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The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-05-29
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BY PETER WILLIAMS

THOSE characters who go around grip
ping "Chieow-eo is veddy decd town =
give me Moo Yowk any doy!" ought TO have
their heads examined Here's what's cookin'
in Our Town:
Max Lerner, editor of the newspaper PM,
folks at the American Jewish Congress Spring
membership dinner June s.
Peoples Songs 'Voriety Hootenony" this
Saturday. Moy 20, $50 p. m.. Mccormick
YWCA, 1901 N. Dearborn, features foIk-snger
Pete Seeger. Win Strocke, Harold Brinde disc
jockey Studs TorkeI, Marvin Dovid, RosIyn
Harvey. and pvppeteer Hortense.
Come as you like as your fovorite
ehorocfer artist, book song :. {. fovorite
dreom nightmare but come, and leave
your inhibiions at home" so soys The
Artists Council about its "Bohemion Brow,"
sat. night, May 70, 9 pm. until :. +. j rs at
the S. Side Community Art Center, 1921 S.
Michigan; donofion 5O-eents
GLAD TO HEAR thot Mrs. Lucy sossomon.
who modified the people of Fernwood Pork to
fight back against onti-Negro reol estate
interests which were trying TO foment riot
at veterans housing project lost Summer,
honored this week by the Chicago Coun-
Gil Against Rocol Discrimination.
A new progressive book club is u-borning
Rvmor hos it, the nome will be Liberty Book
Clvb-presenfins a book-o-month by the best
peoples writers Of the post, as well as the
present.
RlB-TICkLER: L: S. BIvmberg, chorter odver-
fser in The Star, hos been SO showed under
coils about the (AUTO) insurance he plugs in
The Stor, fhot he's changing his cd TO FIRE
INSURANCE.!
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-05-29

After squirming ovt-from-vnder many,
many fimes-Rep. Karl Mvndt r., S. Dok.),
author Of fhe police-stofe "Svbversive Acfivi-
fies Control Act of 194s," will cebote the
dubious merits" Of his bill with William z
Foster, Communist Parfy nationo chormun,
over the American Broodcosiing Co. network
Woseh the Star for the dose and broadcast
fime
THAT OLD AXIOM, thot people always
Joke about the things they feel most deeply,
was underlined this week by pun about
the Mundt Bill from Rep. Leo lsoocson (AlP-
N. W:
TT is for that reason fhot we soy thof this
bill is Ronk in every respect, and we soy
Nix on this Mvndfsfrosity"
WILLARD TOWNSEND, of United Transport
Service Employees. whose opinions we eener-
oily don't relish, pounded out good anti
Mundt Bill column for The Chicago Defender
lost week. Wrote Townsend: "Ohe Mundt
Bid means thor if the Communists ore for
God. we must support the Devil in order TO
mointon our American purity before the
Attorney General"
Progressive Porfy Of Illinois hos two new
capable stuffers. Justin Gruy, formerly editor
Of "U-E News" United Electrical Workers (cIO)
District II newspaper, uUthor Of the soon-fo-
be-pubIshed expose of the American Legion
The Inside Store Of the Legion"-und former
"Yank" correspondent, will be Prog Puriy's
Publicity Director. Jim Wishar, who will head
PPrs Research Department, is a former UAW-
CLIO research director, and Ioter Form Equip
meni Workers (ciO) education director.
PUPPETS with punch ore the speedily
OF Joyce Potter. whose deftly-hondled dolls
were on view at the Joint Ant-Foscisf Refugee
Committees luncheon lost Saturday at the
Blackstone. If YOUR Organization wants q
showing of the Potter puppets, get in touch
with Joyce through The Stor.
Avcs Wesitown Chapter is doing good
iob-dishing out focts on the Mundt Bill to
residents of Garfield Park.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-05-29
All aboard! Lobby ON Elunek~
BILL civil rights leaving JszRne I

business youth
Progressive members and churchmen win
special heading
HR $3.50.
state undtB
put of Chicago is part of a wide
delegation will Capitol Hill
Robson historian e B. Du
will the delegation.
Delegates wila lobby FEPC Anti-pon Tax
Anti Lynch bills.
specially Freedom Train leaves
at pm.
s3352 tround p) Call Civil Rights Congress 1877 N.
LaSalle. ANDover 255l. todaY
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-05

