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ORGANIZER SAYS
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Negro Women 'Scab' To
Break Laundry Strike
FOR YOUR PROTECTION
Business Bureau Warns
Against Xmas Con Men
By Jimmie N. Jones
Dayton has become the "Happy
Hunting Ground" for all types of
Holiday racketeers with well laid
plans to victimize its citizens out
of whatever is not nailed down
during the coming Christmas buy
ing periods. Also an overflow of
confidence men and women are
going from door to door on the
Chemist Student
Wins ACS Award
Chester Pryor, Wilberforce
State College chemist student
from Cincinnati was one of three
students honored at the Engineers
club last night by the Dayton
section of the American Chemical
society.
Pryor along with Frederick
Schiller, University of Dayton and
Robert Harder from Antioch Col
lege was announced as one of the
winners of the sections third an
imal college chemistry awards.
Pryor was selected by his col
lege faculty as the outstanding
chemical student in the college.
The winners received junior
memberships in the ACS and sub
scription to ACS technical journ
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By TED WOOD
Dayton laundries are using mostly Negro women
as "scab employees" while regular employees many
with five years service records are striking for higher
wages and union recognition, spokesmen for the Laundry
Workers, International (AFL) told a DAILY EXPRESS
reporter.
For nearly every woman who
went oh strike, operators of the
laundries have been able to hire
a Negro woman from the West
Side where most of the col
ored on strike also live -to
"scab" and help keep Dayton
laundry workers among the low
est paid in the northern section of
the country.
Employees of three laundries
have been on strike for eight
weeks and spokesmen for the or
ganizing union say that manage
ment has flatly refused to discuss
ways of settling the strike.
The minimum wage, according
to the striking women, is 50c an
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VOL. VIII—NO. 227 DAYTON OHIO, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1950
Bowers Leads In
Official Count
Now it's official! Fred Bowers
first Negro to be nominated to a
major office in Montgomery
county, by official count, is shown
to have led all but one of the ten
candidates for representatives to
general assembly.
The official count varied only
slightly from the unofficial count,
completed on the night of tlje
election.
Board of Election officials say
the 129,148 vote was a record off
year vote.
WestSide seeking contributions for
njn-existant churches, on the pre
tense that they are seeking funds
for "Chirstmas Cheer for Child
dren."
The Dayton Better Business
Bureau has been swamped with
calls for information concerning
the authority and confirmation of
permits issued to persons authoriz
ed to make solicitations for funds.
The Bureau poitns out that on
The Bureau points out that on
ent business firms have become
victims of there "Con Units" who
are operating in the many areas of
the city.
For example, a West Side house
wife called this reporter Wednes
Continued Page 4
rwo Negroes Are
Elected In Kans.
KANSAS CITY, Kas. (ANP)
Latest returns here indicate the
two Negro Republican candidates
have won.
Myles Clay Stevens won unop
posed as state representative of
the eight district. Fred White,
second district county commission
er, won over his Democratic op
ponent, Condell Meeks.
SEVEN FLEE, ONE
By REX COSTON
The explosion of a fuel oil stove
in the home of Grace Law, 238
Dunbar, began a fire that result
ed in inestimable damage in the
house, caused a tenant to leap
from the second floor window sus
taining minor hand injuries, and
worked fireman for three hours.
The fire began at 6 a.m.
Asia Foster is being tried for the
August 12th. murder of Frank
Garrett, 32, of 226 Franklin st.
Assistant prosecutor, Russell Cart
er is acting for the state.
In her disposition Miss Cart
wright stated that she and her boy
friend were seated in his ca^
which was parked in the rear of
the murder house and she could
P0LIC- BLOTTER SAYS:
Wine Sto.e Mem
Can't
Describe
$243 Bandit
BY JIMMY N. JONES
Edward Broadnux, 25, of 540 S.
Summit st., told police he was
held up by an armed robber at
the corner of Dunbar and Fifth
st. last night at 8:40 and was
forced to hand over a cigar box
containing $243, the day reciepts.
