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Evening star., 1949-12-15
MissE. Louise johnson
Dies Unexpectedly

Miss E. Louise johnson, 81,
Washington assistant for the
United States Savings and Loan
League since 1882, died unex-
pectedly yesterday of cerebral
hemorrhage in her apartment at
the Jefferson Hotel. 1900 Sixteenth
street NV.
Miss johnson was stricken as
she was walking to her Offices in
the Kass Building, TIL Fourteenth
street NV, yesterday morning.
She was taken to her hotel and
pronounced dead.
During her II years here with
the United States Savings and
Loan League, Miss johnson be-
came widely known in Govern
ment, business and financial
circles. She was a friend of nu-
merous Senators and Representa-
tives on Capitol Hill. where she
wrote a weekly report to send to
league headquarters in Chicago on
congressional legislation.
Miss johnson was born in Co.
lumbus, Ohio. and was graduated
from Ohio State University.
Among other positions she held
was that Of executive secretary
for former Representative James
M. Beck of Pennsylvania for six
years.
Miss Johnson was very active
here in the American Association
OF University Women and be-
longed to All Souls Unitarian
Church, Sixteenth and Harvard
streets NV.
Her only survivor is a brother.
Clarence r. johnson of Columbus.
Ohio, who was to arrive here last
night.
Her body is resting at Gawler's
funeral home, 1855 PENNSYLVANIA
avenue NV. Funeral arrange.
ments will be announced later.
Evening star., 1949-12-15
U. 5. and Argentina
Report Progress in
Move 10 Spur Trade

A JOINT UnlCeQ SCaCeS-ArSentlQa
committee today reported "opti-
mistic" prospects for increasing
trade between the two countries.
The Joint Committee on Com
mercial Studies has been working
for the last three months on elm
nation Of factors that have dras-
tically cut down Argentine exports
to this country.
Officials estimated that the re-
suits will be Is per cent increase,
to a level Of around SITS. 5.000, 900
to 5000, 900. 900 in Argentine ex-
ports to the United States next
year.
Would Aid Debt Payment.
This increased earning Of dollars
by Argentina, 1t was pointed out.
will enable the country to buy
more United States goods and at
the same time pay OF an accum-
ulated backlog Of around $140,-
100000 in debts to American ex-
porters. Argentine now Is apply
ing 80 per cent Of her dollar earn
ings from all sources to paying Oh
this backlog. 4
A statement on the work Of the
joint committee was released at q
news conference by Assistant
Secretary of State Miller and Ar
gentine Ambassador Jeronimo
Remorino.
Mr.. Miller explained that the
work did not involve any discus
sion Of United States tariffs or
sanitary laws, but was confined to
an item-by-item study of what
Argentina could do to stimulate
exports Of her commodities. In
most cases, he said. it was found
that Argentine export tariffs and
prices pegged at too high q level
to compete with similar goods
from other countries were to
blame for drastic declines over
the last year in Argentine sales for
dollars.
Technical Discussions Planned.
AS q result Of the studies, he
added., the Argentine government
generally relaxed its export con-
trolls and reduced prices Of goods
for export to a competitive level.
Principal commodities involved
are hides. wool and canned corned
beef.
One important by-product OF
the discussions he said, will be
that Argentina will be able to sell
more of her goods to European
countries receiving Marshall Plan
aid because Of her price reduc-
tions.
In connection with the talks,
the United States and Argentine
governments agreed to open tech
nical discussions soon to prepare
the way for negotiation Of treaties
the avoidance Of double taxation
and for cooperation to prevent
evasion Of income and estate
taxes.
Evening star., 1949-12-15
|Cuts in Excise Taxes
By Congress Seem;
SNYDER Asks Action

