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Evening star., 1950-05-12
New York Investigates
Well Rescue Failure
sy shs Assesiosed Press


NEW YORK. May l2.-why did
that well-digger in Brooklyn have
to die?
The district attorney wants to
know. And so do the police de-
partment and the housing and
buildings department.
District Attorney Miles r, Nc
Donald yesterday ordered an in
vestigation to determine whether
negligence contributed to the
death Of Dominick Aztec. -.
father of six, who was trapped at
the bottom Of q well shaft for
more than n hours.
The investigation was ordered
even before an autopsy revealed
that Mr.. Aztec died of burns
and not from the pressure of
rocks and dirt which caved in on
him.
The burns were suffered in a
mysterious fash explosion that
occurred in the 18-foot-deep shaft
Evening star., 1950-05-12
Expert In Nassau 10 Study
SIayinq OF D. {. Woman:
sy ne Asssela.sS Prsas

NASSAU. Bahamas. May IL
Sergt. Albert Spencer James.
identification expert from Jam; i
ca. was in Nassau today. report
edly studying clues In connection
with the Staying OF Bette Renner.
50. q Washington attorney.
Miss Renner's body was found
in q shallow well on q lonely road
near here April Is. Her bicycle
was nearby.
She had arrived in Nassau 10
days previously and apparently
had gone to the area sightSeeins.
No arrests have been made in the
case.
Police had no comment con-
cerning Sergt. James assignment
here. He arrived yesterday.
Evening star., 1950-05-12
States Asked to Give Clues to Gambling Probe

communication with q New York
layof king, the Justice Depart
ment wants to know it.
Informed sources said. however.
that the Justice Department is
not limiting its inquiry to gam
bling. On the list Of known
racketeers the Justice Depart
ment furnished to its United
States Attorneys are also the
names of men suspected of tax
evasion in connection with il
legally earned incomes, and men
with records OF white slave and
narcotics traflc.
Allegations Cited.
AS for the Costello case, Sena-
tor Mcfarland said he had asked
Mr.. Fay to go into Costello's testi-
mony because of allegations made
by Robert Montgomery. actor and
radio commentator, and others
that Costello's answers to the
subcommittee were substantially
different from the answers he
gave a New York grand jury in
1889.
At issue, it was learned, is Cos
tello's description of how. he hap
pened to take his slot machines
into Louisiana. Costello told the
subcommittee he never made a
deal on that. but he did say he
was invited into Louisiana.
Mr.. Fay said he expects to con-
suit with Justice Department Off
cials about getting the grand jury
report from New York.
Meanwhile. the $150,000 full
scale crime investigation author
lied by the Senate and headed by
Senator Kefauver was still at the
organizing stage. Senator Kefau-
Evening star., 1950-05-12
budenz Testifies Worker
Played Up Draper, Adler
by The Asseeioied Press

HARTFORD, Conn. May IA
Louis Budenz. former managing
editor of the Communist Daily
Worker, says Paul Draper and
Larry Adler were known as Com
munist entertainers, although he
personally did not know them to
be party members.
Mr.. Budenz. now a Fordham
University professor. told a Fed
eral Court jury that the Daily
Worker made it a policy to high
light news about persons serving
the interests of the party"
Asked if he gave prominence to
the two entertainers in the news
columns of the Daily Worker, the
witness replied: Yes. sir. we did
Mr.. BudenZ was the first de-
fense witness yesterday in a $780,
600 libel suit brought by Draper
and Adler against Mrs. Hester
Mccullough Of Greenwich. Conn.
Evening star., 1950-05-12
Staying Of Redhead
Spurs Search FOR
Gaming Trial Witness
Continued From First page.)

