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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-05
The
Rambler
LIES Been Stormy
For the Cherry Trees
BY JACK JONAS
The Japanese were smart.


They went to a lot Of trouble,
some IS years ago, sending
over the cherry trees which
now ring the Tidal Basin and
Hams Point.
The trees were called-with-
out much objection-Japanese
Towering cherry trees. Then
World War II came along, and
the good feeling died.
The Koreans, the year after
the last great war started, said
the japanese had stolen the
cherry trees from Korea and
tranSplanted them in Japan.
There we're suggestions in
Congress about changing the
name to Korean Towering
cherry trees.
The Horticultural Nomen-
clature Committee sat down to
determine what could be done.
There was no question that
these particular trees sent to
Washington had been grown
in Japan. But, the committee
pointed out, they were in
digenouS to Korea and China.
So, in l943, the name was
changed officially to Oriental
Towering cherry trees, and
that's what they've been since.
After the war the japanese
got busy again. They made
another gift to the United
States-a giant stone lantern.
So now the japanese name
Is there again. The lantern
is the Japanese Stone Lantern,
set down smack in the midst
of the Oriental Towering
cherry trees. The lantern was
the starting point for this
years festival.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-05
Negro Seeks Election

HAvRE DE GRACE. Md,
April 5 P0.-The Rev. George
"a. Mitchell announced yester-
day he will file for a seat on the
town council on the filing day,
April 9. II he does, he will be-
come the first'Negro ever"to file
for public ONCE here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-05

the land and sell or lease 1t to
a. private developers for rebuilding.
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Continued from Page One)
struck by a stone. Manning added:
"There is no race hatred involved
They also threw beer cans at two
Negro children, and threw beer
cans at white people in another
automobile"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-05-05

meet August IL in Orlando, Fla.
For the convenience of the men,
bers and their friends, we are
sponsoring special buses with ex-
cursion rates to allow you to see
and know the. national standing of
the Most Worshipfur King Hiram
Grand Lodge, gnd its members.
Other information On this meeting
will be printed later.
Plan now to spend the day in
this Section of Mississippi and see
the various points of interest along
the highway, etc. A special invi-
tation is extended to all churches,
societies, fraternal organizations
and the public in general to join
US, on chartered buses to Quit
man, Miss, June 10th. Buses
will leave the Masonic Hall, 318h
North Parish Street, and Pickens
Hall, on Cleveland Street, Wash
ington's Addition) at z am. and
leaving Quitman at 5 pm. Non
members are welcome to join US
on this trip.
For any information, please write
or call, Clarence Winters, 318h
North Parish Street, or Phone
3-9181.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-05-05
Baker, Holman
Open Heavy
Examinations
May 9Th

Bob Baker, Pittsburgh giant
rated No. 3 among heavyweights,
and Johnny Holman of Chicago
rated No. 4, swap leather in the
opener of a series of heavyweight
elimination bouts Wednesday, May
9 in a 12-rounder at the Miami
Beach auditorium.
The elimination matches will
bring together the best of the
current heavyweight crop with the
winner tentatively scheduled to
meet Rocky Marciano in title
bout
Baker is former Golden Gloves
champ turned pro in 1949. He is
one of the most consistent fighters
around, with A victories and one
draw in his 81 fights. The 90
year-old bruiser has scored 10 of
his wins by knockouts.
The 28-year-old Holman project
ed himself into the heavyweight
title picture with wins over En-
zard Charles, Billy Smith and
Cesar Brion last year. He con-
tinued his climb by stopping Bob
Satterfield and defeating Joey
Rowan in his only starts in 1856.
He has scored Is knockouts in AZ
gro starts and he had racked up
80 wins and one draw since turn
ing pro in 1947.
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-05-05
Piney Woods
coIIegians Take
4-3 Win Over
Jackson Cubs

The pitching duel between the
Collegians and the Cubs was full
of excitement until the last pitched
ball was thrown striking out Young
fairfield giving the Collegians a
4-3 victory over the Cubs.
Willie (Jake) Gray, starting
pitcher for the Cubs, pitched six in
nings, giving four hits, striking out
six, walking seven, cape the Col
legians their four runs. Ray
fairfield pitching the remaining
three innings, walked three, gave
up one hit.
The. Cubs got four hits during
the game, all singles, by Calvin,
Jessie Cotton, l. j. Head and
Cheeks.
Sunday the Hazlehurst Red Sox
will play the Cubs at Browns Sta
dunn. They are: Southpaw Philip
Minor will pitch with Manager
Lonnie Mckenzie receiving. Bat
teries for the Cubs are Ray Hart
field and Burns.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-05-05
SR1R1S z32I3
Say Joe Louis
Sold Title
u. S. Says IBC
Paid S15O,OOO

