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The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1938-11-11
Mobile Schools
Promised Repairs

MOBILE, Ala, Nov. (By E.
Goode for AMP A proposed S247,-
900 building and repair program,
affecting about so Mobile County
schools, among them 10 Negro
schools, was announced Friday dur
ing meeting of the school COM
missioner.
The Negro schools and the amount
they are to receive are as follows:
Prichard $19,950. Toulminville
S5,a83. Dunbar high $13,911, Will
hanson Sl,033. Council $483,
Owens 1926, Grand Buy $710, Theo-
dore $492, Whistler $466, Mount
Vernon 5000. The program calls
for new buildings, room additions,
repairs, sanitary improvements,
painting, plastering and other indi-
vidual projects. A number of the
J schools will also be given oil burners
/ and other new equipment.
An amount exceeding $4,000
was also appropriated for repair
work and addition at the Mobile
County Training School at Plateau
However, the amount will be revised
it was announced, as the greater
part of the school was destroyed by
fire about six weeks ago. A petition
signed by nearly 400 persons, ask,
ing that the school be rebuilt at
Prichard, was received by the board
The board decided, however, that
no action would be taken on selec-
tion of site until the superinten-
dent and assistant superintendent
of schools make survey and state
their recommendations
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Labor Leader Exposes
Communist Technique
Among Negroes

NEW YORK, Nov. 8 tANP) LIN
his column for the Negro Labor
News Service last week, Frank
Crosswaith, well known labor leader, |
and Socialist denounced Communist
methods ia inviting Negroes to Join
their ranks. He says:
Recognizing the plight Of colored
America and casting to the winds |
every principle worthy Of q working
class movement, the Communist pro-
ceeded to offer us self determine
tion in the Black Belt. We are
sure that every Ku Kluxer and 9th
ers who deny equality to colored
! reople must have welcomed such an
offer. However, the thinking Ne
1 gfoes rightfully rejected this offer
/ Since then. the line of the Com
munist party has changed SO often
and SO profoundly that it is pretty
/ nigh impossible to recount those
IN one article. Each change,
however, has left them more and
| more exposed as one of the most
i eactionary and opportunistic move
ments Of modern times
Mr.. Crosswaith warns the working
class Of Negroes to beware Of the
, technique Of the Communists. He
says: @They proclaim loudly as
their private property the ideals for
which workers everywhere have
! battled, but in practice their every
: deed is a reputation of those ideals.
All indications point unerringly to
the conviction that among our peo
! ple today the Communists are at
Z tempting to repeat the role of the
I Carpet -Baggers following the over
D throw of slavery.
i .The old Carpet-Baggers, beeaus'
] Of the general unpreparedness 9
= our people, succeeded in leavlni
j with us. the Night Riders, the &
j Kiuxers and the other evils that TO
day haunt our daily lives III tn
q South and elsewhere. Today, how
!, ev.r.o he continues, we are bette
. prerared to recognize as friends .
4 mem es those who advance towar
j. us with outstretehed hand and hig
1. sounding phrases.
i OF communism III Russia, Cros
wal Ii says, "the firing squad, n
s.
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NATIONAL.
NEWS BRIEFS
RUNS FOR LEGISLATURE
IN TENNESSEE


Knoxville, Tenn, Nov. q by O.
B. Taylor for sANP) For the first
time since reconstruction days, there
is to be Negro candidate for the
Tennessee general assembly. John
Austin Huff, an attorney who has
rracticed here for twenty years has
qualified as candidate for direct
representative from Knox county.
The election is Nov. 8.
Mr.. Huff lis being given more than
an outside chance to win, Citizens
of both races and of all shades of
political opinion are watching the
race and many whise voters have
| promised him support. interviewed
Monday, Attorney, Il stand for
equal justice to all the citizens OF
this state regardless of race, color
or creed. If / am elected shall put
up the fight Of my life to have plac-
ed upon the statute books of Ten.
nessee law providing equal pay
| for all teachers doing equal work.
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Noted Musician Passes

