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On Barring the Press
tKetchikan News

tketchlkan News asF A f.TS
 Speaking of the ~barred press meeting" in Juneau reminds us of number, of instances in which such methods back-fired. sks s} @
 One of these was a meeting in which some 20 specially invited persons attended to discuss vital city questions. Each one was sworn to secrecy V N f''
 After the first meeting the daily paper in the the talks made by members.
 At that time dictaphones were unknown.
 It was thought some reporter might have hidden in the closet, which adjoined the meeting
 At the next meeting guard was placed there.
 The paper out with fuller report than ever
 Safety efforts doubled for the third meeting Of no avail.
 To this day only the editor knows how the batim reports secured He has told, far as we know
 The point is that any newspaper which wanted take the trouble could find out the full details of the meeting being held in Juneau All the committee would have had to tell the press of the things it sidered of security and would not want published that it was off the record In that it would not be published. Then exactly for what reason is the press barred?
 It must be personal or political. It can't be for public safety reasons since no newspaperman would publish anything which might endanger public safety
 To a up a tree" it looks like there is stranger in the woodple'
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MODERN ETIQUETTE Ss ROBERTA LEE

travelling alone, meets acquaintance on what she do about the bill?
 host and that he would be the meal However careful accepting favors from waiter bring separate bills If accepts invitation should be for ony
 O. If living mother her away?
 done usually being performed by cousin close of her family.
 introduction to man?
 she hostess and in this instance she not only rises her hand in greeting
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headline story about an Illinois woman reads: Jaw Locked for 20 Years" Now keep your comments to yourself Bellingham Herald.)
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The traffic engineer who says women can't park properly is assuming that women try to park cars properly
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"The peak of human intelligence is reached at age 14," says psychologist We had no idea people were that dumb. No wonder the world is in the fix it's in
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-06

The flower of the month for Jan- uary is the carnation, the birth stone garnet.
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guised in the robes of priests. Bloodshed and rioting has followed ever since.
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EXTENSION AGENT
 GOES TO SKAGWAY

Mrs. Edythe Walker, University of Alaska home demonstration agent. was to go to Skagway to- day, planning to be there until Fri day.
 There, she will organize All and Home Demonstration Clubs.
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Weather af
 Alaska Points

weather conditions and temper atures at various Alaska points, also on the Pacific Coast, at 430 a.m., 120th Meridian Time, ana released by the Weather Bureau at Juneau. follow.
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The Washington
 
By DREW PEARSON

Continued from Page One)
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MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. lV SECOND and FOURTH Monday of each month /A in Scottish Rite Temple X N beginning at 7:30 p. m. MW GLENN O. ABRAHAM, NY Worshipful Master;
 JAMES w. LEVERS, Secretary
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wearther: High, 34 low, 32; trace of snow.
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w. head federal experiment farming station Alaska Seattle planning to return early January.
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Mrs lessons in pencil sketch ing watercoors make their Christmas
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In Douglas Mrs Joe welTen was recuperatng from a attack Sey getting over hard attaci
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OUR cREDo


that all are born equal before God
We believe:
in the full dignity of created in the likeness of
Cod possessing inalienable rights life to work. to
marriage, to decent upbringng for their children to
the pursuit Of happiness and reborn through Christ
as Chllden OF Cod brothers of Christ and co-heirs
We believe:
that the Incarnation and Redemption magnified and
elevated the Brotherhood of Man under the Father
We believe
In it He is the Mystical Vine and members of the
Church are His branches He is the Head and the
We believe: '' = ''' oi''''A ms 'HsnOe'S'
that God will render to every according to his
We Believe ~GsSs;
that we are our brothers keepers and should feel a
personal responsibility before God to- assist with ac-
tive love and thirst for justice all those for whom
Christ died, all men, therefore, regardless of nation
atty, race or color
We believe:
that in order to attain goal the Life of Heaven
we must love God and our neighbors ourselves.
that all men have a natural right to those material
goods which are necessary for decent and vrtuous
We believe:
that the unit of society is the family which must not
be threatened by any economic or political associa-
We believe:
that lasting peace and a stable social order will be
achieved only in a social order based Justice and
Charity extended of courses to all groups regardless
of race or color Friendship House therefore, is ded
Gated to living out these truths making them parts
of an ntegra Catholic idea of life and part of the
lives of as many Catholics can be reached through
prayer ndocrinaton the dissemination of the truth
and Corporal and Spiritual works of Mercy
As long a Negro in America has to submit to un-
christian, undemocratc laws of Jim Crowism and
segregation
AS long Negro in America cannot vote .
AS long as Negro in America has to live in Ghetto
slums
AS long as a Negro in America is refused bed in a
Hospital because of color
As long a Negro is refused admittance to grade
school, high school, or college because of color
AS long as a Negro is refused job in America be-
of color
AS long Negro in America is not treated as a
brother in Christ and child of Father in Heaven
not given due recognition of his dignity as a man. as
we'll his just and democratic rights
Friendship House has work to do.
Contributed by
Father Richard Stohr, St Marys Church.
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Mississippi Man Awarded
Medal for Saving Friend

