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Democratic National Convention
Indeed, they had good reason to
believe that the President had
turned thumbs down on an effort
to unhorse the Vice President in his
own back yard. They are seasoned
campaigners. however, and not
greatly surprised at anything that
may happen in a political fight.
1t is pointed out that the third
termers so far have not undertaken
to invade Indiana, the home State
of Federal Security Administrator
Paul v. McNutt, nor to invade Ten
nessee, the home of Secretary of
State Cordell Hull. OF course. there
Is difference in these cases. Mr..
McNutt, while an active candidate
for the presidential nomination, has
announced he will be for Mr.. Roose-
velt if the President runs and turn
the Indiana delegation right over
to the President under those cir
cumstances. What more could the
President desire? Secretary Hull is
not a candidate-and has said so.
In any event, Mr.. Hull would not
be expected to try to keep the Ten
nessee delegates from President
Roosevelt if the latter wants them.
Different Story With Garner.
With Mr. Garner, the story is
different. Mr.. Garner does not plan
to turn the Texas delegation or any
other delegates he may get over to
the President if the President be-
comes candidate Mr.. Garner, it
has been recognized. is in this busi-
ness primarily to stop a third-term
nomination for President Roosevelt.
In addition. Mr.. Garner would not
look with favor upon the nominal
tion OF one of the Presidents favor
ite hundred percenters.'
1t seems, therefore, that the third
termers-apparently without let or
hindrance on the part of the Presi-
dent-have determined to flatten
out Cactus Jack" in his own baili-
wick. If they can defeat the Vice
President and send a Roosevelt-in-
structed delegation from Texas, Mr..
Gamers candidacy would be with
out any real foundation at all. That
seems to be the program now-un-
/ less the President calls off the third
term boomers now hurrying to Texas
to tell the people on relief that
if Garner should get in there would
be no more Federal relief pay
ments and the farmers that there
would be no more farm benefit
payments.
In part. the new attack on Garner
in his home State is due to the
desire of certain Democratic fac
tions to get control Of the State,
among them the faction controlled
by the Fergusons, Ma and Pa, both
of whom have been Governors in
the past. They see an opportunity
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Federation of Citizens Associations,
offered his resignation as delegate,
explaining that he is no longer a
resident of the Glover Park neigh
borhood. The resignation will be
acted on at the next meeting. 1t
was said.
The group voted to have dance
an annual affair, in May.
Entertainment included dance and
music members by Mary Coen and
Jewell Murray, and a technicolor
picture on gardening
The meeting was held in the In
dustrial Home School.
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Glover Park Citizens
Back Hart for Bench

David A. Hart, assistant United
States attorney, was Endorsed by
the Glover Park Citizens Associa-
ton last night for the Police Court
bench vacancy. Sheldon w. Fair
child, president of the association,
offered the resolution. which ua-
thorized a letter to notify Attorney
General Jackson of the Endorsement.
M. r. Walker, delegate to the
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w ! > II ] or I II e
Lone Star States
delegation to the
Democratic Ma
tional Conven-
ton. They admit
they are some
W h a t surprised
to find the third
termers appar-
emily with the
consent Of Pres
ident Roosevelt
undertaking to
deprive Mr.. Gar
ner of the back
ing of his own
g L ate in the
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The Political Mill
Garner Forces Ready to Toke Roosevelt
Boosters On in Any Kind Of Fight

