davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1950-02-22

reunion, he went straight to the
ClaWson home, where Father was
staying alone.
He did not tell me any details
of what led to the shooting. After
it was done, he stayed with the
body most of the day. waiting for
the twins"
The twin brothers, Howard and
Hugh, then IA years old, helped
carry the heavy body to a car,
then drive it to the mothers place
to bury it in the cowshed of the
10-acre farm, Mrs. Hockersmith
said she was told.
Then they told Mrs. James, and
she passed out Soon all men,
bers of the family were told of
the death, and each seemed to
consider it best not to report it,
Mrs. HockerSmith said.
Father was the kind Of person
you could expect almost anything
FROM" she continued. To the
Ford plant. he had quit" and to
the neighbors, he had lust dis
appeared"
Cary was "a nice person, not
rowdy at all-in fact, he's quiet"
The day he told her of the killing.
however. she said he acted en-
Evening star., 1950-02-22
Feet Frozen, Man
Lives on Candle
Wax in Boxcor
By the Associofed Press

SEATTLE, Feb. pa jobless
transient told police today of lying
helpless in boxcar for two weeks
on diet of candle wax.
The man. Frank zehnder, 48,
Houston, Tex, was taken to a hos
pital in critical condition.
Investigating Patrolman L. F.
Ormsby said Zehnder had no
shoes and his feet were frozen.
Hospital attendants said both feet
were gangrenous.
He told Patrolman Ormsby ana
other man and he got into the
boxcar about a month ago to get
out Of the cold snap gripping this
area at that time. After his feet
froze he said the other man
brought food to him when he
could move no longer.
But he took off one day
about two weeks ago, I think, ;"
Zeehnder recounted. Il was too
weak to get out"
Then he started nibbling on
wax candles which were in the
boXcar.
The boxcar doors were closed
but not locked when the ema-
ciated Zehnder was found by
cement company employees.
Evening star., 1950-02-22

blond school teacher repeated for
reporters last night the secret that
had lain painfully within her for
so long:
She told of marital difficulties
between her mother, a timid wI'd
suppose you'd call her chicken
hearted'') person. and her father,
Stanley James, an "awfully big"
man weighing more than 225
pounds, who worked on an assem-
bly, line for the Ford Motor Co.
in Detroit. e
Had Terrible Temper.
Everybody knew him." she
said, because he was such a
character. He didn't have many
friends. He didn't drink or smoke,
but he had a terrible temper and
used to carry a gun. Every one
thought he was a little loco"
He often beat his six children,
and Mrs. Hockersmith personally
hated him." she said. She told
how she left home at 13 and, after
working through Michigan State
Teachers College, came to Wash
ington in June, 1947.
Her parents often separated,
and the last time, in 1945, Mr..
James remained in a sfive-room
house near Clawson, Mich, while
Mrs. James lived in small lu]id-
ing about miles away with The
younger children.
Her brother, Carson, stationed
near Washington, visited home at
Thanksgiving of 1947. Just be-
fore Mrs. Hockersmith was to re-
turn to Michigan that Christmas
for a visit, Carson called and
told her "he wanted to see me
alone"
Brothers Helped Garry Body.
Cary told me he had shot him
(Mr. James, in self-defense, !"
Mrs. Hockersmith said quietly.
Continuing her brothers story,
she said:
Instead of driving to Mothers
place, where we were having the
Evening star., 1950-02-22
BIoominedoIe Civic Unit
Opposes Parks Bill

The Bloomingdale Civic Associ-
alton has gone on record as op-
posing a bill now pending in the
House which would give control of
parks, Fairgrounds and recreation
facilities in the city to the District
Commissioners.
Meeting at the Tabor Presby-
terian Church, Second and S
streets NV, the association also
voted approval of the Kefauver
home rule bill. DR.. Ellis o. Know,
head Of the education department
at Howard University, spoke on
the Washington public school sys-
tenn.
Evening star., 1950-02-22
dom,' she said.
In Dead Mans Car.

