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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-01-12
7. John Wood
Digesting
The News


quarter to any man, woman,
or child who knows less about
politics than we do. In years
gone by we have fluctuated
from Demipub to Republocrat
because politically speaking,
we are a numskull. If you
were to ask us to which party
we belong we wouldn't COM
NIT ourself because any par
ty we named might publicly
denounce us as an opportun-
list. We have used various me-
thods in the past to determine
which party to follow because we
know enough on both major par
ties to hang them together or place
them behind bars, theoretically
speaking. In future, however, when
questioned as to our political lead
ings, we will just flip Mr.. William
L. Vann, choose heads and tails
on the two parties, and which
ever end is up when the eminent
editor comes down will indicate
our party for the voting year. But
mind you, that will only be for one
year.
We mention politics at this writ
ing because we believe Represen-
tative Arthur w. Mitchelrs re-
marks in the congress this week
are of political significance to the
Race. Mr.. Mitchell is the only
Negro representative in the nations
capitol and is no doubt considered
the spokesman for the Race even
though it was an Illinois constitu-
ency that voted him to Washing
ton. Naturally, when Mr.. Nit
chell speaks in Washington (Which
fortunately is seldom) other men,
bers of the nations law-making bo-
dy take it for granted that he
speaks the sentiments of his peo-
pie as a whole, and especially his
party. We believe any Negro re-
preventative elected by the Negro
vote should speak for his people
when the occasion warrants biased
statements, because we think the
representative should have the well
fare of the Race at heart. We be-
lieve there are times when party
lines can be bridged by the impor-
lance of the passage of legisla-
ton from which Negroes, no mat
ter to which party they belong,
will derive benefits.
In discussing the anti-lynch bill
Tuesday Mr.. Mitchell vehemently
charged that the Republican par
ty is trying to buy back the Ne
gro vote" with the anti-lynch bill.
When asked by Representative
Fish if the Negro vote was for
sale, Mr.. Mitchell answered, every
vote in the United States is for
sale. Not for money, but for rights
and Justice" We think this an
swer is a very poor subterfuge for
Mr.. Mitchell's obvious inclination
to consider his people secondary
to his party. We think that if there
is one man in Washington who
should not inject politics into the
anti-lynch bill issue, that man is
Arthur w. Mitchell. Mr.. Mitchell
perhaps sealed his own political
doom by the first statement, which
is regrettable, to say the least; for
the voting strength in the district
from which he was elected has
been decentralized. This decentral-
ization will have its effects on the
Negro voting power, which jeopar-
dies the possibilities of sending
another Negro to the White House.
We think Mr.. Mitchell would
have carved for himself a niche
in the Negro hall of fame had he
had the courage to place his peo-
pie above his party. But we know
nothing about the great game of
politics, so we are perhaps steal
ing base here.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-01-12
HOUSE PASSES ANTI-LYNCH BILL
q Vote Sends Lynching
Measure To The Senate

Washington D. C.-By vote of to 1 the house ap-
proved the Ant-lynching BILL Wednesday, and
to the senate where buser by southern democrats
is expected to talk the bill to DEATH"
The final vote taken after heated discussion be-
friends and foes of the bill in which charges and
charges of playing politics with the b hurled
from side to SIDE Representative Rankin, Democrat of
Mississippi, in opposing statement said the Anynch
bill was nothing but the renewal of vicious attack
white people of the southern states"
Representative Mitchell, only Negro house member &C.
cused the Republican party with trying buy back
Negroes vote" with the Anti-lynching bill
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-01-12
Mrs. Henry Dauis Is Named Manager OF
Angelus Mortuary; Cecil Finley Resigns
"A. B. Spingarn Is Named
President Of The NAACp

