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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-20

The 10-year-old daughter of
an Army captain was recovering
today from a frightening expe-
rience with a man who seized
her within a few feet of her
home.
Luckily for Dorothy Ann Low
den, her mother was watching
for her from the window of their
home at 1920 Gainesville street
Sc. It was $3.50 pm. and the
girl was returning from a Girl
Scout meeting.
Mrs. Lowden saw a young man,
a white handkerchief concealing
his face, grab the girl and pull
her into some bushes.
Mrs. Lowden tried to call her
daughter, then dashed out the
door. Behind her came her hus-
band, Capt. Charles B Lowden,
who had hastily armed himself
with a .38 revolver.
BY then the man and girl had
rolled down a bank together. He
had dragged her several hundred
feet and thrown her to the
ground.
Capt. Lowden fired his revolver
once in the air. The man fled.
Capt. Lowden found his daughter
unframed except for scratches
she suffered while being dragged
through the brushes.
Capt. Lowden tried to find the
prowler again. Once he thought
he heard him. He fired two
more shots in the direction of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-20
Three Ordered Held
For Grand Jury in
Gamblers Death

Three persons. accused of MUIR
dering Orell Duncan, q, a con-
victed Washington gambler, were
held for grand jury action after
a coroner's inquest yesterday.
Those held were Mrs. jamie
w. Duncan, SO. estranged wife
of the dead man, who lives in
the 1000 block of Seventh street
NV; Edward James of the 500
block of Sixteenth street NV;
Calvin Simms of the 1900 block
of Eighteenth street NV. All
are colored.
An overflow crowd of $50 at
tended the inquest, conducted
by Coroner A. Magruder Mac
Donald.
Mrs. Duncan. James and
Simms were charged with pum-
melting, stomping and beating
the slain man on the head with
a bottle on March II at tourist
home owned by Mrs. Duncan.
Police said the killing grew out
of a fight between the Duncans
over Mrs. Duncan's property and
Internal Revenue Service reports.
After the beating, which police
said lasted more than a half
hour, the trio allegedly moved
the body in Mrs. Duncan's car
to a shallow grave near Roxbury.
Va. The body was discovered two
days later by Richard johnson,
a lmberman, of Winchester. Va.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-20
Waiter Hits ADA Critic, Girl, 10, Saved
Denies Bullying Judges From Attacker

Representative Walter, Demo-
crat of Pennsylvania, said on
the House floor today he had
no intention of trying to bully
Federal judges here in his recent
criticism of the handling of the
case of John T. Watkins.
Mr.. Walter replied specifically
to a recent attack by Edward
D. Hollander. an official of
the Americans for Democratic
Action. Mr.. Hollander had
charged Mr.. Walter attempted
to bully and intimidate" judges
of the United States Court of
Appeals for the District of Co
lumbia.
This was a reference to Mr..
Walters comments before a
House Appropriations subcom-
mittee. The Pennsylvania Dem
ocrat complained that appeals
court judges were bending over
backwards in favor of congress
sional committee witnesses held
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-20

the finance director of the
Democratic National Committee.
S. Acey Carraway, to whom the
offer was made. did intercede
with the Department of Justice
in an attempt to stop prosecu-
ton"
He did not say whether the
attempt was successful.
The Democratic National Com
mittee had no comment. A
spokesman said Mr.. Carraway
has not been connected with the
committee for several years.
Tax-Dodging Conviction
Senator Williams told a re-
porter later he was asking the
special Committee on Lobbying
and Campaign Contributions,
headed by Senator Mcclellan.
Democrat of Arkansas. to go
fully" into the case.
He said the newspaper stories
described the $4,000 offer as
having come from Joseph Mitch
ell, businessman of Mobile, Ala.
and St. Louis, Mo. The money
was said to have been needed by
the Democratic Committee to
pay for two national broadcasts
by former President Truman late
in the 1948 presidential cam
paign.
Mr.. Mitchell was convicted in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-20
D. c. BUDGET
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ment, later compromising with
the Senate on $18 million. And
last year the House cut the
spending program by $8.8 million
later also compromising about
$3.50 with the Senate.
Pay Raises a Factor
No difficulty was expected this
year by the District subcommit-
tee. headed by Representative
Rabaut, Democrat of Michigan.
The speed with which the job
was done, however, was surpris-
ing. Only three members dis
cussed the bill. These included
Chairman Rabaut, who outlined
some major provisions of the
bill, pointing out that the House
committee had reduced the esti-
mates of the Commissioners by
only $3.1 million. This, he said,
was the lowest reduction made in
the House since 1852.
Mr.. Rabaut noted. however,
that the total recommended was
SOB million over the present
year funds, but explained that
more than 81 million of this was
caused by a mandatory item. that
being funds to cover pay raises
granted by Congress last year
He brought out also that the
bill provides for 1875 more ele-
mentary school teachers, rs of
these to come from increased
funds and so from the transfer
of funds which would have gone
for Junior and senior high school
teachers.
He said the committee was
favorably inclined toward the
building of a new Health School
on its present site, but had
knocked the item out of the bill
so as to force District authorities
to decide where it should go.
There is a dispute as to whether
it should be built on the site
near Thirteenth and Allison
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-20
Schools a Big Problem

