Biloxi Daily Herald (Newspaper) - August 30, 1958, Biloxi, Mississippi PAGES Local Newt Coast Local Newa ft National Sporto IS He and NEA Saturday August 30, 1958 74-Number 288 AND Possible Attempt r i Register Invasion Ur Isles Death 44 As ay Executive Will Canvass Miss. The Democratic executive committee meets Wednesday to canvass returns from last Tuesday's democratic primary election and declare nominees for the Nov. general assistant secretary of said yesterday the democratic committee headed by former Lt. Gov. Bidwell Adam of Gulfport would in the Senate chamber at 1:30 p.m. GENERAL Democratic nomination in Mississippi is tantamount to Democratic candidates for office must be voted on in the November general no Republican or other opposing candidates have been mentioned for any have until Sept. 22 to file with the secretary of will declare nominees for U.S. senator and six members of the House ot of four of the six representatives were for from the race William Colmer of Pascagoula and Arthur Winstead of Philadelphia would be nominated for another committee also will declare nominees for chancery and circuit Market Tax Collections Down In Miss. tax on contraband whisky didn't produce as much revenue during August as it did during 1957, Tax William whose office handles the 10 per cent black market said August 1938 collections totaled a 4 per cent drop under the same month a year he total black market revenues for the first eight months of 1958 were 469, compared with for the same period of 157. State Tax Commission reported was collected from the special 8 per cent sales tax on illegal sales of whisky during Legislature raised the tax from 5 to 8 per And Other Accidents Bring Mark To 57 THE ASSOCIATED 44 4 9 57 vii bent on making the most of summer's last took to the highways this Labor Day and the toll in deaths number of traffic fatalities appeared modest as volume of cars on the move But the spectre of violent death appeared as drivers misjudged and or unwary pedestrians were hit by THREE DIE In died Saturday when their car a More two cars smashed on a road 20 miles northwest oi Detroit Friday One occupant was taken to a National Safety Council forecast that it might be the last holiday for 420 That's how many the NSC estimated will in highway accidents in 78-hour period from 6 p.m. local time Friday until midnight council also estimated 45 cars will be the move over the highway death toll early in the weekend weis widely scattered over the worst smashup reported during the first 10 occurred near where men were killed when one vehicle fried to pass another and swerved into the path of an oncoming The driver of one of the cars was killed as were the driver and a passenger in other reported the weekend's first traffic which occurred at 7:59 p.m. CDT Police reported Frank Tiso 45, of Continued On Officers Select Lawmen From Coast The independent newspaper Indonesia Raya resumed today with the name of Lubis on the masthead as Lubis had been under house arrest by the army for 21 But the paper had been publishing off and on during that Head Of William Carey College Mostly fair and warm today and Sunday increasing with at along today 88-82, low tonight 74-78, high Sunday 88-92; winds 8-12 miles per Monday chance of low 74-7^ high 88-92. Partly cloudy through Sunday with widely scattered thundershowers extreme south portion Gub 24 S. at Biloxi Yacht aided at 6 Low Noon August 29..8 72 August 30.. 74 S. Weather Station located the U. S. Navy Base in hours ended at 5 p.m. High Low Noon August 29..90 74 .. 30 8f CRAFT REPORT - southeast 10 to 18 on the Texas and 5 to 15 elsewhere Sunday except winds gusty in widely scattered River at 5.5 down 3Sw River at dowa J. Fla. services were held here Saturday for Dr Irving E. 63-year-old former president of William Carey College in wiU be ia Rouse died Friday after a year's He had made his home here since resigning as William Carey president in 1956. He had been hospitalized about six of Dr. Rouse was graduated from Pearl River County agricultural high high school and Mississippi He served in the state Legislature in 1920-24, then entered the Baptist seminary at Ky. He served as pastor of several Kentucky Baptist became president of Mississippi Women's College in 1948. The school later and was changed to William include the two brothers and three Gulf Coast law enforcement officers were elected Friday to official with the Peace Officers Assn. which wound up its annual three-day convention ia FAIRLEY Deputy Sheriff Archie was named as an association vice Harrison Road R. L. Mississippi was elected and District Eight Inspector W. Jacobs of the Mississippi Highway Patrol substation in Gulfport was named to the board of Road Merritt of Biloxi and Biloxi city detective Emile were officers who attended the police commissioner Claude Armour was elected association succeeding Mississippi Public Safety Commissioner of Lt. A. H. Williams of Jackson and W. C. were also elected to v i c e president SELECT group selected Biloxi as the 1959 convention a native of has served with the highway patrol for a number of