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Evening star., 1949-11-27

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They have one child. born after
her arrival in this country.
Unusual responsibilities for a
young vice consul were thrown on
Mr.. Stokes when Mr.. Ward and
four members of the staff were
arrested by the Communists Octo-
Der "a on charges of beating
Chinese workmen in a wage dis
pute. Mr.. Stokes took charge OF
the Consulate General. but was
unable to see the jailed men or
report any progress in obtaining
their release.
| Mr.. Ward and the four arrested
with him - a clerk. a mechanic
and two alien employees re-
turned to the Consulate General
compound Tuesday after being
found guilty by Communist
court" sentenced to prison terms
ranging from three to six months,
and having those sentences com
muted to deportation"
Positions Reversed.
| Now, the Ward-Stokes positions
appear reversed, with Mr.. Ward
trying unsuccessfully to help Mr..
Stokes.
Mr.. Ward reported he was re-
fused permission to accompany
Mr.. Stokes to the hearing" and
was unable to obtain any infor-
nation of any kind on his
detention.
He made his reports in two tel
ephone calls to Consul General o.
Edmund Clubb at Peiping, who
relayed them to the State Depart
ment. In his second call cat 2:45
a. m. today, Washington time). he
said Mr.. Stokes had not returned
to the Consulate General and he
had learned no more about him.
There was no further communica-
ton from Peiping yesterday.
Oficials here were stumped for
an explanation of the Communist
action in seizing Mr.. Stokes. There
was some speculation that it
might be a prelude to ordering
him. and possibly still others Of
the Consulate Genera staff, de-
ported aleng with Mr.. Ward and
the four convicted with him. rath-
er then let them leave China on
their own.
Offices Ordered Closed.
The State Department ordered
the Mukden Consulate General
IcIoSed last May. Since then. the
Communists twice have promised
to arrange transportation for the
staff to leave. but have not done
so.
Mr.. Ward and his staff have not
been able to function normally
for more than a year. The Com
munists put an armed guard
around the Consulate General
when they seized Mukden. and
cut off it's communication facili-
ties.
1t was months after the Com
munists isolated the Consulate
General that they published spy
charges last June. The North
China News Agency reported on
June Is that evidence at hand
shows that the so-called Amer
ican consulate in Mukden and the
United States liaison group with
the Chinese Nationalist army
are American espionage organs" {"
Departure Ordered.
Nothing came Of those charges
at the time, and the assumption
| here then was that they were too
transparently ridiculous for even
the Communists to press.
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Jonney to Heed Luroy Drive
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SpeCFdI DtSoofeh 70 Inc SfoT
LURAY. Va, Nov. 26.-Roby G..
Janney, Luray attorney, has been
named to head the 1949 March of
Dimes Campaign here. Mr.. Janney
said members of his committee
will be announced soon.
Evening star., 1949-11-27
Polish
Continued From First Page.)

wives of embassy employees who
have been living in the same apart
ment house with Miss Loisel and
were ordered out last night, were
moved this afternoon to the home
| Of Col. Abel Sauzey, French mill
tary attache. They were plainly
terrified at the thought Of remain
ing in their own apartments.
Tension between Poland anc
France started with the arrest OF
Andre Robineau. French consul
late attache at Szczecin (Stettin)
on espionage charges last week.
French Foreign Minister Schu-
man formally charged Saturday
that Poland has broken the United
Nations Charter in her treatment
of arrested F'renchmen. particu-
larly Mr.. Robineau. He said in a
note to the Polish ambassador that
| the accused Poles will be assured
| of all those rights guaranteed in
a democratic country" even
though such rights are not assured
French now detained In Poland" ."
(The French expulsion of nine
Poles brings to 26 the number de-
ported in a week in Frances in
vestigation of espionage and sabo-
tage. Vice Counsul Czeczerbinski,
is held in a Paris prison on es-
pionage charges. Also held is M.
Szuster. president of a Polish
patriotic organization at Lille
known as the P.P.O)
The Polish Foreign Ministry
said Bottles illegal activities have
been known to Polish authorities
for a long time" However. a min
istry spokesman made it clear to
newsmen that the arrest Of the
vice consul was in retaliation for
the French detention Of the Pol
ish vice consul.
Ambassador Baelen called on
Polish Vice Foreign Minister Stan
islaw Leszczyinski tonight and
protested against any blame for
the arrests and counter arrests
being placed on France.
The Frenchman was quoted as
saying at one point that I'VE have
reached such a point that 1t is
possible to foresee the worst"
The ambassador demanded as
stirances that the French Embassy
and the homes Of the members
of the embassy staff be protected
against any police invasion. He
said he had told his staff to resist
by force any police action against
them,
!. Baelen further requested. in
IfOrMants said.s that the Foreign
Min1stry take very energetic
In1eaSures against delegations at
'keu6pting to visit him at the en-
.hassy, the consequences Of which
might be serious.
: It was reported that the heads
OF other diplomatic missions in
Warsaw had discussed during the
day what actions they might take
If faced with problems similar to
those confronting the French.
Some seemed to feel. 1t was re-
ported. that diplomatic immunity
in Warsaw was uncertain. to say
the least.
Evening star., 1949-11-27

