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Evening star., 1955-03-07
Two Policemen Put
On Trial With Six
Alleged Gamblers
Jury Selection Storts;
All Accused of Offering
Bribes for Protection
By Jack Jonas

Attorneys today began picking
a jury for the often delayed
bribery and conspiracy trial OF
two policemen and six alleged
gamblers.
Among the defendants in U. S
District Court for the District
of Columbia are Capt. John B
Monroe, former head of the
18th precinct, and George c.
Prather, probationary detective
of the 18th precinct, both under
suspension.
All eight men are accused OF
offering bribes for protection OF
gambling racketeers.
A packed courtroom indicated
heavy interest in the case. All
seats were taken and other
would-be spectators stood out
side the courtroom door. unable
to get in.
Simkins Among Defendants.
Among the defendants is
Roger CWhitetop) Simkins, COL
ored, most publicized figure in
the gambling group. The others
are Albert H. CReal Estate)
Smith, As, of Potomac, Md;
Charles (Geechie Charlie) An
derson, 40, colored, of the 1900
block of w street NV; Curtis
M. (Bozo) Taylor, 80, colored,
of the 5000 block of Thirteenth
street NV; John Lefty Win
ston, AZ, colored, of the 1000
block of Flagler place NV. and
Burnie King, 20, colored, of the
900 block of Quincy street NV.
The trial got under way after
Judge Burnita S. Matthews
turned down motions for dis
missal of the indictment, for a
continuance and for separate
trials for the defendants, and a
challenge of the jury panel.
All of the men are accused of
passing money to Capt. Todd o.
Thoman, jr., of the gambling
squad, for the protection" of
either numbers or race-hetting
establishments.
Capt. Thoman, expected to be
the Governments star witness,
posed for 10 months as an Of
ficer willing to accept bribes. He
acted under direction of Police
Chief Robert v. Murray and
United States Attorney Leo A.
Rover.
$4,000 in Brides Alleged.
During the 10 months that he
played a dual role, police have
said, more than $4,000 in bribe
(See BRIBERY. Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1955-03-07
AT Plane With IA Crashes
In Mountains Of Formosa
BY the Associated Press

TAIPEI, Formosa, Mar. IA
United States Air Force transport
plane carrying IA persons crashed
yesterday in the cloud-hidden
mountains of southeast Formosa.
Search planes spotted the
wreckage today and reported no
sign of survivors.
The C-54 was on a flight from
Okinawa with five crewmen, nine
passengers and a replacement
engine for another Air Force
plane stranded in Hong Kong.
1t crashed about 20 miles
northwest of Taitung. Of course
38 miles, it hit a l0,000-foot
mountain at about 5000 feet.
The plane was from the 6000th
Operation Squadron, Tokyo.
Five Americans and so Chinese
were en- route to the crash scene.
They few from Taipei to Tai
tung. From Taitung they will
ride in trucks as far as they can,
then climb the rest Of the way.
It will take hours.
Evening star., 1955-03-07
23d and o7st Psalms
Eisenhower Fovorites

LENTEN REFLECT IoNs-The 23d
Psolm is President Eisenhower's fo-
vorite Bible reodino. while the 9lst
Psolm is the tovorite Of Mrs. Eisen-
hover. The importance Of the
Scriptures in the Eisenhower daily
living is noted in the latest Of
series OF Lenten Reflections on
Poee B-l.
BICYCLE AcclDENTS-Lost yeor
257 persons we're injured in collisions
between bicycles and automobiles.
See Pose AS for some hiehIiehts
Of rules OF bicycles.
SPRlNG-The daily trips TO the
florists nony women moke TO pick
up thot single rose one red or white
cornotIon. ore sure signs thot spring
is on its way in the toshion world.
Poee B-5.
Evening star., 1955-03-07
Recovery in West Germony
BY Crosby S. Noyes
Europeon Correspondent Of The Star


