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The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1948-01-31
END TO SEGREGATION
IN STATETROOPS URGED

Americans for Democratic Ac-
tion, American Jewish Commit
tee, American Jewish Congress,
American Veterans Committee,
Armstrong Hemenway Foun-
dalton, Anti-Defamation League
Of B'nai Birth, Boston Com
munity Relations Committee,
Boston Labor Committee to
Combat Intolerance, Brookline
Community Relations Commit
tee, Cambridge Community Re
lations Committee, Demosthenes
Club, Frances Sweeney Com
mittee, International Institute,
Free Market Institute, Greater
Boston Community Council,
Jewish Community Council Of
Metropolitan Boston, Lynn Com
munity Relations Committee,
Massachusetts Committee Of
Catholics, Protestants, and
Jews, Massachusetts Council Of
Churches, Massachusetts, State
Federation Of Woynen's Clubs
/ National AS on t0r fl2e Ad
sealse ssnii oi6fu
National Conference Of Chris
tians and Jews, South End
House, State Federation of La
hor. United Settlements of
Greater Boston, Urban League,
Young Women's Christian Asso-
citation Beard of Directors,
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1948-01-31

completed preparations for its
observance of Colored History
Week. An outstanding feature OF
its program is the Book Fair of
Feb. 7 and 8, where books by
colored authors will be exhibited.
This will be held at $50 Massa-
chusets Ave. Boston.
The climaXing event of the ob-
servance will be the prese1ta-
ton on Sunday, Feb. 8 = $3.50
Pm. at historic Faneuil Hall Of
Dr.. Wate,s Turpin, Lincoln Uni
versity professor, as featured
speaker. These events are open
to the public.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1948-01-31

Former Congressman Thomas
H. Eliot of Cambridge, in an at
tack on the Barnes education
bill and other proposed state leg
islation to bar Subversive per-
sons from teaching, voting or
public assembly, declared the
country is in more danger from
such bills than from Commun-
lists.
Other speakers were Harry
Reed, a national CIO official:
Thomas H. Mahoney, of the Bos-
ton Community Relations Com
mittee, and Herbert B. Ehrmann,
president of the Boston chapter
of the American Jewish Com
mittee.
The committee also resolved
to work to abolish restrictive
covenants in public and quasi
public housing projects because
racial and religious prejudices
are incompatible with Aneri-
canism.7 Other restrictions were
aimed against government in
fringelnent Of freedom Of con
science molly aad esfsres
sion The committee also pledg-
ed to work Tor the creation Of
a permanent civil rights COM
mission in Massachusetts.
!. In addition to the Mass. Cit
liens Committee sponsors of the
were:
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1948-01-31
FIoridians Plan 10
Vote in Primaries

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. = The
Progressive Voters League of
Florida has called a meeting
here to lay plans for the May
primaries. Every colored person
Of voting age in Jacksonville
and Duval County will be urged
to cast his vote at the May p;i-
maries.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1948-01-31

DISPLAY by our leading ca
terers.
SUNDAY, FEB. Is = Doors open
at els for exhibits, 3:15 for
PORTRAYALS of FINER ART
program Theme: Some
Missing Pages in American
History treated in tableau
and drama. Guest speaker:
DR.. w. E. B. DUBOIS; Topic:
Some Of the Missing Pages
Patron ticket must be used.)
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1948-01-31
You Are Invited

All friends of the Alpha Kap-
pa Alpha Sorority are cordially
invited to a public meeting in
honor of Founders Day at Peo-
pies Baptist Church, Sunday,
February /, at $3.50. The su-
preme Basileus of the sorority
will be the guest speaker.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1948-01-31
OKLAHOMA DEFIES HIGH COURT RULING
Refuses To Attend
Special Law School

in 1916, because of her race. She
carried it up to the Supreme
Court, which said two weeks ago
that she must have equal facili-
ties Mrs. Fisher would not say
directly that she would try to en-
roll at the white university on
Monday, but her attorneys have
said she will.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1948-01-31

