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3-BUsINESS OPPORTUNITIES

TRUCK SERVICE station for
lease, garage hoist and scales.
Phone Brawley 434. 2-l0
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FOR SALE practically new 5-room
stucco. Hardwood floors, garage.
$4,000. Terms.
TYLER INSURANCE AGENCY
$40 Main Phi. $50
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2oPOULTRY

FOR SALE Fat hens, fryers. North
9th st. End house north R R.
east side. j. B. Printz. 2-l2
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PRODUCES

FOR SALE alfalfa seed from grow
erS Roy Whitmore. Box 844 Bard.
Calf. 2-13
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NICELY FURNISHED room, ad-
joining bath with shower, out
side entrance Phone 1079-J. 29tf
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29-lIVESTOCK

FOR SALE = easy terms - both
fresh and heavy springing
Guernsey and Holstein heifers
Call Wed, P T. Martin, 1i2 mi
south of Main st. on Dahlia
canal Ell Centro. 2-8tf
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l8-Country Property for Sale

-|S-o.o>SSISy"HJIO,0.NI- ~ NI-NI1J-~-~-o1~~IO~~-
THE DUMBEST will learn some
thing in % years at one job. Let
me help you buy, sell, lease good
farm land. Hancock, the Farm
Land Man" IL mi. west of
courthouse. Phi $50.
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TRANSPORTATION

MAN AND WIFE leaving for Har-
rison, Ark, first Of week. Take
3, share expenses D. l.. Conn, 651
Commercial. 2-l0
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ALFALFA LAND
!9-ClTY PROPERTY FOR SALE

FOR SALE Good 4 room house and
two lots 100 #. frontage on side
walk. Near school and packing
sheds. House can be moved to
other location if desired. Low
taxes. Inquire 3l2 Hamilton. 2-l0
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Put a Want Ad on the Job Call 300
Io-ApARTMENTs FOR RENT

ONE LARGE and one small apart
ment for rent Close in. 534 Olive.
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FOR RENT light housekeeping
room. Private bath. Inquire SOL
so. 10th. st. 2-9ti
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WANTED: DrcsSmaking, machine
buttonholing. Alterations and re-
lining. Mrs. Humphreys, 1929 Ell
Dorado Ave. 2-13
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LOST, FOUND, ESTRAY

LOST BLACK Springer Spaniel
bitch, white nose, white belly,
feet. Name Mickey Good reward.
Phone 1872 Imperial. 2-lO
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1942-10-21
IF The NEGRO IS WORTHY TO DIE
WITH THE WHITE MAN THEN"

THE HUMAN DIGNITY of the
American Negro comes easier to
look at now than at any time
since white men bought, stole an
kidnapped the first black folk
brought from Africa to this coun.
try.
And it might be asked, without
getting unfair or indecent with
anybody, whether the dignity of
the white man ever sunk lower
than it did when for a century
and half he took his sailing
ships to African shores, loading
them with naked Negroes fitted by
the hundred in spoon fashion" so
no cargo space would be wasted
shipping this human livestock
across tropic seas at a high death
rate, with a sanitation so vile and
odors of such reek that sailors
said when the wind was right you
could smell slave ship five miles
away.
And when a man begins talk
ing along this line there is a GER
tain minority of American citizens
north and south a minority
growing smaller as time goes by
and they have standard ques-
ton they ask as tho you are floor
ed and out of breath with nothing
to say when this question hits you
in the face.
THE INEVITABLE QUESTION
THIS QUESTION - and there
are those who think it is an I'M
answerable looloo runs like
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JUST TO
REMIND YOU
BY T.. 1. Robinson


