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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-10-15
Japan, Russia
To Sign Pad
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LONDON, Oct. 15.-A Far Eastern
non-aggression pact between Japan
and Russia may be signed within
the next few days. This is according
to a report in diplomatic circles.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-10-15
STAY HOME

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 15.-The
immigration Department here has
received word to refuse to issue
passports to American women and
children seeking to travel to Chin
csc, Japanese and Dutch West
Indies ports, Shanghai, Hongkong
and Singapore.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-10-15
rs IN HOSPITAL

Arrivals from Anchorage state
that Mrs J. w. Kehoe, wife of the
U. s. District Attorney. is in the
Providence Hospital there for medi-
cal treatment.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-10-15

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The guardian., 1940-08-10
COlOred Welcomed
AT Willkie Ceremony

ELWOOD, Ind-At the instance of
Joseph w. Martin, Jr., chairman of
the Republican National Committee,
Dr. Emmett ]. Scott, consultant on
Race Affairs at COP. headquarters
in Washington, D. c., has spent the
last three days here checking errone-
Gus statements that colored visitors
will not actively participate in the
Willkie notification ceremonies on
August 18th.
"These statements are not true"
DR.. Scott declared Monday.
every arrangement made, as l
have fully verified, contemplates the
complete cooperation of colored citi-
zens in the notification ceremonies
Thousands of letters have reached
Elwood advising of the coming of
delegations. Entertainment plans in
clude not only their presence in large
numbers, but their active participation
as well.
The guardian., 1940-08-10
SCREENING OF ATTUCKS film
NE. MOVIES NEAR COMP ELTON

Simmons, chairman, 222 Northampton
Street, Phone Kenmore 9723.
All who love and admired the late
William Monroe TrOtter should see
"God Bless America" and influence
others to do likewise.
Trotter, perhaps saw this day. oe-
cause a year before his death, ne col
laborated with our own Alfred 7:
Lewis who made motion picture OF
the March 5th Attucks Day celeDra-
ton. 1t showed the indomltaOles
Trotter at the head of procession oI
members and friends Of the Boston
Equal Rights League on the march
from King ST., Estate now Boston,
Massacre Spot to Granary Burylng
Ground, thence to Attucks Monument
on Boston Common.
Who knows, but that the Natlollai
Defence Photoplay, "God Bless Amer
lea" showing 5 times each day, featut-
ing in one scene Crispus Attucks Is
sequel to the primary efforts u
Trotter. H. early utilized the lncidenls:
believing it to be a mighty medium u
propaganda. ,..,,ol,s
Don't fail to get tickets for Attucks
Day, Thursday, September ". Phonf
Kenmore 9723 or call at the otflce oo5 90
DR.. R. A. Simmons, chairman, ,.,1.. 1Ls
Northampton Street, K. W. Mliiei'
secretary-(by L. E. P.)
The guardian., 1940-08-10
NOTED EDUCATOR
DIES AT 81

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana,-Dr.
James Hardy billiard, general agent
of the Jeanes and Slater Funds from
1908 until 1881, when he retired from
active duty, and for whom billiard
University, New Orleans, was named,
died at his home in Charlottesville,
Virginia, Friday of last week at the
age of "a.
DR.. billiard, active in educational
circles for more than 60 years, was
identified with movements for the
advancement of race education for
more than half that time. He was the
recipient in 1928 of a medal from the
Harmon Foundation for the promotion
of better relations between the races
and for the improvement of educa-
tional facilities in the South, and in
1897 he was awarded the Roosevelt
medal for his work in behalf of colored
Americans.
DR.. billiard was president of the
National Conference of Church Clubs,
member of the Louisiana State
Board of Education, the Southern Edu-
cation Board, the board of admins
tration of Tulane University, and
rector of William and Mary College.
He was for many years a member of
the boards of trustees of Straight
College and New Orleans University,
predecessors of billiard University.
DR.. billiards. last visit to New
Orleans was in June, 1886, when he
attended the first annual commence
ment exercises of the University
which bears his name. He was also
present in May, 1884, at the corner
stone laying of the Library and Aca-
demic Building, first building to be
erected on the new University campus.
Funeral services were held last Sun
day at $3.50 pm. in the Christ Episco-
pal Church in Charlottesville.
The guardian., 1940-08-10
MY. COMM TWISTS
NAME 5 COLORED
ON TICKET