Continued From First Page.)
with rope before her body was
tossed az feet down an embank-
ment, answers in general detail
the descriptions police have Of
both Miss Franklin and Mrs. Cobb.
Was S Feet s.
She had dark red hair, a trim
figure, freckles, good teeth and
was about 5 feet 5 inches tall.
Fingerprints of the murder vic
tim were sent to FBI headquar-
ters here, but failed to provide a
clue to her identity.
Detectives searched files at
Police Headquarters today but
were unable to find any finger
prints of Miss Franklin to match
with those Of the murdered
woman.
Miss Franklin, divorced mother
of six, touched off the District
Attorneys campaign to smash
Washington's gambling racket
when she quarreled with her for
mer sweetheart, Attilio Acalotti,
known as THE Mayor of Thomas
Circle"
In affidavits submitted to Dis
trict Attorney George Morris Fay
early last year she charged Aca-
lotti was a numbers game oper-
ator who cleared his bets through
the headquarters of the William
"Snags" Lewis syndicate in Blad-
ensburg, Md.
Touched Off Raids.
Her revelations touched off a
series of raids that led to the ar
rest of Lewis. Acalotti and "a
other men on gambling charges.
A short time after the roundup
Acalotti was arrested on a charge
of threatening Miss Franklin. He
was convicted and sentenced to
serve from eight months to two
years on the threat charge.
Early this year Miss Franklin
asked the District Attorneys Of
flee to release her from further
court appearances and the fol-
lowing month disappeared for
several days.
Mrs. Cobb was last seen by her
husband riding in a panel truck
with mother man. Mr.. Cobb at
first told police that he feared his
wife had been kidnapped, but later
charged her with abandoning
their six children. Police said
they established she had been
seen with the truck driver on sew
eral prior occasions.
The body of the woman at
Berkeley Springs was found
Wednesday at the foot of an en-
bankment on a side road about
$50 yards from the West Virginia
end of the Potomac River Bridge
at Hancock, Md. A Hancock man,
hunting mushrooms on the West
Virginia shore. made the discovery
when sunlight. glistening in her
hair, attracted his attention.
Doctors who performed an au-
topsy determined the woman had
been choked to death and struck
three blows on the head. AbrasionS
on the neck indicated, the DOCTORS
said, that she was strangled by a
rope.
Ohio police also were checking
Evening star., 1950-05-12
Tuesday night. about eight hours
after Mr.. Aztec was trapped.

Tuesday night. about eight hours
after Mr.. Aztec was trapped.
The autopsy showed that flames
scared his head. chest. neck. arms
and hands. also were breathed
into his respiratory tract.
Cause of the fatal fash explo-
sion remained one of the biggest
points in dispute today.
Newsmen at the scene reported
the blast occurred after q lighted
cigarette was lowered to the suf-
fering man. Rescue workers had
been pumping oxygen down to
him. and for that reason police
had forbidden smoking In the
vicinity.
Mr.. Atteo's sons. John. 26, and
Joseph. 20. declared yesterday that
neither Of them had lowered q
cigarette before the blast. They
and several friends suggested that
the explosion might have been
caused by q shorted electric wire.
Evening star., 1950-05-12

yer announced he has named
these subcommittees:
Senator O'Conor, Democrat Of
Maryland, and Senator Wiley. Re-
publican of Michigan. to prepare
rules for the committee.
Senator Tobey. Republican Of
New Hampshire, and Senator
Hunt to study the scope of the
investigation. procedures to be
followed and what subject to
focus on first.
Senator'S Hunt and Wiley to
investigate the narcotics traffic.
Evening star., 1950-05-12
AustroIions Fish Can Drown

SYDNEY.-An Australian fish
called the mud skipper will drown
If kept underwater. It basks on
top of mud flats, can leap four feet
across the mud and can even
climb trees.
Evening star., 1950-05-12

The National Geographic So
ciety describes the Puerta Del Sol
as the Times Square OF Madrid,
SDain
Evening star., 1950-05-12

An Italian recipe calls for bak-
ing potatoes and truffies In LAYERS.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-07-15
THE BELL TOLLS
By LEONARD III. BELL

The steady deterioration of the
power of Southern Democrats in
the Senate through the deaths of
some bigots and the constant over
riding of their efforts to block
beneficial legislation, has caused
Senator Richard B. Russell, Dem
ocrat of Georgia to say that he
would "like to see very strong
Republican Party in the South"
Declaring that the one-party
system has weakened the South's
political strength nationally, Sen
ator Russell predicted that "con-
servatives, those who believe in
Constitutional Government" would
eventually get together.
Reputable Republicans, W h o
really believe in the principles of
their Party should recognize this
invitation for what it is. For it
is nothing more than a desire to
get together under the respectable
names of Republicans" a bunch
of bigoted, demagogic, hate-infat-
uated dusty egotistic rabble rous-
ers.
This Senator and all the others
now in Congress owe their long
reigns in Congress to the "One-
Party System" which the good
Senator now denounces. So such
q denunciation is very hard to
accept as genuine. And this is
also true Of his desire to get those
who believe in Constitutional Gov
eminent together, for no Southern
Dixiecrat, nor anyone in political
power in the South, with fantasies
of Negro hatred can sincerely say
that they believe in Constitutional
Government For they are so
given to openly flouting the Con-
stitution Of the United States that
one wonders if they are fully con-
versant with the Constitution.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-07-15
NAACP Delegates
Name Convention
Interim Com'ite

