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The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-01
MOOSE MON..N MEET

The Women of the Moose, local Chapter 439, are holding a business meeting tomorrow night. Thursday,
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-07-05
Joe Louis, Wife
And Baby Leave
Mexico

Mevico City Marya Louis,
wife of Joe Louis, heavy weight
champion of the world, was Sc
heduled to leave here last We'd
nesday for Chicago where Joe will
become acquainted with Little Joe
his son born here May %.
Joe Louis, Jr., was reporter by
his mother to bein fine shape for
the flight to Chicago The young
ster weighed II IL pounds at bir-
tn and was nicknamed Peso Com
pleto by nurcec at the Clinica
Mexico de Cirugio Plastica where
he was born
Because of engagements to re-
fierce bouts in various cities that
Louis has, Mrs. Louis was not
sure that he would meet her and
Little Joe at the Chicago Airport.
She said it was possible.
Little Joe will be christened in
Chicago.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-07-05
Bishop cIayborn
Addresses Meeting
Of Methodists

More than one thouand mem
bers representing four branches
of the Methodist church, listened
to Bishop j. H. Cayborn presiding
Bishop of Oklahoma, and West
Africa, at Robinson Memorial Aud
itorium last Sunday.
He reviewed the history of Me-
thodism. The churches represented
were as followers: AME Church,
AME zion Church, CINE Church,
and the Methodist Church. Bis
hop Clayborn, in. a very timely
address, substituted for Bishop R.
C. Ransom, who was unable to at
tend because of illness, challenged
the four branches of Methodist
to blend their forces toward one
objective, "the commons interest of
the church.
The occasion was the celebrat~
ion of Methodism and it promises
to be one of the greatest get to-
gether meetings. among the church
es of Lite Rock. Rev. V. M. Town
send, President; Rev. H. G. Ewing,
Vice President; Rev. A. Kicks,
Secretary; and Rev. G. F. Tip
ton, Treasurer.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-07-05
Bishop Kelly Tells
Church OF life
Investments"

Material or spiritual investments
in life must be dedicated to the
principals and teachings of the low
ly Nazerens, said Bishop E. w
Kelly at Wesley Chapel Method
list church last Sunday.
Speaking on the subject Life's
Investments the Bishop explained
that the best investment the hui
man race mould make in this wor-
Id, is the Investment of service.
The silver haired prelate con-
tinued by saying, while material
investments are alright especially
if they are made by the glory
of God, but he emphasized the
fact, that where as material in
vestments may fail, investments
of service will not fail for they
will stand for ever as living mon
uments.
Directing his remarks to the
closing session of the Womens
Society of Christians Service of
the Methodist Church, the Bishop
challenged the group to invest in
dependable service, cooperative
service, and sacrifical service.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-07-05
Recorder of Deeds
Office Bill
Dropped

Washington d C - Provisions
in the Koran bill which would
transfer control of the office of
Recorder of Deeds of the District
of Columbia to the District of
Columbia Commissioners will pro-
badly be dropped, it was learned
last Friday.
The bill, as approved by the Ho-
use Committee on the District of
Columbia will retain those pro-
visions which would authorize and
direct a change in the method of
recording deeds and other instru-
ments from the copying method
now in use to the Photographic.
Whether the Provisions author
lied and directing a transfer OF
the auto lens section from the Re
corder's office to the Director of
Vehicles and Traffic will be re-
tanned in the bill was said to
be doubtful.
Also doubtful is committee act
ion on the provisions which would
give the District OF Columbia aud
itor the right to audit receipts and
disbursements of the Recorders
Office. Those accounts are now aud
tied by the Comptroller General
of the United States. Recently,
however, the Rev. Marshall L.
Shepard, the Recorder of Deeds,
gave the District Auditor permits
sion to nike an audit of them.
DR.. Shepard last Wednesday told
the House District of Columbia
subcommittee which has been hold
ing hearings on the Koran bill
that he was in entire accord with
plans to moderllize the office and
substitute the Photographic me-
thods of recvordation for the copy
ing method.
DR.. Shepare also suggestes an
upward revision of fees for re-
cording instruments. Their has not
been an increase in fees in the
office since 1885, he said.
He opposes the placing of en-
ployees of the office under coivil
service.
If photostatic equipment is au-
thorize and installed, he wants
to keep his present staff for
one year to catch up with the
heavy backlog of papers to be re-
corded.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-07-05
Newark Eagles
In Double Win

