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Terra Haute, Ind. Mr.. and Mrs.
Gongwer have as their guest the
latter's father. Mr.. Samuel Baer Of
Wabash, Ind.
Capt. and Mrs. Courts Rea have
as their weekend guests Mr.. and
Mrs. Nick Penetti of Battle Greek,
Mich.
Miss Brenda Bennett, daughter Of
the director of the United States
Federal Bureau Of Prisons, and
Mrs. James v. Bennett left the
past week for Connecticut College
for Women at New London, Conn
Mr.. and Mrs. Julian Boatman
have returned from a months va
cation visiting relatives in Ames
and Mason City, Iowa.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Dowd of
Oliver street, have returned from
a two-week vacation in Quebec.
Canada. Mr.. and Mrs. Dowd were
accompanied by the latter's brother
and sister-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs
william Lanigan.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. Pierce Riddle
have as their weekend guests Mr.
and Mrs. K. H. Andrea, from Home
land, Md.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Anderson have
returned from q two months vaca-
ton where they have been visiting
the latter's brother-in-law and sis
ter, Mr.. and Mrs. J. E. Foster and
also Mrs. Andersons brother and
sister-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. r.. C.
Williams, in Los Angeles, Calf.
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Hough
have as weekend guests Mr.. and
Mrs. John J. Hasley from Auburn
dale, Fla.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ward Scott Miller
have as their guest the formers
mother, Mrs Ward I. Miller from
Wilmington, Del.
Mrs. E. L. Beach and her daugh-
ter. Miss Lillian Beach, have re-
turned to their home in Chevy
Chase. Nd, after a two months
vacation in Europe, visiting in Eng
land, Norway, Sweden and Paris.
Mrs. G. Mossburg and her daugh-
ter, Miss Melissa Mossburg, who
have been on months vacation
in Quebec, Canada, and Atlantic
City, returned this past week to
their home on Delaware street,
Chevy Chase, Md.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Orem, jr.,
who have been on a motor trip
through the lake regions in Wis
consin, returned the past week to
their home In Chevy Chase.
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A reception at the Sulgrave Club
followed the wedding yesterday
afternoon of Miss Sally Ann McLain
and Capt. Walter Joseph Brennan,
jr., which took place in Walter Reed
Memorial Chapel with the Rev.
Brendan Burns of Garrison, N. Y,
officiating at the ceremony.
The bride is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Chester Alden McLain
She was escorted by her father, and
with her gown of white satin she
wore veil of old lace.
Mrs. H. Smith Dean, jr., of Dear
born, Mich, sister of the BRIDE
groom, was matron of honor and
Miss Hilton McLain was her sisters
maid of honor. Elizabeth Tenbrook
Breslin and Rachael Buchanan were
flower girls.
Mr.. Smith was best man for the
bridegroom, who is the son of Mr..
Brennan of New Rochelle, N. Y,
and the ushers were Mr.. Frederick
H. Paulmann. jr, and Mr.. Thomas
B. Kennedy of New Rochelle, Mr..
Robert w. Bruley Of Staten Is,A I'd
and Capt. Charles w. Alden.
When they return from their we'd
ding trip Capt. and Mrs. Brennan
will live at 4707 Connecticut avenue.
Evening star., 1948-10-10

Mr.. and Mrs. Donald A. Pippenger
will entertain at a dinner party
this evening at the Shoreham to
celebrate their 18th wedding ami
versary. Among the guests will be
Mr, and Mrs. George F. Hoven and
Mrs, Pippengers sister, Miss Ruth
overly.
Mr. and Mrs. Karl Pitt were
hosts at a dinner party last eve
ming in honor of Miss Mary Kellogg
of Baltimore. Guests included Mrs.
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Wedding Yesterday
In Pemmsylvamia
|Of Interest Here

The marriage yesterday in THAN,
Pa, Of Miss Elisabeth Scott Baker
daughter Of retired Commodore and
Mrs. Robert Nicholson Scott Baker
to Mr.. James Watson Johnstone, jr.
son of Mr.. Johnstone Of Keller, Va.
and Mrs. John H. Recknagel, jr., OF
Douglaston, Long Island, is of more
than usual interest in Washington
Commodore and Mrs. Baker have
lived in Washington through sew
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Chevy Chase

