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Hartford chronicle., 1946-11-16
LEGION APPEALS
 TO VETERANS

The quota for Mckinney King Post No. 142 for 1946-47 is 315 members. We hereby ap- peal to all World War I and II Veterans who are not members to get their applications for membership at the earliest.
 There are many objectives in view for the coming year. Com mander Robert Stephen has as sured us the possibilities of mak- ing Mckinney King Post No. 142 one of the strongest of it's kind in the state. Our first ob- jective is to purchase a home for it's members. Not only will this home provide for us recreation, but many other wholesome activities.
 This year the Post will spon- sor a basketball and baseball team.
 At present all members are concentrating on the District Bowling Tournament. Members comprising each team will be selected on the basis of elimina- tion within the Post and persons selected will represent the Post in the District Tournament. Place and date of tournament will be published at a future date.
 Once again we urge each and every Veteran of World War l and II who are not members of this Post to join us and make Mckinney Post one of the strongest in the state.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-11-16
SOUTHERN PRHATE
 RADIO SPEAKER

Savannah, Ga. - Right Rev. Monsignor James McNamara, rector of the Cathedral of St. John Baptist here and chairman of the bureau of race relations, Catholic Committee of the South, is the speaker during November on the Catholic Hour, nationwide religious program. Superintendent of all Catholic Schools in the Diocese of Savan- nah, Msgr. McNamara's general topic is ''Education".
 Known throughout the South as a vigorous spokesman for Negro rights, the prelate con- demned from the Cathedral pull pit attempts being made during the last election primaries to keep Negroes away from the polls. A native of the South, Msgr. McNamara has been rec tor of the Cathedral here since 1889.
 The Catholic Hour is heard coast-to-coast every Sunday at 6 pm. (EST) over the NEG Red-Network.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-11-16
NEVADA AND PENN STATE LAUDED FOR REFUSAL TO BOW TO JIM CROW

New York, Nov. 7th-An old Southern ''custom" took quite a beating last week when two crack Northern football teams cancelled their scheduled foot ball games at Southern univer- sities because they would not permit their boys to compete with teams having Negroes. The University of Nevada, with two Negro players, and Pennsyl- vania State College, with two players, refused to leave any member of their team at home, and called off games with, re- spectively, Mississippi State College and Miami University.
 Their action was applauded in a warm telegram from Wal ter White, Executive Secretary of the NAACP, to each of the Northern colleges who declined to bow to the unsportsmanlike stand of the Southern univer- sities.
 Congratulating the presidents of the colleges for cancelling their schools games rather than leave their Negro players at home, MT. White also congratu- lated the students and alumni who "refused to bow to this prejudice in the first year after our victory in a world war for human dignity and freedom.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-11-16
ETA PHI BETA TO RAISE .S5,OOO FOR NAACP

New York, Nov. 7th-Under the slogan, "Zeta Stands for Justice for All People,, the sorority, Zeta Phi Beta is con- ducting a December campaign for funds for the NAACP
 mong all it's graduate chapters, asking each one to give at least $10O to it's local NAACP branch or to the national office. Through a special appeal to all chapters, Zeta Phi Beta hopes to raise $5,000. Lullelia W. Harrison, Grand Basileus of the sorority, announced today.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-11-16
CLERIC APPEALS
 FOR JUSTICE

On Sunday, Nov. 10th, Rev. John J. Loughlin made a very stirring appeal for human just ice over station WDRC when he spoke on the subject "Minori- ties Are the Test. The direc- tor of St. Benedict the Moor Center, said,
 Wherever we have in a coun. try condition in which some of the people, and these some are usually minority groups, are de- prived of their rights, we have not a true democracy"
 Father Loughlin made the following pertinent observa- tlons about state FEPC. "We have here in Connecticut a Com mittee for Fair Employment Practice Commission. This com mittee is working to have legis- ation passed that will make dis crlmlnation in employment be- cause of race, color, creed, or national origin illegal. Two years ago efforts were made to have such a law enacted. We were told then that discrimina- tlon should be eliminated thru education. Now all of us who urge an FEPC law believe that an extensive program of educa- tion should be carried on against the injustice of discrimi- nation But education how ever extensive and intensive it may be, can touch only the con- science of a man We don't wait for education to eliminate such crimes. To do so, we read fly recognize would be ridicu- lous.
 In speaking of the responsi- bility of the state, Fr. Loughlin had the following to say, ''The state cannot be expected to do away with prejudice in mans heart; only the good will of man and the grace of God can do that. But the state has not only the right but also the ob- ligation in justice to protect its citizens against open crimes of injustice ''
 He also pointed out that, Zone of the greatest solvents of prejudice is actual contact with those of other races. One of the greatest breeders of pre- judice is the absence of such contact. The average white man in good job almost never comes in contact with Negroes of his own abilities and social status. He sees Negroes in menial jobs and unconsciously concludes they are fit for noth- ng else"
Hartford chronicle., 1946-11-16
COVENANT FIGHT STRONGLY SUPPORTED

