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The Omaha guide., 1947-06-21
COUNT BAsiEs 70 STAY
Al EASTERN RESORT
BURN THE SUMMER

ATLANTIC CITY, N. Post
poning for the time being his an
nual jaunt to the west coast,
Count Basic, the Jump King of
Swing" will open a summer-long
engagement at Atlantic City's
popular Club Paradise on June
q. markin the first time in the
resorts history that a big name
Negro band of Basie's caliber has
been brought to a local spot for
any lengthy stay,
Under the terms of a 10-week
contract, Basic will receive one
of the highest figures ever paid
a name band for a nitery date.
$1,000 a week plus a split on COW
ers, which should bring his week.
ly earnings above the ST 500 mark.
The Club Paradise, one Of the
foremost niteries in the resort city
has in past years utilized lavish
sepia shows, departing from its
usual policy thi summer to pre-
sent a top name band for the first
time. During his stay at the Para
disc, the Counts music will be
aired coast-to-coast four times
weekly via CHS and Mutual, mark
ing his return to the airwaveS
after an absence of almost a year.
The Count elected to take the
Club Paradise engagemnt for the
summer instead of a west coast
tour since his being on location
will enable the band to get in a
full schedule of recording for RCA
Victor, which is planning a pow
erful wax campaign on the Basic
band. Then, too, the location dste
will carry the advantage of valu.
able network airline throughout
the summer, paving the way fol
the Count to. take to the road
in the fall.
THE Jump King closed E
weeks engagement on stage O
the w. c. Handy Theater in Mem
phis on June 10 and will play
two weeks of midwestern one
niters before checking into the
shore nitery.
The Omaha guide., 1947-06-21

week requested Mayor O'Dwyer
to declare an anti-lynching day.
In a telegram to the New York
City Mayor, Association officials
said, The National Association
for the Advance ent of Coloted
People urges you to designate an
anti-lynching day within the next
ten days, calling upon citizens of
New York to take all action with
in their power both as individuals
and through their organizations,
churches and labor unions, to
make known their opposition to
the crime of lynching and thei
The Omaha guide., 1947-06-21
By 7. MELVIN

Md, June 8, Lancaster, Pa, June
9. Salisbury Nd, June 10, Eliza
beth City, N. c.. June IL, Lynch
burg, Va. June II petersburg, Va,
June IL Washington, D. c., June
IS Abingdon, Va, June IS Knox
vile, Tenn.
Appearances will also be made
IN Mississippi, Louisiana and
every major Texas city, prior to
the northward journey into mid
west territory.
Evening star., 1947-06-06
|MeIIeff Raps Probers
For Smear and Run
And Demands Hearing

Lowell Mellett, Washington coll
umnist and wartime administrative
assistant to President Roosevelt, has
protested what he termed smear
and-run action" by the House Com
mittee on American Activities.
MIR. Mellett demanded in a state
ment yesterday an immediate hear
ing before the committee on allega-
tions that he forced Robert Taylor,
Hollywood film actor, to appear
against his will in the picture. Song
of Russia.
Sends Letter to Thomas.
In a letter to Committee Chair
man Thomas, Mr.. Mellett said:
THE press and radio of the coun-
try on May Is carried statements
attributed to you by the press asso-
Citations to the effect that I had
coerced or persuaded a motion pic
ture actor named Robert Taylor to
appear, against his will, in motion
! picture called Song of Russia .
{ NllCl1 Illl0 was SOlIl-
municated to me, I said / would be
glad to tell you and your committee
what knew of the matter when you
returned from Hollywood to Wash
! ington.
"Disregarding the utter unfair
ness of your action in proadcasting
an outrageous and absurd charge
to the world without having made
any real effort to ascertain the
facts, I assumed that I still would
be heard by the committee at the
earliest opportunity. And this, I
assumed, would be on June 16 when,
lit was announced, hearings on
alleged communism in Hollywood
would be resumed in Washington.
Ready to Appear ANY Time.
Pending that time I have made
no further statement, .preferring
instead to tell my story to your
committee and to give your COM
mittee an opportunity to question
me. But today it is announced that
| the proposed hearings have been
postponed until September.
"I wish to protest this hit-and-
run or smear-and-run action and
now respectfully request an imme-
diate open hearing on the charge
you have made. Denial of my
request, I submit. would be the
denial of my rights as a citizen;
would be, indeed, the essence of
un-Americanism. I am prepared
to appear at any time the commit
ltee may designate"
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-19
WARTIME SOLDIERS
CAN GET OLD RANK IN
REGULAR ARMY