Five colored will be placed by the
Communist Party of the State of New
York on the ballot for the coming
elections, it was learned this week.
The five candidates, some of whom
will run in predominantly white dis
tricts, are: Timothy Holmes, for the
State Assembly from the 4th Assem-
bly, District, Bronx County; Walter
B. Garland, Assembly candidate from
the Kings County 17th Assembly Dis
trict; Benjamin J. Davis, Jr., Con-
gressional candidate from the 21st
District, Harlem; Theodore Bassett,
for U. S. Senator from the 10Th dis
trict, New York County, and Mrs.
Matte Green, for Congress from the
42nd Congressional District, Buffalo,
N. Y.
Nominating petitions for placing
these and other Communist candidates
on the ballot are already in circula-
ton throughout the State, according
to Isidore Begun, Communist cam
paign manager.
The Communist candidates will
demand greater relief for the unem-
ployed in New York State, for better
housing, for labor's protection. for
greater State aid to education. They
Will carry on an educational and agita-
tlonal campaign in behalf of the re-
placement of the decaying and exploit
ing system of war r-breeding capitalism
by Socialism, under which the people
will control the resources and wealth
OF the nation"
The guardian., 1940-08-10
RrtRnt Enttnrtal
COLORED PILOTS

At a recent hearing Of the house
appropriations committee, Representa-
tive Ludlow of Indiana called atten-
tion to a recent act of Congress requir-
ing that facilities be made available
for the training of colored airplane
pilots for the army. Asked by Mr..
Ludlow what had been done to carry
out this mandate, Gen. Marshall, chief
of staff, replied that "there is no such
thing as colored aviation at this time"
He suggested that the start should be
made by the Civil Aeronautics author
ity.
1t is to be hoped that Mr.. Ludlow
will see to it that the intention of Con
gress is not defeated by bureaucratic
buck-passing. This is said not only in
protest against discrimination but also
in recognition of the very large con-
tribution to national defense which
may be expected of colored pilots.
The first requisite of a military flyer
is quick nervous responses. He should
have superior sense of balance, ex-
cellent muscular coordination, a good
sensory apparatus, sound body. In
short, the qualities which make a good
athlete are required of flyer. Of
course he should have physical and
moral courage as well. In all of these
qualifications colored men have given
ample demonstration of their fitness.
A race which has produced, in the
span of few years, Joe Louis, Henry
Armstrong, Jesse Owens, Jefferson of
Northwestern, Ozzie Simmons of
Iowa, substantial number of Golden
Gloves champions, and a score of other
absolutely top-notch athletes, provides
a rich resource which ought not to be
lost to the country through prejudice.
In the face of this roster of world
champions the physical fitness and
courage of their race cannot be ques-
toned by any reasonable man.
The record suggests that the coun-
try would lose less by refusing to
train Harvard, Yale, and Princeton
men for the flying corps than by re-
fusing to train colored aviators.
Chicago Daily Tribune.
The guardian., 1940-08-10
THE HARVESTERS

1T won't be long now" before the
political candidates will come distribu-
ting praises with a generous hand
and exhibiting a fine brand of good
behavior as they make their bids for
public support. Republicans and Demo-
Gratis will be as cordial as cordial can
pe with never an iota of soueamishness
about handshaking and meeting all
sorts and conditions of people, regard
less OF creed or color, wherever there
is chance for harvesting votes. Tact
and courtesy loom uppermost in the
technique of winning political favor.
The display Of urbanity brightens
up the person as does Sunday-go-to-
meeting raiment. This is not to saw
that all the affability is genuine and
natural. But good as well as evil is
habit-forming and therefore one NAV
easily believe that the veteran politi-
clan becomes by habit a pleasant per-
son to meet. Anyway it reveals a
common understanding that to be sue
cessful in politics one must adopt the
ways of the gentleman and hence the
school of politics teaches a good les
son though some, alas! shed its infu-
ence as soon as the campaign ends for
much the same reason that an urchin
reaches for his every day togs when
Sunday is over.
The guardian., 1940-08-10
|Mnt MnttrnP UrnttprI
Editor and Publisher
1901 1884
RACE HISTORY IN MASS.

