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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21

The District Commissioners
have Endorsed legislation which
would eliminate the city's
mandatory death sentence for
f1rst-degree murder.
Support Of the bill was voted
at a closed meeting this week.
The legislation was intro
duced by Senator Heating, Re-
publican. of New York. 1t is
co-sponsored by eight other
Republican Senators.
Letter Sent Bible
The Commissioners have sent
a letter to Senator Bible, chair
man of the Senate District
Committee, notifying him Of
their vote Of support.
In the letter, the Commits
sioners pointed out that their
position is in accord with the
stand taken last month by the
Districts Judicial Conference.
Under the bill, a jury would
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21
THE SUNDAY STAR
Washington, D. c., June n. 1859
New Hearing
On Transfers
Set Thursday

Senate rackets probers said
yesterday four Teamster Union
vice presidents and a union
trustee will be questioned along
with Teamster president James
r. Hoffa In hearings to start
here Thursday. D
It may be the last and
bitterest round in the special
investigating committees 212
years. running feud with Mr..
Hoffa and his union.
The committee headed by
Senator Mcclellan, Democrat
of Arkansas, has denounced
Mr.. Hoffa as a consort OF
gangsters and racketeers. 1t
said he used hoodlums to en-
nance his union power while
allowing them to enrich them
selves at the expense of em-
ployers and union members.
Four Summoned
Committee Counsel Robert
F. Kennedy said union vice
presidents Harold Gibbons OF
st. Louis, John O'Rouke Of
New York City, John T. SANDY
O'Brien of Chicago and Owen
(Bert) Brennan of Detroit have
been summoned to testify.
He said Ray Cohen, inter-
national trustee from Philadel-
phia, also will be quizzed. Mr..
Cohen's assigned job is to see
to it that union treasures are
not misused.
Mr.. Cohen, Mr.. O'Rouke, Mr..
OBrien and Mr.. Brennan have
invoked the Fifth Amendment
in prior refusals to answer
questions about their handling
Of union funds or various other
alleged abuses Of union power.
Mr.. Hoffa and Mr.. Gibbons
have engaged in heated clashes
with the committee but never
invoked any constitutional
right. The committee often ac-
cused both of using long, point
less replies as a device to avoid
giving a direct answer.
Although these are slated as
the last hearings on the
Transfers, MIR. Kennedy said he
is receiving fresh appeals from
some New York area auto
wash-rack employees for one
more inquiry that might offer
a hope Of redress from sweet
heart" labor contracts they
contend the underworld has
forced on them.
The committee has heard
much the same story before
from Detroit witneSses-that
hoodlums run a virtual traffic
in this type of labor contracts.
which give the workers few If
any benefits.
Mr.. Kennedy said Mr.. Hoffa
will be asked about prior testi-
mony that teamsters were in.
volved in such deals in Detroit,
with hoodlums getting payoffs
from the employers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21
Stennis Hits Master
Air Defense System

these new weapons programs
the more you realize how far
offense is ahead Of defense"
Senator Stennis said. appar-
emily referring to the increas-
ing threats of ocean-spanning
ballistic missiles.
Both Senator Stennis and
Senator Francis Case (Republi-
can Of South Dakota). ranking
COP member Of the group that
passes upon authorizations for
missiles installations. said a
cutback in the antiaircraft
missiles programs Of both the
Army and Air Force should
save $l.4 billion over the next
FIVE or six years.
Senator Case. in a separate
interview, said that even deep
er slashes in air defense SPEND
ing could be made II Congress
accepts the central premise Of
the revised programs.
This is a general acceptance
of the theory that the main
Soviet threat is not from
manned bombers or slow mis-
siles but from long range
and intermediate range missiles
armed with nuclear warheads.
Cutbacks Asked
Mr.. McElroy ask cutbacks in
both the Army's Nike Hercules,
a ground to air missile for
knocking down bombers at q
range rs to 80 miles. and the
Air Forces Bomarc. planned to
do the same thing at a range
of 400 to 500 miles.
He also proposed a $137 mil
lion addition to the $875 mil
lion previously asked to push
the Army's Nucleus, being
developed as a weapon against
incoming ballistic missiles.
Pending before the subcom-
mittee is an authorization bill
for more than a billion dollars
on military projects which
must be cleared before some
$40 billion in two defense
bills can be completed.
Senator Stennis also heads
the Senate Appropriations sub
committee on military con-
struction.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21


