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The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-06-22
Robinson Failed 10
Make Weight Limit

The welterweight championship
fight between Ray Robinson and
Bernard Docusen scheduled for
last night, was cancelled again and
re-scheduled for next Monday
night.
At a private weight-in, welter-
weight champion Ray Robinson
said that he was unable to make
the weight limit, and posted $5,-
900 that he VIC Id make the re-
quired weight limit next week.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-06-22
Anne Youth Wins
Scholarship

CHICAGO, June %. (ANP)-
James Lyle Randolph of Oklaho-
ma City has won a full summer
conference scholarship as one of
the Pershad National Youth week
awards, according to Miss Helen
Spaulding, associate executive sec
rotary of the United Christian
Youth movement.
Randolph, who is a member OF
Avery chapel. AME church will
attend the UCYM regional con-
ference at Eastland, Texas, July
S to IL. He is a senior at Doug
lass Senior high school and will
enter Morehouse college in the
fall.
He is one of four conference
scholarship winners in the South
western Region and among 33
winners in the United States and
Canada.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-06-22
Ezzard Wants First
Shot al LesneVich

NEW YORK, June %. (ANP)
-Ezzard Charles, the light heavy
weight contender from Cincinnati,
still wants to ge the first crack
at the champion, Gus Lesnevich of
New Jersey.
Charles co-manager, Jake
Mintz, has already asked both the
National Boxing association and
the New York Boxing commission
to force LeLsnevich to defend his
title against his man, but to no
avail.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-06-22

BIRMINGHAM, June %. GAN
P)-Negro citizens and self re-
specting whites throughout JEFF
ferson county as we'll as the news
papers are up in arms over the
apparent "do nothing" attitudes
of local officials in the recent
wave of terrorism against Me-
groes and whites who may be do
ing some good for a Negro.
A petition signed by Negro re-
ligious, civic and social leaders
representing the Negro Citizens
Defense committee was ent to
Gov. Folsom asking him to pro-
tect colored citizens against at
tacks from such groups as the Ku
Klux Khan.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars
and girl scout leaders put more
pressure on Sheriff Holt A. Nc
Dowell to find the hooded char
acters who recently invaded the
private quarters of two white in
structors at a Negro girl scouts
camp.
The Birmingham Post wrote an
editorial demanding action by Of
ficials in stamping out the nazi
tactics against citizens in the
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-06-22
Citizens in Alabama Up in Arms
Against Terrorism and Do Nothing Officials

licemen in Birmingham, six in the
past two months. More than 100
persons representing &c leading
groups signed the petition.
This letter ITO the governor
pointed out that the khan and
"allied or similar" groups are "ac-
tually securing members and
workers and organizing to further
harass and intimidate the Negroes
of this area"
Calling for a grand jury inves-
tigation Of police brautality in
Birmingham and Jefferson coun-
ty, the petition also called for
state and local officials to Eek
pose, suppress, and destroy all
subversive organizations in the
county that are designed or ex-
listing for the purpose Of the in
timidation or terrorization" of
colored citizens.
The VFW called for action by
Sheriff Mcdowell in finding the
guilty men in the Camp Fletcher
incident during a three-day con-
vention here. It passed this reso-
luton after House Speaker w. NJ.
Beck Of the state legislature crit
Continued on page 81
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-06-22
Negro Vote Bar Smashed;
Reason: Lynch Trial Acquittal

G~REENVILLE, S. c., June 22.
(ANP)-Man is a funny creature
-unpredictable. What he is ex-
pected to do, many times he won't
do. But this shifting of course
proved a boon to Negroes in
Greenville county, for although
the method by which Negroes
now have the vote franchise was
not a good one, it bodies we'll for
their future.
Last week, just Is months af-
ter an all-white jury Of IL voted
to acquit 23 fellow townsmen who
admitted participation in the
lynching Of a Negro accused of
Staying a taxi driver, the Green
vile County Democratic execu-
tive committee decided to open
its roll books and ballot boxes to
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-06-22
Ives Urged to Fight
mundt-Dixon Bill