HAMILTON, Bermuda, Nov. q
(ANP) Funeral ser3rices were held
here last week for Serg. Stanley
Stradford Hattersbee, noted musi-
eian, Mo died at the King Edward
Memorial nospltas aitei ort i'll
ness. Mr.. Battersbee, who sta. sod
career as the organist in the
Warwick Methodist Sunday School.
was the first colored orchestra
leader to be permanently engaged
local hotels, starting at the St.
George. He was also soldier of
note serving in the B M. A. for a
period of IS years. He is survived
by his widow, Mrs. Isabel Batters-
bee. and eight children.
--0----
Spend your money where
you can work. Patronize stores
that employ Negro clerks.
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I'll WPA, NYA
Officials Paid Over
S5, 900 Yearly;
None Colored

WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (ANP)-
Although the NYA and WPA, both
New Deal agencies. have FL offic.
;als drawing salaries in excess oi
$4,000 yearly, not one goes 70 Color
"a executives in the two setups-
Mrs. Mary Mcleod Bethune q tne
NYA il the highest paid Negro, with
! reported salary of $4,000.
of those making more than
$4,000. 108 receive over S6,0oo, 20
are paid in excess Of $1,000, 10 get
$4,000 or more, six draw over
$4,000 and one, WPA Adminislraeoi
Harry Hopkins, is paid $4,000.
The situation in WPA and NfA'
where whites draw the large sal
aries, is considered typical OF otnef
New Deal bureaus and agencies.
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FOUR PRISONERS KILLED In
GEORGIA JAIL FIRE

GLENNyILLE, Ca, Nov g.
(ANP) -Four prisoners, Henry Ar
thur, Lloyd Munoine, Vodie Hamil-
ton and Allen Carter, lost their
lives Sunday when ire damaged the
city jail. Firemen ,xtinguished the
blaze and saved The building. but
the prisoners were found dead, APP
parently from suffocation,
The blaze had gained headway
before Patrolman Dewey Toofie
and e. Fl. Bacon discovered it. They
said they opened the doors imme-
diately, but received no response
from the prisoners. A coroner's
jury was unable to determine the
cause of the fire.
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NOTICE or APPOINTMENT


Notice is hereby given that Sidney
Lucas OF No. 247 Boyer Street,
Dayton, Ohio, was on the 31st day
OF October 1888, duly appointed
and qualified as Administrative de
bonis non of the estate of Amy g.
Lucas late Of Montgomery County.
Ohio, Deceased. Creditors must file
their claims with above fiduciary
within four months.
William @. Stokes
Attorney !.
VIM. @. Wisen1an
Probate Judge of
Montgomery County.
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a Mp1.--.
NEW YORK, Nos. - Z ~ Iobn
Light HeavyWeighs ena.A.-0 ssa u,
Henry Lewis, kel' - s;gn
money because S lsasea ..~ ,tnsla Mike |
with the szat g pos1.ss' .,aa,, "a
Jacobs, eapi1ulaeea aas' =. 40
will meet thaf oeilsr Aoa',' ~ 800,
named Joe' loi - eaaare
weight crown = -
garden on Jan. 81
The alalcil, ai'i'oe.''e e'.'N' 49,
which came = : - ~ a;ators Ia
circles, VII p ~ !, s,asaa haavy-
getlier for the ifs' aii-so'ot = !, '' ~
weight hgat oil A'''e''Na
history o. boNiils.
1t viii set at rest charges hea1o =
some quarters that we DoNA
Bomber had drawn the co1oi 80
against members q hla oMn 80
and it viii estabilsh ae'''''ssis - ,n'.a
er = not suea 4 inatea WI "
dItteaA
aid il MA $50 ls2a Hen1y =
chance TO na4.e neaTy sugar, no'
only OH JaA. Z Z but Ior lne ilsA'
five yeals, ior Jacobs will sign nm
to a Eve year exclusive coltfae'
should he defeat Joe IS Is III 8
heavy champ although hoiaaas ~ =
I4..Y flat4 4
crown for three years, mas h'au,
money n only one fight' ehat aea'l1'
Len Harvey = Loh'o' Whsn =
iected s-o'oo' e.r
Previously Lewis had psea o1ts'
ca 4 contract y 3aeoos' -, aa.,ss ,.a
er Gus dleenlee TUNED = ~" :
stating he was opposed $ ,
Mikes straHsleAo.a 81 P'N1''s. {,
ii result Johlt llenfy eea'd 80 s
bouts 1hA4 Noala u'as .1.. nu
lafs0lYs haA cNTnGF3u IIdSti1sstis
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rEWIs-LOUIS FIGHT TO GIVE
John HENRY HIS FIRST
TASTE OF REAL CASH ]. 49,.