Pre-cOOked full meals now are
being packed in frozen form.
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-05
Return Day Renewed
This Year in Sussex
CoOntlnued from nrsv pager


the towns gather to talk over cleo
ton results, to renew old acquain-
and to enjoy a day of ribbing
their defeated rivals. Yesterday was
no exception. They came from all
over the State. They stood along the
sidewalks and talked. They were a
quiet crowd who came for the So
ciability and to forget campaign
wounds. They roasted an OK and
stood around the fire to eat the Un-
savOry looking beast. In the after
noon the parade started. Numerous
high school bands from all over
Sussex County participated The
happy winners and their families
rode in the decorated automobiles.
They mounted the decorated plat
form on the Green" and OratOry
flowed for hours. The genial and
likable Zack Wells poured it on as
only he can do. He is a natural born
entertainer who always received a
royal welcome in Sussex where he
was born. All in all, it was a happy
day and expressions of approval of
it's renewal after a long lapse due
to war conditions were heard on
every side. They came, they saw,
and went home happy.
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-05

U. S. sales of packaged beer in
1948 will take about two billion
cans.
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-05
Democrats Victorious
As Nations Returns
Near Completion
continued from hrst pagel

CONTINUED from uIsb paBel
Popular vote of 120,5O6 of 1883
precincts counted:
Truman, 22,031,686
Dewey, 2O,217,515.
Henry Wallace, lob, $50.
ThurmOnd, 839,024.
Senate: With 49 needed to con-
troll, the Democrats had elected %,
assuring them Of SO seats counting
30 holdovers. They gained nine
from Republicans. The latter won
nine which, with 80 hOldOvers,
gave them a total of AZ seats. One
seat, in Louisiana, was still doubt
full.
House: Elected, Democrats 256
with 218 needed to cOntrOD, for a
net gain of 70. Republicans won
164 for a net loss of II. American
Labor lost one of their two incum-
bents, Representative IsacsOn, N.
Y, to a Democrat. Fourteen races
still undecided
Governors: Elected, Democrats
20 which, with 10 hOldOvers, gave
them 80 gOvernOrships for a net
gain of seven. Republicans won
IL to add to their five hOldOvers for
total of II. One race, in Wash
ingtOn, was still undecided.
Policies Upheld
The words of the President and
the man who wanted to be Presi-
dent served new notice that Amer
ica's foreign policy will remain bi-
partisan, that it will remain one OF
unwavering firmness toward Rus.
sia.
And at home, Mr.. Truman haC
an evident endorsement of his in
tentiOn to carry forward and eX
pand a New Deal which he has
embraced in its entirety.
All through his campaign, as h
trudged up and down and across
the country. the President prom
ised that a Democratic Congress
and a Democratic President wOult
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-05

give the people:
Price controls, housing, more
social security, a higher minimum
wage, repeal of the Taft-HaTtley
labor law, benefits for farmers, de-
velOpment of the West, medical in
sUrance, strengthened civil rights.
New faces are almost certain to
appear in the Truman administra-
tiOn.
Secretary of State Marshall, long
eager to retire, is reported. ready
to quit in January. Secretary q
Defense FOrrestal may quit, too.
COP. Shake-Up Looms
And shake-ups unQuestiOnably
are in store in the Republican
Party leadership. Twice defeated
for the Presidency on which ne
had set his heart for 10 years.
Dewey said he wouldn't try again.
He indicated he might get out OF
politics.
Even if he wanted to make an
other comeback attempt in 1897
the COP. probably would deny
Dewey the chance. Never before N
its history had the party so much
as FenOminated a man who lost II
/ the Presidential race.
AS Dewey admitted he had failed
again to scale the political heights
to the White House, Mr.. Truman
was out in front in 28 states Wltn
SO4 electoral vOtes-and only z6d
were needed to clinch the prize
Dewey was ahead in only 16 states
with 189 votes. ThUrmOnd, States
Rights Democrat, led in four states
with 38 votes.
And in the popular vote, the line
up then was 19.358,871 for Truman
17,942,869 for Dewey, 749,64S fol
ThurmOnd.
The popular vote Jagged behinC
the record total of more than So
! 100000 that had been expected
: And there wasn't much chance Il
! would climb to a new mark.
And at Truman headquarters II
, the MuehlebaCh Hotel in Kansas
J City, there were cheers and bact
: slapping. Friends, newspapermen
Secret Service agents and White
House aides poured out cOngrGo u
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-05
1948 Corn Loans And
Purchase Agreements