Former members of the Army,
Navy, Marine Corps and Coast
Guard who were honorably dis
charged from active service on or
after May 12, 1945, may enlist in
the Regular Army or U. S. Air
Force in grades commensurate
with their prior active service pro-
vided they held certain occupation
al specialties while in the armed
forces, was announced by SfSgt.
Sgt. Clint o. Dollar, Army and Air
Force recruiting Sgt. for lower
Delaware.
This is an example of the mod
ernized thinking of the New Regu-
lar Army and it also shows that the
Army is seeking to enlist men of
the highest type of technical skill
and training. Such ratings will
give peacetime soldiers positions of
responsibility comparable to those
which they could demand in civil
ian lift.
Any discharged veteran whose
service was in one of these speci-
fed categories is eligible for en-
listment in a grade commensurate
with his skill upto and including
the grade which he held at the time
of his discharge.
To man the Regular Army and
Air Force which consists of about a
million volunteers, thousands OF
trained men will be needed, Sgt
Dollar stated.
Veterans, in making your deci-
sion on post war career, compare
the Regular Army with any job
you are contemplating as to it's
financial aspects, it's retirement
benefits -. and it's opportunities
| For further details contact your
local Army and Air Force Recruit.
ing Sgt. located in the State Arm
ory, Dover, Delaware.
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-19


Leather is worked into wallets and belts, string
plated into dog collars and leashes and old copper
pots are beaten into ash trays and bowls while
hours fly by to the tune of songs, without thought
of fear pain.
Similar work is done by the Junior League of
Dayton Ohio; Louisville KY; indianapolis, Ind;
Wilmington, Del. Tacoma, Wash; Portland, Ore;
Kansas City, Mo-, and Wichita, Kas.
The New York League Occupational Therapy
Committee which celebrates it's 25th anniversary
this year. CLEANS much of the materials used in it's
work from its own scrap bags. More material is
donated by manufacturers.
The committee is much interested in improv-
ing the designs used in occupational therapy ar
tcles that it has wrapped up its findings in book
of designs and travelling show illustrating them.
which will soon start around the United States on
loan exhibition
Finally, the New York League committee will
assemble the bright bird cages and doll houses
wallets, leashes, belt and other things made by
the occupational therapy patients for of two
annual sales held in the League Club house, 221
East list street The proceeds will be ploughed
back into the work, which has frightened thousands
of Christmas trees with gifts and thousands of lives
with happier hours and better health.
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-19
GAS VICTIM SUCCUMBS
in HOSPITAL AT DOVER

Funeral services for Gerald d.
Collins, 20, an apprentice plumber
who died early last Monday in the
Kent General Hospital, Dover,
from the effects of being accident
ally overcome by gas was held at
2 O'Clock Thursday afternoon at
Christ Church with the Rev. Raul
A. Kellog, rector, officiating. In
terment Christ Churchyard.
Collins, son of Mr. and Mrs.
George b. Collins, 435 South Gov
ernors' Avenue, Dover, was learn
ing his trade with Daniel P. Fin
negan, Dover plumbing contrac-
tor. Off duty last Saturday, he
went to house in Clayton to turn
off the water and install a new
valve for the owner after the ten
ant had vacated, and instead of
cutting the water pipe, he accident
ally cut the gas pipe. In his at
tempts to stop the flow of gas, he
was overcome.
Collins served nine months in
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-19

The boys bright blue glance ficked downward
to the crippled legs in look that was like vince
of pain. Then the thin little face shone with glow
that transformed it,
"I'd aOish could aOaIk," he aOhispered.
Ten days later Tony was wheeled downstairs
and into the hospitals occupational therapy work
rooms filled with tools and paint and abuzz with
work. First he was put to work making blocks,
then he advanced to building brdhouse and finally
he learned to use the bicycle saw. Day after day
the crippled legs turned the wheel that sawed wood
day by day the muscles strengthened Two weeks
before Christmas braces were fitted to Tony. On
Christmas day he walked slowly but steadily through
the hospital corridors, stars shining in his eyes
Tonys Christmas wish came true because of the
work of the Occupational Therapy Committee of the
New York Junior League composed of League men,
bers and professional therapists in II New York
hospitals.
The committee, headed by Mrs Henry Webster
runs six weeks course which trains volunteers to
teach occupational therapy. They in turn go into
New York hospitals and, working under professional
therapists, teach handicapped children and grown
ups hand work that will take their minds off pain and
heartache and strengthen weakened bodies
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-19
NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that Let
ters of Administration were in due
form of law granted unto the under
signed on the 18th day of Decem-
Der, A. d. 1947, and that all persons
having claims against the estate of
the deceased must present the
same, duly attested, to the said w.
Harry Dawson, Ruth E. Murray and
Norman Dawson, Administrators of
the estate of Laura r. Williams,
deceased, on or before the 18th day
of December, 1948, or abide the Act
Of Assembly in such case made and
provided.
w. HARRY DAWSON,
RUTH e. MURRAY,
NORMAN DAWSON,
Address, Administrators.
Newark, Delaware, OR
Georgetown, Delaware. 12-19-3t
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Milford chronicle., 1947-12-19
Disarmed by Train

