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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-28
THE WORLD WAR 25 YEARS AGO,
 MAY 28, 1915
fRv vJnlted Press,

(By United Press) Russlan forces captured Uru- miah, Persia.
 Eastern Front scene of intense fighting around Prxemsyl and Stryji.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-28
Three Billion Dollar Increase In National Debt Limit; Congress to be Asked to Enact
 Taxes This Year In Order to Meet Expenses
King Leopold Ousted
 From His Throne After He Orders Surrender

Paris, May 2S.-(UP)- Leopold HI has been de- prved of the Belgian throne radio statement by Bel gan Premier Hubert Pierot said today few hours after announcement that Leopold had surrendered the Belgian army to the Germans, the refugee premier declared in radio speech that all Belgian officials were released from their oath of allegiance to the king and that the monarch had been repudiated.
 Pierlot repudated the surrender of the Belgian army "Disregarding the governments formal unanimous advice the king opened separate negotiations and treated with the enemy" Pierlot said.
 Belgium will be astounded but the shortcomings of one man cannot be imputed to the entire nation.
 NO act of the king has effect unless is counter signed by his minister This principle absolute is fun damental rule of our institutions"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-28
King Has Obeyed Invader

King Has Obeyed Invader
 Pierlot said that the kings powers passed on to the refugee ministers and that "n dssovng the link uniting him with the nation the king placed himself under the authority of the invader"
 "Constitutional power cannot be exercised un- der control of the enemy.
 He Is No Longer Ruler
 "Under these circumstances he is no longer in position to govern because it is evident that the functions of the head of state cannot be exercised under foreign control"
 "The kings act, which we deplore, does not commit the nation" the premier continued
 Belgium Will Fight On
 Belgium will fight on until victory. A new army will be raised to fight alongside the Allies. "Those capable of bearing arms will be mobi- ized. Others will do war work. We are passing through the most painful trial in our history What ever happens we will remain worthy or those Who fought from 1914 to 1918."
 Army Did Not Deserve Fate
 Our army did not deserve fate meted out to it, the premier said
 "The king under the Belgian constitution, swore to observe that all power from the nation Ths power exercised in fashion determined by the constitution
 People Will Fill Vacancy
 In connection with the decision to deprive the king o his throne Perlo said that in case Of vacancy III oya power the constitution prescrbes meeting of both houses of parliament and that in the meantime the power Sa be exercised by the government.
 Ministers Will Rule
 During the interval the kings constitutional powers will be exercised on behalf of the Belgian nation by the ministers meeting in council and under their respons bility," he said.
 "Offcers and civil servants are released from their oath of obedience to the king"
 The refugee leaders said that the Belgian cabinet decided on civil and military mobizations of Begans, on French soil If necessary.
 "We must save our honor" Paul Hymans former premier said after meeting of parliamentary leaders ir Paris
 Not a Hint of Surrender
 There were various accounts of the surrender of tho king to the Germans French sources said that icon tl Continued Pare o)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-28
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington. May 2s--UP)--Gov- ernment expenses and receipts for the current fiscal year through May .6th, compared with year ago: Fhis Year Expenses Last Year ts,409, ,72i, ,120.O2 $s,190, ,904 .39f.53 k5,099, ,410,309.17 $5,014,0 094 ,S93.77
 Cross Deficit
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-28
Surrender of King Has Given Hitler Opening
Vital Left Wing of Trapped Allies Now Colapses; But France Britain Will Continue to Fight on
 to Last Soldier
BY RALPH HEINZEN United Press Staff Correspondent)

Paris, May 2S. - (UP) - King Leopold surrendered vancing Naz legons the road to English Channel ports and collapsed the vital left wing of trapped Allied armies fighting in the north against Adolf Hters
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For your picnics and outing Frank. furt and Sandwich Roll call 5-1262 Schmeider's. 85 E. Main St. Adv.
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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-03-15
Bob Jones Springs Surprise In Election
Lynch Bill Wins First Round Before
Judiciary Sub Committee OF Senate