Secretary Of the Treasury
Snyder has spoken . word Of en-
couragement for scaling down
wartime excise taxes. but without
committing himself as to how 1t
should be done.
Although the convening Of Con-
gress is three weeks away. already
there are strong indications the
returning lawmakers will vote
some relief from the extra levies
that were put on travel. commune
cations and a dozen or more
articles during the war.
Secretary Snyder told q press
conference yesterday he supports
the idea, but added, whether we
can do 1t now is another question.
O'Mahoney Asks Changes.
At the same time Senator
O'Mahoney, Democrat, Of Wyo-
ming joined two leading business
executives in advocating tax
changes to spur business expan-
sion. The Senator is chairman
of a joint subcommittee studying
the current supply OF investment
funds.
"The time has come" Senator
OMahoney said, Ito revise the
tax laws to promote development
of private enterprise"
The Senator did not propose
any changes himself. but made
that comment after hearing these
specific suggestions on how Con-
gress can help step up the flow
of investment capital into new
ventures:
l.. Permit q more liberal rate
for depreciating capital assets.
2. Ease the so-called double
taxation" on dividends-first in
the form Of business profits and
later as income levies on the d.
vidends paid to stockholders.
3. Permit q taxpayer to deduct
20 per cent Of dividends received
as . credit against taxes due.
Reed Makes Suggestion.
These proposals were presented
to the Senate-House Economic
Committee headed by Senator
O'Mahoney, which Is studying
ways the Government can en-
courage more investments in
small businesses.
The first two suggestions were
laid before the group by Philip D..
Reed, chairman Of the board Of
the General Electric Co. He
stressed the double taxation"
point. saying that it is a serious
detriment to investment in equity
securities"
The dividend credit proposal
was advanced by 8. L. Sholley,
president Of Keystone Custodian
Funds, Inc, Of Boston, the Ma
tion's second largest investment
company,
Evening star., 1949-12-15
x-Shanghai Mayor
Picked for Nationalist
Governor Of Formosa
By the Associated Press

TAIPEH, Formosa, Dec. Is
K. c. WI, American-educated
former Mayor of Shanghai, was
nominated as Governor Of For
mosa today by the Standing Com
mittee of the Kuomintang Na-
tionalist Party) at a meeting pre-
sided over by Generalissimo
Chang Kai-shek.
The nomination, which was an
obvious move to WOO United States
aid for Nationalist China. will go
to the cabinet tomorrow for con-
f1rmation. WI would succeed
Gen. Chen Cheng, at present Gov
ernor of the island and military
commander Of the Southeastern
Nationalist areas.
Bid for u. S. Aid.
The Nationalists, bidding strong
ly for American aid in holding
Formosa from the Communists,
have been redesigning their po-
litical setup. Nomination OF WI
would indicate civilian leaders
were replacing military men in
political posts wherever possible.
WI, likable and well known to
Americans in Shanghai. long has
been closely associated with
Chang, whose Nationalist regime
became unpopular in many Amer
ican minds because of corruption.
On the mainland the sagging
Nationalist hopes were buoyed by
a report Nationalist Gen. HUI
Tsung nan had been able to re-
group 100000 Of his troops in
Southwest Szechwan province.
Troops Retreating.
Hu's troops have been retreat
ing along a 700-mile front from
the Northwest to Central China.
With his main strength regrouped,
Hu's forces are not only holding
Chengtu for the Nationalists, but
they are acting as q buffer to the
Communists driving Southward
on Yunan Province, advices said.
The Reds nearest approach to
Chengtu was said to be 80 miles
to the east Of the onetime Amer
ican B-29 base, which lasted only
g few days as the Nationalists'
last mainland capital before Tai
|peh was selected.
Evening star., 1949-12-15
Hoax Brings Heurse, Firemen

HULL, England (P).-Something
peculiar was going on at Thomas
Taylor's grocery. Fire trucks, five
taxicabs and a hearse bearing a
coffin all pulled up outside. Some
body had called them by tele-
phone. Chief Constable Sydney
Lawrence was called into tind out
just what was going on. He de-
cided it was "a despicable hoax"
Evening star., 1949-12-15
Swedes Visit Finlund