years and was elevated to the post of District Eight inspector in 1956, succeeding J. J. now Harrison County Deputy Fairley has been in law enforcement work since 1947, first as a Gulfport city policeman and later as a highway He has been with the Harrison County sheriff's department since 1956. has been a member of the county road patrol since 1956. U. Use U. S. officials braced today for a possible Red China invasion of the Chinese Nationalist offshore islands over the Labor Day a move would a showdown on whether the United States intends to defend the island and become involved in combat with Red Chinese State under the command of Undersecretary of State Christian R. kept its Far East experts working at their desks or on call at home during the three-day AP SLATES BEAUTY Miss. The 1959 Miss Junior Mississippi Beauty pageant will be held in Nov. 21-22. than 100 young ladies froin throughout the state would winner will represent Mississippi at the Miss Junior America Pageant in next Secret orders opened at sea by British trawlers today directed them to offer passive resistance to any seizure attempt by Iceland About 50 British trawlers supported by the Royal Navy Fishery Protection Squadron headed defiantly to challenge the Icelandic edict banning foreign fishermen from within 12 miles of the island's showdown comes at midnight Sunday when the Icelandic order is of the trawlers were instructed to any attempt to interfere with to refuse to haul in their fishing gear if told to do so and in no way to facilitate the Icelandic boarding MADE IN TWO Miss. alcohol tax unit agents raided I Hinds and Lauderdale counties Thursday and Friday and seized huge quantities of moonshine whisky and arrested seven headquartered in Jackson gave these results Seized 1,578 gallons of 3,000 gallons of whisky a 471-gaUon capacity cooker - type 266 barrels and three and arrested four Seized 20 gallons of whisky and arrested three MEDIC WILL BE Miss. Arthur C. chairman of the University Medical Center's department of physiology and will address the third world congress of cardiology in Sept. 17. Guyton will speak on in he will lecture Sept. 10 during a meeting of the physiology society of and Sept. 24 during a seminar by the Sandoz Pharmaceutical Co. in The shopping district of the town of Aiea became a football casualty for a few ball from a sandlot game was kicked into the electric power disrupting service for toe whole Top officials were away as a new tenseness continued to up in the Far East in the wake of Red China's heavy shelling of Chinese Nationalist offshore Eisenhower was vacationing at Secretary of State Dulles was on a sailing holiday at Lake Ontario and Walter S. assistant secretary of state for Far East was expected back from vacation until TOUGH and Dulles have laid down a tough line for facing up to Peiping's threats to attack the offshore islands lying within sight of the China said the administration has decided to draw the line on the offshore islands lying within sight of the China said the administration has decided to draw the line on any aggressive expansionism by Red But they refused to say flatly whether tMs meant the U.S. 7th now on alert in the Formosa would fight to defend Matsu and other offshore Nationalist island Wayne Morse said Friday night Congress should give its authorization before any U.S. forces are used to defend Quemoy and He said if the administration is considering such a move the President should call a special session of D. M. Daniel M. Russell Is Taken By District Chancellor Daniel Monroe 87, died at 4 a.m. today in Gulfport Memorial Hospital where he was admitted about three weeks resided at 2020 16th Ill health had from serving on for almost three population has increased about 25 percent in the past 20 years and at the same time the food supply has increased five population of Canada is more than 17 Favored 3-1 But Won't Become Effective Until 1960 DOUGLAS STARB Associated Press Staff Miss. Mississippi 3-t Tuesday to simplify the means of amending the state but the new won't become effective until the next Legislature inserts the ratified amendment into the 68-year-old probably will be in 1960 som e menace that can't be met by other means faces tte the people have signified they favor a the change must follow the present until it becomes law tiie amendment has met all is no apparent need to insert the amendment need tiie could caU the Legislature into special session to insert the amendment and propose amendments to the to meet tht J. P. haa saU not call the lawmakers back to Jackson unless the state is faced with sudi a legislative debate on the value of the simplification lawmakers said present restrictions are too rigid to permit rapid changes in the endangering the state when speed is referred mainly to defenses attacks upon the State's segregation the as yet the amendments could be proposed by the ratified by the people and inserted in the constitution in littie more 30 the new regulations say a amendment may be ratified by a simple majority of the votes cast on the amendment and inserted in the by Secretary of