Memphis World Memphis World Publishing Co. 1961-09-16 J. A. Beauchamp JUVENILE DELINQUENCY In addition to the danger of a bubble getting into the bloodstream, the juvenile delinquent turning a dope addict runs the hazard that by chance he may be able to get good stuff, better than he is accustomed to, and if he does get some good stud, the chance of an overdose is very high. An overdose produces heart failure. A large number of boys are known to have taken overdoses as a result of getting better stuff than they were accustomed to using. The contents of a deck are put into a spoon, some water, then a match is lit under it, and the contents are then put into the upper part of the syrine of a medicine dropper and injected into the bloodstream, using a belt to sort of siphon things off while it is being done. These are the steps juvenile delinquents take. A narcotic center in Harlem knows over 300 known teenage drug addicts who live within three blocks of the clinic. The usual figures in New York are given by officials as 30,000 ad dicts, but persons who have been involved in this problem are convinced that this is just a small percentage of the total number of addicts who are floating around the city. New York City as the Riverside Hospital for the treatment of narcotics addiction. Addicts are sent there on referral from courts. The addicts spend one, two, three months, some of them longer, in the hospital. They are given a quasi-therapeutic kind of treatment with a team. The hospitals really never have enough money to develop. But the addicts are sent to Riverside or to the Federal institution at Lexington, Ky., then they come back and within minutes, hours, or days they are back on the stuff again. Boys go to jail and stay there five years and come back and the very day they get back, they get back on the stuff. The pressure of the peer group to which they belong to get back on the stuff, the pressure of the pushers, the returning to a community in which they see no hope — is too much for them to withstand. A market survey to determine insurance needs and insurance buying habits of the Negro consumer was approved by the National Insurance Association during, its 41st annual convention in Washington last week. This project is to be financed by NIA and associated in sponsorship by several leading universities and will mark the first such study in depth of this significant market, according to Theodore A. Jones, newly-elected NIA president. Some specific objectives of the research project are: 1. To establish basic characteristics of insurance prospects among Negro families during the next decade. This is o involve en inquiry into income, occupational and educational change, industrial vs. ordinary potential and the prospects for larger per capita and per family sales. Such is to be directed toward establishing a basis for sales planning. 2. To establish trends in the market for life insurance among Negro families. Such trends are to serve as a basis for determining operational patterns for, NIA companies and chartering the nature of their companies. 3. To discover the present image of member companies of the NIA held Negro families. Besides Jones who is also vice president-controller, Supreme Life, Chicago, other officers elected were George A. Beavers, 1st vice president, Golden State Mutual, Los Angeles; Arthur Knight, vice president, executive section, Unity Mutual, Chicago; Maceo A. Sloan, vice president, agency section, North Carolina Mutual; Robert Bonner, vice president, technicians section, Provident Home, Philadelphia; N. D. Mickle, vice president, medical, Chicago Metropolitan, Chicago; H. H. Southall, secretary, Southern Aid, Richmond; Thad Gailliard, assistant secretary, Great Lakes, Detroit; A. M. Carter, treasurer, Pilgrim, Augusta; Ben J. Johnson, general counsel, Peoples, New Orleans; L. R. Taylor, actuary, Mammoth Life, Louisville; C. S. Rogers, statistician, Booker T. Washington, Birmingham; G. N. Branche, historian, Supreme Life; Rev. M. T. Somerville, chaplain, Union Mutual, Philadelphia; and L. M. Argrett, sergeant-at-arms, Afro-American. Board members are (three-year terms): J. Grantham, Chicago Metropolitan; W. A. Clement, N. C. Mutual; Charles W. Greene, Atlanta Life, Atlanta; two-year terms) Lawrence Lighter, American Woodmen, Denver; Mrs. Lucinda Mackrey. Provident Home, Philadelphia; J. E. Hankins, Mamoth Life, Louisville; (one-year term) W. H. Williams, Security Life. Jackson, Miss.; James Browne, Crusader, Kansas City, Kan.; W. C. Craft, Wright Mutual, Detroit; and Virgil L. Harris immediate past president, Protective Industrial, Birmingham, three - year term. 