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Arkansas State press., 1952-09-26
Flowers to File
For State Senate

Harold W. Flowers Arkansas segregationisto opponent
civil rights proponen and praccng attorney from Pine
Bluff told the PRESS this week that he would file
Arkansas State Senate next week with secretary of
{ o. Hall Mr. Flowers says he will seek position in the
state senate comprising Jefferson and Lincoln
IN the November election independent ticket.
Harold Flowers is best known thruout the nation for
his fights in the Arkansas get decent education
al facilities for Negro children He has also made an enva
Die record in the south for his fight to save innocent Ne
groes from the electric chair for alleged crimes that
white man has ever paid the extreme penalty
When Mr. Flowers files his pledge next week he will
become the first Negro to file the senate in modern
days He is married and is father of six children He
IS a hlgh degree Mason and ardent church worker
Arkansas State press., 1952-09-26
wrongfuIIy Held
For Il Years,
Pleads Own Case

New York-(CNS)--After a
quarter of a century of serving in
prison illegally and unjustly",
James Carroll, Sc year old Negro,
finally became a free man. And
through his own initiative. For
by learning to read and write in
prison, he discovered he was be-
ing held unduly and sent hand
written petition for writ of err
See HELD--page four
Arkansas State press., 1952-09-26
One DayBibIe
Conference At
Bethel Church

A one day Bible conference will
be conducted at Bethel AME
church, 9th and Broadway, Octo-
Der 80 at 1890 a. m. at which
time DIR. D. II. Stanton of At
lanta, Georgia, secretary of the
American Bible society will de
liver the dedicatory sermon. Five
revised standard versions Of the
Bible will be given away at this
service and other copies will be
on sale at a Bible display booth
in the foyer of the church. Bis
hop w II. Wilkes will preside
See BETHEL-page five
Arkansas State press., 1952-09-26
Mrs. Robson
In New Roe

Mrs Eslanda Robson, wife o.
Paul Robson, and chairman of
the Peoples Progressive party Of
Connecticut who is wildly known
as lecturer and writer, was seen
in a new role last week when
she served as a modera tor on a
tclevision show starring Vincent
Mailman, Progressive party can
didate for president
Mrs. Robson presided over a
half hour round table discu sion
Friday night. which was sponsor
ed by her party and seen on
station WNHC in New Haven,
Connecticllt's only TV station,
Arkansas State press., 1952-09-26

in Duluth Mimi, Duluth branch of the unver-
sity OF Minnesota; the new Rochester art center
new Sanford museum, Cherokee Kansas State
college, Mo Mans Land museum in Goodwill
Oklahoma; Monmouth college Illinois, New Wor-
cester art center, Lawrence college in Appleton,
Wis and Georgia museum, Greenville Ca
The Studio guild Is sam-philarthropic or
ganization to help artists help themselves. A.
mong the financial hackers when it was founded
in 1923 were VIM Hamlin Chi d. Phi tlrophst,
Otto II. Kahn, President Methroptan Opera Co..
and George BumeRthal President Metropolis tan
Museum or Art For the past few years the Studio
Guild has sent fifty different exhibitions from
ing museums from north TO south and as far
west as the Rocky M0untains She amazed
at the strides being made in art DEVELOPMENT and
at the many new museums being built Knowing
Mrs Huntington's desire TO be of the most SER
vice possible, museums in far orr places
Car from New York home OF Mrs Huntingdon are
on the list Of the fortunate twenty.
Arkansas State press., 1952-09-26
let Discover He
ought In Vain

Bakersfield. Calif.-After fiv e
|as of fighting for demoe-
! by in the u. S, Air Force, "a
En.oId veteran Clarence J.
Eatry has just received the UNI
! St reward" Ct being forced
leave the all-White suburban
|vn Of Oildale, Calf. just be-
use he opened q small shoe
lining business there.
After operating his shine stand
H one day, Gentry was warned
BIT il he didn't leave the town
fmediately a group Of race-bait-
rebels would come after the
feran and chain him and his
&r'npr nm
Arkansas State press., 1952-09-26
Liberty Hill To
Observe Woman S
Day, Sunday

The fifteenth annual Woman's
Day will be observed at Liberty
Hill Baptist church, 28th AID
Spring streets, Sunday, begian-
ing with the HOO o'clock ser
vice. The morning message viii
be delivered by Mrs jamie A.
Gray of First Baptist church, 7th
and Gaines streets. Mrs Gray Is
See WOMEN--page four
Arkansas State press., 1952-09-26
--:Pay YOrr FOIL TAX Today:
Wesley Chapel To
Honor Students

