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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1948-08-25
SEATTLE SOCIALS
BY
Mrs.
H. c.
Thompson
Phone
EA-6fss
CLUB NEWS

The Women's Progressive Club
held its meeting with Mrs. Dor
othy Cornelius at 2916 q. Spring
st. 1t was business meeting in
which the club decided to adjourn
until October. A delicious lunch
con was served.
A round table discussion was
given by the members. concern
ing the convention of National
Association of Colored Women.
We were proud of our Evergreen
State" for having received seven
honorary cups.
Mrs. Mona Porter gave love-
ly buffet luncheon honoring the
visitors and delegates to the con-
vention.
A breakfast was given in honor
of delegates by Mrs. Hattie How
ard. Those present were Mrs. Cora
Johnson, Mrs. Ada Bryant, Mrs.
j. Smith, Mrs. Francis Mayfield,
Mrs. Barnet. Mrs. D. Christmas,
and Mrs. Duncan.
Mrs. Mayfield. also club MEM
Der. entertained with a luncheon
for delegates.
A vote of thanks was given to
all members for their cooperation
in making the convention not just
another gathering but historic
event which will long be remem-
bered. Only by working together
could such a purpose have been
fulfilled. We have shown by our
efforts that Negro Women
can be progressive by continuous
" striving for better things in
life and being faithful citizens in
Inez Arnold. Club Reporter.
a democracy.
Continued on Page A
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Baptist Leader Becomes
Life Member of NAACP

NEW YORK-Dr. ID. v. Jemi-
son, president of the National
Baptist Convention. has become a
life member of the National Asso-
citation for the Advancement of
Colored People, Walter White.
NAACP secretary, announced this
week. The $500 life membership
was presented to DIR. Jemison by
the Baptist Convention in appre-
citation of his long years of serv-
ice and as tangible expression
of the church's support of the
work of the NAACP.
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BUNS, CLEVELAND
IN WORLD SERIES?
WHAT A DREAM!
BY ALVIN E. WHITE

NEW YORK.-(ANP)-Say =
wouldn't that be a dream? Re-
member the old song Bert VIII
liams used to sing? Well, folks
are saying It would be a dream IL
Brooklyn and Cleveland baseball
teams won the championships in
their respective leagues. 1t would
be poetic justice, too, because two
teams would be rewarded - and
how-for their liberal attitude to-
ward players of the non-white
races.
1t isn't too much to dream about
Brooklyn and Cleveland-it could
happen you know-and IL it did
happen, you know what would also
happen, Robinson and Campanella
on one side, Dolby and Satch Paige
on the other. Looks sort of like
the old Negro league with a few
white players tossed In to give
fa1r employment break.
What park would be big enough
to hold such an attraction? Bill
veeck could retire a millionaire
after that series and Branch
Rickey's ailments would evaporate
under the cloudburst of gold.
And incidentally. If Don New
combe hurls another one of those
things up there in Montreal, look
for him to be up with the parent
team muy pronto (hey-the guy
even knows SpanishD
Gwan man batteries for today:
Newcombe and Campanella for
Brooklyn; Paige and Hogan for
Cleveland; who-ee! Don't wake
me up.
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Workers to Carry
On Program Without
Randolph, Reynolds

NEW YORK - (ANP) - Al
though It's two best known lead
ers. A. Philip Randolph and Grant
Reynolds. have given up the pro-
gram, 10 other leaders OF the
League for Non-Violent Civil Dis
obedience Against Military Seq
regation declared that they would
carry on the fight.
civil disobedience." the re-
naming leaders said, Should be
called off only when there is an
unconditional order or law stat
ing that non-segregation In mill
tary service is the national upl-
ICY"
Randolph and Reynolds gave
the following reasons for with
drawing from the league:
1. While the executive order is
not all 1t should be it represents
a substantial gain especially since
President Truman said 1t aimed
at the eventual end of segrega-
tion."
2. The sentiment of the people
has changed as a result of this
order so that they are no longer
with us.
8. The newspapers and Negro
leadership are definitely against
us.
4. The civil disobedience move
ment is weak and cannot possibly
fight against these odds.
Therefore, Reynolds and Ran
dolph concluded. because the
Presidents recent anti-segrega-
ton executive order Tor the arm
ed forces has brought about a
change in conditions" 1t Is best
to call off the civil disobedience
program.
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$4,000 NEGRO VOTERS In S. C. DEMOCRATIC PRIMARIE:
Jersey Governor Frees
Chain Gang Fugitive

