Bronze Reporter [Volume: 9, Issue: 36]

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SATURDAY, MARCH 16, {903

EDITORIAL

~On April 1 you will have a privilege which elmest no
_ one alive teday in Michigan has had ~ to render a decision

on the proposed new state constitution. No woman in Michi- |

gan has ever voted on this issue. The present constitution

_ was adopted in 1908 when women did not have the ballot.

It is the responsibility of every registered voter to seek
information on this issue and to cast-a thoughtful and informed vote. It will be a iong time before this opcasion is

presented again.

There is little. excuse for believing that the subject is

too involved or beyond our understanding. Numerous meet
- ings are being held each week to inform and to persuade

you ~ the voter ~ in one direction or another. If you

can~t get out to a meeting, the subject is being aired daily

in the press and on the radio and television. This concerns
you and will concern you for a long time to come..

Those in favor -of the new constitution point out the
following facts in its favor: 1. The role of the governor is
strengthened by increasing his term of office to 4 years;
and by giving him the power to apsoint the heads of exe
cutive agencies which make

up the administrative board:

2. It requires a balanced budget; 3. It makes the highway
commissioner an appointed rather than elective position.
{Michigan is the only state that elects its highway commissioner); 4. Justice of Peace Courts are eliminated; 5. A
Civil Rights Commission is created to investigate alleged
discrimination and to secure equal protection of all civil

rights.

Those opposed to the new constitution point to

following defects: 1. A mingli
powers has been intreduced
aration of powers;~Z. Civil

~

to the

of executive and legislative
ntrary to the theory of sepights ~ an unconstiutional

search and seizure clause has been bolstered; 3; Loopholes
have been opened up in Civil Service which can cripple
wage increases; 4. Reapportionment ~ the principle that
~ people are equal to each other is. replaced by the dieu
that 79 acres equals one person.

The new constitution is

suported by the Hepublican

Party, the League of Women Voters and the Chamber of
Commerce. It is opposed by the Democratic Party,. the
UAW-CIO: and the ~ State Council of ~NAACP

Branches.

THE BRONZE REPORTER will not presume fo make

Up your mind for you. We urge you to obtain the information which is readily available, give it your best thought,
and vote on April 1. Many people in Mississippi do not en
_joy this privilege.

First Mississippi School

Desegregation Suits Filed

NEW YORK ~ NAACP Legal Defense Fund attorneys
launched a new attack on segregated schools in Mississippi this
week.

This week~s actions were first
Legal Defense Fund suits against
segregated elementry and high
schools in Mississippi.

The Jackson complaint was
signed by ten Negro minor plaintiffs, in@luding the two children
of ~Mississippi NAACP Field Sec
_ retary Medgar Evers. The com
plaint alleges that the Jackson
Municipal Separate School District is ~pursuing a policy, custom, practice and usage of.op-.
erating the public school system.on a racially segregated
basis.~

The Jackson school system:is
described as operating 34 schools
for white children, and 166
schools for Negroes, with attendancé and assignment areas,
teachers, construction plans and
appropriations all operated on a
basis. Negro elemen
of the Board~s operation, or, in
the alternative, to. require the
Jackson School Board to submit
a plan-which would.reorganize the
school districk into- ~a unitary
non-racial system.~

vIC VET
SAYS...

Q ~ Does the Veterans Administration ~Department of Medicine and Surgery engage in medical research?

A ~ Yes. During fiscal year
1962 there were medical research
~programs in 133 VA hospitals,
~five regional offices, and three
outpatient clinics. More than five
thousand professional and scientific publications and presentations
resulted from medical research
during fhe year.

Q ~ Should a veteran who
wishes to be buried in a national
cemetery apply to the VA to be
sure of having space reserved?

ef the veteran. The grave sites
@re mot reserved in advance of
jramediate requirement. \

@ ~ At what age does a war
orphan become ineligible for VA
educational assistance? ~

~pected willful failure to file tax

~}faundry and linen service tycoon,

a, see ee

7 an The apuihy eherill, Bocas~,

- Permitting Such Defiane ce kb A Blow
to Our World.

Ed Love, Commanding Officer

ee of the ~Destination Jazz~ brigade

~| music Jat |

fo oa Detroit area via WC

at sort of embarrasses me to|

) admit that I am ~oneof the people |.