In keeping with the general
program of the Methodist church,
September is the month in which
special interest is exercised for
students, and the Wesley Chapel
Woman's society is sponsoring a
See WESLEY-page four
Arkansas State press., 1952-09-26

EN- ROUTE YOUNGSTOWN above boarding the Chicago and
Southern plane at the Municipal Airport last Wednesday
Mrs Leila Belle Fenrck and her husband William L. Fem
rick jr of Kansas City Kansas is former
Miss Leila Belle Butler, daughter of Mr. Mrs
Butler 9l9 Appeson of this city, whom and
husband resided while visiting here Mrs Fenrick
OF Little Rock and graduate of Dunbar high school,
she also highly recognized member the First Bap-
fist church. 9th and Calhoun, Rev W. r. Vaughn pastor,
where she served church pianist While in the
fenrlck visited many acquaintance whom were her
school mates and still call her by her name Dol
~ Dimpe" just "Dmpe". The Fenrcks entertain
cd by Mrs. Lille Mae Coleman Almon 1917 nez former
classmate of Mrs Fenrich They guests Of Mrs
Alice Thompson $40 Townsend street Leila calls her
second mother Before returning to their home Wnona
hafsas CITY, Kansas where Mrs Fenrick resided for
the past SIX years the Fenric plan to visit friends in
Memphis and Chicago AT present Fenrick Is student
of music at Mrs Gladys Browns Music Conservatory in
Kansas City, Missouri.
Arkansas State press., 1952-09-26
Icy your FULL TAX TOu
Iaining School
] Bethel

|lhe board of Christian Educa-
Fh Of Bethel AME church, 9th
p Broadway, and the AME
[nlsterial Alliance are sponsor
\ sCHOOL---psge four
Arkansas State press., 1952-09-26

k4ALHEiMER ESSAY AWARD WiNNER-Dunbar high
d has been informed that Miss Treopia Clara Green
I graduate the recipient of the third award of SIS in
1852 I1aIhenef Essay Contest sponsored by the Nat
Urban League, New York City. The can be applied
tuition maintenance. books, Participants incluGe1
os throughout the United States and tWentyhree sen
l. from Dunbar tae proe-t phase Of tie annual vo
paal guidance week activities.
NJ Green is the oyabe sixteen year oil dughe~ Of
ard Mrs Ernest Green, 1924 West 21s rect and tn
|and daughter T. D. Scout OF this city Sha is native Of
tie Ru.E and product of Of Gibbs elementary and Dun
hleh schools Her church and Sunday school affiliations
h with Bethel A2GE church where She served in many
aduea She exhibited talent IN the arts: dancing a.,
i musis.
Sic vas a. &,a2~- r--,2to fem high - IL .a1-1,-
the DaniorA award for excellent citizenship Al present
apia is freshman at Hampton Institute Hampton Vir-
ia where she received half tuition scholarship as re
! Of a competitive examination.
Arkansas State press., 1952-09-26

Your POLL TAX To-day
Arkansas State press., 1952-09-26

~ Your POLL TAX Today
Evening star., 1952-06-29

professor were found to be a real
security risk. But he asked for d re-
check Of any subversive angle. in view
Of the vehement protests from the
Reed College faculty.
The Senator got q polite reply
from Mrs. Ruth Shipley, chief of the
Passport Division, not Secretary
Acheson. Mrs. Shipley furnished no
reason for the ban, explaining that
the passport files were confidential.
1T may be said," she wrote, that
the refusal Of the passport was made
after the most careful consideration
by the officials Of the department.
who found no other course open to
them"
Boek- -Breokine Strow
From the Senator's standpoint,
that was the straw that broke the
camePs back. This was the kind Of
brushof he had been getting on SIM
liar cases in the past. He made q
speech in the Senate lambasting Mrs.
Shipley and Secretary Acheson (who
supported her and the departments
system for refusing passports). He
decried the attitude of infallibility"
in the Passport Division. He called
the departments exercise of discre-
ton 'tyrannical, arbitrary and ca
PRECIOUS" He said the Passport Di-
vision was run as "star chamber,
contrary to the principles of full
and fair hearing subject to review by
third-party minds"
Here was the focus Of Senator
Morse'S pique. He argued that the
State Departments passport rulings
should be subject to review by some
body outside the department. Ac-
knowledging that there might be Sc
cret information involved which
could not be used in open court, the
Senator proposed that the Subversive
Activities Control Board be desig-
mated to hear appeals from State De-
partment passport decisions. All he
wanted, he said. was an extension of
our democratic system of checks and
balances into the passport field. He
didn't want the State Department to
be a law unto itself. He repeatedly
said he did not want to disclose state
secrets or allow subversives to go
abroad where they could work against
this country. People have a right to
travel abroad. he said, and this right
should not be denied carelessly.
Secretary Acheson replied to the
Evening star., 1952-06-29
Morse Leads Attack on Achesons Passport Policies

