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Arizona sun., 1947-08-08
Retail Clerks Vote
To Strike in Event
Negotiations Fail

At a special meeting Tuesday
night, Phoenix Retail Clerks Union,
No. 80, voted almost unanimously
to strike in the event negotiations
broke down with Phoenix retail
stores, it was announced Wednes-
day morning by Mary Pond, secre-
tary of the local.
President Edwin Wetzler stated
that negotiations were still under
way and he had high hopes that an
agreement would be, reached. The
strike vote was taken so that the
union would be in position to take
immediate action if necessary. Mrs.
Pond said the memberS>w were back
ing the negotiations committee
almost 100 per cent.
Arizona is just now experiencing
more labor trouble than at any
time in it's history, undoubtedly
due to state and national anti
labor laws, which are interpreted
by industry to wreck all labor
unions. The workers must and will
grid themselves for an all-out fight
to maintain American standards of
living.
Arizona sun., 1947-08-08
Infantry Regiment
In Field Maneuvers

WITH THE EIGHTH ARMY IN
GOTEMBE, HONSHU, Japan-In
the shadow of storied Mount Fuiji,
more than 1900 troops of the oath
Infantry Regiment are participat-
ing in extensive filed manevers
designed to maintain them at peak
efficiency for performance of their
occupational duties. Stationed at
Camp Majestic, Gifu, Japan, the
oath is part of the 25th Tropical
Lightning Division.
First of the oath Infantry units
to reach the maneuver area near
the city of Tomaho was the Third
Battalion, reinforced by emple-
ments of the Oath Regimental
Combat Team. Commanding the
battalion was Lieutenant Colonel
CASTOR c. Eiekel, Sherman, Texas.
Battalion Executive officer is
Major James H. Porter, Chicago,
Illinois, formerly commanding of
ficer of the 555th Parachute In
fantry Battalion at Fort Bragg,
North Carolina.
Five companies compose the
Third Battalion. Battalion Head
quarters Company is commanded
by Captain Perkins Ford - of
Chicago, Illinois. Company 81" is
headed by Captain Thomas H.
Wright, Dayton, Ohio; Company
"K", by Captain Elliott M. John
son, Raleigh, North Carolina; Com
pany "L", by Captain Thomss
Gardiner, Shrewsbury, Massachu-
sets and Company IN" is led by
First Lieutenant Elsby B. Gof-
finet, Macon, Georgia.
Arizona sun., 1947-08-08
VALLEY National Now 10th
Among 5000 U.S., Banks

According to official figures just
released by the American Banker,
daily financial publication, the
Valley National Bank now ranks
10th in deposits among the nations
$4,000 banks. Ratings are based on
June 30th figures at which time
the Valley Bank had deposits of
$215, ,901, ,693.51.
The American Bankers January
compilation, published six months
ago, and based on December 81,
1916 figures, ranked the Valley
Bank 18th among the nations 100
leading banks.
Moving up from 161st place
which it occupied in December
1941, at the beginning of the war,
the local financial institution, with
26 offices in the state, climed to
83rd place by June 1916. The
seven-point gain during the past
twelve months, bank officials said,
was most gratifying in view of the
fact that bank deposits, generally,
throughout the country, had gone
down due to the withdraw of
funds from the U S Treasury War
Bond accounts. While the Valley
Bank also lost some Treasury de-
posits, they stated, new business
has more than made up for these
Withdrawals with the result that the
Valley Bank has advanced despite
the downward trend, nationally, of
bank deposits.
Arizona sun., 1947-08-08
Death Claims
AI0nz0 Wilson

