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Evening star., 1948-03-29

mine operators side of the dispute
over pensions.
Operators estimate the strike
already has cost the country $780,
600, 900 and the miners in wages an
amount double the 1000, 900
already accumulated in the UNIV
welfare and retirement fund, use of
which touched off the shutdown.
Other Thousands Laid Off.
In addition to those directly in
volveo, the strike has brought lay
offs to thousands of workers in
other industries, most of them in
steel and railroads.
| A 10-cent royalty on coal produc-
ton dating back to last July l has
built up the fund. But Mr.. Lewis
trustees for the union and the
operators, have been unable to
agree. AS a result nothing has been
paid out of the fund.
Mr.. Lewis has proposed 500
monthly payments to miners go or
older with 20 years service. He said
the mine owners "dishonored" their
agreement by not agreeing on a
payment method by now. Ezra Van
Horn, the operators representative
on the pension board. says the
amount proposed by Mr.. Lewis is
too high.
Pension eligibility also is In dis
pute. Mr.. Lewis wants it to apply
to all his union members upon
reaching retirement age. But Mr.
Van Horn has contended it is illegal
to pay pensions to miners whose en-
ployers haven't been contributing to
the welfare fund.
Ex-Fund Director to Testify.
Mr.. Lewis has never called the
pension holiday, a strike. Evidence
that the layoffs constitute strike
might be required to support court
action under the Taft-Hartley Act.
At its 2 pm. hearing the board
has arranged to hear from Thomas
E. Murray, New York f1nancier
william Burke, pension fund secre-
tary, and additional testimony from
Mr.. Van Horn.
Mr.. Burke was instructed to bring
along minutes Of trustee meetings
that may disclose Mr.. Lewis posi-
ton on various arguments at these
past sessions. @
Mr. Murray was formerly the third
and neutral trustee of the welfare
fund. He quit last January saying
that both Mr.. Lewis and Mr.. Van
Horn had stubbornly refused to
compromise their dispute.
Evening star., 1948-03-29
|OId Manila Mine Kills u. S. Boy;
~ FiIipinos Die on Correqidor

Saturday on Corregidor when they
entered sealed tunnel and touched
off a Japanese BOBBY trap. They
were members of Philippines
Army bomb disposal unit.
Sixteen Philippine soldiers and six
civilian laborers were killed-none
of whom had been authorized to
enter the sealed tunnel in which
the Saturday blasts occurred, Brig.
Gen. Calixto Duque announced. One
injured soldier was rescued. The
tunnel, used as a shelter by United
States Navy personnel in early days
of the war, was sealed after Amer
leans recaptured Corregidor in 1945.
Investigators found plenty of un-
burned powder from japanese am
munition strewn around" and said
1t was too dangerous to explore
the tunnel further.
Evening star., 1948-03-29
Coal
fContinued From First Page.)

charge of labor relations for the
United States Rubber Co.
A messenger bearing the Lewis
letter to Judge Minton arrived at
the boards Labor Department build
ing Office at 9:55 am, five minutes
before the deadline the board had
given Mr.. Lewis for an answer to
its invitation to testify. He had re.
fused to appear Friday, informing
the fact-finders he was inquirine
into legal questions involved.
Enforcement Left to Courts.
Ten minutes after the Lewis let
ter was received, the marshals left
the board with the subpoena.
Then, Joseph Friedman, JUS
tice Department attorney, conferred
with the board. He told reporters
that presumably if Mr.. Lewis fail.
to appear at the pm. hearing, al
ordered in the subpoena, a petition
will be filed in District Court for ar
order compelling his appearance
The court would demand that MI
Lewis show cause" why he shoule
not be compelled to testify.
The board is empowered by thu
Taft-Hartley Act to issue subpoenas
but is dependent upon the Fedora
Courts for enforcement of its orders
A court order would hold the threa
of contempt penalties If not obeyed
The board will proceed with it
hearing of the coal dispute at
pm, regardless of whether MI
Lewis is in attendance. 1t was un
derstood the Justice Department
will seek the court order backin
up the board subpoena If Mr.. Levi
has not appeared by 8 pm.
Report Planned Tomorrow.
With or without the testimony c
Mr.. Lewis and his union, it was tn
plan of the fact-finders to submi
to President Truman tomorrow q
interim report on the dispute be
tween the union and coal operator
over q miners pension as well q
the subsequent strike.
After the report Is in, and pre-
vided the strike is not ended. M
Truman already has indicated Al
torney General Clark will be ir
structed to obtain court injunctio
against the strike. That would mea
additional court trouble for Mr.. Lev
is and the union
Reports that FBI agents may ha,
been sent into the coal fields
look for violations of law in cor
nection with the rhine shut dow
drew a no comment answer at tt
Justice Department.
Board members worked over I'll
Easter week end preparing the pa
Of their report dealing with Il
Evening star., 1948-03-29
BY the Assoeioted Press