BOSTON, July 12.-Designated
by the 4lst annual convention Of
the NAACP which closed here this
week four delegates will serve with
three members of the National
Board of Directors as a seven
person committee to nominate can
didates for election to the NAACP
board.
The four convention elected
members of the committee are DR..
H. Claude Hudson, Los Angeles;
Joshua Thompson, Amber. Pa;
A. c. Keith, Grand Rapids, Mich;
and w. R. Saxon, Asheville. N. C.
The Board members of the COM
mittee will be chosen by the board
at a later date. The candidates
nominated by this joint commit
tee, together with those nominated
independently by petition, are sub
mitted to branches for election.
The convention also named a
three-member committee to devise
procedures for the 42nd annual
convention, to be held in Atlanta
in June of 1851. Charles Lucas.
OF Cleveland, Mrs. Kitty Hall of St.
Louis, and Charles Mclean, of
Winston-Salem, N. c., were named
to this committee.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-07-15
c H a R M
BY LOU SWARZ

Summertime, and the living is
aasy"-as often heard in one of
hose beautiful tunes; but what are
you doing about it as far as keep
ing that daintiness all about you
so that you will be a pleasant per-
son to be around as far as frag-
RANGES are concerned? In other
words are you using that perfume,
cologne, toilet water, bath salt,
bubble bath, ETC. at the right time,
in the right way, and in the cor
,ect amounts? If so continue, if not
shen give some attention to what
We call "BO" and not Box Office
either-but Body Odcr-from a
different angle than the side of
precipitation, which too needs much
attention.
However, we take for granted
hat by now you have conquered
he Sweating" problem and have
lone away with under-arm prespi-
ration and that that access water
is going off in another way, so
we will discuss briefly the use Of
those lovely perfumes and toilet
waters in the way which will add
to that inner charm which must be
there. Should you purchase heavy
toilet water or cologne, then make
it give that needed fragrance to
your bath water by soraying a few
drops in the tub as the water is
running, and do not use it on your
body or clothes. Should you have
the delicate French or other per-
fumes, then use your bottle with
the atomizer and give yourself the
"sprayover" which will give you
that enjoyable touch of fragrance
as it should be.
Never use too much o. any per-
fume or the like because you do
not wish to "knock 'em down" with
sweetness, just as you wouldn't
want to be knocked down by any
one else. Such is sickening and
so often makes you offensive rath-
er than charming; so do watch
the amount you use as well as the
choice.
Oh, but this is the time too to
advise against the use of perfumes
over the body which has not been
given the attention of the bath.
In other words do not use perfume
on dirty" body, because dirt
and daintiness just won't mix.
Now remember that "Daintiness"
includes the use of those after
bathing "delicacies", shall we say,
in the correct way as well as
knowing what to do about "BO".
It's Lou Swarz-P. O. Box Sc,
Manhattanville Station-NYC.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-07-15
Theatre Guild
To Produce
Porgy And Bess''

New York City - The Theatre
Guild has scheduled the production
of "Porgy and Bess" for sometime
this Fall.
Other theatrical notes of inter
est are the schedules for "Lost in
the Stars" which will head for
Los Angeles in August, and then
for road tour in the Fall and
Winter ;. and what treat it will
be for those over the country to see
and hear the great Todd Duncan as
well as Inez Mathews.
Wen Talbert scores again as
Choral Director.
Willie Bryant is all smiles over
the thought that Testimonial is
being planned in his honor.
Teen-Town is getting the atten-
ton of Louis Rocca, talented per-
sonality at Hotel Theresa, and
something "big" seems on sche-
dule.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-07-15

