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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-03-19

The Margaret Walker Book
Club met Sunday, March Is, 1949,
at O'Clock with Mrs Esther Dix
on Lindsay as hostess, in her love-
ly home on Rose Street. The pres
ident, Miss Dorothy M. Oliver,
presided over the business, which
included plans for the forth-com-
Door,, by Willard Motley, was
excellently reviewed by Miss
Hattie Mae Mitchell of the jack
son College staff. Displaying de-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-03-19

Mr.. Fred Butler, of Atlanta,
Ga. has returned home after a
brief visit with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. H. S. Jones, on Deer
park ST.; he was accompanied
by his little daughter, Thefred,
who has spent several weeks with
her grandparents.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-03-19

Misses azel and Virginia Brown
of Laurel, Miss, spent a briefH
visit in the home of Miss Gwen
dolyn Greene, enroute to Touga-
loo College, after weekend
visit home.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-03-19

Mrs. o. Byrd Moorhead of Chi
cago, Ill.,, spent a few days in the
city with her mother, Mrs. Evang-
cline Byrd, while attending the
funeral of her father, Mr.. Willie
Byrd. While in the city she was
also guest of Mr.. and Mrs. w. J.
Summers, On w. Pearl Street.
Mrs. A. M. Hall was hostess to
the Informal Bridge Club, in her
beautiful home on w. Pearl St.,
recently. After the social hour a
delicious luncheon was served,
carrying out the st. Patrick
theme to the following members
and guests: Mdms. Juanita Bea-
die, Johnnie Cobbs, Lila Davis,
Sue Lewis, Annie Moseley, Err
nestine Cypress, Thelma Jones,
Lucille Price, Mary Smith, Viola
Summers, Ester Sampson and
Frances Greene.
Evening star., 1949-05-08

1T was very clcyerly ~osded No doubt
your son could go Tar on some newspaper.
One oi the newspapers that makes practice
OF libeling respectable people"
rs he -" Abby steadied herself and tried
again. Are you going to expcl him3'
Catherine shrugged. ''Of course not. But
] rather think he won't stay on in school
Because your husband has resigned"
The room swayed gently. and then did a
complete loop. Abby hung TO the chair.
She saw GATHERINGS face. large and bland.
bending over her Would you like drink
There's some birthday champagne on ice"
mo champagne. Abby said weakly.
Where did they - guess had better take
Shakespeare and go home"
Shakespeare was noisily happy to be re-
leased from the chicken coop and even more
loudly delighted to see Abby. Abby didn't
care Let him give Doctor Wersig's headache
a twist. she thought The old stuffed goose,
with his gentle face and silver hair and tennis
figure. Beautiful. and not brain cell stir
ring. Whereas George
She cried little on the way home, with
Shakespeare bounding devotedly beside her.
George. she thought. George. Long ago,
even before we were married. he told me he
might make more money doing something
else. but he wanted to teach He had chosen
Mid Western deliberately because it wasn't
snobbish. because it drew boys and girls from
all kinds Of homes. And George had come up
at Mid-Western from an instructor to head
of the English department. Not fast, because
he wouldn't 60 in for fashiness or politics,
but just because he deserved promotion. He
wasn't young now. Mid-Western was his life
- he couldn't give it up.
n BLOCK away from home, she stopped and
dried her eyes and blew her nose Shake
speare snatched the handkerchief from her
hand and begged her to chase him. Abby
didn't chase. Eat it up." she said. Use it as
chaser for the roses. Nothing matters now"
The family car was in front Of the house.
She went in the front door, fixing the catch.
Shakespeare bounded toward the voices in
the living room. But Abby stood still. frozen
at the sight Of her new hat. her beloved new
hat with the green feather, tossed carelessly
on the hall table
Liz was three inches taller than her mother
and several pounds heavier, because Abby
weighed exactly the same as she had in col
lege Liz had long since had to give up bor-
rowing her mothers clothes, except hats.
Some of the hats were 50 outrageously won
derful with Liz's fifteen-year-old freshness
that Abby promptly abdicated. not wanting
to see her own face under that hat again.
Continued on page is
Evening star., 1949-05-08
A Short Story