WASHINGTON - A senate jul
dietary subcommittee approved
the anti-lynching bill today.
Chairman Van Mugs, Democrat
of Indiana, said the report would
be made to the full judiciary COM
mittee Monday. He predicted the
bill would be reported favorably to
the senate week later.
Senator Connally, Democrat, of
Texas, who cast the lone dissent
ing vote in the subcommittee, con-
ceded the measure would reach the
senate calendar but said senators
from Southern states would resist
the passage with all the endurance
and fortitude of which they are ca
pable."
The bill, which has been beaten
several times by senate filibusters
already has passed the house.
1t would make it felony for a
state or local peace officer to fail
to use "all diligent efforts" to pro-
tect an arrested person from a
lynch mob. Three or more persons
would constitute a mob.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-03-15
What Are We, Mice or Mem?

The protest that the group whole should register
in this instance be directed at those members OF the
group who saw fit bargain and result OF their bar
gain their privileges of employment We are not so sure
that the thirty days salary will be sufficient in the long run
to living expenses of these four men or OF other
men who find it impossible to sail, result of such COM
promises being entered into
We do feel that far from right when pre-
dict that compromise will be for possibly two weeks
pay not to sail to contest the
sailing The step will be agreement entered into for
weeks salary and eventually agreement entered into
which will deny members of the union who happen to be
members of the Negro the right to sail at all We
the opinion that these protesatons should last and
be SO would be considered unwse by member
of the offer such compromise and will be felt to
be detrimental the part of the Negro himself to
enter into accept such compromise.
Such compromises make it most difficult for those
people who contendng that there is of right
wrong standards of decency and fair play
which be adhered to for the benefit of all working peo-
ple engage in their programs of trying to improve work
ing conditions opportunities for all people, long
always loop hole through which by which diff
of opinions may be brought out to the extent that
Individuals any group suffer at great length re-
suit thereof.
We feel that it would be appropriate to think here of
the questions that could be asked regarding such activities
memberships in unions? Thirdly, why do pay mem
bership dues in unions? Lastly, what we, NICE OR
MEN?
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-03-15
Civic League, Inc.
Menaced by Police

The Colored Civic League, Inc,
to promote the economic, political
and social welfare of Negroes, was
opened March 4, at 115 18th Ave.
So. Various race organizations
were invited to meet and discuss
their problems.
The officials of the league re-
ported that on the second night of
their operation, police officers en-
tered the establishment for inspec-
ton and examination.
On Sunday, March IL, five po-
lice officers returned and it is said
threateningly removed the char
ter and license from the wall, and
demanded the books and records
of the officials.
Marshall Gray, one of the offic-
ials, stated that the Colored Civic
League Inc. was going to be oper-
ated by the rules and regulations
laid down by the Liquor Board and
not otherwise. That while they
would welcome official investiga-
ton, they would certainly resist
any attempt to halt its lawful OPP
Grafton.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-03-15

During recent months loud ana. lave been our pro-
testatons against certain nustces which have suffered
in the field of economic pursuits We of the opinion that
at this time there should be registered another protest
should be equally loud and long the protests that
have registered against ustces which have been pracced
against from the outside The peculiar thing about these
protests that they should be registered against an in
justice that has been done the group whole by certain
members of the group.
Let us turn brief consideration of the background
of the It has been rumored that recently steamship
tied the Port of Seattle because of unwngness
the part of member of the to sail aboard vessel
which would necessate his using the toilet with four
Negro members of the During deberation the ship
held port for period of twentyfour hours We have
been reliably informed that the ship could have been tied up
permanently until adjustment could have been reached
Comes the necessity for our registering protests
against the method used to solve the controversy at hand
We have the four members of the who were
against and not permitted to sail on the
vessel engaged compromise with the union in charge OF
hiring hall where the controversy took place. 1t has
been said that members of the Race accepted the
following proposition They received thirty days pay in
turn conendng for their rights to sail aboard the
yaccel
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-03-15