NEWARK, N. j. - Released
from prison by order of Gov. AL
fred d. Driscoll. John Collier. Is
year-old fugitive from South
Carolina chain gang. was looking
forward to a life of useful en-
ployment. Collier was freed by
the governor on August 6. follow
ing Intervention of the New Jer-
sey State Conference Of NAACP
branches, the Newark Ministers
Conference and the American
Civil Liberties Union.
Although the courts had re-
jected the pleas of j. Mercer Bur-
rell and Abram A. Golden, Col
ier's attorneys, and former Gov.
Walter e. Edge had signed extra
dition papers permitting the fugi-
tive's removal to South Carolina,
Governor Driscoll released him
after public hearing.
Collier escaped from the chain
gang after serving 10 months of
a 19-month sentence. He had
been convicted and sentenced in
1887 for the theft of few pack
ages of chewing gum and cigarets
in Greenwood, s. @. In announc-
ing his decision to release the
young man, Governor Driscoll
said:
81 have followed the principle
which I have publicly laid down
at the hearing held before me
careful weighing of the demands
of Justice against the demand of
the principle of comfy between
states.
"On this basis, 1t has become
evident to me that Collier has by
this time amply paid his debt to
society, to such an extent that no
further sound purpose could be
served by his extradition.'
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No. Q of the State Supreme Court,
has an outstanding record both as
a lawyer and as a jurist. In 70
years Of service in his present
position, he has increased the high
regard in which other members of
the legal profession previously
held him, and this year, as in for
mer years, leaders of the ban
throughout the state are endors-
ing his candidacy. Recently a
statement in support of Judge Rob-
inson was signed by over 500 Sc
attic lawyers, and this action has
been duplicated proportionately in
other areas. e
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Mr.. Marshall was in South Car
olina on the day of the primary
election, August 10, to witness
the results of the decision hand
ed down by Fideral District Judge
J. Waties Waring and the U. S.
Circuit Court UNFOLDING the right
of Negro citizens to vote in the
Democratic primary in South Car
olina. Assisted by Harold Boul-
ware Of Columbia. S. c., and 9TH
er NAACP attorneys. he repre-
scented Negro citizens in the cases
which invalidated the white pri-
mary" schemes of the politicians.
With this development the right
of Negro citizens to vote in the
primaries and general elections in
any state in the Union has been
established.
In a statement released here,
Mr.. Marshall said:
Il personally watched Negro
and white citizens of South Caro-
lima, in Charleston and Columbia,
voting together in the primary
election. This is the elimination
of a long, drawn-out, 23-year
fight by the NAACP to establish
the right of Negro citizens to ex-
ercise their choice of political
candidates. Despite the dire pre-
dictions of certain die-hard poll
ticians whose political life de-
pended on white supremacy, we
checked and rechecked and found
no evidence of any friction In the
first voting of Negroes in South
Carolina primary elections since
Reconstruction time.
Negro citizens were orderly,
Clearly dressed, and acted as la
dies and gentlemen. They voted
in this Democratic primary and
the skies did not fall. More than
$4,000 Negroes participated in
that primary and each of them
deserves the plaudits of all good
Americans for their long, patient
support of litigation and the calm
and cool manner in which they
accepted their victory and cast
their votes"
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brilliant full moon adding to the
otherwise glittering display of
scenery, lights, and costumes, the
Opera Under the Stars" exceeded
fondest expectations after a post
ponement last week due to rainy
weather.
Miss Rain the only Negro in
the cast, was easily the star of the
evening judging from the Braves"
that echoed throughout the stad-
ium whenever her performance re-
quired the delivery of an aria or
other difficult passages Of the
Verdi score. = .s..ss s~se
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$4l,255 NOW In
INGRAM FUND

NEW YORK-Receipt of con-
tributions amounting to $289.71
brought the Ingram Defense Fund
to total of $41,255.47, the MA
ACP announced. Contributions
included 1852 from the East Side
Ingram Club, Detroit; $12 from
the Thrifty Twelve Savings Club,
Akron; and So from the Commit
tee for Civil Rights, Brooklyn.
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NEW YORK Thousands of
music and opera lovers, including
hundreds of Harlem social and
civic celebrities, jammed Tribor-
ough Stadium here last Saturday
night to witness Muriel RAINS de-
but in the title role of Aida" with
the Salmaggi Opera Company. Not
since Caterina Jarboro, noted diva,
returned from Italy IA years ago
to sing the same role at the old
Hippodrome Theater, under the
same Maestro Salmaggi. have Har-
lemites witnessed an operate de-
but of such proportions. With .
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Herbert Meadows Of
St. Louis Argus Dies