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DEPENDABLE QUALITY SKIN CARE PRODUCTS SINCE 1840 1,700 Prince Edward Children Start Year Nearly 1,700 Prince Edward County Negro children last week began their third consecutive school year without public school for formal education. Prince Edward County abandoned public school education two years ago to avoid desegregation. Private schools for white students began last week. A modern secondary school building was opened this fall by the Prince Edward School Foundation, which has operated private schools for whites since 1959. Elementary schools will continue to be held for whites in six churches over the county. Negroes have made no plans for similar private schooling, but have fastened theft hopes on the outcome of federal court suits. However, some efforts have been made to place a small number of Negro children in schools outside the county and state. The federal court recently ruled the county permit the use of public funds to finance private schools. Kappa Undergrad At Bloomington Confab Marion Jones, Jr., a Fort Valley State College senior and the son of Mr. Marion Jones, Sr., formerly of Atlanta, was among the 70 undergraduate members of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity participating in the organizations first annual Under graduate Leadership Conference held at Bloomington Ind., prior to the fraternity's Golden Anniversary Conclave which ended August 30. CARRIES DEATH— A soldier demonstrates the firing position of the Army's new Redeye missile launcher at Pomona, Calif. The weapon will enable ground troops to fire at lowflying aircraft. It is guided by a heat-seeking infrared "eye" which can detect the heat of as airplane's exhaust system. Kenya Political Leader Sees US Negro As Threat The president of the Kenya African National Union party's youth wing, opposition group in this country, last week declared that "the American Negro is a threat to the development of African culture." J. M. Oyangi, heads the younger group of the same political party which Tom Mboya serves as secretary-general. He said "the Ameri can Negro is Victim Number One of the inferiority complex and the African must guard himself against this person who seeks to destroy nature by trying to change his or her appearance to look like a white man or woman." Oyangi said that American Negroes, after they have been suppressed by the whites in the United States for decades, had suffered a terrible nervous breakdown—the inferiority complex. He charged that Negroes had forgotten that their original domain was Africa, the dark continent which most of them hated now. The KANU youth leader said that these Negroes who intermarried With, the whites considered themselyvs superior to their darkskinned brethren and had, therefore, encouraged others to straighten their hair, change their complexion, etc., so that they could be accepted as human beings by the whites in America. While some Africans, and American Negroes as well, may disagree with Oyangi, his views are said to express the current feelings of some Kenyans. This feeling, whether it exists or not, shows the need for more constructive public relations on the part of Negroes with respect to Africa. The African in Kenya, in fact, knows very little about the Negro community and there is considerable need for a program of education directed at Africans in the interest of portraying Negro life in the U.S. Angry Carla Rips Ship From Moorings, Rams Loaded Tanker A grain ship was ripped from its moorings in the hurricane Carla - whipped Corpus Christ Bay Monday and it repeatedly rammed a loaded fuel tanker before it was secured. Mayor Pro Tern Tom Swantner said if the grain ship had not been secured it could have touched off a serious fire or explosion in the bay. Swantner said coast Guard tugs put three lines on the runaway grain ship to secure it. Swantner said winds up to 90 miles an hour were lashing Corpus Christi when the grain ship broke loose. However, he said the Corpus Christi Bay is well -protected from winds. He said the harbor is jammed with ships trying in avoid the fury of Carla. Swantner said the grain ship banged against one or two other ships, but did not know if these other ships contained fuel. DRAFT QUOTA The draft quota for September has been set at 25,000 men for the Army. This is a result of the President's military build - up request. This will also result in the largest monthly quota since the end of the Korean War. Business Opportunity Brazil Military Show Of Force Against Goulart Brazil's military leaders Thursday called out army and navy units in a new show of force against supporters of Vice President Joao Goulart's claim to the presidency. A naval task force was dispatched "to southern Brazil and 1,500 paratroopers were reported preparing for action. Tension increased throughout the nation, fifth largest in the world, as Goulart raced toward home in an apparent effort to get inside before a threatened civil war actually erupted. The vice president, who was again denounced by the military chiefs Wednesday night as a friend of the Communists, landed in Buenos Aires late Thursday after a flight from New York and then continued on to nearby Montevideo, Uraguay. Sen. Arturo De Earros Carvelho, who is accompanying him, said Goulart would remain in Montevideo Thursday night before deciding his next move. He was trying to telephone Porto