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The guardian., 1953-02-28

THE AKA's SHOW - Such a
CAV evening as it was-that Fri
day night of last week when the
Surrey Room of the Hotel Tour
raine in downtown Boston was a
gala scene as the Psi Omega
Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha
Sorority presented its 4th annual
United Nations Show. The affair
was an ideal way to celebrate
brotherhood month and it was a
heart-warming experience to see
representatives of half the ma
tions of the world thoroughly
enjoying themselves as guests of
the Sorority. Special guests who
were introduced by Hans Spiegal,
director of the International Stu
dent Center in Cambridge, came
from the following countries:
Turkey, Canada, India, The Meth
erlands, Haiti, Switzerland, Ger
many, Denmark, Austria, Nor
way, Sweden, Pakistan, Greece,
Nigeria. Poland, The Philippines,
Israel, England and China. Mrs,
Bertha Wormley, Basileus of the
chapter, very graciously well
coined the guests. 1t was pleas
ant sitting at tables slipping iced
srinks and chatting with friends
or else joining in the merry
whirl. There were so many mid
dle-aged folks there and evening
attire was the rule, only few
afternoon gowns being seen.
Among the couple of hundred or
more sighted here and there, en-
joying the excellent music of
George Irish and his orchestra
were - the ly-appointed As
sistant District Attorney Ray w.
Guild and Mrs. Guild, Mr.. and
Mrs. Clarence Wynn of Worces-
ter, Judge and Mrs G. Bruce
Robinson, Atty. and Mrs. Joseph
S. Mitchell, Messrs. and Mes
danes Edward Dixon, c. F. Shaw,
Leonard Weaver, w. Wentworth |
Perkins, Oscar Thorpe, Clarence /
Peck, Mesdames Lillian Godbolt, |
Florence Morgan, Madeline Dug
ger Garnett, Maude Trotter Stew
ard, Victoria Blackwell Worth
ington, Mr.. ]. B. Samuda and !
so many more. The committee
which did such a splendid job
were: Emma Taylor and Janice
Jones, co-chairmen, Mrs. Bertha
Wormley, Basileus.
WEEKEND VISITORS-None
other than DR.. and Mrs. Harry
Mickey (the former Barbara
Childs) of Maplewood, N. j., were
the past weekend visitors to the
Hub, the guests of Barbara's
father and mother, Mr.. and Mrs.
Oscar Childs of 80 Warwick st.
The happy couple are still in
thrilling mood and continue to
relate their experiences and show
to friends the moving pictures
taken on their honeymoon cruise
to South America, Havana, Cuba,
st. Thomas, Virgin Islands, and
the Dutch West Indies. Barbara's
little son "Bobbie". is spending
this week with his grandpar-
ents. They leave Saturday for
Maplewood. 'Bobbie" is quite a
favorite with his former play
The guardian., 1953-02-28

