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Montgomery County sentinel., 1954-07-08

Mr.. and Mrs. .Alva Freeman
and their small daughter, Chris,
of Ardennes Avenue, have well
coined a new arrival, little Doug
las Gaylord, who was born on
June II.
The ladies of the Homemaker
Club III are still washing the
thrill of seeing South Pacific"
out of their hair. Three carloads
from this group thoroughly en-
loved their recent night on the
town.
Mrs. James Adair and Mrs.
Richard Everhart entertained re-
Gently at a garden party at the
latter's home for the Alpha
Alpha Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi
Montgomery County sentinel., 1954-07-08

A round of applause, please, for
the enthusiastic workers who
have taken part in helping to de-
velop the new recreation area be-
Montgomery County sentinel., 1954-07-08
Sandy Spring Neighborhood
Mrs. Allan Brooke Fulton 8-4I57
Mrs. Allan Brooke

Mr.. and Mrs. Warren S. Rich
Rrdson have a little girl, born
June 81 at Montgomery County
General Hospital. She has been
named Lorinda. Mrs. Richardson
is co-leader of Girl Scout Troop
BIG.
Also proud parents of a first
child are Second 1t. and Mrs.
Thomas Lee Read. Their daugh-
ter was born in Newfoundland,
July a, where 1t. Read, u. S. A.
Engineer Corps, is attached to an
Air Force Unit. Mrs. Read is the
former Anne Peasants Dosher of
Wilmington, N. c.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1954-07-08
Mrs. Donald H. Mellon

On June 81, after viewing the
scale model painstakingly con-
structed by Lawrence Barnes,
with the assistance of Thomas
Rathbone and David Trimble, the
proposed Identification of Twin
brook School grounds was unani
mously accepted by the Twin
brook Citizens Association. The
Identification committee, which
is now working out a plan to COM
plete the paintings by November
of this year, has announced that
33 of the A trees in the master
plan have already been pledged
by individuals. Anyone interest
ed in donating a tree or shrub
may call c. ]. Wilson, Poplar
PAIL.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1954-07-08

Rehoboth Beach, Del, is, as
usual, a popular vacation spot.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley Moore and
their two sons, Chester and John,
have just had two-week vaca-
ton there. Mr.. and Mrs. Mark
Wilson. their daughters, Nancy,
Sandra and Phyllis, will leave to-
day; Thursday, for Rehoboth, as
will Mr.. and Mrs. Carroll Trexler
and two of their children, Joan
and Barry. Margaret, the baby,
will stay with her grandparents,
Mrs. and Mrs. Leon Small while
the rest of the family is at the
beach.
MIR. and Mrs. Francis Mills
have also chosen Rehoboth as
their vacation spot and will go up
about the 18th. Mr.. and Mrs. Mil
Ter entertained on Saturday at a
delightful party at Wanstead.
About 200 guests were invited,
some from to 6 and others from
6 to 8. The party over-flowed
from the house to the garden
with punch bowls placed both in
doors and out. Those serving
were Mrs. Sam Rice, Mrs. Norris
Fussell, Mrs. Robert Kemp, Mrs.
Raymond Havens, Miss Estelle
Moore, Mrs. Frederic l.. Thomas,
Mrs. Clarke Slade and Mrs. Wal
ter Wilson. Also, Mrs. Thomas
Ladson, Sr., Mrs. A. d. Farquhar,
Mrs. Rust Candy, Mrs. Thomas
Hyde w, Mrs. j. w. Bird, Mrs.
Francis Thomas, Mrs. Iris Beall,
and Mrs. Richard Janney. Also
assisting were Mrs. Henry Dec.
Adams and Mrs. ellison Chaplin.
Mrs. Maurine Stabler is spend.
ing two weeks in southern Mary.
land at the Ladson cottage which
she has rented. Accompanying
Mrs. Stabler are her daughter,
Mrs. Ben Richmond, and her chill.
dren.
Another vacationer is Miss Dor.
othy Wetherald, who for the
Montgomery County sentinel., 1954-07-08

