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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-13
.PHiLATELIC NEWS
BY BELMONT FAIRIES

Svend Yort of Chevy Chase
was installed as president of
the Washington Philatelic So
ciety at its meeting Wednesday
night, succeeding DR.. George
L. Fite.
Mr.. Yort, a member of the
international jury for the Fifth
international Philatelic Ex-
hibition in New York, special
ICES in stamps of Scandinavia.
He is a former president of the
society.
Edward S. Conger was re-
elected first vice president, and
Samuel M. Burgess II moved
up from secretary to second
vice president. Miss Charlotte
Reinhart was named secretary
and Livingston Vann, jr.,
treasurer.
Members of the new Board
of Governors are Joseph A.
Herbert re-electedl, Alfred S.
Holyoke. Robert A. Peck and
Mrs. Mabel L. Wilson.
Lorne w. Bentham will sue
coed Mr.. Yort as editor of the
society's Bulletin.
X
FIPEX Award Winners
Greek Ambassador George
V. Melas was the most sue
cessful of Washington area
entrants in the competitive
classes at the Fifth Interna-
tional Philatelic Exhibition,
winning silver gilt medal
with his flve-frame display of
Hermes Heads, the first issue
of Greece.
Bronze medals went to Col.
Spencer Cosby for his study
of postally-used fiscals of
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and TO Ell
lery Denison for his Chinese
air mails.
James L. SWiSher of Alex
andria received a second award
in the Great Britain and Col
onies section of the junior di-
vision. Jimmy, who is IL and
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country and to limit the strong
Swedish influence on Finnish
culture.
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Pictures Of Timely
News Events
On This Page
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Fastest Man On

TVS "Wyatt carp" bets 81 900 he can beat all
BY LESLIE LIE8ER
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he air in the stage-set Western saloon
where we we're TO interview Hugh o Brian
fairly cracked with suppressed excite
ment. The long day of shooting both
camera and pistol - was over. No one
sat at the old rum-Soaked table but MIR.
O'Brian. who plays the role of frontier
marshal Wyatt carp, and myself. But
there was cold. fiinty look in O'Brian's
defiant eyes that made me feel was on
the brink of something big.
was. Suddenly he turned TO me.
Through the pages Of THIS WEEK.
said the ABC star, Il hereby challenge
Roy Rogers. the Lone Ranger, Hopalong
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Cassidy, Gene Autry - the whole sage
brush Shebang to a put-up or Shut-up
duel TO be held at high noon on the
streets of Western movie set. The con-
test will be TO settle once and for all
which TV cowboy actor is fastest on the
draw. I'll personally put up one thou
sand dollars for charity that can get the
Jump on any Of the Others.
MIR. O'Brian made a Stealthy move
ment of his right hand. We were not sure
whether he was reaching for his gun or a
thouSand-dollar bill. His eyes remained
stony, his jaw firm.
Would you propose using real bull
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But I didn't seem to be very good
at any of them," the tall, slim girl
recalls. II was very discouraged until
one day my father noticed that 1
seemed to have an aptitude for SWIM
ming. We decided to concentrate on
one sport instead of dabbling in many.
That winter I splaShed through the
water hour after hour in Washington
with good coach directing me-"
The next summer, when she re-
turned to Sherwood Forest, she took
home trophy for being the best
swimmer in her age group. This
award has cherished place among
her subsequent, more significant tro-
phieS that are arrayed in the Mann
recreation room.
During the winter of 1872 Shelley
won several junior championships
and one senior championship in the
District. Meanwhile, she joined the
Walter Reed Swim Club at the Army
Medical Center, team of fleet, teen
age swimmers that now holds the
national senior women'S Amateur
Athletic Union indoor and outdoor
championships. In individual events
members have set two world records
and IA American records, and Shelley
is regarded as the undisputed star
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From Cripple to Champ
By EMILY TOWE

