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Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1939-08-10

dos Just at this time there is more
defeatist talk among them than we
have heard since 1886. Battles are
sometimes won when secretly the
commander is doubtful about the re-
suit, but battles are never won where
the general admits defeat before the
battle is we'll started. Neither
is a political battle won on purely
negative platform"
A Program With No Details
Naturally the argument continues
that the Republicans cannot get con-
troll Of the Government unless they
stop "the unparalleled waste that
has nearly bankrupted the Nation"
Unless they will balance the budget,
and yet give necessary aid to those
Senator Capper supported and voted
for the appropriation bill that added
third of billion dollars to the a
mount asked for in the budget sub
mitted by President Roosevelt in the
matter Of farm relief-failing, Incl
denally, to make any provision for
additional revenue to pay these hun
dreds of millions. This means, of
course, that they swell the, annual de-
ficit by that amount. Doubtless the
| farmers can use the additional help,
: and Kansas cannot be expected to
show much indignation at its senior
Senator g vote, but it hardly gears
| with the Senator's declarations OF
stringent economy.
Every Republican orator, editor OF
newspaper columnist insists that Gov
eminent expenses must be cut, but
there is yet to arise one who VIII
state how and where the cutting is tc
I've done.
AS to our near approach to nationa
bankruptcy, the newspapers OF the
day this is written tell of another In
crease in the market value OF oul
Government bonds-they are nov
selling from 106 to 116. In the goot
old Hoover Mills days they were dow
ir the eighties. The terrific cost O.
interest on our National debt is an
other evidence Of our financial plight
The interest charges were more il
who need assistance, etc., ETC., the.
cannot hope to win.
That certainly is resourding pro
gram-but neither Senator Capper no
any other Republican has indicated
how they purpose going about carry
ing it out Inc way of stopping expen
diture, wasteful or otherwise, is t
hold down appropriations, and ye
1921 when President Harding was u
office with the war-cry of "Back t.
Normally" then they are today. I'M
means not merely that they. wer
more sin proportion, but actually tn
total interest paid them was million
in excess of what it was last year.
Il Still the Republicans must declar
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1939-08-10
COULEE CITY DISPATCH
I. W. (BLs) H11soN, Editor
entered at the postoffice at Coules
City. WASH. as second-class matter.
Published Every Thursday Morning
In the Interest Of Coulee City and
the NeiShbOring Vicinity.

According to Chairman Otter OF
the Republican Congressional Cam
paign Committee, the COP. members
in the Senate and House have accom-
plished various miracles in economy
and have saved the country from the
menace of dictatorship, and number
of other devastating perils.
The Republicans in the Senate num-
Der Just twenty-three-exaetly one
third Of the Democratic strength. The
COP. Representatives muster little
over one-third of the House member
ship. Claiming Republican credit for
the measures good or indiher'
ent-that the present Congress has
enacted, somehow suggests the fable
of the pup who Dragged tnat he had
chased the railroad train out OF town
In the performance. Representative
Otter sees in 1910 the placing OF the
Republican party in control OF the
administrative branch Of the Govern
ment as we'll as the House Of Repre-
sentatives.
Then comes along the Topeka Cap
ital-Senator Capper's newspaper
which announces ed torially that "I1
the campaign of 1910 the New Dsa
leadership will continue" The person
al organ of this bellwether among thu
COP. Senators goes on lugubriousl.
thus: "And what will the Republican
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1939-08-10