c. e. Ocheltree, chairman Of the
Delaware Production and Market
ing Administration Committee, to-
day urged Delaware farmers not to
be hasty in selling corn as they
harvest it this fall. Every year"
he said, Eve see the price of corn
in Delaware decline as much of it
is sold at harvest time. This does
not need to happen because FARM
ers have available two price sup
port programs htat will guarantee
them a minimum price for corn"
He explains that farmers can put
their corn under the loan program
at around $3.50 per bushel. The
catch in this practice is to find
enough good storage space for the
grain. Under the second program
called the purchase agreemnt-
farmers can arrange to store the
grain on their own farms. They will
be guaranteed the support price if
and when they elect to sell to the
gOvernment-the price is based on
the grade of the corn at the time of
sale.
Mr.. Ocheltree stressed the pur-
chase agreement program as being
practical for Delaware farmers say
ing that he has already heard far
mers estimating that considerable
quantities of corn would move at
belOW-market prices when the har-
vest season gets underway. "This is
partly matter of habit" he de-
clares, "and it need not happen il
farmers will visit their local Triple
a office for full details on the price
support programs"
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-05
Naval Reserve Officers Are
Given Important Instructions

regular Navy counterparts.
Any officer who was separated
from active duty before the issu-
anee of a directive which would
have temporarily promoted him to
a higher grade will now be per-
manently appointed to that higher
grade, If eligible under the require
ments prescribed in SecNav's ap-
pointment letter.
Generally a reserve officer will
receive a permanent appointment
in the same grade as the highest
temporary rank in which he served
while on active duty, unless his
contemporaries on active duty
later became eligible for a higher
grade exclusive Of "spOt" ap-
pOintments.) g.
Every reserve officer is urged
to report to his nearest naval ac-
tivity and present evidence of hav-
ing performed satisfactory service
on active duty in order to effect his
new permanent appointment.
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-05

lations to the happy, grinning man
who had won four more wears in
the White House in his own right.
The word came through that
Dewey had tossed in the sDonge as
the President and the man who
will be his Vice President Senator
Alben w. Barkley of Kentucky.
were on the telephone.
At his Paducah home, BarkIsv
chOrtled:
Il could have sung, but 7 didn't
have song in mind. can lust
say that | am mighty happy"
DOpeSterS In Daze
The political dOpestefs still were
in daze trying to figure out how
it all happened. Adjectives like
stunning amazing. "astound-
ing were on every tongue.
The grit and never-give-up spir-
it OF the man who inherited the
White House couldn't be discount
ed. And Mr.. Truman could saw 81
told you So" He had told the polI
takers they would be red-faced to-
day They were. <
Even the cards had been stacked
against him.
Presidential candidates aren"r
supposed to win without the bis
electoral votes of New York anC
Pennsylvania. Truman did.
4 Does III Hard Wav
And he did it with his own party
split, without the Solid South
without any bullying money bags t.,
finance the campaign, without tn,
big total vote that is supposed t,
favor the Democrats.
Progressive Party candidat
Wallace, fired from the Truman
Cabinet, got even in part in New
York, Connecticut and Maryland.
With returns in from five-sixth
Of the nations polling places. Wal
lace's popular vote was only 1913.
150-far under the 100000 to 6.
100000 the PrOgressives had pre
dicted. And that vote was scatter
ed in such a way as to DENY hin
any electoral ballots.
But the votes Wallace collecte
there would have been enough t.
swing New York, Connecticut an
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-05
The Parks Are Making
Money

The fees collected by the Govern
ment from owners of automobiles
in our National Parks during the
past fiscal year tOtalled $3,S03,327,
the highest record for all times.
Yellowstone National Park cOntin-
ues to draw the biggest crowds, and
its receipts reached $761,975 from
all sources.
And Rock Creek Park in Wash
ington, D. c., is filled with all sorts
of wild animals, birds, and thOus-
ands of men, women, boy, girls, au-
tOmObiles, and mixed-bTeeds every
Sunday and week days-and it
doesn't make nickel over the eX-
penses.
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-05

Maryland to the Democrats.
However, the President won with
out those, too.
He raided Republican strong
holds in the farm belt, where wheat
and corn prices have been sagging
He wrenChed states like Iowa and
Wisconsin away from the Republic
can banner.
He ran strong in the border
states, including his own Missouri.
And he held onto most of the
South in the face of attempts Of
rebelling States Fighters under
ThurmOnd to snatch it from him.
Thurmond captured only Ala
hama, South Carolina, Mississippi
and Louisiana.
Proves Dixie Can't Rule
In winning, the Chief Executive
proved that the South can't control
the Democratic Party, just as he
demonstrated in July that Dixie
and big city bosses can't run a
Democratic convention as they
please.
Mr.. Truman came out of the
campaign and the election with
new stature and prestige. He was
good enough to win on his own. He
had answered with his victory the
talk that he just wasn't big enough
for the job.
He had heard that talk and i
must have hurt. He mentioned i
time and again as he stumped the
country, telling the people he want
ed them to see him and listen t
him and judge for themselvei
whether the talk was right.
And in the end, the farmers ant
the workers helped sew up hi
victory.
Dewey was behind from the star
of the vote counting. The early re
turns came mostly from big citie
and industrial areas where tn
Democrats were expected to scOr
heavily. The Republicans expectet
to pull up as the tally came il
from small towns and rural dis
tricts.
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-05
Kent County ScOuters To
Hold Annual Meeting
November Both

