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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1948-11-10
$4,000 GEORGIA
NEGROES VOTE
MAINLY FOR TRUMAN

ATLANTA = (ANP) = Nearly
complete tabulations from Geo
rgia precincts Thursday revealed
that President Harry S. Truman
garnered an overwhelming major
ity of the some $4,000 Negro
votes cast in last Tuesdays gen
eral election.
Final returns from Atlantas
Fulton county precincts BIB. 3-A
and 5-H, predominantly Negro
areas, showed that Truman ac-
complished better than a 2-to-1
victory over Republican nominee
Thomas e. Dewey. In precinct BIB,
located at e. r. Carter school,
the totals showed 1904 for Tru-
man and $50 for Dewey. Precinct
3-A, located at Walker Street
school, showed Truman total
of $50 votes, compared to Dewey's
1913, while at Precinct 5-H, located
at David r. Howard High school,
6S2 votes were cast for Truman
and 342 for Dewey.
Unofficial tabulations of Negro
votes from other Atlanta pre-
cincts where whites and Negroes
cast their votes together showed
majorities for Truman.
Negroes braved the Indictment
weather conditions to report to
the polling places in Atlanta and
over the state. In many areas,
officials report that Negroes were
outvoting whites. in relation to
total registration.
Henry A. Wallace's slate got
less than 200 votes from the pre-
dominant Negro precincts and fig
ured small in the total state vote.
Reports were that most officials
refused to count the votes TOT
Larkin Marshall. candidate for the
U. S. senate on the Progressive
slate, and others of his party.
The States Fighters polled few,
if any Negro votes.
The Republicans had made
real bid for Negro votes in Geo
rgia, but had been fought down
to the last campaign day by
Democrats stalwarts.
John Wesley Dobbs, Prince
Hall Masonic grandmother and
vice chairman of the Republican
state central committee, conceded
his defeat with the following state
ment:
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holders lost out.
At the same time, there was
far higher percentage of Negro
ballots cast for Progressive party
candidates than was the case
among white voters This was con-
sidered to be the result of Henry
Wallace's campaign for equal
rights and the personal efforts
of him and his running mate to
buck Jim crow in person in the
south, as well as the large num-
Der of Negroes running on Pro-
gressive tickets.
In Harlem, for instance, there
were 2S,903 Negro votes cast for
Wallace as against 34.076 for
Dewey and 1OS,64S for Truman.
Observers opined more Negroes
did not vote for the former vice
president because they believed
he had little chance of winning
and did not want to waste their
votes"
At the same time, the leader
ship of the Negro press was being
questioned along with that of
white newspapers. Leading Negro
weeklies, with few exceptions, sup
ported Dewey as did most of the
influential white press, yet Tru-
man won. This was interpreted
frankly as raising doubts over
whether Negro publications can
accurately be said to coice the
opinions of their readers, long
considered one of the strong
points of Negro newspapers. =. :.
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NEGRO AND WHITE
JUDGES PRESIDE IN
FORT WORTH PRECINCT

FIT. WORTH. Tex. = (ANP) =
Forth Worth made political his
tory again on Tuesday when for
the first time in the county the
interracial element was brought in
at Precinct SO when a Negro,
Mrs. w. B. Lacy. and a white
man, A. L. Bailey. served as pres
iding judges during the presiden-
tial and senatorial election.
Precinct SO is predominantly
Negro but never before have Ne
groes had a hand in conducting
a precinct election during a presi-
Dental election year.
Mr.. Bailey is head of the FIT.
Worth Building Trades associa-
ton. Mrs. Lacy was elected chair
man of Precinct SO in the August
primary run-off.
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TO destroy what is lett OF
rent controls have included
arrogant control busting
statements by the Natl. Assn.
of Real Estate Boards and
the Wall Street Journal.
In addition, more than two mil
lion leases. signed under coercive
terms of the 1947 federal rent law,
expire December 81, 194S.
In the Seattle area alone, 1s,43O
such voluntary" leases incorpo-
rating rent increases up to Is per
cent, were filed with the Seattle
Area Rent Office during the first
nine months the 1947 federal law
was in effect. In addition, 1858
leases were filed in 194S as the
landlord drive tapered off. bring
ing total leases to 1888.
sucoC tSdotc All C%PffSS a. buC
end Of this year at which time a
resumption of the epidemic Of
"dry evictions" and coercion into
paying higher rent is anticipated.
so % VIOLATIONS
Even now a limited survey by
the rent advisory board in one
Ohio city disclosed that no less
than so percent of landlords there
were guilty of violations Of the
present rent law. The black mar
ket rent racket included vast num-
bers of over-charges. side pay
ments and tie-in sales, where a
family can rent dwelling at the
illegal" rental figure, provided it
buys say 500 worth of furniture
for $500.
Following expiration Of present
voluntary" leases on Dec. 31st,
tenants will have some protection
under the 194S Federal Rent Act.
CONTINUED on Page ~
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CHICAGO ELECTS
TWO NEGRO JUDGES

