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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1947-08-06
HISTORY REPEATS
ITSELF
BY Nat (King) Cole

| don't remember who said ii
or how it goes, but the idea Is
that history repeats itself" While
on the subject of proverbs, there's
another about the shortness of
popular memory.
Maybe it isn't becoming modesty
to write about myself and the
King Cole Trio, but | think what
have to say about our begin
nings and future plans will inter-
est our fans.
One popular idea is that King
Cole Trio was started by three
lucky guys who got together and
started playing the kind Of music
that was riding a crest of a wave
of popularity. In other words,
that we were overnight sensa-
tions. Maybe that's how others
did it, but not King Cole Trio.
Now, don't get me wrong, other
CONDOS are plenty good as well
as lucky. And, besides, what's
wrong with being lucky. We've
hade more than our share, only
it was a little late in coming.
Yes, friends, we struggled five
long years with hardly a glimmer
of recognition. Do we play better
now than we did then? l kind
of think we were maybe even
better then. Along this line, Decca
recently issued four sides we re-
corded in those early days. I'd
like to quote from a trade paper
review about them: 1.-THE spin
ming proves that the King Cole
Trio was plenty great in that
early era. AS much zest and
individuality in their playing and
singing then as today"
Do you know what the man
ayers were telling us during the
year we made those records? I'd
go up to those booking offices
and see the big men and they'd
say, you've got an awkward COM
bination there, boy. The real cats
might go for it, but not the
masses"
You know, sometimes we got to
thinking maybe the bookers were
right Then it happened. The thing
consider our turning point. We
were playing in one of those small
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respectively of Mr.. White. He had
not seen Mrs. Humes and Mrs.
Lee for a numebr of years and
never seen Miss Minor, graduate
of Howard University and now
a practicing pharmacist. The trio
extended their trip to Seattle and
Vancouver, B. c. returning, Mrs.
Humes, remained to visit her
daughter in Seattle.
For their pleasure. Mrs. White
entertained with an informal tea
at which a number of friends at
tended.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jess Peoples of
Pueblo, Colo. former Omahans are
visiting their son, Jess Peoples Jr.,
and family, in N. e. Holiday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Peoples, ST., are
meeting many former friends and
acquiring new ones. Friends have
assured them very pleasant visit.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1947-08-06
Portland Visitors

Various sections of the country
were represented by numerous
tourists and visitors in Portland
among who were: Mrs. Marie Nc
Donald, league, Texas; Mrs. Dor
enea Bingham and daughter Lor-
rine Bingham, Harrisburg, Miss;
Mrs. Harriette Roberts, Kansas
City, Mo-; Lois Jean Settle, Mos
COW, Idaho; Samuel Moore, Los
Angeles. Calf; Mr.. William Wash,
Kansas City, Mo. These recently
worshiped at Bethel A. M. E.
Church.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1947-08-06

Negro selectees of the Southeast
ern and south central states where
61O Negro young men per 1000
processed were disqualified during
the period from September. 1914.
through August. 1916. Although
illiteracy was a vital factor, phys
lcal disabilities accounted for al
most two thirds of this rate.
Agricultural Workers Benefit
If adopted the Urban League
statement pointed out. the bill
would provide preventive and di-
agnostic service and treatment
care for millions of Negro chill
dren whose families cannot afford
the high costs of adequate health
care. Agricultural workers consti-
tute approximately 40 per cent of
all employed Negro men, or twice
the rate of whites. The vast maj
ority of these rural Negroes are
employed as tenant farmers, share
choppers and wage laborers on
Southern farsm and plantations.
Victims of an antiquated system
which still encourages a market
of cheap labor, they are least
able of any group in the nation
to purchase goods and services,
including medical care, to maintain
minimum standards of decency
and health. Victims also of a BIZ
racial pattern that has persisted
from slave days, they are denied
use of many of the meager- re-
sources established for health and
welfare. Those resources which
are available are provided on a
separate and inequitable basis"
Ito be continued next issue)
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joints we could get jobs in in
those days. One night, slightly
tipsy customer got a little pug
nacious you guys aren't mu-
sicians. You can't play anything
but jazz Man." told him, I'VE
are MUSICIANS, real musiciansl
We can play anything that's writ
ten"
"Tll bet you twenty dollars you
can't play Rhapsody in Blue" he
comes back with. 1t was a bet. We
went out and bought the music,
all 81 pages of it. We practiced
1t every day for a week. We got
SO good we could almost play 1t
from memory. We had to get it
good. We wanted to show that
wise guy. Besides, that twenty
bucks would really have nicked
our salaries in those days. When
we played it, the guy was so am
azed, | don't think he minded
losing the twenty bucks. We've
lcarried the music around every
since, but have never played it
again. Maybe we'll get up in it
again if our fall concert tour
works out.
Now comes the part about his
tory repeating itself. Since we've
won recognition these past three
years or so, we haven't always
been able to play the music we'd
like. The public goes for ballads
like For Sentimental Reasons"
and for novelties like "Best Man"
This time we're not going to wait
for somebody to say, you guys
aren't real musicians. All you can
play is pop stuff" No, sir. Several
of the top jazz writer's have been
commissioned to do pieces = some
of them extended works for
our fall concert tour. Not that
we're turning up our noses at
pop stuff. That's our bread and
butter. But | think it'll make
better musicians of all of us
Oscar Moore on guitar, Johnny
Miller on bass and Nathaniel Cole
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JOINT FEDERAL STATE HEALTH
RESPONSIBILITY BILL 0 KID BY
NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE

In a statement to a special
House of Representatives Sub
Committee. the National Urban
League this week endorsed HR
Bill 1880, legislation proposing to
increase school health facilities
and raise standards of care for
all children in economically dis
tressed areas presently unable to
finance adequate services out of
local tax funds. Joint respons-
ibility in administering the propos-
ed school health program would be
shared by local. state. and federal
agencies. This. the Urban League
statement declared. Would mare
assure equitable services to Ne
gro children in those areas where
even the present quality of health
care reflects the racial attitudes
of the community"
The endorsement. prepared by
Ewel Newman. National Urban
League Consultant in Family and
Child Welfare Service, stated that
approximately 100000 Negroes
between the ages of and IT
years stand to benefit directly
from a nation wide school health
services program. with the largest
group. 100000 living in the rural
South where impoverished condi-
lions and undemocratic racial pat
terms deprive them of essential
facilities and services for their
proper development.
Highest Rate of Reflections
Selective service findings of
World War II revealed the high
est rate of reflections in any area
of the country occurred among
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1947-08-06
THE ROOTS OF WAR

Why is the air we breathe in
America becoming increasingly
saturated with rumors of war?
Why are American mothers and
fathers anxiously wondering when
their children will have to fight
to preserve American freedom"
once more Physically the answer
is: America is thinking war
rather than peace" = If we SINGER
ely desire peace we must think
about it and prepare for it; we
cannot obtain it by anticipating
another war. To reach your desti-
nation you take the road that
leads there rather than that leads
in the opposite direction.
Instead of considering a third
world war inevitably and swallow
ing any rumors that American war
mongers eagerly spread, let us
analyze together the basic cause
of war and try to DISCOVER a
method eliminating or controlling
them. First there are the psycol-
ogical causes for conflict, fear
being of primary Importance. Am
orleans today are afraid-of all
types of government other than
democracy, of all types of culture
other than ours-in short, of every
thing that we do not consider part
of "the American way" We have
little basis for this fear Are we
not leading the world in economic
capacity and military strength
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The Of God b
o the
Mrs
0 the MoonAt of Ceve
r the Miss
.Gomme from
L, Rev H. 7 L Cor
HorodS
little Lolita Franklin n the o
Memphis
MT ond Mrs R. s. Lewis ST. He s AIpha
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1947-08-06
PATRoNIzE THE ADVERTISERS or THE
NORTHWEST ENTERPRISE

