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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1947-03-13
q INDICTMENTS
ARE RETURNED
BY GRAND JURY
Detailed Report Calls Attention
to Apparent Crime Wave
Among Teen-Age Boys

The Grand Jurors for the March
Term of the Garrett County Circuit
Court, adjourned Tuesday afternoon,
after having examined forty-eight
witnesses and having found twenty
three indictments This is the largest
number of indictments found by any
grand jury within the past several
years, and the detailed report indi-
Gates the apparent crime wave among
teen-age boys as a part of this cause.
There were several cases up for in
vestigation wherein no definite action
was taken because of the "tender age"
of certain individuals. However, Wal
ter w. Dawson, states attorney, said
that indictments had been returned
against five youths of Mt Lake Park
for breaking into six homes there sew
eral months ago Another Indictment
was returned against youth who was
arrested last Friday along with Lynn
Morgan, for breaking and entering
the home of the late Rev. A. Bailey,
Pleasant Valley, and for larceny of
guns, etc, from the home. Both are
now being held in the county jail.
Indictments were also returned
against Everett Rulings, William
Lewis, Clarence Edward Lewis and
Cor1 Io,,,;co,, Mana olIo,. +b,,, ~ fo,
burglary, larceny and breaking jail.
All four are now confined in the coun-
ty jail.
Mr.. Dawson said other indictments
were returned against Samuel HaddiX,
Jr., and Ronald w. Friend, for rape;
and against Bernard Fale Friend and
James L. King, of Friendsville, for
larceny of guns, etc, from the home
of Albert Fisher, Friendsville.
Criminal trials will be taken up be-
ginning Monday, March "a, it was
announced.
Test Case
Another case which will be brought
before the court, is attracting State
wide attention, inasmuch as it will be
test case for the state forestry act,
passed at the last session of the legis-
lature, regulating the cutting of TIM
Der and requiring timber operators to
register and be licensed
The particular case is an appeal
from the decision Of Trial Magistrate
H. A. Loraditch, against Troy Friend
and Sherman Frazee, on a charge of
failing to register and pay the license
fee
Neil c. Fraley, who is defending the
two men, declared he would attack
the constitutionality of the act, with
particular reference to the license fee
for sawmill operators
No Details on Haddix
Information published in the Cum
berland newspapers disclosed no new
developments in the search for the
Continued on Page Three
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1947-03-13

Secretary of State Marshall reached
Moscow for momentous conference of
four powers.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1947-03-13

There are twenty-four states now
with a sales tax.
Evening star., 1947-10-28
Salty Ham Waits Sentence
For ILLEGAL Navy Garb

William Brown Dorsey, At, one
of whose six aliases is salty Ham,"
today was under $500 bond await
ing sentencing, after his conviction
for Illegally wearing a Navy uni
form bedecked with a spread of
campaign ribbons and citations as
dazzling as they were unauthorized.
Dorsey, colored, who lives in the
Evening star., 1947-10-28
B4 THE EVENING STAR, Washington D. c.
Appeals Court Affirms
Fields Conviction for
Congress Contempt

The United States Court of APP
peals yesterday afternoon affirmed
the District Court conviction of
Benjamin F. Fields, Washington
promoter, for contempt of Congress
for failing to produce records before
the House Surplus Property Com
mittee in connection with bronze
wire screen transaction.
Fields was sentenced last Febru-
ary by Justice Alexander Holtzof
of District Court to serve 80 days
and pay a $3.50 fine. Fields has been
out on bond pending the appeal,
however.
Written by Justice Bennett
Champ Clark of the appellate court,
the opinion quoted Fields, who had
produced certain records, as saying
that. If he had any other records,
he would be happy to bring them
to the committee.
The Government, in turn, the
Court of Appeals pointed out,
charged there were "at least three
documents pertinent to the trans
action under investigation by the
committee which were available to
the appellant Fields) at the time of
the committee hearing"
| The appellate court added that
Evening star., 1947-10-28

these documents were produced al
the trial"
The Court Of Appeals decision
also declared:
~The apparent objective OF the
statute involved here would be
largely defeated if, as appellant
(Mr. Fields contends, person
could appear before Congressional
investigating committee and by pro-
Tossing willingnessst to comply with
It's requests for information escape
the penalty for subsequent default
Justice Henry w. Edgerton and
E. Barrett Prettyman heard the
case in the Court of Appeals with
Justice Clark.
Evening star., 1947-10-28

