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, 1951-04-05
j, Linden (enGey
Sim Apomised

The executive secretary of Day
,on's Linden Community Center,
Clarence l.. Thomas was recently
appointed to the National Advis-
Dry Committee on Defense-Related
Services, according to a letter re-
ceived from Joseph Prendergast,
executive director of the National
Recreation Association.
The committee is composed of
81 recreation leaders from vari-
Gus sections Of the country. The
purpose of the committee is to
, 1951-04-05

The memorandum was first pre-
sented by Clarence Mitchell, di-
rector of the NAACP Washington
Bureau, at a conference on March
Is with General B. M. McFadyen,
chief Of the military personnel
division, and other officials of the
Department of Defense.
"This conference" Mitchell
said in a letter transmitting the
NAACP memorandum to Mrs.
Rosenberg, revealed that the
Army has shown a few colored
troops the promised land of in
tegration in basic training units
and in some specialities. How
ever, the vast majority of ground
troops are still in the bondage Of
segregation"
The memorandum charges that
the Army persists in CD segrega-
ing Negroes during the induction
period in eating and sleeping &C
commodations, (2) pining a ra-
cial designation upon each
soldier, (3) maintaining separate
facilities and quarters on its
posts, and (4) permitting -Mantnn
assaults on ~servicemen by local
police and civilians to go I'M
punished.
martial, is being handled
A fifth issue, unjust courts
martial, is being handled by the
MACE legal staff under direction
of Special Counsel T%hurgood Mar
shall.
, 1951-04-05
Woman Faces
s-Av ears

A jury of eight women and four
men took exactly SIS minutes late
this afternoon to find Mrs. Bessie
Bernice Chappell guilty of volun-
tary manslaughter in the Feb. 4
fatal knitting of John "Curley"
Ballard at 282 Dunbar Ave. This
verdict was demanded by the state,
represented in the two-day trial by
First Assistant Prosecuting At
torney Lloyd O'Hara and Assistant
Prosecuting Attorney Fred Kerr.
The trial was heard in the Com
mon Pleas Court of Judge Charles
Lee Mills Mrs. Chappell, who
lives at $50 S. Williams St. now
awaits sentencing on the man.
slaughter charge. She faces 1-2O
year in prison.
Witnesses testified that Mrs.
Chappell killed Ballard after he
demanded she participate in an
immoral act with him at the Dun
bar Ave. address. She refused and,
after he threatened to tell her
husband she had visited the house
without his knowledge, Mrs.
Continued on page 4
, 1951-04-05
Two HawuiiIicns
10 Join Dayton
Baseball Team

Shortstop Stanley Costales and
pitcher Ernest Cabral of Honolulu
are enroute to the Dayton IN
dams training camp at Pine Bluff,
Arkansas, according to word re-
ceived today by Rude Schaffer
from Bill Veeck.
Week and Tribe Scout Abe Sa-
perstein watched these boys dur
ing the Japanese-Hawaiian Island
All-Star series in Honolulu re-
Gently and left contracts for them
to consider. Catcher Charles Luis
also caught Weeks eye, but 50
far has spurned the offer to try
out with the Dayton Indians. AL
were outstanding in the All-Sta1
games and were selected by Veecli
as the most likely to succeed il
Glass A. Competition.
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According to James B. Rowe,
assistant to the District Attorney,
Waters was released on a $4,000
bond and while cut on bond was
arrested and found guilty of the
theft of a fur coat from the Rike-
Kumler Co. He was sentenced to
80 days in the Workhouse and
fined 5000 and costs. Judge Paul
Sherer ruled that Waters would
have to serve out an old sentence
of nine months from a previo
charge of assault and battery.
Waters was picked up at the
Workhouse by two U. S. marshalls
, 1951-04-05
Association Named
New Field Secretary

NEW YORK, April 5-The APP
pointment of John w. Flamer as
assistant field secretary for the
National Association for the Ad-
vancement Of Colored People was
announced by Gloster B. Current,
director of NAACP branches.
, 1951-04-05
Extends Fight
AGAINST Army him Crow