~not really ~hip~ to Gene Shaw,
the subject of his column, because
I.am a musician and 1. ame up
during the ' ommy
Flanagan era.~ aa., Girector of

Orvis Law

High Schdl,
thad an easier task instructing
Barry, Tommy, Kenny Burrell,
Paul Chambers, Claude Black and:
| Sylvester ~Sonny Red~ Kiner,

~4 than he had tutoring me because

The Internal Revenue Service
reported today that over 2,000
recommendations for prosecution
on federal tax charges were made
by its Intelligence Division during 1962.

The Department of Justice obtained indictments against 1,784
individuals in tax fraud: cases referred to it by ~Intelligence in
1962 compared -with 1,484 in 1961,
Almost 14,000 cases were actively investigated, of which 3,466
were full-scale investigati
Those judged not appropriate gor
prosecution were referred to
trict Internal Revenue offices tor
possible. assessment of additional
taxes and civil penalties. ~

Federal judges sentenced 1,024
tax offenders to 308 years in prison, and additionally assessed probation or suspended. sentences
totaling 2,978 years. Fines imposed amounted to 3 million.

H. Alan Long, Director of the
Intelligence Division, said ~that
more than 129,000 leads or information items were screened
and evaluated during 1962.
Intelligence investigates sus
returns. and wiliful attempts to
evade -income, wagering,

cept those on alcohol, tobacco,
and narcotics), and related criminal offenses. f
Tax fraud convictions during
the year included:

Morris ~Goldberg, Philadelphia

nead of thirteen corporations, was
found guilty by a jury of evading
his personal taxes and those of
his corporations and was sentenc~ed to ~ years in prison and fined
$70,000.

Four members of the Katz
family, Springfield, Massachusetts
potato chip processors, who evaded their:personal taxes were sentenced. to prison terms varying
from 1 to 4 months and fined a
total of $80,000.

Judge Woodrow Wilson Bean was
fined $5,000 and given a 5 year
suspended sentence for failing
to file returns for 5 years. Bean,
a candidate for Congress in 1962
was critical. of the income tax
in his unsuccessful campaign.

Lyndon A. Durant, millionaire
Chicago manufacturer of pin-ball
machines, characterized as being

ers~. whose personal expenditures
were charged off as~ corporation
business expenses, was sentenced.
to 60 days in prison and fined
096,000.

-Ian Woedner, a New York apd!
Washington, D.C. architect and
builder, is undei a 2% year prison
sentence and was fined $20,000.
for evading personal taxes by
diverting corporate income to his
personal --use.

~Lhe. past year saw the conviction, sentencing, or imprisonment
on income or wagering tax charges of such well kown persons as
Micky Cohen, Trigger Mike~Cop
ouster ~Wortman.

Frank ~serew~ Andrews, Newport and Covington, Kentucky
gambling kingpin, and seven of
his henchmen were each sentenced to 5 years in prison and fined
$10,006 on wagering tax viola
and all other federal taxes -(ex- |.

Former El. Paso, Texas County |.

~the last of the big-time spend- |

pola, iad Sica, Dave: Beck, and |

Bén Dranow, former Minneapolis department siore_ owner
who invoked the Fifth Amendment 387 times when questioned
concerning his financial transaeations with labor unions during
the McClellan Committee Hearings was sentenced to 7 years in
prison;and fined $10,000 on tax
evasion charges.

In the Gary and: Hammond,

{Indiana area, Metro Holovachka,
former Lake
*|attorney, received a three year
OF | prison term and wag fined $10,000, |
Geor
plea

baer ies prosecuting

~ Chacharis, Gary Mayor,
ed guilty and was sentenced
to 3 years in prison and fined:$10,000. His accountant, Willmar

A. Chulock, was found guilty and
sentenced to 1 year in prison
and fined $10,000 on an income
tax conspiracy charge and a former traffic engineer and a Hammond city councilman ~were senténced ~to 6 months in Pr on
tax evasion charges.

In Newa: x, ow) Torcev, Jobebh
~Newsboy~ Moriariy,. in -whoze
abandoned automobile was found
$2.5 million, was sentenced to
1 year in prison and fined $12,500
on wagering tax charges.