To carry out the program of Man
You have added a men roll
Yet the Bible says don't add or
take away
1t is the program Of Christ to
save your soul.
God has his eyes on every wrong
And all men adds as well
To add or take away from Gods
Your soul is bound for hell.
What makes you add to Gods holy
Word
When it says don't add or take
away
Are you losing the power of Gods
love
And allowing the people to go
astray.
Too many Lords and Kings today
That the churches are sending
out
Yet Jesus says | am jealous God
Do you know what it's all about.
Christ's program was the fulfill
ing of it all
He said He didn't come to destroy
but to fulfill
He shed His blood and hung on the
And died on Calvary's hill.
| note and watch as | go on
The people are drifting farther
from God each day
They are full of self and pros
perity
And it is leading millions of peo-
pie astray.
Too many people can't stand prop
erty
1t is better for such people to
stay broke
They are always flocking with
sheep and lambs
When he is nothing but hard
head goat.
You cannot be a lamb and a goat
You have got to be one of the two
A lamb is unable all the time
But a goat is like some of you.
Money is ruling most of the world
The most of the churches also
Some are taxing the members too
much
And thousands are ready to go.
Some churches are burdened with
taxes
Yet Paul said this gospel is free
| can put no price on the gospel
| wish to God all men were like
me.
Rev. j. r. Perkins
1890 Whitfield Mill Road
Jackson, Miss.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-07-15
Race Designation
Eliminated From
Medical Adds

NEW YORK - (ATLAS) -
The Journal of the American Medi-
cal Association has agreed to elimi-
nate all designations of race, creed
and color from it's Situation want
ed'' advertisements. This action is
in accordance with a recently an
nounced agreement between the
Association and the New York
State Commission Against Dis
elimination.
Similar discriminatory referen-
ces in "help-wanted" advertise
ments has been eliminated long
ago. A complaint against the AS
ISOLATION had been filed with the
commission by the American Jewish
Congress on May 10.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-07-15
Mature
thoughts
By RUTH r. WALKER

While sleeping, deep within my
inner consciousness | heard, "Try
to prove you can handle two hun
dred dollar a month job in addi-
ton to what you are doing and you
will die from it."
Then | was in hallway where
someone was rapping on one of the
last two doors at the back of that
floor. When an elderly man open
ed the door, he was asked, "How
would you like to be given two
hundred dollars month";" The ell
derby man started to shut the door
without answering, and a young
woman standing in the doorway
just across the hall called out, "You
would turn down a gift of three
hundred dollars month, and |
know this is all right" Then he
held the door open part way and
looked at her land then my atten-
ton was diverted to a small boy
who needed manicle to prevent
his body from becoming broken and
lifeless. A woman coming from
the direction of the head of the
stairs said to someone who was
now standing close to back of me.
"Your efficiency and he dies from
it!w
But | had just seen the little boy
trudging up the stairs after hav-
ing seen him climb up into the baby
seat he had found hooked over the
rear balustrade railing, and seeing
it slip and send him hurting down
into the stair-well.
A lot of efficiency plans turn
out to be turkeys, and the flock
of turkey-buzzards, | pointed out
to milkman in my dreams of
night before last, will find still an
other turkey to feed upon, and | do
not want it to be a little boys
body broken and lifeless.
What can happen without seri-
Gus results to chick given to me
by milkman for pet, can happen
to some other woman's pet chick
without serious results. An ratu-
rally my concern and love for my
own chick should be reflected in
my whole attitude towards one of
her chicks grown to full size, and
vice versa.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-07-15
Catholic Priest
Blasts Park
Discrimination

NEW ORLEANS, La, July Ii
(SpeciaD "A Catholic priest, in an
open letter to the leading daily
newspaper here, has blasted the
policy of segregation that forbids
local Negroes the use of City Park.
Father Joseph L. Brown, of the
Josephite Fathers, charged in a
letter to the Times-Picayune, that
if such a policy is law sit is not
founded on justice and without such
foundation is evil"
If person abused the privileges
of City Park, she should be de-
prived of those privileges" Father
Brown declared. eff he has destroy
ed the beauty therein he should be
prevented from so doing in the fu-
ture. But why should a man be
excluded from a City Park merely
because he happens to be of a
certain race? Human nature is the
same whether clothed in white or
brown skin. In both races we have
the good, the Indifferent and the
bad. Let us reward the good equal
", be Indifferent to the Indifferent,
and let law take care of the bad
both white and colored.
"My earnest prayer is that some
day City Park may be truly park
for all the citizens of New Or
leans so that all may enjoy the
good works of God as He intended
when He gave them to men," Faith
er Brown declared.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-07-15
CUNTS Born,
Live Four Hrs.