WASHINGTON, Apral 5, (Specia)- Continuing
it's efforts to eliminate discriminatory practices i'll the
Army, the National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People has submitted to Mrs. Anna Rosenberg,
assistant secretary of defense, a memorandum setting
forth five areas of military discrimination and suggesting
corrective measures.
, 1951-04-05
One CHILLED;
Two WOmded
In Korean War
Special to The Express

WASHINGTON, April 81 One
Dayton soldier died of wounds and
two others were listed as wound
ed in action on the Korean front
today by the Department Of De-
Tense.
Pfc. Howard F. Head, brother
of Mrs. Barbara Head Grove Of
1923 Martel Dr., died Of wounds.
Sgt. Estell Baldridge, son of Mrs.
Mable Baldridge of 1853 S. Ard
more Ave, and Pfc. Carl G. Pick
ing, husband of Mrs. Mary Picker
ing of 712 Linwood ST., were
wounded in action.
, 1951-04-05
POLICE BLOT'1TI'EI:R

The U. S. federal authorities blocked whatever
plans John Henry Waters, 26, of 817 Corners St., had for
release from the Dayton Workhouse. They stepped in with
a warrant for his arrest on default of a $4,000 bond af-
ter he was released last October, charged with illegal
possession of dope.
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and taken to the Clinton County
Jail in Wilmington after a hear
ing before u. S. Commissioned
Charles Ozias.
THE LANDLORD of the Dun
bar Ave. house where the fatal
Ballard stabbing took place last
Feb. 4, Moran Terry of 282 Dun
bar Ave. was fined $3.50 court
costs and was handed a suspend
ed sentence of 90 days in the
Workhouse for beating his wife,
Anna Terry. Testimony in the
, 1951-04-05

provide an effective channel for
cooperation in the defense emer-
gency.
Evening star., 1951-05-03

Firm, ripe berries, quick
frozen to retain their de-
licious favor. Enjoy these
field-ripened Strawberries
today.
Evening star., 1951-05-03

Enjoy the full, rich
favor Of these deli
cious smoked hams.
way guarantees
you'll enjoy them.
Evening star., 1951-06-23

winners at Rosecroft as easy as pickin'
the winner of a Russian election-so
I got no excuse to stay home and enjoy
myself.
Each year I study the summer re-
sort entries-this one offers boating.
swimming, fishing-that one calls itself
a rest haven where you can get away
from it all-then I find by 1T they
mean your cash on hand.
"Other guys are always comm back
with stories of what a terrific time they
had while all ever get from vacation
is sunburn, poison ivy. sand in my shoes
and couple of hard looks from the
head waiter as I'm leavin'.
"A few years ago, newspaper guy !
know tells me he's gonna take me to
the champ vacation spot Of all time.
"a quaint little fishing village jut-
ting out off the Jersey coast he says.
Simple, good hearted folks-what seem
ery-it'll remind you of Brittany. :"
II know right off it wouldn't remind
me of Brittany on account never been
to Brittany-but went anyway.
We'll, when we get there I see 1t is
Evening star., 1951-06-23

Man Is naturally fretter and COM
palmer. so no one need take present-day
gripes too seriously, perhaps.
Especially about rainy days.
Such complaining is just the city
residents natural reaction to something
he is not interested in.
One of todays worst mental diseases
might be called simply non-interest.
The selfish outlook, liking merely what
appeals to one, and not simply dis
liking what does not. but going much
farther and deciding against all that
does not precisely concern one
This is great sorrow, and handicap,
and every honest person should make
some effort to overcome it.
Take this rain business.
This season, more than ever, we need
rain.
Great campaigns are put on to get
more and more rain.
We are threatened with less and less
water, not just locally. but all over the
country and the world.
Everywhere there is water short
age, with committees meeting, elaborate
reports, and money spent and to be
spent, all in the interest of getting more
water for more and more people every
where.
At the bottom of this is the need of
water, not just for bathing and water
ing plants, or even drinking, but for
the crops.
We are threatened with food short
ages unless we can keep up our water
supply.
Evening star., 1951-06-23
BY Charles E. TroceweN