to make capital out Of support Of
Roosevelt.
Old Friends Will Stick.
The Garner people admit that
the President is popular with the
Democrats of Texas, just as he is
popular with the Democrats Of other
States. They see hard and bitter
fight coming unless something stops
1t. But they do not see any OF the
Garner friends deserting the Vice
President. They believe that Sam
Rayburn, majority leader of the
House, and Jesse Jones, head OF
the Federal Lending Agency. and
Senator Sheppard and Senator
Connally will all stand by their old
friend. OF course, none of these
men are unfriendly to the Presi-
dent. Quite the contrary. But the
President has never announced his
own candidacy for denomination
and they will stick to Jack" Garner
until he does, in any event. They
do not believe that Garner should
be deprived of the Texas delegation
under all the existing circumstances,
1t is bit embarrassing for them.
The Texas method of selecting
delegates to Democratic National
Convention is different from that
in many other States. The first
step is in the so-called precinct
conventions - where any qualified
white voter who has paid his poll
tax can vote. They elect delegates
to the county conventions, and the
county conventions in turn elect
delegates to the district conven-
tions-where district delegates to
the national convention are chosen
and to the State convention, where
the delegates at large to the ma
tional convention are named. It is
essential, therefore, to get in the
first licks in the precinct conven-
tionS.
The third termers are well healed
with money, according to all re-
ports. They also have the ad-
vantage of the Federal money which
Is sent into Texas for many pur-
poses.
Third Termers Aroused.
What particularly aroused the
Roosevelt third termers was a state
ment issued by the Garner man
ayers, E. B. Germany and Mrs.
Clara Driscoll, after the Wisconsin
primary, in which Garner won three
district delegates out Of the total
delegation of a. In that primary
Garner received approximately Is
per cent Of the vote cast. The
statement issued was to the effect
that the third term was dead" as
a result of the outcome. Immedi-
ately some of the third termers
started working on Mr.. Rayburn
and Mr.. Jones. asking in effect
whether they proposed to support
Mr.. Garner against the President.
Since the President has not vet
become a candidate for renomina-
ton. Rayburn and Jones can stick
to Mr.. Garner without necessarily
being against Mr.. Roosevelt.
Alvin j. Wirtz. new Undersecretary
OF the Interior. and, like his boss,
Secretary Ickes. an ardent third
termer. insists that the Democrats
OF Texas are not willing to turn
the States delegation over to Mr..
Garner but would be willing to let
him have complimentary vote on
the first ballot.
Secretary Hull's name was
brought prominently into the fore
ground again by Gov. Hoey of Ra-
leigh. Gov. Hoey urged that the
North Carolina delegates to the ma
tional convention be instructed for
Mr.. Hull rather than for himself
as a favorite son,
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The Capital Parade
Anti-Jopunese Embargo Is Threot
Yelled in Secretary HuII's Warning
BY JOSEPH ALsop and ROBERT K1NrNER.

Obviously enforcement anJapanese embargo the threat
veeo by Secretary of State Code aRaint
OF the Dutch East Indies
cent seized
on on the subject prepare for embargo by terminating
nese. American
slider the possibility that embargo might have
be " ~ ~ ' ~ ~
enforcement OF embargo
voted by Congress would Indies
the japanese would of the
tar from being the only war material Some authorities
in this country They
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Of policy with
respect to the
possible position
of the Dutch
East Indies in
the event that
the Nazi govern
ment overruns
Holland.
In the first
place. formal eX-
pres S ions of
OPINION e I n e r
by the Japanese
Foreign Office or
by the State De-
partment h ere
aro p,oct1v to
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BY G. GOULD LINCOLN,

Vice President Jack" Garner and
his friends In Texas are aiming to
take the Roosevelt third-term boost
ers on In any kind Of a tight they
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from the Dutch Indies could
answer our embargo by bokadng rubber
our Navy would hardly able
Pacific The result would probably East
he Japanese rendered desperate embargo
let the devil consequences
This is one Of the reasons why Far Eastern policy
debate at the State Department
President and Secretary OF State side with the spirits
IN oe1 our policy is to keep the Japanese with
until their war machine breaks down other
10 hep In putting them in their
tha will not have to make threat good while
oclas tremble at the mention of
East Indies question brings the policy its Roughly the
Japanese do not attempt protection talking about
the policy will be successful
Transport Ministry?
The Presidents highly controversial Civilian Aero
Iautc authority to the Commerce Department of
large and ambitious plan The President
anonymous and spIaWlng domain of his friend
ministry OF transport Several other problems already
handled by Commerce and the Reorganization
fob the next executive order would
mission In the same spot the A. A.
In the Presidents recent the Congress
At Least Sign
Names former Gov Louis Brann who running
was once an forgotten
s OF the New Dealers all he
haVg
og ne is the best Democratic in his
prevent
IN the Maine voting which would have
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HE opinions OF the wrtes this page Their o,cn not
sor ecsssa % Ths Sa' % Such opnon. are presented RE
readers although such opinions may be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars
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At Least a Sian

msook the intentions the Maryland
ing OF former Gov Harry Nice seems to have extended to
but Nce real boss power
behn the Republican
and the time
y No Amer Newspap Alliance Inc).
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Friendship
Unmarried
U. S. and japanese
Elements Working
To Suve Relations
BY DAVID LAWRENCE,