Schools a Big PROBLEM
Representative Wilson, Repub-
ilican of Indiana, ranking minor
lily member of the Rabaut sub
committee. said one of the big
Igest problems faced by the group
was that of the schools and this,
he added, was brought on by
Indignation.
Indignation, Mr.. Wilson said,
caused a serious teacher in
crease problem in addition to
that being caused by increasing
school population"
Teachers, he said, now have
pupils varying in ability and
age. "And when that happens
you are inviting social problems.
For this reason, he said, the
committee saw fit to go beyond
the recommendations of the Dis
trict Commissioners twho had
recommended only 40 more ele-
mentary. teachers) and so recon-
Imended the increase in teacher
funds.
The only other one to discuss
the bill was Representative
hatcher, Democrat of Kentucky,
"a subcommittee member, who
spoke strongly of the need to
increase the uniformed force of
the police department. He
praised Police Chief Robert v.
Murray and his men. saying the
force was lone of the finest in
the United States"
But Mr.. hatcher added that
because the force had to be
spread so thinly over the city,
there were many serious offenses
against citizens and property
that could have been prevented
if we had an adequate police
force"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-20
TOWN IS FACING
PROPERTY LOSS
OVER u. S. DEBT

PHILADELPHIA (P.-The
Federal Government, in an
unusual move, has taken
action to seize municipal
property of the borough of
st. Clair unless that tiny
community pays a debt Of
$500 owed since 1851.
A writ of execution issued
yesterday by United States
Attorney w. Wilson White
instructed the Federal mar
shall here ito seize all the
personally of the defendant"
to make good the amount
owed.
The controversy centers
around a loan made the
Schuylkill County commu-
nifty of less than $500 for an
addition to its sewage dis
posal plant.
Joseph Long, president of
the borough Council, said
he would contact Mr.. White
to iron out the dispute which
Mr.. Long termed a misun-I
derstanding. 4
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-20
FARM
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that the enate-House confer.
ence may modify the bill which
we believe in many respects is
unavoidable"
Senator Knowland also said he
believes Secretary Benson would
recommend a veto if the bill re-
mains as at present.
The Californian, however. die
not pinpoint his objections. The
leaders expressed the hope that
final congressional action will
be speedy.
The Importance of getting the
bill to the White House before
Congress leaves for the two-weeE
Easter holiday, March 20, wa'
stressed by both Democratic anc
Republican leaders as the Senate
passed the bill. Chairman Ellen
der, of the Senate Agriculture
Committee, said he already hae
been in consultation with Repre-
sentative Cooley, who had prom.
Used to do his utmost to see that
the measure was disposed OIL
soon" Senator Ellender, heac
of the Senate conferees, said the
Senate-House meetings woule
start this week.
| Senator Knowland also ex-
pressed hope that the measure
will be ready for the White
House before the Easter recess
/ He said, too, that the bill con-
Itains many unwise amend
ments," and added the hope that
the conference can make i'm
lprovements" and devise a meas
ure that will get Presidential,
approval.
I Senator Hickenlooper, Repub-
lican of Iowa. called the measure
a "hodge-podge of political ma
nipulations." Senator Aiken
Republican of Vermont, was
equally harsh.
| On the eve of the planting
season. both sides agree that
speed is necessary if the farmers
are to get the benefits of the bill
this year.
AS the bill left the Senate
it provides for SIP billion to
start soil-bank payments and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-20
Medical N Showing