The Massachusetts, National
Guard was urged to cease its
practice of racial segregation,
and thus spur the movement to
abolish the color line in the
Army, Navy and Marines.
The proposal was in the form
of a recommendation which was
adopted by the MassaChu t..s
Citizens Committee On Civil
Rights at a meeting at the Par
ker House. Two hundred persons
attended the conference, which
was sponsored by more than two
score civic, religious and labor
organizations.
Julian D. Steele. executive
director of, the Armstrong -
Hemenway Foundation, who
presented the request, termed
segregation, "an obvious injus-
tice, and urged that Massachu-
sets act independently of ma
tional military policy to provide
all persons, regardless OF race
or color, equality of opportunity
In the states national guard"
DR.. Robert K. Carr; executive
secretary of President Truman S
Committee on Civil Rights and
professor of government at
Dartmouth College, declared
that criminal law should be ex-
tended to cover violations Of
civil rights, which, he said, have
become international issues to-
day,
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1948-01-31
Congressman Herter
To Speak Here

renee H. Banks, Rev. s. Marion
Weeks Of Florida and Rev. M.
Samuel Pnkston, formerly Of
Howard University, washington.
D, c.
The meeting is under the aus
pieces Of John Calvin Union and
is open free to the public.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1948-01-31

The Progressive Voters League.
a statewide organization, has
become the most potent Of its
kind in Florida, and is begiu-
ming to win new laureIs at the
polls, especially in the larger
cities. Harry T. Moore is execu-
tive secretary and Milton F.
Rocks. president.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1948-01-31

Elizabeth Wright Terry, better
known as Betty Wright, opens
her dressmaking establishment
today Saturday. Jan. 81 at 14s
Humbolt Ave.
Hetty's DTessmaking Shoppe.
will specialize il gowns for all
occasions, also suits, coats, dress
es and childrens clothing
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1948-01-31
AristO's History
Week Observance
BOOK FAIR, FEB. I, 8, AND
FANEUM HALL MEETING,
FEBRUARY 8
The Aristo Club OF Boston ha.
SPAN or PROGRESS

An exhibit showing Race Advancement in BUSINESS,
HANDICRAFT and ART presented during the Race His
tory Week Celebration by program director, ANNA BOB
ITT-GARDNER, February 10, IA, and IS, at Mechanics
Building on Huntington Avenue, Mass Ave. in the
entire PAUL REVERE section.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-06-23
NNC Demands Civil
Rights Action from COP

PHILADELPHIA, June %. GAN
P)-Demands that the Republi-
a parry, now IN conlrot OF Con
gress, act on civil rights legisla-
ZION Immediately have been made
by the National Negro council,
Edgar G.. Brown, chairman, said
this week.
He said that The council had
sent a petition signed by 100000
Americans to Rep. Martin On.
dass.), speaker o fthe house; and
Sen. Taft (R. Ohio, chairman OF
the Republican senate majority
committee. The petition called for
the ousting OF Rep. Rankin Of
Mississippi and the passage OF
civil rights legislation. 1t read:
On Rankin: ''Rrankin stated on
he floor Of congress that equal
rights for Negroes would encour-
age rape. This is a violation of
Article Y of the u. S. constitu-
ton, and under that section mem
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-06-23
Deceased Woman's White
Husband Ruled Only Heir

JACKSON, Miss, June %. CA
NP)-A white man, the husband
of a colored woman who died in
Chicago recently, was held to be
the sole heir of the woman's prop
erty, by the Mississippi Supreme
court here last week. The ruling
was handed down in a suit filed
by the woman's relatives contend
ing that nder state law, a
riage of a Negro to a white per-
son is illegal.
The court, however, pointed out
that the couple had married in
Chicago and had not lived in Mis-
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-06-23

slSslppl during the Woman's life
time. In it's decision, the court
said: "The manifest and recog-
nized purpose of this statute, pro-
hibiting intermarriage of whites
and Negroes, was to prevent per
sons of Negro and white blood
from living together in this state
in the relationship Of husband and
wife.
"Where, as here, this did not
occur, to permit one of the par
ties to such a marriage to inherit
property in this state from the
other does not violate sections of
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-06-23
our constitution and Code of 1912

our constitution and Code of 1912
pertaining to intefmael3age.
what we are requested TO 40
is simply to recognize this mar
riage only to the extent of per-
hitting one of the parties thereto
to inherit from the other property
in Mississippi, and to that extent,
it must and will be recognized"
The ruling reversed and re
manded the decision of Chancellor
V. j. Stricken. Principals i'll the
case were James Lucks, half
brother Of Pearl Mitchell Mile,
and other relatives against Alex
d. Miller. The relatives sought to
establish themselves as heirs to
Mrs. Miller's property including
real estate in jackson, which
estimated at 800 $1,000. In a cross
suit, Miller contendcd he was sole
heir Of the woman O n the basis
of their marriage in Chicago in
July, 1889.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-06-23
Sierra Leone Welcomes
First Native Lawyer
By Thomas Decker

