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Evening star., 1948-03-03
Murders
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warded< an hour later when
Lawrence Garner walked into the
trap.
But before Lawrence arrived at
headquarters, his brother had ad-
mitted the robbery -slayings and i'm
plicated him. Confronted later by
his accuser, Lawrence also broke
down and the brothers signed writ
ten confessions.
Identified by Witnesses.
Acting Capt. Robert v. Murray.
head Of the Robbery Squad, notified
reporters at 2 am, and four hours
later formal murder charges were
filed.
Capt. Muray's announcement
came u hours after police got their
first tip on the Garners from one of
three witnesses who said they saw
them in one Of the cabs Friday
night. The witnesses identified the
Garners in q special show-up last
night, police said.
Maj. Barrett said Lawrence Gar
ner admitted shooting both men
with the same pistol, German
automatic. During the year and a
half he served in the Army, Law
renee Garner was overseas, leading
to- the assumption he brought the
weapon back as a souvenir.
Part of Pistol Recovered.
Part of the pistol was recovered
last night. Today, police took the
Garners on tour Of the Southeast
area in which the taxicab drivers
were slain. They also pointed to the
Potomac River, near Key Bridge,
where they said the other part of
the gun was thrown. The Navy will
grapple for the piece today.
In q sewer at the northwest cor
|ner Of Sixth street and Madison
drive NV, the prisoners pointed
out q billfold and change carrier
police said was taken from Mr..
Hardy, one Of the victims.
Police also sought to link the
Garners with the savage beating Of
another cab driver, Chester A.
Jackson, A, colored, 3605 Warder
street NV. His skull was fractured
In an assault by two men he picked
up at South Capitol and M streets
S.W. on January 80.
Both Of the Garners said In their
confessions they were unemployed
and needed money. Both have po-
lice records dating back to 1943.
Two Detectives Credited.
Credited with obtaining informa-
ton leading to the arrests were De-
tective Sergts. Ernst Winter and
Randolph Dunn of the robbery
squad. Maj. Barrett took an active
part in the search, as did the en-
tire Detective Bureau, under Capt.
Robert s. Bryant; the homicide
squad, under 1t. jeremiah r. Fla
herty, and the robbery squad under
ActingC Capt. Murray.
George Garner has q juvenile
record and was convicted Of forgery
In 1e43 with q sentence Of 6 to 18
months. The same year he also was
charged with petty larceny and at
tempted larceny. In 1945 he was
arrested on an assault charge and
later charged with threats to a girl
friend and cruelty to animals.
Lawrence Garner admitted q con-
viction in 1943 for auto larceny and
a sentence Of from / to years, 1t.
NE11rrou aofS ua uyns hNyaNro hiv
discharged from the Army on Octo-
ber II, 1916. Both brothers are
District natives.
$500 to Be Awarded.
The arrests followed by o few
hours q statement from Commis-
sioner Young, calling on police to
spare no expense in overtime or
otherwise in bringing these vicious
murderers to the bar Of justice"
Mr.. Young approved Maj. Bar
rett's action In offering $500 reward
Evening star., 1948-03-03
Disability Poy Urged
For 3 Police Officials

Three top police officials have been
recommended for disability retire.
ment by the Board of Police and
Fire Surgeons. The intentions Of
the three officers to retire were an
nounced earlier.
They are Inspector Walter II.
Thomas, assistant superintendent
Of police; Inspector Clement P. Cox,
chief property clerk, and Capt. Ben
jamin G. Kuehling Of the 12th pre-
cinct.
The recommendations Of the Board
Of Police and Fire Surgeons were
made yesterday and the next step
is the appearance Of the three be-
fore the retirement board at an
early date.
Evening star., 1948-03-03
Ample Housing Expected
In z Years i'm Australia
BY the Asseeiotsd Press

CANBERRA.-Minister for Hous-
ing Nelson Lennon declared re-
Gently the acute housing shortage
in Australia would be relieved
within two years.
Mr.. Lennon said in a statement
he based his opinion on "a con-
siderable Improvement in home
building in 1947," and confidence
there would be increased produc-
ton of building materials.
I'm two years 1t should be pos
sible for a young married couple
to get q home built without de-
lay, as in prewar days." he said.
Evening star., 1948-03-03
AustruIiuns Witness
kangaroo Surf Bathing
BY fhs Associoted Press

