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SEVEN PERSONS HURT GOP Holding Stephens. Forrest Selected NEWS OF THE MIDDLE PENINSULA COMMUNITIES Gloacestet-MatbewvMJdditm-King and Queen-West Pofal DAILY PRESS, Newport Hews -Hampton -Warwick, April 2, 1957 23 Festival Roles Tornadoes Damage Ala. Towns 8 Gloucester Private Roads Hearings Set Seek To Join State System Monday when a tornado struck an GLOUCESTER, April 1 Re-filed with the quests have been Board of Supervisors asking that j' -vl mm-. nm eight private roads be taken into the State secondary system and established as public highways, A board of viewers was named at the last meeting of the Board of Supervisors and the.board will meet at 9 a.m. Thursday with the Depart- mmt of Highways Resident Engi-.

ueer H. A. Fennell, to view the roads and make recommendations to the supervisors. The following requests have been received this year by the Board of Supervisors: (1) Harry. R.

Jordan and others, from Route 1210 and W. A. New-. bill property to the property of Har-. ry Jordan and others on Sarahs Creek; (2) Essie Tonkins and others, ivfrom Route 17 southwesterly to the property of Robert Drummond and ethers; (3) W.

D. Weaver and oth- For Mathews MATHEWS, April 1 The Math ews Spring Festival committee an nounced today the naming of p. u. Forrest, division superintendent of schools, as honorary chairman sf the annual Spring-time event to be held here June 7-9. It was also announced that Lt.

Governor A. E. S. Stephens will be the guest speaker. The principal speaker is selected each year by the honorary chairman.

The "Miss Mathews contest is scheduled April 26 at Mathews High. School to select a girl to be the official hostess. The festival committee is com posed of representatives from the Chamber of Commerce, the Math ews Kuntan uud. tne Mauiews Woman's Club, the Mathews Junior Woman's Club, and the Mathews Lions The five organizations are sponsoring the festival. Forrest is superintendent ot schools for Gloucester and Mathews County.

Prior to appointment to his present post he was superintendent cf tiie Mathews-Middlesex school division for 12 years. He is a native of York County and a graduate of William and Mary College. He en tered public education in 1924 and taught in York County, Tappahan-nock and Gloucester County schools until his appointment as superinten dent in 1937. He is a member of the Glouces ter Lions Club, the Mathews Ruri-tan Club. Botetourt Lodge of AF AM, and the Royal Arch Chapter in Urbanna.

He is also a member of the Virginia and National Edu cation Associations, and the Kings ton Parish of Christ Episcopal Church in Mathews. Lt. Governor Stephens, a Smith Gloucester PTA Program Is Set GLOUCESTER, April 1 A band concert and a student panel discus sion will be featured on the Glouces- i ter High School PTA program Tues day night at the school. The Gloucester High School Band Iwill present a number of selections tinder the direction of W. Raleigh Weils, tand leader.

Bobby Hall, president of the Stu I dent Cooperative Association, will introduce the panel discussion on fi "The High School Forum.M Miss Gloucester Point Socials i Delores Kemp will be the moderator i for panel members, Rachael Clem- Lynn Uantt and Alice Sterling, Miss Roberta Wiatt, physical tcation instructor. Delores Kemo Carol Oulahan, and David Bird sal I i will make reports on the SCA State convention held recently at Mary i college, rredericksburg. The PTA will Jiold the annual election of officers at the meeting. Deltaville Social Items Of Interest DELTAVTLLE, April 1 tank Council 14, Degree of Poca-! hontas, will meet at 7:30 p. m.

I Thursday. J' Mr. and Mrs. R. C.

Conley and children, Judy and Janet, of Rich-l mond spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. Sydnor Conley. Mrs. A.

V. Johnston has returned to her home at Wake after being a patient in St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Richmond. Mr. and Mrs.

R. E. Moler of Florida have purchased the Williams 'home on Broad Creek and plan to 1 make their home here. i Miss Ailsworth of West-. hampton College spent the week end with her parents, Mr.

and Mrs. R. D. Ailsworth. Mr.

and Mrs. J. D. Norton and Mrs. John Norton have returned 2 after visiting Mr.

and Mrs. Tom Midgett in Belcross, N. C. The Rev. and Mrs.

W. A. Harrow and children, Susan and Sharon, of Richmond will spend the Spring vail i cation with the former's parents. Mr. Narrow Gains In Mich.