600 block Of c street NV, was
convicted by a Municipal Court
jury, on the testimony of FBI
agents, who found him wearing
the uniform last April Fools Day.
He never was in the Navy, they
said, despite the display on his
brass-buttoned coat.
He is to be sentenced by Judge
George D. Nelson on November 10,
after probation Office Investigation
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1947-05-14
First Negro Initiated
By California K of C

Los ANGELES, Calf. First
Negro to be received into men,
bership by the California Knights
of Columbus is Charles Jones.
Loyola University of Los Angeles
Freshman, the schools student
paper reported in a feature story
carried in its last weeks issue.
The Knights of Columbus is an
international fraternal order of
Catholic men repeatedly honored
by the Vatican and the hierarchy
during the last half-century for
its achievements in Catholic action.
Discharged from the Army last
year as a major, Jones was COM
misioned a second lieutenant after
two years in the ranks. Serving
as court martial officer in the
Eighth and Ninth Air Forces, the
hero Knight of Columbus was the
first Negro to be promoted to a
captaincy in England.
In the Normandy invasion he
served as commander of an ammo
shuttle battalion.
Jones is a pre-legal student at
the Jesuit school He is married
to an alumna of University of
California at Los Angeles.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1947-05-14
The Carver A. C.'s
Break Losing Streak

After losing two straight games,
the Carver's A. c. came back
fighting and determined to win.
Before a large crowd of specta-
tors, Sunday, May IL, against
Fort Lawton. Coming from behind
in the last frame to score six
runs and win the ball game.
Pitcher Witcher of Fort Lawton
was pitching shut-out Ball until
our old reliable M. c.. chatham
caught hold of one of his curve
balls in the sixth inning and
Strengthened 1t out for a 34O-foot
home; his second of the season.
Then came the last frame with
Fort Lawton leading the A. C.'s
by a score of to1.
M. C. chatham started off again
by lining single through the
pitcher box for his second hit of
the day; after Pitcher Deane had
walked. Centerfielder Williams
worked the pitcher for a walk to
fill the bases. Then third baseman
Hubbard doubled to clean the
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1947-05-14

bases and went to third on a
throw to the plate. Short stop
Russell then drew a base on balls
with the score 6 to 4 with the
tying runs on base. Catcher Moore
hit his second homer of the year
with a tremendous drive OF 375
feet into left field and the ball
game was over.
Carver's two pitchers, Wildourn
and Deane allowed Z hits during
the game. Wilbourn, starting pit
cher. allowed hits during the s
innings he worked, but ran into
little control trouble and was re-
lieved by Deane who allowed two
hits and one run in the frame
he worked
Short summary score:
Fort Lawton 6R III 2E
Carver A. C. 7R 8H BE
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right. He is at the mercy of
the mob and has no means of
protecting himself"
If Frederick Douglass were alive
today. he would have to thunder
those same words to the Rankins.
the Bilbos, the Congress and ad-
ministration of the United States
of America. The differences being
that more individuals and peoples
movements understand and fight
for the truth of his prophetic
vision of yesteryear.
AS Douglas matured he became
champion of the Irish people
against English oppression; a pro-
ponent of civil liberties and one
of the first men to struggle for
women's rights.
In day when fighting for
women's rights was no more
fashionable than fighting slavery,
he wrote Recognizing not sex
nor physical strength, but moral
intelligence and the ability to
discern right from wrong, good
from evil, and the power to choose
between them, as the true basis
of republican government. | was
not long in reaching the conclu-
sion that there was no founda-
ton in reason or justice for
woman's exclusion from the right
of choice in the selection of per-
sons who should frame the laws,
and thus shape the destiny of all
people, irrespective of SEX"
Speaking and writing on almost
every issue that had to do with
political liberties, as well as slav-
cry, Douglass developed into
powerful orator, master of a sim
pie, moving. ironic style based
on careful, analytical reasoning.
His speeches, editorials and espe-
cially his autobiographies should
be well up in the list of admirable,
significant American writing.
After so many of silence, the
fact that this book is not ON
the nations best seller lists points
up the unhappy truth that the
slave theology of the Rankins and
Bilbos together with the northern
is still the dominating
theology of our American way of
life. This evil element of the
American way of life" must be
stamped out, root and branch.
Shirly Graham deserves warm
commentator and wide circulation
of ''There Was Once A Slave"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1947-05-14
SPORTS AFIELD
BASEBALL
BY J. A. (Jack) johnson