New York, N. Y, May /. -
Heavyweight boxing champion Joe
Louis in 1949 "sold" his title to
the International Boxing Club
QBC) for $4,000 according to
the Federal Government.
Documents were presented in
support of the contention upon re-
sumption of the governments suit
here against the IBC for violation
of the antitrust laws.
William ]. Elkins, assistant U.
S. Attorney, stated that Louis re-
ceived the money to resign his title
and sign four leading contenders
to exclusive contracts with the
IBC, apparently in an effort to
monopolize championship bouts.
Present Minutes
Elkins made this charge in pre-
senting minutes of meetings al
lagedly held among Jim Norris,
IBC president, and his associates,
including Arthur M. Writ, Norris
Chicago partner; John Reed Kill
patrick, president Of the Madison
Square Garden Corp, and Truman
Gibson, IBC secretary.
The government stated its case
last Friday seeking to prove that
the IBC has conspired to monopol-
ize championship bouts in violation
of the antitrust laws.
Signs Up Quartet
Three weeks after Louis form
ally gave up his heavyweight, JAG
obs and his Goth Century Sporting
Club had leased the Garden to pro-
mote matches. Norris and his as
sociates agreed to pay Jacobs
100000 for surrender of his lease
and another $4,000 for his exclus-
i've lease to present matches at
Yankee Stadium and st. Nicholas
Arena.
Got Sugar Rays Contract
The letter of agreement, accord
ing to the government, also stated
that Jacobs was to turn over his
contract with Ray Robinson (then
welterweight champion) and other
boxers, if called upon to do so by
the IBC.
Jacobs also agreed not to pro-
mote matches for 10 years.
In much the same manner, the
government charged, the IBC ac-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-05-05
PhiIander-Smith
Wins SCAC Meet

NEW ORLEANS, Apr. %. =
Baron Duncan and Keith Young
both CT Kingston, Jamaica, led
Philander Smith College of Little
Rock, Ark, to the championship
of the 18th Annual South Central
Athletic Conference Track and
Field Meet here today at billiard
University.
Seven conference records were
shattered during the two day track
and field extravaganza. The gal
Looping cindermen of Philander
Smith College set four new records
with billiard University setting
two and Tougaloo College one.
The speed of the Philander team
proved too much for its nearest
rival, billiard University. Philan-
der compiled 63.7 points with Dill
lard University getting 81 1/5
points. Alcorn College was third
with 28.7; Tougaloo College fourth
with 21.2 points. Mississippi Vo-
cational College and Paul Quinn
College were fifth and sixth with
8.2 points and points respectively.
Winners of the track and field
events were:
Pole vault, Green, Alcorn, 11'3".
Shot Put. Dempsey, billiard, As.
(new record).
High Jump, Shelby, billiard, s.
1O".
12O High Hurdles, Young, Phi
lander Smith, ISL sec.
l Mile Run, Duncan, Philander
Smith, 4:35.7 sec.
44O Yard Run, Moore, Philander
Smith, sos sec.
s Discus Throw, Dempsey, billiard,
ZAP. (new record).
100 Yard Dash, Dalton, MVC,
1912 sec.
$50 yard Run, Elliot, Philander
Smith, 1892 sec. (new record).
44O Yard Relay, Philadner Smith,
43.5 sec. (new record).
Broad Jump, Howard, billiard,
24'k.
22O Yard Dash, Hurshman, Phi
lander Smith, 22.4 sec. (new rec
ord).
Javelin Throw, Waters, Touga-
leo, $780,.
Two Mile Run, Duncan Philan-
der Smith 1922 sec. NEW rec
ord).
22O Yard Hurdles, Young, Phi
lander Smith, 256 sec.
One Mile Relay, Philander
Smith, 3:21.8 sec. (new record).
In the tennis matches, Alcorn
College won the doubles and Phi
lander Smith College the singles.
Fielder and johnson compiled a
6-2; 6-3 winning the first two sets
for Alcorn over Tougaloo. Jones
of Philander Smith won ever Por-
tes Alcorn GO; 6-3 to take the
singles over Alcorn.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-05-05
caviIan Scores
Decision Over
Peter Waterman

