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Seward seaport record., 1949-12-16
Rushing To Complete Fire Hall By Jan. 7sf

The new fire station and City Hall is nearing completion and the probability is good that it will be ready for use by the first of the year. Members of the fire department are volun- teering labor on the installation of the heating plant and plumb ing. Carpenters and electricians are giving their time and last minute touches are to be rushed in order to open the building when promised.
 The second floor will house the office of the City Clerk, the Council Chamber, and City Flee tric System office. A room will also be set aside for the use of the Public Health Nurse who will take office Jan. l, 1850.
 The rear of the second floor will be occupied by an apart, ment provided for the fire chief Fire fighting equipment and two fire trucks will be housed on the main floor, and the siren will be moved to the roof of the building, equipped with direc. tiona1 vaneS so that it can be more easily heard in all parts of town.
Seward seaport record., 1949-12-16
Are The Robins Back?

An excited voice on the tele- phone Tuesday after We had gone to press informed us that three people had seen a robin. He looked a little beWildered, according to our informant, but 1t was most certainly robin.
 That evening, and on subse- quent days, others have reported seeing robins in considerable numbers about town Not being ornithologists, we have been un- able to decide whether the robins are back, presaging an early spring, or whether the birds had advance information on Stewards tropical weather this winter and just thought it cheaper to stay on than to go Outside.
 Anyway - robins are here, let's feed them, encouraging them to make this their per manent home, which would give us another talking point for the tourist trade.
Seward seaport record., 1949-12-16
Rev. Irwin Returns From Trip Fest

Rev. Paul I. Irwin returned to Seward Thursday from his trip to New York to confer with the Board of Education of the Methodist Church and present Stewards case in an effort to have a proposed liberal arts col lege located here.
 At 6:30 this evening a dinner will be held in the Methodist Church dining room to welcome Rev. Irwin back to Seward and give the people of the city a chance to hear his report, which will be rendered at that time.
 In order to defray the cost of the dinner charge of S2.OO per person is being made, payment to be made at the door.
 It is especially desirable that all interested persons attend this dinner meeting and hear about Rev. Irwin $ trip and how much progress has been made toward the desired goal.
Seward seaport record., 1949-12-16
V.F.W. Xmas Dance Saturday Night

The Spirit of Santa Claus will star at the VFW Christmas dance on Saturday night at the Civic Center. A balloon scram- ble for prizes, door prize and the finding of a fortunate parent or owner for the big VFW baby doll will be added attractions, with home talent music and re- treatments for all.
 The ticket selling contest for boys and girls was to end at 4 o'clock Friday afternoon. At that time all tickets, stubs and money was to be turned in by the children and prizes of $500 each awarded to the boy and girl who sold the greatest num- Der. Members will continue to sell tickets until the midnight intermission at the dance, but the boys and girls contest is ended.
 Both the VFW and Auxiliary have been cheered in their ef- forts to provide the community with the best possible entertain ment by all-out assistance given by so many of the business peo- pie and private individuals out side the organization Such en- thusiasm from townspeople sure ly means bang-up time for all on the big night, and a holiday dance to remember" according to the committeeman.
 The doll, size of a 6-mo. old baby, with complete wardrobe has been on display at Sid's Flower Shop for several weeks, and every little girl in town has her heart set on owning it.
 Proceeds from the dance will be divided between two funds to which the local organizations contribute, the National VFW Home for Veterans Orphans at Eaton Rapids, Mich, and aid to veterans.
Seward seaport record., 1949-12-16
Two Streets Set Aside For Cousfinq

Motorists are warned that two streets have been set aside for the use of children on sleds. Second Avenue south from Adams Street toward the bay, and north from Madison Street toward the lagoon. Also Madi- son Street east to the railroad. Red lanterns have been placed by the Police Department at the beginning intersections. All cars are required by law to come to complete stop before crossing any of the numbered avenues, which gives the chil- dren some measure of safety on Second Avenue, but drivers are warned to exercise particu- lar care in crossing because single sleds are hard to see until they are right under the street light.
 Parents are asked to cooper ate to avoid accidents by eau tioning the children to slide only on the streets set aside for it.
Seward seaport record., 1949-12-16
Minnie Alice Decker, Old Time Alaskan,
 Died Wed., Dec. "A

