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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1948-06-02
KEY MAN In JONES KIDNAPPING
SLAIN in CHICAGO GUN BATTLE

CHICAGO - CAMP = The man
believed by police to hold the key
to kidnapping of Edward J. Jones.
Leo Little Sneeze" Friedman, 80.
white was shot and killed on the
west side by three unidentified
gunner last week.
Il is believed that Friedman
was the connecting link between
the kidnapers who collected
ransom of $4,000 and their
capture Of Jones, policy king.
Well known by police for his
many criminal activities, Fried
man had just as bad a reputation
in the underworld for his many
double dealing and double cross
sing episodes.
He was killed early Monday
after parking his car. He was APP
preaching the Coolidge hotel with
his wife, Carol, 20, when two
men jumped from an automobile
and shot at him. He fled. He
was hit three times in the right
side of the head when he trip
ped over a fence railing. The
gunner leaped into their car.
driven by a comrade, and escaped.
Little Sneeze's actions at tehe
time of the kidnapping led police
suspect that he was the key man
in the Jones abduction. On the
day of the capture he left work
early and talked with two strange
men half block from the Jones
brothers five and ten cent store
where Jones was.
His two friends were Grover
Dullard, well known gangster
bodyguard and Virgil Summers,
the man who led the kidnapers,
four imported st. Louis gunner
to Jones.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1948-06-02
COST UP 50 PCT.
FOR NEWSPAPERS

NEW YORK - American news
paper publishers are paying about
so per cent more to publish their
newspapers today than in 1915,
and costs still are rising.
Revenue from advertising is up
about so per cent and from circu-
lation about IS per cent.
Costs have skyrocketed. how
ever, and newsprint and ink for
an everage 5O,OOO-circulation paper
are 80 per cent higher than three
years ago Other raw materials
have increased proportionately
says the magazine, Editor & Pub.
Usher.
To meet this rising expenses
about 500 newspapers increased
circulation rates in the past year
so that about so per cent of all
dailies are listed at cents.
Some publishers predict Scent
and 7-cent dailies unless prices
are curbed.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1948-06-02
SENATE REJECTS
COLLEGE PLAN

WASHINGTON, - By the mar
raw margin of a 1897 vote, the
Senate sent back to the judiciary
committee the resolution ractifying
the plan of the southern govern
ors to establish segregated re-
gional professional and graduate
colleges. This vote virtually kills
the plan for this session of Con-
gress. according to Leslie Perry,
Washington representative of the
National Association for the Ad-
vancement Of Colored People.
The fight against the extension
of segregation to the regional level
was spearheaded by the NAACP
which rallied the support of a
dozen national organizations to
testify against approval of this
plan at hearings held by the sub
committee of the Senate Judiciary
Committee. The plan was rushed
through the House of Represen.
tative with an overwhelming vote
The southerners had anticipated
similar victory in the Senate.
The Washington office renewed
its efforts with Mr.. Perry button.
boiling various senators and parti
cularly senators from northern
states with heavy Negro popula
lions and supplying them with In
formation with which to refute
the arguments of senator's from
the South. Senator Wayne Morse
of Oregon threatened to propose
an amendment forbidding the esta
blishment of separate institutions
for white and Negro students. This
was unacceptable to the south
lerners. He further threatened to
amend the resolution by addig
civil rights measures such as the
antipoll tax, anti-lynching and fair
employment bills.
Supporting the NAACP drive
were church groups, fraternal
organizations, labor grous. bust
ness, professional and educational
associations and other organiza-
lions.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1948-06-02
THE BELL TOLLS