The Boxing card held at the
Civic Auditorium May 6. without
single big name fighter there
on. turned out to be one of the
best and most entertaining all
round cards seen here in many
moons.
Every bout kept the fans in an
uproar of excitement from bell to
bell of every round. In four
round bout Jess Mitchell. Seattle.
was too much for Bunty Andrews.
Vancouver, B. c.. the bout stopped
when Andrews got a badly cut eye.
In the special six. Cedric Flour
ney. Vancouver. B. c.. stopped
Lou Salas, Portland, in the fourth
round, with the fight even until
the deciding blow was struck that
put Salas down.
In an eight round bout, Johnny
Wells, making restart after a
good long rest, had to fight his
very best to ward off the rush
ing and smuggling Charley O'Kelly
of San Francisco. Many thought
that Wells had the edge, but the
bout was SO close it was called
a draw.
In the main event. Johnny Duke,
Seattle, and Pedro Jiminez, fougth
a desperate ten round draw with
neither having an advantage and
both plenty tired at the finish.
The next card will be held on
May 81, with Harry (Kid) Math-
ews facing Milo Savage if the
boys can be brought together. Mel
Epstein, the new Matchmaker for
the Club got off to a flying start
by putting on such an interesting
and well balanced card. We wish
him continued success.
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eral anonymous threatening letters.
Ford Prick. president of the Ma
tional League, said he had receiv-
ed report recently that the st.
Louis Cardinals had planned to
strike in protest over Jackie's
presence in the Brooklyn lineup.
He declined to elaborate on earl
Ter comments in which he was
quoted as saying he considered
the idea almost too fantastic to
believe. and that he himself never
had spoken to a st. Louis player
about it.
Owner Sam Breadon of the st.
Louis club and his manager. Eddie
Dyer, both denied a strike threat
on the part of their players.
Burt Shotten. manager of the
Dodgers, said he knew nothing of
any strike or any differences
among the players of his club and
other teams and Robinson. "The
players in the league have been
bending over backward to see that
he ((Robinson) gets fair break, :"
Shotten said.
Robinson himself denied any
knowledge of the threatened strike
and said: I'm just going along
playing the best ball l know how
and doing my best to make good :"
In five trips to the plate last
night Robinson got a big hand
from the crowd. He collected a
double and single and started a
key double play in the ninth in
ming which snuffed out a Phillies
rally.
In acquiring Schultz the Pills
bought additional first-base insur-
ance. They already have Nick
Etten and Frank Mccormick avail
able, but Mccormick has been
sidelined recently with an ailing
back.
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Card of Thanks

| take this opportunity to ex-
press my gratitude and most sine
ere appreciation to the pastor,
choir. officers and members of the
First A. M. e. Church; the many
friends. both in and out of Seat
tie, for the services rendered dur
ing the funeral services of my
beloved wife. on Saturday, May 10
| am especially grateful to those
who so kindly furnished cars;
all fraternal, religious, social and
civic bodies share an equal degree
of my most cordial appreciation.
| am especially grateful to the
officers who so well gurded our
funeral cortege from Seattle d.
rect to the Tacoma Cemetery
without an incident, nor were we
halted once.
Again thanks to one and all.
J. T. Bradley, Husband
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ROBINSON TO STICK
AS DODCER

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. = Branch
Hickey. owner of the Brooklyn
Dodgers. indicated today he in
tends using Jackie Robinson, first
Negro Baseball player in modern
major-league history. at first base
despite recent reported anti-Negro
diamond developments.
Robinson's main competitor for
the regular first-base job with the
Dodgers, HOWE Schultz, was sold
to the Philadelphia Phillies here
last week for $4,000.
Hickey, here for a conference
with Herb Pennock. general man.
ager of the Phils, disclosed the
sale of Echultz after the Dodgers
had dropped an thinning night
game. to 5, to the pills. At The
same time Hickey disclosed that
the Negro star had received sew
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1947-05-14
Police Complimented

Mourners returning to Seattle,
following the interment of their
loved one halted long enough to
pay homage to the three Motor
cycle guardians for the mastery
manner in which the funeral cort-
ege was conducted direct from
First A. M. E. Church. 14th Ave.
between Pike and Pine Sts., direct
to the cemetery in Tacoma, Wash,
without hating once. Paced by an
officer at the head of the pro-
cession, one in the center, and
guarded by one in the rear, the
body reached it's final resting
place, Seattle to Tacoma cemetery
without single incident.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1947-05-14
There Was Once a Slave
By ShirIy Graham, So