The Annual Dinner Meeting of the
Dover District (Which includes Kent
County and the southern part of
New Castle County, of the Del-Mar-
Va Council of the Boy Scouts of
America has been scheduled for No
vember Both in the Dover High
School cafeteria.
DR.. o. A. BARLEY of Dover is the
chairman of the committee arrang-
ing for tn dinner and program.
Plans to have an outstanding speak
er and a tableauX Of Scouting in ad
ditiOn to the making of the annual
awards to outstanding adults in
terested in the Scout program are
under way and will be announced
later.
The committee on arrangements
consists of DR.. BARLEY, Chairman,
! Lawrence A. FOardS Vice-Chairman,
Paul hartman and Paul Section,
Program, Arthur G. Livingston, Ar
rangements, F. X. TUller, Atten-
dance and Promotion.
The aim of the committee is for
an attendance of at least 300 per-
sons and all service clubs and civic
organizations are invited to attend
Irwin A. Bowman, of Milford
ScOutmaster of the Troop sponsored
by the Kiwanis Club, was recipient
Of the Merit award for excellence Ot
his efforts for the Scouting program
last year. He was the first Scout
master so recognized for this higI
award in the Dover District.
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-05

The new permanent appoint
ments authorized by the Secretary
of the Navy and incorporated in a
5OO-page book, Permanent APP
pOintments and Rank Status of
Officers of the USNR" (NavPers
1898, adjusted the permanent
grades of Reserve officers to the
grades now held by their contem-
pOraries in the regular Navy.
1t. COmdF. F. p. Leithiser,
USNR., COmmandant's Local Rep
resentative for the Milford, Della
ware Area, which includes Dover,
Georgetown, RehObOth, Harrington,
SeafOrd and Laurel, will affect
permanent ranks for all eligible
officers Of this area.
Redistribution of the permanent
grades conform with the Navy's
postwar promotion policy and pro-
vides the foundation by which re-
serve officers become eligible for
promotion to a higher permanent
grade at the same time as their
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-05
Signs OF The Times

Two hundred and thirty-fve Con-
gressmen who voted for the Taft
Hartley Act have been renOminated
and less than a dozen have failed.
Which goes to prove the Oft-repeat-
ed statement in this correspondence
that the labor legislation is becOm-
ing VERY satisfactory to wage
earners who are protected against
ruthless and bOssy. strike-Ieaders.
Believe it or not, the Washington
gossip insists that John L. Lewis
will support Dewey.
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-05
Beauty
Scores In Movies

SINGAPORE - (P) - Kasma
Booty, the South Seas first film
star, has completed her second pic
ture. It's a mystery film called
"Chinta"-Or, in English, Love"
The 16-year-Old SumatTan beau
ty's first film, "Chempaka," set at
tendance records for MaIay-langu-
age pictures. She was rushed into
"Chinta" to take advantage of her
box office appeal, unprecedented for
a Malayan star
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-05
Swiss Seaway Planned

LOCARNO - Up - A commits
sion of Italian and Swiss engineers
met here recently to begin work on
the blueprints for a projected canal
from Milan to Lake Maggiore.
The canal would permit barge
traffic from Italian Adriatic ports to
reach Swiss ports on Lake Maggiore
without Pe-lOading. The cost of the
project is to be shared by Italy and
Switzerland, but no date for con-
structiOn has been set. One of the
first tasks of the commission will be
to determine the total cost.
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-05
Underground Work
Cuts Pension

BRUSSELS - R) - Because the
Belgian coal mine Of MussOn lies
near the French frontier and some
of its galleries extend under France
"a miner working there has had
his pension cut because he did not
work a sufficient number of years
on Belgian soil. The Belgian Min
lister of Labor has promised an in
quiry into the case.
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-05
Bertha Carey Hurt
When Struck By Car
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plant. According to police, Mr.
JOhnstOne had put the brake on his
car, but in some manner the brake
slipped and the car went into the
river. Mr.. JOhnstOne was not in the
car when it went overheard, but he
dove in and fastened the cable TO
the rear and Heartie FOTeaker
pulled it out with his tractor.
The Nome nugget., 1948-12-13
Grand Jury Indicts Negro Murderers