JACKSON, MISS. - (ANP) =
Henry M. McClain, 4O-year-old Ne
gro, has been awarded the Car
negie Foundations hero award
for his rescue of Paul J. Green
lee, white shipping clerk, April /,
1914.
The award was presented by
w. B. Fontaine. executive coun-
sci to Gov. Fielding Wright. Dix
iecrat leader.
{ McClain's heroism took place
when McClain, Greenlee and a
third man were checking cabbage
IN cooler room and escaping
natural gas caught fire and ex-
ploded. McClain and the third
man broke out of the room with
out injury.
d However, the Negro heard
Greenlee's frantic cries and char
ged into the blazing room to drag
him to safety. Both were severe
1y burned. McClain, the hero
spent II months in the hospital
and was not able to work until
several months after his dis
charge.
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introduced 1t to the white Masons
of this country In 1872. 1t was
some twenty-one years later that
the first Negro Shriner crossed
the Hot Sands"
Ehram Rofeld Pasha. commonly
referred to as Rofeld Pasha, an
Arabian Prince working under a
special patent Of authority grant
ed by the Arabian government
and the Grand Imperial Council
of Arabia, in company with three
other officials, initiated into the
Order of the Mystic Shrine, the
late John G. Jones and twelve
other Negro Masons who were
Knights Templars and Thirty
second Degree Masons. All thir-
teen, including John G. Jones,
were initiated June 1, 1893 at
Chicago. Rofeld Pasha was high
in government circles in Arabia
and was Imperial Deputy Potent
ate of Arabia.
John G. Jones lived long enou-
oh to honor the Order of the N.Y.
site Shrine by his fervent dill
gence and zeal, and then disgrace
ed himself and the Order by COM
uniting ignobIe acts for which he
was tried and expelled.
The charges against Jones were
mainly un-Masonic conduct which
grew out of his utilization with
spurious Masons in parade held
In Boston. After he had been sus-
pended, the officers of the var
ious Temples met In Philadelphia,
December IL, 1900, and organized
and established the present I'm
perial Council which was incor-
porated November IS, 1901, under
an act of Congress. Only Prince
Hall Masons. or those Masons
who can trace their lineage back
to African Lodge 459 are eligible
for membership.
Before 1897 many Shrine Tenn
plies had been set up by Jones.
After his expulsion he had no
legitimate Masonic utilization, so
he began travelling over the coun-
try setting up Masonic Lodges,
conslstories and Shrine Temples.
Jones was never reinstated into
Prince Hall Masonry. He remain
ed expelled from all Prince Hall
Masonry until his death. His
name Is now connected with spur
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Anti-Lynching Bill Approved
BY Senute Group

NIT > lynehlng. It would apply to
peace officers as we'll as members
Of = lynch mob.
It also provides that any Off
Ger who willfully fails or refuses
to protect persons against lynch
ing can be fined up to $4,000 and
imprisoned for five years. or both.
A like penalty is provided for
federal officials who willfully re-
fuse or fail to make call reason-
able efforts" to capture and pros
ecute any person who violated
other sections of the act.
A person who is lynched, or HIS
next of kin, would be entitled I'M
der the bill to file civil damage
suits against those responsible
for the lynching.
Another section Of the bill
would make the federal llidnap-
ing law applicable to the inter
state transportation OF persons
seized by a lynch mob.
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Harrison Dllard to Make
Track Tour Of British Isles

