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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-26
MARYLAND VIRGINIA NEWS
Stuart Kin Indignant
Over Bermudon's Claim

An Alexandria (Va.) grand
daughter of Confederate Gen. j.
E. B. Stuart has taken UP arms
against what she calls a false
and impossible claim that a Ber-
muda man who married a Negro
entertainer is the great-great-
grandson of the famous cavalry
officer.
Mrs. Virginia Waller Davis, a
writer. former newspaperwoman
and one-time press secretary for
former Virginia Gov. COLGATE w.
Darden, has asked that the rela-
tionship be denied in a speech in
the Virginia legislature.
She said she has sent a tele-
gram to State Senator Harry
Stuart of Russell County. sponsor
OF Virginia's resolution on inter-
position. Senator Stuart. she
said. is great-nephew of the
Confederate general.
False and Impossible
"Kinship claim false and i'm
possible" the irate Alexandria
woman wired. adding:
Have records of seven gen.
erations. Neither j. E. B. Stuart
nor any of his direct line have
had anv connections with Ber-
muda. Nome of Outerbridge un-
heard of today among his eight
grandchildren and their chill
dren."
Alexander Stuart Outerbridge.
"a, whose marriage to Royce
Wallace, 80, Negro night club
singer. has created a sensation
in Bermuda society, has been
listed as MISREPRESENTATION
of Gen Stuart in Associated
Press stories.
Mr.. Outerbridge said the
Christmas eve wedding has re-
suited in his ostracism in Ber-
muda. He is a member of one
of Bermuda's oldest families
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-26
Montgomery Group
Urges Abolition
Of inventory Tax

Abolition of the Maryland
business inventory tax was urged
yesterday by the Montgomery
County Commerce Association in
a resolution in which it called
the tax discriminatory and
undesirable"
Meeting at the Triangle House,
Wheaton. the group voted to
send letters to that effect to the
county delegation to the Mary
land General Assembly and to
the County Council.
The association also reelected
David Scull Of Silver Spring as
president.
Other officers are William S.
Stanley, first vice president;
William Lynch. second vice pres
ident; Charles Kopeland, secre-
tary. and Andrew Kessinger,
treasurer.
Yves Baxter, Victor Leisner
and Don McCandless were added
to the Board of Directors. Re-
named to the board were Marvin
Simmons. Melville Peters. Morris
Stern, DR.. Thomas Robinson,
John Emory and Hugo Brooks.
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which settled there in the 18th
century.
Hopes for Senate Speech
Mrs. Davis said she hopes that
Senator Stuart will make a
speech on the floor of the Vir-
ginia Senate as means of clear
ing the name Of J. E. B. Stuart
from fraudulent claim"
Mrs. Davis lives at 724 South
Royal street. Her husband. An
drew j. Davis, is financial spe-
cialist with the Treasury Depart
ment.
She said she has worked as a
staff reporter for the Norfolk
Virginian-Pilot and the Rich
mond Times Dispatch. In recent
years she has been a contribu-
tor to the Commonwealth and
other Virginia magazines.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-26
James Christopher Files
For Montgomery Judge

James C. Christopher, Beth
esda attorney. yesterday an
nounced his candidacy for the
Democratic nomination for a
Circuit Court judgeship in Mary
lands Sixth Judicial Circuit.
A former, trial magistrate. Mr..
Christopher is the first Democrat
to enter the race. though he will
be pitted in his party's primary
against two sitting Judges,
Kathryn j. Lawlor and Thomas
M. Anderson.
The two incumbents, both Re-
publicans, filed in both primaries,
following Maryland precedent.
Another aspirant for the judge
ship, r. Duncan Clark Of Beth
esda, entered only the Republican
primary.
Mr.. Christopher, a native OF
Laytonsville. Md, has been prac-
ticing law in Montgomery County
since 1882. Last year, the county
Bar Association Endorsed him for
an interim appointment to the
bench. but Gov. McXeldin
named Mrs. Lawlor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-26
By a Star stan Correspondent

RICHMOND, Jan. ga new
move to repeal the poll tax by
amending the State Constitution
was ready for introduction today
with the backing of at least 20
of the 100 House of Delegates
members.
However. an unofficial poll of
members of the Privileges and
Elections Committee indicated
the measure is foredoomed.
The resolution was being cir
culated for signatures of spon-
sors and includes all of the
House members from the Arling-
ton Alexandria Fairfax area who
campaigned last fall for poll
tax repeal.
Byrd Kin Included
The sponsors include Alexan-
Idria Delegate James M. Thorn
son. a brother-in-law of State
Senator Harry F. Byrd, jr.
1t was Mr.. Thomson, a mem
Der of the House Privileges and
Elections Committee. who sAId
he had made an unofficial poll
of the Is committee members.
when I found out that as
many as seven said they would
vote against it," Mr.. Thomson
said. Il stopped counting"
Last week Republican State
Senator Ted Dalton Of Radford
Offered similar resolution which
also would lower the voting age
from 81 TO 10 years.
Either measure would have to
roe approved by the current As
Isembly and again by the 1858
Legislature before the question
would be finally submitted to
voters in the fall of 1858.
Consistently Opposed
Poll tax repeal efforts at every
session of the Legislature in
recent years have been stub
bornly resisted by the dominant
Democratic organization.
/ Fairfax County would be able
to condemn privately owned water
companies under legislation Of
ifered the General Assembly yes
terday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-26
'$525 Theft Reported
At PostuI Satisfaction

