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Twin-City herald., 1939-06-24
Richard Dodson Fined
Seventy-Five Dollar.

Richard Dobson, University graduate,
son of prominent Sioux City Physic-
ian, was fined seventy-five dollars in
traffic court, Friday morning.
Dobson was charged with driving
through stop sign at Thirty-sixth and
Fouth Avenue South, on the night of
June 5, crashing a Chevrolet coach.
AS a result of the accident, two per-
sons were critically injured.
Little hope is held for the recovery
of Mr.. w. M. Dreseen, driver of the
Chevrolet
The Dreseen car was knocked
against light pole, and as a result
street lights were short circuited in the
vicinity.
The fine was paid Immediately fol-
lowing sentence. Mr. Dobson was
represented by Raymond Cannon, At
torney.
Twin-City herald., 1939-06-24
PROBE CHICAGo'S CROWDED
SCHOOLS

Chicago, June, (CNA)-Sixty-five
per cent more Negro children are at
tending public schools on the near
South Side than in 1929, Don C.
Rogers, director of the Board of Ed
ucation's bureau of research and build
ing survey, told City Council SUBJ
committee this week.
The subcommittee of the Schools
Fire and Civil Service Committee OF
the Council had met for hearing on a
resolution introduced by Alderman
Earl B. Dickerson of the End Ward
calling for an investigation into over
crowding and the use of the double
shift system in schools of the city's
Negro section.
Twin-City herald., 1939-06-24
NAZI THREAT TO OFFICIAL
OF NEGRO ACTORS GUILD

New York, N. Y.-Nazi intolerance
and racial hatred reached a new high
today when Lou Layne, acting execu-
tive secretary of the Negro Actors
Guild of America, who has been &C
lively working with the Council
Against Intolerance in America, re-
ceived wastika-signed letter contain
ing threat to finish Jew hikes and
Meyers"
Scrawled and semi-literate, the let
ter was turned over to the Council as
an example of the growing bigotry
which the organization is combating
through its nationwide independence
Day Ceremony. This Ceremony is
centered about an American Dec1ara-
ton of Tolerance and Equality" ini-
tiated by George Gordon Mattle, Will
liam Allen White and United States
Senator w. Warren Barbour.
The vilifying message asserted:
1--WE American Nazis will finish the
Jew kikes, then we will get rid of you
Meyers and we will have ali White
Nazis and will keep you for horses,
till we kill you all by order of our Hit
ler."
Anti-Negro propaganda disseminated
by Nazi sources, was further illustrat-
ed last week in news release criticiz-
ing Mrs. Roosevelt for inviting Marian
Anderson, famous Negro contralto, to
sing before the king and queen of
England during thei recent visit to the
White House. This release, issued by
the Deutsches Nachrichten Bureau, Of
ficial Nazi news agency, was crudely
pasted on scrap of paper and placed
in the same envelope with the threat
ening letter.
Twin-City herald., 1939-06-24
RE: NAZI THREAT TO Off
CIAL OF NEGRO ACTORS
GUILD

New York, N. Y.-Nazi intolerance
and racial hatred reached new high
today when Lou Layne, acting execu-
tive secretary of the Negro Actors
Guild of America, who has been act
lively working with the Council against
Intolerance in America, received a
Swastika-signed letter containing a
threat to finish Jew kikes and Ne
gers"
Scraw1ed and -literate, the let
ter was turned over to the Council as
an example of the growing bigotry
which the organization is combating
through its nationwide Independence
Day Ceremony. This Ceremony is
centered about an American Decla-
ration of Tolerance and Equality"
initiated by George Gordon Battle,
William Allen White and United
States Senator w. Warren Barbour.
The vilifying message asserted:
1--WE American Nazis will finish
the Jew kikes, then we will get rid
of you Meyers and we will have all
White Nazis and will keep you for
horses, till we kill you all by order of
our Hitler"
Anti-Negro propaganda dissent
mated by Nazi sources was further
illustrated last week in a news release
citicizing Mrs. Roosevelt for inviting
Marian Anderson, famous Negro con-
tralto, to sing before the king and
queen of England during their recent
visit to the White House. This re-
lease, by the Deutsches Nachrichten
Bureau, official Nazi news agency,
was crudely pasted on scrap of pa
per and placed in the same envelope
with the threatening letter.
Twin-City herald., 1939-06-24
Negro Fair Exhibit
To Open In July