In these days when one'mind
finds itself unable to reach any
conclusion of just what to do ia
an undecisiye world where secure
ity and peace of mind are a total.
blackout, this writer decided to go
back to the grass roots for a bit
of philosophic advice.
In this case the grass root hap
pened to be a small minister,
whose sincerity to religion and
God is decidedly noticeable because
he has a very small following.
His name is Archbishop Walter
| D. C. johnson. of the Church of
God The Faith of David. Inc,
and through the years that I've
known him he has proven him.
self to be sincere man of God.
He advised me In this manner:
young man. read this Scripture
and ponder over tbs meaning with
prayer. and you viii understand
the worlds condition today and
learn from it. what to do"
THE revelation of Jesus Christ
which God gave unto him to show
unto his servants things which
must shortly come to pass; and
he sent and sfgnified 1t by his
angel unto his servant John, who
bore record of the word of God,
and of the testimony of Jesus
Christ. and of all things that he
saw. Blessed is he that readeth
and they that hear the words of
this prophecy, and keep those
things which are written therein:
for the time is at hand. John, to
the seven churches which are in
Asia: Grace be unto you. and
peace, from him which is and was.
and which is to come; and from
the seven spirits which are before
his throne; and from Jesus Christ
who is the faithful witness and
the first begotten of the dead;
and the Prince of the Kings of
the earth. Unto him that loved
lus and washes us from our sins
in his own blood and hath made
us Kings and priests unto God
and his father; to him be glory
land dominion for ever and ever,
Amen"
And this humble minister, who
has missionary offices at PIT West
125th Street in New York City,
where he has administered aid to
peoples all over the world, gave
me these verses to read when in
doubt:
(Be glorified with Christ; Col.
1870 (Be as the angels; Matt
22:30) (Have glorious bodies. Cor.
have spiritual bodies; have bodies
15:43) (Haye powerful bodies;
like Christ, Phil. 1921 and St
Matthew to IA.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1948-06-02
Harvard Dean Hits
Negro Law School

NORMAN, Okla.-The dean of
the Harvard Law School and three
other educators agreed here with
Mrs. Ada Fisher that Oklahoma S
Law School for Negroes is made
quate and unequal. They testified
in District Court to support the
24-year-old Negro woman. She is
renewing her two-year fight to
enter the all-white University of
Oklahoma Law School here.
Mrs. Fisher maintains Okla
homa has not obeyed a United
States Supreme Court order to
give her equal facilities for a law
education.
'NThe two schools are so un-
equal there is no basis for COM
parison said the Harvard dean,
DR.. Erwin N. Giswold.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1948-06-02
HOW DOES
FREEDOM FARE?

Cecil B. DeMille, whose Founda-
ton for Political Freedom has
been coducting an aggressive cam
paign for the right of men to
work without fear of either mana
cement or union dictation, recently
gave some important testimony
before the House Committee on
Education and Labor.
my concern is for the individ-
ual," he said. Through the Wag-
ner Act, the Taft-Hartley Act, and
other legislation, Congress has
Igiven the individual some measure
of protection from his manage
ment bosses and union bosses.
"But bosses never take kindly
to restraint
"You have heard reactionary
businessmen urging the total re-
peal of the Wagner Act. Now you
are hearing the clamor of reaction
airy union leaders for repeal of
the Taft-Hartley Ace.
Reaction from watever side
- always aims to enslaye...
Every American should have
the right to work when he pleases,
where he pleases, for himself or
for whoever wants to hire him,
and the full protection Of the
government should be put behind
this right to work"
That is not an anti-labor argu-
ment. 1t is, to the contrary, a
pro-labor argument. 1t makes little
difference whether a business or
union can decide whether a man
shall be allowed to earn his liv-
ing or not. If they have that
power, he is as helpless as a
slave worker under dictator
Communists and their fellow trav-
elers are making an about effort
to control our unions and
thereby control the economic life
of America.
The Taft-Hartley Act made one
major advance for labor's rights
when it abolished the closed shop.
But the union shop, under which
a worker must join and pay tri-
butte to the organization within
a specified time after going to
work. has not been touched. So
the union officials still have a
sure thing, a tight monopoly.
Whether or not the worker likes
their service, whether or not he
approves Of union policy, he must
pay or quit. And if he does quit,
it's extremely doubtful if he can
find another job where he viii
be allowed to work at his trade.
So far as the union is concerned,
he can starve.
To quote Mr.. DeMille once more,
sThe tombstone for any law =
or any government, anywhere in
the world - is the question: How
does individual freedom fare?" 1t
will never fare well so long as
any organization, of any kind, can
tell any man whether he can
work or not.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1948-06-02

