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mm WEATHER Wednesday, cloudy with rain late Wednesday or Wednesday night; nigh 64-68, low 38-42. Thursday outlook, decreasing cloudiness and continued mild, low 38-42; high 66-70. Tuesday record, low 36; high 65, no precipitation. Pearl River 15.5, down 1.21 feet. DOUBLE FAILURE Both America and the Russians hav failed drastically, Inez Robb writes.

The failure concerns an important Item the nylon stocking. For Columnist Robb'i comments see Page 6. Mississippi's Leading Newspaper For More Than A Century Established 1837 AP and INS Leased Wires JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 5, 1958 VOL. CXX NO. 63 24 PAGES PRICE 5c Bill Given Big White Prof Included In NAACPProbe House Joins Senate For Immediate Investigation Initial OE By Senators m5 I 4i life MADISON ITFS $17,000 HALF 'GONE WITH WIND' Would Ease FHA Terms, GOP Plan Overridden WASHINGTON, March 4 (ffv-l Sparkman originally had pro- SENATOR, WITNESS AT HEARING Sen.

Carl Curtis (R-Neb), left, and Robert Burkart, right, a witness, presented these studies during Tuesday's hearing of the Senate Rackets Committee. Curtis accused Burkart, international representative of the United Auto Workers Union, of falsely representing a woman as his wife in 1953. Burkart appealed to Chairman John Mc-Clellan (D-Ark) as "a gentleman" not to allow Curtis to question him about his personal life. Burkart said: "This refers to the woman who is now my wife AP The Senate Banking Committee posed a new l'fc billion fund for George Yarbrough of Red Banks told the Senate the American Legion had asked dining its state gave tentative approval today to a the Federal National Mortgage Assn. to buy FHA and VA, mortgages and an extra billion to ba Democratic-sponsored program to convention last summer for such spur home construction as an anti recession movev a-by-FNMA at the discretion an investigation of President Eisenhower to buy "What the American Legion is Final action on the bill was put additional mortgages if the eco trying to do," said, "is to get off until Thursday after the com nomic decline worsened.

mittee voted 8-7 to reject Repub Re-Apportionment Is something done to keep the state clear as much as possible of Com The Alabaman cut these twjj lican moves to raise interest rates By DOUGLAS STARR Associated Press Staff A white professor who defended racial integration was promised special attention as the Mississippi legislature voted Tuesday to investigate the NAAOP. He is Dr. Ernst Borinski, a European immigrant who for 11 years has been a member of the faculty of Tougaloo College, church-supported Negro college near Jackson. Borinski told a discussion group Monday night at Millsaps College, white college here, that segregation rejects "christian premises." Guiding to adoption a resolution provisions to a total of Vt Be munists and subversives. We can show that we want to help." on GI loans and on military housing mortgages.

fore the committee voted. The resolution itself said many Sen. Sparkman (D-Ala) spon Blocking Agreement 3 P. C. DOWN The new FHA down payment Easter and its accompanying egg hunts is still a month away, but a similiar hunt with objects at stake far more expensive than anything ever brought into this world by a Rhode Island Red is taking place in Madison-County-, They're hunting $100 bills on the countryside near Farmhaven.

The hunt got started this way: James Stewart, a resident of Farmhaven, had "stashed" $1,700, in one hundred-dollar bills, in his deep freeze. Then when that tornado struck Farmhaven last week, Stewart's "frozen assets" were gone with the wind. A local farm youth is reported to have said, "when I stepped out of the front door Thursday morning a $100 dollar bill smacked me right in the face." The Madison County Sheriff's office reports that so far Stewart has recovered about half of his windblown green. Meanwhile, hunting for the remaining bills goes on. sored the big housing bill, which schedule tentatively approved NAACP members "are known to have been affiliated with various Communists and Communist-front organizations" and that the NAACP portedly reached in top-level talks would lower down payments in FHA home loans and make available Hi billion dollars in new By GENE WIRTH A top-level "agreement" by last week, provides: 1.