CHELLEY MANN, 18-year-old honey
y colored blond of Arlington, is
acclaimed as the queen of United
States swimmers"
This winner of 10 national swim
ming championships in the last two
years, who also holds world record
in the 1OO-yard butterfly event, was
shy, crippled child IL years ago.
Although she is still modest regard
ing the many triumphS she has scored
in national and international meets,
Miss Mann is today a radiant, conf
dent young woman who also finds
time to study modelling and speak to
civic groups.
The story of Shelley Mann, de-
scribed by sports experts as the Ma
tons top amateur woman swimmer
today, goes back to 1913 when she
spent six weeks in a hospital as the
result of poliomyelitiS. Several years
later, her parents, Mr.. and Mrs Ham
ilton H. Mann of BIS Ivy street,
Arlington, purchased a summer cot
tage in Sherwood Forest, Md. Indom-
liable in spite of her handicap, Shelley
bravely competed in tennis, golf,
horseback riding and swimming with
other children of the summer
community
Jackson advocate., 1956-08-11
New Aspect OF The Mississippi
Negro Problem

rapidly developing condition is putting
pect on the Mississippi Negro problem which to some
may appear of far greater Importance than the
current argument and controversy over the issue of
civil rights.
According to a we'll informed source there are some
$4,000 Negroes in the Is cotton producing counties
comprising what is known the Mississippi delta
The mechanzaton of cotton production has already
duced the demand for farm labor generally supplied by
Negro workers to the point where it is estimated that
100000 of delta Negro farmer workers
only able to look forward to about four months work
in the year hoeing cotton with nothing but the income
from the four months work to live during the entire
year.
According to we'll informed source studies of
mechanical methods and the of chemicals will in
about the next five years. according to advances al
ready made, reduce drasticay if not altogether, the
need for the hoe hand in the production of cotton
What will become of this estimated 100000 Negro
workers longer able to obtain the megre livelihood
of four months work hoe hands is already looming up
a major social we'll economic problem of vital
to the future of the delta section and of the
tire state.
Well informed business men as we'll as large cotton
planters do not and not urging Negro migration
as solution to this growing aspect of the Negro prob
lem.
Some notable efforts are being made in effort to
attract industry to the delta section of the state which
at first view would seem to be attracted by the growing
surplus of tractable labor However this at present is
not the view Of the industrial employers looking for To-
cations in the south according to the best available in
formation.
According to reports the large number of available
Negro workers the delta has hndered rather than
helped the location of industries in the delta section
of the state recent reports show of 40odd
industries that have to the state, only four have
located in the delta section of the state.
The main reason that the large supply of Negro
labor is failing to help in attracting industries to
the delta section according reports is because of the
present inability of the delta Negro Farm worker to
qualify industrial worker, which is primarily due
to his long induced habits cotton plantation worker
To overcome this handicap of the Negro farm
worker, and in order to hold him in the delta fu
ture industrial worker is of the great challenges to
Delta Leadership both white and Negro for
It, there is nothing inherent in the Delta Negro Farm
Worker that will prevent his becoming, with the proper
opportunity for training, good industrial worker
as can be found anywhere else in the nation
Jackson advocate., 1956-08-11
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to prominence at a time when his
country was torn by the stresses of
the Mau Mau uprising. At a
time when thousands of Africans
many of them trade unionists--
were being arrested and imprison-
ed by the British, often merely for
being under suspicion of not hav-
ing the same ideas as the white
settler clique, Mr.. Mboya succeeded
in organizing government workers
into unions. Still in his early
twenties, he successfully negotiat-
ed the settlement of a strike which
had tied up the port of Mombasa
for three days, gaining substantial
benefits for the strikers in the
process. Today he is General Sec
retary Of the Kenya Federation of
Labor, which is affiliated with the
International Confederation of Free
Trade Unions.
A brilliant speaker, and an en-
thusiastic devotee of education, Mr..
Mboya began his educational ca
reer at a Catholic mission school
where they taught him to write
in sand for want of paper, and
under a tree for want of a class
room. Last year he obtained
scholarship to Ruskin College, Ok
ford, England. Later this year,
after his visit to the states, he is
to return to Kenya to contest a
seat in the Kenya Parliament in
the first election in which Afri-
cans have been allowed to contest
seats.
The American Committee on AZ
rica, which is sponsoring Tom
Mboya's six-week viist to Ameri-
ca, was founded in 1854. Dedicated
to working for the eradication of
colonialism and racial prejudice in
Africa, it encourages a greater
understanding Of African affairs
on the part of Americans, and is
also working to effect change
in U. S. policy towards Africa at
the United Nations, where U. S.
voting has hitherto been almost
uninterruptedly in favor of the
colonial powers. Located at %
East 35th Street, New York 16,
the committee publishes BIZ
monthly magazine about the Afri-
cans.
Jackson advocate., 1956-08-11
Jesse Owens To
Direct Youth Work
In Indiana

