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Evening star., 1952-05-04

dag. Sundays and holidays are
counted the same as other days
David Herlihy. 12 Catholic University
and Patricia McGahey. 2l. 1920 Oats
st. ne.
both of IS 9th St. ne.
John Houston. aI, Naval Receiving Sta
b91ae.id non, and |, Gloria slovensky' 20. s24
Daniel Hath. 81 and Gladys Holmes. 81.
both Of $500 18th st. NV.
Harry Lewis, AZ. 65 NJ ST. NV. and Eve
iyn Pittman, %. Rocky Mount. N. c.
Aubrey Jenkins. ~, 700 jackson st. me-,
and Edith Colbert. 81. 1925 11th st.
Ross Dodge IT,. %. Naval Air Station. and
NV.
sG&sSy &srSn 9TsHs Sisx g g. az A5li9s.Gn Va
Joseph Donado. 81: Ft. Myer, Va. and
Elizabeth Mintz. 20. 1412 N st. NV.
Andrew Freeman. 23. 1900 14th st. NV,
ana Naomi Regelson. 21. $40 21st st.
Declan Klingenhager. 20, a231 worthing-
both of Quantico. Va.
James Moore. q. :a 9gantieo. Va. and Opal
hopeTechL, ~, 4ZZ6 7tn ST. NV.
Sidney Katz, 10. and Blanch Pomerantz,
1S. both of Baltimore. Md.
John Walsh. jr., %. 1913 Upshur st. ne,
and Dolores Finn. 21. 171O Irving st.
ne.
Henry Harper. %. 112O 9Th st. s.e., and
Pearline Hillman. 10. oil 9th st. Sc.
Oswald Russell. 90. 1888 Carrolburg st
s,w.. and Geraldine Cooper. "a, 104 z
ST. NV.
Karl Donehoo, 20. 1927 Shepard st. ne.
and Mary Jane Facchina, Is. 1894
Quincy st. ne.
Nell Mccormick. 80. 1711 Mass. ave. NV,
Evening star., 1952-05-04
Quick Phone Tally
Asked IN Nearby
County Primaries

Democratic and Republican elec-
tion judges in Montgomery and
Prince Georges Counties have
been urged by their party leaders
to telephone promptly results Of
tomorrow's primaries to press
headquarters in the two counties.
Prince Georges election judges
are to call Union 9341 and War
field 0466 in the county service
building at Hyattsville.
In Montgomery, election judges
are to call press headquarters in
Maryland-National Capital Park
and Planning Commission Office,
Silver Spring, Shepherd 1880.
Evening star., 1952-05-04
Marriage License
Applications

Under D. C. laW, couples must
apply for a marriage license on
one day, 10Git three full days and
receive the license on the fifth
dag. Sundays and holidays are
cOnnted the same as other days.
Evening star., 1952-05-04

Your order will be promptly filled
and delivered. Our TELEPHONE
SERVICE is ready to take your orders
any hour of the doy or night.
= 1865 days Of the year.
Evening star., 1952-03-22

Idictment has accused her Of steal
ing $3.50 worth Of property. An
arson charge against Mrs. Ballard
was dismissed. She had been ac-
cuSed of starting a fire in tile
|Bunday home which burned news
papers and wood in the basement.
Pembroke Thomas, SO, colored.
|of the 900 block of Fourth street
NV. was given from / to 8 years
for cruelty to his 5-year-old step
son, Earl Williamson, last Deem
ber. Two charges of assault with a
dangerous weapon, which accused
Thomas of hitting the boy with
a stick of wood, were dismissed.
Thomas, police said, had become
enraged at the boy for eating
candy. Thomas was sentenced by
District Court Judge James r.
Kirkland.
In another District Court sem
tence, Judge Edward M. Curran
gave James Graham Faulkner, 40,
colored. of the 800 block of L
street S.W.. from 6 to IS months
for promoting the numbers game
and possession of numbers slips.
Evening star., 1952-03-22
Term Of 81 Months
To 8 Years Imposed
In Assault Case

