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provinces OF Laos, which may
be the poorest. most underde-
veloped independent country
In all the world. In Laos, the
Reds are building q worrisome
threat to Western interests in
all Of Southeast Asia.
Laos was one of the three
associated states which OBJ
tanned its freedom from France
last year as part Of the settle
ment ending the Indo-C Chinese
war. Under the agreement,
the Communist Wet Mini
troops were supposed to with
draw.
The Joker
They did. But they left be-
hind Red-trained native troops
which have refused to give up
control Of the two provinces
Of Phong sally and Sam Neua,
Three times, the Reds have
signed truce agreements with
the Laotian government. All
three times. the Reds have
kept right on fighting.
The latest truce was sup
posed to take effect October
~. but the Communists since
then have sent raiding parties
toward the royal capital Of
Lllang Prabang, and generally
probed the Royalist lines.
This latest failure to get q
cease-flre has spread new
anxiety among American Dip
iomats. They feel that the
Communists deliberately are
ignoring their international
agreements and may try per-
manently to annex the dis
puted provinces.
The provinces in Northeast
ern Laos touch the borders Of
Communist China and Conn
munist North Wet Nam. These
Red nations send material and
leadership across the borders
to nourish the I.aotian Com
munists. known as the Pathet
Lao.
Elephant Ciyilizotion
AS the Pathet Lao exert pres
sure to the south they disrupt
still further q country which
once was known IS Lanxang
The Land Of q Million Ele-
plants stilI has an ele-
phant-speed civilization.
Laos has one qualified ci-
william doctor for d civilian pop
Evening star., 1955-11-06
MARYLAND
b GENE GOODWIN

b..
New state tax sources
totaling more than SIS mill
lion are itemized In . re-
markably informative report
presented to the Maryland
Legislative Council last week
by the so-called Blair Lee
Subcommittee on Revenue APP
praisal.
The subcommittee, which
was sent out by the Legisla-
ture last spring to scout new
revenue sources in the face Of
. $25-to-$40 million State
deficit expected next year, en-
phasiges that 1t does not wish
to make any recommendations
as to which Of the new revenue
ideas it prefers.
But q careful study Of the
46-printed-page report shows
that the subcommittee re-
served Its strongest language
and its most searching anal
yses for these fiye new
revenue sources:
. Statewide tobacco tax.
. Higher beer tar.
. Sharply-increased franchise
tax on building and loan assoc
Citations.
. Higher horse racing tax
and more racing days.
. Ton-mile tax or q gross
receipts tax on truckers.
The report was written for
the subcommittee by its chair
man. Montgomery County
Delegate Lee.
Tobacco
The report points out that
Maryland is one Of the seven
remaining States which does
not levy q cigarette tar on .
Statewide basis. The others
are Missouri, Oregon, Cali
fornia. Colorado and the to-
bacco-growing States Of Vir-
ginia and North Carolina.
Maryland. too. grows to-
hacco In its i've southern
counties and the report says
its failure to levy . cigarette
tax rs rooted in the opposi-
ton Of the tobacco growers" !"
This opposition is difficult
to understand, however, when
one considers, as the report
states. that Maryland tobacco
Is sold all over the world and
only q minute quantity OF the
annual crop finds its way back
to Maryland in the form Of
cigars and cigarettes.
Baltimore City and County
now have local tobacco taxes
and other counties are begin
ming to follow suit. The report
predicts that soon, unless q
Statewide levy Is passed. all
the counties except the five
tobacco-growing ones win be
taxing tobacco products. and
that would be administratiYely
clumsy.
1t suggests that . more
rational policy" would be for
the State TO tax tobacco prod
ucts and share the revenue
with Baltimore CITY and the
counties as Is now done with
Evening star., 1955-11-06
Big Drum Won't Keep
Ogres Out Of Tiny Loos
BY JAMES e. ROPER

The tiny kingdom of Laos has brave-sounding
national anthem which includes these words: They
(the Laotian people, win rct allow any nation 10
create unrest or to occupy their SOIL
The people sing this anthem daily. But it would
be more appropriate to whistle it-and in the dark.
The fact is that the Communists occupy two key
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-01-29
Prentiss Institute
Wins Alabama
InvitationaI
Tournament