The theft of s525 from a Post
Once substation in the drugstore
at the Kent Village Md shop
ping center was reported today
by Prince Georges County police.
Police said the robbery &C.
Cured yesterday while the postal
clerk was at lunch.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-26
MeckIing Testifies Check
Indicated Boot Was Safe

WEIGH said. We've got to start
sometime because this thing is
getting out of hand" He said
that in the last few years the
number Of boats at Annapolis
has increased tremendously.
The committee is considering
bills sponsored by Representa-
tive Ray, Republican Of New
York and Representative Lank-
ford, Democrat of Maryland.
Both are from districts which
have been hard hit by pleasure
cruise disasters. Two ships that
sank in the summer Of 1851 in
Long Island Sound with the
loss of Sc lives were exempted
from inspection because Of their
tonnage.
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law is alleged to be in violation
lof the Constitution.
He said his proposal did moi
intend Ito deny in any respect
the courts jurisdiction to hear q
case in which a Constitutional
right is claimed and said such
Ia right was claimed in the school
cases.
Supreme Law of Land"
To the question as to whether
the courts decision is the law OF
the land and in Virginia. Senator
Stuart replied it lis the supreme
law of the land and supreme IN
Virginia" But going further
he declared its provisions as un-
derstood for 80 years have been
supplanted by an act of judicial
legislation"
This has brought about a
situation Senator Stuart de-
scribed as binding by.force OF
Federal power. but not binding
in right"
The House Agriculture Com
mittee reported a bill by Dele
gate Omer L. Hirst of Fairfax
to permit sale of milk in one
gallon jugs. 1t also reported a
resolution by Delegate Charlie.
Green of Bedford. calling for a
study of the State Milk Com
mission.
A new resolution was intro.
.duced in the House yesterday
calling for outright repeal of the
milk commission. Several piece.
of legislation are pending tt
eliminate the commission re.
tail price fixing powers.
Among other new bills was one
by Delegate John Webb of Fair.
fax to amend the charter for the
town of Herndon. 1t would per.
init the Council to set the
salaries for all town employee.
and authorize the appointment
of justice Of the peace.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-26
a Exchange Teachers
In ARLINGTON Honored

Four exchange teachers now
in the Arlington public schools
have been named honorary
members of the Arlington Edu-
cation Association.
The association voted this
week to give honorary positions
to: Miss Jean Mitchell Hull.
England assigned to the Pey-
ton Randolph School: Roger
Wheeler Hull. England. Wake
field High School; Kiyoshi va
mazda (Hawaii), Williamsburg
Junior High, and Miss Marcia
Hayashi (HawaiD, Bancroft Ele-
mentary School.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-26
Poll Tax Repeal Bill
Faces Defeat in Virginia

Delegate Omer Hirst Of Fair
fax introduced the bill.
Last summer the county sought
to purchase the Annandale
Water Co., which was offered
for $500. 900. providing the coun-
ty would assume outstanding
debts at an additional $500, 900
THE enactment of this legis-
lation." Mr.. Hirst said. would
permit the county to condemn
the facilities of water companies
in the event they cannot be ac-
Iquired by negotiation. In tine
event Of such condemnation, the
county would paw according to
the fair value of such facilities
as determined by judicial action. "
In other developments yester-
day. the Senate Courts Of Justice
Committee postponed until to-
day action on the Stuart
resolution Of interposition. de-
signed to meet the school segre-
cation problem.
Amendments Offered
Several amendments to the
Virginia Senate's resolution
were placed -before the commit
tee by Senate, Stuart, who said
they resulted from a conference
yesterday between the Governor
and some OF the resolutions
patrons. TIE anne n d m n t s
largely revised grammatical
phrasing.
Shortly before going into the
conference with the Governor,
Senator Stuart handed newsmen
copies of an eight-page letter
replying to questions about his
resolution posed by Delegate
Robert Whitehead of Nelson
County. MI. Whitehead, him.
self. has introduced a substitute
interposition resolution in the
House of Delegates.
Senator Stuart's letter to Mr.
Whitehead said the Senate inter-
position resolution does not deny
the Jurisdiction of the Supreme
Court in Constitutional matters,
and consequently does not chal-
lenge the authority Of the court
to act In a case in which State
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-26