Apparently in perfect health
while working in his yard, Mr..
Alonzo Jack Wilson 67 years old
of 1929 So. 18th st. succumbed to
heart attack and died suddenly
at his home, Tuesday July 20.
Mr.. Wilson was prominent and
well known and had a great many
friends whom he made in his 25
years residence in Arizona. He and
his family came from Colorado
City, Texas, in 1918, first settling
in Chandler and Mesa, later NOV
ing to Phoenix. He was working
at the Adams Hotel at the time
of his death where he was en-
ployed for IA years.
Funeral services were held last
Friday from A. L. Moore and Sons
memorial parlor, Rev. c. o. Green
field officiating.
He is survived by his wife, Inez
Natalie Wilson; two sons, Sharles
A. and Roy S. of California; a
daughter, Mrs. Arthur Rosser OF
Phoenix and three grandchildren,
Arizona sun., 1947-08-08
Committee Wins Job
For Negro Clerk

LOS ANGELES,-First victory
of the Committee for Fair En-
ployment in San Pedro was report
ed today with the hiring of a
Negro clerk in the Western Ter
race project grocery store in San
Pedro.
The Fair Employment commit
tee is waging a determined war
on jimcrow hiring policies in har-
Dor stores, said Lillian Fortier,
committee vice president.
Miss - FOrtier reported that
community organizations, churches
and labor unions are being asked
to jon the committee I'm order to
push a united fight against preju-
diced hiring practices.
Among the organizations and in
dividuals who helped promote the
first victory are the National AS
sociation for the Advancement of
Colored People; the Fair Employ
ment Practices committee of the
CIO United Automobile Workers;
CIO United Office & Professional
Workers Local SO; the Inter-
Project council representing resi-
dents Of four housing projects;
the San Pedro Communist party;
Steve Edne, president of the Ban
ming Homes resident council, and
Ken Ostheimer, CIO National
Maritime union patrolman.
Arizona sun., 1947-08-08
IS Negro Units
In Mediterranean
Military Police

LEGHORN, Italy-Headquarters
Mediterranean Theater of Opera
tions has announced that as of
July1, there were Is Negro troop
units active in the theater. Com
priSing the number were six Corps
of Engineer units; four Transpor-
tation Corps organizations; two
Military Police companies and two
Quartermaster Corps companies.
Also included among the Auxiliary
Troops Command of the theater
was one Port Battalion.
A breakdown of units active in
the Italian area, by organization
and service follows:
Corps of Engineers: seth Engi-
neer Dump Truck Company: 1028th
Engineer Company; 117Oth En-
gineer General Service Regiment;
1183rd Engineer General Service
Company; 1246th Engineer Fire
Fighting platoon and the 1249th
Engineed Fire Fighting platoon.
Transportation Corps; 10th Group
(Truck); 69th Port Company;
330th Truck Company and the
3430th Truck Company.
Quartermaster Corps; 5Oth
Bakery Company and the 870th
Quartermaster Laundry Company.
Corps of Military Police; Goth
Military Police Company and the
196th Military Police Company.
Auxiliary Troops Command; A.
80th Port Battalion.
Arizona sun., 1947-08-08
DO YOU REMEMBER
What You Read In the SUN Last Year AT This Time

East Adams getting paved be-
tween 18th and 18th St.-Mr. Steve
Rodgers stricken on job dies sud-
denly, a resident of Phoenix for 18
years, was overcome by heat-Dr.
J. A. Merriman, retired physician,
i'll for many months is slightly i'm
proved since the arrival of his
daughter-in-law-Visiting on the
Coust are Mrs. Jeanette Gains,
Miss M. L. Jones and her nephew,
Harold Jones-Mrs. Daisy Mae
Caldwell becomes new manager
and operator at Josephine's Beauty
Salon-Mr. Dougls Smith, bid his
friends goodby, departing for l.. A.
to take up residence-Mrs. E. T.
Collies of L. A. is the house guest
of Mrs. julius Jackson, 1929 E.
Jefferson St.-Mr. Bill Vaughns,
local business man, returns home
after completing business trip
back East. His wife who ac-
compained him remained in Denver
for the summer-Mr. and Mrs.
Clarence Crosby, wly-w We d
honeymoon in Colorado-Mr. and
Msr. w. M. Collins, Operators of
East Lake Cleaners returned home
from motor trip throughout mid
west-Mrs. w. B. Scott, also re-
turns to the city having visited
in Detroit, Canada, Detroit and st.
Louis. She was accompanied back
to Phoenix by her daughter Mrs.
Mary L. Webb and grandson,
Charles Curtis Webb of st. Jo-
Texas and Arkansas beckoned Mrs.
Bessie Sass-Mrs. E. D. (Jennie)
Seymore leaves tonight for Los
Angeles to visit friends Mrs.
Mildred Gray of Birmingham,
Washington, who things Phoenix
sunshine is wonderful, was a recent
guest of Mrs. Carrie Mae Banks.
Arizona sun., 1947-08-08
Rites Held For
Ann Thomas

