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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-02-17
Racketeers in Labor
Called Danger to U. S.

l would like to offer a PROPOSE
ton which would tend to shorten
the life of the war, and at the
same time clear up a dangerous
and disgraceful condition in our
country.
We could do away with one un-
patriotic. disloyal and undemo-
cratic racket that has taken over
our country taking freedom
from our workers and industry
alike.
When conditions become such
that a man who has become skill
ed in trade. through years OF
work and experience, so that he
can feel confident that his family
will not go without, has to pay a
large initiation fee and continue
to way each month thereafter in
order to work, what a messl"
1t makes a person wonder IL
anything could happen to our
country that could possibly be
worse. It's a form of Naziism.
We have all heard about the
protection rackets. that bleed the
people of some cities, and we don't
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-02-17

been dropped, to determine values
in them. Whether or not the in
sured person is living or has pas
sed on makes no difference in
their effort. In case there are no
values found to exist in the poll
cies all papers are returned with
no charge. In vase values are de-
termined to be in the policies a
reasonable charge is made for the
service.
Insurance has been obtained by
the interested persons on insured
individuals long disappeared and
in policies long lost.
Over a period of several years
several thousand lapsed policy
holders have been benefited by
reliable service by this concern.
There are opportunitis for the
representatives to be appointed ell
Their aprt time work or full time
among the readers of the North
west Enterprise.
This is worth writing about if
you are interested in helpful. re-
munerative work and have time
available. The work is suitable for
either women or men Honest.
energetic, reliable persons of good
approach are eligible.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-02-17

"Why do you always emphasize the necessity Of
gentity for cOOred people," For this reason As the
Whites largely in the majority, are the rulers Of this
country, cOored CITIZENS, being in the minority need
an excess Of good qualities, since they have more to
gain and far more to lose.
DABNEY.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-02-17
NAACP to Appeal Court
Decision on Soldiers
Convicted Of Rape

New Orleans. La. - Judge A
drian ]. Caillouet of the U. S. Dis
trict Court here refused this week
to issue a writ of habeas corpus
for the three Negro soldiers SEN
fenced to death for the raping of
a white woman. Thurgood Mar
shall, NAACP special counsel an
nonuced that he would enter an
appeal. Marshall said that the or
iginal petition for habeas corpus
would be presented to the circuit
court of appeals.
The three soldiers John Bor-
denave, Richard P. Adams, and
Lawrence Mitchell, were rushed to
trial on July 81, 1912. despite the
fact that the mother of Bordenave
tried to get continuance until
ale could raise money for an at
torney. The court appointed law
yers and the soldiers were con-
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like it. Well, the fact mat it has
expanded to nationwide, doesn't
make it any better.
These dictator-minded racket
GERS are trying to fool us into be-
lieving that they have raised
wages. Now any intelligent person
should know this is lie. Wages
can not be high when work is
scarce. If there are 10 men for
every job, as was the cast during
the depression, wages can not be
high.
On the other hand, wnen there
are 10 jobs for every man. those
who have work to be done have
to pay more wages than the next
fellow to get any one to work for
them.
The rackets haven't helped any
thing or any one but themselves.
If we could do away with this
racket and take the business
agents and secretarys and make
them fill different jobs or uniforms
like any other man it would help
to relieve the man power short
age.
l propose that we abolish this
condition for the duration. and
then start over after the war is
won. GIVE America Back to the
People"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-02-17
JOHNNIE CAMPBELL
Tavern of Good
Cheer
Where Particular
People Drink Their
Wine and Beer
1915 Yesterday
MIR. LINCOLN
BY RUTH TAYLOR

