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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1947-09-20
SCHOOL
STRIKE
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A0fAANNN HHNs'A -
was approved by parents mass
meeting hats the transfev OF stu
dents TO the Birdhurst School and
permits seventh and eighth grad
crS ~ remain AZ Higginbotham.
THIS still results m oVercrowd.
IN untl the addition TO Higgil-
botbam rs completed the fol,.
halliday schedules tor first and
second grade children viii re-
main IN effect for about six
weeks
The reason f,y the overcrowd-
Ing ~ fiRglnbotham is due 10
the 7th and 9th grades formerly
at,cnClne school a. Post Inter-
date being sent back 90 Hlg-
ginbothau
Las, week parents dedcd 4
schoo. board orde and asking
Doll athe than send their
children % The Birdhurst school
whore thcv were assigned
Ms Burniecc AvcrN 1924
Wisconsin and James Smlth.
~ COAL Va burn, both OIL
GERS az the Carve, Progressive
Club led the fight 70 vent
Negto lhlldrcn alone from beng
assigned % an obsolete and once
discarded building
The pstr was backed W per
cent ~ the strike fight as not
one child oetwccp the fist and
9Th G ndos attended school fyom
the time school opened officially
until settlement was made
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1947-09-20

rem, Jimmie Fritz Kenneth h
ley, Cornclia Minusfee h,
Rutherford, ArtiS Castlcberv'
others.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1947-09-20
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ranging from bread TO beauty
products. and plastic clothes pins
to washing machines Over $50
displays were set up. demon
strating the large number and
variety OF businesses in Dc
troit.
The trade show is scheduled
to run through Sunday Sept.
q with prizes and awards be-
ing given out both nightly and
on the last day
Special features FOR the lat
Ter part OF the week are the
fashion show on Friday night
and the bathing beauty contest
finals on Saturday night
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1947-09-20

ocen member for 9 years with
the Rev J. II Johnson, pastor.
officiating Participating IN the
solemn ceremonies were units OF
Motor City Lodge OF Elks. No
962, the Emma V. Kelley Tenn
pie No $50. an auxiliary of the
lodge, Past Exalted Rulers of
Council No. Ga, Past Daughter
Rulers and other organizations
OF Lodge and Temple The de-
ceased was an Officer of both
Temple and P d. r. c.
lnterment was in Resthaven
Cemetery lnkster with Charles
T. Cole. Mortician, conducting
arrangements.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1947-09-20
NATL BAPT.-

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Thursday afternoon session be-
fore he had read his annual adj
dress DR.. NJ w Whit, of Bir-
mingham Ala. moved that all
rules be suspended and DR.
Jemison be reelected. DR.. Jem-
lson. with tears in his eyes said
that he could not find words
adequate enough TO express his
profound gratitude for the kind
expression OF confidence in him"
His address was read bv Rev
L. a. Pinkston OF Georgia. In
addition TO lauding the contri-
buttons of the Boards 10 the
work of the convention. the re-
port discussed race relations:
III the gospel is preached in its
purity and Jesus Christ is rep
resented, and he is. there will
be no discrimination or segrega-
ton on account Of race. creed or
color y il stated
Seven things were listed as
TO what the Negro wants: "a
fair trial by jury and moi by
mob; the abolition Of the poll
tax; the opportunity alonq
with others 10 educate his chill.
dren; a fair distribution of the
monies appropriated for edu.
cation; the Negro Is satisfied
TO worship under his own vine
and fig tree and he does not
feel that he is elevated 10 a
superior set when he worships
with the proud Caucaslans;
the Negro Of the South wants
TO worship in his own church
and 10 be educated along with
his own people and favors the
adoption of the FEPc in full"
On the morning of the election
for the vice-president-a large. a
study OF the ballots cast or
Thursday revealed that Rev
Perry had won over Rev. Jack.
son When this was announced
Jackson's supporters throngec
toward the platform.
Rev. Jamirson went into con
ference with the two candidate.
and telleyS and while he wa.
away from the rostrum. IN,
crowd struggled for the micro
phone AT this point the polio,
arrived but when Rev. Harter
Of Brooklyn revealed TO tn,
crowd that the police were there
the delegates chanted: We don
need them The Rev Thoma
Shelby OF Detroit sat at IN,
piano and began TO play Tn,
crowd began to sing and tn,
police left Rev Jamirson re
turned 10 the platform and OF
an appeal from him. Jackson
withdrew from the race. thereb,
gaining an ovation as hero o
the convention. His supporter
retired when il was learned
that he would be regional vic,
president, succeeding Rev. Perry
LARGE ATTENDANCE
There were more than 5000
persons in attendance al tn,
convention.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1947-09-20
First GI's Body
Back From Overseas