Furnal services were held yester-
day morning at 10 o'clock from
Tanner Chapel A.M.E. Church for
James Ann Thomas who after 3
years illness and 2 years of con-
tinual confinement in local hos
pital, died Monday evening about
7:30 at a local rest home.
Mrs. Thomas came to Phoenix 6
years ago from st. Louis, Mo. with
her parents, was a member of
Tanner Chapel A. M. E. Church,
and was quite well known among
the younger set". She was a
waitress at Johnson's Cafe for
quite a while.
She is survived by her father
and mother, Mr.. and Mrs. J. M.
Hollis; one sister, Mrs. Cora Lee
Davis of st. Louis and a grand
mother, Mrs. L. o. Hollis of Little
Rock, Arkansas.
Rev. J. o. Greenfield officiated.
East Lake Mortuary in charge.
Arizona sun., 1947-08-08
Bishop Walls Returns And
Commend Police Of General

WASHINGTON, D. C.-BiShOp
William j. Walls of the Chicago
A.M.E. Zion Church, one of four
teen clergymen who returned on
July % after a 35-day tour of
European Army installations at
the invitation of the Secretary of
War, spoke in high praise of
General Lucis B. Clay, Command
ing General of the European Thea
ter of Operations. Said Bishop
Walls, II found General Clay
broad enough to be fair and do the
right thing where all are con-
cerned."
During Bishop Walls tour he
saw installations and Negro billets
at Vienna, Berlin, Munich, Man
nheim and Giessen, and preached
to Negro troops on two occasions.
The prelate commented in the
highest manner on the Frankfurt
Red Cross Club which services all
races in the Frankfurt Area and
urged the extention of this work.
ing demonstration of democracy
throughout the European Theater.
Of Negro activity in the occupa-
tional forces, Bishop Walls said,
Negroes constitute an increasing
part of the Military Police" Con-
tinuing, he said, frankfurt, Man
nheim and Giessen have efficient
Military Police groups" The ex-
perimental school at Grafenwhor
where SIS specially instructed Negro
teachers are conducting a train
ing center for the personnel of two
Negro Infantry Battalions, the
370th and 371st. which will enter
the theater as part of the Con-
stabulary Forces, won his COM
mendation. "This u.s." said Bishop
Walls, "a bright side of the picture
and shows that the right attitude
is felt toward the race and it's
capacity when it is given a chance"
Arizona sun., 1947-08-08
Under Secretary
Johnson Resigns

WASHINGTON, d. C.-President
Truman announced the resignation
of Under Secretary of Labor Keen
Johnson to be effective August /,
1947. johnson, former Governor of
Kentucky, was nominated by the
President as Under Secretary on
August I, 1916.
On his discharge from the Army
in World War !, Johnson entered
the newspaper business and con-
tinued to be identified with it until
he entered public life. He served
as Lieutenant-Governor of Ken
lucky from 1885 to 1899 when he
received the Democratic nomina-
ton for Governor. He became
Governor on October 8, 1889 when
Governor A. B. Chandler went to
the United States Senate. Johnson
was elected Governor in November
1889 and served until 1943.
Arizona sun., 1947-08-08
Bahai Delegates
Return Home