A re-apportionment plan that would lower the payment to 3 per cent of the first $13,500 of a mortgage instead of the first as at present. The rest of the law requiring 15 per cent of the portion up to $16,000 and 30 per mortgage funds. 200,000 HOMES has supported causes that "threaten out traditional American way of life." would leave the legislative seating opposing legislative factions, aimed at ironing out differences over as is except for the addition of constitutional changes, appeared House seats for Tallahatchie, Sun He said the measure could lead to construction of an additional directing an investigation of the NAACP, Rep. Jimmy Morrow of flower, Leflore, Jones, Forrest Rankin County told the House: BORINSKI SAID One of Dr. Borinski's statements to the Millsaps gathering, which brought the remark from Morrow was: late Tuesday to be snagged on the controversial re-apportionment Harrison and Jackson counties.

"This white professor at a Negro 2. Adoption of a second const! 200,000 homes this year, creating thousands of jobs. Federal Housing Administrator Albert Cole told the committee cent above that would not be changed. Sparkman's bill also proposed to extend the VA home loan guarantee and direct home loan programs for two years, add 300 mil conege nas oeen making some tutional amendment resolution This was the picture even be "When we reject Christian prem that would make it easier to ises we should not rationalize it he could not agree that "so dras fore unofficial central committees from the forces of Governor J. P.

amend the constitution in the fu pretty brave statements. I sug-gest that he would probably be in. vestigated by the committee." The resolution, adopted unani- tic or so extensive a measure as lion for direct VA loans and give In my opinion, we cannot continue without rationalizing the kind of Coleman and House Speaker Wal this is needed at this time." FNMA 100 million for military housing mortgages. These point! caste relationship that has grown. Cole last night unveiled the ad- Girl Charges Terror ter Sillers prepared to sit down together sometime Wednesday to mously in both the Senate and House, directs the General Legis miniiiU'iiilou's own housing plan were not settled today.

review the situation and discuss JDiBorinolri aaid the NOglo lb convinced integration is inevitable because "he knows the law is on lative Investigating Committe and legislation to carry it out was Capehart proposed in the com rrteans, methods ture. 3. Submission of these proposed amendments for ratification in June. 4. Convening of the Legislature in July to insert these amendments into the constitution and to act upon a "package" of amendments designed to strengthen the state's position on school segre the proposed "agreement." Speaker Sillers and Rep.

Thomp introduced today by Sen. Cape-hart (R-Ind). mittee to tie the GI interest rate to the FHA figure but keep it al and ultimate objectives in this his side." At Little Rock H. S. state" of the NAACP.

He said Negroes in Mississippi son McClellan, of West Point, The key feature of the adminis ways Vi of a per cent below it. The Jackson Daily News said chairman of the House Constitu tration bill is a six-year, That would mean 5 per cent for are not satisfied. "He wants to ride the bus in the seat he chooses, Borinski is an NAACP member ended a 30-minute television inter the VA loans now since the FHA tion Committee, are serving as 000,000 program of urban renewal go to the schools which are best view with the sobbing statement rate is 51. per cent. The GI rate grants.

When the Senate approved the resolution calling for a study of ex-officio members of the Sillers caucus committee. Others named and go to the shows where the Todays hearings were con that she wanted only to be read mitted to finish her educaion. gation. These school amendments, now on the House calendar, would be passed over until the special session. the NAACP in Mississippi, Sen.

best movies are shown," he said cerned only with emergency hous LITTLE ROCK, March 4 A 16-year-old white girl, recently expelled from Central High School, tonight accused Supt. Virgil Blossom and Principal Jess Matthews of scaring teachers and pupils Into mute acceptance of integratiosr now is 41 per cent. The Indianan said he would renew his fight Thursday and take it to the floor if he lost again in the committee. ing measures. The committee will At the conclusion of the paid consider long range proposal telecast, sponsored by a recently 5.

No further efforts to gain a House Moves To Hike later. organized Freedom Fund Founda constitutional convention during on a congressional district basis are Representatives Luther Sims of Lowndes county, Maurice Black of Carroll county, George McMillan of Washington county, Britte Hughey of Amite county, Paul Measell of Newton county and Dan Guice of Harrison county. the present administration. tion for Little Rock, the Rev Wesley Pruden, a prosegregation- Sammie Dean Parker described ist Baptist minister, appealed for Negro Held, White Flees IN WRITING Details of this "agreement" are mistreatment she said befell her in the days at the school that preceded her expulsion Feb. 28 and 16tli Section Profits funds.