g. The Diamond Ball for
Seven Charities Way out
in Hamilton, Ohio, they're talk
ing about it. Remember Sheep
Jackson who used to head Cam
bridge Community Center and
write sports for the Guardian?
He sends congratulations and
knows the Ball will be a huge.
success because of YOUR inter
est and contribution.
More about Sheep and family
Son Billy is an active Fourth
Grader in Hamilton where his
father is the Executive of Booker
T. Washington Association and
the Second Ward Community
Center. Rs for Mrs. 81" lydia
who used to be very active with
the "Y" here, she has a half
hour sponsored Radio show. is
member of the PTA and Girl
Scout Councils and several
women's clubs. AS for Sheep
william D., SRI, there's no
keeping up with him. He's d
member of the Hamilton Cham
ber of Commerce and on the
Board of Directors of the Family
Service. Public Health Nursing
Association, Hamilton Safety
Council, Butler County Mental
Hygiene Association, Butler
County Advisory Juvenile Court
Board, Butler County Advisory
Welfare Board, member of Butler
County Social Workers Commit
fee of the Hamilton Boosters
Club and the Hamilton Quarter
back Club. On Saturdays he has
15-minute radio show-a panel
for which he is Moderator. Pro-
gram goes into its S5th week.
Rall" he saysl He's a sparkler' :
From Springfield, Mass, way
comes the news that the Spring
field Urban League Executive, B.
A. Mapp denton Alexander
whose @On the Campus" column
in this paper during his college
davs was a sparkler, and MS
diminutive wife Edna are cruls-
mo TO south America beginning
80 ,,iddle tWenties of this
month for two-week trip. Be
fore leaving for N. Y Benny
who was a former Mass. Art
school Student in the days when
he was piling up all kinds OF
education in several fields, post
ed four posters done by his own
hand to the Diamond Ball Com
rnittee as his contribution tlh
his return. An amazing feat III
view of the fact that his hands
could have been unsteadied by
that terrible accident that COM
nIetelv demolished his classy
Beach Wagon recently.
That good looking composer
Bob Chestnut of the River o1-'
Dedham Chestnuts, has written
the original music with its bril-
liant fun. score for the Ballet de
Ia Diamond Ball which will De
recorded for posterity by versa
a. ADV E,aire
Wait It'll you see the stunning
oueenly Mrs. Sadie Merchant III
the Court Waltz. she EN-
hances any Cotillion group.
Have you seen your Area
Chairman yet2 Hire name VIII
be posted at your neighborhood
agency. Watch its bulletin
board or cali Area Board Chiefs
Elizabet hPrice at GA T-2442 and
Gertrude Chandler at co 6-OOS5.
It's folks like energetic Eva M.
Dawson who make things go
folks who offer to do any
thing they can for the Diamond
Ball. If you wish to volunteer,
The guardian., 1953-02-28

RESERVE MONDAY, APRIL
for an Easter Floor Show and
Dance by st. Mark Social Center.
SUPPER EVERY SATURDAY
NIGHT - given by the Mission
airy Board Of the Church of God
Mission, 50 Warwick st., End
floor, to 9 pm. The suppers are
to benefit the building fund.
Menu: Pig feet, cOlIard green's,
potato salad, corn bread, home
baked beans, frankfurts, rolls,
dessert. Adults 75c Children 45c.
Ann Patterson. president; Rev. S.
A. Green, Pastor.
Freddie G. Tucker, nephew of
the Rev ]. H. D. Bailey, re-
Gently arrived in Boston from
Waverly, Va. He is a former
sergeant first class in the U. S.
Airborne Department. He was
in the Army three years and
served in Korea. He now is en-
ployed as assistant to the cleo
trical engineer in a firm in Cam
bridge.
st. Richard Theatre Guild, pre-
sents three short plays. Thursday
evening, March IL, 8:15 PM. in
St Richards Hall, Fenno st.
Sunday, May 81, the officers and
teachers of the st. Paul A.ME.
Church School, Cambridge, are
sponsoring a Coronation Tea. A
very large committee under the
leadership of Mrs. Satyra Pearson
Bennett, Superintendent, an d
William R. Paris has been formed.
Some very outstanding talent has
been procured for this event. The
officers, teachers and students
wish to thank everyone who con-
tributed to making their Youth
Day, Feb. Is, the success that it
was.
On Saturday, Feb. 81, Neigh
borhood Group l held an SAC
ouaintance Tea" at the League
of Women for Community Ser
vice, $50 Mass. ave. Officers and
members of the group and guests,
representing the organizations of
the area, were present. Mr.. Nor
ris Teaylor, Headworker of the
Robert Gould Shaw House gave
an Informative and interesting
talk on "Our Community Today,
and MIR. Edward Cooper, Execu-
tive Secretary of the Urban
League gave a short history of
the group and the work of the
Urban League in the neighbor-
hood. Mrs. Arthur James, presi-
dent, welcomed the members sand
guests. A delicious tea spon-
sored by the Board of Directors,
Mrs. Sarah Stratman, chairman,
was enjoyed by all. Mrs. Charles
presented the program.
All enjoyed a most pleasant af-
ternoon and felt they had a more
accurate knowledge of the work
being done in the community
from the talks given by Mr.. Tay-
lor and Mr.. Cooper.
The film "Mr. Texas, will be
shown at Christ Temple Church,
80 Kenilworth St., Roxbury, We'd
nesday. March 4, at 8 Pm. (The
Great Billy Graham Finn.
Mrs. Pattie Mays escaped seri-
Gus injury last week when she
fell between the wheels of car,
the conductor applying the emer-
gency brakes, thus preventing
the rear wheels from passing
over her.
The guardian., 1953-02-28

