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Evening star., 1953-08-23

(See ROADS, Page AID
Evening star., 1953-08-23

(See STASSEN, Page A-6.)
Arizona sun., 1953-01-02

grated to New York, was picked up
for allegedly transporting a white
girl across state lines for immoral
purposes He was indicated under
the Mann Act and held for trial in
New York Federal court.
The best legal brains in the big
city were hired to "spring the de-
fendant, but they were defeated
at every turn. A New York lawyer
now New York City Magistrate,
who took part in the defense at one
point, finally threw up his hand,
admitting he had run into stone
wall. When local counsel told the
defendant "We have run out of mo-
tions and there seems little else we
can do" the prisoner advised them,
''Get Dick Westbrooks from Chi
cago." The rest of the story is his
tory, Dick came, and when the mat
ter was heard, the defendant
walked out of the court a free man.
The New York mouthpieces were
amazed. Members of the local bar
invited Dick to move to New York,
but he politely declined and re-
turned to his familiar surroundings
on the banks of Lake Michigan.
Yes, Dick was a great guy and an
even greater lawyer. He nearly lost
his life in an automobile accident
on highway near Chicago and the
story is that besides other injuries,
he received a broken hip which left
him lame for the rest of his life.
Dicks favorite drink was sweet
milk and even when he visited
bar or cocktail lounge with friends,
the bartenders knew without ask
ing what to serve the noted crimi-
nal lawyer.
Several of his contemporaries
have achieved high public office,
among them Judges Wendell f.
Green, Herman E. Moore, Henry G.
Ferguson, Irwin C. MolliSon and
Fred (Duke) Slater, but none has
contributed more to the prestige
of the Negro lawyer than Dick
Arizona sun., 1953-01-02
f2sA2 3aIEe G53

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cs.seZ
following shakepearean play which contains the quota
Neither borrower lender be
Hamlet king y Ado About Nothing
Juliet
2 The below Republic
Karl Marx Winston Churchill Socrates Plato
following the legendary figure associated with
railroad building
Paul Bunyan The Flying Dutchman
Hercules
4 last Republican vice president was
Myers Y. Cooper John NJ Garner Al Lanoon
Charles Curtis
exiled to which of these four islands?
Barbados - Cyprus st Helena
of the following the other three?
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well known their fields Match each %
profession Score yourself 10 points for each correc
choice
Musician,
(B) H G Wells Artist
Kreis Scientist
(D) ]. Robert Oppenheiner Historian
Total your points score of 2o poor so-eo averag
superior: 90 l00 superior.
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Arizona sun., 1953-01-02
Let's Keep The New Year
"Christmosy"
By JUNE LRHUE

Let's keep the New Year "chrismosy Let's have Christmas
every day this year. Let's take the Yede spirit straight through
The year will become Just what make it, you know
less So LET'S all pitch in and make the year OF years.
We keep the New Year "Chstmosy if we really have
the DESIRE Why let anything good Christmas slip through
fingers anyway? Good resolutions backed by dossed
all need keep it, But there few things
we'll have bear mind along the 365doy stretch especially
when little world needs Frightening.
week, and in for several weeks
before put ourselves in the background ond thought mainly
Of others family friends and those less fortunate
hon We started hiding this gift and ho away the closets
drawers and trunks Each time the repeated
lit up with me We heoded miles and miles Of
search of Just the right coors and the oeonces,
the preiest styles Yes tired very tired But twas
sweet sort OF fatigue that we seemed to mind.
We bumped into the other the crowded truns and
buses The Thing happened the and
engroed labor Of love that recognized
this thing former And why? osk Just be-
Of complete surrender the spirit Of Christmas And
what sweet surrender it Wos
Let's keep the New Year like ho Let's keep kind,
towing fogving LET'S be slow bome quick poise. Let
know the late Fulton Ourser and wrote, There's
magic in praise More let's know that there magic Christ
in adjunct of Chmos in everything the enhonted
term LET'S resolve that nothing will make forget and
forfeit the gains Of Christmas Joy which in the lost few weeks
we've made. --z
The spirit of Christmas is much fine and good to be
used Just year. At this point in i'll afford
such risky prodigoy This the time for the strongest resolve
made the relentless effort
the resolution through.
The spirit of Christmas is the very gift Of loving Savior
ond always trust it for the peace and Joy brings 1t
offers and Joy for today forever It's the
greet penoceo Of the universe It's the only the kind
of happiness that will endure
LET'S resolve to keep the New Year "chrmosy" Such is
the reossuring souoion Of the New Yeors dawn.
Arizona sun., 1953-01-02
STRICTLY. FRESH

