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Evening star., 1949-05-01
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.chance that the American AUTO
mobile Association would join
other tourist organizations spon-
soring the idea.
The AAA long had been steering
in the middle Of the road about the
proposed shift. agitated for years
It decided the views OF labor itself
should be explored. and sent letters
| to the CIO and AL Last week II
released William Green's AFL re-
ply He said:
The American Federation OF
Labor has never looked with favor
upon the proposal 10 change the
date Of Labor Day. II Is pretty
thoroughly established in the
minds Of labor and the friends Of
labor that the first Monday In
September is Labor Day. They
prepare for a proper observance
Of that day and for O proper cele-
bration OF it. II is fixed In their
minds just like the Fourth Of July
is fixed in the minds Of all people
as Independence Day.
1T would create confusion and.
am sure, dissatisfaction in very
large way throughout the country
II Labor Day was changed to some
other date. II would take long
time for people to change their
minds and actions and adjust
themselves to any change which
would take nlace"
Evening star., 1949-05-01

Fun GoIore at Nreinio Beech |
Perfect vacation weather SIX
lall durins Spring. Golf,
lnshtng. riding. dancing. Willy
sun and surf bathing, 20 e.r..,.I
tcentrally located. European na,sis nsn.i
frAn' fhohe i%oe' Private Batht
OCEAN FRONT AT Goth ST.
SEA SPRAY HOTEL
The Nome nugget., 1949-09-16
Coast Guard
 Accepts Juneau's New Headquarters

JUNEAU, (RD-The U. s. coast guard Wednesday formally ac- cepted the new S375,OOO commun- ity-financed building as the head quarters for the newly actiVated l7th District.
 The new three-stOry reinforced concrete structure was financed by public subscription. The coast guard will lease it, under an ad- vance agreement. Furniture is be- ing moved in.
 Many officers and personnel. with their families, are already here.
 The 17th coast guard district op- erated in Alaska during the war It was inactivated in l947. It was reactivated July l, with Juneau chosen for the first time as the headquarters. Rear Adm. Joseph Greenspun is the commandant.
 Ketchikan has been the main base of Alaska coast guard opera tions. Officers said it will continue as an operating base, with only the marine inspection division being shifted to the district headquarters here.
The Nome nugget., 1949-09-16
Cab Driver Outwits HoId-Up Men

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. LP)-Cab driver Roscoe Spooner, 26, had the last laugh today on two alleged holdup men.
 Spooner told police the pair rob bed him of S8 and made him drive to a lonely spot where they forced him from the car.
 But while the two were starting the cabs motor, he climbed into the trunk.
 Ten minutes later they aban- doned the cab. Spooner clambered out, called a policeman and point ed out the pair. They were held on suspicion of armed robbery.
The Nome nugget., 1949-09-16
Congress Must Solve Alaska Military Housing

LOS ANGELES, lP)-Secretary of defense Johnson said yesterday Congress must solve Alaska's mill tary housing problem-"the most serious problem we face in that area"-even if that means taking it up in a separate bill.
 A bill now pending would pro- vide S138,OO0,OOO for such con- struction, Johnson said, adding:
 We must get action on this bill even if it becomes necessary to treat the construction needs for Alaska as a separate item by the Congress-"
 If funds are not secured soon, he said in a statement prepared for a news conference, part of the con- structiOn forces that have gone to Alaska to do the job will be dissi- pated.
 Johnson said family housing in Alaska is so inadequate and sub standard that men often are com pelled to leave their families be- hind while they serve there.
 While such sacrifices are nor nal in war, it is unfair in time of peace to ask our servicemen and their families to suffer hardship out of proportion to the standards of living enjoyed by our service men in other parts of the world, Johnson declared.
The Nome nugget., 1949-09-16
BRIDEGROOM TAKES BRIDE WITH RESERVATIONS

ENID, Okla. (P)-"Will you take this wOman?" Justice of the Peace A. C. Mover asked at a wedding ceremony here.
 Joseph N. Grove, 72, Shamrock, Tex, spoke right up.
 "I Will--if she treats me all right"
 His bride, Mrs. Sally B. Chit wood, 65, Garber, Okla, smiled.
 She made no provisions in her VOW, but later demanded the groOm's assurance she could be carried over the threshold.
The Nome nugget., 1949-09-16
Truman Names Judge MintOn For Supreme Court