challenged James j. Braddock for
the title and has persistently beg /
ped for d shot at Louis. This bout
viii give him the chance ne mas
baen looking for. just how success
fiji he viii be is another question,
TO Joe, the opponent doesn't |
matter. just so long as ne hgn's'
| He also could use the money, for
despite being in the heavy sugar
for three years, he operates ander
the assumption that after taxing
care OF his annuities, real estate
4 investments and family, money was
coined for spending purposes ana
champion, like a king, sor congress,
| should not be a nickle nufser. he
/ viii draw 40 percent Of the gate,
which present estimates put a.
s1oo 900. and Lewis will take
away II liz percent.
The last previous fight tor the
heavyweight crown between We
uIDG@ was I'LL atis ~ AS1o
1aeR johnson and Ben Johnson.
oddly enough, both principles nao
the same last name then just as
they will this time, only the 1879
t match will find the gladiators spell
ine their names differently despite
the sameness of pronounciatlon.
While most experts are confiden'
that Joe will dispose Of his less
! heavy namesake in the same eiiici
ant manner he has conquered otn
: ers a good bout is predicted. Loui'
! i essentially puncher who boxe'
i, we'll. Lewis is the cleverest boxe'
g IN heavier classes today and mas
i enable punch. Jack Johnson wen
o on record few years ago with III
il statement that John was bette
I man than Joe. although the secon
C q.hmclsng fight may have cause
n him to change his mlnd
y Louis may be anywhere up e Z
le ronnds heavier than John Ho'is
q sface the latter fights pes, :
IS around 1872. But John Henry ls es
IL rected to make up IN speed IN cleN
d arness what he lacks IN weigh
IS owis has never been knocked oe
Ss ii 100 fights.
rs Contracts will not he signed VI
n fil November 25. His appearane
bere then at athletic comnissio
en- headquarters may prove bit en-
eo barrassing, for Lewis has sued ~
By body for heavy DAMAGES beeau'
q thew voided his crown John lieh'
III Viji also have to square hla'ss
to With Herman Taylor, Philadelph
nd aolaoter, who claims TO have 9
sa anped him $4,000 before The 50
eellea Galento fight which has ne
sis er been repaid.
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DAYTON The Wide Awake
Bon IONS u Dayton attended TINS
meeting If seiaang siS aeiesates'
then .a.eslasne. Iiss EliAsanetil
Hoard, a4d a4les one HOARD, MISS
t..4uule Ilopls, MIS- lne1 JACKSON,
Miss Lathe and aeAeNH h1fiteg.
4 lns belag lhe nrs' tune ths gifis
lnel seiia44le4y ii.on llle seniors
t.4ev had nlats .dtans arranged jof
t..anl bg lie dlst4let sapefYlsof'
MIS-. Leola snaW. ono IL TIC man
t~atures 81 tae evening vas 9 ban
o.Iet ana lovely patty for the
gas he'd in the auditorium Of the
l.ctom scnool q Glendale and the
p4fls wore evening gowns. They
wsre chaparaned by me sponsors $
the Dayton group Mfs. l4eoha -,
las lor, who is the preslaenl ol ehe
City Federa slon 81 i'a1ioh. ''s
Aytae Awake l5on Ions afs Jaaiois
oi his organization
The election Of officers of the
district was hcla and the Dayton
gIo3p Was honored with having the
tllst district secretary in the per-
son of Miss Ollie Hoard. The Bon
Tons also have the state secretary
oil the Juniors IN the person Of
Miss Ollie croprs. The president
Miss EiizaDeea hoa'o We go, 80.
% " 81 49,, asass 4, : il H. resolution
ea,,,nittaa wilberforee had the hon
Or Of getting the first district
president. 1lhs'aassl also q, sos az, ma
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NEGRO GIVEN SCHOOL.
ELECTRICAL WIRING JOB