ABBY peered into formal garden that was
IA just waking up to the fact that spring
had come at last. She called furtively:
.'Shakespearer' There was no sign of Dal-
matian puppy.
Abby was well aware that she both looked
and sounded silly. 1t was all very amusing to
have a dog called Shakespeare. named by your
English professor husband because the puppy
had teethed on Hamlet and Maebeth 1t was
fine having dog who, like all the Daileys
except Abby, was supposed to have genius
10.
But not when the dog. at seven months,
had learned to push chair along the floor so
he could use it to climb on tables or the record
changer or any high spot that at the moment
seemed desirable. And not when he had
learned to open the front door whenever a
member of the family - this time it was
Abby's fifteen-year-ol daughter, Liz left
it off the latch
Abby's husband. Big George - called that
to distinguish him from their son. who was
eighteen and two inches taller than his father
- said that Shakespeare had roughly the in
telligence of gorilla. From the things
Shakespeare ate off the rug and out of ash
trays, Abby was sure there was more goat
than gorilla in him.
At the moment Abby was in no mood to
quibble All she cared about was that a
pumpkin pie was in the oven, with fifteen
minutes more to go, and Shakespeare had dis
appeared again, either to SAVIOR some neigh
boris roses or to be killed crossing the road.
SHE was four blocks from home, getting
into the fancer residential district where the
varieties of roses would also be more exclu-
sive. The wind was soft on Abby's face and
she swore under her breath. She could leave
the dog and return to the pie: Shakespeare,
having roughly the intelligence of gorilla.
would undoubtedly take bus home and talk
the driver out of his fare. She could 90 home
and wait until Liz turned up. Or she could
scratch the pie off as burnt Offering and
60 on.
Abby knew she would 90 on. 1t was, she
supposed, part of her character. I'm just an
average cook, she thought, and careless about
busting unexposed portions of furniture and
can't even sew on buttons so they stay put.
But love young and helpless things. The
children were now too big to be classified as
helpless. Big George, whose mind encom-
passed the international situation. could
hardly be said to need her. That left the
puppy.
Suddenly. she heard sharp, familiar yelp.
She ran across the street and, with weakness
Evening star., 1949-05-08

would be one more black mark on the Daley
record
Squaring her shoulders. Abby walked up
the path to the back door and knocked
There was no answer Abby felt released.
II Catherine Wersig. at this time Of day.
wasn't in the kitchen preparing something
exotic with herbs and fourteen kinds of rel
ishes. it must mean the Wersigs weren't at
home. Abby had just started toward the
chicken house when the back door opened
and Catherine Wersig stuck out blonde head
Il was afraid it was you" she said.
Abby meekly retraced her steps. The Wer-
sig kitchen was all polished aluminium and
checked gingham. Spotless, with no sign OF
cooking.
II FEEL awful about Shakespeare" Abby
said. Hes learned to open the front door.
if we leave it off the latch and - IL you tell
me what he dug up in the garden. I'll replace
it,"
Only the best" Catherine said Doctors
prize-winners two years ago 1t doesn't mat
ter. however"
1T does matter" Abby said firmly. "and
Ill certainly -"
Don't talk so loud. 1t doesn't matter
Not now. Not after what your son has done"
There was a white kitchen chair with
red and white checked gingham seat pad be-
hind Abby. She backed into il with webbing
knees. Young George was junior at Mid
Western. He was captain of the wrestling
team and wrote signed column in the cam"
pus newspaper. His grades pleased even Big
George.
How - where is he?" she asked.
He and your husband have just left here.
didn't think to send Shakespeare home with
them. it was such mess. Doctor has gone
upstairs with headache. And it was my
birthday. too. We were going to the hotel for
dinner and celebrate
That's too bad" Abby said perfunctorily.
Then she caught her breath But what hap
pened?"
CATHERINE WERsIC's mouth twisted. ''Oh,
nothing. Nothing at ALL Except that your
son wrote column in the campus paper to-
day saying that my husband was an old
fuddy-duddy who shouldn't be allowed to
teach history today. That he ought to be pre-
served in marble and put on a pedestal in the
hall That his courses were so stuffy they
were an insult to the students, especially to
the veterans who had lived history"
Abby gulped. She recognized the phrases
She had heard them in her husbands mouth.
But only in strictly husband and wife conver-
sations. Dimly she was aware that Catherine
was talking again.
Evening star., 1949-05-08
BY ISABELLA TAVES
illustrated BY Harry BsekheG