In this, our month of heroes,
we do honor to those who did so
much for us and for this country.
Across these days lies the shadow
of the Great Emancipation ~ just
as the shadow of the great statue
lies across the snowy marble of
the Lincoln Memorial.
We honor him for his greatness
- for the courage it took to do
cry of his fight upwards; for his
great sympathy and broad vision.
the things he did; for the brav-
We listen reverently to the great
words of his greatest address
which still fall across the aisles
of time, as fresh as on that day
at Gettysburg when they were
first delivered.
But there is more for which we
should honor Mr.. Lincoln. And
we say Mr.. Lincoln not the
President. or even Abraham Lin
coin, which is a title in itself.
Let us not talk about the great
things he did - orators all over
the land will speak of them on
February twelfth. Let us rather
talk of the man, Mr. Lincoln, who
went through the same things all
of us go through and who STUN
bled and fell just as often - but
who picked himself up each time
and went right on.
Let us remember the gangling
farm boy, laughed at by those of
his own age and condescendingly
pitied by those who were older.
Let us remember the man who
was called shiftlessD who made a
failure of bookkeeping, and whom
no one though would amount to
anything. Let us remember not
just the cases he won in his law
practice, but the cases he lost, and
the hard time he had to make
ends meet, even as you and l.
Let us remember the Mr.. Lin
coin who came into Washington
for his first inaugural = not the
man hated by his opponents, but
the man pitied by his friends, and
looked down upon by his own
party, for the things he had yet
to learn. Let us remember the
lonely Commander-in-C max
ing mistakes and admitting them,
picking himself up after every fall
and going right on again trying
to do his part to bring about that
in which he believed = a union
of free men.
1t is that Mr.. Lincoln I admire
most. 1t is that Mr.. Lincoln of
whom l think when days are dark
The lesson of his life is even
greater than the lesson of his
words. 1t is not too big for any
of us to encompass. 1t is the
steady, day in and out fight
against encouragement, against
misfortune, against failure. 1t is
the resolute clinging to an ideal
- an ideal based on good for
others not for oneself alone. Mr..
Lincoln neither feared nor was
faint hearted and at last "by faith
he subduel kingdoms and wrought
righteousness" Let us do honor
fo the humannass of Mr. Lincoln
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Please Judge, | Want
Peace and Quiet Rev.
Gaines Asks = Is Canted
Divorce

A 7S-year-old plaintiff pleading
please Judge, | want some
peace and quiet for the time !
have left" was given an opportun-
ity for 1t Monday in a Solomon
like ruling by Judge e. w. Sch
wellenbach in Douglas county SUI
perior court.
The case was the contested di-
vorce suit of the Reverend Henry
Gaines, minister of the Mount
Olivet Baptist Church, East We
natchee, VS.. Louvenia Gaines. 6S,
his wife for twenty years and the
mother of six children by for
mer marriage.
The Gaines, who are colored.
came to the valley in the early
twenties and settled in East We
natchee.
Apparently they prospered.
They acquired 11.67 acres on
Grant road and built a house up
on it.
Then trouble began. Exactly
how it started is shrouded in
mystery. The Rev. Gaines said
that his wife, Louvenia Gaines.
heard from the other man and
wanted him to come and live with
them. He asked her about the in
terloper. and was rebuffed, be-
yond being told that he was "the
daddy of all six children" Since
that day, according to the Rev.
Gaines, life has been miserable
for him as Louvenia spared no
opportunity ito heap all manner
Of curses and abuses on my head. :"
Mrs. Gaines accused him of not
buying groceries which he swore
was not so. She rallied against him
loudly so that all the neighbors
might hear, he said.
Mrs. Gaines story is set forth
on the front page of the national
Negro daily, the Northwest En-
terprise, published in Seattle. She
maintained in the letter to that
newspaper that Rev. Gaines did
not pay the taxes on his property,
that he sold some part of it. par
ticularly one lot, On which the
buyer paid no interest, principal
or taxes. And, as the story in the
newspaper said. Mrs. Gaines
thinks a lot of her property"
The contested divorce suit was
tried before Judge E. w. Schwel-
lenbach in Waterville Monday,
and the judge in his oral decision
ordered the remainder of their
land split evenly, a settlement the
Reverend Gains had offered Lou
venia.
Sam Sumner AMI Edison Dow
We're attorneys for the plaintiff,
the defendant was represented by
d. A. Sinner.
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said theater until compliance with
the law is had" county prosecutor
Marcus Shroup received h S
week a congratulatory telegram
from the NAACP.
The order followed disturbance
at the theatre Saturday night
which resulted in street fighting.
Six perons including five white
and one Negro were arrested.
James T. Hilbert, manager of the
Xenia Theatre was placed under
technical arrest and the theatre
was closed.
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vieted. The NAACP did not get in
to the case until after the trial.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-02-17
Have You a Lost Or
Lapsed Insurance Policy?

