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Evening star., 1947-01-05

Students
Of JeweIry
BY HARRY LEVER

CTUDENTS of Woodrow Wilson High
~ School have fun and earn
scholastic credits by manufacturing
semipsecious stones from strange dull
minerals and pieces of petrified wood.
Under the tutelage of Instructor
William T. Baxter, opal, jasper and
agates from Southwest Africa, South
America, Montana and Arizona are
transformed by the enthusiastic pupils
into ring sets, pendants, brooches,
earrings and other decorative items.
The course has been in existence
only a few years and is not taught
from the standpoint of learning
trade, but more as a hobby.
The two dozen boys and girls who
make up each of the five classes, held
daily, steer the raw product through
various stages, with the aid of ma
chimes, before it emerges in finished
FORM
First they saw a large stone or
piece of wood to the approximate size
of the semiprecious stone they have
in mind. This slab" next is trimmed
down by machine into a suitable size
for grinding.
An outline is made on the object,
and in attaining the perfect shape
various additional grinding, sanding
and polishing operations are under
taken.
The finished stone or piece of wood
next is set in silver mounting which
is designed, hammered and finished
by the student.
The groups enthusiasm for the
work is extraordinary. Each student
pays small sum, such as Is cents,
for raw materials, and whatever he
or she makes, be it bracelet or a
brooch, becomes personal property
with a value which may be anywhere
from IS up in finished form.
Because the classes are popular
they are restricted to upper semester
students. and there is a constant line
waiting to tinker at the work tables
or operate the machines. These in
clude an odd but efficient affair which
Mr.. Baxter designed. Its purpose is
to permit drilling of an almost micro
Scopic hole in finished jewelry with
out splitting the stone.
Best illustrating the appeal of the
craft is the decision of David Cannon,
l6, of 6808 Clarendon road, Edgemoor,
Md. Previously student at Leland
Junior High School, he went to Wilson
especially to take the course.
Mckinley and Anacostia High
Schools also have started similar
courses.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1947-11-04
A LOOK AT THE
FUTURE
BY A. D. Braithwaite

The Greeks rewarded their ath-
letic heroes with Laurel Wreaths,
and paeans of praise, but we can
only reward ours with paeans OF
praise. However, in this p%articu-
lar instance the paeans will be
doubly merited for our heroes
have accomplished, and will ac-
complish more than just the win
ming of the game.
Let us recede into the past for
a moment. Let US fade back to the
1946-47 basketball season. An in
dependent professional basketball
team was formed here in Dayton.
1t was sponsored by the Metro
politan store and was called the
"Metropolitans" or the "Mets" to
appease the popular appeal for
brevity. Elwood Parsons, a sub
stantial and popular Dayton citi-
zen, was it's business manager.
Now there is nothing unusual in
the formation Of a basketball
team. But this team, the Nets, had
something unique and distinct
about it that not only distinguish
ed it from most professional bas-
ketball teams, but even from most
colleges teams.
The organization, from the play
ers up to the business office,
represented a racially .integrated
pattern. 1t successfully defied the
insinuations of the skeptics, those
non-plussed pigmies who never
can understand how other people
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1947-11-04
Actors Risk Red
Charge to Aid Negro Role

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. A. (ANP)
At the risk of being called COM
munists, Paulette Goddard and
Roy Chanslor, scenarist, have pro-
tested the Paramount pictures de-
letting a Negro character written
into a film for that company.
According to Chansler, he was
called in by the studio two weeks
ago and asked to revise the screen
adaptation of his novel Hazard"
by changing a Negro character to
a white man. The character, a
Negro porter named Jerry, and a
Sunday school teacher, as written,
was a man of education and per-
ception far above his employment.
In one scene in the film, Miss
Goddard as the leading lady was
to ask him for a tip on the races,
and to receive a polite answer
that, as a Sunday school teacher,
he was not conversant with racing.
Chanslor says that the produc-
er of the film told him Para
mounts New York office feared
southern reaction and censorship
and had, therefore, ordered the
change, but Chanslor refused the
assignment and made public pro-
test. Paramount countered with
an official pronouncement that
the change had been ordered and
not for fear of censorship, but
because Negroes have objected
frequently to depletion of men,
bers of the race as menials in
films.
CONTINUED on page ~
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1947-11-04
moiorist Injured in
Car Bus Crash