outraged Negro wife and her hus-
band demand redress in Court.
and win help from white progress
sieve Southerners and Northeners
groups. Bribery efforts. threats,
even the deliberate burning of the
Jefferson's home fail. The Negroes
have their day in court.
If this seems empty in view
of the Greenyille, S. c. acquittal
of the recent murder of eight
prisoners in Georgia. 1t still does
not alter the meaning and logic
of Alman's novel. For his is no
glib and easy triumph over evil.
His rapists are shown helpless to
escape the inward, no less than
the objective consequences of
their deed unless they struggle
against the way of life which led
them to their deed. One of the
three moves 10 plead guilty IN a
trial which was intended to abb
solve and glorify the defendants,
but even his realistically charted
development is still at the novels
conclution a first significant de-
parture from the white Southern
code, not an all-encmpassing rup-
ture.
There are flaws in the novel. of
course. The storekeepers terror of
the Negro reprisals seems exag-
geratedly drawn. The meandering
dialogues between Lottie and law
| yer Keller appear over-extended.
But over and above all. this novel
Of the South in microcosm is a
fine achievement
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5y Daviu Altman, Simon q
schuster s2.75.
1t is not only the slave or
oppressed people who are degrad-
ed by their servitude. The oppres-
sors too, deliberate or acquiescent.
cannot escape the soul-corroding
consequences of an existence built
upon another's chains.
In THE HOURGLASS, the
author tells of an election-night
rape of a young Negro wife by
three white on a country road in
Alabama.
The author takes us behing the
generalization of the lynch mob. be-
yond the brutal sadistic, Negro
hater. He presents three men
warped In the iron pattern of
white supremacy.
Alman's portrayal of the rapists
is neither a one-dimensional in
dictment nor a devious whitewash
predicated on their sharing human
failings. joys and virtues common
to us all. Human and understand
able they are, but the author is
not sparing in his portrayal OF
the trio as they sink deeper into
the abyss opened by their mid
night crime and widened by their
efforts to drawn the Negroes cry
for Justice. For. amazing as it is
TO silass and his fellows. the
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1947-08-06
SLAVE HOLDING
HUB SOCIALITE
FOUND GUILTY

SAN DIEGO, Cal. - Sobbing,
shouting, calling the United States
Department of Justice communist
and claiming that she was being
raiIroaded, Mrs. Elizabeth ingalls,,
62-year-old enslaver for quarter
of a century of helpless Dora
Jones, the maid whom Mrs. ingalls,
former husband he'd seduced,
heard herself pronounced guilty
last week in the most sensational
case that the West Coast had
witnessed in the past decade.
Sentence was passed on Mrs. In
gals Immediately, due to the fail
ure of the jury to reach a clear
verdict in the case of her present,
and second husband. who was
charged with the crime along with
her.
Miss Jones. the maid who had
been literally held incommunicando
for the major part of her adult
life, was on her way to the home
of a brother in st. Louis when the
guilty verdict was read to her
former jailer Mrs. ingalls, may
receive a maximum sentence of
five years Imprisonment and a
fine of $4,000.
Mrs. ingalls, was a Boston so
cialite who frequently entertained
| such celebrities as Senator Salton.
stall and other Beacon Hill biz
names. At one time she was a
missionary. and at one point in
her trial claimed that she was
saving the maid by enslaying her
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1947-08-06
Welcome Visitors

Mrs. Grace Humes, Mrs. Annie
w. Lee and Miss Orsey Minor,
all of Washington, D. G. made
happy the hearts of Mr.. and Mrs.
G. White, when they visited them
for a week. Mrs. Lee and Miss
Minor is niece and grand niece
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1947-08-06
BOOK REVIEW

THE HoURcLAss
BY David Altman, Simon q
schuster s2.75.
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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1947-08-06
HOW TO MAKE MUFFINs

For z large mullins, measure 2
cups Bran Flakes Muffin tx into
bowl. Add 1 well-beaten egg and
70 cup milk, then mix only until
dry ingredients are dampened. Fill
creased muffin pans "a full. Bake
in hot oven (425oF.) is minutes. or
until done.
Milford chronicle., 1947-09-19
Much Interest Is Being
Shown In This Novel
Contest Which Prom
ises To Be HighIight OF
Firemen's Carnival.

The contest to select Milford's
Most Popular Girl" got underway
early this week with the initial en-
try of contestants. Much interest is
already being shown here in this
novel contest which will have it's
climax in the browning" of the
successful contestant ON the even
ing of October 18th; this latter
event will be one of the high spots
of the annual fireman's carnival,
which is to be staged here from Oct.
9Th to Oct. 18th.
Mrs. Edith Baynum, president of
the Auxiliary to Blue Hen Post, u.
F. w, has announced the makeup
of her contest committee as fol-
lows: Miss Sara Barcus, Mrs. Alma
Rust, Mrs. Marian Lynch, Mrs. Mar
garet Cannon, Mrs. Helen Deputy,
Mrs. Georgia Lynch, Mrs. Marie
Webb, and Mrs. Lena Manloye.
Members of the Auxiliary commit
tee possess supplies of the books
that will be used by the contestants
and any girl or woman of the Miis
ford area desiring to enter the con-
test may do so by contracting any
committee member.
Votes are cast for contestants by
the making of a small donation;
this donation enables the donor to
participate in the drawing for a
Continued on page Sd
Milford chronicle., 1947-09-19
New Regime
Takes Over
At RehOboth
r. C. Hill, City Manager
For IL Years, City So
licitor Houston Wilson
Replaced In Shake-Up.


