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The a admixture of m. on October 16, following the mate boxing fans and early arrivals for the 1941 World opening session that morning at Arizona To Join Nation Series, knew, beyond a shadow of doubt, as early as the fourth which time a Symposium in- terpreting the Council’s role will be canto that a knockout was imminent. At SLOW START held. the White House session, conference leaders will mak e formal Starting slowly, Louis, scaling 202 found Nova,, the presentations of the Role of the In 1941 Newspaper Yogi, an impressive physical specimen at 202(4, a difficult Council in the World Crisis of To- Week day. target. Time and again, the aroused champion feinted and ¦ V *?:*: Mrs. Arizona will join the nation be- “WHEREAS, throughout Ameri- strife and turmoil, the threats stalked his prey, waiting for that fatal mistake he felt was Roosevelt Hon. Aubrey Wil- trib- - liams, Administrator of the Na- ginning Wednesday in paying can history, a free pres has taken from abroad hang , ,V; . f s that over our sure to come. tional Youth ute to the right arm of its freedom a leading role in the building oi country like a forbidding cloud * Adrr inistration, and —tho press. our nation, which stands today as sledding the irate swiftly and minutes after the dead- Hon. Ear] B. Dickeison, member of demand mor e than ever that the It was slow and the Formally designated as Na- one of the world’s few remaining press shall continue to function Louis, wearing a mask of unques- ly kill had left a never-to-be-for- President’s Committee on Fair Newspaper Week, the democracies where of the freely impatience, trained hit gotten impression of mayhem upon Employment Practices will speak. tional freedom and without interference in tionable . Tea period October 1 to 8 has been press and of speech still are num- order that the American people guns menacingly at the bobbing more than 50,009 minds, the vast fc*. 1 will be served at 5 o’clock. recesse Grounds set aside as a time when this bered among th e treasured human may continue to occupy their rec- head of the Alameda, California 5 of the Folo were MISS MAE VIRGINIA BRADY, young of Margaret Bar- liberties; a graduate RANDOLPH TO SPEAK fact will be spotlighted: “The and organized position as the bust in- assassin. almost empty. The public mass meeting, be newspaper lights the way to “WHEREAS, a press that is ber Seminary in Anniston, Ala., is doing some creative writing for to only formed and most enlightened peo- held in the Department freedom”. unchained and unenslaved, can pre- HANDWRITING ON WALL Both Louis and Nova fought WORLD readers. She has completed studies under Prof. A. T. James, Auditorium ple in the world; and styles on Thursday evening, October 16. The week formally has been pro- sent truth, insofar as it can be ob- somewhat unconventional graduate of the University of California. “WHEREAS, the week of October Th hint of an early pay- The Yoga man, who will be addressed by Attorney Governor Osborn, for tained, nailing at their sources e here tonight claimed bv* 1 to 8, 1914, has been designated so; off came midway the fourth, fight- managed respect ear- She is the author of poems, “Address to the Negro”, and “Love Needs Eunice Hunton Carter. A. Phillip state, Shupe, false rumors, slanderos and libel- to win Louis’ the and Dr. Reed observance throughout the nation ing from a slight crouch and throw- ly by popping Joe’s head back like Time.” Jake’s Derision, a short story, will appear soon. Randolph, and Hon. A. A. Berle, mayor, for the Citv of Phoenix. ous statements and incorrect or as National Newpaper Week, during ing a of left hands a minute, percolator long left assistant secretary of State . In nations where newspapers have misleading information; and score a lid with which period public attention will Louis staggered Nova a south- hooks thrown from his celebrated The Friday sessions, October 17, been enslaved, it was pointed out, be with “WHEREAS, the newspapers of focused on the vital part that paw to the button and drop- “dynamic stance,” circled to Louis’ will be climaxed by a National De- the peoples of thos e nations have newspapers preser- hook today are the fountain head of all our take in the ped him to the resin for an incom- right a la Bob Pastor and Billy fense meeting at Rankin Chapei, been isolated, cut off from reality, public University. Negro information since virtually vation of our democratic way of life plete count with a sizzling light to Conn and, for a time, made a tough leaders in the abandoned by truth. many Sought departments government all news, it to us and on services to SIO,OOO various whether their other other of Osborn called on comes the head that left the near prim- mark. Louis, on the ha*d Governor f ver the airwaves or through the public, community, and nation; and threw will be asked to answer