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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-06-30

government hasn't a cent except
what it takes from all of US in
taxes" 1t is true that some polls
indicate that a substantial major
ity of the people want Federal
handouts. However, such polls are
usually so worded as to make the
unwary believe that they will get
them for nothing-that the money
will come from some mysterious
source other than the peoples
pockets.
The Hoover Commission reports
have given Congress what it long
lacked-a detailed blueprint for
eliminating waste, duplication,
overlapping. Now it remains to be
seen whether the people will de-
mand its acceptance.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-12-08
Irene Bailey,
Pianist, Gives
Times Hall Recital

NEW YORK CAMP Of the
many organizations comprising
the setup of the progressive
Church Of st. Martin, there is one
devoted to art known as the Art
Guild, founded by DR.. A. Hudson
Sealy. Last Sunday at Times hall
the guild presented Irene Inniss
Bailey, pianist, in recital, which
was all the more significant be-
cause the recitalist was a guild
member.
There were three trends to the
program; the Beethoven Sonata,
OPP. 26, in A flat major (Andante
con variazionb Scherzo, Funeral
March and Rondo); a Chopin
group; Nocturne in b flat minor,
Waltz in e minor, Mazurza in c
shary minor, Nocturne in D flat
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-12-08
Ezzurd Charles A
:" Free Ma" Now

tt is very encouraging to learn
that Ezzard Charles is no longer
tied to Charles Dyer, Gene Elkus
or George Rhein. Most everyone
knows by this time that the three
reactionary former "co-owners"
of the heavyweight king sold their
interests to Tom Tannas of Arm
old, Pa, a real estate broker. The
sale was for a reputed $4,000 or
$1,000. 1t was not determined
whether Jake Mintz put out any
money, but it was announced that
he is, at last, a full-fledged CO.
manager. Up to now he has been
just a matchmaker for Ezz. Also
inthe deal is a Pittsburgh. lawyer,
I. Elmer Ecker, Arnold, Pa, in
cidentally, is a suburb Of Pitts
burgh.
When this writer talked to
Charles about a week or two ago,
Ezz expressed a desire to ~concent-
rate everything or getting his le-
gal entenglements Strengthened
out h e we visited him at
Pompton, N. j., where he was
training for his bout with Gus
Lesnevich, he vas nor than just
a bit concerned over his manager
ial predicament. Truth of the
mater is that Jake Mintz, has
been at the focus of Ezz's troubles.
Mintz and the Dyer-Elkus-Rhein
combine have been at swords
points for some time. Charles has
always been on the side of Mintz.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-12-08
Boy Falls Down
School Stairs

We tried to contact someone
last night on just what happened
when little 7-year old Franklin
Ray of 21k Mercer Avenue
stumbled down the stairs Of Gar
field school, but we couldn't make
any contacts. We do know that he
was in serious condition yester-
day. =.
And we do know that Garfield
is a school that was constructed
SO long ago that everyone that
had anything to do with it must
be long dead. It was constructed
sometime around the civil war!
It can't help but be every kind of
a hazard to the youngsters who
are forced to attend the excuse
IOr a SCnOOl.
It merely points up the fact
that the school board continues to
ignore the critical situation in
Dayton's Jim Crow school system.
1t also points up the fact that
those "around' west siders who
started to do something last year
with the COMMITTEE" they formed
have really fallen down on the
job.
All that can be said to the do
nohtings is: maybe your child
be next.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-12-08
Negro Tenent Shifts
FromC ottonto Duirying
Now Crosses $4,000

says Mr.. Magee. "Then l think I'll
be in shape to see my children
through school,"
1t was his desire to see that his
children got at least a high school
education that partly influenced
him to shift from cotton to dairy
ing.
"Cotton chopping and picking
used to keep my children out
of school part of the spring and
fall" the 36-year-old dairyman ex-
plains. "But dairying doesn't in
terrier with their education"
However, Mr.. Magee is a one-
crop-farmer : whether it's cotton
or. dairying. Aside from milk, he
sells hogs, calves, poultry, eggs,
and vegetables.
"Of course, | didn't switch from
cotton overnight says Mr. Magee.
"It took eight years and a lot of
help from my country agent for
Continued on Page A.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-12-08