mostly because for years they have got
at home inside.
One of the better aspects of modern
child upbringing is the Indifference the
kids show to outdoor conditions.
You see them going to school in the
rain without hat or raincoat.
The older person will not be able to
work up this nonchalance.
What he can do, however, is deliber-
ately to work up tolerance, If perhaps
not real liking, for the outdoors through
some sort of gardening.
And when he does so, he will gradually
grow into genuine liking for the rainy
day.
He will know that without enough
water his plants cannot do well.
He will come to have in himself some
of the same intelligence that is in
every cell of the growing plant.
This intelligence cries out for water,
water, water" at all times
The person who hears this clear call
of plant life will have a new attitude
toward the rainy day No matter how
much his companions dislike it, he will
carry in his heart serene conviction
that it is all right.
If he can push this conviction few
notehes farther, as he well may do, in
time he will have worked UP for him
self one of the best bulwarks against
modern-day complaining, of which the
complaint against rain is only a
symptom.
Evening star., 1951-06-23

to blow my muster-out pay in a nice
rest at mountain place in West Vir-
ginia
THE layout looks perfect-lawn
chairs, hammocks, swimming pool-all
the gimmicks that appeared in the
folder
But it seems the guy that ran the
setup maybe had trouble sleepin' and
wanted company because right smack
on the nose of every morning ampli-
fiers stashed away in the tree tops open
up with first call and then reveille fol-
lowed by regular band concert on
records! I go over the hill after takin'
1t for a week
Next time figger I'll give the beach
workout SO check in a boardwalk
hotel at 20 slugs a day includin' all
you can eat.
THAT is okay except that it always
seemed like it was time to eat.
Il can't even get started on first
degree sunburn before it is time to put
on the feedbag.
II am payin' for the oats and I
Evening star., 1951-06-23
This and That

And here many are gripping because
of rainy day!
We should be ashamed of ourselves.
The thing to do, surely. is to work
up some sort Of genuine personal in
terest in rainfall, so that rainy day
strikes one as something desirable,
something good. thing worth having,
a thing needed and necessary, some
thing better than dry day.
It is one thing to be disappointed in
some sort of outing because the rain
falls, and quite another to have dry.
baked and cracked earth.
Droughts are terrible things.
We who live in cities must have
enough common sense left to realize
that without water the great farms and
the little farms cannot grow crops, and
without these we starve.
The easiest way to work UP not only
a good tolerance, but also positive
liking for wet day, is to take up grow
ing plants in some form.
Even growing them indoors will help.
since any interest in green things
naturally leads to the outdoors.
We have to keep in mind that many
persons today have lived so much in
doors, as students and workers, that
the outdoors does not beckon to them
any more.
You see them on public vehicles every
where, jamming the windows down the
moment breeze strikes them.
It is not because they are "old fogies, !"
% younger persons may, imagine, but
Evening star., 1951-06-23
This Vocutionef Burns Without Sun

nothing but sand trap surrounded by
the biggest water hazard you ever seen.
I'VE check in the only boardin' house
there-a frame shack with a general
store front, and go to brush the sand
outta my teeth. notice the bathroom
is loaded with flies.
when I complain to the manager he
bobs his puss like it's an old story. Go
back there at 6 o'clock he says, there
won't be no flies then
How Gomez" I ask.
"'Cause they'll all be in the dinin'
room he cackles, slappin' his leg.
well. I drown my sorrow that night
and wake UP next morning feeling
awful
THE sun is heatin' in through the
screen and my head is spinnin' like
ball in roulette wheel. I hear the
managers wife screamin' over the tele-
phone to the butcher
Don't send me no more of them
green, grisly lamb chops, she yells.
THAT was it, brother! I grabbed the
rattler to Philly that afternoon.
Then there wuz that vacation on a
Maryland farm during the war. I'd
already got my induction notice and I
figgered on a good rest in advance
steaks for breakfast-thick cream
butter that wouldn't even live on the
same block with oleo, and blueberry pie
like Ma never made.
Those dreams fold up like 6-furlong
sprinter tryin' to go the Derby distance
when for dinner we get served canned
spaghetti.
81 ran short on my meat ration
stamps this week snickers the female
Dillinger who ran the place. Anybody
care for another helping of turnip
tops?'
Il figured at least I could load up
on cow juice. but again get tagged.
1--WE ship all our milk to market,
she tells us without battin' an eye.
We got plenty of nice. hot tea, though
Next meal features hot dogs.
well, to make a long story longer,
when come outta the Army I decide
Evening star., 1951-06-23