NEW YORK = (ANP) = Har.
rison billiard, Olympic sprint
champion and the worlds top
hurdler. was among the nine U. s.
track stars slated to leave last
weekend for a track tour of the
British Isles.
Other Negroes listed with the
former Baldwin Wallace star
were Dave Bolin of Colorado,
quarter and half miller, and Herb
Douglas, Pittsburgh Splinter and
broad jumper.
The tour was slated to get I'm.
derway June Q.
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Negro Golfer Qualified for
National Open Tourney

CHICAGO = CAMP = Ted
Rhodes, Los Angeles Negro, was
second best last week at the Oily
mpic Fields course to qualify for
the National Open to be played
at Medinah June Q, 10 and IL.
The great Negro golfer was out
standing in the field of TIA and
his IA points for 36 holes was
topped only by the 141 points
compiled by Marty Furgol, young
professional from Albuquerque, N.
Mexico.
Rhodes put together a deuce
of 72's. while Furgol picked up
four brides and only two bogies
to register 1868 and nose out the
Californian.
Rhodes is believed to be the
only Negro of the II qualifiers
at the Olympic fields meet.
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of captain in the anti-aircraft. His
overseas duty was performed in
Dutch new Guinea.
Mr.. Jones is president of the
Southern University club of Seat
tie and a member of the Omega
Pse Phi Fraternity - Phi Delta
Kappa, "a new chapter) also of
the National Education associa-
ton and National Reserve Off
GERS Corps.
Mr.. Jones has accepted a posi-
ton on the faculty of Arkansas
State College in Pine Bluff, Ark
ansas as associate professor in
education, effective July l, 1s49.
The Northwest Enterprise Of
fers congratulations to Mr.. Jones.
whose record of accomplishments
has brought such high honors to
our great state and we wish for
him the best of life's blessings
in his new field of labor.
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Poison Ivy is fairly easy to recog-
nize. rs leoves are green in color.
smooth and glossy on The surface.
and grow in groups of three soys
DR.. c. A. LowIoh of Pine Bluff.
Ark, in his article on Poison Ivy"
in the The Rood to Health" col
vmn this week.
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By RICHARD B. cEHMAN

Ralph johnson Bunche, softvoiced patient, appar-
emily ndefatigabe ex-colege professor of fortyfour
easily ranks among the top half dozen diplomats in
America and possibly in the world As the first United
States Negro to become leader in international af
fairs he is living demonstration that the processes of
democracy and do work. At the same time, he is
living challenge to democracy to work better
DR.. Bunche's performance Acting Mediator for the
U.N in the recent mission to Palestine was the
climax to career that reads like presenday parallel
to Booker T. Washingons famous Up from Slavery His
grandmother who raised him from the OF ten, was
born bondage. He took menia jobs to work his way
through public schools and college, and ultimately
The man who mediated for peace IN the Middle
Easts powder keg of racial hatred has lived all his
life in the shadow Of Jim Crow. Highly successful
personally and Brilliant United Nations official,
Of race. and he has won. Doctor Bunchs the kind
of man who makes democracy work.
Today he is recognized as of foremost author
ties colonial peoples and their problems his work in
OSS aided in preparing for the successful invasion Of
North Africa in World War H. and he drafted much OF
the three chapters rusteeshp and colonies in the UN
Charter He this years American Association for the
United Nations award cited by the One World Award
Committee and has been mentioned in newspapers a
candidate for the Nobel prize Few Americans OF
any complexion boast similar record OF scholarship
and craftsmanship
DESPITE his distinguished background Dr. Bunche has
lived constantly in the shadow Of Jim Crow Time and ID
again he has been refused service in admtance to
restaurants only in Southern cities, but also in Los
Angeles (his adopted home town., Seattle and Wash
Bgotry like this might conceivaby someday deprive
the nation of the full potentially of his proven diplomatic
Soon after returning from Palestine last April DR..
Bunche was mentioned by State Department official as
likely appointee for newly created job: Assistant
Secretary Of State for Near Eastern and African Affairs
When questioned he told friends that he knew nothing
more about this than what he read in the but
added that in anv event he was not inclined to
government service in Washngtonin part at least be-
cause of his unwngness to his family to anti
Negro conditions there.
The doctor clarified his position recently while relaxing
on couch in his small apartment in Parkway Village the
II housing project Long Island New York. to which
he and his family moved from Washington nearly two
years ago. , -. -. :.
Cranky" he said, there's too much Jim Crow in
is two daughters JOAN seventeen and Jane Fifteen at
tend Friends school in Westown, Pennsylvania; Ralph
r. FIVE goes to kindergarten at Lake Success)
Golfers Magazine, June IL Read the whole story-a
remarkable article.
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WASHINGTON. June An
anti-lynching bill was approved
today by the Senate Judiciary
committee.
The measure, introduced by
Senator Homer Ferguson, Repub-
lician. Michigan, was the first
civil-rights legislation to be ap-
proved by a Senate committee
at this session of Congress.
Chairman Pat McCarran, Demo
crat, Nevada, said after a closed
meeting of the committee that no
roll-call vote was taken on the
bill.
A similar bill was approved by
the committee in the closing days
of the last Congress but It was
not brought before the Senate
for vote.
The legislation provides a maxi.
mum penalty of a $4,000 fine or
20 years In prison, or both, for
conspiracy to inoite, aid or com.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1949-06-08
WALTER WHITE, EDITH
SAMPSON SCHEDULED
FOR TOWN HALL TOUR