New York, Arthur B. Spin
garn, prominent New York at
torney was elected president
of the National Association
for the Advancement of Co.
lored People by the board of
directors at the annual meet
ing here January 2.
Associated intimately with
the work of the N. A. A C. P.
for more than a quarter of a
century, Mr.. Spingarn for %
years has been chairman of
the Associations national le-
gal committee. He succeeds his
brother, the late Joel E. Spingarn,
who died last July 26.
Mr.. Spingarn is the third per-
son to head the organization since
it was founded thirty years ago in
New York on Lincoln's birthday,
February II, 1909. The two former
presidents were: Moorfield Storey
famous Massachusetts, ye r,
onetime head of the American Bar
Association and secretary to Con-
gresham Charles Sumner during
the Civil War, who served from
1911 to his death in 1929; and Joel
E. Spingarn, former professor of
English Literature at Columbia
University, who served from 1880
until July &c, 1889.
N. A. A. c p. officials announc-
ed that Dean William HASTE, of
the ward University Law
School, has been named chairman
of the Associations national legal
committee.
Randolph Elected to Board
A. Philip Randolph, Negro labor
leader and president of the Bro
therhood of Sleeping-Car Porters,
was elected a member of the As
sociation's national board of di-
rectors, for a term of two years.
Other members of the board re-
leected for terms expiring in 1912
were: Miss Marion Cuthbert, HUI
bert Delany, Lewis S. Gannett,
John Hammond, DR.. William Allan
Nelson, the Rev. James H. Ro-
binson, Colonel Theodore Roose-
welt, Arthur B. Spingarn, all of
New York.
Mrs. Grace B. Henderson, New
ark N. j.; DR.. N. c. Mcpherson,
Nashville, Tenn; Dean William H.
HASTE, DIR. Charles H. Thompson,
and DIR. Elizabeth Yates Webb, all
of Washington, D. c.
The following persons were cleo
ted vice-presidents of the Associa-
ton; Mrs. Mary Mcleod Bethune,
of Washington, D. c.; DR.. Walter
Gray Crump and Representative
Caroline O'Day, both of New York.
National officers of the Asso-
citation who were reelected in
clude: DR.. Louis T. Wright, chair
man of the board; Miss Mary
White Ovington, treasurer; and the
following vice-presidents: M s s
Mamie H. Burrought, Godfrey Lo-
we'll Cabot, Senator Arthur Capper
Bishop John A. Gregg, the Rev.
John Haynes Holmes, Judge Ira
w. Jayne, the Rev. A. Clayton Po-
/ well, and Oswald Garrison Willard.
National executive officers of the
Association who were reappointed
at a board meeting Immediately
following the annual meeting were
Walter White, secretary; Roy Will
kins, assistant secretary and editor
of the Crisis; Thurgood Marshall
and Charles H. Houston, special
counsel; William Pickins, director
of branches; Mrs. Daisy E. Lamp
kin, field secretary; e. Frederic
Morrow, branch coordinator;
George B. Murphy, Jr., publicity
and promotion; the Rev. James H.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-01-12
Azlfi-LYnchizlg
Button Sale Passes
10000 Mark

NEW YORK - Within five days
of opening the NAACP's nation
wide campaign to keep people
Evening star., 1940-08-24
-Four Walls Make
Delightful Garden il
Properly Developed
Alexandra Model
Offers Suggestions
For Home Owners

-Four walls" may make q delight
full garden as well as q mansion,
and here is a sketch of the way
one was developed in Alexandria.
No. l is an old house that has been
turned into apartments, as has been
done in so many places In Wash
ington The rear apartments are
reached through an entrance gate
E and door, No. 5, under a balcony,
No. 2. No. 3 is an adjoining house,
and No. 4 is an old barn, now garden
house.
These are frame houses which
have been painted white. Windows
and doors are a crisp cobalt blue,
which is a nice contrast to the rosy
brick of the courtyard. In the far
corner there is a small shade tree
with a bird bath at No. 6. All
around is a tumble of Towering
plants of every imaginable color,
most of them ANIMALS. Their great
success was accomplished by filling
planting pockets with excellent top
soil and the best fertilizer.
At every window on the houses,
as well as all around the balcony,
are tin flower boxes with bright
pink and deep blue balcony pc
tunias and trailing green vines. In
the courtyard are small iron tables
and chairs for reading, where one
may sit surrounded by birds and
flowers, tucked away from traffic,
which is shut out by the walls OF
the houses. and enjoy the sunlight
in this secluded garden, where the
walls of the houses, with their doors
and windows. are cleverly utilized to
contribute to the beauty of the
garden.
Old decorated flower pots stand
at intervals around the garden.
Soft yellow or pale green deep dishes
are set about with water to attract
birds and butterflies. Small garden
Evening star., 1940-08-24
200 Savings Associations
MARKING 50th Year