Vote DETROIT, April 1 UV-Michlgan Republicans built up narrow leads early returns from Monday's balloting for most partisan offices at stake in the statewide spring election. However, nothing had been heard from Detroit and Wayne County, Democratic strongholds where voting was heavy. With 114 precincts in, George M. Foster led Democrat John Mac- kie for state highway commissioner, Dr. Edgar L.

Harden was ahead of Democrat Lynn M. Bartlett for state superintendent of public instruction. Foster, now chief deputy high way commissioner, sought to step up to the post being vacated by Charles M. Ziegler. Harden and Bartlett were vying for the office being relinquished July 1 by Clair Taylqr.

Ziegler and Taylor held the last two full time, statewide offices oc cupied by Republicans in Lansing. Today's vote was the first statewide one since last Novem ber's presidential balloting. In the 1955 election Democrats lacked fewer than 3,000 votes electing a state superintendent of public instruction, one of the two ton posts at stake today, ine ocier is that of state highway commissioner. A victory in those two would give Democrats complete control of the' nine-member State Board of Administrationfor the first time since it was created in 1921. Made up of the state's top office holders, the board has supervisory control over administrative departments.

Led by Gov. G. Mennen Wil liams, who won an fifth two-year term, Democrats won all seven administrative board posts up for decision in 1954 and swept them again last No vember. Local issues and races wer credited with heightening interest everywhere, including Detroit, where six judges were being elected and a decision made on a proposed $3 per $1,000 increase in sctiool taxes. The incumbent Republican highway commissioner, Charles M.

Ziegler, and school superintendent, Clair L. Taylor, did not seek re-election. George M. Foster, 57, East Lansing, sought to step up from his job as Ziegler's chief deputy. He was opposed by Democrat John C.

Mackie, 35, Flint, for the four- year term. Democrats ran Lynn M. Bart lett, 52, assistant superintendent of schools in Grosse Pointe, against Republican Edgar L. Har den, 58, on leave as president of Northern Michigan College at Marquette, for the job of superin tendent of public instruction. Demonstrations Protest Haitian Provisional Rule PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, April 1 W) Demonstrations against Haiti's provisional ruling regime broke out today in concert with labor and business boycotts.

Heavily armed police patrols jailed about 100 followers of one presidential candidate. Many of those in jail are women. A publisher was arrested and his radio transmitter smashed because he let students use his radio station for a violent antigovern-ment broadcast. A dockers' strike tied up the port and many stores closed but some food stores and banks remained open and public services continued. Another general strike, similar to the one that unseated ex-President Paul E.

Magloire last De. cember, appeared to be in the making. Magloire was accused of trying to extend his term of office unconstitutionally. He is in exile in France. His1 successor.

Joseph Nemours Pierre-Louis, lasted less than two months and was succeeded as provisional president by Franck Sylvain. Pressure from most of the 10 presidential candidates forced Syl-vain's provisional Cabinet to re sign last week. He has been unable to get agreement on choosing an other to hold office until elections set for April 28. The other candi dates accused Sylvain of trying to rig the election for Dr. Francois Duvalier.

With tension mounting, truck- loads of steel-helmeted police armed with machine guns patrolled streets. Supporters of Clement Jumelle, a candidate for president, paraded into, the center of the capital shouting "Down with Sylvain." Police arrested many. Jumelle was in hiding, his arrest has been ordered on a charge that as Magloire's finance minister he misused government funds 1955. His followers say he can disprove the charge but stay6 in hiding to escape an assassination plot. Polio Shots Continued From Page Three partments polio foundation program, first of three recommended shots will be given this month, the second in May, and the third and final in seven months.

Two shots provide a considerable amount of immunization, officials say, and 'can be given under this program before the next polio season sets in this Summer. Elielble to get shots at the clinics are persons aged six months to 40 years. TIDcWATER Hayes, Va. Today Drive-In "BEAST OF THE AMAZON" John Bromfield Beverly tarlantf For Migrant Workers CorJi By CLARENCE G. MARSHALL Washington Editor, Daily Press WASHINGTON, April 1 Virginia potato and vegetable growers will be gladcned by word received today by Congressman Edward J.

Robeson that the Interstate Commerce Commission has directed a public hearing of their protests against enforcement of proposed new regulations for the transportation of migrant workers. The hearing will be held before Examiner R. E. Brady in Washing! ton on May 8, according to a letter received by Mr. Robeson from Everett Hutchinson, commissioner in charge of ICC Bureau of Motor Carriers.

