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The Phoenix index., 1940-05-04
Louis, Godoy In
Return Go, June 20

NEW YORK - (SNS) -
World Champion Joe Louis and
Arturo Godoy, of Chile, have
been signed to meet in a Is
round fight at Yankee Stadium
here on June 20, it was an
announced Monday by Promot-
err Mike Jacobs.
Under terms of the agrees
ment for the coming fight,
$4,000 will be withheld from
Godoy's end Of the purse placed
in escrow as a guarantee that
Godoy, in the event he wins the
title, will meet Louis in a re-
turn bout within so days.
The Phoenix index., 1940-05-04
Fight For
Passage
Continues
SoIon Resents
Being Forced
Into Open


lynching bill at this session
of Congress is receiving the
mass support of large sec
tions of the American people
white as we'll as colored'
whose resentment is stead
lily growing at the apparent
complete failure of the Sen
ate leadership to initiate or
even contemplate the initia-
ton of any determined eff
fort to secure action" on this
bill.
This was the sentiment ex-
pressed by Walter White,
executive secretary of the
Natinal Association for the
Advancement of Colored Peo-
pie, in a sharp letter to Sen
ate Majority Leader, Albion W.
Barkley, (D), of Kentucky, and
made public by the NAACP to-
day.
In making the letter public Mr..
White said: "We are putin" the
issue squarely up to the Demo-
cratic leadership of congress to
affirm our charges of inaction
and attempts to scuttle the bill,
or demonstrate it's sincerity by
passing this legislation"
BARKLEY CHALLENGED
White challenged the Senator
Barklev to prove that he has
lifted a finger to call up the an
ti-lynching bill or made any real
effort to discuss ways and means
of pushing the bill either with
the Senate sponsors of the meas
ure, or with the NAACP, which
is leading the fight to get it pass
ed.
The statement was a reply to
charges made by Senator Bark
ley in a letter dated April ~,
and also made public by the
NAACP today, that the NAACP
secretary had "resorted to tao
tics utterly contemplate" and
had made "untruthful" state
ments in describing in a previous
letter, the senate leaders failure
to support the bill.
Barkley also accused the NAA-
CP of arousing his constituents
through the Louisville DEFEND
Err, Negro weekly paper, in an
effort to "build fire under me
by sort of local intimidation"
Answering the Kentucky Sena-
tor by giving a play-by-play de-
scription from the record of the
NAACP's efforts to get him to
act during the period from the
end of October, 1889 to the pres
ent, White said.
Through our weekly press
service, through communications
to branches of this association
and to church, labor and other
organizations who are working
for enactment of the anti-lynch-
ing bill, we keep those interested
supplied with the week-to-week
progress of this and other legisla-
ton. If supplying this informa-
ton is to be interpreted by you
as an attempt to build fire un-
der me by sort Of local intinida-
tion,' then we can do nothing to
prevent your harboring any such
belief"
Pointing our that Senator
Barkley's letter "echoes the same
defeatism" of those in the Con-
gress majority who have allowed
! the filibusterers to proceed with
their evil designs without exercls-
ing the slightest determination
to put UP any effective resist
ance," the NAACP secretary de-
clared, "you admit in your let
ter of April % that you are un-
able, at this late date in the ses-
sion, to give us any information
as to when the anti-lynching bill
will be taken up in the Senate. .
Lashing out at the disgraceful
lack of fighting leadership in the
! senate that could rally the ma
jority opinion in that body for
the bill if it would do so, White
warned the majority leader that
The Phoenix index., 1940-05-04
X. G.. LAWYER FILES FOR
STATE LEGISLATURE

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-(ANP) -
James d. Pouncey, prominent law
yer here, last week filed his inten-
ton to become a candidate for the
Republican nomination for repre-
sentative in the state legislature
from the fourth district. A gradu-
ate of Tuskegee institute and How
are university, Pouncey has prac-
ticed law for many years. He is a
World war veteran. L. Amasa Knox,
also a lawyer, served the district
in the 1929 legislature.
The Phoenix index., 1940-05-04
INDIANS LEARN OF WHITE
WAYS THROUGH NEGRO