New York, Oct. 11th-QueenS County, New York, became the scene of the latest battle in the NAACP'S nationwide campaign against restrictive covenants on Oct. 11th. Andrew D. Vein berger, member of the NAACP, moved in the Supreme Court of Queens County to dismiss a com plaint seeking to prevent Sam uel Richardson, Negro business man, from purchasing a home in St. Albans, on the ground that the race restrictive covenant up on which the white neighbors relied was not enforceable in a court of law.
 Civic, religious and labor or ganizations rallied to the SUD- port of this attack on Jim Crow housing, by filing briefs and arguing in support of the mo- tion to dismiss at the hearing. Attorneys for the American Jewish Congress, the New York State Industrial Union Council and the Greater New York In- dustrial Council and the Ma tional Lawyers Guild all ap- peared in court in support of the NAACP position. The Social Action Committee of the Con gregational Church, the Meth odist Federation for Social Ser vice and the City-wide Citizens Committee on Harlem all filed memoranda in Court supporting the position taken by the NAACP.
 New York State has never had case involving restrictive covenants decided by an appel late court, although there are two decisions in lower courts upholding the covenants. The NAACP is still waiting for de cisions ill two other cases, one the other in Michigan's highest in California's highest court and court, both of which cases were argued i'll October.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-11-16

to come. Are there other undis- covered victims, etc.?
 Keep tuned to this column for a blow by blow description of this precedent setting trial.
 -Shankel
Hartford chronicle., 1946-11-16
ALLEGED TRIPLE KILLERS ELECT TRIAL BY JURY
(Pciture On Front Page)


 John F. Comedy as alleged axe murderers of former Harlemit' Benjamin Garter, 35, Henry Ed wards, 43, and Oscar Matheny 38, all of New Haven, Rober Bradley, 36, of 19 Jefferson St and William Lisenby, 34, of 87: Grand Ave, elected thru thei1 Public Defender counselors to day to stand trial by jury on al counts Tuesday, Dec. 3rd.
 Technically, Bradley and Lii senby, the latter charged witl complicity in two of the three murders, those of Carter anG Matheny, are being put to prose cution for the killing of Benja min Carter only at the sched uled Dec. 3rd trial. Actually Bradley alone will be on tria at that time. The state will ust Lisenby as a material witnes: against him.
 The issuance of findings il the two other murders are being held in abeyance by Coroner James J. Corrigan.
 Bradley's Attorney, Specia Public Defender Charles Haen chel, today requested an assist ant in the forthcoming trial, anc Judge Comedy granted the re quest subject to the approva of the Chief Justice.
 Both prisoners continue to de ny guilt and defense counselor Haenchel told the Chronicle that Eve are studying the evi dence".
 States Atty. Abraham s. Ull man is expected to demand the death penalty.
 Brought before the court clerk, Robert Bradley answered ''jury' three times when the court asked what form of tria he chose. Lisenby did likewise This is a trial, of course, 1T which the defense hopes te prove that Bradley was nothing but a pawn i'll a game of deatf that brutally snuffed out the lives of three men, whose only crime was that they owned shiny, salable automobiles anc were trusting.
 A somewhat morbid interes proved nevertheless somewha' high as this panorama of deatf and violence on the one hand and sober justice on the other wrestled across the scene of thi! Elm City's otherwise common place happenings.
 It was not difficult to remem Der that on three previous oc casions, skull-crushed bodies battered out of life withou thought of trial or mercy, wer' exhumed from a shallow two foot grave on the lonely, forbid ding outskirts of an East Havel woodland. Nor that Henry Ed wards, first of the murdered trio, auuarently waged fierc battle in the dim light of moonlit, but tree-shaded wood land for the life he held dear.
 Speculation runs high. Will
Hartford chronicle., 1946-11-16
CHILDREN'S AID VITAL SERVICE