The First District congressman has been vigorously active in urging a public hearing for the farmers since he received an appealing letter early in February from W. F. McCaleb executive vice pres ident of the Association of Virginia Potato and Vegetable Growers with headquarters at Belle Haven on the Eastern Shore. Mr. McCaleb said that examination of the order issued on December 11 last leads to the conclusion that its enforce ment would result in serious con sequences to the farmer.

The vege table and fruit type of farming, he said, depends to a great extent for harvesting labor on migrant workers. Any regulation which would have the effect of reducing the seasonal flow of these workers or of reducing their mobility, in Mr. McCaleb view, is bound to have adverse effects. In his judgment, the ICC order, if enforced, will put out of use at least 90 per cent of the vehicles used by crew lead ers- to transport the members of their crews. These crew leaders have a substantial investment in this equipment.

In addition to the vital part played by migrant crews in the harvesting of vegetables and fruit, the contribution of the trucks which these crews bring with them is of real economic Practically all of these trucks are used to assist farmers in moving crops to grading stations and auction blocks. The farming community relies on these additional trucks just as it relies on the migrant crews to supplement local help. In the Winter time these migrant crews operate in Florida, and move from Florida into the Carolinas, then into Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York by successive moves from one harvest to the next. Strictly speaking these operations are neither a system of transportation nor are they interstate. These crews move short distances as the season advances, and live tn each location in public labor camps for such period of time' as is necessary to harvest the crop in that Virgin(a farmers believe these migrant workers are essential to their operation and they do not think that people who furnish them should be put under these restric tions because under no circum stances can it be considered trans portation of persons for compensa tion.

The proposed rules were devel oped by the ICC in response to the action by congress in enacting public law 939. 84th Congress, sec ond session. When this notice was issued on December 17, copies were furnished to the Washington office of the American Farm reau Federation and other major aericultural croups with the expec tation that objections or iarmers would be adequately placed before the Commission. February 12 was set as the final date for filing state ments. After receiving McCaleb letter and others in the same vein, Congressman Robeson promptly wrote the Commission that many farmers had written him in op position to the regulations with soecial resentment attending the Commission's intention to handle the matter without hearings.

understand that only written briefs will be considered, Robeson wrote "and farmers are not very well trained in preparing written briefs." Apparently it was the argument that turned the trick and a hear ing was ordered. Virginia farmers who make ex tensive use of migratory labor feel that enforcement of the hichly technical ICC regulation would mean the end of migratory labor except that which might be trans ported by passenger automobile. A study of the proposed regulations might easily lead one to believe that the real purpose is either to stop the flow of migratory workers or else compel them to travel by public conveyance. Flower Market RICHMOND. Anril 1 MW (VDAV-Daffodils: (Courtesy New orK Mate Department of Agricul ture) (April 1) Virginia Supplies light.

Demand moderate. Market firm. Per bunch Virginia (including Va. Grade A) Carleton 12V4-15. Sydenham 12H-15, mostly 15.

Flower carpet 12Vi-15, mostly 15, few best 20. King Alfred 12'4-15, mostly 15. Olympia 12'1-15. Receipts Friday and Sat urday 41,498. Dumped 174.

Holdovers Saturday 2,306. Personal Mention Of Blakes Section BLAKES. April 1 Perman O. Sutton Sr. has returned to his home from Johnston-Willis Hospital.

Miss Betty Jane Hudgins of Rich mond spent the week end with her mother, Mrs. W. H. Matthews. Mr.

and Mrs. Robert Hurst of Hampton were week-end guests of tne latter brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Thompson. Mrs.

Thaddeus F. Morgan and Mrs. i nomas B. Atherton spent Sat urday in Williamsburg with the for mer's daughter, Mrs. Eno L.

and Mrs. Allen Harrow, at their i home on Jackson Creek. The Rev. Mr. Harrow is a graduate student ere.

from Route 616 in a westerly direction through the lands of Weaver and Louis Groh to the land of B. F. Oliver on the York River, (4) O. M. Blake and others, from Route 216 to the Gloucester Seafood Pack ing Company on Sarahs Creek; (5) Martha E.

Walthall and others, from Route 17 in a westerly diiection to the property of R. W. Jordan and others; (6) R. u. Williams and oth ers.

from Route 17 between the land of Duval Williams and F. H. Stokes to the York River, (7) B. Howard Brown, from Route 623 running northwesterly about one-half mile over private road leading Into the property of Phillip Travis in Ware Neck. All applications are from Abing don District but the last, which is Ware District.

