ASSESS @ teen-ager from Chicago. prosecute” storekeeper acy by murdering children.” . Lynchers indicte WASHINGTON In response to pressure from the National Association for the_ Advancement of Colored, Peo- ple, Governor Hugh White of Mississippi last week ordered prosecution of two white men for the lynching of a Negro White instructed local auth- orities in Greenwood to “fully Roy Bryant and his half-brother, J. W. Milan, for the kidnap-mure dev of 15-year-old Emmeit Till. The governor’s action follow- ed a blistering charge by Roy Wilkins, NAACP executive sec- retary, that Mississippi.“‘has de- cided to maintain white supzem- “The killers of the boy felt frec to lynch him because — there is in the entire state no restraining influence of de- cency, not in the state capital, among the daily newspapers, the clergy nor any segment of ithe so-called better citizens,” Wilkins said. In Jackson, Governor White called a press conference to read a telegram he sent to Wil- kins. " “The parties charged with the murder are in jail,’ White in- formed Wilkins, “I have every reason to believe that the courts will do their ducy in prosecution. Mississippi. does not condone * such conduct. Wilkins said in New York he was “very glad’ White ordered the prosecution. This week a_ Tallahatchie couniy grand jury indicted Bry- ant and Milan for murder. Following their arrest, the two men admitted taking the boy from the home of his uncle in the Money community in the early morning hours of Sunday, August 28, but denied stripping and shooting him and throwing his body in the Tallahatchie rivet. The boy’s nude body was, found by a fisherman on August 31, his neck tied to a piece of cotton gin machinery but his ‘feet floating above surface. d after ‘white supremacy’ blast | one armed with a pistol and the ~ ag other with a flashlight. The body was believed dump- ed from a bridge about 10 miles from the home of Till’s uncle, Moses Wright, 64, a part-time preacher. Wright said, when the men took Till from his bed he though: they would . “give Em- mett a beating” and turn him loose. “They told me | wouldn* live to be 64 if | remembered their faces and told anybody.” Maurice Wright, 16, Till’s sec- ond cousin, reporied that Em- mett gave a “wolf call” to Bry- -ant’s wife at the Bryant store on the night of Saturday, Au- gus} 2%. About 2:30 a.m. on the Sun- from Chicago was . - ¢ ay Emmett awake and ordered him to go with them,” Maurice said. house and called law officers “i when the abductors left. i dent in Chicago, had been visit- ing Wright for a week. He was ta have returned home last ™ weekend. ton but he didn’t like it,” Maye rice said. the whole week.” “They asked where the bOY . shook The uncle rushed to a nearby Emmett, a ninth grade stu- “He was helping us pick cot ‘We only made oe Soviet scientists offer: Joint research on cosmic rays LONDON Soviet scientists want’ to collab- orate with the West in unravelling the unsolved mystery of cosmic} rays, it was disclosed last week by Professor C. F. Powell, of Bristol University. Cosmic rays are a stream of atomic nuclei which enter the high atmosphere. Their origin is un- known. After addressing the ma- thematics and physics section of the British Association for the Ad- vancement of Science, Professor Powell said the Moscow Academy of Sciences had suggested collab- oration in the study of cosmic ra- diation. 3 “I hope to pay a personal visi’: to Russia to discuss the matter,” Pro}. Powell said. Britain is already carrying out cosmic radiation research in col- laboration with the universities of Padua, Berne, Turin, Gottingen and Paris. : In his address to the association Prof. Powell said it was not known where the cosmic ray particles come from. “We do not know by what pro- cess they are given their great energy,” he said, “but they provide us with a source of very energetic protons with which to make ex- periments to go a stage deeper in- to the ultimate structure of miat- tes.” Girl employees at the University of. Bristol made the 200 ft. long polyethtyiene balloons which aid- ed the research on cosmic radia- tion, carrying sensitive photo- graphic plates to over 100,000 feet in the atmosphere. ; Prof. Powell said he was very interested in getting some expos- ures in northern magnetic lati- tudes. ‘ * : ee Atomie energy will inevitably provide the power for steamships of the future, Dr. S. F. Dorey, chief engineer surveyor of Lloyd’s, told the engineering section of the as- sociation. Referring to the U.S. atomic sub- marines in which the heat ‘develop- ed by a nuclear reactor is used to raise steam for turbine machinery, he said that this had resulted in wide speculation about the possi- bility of similar power plants for merchant ships. “Indeed. such an_ impressive statement that the fissioning of one pound.of uranium produces heat equivalent to 2,300 tons of coal or 300,000 gallons of oil, raises visions of revolutionary changes in the design of merchant ships and their machinery. “As these changes would solve many existing problems, it seems that thermal reactors must eventually provide the energy for steamship propulsion. “When this event will be pos- sible depends on the vate of pro- gress made in reducing to more attractive levels the weight, size and cost of