Two hundred savings, building
and loan associations and Coop
erative banks in a different States
celebrate 50th anniversaries of their
organization this year, George w.
West, Atlanta. president Of the
United States Savings and Loan
League. reported today. He said
that 1890, while 1t was past the
peak period Of the century for the
establishment Of these thrift and
home-flnancing institutions, was
still one of the larger years in num-
Der OF new ones started.
A continuous process Of taking in
savers funds and lending them out
to people who wanted homes and
collecting back monthly installments
on the principal for half century
has developed these 5O-year-old in
stltuttons into various sizes ranging
from 100000 to 5000 900. Added
to the approximately 700 similar in
stitutions which had their golden
anniversaries before this year, this
group makes approximately 900
separate home-owner credit funds
administered by private citizens who
have inherited the experience of so
years In dealing with home-owner
credit needs. The average loan of
Evening star., 1940-08-24

metal, steel, linoleum, rubber tile,
porcelain enamel and wood. Edges
of these securely fastened tops may
be made watertight by nodded
metal binding. This covering for
the one continuous work level sur
face can continue into a seamless
backSplash of 3 inches or more all
the way up the wall to the base
of the overhanging cupboards.
Evening star., 1940-08-24

applied by a patented process which
permanently captures the pattern
under the glaze. You can match
the walls with designs in tiled floor,
by means of frames, bands and in
sets. And both kinds of tile-wau
and floor-are waterproof. fireproof,
steamproof, burnproof and color
fast.
Bathroom modernization is eligi-
BILE for Federal Housing Administra-
uninsured loans. You can tile a
bathroom and pay for it on monthly
installments if you wish. A 9 x51a-
foot bathroom can be installed for
as little as $605 a month over a
period of three years under the
F. H. A. plan. depending on loca-
ton and conditions.
Evening star., 1940-08-24
Counters and Floors
Cun BRIGHTEN Kitchen

Color harmony in kitchen, car
ried out in counter material with
floor covering of the same color, will
go a long way toward taking the
dreariness out of kitchen chores.
Counters can be finished in enamel,
Evening star., 1940-08-24

these 50-year-old institutions has
been around 5000.
During the first 40 years exist
ence Of these institutions they were
the only sources of credit for home
owners who wished to pay back on
the installment plan and thus as
sure themselves Of debt-free owner
ship within to IL years." he said
Their happy experience with this
operation was the groundwork for
the recent sponsorship Of the plan
by governmental tnstrumentalities."
Evening star., 1940-08-24
Patterned Bathroom Tiles.

A tiled wall that has a pattern
within the tiles. as well as a pat
tern made up of tiles. is the last
word in bathroom elegance. 1t is
achieved by the use of a new tile
made in 13 delicate pastel shades,
with self-color stripes, formalized
flowers, borders or rosettes baked
right into the clay.
The arrangement of the patterned
tiles with plain-color tiles put you
on your mettle as designer. Strik-
ing effects are possible with alter
nate rows of stripes and plain buff,
for instance, with corners and CEN
ter motif of rosette tiles on the wall
behind a recessed tub, with diagonal
lines of deep blue across a paler
blue wall. In fact, there is limit
less number of designs you can
figure out for your own bathroom.
The decorations on the tiles are
Evening star., 1940-08-24
Preservutives for Wood

Wood coming in contact with the
soil or within Is inches of the
ground should be treated with q
preservative meeting Federal spec
ifications.
Evening star., 1940-08-24

accessories Of iron and porcelain
give the personal, informal effect Of
garden that is thought about,
worked In and cared for, not that
"just growed."
Evening star., 1940-07-14
Clipper at Honolulu
On Way 10 New Zealand

By the Associated Press.
HONOLULU, July 13.-The Amer
ican Clipper, establishing the first
commercial air service between the
United States and New Zealand,
ahghted in the harbor here at 1922
am. today. The big plane left Los
Angeles at 7:35 pm, E. S. T., last
night.
Carrying 81 non-paying passen-
gers, crew Of 10 and a load Of
mail and express, the 42-ton four
motored flying boat averaged Isl
miles an hour.
The Pan-American Anyways ship
will take off at 6 am. tomorrow for
Canton Island.
After an overnight stop at the
tiny mid-Pacific atoll, the Clippers
50-hour schedule calls for stop at
Noumea, New Caledonia. Then 1t
will continue on to Auckland, bring
ing the United States two weeks
nearer the lands down under"
Normal steamer time is II days.
Evening star., 1940-07-14
Wife Of Bergdo|I
Receives $307,289
From Government
30 Per Cent Of Property
Of Draft Evuder
Released by U. S.