Miss Fannie Whitney, %, Sec
rotary of the Daily Express, sus-
tanned several injuries when the
car which she was driving skid
ded on the wet car tracks and
crashed head-on into a Fifth
street-Soldiers home bus at 955
West Fifth street.
Miss Whitney was driving west
on Fifth street, when she lost con
troll of the car becoming entangled
in the wet car tracks and crashed
head-on into the bus, which. was
travelling east, according to po-
lice. Miss Whitney was enroute
to lunch when the accident oc-
cured.
Police reported, that she would
be cited for improper operation
and driving with a temporary per-
nit.
Miss Whitney suffered a posi-
BILE back injury, head injuries and
a possible fracture of her left leg.
Her condition was reported as
fair this morning.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1947-11-04
Jones Bros. Five Taken
Over by West Side Cabs

The West Side Cabs, formerly
the Jones Brothers Morticians will
take to the hardwood game as a
preliminary to the, Metropolitan
Toledo Jeep pro Crane Sunday,
November 9. 1t will be their first
appearance under the banner of
the "Cabbie" and will also be a
member of the Gem City league
playing weekly contests on We'd
nesday nights at the Fairgound
Coliseum. The squad will consist
of such stars as AL and Henry
Tucker, funny Fischer, Wittie
Jones, Johnny Arnold and a new
come.
Oliver "Ziggy" Irwin, a six foot
forward. William "Chink" Jones,
will handle the booking Of the
club and would like to hear from
any team wanting games, write or
call him at 455 West Fifth street,
or phone Adams 8279.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1947-11-04
Dayton Metropolitan Pro
Basketball Team To-
Open Season Sunda
BY Jimmie N. Jones

With "King Football" near the
halfway mark, basketball will get
on it's way Sunday afternoon, as
the Dayton Metropolitan pros pry
off the '47-48 lid and start the
court season.
Coach Herb Brown and man
ager Elwood Parsons are all smiles
these days as they boast of their
chances to go places with the re-
turn Of all their last seasons quin-
tet consisting of Duke Cumber-
land, the Cleveland star as one of
the guards, and Don Harvey at
the other guard post. Don Blank
en-, last seasons work-horse, and
Chris Hansen, former coach and
stalwart of many seasons at the
forward post. Rounding out the
"Big Five" is none other than that
sensational Clifton (Sweetwater)
Nathanial in the center position.
Coach Brown has been working
his squad out for the past month
and has them in tip top shape for
the opener. After taking over the
duties of membership in m%id-season
of '46-47 when everything went
wrong with the Dayton five.
Brown nodded the squad into a
winning combination and went on
to win 18 games in a row. The
Nets have one o fthe best hard
wood aggregations in the midwest
and will play all of the the out
Standlng pro teams as tney Ola
last season. One of the main wor-
ries of Coach Brown and manager
Parsons is the reserve strength.
Among some who have tried
out with the Nets are: Irby
Brown, six footer from Gary In
diana, and a former player on the
New York Rens, Tommy Gatzek
five-eleven, formerly of Law
renee Teck and another six-six
Giant Harold Johnson, of the De-
troit Falcons.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1947-11-04
INITIATION HITS
virgin ISLANDS
BY Adolph Gereau

ST. THMOAS, V. L., Nov. A.
(ANP)-Economic conditions here
were growing steadily worse this
week as Gov. HASTE vetoed a bill
passed by the legislature to grant
a temporary cost of living in
crease to municipal employees,
many of whom are admittedly un-
derpaid.
The governor revealed that the
municipal finances n in a pre-
carious condition and there is no
possible way of guaranteeing the
$4,000 necessary to meet these
increases. He also revealed that
the central administration which
is financed by federal funds will
have to get along on much re-
duced appropriations as neither
President Truman nor the bureau
Of the budget will look with favor
on his seeking a deficit appropria-
ton. He has therefore given in
structions to adjust thegovern-
ment to present resources.
Meanwhile unemployment is
rampant and the cost Of living is
weekly increasing. Many of the
necessities of life have increased
by 100 per cent or more and suf-
fering among the laboring class
has begun. Hopes are being hung
on a promise made to islanders
by Sen. Denis Chaves Of New
Mexico during a recent visit here
last week. He promised that as
soon as he gets back to the Uni
ted States he will assist in paving
the way for when congress meets
in January to get a return of in
ternal revenue taxes collected in
the United States on products
shipped there from those islands.
This, it is claimed, will bring more
than half a million dollars in new
revenues into the municipal treas
uries o fthe Virgin islands and
render the fiscal picture whole
some.
In the meantime, however, the
d~istilleries here are at a stand
still and have laid off many work
men because Of the slum in rum
importations into the United
States which threatens the amount
Of internal revenue taxes. Many
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1947-11-04
Says Rape Used by
Wives 10 Hide
~unfaithfuIness