Prentiss Institute, the lone Mis-
sissippi entry, took top honors in
the 4th Central High School Invi-
rational Tournament at Mobile,
Ala, January 14-15. The Tourna-
ment was composed of some of the
best teams in Alabama, Louisiana,
Florida and Mississippi.
In the opening round Prentiss
avenged the defeat handed them
by Booker T. Washington High
of Montgomery, Ala, in the Ma
tional High School Tournament in
1854, as they scored their first
victory al to 33. In the semi
final game, the Prentiss five de-
feated Parker High of Birming-
ham, Ala, 81 to Al. The final
game was between Prentiss and
Hudson High, Selma, Ala. and saw
Prentiss emerge victorious az to
35 and to become the second cham
pion of this Invitational Tourna-
ment. The three previous years
Booker T. of Montgomery has
been the Champs.
1t was great Prentiss defensive
team which overshadowed all COM
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-01-29
Dodgers Will Not
Limit Number OF
Negroes On Roster
Says Robinson

NEW YORK, January 24-The
Brooklyn Dodgers will never limit
the number of Negro players on
its roster, Jackie Robinson said to-
day.
Writing in the new issue of Look
Magazine, Robinson revealed that
Dodger president Walter O'Mallev
told him privately: "The Dodgers
will field a team of nine Negroes
if they are the nine best PLAYERS
available"
Il am convinced that the Brook
Ign management wants to win ball
games-period," Robinson said in
his Look article. Several times
later in the season all five Negroes
on the club were used as a unit"
Although no open resentment
greeted this move, Robinson point
ed out, as recently as two years
ago-when Junior Gillian Joined
the Dodgers-there was an out
break of racial antagonism.
Gillian replaced Robinson at Sec
ond base and Robinson, in turn
ousted Billy Cox from third. Some
OF the white players felt it was
unfair to remove Cox in order to
bring another Negro into the in
field" Robinson says in his Look
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-01-29

II Pays To Advertise In The
JACKSON ADVOCATE
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Duroeher Says
Willie Mays To
Make History

NEW YORK, N. Y. Jan. "a
Leo Durocher said Tuesday that
Willie Mays is the best player in
baseball and that he expects the
New York Giants star to go down
in history as the greatest player of
all time.
If Mays hits, 1925 or better for
the next several years he should
top them ALL" the manager of the
world champions declared.
The outspoken Durocher said he
thought his dynamic centerfielder
would someday surpass the likes
of Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth and other
baseball immortals.
Not only that" Durocher add
ed, but | think that Mays could
play any other position better than
any one else ever played it,"
The 23-year-old Mays, batting
champ and MVP in the National
League last season, was rated
above Stan Musial and Duke Sni-
der by the Giants skipper who add
ed:
Although | admit, I think they
are wonderful and I'd be tickled
20 death 20 nave either or both"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-01-29
Chicago Brown
bombers To
Again Oppose
Gl0betrotters Here

Chicago's Brown Bombers, long
recognized as the foremost pro-
tessional basketball team of the
midwest outside of the National
Basketball Association, again have
been honored by being selected as
the opponents of the celebrated
Harlem Globetrotters Wednesday,
February %, in the College Park
Auditorium at 500 pm.
AS in the past, the Bombers are
a fast, clever aggregation of high
scoring power. The team is rated
one of the best in the nation, COM
binlng veterans and talented youths
in a perfect blending.
Every man is six feet tall or
over. Tallest at g. 8" is Tom Spen-
Ger, center, who was recently hon
orably discharged from the army
after two years of overseas duty,
during which he was chosen for
the All Star servicemen's Euro
pean team. Previously he had
played three seasons at Kentucky
State
Jim Macklin, also a center,
stands g. 5l2" and also recently
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Sa1R1S (z32|3
Jackson College Cagers Face A|corn
At College Park Auditorium Fri. Mite

