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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-09-05
Seattle Family Now
Visiting Relatives

Highlands Clarence Son.
tarman's mother and father, Mr..
and Mrs. Fred Sleight, of Seattle,
are visiting with her for a couple
Of weeks. They arrived Monday
eTening. f.
!, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles While and
Children Of Tacoma, spent the holi-
ay weekend visiting at the Clar-
elee Sonderman home. Mrs. While
81 Mrs. Sonderman's sister.
Mrs. Wallace Preston attended
FINLEY Pinochle club Tuesday after
mon at the home of Mrs. Harry
S'nSon CT Hover.
Verne Soper is employed in Horse
Heaven.
Mr. and Mrs. Torrance Taylor
!al today (Thurs.) for their home
Yakima, after spending the past
WEEK at the D. Taylor and w. S.
G'een homes.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-09-05

Mrs. w. A. DeGood, Mrs. I. M.
Hartman, Mrs. Harry Fleming and
daughter, Patricia, attended the
Benton County Health Council on
Wednesday evening at Hanford.
Mrs. DeGood is president, Mrs Hart
man secretary of the organization.
Mrs. Fleming, executive secretary
of the Benton County tuberculosis
League, showed several reels of
sound films. The November meeting
will be in Benton City.
Herman F. Smith left Wednesday
evening for Seattle where he is
principal of the B. F. Day school.
Mrs. Smith will remain at their
Highlands ranch until after the
grape and lima bean crops are har-
vested.
j. E. Druen Of Kiona is in Port
land this week, receiving medical
treatment. He was taken there Fri
day by his daughter, Mrs. Fern
Grain of Sunnyside.
Robert Policy, fifth and sixth
grade teacher here three years, is
this years principal of the school
at Sprague.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-12-20
Calvin's Digest
Mr.. Justice Black

Justice among men is not blind;
it's administration is colored, mod
flied and influenced by good and
bad tradition, environment, person
atty and individual character. A
conception of justice can be no
higher than the evolved conscious
ness of the individual or a group
of individuals, legal training to the
contrary Notwithstanding.
Race organizations and individ-
uals who approved of the Presid-
ent's appointment of Justice Hugo
Black to the august U. S. Supreme
Court at time when he was being
branded a Klansman should feel
gratified by the impressive line of
Justice Blacks opinions unfolding
our civil liberties and constitution
al rights since that time.
Last week Justice Black wrote
unanimous opinion which nullified
a rape conviction against Edgar
Smith, 2o-year-old Negro lad of
Harris County, Texas.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-12-20
The Low Down From
Hickory Grove

Down at Tolono on the Wabash,
they used to claim that it took 2
men to see the Cannon Ball Ex-
press go through. One duck would
say, there she comes" and the
other gent would say, there she
goes" And I am thinking about
the old Wabash story on account
of the election we are just getting
over.
There hasn't been enough watch
ers. Things have been whizzing
by that we could hardly see. The
air has been full of democrats and
protestant too few people with
pump-guns.
But with the counting about
complete and we come up almost
even-steven on republicans VS.. de-
mocrats, we are gonna get little
better glimpse of what is going on.
But if it takes 2 republicans to
watch one democrat, like on the
Wabash, we are not yet out of the
woods. But we are making prog
ress.
Yours with the low down,
10 SIERRA
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-12-20
Nat. Magazine Aids
Trained Negroes

New York, Dec. 1.-THE dis
elimination of three aircraft COM
panies against II young Negro ap-
plicants for employment is de-
nounced in the leading editorial
of the current International Re-
view here.
Despite the fact that skilled
mechanics are urgently needed in
the development of the national
defense program. The Review
points out, II Negroes, all gradu-
ates of the Manhattan High
School of Aviation Trades and pos
essing the necessary requirements
and credentials, were rejected for
employment by these firms, al
though their classmates-with the
same training-were all accepted"
The editorial says this issue
will serve to convince the Ameri-
can people of the enormity of the
offense of race prejudice, race dis
elimination" 1t must be evident
to ALL" the magazine adds, chat
racism is for the totalitarians and
the dictators; it must find no sane
ton in America"
The editorial states that several
organizations have joined together
in determined effort to remedy
this outrageous discrimination"
but nothing has been done, al
though these companies are today
in dire need of more trained me-
chanics."
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-12-20
5000 Protest

Kansas City, Mo.-More than
five thousand Negro citizens, said
to have been the largest mass
meeting held here in the history
of the city, gathered at the NUM-
cipal' auditorium here Sunday, De-
cember g., to hear speakers pro-
test discrimination operating a
gainst the Negro in defense indus
try and in the Army and Navy.
Representatives of fifty organ
izations, including the Kansas
City branch of the National AS
ISOLATION for the Advancement of
Colored People, called the meet
ing.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-12-20
JUST TO REMIND YOU
Bu E. l. r.