Mr.. McElroy said in testimony
made public yesterday.
''But until they did get big"
he said, "they would be able
to carry their own scrap with
their own forces. to fight for
their own real estate, and ]
think people always fight best
when they are fighting for
their own homeland"
The censored transcript OF
what Mr.. McElroy and others
told the Senate Foreign Rela-
tons Committee in closed ses-
sion over the past two months
dealt with President Eisen-
hower's request for nearly 81
billion in foreign aid for the
coming year. That includes
SIS billion for arms help to
buttress the free world. includ-
ing Nationalist China anC
South Korea.
Walter S. Robertson, the re-
firing Assistant Secretary OF
State for the Far East, re-
ported more unrest inside Red
China now than ever before
in the country's history.
Mr.. Robertson expressed
doubt that the Peiping regime
can be overthrown unless its
army rebels. But he said lit
is not at all visionary to hope
that this unrest may get to
the point that the army might
well go over to the side of the
people"
Admiral Harry D. Felt, Pa
'cific Fleet commander, told the
committee the United States
and its Far East allies have suf-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21

ficient atomic punch to deter
the Chinese Communists from
any king sized war.
He said that in case Of gen.
eral war, forces under his far
flung Pacific command from
the Sea Of Japan to the Indian
Ocean could make a good show
ing despite the Communists
numerical superiority.
1--WE have atomic delivery
capability in our carrier air.
craft, and also in our 5th and
18th Air Force aircraft which
are deployed out in the West
ern Pacific" he said. The. 5th
Air Force is based in Japan
and the 18th Air Force in the
Philippines.
The Senate committee has
voted for a foreign aid bill a
quarter billion dollars larger
than Mr.. Eisenhower sought.
1t stressed long-term loans
rather than arms aid. The
house passed a $3.5 billion bill
likewise emphasizing economic
assistance over military.
Administration witnesses &C.
knowledged under senatorial
questioning that some of the
lesS-developed countries are try
ing to maintain larger armed
forces than the United States
thinks they should have.
PakiStan. which processes
fear of neighboring India, and
Latin American countries were
prominently named in this
connection.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21

Brave" and THE Fair Maid
Barra," the latter a tune Of the
MacNeil clan.
Seconds after the bagpipes,
played by William Stokoe. jr.,
we're stilled, the bride-who adj
mits she is Of German-1rish
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21
Bows Will Meet

The Edna Woofter Chapter
Order of Royal Ambassadors,
a boys organization at the
Central Baptist Church. will
hold a recognition service at
$50 pm. tomorrow in the
church, 5412 Annapolis road
Bladensburg.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21

said. ut will cost them about
50 million for that one week,
he added.
Here in Manhattan, Brook.
Ign and the Bronx, we have {
segregated school system" thu
Democratic representative said
New York has no legal or
intended racial segregation
in its public schools. In some
places, however, neighbour
hood racial patterns cause
school populations that are
almost all-white or all-Negro.
Several moves for greater
mixing have been underway
for some time.)
Front Royal Girl Appears
Miss Ann Rhodes, 17-year-olC
Negro from Front Royal, Va.
appeared at the celebration
dressed in academic cap anc
gown for a ceremonial gradua.
ton exercise.
The girl was the only senior
among the 81 Negroes whit
made up the entire student
body at the Warren County
Va. high school last term.
No white pupils enrolled
when the school was reopeneC
in February on a desegregatec
basis. 1t had been closed since
September under the Statei
anti-integration laws.
Miss Rhodes attended thu
school for SO days and was on
short of the 16 credits sh'
would have obtained If she haC
been able to attend for the full
school year. AS a result, he
diploma was withheld.
She plans to attend summe
school to make UP the credi
and then go on to college.
H Miss Cecilia Cooper, recent
ly elected Miss Cannes Film
Festival" in France. presented
a diploma to Miss Rhodes.
Heating Attacks Virginia
Senator Kenneth B. Keat
ing, Republican Of New York
another speaker, criticized Vir
ginia school officials for no
graduating Miss Rhodes.
II say this to the state o
Virginia" he said, Ann Rhode
wasn't short one point. 1t wa
the high school that was shor
one point"
Mr.. Heating pledged op
position to adjournment o
Congress until tighter civi
rights laws have been enacted
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21
Platinum Heavy

One cubic foot of plantation
two and one-half times as
heavy as iron, weighs about
two-thirds Of a ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21
Clan Traditions Mark
Observation-Disclosures