Il. ST. LOUIS, H., Nov 9-tBy
Paula Lewis for ANP)f'or the
first time in the history OF East st.
Louis, Negro, Charles McCarns,
has been given a contract for cleo
trical wiring in the public schools.
Mr.. McCarns, recently appointed
adviser on electricity in the local
technical center of the NYA, is also
active in civic affairs. He is COM
mander Of the Horace G. Burke
post No. 348o, of the Y. F. w. and
is being considered for state deputy
chief of staff. He is married and
the father of five children.
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SUccUMBS TO HEART
ATTACK WHEN HE VIEWS
EPILEPTIc SPASM

Florence, Ala, Nov. 9 (ANP) -
John Wright, 18, was standing on y
street corner last Monday when an
other youth standing nearby fell to
the ground unconscious in m cpl
leptic fit. The action frightened
Wright so badly that he tainted.
He was rushed to the hospital, but
was found to be dead upon arrival,
from heart attack.
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selves into his honor's rlckety
flivver and ratified off to Wich
ita Falls where, wonder of won
ders, bank cashed the cneck!
With the money the two of
them went on a weeks drunk
and then returned home to find
the royalty checks ittering up
Booger'S sod-floor room.
These they bundled together
and thrust into the judges safe.
Booger had some farming to do
and his honor had to catch up
with the melting out of Justice
which had cluttered up some
since his jamboree in Wichita
Falls.
GONE weeks later they got
~ together again and there
we're so many royalty checks
lying around that the safe
would no longer hold them.
Lets haul this yer stuff into
Dallas" said the Judge.
We'll have to bail it first"
observed Booger.
So bale it they did, like cot
ton. Then over the prairie to
Dallas. At the bank the scat
tered checks were added up and
found to total more than $780,
900. Before Booger's wells ran
dry he had collected upwards of
a million and a half dollars.
FOUR summers later I drove
l. among Texas ghost oil
towns and came across one that
had a better general appearance
than the others. though not
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Asks Fair Treatment

I have noticed in the news
papers considerable comment
relative to the fact that post
masters will now be given life
time jobs-with noncompetitive
examinations. Now the news
that 10000 clerks will be
hlanketed in under civil service
noncompetitively.
There is one department
which seems to be the Govern
ment's stepchild. Indeed the
forgotten man" (plenty of
themD may be found here. I
refer to the post office.
About two and a half years
ago, the carrier-clerk examina-
ton was taken competitively by
thousands in the District. There
were several hundred clerk and
carrier temporary substitutes
who had given good and eff
cient service who were turned
out on their ear with no con-
sideration whatever, although
they had served, some Of them,
several years. and HAD PASSED
the examination.
Outsiders with no experience
whatever were given $1,700 per
year jobs, some of whom did
not serve as subs one day.
I know of men who Subbed
five years before becoming regu-
lars. I know now of subs who
have been in the service, still
sLbbing, nearly that length Of
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those gods must have nature
and a will to war, therefore, If
we are not warning we are sin
ming, or doing Gods will. So we
see our ruling power now makes
peace a sin.
If we do the will of the good
and evil conflicting gods in the
skies, as some faiths teach, or
if we do the will of conflicting
capital and labor on earth, as
the Communists teach, then the
undeniable truth is, that our
ruling power has a warning ma
ture, and therefore, war is holy,
righteous, reasonable and nat
ural, or Gods will, and peace Is
unholy, unrighteous, unreason-
able, and unnatural or not Gods
will.
The World War was ended,
but none said that the good and
evil gods had stopped fighting,
therefore, war is now as holy and
as necessary as it was in 1918.
Since the spiritual causes of
war continue after the World
War we now find the same ma
terial which made us enter that
war, for instance, strong nations
now invade weaker nations, non
combatantS suffer unneceSsar-
lily; foreign spies now infest our
land, our ships cannot carry all
products to all ports; our COM
mercial and war ships are sunk;
and the world is no more safe
for democracy.
AS long as we are ruled by
conflicting powers the Sword"
is the "key to heaven" war Is
the only way to get what We
want. We know that if we are
warning as our gods are warning
that there would be such a de-
mand for the products Of our
fields, mines and factories that
the unemployed without income
would be jailed as they were in
1918.
The Golden Ages" or periods
of greatest business, in Persia,
Greece. Rome and other en-
pires were when their armies
were in action. Since govern
ments now owe their existence
to war naturally when they
cease to war they cease to exist.
So, the only way we can now
have the business to end this de-
preston is to war, war and war
until there is no opposition.
Not until we can say that only
one Good God .ules all nations
shall peace be holy and neceS-
sary to business, and not until
then shall war be unholy and
unnecessary to business.
ALVA FRANKLIN HART.
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Wise Words

