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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-12-03
Gold Coast Diplomats
Training In Europe

LONDON, Nov. %. - (ANP) -
Various embassies and high COM
missioners offices in the capitals of
Europe are making special ar
rangements to help to train Afri-
cans from the Gold Coast who will
be in the diplomatic service Of the
country when it achieves the status
Of fully responsible seH-govern-
ment.
This follows an announcement
made last week that arrangements
have been completed between the
Gold Coast Government, the Colon
Continued on Page Five)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-12-03
WAYS OF AIDING NEGRO
farm FAMILIES STUDIED

:: Tuskegee Institute, Ala. Nov. %
Ways of aiding nearly 100000
Negro farm families in the South
who earn under $1,000 year was
the problem which challenged over
loo agricultural experts represent
ing Is states, here this week at
rural development conference
sponsored by the school Of agri-
Culture.
4 Proposals for solving the prob
#ems of these low-income farm
Families ranged from increasing
+he personnel of federal and state
AGRICULTURAL agencies to encourage
ng the establishment Of more in
tustries in the South to provide ad-
Eitionai off-farm employment.
Among the speakers were T. s.
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FUND ANNOUNCES $450, 600
GRANTS TO member COLLEGES

educational budgets, and is the
amount needed to bridge the gap
between income from endowments,
tuition and church board grants,
and the actual cost of operation.
The money will be used by the
Funds 81 beneficiary institutions
for such yearly expenses as faculty
salaries, student scholarship aid,
library books, classroom and lab
oratory equipment and student
health programs; located in II
Southern states where 70 per cent
of college-age Negroes live. They
have a combined student body Of
nearly $4,000 students or 80 per
cent of all Negroes enrolled in pri-
Continued On Page Six
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-12-03
Till WITNESS
Impostor, Thief

Philadelphia, Nov. % A man
posing as an eyewitness to the
Emmett Till lynching in Missis-
sippi was found to be an imposter
by the vice-president of the Phila-
delphia Branch NAACP last week
Melvin Cuff, who said he was
the missing Witness" was later
found to be a common thief by
George Morris, NAACP vice pres
ident.
Morris, who reported Cuff to
the police, said the man stole two
suits of clothing from hotel here
then checked out without telling his
destination. The theft convinced
Continued on Page Eight
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-12-03
Joyce Bryant
Giving Up Show
Business To Be
Missionary

Joyce Bryant, the San Francisco
girl who became known across the
nation as a sexy night club singer,
announced this week she would
give up her $500 week job to be-
come a missionary in the Seventh
Day Adventist Church.
Miss Bryant said she planned to
take four or five year course Of
study in missionary work at Oak
wood University, Seventh Day
Adventist School at Huntsville,
Ala.
After that, she said, she would
travel wherever the church sends
CONTINUED on Page Eight)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-12-03

New York, N. Y. - The United
Negro College Fund is currently
distributing $450,00O to it's member
colleges for operating expenses, it
was announced today by w. j.
Trent, Jr., executive director. The
fourth distribution made by the
fund this year, it brings the total
allocated to date for this purpose
to 81 ,O66, 348.09, Trent said.
Now in the final periord of it's
18th annual nationwide campaign
in support of 81 private, accredited
colleges and universities, the Unit
ed Negro College Fund is seeking
to raise $1,75O,000 this year. The
goal represents approximately 10
per cent of the colleges combined
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-12-03
Teen-Agers Are
Charged With
Terrorizing
Negro Family

Chicago, Ill. Nov. % Thirteen
juveniles are facing trial here for
terrorizing a Negro family which
moved into a predominantly white
neighborhood last Saturday.
Seven of the boys are charged
with throwing bricks at the house
Sunday night and six are accused
of tossing a lighted bottle of kero-
sene on the porch Monday night.
The gang was rounded up in the
southwest side neighborhood by It..
James Kelley Of the Chicago Po-
lice Department.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-12-03
AIcorn Host To
9th District
Mia Meet

