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The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-27
Fresh Nazi Forces Are Massing Along Fronf
 Lines Now
SCOUTERS FLY OVER
 BOTH PARIS, BERLIN
German Bombers Are Shot Down Off English Coast
 -Soviets Push On
(Bv Associated Press)

Massed scouting flights over Paris and Berlin. German air raids on the British coast, artillery firing and new German troop corcent~a- tions near the Luxembourg from tier, stirred the long Western front at a hint of spring weather.
 Roar of Artillery
 The sudden thunder of artillery shook the frontier villages near Inc Northern terminus of the Western front and residents of the little duchy reported seeing masses of fresh Nazi troops behind the front lines
 Nazi Planes Over Paris
 Paris had the first air raid alarm since last November as massed squadrons of German planes droned over the French capital city with out dropping any bombs.
 Planes Over Berlin
 British officials announce that scouting planes penetrated Germany as far as Berlin and British air forces also flew oyer the German Baltic region.
 Two German hombers were shot down off the English coast. the British Air Ministry announces.
 New Russian Attacks
 The invading Russian forces, af- ter having taken over the fortified islands Of Koivisto have now launch cd attacks on other islands in the southwestern part of the bay and assaults are also directed against Viipuri. This is according to the Finnish communique.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-27
TO NOME AREA

Morton Sullivan, son of Joe Sul- livan, prominent mining man, flew north with PAA today after arriving lon the Alaska. Sullivan will go to family mining operations on Seward Peninsula.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-27
British Plane
 Shot Down

BERLIN, Feb. 27-The German official news agency DNB announce es that a British plane was shot down this afternoon when making a scouting flig ht over Helgoland Eight.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-27
TO POLARIs MINE

Harold Vingren, who had been receiving medical care for foot injury was dismissed today from St. Ann's Hospital and was to leave by plane for the Polaris-Taku mine.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-27
FLYING SPARKS

Last nights fire alarm took fire men up Star Hill to Kennedy Street where sparks had ignited foundation boards between two houses Little damage was done and firemen returned home a few minutes after the call.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-27
SOVIET REPORT

MOSCOW, Feb 27 = The Soviet military report claims constant Rus sian advances on the Karelain Isth- mus.
 The conmunique claims the cap- ture of 26 Finnnsh forts and the shooting down of 19 Finn planes.
 The Red commanders also claim that Finn counter attack had been driven back with heavy losses in men and materials.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-27
sTATION-HOUsE TACTICS

Not all the third-degree prac- tices are confined to the south among the negro population. We had our book filled out west where a mans a man, and a buns a bum with the police after hlm.
 We've been away a few years from police courts as a regular beat and some of our friends tell us that things have changed. That is nice to hear, and at this point it ought to be explained that your policeman out on the corner guid- ing traffic and old ladies across the street cuts mighty little pie in this third degree business. That falls to the station-house boys who have to make good for the chief.
 BLACK PROVES FAIR
 It might be added that the Su-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-27
PARIsIANs INJuRED

PARIS, Feb. 27.-Six Parisians were injured last night by an anti aircraft shell fired at German planes detected scouting the city envir- ons.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-27

Separated for three years, Ginger Rogers, screen actress, and her husband, Lew Ayres, also a film star. soon may be parted in Reno. Miss Rogers has announced she will go to the Nevada city to establish a residence there. How ard Hughes, the sportsman flyer and film producer, long has been linked with Miss Rogers, but friends have ridiculed the thought of romance between the two. Ayres, who was one of the more popular actors several years ago, is making a grand comeback on the screen. Miss Rogers planned to go to Reno when she has com
 pleted work on new nich'"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-27

crowds watched. There was no alarm at that time.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-27
DENOUN(INC OF THIRD
 DECREE" BY POLICE DUE
 IN HIGH COURT DECISION
By PRESTON GROVER