DOM she said.
In Dead Mans Car.
She said Carson James had
driven his fathers car here after
that fatal Thanksgiving. She
said the title is still in the name
of her father and mother.
Sitting wearily on the sofa in
her home, the school teacher still
insisted she had revealed circum-
stances of her fathers death un-
willingly.
Il begged him not to- she said,
when her husband first told her
he was going to notify the po-
lice. The other way, no one was
harmed. This way it's harming
so many people.
But it's done now and when a
thing is done, it's done. Now'll
I'll have to go through with it."
Evening star., 1950-02-22
Staying
Continued From First Page.)

all the James children, said it was
unlikely that charges would be
filed against Mrs. Hockersmith or
any of the others who shared the
secret with Carson James.
Mrs. James and the children
have a good reputation in the
community, and all the children
have worked their way through
school, he said.
Mrs. HockerSmith, who said
Carson had confessed the Staying
to her just before Christmas of
1947. said he had threatened he'd
see that got the same thing if
I told" It was this. she said, to-
gether with a fear of bringing
harm" to her family, that led her
to lie about her fathers where
abouts even to her husband Frank,
"a, painting contractor.
1dlkcu III Slccps
When they were married last
May, she told him Mr.. James was
in a mental institution" Back in
Michigan, the family had "estab-
lished the story he had just dis
appeared"
But the grim knowledge that
Mrs. Hockersmith said had driven
her brother Hugh to drink, had
driven her to talking in my
sleep" Saturday night she talked
in her sleep again: Something
about-father. And-murder.
Questioned by her husband the
next day, Mrs. Hockersmith broke
down and confessed to him the
whole thing" Mr.. Hockersmith
said he went to police here Sun
day afternoon, later called police
in Michigan, and told them his
wife's story.
YEARLY and Internationally, the
Evening star., 1950-02-22
Tyrone Powers Wife
Expects Boby in Octobe,
BY the Associotsd Press

oy me AsSociofed FreSs
HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 22.-The
travelling Tyrone Powers are ex-
pecting a baby in October.
1--WE both want children" a
studio spokesman quoted the
actor. "We're very happy about
it,"
Power and his wife, Linda
Christian, were married in Janu-
ary, 1949, in Italy. Last September
she lost an unborn child in Paris.
The Powers plan to sail from
here to Honolulu in the next two
or three weeks. Power later will
go to Manila to make a picture
and Linda will join him there.
They plan to return home in time
for the child to be born here.
Evening star., 1950-02-22
Wherry's Drive 10 Cut
Potato Buying Abroad
Clashes With ECAPIea
BY the Associated Press

American buying of potatoes
grown abroad and price supports
for those grown at home were
under continued sharp attack to-
day in the Senate.
Senate Republican Leader Wher-
ry. frequent outspoken critic of
administration foreign policies,
opened drive to clamp down on
potato imports as long as they are
produced in surplus in this coun-
try.
This move clashed with a state
ment by Paul G. Hoffman, eco
nomic cooperation administrator,
that the United States should buy
more foreign goods if European
countries are to make any per-
manent economic recovery.
Wherry Offers Amendment.
While Mr.. Hoffman was making
his statement yesterday before the
Senate Foreign Relations Commit
tee. Senator Wherry introduced a
trade barrier amendment to the
cotton peanut potato bill which
the Senate plans to take up again
today.
"The administration is full of
free traders" Senator Wherry
told reporter.
In brief, Senator Wherry's
amendment would bar potatoes
and potato product imports into
this country when (a) the Presi-
dent proclaims there is a domestic
surplus, and (b) whenever the
Agriculture Department applies
measures to limit and control
the production and marketing of
Irish potatoes"
Senator Wherry has expressed
dlSpleaSure\ \over a move to apply
controls to American potato pro-
ducerS, while permitting potatoes
from other countries to enter this
country.
Lucas Attaches Rider.
Senate Majority Leader Lucas
has hooked a rider onto cotton
peanut bill which would knock out
all price supports for potatoes, not
planted by the time the bill is en-
acted, in the absence of restric-
tions to hold down production.
Purchase of potato surplus un-
der the farm price support pro-
gram has cost the Government
s450,000,000 since the war.
Senator Williams, Republican
of Del, yesterday introduced an
amendment to the rider which
would change the word planted"
to harvested"
Planters in Southern States
already have potato seeds in the
ground, but Northern growers will
have to wait for more seasonable
weather
Enactment of the Lucas rider,
as amended by Senator Williams,
would remove price supports from
all 1850 potatoes unless Congress
passed a marketing quota law.
Evening star., 1950-02-22
TrujiIIo's S War Powers
Ended at His Request
BY the Associated Press