as the Democratic standard-bearer
i'll 1910 will mean the creation
Of third party by New Dealers in
Washington and the other IL Far
Western states, it is declared by How
ard Costigan, executive secretary Of
the Washington Commonwealth Fed.
Grafton, in an article in the "Nation"
which went on sale July 31st.
The article, entitled "The Maver-
ick Far West" deals with the atti'
tude Of the west towards the Orient,
the defeat of the Townsend Plan and
the New Deal works program and
their effect on the 1910 elections.
Roosevelt, he says, is the selection OF
political observers as the Democrat .
Zone cinch bet'' in the far west.
"Although the West may be con-
fused it is LIBERAL" the article says
"Liberal but unlabelled. Faced with
the choice between a Democrat of
Garner stripe and "liberal" Re
publican like Dewey, the west would
likely go Republican. The Republicans
will hammer the third-term tom-tom
! but their humping will fall for the
most part on deaf ears. Westerners
, are less easily influenced than their
eastern brothers,"
"'Thcre is every chance that a
Western conference Of progressives
may be called by Administration lib
erals and western New Dealers For
pre-primary action. If such confer
| erce is called soon the New Deal
| states will have a better chance. Ii
such action is not taken the outcome
is unpredietabe. Should conservative
get the Democratic endorsement the
West will probably be split three
ways. The conservatives. along with
liberals, will 60 Republican. particular
ly If Dewey is the choice. The cynici
and syndicalists will stay home. The
New Deal insurgents will undoubtedly
form "third party which might
prove a second or possibly . frs
party so far as this section Of thu
country is concerned, with the Demo
cratic party resuming its traditional
role in the West ls an also-ran. Ii
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1939-08-10

SEND BROKEN GLASSES direct
to Dr.. Alfred E. Jones, Box 1916,
Spokane. Glasses and repairs manu-
featured by recognized dispensers.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1939-08-10

the event of war all bets are of.
Roosevelt would be drafted and he
would be imposs bic t. defsAt. I"
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1939-08-10

hospital. Mr.. Helmke is survived by
his wife. Burial will be in the Ephra-
ia Cemetery.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1939-08-10
FRANK r. HELMKE PASSES

Frank R. Helmke, 33. Of Hartline,
passed away, August Z, at Spokane
St. Paul recorder., 1939-02-17
J.F. Stevens
Pleads Guilty,
Seeks Probation

]. F. Stevens, 1894 Fourth Ave.
So., former mail carrier, through
his counsel, R. A. Skinner, changed
previous plea of not guilty to one
of guilty to taking SO from the
mails when he was arraigned be-
fore Federal Judge M. A. Joyce,
February 13.
Stevens was indicted by the Fed
eral grand jury after he was
arrested by postal inspectors while
on his job.
Upon request of his attorney,
Mr.. Skinner, his case was referred
to the Federal probation officer by
Judge Joyce.
The defendant will be sentenced
March 13. Hope is held by his
friends that leniency will be shown
him.
St. Paul recorder., 1939-02-17
Rock Island
R.R. Would Stop
MitcheI's Move

Washington (CNA)-An effort
is being made by the Chicago, Rock
Island and Pacific Railway to pre-
vent the "race discrimination" case
brought against it by Congressman
Mitchell of Illinois from ever COM
ing to a hearing.
In communication to the Inter
state Commerce Commission, rail-
road attorneys asked that the case
not be considered as requested by
Mitchell. They characterized the
Congressman's petition as "an eff
fort to dramatize an adventitious
incident into an epochal spectacle. ~
MitchelPs complaint was dis
missed some time ago by the ICC
and he petitioned for reconsidera-
tion. The complaint grew out of
the jimcrowing of the Congress
man during trip he made to Hot
Springs, Ark. After the train en-
tered Arkansas, Mitchell was made
to leave Pullman and ride in a
Jim Crow coach
Mitchell contended that he paid
for first class service as an inter
state passenger from Chicago to
Hot Springs, but received second
class accommodations for part of
the journey. White passengers on
the same train received frst-class
services for the entire trip, he
pointed out.
St. Paul recorder., 1939-02-17
DAVIS AND FIELDS ARRESTED

In one of the most extensive
police roundup in years, Ernest
Fields, 800 East Thirteenth street,
and Harrison Davis, 391 North
Western Avenue, were arrested by
police roundups in years, Ernest
persons were picked up at the
Fields establishment and he was
held on suspicion Of conducting a
disorderly house. Three people
were nabbed at Davis and he was
held on suspicion of the sale of
liquor without a license and gam
bling. .....
A total of AZ persons were ar
rested from midnight Saturday to
q a. m. Sunday in the 19 taverns
and private homes visited by the
raiders led by Assistant Chief of
Police Charles j. Tierney.
St. Paul recorder., 1939-02-17

