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Evening star., 1960-02-17
BY the Associated Press

Joseph Adams Howell, for
mer president of Virginia Car
olina Chemical Corp, died at
George Washington Hospital
last night after a heart attack
while on a business trip. He
was So.
Mr.. Howell headed the COM
pany from 1949 until he was
ousted during a stormy proxy
fight in the summer of 1856.
A native Of Troy. Ala. he had
been with the chemical firm
since 1922, when he began as a
salesman in Mobile. Ala.
He had been a consultant to
the agricultural chemical in
dustry since leaving the COM
pany. He testified earlier this
month before the House Ways
and Means Committee on in
come taxes charged co-opera-
tiveS and was chairman of the
National Tax Equality ASSocia-
tion'S fertilizer committee.
Mr.. Howell went to Rich
mond in 1886 and, two years
later. became vice president of
the chemical firm in charge of
sales. In 1914, he became a
director and executive vice
president and moved up to
president in l949.
In the fight which resulted
In his custer, Mr.. Howell
charged that the company re-
pudiated 10-year employment
contract and sought judgment
of $435,000 in a Richmond
court. The matter was settled
out of court with Mr.. Howell
to be paid $4,000 a year for Is
years.
Mr.. Howell was a major force
in the formation of the Ma
Evening star., 1960-02-17
Carrier Boy Helps
In Mans Arrest
In Housebreukino

The alertness of an 11-year-
old carrier boy for The Star led
to the arrest yesterday of Jesse
R. Kelley. an ex-convict, on a
charge of houSebreaking, police
said.
Bruce K. Duncan. II, of 7700
Alaska avenue NV. was de-
livering papers when he spotted
Kelley, 80, of the 1000 block of
First street NV, trying to open
a locked door in an apartment
house at 1903 Georgia avenue
NV, police said.
Bruce ran to Mayfair Liquors,
1912 Georgia avenue NV, and
told the owner, Henry Weiner,
"A, what he had seen. Mr..
Weiner later saw Kelly run
from behind the building and
get into a cab. Mr.. Weiner's
brother Irwin called police, and
a motorcycle policeman stopped
the cab in the 610O block of
Georgia avenue NV.
Police said they found two
table knives and a screwdriver
where Kelley had been sitting.
The cab driver said they had
not been there before Kelley
got in.
Kelley was taken to the 9Th
precinct station, where he was
greeted by Detective Teddy E.
ThanoS, who had arrested Kel-
ley about 10 years ago when he
was being sought in connection
with a string of housebreak-
ingS. Kelley received To-
year sentence at that time.
Detective Thanos said he
shook hands with Kelley, ex-
changed greetings and then re-
corded the charges against him
Of housebreaking and possess
sion of criminal tools after con-
viction of a felony.
Evening star., 1960-02-17

Wolfe, 5505 Fifth street NV,
and Army Warrant Officer C..
Lewis Wolfe, Fort Lewis, Wash.
A Masonic service was held
Monday evening at the Hines
Funeral Home, 29O1 Fourteenth
street NV, and a second serv-
ice was held there at l pm.
yesterday. Burial was in Rock
Creek Cemetery.
Evening star., 1960-02-17
S.J.McMahon,
Ex-Attorney

Services were held this morn
ing at st. Thomas the Apostle
Church for Stephen John Nc
Mahon. 70. a retired attorney,
who died Sunday at his home,
2l38 California street NV.
Mr.. Mcmahon, a native of
Meeme, Wis, was campaign
manager for Wisconsin Gov.
Walter J. Kohler. sr., in the
1920S and directed the Wis
consin campaign of former
President Herbert Hoover in
the 1928 election.
In 1903 he was graduated
from the University of Wiscon-
sin, where he had organized
the campus chapter of the
Sigma Alpha Epsilon frater-
nifty.
After admission to the Wis
consin bar in 1906, Mr.. Nc
Mahon served as assistant
United States attorney in Mil
waukee from 1911 to 1912, and
taught law at Marquette Uni
verSity from 1914 to 1917.
He came to Washington in
1929, when he began a 9-year
term on the United States
Board of Tax Appeals, now the
United States Tax Court.
During World War II he was
with the Alien Property Office
of the Justice Department and
for two years after the war
served on Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur's staff in Tokyo.
He leaves his wife, Alice M,
and son. Stephen. jr., both of
the home address; another son,
Eugene F.. 27A Ridge road,
Greenbelt, Md. and two broth
erS, DR.. Francis B. and DR..
Joseph P, both of Milwaukee.
Burial was in Mount Olivet
Cemetery.
Evening star., 1960-02-17