Alegre, stronghold of his supporters in southernmost Rio Grande De Sul, and was expected to try to reach there after leaving Montevideo. Reports circulated throughout the day that fighting had actually begun but late this afternoon the national security council here said: "No combat action has been started by the armed forces against anybody. No bombardment of Port Alegre or any other objective has been carried out or even ordered." The statement apparently was directed against report by the newspaper journal of Brazil that the 2nd army, based in Sao Paulo, had been ordered to attack 3rd army forces and that the assault was actually underway with naval and air support, it attributed its report to official communique released by the Tele - communications Council. Second army headquarters had no Comment on the report there was no indication of any troop movements in Sao Paulo. Gen. Oswaldo Motta, 2nd army commander, told his troops that War Minister Odilio Denys and the naval and air chiefs were trying to find "a peaceful solution that will bring transquility and well-being to the Brazialian family." TO REMAIN IN MONTEVIDEO Brazil's military leaders Thursday called out army and navy units in a new show of force against supporters of Vice President Joao Goulart's claim to the presidency. A naval task force was dispatched "to southern Brazil and 1,500 paratroopers were reported preparing for action. Tension increased throughout the nation, fifth largest in the world, as Goulart raced toward home in an apparent effort to get inside before a threatened civil war actually erupted. The vice president, who was again denounced by the military chiefs Wednesday night as a friend of the Communists, landed in Buenos Aires late Thursday after a flight from New York and then continued on to nearby Montevideo, Uraguay. Sen. Arturo De Earros Carvelho, who is accompanying him, said Goulart would remain in Montevideo Thursday night before deciding his next move. He was trying to telephone Porto Alegre, stronghold of his supporters in southernmost Rio Grande De Sul, and was expected to try to reach there after leaving Montevideo. Reports circulated throughout the day that fighting had actually begun but late this afternoon the national security council here said: "No combat action has been started by the armed forces against anybody. No bombardment of Port Alegre or any other objective has been carried out or even ordered." The statement apparently was directed against report by the newspaper journal of Brazil that the 2nd army, based in Sao Paulo, had been ordered to attack 3rd army forces and that the assault was actually underway with naval and air support, it attributed its report to official communique released by the Tele - communications Council. Second army headquarters had no Comment on the report there was no indication of any troop movements in Sao Paulo. Gen. Oswaldo Motta, 2nd army commander, told his troops that War Minister Odilio Denys and the naval and air chiefs were trying to find "a peaceful solution that will bring transquility and well-being to the Brazialian family." DIRECTED AGAINST REPORT Brazil's military leaders Thursday called out army and navy units in a new show of force against supporters of Vice President Joao Goulart's claim to the presidency. A naval task force was dispatched "to southern Brazil and 1,500 paratroopers were reported preparing for action. Tension increased throughout the nation, fifth largest in the world, as Goulart raced toward home in an apparent effort to get inside before a threatened civil war actually erupted. The vice president, who was again denounced by the military chiefs Wednesday night as a friend of the Communists, landed in Buenos Aires late Thursday after a flight from New York and then continued on to nearby Montevideo, Uraguay. Sen. Arturo De Earros Carvelho, who is accompanying him, said Goulart would remain in Montevideo Thursday night before deciding his next move. He was trying to telephone Porto Alegre, stronghold of his supporters in southernmost Rio Grande De Sul, and was expected to try to reach there after leaving Montevideo. Reports circulated throughout the day that fighting had actually begun but late this afternoon the national security council here said: "No combat action has been started by the armed forces against anybody. No bombardment of Port Alegre or any other objective has been carried out or even ordered." The statement apparently was directed against report by the newspaper journal of Brazil that the 2nd army, based in Sao Paulo, had been ordered to attack 3rd army forces and that the assault was actually underway with naval and air support, it attributed its report to official communique released by the Tele - communications Council. Second army headquarters had no Comment on the report there was no indication of any troop movements in Sao Paulo. Gen. Oswaldo Motta, 2nd army commander, told his troops that War Minister Odilio Denys and the naval and air chiefs were trying to find "a peaceful