Newark, N. j., June - (NNPA)
- The Newark Eagles continued
their sensational smuggling last
Sunday afternoon at Rupert Sta
dunn, They defeated the Home
stead Grays, 1872, in the first game
of a three-team doubleheader and
then slaughtered the New York
Black Yankees in the nightcap,
1874.
Monty Irwin drew abreast Of Lar
ry Dolby in their home run battle
by hitting for the circuit in both
games to bring his total to II for
the season. Pat Patterson hit con-
secutive homers in the nightcap
while Jimmy Wakes also homered
in that tilt. Lennie Pearson smash
ed out a home run, double and
triple in the first game.
First Game
Homestead Grays 001 900 O10-2
Newark Eagles 203 002 1Ox-S
Second Game
Black Yankees 100 002 100
Newark Eagles Ill 900 64x-13
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-07-05
Hickey Says More
Players To Follow
Robinson

Pittsburg - Branch Hickey,
president of the Brooklyn Dodgers
last Monday predicted that other
colored baseball players will OIL
low Jackies Robinson, Dodge first
baseman, into the major leagues.
The signing of colored players
by big league teams will come
to be commonplace he said, dis
closing that his scouts have been
dickering with another colored
player who has led an offer from
another clab.
II think that the other clubs
are going to have Nee,ro players
in year or So Hickey said.
Zone of our scouts just the
other day was ir estigating one
of the colored stars. The boy con-
fessed to him that lie had already
received an offer from a big lea
que club"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-07-05
Industrial
School Youth
Sentenced

A recent escapee from the boys
Industrial School, Dewitt Curry,
aged II, was sentenced to fifteen
years in the state penitentlary
by Circuit Judge Fulk ON charges
of burglary and assault. Curry
pleaded guilty to a statutory char
ge.
A patient in the hospital OF
the Industrial School, Curry es-
capped Tuesday June 25, and is
reported to have accosted the
wife of one of the employees at
the farm.
When the woman screamed, Cur
ry fled and returned to the Sc
hool. He was under sentence from
ST. Francis county.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-07-05
Robson Will
Retire For Year

Enfield, Conn, According tc
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-07-05

Mrs. Robson said that Paul
had been working fifteen years
without a rest or vacation. She
also said that his health is not
good.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-07-05

Mrs. Paul Robson, wife of the
noted concert singer. her husband
will retire for a years rest after
his return from concert tour in
Panama.
Evening star., 1947-05-19
Army Bans Tobacco Shipments
To Hit German Black Market

In a move to break up German
black market trading in American
tobacco on a scale estimated at $125.-
900 pounds daily. the War Depart
ment today imposed a strict ban on
the mailing or shipment of Ameri-
can cigarets and tobacco to Ger
many, effective May 26.
The Post ONCE Department is
cooperating at the request of the
War Department in the move which
lit is hoped, will help stabilize the
German economy as well as break
up the long abused practice of sell
ing cigarettes illicitly on the market.
A War Department official today
estimated approximately one-half
Iof the daily parcel post service to
Germany comprises cigarettes and
tobacco products. 1t was estimated
at least lbs, 900 pounds of tobacco is
being mailed daily to Germany and
IthaA practically all finds its way into
the black market
Army officials said the ban ap-
Evening star., 1947-05-19

Miss Georgia M. SprulH, who mas
unsuccessfully appealed more than
20 cases since 1882, lost another one
in United States Court of Appeals
today.
Miss SpruilI has been suing to re-
gain piece Of foreclosed property
and to get payment for all the bene-
fits she believes she would have de-
rived from it through the years. The
latest suit, against Daniel E. Camp
bell, executor OF the estate OF one
of the early defendants, involved
more than $91 600.
In Affirming the District Court s
dismissal OF the case, Chief Justice
D. Lawrence Groner Of the Court
of Appeals and Associate Justices
Bennett Champ Clark and E. Bar
rett Prettyman ruled:
This appeal grows out OF the sale
of appellants house under fore
closure in 1880. In one form or an
other, the controversy thus begun
has been revived nearly every veal
since our first decision. There
lis nothing new in the present ap-
peal, and nothing to decide that has
mot been already fully decided.
At least SIX District Court judges
! have considered Spruill cases. She
Evening star., 1947-05-19
May Admits Signing
$4,000 Carson Note
As Accommodation
Testifies He Doesn't Know
If Money Wos Repaid
In Mining Investment
By Robert K. Welsh