in the pit of her stomach. recognized the
Wersig house Doctor Wersig was head Of the
history department at Mid Western Univer-
sity. where Big George headed the English
department. But Doctor Wersig outranked
George in both years and pomposity He was
had to do with the little matter Of recon-
mending salary increases. Not that Doctor
Wersig hadn't always been fair to George
But he had been fair in the kind of way
which made George feel that the increase was
an act of generosity. rather than an acknowl-
edgment OF competence and effort.
My fault, Abby thought I've always man.
aged to present myself and the kids in such a
hideous light that nobody would think a
smart man would have anything to do with
US. Although the Wersigs had no children,
you knew that Catherine Wersig would have
been perfect and efficient mother if she had.
She was handsome. she was tireless, she was
talented. She ran her house marvelously.
made all her own slip covers and clothes. was
prominent in club activities Besides, she was
a natural blonde.
No MATTER how hard Abby tried. or how
many caterers she hired, when the Wersigs
came to dinner, everything went wrong. For
one memorable Sunday dinner Abby had
made cherry pie that looked beautiful. only
to discover when she took the first hostess
bite that she had used salt - purchased in
bulk to kill weeds - instead of sugar. And
Liz had once enlivened dinner at the Wer-
sigs by swiping silver salt spoon from the
table. and trying to hide it down her front.
1t hadn't helped Abby's frame of mind when
Doctor Wersig sent Liz whole dozen sterling
silver salt spoons the next Christmas
Abby leaned over clipped boxwood hedge
and inspected the immaculate garden. Here
again. Catherine Wersig did all the heavy
work while the Doctor concentrated on few
prize blooms which he exhibited every year
at the State Fair. Abby noted with relief that
there seemed no sign of Dalmatian devasta-
ton. Then she saw the center bed, where
Doctor Wersig planted his choicest roses.
Peat moss had been flung about the lawn in
a reckless manner There were two deep
holes which threatened the future of several
blue-ribbon hybrid teas. Abby shuddered
and turned her head in the direction of
series of yelps.
Shakespeare was penned up in wire en-
closure which the Wersigs had used as
chicken house during the war. Abby had an
evil instinct to sneak under the hedge, like
small boy. release Shakespeare, and escape
with him. Then she thought of her husband.
She and Shakespeare would undoubtedly be
caught in an embarrassing moment and it
Evening star., 1949-08-30
Police Use Field Glasses
To Trap Exposure Suspect

A man was convicted in Upper
Marlboro Police Coutr yesterday
for indecent exposure after a
Prince Georges County police Off
Ger testified he had observed the
act through field glasses from q
distance Of about 100 yards.
Trial Magistrate Alan Bowie
imposed fine Of $50 on John l..
Finnan, SO, Of District Heights,
Md.
Detective Wilson j. Purdy told
Magistrate Bowie that a mother
had complained that a man had
followed her 13-year-old daugh-
ter several days during the week
Of last May %, after the girl had
gotten off a school bus near the
intersection of Belt avenue and
Lacy and Bromley roads.
The officer said that on May ~
he parked his car in a field across
from the intersection and watched
with binoculars while Finnan ex-
posed himself.
Evening star., 1949-08-30
piney Point Oil Base
Fight Carried Before
Fisheries Commission
BY the Associated Press