Teen age boys must answer the
call. Mothers of America, white
mothers and black mothers how
to their country's high will. In
this sad hour, that this country
may preserve the freedom of
which 1t has boosted for the past
$50 years, these mothers offer lit
tie or no protest.
They realize their burden must
be borne If their liberty must live.
At last they too must pass the
night in Gethsemane. whit e
mothers and black mothers of all
races have great capacity for
bearing pain. You see your bah
les approaching manhood. You
remember how close you held
them to your breast as you
dreamed of the great deeds they
would preform.
You pray; you weep. Like the
Spartan mothers of old you pray
your sons will do nothing to
dishe Or our country's flag; they
will return as conquering heroes.
You pray for the safe return of
your boys to his home. Only
weeping Rachaels are strong
enough to give their sons to theil
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pledges full support of the Dem
ocratic program. Mr.. Hurley be-
lieves it is the duty of the legis-
lature to provide adequate funds
for civilioh defense and to estab-
fish nurseries so mothers can
work in war industries.
He distinguished himself in the
State Democratic Convention by
introducing a resolution which
placed the Democratic Party on
record against all determinations
because of race, color or creed.
During his primary and present
campaign Mr.. Hurley has contin-
ually given prominence to the fact
that legislation is necessary to
outlaw discrimination because of
race or religion. He also believes
that Referendum %, the Work
mems Compensation bill, and In
1tiative ISL, the $40 Pension,
must be passed for the benefit of
the working people.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1942-10-21

full influence of these illegal
gambling rings and their destruc-
tive influence on county govern
ment.
These are troubled times, Ag-
new points out. The war boom has
brought to Seattle vicious ele-
ments which seek to prey on up
right citizens. 1t is vital to the
war effort, Agnew declares, that
law enforcement be carried for
ward in a courageous and force
full manner. The next four years
require a prosecuting attorney
who is experienced. capable and
tried, one with mature judgment
and calm courage.
It is Agnew's pledge to the
county that his administration
will be clean and efficient. On
that promise he stands as the Re-
publican candidate for prosecuting
attorney.
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TRY TO Get In.

Sponsored by the Cosmopolitan
Club, the master of ceremonies,
Roy Sheffield will head the great
est Halloween dance and parade
of spooks ever staged in Seattle.
We are very fortunate in Sc
curing the Joe Dansburg's Dance
band, the best in the west. An ad-
ded attraction is our feature artist,
Miss Clara Campbell, favorite of
the Old Black and Tan and 908
Club under the late DOC" Hamil-
ton. Indications forecast the lar
gest crowd of the season.
1t will be an event for the boys
in uniform as all who enter before
nine o'clock are admitted free.
Popularity priced, 75c tax includ-
ed, adds zest to our popular Slo-
gan: TRY to Get in = Tell Jane
the Same" said Mr. Sheffield.
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Henry Clay Agnew
For Prosecutor

Practical experience, backed by
a thorough knowledge of the
law. plus a desire to give King
County an honest and clean ad-
ministration of the prosecutors
office. makes Henry Clay Agnew.
Republican nominee, the ideal
choice of the voters at the Nov
ember election.
Agnew has been In law practice
In Seattle since 1919, both in
civil and criminal practice, and
has earned an enviable record
during those years. He has had
the experience essential for able
administration of the prosecutors
Office.
Agnew has promised to clean
up the gambling and bookmaking
element in King County. to pro-
telt the citizens from the harm
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this: Would you want to marry
Negro? Would you like to have
one of your daughters marry a
Negro?"
This is supposed to choke off any
discussion you might want to start
around the question of whether
the Negro soldier in this war has
as much right as the white sold
Ter to any or all of the four free
doms.
| remember when a Chicago
newspaper, in 1919, sent me to
the Negro district, having then a
population above 10000 and l
wrote a series of stories about liv-
ing conditions there, of slums, of
families in single rooms with bad
plumbing and leaky ceilings, of
scampering rats interfering with
human sliced of high rents and
protected gamblers and voorhees,
soldiers just back from overseas
service - and a couple of time
get phone calls from shrill- voiced
birds asking, "Do you call your
self a white MANI" and warning,
Look out or you'll get your trim
mings one of these nightsl"
BUT HERE is QUESTION TWO
SO LEARNED that you must
be careful how you bring up any
question concerning the Negro,
even grave community questions
such as, where does the Negro
hoodlum, stickup, rapist, come
from? 1t is possible there would be
few of these If more Negro
youth had better chances OF living
clean, at getting jobs that are not
dead end, at living just a little
more free from discrimination and
hate?"
The slums get their revenge. al
ways somehow or other their ret
ribution can be figured in any
community. whether the slums are
Negro rat holes such as those pre-
sented In Native Son" by the Ne
gro novelist Richard Wright, or
slums of Polish white folk over
the northwest side of Chicago.
with an unforgettable and reeking
house of vice. as reported in the
novel Never Come Morning" by
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fee. It will also mean the reten-
ton of the present experienced
men and women, who so ably
serve the taxpayers?
Riddell, the Democratic candi-
date for the position, during his
eight years in office, helped make
possible this economy and efficien-
cy.
During the last eight year per-
iod. more than 100000 has been
turned into the treasury of King
County. This means a profit of
$4,000 after paying operating
expenses. 1t is one of the few Of
fees that is self sustaining.
This year II a wartime year -
there will be a great increase in
revenue. All of this regardless of
the emergency imposed by add.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1942-10-21

