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Wednesday, August 14, 1983
HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falls, Oregon
No Business Is Safe
From Racial Problem
By AL KLETT.NER
Vnlled Press International
It has become increasingly evi
dent during tills "summer of de
cision" on the racial front that
no business or community, large
or small, is safe from integra
tion pressures.
Some have moved voluntarily
to drop all racial barriers. Others
resists.
Atlanta restaurant owner Stan
ley R. Davis, who simply wants
to please his customers and stay
in business, had this to say about
the situation.
"When I operated my rcstuar
anls on a segregated policy, 1
was the target of integrationist
pressure and propaganda," Davis
said in a memo entitled "For Bet
ter Understanding" w h i c h he
placed on the tables of his eating
places.
Davis lamented that when he
went along with other Atlanta
restaurants and desegregated two
of his places on an experimental
basis, "the segregationist forces
were not long in inaugurating a
program of harrassment."
"i find myself in the middle of
a controversy for which there
appears no immediate solution,"
he said. "I am a restaurant oper
ator and not a social agitator.
.Now that the (racial! issue has
been joined, I can only solicit
your sympathetic understanding."
Stepping Stones
One thing appears certain:
From here on, Negroes will use
one victory as a stepping stone
to others.
This week the Metropolitan Life
Insurance Company, tile nation's
largest landlord, announced it will
desegregate the 34,170 apartment
projects it controls in the United
States.
Negro leaders have now an
nounced a move to bring about
similar desegregation of facilities
owned or controlled by the Pru
dential Insurance Company and
the New York Life Insurance
Company. They finance thousands
of apartment projects throughout
the nation.
; noy wiiKins, executive vice
. president of the NAACP, called
1 the Metropolitan agreement
t major breakthrough." He said it
was part of a general move in
similar firms. It obviously was
also part of the fulfillment of an
NAACP slogan of three years ago
"Everybody Free by Sixty
three." A Metropolitan spokesman said
the huge firm is prepared to "go
down the line" on its new policy.
"If a Negro is a qualified ten
nant and there is a vacancy for
him, he will be given an apart
ment whether it is in Alexandria,
Va., at Parchester in The Bronx
or anywhere else."
Averts Picketing
The company's decision, ac
cording to a spokesman, was
worked out harmoniously dur
ing a month of study at the firm
It averted threats by the NAACP
outh Council to picket three
Metropolitan projects Park
Chester, Peter Cooper Village,
and Stuyvesant Town, which also
are in New York.
Negroes also are winning a ma
jor breakthrough in the advertis
ing industry.
Lever Brothers, a soap products
manufacturer which is one of the
nation's biggest advertisers, an
nounced recently it has asked al
its agencies to produce sugges
tions for more effective use of
Negroe s and other minority
groups in the lirm s advertising.
The trade publication, Advertis
ing Age, listed Lever's advertis
ing program last year at $46 mil
lion.
The publication said the first
Lever Brothers television com
mercial to appear under the new
policy likely will be an advertise
ment for a detergent (All) show
ing a Negro housewife being in
terviewed about her laundry problems.
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Jack Miller Heads Efforts To Smash Syndicate Power
EDITOR'S NOTE: The dis
closure that a convicted gang
land executioner is "singing"
on his former associates has
focused new attention on the
Justice Department's Criminal
Division, which is directing the
war against the underworld. In
the following dispatch, the head
of the divisipn discusses its
progress.
By LOUIS CASSEI.S
WASHINGTON (UPU-At long
last, the good guys are giving
the bad guys their lumps in the
war against organized crime.
"There's no doubt about it
said Asst. Atty. Gen. Herbert J.
Miller Jr., "the mobs are
hurting."
As head of the Justice Depart
ment's Criminal Division, 3'J-year-old
Jack Miller is the fed
eral government's field general
in the fight to smash the power
of nationwide crime syndicates.
He knows better than others
that the fight is very far from
won, and he is not indulging in
premature victory celebrations.
But he also knows that the feds
are going after big-lime criminals
these days with unprecedented
vigor and determination. And he
says it's paying off.