The Jackson College Tigers,
sporting a 1873 record, return to
College Park Auditorium Friday
night, January %, to meet the
Alcorn College Braves. The Braves
and Tigers have met on two &C.
casions before this season and
split in these early season encount-
erS.
The Tigers returned from Aus
tin, Texas Sunday where they met
and defeated the very strong Hus-
ton-Tillotson team in an over
time contest. Huston-Tillotson led
at the half 1921. The regulation
ended with the score TIED 1872. In
the overtime period. however, the
Tigers were able to pull away from
the stubborn Texas team and win
by a score of 1871 Minter of
Huston illotson took high scoring
honors with 81 points. Covington
was top man for the Tigers with
- points 10 his credit
Because of the heated rivalry
that exists between the athletic
teams of Alcorn and Jackson, a
capacity crowd is expected for the
Friday night game.
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New York
Continued from Page One

Continued from Page one)
made by Prof. Kenneth Clark Of
City College that Negro and Puerto
Rican children had been segregated
in some schools and that lower
education standards existed in
those schools.
A seven-member PEA committee
on equality in education began the
1O-month survey with the aid of
the New York University Research
Center for Human Relations, Mr..
Nichols said.
"A major aim of the survey" Mr..
Nichols statement said, will be to
determine the quality of education
offered in predomnantly Negro
schools as compared with that of
fered in predominantly or all-white
schools.
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How full a life woman have? The perfect
answer to that is Mrs Bernice Bradford Bass. well
known schooeacher of Little Rock Arkansas college
graduate with degree in Home Economics. wife of
prominent Methodist minister. and the proud
mother of three fine children
I'VE have big appetites in family and we like to eat
WE'LL says Mrs. Bass That's why I've used douberich
Carnation for years. I've found there's just other
milk like Carnaon. Its special blending qualities give
favorite foods creamy rich flavor and texture And
know with Carnation, can count on uniform high
quality every time"
You'll find the nice things Mrs. Bass tells you about
Carnation Milk all true Whether you're an expert
enced homemaker like she is-or brand-new bride
just starting to cookyour food will taste ever much
richer with Carnationl
Mrs. Bass soys know you'll lo0e this creamy coconut
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morehouse Win
REEVES Tuskegee
Hopes For Late
Season Comeback

Tuskegee Institute, Ala.-A bril-
liant performance by Nathaniel
Frazier, who hoped 80 points, re-
vived Golden Tiger hopes of late
season comeback when Tuskegee
shaded Morehouse College, At
lanta, $3.50, in a see-saw thriller
in the local basketball emporium
here Wednesday night. Superbly
supported by Thomas Lampkin,
whose sensational play was tenn
porarlly halted by an injury dur
ing the game; James Williams,
Randall Sterling, Fred Burns and
Willis Morris. a Freshman Soph-
omOre combine, Frazier's 10 field
goals. mainly from the far outside.
and 10 successful free throws.
provided a margin which enabled
Tuskegee TO out point the talented,
excellently coached Maroon Tigers
from Atlanta.
The Morehouse Maroon Tigers:
Jim Workman. Ozie Bynum, Don
Clendenon, Bill Pennmay. and L.
A. Johnson, gave the Tuskegee
Tigers as much as they could say
grace over. With the score tied
eight times during the game, More
house stubbornly yielded as Tus-
kegee forged ahead with 10
point lead with less than five min
utes of play, but Morehouse never
surrendered. Substitutes Bernin
Collins, William Leggert and Ron
aid Johnson helped Jim Workman
narrow the gap in the final seconds
of play.
The game ending buzzer per-
mitted the Golden Tiger follow
ers to emit strong sigh of relief.
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returned after four years in the
air corps. He played brilliantly
at Wilson Junior College in Chi
cago. Dave Washington center and
forward, towers g. 5" and is in
his first season of pro ball after
starring at the University Of ILL
nois' Navy Pier branch in Chicago.
Horald Lattimer is g. 4" and had
a brilliant collegiate career.
Six feet three inch Willie Reid
was a four-year star at Tennessee
State University, which also pro-
duced Lucky" Landry, g. II, an
other member of the five. Round
ing out the speedy club are Leon
Dee from Arkansas, g. q, Eddie
Davis, g., and "Sparky" Don,
dribbler deluxe and also a six-foot-
er.
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Tuskegee Institute, Ala, Jan.
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Tuskegee Coach
Leaves Hospital

