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Evening star., 1948-05-02
Reviewed by
HARNETT T. KANE.

HARNETT T. KANE,
Author of "Natchez on the Missis-
Sippi," "Ne1D Orleans Woman" etc
Taking a period of a year and a
few months for a time limit, Mrs
Seifert has evolved a light, pleasant
romance out of the courtship OF
Jefferson Davis and the 17-year-old
who became his bride.
This is not the story of the Con-
federacy's President, or of the issues
that made the man and the war in
which he won his chief fame; nor
is 1t the story of his wife. The
author has chosen to do small
segment Of their lives, and to do it
intensively. The result is a book
that is part fact, part novel, neatly
amalgamated.
One day, at her home near
Natchez-on- the -Hill-the old cotton
capital of the Lower Mississippi
Varina Howell was asked to a
Christmas party in the country with
the Davis family. She wondered
but she satisfied her family by ac-
cepting. There she found the DOM
lnant elder brother, and there were
also many women of the household,
some OF whom she liked. some she
d1sllked. But mainly there was jeff
Davis, the remote. slightly mysteri-
GUS younger brother of the family
who didn't please her at all = at
first, anyway.
The couple was thrown together:
their views changed. And there were
clashes in the family, involving, par
t1cularly, that older brother. But 1t
all works out happily and Mrs. Sci
fert brings 1t to an easy close. At
home In her re-creations of the
American past, the author has an
obvious sympathy for her characters
and for her scene. Not a Deep
Southerner herself, she nevertheless
manages an Identification with the
people and their ways and attitudes,
Some may question one or two pas
sages which seem almost a glorifica-
tlon OF slavery-most Southerners of
today don't attempt such a thing;
but by and large the pages ring
true, and nicely so.
Evening star., 1948-05-02
BuNfighting
And Diplomacy
THE INNOCENT VILLA

IHE INNOCENT VILLA
BY Barnaby Conrad. (Random
House; $2.75.)
Behind this gentle title turks q
rather violent tale OF Illicit love
and bullf1ghting. The characters
appearing most frequently are Lance
Peters, American vice consul in
Cordoba, Spain; Chelo, pretty but
not SO innocent gypsy for whom
Peters falls hard; Angel O'Hara
who drinks, and the stuf1y consul
and his wife, whose names aren't
worth mentioning. Peters gets the
girl and loses his diplomatic stand
ing. Most interesting are the con-
tests between el toro and the sons
of an illustrious toreador. The
author, former State Department
man, studied bulldghting with Sid
ney Franklin and his performance
is worth at least an ear. FL.
Evening star., 1948-05-02

during the II months he spent here
between overseas Air Forces assign
ments, he saw some people who
worked their hearts OUT
He still burns, though, at the
memory of such parasites as he de-
scribes in his book, who were crawl
ing all over the place so that re-
turned soldier like himself couldn't t
get into hotel or an apartment or
a restaurant.
But, it turned out in the course
Of an interview, he isn't nearly SO
sore at the wartime chiselers as he
is at the system which produced
them. a system whereby officers
were commissioned for the sole pur-
pose of making Congressman happy.
why should so much log-rolling
and back-slapping be necessary"
he still wants to know.
His autographing expedition at
Brentano'S Pentagon store went of
without incident, he reported. Many
high-ranking officers came down to
reconnoiter, he said, riff1ed through
the book, raised a military eyebrow
and retreated in good order. The
next wave was made up Of secre-
taries, who asked that copies be
inscribed to various colonies, majors
and captains. who. he concludes.
were apparently unwilling to make
direct contact with so severe a critic
His wrath is being gently soothed
now by the composition Of a novel
based on the life of Sigmund Rom
berg, which, he says, is full Of "Old
Vienna, schmalz and waltzes."
That done, the Arnold tempera-
ture is due to rise again. He's going
to write another angry novel about
what the war did to American SOL
diers' sense Of individual property,
so that they went around picking
up hats and coats that weren't
theirs just because "it all belonged
to Uncle Sam anyway.
Evening star., 1948-05-02
Behind d-the-Scenes
Story of Frances
lDoubIe-DeoIino
THE SPANISH STORY
BY Herbert Feis. (AJred A
Knopt;; $500
Reviewed by
GARNETT D, HORNER,