We've got them on Die run,"
Miller said in an interview with
United Press Intel-national. "If
we can keep the pressure on for
anotlier five or six years, we
may break the back of this
monster."
Takes Over Division
Miller is an amiable, quiet
spoken Republican lawyer from
Minneapolis. He was in private
law practice with a distinguished
Washington firm when Atty. Gen.
Robert F. Kennedy asked him in
early 1961 to take charge of the
criminal division.
At that time. Miller knew no
THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR "No, She shall
not dismay me: I care not for that, But that I am afeard."
Mistress Anne Pago (Virginia Flick, New Orleans,) is
wooed for her seven hundred pounds and possibilities
by reluctant Master Slender, who is backed in the pro
posal by his cousin, the prodding Justice Shajlow, in this
scene from Edward Brubaker's production of the "Merry
Wives" at the Oregon Shakespearean Festival at Ash
land. The four plays will continue through Sept. 7.
Ex-Sub Capiain To Head
Domestic Peace Corps
WASHINGTON (UPI) A re
tired submarine captain slated to
head President Kennedy's pro
posed National Service Corps said
today that without even asking he
has enough projects on hand now
to utilize 2,000 volunteers.
William Anderson, former cap
tain of the nuclear submarine
House Plans
Rights Bill
WASHINGTON (UPI)-A House
judiciary subcommittee todayNautilus. said the so-called do-j
(icials in such areas as mental
hospitals, rural and urban slums,
Indian reservations and on proj
ects for migratory farm families,
Anderson has been acting as a
consultant on the program since
last May.
meets behind closed doors to
take the first step toward shap
ing the congressional answer to
President Kennedy's call for a!
new civil rights bill to ease the
racial crisis plaguing the nation.
The committee's seven Demo-j
crats and four Republicans were
expected to take about two weeks
to draft the basic civil rights bill
that will be sent to the floor of
the House.
The work of drafting the bill
began as the committee ended
public hearings on civil rights
that stretched from May to Au
gust.
Once the subcommittee finishes
its work, tile parent 35-man ju
diciary committee will take three
weeks or more to process the
bill.
The committee's influential
southern Democratic members
may be able to trim away some
of the tougher provisions included
in the legislation by the subcommittee.
mestic Peace Corps "is going to
be like selling ice cream on a
hot day. We have plenty of proj
ects; it's just a question of find
ing enough volunteers."
The bill to create the domestic
corps, patterned alter tne sue-;
cessful overseas Peace Corps,1
came up today for its second day
of debate in the Senate.
Backers were confident they
had the votes to turn back any
crippling amendments and pass
the bill by nightlall although it
faces formidable opposition from
Republicans who call it a boon
doggle" and a Kennedy adminis
tration "publicity stunt.
The measure authorizes an ini
tial outlay of million to start
the program and recruit up to!
1,000 volunteers by next June 30
to help needy fellow Americans,
Enrollment would grow to 5,000
in three years.
. Corpsmen, who would receive a
monthly stipend of $75, would be
used to assist local and state of-
Navy Silent
On Trawlers
Defiant Integrationist s
Continue To Plamie
ice
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
Navy maintained silence today on
reports that, 50 Russian fishing
trawlers had been sighted three
or four miles off Cape Cod, Mass.
When told of the report, a Navy
spokesman would say only: "The
seas are free. He pointed out
that no objection can be raised
to the presence of the vessels un
less there is grounds for com
plaint.
One Navy officer, commenting
on past activities of the Soviet
trawlers, said it is known that
some of them carry more elabo
rate electronic gear than could
conceivably be used for fishing
purposes.
The gear might be used for
monitoring communications, or
the flight of missiles off Cape
Canaveral, he said. !
By United Press International
Defiant integrationists sat atop
power poles, lay down on railroad
tracks, fought polic and were ar
rested by the dozens Tuesday in
demonstrations in Chicago and
Elizabeth, N.J. The demonstra
tors promised to return for more
action today.
The racial skirmish in Chica
go's South Side saw integration
ists tangle repeatedly with police.
