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Milford chronicle., 1955-11-18
Local Happenings

METHODIST MEN The
Thanksgiving meeting Of the Meth
Odist Men of Avenue Church will
be held Tuesday evening, November
22nd at s p. m, in the Social HALL
Spencer Willis, president, presid-
ing, with DR.. 0. A. BARLEY, dis
trict superintendent, guest speaker.
Milford chronicle., 1955-11-18

It has been estimated that 10
tons Of blood must flow through q
cows udder in the production OF
50 pounds of milk.
Milford chronicle., 1955-11-18

Read The Classified Ads
Milford chronicle., 1955-11-18

Arkansas has 4.OS1 miles Of rail
road.
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classified Ads Get Results
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ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT
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the Sensible Way With Low CaIoris Foods

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Food Store for the next few days
No charge for consultation.
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ADVERTISEMENT

There is only one way to reduce
excess weight safely. and that is to
eat less calories. Many people have
tried this by going on starvation
diets. but soon gave it up. because
they could not stand being hungry
all the time. Manufacturers have
now produced a large variety Of
tasty but low calorie foods. such as
low calorie bread. mayonnaise
French dressing. delicious desserts,
soft drinks, skim milk, sugarless
sweeteners. and many others With
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-17
Navy Soon to 1est-Fire
SmoII Research Rocket

rocket, to carry varying pay
loads of scientific instruments.
are being developed under direc-
ton Of John w. Townsend. Of
the Naval Research Laboratory.
Twenty-Five of the rockets al
ready are on order for firing at
Fort Churchill. Canada. in con-
nection with the International
Geophysical Year in 1957-58.
The Aerobee-Hi. whch carries
a booster rocket. is to be used to
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study pressure, temperature, air
density and winds in upper alti-
tudes.
One type is expected to reach
slightly more than 200 miles
carrying a payload of 100 pounds.
Another is expected to carry $50
pounds 1874 miles. and the third
100 pounds 1853 miles.
The Aerobee-Hi is being de-
veloped by the Aerojet-G General
Corp, which developed the Aero
bee in Cooperation with the
Douglas Aircraft Co.
The new rocket will cost
around $4,000, as compared
with the $500.000 cost of another
type Of research rocket used by
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Campbe|IHeads
ChicagoTribune

CHICAGO. May II R.-The
new publisher of the Chicago
Tribune is Chesser M. Campbell
president of the Tribune Co.. APP
pointed to the, post yesterday at
the annual meeting of directors
of the company.
The newspaper has been with
out a publisher since the death
of Col. Robert r. Mccormick
editor and publisher. April l.
The Tribune Co. owns the Chi
cago Tribune, the New York
News and affiliated enterprises.
1t was announced at the meet
ing that F. M, Flynn. president
of the News Syndicate Co.. Inc.
the subsidiary which publishes
the New York News, was ap-
pointed publisher of the News by
directors of that newspaper at a
meeting in New York. The News
has been without publisher
since the death Of Capt. Joseph
M. Patterson on May 26, 1916.
Two vice presidents of the
Tribune were elected by the di-
rectors. They are j. Howard
Wood. Tribune business mana
ger, and w. D. Maxwell, Tribune
managing editor,
Three new directors were
elected at the annual meeting
of stockholders of the Tribune
Co.. which preceded the di-
rectors' meeting. They are Mr..
Maxwell, Arthur A. Schmon.
president of the Tribune Co. S
Canadian subsidiaries, and Mr..
Flynn.
Reelected directors were Mr.
Campbell. Mr.. Wood, Alfred
Cowles. Henry D. Lloyd. Mrs
Ruth Mccormick Tankersley
and Mrs. j. M. Patterson.
New directors of the New York
News are Mr.. Campbell. Mr.
Schmon, Mr.. Wood and James
]. Patterson, son OF Capt. Pat
terson. News directors reelected
are Richard w. Clarke. execu-
tive editor of the News. who also
was elected vice president; Mr..
Cowles, Mr.. Flynn. Alicia Pat
terson, Mr.. Lloyd. P M. Stephens
and Mrs Tankersley,
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The Navy expects to test-fire
soon q comparatively inexpensive
research rocket for studying the
upper air.
1t is the Aerobee-Hi. baby sis
ter of the Aerobee which has
been used for some time by both
the Navy and the Air Force.
Three types of the smaller
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Lamp Deceives