AN italian lady cat-burglar,
crawling across roofs, was
stripped to undies for unhampered
movement. She crashed through
skyligf1t, landed in dough being
kneaded by bakers apprentice.
Spice cake. eh!
A Massachusetts, town made
window peeping unlawful except
for officers. Only police can peep
on people and keep within the law.
Our advice: Don't strain the legal
eye. >t
Arizona sun., 1953-01-02
TO INTELLIGENCE TEST

Westbrooks. Perhaps Dick made.
the difference between the stature
of lawyers in Chicago and Cook
County in comparison with the
lawyers in other communities. He
was big man. His city, state and
nation, and his race, have lost a
good citizen; and for me, person.
ally, have lost one of my best and
most genuine friends.
My deepest sympathy to his
widow, Essie.
Arizona sun., 1953-01-02
STRAIGHT
AHEAD

NEW YORK, (GlobaD.-Attorney
Richard E. Westbrooks, who be-
came Chicagoan by way of Texas
and achieved the distinction of be-
ing one of Americas greatest crimi-
nal lawyers, is dead. ri
They used to speak of Dick West
brooks and Clarence Darrow in the
same breath, some arguing that
Westbrooks was the greater of the
two.
Few Chicago lawyers or newSpa-
per men have not been aided by
Dick Westbrooks. He was the young
lawyers friend and those who did
not learn their profession in his
office, were wont to make beaten
path to his 3Oth and State Streets
office any time they had legal
problem they were unable to un-
tangle.
AS young cub and later a police
and criminal court reporter, knew
Dick Westbrooks we'll. I covered
many of his cases, practically all
of his major ones between 1881 and
1888. He had sosne big ones, per-
haps the biggest was the Franklin
Bank robbery case in which three
men went to the electric chair and
three others were given life terms
in prison.
/ recall the night the first two
Lafron Fisher and Leoard Shadow
were electrocuted. Dick, Attorney
Euclid Louis Taylor, Attorney
Claude w. B. Holman and De-
Franz Williams sat in the death
chamber and watched the aWesome
events. Fisher went to the chair
first. He had to be carried, as his
body was paralyzed from the hips
down. It was said his injuries re-
suited from third-degree treatment
he got from the police in their eff
forts to wiring confession from
him.
Westbrooks represented Leo
Brown, another of the robbery SEX
tet. He had been sentenced to die
along with his companions, but the
redoubtable Dick had saved him
time and again, through delays, re-
prieves and writs of habeas corpus.
In the end, however. Brown was
also executed. Again, was wit
ness on that Thanksgiving night
when he paid the supreme penalty.
Dick was not present that night.
He was still working to save his
client, even as the executiOner was
throwing the switch.
But Dick never lost many cases,
and he is credited with making
more new laws" through appeals
and other decisions than any other
lawyer practicing at the Chicago
bar. New York lawyers will remem-
ber Dick Westbrooks we'll. 1t was
back in 1887 when a former Chi
cago night life figure who had mi
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Evening star., 1953-11-18

tidy-looking performances in
Thieves Carnival are those of
Frances Sternhagen and George
Grizzard as the young lovers.
They illustrate youthful faith
and the beauty of dewey delu-
sion. Considering the swirl of
weariness, boredom, philosophy
and every ones frenzied effort to
have a good time going on about
them, they manage it very well.
Two others who seemed rea-
sonably sure of what Anouilh eX-
poets of them are Lois Barden as
the retired amorous aunt of
the girls, and Marian Reardon as
the niece who knows the empti-
ness of one of lifes more basic
romantic facts.
AS the two really professional
thieves, men without illusions.
Dick Sykes and Stanley Pitts
have a robustly strenuous time
in Anouilh's whimsical exercise.
Alan Joseph, as the stock elderly
visitor to V1chy, the scene of
these antics, is not encouraged
to make it more than a stock
performance.
Walter Stilley has had little
room in which to create the
drawing room of a Vichy villa
but the small breakage of props
suggest that he has made the
most of it,
Evening star., 1953-11-18