ANNAPOLIS, Aug. 30.-Oppo-
nents OF a proposed oil tank base
at Piney Point carried their fight
to the Tidewater Fisheries Com
mission yesterday.
Chairman David H. Wallace
said the commission would heal
protests Of a group of st. Mary.
County watermen.
One Of their complaints, he
said. is that the project would
destroy an oyster bar of the
point at the lower end of the
county.
Executive Secretary Louis N.
Phipps Of the Maryland Com
mercial Watermen's Association
announced he also has filed q
protest with the commission.
The oil base. sought by L. P.
Steuart, Inc, Of Washington,
would pollute waters Of the Poto-
mac River and Piney Point Creek,
Mr.. Phipps said.
Army engineers are reviewing
Steuart's application for a 1902
foot wharf into the Potomac, a
pipe line across the creek and
tanks on shore. Oil-laden YES
sells would unload at the base to
serve Southern Maryland and
Washington.
Several hundred st. Mary's
residents have asked the county
commissioners to reverse their
stand in favor of the project.
Evening star., 1949-08-30
Liqhf Penalties Met Crime
In VIRGINIA, Sheriff Says
Ry the Assoeiotsd Pnsss

ROANOKE, Va, Aug. 30.-The
rising crime rate in Virginia stems
from lack Of punishment Sheriff
M. M. Myers, president Of the vir-
ginia State Sherif1s and City
Sergeants, told the organization s
10th annual convention yesterday.
"Too much probation and too
much parole" were given as
reasons underlying increased law
breaking.
A State training school also was
called for by Sheriff Myers. He
said he is the only sheriff IN Vir-
oinia who has been to the national
academy of the Federal Bureau OF
Investigation.
Following Sheriff Myers tax.
the so law officers at the Hotel
Roanoke were given m idea Of
FBI training by A. D. Auerbach.
chief agent in Richmond. he
demonstrated Judo and rapid mr.
ing. 4
Evening star., 1949-08-30
Robber May Be Using
Stolen Police Uniform
Ny the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Aug. 3o.-Police
warned today that q notorious
bank robber may try to pull one
Of his jobs in the disguise Of a
State trooper.
Four State trooper uniforms
were stolen last week from a
Cumberland tailoring shop.
1t. william H. Weber, COM
mander Of the State Police Field
Force, said a preliminary investi-
CATION showed the thief may have
been "Slick Willie" Sutton. He
described Sutton as "a notorious
bank robber with q talent for
planning things"
Sutton, he reported. escaped
twice from Pennsylvania penal
institutions in the last four years
and is still at large. The man is
48 and sometimes uses the names
of Julian Loring, Leo Holland and
william Court as aliases, 1t.
Weber said.
A police teletype sent through
out the State said Sutton Is con-
sidered dangerous and "is known
to have stolen police uniform
in other States to be
used in the commission Of
crimeS."
Evening star., 1949-08-30
Youth Accused Of Loofing
7 Restaurants Faces Hearing

A Hendersonville IN. CO. youth
faces a hearing in Fairfax Trial
Justice court tomorrow on two
breaking and entering charges
and a petty larceny charge.
Harold June Sloop, 10. was ar
rested on charges Of breaking into
two Falls Church restaurants and
subsequently was charged with the
theft Of q wrist watch.
Falls Church Police 1t. Edward
Simpson said Sloop had admitted
stealing approximately Sis and a
pistol from Bryant's Restaurant
and SIG from Robinson's Frozen
Custard Shop.
Sloop was picked up by District
police at the Annapolis, Hotel the
morning after the robberies, 1t.
Simpson reported. Police said
Sloop had been previously en-
ployed by the two establishments.
The, larceny charge was based
on the theft Of a wrist watch from
the home of Mrs. w. H. Carter,
901 Locust street.
Evening star., 1949-08-30
Move by Scott Attorney
Hints Of Murder Appeal
BY the Asseeiotsd Press

