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The Detroit tribune., 1952-06-07

had the pleasure OF placing on
WXYZ-TV year ago for single
shot, began his nightly three hour
STINT tcn TO onc) Monday
n.pht on WXYZ radio. His is
record show. and is the white
station heads idea of what good
Negro disc Jockey should sound
Ike.
Worth Kramer OF WJR told me
recently, there IS a Negro voice
and il is highly salable in radio I"
Maybe that's what sold Leroy G..
White Anyway. Leroy played
only music considered by Wood
ward Avenue record distributors
as Negro music" blues, etc
Truly, Surrell was tops on his
Top of The Town" show debut.
Ills piano interpretations and ban
ter were refreshing, but, we must
SAY somewhat monotonous for
three full hours. We understand
from WXYZ folks that the Sur
rell show Will be altered a little,
placing Jack in a straight dj role
from eleven 10 midnight. taking
declarations phoned in from listen
ers. and returning TO his piano
foi the last hour, playing then
records and piano requests taken
during his middle hour. Should
make a hit A good choice we'd
say. A little advertising would
hclp. too.
Jack The Bell Boy. who thinks
the sun rises and sets in the
voice of Louis Armstrong. is a
great admirer of Jack Surrell,
and is said 10 have had a top
hand in the selection of Surrell
for the night dj spot on WXYZ.
Surrell has been down in Ohio.
Playing club dates and doing
sc me record spinning. He for
merlY played in Detroit. and
only a week ago led his trio al
the newly opened Paradise
Lounge.
The Detroit tribune., 1952-06-07

AROUND TOWN: They're
T. king about the new capital
punishment bill which demands
death for any felon killing a
prison guard. while there exists
no other capital punishment bill
IA the state Backers Of the bill
are aiming chiefly, however at
the over all bill They figure the
public Will soon yell Why ap-
ply il only 10 men who kill prison
guards Why not for killing any
body?"
AT that rate they'll get the bill
they really want This corner was
never for and never will bc FOR
capital punishment. nol for kill
ing OF any type of any person in
any way, and Will go on record
right now agin the thing Most
people who seem To bc for capital
punishment seem TO be devout be-
levers in the teachings of Jesus
Christ, not in the "eye fol an
e>e doctrine of Moses
But. after all. in the ranks Of
The Detroit tribune., 1952-06-07

Another but laudable selection
for radio this week was Walter
White. the NAACP exec. for a
spot on WLIB in NYC. HIS wife
Poppy Cannon already has
radto show Whites first guest
was MIS-. Eleanor Roosevelt.
Evening star., 1952-08-14

poets of 1.-THE China Clock Murder
Case"
$3.50. WWDC-Wash. Reporters
Roundup: Senator John Sparkman
is interviewed.
1885, WRC - Charlie Spivak
Charlie Spivak and his orchestra
broadcast from Glen Echo.
Television Today.
600, WMAL-Family Playhouse
The film is "zis Boom Ball." with
Peter Lind Hayes.
500, WTTG-Operation Informa-
ton: Service veterans benefits are
explained.
$3.50, WNBW-What Happened?:
Roger Price, Maureen Stapleton,
Frank Gallop and Lisa Ferraday
make up the panel.
900, WTTG, WTOP-Pick the
Winner: Major issues of the politi-
cal campaign are discussed by Sem
ator Mike Monroney and Gov. Sher-
man Adams. Walter Cronkite is
moderator.
$3.50, WNBW - Mister Peppers:
Wally Cox is star of the comedy
series.
Evening star., 1952-08-14