both houses and more debate on the floor when
the committees present their reports Here is
where the Chance" element to which Secretary
Marshall referred will enter the picture. Con-
gress still is the uncertain factor. 1t has made
an initial step in the right direction, however.
The Senate will advance the cause step further
by confirming promptly the members of the
National Security Training Commission. The
commission can be relied on to place the issue
squarely back in the lap of Congress for final
determination. This chance to strengthen fur
ther the Nations defenses is one that Congress,
by passing the framework law, has indicated
it will exploit fully when the time comes for
decision To leave the framework unfinished
would be utterly inconsistent with the action
already taken.
Evening star., 1951-06-23
Letters to The Star
Pen names maybe used ii letters carry
1DriterS' correct names and addresses
All letters are subject to condensation.

who had all the virtues Of man and
none of his vices"
I think The Star the best of the
Washington papers. and was sorry you
published the mo Dog Lover" letter
L. B. r.
have contacted many dogs and
rarely have I seen really bad one.
should know, for have rescued,
sheltered and loved hundreds of pitiful.
homeless strays and abandoned pets for
over 20 years, and have no regrets
Gratitude has come from both the dogs
and kindly human hearts. I also have
handled dogs accused of being vicious.
Some careless, unkind human being has
generally been found behind this.
Virginia w. Sargent,
Maryland Branch, Humane Educa-
ton Department
Dogs are intelligent, they have done
much good, have given comfort and
help, but they cannot be expected to
rate with human beings in intelligence.
They. too. make mistakes. But who
doesn't? Why condemn and hate all
dogs because a very few have done
wrong?
AS for the annoyance caused by dogs,
there is much more annoyance and even
damage done by unruly and badly trained
children. Not so in your neighborhood?
Then you are fortunate. A.TT
Just word re dogs.
These poor little animals do not have
brains like humans, and consequently
the bad habits they form are the results
of the masters teaching-or lack of
teaching.
Children, having brains. can be far
more destructive than dogs.
Needless to say. love dogs.
Margaret r. Bein.
One Is inclined to suspect that
R. H. WIS hatred for dogs is even more
intense than his Indignation over the
hideous deed of one particular dog.
If, because of the act of one dog, he
hates all dogs, he should logically be-
come hater Of all mankind. News
papers give daily accounts of brutal
crimes. frequently against children and
perpetrated by men.
would suggest r. H. w. read Don't
Call Man Dog" by Capt. Will Judy,
who advises his readers not to call
man a dog. because it's unfair to the
dog. r. W.D.
Evening star., 1951-06-23

the set theory that "honor among
thieves prevents them from giving IN
formation to the forces of law and order.
Let him tell them that honor among
thieves" is 0. K. for thieves, but that it
should not apply to young Americans
who want to see the law win and
America kept clean for future genera
tions. Let him tell them that they
cannot carry water on both shoulders,
and that boys and girls, as we'll as men
and women, must choose upon which
side of the line they will stand. They
will listen to him when they would not
listen to either teacher or parent.
If the dope peddler was made to
know, not only that every schoolboy
customer was Hoover man." but that
all of his companions were aiming to
land him in jail to face -imprison-
ment sentence. the dope traffic among
minors would come to sudden stop.
Frank G. Campbell.
In an editorial June 10, you say that
"if an alarming situation actually ex-
listed" in regards to dope addiction
among teen-agers, there would be rea-
son to support recommendations for
heavy penalties for peddlers. Do we
want to wait until the number of young
victims mounts to alarming" proper
tions before action is taken?
Even if the record of Washington is
spotless at the moment (though there is
curious discrepancy between such a
picture and numerous national reports
recently publishedD, there is pattern in
such matters which is all too plain.
If we want to preserve the good name
of our Nations Capital, or, what is much
more important, to save our children
from this terrible evil it would seem
that the time to be alarmed and to take
drastic action is now.
Jeannette B. Rayner.
Evening star., 1951-06-23
Foreign Policy
Jeannette B. Rayner.