The Capital Chapter Of the
Biological Photographic Associa-
ton will meet at 8 pm. tomor-
row to see a live medical color
television demonstration moder-
ated by 1t. Stephen P. Dittmann.
The program will be held in
Sternberg Auditorium at the
Walter Reed Army Institute of
Research.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-20
tt|eHopeHe|d
For Corcorans

United States Coast Guart
authorities held little hope today
that Washington golfer Jane!
Grover Cleveland Corcoran, hi
wife and three others, whose
plane crashed in the Atlantic of
the Bahamas Thursday, woule
be found alive.
The plane. a twin-engint
Beechcraft was sighted in thu
water off Rock Sound on Eleu'
thera Island, a vacation resort
Positive Identification was made
from articles pulled from thu
water.
Aboard the aircraft bound fol
Miami in addition to Mr.. anc
Mrs. Corcoran were Mr.. and Mrs
L. A. Grelling of Miami Beach
and o. S. (TexD Barrow, Of
Tyler, Tex.
Mr.. Corcoran, who made his
home here at the Sheraton
Park Hotel and at Miami ano
Saratoga Springs. N. Y, served
with the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation during and shortly
after World War I. He was a
close friend of Director J. Edgar
Hoover.
A prominent amateur golfer.
Mr.. Corcoran was married about
IS years ago to the former Betty
Brown, daughter of Pennsyl-
vania Railroad official. They
have three children.
MI. Corcoran was member
of Columbia Country Club. the
Washington Golf and Country
Club and the La GORGE Golf Club
of Miami.
Prior to his marriage he lived
here for many years at the
Washington Golf and Country
Club.
District Golf Champ Twice
Mr.. Corcoran. who was about
So, did not gain prominence
as a golfer until he reached SIS
and entered many senior tour
naments.
He was District senior cham
pion in 1916 and again in 1913.
A year later he won the Middle
Atlantic Senior Championship
and was awarded the Walter r.
McCallum trophy.
Mr.. Corcoran was also senior
champion at La GORGE in 1919
Well known in sporting circles
here and in Florida, Mr.. Cor
coran spent his winters in Miami
and his summers here and at
Saratoga. N. Y.
Wreckage Sighted
He and his friends took off
from Rock Sound for Miami on
Thursday. Wreckage of their
plane was found only 10 miles
out in the ocean. The plane was
first spotted yesterday by Capt,
Leonard Thompson, owner of
Skyways Airline in the Bahamas
He said searchers apparently
failed to find the craft earlier be-
cause its color SO nearly matched
that of surrounding water.
Coast Guard spokesman who
searched the area with boats said
the five apparently persisted
They said "the possibility of live
survivors is very slight"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-20

$500 million for the fund used
by the Agriculture Department
to buy up surplus commodities
generally perishables.
In addition, the changes in the
price structure are estimated to
cost anywhere from $400 million
Ito a billion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-20

the noise, but evidently missS
Dorothy Ann said the attaca
may have been in his late teeH
He was dressed in a short zipH
jacket, and wore a knikf
stocking cap and gloves.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-20
Senate Asked to Probe
$4,000 Tx Fix Offer

Senator Williams Republican Of Delaware yesterday asked
for Senate investigation of alleged $4,000 gift oero the
1913 Dmocratc campaign fund by trying to quash "a
81 million case"
1T is alleged" Senator Williams said in speech
that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-20

streets NV. or on Mount Olivet
road NE. recommended by
School Supt. Hobart M. Corning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-22
LANCER Rejects
Democratic Bids,
Stays Republican

Senator LANCER, Republican of
North Dakota, who often has
been at odds with the Eisenhower
administration, says he will sup
port the Republican ticket in
the November election.
Senator LANCER described him
self as grateful" for invitations
to join the Democratic Party, but
said he is convinced that the
best chance for peace for our
country will be served by a Re-
publican President. a Republican
Vice President and a Republican
Congress"
He said in a statement he
put in the Congressional Record
that a year ago he pleaded to
the Non-Partisan League Ad-
visory Committee that II will GO
where the league goes" adding:
THAT pledge I must break. ]
must break it in order to keep
faith with the dead rather than
the living"
The North Dakota Non-Par-
tisan League. long a force in
North Dakota Republican politics
this year joined forces with thu
Democrats.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-22
Union Leader Attacks
Eisenhower on NLRB

