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Evening star., 1956-03-29
New Legal Fight Set
Against Segregation
NAACP to File
Court Petition
In Virginia Soon

RICHMOND, Mar. 20 GA
new. second round legal attack
against school segregation in
Virginia will be launched with
in the next two weeks by Negro
attorneys.
The National ssociation for
the Advance. of Colored
People served ice yesterday
that it intended to petition the
Federal District Court here to
require Prince Edward County
to comply with the Supreme
Courts decision outlawing seq
regation in public schools.
Prince Edward was one of five
test cases that figured in the
high courts 1854 ruling. The
county-like all of Virginia
has continued to maintain seq
regated public schools.
NAACP lawyers, headed by
Chief Counsel Thurgood Mar
shall. notified Attorney General
y. Lindsay Almond and Prince
Edwards attorney of their in
tentions at an informal confer
ence Tuesday.
Mr.. Almond and r. Justin
Moore, lawyer for the county.
called on Gov. Stanley yesterday
and spent about two hours dis
cussing the new development,
but declined comment afterward.
Won't Reveal Details
An NAACP lawyer sidestepped
questions about the contents Of
the new petition, but indicated
it definitely would be filed within
two weeks.
It will go before the special
three-judge Federal court which
last summer declined to order
desegregation in Prince Edward
for 1886 but directed the
county to take steps for eventual
compliance with the desegrega-
ton decision.
NAACP attorneys went into
Federal court last week to ask
that all Prince Edward school
records and officials be. SUBJ
poenaed for questioning April 4.
The request was shelyed. how
ever. after a conference Of two
of the judges with lawyers on
both sides. It was agreed the
opposing attorneys would confer
and try to stipulate any relevant
facts from the records and wit
nesses sought by the NAACP.
When the lawyers met Tues
day, NAACP counsel informed
the defense attorneys they would
proceed to file new pleadings
seeking compliance with the de-
ciSion.
After the motion Is made the
defense will have time to file an
answer. In the normal course
of events a hearing by the three
judge court could be expected by
the middle of May.
Might Speed Special Session
It remained to be seen what
effect the NAACP move would
have on State policy and whether
it might hasten the calling of a
special session of the Legislature
to enact anti-integration legis-
lation.
Some lawyers, including Mr..
Almond and Mr.. Moore, have
contended Prince Edward and
the State would be in a stronger
defensive position if the Gray
Commission program were on the
books.
The Gray program was drawn
up last fall by 32-member body
of legislators. It's basic steps
call for a student assignment
plan and a tuition grant pro-
gram to avoid compulsory inte-
grafton.
However. during the latter
stages of the recent regular
legislative session, a number OF
adopted the view it
might be better for the State
to take a go-slow course and
hold up on the Gray program.
These lawmakers felt Virginia
should try to go as long as pos
sible before making any more
effort to comply with the de-
cision.
g. %1l
Evening star., 1956-03-29

ANOTHER TAX collector
was assigned to collect a tax
bill of about $50.
He went to see the family
in Arrears and found it In
pretty desperate financial
straits. The kids weren't
exactly starving, but they
weren't eating steak every
night either, and their clothes
were considerably the worse
for wear.
But this collector had his
job to do, so he kept going
back, again and again, until
finally he had collected the
$50 into one neat little pile
and handed it over to the
Government.
However, in the course Of
his visits, this ogre of a tax
collector spent $50 out of his
own pocket to buy the family
food and clothing.
That's enough for collectors.
Now let's get down to the
mean old agents.
A woman, alarm in her
voice and face, came into the
Internal Revenue Service Of
flee and told the agent:
1--WE sent you my tax re-
turn"
"Fine," he said.
"I've also written a love
letter to, my boy friend"
every commendable," he
said. "But why tell me about
it?"
"This morning" she ex-
planned, 81 got my tax return
back from my boy friend. And
I'm afraid -"
II see," the agent inter-
rupted. Don't worry about it,
madam. Well see to it that
the letter is returned to you"
"But you don't understand"
she said. IF you send back
the letter, my husband might
see it, and start asking ques-
tons"
The mean old agent nodded
knowingly and assured the
distraught woman. "The mat
ter will be speedily and dis
creetly taken care Of"
Evening star., 1956-03-29
Lamb 10 Back
Candidate LIST
In G. 0. P. Fight
Organization Group
Won't Support Him,
Hart Declares