Mrs. Berta Bergdoll, German wife
OF Grover Cleveland Bergdou, Phil
adelphia draft dodger, yesterday
received 80 per cent Of the property
OF her husband which was seized
during the World War and held by
the Government.
The refund, which totaled 33O7, =
1884 was made to Mrs. Bergdoll
IN her capacity as attorney in fact
Tor her husband. It consisted of
$249 1874 in real estate and securities,
and $57, 1854 In a United States
Treasury check.
Won Right In Court.
Return Of 80 per cent of the
Bergdoll property had been ordered
by the Attorney General on October
~. 1899. This order was upheld by
Justice Jennings Bailey in District
Court on July II, 1910 in a suit
brought by Bergdoll against the
Attorney General and the Treasurer
OF the United States for return Of
100 per cent of the property held.
When the Philadelphian fled this
country two decades ago to escape
service in the American Army, the
Alien Property Custodian seized his
property. Since the abolition of the
custodian's Office In 1884 the estate
had been administered by the At
torney General. The seized property
was valued at approximately $685.
600.
Held for Claims.
The 80 per cent refund to Mrs.
Bergdoll was based on the amount
left after the Government deducted
about $4,000 for the Army prison.
ers income taxes. The remaining
20 per cent, or about $4,000, will
be held subject TO deposit in the
German special account in the
Treasury to pay American citizens
who have valid claims against Ger
many. arising out of the World War.
These claims are determined by the
Mixed Claims Commission.
Bergdoll returned to this country
IN May, 1929, to surrender himself
to the Army authorities and serve
the Jail sentence which he evaded
on his escape. He Is now serving a
seven and one-half-vear sentence
at Governors Island, NJ
Since his return, members OF the
Bergdoll family, including his
mother, brought various suits for re-
covery Of the draft dodgers property
and amounts alleged to be owing to
them. The German woman who
married Bergdoll lives with their six
children in Downingtown, Pa,
waiting for the day when he will
be released.
Evening star., 1940-07-14
CoIvo SoteIo Mourned
By Nationalist Spain
BY the Associated Press.

0y tllc ASSOClhtSQ fISS6.
MADRID, July 13.-Nationalist
Spain mourned today the man 1t
regards as a martyr to its cause,
Jose Calvo Sotelo.
This monarchist leader was shot
to death four years ago today by
men dressed in the uniform of Re-
publican assault guards and his
death touched off, somewhat pre-
maturely, the Nationalist revolution
which finally overthrew the repub-
lie. To Republicans, Calvo Sotelo
himself was q terrorist.
Spain's newspapers today said of
him: "His blood fired the courage
of Spaniards and set in motor the
uprising which eliminated in re-
generation of the fatherland."
Evening star., 1940-07-14
Occoquon Guard Hurt
When Struck by Auto

Eugene Bryant, 68, a guard at the
District Of Columbia Workhouse at
Occoquan, Va, was admitted to the
Alexandria Hospital yesterday for
treatment Of injuries suffered when
he was struck by an automobile
while crossing U. S. Route / at
Woodbridge, Va. Hospital attaches
said his arm was broken and he was
cut about the face.
State police said the driver Of the
car gave his name as Frank Malin-
sky, 26, of Norfolk, Va. He was re-
leased on personal recogniance
pending the outcome of Mr.. Bryant's
injuries.
Evening star., 1940-07-14
Babcock Aircraft Corn.
Buys Engine Plant
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DELAND, Fla, July 13.-The Bab-
cock Aircraft Corp. has purchased
all assets Of Rover Aircraft Motors
of Dayton, Ohio, and will start pro-
duction of airplane engines at the
local plant about August Is.
Fred L. Foster, Babcock president,
said the Rover plant was valued at
$185, 900 and that the sale involved
all engineering data, master draw
ings, tools, machinery and a large
stock of unfinished engines and
parts.
"The real bottleneck of the air.
craft industry, as every one knows,
is the engine situation" Mr.. Fos-
ter said in announcing the pur-
chase. Wishing to relieve ourselves
of any delay in delivery of Bab-
cock planes, we decided our best
protection was to purchase the en-
tire plant and manufacture our own
engines"
Evening star., 1940-07-14
touches Of
Hundreds Of Fires in
Northwest Forests
Poruehutists Dropped
To Aid G. G. G. and
Volunteer Fighters
By the Associated Press.