questions to let the ob- itive gallery gasping with excite- went into a semi-crouch all Arizonians medium of the printed pages is the “NOW, THEREFORE. I Reed so many he resembled a posed by council delegates. A re- bp a reminder that ment . left hands servance result of their co-operative news- Shupe, as mayor of the City of j ceptior. in Frazier Hall of Howard freedom th press is a vital Resorting strictly of e gathering efforts and Phoenix, do hereby proclaim and to defensive (Continued on page 3) University will follow this meeting liberty in a democracy. ‘‘WHEREAS, world tactics, Nova weathered the re- In Business sessions held Page) Sheriff of From in this area (Continued on Back will be His proclamation fellows: mainder of that ominous fourth Saturday morning and afternoon, press kept surprfsinglj ‘‘Whereas, the American en- round and Louis October 18, and conference will thought- bay 1 the joys the confidence of a at in the fifth when he landed be closed with the annual dinner good, right Civilian, because it has steadfast- one solid and then made Two ful citizens meeting Saturday evening in the ly kept faith with its readers and Negro a brief rally which filled the vast Death Os Husband dining room of the Department of to merit the free- Workers amphitheatre with drama. lias endeavored Labor. Congresswoman Frances P. dom and protection by the consti- was Bolton and will at LOUIS FINDS MARK Military MAGNOLIA, Miss.— (ANP) —Suit filed recently in Walter White tution, and Police by Atty. Franklin, Jack- that time deliver addresses, and a ‘WHEREAS, in most of the re- Pike county chancery court J. E. But in the sixth, a badly winded son, Miss.,*seeking SIO,OOO judgment against Sheriff L. G. report of th e conference findings mainder of the civilized world the Nova—who had seen the handwrit- will be given to the public. controlled by Crash Industry the Fidelity and Guar- press ha.s become ing on the wall two rounds earlier—- Holyfield, Rankin county, and United its policies and Trial r NIGHT OPEN propagandists and Must Face SESSIONS ran into a assault by Joe anty company for the death of Eddie Adams. lhe suit was opinions are dictated by designing By ALVIN E. WHITE semi-skilled workers. Both firms are windmill The night sessions be Louis. Lest s by the wholesale, rip- RUSTON, (By Jim- will all interests, subsidiaries of the United Aircraft La. for use of Rosa Adams, administratrix of the estate of the open Individuals to serve selfish WASHINGTON, D. C. —(ANP) ping rights in lightning swiftness my for ANP) —Pvt. to the public. Attendance at the almost unique Corp. Sanders deceased Adams, and is in the name of the state of Mississip- the daily sessions, including the thus emphasizing throughout the country rained on the game challenger as —Alarmists Allyn Company of Hartford, selectee, » of our American press, and Dennis Hill, Detroit pi. White House meeting will b e limit- freedom are pointing with apprehension to of machine parts; 3 the cruel, merciless fists of Louis ’“WHERFAS, during the week oi manufaturers member of the 94th engineer bill of complaint alleges that thrown in jail. ed to registered delegates. In order the comparatively small number oi machine shop trainees. beat a tattoo on Nova’s badly dazed The October 1 to 3. national attention L. G. Holyfield was elected sheriff was transferred from the jail t 0 meet the request of White Negroes receiving jobs in the far Scoville Mfg. Co. jf Waterbury. head. battalion, is in an army base He being directed the work of the of Rankin County in the 1939 gen- in Jackson on Septem- officials, Mrs. Bethune stat- is to flung defense program after having Conn., greatly increased number of hospital here, and two to his home House newspapers preserving cur God- FOLK SAW IT near eral election, posting a SIO,OOO bond ber 22 because he had become seri- ed that all registrations must be in heard of the changes which were skilled and semi-skilled workers, COMING religion, military police, one city po- surety with the United States ously next day he was ad- by midnight of Tuesday, given rights of free free being effected in employment poli- casting, rolling fabricating as ill. The received free press; and A telegraphic right cross, travel- civilian, all Fidelity and Guaranty company. mitted to Baptist Hospital in Jack- October 7. speech and a bases. Negroes are working in the liceman and one Sidney Mrs, son, ing no more than six inches, caught It further sets forth that Holy- son where he died on September Registrations for the conference “NOW, THEREFORE, I, Gertrude Dent, a Sher- mill and casting department as dip- white, are awaiting trial for order to man relatives and Nova flush on temple. Down field appointed Prentiss Taylor and 28. ($1.50), reservations for the annual P. Osborn, governor, in Dent, and other pers platers. the wantonly brutally citizenr friends mourn and went the cosmic