Funeral services Will be held
Monday AZ > O'Clock fol Pfc
Gus Ellison Jr who was killed
in the italian Theatre OF War
August s II was announced by
Diggs Funeral Home today Pfc.
Ellison IS the first Negros body
returned 10 Detroit IN line with
the mass shipment of soldiers
bodies from war areas iot burial
at home. as requested by Off
GERS
He Is survived by his wife.
Louise Ellison Of 1923 Illinois,
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Rev 7. f spann
Miss Virginia Price Ohyet
Baptist Church. and Miss
Matte Lou Floyd of Bishop
college, Marshall. Texas. We're
present at the historic meet.
ing and assisted I'M the or
gsnIzatlonal work
D. J 5 Williams was
elected PRESIDENT d., S )
feed i.St vice president.
Key W NJ J Bishop, second
wee president Rev " $
GOWN secretary protein,
Reg J 5 Scott treasurer
Immediately following the
oroaniIaiion OF the Conven
hon the new group became
associated with the Ma
honal Baptist Convention OF
America. Inc. which met
IN Kansas City last week.
rhc following pastors VINO
rep cScnted the convention
serves on the scvcta! I'M
20 TAM committees % the no
tional body They ave Rev
s Williams. Re> " 5
ColNn Rev T { Spann
Rev L c Collins ID ] H.
Bruce Rev " Il, Scott Rel
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1947-09-20

Impressive funeral rites were
held Monday afternoon tor Mrs.
Eta J Long. 65. OF 924 Vernon
Highway, East Mrs. Long
rrSldont OF Detroit Al years,
Nas born in Campbell County.
VA in 1882 She passed on
3hie patient IN Harper Hos
3.tsl early Thursday morning
last week Mrs Long IS sur
ivcd by a mother. Mrs Sarah
Nolan 81 Of Campbell County.
Va, two sons Sonny and Alvin.
and daughier-in-laW Mrs.
Maggie Jones wife Of Sonny. Of
Detroit
The services we're held from
Friendship Baptist Church 623
Mack avenue Of which she had
and one child.
Military experts predict re
turn OF about 500 bodies per
month to the Detroit area
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-09-13
Committee Did
: Not Sign Letter
Concerning Park

The four members OF the COM
mittee, S. w. Kelly, L. A. Ga
briel, r. v. MCGEE and Charles
Major, who appeared before the
County Commission Tuesday
night to request the developing
of place in the Fort Taylor
reservation as a park for colofed
residents, denied today that they
had anything to do with the let
ter, signed "The Committee, I"
that was published in The Citi-
zen about the attitude of Chair
man Frank Bentley regarding
the proposed park.
They said the letter was a
complete surprise to them be-
cause Chairman Bentley spoke
most favorably" about the es-
Enlistment of the park. L. A..
Gabriel said:
'Mr. Bentley said that no ex-
act stipulation should be made,
after the commissioners voted to
give us $4,000, but that a SUI
ficient amount should be spent to
make the park satisfactory for
ms. What more could we ask? All
of us thought that it was better
not to stipulate any amount, be-
cause when that was used up
and the park was incomplete, we
would be without funds to finish
the job. But now, in accordance
with Mr.. Bentley's proposal, the
park will be made satisfactory
for us"
S. w. Kelly, chairman of the
committee, confirmed L. A. Ga
briefs statement, and added, "Af-
ter the vote of the committee
and Mr.. Bentley's statement, l
left the meeting quite satisfied
and with high hopes for the flu
ture of this project"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-09-13
Rec. Nichols To
Speak At USO

Rev. Bronnie Nichols, pastor OF
the First Baptist Church, and un-
til recently a Navy chaplain,
will speak at the Jackson Square
.USO Java Hour, on Sunday, at
$50 a. m.
Rev. Nichols talk will be
brief and informal, and he will
accompany himself on his accor-
dion. 1t promises to be very in
teresting session.
A series of non-sectarian talks
by well-known local clergy has
been scheduled for Sunday morn
ings in response to requests from
service personnel.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-09-13
COLORED
CHURCHES