CIUDAD, Trujillo, Dominican
Republic, Feb. 22.-Congress yes
terday revoked President Rafael
Trujillo's extraordinary powers to
declare war.
The action had peen requested
by the President to promote use
of consultative measures for the
settlement of Caribbean political
disputes.
Congress granted the President
authority to declare war last jan
uary 6. He requested it for defense
of his regime.
Evening star., 1950-02-22
Cub Scouts Plan Dinner

Cuo Scout Pack 255 of Chevy
Chase will hold its annual Blue
and Gold Banquet at $50 pm
tomorrow at st. Johns Episcopal
Church, Wisconsin avenue and
Bradley lane. Henry Hilken, cub
master, will serve as master of
ceremonies at the father and son
affair. -- =.-
Evening star., 1950-02-22

tirely different.
Il was afraid of him that day."
she added.
Carson visited the school teacher
early Friday and then left ito 60
TO the Mojave Desert, where they
test guided missiles" Mrs. Hook
ersmith related.
This is the first time Cary has
oeen away from Washington-
that I've felt the least bit of free-
Evening star., 1950-02-22
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Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1950-09-01

me- and was referred to more often than
the family Bible. The catalog graeed The big
house from one publishing day to the next,
and then found usefulness in the little house
until completely annihilated, During these
years ii is doubtful that the Negro realized
that he was building up powers Of prejudice
of which he would become the target.
Bell wa right in his statement, when he
said that it was "Their right to work who
ever they pleased, and not be questioned a.
bout it, That should be the right of every
business man in America. The Negro should
have a right too He should have right to
spend his money with whom he pleases. And
in fact, we believe that every Negro in the
Little Rock area has that right And too, we
believe that every Negro should spend bis
money to the best interest of his race and
the community in which he lives It is true
that on certain commodities in some places
a few pennies are saved. But why sacrifice
the economical status of the race for few
pennies on ore thing that you will throw
away on something else?
We have thousands of youngsters want
ing to 90 to school within our race, Why
not spend or money with those who reeog-
nize that fact 1t is true that firms who do
employ Me- 1es employ them in the most
rugged places and with the lowest wages. But
we do have at least this argument for
certain amount Of eomplacency, that all is
not lost We will also admit, from the white
merchants bid for our business, we do not
know who appreciates it. But we do know
when we send with local firms, we are
building Little Rock, and not building up out
of-state communities.
Therefore, let us as race take the white
man as he takes u.s. He takes us for granted.
He feels that the more we are abused the
more we like it. Now is our opportunity to
practice some of that race pride we are al
ways preaching and we can use Sears, Roe
buck and Company for our target.
WE DO NOT SPEND OUR MONEY WHERE
WE DO NOT WORK!
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s. s. TAYLOR
says:
Souiherners First Or Americans First7.
BY S. S. TAYLOR

Il against it said Senator Eastand of Missju
referring the admsscn of Hawaii state according to
line in daily paper con this legislation stand for Mssn
first and my country second he reported have added Or
course that he stood for the Mississippi Whit
man first Few in public statement would put local ova
ties above national obligations
But the Hawaiins a dark people, and the attitude of t
Mississippi where dark people concerned notorious
The daily refers to Eastand zone of the raeeconSc
in Congress- and "a militant champion of the Dxecra
viewpoint That is undersatement Wide circulation Wa
given his attacks the Negro soldier time ago He m
CARDS the dark subcaste He naturally would MT
recognize HaWaiin his equal in the senate nor
would he welcome the problems arising out of eating and The
social functions connected with the senatorial rank
Annexation of Hawaii attempted under Harrison and
rejected under Cleveland special report stating that e
annexation party had to power only through the landing
of L. S. marines Hawaii annexed August - 1898 Ane.
leans residing in Hawaii prominent in the movement F
annexation thread of intrigue and ntermarage tha
the story To Asans the acquisition of this territory would con-
sute colonial expansion and the admission of Hawaii would
See S. S. TAYLOR-Paoe eight
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The opinions expressed this page contributors not
Necessarily the opinion of this paper Publisher
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this
day and age
Men Are Such Fools
BY Clyde o. Jackson, City Editor