The Seventh Educational District
of The Mississippi Teachers Asso-
citation will hold their annual meet
ing at Alcorn A. & M. College Sat-
urday, December 8, 1866. The
theme: professional Competence;
Today's Challenge"
Mrs. Alice Brown Smith, District
President for the past two years
CONTINUED on Page Eighty
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-12-03
DR.. Horne Loses
Appeal On Custer

Washington, D. C. Nov. 28-The
Housing and Home Finance Agency
said last Friday that the Civil
Service Commission has rejected
an appeal by DR.. Frank S. Horne,
who says he was turned out of his
job for political purposes.
DR.. Horne was special assistant
to Housing Administrator Albert
M. Cole until last August rs when
CONTINUED On Page Two)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-12-03
King Hiram
Masonic Grand
Lodge Closes
Record Breaking
Annual Session
Thousands Attend
Vicksburg Meeting

Thousands of Masonic brethren
and sisters CT the Order of Eastern
Star from every nook and corner
of the state assembled Sunday, No
vember 20, at the Jackson Street
Branch YMCA for the 18th Annual
Session of the M. w. King Hiram
Grand Lodge, Col. A. F. & A. M.
and Electa Grand Chapter, OES,
State of Mississippi.
At 1 pm. one of the largest pa
Continued On Page Two)
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Negro Elected To
Insurance Group
Executive Council

BALTIMORE, Mo-, Nov. 2S.-
DR.. Winfred O. Bryson, professor
and head of the department Of eco
Monies and business at Morgan
State College, has been elected to
three-year term on the executive
council of the American Society
Continued On Page Two)
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DETR0ITER IS FIRST NEGRO TO
GET PHI. D. IN MUSIC IN vienna

church organ and writing a thesis
on "the musician manuscripts, 81,
CT and 139 of the minoriten con-
vent in Vienna. A contribution to
the history of Vienna piano and or
gan music in the 18th century,"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-12-03

Vienna, Nov. % - The first
American Negro to receive the
title of Doctor of Philosophy in
Music at Vienna University has
received his degree here.
Edourd Ward, Of Detroit, quail
fled for the degree by playing the
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-12-03
Ban U. S. Negro
Literature For
South Africans

johannesburg, South Africa,
Nov. 20 - The Aight Rev. Am
brose Reeves, the Anglican bishop
Of johannesburg, has charged the
present South African government
with benning more than 1900 pub
locations since it came to powe,
in 1948.
II 81 -rt although South At
Continued on Page Five)
Evening star., 1955-02-02
Status of MARYLAND Bills

HB176---By Anne Arundel delegation
To give the Anne Arundel County Com
missioners, instead OF the governor,
Poce tSamineas aPDe and e sreatss sSthorts
over the operation Of the police depart
IuSsT sss:.. s%DkIp. ,S. Desr
year vacation allowance for State en-
ployes with more liberal schedule
ways % and Means; ,
Boone-To give retiring or resigning
State employees q cash payments for un-
used vacation leave ways and Meansl.
thai aBs BY may ,Ss ess o.p tor Sr0saf s
Hs1sS@sy Boone-To authorize the
Real Estate cSmmisson 70 deny I lieeSss; SsIS
inspectors to represent the commission
at hearings, raise the requirements for
obtaining licenses and generally recodiiy
HBi ss--By conbs--To exempt from
the titling tax motor vehicles purchased
land ways and Means).
HB1S4--By St. Marys delegation-To
authorize the g; Marys coYnaty coy aEo commits a
four-year period for the st. Marys Hos
D.Ifsd! 6risSS , and I'd ,.,;as, ss,s;,nIc
Joint Reselation introduced.
HJRS = BY Luber, Simpkins and
q personnsl problems at ths Barrett
School for Girls tWays and MeanO.
Restitution l4treduced.
To urTs shs fSs Snit.d fstse sssses Ma Marsisnd e
s sTrsnss an annual ioesssii ssms Between
uni.eS ns SnA stsess Aesdems be e Sc piss.d Jay In in
Memorial Stadium (Ways and Means).
Evening star., 1955-02-02
Wheaton Woman
Kills Self With Gun