Further shakeups in Rehob0th's
city administration loOmed as
members of the resorts new coun-
Gil reorganized.
8 Losing little time in making per-
sonnel changes. members of the
new council, Immediately after TAX
ing office Saturday, ousted City
Manager r. Clerke Hill, who had
held that office for IL years.
Named to succeed Hill was S. G.
Marvel, for two years city manager
of Smyrna. Marvel, who spent 1s
years as an engineer in the State
Department of Highways, was nom.
mated by Frank d. Wright of Dover
a nonresident commissioner. He
will take Office Oct. l. His salary i:
$4,000 a wear.
H0Id-Overs Back Hill
All three hold-over commission
ers-W. L. Richards. James Travis
and Mrs. Wallace w. Chiswell-
voted to retain Hill but were out
voted three to four.
Former Chief Justice Daniel J
ayton of Georgetown was appoint
ed city solicitor. Heesucceeds Hous
ton Wilson of GEORGETOWN. who re
Gently sent in his resignation.
fcontinued on page 81
Milford chronicle., 1947-09-19
Fifth Dover Crash
Victim Succumbs
Willard Chesney OF ShamOkin, Pa,
Dies In Hospital

Willard Chesney, S5, of Shamokin,
Pa, truck operator, one of three
men injured in an accident in which
four men were killed near Dover
last Wednesday night, died at 11:15
o'clock last Friday night in the Kent
General Hospital, Dover.
His death brings to SO the total
of vehicular accident fatalities III
Delaware this year, compared with
So for the corresponding period a
year ago.
Chesney was one of five truck
drivers who were resting in a grass
plot along the DUPONT Parkway
Eear the Dover state police station
when they were struck by car OPP
Grated by James C. Slacum of near
Dover. Slacum's car had sideswiped
a truck while driving in the wrong
lane of the highway and ran onto
the center plot.
Welton Johnson, 35, Fruitland,
Md, operator of the sideswiped
truck, was released from the Kent
Hospital last Friday. Don Scarbor-
ough, 26, Atlanta, Ca, one of the
truck drivers is still in the hospital.
His condition is reported fair.
Milford chronicle., 1947-09-19
Portions Of
City Sprayed
By Airplanes
Council Acts In COopera-
tiOn With H ealt h
Board; Families Evict-
ed From Filthy Houses.

In concerted action against
threatened outbreak of polio in this
city, two planes used over two hum
dred gallons of DDT spray last
Monday in a determined attack on
the following places Sussex
Poultry Company. Disposal plant,
Orkin's dump and surrounding area,
School No. 8, Randolph Row, Sill
yer Lake, Marshall Pond, Head of
the Mispillion.
The plane spray attack was dir
ected by Willard Jackson, owner
and operator of the Milford Air
Park, who dove on the spots to be
sprayed. thus pointing them out to
the operators of the two planes
hired by City Council to do the job
The plane spray attack came at the
same time 80 resident of the Fourth
Ward were evicted from five dwell
ings on North Street, owned by the
estate of the late ]. Graham Scott
which were declared insanitary by
the Milford Board of Health.
The spraying of Milford last
Monday came as the aftermath of q
special meeting of City Council anG
the Milford Board of Health, las
Friday evening.
Harry e. Mayhem, president o.
the Milford Chamber of Commerce
and member of the local Board O.
Health, suggested the aerial spra.
as a probable preventive measur,
and received the unanimous suppor
of the Chamber of Commerce mem
bership, the City Council and tn,
Board of Health.
Continued on page 81
Milford chronicle., 1947-09-19
September both Expira-
ton Date Is One Of
Largest Quarterly
Dates In Year.