There is tendency to exaggerate
the immediate Importance of the
exchange of comments by the
Japanese and American spokesmen
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Europeans have no war materials to
spare. Thus, at the least, an en-
barge would cripple the Japanese
war effort, and at best might bring
1t to an eventual end.
The difficulty is that besides
such obvious forms of retaliation as
an attack on the Philippines, the
Japanese have in their power some
thing considerably more serious. The
United States needs rubber. The
vast majority of our rubber comes
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country. And It IS at least sign of
interest in the welfare of his party
that the President personally inter-
vened to persuade the once
forgotten Brann to emerge from his
oblivion.
Real Boss
The current explanation of the
Senator Robert A. Taft's failure to
enter the Maryland primaries
against Thomas F. Dewey is that
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War Aims as Outlined by Lord Lothion
Allies Fighting for Own Existence and for Lasting Peoee
And Security for All Nations, British Envoy Declares


British Ambassador, to
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Clothing for Polish children In
France Is being donated in Argen-
tina.
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Diplomacy Expected
To Play a Vital Role,


short. unless the Nazi morale breaks
and that it Is likely to be fought out
quite as much on the diplomatic as
the military front. A new friend may
mean victory, without battle, for
either side. The second is that it Is
sometimes said that we seek the
breakup and destruction of the
unity OF the German peoples as an
end in-itself. That is not true. What
we are fighting for is security, Sc
curity for everybody against agrees
sion and war, poverty and unemploy-
ment: security for Germany no less
than for her neighbors and ourselves.
If she abandons aggression, so that
all nations will be free to live their
own lives without fear, with secure
access to the raw materials and
markets Of the world.
But we are clear that q peace at
present would only play into the
hands Of despotism. It would be no
more than q truce-a short interval
between two world wars. = .
An indecisive peace would probably
mean victory for the dictatorships.
for It is the essence of the Nazi sys-
tenn that it is based on war and
organized for instant war. Whereas
the democracies genuinely demobilize
IN peace, so that it takes time to
mobilize again. the Nazi system, by
its nature, is always ready for those
lightning blows out OF . relatively
clear sky which have been Hitler's
most successful method Of aggres-
sion.
Personally I doubt whether the end
OF this war will see another great
peace conference like the last. The
basic conditions Of the postwar
world will be settled by the terms
Of the armistice, by the question of
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Empire Building Technique
Based on RuthleSsness,

The Hitler technique of empire
building has been simple. 80
Hitler was convinced that if he
could create In the center of Europe
a single disciplined, entirely mill
tarized state Of 10000. 900 Germans,
obedient to a single dynamic will,
using its gigantic power with utter
ruthlessness, nothing would prevent
Nazified Germany from conquering,
dominating and economically ex-
plotting its neighbors one by one,
until he controlled first Europe, and
In the end, the greater part Of the
world, as Rome dominated the then
civilized world. The only thing that
could prevent such q result would be
the weakening Of the morale OF the
German people, the rise Of other
despotisms as disciplined and as
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Transport Ministry?

The Presidents highly ct
nautics Authority to the Cor
large and ambitious plan. TIL
amorphous and sprawling dom
OF ministry of transport. Sc,
handled by Commerce and if
forbiG. the next executive orde
mission in the same spot as tht
at III the Presidents recent m,
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-04-26
Red Caps Win Partial
Victory In New York

NEW YORK, April (CNA) -
Red Caps at the Pennsylvania R.
r. station here came a step near
err to winning the status of full
pledged wage earners this week
with announcement by the COM
pany that henceforth passengers
will pay dime bag and receive
a ticket as receipt.
In the past, the porters report
ed the sum of their tips and if
they did not amount to thirty cents
an hour, the railroad made up the
difference. Under the new system,
the men will be permitted to keep
the sum received above the ten
cent fee.
The step by the company comes
as result of a fight waged by
the Brotherhood of Red Caps al
most since the Wages Act was
passed. The Brotherhood has been
pressing a suit demanding back
pay on a claim that tips do not
count as wages.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-04-26
Oakland Cops Under
Fire In Job Drive