reactors and screening , and the satisfactory solution of con- , trol and maintenance problems.” x * * Space travel is at a point rough- ly corresponding to the period in aviation before Lindbergh’s flight across the Atlantic. Milton W. Ro- sen; of the Washington Naval Re- search Laboratory, told the associ- ation. The Second World War had given rocketry the same kind of impetus as the First ‘World ‘War gave aviation. Bu he doubted if any single step in the history of aviation compared in magnitude to the creation of the V2 rockets. The idea of man-made satel- lites in space had so excited the world’s imagination that future progress would be greatly accel- erated. The mechanical com- ponents of such satellites were within sigh‘. Europe expands East-West trade - GENEVA Figures for the first few months of 1955 indicate that a substantial increase in East-West trade is taking place, the UN Economic Commission for Europe reported in Geneva last week. Total imports of Western Europe from Eastern Europe increased by 35 percent, and total exports of the West to the East by 9 percent, compared with the early months of 1954. The West European countries which made the largest increases in their imports from Eastern Eur- ope during the first few months of the year were Britain and Tur- North African issue to go before The 17-nation Asian-African group in the United Nations, led by India and Egypt decided last week to bring the situation in French North Africa before the Council. They set up a committee of six to prepare the case they will present. formal request for a Security Council session’ will be made when the committee drawn up a memorandum. Warm .welcome for Canadians: This picture shows the welcome members of the Can- dian women’s delegation whinh recently visited the USSR received at Leningrad railway station. One of three B.C. women on ‘the delegation, Mrs. Mona Morgan, will relate her impressions at a public meeting to be held at Pender key. Auditorium here, Sunday, September 18. f UN © UNITED NATIONS, N* Security has h At the same time, the Blame government will be faced with debate in the United Nations a sembly, whose new session st@"” this month, on its atrocities North Africa. The reason no deadline W4 es immediately for the request to : Security Council is because es countries concerned wish 10 a the French government 4 chee to make an agreement ove> Mo: 5 co suitable to Istiqlal, the MP" can nationalist party. In Arab countries, hostilitY rf France and support for the A gerians and Moroccans is increas? ing. ‘ In: Beirut, capital of Lebanel ¢ last week, a general strike called in support of the Mone 7 people. - pee ores Factories stopped work, st jpg were closed ‘and a mass rey was held in Parliament same followed by a parade throve streets. j i ‘Police guarded ‘all Frengh oh, stitutions in the country won. till 1946, was also a French ¢? iF At Cairo, Egypt, this week, I be political committee of the Fi nation Arab League mae resolution supporting the he tionalist struggle against French in North Africa ‘We take our hats off to. you’ U.S. farm delegates laud Soviet pioneers , MOSCOW “The American delegation is very grateful for the opportunity to see the virgin lands. This is a Tremendous undertaking which will probably surpass all similar under- takings. It seems to us that many difficulties will still have to be overcome, but you have made a splendid beginning. We take off our hats to you and bow before the ‘brave men and women who are pioneers in this affair. you every success.” This is the message William Lambert, leader of the U.S; farm delegation which has been touring the Soviet Union for thepast few | weeks, handed to a correspondent of Tass, Soviet press agency, as the delegation left Kazakhstan. The delegation has visited ag- ricultural areas in the Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, the Ku- ban, along the Volga and in the Altai Territory, covering more that 6,000 miles by plane, train, boa! and car. On their return to Moscow, the We wish delegates visited the Mikoyan meal packing plant which, plant direct- or A. A. Dorokhov informed them, processes 2,500,000 head of cattle annually. Charles Hearse wanted to know whether everything the plant pro-) duces is consumed by Moscow or; whether some is shipped to ED places. ; Dorokhov told him that almost! all the plant produces remains in Moscow. However, 7,500 tons of bone meal is shipped to livestock centres neaz Moscow annually. John Steddam, who is a hog- preedei, asked about the protein content in the meal. He was told that it was up to twenty percent. Then the talk turned to the prices paid for livestock, and here | ence in price was betwee an interesting fact turned up. Dor- okhov told his visitors that the PACIFIC TRIBUNE — SEPTEMBER 9, 1955 — price depended on the Fate: the the. animal; the fatter ? eth higher the price per centP®” 7. Steddom asked what the "| sat: n the was test pork and the leanest. ee told that fat pork cost more impe twice as much as lean Me2™ 15. visitors remarked that 12 fat pork was cheaper meat. «ue ® “Pork is twice as expens ep home as pig fat,” remar ; bert Pike. at it was Lauren Soth thought th" "mes probably not twice but ue paw” as expensive, and Willi@ bert backed him up. ' pace?