The Macarthur hearings have not
yet brought out what appears to be one
of the fundamental tenets of the foreign
policy of our State Department. This
is the theory that. if sufficient economic
aid is given, foreign countries will not
require military aid to repel communism
This has been the basis of our foreign
policy since the last war.
While Communists were buSily taking
over China. our State Department plan
ners proposed SIS billion in economic
aid, without cent for arms or ammuni-
tion. Congress killed that one, but we
lost China due to the State Depart
ment's ban on arms. Then, while the
Communists were massing at the 38th
Parallel, the State Department planners
sent economic aid to South Korea, but
only defensive weapons for a small po-
lice force. AS result our boys are be-
ing killed while 100000 South Korean
boys are sent home because of lack of
military equipment to outfit them.
In Europe's case, UNRRA and
ECA have been used for nearly five
years to furnish economic aid only. AS
a result Europe feels powerless to de-
fend itself and the Communists still
thrive. Now belatedly some military aid
is going to Europe but still economic aid
is considered the more important. This
economic aid idea-absurd on its face
is rapidly leading us toward bank
ruptcy. Isn't it about time we woke up?
Henry c. Parker.
Evening star., 1951-06-23
Potomac Bridge Shortage

Charts and statistical tables in the latest
report on traffic density in the Washington
Metropolitan Area show the urgent need for
special study of the Potomac River bridge snort
age For the orign-and- d-destinaion trafnc
survey conducted jointly by the District Mary
land and Virginia, with the cooperation OF the
Federal Bureau of Roads, leaves no doubt as to
such a shortage The report reveals that the
Anacostia River bridges carry considerably less
traffic than the Potomac bridges, yet the Ana
costa has more crossing facilities than the river
of which it is branch.
The survey analyzed in the report was made
In 1948 Since then the amount of traffic over
both rivers has increased substantially. The
increase over the Potomac has been particularly
noteworthy because of the large residential de-
velopments in nearby Virginia since 1948. AND
the problem will become even more acute Win
the construction of new national airport at,
Burke Most of the airport traffic will be fun
neled into Shirley Highway and thence onto the
Fourteenth street bridge.
There are now only four bridges connecting
Washington with the Virginia suburbs They are
the new Fourteenth street bridge, with its prede-
cessor the old Highway bridge Eventually to be
replaced by twin of the new bridge), the Me-
mortal Bridge linking the Lincoln Memorial with
Arlington National Cemetery, the Key Bridge
Bridge. which carries Canal road traffic to the
Virginia shore near the Arlington-Fairfax line.
The AnacoStia. on the other hand is spanned
by bridges at South Capitol street, Eleventh
street Southeast, Pennsylvania avenue South
east and Benning road Northeast. Construction
of new bridge at East Capitol street has been
begun, and another bridge across the stream
is planned as part of the Washington-Balti-
more Parkway project.
comparison of traffic loads crossing the two
rivers supports the contention that the Ana
costa has received favored treatment, despite
less traffic. Traffic across the Potomac River
rose from a little over 100000 vehicles in "a
hours during 1910 to more than 10000 vehicles
In 1949. The increase for the Anacostia bridges
was from more than 10000 a day in 1910 to
slightly less than 100000 in 1949. The rush-hour
traffic count two years ago was $4,000 cars an
hour for the Potomac and $4,000 an hour for
the Anacostia.
These figures justify the emphasis which
the District Highway Department, the National
Capital Park and Planning Commission and
other agencies have begun to place on the need
for new bridges over the Potomac The High
way Department has not indicated its choice OF
q location for a new Potomac bridge but the
master plan of the National Capital Park and
Planning Commission suggests bridges between
Shepherds Landing and Alexandria and from
Nebraska avenue extended to the Virginia shore,
about a mile below Chain Bridge. bridge
between the Memorial and Key Bridges even
tualy will be necessity, too. Until the Potomac
bridge shortage is relieved, the bottleneck condi
tions which develop during rush hours at the
existing crossings will continue to be the despair
of motorists and traffic authorities.