PEORIA, ILL.,, Feb. II (AP) -
A 16-year-old high school
junior-discouraged with life
kept detailed log of his reac-
tions to gas inhalation as he
awaited death.
The victim was Martin
Brewer. His younger brother
John, ID, found the body in the
gas-filled kitchen of the Brewer
home Monday about 80 minutes
after the final entry in the
log had been timed off.
Police said it appeared Mar
tin first tried to kill himself by
opening all the jets on the gas
stove. They said he apparently
became impatient later and en-
cased his head in a plastic bag
to which he hooked up a hose
leading from a gas outlet to
hurry the death process.
The log, written on a sheet
of notepaper, was found be-
side the body. 1t read:
For all doctors will describe
the effects of gas inhalation as
best as I can. 1 hope my notes
may contribute in some way to
medical science.
9:35 a.m.-Here goes. Hope
no spark sets this off.
9:37-Can't smell gas any
more. Shaky. May be nervous
ness.
9:40-Went to shut off elec-
tricity. Should have done that
first.
Gall think I shall lay my
head down and sleep. Gas has
no effect yet.
9:43-Unscrewed telephone.
9:49-Taking deep breath but
no effect. Seems to be q pain
Evening star., 1960-02-17
Senator Piemonte, 81

UDINE. Italy, Feb. II (AP).
- Senator Giuseppe Ernesto
Piemonte, 81, elder statesman
of the anti-Communist Demo-
cratic Socialist Party, died to-
day after a long illness. Sena-
tor Piemonte was a militant
Socialist who was driven into
exile in France by the rise Of
MuSsolini. He switched to the
Democratic Socialists in 1947.
Evening star., 1960-02-17
Boyle, Writes OutLog
On His Way to Death

in my lungs. May be imagina-
tion.
9:55-No effect. What the
hell. I hope there are no con-
vulSionS.
9:57-Going to eat grape
fruit. Hungry.
9:58-Throat feels dry. Gas
effect?
10:04-Throat feels drier.
10:46-Dizziness. Trying new
method. Police said they be-
lieve it was at this point that
young Brewer employed the
plastic bag and hoseO
11:10-Dizzy. New method
working. Gas leaves bad taste
in mouth. Passed out once. Got
hiccups.
11:45-Why can't I die. Am
trying. Last time I got inco-
herent. Strange ringing. Also
1 yellow out. Talking. Yelling
in funny voice. High pitched.
Here the log ended.
Police said the youth left
notes to his brother, his par
entS, Mr.. and Mrs. Harold
Brewer, and girl friend.
At an inquest yesterday
called by Coroner Horace Pay
ton of Peoria County, John Of
fered this possible motive:
We'll, he MARTINI believed ip
the world hereafter and 1 think
that might be part Of the rea-
son he did it. I think he wanted
to see what would go on in the
other world"
Harold Brewer testified his
son broke up with his girl
friend two weeks ago, but added
that Martin showed no signs
of despondency.
The coroner's jury returned q
verdict of suicide.
Evening star., 1960-02-17
Robert F. Johnston

CHICAGO. Feb. II (AP)-
Robert F. Johnston. so, gen.
eral passenger agent in Chi
cago for the Milwaukee Rail-
road for more than IA years,
died yesterday in his Evanston
home Of a heart attack. He
had been with the roads pas
senger traffic department for
40 years.
Evening star., 1960-02-17

There he was active in the
Unitarian Church.
He leaves his wife, Sarah, of
Claremont. a daughter, Mrs.
Ruth Wathen-Dunn of Lexing-
ton. Mass; two sons, Frederick
S. MagnuSson of 206 Park Hill
place, Fairfax, and Jon Mag
nusson of New York City; a
sister, Miss Vesta Magnusson,
of 3701 Connecticut avenue
NV, and seven grandchildren
Memorial services will be held
at the Claremont Unitarian
Church. The time has not been
set.
Evening star., 1960-02-17
Charles A. Burkhurdt,
Retired Bank Official

CHICAGO, Feb. II (AP).-
Charles A. Burkhardt, 81, q
banker for more than so years
and longtime head of the Den
yer Clearing House, died yes
terday in his suburban Win
netka home.
He was manager Of the Den
yer branch of the Kansas City
Federal Reserve Bank until his
retirement in 1854. He had
been head Of the Denver Clear
ing House for more than 80
years.
Evening star., 1960-02-17

court; three grandchildren and
two great-grandchildren, all
living in Silver Spring.
Friends may call at the
Warner E. Pumphrey Funeral
Home, 8434 Georgia avenue,
Silver Spring, until 8 o'clock
tonight. when services and an
Elk ritual will be held there.
Burial will be in Fort Lincoln
Cemetery.
Evening star., 1960-02-17
Mrs. Goodbinder, II,
Wholesalers Mother