WASHINGTON, (P) Sherman Minton of Indiana, who battled in vain for the 1887 Roosevelt plan to put younger blood on the Supreme Court. yesterday was chosen by President Truman to serve on that bench.
 Minton, in 1887, a Democratic, pro-new deal Senator, now is a judge of the seventh U. s. circuit court of appeals. That court has headquarters at Chicago and em- braces the states of Indiana, Illin- ois and Wisconsin.
 MT. Truman announced his de- cisiOn at news conference yeSter- day, He said judge Walter C. Lind ley of the U. s. court for the east ern district of Illinois will succeed Minton on the appellate court.
 Casper Platte, now circuit judge of Illinois, will succeed Lindley.
 Minton, 58, will fill the Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Justice Wiley Rutledge.
 A Democrat and a Protestant, Minton served in the Senate from 1925 to 194l. He had the desk next to MT. Truman's when both were in the Senate.
 Minton is a Protestant but his wife is a Catholic.
 There has been no Catholic on the Supreme Court since Justice Frank Murphy died in July. There had been speculation that the Pres ident might choose another CathO- lie until he named former attorney general Tom Clark, a Protestant to succeed Justice Murphy.
 MintOn's rise in Indiana politics was coincident with the governor ship of Paul V. McNutt, who later became federal security commits siOner, war manpOWer commiS- sioner, high commissioner and then ambassador to the Philip pines.
 Minton was public counselor Ot the Indian Public Service com mission when he was elected tC the Senate. He was defeated fOr reelection by Republican Raymond E. Willis.
 As a Senator, MintOn was an embattled New Dealer" and a vigorous fighter for the Roosevelt administrations measures. He fought hard for President Roose- velt's plan to add new justices to the Supreme Court to the number of those over age 70 who did not retire.
 The court at that time had de- clared unconstitutional major leg islation which the President back ed as essential to the country.
The Nome nugget., 1949-09-16
Six Abandon Tug. Leaking, Sinking, In Gulf Storm

tCOnLlnueQ rom FdSe One) have been by one of the search planes.
 The earlier message from the Afognak, the third of it's distress calls, reported all six aboard took to 14-foot lifeboat at 2:20 ann, CPST). The message said no land was in sight,
 The vessel gave her position as six to eight miles off Cape St. Eli as on Kayak Island. About 300 miles northeast of Kodiak Island. The scene is obout 75 miles south east of CordoVa, near the center of the northern rim of the Gulf of Alaska. The message said the craft was shipping water in heavy seas and winds of 45 to 50 miles per hour, but gave no other details.
 The coast guard identified the six persons as (no hometoWnS available):
 Fred BrandeS. the master. Lee Christy, chief engineer. Jim Jones, assistant engineer. Bucky Sadler; Arthur Johnson. Curtis Bach, 21, the son of MT. and Mrs. George Edward Bach of Douglas, Alaska. He attended Western Washington College of Education at Belling- ham last term.
 The vessel is owned by James V. Cole of Juneau. The coast guard said the Afognak was bound for Juneau from an unknown port.
 Earlier the 90-foot craft radioed it was proceeding toward Control Ter Bay near Kayak Island.
 The distress calls were picked up by commander, search and res cue area two at Kodiak and re- layed to coast guard headquarters here.
 Headquarters said one P2V search plane already was in the area. A B-l7 with a life boat was en route from ElmendOrf air force base near Anchorage and navy tug and PBY plane from Kodiak. Another vessel, the Mary M, was dispatched from COrdOVa.
 Three pre-daWn radio messages in space of 75 minutes told the grim story of the AfOgnak's losing fight against the stormy seas.
 The first, at Ill am, said the tug was leaking badly in heavy seas and would have to be aban- doned within an hour. The tug asked for immediate aid.
 The second, at a.m., said the water in the hold was rising stead fly.
 Twenty-eight minutes later the tug radioed:
The Nome nugget., 1949-09-16

Same thing day after day - nothing but pineapples and coco nuts, cOcOnuts and pineapples-."
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-12-12
Doctors Added
To Jamaica's
Gov. Staff

