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Hartford chronicle., 1946-05-04
It's Like This. By MARTY RICHARDSON

This column this week is a re- print, in it's entirety, of the col umn fOne God, One People, by Ben Richardson who writes in the Peoples Voice. The column is re- printed because it so adequately fits situation which might have arisen among certain thoughtless elements anon our own people.
 AN ANTI-SEMITIC INCIDENT has come to my attention which warrants plain talk A friend of mine, Jewish rabbi, boarded a subway train recently. He was re- turning home from a physicians office-he was feeling sick. He sought a seat in the car. One was available, but a man who had his legs stretched across the vacant seat, prevented the rabbi from taking it. The man was speaking to sailor who sat nearby.
 Are You A Jew?
 THE RABBI ASKED the man to remove his feet and allow him Io SlC do"n DeSduSe -ne olun I0eI well. The man replied: You're big and fat. There's not enough room on this seat for both of us." The rabbi assured him that he would not even occupy all of the room which was obviously vacant. The man continued to refuse to share the seat and said to the rabbi: "What are you going to do about it?" At this point the sailor said to the man, who then turned to the rabbi and said: "Since the sailor told me to give it to you, you can have the seat" The rabbi sat down and there was
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Hartford chronicle., 1946-05-04
Around The Town
By John Stewart

The CHRONICLE urges all of its readers that have rooms to let, for entertainers who appear here for short periods of time, to reg ister their names, addresses and telephone numbers with the of flee here, who in turn will file them. Our staff will in turn see to it that the theatres booking them will know this. It has been very difficult for entertainers who -1play' Hartford to find accom- modations among us. There are many who, while we do not make a practice of renting rooms,> can and will open up our homes for a few days now and then................
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 James "Rastus" Walker, now back in our midst, promises us some real news soon in regards to his getting a long deserved ~sbreak" in the field that he ex- .cels - that of entertainment.
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 This column welcomes home Mrs. Juanita Harris Hayes and friend Hubby Al Hayes from the west coast where MT. Hayes was stationed while member of Uncle Sam's Navy. The town needs vounp women like Juanita for her personality and also for her abll- ity as a secretary.
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 James Embry McMillan, Emory to all his friends, is bit changed after his South Pacific soJourn. We've always felt that "Maek," as he is also familiarly known, had a serious streak in him and feel sure that along with capable sister Naomi, they will be very successful in their new venture of operating the Sufield Country Club for it's members........
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 How about some of our young huskies that are so full of FIRE' trying to become members ot the Fire Department. It would cer- tainly make a fine career as well as divert the excess energies that are now wasted on street corners cIowning and shadow boxing. If you are interested in the depart
Hartford chronicle., 1946-05-04
Jimmie Writes
 About Troiiarls
By Jimmie Wright, Jr.

HARTFORD, May 2-Accord- ing to Manager John Kitchens the Trojans, a team sponsored by the Charter Oak Lodge of Elks will be at full strength in just about two weeks.
 Manager Kitchens has been ex- periencing quite a bit of trouble getting some of the players out for practice. Then, too, the weather hasn't been conducive for work outs. It was stated in the last issue of the HARTFORD CHRON- lCLE that the playing calibre of a majority of the players is still big question mark. Unless the Tro- ians are able to secure more play CTS, the team will suffer from lack of replacements.
 Equipment is something that teams just can't get. The new cats are very weak. At the pres ent time, play has been held up to some extent because of insult icient material to work With Manager John Kitchens inform me that he will probably use Her man Eskeridge at End base, either himself or Jerry Williams e- base. He has One catcher, Mack Neil with James Gomez in at the short stop position.
 Such moundsmen as Doyle Dukes, Harold Hodges, Charles Reed and Jimmie Little are ex- pected to go to the barrier when play begins. The pitchers are of unknown variety as none of them have been tested against stiff com petition.
 The fielders are Robert Tanner, center. James Young, left and Willie (Crow) Davis at right.
 The hitting power of the Tro- jan team will be led by Jerry Will Hams, a lad with the build of Ted Williams and John Kitchens, a Pharmacy student at the Univers- ity of Connecticut.
 For games, telephone Manager John Kitchens 2-7612 or write, 166 Standish St., Hartford, Conn. Games are sought with leading semi-pro teams in Connecticut and Massa chusetts.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-05-04
Problem Corner
By Arthur Shrimp" Johnson

By Arthur Shrimp Johnson
 This corner is open to all readers with problems; simply write to "Problem Corner", in care of Edl- tor, the Hartford CHRONICLE.
 Every attempt will be made to answer any problem by consulting experts in the various fields:
 The first problem received states:
 q am divorced from my hus- band but received family pay al lowance while he was in the armed services. If he re-enlists, will 1 be entitled to receive the same Answer: Yes, as long as he is on pay status and providing that you do not remarry.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-05-04

