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charged with first degree murder.
They went to trial last month
which ended in a hung jury after
three days of elaboration.
The second trial which began
last Monday came to close at
3:45 Friday when it resulted in
mis-trial because one of the jurors
became ill.
The jury had been debating the
verdict for three hours when the
foreman notified Judge Bolitha j.
Laws that a member of the jury
was ill. After ordering a doctor
to examine her, the Judge said he
did not think he should force her
to continue.
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Black men, mainly Impoverished
and tiibualized, outnumber Whites
in northern Hhodesia by 80 to 1,
by IL to / in Southern Rhodesia,
and in Nyasaland by 400 to 1.
The Federal governments pro-
posals are that q common roll
should consist of A and B rolls.
The B roll would consist Of people
Of any race who earn more than
$50 a year and can read and write
English. Sir Roy has admitted this
would be virtually an African roll.
Roll B voters will have a share
in the election Of 25 percent Of the
federal parliament.
The Roll A would consist Of more
highly qualified people, again Of
any race says Sir Roy, who will
elect 75 percent Of parliament.
The proposed qualifications for
the A Roll are, $3.50 per year
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AFRICAN VOTERS PLAN SAID
TO BACK CIVILIZED RULE

Salisbury, s. Rhodesia, Africa,
July S1Although, under the new
franchise proposal Of the govern
fnent Of the Federation Of Nyasa-
land, and Rhodesia, q dual voters
roll will be open to all races, the
main fundamental is to ensure that
government Of the country will re-
main In civilized hands.
"Our franchise must be designed
to guarantee representation by
civilized people for civilized peo-
ple," says the Prime Minister, Sir
Roy Welenksy.
II believe that this can only
be done by means Of income, prop
erty, and educational qualifications.
The idea Is to get people on to the
voters rolls, not keep them off, but
we have always believed that II
democracy Is to work you have
to have q fairly high level Of
voters"
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Tenth Annual 4-H Club Regional
Camp To Be Held AT Howard Univ.

The 10th Annual Regional All
Club Camp will be held August IL
l9 here at Howard University, the
U. S. Department of Agriculture
announced today. One hundred and
twenty-eight outstanding rural
boys and girls and "a Extension
leaders from the II States of the
South are expected to make up
the camp delegation, said P. H.
Stone, camp director and staff as
sistant of the USDA Federal Ex-
tension Service. These boys and
girls, he added, will be represent
ing over 100000 fellow Alters of
the region.
Highlights Of the encampment,
Mr.. Stone explained, will be pre-
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Landlord Loses
On Housing Bias

New York, July 8.-The State
Commission Against Discrimina-
ton ruled last Tuesday in the first
decision Of its kind, that a New
Rochelle landlord had violated the
state anti-bias law by refusing to
rent an apartment to q Negro.
The unanimous decision by 4
panel Of three commissioners was
against Pelham Hall Apartments,
Inc. The landloard had been ac-
cused by Norris Shervington, a
Negro, Of denying him a 1854
month apartment in its Rochelle
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Famous Casey
Jones Fireman
Seriously III

Memphis, Tenn. July 8 - Sim
Webb -84-year-old Negro fireman
Of famed eneineer, Casey Jones,
whose last Inflated run on the
Illinois Central Railroad, has been
made famous in song and stories,
and is one of the great legacies
of the nations railroad men, is SER
iously i'll in Memphis hospital.
According to reports he is suf-
fering with a blood ailment, and
complications due to his advanced
age.
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Boycott Worries
Tuskegee : Mayor

Tuskegee, Ala, July 8 - A
boycott of stores here unfriendly
to Negroes proved an eye-opener
to whites, last week as the Mayor
of this town stated that the action
is quite distressing to me per-
sonally because l like to work with
everyone and hate to see anyone
not liking his neighbor."
The attitudes of Mayor Phil
Lightfoot came out following
agreements of both Negro and
white leaders here that the appeal
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Bishop 0usted From RR Waiting Room

Birmingham, Ala, Bishop r. R.
Wright, president Of the powerful
AME Church Bishops Council and
presiding bishop of the Eight AME
Episcopal District, stated last week
that he was ousted from a general
waiting room in this city's rail-
road terminal while enroute from
Philadelphia to New Orleans.
The Bishop made known his ex-
perience in his remarks at the
noon retreat of the Summer Short
Course of the ninth Episcopal
Church in session at Daniel Payne
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Youth GroupIn
Street Fight