At least 41 were arrested and;
many of the integrationists were
carried bodily to waiting paddy
wagons. '
At one point an estimated 1,0001
persons congregated and jeered
police.
The squabble centers around
the use of mobile classrooms in
the Negro neighborhood, scene of
racial quarrelling for the past
several weeks. The integration
ists claim the use of the mobile
classrooms perpetuates alleged de
facto segregation of the city's
public schools. I
During the height of the melee1
a young Negro man and a teen-!
aged Indian girl from Wisconsin
climbed up two power poles and
stayed aloft for several hours in
the rain. Another demonstrator
chained himself to a pipe. Six!
girls lay down on the railroad
tracks near the mobile class
rooms. Three women dived under-
neath one classroom trailer and
had to be dragged out.
At Elizabeth, civil rights pickets
and a squad of police fought it
out in three clashes al the con
struction site of a $5 million court
house annex, and later at the site
of a 15-story apartment building.
Police arrested 46 demonstrators.
It was the most fierce outbreak
of violence since demonstrations1
against alleged job hiring prac-:
tices.
Related developments across
the nation:
Houston, Tex.: Vice President
Lyndon B. Johnson, speaking to a
meeting of southern 'city officials,
warned that local governments
only have self-rule in propor
tion to the amount of civil rights
they are willing to guarantee.
Chicago: The American Bar
Association's House of Delegates
censured civil rights demonstra
tions that intentionally violated
laws, and public officials who try
to maneuver around court deseg
regation mandates.
Pittsburgh: An estimated 300!
Negroes picketed the offices of the
Duquesnc Light Co. Tuesday pro
testing alleged discriminatory hir
ing practices. Five persons were
arrested in the second consecutive
day of picketing of the utility
firm.
Los Angeles: The president
elect of the American Medical As
sociation (AMA) said the organi
zation is making an effort to end
discrimination against Negroes in
the practice of medicine.
more about organized crime than
the average citizen. He'd read
fantastic stories about its multi-
billion dollar annual take from
gambling, narcotics and other
rackets, and about the mysteri
ous "Mafia" which was supposed
to coordinate the whole enter
prise. But he was inclined, as
many citizens still are, to treat
it as a myth.
"But it's not a myth," he said
with the dogged emphasis of a
man who is telling (lie truth but
expects to be disbelieved.
The lurid stories in the press
don't exaggerate if anything
they underestimate the scope of
the underworld operation, the de
gree to which it seeks to bribe
and corrupt law enforcement of
ficers and public officials, the
nithlcssness with which it em
ploys murder and other forms of
violence to protect its vast
sources of income and silence
witnesses."
Says Mafia Exists
Even the "myth" about the
Mafia has turned out to be true,
he said. The revelations of Jo
seph Valachi, imprisoned gang
land executioner who decided to
talk, have given federal officials
a wealth of inside information
about the sinister organization
whose very existence was previ
ously questioned by some inves
tigators. Valaclu not only con
firmed its existence: He told just
how it operates, and named more
than 100 of ts top figures.
Valachi's long song was a "ter
rific break" for the criminal di
vision's new intelligence unit,
Miller said. The intelligence unit
was organized two years ago to
bring together in one place all of
the information about crime and
criminals available to the 26 dif
ferent federal agencies which
have law enforcement responsibilities.
The government had never be
fore had such a "CIA for crime,"
and Miller has found it "ex
tremely helpful." The unit now
has dossiers on the activities of
about 1,200 major racketeering
figures, he said.
Credits New Laws
Also of major importance in
the stepped . up fight against
crime, Miller said, is the new
legislation enacted by Congress
in 1961 winch makes it a federal
crime to send gambling informa
tion or paraphernalia across
state lines, or to travel in inter
state commerce in support of
racketeering.
These laws have -civen the
Federal Bureau of Investigation
a legal license to go after big
time gambling, which long has
been the number one source of
income for the crime syndicates.
The l'BI is now going after
organized crime the way it went
after the Communist party, said
Miller.
The result has been a sharp
drop in gambling activity, he
said. In many areas, would be
bettors are having "real trouble
finding a bookie."
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