DR.. and Mrs. Robert A. Sim
mons, 222 Northampton ST., had
as house guests this week their
relatives, Mrs. Jane Aston of
Macon, N. c., Miss India Johnson
of Washington, D. c., and Archie
Aston, recently mustered out Of
the u. S. Army. While here the
visitors called on other relatives
and enjoyed sightseeing trips to
many points of interest.
The Pastors Club, Mrs Lillian
Williams, president, will enter
tain with a turkey dinner at the
Peoples Baptist Church Sunday
noon, March 8. Dinner tickets
are now available from all mem
berS of the club at SO cents.
The guardian., 1953-02-28
The Segregation Of Native Africans! Sponsors :.

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Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd Freeman
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert French
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Furr
Mrs. Madeline Dugger Garnet
Mr.. and Mrs. Amos Gibson
Rev. and Mrs. M. E. Grady
Mrs. Lillian Godbolt
A. L. Gomez
Herbert Grant
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul r. Green
Atty, and Mrs. Ray w. Guild
Mr.. and Mrs. James l. Hall
DR.. and Mrs John 3. Hall
Mrs. Dorothy Hester
Misses Eleanor and Nina Hill
Mr.. and Mrs. L. Lincoln Hines
Miss Margaret Henderson
Mrs. Gladys Howard
Rev. and Mrs. K dep. Hughes
Mrs. Willie Jackman
DR.. and Mrs. G. Noel Jackson
Homer c. Jarratt
DR.. ]. E. Jeltz
Mrs. j. B. Johnson
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest KensWil
Mrs. Drue King, Sr.
Mr.. and Mrs. ST. Clair Kirton
Miss Tthel Lane
Miss Vera Leake
Mrs. Florence Lesueur
Mr.. and Mrs. Leon G.. Lomax
Mrs. Catherine Manning
Mrs. Helen Mann
Mrs. Ruth Woods Marshall
Robert L, Merritt, Jr.
Atty and Mrs. Joseph S,
Mitchell
Mrs. Easter Moore
Mr.. and Mrs. Sylvester Mills, Sr
Mrs. Florence Morgan
Mrs. Reda Morgan
Mr.. and Mrs. julius c. Morrison
Mrs. Ella OBanyoun
Mr.. and Mrs. John Parnell
Mr.. and Mrs. L. E. Pasco, Sr.
Mrs. Ebba Stephens Perry
Mrs. Lillian Perry
Mrs. Mae Persip
DR.. and Mrs. c. E. c. Phillibert
Mrs. Imogene Powell
William Pridgen
Atty. Julian D. Rainey
Reid Memorial Chapel
Mr.. and Mrs. Irving Ridley
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. M. Robertson
Judge and Mrs. G. Bruce
Robinson
Mrs. Katherine Robinson
Mrs. Minnie Robinson
Mrs. Virginia S. Robinson
Mr.. and Mrs Thomas Ross
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank C. Royster
Mrs. Grace w. Sato
Mrs. Mabelle B. Scott
Mrs. Marionette Scuggs
Mr.. and Mrs. George Skelly
Miss Julia Smith
Mr.. and Mrs. Maurice Smith
Mr.. and Mrs. Bona B. Smell
Col. and Mrs. F. M. Snowden
Mrs. w. S. Sparro W
Miss George Spriggs
Mr.. and Mrs. Julian D. Steele
Mrs. E. Alice Taylor
Mr.. and Mrs. Josephine ].
Talyor
DR.. SilaS F. Taylor
Thelmas Beauty Shoppe
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Thomas
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey M. c.
Thompson
Mr.. and Mrs. A. C. Tynes
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry B. Tyrell
West Canton Market
Mrs Minnie Walker
Mrs. Elizabeth G Wheatley
Mrs. Frederic P. White
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Williams
Mrs. Lillian Williams
Carl Willis
Mr.. and Mrs. George Worth
ington
Mr.. and Mrs. F. H. Yancey
The guardian., 1953-02-28
CITY NEWS