John H. Meckling. skipper Of
the Inflated schooner Levin j.
Marvel, testified today the Coast
Guard had boarded his vessel
three times in 1854 and had given
him boarding cards" indicating
the Marvel met safety require
ments.
He said no hull inspection was
made.
The Marvel fioundered last
August IL in Chesapeake Bay
with the loss of IA lives.
Mr.. Meckling appeared before
the House Merchant Marine and
Fisheries Committee. That body
is holding hearings on two bills
which would extend Coast Guard
licensing and control over all
vessels carrying six or more pas
sengers.
The Marvel. being a sailing
vessel under ESQ tons, was not
liable to a complete marine
inspection.
Grand Jury to Probe
The Coast Guard placed the
blame for the sinking on the
ships "unseaworthineSs" and
the poor Judgment" OF the
skipper. The sinking Of the
Marvel will be placed before a
Federal grand jury. United
States Attorney George Cochran
Doub said at Baltimore.
Mr.. Meckling said that when
his boat was boarded the Coast
Guardsmen checked on his fire
extinguishers and life preservers
to make sure he had equipment
sufficient for the number Of pas
sengers he was carrying.
He was asked by a committee
member whether he had ever
observed rot in his vessel, He
said that he had noticed rot and
therefore had replaced flooring
in some staterooms and had re-
placed bulkheads. The support
ing members-keel and ribs
were sound, he said. He con-
ceded there could have been rot
in the side planking. although
the hull had been gone over
every year.
Under the pending bills, the
only thing he would have had
to alter would be the bulkheads
he said He estimated the cost
would have been $4,000 OF
$4,000.
Paid $500
He said the Marvel would cost
between 100000 and $450.000
to build now. He paid $500 for
1t, he said, and it was not in
sured.
Asked whether tight
bulkheads would have prevented
the disaster, he replied he did
not believe so.
Vice Admiral A. c. Richmond,
Coast Guard commandant, was
to appear before the House COM
mittee later today.
Earlier, the House committee
was told that all boaats for hire
should be inspected by the Coast
Guard and boat operators should
be licensed just like motorists.
The recommendations came
from Mclean WEIGH, chairman
of the Harbor Committee Of the
Annapolis and Anne Arundel
County Chamber of Commerce
He also is commander OF the
Coast Guard auxiliary at An
napolis.
Mr.. WEIGH. in reply to ques-
tioning. said he had never heard
that the Marvel was unseawor-
thy. He added. however. that
after reading about her, partic-
ularly about her age. he would
have formed that opinion.
He said that In a hurricane
no crew would be able to handle
her because she was mot the
type Of boat able to take heavy
seas"
On the licensing question, Mr.
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Arizona sun., 1956-06-28
NAACP Political
Policies in Light
Of Recent Events
BY George Lavan

It is two years since the Su-
preme Court handed down it's
decision against school segrega-
ton. Instead of picking up speed
and scope the actual desegra-
ton of Jim Crow schools has run
into a roadblock. In the border
regions desegregation has slowed
down and in the Deep South it
never even began.
The Supreme Court decision
was the greatest legal victory
ever won by the National Asso-
citation for the Advancement OF
Colored People. At the same
time it has demonstrated the in
adequacy of the NAACP'S ira
ditional methods of struggle
against Jim Grow. These meth
ods are lawsuits and lobbying.
The situation that now con-
fronts the Negro people will not
yield to either method. The
NAACP is thus left without any
means of bringing to realization
in fact what it won in words
in the courtroom.
Consider the lawsuit Situa-
ton. The racist governors, legis-
latures and school boards of
the South have already passed,
or have up their sleeves, 101
legal gimmicks to prevent inte-
grafton. The racistS boast that
they can prevent desegregation
by litigation for 100 years. And
the observer is compelled to ad-
NIT they can If the fight is
confined to the courtroomS.
Arizona sun., 1956-06-28
RACIST COUNTER
OFFENSIVE

The legal preparation of the
white-supremacistS is but one
aspect Of the counter-offenSive
they launched following the
Supreme Court decision. They
have frightened into silence
Southern labor, liberals and
"moderates" and now claim to
speak as the voice of the unit
ed" South.
This voice intimidated the
high court into a toothleSS i'm
fermentation decision and has
half-convinced the. rest of. the
country that school desegrega-
ton is impossible in the South.
At the same time the racists
have strengthened their already
powerful grip on Congress and
their influence in both the DEM
ocratic and Republican parties.
The NAACP'S lobbying ef1OrtS
not only have borne no fruit but
have been dismissed more con-
temptuously by the politicians
this year than ever before.
The Montgomery boycott
shows that the Negro people
themselves found the lawsuit
lobbying program of the NAACP
inadequate. They took the path
of mass action. It's effective
ness is witnessed not only by the
empty buses but by the inability
of the White Citizens Council
officials of Montgomery to smash
the movement and by the ms
piring effect it has had upon
Arizona sun., 1956-06-28