The rafters of aud Adams Kirk resounded last night
to the bonnie piping of Highland wedding tunes.
In the age-old tradition of his can Neil MacNe SO
married to lauren Kunz, o.
Guests entered the church strains Of Scotland the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21
Toiwon, Korea Seen
Strong Without U. S.
BY the Associated Press

Defense Secretary McEoy says he expects Nationalist
China and South Korea to fight their against
Red attack without United States help unless the onslaught
Is large-scae
IF the battles got big. would support them
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21
Mosquito Species
Front Royal Girl Appears

There are IS separate species
of the mosquito in the United
States and Canada.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21

Therefore. this question does
not only concern our party but
begins to concern the nation, y
Mr.. Gerstenmaier said in an
interview with the South Ger
man radio network.
He said he believes q thun-
derstorm is coming UP. but he
still hopes the dispute can be
settled in a party caucus next
week.
Mr.. Gerstenmaier's words in
dicated a growing resentment
within the Christian Demo-
cratic Party, which has been in
a state of turmoil ever since
Mr.. Adenauer announced he
was Withdrawing as a candi-
date for the ceremonial post OF
President and staying on as
Chancellor.
Erhard supporters believe the
chief motive behind Mr.. AIDE
nauer's decision was to keer
the economics minister from
succeeding him as Chancellor
The majority of the party
backed Mr.. Erhard.
Mr.. Adenauer told confldantS
he felt Mr.. Erhard was not ex-
perienced enough to guarantee
the continuity of Bonn's for
eign policy.
Denies He's Unfit for Post
Mr.. Erhard. who was in the
United States when he learned
of Mr.. Adenauer's decision, said
it was a historical lie that he
was unfit for the post OF
Chancellor.
The dispute was provisional
ly patched UP last week with a
statement signed by Mr.. Aden-
auer that said the party re-
GREETED declarations tending To
damage Mr.. Erhard's reputa-
ton.
Then came the newspaper
interview quoting Mr.. Adenauer
as saying again that Mr.
Erhard lacked experience.
Mr.. Erhard Immediately re-
torted with the threat to re-
sign unless he was shielded
from further calumny In
addition to being finance min
lister. Mr.. Erhard is West Ger
many's vice chancellor.
The dispute will be dis
cussed at a special meeting OF
the party's executive board
Monday. Mr.. Gerstenmaier
who was credited with arrang-
ing the truce agreement last
week, Is q member of that
board.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21
Optional Death Penalty
Backed by D. Heads

have the option in first-degree
murder convictions to recon-
mend either the death penalty
or life Imprisonment. On q life
sentence. the prisoner would
be eligible for parole after Is
years.
Karrick's Opinion
Commissioner David B. Kar-
rick explained that he favors
the legislation because juries
are sometimes reluctant to con-
vict when a mandatory death
sentence will follow.
Mr.. Karrick, who is acting
chairman Of the board while
Commissioner Robert E. Nc
Laughlin is in Europe, emphas-
lied that his stand does not in
dictate support Of lighter sem
fences.
The bill will come up for q
hearing before a subcommittee
headed by Senator Hartke
Democrat of Indiana.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21
Aide Criticizes
Adenauer

BONN. Germany. June 20
(AP "A top aide of Chan
cellor Konrad Adenauer tonight
accused the Chancellor Of hav-
ing "unilaterally Cancelled" q
truce agreement with Economic
Minister Ludwig Erhard.
This is an impossible thing
to do" declared Eugen Gersten-
maier. speaker Of the Bundestag
(Lower House, and a leading
figure in Chancellor Adenauer'S
Christian Democrat Party.
Mr.. Gerstenmaier referred To
an interview given by Mr..
Adenauer to the New York
Times. The interview caused the
smoldering Adenauer Erhard
controversy to flare up again.
The Bundestag speaker said
he admires Mr.. Adenauer. as a
statesman. but added that this
goes beyond q justified defense
of interests"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1959-03-28

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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1959-03-28
Senatorial
Contest To Be
Held Here

The annual Oratorical Contest Of
the A. X. Atwood Lodge No. 518
will be held Sunday, April 26 at
800 pm. at the New Elks' Rest
in Jackson, Mississippi.
This year seven schools will par
ticipate and they are Utica Junior
College High School, Holy Ghost
High School, E. T. Hawkins High
School, Sumner Hill High School,
Lanier High School, Jim Hill High
School, and Campbell College High
School.
The program committee is plan
ming a very rich program. The
contest will be limited to high
school students only. Scholarships
will go to the students who rate
highest in the contest. The Ora
torical Contest is under the super
vision of the Education Committee
of the A. K. Atwood Lodge headed
by Walter Washington, President
of Utica Junior College. Other
members are Dean L. B. Fraser,
Dean A. A. Branch, E. L. Lips
comb, Leroy Johnson, Fenton Car
ey, and J. Louis Stokes.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1959-03-28
Special UNCF
Choir Broadcast
To Mark Opening
Of Campaign

