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The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-12-15
MRS. MdCSPADDEN
 WORTHY MARION
 FOR EASTERN STAR

Mrs. Janice MacSpadden was el- ected Worthy Matron of the Order of Eastern Star at a meeting of the lodge last night at the Scottish Rite Temple. Mrs. MacSpadden suc- ceeds Mrs. Marie Thomas, who was elected as trustee for the next term.
 Others elected to fill the various chairs include: Worthy Patron, Her bert Arlowe; Associate Matron, Mrs. Lynna Holland; Associate Patron. Ralph Wright; Secretary, re-elect- ed Mrs. Alice Brown; Treasurer,
 re-electedD Mrs, Lilly Hooker; Con- ductress, Mrs. Georgia Arlowe; As- sociate Conductress, Mrs. Ruth Far rell
 The meeting December 23, will be in the form of a Christmas party it was announced, with Mrs. Daisy Fagerson in charge of arrangements.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-12-15
Christmas Party
 For Legion and
 Aux. on Dec. 27

The American Legion met Mon- day evening in the Dugout, and out lined plans for Christmas party which will be held with the Auxil- iary on December 27. Fred Gamer on, John Mccormick and Alfred Zenger were appointed on the Christmas committee.
 George Titrington was voted in as a new member at the session, and Charles Whittimore of the Sitka Post was a visitor
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-12-15
SPECIAL INITIATION
 TONIGHT, ELkS LODGE

The Elks Lodge will hold a special initiation tonight at o'clock. during which time E. E. Lincoln will be given the work by request from the Ketchikan lodge Three local can didates will also ride the goat.
 Following the meeting, members will get together to sack Christmas candy for the annual Elks tree on Saturday
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-12-15
CENTER DISPLAY NOW OPEN DAILY

Because of the combined efforts of members of the Juneau Womans Club, tile Douglas Island Women's Club and boys in Hank" Harmon's manual training class in the Juneau High School, under privileged chil dren in the Gastineau Channel area, will receive Christmas gifts unat- tainable for privileged children.
 This year the youngsters in hos pitals, boarding houses and wards of the court will receive gifts, which remodeled, repaired and remade, are
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-12-15

bers of committee, headed by Mrs. D. w. Heron, will be in the Toy Center daily from 1:30 to 5 o'clock and from to 8 o'clock evenings from now until December g.
 All gifts will be distributed through the local welfare office in the City Hall where Miss Delphina Morris. social welfare worker, has
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-12-15

Percy lacr Ids.
 Funds " the repairing of the dolls and what little candy was .pur- chased outright came from Civic Welfare Fund created by donations of various individuals.
 The toys and holiday gifts are now on display in the store space next to Truesdell's Gun Shop and mem
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-12-15
{. OF {. TO MEET
 TOMORROW NOON

The regular meeting of the Ju- neau Chamber of Commerce will be held tomorrow noon in the Baranof Hotel Perry Hilleary will have charge of the entertainment pro gram.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-12-15

lowed by youngster who wishes to select pieces of costume jewelry for some older person sister or, guardian, perhaps.
 Mayor Harry I. Lucas stated today that he thought the Toy Center project of the Woman's Club, was one of the finest throughout the year.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-12-15

her office.
 After securing card, the person who has obtained permission to get gift for some underprivileged child may go to the Toy Center, select the gift, which is then wrapped in yule- tide paper and decorated, ready for distribution.
 The same procedure may be fol-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-12-15
MEMORIAL CHURCH
 CHOIR TO REHEARSE