THE NATIONAL INSURANCE
RESEARCH UNCIL, 1927
SMITH TOWER, SEATTLE, has
performed many useful services
for persons who have lapsed or
lost life insurance in their famil-
les. The service consists of lives
tigation of policies, which have
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-02-17
Death Of ]. H. Ryan
Pioneer Citizen and
Statesman BemOaned
BY e. II. HOLMES

Thou shall come to thy grave
in a fun age, like a shock Of corn
cometh in his season"
As was said of old in Job could
apply equally as well to the life
and time of J. II. Ryan, pioneer
citizen. statesman and publisher
of Ryan's Weekly of Tacoma
who went to his reward Tuesday.
January goth. full of years and
honor.
Mr.. Ryan came to Spokane in
1892 and had lived in this state
for more than half century. He
ran the gamut of life and his car
eer was indeed amazing - from
hotel waiter to deputy county
treasurer of Spokane county to
ownership of printing establish
ment at Tacoma, valued at ten
to fifteen thousand dollars before
the depression 1882 publication
of newspaper that was the envy
from a political standpoint of ev-
cry weekly newspaper in this state.
Not only for its political informa-
ton but for its championship of
human rights. especially because
of labor.
He rose in eminence not only
in the business world but in poll
tics, and throughout his long life
fought shoulder to shoulder with
such great leaders as L. s. Sena-
tor George Turner. Gov. John r.
Rogers, Ernest Lister. Homer T.
Bone and others. His great ability
attracted the attention of the peo-
pie in the district in which he liv-
ed and they sent him to the hall
of the state legislature several
time promoting him to the state
senate in 1892.
The voice of the old statesman
rang out in the Chamber of the
Legislature in defense of the un-
der-dog and for the progressive
measures that he always advocat-
ed.
His fame and industry will
long be remembered and it should
be an inspiration of what can be
accomplished under adverse cir
cumstancesl AS we look upon his
kindly face as it smiles down upon
US in the State Capitol at Olym-
pia.
last saw Senator Ryan at
Yakima in June, 1910, where we
were both in attendance at the
Democratic State Convention. He
spoke of his infirmaties but SEEM
ed cheerful and to all appearances
had many useful years allotted to
him.
Thousands of friends and read |
ers of his valuable paper were |
greatly shocked to learn of his |
demise for in the word of the poet |
take him all in all he was indeed |
a man, and we shall not soon see
his like again.
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NA!AcP Lawds Prosecutor
For Anti-NegrO Theatre
Managers Arrest

xenia, Ohio. For his order
to a local sheriff that upon re-
fusal of admission of any colored
citizen" by the theatre manage
ment you Arrest the party guilty
of such discrimination and close
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Russia has surely won the mantle Of glory, for
in the face Of suerhuman obstacles, mammoth misfOr-
tunes, without the vocal parade, the fanfare that syn
hetC christianity ever Makes has fought its way to
the 'front.' against those Germans who have earned to
the nth degree, the title Of warriOrs The foes that
Caesar met across the Rhine, fathers the foes that Sta
lin has fought However, Hitler can not sing Veni Vd,
vici for Soviet now sings "Lay on MacDuf and dam
ned be him who first cries, hold enough"
BARNEY
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-07
All BerIiners
Are Scared

London, Aug. 7.-(UP) Refugees
from Hamburg and other heavily
bombed German cities are SO fright
ening Berliners with the narrowing
details OF their experiences that a
panicky, mass exodus from the
German capital is underway. the
London Daily Mail said today.
The London Daily Mail said Nali
authorities had had to resort to
severe measures to Try 10 stop the
wild rush.
Source of the Daily Mail report
was not given.
An Exchange Telegraph dispatch
from Zurich said that German
youths ii years old and up nave
been mobiliZed and trained rs anu
aircraft assistants to help combat
an expected rise IN the Allied as
saults ON Germany.
Neutral correspondents IN Beillli
have been advised to establish new
headquarters outside the capital, an
ether report said, German Propa-
randa Minister Joseph GoebbelS re
vealed last night that what he called
a partial evacuation oil Berlin was
under way.
The National Xeltumg OF Basic,
Switzerland, declared N an editorial
that the air offensive against Ham
burg had shaken psychological re
sistancc inside Germany deeply, al
t,cting the working capacity OF the
entire population and hamperlng
transport and production every
where,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-07
Oppose Tie
To Red Union