This newspaper is but one of
hundreds of newspapers i'm the
United States, everyone of which is
publishing the news as IL Is priv
LEGGED to do. They give facts. They
state opinions. In this manner
Americans who are old enough to
understand are kept posted on
what is going on in their local
communities i'm their states In the
nation. If the thousands of readers
of newspapers did not know what
is going on they would be unable
to form sound opinions.
This newspaper, which so many
of you take for granted, is one
link in the chain which constitutes
Democracy's First Line of De-
Tense. Fifth columnists and mis-
guided persons would take this
free press from you. And If you
lose a free press you will have lost
exactly what so many of the peo-
pies of Europe have lost. To stran-
gle the press is the first move of
dictators. Remember, a free press
is your most powerful weapon
against dictatorial despotism. A
free press constitutes the first line
of defense in the battle for the
maintenance of democracy.
In no country is the press as
free today as it is in America. And
in no country are the people as well
informed as they are in the United
States.
A free press and Democracy are
inseparable. Violate one and you
crush the other. Silence one and
you destroy the very foundation
of the other.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-12-20
IAFL Convention Turns
Thumbs Down on Negro

A plea to stamp out jim crowism
within its ranks was quietly tabled
by the American Federation of La
Dor at its annual convention in
New Orleans last week. A. Philip
Randolph, head of the Brotherhood
of Sleeping Car Porters, proposed
the creation of an inter-racial COM
mittee to tackle the jim crow prob
lem in AFL unions. In an eloquent
address of 40 minutes, Mr.. Ran
dolph told the story of his people
How the railroad unions refused
to admit Negroes or allow them to
bargain; how in Tampa ALL lead
ers worked with the Ku Klux Khan
to terrorize Negroes who had pro-
tested being fired from shipyard
when the AFL signed closed shop
contract; how Negroes are denied
jobs in defense industries because
they can't get union cards.
There are millions of us who
should be with you but many of
your unions won't let us in. How
can 1 explain that to my people?
How can explain why a Negro
does not have the right to join
a union of his own choosing? We
are talking here about democracy
but the trade unions have taken
over the capitalistic and imperial
istic idea of inferior races, and
they have put that idea into the
trade union movement. Do the
delegates have the courage to face
the issu?"
Apparently they didn't for after
Mr.. Randolph sat down, no one
else spoke and the Resolutions
Committee, headed by First Vice
President Matthew VOL, quietly
sidestepped the request with few
kind words.
One can well understand why
there remains strife in the trade
union movement when its leaders
are afraid to face such issues as
outlawing of labor racketeers and
abolition Of jim crowism within its
ranks. William Green talks about
democracy but does nothing to
make this ideal real within his own
organization. He would do well to
emulate the example set by the
CLIO.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-12-20
Newbold Morris, Pres. City Council
NYC Pleads Negro Cause In Defense