All members of the Memorial Presbyterian church choir are asked to attend rehearsal tonight start ing at 8 o'clock to be held in the church. The announcement is made by the Rev. Walter A. Soboleff.
The Omaha guide., 1943-05-01

orney General in charge of the
Criminal Division commenting on
the case, declared:
"A brutal killing of a Negro con-
Wet by the High Sheriff of Macon
County Alabama, was today label
ed by a Federal Grand Jury of Al
ALBANIA citizens as a Feedral crime.
The case was presented by an Ala
bama lawyer, United States Attor.
ney Edward Burns Parker and a
lawyer from the Department G..
Maynard Smith, who was formerly
City Solicitor of Cairo, Georgia
The grand jury was under the SUI
p~ervision of another Alabama law
yer, the Judge of the eFderal Dis
trict Court. Thus, southern jurors
and southern lawyers brought this
Indictment under the Civil Rights
Statutes of the United States Code.
Upon inquiry, Victor W. Rotnem
Chief of the Civil Rights Section,
said that the original complaints
received by the Criminal Division
and the Federal Bureau of hives.
tigation were from local law Ell.
forcement officers Of the State OF
Alabama who c~ooperated through
out with Alabama Federal offic.
ials.
The Omaha guide., 1943-05-01
OFFICIAL ON, PHOTO ~ ROGER sMrrs.


der because 81 didn't want them
He was vague about what happen
ed after that but he said the mob
played flashlights on them, grab5-
ed them both, jammed pistols into
Holders side and pushed him in
front of them. He didn't e what
happened when the crowd arrived
at the steel doors.
''They called All right, stay
where you are. We've got you /"
Hilton said, and there was moth
ing friendly about it. 1 was exciG-
ed and scared"
The other special deputy who
was in the Jail, 1. o. Fowler, testi-
fled Holder unlocked the steel door
after the mob threatened him with
pistols and later went to the up
stairs cells. where the Negroes
were kept, and told the other pris-
oners to LAY still" adding Wash,
they have come after you."
The Omaha guide., 1943-05-01
WILLIAM PICKENS IN TOUR
FOR WAR BOND SALE

Jefferson City, Mo-, April % "a
NP)William Pickens of the inter
racial section of the national or
ganiaztion division Of the war say.
ngs staff at Washington, has just
completed a tour of southeast Mis-.
souri,, for promoting the sale OF
the leading high schools in that
section and to Lincoln university
located in this city.
1t is noted that Missouri Negro
es representing every walk of life,
are doing their best toward max
ing this wal bond effort a success.
The following are reported:
Negroes of the economically un-
derprivileged southeast cotton sec.
ton Of Missouri purchased $12, 900
in bonds.
Ii ~. 1Odlo q ANCSlO III
bought $125,O 900 in war bonds, the
Brotherhood of Pullman p~orters,
$50, 900; while persons in defense
Plants, schools, and the YMCA in
vest 10 percent or more in war
bonds.
Outstanding in Kansas City Is
the school participation. Soho II
children IN this city are paying IL
percent of the cost of a SITS, coo
bomber while teachers contributed
regularly through the teachers
creCit union.
Lincoln university now is in the
r,idst of a war bond drive in an
effort to aid in reaching its war
bond goal.
The Omaha guide., 1943-05-01
BIBLE PASSAGES FOR EVERY

TADcfAOAIC EOAh EvEAsA
NEED
BY MRS. H. r. GREENFIELD
When in sorrow, read st. Johns
14th.
When men fail you, read Psalms
27.
When you have sinned, read Psa-
Inns 81.
When you worry read NIT. clio,
"a. vazE
Before church services, read
Psalms "a.
When you are in danger, read
Psalms 81.
When God seems far away. read
Psalm 139.
When you are discouraged, read
Isaiah 40.
When doubts come upon you try
John III.
For Jesus idea of a Christian,
read Matt. s.
When you feel down and out,
read Romans S:31-39.
When you want courage Tor
your task. read Joshua l.
When you want happiness, col.
3:12-17.
When you become bitter or crit
ical, read l Cor. IS.
When you want to get along
with men, read Romans IL.
Why Not follow Psalm 1871 and
/ hide some of these in your memcr-
les?
The Omaha guide., 1943-05-01