The quietest city election within
our memory is history. Mr.. Arthur
B. Langlie, Mayor, the present in
cumbent and Mr.. A. Van Coelen,
Corporation Counsel, faced no SER
ious opposition. The return to the
council of Mr.. VIM. Norton and
Mr.. James Scavotto was evident
long before the votes were count
ed.
The defeat of Mr.. Hugh Della
cy by Bob Jones, popular West
Seattle merchant, was of itself
not surprising.
That he should have led DeLacy
by 10000 votes is surprising.
Such a wide margin indicates
but one thing: The W.CF. will ne
yer dominate the political field in
the state of Washington. DeLacy
had many personal friends who
cast their votes for him on no 9TH
err grounds. For some time to come
the national and state govern
ments will be controlled by one of
the major parties. Other parties
spring up like mushrooms and last
as quick.
We wonder what comfort Ne
groes have to CLEAN from the w.
CT. That organization made it.
self the repository for commun-
ism in this state. At their con-
vention held in Seattle last Feb
ruary, the civil liberties committee
passed a resolution to censure
Governor Martin for pardoning
Patrick Whalen, the self-confessed
murderer of Berry Lawson. On
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-03-15
Tampa Freeze-Out
OF NegroCited

NEW YORK = William Green,
president of the American FEEDER
alton of Labor, was condemned to-
day by the NAACP, for denying
in a recent speech in Atlanta, Ga.
that exploitation and racketeer-
ing" existed within the top ranks
of the AFL, while fully aware that
less than 300 miles away in Tam
pa, Florida, the most vicious ex-
ploitation of and discrimination
against Negro shipyard workers is
being practiced by officials of the
AFL unions"
The NAACP's attitude was ex-
pressed in a letter sent to Green
March 5, in another effort to get
the labor leader to investigate
conditions in the Tampa, Florida,
shipyards where 500 Negro work
ers have been frozen out of their
jobs by lily-white AFL Unions
For more than a year the Asso-
citation has sought to get action
from the labor leader through an
investigation of the discrimination
against these men.
Green spoke at the two-day
southern organization conference
of the AFL, held in Atlanta, Ga.
March 8. 1t was here that he de.
nounced those who charged the
AF'L with permitting exploitation
to thrive within the organization
Predicting that the AFL drive
to organize the South will fail un.
less the leadership learns that "nc
labor is free until all labor is free
the letter added:
"This utterly vicious situation
is conclusive proof of the validity
of the charges made by Negro la.
Dor delegates of discrimination by
certain AFL unions"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-03-15
Marian Anderson Thrills Full House:
Hundreds Are Turned Away
By e. I. r.

Marian Anderson was not in evil
dence when the Civic Auditorium
was built to accommodate the
needs of Seattle for years to come.
Last Monday night it was jam
med from pit to dome and hun
dreds who sought S. R. o. were
doomed to disappointment. The
house was sold out a week in ad-
vance. Records fall as this gifted
woman continues her triumphal
march to the Hall of Fame.
Only the deep stiffness of an
abysmal tomb could equal the elo-
quent but silent tribute paid to the
greatest ambassador of good will
that ever came out of our race, as
she so gracefully bowed to Seat
tie.
I can now fully realize what To-
scanini meant when he said af-
ter hearing Marian Anderson in
recital, what / have heard today
is not heard once in a hundred
years."
Strangely enough, Christ left
his own home to proclaim himself
King of the Jews. In despair, Ma
rian Anderson sought foreign
lands for listeners to her wonder
full voice. Then she came back
and critics stamped their APPROX
al: Marian Anderson, one of the
greatest singers of our time.
No, she has not made Grand OPP
era. She doesn't need to. She is
in class by herself. Seventy-five
concerts a season, averaging
$4,000 to $4,000, and she was paid
$4,000 for two songs at the pre-
mier of young Mr.. Lincoln" She
is the first colored singer to be
invited to the White House, and
there she sang for the King and
Queen of England. In Washington
she was denied the use of Consti-
tutional Hall by the OAR. for
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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-03-15
JUST TO
REMIND YOU
By e. L. Robinson