Hampton Institute-Address
a group of intellectual leaders of
both races to discuss the Negroes
place in our national defense pro-
gram, Hon. Newbold Morris, pres
ident of the city council of New
York City, said:
Il come from a mighty city
where all the races on earth are
represented. Seven and a half mil
lion people of varied stock live to-
gether in peace and in understand
ing Under our democratic
form of government, as practiced
in New York, all our efforts are
toward spreading the benefits un-
der such form of government,
fairly and for all the people, with
out regard to race and creed.
TOO often, in practice, life, lib
erty and property is violated. In
too many communities, the equal
protection of the law clause has
remained a theory. So also, there
are too many instances of Unequal
ity in sharing the benefits of pub
lie education, in the distribution
of relief and jobs. All these abuses
of the spirit of the constitution
stem from one malignant enemy
of American Democracy, prejudice.
I'm New York City we meet the
enemy every day. In New York
City, we are conquering prejudice
ever day, in actual practice :.
For instance, in practice, our peo-
pie have come to recognize the
dignity and potential capacity of
the Negro :. Because of this rec
ignition of the capacity of the Ne
gro for vital citizenship in New
York City, our people obey the
law if it is enforced by a Negro
police officer, Negro health Of
ficer or Negro building inspect
or. Our sick are grateful if they
are helped back to health by a
Negro physician or Negro Nurse.
They accept the decisions of a
Negro judge; they pay taxes i'm
posed on by Negro tax commits
sioner. They invite Negroes into
a highly competitive municipal
civil service and are glad when
Negroes find places in our city
departments as civil employees. =.
This is American democracy func-
tioning at its best /. :. If it can be
done in New York, it can be done
anywhere in the land. Only when
such. liberal doctrine is practiced
in every community in America
will our people be 100 per cent
strong"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-12-20

Leading the Grand Parade of
Bands in Seattle, Duke Browning,
maestro, daringly entered a world
of competition seldom traversed
by Race men. The immediate re-
spouse of the public was so flat
tering, Browning side stepped long
range booking agencies, going di-
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-12-20

Article 1 of the Bill of Rights
(the first amendment of the Con-
stitution) gave the people of the
United States the right to free
speech, a free press and the right
to worship God according to the
dictates of ones own conscience.
So long as the Constitution re-
mains American citizens will see
that there shall be no abridge-
ment of these sacred privileges.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-12-20
God Bless America
By Iruing Berlin

While the storm clouds gather
Far across the sea,
Let us swear allegiance
To a land that's free;
Let us all be grateful
For a land so fair,
AS we raise our voices
In a solemn prayer.
God bless America
Land that I love.
Stand beside her and guide her :.
Thru the night with light from
above;
From the mountains, to the prair-
les,
To the oceans white with foam,
God bless America,
My home sweet home.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-12-20

AUDITORIUM, corner of 7th and
Union, for Monday night, January
81.
Lovers of music and dance and
the Northwest Enterprise congrat-
ulate the impresario, who brings
us pleasure with a smile, and pass
on to him our orchids.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-12-20

already announced, is ANDY
KIRK, one of the largest and most
popular bands in America. 1t will
be their first appearance On the
Coast.
To house this big band and &C.
comodate the large crowd, Brown
ing has secured the SENATOR
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-12-20
rect to the throne.
NEXT ATTRACTION
ANDY KIRK

Louis (Satchmo) Armstrong,
Erskine Hawkins. Jimmie Lunce-
ford, Floyd Ray owe their Seattle
engagements to this enterprising
impresario. His next attraction al
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-12-20

Hotel Atlas, the homelike hotel
that looks after your every COM
fort is indeed popular with those
wishing a modern place to live
while in Seattle. The Atlas is near
all railroad stations and steam
boat docks.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-12-20

Contentment is the child of
laughter. It has been said the
weeping willow bears no fruit.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-12-20

Of all the dust thrown in ones
eyes, gold dust is most binding.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-12-20

"We honor the American
Flag, symbol of our Ameri-
can heritage. The right to
life, liberty, and the pursuit
of happiness in a free ma
tion."
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-12-20

This unique structure across
Lake Washington opened to traffic
this year, brings Seattle Id miles
nearer to eastern Washington. The
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-12-20

floating bridge is four lane high
way built on huge pontoons and
is the largest floating structure
in the world, being $500 feet long,
and so feet wide.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-12-20
Sfockard'S
Barber Shop

Wishes its many friends
and the
Northwest Enterprise
A Merry Christmas and
A Happy New Year
And assures the public a
. continuation of prompt
and courteous service
Carl Stockard
Evening star., 1940-11-04
Ellen Mussey Tent
To Meet Tonight