Pryor's statement contradicted
earlier testimony of the two depu-
ty sheriffs in the Jail the night Of
the lynching with Deputy Sheriff
Holder that members of the mob
we're armed.
II saw no guns in this crowd 1T
this Jail at any time" Pryor's
statement declared. The only
gun there was held by Sheriff Red
dock and it was a 20 calibre rifle"
Only one Negro witness was used
by the government before the jury
of native Mississippians, although
several had been called. This NJ
gro had been a prisoner in the cell
next to Wash's at the time of the
lynching. 1t was, it developed,
"as dark as midnight in the dung
con" and the witness, Mack Lewis.
was PROSTATE in his cell. He did
not know "who the gentlemen
were" who stormed the jail but, he
testified, he heard someone ask
Wash if he was sorry he did and
he said yes"
Lewis testified that Wash was
then asked by the mob if he want
ed to say anything.
HE said no but he had a dollar
and he wanted someone to give
that to his babies"
Then barefooted and bareheaded,
after the mob had informed Wash
he didn't nee shoes, he was taken
away, accoring to Lewis testi-
mony.
The government succeeded in es-
tablishing through testimony of
Louis L. WEIGH Chief deputy sher-
if of Jones county and Laurel pc
lice that it had been agreed that
if a mob came for Wash, Jailer
Holder would lock the big steel
"mob-proof" door from the inside,
locking himself in, and had bor-
rowed a tear gas gun from the po-
lice department. AS is known,
such precautions were disregarded.
Welch said that even before
Wash's one-day trial three men
asked him to surrender the prison
er but he refused. He claimed he
didn't know who they were and or
cross examination said he deemed
them jocular. But on his direct
examination he testified he inform
ed Holder of their request with
the result the plan was agreed q
He didn't know why, he said, it
wasn't carried out. The defense,
on cross examination, drew from
the deputy the statement that the
dictates Of humanity might pre-
clude use Of the tear gas gun be-
cause it might affect the prisoners
in Jail.
The police officers were used to
confirm the lending Of the tear gas
gun to Holder and to point out that
its affects are temporary and US
ually confined to the direction in
which the shell is discharged. Two
special deputies, in the Jail with
Holder when the mob arrived, add
ed details to previous accounts CT
the scene. Both said the crowd
thrust pistols against Holder IN
demanding entrance, although Pry-
or's statement to the FIJI was to
the effect, he observed no weapons.
The government contends in af-
feet, the jailer afforded tacit con-
%nivance an dwas persuaded to re-
lease the prisoner.
One of the special deputies, John
Hilton, said he was SO excited
when the moi rushed in an ante
room that he gave the keys to Hol-
The Omaha guide., 1943-05-01