OF 55,554 travellers arriving III
Finland in the 1949 first half, ~
per cent were foreigners. with
Sweden leading the list with 13,006
arrivals, Denmark next with 2,303
and America third with 1889.
Evening star., 1949-12-15
Irish Import u. S. Plant

Northern Ireland's newest IN
|dustrial plant - that of Ulster
Floor Coverings, Ltd, In Belfast
has been imported from America
to produce q new type Of elec-
|tro-coated floor covering expect
ed to be well received In Ireland.
Evening star., 1949-12-15
Bus Kills Its Driver

MARsEIILE (R.-Dominique
Faggiani, 44-year-old trolley bus
driver, was checking his motor
when the vehicle started moving,
ran over him and killed him. His
wife. conductor on the bus. wit
messed the accident.
Evening star., 1949-12-15

Once q forest country. Great
Britain now has less than s per
cent Of its area classed as wood
land.
Evening star., 1949-12-15
MER M p. HARrsHoRNE. Chef de Care.


DAY. yfEsa: necsmssr 5stS Is, 1919. & the United
states Nsyal Assp,.s,, 5ethssda;a .,un.a M. M:
e EdYsra la TySer she also
By two dsuehters. Shirley and Edna Tynsr;
four sisters, Mary Fields, Lols Brooks,
omsga oaper I.atves ana and many frends Alter
Pm. THURSDAY, Deeembsr Is, friends
ea a hsE Late Tssdsnss nn:r. 1425 2Idsl Al.
PeSsm0ef FmSra 4 NJ Z. church, ai lakeland. Nd.
Irterment Arlington National Cemetery.
Arrangements by Frazier's Funeral Home:
hers TrsFF y ss. fns
No. 1919, G. q. o: Of Q. r.. OF Lakeland.
eq svfS S SxNEs r REssen o 4
DAY, December is, .l949, at 9 Pm. at her
l''e ,,nATS ISSz1H finIS NfKx SNz7. w4Kis4 u ". R.
wesnesdsy. YEIdsL' pscemSer anH. Il. sa4e. a. Is
home, n sBaoloi $500 s9th St. nv. GEORGE BENT.
LEY WETzEL beloved husnsInd o. .st9nr sne s II
his late residence. where services yin b 1s
Intermsnf hete ra,a' carlisle. Pa. flssss omit
flowers.
peeemDsr wmrF i9as e. 1s4s soHN sHE%Toif HSooif
L. s5ns Tts ana f'hss As1. Of White
Also surviving are three sisters, Miss di1,, Min,
e Vie sumner M % Of = |Philsdelphia, Pa. and Mrs.
Eulaiia w. johnson Of Richmond: Va;
other relatives and friends. Funeral 6erv-
ices private. Arrangements By MCGUIRE,
Inc. 10
wHITLow, JESSIE: Suddenly. on Fri
day, December 8. 1949, ct her residenGs'
sisssr ssss ON q mrs s. amelies Johnson 81 Gin
Chicago, Iii. Friends may call after
Pm neraI IhqIenss Homs ss-si g fn st, NV. Where
funeral services will be held ON Friday,
December 10, at 10 am. Interment Wood
lawn Cemetery.
WILLIAMS. LAMONT A; On Saturday.
PsssoSSsT PsoST A. ~ WILLIAMS LII ssiovsd isth.r q
superintsndsnt Of Arlinfson to1a E1tigns prs
Az DECEMBER 1s s.rm.r as RIInston RmI g. fSs. Ns.
tional Cemetery. Please omit novers. IL
WILLIAMS, vERNELL. On Tuesday,
December IS, 1949, at her residence, 73S
New Jersey ave. NV. VERNELL VII
LIAMS, daughter OF Geneva and John
Henry williams, sister Of Russell Williams,
Granddaughter Of Maggie Ptnckney. She
also leaves four aunts, three uneles, otner
relatives and friends. The late MISS
williams may be Viewed at Gtewarts Fu-
neral Home, so II st.. ne, from 3 pm;
TslH5sabsis TTnlngbis. Z + pm. Friday 'n'''nssa' 1s
Evening star., 1949-12-15