NEW YORK-(A N FD-Charles
Gambler. Harvard graduate, con-
Quoting a class in history in the
High School of Commerce, mas
among his pupils, Red Cloua, an
Indian, who has promised to en-
roll again next year to learn the
ways of white folks from his
colored tutor.
The Phoenix index., 1940-05-04
Doctors Trying To
Kill Idea He Says

WASHINGTON-(ANP)-C Charging that four or five
at the head of the National Medical association had
been using their national prestige to embarass the
ment the Rev. Amos Carnegie, founder of the National
Hospital foundation Inc told audience of white and
coored listeners at the New York Avenue Presbyterian
church that he possessed written Endorsements from
erous local organizations of colored physieians.
The Phoenix index., 1940-05-04

Two rotary kilns have been
crested at the construction site Of
the Chasta dam in California to
produce 14,00c barrels of cement
daV.
The Phoenix index., 1940-05-04
News I'm
Brief

The home of Mrs. B. Lee, at
1126 E. Monroe street was partly
burned last week, 1t was reported
that while she and her children
slept some one set fire to the rear
of the house burning most all of
their clothes and washing machine
and a number of other things. The
damage was very heavy for Mrs.
Lee, and her nine children.
DR.. L. K. Williams, president of
the National Baptist Convention,
Inc, arrived April 23rd accompan-
ming the delegation was Rev. Cal
vim Perkins, B. S., A. B., A. NJ,
D. D., chairman of the Education
Board of the National Baptist
Convention, Inc, president OF
Greenville, Miss, and pastor of the
23rd Street Baptist Church of
Birmingham, Ala, nationally
known lecturer, orator, and educa-
tor, gave to us one of his famous
addresses which made all rejoice
over the Negro baptist and our peo-
pie of Alabama. They love their
state and well fair they are pro-
crossing. I calnnot he surpassed.
We truly welcome his return.
The Phoenix index., 1940-05-04

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The Phoenix index., 1940-05-04

NATCHEZ, Miss.-(SNS)
Here is a partial list of
identified dead in the dance
hall tragedy Tuesday night
which claimed 2O2 lives:
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-31
CONTINUED on Page Two; Col. y

WASHINGTON, March 3O.-lR-
A majority of the Smith commit
tee, reporting on it's investigation
of the labor board, told the house
today that amendment of the Wag'
ner act at this congress session was
Imperative to correct wrongs
that are being perpreated daily up
on industry, labor and the general
public"
Chairman Smith (D-Va) and Rep
resentatives Halleck (R-Ind) and
Routzohn (R-Ohio) filed a 10000
word report recommending II re-
visions and accusing the present
board of ''overzealousness' and
predatory encroachment" on basic
rights.
The majority previously had SUBJ
mitted, in the form Of a bill, the
proposed amendments which includ'
ed substitution of a new board Tor
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-31
British And French War;
ships To Pass Through
The Dardanelles
WILL BLOCK NAZI OIL
Report Says Red Exports
To Other Nations Will
Not Be Stopped
By ROBERT P. PARKER Jr.

L, NldlSI " N
Turkey was represented in u
ly well-informed Balkan diplomatic
quarters tonight as having agreed to
permit passage of British and
French warships through The OAR
danelles to choke off Germany's sup
ply line from Russia in the Black
Sea.
The newspaper lie Moment, re.
garded as close to the French m
bassy here, reported moreover, that
Turkey had agreed to place her naval
bases at Trebizond, Samsun and ST.
nope at the allies disposal for use
as contraband control bases.
eff True 80"
(Oficial circles in London profess
sed no knowledge TO the proposed
agreement with Turkey. 1t was said,
however, that if it is true, it will be
a strong boost to the allied diploma
tic offensive in the Balkans and an
important aid to Tightening the al
Led blockade Of Germany
~Infornants here reported the
Turkish decision was reached at a
Continued OH Page Eight; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-31
House Committee Urges
Changes In Labor Law