ST. LOUIS. Aug. % P). =
John w. Livingston. AFL-CIO
organizational director, says the
National Labor Relations Board
has so changed that labor must
wait years to have its cases set
tied while ANY two-bit Texas
capitalist can have his case re-
solved in weeks"
Mr.. Livingston charged the
NLRB in the Eisenhower admin
Iistration has reversed all decent
policy decisions of the old
board"
He spoke yesterday before the
first annual convention of the
Oil, Chemical & Atomic Work
ers. The NLRB, he declared, now
is the national labor reversal
board"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-22

of sculpture, which Mr.. Lincoln
may have posed for in Washing
ton shortly before he was as
sassinated.
The owner is Chester Orsini.
a former junkman. now a con-
tractor, in Meriden, Conn, who
said he bought it five years ago
from a family that was diSpos-
ing of the furnishings in an old
Connecticut home.
Mr.. Orsini said he has been
told by experts that it IS the
work of Franklin Simmons. who
made the equestrian statue Of
Gen. Logan in Washington. He
said he also has come into pos
session of two letters written in
1865, which indicate that Mr.
Simmons had an appointment to
see Mr.. Lincoln. But he said il
is not known whether MIR. Lin
coin actually posed for the
statue.
Representative Martin OF Mas
sachusetts, permanent chairman
of the convention, who already
has a sizeable collection of un-
usual gavels, got another one
yesterday. He was presented with
one made from one of the timer:
taken from the steeple of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-22

Official county Democrats out Of the
all In today and they Mr.. ming
Taylor 27772 %otes170 less Mr. Taylor Progressive Party
Democratic Frank presidential when
Church of Boise Mr.. Churchhe the Senate 1948
32year-od lawyer in said last night he will for
politics. has 1892. othera recount.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-22

|"great confidence" in Adlai E
Stevenson and hopes the Demo-
cratic Presidential candidate
wins the election.
Justice Minton. a Democrat
when appointed to the high court
in 1949 by President Truman,
made the comments on his re-
turn from a European vacation
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-22
Taylor Refuses
To Concede Race

BOISE, Idaho, Aug. % (P.--
Former Senator Glen Taylor
says he isn't conceding a thing
in Idaho's Democratic, senatorial
primary race until the States
Board of Canvassers meets next
Saturday to certify the official
results of the August IA ballot
ing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-22
President Handicapped
Physically, Minton Says

NEW YORK, Aug. % P.-
Supreme Court Justice Sherman
Minton says he's afraid President
Eisenhower is terribly handi-
capped physically" for the forth
coming campaign.
Justice Minton said he has
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-22

historic Old North Church in
Boston, which had to be rebuilt
recently.
1t was from the old North
Church that Paul Revere re-
ceived the signal that the Brit
ish were coming.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-22
THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. c.
WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 2g. 1856
LincoIn's Bust Draws
Convention Interest

STAR CONVENTION BUREAU, SAN FRANCISCO. Aug a.
through convention headquarters in the lobby
Hotel have been attracted by small bronze bust
Lincoln which under constant guard of private
detective.
guarded its convinced it is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-22
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-08-04

Miss Janet Collins, the very first
Negro to contract for perform
ances with the Metropolitan Opera
Company. Also to be included on
this years series is the production
of another opera by the Music
Department of Jackson State Col
lege. The Departments presenta-
ton of "Cavalleria Rusticana" last
spring was so well received that
the Department was requested to
plan its opera each year as fea-
ture of the Association series.
1t is the Associations desire to
create greater interest in the fea-
lures of the series and to make
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-08-04
Southern To
Meet Tennessee
In eadIiner