Memphis, Tenn. July 9 A
group of Negro boys and white
boys engaged in a street fight
here Monday night in which two
white boys were injured.
A gang Of Negro youngsters
are said to have attacked the white
boys as, they were leaving party.
Nine Negro boys arrested after
the fight were identified by the
white boys as members of the gang
that attacked them.
The white boys told police that
they noticed the Negro group lott
ering at corner as they were
leaving a party.
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College here.
The Bishop said the incident oc-
Cured as he was waiting in a
terminal here during a two-hour
lay-over. He said he seated him.
self in the general waiting room
as he had done before when a
policeman approached him and de-
manded that he leave the terminal
because he might start riot.
Chief of Police jamie Moore con-
firmed the observation with the
statement that this city's dual
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STATE BAPTIST SET SIS, 600 GOAL

The General Missionary Baptist
State Convention of Mississippi, re-
putedly the largest organization of
Negro Baptist in the United States,
has set a goal of $4,000 for its
annual convention, set to begin a
three days sessions, on Tuesday,
July % here, with it's principal
headquarters at the Masonic Tenn
pie on Lynch Street.
Rev. Joseph H. Jackson, Pastor,
of Olivet Baptist Church, of Chica-
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Ala. Draft Board
0usted Because
OF Race Issue

Montgomery, Ala, July S-The
entire Bullock County Draft Board
here was fired last week by the Ma
tional Director Of Selective Ser
vice in Washington following It's
failure to call inductees into mill
tary service because 1t protested
the draft deferment Of Fred D.
Gray, part-time minister and ac-
tive attorney in this city's recent
Negro bus boycott.
Reports In the matter came from
L. X. Andrews, q former member
Of the board who announced that
the board had been discharged sew
eral weeks ago.
Confirmation Of the boards dis
missal came from General Lewis
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State Educators
Attend 1uskegee
Principals Work Shop

Nine educators from Mississippi
are among the n educators from
13 states in attendance at the prin-
cjpals and supervisors wc4*shop
which opened at Tuskegee Insti-
tute, Alabama last week.
The workshop, which las S
through August 8, is an annual
project of the Southern Education
Foundation in cooperation with the
various state departments Of edu-
cation and the Department of Ed
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AIcorn Professor
I'm Rift With
Presiding Elder
OF AmE Church
Is Arrested Then
Released After
Breaking Lock
On Church Door

Hazelhurst, Miss. July 8 -
Prof. Clennon King, the Alcorn
College professor whose writing in
a Jackson Daily newspaper earlied
this year is charged with having
led to the students strike at the
college, who is also a minister and
the pastor of Wesley Chapel AME
Church here was last week report
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Nine Killed In
Auto Acciiden

Oxford, Miss, July Sin one of
the worst automobile accidents in
the history Of this section of the
state, nine Negroes lost their lives
in a two-car accident on Highway
6, seven miles west of Oxford early
Sunday morning.
The accident took place when a
1851 Ford veered into the wrong
lane and crashed head-on into a
1857 Buick which exploded in
flames.
The Buick was driven by it's
owner, Reece Valley, Of Chicago,
who with his five passengers were
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STATE SOVEREIGNTY COMM.
SCARE NEGROES OF STATE

The State Sovereignty Commits
sion, which got $250,000 from the
last session of the State Legis-
lature, for the stated purpose Of
preserving segregation in the state,
in the wake of the United States
Supreme Court decision in the
school Indignation cases, is viewed
by Negroes of the state as the
real block in their efforts for first
class citizenship, largely because
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Sixth Annual Natl
Agriculture Agents
Conf. To Be Held Al
Southern University
Agents From II
States To Attend