clouter, the mys- and attack E. W. as deputy she- further impress upon th e her passing Chase Brass and Copper Co., Wa- Richbourgh dinner ($1.59) and reservations for and in- Funeral arrangements were in terious disciple of Yoga, and he ing and beating Hill a mile riffs, and that on September 21, The bill claims that his death was rooms should be sent Assist- of the state our gratitude terbury, floormen and moulders; ex- the result of gross carelessness, neg- to the the press charge of Miller Funeral Home, was prostrate on the resin as the 1940, Eddie Adams was shot and ant Registrar of the Conference. debtedness to American trusion press operators and muffle south of this town. ligence and unlawful conduct on newspapers of our own cies throughout the nation. count of nine was clicked off over killed by the sheriff or one of his Miss Dorothy Height, of The and to the men. affidavit to the part of the defendants, L. G. care do desig- While it is true only a small num- his inert body. Private Hill in an deputies while they were searching Phyllis Wheatley YWCA at 901 State, particularly, hereby The Waterbury Tool company authorites in the woods Holyfield, Prentiss Taylor and E. 8, ber of Negroes have been put to Miraculously staggering to his feet investigating military for intoxicating liquor Rhode Island Avenue. NE., in Wash- nate the week of October 1 to as asked for Negroes in certain fields affirms and the Coast area. W. Richbourgh. The case will be in Ari- work, there has been a definite just ahead of the iinal count, Nova that ne, Robert Jones surrounding Gold ington, D. C. National Newspaper Week and agreed to take them on, but to from in as taker up by Cnancellor R. W. Cut- to change in the employment policy groped blindly toward the cham- Willie Nunley came Ruston This area described the bill zona, and I urge all Arizonians couldn’t find sufficient workers. the shower at the board at th December term oi the upon of a large number #f firms and pion, but Referee Arthur Donovan camp to take a being located on the western rer e DEAN DIXON AGAIN TO take this occasion t n reflect In Brooklyn, the Shearon Metal- USO and a telephone. Hill de- near Jackson, a chancery court. ‘‘free where no Negroes were employed displaying that degree of mercy use of Rankin county CONDUCT NBC SYMPHONY the significance of the word's lic corporation has engaged two Ne- Jones were consisting befor e they are gaining positions gro foreign in the heart in this strange clares that as he and thickly populated area NEW YORK—(ANP)-Dean Dix- press” and the manifold blessings engineer technicians, two sheet walking along the a white of many different kinds of business in spots they never before enjoyed. metal hell-bent Louis we looked at to- street on, young maestro whose name and which an uncontrolled Some workers. civilian in large truck passed and establishmdnts, night benefits of the spots where Negroes The night, stepped in and declared it a a enterprises, thrice in the past year has been press guarantees.” are Standard Holloware company ordered them off the street. Hill clubs, etc. employed, which hitherto never of same city four full day’s work a scant second be- THOUGHT emblazoned upon the concert hori- “SIDNEY P. OSBORN, permitted the has Negro told the white man to drive on the Allegations made in the bill state BIBLE Negros to work there, are sheet metal from fore the bell ending the sixth zon, is again scheduled to step to GOVERNOR”. listed workers the NYA right side of the street. Hill de- that Adams and two Negroes were All HEALING HAS A SPIRITU- herewith. training classes. stanza. the podium of the National Broad- Mayor Shupe emphasized Simplex and Com- clares that the White man then seated at the foot of a steep em- AL ASPECT: And great Wire Cable The Zipper Bag corporation. multitudes casting company to conduct the that a press is “one of the pany, 15 SCENE called them a vile name. He and bankment on highway 49 when the unto him, having with them famous free Cambride, Mass., 4. Negro power operators. HURRIEDLY VACATED came NBC Symphony orchestra greatest bulwarks of our in- Pratt Whitney machine Jones laughed and walked on. This officers opened fire on them. It those were lame, dumb, and works in The Bethlehem Steel The crowd that blind, He will appear on the evenings of dividual freedom” Hartford, 8 skilled workers; Company which bad gathered evidently angered the white man holds that after Adams was shot and many others, the slowly to eventually reach maimed, and cast Jan. 20 and 27, 1942, according to His proclamation follows- Hamilton Propeller Company, mon- who stopped the truck and started and injured he was subjected to in- them down at Jesus’ feet; and he 4 (Continued on Back Page) strous proportions. dissembled the announcement made Wednes- (Continued on Back Page) human treatment and was then healed them.—Matt. day by the company.