HAMBURG.-There is a good
deal of truth in the saying that
Bonn isn't Germany. In Bonn,
the great issues of rearmament
and reunif1cation are things to
talk about. In places like Ham,
burg, there is less talk. But, on
the other hand, the issues them
selves have a practical and spe-
cific meaning to the people who
live here.
A friend-an American who
was bornoin Hamburg and knows
his way around-gave us a slant
on the place.
Socially speaking, some of the
crustlest people in Europe are
here" he told me. "A good many
of these families were running
things in Hamburg before there
was any such thing as a Ger
man state. You might call them
the Astors and Vanderbilts of
Germany-merchants, and proud
of it,"
Outgoing conservatives with
worldwide interests and tradi-
tions dating back fer centuries.
these great merchant families
still set the tone in this booming
port town. One is almost inclined
to overlook the fact that Ham
burg also is the greatest indus
trial city of Germany-the GEN.
ter of the tobacco. oil and elec-
trical industries.
When you talk to them, how
ever, these leading citizens of
Hamburg, whether merchant
princes or captains of industry,
have a good deal in common.
Evening star., 1955-03-07
Three-Roon1 House
SomersouIts for
Is Feet DownhM

PIKEVILLE, KY, Mar. THE
whole house jumped, slipped, and
finally tipped.
And when the three-room
dwelling somersaulted 25 feet
downhill yesterday morning, Mrs.
Ella Norman went with it.
After the houses descent was
halted by a tree, neighbors pulled
Mrs. Norman from the wreckage
and took her to hospital for
treatment of cuts and bruises.
Mrs. Norman's 8-year-old son,
playing outside when the foun-
dation gave way apparently
weakened by heavy rains was
unhurt.
Had it not been for the tree,
the house, one OF several built
on stills high above the city,
could have turnbled 900 feet
down the steep incline.
Evening star., 1955-03-07
Dulles Brings Report
To White House on
Developments in Asia
Has Second Conference
With President, Speuks
To Nation Tomorrow
By J. v. Horner

Secretary of State Dulles went
to the White House again today
to round out his report to
President Eisenhower on the
crisis in Asia.
1t was the second conference
between the President and the
Secretary since Mr.. Dulles re-
turned to Washington yester-
day morning from a 26.000-mile
trip to the Far East.
The Secretary spent an hour
and one-half in an unscheduled
meeting yesterday and was with
the President for As minutes
this morning reviewing condi-
tions in the seven countries he
visited.
Talks to Hill Leaders.
Mr.. Dulles conferred at break
fast today with Chairman
George, of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, and he
talked by telephone with Chair
man Richards of the House For
eign Affairs Committee. He will
testify before both of those COM
mittees tomorrow.
The Secretary also will report
to the Nation in a speech to be
broadcast and televised tomor-
row night. The time was to be
announced later today.
When he arrived at National
Airport yesterday the Secretary
said he had found courage and
love of liberty and hope" in the
area he described as "the for
ward positions of freedom" in
Asia.
Much of the hope, ne said, is
based on United States power
and willingness to fight.
Forges New Link.
Referring to the countries as
the forward positions of freedom
the Secretary said they are
positions which the Chinese
Communists are desperately
trying to take"
Mr.. Dulles went to the Far
East last month to help forge a
new link in the Vests Pacific
defenses. He did that at Bang
kok, Thailand. where the eight
nation Manila pact organized its
Southeast Asia defenSes, and al
Taipei, Formosa, where he set in
motion the United States-Na-
tionalist China defense treaty.
These tie in to similar treaties
with Australia, New Zealand,
japan, South Korea and the
Philippines.
AS a result of the trips accom-
(See DULLES, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1955-03-07
so Affected by Fumes
In New York BUILDING
By the Associated Press

NEW YORK. Mar. Sixty
persons, most of them women,
were reported affected by car
bon monoxide poisoning while
at work today in n building at
$50 Broadway. Eight were said
to have been seriously a44ecteu.
Police said the fumes came
from a boiler which provides
steam for pressing machines.
The firm, Russ Togs, Inc, makes
chlidren's and sports wear.
The eight most seriously
stricken were hospitalized.
Others were treated in the build
ing by firemen and policemen
using oxygen inhalators.
Evening star., 1955-03-07
Mr.. D. V. Sells His TV
Through Star Want Ad

Before he could buy bigger Tv
set M. D. Y. wonted to sell his
smoller l6-ineh tobIe model. In
order to rind q soles ehonnel quickly
he turned to The Stor Classified.
He found the right audience voting
for his .nessose. He sold the set
the first coy his I'D appeared.
Like M. D. VI # you have some
thing to sell and wont to tune in
on quick results, tell il to the thou
sonds Of people who reod The Stor
Classified every doy.
It's cosy to place on cd In The
Stor Classified. Just phone Sterling
5000 and osk for on od-toker.
Evening star., 1955-03-07
Late News
Bulletin
Jet Plane Crashes