MANILA, Mar. 29.-An old United
States land mine exploded today
killing the eight-year-old son of an
American airforce sergeant. Three
girl playmates were injured. one
critically.
The blast, on the Clark Field
airbase, was caused by land mine
planted by retreating American
forces in December, 1941, to slow the
Japanese
Thirteenth airforce headquarters
withheld names of. the young VIC
tins of the Clark Field tradegy
The mine, a buried augmentation
bomb, had been overlooked by botf
japanese and American disposa
squads.
Twenty-tVo Filipinos were killeC
Evening star., 1948-03-29
War Surplus Sale Opens
In Baltimore Today

War surplus property which cost
the Government approximately $2,-
100000 will be offered to veterans of
World War II today and tomorrow
in a spot-bid sale at War Assets
Administrators warehouse at 5000
Dundalk avenue, Baltimore.
Included in the sale, which opens
at 8 pm, are plumbing and heating
supplies, f1re-fghting equipment,
hardware and miscellaneous parts
for automobiles and tractors.
Evening star., 1948-03-29
Truce for Jerusalem
lis Reported Sought 10
Avert IFS Destruction
!. BY the Assoeioted Press

JERUSALEM, Mar. 29.-Police
said three bombs, apparently drop
ped from a plane, landed today
near a Greek orthodox school in
Jaffa. Nearby buildings were re-
ported slightly damaged, but no
one was hurt.
About 100 persons were killed
and 200 injured throughout Pales-
tine during the week end. The
deaths raised to 2,206 the un-
official toll in fighting since the
United Nations voted four months
ago for partition.
A Jewish Agency spokesman in
dicated to news conference there
is some move in religious circles
to suggest truce for Jerusalem. y
Appeal to U. N. Welcomed.
The spokesman welcomed a re-
ported appeal by DR.. Cyril Garbett,
Archbishop of York, to the United
Nations to take at once steps neces-
essary to save Jerusalem from de-
struction" in Arab-Jewish combat.
I'VE would also welcome any move
on the part of the Arabs for pre-
serving the peace of Jerusalem and
we would not care from which
sources these moves came as long as
we can absolutely rely on them," the
Jewish Agency spokesman said
The charred bodies of seven un-
identified Jews were recovered from
the wreckage of burned-out ar
mored car near Mughar Village In
the coastal plain. Police stated
earlier party of Jews attacked the
village with automatic weapons and
grenades. The villagers returned
the fire. The armored car was blown
up during the fight.
An official announcement said 1877
Jews without immigration certifi-
Gates were intercepted aboard the
schooner Yehiam by the British last
night off Haifa. They left this
morning for internment camps on
Cyprus.
Official reports showed at least SO
persons slain yesterday. Unofficial
sources reported much higher toll.
The Jewish militia Hagana tailed
300 Arab casualties Arabs spoke
OF heavy Jewish losses.
One Jewish motor convoy was
wiped out and another convoy was
forced to surrender its arms in two
widely separated attacks.
A British official statement said
40 Jews were slain and their con-
voy of five vehicles burned in an
ambush by $50 Arabs near the
Lebanese frontier. It reported six
Arabs killed.
Under Siege 80 Hours.
The attack took place at Ell Kabri
inland from costal Nahariya. Naha-
riya is halfway between Acre ano
the border. British royal artillery
fired IL rounds of 25-pounder shells
before driving the Arabs from their
hill entertainments, the statement
said.
The second convoy battle, south
of Bethlehem, ended yesterday
Nearly 200 Jews gave up their arm'
and equipment to the Arabs in re-
turn for safe conduct to Jerusalem
with British escort. British officer
arranged the truce.
| The Jews had been under siegs
$50 hours in the abandoned Arai
Ivillage Of Nabi Daniel (Prophe
fDanieD, below Bethlehem and cas-
1of Solomon's Pools. They took cove.
there when their 40-vehicle tonvo.
got caught in Arab roadblocks
Arabs said they destroyed or cap
tured all the vehicles.
Evening star., 1948-03-29
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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1948-06-09
ANA Votes to Admit
Southern Negro Nurses

