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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-14

Eleven per cent of all traffic
accidents. everywhere in the
United States. involve drivers
who have left their own states.
In some regions the ratio is much
higher. Last year in New Jersey
POS per cent of all fatal automo-
bile accidents involved out-of-
state drivers. In Connecticut it
was 18 per cent.
Your state may have the best
traffic laws in the world; yet this
will mean little if your roads are
cluttered with incompetent driv-
ers from other states.
That is why say safety legis-
lation must be national in scope.
The effectiveness of the two
point legislative program the
Conference would do well to
demand compulsory inspec-
ton of motor vehicles and the
intelligent issuance of licenses
is assured by the teachings Of
experience.
Such a program has drastically
reduced the death rate and the
accident rate in at least one case
where it has been put into effect,
Inside Story
As A director of Markell Service.
Inc. / know the inside story of
this decrease in accidents.
For Is years Markell Service
has studied and enforced high
safety standards on all the IS. 600
trucks insured by the American
Fidelity and Casualty Company,
1t has operated under the precise
action program | commend to
the attention of the National
Highway Safety Conference. 1t
has insisted that all its insured
vehicles be periodically inspected
for mechanical defects; it has
also insisted on maintaining high
standards for drivers - and this
includes. as far as habitual
speeders go. the revocation Of
the right to drive.
The result? Year after year. in
the case of thousands of insured
vehicles we watch, the accident
frequency rate has been cm 10 less
than half Of the national rate.
There is no reason why similar
results cannot be achieved on a
nationwide scale by rigidly apply
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-14
HOW TO CUT THE TRAFFIC DEATH TOLL
Continued from page Seren

ing the same safety standards to
all American cars and drivers.
Considering the fact that every
sane citizen wants to reduce the
number of traffic deaths, it is
incredible that only ID states
now insist on the inspection of
motor vehicles for mechanical
defects. What can possibly be
wrong with requiring cars to
have such things as good brakes.
good lights, strong kingpins on
steering wheels?
0ne-thixd Gut
MIR. ELLIOTT DANIELS. Chief of
the Inspecting Bureau of the
State OF New Jersey. reports that
in 1887. before his state began
inspecting cars. its automobile
death total was 1878. The fOllow-
ing year. with compulsory fasbec-
tiOu in force for The FIRST time. the
number OF such deaths wGs reduced
TO sos a cut of approximately
one third. And ever since, MIR.
Daniels adds. New Jerseys fatal
ity trend has been downward. He
calls compulsory car inspection
"a primary safeguard against
automobile accidents.
Massachusetts, tried inspection
on a voluntary basis in 1926.
found it so effective that in 1929
laws were passed to make it
mandatory. Since then the state
has never relaxed the regulation.
The only change it made - in
1885 = was to insist on tmo
inspections a year instead of one.
And Massachusetts, has one OF
the best safety records in the
country.
Inspection Did IL
PENNSYLVANIA has kept its sta
tistics on a percentage basis. In
1882. when it first began COM
pulsory inspection of cars. II per
cent of all fatal accidents could
be traced to mechanical defects.
But by 1852 this fatality figure
had been cut to l.8 per cent!
This was accomplished by rigid
inspection.
Finally. my own state of Vir-
GINA had 698 automobile deaths
in 1881. We had no Car inspection
Continued on page 80
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-04
Crew Praised for Landing
81 Persons With No Fatalities

Georgette Faucon, SO, employee
of the international Monetary
Fund.
She was returning to Wash
ington, D. c.. after, visiting her
family in France.
(Mrs. Faucon lives at 7l07
Clarendon road. Bethesda, Md
She said she started toward
an exit as the plane jolted to a
halt and burst into flames. She
stopped to help q mother free
a child from a seat. Mrs.
Faucon suffered slight burns.
Gasoline Was Running Low.
Co-pilot Jean Rousseau said
last night that gasoline was
running low, land the forced
landing was the only thing to do
to avoid a major catastrophe"
I'VE just didn't realize the
terrain below was as rough as
it turned out to be- he said.
An Air Force representative,
Frank j. Foley, said here last
night that the airline would is
sue a statement in New York
today concerning the crash.
The four-engine airliner, en-
route from Paris to Mexico City,
had a scheduled stop at Idlewild
Airport in New York City. The
pilot, Capt. Jean Caboche, 43.
missed an approach at Idlewild
in bad weather and decided on
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-04
BY the Associated Press