KINGSTON, Jamaica (ANP)-
Four colored and four white doc
tors, all recent arrivals in Jamai-
ca, have been added tothe staff
of physicians in government SER
vice, it was learned here recently.
The eight doctors recently COM
pleted their university courses in
England.
The colored physicians are DR..
Warren Wilson, who studied at
Aberdeen university; Leslie Will
liams and Lawson Coore, gradu-
ates of Durham university; and
Roland Lampart, Sheffield univer-
sity. The white medical doctors
r Donald Walter, Robert and
George. Millner, of Aberdeen uni
versity; and Henry Shaw of Liv-
erpool university.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-12-12
Negro Jitney
Inspector Sues
Daily Paper

CHICAGO (ANP)- Curtis
Stokes, suspended city jitney cab
Inspector, filed suit in Circuit
court here Wednesday against the
Chicago Daily News, asking $780,
600 and charging libel.
In the suit, he denied he has
the long criminal record cited in
a story about the Southside jitney
cab setup that was published in a
series of feature articles.
He said part Of the record be-
longed to another man : one Cur
tbs R. Stokes. Curtis R. Stokes
was sentenced to a year and a
day last March 8 for possessing
and forging stolen postal certifi-
Gates. This Stokes has a record
dating back Is years.
Curtis Stokes, the jitney inspect
or, was sentenced to two years
for possessing stolen sugar ration
stamps by Federal Judge John P.
Barnes on April FL, 1947. This is
his only criminal record.
This sentence later was reduced
to a year and a day after he testi-
fled before a federal grand jury
on sugar stamp operations. He was
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-12-12
Federal Judge
Refuses to Rule on
School Equality

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (ANP)-
Federal Judge Albert V. Bryan
dismissed a school Jim Grow suit
against Arlington County last
week brought by three Negro high
school pupils.
The judge dismissed the suit,
stating that segregation in the
public function of the state" is
exclusively a state matter. He
said he found no racial discrimin-
alton in the county school system,
no more than would occur be-
tween any two schools. However,
there are differences between the
the Hoffman-Boston school for
Negroes and the Washington-Lee
school for whites.
At the same time, in a contra
dictory statement, he added that
discrimination cannot be excused
on the basis of economy or state
constitutions requiring such. Then
he followed this declaration with
the opinion that segregation is
not an issue for federal courts.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-12-12

Aristocrat records Robert
Anderson, the city's top gospel
singer, is going places on Miracle
records.
Disc jockey AL Benson presents
a fine show at the Parkway ball
room Thursday nights. The New
Parkway is now one of the finest
in the city. -.
Willie Heron Of Decca records
plant will be passing out cigars
in a few days. Bod Compton of
DeDcca sells television sets in his
spare time King kodak is Or
ganizipg another band that will
hit the road soon.
This is it, dear reader, leaving
you until next week but remind
ing you that he can be found =
Dave Clark, 1905 Cottage Grove
Ave.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-12-12
Florida S Soil Conservation
Champion Restores Eroded Land;

syrup, 800 pounds of pecans, and
a few crates of oranges. When
his receipts are added up, they
total close to $500, or about trip
lie what his small yields brought
him on his entire 80 acres before
he learned how to conserve his
soil and increase it's productivity.
The value of his farm has in
creased, too, as a result of these
practices. 81 paid only $40 an
acre for my land" says Mr.. Gil
ley, "but I have been offered as
much as $50 an acre for it,"
Five years ago, the Gilleys
built and furnished a comfortable
five-room home. (Most of the
children have grown up and NOV
ed away Also, MI. Gilley and
his sons have set out $50 pecan
trees, and have enlarged their or
ange grove. "My wife and l am
and the children are looking
ahead" declared Mr.. Gilley. CAT
81, Pm just beginning to live"
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-12-12
Leads Puerto
Rican Batters
With 1873 Average

SANTURCE, p. R. (ANP)-
Catcher Earl Taborn, formerly of
the Kansas City Monarchs and re-
Gently of the Newark Bears, is
leading the Puerto Rican league
in batting. He registered a 1878
average after rapping a double
and three singles in five times at
bat for Senturce against Aguadil-'
Ia
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-12-12

paroled after serving four months
Last week, he was suspended by
Edward J. German, city vehicle
license commissioner, following a
Daily News exposure of exploit
tation of Negro jitney drivers on
Chicago's Southside.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-12-12
Windy City
Chatter
By Dave Clark