Plans for a community rally to enlist full participation in the cleanup campaign of May 12-18 have been announced and on We'd nesday, May 8, at 8 pm. at the Arsenal School a mass rally will [be held.
 MT. Morris Fredericks, a re- turned veteran, announced that his committee on distribution will drop leaflets to the 1000 homes in the North End. The distributors
Hartford chronicle., 1946-05-04
m0RDE JOHNSON NC0MESHERE
Tennessee Riot Mass Meeting
By Harriet Matthews

 A mass meeting of the NAACP was held Thursday night at the Mt. Olive Baptist Church for the purpose of raising funds for the defense of 31 Negroes indicted for attempted murder and carrying concealed weapons in a race riot in Columbia, Tennessee, February 25, 1946.
 MT. Julius Blair, a Columbia, i Tenn, druggist and one of the l 1O3 arrested during the riot, was l the guest speaker.
 In introducing the speaker, MT. Madison $. Jones, Jr., of New York City, Administrative Assist ant to the Executive Secretary, spoke of the solemnity of the task before US and stated that it was "hard to visualize what struggle it was for some of us to survive. Wherever Negroes are," said MT. Jones, "there is also potential racial tension; for ha- tired, bigotry and prejudice knows no boundary lines."
 MT. Blair, guest speaker of the evening, in relating the incident. gave the unvarnished facts of the case and the facts as they were, were amazing.
 Here is the story: A Mrs. c. Stevens and her son, World War II veteran, called for a radio at Radio Repair Shop. Finding that the radio wasn't repaired as prom ised, they returned and asked for their money back. Instead of the proprietor returning the money, he attacked the mother, kicking and hitting her. The son took up the fight and tossed the offender through the plate glass window. The police came and also hit the mother and son before arresting them.
 LateE that day the grandmother sought the aid of MT. Blair and told him that her daughter and grandson were about to be hanged. Investigating the case, MT. Blair, was told not to attempt to make bond because it would cause trouble; but despite the warning, the $3500 bond was made and the victims taken home.
 An hour or so later, a mob formed and their slogan was, "Kill all Negroes and burn up the place."
 So the Negroes of the little peace-loving town where whites and Negroes had gotten along so we'll together before, formed mob also and with their ample supply of firearms shot up a few of the whites.
 For fighting back, 103 Negroes were arrested and held incommuni- cado until MT. Blair was able through a white friend to get re- leased.
 Three of the men arrested, were called out for questioning. Two were killed, one being shot in the back after he was already dead. Of the 31 indicted, 28 are charged with attempted murder, ana three with carrying concealed weapons.
 After MT. Blair's release, he was re-arrested twice, but each time had bond posted for him. With the aid of five other busi- ness men, and the NAACP, he was able to make bond for the rest of those arrested,
 s"The Southerner," MT. Blair said, stated, "now that the war was over, he felt that the Negro must be put back into his place."
 MT. Percy Christian, President of the local branch, and Dr. Allen F. Jackson, Honorary President, were present at the meeting. Mrs. w. Beckham was publicity direc- tor.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-05-04

Dr. Mordecai Johnson, President of the only national and interna- tionally recognized Negro Univers- ity in the United States, Howard U. will speak here on Sunday, May 5, 1946 at the Central Baptist Church at pm. Surprising to
Hartford chronicle., 1946-05-04
NOSEY NED

Nosey Ned was unable to give us too much information this week but he did send us some very good horse tips:
 For the Kentucky Derby - "AS- SAULT"
Hartford chronicle., 1946-05-04

ment, get in touch with the CHRONICLE office and we will do all in our power to aid you........
 Since the Acme Social Club is very interested in bringing out top notch and also up and coming bands here, we hope that the fu- ture will find them better pat ronized......
 The club presented Harold Holt, former local musician, with his 14 pc. band at Footguard Hall on Friday, April 26, 1946 and consid- ering the weather as well as the various other Friday night pro- grams. The dance was well at tended........The officers of the Acme Social Club are Pres. Cecil A. Da- wis, Vice-Pres. William Cotton, Treasurer, Joe Johnson, and Sec retary, D. Melville.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-05-04
MACKEY SUCCUMBS

MT. Obie Mackey of 22 Blake Street, Hartford, died on Friday, April 26, after a brief illness. He leaves his wife, Mrs. Annie Mackey and two children; Robert Mackey stationed at Camp Lee, Va, and a daughter, Miss Flora Mackey, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Other relatives and friends: a brother, Rubie Mackey of Newark, N. J., sisters, Viola Hall, Brooklyn, N. Y, Der tha Mackey, Hartford, one nephew John French, Hartford, two niecee Mabel Burts and Minnie Jamieson of Hartford and Tarriffville, sis ter-in-law Mary Wheeler and brother-in-law Olin Wester, both of Hartford.
 Funeral services by the L. B. Barnes Corporation, Hartford.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-05-04