New York, June, (CNA)-A vast
exhibit of Negro achievements in the
United States will be open at the
Science and Education Building in the
New York Worlds Fair the first week
in July, it was announced this week.
The exhibit, sponsored by the Ma
tional Negro Achievement Commission
for the Worlds Fair will depict the
struggles and accomplishments of the
Negro people in this country from the
year 1919, when the victims of the
African slave trade to be brought to
this country were landed, until the
present day.
Twin-City herald., 1939-06-24
PACKERS ACCUSED OF
PLOTTING RACE RIOTS

Chicago, June, (CNA)-Negro and
white officials of the Packinghouse Or
ganizing Committee, CIO, this week
charged that certain AFL officials
were seeking to enlist unemployed
Negro workers as strikebeakers in the
event of a strike at the plants OF
Armour and Company. The Go
leaders said that names of over 1000
jobless Negroes had been obtained by
officers of former company union,
which is now in the AFL.
Fear that the packers were seeking
to duplicate the race riots whipped
up in the past by the packers to de-
feat organization attempts" was ex-
pressed by Herbert March, district di-
rector of the PWOC.
Twin-City herald., 1939-06-24

Katherine Hepburn, dynamic star oi
stage and screen, today was presented
in new role-that of a model for the
Spirit af Tolerance in a patriotic pos
ter painted by McClelland Barclay
noted illustrator, for the nationwide
independence Day Ceremony of the
Council Against Intolerance in Amer
ica.
The poster, which will symbolic the
American Declaration of Tolerance
and Equality, initiated by George Cor
don Battle, United States Senator, w.
Warren Barbour of New Jersey and
William Allen White, co-chairmen of
the Council, will be reproduced on bill
boards in Times Square and through
out the nation.
Miss Hepburn, now appearing in
the Broadway hit play "The Philadel-
phia Story" consented to model for the
painting after she had been selected
by Mr. Barclay as the American wo-
man who, in the minds of American
citizens, "best symbolized the Spirit
of Tolerance
Mr.. Barclay himself will direct the
work of transposing the painting from
the origina canvas to the Times
square billboard. He will work on
the scaffold at the Billboard next
week, when the job of painting be-
gins.
Twin-City herald., 1939-06-24
Man Drunk Ask
Judge For
RideHome

William Seymour, age 81, was il
Municipal Court, Friday morning
charged with statutory drunk.
A complaint was filed by his mother
in-law, Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson, 4o
925 10Th ve South, which claimed tina
Mr.. Seymour chased his wife anc
mother-in-law with hammer. 1t wa.
disclosed during the trial that thu
prisoner was the father of three chill
dren, ages three to eight years.
The wife is thirty-six.
Mr.. Seymour claimed that he wa,
not drunk, but was using the hammer
to repair screen.
The court found him guilty, sentence
thirty days, stayed for one year.
In the course of lecture given BY
the court, Seymour was told that hi
must refrain from drinking beer, whis
ky, alcahol, or dehorn. ~.>.-
Seymour, who uses a cane, planted
it firmly on the Courtroom floor anc
replied with some dignity, "Youl
Honor, l do not use dehorn.
After court had adjourned, he frs
requested driver of the workhouse
paddy wagon to give him a ride home
This refused, he went to police head.
quarters and requested the use of z
squad car.
AS there was no car available Mr.
Seymour had to trudge back to 81:
nineteenth Avenue South to take care
of his three kiddies.
Twin-City herald., 1939-06-24
WASHINGTON
JoTTNGs