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27-Many months will pass before the inn pact of the Supreme Court decision again denouncing the third de- gree" is felt in the bull pen of the nations police stations, but in time it will get there like re- freshing breeze.
 The Supreme Court, speaking through Justice Black, told Flor ida that four negroes could not be executed on the basis of forced confessions to a murder. A re- spected citizen of Pompano, Fla, was killed in 1893 and about two score negroes were rounded up in double-quick time. Then the third-degree heat was applie d steadily for five days. Three of them "broke" on the sixth day. EASY COMMISSIONS"
 Many policemen will defend third degree methods to the last breath on the ground that it saves a heap of time to get convictions that way.
 Probably every cub reporter ever assigned to police beat has seen the process or watched its results. There will be a series of petty thefts and house-b -breakineS around the town. The papers and the public will begin to howl at police inefficiency. Then some luck less devil will be captured around the railroad yard The police will question" him. Before another "A hours have passed his confession" will establish new high in ef- ficient banditry.
 With a dozen unsolved thefts to account for, the police often enough saddle the whole category upon the boob, and glowingly assure the citizens that one more menace to public safety has been cleared up by Chief of Police Wiley Beckstoop.
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The Omaha guide., 1940-04-06
NEGROES FORCE APOLOGY
FOR "DARKY" At STATE COP.
MEET

COLUMBIA, S. C.. April 6 GAN
P)-Threatening to have all Ne
gro delegates present at the State
Republican convention here last
week, walk out, R. A. Brooks of
Aiken, obtained an apology for use
of the term, "darky' by a white
speaker at the session.
The issue was not raised until
shortly before adjournment. The
Brooks arose from one side of the
hall and walked toward the front.
He spoke of his services as a dele
gate and his desire to treat all fair
".
"We feel we have been insulted
here and we want an apology. We
feel we were insultd when we we're
called "darkies", he stated.
A few minutes before, M. O.
Dunning, white, former collector
of the port of Savannah, now with
law offices in Washington, had
made a short speech in which he
told several humorous stories in
which he referred to "darkies" on
his fathers place.
Dunning stood up and said, 'You
The Omaha guide., 1940-04-06
CHICAGO HEARS DEWEY

CHICAGO, April a (ANP)- A
good sized number of colored peo-
pie were sprinkled through the
large crowd of Dewey enthusiasts
which thronged the Union station
here as Thomas E.. Dewey and his
staff, swept up from st. Louis,
Thursday. Mrs. Eunice Carter,
assistant to Mr.. Dewey, and an i'm
portant member of his staff in the
district attorneys office in New
York City, was among the dozen
people who were hustled through
the crowd by a flying squadron of
policemen as the delegation left
the train and headed for an infor-
NAL reception at the Palmer House.
Among those seen at the station
were former Senator VIM. <. King,
committeeman of the Second ward;
former Congressman Oscar De-
Priest, committeeman of the Third
Ward; Mrs. Cornelia Pickett, state
committee member; Jacob Upper,
editor of The Chicago World; Stan
ton Defriest, Roscoe Conkling Sim
mons, N. D. Brascher of National
Committeeman's Blackett's office
and mero personages import
ant in local political affairs.
"This has been a grand trip and
we are very much pleased with the
reception given Mr.. Dewey every
where" said Mrs. Carter. GAS we
made two minute stops at Alton,
Springfield, Lincoln, Bloomington,
Pontiac and Joliet, each of which
places Mr.. Dewey greeted the
crowds in brief addresses, there
were thousands of people at the
stations in spite of the rain and in
clement weather and everywhere
colored people were to be seen in
tn crowds"
In Chicago WIN Mr.. Dewey lash
ed out at the New Deal in his
speech at night time half a score
of colored people graced the plat
form. At the Palmer House con-
ferenees and wherever he went col
ored people were on hand either to
confer with his staff, to shake his
The Omaha guide., 1940-04-06
PLANS SECRET CODE CLUBS
AMONG YOUTH TO FIGHT
CRIME

Greenville, Tex, April (by Geo.
L. Crockett for ANP)-A national
drive to get boys and young men
to join an organization called the
"Secret Code Club" was to get I'M
der way this week by Morris o,
Turner, founder and president of
the local chapter. Purpose of the
club is to curb crime among Negro
youth.
Mr.. Turner said his goal was or
ganization of a Secret Code Club
in every city in the United States
with Greenville as headquarters.
He proposes meetings twice weekly
with talks on crime prevention and
refreshments to make colored
youth forget about law breaking.
Further information may be OBJ
tanned by writing to Secret Code
club headquarters at 3018 Johnson
Street, Greenville, Texas.
The Omaha guide., 1940-04-06

may call yourself what You please
and it is all right with me- Then
he sat down.
THAT is not an apology" Brooks
declared. "If we don't get an apol-
ogy, we will walk out of that door
100 percent and we'll never CONT
back
As murmurs ran through thu
convention, Dunning again got Ut
and said, "Of course, if the term
'darky' is offensive to you III apol-
ogize."
This ended the incident and the
convention adjourned soon after
ward.
The Omaha guide., 1940-04-06
FIGHT o VOTE
TOLD IN EQUALITY
ARTICLE