The Northwest Enterprise has
frequently through its columns adj
vised race voters of the necessity
of lifting the label and viewing
the records of candidates who APP
peal to them for their suffrage.
Too late for our last publica-
ton, it was learned from good
authority that candidate for port
commissioner had been instrument
tai in promoting the strike on the
Diamond Cement" a freighter
plying between Seattle and Alas
ka. 1t was stated by men who
claimed to have sat in the confer
ence that this candidate himself
had urged Diamond Cement" en-
ployes to reject the race men sent
by the union to fill vacancies on
the freighter.
The matter was finally compro-
missed by the race men accepting
one months full pay in lieu of the
right to sail on the freighter. 1t
may readily be seen how tragic the
situation might have become by
the election of such a commission
er.
Only by the active and forceful
opposition of Prentis Frazier and
Fred Woodson in a meeting in the
9th district, was the endorsement
of J. e. Brincker candidate for
Port Commissioner, forestalled,
which would have been even more
tragic. Brincker was a candidate
to succeed Jack A. Early, the pre-
sent incumbent, which reminds us
that if a thing is worth having it
is worth fighting to preserve.
Mr.. Franklin d. Roosevelt will
nominate himself as president OF
the United States for the third
time. The only thing left for him
now to complete his experiments
is to name the candidate on the
Republican ticket who is to OPP
pose him this fall.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-03-15
NAACP Conference
Dates Changed

NEW YORK = Following a
meeting of the organizations pre-
conference committee here, Feb
ruary "a, officials of the NAACP
announced today that the thirty
first annual conference which was
scheduled to be held in Philadel-
phia June $3.50, has been changed
to June 1928.
The change in date was made,
the announcement said, because
the original dates conceded with
those chosen by the National Re-
publican Convention which meets
in Philadelphia June 24-26. The
NAACP wants public expression
to be given to what the Negro ex-
poets in 1910 prior to the meeting
of the two major political parties
in the country. The conference
will be held in Tindley Temple, the
largest Negro church in Philadel-
phia.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-03-15
NPA Executive
Committee
Meeting Ends

CHICAGO (ANP) - Headed by
DR.. Henry Allen Boyd and Ben
jamin ]. Davis of Nashville, Sec
retary-treasurer and president re-
spectively, of the National Press
Association, the executive commit
tee of the organization held two
day meeting here last Friday and
Saturday at Vincennes Hotel.
President Davis, former editor
of the Atlanta Independent, is edi-
tor of publications for the Baptist
Publishing House in Nashville, af-
filiate of the National Baptist Con-
vention, Union. DR.. Boyd is Sec
rotary of the publishing house and
also head of the Baptist BYPU
and Sunday School Congress.
Others attending the session in
cluded: ]. e. Mitchell, chairman
of the executive committee; DR..
Luther Stewart, editor Christian
Index, ems church publication,
and the Rev. Roy L. Young, editor
of the Weekly Echo, Meridian,
Miss. At the close of the meeting
the committee announced that the
annual convention of the National
Negro Press Association will be
held in Nashville, August $40 in
elusive.
At the August convention the
association will continue discus
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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-03-15
Negro Farmer Real
New Deal Victim
BY Emmett j. Scott

Washington, d. C.-Truly "the
forgotten man" of this era of New
Dealism, 'ill-fed, ill-clad, and ill
housed" is the Negro farmer, the
majority of whom reside in the
south.
They have no vote. They are
disfranchised. They do not come
within the political programs of
the New Deal. They are not or
ganized. They are not a pressure
group. They have suffered griev-
ously during these past seven years
of agricultural experimentation.
In contemplating New Deal
votes they are not taken into ac-
count. New Dealers feel they can
be done without. Unlike their bre-
thren in the Northern and West
ern States they can wreak no re-
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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-03-15
Southern Leaders
Charge AL Bias

ATLANTA (CNA) = Southern
Negro labor leaders this week ex-
pressed distrust of the projected
drive of the American Federation
of Labor for 500,O 900 new members
in the South. The AFL drive was
planned after John l.. Lewis, head
of the CIO, announced drive by
his organization to organize the
Negro and white workers of the
South. Many view the projected
AFL drive as more in the nature
of an extension of the AFL bu-
reaucracy's fight on the CLIO than
an honest attempt to organize the
Southern workers.
Negro labor leaders specifically
charged that many unions of AFL
practice discrimination against
Negro workers. The charge was
made in the closing minutes of a
conference held here by ALL
chieftains to launch their drive.
A resolution presented by 200
Negro delegates protested against
the following types of discrimina-
ton practiced by certain AFL I'M
ions:
(1) The refusal to issue char
ters to certain groups of Negro
workers.
(2) The refusal to admit Negro
workers to full participation ir
the benefits of AFL affiliates.
(3) The deliberate barring Of
( Negro union members from EN-.
ployment on many union contracts
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-03-15
Expose Mistreatment OF EnrOllees In
California "Jim Grow" CCC Camps
Hutchin X. Hutchens