THE Pleadings of Wonderful
Savious" is the IL o'clock morn
ing worship sermon to be given
by Rev. c. C. Higgs, pastor at
the Cornish Chapel, Whitehead
and Angela streets.
At the 1880 evening worship
the pastor will preach on the SUBJ
ject, Book Open"
A. Milton Davis will deliver
the evening sermon at the Trim
ity Presbyterian Church at 7:30.
Friday evening at 800 O'Clock,
the choir rehearsal and Boy
Scout meeting will be held. Sigis-
fnund A: Laing, minister, will
deliver the morning sermon at
TOO O'Clock.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-09-13
Key West In
Days Gone By
as TAKEN FROM FILES
OF TIE CITIZEN OF
SEPTEMBER Is. ls47

Two choral groups, under WPA
direction, are rehearsing Tuesday
and Friday nights in the Over
seas Hotel salon for a concert to
be given on Thanksgiving.
Charles Aronovitz, who re-
turned Saturday from New York,
said that many persons with
whom he spoke while in that city
expressed interest in the Over
seas Highway.
Policeman Bienvenido Perez
today recovered the jewelry
that had been stolen from the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Lo-
peg on Catherine street.
The diamond ball game, sched
uled to be played last night as
the first of series to determine
the championship of Key West,
was postponed on account of
rain. The game will be played
tonight, weather permitting.
MIR. and Mrs. Milton Knowles
left this morning for Miami to
visit relatives.
Mrs. Ray Navarro left this
morning to visit, her mother and
sister in Jacksonville.
Archie M. Goehring, who had
been visiting relatives in Key
West, returned yesterday to Mi
ami.
Mr.. and Mrs. Orlando Cara
ballo left this morning for a short
visit in Miami.
Today The Citizen says in an
editorial paragraph:
"Mr. Hurricane, keep away al
ways, but if you must visit us,
please defer the visit until the
bridges are built
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-09-13
apply To We'd

An application for a marriage
license was filed yesterday with
County Judge Raymond r. Lord
by JACK O'Dell, 20, of the u. S.
Navy and Ruth Frye, II, of
Graham, Texas.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-09-13
Parents To Go To =
School Tuesday

Parents of Junior-Senior High
School students will attend the
Parent Teachers school Tues
day at 8 p. M, in the High School
auditorium.
All parents will meet the in
structors of their children by at
tending Glasses" during the eve
ming. A complete days schedule
will be carried out for the par
ents and will end with a general
assembly in the auditorium.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-09-13
Your Horoscope

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER Is,
Ig47-Today endows with consid-
cradle commercial ability and a
mathematical mind, but there is
too much tendency to disputes,
which may lead to quarrels, with
serious consequences. Avoid trou-
BILE with foreigners, especially if
the business leads to foreign lands.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER IA, ls47
AResourcefulness in ideas and
ability in execution are the key
notes to today's character. Eco
nomical to a fault, acquisitive and
fairly fortunate, the native should
acquire considerable Compel
ence. Do not love money for it
self, for it will lead to misfor-
tune.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-09-13
A Long Weary Way

"A little poetry goes long way
with me-" said the business man.
YES" agreed the amateur
scribbler. Il send mine all over
the country, too
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-09-13

The lantern used by Paul
Revere was made of punched iron
with hinged door through
which a candle could be inserted.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-27
LEGION DRUMMERS
SEEK N. E. AWARD
Instructor Expresses Con-
fidence In Wilmington
Corps Ability

Wilmington American Legion
post has been "promised' the
North Carolina Drum and Bugle
corps championship by R. T. Ber-
man, director of the local organiza-
ton.
Berman said last night his group
will win the state crown at the
forthcoming Carolina Beach con-
vention if they give me coopera-
ton for the next few weeks"
Organized last October, the Post
No. 10 corps has improved steadily
under Berman's instruction, but a
new lesson has been added since
it has been reported that Gen.
Dwight Eisenhower and Gen. Oman
Bradley may attend the Tar Heel
legion convention.
"We've got to learn ruffles and
flourishes if the generals make an
appearance" Berman said, when
a starred military officer is around,
the bugles honor him with the
ruffles. and flourishes."
Rerman has just been awarded
a diploma in the National Associa-
tic: of fundamental Drummers,
which qualities him to instruct any
drummer in the country. He took
the examination in Baltimore last
month.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-27
Towing Ship
Is Involved
In Pay Row
Other Vessels OF Moran
Towing Company, OF
New York, Affected
20 ON STRIKE
Members OF Deck, Engine
And Stewards Depart
ment Seek Pay Hike