A 25-year-old Wheaton City
(Md.) housewife was found shot
to death yesterday in the den at
her home at 1892 Evanston
street, Montgomery County po-
lice reported.
She was Mrs. Jean M. Tenny,
wife Of Lynn w. Tenny, an as
sistant manager for a Safeway
store in Silver Spring.
Detective Corpl. Ronald j.
Loomis said a 12-gauge shotgun
was found near the woman's
body. Montgomery County
Medical Examiner Frank j.
Broschart ruled the death a
suicide.
Corpl. Loomis said Mr.. Tenny
told him he had called his home
about 3 pm. and got no answer.
He became alarmed and rushed
home to find his wife.
Police said Mrs. Tenny was
being treated by a physician for
nervous ailment.
Evening star., 1955-02-02
New Controls Drafted
For Road Building

A committee Of experts today
began whipping into final form
a proposed ordinance designed to
give the Prince Georges County
government stronger road build
ing controls.
The committee was named by
the county commissioners yester-
day after a three-hour hearing
at Upper Marlboro on rules
drawn by Public Works Admin
istrator Arthur w. Tayman and
Board Attorney william L. Kah-
Ter.
No objection was voiced by the
more than 80 builders, engineers
and planners to the chief objec-
tive of the ordinance require
ment that builders post perform
ance bonds guaranteeing compile
ton of roads to county standards.
Numerous suggestions were
offered, however, for amend
ments and notifications Of other
provisions. These viii be studied
by the committee and discussed
with MIR. Tayman and Mr.. Kah-
Ter.
Commissioner Chairman Jesse
S. Baggett urged that divergent
views be aligned promptly and
that a final draft Of the ordin-
nance be submitted for passage
within two weeks.
Evening star., 1955-02-02
N3O,942 Is Pledged
Toward New WING
Al Suburban Hospital

Pledges totaling $230.942 have
been made so far toward a fund
drive for construction of a new
wing at Suburban Hospital, Be-
theSda.
This amount, more than a
third of the goal of $500, 900, was
reported last night at a meet
ing of workers at the Bethesda
Chevy Chase High School. It
represents advance collections
and officially opens a drive due to
end February Is.
Chairman Francis w. Hill, jr.,
reported the $3.50. .942 was sub
scribed by BAL persons. including
81 doctors.
Money raised during the drive
will be used to construct a $1.2
million wing at the hospital, for
which 100000 already has been
set aside by the hospital and the
rest to come from the Federal
Government.
Mr.. Hill said residents will be
asked to pledge $50 subscriptions
payable over a two-year period.
Another report session will be
held at the school at 8 pm.
Friday.
Evening star., 1955-02-02
Two Suits Settled
In Beer Truck Death

Two suits totaling 100000
over the death of a Kensington
boy fatally injured when he was
struck by a beer truck owned
by Montgomery County in De-
cember, 1858 are reported to
have been settled out Of court
for a sum in excess of $4,000.
The boy, who died December
20, more than weeks after he was
struck by the runaway beer
truck, was Ronald c. Diehl, Ia,
son of Mrs. Hilda Deis, of 43O3
Warren street.
One suit was filed by Mrs.
Deis. the youths mother, for
$150,000 for expenses and dam
ages. The other was filed by
the youths mother and her hus-
band. Gerald Deis, for $3.50, 900
for the loss Of her son and for
her medical expenses.
Another suit also was report
ed settled out of court for an
undetermined amount by the
parents of William Leanord, 10,
of 10620 Parkwood drive, COM
panion of Ronald, who was
killed instantly when struck by
the truck December Z, 1858.
The truck driver, Harry w.
Thomas of Rockville. who was
10 at the time, was convicted
of manslaughter in Montgomery
County Circuit Court but the
verdict was reversed by the
Maryland Court of Appeals.
Evening star., 1955-02-02
Fairfax Fire Siren Draws
Queries About Air Raid