Telling vitiating stories of mis-
treatment that would shock any
government department, Negro en-
rollees were returning this week
from what they described as the
Jim Crow C. C. c. Prison Camps
of California"
They preferred to face death by
riding freight trains through frozen
mountains and hitchhiking through
sleet and storm than face the ter
ror doled out to them by the u.
S. army officers that rule the c.
c. C. camps. In good old prison
fashion, they marched to the din
ing hall in silence and ate their
starchy food without saying a word
to ones neighbor.
Away from their homes, school
mates, friends, the clear waters
and camps among the tall trees
of the Northwest, they were
swished away quietly to the Jim
Crow ghettos in California, when
the government reorganizations
were adopted last year. They were
lorded over by southern white ar
my gentlemen" who worked them
seven days each week, and confis-
Gated their small allowance $500
per month"; for the smallest in
fraction of any rules.
Fought Forest Fires without
Training
The youths said they were sent
to fight fires, their flaming
tongues licking away sections of
forests, without having had any
preliminary training, which all of
the white G. c. c. boys are given
in Washington.
While doing this work, the
youthful poems complain that they
ate diet of "cold cakes, beans,
cabbage and spuds today and cab
bage beans and spuds tomorrow"
Hours before meals they were
tense in hope that they would be
the lucky one to find the only piece
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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-03-15
Atlanta Ku Klux Khan Ride; Beat Up
IL, As Anti-Lynch Bill Is Debated On

In open defiance of the senator
ial hearings on the anti-lynch bill
and their recommending its pas
sage, night riders in Atlanta, Ca,
threw CONSERVATION in the nation
al home of the midnight riders.
At least 18 persons have been
whipped by masked men in the
Atlanta suburbs, a coroner's jury
investigating the Staying of Ike
CASTOR, a barber, had discovered
today.
Gaston's body was discovered
over the weekend. He had been
brutally whipped, apparently with
a heavy leather strap. The jury
decided that he had died from the
effects of an unlawful beating adj
ministered by three or more per-
sons whose identity is not known
The jury heard testimony de-
scribing IS cases of cat-of-nine-
tails justice melted out by masked
men.
Mrs. w. L. Allen, wife of Full
ton county tenant farmer, testi-
fled that w. w. Scarborough, ex-
allied cyclop of the East Point Gan
Atlanta suburb) Khan, had object
ed to an old Negro living on thei,
farm. Scarborough warned hei
husband, she said. Shortly after
wards, she testified, he was drag.
ged from his home at night ano
whipped.
T. E. Young testified that he hac
been dragged from his home anc
whipped the night of July 25, 1889
He stripped before the jury ant
Assistant Solicitor Dan Duke fit,
ted the cleated and pronged whiI
believed to have been used on Gas
ton to scars surviving on his but
tocks. Duke said this indicated
conclusively that he and Castor
had been beaten by the same whip
H. T. Holbrook testified that h,
had found heavy leather whil
with a wooden handle similar Il
the one used on Castor, in East
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-03-15

the floor of the convention the
motion for adoption was "scuttled"
by leading communist who
sounded it's death knell.
The few Negro delegates sat SUI
pinely by as this unholy conspir-
acy of commonwealthers and COM
munists ambushed their hopes.
In all probability the usefulness
of the Negroes to this declining
party was itself on the wane.
Communism is no pdnacea for
existing ills.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-03-15

Point. He said that the whip had
xxx" carved in the handle.
Lewis F. Johnson, a baker of
East Point, said the group of men
which had flogged him had been
composed of men he knew to be
lansmen and several there he knew
to be policemen.