NEW YORK, June %. (ANP)
1t was announced here Tuesday by
Paul O'Dwyer, president of the
National Lawyers guild, that he
had written a letter to Sen. r.
wing M. Ives (R. N. W, urging
him to protest against the Mundt-
Nixon bill.
The guilds president cited the
rejection of the states legislature
of a similar bill last February, as
the attitude of the people Of New
York toward such measures.
In the letter O'Dwyer said:
Because we are informed that
amendments have been proposed
in the senate judicity committee
under which the bill would be-
come in effect a registration meas
ure, we believe that the recent
legislative history of a similar
registration proposal in our own
state should be highly persuasive,
if not determinative, of your own
course"
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-06-22
Two Negro Judges
Chat in Chicago

CHICAGO, June 20. CAMP
Two Negro judges had a short
chat this week in Chicago at the
city hall. Judge Herbert E. Millen
of Philadelphia's Municipal court
dropped in on his old friend, Judge
Wendell E. Green, of Chicago's
Municipal court.
Judge Millen was returning
home from Seattle after attend
ing the general conference of the
Presbyterian church. He was
named a member of the general
council at the national convention.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-06-22
Delay Start Of
Destination Freedom

CHICAGO, June 20. (ANP)-
Destination Freedom" new dra-
matte series presenting the distori-
cal contribution Of Negroes to the
democratic traditions of America.
will begin, Sunday, June 27 wv
MAO, 10 to 1890 a. m. cdstl.
instead of June 20 as previously
announced. The initial broadcast
will tell the role of Negroes in
the discovery Of the New World.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-06-22

permit Negroes to vote in the
party primaries. Not only did the
decision strike at the party pri-
mary control of the state commit
tee and convention, it also en-
.phasized the paradoxical picture
in which a community with a rec
ord of efforts to improve race re-
lations became the focal point of
national attention because of the
lynching episode.
In it's action, the county group
stood at odds with state control
on the three issues. They are op-
ening the roll books to Negroes,
giving them the right to vote on
the same basis with whites, and
banning a new registration oath
that would have been obnoxious
to Negroes.
The first county to take such
action, Greenville has the largest
population of any other county in
the state, $4,000 people. The
move is regarded by political OBJ
servers as evidence of "enlight-
most important developments in
ened leadership and one Of the
state political ANNALS" 1t has
been reported that similar de-
cisions were reached by Richland
county, encompassing the ciptal,
Columbia, but no public announce
ment has yet been made.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-06-22
Workers Get
Pay Increase

Local 768, United Electrical
Workers ,-CIO, signed a contract
this weekend with the ayton NAL
leable Iron company and it's CHG
R foundry division. The contract
provides for an 11-cent hourly in
crease.
Affected by the contract are
about 1900 production workers, a
very large proportion Of whom
n Negroes. Terms of the con-
tract are for a years duration.
Ratification Of this contract by
the union and the company in
creases the number of workers in
the Dayton area who have receiv-
ed wage increases in this third
round of negotiations since the
war ended. All the basic indus
tries have won wage increases with
the exception Of steel. Those mem
bers o fthe local United Steel
Workers union have been unaf-
fected by wage increases. Wheth-
err the steel companies will grant
an increase is at this time prob
lematical. Murray's contract with
the steel industry last year was
for two years with quarterly con-
ferences. The last conference
failed to result in a wage increase
for the steel workers.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-06-22
A Day at Lakeside Park
By Arnold Braithwaite

Seeking some relaxation with a,
lady friend and another couple,
this writer visited Lakeside Amuse-
ment park this past Sunday eve
ming. Having been fore-warned of
the nasty attitude of several of the
concessionaires, and not having
any whites along as witnesses, and
just not being in the mood for
trouble of that nature, we "avoid-
ed" those concessions known to
pull the old shtory about "mem-
bership cards."
However in our enthusiasm
over who was the best marksman
of the group we went to the shoot
ing gallery to settle the dispute.
We did not notice the sign which
read: "Club Members Only" Of
course we were asked for our
membership cards by an obviously
flustered attendant who prabably
was carrying out the orders of the
concession owner When we asked
where we could get membership
cards he said Fifth Street." but
he did not know the number. We
did not argue for we were not
prepared to make a legal case of
it, and we were ly talking to some
one carrying out someone else's
orders.
On either end of the lunch bar
is a large notice which reads:
Reserved for Employees and
Members of their Families"
On first consideration of these
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-06-22