NEW ORLEANS, La.-(Atlas)
Three boys and two girls were
born this week to Mrs. Albert AL
len, 28-year-old Negro mother of
White Castle, La. The quints were
three months prematured and
weighed 1 to " pounds.
When Mrs. Allen was admitted
to Charity Hospital, her pregnancy
was diagnosed at triplets. The
chance of qintuplets surviving is
one in 100000.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-07-15

20th-Century Fox tolerance pix.
mo Way Out" launching fanfare
preparatory to Broadway showing
in early August D.. Atlantic City's
fabulous Boardwalk to get its first
peep at an all-Negro revue at the
Chez Paree the first of July
Allied Artists film, Counterfeit
ers" will portray a woman leader
of a band of counterfeiters who
turned from shoplifting There
IS little to encourage a playwright
to hope that his script will ever be
received in Hollywood with any
monetary welcome. Only three
plays have been sold to the movies
in 1949-50.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-07-15

12-year old-blues singer, TONY
HARPER is headlining Harlem's
Apollo Theater this week
STEVE GIBSON and his Red Caps
have been booked in Chubby's
North Collingswood, N. J. for five
weeks, starting September 7 .
LIONEL HAMPTON has his own
combo at the Club Harlem in At
lantic City =. LOUIS JORDAN
has been signed for IS one-night-
ers through the Southland, includ-
ing Texas .. DUKE ELLINGTON
has found fertile ground on the
Continent of Europe for the wares
of his DIRK, and the lengthy tour is
really developed into a money
making venture.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-07-15
Screen And
FOOtlights

NEW YORK-Hya Folks! Sum
mer is really here, and war in the
air seems to accelerate the tenn
perature along Broadway a..
Even the FEC is readying means
to clamp on instantaneous wartime
censorship on both radio and TV,
on advice from the State Depart
ment
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-07-15
u P
A n D
D o W n
F A R Is H
S 7 R < ( II
By PERCY GREENE

PARISH STREET SATURDAY
NIGHT: A whole lor of US, mean
ing of course those of us who some
folks say have an exclusive right
to claim that we belong to the
tribe of Aunt Haggar, are always
setting around talking about. and
pointing the finger at the short
comings of our organizations, and
lamenting over what they amt Go
ing, what they want to do, and
what they could do in the way of
helping to promote the general all
round good of the brothers and
sisters of the blood. With the
convention season already here,
and with the delegates already
elected and ready to go here and
yonder to this that and the Other
meeting; that is with the delegates
already elected and ready to go
except waiting for the brothers
and sisters of the blood to come
forward with the necessary ex-
pense money. Knowing that i.
you listen long enough you'll find
the answer to anything coming
from the Parish Streeters, was
listening over my Fish and Beer,
when | heard a group of the Ola
Timers, with their beer glass in
their hand and every now and then
kind of cautious look out the
front door for the Deacon, Glass
Leader, and Pastor, knowing that
they had to perform the ritual
come Sunday morning, talking
about, and asking themselves the
question-What is wrong with Ne
gro Organizations and coming
up with every kind of possible
answer, but nearly the same, viz
that the present High Mogul
Great Potentate, and Supreme Ele
waited, not being a particular
friend, was therefore not the right
full parsonage to march at the heao
of the crowd, and therefore the
organization was doing nothing
and Citing nowhere. As | though
over what | was hearing, it began
to dawn on me that it was just
about the time for another swing
of the cycle in Negro Organization
since the collapse of the Sons ant
Daughters of l Will Arise, The
Purple and Yellow Queen, The
Household of Jamie, Jake, Pole,
sam, and the Seeds of the Wise
man, and ali the rest that flour
ished and prcspered, amassed great
treasure, and built and bungled
imposing temples to the Gods
about three generations past
What's wrong with Negro Organ
izations, that they are showing a
history that they must founder
and collapse every twenty-five oil
thirty yeals? l heard only one
answer worth noting, and that was
Whenever we elected brother
to head the parade, he assumes
that he must stay there the re-
mainder of his natural life, anC
until we learn to elect and re-elect
each year and thereby continue to
put new life into our organizations,
like everybody else is doing, we
are going to see them start to
breakup, and we're going to have
to wind-up and git started again
every twenty-five OF thirty years,
and folks will be always asking
49,. What is the Negro organiza-
ton doing to better the lot of the
Negro.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-07-15
GROvELAND
PETITION
TURNED DOWN

TALLAHASSEE, Fla, July 12-
A petition for rehearing the case
of three Negroes convicted of the
crime of assaulting a young Grove
land white woman last year was
turned down Wednesday by the
Florida Supreme Court.
The court previously had affirm
ed lower courts decision giving
two Negroes the death sentence
and the third a life prison term.
The court did not write an opin-
ion in turning down the petition.