Viewers named are Roland Shackelford, Severn, Lin wood Rowe of White Marsh, Walter Miller Pinero, A. C. Jarvis, Schley, H. M. Mason of Cash.

Only a limited amount of new roads can be taken into the State system each year and viewers will make their recommendations to the supervisors as to those which should be taken into system. Considera tion win oe given to a numoer ot different factors in making the de termination, including the number of persons the road serves and the cost of improvements. Under existing laws the board of viewers ir so aesires, may view and recommend that other roads be included in the system although no application has been filed if it is of the opinion that there is necessity to establish the public road. Applictions for private roads to be considered for acceptance as pub lie highways are received by the county supervisors at the March meeting each year. Office Employes Fete Mrs.

Smith WEST Point, April 1-The ladies in the office of the Chesapeake Corporation of Virginia entertained at a luncheon at noon Thursday honoring Mrs. Ame Smith whose marriage to Mettauer Crute will take place April 6. The luncheon was held in the private dining room of Woody's Restaurant. Arrangements of mixed Spring flowers decorated the tables. Twenty-one guests attended Gloucester Social And Personal News GLOUCESTER.

Aoril 1 Mr. arid Jack Smih and family of Chase City were weekend guests of the former's mother, Mrs. P. W. Smith Jr- and sister, Miss Dorothy Smith.

Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Beattie and family of Dilwyn were week-end guests of Mrs.

Beattie parents, Mr. and Mrs. Marion Chapman. Mr, and Mrs. C.

F. Hicks of Richmond have returned after visiting the i latter's parents, Mr. and Mrf George P. DeHardit. Robert Hicks remained to spend "sometime with his grandparents.

Mr. and Mrs. Eddie L. Kemp and Miss Jane Kemp spent Sunday with relatives in Newport News and Shanghai. Miss Ann Hall of RPI is spend ing the Spring vacation with her parents, M.

and Mrs. Stanley Hall. Mr. and Mrs. W.

Ellis Corr Jr. had as guests for the week-end Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Boatwright of Reidsville, N. C.

and Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Corr III and son of Danville.

Mr. and Mrs. Harvev B. Morgan of Arlington were week-end guests of the "formers parents, Mr. and Mrs.

L. V. Morgan. Mrs. Ashby Roane and daughter of Richmond have returned after visiting Mr.

and Mrs. Fdward Thornton. Mrs. Irvin Dischingcr Jr. of Cleveland, Ohio is the guest of Mrs.

Evelyn Mrs. E. N. Cheek has returned from Chicago where she spent several weeks. Dr.

and Mrs. Walter Draper had as their guest for several davs the latter's mother, Mrs. Sledd. of Hanover County. i EGG MARKET NEW YORK, April 1 UP (USDA Wholesale egg prices were about steady today.

Receipts (2 days) 34,200. (Wholesale selling prices based on exchange and other volume sales.) New York spot quotations follow: Includes midwestern: Mixed colors: Extras (48-50 lbs.) 31-32; extras large (45-48 lbs.) 30- 31; extras medium 29.30; stand ards large 28H-30; checks 28 V4. Whites: Extras (48-50 lbs.) 31tt 32 extras large (45-48 lbs.) 31 3li; extras medium 30-31. Browns: Extras (48-50 lbs.) 33 33'i. Includes nearby: Whites: Top quality (48-50 lbs.) 33V-35VS; mediums 32-32H; smalls 2714-284.

Browns: Top quality (48-50 lbs.) 33Vi-34; mediums 32-33: smalls 30-31. Revival Services At Mathews Chapel COBBS CREEK, April 1 A joint revival service for Mathews Chapel and Locust Grove Methodist Churches will be held April 7-12 at Mathews Chapel. The service will begin at 7:30 each evening. The Rev. Jack B.

Taylor, pastor of Hinton Avenue Methodist Church in Charlottesville, will be the speaker Mr. Taylor is a former pastor of the North Mathews Methodist Charge which includes Locust Grove and Mathews Chapel as well as Shiloh Churches. The Rev. Charles J. Carpenter, pastor of the two churches, will be in charge of the music during the revival.

A lay visitation and canvass of church membership started in the churches Sunday and continues through April 8-12. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tornadoes spawned by severe thunderstorms struck two Mississippi River towns and an area near Mo bile, Sunday night and early Monday, injuring seven persons, three of them small children. High winds and heavy rains lashed the Gulf Coast area from New Orleans to Pensacola, Fla. Then the Spring gale moved north- wardr-catreingwide scattered damage in many sections of Alabama, tornadoes hit Nairn and Booth ville south of Port Sulphur on the Mississippi River, about 60 miles southeast of New Orleans. W.