NEW YORK = (ANP) = Two
Negro leaders will be among re-
representatives. chosen by national
organizations to form a part Of
the panel which will accompany
Round the World Town meeting
on its world tour this summr,
George ". Denny Jr.. president OF
Town hall, announced last week.
They are Walter White. who
will represent the NAACP, and
Mrs. Edith S. Sampson, a Chica-
go attorney and chairman of the
executive committee of the Nat
ional Council of Negro Women.
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innings and still looked strong
at the finish not only gave the
Tribe its first Sunday victory of
the entire season, he caused a
number of big-name sports auth
critics to take cover for accusing
Tribe President Bill veeck of
hiring a side-show attraction last
year, instead of pitcher.
They said veeck knew Paige
couldn't pitch, but since he was
Negro and would draw a
crowd, Veeck hired him anyhow.
Now. the facts speak for them
selves. Paige is now being hailed
as the pitcher who may yet keep
the Indians in the pennant race.
His triumph over the new-look
Chicago White Sox was not an
ordinary victory. The game had
passed the halfway mark. before
he allowed over one hit. He gave
up eight hits in the IL innings,
struck out seven men and walked
only three.
The Satchel was unusually fast
collected and relaxed. In several
instances he actually outwitted
his opponents. reminiscent of the
old Paige Of the Negro circuits.
With Bobby Teller on the lame
list, along with other Tribe start
ers, Lou Boudreau will rely heav
fly on the great control-artist fol-
the next month to keep his team
In the running.
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Negro Gives St. Louis
Camp Site to Jewish
Boy Scout Organization
BY r. c. Fisher


ST. LOUIS = amp III. d. Ro-
binson, prominent Negro uphol-
sterer and refrigerator and appli-
ance store operator, has donated
a 20-acre tract of land to a jew
ish Boy Scout group.
In announcing the donation, Ro-
binson said he was moved by the
fine treatment according him by
the Jewish people. Said the dom
or:
81 think there are times and
places when the Negro must turn
the tables and show that he, too,
can be beneficient.
Robinson was attracted to the
scout group through newspaper
advertisement. at was very sim
ple," he said, 81 called up their
committee and discovered they
had worthy program. mao
some land they might use, and
after some study, they accepted
Previously, he donated a plot
of land near his Troy estate tc
Negro Scout troop of the st. Phil
lips Lutheran church.
Robinson is Prince Hall Mason
a veteran of World War |, and q
graduate of Philander Smith col.
lege. He later studied engineering
at New York university and for
five years taught upholstering in
the vocational schools of st.
Louis. He is a native of Little
Rock, Ark.
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PUBLIC LIBRARY

The Seattle Public Library's
summer book-loan plan emitting
Registered borrowers to choose at
sone time any reasonable number
of titles for vacation reading and
iretain them until October Il. is
now in effect, according to Blan-
che Smyth, head of the library's
general reading department. The
sumer-long borrowing privilege,
Miss Symth explains, applies both
to adult and juvenile books in
the fiction and non-fiction fields,
the only exception being recent
ly-publiched titles that are in
heavy current demand.
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PendIeton's Base Stealing
Dread Of TripIe-A League