solution that will bring transquility and well-being to the Brazialian family." Strangles Wife In Dispute Over Their Divorce Settlement Police reported this week that a vexed husband on Labor Day strangled his wife to death with straps of her dress, following a violent dispute over divorce settlement. Forty-nine year-old Ison Young is held in connection with the death of his 53 year-old wife, Bessie, in their Southside home. The couple was reportedly married for about 10 years. Young reportedly told police that he and his wife had agreed upon divorce, but could reach no terms concerning a financial settlement. Mrs. Young was found sprawled on the dining room floor with the straps from her dress wrapped around her neck, according, to police reports. Young said he left the house with the two-year-old foster child and phoned his brother who accompanied him to Englewood police district to report the slaying. Young is employed by People's Gas and Coke Company. McCLOY'S WARNING United States disarmament chief J. McCloy says Russia might be able to test a super nuclear bomb without the United States knowing it. This statement was made at a recent speech to the National Press Club. Do's And Don'ts WE'VE GOT HEROES, 'N' INVENTORS, SCIENTISTS, MUSICIANS, WRITERS, ARTISTS, ENGINEERS, TOO! Teach him Negro history at home, so he can be proud. PUTS A BUG ON A BASS— This fisherman has hooked a big one near Delavan, Wis. The camera snapped just as the bass broke the surface in an attempt to throw the bug-baited lure. Iota Phi Lambda Sorority Launches $30,000 Fund Drive Delegates and visitors representing more than 2,000 members in 70 chapters throughout the United States and Bangalore, India, attended the 32nd anniversary convention of Iota Phi Lambda sorority held here. The body launched a $30,000 Headquarters Fund Campaign, pledged $500 to the Bethune Memorial, and pledged continued support of its $32,000 NAACP Membership Campaign Crusade. The main feature of the convention was the educational program held in the Pittsburgh Room of Penn-Sheraton Hotel, where the Sorority convened. A feature of the program was the awarding of the "Lola M. Parker Achievement Award" to the person selected as "The Outstanding Woman of the Year". This year the award, named for the founder of the Sorority, went to Mrs. Ernestine Marian of Cincinnati. Soror Evelyn D. Wilkey was second place winner. Guest speaker was Mrs. Alice Dunnigan, wha is presently on the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity, and now the only Negro woman to be appointed as a White House Press Correspondent. In the introduction of the speaker, Mrs. Florence Madison Hill, National President of the Sorority, introduced the speaker. A 22-year old member of the selfstyled "Magnificent Seven" arrested on charges of violating the White Slave act, last week faced a preliminary hearing before the U. S. commissioner. William Joe King, claiming to be the son of a Baptist minister in Tuscaloosa, Ala., is a former porter and member of a singing group called "The Spaniards." He was taken into custody with six accomplices: Willie Charles White Jerry Mosley, Glenn Dine Smith, Kenneth Jones, Richard Strickland and Melvin Mack Brown. William G. Simon, special agent in charge of the local FBI office, said that the group is charged in a federal complaint with having caused the transportation of eight women from Cleveland to Los Angeles for immoral purposes since January, 1961. Several of the women have been arrested by both Cleveland and Log Angeles police for their alleged prostitution activities. Simon said the individuals have openly bragged that they're known as the "Magnificent Seven," dressed in expensive clothes and drive late model cadiallacs, in order to show their easy life in the prostitution rackets. EIGHT WOMEN INVOLVED A 22-year old member of the selfstyled "Magnificent Seven" arrested on charges of violating the White Slave act, last week faced a preliminary hearing before the U. S. commissioner. William Joe King, claiming to be the son of a Baptist minister in Tuscaloosa, Ala., is a former porter and member of a singing group called "The Spaniards." He was taken into custody with six accomplices: Willie Charles White Jerry Mosley, Glenn Dine Smith, Kenneth Jones, Richard Strickland and Melvin Mack Brown. William G. Simon, special agent in charge of the local FBI office, said that the group is charged in a federal complaint with having caused the transportation of eight women from Cleveland to Los Angeles for immoral purposes since January, 1961. Several of the women have been arrested by both Cleveland and Log Angeles police for their alleged prostitution activities. Simon said the individuals have openly bragged that they're known as the "Magnificent Seven," dressed in expensive clothes and drive late model cadiallacs, in order to show their easy life in the prostitution rackets. 