The S. S. Trinidad Head of the
Moran Towing company, New York
city, was tied up by a strike OF the
Seamans' International union last
night at the Broadfoot Iron Works,
foot Of Church street.
Members of the deck, engine and
stewards departments walked off
the ship, a towing vessel leased
by the War Shipping administra-
ton, at 2:30 p. m. yesterday, when
the STU called a strike for a six
per cent pay increase against the
Moran Towing company, n of the
largest towing companies in the
world.
The Trinidad Head is approx
mately 1872 feet long, and carries
a full crew of about 26 men.
Captain Bill Dupuey of the Trini-
dad Head was quoted as saying
that the New York company had
advised him that arbitration was
expected to begin Wednesday.
The Moran company operates
seven ships of the Trinidad Head
type. it was understood, with one
at Savannah, Ca, another en- route
to Java with a ship in tow. It
was not reported where the other
four vessels were located. How
ever, it was understood that the
ship at Savannah had been struck
also.
The Moran company operates ap-
proximately 100 harbor tugs in New
York harbor, it was reported, but
these vessels were not affected by
the strike.
The Trinidad Head was scheduled
to leave Wilmington for Charles
ton at 2:30 p. m. today with the
S. S. Blackman, from the Bruins
wick layup basin, in tow.
Licensed personnel of the Trini-
dad Head were being forced to eat
in restaurants, as members of the
stewards department were not
working,
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-27
GOVERNMENT LOSS
is CITED IN WAA
High Official Admits Con-
siderable Loss In Sale
OF Nuts, Bolts

WASHINGTON, April 26-WD-
A high official of the War Assets
administration admitted today that
the government lost considerable
money in the sale of surplus nuts
and bolts under a contract that
bordered on the ''unconscionable."
The contract, signed on May g.,
1916, turned over to the Palmer
Nut & Bolt company of Detroit
nearly all surplus nuts and bolts.
The purchase price was $22, so a
ton. Some of the nuts and bolts
we're later valued at Sc, 600 a ton.
my opinion is that it is a very
bad type of contract for the gov
ernment," Jesse Larson, WAA
acting general counsel told a spe-
cial House committee Investigate
ing surplus property sales.
Larson said he began Investigate
ing the contract last January when
it was first called to his attention.
concluded that while it was
bad, it was "valid and binding"
and had to be carried out.
BY that time, the WAA had de-
livered about IS, 900 tons of nuts
and bolts to the Palmer company
at a price of 81, soc, 900. House
committee officials have estima-
ted that the government could
have realized at least an addi-
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-27

Ter and other political appointees
range from a top of $1,000 a year
down to $1,000.
Aiken said there 5. a valid de-
tense of political appointees in GER
tain government positions because
of complaints that "some civil
service workers are rather mar
row and get arbitrary because they
are so ure of their jobs"
The political pa:--nage COM
plant turned up during a sharp
criticism of the customs bureau for
firing 1879 port and border patrol
officers after tae House reduced
its operating funds for the fiscal
year that begins July 1.
Aiken told the Senate this
Wholesome firing" was a "bald
faced" attempt to influence Con-
gress. He recommended that the
bureau get 20 additional funds and
be instructed to distribute the 3d.
500, 900 reduction over all its en-
ployes instead of Jumping it all on
the officers who guard borders and
ports against smuggling.
Senator Gordon (R-Ore), chair
man of an Appropriations subcom-
mittee which is passing upon
Customs operating funds, raised
the question of political appointees
during hearings. He asked wheth-
ef they had experience in the
work.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-27
Attacks Customs
Positions As Political

WASHINGTON, April 26.-P-
Senator Aiken CR-Vt.) today class
ed Sc well-paying jobs in the Gus
toms burea1 as political plums and
announced plans to knock them
off in an economy shakeup.
Aiken is chairman of the new
Senate expenditures committee
which already has recommended
that the bureau be Thoroughly
overhauled and reorganized" in
order to operate during the next
fiscal year within a $500, 900 slash
in its operating funds.
The political plums, Aiken told
a reporter, are posts of collectors
Of customs and "other political
a%ppointees that are costing the
government more than $500, 900 a
year"
1.-THE expenditures committee is
going to examine into these poll
teal jobs at length" Aiken said.
eve may recommend that they
be abolished"
Aiken reported the committee
staff already has found that two
of tae political appointees" are
"at least 80 years Of age and
physically unqualified for the
work" while another recently re-
placed, was a practicing physi-
clan who visited the customs Of
flee about once every two weeks
presumably on pay days"
The study showed salaries OF
the customs collectors, comptrol-
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-27