Shirley Graham has performed
an important service in presenting
her new biography of Frederick
Douglas.
The story of Frederick Douglass
has until recently remained bur-
led and inaccessible in scholarly
journals or in fugitive studies on
Negro History. Even Douglass
fine autobiography has long been
out of print.
That one of the greatest men in
American history has been ignored
or at best given a couple of words
in our school texts and histories
is sinful shame and is one of
those wrongs which cries out to
be CHANGED in our American
way of life
Douglass fought his own way to
freedom and then for the rest of
his life fought for the freedom
of his fellow slaves as well as
all of the oppressed of America.
His vision extended beyond his
own individual and embraced the
cause of all who were wronged
and subjected to capital.
He said. 1.-The whole history of
the progress of human liberty
shows that all concessions yet
made to her august claims, have
been born of earnest struggle.
This struggle may be moral
one or it may be physical one;
or it may be both; but it must
be a struggle. Power comedies
without demand. If we
ever get free from all the oppres-
sions and wrongs heaped upon us,
we must pay for their removal.
We must do this by labor, by
suffering, by sacrifice. and, if
needs to be, by our lives, and the
lives of others"
For over a quarter of century,
from his escape in 1888 until the
signing of the Emancipation Pro-
he worked in the anti
slavery movement throughout the !
North and abroad. After the Civil |
War, he Numbered for the full |
enfranchisement of the Negro.
In the reconstruction struggle
for suffrage he said, 81 have had
but one idea for the last three
years, to present to the American
and the phraseology in
which | clothe it is the old abol-
ition phraseology. I am for the
immediate unconditional, and uni
versal" Acknowledgement of the
black man, in every State in the
Union. Without this, his liberty
is a mockery; without this, you
might as well retain the old
name of slavery for his condition;
for. in fact, if he is not the slave
of the individual master, he is
the slave of society and holds
his liberty as a privilege. not as
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1947-05-14
in MEMORIAM
Our Mother

Our Mother
CATHERINE c. GLEASON
She is gone, as far as body is
concerned,
Her sweet voice has ceased to be
heard
But her foot prints are still on
the sands of our hearts
So we know we shall meet never
again to part.
w. t. and Everett Selectman, sons
Mr.. and Mrs. W. T. and Everett
Selectman, daughters.
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interment, Tacoma, Wash
Mrs. Bradley was buried in the
family plot So. Tacoma. The fu-
neral cortege, accompanied by the
Seattle Motor Cycle Guard paced
the procession not only to the
gates of Pierce County, but to the
very brink of the grave, before
releasing their charge to its final
resting place.
Evening star., 1947-07-22
Vote Freud.
Continued From First Page.)

Kansas City election issue Is pend
ing.
Taft Sure Of Investigation.
Discussion Of an agriculture
money bill required six hours yes
terday, although there was no dis
agreement in the Senate and no
actual debate.
Senator Taft said that "one way
or another there will be aN .iNess
tigation this year of the Kansas
City case" thus leaving the way
open for shunting the inquiry to
the House if the Senate does not
act.
Republican leaders anticipate
there would be no undue delay in
the House, where they have a more
substantial majority and where de-
bate is limited.
Senator Kem's call for sena-
torial investigation stems from the
1946 Democratic primary In the
5th Missouri District.
In that election Enos Axtell, run
ming with the open Endorsement of
President Truman, defeated former
Representative Roger Slaughter.
Axtell lost in the general election
to Representative Albert Reeves, jr.,
a Republican.
The Kansas City Star uncovered
charges of widespread buying of
votes and other irregularities in the
primary. The Justice Department
conducted an investigation and MIR.
Clark reported that no evidence Of
Federal law violation was found.
Months later he reopened the in
quiry and a Federal grand jury in
dicted five persons.
Senator KEN charges that Mr..
Clark's only action during the first
inquiry was ito tie the hands OF the
FBI and to whitewash the entire
incident"
Evening star., 1947-07-22
House Votes 10 Lift Tax
On inexpensive JeweIry
by the Asseeicted Press