Many of the Phoenix Baha'is
returned this week, Monday morn
ing, August 4 from the Geyerville
Bahai Summer School.
Mrs. Ben Costanten and young
son Leon attended the second two
weeks session beginning on July
6. Mrs. Costanen was teacher in
the children's department. Her two
daughters .Devorah and Arlyn at
tended the third session beginning
on July 20. They took active part
in the Youth department.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Schoeny and
son Zahrl also attended the second
session of the summer school. Their
daughter Rocella arrived on July
Is from the International Baha'i
School in Pine Valley, Temerity
Ranch, just out of Colorado
Springs, Colorado, and attended
the last three weeks of the Geyser-
vile Summer School, contributing
of her musical talent with piano
numbers for the public lectures
given at the school.
The annual Baha'i Unity Feast
was held on Sunday, July 6, at the
opening of the second session of
the school, with 225 in attendance.
The Feast was prepared by the
Cafeteria staff and served by the
GeyServille Baha'i school commit
tee presided over the program
which opened with praper and
readings from the Holy Writings.
Greetings were read from Bahai
in all parts of the world who re-
gretted that they could not be
present.
Salutations were brought from
many localities of the United States
and were expressed by Mrs. Dorthy
Wilson of Portland, Oregon for the
Northwest; by Mrs. Sara Kenny
for southern California; by Mrs.
Ethel Thompson of Boise, Idaho
for the Rocky Mountain states; by
Mrs. Nancy Phillips for the South
west; and by Miss Lalia Storch
who is touring the country with
the Philadelphia Sym ony
Orchestra, from the eastern states.
Arizona sun., 1947-08-08
Attorney Speaks At
NAACP Meeting

The local branch of the NAACP
in its regual monthly meeting last
Sunday evening at East Lake Band
Shell, had Attorney Loren Miller
of Los Angeles, as guest speaker.
Wings Over the Golden West
Choir rendered several selections
followed by the President, Rev.
L. B. Nelson, who after explaining
the need for financial support for
local branch, called for member
ships and donations which was
started off by DR.. L. c. Wormley
giving $4,000, followed by $4,000
by Rev. Nelson and apledge for
the same amount by James l..
Davis.
DR.. R. B. Phillips, Executive
committee chairman, introduced
the speaker Attorney Miller, who
said segregation in schools leads
to inferior Negro institutions and
impositions of an undue burden on
tax payers.
Mr.. Miller also said he was told
since being in town, that the
Maricopa Country Hospital is being
segregated. His appearance here
marks the beginning fight against
other forms of segregation in
Phoenix such as seprate and un-
equal schools, it was declared.
Mr.. Miller's talk was followed
by DR.. L. G. Wormley who made
short talk on the subject of
segregation also.
Arizona sun., 1947-08-08
Company Confiscates
Illegal Explosives

HEADQUARTERS, MEDITER-
REAN THEATER, Italy-United
States Army authorities in Italy
announced last week that alert
members of the Goth Military Police
Company, based at Leghorn, Italy,
and Italian Police authorities had
confiscated fore than four tons of
high explosives taken in a recent
early morning raid between Pisa
and San Guiliano in Central Italy.
The explosives were cached in a
surplus American truck and trailer
which had been sold to Italian
civilians.
The military police and the civil
authorities apprehended the. driver
of the truck and two other Italian
civilians in the raid. When none
of the three men could explain the
presence of the four-ton load of
explosives, all were taken into
custody pending further investiga-
ton.
Arizona sun., 1947-08-08
Taff-HarfIey Law
Advocates Will GET
Few Labor Votes