Boston is usually called the Club of
the Universe, and its natives NAV be
excused if they proudly think it is so.
Massachusetts, in the epoch of the
American Revolution and the>founding
of the United States, was certainly an
important wheel around which events
of great world Importance revolved.
Here began the significant history of
colored Americans, as shown by the ex-
ploits Of Crispus Attucks, Salem Poor,
and Peter Salem, the revolutionary
heroes. When the country was threat
ened by the seeding Southern slave
holders, Massachusetts was one of the
first states to fight for the preservation
OF the Union and the destruction of
chattel slavery. The 54th and 55th re-
giments in the Civil War, commanded
by the immortal Robert Gould Shaw
and n. Penrose Hallowell, covered
themselves with glory at Fort Wagner
and elsewhere. Peacetime achievements
of the colored citizens of the Common
wealth have been fully as distinguished
and as notable as their military ex-
plolts: Boston produced in Phillis
Wheatley the first colored poet and one
of the earliest American literary fig
ures.
All the foregoing is by way of pre-
lude to suggestion to the WPA Writ
ers Project, on which are employed
several colored persons. Other state
projects in Virginia and Nebraska
have already published commendable
histories of the eolored people of their
respective commonwealth. The color
ed population of the latter state is even
smaller proportionately than that of
Massachusetts. Yet Nebraska's colored
citizens have apparently shown greater
interest and more vigilance in seeing
that the story of their achievement is
properly told. The Writers Project
can best undertake the work of such a
volume, for it is common knowledge
that considerable material has been
gathered by its staff during the past
four years. Let a group of competent
writers, headed by a qualified colored
scholar, be Immediately set to work
organizing, editing, and shaping that
material for early publication.
The guardian., 1940-08-10
THIRD TERRIERS

"Two Republican Presidents each
sought third term," declared former
Asst. Dist. Attorney Harold w. Sulli-
van, candidate for the Democratic
nomination for Attorney General.
president Theodore Roosevelt
thought so little of the third term
tradition that he left his own party,
wrecked it in the election of 1912, to
run under the Progressive Bull Moose
party, for a third term. But be it
said to the credit of "Teddy," he
named his party, the Progressive
Party, for he was sick at heart at the
Republican philosophy of do nothing.
sit tight, and stand pat, that for
eighty long years ruled the nation
since the Civil War. The result was
that terrific backlog of social legisla-
tion was created, that had to be
passed and worked out in the eight
short years of President Roosevelts
administration, or we would have had
in America the same conditions as
prevailed in Europe, with social
revolution sweeping the country. Be
it ever remembered that America is
The guardian., 1940-08-10
Calvin's Digest
By Bernice Calvin

The Ku Klux Klan has seen some
pretty bad times in recent months.
With the white robe order taking so
many ickings in the Georgia courts
lately the fold has been thinning out
at such an alarming rate that the
Imperial Wizard, W. H. Colescott of
Atlanta has launched a grand drive of
responsibility.
Initial drastic reform on the "come-
back" program called for unmasking
of the brethren and in public. Thus
far the first time in history the K K K
marched with faces barred to the pub
lies scrutiny. The debut was staged
in Spartanburg, S. c. and when a pho
tographer of the towns journal got a
picture of a klansman covering face
with hood, the recalcitrant member
was Immediately expelled from the
lodge.
At an initiation of 18 members
mildly conducted in Greensville, S. c.,
newspaper men and photographers
were for the first time allowed to roam
as they pleased. A special red-faced,
redrobed official took care of the
press courteously. And the order is
producing the desired effects for the
once dormant khan, now revitalized is
sprouting in new growth in New Jer-
sey, the Middle West and the South,
its old burning ground.
On Refugee Children
Its the same heart rending story
only with a new twist and more pitt
full at that. Where it was the refugee
Jews it's now children, little ones and
innocent victims of the German mania
for power.
1t seems that these United States,
melting pot of all nations, must keep
tune to 10Th century policy despite
the fact that times have changed and
be the dumping grounds of the
plighted and bewildered ones from
abroad. We have thousands of Col
ored children, woefully underfed, who
look a lot worse than the healthy and
sturdy Britishers. Yet we must bur
den ourselves with the offspring of a
country that brought the desperate
predicament in which she is in herself
through total unpreparedness and
laziness.
And so it is the same warning as
uttered before-America, always on
the side of the underdog, sweep your
own house before others and look after
your own youth before the others. It
may sound selfish, but it's the best in
the long run of you don't want a fifth
column knitting you in the back.
The guardian., 1940-08-10
SHOULD NATIVE SON. BE
FILMED?