es If convicted included Luther
Holder, deputy sheriff and jailer
in Jones county wnere the lynch
ing occurred; Barney Jones, fac
tory worker and Allen Pryor, also
a factory worker, whose signed
confession as to his part in the
atrocity was admitted as evidence
over the protests Of defense coun-
sci. Pryor is a relative Of the
white farmer for whose death
Wash was convicted.
Immediately after Johnson anj
Shots were freed, defense lawyers
moved for directed verdicts of ac-
! quittal for the others on the
J grounds of linsufficiency of govern
ment evidence. Their motion IVES
denied. AS the prosecution had
completed its case, defense testi-
mony began.
The government gave no testi-
mony against the two freed men
and also failed to Use Some of its
witnesses including a Negro con-
Wet who was an inmate of the Jail
when the mob entered. In some
cases witnesses showed extreme
reluctance to testify against the
defendants.
Damaging evidence against Pry-
or and Jones was given by Sheriff
J. Press Reddock of Jones county
; who identified them as members Of
the mob which forced its way into
the Jail, and against Holder, the
jailer, who failed to follow orders
laid down by Reddock in the event
a l%ynching attempt was made.
The sheriff, who testified TUES
day, told of being SUMMONED to the
jill at a. m. on the day after
Wash's conviction last oct. IA and
of finding a crowd gathered about
the locked door.
Il didn't tell Holder to give the
keys up" Reddock testified, "and
L was pleading n begging the
crowd for their children and FAM
lilies. l told them about my posi-
ton as Sheriff, how I might be
sued on my bond, how l was liable
to lose my job. They said that ir
l lost my job they would get me
another"
Reddock said that Pryor, carry.
ing a pick-axe, but not i'm a threat
ening manner, laid his hand gen
Itly on my shoulder and assured
him I'm not going to Strike you.
Just don't be a damned fool; give
us the keys"
He testified that after the lynch
ing he made a thorough investi-
CATION" but did not arrest Pryor
because he couldn't find him. No
state indictments were returned.
Reddock said he surrendered his
rifle to a deputy who came from
the Jail to receive it when some
body" in the crowd asked him to
give it up because they wanted
Ito talk to him. The defense, in
cross examination, endeavored to
! establish that the reason Deputy
SheIfff Holder didn't lock himself
in the Jail, behind the steel door,
was that he was afraid of an at
tack in a vestibule from his office
to the door. The Jail, it appeared
was in darkness during the attack.
Not a shot was fired, the sher-
if conceded, nor did he observe
anyone was armed. He said, in
effect, he didn't see the prisoner
taken from the Jail but estimated
he must have been removed an
hour or more after his arrival on
the scene. The next time he saw
Wash, Reddock said, he was hang
ing from a bridge. He identified
a picture of it.
The Omaha guide., 1943-05-01
NOT /. But CHRIST.

mot /, BUT CHRIST"
RY MRS. H. R. GREENFIELD
Not I, but Christ,
1 could not brave the storms
that rise;
1 would but faint with fear:
Before the anger of the skies.
mot I, but Christ"
I could not face the future
days,
With confidence and joy;
Alone I could not sing one
note of praise,
Not I, but Christ"
tbs, He my blessed Lord who
gives me grace to go.
With radiant face along the
shadowed way
The Omaha guide., 1943-05-01

He loves me. This l know.
mot 1. but Christ"
He lives within and grants
me sweet release.
From care. Come, life or death
may. He be magnifiedi
This is the secret OF my
peace.
Composed by Lillian M. Weeks.)
The Omaha guide., 1943-05-01
GOVERNMENT CLEARS TWO
IN LYNCHING CASE
3 OTHER FACE CONVICTION
(Contlnued fran page u

iel Shots, clerk.
The remaining three white men
who faced penalties of 10 years
imprisonment each and $4,000 fin
The Omaha guide., 1943-05-01
INDICT THREE FOR BRUTAL
ITY TO PRISONERS
ued from Page u

ueu from rage IL
ed, the indictment charges, we're
Louis James Hatcher. a Negro who
was h~andcuffed to the bars Of his
cells and severely beaten with a
rubber hose; Ezekial Buchanan,
Curnel Jotte Towery. Anvil Lloyd
Stevens, Edgar cullen Bryant, ST.
Edgar Cullen Bryant, Jr., Lille
May Hendon, James Martin and
Robert Lloyd Jr., all Negroes; ana
two white men, Readie Glenn HUI
guley and Willie Griggs.
The case was presented to the
Grand Jury by Edward Burns Par
ker, u. S. Attorney for the Mid
die District of Alabama and G..
Maynard Smith, Special Assistant
to the Attorney General in the civ.
il Rights Section of the Criminal
Division.
Wendell Berge. Assistant Att
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Like a Scene in a Movie