ing humanity. However, so far
as this observer is concerned,
Jean Anouilh'S Thieves Carr
nival" which opened last night
at Arena Stage is not the take
off point for this nonsensical
Utopia.
It struck us as a precious and
pretentious effort, full of noise
and vigor signifying the disquiet
in M. Anouilh's soul. Or, it
might be a frantic effort on his
part to prove a line he wrote
in an earlier play: "a gentleman
is never unhappy"
/. Well, this man was sitting
there being unhappy in the
midst of a first night audience
that laughed, applauded like a
mob of ladies and gentlemen.
Thieves Carnival is a COM
edy and M. Anouilh (translated
by Lucienne Hill in this case)
takes enormously seriously the
responsibility of a man setting
out to write a merry fable.
1t has everything, cascading
dialogue, ceaseless movement, a
musical score for clarinet and
snatches of spontaneous dance.
What is missing is clue as to
just what all these are doing
there. At the end of the third
act, one of the major carrica-
lures murmurs something about
happiness being a by-product of
youth and innocence but this
is a small and timeworn footnote
for such strenuous work.
It has been said better, more
tersely and with less expense
of actors energy elsewhere.
Arenas own enthusiasm for
Thieves Carnival" is very little
less than boundless.
It has imported a guest direc-
tor, Lawrence Cara, for the
occasion and it has given
Thieves Carnival" a production
that is downright ebullient.
That this production is so large
that the actors are hard put to
avoid humping each other. and
are sometimes unable to dodge
the furniture, adds a comedy
touch that even M. Anouilh
overlooked.
1t is a whimsical wisp of plot
on which Thieves Carnival"
hangs its sermon on how happy
it is to be young and innocent,
how unhappy not to be.
M. Anouilh apparently is of
a mood to parody the weary ac-
count of a band of thieves who
are invited by their intended
wealthy victims to a house
party.
If this spectator followed
him-a dubious prospect-once
he gets these arranged cozily,
the moral begins to seep through.
This is that in their loneliness
and boredom, opposites can be
fatally attractive. A couple Of
the thieves, to be specific, fall
in love with a couple of attractive
nieces of the rich household.
This plays havoc with the ap-
parently cut and dried destinies
of all involved, most especially
the youngest thief and youngest
niece.
The sight of these two so
escstatically in love reconciles
the older. more hopelessly lost
creatures of M. Anouilh's imagi-
nation to their fate.
X y y \
Guest Director Cara can
leave his debut production with
the knowledge that he has fired
his Arena cast with enthusiasm.
Its members do not always give
the impression they know what
they are up to, but they are up to
1t anyway.
The two quietest and most
Evening star., 1953-11-18
The Passing Show
A Fluffy French Comedy
Takes Over Arena Stage
By Jov Cormody

On this politically turbulent side of the Atlantic that
pretty odd notions through the of
playwrights these days
1t having found mankinds effort to
failure they concluded its possible
that in time this reversal will bring and happiness
Evening star., 1953-11-18
Gift Seats on Sale

Gift certificates will go on sale
at the box Office of Arena Stage
tomorrow. The certificates may
be purchased for weekday or
weekend nights or Saturday
matineeS,
Evening star., 1953-11-18
In the Most
CIumoroUs
Entertainment
Of Your
Lifetime!

CinemoScope's omoz-
ing Anomorphie Lens
Process on the Miracle
Mirror Screen engUIfs
you in the glitter Of
Manhattan penthouses
and fashion shows, the
excitement Of Names
ski slopes. :. surrounds
you with the screens
most dazzling stars in
their search for love
and q miIIionoire! In
the wonder Of Stereo-
phonic Sound!
Evening star., 1953-02-26
Father Divine Wants Followers
To Boycott Jersey turnpike

ognition whatsoever for Father" "
the statement said. ''The trooper
escorted all four cars to the
Camden Philadelphia inter-
change where the same dis
courteous treatment was found.
"A man identified only as a
clerk of the court was at the
interchange toll gate. He ordered
Father to pay a $40 fine plus
costs Of SIS for each car. The
only alternative given Father was
to post $50 bond for each car
and appear in court at a later
date. So he was forced to pay
on the spot and Father claims
this was illegal and unjust"
The spokesman said Father
Divine received a message from
the New Jersey Turnpike Au-
thority today acknowledging an
irregularity."
"The message said the author
ity was very concerned over the
matter and they are looking into
It right away" the spokesman
added.
Evening star., 1953-02-26
Man, ? Women Killed in Car
Split by Bridge; Survivor FIees
Korea Veteran Sought After Spectacular
Crash on Putuxent Spun at Sewage