Harlan S. Callahan. Republican
nominee for sheriff. told Seattle
audiences this week that the iden.
tical racketeers, whose dives
flourished unmolested by the
sheriff's office just outside the
citys' North End until a series OF
three murders forced their closing
a year ago, now are backing his
opponent for election.
''These three vicious slayings, a
man and wife shot to death and
another yolng woman waylaid, at
tackled and strangled, and four
other murders in the county the
past four years. all are unsolved, .
Callahan said. "and within the
week the body of another victim
of attack and strangulation has
been found on a country road. I"
Callahan first hurled his charge
that his opponent is backed by the
racketeers at a meeting in the
north district where their estab-
lishments operated.
Almost at the moment that he
was making the accusation, only
a few blocks from the meeting
hall. still another woman, Mrs.
Mary Reed. was driving off a
skulker who had waylaid her.
"Afterward, she said. 1--WE call
ed the sheriff's office and all they
would promise was that a man
would be sent out the next day to
investigate. What good is a man
the next day?"
Callahan read newspaper clip
pings telling of the lengthy con-
troversy between North Enders
and the sheriff's office over the
racketeers' gambling joints that
infested the neighDorhood prior
to the triple killings there.
MY opponent" he said. read
ing from one clipping, condemn
ed the action of you citizens in
ealing a protest mass meeting
over his inaction and failure to
close these establishments. He
called your protests unnecessary
and detrimental to the commun-
ity'.
1.-The three murders that follow
ed = one only two blocks from
one of these joints = and four
other vicious slayings in the
county in the last four years. are
unsolved to this day.
1.-The identical racketeers. who
were operating in the North End
then, today are backing my oppo-
nent hoping to continue him in
the sheriff's office. Is 1t any won
der good citizens demand a
changer"
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itor of The Crisis, the monthly Of
fetal magazine of the NAACP,
will speak in Seattle, Wednesday,
October 2S on "The Negro and the
War Effort" The meeting is be-
ing sponsored by the Seattle
Branch of the NAACP, and mem
bers and friends of that organiza-
ton are planning to give Mr.. Will
kins an enthusiastic welcome.
This is the first public appearance
of national NAACP officer in
Seattle since Walter Whites visit
two years ago.
The First A. M. e. Church has
been secured for the meeting, and
organizations from other Chur-
ches have promised their coopera-
ton.
Seattle delegates who heard Mr..
Wilkins at the National NAACP
convention in Los Angeles this
simmer, are loud in their praise
of his oratorical ability. This ma
tional officer received his degree
from the University of Minnesota
and later became the managing
editor of the Kansas City Call
which position he held for eight
years. Since 1881 he has been Mr.
Whites assistant in New York
and since 1884 he has been edi.
tor of The Crisis, succeeding w
E. B. Dubois. Mr. wilkins was
one of twenty Negro editors who
conferred with Officials of the War
Department, the day after Pearl
Harbor, on the general policies OF
the Department for the use OF
Negro soldiers and upon the NOR
ale of Negro Americans.
Negroes in this vital war indus
trial area, are anxious to hear
what Mr.. wilkins has to say about
the Negroes place in the war eff.
ort, for they know that the
NAACP has constantly contended
that the United Nations war aims
should be translated into action
in America to the extent that dis.
elimination against, and unequal
treatment of minority groups
shoul cease.
The NAACP asks you to re.
serve Wednesday, October %, fol
you will not want to miss the op
portunity to hear Mr.. wilkins
Admission is free. A public. recep.
ton will follow the speaking.
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tional responsibilities. The extra
work in connection with the war
time program, is absorbed without
materially increasing the county
budget.
81 am campaigning entirely on
the office record of achievement
during the past eight years." said
Riddell. voters have a right to
expect during the coming year,
rigid economies as an monies saw
ed can be utilized in War Bond
purchases to help bring about a
successful conclusion of the war.
1t is on the record of efficiency
and economy that l feel the voters
will cast their votes for Norman
R. Riddel, as the next county
clerk"
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lessness. More crime. War brings
new and added responsibilities to
law-enforcement officers. War i'm
poverishes the community, causes
lack of financial support to meet
new obligations, lack of paid man
power.
TIL is situation, confronting
King County and all other COM
munities of the United States. was
met this week with the announce
ment by Under-sheriff Louis For
bes, Democratic candidate for
Sheriff. that he has organized
throughout the rural districts of
King County, well-trained, we'll
disciplined auxiliary to the sher-
IFS department. He has fully dep
utized. policed and equipped 200
men and 100 automobiles for
emergency police service.
These men were selected from
a body of 5000 auxiliary police
who have been going through a
series of training under Forbes
the past year for Civilian Defense
work, originally intended for use
only in time of emergency caused
by enemy invasion.
Members of the new force, said
Undersheriff Forbes, are stationed
at various localities. They will
serve without pay under the direc-
ton of the sheriff. They are under
bond, have taken the oath of Of
fee. They are subject to call night
or day. At a recent meeting of the
King County War Council, money
was appropriate TO supply these
volunteer deputies with the equip
ment commonly used by regular,
paid deputies.
Most of these men are on duty
now" said the undersheriff.
"Others will be ready in a week.
This is my answer to the wave of
lawlessness that threatens King
County with the influx of new
thousands. Most of these new peo-
pie are fine citizens, but there is
always the lawless element. in a
time like this. We can stand for
Inconvenience, for the huge ex-
penditure of war money, for the
heartaches caused by absent loved
ones. but we won't stand for the
invasion of our homes"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1942-10-21
HENEHAN
BY Political Cad About

