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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-02-22

LIMA.
THAT OLE BIRD ..-.--- that
carries in his bill that little heart
warming and family cementing
bundle dropped one the other day
| for young Mr.. & Mrs. Jesse Ms
Gowan, She is the daughter
of Miss Gladys Reed Of the Mod
fern Cleaners ........ He is a men,
Der of the well-known MCGOWAN
family of Edwards ---..... 1t is a
girl ....---- their first .--.---- and
everybody is we'll and happy in
Guiding GRANDMA GLADYS ...-
who says she's the happiest Of all.
SHE SAYS IT AMT SO 80. The
Hep Cats and Kittens up and
down the Ole Stroll have been
whispering for the last few days
about a popular BLACKSTONE
WAITRESS being married --------
She's been threatening to leave
town too . in order to live
down the rumor - she was
lucky from what l hear to find
that what she was about to mar
ny wasn't exactly ready-.---.-and
in order that the Cat and Kittens
can talk out loud and stop whis-
pering RAY herself told me to put
in Up and Down Parish Street
that She Says it amt so.
SOMETHING THAT MADE ME
FEEL Being able to de-
tect a ring of sincerely as a lot
of fine people said a lot of fine
things about me while a lot of
other fine people applauded--
things that do the living good but
are waited away on the air when
death has taken possession of
ones sense of hearing
SALUTE TO THE NEW METH
TENDENT is Rev. Chas.
H. Dubra, of Gulfport, Mississippi
During the Was he served as
a Chaplain, with the rank of Cap
tain in the South Pacific and was
awarded the LEGION OF MERIT
for distinguished service----He
takes the place of Rev. L. e. John
son who is now pastor of the
Canton Methodist Church.
WEEKLY QUOTATION: "The
Chief lesson I have learned in a
long life is that the only way
to make a man trustworthy is
to trust him; and the surest way
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-02-22

would gain no further notoriety
and its appropriations would not
be jeopardized.
investigators last week were
questioning title men regarding
their relationships with the office.
Oliver Thornton, First Deputy
Recorder of Deeds, revealed last
Friday that the assistant chief OF
the auto liens Division has been
"f,lrloughed" without pay, as the
result of an Investigation into the
affairs of the division.
He also admitted that separate
investigation into various affairs
of the Recorders office was being
conducted by the House Approp-
ration Committee.
The ''furloughed" employee is
MarcelIus Williamson, who was
not available for comment last
Friday.
Thornton claimed that the in
vestigation which led to the "fur-
Laughing" of Williamson was in
itiated by him, acting on the be
lief that procedures followed in
that division "offer an opportu-
nifty for mishandling of funds. "
Thornton refused to comment
as to whether any hortage had
been found in the Offices ac-
counts. He said he did not know
when DR.. Shepard would return
nor the nature of his trip.
The disclosure concerning the
auto liens division of the Re
cOrder'S office is believed to be
the first of a series that will
come to light as the result of
he full scale probe ordered by
the House Appropriations Commi-
ttee.
The charges which investigators
are said to be inquiring into run
the gamut from official to person
al misconduct, some of which are
sensational, and as a result of the
investigation official heads are
expected to fall and regulations
to be ruined.
This is the second investiea
ton nto the affairs of the Re-
corder's office in four months.
The FBI made the first investi
cation just before the November
elections, and as a result informed
circles sad DR.. Shepard would
be asked to resign. He has con-
tlnued to hold the office.
The FBI would not make its
findings public, nor has il been
learned who ordered the first in
veStGation. DR.. Shepard is said to
have blamed Frederick Waiver.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-02-22
Investigation Of
Shepherd Office
Ordered

Washington, D. c., Feb. (NNPA)
A full-scale investigation into the
conduc of the Office of the Re-
corder of Deeds of the District
of Columbia has been launched,
it was learned last Friday.
The investigation was ordered
by the House District of Colum-
bia appropriations subcommittee
after it had received reports OF
alleged speculatons in the auto
Inns division.
According to reports from re-
liable sources, an employee OF
that division was suspected OF
ocketing fees paid for releases of
lens on automobiles and destroy
ing records.
The House District of Columbia
appropriations subcommittee was
reported to be in the process OF
a preliminary inquiry to deter
mine whether it should order an
investigation of the office when
this report reached it. It's in
vestgatorS and special agents OF
the Federal Bureau of Investiga-
ton moved in Immediately.
TIL investigation, however, is
said to be not limited to the auto
liens division, but to cover all
activities of the office, including
matters recently investigated by
the FBI.
AT the time the investigators
moved in, the Rev. Marshall Shep-
pard, Recorded of Deeds, was on
a train bound for California. He
left February 10 and the investi-
gators arrives at his office the
next day. He was away when a
previous investigation into his Of
fee begun.
Dr. Sheppard. however, was
said to have been appraised of
suspicion regarding the employee
n the auto len division before he
left the city. At the time DR..
Sheppard was informed of the
suspicious, the employee was on
leave. DR.. Sheppard is said to
have, favored fhe employee to
resign quietly so that the office
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-02-22
UP AND DOWN Parish STREET
BY PERCY CIR e ENE