In additien to hundreds of
wagering and coin-operated gaming device raids-on a loeal scale,
two nationwide ccordinated wagering tax raids and one nationwide gaming machine raid were
staged in 1962, The nationwide
wagering raid~ resulted in 250
arrests by Internal Revenue personnel, plus a large number of
arrests by cooperating local police. Approximately 196 different
locations in 107 cities were involved; more than $54,000 in
cash, 42 automobiles, and a number of weapons, adding machines,

OFFENDERS GET ee YEARS IN PRISON AS:

1,784 INDICTED IN 1962
TAX FRAUD CASES

typewriters, etc., were seized.
The nationwide gaming device
raid ~resulted in the seizure of
803 machines from 535 locations
in 174 cities. More than $24,000
in coin contents were seized.
~Appraised value ~of the machines

stamps_ covering 1,007 locations
were received during the first
few days- following the raid, Ap
than one machine,

Other cases investigated by the
~Intelligence Division, - in} which
~convictions were obtained, were
~a Hollywood disc jockey who
failed to pay tax on ~payola~~
receipts; a Seattle pediatrician
and civic leader who was~ sentenced to four months in prison.and fined $27,000 for tax evasion
on. professional and real estate
income; a skid row habitue~ who
specialized in $5 tips and filed
fictitious returns claiining refunds
to pay for his.largesse who was

a $35,000 a year Minnesota ad-..-tisinzg executive who falsely
claimed puym2ini of estimated
tax -who was fined $2,000 and
placed on probation for 3 years;
and a former Greensboro, North
Carolina hosiery broker who. understated his sales on his 1945
return and was sentenced in 1952
to serve 2 years, then switched
tactics, and overstated his purchases in 1956 and received another 2 year sentence plus a
$5,000 fine in 1962.

Mr. Long noted that there was
increased activity in investiga
finn of omitted dividends and
interest, and cases ivolving unre
ported tax on diesel fuel oil sales
and highway use taxes.

~

~exceeds $200,000. Applications for

plications usually are for more.

ed

sentenced to 10 years in prison;,

dé.
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this to say:
~ \been released five years ago (1957)
_lwhen it was recorded, Shaw

I played out of the absentee-bag.
I thought nothing of paeking a
tunch and making it to the Paradise Theatre for an afternoon of
Dizzy, Yardbird, or Basie.
I was a-school:drop-out (because
| of my love jazz) before there was
ever a rectanerd body of drop~guts.
Ed, a wery fine weiter and
lise jockey, is co-host.of the Jazz
Norkshop at Mr. Kélley~s, Chere
at Garfield, each Sunday atternoon. LeBaron Taylor is is ~eapable colleague.
Ed will be bringing to, you a
warm, personable review eaclt
week and~if the rest of his articles cre as informative and interesting as his~ first~we know
you will enjoy reading them.
| The weekly record review will
be quite different in one respect:
freedom! A musician is never at
his best when playing tunes he
thinks people~ want to hear. It
is only when the artist is afforded
the opportunity to play what he

ed~that we, the jazz | listeners,
are treated to creative music> at
its highest, most rewarding level.

Ed will be~reyiewing the albums
he wants to review in the way he
feels it should be done. There
will be no restrictions placed
upon him in any way and the
things he says will be things he
truly feels and _ believes.

~I only want to review one
album per week,~ he told me in
the studio last week, ~because I
feel that I won~t be cramped or
impeded because of the meaantty
of brevity,~

Amen!

* * * 5
- Jimmy ~Just Jazz~ Owens continues to satisfy the musical appetites of Tuesday evening. nightlifers at the popular Phelp~s
Lounge over on Oakland.:

Jimmy, who enjoys~a well-deserved reputation as an excellent
club disc jocky, is really something else. He is one of the very
few record spinners situated all
Around the Town who doesn~t
play ~everything you want: to
hear. He-plays a lot of things
that you should hear.

Naturally, no one seems to
know the difference. Jimmy - is
just regarded as-a great DJ who,
occasionally, plays a real ~stiff~
jazz groove that no one under
around thé
ne. e

~with Lee pac; you.
| FM,. submitted ~his first ia Wl

} this ~week. It~s a gas! AD dig a

wants~ to play~no strings attach- |~

o-| gully, hots nova, ~or what ~have

-q have nothing 2 against dancing.
But I.am more inclined
ig ~the ~stiff jazz record that

cause it is a nice change of pace.:perience in the: field -of spinning

lize that there are a few
jazz fans in the city of Detroit,

Oscar Peterson, Phineas Newborn,
or ~West Coast artists, we. apprecilate what he does. And though we
don~t fall all. over durselves running up te-the stage to thank him
for his efforts, I feel that he
<nows we are "there and when

able, he turns up the volume a

di.
Thanks, Jimmy! -

Mt Joo McClurg the other
night. He~s the WGPR Stereo FM
dise jockey who nearly flipped

