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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-08-22
Police Helpless

Patrolmen at the scene were
powerless to stop the milling thou
sands, and before emergency po-
lice reserves arrived, scores had
been thrown against the pier gates
and injured by the memorable pres
sure from the excited, shouting
throng behind them.
Finally police checked the STAN
pede by ordering the excursion
steamer to pull away from the
pier. The crowd was quickly roped
back and ambulances began rush.
ing the injured to the hospitals.
When the pier area was cleared
the trampled bodies of three Ne
gro women were found. They were
Marion Worrell, 4S; Rose Grant,
80, and Martha Murraine, 54.
The pier was covered with hun
dreds of scattered picnic boxes,
pieces of fried chicken, pocket
books and articles of clothing.
Saddened by the sudden tragic
turn the excursion had taken most
of them returned to their homes.
Some 300 others, however, boarded
the steamer after it returned to
the pier and the vessel pulled off
upstream.
Police held Is excursionists for
questioning in an attempt to learn
the source of the bogus tickets.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-08-22

FAYETTEVILLE, N. Conn
pleting his investigation of the
shooting of Private Allen thurman
and the white military policeman
near Fort Bragg, Curtiss Todd, of
the NAACP legal staff, reported
that it is not definitely established
who fired the first shot, "but the
fact remains that the white mill
tary police had the guns"
Reports of the fighting and SUBJ
sequent shooting vary in detail,
but most are agreed that the
trouble started among the soldiers
on the segregated bus. White mil
itary police were called to quell
the disorder. The white MP's pro-
ceeded to beat the Negroes with
clubs. thurman grabbed a gun, and
fired, killing Sergeant Elwyn l..
Hargrave and wounding several
others and was in turn shot and
killed by Sergeant Russell Owen.
Mr.. Todd reported that Major
DeHaven Hinkson of the medical
corps of the 10th (Negro) regi-
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-08-22
Joe Louis Fights
Lou Nova September 10

NEW YORK-Joe Louis will de-
fend his worlds h avyweig h
crown against Lou Nova at the
Yankee Stadium, September 10,
according to Promoter Mike ia
cobs. The principals agreed to the
bout sometime ago and only the
date and the site remained to be
chosen. Nova, who has been in the
Maine Woods getting in some pre-
liminary training, will come down
to New York later to choose his
training camp.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-08-22
Louis, Wife Rift
Recalls Old Rumors
BY Bill Cunningham

Sports Writer, POst-IntelIigencer
The wife of Joe Louis at least
selected the official season for the
utterance of her personal Declar-
alton of Independence, and you
might even say she did it with
fireworks. But, seriously, this is
the first break in what to millions
of the representatives of a down.
trodden race was and is apotheosis.
To them the career of Joe Louis
was messianic. Many a Caucasian
writer has stood in awe of it, too,
and has saluted it reverently, espe-
cially in times such as we are
knowing, as a highlight, of demo-
cracy, tribute to, and an inspira-
ton of, the American boy.
The story of this stalwart son
of lowly Alabama sharecroppers,
driven in direst poverty toward the
INDUSTRIAL centerS of the Midwest,
toiling in an automotive Babel
throwing the steel frames of new
cars into place on the assembly
line; having enough left to fight
nights with his fists, and fighting
onward and upward to fame, for
tune and a definite, if unofficial,
place of leadership amongst his
people . that's the saga of Joe
Louis.
Certainly it could have happened
nowhere else but in the United
States.
The story to date has been with
out a perceptible flaw. Louis has
been great champion, and so far
as any of us historians has been
able to observe, an humble, modest
and perfectly behaved one.
1t was bare two hours before
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Josephs, manager of the Kansas
City Monarchs, Allen Price of the
Monarchs and large number of
prominent sportsmen, white and
colored.
Long, lean and clean of limb,
Paige presented a picture of an
athlete in perfect physical condi-
ton. He expressed himself as be-
ing delighted to be in Seattle, but
regretted his stay would of neces-
sity, be brief, due to the tremend-
Gus demand for his personal APP
pearance in all parts of the coun-
try. This trip gives Paige the dis
tinction of making the longest
trip -four thousand miles) of any
baseball player, for single per-
Torrance.
Paige shut out the famous
House of David team during the
five innings he worked, giving up
four hits striking out six and is
suing no walks, before one of the
largest and most appreciative
crowds to pack Sick's Stadium
this season. Paige says he is
hitter, as he proved by polling a
sharp single off Biggers, blouse
of David pitcher) in his only time
at bat.
Paige pitches between $50 and
IT'S games year, playing in Cuba,
Peurto RIGA, South America, as
well as the continental United
States. His only treatment for his
good right arm, is hot water twice
daily.
In spite of his personal popular
ity, Paige does not believe that at
present there is any chance of Ne
gro ball players getting into or
ganized baseball, but he is en-
phatic in his belief, that it is pos
sible to put together two or
possibly three Colored Ball Clubs,
that would be the equal of any
club in either the American or the
National Leagues. 1t is the be-
lief of both Paige and Manager
Josephs of the Monarchs, the pub
lie opinion, and the formation of
Negro Leagues will be a decisive
factor in changing this most I'M
satisfactory and unfair condition
in American athletics. Paige is,
without doubt, one of the greatest
baseball players of all time, the
greatest pitcher of them all and a
credit to the game.
Much credit is to be given to
Royal Brougham (sports editor of
the p. H. for the publicity given
Paige's only appearance in the
Northwest this year, and for his
generous and fair attitude toward
Negro athletes in general.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-08-22