Martin Mason, Mrs. Willett E. Nc
Fadden, Mrs. Claude Mossburg, Mrs
Chester L. Moye and Mrs. Court
ney Young.
Mrs. Arthur j. Richards was
hostess at luncheon party Thurs
day in compliment to Miss Mar
garet Russell, who has just returned
from two years in Germany. Among
the guests were Mrs. Charles G.
Millard and Miss Doris Millard.
Mrs. Frank Distlehurst was
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eral tours Of duty and the bride At
tended both Holton Arms and Poto-
mac Schools during those years.
She also attended William and
Mary College in Norfolk.
The ceremony yesterday was per-
formed in st. Martins Chapel In
THAN, the Rev. Richard H. Gurley
officiating and the reception was
held in the Deanery at Bryn Mawr
college.
Commodore Baker escorted his
daughter and she wore q full-length
veil Of rose point lace, which is an
heirloom in her family, with her
ivory satin gown. She was attended
by the Misses Elizabeth O. Chew OF
Radnor, Mona Hare Conger OF
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hostess at a bridge luncheon cues
day. Having as her guests, Mrs.
Ruloff Stratton, Mrs. Harry Patrick,
Mrs. August Koehler. Mrs. Edward
Battz, Mrs. Robert Highf1eld, Mrs.
Augustus Gumpert and Mrs. George
Phillips.
Mrs. Arthur Holtsberg gave a
luncheon Thursday entertaining in
her home for Mrs. Arthur John
son, Mrs. Donald A. Pippenger and
Mrs. G. T. Hoffman.
Mrs. James M. Gongwer has re-
turned from a two-week vacation
visiting her son-in-law and daugh-
ter, Mr.. and Mrs. W.. E. Riedel, in
Evening star., 1948-10-10
January Wedding

Mr., and Mrs. Louis H. Seigel an.
nounce the engagement of the for
mer's daughter, Miriam Pearl, to
Mr.. Bertram E. Schatz, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Schatz of Philadel-
phia. The wedding will take placs
in January.
Mr.. Schatz is a member Of the
Franklin Institute Of Pennsylvania
and is associated with the engineer
ing department Of the National
Broadcasting Co.
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THE SUNDAY STAR, Washington, D. C.. D.


Bridgeport, Pa, and Sidney Lanier
Johnstone and Elizabeth Lindsay
Gray of Douglaston.
MIR. Johnstone had as his best
man Mr.. Edwin K. Rutherford, and
the ushers' included the Messrs
Robert McC. Johnstone, Tomas B
Johnstone, Archibald r. Montgom-
cry, Sterling E. Lanier, Walter j
Bray and George G. Young.
Mr.. Johnstone was graduated
from the School Of Engineering at
Cornell University in 1945 and
served as an ensign with the Naval
Reserve.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-17

The worst thing that can happen
to an orchestra leader is not the
discovery that his evenings custom
ers include nine people who want
to listen to THE Woodpecker Song
and seven who think the time has
come to revive Near You" 1t is
not the discovery til his trumpet
player is in auc.! - ION that he
cannot put trumpet to lips for fear
of stabbing himself in the eye with
it or that his violinist does not at
the moment know fiddle from bow.
The worst thing that can happen
to an orchestra leader is the dis
covery, when he gets up on the
bandstand and gives his all, that
no one is in dancing mood.
Basil Fomeen, originally of Russia,
formerly OF China, Burma and
India and New Yorks Waldorf As
toria, and presently of the Congo
Room of the Carlton Hotel, was talk
ing about it the other night.
The worst bring-down in the
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and why they do so, at least accord
ing to the Fomeen theory. How
about the oklahoma" score? he
was asked. Does that do it?
NO" Basil said, Il think that's
not old enough" Not old enough
mo. Usually to get people dancing
I play something like "A Pretty Girl
Is Like Melody Smoke Gets in
Your Eyes Melancholy Baby,
'Stardust,' Night and Day-the old
favorites like that Everybody has
danced to those tunes. People are
used to dancing to them, so when
they hear them, they automatically
get up to dance.
"Or a brand-new bouncy tune will
do it" Mr.. Fomeen added Some
Thing that's being played all the
time on the radio, but hasn't quite
had chance to be played to death
yet. Right now the one that works
is Put En- in Box"
See. You always thought you
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danced with your feet, but it's really
your ear.
Il 4 II
The man who corrals the Lotus
entertainment has reached out into
the show world and grabbed an
expert practitioner of what likely is
a lost art. The experts name is
James Evans and his art is foot
juggling. 1t fair takes you back to
your childhood and those far ago
matinees in that day when vaude-
vile came to town in person, rather
than by way of its electronically
propelled image, just to sit there
and watch him.
1t may be, of course. that foot
juggling was one of those things
that was bound to fallAby the way
side as the world progressed. 1t
may even be that we can all get
along reasonably well without it.
Letting the art pass into oblivion, SO
that foot juggling was only a men,
DRY, certainly would make for a
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happier state than a revival Of it
that would put foot juggler in
every night club.
Still, it Is a great deal of fun to
watch Mr.. Evans as he lies there
on his stand, kicking aloft large
balls and other glittering and con-
siderably more unwieldly objects.
There are no rough spots in this
act; he's had a lot of years of Mr..
Albee's time to wear them of.
The remainder of the Lotus show
is to athletic dancing. Some of 1t Is
performed by AL and Connie Fan
ton, who combine taps and aero
battles. and the rest of it is per-
formed by Dorothy Deering, who
has developed deal of proficiency
at her speciality, the turning of
somersaults without touching her
hands to the floor.
X
A friend of this department has
come up with poser. Idly browsing
through the lost-and-found ads in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-17
the New. York Times. for want of
more profitable expenditure Of her