CHICAGO (ANP) - Negro nurs.
es throughout the country may
now be admitted to the American
Nurses association, it was voted
here by the house of delegates
of the ANA last week. The nurses
met at the biennial nursing con.
vention at the Coliseum.
This action lifts the bar on
more than 5000 qualified Negro
nurses in the south who are now
denied membership because of
state bans. In those southern
states colored nurses are barred
from district associations thus
disqualifying them for state and
national associations.
Mississippi and Oklahoma re-
Gently lifted their racial restrie-
tons. Membership in district and
state groups automatically entitled
a nurse to membership in the
ANA.
The ANA is one of three organi-
cations sponsoring this years bien-
NAL meeting.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1948-06-09

Negroes were famous all over the
world for their excellence and ar
tistry in working with wood and
iron Currently famous all
over the world Is the character of
'.King Zulu and the Negroes 9TH
err contributions 10 Mardi Gras
are likedwise notable (The
ancestors OF New Orleans Negroes
originally came from Africa, from
an area as large as the whole con-
tinent OF Europe. and the first of
them hit American shores in
1919 Present=day Negroes
here have a club. one of the most
famous in the city, called "The
Hundred Dollars a Week Club"
for anyone making that figure or
more each week The average
wage of New Orleans Negroes, by
the way, is one of the highest in
the United States Probably
the oldest fact concerning the
New Orleans Negro. however, is
that the Emancipation Proclama-
ton didn't include this city at all.
due to technicality. even though
it freed about four million slaves
elsewhere in the nation.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1948-06-09
Wash. Sheriffs Assoc.
Opposes Initiative Is

Charging that it would result in
increased sales of liquor to minors
and mushrooming Of speakeasies
the Washington Sheriffs' Associa-
ton last Friday went on record
against Initiative 10, the proposed
prohibition legislation.
The Initiative seeks to prohibit
the present system of legally
licensed sale of beer and wine
through retail outlests.
The Association, meeting lin
Everett. passed a resolution which
reads in part that enactment OF
the initiative would result in
springing up of speakeasies, boot
leggers and other unlawful meth
DDS of distribution and illegal con-
sumption of beer and wine. -. .
result in increased sales to minors
through illegal sources. =. and
foster lawlessness just as similar
restrictive measures did during
prohibition.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1948-06-09
SOME NEGRO FRSTS'
IN NEW ORLEANS


Theer are about Is million Ne
groes in the United States. about
$4,000 in Louisiana and about
10000 In New Orleans This
last figure represents the combin-
ed total OF some $4,000 families
and makes it the first city In the
South and the sixth city in the
nation as far as Negro population
is concerned About Is per
cent of New Orleans Negroes own
their own homes About 5000
own automobiles They spend
on the average of 81 per cent of
their income for food, but have a
total buying power estimated at
we'll over a million dollars a week
New Orleans has over 500
Negro owned and operated busi-
nesses (women play a tremendous
part in business here) and is the
second city in America in that re-
gard Largest business of all
is life insurance, and the New Or
leans Negro owns 16 companies
here, doing an aggregate business
of about 6 million dollars a year.
Local 1419, a longshoremen's
union, is not only the largest all
Negro local in the world but the
richeste as we'll. with over $780,
900 in the bank :. There are six
Negro theaters In New Orleans
and one of them. 1.-THE Palace" is
the largest in the United States
There are five Negro beauty
schools in New Orleans. more than
in any other city In America j.
There are also Is hotels and ID
drug stores +. There are rs taxi
cab companies, with a total of
over 400 cabs in operation E. .
L WI llOi al itS W. DlonOPo
Two artists . One architect
fight promoter f. Six authors
Forty-seven doctors
Twelve dentists /. /. Two lawyers
f. Eight printers S. One pri-
vately endowed hospital Two
of the finest Negro night clubs I'm
addition to others, of course) in
the Country Fifty grocery
stores +. Forty-five schools with
a total of $50 teachers Two
business schools and two colleges,
and of these latter, Xavier is the
only Catholic Negro college in the
nation The largest Negro
Catholic Church in America is
Corpus Chhisti, here in New Or
leans In all, however, New
Orleans Negroes have a total OF
more than ATS churches, the ma
pority of them Baptist.
Like his brothers and sisters
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1948-06-09
Prince Hall MasOns lose
Suit Against York Rite