the SIaLo. lnaC OrgdnlZdClOn IS the Connecticut Children s Aid Society at 13O Washington St. The society was founded in 1892 and is a statewide, non-sectari- an, private agency staffed by trained case workers who are graduates of accredited schools of social work.
 It offers a maze of services such as providing consultation service for parents whose chil- dren may need to be placed in foster homes. It places and su- pervises children in foster fami- ly homes at the request of their parents. It assists unmarried mothers who need care for themselves prior to confinement and, at the mothers request, places their babies in foster homes. It places infants and young children, who have been released for adoption, in adop- tion homes. It places and super vises children at the request of the Juvenile Court if these chil- dren are not eligible for commit ment to a tax supported agency. It investigates adoptions at the request of the Probate Court. It places limited number of chill dren in institutions at the re- quest of parents if, for some reason, the institution will not accept a direct request from parents.
 While millions of people in normal family lives go about their daily responsibilities with out the slightest notion that oth- CTS are denied such right and privilege, thousands of helpless babies and youngsters because of forces over which they have no control, are projected into the world without dependable sources of guidance and under standing. There is no one reas- on for this unfortunate state of affairs, for it runs the whole gamut of illness, death, deser- ton, separation, divorce and illegitimacy.
 This whole matter of finding foster homes, which means for a child needing care for a limited period, and adoption, which car ries permanency, is a major re- sponsibility of society.
 If there ever was a social work development that should touch the hearts and conscience of all people, it is the matter of the future of those children that have somehow been disasso- ciated from those constructive social forces that would help them to develop into normal, happy citizens.
 Those homes that are so sit uated that they could make room for children who need temporary care, or where an additional member of the fam fly could be added, would be doing a real service to society by the acceptance of one of these youngsters.
Evening star., 1946-06-09
Youth, 78, Weds Woman, 79;
Plan Honeymoon in CornfieId

and more than 100 persons were on
hand in the Circuit Court room and
out in the corridor for the ceremony,
which was officially witnessed by a
former police court judge.
Delbert, clad in faded blue denim
trousers, work shirt without tie,
and unbuttoned jacket, fidgeted.
The ceremony climaXed a series
Of difficulties which had beset him
since ne originally applied for the
marriage license earlier in the week
There were blood tests, he had
to make second trip to see County
Clerk w. H. Moore because he lacked
his parents consent, and third
trip because he didn't have enough
money for the license.
But Delbert persisted. He got the
note of permission from his parents,
and borrowed the Us license fee
from his bride-to-be.,
After their marriage, which the
three -time-wed bride affirmed by
a scarcely audible Il DO" the couple
left the courthouse, Mrs. Sprouse
in the lead, Delbert tagging along
behind.
we were kinda in hurry to
get it over with" the new Mrs
Sprouse said She wore black
Evening star., 1946-06-09
Theft Of 100000 Pearl
Gets Frenchman 10 Years
By the Assoeioted Press

PARIS, June 8.-Yvon Collette,
who escaped from a mental hospital
a month ago by gnawing his way
out of straitjacket. was sentenced
to 10 years in prison and fined
$4,000 francs (about $420) on convic-
ton in absentia tonight Of theft
of the Pearl of Asia, a gem valued
at 100000.
Collette's wife, Georgette, was
sentenced to two years imprison-
ment and fined 10000 francs (about
s84 and Joseph Klop, accused of
posing with Collette as a policeman
to aid in the jewel thief on April 6,
1914, was sentenced to five years
imprisonment and fined 10000
francs (about $3.50. The fines were
levied to pay the expenses of re-
covering the pearl.
The pearl was recovered from a
water tank in Marseills hotel and
has been restored to its owner r.
P. Robert, head Of a religious
organization.
While awaiting trial month ago
Collette was transferred from prison
to the hospital, where he made his
escape. He still is at large.
Evening star., 1946-06-09
BY the Assoeiatsd Press

LOUISA, KY, June s.-Pro-
nounced man and wife by the
county judge, 79-year-old grand
mother and her 18-year-old BRIDE
groom returned today to their home
in the isolated back country and,
by the brides admission, to a
honeymoon in the cornfield."
THE weeds is just takin' us there
Mrs. Matte Lyons Large Sprouse
explained, adding that II she and
her new husband, Delbert Sprouse,
didn't get busy they wouldn't have
any corn"
Mrs. sprouse and Delbert-
Shorty" to his friends-soberly
stood before Judge J. F. Wellman
in the Lawrence County Circuit
Court room this morning to have
him "say the words"
The couple, neighbors on adjoin.
ing farms at Gladys, KY, had hoped
by advancing the hour Of the we'd
ding to avoid the crowds which
have plagued them since they first
made known their intentions sew
eral days ago. But the ruse didn't
work.
Word that they were "in town
spread like Christmas tree fire
Evening star., 1946-06-09
Harrison Williams, Is,
Retired Attorney
And Author, Dies
SpseioI Dispatch 10 The S,or