More than sixty percent OF the
motor vehicles in Delaware, with
registrations expiring on Septem-
Der Both, remain TO be renewed
during the final half of this month,
according to the Motor Vehicle De-
partment in Dover.
According to Frank L. Reed, Mo-
tor Vehicle Commissioner, the
September Both expiration period
is one of the largest quarterly ex-
pirations in the year for the Della
ware registrations.
A total of 2S,53O motor vehicle
registrations, or about forty per-
cent of the total registrations now
in effect, will expire on September
30th but thus far only 8S73 have
been renewed leaving 19,757 to be
acted on during the final half of the
month.
Renewal of these registration:
have been in effect since July Is
as has also the inspection of motor
vehicles with registrations expir
ing on September S0th. The re
cords disclose that all but few
of these motor vehicles have visited
the inspection lanes but did nc
have their registrations renewed a
the time they passed the inspection
tests.
Continued on page y
Milford chronicle., 1947-09-19
Cocktail Lounge
At Hotel Windsor
Seymour Gellens, Manager,
Says Opening Is Slated
For Tonight

Seymour Gellens. manager of the
Hotel Windsor, announced this
morning, that plans are complete
for the grand opening of the Hotel
Windsor Cocktail lounge this eve
ming, (Friday, Sept. 19).
The lounge, located in what was
once the main dining room of the
Hotel, has been completely redec-
Grated and refurnished, the motif
followed is ultra modern and COM
Portable, and according to genial
manager Gellens, music for the
patrons entertainment will be Of
fered Monday, Friday and Satur-
days from $3.50 p. m, until closing
The Hotel Windsor has been COM
pletely redecorated and the inspec-
ton of the general public is invited
Another feature of the Gellens
supervised enterprise is the Hotel
liquor store, Offering a complete
selection of domestic and imported
liquors and cold beers in any
quantity.
Milford chronicle., 1947-09-19
Taxi Operators Must
Comply With Laws
Have Until September 3Oth To
Meet New Requirements

Operators of taxicabs in Della
ware have only until September
30th to comply with the new laws
governing their work, which among
things requires the taxicab driy-'
vers to pass special tests and pro-
vide Identification in their cabs.
Motor Vehicle Commissioner
Frank B. Reed ordered that the new
law, passed by the Legislature this
year, become effective on September
1st but granted the taxicab drivers
the month of September to comply
with the provisions.
Afer passing the special tests re-
quired, the taxicabs must have u
photograph and other information
concerning themselves for identifi-
cation purposes, displayed in the
taxicab while they are operating ii.
Cards for the photo and identifi-
cation material are provided by the
State. The drivers will be required
to undergo an examination during
the month of May in each year.
Milford chronicle., 1947-09-19
Kent County Health officer
Releases Statement On Polio

(The following released Tuesday
week by Dir. Charles r. Hayman, Kent county health
offcer)
Barbara Morris, aged H. and Richard Wiley aged
H. Milford both diagnosed polio at the Doris Memo
rial Hospital on September H. Both mild
Harvey Stewart 24of Milford was sent the hospital on
September observation No diagnosis has been made
him yet
Previous cases in county Kennedy and
Warner Patricia Belts and Chas Loper Jr Milford
and Fleming, Smyrna
Because o the question of closing the
schools up the Milford Board of Education with
the and county health officers Dr. Cameron, State
health Hayman health officer did
closing the schools for the following "a
Closing schools not effective in preventing poo the
opened unless the whole town is quarantned;
that unless school children kept at home continuously
allowed to attend the movies Sunday School,
may observed closely school teachers
be home at the first sign of illness CD The
epidemic Wilmington Delaware has declined
rapidly September and should be about
weeks
was considered important that the town of Mil
the unsaniary conditions present which allow
flies great numbers The State county health
the action taken by the Town of
Health which has given notice clean
"or ese.'
Closing schools is a temporary What the
town needs sanitary improvements: quick
and disposal of garbage condemning of filthy
and replacement by hyproof sanitary pvies
necon of toilets to existing lines and building of add
breeding places with D.DT throughout the fly
Milford chronicle., 1947-09-19
DoUer AirfieId Will
Be ReactiUated Soon
Base viii Again Be Used
BY u. S. For Military
Purposes

The Dover Army Air Field will be
reactivated for military purposes
according to information received
in Dover this week. The exact
date that the Field will again be
placed In operation has been an
nounced
Information concerning the plan
ned activity at the Field was re-
eeived here through the Civil Aero
nautics Administration with the an
Douncement being authorized BY
Thomas A. Bradford. District Air
port Engineer for the c. A. A.
The Dover Army Air Field
served as a training base for fight
er pilots during the war and Is con
sidered one of the finest airfieldi
in the State and we'll suited for al
types of military activity.
The Field was placed on an in
active status early last year AMI
since that time only small main
tenance force has been on dut,
there.