Carl BoieS, the sheriff of Mar
icopa County, will seek the
Democratic nomination for re-
election to that office.
Boies with more than twenty
years of experience as a peace
officer, has been the chief law
enforcement agent of Maricopa
County since 1945.
GAS your sheriff during the
period of this County'S greatest
growth, I have devoted my best
efforts to enforcing the law, to
protecting the innocent, and ap-
pretending those whose actions
are a threat to our peaceful
community.
In listing the accomplish
mentS of this administration, the
sheriff emphasized the establish
ment of juvenile division In
the sheriff's office, the opera
ton of modern crime labora-
tory, supervision and support OF
the school safety patrol, the es-
tablishment of a prision COM
pound and jail farm with a
resultant substantial S avln g S
and valuable public works per-
formed by the previously idle
prisoners while helping them
to rehabilitate themselves dur
ing their stay at the County
iail farm, and the substatlon
assignment system which places
local deputies familiar with local
problems working in the outly-
ing communities of the County.
Boies believes this program
results not only in better law
Arizona sun., 1956-06-28
CLOSER COOPERATION BETWEEN
NEGROES AND JEWS IS A
MUST, DECLARES EDUCATOR

Closer cooperation and un-
derstanding between Negro and
Jewish groups in America is a
must, according to Wilberforce
University president, DR.. Char
les Leander Hill.
The statement was made last
week during centennial COM
mencement exercises as the
degree of Doctor of Laws Gil.
d. was conferred upon Rabbi
Abba Hillel Silver, widely known
Zionist spokesman and Dean Of
American Rabbis. Rabbi Silver
was honored as a leader. in in
ter-faith movements.
Elaborating, DR.. Hill expressed
the hope that some organized
effort would be made to widen
knowledge among Negroes of
Hebrew culture. He revealed
that plans were already under
consideration for adding courses
of Hebrew culture in the famed
Negro institutions curriculum.
Many of the current mani
festations of misunderstanding
such as discrimination in hous-
ing and employment would van
sih," DR.. Hill predicted, "if
people just knew more about
each other" Certainly the in
nate respect and deep spiritual
conviction of Negroes should
make for a natural alliance with
persons of the Jewish faith" he
concluded.
Arizona sun., 1956-06-28
POLITICAL ROAD BLOCK

But mass action, effective as
it is, will not solve the great
question facing the Negro peo-
pie unless it is joined to a broad
overall program. And that pro-
gram must deal with the key
uueStion-hOw to break the poll
tical roadblock preventing desc
gregation and all civil rights
legislation. On every front the
Negro struggle runs into poll
tical barriers = in Congress
(where no civil rights laws have
been passed in 80 years., in the
White House where Eisenhower
refuses to use federal powers
against the lynchings in Mis-
sissippi, to enforce school desc
gregation or even to call con-
ference on civil rights. In the
Southern states where legisla-
lures, governors and judges
harass and even outlaw the
NAACP.
Both Republicans and Demo-
Gratis are even cutting down on
campaign promises = worthless
as everybody knows these are
on civil rights. Typical was the
answer given recently by Adlal
Stevenson, the leading Demo-
cratic contender. Asked what his
stand on civil rights would be
if he were nominated, Steven
son. who has already won the
endorsement of such rabid ra-
casts as Herman Talmadge, re-
piled: '"The platform will be
drafted by the resolutions COM
mittee and not by me. don't
know if I will have any recon-
mendations." = New Orleans
Times-Picayune, May 29).
The administration is equally
pleasing to the white-suprema7
cists. They especially admire Ell
senhower's stand that civil rights
are state not federal problems.
AS the Christian Science Monitor
(June 81 points out: "It is clear,
Southerners think, that the pre-
sident favors leaving state mat
Continued on page g
Arizona sun., 1956-06-28

enforcement and better crime
detection, but in much better
crime prevention.
eve, of the sheriffs offices
hold the belief that we must
be faithful servants to you
who elect us and employ u.s..
Arizona sun., 1956-06-28

the Negro people and their white
allies throughout the country.
The heroic example of Mont
gomery unavoidably poses for
the NAACP convention the queS-
ton of adopting the powerful
weapon of mass action.
Arizona sun., 1956-06-28

A GOOD newspaper and the
Bible IN every house, a good
schoolhouse IN every district,
and a church IN every neigh
borhood, all appreciated as
they deserve, are the chief
support of virtqle, morality,
civiJ liberty, and religion
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
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