The next two weeks will witness
the biggest legislative drive of the pre-
sent session of Congress-Re1ief, taxes
social security changes are all to be
hammered through and put on the
statute books before July l. The relief
and tax bills face deadlines-they have
to be law by the beginning of the new
fiscal year.
Relief, incidentally, will furnish
plenty of fireworks before it becomes
law. The House fought bitterly the
recommendations of its Appropriations
Committee which allowed the full ST..
716,000,000 asked by the President fol-
all relief purposes for the next twelve
months, but which ripped to pieces the
Twin-City herald., 1939-06-24
WHITE TENANTS AID NEGRO
RENT STRIKE IN BROOKLYN

New York, June, (CNA)-Negro
tenants striking against discriminatory
rents in the Bedford -Stuyvesant area
in Brooklyn are receiving assistance
OF white families, it was announced
this week by the local tenants league.
The striking families are being
charged $38 month although white
families paid $28 for the identical
apartments, declared Albert L. Clarke,
research director of the Brooklyn Fed
Grafton for Better Housing and presi-
dent of the Bedford Stuyvesant
League.
Twin-City herald., 1939-06-24
~
Edward corneaby

amount asked for the National Youth
Administration. The President asked
that NYA be given $123,OO0,OO0 but
the Committee slashed the amount to
$81 100000 This out in NYA funds
will be opposed by many in the Senate
even though those behind the reduction
hold that NYA will be able to take
care of just as many young people
this coming year as it did the past
year. One reason for the crack at the
NYA lies in the fact that under the
new reorganization program it be-
comes separate agency under Aubrey
Williams, and the conservatives in
both houses don't like Aubrey Will
liams. They think him bit too liberal
Twin-City herald., 1939-06-24
HAS PLAN FOR A. M. E.
Robert Durr

Editor of the Birmingham Weekly
Review, 416 18th Steet North, and
pastor of Nixon Tabernacle A. M. E
church, who proposes that the A. M
E. convention consolidate all colleges
and universities into two universities
one in the deep South and one in the
North; that the three denominations
papers be consolidated into one; and
that the number of presiding elders
be drastically reduced.
Calvin Service.
Twin-City herald., 1939-06-24
Alma Smith Noted
Singer Here
July 4th
Alma Smith to Join Jesse Scott in
Entertaining Crowds

Sponsors of the big picnic on Inde-
pendence Day, July a, at River1yn,
seven miles north on Lynda1e avenue,
have gone to great expense to bring to
the Twin Cities outstanding entertain
ment for that occasion.
They have signed Alma Smith, in
ternationally known stage, radio and
night club star, to join with Jessie
Scott, Twin City favorite, in providing
the large crowds with splendid enter
tainment.
The picnic will be held, rain or shine,
as plenty space is available in the
pavilion
Twin-City herald., 1939-06-24
GARDEN PARTY

A garden party will be given for
Queen Esther Temple No. 2, S. M. T.,
on Saturday afternoon and evening,
July y, 1889, at the residence of Mrs.
Chas. M. Force, 1928 Minnehaha Ave,
Minneapolis. Prize for the most pop
ula dress and hat. Public invited.
Twin-City herald., 1939-06-24
MAN KILLED IN ATTACK ON
WOMAN