LYONS, Ga, (P)-A Negro Wo- man, sobbing hysterically gave testimony to grand jury Friday that brought murder charges against two white men for the am bush staying of her husband. Rob- ert Mallard.
 Ar.y Mallard. the widow, blam- ed the Nov 20 shooting on a band of l5 or more robed and hooded men. She said they were not wear ing masks.
 She cried out her story to a spe- cial ToOmbs county graund jury Friday. The jurors placed murder charge sagainst William L. How ell, 32, and Roderick Clifton, 36, both Lyons farmers.
 Widespread publicity given the case led Georgia Governor Her man Talmadge to declare it had been seized upon in a campaign to destroy States Rights, through the proposed civil rights program of President Truman. The Truman program includes an anti-lynch law.
 Howell and Clifton may be tried at a special session of the Toombs county superior court previously called for Jan. II.
 The widow was summoned to the jury room twice during ma eight-hour session. A dozen other witnesses or Investigating officers testified, including editor Ralph McGill of the Atlanta, Constitu- ton.
 Sheriff Gray said the Atlanta editor was summoned "to tell just what he knew about the case" He
The Nome nugget., 1948-12-13
Jane Sniffen Plans Xmas for EskimOes

SEATTLE, (P) - It seems that Santa Claus will be too busy this year to attend to affairs in his own backyard, so an army hostess is trying to take Christmas to the North Pole or thereabOuts.
 While Santa is busy in the southland, Jane SniffenC army hostess at Marks Air Force ase, is going to throw party for 300 Es- kimO children and their CT friends at Nome-if the air force and the people of Seattle will cooperate.
 Miss Sniffen is handicapped by the isolation of her Nome post, the lack there of gifts suitable for small children and the high cost of shipping gifts in. Furthermore, the army provides her with no funds to finance her party for the Eskimo children.
 So, by way of letter to Seat tie friend, Mrs. J. N. Barry, Host ess Sniffen has appealed to the Christmas Bureau of the Seattle King County Community Chest.
 If successful in it's appeal the community chest will undertake to induce the ir force to fly the gifts to Nome for free in time for the Christmas Eve affair
The Nome nugget., 1948-12-13
World Famous HOOVER SWEEPER

An outstanding value in fine home cleaning equipment. Easy to use, rolls smoothly, easy over your floors and carpets :. no back bending ef- fort. Can be had with or without at- tachments.
The Nome nugget., 1948-12-13

intimated county officers resented editorial criticism of the manner in which the investigation was handled. McGill wrote last week that it was doubtful if legal action would have been attempted if newspapers had not dug up the story.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-05-15

New styles in eyeglasses make
the eyes dramatic and attractive.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-05-15
THE FANS CORNER
Lesnevich ducks 60
with Ezzard Charles

tract with the Harlem Globe
trotters, a VIGOROUSLY poor-pay-
ing ball club, because he felt he
was not being paid what he was
worth.
Morse said he thought that
Robinson was a good boy, but
tn at Saperstein, Globetrotter
owner, was a friend and client
of his, therefore he would not
touch Ermer. At the same time
he divulged the only player he
would be interested in was Don
Barksdale, Oakland Bittner star.
He then added that Barksdale
probably could not be obtained
for the Stays.
When the Star representative
told him this player might be
available, Morse quickly replied,
Don't get in touch with him
right away, there are so many
problems to be settled before
we could sign Negro player"
At this point he had to leave
to catch a train, promising to
meet again with a representative
of the Star within the next two
weeks to discuss the entire mat
ter at length.
We are still waiting to hear
from Mr.. Morse and will keep
you informed concerning the de-
velopment of our fight to put
Negro player on the Chicago
Stays.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-05-15

WTALTER NIXON, recording
w secretary, Local 43 Fur and
Leather Workers, dropped us a
line to let US know that the Local
Ais bowling team met the Chi
cago Joint Board team for the
Championship trophy at the Gar
field Alleys Thursday, April 29.
Nixon just wanted us to know
that both Negro and white bowl
ed in that tourney, and that
stronger ties have been eStab-
ished in the union<as result.
After all, Walter, that is the
purpose of sports at the union
level. Sporting events of this
type lend to comradeship, broth
erhood and united strength. That
is the reason A. B. c. keeps its
discriminatory policy; it doesn't
want to see the little people get
together.
The Joint Board and Local AIS
have taken a step in the right
direction. If we can get the other
unions to see it this way and
form a strong organization to
fight, we will lick A. B. c. and
its reactionary policies yet.