Baton Rouge, La, July S.-Ne-
gro County Agents from II states
will hold their Sixth Annual Ma
tional Agriculture Agents Confer
ence at Southern University, July
1881, it has been announced by
the organizations President, B. D.
Harrison, Shreveport, La.
Harrison, in his announcement,
stated that among the speakers,
who will take part in the sessions
will be: The Honorable Earl K.
Long, governor of louisiana; True
ID. Morse, Undersecretary of Agri-
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Racism AssaiIed
By South African
Episcopal Bishop
Cleric Asserts Policy
COntradicts Faith

johannesburg, S. A., July 8 -
The Right Rev. Richard Ambrose
Reeves, Bishop of johannesburg,
termed the Union of South At
rica's segregation policy" a COM
plete negation of all that the
Christian faith asserts about God :?
Bishop Reeves, who opened q
national preaching tour, gave a
sermon at the New York Cathed-
raj (St. John the Devine). His
tour in the United States is being
sponsored by the American Church
Union, an organization of the Pro-
testant Episcopal Churchmen for
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go, and President of the National
Baptist Convention is scheduled to
deliver the principal speech of the
convention.
Thousands of delegates and visi-
tors are expected to attend the con-
vention, which will be presided over
by Rev. H. H. Hume, of Greenville,
who is President of the General
Missionary Baptist State Conven-
ton.
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Seven eenagers
Convicted In
Hammer Murder

Chicago. = Seven white youths
this week were convicted in GRIM
inal court of numbering a Negro
high school student. An eighth
member of their gang was sem
fenced to so years in prison for his
part in the crime.
Chief Justice Wilbert F. Crow
lev withheld sentencing the teen
ayers Immediately, announcing
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Say Youth Must Have Faith In God

Richmond, Va, July 8.-"Faith
in God is as necessary for VEN
turesome youth as for older peo-
ple,' DR.. Samuel D. Proctor, pres
ident of Virginia Union University,
declared Tuesday, at the Fourth
Annual Christian Youth Seminar
which is being sponsored by the
Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mis-
sion Convention which opened
there on Monday.
Giving the keynote address at
the Seminar, DR.. Proctor said.
I've think of faith as a virtue
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Negro GI Faces
Prison On Murder
Charge After
IncidentIn
Soldiers Club
Companion Had
Asked Two White
Women For Dance

Fl. Rucker, Ala, July 8 - A
young Negro soldier faced six
year prison term, and a dishonor-
able discharge here last Friday for
knitting q White Master Sergeant
to death last month.
A nine man general court martial
board deliberated for almost two
hours before fixing sentence for
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of the huge sum put in the hands
of the Commission.
Despite the attitude of state Ne
groes in regard to the commission,
with many observers noting their
attitude as being due to constant
Illustration of their efforts to-
wards first-class citizenship, the
State Sovereignty Commission has
been responsible for the most pro-
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of Older people who have learned
to trust in God through so many
crisis, but faith in God is also
necessary for venturcsome youth. "
DR.. Proctor told the 300 boys
and girls attending tie seminar
that they must be. alert for that
juncture in life where their poten-
tials cross Gods purposes.
Theme of this years seminar is
christian Youth Facing World
Problems"
DIR. Wendell c. Somerville, d.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-17
IChority Aides Plan
TQlent Show. Dance

Local Aides To All Charities
are deep in plans for their an
nual march for talent" show
and dance. to be held March 81
at the Mayflower Hotel.
Among the organizations
which will compete in the tall
ent show are the One Hundred
Club. D. C. Cancer Aid, and
Pioneer Women. Proceeds of
the event will go to local
charities.
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Topaz Tr y ahe Eperinu star
Wo " :E;''1i S;
WORLD
Nixon Children Greet
Their Grandmother

the landing ramp, Patricia let
out a cry, "Oh.' there's Mana.
Oh-h-h," she said, squeezing
up her face with glee.
Then both children dashed
for the runway and threw their
arms around their grandmoth-
er before she reached the bot
tom step.
AS the four walked back to
the car, Julie bounded along
side her grandmother, decrib-
ing her Shedding accident as
she ran. g. And the snow
was this deep" she said as her
Mana" smiled understand
ingly.
Likes Snow
The Vice Presidents mother,
whose Whittier, Calf, home
sees little snowfall, said she
was happy ito see a little
snow on the ground"
She also brought with her a
dusty rose ball gown to wear
to the Inaugural Ball.
Although Vice President and
Mrs. Nixon plan to attend the
Inaugural Ball at all of its
four locations, tentative plans
are for the elder Mrs. Nixon
to be at only one of them with
the rest Of the Nixon family.
Mrs. Nixon is the first of the
family from out-of town to be
here. Her son, Donald, and his
wife will arrive from Cali
fornia on Friday, and her other
son, Edward. an ensign in the
Navy, will come on Saturday.
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BY RUTH DEAN