INDIANAPOLIS -lP)- Thomas
Delaney, detective for the Belt Rail-
road, saw man lurking near a
boxcar and called out. The man
fired at him once, then stumbled
and lost both his gun and his right
hand under the wheels of moving
train.
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-19

Middleon, Ind, and two brothers,
George B. Collins, Jr., Milford, and
Corp. Joseph E. Collins. stationed
with the Air Corps in Osaka, Japan.
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-19

the Seabees on SaiDan after the
war. Besides his parents, he is sur
vived by three sisters, Mrs. Ed
ward Sharp and Mrs. R. A. Carly,
Dover, and Mrs. c. w. Lake, West
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-19

ONCE A YEAR, during the holiday sea-
son, we hear in the churches and at public
assemblies the charming melodies known as
Christmas Carols Many of these Carols
have come down through the centuries
and in considerable number of cases the
author of these melodies is unknown. These
old carols have lived because people love them
and have kept singing them long after the
composer has passed tt his rest. Each sea-
son these old and new carols form a very
important and charming feature of our
Christmas music, which includes such a
magnificent wealth of beautiful anthems,
oratories, cantatas and solo and instrumental
compositions. The carols almost always have
a bright and charming melody-one that is
easily learned They carry the thought of
happiness, and of the blessing that came to
the world when Christ was born. In many
Delaware towns, and this is especially true
in Milford, the custom has grown of caroling
groups going about the streets in the wee
hours of Christmas morning, singing and
serenading our citizens with these heart
warming carols. 1t is pretty custom, and
an appropriate opening of this wonderful
holiday.
IN THE YEAR ENDED last June Is, the
cost of living index advanced 23.8 points.
During that year, President Truman had all
the powers to control prices that he now
asks Congress to restore
The cost of living index has advanced
only 2.9 points since June 80, 1947, when Mr.
Truman was willing to let OPA die.
1t is history that Mr.. Truman did not use
the powers he had to prevent a 238-point
rise in the cost of living Also it is the rec
ord that by his own action, Mr.. Truman
abandoned price controls as unavoidable
and police state methods" That abandon.
ment began in November, 1916, under &
Democrat Congress.
His actions bring to light the serious ques
tion as to whether the President actually
wants the powers he asks or seeks an alb
for OPA's inability to function during the
price initiation of its last year.
Five major volcanoes are spouting fire
and fumes. Biologists are studying a sixth
eruption to determine if it is volcano or {
taxpayer.
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Milford chronicle., 1947-12-19

Big Atomic Birth Rate
Oak Ridge. Tenn, had the highest
birth rate Of any city in the United
States at the wartime peak Of
atomic research there.
The union times., 1947-04-12

Companies
 l2 Amusements, Movies 31 Bldg. Materials X Equipment l9 Chemicals, Drugs, etc.
 8 Distillers 20 Food Products, Pckg. Houses IF Iron X Steel Companies 35 Machinery & Tools 16 Mining & Metals
 9 Office Equipment Ia Petroleum Products IA Pulp & Paper Products IA Railway Equipment "A Retail Stores & Mail Order l3 Rubber & Rubber Goods II Sugar Companies IA Textiles
 IA Tobacco Companies
The union times., 1947-04-12
lContipued from Page One)

to sign pledge that a married wo- man would not operate the equip ment.
 FIVE YEARS AGO in The Union Times: Organized Labor in New Haven and vicinity hold giant mass rally at Labor Temple to protest pending anti-labor legislation be. fore Congress. HAROLD V. FEN. MARK is principal speaker at fo- rum at Y.M.C.A. discussing "Or- ganized Labor's Role in Connect. cut War Production" LOCAL 349. Plumbers & Steamfitters, invite Mayor John W. Murphy and Sen. Joseph T. Rouke to annual ban- quet. PAINTERS LOCAL l86 sue. cessfully conclude negotiations with general contractors for new daily wage scale of $11.OO for eight hours.
 If you don't think prices are going up on everything (and we
The union times., 1947-04-12