After the broadcast over station scheduled to be put "in writing" and signed by the principals. COLEMAN GROUP Unlike the Sillers all -House' KATV, the Little Rock school In Auto Theft, Hit-Run The proposal has already been 16th section lands commercial for 4-H Winners generally agreed to by the Sillers industry. committee, the Coleman caucus group is composed of three sena caucus forces and was presented Rep. George Rogers, Warren, way 72 toward the Alabama state line. tor the first time to the Coleman author of the measure, said that Swap Gifts tors and three representatives.

They are Senators Kelly Hammond, of Columbia, chairman; R. caucus Monday night. At the Executive Mansion, it is reported, no board reacted with a statement saying it felt Sammie Dean's ouster was justified. The statement said her expulsion followed "a scries of events culminating in a physical attack by her and her mother on a lady staff member." The board gave no details on this. STUDENTS 'SCARED Sammie Dean said in the interview that teachers and students With President decision was made other than to name a central committee.

D. Everitt of Ruleville; George Owens of Pontotoc; and Representatives Spurgeon Eure of For WASHINGTON, March 4 W- BY CHARLES M. HILLS The lower house-of the Missis-; sippi legislature moved Tuesday to clear profits from 16th section school lands under a timber management plan to be administered by the Stale Forestry Commission. By a favorable 97-27 ballot, the house of representatives agreed to develop timber growth on the some 1,070 16th sections in the state comprising 684,600 acres of lands, of which approximately three-fourths is in timber. Although approving House Bill 888 allowing the timber manage-ment program, the House quickly refused to place the management rest county, C.

L. Patridge of Leflore county, John Guyton of At President Eisenhower greeted and Strongest opposition to the reapportionment phase of the "agreement" is said to be coming from the Senate, which has already voted overwhelmingly in traded presents today with 4H the schools are getting compart-tively little returns from 16th sections now and that his bill would correct a long-standing production failure. He said that under proper management, the timberlands would produce far more than now realized in timber and profits. HALF MILLION ANNUALLY It was recited by both Reps. Baxter and Rogers that the University of Mississippi, currently operating timberlands it owns in McAfee told highway patrolmen that he "didn't even know" the white driver of the stolen vehicle.

He said that he had been picked up by the man in Greenville Tuesday morning. The pair then took a "roundabout" route to Corinth, via highways 82 and 45. When McAfee was apprehended by Highway Patrolman Audie Mar-lar around 2:30 Tuesday afternoon, the Negro was found to have noth A weird tale of highway! hijinks, including a hit-and-run accident, auto theft and maybe robbery, involving two white men and a Negro, unfolded in Mississippi Tuesday night. Being held at Alcorn County jail, charged with auto theft and public drunkenness, is the Negro man involved, Willie McAfee, 23, of Greenville. IN HOSPITAL Curtis Brawner, 44-year-old farmer of Rienzi, victim of the-hit-and-run auto, driven by the other white tala county.

Chairman Hammond is also chairman of the Senate Club national award winners. The winners called at the White Constitution Committee and op are scared. Scared of Mr. Blos posed the Governor's convention favor of a re-apportionment bill that calls for a senator for each of the 82 counties and the addition som, Mr. Matthews and Mrs.

House in connection with national 4-H Club Week, now under way. proposal last year. (Liizabetn) Huckaby, vice prin The tentative "agreement re Eisenhower received a specially of three House seats. cipal for girls. She said teachers were afraid It was the Senate, back in the November December special ing, not even identification, but of losing their jobs if ihevdid not South Mississippi is realizing -of Hie school lands under sclmul go along with integration at Cen bound report on 4-H Club accom-plishments plus a bellows for the fireplace at his country estate at Gettysburg, Pa.

He, in turn, distributed such things as knives, pens and key rings to his gues's. session, which-finally gave approval to a convention compro nearly half a million dollars an nually under a timber manage Rev. Stennis Passes Awav tral High, where eight Negroes now attend classes with about 2.000 white pupils. mise that would have submitted the question to the electorate. boards in the various 82 counties as recommended and put the administration back in'o the hands of boards of supervisors.

HIGH RETURNS This approval was given after the Senate defeated by a one-vote margin the governor's original man involved and in which McAfee1 was a passeger, was reported by Corinth Hospital officials as being in "fair" condition. The driver of the hit-and-run auto, which was reported stolen in Memphis Monday night, is still at large. Brawner was operating a tractor In Hospital Bakery Union Rep. Jim Baxter ofLatJder- ment program on 2.400 acres. The bill will apply only to timberlands insofar as the forest management is concerned and the port areas and municipal or farmlands will continue as now, as well as oil producing areas.