CE Latest
To Follow
Jones And LoughIin Steel
Firms Also Join Ranks
10 Give Pay Hikes
100000 BENEFIT
Wage Patterns Compare
With Predominant Plan
Granted Last Spring
BY the Associated Press

General Electric, the Chrysler
corporation and the Jones and
Laughlin Steel corporation Satur-
day granted their employees wage
boosts approximating Is cents an
hour, bringing to more than $780,
600 the number of workers in
three major industries who have
reached agreements at that figure.
The General Electric agreement
for a Is cent boost covered 125, 900
employees in IA states. The Chrysler
contract, similar to one signed by
General Motors Tuesday, provided
a II IL cent increase plus six paid
holidays and other changes and
affects 10000 production employees
in five states.
The agreement with Jones and
Laughlin, the nations fourth larg-
est steel producer, covered 25,0O0
employees in the Pittsburgh area
and provided for a u IL cent hoost
plus other benefits which made
the total more than IS cents"
The wage pattern set by pre-
vious increases in the electrical,
automotive and steel industries,
and followed in Saturdays settle
ments, compared with a predomi-
nant pattern of 10 and 10 IL cents
boosts granted last spring at the
peak of the postwar strike wave.
Although 30-day strike notices
were filed in some industries this
year, the 1947 agreements were
reached without the series of Grip
ping walkouts that marked 1916.
In the current three week tele-
phone strike. Joseph A. Beirne,
president of the National Fedora
ton of Telephone Workers. ex-
pressed hope that some settlement
of the communications walkout
might be reached before Monday.
The NFTW originally asked a
SIP a week increase and later re-
duced demands to Sc or approx
mately IS cents an hour.
Meanwhile in Washington the
Senate Republican Policy commit
Continued on Page Three; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-27
INTEREST MOUNTS
IN BEACH VOTING

CAROLINA BEACH, April &c.
Registration for voting in the gem
eral election May 6 had yesterday
jumped from $40 on the books at
the opening, to 7S0.
A long line of potential voters
kept j. G. S~anderson, registrar
busy all day, in a squirt Of unex-
planned interest in the pending
election which will see a mayor
and four aldermen elected, and
hear a voice from the residents
on a proposed bond issue for town
improvements.
The bond issue which officials
admit is urgently needed now, to
proceed with a program of street
and sidewalk paving and extension
and improvement to the towns
water and sewer systems.
The bond issue, according to Of
fices of the town clerk, will not at
feet the tax rate of property own
ers materially, the assessments for
funds to pay the costs of the work
being paid over a five-year period.
Meanwhile officials have an
nounced that some progress is be-
ing made on the drainage program,
and that despite heavy rainfall OF
the past week, water in Carolina
lake has been at its lowest ebb
in several months.
They accounted for this by point
ing out that their new ditch open
ed at an approximate cost OF 3d.
900 this spring, had been sand
bagged to keep the water from
old Heneka ditch from flowing in
to the new channel.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-27
SUMMER TIME
IS OBSERVED
in 10 STATES
By The Associated Press

Most people in ten states, and
some people in six others, today
were minus an hour of time they
won't regain until Sept. %.
Clocks were turned ahead an
hour early today in parts of the
l6 states, most of them in the
northeast, but most people in the
south, west and midwest spurned
daylight saving time and still OPP
Grated on standard time today.
Also staying or Standard Time
were railroads. ai- and buss lines,
which predicted little confusion and
said long-trip schedules would re-
main about the same. Only IN
committing areas having daylight
time were changes expected. with
schedules printed in standard time
but in most cases shifted n hour.
Clock-fixing at 2 a. m. today at
fected most of the residents OF
New, York, Connecticut, Main,
Massachusetts, New Hampshire,
New Jersey, Rhode Island, Della
ware. Vermont and Pennsylvania.
and some residents of Maryland,
Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Tennes-
see and Michigan.