About the most useless, quasi
political side show ever staged in
Seattle is that Coroner's inquest
in the mass Staying of three per-
sons and wounding of seven 9TH
ers in a speakeasy at 40 B, Sec
ond Avenue.
So well known are the facts
that we believe any court in King
County would take judicial notice
of them.
Barnum is right: The people de-
mand deception. The King County
coroner, one of the most useless
departments in the state, stars in
the role of clown. The lesser ac-
robats move about the arena
adroitly enough to receive the
TESTERS nod. The public's version
is: What Fools We Mortals Be.
Passing the Buck
Only a doctor and a-lawyer may
plead an air tight aatps The coro-
ner asks an hyHbthetfcal question
which no laymad could understand
nor answer. The pgssec,ating attor-
ney answers back in the same
tone.
Admiral Gregory, retired, chair
man of the State Liquor Board,
could not give the same answer to
the nonsensical questions as he
would have given, had he been in
the admiral's quarters on the open
sea. All sea faring men we know,
certainly can cuss some. The adj
miral needs no tutor.
Everybody stood attention when
Chief of Police Herbert ID. Kim
sey and his Assistant Chief Walter
b. Kirtley faced the merry making
jester. Chief Kimsey, a few weeks
ago, who was yshurried from the
sticks as the saviour of the police
department, completely disarmed
the jester by stating he accepted
his responsibility, electing to rise
or fall on his conduct of the de-
partment if given a chance.
Assistant Chief, Walter B. Kirt-
ley, spoke from experience. That
side show meant nothing to him. It
hasn't been so awfully long since
his conduct under fierce fire won
the admiration of his prosecutors.
Common Sense, the Remedy
The public winks at some forms
of gambling and some forms of
vice, while frowning on others.
The exercise of common sense on
the part of those who cater to the
weakness of men and women Is
vital.
You reap what you sow in hon
esty. The public must be honest
and officials must be honest. just
as long as the public practices dis
honesty, just so long will we have
incompetent and dishonest offic-
ials.
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Fake Excursion Tickets Responsible
For 3 Deaths And 3 Score Injured

NEW YORK, Aug. II. Three
women were trampled to death
and so wer injured in the crush
today when 10000 pleasure-seek-
ers were stampeded by rumors
their $1.25 Hudson river exeur-
sion tickets were bogus.
The care-fre crowd, clad in their
colorful Sunday best" and in
high good humor, was transform
ed within minutes into mauling,
milling maelstrom of struggling
humanity as word spread that
some held counterfeit tickets for
the ship that could carry fewer
than one-third of their number.
Surge Toward Ship
Clothes were torn and heaping
picnic baskets were crushed as,
under pressure from thousands in
the rear, the vast phalanx surged
toward the 300 passenger steam
er, State of Delaware.
Officials of the Harlem lodge
sponsoring the excursion were be-
wildered when the gay, good-na-
tured 'jostling suddenly gave way
to frenzy on the pier with the
thousands of men, women and chill
dren shouting, showing and angrily
waving their tickets.
About 400 had boarded the ves-
sci before the panic set in.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-08-22