George P. Lamb said today
he will indorse a slate Of candi-
dates for the Republican Cen
tral Committee and the 1855
convention delegation. subject
to the election May /.
In this way, the anti-organi-
cation man will extend his chal-
lenge to the party leadership
here.
George L. Hart, jr.. q. o. p.
chairman, said he is glad Mr..
Lamb will support some of the
organization candidates, but he
quipped that none Of She or
ganization candidates will sup
port Mr.. Lamb in his bid for
Republican National Committee
election and place as delegate
to the San Francisco convention.
Mr.. Lamb said he will indorse
the Republicans who have al
ways leaned to the Eisenhower
wing Of the party.
Fears Blocking Move
1--WE are happy to have him
indorse and approve some of
the people on our slate" said
Chairman Hart. "We think they
are fine people and deserve elec-
ton or we would not have nomi-
mated them.
However. it should be pointed
out that none Of these people on
our slate is going to indorse Mr..
Lamb. They are committed to
the slate ITSELF"
Mr.. Lamb said one reason he
will back a slate Is to avert the
possibility that the "Old Guard"
would try to keep him from be-
ing seated as a convention dele
gate-if he is elected a delegate.
Mr.. Lamb raised the possibil-
ity Of being blocked from the
convention in a press release is
sued yesterday. 1t was not made
clear, however. on what his fears
were based.
Labeled Boss Hart
Mr.. Hart said it never oc-
Cured to him that Mr.. Lamb
would be challenged If he is
elected.
Frankly, I never thought Of
such a thing" he commented.
'I know of no reason 10 chal-
lenge him. But If he anticipates
a challenge. this indicates he
must know of some reason to
disqualify him. The only way q
delegate could be challenged Is
for the delegates to lack qualif1-
cation"
The Lamb statement referred
TO the @. O. P. chairman as BOSS
Hart" He told reporters that is
the appellatien he intends to
use for the rest Of his campaign.
Organization Assailed
He charged that the organiza-
ton slate for the g. o. p. local
committee contains AT sure
votes for the Hart Garrett stooges
and only eight for the real Eisen-
hover Republicans" Clyde G.
Garrett is the incumbent g. o. p.
national committeeman.
Mr.. Lamb said the organiza-
ton keeps control by electing
only Is members to, the city COM
|mittee. The Is, in turn, pick 81
additional members at large.
The anti-organization candidate
asserted the organization thus
hopes to wind up with 7S of its
own people and only eight real
Eisenhower Republicans"
After releasing the mimeo-
lgraphed press statement, Mr..
Lamb told reporters the word
I"stoogeS" might be too strong,
because some Of the committee
members are all right.
Evening star., 1956-03-29

SOME TAXPAYERS do re-
alize that agents are human,
and the Internal Revenue
Service gets letters of COM
mendation from them.
One elderly couple expressed
their respect for agents In
person, but they weren't CIV
ing the rest of the Govern
nent a clean bill of health.
The agent, looking over the
form they had brought in,
noted they were both over IS,
and had made only about
$2,5O0 during the year.
"You won't need to file q
FORM" he told them.
"But we got 1t in the mail
a few days ago." the man pro-
tested.
The agent explained it was
his Office that sent the form
in the first place, and that 1t
was perfectly all right not to
file it.
You're the department that
sent 1t, and we're not worried
about you folks" the man said.
"But you might not be the
department that comes after
us If we don't file."
Street Scenes
An unwashed car parked on
Seventeenth street NV, with
the legend "Wash Me Please
scrawled in the dust by juve-
nile fingers. :.
A WON a n driven station
wagon pushing a man-driyen
station wagon on Cleveland
avenue n. w. =.
A man busily painting his
upturned boat on Maine ave-
nue. S.W. ...
Evening star., 1956-03-29

bear witness unto the truth"
Plate then asked the unanswered
question: What is truth?"
It is natural for one working
in research and development to
appreciate the eloquence and
wisdom of Jesus summary. Truth
is a vital ingredient in a research
program. Many times solutions to
technical problems have been de-
layed, lost or hopelessly COM
plicated because of almost trif1ing
bits of information which were not
true.
On the other hand. what
Evening star., 1956-03-29
A Thnnght fur Unhay
Lenten Reflections on Fovorite Stories
From the Bible by People You Know
BY DOM X. JENKINS

My favorte Bible story Pontius PLATE When
questioned by Pontius PLATE Jesus summarized the
purpose of his entire ministry in the short sentence:
"And for this cause came into the world that should
Evening star., 1956-03-29
$23MiIIion DC. Payment
Bill Goes to White House
By ! DON S. WARREN

Districts dectsaying new revenue b which VIII add
city finances when it into full effect
today to the White House for the signature of
President Eisenhower.
Legislative action completed yesterday when the House.
without objection approved compromise which had been
Evening star., 1956-03-29