Citizens over a large area OF
nearby Virginia were alarmed
last night when atmospheric
conditions apparently made the
wall of the Dunn Loring Volun-
teer Fire Department siren carry
long distances.
The alarm, shortly after 10
o'clock, was for a small blaze In
the 14-room Pimmit Hills Ele-
mentary School now under con-
struction.
The Fairfax County Fire Board
and Arlington police said they
received an unusually large num-
Der of calls from citizens asking
about a possible air raid. The
Dunn Loring siren is driven by
q 10-horsepower motor, the most
powerful signal device in Fair.
fax County.
School Supt. w. T. Woodson
said the building was not ma.
terially damaged and that con-
struction would not be delayed.
Evening star., 1955-02-02
Bill Valves Rules
For Ministers to
Tong Oysters
By . sser stof cone.pondeni.

ANNAPOLIS. Feb. 2.-"Duly
ordained ministers of the gospel"
would be able to tong oysters
for pay to their hearts content
under a bill introduced in the
Maryland Legislature by Dele
gate w. Randolph Harrison,
Democrat. of Talbot County.
Mr.. Harrison's bill, introduced
yesterday, would exempt minis
ters from the State law requir-
ing a years residence in a county
before one is eligible for an oys-
ter-tonging license.
Mr.. Harrison said he put the
bill in to help a Methodist cir
cult preacher assigned to his
county last year. The preacher.
he explained. supported his fam
lily by oyster longing. but the
church transferred his residence
so often that he found it impos-
sible to qualify for a license.
"I don't expect the bill will af-
feet more than two or three
people in the whole State" Mr..
Harrison said. But it's a good
bill"
Evening star., 1955-02-02
EpiseopaIian Groups
Hold Joint Session
BY The Associated Press

FREDERICK, Md. Feb. 2 -
More than 200 lay and clerical
members Of the Episcopal Dio-
cese of Maryland and about $50
Woman's Auxiliary members
were scheduled to hold a joint
meeting today as the 173d an
nual diocesan convention went
into its second day at the All
Saints Church.
Delegates voted yesterday to
make the Church of the Incar-
nation in Baltimore the official
cathedral church Of the diocese.
The Episcopal Bishop OF Mary
land, the Right Rev. Noble c.
Powell, stressed the need for new
physical facilities In the diocese
in an address yesterday.
The diocese, he said, Is faced
with the necessity Of providing
large sums for capital needs too
long unmet." He called for a
revolving fund for capital i'm
provements to be used for par
ishes and missions Of the diocese.
The woman's Auxiliary elected
Mrs. John Sparks Of Annapolis
to the Executive Council Of the
diocese at its meeting yesterday.
Evening star., 1955-02-02
Butler Explains Stand
On Friendship Airport

Senator Butler, Republican. OF
Maryland today accused Balti-
more officials of misrepresenting
his position on Friendship In
ternational Airport and said
Mayor D'Alesandro is trying Ito
conceal his own ineptitude and
disinterest" in the field.
Senator Butler said Mr.. DALE
sandro and other city officials
are trying to deceive the people
by telling them Senator Butler
wants Ito lease away or give
away the big airport just OUT
side Baltimore.
THE proposal I made is clear" +"
Senator Butler said in state
ment. 1T is this: That in the
event Uncle Sam and the duly
constituted authorities agree
upon Friendship as an additional
national airport I would intro
duce the legislation necessary for
the agreement to become legal
and operative"
Evening star., 1955-02-02
Low Bidder Announced
On River Rood Bridge
By shs Asseeiossd Press