OAKLAND, Especial to CNA)
: The Citizens Committee to OBJ
tain Jobs for Negroes this week
launched mass protest campaign
against police interference with
pickets in West Oakland and the
alleged beating of a woman picket
by white policeman.
The protest campaign was dra-
matized by the appearance of a
mass delegation at the city coun-
Gil meeting in City Hall to demand
a stop to unwarranted police at
tacks on pickets seeking to force
employment of Negroes in West
Oakland stores benefitting chiefly
from Negro patronage.
Members of the Citizens Com
mittee charged the police with an
open conspiracy not only to stop
the picketing, but to annul the
gains already made.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-04-26
Pioneer Answers
Death Call

Walter C. Washington, age Is,
died at his home, 2O9 3Oth Ave. No.
Sunday, April 81.
The immediate cause of his
death, as shown by the autopsy.
was heart failure. Washington had
been in failing health for the past
five years. He had been confined
to his home since last September.
Born in NV Orleans, La, he
came to Seattle 81 years ago,
when it was a territory. He has
seen Seattle grow from a village
to the largest city of it's age in
the Unietd States. He was a
staunch member of the King Coun-
ty Colored Republican Club. His
passing marks the extinction of
another landmark.
Last rites were said at the An
gelus Mortuary by the Rev A. r..
Hayes of the First A. M. E.
Church. Interment was at Lake
View cemetery.
He is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Ollie Washington.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-04-26
Given Suspended
Sentence Trying
To be Juror

Asheville, N. Lawrence Sig.
mon received suspended sentence
here April 16 on a charge of dis
orderly conduct, which grew out OF
the fact that he answered a sum-
mons for jury service June 5, 1889
When he reported for service
and applied to the sheriff's office
(since the court was not in ses-
sion) he was carried into an ele.
vator along with several deputy
sheriffs, the car was stopped be-
tween floors, and Sigmon was Sc
verely beaten. He says he was
told that he was being made "ar
example for all other Asheville Ne.
groes who might have the audacity
to report for jury service"
Sigmon later was arrested and
charged with disorderly conduct
but he says he was offered his
freedom if he would agree not to
press charges. He refused and was
convicted. The conviction was ap.
pealed, and on April 16, he was
given suspended sentence for dis.
orderly conduct and the Other
charges dropped.
The NAACP conferred with the
Department of Justice because Of
the intimidation of Sigmon as g
prospective juror, and the depart
ment has notified the NAACP thai
the investigation of the FIJI is
complete and the case is in the
hands of the prosecuting attorney
in Asheville.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-04-26

Citizens OF Longfellow District
Rebuke Undemocratic Montlake

The of the Board of Education
Junior High School Center the site of the Longfeow
school, brought spirited protest from parents and the Mont
lake Community club and P II A according to newspaper
release last Saturday
The article in question stated such Junior High School
in district with lower status and attended by
At meeting of citizens of the Longelow district rep
resentg parents homes churches and other social forces
branded the whole effort the part of interested real
estate dealers to the protest enhance property values
of that district by subty injecting racial issues empha
size the protest.
The group after giving vent to their attitude, mildly
but forcby rebuked the undemocratc attack wholly
necessary unwarranted and without any necessity letter
which directed to be drawn and delivered the Board
of Education follows:
Mr. President and Members of
The Board of Education of Seattle,
Seattle, Washington.
Greetings
We, the undersigned, committee duly appointed and
homes churches school and other social forces the Long
fellow School District DESTROYS of making the following
expressions and representations you individuals and
body These expressions relative condition
roversy which have recently been brought the attention
this body in such way to the development of ill
feeling between communities and the urtherance of racial
and personal incompatibility
In the beginning want to express faith in and
appreciation for the democracy and democratic processes d
forded social order and system of daily M
ing We realize that this democracy and these democratic pro-
Continued
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-04-26
Miss. Dance Hall Fire Takes Death
Toll Of 200, Arsonist Suspects Are Held