|
GARNETT D. HORNER.
The behind the scenes story oi
Franco Spain's double dealing with
the Allies and the Axis during World
War II is fully revealed in this latest
book by Mr.. Feis, State Department
economic adviser at the time.
He describes from first-hand
knowledge the worried American and
British efforts to keep Spain neutral
with q juggling of economic favors
and economic threats. From cap
tured German and italian docu-
ments, he weaves into his account
the other side Of the story-futile
efforts by Hitler and Mussolini to
get Spain into the war on their side
ard Francos devious side stepping
Most of the principal facts Mr.
Feis deals with have been made
public at one time or another, but
he makes q worthwhile contribu-
ton to World War II history by
bringing them together in an IN
teresting narrative.
American officials were reluctant
to do any favors for Franco, but, al
first under British pressure, worked
out = policy of selling Spain enough
oil and other essentials to keep her
economy going on the theory that
otherwise she would be forced to
join forces with the Axis and open
up Gibraltar to the Germans.
Franco wasn't easy for Americans
to deal with even after the tide OF
war turned to make Allied victory
certain. Mr.. Feis thinks his lack
Of genuine fear" of America ano
Britain was because he was con
vinced that he would be wanted a.
an ally in that war against COM
munism that would follow the wal
that was being fought"
Who knows what the end will
be?" concludes Mr.. Feis.
Evening star., 1948-05-02

some, outspoken
young author of
that unfatter-
ing picture OF
high times in
the " r t | m e
Capital, Every
b dy S ] e p t
Here" thinks
it's q beautiful
city, likes the
p ople an d
hopes that no
body thinks he
meant to imply
that the whole
t o W n W a S
GRAVY " because
Evening star., 1948-05-02
Ghosts Revived
On MoryIond's
Eastern Shore
RIVER OF ROGUES
BY Beverly -Giddings. (Morrow,
S3.)
Reviewed by
NINA PEMBERTON.

There are many ghosts on
Maryland's quiet Eastern Shore.
Some of the evil doings Of the 1820s
would greatly surprise today's peace
full and law-abiding inhabitants of
the Nanticoke region. 1t is of this
general neighborhood that Beverly
Giddings has written in his period
romance, "River of Rogues."
BY fictionalizing such infamous
characters as the wicked Patty
Cannon and her evil doings as a
slave kidnaper, Mr.. Giddings has
produced a lusty picture of life on
Maryland's Eastern Shore in the
days when being a gentleman of
means and an owner of extensive
lands and many slaves carried with
it much responsibility and not a
few headaches. Such a gentleman is
David Innes. His hunt and eventual
destruction of the slave kidnapping
gang on the Nanticoke River, his
marriage to the irresistible but un-
tamable New Orleans beauty, and
his second marriage to Prudence
the lovely Quaker girl, all contribute
to making this novel a work of
charm, simplicity and historical in
tereSt.
Evening star., 1948-05-02
Reading and Writing
Reading and Writing
Elliott Arnold Revives Burning Memories
OF Some Wartime Washington Worms
By MoN McGrov

Elliott Arnold, who was in town
last week, wanted to make 1t plain
that he has nothing personal
against Washington. The hand
Evening star., 1948-05-02
Here's q Parrot
With q Mission
BY Michael FesSier. dial; s2.)
Reviewed by

Reviewed by
COURTENAY PLASKITT.
Generations Of careful breeding
finally produce the long-awaited
neutrality-suspicious. in the form
of Clovis, highly intelligent and
well-spoken parrot. Clovis has q
mission in life. just what 1t is, he
isn't sure, but after many trials
in the direction of curing drunks,
delivering philosophical lectures
and finally setting himself up as
the figurehead for a religious move
ment; he finds that his mis-
sionary gifts lie elsewhere. To
follow Clovis through his airy ad-
ventures and encounters is to find
yourself rocking with laughter with
not the least intention of laying it
aside until the end Of this racy
revelation is reached.
Evening star., 1948-05-02
Jefferson Dovis'
.Courtship Is Theme
OF Pleasant Novel;
THE PROUD WAY

BY Shirley Seifert. Lippincott,
Evening star., 1948-05-02
THE TRANSIENT HOUR

BY Marcel Ayme. "A. A. Wyn;
S2.50.)
The better French novelists have
always looked at the life about them
with discerning. disillusioned eyes
They've recorded what they've seen,
whether or not it reflected credit on
their countrymen. Mr.. Ayme is in
this realistic tradition.
He tells the story OF some
bourgeois Parisians who made the
best of things during the German
occupation. They didn't worry much
over the shame Of France; they took
the patrolling alien troops in stride,
and were more concerned with
thwarting regulations and profiting
where they could. Pierre Michaud
and his partner in q real estate
business eventually went into the
black market and made plenty
Michaud and Lolivier meanwhile
had more pressing worries over their
sdolescent sons. Many others
touched their lives, NATURALLY, and
these stand out In illuminating
flashes.
Mr.. Ayme has searching in.
sight, and he tells lot in a few
words. The occasional footnote.
which dispose of certain character!
are an effective novelty. The trans.
lation by Eric Sutton-and this il
the first Of Mr.. Ayme's many book.
to appear in Americas excellent
y y
THE MECHANICAL ANGEL
BY Donald Friede. (Alfred A
Knopt; So
Unlike some other sutobiogrspher
and novelists, Mr.. Friede does no
look back on the fabulous '2os as Al
Evening star., 1948-10-10

