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Newspaper
The Union
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1949
Page
1
Chicago attorney Sir C. F. Stradford, former National Bar Association president and Legislature candidate, sues for 50000 in a case alleging ballot destruction after an election defeat. Suit filed August 12, 1949, described as a historic action by a colored citizen. Dabney notes urge courage for justice.
Congressman At Large Ohio notes the Administration’s lengthy China policy document, a 1,054 page white paper weighing three pounds, criticized for its density and reading burden. Helen Gahagan Douglas praises wage legislation aimed at boosting pay for telephone workers, while the House debates raising the minimum wage and exemptions for small companies.
Columbus reports Ohio CIO Council Secretary-Treasurer Jacob Clayman denied a Cincinnati Enquirer column claiming the council favored ballot change. He said the council publicly opposed altering Ohio's ballot and supports the party system, accusing Taft allies of political trickery aimed at disenfranchising voters in 1950.
Julius Stallworth a red cap at Union Terminal died after collapsing while stowing a passenger's baggage in a luggage rack on the James Whitcomb Riley en route to Chicago. He was taken to General Hospital by life-saving squad but could not be revived. Stallworth, 45, resided at 121% Braxton Campbell Court Walnut Hills.
William L Patterson denounces Walter White for proposing a drug to turn all colored people white, calling the remark insulting and grievous to Negroes and to oppressed colonial peoples. Patterson cites heritage figures and warns of disarming resistance to oppression and lynch justice.
Harold M. Kingsley announces the Pilgrim House Vacation Project third annual event, highlighting record guests hosts and locales. The program mirrors the Vermont Project and fosters interracial camaraderie by hosting children, mostly Caucasian guests, with children of Negro Mexican and Japanese origin from Pilgrim House served homes. The opening day is set for Monday June 20 with continued coverage.
Cleveland Lawson ranked second on the police civil service exam list, becoming the first African American to hold the rank of police sergeant in the city.
A harsh critique notes three young Black Klansmen in Alabama seeking to frighten Negro girls. The piece argues cowardice among the race in Northern cities and calls for freedom through collective resistance to oppression, urging solidarity and nonviolence toward intra-racial violence.
Stefan, famed for exclusive milady hats, designs exotic headpieces for models in the Paris In the Fall revue set for Skyline Room at the Hotel Theresa on Sunday September 18, 1949. Lilyn Ford produces. Stefan trained in women’s tailoring in St Emma’s and studied Paris fashions. He also graduated from the Institute of Technology and gained experience at Morris Hart Bros in millinery design.
William Green, head of the American Federation of Labor, declared at the Ohio Federation of Labor convention that labor will fight to the death to defeat Senator Robert A. Taft next year. He urged readiness to lay down life if necessary to preserve the labor movement, rooted in eight million unionists.
Columbus officials report the Ohio Unemployment Compensation Law amendment reduces the waiting period from two weeks to one. Effective Monday August 22, no benefits are paid during the one week wait. the first eligible week is the second week of unemployment.
Washington dispatch discusses a mass migration of African Americans from the South toward the Western states. Cited Census data show about 5.263 million people moving, a 37.9 percent rise, into Washington Oregon and California. The piece frames the move as driven by terror in the South and better opportunities in the West.
Patrolman Malacai Bryant, 40, was struck with a blackjack by off duty Officer William Powell who misidentified him as a gunman near Freeman Avenue. Bryant, a civilian clothes officer, suffered a severe scalp wound, treated at St Mary Hospital and placed off duty. Powell, 31, also saw Bryant with a revolver and struck him, failing to recognize him as a fellow officer.
James Hubert Blake the Broadway composer and showman behind Shuffle Along completed the Schillinger system at New York University last week at age sixty six He hinted at a possible fall revival of the show and recalled past work with Eddie Cantor Sophie Tucker and Gertrude Lawrence Paul O Dwyer brother of Mayor O Dwyer plans a White House appeal to President Truman for a Negro federal judge and to secure 400000 Negro voters representation on the federal bench He leads New York City s Harlem Lawyers Guild chapter while the mayor seeks reelection
Two Republican Senators told President Truman that only one Supreme Court Justice and 65 of 283 federal judges nationwide are Republicans. The piece notes colored citizens demand judicial recognition and that many colored lawyers have passed the same exams as whites and should be eligible for Supreme Court and federal judgeships.
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