FREETOWN. S. L., June %.
(ANP)-The British. protectorate
of Sierra Leona welcomed home
its first native lawyer from Eng
land last week. Atty. Albert Mar
gal is a native o fthe town Of
Gbangbatoke, Banta chiefdom,
Moyamba district.
The new barrister qualified for
his practice in November, 1877,
in England. He began his study
of law after serving 10 years as
a dispenser and druggist in the
native governments medical de-
partment. He quit his civil selt-
ice position to go to England TO
qualify TO rthe bar. 4.
His brother, DR.. NJ. A. S. Mar
gal, Of the medical department,
was the first protectorate born
native to be qualified as a doctor
of medicine. His uncle, Francis.
is the paramount chief of Chang
batoka.
Atty. Margai is the first native
lawyer in the So years history Of
Sierra Leone as a British protec-
torate, 1t has been pointed out
that in these So years 90 per cent
of the natives are still illiterate,
and only about 10000 of the
400, 200 children Of school age are
getting even an ordinary elemen-
tary education.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-06-23

di3orderly behavior by a two
birds vote Of congress member
ship"
On civil rights: "On behalf of
the 1000 signers of the Ma
.ional Negro councils civil rights
petition addressed to yo we are
constrained to urge again, one
week before the scheduled adj
joulnment Of congress, immediate
passage by the house and senate
of these long promised civil
rights measures in the Republi-
can 1914 party platform.
,The failure to actually bring
to.a vote the anti-lynch, FEPC
and non-segregation and civil
lights bill, either in the house or
senate, after two years of over
u helming control by the Republi-
can party of the 80th congress-
viii certainly be construed by 49,
100000 Negroes as the worst, bit
terest and cruelest disillusionment
suffered by a patriotic and hope
full people at the hands of their
friends since the abandonment of
the Grant Rorce act in the recon
struction era"
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-06-23
Business Facts
By S. Edward Gilbert

Amid diplomatic maneuvering
on the part of great nations that
seems destined to become a two
world struggle rather than a one
world peace, the signs of the
times depict opportunity for A.
100000 American Negroes.
Those of US who read our own
publications and better still those
of us who have knowledge to the
operating of the fourth estate and
the worth of advertising copy
thereto, have been made to feel
elated during the past weeks as
we note that big business now is
being counted among the custom
r of Negro newspapers.
Our newspapers occupy a vital
place in our scheme Of life. Be-
cause of their Importance to our
ultimate recognition in alla phases
of American life, they become a
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-06-23

. Let the Express have yous
tips. Call HE 1916.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-06-23

necessity.
A we'll edited paper means a
well read paper. A we'll read pa
per denotes an attractive %circula-
ton, and attractive circulation be-
comes a valuable vehicle for any
advertiser seekin gto invade a re-
Gently discovered 1000, OO0,O 900
market.
Since a paper can thrive only
it it is profitable, and since pro-
fits cannot be made without ade-
quate advertising volume, which
constitute rs per cent of the
newspaper income, we reiterate
that it is the signs of the times.
Through this innovation will come
more jobs, better and more pro-
gressive newspapers. Yes better
interracial understanding, all of
which should and will make for a
greatly improved America.
Evening star., 1948-02-06
Stain Turned Down Chance
To Speak in u. S. in 1916

Prime Minister Stalin's rejection
of an invitation from President Tru-
man to address an American audi
ence was disclosed by the White
House yesterday. The invitation to
visit the United States and its re-
lection by the premier on grounds
of health had been revealed previ-
ously, but not that it had included
an opportunity for speech.
The bid followed Winston
lChurchills famous speech at Full
ton, Mo, in March, 1916, which
aroused Russian ire, and presum-
ably was designed to give the Soviet
leader a chance to reply to the
Churchill proposal for an Anglo
American alliance to balk Russia's S
desire for expansion"
Presidential Secretary Charles G
Ross related the two-year -old story
in response to inquiries.
He said Premier Stain turned
down an offer to come to the
United States on the USS Missouri
to travel with President Truman to
Columbia, Mo-, and to speak at the
State University. He was said to
have felt the trip was too far.
Mr.. Truman had accompanied Mr..
Churchill to Fulton and had spoken
on the same program at Westmin-
ster College.
The British leader said at Fulton
that there should be a virtual mill
Evening star., 1948-02-06