These others at the Eighth Anniversary H. DeMOnd Brook Street, Hartford Club The DeNond who cele brated his 35th birthday.
 Reading right Mr. Mrs. Ray Mr. MacArthur Lucille Williams News Mrs.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-02-14
PAPER CARRIERS
TO MEET TONIGHT

rhe Wilmington Star-News Car
;ar,s Association will hold the
~ I.ol,lar monthly banquet meeting
~. ~, evening at the Famous Club
u wa Grill at o'clock, it was an
~. o"nced last night by Roy j. Cook,
WV Wv Circulation Manager.
v IN Carriers of The Morning Star
nd The Wilmington News have
s s' invited to attend this meet
W. Business of importance will
az discussed and installation of
~ 'tticers will take place. The Of
t soers to be installed, as elected
net month are: Robert Benson,
car ca Route %, president; Gerald
Ctone News Route IL, vice presi-
Sont. David Hall, News Route 26,
sascretary-treasurer; Julius Parker,
g. stsr Route 3, corresponding secre-
.'ry The following carriers will be
Installed on the board of directors:
lack King, News Routes; Leroy
bradshaw, News Route 48; Billy
Stone, News Route 4; Jimmy
Reese, Star Route %, Johnny
crowley. Star Route 1; and Raynor
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-02-14

manned unchanged with the single
exception of Mayor Lane succeed
ing Bruce Cameron after the lat
ter's death.
What has the Planning board
accomplished in it's nearly three
years of existence?
Step No. l, its minutes and cor
respondence discloses, was t. fost-
er legislative action enabling an
election on the matter of extending
the city's limits.
For years, the factors producing
the trends, which in turn produced
the kind of city Wilmington was
and is, had been to develope some
of the more choice residential
areas beyond the city limits. BY
1943 the city was in the rather
peculiar situation of having almost
as great a population living ao-
| jacent to it-although economically
part of it---as it possessed wltn!n
it's corporate limits. In economic
terms, it was a decidedly unhealty
situation; one which most lair
minded men recognized would re-
suit in decadant Wilmington:
Ultimately, too, the same trend
that forced n any former city
jewellers into the suburbs would
tend to blight their new properly
in about the same manner.
A Mythical Line ,.,
Ob1 iously, too, there was little
sense in effecting any sort of city
planning and zoning when just over
the city's limits-a mythical sort OF
line at best in modern times-lay
) territory where every evil correct
: ed within the limits could move
| and become as big a nuisance In
: it's new location.
5 Thus it came about that the
: Planning board renewed the old
fight for extension of the city S
/ limits. And thus it was that each
=. member of the Planning board be-
I came a one-man campaign CON-
Y mittee to "sell'' extension at every
S nook and corner of the city and
I the suburbs proposed for annexa-
ton.
The battle-a spirited one-re-
I suited in a substantial two-to-one
z decision favoril : annexation, and
. on Jan. l, 1916, 46 square miles
: of suburban property, including
V many of the areas finest homes
and residential districts, came
!, under the city's jurisdiction.
The stage was set for the real
. Job ahead: To execute master
. plan for the intelligent and order
y ly development of a community
: whose future, if wisely sought
could provide the physical found
!, ations for a modern city in a mod
/ ern age.
), AS one Vilmingtonian phrased it
= "It has taken us more than 2ot
j. years to -et around 70 this point
f now let's do a good job!'
c How well, or conversely, the Joi
1 will be done rests, in a large
q measure, upon the citizen re
n action to md cooperation with thu
+ Planning Boards master plan
, and the zoning ordinance neces
: sary to effectuate it.
In It's rough form, the permanent
r zoing ordinance was presented tt
a the City council today. Upon it ma!
!, well depend the city's future 1ol
e another 200 years!
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-02-14
NeWbold. Star Route 5.


The Star-News Carriers Associa-
ton is an organization of the car
riers completely controlled by the
boys, who elect their own officers
and frame bylaws for he opera
ton of the association. Among the
activities the carriers take part
in are basketball, boxing and
bowling at the Brigade Boys club.
All Star-News carriers are given
membership by the association in
the Brigade Club and the club has
the exclusive use of the Brigade
Armory every Friday night.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-02-14