the present three-man agency, sep
aration of the boards prosecuting
and judicial functions and other
changes in board procedure.
The report filed today summar'
lied the testimony received at
lengthy hearings and explained the
maiority's reasons for recommend
ing the amendments. The other
two members Of the investigating
committee-Representative Healey
D-Mass) and Murdoch (D-Utah)-
opposed the recommendations, con-
tending that they would seriously
impair the act.
At the outset Of it's report, how
ever, the majority said:
I'm suggesting these amendments,
the committee reaffirms its belief
in the right of employees to organ
CONTINUED on Page Three; Col. II
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-31
Bertrand Russell Barred
From Teaching By Judge

troversy touched off by Episcopal
Bishop William T. Manning shortly
after Russell's appointment to an
SS,0O0-a-year post in the depart,
ment of philosophy, effective in
February, 1911, announced several
months ago. Pros and cons were
flung ito the debate by noted per.
sonages and, with the case as a
springboard, the state legislature
this week set up a committee to
investigate New York city's educa.
tional system.
But it was a Brooklyn housewife,
Mrs. Jean Kay, mother of two
children, who brought the action
leading to today's verdict. She
charged that the appointment was
illegal on three grounds: That Rus.
sell was not a citizen, that it did
Continued on Page Three; Col. A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-31
FRENCH ORGANIZE
new WAR OFFICE
Chautemps To Be Leader ;
Some Nazis Taken,
Communique Says

PARIS, March 30.-LR0France
created a new economic warfare
committee under the leadership Of
Vice-Premier Camille Chautemps to-
day to coordinate the nations eco
nomic campaign against Germany
with the allied military strategy.
Premier Paul Reynaud designated
Paul Baudouin, president of the
Esnk of Indo-China, as secretary of
a common administrative staff
which will supervise decisions both
of the new committee and the pre-
mier's inner "war cabinet"
The governments military and
diplomatic activity was reflected in
a full day of conferences, including
a talk between Reynaud and Gen.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-31
Cermany's Army, He Says,
Is Lined Up Before
Holland, Belgium
MAY STRIKE SOON
Sea Lord Declares Allies
Are Determined Ii End
Nazi Menace
By DREW

LONDON, March 3O.-P-Pug-
rscious Winston Churchill, Britain's
first lord of the admiralty, coupled a
nav warning of intensification of the
var tonight with the significant hint
that Britain scarcely could be expect
al in the future "to take a a mat
Ter of curse interpretations of neu-
rality which give all advantages to
the ~aggressor."
The belligerent speech, broadcast
to America and elsewhere, recalled
The first lords declaration of Janu-
mv 20 in which he called on Europe's
anxious neutrals to join the Allies
in united action" to bring the wal
against Germany to a speedy end.
Follows Closely
1t followed closely, too, upon con-
Hnuing demands from various quar-
les in Great Britain for a more
rgorous prosecution of the war and
the disclosure that the Allied navies
are determined to tighten their
sranglehold on Germany by waylay-
Ing Scandinavian ore ships and by
greater activity in the Pacific against
Shipments of raw materials from
Mexico to Vladivostok, from where
they can find their way to Germany.
Some quarters saw a distinct rela-
ton between Churchill's assertion
that time has been on u side but
it is a changeable ally" with the
reasury's annual statement show
ing a deficit of 9767,6S5,0 900 about
1901, 72O, O0O) for the first fiscal
year of the war.
Britain's expenditures for the us
cal year ending tonight totaled H.
zig, 1878, 900 about $7,267, 1892, 900
against revenues of f1,049,1S8,O 600
about s496, 1852, 900 despite a 80
per cent income tax and other heavy
ayies.
Tie 194O-41 war budget to be an
bounced April 23 is expected to run
around 81, $50, 900, 900 about $5,oOO,'
9Q, OOO). New and higher taxes are
anticipated.
ChurchilTs assertion that there
sno need for Russia to be drawn into
this struggle unless she wishes 1t
Continued on Page Eight; Col. z
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-31
PTA WILL PROBE
CROWDED BUSES
Nominating Committee Pre-.
sents Official Roster
For Ensuing Year