DENVER up. - Firem n
thought they had come across
new type fire while battling a
house blaze In downtown Denver
The fire laddies poured streams
of water on a red glow in a bed
room for several minutes with
no apparent results. They later
discovered it was a bed lamp
with a red shade,
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the Navy. the Giant Viking. The
Viking holds the height record
1884 miles-for single-stage
rockets, and carries a payload
of 500 pounds.
The highest reached by rock
cts in the Nays research pro-
gram was $50 miles attained by
a combination of the German
developed va. with a WAC
Corporal rocket in its nose.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-11-05
NATIONS INDUSTRIAL LEADERS
CALLED UPON TO help IN SEEING
THAT Discrimination ON
RACIAL OR OTHER GROUNDS IS
ENDED IN u. S. employment
President Sends Telegram From Sick
Bed To Conference On Job Equality
MESSAGE READ TO CONFERENCE
BY VICE-PRESIDENT NIXON

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Oct. 81.
President Eisenhower called on
the nations industrial leaders last
Tuesday night to help in seeing
that job discrimination on racial or
other grounds in eradicated.
From his sick bed in Denver, the
President telegraphed greetings to
the Washington Conference on
Equal Job Opportunity, attended
by IS top executives of leading in
dustrial concerns.
The telegram was read to the
conference by Vice President Rich
ard NJ. Nixon, who presided at a
three-hour closed doors discussion
on ways to end job discrimination.
Mr.. Nixon is chairman of the pres
ident's Committee on Government
Controls which sponsored the con-
ference.
The President said: II regret
that l may not meet with you as
my guest this evening as | had
planned.
with your help | hope we can
move further toward the goal Of
assuring every American equal OPP
portunity for employment, unham-
pered by consideration of race, re-
ligion or national origin. May ev-
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Cross Burned In
Ohio Town Over
School Issue

HILLSBORO, Ohio, Oct. 81
The burning of cross Wednesday
night in the front yard of Mr.. and
Mrs. Eber Blakley ties in with the
school segregation controversy in
which this city has been involved.
Police charged the incident to
Halloween pranksters, but Mrs.
Gertrude Clemens, leader in the
fight to desegregate elementary
schools here, interpreted it as tie
ing in with that situation.
The incident brought from Mrs.
Blakley a warning to the people
who burned the cross not to do
it again because my husband has
violent temper and will shoot
first and ask questions later"
although they burned the
cross" Mrs. Clemens said, eve are
going to continue to send our
children to- Webster School,"
Only few colored children were
admitted to Webster School this
year. Others have reported daily
and, upon being rejected, have re-
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DR.. Howard To
Get ave Citizens
Award Nov. 18th

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.-The
American Veterans Committee "a
VC) said it will make a "Citizens
Award" the first the AVG has
given, to DR.. T. r. M. Howard, a
Negro physician, surgeon and bust
nessman at Mound Bayou, Miss.
AVG Chairman Bill Mauldin said
DR.. Howard was being honored for
the magnificent work he is carry
ing on to bring civil rights to one
of the most oppressed areas OF the
South"
AVG said that in the recent Till
murder case, in which two white
Mississippians were acquitted of
numbering a Negro boy, Howard
aided the prosecution by producing
two witnesses.
The award will be presented at
the AVG convention in Atlantic
City Nov. 11-13.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-11-05
new YORK exhibition H0N0RS
DR., ALAN LEROY LOCKE

NEW YORK.-A New York Pub
lie Library exhibition honoring the
late DR.. Alain Leroy Locke, author
and educator, is currently on view
at the Schemburg Collection of Ne
gro Literature and History. Books,
letters, and manuscripts have been
assembled to show some of DR..
Locke's contributions to Negro cul-
ture.
An authority on: Negro cultural
achievements and an analyst of his
race and its relations with other
peoples DR.. Locke played an active
role in the early development of the
Schomberg Collection. Through
his efforts, the collection obtained
much of the African art, now on
permanent display there.
The first American Negro Rhodes
scholar, DR.. Locke was educated at
Harvard College, Oxford University
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NEGRO blISHERS GROUP
CONFER With j. s. ATTORNEY
GENERAL bROWNELL ON
CONDITIONS EFFECTINc
NEGRO CITIZENS OF STATE
Charge State With Using Only Pro
Form Prosecution In Recent Cases
Say Time Has Come For Federal Prosecute
Say Time Has Come For Federal Prosecution