visitor on the set. And the busi-
ness manager just sat there smiling.
They stopped the cameras five
minutes to permit Chief Thunder
cloud, who originated the screen
character of the Lone Rangers pal,
Tonto, to say hello and good-by to
his l9-year-old son. It was an un-
usual situation, even for Hollywood.
where anything can and does hap
pen. The handsome Indians boy
showed up wearing the uniform of a
Navy ensign and the wings Of an
aerial gunner. The boy, Victor
Daniels, was graduated from the
Navy's flying school at Corpus
Christi, Tex, and due to transporta-
ton difficulties which ate up pre-
cious time, almost turned back on
his way to the studio. Ensign
Daniels has no Indian name. These
will be conferred on him by the
Cherokee Tribal Council soon as
he has Counted COUP against the
Jap. The name, Victor Daniels, Is
an arbitrary one selected by the
boys mother at time of his birth.
1t was farewell scene fitting for
any movie-and we'll never believe
the writer's again when they say
Indians don't show emotion.
X X X
News In nibbles: Joan Fontaine
will do an imitation of Nell Gwynne.
the great English entertainer, for
her role in "Frenchman's Creek"
-. Paulette Goddard will leave for
Mexico City over the Labor Day week
end, her stint in Standing Room
Only" permitting. Writer Carey
Wilson will call in all of his short
subjects on Nostradamus. He wants
to assemble them into a feature
length film Only technicolor
scene in Shine On, Harvest Moon.
will be chorus number with is
hand-picked beauties impersu1atinql
vegetables In a Victory garden
setting.
Carmen Miranda, who faces two
Evening star., 1943-08-31

more months In bed as an after
math of her major operation sew
eral weeks ago in st. Louis. has in
vited Betty Cradle to borrow freely
from the famous Miranda collection
of costume jewelry. Betty will help
herself for the Samba number she
does in 'Pin-Up Girl"
Alice Faye doesn't expect to make
another picture before January /:
in fact, some folks close to the Phil
Harris menage say it's doubtful if
she'll ever return. Likes that mother
and domestic routine. 1t isn't
the can-can at all! It's the Partisan
trot that Merle Oberon is going to
do In "The Lodger" Anyway, it
will display Miss O's underpinning
to excellent advantage.
Victor Mature goes to a lot Of
trouble to keep in touch with his
Hollywood associates. He must write
a couple dozen letters a week. Vic
made good in movietown. just as
he's made good in the Coast Guard
after taking lot of ribbing.
Mature adopted that beautiful
hunk of man" mantle because he
was cagey enough to recognize in
it an express elevator to the top.
He's now a bosun's mate. first class,
and reports have it that he'll be a
chief petty officer in a few months.
Far as we know he's the first movie
actor who actually crossed the pond
in an enlisted man-not officer
status.
Hollywood will be glad to see him
back. He has color, something Hol-
lywood has been short on for years.
Paul Henried and Ida Lupino were
being propelled by a Rolls Royce
OF ancient vintage for q scene in
In Our Time" 1t suddenly coughed
to stop. One of the thingamabobs
in the old motor had given out. The
prop man said there wasn't re-
placement in Hollywood.
Finally some one thought of for
eign car agency in Beverly Hills.
There they obtained temporary
replacement of the part from a
newer car of the same make owned
by Lady Mendl. Four hours later
Henried and Miss Lupino resumed
their ride.
released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Incl
Evening star., 1943-08-31

thing marriage is. It's horrible to
be separated this way, but / think
what We learn might we'll be worth
the price"
That is the Woman's viewpoint. 1t.
Tyrone Power tossed off that of the
other sex in the following words in
recent letter to Mrs. Power, Anna
bella:
THAT crack about a man learning
to be a good wife in the Army is
more than just laugh. I'm learning
to make beds, sweep the floor and
wash my clothes. And, seriously, I'm
learning to put curb on my temper
The Marine Corps is making out of
me the best darned husband you
have ever seen"
At that, good place for better
world to begin is the home the
more shaky than normal one of q
cinema make-believer.
George Hall, the old bandleader
who manages the affairs of Dolly
Dawn, who is at the Capitol this
week, may 60 back to the band busi-
ness some day. He is out of it now
because it was impossible to keep a
trombone player, trumpeter, or
whatever, longer than it took an
other band leader to offer an in
crease in pay. But when you have
been prominent fellow in a busi-
ness since the days when Mae Muir
ray was the pet of Broadway and
remember whole biography of Ca
russo and other figures of that period,
you don't drop it permanently.
Mr.. Hall, who is still we'll up to
the physical ardor of band leading
and traipsing from here to there,
was saying as much the other night
He was saying much more, in fact,
virtual bookful of interesting
things about the giants of entertain
ment whose names you had not
thought of since you were child.
Those we're the really fabulous
days." Mr.. Hall said with a rumina-
tive expression in his eyes, especially
when you remember such things as
Mae Murray's entrance at the Palais
Royal. She wore a fur wrapper,
which trailed behind her a distance
Evening star., 1943-08-31
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time Of Showing