Mrs. w. P. Roudabush, president
Of the New Hanover County Coun-
ell of Parent-Teacher Associations,
upon vote of the council, has ap-
pointed a committee to Investigate
the school bus situation. The com
mittee, composed of Mrs. K. NC
Carl. Mrs. L. W. Porter, Mrs. c. E.
Cole, Mrs. H. r. Corbett, n Mrs.
c. wayne Spencer, was requested
to investigate the over-crowded
school buses, present findings. to
the county board of education, and
to publish the report.
Of outstanding Importance was
the adoption of county council BY
laws, read by Mrs. C. Wayne spen-
Ger legislative chairman. Other
members of the committee were
Mrs. J. S. Crowley, Mrs. H. c.
Bvrd. and Mrs. W. P. Roudabush,
ex-officio. :.
The yearly reports Of council
chairmen were read and marN5d
progress was noted in the work
Mrs. E. A. Stands reported a mem
bership Of 2,057.
The nominating committee, Mrs.
I. T. Sell, Mrs. E. A. Stands and
Mrs. J. D. Edwards, chairman, pre-
scented the following roster Of Of
ficers for the ensuing year: Mrs.
w. P. Roudabush, president; Mrs
7. S. Crowley, first vice-president;
Mrs. Thomas H. Cause, second vice
PRESIDENT: Mrs. C. W. Davis, audi
tor: Mrs. Leslie Bass, historian
for election: Mrs. ]. D. Freeman
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-31
Census
Will Begin
On Tuesday
Enumerators To Take Field
Monday At Noon; 9th
err Counts Planned
MANY PROBLEMS ARISE
Business, Housing, Farm
Censuses Are Also
To Be Taken
RY IRVING PERLMETER

WASHINGTON, March 3o.-P'-
An army of $780, 900 census-takers
rested it's arches today, ready to
to each doorstep in America
for the biggest question campaign
Of the decade.
The zero hour will be 1901 a. m.
(local time) Monday though count
actually begin until Tuesday.
alive at that moment will
be counted, disregarding either
births or deaths a few minutes later.
-Four Other Censuses
-Four other censuses will go on at
the same time. The censuses of
manufacturers and other business,
such as wholesalers and retailers,
started Jan. 2 and are still operat-
ing A tally of housing and agrlcul-
ture will start next week.
Population enumerators will start
their ROUNDS on Tuesday because of
a technically. Ten years ago con-
gress ordered censuses to begin on
April 2 each decade because April
1, 1880, was a Sunday.
Things to be tabulated include
not only the age, sex and location
of every person., but such other
items as individual Income from
wages up to $4,000, location 5 years
ago, education, citizenship, employ
ment status, marital status, and oc'
cupation. In the housing census
will be questions about value, type
and size of structures, mortgage in
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-31
PROMISES
PUSH PROJECTS
Senator Says He Does Not
Consider Harbor Work
Here doomed

Senator Josiah W. Bailey, in a
letter received here yesterday,
pledged he will continue his efforts
in behalf of the improvements
sought by the Port of Wilmington
in the current rivers and harbors
bill.
81 do not consider that the prof.
ects are, by any means, doomed.
They may be postponed, but l am
resisting postponement,' he wrote
in a letter to R. B. Page, publisher
of The Star-News.
The senator said it will be impos-
sible to have the bill passed in its
present form and efforts are being
made to have the army engineers
strip it of all but the essentials.
The letter follows:
II have received your wire on
the subject of harbor improvements
for the Port of Wilmington.
IT do not consider that the prof.
Continued on Page Three; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-31
AZALEAS BLOOM
ON LAKE DRIVE
Greenfield Trails Only
Slightly Injured By
Unseasonal Cold