LEESBURGH, Va, June 8.-Har-
rison Williams, 73, retired New York
lawyer, traveller and author, who
lived in Leesburg, died early today
at Emergency Hospital, Washington,
where he had been a patient for
several weeks.
Mr.. Williams was born in Buffalo
He was educated in schools in Eng
land and Switzerland and was grad
uated from the University of Buffalo
In 1907 Mr.. Williams became tax
agent for the Erie Railroad Co., ris-
ing to head of the general land and
tax department of the road from
which he retired in 1918. He then
moved to Loudoun County. living
first at his farm, Williamsted, and
later moving to Leesburg.
Mr.. Williams was vestryman OF
st. James Episcopal Church, chair
man of Loudoun Red Cross Chapter
and since 1925 had been president
and director of the Thomas Balch
Library. He was the author OF
Legends of Loudoun" and Robert
Williams of Roxbury."
When he resided in New York,
Mr.. Williams was a member Of the
Saint Nichols. New York Engineers
and Aero Clubs, the Society of
Colonial Wars, the Sons of the
Revolution and other organizations.
He travelled extensively in Eur
| ope, Africa, South America and
other areas.
Mr.. Williams was married three
times and leaves his wife, the
former Joan Stafford-Allen Of Sui
folk, England, son by his second
marriage, Winslow Williams, Lees
burg, and two grandsons.
Evening star., 1946-06-09

hat over her gray hair and striped
print dress, ankle length.
Matte, we1l be around to bell
you tonight" several Of the spec
tators warned the bride, jokingly,
referring to a custom in this area.
Evidently referring to the custom
of dunking couples in the water If
they fail to treat" after "belling," !"
Mrs. Sprouse retorted: "It won't do
you much good. The cricks dry"
None Of Mrs. Sprouse's seven
children or 40 grandchildren were
seen in the crowd at the marriage
ceremony.
Evening star., 1946-06-09

tenant and scion Of a wealthy fam
lily will seek acquittal, or new trial
on the States charge that he poi
soned and suffocated his bride, bury
ing her in an abandoned foxhole at
Camp Jackson, S. C.
His case will be taken before the
State Supreme Court by State Sen
ate President Edgar A. Brown, chief
defense counsel.
Evening star., 1946-06-09
Epes' Appeal for Acquittal
In Murder Opens Tomorrow
By the Associofsd Pre,s

BY the Assoeioisd Press
COLUMBIA, S. c., June Sam
uel c. Epes, of Richmond, will open
a court fight here Monday for free
dom from life-term conviction for
the murder more than a year ago
Of his school, teacher wife.
The 28-year-old former Army lieu
Evening star., 1946-08-28

as a Japanese puppet, made q bid
for mercy before the court.
Gen. Semenov, who had previously
confessed to setting up . vast es-
pionage system and plotting to seize
all Asiatic Russia for Japan, as
serted that after the Red Army
victories in Stalingrad and elsewhere
he underwent change Of heart and
secretly began wishing for q full
Soviet victory.
Enmeshed In Intrigues.
The former counter-revolutionary
leader added, however, that by that
time he had become so enmeshed In
intrigues with the japanese that
he was unable to act on his new
point of view.
When the Red Army invaded
Manchuria, Geri. Semenov said he
surrendered to the Russian forces
and told the examining officers that
he had decided to recant and was
glad of their victory.
The defendant said that one oil
his chief subordinates in the civil
war In Siberia was Baron Unger
Won Sternberg, who was captured
ana shot by the Communists in 1921
Evening star., 1946-08-28
White Russian Spies
In Manchuria Used by
Japs, Red Court Told
BY The Assoei1tsd Press

MOSCOW, Aug. 28.--Lt. Gen
Alexis Proklovic Bakshaev, former
White Guardsman and one-time
Czarist officer, told Moscow mill
tary court last night that after the
Nazi invasion Of Russia the Japa-
nese organized q network of terror
list and spy units in Manchuria COM
posed Of anti Bolsheyist Russian
emigres.
The defendant, one OF eight men
being tried by the military collegium
of the Soviet supreme court, for
armed struggle and espionage
against the Soviet Union, said the
Japanese continued to employ such
units until 1945, although arms and
other equipment were scarce during
the latter days of the war.
22 Entered Siberia.
Gen. Bakshaev, who served in the
Cars armies in the Russo-Japanese
War and once headed the so-called
Trans-Baikal government, said that
on one occasion % of his spies en-
tered Soviet Siberia on mission
for the Japanese and that Is re-
turned with information.
Prior to World War II, Gen. Bak-
shaev said, he organized five regi-
ments of Cossacks and two artillery
regiments in Manchuria with the
help of the Japanese for the purpose
Of fighting against the Soviet Union.
Before Gen. Bakshaev's testimony
Gfegorie Semenov, grizzled former
White Guard leader who dreamed
for Is years Of reigning in Siberia
Evening star., 1946-08-28
Morgan in London,
Silent on Spy Charge
BY the Assoeiutsd. Pres,