A figure seen for years at all of
the public affairs, she was consid-
cred eccentric of dress since in
these late years she wore for pub
lie occasions the styles worn 3E
years ago.
At one time Mrs. Waldon's
wealth was estimated at $500, 600,
but in recent years her property
holdings have diminished.
Her illness was brief. Funeral
services were held from the Neal
Funeral chapel with Rev. C. F.
Stewart officiating. Interment at
Lakewood, -
Mrs. Waldon's survivors, if any,
are unknown.
The Neal Funeral Home had
charge Of funeral arrangements.
St. Paul recorder., 1939-02-17
Mamie Lacey Walden,
Famous Mill City
Character, Is Dead

Mrs. Mamie Lacey Mitchell Wal
don, one of the Mill City's most
colorful characters, was found dead
Sunday morning on a duofold in
the living room of her home.
For many years a figure on the
south Washington Avenue district,
Mrs. Walden had a great host of
friends. Married three times, her
best known husband was "Kidd''
Mitchell, saloon proprietor, who
owned the famous Minneapolis
Negro baseball team.
For all the years after his death
and her subsequent marriages, she
has operated the recreation parlor
below her apartment at 1913 Wash
ington south.
St. Paul recorder., 1939-02-17
St. Peter 55th
Anniversary Rally
Gets Under Way

Leaders of the 55 st. Peter
Church Rally teams met at the
church Sunday afternoon. James
Lewis, chairman, presided over the
meeting. Rev. G. F. Stewart, pas
tor, outlined the plans for the drive
which will reach its climax the last
week in April with a huge 55th
Anniversary Celebration, lasting
three days.
An effort will also be made to
obtain 55 new members.
The first subscriber to the rally
was ]. R. Aubrey. Closely follow
ing him was the general chairman
and his wife, Mrs. Bessie Lewis.
St. Paul recorder., 1939-02-17
College Women in
Annual Founders
Day Celebration

The Twin City branch of the
National Association of College
Women will observe it's annual
Founders Day.
A program has been arranged at
the Minneapolis Sunday Forum
hour with Miss Constance Fisher
of the st. Paul Family Welfare
Association who will be the princi-
pal speaker.
A skit written by two of the
club members, Mrs. Paul Curry and
Mrs. w. Donald Brown, will be
presented.
St. Paul recorder., 1939-02-17

An Atlanta, Georgia; woman,
present Y. w. C. A. secretary at
Birmingham, Alabama, was named
head resident of Phyllis Wheatley
House Wednesday.
The new Community House ex-
ecutive is Miss Magnolia Latimer,
who will assume the Wheatley di-
rectorship about April 1.
Miss Latimer, SO years old, is a
native of Atlanta, Ca, where she
received practically all of her edu-
cation with the exception of grad
uate work at Northwestern Uni
versity, Evanston, III. She is a
St. Paul recorder., 1939-02-17
Y.W.C.A. Worker Named
New Head Resident
at Wheatley House

graduate Of Spelman College, At
lanta University and the Atlanta
School of Social Work.
She has taught school in Illinois
and in Florida, has served as field
assistant to the Executive Secre-
tary of the Atlanta Urban League.
Since 1887 she has headed the
Birmingham Y. W. C. A, which
post she will resign to come to Min
neapolis.
Miss Latimer was given a one
year contract when she came to
Minneapolis to be interviewed by
the personnel committee of the
Wheatley board of directors.
St. Paul recorder., 1939-02-17
Illness Prevents
Appearance OF
MOrdeccai Johnson

The scheduled Twin City ad-
dresses of DIR. Mordeccai Johnson,
president of Howard University,
were Cancelled late last week on
account of the educators illness.
DR.. johnson became i'll early last
week in Washington. His wire
came too late for the information
to be carried in the last issue of
this newspaper.
St. Paul recorder., 1939-02-17