The House, before adjournment until 2 p.m., Wednesday, tabled $2.54 in nickles and pennies on his person. Patrolmen surmised that the change represented the monetary contents of a coke machine which the two might have robbed. FOUND IN DITCH Brawner was found in a ditch pinned beneath the tractor on Highway 45. McAfee told patrolmen that he "had fallen asleep" in the stolen vehicle and "was awakened" when the car crashed into Brawner's-tractor. He told police that he "tried to proposal for an outright conven-tion call.

Backs Cross dale, chairman of the House Education Committee, said that the act would permit developments that would bring high returns from limber to the schools of the state In the group were: Leadership winners, Miss Clyde 18, Olin, N. and Charles Picketing, 20, Taylorsville, Citizenship winners, Wilda Story, 19, Savannah, and Wendell Crites, 18, Albion, a ad two parents representing 4-H and other parents of the nation, Mrs. Alfred Kinney, Baldwin, and John W. Tindall, Princeton Junction, N. J.

The general talk has been that Sillers controls the House and CINCINNATI, March 4 HV-Any Coleman controls the Senate, motions to reconsider bills calling for defining the situs of property on Highway 45, three miles south of Corinth, when the hit-and-run occurred early Tuesday afternoon, Highway Patrol officials said. However, there was speculation Tuesday that the governor may be for the purpose of estate taxation; increase the excise tax on cigar- unable to deliver Senate support ideas of possible vigorous opposition to President James G. Cross and his policies in the operation of the Bakery and Confectionery Workers Union faded noticeably today. McAfee told highway patrolmen for the reapportionment plan. ets and cigars; and a bill liberal that he and the white driver of the get the white driver to stop the izing the requirements for recrea stolen car abandoned the vehicle By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Rev.

Deb Lee Stennis, well known Mississippi Baptist minister and cousin of Sen. John C. Stennis (D-Miss), died Tuesday in a Birmingham hospital. The Rev. Stennis had been ill in University- Hospital at Birmingham for some time.

He underwent a second brain operation there last Friday. He was pastor of the new Hope Community Baptist Church near Meridian. An immediate past third vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention, the Rev. Stennis had served churches in the Meridian area for many years. tions centers and parks in munici car nut the driver didn stop until the car's motor began to burn near Strickland.

near Strickland, after the car burst Alex White of Buffalo, N.Y., palities. within a few years. He said that at present, all the 1 fit section lands in the state are bringing in about $1,446,178 annually and declared that this figure could be multiplied many times with proper management. The figure here quoted includes timberlands, oil lands and municipal lands. An amendment placed in the bill by Rep.

Karl Wiesenburg, of Jackson County, will allow the port areas of the coast to declared who said he would oppose Cross, Rep. Hilton Waits, Washington, into flames due to a burstedradia-i tor, resulting from the collision with Brawner's tractor. told the Bakery Workers conven chairman of ways and means, an Port Development Bill Clears Senate nounced that he will call up two tion he was considering running only because "I don't want this to be called a rigged convention." SPLIT UP McAfee, who was taken from an bills practically re-writing the Mis unsuspecting motorist's vehicle at Only 13 delegates of 451 stood sissippi Employment Security Act, at an early date and urged the House members to study the acts. up in opposition to adoption of a union executive board report up McAfee said that after he and the white man abandoned the burning auto, the white man gave him the $2.54 in change, telling the Negro to "get lost; you've caused me enough trouble." McAfee said that he and the man then split up and that they both got rides. Ke said the last he knew of the white man was that he was heading cast on Highway 72 toward the Alabama line in a car with a motorist.

holding the union and Cross in the By ASSOCIATED PRESS tee which developed the substitute The Mississippi Senate passed measure said making the bonds Tuesday a bill authorizing state Ml faith and credit obligations nwnprshin Woinnmont aeainst the state will mean "a tre- TTA FORKS HARD fight with the AFL-CIO. The AFL a roadblock set up by the highway patrol, said that following the hit-and-run, he and the white man split up, each hitch-hiking on highway 72 going east. The last known of the hit-and-run driver's whereabouts is that he gained passage with another motorist headed east on High mendous saving in marketing the CIO has ousted the Bakery Workers on charges of corrupt leadership, with Cross the particular coastal and river ports bonds." The other major change was to center of fire. make it possible for ports to get mr H'W the benefits of state financial aid 'Quality' Education Bill Before Legislators Today without becoming the actual prop The measure had been long sought by organizations bent on making Mississippi's Gulf ports competitive with those of other states and also on developing transport facilities along the Mississippi River. The measure which passed the Senate unanimously was a committee substitute which differed in erty of the state.