Boston, Aug. CUP)-The Massa-
chusetts State Federation of Labor
is opposed to affiliation with the
Anglo-Soviet Trade Union Council,
the Smith Connally anti-strike law
and the non-union printing of bank
life insurance advertising pamph-
lets.
These three points were contain
ed in resolutions adopted yesterday
as the 58th annual convention
closed.
Overwhelmingly, the delegates de-
feated resolution proposing the
trade union utilization on grounds
that Communism takes away the
liberty of all the people"
In addition the delegates approved
n resolution demanding repeal Of
the Smith Connally law and anoth-
er threatening to withdraw their
support of savings bank life in
surance unless banks used union
printed literature.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-07
Move Against
Suicide Jops
BY GEORGE JONES

An Advanced South Pacific Base,
Aug. 7. - CUP - American troops
bent on the compete humiliation OF
the remaining japanese forces on
New Georgia Island in the Central
Solomons, moved against Isolated
enemy groups today as engineers
started rehabilitating the captured
Munda stronghold TO facilitate 1ur-
ther U. S. otfensives.
More than Is japanese ships and
numerous barges and samll craft
were sunk during the course OF the
campaign and all but the remnants
of the enemy garrison on Munda
wiped out. 1t was believed the de-
Tense of Munda cost the japanese
between 5000 and 1000 men.
South Pacific headquarters an
nounced that Munda airheld official
" fell during midaiternoon OF
Aug. 5.
A column of American troops
fought through from the coast ana
onto the airfield Aug. 3 and began
systematic destruction OF japanese
pockets Immediately northeast oil
Munda. Another force advancing
from Bibilo Hill completed the WHIP
ing out of this pocket with a con-
tinuous rain of bombs and artillery
and mortar shells.
Further north, large force oil
seasoned Americans, veterans OF the
Guadalcanal campaig n, swung
northwestward into the jungle, lore
ing the japanese defenders to begin
evacuation of the air base.
Repair Airstrip
II was estimated that 1t won't be
mere than n few days until emery
ency repairs on the airstrip viii be
completed. This Involves Milling bomb
and shell cratcrs and clearing revet-
ments and approaches to the 1900
foot coral runway.
THESE repairs are only preparatory
Ia the large -scalc task OF making
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-07
Report Of
Buildings

July's building report revealed to-
day that permits for 26 one-family
houses totaling 500, 900 were granted
at the office of Building Inspector
John #. Hartley.
The total cost of residential con-
struction during July amounted to
Sill ,225, while the total of residen-
tial reached $l33,l35.
One permit was issued for repairs
to tenement house amounting to
Sc, 900.
One additional and alteration for
extra families to single dwelling
was granted a permit in the amount
OF $4,000.
Twenty three alterations and adj
ditions to dwellings were also grant
ed permits. the cost totaling $3,625.
Under the non residential catego-
~: one permit was issued for al
teration to church. the cost
amounting to $l7O.
Seven permits were issued for the
construction OF garages costing $l'-
It's: one gasoline station, $500; three
additions and alterations Tor stores
81, 600; two sheds. 1925; five addi-
lions and alterations to factories to-
falling $i7.700; one addition to n M
neral home, SITS. Eleven permits
were granted for the construction OF
poultry houses, $685..
The total OF non-residential con-
structlons during july granted per-
mits amounted To $2i,0l0.
June's building report was almost
three times the amount OF july =
OF $3.50. 900. as compared 10 $i33' 100
The high june figure was due 10 inc
construction OF new factories In TINS
city.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-07
Cullen Jeter
Will Proboted