The House passed unanimously
and sent to the Senate today O bill
exempting from the 20 per cent
excise tax on jewelry any article of
Jewelry selling for less than $25.
On motion of Representative
Forand, Democrat, of Rhode Island,
the jewelry purchase exemption was
written into bill excluding from
excise levies musical instruments
sold for the use Of religious and non
profit educational institutions. nv,
The measure also reduces from Is
per cent to 10 per cent the excise
applicable to cameras and unexposed
amateur roll films. It removes the
tax of Is per cent on Photographic
lenses, apparatus and equipment
used in taking, developing, printing
or enlarging still or motion pictures.
1t is not yet certain whether the
Senate, In the rush for adjournment
by the week end. will act on the
legislation.
Evening star., 1947-07-22
Chinese Greet Wedemeyel
On Arrival in Nankina
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

NANK1NG, July 22.-Lt. Gen.
Albert c. Wedemeyer, attired in a
net blue tweed civilian suit, stepped
from q special plane today into a
China torn by Civil War and plagued
by economic crises.
President Truman's "fact-finder, )"
on whose report likely will depend
future American policy toward
China and Korea, was greeted at
sweltering Nanking military air
drome by American Ambassador
John Leighton Stuart and a num-
Der of Chinese government ofIicials.
Former Premier T. v. Soong, al
though not a member of the official
reception group, was among the
first to shake Gen. Wedemeyer's
hand.
Despite q nonstop flight from
Guam. Gen. Wedemeyer, accom-
panied DR.. Stuart Immediately to
the American Embassy-his resi-
dence during his visit here-for his
first informal conferences. He will
not see Generalissimo Chang Kali
shek until tomorrow morning, when
he and DR.. Stuart will also make
Official calls on Premier Chang Chun
and Foreign Minister Wang shih-
chieh.
Evening star., 1947-07-22

front movements and he must know
they are promoting the Communist
cause, because he has taken an ac-
tive part in their meetings"
Mr.. Steele declared in his testi-
mony that DR.. Frank Oppenheimer
and DR.. Lewis Balamuth. wartime
experts on atomic power, have
taught since at Communist schools.
MIR. Steele testified the Com
munists have established party
schools at New York, San Francisco,
Hollywood. Boston and Cleveland
and use them for propaganda pur-
poses.
He said DR.. oppenheimer, who
now is "at Minnesota taught
atomic energy" at the San Fran
cisco school. DR.. Oppenheimer de-
MED in statement June IL pub
lished reports that he had been q
Communist party member.
Had Worked on Atom Projects.
Mr.. Oppenheimer's statement said
he had worked on atomic develop
ments at Berkeley, Calf, Los Ala
mos. N. M, and Oak Ridge, Tenn.
He is a brother, of DR.. Robert Op-
penheimer, one Of the Nations chief
wartime atomic scientists.
Mr.. Steele said DR.. Balamuth was
connected with the Manhattan
atomic project during the war and
has taught rudiments Of atomic
power at the New York Communist
School.
Also on the faculty Of the New
York school, Mr.. Steele said, was
Vladimir D. Kazakewski, whom he
described as member of the Army
special training faculty at Cornell
in 1943.
The witness said the cat.alog of
Antioch College. Yellow Springs,
Ohio, which he described as a
legitimate" rather than a Com
munist school, lists Arthur s. Stein
berg and Lewis Corey as faculty
members.
He said Mr.. Steinberg, under the
name OF Berger, was listed among
140 persons connected with the
Canadian spy ring in a document in
the possession of the American
Government.
Mr.. Steele said he has informa-
ton that Mr.. Corey's real name is
Lewis Corey Fraini and that he is
a charter member Of the Communist
Party.
At Yellow Springs, Mr.. Corey said
in a telephone interview that he
was considered as one of the out
standing enemies of the Communist
Party"
"Once upon a time I was a Com
munist," Mr.. Corey said, but today
am known as an anti Communist.
For the past 10 years I have, been
writing against communism. I have
published a series Of magazine
articles In which I criticized COM
munism because 1t is a destroyer Of
liberal democracy,"
Evening star., 1947-07-22
Australian Who Ran Town
Alone Gets Soldier Status

Australia has just found out how
Charles F. Hall spent the war years
and has granted him the status of a
soldier. When the Japanese threat
ened, in 1912, everybody left Derby,
a township in the North -West-ex-
cept Mr.. Hall.
He was on duty "a hours daily as
coastguard, customs oficer, naval
intelligence oficer, mercantile ma
rine superintendent and military
recording oficer. On bedside tele-
graphic instruments he reported
ship movements and activities of
enemy planes and spies.
He defied crocodiles and bombs.
When shipping ceased, he hunted
'kangaroos. When he was due for
relief. the post was advertised. AS
there were no takers, he volunteered
for three years more.