state.
All the groups limited that the
sheriff and other officials were
not trying to find the guilty men
in the invasion of Camp Fletcher
by the hooded group.
The sheriff has done little and
said he did not know how the law
could be applied in the camp case.
The incident stirring up the whites
occurred June 8. A group of hood
ed men entered the segregated
tent of two white southern born
girl scout instructors, Misses Kat
rine Nickel and Elizabeth Ijams,
at Camp Fletcher.
The women were teaching Fl
Negro women to be~scout coun-
sellers. The hooded men objected
to the white women's living in the
same camp with the colored. They
searched their belongings while
the two women stayed huddled un-
der their cover The men told
them to be out of camp in "a
hours. The camp was closed the
next day.
In the action o fthe Negroes
they called attention to the re-
cent shootings Of Negroes by po'
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-06-22

facts it appears to be a whole lot
of stupid nonsense, of cheap a
larkey. But on bordering more
thoughtfully, it is much nor than
that. 1t is another instance in a
northern community of the de-
grading manifestations of Jim
crow oppression. It'll is a denial of
one of the elemental rights of Ne
groes as citizens that corresponds
to the general pattern of Negro
oppression.
AS such it must be resolutely
fought by Negroes and their white
allies the same as if they were
fighting lynchings or employment
discrimination. This means strug-
gle and sacrifice. But it also
means victory. 1t meant victory
for the Negroes of Cleveland
when they fought the same prac-
tees Of some concessionnaaires at
the Euclid Beach park. That one
Negro was shot did not cause them
to waver in their fight, it served
as an impetus to their determine
Continued on page A.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-06-22
STRAWS IN THE WIND

Reports that 10 minutes after
President Truman recommended
the draft and UNIT, a young man
called the city desk of a Georgia
newspaper and asked how to spell
conscientious"
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-06-22

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The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-06-22

Question of the week: Joined
the NAACP yet?
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-10-14
 RETURN5;; 36
 pRE(IN(T5IN
Democrats Lead in Anchor age Area-Hedvy Vote
 Against Traps

Election results in 36 of the 69 precincts in the Third Judicial Di- vision give Bartlett 5,974 votes; Stock 1922; Williams 4,825, Peter son 2,498; Boyle 4.229. Gcetz 2,181; Metcalf 4,144 and Mcdonald 3.264.
 For two places in the Territorial Senate Julius c. Morris (R) re- ceived 2,829 votes; William H. Ol- sen (R) 2,706; Walter E. Huntley CD 4.O63, and Steve McCutcheon CD 4,615.
 Balloting for the seven repre- sentatives to he named shows Jack Conright CD 1896; William A. Egan (D) 4,O3O; Clarence P. Heating CD i,132; Stanley J. McCutcheon CD 3,710; Leslie Meyers (R) 2,090; Ken meth E. O'Hara fR) 1868: Olaf A. Olson (R) 2,776; Thorwald Osbo fR) 2212; Alfred A. Owen, Jr, (D) B. 59O; c. A. Pollard CD 4,O20; Gerrit OHeinie) Snider (R) 3,578; M. D. Snodgrass (R) 3,31O; Lee c. Bettin- ger (R) BAIT, and c. Chester Carl son (D) 4,250.
 In the referendum vote. 6,705 voted 10 abolish fish traps, AS to continue them.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-10-14
INVESTIGATION
 CONTINUES IN
 THOMAS DEATH