WASHINGTON, Nov. a. CAMP
|-Phony charges of rape against
Negroes is a long duration, but
color prejudice has always ham,
pered most efforts to give the
Negro accused a fair and impair
tial trial. Within the past two
years several cases of alleged rape
reported to officers in the south
have received the routine pub
Lefty in the daily press only to
fade out o fthe publicity picture
with no press releases clearing up
the situation or no published re-
ports to exonerate the accused.
Cases of this sort have occurred
in the nations capital, Richmond,
Va, Columbia, S. c., and other
cities. 1t appears that the rape
stories in these instances reported
to local officers fail to stand up
under critical investigation.
The local women's bureau chief,
Capt. Rhoda J. Milliken is reported
in a daily paper here as saying
that most of the alleged rape vic
TINS admit under questioning that
the charge was false.
Many of the women claiming to
have been attacked or assaulted,
she says are married, and resort
to that accusation to establish a
good alibi for unfaithfulness. Such
tactics have been resorted to in
cases involving Negro men to good
effect.
That alibi has been used more
frequently lately in the south as
elsewhere to shield married white
women, no doubt, who framed
up innocent white men for the
same purpose. 1t was only then
that officers of the law and courts
became more interested in what
is happening.
Some social workers, sociolo-
gists, teachers and lawyers are
hoping that the exposing of phony
rape charges will help combat mob
violence and ~lawlessness in the
south where such charges. r fac
tors in mob hysteria.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1947-11-04

federal employees here are sad
dened at the thought of revenues
from this source for they fear
that with it will come a transfer
of their positions to the munich
pal budgets with decreased sal
aries as federal employees are paid
at higher rates than municipal
employees, and it is not expected
that the federal government will
return the internal revenue taxes
and continue to pay the expenses
of the central administration.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1947-11-04

act from higher ideals than they
do.
The Dayton Metropolitan bas-
ketball team is about to start its
second season of play. That the
organization is again defying ra-
cial barriers is indeed unique. It
Continued on page ~
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1947-07-04
By Ethel 'Teddy" MOscCvitz

pletely Jewish For four days
the young people had created 8
miniature Jewish state in Jack
sonville And those who, with
out the prompting of a leader,
Joined hands in the terminal sta
ton in Jacksonville to dance a
bora with the visitors who were
departing and then sing
"Sholom Haverim" so that every
one could hear-those young peo-
pie know what a wonderful thing
it is to be a Jew
A great many honors were CIV
en- out at this convention +.
Charleston was awarded the best
club award and Jacksonville's
Gerald Sohn was honored by being
chosen the best all-around judi
aean in the region :. f. Twenty
five trees were planted in honor
of regional Youth Director, Her
man Popkin :. and Mrs. Nat F..
Cohen, Jax Zionist Youth Com
mission Chairman was inscribed
in the Jewish National Fund Gold
en- Book by the convention {.
I received an inscription also {.
and am proud enough to burst a
couple of buttons In the manner
in which the $235.OO was raised
among the 1876 delegates and Wis
itors to the convention
Jacksonville is sending Herbert
Sohn and Jacqueline Falls to the
Zionist Seminar which is being
held in the Plugat Aliyah Farm
near Paughkeepsie, N. Y. in Aug
ust as a reward for their efforts
in Young Judaea and for their
training in leadership within the
Youth groups . Others from
Jacksonville will be going also
and their names will be announced
later.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1947-07-04