According to the Wine store
clerk, the robber
v\
According to Grace Law she
19-YEAR-OLD
Avas
Vf f-t,
a man about
six feet tall, wearing a h&t and
overcoat, but he was unable to give
a description or the color of the
hat and coat.
According to the excited clerk,
the theif demanded the money in
the cigar box, the-contents of the
cash register, and the billfold of
Broadnax, which according to the
clerk contained "No Funds."
Police are looking for the thief.
r.
TB Patient Testfies In
'Wine-Slaying' Trial
BY JIMMY JONLS
Ail entirely new piciu.c arose
when prosecutor and defense at
torney in the second-degree mur
der trial of Asia Foster 40, of 220
Franklin st. journeyed to the
Stillwater Sanitorium and quest
ioned Dorothy Cartwright, 19-yeai
pld mother of a 25 month old
baby, who is said to have been an
"ear witness" to the crime. Miss
Cartwright is a patient at the sani
torium.
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lumps Stories AS Fire Guts Home
and stooped to turn it off when it
had just noticed the stove leaking
blew up and flames shot every
where. Mrs. Law was not injured,
but she and the other tenants of
the eight room frame house were
unable to save even a pair of
shoes so fast did the blaze spread.
They were only able to flee for
their own safety.
One roomer, Earl Winston, an
n-v portions oi the conversation
e i i ui.ng from the house on the
n of the murder.
the disposition taken by a
ou. stenographer Miss Cart
wright said: "My boy friend had
,j one to get some sandwiches when
I heard Charles Taylor and Asia
Foster in conversation. I recogniz
ed their voices and I went to the
vvindow, but couldn't see in as the
blinds were drawn. I heard Susie
Mae Scott, Foster's common-law
wife say, 'Don't get me, get him.
i'm not after him, he's after me!'
I then heard something like a
firecracker and saw something fall
out the door. I later learned it
was the body of Frank Garrett."
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TINDER HEARTED
Free Diabetes
Tests For Dayton
During Diabetes Detection
Week, Monday through Saturday,
Dayton and Montgomery County
residents may get free urine
checks at physician offices "br at
any of the following laboratories:
Dille, 393 W. Fifth st. Fideli
ty Building, Third National build
ing and Harries building Zipf la
boratory, Fidelity building Abr
amson, Reibold building Hoover,
Reibold building ,and the medical
laboratory, 60 Wyoming st.
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Winston sustained sidewalk
burns to his left hand.
Fireman from Company 13
worked three hours to stop the
blaze and this reporter could see
that the damage to the inside of
the house was quite extensive
floors and door moldings were
charred and a large juke box will
never play again. Other furnish
ings were almost completely de
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Home Ave. Loses
$120,000 Plan
For Improvement
The City Commissioners last
night rejected a $120,000 improv
ment program for Home avenue.
In their meeting last night mem
bers of the City Commission voted
to increase the number of park
ing meters in the West Side of
the downtown section and thus
garner more money for the city,
but failed to accept a proposal
that $120,000 dollars be spent to
improve the street leading to the
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Germans Say They Want
To Marry Brown Girls
Two German youths, who describe themselves as
having "curly fair hair, blue eyes and are slender and
have a tender and mild heart" are anxious to exchange
correspondence with "brown girls who have in mind
going to Germany .... the purpose to get married."
They are Ernest Schomber and
Wilhelm Schepp, who, in a letter
to the DAILY EXPRESS, asked
that their desire to marry "brown
girls" be made known to readers
of this newspaper. Below is tiie
letter:
"Dear Newspaper:
"We beg you affectionate to
Continued From Page 3
S. Carolina Votes
Poll Tax Repeal
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PRICE FIVE CENTS
employee of Cecil Harris' Cocktail
Bar leaped from the second floor
window in a frantic effort to es
cape the spreading holocaust. Win
ston told the writer "I just took
some clothes in my hand, bashed
the window out and leaped
through."
Columbia, S. C. (ANP)— One
of the last vestiges of the post
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