ST. PAUL = (ANP) II The
American association, one of the
nations three Triple-A leagues. is
well acquainted with Jim Pendle-
ton, formerly of the Chicago Am
erican Giants, Negro American
league team.
Pendleton's hitting is not of
800 calibre thus far in the sea-
son, but he has more nerve on
the base path than the average
pitcher can tolerate. His II stol-
en- bases as of last week, is one
big reason why the Brooklyn
owned st. Paul Saints are lead.
ing the league and are expected
to take the pennant.
The 18O-pound, 6-foot, one inch
centerfielder never played base
ball until he was in the armed
forces, but caught on quickly with
the American Giants. A DodgeI
scout saw him in South America
signed him up, and at the Dodgers
Vero Beach spring training camp
the newcomer lead the entire
camp in batting.
They tried him out in the in
field, but later decided that the
23-year-old trainee would do bet
ter in the garden. Pendleton has
exhibited a strong arm, much to
the pleasure of General Manager
Mel Jones. Jones says the young
man from ST. Charles. Mo, is the
fastest thing in baseball-minoI
or major
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ious shrinedom among Negroes
in many places In the United
States.
White and Negro Shriners OPP
crate in harmony, but their or
CARNATIONS are separate and dis
tinct and are governed by two
different Imperial Councils. The
white Imperial Council is known
as the Ancient Arabic Order of
the Mobiles of the Mystic Shrine
for North America. and the Ne
gro Order is known as the An
cient Egyptian Arabic Order No
Continued on Page u
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Baltimore Laborer Breaks
Two-Story Fall Of
l9-Month Old White Boy

BALTIMORE - (ANP) = The
parents of a 19-month-old white
boy are thankful that a Negro
laborer was passing by their
house last week and saw their
child humble out of a second
story window. The man, Walter
Harvey, saw the child dropping
from the window and broke his
fall just enough to prevent SER
ious injuries.
The parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ralph Kennedy, knew nothing
about the incident until they an
swered a knock at the door and
found Harvey standing there with
their son in his arms.
LADY, he said, there is your
baby. 1t fell out of the window
and l broke it's fall as much as
could"
The baby was rushed to the
hospital where doctors found a
few scratches on its stomach,
and bruise on one knee.
Harvey said he noticed the baby
playing in the window, but saw
the boy holding someone's hand
and didn't think any more about
1t.
Zone of his hands got loose
and then he fell. | ran toward
him as fast as I could and reach
ed him just as he was hitting
the sidewalk. l caught him under
the stomach. His forehead and
feet hit the sidewalk. He had
tainted"
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Mr.. Jones undergraduate work
was done at Southern University.
Baton Rouge, La, with a major
in mathematics. He was mathe-
mates instructor in Hayneville
high school for two years. In the
armed forces he served with rank
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Satchel Pages thinning
GIVES NEW HOPE TO
THE INDIANS

CLEvELAND-(ANP) = Age
less fabulous Leroy 'Satchei'
Paige, the man whom many thou
ght was suffering from old age,
took the mound last week and
stuck another brilliant feather in
the Indians headgear.
The fact that Paige went II
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CUubIH anu 5UH-iH-lHW OH tHc 70
het Mohammed. at Mecca, Arabia,
A. d. SAT. The order was brought
to this country by William ]. Flor
ence, who introduced 1t to DR..
Walter M. Fleming, who In turn
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MORE ABOUT PRINCE HALL FREEMASONRY
BY F. BENJAMIN DAVIS

THE ORDER OF THE MYSTIC SHRINE prince Hall
Affation) Ancient in its origin the order of the Mystic
Shrine was instituted by the Mahammedan. Kalif Alec
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Attention to all do-gooders: :
don't talk about brotherhood so
much, but live it; one. example
is worth a thousand sermons.
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JAMES B. JONES FIRST NEGRO TO
RECEIVE DOCTORATE AT UNIV. OF WASH

First Negro to receive Doctorate from University of
Washington Mr.. James B. Jones of Homer, louisiana
ceves his Doctorate of Education from from the University
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"Heroines of Jericho Tea"
Watch for the date (!