doubletalk, explained that Federal
agency" had provided the tip that
Mr.. baltimore intended to leave the
country for Russia or some other
iron curtain country. A department
press officer, cagy about where the
tip came from, said. THE depart
ment doesn't take action on fan.
tastes or inanitieS.'
In the last few days the "tip" on
Lattlmore's trip has been revealed
to be complete hoax. The Seattle
source Of the false dope is being
hauled before grand jury. The Cen
tral Intelligence Agency, revealed as
the source Of the State Departments
information, recalled that it had
characterized its story as raw, un-
evaluated intelligence" The State
Department. on the other hand.
blamed CHA for laundering. Yester-
day it Cancelled the foreign travea
ban on baltimore and announced
intentions to apologize to him.
Told -You-So
Senator Morse gloated in more
than IL pages Of I-told-you-so COM
ment In the Congressional Record. His
charge that the Passport Division
acted arbitrarily and capriciously was
stronger at the weeks end than
when he made it.
Secretary Acheson, for his part, had
avoided most Of the storm over the
latest baltimore incident because he
was in Europe comforting with NATO
diplomats. But he had made his po-
sition on passports clear. He pro-
poses to keep his discretionary power.
subject to no further review than his
own departments. until Congress
takes it away or provides check on
his decisions.
He and Mrs. Shipley, then, will re-
main open to Senator Morse's early
June charges Of bringing people into
o1Srepute under circumstances in
which they cannot prove their inno-
cence." =
The Senator even tried to fit the
Mccarthy shoe on the Acheson foot:
Inc Secretary Of State has indi-
Gated on various occasions his oppo-
sitlon to character Assassination tac-
Tics. He had better look to his own
department. do not wish to hear
the Secretary of State on the pre-
sumption-of-i innocence doctrine until
the Secretary of State is willing, as
ne mas the power to do, to change
the procedures Of the Passport Divi-
sion."
Evening star., 1952-06-29
By EurI H. Voss

Senator's speech by pointing out that
his department had had this dis
cretionary power for some 80 years.
He observed that Mrs. Shipley had
been in her job for many years
(since 1929 and added: IT have the
greatest confidence in (her) and her
administration Of the Passport Bu-
reau." He outlined the system with
in the department for granting pass
ports. emphasizing that many per-
sons contribute to the final decision.
He indicated that other Government
agencies are consulted when neces-
sary. These procedures. Secretary
Acheson said, are "far from being
capricious or arbitrary"
Mr.. Acheson made that statement
on June 18. The next day it was
learned that Owen baltimore, fire.
quently blasted as a Red agent but
never convicted, had been black
listed by the Passport Division. Gus
toms officials had been told to halt an
attempt the Baltimore professor was
supposed to have planned to leave
the country. This was done, al
though Mr.. baltimore had no pass
port to go anywhere, only an expired
copy it was feared he might flash to
get by customs officials. The State
Department, after some demurring
Evening star., 1952-06-29
By Crosby S. Moves

rather be right than President.
Time and again. the tide seemed
about to turn. In Detroit, when the
general tore up his carefully prepared
script and announced that he would
talk off the cuff and from his heart,
every one thought: This is it. After
it was over, there was agreement
that progress had been made since
Abilene. There was also agreement
that, with or without q script, Ike
was no Henry Clay.
In Dallas, it looked like the battle
was joined. The Texas issue seemed
SO obvious that the Marques of
Queensbury himself would have
realized that the time had come to
take off the gloves. The general did.
in fact, use some pretty strong words.
In print, it read like declaration of
war, and the reporters made the most
of it. But it's effect was dissipated
by the unfortunate lack of conviction
and emphasis with which it was read.
More than anything else. the in
sistence on not indulging in person.
o11eiCO Wcso puGt1AAS q C11AuP l1tO C1l0
show. It put the burden entirely on
the Interpretation of what the gen.
eral had said. It was all very well
for the general, as he did in Denver
last week, to say that the isola-
tioniSts threatened the country with
destruction. Who were the isola-
tionists? It was up to the reporters
to name them.
Incredible Noivete
The single exception to this routine
happened by mistake. With almost
incredible na1vete, Gen. Eisen-
hower's advisers allowed him to be
present at a small party of reporters
who interviewed him on a number of
subjects ''for background only'-no
direct quotes permitted. The gen.
eral let down his hair And in speak
ing his mind, he let it slip out that
he considered Senator Taft an out
right isolationist.
OF course. every thing that was
said at the luncheon eventually
Evening star., 1952-06-29