Vice President and Mrs.
Nixon's children. Patricia and
Julie are looking forward to
Inaugural Day when they'll
see their father sworn in for
a second term.
But yesterday was their day
Of days because their Mana"
arrived from California.
The children accompanied
their mother to Washington
National Airport to meet the
plane on which the Vice
Presidents 7l-year-old moth
err. Mrs. Frank A. Nixon, ar
rived at 1905 pm.
At just about noon, a large
black limousine pulled up at
one end of the field.
In Tan Wool
A few minutes later, Mrs.
Nixon. wearing a tan wool
fitted coat and brown pillbox
hat. got out with her two
daughters on either side.
She explained the Vice Pres
ident couldn't come because
he was detained "in a meet
ing"
Ten-year-old Patricia wore
a blue tweed coat with a
black velvet beret perched on
her blond hair. Eight-year-
old Julie looked pert in a
turquoise wool coat. with
matching hat and bright red
rubbers.
Little Julie was apprehen-
sive of photographers because
Of a bruised nose which she
suffered in a shedding accident
two days ago. "She ran into
a tree" her mother explained.
AS the big airliner TAXED
into landing position. the
children waited impatiently to
see their Mana" as they call
their grandmother.
1t is her first visit here since
she came to stay with them
while their parents toured the
country during the election
campaign last October.
AS the passengers descended
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Burroughs leave for his new
assignment on January %.
Also honored last night was
the commander-in-chief of the
Royal Norwegian Navy. Vice
Admiral Peter j. E. Jacobsen,
who was honor guest at a din
ner given by the Norwegian
Naval Attache, Rear Admiral
Skule Storheill. and Mrs. Stor-
HE'LL.
Attending the dinner for Ad-
miral Jacobsen who leaves to-
day for a To-day tour of U. S.
naval installations. were Vice
Admiral and Mrs. Ruthven
Libby, Rear Admiral and Mrs.
w. A. Sutherland. Rear Ad-
miral and Mrs. Laurence H.
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C. O. P. Too Long Under
EisenhoWer's Warm Glow

| versive movements Of any sort
If it is known that such move
ments are being directed or
controlled by an external force
of Communist origin" he said.
The speaker also proposed
that the request for any new
authorizations or appropria-
tons for funds to implement
the program should be de-
ferred until Congress can give
consideration to the full mu-
tual security or foreign aid
legislation.
He explained to reporters
afterward that he did not re-
gard the need for funds as
urgent at the present time be-
cause sufficient money is avail
able to carry out the program
for the rest of the current
fiscal year.
Mr.. Bentley stressed that the
basic motivation of the resolu-
ton is a psychological one
to inspire the peoples of the
Middle East to resist Commu-
mist aggression, both from
without and within.
He also noted it was aimed
at lettering a would-be ag-
gressor by serving clear notice
of our reaction in case of overt
aggression"
Before his talk, Mr.. Bentley
ofticiated at the Inauguration
of the federation's Executive
Committee, headed by Mrs.
Peter Gibson of Monroe, Mich,
the new president.
The group of II took the
oath of Office en- masse and
the ceremony was completed
in less than 10 minutes.
The new president received
the gavel from Mrs. Carroll
D. Kearns, immediate past
president, whose term expired
January /.
Three Women
Three women to serve as
members at large were elected
during the morning session.
They were Mrs. Harry Pallady
OF Portland. Greg; Mrs. R.
Ransom Elston of Middletown,
Del. and Mrs. Yuki Dean ST..
mon of Jefferson. Okla.
The new first vice president
is Mrs. Richard M. Simpson
whose husband. Representative
Simpson of Pennsylvania, is
one of today's scheduled speak,
ers. Mr.. Simpson is chairman
OF the National Republican
Congressional Committee.
Senator Schoeppel of Kan
sas, chairman of the National
Republican Congressional Com
mittee. also was to address
the board this morning. The
two-day session ends tonight.
The women were reminded
that the elections of 1858 are
only % months away" in the
keynote address yesterday by
Mrs. Daphne Leeds, Assistant
Commissioner of Patents.
Mrs. Leeds stated bluntly
that the Republicans took q
licking" last November lin the
Congressional elections.
I'VE had better learn why
and learn fast" she warned.
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BY FRANCES LIDE