TAYMAN, NELSON G.. Onicers and
,> members Of voiture Locale. No.
EM 265, La Societe. des 40 Hommes
~l ct Chevaux, are requested to be
N0 present at pm. Thursday. De-
cember Is, 1949, at the Cheverly
= American Legion Home Cheverly.
3D., for services in memory Of our de-
Iarted comrade, Voysgeur NELSON G..
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1949-04-20
Negroes Incompleted
$4,000 Home
Wrecked by Bomb

WARREN - (ANP) = Anti
Negro ( cling resulted in the
wrecking of physicians home in
a white neighborhood here last
week by a homemade dynamite
bomb causing an estimated $1,000
damage. The building, incomplete
but costing $4,000 when fin
ished. is the property of DR.. and
Mrs. Samuel A. Brown.
According to Mrs. Brown, the
family had received two threats
when excavation work was being
done last June that they would
never be allowed to move into the
neighborhood. She said three men
told her husband, 1--WE don't want
you to build house in this area"
The nynamiting was discovered
by construction workers the next
day. The damage is covered by
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1949-04-20
Harry Kid Matthews to Fight King Henry Lee
HIGH COURT REFUSES
PLEA OF JAKE BIRD

WASHINGTON = The Supreme
Court of the United States today
refused to review the trial OF Jake
Bird. Tacoma Negro, sentenced tC
death in the ax-slaying of Mrs
Bertha Kludt.
Bird confessed killing Mrs
Klundt and her daughter. Beverly
In Tacoma October 80, 1947. He
also admitted participation in sew
eral other murders in various
parts of the country.
Bird was scheduled to be
hanged January 13. But Justice
Douglas granted a stay pending
Supreme Court action on Birds
appeal.
Bird contended in the appeal
that an utterly false confession
was obtained from him by police.
he charged that the police beat
him and threatened to kill him If
he did not sign the confession. "
Bird also asserted there was no
evidence connecting him with the
killing except such as was manu-
featured by the officers" He
asked the Supreme Court to set
aside his conviction on these
grounds.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1949-04-20

FAIR EMPLOYMENT
PRACTICES ACT
EFFECTIVE JUNE 8, l949

The state OF Washington now
has Fair Employment Practice
Law, effective June 9. 1919. Gov
ernor Langlie signed the bill
against discrimination in employ
ment. Their fears are based not
only on a misunderstanding of
the operation of the law but a
lack Of knowledge or appreciation
for the way similar laws are OPP
Grating IN four other states.
To help the public to under
stand and TO use this new law in
diligently. as well as to appreci-
ate its weaknesses. and to know
the proper function Of the Com
mission to be appointed by the
Governor. the National Associa-
ton For the Advancement of Col
ored people is having a Mass
Meeting on Sunday Evening, April
"a, at 500 O'Clock at the Mt. Zion
Baptist Church. What is Your
Right To A Job Under Washing
tons. Fair Employment Practice
Act?" will be the theme of this
meeting. The materials will be
presented by the individuals who
sponsored this legislation. An OPP
portunity will be given for discus
sion and questions.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1949-04-20
HERE AND THERE

Nomination for damn foolish
ness: vets of World War II who
let their National Service Life
insurance policy lapse. And who
else will insure you for ten grand
but your Uncle Sam-at the same
low cost?
If the filibuster gag isn't est
ablished, you can kiss the civil
rights program goodbye. per
sonally, we think you can kiss
most of it good bye anyway,
chum, if we don't get a whole
lot madden about it than we are)
1.-THE measure of democray is
the measure of the freedom of it's
humblest citizens"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1949-04-20
Imperial Council
Visit Seattle
BY w. Arthur Dixon