amendments must poll a majority of all the votes cast in the election to be ratified then must wait for the to insert ia there apparent means of forcing the to Insert the of the legal jargon in which most amendments are many in vote against them by not marking that question on their made ratification of constitutional amendments all but simplification amendment was part of a pact between opposing ' legislative forces to ease the tension over how to erect racial Coleman wanted a convention and House Speaker Walter Sillers of Bolivar County wanted to follow the amendment Neither method prevailed the two agreed the other half of the agreement legislative reapportionment failed and Colman said he would not can the Legislature into special session in September to a. bloc of proposed to tha Formosa Communist fire slacked off today after more than 12,000 shells were poured into the Quemoy islands group in 24 but Peiping threatened heavier bombardments to Communist ministry of national defense ordered its artillery units redouble their on the islands just off the Chinese Peiping radio It claimed that heavy casualties had been inflicted on Nationalist troops in the eight-day MAY military men on Formosa have concluded that the shelling is the prelude to a Communist attempt to capture the Quemoy group ITie Nationalists say they're early Friday until 2:31 a. m. today tiie Reds poured 12,345 shells into the the Nationalist defense Then they decreased the hurling only 390 shells at the Nationalists shortly after dawn when they switched to an occasional round of shells carrying propaganda officials said the relative lull might be just a prelude to heavier They did not consider it a sign the Reds had decided to lay off. TAN Adm. Liu the ministry's said there would be no question of the abandoning the Tan islets in the Quemoy group of any other offshore islands no matter how heavily they were The leaflets presumably were the standard tiny 2% miles south of the port of which they help were the target Friday of a record 7,120 according to the They are considered the most likely point for a invasion the Reds they are going to cow the defenders of the offshore islands by they are the admiral they want the they will have to come over and get they planned to retire when his current term of office expired on Dec. 31. Mrs. Beulah Watkins died Nov. 10, 1957, a year after the couple celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on May 6, 1956. Russell is survived by one Dan McRussell a Bay St. Louis two Mrs. Paul M. and Mrs. T. A. three A. S. J. C. and A. P. two Mrs. Daisy and Mrs. J. H. 13 grandchildren and four great accompanied by her is in serving as chaperones to the University of Mississippi band which is attending the World's services will be held at 3:30 p.m. Sunday at the First Baptist Church in The body will be at Riemann's Chapel until time for the Interment will be in Evergreen On Page Goes To Ike With 38-year-old Negro pastor of said today he and his wife will try to register their six-year-old Muriel Ann. in a white school in Gulfport next made known his intention in a letter to President Eisenhower which he made public at a news He said he came here to deliver the letter in With Eisenhower out of town on vacation he said he would leave the letter with a White House told Eisenhower he feared Mississippi authorities would try to frustrate rightful He said the federal is obligated to furnish protection denial of civil rights is told reporters he would like to have the President send observers to Gulfport as the FBI b ause the authorities there can say or do anything against is pastor of the St. Andrews African Methodist Episcopal Church in He was history professor at Alcom College in Mississippi last but left there in March saying his life had been followed a strike by students at the Negro college who King's dismissal To Canvass Miss. Rep. John Bell Williams hailed as a possible candidate for governor next plans a week-long poll of the state before he makes a want to resolve the question before I go back to Sept. 15, Williams indicated he would make his announcement either in Jackson or in Washington about the middle of articles criticizing the King said today the articles were but were and he is sorry they were OLE MISS attempted to enroll last June in the University of Mississippi summer school and was arrested for disturbing the peace and resisting He said he was sent to a but later was released and told to leave said today he went to but returned to Mississippi without being although the warrants are still wrote to Eisenhower that if his daughter is not allowed to register next week at North Central the school nearest her he and his wife will not leave the school this will submit us to being relegated to an insane or his letter shall suffer We hope that federal authorities will not be reluctant or indifferent because we possess no or expensive said Gulf port's 25,000 population is 30 per cent Negro and out of Gulf port's fourteen public schools only one decent school is thus far available to our Even it is Such needless discrimination