A 24-year man was sem
fenced yesterday by District Court
Judge Luther w. Youngdahl to
serve from 80 months to 8 years
for assault with intent to rape a
31-year-old married woman in
her home in the 800 block of N
street S.W.
He is Jack j. Harrison, colored,
of the 1900 block of Third street
S.W., who was convicted by a
jury on March Z. The attempted
rape took place early in the
morning of last July "a. when
Harrison went to the woman's
apartment with two boys to COL
lect SIS for the return of dog, it
was testified.
Harrison contended it was a
case of mistaken identity. The
woman, who is white, testified
Harrison had choked her until
she "blacked out" and that he
was gone when she regained con-
Sciousiness.
2 to 6 Years for Shooting.
In another case, John W!Har-
riSon, 81. was sentenced by Judge
Youngdahl to serve from 2 to 6
years for shooting and wounding
Mrs. Nina M. Harrison in July,
1949. in a house in the 1900 block
Iof Illinois avenue NV. The SEN
tence was for assault with intent
to kill and assault with danger
GUS weapon. Trial had been de-
Ilayed because the defendant had
Iadjudged temporarily of unsound-
mind.
Mrs. Harrison. the victim OF
the shooting, also has been known
as Nina M. Wilkerson. She was
quoted by police as saying she
had left Harrison not long after
another woman had appeared and
claimed to be his wife.
A 40-year-old maid, Mrs. Mil
ldred B. Ballard, colored, of the
2100 block of Second street NV.
was sentenced by District Court
Judge Henry A. Schweinhaut tc
serve from 2 to 6 years for granc
larceny from the home of hel
employer. Mrs. Addie H. Bundy
3700 Morrison street NV. Mrs
Bunday, who is IS, is the widow oi
Maj. Gen. Omar Bundy.
Sentence of Mrs. Ballard was
on a plea of guilty to larceny oi
$100 worth of property. The in
Evening star., 1952-03-22
Gerald Drew Appointed
Foreign Service Director
BY the Associated Press

Gerald A. Drew, veteran career
Foreign Service officer, has been
appointed Director General of the
State Departments Foreign Serv-
ice.
Mr.. Drew, who has resigned as
United States Minister to Hashe-
mite Jordan, succeeds Richard P.
Butrick, who has been assigned as
American Consul General at
Montreal.
Evening star., 1952-03-22
ice Head Wants 10 Quit
On Advice Of His Doctor
BY the Associated Press

Chairman John L. Rogers of the
Interstate Commerce Commission
yesterday asked President Truman
to relieve him of his duties, effec-
tive April 80.
Mr.. Rogers. 81, told the Presi-
dent in a brief note that he would
have to retire from Government
service promptly eon the urgent
advice of my physician
Mr.. Rogers, a Tennessee Repub-
Evening star., 1952-03-22

lican.. has been associated with
the. ICC for more than 35 years.
He has been a member of the
commission for Is years. His pres
ent appointment was for term
expiring December 81, 1857.
Evening star., 1952-03-22
Dinner Of Crocodile Tolls

At a forthcoming dinner, $50
members of the Australian Croc-
odile Shooters Club decided to
eat boiled crocodile tail in the
hope of proving it is nom,
poisonous.
Evening star., 1952-12-14
ComelIios Blooming at Bondon

THAT have been left behind.
"Smithfield hams on the hoof, /"
Inglis Fletcher and her husband
dub them to their weekend guests.
After sampling one Of the
Fletchers' hickory-smoked hams
cured in cyprus-shingled smoke
house, almost as old as the
plantation house and one Of its
original dependencies, we could
echo a local jingle. Chicken am
fine, but give me ham. ham, ham. /"
Striking locomotion contrasts
are the Cadillac cars Of the very
prosperous peanut growers and
the mule-drawn, two-wheeled
Devon carts Of the humble. These
carts are today's replicas of those
fashioned by such early colonists
as the Blount and Chapman fam
lilies after they came here from
their native Devon.
ClossieoI Academy
Still standing on Bandon Plan
tation is "Parson Earl's Classical
Academy for Boys" one of the first
classical academies in the South,
and the first in the crown colony
of North Carolina to offer board
and lodging and tutelage to plant
ers' sons. Here. one sees school,
masters slant-topped, heavily
hinged desk of the era and a long
Evening star., 1952-12-14