Illustrious Potentate w. Arthur
Dixon and Officers of Benz Hassan
Temple No. "a received the Inn
perial Potentate Raymond e.
Jackson. S3 degree of Buffalo. N.
Y, equity Imperial Potentate
Jack Alexander of Charlotte, N.
c., Imperial Promotional Director
Booker T. Alexander of Detroit.
Mich, Imperial Director of Public
Relations Genoa s. Washington Of
Chicago, Ill.,, Imperial Assistant
Rabban Joseph l.. oliver of Los
Angeles, Calf, who are touring
the West Coast on an inspection
of the Shrine Temples in this
area.
The officers represent the high
degree Masons of Prince Hall At
filiation throughout the United
States.
During their stay special ses-
sion of Benz Hassan Temple was
convened, also the Imperial Po-
tentate addressed the Daughters
of Isis. the auxiliary of the Shrine
Order.
A banquet was held in their
honor, also a trip to Tacoma
where the Mayor, Honorable G.
Val Fave TT and Councilmen
greeted the party, along with
Judge VIM. Richmond.
The party was escorted to the
Capitol at Olympia, wheer Secre-
tary of State. Honorable Earl Coe,
greeted the delegation.
Shrinedom is increasing its in
fluence in this area and the pro-
gram designed for Tuberculosis
and Cancer will put our fraternity
foremost among Charitable Insti-
tutions.
The visitors enjoyed the expert
ence of the earthquake, and trust
occasion will present itself that it
will be possible to return again
soon.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1949-04-20
IN THE LAND OF
JIM CROW
BY Ray sprigle

The Pulitzer prize-winning a.
thor of this book travelled through
the deep South, posing as q
Negro. His report of fhof journey
should be read by every American
above and below what the author
now coils The Smith and Wesson
Line" With foreword by Morg-
oref Hoisey.
This is the story of a news
papermani who lived as a Negro
in the South and didn't like 1t.
For four endless, fear-filled
weeks in tn summer Of 1948. Ray
Sprigle, Pulitzer Prize-winner re-
ported for the Pittsburgh Post
Gazette, travelled through 3,400
miles of Jim Grow land disguised
as a Negro. He ate, slept, travel
ed, lived black. He lodged in
Negro households, ate in Negro
restaurants, crept through the
back and side doors Of railroad
and bus stations, Travelled Jim
Crow in trains, buses, street
cars, and taxicabs, was careful
not to jostle or offend a white
person. He endured, as no white
man ever had, the indignities and
fears which accompany the South
ern Negro from childhood to the
grave. He discovered = from the
inside out = what a grim and
tragic joke the ringing sentences
of the Declaration Of Independ-
ence are to 100000 Negroes in
the South, the people whose lib
critics are bounded by the near
est sheriff, court, or white plan
tation owner.
Ray Sprigle is neither muckrak-
err nor sociologist; he is a news
paperman whose assignment was
the story of racial discrimination
and oppression in the South.
There are no sensational dis
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1949-04-20
White Newspaper Women
Gives 900 Aid TO
Six Convicted Of Murder

NEW YORK-(ANP) "A con-
tribution of $1,000 for the defense
Of six Trenton, N. j., Negroes con-
victed of the murder of a white
storekeeper. was made here re-
Gently by Miss Anna Louise
Strong, white newspaper woman
expelled from Russia not long ago
as a spy. The contribution origi-
nally had been offered to the IL
Communist party leaders now on
trial, but 1t was refused.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1949-04-20
Catholic Priest Advocates
D. c. Tolerance Legislation