against Americans by other Americans is hardly excusable when local authorities make no real attempt to correct said if Muriel Ann is denied admittance to the school he will ask the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for money to fight the Expressed By municipal and school officials reacted in shocked surprise to the news the Rev. Gulfport Negro will attempt to register his six-year-old daughter at the North Central white elementary school on 25th street next chairman of the municipal school replied crisply that he had on the matter and also declined to state if he had been in communication with Gov. J. P. R. B. Meadows Jr. and School Supt. W. L. Rigby also declined to make any school board vice reserve my comment until Daily Herald was unable to s contact the governor in Jackson and was advised at the governor's mansion that the governor was out of town and could not be E. Negro upholstery shop operator and member of Ring's of expressed when informed of Rev. King's don't know anything about and as far as church is concerned they're not having to do with he COMES AS comes as a surprise to Saker definitely the church was not informed of July 21, during the controversy over King's attempt to enter Ole Miss to seek withdrawal of warrants against the church board voted to retain King as their pastor and indicated they expected him to contine his activities to pastoral Man Riots Occur In Mexico An Algerian flipped a pistol out of his clothes in a narrow passage in a subway station early today and shot French soldier in tiie shooting was a continuation of the terror reign the North Africans have imposed on Paris as part of a campaign to win freedom fOT where a guerrilla war against the French Army has been going on for almost four soldier was taken to a hospital in a serious Finland A new coalition government sought today to solve grave economic problems that had up in Finland during long cabinet August head of the Social Democrats 49 out of 200 places in parliament 6st became premier Friday after 29 The largest bloc in the with 50 were left out of the of Thomas B. Murphy was RECOVER Friday in Irish 39-year-old New Orleans musician fell overboard from a boat Wednesday while trying to start its A companion tried unsuccessfully to save Coast Guard patrol boat the area discovered tiie body this Coast Guardsmen said Murphy's haa fht Poland Rescue squads brought the last 16 bodies to the surface today from the coal mine in southwest Authorities said the final death toll in the Thursday fire was 72. 51fty-two miners who were by fUmea were reported making a quick in PETERS Daisy bore down today on Sable Island and fishing grounds where a number of trawlers had been reported without confirmation to be Much of the big wind's punch was believed Weather Bureau said the hurricane had veered away from the Canadian and was heading toward Sable 100 miles off the Nova Scotia OUT Pakistan The foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan met today to thrash out a border dispute and pave the way for a conference of prime ministers beginning in New Delhi Sept. 9. Secretary All Baig of Pakistan met with J. secretary of India's Commonwealth Relations The conference was to until crry and oil workers with separate complaints united in five hours of rioting Friday before police quelled them with ONE bank employe was killed accidentally when a bullet fired at a mob smashed through a bank Hospital said 33 persons were hospitalized with many from Scores of others were known to have been injured by clubs and tear gas of the rioters were students ostensibly protesting poor bus and workers of the government oil who are involved in a union squabble that has no connection with the student trouble was feared at a student today that may attract sympathizing railway teachers and oil Student leaders predicted 100,000 persons would show up in a downtown plaza for the STRIKE railway which has cheered all the dissident raised the threat of another on the nationalized paralyzed twice in recent months by wildcat The Communist blamed by many as prime instigator of the endorsed action by both the students and oil bright spot for harassed authorities was an announcement by city bus drivers that they were postponing their strike slated for Sunday until after President Ruiz state of the union The voted W strike in retaliation for student action that caused the government to cancel a half-cent fare costing them a promised salary leads all states of the Union in number of motor vehicle of which it has more than six New York state ranks second with some 4,-645,000. Norway - The U.S. atomic submarine Skate left Oslo today a Cmdr. James sent a message thanking all Norwegians for the reception they gave him and his crew at Bergen last Saturday and at Oslo on their first landings after a voyage under the Arctic ice cap. Calvert said earlier he would sail from Oslo to New THE DAILY HERALD AUGUST 30, 1918 Rainbow fa west this Local astrologers say fids is sore forewarning of file TEARS AGO IN THE DAILY HERALD AUGUST 90, 19S8 of Pan were BOts and a oi six from have beea tev