NORWICH, Conn, Aug. A.
"A Civil Aeronautics Board official
has recorded IAN excellent job"
for the Air France crew which
brought down an airliner to a
fiery crash landing in a potato
field-WithOut death to any of
the 81 persons aboard.
Joseph o. Fluet, chief regional
safety investigator for the CAB,
talked with members of the crew
last night.
He declined to say what might
have caused the crash of the
transatlantic Constellation, but
told newsmen:
Under the circumstances the
crew did an excellent job in
getting the plane down without
fatalities"
Two other CAB investigators
accompanied Mr.. Fluet and
State officials also were on hand.
Eight Hospitalized.
Six passengers and two crew.
men were hospitalized after the
plane, bucking rain and a low
ceiling, plowed into the field
and burst into flames yesterday
at nearby Preston, Conn. One
OF the passengers was in critical
condition today.
There must have been some
thing greater than human
watching over u.s." said Mrs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-04

an emergency landing at Pres
ton, 100 miles away.
The Civil Aeronautics Admin
istration's regional Office in New
York said the plane could have
landed at Idlewild. The CAA
said it was raining hard there
but conditions were far above
minimums for safety. Records
showed planes landed at Idlewild
before and after Capt. Caboche
missed his approach.
Pilots Hip Broken.
Capt. Caboche suffered null
tiple fractures Of. the left leg
and a broken hip in the crash.
Twelve persons in all among
the 90 passengers and 8 crew
members were listed as injured,
some of them only specifically
The three children on the plane
aged 4 weeks, 2 years and 8
years escaped injury.
AS the plane came down, 1t
skidded half a mile, then rose
in the air again. It shsared of
the tops of a row of trees,
smashed again to the ground
and slammed through the yard
of Valentine Sebastian. missing
by so feet the porch where one
of his small twin sons was play
ing.
Hurting on, the plane
crashed through a small out
building, demolishing an auto
mobile, and came to a halt with
/ flames shooting from a wing
The .dazed passengers scram-
bled out to the field before the
flames reached them. There
was no panic. The plane burned
two hours and was destroyed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-04
JET Fighter Crashes
In Street, Kills Pilot
And Scorches Homes
By the Associoted Press

- -
VANTAGE, N. Y. Aug. a.
An Air Force jet fighter streaked
to earth and exploded yesterday
in the middle of a residential
street, killing the pilot.
Capt. William Weiland, "a, APP
parently spent the last seconds
of his life in a successful effort
to crash his plane in the street,
sparing homes that lay ahead of
him.
Even so, the explosion set fire
to one house and destroyed it,
damaged a score of other homes
and injured five persons, one
Of them critically.
Eyewitnesses said Capt. Wei
land at first appeared headed
out to sea, but he lost too much
altitude to make it. They said
he then seemed to aim deliber-
ately for the street, avoiding
a crash landing that would have
plowed through several houses.
There was no indication what
caused the plane to crash. Capt.
Weiland had been in four-plane
training flight from Dover, Del.
to Bangor, Me. The other three
pilots. flying above cloud bank
at $4,000 feet, said they did not
realize he had dropped from the
formation until he failed to check
in by radio,
Lived in Delaware.
The Air Force said Can't
We1land lived at Milford, Del.
with his wife and 8-year-old
child. His hometown was Peru,
Ill.
The jet plane crash rocked
the entire neighborhood and
sprayed shrapnel-like metal for
half a mile in all directions. It
left a 15-foot hole in the middle
OF Denver street and the homes
that lined the street were
charred and torn by the fire and
force of the explosion.
An automobile parked in the
street was f1attened but a little
boy playing near the crash was
~un1njured. His two sisters, fur
ther away, were burned, but not
severely.
The disaster brought the
neighborhood close to hysteria,
one resident reported. However.
flremen trained for emergencies,
took charge and soon had people
wetting down their smouldering
homes with gardeni hose to help
firemen keep them from burst
Ing into flames.
Wantagh Deputy Fire Chief
James Scolley said it looked to
him at first as if the entire area
would go up in a blaze.
Wreckage Studied.
The Air Force sent investiga-
tors to Wantagh. a community
on the south shore of Long Is
land about SO miles from the
heart of New York City. to study
the wreckage in efforts to find
out why, the plane crashed.
There were conflicting re-
ports from eyeWitnesSes who
watched and heard the plane as
it streaked from the sky. Some
heard only the big explosion as
it hit the ground. Others said
there were two earlier explosion.
Most severely burned was
Frank Snyder, A. who was in
his yard with his 7-year-old
daughter Geraldine and tried to
shield her from the soaring heat.
He, was taken to Meadowbrook
Hospital with third degree
burns and decorations. Geraldine
suffered minor burns.
The two sisters burned were
Patricia Loester, 6. and Peggy
Loester. S. Their 3-year-old
brother Tommy was playing
even closer to the crash but was
not hurt.
Also injured was John Fister.
a plumbers helper, whose leg
was broken.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-04
He's No Huckster

WINSTED, Conn. R.-The
owner. not a real estate dealer,
placed this advertisement in the
Winsted Citizen: House for
sale: Dilapidated. Roof needs
shingling. One bath, needs wash
bowl. Grounds need grooming.
Retaining walls crumbling. No
reasonable offer refused"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-04
Wutch Thut Aftermath!