LONDON, Aug. .29.-Lt. Gen. Sir
Frederick Morgan came back to
London yesterday tightlipped as ever
about the Russian spy charge that
preceded his release as director of
UNRRA's displaced persons opera
tions in Germany.
My lips are sealed" he said as
he arrived at Northolt Airport with
two other officers, American Maj.
Gen. Philip Brown and British Brig.
w. Stawell, who also are leaving
UNRRA posts. The other two like
wise refused comment.
Gen. Morgan said smilingly that
he was still friends" with UNRRA
Director General F. H. La Guardia
who released him. He added that
his connection with UNRRA had not
completely ended because ''UNRRA
still owes me money"
Gen. Morgan has been identified
In press reports as the high Allied
source" challenged by Mr.. La
Guardia to prove statement that
UNRRA activities in Western Europe
were being used as an umbrella
for Russian agents. Mr.. La Guardia
never identified the man he meant
MOSCOW, Aug. 28 GA Tass
dispatch from Kiev today reported
that UNRRA Director General La
Guardia had been an honor guest at
the opening session of the Supreme
Soviet tParliamentl of the Ukrain-
ian Republic Yesterday. Mr.. La
Guardia occupied seat in the gov
ernment box, the dispatch said.
Earlier in the day he visited
Poltava, scene of an American
bomber base during the war and
now the site of small American
military cemetery. The Mayor OF
Poltava gave banquet in his honor
Evening star., 1946-08-28
Duranf Defense Seeks
Supreme Court Action
In Hesse Jewel Trial
by the Anoeioisd Prsss

FRANKFURT, Aug. 28.-Counsel
for WAC Capt. Kathleen Nash
Durant moved today for United
States Supreme Court Intervention
in the $l,5oo,0oo Kronberg Castle
jewel theft trial.
1t. Col John s. Dwinell disclosed
that an effort would be made In
Washington to obtain a hearing be-
fore one Of the high justices on
his petition for immediate release
Of the WAC captain, accused of
taking part in the theft of the Hesse
crown jewels while she managed
the Army's billet In Kronberg Castle.
Col. Dwinell told reporter the
court as body had advised him
no action could be taken until the
end of the current recess October
Z. He said. however, that hearings
before an individual justice some-
times are granted.
The defense intends to argue that
the defendants constitutional rights
we're vitiated in her treatment by
the men who arrested her and sub
0CHNSAbay NY biiS uiNtiiOO VI VI AAe lllk
the case to trial.
The prosecution neared the con-
clusion of its case at a half day
session today, with expert testimony
by a German jeweler. Heinrich
Mercker. He inspected the jewel col
lection and appraised two diamond
necklaces, a brooch and two strings
Of pearls at total. of more Than
$4,000.
Maj. Roy E. Grantham, chief
prosecutor, indicated he would rest
his case tomorrow.
The trial probably will be re-
cessed for some days. attorneys said,
until certain witnesses for the de-
Tense either are brought here or
their statements obtained In the
United States.
Evening star., 1946-08-28
Bowler Deserts Wife
Who Beut Him at Come
sy shs A,sceiesed Prsss

sy shs Asseeiassd Press
CHICAGOs--Mrs. Louis KnAke
"a, caught on to the game Of bowl
ing, under her husbands tutelage
so well that soon she was beating
him.
He didn't like that. Mrs. Knaks
told Judge Charles A, williams, anc
walked out on her.
She was granted . divorce or
grounds Of desertion.
Evening star., 1946-08-28

ARRESTED-Mrs. Doris Blake,
25 = year old EngliShwoman,
shown arriving at Police Court
in Boulogne sur Mer, France,
last week after her arrest
with Alexander Todt, war
prisoner in Britain who was
identified as the son of DR..
Fritz Todt, builder of Ger
many's 'Siegfried Line. The
two fled England in a small
yacht which Mrs. Blake was
charged with stealing.
-AP Wirephoto.
Evening star., 1946-08-28

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