the New York Times. for want OF
more profitable expenditure Of her
time, she came upon this:
Large reward for any informa-
ton or return of any or all Dun
can Sisters music, orchestrations.
Topsy and Eva scrapbooks and
trunk. lost at Fifty-sixth street
and Seventh avenue.
How, our friend wants to know,
could anybody lose q trunk at Fifty
sixth street and Seventh avenue in
New York City in broad daylight?
The answer. of course. is that may
be it wasn't broad daylight and
even if it was, show people are cap
able of almost anything. Fellow
We heard about once lost brass
drum. Carried it into subway
train and then left it there when
he looked up and saw that he was
at his stop.
4
Another man we know set a whole
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-17
After Dark
Band Leaders Have Their Ways
Of Making You Want to Dance
BY HARRY MACARTHUR

world" he said, apropos of nothing
at all, lis to play and nobody
dances"
So what does an orchestra leader
do at time like this?
Il rack my BRAIN" Basil said. Il
think and think to find a tune that
will please the ears. Pleasing the
ears is much harder, you know, than
pleasing the feet" I.
You might be surprised to learn
what tunes make you want to dance,
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table to brooding darkly out at the
Wardman Park Hotels Metronome
Room. one recent night. He just
read softly that legend over the
door-.Life Is but the Jest of Time"
and said firmly:
Il knew I'd understand the Elm
stein Theory some day. but I never
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-08-21
NAACP Will Not
Support Civil
Disobedience

New York, Aug IL = The Ma
tional Association for the Adj
vancement of Colored People will
not support the program of civil
disobedience to the draft. law,
advocated by A.. Phillip Randolph
and Grant Reynolds, Walter
White, Executive secretary of the
association, declared last Satur-
day.
He said that during the thirty
nine years of its history the as
ISOLATION had opposed defying of
authority of Haunting the ban
ners of revolution.
The Harlem branch of the as
sociation, in a published state
ment, had asked for a mass de-
monstration against a "Jom Grow
Army" on the first day of the
draft August 16, to be followed
byanother demonstration in Co.
lumbus Circle September %. The
spokesman for the Harlem branch
said the time has come to or
game really powerful camp
align of direct action against the
officials policy of the Federal
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-08-21
North Carolina
Bank Marks
49th Year

Durham, N. c. August - At
tention has been drawn in the
financial world to the recent COM
pletion of 40 years of banking
service. to the community which
is being celebrated by the Me-
chanic's and Farmers Bank of this
city One of the outstanding Negro
banking institutions in the coun-
try, the bank has increased it's
assets 'duringing that period, it
was revealed, from $1,000 to
more than IS million.
Under the leadership of it's
president, C. C. Spaulding, OUT
standing business leader in the
area, the, bank is indicated to
have been developed on sound
principles and practices which
have prevailed throughout it's
history, thus making for efficient
operation. Since its founding I'M
Ger R. B. Fitzgerald in 1908 it
is known to have supplied work
ing capital for thousands Of
small businesses and farms. Ac--
cording to bank figures during
the year 1947 alone, a total Of
one millio ndollars was loaned
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-08-21
to its customers.


to its customers.
The bank is believed to take
especial pride in the. careful Sc
lection of its personnel, and has
pointed out that a number of it's
top employees hace come through
the ranks. Special emphasis is
placed on the careful training of
the staff; it is said, and This
practice considerable facilitates
the orientation of bank executives.
The physical facilities are of
the most modern type and the
latest equipment is used. Comfort
able appointments and air-con-
ditioned offices, as we'll as every
convenience for rapid and accu-
raote service to the more than
10 thousand customers, has made
for an enviable reputation for
the institution in its catering to
the public needs.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-08-21
Leontine Price Gifted Young Soprano
Acclaimed In First Home Town
Recital
Laurel White Women Join In Selling
Tickets For Towns Biggest Musical
Affair