Representative Ri C har d
Simpson. chairman Of the Ma
tional Republican Congress
sional Committee, said today
that he wanted to see the Re-
publicans sold as a party tbe-
ginning right now.
I'VE have liked the Ameri-
can people to the exclusion of
issues on which the Republic
can Party takes its stand" he
said, land we have neglected
to include the Republican
Party label.
Mr.. Simpson spoke before
the board of directors of the
National Federation of Women
at the Mayfiower Hotel.
Senator Andrew Schoeppel
Of Kansas. who heads the
National G. o. P. Senate
Campaign Committee, sup
ported his colleague, and adj
vised that the party must get
out and win the Congress in
1858 if it is to have any chance
of retaining the presidency in
1860.
Build Up
Mr.. Simpson said the Re-
publican Party has been too
long under the warm glow"
OF President Eisenhower's
great name," and called for
recognition that the party
must be built up locally.
Party responsibility begins
down low and filters upward.
! want the Republican Party
to be recognized by the Gov
eminent and the people as a
unit upon which the continued
well-being of the country de-
pends." he added.
Senator Schoeppel warned
Of financial difficulties in the
coming congressional elections
because there is not the in
centive and spur in the two
year battle right ahead that
there is when we have a popu-
lar man at the head of the
ticket"
The party, he said, is in the
"throes of battling for an
adequate budget, and the peo-
pie responsible are finding a
lag in the hinterlands," he
said.
He called for more CO.
operation from the executive
department with Congress-
men and Senators on the Hill.
And I want to see less
Manipulating (of candidates)
from some of those States that
didn't turn out so good"
A member of the House For
eign Affairs Committee, Rep
resentative Bentley of Michi-
gan. spoke in support of the
so-called Eisenhower Doc
trine" in general yesterday, but
admitted he did not regard the
resolution as perfect in all re-
Spects.
For one thing" he said, "it
does not meet the dangerous
question of subversion except
indirectly"
Il believe the resolution
should be strengthened to per-
NIT this country to assist ma
tons of the Middle East to
defend themselves against sub
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Minister
mGreece
To Be Feted

Several small dinner parties
for out-of-town dignataries
are on the diplomatic date
book this week.
Tonight the Greek Ambas-
sador and Nine. Melas will
give an official cocktail party
in honor of their house guest,
Mr.. Evang h Ell os Averoff,
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Commodore o. c. S. Robert
son.. the new Canadian Naval
Attache. and Mrs. Robertson;
Group Capt. and Mrs. George
Parnaby. Group Capt. and
Mrs. Robin Wilson and Capt.
and Mrs. Peter White.
Entertaining at another
small dinner last night were the
Venezuelan Ambassador and
Sonora de Gonzalez. Guest of
honor was the new United
States Minister Counselor of
Venezuela, Mr.. Charles Bur-
roughS.
Mrs. Burroughs is out of
town visiting in Alabama and
will join her husband here at
the end Of the week. The
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Frost. the Norwegian Counselor
and Mrs. Oftedal. and the
United States Naval Attache to
Oslo. Capt. E. w. Davis. who
is acting as escort officer to
Admiral Jacobsen on his Amer
lean trip.
Admiral Jacobsen will return
here on January q and will be
entertained by the Storheills
at dinner again on the 18th.
Earlier this week, the Chief
of Naval Operations and Mrs.
Arleigh Burke gave a dinner
in the Norwegian visitors hon.
or at Admiral's House on the
Naval Observatory grounds.
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Greek Minister of Foreign AZ
fairs at the United Nations.
The Ambassador and Nine.
Melas will again be hosts at a
dinner party on Friday when
their guest will share joint
honors with Secretary of
State and Mrs. Dulles.
Among the several parties
which are being given for de-
parting New Zealand Armed
Forces Attache and Mrs. Nc
Kinnon was the small dinner
given last night by the head
of the British Joint Services
Mission, Admiral Sir Michael
Denny and Lady Denny at
their Woodland drive home.
Those attending included
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Mrs. Guggenheim
Is Hostess

Mrs. M. Robert Guggenheim
entertained at an after-theater
party last night in honor of
actress Judith Anderson, now
starring in THE Chalk Garden"
at the National Theater.
About so of the hostess
friends attended the party at
"Firenze." following their at
tendance at last nights per-
Torrance of the play. Miss
Anderson is an old friend of
Col. and Mrs. Guggenheim.