Having suffered but slightly from
the recent cold snap, the azalea
trails set out by the Greenfield
Drive association in its beautifica'
ton program on that section Of the
lakeside drive nearest the Fourth
street entrance, once again is ready
to burst into bloom.
The freezing temperatures OF last
week did some small damage to
those flowers which had already
bloomed, a survey showed yester'
day, but apparently did not injure
the rest of them, which look as
though they will burst into bloom
sometime during the ensuing week.
Yesterday the association again
invited the public to view the work
which has been done on the drive,
urging that visitors, instead of driv-
ing past as they were forced to
Continued on Page Eight; Col. 3
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-31
Ten xxx Members Face
Georgia Fzogging Charges
WOMEN PLAYED PART
Jury Gets Member
ship List, Records
From Wizard

ATLANTA, Ga, March 3o.-U'-
Prosecutors encouraged by flogging
indictments against ten men on
Klux Khan rolls drew further
reports of terrorism from uneasy
witnesses today in a drive to flno
the whip-wielGer who beat a subur
ban barber to death on the night OIL
March Z.
While Fulton county officers
rounded up the indicted men, IN
Guiding two deputy sheriffs, solici-
tor General John A. Boykin ex-
pressed belief the inquiry which
had disclosed two kidnaplngs n
20 floggings about Atlanta in the
last three years was "only scratch
ing the surface"
Women Took Part
The Atlanta Journal said the lat
est turn in the investigation was a
report that a band of women flog-
gers had operated in south Fulton
county in much the same manner
as male night raiders.
"The reports Indicated" The
Journal continued, "a woman now
residing in East Point had been
flogged twice, once by a group OF
men n~igbt-raiders and later by a
group of eight women 80.
"At Union City, two women were
reported to have been flogged, but
it was believed they had been
dashed by a gang of men,"
Before returning the indictments
last night the jury questioned I'M
perial Wizard James A. Colescott
concerning Klan membership at
nearby East Point, Ca, and OBJ
tanned from him a roster and other
chapter records.
Colescott denied to newsmen that
parades of hooded knights and burn
ing of crosses were permitted ito
intimidate or coerce anyone"
1.-THE fiery cross is a sacred
thing" he said. TT symbolizes the
cross upon which Christ died"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-31
By GREGORY HEWLETT

NEW YORK, March 30.-LR-On
the grounds that Bertrand Russell
"has taught in his books immoral
and salacious doctrines" whose
practice would violate the penal
laws of New York state, a state SUI
preme court justice today revoked
the apartment of the British earl.
philosopher to a professorship at
City college.
The appointment, declared JUS
tice John 3. Mcclellan in a 1000
word decision which he himself
termed Dynamite" was IAN insult
to the people of the city of New
York" and, in effect, an attempt by
the city board of higher education
establish "a chain Of indecency"
at the parti-coeducational institu-
ton of $500 students.
Thus was climaxed a bitter cor.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-31
Haven Of Refuge
From Business
Problems

Your own yard and flower
garden may become invaluable
as a daily retreat from vaa-
ing responsibilities.
Many homes in the city and
suburban, some of them with
large yard space and garden
spaces, are described every
day through the Classified
Real Estate Ads. BY watch
ing the Classified Real Estate
Ads you will find a home
which car be purchased with
the amount you are now
spending for rent.
Don't miss the many fine
home values offered in to-
days Classified Real Estate
and Building Page and the
regular Classified Columns.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-31
Ndzis PLan To Release
More War Guilt Papers
GLEEFUL OVER EFFECT
Official Washington, How
ever, Flatly Denies
All Allegations
BY LOUIS p. LOCHNER