WEEK STARTED OFF WITH A
,LYNCHING IN SOUTH CARO-
LIMA.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-02-22
Two Army Champ
ions In Virginia

Fort Bragg, North Carolina -
Among the twelve members Of the
555th Parachute Infantry Battal-
ions boxing team are two CTS
who won championship crowns in
the Seventh Army boxing tourna-
ment held here in January. They
will participate with the team in
the Golden Gloves elimination
tournament to be held in Vir-
ginia this month.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-02-22
BY Percy Greene

PARISH STREET SATURDAY
NIGHT: This week being Broth
erhood Week throughout the ma.
ton is was only natural that such
would be the main topic of dis
cussion among Parish Streeters
as they gathered around their
Fish and Beer in their favorite
spot Saturday night and of course
q lot OF spice was added to the
talk because the subject had been
talked about in the papers and
over the radio enough to let the
world know that this would be
BROTHERHOOD WEEK = to say
nothing about the Parish Street
ers who are always up on lot
of doings not so widely heralded
as the news about the coming
BROTHERHOOD WEEK $780,. AS
l have been exchanging thoughts
and ideas with Parish Streeters
for 30 these many years" l am
forced to say that l don't know
anything which requires the
working of the human heart and
mind to conceive about which
to win because by the next Satur-
day Night gathering something
has happened to tear down every
point that I had worked to make
--- You know this idea of
BROTHERHOOD come out of a
series of statements -. like DO
UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD
HAVE THEM DO UNTO YOU -
LOVE THY NEIGHBOR AS
THYSELF $1,000. THAT STORY
IN THE BIBLE ABOUT THE
words like in the song that every
body sings or hears sung every
now and then 100000 AND CROWN
OUR GOOD WITH BROTHER
GOOD SAMARITAN 100000. and
can be, will be, must be, and
HOOD FROM SEA TO SHINING
the rank and file Parish Streeter
HOOD and try as I may to win an
is more cynical than they are
about this idea of BROTHER
argument that such a thing is,
SEA - which is put altogeth-
er to make what preachers, theo-
logians, philosophers and smart
people call the Christian ethic -
Il thought sure that a lot of fine
things would be done and said
---- as a start in the direction
towards BROTHERHOOD during
BROTHERHOOD WEEK ...-- and
that I could go back 10000. come
Saturday Night and clinch a point
or two $500. but BROTHERHOOD
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-02-22
By CHARLES ALIEN

St. Louis, where he had been
associated with the United States
Employment Service.
One of the charges that commit
tee investigators will inquire into
is that DR.. Shepard has spent
approximately 95 per cent of his
time. carrying on his pastoral
duties, while drawing a salary
of nearly $4,000 a year as Re
corder of Deeds. He has continu-
ed to pastor a church in Phila-
delphia since his appointment as
Recorder of Deeds here.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-02-22

WEEKLY QUOTATION: "The
Chief lesson I have learned in a
long life is that the only way
to make man trustworthy is
to trust him; and the surest way
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-02-22
Clinton News

Reverend c. H., Dubra, district
superintendent of the Jackson dis
trict held his second Quarterly
Conference on the Clinton Charge
at st. Paul M. E. Church, Febru-
airy 18th and 18th. Rev. Dubra
preached an inspiring sermon at
Lynch Chapel Sunday night. The
meeting was well attended.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-02-22

former FRS deputy Recorder of
Deeds. When Weaver rfuSed to
resign upon request, DR.. Shepard
summarily fired him.
Weaver has submitted to the
Hous Appropriation Committee an
affidavit which he denied having
anything to do with the investi-
CATION except to cooperate with
the investigators after they NOV
ed into the office.
Thornton was appointed to sue
coed Weaver, takiig office Deem
Der 20, 1916. He came here from
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-02-22

to make htim Enthusiastically is
to distrust him and to show your
mistrust." HENRY | STIM-
SON, Former Secretary Of War.
Evening star., 1947-03-02