one for "the scholars" with q
wooden bench. upon which they
were supposed to sit with military
erectness.
Parson Earl was a resourceful
clergyman. In addition to his
school he established the first COM
mercial herring industry in the
State and taught his neighbors tc
follow suit. His fishing wharf !;
reached by a sandy. winding roac
to the Chowan River.
Most dramatic Of the stories
about Parson Earl is the one about
him in his Edenton Church. wher
men were choosing between king
and crown and a more democratic
way Of life in this country's strug-
gle for independence. Casting aside
his clericals after his Sunday ser.
mon, he stood forth in the buff.
and-blue uniform of the Colonial.
and urged the men Of his congre.
cation to follow suit. This church
now restored, stands surrounded
by churchyard where rest the
Colonial Governors, among whom
were those who were supposed tc
have consorted with Blackboard
the pirate.
Evening star., 1952-12-14
|Debutunte
is Eeted

Miss Nancy McClaskey, daugh-
ter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Lacey
McClaskey, was honored at a
luncheon yesterday given by Miss
Sue Ann Rouse. The Palladium
Room Of the Shoreham was the
scene Of the / o'clock event.
Among the guests were the
Misses Lark Curtis, Helen Anr
Muir, Barbara Mahon, Garnet1
Williams, Diana Sanderfer, Car.
lotta Prichard and Mary-Stuar,
Montague Price.
Evening star., 1952-12-14

John @. Fletcher, who spend much
;ltime in this city. when Mrs.
! Fletcher, as Inglis Fletcher. inter-
nationally known as the author
of the famous Carolina series of
best-seller historical novels. is in
tent upon the research work at
the Library of Congress that in
Ivariably precedes them. Queens S
Gift" her most recent volume, has
been selected as the Literary
j Guilds February book-of the
month. Her next one will feature
Flora Macdonald and the Scottish
migration to this country, with q
possible trip to Scotland for back
ground, before she begins research
in the libraries of the Nations S
Capital.
| Williamsburg restoration archi-
Itects consider Bandon Plantation
manor house one of the finest ex-
amples Of T-shaped architecture
extant in the Carolinas. They also
pay tribute to John Fletcher for
the skill and ingenuity with which
he has used his mining engineer
background to restore this historic
home.
On it's "river front" borders of
gay chrysanthemums bloom cheer
lily, untouched as yet by frost or
snow flurries. Upon either side of
the deep front portico, with it's
stately white columns, masses of
pink and white camellias are in
flower, with here and there a
showing of the Christmas ca
mellias," as the red ones. always
the last to bloom, are referred to
by every one. Southern moss swings
from the branches of ancient mag
nolia, swamp oak, pine and allan
thus trees. From each of the old
homes capacious. high-ceilinged,
architecturally symmetrical rooms.
upstairs and down. there is a vista
of the broad Chowan River, known
Ito Sir Richard Grenyille and his
English exploring party long be-
fore there was a landing on Ply
mouth Rock.
Cotton Like Snow
In the surrounding fields little
tags of cotton left over on the
plants from the last pickings give
the uninitiated like ourselves the
momentary impression they must
be patches of snow. But the CEN
ters of the agricultural stage are
the rows upon rows and miles
upon miles of yet unharvested
peanut vines entwined upon their
moundlike supports. They rep
resent the money crop" in what
with nearby Suffolk, Va, is
Iproudly referred to as "the great
est peanut center in the United
States" Following in the wake
of modern machinery, which de-
nudes the peanuts from their vines
and bales the residue as protein
rich fodder for farm animals, are
this sections cleaners" They
are the porkers, big and little,
busily roofing for the "gubers"
Evening star., 1952-12-14
BY Jessie Font Evons