C. Melton, 28, his wife, Ma mie, 19, and tneir one-year-old daughter, Diane, were tossed by the wind into a citrus grove 50 yards from their Boothvule home which was demolished. They were taken to a Buras, hospital for treatment of extensive cuts and brush burns. Two other homes were destroyed in Boothville and at least six other homes there and in Nairn were damaged heavily, Deputy Sheriff Harry L. Packard reported.

In addi tion a warehouse at Nairn lost its roof. Four persons were injured early FOUND WANDERING '1 Hate School', Says Daughter Of Lana Turner HOLLYWOOD, April 1 UB-Lana Turner and tier 13-year-old daugb ter sobbed and embraced in a po lice station today after the girl was found wandering in the Skid Row area at midnight a would-be runaway from school. Why would you want to do a thing like this baby?" the film star asked. "I don't want to go back to school," replied tail auburn- haired Cheryl Christina Crane "I hate school! I hate it!" The second of Miss Turner's four husbands, broker Stephen Crane, also went to the station. "We won't try to force tier to give us an explanation, he said.

"I know how those things happen, I did it myself when I was that age. I'm just extremely happy that no harm was done. Miss Turner had spent the week end' with Cheryl and Maggie Douglas, 12, daughter of actor Paul Douglas, at the home of Douglas and his wife, actess Jan Sterling, near Palm Springs. Maggie is Douglas' child by his, former marriage to actress Virginia Field. Lana had given $10 to a cab- driver at the Union Railroad Terminal to take the girls to the Sacred Heart Academy, a Roman Catholic private school in suburban Flintridge.

En route, Cheryl stopped off at a drugstore. Ten minutes later, Maggie said, she went inside and Cheryl told her: "I'm going to run awav. Maggie continued on to school and told the mother superior, who called Lana, who called Crane, who called police. Cheryl, carrying a suitcase, was standing on a downtown corner, glancing over her shoulder, when Manuel Acosta, 29, leaned out of his car window and asked whether she was trouble. 'I think those men back there ate following me," she said, indi cating three men.

Acosta beckoned her into the car. He said she told him she was 17. had come of a broken home in Palm Springs, needed a cheap hotel room for Che night. "She seemed afraid of some- ting so I drove her to the police station, he said He said he didn't know it was Lana Turner's daughter he deliv ered to the Hollenbeck station Miss Turner and Crane, her second husband, were divorced in 1944. She and actor Lex Barker, her fourth, recently separated Martinsville Rape Suspect Gives Self Up BEDFORD, April 1 UP) Ernest Graham Riggins, accused of raping an 11-year-old Martinsville girl last Tuesday, walked into the Bedford County sheriffs office here tonight and surrendered.

Riggins came to the office at 8:45 p. m. with his sister and brother-in-law. Riggins is charged with raping the girl after picking her up ca a Martinsville street and driving her through several counties. After surrendering, he was placed in the county jail here.

A warrant charging Riggins with rape was issued in Bedford County Saturday after police determined the attack occurred in Bedford County. Earlier last week police had thought the rape was in Campbell County and a warrant had been issued there also. Bedford County Sheriff Rucker Mitchell said Riggins "hasn't said anything" since he walked into the office. Mitchell said Riggins declined to say either where he had been since last Tuesday or whether he raped the girl. Martinsville police said last week Riggins picked up the girl in Ins car while she was walking from the Martinsville Junior High School to Starling Avenue Methodist Church, where she had planned to take a music lesson.

Police quoted the girl as saying the man drove her into several counties, raped her along the way and then let her out of the car in front of a Danville bus station. He gave her several dollars, she told police, and she a bus to Martinsville. Riggins, a native of wyine touniy, naa woricea at a Martinsville furniture plant until shortly before the girl was picked up, police said. He had quit his job. Riggins is an ex-convict.

He was sentenced in Wythe County to three years on a charge of breaking into an unoccupied residence. area about eight miles southwest of Mobile ana nuriea tneir nouse uau-er about 300 feet. Horace Nelson. 30, his wife, Lu cille, and their two children, Sharon Ann, 9. and Anthony, 5 suffered multiple bruises cuts and shock.

Their trailer was almost demolished. Walter F. Nelson, father of the injured toM newsmen, "I don't see how they got out alive. Seven small houses and seven trailers were damaged by the twister which swept, a section about 200 feet wide and almost a mile long. Trees were uprooted and power and telephone service disrupted by fallen lines.