WASHINGTON - ut is COM
monty said that you can't legislate
tolerance, and that's true, but you
can legislate against the manifes-
tations of intolerance, and that is
what believe is the Importance
of this bill.v
This was the comment of Father
Wilfred Parsons. s. j.. of George
town University, moderator OF the
Catholic Interracial Council of
Washington, In regard to a bill
newly-introduced in Congress to
end segregation in Washington.
The bill. sponsored by Rep. Arthur
G. Klein of New York. would di-
rect the public schools to end their
system of double facilities and
would withhold licenses from ho-
tells, restaurants. theaters, etc.,
which refuse to serve members Of
all races and creeds.
Father Parsons cited the case of
National Theater In Washington
to illustrate the value of the Klein
legislation. He referred to the fact
that the owner of this institution,
which was the only legitimate the
alter In the city, had closed 1t to
stage productions rather than ac-
cede to the demands of the Actors
Equity Association that its color
bar be lifted.
The theater owner said he
would end his segregation policy,
the priest pointed out, only If the
District of Columbia adopted anti
segregation laws. or If the people
of the District changed their atti-
tude in regard to Negro-white re-
lationships. His position was that
he did not want to stand alone
against the general community
policy.
but with law in effect against
segregation" Father Parsons said,
1.-The theater man can tell his
patrons who object to sitting with
Negroes that he has no other
course excet to admit them. This,
OF course, applies as well to res
taurants, hotels and other public
places which now refuse to serve
Negroes. The law actually pro-
vides perfection more for the bust
nessman than for the Negro.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1949-04-20

These solicitous inquiries had the
notion that Seattle lay in ruins,
and their concern for beloved rela-
tives here was deep.
That is the natural consequence
of any disaster or near-disaster.
Thus the Columbia River flood
last year, which wrought havoc
only along the rivers banks, and
chiefly in the environs of Port
land. was mistakenly supposed by
many to have inundated virtually
the whole Pacific Northwest.
The earthquakes damage was
serious enough throughout this
region, but the fact remains that
1t wass light compared with what
often has happened in other locali-
ties. Seattle. where the quake was
as severe as anywhere. has the
most concentrated population in
this entire area. Yet the. damage
here was estimated below two mil
lion dollars, and not one serious
injury was reported. The only
death In this community attribut-
ed to the quake was caused by a
heart attack, which might have
been coincidence
These are circumstances which
Seattle residents should take every
opportunity to make known abroad.
California, where earthquakes
have been far more frequent and
more devastating than in the Pa
cific Northwest, apparently has
not suffered too much from its
bad seismic reputation. People
quickly forget even the most dra-
matte manifestations in the news.
But it will do no harm to let the
rest of the world know by what
ever means are available that the
Puget Sound country still rests on
solid foundations, and that the
earthquake hazard here, after all.
is relatively slight.
The Seattle Times.
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18th Avenue and Main Street,
when the chairman's award for
outstanding community service
will be presented to some member
of this community.
The award. which was estab-
lished last year as a gift from the
Councils first chairman, Mrs. Leila
Hall, is presented annually to a
neighborhood person who has
made an outstanding contribution
toward promoting health, welfare,
civic improvement or human re-
lations. Anyone lives or works in
the Jackson Street area may re-
ceive the award regardless of
whether or not he is active in the
Council. Last year the award was
given to the late Lew G. Kay,
prominent Chinese business man
and civic leader. for his years of
untiring work in behalf of the
people of this district.
Officers, members of the Board
of Trustees, and chairman of com
mittees will also be elected at the
annual meeting. The nominating
committees slate includes James
M. Matsuoka for president; Alex
ander Bishop for vice-president;
and George Cox for secretary
treasurer.
All chairmen of standing COM
mittees were re-nominated for a
second term. Robert Koba, present
chairman of the Junior Council
committee, was unable to accept
denomination because of the ord
eFs of his physician, and Tae
Tsubota was named in his place.
Other committee chairmen who
are on the ballot include Chin
Han, civic; DR.. James E. Jackson,
health; Mrs. Elizabeth Burse,
recreation; nd DR.. Terrence
Toda, welfare.
The feature of the program will
be a panel on THE Shape OF
Things to Come "a discussion OF
hopes and future plans for neigh
borhood improvement. Mayor viii.
liam F. Devin will act as moder
ator 70 rthe speakers who will in
clude William Y. Mimbu. Mrs