STATE POLICY Ay The bill declares it is the state's welfare needs in order that youth public policy "to aid and encour lv Senate-approved school bill. This bill calls for mandatory 9-month terms statewide, a "peg" on local may be better prepared to as 5 age the promotion, development sume intelligently and unselfishly improvement and expansion 01 contributions and salary in two major ways from a measure drawn up by a Port Study Com tneir personal responsibilities of the state's ports, harbors and in creases ranging irom $200 to $725. land waterways." The State Agri citizenship. To this end, the program embraces items on education, which includes support of a mittee headed by Rep. Upton Sis-son of Harrison County.

cultural and Industrial Board is The House bill would cost vvinn ism wv. designated as the state agency to rij carry out this policy, The first change was to make bonds issued for development of such ports full faith and credit obligations against the state. Mississippi's proposed "quality" education program will get a major test Wednesday when the House of Representatives tackles the weighty problem at 2:30. On the eve, of House consideration of the program, the Mississippi Congress of Parents and Teachers detailed the intensive legislative education program it has been carrying on, nnd It was indicated that the Capitol will be crowded with fiarents, teachers and school eaders Interested in the outcome. WOLXD SHARE COST Sen.

Adams cuided the bill to about $95 million for the bien-nium and the Senate bill's cost is placed at $104 million. Either represents a sizeable Increase over the $81 million budgeted for schools. nine months term of school, and a pay raise for teachers' salaries making them comparable with neighboring states; the extension of the Minimum Foundation Program to include the education of passage, calling the measure up 8 TWt.ll fL rata 1 1 Sen. Lawrence Adams of head of a Finance subcommit- section by section. The only major amendments from the floor were lib bv Sen.

William Rosenblatt of exceptional children; and Fort Adams, who amended the improved handling of 16th Section Once it is determined how far the legislature wants to go on an expanded school program, then financial ideaders will work INDEX Lands to produce more revenue for education. The Congress sup -VMfrV8 l.riiro3fcf .1 i toward a plan for financing the extra needs. ports the Senate bill 1587 introduced by Senator Owens and passed by that body. The House will begin consideration on a bill that calls for PTA groups in all sections of The legislation program in a 9-month school terms on an op-tion basis and teacher salary in the stale have been most active in support of the Senate version cludes the need of a complete measure to provide that Ail executive committee members and port authority members should be bonded at $50,000 each. The board would administer local ports through local, five-member port authorities.

Onr member would be named by the county, one by the city and three by the governor. Sen. Kelly Hammond of Colum bia offered a bill, certain to stir controversy, which would give ev- study of Child Labor Laws; con creases ranging from $137.50 to $425. It would provide further of the school program. STATES PURPOSE trol of the sale and use of cor Affairs of State 3 Amusements 16 Classified Ad 21, 22, 23 Comics 18, 19 Editorial 10 Financial 20 Miss.

Notebook 10 Radio tc TV Logs 17 Sports 15, 16, 17, 24 Women 11, 12 that local communities share a The legislative program of the tain types of fireworks; adequate portion of the additional cost. Mississippi Congress states its juvenile protection laws and en It is expected, however, that purpose as promotion and sup forcement of same; support of HOW CAPITOL WILL GROW Dotted line indicates approximately how the east central part of the United States Capitol Building at Washington, D. C. is due to be extended forward by 32.6 feet. The face-lilting project has caused a variety of reaction, some violent, in the nation's capitol.

Clarion-Ledger AP Wirephoto. the Children's Code Commission; rducstion leaders will endeavor in amend the bill to make it port of legislation designed to protect children and to meet their educational, health, end other and adequate library service for citizens, similar to the provisions of the Continued en page 1.