F~RANKLINTON, La. CAMP
The need for more milk for their
growing family got Mr.. and Mrs.
Willie E. Magee, who live near
here, out of cotton farming and
into dairying.
Eight years ago the Magees were
tenant farmers growing cotton and
corn and coming out in debt al
most every. year. Today they own
60 acres, a new home, and "a
head of dairy cattle that bring
them a gross income Of about S.
900 annually.
The Grade A milk from their
grade and purebred Holsteins,
Jerseys, and Guernseys is sold in
New Orleans. A route truck picks
up 80 gallons of milk at their gate
every day. A new electric cooler
keeps the milk top quality until the
truck arrives.
Il want a herd Of 40 milk cows
and about 14O acres more Of land
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-12-08
"Mule Train"
Theme Of Sammy
Overs New Club
Delisa Show

CHICAGO (ANP)- Borrow
ing the theme from the latest
popular disc item, "Mule Train,"
Sammy Dyer, veteran producer of
shows at the southside's Club De-
lisa, has developed a new show
entitled "Clickety-Clack Capers,"
which features thetuneful tale of
a mule-drawn wagon. The opening
and finale of the production uses
"Mule Train as the motif.
Twelve DeLisa choristers go
through their PAGES like the en-
phatic crack of the mule train
whip. Starred personalities in the
new production are Four Kit Kats
dancers; Vocalist vi Kemp, Red
Saunders and his orchestra; Willie
Lewis, comedian; Milton Bugs,
baritone; Olive Brown, singer of
blues; Sandra Fields, special art
list; and Freddy Gordon, master
of ceremonies.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-12-08

Ecker, the Pittsburgh lawyer in
the transaction, was with Charles
this summer at Pompton Lakes. He
is %reputedly a good fellow who
takes an interest in boxing as a
hobby. Or so we understood by
some "insiders' who are close to
the MIA champ.
1t was also announced by his
new "owner" that Charles would
not fight again until February
and then probably in San Francis
co. The "deep freeze" being plac-
ed on the champ by the eastern
boxing moguls is absolutely dis
guisting. But the wheels won't
stop running because of the OBJ
stinacy (backed by a strong de-
sire for greenbacks) of the New
York commission. Strange things
there is that one of the 3 members
ofthe New York body is DR.. c.
B. Powell, publisher of the biggest
Negro newspapers in New York.
While speaking of Charles and
boxing, we regretted to see that
that his sparirng partner Of last
summer, likable Doc. Williams,
knocked out by Archie Moore the
destructible light-heavy two nights
ago. This is the same Williams
who was knocked out by Bert Ly-
tell in Dayton last month. He is a
very courageous guy having fought
his way up from infantile paraly-
sis.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-12-08

But this is the part where most
men fail, because not knowing
God, their faith is too frail.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-12-08

major, Ballade in A flat major;
and a miscellaneous group; SCOTS
Lotus Land, Ibert's The Little
White Donkey, Albeniz' Seguidilla,
Repper's The Dancer in the Patio
and MacDowell's Polonaise.
Miss Bailey is an accomplished
well-trained pianist. AS to tonal
depth, poetic insight, technical
surety and control, speed, power
and a varied melodic line, a great
er interest naturally will accrue
a. she develops turnout the years.
Perhaps the best playing was in
the Chopin Ballade. Some ones
infant presumably didn't want
the Ibert number to come off, but
it too substantiated the pianist's
ability. There were two encores
and the audience was both ad-
equate and receptive.
Implicit trust in God when there
is nothing around, to ordinary
men may not seem so sound.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-07-19
COURT news
BY Jimmie N. Jones

Municipal Court, Judge Paul
Sherer lowered the boom on Will
liam C. Haywood of West Carroll
ton, this morning when he was
found guilty of driving more than
70 miles per hour in a Is mile
an hour zone.
Haywood was fined 500 and
cost and sentenced to serve 60
days in the work house, and add
ing salt to the wound, Judge
Sherer revoked his driving license
for a period of rs years before
continued on page ~
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-07-19
Jackie Robinson
Denounce Robson
Before Committee
BY Jimmie N. Jones