An F-86-D Sabrejet plane
from Andrews Air Force Base,
Md, was reported missing to-
day during four-plane fight
from Andrews to Newcastle
tDel.) Air Force Base. At the
same time, Maryland State
police said a jet plane was re-
ported down about noon in the
Chesapeake Bay area near
ChestertOwn, Md, and the pilot
was believed to have bailed
out.
Evening star., 1955-03-07
l8 Died in Storm

TOKYO, Mar. 7 (R.-Eighteen
persons were killed, 46 are still
missing and lit small ships we're
sunk, damaged or washed away
in the flve-day storm that raked
the Yellow and East China Seas
last month. The Japanese Mari
time Safety Board released the
tabulation.
Evening star., 1955-03-07

years imprisonment on each
count.
Seek to Drop Proceeding.
The Lamb hearing was re-
cessed on February "a after Her.
bert Sharfman, the FEC exam
liner, called Mrs. Natvig an in
credible" witness and took under
advisement move by Lambs
attorneys that the whole pro-
ceeding be tossed out.
Mr.. Sharfman today gave FEC
(See NATVIG, Page A-6.)
Evening star., 1955-03-07
Bonk Bondits Get $4,000

NEW YORK, Mar. 7 (Py. -
Three robbers held up the For
est Hills Queens, branch of the
Bank of the Manhattan Co. to-
day and fled with between $l5,.
900 and $4,000 police reported.
Evening star., 1955-03-07
Press PurIey Slated

President Eisenhower will hold
a news conference at 1890 am.
Wednesday, the White House an
nounced today.
Evening star., 1955-03-07
Biggest A-BIast
OF IS Set Off
On Nevada Flat
Brilliant Detonution
DuzzIes Observers
In Several States
By the Associated Press

LAS VEGAS, New, Mar. T.
The largest atomic device tested
in the 1855 nuclear series ex-
ploded today with a pre-dawn
brilliance which daZzled observ-
ers in several Western States.
The binding flash of the big
ger than average A-weapon
Evening star., 1955-03-07

(See DULLES, Page A-50
Evening star., 1955-03-07

Picture on Poee AS
Evening star., 1955-03-07

Although the great pocket-emptying
deadline Is still six weeks in the future,
lines of taxpayers seeking help from the
Internal Revenue wait each weekday in
the buildings corridors.
Page B-1.
Evening star., 1955-03-07

(See BRIBERY, Page AS.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-01-01
Seismic Advance
Is Developed

HOUSTON - A revolutionary
method for computing seismic re-
Election promises increased accu-
racy of Interpretation and allows
computing to be kept to up to
date at all times, according to a
story in the December 20 issue of
The Oil and Gas Journal. The new
method is known as the Reynolds
Gross-Section Plotter, the inven-
ton of V. T. Reynolds, a geophy-
sicist of many years standing.
John w. Flude, president of Off
shore Exploration Group, Inc, of
Houston, explains, in the Journal
story, that fundamentally, the Rey-
nolds Plotter corrects each used
seismic trace for elevation or water
depth, weathering, and step out,
makes use of any desired velocity
curve, and plots these traces in
their horizontally surveyed posi-
lions. All data, even from a high
speed offshore crew, can be plotted
g hours after the records are re-
ceived, and by much smaller COM
putting staff.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-01-01

store owned by the company that
employed him only the brands
the company store chose to offer
. only at prices the store saw
fit to charge?
That the rights of men were fire.
quently subordinated to the rights
of property, openly and in so
many words? That property rights
were sacred? That George Baer,
president Of the Philadelphia G.
Reading R. R., found wide agree
ment about 1900 when he said:
"The rights and interests of the
laboring man will be protected and
cared for, not by the labor agita-
tors, but by the Christian men
and women to whom God in His
Infinite Wisdom has given control
of the property rights of this coun-
try"
That, in 1886, Jay Gould, finan-
cier and railroad owner, said: II
can hire one half of the working
class to kill the other half"
That often it looked as if he were
right? For, until 1881 and forma-
ton of the AFL, the idea Of Ameri-
can working people nationally
united in their own interests was
barely a dream.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-01-01
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police question suspected members
of the anti-white terrorist cult,
follows many reports of wide
spread beatings and other third
degree methods used to extract
confessions.
A judge commented in court
Dec. % during a Mau Mau case
that at seems it may be a COM
mon practice" for the police to
band over suspects to loyalist At
rican screening teams" for soft
ening up"
The judge, Sir Newman Wor-
ley, was hearing an appeal by
two Africans condemned to capt.
tai punishment for being caught
with a gun and for consorting
with terrorists. He rejected the
appeal on the grounds of other
evidence but noted he had no rea-
son to disbelieve accusation of
third-degree methods against the
police.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-01-01
Canal Zone $50.
CONTINUED From Page One)