screen for more than a few min
utes."
Thomas listed his other OBJ
jections to TV:
'You can't appear so often and
keep your audience. revere the
acting talents of Gary Grant,
Spencer Tracy and the late Walter
Huston. But if ! were to see them
on the screen three times in three
months, I would tire Of them.
II can't play to a cold audience.
In TV your audience is looking
at the camera, the stage hands,
the props, anything but the come
dian. But I need those people to
bounce OF of and to play with.
I can't get laughs from a camera.
It's hard to perform with all
those gadgets between you and
the audience, ] like to be free to
move around. I might be getting
to my best punch line, and I'll
hear the No. / camerman talking
over his phone to the director:
That's as close as I can come in:
you'll have to get him on No. g.
"Also, the TV routine gets you
down. You're always worrying and
attending meetings. They bring
out charts-blue charts. yellow
charts and red charts. Terrible,
they say, we lost two listeners In
st. Louis last week!'"
Thomas indicated he would lin
it his future activities to movies.
Evening star., 1952-08-14
On the Air:
King Kong,
TeIevision's
Monster
By Harry Macarthur

Hollywood's cinema moguls may
stop worrying about television any
day now.
The summer has produced some
thing of a classic demonstration
that TV can be friend rather
than a foe of the movies. Latest
discoverer of the good in this
gadget which keeps people at
home and away from the movies is
Terry Turner. exploitation chief
for RKO-Radio Pictures. Mr.
Turner, in his day. has exploited
everything from a whale which
turned sour on him to-well, to
King Kong" which turned
mighty sweet.
"King Kong" as you may or
may not know, is something every
studio boss in Hollywood is wish
ing had happened to him. The 18-
Iyear-old spine-tingler was hauled
loft the shelf several months back
and sent around the nation with
results that startled Hollywood,
IT. it has not been actually the
saviour of RKO. it certainly has
kept the studios bookkeepers
busy and stockholders happy.
Mr.. Turner gives the credit, at
least in large part, to television'
Television, he reasoned. does not
only keep people at home. It also
sends them out to buy toothpaste
and coffee and canned beer. He
launched a cross-country satura-
tion campaign. as you must have
noticed when the picture played
here recently. letting no one with
in range of TV escape the king
Kong" trailer.
Television, Mr.. Turner proved,
also will send people out OF the
house to buy movie entertainment.
The proof is being written in solid
black ink, too. The first time
around, 18 years ago, the domestic
gross for king Kong" was $780,
600; this time. in the same non
foreign market, the gross IS ex-
pected to hit So million.
"Television. the ogre Of Holly
wood" Mr.. Turner sums up. will
become the golden goose OF the
film industry.
X X Il +
GOSSIP'S RETURN - Walter
Winchell will return to his old
Sunday-at-9 pm. niche on ABC
on October S, a couple Of hours
after launching his first regular
television show. Winchell. TV
version, will also be an ABC fea-
ture, seen as well as heard on
Sundays at GAS pm. Be able to
scoop himself, now, and then re-
taliate two hours later.
y n X +
WOMEN ONLY-"Inga's Angle"
will feature an outdoor style show
tomorrow (WNBW-2:30 p.mo.
staged at the tennis courts OF the
Wardman Park Hotel. Town. not
tennis, clothes will be featured.
Evening star., 1952-08-14
SAVE \ ' 7.Z1|
Every fabric drastically reduced!
Be a wise buyer and act nou!

We've taken the bull by the horns
our summer IulI is here :;
ond rather thon 10y off our crofts-
men, we've sIoshed prices on quol.
ity re-uphoIsterine, new Custom
built living room furniture and
mode-to-order slpcovers to the
lowest point in yeors! Be wise!
Don't woit til foil and poy more.
Let US re-upholster your living
room suite or moke new slipcovers
for you now.
Evening star., 1952-08-14
This Entertainer
is Deserving TV.
By Bob Thomds
HOLLYWOOD.