ST. LOUIS LAMP Herbert
T. Meadows. veteran associate
editor of the st. Louis Argus,
died and was buried at Green
wood Cemtery after services in
which Father D. r. Clarke, rector
of All Saints Episcopal Church.
officiated.
For more than 35 years Mr..
Meadows had been associated
with J. q. Mitchell and William
Mitchell in the conduct of the
Argus. His special fields were
baseball and theatrical world. He
has been credited with being the
discoverer of Josephine Baker,
the famed Paris chanteuse.
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seed yearls. She carried as her
bridal bouquet baby gardenias
with single large orchid.
Miss Phyllis Ratcliff was her
sisters maid of hoaor. She wore
gown of blue net inset with
blue lace and tulle wedding hat
Of pastel shades. Her bouquet was
pink and red roses.
Bridesmaids were Misses Vir-
ginia Mathis, Helen Glover. Fran.
ces Workout and Mesdames Rob
ert Buford, Richard Bash, Amedio
Gomez, G. J. Meadows and Chris
tine Smith. Their gowns were
beautiful pastels of blue, pink and
yellow with garlands of flowers
and veil matching their gowns.
They carried the long gladioli
with long ribbon streamers match
ing their gowns.
The flower girls were little
CONTINUED on Page ~
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Tom O'Corman Seeks
Election in 9th District

Tom A. O'Gorman, 37th District,
returns to the political field as a
candidate for the state legislature
from the 37th district. O'Gorman
was elected to the legislature in
1882 and again In 1910.
O'Gorman has been identified
with the Democratic party for
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years. He filed for the legislature
at the solicitation of friends.
Being a Catholic, O'Gorman rec
ognizes the inalienable RICH of all
citizens to equality of opportunity
without regard to race, color, sex
or creed.
81 favor the passage of fair
employment practices act.
II believe in civil rights as laid
down by President Harry s. Tru-
man."
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Judge Robinson was president
of the Seattle Bar association in
1895 and chairman of the state
board of bar examiners from 1888
to 1896. In 1941, he won more
than statewide recognition when
he represented this state at the
national conference of judicial
councils in Washington, D. c.
Shortly thereafter he was named
to its executive board, the only
judge west of the Mississippi to
be so honored.
Judge Robinson's record in the
supreme court is without a blem-
ish. This is your court OF last re-
sort. Re-elect Judge John S. Rob-
inson.
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WHITE PRIMARY COLLAPSES
AS NEGROES VOTE in sc.

NEW YORK = Participation of an estimated $4,000
Negro in the Democratic primaries of South Caro-
lima hailed by Thurgood Marshall, NAACP special
COUNSEL 'he elimination of 23-year fight by the
Association to establish the right of Negro citizens to
exercise their choice of political candidates"
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MISS VERA MAY RADCLIFFE, SEATTLE,
WEEDS mr.. WALTER CRALLIE, new YORK
By EMMA JACKSON

At 1 o'clock on the Sun
day afternoon of Aug 5 at
the Mt. Zion baptist church,
Mr.. Walter Ven Klaus Grail
lie, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Crallie of sf'w York city.
took as his BRIDE a Seattle
girl, Miss Vera Mac Ratcliff,
the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Albert II. Ratcliff. The Rev.
+. b. Davis officiatsd and
Mr.. Ratcliff gave his daugh-
ter in marriage.
The bride wore a wedding
gown of white satin, prin-
cess style with sweetheart
neckline which was en-
broidered with seed pearls.
and her full length nyion
net veil scalloped with lace
fell from half satin halo
which was embroidered with
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REFLECT JUDGE JOHN S. ROBINSON
STATE SUPREME COURT, POSITION NO. z

Judge John S. Robinson, candi-
late for reelection to Position
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sion sessions, four evening meet
ings and more than 40 program
participants. Registration is ex-
pected to exceed $50 persons rep
resenting Urban League board
and staff from 56 locals. and in
Guiding labor. industry, education
and social work leaders.
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Among Urban League
Conference Principals