Mobile and Annistoit received the brunt of the Spring gale in Alabama, but toppled trees, damaged roofs, overturned sheds and shattered win dows were reported in many sec ions of the state. Highest winds reported in the state were estmiated at 92 miles per hour at Anniston by the Civil Aero nautics Administration. Seven air planes were damaged at the Annis ton Airport. Heavy rains acompany- ing the winds ranged up to 3.49 inches at Mobile. Extensive damage also was report ed along the Gulf coast of north west Florida.

Roofs and small boats were damaged in the Pensacola area and several persons were forced to evacuate their homes in low-lying sections because of high water from the heavy rains. Rainfall measured 4.38 inches at the Weather Bureau station at Pen sacola Airport. Gusts of up to 58 miles per hour were recorded at Sherman Field. Pensacola Naval Air Station auxiliary. Storm Brewing Another lusty Spring storm threatening heavy snow and stiff northerly winds began brewing in the southern Rockies Monday The U.

S. Weather Bureau Washington said the developing storm poses a "serious threat" to parts of the Rocky Mountain and Plains States hit last week by one of the worst storms in 30 years. Provisional warnings were issued alerting travelers and ranchers in eastern Colorado of blowing and drifting snow expected to reach ac cumulations of 3 to 6 inches. Up to 6 inches of snow was fore cast for the northeastern mountains of New Mexico. Western Nebraska braced for an expected 4 inches of snow on Tuesday with increasingly cold northerly winds.

A Weather Bureau advisory to stockmen and travelers said local blizzard conditions were likely in western South Dakota on Tuesday. Ram or snow fell over the Rocky Mountains states from Montana to northern New Mexico and Arizona. High winds buffeted much of the area.1 Thunderstorms, high winds and heavy rains belted northern Florida and extreme southern Georgia. The Appalachicola, area was deluged with almost 2Vi inches of rain in less than one hour, Rain-also- feHor many-sections from Iowa to northern Mississippi eastward to the Appalachians and over part of the mid-Atlantic. Showery weather conditions ta pered off in the Pacific states and mostly fair weather was in prospect for the next 24 hours.

France Credited With Success In Africa Elections PARIS, April 1 Ufi France ap peared today to have scored sue cess in a deliberate gamble on free elections throughout her Afri can colonies. local territorial assemblies were For the first time elections to held on the basis of universal suf frage and with a single candidate list for both white and colored voters to choose from. Returns from Dakar to Madagascar, about 5,000 miles apart. favor close union with Franceand continuanc of a gradual development policy. One disquieting factor was the number of voters who stayed away, up to 90 per cent in some areas.

But it was explained that many voters are nomads and were away from polling places. Ballots also were distributed in advance and many voters did not receive them. The average poll was 50 per cent of those registered. More disturbing to French au thorities here was the fact that large numbers of Europeans in the colonies staye dhome. It ap peared that many of them did not want to vote with Africans for Africans.

On the Ivory Coast, seven Euro- eans were among those elected and there was practically no Eu ropean absenteeism. In Madagascar, the only terri tory where independence was a serious issue, the party favoring close union with France scored a triumph. Naming Of Wall To Be Full-Time Judge Foreseen Elevation of a substitute on the Newport News lower court bench to succeed Judge John W. Massey in a full-time capacity appeared likely yesterday. Reliable sources reported For rest B.

wall, 37, probably will be named by City Council next Mon day to succeed Judge Massey, who is retiring. Wall, an attorney, was named only last December as a substitute to assist Judge Massey in cases in Municipal, Civil and Jnvenile and Domestic Relations Courts. Judge Massey told council re cently he wants to retire, and plans to enter private practice of law. Wall, who lives at 831-13th is a native of South Hill. He has practiced law in Newport News since November, 1948, and previ-ously practiced in Hampton and Big Stone Gap.

in f- at RPI and is also serving as pastor of Perkins Baptist Church in Gooch-'f land County. Mr. and Mrs. E. W.

Harrow had as week-end guests Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Byrd and children, Jean and Jackie, of Warwick.

Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Huff of Rich-T.

mond spent Sunday at their home here. D. D. FORREST field attorney, was elected to the State offipe in 4953 to filithe unexpired term of Lt. Governor George Preston Collins and was reelected to a four-year term in January, 1954, under Governor Stanley.