Organized labor scored a greater
victory than most returns indicate
when Edward A. GarmatZ, a police
magistrate and veteran member of
the Electrical Workers, was elected
to Congress from the Third Mary
land district.
The Taft-Hartley anti-labor law
was a leading issue in the cam
paign. Garmatz assailed it and he
said he would back a fight to
secure its repeal.
When the votes were counted, he
had won by a So percent majority,
defeating both an independent
Democrat and the regular Re-
publican. Garmatz had the support
of the regular Democratic organi-
Zation, as well as all branches of
labor.
But a significant feature is that
the triumph for labor was really
more impressive than Garmatz' So
per cent majority.
The Labor Herald" of Baltimore
this week pointed out that the in
dependent Democrat, Simon Jar
osinski, also flayed the Taft-Hartley
Act-and in fact, as member of
the City Council, he had sponsored
a resolution calling upon President
Truman to veto the bill and on
Congress to sustain the vote.
Furthermore, Jarosinski, like
Garmatz, is a trade unionist-a
member of the A. F. of L. Insur-
ance Workers Union, the Herald"
explained. He got 81 per cent of
the votes cast in the election, while
the regular Republican trailed way
behind with 16 per cent.
Thus, the Herald concluded
that the Taft-Hartley Act met an
overwhelming rebuff an "a
per cent majority-and that the
election result constituted the "first
haymaker" in battle for nullifica-
ton of that law.
Arizona sun., 1947-08-08
Officer In Japan
Engaged in Bomb
Disposal Mission

WITH THE EIGHTH ARMY IN
YOKOHAMA, Japan-First Lieu
tenant Richard S. Bennett of
Macon, Georgia and Montclair,
New Jersey, a Coast Artillery
Corps officer, is presently employ
ed in Japan as an ordnance dis
posal expert, Eighth Army Head
quarters has announced. Lieutenant
Bennett is a member of three
man team engaged in the disposal
of live bombs left in former COM
bat areas. Working under general
supervision of Aberdeen Proving
Grounds, Aberdeen, Maryland, the
team is presently on temporary
duty with the Eighth Army, and
is under orders to proceed to
Okinawa after completion of its
mission in Japan.
Arizona sun., 1947-08-08
Big Brother Laundry
Operations

The general summer slump in
Phoenix business and high cost of
operation. caused the Big Brother
least until fall, according to a
statement made by James l.. Davis,
chairman of the Board of directors.
The Big Brother Company was
organized about a year and a half
ago when the Company purchased
the lots and erected it's present
building at 1404 w. Buckeye Rd.
Arizona sun., 1947-08-08
More Apprentices
Hired In June

WASHINGTON D, C.-Although
new construction did not come up
to expectations during June, the
number of apprentices in the con-
struction industry employed dur
ing that month increased slightly,
it was announced by the Appren-
tice-Training Service, u. S. De-
partment of Labor.
At the end of June, ATS had
record of 100,943 APPRENTICES in the
building trades, while at the end
of May it had record of 100,227 in
those crafts. The June figure which
represents an all-time high is based
on reports from 5,051 areas
throughout the country.
Arizona sun., 1947-08-08
Rest Home Inmate
Claimed by Death

Phillip Randel IS passed away
last Sunday at a local rest home
after being confined for some time.
Mr.. Randell was native of
Saline, Co. Missouri. He leaves no
known relatives.
Funeral services were held at
East Lake Mortuary Wednesday;
Rev. Carl Sims, officiated.
Arizona sun., 1947-08-08
Annual SrnOki
Dance Celebration

Prescott, August-For the 18th
consecutive year the amazing
Smoki Snake Dance will be one of
the southwest'S most phenominal
spectacles Sunday at Sundown,
August 10th at Prescott, Arizona.
The tom toms will speak in
rhythmic chant and the Shuffling
mocassined feet of the Smoki
People will keep cadence as they
faithfully interpret the centuries
old rituals of the Southwest In
dianS.
Only one night in the year, only
one place in the world is it pos
sible to see this wired, esoteric
presentation. The Smoki People
are a unique organization, cross
section of the white citizenry of
Prescott who have dedicated them
selves to the prepetuation of the
fast disappearing rites and cere-
monies of their red brothers.
Arizona sun., 1947-08-08
Report On NAAp
Meeting Refratfed