After an overwhelming regis
tration of 300 children, the Twin
brook playground was forced to
order additional supplies and re-
cruit two more counselorS. Mrs.
June Hall, of Midday Avenue, will
lend her creative talent to the
morning sessions and Fred Sacco,
Gaithersburg High School physi-
cal education teacher, will work
with our own Al Richardson on
the sports program. The first
weeks activities climaxed with a
treasure hunt won by a team cap
tained by Mickey 500. Weekly
movies are shown on Thursdays.
A story hour with Mrs. Rose
Miller of the Rockville Library is
planned for July 13. The coun-
selors urge you to remind your
children not to miss Friday morn
ing track practice, the photog-
raphy class, dramatics with Mrs.
Denice Mason and the car model
ing class.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1954-07-08

A group of parents interested
in the recreation area in North
Twinbrook held an old-fashioned
clearing party recently. One
hard-working group of men COM
pleted a jungle gym, a slide, a
sandpile and two junior-size pic
mic tables. Another group clear
ed brush from the area and
erected a fence, for which money
had been provided by the city.
Food was furnished by grateful
mothers and cold drinks were
donated from the treasury of
Homemaker Club II.
Homemaker Club 1 was honor
ed by being invited to repeat its
clever skit, Romance of Hat, "
for the young in Heart Club"
picnic held in Gaithersburg on
June %.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1954-07-08

A summer art class open to
school age children is being spon-
sored by the Library association.
The class, which will be held
Thursdays at 10:30 am. at the Ii
brary beginning today, and con-
tinuing through August, will be
taught by Mrs. Joe Wilson,. There
will be a charge of 25 cents a
lesson.
The Library association, aware
of a keen enthusiasm among par
ents and children in such a class,
is very fortunate in having Mrs.
Wilson as instructor. General pur-
poses of the class are to stimu-
late interest in art and to have
fun with paints. 1t is not neces-
sary for students to enroll for
every class, but it is hoped that
the attendance will be regular.
Mrs. and Mrs. Ronald van "A.
Mills have returned to their home
in Ponca City, Oklahoma, after a
visit of several weeks with Mrs.
Mills brother-in-law and sister,
Mr.. and Mrs. R. Bentley Thomas.
They We're joined here by their
son and daughter-in-law, Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Mills of Tulsa, Okla.
The younger Mills with two of
their children, Micky and Merrily,
fiews East for a trip to New York
City and spent two days here at
The Cedars with Mr.. Mills uncle
and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. A. Doug
las Farquhar. The visitors all re-
turned to Oklahoma by American
Air Lines-with Fred Mills pas
senger this time, instead of cap
tain-pilot, which is his usual po-
sition on that run.
Mr.. and Mrs. Brook Moore are
also at home again after attend
ing the Friends General Confer
ence in Cape May, N. ]. They
were accompanied by their chill
dren, Florence and Lewis, and
also by Peggy and Betty Grey,
daughters of DR.. and Mrs.
Charles Grey.
Jackson advocate., 1954-02-06

Campbell College
TO Hold Gath
Founders Day
Celebration
Bishop H. T. Primm
To Lead Pilgrimage
Of Devotion

Campbell College celebrates it's
64th Founders Day, February IA
18, during which the college will
be the center of series of pro-
grams relating the 60 years history
{ the Eighth Episcopal District,
NJ the 64-years history of the
@ssge in the field of education.
The general theme upon which
al programs are being planned is
"A Pilgrimage of Devotion. In His
Footsteps"
Under the efficient leadership of
Bishop H. Thomas Primm, presid-
ing Bishop of the Eighth Episcopal
District Louisiana and Mississip-
pi) of the African Methodist Epis-
copal Church. This occasion is ex-
pected to be one of the richest
celebrations in the history of the
institution.
Sunday afternoon February IA,
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Sound Farming Practices On 63 Acres
Bring Ky. co|ored Farmer Good Living