Virtues lose themselves in
Self-interest, as streams lose
themselves in the sea. - La
Rochefoucauld.
Truth is strengthened by oh.
Servation and delay, false
hood by haste and uncertain
ty.-Tacitus.
Let the man, who would be
grateful. think Of repaying a
kindness, even while receiving
it.-Seneca.
Eminence is to merit what
dress is to beauty.-La Roche
foucauld.
A host is like a general: mis-
haps oft reveal his genius
Horace.
To pity distress is but hu.
man; to relieve it is Godlike.-
Horace Mann.
Man is the glory, jest and
riddle Of the world.-Pope.
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time, simply because of couple
of percentage points. Con-
stantly others are given pref
eIence on the list for some rea-
son, keeping them lower and
lower. These men have no va
tation, no sick leave.
Last Christmas and New Year
days, when carriers did not re.
Lelve their usual day off, many
subs had to take two weeks off
without pay, although they had
to report as usual at 6 in the
morning just in case they
might be needed.
Just why is there no regular
rule fol subbing? Why, unda1
civil service, are some men CON-
PEELED to sub five years, others
not one day? If big business
gave the deal to employees that
M1. Earley's subs receive, the
Administration would be On
their necks.
Do you think it's because Dis
trict folk have no vote that
postmasters receive jobs for life
AID the underdogs have to work
from two to five years for a
days leave or sick leave?
FAIR PLAY.
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Visitor Protests

When I went out of my hotel
to get my car today, 1 found it
had been towed away by your
police, and I had to take trip
to the station house and pay SIS
to get it back.
The charge was that I had
parked within less than Is feet
Of a stop sign.
I consider such action a very
common way to treat an Ameri-
can citizen on a visit to the
Capital.
However, it will be something
to remember and talk about
wherever I go.
When first missed my car
thought it had been stolen
and it made me feel a little
"blue," but I learned that the
police had taken it and of
course that was different.
Here's hoping I'll never have
to attend another convention in
Washington, D. C.
CHAS. L. JONES,
Petersburg, Va.
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Your |. Q.
By SHIRLEY SPENCER

By SHIRLEY SPENCER
This is a general quiz with q
puzzle at the end. Score 10 for
each question.
i. When are fractions i'm.
proper?
2. What country is sometimes
called a boot because of its
shape?
8. This is the scrambled name
of what famous general
PALE NOON?
4. What is the name of the
rules observed in boxing?
5. What is an etude?
6. What word when pro.
nounced differently means both
an injury and twisted?
7. What does the Latin phrase
"ex libriS" mean?
8. What insect is the most
expert architect?
(AnSweFS ON Page 32)
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sons guilt when he uses fire
arms. Taking the life of a per-
son, whether he is a criminal or
not, is a serious thing, and GER
tainly the officers should never
shoot to kill. It should depend
on the circumstances and the
nature of the crime as to whether
a policeman should shoot at q
fleeing suspect"
X X
David Rosenberg, 2112 Key
Boulevard, Arlington, Va, insur-
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War Justified?