TULSA, Okla. (ANP) = Dis
trict Judge John Ladner denied
an injunction against the Eureka
York Rite Grand lodge of Free
and Accepted Masons here this
week after listening to five days
of testimony and reviewing an
Gent documents brought IN by
witnesses.
Plaintiff in the case was the
Prince Hall Grand lodge of which
Atty Amos T. Hall is grand mas
ter. The petition sought to enJoin
the defendants from using insignia,
emblems and holding themselves
up as Masons. Atty Harry e.
Davis of Cleveland, author. lectu
rer and an authority on Masonry
among Negroes, was brought here
as chief witness for the Prince
Hall Grand lodge.
w. L. Turner, national grand
master of the York Rite Masons
author of 1.-THE York Rite" lectu
rer and minister, of Birmingham
was the rebuttal witness. w. l.
Davis, grand master; B. c. Hodg
es, grapde secretary, both of Phil
adelphia and r. J. Simmons, ma
tional grand secretary of Birming
ham, were also here for the de
Tense.
The suit was filled after w. S
Pogg. grand master of the Eureka
lodge; Isaac James Holmes. and
Andrew Fuller failed to carry oui
written and signed agreement
to merge with the Prince Hall
after fact finding" trip to
Boston in 1915 to search the re
cords in an effort to determine
just which of the two organiza
tions was the direct descendeni
from the Prince Hall lodge.
Testimony brought out that the
Eureka Grand lodge committee
Pogg, Holmes, and Fuller, agreed
that the records showed the Prince
Hall lodge is direct descendant
but failed to follow through will
the merger. w. L. Davis and B
c. Hodges were sent to Bostor
by the national grand lodge a
the time to be present at thu
findings of the committee. Att!
Hall and Atty. J. J. Bruce of Okla
homa City represented the loca
Prince Hall lodge on the trip.
The court room was filled will
spectators, mostly M a son s
throughout the five day hearing
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1948-06-09

Thirteen licensed relief agencies
have been providing food, clothing
and medicine for needy Japanese.
DR.. Ayusawa carris with him an
official thank you" from the Jap.
anese government.
General Macarthur, as supreme
commander of Allied forces in the
Pacific. besides carrying out the
punitive clauses of the peace ar
rangements, in putting into effect
sweeping economic and political
reforms. so popular that most JAP
anese will be deeply disappointed
If Macarthur is not elected Presi-
dent, Ayusawa said.
The Japanese visitor spoke last
might to Japanese-American alumni
of the University of Washington
at the Gowman Hotel.
Ayusawa was greeted here by
CENT Mihara, executive director of
the Japanese relief committee for
the Northwest.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1948-06-09
Robinson Offer to
Morcel Cerdon's ConqUeror
BY Al Moses

NEW YORK CAMP = Cyrille
Delannoit, Belgian middleweight,
and a new magic name in first
flight boxing circles, has been Of
fered a non-title fight with Ray
(Sugar) Robinson, worlds welter
king, for a ealry June date.
Recently the Belgian scrapper
upset all ring dopesters when he
was given a decision after 15 close
rounds over Frances Marcel Ger
dan, to annex the European mid
dleweight championship formerly
held by Cerdan. While the decision
was loudly disputed by Cerdan
who now insists on return meet
ing with the heretofore unrated
(NBA) Delannoit, the fact remains
that as Of now the Brussels ring
man has the inside track on a
Ray Robinson contest and not
Cerdan.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1948-06-09
new ORLEANS, CLAMOR CITY

everywhere. the New Orleans Ne
gro has a strong strain of nature
worship in his blood. which ac-
counts for his rich emotionalism
There are more than twice
as many Negro elergymen in New
Orleans as there are whites. in
proportion to the population
Negro folklore is one of the larg-
est and most varied bodies of lose
in New Orleaens today New
Orleans supplies more Negro cler-
zeal workers to the nation than
any other American city New
Orleans is the only major city in
the deep South in which the per-
centage of Negroes in the total
population has increased in the
last As years Illiteracy among
New Orleans Negroes is down
from 95 per cent during the War
Between the States to less than
Is per cent today. BY nature. New
Orleans Negroes are agricultur-
lists but. today, most wage earners
among them are connected either
directly or indirectly with BUSH
ness or industry /. Average age
of Negro businessmen In New Or
leans is AZ years :. The greater
majority OF their customers buy
for cash with, possibly. the single
exception of one item. furniture.
In the field OF music, New Or
leans Negroes are among the
greatest creators and interpreters
of jazz of all time. Louis Arm
strong is the undisputed daddy
of 'em ALL but there's also Zutty
Singleton, Buddy" BIO d e n.
King oliver. Sidney Bechet. AL
phonse Picou, A. ]. Piron a n d
Clarence "Basin Street" Williams,
and the list could go on. In
another generation, New Orleans
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1948-06-09
PUBLIC LIBRARY