NEW YORK-Fearing that the
court martial of the military po-
liceman who shot and killed Pri-
vate Allen Truman on a bus near
Fort Bragg August 6. would
whitewash the affair, the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People asked President
Roosevelt and Secretary of War
Stimson last Wednesday for pre-
cedent breaking Investigations.
In long telegram to Secretary
Stimson, the NAACP declared
that the Fort Bragg shooting de-
mands more than the traditional,
customary action of the War De-
partment, and urged that all re-
sponsible officers there, from
camp commandant down to all
military police involved in the af-
fair and events following it, be
called up for trial. The NAACP
cited the stories in the New York
newspaper PM about the affair.
The NAACP stated that the
board of inquiry should include at
least one Negro officer. 1t was
urged that publicity be given the
proceedings and results of the in
quiry so that the public will know
the facts.
The telegram concluded by stat
ing, Negroes have the right to
demand that if the army will not
protect the rights and lives of Ne
gro soldiers in uniform in the
South, then the army should re-
move these troops to other areas
where their rights can be pro-
tected"
The NAACP also sent last week
letters to the country's leading
Negro editors asking them to dis
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-08-22

August 10, l941
Hon Henry L. Stimson
Secretary War Department
Washington, ID. G.
The Northwest Enterprise, its
agencies i'm Portland, Ore, Spok-
ane, Tacoma and Yakima, Wash
ingtOn protest the rising tide of
brutalities against Negro soldiers
In the United States Army.
The Fort Bragg, N. c., Fayett-
willie. s. c. and Wilmington, N. C.
affairs are disgrace to our demo-
cratic hopes, a cheer to Nazi ty-
ranny.
These brutalities must cease.
There must be no whitewash in
the military Investigation at Fl.
Bragg, every officer, from the
Fort Commandant down to the
last Military Policeman involved
in the actual shooting and in the
disgraceful events following the
shooting must be called up for
trial; and that a civilian-military
commission of inquiry be estab-
lished to examine into this killing
and the numerous other frictions
between the races in and around
army camps.
K. I. ROBINSON
Editor and Publisher
Northwest Enterprise, Seattle.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-08-22
$4,000 Fans Cheer
Leroy 'Satch' Paige
BY P. s. BARNETTE

Leroy (SatcheD Paige, without
doubt, the greatest Baseball pitch
er of all time, arrived in Seattle
by plane Monday evening at $50
p. m. He was met by a delegation
consisting of Royal Brougham,
sports editor of the P. l., p. S.
Barnett, Mgr. of the local col
ored team, Cal Russell, field cap
tain of the local team, Newt"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-08-22
NOTICE

The open air barbecue on the
vacant lot at Mt. Zion Baptist
Church for Labor Day, Monday,
September L, has been post
poned to a later date.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-08-22

Erskine Hawkins, the Goth Century Gabriel,
who made Tuxedo Junction famous, is booked for
Seattle, September 20.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-08-22
NAACP Asks FDR, Stimson For Probe
Oft. Bragg Shooting and Trial Of MP's

patch kilograms Immediately to
the War Department backing up
the request for complete invest
igation of the Fort Bragg and 9TH
er Southern camp military police.
The letter stressed the need for
unity among Negro Americans if
fair treatment of colored troops is
ever to be attained.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-14
ITALIAN COMMAND
REVAMPED AGAIN
General Soddu Gives Way
To General Cavallero
In Greek Campaign

ROME, Jan. 13.-R1-After two
months of trying to hold off Greek
attacks, General Ubaldo Soddu re-
linquished command of Italian
forces in Albania today to General
Ugo Cavallero, Premier Mussoll-
mis- current number one military
chieftain, in the third army shake
up since Nov. 10.
This latest overhauling of the Al
bsnian command came as Italy
credited the new German-ltallan
ar offensive in the Mediterranean
with the ninth bomb or torpedo hit
on British warships within 70 u r
days.
An official announcement SAID
General Soddu, 57-year-old veteran
OF every one of Italy's wars since
1900 and II Duce's under-secretary
OF war when he was sent to Al
bania, has been relieved because
of his health"
Italian authorities insisted that
the situation behind the lines IN
Albania WIS satisfactory.
General Cavallero, himself a vet
eran of three wars, retains his
position as chief of staff, a post in
which he succeeded Marshal P1etrc
%Badoglio, who resigned Eat his OWE
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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-14
Largest Pusl.
OF War Nav
Be Under WAY
Athens Still Lacks Con-
firmation Of Reports
.Tepeleni Captured
ITALY USING RESERVES
Fascists, Ousted From The
Mountains, Must Defend
Less Favorable Ground