have made a cursory visit
thru the 18th District in behalf
of the 40-Mil Tax.
was not surprised to find so
little or practically no opposition
to that bill.
The wonder is that the legisla-
ture does not take the hint and
quit putting the people to the ex-
pense of reenacting it every two
years. l found the two most pop
ular men in the public mind to be
Mr.. Kelvin Henehan for senate and
Mr.. G. s. Hurley for the House.
Both men are liberal and free
from any racial complex. Both
are products of Seattle. Both come
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1942-10-21
NEGRO EMPLOYMENT
Is RISING FAST
In WAR INDUSTRIES
U. S. Policy, Plus Manpower
Shortage, Bring Economic
Advancement for the Race

AACAit hOF the mace
WASHINGTON. - The use OF
Negro manpower in war industries
has just begun.
! Figures show a running start in
certain fields aircraft, ship.
building, ordnance.
Two years ago. for instance
dark faces to be seen in leading
aircraft factories could have been
counted on fingers. Last year they
numbered hundreds. Today the A
biggest plants employ more than
10000 of the race.
On the other hand. the unused
reservoir is tremendous = even in
areas of Tabor shortage"
w. P. A. rolls were less than
II per cent black in depression
days of 1856. Now officials say
colored workers are 20 per cent
Vi uWlnuled total.
Within few days about 10000
industrialists and personnel man
ayers will receive pamphlet
manifesto signed by Secretary of
the Navy Frank Knox, Undersec-
retaryof War Patterson, War Por-
duction Board Chairman Nelson
and War Man Power Commission
er McNutt, citing the following
statistics in a demand for Negro
hiring:
A Million Negro Workers
Available
In the U. S. are approximately
100000 male and an equal mum.
Der of female colored workers
who are unemployed or under
employed" The latter term means
people already trained for a skill
ed job they are not doing. Last
year more than 1890 Negroes
received college degrees in engin-
eering, chemistry, various sciences
and liberal arts. More than $4,000
completed trades and Industrial
courses in technical schools. An
additional $4,000 enrolled in de-
Tense training courses"
Officials are convinced that ev-
cry capable black hand will be
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RidelI for County Clerk