tary alliance between the United
States and Great Britain. He said
that there is nothing for which the
Russians have less respect than for
military weakness.
Premier Stain, in reply through
the newspaper Pravda March 13,
called Mr.. Churchill warmonger
and liar and added:
"Mr. Churchill and his friends in
England and the United States are
submitting to the nations who do
not speak the English language a
sort of ultimatum: You recognize
our superiority and everything will
be all right. Otherwise war is in
evitable"
The White House invitation to
Stain was routed through Ambas-
sador Walter Bedell Smith. From
the time of Gen. Smiths trip to
Moscow, the invitation apparently
was delivered in June.
The battleship offer was made
because Premier Stain dislikes fly
ing.
Earlier, when the Potsdam Con-
ference ended, the President had
urged Premier Stain to come to the
United States.
Evening star., 1948-02-06
Restaurant Damaged by Fire

A grease fire In the kitchen Of
the Howard johnson Restaurant
near the District line in Bethesda.
Evening star., 1948-02-06
THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. c. B-5
8.

yesterday caused damage estimated Chase Fire
by hremen
Chief E. j. Sackett of the Chevy roof
Evening star., 1948-02-06

Wonder Of wonders, we've
snapped up springs mcst
talked -obout coot with the
copelet collar and brought it
at on omozing prieel In navy
or black; sizes 10 to l6.
AlssEs' THRIFT COATS, FOURTH FLOOR
Evening star., 1948-07-25

steel track, grounding its fifteen hundred
volts.
"Are you all right" l hollered at Joe
Were all right" he said. Better get
to phone e"
But getting to phone wasn't necessary.
A police cruiser rolled up and two cops re-
ported it by radio. and got out and took
charge, keeping the few straggiers from
moving too close to the trolley wire.
"SoaEBoDY's gonna catch it for this"
Eddie said.
Don't look at me-" I said. I'm just
following the chart" took it out of my
pocket and showed it to him. Look. You
can see what it says. Up Sixteenth Street,
across Magnolia to Carlisle - Don't blame
me- Blame Menefee. He made it out"
One of the cops came up. He was little
sore.
Seems to me like you birds're pretty
careless" he said. Look at that. You ex-
pect that to clear?" He was pointing to the
vent pipe that stuck up from the roof of the
house on the truck
Don't blame u.s." said. 1--WE just work
here"
What about that pipe?" Joe said to me.
Wasn't it measured?'
Don't ask me-" said. ASK Menefee."
The cop took our names and the name of
our company and we went back to transport
ing the house.
That was all l had to do with the job.
We all made written reports and got bawied
out and then forgot it - for few hours.
The day crew went to the new location that
morning and unloaded the house and that
same afternoon couple of kids were wan
dering through it and found the guy dead
in the bathtub. He had been electrocuted,
Evening star., 1948-07-25

but good He had in his pocket pistol
with some cartridges missing but with the
shells that remained in the chamber ballis-
tics was able to confirm that this was the gun
that had killed the old man and his wife in
the liquor store.
1t was a good story all right, and the
papers played it up and because we at the
warehouse had personal interest in the
case we read it all. But then one of the
newspapers started asking question: What
kind of police department was it that
could let vicious criminal slip through its
fingers by using an empty house? It seemed
silly to worry about this now, but the paper
did.
1t kept hammering away.
''WE1L. now, that's bad break for you"
l said. Have another BEER
Sure, sure -" he said, and ordered an
other beer. II dunno -" he said. you
remember Fred Slater?'
Public Enemy Number One" I said.
"Sne."
That's right. Everybody in the country
was looking for him. caught him. Up at
the lake. Up there you can't use live bait,
only plugs and spinners. saw this joker
sitting in his boat across the lake and
thought he was up to something. went
over, and sure enough he was using mud
suckers. was only going to tell him off
and let it 60 at that, but he got tough and
the game warden and ran him in. He
turned out to be Fred Slater and got pro-
noted to lieutenant.
Nov I'll give you the real topper That
will be exactly fifteen years ago. come to-
morrow - right on the nose at eight o'clock
on the morning of August fifth" He lifted
his beer. ITO guys who get pushed around
by destiny =" The End
Kodiak mirror., 1948-01-17
Above