VINO .DeueVeQ IN uDefCy Tor all All
one hundred years.
The speaker cited seven great le-
gal victories won before the United
States Supreme Court since 1870.
Redmond's address was the high
light of the annual affair presided
over by Harry L. Scott, president
of the auxiliary. A guest at the
speakers table was one of the
country's most distinguished social
workers, Miss Lillian M. Peck, ex-
ecutive secretary National Fedora
tion of Settlements, who spoke
briefly.
Others who appeared on the pro-
gram were Mrs. Ruth Gage Thomp-
son, president of the Phyllis
Wheatley Board of Directors; a
girls trio and the house string en-
semble.
A wire was read from Miss w.
Gertrude Brown, first head resi-
dent.
The Phyllis Wheatley House
Board of Directors is composed of
Mrs. Ruth Gage Thompson, Presi-
dent; Mrs. Charles L. Harris, 1st
Vice Pres; Mrs. Robert Charlton,
End Vice Pres; Mrs. Audre Nc
Cullough, Recording Secretary; Mr..
VIM. M. Smith, Corr. Secretary;
Mr.. J. E. Stoddard, Treasurer.
Other members are: Mrs. John
H. Marfeld, Mr.. James A. Davis,
Mr.. Calvin w. Aurand, Mrs. James
Paige, Mrs. ]. Frank Fraser, Mrs.
Hugh Mcdonald, Mrs. Robert B.
Orr, Mrs. E. S. Mooers, Mr.. Russell
G. Powers, Mr.. Charles D. Fist,
Mrs. B. S. Smith and Rev. Damon
P. Young.
staff: Mr.. Raymond o. Hatcher,
Acting Head Resident; Miss Helen
M. Scott, Statistical Secretary;
Mrs. Marjorie C. Mason, Office
Clerk; Miss Ruth G. Hamlin, Di-
rector, Girls Dept; Miss Eva Lee,
Asst. Girls Dept; Miss Jeanette
Dorsey, Director, Music Dept; Mrs.
Monjoy Jones, House Manager;
Mrs. Margaret Ford, Asst. House
Manager; Miss Dorothy Hall, Di-
rector, Nursery; Mr.. Stafford Lott,
Act. Director, Boys Dept; Mrs.
Irene Harvey, Cook; Mr.. Walter
Barbee, Engineer, and Mr.. Audrey
Doughty, Janitor.
Special Workers and Instructors:
Miss Rachel James, Librarian and
Handicraft Inst; Mr.. Val Sandeen,
Dramatic Instructor; Mr.. Byron
Paige, Dancing Instructor; Mrs.
Eva Mallory, Librarian; Mrs.
Dorothy Thomas, Asst. in Girls
Dept; Mr.. Robert Renfro, Asst. in
Boys Dept; Mr.. Donald Session,
Asst. in Boys Dept; Mr.. Henry
Breedlove, Asst. in Boys Dept;
Mr.. Cozelle Breedlove, Asst. In
Boys Dept; Mr.. Leon Vaughn, In
strumental Inst, Music Dept; Mr..
Norman Light, Asst. in Boys
Dept; Mr.. John w. Moultrie, Re
search Director; Mr.. Horace Bell,
Boxing Instructor; Mr.. August.
Piper, Asst. in Boys Dept.
St. Paul recorder., 1939-02-17

WE1EATLEY HOUSE HEAD RESIDENT
Where to Buy
Recorder

Isaiah Brown, 500 st. Anthony Ave.
Norman Davis, 639 st. Anthony
Oliver Dody, 221 st. Anthony
Eugene Hilyard, 551 West Central
Ave.
Robert jones' 369 Jay st.
La Rain Latimer, BAT Cathedral Pl.
Majestic Drug Store, Dale and Rom
do st.
Sirott Drug Store, Rondo and
GrUtto
St. Paul recorder., 1939-02-17
Business Man
Celebrates His
5Oth Birthday

CELEBRATES 5OTH BIRTHDAY
o. J. Walker, $40 Rice St., trans
fer man, celebrated his 5Oth birth
day Feb. Is.
Mr.. Walker is one of the city's
most progressive business men. !
St. Paul recorder., 1939-02-17
Edward DOty
Employed at
Swing Shop
ED DOTY EMPLOYED AT
SWING SHOP

Edward Byron Doty of piano
fame is employed at the new Swing
Shop, 385 Minnesota Street. The
Swing Shop, which is located in
the New York Building, just off
Sixth Street, opened to the public
Saturday of last week.
Stop in and buy the latest swing
numbers. They have 'em. See
their ad elsewhere in this issue.
St. Paul recorder., 1939-02-17
E. o. PEARCRs FATHER DIES