zone. AS a result-although de-
tails won't be published until next
month"; is known that the pact
provides for an increase in the
present S430,000 annual payment
to Panama for canal rights to ST.
100000.
Other United States concessions
are said to be: Equal pay equal
work for Panamanians and United
States citizens in canal zone jobs,
return to Panama of land worth
$25, 100000, and equal opportunity
for Panamanian firms to bid
against United States companies
for supplies purchased by the
Panama Canal Company, United
States Government firm which op-
crates the zone.
Approval Required
Legislative approval of the trea-
ty will be required in both coun-
tries.
In this situation, again, can be
seen another manifestation of ma
tionalism in Latin America. Pana-
ma has been determined to attain
greater status of equality for itself
as a nation and for its nationals as
workers in the zone.
President Remoh, in fact, virtu-
ally pinned his political future on
wrestling concessions from the
United States. When Panamanian
ternpers rose earlier this year over
the long delay in the negotiations,
President Remon promised he
would not compromise his basic de-
nands and added:
Anti American Feeling
panama is looked upon interna-
tionally today as an Independent
republic unlike in time past when
we were considered dependent upon
a foreign nation"
Negotiations for the treaty took
Is months and disagreements were
not quickly settled. Anti-Amerl-
canism rose in Papama during the
long period.
The new treaty, with many
United States concessions, however,
is expected to still that clamor
somewhat and to contribute to the
strengthening of president Re-
mons prestige within and without
Panama.
Discrimination, both racial and
economic, resulting from two diff
ferent pay standards in the zone
had been one of the major Pana-
manian- complaints. The zone has
two pay standards-one for United
States rate employees, who are
mostly United States citizens and
who receive about the same pay
they would get for similar jobs in
the federal service, and local rate
employees who receive a much
lower scale.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-01-01

three months during the year. This
is the measure of the real impact
of unemployment upon the people
of our nation.
What about the futre? When we
begin to see what the full picture
of unemployment has been and
particularly that the national av-
erages conceal the actual effect
in human terms on those who have
been hit hardest by unemployment,
achievement of an immediate and
sharp reduction in unemployment
inevitably looms as the nations
first job on the domestic front.
But to accomplish this goal, 1866
must be not the second best year
or even as good as the best pre-
vious year; it must be better by
far than ever before.
Our labor force is increasing
at the rate of about 100000 a
year. Each year our nations pro-
ductivity is increasing by at least
2h to 8 per cent. To keep up
with these changes, we need from
100000 to 100000 new jobs
each year. If our economy is able
to do only as we'll in 1866 as in
1853, unemployment for the year
would reach at least 100000 and
might go as high as 100000 in
stead of the 100000 we had in
1868.
This means just one thing: Just
as good as before is long way
from being good enough.
In September the convention Of
the American Federation of Labor
formulated a forward-looking eco
nomic program for the nation,
calling for public and private &C
tion on all important economic
fronts, including taxation, wages,
housing, public works and social
security. To assure full employ
ment, this program should pro-
vide the framework for the eco
nomic decisions of the next Con-
gresS.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-01-01
Lay Plans
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fair for next year. The fair will
again be three-day event, October
1919, inclusive, and again will
feature statewide participation on
the part of the states Negro citi-
zens.
1t was agreed that Monday, Oc-
tober II, would be School Day
with the Jackson-Alcorn football
game tentatively set for That day.
The Board will meet again the first
of the year to continue plans for
the fair.
All officers were unanimously re-
elected. DR.. J. R. Otis, president,
presided.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-01-01