Eldee Newsome, 46, 637H Sixth
Ave. North, was killed Saturday night
June 18th, as the elimination of fam
| lily brawl, which had begun earlier in
the evening, and ended in the Key
stone Cafe, at Sixth and Lyndale Ave-
nues north.
! Aubrey Henry Watkins, 20, also
known as Roland Palmer, son of the
wife of Newsom, who had been held
after he surrendered to police, was re-
leased Tuesday evening after the
Grand Jury had found no bill
According to Watkins, Mrs. New
som had left the home after family
quarrel, which had left Newsom in an
ugly mood.
Accosting Barbara Jean, 2l year old
wife of Watkins, Newsom demanded
that she disclose the whereabouts OF
his wife. N
While a crowd of habitues stood
horror struck, it is claimed that New
som drew a knife in the Keystone
Cafe where she had taken refuge and
attempted to cut her on receiving a
negative answer to his query?
Meanwhile, Watkins, who knew Of
the quarrel in progress, and was also
aware of his step fathers reputation as
knife man, walked into the keystone
to assure himself of his wife's safety.
He arrived just as Newsom slached
with his knife, but failed to hit his
mark. Instead Mrs. Watkins was
struck on the body by Newsom's arm,
and was toppled back into a booth.
Watkins yelled at Newsom, and he
turned the attack on Watkins.
Watkins, who had gun in his pos
session, fired.
Newsom ran out side door follow
ed by Watkins, who fired three more
shots at the fleeing figure.
Three of the shots took effect, kill
ing Newsom instantly.
Bewildered, Watkins left the scene
of the killing, located his mother, and
after some discussion, surrendered to
Leonard Colston, detective. In Jail, just
prior to his release, Watkins, who ap-
pears more of a boy than a benedict,
disclosed the fact that he had been
married three years.
The family moved from North Kan
sas City, Mo-, two years ago, and he
had been employed intermittently by
the Welles Drug Co. located in the
Foshay Tower.
Giving his version of the tradgedy
to representatives of the Herald, he
stated that he had previously made
every effort to remain on friendly
terms with the man he killed, although
on occasion Newsom had struck his
mother during quarrels.
Both families had resided in the
same dwelling prior to the affray. The
shooting had eliminated a series of
brawls on the northside, in which
knives and other weapons had played a
prominent part.
Police are sever1y handicapped in
maintaining order, due to the apparent
hghtness with which alterations
which might easily result in similar
climaxes are treated by the majority
of persons not involved.
Newsome was buried from Neal
funeral Home Wednesday afternoon.
1nterment was at Crystal Lake Gene
terry.
Twin-City herald., 1939-06-24

Budapest, Hungary, June, (CNA)-
Outright appropriation of Jewish
owned lands is being studied by the
government as part of its Nazi-in-
spired campaign against the Jews
Twin-City herald., 1939-06-24
PICNIC PARTY

On to New York Club invite you
and your friends to join in their Sun
day afternoon and evening party, June
25th, at the home of Mrs. Fullbright,
Rice Street, St. Paul
Note: One-half mile below Stumble
Inn on Rice Street.
Twin-City herald., 1939-06-24

RE: KATHERINE HEPBURN
SERVES AS MODEL FOR SPIRIT
OF TOLERANCE IN PAINTING
BY McCLELLAND BARCLAY FOR
INDEPENDENCE DAY CERE-
MONY OF THE COUNCIL
AGAINST INTOLERANCE IN
AMERICA.
Twin-City herald., 1939-06-24

Washington. June, (CNA) = The
American Civil Liberties Union urged
Congress this week to supply new
funds to the Senate committee investi-
eating violations of civil liberties. The
committee is headed by Senator La
Toilette.
Twin-City herald., 1939-06-24

Greatest Independence Day in His
tory: Revelry; July 4th, All Day.
Evening star., 1939-12-13

A 1Oa-inch rubber doll that drinks Its
bottle. vets its diaper. and cries. With
bathinette. extra diaper, clothes pins.
soap, sponge. safety pins-and a dainty
dress, bonnet. and booties in which to
dress dollie after her bath.
Evening star., 1939-12-13
CHEER-O-LITE
ELECTRIC
7 REES
With 'C
Masda
Lamp ----------- ~

CHEEKY decoration for the mantel hall
table. and window. a sparkling silver tree
with cut-outs in various colors and designs,
through which the inside light shines. With
cord. Eleven inches tall.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-06-12
KING, QUEEN END
F0UR-DAY VISIT
IN UNITED STATES
Enjoyed Hot Dogs, Drank
Beer at Hyde Park
Regular Picnic