The same ordinance, prepared
by the city attorney and enacted
by the council on June %, 1913,
authorized the Planning Board to
make a careful and comprehen-
sive survey and studies OF present
conditions and future growth of the
municipality with due regard to its
relation with neighborins terri
Some Opposition
There was opposition to the
ordinance, of course. 1t was
complained that the measure gave
few men too much power over
all lands ano property within the
city. But the opposition was waved
aside. and in due time the ooa- q
appointed.
Provided by the ordinance was wa
= board of five, including the
mayor, the city manager and three
citizen citizen members. The citizen
members were H. R. Emory, ex-
ac,1tive director of the Housing
Authority of the City OF winning nm
ton: DR.. W. Houston Moore, long
s'l' battler for city planning, and
w I Fonvielle, prominent realtor'
The boards composition mas re-
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-02-14

aICer 1Io9, grew WoIe VI iSSs
evidence is around us today,
wise, guiding hands a n d
thoughtful, visionary minds
have had a part in moulding
the city and directing its
physical development in the
Intervening 2OO-odd years. But mis-.
takes were made-mistake- mostly
of omission rather than those Of
commission - in those 200 plus
years.
When permitted normal growth
towns and cities develop within
rather definite lines; lines easily
charted if one cares to take the
trouble of studying causes and Ell
fects. Wilmington, from its found
ing and until quite recently, ha!
grown in a pattern easily discern
ible to the expert in such natter
Nor is it the exception. On thu
contrary, it's communal growth
has been very much in the same
pattern as other port towns witt
similar geographical limitations
Three factors have influenced
the physical development of Will
mington. They are, in order l.
the city's geographical location il
relation to the Cape Fear river
o the commerce the city has ira
ditionally enjoyed from its port
81 the economic law of supply ane
demand.
Because of its location on thu
bank of the Cape Fear, the cit.
has but three directions to ex
pand, unless it chose to hurdle
fairly wide stream of water at it
western boundary. Thus, the geo
graphical factor encouraged it
development to the north, soutl
and east
Its main commerce traditional
" has been concentrated along
a few blocks of the eastern rive,
bank, a factor which produced
the. trend to maintain a relative
ly compact business and mercen
tile district in close proximity t.
the port.
The third factor-the law Of sup
ply and demand-came with thu
years that saw the ctiy's olde1
residential districts become les!
desirable by sheer influence o
age plus the necessity for more
business space adjacent to tn
main commercial district. Thu
was given initial impetus to the
move toward the towns oute1
limits for more desirable living
space.
Those were the factors, in thu
main, which have dictated the
physical growth of Wilmington
from 1887 to the present day. The
automobile, as the street car be
fore it, fastened the process, bu
probably was not the deciding fac
tor, as has been the case in thu
recent development trends o
some cities, notably those in tn
Far West. Those are the princl
pals factors which produced
trends"
Individual planning"
As Wilmington grew - and it
growth was steady though unspec
tacular for 200 years-it was large
ly the lookout of the individual
landowner whether his propert.
was wisely developed, either b.
himself or by an act of his neigh
Dor. Hence, planning, until yer.
recently, was principally matter
of individual action, or the concert
ed action of few persons bount
by common cause. But ther'
was no city-wide concentration OF
the problem of where or how tn
city grew.
World War I praduced a tenn
porary realization that Whining
ton might do well to have SOM
community wide thinking on tn
matter of being zoned into va
rious classes of business, indus
trial and residential districts
Hardly had the thought been borl
when the city's population slump
ed, and whatever had been con
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-02-14
1900 JEWISH ORPHANS

GENEVA, Switzerland - (P) -
There are $4,000 JEWS war or
phans in Europe, it was estimated
at a recent International confer
ence of organizations interested
in children's welfare.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-02-14

In Sundays Star-News, the
last in this series of articles
will discuss the master PLAN
of the Planning Board and re-
lated zoning ordinance. - Ed
itor.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-02-14
Your Wilmington Today:
Planning Deemed Vital
To Future Growth Here

The following the sixth the
Wilmington Of today and its prospects for tomorrow Ioday
article deves the factors which physical
city
its internal development 1t is the the City Planning
board into existence, has and
proposes Wilmington
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-02-14
APPEAL FOR HUNGARY

GENEVA, Switzerland - R) -
The Hungarian Relief Committee
in Switzerland has appealed to
Hungarians throughout the world
to contribute food, clothing and
pharmacenticals for INDECENT and
stricken families of Hungary.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-02-14
By KEN R. NOBLE, Staff Writer

Wilmington, when originally laid out townste in
1877 under the of Newton planned community
Its founders left nothing to chance in selection of ste
designation of widths and directions and in general
planning for the population they envsioned1O0 souls
within two years.
Perhaps it would be too much to say that Wilmington,
after 1739 grew or less its Certainly the
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-02-14

crustacean off Block Island said il
would go to 20 pounds after a few
days on a special diet" stale
doughnuts," they explained.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-02-14
LOBSTER GETS TANKED

WEXFORD, R. I. - up A IT.
pound lobster is undergoing fat
tening-up process in a tank of salt
water at the Wexford Shellfish
Co. Lobstermen who caught the