HEALTH HAVEN - HI 5-0854
Corsets - special abdominal and
spine supports physical thera-
py treatments spot reducing.
GLADY HOWARD
119 Humboldt Ave, Roxbury
Evening star., 1953-11-24

rock slide blocked the train near
her house. Within year they
were married.
After attending grade school
in the District, Mr.. Morris at
tended South Lancaster Acad-
emy in Massachusetts,, where he
began studying for the minis
try.
MY father was a Government
clerk and he wanted me to be a
preacher. But I'd always had
a liking for railroading and
when my dad died I quit school
to go to work for the South
ern," he explained.
Now that his career is over,
however, he doesn't think he'll
miss the familiar hum of the
diesel engines.
"I want to take it easy for
a while and enjoy life" he said.
When he's not in his engineers
cab or writing poetry he's us
ually at home watching tele-
vision with his wife, Cora! or,
if it's baseball season and the
Washington Nationals are IN
town, he might be over at the
ball park. Retirement will en-
able him to devote more time to
all three of these pursuits, he
explained.
Evening star., 1953-11-24
Citizens Table Plea
To Join Road Fight

Silver Springs Allied Civic
Group last night sidetracked a
plea to join the fight against a
plan to use Rock Creek Park in
Maryland for a major highway.
The plea came in a letter from
a special committee of the Rock
Creek Hills Citizens Association.
1t brought little response, how
ever. from delegates to the Allied
Civic Group during their month
ly meeting at the Liquor Dispen-
Sary Building, Silver Spring.
Finally President Willard A..
Morris referred the matter to the
groups parks and recreation
committee and its public high
ways committee.
The Rock Greek group-not a
member of the allied organiza-
tion-had appealed for support
in fighting proposal to run an
intercounty belt highway or an
extension of Route 240 through
the park.
The Allied Civic Group, voted
to eliminate it's meeting Deem
ber % because of its proximity
to Christmas. 1t also agreed to
accept the invitation of Mont
-gomery's State Senator Anders
r. Lofstrand to conduct its legis-
liative night program January SS
At the latter's plant in RockviEs.
Evening star., 1953-11-24
Bond Issue SET
In InMontgomery
ForS6,S5O,OOO.
SAB Million of 1854
Program to Go for
School Construction

Montgomery County Council
today directed that plans be
made for $6.850. 900 bond issue
some time after January /.
Lions share of the bond issue
.-$4.3 million-will go for con-
Struction of new schools, accord
ing to Alex K. Hancock, director
of finance.
The bond issue will put the
county within at least 500 mil
lion of it's $65.6 million debt
limitation.
The public works department
would get SIS million for road
construction, and $500,OOO for
issuance of certificates of in
debtednesS for street improve
ment project.
Another $4,000 would go for
the parking lot purchase and
improvement project in Silver
Spring, with the remaining $780,
600 tabled for a similar program
in Wheaton.
Mr.. Hancock made it clear
the amount of the proposed issue
is not yet definite. He was di-
rected to begin consultation with
the county's legal and financial
counsel on plans for the issue.
Evening star., 1953-11-24
Adventists Celebrate
5Oth Year in Takoma

Seventh = day Adventists will
observe their fiftieth year at Ia
koma Park with an open house
celebration today in the denomi-
nations headquarters at 684O
Eastern avenue NV.
A half-century ago the Sew
enth-day Adventists. who were
organized in 1863 with 125
churches and $500 members,
moved their headquarters from
Battle Creek, Mich, to Takoma
Park.
When the General Conference
opened Offices in a temporary
headquarters building, it had
twelve employees. The Review
and Herald Publishing Associa-
ton, its main publishing house,
had twenty people on it's staff
Today there are 282 Office work.
ers and $50 printing employees.
Visitors to the open house to-
day, 2 to 9 pm, will be shown
the new headquarters building
an enlarged printing plant and
an attractive new church nearby
The denomination has expe-
rienced a phenomenal growth
since moving here. Today il
numbers 858,463 m mbers
throughout the world, with
268,5 in the United States. II
has 2,776 churches in this coun.
try and a world total of 10.830
Seventh-day Adventists art
particularly noted for their med.
ical work. It's last report listee
ia hospitals and sanitarium.
throughout the world and s.
! clinics.
Evening star., 1953-11-24
Takoma Park Council
Urged 10 Reconsider
Nursery Home Action