worker receives only fifteen cents
in unemployment insurance and
public assistance.
Partial Unemployment
More than 100000 workers are
employed part-time, an increase Of
1,750,000 since a year ago.
Up to now we have been talk
ing about full-time unemployment,
but there are many persons who
want full-time jobs but are forced
to take part-time work. Undoubt-
eddy some housewives, youngsters
and others do not want full-time
jobs, but a considerable number
of part-time workers would take
full-time jobs if they could get
them. They are therefore partially
unemployed.
In October, 1854, the Census re-
ported 9,338,000 people working
less than 35 hours a week. Part
time employment has jumped near
ly 2,750,000 over year ago. This
undoubtedly reflects mainly a very
substantial increase in unemploy-
ment.
The Full Picture
More than 100000 workers
have been unemployed at some
time during the past year.
One more important aspect
should be brought out to complete
this picture. We have seen that
unemployment in October, accord
ing to the official figures, was
100000. According to these
same official figures, peak unem-
ployment during the past year was
100000. But during the year
far more workers than even dur
ing the peak month have been hit
by unemployment.
In a recent speech Secretary of
Labor Mitchell somehow found
cause for satisfaction in this high
incidence of unemployment during
the year. This is what he said:
There is no large stagnant pool
of long-term unemployment among
the same individuals. This
is the hallmark of our free and
dynamic society"
Secretary Mitchell has apparent
ly failed to grasp that what is
especially important is that unem-
ployment has drastically curtailed
incomes and lowered living stand
ards of many millions of families.
According to the Department of
Labor, from October 1, 1853,
through September 80, 1854, near
ly 100000 unemployment insur-
ance claims were filed. Since some
people were jobless more than once
during the year, the actual mum
Der of people who filed claims
one or more times during the year
was not quite that high, but il
was still more than 100000.
AS the figures previously noted
indicate, this means that a mini
mum of 100000 workers-prob-
ably considerably more since many
unemployed are not covered by
unemployment insurance had
their incomes reduced by two
thirds or more for an average of
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-01-01
President
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Negro leadership in Mississippi is
being subjected to undispuised
economic intimidation admittedly
designed to curb civil rights and
particularly to discourage regis
tration and voting and to force
abandonment of efforts to secure
peaceful compliance with the Nav
18th ruling of the u. S. Supreme
Court outlawing racial segregation
in public schools. Reports from
members of our staff in the state
indicate banks and other private
credit institutions are conspiring
to put the squeeze on Negro farm
ers, businessmen and homeowners
who are active in the NAACP by
foreclosing their mortgages, de-
handing full and prompt payment
of Indebtedness, and refusing
credit.
"These and other acts of intimi-
dation have been initiated by So
called Citizens Councils recently
organized in many of the states
counties. These councils, accord
ing to state representative Wilma
Sledge of Sunflower County, are
composed of reliable white male
citizens organized for the sole
purpose of maintaining segrega-
ton of the races" They seek this
goal through the application of
economic. pressure to troublemak-
ers."
The Montgomery (Ala.) Adver-
tiser characterizes the councils
methods as rash, indecent and
vicious" This leading Southern
daily quotes council spokesman as
saying "we intend to make it diff
ficult, if not impossible, for any
Negro who advocates desegrega-
ton to find and hold job, get
credit, or renew a mortgage" We
believe these economic purges war
rant the attention of the federal
government. We urge you to di-
rect the appropriate federal agen-
cies to make such investigation as
may be needed and to make their
facilities readily available to Ne
gro citizens now being prosecuted
because they support the Constl-
tuition of the United States. We
are vitality concerned with the NOR
al issue confronting our country.
1--WE believe that a public state
ment from you followed by cor
receive action would be proper
exercise of the moral suasion in
herent in the high office of the
presidency of a free people. There
can be no freedom where privately
organized groups brazenly seek
to control the hopes, attitudes,
speech and action of American
citizens through what the Mont
gomery Advertiser aptly calls
economic thuggery." For the law
abiding victims of this terror we
pray swift and authoritative re-
lief. In this grave circumstance
we respectfully seek and urge a
conference with you for presenta-
ton of factual evidence and full
discussion of this new threat to the
we'll being of our country"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-01-01
Do You Know

For example, than in 1881, when
the American Federation Of Labor
was founded, that women who la
bored in Philadelphia textile mills
worked rs 1f2 hours a week?
That labor trouble" in that
good" period was caused far
more often by lockouts than by
strikes?
That dollar a day was regard
ed as adequate" pay in those
happy times? And that the Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher - by no
means an unkindly man, but re-
flecting the beliefs of the times
said this: as not dollar a day
enough? Water costs nothing, and
a man who cannot live on bread is
not fit to live"
That, in those "good old days."
a workman was not always free to
spend his small earnings where
and rs he pleased? - That in
many places he could buy only at