Laurel, Miss, Aug. II - Lee
ontine Price brilliant and gifted
young soprano was enthusiastic
cally acclaimed in her first pub
lie recital in her home town here
Thursday night
A crowd of more than 500, al
most equally divided between
white and Negro music lovers fill
ed the Hall to overlooking, to
witness the local debut of the
young singer.
Presenting a varied program of
Negro spirituals, classics, and
folk songs, while exhibiting a.
voice of both strength, range, and
color and quality the
young singer was acclaimed with
round after round of applause at
each rendition.
Miss Price got her real test
last summer in Dayton, Ohio
when she appeared on program
with the great singer Paul Ro-
bertson. Her work on the Ro-
bertson program won for her Ma
tional attention.
Her recital here Thursday night
was sponsored by the Medithodist
Women of the City Local white
women joined in selling tickets
for the recital which was the
biggest affair of its kind ever
held here.
The recital was arranged for
Miss Price from which she will
receive the entire proceeds in or
der to help finance her further
study at the Julliard School Of
Music in New York.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-08-21

NEarI WadswOrth Rand leads Al
corn A. & M College Summer
School to a most satisfactory and
successful close.
Mr.. Rand, a Texan and a grad
Uate of Bishop College, has shown
his remarkable ability i'm directing
the 1913 Summer School Cam
pus and Off-Campus sessiOns) at
AlcOrn A. e. NJ. College. He re-
ceived his M. s. degree from At
ianta University, and has done
work toward his Phi. ID. degree
at the University of Chicago and
Colorado College of Education
Mr.. Rand is also serving as
Acting Dean of Instruction, dur
ing the Summer Sessions; he was
appointed Chairman of the AL
corn Executive Committee which
is the chief administrative body
of the College during the period
of the Presidents study at the
University of Southern Califof-
inia, and has been appointed as
General Chairman of the AlcOrn
Faculty Institute, which is to
be held September 1-3, 1913.
Director of Summer School
Earl WadswOrth Rand
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-08-21

Government that is responsible
for jim Srow in the armed for
ces.
Aroused Public
Mr.. White said he thought the
language employed by the Har-
lem branch reflected an aroused
Negro public, but could not be
taken to mean that the associ-
alton would support the tactics
advocated by Mr.. Randolph and
Mr.. Reynolds.
Mr.. Reynolds and Mr.. Rando-
lph organized :, the Committee
against Jim Crow in Military Ser
vice of formulate a civil disobed-
fence program against the draft,
if race segregation was continued
in the armed services.
The association will continue
to campaign against segregation
and discrimination, within the
framework of the Federal Constit-
ution Mr.. White asserted
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-08-21
Judge Mize Sets
Date For Hearing
In Equal Salary
Case

Federal District Judge, S. C.
Mibe has set Oct. IL as the date
for further hearing on the salary
equalization case recently filed in
the federal courts here.
The hearing will be held on a
motion to dismiss the suit which
named as defendants Kirby P.
Walker, Supt., of City Schools and
members of the school board.
The suit filed by Gradys Noel
Bates a teacher in Smith Robert
son School on behalf of herself
and other Negro teachers and
principals of the Jackson School
District alleges that Negro tea
cheers and disseminated against
in that there salarys are not
the equal of white teachers dur
ing the same work.
The suit filed by Mrs. Bates
is based on precedents already
established in a number of simili-
ar cases throughout the states of
the South
The latest case to pe decided
was in Louisiana last week when
following a consent decree by the
State Board of Education ordered
all teachers salaries made equal.
The NAACP which has pioneer
ed the educational cases in aiding
the Bates case. Attorney James
M. Burns of Meridian is repre-
senting Mrs Bates.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-08-21

Eax1y Producers
Many small fruits and berries
produce by the second year. and al
by the third. while tree fruits take
xom three to six years to produeA
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-08-21
Chattanooga Gets,
Seven Negro
Police
UNIFORMED MEN FIRST
ON DUTY IN HALF CENTURY