Yet to me it was only yesterday that I watched Ike Boone stoop for a rolling ball and cup his hands gent ly for it and straighten to throw, while the ball rolled merrily past him and the stands went wild with cheer ing. There are everyday minor league outfielders who can catch ball and throw it to base. It takes genius to throw to empty air.
 One of my fondest and evergreen recollections is of a pitcher who came up with those same Dodgers. Pea Ridge Day was everything Dizzy Dean is, except maybe a pitcher. Brooklyn stirred at the news of his coming. It was said he could throw as hard as Dazzy Vance himself, that he had the cunning of Philo Vance himself and that he was the champion hog-calIer of Old Catawba itself. There was, it was rumored, a little trouble with his control, but only enough to loosen up the batters and keep them from settling dangerously at the plate.
 was there, with 30,0O0 other fran tic Brooklynites, to see Pea Ridge in the annual preseason exhibition with the Yankees. The Dodgers came into the sixth or seventh with a lead and though this was unusual, still we ac- customed ourselves to it. There was a depression on at that time, and it even had disaffected those Dodgers they might be winning a game at any moment. We could forgive it; there was trouble for all of us.
 Well, Pea Ridge came on. Up came Yankee. Pea Ridge threw four times and the Yankee stood on first. Up came another Yankee. Pea Ridge threw four more times and a Yankee stood on first and a Yankee stood on second. Pea Ridge tossed four more, burning them in with amazing speed. The Yankee never even nicked ball. He never even tried to hit one. We could see the amazement on his face as he walked to first. 1 tell you that was some of the fastest pitching I ever saw
 As I remember it, and memory can trick you, Pea Ridge walked eight, 10 or IS batters before they
The union times., 1947-04-12
AS WE SEE IT

mean everything), the government last week issued report entitled: {: ''Inside Information Shows High Cost of Swine Parasites" It's five to one by next week someone will have started a black market in swine parasites.
 A CLASSIFIED ad in the Mov- ing and Hauling classification of the Louisville (Ky.) Times offered unique service:
 MARVIN ASH: moving of kick up service; padded vans, etc.
 Considering the flood of anti-la- bOr laws introduced in Congress, there seems to be more than a mite of logic in the recent strike of union printers in Copenhagen. No law can be enacted in Denmark until it has been published in the official law publication. But the law publications printers were on strike. Result: no publication; no laws.
The union times., 1947-04-12
Profits Show Industry Can Afford Wage Increases

1946 revealed in Labor relation long overdue
 financial weekly reported industrial last the highest the first 1923 Helping industry to kickbacks Barron's said.
 l946 $l36O with 1914 the record high figure of $l994 $75O with in I945 and $6.57 in 1914.
 o of the estimated distribution 18 figures available according Barrons.
 of American industry of the Journals compilation of 946 earnings reported by 43O companies in 2l different industries
 1946 Of 2l99% l945 Pulp and products second 1629 industrial which showed decline from 1945 and electrical and supplies.
 Total of the $40 surveyed $243O compared ,953 the before of 34%o.
 of responsible industry earnings the Journal sad
 partial showing earnings of the industrial
The union times., 1947-04-12
Calling Elm Straight By BILL MAHONEY
 Moderated Press)
Moderated Press)

Iris shameful thing how glory fades and the old forget what young have How among sir ahs remember the grandeur that Brooklyn in the days
The union times., 1947-04-12

took him out. And right there, bid ding farewell to us the day before
The union times., 1947-04-12

the season opened, Pea Ridge gave us the biggest opening Brooklyn had ever seen. There, before he left the hill, he opened a cavern
 (Continued or Page Three)
Evening star., 1947-10-28
Woman on Probation
After Numbers Fine