BY Dave Clark
CHICAGO CAMP The Windy
City had one of its gayest holiday
seasons in years with top attract
ions all over town.
Wardell Gray and his all stars,
Claude McLin, and Tom Archia
were the featured combs at Bop
City. Ethel Duncan, the south
sides ace singer, also entertained
The house was jammed.
Featured at the Regal were
Enrol Garner and his trio, Wynn
one (Mr. Blues) Harris, Savannah
Churchill, Peg Leg Bates, the
comedy team of Ford and Harris,
and the jumping band of Gene
Ammons. :
Downtown on Randolph st.,
Miles Davis and his bop crew are
featured at the Hi Note along
with Anita O'Day, top bop singer
Dick Davis has replaced Claude
McLin at the Club Morocco AL
Brown is rocking the guests at
The Bon-Aire club on 43rd. st. I,
Folks are squeezing into the
Macomba lounge to hear and see
Tom Archia and his featured
pianist, Willie Jones. Ted Watson,
the midnight man, digs the Mon
day morning jam sessions at the
IMacomba regularly.
Up in Milwaukee Andy Tibbs
with his blues singing and Jimmy
Hill and his band vowed them at
a Thanksgiving night dance. John
Collins and Amos Hardy also play
ed in the same town that hight . !.
Ellie Bartee has replaced Earl
(Mad Drummer) Walker in Lion
ell Hampton's band. Bartee said
goodbye to Tom, Archia Play
boy Gene Ross is back in town
after a trip to the Northwest.
Blues singer Freddie B1ots of
st. Louis is in town to record for
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-12-12

OH IllIeys Top SOIL cOnSerVaClOn
farmer Of Florida, has trippled
his income by hating erosion on
his land and building up it's fer
tility.
When MI. Gilley bought the
first half Of his 8O-acre, sloping
farm near Monticello, Fla, in 49,
81 after 10 years of sharecropping
with his father, he used to lie
awake@nights trying to figure out
how he could stop his soil from
washing away.
There were his wife and 10
children to feed, and yet no mat
ter how hard he worked, blowing
and fertilizing his land, the first
big rain always washed away his
fertilizer and part Of his remain
ing top soil, leaving more gullies
in his field.
During those years, Mr.. Gilley's
corn yield was barely five bushels
per acre, and his total income
from his small crop of hogs, pea
nuts, sweetpotatoes, watermelons,
and cane syrup was only about
5000.
Then one day after a heavy rain,
he Joined an Extension service
tour in his county and was shown
how terraces protected a
neighbours farm against erosion.
Instead Of the water rushing off
downhill, carrying top soil and fer
tilizer with it, the terraces held
the water back, slowing down it's
run-off rate, and causing more of
it to seep into the ground.
The next week, his county agent
and a neighbor helped him build
terraces on some Of his sleeper
slopes. The agent also told him
about his Soil Conservation dis
trict. Mr.. Gilley 500 applied to
the district for help. A Soil Con-
servation service technician came
to his place and helped him make
a complete soil and water conser-
walton plan for his whole farm.
The following year, Mr.. Gilley's
production increased markedly,
providing him with enough extra
income to buy another 40 acres.
This piece of land was badly erod-
ed, too, but now he knew how to
get help. Terraces, contour till
age, and winter cover crops put
it in shape" says Mr.. Gilley.
Today, his corn yield averages
better than 40 bushels per acre,
and the yield Of his other crops
also is much higher. In fact, SC
well did he carry out conserva-,
ton practices on his farm that
last August, he was acclaimed the
champion colored soil conserva-
ton farmer of his state and was
awarded $1,000 ct the South-wide
Soil Conservation jamboree at
Log Cabin, Ga.
This year, he has sold Is hogs,
four calves, 1000 bushels of
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-08-22
HATE AND "LOvE"