New York, March 20. - Nine
UNCF choirs will open the month
of April in the regular weekly
NEGRO College Choir" series heard
over the ABC Radio Network.
The special broadcast April s
also will mark the opening of the
United Negro College Funds an
nual appeal. The program will
feature the choirs of: Atlanta Uni
versity, Morehouse and Spelman
Colleges; Atlanta; Fisk Univers-
ity, Nashville; Shaw University,
Raleigh, N. c.; Texas College, Ty-
Ter, Texas; Tougaloo Southern
Christian College, Tougaloo, Miss. !;
Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va;
and Xavier University, New Or
leans.
This recorded program is avail
able to radio stations across the
country as an open-end, public
service package show. The pro-
gram can be obtained by writing
to national headquarters: The
United Negro College Fund, % E.
9Th Street, New York %, N. Y.
The remainder of the April
schedule is as follows: Johnson c.
Smith University choir Charlotte,
N. CO., April IL, Christopher w.
Kemp, Director. Knoxville Col
lege choir Knoxville, Tenn.), Apr.
IS, Russell W. Smith, director.
Virginia Union University choir
(Richmond, Va.), Apr. 26, w. ].
Goodwin, director.
The weekly radio concerts orig
mate in New York City, Sunday
mornings, 10:30-10:55 for the ABC
Radio Network. Check local list
ings for broadcast time in your
area.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1959-03-28
TEMPORARY
J0BLESS AID
BILL PUSHED

House democrats will seek i'm
mediate 1-year extension of the
Temporary Unemployment Com
pensation Act due to expire Apr.
l and hearings are expected there
after on the Observation-Disclosures
bill to write basic federal minimum
standards into the permanent job
less compensation law.
Democratic Floor Leader J o h n
w. Mccormack (Mass.) called for
House action before lawmakers be-
gin their annual recess Mar. rs.
Otherwise, he said, there will be
$4,000 to 40O, 900 jobless workers
who will abruptly lose their unem-
ployment compensation benefits"
The states rights" TUG mea-
sure passed last year provides for
federal advances to finance an ex-
tension of benefits for an addition
al so percent of the period in which
the jobless worker receives aid I'M
der a state program.
Benefit periods range from as
little as 6 weeks in some fright
to-work" states to 80 weeks in Pen
nsylvania.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1959-03-28
Deep South 80.
CONTINUED from Page One)

together. Often Charlie would
take his young helper to his house
for iced tea.
"We'd sit on Charles little front
porch and drink the tea," McGill
writes, grateful for the end OF
the day. Charlie never failed to
brag about me, declaring | was
the best helper a man could have"
When summer ended and McGill
was to return to college, Charlie
drove him to the station. The old
Negro pressed an envelope into
the white boys palm-not to be
opened until the train left. Inside
was a five-dollar bill; Charlie
feared his helper hadn't saved
anything from his summers wages.
McGill and Charlie correspondent
until the latter's death. Now forty
years later, the editor writes that
he can still recall Charlie with
his arms around him at the sta
ton, saying: Don't forget me-"
Updating the story he writes:
in these last several years OF
tensions l have tried to recollect
any naturalization l may have
gone through about working as
the only white member of Negro
roofing crew. / have been unable
to recall any,"
The article is condensed from
the Atlantic Monthly.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1959-03-28
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A n ,
D 0W \
FAR ISH
S 7 R < < 7
BY PERCY GREENE