Green Castle, Ind, Aug. Gone
of the greatest athletes of our time,
Jesse Owens, along with Rep.
Brooks Hays Cd. Ark.) have been
selected to head the workshop pro-
gram of the Sixth Annual Insti-
tute for Methodist Men to be held
at DePauw University Aug. 81,
through Sept. 2.
Both Owens and Hays will di-
rect the workshop on youth work,
one of eight workshops planned
for this meeting. Many Methodist
ychurchmen and laymen from over
the nation are expected to attend.
Other directors and workshops
planned are Rev. Tracey K. Jones
of New York, Missions; E. H.
Ormiston, Stewardship, Lay Leader
of the church in Michigan; Rev.
Wyatt Aiken Smart, chaplain of
Emory University, Atlanta, Ca,
Bible; Don Calame of Chicago,
Methodist Men; Rev. Walter R..
Hand, executive secretary Of the
Indianapolis Council of Churches;
Interchurch Cooperation and Lay
Work in Churches, Rev. Leon M.
Adkins, Nashville, Tenn.
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Jackson advocate., 1956-08-11
Million Dollar
Classroom BLDG.
Fla. \. & M.

TALLAHASSEE. - One of the
most modern and functional class
room buildings in the country, con-
structed at a cost of $1,000, 900,
has been added to the ever-gro,v-
ing skyline Of Florida A. & M.
University and win be ready for
occupancy when the fall term be-
gins in September.
Two other structures, the first
wing of the student union building
and the demonstration high school
building, are also expected to. be
ready for fall use. They will
bring total of Is to the number
Of buildings completed at a cost of
$7,O29,000 since DR.. George w.
Gore Jr., became president Of the
institution on April 1, 1850. A ST.
100000 agriculture building is cur
rently under construction and plans
for 1856, 900 athletic stadium. a
$15O,000 addition to the student
union building, and $500, 900 wo-
mems dormitory are now on the
drawing board.
The stunning red brick, solid
masonry classroom building con.
tains 81 classrooms with seating
Jackson advocate., 1956-08-11
inauguration Set
For President
Gibbs of \. & !.

Greensboro, N. c., Aug. 6-The
inauguration of Warmoth T. Gibbs
as president of A. and T. College,
here, has been set for Friday,
November 9.
Gerald M. Marteena, dean of
faculties and general chairman of
the arrangements committee, told
reporters this week that a series of
events is being planned for the
one-day celebration to begin in
midmorning and concluding in the
early evening.
Mr.. Gibbs, the fourth president
of the college assumed the position
last December following the death
of DR.. F. D. Bluford, who headed
the institution for more than 80
years. His emergency appointment
was confirmed with election to the
position at meeting for the trus-
tee board held last January. He
had served at the college, both as
instructor and dean of the School
of Education and Science for more
than quarter century.
Other presidents who had pre-
ceded Mr.. Gibbs, included James o.
Crosby, 1892-1896; DR.. James B.
Dudley, 1896-1925 and DR.. Bluford,
1925-1955.
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Moderate
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provide tuition grants for students
to attend private schools.
North Carolina is made up of a
complexity of social orders, and the
package isn't what everyone pre-
fers. Ample evidence of this has
turned up in months of discussion.
But that the voters will accede to
the necessary constitutional amend
ments in an election on Sept. 8 is
generally expected.
Moderate Comparison
The term moderate" is used,
even by North Carolinians, because
the plan, based on the conclusions
of legislative study committee
and championed by Gov. Luther H.
Hodges, is maderate by comparison
with some of the extremes advo-
Gated.
The Hodges plan, passed in the
Senate unanimously and by the
House 1O6 to 2, had nevertheless
in weeks of public discussion en-
countered considerable amount of
opposition. Many felt the Hodges
program to be unnecessary and a
threat to the public school system,
and that a pupil-assignment law
passed in 1866 was sufficient.
They tended to go along, how
ever, with the groundswell of popu-
lar support of the Hodges plan be-
cause it is permissive in nature and
actually doesn't. compel anyone to
do anything. Governor Hodges and
his advisors considered the addi-
tional measures a necessary "safe-
ty valve to take care of potential
ly "intolerable situations"
The Legislature, in a five-day
special session, overwhelmingly
stamped disapproval upon a more
drastic alternate plan which would
have abolished the constitutional
mandate that a public school sys-
tenn be maintained and would have
given the Legislature the authority
to set up and abolish public schools
in any district.
Jackson advocate., 1956-08-11
Woman Claims
Billy Anderson
Assaulted Her