Mrs. Minnie Alice Decker, long time resident of Alaska, died in Seward General Hospital on Wedensday, Dec. IA, at 9:30 pm.
 Mrs. Decker came to Juneau in 1904. She lived for several years in Kodiak, and for the past several years has made her home on a homestead at Mile 20 on Kenai Lake. She was fa- miliar figure around Seward, we'll known to most townspeo- ple
 She is survived by three sons, Harvey, Clyde and Ray Gamer on, of Wapata and Yakima, Wash.
 Final arrangements have not been made, but it is expected that the body will be taken Out side, interment to be in Wash ington in accordance with her last request.
Seward seaport record., 1949-12-16
GnrIand Brinos Thonks For Trees

The Mailboat Garland arrived in port Thursday and was to leave today for trip to Seattle
 Captain Reuben Jacobsen of the mail boat brought many thanks from the people to the Westward for the Christmas trees furnished by Sewardltes and which he transported to the chain free of charge. Captain Jacobsen said there were plenty of trees to go around and that the recipients were truly grate- full.
Seward seaport record., 1949-12-16
wv. Sipprell New
 C.. of c. President

w. w. Sipprell was elected president of the Seward Cham Der of Commerce at it's regular meeting Thursday evening in the Methodist Church Parlors. MT. Sipprell is well known in Seward. He is local agent for the Alaska Steamship Company and has been a Seward resident for several years.
 Other officers elected were Leon Urbach, first vice presi- dent; B. w. Stanton, second vice president, and w. c. Erwin was reelected to the office of secre- tary-treasurer
 Retiring officers are George Lesko, president; Bob Freeman, first vice president, and John Coleman, second vice president.
 Because of conflicts with other organizations meeting dates, the meeting time for the Chamber of Commerce has been changed from the second and fourth Thursdays to the second and fourth Tuesday of each month. Next meeting will be Tuesday, January 10, in the Methodist Church Parlors, at which time the 1850 officers will be in- stalled.
 Following is the financial re- port for 1949, which was read and approved at Thursdays meet
Seward seaport record., 1949-12-16
Shipping News

The Square Sinnet and the Terminal Knot, freighters of the Alaska Steamship Company, are expected to arrive in Seward on Sunday, December 18.
 The next CoastWise Line ship to arrive in Seward, the SS John Chopper, is due December 30. The SS James w. Cannon. now in port, is expected to leave on December IT.
Seward seaport record., 1949-12-16
Al The Hotels :.

The New Seward - MT. and Mrs. Arthur J. Harris, Nikolski, Alaska; Alfred R. Reid, ACS; Mrs. John J. Wood, o. M. Bea- yer, Anchorage; Man Hampton, Stockton. Calf; MT. and Mrs. J. B. Edmusson, Seattle; Osky Weeda.
 The Van Gilder-A. E. Peder- son, E. R. Shetterly, Homer; AL ford Moon, Anchorage. L. Holt, Kenai; Carl Hohnson, Girdwood; C. w. Clausen, Fred Henton, Mrs. Jenkins, Seward
Seward seaport record., 1949-12-16
IZAAK WALTON LEAGUE TO ELECT OFFICERS FOR 1850

The Izaak Walton League of America, Seward chapter, will hold it's regular meeting on Wednesday, Dec. 21 at 7:30 in the Episcopal Church basement. Election of officers for 1850 will feature the meeting.
Seward seaport record., 1949-12-16
CUB SCOUTS TO HAVE CHRISTMAS PARTY

Stewards Cub Scouts will have Christmas party meeting Sun- day evening, Dec 18, at 7:3O, in the basement of the Episcopal Church.
 Cub Scout parents are cordial ly invited to attend.
Seward seaport record., 1949-12-16

MT. D. E. Barley, R. s. Hud- son, Ralph w. Fuske, Paul R. Robinson, all employees of PRA, left this morning by plane for trips Outside.
Seward seaport record., 1949-12-16

Sally Mann has been home ill for the past week, having been bitten by the flu bug.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-07-09
Crisis Features
S:cry @: Halt;