Chattanooga, Tenn Aug II -.
(SpeciaD Seven Negro uni
formed policemen appointed sew
eral months ago by Commission
er of Fire and Police Roy Hyatt
and unanimously agreed to by the
Mayor and other Commissioners
and who. have been in training
every since the announcement
was made, were swore into Of
flee Wednesday, August II at the
City Hall at pm. in the pre-
sence of large group of inter-
ested colored and white citizens
All of the men were highly re-
commended by ministers and
other prominent people. All of
them are high school graduates
and some Of them have had COLI
eye work. Al s'i''- FL
The Chief of Police Ed Rick
etts gave them a good send off
by patroling their beats with them
when they began work,
The assignment of Negro uni
formed police to patrol the streets
in Chattanooga on August IL are
the first ones for almost a half
century to have this honor
Fifty years ago there were
plenty of Negro policemen, fire.
men, pailers, and workhouse boss
es in Chattanooga.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-08-21
Golden Jubilee Celebration OF EIks =
August 21-27 In Cincinnati, Ohio
Grand Exalted Ruler See Fine Qualities
In Three PRESIDENTIAL Candidates
Dix!ecrat
Candidates
Overlooked

Washington, D. C. Aug 16 =
J. Finley Wilson, grand exhalted
ruler of the order disclosed in
a proclamation he has just is
sued to officers and members of
the organization that three Pre-
sidental candidates have been in
vited to address the annual Grand
Lodge of the Improved Benevol-
ent and Protective Order of Elks
of the World, to be held in Gin
cinnati Angus til to 81. The
Grand Exalted Ruler was non
commital On Gov. Strom Thur
mond the Dixiecrat candidate.
Praising President Truman for
his civil rights program, Governor
Thomas E. Dewey for his ad-
ministration of New York State,
and Henry A. Wallace for his
fight against segregation and dis
elimination. Mr.. Wilson told Elks
he had not hesitated to give them
to come to Cincinnati and help
us celebrate the Golden Jubilee"
of the order
In order to give the Presi-
Dental nominees of the Repub-
lican, Democratic and Progressive
parties or their representatives
an opportunity to appear and adj
dress delegates to the Grand
Lodge session, a "Town Hall"
meeting has been added to the
program.
The Town HalP' meeting will
be held at pm. August "a, at
the Music Hall Auditorium. The
grand parade will precede it in
afternoon and the military ball
will follow it that night.
Delegates to the convention Mr..
Wilson said, will come from Gen.
t1al and South America, Panama,
England, the Bahamas and Hawaii
as well as from lodges in con-
tinental United States. He said
Frisco Bingham will head a de-
legation from London, DR.. Ed
wards and Lionel Duncan will
head the delegation from Pana-
ma and Colonel John DeVeaux
and w F. Weir will lead the
delegation from the Bahamas.
The Grand Lodge program will
open 8 pm. August IL, with an
educational meeting at Stowe
School Auditorium. Mixing plea
sure with more serious matters,
the Elks ballroom and cabaret
opening is scheruled for 9 pm.
that evening in the Music Hall.
Preliminaries to the Grand
Lodge meeting on August % will
include the : baccalaureate SER
vices under the Education De-
partment at IL am; Junior Hr
ut 2 PM; Health Department
program at $3.50 pm. and Ma
tional Shrine program at 8 pm.
All of these programs will be held
in the Music Hall Auditorium.
To Confer Degree
The program on August %
starts at 1880 am, with a cap
and Gown" breakfast at the Cot
ton Club Grill The grand temple
will confer degree at s am. in
the Music Hall North Wing. At
CONTINUED on Page 81
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-08-21

NFIRST FLIGHT - Mrs. COrrine
Henderson Perkins, 4910 Forrest
Vile Avenue, Chicago, an en-
n!Oyee of Northwestern Air Lines
for long time, took her first
ride in the air last week when
she flew to Seattle, Wash, visit
ing her brother, Ezel Henderson,
ard wife, Margaret. While there
she attended the National Assoc
iation of Negro WOmen's COnven-
ton. Mrs. Perkins is the niece of
the Ed Sperlin's of Lois Angles
CalifOrl ia.
Atlas News Photo
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-08-21
Nations Greatness Came From PhiIIso-
DIV That The Creator Endowed All
Mankind With Rights OF Freedom As
The Child OF God
Hebert Clark Hoover Nations Only
Living Ex-President Celebrates 18th
Birthday
Says Freedom
Guides u. S.

West Branch, La Aug 10 -
The greatness of this nation came
from the philosophy that "the
Creator endowed all mankind with
rights of freedom as the child of
God, herbert Clark Hoover told
a crowd of more that 10000 gath
cred here today to pay homage to
the Nations only living expresi-
dent as he observed his 74th
ns.4Lan-r