President J. M. Ellison, Vir-
ginia Union University, who will
welcome the National Urban
League Annual Conference on
September when 1t convenes on
the university campus, is shown
above with two of the principal
speakers for the meeting, Leon
H. Keyserling, vice chairman,
Council of Economic Advisers to
the President of the United
States. and Oscar Ewing. national
administrator, Federal Security
Agency.
The five-day conference in
cludes IA workshop and discus
Evening star., 1948-04-19

versitv Law School and was ao-
mitted to practice before the Su-
preme Court as well as the Distrlct
courts.
Mr.. Mess was in the book and
stationery business in Pennsylvanla
for four years and taught school
there a year before he sntertA
Government service in the War
Department. He later was trans
ferred to the Post Office Depart
ment where he was inspector, super
intendent and attorney at various
times.
MIR. Mess was formerly vice presi-
dent of the Federal Bar Association
and past master Of st. Johns
Masonic Lodge No. II. He was also
past high priest of Washington
Chapter No. 2 of the Royal Arch
Masons and a member OF Hamllne
Methodist Church.
Survivors are a daughter, Mrs.
Nellie v. Sherman, and son, Edwin
M. Mess, both of Washington; a
brother, B. Franklin Mess OF Harris
burg; three grandsons and flve great
grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at
III am. Wednesday at the S. Il.
Hines funeral home, 2901 Fourteenth
street NV. Burial will be in War
Irenton, Va.
Evening star., 1948-04-19
Terms Agreed on 10 End
Potomac College Strike
By the .Assoeioied Press

KEYSER, w. Va, April ia stu
dent committee at Potomac State
School and the schools executive
committee were reported today to
have agreed on terms for ending a
six-day-old student strike.
The executive committee is headed
by DR.. Ernest E. Church, president
of the college.
The five-point list of terms is to
be presented to the student body
Monday for a vote, spokesman for
the student committee said.
The students struck Monday to
protest the expulsion of veteran
and a coed who stayed out after
hours. A majority of the schools
$50 students took part in the walk
out.
/. No class cuts will be counted
against students who took part In
the strike.
2. Students will have the right to
Evening star., 1948-04-19

members Of Congress in an effort
to prevent adoption Of UNIT.
Because of the large number Of
opposition witnesses wishing to be
heard, Chairman Andrews said the
public sessions will continue through
Friday and possibly next Monday.
This new arrangement will prevent
reporting out OF the pending draft
bill this week, as had been indi-
Gated by the committee.
Before Mr.. Reynolds took the
stand, Russell I. Thackrey, secretary
|of the Association of Land Grant
Colleges and Universities. urged the
committee to amend the proposed
selective service bill by providing Z
more eficient method Of assigning
skilled men as wells4 Is students.
He reported that almost 81 per
cent Of the scientists who entered
the armed services during the war
were not used to the best advantage.
He said that while 63 per cent OF
those who served in the armed
forces during the war were. used
In some way related to their train
ing, only about half Of those who
entered through Selectiye Service
were so used.
Draft Methods Called Wasteful.
The whole record of utilization
of scientific personnel In the
Armed Services during World War
III was much worse than it should
have been," he said. But the fact
that the specialized training Of half
of those who entered through Sc
lective Service was wasted shows
clearly that Selective Service pro-
cedures were the most wasteful of
all"
Mr.. Reynolds began his testimony
today by reading a telegram in
which Mr.. Randolph stated that his
recent testimony on civil diso-
bedience" should not be construed
as "a threat but as q matter Of deep
conviction"
Mr. Reynolds submitted eight pro-
posed amendments to the committee.
Besides prohibiting all segregation
and discrimination in the UNIT and
draft programs, the amendments
would ban segregation Of Negro and
white servieemen on interstate
transportation, and also bar UNIT
or Selective Service camps in the
South.
Criticizes Eisenhower Stand.
Another amendment would require
fair employment practices Of any
company or individual selling ma
terial to the Government under any
UNIT or draft program. r.
The witness took exception to
what he said was q virtual indorse-
ment of racial segregation by Gen.
Eisenhower.
Gen. Eisenhower's comment on
these anti-Jim Crow proposals was
that you cannot legislate love and
morality" Mr.. Reynolds declared.
II reply that such pattern OF
argument is a haven for hypocrites
and a, refuge for small minds"
Evening star., 1948-04-19
Mercury Due 10 Hit 10
Today; Fruit Losses
In Frost Put al Is Pei.