New York, June 80 -'Haita
is at the present moment an i'm
mense workshop" sttaes Joseph
d. Charts, Haitian Ambassador
to the United States, in his ar
ticle, "Haita On the Wings of
Progress" featured in the July is
sue of THE CRISIS, official or
gan of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People.
"The thing closest to the heart
of President (Dumarsais) Es-
tine upon his advent to power
was to raise the Haitian standard
of living writes Ambassador
Charles. The article describes
the subsequent intnsification of
tn production of food pdoducts
by irrigation and drainage, plans
being made for new sugar fac
tories, effodts toward the inn
provement of livestock, plans for
/ the construction of international
highways to facilitate internal
commerce, and the erection of new
| schools and hospitals.
Abe Department of Urban
Works, Mr.. Charles reveals, is now
in the process of improving the
environs of Haitia's capital,
Pot-au-Prnce, which will be the
scene of the Grand International
Exposltions of December, 1949.
The Exposition is referred to as
a national inventory" which will
impress visitors with mot only
the accomplishments of the Hal
tian government, but the norms
of Haitian life brought to it,
apex by the indefatigable activi-
ties of one man in order that his
people might occupy an honoreed
position among those peoples o
the world who are striving for
the advancement of civilization. ("
Also featured in the July issue
of THE CRISIS are "The For
restal Record" by Ernest E.
Johnson, Chestnut as a South
ern Town Rememheds Him. by
John w. Parker; and biographical
sketches of Felix Eboue and Vic
tor Schoelccher, two gr t
Fdenchfen whose remains were
recently transferrd to the Pan
theon.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-07-09
1rejudieed Park
Guards melted
Raj Riot

st. Louis Preiudiced park
guards a re blamed for the at
tack on 40 Negroes by more than
200 white boys at the Fairgrounds
city-owned swimming pool here
last week That is the opinion
of both white and Negro civic
and political leaders.
According to eyewitness OBJ
servers, the swimming pool had
the scene of interracial bathing
for more than an hour without
any sign of friction or incident
But the park guards who had
threatened to strike if Negroes
were admitted to the pool, per-
suaded the white boys to attack
the Negro boys.
There is no doubt that politics
played an important part in the
whole un-American episode. May
or Joseph M. Darst has been in
a hot position for the last few
weeks from both liberal and re
dictionary forces, and it is the
opinion of many that the seed of
racial conflict was deliberately
planted by the Republicans to
embarass Mayor Darst and his
administration.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-07-09
Conference
Against Police
State Methods Ia
re Held In MY.

New York City-GlohaD A
Bill of Rights Conference to alert
the American people to ''the clear
and present danger that our ba-
sic charter of freedom may be
destroyd" by current widespread
abrogations of civil iberties, was
called last week by more than IT'S
prominent Americans.
Among the sponsors of the
Conference, which will be held in
the Henry Hudson Hotel, Ney
York City, during the July 1911
weekend are Henry Seidel Con-
by( DR.. w. E. B. Dubois Prof.
Thomas |. Emerson, Howard Fast
Robert w. Kenny Prof. Fowler
Harper, Donald Henderson, Chas.
p. Howard. Rep. Vito Marcantio,
Arthur Miller, Ri. Rev. Arthur
w. Moulton, Paul Robson, DR..
Theodor Rosebury, DR.. Harlow
Shapley, and Henry A. Wallace.
Listing a series of ''new dang
ers" to the Bill of Rights which,
they said, are creating ga pro-
found uneasiness among thought
full people," the sponsors issued
a call to those willing to defend
their liberties" to join with them
in the conduct of the Conference.
"The desire to act in defense
of the Bill of Rights is growing
throughout our country" they de-
clared.
Announcement of the Confer
ence was made by Paul ]. Kern,
former president of the New
York. City Civil Service Com
mission, who is acting chairman
of the sponsoring group. He said
it was intended to provide an
avenue for all Americans, re-
CARELESS Of political belief" to
examine and protest present in
Engagements on the Bill of Rights
and reaffirm our traditional lib
critics of speech, press, pulpit
and political advocacy
The Conference, he said, twill
bluntly speak up against the po-
lice state methods of certain
army and FBI officials" Mr..
Kern said they operated in the
manner of the "gendadmerie in
10Th century Roumania, instead
of employees of an American de-
mocracy."
Generlly, the sponsors declared,
there has been an upswing in at
tacks upon labor's civil rights
and the Negro people, and an in
crease, in anti-Semitism. Even
the atttmpt to flight Jim Crow is
considered 'subversive' in many
places"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-07-09
Powell Housing
Amendment
Adopted