| interviewing Danny Thomas IS
not like interviewing Gary Cooper.
You don't get just a yep" or a
nope" for an answer.
Thomas has made a fortune
from his gift of CAB. So got a
full explanation when I asked him
why he is quitting television. He
lis perhaps the first OF the top
comedians to give up the new
medium of his own free will. So
II queried him about it on the set
of 'The Jazz Singer" in which
Ihe is playing the Al Jolson role.
Then I stood back and listened.
IT am a stand-up entertainer" :"
Ihe began very elementally. "Others
II could mention of this same type
are Danny Kaye, Judy Garland
and Betty Hutton. Go down the
list about IL and you come to
Thomas. We have this in COM
mon: That we can entertain an
audience alone and without props
for an indefinite period Of time.
"I am not a clown. I paint q
word picture. I can hold an au-
dience in a cafe or theater for
an hour and five minutes merely
by talking and singing a few
songs. But this type of enter
tainment is not possible in TV as
it is now run by sponsors and
advertising agencies.
"a sponsor sees me In a cafe
and decides to buy me for TV. He
says he wants me to do my Wall
ing Syrian act just as he saw it.
But it runs % minutes. The
agency says it has to be cut down
to four minutes. Another routine
runs seven minutes: they want 1t
at two and a half. The agency
claims that the TV audience will
mot watch a single person on the
Evening star., 1952-08-14
TeIevision Tomorrow Fridoy, August IS, 1852

wMAL-2:3o, Roilywosd Matinee; $50, Ruth Crane;
4, Miss Ruth Anne's kindergarten;
SIS O'Clock Iheater.
WNBW-1, Todsy-Daye earowsy; 3, Naneys Note
book; $50, Inga's Figure Formula; s:45.
Blair's House; 10. Prologue to the Future;
1880, Breakfast Party; II. Mrs. U. S. A.;
1,3o. IT'S . Problem; u, Ruth Lyous;
:, 1870, Little Playhouse; I, Feature Play.
house; AIS, Guest Book; 2:3o, Inga's
Angle; ), The Big Payoff; $3.50, Johnny
Dussn; 4, Matinee in New York; 5, HAWKINS
# Falls; s:1s, eabhy Hayes; $3.50, Howdy
Doedy.
Evening star., 1952-08-14
FM Stotions

WRc-FM-s3.s Me-, Channel 73s
$50 am. to ! am.
WToP-FM-s6.3 Me-, Channel ~
$50 am. to 2 am.
WBUz-FM-se.7 Me-, Channel 244
8 pm. to 9 pm.
WASR-FM-s7.t Me-, Channel 24s
2:30 to II pm.
W0l-FM-ss.7 Me-, Channel 2s4
3 pm. to 1890 pm.
WcFM-ss.5 Me-, Channel 2ss
S pm. to II pm.
WFAk-1oo.3 Me-, Channel 2s2
7 am. to 9 pm.
WWDc-FM-1ot.t Me-, Channel 26s
S am. to 9 pm.
WGMS-FM-103.5 Me-, Channel 27s
$50 am. to Midnight
WARL-fM--105.1 Me-, Channel 2s6
6 am. to 8 pm.
NuST-1oe.3 Me-. Channel 2s2
J am. to 9 pm.
WMAL-FM-101.3 Me-. Channel 2s7
8 am. to Ills pm.
Evening star., 1952-08-14

WTTe-i:1s, Cartoon Theater; 1880, Early Bird
Theater; u, Cartoons; 1870, hoontime
News; 12:45, Take the Break; t:is, Broad,
way Matinee; 1:3o, Matinee Theater; las
Midday chapeI;. z, " Disc Jockey; 2:3o'
shep the Tswn; 3. News; SOS, V Disc
Jockey; 4, News; A:o5, " Disc Jockey; 5,
News; Sos, Tv Disc Jockey; s:as, Tony
Wakeman.
wroR--s, Morning Show; 10, Esxs--Dosni 1880,
Mike and Buff; 1o:45, Al Pearce Showi
1t:3o, Strike It Rich; II, Bride and Groom;
12:ts, LsVe Of Life; i2:3o. Search fef
Tsmonsw; 12:4s, Allan jeffays ladies'
Bay; i:30, Garry Meare; 2:3o, Guiding Light;
2:A5, Mike and Buff; $40, Summer seheoii
4, Pick TempisI s:25, Early shsw.
Evening star., 1952-08-14
ADVERTISEMENT.
|ber, the decision Of the judges wi
be final.

