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AUSTRALIE-NEW ZEALAND EPISODES

Todd Duncan, whom Australian
and New Zealand critics unani-
mously acclaimed as zone of the
most satisfying artists ever to
visit the Dominions" will appear
here at the Metropolitan Theatre
on Jan. 2S. During his 1916 sum.
mer tour of Australia and New
Zealand where he gave 40 con-
certs in II cities, Todd Duncan
enjoyed many unusual and anus
ing experiences.
Perhaps indicative of "Aussie"
reaction to Todd Duncan's magni-
ficint singing was an incident re-
ported in the Sydney Herald. Dur
ing his first concert there. a man
sitting next to the Herald music
critic clapped so vigorously that
the works of his watch fell out.
At Petty's Hotel, where Dun
can was staying. he received a
complaint from the management.
"It's your singing, Mr.. Duncan"
said a member of the staff. 1.-THE
guests are complaining that they
can't hear you with your door
shut
In Auckland, the audience simply
refused to leave after his first
concert. They remained stolidly In
the hall, as one newspaper report
ed "clapping and stamping and
even stood up in their seats,
jumping up and down" This, des-
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preciable contribution made last
year to halt the dreaded polio.
which blights the lives of so
many unfortunates.
Many victims of our own race
have been restored to their nor
NAL condition in life because of
our contributions you have aided
many to walk again.
p Eet's do II again because the
only known means to blot out the
great scourge of human kind is
our contribution to aid the Ma
against infantile paralysis.
Contributions may be made TO
Wendle Norris, Manager.
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pite attempts of ushers to make
them sit down. The next week,
when Duncan gave his next con-
cert there, the auditorium was
posted with cards reading: do
not stand in seats. Please con-
fine your demonstrations to ap-
plause."
After Todd Duncans first con-
cert in Wellington. there was
such a rush for tickets. that eager
fans were offering double the
value. Some even bought ads in
the classified columns, offering
as much as 10 pounds for 10
shilling tickets. Todd Duncan had
created a black market in tickets.
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every year.
The elder German farmer was
stern and taeilU /. but Just. And
lis good wife was kind They
brought little George up in their
rough pioneer home 70 be use
fti. prudent AMI legoureeful Tide
chap. They talgh1 him to read
CUT Of Webster old Blue Back
spelling book. But there was no
pace In Diamond Grove. Missouri.
where a little black boy could go
to school. Not even though Abe
Lincoln had freed Tie slaves. Not
even though Mlss luli law had pro-
claimed in 1se5 sat thereafter
no Negro should KIN, W any master
but God"
Now Moses Carver didn't hold
much with Col lie was never
known to have gone to church.
But little George tegan to obey
his new Master eaily. When he
was ten years old he made up
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Willie Frances
Appeals For Aid


Dear Sir:
| was sitting in my cell hoping
for some good news. But when
they told me that the Supreme
Court of the United States said
| have to go back to the chair,
l just about gave up hope. sat
in that chair once and | was
ready to sit in it again. But yes
terday my lawyer told me he's
going back to ask the Court to
hear the case again. He says the
decision was so close maybe we'd
have chance to win. Mind you,
I'm not afraid to die if the good
Lord wants me to, but | do want
to live if | can.
My lawyer never took cent
from me or my family because he
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SEATTLE SOCIALS
BY Mrs. n. C. Thompson
Tel. East 619S