MELBOURNE.-A large kangaroo
went surfing recently at Lorne, sea-
side resort of Victoria.
The kangaroo went out about 100
yards from the shore and hoped
about In the waves. It shook itself
after every wave and apparently
enjoyed itself. When wave got
too deep for 1t, 1t retreated toward
the shore but went further out
when the wave subsided.
Koalas have been observed to
come down to the beach and bathe
in, and even drink, the salt water.
Evening star., 1948-03-03

troll had been holding back new
building.
Commissioner Mason, generally
supporting the Cogswell testimony,
noted that there was so little avail
able land left in the District for
construction projects that most Of
the new construction programs were
forced to 60 to Maryland and Vir-
ginia. Asserting that chaos would
result if District. controls were not
continued, with the noted exemp-
tions, he warned that everybody in
the District would be on your necks
not on ours"
Evening star., 1948-03-03
FEpC Bill Reported
To Senate by Ives;
Changes Provided

A Senate drive to set up a
Fair Employment Practices Com
mission was under way today
while House Republican leaders
made plans to push another fea-
fture of President Truman's civil
rights program, the Federal
anti-lynching bill.
Both moves by the GoP-doni.
mated Congress served to fan the
flames Of Southern revolt against
President Truman In the Demo
cratic Party.
Senator Ives, Republican, of New
York filed the favorable report OF
the Senate Labor Committee on q
proposed permanent FEPC. The
majority report explained that the
measure seeks to overcome some OF
the objections raised against pre-
vious measures by including the fol-
lowing provisions:
Limiting coverage to employers OF
so or more: exempting nonprofit re-
ligious, charitable, fraternal and
educational associations; using the
term religion" instead of "creed" in
prohibiting discrimination in en-
ployment because of race, religion,
color, national origin or ancestry.
The bill would apply to the Dis
trict of Columbia as well as In. the
States, but State and local govern
ments are exempt. It also applies to
the Federal Government.
The seven-member commission
could issue cease and desist orders
but only after conciliation had
failed.
Labor Unions Affected.
A cease and desist order could call
for reinstatement or hiring, but any
party aggrieved by final order or
the commission could seek review
In the circuit courts.
The bill would prohibit discrim1-
nation by labor unions as well as by
private employers.
The FEPC action came shortly
after the House Judiciary Committee
had voted to report the anti-lynch-
ing bill. The vote was unofhcially
reported as 18 to 8.
After learning that the Repub-
lican majority had brought the
anti-lynching bill from the House
judiciary Committee, Representa-
tive Rivers, Democrat, Of South
Carolina, arose in the House and
told the COP members they are
making a mistakes In trying to
"embarrass" Mr.. Truman by pushing
through his program. He said
Harry Truman is a dead bird"
Urges Trimming Of Fund.
The new FEPC move prompted Sem
ator Russell, Democrat, Of Georgia
to declare yesterday that he will
Join Republicans in any effort to
trim the 100000 which the House
voted for a White House emergency
fund in the year beginning July /.
This Is 100000 more than Mr..
Truman has this year.
A Senate Appropriations Subconl-
mittee was considering the fund as
part of the 1891 ,518,551 independent
ofiices money bill when Senator
Reed, Republican, of Kansas noted
that the civil rights study cost
$4,000.
Terming the emergency fund "the
worst possible appropriation in
years." Senator Russell said: "I,l
be glad to Join the chairman in any
reduction In that"
Evening star., 1948-03-03
RentControI
(Continued From First Page.)