ber, the decision of the judges will
be final.
Perhaps the visitors" were after
squash from Langs,
Stand 213. They are an interest
ing looking vegetable and supply
that much-needed variety in the
menu. Fruits are plentiful now,
with purple plums, nectarines and
three types Of grapes added to the
usual. Lambert cherries are here
now. These resemble the "Bing"
type, but are a bit sweeter.
Home e-grown corn is plentiful, and
you can get both Golden Bantam
and white. You'll also find hot
green peppers at this stand.
Veal kidney chops are an every
day item ut the 'ESSDEE Meat
Stand, No. $751;. but not one you'H
find at most stores. If you haven't
tried them, you will want some this
week end. You can get the l0in
veal chops, too, and serve one Of
each, as they are small.
For Seaf0od fanciers, there are
Norfolk Spots and butterfish. Both
of these are good frying fish and
extremely good eating. As AL
Thompson, Of Thompson's Stand,
No. 537 explained, the meat just
rolls up on the fork off the bone
$50 you don't have to worry about
the. bone.
Don't let the "saucers'' beat you
to it-come over tomorrow to see
us, and do all Of your marketing
here under one roof at
CENTER MARKET CITY
5th and K SITS. NV.
Evening star., 1952-08-14
HighIiehts
Radio Today.

500, .WRC-A Life in Your
Hands: A story by Erie Stanley
Gardner is dramatized. >...
SEQ. WTOP-Mr. Keen: Mr.. Keen
becomes involved in 'The Dinner
Guest Murder Case"
900, WTOP - Mr.. Chameleon
The detective investigates the as
Evening star., 1952-08-14

Evening news broadcast, d.
rect from The Stars news
room, Monday through Friday
over Stations WMAL and
WMAL-FM; 6 pm.
Evening star., 1952-12-29

1907, when he returned to the
road to stay.
Unlike most old engineers, he
doesn't lameDt the diminishing
use of steam locomotives.
II like dieSels far better" he
said. "As far as I'm concerned
they are the best"
He said the first engine he
tended in his early days was about
one-fifth the size of the monster
that hauls the Capitol Limited.
Still fairly active. Mr.. McGeachie
says he doesn't intend to lie fall
low around his home.
I'm going to 60 places and see
things. I couldn't stand sitting
around. I've got to keep moving"
Evening star., 1952-12-29
Engineer Ends Railroad Career
With Apology for Being Late
Proud Of Plotting
B.&O. Capitol Here;
Began as Wiper

The Baltimore & Ohio's Capitol
Limited glided into Union Station
today, ending for Engineer Andy
McGeachie railroading career
begun more than As years ago.
Sixty-nine-year -old Andy hung
up his cap and jumper for the
last time. Then he turned to the
few friends that collected to wish
him farewell and said with an
apologetic note in his soft Scotch
burr:
1T couldna' be helped. But I
was 4 minutes late"
An unscheduled stop near Har-
pers Ferry caused the delay for
the Chicago Washington de luxe
train.
There was a note of pride in
Andy's voice when he mentioned
"the Capitol" Being at her helm
Is the peak of success for B. & o.
engineers.
Mr.. McGeachie was born in
Scotland in 1888. He started
working as a grease wiper for the
old Glasgow & Southwestern
Railroad. now known as the Lon
don. Midland & Scotland.
He quit for a while. but re-
turned to trains in 1905 with the
Baltimore & Ohio. He left this
area after a while to try his luck
with the Missouri-Pacif1c and re-
manned in the West for two years.
2 Mr.. McGeachie, who lives with
q daughter in Baltimore, skinned
over the earlier part Of his rail-
roading days. He said he counts
his tenure with the B. & o. since
Evening star., 1952-12-29

ened him and grabbed his coat.
Weakley is being retired before
q jury on the first-degree murder
charge. with Judge Matthews pre-
siding.
The defendant was convicted at
an earlier trial in 1850 of murder
ing Mr.. Carnes, but won a new
trial when the conviction was set
aside by the U. S. Court of APP
pealS for the District of Columbia.
Evening star., 1952-12-29
Maryland Woman's Death
Ruled Suicide by Poison

