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Newspaper
Daily Review
Location
Hayward, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1956
Page
3
In Clinton Tennessee officials report peaceful classes at the town’s high school with seven Negro and 602 white students attending under police presence. The reopen marks Tennessee’s first state-supported school to mix races amid ongoing efforts to push integration before the state legislature.
Ila Bushnell reports that the African American farmhand denied calling a white schoolteacher "Hello, Baby" on the day he says seven white men abducted him. Testimony by Jesse Woods contradicted the remark claim as the trial against the seven men progresses. Separate coverage notes state Tennessee lawmakers push moderation on segregation while a pro segregation group funds a federal case involving 15 Clinton residents charged with interfering with school integration. Police maintain a heavy presence around the school as more Negro students arrive amid tense conditions.
A House subcommittee heard that nearly 2.5 million pieces of blatant communist propaganda were shipped to San Francisco from Russia and China earlier this year. Deputy Customs Chief Irving Fishman testified that 156,575 packages containing 490,830 pieces were seized in August October as potential propaganda. Witnesses Dr Holane Roberts and Jeremias Feingold invoked the fifth amendment. Feingold admitted selling Russian goods but refused to disclose timing.
Mrs Hildreth H Hatheway a Santa Barbara housewife won the $25 000 top prize and an Europe trip in the Pillsbury Mills eighth annual national recipe and baking contest Her main dish Californiacasseroler beat rivals earning the first money She plans to buy a home The event named winners in senior junior and brides divisions with dessert centered prizes Natalie Riggin 15 of Olympia Washington was second with hoot owl cookies Other principal winners included Leland F Ross Roscommon Michigan and W Myers Fort Collins Colorado in senior division and Irene Korrett Frederick Maryland 32 as top junior winner Barbara Campbell 17 Dayton Virginia and Diane Twingworth 12 Portland Oregon earned other awards in their divisions
Pfc. Robert Whelan, 18, of Somerville, held on arson charges for three church fires in Cambridge and Boston, including the St John The Evangelist Catholic church blaze that caused $2 million in damage. He allegedly admitted starting fires out of anger over failed poor boxes and robbed churches for money to eat. Investigators questioned him about a fourth church fire and a fifth at Saints Constantine and Helen.
Two youths, Robert Mitchell aged 17 of St Louis and Hass Kell Kellems aged 18 of Salem, confessed to a fatal beating of actor Malcolm Lee Beggs in a Chicago hotel room during an attempted robbery. Prosecutors said they will seek grand jury murder indictments.
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