Eight years of efficient and &c
onomical administration of the
King County Clerks office war
rants the promotion of Norman
R. Riddell, Chief Deputy County
Clerk, to the position now occu-
pied by County Clerk Carroll Car
ter, according to those who have
daily contact with the clerks Of
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1942-10-21
country in this hour of peril with

out murmuring.
Looking on this glorious sacri-
flee of Americas white mothers
and black mothers we share our
sorrow with the many Leahs who
weep because they have no sons
to give.
Perhaps, perhaps when these
two million white and black sons
march away to war, two million
white and black mothers prayers
may be united in a common cause
at Gods footstool as they cry for
mercy. Perhaps two million white
and black mothers may be drawn
closer to each other in their
hours of sorrow as their prayers
beat about Gods footstool.
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out of minorities which have been
harassed by bigotry in their OPP
pressors.
Both will make valuable addi-
tions to King County delegations
in Olympia. From their present
and past records the 18th District
viii make no mistake in electing
Mr.. Henehan for the Senate and
Mr.. Geo. S. Hurley for the House
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Let the Northwest Enterprise
do your printing, in our new home
we are prepared to give you first
class service on al kinds of print
ing. Call Mr.. McCants at PR9453
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Roy Wilkins To Speak
In Seattle, Oct. Is

Roy wilkins, assistant secre-
tary of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People in New York. and also ed =
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Hurley Continues Fight
Against Bias

George S. Hurley, leading Dem
ocratic nominee for State Repre-
sentative in the 37th District,
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NEGROES ECONOMIC CONDITION
Steadily Rising To Flood Tide

busy at war job before the arm
istiee is signed n through simple
pressure of manpower shortage.
What officials are concerned with
is getting this accomplished quick
ly and without friction.
A public-relations job is needed
to forestall trouble. Lockheed
Vega got the idea when it had Joe
Louis escort the Tooth new Negro
worker into its aircraft plant at
Burbank, California.
The governments most power
ful weapons is yet to be forged
the National Service Act. In the
meantime, the Presidents Com
mittee on Fair Employment prac-
tice is establishing regional offi-
ees. A War Production Board
trouble-shooter owrks on the Ne
gro problem. The National Hous-
ing Agency and Federal Works
Agency are putting money into
eolored mems pockets through
clauses in every construction con-
tract providing that Negroes must
be hired in proportion to local
population. The clauses are en-
forced.
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DIR. Weaver Is sparkplug

Sparkplug of government pol
icy, however. is 34-year-old Rob
ert Weaver, son of a colored post
al clerk, now chief of the Negro
Man Power Service under Com
missioner McNutt.
When he arrives by plane in
one of the nations labor trouble
spots, he gets results partly be-
cause nobody can work up SUI
periority complex while talking to
him. He holds three degrees from
Harvard; looks like white man
with a handsome Florida tan:
speaks like northern executive.
1--WE don't fool with talk about
eqcality," he says. "our approach
is economic - maximu war pro-
duction.'
While the manpower outfit has
few teech of its own, it can eexrt
pressure through other govern
ment agencies. When Baltimore
industry doomed and housing be-
came critically short, the govern
ment decreed: mo new housing
projects until local labor supplies,
including Negroes are exhaust
ed" Hiring began.
In the same war period that
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THE INEVITABLE QUESTION
THIS QUESTION = and there
are those who think it is an un.
answerable looloo = runs like