810 Southern School Districts Desegregate New desegregation policies took effect in 29 districts in eight states as the South's public schools opened for the 1961-62 year. In two of the 29 districts no Negroes applied for admission to schools with whites so that their schools remain segregated in practice, Southern School News reported in its September issue. This brought to 810 the number of districts having desegregated their schools in practice or in principle in 14 states and the District of Columbia at the beginning of the eighth school year since the United States Supreme Court desegregation decision of 1954. Three statesAlabama, Mississippi and South Carolina — continue to have complete segregation at all levels of their public education systems. The entire region has 6,663 districts, of which 2,813 have both white and Negro pupils living in them. Southern School News correspondents reported that districts desegregated before this year will have more Negroes in biracial classes. The number of Negroes in schools with whites will not be known until enrollment figures are reported and tabulated. Six colleges in the South will admit Negroes this fall for the first time, induction gtwo public and four private and church institutions of higher learning. Georgia Tech has accepted three Negro freshmen for the fall term, becoming the state's second desegregated public college. Charlotte College in North Carolina, which previously had Negroes only in a special off- campus course, will have two Negroes attending, regular classes this session. The four private colleges changing their racial policies include Davidson College, Duke University, and Mars Hill College, all in North Carolina, and Oklahoma Christian College. Duke has accepted three Negroes and Man Hill, one. Included in the public school districts initiating biracial schools are two of the region's major cities, Dallas and Atlanta, Of the area's 10 largest cities, only Memphis has not had any desegregation. Fifty Negroes applied for admission to Memphis white schools, but their applications were rejected in August under the state pupil assignment law. Only eight of the districts desegregating are acting under court orders. The 21 others changed their segregation policies voluntarily. Atlanta's desegregation drew most of the interest, since it was the first below the college level in a strongly resistant Deep South state. Nine Negroes quietly entered the 11th and 12th grades of four schools under heavy police protection. A 10th Negro, whose transfer request had been approved decided instead to accept a scholarship to a private school. Virginia has eight districts with new voluntary desegregation policies for this September, more than any other state. The state, which abandoned "massive resistance" in early 1959, now has 19 desegregated school districts of 128 desegregatbiracial. Another district, Lynchburg has announced it will adopt a gradual desegregation plan. COLLEGES CHANGING New desegregation policies took effect in 29 districts in eight states as the South's public schools opened for the 1961-62 year. In two of the 29 districts no Negroes applied for admission to schools with whites so that their schools remain segregated in practice, Southern School News reported in its September issue. This brought to 810 the number of districts having desegregated their schools in practice or in principle in 14 states and the District of Columbia at the beginning of the eighth school year since the United States Supreme Court desegregation decision of 1954. Three statesAlabama, Mississippi and South Carolina — continue to have complete segregation at all levels of their public education systems. The entire region has 6,663 districts, of which 2,813 have both white and Negro pupils living in them. Southern School News correspondents reported that districts desegregated before this year will have more Negroes in biracial classes. The number of Negroes in schools with whites will not be known until enrollment figures are reported and tabulated. Six colleges in the South will admit Negroes this fall for the first time, induction gtwo public and four private and church institutions of higher learning. Georgia Tech has accepted three Negro freshmen for the fall term, becoming the state's second desegregated public college. Charlotte College in North Carolina, which previously had Negroes only in a special off- campus course, will have two Negroes attending, regular classes this session. The four private colleges changing their racial policies include Davidson College, Duke University, and Mars Hill College, all in North Carolina, and Oklahoma Christian College. Duke has accepted three Negroes and Man Hill, one. Included in the public school districts initiating biracial schools are two of the region's major cities, Dallas and Atlanta, Of the area's 10 largest cities, only Memphis has not had any desegregation. Fifty Negroes applied for admission to Memphis white schools, but their applications were rejected in August under the state pupil assignment law. Only eight of the districts desegregating are acting under court orders. The 21 others changed their segregation policies voluntarily. Atlanta's desegregation drew most of the interest, since it was the first below the college level in a strongly resistant Deep South state. Nine Negroes quietly entered the 11th and 12th grades of four schools under heavy police protection. A 10th Negro, whose transfer request had been approved decided instead to accept a scholarship to a private school. Virginia has eight districts with new voluntary desegregation policies for this September, more than any other state. The state, which abandoned "massive resistance" in early 1959, now has 19 desegregated school districts of 128 desegregatbiracial. Another district, Lynchburg has announced it will adopt a gradual desegregation plan. 