Why have this depression?
Because we are SHINING. What is
our sin? It is being at peace
The reason I know we are sin
ming by not being at war is, dur
ing the World War I asked my
pastor, "Is war right?" he
answered, THE Bible says, there
is war in heaven His literal
Interpretation of that Scripture
is logical and true, which is,
"since we are now ruled by good
and evil gods who are fighting
for control Of the creation, then
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ROllin' Along
BIZ ". A. S. DOugLns

QOOGER RED, which is general nickname for all oil
- fields habues with red hair deputy sheriff of
Archer county Texas He also owned 40 of most
unproductive land in the Wichita Valley But he scraped
living of service fees from his old friend Judge Nais
Mcintosh who held occasion where the road wdened
and dozen hus leaned on each other for support
Booger had 500 bill in his life until the surveyors
around and dug holes in his sterile Suddenly
pop pop pop the oil welsand royalty checks started
rolling the dazed deputy sheriff These pieces good
in the boom days. dispatched daily and in short
time Booger had quite pile of these here bits of paper"
He didn't know what do about hem he carried them
Judge Mcintosh who nearly hazy checks
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quite as Dig as some OF Cnem.
1t consisted of a dozen we'll.
built brick stores occupying one
side Of the street. Opposite were
frame bungalows. These, like
the stores, were empty but on
the end of one hung a shingle
which read:
Mails Mcintosh, Justice of
the Peace. Notary Public"
Behind the stores, and on the
curve of the road as 1t disap-
peared into the prairie proper,
stood a substantial three-Story
brick house bearing the sign "Ho-
tel" Two men sat summing them
selves on a bench. One was a
long, red-haired fellow who
chewed and spat as he contem-
plated nature. The other was
a little, wizened man who waved
at us as we halted.
There wasn't another soul in
the town which, including sew.
erage and the paving Of tn e
short main street, had cost
Booger Red more than a million
and a half dollars to build
right on the site of his old farm,
which, drained of oil, was now
more stale and unproductive
than ever.
A FTER A CHAT with the
"A judge and his deputy, I
backed off from in front of the
hotel, picked up the dirt road
and headed south. A quarter
of a mile further on, presumably
marking the city boundary, a
rusty signboard stuck from the
ditch with this legend barely
discernible upon it:
"Boogertown Wishes You
Good-by and Good Luck"
Good-by and good luck-to
$1,50O.o00.
"a recent story in this
column which referred to a
courthouse burning in a lynch
ing at Mckinney, Tex, was in
error as to the location Of the
county seat. This was Sherman
in Grayson county. The error
has been brought to our atten.
ton by former Judge w. F.
Robertson, of Austin, TexasO
copyright. 1898. by Washington Times.
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doing, the policeman absolutely
has no justification in shooting.
1t is also my opinion that a po-
.iceman has no right to shoot
a person attempting to escape
arrest, even if he knows the per-
son has committed a wrongdo-
ing, if the crime is a minor one.
Properly trained officers of the
law usually are able to appre-
hend criminals without resort
ing to firearms, except in the,
case of desperate criminals"
Peter MOnOcrusos, 2619 Con-
necticut Ave. N. W., restaurant
ouyToor
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fig 6 er out
what to do"
But out of
h e b a t C h
t h e y picked
one "bitty
one" W h ic h
C a lie d for
payment of a
hundred dol
ar T h e
j u d g e and
Booger load
cd + he m.
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son for a policeman to shoot
him and take a chance on kill
ing the person. Yet, on the
other hand. an officer should
stop a suspected person in any
way he can for the protection
Of the law,abiding citizens"