When Jackie Robinson, the
peoples Choice" as the greatest
second baseman in baseball ap-
peared before the House Unamer-
lean activities committee in Wash
ington Monday to answer to state
ments from Paul Robson, with
respect to Negroes fighting against
Russia, he not only refuted the
famous Negro singer in his utter
ances concerning the loyalty Of
the race, but Jackie also issued a
challenge to the American Consti-
tuition in it's loyalty to the Ameri-
can Negro as well.
Jackie told the committee in a
capacity packed room that "Robe-
son had made a fool of himself in
saying that the American Negro
would refuse to defend this coun-
try against an invasion by the
Russians or any other enemy, and
branded the singer as sounding
very silly to me-
The star infielder dashed out at
the various groups who attempt
to show the Negro to be disloyal
in defense of the nation AID said
"In case of war, the Negro would
do their best to help their coun-
try to win the war against Rus
STA, or any other country who at
Continued on Page ~
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-07-19
Youth Decides to
Cast Lot With
Negro Race

NEW YORK, July 10. (ANP)
An immigrant from France, af-
ter seeing the hardships of the Ne
gro race and after having suffer-
ed himself because Of his liberal
views, has decided to become a
Negro rather than a white man.
Gerard Kaufman, 20, graduate
in psychology from Sorbonne uni
versity, declared his intentions to
pass out of his own race after
two years in the United States.
During these two years he has
not been able to get a steady job
because he lives in Harlem and is
outspoken in his views about dis
elimination. He has not been able
CONTINUED on page ~
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-07-19
Wrong Man
Almost Goes for
A ne-W Way Ride

CLEVELAND, July 10. (ANP)
The wrong man almost went for
a one-way ride to certain and sud-
den death here last Saturday night
as a dramatic development in the
current trial of numbers rae
keteers, and five men are being
held by police as his near muir
derers.
George Bland, 43-year-old lab
orer, was leaving the house of a
friend when two men stepped out
of the shadows, jabbed two pistols
into his ribs, and told him You
are Harold Morgan; get in this
car. The a bore license plates
from the neighboring state of
Michigan.
Bland told the police that he did
a lot of fast talking at this point,
finally getting the men to look at
his social security card and other
Identification. Family convinced,
they let him go and drove off.
Ironically, the man they sought, a
key witness in the present trial of
the racketeers, was in house next
door at the time. He was later
warned to make himself scarce.
AS the trial of the numbers
principles went into its third week,
a steady string Of witnesses still
continued to testify to the bribery,
threats and beatings which have
gone into the 100000 a year,
Negro dominated numbers racket.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-07-19
LuciOus CleantOn
Promoted to
Sgt. Detective

Among the many promotions in
the Dayton police department
ranging from the rank of inspec-
tor Of police to the rank of de-
tective sergeant, Lucious Gleaton,
veteran detective and partner of
bet. Sgt. James B. Hogan. has
been promoted to the rank of de-
tective sergeant. Gleaton won his
promotion by his excellent police
work and outstanding record of
many years.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-07-19
Gets
City Post

DETROIT, July 10. (ANP)-
Mrs. Alma Forrest Polk, recently
appointed by Mayor Van Ant
werp as educational assistant to
the city of Detroit %nterracial COM
mission, began work in that post
last Thursday.
Mrs. Polk, a former Rosenwald
fellow, has served as assistant to
DR.. Charles Johnson of Fisk uni
versity and is co-author with him
of Unto the Main Stream" She
also has taught at Fort Valley
State Teachers college and in the
public schools of Gary, Ind.
A graduate of Benedict college
in South Carolina, Mrs. Polk has
a masters degree from Cornell
university. Before coming to De-
troit she served as industrial in
formation secretary in the Chi
cago WV. She is the wife of DR..
John Polk.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-07-19

one responsible for an accident
of birth.
But he even went stronger than
that on a similar point. He was
asked by some listeners just why
he never distinguished the race of
the artists on records he played.
In unfaltering words he told them
that in the IL years he has been
a disc jockey he has never used
the race tag. To him a performer
is a performer. He, or she, in Pol
lacks opinion is a good or a fair
or a poor performer. Race had alb
solutely nothing to dow it'll the
ability Of the artist. Pollack added
that he intended to continue in the
same policy.
Pollack reminds us a great deal
of Alan Courtney and Rred Rob-
bins (for whom the song Robins
Nest was namely two disc jockies
in New York had similar prog
ressive ideas. In a sense he is even
displaying more courage for while
they are in New York, he is work.
ing in the provincial, prejudiced
town not too far distant from
the south.
1t would be an excellent idea if
some of our readers would write
him and encourage him with words
of praise. We admire courage.
We wish more from our own
group would act equally as cour-
agesous as Pollack does.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-07-19
Takes Human
Relations Post