Los Angeles, Calf, Aug. 6 -
Two weeks after a federal jury
found him guilty of sale and pos
session of marijuana, Billy Ander-
son, 25, son of Eddie Rochester
Anderson, radio and television
comedian, was released from Bev-
erly Hills Jail on battery charge
Anderson was released last
thursday on $500 bail, after his
arrest on complaint of Mrs. L.
Lockwood, 30-year-old secretary
of 637 N. Bronson Avenue. The
complainant charged Anderson got
in her automobile, twisted her
arms and forced her head to the
floor of her car. She complained
of a wrenched back.
Already free on $4,000 bail fol-
lowing conviction on marijuana
charges July 10, Anderson is to
appear for probation hearing and
sentence August 6. Charges
brought by the woman will he
heard August 20.
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Blame I eenagers
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Golden St., Roxbury.
Police also said that the youths
had set a small trailer ablaze,
painted the letters xxx on the
front of the house and ignited a
cross which was burning in the
yard when firemen responded to
an alarm about II o'clock on Mon
day night.
In a telephone conversation with
Mrs. Strother concerning the anti
Negro demonstrations against her
and her husband, she said:
We've owned the property for
five years. We didn't start to
build on it until a month and a
half ago.
"There are several homes being
built in the neighborhood and the
neighbors were always friendly.
But when we started to build,
some seemed to cool toward u.s."
Strother works as an auto me-
chanic during nights, and works
on the house during days. He said
he was shocked when he arrived at
his new home to find the charred
cross standing in front Of his part
n constructed house.
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Jackson advocate., 1956-08-11
Death Comes To
One OF AIcorn
Colleges Oldest
Residents

On Sunday afternoon at, approxi-
mately 400 p. m., death claimed
Mrs. Irene Jsnohon. Mrs. johnson
Melton Johnson. Mrs. Johnson
along with her husband, known by
all as "Cap" Johnson lived some
forty-seven years of her life right
here at Alcorn A. & M. College.
Many students will recall the
.Johnsons' home as "A home away
from home" Mr.. Johnson who still
resides on the campus as retired
engineer has forty-seven years OF
continuous service to his credit.
He has long become a permanent
fixture.
Funeral services for the late
Mrs. Irene Johnson will be held
from Oakland Memorial Chapel
(Alcorn A. & M. College) Wednes-
day. August 8, 1856 at 200 p. m.
The body will lie in state at the
Chapel from 100000 p. m. We'd
nesday afternoon.
Final rites will be held Thursday,
August 9, 1866 at 200 p. m. from
the South Pleasant Hill Missionary
Raptist Church, Southwest Of
Prentiss, Mississippi
Thompson Funeral Home, Port
Gibson. Miss, is in charge of fun
eral arrangements.
Jackson advocate., 1956-08-11
Dawson Heads
Probe Committee

Washington, d. c., Aug. Con
gressman William L. Dawson, the
Democrat from Illinois, is heading
the House Government Operations
Committee in new move to seek
why every major federal agency
of the Eisenhower Administration
is concealing routine information
from Congress and the public on
the grounds that they are follow
ing the presidents orders.
Dawson and his group claim
that "a strange psychosis exists
throughout high military and gov
ernmental circles today that the
governments business" He also
cited some executive officials who
are withholding information which
the public not only needs "but has
an inalienable right to know"
Basis of the claiming up by of
| ficials is letter by Eisenhower to
Defense Secretary Charles E. Will
son in 1854 during the Army-Mc-
Carthy hearings which said that
"the federal employees should re-
gard as privileged all official con-
versations or communications be-
tween officials by the executive
branch"
at seems inconceivable that 19
government agencies are now cit
ing this letter as a shadowy cloak
of authority to restrict or with
hold information. This flimsy pre-
text only serves to demonstrate
what extent executive departments
will 60"
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Jackson advocate., 1956-08-11