Stage.
NationaI-"Arsenic and Old Lace "
with Boris Karloff: Tonight at $50.
Screen.
Capitol-"Salute to the Marines, !"
Mr.. Beery in uniform again: l0:45
am, 1:35. 4:20, 7:l0 and 9:55 pm.
Stage shows: 1880, $40, 6::25 and
9:15 pm.
Columbia-"Victory Through Air
power" Disney interprets De Sever
sky: 11:40 am, 1:25, $40, 4:55, 6:40,
8:25 and 1910 pm.
Earle-'This Is the Army" the
almost-all-Army show: II am, las,
4:30, ITO and $50 pm. Stage shows !:
Ito, 4, 6:35 and $40 pm.
Keith's-"Mr. Lucky" another
love in bloom: 1875 am, 1:35, 3:35,
5:35, 7:35 and 9:35 pm.
Little-"I Was Spy" melodra-
matics in England: II am, 12:45,
2:25, 4:25, $50 and $3.50 pm. Duke
of West Point: 955 pm.
acknowledgements In
Berlin" spying in Maitland: 11:15
am, 1:20, 3:25, $50, 7:35 and 9:4O
pm.
Palace Heaven Can Wait" a
fantasy for Ameche: 11:45 am, 2:l0,
4:40, 7:05 and 9:35 pm.
Pix-"Lucky Partners" Ginger
Rogers oldster: Continuous from
2 pm.
Trans-Lux News and shorts
Continuous from 10 am.
Evening star., 1943-08-31

| up a problem which Schopenhauer
had fallen asleep over.
You must not get the notion that
Hollywood's contemplation of the
postwar world is on anything like
the scale of that of Roosevelt, as
he signs himself now, or Churchill,
as he, in turn, signs himself. 1t is
purely local thinking. Home and
hearthside stuff, and let some one
else figure out how to feed and
clothe and medicate dispossessed
minorities and things like that.
The intimate and immediate prof
it of the war to the postwar world
as Hollywood sees it is an increas-
ing stability in the emotional affairs
of movie stars. When peace restores
husbands to wives, or vice versa, the
broad assumption is that they will
be so glad to see peace that the hap
piness will include the sight of each
other-forever after, too. That is
how it is thought of out there. In
terms of how so-and-so will get
along with so-and-so after it is all
over. The far horizon is only as far
as Joe is today and when Joe comes
home, the horizon will come with
him. Maybe it is not as simple as
that in your mind, but :.
The report of this postwar brood
ing Sits through Warner Bros
research man who went out among
the people to find out just how they
felt about it.
One Of the people he approached
first was Ida Lupino. From Miss
Lupino's lips, pursed in thought,
came this estimate of the future:
When Louis (Heyward, her hus-
bsnd gets back we're going to real
ize more than ever what precious
Evening star., 1943-08-31
BY HAROLD HEFFERNAN.
HOLLYWOOD

Their not-too-personal affairs:
Average major studio movie steps
on the budget at the rate of ap-
proximately $4,000 an hour-so you
can readily see why Interruptions by
visitors are a great pain in the neck
to the business manager. However,
we watched Buffalo Bill" come to
complete halt last week while one
of the casts lesser players greeted
Evening star., 1943-08-31
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