Whot is the difference between Socialism
and Communism? Ask dozen Key Westers
that question md probably you viii receive q
dozen different answers.
Fer several Days last week. the Miuni
Herald published articles about Socialism in
Greet Brituin. On Saturday. the outhor of the
articles. E. r Leech. soid: Socialism and Com
munism. whatever their other differences. agree
on one point: they hCse and disinist free enter
prise. They won't to overthrow it,
But the point The Citizen wishes to stress
is not in trying to find out the differences be-
tween Socialism and Communism but the cir
cunistunce that Greet Briioin hos bsen expert
menting in building up scciol structure that
impGirs incentive and initiative on money re-
ceived from the United States. that is. from
American taxpayers
If Greet Britoin's Socialists hate and dis
trust free enterprise. as Leech declares. then
they should have had the decency not to &c
cept vest amounts of American taxpayers
money to experiment with their social system.
Since the end of the second World War. Greet
Britoin's Socialist government has received
from the United States government loom OF
So billion $3.50 million and hundreds of mil
lions OF additional dollars under the Mmsholl
Plm. They hate" and "distrust' us but ore
not overse to receiving our handouts. Indeed.
the British Socialists ore eoger to receive them.
Recently. when it was proposed in con-
qress that no further Marshall Plan oid be Civ
en- TO countries that espouse Socialism. the
British Labor purtY. in control of the govern
ment. wos shokY over the prospect that no
more supplies or money would be sent to Greet
Britoin by the United States.
Americans have no objections TO any type
of government the British wish to adopt but
they do resent the establishment OF q govern
ment that is Numerically against the concepts
of free enterprise. which provides the incentive
that makes il possible for the United States to
give money to Greet Britoin
II it is true that the British Labor pcuty
hates our form of government. it is just as true
that the portY loves" to have its palm solved
with United States money.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-08-22
SON KILLS FATHER AND WEEPS

Massachusetts fother attempting to stop
q fist-fight between his two sons. was killed
by q shot fired by one boy in successful eff
fort to wound his BROTHER s>~
The boys. we presume. were overoge
Americans who lost their tempers over some
thing which was relatively unimportont With
one brother seriously wounded and his fother
dead. the other boy wept historically when
told thot his fother wos decd Unfortunately,
his tears could not pump life into the dead
body or undo the tragedy.
The probability is that the sons were at
loggerheods about some relatively minor mat
tiers of life. Each probCblY nursed the griev-
once. building up bellicose altitude toward
the other ond naturally when ON alteration
occurred. there was no limit to the effort to
hurt the other.
The unfortunate tragedy in Massachusetts
may serve TO worn kinsmen of oil types. in
Guiding brothers. against the nursing of grudg-
es. real or foncied. This can best be avoided
by following the oge-old injunction to Judge
not and to forgive. After oil. the principle ex-
pressed will do much to solve the unpleasant
experiences of life.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-08-22
HIT HARD AS THE TIDE TURNS

Stating that this country. in its effort to
give military did to free Europe was not i'm
PEELED by crisis on desperation or feoI of i'm
pending wur" General Omar N. Bradley told
the Congressman thct. If we We're" he would
recommend grecter effort thm that called
for in the present program.
Tn Chief of Stoff of the Army pointed out
that the present presented ON opportunity to
exploit the advantages olreudy goined toward
securing the safety of the Western world. He
pointed out that the European Recovery Pro-
grum. dealing with the moteriol. physical re-
hobilitotion of Europe. wGs much lorger in
terms of money thon the miitouY assistance
bill but that it vas equally important to pro-
tect the liberties and the lives of the victims of
possible aggression.
Using the illustration of bottle. the fo-
nous General sold there wds olwoYs natural
and understandable temptation to relax as the
odvontoqe moves to one side but that this Of
fers the supreme test of leadership because.
when the enemy ottock first folters. the initic-
tive must be pressed to secure victory. He
took the view that this picture presents cor
rect estimate Of the current situotion in Europe
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-08-22
TO-DAY IN HISTORY
(Knc-v America)

l787-John Fitch demonstrates
his pioneer steamboat on the
Delaware.
l862-Capt. Jedidiah Smith of
the Rocky Mountains Fur Co.,
with Is men, leaves Utah on his
toric first overland journey to the
Pacific.
l85l-New York Yacht Clubs
l70-ton schooner America" wins
special cup against II others at
London-America's entrance into
world sporting history.
l964--The Red Cross, founded
in Geneva, adopted by most of
the worlds civilized powers, ex-
cept the United States.
l942-Brazil first South Ameri-
can Country to declare war on
Germany.
1914 - Allied invasion forces
race to trap retreating Germans
in France
1947-The Taft Hartley Labor
Act in effect.
l948 - Commerce Department
reports country's individual in
comes rose to a new high of $50
billion in l947.