Ellen Spencer Mussey Tent, No.
l, of the Daughters of Union Vet
Grams of the Civil War will meet at
8 o'clock tonight at the headquar-
ters, 2015 Massachusetts avenue
NV. Plans will be discussed for
veterans night and the banquet at
the Admiral Club, 1910 Rhode Is
land avenue NV. Mrs. Anna Nc
Elroy will be chairman and will be
assisted by Mrs. Lizzie Bassett, Mrs
kathryn c. Rain, Mrs. Mildred
Poore. Mrs. Mary E. Kerr, Miss Jen-
ME Hamilton and Mrs. Sarah l..
Hunter. Miss Jessie Lewis also will
complete plans for the historic
gaveI presented to the tend by j. A.
Landon to be preserved as me-
mento of Revere House and the
Illinois fourth Statehouse, now San
canon Courthouse, from which the
wood came to make the gavel and
which are replete with memories
OF Abraham Lincoln.
Mel Luster will show movies and
discuss History of Food PreServa-
ton Through the Ages" Mrs. Anna
Horn will have charge of this part
of the program.
Mrs. Matte Reason Tucker of
Cranston, r. /, national president,
announced the following local men,
bers as national officers: Treasurer,
Miss Grace Hurd; Council member,
Miss Lewis; assistant guide, Mrs.
McElroy, and member of the Legis-
lative Committee, Mrs. Bassett.
Evening star., 1940-11-04
Stephens College
AIurnnae to Meet

The Stephens College Alumnae
Club of Washington will meet to-
night at the home of Miss Louise
Marshall, Town House Apartments.
Miss Helen Froelich, president of
the club, will report on the national
alumnae convention in Columbia,
Mo, last month, when presidents
from stephens College clubs
throughout the country were in
attendance.
The Washington club will give
a dinner December II in honor of
Miss Ann Sorency of Columbia,
national secretary of the Alumnae
Association.
Officers of the Washington club
are Miss Froelch, president; Miss
Helen SChmid, vice president; Miss
Helen Sohner, corresponding secre-
tary; Mrs. H. L. Lewis, recording
secretary; Miss Marshall, treasurer,
and Miss Jane Anderson, historian.
Evening star., 1940-11-04
Y.W.C. A. Will Hold
Fellowship Week

World Fellowship Week Of the
Young Women's Christian Associa-
tion will open Sunday, when MEM
bers in SO countries will unite in
prayer for their fellow members,
Miss Sarah Lyon of the National
Board of the Y. w. c. A. In New
York, will speak here at 4:30 pm.
at the "Y. W." on THE Y. w. c. A.
in Time of War"
The Y. w. C. A. in the United
States is the only large association
in the world carrying on a normal
program Of activities this year. The
Worlds Council has had no direct
communication with associations in
Norway, Poland, Belgium, Denmark,
Rumania or Czecho-Slovakia since
those countries were occupied.
Members here will subscribe to 81
special World Fellowship fund as
thank offering that the association
in the United States can function
normally.
Evening star., 1940-11-04
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PENDLETON, Greg, Nov. A.
Sulfanilamide Is giving back to In
dians eyesight threatened by ira
choma.
In tiny clinics spotted through
out the West, public health and
Indian service doctors are treating
the dread eye disease which once
meant blindness or patient treat
ment that might show results in
six months-or three years.
Trachoma, which historians say
Coronado and his ConquiStadores
probably brought to New Mexico in
1884, has taken growing toll of
Indian eyesight since.
A virus disease, trachoma granu-
lates and scars the eyelids, leading
to soaring and eventual clouding
of the cornea, resulting in blind
ness.
Indian service doctors learned in
1888 that internal doses of sui
fanilamide would halt the symp-
tons of trachoma within three days
and that proper use would arrest
progress of the disease itself within
Evening star., 1940-11-04
Dies Predicts 5000
Will Be Indicted for
Subversive Activity
Says Italian Espionage
Is More Important Than
The Germun End
RS the Associated Press.