PARISH STREET SATURDAY
NIGHT: Don't be surprised
We who belong on the side of Aunt
Haggar's Chilluns under the stress
and strain of disgust at the way
some of US "act" when we get out
in the streets, especially where
other folks can see us, developed
or took unto ourselves the little
cliche, "don't be surprised" And
whenever one of Aunt Haggar's
Chilluns got out in the street and
started cutting them capers that
makes everybody else look and
shake their heads you could
hear some of us saying DON'T
BE SURPRISED :. . I was eating
my fish and drinking my beer, and
after some of that "Mother FOWL
ING language, that is a disgust
to everybody but US, I heard some
body saying, Man, Don't Be Sur
prised," you're liable to see or hear
anything from these folks
that wasn't none Gus Gus" that said
that. What l heard a seasoned
Parish Streeter say one day about
this DON'T BE SURPRISED"
business which we have taken up
ought to go a long way with the
wiser and therefore more respons-
ible, if self sufficient among Aunt
Haggar's Khan What he said
was that before we got ourselves
Alright in the eyes of folks by whom
it is important that we be prop
erly measured and gagged we got
to show that more of US are be-
coming everyday not just SUR
PRISED". but downright obs
GUSTED". at the way some Of
us insist on carrying on in public
places and up and down the street
and when we get some genuine
DISGUST" we'll be whole
lot closed to winning self respect.
WEEKLY QUOTATION: 1.-THE
most violent appetites in all crea-
lures are lust and hunger; the first
is a perpetual call upon them to
propagate their kind, the latter to
preserve themselves" - Joseph
Addison.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1959-03-28
Jamaica 80.
Continued from Page One)


lem, great strides are being made
in rehabilitating Jamaica's food
producing lands. Less than one
third of the islands total area Of
4,2O7 square miles is regarded as
suited to cultivation.
Reclamation Is Active
Thus the effort is being directed
toward rehabilitating eroded and
overworked lands. Individual recla-
nation projects and two great land
Authority programs are expected
to put back into production nearly
10000 acres by the end of 1860.
A ten-year plan, extending thru
1867, calls for an expenditure of
about $47,OO0,O0O on agriculture
alone, out of total Of nearly $751;
900, 900.
Deep, red scars on the beautiful
countryside are another sign of
the changing times. Before 1852,
mining was confined largely to
gypsum. In 1867, the mining Of
newly discovered bauxite, the ore
from which aluminium is made,
contributed nearly 81 ,00O, 900 to the
economy. This rose to $7,840,000
in the first nine months Of 1858,
and is expected to ascend to ST.
100000 in 1861.
The population Of the island has
almost doubled in the past GEN.
tury, but the change in agricul-
tural employment has been insight
ficant. As rural population has in
creased, the surplus labor has mi
grated to the urban centers.
In periods wheh the industrial
growth has not kept up with the
work population, the result has
been heavier emigration from the
island.
City Facilities Strained
The urban centers have begun
to feel the effects of population
shifts in such things as growing
health problems and strained edu-
cational facilities. Until relatively
recent years about nine of every
ten persons in Jamaica lived on
the land or in villages. This has
dropped to between six and seven
out of ten.
The ten-year plan envisages an
expenditure of more than $1,000
coo for such things as health GEN.
ters and hospitals and nearly $12,-
100000 for schools.
Largely responsible for the ac-
celeration Of industrial growth in
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1959-03-28

interesting luncheon recipe.
have an easy one which 1 have
served with success. It's made
with chicken and potato chips
and. Carnation Evaporated
Milk, of course! Double-rich Car
nation. is homogenized for better
blending to make all cooking
easier. 1t adds so much flavor
too. wonderful for Dreaming"
coffee. Use it in your cream
pitcher just as it pours from the
can. Do try Chicken-C Chip Bake
soon.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1959-03-28
LeMoyne College.

The instructors will be:
DR.. St. Elmo Brady, A. B. MA,
Ph.D. Professor Of Chemistry at
Tougaloo Southern Christian Col
lege, former Head Science Division,
Tuskegee Institute; Head of De-
partment of Chemistry, Howard
University; Head of Department of
Chemistry, Fisk University.
DIR. Charles B. Arzeni, B. S. :
M. S. PhD., now professor of Bio
logy at Tougaloo Southern Christ
ian College; former Teaching Fell
low University of Michigan; form
er teacher Booker T. Washington
Institute, Katata, Liberia West AZ
RIGA.
Mr.. Theodore Voth, A. B. B. d.
M. S., Associate Professor of
Mathematics at Tougaloo Southern
Christian College; former Hydro
logist in U. s. Weather Bureau.
Tuition and fees Of participants
in the National. Science Founda-
ton Institute will be paid by the
Foundation. An allowance of 7c
per mile will also be paid for trans
portation. This means that teach
ers of Secondary Schools in the
State have an unusual opportunity
without added costs.
In general, participants will be
selected from among teachers who
are employed within a radius of
one hundred miles from the Cam
pus of Tougaloo Southern Christ
ian College, who are currently
teaching science and mathematics
and could profit by attending the
Institute.