The Takoma Park City Coun-
Gil last night was asked to re-
scind it's action requiring regis
tration of nursery homes under
provisions of the municipal;Sy's
new ordinance regulating and
taxing rooming houses and null
tiple units.
Joseph B. Simpson, jr., as
serted that there was 10 par
ticular reference to nursing
homes in the measure and said
they should not be required to
register as they already are un-
der supervision of State and
county regulations.
Mayor Ross H. Beville said the
Council, in drafting the ordi-
nance, felt the nursing homes
came within the category COW
cred by it. The Mayor added
that the Council intends, how
ever, to draft a new ordinance
which would specifically apply to
nursing homes.
In another action, the council
named Oscar j. Forehand, a
Takoma Park resident for Is
years. to fill out the unexpired
term of Councilman Walter H
McClenon, who resigned to take
a world tour.
Mayor Beville also directed q
special committee to confer with
Seventh-day Adventist officials
about complaints that patrons
waiting for buses were using the
porch and lobby of their new
building as a waiting room. II
was requested that the Capital
Transit Co. move its bus. Stor
to Eastern avenue and Willow
street.
Evening star., 1953-11-24
Store Broken Into
Twice in 2 Days;
SomeLodder Used

Burglars broke into Snyder's
hardware store for the second
night in succession last night
and used a ladder on the prem
ises to gain entry both times,
Arlington police reported today.
Police said the same rear win
dow was broken by the burglars.
Sometime Sunday night, two
.22-caliber rifles and so boxes
of ammunition were taken. Last
night Detectives Leonard Brown
and Russell Petite, on a routine
inspection, found the same lad
der against the same windowSill
and the same window, which
had been repaired during the
day, broken again.
So far the only loss reported
is an air pistol.
About a year ago two boys, 8
and 10 years old, were caught
with rifles taken from the store
on Lee highway in a similar
burglary.
Evening star., 1953-11-24
. Battle Urges Change
In Absentee Votinq
BY the Associated Press

RICHMOND, Nov. 24.-Gov.
Battle said yesterday he thinks
Vlrginia's absent voters law
should be made fraud-proof or
done away with.
His comment was prompted by
the theft of election records, in
cluding absentee ballots, in Rus
sell County last Friday night.
The governor said he would
meet with Atty. Gen. j. Lindsay
Almond as soon as possible to
discuss the case, which is being
investigated by the Federal Bu-
reau of Investigation.
The latest scandal occurred
when poll books, absentee ballots
and other election material were
taken from the county clerks
Office by some one who pried
open a steel cabinet. The elec-
ton paraphernalia. pertaining
to last years presidential and
congressional election in the 9th
District, was slated to be turned
over to a Federal grand jury in
vestigating possible fraud.
On the heels Of Gov. Battles
statement. Gov. .-elect Thomas B.
Stanley pledged himself ito do
whatever is necessary to prevent
fraud" in absentee voting.
Evening star., 1953-11-24
Engineer-Poet Ends 53 Years
OfRuiIroud Service Monday
Missed 'o7' Wreck
By One Hour; Wooed
Wife With Poems

Loran GoU Morris, SO, of
2103 Second street NE, will step
from the cab Of an engine at
Union Station Monday and close
the book on a career of So years
of railroading.
A native of Washington, Mr..
Morris has been an engineer for
the Washington Terminal Co.
since 1907. Most Of his career has
thus been spent in preparing
trains in the yards and boost
ing" them on their way.
But he hasn't forgotten that
day in September. 1903 when he
rode the ill-fated mail express,
Old 81. as a brakeman. He was
relieved in Lynchburg, Va, less
than an hour before the train
plunged off a 75-foot trestle TAX
ing nearly a dozen men to their
deaths.
In those days. he explained,
railroad men worked 12-hour
shifts and "if there was no one
available to relieve you then, you
worked right on through"
That was his closest brush
with disaster during his career
which began with the Southern
Railway in 1900 as a brakeman,
On Christmas Day, Mr.. Nor
ris will be 70 years old but his
youthful outlook bellies his age.
He admits to being a romanti-
cist. trait which he feels may
have led him into his life's work.
And he likes to write poetry
most often with a romantic
theme.
He began writing poetry soon
after going to work for the
Southern Railway and it led di-
.rectly to his marriage. Mr.. Nor
ris explained that Old 81 passed
through Tye River. Va. where
he used to wave to a brown
haired girl who lived in a house
alongside the track. He wrote
poetry on the back of engine
inspection slips and tossed them
to the girl.
Ne met her one day when 9
Evening star., 1953-11-24
School Board Replies
To Duplication Query