The world fought end all wars in 1918 and formed
the League Of Nations unite the peacoving nations in
peace against aggression In 1889 however again
and in 1915 ended war to end all wars and promptly
organized the United Nations to unite the loving
tons against aggression When formed this organization
couldn't have the foresight profit by mistakes
of the Inflated League Nations We didn't have enough
of the desire for peace begin each of the UN with
simple prayer We didn't have enough Of the desire for
peace have all of people represented in order that each
would feel he sharing the forming of free world
We did have enough Of the desire for look
at the other fellows point of view but always insisted that he
look at We merely started by seeing which nation could
outnsut the other which could tell the biggest lie and
gather the greatest following with greatest propaganda We
all that want peace and working toward that end
the United Nations destined for the fate the League
of Nations met years ago and being plunged into
still another war, which have doubt will all wars"
since there will probably be left around make
Therefore, beginning seriously doubt that peace
really the ultimate aim of the leaders of the world What with
the manufacture Of Atomic and Hydrogen boabs when
and heart disease taking heavy toll lives each
and when should be engaged in the process construct
ing devices which will proong life construct those
which will snuff out even more lives.
Life is cheap in this day and age seems After all what
See THIS DAY AND AGE-page eight
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Psvchiatric Examinations For Race Baiters. Etc.

psyohiatrist or alienist.
Psychotic husbands or wives create in
caleulable trouble in families and neighbour
hoods. Psvchotic teachers bend the young
shoot to a ground growth or a perverted
type. Psychotic principals, presidents, ard
administrators halt, maim or defeat the ed
ucational program and disfigure the lives
and personalities of the teachers and stu
dents subject to their NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
And, so on indefinitely, into all phases Of
life.
Defective self-direction and unbal-
lanced performance" become aggravated So
cial hazards when coupled with high office
and large powers The mildeSt forms of
o-neurosis-instabilty incorrigiblity
lawlesSness queerneSS, Feasibility, ansiety
suspiciousnesS, cruelty, moodinesS, errati-
cism, etc, carry ncalcube danger when UNI
detected and undeterred in high places. We
check the mental condition of nearly every
person who commits a honous crime nova
days; but we do no checking at all into the
mental condition of those whom we select TO
direct our national state local and ndiyj-
dual destinjos along an lines. The higher the
station the greater the obstacles TO detection
and detcmcnt
That probably accounts for The large
number OF race baters In public life and of
flee.
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No1zl1 DeuAh11t
Speak,
BY E. UPsHUR, D. D. s., Ranes Bldg, Little Rock
Enlargement Of The Gums

An increase in the size of the gums often the dental
office Poor oral hygiene accumuaons OF tartar and mpan
OF food about the neeks of the teeth mouth breathing and e
svely heavy chewing of the local conditions which
favor enlargement of the gums. Frequently the gums enlarge
because of ratons in those due to incorrect tooth brush
habits to lfittng reservations and appliances or to m
toned teeth which allows food mpacon between the teeth
many the increase in the size of the gums is due to some
general body disturbance
Enlargement of the gums is disease in most instances
but it is important because it is symptom Of abnormal
condition in the mouth the body in general Gum enlargement
is found commonly in children and young adults especially G
the eruption Of the body permanent teeth
The gums enlarge most often in the Vshaped space b"e
the teeth the cheek side of the jaw teeth and in the front par
of the mouth Enlargement Of the gums begin in most instances
localized process in Of poor oral hygiene 1000 E
FACTION mechanical irritation which can be Teal-
eliminated by the dentist The enlarged gums budge out o"e
the teeth producing favorable sites for food mpac '
See YOUR DENTIST sPEAKs-page eight
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Buy Where Negroes Work.