Charles ]. Bauer, secretary Of the
Building Owners and Managers
Association of Metropolitan WASH
ington, except that he declared
peacetime rent control was thor
oughly undemocratic and contrary
to the free enterprise system"
Senator Cain, Republican, OF
Washington. who piloted through
the Senate hberalized bill for con-
tinuation of national rent controls
for IA months, pressed Mr.. Cogs-
well for reasons why there should
be any difference in rent control
here from that for the rest Of the
country.
Stresses Need for D. C. Law.
Mr.. Cogswell replied that, while
he was quite ready to except tran
sient rooms and new construction,
1t would be impossible otherwise to
fit the District law into the national
scheme. He added that If this effort
were to be made, you might just
as well pitch the District law out
OF the WlnooW.
He added that there had been a
decidedly different approach to rent
problems under the District law
than under the old OPA statute.
Under the old national act. he said,
no increases in rentals were granted
II reasons could be found to reject
them. Under the District law, how
ever, he continued, there was pro-
vision for granting increases to
cover increased taxes and mainte-
nance costs.
Mr.. Cogswell said his Office had
handled $4,000 requests for rent
adjustments, most of them being
for increases which ranged roughly
up to SO per cent. Most of the re-
quests were granted, he recalled,
though not for all the landlords
asked.
Denies Curb on New Building.
Senator Cain said evidence before
his Senate subcommittee indicated
that freeing of new construction
was needed as an incentive to resi-
Dental construction.
Mr.. Cogswen said he had no OBJ
lection to exempting new construc-
Sion. but decEed that it "just isn't
true" to say that District rent con-
Evening star., 1948-03-03
ADVERTISEMENT.
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With Little Worry

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drug store.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-01-23
BY HOWARD w. BLAKESLEE
Az Science Editor

New Haven, Conn.-Dramatic
research in microscopic living or
ganisms on an assembly, line meth
cd that operates as truly as the
industrial lines that make autos
has been set up at Yale Univer-
sity.
This assembly line handles vi
tamin growth factors in a mold
one of the complest forms of life,
but the processes seem to be the
same as those forming all living
things, including man.
Man and every other organism
is what he is because of his genes.
Genes are invisible particles,
mostly protein, that fix heredity.
There is a complete set of these
particles in every tissue cell of
the body. They determine size,
height, hair color. species, disease
resistance and probably emotions
and mental abilities.
How genes do all this has been
a mystery, except that their role
is chemical. The first steps in
their chemical actions have been
found on the assembly line.
This work is done by a team in
the Osborn Botanical Laboratory,
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-01-23
NEWS FHoM -.
Big Point

MI. and Mrs. Dean Strickland
and daughter of Pascagoula spent
the weekend with Mrs. Strick-
lands parents, MI. and Mrs. L. X.
Golf.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. V. Sims ana
children of Pascagoula were VS.
TORS in the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
J. D. Broadus Sunday.
Friends of Mrs. Mary Parkhurst
are glad to know she is improving
from a recent illness at the home
of her son in New Orleans.
Waldo and David McClamroch
of Hattiesburg spent the weekend
with their mother, Mrs. Jessie Nc
Clamroch.
Mrs. w. C. Carter and son of
Basin were guests Sunday OF
MI. and Ms. E. l.. Nelson.
MIR. and MRS. j. d. Broadus
had as their CUES. last week their
aunt, Mrs. Tull Carter from BIZ
loxi.
Sixteen from this community
attended the Youth Fellowship
meeting at Pascagoula Monday
night.
Mr.. and Mrs. A.. F. Carter OF
Wade were dinner guests of Mrs
H. w. Cochran Monday.
Friends of Mrs. Fred Ogborn
Vicksburg where she underwent
regret to hear that she is i'll in
an operation Monday.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-01-23
Optimist Club
Hears Talk On
Government

At their regular dinner meet
ing on Tuesday evening the OPP
timist club heard Herschel Rich
ard, vice president of the club,
discuss "How Government AT
fairs Pertain to the Average Bus
mess Man"
Mr.. Richard, also, discussed the
Importance of foreign relations.
His talk is the second on q
series of programs on civic af-
fairs. Last week the program
was devoted to the state legis-
lature. Next week a guest speak
er will discuss civic affairs, the
chairman of the program COM
mittee announced.
All members r urged to at
tend and reminded of the change
in meeting place from the Recrea'
ton Center to the Annex.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-01-23
Assembly Line Methods Applied To
Research All Yale University Lab