as the way that he said it. The
reporters had already heard some Of
1.-THE had told newSmen in Chicago
that Ike, for the first time, was
claiming 500 delegates on the first
ballot in Chicago, and would win
on the second or third ballot. But
there was more.
He came. said the Senator, as the
bearer of good news-very, very good
news-that had happened within the
last 48 hours. Then, IN spite Of the
reporters anguiShed efforts, Senator
Lodge clammed up.
Mysterious but Convincing
AS OF the time that this is writ
ten the mystery break is still q
mystery. At this point, there is gen.
eral agreement on only one thing:
Something really has happened that
has convinced the Eisenhower strate-
gists that they can make the grade.
AT least Senator Lodge believes that
it has happened. The possibility that
this whole show has been staged as
a counterattack against Senator
Ao3O pANVO4y NAdAA4O WOO4u SCCu1 w
credit the Eisenhower people with
more acting ability than they possess.
Since Thursdays press conference,
the Eisenhower press corps has been
busy putting two and two together
and producing some remarkably
varying results. It has been assumed
that the Senator was talking about
delegates. The question is, which ones.
Any one, or any combination of q
number of critical delegations in the
Lodge pocket might have produced
the same results. The guessing right
now centers around Michigan, Penn
Sylvania and California. For all this
correspondent can find out, it's strict
ly matter of paying your money
and taking your choice.
1t seems likely that the secret will
soon be out. The impression is that
it involves a new junket somewhere
by the general that will provide the
tipoff. In the meantime, Ike's mys-
terry break has provided a sorely
needed shot in the arm to his tagging
followers.
Evening star., 1952-06-29
Epidemic Of Optimism Sweeps Ike's Headquarters

DENVER.-With the Republican
convention little more than q week
of, optimism Is busting out all over
in the Eisenhower camp. To every
one but the top brass. the precise
reason for the new mood Of cheerful
ness is shrouded in mystery. Yet the
uplift Is real. It's sort Of act of
faith.
It comes as quite q change.
Denver-at least the Brown Palace
Hotel where the Eisenhower head
quarters has been establiShed-iS
pretty well insulated from the main
political swim. But in spite of this
fact, rumors had been trickling back
from the East that the smart money
was deserting Gen. Eisenhower.
Nervous Lieutenonts
The rumors had their effect.
There was an apparent nervousness
among the most unflinching Ike lieu
tenants. Senator Taft was talking
with convincing confidence about
having q majority of delegates all
sewed up. His energy seemed to
leave the Eisenhower forces dis
pirited and limp in comparison.
To the corps Of news correSpon-
dents who have followed the general
since his return, it was becoming
more and more obvious that the big
headlines were not here. They had
come hoping to write the story Of a
dramatic crusade and dynamic per-
sonality. They had been promised
fighting campaign that always
seemed just around the corner and
never quite got under way.
From Abilene to Gettysburg, from
Detroit to Dallas the reporters had
tagged along hopefully, filed their
stories and quietly sang the blues in
the night. BY the middle of last
week, a good many of these newspa-
permen were thinking of throwing in
the sponge.
It wasn't that they didn't like Ike.
It wasn't that most Of them didn't
hope to see him in the White House.
What defeated them was the anti
septic quality Of q campaign staged
by Q man who 20 evidently would
Evening star., 1952-06-29
By John w. Stepp