Natchez, Miss.-A scream of
Fire" about IL 80 pm. in crowd
ed dance hall, brought death to
200 dancers in the Rhythm club,
Tuesday night. April %.
The Barnes orchestra, national
ly known, filling an engagement
at the time, was widely advertised
and hundreds from nearby towns
crowded in the pyre of the worst
holocaust in the history of the
south.
The cry of Fire" originated near
the front door--the only outlet in
the most perfect fire trap in the
city. Those from center and rear
fell under the mad rush insuring
each others death. Only a wild
funeral note escaped as hundreds
died without hope.
The screams stifled by dense
clouds of smoke. Spanish moss,
a highly inflamable grass, was
everywhere and carried the flames
throughout the old wooden struc-
ture which required but Is minutes
to reduce it to ashes.
Among those who persisted is the
manager and almost the entire
membership of the band. AS the
bands engagement was heralded as
a social event, all the professional
men and women of NatcheZ, doc
tors, lawyers, school teachers, and
those well fixed financially lay per-
ished in the ruins.
1t has been persistently rumored
that the fire was of incendiary ORR
gin and five suspects are now be-
ing held in Jail.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-04-26
Chef Accidently
Shoots Self

Ledro A. Weakly, chef aboard
the steamship Mckinley, shot him
self in the abdomen, Sunday morn
ing about $3.50, in a cafe at Ali
9Th Ave. So. He was taken to the
hospital where a blood TRANSMISSION
was given.
In a statement to his mother
Mary Mills, on Sunday, Weakley
said the shooting was accidental
and no one was to blame but him.
self. That the gun was carried in
his vest pocket and he, being in
toxicated, fell off a stool acciden-
tally discharging the weapon. Doc
tors said that the failure of the
wound to close saved his life.
While his condition is still cri-
teal, his chance of recovery is
good.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-04-26
Negroes Rghtful Share In Democracy
Obtained Only In Leadership Change
By Emmett J. Scott

WASHINGTON, D. C. = Some
months ago an American states
man sought to define the objec-
tives of our economic system in
terms of the best thought and OPP
inion of American citizens. He in
quired, What is it we want the
economic system of America to
provide for the citizens of this
country?"
His answers to this inquiry are
inclusive of the minimum hopes
and aspirations, the ideals of our
people everywhere, white and
black alike. They are deeply con-
cerned with the whole system OF
American life.
What is the answer to the ques-
ton? Mainly, they are political
when, as a matter of fact, they
should be Invested of political par.
tisanship and concerned wholly
with the highest and best inter.
ests of all the people.
The Negro people of the United
States by every right of justice
and equity, by their common citi-
zenship, and by their contributions
to the upbuilding and ongoing Of
this country. are included in this
category 'of all the people"
How are they faring during
these days of tribulation? Ir
what adequate way are the youth.
masses of the race being provided
with opportunities for health and
virility? How much of human
brotherhood is the Negroes share
of our American democracy
Where are the jobs and the secur.
ity of jobs-not relief? What JOY
can be his in the midst of present
day efforts, particularly in the
Democratic South, to deny him
that equality of citizenship which
is presumed to be guaranteed hin
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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-04-26
Sport Editors Join
Jim Grow Bill Fight

NEW YORK (CNA) - Thir-
teen college sport editors of New
York's college newspapers this
week took up the fight to end the
ban on Negro players in organized
baseball as plans were made to
drive the campaign for full demo-
cracy in our National Pastime ov-
er the top in 1910. Sports Editors
Jimmy Powers of the New York
Daily News, and Dan Parker of
the Daily Mirror also simulta-
neously joined the fast growing
Committee to End Jim Crow in
Baseball.
The Trade Union Athletic AS
ISOLATION, composed of over thirty
local CLIO and AFL unions with a
membership of 100000 launched
the Committee this spring to CO.
ordinate the campaign. Unions and
youth groups on the Pacific Coast
have opened a similar drive.
The sports editors joined the
campaign at a luncheon in the
Picadilly Hotel, 227 West Forty
fifth Street. Attended by 25 col
legiate press representatives, the
meeting was the first of a series
to be held during the remainder
of the college year to organize
student opinion in favor of lifting
the jim-crow ban in the major
leagues.
The group will also work for
elimination of discrimination of in
dividual schools against Negro
members of college athletic teams.