Winter Is still in abeyance al
Bandon Plantation on the Chowan
River near Edenton. N. C.. There
the dramatic history of our Ma
ton -the-making walks hand
in-hahd with everyday life and
customs in a community from
which the tensions Of large cities
are still remote. Country-s side
neighbors are anticipating from
their weather know-how of the
years, the same kind of a pleasant
sunny open" Christmas season
they had at Thanksgiving time.
Bandon Plantation is now the
year. round home of Mr.. and Mrs
Evening star., 1952-12-14
Here for Holidays

Miss Judith Williams arrived
home yesterday from Lake Erie
College, Painesville. Ohio. to spend
the Christmas holidays with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Will
liams Of Gaithersburg.
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Matinee Bridge Prizes: Mrs.

Matinee Bridge Prizes: Mrs.
Fred Schuck, Mrs. NJ. ]. Rhodes
and Mrs. James Kirk won first,
second and third prizes respect
lively during the Matinee bridge
club which met March IL. at the
home of Mrs. J. B. Jones, 654 w.
Central. The next meeting will be
March rs, with Mrs. Kirk at 937
st. Anthony Ave.
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LET YOUR COMMUNITY KNOW
WHAT YOU CAN DO

Name:
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81. Leonards Alter
Society To Be In
Charge Of Open House

The church of st. Leonard OF
Port Maurice will mark another
milestone in its rapid growth,
when on Latare Sunday, March
%, it invites friends and parish
toner's to an open house at the
newly acquired home of Rev.
Leonard A. Hirman, 3949 Clinton,
The ladies of the Altar and Ro-
sary Society have had the home
redecorated. The new rectory was
purchased because four teaching
Oblate Sisters who will live in the
former rectory will do work in
the congregation.
The ladies viii be in charge of
the open house. Refreshments will
be served. Everyone interested in
the work of st. Leonard's church
is invited to attend.
The officers of the Altar and
Rosary Society are, president,
Mrs. Glenn Hanson; vice presi-
dent, Mrs. Philip Blackwell, treas
urer, Mrs. Donald Brady, publicity
chairman, Mrs. r. A. Mayer and
secretary, Mrs. Patrick White.
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aged people, according to Miss
Gloria Williams. leader of the
club. Mrs, Don LaFaucette was
elected membership chairman;
Mrs. Mary Alice Smith, publicity
chairman.
Theo Jones Visits: Mr.. Theodore
Jones, 1920 Third Ave. So, a pa
tent at Glen Lake Sanatorium, Is
on the road TO recovery and spent
the week end at home, 1920 Third
Ave. So.
Son Born: A baby boy was born
March z to Mr.. and Mrs. Wesley
Lyle, 1888 E. 3sth Street. He was
named Wesley Jr.
Attends Institute: Mr.. Henry A.
Thomas of Phyllis Wheatley
house, 500 Aldrich Ave. No, at
tended the third Annual Institute
of administrative personnel and
group work executives. The SEES
sions were sponsored by the Uni
versity of Minnesota school of
social work and were held at the
center for continuation study on
March 18th and 18th.
Mother For A Day; A Mother
For A Day" contest will be spon-
sored by the Young Mothers
club of the st. Peters AME church
May II. They will also serve tea.
Quarterly Meeting: March 20
will mark the day Of the quarterly
meeting of the st. Peters AME
church.
A.M.E. Easter Program: A
special Easter program is planned
for Easter Sunday, April 13, at
st. Peters AME church.
Returns Home: Mrs. Anna Belle
Simons of Atlanta, Ga. returned
to her home Saturday, March 8,
after having attended the funeral
of her father. Morton McQuerry,
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Jones-f1enson Vows
EXCHANGED SUNDAY