CHICAGO = (ANP) = Chicago
swept two Negro judges into of
flee and reelected Rep. William
L. Dawson to his fourth term
in congress in the Democratic
landslide here last week.
Judge Wendell E. Green, rated
by attorneys here as the city's
best judge, received 1.01S,266 votes
to start his second term as a
municipal court judge.
Former all-American football
star at Iowa and pro with the
Chicago Cardinals, Fred Duke"
Slater was the second colored
municipal court justice elected
with more than 100000 votes. His
present office is that of assist
ant corporation council.
Dawson received more votes
than his two opponents, Repub-
lican William E. King and Prog
ressive Earl B. Dickerson, COM
bined to return to office from
the first district.
In the poll for seats in the
Illinois General assembly. three
more Negro Democrats came
through. Corneal A. Davis will
represent the first district; Chas.
NJ. Skyles, the fifth. and Fred
]. Smith, the third.
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DEMOCRATS SCORE
SWEEPING VICTORY
IN DETROIT

DETROIT (ANP) The
Democrats staged a sweeping vic
tory in Wayne county Tuesday
and the Republicans went down
to defeat in almost every race
in both the city and county gov
eminent. According to reports.
the Democrats carried Wayne
county by over the 10000 mark.
The only two colored candida
tes in the state senate race went
down to a crashing defeat by their
white Democratic opponents. They
were Leroy @. White and Robert
L. Ward. White and Anthony J.
Wilkowski squared off in the Sec
ond ward for the senate seat.
The voters gave Leroy White
$3.50 votes against wilkowski's
42.22s.
In the third ward Robsst l.
Ward was opposed by Henry r.
Kozak. Wards total votes stood
at 3. 1906 while Kozak received
23,751.
Perhaps the biggest upsets in
the county government hit the
Wayne County jail administration
and prosecutors office, where two
liberal Republicans were swept
out.
They are Sheriff Edward Behr-
endt and Prosecutor James N.
Mentally. Both have been liberal
in including colored people on
their staff. Behrendt employed 80
colored workers at Wayne County
Jail including three detectives.
Prosecutor Mentally has three
colored assistant prosecutors. His
civil rights staff to handle COM
plants of the violation of Mich
igan Civil Rights law was COM
posed Of members of all the min
GRITTY groups in the city headed
by Atty. Willis Ward.
In the race for governor, Gov.
Kim Sigler. Republican. was de-
feated by s7-year1old G. Mennen
williams. who has proposed a
liberal program for the state in
Guiding a fair employment prac-
tices act. Williams during his
campaign mixed freely with all
kinds of groups. regardless of
races throughout the state. Sun
day, Oct 81. he worshiped with
the congregation of Ebenezer A.
M. e. church and no political
talk was made.
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CONG. WIN. |. DAWSON SLATED FIRST
NEGRO TO HEAD MAJOR committee