London, England April 30-For-
mer world welterweight champion
Kid Gavilan gained revenge"
Tuesday night when he won a ten
round decision over England's Pet
er Waterman in return bout at
Earl's Court.
The veteran Cuban Hawk, who
lost disputed ten round verdict
to the young Britisher last Feb. I,
was declared the winner on points
after a thrilling battle.
The 21-year-old Waterman went
into the bout with an undefeated
record that showed 80 straight
wins.
In their first bout, more than
$4,000 fans at Harringay Stadium
booed the decision by aged referee
Abe Green which gave the bout
to the Britisher. Green's license
was revoked in hearing following
the bout, but the decision stood.
In another bout British heavy
weight champion Don Cockell was
knocked out in the second round Of
a non title bout by Kit Lave, a
virtual unknown from the South
Sea islands of Tonga.
Lave, 22-year-old, floored
Cockell five times before regis
tering the kayo.
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Extra Session =.
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three of the states leading bands
to furnish music. The line Of
march will begin at the Shelly
Owens High School, located 45
South.
The Annual Sermon will be de-
livered by Rev. w. T. Smith, 32nd
Grand Chaplain Of Moses Grand
Royal Arch Chapter en- Sunday
following the parade. Special fea-
ture on the program Address by
Ill. Nathaniel Stubs, 33rd, Grand
Master, one of the best informed
Masonic leaders in the State. 9th
ers to appear on program are:
Ill. Clarence Winters, 33rd, Grand
Secretary; Rev. A. L. Pettigrew,
32nd, w. M; Mrs. Ora M. Reese,
Grand Matron; Mrs. A. G. Ran
dolph, M. A. G. M, and Ill. N. H.
Harness, 33rd, R. w. Grand Senior
Warden.
On Monday, June 10, the dele
gates to the Biennial Session of the
General Grand Masonic Congress
and its affiliated bodies, Supreme
Council and Imperial Grand Coun-
Gil will be elected. This National
Group will be guest of the M. w.
Prince Hall Grand Lodge, A. F. &
A. M. of Florida, III. B. H. Evans,
33rd, Grand Master This is the
first meeting in the South in a
number of years, therefore the del
egation is expected to exceed all
other meetings. This Session will
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-05-05
Final Wrestling
Tryouts For US.
Olympic Team Set

Los Angeles, Calf, April 80
The final wrestling tryouts for
the. USA 1866 Olympic team will
be held April % through May 5
at Hollywood Legion Stadium, 1923
Ell Centre Avenue.
There will be competition in
free-style and in Greco-Roman
wrestling. There are eight weight
classes in each competition, name
ly 114k, 1851, 1861, 147k, 1904,
TIA, 191 and heavyweight.
Winners in each weight and in
each style will represent this ma
ton in the 10th Olympiad at Me-
bourne, Australia, Nov. % to Dec.
8, 1856.
Blanks for purchase of individual
tickets or season tickets for the
bouts may be secured from the
L. A.. Sentiners sports depart
ment.
Hallow Wilson, Negro heavy
weight champion of the All-Navy
western wrestling team, has an
excellent chance of making the
Olympic team.
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-05-05
Va. coIored 4-h
Club Youths
Produce s5oo,ooo
Worth Of Products

Virginia's 1922 colored All
club boys and girls completed 15,-
GAS farm and home projects last
year valued at mere than $500, 900,
reports State Extension Agent
Ross w. Newsome of Virginia
State College.
For example, William Forbes OF
Appomattox raises corn, tobacco,
and registered hogs. Last year
profits from his hogs alone totaled
s847. Dora Blackwell of Kenbridge
has Melted $557 from her garden
ever the past seven years.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-05-05
Week Of Religious
Service Slated