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In 1960, there was an increase of 72 per cent in reported new cases. Dr. William J. Brown, chief of the Venereal Disease Branch of the Public Health Service, says that he believes that 1,200,000 persons in the United States need treatment for syphilis now. Sixty thousand new cases are reported a year. If these are not treated, one in 200 will become blind, one in 50 will become insane, one in 25 will become crippled or incapacitated to some extent and one in 15 will die of syphilitic heart disease. Statistics show that 4,000 people died from syphilis in 1959. The United States spent twelve million dollars for treatment and maintenance of the syphilitic blind, and 46 million to care for the syphilitic insane. Dr. C. Wendell Freeman, Clinical Professor of Dermatology at the Howard University College of Medicine, attributes the increase principally to the fact that physicians have been lulled into a quiet indifference and a false sense of security, "and syphilis is being relegated to the list of diseases which are no longer a menace, no longer of great concern to the medical profession." Dr. Freeman says physicians must be aroused to action if syphilis is not to reach the prevalence of earlier years. "Few diseases can spread so rapidly or insidiously," he said. "An infected prostitute or homosexual may spread the disease to a dozen or more without knowing he is infected, As long as infectious syphilis exists, it is a serious menace to the American people. With modern travel, infected persons in New York can spread the disease in California or Europe the same day. "One man or woman with infectious syphilis can start a chain of infection which, spreading out, can inftct many people, The people in turn, infecting others, soon create an epidemic, widespread and almost impossible to control." Dr. Freeman said every patient with early infectious syphilis caught the disease from a person with early infectious syphilis and has perhaps transmitted it to others. "This rapid and frequent transmission is particularly important when dealing with infected prostitutes, homosexuals and other promiscuous persons," he said. "The epidemiologists and trained contact investigators are of extreme importance if we are eventually to stamp out this disease. To find the single case only without tracing contacts both before and after infection is of limited value. All contacts must be examined and brought under immediate treatment if found infected." The dermatologist said that he and other physicians have been alarmed at the recent reports of the tremendous increase in the incidence of infectious syphilis in various sections of the country. MUST BE AROUSED Despite the fact that penicillin has been hailed as the sure "cure" for syphillis by some, medical, authorities, infectious syphillis is on the rise and has increased over 200 per cent during the past two years. In the country as a whole in 195859, there was a 23 per cent increase in early syphilis. In 1960, there was an increase of 72 per cent in reported new cases. Dr. William J. Brown, chief of the Venereal Disease Branch of the Public Health Service, says that he believes that 1,200,000 persons in the United States need treatment for syphilis now. Sixty thousand new cases are reported a year. If these are not treated, one in 200 will become blind, one in 50 will become insane, one in 25 will become crippled or incapacitated to some extent and one in 15 will die of syphilitic heart disease. Statistics show that 4,000 people died from syphilis in 1959. The United States spent twelve million dollars for treatment and maintenance of the syphilitic blind, and 46 million to care for the syphilitic insane. Dr. C. Wendell Freeman, Clinical Professor of Dermatology at the Howard University College of Medicine, attributes the increase principally to the fact that physicians have been lulled into a quiet indifference and a false sense of security, "and syphilis is being relegated to the list of diseases which are no longer a menace, no longer of great concern to the medical profession." Dr. Freeman says physicians must be aroused to action if syphilis is not to reach the prevalence of earlier years. "Few diseases can spread so rapidly or insidiously," he said. "An infected prostitute or homosexual