Precinct Detective John p
Bailey. knocked out Of active serv-
ice for more than a year by a
hit-and-run driver. yesterday was
credited with, abulls-eye for his
first comeback assignment.
The 38-year-old policeman had
barely left headquarters with his
robbery squad partner, Precinct
Detective Charles X. Daub, when
the radio announced a yoke rob-
berry in the HOO block Of O street
NV.
That was pm. Friday. Within
a couple of hours the detectives
had picked up Frederick r. Scott
%, colored. of the first block of H
street NE, in tavern and
charged him with robbery.
Evening star., 1949-11-27
Gen. Taylor Demands
Punishment Of Red
Sentry Who Slew G|
~ the kssoeioted Press

BERLIN. Nov. 26.-Maj. Gen
Maxwell D. Taylor protested per-
sonally to Maj. Gen. Alexander
Kotikoy. Soviet commandant. to-
day against the fatal shooting by
Q Soviet sentry of SISergt. John
=. Staff of Ramsey. III. Gen. Tay-
lor said 1t was "senseless bru-
tality." ... .--
The American commandant de-
manded punishment Of the sentry
and assurances that Russian SEN
tries in the future undertake re-
sponsible use Of their weapons -
United States Army authorities
said Sergt. Staff of the United
States Air Forces. was killed when
he. two other Air Force men and
. German girl inadvertently
crossed int othe Soviet zone while
driving last night. Discovering the
mistake when they came to an
obscure Soviet checkpoint. the
driver turned about and sped for
the center Of Berlin, refusing to
heed the sentry's signs to proceed
on into the Soviet zone.
The sentry riddled the back Of
the car with several shots and one
bullet hit the sergeant in the
head. He died in the Royal Air
Force hospital at Gatow Airfield.
Driving Official Car.
American authorities said the
Air Force men were in uniform
and were driving a plainly mark
ed /oficial Air Force car.
The incident occurred along
the border between the British
Berlin sector and the East Soviet
zone of Germany near Gatow
Airfield.
Gen. Taylor's note said the
Americans action in turning back
toward the British sector was
peaceable.
lit is difficult to understand the
senseless brutality Of a sentry
who would fire upon a member
Of the armed forces of a friendly
nation under such circumstances"
he said. II trust that you will
appreciate the seriousness with
which the United States authori-
ties view this act"
Sergt. Staff entered the service
on graduation from Ramsey High
School in 1912 and had intended
to make career in the Air Force.
He re-enlisted last year at Scott
Air Base, III. His father and
mother are dead.
Sloin 81 Wus Planning
Army Career, Uncle Says
BY he As.eeiessd Press
RAMSEY, ILL.,, Nov. 26. =
's/Sergt. John e. Staff. killed by
q Russian sentry in Berlin. had
planned to make a career Of the
Army. his uncle said today.
Earl Bunting. uncle of the SER
seant. said his nephew went into
service following graduation from
high school in 1912. He re-en-s
listed last year at Scott Air Base.
III.
The sergeant's mother died in
childbirth and his father died
when Staff was II years old. His
father was q veteran Of World
War I. sE J
Mr.. Bunting said he and his
wife last heard from Sergt. Staff
November 9 when he mentioned
In his letter that Russians he had
seen apparently didn't care much
for Western peoples.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1949-07-27
ALABAMA KLAN
CALLS OPEN MEETING

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The Ku
Klux Khan called an open meeting
to discuss recent mob violence
blamed on the hooded order.
A grand-jury inquiry into masked
lawlessness was resumed, and a top
Khan chieftain sought release from
Jail on bond
The Khan planned an open ses-
sion In nearby Tarrant. Ala. where
Mayor Felix Irwin gave the Klans-
men permission to meet in the City
Hall.
A hearing on a petition seeking
the release from Jail OF William
Hugh Morris, Ku Klux Khan leader.
was postponed until later date.
The Khan chieftain has been In
jail since July z on a contempt
citation after he refused to bring
Khan records before a previous
grand jury.
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LOU SWARZ JOTTINCS