The wedding ceremony of Miss
Jewell Jones, 52S Central Ave,
and Mr.. Alfred f. Henson Jr., was
performed Sunday, March Is at
the home of Mrs. Beatrice Boyd.
1877 Iglehart Ave, by Rev. James
Dixon, st. James AME church.
Miss Thelma Miller was maid OF
honor and best man was Mr.. In
man Johnson.
The bride wore a navy suit with
white accessories and her bouquet
was of white camillas. The brides
maid wore a grey gabardine suit
with a corsage of red camelias.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bill Switzerland
and Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Wilson
were guests; also Mr.. Donald
Lewis and Mines. Beatrice Boyd
Marva Ann Boyd, Florence Law
and Joe Stella Johnson: Mr.. and
Mrs. John Banks and Mr.. and
Mrs. Rufus Boyd.
Miss Marva Ann Boyd played
the Wedding March and The
Rosary.
The reception was held in the
Boyd recreation room.
The newlyweds will be at home
at 721 st. Anthony Ave.
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SOCIAL e PERSONAL
New Brighton Workers Have Party:
ST. PAUL

New Brighton Workers Have Party: Mrs C. f BAN 34S \
Dale entertained the Bites (TCOP Bldg lO at her home in
the rmpus room Friday March IA midnight party Mr.
ana Mrs Fred Love of Minneapolis guests Co-workes
Vivian Williams, Lola Gattling Sadie Williams ~ Minnnnnn
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was host to a group OF tots at his
birthday party on Sunday after
noon at his home.
Miss Jane Anderson, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Virgil Anderson.
30S West Bailey St, returned
Monday from Mitchell, So. Oak.
where she was the guest of Miss
Evelyn Brooks, the daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Blaine Brooks.
Mrs. Oscar Nevins, Sioux City,
Iowa, arrived in the city Satur-
day and was Joined by her hus-
band Sunday, and were the house
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Dan
Coates, $40 North Mable St, re-
turning home Monday. Sunday
evening was spent viewing mo-
ton pictures taken by the Coates.
Mrs. Dan Coates, Girl Scout
leader of troop No. 81, Franklin
school was in attendance at an APP
probation tea at the YMCA on
Wednesday with approximately
500 people present.
The st. Johns Missionary So
ciety, Mrs. Walter Edgar, presi-
dent. met at the home of Mrs.
Dan Coates, $40 No. Mable St,
Friday A study of the Worker
was held. Mrs. H. w. Bolts, chair
man of the program committee
brought an outline of the program
for the 5th Sunday.
Mrs. Oscar Bridgewater ac-
Cepted appointment to member
ship committee in the Women's
convention of the National Bap-
fist convention presented the 1852
hand book and outlined plans to
report before the first of July
Mrs. Brdgewater who is chair
man of art and handicraft spoke
on ways and means to meet the
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LoDoris Foster
Receives OAR Award

LaDoris Foster, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. j. A. Foster, 2S3 N. st.
Adams St. has been awarded the
OAR certificate for good citizen
ship after having been voted upon
for the honor by the student coun-
Gil, the student body and the
teachers of Marshall high school.
Along with so other students
who had received the honor. Miss
Foster was entertained at dinner
Wednesday, March IL, at the
Lowry Hotel
She is now employed at the Of
flee of the Collector of Internal
Revenue and will be graduated
from school in June. She plans to
enter the st. Joseph's School of
Nursing in the fall
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CAGE STAR MUST
SERVE SENTENCE