Investigation into the death of Phyllis Thomas is continuing under the direction of the U. s. Marshars and the District Attorneys office. No further information has been discovered by the authorities, and Deputy U. s. Marshal Walter G.. Hellan stated today that no one has heen detained for questioning.
 The coroner's inquest will not be held until next week, Hellan said today. Mrs. Thomas was found in Gastineau Channel Tuesday after noon and had apparently been in the water between 10 and 12 hours. An autopsy was performed yesterday morning by Dr. Joseph Rude and Dr. John Clements. Deputy Marshal Hellan stated today that there is no reason to suspect foul play in connection with the death of Mrs. Thomas.
 Mrs. Thomas was fully clothed at the time of her death. Her body was discovered in Gastineau Channel near Norway Point at 2:30 o'clock in the afternoon on Tuesday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-10-14
4TH DIVISION RETURNS ARE
 REPORTED
Fairbanks Returns Minus 100 Votes and 12 0ut-
 lying Precincts

Election returns have been re- ceived from the Fourth Judicial Di- vision, with 100 Fairbanks votes yet to be counted. and ballot.ng from 12 precincts not yet known. The voting there, to date, gives Bartlett 2.172 votes Stock 352 Will liams 1,408, Peterson 978; Boyle l,672, Goetz 745; Macdonald 1850 and Metcalf 937.
 John Butrovich, Jr., (R) with 1861 votes, leads in the race for the two Senate seats, Frank Barr CD next with ,492. Jesse D. Lander CD boiled 9l3 votes, Clarence J.. Woofter (R) 783.
 Balloting so1 sae i've represen- tatives to be elected shows Glen D. Franklin (D) leading with 1,457 votes, followed by A. F. tJoe) Coble (R) l,233; Walter s. Calhoun (R) 1,234; Essie R. Dale CD l.226 and George Miscovich (R) LAO. Warren A. Taylor tD) and Robert Hoopes CD tie for sixth honors, each hav- ing l,122 votes. Training are Frank Angerman CD with 1,089 Alden J. Wilbur (R) 1,047 and Lawrence w. Meath (R) SPA.
 In the advisory vote, 2,362 ballots were for abolising fish traps, PA for their continuation.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-10-14
LITTLE LAPS TAKE
 WAR CRIME RAP:
 DEFENSE COUNSEL

The little man in Japan is now taking the rap in Japanese war crim- inal trials, according to former Maj. B. B. Rogers, criminal investigator and defense counsel for the War Crimes Commission in Japan for IS months.
 Rogers, who arrived here with his wife from Seattle Tuesday, said yes terday that privates and sergeants are being hung while bigger game is going free.
 Most Japs consider the trials a farce" Rogers said. He added that it is apparent that most safeguards common to American courts are de- nied prisoners charged with war crimes.
 Ending of trials is scheduled for December of this year, Rogers said, but instigation of investigations turns up a score of new cases which in turn bring up a score more. per- petuating the trials which have heen going on for more than two years.
 Only cases of unlawful killings are being br o u g ht into war crimes courts now, he said, adding that in- vestigators are finding plenty of these.
 
 Last case which he handled, Rog- CTS said. involved Is Japanese, in- cluding high ranking officers of a Nip arm for the beating, mistreating and causing the death of an Army Air Force officer who parachuted from a plane in July, 1945.
 About postwar Japan, Rogers said, there is no starvation. The Japs are rebuilding quickly, not permanent constructions but ade- quate for the time being
 The former Major lived for sev- eral months in Tokyo where he said, army men never had it so good" In bombed-out Yokohama quarters were adequate and food good
 Rogers was in the Navy during the shooting war" and entered the Judge Advocate General division after VI day. He and his wife plan to make their home in Juneau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-10-14
NAVY MANEUvERS
 IN ALASKA WATERS
 TO BE ONLY MINOR
Exercises Aimed at Testinq Clothing Equipment
 and Personnel