A group of ladies gave Mrs.
Margaret Booker a grand birthday
surprise party last Tuesday even
Ing. The evening was featured by
games and dancing. and awarding
prizes. The evening ended with a
Happy Birthday to you, Mrs.
Booker.
Mrs. Clairie Frazier, niece of
Mrs. Elizabeth Hayes, of Denver,
Col. arrived in the city recently
for an indefinite stay. Mrs. Fra
zier is a licensed beautician and
may elect to remain in Seattle.
Mrs. Everett Davis is still con-
fined in Providence hospital and
will be pleased to have her
friends call. Her sister, Mrs.
Hazel Moore, left Monday for her
home in Akron. Ohio. Leaving on
the North Coast, she was accom-
panied as far as Spokane, Wash,
by Mrs. l.. w. Stafford.
Miss Matred McKissick of the
Third Ave. U. S. o. was transer-
red to Los Angeles, Calf. All
wish her success in her new
field
The friends of Mrs. Hester Nc
Bride are greatly grieved to learn
of her misfortune. During the re-
cent cold spell with its snow fall,
Mrs. Mcbride fell and broks one
arm, fracturing the other. All
hope for her a speedy recovery.
Mrs. Albert Booth, 2313 No.
Olive, confined to her home for
the past three weeks is conval-
escing in her home and bids
fair to be on the way to a com
plete recovery, which her many
friends hope will be speedy.
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the persistent effort of Mr.. Nc
Adams and the valued members
of his staff.
The many expressions of regrect
by the operating committee men,
bers, left no doubt as to the high
esteem in which these people
were held and laso that Mr.. Nc
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NEW YORK, = More than $780,.
900 in March of Dimes funds are
being used by Negro professional
men and women to gain important
new knowledge about infantile
paralysis, it was revealed in a
report from the National Founda-
ton for InfantiIe Paralysis.
Othopedic nursing, public health,
medical social work. pediatrics,
and physical therapy are the vital
fields in which work is being
done by winners of the National
Foundation scholarship and fell
lowship awards. The winners are
receiving training at Columbia,
Northwestern, and New York I'm
iversity; the universities of Mich
igan, Iowa, st. Louis. Wisconsin,
California and Minnesota; Sim
mons College; College of Medical
Evangelists, and Children's Hos
pital Society clos Angeles).
Winners of awards resides in
IA states and the District of
Columbia. These states are: AL
ALBANIA. New York, illinois. Ar
kansas, Mississippi, Pennsylvania,
Tennessee. Missouri. Louisiana,
New Mexico. California, North
Carolina, West Virginia, and New
Jersey.
March of Dimes" Streamer,
662h Jackson Street. reminds you
to join Puget Sound Lodge Elks
No. 100, in DUPLICATING the ap-
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Your Horoscope
If You were born between
DEC. 81 AND JAN. 20
Under the Sign of the Goat

Your heart is apt to rule your
head;
You'll find yourself quite early
we'd
Success and fame may come to
you
You're brainy and ambitious too.
Tho often you are mild and gay,
Sometimes your temper has full
sway.
And sometimes moodiness is
strong
To fight them not would be quite
wrong,
Your homes a place of love and
rest;
The stars say you are truly blest.
Lucky months - March, November
Lucky day = Saturday
Birthstone - Garnet.
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lis mind that 6sed wanted him
to have an education. With the
good wishes Of the CarYers follow
ing him, he left home to get one.
He packed ali his belongings into
enc bandana handkerchief and
set off down the read for
neighhoring town. where there
was a school of sor. for color
ed children.
In the years that followed.
young George slowly but surely
worked his way through grade
schools in a half dozen towns of
the middle west. At odd hours,
or in odd months, he earned his
school money at odd Jobs. He
was a laundry man. a cook, a
houseman, a carpenter. a farmm
hand, a rug-eleaner and a gar
dener. He grew into a very tall,
thin, gangling stopped young man,
who stammered and seemed very
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Mr.. ]. H. Waggener
Former Seattleite
Dies In Los Angeles

Mr.. j. II. Waggener, formerly
a resident of Seattle. engaged IN
cleaning and pressing, succumbed
to a heart attack at his home
in Los Angeles, Calf.
Two weeks ago, DR.. w. H. Cal
houn, accompanied by his wife
and son, Billy. were called east
in account of illness of the doc
tors father.
Enroute home, they received a
wire announcing the death of Mr..
Waggener.
Returning home, DR.. Calhoun
stated he expected Mrs. Wag-
gener to return to Seattle for a
rest period.
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CLARE BOOT LUCE MEMORIAL ADDRESS, REPRINTED IN FULL FOR OUR ME-

dy ing of Group and exposure 10
Moses, and took bis $500 worth
&C horseflesh.
This was the .h.id who became
one of America greatest scien-
fists. This was the child who be
came the man that The 10th Con-
g ess, without dissenting vote,
passed a bill TO honor on this day
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JUDGED NOT THE HEIGHTS TO WHICH He CLIMBED But BY THE DEPTHS FROM WHICH He CAME

