The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1939-02-17

RALEIGH, N. c., Feb. Is =
Governor Hoey has sent an agent
from the State Department of In
vestigation to Goldsboro, N. C. to
investigate the flogging of Kirby
Baldwin and Floyd Edwards by a
mob on February 8.
The governors action was taken
in response to a telegram from the
NAACP. Robert L. Thompson, the
governors private secretary, tele-
graphed Walter White that the in
vestigators would take every pos
sible step to apprehend guilty par
ties"
NEW YORK, Feb. Is - A new
request that Congressman Martin
Dies of Texas, chairman of the
Committee to Investigate IMAM
erican Activities, examine into the
workings of the Ku Klux Khan, the
Black Legion and lynching mobs,
was made by the NAACP this
week.
NEW YORK (C) = Bill Robin
son, world famous tap dancer and
movie star, walked with a limp
and carried cane when he made
brief guest appearance on the
125th st. Apollo Theatre stage
with Fats Waller and Jeni LeGon
on Monday afternoon. Bill admit
ted to the audience that he was
slightly lame.
WASHINGTON CO. = Hon. ].
Finley Wilson, Grand Exalted Rul-
er of the Elks, endorsed the ST, 500
minimum annual wage for all dis
trict and federal workers now be-
ing sponsored before Congress by
the United Government Employees,
in a stirring speech at Shiloh Bap-
fist Church Sunday evening. The
U.G.E. is also calling for an in
crease to SIS cents an hour for s.
900 charwomen in the post office
service, higher classification for
Bureau of Engraving workers and
disqualification for employees, adj
mittance of colored youths in the
U. S. Army and Navy Air corps,
and inclusion of domestic workers
in the Social Security Act for old
age and unemployment benefits.
The U.G.E. has secured wage in
creases for 5000 colored govern
ment workers since its founding
two years ago.
LOUISVILLE (UNP) = IRA
cial Progress Through Under
standing" was the theme of the
convention held here last week at
the John r. Little Mission, Rose
land and Hancock. This inter-ra-
cial conference is held every year
for the purpose of bringing togeth-
er outstanding personalities and
organizations who lend their tech
nique toward improving the gen.
eral welfare and cooperation of all
racial groups in the city.
DETROIT (UNP) Morris
Murray, owner of the Washington
Tribune of the capitol city, was in
the city last Saturday to attend
the marriage ceremony of his
daughter, Miss Marguerite Muir
ray, to Lawrence Bleach. He was
accompanied here by another
daughter, Mrs. Jean Smith, also
of Washington, who was matron
of honor at her sisters ceremony.
JOHANNESBURG JUMP Spe-
ciaD = Telephone communication
has been severed and at least ele-
ven persons killed as a result of
the floods that have swept through
Natal, Transvaal and Swaziland,
leaving devastation and disaster in
their wake.
Several natives have been en-
rloyed by the British government
in the capacity of runners since
the destruction of the communica-
tons system.
DETROIT (UNP) - Attorney
G. LeBron Simmons, president, at
a meeting of the Trade Union
Council of the Michigan chapter
of the MIC, scored the laxity of
the CLIO in Detroit for not having
made adequate provisions from a
point of view of executive recogni-
ton of the Negro Labor organizer.