Washington, June 80 - An N
A ACP-sponsored amendment to
block the creation of new ghettos
under the multimillion dol ar slum
clearance and pubic housing pro-
gram, introduced by Congress
man Adam Clayton Powell Cd.
N. Y.,) was passed on June %
by vote Of 199-41.
The amendment to the slum
clearance title of the bill requires
local housing authorities to
give preference in the selection
of tenants for dwelling units
built i tn projct area to families
displaced therefrom because of
clearance and redevelopmnt ac-
tlvity, who desire to live in such
dwelling unit and who will be
able to pay rental prices charged
TO other families for comparable
dwelling units built as part of
the same redevelopment."
In cities throughout the coun-
try, there has been mounting evil
dence tat, under local slum clear
ance programs, whole Negro
neighborhoods have been RACED
only to have new housing built
thereon for s'wites only"
Amendments supported by the
NAACP to prohibit segregation
and discrimination in all housing,
private and public, built under the
act were defeated. The first such
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-07-09
Testify On Dis
elimination In
New Orleans P. o.
Employment

Washington, June 80 - Fiji
teen Negro compliments who
charged they were denied en-
ployment as postal clerks in New
Orleans solely because of their
race were represented this week
before the Federal Fair Employ
ment Board by Clarence Mitchell,
labor secretary of the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People; William c..
Jason, welfare director of the
National Alliance of Postal EN-
ployees; and Arthur J. Chapital,
national officer of the Alliance.
Testimony showed that Ne
groes have not only been denie
appointment while less qualifie
whlts wede hired for postal cler
jobs but also pointed out that
Negro employees have for fortv
years been denied supervisory APP
polntments despite high qualifi-
cations and many years of semi
GRITTY. Post office policy on this
point was made clead by the in
PRODUCTION of a letter from Post
master General Jesse M. Donald
son to Sen. j. Howard McGrath.
chairman Of the Democdatic Ma
tlonal Committee, in which the
post office official stated that in
almost all cases it is post office
practice to appoint the senior
qualified men to supervisory Jobs.
Several Negdo applicants for
jobs testified that they had been
denied appointment while whites
with bad records were appointed.
TIE NAACP labor secretary re-
vealed that New Odleans postal
officials. when confronted with
this charge, ha ddeclared that
tey passed over Negro applicants
for good and sufficient reasons"
Mr.. Mitchell challenged the
dule of the Fair Employment
Board denying the public admis-
sion t ohearings of this kind, as
sorting that this secrecy pro-
vides special protection for gov
ernment Officials who discdimi-
nate.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-07-09
Fugitive Pleads To
Stay Up North
By David Bethea

New York City-(ATLAS) -
They'll kill me if you white
folks send me back to Georgia"
pleaded Clarence Jackson, 35-year
old fugitive from Georgia's Ben
Hill prison camp, whom SUI
preme Court Justice Hammer
last Monday ordeded returned to
Georgia justice. 'They'll take an
other colored prisoner and tell
him to take care of me. Then
this inmate'll show up sometime
with a knife, and one day I'll
tudn my back, and then my
mouth will be closed forever.
81 know it's gonna happen like
that cause / seen it happen,
cause they tried three-four times
to fax me do it to somebody else.
And if you hear about it later,
and ask what happen, you know
what they say? ley say I'm a
bad nigged; and that / jumped on
another niger and that he kill
me in self defense. And how
anybody gonna prove he didn't? =
Jacksons return was not immi-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-07-09
Heart Patients
Restored To Daily
Activity Through
New Project

New York, N. Y.-(Global -
Pedsons afaid to wok or engage
in other activities because they
have heart conditions can get
over such fears through proper
PHYSICAL and psychological dehabili-
tation treatment. This was the
findings of the Afro Workshops.
1O21 Jennings ST., Bronx, oper-
ated by the Committee for the
Care of Jewish Tubedculosis, fol-
lowing its first years experience
with a cardiac rehabilitation pro-
gram.
Last year "a patents took part
in the experiment in (which fac
tory conditions were simulated in
a modern garment workshop.
Services included medifal and
work, economic aid and voca-
mental examinations, social case
tlonal training. Twelve of these
patients have completed their re-
Mobilization and returned to their
own communities able to wodk.
play, and live.
The program, which SENIORS
ed by the New York Hert Asso-
citation and many other agencies.
IS lifted to 20 patients at a
time. Men and women between the
ages of Is and So are eligible.
The wodshop makes doctors
surgical gowns, nurses and wait
tresses uniforms, has constantly
received the cooperation of the
Amalgamatd Clothing Workeds
Union.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-07-09
D. c. College
Woman Secede
From National
Asso Because
Negroes Are
Allowed To-
Become Members