Mrs. Sylvia Goodbinder, 70,
mother of a Washington ap-
pliance wholesaler, died yes
terday of a heart attack at
her home in Omaha, Nebr.
Mrs. Goodbinder's son, Hy
Goodbinder, is president of
Goodbinder Associates here.
He lives at 1882 Iris street
NV.
Mrs. Goodbinder also leaves
another son, who lives in
Omaha.
Services and burial were
scheduled to be held in Omaha.
Evening star., 1960-02-17
Convicts Put to Work

VIENNA, Feb. IT (AP)-
Courts in Communist Hungary
are sentencing petty criminals
TO state-run factories where
they work longer hours, receive
less pay than other workers
and usually remain twice as
long as their prison sentences
would have been. the Budapest
newspaper Esti Hirlap reports.
Evening star., 1960-02-17
Election Board Acts
To Spur Registration
BY CHARLES ID. PIERCE
Star STAFF Writer

Ihe Board of Elections acted yesterday to spur voter
egCraton amid warnings that poor showing could block
nome rule and national representation for District
JoSeph fairbanks board chairman said the board had
oecoeo 10 Keep It's registration Office open for one holiday
ana three Saturdays as see if it would
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Court a petition to have the Fifth
Circuit stay set aside. Such ac-
ton would let the Negroes be re-
stored to the voting registers while
the appeal of Judge Wright's de-
cision went forward.
The department noted that Lou
isiana will hold a general election
April 10, although the real con-
tests have already been decided
in the Democratic primary. 1t said
that Judge Wright's order simply
restored the situation that existed
before a Citizens Council campaign
led to removal of the Negro names.
"The public interest clearly re-
quires that this status quo be main
tained," the Justice Department
said, "and that citizens found to
have been disentranchised uncon-
stitutionally, because of their race
or color, be permitted to remain
on the registration rolls pending
appellate review"
The Citizens Council and one
registrar of Washington Parish
County, were sued by the Justice
Department under the Civil Rights
Act of 1857 after a campaign that
took ten whites and the 1,377 Ne
groes off the rolls because of what
were called errors on their regis
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1960-01-30
tenn. STATE CAGERS HAS
1872 RECORD FOR SEASON

second frame, Hunters Gunners
found the range and turned on
their speed. Within five minutes
the Big Blues had a comfortable
% point (63-41) lead.
Marley and Merriwether shared
game honors with "a each. Rosie
Johnson and Davis (10) and Is
points, made it four men hitting
double digits in a game where
Hunter got his entire bench in the
scoring column.
Tennessees' height payed off in
clean, both boards grabbing SO de-
fensive and 35 offensive rebounds
while limiting Central at q and Z.
"We practiced all week on a de-
tense for Eastern" elated Hunter
said after the Friday tilt. "The
boys played it letter perfect"
Next Saturday Hunter faces the
once-defeated Villa Madonna in
Covington, KY. A fastbreaking out
fit, the Rebels are very hard to
beat on their home ground.
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Ghana Wants To
Be A Republic

Accra, Ghana-The Ghana Gov
eminent has served notice formally
that it wants to turn this British
Commonwealth country in to q re-
public July /.
The West African nation, which
achieved independence almost three
years ago, would drop it's present
British patterned parliamentary
system for an American-style con-
stitution if the people approve the
change.
A draft constituent assembly
and plebiscite bill" was published
Jan. 20 in the official gazette. A
taken in making Ghana a republic
within the Commonwealth.
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to train the future elite Of Ruan-
da- Urundi, q trusteeship territory,
which, like the neighboring Congo,
is due for self-rule this year.
OF the $50 pupils, forty-five
are European, six Asian, the rest
African. The races live, study and
play together in q glass-and-con-
crete setting that would be hard to
match anywhere.
Poised above breathtaking
view of Lake Tanganyika, Saint
Esprit looks more like the campus
of a glossy new university than
q school.
In the residence blocks each
pupil-the school is for boys only
has his own room, each equipped
with a shower.
There are lofty stud and din
ing halls, superbly equipped kitch-
ems, classrooms fitted with every
modern aid to teaching. There are
sports arenas and a mammoth
swimming pool soon to be COM
pleted.
The buildings were designed by
one of Belgium's top architests,
Roger Basin, who planned the
Vatican pavilion at the 1858 Brus-
sells Fair.
The College de Saint Esprit is
run by the Jesuit Fathers. Says
the priest in charge, the Rev. Wal
ter Deraoua: II see no difference
in the standards of the white and
non-white pupils"
And another teacher said: 1.-THE
only difference is that the Afri-
cans are anxious to work"
Standards are kept high by a
rigorous entrance examination.
But, usually through differences
in educational and cultural back
ground, the average age of the
Africans is two years higher than
the whites.
Discrimination works in reverse
when it comes to school fees. Eu-
ropean boarders must pay $42 a
month Africans parents pay what
they can afford-sometimes as lit
tie as 81
Among the Africans, two-thirds
are Watusi-the minority ruling
caste of Ruanda- Urundi, recently
the targets of a bloody uprising
by the Bahutu, the traditional vas
sal tribe, and still resented by
them.
But among the products of their
new school the fathers at Saint
Esprit believe, this kind of thing
will soon be a matter of the past
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Jersey Joe
waleoH's Son To
Become Preacher