ORANGE, Tex, Nov. 4.-Chair-
man Dies of the House Committee
Investigating Un-American Activi-
ties predicted today 5000 indict-
rnents would be returned through
out the Nation against Subversive
groups within the next month.
Fle said investigations of the COM
mittee would show "the italian
espionage and propaganda end of
the story" is more important than
"the German end"
Mr.. Dies said the committee had
uncovered widespread activities of
italian agents similar to evidence
we recently obtained about German
espionage, which is now in the hands
of the State Department and the
Justice Department.
Several days ago." he said, I'VE
raided some Italian organizations
and got hold of evidence concern
ing Italian activities more important
to this country than recent evidence
on German and Russian activities
here"
The committee chairman said the
investigation showed Communists,
in order to get names on ballots,
were getting up petitions on which
two-thirds of the names were
forged"
He predicted the indictments
would name foreign agents and fell
low-thinkers for the forging of
names, forging of passports, per-
jury, illegal entry of the country
adm counterfeiting.
Committee agents seized records
of the German Library of Informa-
ton in New York City August 80.
Earlier they had served subpoenaes
calling on the German Tourist In
formation Office and the Trans
ocean News Service-which has no
connection with any American news
serVice-to produce their records,
Evening star., 1940-11-04

william F. Downing and Miss
Mary Ernbrey will serve as host
esSeS.
An historical evening will be held
by the District Division, Daughters
of the Confederacy, at $3.50 pm,
Thursday at Confederate Memorial
Hall. Miss Liza Ellen Carpenter,
division historian, will preside and
the chapter historians will serve as
hostesses. P. D. Gold of Florida
will deliver the address and a
musical program will be presented.
The president, Mrs. Livingston
Vann, ir., and the committee have
invited members, veterans, sons of
Confederate veterans and friends to
attend.
Evening star., 1940-11-04
Trochomo, Threat to Eyesieht,
Cured With SuIfuniIumide

two weeks. Many cases apparently
were cured.
The new treatment, supplanting a
tedious process of inverting the
affected eyelids and massaging
them with medicine, revived the
Indians waning faith in white
doctors. Many who had given up
treatments in disgust returned to
reservation clinics.
Evening star., 1940-11-04
Bombing of Hail Clouds
BRINGS AirfieId Protest
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MENDOZA, Argentina, Nov. A.
An attempt by group of scientists
to dissipate threatened hailstorms
by discharging aerial bombs in the
clouds caused CONSERVATION in the
Mendoza airdrome and brought an
immediate protest after an expert
mental bomb exploded about 400
yards from the airport.
The blast came as the Buenos-
Aires-Santiago, Chile, transport was
taking eff. Aviation officials said
the plane was not endangered, but
that such experiments near the air.
field were DANGEROUS
Evening star., 1940-11-04
u. ID. G.. Chapter
Elects Tonight

Election of officers will be held by
the Robert E. Lee Chapter, No. 644,
United Daughters of the Confeder-
acy, at a meeting at 8 o'clock to-
night at Confederate Memorial Hall,
1922 Vermont avenue NV. Mrs.
Evening star., 1940-11-04
Movie Makers to Meet

The Washington Society of ANA
teur Cinematographers will meet at
8 o'clock tonight at the Mount
Pleasant Library, Sixteenth and La
mont streets NV.
Evening star., 1940-11-04
WARMING hMthery
fGuKllg Children
WHEN COLDS STRIKE 80. Relieve Misery the Improved,
Home Tested Vieks Way. Perfected for Children

No matter what you have tried in the
past to relieve misery of colds-treat
your child the improved Vicks way
with a "VapoRub Massage. Then
notice how swiftly it starts to quiet
coughing, ease muscular soreness or
tightness and bring comfort.
With this MORE THOROUGH treat
ment developed by Vicks staff of
Doctors) the poultice-and-vapor action
of fVicks VapoRub more effectively.
PENETRATEs irritated air passages with
soothing medicinal vapors, inhaled
deeply with every breath.
STIMULATES chest and back like a
warming poultice or plaster.
Evening star., 1940-11-04

Spain has granted permission to a
group to ship sherry wine, brandies
and liquors to the United States.
Evening star., 1940-11-04

To get ''VapoRub Massage" with all
its benefits, here's what you do: Mas
sage VapoRub for ; minutes on I'M
PORTANT RIB-ARFA OF BACK as well
as chest and throat-spread thick
layer of VapoRub on chest and cover
with warmed cloth. BE SURE to use
genuine Vicks VapoRub.
When you see the results of this inn
proved Vicks treatment you will won
~ ~ der how any sensi-
GM bic, thriftynother
W. Sr@ could possibly
C~~%sN deny her child the
II wv 1A comfort and re-
i-.iet III lief it brings from
~ tff.!'I D misery of colds.