Prior to that he served in the House of Delegates, as representative from Isle of Wight County, from 1929 to 1942, when he was elected to the Virginia Senate, a post he resigned in November, 1952. As a senator he authored and patroned the Denny School Commisison resolution and was a member of the Finance, Gen eral Laws, Privileges and Elections Fish and Game, and Insurance, Banking, and Steering Committees. family of Richmond spent the week end with Mrs. Doggett's parents, Mr. and Mrs.

W. A. Newbill. Mr. and Mrs.

William Allen and Mi. and Mrs. Vernon Roach of Richmond spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Tillage.

Mr. and Mrs. Ernest White of Scaford visited Mr. and Mrs. Gar land Lewis Sunday and attended funeral services for the former cousin, Joseph Tillage.

Mrs. Fanny Crockett of Seaford visited her aunt, Mrs. Maggie Til lage, and uncle, Charles Tillage, on Sunday. Mrs. J.

H. Chism and children spent the week end with the former's parents in Charlottesville Mr. and Mrs. tdaar Dunston ot Yorktown and Mrs. Lucille Gay of Newport News spent Sunday with Mr.

and Mrs. James P. Dunston. Miss Betty Mae Belvin of Richmond spent Sunday with her par ents, Mr. and Mrs.

S. J. Belvin. Miss Faith Grace of Newport News spent the week end with her parents, the Rev. and Mrs.

L. Grace. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Tillage of Norfolk spent the week end with relatives here.

Mr. and Mrs'. B. E. Brinkley and son.

Buddy Brinkley, of Warwick spent Sunday with Mrs. Brinkley's aunt. Mrs. John Jenkins. Mr.

and Mrs. Edward Currier have returned home after spending several weeks with their son-in-law and daughter Mn-and-Mrs. Carl Smith, Farmville. Miss Virginia Lee Green of Williamsburg spent Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Stanley Green. A. R. Fecondo, USN, who is stationed at Charleston, S. spent the week end here with his wife.

They visited friends in Williamsburg on Sunday. Crandal Mackey, Arlington Crime Fighter, Succumbs ARLINGTON, April 1 Crandal Mackey, the man who cleaned out gamblers at the turn of the century in the area now know as Arlington County, died yesterday at the home of his son, Argyle. He was 91. Mackey served as commonwealth attorney for Alexandria County from 1904 to 1916. His first election, by a two-vote margin, was challenged by gambling interests without success.

Leading dozens of raids person ally, Mackey cleaned out the gamblers in Rosslyn, Jackson City and St. Asaph s. The Star newspaper of that day foresaw in his election a "new era of decency and order in the Vir ginia area immediately adioimnc the district. The newspaper declared then: "It will be possible for self-re specting homeseekers to establish themselves across the river without being required to buckle on armor and enter the lists to fight des perately for law and order Mackey was publisher of the cnronicle, Arlington oldest newspaper. He is survived bv his widow.

Mary; three sons, Argyle and Jo seph, both of Arlington, and Thorn as of West Palm Beach. and two daughters, Mrs. Alice Davidson. New York, and Mrs. Virginia Neuer, Nansas city, Mo.

a services win ne neia at 9 a.m. tomorrow at Ives Funeral Home, Arlington, followed by burial in Arlington Cemetery. Venitia Stevenson, Russ Tambyln Split LOS ANGELES, April 1 tor Russ Tamb vn. 22. was di vorced today by his actress wife, venitia Stevenson, 19, after she testified he left her alone for long perioas ana swore at her in front of guests.

Atty. Jerry Ralston said the couple had agreed on a property settlement and that Miss Stevenson waived alimony. They were married Feb. 14, 1956. Press To Museum RATHDRUM.

Idaho The Rathdrum Tribune, one of the few remaining weekly newspapers for wtucn type is set entirely by hand, presenting its 100-year-old press to the University of Idaho museum. Charles W. Kulp. 77. and J.

R. M. Kulp, 76, have been co-publishers tor 54 years. GLOUCESTER POINT, April 1 Mr. and Mrs.

M. T. Harris Sr. spent the week end with their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.

T. Harris in Greenbelt, Md. Mr. and Mrs. Marius Owens Jr.

and children, Barry and Denise, of Norfolk, have returned after visiting the former's grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Lewis.

Mr. and Mrs. James W. lewis have returned to Severna Park, after visiting the former's brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs.

Clarence Smith. Mr. and Mrs. George Hallett and daughter, Dorothy Anne, of Crewe, and Lt. Col.

and Mrs. Ellsworth Jenkins and daughters, Bobby and Betty, of Falls Church, have returned after visiting Mrs. Kathleen Parks. Lt. Col.

and Mrs. Jenkins and family will leave this month for Rome, where he will be stationed. Mrs. H. F.