CAMDEN, N. 1.-THE son of
Jersey Joe Walcott won't follow in
his fathers footsteps as far as
boxing in concerned.
Vincent, 10, who was supposed
to have his first bout in six months,
has thrown out ring plans for the
pulpit.
The handsome youth, one of six
children of Arnold Cream, better
known as Jersey Joe Walcott,
made his public appearance as a
minister last Sunday at his church.
His decision to become a preacher
and soon a doctorate brought joy
to the Cream family.
"I'm sure he has made the right
decision" Walcott said. Every
body in the family is happy about
it."
Walcott won the heavyweight
championship at the age of 81 and
retired in 1853. He said he tried
to discourage his son when, at the
age of Is, the boy decided to fol-
low in his fathers footsteps.
81 couldn't talk him out of it,
so / agreed to train him." Wal
colt said.
Vincent, married and the father
of an infant son, will be an as
sistant at his church while he
studies for the ministry at Howard
University.
Walcott said Vincent, a ship
yard worker, turned and twisted
at night and reached his decision
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&111S z4233;
100 Per Cent Wrong Club Sets
18th Annual A|I-Sports Jamboree

football coaching and management;
James A. Farley, boxing develop.
ment; Althea Gibson, tennis; B. T
Harvey, development of inter
collegiate athletics; Joe Louis, box
ing; Marion Motley, football; Jesse
Owens, track; Branch Hickey, base.
ball management; Jackie Robinson,
baseball; Abe Saperstein, basket
ball coaching and management, and
Charles Sifford, golf
The eleven organizations and
groups scheduled to receive Silver
Certificates are CBS-News-Spcrts,
Gillette's Cavalcade of Sports,
National Association Intercollegi-
ate Athletics, National Newspaper
Publishers Association, Orange
Blossom Classic Committee, Sport
ing News, Sports Illustrated, Ten
nessee State A. & /. University,
The Pigskin Club of Washington,
d. c., Tuskegee Institute and the
u. 5. Olympic Association.
The individuals being cited are
receiving The Pioneer Awards
which honor the memories of the
late A. F. Herndon, founder of
the Atlanta Life Insurance Conn.,
pany and the late w. "A. Scoo, II,
founder of the Atlanta Daily
World, first successful Negro daily
newspaper. Each of these honorees
will receive a beautiful Bulova
watch, being donated by Bulova
Watch Company for the 18th an
niversary occasion.
The 100 Percenters are honoring
five athletes of the year-Joe
Brown, lightweight champion; Err
ME Banks, Chicago Cubs; J. d.
Smith, San Francisco 49ers and
Louie Bing Atlanta's Morris Brown
College senior guard two coaches,
an all-conference football team,
the national intercollegiate foot
ball champions and a public rela-
tons man of the year, on the occa-
sion of it's Waluhaje Awards Ban
quet.
The "Rattlers" of Florida A. &
M. University, Tallahassee, will
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1960-01-30
Win Elliot Heads
List Of Speakers