Orson Welles, it is said, has pur-
chased the dramatic rights to Richard
Wright's 'Native Son." and the novel
lst and Paul Green, the white Southern
playwright, are currently engaged in
preparing the script at Chapel Hill,
North Carolina.
The reading of Native Son" is a
memorable experience. Richard
Wright, foremost contemporary race
author, is master of the art of fic
tlon. Somehow he manages to com
press a great deal of the social. politi-
cal, and economic conditions of colored
people into the pages of his book.
Not every story which can be told
IN the form of novel will lend itself
to dramatic narration. "Native Son"
illustrates the truth of that maxim.
Many literary critics and more aver
age or general readers missed the
essential point: that Bigger Thomas,
the principal character, was influenced
throughout by the fear which race
prejudice creates in a victim. If that
point is ignored or obscured. the les
son of the novel will be distorted; in
that case, the book should not be
mined or staged, for the events which
1t depicts would then infame anti-race
feeling. in some quarters. If, how
ever, the dominant theme, the essen
tlal point, is left as Richard Wright
intended it to be received, a play or
film, dramatically effective, can be of
lmmeasurable aid in popularizing
without vulgarizing the problems of
colored people of low economic level.
IL VIII reach those thousands of white
ana black Americans who never read
book, no matter how widely it is dis
cussed, but who do, at least occasion
ally, go to the movies.
The guardian., 1940-08-10
WATCH TOWER
BY William Harrison

be addressed to the Councillor at Citv
Hall, in care of the City Council.
A Mean Thief
Thievery is always damnable. like
its near-fellow, thuggery, but it Is
never so despicable as when it mas
querades in such a guise as to win the
sympathy of the public, upon whose
instincts of decency it preys. There
are some Shiny racketeers who batten
on the social, political, and economic
misfortunes of colored people by using
them to obtain money under false pre.
lenses. Recently the international
Labor Defense, the Scottsboro Defense
Committee, and the National Associa-
tion for the Advancement of Colored
People, found it necessary to warn
the nation against the fake Scottsboro
victim" who was soliciting funds
What could be lower than that? Nine
young men, oppressed by Alabama
Justice, were framed up in 1881 and
sentenced to death on the alleged
charge of "raping" two white semi
professional ladies of the night who
were hoboes with them on the same
freight train; later one of the women.
Ruby Bates, had the common human
ity to repudiate her first story, already
disproved by expert, impartial testi-
mony, though the other. Victoria
Price, refused to recant, being either
intimidated by the police or bereft of
all human feeling. The mass protests
of the common people all over the
world focused international attention
on Alabama "justice"-I shall always
admire the African prince and the
English lady who told me that they
had served on the London Scottsboro
Defense Committee as well as the
Welsh bakers boy who could not
understand how anybody could be so
perverse as the bench and jury of an
Alabama lynchtown. Scottsboro be-
came a byword of reproach; it still
exudes anything but perfume in the
nostrils of decent white, black, brown,
or yellow men and women.
To allow the thief who masquerades
as one of the four freed young men
to rob innocent, well-meaning humani-
tarians of money would be to destroy
their confidence in genuine appeals
for assistance to victims of violations
of civil liberties. Such a robber and
his ilk should be at once exposed when
ever and wherever they are discovered.
Thurgood Marshall, special counsel
of the N.A.A.C.P., has issued another
warning about a racketeer styling
himself Robert Lee Perkins, whose
tale of having escaped from peonage
in Louisiana after enforced labor or
twenty years deceived the very elect,
the unsentimental, worldly wise
shrewd officials of the N.A.AC.P., who
were defrauded, and the agents Of our
Department of Justice! This willy rat
may appear even in our midst under
another name The best way to deal
with all such appeals as that type OF
person makes is to refer them to one
of our organizations: the Boston
branch of the NA.ACP., headed by
Attorney Ray w. Guild, 44 BrOmfeld
Street, Boston; the Boston Urban
League, of which ]. Caswell Smith is
executive secretary and Seaton W.
Manning is industrial secretary, II
Whittier Street, RoXbury; the East
ern New England Congress for Equal
Opportunities, of which Attorney John
S. R. Bourne is chairman, 558 Massa-
chusetts Avenue, Boston.
The guardian., 1940-08-10
The Foe Within