ROANOKE. Va, Aug. 30
Keith K. Hunt, the attorney who
defended Lee Scott for the MUIR
der Of Dana Marie Weaver May 8
in Christ Episcopal Church Parish
House here, revealed yesterday
that a certified copy Of the trials
record has been requested Of
Hastings Court Judge Dirk A..
Kuyk.
The step is one taken by attor-
neys when petition for an appeal
is to be made.
Mr.. Hunt stated, however, he
was unable to say whether an ap-
peal will be noted in the case. T..
Warren MesSick, who also acted
as Scott's attorney, could not be
reached for comment.
Scott was convicted Of first
degree murder and sentenced to
80 years In the State Penitentiary.
Evening star., 1949-08-30
District Man Gets so Days
For Arlington Joyriding

A District man, who pleaded
guilty to a charge Of joyriding.
was sentenced to 60 days in Jail in
Arlington County Court yesterday.
George L. Jones, Al. colored, 600
block Of New Hampshire avenue
NV, pleaded guilty to the joy
riding charge after it was reduced
from grand larceny.
Assistant Commonwealth At
torney Tom Gilmer said Jones
took q Clarendon Plumbing &
Heating Co. truck from an Airing
ton construction job August 20
and was arrested by District police
the next morning.
Evening star., 1949-08-30
Group Of 159 Goes 10 Camp
For SchooIboy Patrols

The first Of two groups Of WASH
ington area boys left yesterday
to attend a summer camp at Fort
Belvoir for schoolboy patrols.
The 159 boys from Montgomery
and Prince Georges Counties will
have a weeks training in traffic
safety. George Hammond. direc-
tor Of safety and education,
District division, American Auto
mobile Association, is in charge
Of the camp.
The boys are to receive certi-
ficates Sunday in exercises at the
camp. Maj. Gen. Douglas Weart
will speak.
A group of about 100 boys from
the District will 60 to camp next
week.
Evening star., 1949-08-30
District Man Held
In FutoI Stubbina

The coroner's jury yesterday
held Joseph Francis Burgess. 80.
colored, for action of the grand
Jury in connection with the fatal
stabbing Of Helen Copeland, 80.
colored. also known as Helen
Burgess.
The woman died Of multiple
stabs of q butcher knife Friday
night, after an alteration in
Burgess rooming house at 927
French street NV.
Burgess gave himself up to po.
lice on Saturday.
Evening star., 1949-08-30
Shirley Highway
To Open Next Week
By the Associatsd Press

e RICHMOND, Va, Aug. 30.-The
Henry G.. Shirley Memorial High
way in Fairfax County. which Is
expected ultimately to carry most
of the passenger traffic south out
of Washington, will be opened to
passenger traffic next Tuesday.
the State Highway Department
announced yesterday.
The opening date is dependent,
however, on good weather for the
next week since considerable work
remains before the nearly COM
plete southbound lane may be
opened.
At first, vehicles may use only
the southbound lane for two-way
traffic over the 17.3 miles length
OF the road between Woodbridge
and the Pentagon.
Seven miles of the northbound
section have not yet been built.
Consequently, passenger cars
and buses leaving Woodbridge
must travel the first seven miles
on the side that will be limited in
the future to southbound traffic.
The road will be a limited
access highway and has been de-
signed for a speed Of 70 miles per
hour although the Highway De-
partment was quick to point out
that the legal speed limit is IS
miles.
The highway was named in
honor of the late Henry G.. Shir-
ley, Virginia highway commits
sioner for 10 years before his
death in 1941.
When complete, the job will cost
about Sc, 5000 and already some
$4,500.000 has been expended. It
will cut 3.4 miles from the dis
tance over the present route be-
fuyoan Wo ch}nptoy, ond Pichmor1d
Evening star., 1949-08-30
tuberculosis Group 10 Aid
In Vocational Guidance