souri, guarrilas and bushwaekers
roamed like maddened beastss
They looted. burned. and raided,
A raid struck Moses Carver's farm
on a bitter cold nisht in January
1861. When the raiders left they
had Mary and he babe
Moses wife, Susan, was very
fond of Mary. So he cent a friend
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knows we're poor. The expenses
in all those courts ate up the
money sent in from some good
people, and money is needed now.
There are still lots of expenses
and no society ever gave my law
yer any money.
ask the good people to help
me please. If anybody who reads
this paper wants to help save
me from going back to the chair,
| ask them to please send what
ever money they can to me at
the Jail. I'll answer and thank
them myself. Thank you, May
God bless you all.
(Signed) Willie Francis.
Parish Jail, New iberia, La.
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% a scout to steal her back. He
Offered him 40 acres Of fine tim
boi.and and a $500 race horse for
he return OF Mary and the baby.
The friend came Lack to report
that Mary had disappeared. Her
fate was never utNn. 1t must
nave been cruel But he handed
q tattered bundle Of sick baby,
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Mary. One day in 1860 a son was
born to Mary. She named him
George. Soon after. Georges faith
er. slave on a neighboring farm,
was killed in some field-hand ac-
cident.
These were the bloody border
years. Outlaw bands of Kansas
jayhawkers and red-leggers, Mis-
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Todd Duncan
Gentleman From Kentucky

Todd Duncan is justly proud
of his handsome family and fine
home in Washington, d. C. He
met his wife, the former Gladys
Jackson, when she came to him
for singing lessons, and he taught
her for over a year. "Then we
got married" he says, "and she
hasn't had a voice lesson since"
Mrs. Duncan is from an old dis
tinguished Charlottesville. Virginia
family. Her mother frequently Wis
its the Duncans in Washington.
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Second Try At Death
Is Not Cruelty
Killer Loses in High Court

WASHlNGION, - BY a one
vote margin, the Supreme Court
of the United States ruled that
Louisiana again may try to ex-
ecute Willie Francis, 17-year-old
Negro who lived through one
trip to the electric chair.
The 5-to-4 decision split the
court on an Interpretation of what
is the "cruel and unusual punish
ment' forbidden by the constitu-
ton.
The majority held that 1t did
not bar a second attempt at ex-
ecution where the first failed due
to mechanical difficulties.
The minority agreed with Fran
els attorneys that 1t woold be
cruel and unusual" IL Francis
again were put in the chair.
Upholds State Action
Justice Frankfurter. voting with
the majority, explained he felt the
high tribunal must abstain from
interference with state action no
matter haw strong ones personal
feeling of revulsion against a
states insistence on its pound of
flesh"
Francis attorneys told the SUI
preme Court that a second attempt
at execution would constitute
double punishment, would be cruel
and unusual treatment. and would
deny Francis the equal protection
guaranteed all citizens by the
United States Constitution.
Gov. Jimmie Davis of Louisi-
ana will issue new death warrant
fixing the date for the electrocu-
ton of Francis after last weeks
decision of the Supreme Court is
official received. George Wallace,
executive counsel, said in Baton
Rouge.
No Double jeopardy
Justice Reed announced the
court majority's Judgment. Justice
Burton wrote dissent with which
Justice Douglas, Murphy and Rut-
ledge agreed.
Justice Reed for the majority
said: I'VE see no difference from
the constitutional point of view
between a new trial for an error
Of law at the instance of the
state that results In a.-death SEN
tence instead of imprisonment of
life and an execution that follows
a failure of equipment.
when an accident, with no sug-
gestion of malevolence, prevents
the consumation of the sentence,
the states subsequent course in
the administration of its criminal
law is not affected on that ac-
count by any requirement of due
process Of law under the federal
Constitution.
I'VE find no double jeopardy
here which can be said to amount
to denial of federal due process
in the proposed e, tion."
Justice Reed sa' further that
the majority found nothing in what
has occurred which amounted to
"cruel and unusual punishment"
in the constitutional sense. He
noted that attorneys for Francis
contend that because che once
underwent the psychological strain
of preparation for electrocution
now to require him to undergo
this preparation again subjects
him to a lingering or cruel and
unusual punishment"
The justice commented:
Even the fact that petitioner
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COMING EVENTS

Puget Sound Lodge EIks No.
100 will hold stag party in
their lodge rooms, 662R Jack
son ST. Monday night, January
9th.
All Bills are invited to at
tend. refreshments will be SER
we'd.
If he may join the EIks, you
may bring a friend.
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the first Negro to head the Ma
tional Association of Schools and
Colleges of the Methodist Church.
His election to succeed DIR. Char
les B. Ketchan of Mount Union
College, Alliance, Ohio, was an
nounced by the associations ex-
ecutiye committee.
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Negro Named Head
Of Methodist Schools

