
Prosecutor Paul Viewer said he
will write the parents of absent
students Gao per cent out of CTS
showed up last week. warning them
the students will face truancy
charges.
The grade school, operated by
Center Township, opened Sept. 7,
admitting Negroes for the first
time.
A state law, outlawing race seq
regation in schools, has been taking
ef feet gradually, progressing
through the grades, since it was
passed in 1919.
Negroes attended all city high
schools and most grade schools in
Evansville, Indiana's southern most
yards and pay dirt. Dickworth
major city.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-10-09
FIRST HEALTHY BABY CONTEST
SPONSORED BY the JACKSON
ADVOCATE AND cARNATI0N MILK
co. OFFICIALLY OPEN This Week
$500 In Cash 10 Be Awarded Winners
Babies Already Being Entered In Contest

The First Healthy Baby Contest
ever held here for Negro Babies
which is being sponsored by the
JACKSON ADVOCATE and the
CARNATION MILK COMPANY
officially opened this week.
The winners in the contest will
be awarded $500 in cash prizes.
An about effort is being made
to find the healthiest baby in the
Jackson area whose parents are
readers of The Jackson Advocate.
To the infant chosen for this
honor will go a cash prize of $500.
The second prize winner will get
500 there are four S25 prizes.
Already a number of babies have
entered the contest.
In a special announcement ap-
pesring elsewhere in this paper,
the Carnation Company of Los
Angeles, California, gives readers
full details of the First Annual
Hometown Healthy Baby Con-
test" an unusual venture that uses
a contest for the furtherance of
research on its famous brand of
evaporated milk.
Over so years ago when the Car
Continued on Page Eighty
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$50 Enrolled
At Mvc

ITTA BENA, Miss. Oct. 4 - $50
students enrolled at Mississippi
Vocational College for the 1954-55
school year, it was learned this
week in an announcement from the
office of the Registrar.
Mississippi Vocational College,
the youngest institution of higher
learning in America, seems to be
growing by leaps and bounds since
it's founding in 1850. The enroll
ment has steadily jumped with
opening of each new school year.
A factor of utmost significance
was the increased enrolment of
the Department of Trades and In
dustries. This year the Depart
ment added to its course offering
four year degree granting pro-
gram in Technical Education with
majors in Printing, Auto Mechanic,
Cabinet Making and Building Con-
Continued On Page Three
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Jackson, Miss, Oct. 6.-DSN)
Equalization of schools for all
the children of the state in accord
ance with the law passed by the
first extra session of the State
Legislature called to consider the
education problems of the state,
and in general the principal urged
by Governor Hugh White, is still
seen as a major objective of state
lawmakers despite the passage of
the amendment calling for the
abolition of the states public
school system by the recent extra
session of the state legislature.
Evidence in support of this fact
may be seen in a concurrent reso-
luton adopted during the closing
days of the extra session, which
was sponsored by group of the
most influential members of the
body and of the state calling for
the adoption of a school support
and building program following
the adoption of the amendment.
The amendment which cannot
be- - low until it has been adopt-
ed by the people of the state will
- go; d special, Deem
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