The officers and members of
the Olivet Temple Church located
at Perry and Prosperity Street in
vites you and the members of your
church to join them in a week of
Religious Service, beginning, Sun
day, May 9Th, 1856.
May 9Th - Sunday Evening at
$3.50 p.m.-Whites Chapel Church,
Rev. L. T. Smith, Pastor.
May 7th-Monday Night, 7:3O
Pm. - Lanes Chapel, Rev. T..
Sanders, Jr.
May 8th-Tuesday Night, 7:3O
pm. - Ridley Hill.
May 9th-Wednesday Night =
1880 pm, Rev. T. L. Love.
May 1Oth-Thursday Night =
7:3O pm, Cherry Grove, Rev. l..
L. Love, Pastor.
May 18th - Friday Night -
1880 pm, Blair St. AME Zion,
Rev. Movie CLANCY, Pastor.
A special invitation is extended
to the public in general to join US.
Rev. J. T. Woodson, Sponsor.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-05-05

auired the Tournament of Cham
pions, another boxing promotion
group then in existence.
Norris and Writ finally joined
forces with Madison Square Gar
den for joint promotion Of cham
pionship and other matches.
Norris and Writ were to split
80 per cent of the profits from the
venture and Louis 20 per cent,
Elkins stated.
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Milford chronicle., 1956-09-28
BABSON DISCUSSES OIL STOCKS

the operating costs and locations
of the mines in which they are
Interested. Although mpst coal
stocks should probably be sold
today, there are doubtless some
which should be purchased.
1t is reported that more candles,
more kerosene, more gas, and other
fuels are being used today than at
any time III the past hundred
years, Notwithstanding the tremen-
dous expansion of electricity for
power, lighting and heating. In
fact, I recently heard of a young
man who has developed a profit
able business supplying hardwood
for fireplaces. Anyone desiring TO
start a new business chain today
might we'll own hardwood lots near
several large cities and deliver
standard quality of hardwood. un-
der a special trade name which
could be nationally advertised! am
willing to forecast that a hundred
years from now-perhaps thou
sand years from noW-people will
he burning candles on their dinner
tables and hardwood in their fire.
placesl
Peaeetime Uses For The Atom
Privately, I believe that it is the
fear of uranium as source of
heat which is causing many inyes~
tors to take profits on their stocks.
The possibilities of peacetime uses
for uranium are greatly increasing.
Ten years ago it was thought tE<sfe
was only a limited amount of ura-
mum: now we are told the supply
is almost unlimited. Therefore, ura-
MUM can become a standard source
of heat for the production of cleo
fricitv. In fact. there is possibility
that boilers. turbines and perhans
dvnamoS will some day be elimin-
ated. l forecast it will he nossihIe
m generate electricity direct from
uranium. This. of course. would
causa on indnetrv revolution When
we add TO this the possibility nf
harnessing hydrogen, the results
Milford chronicle., 1956-09-28

laziness, mistakes and general
cussedness, Mr. Stevenson will also
reveal the proper handling of our
material resources.
Except for the Next Life, for
which the Stevenson parallels
should prepare us admirably, the
only remaining area is that of
foreign affairs. Heretofore, it has
been the nominees position that,
after all, the Democrats are as
much responsible as the Repuali-
cans for the mess we have spert
ourselves into. But, it is now limited
that the new America" disquisi-
tion may even project the vista of
a new World-in which Democrats
will be signing the global relief
checks.
But it should not be forgotten
that Mr.. Stevenson vii go on talk
ing as usual in the meantime.
"ResegregatiOn" Ahead
While the National Capital a
chieved a speed record in school
egration-witnesse before an
Investigating subcommittee of the
House District of Columbia, com
mittee regard the outcome with
something less than pride and sat
isfaction.
President G. Melvin Sharpe, of the
Board of Education, admitted the
change had been made too swiftly,
that Washington is no model for
other cities, that the preponderance
of negro students over white had
increased during this time, that the
expected cost reduction had not
been realized.
Others testified to the relatively
low achievement" standing of
coloreG students, sex offenses,
knifings, pregnancies, and the fire.
quent need of police assistance at
school. One teacher said his two
heart attacks resulted from disci-
plinary difficulties. Another looked
forward to "resegregation" due to
departure of school-age white chill
dren from the city or removal to
private schools.
Since one Junior high school
now has 1884 colored studants.
and white. this prediction does
not seem too fantastic.
Milford chronicle., 1956-09-28
I'm THE AIR FORCE
BY Elaine townsend Dicksrson