Washington, D. C. Oct. 81 - At
torney General Herbert Brownell,
Jr., Friday heard the Board of Di-
rectors of the National Newspaper
Publishers Association urge Fed
eral action to curb violence, intimi-
dation and threats against color
ed people in Mississippi.
Carl Murphy, president of the
Afro American Newspapers, act
ed as spokesman for the board
members. After Mr.. Murphy fin
ished reading to Mr.. Brownell the
statement of the board, which
served as the basis for the confer
ence with the Attorney General,
Mr.. Brownell asked each of the
publishers present to state his
views.
The response of Mr.. Brownell
was off the record because he did
not want at this time to publicize
steps the Justice Department is
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-11-05
AME Church Ends
Successful Annual
Conference Here

The East Mississippi District of
the AME Church proclaimed as
highly successful it's annual Con-
ference which ended here Sunday.
Rev. T. w. Gaines, Pastor of
Pearl Street Church, was reas-
signed as Pastor of the Church.
The Conference which opened
Wednesday was visited by num-
Der of Bishops and other promi-
nent Church officials, laymen and
women from other sections of the
country.
The final session was held Sun
day morning in the auditorium of
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State Scottish
Rite masons
To Hold 31st
Annual Session
Hon. w. j. Oates,
Grand Master, To
Preside At Meeting

AMORY, Miss. Nov. 1-(Special)
The Most Worshipful King Da-
vid Grand Lodge A. F. & A. M.
Scottish Masons, Inc, Jurisdiction
of Mississippi and The Queen Ann
Grand Chapter Order Of Eastern
Star, Inc, under the leadership of
the Hon. w. J. Oates 33rd Degree,
Grand Master will hold their 31st
Annual Grand Lodge s." : 4.
Amory, Mississippi, November
6-7-8, 1866. s$5OO.OO Scholarship
Awards will be given to some
worthy boys and girls in their An
nual Oratorical Contest on Mon
day night, November 7th at 8 P. M.
at the Methodist Church in Amory,
Miss. Subject of the Essay:
WHAT PART DOES THE NE
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and the University of Berlin. He
was professor of philosophy and
head of the department at Howard
University, Washington, ID. c., and
a visiting lecturer at number of
other educational institutions. His
interest and activity in the field of
adult education led to his election
as president of the American Asso-
citation of Adult Education.
Papers concerning DR.. Locke's
application and selection for
Rhodes Scholarship, manuscripts
of two lyric poems he wrote, his
correspondence with Booker T.
Washington, and chapter from
the book he was writing when he
died last year are among the items
to be seen.
A highlight of the display is
portrait of DR.. Locke, done in oils
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planning to take with respect to
the offenses which have occurred
in Mississippi to keep colored peo-
pie from voting or sending their
children to white schools.
c. A. Scott of the Atlanta Daily
World was present for the meeting.
The text of the boards state
ment, read by Mr.. Murphy, fol-
lows:
81. The two criminal provisions
of the Federal Civil Rights Statutes
which are the basis for prosecutions
in this type of cases are.
Section "a: Conspiracy Against
Rights of CITIZENSHIP two or more
persons conspire to injure, Cypress,
threaten, or intimate any citizen
in the free exercise or enjoyment
of any right or privilege secured
to him by the Constitution or laws
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-11-05
Find Body OF
11-Year-OId
Boy In Road
Off Highway
Death Seen AS
Traffic Accident

HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss, Oct.
31-The body of an 11-year-old
Negro boy found in road leading
off the highway near Lamar not
far from here was the subject of
IN inquest scheduled for last Sat
lrday morning.
Marshall County Sheriff Sam
Coopwood said the death looked
like a traffic accident.
The victim was identified as Jim
L. Hudson, who lived with his
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. James
Flemming, on a farm owned by
Miss Roxey Morgan, on Highway
72.
Sheriff Coopwood said the boys
body was found at about 6 A. M
Tuesday by Ebert Shelton, Miss
Morgan's brother-in-law, in q
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creenviIIe EIks
! In Anniversary
Celebration
Sunday, Nov. s