A certificate of suicide has been
issued in the death of Mrs. Ethel
Mae Armstrong, Al, Prince Georges
County tavern owner who died
Saturday night.
DR. James I. Boyd county dep
Iuty medical examiner, said death
was caused by poison. Mrs. Arm
strong died in Prince Georges
General Hospital about Z pm,
short time after she was found in
"a semiconscious condition by her
husband.
Mrs. Armstrong was one of the
proprietorS of Armstrong; Tav-
ern, Central avenue and Bright
Seat road. near Largo, Md. The
Armstrong home is in the same
building.
Mr.. Armstrong told police his
wife had been in good spirits and
he knew no reason for her act.
Police said they found a note in
her sweater pocket. but its con-
tents were not revealed.
Evening star., 1952-12-29
Grand Jury Clears
Two Air Force Men
Charged With Attack

A grand jury today ignored rape
charges against two Air Force men
accused of an assault on a IT.
year-old Southeast Washington
grill.
The two, both third-class air.
men at Boiling Air Force Base
are Billy K. Foster, %. of the 450O
block of Third street Sc, and
Mahlon l.. Doughtie, 20, who lives
on the base.
The charges were filed against
them last month after the girl
told police she was raped in an
auto parked in a Southeast lot.
The grand jury, in the U. S.
District Court for the District of
Columbia, returned II indict-
ments and ignored three other
cases. One indictment for man
slaughter was returned against a
motorist in the death of a pedes-
trian December 2.
The driver of the car, Clifton
Nesbit, 20, colored, of the 1900
block of New Jersey avenue NV,
was charged with drunken driv-
ing after his auto struck Mamie
Mathews. 40, colored, of 1421 Fifth
street NV, in the 1900 block of
Ninth street NV. The man
slaughter charge was added after
the woman died in Freedmen's
Hospital.
Evening star., 1952-12-29
City Heads Hear
Business Views
On Street Plan
One-Woy Traffic
On Tenth and Twelfth
Praised and Attacked

The Commissioners today took
under advisement reactions of
downtown businessmen to pro-
posal which would make one-way
streets out of Tenth and Twelfth
between Pennsylvania ana Ver-
mont avenues.
Their views were expressed at
a public hearing in the District
Building this morning and ranged
from ole-hearted Endorsement
to charges that establishment Of
Ione-way streets would turn them
into SpeedwayS.
The proposal has been advanced
by Traffic Director George E.
Keneipp to make Tenth street
one-way southbound and Twelfth
street one-way northbound.
Generally, the so or IS repre-
sentatives who appeared before
the Commissioners favored the
Tenth street proposal. but were
opposed to the Twelfth street idea.
| A6dASb AUPOSdAs
Edward r. Altman of Altman's
Parking Service said. Business
men aren't interested in making
Twelfth street an expressway just
for people in a hurry to get home.
1t wouldn't help business in any
way"
Horace Walker, representing the
Metropolitan Retail Gasoline
Dealers Association, said the plan
would defeat the very purpose Of
the one-way street theory because
the two pass through the very
heart of the city and that the pri-
mary idea is to speed traffic.
Maury L. Nee, of the P. j. Nee
Co., expressed approval not only
of the two-street plan, but urged
more of them in all parts of the
city.
One-Way Principle Favored.
Dewey Zirkin, representing the
Merchants and Manufacturers
Association, said it's traffic COM
mittee is in unanimous favor of
the one-way principle, but had
made no decision on what streets
should be included.
Washington I. Cleveland, repre-
senting the Board of Trade,
brought his organization's ap-
prOVal of both the Twelfth and
Tenth street proposals.
William H. Deck, representing
several businessmen, objected to
twelfth street, but approved the
Tenth street proposal.
! D. Randall buckingham, vice
president of Woodward & Lo-
throp, gave "whole-hearted in
dorsement" but he emphasized the
corresponding need of pedestrian
traffic control at intersections
along those two streets.
Evening star., 1952-12-29
Thieves Get Nearly $1,000
In -Four Week End Thefts