NEW YORK CITY. - Twas
grand when Edwards, the star of
"Home of the Brave" had a regu-
lar series of welcome parties from
Harlem to Broadway. and then
even to Connecticut with the Lib
by Holman as one among the host
esses. And you can bet that the
Press was recognized by most of
those who did the welcoming.
Mention of the Press being rec
ognized brings me to. one thing
to remind some folk that they
still don't know how to include
all members of the Press to the
various affairs where the Press is
invited. Funny, but when you
want special mention or publicity
all members of the Press are APP
preached or sent little notes, but
when 1t comes to affairs it seems
as II some of the folk are forgot
ten. How can it be?
Then too there seems to be
that little bit of jealousy or for
getfulness-shall I say when 1t
comes to Syndicates or Services.
The world is big enough to hold
all the businesses that there are,
and the same goes for news serv-
ices and syndicates. It's service
that count and each service gives
that. There's AMP, SINS, GINS.
ems. ANS, Up, and others. All
can be of service so let us live and
let live giving each chance to
prove its worth and surely
we take our hats off to NNPA.
Congrats to NNPA and best
wishes for a most successful meet
ing in DC. this month. NNPA in
case you wish its name Is the Ma
tional Negro Press Association.
/ do hope that every organiza-
ton will have a Readers Work.
shop during its convention or an
nual meeting and encourage every
member to read and subscribe to
our Negro weeklies in the various
localities and also to our Negro
National Editions. The only way
to make people conscious of any
thing is to constantly keep plug
ging away about 1t. That goes for
newspapers, too.
It's your Lou (Hotel Theresa)
Swarz still.
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Many Negroes were shocked al
his sudden death here July 10.
Detroit Negroes in particular re-
member because of his unusually
fair conduct from the bench OF
the spectacular Sweet trial.
Despite the hostility towards
Negroes in those days. he hand
led the case so well that he
gained thousands of friends In
the colored race. In this trial
Clarence barrow defended DR..
Ossian Sweet who was charged
with the murder when he fought
for his home against the attack
of some white hoodlums attempt
Ing to drive him out of the
neighborhood.
| While attorney general of the
United States. Murphy set up a
special division on civil liberties.
This department subsequently in
vestigated the Klu Klux Khan. It
is still part of the department
today.
In his most recent case in
volving Negroes he gave dis
senting opinion last year against
the murder convictions of two
New York Negroes by blue rib
bon juries. He argued that they
had not been convicted by their
peers. but "by a jury drawn
from a special group of indivi-
duals singled out In a manner
inconsistent with the democratic
ideals of the jury system"
Murphy was appointed to the
Supreme court by President
Franklin ID. Roosevelt in 1910.
On this bench he has consistent
| ly sided with the liberal group
whether on the majority side or
| in the minority.
During his career of public
service he served as mayor of
Detroit. governor of Michigan,
governor general of the Philip
pine Islands, and attorney gem
eral of the United States.
Through the years he was
known as a friend of organized
labor. too. AS governor of Mich
igan he gained labor's support
at the expense of the loss of the
coming election when he refused
to call out the national guard
to halt a sitdown strike.
Justice Murphy never married.
He is survived by his sister,
Mrs. Margaret Teahan and bro
Their, George Murphy.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1949-07-27
LAW OF LASH REPORTED
IN TOWN OF ALABAMA