ABOARD THE ROYAL PILOT
TRAIN, June 12.-Relaxed after a
visit at Hyde Park, King George and
Queen Elizabeth returned to their
Dominion of Canada today from
whence they will sail to England next
Thursday night.
The British rulers. who in three
weeks in Canada and four days in
the United States have been seen
by probably five million people in
each country, came to the end OF
their journey still smiling and they
are now more at ease.
Apparently they enjoyed them
selves more thoroughly during the
informal week lend visit with Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt
at Hyde Park than at any time OF
their tour of more than 1000 miles.
They lunched from picnic plates
Sunday, sampled American hot dogs,
drank beer and rode in an old auto
with the President, driving through
beautiful Hudson Valley and at
tended a country church.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-06-12
Six States
Storm Hit;
Lives Lost
Property Damage Esfimaf-
ed High-Heroie Res
cues Reported

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, June
21.-Half dozen Midwestern States
today began clearing away wreckage
from a weekend wind and rain
storm which caused the death of six
persons and property damage run
ming into the thousands of dollars.
Three persons were killed in In
diana, two in Ohio and one in Wis
consin.
Approximately so persons were
rescued from small boats on Lake
Erie, near Cleveland.
The storm swept across parts OF
Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan,
Wisconsin and Kentucky.
Houses were unroofed OF flattened
in the high wind, trees were up
rooted and utility service disrupted
in many communities.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-06-12
DIVERS
BLOWN" TO
OCEANS TOP
Accidental Mishaps Occur
at SdIvaging Of Wreck
ed u. 5. Submarine

PORTSMOUTH, New Hampshire,
June 12-Mishaps to two divers
when both were accidentally
blown" to the surface, one I'M
conscious, slowed the Nays salvage
work on the sunken submarine
Squalus.
Both suits saddely filled with
water.
Walter Squires, of Los Angeles,
shot upward after completing a IT.
minute job 240 feet below the sur
face of the ocean and was rushed to
the decomposition chamber where he
remained unconscious for several
hours
Ted Weymouth came to the sur
face with a nearly filled suit of
water but the air kept it away from
his head and he was quickly freed
with no bad effects.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-06-12
EDITORS ARE
BOUND
FOR ALASKA
Leave Seattle tomorrow
Arriving in Juneau
Next Friday

HELENA, Montana, June 12.-The
special trains carrying newspaper
folk on the Alaska convention ar
rived here early this afternoon on
the way to Seattle.
Those living east and south of Chi
cago left the Union Station in Chi
cago last Saturday night and those
from Iowa, Kansas and southern
points left st. Paul and Minneapolis
Sunday morning.
The Editors are due in Spokane
tonight at $3.50 o'clock and are due
in Seattle tomorrow morning at 7:30
o'clock ready to board the steamer
Aleutian sailing at O'Clock on the
Alaska cruise which takes them to
Ketchikan, Wrangel, Juneau, arriv-
ing at the Alaska Capital City at
7 o'clock next Friday morning.
Go Direct to Seward
From Juneau the Editors will go
direct to Seward, where the trains
will take them to Anchorage, Palmer,
Matanuska Colony, and Fairbanks,
arriving there at 1880 am. next
Monday. The party will leave Fair
banks, according to present sched-
ule at o'clock next Monday night,
going to Mount Mckinley Park for
the nights lodging, then leaving
early the next morning on the re-
turn trip to Seward
Sounthbound Calls
From Seward the Aleutian calls
at Valdez, Cordova, Sitka and Skag-
way and again arriving at Juneau
Monday, June 26 at am. for a
three hour stay. From Juneau the
Aleutian calls at Petersburg, Ketchi-
kan, then Metlakatla and from the
latter port direct to Seattle arriving
there Thursday, June 90.
During the cruise the convention
will be in session and many talks
will be given of vital interest to pub
fishers. On Wednesday, June %,
the day before reaching Seattle, the
election of officers will be held and
invitations for the next conven-
ton will be received.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-06-12
BY PRESTON GROVER