Potomac River at Seventeenth street
to the AnacoStia at Second street.
In 1910, according to records, the
first specific sewer appropriation was
approved. 1t amounted to $12O.
It provided for arching Pennsyl-
vania avenue over an area between
Ninth and Tenth streets. between
which flowed sewer stream.
The system of arching streams was
the prevailing mode Of accommodate
ing sewage until just before the Civil
War. 1t was not until 1868 that the
Board of Aldermen approved funds to
provide uniform system Of sewerage.
Those were the days when Rock
Greek was supposed to-and did
carry waste, along the Tiber Creek
and the canal between Seventeenth
and Second streets. BY way of mod
ern design" one official devised locks
on one canal that would allow flush
ing like the firing of a gun" The
idea didn't work.
In the 1870S-which included the
energetic if spendthrift regime of
Gov. A. r. Shepherd a real under
ground sewerage system appeared.
This included filling in some of the
noxious canals and substituting long,
broad underground passageways.
During subsequent years-in which
sewage covered the tidal flats in the
vicinity Of West Potomac Park-more
plans accrued. BY 1899 long term
sewerage plan-adjusted to then ex-
isting lines-had been set. Officials
had begun to worry about the course
OF Maryland sewage through Dis
trict drainage channels. They had
begun to think of the need for a
sewage treatment plant to reduce
pollution of the Potomac River.
A big step was achived in the 1930s
through Federal relief funds-when
various sewer systems were divorced
from each other and the treatment
plant at Blue Plains was built. But
the war years curtailed further major
expansion and threw the sewer sys-
tenn further behind in its development
and replacement program.
Deterioration of the lines has be-
come more aggravated in the last 10
Evening star., 1952-06-29

experts believe. surprisingly, that
Route One will become even more Of
a death trap when less traffic uses
the road.
They have logical explanation,
based on experience. Most of the
serious accidents happen at night.
Hazards are greater then, with ia
tigue and glare, but the major reason
for the nighttime rate is speed,
encouraged by the lighter traffic.
With fewer cars on Route One after
the new highway opens, average
speeds are expected to pick up.
Although the number of accidents
will drop, the decrease will come
mostly in the minor accidents. The
seriousness Of the accidents that do
occur is expected to increase.
Business Will Suffer
Another major change will be in
the nature Of the businesses along the
highway. Much Of Route One now
looks like Main street In any small
town. There are few open spots.
The Pickering bright lights of the
night clubs and drive-ins increase the
hazards Of night driving. Their many
entrances, with traffic pulling in and
out. slow travel and add to the dan
ger.
For these establishments, business
is expected to drop. Some will be
forced out entirely. They grew up
under support Of q passenger traffic
flow.
But Route One will not become a
ghost highway. 1t still is a good
roadway. and many motorists may
use it in lieu of the parkway. To the
truckers, it will be paradise.
Also, the ends Of the road nearest
to Baltimore and to Washington still
will get heavy use by suburbanites.
When the new parkway is opened,
a trip to Baltimore will be less of a
war Of nerves. But some drivers
travelling the neat. new highway may
miss the old Route One and its
honky-tonk atmosphere. Certainly
Route One will miss it's old friends
1t viii be all work and no play there.
from about February on.
Evening star., 1952-06-29

years, due to the increase in popula.
ton and the lack of funds.
$40 Million Needed
The situation has reached a point.
according to Young J. Wright, super
inUendent of sewers, where $40 mil
lion is required to meet immediate
needs alone. The Rock. Greek Park
crisis is one of these. A $1.2 million
emergency appropriation bill now is
pending before Congress to remedy
this condition. But 30-year program
calling for expenditure of $196 million
has been called for by District Of
flcalS.
A Special Advisory Committee on
Public Works is studying closely de-
tailed outlines of the sewerage con-
Struction needS-among other Capital
outlay requirements. The committee
is due to report to the Commissioners
soon.
Hydroulic Survey at
OF primary need is enough money
to conduct a so-called hydraulic sur
vey OF the entire sewerage system. The
emerg ency appropriation for the Rock
Greek Park unpleaSantneSs will cover
most of that survey. since the Rock
Greek flow involves such large part
of the city'S system.
Once the survey is conducted the
sewer experts will be able to 60 ahead
with planning needs for extensions
and replacements of present lines.
But the core of the problem lies in q
couple of figures: The sewer division
requested $40 million for capital i'm
provements; it stands to get only 81
million at the most in the 1853
budget. which has yet to be approved
by Congress.
Sewer officials can reel off a dozen
major sore spots in the sewerage sys-
tenn. Any one of these could fail any
day. Sewer Chief Wright says, due to
the inadequacy of the size of the old
lines or deterioration of the con-
Structicn materials. With inadequate
funds. the District must fall back on
the calculated risk"
When you don't have enough
money you've got to space it out
where you think the need is greatest"
Mr.. Wright says. And hope for tho
best" he adds.