STAY ON THE KINGS HIWAY
IT'S THE WAY TO GLORY
It's a flesh and blood highway to
travel
Yet the Kings highway is all free
The Kings highway is the way to
glory
But the flesh and blood won't pay.
Death is the gate of endless JOY
When you are on the Kings high
way
Yet thousands are on that flesh
and blood highway
And are going to their death every
day.
We must stop building the House
of God
Because your members half are
full of sin
Jesus had to come of such kind
Of damnable women and men.
Gods Church is in the hearts of
his people
And His house is for His children
to come
And receive His spiritual food you
And then His will is done.
Too many unborn in Gods House
Hollering Amen and it's the way
The Lord said for US to separate
And we are going to He'll if we
won't obey.
I've had a taste of all kinds of life
When | was in my sins
But now | have lost such appetite
Of the world where | first begin.
You cannot give the world all up
Hollering hallelujah to begin
You have got to be born of the
spirit of God
And free from all of your sins.
It's easy to travel the Kings high
way
The end is an eternal life
But the national highway is a flesh
and blood way
For children as we'll as man and
= wife.
The world is travelling on the fast
time
Like the automobiles and big air
planes
A Christian country will give US
But the world will run us insane.
Looks like the world has gone
crazy
Ninety miles on a highway road
Two pints in the drivers hind
pockets
And the driver has about got his
load.
By Rev. ]. R. Perkins,
2611 Lilly Street,
Jackson, Mississippi.
Jackson advocate., 1956-08-11
Picture Of Louis
Saves Doctor
From Bandits

Chicago, ILL.,, Aug. 6.-An auto
graphed photo of former heavy
weight boxing champion Joe Louis
saved a physician last week from
getting sliced up"
The physician, DR.. A. Allen
Frankel member of the Illinois
Athletic Commission, was threat
ened in his office at 5023 Broad
way when two robbers armed with
knives forced their way in and
took his wallet and $45, a $500
diamond ring, a $40 watch, and a
bag containing 5000 worth of den-
tai gold.
One of the bandits then said,
"Should l slice him up"
The other bandit, seeing a pic
ture of Joe Louis on the office
wall, asked DR.. Frankel about it.
The dentist replied that he had
known Louis since he was an anna
teur boxer.
"If he knows Louis, he must be
a pretty nice guy" said the second
bandit. Leave him alone"
Jackson advocate., 1956-08-11
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ASOiltAIL0Cu 1IOIll age OII6t
refuse to put up his hands on COM
mand nor reach his hand to-
wards his rear pocket or make
any movement whatsoever.
Plalnt1tf gave no reasonable
cause or any cause to believe he
was about to assault the defend
ant with deadly weapon or with
any weapon whatsoever; that Jones
had no weapon in his possession
and that defendant had no fear
that he intended to cause him any
harm ,or attempt to resist arrest"
In upholding the lower court
finding, the appeals judges quote
from the earlier finding on Jones
behalf which stated:
"The defendant (Shears) in his
official capacity as deputy sheriff
of Los Angeles County did wrong
fully, unlawfully and violently as
o00AS viz PAoiAiSiAI.
The shooting occurred in Mon
rovia in 1851 when Shears was out
joy-riding with his family on a
Sunday afternoon.
His automobile had a close brush
with the one which Jones was driv-
ing and he ordered Jones to pull
over to the curb.
AS Jones alighted from his car,
Shears pulled his revolver and shot.
The bullet lodged in the Negro
workers spine and left him para
lyzed for life.
The shooting was witnessed by
Mrs. Mary L. Johnson, 1434 South
Mountain ST., who testified to the
brutal, unprovoked attack on Jones.
The case was taken by the Pasa-
dena branch of the National Assn.
for the Advancement of Colored
People. Attys. Charles Johnson
and Herbert Simmons, California 5
foremost civil rights attorneys,
represented Jones in Superior Court
before Judge Kurtz Kaufman, two
years ago when the original judg-
ment was handed down.
Jackson advocate., 1956-08-11
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but council headquarters denied
any knowledge of the prank.
Police made no effort to remove
the double scaffold, and citizens
attracted to the scene seemed am
used by the figures and walked
on laughing.
A large, fancy sign on the gal
lows, reading "built by union la
bor," was believed to be a stab at
the AFL-CIO endorsement of inte-
grafton.
Montgomery has long been hot
bed in the segregation-integration
struggle. Last December Negroes
began a violence-marked boycott
of Montgomery buses in protest
against the arrest of a Negro
woman who refused to move to the
Negro section on a bus.
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Jackson advocate., 1956-08-11

capacity of 1886, three seminar
conference rooms with minimum
seating capacity Of 81, two lecture
halls with seating capacity Of
216. and an auditorium with seat
ing capacity of 701, bring the to-
tai seating capacity Of the build
ing to an astounding 2,055.
Jackson advocate., 1956-08-11
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and promoting litigation"
Cook said the only organiza-
tion he has in mind is the NAACP.
Cook submitted, a recommends
tion to the legislature earlier this
year to outlaw the NAACP on
grounds of alleged subversive ac-
tivity. However, no action was
taken.