Tuskegee Institute, Ala, JAN.
l955-Cleve l.. Abbott, veteran
director of athletics and football
coach at Tuskegee Institute, is on
temporary leave from the Veterans
Administration Hospital at Tus-
kegee. Alabama, where he under
went surgery.
Abbott's illness kept him from
the annual Alabama State College
Tuskegee Institute football game.
the first one that he has missed in
over % years, and from attending
the annual meeting of the Ameri-
can Football Coaches Association,
which was held at the Statler Ho-
tel in New York city early in
January.
The veteran coach hopes to be
able to accompany participants to
Mexico City in March to take
part in the Pan American Olym-
pic Games which will be held March
II to &c, 1855.
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MRS sERNIeE BRADFORD BASS, SchooIteacher,
Capital Hill School, Little Rock, Arkansas
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ers as they allowed only 112 points
while they compiled 1877 in the
Tournament.
Center Wellie Taylor of Prentiss
received the trophy for the out
standing player of the tournament
and he was also high scorer with
81 points.
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1955-Cleve L. Abbott, Chairman
of the Southern Intercollegiate
Athletic Conference Basketball
Tournament, announced here today
that the 22nd annual STAG Tour
ney will be held in Logan Hall,
Feb. "a, 25, &c, 1855, at Tuskegee
Institute, Alabama.
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Florida Sheriff
CONTINUED from Page One)

"Mr. Mccall is sheriff of Lake
County and l am told that it is
dangerous in this county to an
tagonize him and that many law
abiding citizens are afraid of him.
My experience with him shows this
to be true. | am helpless under
those conditions. | have no other
recourse but to appeal to you TO
make a thorough investigation so
that justice may be done. This
| do"
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article
Thanks to several of the highly
respected older players, the I'M
pleasantness gradually died out,
says Robinson, and although Cox
was traded to the Orioles last De-
cember, "I'm sure the color situa-
ton had nothing to do with it."
Evening star., 1955-02-07
Aiabaman Seeks 10 Cut
VA Home Loan Interest

Representative Rains, Demo-
crat, of Alabama, said he
planned to introduce a bill today
to reduce from AZ to 4 per cent
the interest rate on home loans
guaranteed by the Veterans Ad-
miniStration.
Mr.. Rains, a member of the
House Banking Committee, said
his measure also would assure an
adequate supply of VA mortgage
money by directing the Treasury
to invest 20 per cent of the null
tibillion-dollar GI life insurance
reserves in 4 per cent VA guaran-
teed mortgages.
Mr.. Rains said his bill would
counter the new threat to the
veterans housing progra "
which, he said. has been raised
by resumption of "the Republi-
can hard money crusade of
1853" He referred specifically to
Secretary of the Treasury
Humphreys announcement last
month of a new 40-year bond
issue at per cent.
Evening star., 1955-02-07
Constantine Brown
We Fight Wars for Peace
Peaceful by Mature, America Has Let Down Her Guard
Often in the Post and Fooled Others Into Attocks
Constantine Brown

OF the many so-called ma
tional characteristics in which
Americans take special pride.
one is especially comforting to
almost all of us. It is that
enduring reputation and con-
viction that America. of all the
nations Of the world, is most
deeply dedicated to peace.
This noble concept of a
noble national attitude is a
truth beyond question for most
Americans. We know we are
not only peace-loving, but.
even more significant. we are
Just fundamentally unwarlike.
To even suggest the contrary
would be certain to bring scan
dal-and wrath-on the head
of the hapless individual who
would. in his ignorance. make
SO plainly stupid an observa-
ton.
Where else in the world, we
tell ourselves, would the great
est living military leader, Gen.
Douglas Macarthur, openly ad-
vocate total disarmament as
he did at Los Angeles recently?
Didn't America give rise to
the first national, organized
pacifist societies? Our churches
and schools teach INCREASINGLY
the bright beauties of peace
and the contrasting horrors of
war. We can point to evidences
on every side to attest to the
major role the love of peace
plays in American life and
thought.
Today. after suffering
through years of cold war
provocations and insults, after
accepting indignity after in
dignity at the hands of the
world Communist conspiracy,
We are still clinging to our
high-minded principles and
refusing to even think of war
as an instrument of policy,
except and unless we are at
tackled.
Evening star., 1955-02-07
Fletcher KnebeI-
Potomac Fever