NEW YORK, July 10. (ANP)
George B. McKibbin of Chicago,
once an admitted supporter of ra-
cial restrictive covenants, sailed
abroad last week in a new role to
him-that of setting up new hu-
man relations programs for the
National Conference of Christians
and Jews, in non-communist Eu-
rope.
McKibbin was once defeated by
Negro votes in a race with ex-
Mayor Edward J. Kelly for may
of Chicago. Many Negroes are
wondering how he got his present
job.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-07-19
Coach
Known in Dayton

His many friends in Dayton
congratulate Mickey Carter on his
appointment as assistant football
coach at Wherefore State col
lege. The versatile athlete at the
neighboring institution will assist
CASTOR Country" Lewis who is
head football coach of the Green
Waivers.
Carter won many followers in
Dayton and environs not only for
his sterling play as a football play
err, but also for his exploits as a
baseball player, basketball star,
track wizard and boxing expert.
Mickey was co-captain last year
of the fine football II at Will
berforce. He was one of the main
cogs on the team two years ago
which went through the season
with only one defeat in regular
play.
Carter is perhaps even better
known in Dayton for his boxing
accomplishments. Last year he
won the Dayton Golden Gloves
welterweight championship going
away. He did not get a chance to
compete in the national finals in
Chicago, however, because Of a
conflict of the date of thef>inals
and his examinations. 1t is very
creditable that he chose to finish
his undergraduate training rather
than attempt to hurdle the ire
mendous obstacles confronting AZ
young boxing aspirants.
Carter is a native of Louis
vile, KY, in common with many
kindred folks hereabouts. He grad
uated from Central high school in
that city. Carter will serve as
backfield coach, joining line
coach, James Walker and end
coach, Albert Baker.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-07-19
DAYTON Newest Disc
Jockey

Plaudits when they are due
should be duly given to those who
deserve them. If there is anyone in
Dayton who merits the praise and
the active support of everyone who
believes in the christian principle
of brotherhood it is Dayton's new
est disc jockey, Frank Pollack.
Most of our readers have prob
ably heard Frank by this time.
He has several shows on the new
radio station, WONE, one in the
afternoon from 2:3O to 5 and an
other in the evening after 9
o'clock.
Frank is not like the average disc
jockey hereabouts. To use one Of
his pet phrases, he has a "clear,
crisp" voice. And he owns opinions
which he expresses without put
ting his tongue in his cheek.
It is some of these opinions
which have won for him such a
great admiration from his grow
ing host of followers. Fever since
he started sexeral months ago his
show was completely devoid of
distinctions, never no mention of
the race of the performing artist.
Then one day in yelled mood of
righteous anger he demonstrated
with Dayton movie goers for
laughing at a closeup Of King
Cole in a recent movie. Though he
was performing, the unapprecia-
tive audience felt obliged to laugh
at the size of Mats lips. Pollack
noted as to how King was one of
the best musicians and the people
should have been listening atten-
lively to his performance. And
anyway he went on, nobody has
a monopoly on beauty, nor is any
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-07-19

Seems like Europe has always
been a jig-saw puzzle it'll a
peace" missing.
Arizona sun., 1949-02-11
Chief Killer

Once again the nations attention
would be called to the fact that
diseases of the heart and blood yes.
sells are the leading cause Of death
in the United States.
The occasion: The American
Heart associations 1949 national
campaign. Hard to dramatic, be-
cause its victims seldom die spec
tacularly. heart disease is major
concern of those who deal with a
peoples health. The malady is re-
sponsible for one Of every three
deaths in the nation each year.
Rheumatic fever and rheumatic
heart disease take heavier toll
from youngsters five to 10 than any
other disease. Even in the years
from 35 to 81, heart disease causes
far greater mortality than the other
leading killers, including cancer,
accidents, tuberculosis, pneumonia
and nephritis.
Arizona sun., 1949-02-11
COAL SUPPLY:
Everyone Relax