In onr battle for justice we must
realize that there are thousands of
traitors within our own ranks-men
and women who, having mortgaged
their own craven souls to our en-
emies, are willing and anxious to
sell out our group for a mess of pot
tage. In myraids of instances they
have already done so. Many of these
beings are like moles which burrow
beneath the surface, and they have
by their peraicious activities placed
the entire structure Of our rights in
peril. The vilest, cruelest, most bru-
tai, craftiest, most venomous, and
most cold-blooded outspoken enemy
is far less dangerous than the vile,
crafty, sinking, snake-like burrow-
ing foe within
--LLEWELLYN LEWIS.
The guardian., 1940-08-10
CHURCH News
FOURTH METHODIST CHURCH
709-711 Shawmut Ave.
Rev. s. Marion RILEY. Jr.. Pastor

ANN'' - -'AAA ioAi AhiiCgs JAss uSIOl
1920 am, Worship and Pastor
Riley preaching; 1890 PM, Church
School-Henry Shepherd, Superinten-
dent; 500 pm, Vesper Services: Rev.
James D. Tyms, speaker. Prayer and
class meeting on Wednesday evening
at $3.50 pm. Robert Petite Of
Thompson, Ga, joined the church
under watch-care last Sunday
Ebert Barnes who has been i'll is i'm
proving rapidly. Miss Betty Granger
of "a Cabot Street who was bed-fast
with a severe cold is able to be up
and around again.-Mrs. Ella Park
hurst of Sc Windsor Street who was
very i'll the first of the week is greatly
improved. Master Lawrence Firth
and his sister, Miss Majorie Firth are
spending two weeks vacation at Oak
Bluffs.
L. Lockman Will Sing at Sunday
Vesper
The Vesper Services at Fourth
Flung far and wide should be the
The guardian., 1940-08-10
Langston Hughes Tells His Story

The autobiography of our best
known poet, Langston Hughes, will be
published by Alfred A Knopf, in the
latter part of this month. 1t is entitled
"The Big Sea-" and it has appeared
serially in a Baltimore weekly news
paper.
Langston Hughes has travelled
widely and has met many men and
women of eminence in all walks of
life. Like all people who have "some-
thing on the ball", to lapse into slang,
Hughes has the humility which en-
ables him never to lose the common
touch. Moreover, he has put his pen
at the service of progress, and has
assailed brutality, exploitation, and
oppression all over the world. For
that reason, he was forbidden entry
into the Flower Kingdom by the
Japanese samurai, because he exposed
their repressive rule of Korea; even
the ruling clique of Haiti prescribed
him because of his article "People
Without Shoes, which dealt with the
poverty and squalor of the island
republics peasantry.
The guardian., 1940-08-10
Odd Fellows Meet

The Odd Fellows annual convention
in Deacon Halls Tuesday and Wguiieo ,Ianso
day brought delegates from MaST~ Tbe
chusetts and states attached; ;-dnv dnv
highlight was a banquet luesJ~5 sSSstsr
evening when National Grand MasSee tbe
James Adair of New York gave o;n oEo
principal address. Another maj Ll@ii'
speaker was National Grand oFgGe1 Nrow
zer of Ruthites, Lillian Prattes Oh i''
York. All officers were re-electeu'
The guardian., 1940-08-10
Segregation for Coored the Real Permanent Damnng Degrade

no more immune to the laws that
govern social phenomena than it is to
the law of gravity.
president Coolidge, with his art
fully worded statement, 4 do not
choose to rum was careful to leave
the door open, so he could hear the
people cry out, but we the people do
choose that you rum"
The guardian., 1940-08-10

Methodist Church from Sc pm, each
Sunday are attracting wide attention.
Last Sunday Rev. Frank Cunning
ham, pastor of the colored congrega-
ton OF Morgan Memorial, brought a
very inspiring and international mes
sage on "Glory and Honor Be Unto
God" j. Milton Arbuckle, guest solo
ist, rendered two excellent numbers.
Visiting ministers were Revs. S. P.
Perry, J. P. Cox and James Tyms.
Sunday, August II, at $500 pm.
Lycurgus Lockman will be guest
soloist and render two numbers. Rev.
James Daniel Tyms, AM, a former
professor at Howard University and q
graduate student at Boston Univer-
sity for his Ph.D. degree. will be the
guest speaker. The public is cordially
invited to worship at the friendly
church, the church which grips both
heart and hand.
The guardian., 1940-08-10
a4ary +. CLARK

Mary E. Clark of 279 Blue Hill Ave- 4IO
died Aug. 6, 1910 at Boston City hos
pital. Relatives and friends are IN ~,
vited to attend the services a. VI Iii'
Graham Funeral Home, l!lO "asn- sn,
ington St., Roxbury, on Friday aug
9, at 100 pm.