New York (ANP)-The APP
pellate division of New York Su-
preme court upheld the one year
sentence given Sherman White,
former All-American cage star
from Long Island U. He was SEN
fenced last Nov. 10, after pleading
guilty to conspiracy in fixing
basketball games. The high court
turned down the plea that the
punishment was too severe on the
ground that White was not merely
fixed played, but assumed mi
tiative in conspiracy.
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Friday, March 7th. Mrs. Simons
is an instructor in the Beaumont
scchool of nursing in Atlanta.
DOughnut Sale; Campfire girls
from Phyllis Wheatley have sold
$50 dozen doughnuts to date &C
cording to Miss Gloria williams,
leader Of the groups. There were
three Wheatley groups participant
ing in the project: the Miwicagi,
the Tanda and the Blue Birds.
Mrs. Marguerite Eason was chair
man Of the sales and Mrs. Opal
Slime was her assistant. Mrs. Hell
en- Thomas Is leader of the Blue
birds and Mrs. Charlotte is her
co-chairman.
Double Birthday Celebration:
Mrs. Elizabeth Rodgers, 3401
Cedar Ave. So, and Mrs. Frank
lin, were feted at a double birth
hhg party ~ O@o ATNitlE ave. w.
Sunday, March 10, by Mrs. Lottie
Law, daughter of Mrs. Rodgers.
Members OF the Zion Baptist
church Bible band were present
and included Mines. Erie Petit
ford, Arveda Mccoy. Lenore
Adaire and Mrs. Betty Bailey.
Also there were Mr. Earle Petit
ford, daughter Of Mrs. Rodgers,
and her children, Earle Jr.. and
Terry, Mrs. Bailey's daughter,
Zebra and two other children OF
Mrs Law, Howard and Gloria
Ann,
HOspitalIzed: Mrs. Chester
johnson, 2307 Olson Blvd, who
has been confined to her home for
two months entered Fairview hos
pital Tuesday, March Is.
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lis and Minnie Audrey and Ernes-
tine Hare of st. Paul; Messrs. Tall
Ellis, Bert Looney, Ersie B. Ber-
lark, Leon Wilson and Frank Roll
Inns of st. Paul; Adgie Allen of
Minneapolis and Royce Reynolds
of Chicago. Attending from Void
Chamberlin field were Julia Jack
son and Cpl. r. T. Johnson.
Basketball Tournament: The
Halle Q. Brown Girls Invitation
al Basketball tournament will be
held in the Halle gymnasium, 553
Aurora Ave, March 24-2S. All
games will begin promptly at 7
p. m. Any interested teams may
secure details by calling Mrs.
Vera Oden, girls athletic leader,
at the center. Finals will be play
ed off on Friday night, March IS
followed by the awarding of tro-
phies and a dance in the gym
nasium.
Observes Birthday: James Ar
thur Wallace Jr., observed his
borithday April IL, at $50 Car
roll Ave. st. Paul.
iii at Home: Mrs. Ella Alice
Jackson, 81 West Jessamine, is i'll
at her home.
Celebrates Anniversary: The
DYWYK club celebrated its 43rd
anniversary March 18th at its reg
ular monthly meeting at the home
of Mrs. William Ridley, 815 St.
Anthony Ave. This was the first
meeting of the new year and
members elected officers for the
new year as follows: Mrs, Cornelia
Smith, charter member, presi-
dent; Mrs. Ed Moore, vice presi-
dent; Mrs. Ida Murphy, charter
member, secretary; Mrs. James
Greene, treasurer; Mrs. Lewis
Moore, Sr., sunshine treasurer;
Mrs. William Hanna, chaplain and
program chairman and Mrs Will
liam Ridley, entertainment chair
man. Mrs. Hannah explained the
written procedure for the presi-
Dental primaries. Luncheon was
served in honor of the anniver-
sary.
Laissey-Nous-Faire To Hold
Meeting: The Laissey-Nous-F aire
bridge club will meet April &c at
Mrs. William A. Hannas resi-
dence, $50 Western Ave. No.
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A busy couple Sunday, working
in shifts were Rev. and Mrs. H.
w. Bolts Jr. of the st. Johns
Baptist church. Sharon, their five
year old daughter was Ill. Mrs.
Bolts was nurse when Rev.
Bolts was pianist for Sunday
school; Rev. Bolts was nurse
when Mrs. Bolts arrived and
taught the adult class at Sunday
school; Rev. Bolts was morning
pastor while Mrs. Bolts nursed:
at $3.50, Rev. Bolts was on mem
orial program at Pilgrim Baptist
church and Mrs. Bolts was nurse.
At $50 Mrs. Bolts was pianist
and teacher of Adult class at
Youth Fellowship. while Rev.
Bolts was nurse. At s p. m, eve
ming worship, Rev. Bolts was in
the pulpit, and Mrs. Bolts was the
nurse.