manships are decided on commit
tee seniority; that is. on how long
a man has been on the committee,
rather than how long he has been
in Congress.
If tradition Is followed in his
case, Dawson will be the first
modern-day Negro congressman to
head an important House COM
mittee. He represents Illinois LIST
District which has sent Negro
members to Congress many years.
The only other present Negro
House member is Representative
Adam c. Powell, Jr., of New York,
who won reelection to his third
term on the Democratic and Labor
Party tickets. He ranks fifth on
the labor committee.
House and Senate committee
chairmanships will be sprinkled
heavily with SouthernerS in the
81st Congress. In the Senate, they
will go to Texas, South Carolina,
Arkansas, Tennessee. Oklahoma
and Maryland, among others. The
House chairmanships will include
representation of both Carolinas,
Virginia, Mississippi, Georgia and
Tennessee.
Tuesdays balloting handed the
Democrats a 54-to-42 edge in the
Senate, and 90-vote House mar
gin. With all races finally settled,
the new House has 1852 Democratic
members, 172 Republicans, and
one American-Laborite.
Seattle Times.
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BY Howard pobson

WASHINGTON, = An outright
race issue confronts the new
Democratic majority of the House
"a Negro is in line to head a
major committee of Congress. He
is Representative William L. Daw-
son of Illinois, Georgia-born Chi
cago attorney. who was reelected
Tuesday to his fourth term.
Dawson actually is only the sec
ond-ranking Democrat on the ex-
ecutive expenditure committee.
But the No. / man--Representa-
tive John w. Mccormack of Mas
sachusetts--is slated to return to
his job of majority leader. And
the majority leader customarily
does not have any committee as
signments; he never has carried
the burden of a major chairman
ship.
Democratic committee assign
ments in the House are arranged
by the party's members of the
ways-and-means committee This
groups recommendation are sub
mitted to a caucus of all House
Democrats, then to the entire
House.
The ways-and-means members
recommendations usually are APP
proved by the caucus, since they
are worked out with the party's
leaders and committee chairmen.
Acceptance by the House is just
formality.
Almost without exception, chair
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violating the federal civil rights
statute.
And in Seattle, the local chapter
issued a statement scoring the
outbreak of open terrorism and
calling upon Gov. Mon c. Wall
gren and Attorney General Smith
Troy to take vigorous steps to
remove this stain from our
state"
IN NEGRO HOME
After declinig to stay at any of
the towns hotels because of their
Jim Crow policy Goldsmith, who
went to Pasco to form a chapter
of the Civil Rights Congress, ac-
cepted an invitation to stay in the
home of a Negro family.
Because of his outspoken oppo-
sition to the practice in Pasco
of barring all hotels and restau-
rants to Negroes, the Civil Rights
leader was a marked man." Four
police in a squad car tailed"
him to the home of his hosts.
The police forced entry into the
house and demanded that Gold
smith leave. When he refused
they threw him and his luggage
into the police car, drove five
miles out of town where he was
beaten dumped into the road and
warned to stay out of Pasco.
But Goldsmith returned to the
Eastern Washington railroad and
farm center and attempted to file
charges against the officers. In
stead he was charged with dis
orderly conduct" fined $50 and
placed on a bus for Pendleton.
BLASTED JiM-cRoW
In addressing the organizational
meeting of the Seattle chapter.
Goldsmith stressed the need for
an about fight against discrimi-
nation and Jim-Crow in all their
vicious forms.
In it's statemnt, issued by John
Daschbach. temporary chairman,
the Seattle chapter declared that
the "criminaI assault, kidnapping
and false arrest Of Len Goldsmith
by the Paseo police force Is
crime against the people Of our
state"
1t declared that the Civil Rights
Congress "serves notice that the
perpetrators Of this crime will be
searched out and punished to the
full extend Of the law. This at
tempt to bolster the rotten Jim
Grow practices in the Paseo area,
by resorting to violence and kid
mapping. must be exposed and
smashed"
In calling on the people to parti-
cipate in a smashing offensive on
behalf of civil rights the state
ment declared that ''the use of
force and violence by the defen-
ders of Jim-Crow, serves to again
warn all Americans what a vile
end dangerous thing II is"
Washington state chapters have
also announced that they will con-
duct a fight against the Carwell
Committee and in support of tie
current rational campaign to o.
tain dismissal of the frame-up in
dictments OF the IL Communist
Party leaders who went on trial
in New York Monday.
The New World.
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session of The New World.
First word of the shocking
breach of civil rights was received
by The New World at press time
last week but as the victim was
then en- route to New York City,
the story could not be verified.
Daily newspapers have made no
mention of the affair.
Goldsmith, who went to Pasco
from Seattle where he formed a
local chapter OF the Congress,
wired The New World that he has
filed a complaint with the Depart
ment of Justice in Washington,
ID. c., charging the police with
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SENATE SOUTHENERS
WILL PROTECT SOUTH
DIN D. Johnston