Evidently some ones pen was
quicker than the eyes, judging
from the articles which appeared
in Mondays Republic and Gazette,
concerning the lecture and mass
meeting of the N. A. A. c. P. which
was held last Sunday evening at
East Lake Band Shell.
The reporter of the first article
evidently assumed that the pro-
gram would turn out as planned
and didn't hesitate to send his
script to the morning paper, which
reads as follows:
Arizona's school segregation laws
against Negroes shortly will be
Shuttled through the courts, it was
promised yesterday by Loren Mil
Ter, West Coast representative of
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People.
I'VE expect to bring a test case
within two weeks" Miller said. He
addressed a mass meeting held last
night at the East Lake Park Shell
under the auspices of the local
branch of the NAACP.
Preceding his talk, an address
was made by Mayor Ray Busey,
who told the assemblage that the
Negro deserves to find his right
full place in the community"
The organization, through the
local group which is headed by DR..
r. B. Phillips, will try to enter
a Negro student at the Phoenix
Union High School.
"If admission is refused, we will
take the case into the superior
court, then to the state supreme
court; and perhaps then into the
federal courts until the issue is set
tied by the highest court in the
land" Miller said.
Monday morning when the article
appeared entirely different from
what had taken place, then the
error was discovered. The evening
Gazette carried the retracted story
given by DR.. r. B. Phillips, ac-
cording to the Gazette, the fol-
lowing is the explanation.
Loren Miller, West Coast rep
resentative of the legal depart
ment of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People, explained test Case pro-
cedure of some Southern states
in verifying the validity of school
segregation laws before a group
of nearly 300 persons last might
at East Lake Park.
Miller explained that in some
cases where the segregation laws
had been upheld by the lower
courts, the test procedures had
been taken to the highest court of
the land for hearings.
Mayor Ray Busey was sched-
uled to address the meeting, an
annual event at which arctivites
of the nation NAACP are report
ed, but did not attend.
DR.. R. B. Phillips, local execu-
tive committee chairman, denied
earlier reports that a test case
was planned for Arizona.
"The meeting last night was
called to hear reports on other
local NAACP activities and was
not called for the purpose of set
ting the stage for a local test of
the state law" DR.. Phillips said
today.
DR.. Phillips said that he was
of the opinion that statewide
vote would have to be called and
15 per cent of the qualified voters
would have to consent to admit
ting Negro students in white
schools of grade years.
"The report that we plan to
enter a Negro student at Phoenix
Union High School is false" DR..
Phillips declared.
Arizona sun., 1947-08-08
Body Held in Morgue
Since January, Buried

Walter Scott, whose body has
been held at East Lake Mortuary
since last January, pending funeral
arrangements, was buried Tuesday.
His ex-wife who lives in San
Antonio, Texas, requested that his
funeral be postponed until his in
surance could be collected. The
money arrived, Monday.
Arizona sun., 1947-08-08
Notice

The SUMS subscription cam.
.paign which was supposed to-
have started this month, has
been postponed until aboutthe
first of October.
Curtis Gray is back read it on
Page 8
Arizona sun., 1947-08-08

Advertise!-The Arizona Sun
will get the job done.
Evening star., 1947-05-25
Virginia Sees Return
OF Moonshine With
End of Sugar Curbs
BY the Assoeioted Press

RICHMOND. Va, May "a
The Virginia Alcoholic Bever-
age Control Board looks for a
comeback by moonshiners
when sugar appears unrestricted
on the market and cars and
trucks are easier to get.
Legal liquor is too expensive,
the board comedies, and there
doesn't seem any immediate
hope for big price reductions.
The board has seen some evi-
dence of buyer resistance to
the higher-priced brands. The
gimme the best you've got and
never mind the price, buyer,
familiar customer in the days
of scarcities and freer money, is
not so much to be seen.
Principal reason for the
threat of the bootleggers' return
on a big-time scale appears to
be the 50 a gallon Federal tax
on 100-proof spirits.
The hillside distiller, when
he gets the sugar and the
trucks, will have a competitive
margin of SO to start with.
Unless something is done to
reduce the prices the moon
sinner is going to flourish again,
board spokesman said.