ON THE MARK, GET SET, 60!
Squealing with delight these 3-to-5-year-olds hip
pityhop from starting line on their first Easter egg
hunt at Langdon Park playground Twentieth and
schoolaged children, sponsored by the District
Recreation Department. will be held Easter Monday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-22
Ticket for Annual
July a Celebration
Placed on Sale

Tickets for the annual Fourth
of July celebration on the WASH
ington Monument grounds went
on sale today at eight downtown
locations.
They are: Peoples Drug Stores
at Eleventh and G streets NV,
Fifteenth and @ streets NV.
and Thomas circle: the Ameri-
can Automobile Association, 1912
q street NV; Drug Fair, Sew
enteenth and K streets NV;
Willard Hotel theater ticket
agency, Washington Monument
Lodge on the Monument grounds
and the Greater National Capital
Committe Offices, 1916 K street
NV.
Reserved box seats are avail
able at the offices OF the District
Recreation Department, 3l49
street NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-22
Doubts for House Vote
On CiviI-Rights Grow

postal rate increase bill. likely
to come up during the first
week in July. Such scheduled
business probably would cause
additional delay for the civil
rights bill.
II the measure survived all
difficulties up to that point and
finally landed on the floor, it
might face obstacles of still an
other variety. Before voting on
the bill itself, the House would
have to approve or disapprove
the "rule" recommended by the
rules committee in allotting time
for general debate and the op-
|portunity for amendment moves
by individual members of the
House.
Floor Delays Possible
Filibusters such as occur &C.
casionally in the Senate are i'm
possible under House rules limit
ing debate. AS Congress draws
closer to adjournment, however,
opponents of highly controversial
al bills sometimes demand fire.
quent Understanding quorum
calls or long rounds of five
minute speeches by numerous
members on many amendment
motions. This was done in an
FEPC bill in 1850, for instance,
and kept the House in session
until 3 am. on one occasion.
Backers of the civil rights bill
said they are fully aware of all
the rules and devices that op-
ponents might use. They pre-
dicted the measure will be
cleared by the Rules Committee
and brought UP on the House
floor in time for debate and a
vote. They said also that they
were not surprised by the mo-
quorum ruling by Chairman
Smith and had tried unsuccesS-
fully to guard against it after
the noon recess.
Is Witnesses at Hearing
The committee had scheduled
a hearing yesterday for Is wit
nesses opposing the bill. The
measure would set up a Federal
commission on civil rights, estab-
lish a Justice Department di-
vision of civil rights under an
additional Assistant Attorney
General. and authorize the At
torney General to institute civil
court suits "or other proper pro-
ceedings" for the protection of
persons who claim their voting
privileges or other civil rights
are violated.
The entire morning session
was given to hearing Representa-
tive Forester. Democrat Of
Georgia. attack the bill. The
first afternoon witness, Repre-
sentative Willis, Democrat Of
Louisiana, had hardly begun to
talk when Mr.. Colmer cited the
absence Of a quorum and was
sustained Immediately by the
chairman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-22

that the new rules require or
street parking for enlarged OF
extended buildings. but sonly new
uses. "
| Mr.. Brooke said he was read
ing the Berla g. Abel statement
as an unOficial representative Of
the washington Building Con-
|gress. Before doing SO, he pro-
tested Mr.. Lewis coming Of the
National Brick Co. property, To-
Gated on the Baltimore 81 Ohio
Railroad tracks just east of Fort
Totten Park in the Northeast
area.
Mr.. Brooke said the company,
of which he is vice president, is
Ia heavy industry which would
be required to cease operation
after Is years under the Lewis
coming of that area for light
industry" He said several other
industries there would be SINH
larry affected.
Others Complain
Several other complaints came
from operators of small busi-
|nesses on Twelfth street NE,
where the consultants propose
to change coming from CONNER
|cial to residential use. Mr.. Lewis
promised to review the COM
plants.
Glenn E. Watts, Of 5005 Thir-
teenth place Me-. District direc-
tor Of the Communications
Workers of America, said he
thought business groups have
been unduly critical of the Lewis
proposals. and that he consid-
cred them to be reasonable.
George o. Butler. of 1850
Hamlin street NE. president of
the Federation of Civic Associa-
tionS. praised the consultants for
holding public meetings on the
proposals and said they should
lead to greater understanding
and better support for good zon-
ing"
He said he had concerns about
some of the specific proposals,
however, and stressed that the
Civic Federation has taken no
official position on them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-22