picked up Mr.. Cameron, the
owner of the car, in the 1900
block of Otis street NV.
He told them that Mr.. Kelley
had driven him from the Cam
eron home to Mr.. Kelley'S home
last night and that was the last
I saw of him." Police said Mr.
Cameron had been drinking
when picked up this morning.
The triple fatality marred
what had started as an unusual
safety record for the Washing
on-Baltimore boulevard. long
considered one of the most dan
gerous four-lane highways IN
the country. There had been
but two fatalities on the stretch
since January /.
Veteran of World War III.
Peter Hill, landlord at the
Holmead place address, said Mr..
Shackelford and Miss Hit had
been living there for several
years. Mr. Shackelford, a veteran
Of Armed Guard service during
World War II. was an interior
decorator, painter and paper
hanger working with his father.
He enlisted in the Navy when
he was II after attending Mac
Farland Junior High School. He
is survived by his parents and
three sisters. Mrs. Harry Kid
we'll and Mrs. Leone Cannon,
both of Washington, and Mrs.
Robert Wiederhold. of Ohio.
Mrs. Alsip has three children.
Myra Lee, 512; Ralph c. Alsip,
jr., 4, and Carole Ann, 18 months.
Evening star., 1953-02-26
Mexican Actress Starring
In Union Movie Arrested
sy The Associated Press

SILVER CITY, N. Mex, Feb.
26.-Rosaura Revueltas. Mexican
film actress starring in a movie
being made by the International
Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter
Workers, was arrested last night.
immigration officers took her
in custody in the lobby of the
hotel in which she was staying.
Miss Revueltas Immediately
claimed the arrest had no basis
and that she entered the coun-
try legally.
She is starring in "Salt of the
Earth" the movie being filmed
by the union with the co-opera-
ton of several Hollywood artists
who have refused to tell congress
sional investigators if they were
Communists.
In Washington, the Justice
Department would say only that
the actress had mo documents
valid for entry" into the United
States.
Evening star., 1953-02-26

explained. "You can't work
very effectively when your main
preoccupation is not to stick
your neck out"
- Private talks with numerous
middle-level officials indicate
this situation is typical of much
OF the State Department.
1t raises for Secretary of State
Dulles and other top Republi-
cans on the bridge of the Ship
of State an acute problem. The
problem is how to get efficient
work out Of the great mass of
civil servants on whom day-to-
day operations of the depart
ment depend-and at the same
time "co-operate" with Senator
Mccarthy. Republican, of Wis
consin.
Can't Fire Them All.
Obviously, Mr.. Dulles cannot
fire all or even a substantial
part of the more than 10000
employees in the State Depart
ment and Foreign Service. Only
about $50 of these are presi-
Dental appointees, and only a
score or so of these have been re-
placed so far. The remainder
of the personnel constitutes an
organization with which Mr..
Evening star., 1953-02-26
Byrnes Greeted,
By Those Who
Knew Him When

Gov. James F. Byrnes of South
Carolina drew a variety of salu-
tations when he came to the
White House today for the Gov
ernors' conference with Gen.
Eisenhower and encountered q
lot Of familiar faces.
From some who remembered
him as a Truman Secretary of
State, it was "Mr. Secretary" !"
Others came up with "Mr. JUS
tice' in a throwback to his days
on the Supreme Court.
Some simply settled for Gov
ernor." The Governor himself
stopped in the lobby of the ex-
ecutive Offices to reminisce briefly
on his earlier days in Congress,
which started in 1911 and ex-
tended to q hitch in the Senate.
The South Carolina Governor,
who broke with former President
Truman, said it was six years
since he had last visited the
White House.
Evening star., 1953-02-26
Diplomat Returns
Book to Library
II Years Overdue
BY the Associoied Press