Although the trend is toward
large mechanized farms, Joe w.
Carter, 63-acre colored farmer
of Lexington, KY, is proving that
farmers can make good living on
limited acreage, says Kentucky Ex-
tension Specialist John H. Finch
in report to the U. 8. Department
of Agriculture.
ut isn't the amount of land. /"
he quotes Mr.. Carter as saying,
"it's the yield per acre." Before he
started building up the fertility of
his land, the Kentucky farmer used
to plant 20 acres Of corn in order
to harvest 240 bushels.
Today, by seeding winter cover
crops, such as vetch and barley,
and turning these under in the
spring. and applying the proper
quantity of the right composition
Of fertilizer, he produces as much
corn on three. acres AZ he used
to get off 20. "And think Of the
II acres I don't have to plow and
chop Mr.. Carter points out.
He has had similar success in
upping his tobacco yield and his
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Cafe Owner Here With
$4,000 In Home
Arrested For Buying
Stolen Cigarettes

A Negro cafe owner here with
$4,000 hidden in his home, was
arrested Wednesday night for buy
ing stolen cigarettes. The man is
William Thomas of ia Gum st.,
who operates a cafe at the corner
of Juliene and Galiatin Streets in
South Jackson.
According to reports local police
officers discovered the money after
they had obtained a warrant and
were searching the home OF the
man for stolen cigarettes which ne
had been suspected of buying from
a group of boys and young men
who were already in the custody
of police.
The money, hidden in a potato
sack, included a stack of 81 bills,
old gold coins, and numerous old
American and Canadian coins,
which Thomas said he had been
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Jackson advocate., 1954-02-06
Arkansas Baptist
Coed Dies From
Pistol Wound

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-(Special)
Mystery surrounded the fatal
shooting of 20-year- coed at
Arkansas Baptist College, who died
at hospital here after she was
found lying on a street.
Dead is Miss Dorothy Mae Nc
Gee Of Cotton Plant who died of
a pistol wound in her abdomen at
University Hospital.
Police said an elderly couple
called them to the scene of the
shooting. The couple, police said,
was told by an unidentified man
that a girl needed help on the
street corner. The informer dis
appeared.
Detectives questioned several
acquaintances of Miss McGee, but
were unable to find a possible
motive or clue to the shooting.
Detectives said the victim prob
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Jackson advocate., 1954-02-06
Hancock SoIon
Ask Repeal Of
Poll Tax

Feb. /, - Mississippi's annual
81 poll tax, required for voting,
would be repealed under a bill
prepared by Rep. Walter Phillips
of Hancock County.
The measure, a constitutional
amendment, would submit the pro-
posal to the people in a general
election for ratification.
The So tax is fixed by the con-
stitution but counties may charge
up to So, with the revenue going
to schools.
Stating he felt the poll tax has
"outlived the purpose for which
it was primarily designed" Phil
lips said he thought Democracy "is
served best when the maximum
number of people vote"
Jackson advocate., 1954-02-06
UnWed Pair Found
Dead In Room

Los Angeles, CAL, Feb. 1.-(Spe-
ciaD-A man and woman who had
rented a room together, without
benefit Of matrimony, barely got
to rest their things last week be-
fore death from carbon monoxide
overlook them, the coroner dis
closed today.
Fully clothed Lee Eta Spon, 35-
year-old domestic, and Oliver Luck
ett, 80, were found dead in the
room last Friday.
Death must have overtaken the
pair almost Immediately, authori-
ties stated, since Luckett had only
gotten to remove his shoes. He
was found on the floor; the woman
was lying on the bed.
On the dresser, unopened, were
two small packages of chill.
The death instrument, a small
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Jackson advocate., 1954-02-06
SET DATE FOR END OF
SEGREGATION military POSTS

) WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-(Spe-
cial)-Army, Navy and Air Force
officials took steps Monday to back
up Defense Secretary Charles E.
Wilson's order to end segregation
in all military post schools by
Sept. 1, 1866.
Conferences were in progress
among officials of the three SER
vices and the Defense Department
on ways to merge separate schools
for Negro and white children with
the least possible turmoil.
Schools on a number of South
ern and BORDER state" posts are
now run on segregated basis by
state or local school boards. If
these boards are unable to run nom
segregated schools, the u. s. of
flee of education has agreed to
run them itself without racial sep
aration.
However, some officials think
some state or local agencies will
agree to run the schools without
segregation = perhaps AS agents"
for the federal government-rath-
er than lose the federal funds they
now collect for the post schools.
Wilson's order, dated Jan. IL
but kept under wraps by defense
officials, forbids establishment Of
any new segregation schools on
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Jackson advocate., 1954-02-06
Wife Who Wanted
Husband To Go
Home Killed
Staying Is First
For 1854 Here

A wife who wanted her husband
to go home after he had spent
several hours talking and playing
records at the home of some
friends, was shot and killed here
Sunday morning. The Staying,
which took place at PAP Cohea St.,
was the first for the year 1854
here.
The victim of the Staying was
Mrs. Sarah Devine of 237 East
Fertilization St.
According to reports, Mr. De-
vine went to the residence at 242
Cohea St. at about 10 o'clock in
the morning and started begging
him to come with her and go home.
After some argument he started
out with her but at the door they
started struggling, when the hus-
band, Cleave Devine, pulled q pis-
tol from his pocket and shot his
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Jackson advocate., 1954-02-06
General Warns
Against Surrender
To Mccarthy

WASHINGTON, Jan. 81 - In
obvious reference to Sen. Joseph
Mccarthy (R., Wisc.), General Tel
ford Taylor warned delegates at
tending the NAACP-sponsored Ma
tional Youth Legislative Confer
ence against being stampeded by a
particularly strident senatorial
voice" which "has been demanding
not only a worldwide embargo on
all trade with Communist coun-
tries, but also that we cut off all
American aid to countries, that
continue to trade with Red China"
The issues involved in trade with
iron curtain countries are complex,
General Taylor indicated. However,
they call for the exercise of COM
mon sense rather than surrender
to fear. The principal argument
against trade with Communist
China, he pointed out, is that that
country continues to hold some
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Jackson advocate., 1954-02-06
Negro Economist For Pet Milk Co,
Gives Dem. AT AIcorn College

ALCORN, Miss. Feb. 1 (Spec-
ial) - Mrs. Louise Protho, home
economist for the Pet Milk Com
pany, and one of the first Negroes
to be employed as a home ecen-
omist by big businesses, gave a
demonstration to home ecenom-
les teachers, students, and home
makers using both nonfat and Pet
evaporated milk, Friday, January
Is, in the home economics labora-
tory of Alcorn College.
Receiving her training in home
economics at birmingham Teachers
College, Massachusetts, and Teach
ers College, Columbia University,
New York, Mrs. Prothro has held
Jackson advocate., 1954-02-06
DUDLEY CHALLENGES YOUTH TO
CONTINUE EFFORT UNTIL LAST
vESTIcE RACIAL Discrimination
AND SEGREGATION IS REMOVED
FROM AMERICAN LIFE
Youth Hear Leaders Discuss Domestic
And International Problems
Young Men And Women Of Both Races
From Nineteen States Attend Meeting

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.-The
National Youth Legislative Con-
ference, sponsored by the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People, was today fe-
dictated by Vice President Richard
Nixon at the closing session of the
four-day meeting. The conference,
directed by Herbert Wright, NAA
CP youth secretary, was devoted
to discussion, study and evalua-
tion of current domestic and in
ternational issues.
Following the vice presidents
greetings, Edward r. Dudley, for
mer United States Ambassador to
Liberia, and now special NAACP
assistant in charge of the Fight
for Freedom Fund drive, chal-
lenged the young men and women
Of this generation to play an active
and aggressive role in the fight
to eliminate segregation.
"In each era of progress since
the Emancipation Proclamation,
we have found the youth of the
nation accepting this challenge"
Mr.. Dudley said in an address pre-
pared for delivery today. "It has
been youth in the armed services
and youth in the schools who have
been most vocal in expressing hos
tility to racial discrimination This
is as it should be for they are the
ones who will be responsible for
directing the affairs of our world
of tomorrow. know that you are
prepared to continue this tradition
and will fight until the last vestige
of racial discrimination and segre-
cation is removed from American
life."
Mr.. Dudley traced the history of
the fight for freedom since the
issuance Of the Emancipation Proc
lamation, January /, 1868, as "the
first positive act by the govern
ment CT the United States to rec
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Predict Record Crowd
Al Taborian Hospital
Celebration Feb. 18th