BERLIN, March 3d. Ger
man officialdom, "a hours after I'M
leashing a diplomatic blitzkrieg OF
16 documents about alleged United
States pre-war diplomacy, leaned
back tonight in gleeful contempla-
ton and promised even more explo-
siye sensations "soon."
Nobody need try to prove an
alibi to the eject he was misunder'
stood or that he was misquoted by
Polish ENJOYS" said one official,
speaking Of the documents to come.
"Direct" Communication
Spokesman would not commit
themselves as to precisely what
statesmen would be named in the
forthcoming release, although one
limited that the German govern
ment is in possession of direct COM
munications by the United States
ambassador to Paris, William G.
Bullitt.
Yesterdays white book, made UP
of 16 documents said to have been
taken as spoils of conquest from
the vaults Of the Warsaw foreign
office, purported to quote Bullitt
and u. S. Ambassador to London
Joseph P. Kennedy at length, the
quotes being attributed to diplo'
matte reports Of Polish diplomats in
Washington, Paris and London
made in late 1888 and the first halt
Of 1899.
They ascribed to Bullitt the con-
viction that America would finish"
the war on the side Of the Allies;
to Kennedy a promise to put pres
sure on the British to lend money
fContinued nm Page Two: Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-31
F. R. IS RAPED
FOR HIS SILENCE
johnson Hits Him On Third
Term But Schwartz Says
He Favors 1t

WASHINGTON, March 30.-R-
Senator johnson D-CoD declared to-
night that President Roosevelt, while
keeping silent on the third-term is
sue, had "harpooned and ~torpedoed'
other potential presidential candl'
dates until the democratic party was
'floundering in confusion"
The Coloradan, who is supporting
Senator Wheeler D-Mont) for the
democratic nominations, added in a
statement:
eff the President intends to go
through with it and accept the NOM
nation, no one car we'll complain
because smart politics are played IN
that cold FLOODED way; but if at the
eleventh hour he should abandon the
scuttled democratic ship, he must
accept the responsibility for the dis
aster which is so obviously and re
lentlessly bearing down upon her.
johnson said that the President
"is certain to be nominated for g
third term unless he positively re
fuses to accept the office" Inc
practical, hard-boiled politicians
he added, want the President to
run 'for the simple reason that he
can VIM"
"a year ago the democratic party
had a dozen attractive prospective
candidates." Johnson continued
Had political, developments been
permitted to take their course, many
of these able men would have grown
in public esteem with the months
"However, the President, perhaps
with the noblest of intentions, has
stymied democracy's most dependa-
BILE sounding board, the primaries
and he has harpooned and torpe
doed other candidates for the presi'
(Confvo11o1 nm Dam TI,yoo, Co1 0N
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-31
CALIFORNIA MAY
Be HIT BY FLOOD
Critical Situation Now De-
veloping In Sacra-
mento Valley

SAN FRANCISCO, March 30-R
"A flood of major proportions is
rapidly developing" in the Sacra'
mento valley after a week of almost
record rainfall, Federal Meteorolo'
gist E. H. Fletcher said tonight.
Terming the situation Critical"
he named the Sacramento, Feather
and American rivers as chief danger
spots.
The new menac followed by a
month a devastating flood that in
undated many thousands of acres in
Northern California, forced 5000
persons from their homes, and caus-
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-31
WISCONSIN VOTE
SLATED TUESDAY
Or Vandenberg And
Third Term Question
To Be Answered
BY ID. r..

MILWAUKEE, March 30.-R-
The third term question and a
choice between Thomas E. Dewey
and Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg
confront Wisconsin citizens in next
Tuesdays balloting on delegates to
the major party ominating conven.
tons.
For those voting in the demo-
cratic primary, the third term issue
is clear-cut and may be met in two
ways - by recording a preference
Continued on Page Two; Col. 60