IaIC Junior High ScnO0l. To-
nights 8 o'clock meeting will be
at Perry Miller Junior High
School, Forty-eighth and Wash
ington streets NE. to cover zon-
ing proposals affecting the far
Northeast section.
Mr.. Lewis struck back at critics
after Edmund H. Brooke, q
Northeast businessman, read q
statement, attacking the revision,
which had been prepared by the
architectural firm Of Berla &
Abel.
Read at Opposition Meeting
Joseph Abel had read the
statement two weeks ago at a
meeting Of various business and
professional groups, held to
organize opposition to the new
proposals. The statement partic-
ularly hit rigid off-street park
ing proposals for new buildings,
and said the total effect Of the
proposed regulations would be to
discourage virtually all but resi-
dental building.
Mr.. Lewis said he had not
checked out instances of new
parking requirements Mr.. Abel
said would be necessary, but the
consultant charged some were
grossly exaggerated. He also
charged it was approaching the
ridiculous to say no new build
tngs would go up.
I'm no novice in this field
myself" Mr.. Lewis said. IT as
sure you I'm not going to recon-
mend any coming regulations to
the Commissioners to drive BUSH
ness out of the District"
Willing to Retrench
In answer to questions on
specific properties. however, Mr..
Lewis repeated - in stronger
terms-his willingness to re-
trench from at least some of the
parking proposals.
He said he would guarantee
that his final recommendations
would eliminate parking require
ments for certain types of small
business establishments. He alIo
reiterated it was not his intention
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-22
Lewis Charges Critics
Exoggerote Proposals

Consultant Harold M Lewis charged last night that
critics have grossly exaggerated effects of his Washington
coming proposals and said of their statements approach the
ridiculous"
He made the rebuttal at the fourth of public meetings
scheduled discuss his controversial coming revision
Arizona sun., 1956-07-26
Flk's BATHING BEAUTY CONTEST
ON The MOVE

According to Ben washington,
head of the committee to select
a candidate for the Elk's Beauty
Pageant, August II, the contest
is beinning to crock and rolf.
The No. contestant was en-
tered by the Loyal Buddies Club.
Others entered to date, are: Al.
pha Gamma Rho; the Concho
Girls; and Dukes Drive-ln OF
Tucson.
Ready your Arizona Sun week
ly for up-to-the minute progress
on what will be the finest
beauty show ever given in Phoe-
nix.
Arizona sun., 1956-07-26
The Republican Leaders
Worry Over Ike, Pressure
CHARGED

the Digest notes.
Quoting a report in the Phi
ladelphia Inquirer that COP
leaders were concerned over
being pictured as ruthless,
heartless men who are putting
political expediency above the
Presidents welfare" the Digest
comments: Their concern, how
ever, did not show in the meas
ures they took to form the pub
lies impression"
1.-The party pros under Chair
man Leonard w. Hall, the COP
leaders in Congress, and the
Cabinet chiefs, performed as
BEFORE" the article adds. "Se-
cretary of State Dullec described
the Presidents condition as an
indisposition'-four days after
Mr.. E'senhcwer's two-hour sur
gical ordeal -.
''It was, however, the combin-
ed performance of the White
House directorate and the Pres
ident's doctors which made the
COPS second Snow job seem
even more politically motivated
and more irresponsible-than
the first pressure operation on
the President"
Reviewing the wide contro-
versy among medical authorities
that has developed over the
June g report Of the Presidents
doctors, the Digest St1tos:
"Since then, so much broader
Fight has been shed on the sub
ject of ileitis-all coming from
sources outside the White House
and the Presidents doctors
that another press conference
with DR.. Heaton and associates
IS clear in order.
Arizona sun., 1956-07-26
MASS AFRICAN BOYCOTT SHAKES BRITISH COLONY

The native Africans of North
ern Rhodesia are among the
most brutally oppressed peoples
on the face of the earth They
are heavily taxed by a govern
ment in which they have no
voice, and which does not rule
in their interest. In order to pay
the taxes, they are forced to
seek work in the copper mines
and plantations where they are
"held in a status of temporary
involuntary servitude during the
period of their contract" If they
break the contract, that is quit
their jobs, they are hunted down
like criminals, jailed and fined.
The miners wages averaged less
than ST per month in 1858.
There is no indication of subs
tantial wage increase since then.
The June3O Pittsburgh Courier
reports that while the boycott
movement proceeded apace, the
native African Mine : workers
Union called a limited three-day
general strike to protest the
monthly labor contracts.
But the boycott movent is
not for limited period of time.
Says Dunn; 1.-The campaign it.
self, starting up in one town as
it is closed down in another,
has about it an air of grand
strategy inconsistent with the
limited objective openly declar-
ed"
Still the imperialist govern
ment has absolutely refused to
recognize the Africans as po-
litical entity. The white and
Indian traders, suffering heavy
financial losses, have demanded
that the government disarm all
Africans (the carrying of wea-
pons as protection against wild
beasts is common) in prepara-
ton for a campaign of violent
repression of the boycott move
ment.
Arizona sun., 1956-07-26
Charged