Mound Bayou, Miss.-More than
5000 are expected to attend the
18th annual celebration of the TaS
borian Hospital here on February
IL, 1854.
Judge Zelma w. Price, former
member of the State Legislature
and now Judge of Washington
County Court, Greenville, Miss,
will address the group at pm. in
the Mound Bayou High School Au-
ditorium.
The Taborian Hospital, built II
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LEXINGTON, Miss. Feb. 1
DSN)-Eddie Noel, Negro vet
eran of World War Two, an ex-
pert rifleman, who brought out
one of the biggest, if not actually
the biggest manhunt in the history
of the state when he shot and
killed three Holmes County White
men, a store keeper, deputy
sheriff, and telephone worker gave
himself up to private citizen here
last Wednesday afternoon and was
taken to the Kinds County Jail
in Jackson presumably for safe
keeping.
According to reports by a pre-
arranged agreement Noel surren-
der to w. C. Grice, a member of
the State Live Stock and Sanitary
Board, who after Noel have volun-
Jackson advocate., 1954-02-06
-Four Negro Deputy
Sheriffs Appointed
In Louisiana

OPELOUSAS, La.-For the first
time since the turn of the century,
four fully-qualified Negro deputy
sheriffs were administered oaths of
office last Friday in the Clerk of
Courts office.
The new deputies are DIR. A. C.
Terrence, Sidney Sittig, Russell
Lemelle and Henry Lemelle, all of
Opelousas.
Sheriff D. ]. .Doucet, in a state
ment to the press, said that the
four are honorary" deputies in
that they are not on the payroll,
but that they have the full author
ity of any other deputy sheriff.
They are covered by bonds, as re-
quired by law, under a blanket
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Lester B. Granger
On This ! Believe

Lester j.. Granger, Executive Di-
rector Of the New York Urban
League, will discuss his faith in
mans function on earth as guest
of Edward r. Murrow on CHS
Radios This | Believe" Saturday,
Feb. 6. Mr.. Granger, who has made
a major contribution toward equal
ity of races in the armed forces,
has worked for more than thirty
years in the field Of Negro educa-
tion and civic betterment. Raymond
Swing produces the program. (Sat-
urday, Feb. 6 at 12:55-1:0 100 AM,
EST.
Jackson advocate., 1954-02-06
Murder Trial Ends
When Prosecutor
Calls Witness 'Nigger
Before The Jury
Judge Acts Quickly
When Defense Atty.
Demands Mistrial

ATLANTA, Ga. (Special) - A
murder case ended in a mistrial
last week when a white prosecut-
ing attorney referred to witness
as "this fat niger"
The sudden ending came in the
trial Of Willie Nash, accused of
murder in connection with the
1853 "lover's lane" Staying of a
white man.
Guilty Of the epigram was Asst.
Solicitor Frank French, who ironi-
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Jackson advocate., 1954-02-06
NOEL SuRRENDERS Trial SET
FIRST MONDAY IN APRIL

tarily surrendered his rifle took
him to Jackson seated in the back
seat of his car with out being
nandcuffed. At the outskirts of
the city, according to reports,
police escort was called for who
led the car bearing the famous
hunted man to the Kinds County
Jail.
In a statement following his ar
rest Noel said, according to re-
ports, that throughout the man.
hunt which lasted three days and
nights and envolved sometimes
up to 500 armed men, bloodhounds,
and spotter plane, that he had
never left the area in which the
shooting took place, but said that
during the hunt he had never seen
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Jackson advocate., 1954-02-06