Dowell and Birmingham newspa-
pers last night were swamped
with calls stating hooded night
riders were sweeping once more
through Jefferson County, but
none of the reports could be
pinned down. The sheriff laid
the calls to pranksters.
3 Beatings Disclosed
In Praco, three persons told of
floggings by hooded gangsters,
and some residents put the num-
Der of ritualistic beatings at Sc
cluded torture spots at more than
a dozen.
]. R. Henderson told newsmen
his daughter. Mary Alice. was hit
five times. Elijah Stevens, said
mob whipped his son, william
Stevens. Jack Alexander, 3S
years old. a former tubercular
patient. said a three-inch strap
was used on him "about ten
times"
Alexander said all the men
wore hoods and robes. except a
leader, a Bessemer, Alabama
preacher, who prayed several
times before and after they
flogged me-"
Witness Warned
The two grand-jury witnesses
Mrs. Junita Barron and Miss
Helen Sharpe, said they were
warned in the streets of subur-
ban Brookside yesterday '.to
know what you are talking
about"
Another witness said his story
would concern a hooded groups
later-discarded plan to ride a.
gainst State Senator Henry Mize
who sponsored the Anti-lnask
Law the Legislature passed last
Tuesday.
(The Press reported that John
Thomas Franks, "a, disabled war
veteran, told newsmen he was
flogged by robed nd hooded men
Wednaadv night naar his homo
at Boston, 90 miles northwest of
Birmingham. He said the men
accused him of drinking and
staying away from home. He
denied 1t. The news agency also
related that the Rev. Luther
Brown. pastor of the Millersville
Methodist church, 80 mics east
of Birmingham, had told state
officers he had been warned he
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1949-07-27
ALABAMA KLAN
LEADER QUITS,
HITS FLOCCINCS

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. = The pre-
siding officer of the Ku Klux Khan
In Alabama quit today after quar-
rel with another high Khan official,
81 differ with some of the ele-
ments that have wormed their way
into the Klan-men who use Khan
robes to go out and whip people"
said DR.. e. p. Pruitt, Birmingham
physician.
A grand jury is investigating the
white-robed order In connection
with wave of floggings and cross
burnings by masked mobs. 1t has
been called into session after a
weeks recess.
Doctor to Leave City
DIR. Pruitt, z years old, said he
is resigning as chairman of the
Klan's board of governors and leav-
ing the city.
William Hugh Morris, Khan d.
rector, had announced that Pruitt
is quitting. Morris made the an
nouncement from a jail cell, where
he is IN the 14th day of an indefi-
mite sentence for contempt of
court.
The Khan director was ordered
held until the produces member
ship records of the order for the
previous grand jury. This jury re-
turned A indictments against IL
men for flogging, burglary and boy
cotting in connection with mob
violence.
Meanwhile Chief Deputy Sheriff
Wilton Hogan said he is investigat-
ing a report that Morris home was
ransacked. There was no indica-
ton as yet whether the Khan rec
ords demanded by the grand jury
were taken from the house.
For Personal Reasons
DIR. Pruitt said in his letter of
resignation:
II am quitting as head of the
Khan for personal reasons.
differ with some of the elements
that have wormed their way into
the Klan-men who use khan robes
to go out and whip people.
There is an orderly, proper way
to clean up conditions that need
correcting. l think sometimes il
doesn't hurt to burn cross-but
the other things that some people
have done and the Khan has gotten
the blame for, never approve and
never will"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1949-07-27
TennesseeI

BIRMINGHAM. Ala, = Resi-
dents of suburban Praco today
said hooded mobsters have ruled
their small mining community
by law of the lash" and have
flogged or terrorized more than
a dozen persons.
While a Jefferson County
grand jury called in more wit
nesses OF lawless cruelty inflicted
In the Birmingham area, a
spokesman promised the body
also would investigate Praco's
reign of lash law.
The office of Sheriff Holt Nc
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1949-07-27
Negro Wont Send A
White Lady to Chair;
0usted as Juror

GREENvILLE. Miss. - A Ne
groe who declared he would never
send "a white lady" to the electric
chair was dismissed as a juror
today in the murder trial of soci-
alite Mrs. John Dickins.
Circuit Judge Arthur Jordan
said the Negro was the first in the
history of Greenville to step in
side a jury box in white criminal
trial.
Mrs. Dickins, As, is accused of
the rose-shears Staying of her
mother, SO, Mrs. Idella Long
Thompson. in her mothers stylish
Leland home, November II. 1948.
Mrs. Dickins, mother. of two
girls and wife of a cotton broker,
insists she is innocent. She told
officers she surprised slim Ne
gro battling with her mother in
her mothers home. She said the
Negro also stuck her with a pair
lof curved-blade pruning shears
used in a rose garden.
The Negro dismissed from jury
service was e. H. Bryant. grocer.
Bald, neatly dressed, he answered
questions intelligently and list
ened intently during his examina-
ton.
subsequently. three other Ne
groes also were dismissed, one be-
cause he said he would not favor
death penalty on circumstantial
evidence.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1949-07-27
FINDS $4,000, LOSES GAME