Republican leaders are worried
over charges of cold-bloodedly
preSsuring Mr.. Eisenhower into
running again despite the per-
Sonal and national risks involv-
ed, the August issue of the
Democratic Digest asserts.
palace Guard Again Puts Pol
iticS Ahead of the Presidents
Welfare" the official publica-
ton of the Democratic National
Committee headlines an article
on the tactics employed by Re-
publican leaders during the
Presidents second major illness
his June 8 ileitis attack, which
necesSitated an operation to
relieve a dangerous intestinal
block.
The Digest cites as typical of
the growing public reaction the
observation by John S. Knight,
publisher of the Chicago Daily
News, that "the Republican
strategists and the big guns in
the business world are determin-
ed to have Ike, even though he
may not last through second
term under the pressure of the
job"
The second Republican drive"
to keep Eisenhower in the Pres
idential race was much more
elaborate much more cal
lous" than the "firSt pressure
campaign" after his September
"a heart attack, accord ng to
the Digest.
"The men around the Pres
ident set up the clamor that
he was better than ever, that he
really want "a sick man. and
that there was every reason he
should run again, even before
he was able to walk or talk" :"
Arizona sun., 1956-07-26
BY William Bundy

We are hearing a great deal
more these days about boycottS
by oppressed peoples throughout
the world. Whether the boycottS
themselves have been spreading
as result of the success of the
Montgomery movement, or boy
cott news has simply been re-
ported more extensively as a
result of the interest created by
Montgomery is not clear. Pro-
badly it is a little bit of both.
The latest boycott is now TAX
ing place in the British "protec-
torate" of northern Rhodesia.
The African Negroes there, who
outnumber the whites and In
dams by more than ten to one,
are boycotting European and
Indian shopkeepers to protest
rude treatment.
According to Cyril Dunn, a.
correspondent for the London
Observer whose report is re-
printed in the June % New York
Herald Tribune; Gas a general
rule, African customers are
treated with discourtesy. Some
shops will not even admit them,
but compel them to wait out
side until the shopkeeper can
spare time to go to the door and
be told what they want. AT
others there are special matches
through which Africans must
give their orders"
These are the conditions that
are attacked in the immediate
demands of the organization
which is leading the boycott,
the officially unrecognized Afri-
can National Congress.
Arizona sun., 1956-07-26

Funeral services for John
Henry Stewart, 81, who died
Friday night in Memorial Hos
pital, were held Tuesday night
at 8 pm. in Tanner Chapel
AME Church.
The Rev. G. K. Hayes officiat-
ed. Remarks were offered by the
Presiding Elder, the Rev. T. j.
Townsend, and the memory Of
the deceased was eulogized by
the VIM. H. Patterson Lodge of
Elks which turned out in body
to pay last respect to their de-
parted brother.
Burial was in Greenwood Me-
mortal Park Wednesday morn
ing.
Born in Bonham, Texas, Mr..
Stewart came to Phoenix in
1916. He bought out and with
his wife operated a record busl-
ness at 18th Street and East
Washington which he sold two
years later. He was then employ
ed by the State Employment
Service as interviewer until June
of this year when he suffered
a heart attack.
Mr.. Stewart was a member or
the bishops council of the AME
church, receiving the appoint
ment in 1852 in Chicago. He
also was a past exalted ruler OF
William H. Patterson ElkS' Lodge
No. ATT, also past secretary OF
the Elks' Pacific States Assoc1a-
ton of the western regional. He
was treasurer of and Superln-
tendent of the Sunday School
of Tanner Chapel and board
director of the Phoenix Urban
League. He also was a member
of the Phoenix Council OF CIVIC
Unity.
He was an ardent church,
fraternal and civic worker, well
known and well liked by all VINO
knew him.
Mr.. Stewart attended gram
NOR and high school in BOnham
and Paul Quinn College in Waco,
TeM He was graduated in 1886
from the Southern School OF
Embalming in Dallas, Tex. He
worked for the Calvin AM
MOODY Funeral Home in Paris,
Tex, for eight years.
During World War II, ne was
the first Negro to be graduated
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