ATHENS, Jan. 13.-R-Greek
soldiers, reporting scant resistance,
stabbed deeper into Italian defense
positions below Va1ona today and
Greek spokesman expressed the
hope this might prove the greatest
offensive of the war in Albania.
Although they claimed Fascist
lines were crumbling at some
points, authorities in Athens still
lacked confirmation of reports
from the Yugoslav frontier that
Tepeleni, fortified mountain town
guarding an Italian-built highway
to the port of Valona, had fallen.
Jumping-Off Place
Capture of Tepeleni would give
the Greeks a jumping-off place
Tor a renewed thrust toward Va
lena, sole southern Albania port
remaining in Italian hands.
A companion drive northward
along the coast was said to have
brought the Greeks within 80 miles
of Valona. New gains we're claimed
also for forces which swept on
northward from Klisura, a stra-
tegic central front point taken last
week. From the battered city a
road leads down from the noun
tains northwestward toward Berati.
A government spokesman said
the Italians had strengthened their
lines with reserves poured into
Albania by sea and air but that
from the front showed the
situation as very satisfactory" for
the Greeks. More prisoners and
many abandoned Italian wounded
men were captured by Greek pa
trolls, he added.
italian wounded and prisoners
belong mostly to troops sent to
Albania recently by ship and
plane" the spokesman said.
A delayed dispatch from an as
ISOLATED press correspondent &C
CONTINUED on Page Three; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-14

LONDON, Jan. 13.-R-A Brit
ish air offensive by day and night,
aimed at the Axis partners shipping
and oil resources and at German
troops in trenches across the English
channel as well, was reported today
by the air ministry.
Attacks yesterday stretched from
the invasion coast" of N~azi-occupled
France to oil refineries near Venice,
at the head of the Adiratic.
British sources, crediting the Roy
al Air Force with a Slight edge"
over the LuftWaffe, foresaw the
newly-begun daylight blows as prep
aration for an eventual British Of
fensive on the continent as well as
an attempt to break up any Nazi
invasion plans.
The low-flying daylight attack on
troops entrenched near the beach
was the fourth in succession by Brit
ish bombers and fighters and it was
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-14
CARGO SHIP RUNS
AGROUND IN RIVER
Tugs Standing By Malam.
ton, Expected To Float
Her AT High Tide

The 2,721 ton freighter Malam-
ton, loaded with a cargo of sui
phur, went aground in the North
east river a short distance above
the harbor yesterday afternoon.
Tugs were standing by last night
and expected to float the vessel at
high tide.
Alex Hoffman, president of Heide
and company, agents for the ship,
said that there was no damage to
the vessel. He said that the reason
for the ship aground was the lack
of water in the Northeast river.
There's not enough water in
the river, which is filling in fast"
he said.
The cargo of the Malamton was
consigned to the fertilizer plants
at NaVaSSa
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-14
BRITISH COASTAL
TOWN IS RAIDED
Nazis Concentrate Major
Assault On City In South
west Part Of Nation

LONDON, Jan. 14-(Tuesday)-
R-The German Luftwaffe con-
centrated a major assault on a
southwest coastal town last night
and early today, unleashing high
explosive bombs and dropping
thousands of incendiaries which the
t~ownspeople said made the night
very much like a g~rotesque
fairyland."
1t was feared the casualty list
would be heavy.
In singing out the town for the
main raid of the night, the Nazis
followed their custom Of s%plashing
it with incendiaries to light the way
for bombers which unloaded the
heavy explosives.
The women's ward Of n hos
pital suffered a direct bomb hit
(Continued on Page Two; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-14

The county commissioners yester-
day took further action on a pro-
posal for erection of a recreatlonal
center here for the soldiers to be
stationed at Camp Davis at Holly
Ridge.
Addison Hewlett, chairman, and
Marsden Bellamy, county attorney
were appointed to a committee, with
power to act, to confer with the city
commissioners with reference to en-
tering into a contract with the city
regarding erection, operation, main
tenance, and final disposition of the
project.
The county commissioners also
considered the necessity of calling
a. special bond issue election to fl
nance the county's share Of financ-
ing the proposed WPA armory-audi-
forum, project for Wilmington cost
ing $215,C00.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-14
BRITISH BOOST AIR
CONTROL in LIBYA
Raj Reported Using ltal-
ian Fields For Heavy
Attacks On Tobruk