BALTIMORE. Feb. 2.--Allied
Contractors, Inc, of Baltimore,
was the apparent low bidder at
$578.54l yesterday on a six-span
bridge on Maryland 20l-River
road in Prince Georges County.
The bridge win take the road
over the Magruder branch Of
the Pennsylvania Railroad about
0.3 miles north Of the District
line at Kenilworth.
Evening star., 1955-02-02
Fairfax Appropriates
$1,000 for Regional
CD Organization

The Fairfax Board Of County
Supervisors has appropriated ST.
900 to the Northern Virginia Re-
gional Civil Defense organization.
The funds are to purchase sup
plies and equipment, including
educational pamphlets. film
strips, arm bands and mobile ra-
dio transmitters.
The board adopted a resolution
yesterday accepting with appre-
ciaticn the gift of 20-kilowatt
emergency generator donated to
the county civil defense organ
ization by Arthur Godfrey.
$1,000 Extra for Clinic.
After a plea by DR.. James
Thorpe, director of the Child
Guidance Clinic. for a supple
mental appropriation of $1,000.
the supervisors granted his agen-
cy an additional $1,000 over the
amount requested.
The supervisors set February
% as the date for public hear
ings on roads to be taken into
the State highway system.
Detention Home Brought Up.
After receiving a letter from
the League of Women Voters
indorsing q regional detention
home, Chairman @. Wallace Car
per indicated that money for
this purpose probably would be
set aside in the budget for next
fiscal year.
A contract and resolution were
ordered prepared whereby the
county may, at its next meeting,
take over operation OF the
Chesterfield Utilities Corps sew
age system on Pimmit Run. The
corporation, operated by L. r.
Broyhill, would sell its system
to the county for $4,000 over a
f1ve-year period.
Evening star., 1955-02-02
Assembly Unit Starts Review
Of Election Laws in MARYLAND

These sections, Mr.. Morris
continued directly prohibit any
person, not a candidate or a po-
litical agent, from hiring a hall
to make a speech expressing his
views, whether for or against
a candidate or for or against a
question on q ballot.
"It prevents him from buying
radio time or newspaper space,
and I think those prohibitions
are directly contrary to the Con-
stitution."
Cites Liberty of Press.
He quoted an article in the
Constitution that the liberty
of the press ought to be inviol-
ably preserved; that every citi-
zen of the State ought to be
allowed to speak, write and pub
lish his sentiments on all sub
jects, being responsible for the
abuse Of that privilege"
Mr.. Morris said the same sec
ton permits a candidate or po-
litical agent to hire radio and
television time for speeches and
advertising but does not permit
newspaper advertising for an
nouncement of meetings and
publication Of sample ballots.
"That section, aside from being
highly and illegally discrimina-
tory, also faces the Constitution
barrier raised above" he said.
II don't think the right OF the
Individual to express himself has
ever been put to the test in
Maryland" Mr.. Morris added.
"The close Interpretation I am
reading into the law hasn't been
exercised"
He also noted that two sec
tions drop, perhaps by over
sight, the present requirements
that registration days be adver-
tised and I hope that this COM
mittee amends 1t so that the
prospective voter will be informed
as to when he can be registered.
Mr.. Morris expressed the views
of an MPA committee which also
included Norman w. Harrington
of the Easton Star-Democrat,
president; Neill Baylor Of the
Herald-Mail Co.. in Hagerstown;
Charles Gerwig Of the Stromberg
Publications in Ellicott City, and
William Kerbin, publisher of the
Democratic Messenger in Snow
Hill.
Senator Wheatley thanked the
group "for your evident interest
in coming here. The fact that
you keep yourselves on your toes
helps to keep us on our toes"
Evening star., 1955-02-02
Montgomery Sheriff's Office
Has Financial Difficulties