Jones, accompanied by his wife
and an employe, left his store a
half hour after Friedman. was
accosted by three men near 4Srd
street on South Parkway. These
men came from one of two cars
that had trailed him. Mrs. Jones
screamed. attracting police
squad car to the scene immediat-
ely.
Police fired at the second car.
containing Friedmans compan
ions of an hour before. Summers
and Dullard, and they shot back,
In the meantime jones captors
took him to the west side.
During his captivity Friedman
visited the Jones home sometime
twice a day until police picked
him up. Jones befriended him
when both were serving in feder-
al prison at Terre Haute, Ind.
Jones set him up with a liquor
concession in his store when they
got out. Friedman often visited
the police king at his Mexican
estate.
Since Jones sold out his Chicago
interests and settled in Mexico,
Little Sneeze has not been SO
friendly. Today the hoodlum is
dead from gangland slugs. No
trace of the ransom money has
yet been found although the FBl
has listed the social number on
the bills.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1948-06-02
NISEI MARRY PLAN
TO Be MISSIONARIES


ENID, Okla. - Two young
American-born Japanese from the
Pacific Northwest. married only
a day, plan to be the first Nisei
missionaries to Japan. sailing late
next year.
The wedding ceremony for Miss
Kiyo Ogawa, Hood River, Ore.
and Aigi Kamikawa, Kingston
Wash. was performed at Phillips
University where both are stu
denis. Each was informed a year
during the war. Their parents
were converted to Christianity by
missionaries in Japan.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1948-06-02
MONTH OF JUNE IS
REGISTRATION MONTH

Setting the month of June as
the official Registration Month"
for the State OF Washington. a
non-partisan gathering of repre-
|sentatiyes from organizations all
over the state met in Secretary
of State Earl Goes office. We'd
nesday. to lay plans for this years
registration drive.
A goal of $4,000 votes in the
fall General Election was set by
the group steering committee
which named Kenneth Gilbert,
superintendent of elections, as d.
rector of the registration cam
paign. Tom Potwin, representing
the Republican party was named
vice-chairman.
The goal IL reached will set a
new voting record for the state.
The vote two years ago was
494,704 and in 1914, the last pre-
sidential year, was S56,799. The
$4,000 vote figure was based on
a registration goal of 1,255,0O0 on
the theory that past records show
normally 80 per cent of the states
Registered voters cast their bal
lots in a presidential election year.
Representatives of both parties,
all groups of labor, the chamber
of commerce, education groups,
temperance groups, veterans and
service organizations, which made
lup the steering committee, heard
Secretary of State Coe issue a
challenge to the people of the
state.
1.-THE result of the Italian cleo
ton in which "a per cent of the
eligible voters went to the polls,
is a distinct challenge to the peo-
pie of our state to show that
their interest in Democracy is
just as KEEN" Mr.. Coe declared.
1.-THE job of registering and of
voting is not a partisan affair"
Mr.. Coe continued, 'it should be
the joint effort of all groups in
this state interested in good gov
eminent and in the preservation
of democracy"
It is no longer possible to est
ablish registration places in
schools, Libraries, and fire stations.
Only the states eight first-class
cities can legally establish regist-
ration places in each precinct.
Notwithstanding increased diff
ficulties, the committee set its
goal on registration higher than
any previous year. The 1,255,00
figure represents SO per cent of
the population. Past records show
that registration has never topped
So per cent.
The non-partisan registration
drives. inaugurated four years ago
by the late Belle Reeves, are cred
lifted with bringing registration
totals well above percentages of
previous years.
Registration closes for the pri-
maries on August IA and reopens
September Is, the day after the
primary election. The books will
close again October 2.
Are you going to register? If
not, why not?
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1948-06-02

follows the trend of the South. In
Washington, Negro schools are
crowded-while there are vacant
seats in the schools of white chill
dren. Part-time classes, poorer
school supplies, inadequate recre-
ational facilities = these are the
lot of Negro children in the shad-
ow of the Capitol.
What of the North, where school
segregation is nonresident at
least IN THEORY? Even there,
the Presidents Committee finds
minority groups are virtually seq
|regated in schools because they
have been forced into segregated
neighborhoods And for some not
so-strange reason it is these
groups whose schools are usually
most dilapidated, most crowded,
most poorly equipped.
Private colleges get public fl
nancial support-often federal or
state money or at least tax ex-
emption. Hence they should be
open to all.
Most such colleges, If they do
not exclude Negroes or Jews, adj
NIT them on a limited quota"
basis. Others limit Irish Catho-
lies, Indians, Orientals, or other
minorities. Despite denials of
such quota systems, the Presi-
dents Committee has found good
evidence of the facts.
Many colleges have broken with
the shameful tradition. A shin
ing example in segregation-ridden
Washington d. c., is Catholic
University. There our Commit
tee tells us, Negroes have been
dululttCus duu llcIc ID uO COlOi
distinction In classes. Last year
Negro was elected a class Off
cer."
To secure educational rights,
the Committee urges the estab-
lishment of Fair Education Prac-
tice laws. 1t suggests the with
drawal of federal grants from
schools and colleges which have
discriminatory admission policies.
Such is the program that mi
nority groups and labor groups
must actively support. If our
very nations capital can push
child into crowded school. keep
him off decently equipped play
grounds, even bar him from the
Golden Gloves boxing tournament
then the rights of all children
in America are insecure.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1948-06-02
SEPARATE BUT EQUAL