CAIRO, Egypt, Jan. 13.-LR-RAF
%squadrons ranging far ahead of Cen
eral Sir Archibald Wavell's lane
forces have gained control of the air
as far as Bengasi, or over a third OF
Italy's North African colony, British
sources said tonight.s
A string Of airdromes mi landing
fields in the vicinity of beleaguered
Tobruk we're abandoned so speedily
by the Italians that they had no time
to destroy them, the British said.
Raj fliers were said already to be
using these fields as bases for heavy
attacks on Tobruk like those credited
with playing a major role in the fah
of Bardia.
The British say that General WAY
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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-14
WILL COST $32,5oo|
County Board Approves
Plans For Erection OF
Building By NYA

An NYA machine shop project
for Wilmington costing $780, 500 was
assured esterday when the county
commissioners voted to cooperate
with the federal government by
leasing property on which the
building will be erected.
The project, designed to train
young men of Southeastern North
Carolina in skilled trades allied 10
the national defense program, will
include a building costing $4,000
and equipment valued at $40, 900.
Plans Approved
County commissioners yesterday
approved pans for erection of the
building on county owned property
at the northern fence of the Ameri-
a Legion stadium between the
stables and the highway.
A request of Harold H. Jeter,
NYA area supervisor, that the
county lease the property without
charge to the federal government
for a period of five years, with the
privilege Of renewing the lease for
another five ears, was unanimous
ly approved by the county board.
Jeter said work Of erecting the
building will begin within 10 days,
with about As days to be required
for the completion of the entire
project.
The county's leasing of the pro-
perty to the federal government
for such purposes was made sub
ject to the approval of Marsden
Bellamy, county attorney.
An average of 100 persons week
ly will be Employed during the
construction of the building, Jeter
said. The project will feature facil-
tiles for the training of youths to-
falling approximately 100, including
so each for the two periods of 80
hours monthly allowed by the fed
eral government.
Labor Provided
Young men engaged in the pro-
ject will do all machine work for
both the city and county govern
ments at no cost whatsoever. The
city and county must furnish the
materials, but the labor and equip
(COntinued on Page Two: Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-14
JENKINS INDICTED
IN Staying CASE
Scheduled To Be Tried AT
Special Term OF Court
Beginning Feb. II

The grand jury returned a true
bill against Bernie jenkins, negro,
| charged with the murder of Willie
Roy White, negro, during the open
ing session of January criminal
term of New Hanover superior
court, yesterday afternoon.
Judge John J.. Burney appointed
Solomon B. Sternberger and Ebert
A. Brown to represent the defend
ant at a special criminal session
planned the week Of February II.
Robert Cobia received 10 months
OF the state highways on charges
of larceny and receiving.
Divorce DEGREES were awarded in
the following cases: Joe j. Vaughan
VS.. Ethal B. Vaughan; Dock Ford
VS.. Lula Ford; Jesse j. Robinson
VS.. Hannah Estelle Robinson;
Grady B. Cook VS.. Vallie M. Cook;
Mary Lou Rivenbark Robbins VS..
George W. Robbins; Martha F.
Gallop VS.. Charlie Gallop; C a i n
Pellom VS.. Sara Pellom; Elijah
Adams VS.. Maybel Adams.
Fender D u h a m drew three
years on the roads after pleading
guilty to charges of assault with a
deadly weapon with serious injuries
resulting.
Other cases disposed of during
the afternoon session included:
Benjamin G.. Davis, abandonment
and non-support, continued; Her
CONTINUED on Page Three; Col. p
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-14
SMITH SENTENCED
0NLOTTERY COUNT
Gives Notice Of Appeal To
Superior Court And Bond
Is Set AT $4,000

George Grip Smith was fined
So, 1000, taxed with the costs, and
sentenced to serve six months on
the state highways when convicted
yesterday before Judge Alton A.
Lennon in recorders court on
charges of conspiracy to violate
the lottery laws.
Smith also received an additional
six month term at the county farm
in default Of payment of the fine
and the court costs.
The defendant, through counsel,
gave notice of appeal of judgment
to the New Hanover superior court
and his appeal bond was set at
S., 1000.
Deputy sheriffs Immediately re-
manded Smith to the county jail in
default of payment of the appeal
bond. The defendant was recently
convicted in Greensboro on similar
charges.
Judge Lennon remarked at the
close of the trial that the state had
introduced evidence indicating
false registration of automobiles
and that the numbers racket had
been conducted on a large scale
throughout North Carolina.
After the state had offered evil
dence in the case and rested, the
defendant, through counsel, pre-
scented no evidence, and Judge Len
non returned a verdict of guilty as
charged-conspiracy to violate the
lottery laws.
Norman Davis, convicted recent
ly on charges of violating the lott
terry laws, gave notice of appeal to
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