Bennett said. that a salesman
came in the other day and took
a map of the county from his
Office wall because he lacked the
$3.50 the county owed on 1t.
''He was polite enough to take
1t of the wall with our permis-
sion, without getting a writ Of
replevin which / would have had
to serve on myself the sheriff
added.
Note: The sheriff got the ST.
0s5 needed for the deputy plus
an additional $3.50 for office ex-
penses and gasoline.
Evening star., 1955-02-02
Cambridge Fire Burns
Rear of Sears Store
BY The Asseeiofed Press

CAMBRIDGE, Md. Feb. a.
An early morning fire burned out
the rear of the Sears Roebuck
Co. store here today, but q new
ly-installed fire door apparently
saved the main portion Of the
building.
The fire was discovered about
z am. Firemen confined 1t to
the warehouse and credit Office
in the rear of the building.
Evening star., 1955-02-02
Oak Street School
Valued al S387,1S4
For Sale 10 City

Lengthy negotiations over q
fair value for the Oak Street
School, Falls Church, which Is
to be sold by Fairfax County to
the city, apparently are nearing
an end.
Four appraisers-two each ap-
pointed by the county and by
the city-have come up with
1887 ,184 as a fair market price
for the building and 5-acre tract.
Chairman Richard Stands Of
the Fairfax School Board indi-
Gated yesterday the price prob
ably will be accepted by the city.
He said he had talked with Falls
Church School Board Chairman
John A. johnson.
Assistant County Supt. j. H.
Rice reported at a meeting of
the school board there are about
% classrooms being completed
in the Falls Church area to take
care of students now crowded
into the 14-room Oak Street
structure which was built by the
county before Falls Church be-
came separate city.
Year Of Dickering.
The county and city have
been dickering over a mutually
satisfactory price for longer
than a year. The appraisers
placed 100000 as the cost of
replacing the structure but cut
the figure to $344,0 900 due to de-
probation In addition. they
allowed $6,807 as the cost Of
cafeteria equipment, $4,000 as
the value of the land and $11,-
376 as the value Of equipment
to be left in the building.
Kenneth Clark of the Fairfax
Federation of Parent-T Teacher
Association, led a delegation
asking for an expanded driver
education program.
Supt w. T. Woodson said he
will submit the cost of a full
program. estimated at $4,000.
for consideration when the board
prepares its 1856 budget. The
first meeting on the budget was
set for 8 am. Saturday.
Money Sought for Sites.
During the meeting, Mr.. Wood
son left to appear before the
Board Of County Supervisors to
renew the school heads request
for 5000, 900 for eight new school
sites which it was felt should be
acquired in view of rising prices.
A supplemental appropriation
Of $4,000 was made by the SUI
pervisors for two sites. One was
the 8-acre Duras tract on the
Little River Turnpike at the edge
of the town of Fairfax and the
other was a 2.5 tract to add to
the Bush Hill school.
Earlier. the school board had
transmitted an offer by A. Smith
Bowman, jr. and E. DeLong
Bowman to donate so acres out
right and another so acres, il
needed, for a Northern Virginia
University Center Of the Univer-
sity of Virginia.
Colgate w. Darden. jr., uni
versity president, replied by let
ter that the offer, along with
any other from this area, would
have to be acted on by the
General Assembly.
Evening star., 1955-02-02
Safecrackers Get S4OO
At Arlington Auto Firm

Safe crackers looted strong
box of more than $400 last night
at Kenyon Peck. Inc. automobile
dealers at 1925 Wilson boulevard.
Arlington.
They used an acetylene torch
from the motor company's own
garage to burn off the hinges, po-
lice said. There was no evi-
dence of breaking into the build
ing.
The robbery was discovered
about 7:30 am. today by a serv-
ice manager, James r. Brown.
Evening star., 1955-02-02
Citizens Asked to Aid
In Text Book Chore

Arlington citizens representing
go community organizations have
been invited to help select new
text books for Arlington public
schools. Teachers and super
visors will work with the citizen
committees in choosing the new
instructional materials.
The persons asked to serve
this year are members Of the
Community Council on Instruc-
ton. This group studies curricu-
Mm and teaching methods.