oETAnAfE 81 EQOAL
This is the myth behind segre-
gated school. Our courts tell us
that Negroes, Indians. Mexicans-
any racial minority may be heard
ed into separate schools If they
get an education equal to that Of
white children.
Recently a little dent has been
made in this separate but equal
doctrine. The Supreme Court ruled
that Oklahoma must provide a
law course for Negro girl barred
from the State University. Au-
thorities offered her Jim Grow
Glasses" In the State Capitol.
With great courage she is taking
her fight back to the Supreme
Court. Perhaps her case will crack
the vicious equal but separate"
lie. At least that is the hope of
racial and religious minorities as
well as of labor groups, whose
hope of securing truly democratic
rights depends upon real equality
for their children.
But do minority groups really
get equality of education after
they are separated?
mol" is the emphatic answer
of the Presidents Committee on
Civil Rights.
Let's look at the situation:
The South has a hard time
maintaining its schools. Missis-
sippi, 70 rexample, can afford to
spend only $500 a year per class
room unit compared to $4100 in
New York. Add to that the bur-
den of separate but equal
schools in the South, and you get
the load that breaks education's
back The South gets not only
hopelessly bad schools for Ne
groes, but entirely inadequate
schools for whites
In Mississippi, Johnny Whites
teacher in 1914 averaged a salary
of $1107; Bobby Blacks teacher
earned only $S42 that year. The
Negro child got fewer days in
school, attended much more crowd
ed and poorly equipped classes.
This is the pattern not only for
the Negro in the South, but for
other racial minorities elsewhere
for example, Indians in some
Western states +. Mexicans in
Teras.
uora ooa;n our noffon,s oaD;to1
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necessary.

necessary.
4. = Try to save more. Buy
only efficient household devices,
cost-saving implements for home,
business or farm.
s. = Don't be hasty in selling
bonds or stocks. Don't borrow on
or cash in your life insurance.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1948-06-02

These articles, eight in num-
Der, thru courtesy of Labor
Reports, Bernard Seaman, IL
illustrator, re Presidents Civil
Rights Committee - ITO Sc
cure These Rights"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1948-06-02
ARTICLE VI

Why don't you pick on someone
your own size?
The ugly giant, Discrimination,
reaches out even to our schools
to guarantee that our children get
an unequal start in life.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1948-06-02

YOU NEED THE NAACP-
THE NAACP NEEDS YOU
JOIN NOW
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-05-14

sentative an Agraran a Progressive. If you
want to damn Communists, that, too, can and is
done. There is only one taboo-slanderous and de-
famatory propaganda against the USSR During
the armistice period it was part of the treaty
Since the peace signed, the press for the most
part, continues to go along.
In pursuance of policy of realism, the Finnish
government has adopted a genuinely cooperative
policy with the SOviets. 1t wants peace, has had
enough of war, and it maintains friendly relations
with nearly all countries. Franco Spain being an
exception. In event of another conflict, however,
Finland will not be outpost for the United States.
Except for minority of adventures, a small
army officer clique and die-hard Russophobes, the
country wants it that way.
There is, significantly, far less fear of the Sow
let Union in Finland than in the United States You
don't find Firms who believe that Russia wants or
will start You do find Firms apprehensive
over the saber-rattling from directone USA.
Some very real efforts are being made to &C
hieve understanding of and cooperation with the
USSR. The most important citizen-ink is the So
ciety for Finnish-Soviet Friendship With 178,00O
dues paying members in 768 locals, it is doing an
excellent job of bringing to Finnish people factual
information about their big neighbor. All segments
of Finnish life represented from business and
the professions to workers. Exchange of artists,
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-05-14
Don Matchan Writes About Visit To Finland