Survivors of the cannery tend- ss. Spencer, which went aground New Years Eve near Kanatak saddle Tn a group to signal "no AnIurles" to the navy privateer
Kodiak mirror., 1948-01-17

plane which first spotted them on January 3. In the back ground can be seen the stricken tender which later on the same day was broken to pieces by two big waves.
Kodiak mirror., 1948-01-17
Right Above

-
 This photo shows a small Coast Guard rescue boat, which took some of the Spencer survi. ors from the beach where they spent 5 days, coming alongside the cutter Clover. Some of the survivors returned to Kodiak on the Clover and others on the navy tug Mataco which also participated iii the rescue.
 Below
 Mrs. Gus Skonberg, eldest of the Spencer survivors, was the only one not carried by stretcher from the yescue ships to the navy pier on their arrival at Kodiak. She was helped from the Clover to the Mataco and thence to the pier at the base. Mrs. Skonbere IS the mother of 5 survivors of the shipwreck.
 (All photos U s Navy from Associated Press.)
Evening star., 1948-03-28

Col. and Mrs. Albert M. Pigg Of
Arlington announce the engagement
Of their daughter, Miss Millicent
Celeste Pigg, to Mr.. Lynn Gronna
Herbert, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
A. Herbert, jr., of Washington.
The bride-elect was graduated
cum laude from Washington College
in Chestertown, Md. and is a mem
ber of Alpha Omicron Pi Sorority.
She at present Is chemist with the
Pentagon Nutrition Laboratory in
the ONCE of the Quartermaster
General.
Mr.. Herbert is the grandson Of
the late Senator Gronna, of North
Dakota. He served with the Signal
Corps during the war and now is
a student of engineering at the
University of Maryland. He for
merly was associated with the Ap-
piled Physics Laboratories of the
Johns Hopkins University.
The wedding will take place in
the late summer.
Evening star., 1948-03-28
Mayer
ssvtArA STREET @oH1 serwrrH . AAos

Pieces available fnclnde
desks, chairs (srmeht or
lounee), sectional pieces and
waH units, as weN as corre-
lated occasional furniture
and lamps.
Evening star., 1948-03-28
Miss Whitley
Engaged to We'd

At a dinner party in their home
In Belle Haven, Mr.. and Mrs. Roland
Bernard Whitley announced the en-
gagement of their daughter, Miss
Miriam Marjorie Whitley, to Mr.
Edward Dana Knight, jr., son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Knight of Charleston
and Lewisburg, w. Va.
Miss Whitley now is in her senior
year at Mary Washington College
of the University of Virginia, Fred
ericksburg, Mr.. Knight, who is a
graduate of Andover and Dart
mouth. now is studying law at the
University of Virginia. While at
tending Dartmouth he was awarded
Phi Beta Kappa. During the war
he spent 10 months overseas with
the 84th Division.
The people's voice., 1948-06-11
! A j. Davis ACTIVELY
jUGHT METALS MINE
INITIATIVE I'M 1924

Is From the October 30th, 1924, issue
of the Lewistown Democrat News, we
find that Tom Davis at that time
third international president of the
Rotary club, had discussed the Metals
Mines Tax. The article states:
"Mr. Davis, who is no stranger to
Lewistown, having visited here while
district governor, emphasized that he
was speaking as an INDIVIDUAL and
did not seek to capitalize his position
as an international officer of Rotary
in pleading the case of the metal min
ing companies of the state.
after giving a resume of the mines
and the men who work them on Butte
hill and the conditions that obtain
there, the speaker stated that it was
his firm conviction that the metal
mining companies of the state were
of the taxes of the state; one dollar
out of every twelve of the states
revenue coming from this source;
that the metal mines of the state had
not been operated at a profit the past
few years and that the imposition of
this tax would have the effect of clos
ing some of the smaller mines, or
prove an unjust burden to the larger
ones and be prejudicial to the best in
terests not only of the mining in
terests, but the state in general"
1t is interesting to note that in the
Montana Record Herald, issue of No
vember 26, 1924, were published in
full the political committees expense
account required to be filed with the
Secretary of State, under the Corrupt
Practices act. after each election.
Pretty Fair Compensation For An
"IndividuaF'
Under the heading What it cost
Interests to beat Dixon" was shown
the report of the Montana Mining
Association which reported contribu- |
ions of $24,454.00 Of which $19,100.00 |
contributed by the Anaconda Copper
Mining Company. Included among
he expenditures listed was the fol
owing: tom J. Davis expenses and
$1,S1OOO." !.