previous positions as a. teacher of
Home Economics at Florida A. &
M; as a dietitian at a state insti-
tuition for women in Massachusetts,,
with the New Jersey Urban League
and the Durham, North Carolina
USO-YWCA.
During the past year, Mrs. Pro-
thro's activities for the Pet Milk
Company have included food DEM
onstrations, meal planning and nu-
triton lectures to school groups,
woman's club groups and nutrit-
ionist in the Southeastern states.
She often demonstrates to school
groups and homemaker groups
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Jackson advocate., 1954-02-06
STORMY SESSIONS MARK ALLDA|
Meeting OF EXECUTIVE BODY
OF STATE NEGRO TEACHERS
ASSOCIATION HERE SATURDAY
BoYd Remains Adamant In Refusal
To Sign Check For Court Action
Action Seen AS Design To Prevent
Associations Aid In University
Of Mississippi Case

Jackson, Miss, Feb. 1.-(DSN-
A highly reliable but confiden-
tial source told of a stormy all
day session of the Executive Com
mittee of the State Negro Teach
ers Association which resulted
when J. D. Boyd, president of the
group, refused to sign check to
turn the money over to the prop
erly designated authority which
the association had set aside, ear
marked, for court action, after the
money had been raised by spe-
cial assessment of the members of
the Association.
According to reports, the ses-
sion was characterized by pointed
charges and recriminations against
the president, during one of which
"ne member said that the Negroes
of the state would be "better off
if Boyd was dead at this time"
Despite the heated exchanges,
charges and recriminations, Boyd
who is principal of Utica lnsti-
tute and the Kinds County Agri-
cultural High School at Utica, re-
manned adamant in his refusal to
sign the check and the meeting
adjourned late Saturday afternoon,
after almost ten hours IF continu-
Gus session without having ac-
complished the purpose of the
meeting.
According to reports Boyd's ac-
ton was seen as designed to pre-
vent the organization from giving
any aid to the suit of the Alcorn
graduate, Media Evers, who a few
days ago filed application for ad-
mission to the University of Mis-
sissippi law school.
Boyd's adamant stand against
the igning of the check was said
to be the expression of his per-
sonal attitude toward the suit, and
net that of the Teachers Associa-
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Jackson advocate., 1954-02-06
Jane SpauIding
Gets New Job

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-(Spe-
ciaD-Mrs. Jane Spaulding Friday
resigned her office as assistant to
Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby, secretary
Of Health, Education and Welfare,
in President Eisenhower's cabinet,
to accept a post as research ad-
visor on legislative policy on the
War Claims Commission.
!. Her resignation thus climaxed
the feud between she and Mrs.
Hobby during which Mrs. Spauld-
ing disagreed with her boss in con-
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Jackson advocate., 1954-02-06
IMPROVING RACE RELATIONS
CALLED CONCERN OF ALL

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31-"Con-
cern for development of human
rights in cur country is not q mat
ter merely for the federal govern
ment and for our state and local
governments" James Frederick
Green, deputy director, State De-
partment's office of UN economic
and social affairs, told delegates
attending the NAACP-sponsored
Jackson advocate., 1954-02-06
House Gets 7 Anti
Jim Crow Travel Bills

WASHINGTON Especially Two
bills aimed at abolishing Jim Grow
in interstate travel were placed in
the congressional hopper last week.
One was introduced by Democrat
Congressman Adam Clayton Powell
of New York, and the other by Re-
publican Congressman John w.
Heselton of Massachusetts.
Jackson advocate., 1954-02-06
Use Hu|an Jack
As Example Of
Democracy

WASHINGTON, D. C. Especially
The State Department is doing
a picture story on Hulan Jack
Manhattan's first Negro Borough
president to distribute it to 200 en-
bassies and legations throughout
the world. The Jack story is to be
used to show the world democracy
in action and how far a Negro
can rise in the United States. The
story will depict day in the life
of Mr.. Jack.