Numbers racketeers here toda,
have a reminder that Municipa
Court Judge George D. Nelson still
scowls upon their activities as dark.
ly as ever.
A woman who pleaded guilty t.
numbers slips possession today was
beginning years probation i'm.
posed by the judge who suspended
imposition of a six-month sentence
after levying a 500 fine. If the
defendant had failed to pay the
fine. she would have had to serve
six months before going on proba
ton.
In answer to Lawyer Denny
Hughes plea for leniency for his
client, Maud Harris, "a, colored, OF
the 1900 block of Vernon place NV,
Judge Nelson shook his head.
Il feel I'm letting her off fairly
easy as it is" he said. "To suspend
any sentence or give a small fine
would amount to merely licensing
these gamblers.
over two months ago I served
notice on gamblers and their under
lings that they needn't expect len
iency from me-"
The woman, was arrested in
August when she played a num-
be- with plainclothes policeman.
Evening star., 1947-10-28
By Pnulo lie CIer
North Amerieon Newspaper AllIones

NEW YORK. Oct. 28.-Former
Polish Vice Premier Stanislaw
Mikolajczyk expected to be mur-
dered, he told me only short while
| before he fed Warsaw. where he was
leader of the antigovernment Polish
Peasant Party.
do you expect to be arrested?"
asked on our last interview. August
q, following the purge trials which
had decimated the leaders of his
party.
THE trials have been a fiasco so
far as duplicating me is concerned"
he replied. And they (the Red
dominated government don't want
to make martyr of me-
But I have heard from credible
sources that they plan to have me
assassinated and to try to
attribute it to members of my own
PSI party"
Releases Statement.
Anticipating this possibility Mr..
Mikolajczyk gave me statement, to
be released to the world ""only if
something happens to me-" Here is
that statement, which can give out
safely only now that-on my return
today to America-I find that Mr..
Mikolajczyk is presumably out of
Poland:
Il came tback) to Poland with but
the wish to cooperate, even with
tho ropopp,,pictc IL, DoIond nc an
independent party in the frame
work of the Polish-Russian CO.
operation and so also with all the
democratic countries of the west.
Through our work. the govern
ment of national unity was made
possible and so my party saved Po-
land from a blood bath. We called
on the people to act by legal means
and $4,000 people from the un-
derground army and 10000 men,
bers of the peasants battalions'
transferred their activities into pos
tive degaD action. helping the
government in the process of re-
building Poland and shifting the
population to the western terri
tories.
Mainly because of the formation
of the government of national unity,
we tPoland were able to appear
at Potsdam and we achieved the
decision of the three big powers
about the turningAover to Poland
of the western territories, and so
these territories ceased to be part
of the occupation zones of Ger
many and became a part of Polish
administered territory.
Evening star., 1947-10-28
BY the Associated Press

LONDON, Oct. 2s.-The powers
that usually put royal shush on
the preparations for Princess Eliza
beth's wedding flung open a side
door to ancient St. James's Palace
today and admitted a brigade OF
newsmen for a look at the first
flood of the Princess wedding gifts
Nobody would make an official
guess at the worth of all the heaped
gifts.
Winston Churchill sent along a
six-volume set of his book, "The
World Crisis" all done up in fooled
red morocco leather with golden
edges on the pages of his golden
oratory
About 400 presents were laid out
for the press special preview-but
the preview list was chopped off last
Friday night, and about 500 other
gifts which have flooded in since
then were left in their boxes.
Among them was President Tru-
mans glass vase, done up in a merry
go-round motif
Ambassador Douglas daughter
Sharman, remembered the Princess
practice of writing heaps of letters.
She sent neat little antique silver
inkstand.
Maverick and Wife Send Box.
Maury Maverick, former Mayor of
San Antonio. Tex, and his wife,
presented the Princess with a silver
trinket box and added a touch of
Texas for her bridegroom o-be,
1t. Philip Mountbatten-a tie clip
with a Texas emblem.
The freshet of gifts was spread
Evening star., 1947-10-28
Dr.. Marshall Reelected
Bv St. Andrews Society

DR.. Peter Marshall, Senate chap
lain and pastor of the New York
Avenue Presbyterian Church, last
night was elected president of the
st. Andrews Society of Washington
for fourth term.
The meeting In the New York
avenue church heard an off-the-
record talk by Brig. Gen. Wallace
H. Graham, President Truman's
physician. Gen. Graham, a men,
Der of the society, discussed the
Presidents trip to Brazil.
P. Y. K. Howat, first vice presi-
dent of the Board of Trade, was
reelected first vice president. Also
reelected were William H. Young,
secretary, and Kenneth L. Kelly,
treasurer. Commodore Gordon G.
McLintock was elected second vice
president.
Evening star., 1947-10-28

Nine. Lebrun Dies at 50
PARIS, Oct. % R.-Mme. Albert
Lebrun, SO, wife of the Third Re
public's last President, died today.