Greenville, Miss. Oct. 81 Hun
dreds of visitors from the mid-south
area are expected in the city Sun
day to join with local Elks in their
Anniversary Celebration.
A long list of local and state
Elks will be signally honored for
their contribution to the organiza-
ton and order, among whom are
Dr.. @. L. Toler, first Exalted Ruler;
Mrs. Julia Thornton first Daugh-
ter, Ruler; living charter members,
living past exalted ruler and men,
bers of 20 years or more standing.
State leaders included among the
honorees are: James Wilson, Jack
son; Fred H. Miller, Mound Bayou;
Edward v. Cochran, Greenwood
Edward Lee and Mrs. Willie Rudd,
Jackson.
The group will hear special
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Prairie View, Texas. Oct. 81 -
How an industrial training pro-
ject for Liberia is being launched
under the auspices of the Interna-
tional Cooperation Administration
by Prairie View, Texas A. & M.
College, was the subject of an
address delivered here Wednesday
by DR.. E. B. Evans, PV Presi-
dent.
DR.. Evans spoke in the Depart
mental auditorium before the an
nual conference of Immigrant col
lege foreign contact representa-
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Funeral Rites
Held For State
Masonic Leader
j. B. Greene

Port Gibson, Miss. Especially =
Masonic Rites were held Monday,
October oath in Port Gibson for
John B. Greene, Grand Secretary,
M. w. Stringer Grand Lodge, F.
& A. M. Jurisdiction of the state
of Mississippi. He served in this
capacity 20 years.
Professor Greene had spent close
to so years of his life, as teacher
and supervising principal, in both
Claiborne and Warrior Counties.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Belle L. Greene of Port Gibson;
his daughter, Mrs. Amber G. Tay-
lor Librarian at Morgan State
College, Baltimore, Maryland; his
son, Mr.. C. M. Greene, supervising
principal of the Fort Smith Color
ed Schools; and his grandson, First
Lieutenant C. M. Greene, Jr., now
stationed at Camp Polk, Louisiana.
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Liberia Technical Aid Project
Discussed AT USDA Conference

tives, who assist in carrying out
technical assistance training pro-
grams devised by the U. S. De-
partment of Agriculture.
Prairie View is conducting a
S1,5OO,0OO industrial training prof.
ect at Booker T. Washington In
statute in the Republic of Liberia.
DR.. Evans said the first program
to be offered will be in the various
aspects of building construction.
Negro agricultural leaders who
were among the representatives
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Labor Secretary James p. Mitchell
Says Job Equality Good Business

the meeting was for exchanging
ideas on effective methods Of
achieving the ultimate elimination
of discrimination in American in
dustry."
The government let the business
and industry leaders know that it
means business in its policy of nom
discrimination by firms holding
government contract. Mitchell said:
"AH the businessmen here to-
day have Government contracts.
Consequently all of you are fami-
liar with the non-discrimination
clause in Government contracts.
You know your legal obligations
under this provision and you
know to what extent you have been
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Negro Trade Union Committee
Urges AFL-cI0 Unity In Merger

hand of friendship and support
from trade unions helping strength
en- unity and democary for white
and Negro workers in daily living
conditions. Such leadership by new
federation, in clear-cut constitu-
tional clause, vital to successful
organization of south, winning pro-
labor, pro-civil rights legislation
and economic gains all American
workers"
The Negro Trade Unionists Com
mittee is holding a city-wide con-
ference on Saturday, November S,
at the United Mutual Auditorium,
3O6 Lenox Avenue, New York City
to discuss these issues in the in
terest of helping to build a united,
democratic labor federation.
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Say Schools
Should Be
Taken Out
OF Politics

HARTMAN, N. Y.-Oct. 81
Educators at the Eighth Ameri.
can Assembly of Columbia Uni
versity say education should be
"out of state politics and under
separate control"
In round-table discussions edu-
cational leaders cited what they
termed struggle for political con-
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Cheering Africans
Hail kabaka As
Exile Ends