Boston, DR.. Davis D. Jones.
president of Bennett College.
Greensboro, N. c., became today
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The Sanity Scientist

In the year 1855 a German i'm
migrant called Moses Carver. who
owned a pioneer farm IN Diamond
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FOR SALE Mahogany Piano
Excellent Condition $4,000
Call cA-4219.
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A MEMORIAL ADDRESS, GEO. ". CARVER
By Clare Boothe Luce

Grove. Missouri. bought a slave
for 700 dollars. She was a thir-
teen-year-old Negro girl called
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NoISHeuJ WIIIt FTdHCIS.
Parish Jail, New iberia, La.
Evening star., 1947-08-15
Lag Seen in Student
Driving Training

Apparent apathy toward the stu
dent driver training program on the
part of District public school officials
is causing Washington to lag behind
neighboring school areas in this
respect, George Ray Hammond
safety expert said yesterday.
Declaring the need for extending
instruction in safe driving to all the
Washington high schools is g. real
one because of the terrible number
of fatalities" Mr.. Hammond con-
tended the program seems to be
getting nowhere" at this time. In
fact, he charged, school officials
seem not to want this training
program"
AS safety chairman Of the District
Congress Of Parent Teacher Associ-
ations and director of safety and
education for the District division
of the American Automobile. Associ-
alton, Mr.. Hammond discussed the
subject at meeting of the Wash
ington Road Gang in the Willard
Hotel yesterday. This is q group
of safety experts from various or
ganizations interested in making
highways safer.
The Inter-Industry Safety Com
mittee, representing dealers and
makers of cars, had offered the
Board of Education eight additional
dual control training automobiles
Mr.. Hammond explained. There
are only two cars now operating,
one for each of the vocational train
ing high schools.
Evening star., 1947-08-15
Capital Champ Set for Test Run
AT Soap Box Finals in Akron

David's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Homer A. Icenhower, visited Derby
Downs today. They were expected
to be separated from their son dur
ing most of their stay because of
the whirlWind round of activities in
which he was to take part.
Special entertainment features
were planned for parents, however,
and they were to have places Of
honor at the racing Sunday.
David will meet James H. Gim-
my Doolittle, wartime air COM
mander, at breakfast tomorrow in
the Akron City Club. Immediately
thereafter he will receive the key to
the city from Akron's Mayor, Charles
E. Slusser. The days program also
will include a swimming party, boat
races and a barbecue at the Rotary
Club camp.
A totem pole, sent from Alaska,
will be dedicated tomorrow night in
the Rubber Bowl, Akrons stadium,
as a highlight of the prerace festivi-
ties.
An exciting ride through Akron
behind a police escort with sirens
wailing started David on the Derby
merry-go- round yesterday. Derby
officials met the Capital champ and
his mother at the airport, The Is
year-old entrant attended theater
party last night.
Evening star., 1947-08-15
Feud
Inquiry May Delay
Outcome Until Fall

After two months In which the
Corporation Counseps Office has been
investigating the case, it appeared
unlikely today the Murphy -Conroy
feud in the District Fire Department
would be settled before fall.
Assistant Corporation Counsel
Chester Gray, whom the Commis-
sioners told in June to investigate
public charges by Fire Capt. Joseph
w. Conroy, president of Firemen's
Association No. SO, that Fire Chief
Clement Murphy has "demoralized''
the department and is looked upon
as a Judas Iscariot" by his men,
said today he is still far from COM
pleting the probe.
Linked to Recent Events.
Capt. Conroy's charges were made
at hearing before House District
subcommittee studying alternative
proposals to shorten the work week
of firemen.
The bad feeling It produced has
cropped up since in the trial of Fire
Capt. William v. James. 1t also is
reported to be back of the transfer
of five battalion chiefs to other sec
tions of the city and removal OF
two battalion chiefs, including one
of those. involved in the battalion
shift, from membership on the Fire
and Police Retirement Board.
Three of the battalion chiefs were
signers of petition last year to the
effect the morale Of the department
has hit a new low since Chief Muir
ply took over.
Interviews witnesses.
Mr.. Gray has been interviewing
witnesses In an effort to find out If
Capt. Conroy's general charge will
hold water.
If it does, 1t could lead to strong
action by the Commissioners against
Chief Murphy. If it doesn't, Capt
Conroy is likely to find himself In
trouble.
Mr.. Gray said he has been busy
with other duties and has not been
able to devote his full time to the
investigation. He said he had a
good many more interviews to make
Evening star., 1947-08-15
By Chris Mothisen
Stcr Stoff Correspondent