The Seattle Public Library's
summer loan plan which permits
borrowers to take out at one time
sufficient books for a whole vac
atoms reading and retain them
without necessity for renewal un-
til the end of September, is now
in operation at the central library
and its branches.
John S. Richards. city librarian
states that under the plan any
reasonable number of books OF
light and serious content may be
checked out for the summers
reading in the country or at the
seashore, with the exception OF
such titles as may be currently in
unusual demand.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1948-06-09
Following The Color Line
TEXAS NEGRO GIRL FINDS FRIENDS AND
LAUGHTER AT CATHOLIC COLLEGE

| So I began to speak to her when
ever I saw her, deliberately to
sit by her on the bus or in the
restaurant, to smile at her across
room.
Strangely enough, then, slowly
without our realizing it, We were
breaking down the barriers be-
tween us. She began visiting my
room and I hers, until near tho
end of the year she was one of
my best friends and she still is.
Then one night just before the
end of the school year. we had a
long talk on the race problem,
and We settled many things and
discovered many things about
ourselves.
At the end of the Freshman
year. to my very great surprise.
Ii was elected to the Student
Council as my class represent
alive, by the voluntary vote of
the students. A fitting end to a
wonderful year.
So much for my adjustment as
college student. But when
went home for my first Christ
mas vacation | found that those
little "problems to face" were
not onesided-I had to face the
problem of my own people.
They distrusted me now, they
were sure l would return snob-
bish, acting high and mighty. I"
My friends would walk by with
out looking at me before l
could snub they as they were
sure l would--and those that did
stop to talk were strained and
strange.
So again l found myself being
deliberately kind-if they'd walk
by as though not having seem
me. I'd call out to them or catch
up with them and speak, and
speak not only conventionally,
but ask about their families and
my other friends and all the
other things that / was genuinely
interested in. Slowly, they began
to accept me again, even to
tease me about my slight eastern
accent which for the life of me
L couldn't help picking up. Not
all of them accepted me, but
most of them did-thanks to
Gods grace.
And so my life has run for the
past two years-at home with my
own people who are glad to hear
of my experiences, to hear not
of tolerance" Ct dislike the
thoughat of "tolerating' people
or being tolerated by them), but
of compatibility among races.
| You see, am to them living
representation of the truth of
such fact, because l am a Negro
and attend a school where the
fact that I'm from Texas and
haven't southern accent is of
more interest than the fact that
| am Negro.
| | know that every story of this
kind Is not always like mine
maybe Nazareth is an exception.
But no matter where l go or
what l encounter through life
I'll know that races can laugh
together, work together, and play
together.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1948-06-09
Japanese Grateful to U.S. Says Visiting Tokyo Doctor

The United States hasn't forgot
ten the second part of its war
aims establishment Of the Four
Freedoms = and the Japanese
people are trule grateful, DIR. Iwao
Ayusawa of Tokyo said in Seattle
yesterday.
DR.. Ayusawa. executive director
Of the Central Labor Relations
Bard. Japanese counterpart Of
this country's National Labor Re
lations Board. is the first Japan
ese official permitted to come to
this country.
IF the only aim OF the United
States had been victory" the visi-
tor said, 1t would have been like
any other war.
But your President Roosevelt
said the aim must be to establish
freedom of thought, freedom of re-
ligion, freedom from fear and free
dom from want. through ,out the
world"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1948-06-09
Louis viii Fight Lesnevich in
Sept. Soys Sports Writer

NEW YORK (ANP)-Joe Louis.
after his engagement with Jersey
Joe Walcott this month, will take
on Gus Lesnevich in September,
AL Buck, sports writer for the
New York Post, wrote from Pomp-
ton Lakes Wednesday.
Quoting the champ, Buck wrote
that Louis said, 81 plan to retire,
but I may change my mind after
the fight. How about Lesnevich
having twin girls?"
Joe has been declared in his
best physical condition since his
class with Conn the second time,
and now weights ZIG pounds.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1948-06-09

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