~ ~Asc S~SoSi6tCA 11Ce6s
MISSOULA, Mont. July 13.-
Hundreds of fires, touched OF by
rainless electrical storms, blazed in
the tinder-like forests of three
States tonight despite efforts Of
thousands OF hastily modified fire
f1ghters-some Of whom parachuted
to the fire lines.
At least TOO blazes, some already
covering more than 500 acres each,
were reported over a 200-mile front
from north Of Spokane, Wash, to
Glacier National Park in Montana.
Newly-trained Forest Service
parachutists were used for the first
time. But the fire fighters dropped
from planes were too few to cope
with far-f1ung outbreaks.
Thousands of Civilian Conserva-
ton Corps enrollees and volunteers
from cities and towns were sum-
moned.
Special Train Rushes Crew.
Spokane dispatched a special
train carrying 300 men to the Koo-
tenai National Forest east Of Libby,
IN Northwestern Montana.
Additional crews were being en-
listed for other hard-hit sectiops as
supervisors reported the fires were
increasing continually"
At Spokane, Cliff Hunter, Forest
Service procurement officer, said the
lightning scored a 100 per cent
hit" in the forests and added:
Things are happening so fast it's
impossible to grasp the magnitude
of the situation. Coupled with the
extremely critical condition of the
forests is the prospect of short
age of fire fighters. Few men are
available outside the c. c. G. and
blister rust camps because Of the
harvest demands"
Many of the fires were called
thick but not out of hand"
30 Fires in Glacier Park.
Thirty small fires broke out in
Glacier National Park this after
noon. From rs to 100 blazes were
reported in the Flathead National
Forest directly south of the Glacier
National Park. One blazed out of
control over 500-acre section dur
ing the afternoon.
Worst blaze reported In Northern
Idaho was 300-acre fire near Syl-
vanite, in the Kahiksu National
Forest. This forest had 80 new
fires this morning.
Reports of additional fires In
the Kootenai Forest caused Spo-
kane to enlist q crew of $50 to
supplement the special train sent
earlier to Libby.
Spokane also made up a crew Of
200 for two fires in the Kaniksu
Forest of Northern Idaho, north
east of Bonners Ferry.
Evening star., 1940-07-14

when the Dutch refused to bow un-
der the powerful yoke Of the Span
ish. 1t was and has remained a
song of defiance against oppression.
AS yet the government of the
Netherlands, enthusiastically backed
by its navy. its faithful citizens in
Holland and abroad, and last but
not least by its 10000, 900 Javanese,
who unanimously have declared their
fealty to the little country and its
Queen, has not surrendered. They
have refused to consider themselves
vanquished and have officially de-
clared and maintained the Neither
lands as at war with Germany. I
firmly believe that this obstinate
refusal to recognize the foulest ty-
ranny the world has ever known
will result in regained liberty, as it
did in the 18th century.
AS it is, the spiritual liberty of a
nation, no matter how small, can
never be conquered. And the pro-
gram Of tonight is one of spiritual
victory throughout, from the devout
and mystic cropping toward the light
by the French Flemish Cesar Franck
to the direct patriotic message OF
the struggle for liberty in Finland
by Sibelius. My cousin, Hendrix
Willem van Loon, the author, will
comment tonight on the significance
OF the different works to be per-
formed.
A Gesture Of Faith.
Americans. like the Dutch, believe
in liberty. We can still say so with
out the feel of a bayonet in our
backs. We can still read books and
listen to music and the radio with
out being put in concentration
camps. We can still watch the
plaIes and airliners overhead with
out having the sickening sense of
fear of sirens screaming and bombs
crashing. We live in peace, and we
know compassion; and we want our
children to live in peace and to
know compassion. But we must be
ready to defend these ideals if life,
such as we know and want 1t, is
to go on.
This concert. then, as I said be.
Evening star., 1940-07-14
Daniels Flies to Attend
Democratic Convention
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, July 13.-United
States Ambassador Josephus Daniels
left by plane today for Chicago
and the Democratic National Con-
vention, where he will vote with the
Observation-Disclosures North Caro-
lima delegation.
II think Mr.. Roosevelt will be
nominated practically without op-
position" the envoy said before his
departure.
Mr.. Daniels will preside next We'd
nesday at an old-timers' breakfast
honoring william Jennings Bryan,
who was nominated for the presi.
dency at Chicago a years ago.