The Southeastern Regional
Young Judaean Convention which
was held in Jacksonville is over :.
What did the four day conclave
do? More than anything else
it made a great number of boys
and girls proud and happy to be
Jews It is an amazing thing
to see a self-conscious group OF
teen-agers. who refused to be
identified as Jews in any way by
a badge or a ribbon on their
clothing, crystalline in four days
into bright eyed young people
singing Hebrew songs while walk
ing down Main Street =.
Of course it isn't a TRANSFORMED
ton which took place overnight =.
For many of the young people it
meant years of activity in club
work work which they very
often did not understand and
at moments it was activity
against which they rebelled !.
Sometimes it is very hard to ex-
plain to a group of young people
why they must learn to sing in
Hebrew or why all of their
projects must have a Jewish
theme But during the con-
clave the realization came that
to be a Jew one must have worked
at it with his hands and heart and
mind otherwise his Judaism means
nothing to him :.
Those in Jacksonville who
worked on the convention from
early morning to late at night
for many weeks finally understood
that during the convention itself
that they had created something
Jewish and what a sweet
thing it is to take from what is
within you to create something
strong and beautiful and COM
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1947-07-04
Washing Your Laundry
On Broadway

Brandeis University was con-
ceived as a Jewish-run, non-sec-
tartan, institution to alleviate the
disabilities that Jews and other
minorities in our country suffer
from the clandestine and semi
official quota systems in so many
of our best universities. But even
before the University has come
into being. the dissension among
its founders have been given pub
lie airing in the press, and Rankin
Bilbo charges against the Jews
were used by some of the dis
putants to label their adversaries.
Washing your laundry on Broad
way is not real public relations.
Brandeis University was intended
to help the Jewish community.
Without going into the merits of
the arguments of either of the
parties involved in the dispute, we
must say that it is this kind of
scandal that undoes with a veng-
erance whatever good our inter-
faith and anti-defamation groups
accomplish.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1947-07-04
LETTER BOX
A., Berkowitz
Birmingham 8, Alabama
June %, 1947

Birmingham 8, Alabama
June %, 1947
Mr.. Isadore Moscovitz
P. o. Box go
Jacksonville, Florida
Dear Mr.. Moscovitz:
I have just heard from our
Regional Director that you were
reelected to the office of Vice
President of the Jacksonville
Zionist District and hasten to ex-
tend to you my warmest congrat-
ulations upon your assumption OF
this important post.
The critical situation in which
our people finds itself at TINS
moment calls for every ounce OF
energy and devotion in the per-
Torrance of the duties which each
of us is called upon to perform.
Your reelection to the office of
Vice-President is testimony to the
qualifications which we feel sure
you will bring to your task in
ample measure.
You know, of course, that you
may always feel free to call upon
me and the regional office for
whatever assistance we can render
in pursuance of your work.
With kindest personal and
lions greetings, I remain
Most cordially yours,
Abe BerkoWitZ, President
S. e. Zionist Region
Milford chronicle., 1947-10-17
Episcopal Church
To Expand Work
In Education

New York, N. believing that
one reason for Juvenile delinquency
and other ills that beset America
today is the failure of the Church
TO train it's children in Christian
principles and Christian living, the
Episcopal Church is arranging to
enlarge the scope and increase the
effectiveness of its educational pro-
gram. The former Division of
Christian Education is enlarged in
to a Department of Christian Edu-
cation, with Divisions for children,
youth and adults. Director of the
Department will be the Rev. John
Heuss, at present rector of st. Mat
thew's Church, Evanston, ILL.,, who
will take up his new work in New
York next November. Mr.. Heuss has
been a member of the Episcopal
National Council since 1943. He has
also been chaplain of Episcopal
Church students at Northwestern
University, and has served on var
ious Chicago diocesan and COM
munity boards. He is graduate
of st. Stephens (now Bard) College,
Annandale, N Y. and later studied
at the universities of Cologne,
Frankfort apd Berlin. He was born
in Hastings, N. Y, in 1908.
Milford chronicle., 1947-10-17

curity. 1t certainly increases the Sc
curity of the employer, too.
The most often voiced fears of
workers are that they will be forced
to give up their regular vacation or
that the two weeks at camp will
mean a financial loss for them. In
outlining an ideal plan to be fol-
lowed by business men in support
of the National Guard the follow
ing steps could be taken: Cd issue
statement supporting the national
guard; CD encourage employees to
participate in the Guard program:
(3) allow limited leave of absence
for summer training with full or
partial pay in addition to the re-
gular vacation; (4) guarantee to
employees that this leave of abb
sence will involve no loss of senior
ity. Some employers now follow the
practice of making up the difference
between an employees wages and
the regular Army pay he receives
while at camp. Many business men
however, are now instituting a plan
whereby employees receive theii
full pay for the time spent at camp
thus giving them an added incentive
to join the Guard.
BY carefully considering the pro,
blems involved and working out {
plan which best fits his particular
Milford chronicle., 1947-10-17
ANDREWVILLE