E. o. Pearce, 381 Carroll Ave-,
left Monday night for Toledo,
Ohio, to attend the funeral of his
father, D. a.. Pearce.
The elder Mr.. Pearce, formerly
of st. Paul, died suddenly last Sun
day morning when he was stricken
with paralysis.
St. Paul recorder., 1939-02-17
LEAVES FOR BROTHERS
BEDSIDE

Mrs. Bessie Lewis, 2S15 Elliot
Ave-, left Wednesday for Des
Moines, Ia, where her brother,
Williams, lies dangerously i'll.
The Minneapolis Emergency Re
lief club win meet Wednesday,
Feb. 20, at 4 p. m, with Mrs.
Mayme Burrell, 8545 4th Ave. S.
All members are urged to attend.
St. Paul recorder., 1939-02-17
RETURNS FROM CALIFORNIA

Mrs. Floyd Jackson (nee Barbara
Peoples) has returned home from
Los Angeles to visit her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Peoples, of
706 Rondo st. Mrs. Jackson will
remain here about a month before
returning to the Angel City to join
her husband, who is in the employ
of very wealthy Los Angeles
firm.
St. Paul recorder., 1939-02-17

Volunteers: Mr.. Thomas Love,
Saxophone and Clarinet; Mr.. Rob
ert Williams, Instructor, Drums;
Mr.. Webster Epperson, Boxing In
structor; Mr.. John F. Thomas,
Asst. in Boys Dept; Mrs. Mar
guerite Combs, Cooking Instructor.
Four of the board members are
colored and fourteen are white
persons.
St. Paul recorder., 1939-02-17
Nothing Too
Good for This
Papers Readers

The best in food buys for thrifty
families are found weekly among
the grocery and meat markets who
advertise In YOUR newspaper.
Nothing is too good, they say, for
this papers readers.
St. Paul recorder., 1939-02-17
GOOD EATS!!

The best cooks in st. Paul will
prepare the Chicken and Chitter-
ling Dinner given by st. Phillips
Mems Club, Tuesday, February 81,
in the Church Guild Hall, 8 to 8
p. m. Tickets 35c.-Advt.
St. Paul recorder., 1939-02-17

Call J. w. Pate, Real Estate and
Insurance Expert. Rentals, Fire
Insurance, Sick, Accident PrOtec-
tiOn. disqualification. Atlantic
1854. bridgeport $685. or Midway
ss40.-Advt.
St. Paul recorder., 1939-02-17
DINNER

st. Paul Iowa Club win give
Chitterling and Fish Dinner at
Pioneer Hall, 5SS ROndo ST., Mon
day, February 20, noon until CD
Tickets 25c, public inyited.-adv
St. Paul recorder., 1939-02-17
Redmond Traces Negroes
Legal Fight to Obtain
Rights at Wheatley Dinner
CROWD ATTENDS FIFTEENTH ANNUAL COMMUNITY HOUSE
r. MEETING

S. A. Redmond brilliant ST. Louis lawyer dy pictured the 15O
struggle United States courts for the rights
American Negro the fifteenth annual meeting of Phyllis Wheay
Auxiliary Tuesday night
Redmond setchd the legal battle which interested white citizens
believed in liberty for all Americans have fought than
St. Paul recorder., 1939-02-17

Save the date Of Tuesday, Feb.
ii, Phyllis Wheatley Dinner. Make
reservations early, Dinner 5Oc.-
Advt.
St. Paul recorder., 1939-02-17
. IMPROYED

Mrs. VIM. Moore, 586 West Cen
tral Ave-, who has recently been ill,
is convalescing at home.
St. Paul recorder., 1939-02-17
GEO. STILLMAN ILL

George Stillman of Stillman's
Grocers, with stores all over Min
neapolis, has been i'll for several
days.
St. Paul recorder., 1939-02-17