may spread the disease to a dozen or more without knowing he is infected, As long as infectious syphilis exists, it is a serious menace to the American people. With modern travel, infected persons in New York can spread the disease in California or Europe the same day. "One man or woman with infectious syphilis can start a chain of infection which, spreading out, can inftct many people, The people in turn, infecting others, soon create an epidemic, widespread and almost impossible to control." Dr. Freeman said every patient with early infectious syphilis caught the disease from a person with early infectious syphilis and has perhaps transmitted it to others. "This rapid and frequent transmission is particularly important when dealing with infected prostitutes, homosexuals and other promiscuous persons," he said. "The epidemiologists and trained contact investigators are of extreme importance if we are eventually to stamp out this disease. To find the single case only without tracing contacts both before and after infection is of limited value. All contacts must be examined and brought under immediate treatment if found infected." The dermatologist said that he and other physicians have been alarmed at the recent reports of the tremendous increase in the incidence of infectious syphilis in various sections of the country. Our Past This Week Sept. 14, 1912 — Popular singer Billy Daniels was born in Jacksonville, Fla. Sept. 15, 1847 — Quinn Chapel A. M. E. Church, oldest Negro congregation in Chicago, was founded. Sept. 16, 1889 — Claude A. Barnett, founder and director of the Associated Negro Press, was born in Sanford, Fla. Sept. 18, 1898 — The North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance company was founded in Durham. Sept. 19, 1814 — General Andrew Jackson acknowledges heroism of colored troops in the Battle of New Orleans and decorates them. Sept. 20, 1891 — Joseph D. Bibb, lawyer, retired newspaper editor and former holder of highest appointive post held by a Negro in Illinois (Director of Public Safety) was born in Montgomery, Ala. Sept. 21, 1959 -President Kwame Nkrumah of the Republic of Ghana was born. Sept. 22, 1862 — President Abraham Lincoln issues first Emancipation Proclamation freeing all Negro slaves in Confederate states. Sept. 23, 1945 — Joe Louis, former world's heavyweight champion, awarded Legion of Merit for services to his country during World War II. P Skintona CONTAINS AMAZING HYDROQUINONE MAKES SKIN BLEACHES "OLD FASHIONED" LIGHTENS BRIGHTENS SKIN Skintona Skintona • lightens dark spots • perfect powder base LIGHTENS BRIGHTENS SKIN Skintona 65 100 size Manufacturers of Posner's Bergamot, "The jar with the Star" STATE LIGRARY AND ARCHIVEG State Library Division DENTIST OF THE YEAR — Dr. James C. Wallace; Jr., widely known in Chicago's professional, civic, fraternal and church circles, was honored last week as "Dentist of the Year" by the National Dental association at its 48th annual convention at the SheratonPark hotel, Washington, D. C. Dr. Wallace is also president - elect of the dental section, John A. Andrew clinical Society. (ANPhoto) Life is earnest, Life is Real, and the grave is not it's goal. Dust thou art and dust returneth was not spoken of the soul. —Longfellow It was Moyer's first fight before home town fans since beating Emile Griffith, the world welterweight champion, in April of 1960. Referee Eddie Volk scored the fight 100 - 94 for Moyer; Judge Andy Crabtree had Moyer in front 99-97, and the other judge, Ray Smith, had it 08-95 for the winner. RUSSIANS PROWL MASSACHUSETTS COAST— A Soviet trawler is spotted off the coast of Cape Cod, Mass., where 17 similar Vessels and two "mother" ships have also been seen. Some observers believe the ships could be equipped with inertial homing devices for any guided missiles aimed at the U.S. Six of the trawlers were 10 to 15 miles from the Texas tower, a US defense installation Radar and electronic equipment was seen above deck on the ships. Allen vs. Bluefield State Bluefield, West Virginia Kentucky State vs. Lane College Jackson, Tenn. Livingstone vs. Benedict Columbia, S. C. Arkansas State vs. Philander Smith. Pine Bluff, Ark, Bishop vs. Texas College. Tyler, Texas Prainle View vs. Tennessee State Nashville. Tenn. Sept. 16 Allen vs. Bluefield State Bluefield, West Virginia Kentucky State vs. Lane College Jackson, Tenn. Livingstone vs. Benedict Columbia, S. C. Arkansas State vs. Philander Smith. Pine Bluff, Ark, Bishop vs. Texas College. Tyler, Texas Prainle View vs. Tennessee State Nashville. Tenn. SOUTH AFRKCAN TRIES FOR GOLD STARDOM— Eddie Johnsson Sede, a former golf caddle in Johannesburg, South Africa, and now assistant professional at the Royal Winchester Golf Club, Hampshire, England, is busily practicing up for a piece of golf stardom in the forthcoming Ballantine and Open tournaments. Sedibe recently participated in the $16,000 Dunlop tournament at New Nottingham, England but was unlucky enough to be knocked out of competition during the qualifying rounds.