Southern University will get a
long-awaited chance to avenge a
defeat of decade ago when the
Jaguar Cats encounter the Ten
nessee State Tigers at Nashville
this fall.
Holding a two-game edge over
the Jaguars in a short-lived series
and spanked by an excellent record
carved over a long span, the Tigers
are placed high on the Cats list
of bitter foes. Southern first
clashed with Tennessee in 1945,
and absorbed $50 shellacking
which evidently had its effect for
a week afterward. The weekend
following the Tiger conflict, the
Jaguars were blasted $50 by the
Wiley Wildcats who were then ty-
rants of the Southwest. Incidently,
the Cats will face these same two
teams on successive Saturdays this
year. The Tiger fracas is slated
for November 8, and the following
week the Wildcats will play here
under the lights.
The last Southern-Tennessee me-
lee, which was probably the most
exciting game ever played locally,
was won by the Tigers 21-20 in a
spectacular finish in the waning
minutes of play.
Efforts to arrange a contest be-
tween these high-powered teams
failed for the past ten years be-
cause of respective conference COM
mitments. When Bishop College
dropped it's Southwestern confer
ence affiliation, Athletic Director
A. w. Mumford Immediately
sought Tennessee as a replacement
on the local slate.
The month of November will
certainly provide glittering show
on the gridiron for the Cats. Ten
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-08-04
SOCIETY SLANTS

One new member became affiliat-
ed with the club, Mr.. Willie Will
liams, 1919 Pittsburgh ST..
The next meeting will be held
in the home of Mr.. G. c. Brisco,
ISL Erie Street, August IL, 1866.
Mr.. Bernard Williams, president;
Mr.. Dorsey Nixon, reporter.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-08-04
Jackson College
lyceum Group
AT Work On
1861 Series

The Jackson State College Ly-
ceum Association is in the process
of completing its 1956-1957 series
according to a recent announce
ment by Robert A. Henry, Head
Of the Music Department at the
College and Chairman of the Ly-
ceum Association.
The offerings which the Asso-
citation will present assures men,
bers and prospective members Of
another outstanding series during
the coming season. The series
opens Saturday afternoon, October
q, when the National Broadcasting
Opera Company presents "The
Marriage of Figaro" by Mozart
One of the worlds finest opera
companies, the NBC Opera Com
pany is being brought to Jackson
at tremendous expense. The pres
entation is offered in keeping with
the Associations effort to serve
the very urgent need for cultural
outlet in Jackson and the state
at-large.
Among the other features on the
series are: The Players Incorpor-
ated who will be seen in Shakes
peare's Henry w." January II,
1857, and Miss Adele Addison, a
very famous but rather young
singer, who will be presented Fri
day evening, March 1, 1857. Ne
gotiations are underway for the
presentation of the Berkshire
String Quartet, Mr.. Walter Robert,
pianist at Indiana University; and
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-08-04
PAScAG0ULA
NEWS

Shut In
Mrs. Rachel Wallace of Skip Ave.
is in bed and has been for a week.
Mrs. Camele Martin is yet on the
sick list.
Mrs. Mary Hanshaw Of 1909
Market Street is ill.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-08-04
Dude NEWS

The Franklin County Singing
Convention, met at the Sweethome
Baptist Church July 1929. The
success was great.
The friends of Mr.. Dave Lambert
are happy to have him home from
the hospital.
Mrs. Elean Marks is happy to
have her daughters visit her from
Wisconsin.
--Patronize Our Advertiser
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-08-04

Mr.. Leon Doblin of Chicago, Ill.,,
is spending a few days in Jackson
and Port Gibson, Mississippi, visit
ing relatives and friends.
Mr.. and Mrs: Joe Brunette and
daughter Ester Ray of Chicago,
Ill, left the city Saturday after
visiting their sister, Mrs. Rosetta
Adams. on Florence Street, and
their niece Miss Lessye NJ. Larry
Of Jones Street.
Mrs. Ruth Dease and Miss Hattye
E. Roseman left the city Wednes-
day for Jefferson City, Mo-, to at
tend the graduation exercises. of
their son and nephew respective
iy Luther; Dease at Lincoln Uni
.Yersity.
They will be joined there by
their sisters, Mrs. Mable Sims OF
Muskegon, Mich, and Miss Myrtle
Roseman; of Detroit, Mich.
The Yacht Club met Sunday
July 29,,-i956, in the home of Mr.
Norris Benson, 159 E. Bell Street
at 5 o'clock. The meeting was
called to order by the president
Mr.. Bernard Williams.