The will of the late Richard Gull
len Jeter who died July %, was filed
In probate today by Judge Patrick
Healey.
His entire property and estate Is
left to his wife, Martha Aston Je-
ter, and in the event of her death,
his children, Elloie Evans Jeter and
Mary Lee Jeter, are to be sole reci-
pients of his estate.
Mr.. Jeter's untimely death shocked
Waterburians who knew him as q
man in the prime of life, rich in
power and experience. richer yet in
a Zest for life and adventure that
brought him every kind of challenge
of effort, fortitude, and stirring per-
sonal association.
He represented in his own person
the symbol of our tradition OF AM
erican opportunity. His development
at the Scovill Manufacturing Com
pany was in the established course
of ladder climbing" from helper on
the melting line, to master worker
on the line, then assistant foreman,
casting superintendent, assistant SUI
perintendent, and later superinten-
dent of all mills, to his final APP
pointment in April of this year as
assistant general manager In super
vision of Casting Shop and Mills.
He was born January IA, 1894, at
Opelika, Alabama, the son of an
Episcopalian minister. He attended
public school in South Carolina, and
the University OF Michigan where
he obtained his degree OF Bachelor
of Science in Chemical Engineering
and Metallurgy. In 1915 he joined
the Scovill Organization, Travelled IN
Europe on technical research IN 1896
1895 and 1896, Ind was In charge OF
alloy handling at the Waterbury
plant during its installation OF tube
extr,,sion and continuous casting. He
developed n plan OF the future growth
for his department which would have
occupied his energies for years
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-07
Boy Remains
In u. S. Navy

Lowell Mass, Aup = 'uPl-
Fourteen year-old Francis =. Nc
Mahon. Jr,, believed the Youngest
enlisted lad in the u, $, Navy, has
won his parents consent to remain
in the service.
An eiphth-grade grammar school
pupil and one OF nine children ol "A
city councillor, Francis altered ms
birth certificate last MAY to make II
appear that he was II, A husky, Ne
VAS accepted by the Navy ana
trained at both Newport Il, !, ana
Norfolk. Va, before his secret was
discovered
III the Navy can use nm, m
happy to have him serve, said Me-
Mahon's father
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-07
Nozis Hold
Conferences

Stockholm, Aug. 7.-UP)-1mpor-
tant conferences "of military and
political character" have taken place
at HitlerS headquarters. apparently
in connection with Nazi diplomatic
contacts with Italy and Japan.
The Scandinavian telegraph bu-
reaus correspondent at Berlin said
that photographs OF Hitler Reich
marshal Hermann Goering and other
Nazi leaders had been published In
the German newspapers but no date
was given other than that the meet
ing occurred Mt headquarters re-
Gently.
NaM Foreign Minister Joachim
Won Ribbentrop repeatedly went to
Italy yesterday for u three day con-
ference and the German news
agency DNB said that the Japanese
ambassador previously had been re-
ccived at Hitlers headquarters on
July 20,
Hitler. who had not appeared In
news reports for some time. as well
as Ribbcntrop, Goer!ng and Ad-
miral Karl Doenitzn head of the
Nazi naval forces. were IN the pho
tographs published In Berlin.
The German news agencies gave
several versions OF the conferences,
first saying they were OF military
nature and then adding TINT they
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-07
Prepare Trop
For Nozis

British Eighth Army Headquar-
tors, Sicily, Aug. 6 - delayed -
OU.PD - A trap that may catch the
German 18th Panzer Division be
tween tne American 7th Army and
the British 3th Army along the
road encircling Mount Etna's west
ern slopes appeared in the making
TO-DAY.
The Germans appeared determin-
cd TO hoid their two main points on
the road. AdranO and BianCaVllle,
though they are commanded from
the heights Of Centuripe to the
southwest ncraoss the Slmeto Plain.
CAlliea headquarters reported the
Eighth Army within FIVE miles OF
Adranol.
The fan of Adrano presumably
would compel the 18th PanIer
bucking the Americans around
Iroina, II miles northNeS tward, To
drop back toward Cesaro and
Bronte, the junction point OF the
road nom l'roma and the clrchnH
road around Mount htna, II the
Eighth Army rolled up the road
from Adrano tn reach bronte nrsl
the pan2er might be- pinned, with
only ilight across country open 10
II,
Meanwhile, the retrenting Ger
mans north OF Calanla we've making
the golng touch Tor the British
Infantry. who had to use mules to
haul supplies, The Germans were
demolishing the roads behind them
and steering clear OF the coastal
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-07
Hanged Soldier
Was An Ex-Con

wilkes. Barre, Pa Aug, 7-'uP,
Police records revealed Yesterday
pvt. Walter nohn. executed nj camp
Claiborne, La, today, was released
from prison here So that lac could
Join the army 800
Bonn was arrested Aug 80. 1879
ON CHARGES OF malleion mischief
Committed to the Lu2rcnc county
Jail he appeared before judge John
Aponick Sept q and pleaded guilty.
On recommendation OF Warden
william Hcalcy the court released
pohn on condition he Join the army