scientists medical doctors, teachers farmers, ETC..
is one activity. In January three Soviet teachers
addressed national congress of teachers in Hell
sinki and group of Finnish doctors went to Mos
cow to exchange ideas with Soviet needles.
Economically, Finland has had rough going.
The cost of living index has scared from 102 in
1888 to 800 now. There's black market in money,
some food items, cigarettes Life is not easy for
the folks salaries and wages. But they look for
ward to better times this year. Sixty-one per cent
of Finnish production applied on the $500 mil
lion Preparations bill to the USSR. Last year only
II per cent of production went there. The Firms
will pay that BILL just they paid the United States
after World War [. Incidentally, strikes in steel
several months back delayed delivery to the Sow
lets. The treaty provides that penalties shall ac
crue for delay in payment That penalty amounted
to $40 900 000 but the Russians didn't exact it, said
the Films had tried hard and honestly to fulfill
their obligations the fine would not be levied.
Another big headache for them is resettlement
of 500 900 Kaureans who are being moved from
the land coded to the USSR as a result of the 1911
war. The cost of this project amounts to more than
the Preparations bill. Kaurelians and Finnish sol
diers who served at the front are being provided
with land purchased by the government from the
big estates.
The Firms are hard workers and they're intelli-
gent In due time they'll whip their problems.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-05-14
LEGAL NOTICES
office of State Auditor
STATE OF MONTANA
Insurance Department
CERTIFICATE or COMPLIANCE
AND AUTHORIZATION

Whereas, The North River Insurance
Company
Has filed in this department a sworn
statement of its condition on December
II, 1917, in accordance with the proyi-
slons of the Revised Codes of Montana.
1888, relating to insurance organiza-
tons; and whereas, said statement
shows that said insurance organization
State; ms
THEREFORE,, in pursuance of law.
l, JOHN ). HOLMES, State Auditor and
Commissioner of Insurance do herebv
certify that the above named Insurance
organization is authorized to transact
the business of Marine, Fire and Allied
Lines insurance in this State until the
thIrty-tirst day of March, 1947
/ further certify that their statement
shows that on December 81 1877. the
actual amount of Capital-U. S. Deposit
to be 2,O0O,000.00; the aggregate In
come Tor the year 1915 S15,55134522:
the aggregate Disbursements for the
year 1947 $12,62S,193. the ageregate
Assets are $36,761, 256.41; the aggre-
gate Liabilities, except CAPITAL. are
$!8.295,4 1876; the Surplus over all la
bilities is $16,465, S24.75: the Surplus
824.75. To''o''
IN WITNESS WHEREOF. have
hereunto subscribed my name and af-
fixed my official seal. at the state
Capitol in the City of Helena, this LIST
day of April, 194S
JOHN J. HOLMES, State Auditor
and Commissioner of Insurance.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-05-14
LEGAL NOTICES
Office of State Auditor
STATE OF MONTANA
Insurance Department
CERTIFICATE OF COMPLIANCE
AND AUTHORIZATION

Whereas The United States Branch
of the Northern Assurance Company,
Ltd.
Has filed in this department sworn
statement of its condition on December
81, 1947, in accordance with the proVi-
sions of the Revised Codes of Montana,
1885, relating to insurance organiza-
shows that said insurance organization
has complied with the Laws of this
State:
THEREFORE,, in pursuance of law
|, JOHN j. HOLMES, State Auditor and
Commissioner of Insurance, do hereby
certify that the above named insurance
organization is authorized to transact
the business of Fire, Sprinkler Leak
age, Windstorm, Explosion, Automo-
Commotion, Inland Marine insurance
in this State until the thirty first day
of March, 1919.
/ further certify that their statement
shows that on December 81, 1947, the
actual amount of Capital-U. S. Deposit
to be statutory Deposit) $500,000.00;
the aggregate Income for the year
1947 $685., 125.71; the aggregate Dis
bursements for the year 1947 1885,
59L26; the aggregate Assets are $12,-
653,739.94; the aggregate Liabilities,
Surplus over all liabilities is $2,42S,-
921.71; the Surplus as regards policy
holders is $292S,921.71.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, have
hereunto subscribed my name and af-
fixed my official seal, at the State
Capitol in the City of Helena, this 1st
day *of April. 194S.
JOHN J. HOLMES, State Auditor
and Commissioner of Insurance. :