Pitts is spending some time with relatives in Portsmouth. Mr. and Mrs. Wray Doggett and Steam Via Solar Energy Reported Tested In Israel JERUSALEM. Israeli Sector April 1 WW Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion said today Israeli sci entists are working on production ot steam power from solar energy.

The scientists are bringing ''new life to the desert," he told Parlia ment in a debate on the budget estimate for his office. This office helps to coordinate the activities of Israeli scientists. Maui tasks of Israeli scientists, Ben-Gurion said, are: To create- conditions for intensive and profitable agriculture by exploiting all water sources, including sea water, and by reviving land and adapting new strains of plants suitable to the country. To discover and develop natural resources. To develop new sources of powerfrom water, wind, atomic and solar energy.

News, Social Notes From Dutton Area DUTTON, April 1 Mr. and Mrs. John Fisher of Arlington were guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Wil- lard Ewell.

Robert Warthen and mother, Mrs Susie Warthen, visited Mrs. Robert Warthen and infant daughter in Mary Immaculate Hospital on Sunday. Mrs. Walter Miller has returned after spending a week with her daughter, Mrs. Robert Lindsay, in Richmond.

Billy German of Richmond spent the week-end here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herman German. Mr. and Mrs.

Carlton Sutton and son, Larry, of Hampton were week end guests of the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. fc. C. Sutton.

Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Cox and son, Lloyd Francis Cox, spent Sunday in Warwick as guests of Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Majette.

They also visited Mrs. Luther Sfigleton in Riverside Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Everett Tyree and family of Richmond were week-end guests of Mr.

and Mrs. Alex Din-widdie. Hortense Stubbs Dies In Brooklyn GLOUCESTER, April 1 Mrs. Hortense Stubbs, 58, a Negro, died Friday in Brooklyn, N. Y.

She was the daughter of the late Miles and Rosa Bright. A native of Gloucester County, she had made her home in Brooklyn for a number of years. Survivors include her nusband, E. H. Stubbs, and a son, James Dixon, three brothers, Miles, Randolph and Sam Bright, and a sister, Mrs.

Louise Robinson, all of Brooklyn. A funeral service will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Shiloh Baptist Church, Selden, conducted by the Rev. Thomas Ware, pastor. The cortege will leave the How- ard Funeral Home at 12:30 p.m.

U. S. Ethiopia Envoy To Resign Position ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, April 1 Dr. Joseph Simonson announced today his retirement as U. S.

ambassador to Ethiopia. Simonson formerly was a Luth eran minister and pastor of churches at Chicago and St. Paul, Minn. He took up his post here in September 1953. I West Point Items I Of Local Interest 5 WEST POINT, April 1-Mrs Harry Rieek and Mrs.

J. G. Me Ciellan will sail from New York i Wednesday on the Queen Eliza beth to spend six weeks in Europe, i Miss Heli Ploberger of Greens-v, boro College was the week end -w guest of the Rev. and Mrs. Lee S.

Varner. The Rev.Fr. Ceslaus Jakubowski Is a patient in the Medical College of Virginia Hospital. I Mrs. Granville King has returned to her home after visiting in Flori-i da and a tour of northern states.

Dr. Edward Bland and sons, i and Jimmie, of Boston, 'Mass. were week end guests of Miss Maggie Bowden and R. T. Bowden.

Olin Sikes of the University of Richmond is spending the Spring vacation with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. 0. H. Sikes.

rs Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Robins are spending several days at their cot-l tage on the Rappahannock River. Miss Mary Montague Hudson of Washington College was the week end guest of her parents, Mr. i and Mrs.

William Hudson. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Rock Amayo f. of Norfolk were week end guests of their parents here.

Bonn Inducts First Draftees Since War FRANKFURT, Germany, April me first west German draftees since World War II swarmed into their barracks tonight, bosting the strength of the Bonn republic's new army to men. The call-up of 9,733 19-year-olds was completed without incidents Middle Peninsula Bureau Gloucester Va. Robert L. Marble, manager Newt circulaton and advertising hdgs. tor Gloucester Mathews Middlesex Lower King Queen Counties ond West Point Gloucester 3-1100 (Night) 3-224J Saluda 8-3372 8-4152 Mathe-vi 5-5647 5-3153 Deltaville 6-3511 West Point 214-W.