w LTH0UGH HEAVY Of heart what they feel = ths
inevitable demise Of the trolley car. O. menbers
arc making the o. by recording It's slow
oblivion. s4 q
with camera In hand. these lobbyists are preserving
ING cut, by one II fayoe Of motor bus
They travel afar 70 ride lines they never rode before e
collect old seetcar tokens transfers. photos ana oef
memorabilia 9 sF esss sssssa
rev msmben of the organization are IN the nivay
busness themselves example, the president Henry
vice president Edmund Pendleton consulttng radio
engineer: Wian Grey. the ,sscretaEy htgh schooa
student the tIeasurer Frank Tca dos aerouautcal
map-making lawyer teachers and Army men also are
among the group. e S EsSsssSfs sss' IL
Lett John Petrorco 50 U street NV. pitroon. is
photographed by members of the club.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-06-18
Local. Baseball
Nine To PluY
d'Iberville Here

The Pascagoula baseball team
will play the D'Iberville team
Sunday at 2:30 p. m. at the In
gals ball park, c. E. Mcclellan,
manager of the team announced.
The starting lineup will come
from the following roster of
players: pitchers: Pelato, Jimmy
Sherrod, Guy Sutterfield; catch
ers:: J. T. Bishop, Jimmy Vincent,
Bobby Hamilton; infielders: Har-
old Rabby, j. D.. Farragut, C.. D.
Farragut, Booty" Farragut and
Clifford Johnson, team captain;
outfielders, Ray Roberts, Cole
Nelson, Jack Avis and Arthur
Lassiter.
The team is a member of the
Gulf Coast League. Teams from
Keesler Field, Biloxi, Picayune,
Ocean Springs, Slidell, D'Iber-
vile and Mississippi City COM
pose the league.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-06-18

the public schools. Richard Moh-
Ter received the outstanding stu
dent award.
st. AIMS Guild held its 18th an
niversary party at the home of
the guilds president, Mrs. James
Bridges, Wednesday night.
Ferdinand Herman was elected
commander of Ladnier Post, Am
erican Legion, at a meeting Mon
day. Other officers are B. Ber-
tucinni, first vice commander,
Mickey Ryan, second vice COM
mander and j. Massey, sergeant
at arms.
Hugh Saxon of Hateville, Ga,
visited his mother, Mrs. Hugh
Saxon, for the weekend.
Jimmie Guice, merchant sea-
man, is spending a month with
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-06-18
CLOSING HOUR

An official announcement from
DR.. Felix J. Underwood has been
issued announcing the closing
hour of all state and county health
offices at 4:30 p. m, effective the
18th of June and continuing until
September 18th, DR.. Andrew He'd
meg announced.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-06-18
Aom Ocean Springs -.
>,rriage OF Miss Kathryn Ann Krohn
"a Roy James Tootle Solemnized

her cousin, Miss Gladys Krohn
Of New Orleans, and Roland Too
tie, brother Of the groom, was
best man Following the cere-
mony a reception was held at
the Back Bay Community house
when the mothers of the bride
and groom assisted in receiving.
The bride attended st. Martin
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-06-18
Lotion TWO

Miss Kathryn Ann Krohn,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Horace
Krohn Of Ocean Springs, and Roy
James Tootle. son of Mr.. and Mrs.
S. E. Tootle of Biloxi, were mar
ried Friday, June IL, in the rec
tory of ST. Alphonsus church by
the Rev. Francis Diegnan. The
bride had as her only attendant
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-06-18

AS late as the 1905, persons
who affected long fingernails
were thought to use them as a
shield against doing any work.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-06-18

his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed
Guice.
Miss Patricia Niblock of Chica-
go is visiting her grandmother,
Mrs. N. c. Nissen.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-06-18

In New York City. a fire alarm
YVES transmitted on the average
of every nine minutes through
out 1916.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-09-18
Walter White
Leaves For United
Nations Meeting
In Paris