Junior High School, Garnet-Patter-
son Junior High School and the
Randall Junior High School.
Russian Language Student.
The Webster Americanization
School prepares persons of foreign
birth for citizenship.
Many courses are taken by the
students simply for the interest they
have in the subject-the Russian
language for instance.
"It's language every one will be
interested in from now on Mrs
Frances Thompson, 1904 Ordway
street NV, said. I'D even like tc
visit Russia later on to satisfy my
curiosity"
The course is taught by Mrs
Valentino D. Monroe, who was born
in Russia. After two semesters
the students can converse in Rus
sian, she said.
Miss Catherine Burka, Arlington
Farms, a Treasury Department en-
employe and former woman Marine
said her parents came from the
Ukraine, and she wanted to be able
to speak some Russian.
Whatever their reason for study
ing nights after a day on the job
all are hard-working and sincere
students, night school officials said
Knowledge is what they war1ta
all 6,A00 of them. \. ,<sas
Evening star., 1947-03-02
gaM!|N \ TO Hear Inventor
OF 5efD Developing Camera

Edwin H., Land, who recently an
nounced invention of a camera that
will print picture on paper within
8 minute after the shutter is
snapped, will deliver the second
Frank A. Howard lecture at $3.50
tomorrow in the Lisner Auditorium
OF George Washington University.
Mr.. Land, who is SO and who dis
covered light-polarizing plastici
when he was 81, is president of the
Polaroid Corp. of Cambridge, Mass
He demonstrated the revolutionary
camera February 81 in New York al
the annual meeting of the Optica
Society of America.
The Howard lectures were founded
by Frank A. Howard, who received a
B. S. degree in mechanical engi-
neering at the university in 1911 ano
who retired last year as president o1
the Standard Oil Development Co.
a subsidiary of Standard Oil Co. OF
New Jersey. He gave the university
$4,000 to start the lectures-each
lecturer to receive $500. The first
lecture was given last May by DR.
Edward U. Condor, head of the
National Bureau of Standards.
Mr.. Lands subject will be Indus
try as an Opportunity for the Com
bination of the Physical and Socia,
Sciences"
Evening star., 1947-03-02
laughIin Suit Asks Probe
Of D. {. Bar Exam Fees

Attorney James j. Laughlin yes
terday filed suit in District Court
against members of the courts
Committee on Admissions and
Grievances, asking that bar exami-
nation fees be ordered turned into
the Federal treasury.
Mr.. Laughlin asked the court to
direct an accounting to be made
to determine exactly how much
each of the nine committee mem
bers has received. The suit urges
the court to enjoin them from dis
bursting moneys received from the
December bar examination, until
the case has been decided. The
lawyer said that candidates for
the bar are charged $25 for the
first examination, SIS for the sec
ond and $25 for later examinations
given by the committee.
The complaint contends that Cor
poration Counsel Vernon E. West,
a committee member, can not law
fully receive bar examination
money, because he receives an off,
cial salary from the District gov
ernment. A similar claim is made
concerning another committee
member, Edward Stafford, described
In the suit as Maritime Commits
sion employe.
The Chief Justice of the United
States Court Of Appeals is asked,
IN a molten filed with the suit,
to name a jurist from outside the
District to hear the case.
Evening star., 1947-03-02
|PsyctI1iiat!rY.5 i II Students
10 Hear Dr.. Wexberu

Courses In psychiatry, obstetrics,
pediatrics and thoracic diseases will
be offered by the George Washing
ton University Medical Schoolethis
week.
DR.. Leopold E. Wexberg, director
OF the bureau of mental hygiene in
the District Health Department, will
discuss the causes and symptoms
of alcoholism and drug addiction
as the pSychiatry course enters its
second week at st. Elizabeth's Hos
pital tomorrow
On Tuesday, DR.. Daniel Blain
chief of the neuro-psychiatry di-
vision Of the Veterans Administra-
ton, will present a report on psy-
choneuroses in war veterans.
The obstetrics course, to be held
in the medical school auditorium,
will include lectures on contracep-
tive methods, complicating diseases
in pregnancy, infant resuscitation,
Cesarean and other surgical opera
tions, and early ambulation of ma
ternity patients.
The pediatrics instruction, much
OF which will take place at Chill
dren's Hospital, will deal with such
subjects as psychiatric problems of
childhood. home care of the new
born, and nutritional requirements
in infancy.
An analysis Of thoracic diseases
will take place II, clo ccoc Of Cal
linger Hospital and a series of lee
lures in the parish hall of New
York Avenue Presbyterian Church.
Evening star., 1947-03-02
More Police Sought
For Foxha|| Village;
Meeting Is Called