WILLIMANTIC. Conn. (R.-
Charles J. Insalaco. %. was I'M
hurt when his car skidded on a
curve, overturned and then slid
along on its side before coming
to a halt. AS he climbed from
the wreck he fell and sprained
his wrist.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-04
More Chemistry Phi. DIS

BOSTON. - American univer-
sites awarded only 54 doctors
degrees in chemistry in 1919.
Now awards of such degrees
number more than 600 a year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-04

boxer sIocks in 7 colors, cord
uroy, some cotton flonnelette
trimmed. Elastic all around
waist. Navy, red, brown, teal,
green, maroon and gold colors.
Sizes 2, 4, s and s.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-04
sIip.oyer shirt

Cotton knit shirt, slip over
style, tobbed shoulders. Bounds
neckline. Sizes : to 8.
2 for 100
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-04

Cotton briefs, elastic waist,
sizes 2 to 8. mot shown).
3 for 100
Cotton Ponties, double thick
ness, sizes 4 to 8 4 for 100
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1954-05-21
&c. NollarcEls vs..
Clowns Offers
Baseball N0veIiV

BaseDalfs greatest show as well
as finest playing talent will be
unveiled when the nationally
famous Indianapolis Clowns take
on the 1858 Negro American
League champs. Kansas City
Monarchs in regularly slated
NAL game at Travellers Field in
Little Rock on Monday night
starting at 8;l5
Revealing the greatest comedy
show in the history of baseball,
and before game-time diamond
fun-show will feature the great
Ed Hamman, as well as the age.
less King Tut and his cool"
sidekick, Spec Bebop. Appearing
in some of the finest ball parks
In t.e country. this show has
been readily accepted by fans
and promoters alike.
Offering some of the finest
playing talent in colored baseball
history, both the Kansas City
Monarchs and the Indianapolis
Clowns are loaded so to speak.
For novelty, both the .Monarchs
and Clowns star several female
ball players! Good ones too!
The Monarchs feature Mis- Toni
Stone, last season with the
Clowns, at second base.
The Clowns, battling desperate
ly to recapture the NAL bunt.
ing from the MonarchS. boost
Of female second sacker Miss
Connie Morgan from Philadelphia
Pa, and pitcher Miss Mamie
johnson, who halls from Wash
ington, d, c. These gals, from
the so-called weaker Sex, possess
extraordinary talent. They give
no quarter and ask nonel
The female innovation of SO
was little short of melo-dramatic
This season Miss Connie Nor
gan of Philadelphia, is grazing
the Clowns defensive position at
second base, In addition a second
girl star has been signed in the
person of Miss Mamie pea
nut Johnson of Washington, d.
C., whose speciality is pitching,
and who has earned her way to
a regular starting berth among
the Clowns pitching staff.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1954-05-21
Former Residents
Off To Europe

Mr.. and Mrs. Jewel M. Conner,
former resident of this city, who
now reside in New York City,
left International airport Satur-
day, for an extended tour of
Europe.
MIR. Conner is a graduate of Dun
bar high school, class of 33 and
is presently a businessman in
New York. He is the son of the
late Dave Conner and Mrs. o,
B. Conner, 1901 South Cedar
street.
The itenerary includes Paris,
Berlin, Rome, Madrid. Geneva, the
Rivera, and back to London, Eng
land from which the couple will
return to America via ocean liner
A host of friends were at the
airport to wish them a pleasant
bon voyage. Among them were
MIR. and Mrs. Philander Tillar; Mr.,
and Mrs. C. J. Watkins, and DR.
Theodus K. Conner, Washington
D. c., formerly of this city, and a
graduate of old Gibbs high school,
class '25. DIR. Conner is a brother
of Jewel Conner
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1954-05-21
Audience Defies
Legion to Cheer
Robson at Chi j.