Former Representative Andrew
j. May told a District Court jury
today that he signed note for
a $1,000 loan from a New York
banker in April, 194l, as an "ac-
commodation" for Murray Cars
son, but said he does not know
whether the money was ever
paid back by Carson.
This was the second $4,000 note
transaction brought out in Mays
testimony at his trial with Henry
and Murray Carson on charges
of conspiracy to defraud the United
States.
The Government declares May
took more than $4,000 in bribes
from the Carson brothers in return
for favors he obtained for them or
companies in their 5000, 900 NUM-
tions combine during the war.
Resuming the stand as the trial
entered its fifth week. May con-
tinued his story, begun last Friday,
that deals involving a s2.500 Cars
son check he deposited in Wash
ington bank in 1912 and the two
IS 900 notes he signed in 194l were
legitimate business transactions.
Involved Manganese Mine.
He said they involved West Vir-
ginit manganese mining company
which he sold to Murray Carson
early in 1941.
May explained today that on April
2, 1941, he signed an "accommoda-
ton" note for $4,000 to Murray
Carson. The money, he said was
borrowed from Elisha Walker, a
banker with offices at 81 William
street. New York.
Although the note, as read to the
jury, indicated May personally bor-
rowed the money from Mr.. Walker,
his counsel, Warren E. Magee, in
troduced a letter in which May
purportedly told Mr. Walker in
September, 194l, that the note would
be paid off ''in a few days" by Muir
ray Carson.
The letter also contained line in
which May informed the banker that
he had signed the note simply to
help Carson get the money and
that it was in reality a loan to
Carson.
Admitted Signing Other Notes.
WAS this note ever paid by Muir
ray Garsson?" Mr.. Magee asked
II don't know" May answered.
In testimony last Friday. May
told how he signed other notes total
ing $1,000 as an ton
for Murray Carson. May said this
money was borrowed with the ex-
plicit understanding" that Murray
Carson would pay them off.
According to the notes read then
to the jury. the $1,000 originally
came from Representative Charles
"A. Buckley. Democrat, of New York,
but we're held by New York bank
at the time they were paid off by a
check from Murray Carson in June,
1912.
May declared again today that
the total of $4,000, representing
money he said was borrowed for
(see CARSON, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1947-05-19
Miss SpruiIl Loses New Appeal
In Suit to Regain Property

has gone to the supreme CouIb
approximately 80 times, asking
either a writ of certiorari or a re-
hearing.
Since her second case, she has
been her own LAWYER despite offers
of the courts to appoint counsel
for her. For the most part. she
has been allowed to proceed with
out payment of court costs.
Court records on Spruill cases in
the Court OF Appeals alone take up
three drawers. According to one
of her briefs, the records In her
cases are now stacked more than
80 inches high in the Supreme
Court.
|. As a result Of her constant re-
search into the law books, she cited
n cases to plead her cause in the
latest action. Her opponent cited
10 cases. all involving earlier Spruill
decisions
Court iockets show literally hum
dreds of court actions in Spr1lill
cases, involving granting and de-
nials OF writs. petitions and mo-
tions, transfers Of records and other
legal technicalities.
Aided by counsel. Miss SpruiH won
1see sPRUIIL, Page A-4J
Evening star., 1947-05-19
Miss Truman Cancels Concert,
White House Its Social Activity
Presidents S Daughter
And Wife to Leave
For Grondview

Mrs. Truman today Cancelled
or postponed all social engage
ments at the White House for
the next 10 days and Miss Mar
garet Truman Cancelled a con-
cert scheduled at Pittsburgh
tomorrow night as they prepared
to join the President at the bed
side of his mother in Missouri
Eben Ayres. White House press
secretary, said that Mrs. Truman
probably would leave tomorrow fol
Grandview, Mo, where the Pres
ident's mother. Mrs. Martha E. Tru-
man, "a, Is seriously ILL.,
A reception to members of the
Daughters of American Revolution
in convention here, that had been
scheduled for Friday afternoon. was
among the affairs Cancelled by Mrs
Truman.
A White House garden party
scheduled tomorrow afternoon for
veterans from various nearby serv-
ice hospitals was postponed. 1t
proba bly, will be held some time next
month.
The latest affair on the White
House social list affected by the
cancellation and postponement an
nouncement was a garden party
scheduled May 28 for women hold
(See CONCERT, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1947-05-19
Son Resumes Vigil
At Bedside After
Mother RoIlies
BY Joseph A. Fox
S,or s.off Coyrespondent