-ome.Show last week. He should
~he back at his regular ~Audioiand~ night show soon. He is on

cycies. In ~an effort. to get the

I suggest you get two sets~one
for Joe McClurg and one for Ed

a commercial, That way we don~t
miss a note!
Mellow.
gd OE a ad:
Caught George White and his
spouse at the Grand Bar last week
him,~ said George, program director of WCHB and WCHD-FM.
~I knew him in Ohio (Columbus
is Roland~s hometown) and he
was swinging then.~

George is best known here in
Detroit for his ~George White
Show,~ daily from 1 to 2 p.m. I
think it was Lee Sims, attractive
Around the Towner, who said:
~Thank heaven for George White.
He brought ~si
the darkness o~ the night int@ the
daylight hours #fnormal pé6ple.~

She certainly has a point. It~s
pretty weird trying ~to sit up all
hours 6f the morning to hear real
music while having) garbled, inharmonious junk crammed down
your ~throat all day long.

They should put rock and roll
back under the rock ~from@wvhence
it came.~

~Our Day Will Come, ~ by Ruby
and the Romantics, is a welcome
exception.

* @ if

Will Davis, Detroit pianist who
~without doubt~ will have to
leave the Motor City to realize
the honors due him as a music
cause he refuses to ~prostitute~
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Jass Albu
| OF the Week

Reviewed by ED LOVE

NIGHTLY - 7:30 TO 10 P.M, M
SATURDAY,

HEAR ED Love AND ~DESTINATION. JAZZ," WCHD-EM,

MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY;
7 TO 1 A.M, ~

ARGO

Clarence Eugene Shaw (Gene
Shaw) is a 36-year-old former Detroit trumpeter now living in Chi
| cago. Gene.was based in. New

York around 1956 and ~57.and was; |a member of groups led by bas~Isist~ Charlie Mingus during this

period.

If one goes back and listens.
to some of the Mingus albums recorded in the 50~s Shaw emerges
as an outstanding trumpet talent.
~One album that comes to mind |

j his ~Tiajuana Moods,~ an RCA Vic
tor. album recorded in 1957 but

~not released until 1962.

Commenting on the ~Tiajuana
Moods~ LP, Charlie Mingus had
~If this album had

would be a star today.~
Gene Shaw ise man whe hat

iG, Bae enjoyed a great degree of.

pouplanity in jazz; even though
giqhs a and the opinions

other ities, not
pemrianest are aware
of his tale: igieraa psa

BREAK THROUGH - GENE SHAW QUINTET

LP-707

Boo~ Turner, the pianist or drummer. Bill Hyde, who go back to
what I like to call ~the Barry Har-ris~Tommy Flanagan era,~ a look
of admiration comes into their
eyes as they say: ~Yeah,.I remember Gene. Great!~

-era along with Donald Byrd, Ken:
ny Burrell, ete.

~Break Through,~ Shaw~s first
album as a leader, is oné of the
+best LP~s released in the last, year.

freshing trumpeters I have heard
in a long time. His sound is light,

The man swings and can also

~| play the blues.

His associates on this album are
cf top quality. Coltrane-influenced Sherman Morrison, tenor sax;
James Taylor, piano; Sidney Rob
incon, bass; a Bernard
drums. }
This album ~by the Gene Shaw
Quintet sounds like it was well
~thought out before ~it, was recordnevi I ~~ have one complaint, how
Shaw has such a uniquely resound that one album

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impatiently, T await his next

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platters, seems to inherently real-"

the noise becomes almost unbear-:

Shaw is a contemporary of this.

warm, lyrical and very individual. -

mmy plays now and then, be-.. -

Jimmy, because of his vast eXx-/

and the plays for them, Beit.

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cew decibies so that'we can still ~.

a
~e.nen he got hung up-with the.

from 9 to 11 p.m. at 107.5 mega-.;

most out of FM \broadcasts feat- |
uring the very finest jazz sounds,.

Love. Perhaps we can get a work- _
ing agreement between them so -
that while ~one is playing an al- 4"
bum, the other is giving out with

+

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