United planes shoot Migs that attacked of
Korea One fellow who's writing history of the last
he can't work donethey keep him busy changing
the title
Vice President Nixon opens Caribbean tour. Princess
Margaret covering the sales territory for Britain but
compete with cashandcarry policy We the
cash and pay EN- to carry it away
The Pacific fleet it's shadowed by submarines
We know they're Russian because they surface only during the
hours when Moscow radios propaganda is off the air.
The Savings League says record
1921 billion Americans admire thrift much that
who doesn't practice it gets deported to Washington.
The French happy again. Having tossed Premier
MendesFrance they've settled back their routine of we'll
ordered chaos.
United Nations Ambassador Lodge says our current Far
East policy ito keep the other fellow That's
switch Usually policy keep
guessing.
Army Counselor John Adams will resign March 81 Mr..
Adams couldn't wait until In view of the
cuts he wasn't there would be anything
quit from
Evening star., 1955-02-07

formerly did not exist between
the President and members OF
the opposition.
Neither the Nationalist nor
the Communist Chinese are
helping themselves with Con-
gress during this period.
A former chairman of the
Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee, Tom Connally, ex-
pressed the view to which
many Senators adhere when
he said: THE trouble with old
Chang is that he doesn't Gen.
eralissimo enough" Senator
Byrd is one of the recent
spokesmen for those who sup
port the drawing of a line at
Formosa on the basis of United
States military advice but see
Chang as an incidental prob
lem. Chiang's efforts to pin
down the President to written
commitments on Quemoy and
Matsu are deeply resented in
these quarters.
The fire-eating Red Chinese
are pushing the President into
closer cooperation with the
Nationalists than he had in
tended to go. Those here who
would be content to see Chang
wind up as the Grand Duke Of
Formosa do not forget the
American prisoners in Red
hands nor will they swallow
the doses poured out on the
Peiping radio.
Evening star., 1955-02-07

That is our pride and our
prayerful conceit. We love
peace; what's more. we are
just naturally peaceful, and
when reluctantly we have
fought. we have fought only
for peace.
But our history as a Nation
shows that we had to do a lot
of fighting to protect our rep
utation as lovers OF peace.
Indeed, our history might
tempt a diSinterested and OBJ
jective observer to suspect that
our complacent and happy pic
ture of ourselves as a Nation
Of peace is a rosy illusion,
misty mirage quickly dispelled
by the harsh light of fact.
For the record shows that
the United States. in its CEN
tury and a half of existence
as a Nation, has fought 10
foreign wars, not counting the
American Revolution, the Civil
War, ana the many big and
little Indian wars and puni-
tive expeditions.
Five times in our national
history we have been engaged
in foreign wars with foreign
allies, Five other times we
have fought in foreign wars
alone, once in an undeclared
war that with revolutionary
France In l799- 1900.
And aside from real all-out
wars. the peace-loving United
States has taken military ac-
tion against foreign countries
and or foreign soil we'll over
100 times. We have pointed
guns at nations all over the
globe in matters ranging from
the tremendous to the trivial,
not counting such definitely
military operations as the oc-
cupations of Haiti and Mica
ragua, or the chase OF Pancho
Villa in the mountains of
Mexico.
Evening star., 1955-02-07
Doris FIeeson-
Annual Lu|| on Capitol Hill
Members Of Both Parties Prepare to Honor Patron Saints
Amid Relief Thot Fornooso Vote Fo!ed to Stir PUBLIC

1t would expedite the passage
of legislation and shorten the
sessions of Congress if all
hands would agree that the
patron saints of both parties
were born on a given day. for
it would mean that the parti-
san celebrating could be got
ten out of the way in one fell
swoop.
AS it is. Congress will be at
a virtual standstill for the next
two weeks while Republicans
point with pride to A. Lincoln.
In their turn, Democrats will
stall the session In late March
or early April to give them
selves ample scope to extol
Jefferson and jackson.
The fact that these Demo-
cratic heroes were born within
month of each other-Jack-
son on March Is, Jefferson on
April 13-has enabled their
party to make some progress
toward consolidation. Jeffer-
on-Jackson Day dinners are
now almost exclusively the
practice. So is the custom of
raising money at such dinners.
1t so happens this year that
the usual late winter congress
sional doldrums are probably
a boon to the White House.
Those tempting forums - the
we'll of the House and the floor
Of the Senate-are not going
to be available to possible
critics during the evacuation