Keep off date, Marles Griffin Re
cital March Is, Phyllis Wheatley
HOuse.-advt.
St. Paul recorder., 1939-02-17
Negro Is Shadow
Over Southern
ThOt = Maverick

new 1OTk, sFSD. lU!-1n almost
every southern question, the Negro
is long, black, shadow affecting
southern thought, declares Maury
Maverick, former congressman
from Texas, in an article in the
winter number of the Virginia
Quarterly Review.
Writing under the title of Lets
Join the United States" the fiery
Texan, who was the only southern
Congressman to vote for federal
anti-lynching bill during the last
session Of Congress, lashes out at
the phony tradition of the South in
these words:
Two SOuths
"Sir, there are, two Souths. The
South! The Glorious South! The
land of noble families, illustrious
traditions, of magnolia blossoms
and beautiful poetry-of Old Black
Joe's bowling and scraping to their
cultured masters who, always
treated their Negroes just exactly
as Nobody Else Knows How.
"Then there is the region of poor
whites and underpriviieged Ne
groes; of the worst labor conditions
in the United States, of unstable
business and agriculture, of the
lowest standard of living; of lynch
ing bees; of lowest production in
dairy products and green vege-
tables, the worst housing and the
lowest wages anywhere in our
country"
Traces Background
Maverick traces the historical
background of the type of thinking
which makes American tories fight
so hard for Estates rights" "local
sef-goyernment," "plant police y
plantation police" the right to be
'tler alone" in business. Back of
it all is the Negro, he says, either
as a fact or symbol.
Gas in almost every other south
ern question" he says, "the Negro
was a long black shadow"
Not content with an exposition
of the problems affecting the South
and its relationship with the rest
of the country, the former South
ern congressman, who is now run
ming for Mayor of San Antonio,
Texas, gives his Interpretation of
a way out.
Eyes. The South may rise, but
if that is to be done, let us leave
the magnolia blossoms on the trees,
and use the brains in our heads for
thinking, rather than for emotions
and escape complexes. Let US say
the condition of the South was
forced upon US by the slave ship
pers of New England, and that New
England stole the slaves away; let
US lay it on those who destroyed us
in the Civil War, and then kicked
us down under the heel of Eastern
exploitation. But let us agree that
this is merely history, and solves
nothing for the future. Let us re-
solve that from here on out we are
determined to free ourselves. IF
we do not, this time it will be our
own fault"
St. Paul recorder., 1939-02-17

Myi Myl Count Basic viii be
here in the first week in March
Advt.
St. Paul recorder., 1939-02-17

"COunt" Basic is coming the first
week in March.-Advt.
St. Paul recorder., 1939-02-17
MOST COMPLETE

and best read weekly paper pub
lished in the whole state of Min
nes0ta!
St. Paul recorder., 1939-02-17

This newspaper has the most
thorough coverage of the Negro
population ever offered.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-28
HOGAN DISPOSES
 OF BUSY DOCKET
Motor Vehicle Deputy Fin- ishes Is Cases in City
 Court

Disposition of the cases of fifteen persons arraigned before Deputy Commissioner Francis w. Hogan, of the department of motor vehicles, for hearings in city court yesterday are as follows:
 John H. Moran, Jr., TOP Cooke street, operating under the influence to file insurance certificate; Manuel Comes, 65 Abbott avenue, evading responsibility, limited license to be issued; Thomas Griffin, 312 Wolcott street, violation operating under in- f1uence of liquor, decision reserved; {; John Synnott, 27 Camp street, finan- cial case closed; Peter J. Connolly, Jr., 40 Washington street, reckless driving, O. K. to take test; Malcolm Perkins, Oakville, financial case closed; Benjamin Plant, Jr., 1892 Bishop street, financial case closed i; Muron T. Humphreville, 76 Hillside avenue. Thomaston, financial case closed.
 Elden L. Grant, Reynolds Bridge, reckless driving to file insurance certificate; John w. Brundage, Pros pect, operating uninsured car, license returned at hearing; Epiphane Cote, 46 Baldwin street. second conviction of reckless driving to file insurance certificate; Anthony Purcaro, 529 Riverside street, overlooking, warned; c. Whittlesey Hart, West Cornwall, complaint of reckless driv- ing, warned; Charles Pastor, 19, Har- winton avenue, Torrington, com- plaint, operating after drinking, to file insurance certificate.