Efforts to coordinate certain
public services rendered by the
school department and the
County Board to avoid unneces-
Sary duplication were recounted
at a meeting of the Arlington
School Board last night.
The situation came to a head
in a letter from the Waycroft-
Woodlawn Citizens Association
which asked county officials to
coordinate overlapping activi-
ties in the fields of accounts
and finances, personnel, main
tenance, equipment and supplies,
recreation. libraries, health and
planning.
The school board agreed to
send to Ernest Holcomb, preSi-
dent of the civic body, and also
to the Arlington Civic Fedora
ton, file of correspondence on
the subject. It said it had
sought to effect savings by ask
ing the county board to appoint
jointly a nine-member commit
tee to study the question, but
that no action has been taken
by the county board.
The school heads deferred pur-
chase of "a acres adjoining the
eytOn-RandOlph School until
after 1,780,000 bond issue
is sold. The property, owned by
William P. Ames and B. M,
Smith, would be acquired for
$500 an acre.
Sealed bids on the bond Of
fering are to be opened at 1880
am. Monday in the county board
offices in the courthouse.
Evening star., 1953-11-24
Greenbe|t Manager
Presents S329,866
Budget 10 Council

City Manager Charles T. Nc
Donald last night presented the
City Council of Greenbelt, Md,
with proposed budget figure
for 1854 of more than 1925, ,OOO-
$4,000 above the current years
expenditures.
The proposal was made at a
special meeting called by the
council to receive the managers
annual budget message. Mr.. Nc
Donald'S recommendations will
be reviewed at another meeting
OF the council on Monday night
and then submitted to a public
hearing a week later.
Cost Factor Cited.
The $4,000 increase in the
budget total, the manager said,
can be attributed largely to the
higher cost Of government and
necessary financial changes
brought about by the sale of
Greenbelt early this year.
After presenting a detailed
breakdown of proposed expendi-
lures and anticipated tax COL
lections for next year, the man
ager pointed out that the $685.
866.50 figure could not be used
to determine the 1854 tax rate.
II am not yet in receipt OF
the county figures, which will
show us the city'S new assessed
value" he said. He estimated,
however. that the city will take
in $184,952.50 in real and per-
sonal taxes, an amount he used
to balance the proposed budget
New Tax Asked.
In a comparison of past budget
figures, Mr.. McDonald's report
showed the 1852 figure to be
$238,334. This years expendi-
tureS-an estimated am oun
since the fiscal period ends on
December 31-was $309,59O.
AS an added source of revenue,
the manager also asked that a
sewer service tax of 4 cents per
1000 gallons of water used be
levied in the city beginning in
1854. None is charged at pres
ent. The new tax, he said, would
represent an income of $4,000,
Evening star., 1953-11-24
Annapolis Wire Office
Held Up, Girl Shut in Closet
BY the Associoted Press

ANNAPOLIS, Nov. 24.-Two
men held up a lone girl clerk in
the Western Union Office here
last night, took about $50 from a
cash drawer, shut her in a closet,
and apparently escaped to Balti-
more in a taxicab.
Sergt. Anthony Howes of the
Baltimore Police said the cab was
located some hours later at Bal
timore's Camden Station but its
passengers. ! .cluding two colored
men who answered the descrip-
tion of the holdup men, had left
it.
Miss Clara Crocker. the clerk
on duty. said the two men en-
tered the Office about 1890 pm.
One sat down at desk and pre-
tended to write a telegram, she
said. When he got up, he was
holding gun on her. The other
went around the counter and
took the money. She was shut in
e closet, but got out and called
lZClice.