Housebreakers got nearly $1,000
in weekend thefts, police reported
today.
Thieves took 81 ,045 from a desk
drawer at the First National Real
ty Co., I'LL Vermont avenue NV.
police were told yesterday. Sidney
j. Brown, the owner, said the in
truder smashed a front window to
gain entrance.
Albert j. Lepair, 1887 Ashmeade
place NV, reported that thieves
who broke through a rear window
at his home yesterday took $100
in cash.
The Right Rev. John j. Coady,
pastor of the Church of the Nativ.
ity, 5000 Thirteenth street NV.
reported that intruders broke a
window in the church and broke
open the poor box. taking an un-
determined amount of money.
Thieves who opened an un-
locked front window took $34
from the home of James Brady,
1903 sherwood street NE, police
said.
Evening star., 1952-12-29
Private Psychiatrist
Testifies as WeakIey
Trial. Is Resumed

A private psychiatrist testified
today that in his opinion Luther
r. Weakley, 81, was not in "ful
possession of the faculties of hi.
conscious mind" at the time the
defendant is accused of fatally
shooting his former employer or
May 20, 1850.
The psychiatrist, DR.. Robert P
Odenwald, began his testimony
shortly after Weakley's first
degree murder trial was resumed
in the U. S. District Court for the
District Of Columbia. The trial
has been recessed since last Tues
day.
Fired Before Shooting.
Weakley is accused of Staying
his former employer, Thomas G
Carnes, in the latter's Office in the
300 block of F street NE. Mr..
Carnes was Washington manager
Of Blue Plate Foods, Inc. Weakley
had been employed there as q
salesman but was fired by Mr.
Carnes the night before the shoot
ing, according to trial testimony
Elsewhere in his testimony, DR.
Odenwald described Weakley as
having "neurotic personality
He further described Weakley's
personality as "shy, sensitive and
suspicious"
DR.. Odenwald was one of two
private psychiatristS appointed by
Judge Burnita Shelton Matthews
to examine Weakley at the request
of Defense Attorney, James j.
Laughlin. A second pSychiatrist
was expected to testify tomorrow
Calls It Self Defense.
Weakley testified earlier that he
drew his pistol and fired in self
defense when Mr.. Carnes threat
Evening star., 1952-12-29
Two Boys Escape Police;
.Overiurn Car in Chase

Two juveniles escaped police in
Bethesda last night after over
turning a stolen car as they fed
detectives.
Montgomery County police said
the car. owned by William s.
johnson was stolen shortly be-
fore 8 pm. from in front of his
home. 1922 Aberdeen road.
Bethesda.
Detective Sergt. Ed Barber and
Corpl. Lloyd Whalen spotted the
car a short time later going west
on Lambeth road at Custer road.
Police tried to stop them, but
the youths speeded up. went about
four blocks and attempted to
make a right turn at high speed
onto Hampden lane. The car
struck a curb and overturned on
q lawn. The two youths jumped
from the car and fed. The car
was badly damaged.
Evening star., 1952-12-29
Stuunton Mans Body
Found in Anucostiu

The body of a 34-year-old man
was found floating in the Ana
costa River near the South. Cap
itol Street Bridge yesterday by
Harbor Policeman Sergt. Charles
A. Parker.
Papers found on the body iden-
titled the man as Thomas A. War
den, Of Staunton, Va. Police said
it had been in the water about
one month. !