NEW STRAITSVILLE, Ohio,
Feb. 26.-The Canadian ambas-
Sador to the Netherlands is re-
turning a book borrowed from
the New StraitSville Library
more than II years ago.
Ambassador T. A. Stone said
the book, "Rekindling Camp
Fires" probably was taken from
the library by one of his father
in-law's sisters and just discov-
cred among his own books.
Il notice that the penalty in
the New StraitSville Public Lii
brary is five cents a week." Mr..
Stone wrote. He added that he
supposed he was not technical
ly responsible either for borrow
ing it or the fact that it is so
long overdue" and incloSed a
check for $25 "as q contribution
to your library fund in lieu Of
the penalty"
Evening star., 1953-02-26
BY the Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 26.-
Father Divine, self-styled god
and director of a network Of
heavens" has ordered his fol-
lowers to boycott the New Jersey
Turnpike.
In a statement issued by a
spokesman at his headquarters
here last night, the Negro re-
ligious leader said his ban re-
suited from "the rude and dis
courteous treatment and a COM
plete lack Of recognition" by an
officer who stopped Father Di-
vines chauffeur driven limousine
last Friday.
The State policeman charged
Father Divine's driver with vio-
lating the turnpike's 60-mile per
hour speed limit and the re-
ligious leader said he paid under
stern protest" a fine Of SIS for
each of four cars in his motor
cade making a trip from Newark
to Philadelphia.
There was no respect or rec
Evening star., 1953-02-26
Stevenson Off on First
Lea Of His World Tour
By the Associated Press

CHICAGO, Feb. 26.-Adlai E.
Stevenson, former Illinois Gov
ernor and Democratic loser In
last falls presidential election,
left Chicago today on the first
leg of a round-the-world tour.
His first jump. by plane, was
to Los Angeles, where he will talk
at a $100-a-plate Democratic
dinner tonight.
Monday he sails for Honolulu,
Hawaii. From there he will go to
Japan, Korea, Formosa, Indo-
China, IndoneSia, and countries
of the Middle East and Europe.
Mr.. Stevenson told a small
group of newsmen, "this won't
be a vacation"
He said he plans to make first
hand studies of conditions along
his route and that the results of
his observations will be avail
able to President Eisenhower.
Mr.. Stevenson will write articles
on his trip for Look Magazine.
Evening star., 1953-02-26
Ca dpita| Transit
Raises Dividend
Rate 10 $3.50
Increase of 20 Cents;
Potential Earnings
Called justification
By Donald B. HodIey

Capital Transit Co. directors
today increased the quarterly
dividend to 40 cents from IS
cents previously paid and placed
the stock on an annual divi-
dend basis of $1.60 a share.
Although the company failed
to earn the previous $1.4O an
nual rate in 1852 by margin
of about $297 900, directors felt
that an increase was justified
by potential earnings through
1853 plus the size of the un-
distributed surplus available for
dividends" said Vice President
E. c Giddings.
The board also approved pur-
chase of so new king sized
buses to cost $1.1 million. The
buses will be operated on the
Anacostia = Congress Heights,
Takoma Petworth and cross
town lines,r for which the District
Commissioners recently gave ap-
proval.
Dividend Payable April 1.
The increased quarterly divi-
dend will be payable April l to
stockholders of record March 13
and will whittle down the al
ready diminished surplus fur
ther. Mr.. Giddings estimated
that undistributed surplus avail
able for dividends now stands
around $75O,OOO.
The increase in the quarterly
dividend was voted under cir
cumstances similar to those at
the start of 1852, when directors
increased the quarterly rate
from Is cents to 35 cents al
though petition for fare in
crease adequate to support such
a rate had just been rejected by
the District Public Utilities
Commission.
The previous dividend rate of
Is cents quarter in turn was
double the rate paid at the time
the Louis E. Wolfson group of
Jacksonville, Fla, took over the
company in September, 1949.
The Wolfson group bought
control for $40 a share from
North American Co. under a
Government diyesture order and
the company at that time was
paying 50 a share. The new
group boosted the rate to 81 a
share on old stocks and split
the stock, 4 for /.
Fare Increase Helps.
The new rate of $1.60 a year
on new stock is the equivalent
of $6.40 a share on old stock.
A special dividend of $3.50 a
share on new stock, or $40 a
share on old stock, was declared
early last year, in effect paying
back to the Wolfson group half
of their original purchase of
control. Increased regular divi-
dendS have much more than
paid for the other half of the
investment.
"A substantial fare increase
granted at the end of August
last year bolstered earnings
substantially in the last quarter,
but not enough to come abreast
of the 1852 dividend increase. ;
Company officials undoubtedly
are counting on the benefits Of
this fare increase for all of
1853.