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The Daily Bulletin
Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio
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Louis Lautier, a Negro White House correspondent, filed a $10,000 defamation suit in Washington district court on Aug. 21 against Harry McAlpin and Alfred Smith (alias 'Charley Cherokee'), co-authors of 'Manuscript,' over statements in their July 9 issue accusing him of misusing a White House press release for personal gain.
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SUES FOR $10,000
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 (ANP) Louis Lautier, Negro White House correspondent, filed a $10,000 damage suit against Harry McAlpin and Alfred Smith, alias "Charley Cherokee," co-authors of "Manuscript," in the district court here, Aug. 21.
The suit states that "Manuscript" in its issue of July 9 said "an attache of the White House called Negro papers and correspondence last week to tell them he had intrusted the White House release on the final FEPC report to Louis Lautier."
"He (the attache) asked Lautier, who promised to deliver, but, instead, Lautier wrote a supposedly exclusive story."
Mr. Lautier alleges in his suit against the co-authors that the statement and charges that he misused a trust by withholding from fellow-newspapermen information that he had promised to disseminate among them and used it for his own personal profit and gain, implied that he was untrustworthy, a cheat and a liar.
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Washington
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Aug. 21
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$10,000 damage suit filed
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Louis Lautier filed a $10,000 damage suit against Harry McAlpin and Alfred Smith, alias "Charley Cherokee," co-authors of "Manuscript," in the district court. The suit alleges that the July 9 issue of "Manuscript" stated that a White House attache entrusted the FEPC report release to Lautier, who promised to deliver it but instead wrote an exclusive story, implying he was untrustworthy, a cheat, and a liar by misusing a trust for personal gain.