KAWPALA, Uganda The
Kabaka of Buganda, exiled from
his East African kingdom for nom
cooperation with British colonial
authorities, received hero's well
come Oct. II when he returned by
air from London.
Thousands of his people, singing
and cheering wildly, were at En-
tebbe Airport to greet him. So
was Sir Andrew Cohen, the Cover
nor of Uganda, who ordered his
exile in November, 1853, for "fail-
ing to cooperate Loyalty" with the
protectorate government.
The Kabaka, Mutesa II, was per-
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coIonia|ism Hit By Educators
Challenge Issued To Churches

knowledge; witchcraft to hospitals;
ancestral worship to Christian faith
or another highly organized faith"
he said.
Pointing to the church's failing,
he said:
"In many respects the church
has been a discredit to the spirit
of Christ particularly when it comes
to interracial situations. In the
eyes of many African. people, the
church has given a lie to what it
breaches. It has convened with
the shortcomings of powerful ra-
cial groups, but has been alive to
those of the Africans. Instead of
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New York, Nov. 1.-(SpeciaD-
In a telegram to the AFL-C1O
Unity Committee which met at the
Hotel Commodore on October 26,
the Negro Trade Unionsist Com
mittee urgently requested serious
consideration be given during pres
ent merger discussions to revising
language Article ii, Section ~
proposed constitution to guarantee
full, equal, non-segregated union
membership to Negro and minority
workers."
The wire, addressed to both
George Meany and Walter Reuther,
continued "as repression and vio-
lence continue and spread over our
country against Negroes and labor,
Negro workers seek and welcome
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-11-05

WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. 81
Secretary of Labor James P. Nit
chell told the Conference for Equal
Job Opportunity which convened
here Tuesday, Oct. rs, that "equali-
ty of job opportunity is good bust
ness, both in the short run and
over the long run"
Mitchell keynoted the meeting
of government officials, and board
chairmen or president of IS of the
nations largest firms, who gather
ed here to help the government
plot course of action against
racial discrimination.
Effective Methods
The conference was presided
over by Vice President Nixon, who
stated that the single purpose of
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-11-05
Anti-mau mau
Laws frightened
BY kenya

NAIROBI, Kenya.-The Kenya
Government has published the text
of a bill amending the colony's
penal code to make permanent
emergency legislation for dealing
with anti-white Mau Mau terror
ism.
Capital punishment is proposed
for persons convicted of admins
tering oaths which bind people to
commit capital offenses and life
Imprisonment will be the maximum
penalty for persons taking part in
oath taking ceremonies or for those
taking oaths voluntarily.
Another section of the bill speci-
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Concord, N. H. - Ndabaningi
Sithole, Ndebele educator and lear
er from st. Silinda, Southern Rho
desia, Africa, speaking on Wednes-
day before the American Board of
Foreign Missions Luncheon in First
Congregational Church, attacked
colonialism and challenged the
church to- cease misrepresenting
the spirit of Christ in matters in
volving black and white people.
Mr.. Sithole told how the atti-
tude of young Africans is changing
from one Of submission and extern
al rule to one: of nationalism and
self rule. "Illiteracy is yielding
place to Nteracy; ignorance to
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-11-05
Dr.. S. D. Proctor Inaugurated Fifth
President Of Virginia Union Univ.

degree from Grocer Theological
Seminary and Doctor of Theology
degree from Boston University. He
also studied in the graduate schools
of the University of Pennsylvania
and Yale University.
Was Pastor
Before coming to Virginia Union
University he served as the pastor
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Richmond, Va, Nov. 1..-(Spe-
cial--Dr. Samuel Dewitt Proctor,
former dean of the school of Re-
ligion and vice president of Vir-
GINA Union University, was in
augurated as fifth president Of the
University on Friday, November a..
DIR. Proctor holds the Bachelor
of Arts degree from Virginia Union
University, Bachelor Of Divinity
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Nine. C. j. Walker Representatives
At Atlanta Beauty Trades Show

Atlanta, Ga. Nov. 1 - Mrs.
Marjorie S. Joyner of Chicago,
Illinois, National Supervisor of
Nine. C. J. Walker Colleges of
Beauty Culture and Mrs. Bernice
Kent, faculty member of the Walk
er College of indianapolis, Indiana,
represented the Nine. c. j. Walker
Manufacturing Company, pioneer
hair and skin cosmetics firm, at
the big Trade Show of the Eastern
Cosmetics Manufacturers Associa-
ton. held at the Municipal Audi
torium, Atlanta, Georgia, October