Far too long the Negro has talked one
thing and acted something else. lie has
talked race pride and cooperation and used
his power to destroy the very foundation
upon which the race can build Talk with
out action has been the psychology of the
Negro every since his limited emancipa-
ton from the bonds of enSlavement This
can not be too severe an indictment Of the
Negro He has been taught white. He
has been taught in public schools from
white books He has shaped his religion
from a white Bible thus making his re-
ligion white.
Believing this to be true we were
little nonpussed last week when we were
informed by would-be-Negro purchaser
by the rlmor route that Sears, Roebuck Il
Company located at Seventh and Main
streets. had discharged Negro women and
replaced their jobs with white women Ne
gro purchasers as rule pay little If any
attention to treatments accorded Negroes
by merchants as long as they can get what
they want.
This rumor as all rumors destined to re-
tard progress of the Negro was lnVestl-
GATED and found to be true The Sears Roe
buck & Co. manager, whose name was SAID
to be Bell, pulled no boners and in no apol-
egetc tones told this paper that he discharg-
ed the Negro women TO give white girls some
thing to do who were working their way
through college. And stated further that 1t
was the eompany's right to work who ever
they pleased, and not be questioned about IT..
Bell further stated that he worked or III
colored people in the three places operated
in Little Rock. The places known to us are
Sears service station located at 4th and Scott
streets and the store at 61S Main, 9TH and
Main. Bell was asked what percentage OF his
employees were Negroes he replied Il don't
know and don't care, and | don't want to
talk about il"
When we left Bell, we were carried back
to the days when Sears, Roebuck Com
pany catalog occupied place in the rural
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I've Been Thinking
BY Cab Galloway

BY Cab Galloway
! see by the papers that New York bus
drivers are on strike because the bus win
dows are so dirty they have trouble seeing
whore they are going. This comes 10 me as
something of a surprise. I thought that there
were no windows in New York buses at
least I've never seen out Of one
OF course | suppose those bus drivers
get used to looking through a dirty wind
shield. Friend of mine who drives a bus in
the Bronx finally had to get glasses be-
cause he couldn't sec when he got through
work. The glasses didn't do any good, either
and the doctor was stumped Luckily the
fellow has a smart wife. though. and she
knew what he needed She took his nice new
glasses and smcared them with mud and then
ne could see fine. He'd been looking through
dirty windshields so long he couldn't ad.
just his eyes to clean ones
Something else about this whole thing
surprises mi, | didn't know that New York
bus drivers bothered to look out of the win.
doWS, except to leer at an occasional pretty
girl in a decolette sunsuit
| thought the itney pilots Just held the
wheel steady blasted courageouslv on the
horn and tromped on the acceorator WHY.
I've even seen New York cabbies quail AT the
sight of a crosstown bus surfboardinp
through traffic on a groundswell of dent
ed tenders.
Somehow It was my impression that
Manhattan stagecoach whiphands were
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1950-09-01
By S. S. TAYLOR, Associate Editor

Psyehiatric examination for congress
men is suggested by Representative Rich OF
PENNSYLVANIA in the course of speech at
lacking "trying to give it Qood) away to
foreigners so Americans can't eat 1t. Inc
congressman was fighting high food prices
and his suggested psychatric examination
was probably just gag along the way.
But the congressman's gag should nave
been meant seriously and should be taken
seriously We do not suggest that the men
tai condition of congressman calls for psY-
chiatrist or an alienist but we do call at
tention to two facts. % we make no eXamn-
alton into the sanity of our rulers, but take
il and them for granted; (2) many of the
worlds notorious dictators, ccnquerors, and
subversive thinkers have been men who
showed symptoms of mental disorder-for
instanceS-GenghS Khan, Alexander the
Great, Napoleon l. the Wilhelm of the first
World War and the Hitler Of the second
What disasters might have been avertcd
If all those accomplished mass murdcrers
had had al their elbows competent psychia-
tristS privileged to keep their masters on a
sane and human track In fact We cannot
resist the suspicion that every aEgressor I'm
history, every murderous pogromst and
every deWlishly inspired perpetrator Of un-
declared wars of aggression and ruthless
seizures Of governments of the past the pre-.
sent, has been and is a person in need of a