GRANDVIEW, Mo-, May 19.-
President Truman today resumed
his watch again at the bedside
of his ailing mother, as the o.
year-old Mrs. Martha Truman
took a turn for the better after
a relapse yesterday.
She is better; mother herself says
she is feeling better" President
Truman told reporters as he left his
apartment in the Muehlbach Hotel
here for his customary prebreakfas,
walk.
The President had talked to his
sister, Miss Mary Jane Truman, at
the home in Grandview where Mrs
Truman has been bedridden since
February when she broke her right
hip in a fall at her home.
Shortly after breakfast the Presi-
dent left the hotel for the 17-mile
drive to Grandview where he plan
ned to remain throughout the day.
While his, mother is taking most
of the Presidents time, he is getting
mail from Washington, and handling
routine White House paper work, ac-
cording to Press Secretary Charles
G. Ross.
After developing the heart condi-
tSee TRUMAN, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1947-05-19
First Socialist Premier
Agreed On in Japan
BY the Associated Press

TOKYO, May 19.-Politicaf lead.
ers virtually decided on Japan,
first Socialist Premier today as tht
Diet prepared for its initial session
under the new constitution begin
ming tomorrow
Leaders of the powerful Liberia.
and Democratic Parties agreed tt
accept Tetsu Katayama. chairman
of the Social Democratic Party
Executive Committee, as the new
Premier.
Their objections to allotting port
folios to leftwing Socialists must be
settled, however. before Katayama
receives a formal vote.
Indications were that this prob
lem would be settled soon and the
coalition cabinet may be shaped up
by the time the Diet formally votes
on the Premier, probably Wednes-
day.
Premier Shigeru Yoshida and his
cabinet will resign formally tomor-
row under terms of the new consti-
tuition. He will appoint an acting
premier to hold Office until the Diet
selects his successor, The Emperor
formerly selected the Premier.
Evening star., 1947-05-19

plies only to mail and commercial
shipments to Germany, no other
area being affected.
It was emphasized that the allow
able purchase of cigarettes and other
tobacco products at Army post ex-
changes is sufficient to meet the
normal individual needs of American
personnel in Germany. Latest re-
ports here indicated a carton a week
was the cigarette allowance. Civilian
employees of the military government
have the same privileges as military
personnel in buying tobacco from
post exchanges.
ANY surplus of such items en-
tering the country almost invariably
enters the black market the War
Department said.
Senders of gift packages hereafter
will be required to declare the re-
stricted items and Post ONCE
authorities will remove them from
packages at all Army or regular
offices.
Evening star., 1947-05-19
|HighCourtR Rules
Plant Guards
May Join Union
Two Circuit Decisions
On Police Deputies
Are Overturned
BY The Assoe;oted Press

The Supreme Court today
ruled that plant guards dep
utized by local police are "enn-
ployes" under the National Labor
Relations Act and may join
unions which also represent pro-
duction employees.
The decision involved labor dis
putes affecting plant guards of Jones
& Laughlin Steel Corps Otis
Works in Cleveland, and E. c. Atkins
& Co., Indianapolis maker of tools
and arnor plate.
Jones g. Laughlin contended
plant guards were employees or q
part of management under the acts
definition of that term as ANY per-
son acting in the interest of an
employer, directly or indirectly"
Two Separate Decisions.
The high court handed down two
separate decisions.
In the Jones & Laughlin case
the courts 5-4 opinion was written
by Justice Murphy. Chief Justice
vinson and Justices Frankfurter
jackson and Burton dissented.
In the Atkins case. the majority
opinion was written by Justice
Murphy, with dissents noted by the
Chief Justice and Justices Frank
furter and Jackson.
Lower Court Overruled.
The decisions overturned lower
court rulings.
The United States Circuit Court
in Cincinnati decided the Jones and
Laughlm guards were employees, but
said it was improper for the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board to per-
nit their organization by the same
union which represented produc-
ton employees. The Circuit Court
stated that under Ohio law, the
guards were municipal police whose
obligations to the public were in
compatible with obligations to the
union-the CLIO United Steelworkers
Of America.
In the Atkins case, the Circuit
Court in Chicago said plant guards
were not employees under terms OF
the labor act. The Atkins guards
were deputy policemen of the city
of Indianapolis.
During the war guards of both
plants we're members of the civil
ian auxiliary to military police
under arrangements set up by the
War Department.
Evening star., 1947-05-19
House Unit Approves
Postal Rate increase
To Provide Revenue
Committee Votes Boost
In Second-CIuss Mui
And Air Letter Costs
By the Associoted Press