COLUMBIA. s. C. = (ANP) =
The newly-won control of the
senate by Democrats was pictured
as protection for the south
against the enactment of an
FEPC. anti-lynch and anti-poll tax
bills, here last Wednesday by
Sen. Olin D. Johnston. A hacker
OF the Truman ticket, Johnston
was jubilant over he Democratic
victories in the senate and house
of representatives.
I'm the senate, with southern
ers in high places on all commit
tees, 1t will be very hard to pass
anything like the FEPC. anti-poll
tax and anti-lynch bills, he said.
"You know it's not like the
South Carolina legislature.
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TRIUMPHANT HARRY TRUMAN RUNS TRUE TO F0RN
BY Dean Gordon 3. Hancock
Ter AMP

When this comes to hand the
electorate of the nation viii have
registered it's presidential prefer
ence. Harry Truman will have
been returned to the White House
or Thomas Dewey will have been
assigned this significant honor. It
viii not make great deal Of
difference which way the election
goes. the people in the last an
alysis must work out their own
salvation.
Presidents of themselves can
make but little difference in the
political structure of the nation
although a great President is
great asset to the cause of good
government. Il Is just as swell
for us to remember that much
of the talk and argument" adj
vanced for this or that candidate.
was just so much political CAB.
II is a part of the American
mores and much of it should be
discontinued or forgotten.
This writer is solidly behind
any man that goes into the White
House. In fact he Ia for him
right or wrong; If right, we are
with him because he is right. II
wrong, we are with him to help
get him right. 1t does not matter
who is President. this is the peo-
pies country and they must sofe-
guard 1t with the sweat and tears,
and II need to be with their
blood. We hail the newly elected
President of these United States!
He is our President whether we
voted for him or not. This is the
only democratic view of the pol
itical situation.
But this release is purposely
designed as a feeble encomium
to Harry Truman who will go
down in history as one Of the
moral titans of the age. He took
stand and stood there, in spite
of gates of hell which rose up
against him. Truman won one of
the most dramatic moral victories
Of the goth century world. He
fought against dreadful odds
which he himself deliberately
helped to make. He chose his
course and was willing to take
the consequences. He showed
something that politicians seldom
show, and that is. moral courage
under pressure.
Politicians always strive to be
all things to all men. They try
at once to sit astride the fence
and keep the while their ears
to the ground. Truman disdained
this form of political acrobatics.
He willingly invited the wrath of
the Dixicrats and TO the very
last refused to give his damn
even as he refused to give at the
first.
We are quite conscious of the
fact that Truman is not perfect
nor has he claimed to be even
as 1t is useless to claim perfec-
ton for Dewey. But Truman took
a stand on the iniquitous comon
question and persisted in Haunting
defiance in the faces of the Dixie
CONTINUED on Page Al
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RIGHTS LEADER KIDNAPPED AND
BEATEN BY PASCO POLICE
By Terry Pettus

Full details of how Pasco, Washington, police officers
kidnapped and beat Len Goldsmith, national director of
the Civil Rights Congress- for his refusal to abide by the
towns Jim Grow PRACTICES have into the pos
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RENEWED DRY EVICTION and
RENT C0UCE CAMPAIGN FEARED