Saturday night, May 9Th, The
student body of the University oil
Chicago iammed Mandel hall OF
the campus for a concert by the
world artist Paul Robe
son and his noted aecompanist
Alan Booth. A Runaway crowd
of another thousand stayed long
enough to give evidence OF their
enthusiasm for the beloved Negro
artist before the concert began.
The Planning committee for the
cultural salute TO Paul Robson
to be held the evening of May
26th at the Renaissance casino
New York considers the events
surrounding the Chicago concert
part of significant tread
throughout the nation A spokes-
man for the committee express ID
the opinion that if this trend con
tinues growing in the next lew
months it will force the state de
partment to reverse its decision
to revoke Paul Robeson's pass
port.
The size of the Chicago crowd
was evidence that the campaign
of intimidation begun weeks be-
fore the affair had not had its
desired effect.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1954-05-21
Dixie Congressman
Says Ray Robinson
Case Has Smell

Washington, d. C.-(CNS -
Louisiana's Representative F. Ed
ward Hebert, said this week that
he thinks that Sugar Ray Robin
sons case still Smells since Ray
got an honorable discharge after
going AWOL in World War II.
As a member OF the House
Armed Services subcommittee
which is investigating alledged
Army "coddling" of CT athletes,
Hebert claims that Robinson's
case would smell worse if all the
facts were aired,
1t was this Subcommittee that
developed testimony last week
that the former middleweight
champion failed to report aboard
ship for an overseas tour with the
Joe Louis boxing troupe. Ray
however, has denied he ever
Jumped ship
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1954-05-21

Homemade cookies such faVorite house that
seems they disappear almost fast as have them
baked That's why I'm so pleased with my ret
Evaporaed Milk recipe for coconu macaroons they take
almost and bake OF course they go last too
because everyone loves those thin, crisp ght-asar little
cookies My family likes my Pet Milk coeonut macaroons
any other kind and I'm glad they do because
these macaroons usually rich in milk In fact the half
cup Evaporated Milk you to make three dozen
macaroons equal full cup of rich whole milk and
that's very pleasant way give your family more of mks
important noushment! If you've tried coconut maea
made this way know you'll be more than pleased
with the results and guarantee you'll have rich golden
brown macaroons every time with this falproof recipe!
Recipe for Coconut Maearoons
/ cup sifted al-purpose flour
l cup sugar
IL cup Pet Evaporated Milk
teaspoon vanilla
cups seedess raisins
cups dry shredded 6 Oh
Turn and set at 375 high moderate) St flour
and sugar together into bowl Stir in gradually
of the milk and vanilla Mix the raisinS Drop
by teaspoons inches apart well creased cooky pan
Bake rack of 10 minutes until light
Makes 3 dozens.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1954-05-21
Father
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Continued from page one
last rites.
Members of the Interdenomina-
tional Ministers alliance served as
pail bearers.
Father Walker leaves to mourn
his passing his widow, Mrs. L.
M. Walker, executive director of
the Phyllis Wheatley YWCA; two
sons, w. Jack Walker, New York
publicity director, Beverly Walk
err, Detroit electrical engineer;
two daughters, Mrs, Rosemary
Walker White. educational instruc-
tor, and DIR. Anne Walker Car
pentier, pharmacist The tive
daughters are residents of Little
Rock, and were with their faith
er when he passed.
Interment was in Haven Res
cemetery, with Miller and com
pany in charge.
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18th St, Pine Bluff, Defer
son, Dallas Grant, Arkansas,
Calhoun, Cleveland and Lin
coln)
III Mrs. Katie Bronson, Box III,
Augusta, (Woodruff. Jackson,
White, Cross, Prairie and In
dependent countless
" Mrs. F. M. Hawthorne, 90l
Texas St, FL Dorado, (Howard,
Pike, Sewer, Miller, Hemp
stead, Little River, Union, Ne
vada, Lafayette, Columbia and
Ouchita countless
V Miss Muriel Ware, 1926 N,
u St, TT. Smith, Sebastian,
Crawford, Logan, Franklin
Scott, Montgomery and Pope
VI Mrs. Ella Mae McGhee, Rte.
/, Box 1870, Cotton Plant
(St. Francis, Lee, Phillip and
Monroe counties)
VII Mrs. Ovesta HinkIe 20l0 Pine
St, Arkadelphia, Garland, Hot
Springs, and Clark countless
VIII w. P. Wright, ITO Hyatt St.
Monticello. Bradley, Desha
Drew, Chicot and Ashley
counties)
TX Mrs. V. B. Keith. Box 635
Blytheville, (Craighead, Mis-
sissippi, Poinsett and Critten,
den counties)
Mrs. D. M. Anderson state chair
man
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Court
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nations Negroes. Officials Of
some states already are on rec
ord as saying they will close the
schools rather than permit them
TO be operated with Negro and
white pupils in the same class
rooms.
In its decision, the high Court
struck down the long standing
separate but equal doctrine
first laid down by the Supreme
Court in 1896 when it maintained
that segregation was all right If
equal facilities were made avail
able for Negroes and whites.
Here is the heart of today's de-
cision as it deals with this hotly
controverted doctrine:
I'VE come then to the question
presented; Does segregation of
children in public schools solely
on the bases of race, even though
the physical facilities and other
tangible factors may be equal,
deprive the children of the minor
ity group of equal education OPP
portunities.
1--WE believe that it does"
Virgil Blossom, superintendent
Of the Little Rock schools, said
that the Court ruling came as no
surprise to the Little Rock school
district,
North Little Rock school Off
cisss expressed no great surprise
or alarm at the decision, but they
said they could see no advantage
TO Negro students if segregation
is abolished in that city.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1954-05-21
Only Slave Born
Negro in US Able
To Earn A Livinq