The Arlington tuberculosis
Association is undertaking a vo-
cational guidance program for
home bound tuberculosis patients.
The work will be conducted
by two workers from the Re-
habilitation Service of the Vir-
ginia tuberculosis Association.
The Board Of Directors Of the Ar
lington association has voted to
pay 81, 900 Of the cost Of the home
visiting service.
The project in Arlington Is a
pioneering demonstration for
other local organizations. The
two workers also will visit patients
at Catawba, Piedmont and Blue
Ridge SanitOriums.
Evening star., 1949-08-30
Mrs. Caroline Shaw,
Social LIST Publisher,
Asks Limited Divorce

A suit for limited divorce by
Mrs. Caroline Hagner Shaw Of
Beth :da, prominent Washington
socialite and publisher of THE
Social List of Washington, D. c."
was on file today in Montgomery
County Circuit Court.
Her husband, John Francis
Shaw. 48, Of 1882 West Leland
street, Bethesda, is a member OF
a family that has been prominent
In the jewelry business here. He
now is In the real estate business,
The couple has two children,
John Francis. jr., "a, and Mrs.
Jean S. Murray, %.
Mrs, Shaw's suit claims Mr.
Shaw frequently was under the
influence of alcohol; that he SUBJ
jected her to indignities: cursed
and reviled her and has assaulted
and beaten her.
Was Social Secretary ut Is.
Mrs. Shaw made her debut here
and her marriage at st. Adams
Church on June "a. 1924, was q
social highlight of the year. She
had become a social secretary
when IS years old and at various
times served a number OF the
leaders of Washington society.
"The Social List of Washing.
ton," which contains q list Of the
Capitals prominent families, a.
we'll as tips on precedence and
protocol for hosts and hostesses
was founded by Mrs. Shaw's
mother, the late Mrs. Helen Ray
Hagner. Mrs. Shaw aided her
mother In editing the book and
took it over when her mother died
Still later she published the an
nual list and her husband took
over some Of the advertising
duties.
Mrs. Shaw also writes q column
on social activities for the WASH
|ington Times-Herald and does q
radio program.
In her suit, Mrs. Shaw seeks
control Of the publication during
her lifetime. counsel fees and GER
tain unlisted personal property.
Sought Police Protection.
Through her attorney, Edward
J. Quigley. she charges that on
July 4 she called Montgomery
County police for protection after
an assault by her husband. Rec
ords at the Trial Magistrates
Court, Bethesda, show that Mr..
Shaw is under $500 bond for an
appearance September 6 at a
hearing on a peace warrant sworn
out by his wife.
Mrs. Shaw's suit said his actions
have caused him to be arrested"
and that she had left him several
times but returned because Of the
children. Since August 8, the suit
says, she has moved from the Be-
thesda home and has been living
in Washington hotels.
Mr.. Shaw has not filed an
answer to the suit.
Evening star., 1949-08-30
Gen. Sunds Commends
10Th for Its Spirit
BY the Asseeiofsd Press

NDIANToWN GAP, Pa, Aug.
3O.-Troops Of the Maryland-Vir-
ginia National Guard now under
going summer maneuvers here
won high praise today from their
commanding general.
Maj. Gen. william II. Sands
commended the $500 men Of the
Blue and Gray 29th Infantry Di-
vision for their splendid spirit
and accomplishments In training"
The troops, meanwhile, con-
training exercises with fir-
ing Of small arms and large weap-
ons, hikes and field drill occupy
ing the agenda. The two-week
encampment ends Saturday.
Evening star., 1949-08-30
Hard Crab Derby SIotedto Open
CrisfieId Art and industrial Fair

Several clubs and business
houses are getting ready to post
entries. Workers at sea food houses
and On the docks are keeping an
eye out for particularly active
specimens.
Crisfield's American Legion post
is staging the contest and this
year is putting up q Governors
Cup. It will 60 permanently to
the organization first winning the
race three times.
Gov. Lane plans to be here TOR
the presentation. The Hard Crab
Derb yis believed to be the only
one Of its kind in the world.