Something else that is a SER
lous situation here in Kansas is
the drought; although this has
been an annual problem ever since
we arrived. There are editorials in :
the daily paper asking people to +
pray for rain. The other day we
had one hundred degree tempera-
lures and sixty-five mile per-
nour wind-a hot, dry, dusty wind.
Dawn came inside the day of that
windy gale, and said, "Mommy.
this is the 'quaziest' place. The.
wind is really blowing out there
ana IT'S as hot as it can be. How
can that be, Mommy?" g
I've been trying to do some house
cleaning lately as you can tell
from my last few letters to you.
Our living room rug remains d
constant problem to me. The Kan
sas dirt is just like cement and IT
is impossible to get off your feet
outside, and naturally, great big
clods OF 1T embeds themselves in
the house. One of my good neigh
bors suggested Glamorene, dry
cleaner for wool rugs" She used
II for her cotton rug and il work
ed beautifully. Well, / have a mir9li
acle DUPONT fiber rug that | was
rather reluctant to ruin. It's a
wonderful rug that can be washed
by any establishment that cam,
handle large rugs. The only catch il
is. that it cost $500 to be washed i
free from this Kansas mire. This
price once a year you could afford. 1i
but not with the change of the
seasons. Doesn't Kansas sound ,
like an Utopia? Well, | didn'to
know if Glamorene would dissolve. 81
demolish or disintegrate my du-
Pont wonder, but | had to give itT
a trv. My neighbor lost her neryeI .
and had TO go home, she couldn't
witness my experiment You try8l
it on your rugs--it worked on mine
and on her cotton one and il cer-i.
tainly will work on your woopI
ones. For $1.29 you can't beat it b
Until next week. il
Always,
Elaine Townsend Dickerson
Milford chronicle., 1956-09-28
But Don't Relax

A law passed in the closing days
of the last Congress and signed by
the President makes it unlawful
for any person to place in inter-
state commerce any household re-
frigerator manufactured on or after
the law becomes effective unless
it is equipped with special clos
ing device. Such devices will en-
able the door to be opened from the
inside and must also conform with
the standards to be prescribed by
the Secretary of Commerce. The
purpose of this law it to put an
end to the continually mounting
death toll of small children-115 in
the past ten years-that have been
trapped and suffocated in these
boxes while playing.
The effective date of this law is
approximately la months off. How
ever it is hoped that industry will
not require that much time. Some
manufacturers have long been con-
cerned with tie problem. General
Electric, for instance, began its
research several years ago on a
closing device that would help make
a refrigerator child-safe and an
nounced seven months before Con-
gress passed the law that all of its
new refrigerators would be equip
ped with the new Magnetic Safety
Door There are no latches or me-
-chanical closing devices whatever
Doors are held shut by permanent
bar magnets and can be pushed
open from the inside. In order to
sped the safety program the COM
pany has offered to license other
manufacturers to use the magnetic
door idea.
But even if every refrigerator
manufactured today were equipped
with this safety feature, the prob
lem will remain with us for an
other ten years or more-since it
will be approximately that long
Before tie new safety boxes begin
to replace the persent death-traps
among the d;scards in junk heaps
and vacant lots, backyards and
easements.
Thus, the peril of the abandoned
refrigerator remains, for the time
being, what it has been. In spite of
widespread publicity, in spite of
Milford chronicle., 1956-09-28
Washington Letter = BY Robert Nelson Taylor

laws being considered in many
states requiring the removal of
doors and latches before these
boxes are thrown out, adventurous
youngsters continue to lose their
lives in suffocating darkness.
All credit is due to the manu-
facturers who have sought in ad-
vance of legal requirements to elm
mate this horror. And may their
example dramatize the danger in
the cast-off But. unless we do a
better job OF dismantling old boxes
before they are discarded, the next
ten years could roll up a more
shameful record than the past dec
ade.
Rip off those doors! See that
others do!
Read All About 1t!
Adlai Stevenson, who sees him.
self as the Sir Galahad of the new
America" cherishes high hope that
the American people will read more
patiently than they listen; or per-
haps that he can push onto radio
and TV commentators as we'll as
sundry faithful and industrious
takers in the Democratic Party
some of his own speaking chores.
To this end he will issue a series
of reports to the nation" which,
running as long as 10000 words,
will be amplifications of his public
addresses, and will constitute an
advance picture of SteyensOnian
America-over which the voters
NAV drool at length.
The first of these dream-books
which is due any minute now, will
deal with "the aging and the mid
dle-aging', according to Clayton
Fritchey. Stevenson press secre-
tary. Whether in the same essay or
subsequent homily, the Demo-
cratic oracle will reveal his solu-
tions of the problems of youth.
This. YOU might think, should
about take care of all of us. But
the Adalian thesis on waste of
our human resources" is expected
TO proceed. in weekly installmants
from now till Election Dav. Along
with the pattern alistic blueprints
on the care and feeding of citizens
nf all ages. their schooling. health,
shelter. protection from their own