Atlanta, Gavin Elliot, one of
the array of sports experts asso-
ciated with Gillette's Cavalcade of
Sports, will deliver the principal
address on the occasion of The
100 Per Cent Wrong Clubs 25th
annual All-Sports Jamboree in
Atlanta on January 20.
Mr.. Elliot, a Westport, Conn,
native, has teamed with Don Dunn
ply as NBC radio network broad
caster for Gillete's Friday night
fights for seven years. A keen
observer of all types of sports,
he has also broadcast football, ice
hockey and horse shows, while he
has appeared as NBC-mc on such
well known radio shows as ION
Your Account" Break The Bank"
and Country Fair" His is the
voice heard on most of Gillette's
filmed commercials.
The 100 Per Cent Wrong Club,
a project of the Atlanta Daily
World, is honoring eleven persons
deemed to have made the most
outstanding contributions to sports
during the last quarter of a CEN
fury. In support of the "Eleven
/ of 25" theme, the sports body has
also listed Silver Certificates to
eleven groups considered as having
played significant roles in the
sports arena over the past twenty
five years.
eleven of 25-100%" awards
have been voted to Paul Brown,
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Nashville - Nearly 5000 fans
damned Kean's Little Garden in
two nights to see Tennessee State
University cagers burn the nets for
210 points while bagging their 18th
and 18th seasons wins against two
setbacks.
Currently rated the number two
small college team in the nation
by United Press International,
Coach Harold Hunters Gunners
poured fire-power at Eastern Illi-
nois 107-69 last Friday night, and
bombed Central State five 1O3-69
last Saturday for their second Mid
western conference win.
Eastern held Tennessee to two
point (80-78) victory earlier in the
season, but the Charleston crew
were never a threat in this second
meeting. Paced by Spider Ben
Warley's 25 points, Hunters Gun
ners led $3.50 at intermission, and
starting five posted double figures.
Hitting SOL percent from the
floor, the Tall fastbreaking Ten
nesseeans played string music with
46 of 80 from the floor. Captain
Porter Merriwether poured in %
points while Bob Clark added 10.
Tene Werts and Mel Davis Is and
IL tallies rounded out the double
figured quint.
CentraPs Marauders used a slow,
controlled patterned offense and a
tight zone defense in trying to
bounce Tennessee from the win col
umn. At halftime Tennessee's nine
point margin 1880 was the wild
est edge of thrilling first stanza
that was tied four times with the
lead changing hands nine times.
With Ais left in the first half,
Spider Marley on tip-in put Ten
nessee in front 31-30. Opening the
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only after a lot of deliberation
and talks with his mother and
maternal grandfather, pastor at
church in nearby Haddonfield.
Vincent, who according to his
father, eventually would have
grown into a heavyweight, said ne
plans to return to Howard, school
he had left to prepare for his ring
career.
The son competed in track, foot
ball and basketball at Woodrow
Wilson High here before entering
Howard. -sssre--.
Jersey Joe, now q city detective,
works closely with Juvenile groups
and promotes athletic programs
among them Nov my boy will
be able to help boys all over the
country" he said.
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tinuity in the House of Represen-
tatives to protect seniority with a
view to inheriting a committee
craftsmanship.
"Do you anticipate any difficulty
in getting it," he was asked.
Certainly not" replied Mr..
Powell, Owe been encouraged by
Mr.. Sam Speaker Sam Rayburn)
and Lyndon Johnson SENATE ma
jority leader) to believe l will"
what about charges of income
tax evasion against you, decision ?"
another questioner demanded.
"Of course not, it hasn't in other
cases, even when a conviction was
obtained" snapped Mr.. Powell.
On Dec. 31st Federal Judge
Thomas F. Murphy postponed until
March z trial on charges that Mr.,
Powell had filed an improper re-
turn in 1851 for his wife. He added
that, in his opinion, there was no
question of a conviction in this
case.
Mr.. Powell also asserted that the
traditional seniority rule would
prevail and that he did not believe
the committee would be split in q
maneuver to bypass him.
"Last year Mr.. Sam wanted to
split it to get me a Craftsmanship
and l was against it," he recalled
When he does become chairman
a year hence, provided he is re-
elected and the Democrats retain
control of the House, he predicted
a more liberal, more effective COM
mittee than the present one.
81 don't think Mr.. Barden had
the friendship and support that
have had with these men," he said.
"Mr. Barden is a dogmatic man
with set views against which young
Turks on both sides of the House
were rebelling.
"I'm not going to be anti-any-
body or anything in committee. If
something like segregation came
up, l would accept the committee
majority and, if need be, fight it
down on the floor of the House"
Mr.. Powell said he believed he
would be the second Negro in this
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1960-01-30
Greek Day
SetAtutica

Utica Junior College announces
the famous Seventh Annual Greek
Day to be held here on Sunday,
February IA, 1860 at 100 o'clock.
The arrangement this year will be
organization meetings, then the
banquet, which will include the
speaker and the fellowship hour.
The Greek Day has gained south
wide interest. There will be Re-
gional Directors from over the
South in attendance. The Greek
Day arrangements are under the
Guardianship of DR.. James Byrd
song. Byrdsong has been chair
man of the All Greek Day for the
last three years.