New York-The quiet courage
and determination with which Ne
groes in various southern commun-
tiles are insisting on their right
to register and vote Twill be men,
orable in the annals of democratic
America" a lead article declares
in the April issue of Equality Mag
azine.
The article, entitled Catholics,
Jews, Negroes, Labor the Khan
Hates Them ALL" gives detailed
accounts of the h~ard-fought cam
paigns in Greenville, South Caro-
lima; Miami, Florida, as well as
the story of Khan raids on the
Negro NYA camp in Lexington
County, S. C. The article is pre-
pared by Harold Coy, managing
editor of the magazine, which is
an independent non-sectarian jour
nal published at 512 Fifth Avenue,
New York City.
The Omaha guide., 1940-04-06

considerable harm to democratic
goodwill, because of the authors
prominence"
Sullivan had said in his column,
dated March %, that lynching has
been diminishing for the past
seventy years and declared the an
ti-lynching fight was being pursu-
ed without sincerity by both major
parties in order to snare the Negro
vote.
Senator Tom Connally, of Texas,
who led the filibuster against the
bill in the special session of Con-
gress in 1887 and in the regular
session in 1888, announced that
passage of the bill would be re
sisted to the utmost"
The vote of the judiciary COM
mittee was II to 4 with the follow
ing members voting ~favorably:
Committee Chairman Henry F.
Ashurst, Cd of Arizona; M. NJ.
Nicely, CD of West Virginia; Pat
McCarran, (D) of Nevada; Van
Mugs, Cd Ind; Carl A. Hatch,
(D) of New Mexico; Edward R..
Burke, CD of Nebraska; Joseph
C. O'Mahoney, (D) of Wyoming;
James H. Hughes, CD of Della
ware; George w. Norris, Qnd.) of
Nebraska; Warren R. Austin (R)
of Vermont; alexander Wiley,
(R) of Wisconsin, and Robert A.
Taft (R) of Ohio. Senator Taft is
a candidate for President.
Voting against the measure
were: Key Pittman CD of Neve-
da; John E. Fuller, (D) of Arkan-
sas; Connally, and A. B. Chandler,
(D) of Kentucky.
Senators Taft and Pittman were
absent when the ballot was taken
but they had their votes recorded.
The Omaha guide., 1940-04-06
BARKLEY ASKED TO.
SET DATE ON TAKING
UP LYNCHING BILL

Washington, D. C.-Now that
the Senate judiciary committee has
reported the anti-lynching bill IA
vorably. Senator Alben w. Bark
ley of Kentucky, majority leader,
is being asked to set a date when
the bill will come up in the Sem
ate for debate and action.
Supporters of the bill were urg-
ed by the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored Peo-
pie to take the following steps:
% Write Senator Alben W.
Barley, Senate Office Building,
Washington, D. c., urging him to
set a date when the anti-lynching
bill will be considered.
(2) Write to senators from their
states urging them to work to
bring the anti-lynching bill to a
vote and to vote for it; also urge
them to vote for cloture (limita-
tion of debate) if a filibuster
should develop against the bill.
(3) Get as many individuals and
organizations as possible to write
senators urging that the anti
lynching bill be passed. Form let
tiers, form kilograms, and printed
post cards are not very effective.
Letters should be individually writ
ten to have the most weight.
The NAACP also has issued an
appeal for funds to help carry on
the fight, pointing out that the
bill now has the best chance of
of passing in the long history of
the fight for this type of legisla-
ton.
Before leaving for Washington
Thursday, March %, to organize
the political forces working for
passage of the Bill, Walter White,
executive secretary of the NAACP
termed a recent column written by
Mark Sullivan, New York Herald
Tribune columnist, the 'last stand
of a confirmed reactionery, a stand
based on the deliberate distortion
of facts, and calculated to do
The Omaha guide., 1940-04-06
KILLED IN
BUILDING CRASH

Santa, Rosa, Calf, April A =
(ANP)-The bodies of seven men
and two women, mostly Indians
and Negroes, were recovered from
the debris of a floor that collapsed
into the basement of the Petaluma
and Santa Railroad warehouse
here Tuesday. Most of the victims
were itinerant workers who sought
shelter from a rainstorm in the
basement of the building a few
minutes before the floor above
them, weighed by $50 tons of
prunes, collapsed and crushed
them to death.
The Omaha guide., 1940-04-06
WHITE WOMEN HAVE PRI-
VATE ROOM, COL0RED
WOMEN USE PUBLIC BENCH
AT ARMY HOSPITAL IN
FORT RILEY