WASHINGTON, Oct. l4-lR-The Navy says that exercises to be held fnext February in Alaskan waters are minor in size and aim ed at testing clothing, equipment and personnel under cold weather conditions.
 No more than 12 fighting ships and less than l2,00O men. includ- ing under 2,000 marines, will take part, an official said.
 In response to questions, he said there is no significance to the fact the exercises will be held closer to Russian. territory than any previous fleet exercises.
 Tn the Pacific the Navy has only the Alaskan area to practice cold weather operations and experiments he said
 The exact location of the exer- cises was not given, but he said it would be close to American bases in Alaska.
 No Army personnel will take part in the training.
 The ships will be headed by a carrier and supported by a heavy cruiser squadron of destroyers and probably no more than one submarine, he said.
 In addition landing craft, attack transport and cargo ship, plus rocket-firing landing craft will take part in the practice landing.
 The Pacific exercises are much smaller, the official pointed out, than those scheduled for next month in the Atlantic off New foundland A total of 3l,000 sail- OTIS and marines and 65 ships of the Atlantic fleet will take part off Newfoundland in the largest coldweather amphibious operations yet attempted by the Navy.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-10-14
WORLD WAR MEDALS NOW AvAILAbLE TO
 AMERICAN LEGION

Army or Air Force veterans of World War II, who are members of the American Legion, were urg- ed today to contact John Parmen- ter. Juneau Post ,Adjutant, and acquisition medals which they earn ed during their military service.
 The American Legion has been authorized to issue medals to eli- gible veterans. Medals now avail able are the American Defense medal, World War II, Victory Medal and Campaign Medals for the following theatres: American, Asiatic-Pacific, and European Mediterranean-Africa.
 Veterans are requested to furn- ish proof of their eligibility to re- ceive these medals.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-10-14
 PACIFIC COAST,
 TAKE UP BY NC

WASHINGTON. Oct. 14.-tR- The Maritime Commission will consider soon in a closed session the need for revivla of shipbuilding on the Pacific Coast.
 Commissioner Joseph K. Carson, Jr, notified Senator Magnuson (D- Wash) today he has suggested to his fellow members that they con- sider the need of regionally allo- eating ship construction under such plan West Coast shipyards could get share along with those on the Gulf and Atlantic Coasts.
 Carson expressed belief revival of Pacific Coast shipbuilding is needed as national defense mea- sure
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-10-14
THREE MISSING, GULF OF ALASKA,
 ARE FOUND SAFE

SEATTLE, Oct. 14.-R- Three persons, overdue on a trip in North Pacific waters which had been swept by storms, were found safe yesterday.
 The Coast Guard said the three persons had been located on an island in the Gulf of Alaska. How ever it had no word on what hap pened to their 20-foot Donna M. A Coast Guard plane located the skipper of the vessel. Earl Moore, on beach at Montague Island and picked him up.
 Moore reported that his two passengers were safe at another point on the island but short of provisions. Unable to land there, the plane dropped sleeping bags and food and radioed an Army tug to proceed to the scene. Moore was returned to his home at Sew ard.
 The passengers have been identi- fled only at Mir and Mrs. Bow- CTS. The Donna M. left Seward Oct. 3 on the 60-mile trip to the island and was to have returned October T
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-10-14
IT. GEN. WINNING
 RED-H0T BOOSTER
 FOR HIS ALASKA

TOKYO, Oct. l4.-tR- Newest red-hot booster for Alaska is Air force It. Gen Nathan F Twinlng, commander of Alaska deienses.
 No Florida or California support CT ever did more missionary work than General Twining exhibited in behalf of Alaska while here attend ing series of military conferences at General MacArthur's headquar- ters.
 Twining, an ardent hunter and outdoorsman. found the region around his Anchorage headquarters a paradise for the huntsman. fish, erman and outdoor sports enthusi- asst
 Y On the serious side, Twining said most problems connected with main- tenance of planes and other service equipment in Alaska temperatures have heen licked. Most pressing problem today is housing.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-10-14
Defenses Of Alaska, Pacific Areas Discusse,
CASE OF MURDER
 DEVELOPS IN NAME IN W0MAN'5 DEATH

NOME, Alaska, Oct. 14.-lR-Au- thorities said yesterday that wom- an found dead in her burning home here Monday had been bludgeoned to death.
 The victim was Lucia Grant, cook at the Federal jail here.
 Officers said an autopsy showed several deep breaks in the skull, apparently caused by a sharp, heavy instrument. They said the fire in the dwelling apparently had been started to destroy evidence of the staying. The rear door of the house had been broken, indicating an in- truder had forced his way into the home.