A meeting of Foxhall Village
residents to demand increased
police protection for the neighbor-
hood has been called for 8 pm. to-
morrow by Rear Admiral Charles
S. Stephenson, U. S. NJ, retired
president Of the Foxhall Village
Citizens Association.
The meeting will be held in st
Patricks Chapel, Foxhall road and
Greenwich parkway NV.
According to Admiral Stephenson,
residents have been alarmed by
the frequent recent molesting of
women and children. Prowlers also
have been frequenting Glover
Archbold Park, he said.
Admiral Stephenson pointed out
the park includes a wooded section
popular with mixers, a children's
playground and a picnic area. The
park is frequented not only by Fox
hall Village residents but by many
from other sections of the city. 1t
is used in the summer by the Dis
trict Recreation Department for
day camp activities, he added.
Officers. of citizens groups in
adjacent areas have been ainvited I'd
atterd the meetings Representa-
of The Metropoitan md Park
Foitee Sare expected to be present;
Admiral Stephenson said. >
Evening star., 1947-03-02
Police Boys Club Fund
Passes $50, 900 Mark

With more than $4,000 already
subscribed, Metropolitan Police
Boys Club leaders have set aside
this week as Government clean
up week" in the campaign to raise
$150, 900 for the six clubs.
Robert G. Simmons, general
chairman announced that thousands
of dollars have been obtained in
Government agencies and the
money is ready to be turned in at
campaign headquarters.
The 800 or Better Club" re-
Gently started by campaign leaders,
resulted In generous flow of mem
oerships yesterday, Mr.. Simmons
said. The Evening Star, with 5000,
was among the latest contributors.
Evening star., 1947-03-02
Two Appointed 10 Teach
Class for Domestics

Miss Thelma Craig, teacher at the
Margaret Murray Washington Vo-
cational School, has been named in
structor for the new Household EN-
ployment Institute being conducted
at the school, it was announced last
night. - ..
Mrs. Lucille Anderson Lewis, a
Household employe herself, will
share the teaching duties and act
as consultant on household en-
ployment standards.
The institute, which has started
a six-week course, two nights week,
to give domestic workers more train
ing, is under the joint auspices of
the Washington Urban League,
United States Employment Service
and the Board of Education.
The USES reported that prospec-
tive employers have been calling
to list their names for Job inter
views with graduates.
Evening star., 1947-03-02

All are dedicated to the same OBJ
jectives of tight harmonics and
masculine EXCLUSIVELY.
Its the only cloister left fol
the refugee male" as one member
put it. .-,
Minstrel Show Featured.
Not confined exclusively to quar-
tet singing, last nights program
featured a minstrel show by the
combined chorus under the direction
of DR.. Robert Howe Harmon, Wash
ington physician and director OF
the George Washington University
Glee Club. End men Joe Traynor
and John Cullen, in, blackface,
cracked jokes and took their solo
turns in the best tradition, while
interlocutor Sam Holland an
nounced the numbers.
Local quartets participating, and
their members, were:
Evening star., 1947-03-02
Few Invitations Left for Concert
Of Symphony at Western High

Distribution of invitations for the
eighth of the series of neighbor-
hood concerts by the National SYM
phony Orchestra, arranged by The
Evening Star, is moving rapidly and
only limited quantity remain.
This concert will be held on March
10 at Western High School starting
at 9 pm. 1t will be the last of the
concerts in Washington, the ninth
and final of the series having been
scheduled for Washington-Lee High
School in Arlington County on
March "a.
Invitations for the Western High
School concert. for which no charge
is made, are being distributed
through the high school, Gordon
Junior High School, Fillmore, Hardy,
Key, Stoddert and Curtis Elemen-
tary Schools, the D. G. Recreation
Department and the Information
Counter in the lobby of The Star
Building.
Evening star., 1947-03-02
Junior Board Opens New Drive
For Daylight Saving Time Bill
By HoroId B. Roqers

come out in direct opposition to
home rule. Senator Holland, Demo-
crat of Florida, has expressed deep
interest in the subject, >but feels
the McCarran bill should be
amended.
Senator Ball, Republican of Min
nesota, chairman of the subcommit-
tee, said in the past he has favored
home rule, but he planned to study
the McCarran bill over this week.
end.
Senator Buck, Republican of Della
ware, has been acting chairman OF
the subcommittee and presided at
hearing on the bill Thursday.
The full Senate District Commit
tee will meet at 2 pm. Tuesday for
business.
The House District Committee
will hold its regular monthly ses-
sion at 10 am. tomorrow to hear
reports from chairmen of subcom-
mittees. At least two bills are ex-
pected to come up from subcommit-
tee.
One would provide $3.50 yearly al
lowance for the use of private cars
by each Of three police inspectors,
retroactive for the years 1945 and
1916. ..-.
The other would prgyide seniority
kbensn fnE aetsrs shSsof the Mem0-
AolitS zee ~aIid Fire DepartA
lentss ssVhASe service M Wosld wa
II deprived them Of promotions fol
which they qualified by competitive
examinations.
Evening star., 1947-03-02
ISigmo AIpho Epsilon
To Note Founders Day