Bethel M. p. Church will hold its
Rally Day services Sunday, Oct 10,
at 2:30 p. m. The speaker for the
afternoon will be Mr.. Benjamin
Knox, one of its former members
who now resides in Harrington.
There will be a special rendition
by Grace intermediate Choir of
Greenwood. We cordially invite you
to come.
We are glad to report that Mrs.
Arthur Collision, who has been con-
fined to her bed, is now up and inn
proving nicely
Mrs. David Bradley. who has been
i'll for some time, suffered setback
two weeks ago from which she. is
slowly recuperating.
Our community has recently well
coined a new member-lfttle Robert
Jay-who recently arrived at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Richard
Smith.
Mrs. ] Hubert Cannon enter
tanned members and friends OF
Bethel w. S. c. S. in her home or
Wednesday, Oct. s.
Milford chronicle., 1947-10-17
SOIL SUPERVISOR TO ATTEND
FARM HEARING

Irving B. Hudson, Chairman OF
the Sussex County Soil Conserva-
tion District Board of Supervisors,
will attend a hearing before the
House Agriculture Committee
which will be held in Lancaster,
Pa, the latter part of this month
The purpose of this hearing is 10
assist the House Agriculture Com
mittee in formulating an overall
long range Agricultural Program
for the Nation.
In order to get the thinking OF
farm leaders from this County on
the problem of an overall Agricul-
ture Program that would best suit
the needs of this area Mr.. Hudson
met with a number of leaders Fri
day evening at the Georgetown
Farm Labor Camp to discuss these
problems.
Those attending the meeting were
j. E. Wheatley, Delmar; w. c. New.
ton, Bridgeville; Henry /. Short
Georgetown; Alden S. Short
Georgetown; Douglas Fry, Mil
ford; George Simpson, Houston
Emory McCabe, Selbyville; E. H
Talbert, Georgetown; Clayton
Bunting, Selbyville; George NJ
Worrilow, Newark; Paul Mitchell
Hockessin; VIM. c. Sloan, George
town and VIM. H. Henderson
Georgetown.
Milford chronicle., 1947-10-17

Approximately $500 graduates Of
West Point saw active service dur
ing World War H.
Milford chronicle., 1947-10-17

that all German coal can be EN-
ployed inside the country. If that
is done, he writes, "The restora-
ton of not only Germany but of
Western Europe could be assur-
ed. I" The only way it can be done
is for Western Europe to again be
supplied with British coal. Thus
the problem comes home to Eng
land and her labor government.
England has great coal resources
and a great coal industry. But pro-
duction has been diminishing. That,
Mr.. Brown thinks, is in large part
caused by Labor's naturalization
program and the policy of an equal
amount of austerity for everyone.
His point is that, "Austerity cam
not take the place of production. :"
He believes strongly that Britain
should give her miners direct in
centives to go to the 6-day week
and to sharply step up production.
This would be a boon to the Brit
ish economy-30,0 100000 tons of
coal exported at current prices
would almost bridge the gap that
now exists between England's i'm
ports and exports.
The United States, Mr.. Brown
continues, will have to contribute
heavily if his plan is to succeed.
But he wants our contributions to
be made as part of an organized
program whose end result is to
put Europe on her feet. He thinks
that, food must be supplied to Ger
many, not primarily as relief, but
on fiye-year plan under which the
food will be used as an incentive
to get German industry into pro-
duction. Loans to Great Britain
must be made on the same basis
and be used as an incentive to gel
production. Then, the loans can
finally be repaid through the trans
fer of goods to us. The mechanics
of repayment, he feels, should be
established at the beginning.
Lastly, Mr.. Brown considers
what Russia might do in the face
of such plan for the reconstruc,
ton of Western Europe. He does
not believe she will go to war. He
does believe that if we fail "a world
wide economic depression will re-
suit, and then Russia, trading or
misery and unrest, will achieve hel
aims.
The foregoing touches the higf
spots of a brilliant and construc
/ tive survey. AS Mr.. Brown says al
the end, it is imperative for "tht
leaders of our government and tn.
committees of Congress to act will
the utmost promptness in develop
ing a plan that can be submitted
to a special session of Congress
this fall"