With much of what happens dependent upon the cleo
ton outcome there is every indication of stepped-up
landlord eviction and rent-gouging drive in coming
months Recent danger signals of an about offensive
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NATION WIDE RETURNS SHOW
NEGROES GAVE AID TO TRUMAN,
SWEPT In NEGRO DEMOCRATS
BY the Associated Negro Press

Negroes throughout the nation gave enthusiastic back
ing to President Truman mainly because of his civil rights
program and the of this support swept into Of
flee Negro Democrats many Negro Republican office
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HE dndH nleoev
discussed u New York Lost week when ofHa ct The
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Bishop Thomos Connolly Of the Cohoc diocese oongouofe
William his election officer of the Diocesan
Holy Name Union More ihon 400 Catholic leaders from all
ons of Western Washington took part in the soeys annual
lions at the convention in Port Orchard, recently
Mr. Beoumone 20l4 Charles Street, Seattle who chosen
of five officers of the docesonwde organization which
cudes S. 900 Catholic is active euder in the ST.
Morys Parish Holy Name Society,"
The Holy Name Society for the of God
poiroc the includes in its membership
in this country more than million Catholic men.
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Evening star., 1948-06-13
Congress Groups OK
Compensation Raises
For D. {. Workers

/ Benefits payable to workers in
private industry or business here in
cases of injury or death would be
increased by legislation agreed to by
conferees from both House and
Senate.
The measure, in the form of a
conference report approved by man.
ayers for the two chambers, was
filed late yesterday in the House,
and will come up for expected pas
sage early this week. 1t would then
go to the Senate for final approval
Lengthy hearings were held by both
House and Senate committees.
| The bill is an amendment to the
Longshoremen's and Harbor Work
ers Compensation Act which operates
in the District as this city's work
mems compensation act.
Maximum and Minimum Raised.
Many changes are made by the
bill in the present act. Maximum
compensation for disability would
be raised from $25 per week in the
present act to $35 in the bill.
The present minimum of So per
week for disability would be raised
to $12 but the bill provides that if
the employees average weekly wage
is less than $12 week, he would
receive as compensation for total
disability his average weekly wage.
! The amendments to the present
act were requested by organized la
Dor, on both the national and local
level. They were opposed by the
Washington Board of Trade, and
the Washington Hotel Association
of Washington.
No Change in Benefits Since 1927.
Recommending the bill, the House
Education and Labor committee in
its report points out that there has
been no change in the rate of ben
efits payable to injured employees
and dependents of deceased en-
ployes since 1927, when the original
bill became law. During this time,
the report points out wage rates
and cost of living had increased,
and a number of states had re-
vised upward benefits payable un-
der their own Workmen,s compen-
sation laws.
The bill is designed, the report
says, Ito provide increases in rates
of minimum and maximum COM
pensation which accord some recog-
milton to such increases in wage
rates, and in the cost of living, and
are roughly comparable to the bene-
fits under the most liberal State
laws. For the same purposes the
bill makes liberal adjustments in
the overall limitation of compensa-
ton and removes any such limita-
ton from cases of permanent disa-
bility or death"
The measure provides various de-
tailed methods for computation of
compensation for different cate
gories of disabilities.
The Longshoremen's law, designed
originally to cover men on ships and
in harbors, who were not under
any State law, became the work.
mems compensation act for the
District by an act of Congress in
1928. 1t applies to any employer
carrying on any employment in
the District ''' and every employe
of any such person"
Federal and District government
employees are separately covered
here under the Federal Employees
Compensation Act of 1910.
Evening star., 1948-06-13
Auto Injuries Fatal
To Man, II, District,
18Th Traffic Victim

A77-year -old retired metal worker
died at Casualty Hospital last night
to become the Districts 39th traffic
victim this year.
He was Walter S. Hall of TAG
Twelfth street Sc. who was struck
by an automobile Monday as he
and a friend, Wilbur J. Sandford
SO, of TAT Thirteenth street Sc.
were returning home after seeing a
baseball game on a television set.
Both men were struck as they
crossed Eleventh street near street
INV. Mr.. Sanford was released
Evening star., 1948-06-13
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