Junction City, Kan, April A -
(ANP)-At the army hospital To-
Gated at Fort Riley near here,
where the 9th cavalry and several
white units are posted, wives of
white enlisted men have a special
private waiting room while the
wives of colored soldiers must wait
on a public bench used by civilian
The Omaha guide., 1940-04-06

hand, or merely to look upon the
widely publicized gang buster who
is occupying so important a place
in the public eye.
Mr.. Dewey went to Milwaukee
the same night he spoke but Mrs.
Carter remained behind to arrange
a conference with Negro leaders
upon his return Sunday.
The Omaha guide., 1940-04-06

Thousands turn to this way to
get relief when they're lazy intes-
finally and it has them headachy,
bilious, irritable, listless:,A quarter
to a Tablespoonful of spicy, r o
matte all vegetable BLACK
DRAUGHT on your tongue tonight
a drink of water and there you arel
Thus it usually allows time for a
nights rest; acts gently, thorough
The Omaha guide., 1940-04-06
JOHN A. CUTLERY
Democratic Candidate for Governor

Advocates a lower real estate tax a q help to Nebraska farm own
ers, during this period of low prices for farm products. Also OPP
poses any form of direct sales tax.
To replace the revenue lost by a reduced property tax, advocates
licensing of the saloon (permitted to sell both beer and hard iquor),
with a license fee of $3.50 annually. OF this amount would credit
$500 to the schools of the county in which the saloon is located, and
the remaining $3.50 to the old age assistance fund.
Teacher Farmer business Man
The Omaha guide., 1940-04-06
Official advertisement

Teacher
The Omaha guide., 1940-04-06

POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT
The Omaha guide., 1940-04-06
WAKE Lazy Insides
ALL Vegetable Way

ly next morning.; so relieving con-
stipation's headaches, biliousness,
bad breath.
BLACK-DRAUGHT'S main in
gredient is an intestinal tonic-lax-
ative," which helps impart tone to
lazy bowel muscles. The millions
of packages used prove its merit.
Economical too, % to 40 doses: 25c.
The Omaha guide., 1940-04-06

bench. There are also separate
rest room for women, with large
signs designating them white"
and "colored".
The Omaha guide., 1940-04-06

men working for the government,
it was learned here last week.
Should a colored woman go to
the white women's waiting room, a
nurse will order her outside to h !
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-10

DAYTONA BEACH, FLORIDA Three of the Florida Road Test cars
were given maximum speed tests at the famous measured mile" here.
These as - after running more than 100O 900 miles on Atlantic Products
exclusively were so new" that their average top speed was only
2 m. p. h. less than that of three carefully broken-in new cars. Advt0
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-10

dividends to the top company. That
cut off the flow of funds to the big
holding concern, which it needed to
meet obligations.
The indictments handed up today
resulted from an investigation or
dered by U. S Attorney General
Jackson in February, conducted by
Hugh A. Fulton, as a special assist
ant to the attorney general.
1t is also charged that users OF
| electricity paid large sums in excess
sive rates to provide funds to de-
fend Hopson personally against
stockholders legal actions brought
for the benefit of the system to re-
cover "unlA Wful profits" The two
lawyers are accused of failing to
represent the interests of the sys-
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-10
VERDICT RETURNED
IN BYRD'S DEATH
coroner's Jury Decides Co.
pnn,bus County Man Came
10 Death At Own Hands