Washington This city con-
tinues to be the center of jim
crow. This was never more OBJ
vious than when the Washington
branch of the American Associa-
ton of University Women last
week seeded from the parent
body because Negro women have
been voted to become members of
the national organization, meet
ing in convention here.
DR.. Elizabeth Connor issued a
statement during the final bust
ness session, stating that the
Washington branch feels it can
not do otherwise than withdraw,
since no screening process was
instituted"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-07-09


rent' Presiding Justice Peck Of
tide Appellate Division, acting on
the motion of the Workers De-
tense League voluntary attorney,
Curtis F. McClane, issued a tenn
porary stay of Hammers extra
dltlon order. McClane has indi-
Gated that he intends taking
Jackson's case into the Federal
Courts If the Appellate Lewiston
upholds Justice Hammer order
returning him to a 20-year term
at Ben Hill prison camp in Geor-
gia.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-07-09
TripoIitaine Will
Ask Independence
II Given To Italy
BY A. E. Whily-Tell,
Foreign Editor

Global News Syndicate, Inc.
Paris, June 18-With Russia
refusing to accept the proposition
of giving back the Italian colo
MES to Itay, with the suprvis-
ion of America, England, France
and Italy, it has now become COM
mon knowledge here that Tripo-
itaine will ask her immediate in
dependence if she is given to It
ally by these four great powers.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-07-09

amendment, introduced by Con-
gresham James Fulton (R., Pa.),
was rejected by a vot of 168-130.
A similar amendment, introduced
by Congressman Vito Marcan-
tonic (ALP, N.Y., was defeated
by a vote of 1922.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-07-09
kAACp Brings
Justice Again:
18th euDrel,,e
cour! Victory


United State Supreme Court this
week handed down a 6-3 decision
reversing the conviction of Rob-
ert Austin Watts of indianapolis
for murder after an appeal from
this conviction was argued be-
fore the high court by Special
Counsel Thurgood Marshall and
Assistant Special Counsel Frank
lin H. Williams of the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People.
In announcing the reversal of
Watts conviction, Justice Felix
Frankfurter asserted that there
is torture of mind as we'll as
body" and pointed out that Watts
had been subjected to continued
gruellinG questioning and had
been denied preliminary hear
ing until days had elapsed.
I'm holding that the Due Pro-
cess Clause bars police procedure
which violates the basic notions
of our accusatoria1 mode of pro-
scouting crime and vitiates a
conviction based on the fruits of
such procedure, the majority
opinion declared, 1--WE apply the
Due Process Clause to it's histor-
lc function of assuring appropri-
ate procedure before liberty is
curtailed or life is taken = The
history of criminal law proves
overwhelming that brutal meth
DDS of law enforcement are es-
sentially self-defeating, whatever
may be their effect in a particu-
lar case"
Mr.. Justice ouglas In a spec
ial concurring opinion stressed
the illegality of the practice of
holding prisoners without ar
raignment for the sole purpose
of extorting confessions from
them. He stated:
Detention without arrangn-
ment is time-honored method
for keeping an accused under
the exclusive control of the DO
lice. They can then operate at
their leisure. The accused is
wholly at their mercy. He is
without the aid of counsel or
friends; and he is denied the
protection of the magistrate. We
should unequivocally condemn
the procedure and stand ready
to outlaw any confession obtain
ing during the period of the un-
lawful detention. The procedure
breeds coerced confession. It is
the procedure without which the
inquisition could not flourish in
the country"
The NAACP in appealing the
conviction, contended that it was
based upon a confession obtain
ed through the use of force.
duress, and intimidation, and that
it was further invalidated by the
fact that Negroes had been sys-
tematically excluded from grand
jury service in Marion County.
Indiana, where Watts was in
dicted, over long period of
years. Watts was convicted by
the Circuit Court of Shelby Coun
ty, and an appeal made on his
behalf of NAACP Attorneys War
rem M. Brown, Emerson L. Brun-
ner, Willard B. Ransom and
Henry j. Richardson of Indiana
was denied by the State Supreme
Court. All of these attorneys as.
sisted in preparing the briefs fill
ed by the national office of the
NAACP in the S. Supreme
Court.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-07-09
Finland Honors
Marian Anderson

Helsinki, Finland-(Atlas) -
The little country of Finland has
awarded Marian Anderson with
two of its highest honors, the
'White Rose" and the marshal
Mannerheim" medals. They wede
presented to tie International con-
tralto a tan Embassy reception
here last week.
Miss Anderson is curdently
touring the concert cities of Eu
rope for the first time since
1888.