The House Post Office Com
mittee today approved legisla
!tion increasing postal rates to
provide an estimated $ll0,000,-
900 additional revenue annually
The committee voted to raise the
airmail rate from cents to 6 cents
an ounce and recommended in
creasing rates for second-class NAL
and periodicals-if the
papers are mailed beyond the coun,
ty of publication.
Chairman Rees said the latter
increases are based on zones ane
on advertising content in addition
| to a boost of half cent a pound or
the reading portion of the publica
| ton.
| Besides the increase in the air
mail letter rate. the committee rec
commended establishment of al
airmail post card which may b.
mailed for cents.
The committee rejected Pos
Office Department suggestion t.
double the present 1-cent rate or
postcards, retained existing rate
on newspapers and periodicals sem
through the mail in the county O.
publication, and continued the pres.
ent first t-class mailing rate of cent!
for letters.
Increased piece rates and adver-
tising surcharges recommended b.
the Post ONCE Department fcl
second -class matter also were re-
jected by the committee.
The legislation is subject to House
action next week. Mr.. Rees made
the estimate on the additional rev
enue the bill would provide.
Evening star., 1947-05-19
Soviet Economist Deplores
u. S. Mediterranean Aims

MOSCOW. May 10. lP)-Eugene
varga, Soviet economist, said in
Pravda today that the United
States is seeking to become Medi-
terranean power and supports in
every way it's monopolies in an
effort to secure for itself lion S
share of the oil deposits in other
countries"
Mr.. Varga asserted that the
United States has per cent of the
worlds population and IS per cent
of the worlds explored oil resources,
and said it should be satisfied with
this instead of looking for more oil
in other nations.
According to recent appraisals,' -
Mr.. varga said, the explored
worlds oil resources are distributed
thusly: the u. S. AS share IS per
cent; the u. S. AS share of the
near and Middle East, As per cent,
and the u S. AS share of the rest
Of the world, Is per cent"
(The 1916 edition of the
statesmans Year Book quotes
Soviet scientists as claiming
that the U. S. S. r. contains
5s7 per cent of the worlds oil
resources1
Turning to the Near East and the
Middle East, Mr.. Varga said that
fin order to get dominating posi-
tion in this part Of the world to be
able to use its Oil strategically, the
United States needs strong sup
porting points on coasts where
pipelines can be headed up"
Palestine and Egypt freed from
British influence would become Just
such places and an oil line joining
Saudi Arabia could end here" he
said. This is one of the reasons
for the enormous amount of
American activity developing In
these districts"
Evening star., 1947-05-19
Doris Duke, Jersey Town
Reach Truce on Toxes
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, May 19.-Doris
Duke. tobacco heiress, and tiny
Hillsborough township, home OF
sprawling Duke Farms, have de-
clared tax peace, a family attorney
said today.
The township has agreed not to
appeal in the State courts the dis
missal by the New Jersey Board Of
Tax Appeals of tax suit against
the Duke endowment fund 1t as
sessed at $251, ,471,81s, Attorney
Thomas Perkins said.
Miss Duke has agreed not to coll
lect some $4,000 in court costs
awarded her after the township
lost tax suit against her personal
fortune.
The endowment fund was estab-
lished by James B. Duke. founder OF
the tobacco fortune, in 1924 and
dedicated to North and South Car
olina charities.
Evening star., 1947-05-19
(DAR Program on Page A-5.J

The Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution, in a preconven-
ton national defense mass meet
ing today, heard Rear Admiral
Oswald S. Colclough, Judge Ad-
vocate General of the Navy, ap-
peal for a strong Navy ito assure
the world that we recognize our
responsibilities"
The Admiral spoke as thousands
of members of the society con-
verged on Washington for the for
NAL opening of the 56th OAR Con-
tinental Congress-the first held ir
Constitution Hall in six years.
Admiral Colclougn declared that
a strong Navy would warn other
Nations against bringing us into
another war. or finally failing that
it would mean that your Navy would
Evening star., 1947-05-19
OAR Hears Strong-Novy Plea
AT Precongress Mass Meeting
Admiral CoIcIoueh Explains Need for Fleet;
Annual Meeting Scheduled to Open Tonight

be able to carry the war far from
our own shores"
The Navy's legal chief said he
need not remind members of the
society that there are serious
forces at work within our country
today bent on undermining its
unity and strength.
"In a world still plagued by un-
certainty and conflict of ideas" he
declared" this becomes the more
grave in its implications. Some
persons openly attempt to SOW seeds
of doubt and distrust in our minds;
others, by subtle and clever infer
ence, seek to confuse, to spread de-
| featism, and otherwise to weaken
our moral fiber"
| Admiral Colclough conceded that
the country's postwar economy can
not stand the burden of Navy as
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