n,11rEv1LLE, May "a cor
W. iury conducting an inquest
one, the death of Nash Byrd SO,
into p sno township, here last
OF n',1od that the man came to
nis"t seatb by his own hands.
his four witnesses were ex-
an1lheui ,ifeless body of Byrd, who
Inc farmer living neal East
We" saadia, was discovered at his
Al.aN sunday afternoon, a wound
h0i' he body. Nearby lay a gun,
III . string attached to the trig-
~ u and running to his shoe.
ss ro1ntv authorities worked upon
theory that Byrd must have
' ''ned the string attached to his
s usoe to pull the trigger of the
nnn witnesses examined before
~. suD' coroner's jury here last night
lAv neople who had seen and
toIked with Byrd a short time be-
earo he ended his life, and all of
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-10
GERMAN RAILROADS
PLACED UNDER GUARD
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be travelled over Whitsun
change daily. Two Of them,
however, (Berlin-Vienna Press
burg and Berlin-H
ster) so far have been blocked
at all times.
Berlin is an important troop
transport junction. Trains us
ually pass through in the night,
without stopping if that is pos
sible. Even when soldiers
change trains, they are not al
lowed to communicate with
families or friends.
While the army was taking
these precautions, Adolf Hitler
tried to drive a wedge between
Norway's government and its
people.
He bid for Norwegian, and,
possibly, international SYM
pathy by offering to release
Norwegian soldiers captured by
the German army. This liberty
is unconditional for drafted
soldiers but conditional for Of
ficers and regular members of
the standing army.
He tried to place the respon-
sibility for the bloodshed in
Norway on King Haakon and
the cabinet Of Johan Nygaars-
cold, which he stigmatized as
"the former Norwegian gov
ernment." The king n d
Nygaarsvold, presumably, still
are in a secret place in Nor
way.
Contrary to the will of the
German people and its govern
ment said Hitler in an order to
his military commander in Nor
way, General Nicolaus Won
Falkenhorst, "'King Haakon and
his cabinet urged war against
Germany"
He further tried to put
Haakon and his cabinet on the
spot by naming as one condi-
ton for according freedom to
Norwegian professional soldiers
that the former Norwegian
government withdraw it's ap-
peal to fight against Germany"
His alternative condition for
liberty for these soldiers was
that they disregard their gov
ernment's appeal and ''indivi-
dually obligate themselves by
solemn word of honor under no
circumstances to participate in
further C o m b tive action
against Germany"
There was no indication as to
how many captives might be
involved.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-10

and for weeks was kept in an oxygen
tent.
When Hopson was wanted to tes-
tlfy before the grand jury last month,
his attorney sought to have him ex
cused because of his health. After
an examination by physicians, he
appeared on May 3, but declined to
answer questions on his constitution
al privilege that he might degrade
or lncriminate" himself.
Associated Gas and Electric Corp,
went into bankruptcy last January.
after the SEC had ruled under Tie
holding company act, against which
Hopson had fought vigorously when
it was before congress in 1885, tina:
certain underlying companies vere
not in financial condition to pay
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-10
WASN'T E TO HER

ASHLAND, Ore. (AP) The
Greeks probably have a word for
everything but money orders.
Postmaster ]. H. Fuller re-
ceived for payment a 5000 postal
order issued here in 1906 to a wo-
man in Greece. The explanatory
note forwarded by a Greek bank
sal the woman had not known
all these years what the green
slip of paper represented.
Payment will be complicated
lby the time element but eventual
remittance is expected, Postmas-
ter Fuller said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-10
HOPSON INDICTED
BY FEDERAL JURY
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Gas and Electric system, charged
with assisting him in his operations.
The indictment accuses the four men
of fraudulent use of the mails on
1S counts, and of. conspiracy.
Prosecutors said this was the first
time lawyers and bankers charged
with having prepared the setup for
a Gigantic mail fraud had ever
been indicted along with the princi-
pal defendant.
The lawyers named are Charles M.
Travis and Garrett A. Brownback,
and the former banker, Frederick S.
Burroughs, once with the now de
funct investment firm Of Harris
Forbes & Co., and since 1882 an Off
Ger of Associated.
The indictment of 58-year-old Hop
son, n of the most spectacular OF
public utility titans during the RAPID
growth of superpower corporal on:
during the 2OS, brings to a climax {
series of conflicts with the govern
ment. He was missing" from Au
gust until September Of 1888, wher
Ferdinand Pecora sought to ques'
ton him in the senate stock marke
Investigation.
Committees of both houses of con
gress sought to question him in 1913!
about public utility propaganda ant
lobbying activities, land after mucl
s%currying about to serve a subpoena
On him, he was finally subjected to E
whitening examination by senators
headed by Hugo L. Black, now a su
preme court justice.
The health of the short, heavy
bald financier, whose capacity fol
work had become almost a legene
among utility men, finally broke
and in October, 1885, it was announc
ed he had resigned all his offices
with Associated companies, while
retaining his interest. He suffered
a heart attack in November, 1888
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-10

Out of every 1000 eligibles in South
Africa, % get married each year..
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-10

them said they noticed nothing I'M
usual about the man at the time
they saw him.
No note was left by MI. Byrd.
No motive could be ascribed for
the act Of self-destruction.