New york Sept Is - Walter
White. executive secretary ~of the
National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People, sail
ed today on the U. S. S. American
of Paris. where he will act as a
consuItant to the meeting. of the
limited Nations General Assembly.
Mr. White was invited to repre-
sent the NAACP at the meeting
nv Chester S. Williams, public
liaison officer of the United States
mission to the United Nations.
The NAACP executive secretary
in addition to representing the
half million members of the as
ISOLATION, will serve as spokes-
man for several other organHa-
lions including the National ALL
ance of Postal Employees, the
National Medical Association, Al
pha Phi Alpha Fraternity, tn
National Baptist Convention an
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-09-18
ForYesta Reveals
Report Declaring
The End OF Racial
inequality Is
Inevitable
ROYALL'S STAND CRITIZED

Washington, Sept IA - James
Forrestal, Secretary of Defense,
made public last Tuesday a re-
port by sixteen Negro civilian
leaders urging seven far-reach-
ing proposals to end segregation
and provide equal racial oppor-
tunity" in the army services.
The report is the outcome OF
a national defense conference on
Negro affairs opened by Secre-
tary Forrestal on April 26. It was
prepared ostensibly for consid-
Grafton by the Presidents Com
mittee on Equality of Treatment
and Opportunity in the Armed
Services. The committee was
created by President Truman by
executive order on July 26.
Recommendations BY The
Group
Toward this end, the group re-
port set forth the following re-
Communications relating to policy
and practice in the armed forces
alone.
1. The Office of the Secretary
Continued on Page 81
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-09-18
South African
Police Brass
knuckIe Natives
Fights To Amuse
Spectators
SHOCKED CHURCHMEN
FAIL TO END BRUTAL
EXHIBITIONS

Capetown, South Africa, Sept. Z
The racial problems that have
dominated the South African
scene since the Nationalist came
to power last May have been III
tensified by the revelations of
a Pretoria Correspondent of The
Cape Argus. The revelation of the
Argus Correspondent was obtained
in recent report to the New
York Times.
The highlights of this revela-
ton are that physical combats
between Negroes are organized"
under police control, that they
take place on Sundays and that
they provide Entertainment" for
White spectators, mostly young
men and women and children OF
all ages.
The Argus Correspondent de-
scribes a specially built arena
outside Pretoria. He tells how
about fifteen fights take place
at one time, between Negroes who
have stripped off their shirts AMI
show numerous scars He add )
that blood flows freely as the
fighters belabor each other.
Most of the combatants carry
several bracelets on their wrists,
which they use as brass knuckles.
Inquiry by the Correspondent
revealed that Sunday fights have
been organized in Pretoria for
several months, and that they
have shocked churchmen and wei
fare workers who have striven to
end them.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-09-18
Wallace Call For
Red In
Southern Repre-
sentation In
Congress

New York - Reduction of the
number of Congressman allowed
Southern states which bar the vote
to Negroes as provided in
the U. S. Constitution was
beinb urged this week by Henry
Wallace as a means Of smashing
Jim Grow polls.
addressing the largest paid po-
litical rally in American history
at the Yankee Stadium in New
York on Sept 10. Wallace chal-
lenged candidates of the Repub-
lican and Democratic parties to
join with him Sin enforcing the
second section of the fourteen
tn amendment no less than the
other provisions of the Constitu-
ton"
The second section of the Con-
stitution provides that the con-
gressional quota of any state
barring the vote to any citizens
shall be reduces in proportion to
those who are denied the ballot.
''In 1916 the votes cast to elect
"a congressman from Louisiana,
Mississippi and Alabama were
less than the votes cast in the
oath congressional ditriit here in
New York." Wallace said.
John Bankin and % others all
together received less votes than
are cast in New York's oath con-
gressional district"
Wallace said that the threat of
reducing the number of congress-
men elected in lily-white states
would make the Southern poll tax
advocates slow up in their Jim
Crow tactics.
IF each congressional candi-
date takes such a pledge, I pre-
dict we shall Sc an end to the
many hidrances to free suffrage
in the Sohth," Wallace said.
The gigantic Yankee Stadium
rally was Wallace's first public
appearance following his tradition
- shattering Southern tour in
which he addressed 80 unsegre-
gated public meetings in % cities
in a weeks tour through seven
states of the deep South.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-09-18
South Carolina
Trunia Fund Leans
From S392 to
S2,112