The American male who must
wrestle with the furnace, worry
about keeping q fireplace full OF
fuel, concern himself with the pos.
sibility Of a heatless future could
sit back and relax.
There is enough coal under the
surface of the United States to last
a thousand years.
After that, somebody else could
worry.
AUTHORITY for the extent Of the
nations coal resources was DR.. Ed.
ward r. Weidlein. director of the
Mellon institute Of industrial re.
search.
Pointing out that half the worlds
known coal reserve Is possessed by
the United States, he asserted many
industrial leaders and technical ex.
perts believe that a large in.
dustrial development based on coal
is in the making and that a con.
siderable expansion in coal produc.
ton is imminent"
Arizona sun., 1949-02-11
JACKSON DAY:
Million Or More

Happy Harry Truman had
pulled himself up by his own boot
straps, grasped the dark cloud of
Democratic gloom and ripped it
aside to disclose a satisfying silver
lining.
And now, party big-wigs and ad-
herents are smiling expansively in
anticipation of hacking the million
dollar mark when the traditional,
$100-a-plate Jackson Day dinners
are held in February.
NOTHING SUCCEEDS like sue
cess, Truman might have reminded
his followers-and because of his
personal success, money, which was
woefully lacking in Democratic
party Golfers before the election, is
now expected to come rolling in.
Normally. anywhere from $6O0,00
to 100000 is raised for the party at
the dinners, but this year the ma
tional committee thinks it can sur
pass that figure and come nearer
the million-dollar mark.
And they well may do it, for many
people who wanted no part of Harry
Truman during the campaign, and
who kept their hands in their
pockets, now are willing to give and
give generously.
However, careful planning is 60
ing into this gyear's Jackson Day
dinner project. One such dinner will
be held in every congressional dis
trict of the larger states, and at
least one dinner in each of the
smaller ones.
Plans already have been mapped
to seat an all-time high record of
5000 at the Washington dinner.
"Of course there are still some
luke w a m "Wednesday Demo-
crats'," committee said, ''but the
financial return this year should
be terrific.
Arizona sun., 1949-02-11

man in his own right, might at
tempt to fill his fathers shoes.
That is always good political
practice, for more than one
candidate with a former hero's
name, has been swept into of
flee by voters who either
didn't know their idol had de-
parted or else thought a candi-
date by any other name couldn't
smell as sweet. 1t was often
declared that a number Of old.
timers had vague feeling that
FDR and TR were, if not the
the same, at least apprOxi.
mately the same person.
Meanwhile the Republicans are
rapidly solidifying their forces for
q concentrated battle over the re-
peal of the Taft-Hartley bill, and
the way the atmosphere feels at this
writing, Republican senators are
offering the nearest thing to a
fillibuster that can be offered with
out actually being labelled one.
April is contract day for a good
many unions and the race is to get
the Taft-Hartley act off the books
before then. If the Republicans
can keep on amending and arguing
past that date, it will be a distinct,
if only temporary, victory for them.
It must have been quite shock
for the labor leaders to learn that
the administration didn't think that
labor won the election. Labor did
a tremendous job for Truman. put
in a lot of hard, fast cooperative
work, dovetailing their programs
with the efforts of the regular par
ty workers.
But one Harry Truman did a lot
of work, all by himself. When the
A. F. Of L. and CIO heads came
down to Washington early in jan
Arizona sun., 1949-02-11
Commies at Work
In IVied Halls

One Of the jobs which the COM
mittee under j. Parneu Thomas,
was preparing to do was to investi-
gate communism in American col
leges. That sent the universities
and colleges into jitters for fear
academic freedom would be
throttled as other freedoms had been
by the fanatical members of the
old group. However, there is no
reason at all why judicial investi-
CATION of this particular subject
shouldn't be undertaken.
Canada received a distinct shock
recently from DR.. Watson Kirk
connell, president of Acadia uni
versity. He made an analysis of
the report of the Labor Progressive
Party university students confer
ence at Toronto last fall which was
published by the SATURDAY
NIGHT, weekly magazine pub
ished in Toronto. g..
The report is a $4,000 word
document which presents the
Communists own views on their
position, in Canadian univer- y
sites. 1t reveals, according to
DIR. Kirkconnell, that there are
militant Communist ''nuclei"
on the campuses at McGill,
Toronto, Winnepeg; Saskatoon,
Edmonton, and Vancouver, all
under rigid party discipline.
There are known to be a number
of similar groups, doubtless work
ing with the same party techniques,
in this country. In some places
they are considerably weaker than
they used to be.