The 9lst Founders Day of Sigma
Alpha Epsilon Fraternity will be
observed with a dinner at the Hotel
Statler at Z pm. Saturday, it was
announced yesterday.
The Washington Alumni Associa-
ton, with Washington City Rho and
the Maryland Beta chapters are
sponsors of the event. Reservations
can be obtained from Joseph Du-
bois, 1760 Euclid street NV, secre-
tary Of the association.
Evening star., 1947-03-02
Barber Shop Vocosts Sing for C. W. u. HOSPITAL Fund

An atmosphere of handlebar
mustaches, bustles and bicycles built
for two hovered over the Lisner
Auditorium here last night.
Singing for the benefit of the
George Washington University
Hospital fund-and for the fun of it
Washington Chapter No. 1879 of
the Society for the Preservation
and Encouragement of Barber Shop
Quartet Singing in America spun a
nostalgia web of Gay Nineties
tunes.
Most of the old songs were there,
and some of the new ones. There
was Goodbye My Coney Island
Baby" "violets Sweet" and Minnie
the Mermaid" by the quartets, in
terspread with "Ihe Old Songs"
After Dark" Dear Old Girl" and
II Want a Girl" by the combined
Evening star., 1947-03-02

chorus. These, and a good many
more.
.''Withered Four" Scores.
One of the hit groups of the
evening, "The Withered Four" of
Paterson, N. j., came on stage in
wheel-chairs and carrying canes.
The local Capitolians wove close
harmony from behind curled
mustachios. checkered suits and
brown derbies. The Potomac Clip
pers wore snappy yachting outfits,
and the Fedora Four showed up as
Mexican caballeros.
The SPEBSQSA, as the society is
referred to briefly, takes its art
more seriously than it does its cos
TUNES. The Washington chapter,
organized two years ago, is one of
255 throughout the country boast
ing over 10000 members.
Evening star., 1947-03-02
| & of ~ Families
In Tourist Cabins
lFind New Places

Only six of A families living in
one-room cabins in the Washington
Tourist Camp, East Potomac Park,
in mid-December have succeeded in
finding other places to live in spite
of the camp management's desire to
have them move by yesterday.
The others Just couldn't find
places to live." said a spokesman for
Government Services, Inc, operator
OF the camp.
The cabins have no inside running
water or lavatories. Many of the
occupants are servicemen's families.
The operating firm would like to
have the campsite revert to use en-
tirely for transientS,
Evening star., 1947-03-02

The Potomac Clippers, Lou Met
calf, Charlie Vail, Busey Howard
and Gene Watson; the Capitolians,
Frank Shore, John Cullen, Jerry
Bachman and Jack Chase; the Fe-
dora Four, Clarence Gedrose, Roy
Buirgy, Jean Boardman and Joe
Traynor; the Diplomats, Howard
Crawford, Al Holt. Mark Bowsher
and Ed Place; the Metropolitan Po-
lice Quartet, Gene Hedrick, Dick
Harding, Luther Bowers and
Charles Scott; the Questionnaires,
Wallace Cronin, Jessie Nussear, Ev-
erett Warren and Jack Crawford.
Elmer Louis Kayser, dean OF uni
versity students at George WASH
ington University, was master of
ceremonies. The last half of the
program was broadcast locally over
Station WMAI.
Evening star., 1947-03-02

A. few invitations still are avail
able in the Star lobby where they
may. be obtained upon request.
The National Symphony is on tour
with two concerts played at Lynch
burg yesterday, another at Sweet
briar today, a third scheduled for
tomorrow at Roanoke, to be followed
by three others at Charleston, w
Va, Parkersburg, w. Va. and Athens
Ohio, before the return to Washing
ton.
The western High concert, like all
others in the series, will be broadcast
by Station WMAL, The Evening
Stars broadcasting station, to bring
the music of Washington's own or
chestra to those not able to attend
AS was the practice in the previous
concerts, the doors will be open al
8:45 pm. to anyone, whether with OF
without an invitation. If any seat;
remain unoccupied at that time.