The only slave-born Negro +
the United States who is still a
BILE to earn a living is Dougla
Miller, a 93-year-old private mes r.
enger to the Governor Of Iowa
Miller is now serving as mess
enger for Governor William 6
Beardsley as he has for several
Of his predecessors.
Born on a plantation in Mont
gomery County, Missouri, in 1861,
he was brought north by his
mother after the Civil War. At
the age of 10, he became a head
waiter, serving in several Des
Moines hotels. There he got to
know all the important politi-
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1954-05-21
Message From The
ACPT President

Our activities for this current
school-year are fast coming to a
close, it is heart warming to follow
activities and achievement for
child welfare. The needs of child
rem and youth will be satisfactorily
met, if we as parent-teacher mem
bers provide opportunities and
create conditions for such develop
ment in home, school, church and
community.
l. Home-love, child guidance
and understanding to give prac-
tice in the democratic way Of
life.
2. School-cooperation in education
al planning for equal educa-
tional opportunities.
8. Church-participation in reli-
gious activities, recognition OF
of great spiritual truths.
4. Community practice in demo-
cratic processes, cooperation
with child welfare groups.
New presidents will please send
to the state chairman or the
district chairman your name, add
resS and school represented.
District Chairman Are
DISTRICT
/. Mrs. v. v. Waugh, 9l5 Car
son St, Little Rock, pulaski
Conway, Faulkner, and Lon
oke counties)
| II Mrs w. L. Daniels, SOC Eas
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1954-05-21

HOLLER GIRL-Conn. Morgan,
newest discovery of the India
napolis Clowns, three-time champ
ions of the Negro American
League, will be seen in action on
Monday night, when the fun
makers face the mighty Kansas
City Monarchs ball club in a
8:15 official Negro League game
at Travellers Field.
Miss Morgan replaces Toni
Stone as the female representa-
tive on the acknowledgement
diamond aggregation, and has
been holding her own among
the tough competition which the
Funmakers has faced this season
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1954-05-21
Funeral Rites For
Luther Vault

The funeral of the late Luther
Vault was held May u, $3.50 p. m.
at the Payne Chapel AME Zion
church, 1872 Rock street. Rev. A.
w. Kicks, pastor of st. Paul AM
E Zion church, delivered the
eulogy, assisted by Rev J. A. Lee,
Payne Chapel AME Zion church,
and Rev. Wilson Fellows, Jacob
Memorial AME Zion church. The
body was laid to rest in the Oak
lawn cemetery. with the Dubis
son company in charge. Due to
the shock in his passing, his wife,
Mrs. Matte Vault, did not attend
the funeral, but a host of rela-
tives and friends were present
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1954-05-21
Co'ored Method
Votes TO Dro,
Race D,stiNcIIo,

Last week during tss
quadrennial session Of =,
ed Methods E iseora.
meetirt in Memphis h
voted after II ye-rs Ia
the name of#the deaor,
body from Colored Il
Episcopal church to q
Methodist Episcopal ghpy.
vote came after a long an.
tional debate, and va
four to one.
The resolution was I'M,
by DIR. Charming H Tobis!
York. Bishop A W Won
indianapolis, presided
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1954-05-21

Saqe Eight
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1954-05-21
Grocer Wins
Home Freezer

Mrs Minnie b Pendergrass,
owner Of the Green Front gro
Gerry store, 8I8 State street, was
the lucky winner of a McCray
twenty cubit feet home freezer
valued at $500, in the celebration
Of the ta1irtieth anniversary of
the Jennings fixture company, Inc.