Utica, N. Y. Robert w.
Lake, Jr., was anything but hap
by over his finding of $4,000
in U. S. savings bonds and 5000
in $40 bills on golf course re
Gently. He returned the bonds
and green backs to the owner,
Ray Anton, of New Hartford
but excitement over his find
ruined my golf game" and he
wound up losing 15-cents on the
18-hole.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1949-07-27


years few u. s. developments of
privately built homes intended pri-
marty for Negroes (s16 two-bed-
room houses to sell for only s6,450
each).
On hand for the ceremony was
the Southern-born woman who
planned the project. robust, warm
hearted Mrs. velma Grant. In only
three years. she had built and sold
s3.500.OO0 worth of new houses to
Negroes in Los Angeles. No al
fruits Mrs. Grant had made a profit
of more than S250,000.
IN spite Of her Louisiana upbring-
ing. Mrs. Grant sympathizes with
the U. S. Negroes indignation at
the unwritten laws which force
him. in most communities, to buy
only rundown houses in rundown
districts. Four years ago. as a
broker in a big Los Angeles real
estate firm, she took a call from
another broker asking about a new
house. Asked Mrs. Grant: is your
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MRS. Grant cornered Los Angeles
widely sought Negro architect, Paul
Williams CTime, Jan. z6, ls4S), who
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Cabinet Pay

Cabinet Pay
A bill for raising the salaries
of Cabinet members and other
top government officials is up
for consideration in the House.
It would give raises to 244 heads
of Government departments and
agencies and assistant heads. at
a cost of about $1,237,173 a
year. Cabinet officers would go
up from $4,000 to $4,000 a
year. They haven't had an In
crease in salary since 1925.
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Bartender Stabbed
After GUSHING Mon

A 33-year-old garbage man who
was arrested after Martin Backer,
3S years old, bartender, was In
iured seriously during dispute
early yesterday, admitted stabbing
the bartender, police said.
The garbage man, Peter Will
liams, Negro, of 1O241s Jackson St.,
said in signed statement to De-
tective ]. F. Larson that he stabbed
Backer as the bartender forced him
from tavern at 18th Avenue and
Jackson Street. Backer was taken
to Harborview County Hospital.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1949-07-27
FIogging Of 3
Women Told At
House Inquiry

WASHINGTON. - Clarke STALL
worth. 2s-year-old Birmingham
Post reporter told congressional
committee today his story of flog-
gings administered three Alabama
women by hooded gang of $50
night riders.
Called before civil rights sub
committee of the House judiciary
committee. conducting hearings
on new federal legislation, he
identified the women as Mrs. Irene
Burton, 80, of Dora, Ala, and her
two daughters, Billie Fay, Is, and
Sally, 16.
Stallworth said they told him
they were beaten the night of
June by a crowd of $50 men
wearing white hoods.
The mother and younger daugh-
ter were dashed with a six-foot
leather belt and threatened with
hanging, Stallworth said he was
told. The same treatment was ac-
corded two of three men with the
women.
Didn't Like Dating"
Representative Celler, Demo-
crat, New York, asked If any
reason or motive was given for
the beatings.
Zone of the girls told me they
had been dating the men, and the
Klan-or whoever did the beat
ings-didn't like it," Stallworth
replied.
Chairman Byrne, Democrat.
New York. waived any require
ment for swearing in of witnesses.
He observed the committee merely
was taking statements of "knowl-
edge of existing conditions"
There will be nothing spectac-
ular" in the hearings, said Byrne,
implying strongly that Southern
fears of Congressional "interven-
ton" were groundless.
However, a Southern critic of
the Truman civil rights program
charged politics" as the session
began.
Rep. Battle, Democrat, Ala
bama, terming the committees
action "a superficial political in
vestigation, called on Celler to
call the whole thing off.
Intervention Criticized
"Such Intervention by Congress
at this time would deter rather
than facilitate justice" he wrote
Celler.
To reporters, Battle termed the
inquiry a political maneuver in
tended to enhance President Tru-
mans civil rights program"
Celler answered with the asser-
ton that there is mo politics in
volved in this situation" He
pointed out that one of the wit
nesses - Clarke Stallworth of
Birmingham Post had himself
been beaten.
Meanwhile, a law u h d
through the Alabama legislature
yesterday to bar wearing masks
in public drew compliments from
federal officials. A resolution ask
ing cancellation of the federal in
vestigation, however, was not ex-
nected tn hiring anv rasn0nsa
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and s140.000 shopping center for
new s5-house annex to Carver
Manor, besides the bigger. $4,000
600 project in San Bernardino.
we on
Time Magazine.
Thursday, July rs.