composing Edward L. Tatum,
professor of microbiology, David
M. Bonner, research associate in
botany, Paul R. Burkholder, Eaton
professor of botany, Laura earn
jobst and Sofia Simmonds, both
research assistants in microbiol-
ogy and Victor M. Cutter, Jr.,
assistant professor of microbiol-
ogy.
The main assembly line is made
up by a red bread fungus, Neu-
rospora. Numerous laboratory
rooms handle hundreds of pounds
OF the fungus, in thousands of
test tubes and dozens of ten-gal-
Ion bottles. The rooms range from
tropical heat to near zero. In the
cold r stored thousands of fro
zen fungi, each an assembly line
product, that any time in the next
ten years can be brought back to
life by warming.
The assembly line starts by
exposing the colored fungus to
X-rays, or to ultraviolet light OF
to war mustard gases. These ex-
posures cause mutations, which
are hereditary changes in genes.
After mutation, each changed
gene produces a fungus that is
different. The differences are
mostly the loss of ability to make
for its own use some vitamin or
protein acid needed or growth.
Next a colony of altered fungus
goes into a big bottle that con-
tains fungus nutriment. There the
fungus grows. But when it comes
to the point of making the stuff
it has lost the ability to produce.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-01-23
Home Program Topic
Of Womun's Club
AT ~JdnuorY Meeting

1.-The Home and Its Influence
was the program subject of the
Moss Point Woman's club at their
January meeting held or Tuesday
evening at the Y. NJ. B. c. club
house.
Miss Florence Blanchard, Mrs.
c.. l.. Bond and Mrs. Leonard
Robinson collaborated in an in
formal discussion to present the
influence of the home on the fam
lily and the community.
BY using a question and answer
technique the phases of the sub
ject were presented by the guest
speakers.
Tody Hays, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Forbes Hays, entertained club
members with his one man illus
ion show and sleight of hand
tricks and during the social hour
he played several piano selections.
During the business session re-
ports were made by the standing
committees and the club voted to
send a check to the YM.B.C., who
are remodelling the club house,
in appreciation for the use of the
club house.
During the social hour sand
wiches and cold drinks rel serv-
ed by the hostesses of the even
ing, Mesdames Rames Khayat,
Clark Britton, and J. d. Harris.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-01-23
First Meeting OF
Yeor Held By Sarah
Bennett Circle

The first meeting of the Sarah
Bennett circle of the Woman's
Society of Christian Service of the
First Methodist church of Pascal
goula for 1913, was held at the
home of Mrs. r. v. Bardwell, on
January 10 at 2 p. m.
The meeting was presided over
by the recently appointed chair
man, Mrs. B. E. Mckenzie, who
was serving for the first time,
and who directed the business
period.
This was followed by the study
of the opening chapter of the new
mission study book, I'VE the Peo-
Piles" which was led by the new
leader, Mrs. r. M. Lucas. The
study had been preceded by the
devotional led by Mrs. Motley
Byrd, who chose the l2lst Psalm
for her subject.
Among the 16 present was a
visitor, Mrs. F. w. Gamache, of
| ST. Louis, Mo.
The next meeting will be held
jointly with the other circles and
will take place at the church next
Monday.
The program was followed by
a social hour when refreshments
were served.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-01-23

those raw materials are left I'M
used and accumulate.
What happens is like an as
sembly line where the workman
whose job is to put on a rear
wheel stops work. The auto viii
come off the line minus a rear
wheel, and rear wheels will pile
up.
The same is possible in the liv-
ing line. These workmen of life
are engines. Engines, like genes,
are invisibly small particles. Each
does a specific job. One of the
best known engines is the pepsin
in mans digestive system, and its
job is to split protein food in his
stomach.
One important discovery is
that each engine, or perhaps
gang of engines, has a boss. This
boss is a single gene of heredity.
When X-rays damage this gene
boss, his engines quit, and that
one job in the living assembly, line
ceases.
That, in a nutshell, appears to
be a great discovery that should
lead ultimately to solution OF
many problems, chemical, psysi-
cal and human. But it is going to
be complicated, because a man
might have as many as a million
different engines, each doing a
chemical reaction under gene d.
rection.
The Yale assembly line has
found the lowest rung, a good
place to start understanding the
more complex life processes.
There are many practical goals
not too far ahead. Immunity to
disease appears to be the goal
In cancer there is a theory that
malignancy may begin in a gene
that initiates in a body cell. There
has been no good tool to study
this mutation theory of cancer,
The assembly line offers a prom
ising model.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-01-23

careful this year about woods
fires because fire can easily de-
stroy all of the seed or seedlings
nature is giving US.
Ranger Hodges states that all
should remember that nature has
planted 999.9 percent of all trees
we now have growing in this
state. An average Slash pine pro-
duces about $4,000 seed. If one
tenth of these sprout and come
up, fire could destroy 1900 young
trees when it burns under and
around one Slash pine tree. These
figures indicate the destruction
of young trees when large acre.
age burns.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-01-23
Report Best Pine
Moss Crop In
Years In County