AKRON, Ohio, Aug. 15.-David
Icenhower, the Capital hope in the
10th running of the All-American
Soap Box Derby, was getting re-
acquainted today with the coaster
car in which he rolled to the cham
pionship July u.
David and 1874 other entrants in
Sundays national finals were at
Derby Downs, the permanent Soap
Box course beside Akron Municipal
Airport, tinkering with their racers
and awaiting their turns to make
a trial run down the 975-foot con-
crete strip.
Mechanics were on duty at the
top Of the course to assist the young
drivers in adjusting and lubricat-
ing their gravity powered vehicles
A drivers meeting in the May
flower Hotel headquarters preceded
the trip to Derby Downs as the
swiftly paced schedule of events for
the boys seeking a four-year COL
lege scholarship got under way. An
entire floor of the hotel was taken
over by the contestants, who came
from as far away as Juneau, Alaska.
A special staff was ready to serve
them refreshments at all times in
the Champions Club"
Evening star., 1947-08-15
This Midnight Is DeadIine
For License Applications

Superintendent of Licenses Ed.
ward E. Bailey, jr., expects all but
few owners of apartment houses
hotels, lodging houses, theaters ane
public halls will have made appli-
cation for licenses when the mail.
are opened Monday.
Midnight tonight is the deadline
for making applications for licenses
and all day today there was 6
steady stream of applicants lined W
at the counter in the Municipa
Center. Today's mail was thu
largest since he began receiving
applications. He expects to gel
about $4,000.
y November 1 is the beginning o.
the license year in Washington fol
most businesses and in previou!
years so many waited until th'
deadline that the license 'burea,
could not issue all the licenses be-
fore that date.
Evening star., 1947-08-15
adults 0rderiinq
Minors Drinks
ToFaceCharges
Copt. MiIIiken
Says She Will File
Delinquency Cases

Despite the ruling Of Corporation
Counsel Vernon e. West that minors
may drink in restaurants and cafes
under certain conditions, members
of the Women's Bureau Of the Police
Department will bring charges of
contributing to the delinquency Of
q minor against anyone who orders
a drink for person under II.
Capt. Rhoda ]. Milliken, head Of
the Women's Bureau, said late yes
terday similar charges would be
brought against the owners Of the
establishments.
Mr.. Vests ruling stated that
minors may drink in restaurants
and cafes, provided that some older
person orders the drinks and pays
for them and they are not placed
before the minors by the waiter.
Sees Serving by Few.
The only liquor dealers who will
take advantage OF the ruling Of the
Corporation Counsel" Capt. Milli-
ken said, "are those who are already
out of order"
Capt. Milliken said, from her ex-
perience, proprietors Of places SELL
ing intoxicating beverages, will con-
.tinue to keep from serving minors
and will see that minors do not get
drinks in their establishments, be-
cause they know popular feeling will
be against them If the police find
an increase in drunken juveniles.
No Complaints to Bureau.
The Women's Bureau has not re-
ceived any complaints against
minors getting liquor since the Cor
poration Counsels ruling, she said
She said she hoped the loopholes
in the law would be fixed as soon as
possible. She feels public opinion
will be brought to bear on the Dis
trict Commissioners to amend the
regulations as proposed by the AL
cohoIc Control Board.
Capt. Milliken said she would
like to see law here patterned after
the statute in Connecticut, where
minors are forbidden to enter places
where Intoxicating beverages are
sold.
Alan w. Payne, chairman of the
ABC Board, said today his inspec-
tors had not observed any drinking
by minors in their tours of inspec-
ton since the ruling was made
earlier this week.
Evening star., 1947-08-15

being hauled in for insanitary
brushes. The board employs one
inspector to make the rounds OF the
767 shops.
As q matter Of fact, only two
cases of sanitary violations Of any
sort have gone to the courts since
1898. The regulations here are more
modern than any State except New
York.
The barber board and the cosme-
tology board drew up their own
sanitation codes. Until such time
as they change their minds. the
men win have: to get along without
that fluffy brush on their necks and
that invigorating tingle on their
scalps. The women are In no danger
at all OF losing their brushes.