WASHINGTON, June IL. = The
bloc on the hill pushing for leglsla-
ton to tear apart the financial struc-
ture of railroads and put it together
again will have an inside aide IN
high place in the person of Jerome
Frank, newly chosen chairman OF
the Securities and Exchange Com
mission.
Reforms in financing advocated
by Senator Wheeler OF Montana
and other members OF Congress have
been documented with philosophic
speeches and SEC opinions by Frank.
Frank looks like a Spanish don
dark, oval-faced; and he plays
with words with the facility of a
toreador flicking a bull. He was a
high priced attorney in New York
before he joined the New Deal in
1888 and during two year recess
between New Deal jobs he became
the high-priced attorney again
Washington, currently at odds over
$23 week salaries for WPA white
collar hands, had a whale of a good
time over dispute between Frank
and the Interstate Commerce Com
mission as to whether he should be
paid $40 an hour or $l3 an hour as
counsel for two years in reorgahiza-
ton of the Missouri Pacific Railroad.
AS attorneys pay goes in the upper
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-06-12
Customs Inspector Seized
for Trying TO Query
Storm Troopers
BRITISH-RU5SIAN
pARLEYS RENEWED
Special Envoy Is Flying TO
Moscow in Effort 10
Perfect Treaty
(By Associated Press

Charges of attempted kidnapping
and espionage, filed by the Free City
of Danzig against Polish Customs
Inspector, created new issue today
in the Free City, while Great Brit
ain and Russia renewed negotiations
for a mutual assistance agreement.
Polish Inspector Jan Henryk Lip
inski was arrested Friday night on
charges he was trying to obtain
military information from German
storm troopers visiting Danzig by
representing himself as a former
German Reserve Officer and trying
to persuade them to cross the border
into Poland.
Reports at Warsaw said Polish
Commissioner for d anzig, Marian
Chodacki, protested to Free City
authorities.
New British PROPOSAL
In London, British Foreign Secre-
tary Lord Halifax outlined to Ivan
Maisky, Russian Ambassador, Bril-
tain's new formula which is being
sent to Moscow in a fresh attempt
to break the long standing deadlock
on the proposed British-French-
Russian mutual assistance pact.
William Strang, Foreign Office ex-
pert on Central European affairs,
who was named special envoy to
Moscow for negotiations, left by
airplane for the Russian capital.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-06-12
Immediate Appropriation
Sought So Work Can
Begin at Once
MILITARY CHIEFS
EMPHASIZE need
National Defense Requires
Interior Air Base, Says
Staff Officers

WASHINGTON, June 12.-Plans
for an eight million dollar air depot
adjoining the Government arsenal
at Ogden, Utah, and four million
dollar air base at Fairbanks. Alaska
were laid before Congress today
within requests for immediate APP
preparations of funds to begin con1
struction.
Details of the two projects, major
units in the War Departments air
defense expansion program, were
disclosed with publication of House
Committee hearings on supplement-
al appropriations for the year be-
ginning July l.
Essential, Says Air Chief
General H. H. Arnold. Chief of the
Army Air Corps. said contraction
of an inland base in Alaska is es-
sential to national defense.
All witnesses before the committee
emphasized the importance of the
base.
General Malin Craig, CHIEF OF
Staff, said 1t was a necessary ex-
tension of the defenses Of contin-
entail United States"
Combat Unit Planned
He said the Army proposed to es-
tablish combat unit at the field
for defensive purposes.
Arnold emphasized the bases i'm
portance for training army pilots in
all-weather flying and to carry on
experiments with subzero opera
lions. He also said the base would
backstop coast defenses
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-06-12
s INMATES OF
REF0RMAT0RY
MAKE ESCAPE
Hold Warden as Hostage
for Short Time-Fin-
ally Captured

BUENA VISTA, Colorado, June
l2.-Four of six Colorado Reform
atory inmates, who escaped yester-
day and for time held Warden w.
II. johnson hostage, were sur
rounded and captured shortly af-
ter daylight today in the rugged
mountain country 20 miles east of
here.
The four were cold and hungry
and we're huddled around camp
fire.
Two others are still at large.