Columbia, S. c. Sept. II = The
re-elect President Truman fund a.
mong South Carolina Negroes
jumped from last weeks total of
$392.1O to $2,112 by Tuesday of
this week as more readers began
to send in their dollar bills and
vote pledges for the President
on November 2.
Typical of the spirit of the Cit
liens is that of those at the Level
Green Methodist Church at Ben
nettsville last Sunday, who turn
ed over their entire public collec-
ton of S25 to the cause. Another
tion of $25 to the cause. Another
pasor in the vicinity, the Rev.
S. E. Frazier collected $53 from
his membership for the fund.
Down in the states smallest
caunty, Jaspe, citizens have got
ten together approximately $500
to be put in the Truman pot and
from over the state collections
are beginning to roll in.
Each either. is to contribute at
least one dollar and to pledge to
vote for President Truman in Nov
euber, South Carolina is ask to get
at least 100000 on this project
and siuilar nucber of pledged
votes.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-09-18

GRAND jury LAUDS SERVICES OF
ATLANTA NEGRO POLICE
Greater Respect For Law Seen In Negro
Attitude

z TIL retiring July-August
grand jury of Fulton County
Friday gave special praise to the
performance of duty by Antlanta's
eight Negro officers.
In its presentments the jury
said: 3,
eve find that for several
months Negro police have been
patrolling those areas of Atlanta
where Negroes canggregate, and
conclude that they are effective
increating greater respect for law
and order in hese areas.
The responsibilities of the cit
liens in law enforcement was ci-
ted by the jury. 1t said, "To every
citizen of Fulton county, we pre-
sent hte sordid picture hiatt comes
before each successive grand
jury; burglary, robbery larceny
murder, rape, assault, bigamy,
sadamy abandonment of minor
children and other crimes. The
ultimate responsibility for law
observance and the prevention OF
crime and delinquency rest upon
each and every one Of u.s., the
jurors declared. "Only through
the interest and conserted action
of all the people can we build
a cleaner and greaer community.
Among other things the grand
jury critied sharply the appalling
number of accidents caused by
reckless driving. authorities can
not provide policeman for every
vehicle" the jurors declared. "The
Jury would therefore chorie eve
nv driver with his or response
bility to respect the law and
rights of others"
Legislation urged by the jury
included:
1. A law requiring that defen-
dants be sworn when testfylng
in their own behalf and that they
be subjected cross-examination
2. Ameasure to abolish the IN
determinate sentence law.
g. A law restoring to the judge
the power and AUTHORITY to fix the
penalty after conviction
4. A law that makes the max
imum penalty mandatory upon
q third convection Of relony mis-
demeanor.
s. A1aw requiring profit OF au-
+onoobile ownership before d
transfer of title may be made
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-09-18
M. W King Hiram
asonic Grand
Lodge Elect Dele
gates to Attend
Natl. Meeting

The Most Worshipful King Hir-
am Grand Lodge have elected Ill.
J. C. McClendon 33 degree Grand
Master, Jackson, Miss, Ill. Ma
thaniel Stubs, 33 degree Deputy
Grand Master Of Leland, Miss,
and I'll. Clarence Winters 33 de-
gree Grand Secretary of Jackson,
Miss. delegates to represent the
Grand Lodge in the General
Grand Masonic Congress, Supreme
Council and Imperial Grand Coun-
Gil, which will, convene in St.
Louis, Mo-, Oct 3-9, 1948.
Mrs. Ora NJ Reese. Royal Grand
Matron and Mrs. Rosa Beard,
Royal Grand Secretary of the Or
der of Easter Star elected to re-
present Electa Grand Chapter,
working under the M. w. King
Hiram Grand Lodge.
The visiting Grand Lodgers
will be the guest of the M. w.
ST. Matthews Grand Lodge State
of Missouri, H., T. J. Smith 33
. degre Grand Master.
All delegates will assemble at
the Masonic Temple, in the City
of st. Louis, State of Mo-, on
Sunday, Oct. 8, 194S, Oil North
Vandementer Avenue at High
Noon, to attend the Divine Ser
vice at the Mt. Gallilee M. B.
Church, 1900 Delmar Boulevard,
to hear Biennial Sermon by I'll.
H. T. Grant $50 Supreme Grand
Chaplain, Portland, Oregon.
The General Grand Masonic
Congress, will open Monday, $3.50
A. M. Ill. ED. Love 33a Presi-
dent, Washington, D. c. presiding.
The honorary degree 33rd and
last, will be conferred on several
brothers of our Grand Lodge dur
ing this meeting.
Members throughout the State
of Mississippi will attend this
National meeting. Delegates Will
leave Friday, Oct, list, 1948 at
1888 AM. on the City of New
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