The best pine mass crop in
many years for Jackson County
is reported by Area Ranger Ford
c. Hodges of the Mississippi
Forest Service. Calling attention
to the fact that nature has plant
cd a wonderful crop for the fu-
ture of this county, Ranger
Hodges states that these seed will
come up and begin to create
wealth in the early spring. He
cautions all persons to be extra
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-01-23
NEWS FROM
Wilson Springs

Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Porter Of
Three Rivers visited here Thurs
day.
Mrs. Row Stevens1had as guests
last week Mrs. Bethel Mizell and
daughter of Escatawpa, Misses
Bessie Herring and Winnie Farm
er of Wolf Ridge.
Mrs. Clarence Porter and sons
and Junior Porter attended the
basketball game at Wade scnooI
Friday night.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-01-23

Governor Winthrop of Massa-
chusetts launched a cotton ship
in 1851 to trade with the Dutch
on Long Island.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-01-23

Ask for BLUE CANE BRAND
Pure Country Syrup in Jaxon
Jars at your Grocery.-Adv.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-01-23

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Milford chronicle., 1948-07-09
Woman Fatally
Burned In Blast
Wife Of French Aide Vic
tim OF RehObOth
Explosion

Mrs. Andree Francois, As years
old of Washington, D. c., died in
the Beebe Hospital, Lewes, at $3.50
q. m. July 4th from severe burns
received in a gas explosion in the
basement of her summer cottage at
131 Columbia Avenue, RehOboth
Beach. Delbert Moore, owner of the
cottage, suffered burns in the
blast and is in a serious condition.
The explosion occurred about o
D. m. last Sunday when Moore lit a
match showing Mrs. Francois the
location of hot water heater. Ap-
parently there was a gas leak in the
basement of the cottage as blast
followed with Mrs. Francois re-
Ceiving the full force of the eXplo-
sion. She suffered third degree
burns over her entire body. Moore
also was burned on the face and
body.
DR.. Robert L. Klinger Of Reno
both Beach was summoned and
gave first aid after which Mrs
Francois and Moore were taken to
the hospital in the RehOboth Beach
community ambulance.
Mrs. Francois and her husband
Anthony, arrived from the nations
capital on last Wednesday for q
shore vacation. Mrs. Francois is q
French attache Cf the food and ag.
Cconunued on page 81
Milford chronicle., 1948-07-09
100000 Are
To
Use Bridge
First Year
Span Scheduled To Open
In 1851 With $4,000.
Vehicles Using 1t
Yearly By 1860.

Consulting engineers retained by
the State Highway Department to
make traffic surveys for the Della
ware Memorial Bridge estimate that
during the first year of operation
some 3,688,00O vehicles will use the
crossing.
Under the construction schedule
now set up the bridge would be
ready for traffic before the summer
rush of 1851 or about June 1 of
that year.
Thus the first year of operation
would correspond generally with a
fiscal year starting June 1, 1851. BY
1860, the engineers, COverdale and
COlpitts, estimate that some 5,S13,-
600 vehicles will yearly use the
bridge which, it is also believed,
will save about 20 minutes travel
ing time compared with the ferries.
Acquisition of Ferries
In report to the Highway De-
partment Coverdale and Colpitts
said that 1.-The principal source of
potential traffic for the bridge will
be the Pennsville Ferry which will
be acquired by the State Highway
Department. With the opening OF
the proposed bridge this ferry will
cease to operate.
"Other sources of potential traf-
fic are the Chester Ferry and the
bridges crossing the Delaware Riv'
er at Camden and Trenton.
Continued on page 81