Rising temperatures, expected to
reach the lower los here today,
eased fears Of fruit growers who in
some parts Of Maryland and Vir-
ginia reported losses ranging up to
Is per cent in apple and peach
crops.
The District forecaster for the
Weather Bureau looked for a re-
turn Of cool weather late this
week. Today's outlook was for
mostly sunny and warmer condi-
tions, with considerable cloudiness
but rather warm" weather tomor-
row.
Apple trees In the Winchester,
Va, area suffered much less than
had been anticipated when the mer-
curry dropped as low as 26 in re-
cent days. DR.. A. w. Groves, plant
pathologist, said in Winchester to-
day that frost caused some bios
SONS to drop and gave most others
a brownish look.
Hancock, Salisbury Hit.
"That shouldn't be interpreted as
meaning all the blossoms are killed"
he said. There has been some
damage but the fruit, in general,
has not been badly hurt in this
vicinity"
Exact damage could not be deter
mined for several weeks. he said.
The hardest hit sections IN an
overnight freeze Saturday were in
the apple and peach centers around
Hancock in Western Maryland and
Salisbury on the Eastern Shore,
reports indicated.
Charles O. Dunbar, horticultural
list at the University Of Maryland's S
fruit laboratory in Hancock, esti-
mated the fruit crop damage in
that area at a % per cent loss. The
total value of the crop there is
100000.
Orchardists kept all night fires
burning on their properties to save
as much as possible. &
- District Escapes Frost.
Spotty damage was reported in
the Cumberland, Md, area. Greatest
damage in the Salisbury area was
estimated by w. Lee Allen who
said he lost between IS and 40
per cent OF his apple crop and about
Is per cent of his peach crop.
The District escaped frost Satur-
day and last night. The lowest
early yesterday was So degrees and
this mornings minimum was II
degrees at am. Yesterdays high
was 81 degrees at 3:31 pm.
Evening star., 1948-04-19
Mrs. Woodhouse to Fly
To Germany for Army
By the Assoeioisd Press

Mrs. Chase Going Woodhouse, ex-
ecutive director of the women's di-
vision OF the Democratic National
Committee, has resigned to become
visiting expert" for the Army IN
Germany.
Mrs. Woodhouse will fly to Ger
many April 80 for an indefinite stay.
She said she will organize Ger
man women into democratic groups
in the American occupied zone in
Germany.
There are now more women than
men in Germany" she told = re-
porter, "and I am convinced. that
they are the best sources of friend
ship for the United Statss. Women
really want peace"
A spokesman for the Democratic
National Committee said no move
had been made to- name her
successor.
Evening star., 1948-04-19
Fireman Union Backs.
Segregation by Bigger
Majority in New Vote

Members Of Wasnington's Fire
mems Union, In a second vote on the
race-segregation issue in the de-
partment. have backed segregation
by an even bigger majority than
they gave it last week.
The second vote. Tailed in two
meetings at $50 am. and 8 pm.
yesterday, had been ordered by Capt.
Joseph w. Conroy. president Of
Local So Of the International Asso-
citation OF Firefighters.
In calling the meetings yesterday,
Capt. Conroy said he did not think
the original vote, in which less than
20 per cent Of the unions member
ship took part, had been large
enough to put the union on record
on such an important issue.
Vote Is $50 to IL.
The combined vote at yesterdays
meetings was 800 to IL, with fewer
firemen opposing the pro-segrega-
ton resolution than had opposed it
in the original vote. The union
claims q total membership OF ap-
proximately 600.
The vote was regarded as a dis
appointment to Capt. Conroy, who
had made no secret Of his opinion
that introduction Of the segrega-
ton resolution had been Ill advised.
Sponsor Of the resolution was Capt.
Curtis E. McGhee, chairman of the
unions Segregation committee"
The resolution stated it was 'be-
lieved" Fire Chief Clement Murphy
was planning to abolish the segre-
CATION system in the department,
and "implored" the Commissioners
and Congress to see that it was
maintained.
.. Murphy Silent.
Chief Murphy still has not con-
firmed or denied the assertion that
he feels segregation should be abol-
ished in the department. 1t was
pointed out, however, that segre-
CATION could not be continued under
his rotation system Of, personnel
transfers unless colored firemen
were specifically exempted from ro-
tation.
Colored personnel in the depart
ment are grouped at present in two
engine companies.