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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-07-07
Race Riots Cut
Output For War

NEW YORK, July 1. - Iron
Age, steel trade publication, said
today that with May output equal
to an annual volume rate of
IS, 22O,OOO,OOO, the automobile
industry lis well along toward
the Observation-Disclosures an
nual rates figured as its practical
capacity. but advances from here
on may be difficult to achieve"
The publication said that re-
cent race rioting cost a quarter
or a third of a days production
for every plant in the Detroit
area. and widespread absences
resulted in an even greater pro-
portion of output loss"
Race tension at Detroit, Beau
mont and other cities, Iron Age
commented, plays a part. sig
nificant though small, in the ma
tional war-production effort" 1t
added that that the automotive
community was rather surpris-
ed at the stateemnt of Under
Secretary of War Robert p. Pat
terson that arms output had fal-
len 3.5 per cent in May from
April, even though similar state
ments had previously been made
privately"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-07-07
INVESTIGATION OF DETROIT
POLICE DEMANDED; NAACP
DEFENDING JAILED NEGROS

The NAACP was promptly the job IN Detroit.
Our largest local chapter is in Detroit office and
personnel literally under fire Monday, June 81.
Mrs Daisy LamPkn field secretary, and Miss Lucille
Black of New York office staff conducting
membership campaign, risked injury making their way
to safety through flying bricks and broken glass and
gangs of hoodlums Walter White flew from New York
to Detroit at the peak of the rotng June 81 co:ferng
Immediately with city and state officials, police and
heads and with newspapers. Thurgood Marshall
chief counsel conferred persony with Attorney General
Bddle in Washington and then flew Detroit where he
is organizing legal aid for the victims of the Our
Detroit NAACP officials including local lawyers hard
at work the biggest job of its kind 1918. The
shooting but the defense of these people has just
begun and the NAACP will stick with the job until it is
done, well push with all power for bringing the
guilty to justice whether in high low staton-Wikins
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-07-07
FLASH

The Savoy Community Center
managers are extending their
special n. A. A. C. P. benefit
drive for new members to July
18th, 1913. One thousand mem
bers for the Seattle branch or
bust. is the coveted goal, and we
refuse TO end this membership
drive with less. Observe the Seat
lie branch slogan - IF RIGHTS
FOR THE NEGRO IS YOUR
PLEA. YOU SHOULD BE A
MEMBER OF THE N. A. A. c. P.
We need the invaluable service
of this organization more so now
than at any time during the his
tory of its existence. Let's join,
and support the N. A. A. c. P.
and help free colored America
from discrimination and mob vio-
lence. You should be a member
Of this tried and true friend, the
National Association for the Ad-
yancement of Colored People.
Membership blanks can be secur-
ed at the Savoy Community Cen
ter Building, at 21st and Eas,
Madison St, Branch office Of the
Northwest Enterprise and New
World Publishing Companies. S.
T. McCants, Mgr, Phone Capitol
1000.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-07-07

Detroit, Mich. - A state or
joint Federal and state investi-
cation of the Detroit Police De
partment and of the administra-
ton of Mayor Edward ]. Jeffries
was asked of Governor Harry S.
Kelly by a representative group
of Detroit citizens this week at
a conference arranged by the
NAACP.
There is overwhelming evil
dence that the riot could have
been stopped at its inception
Sunday night had the police
wanted to stop it," the delegation
declared. so inefficient is the
police force and so many of it's
members are from the deep South
with all the anti-Negro prejurices
of the Ku Klux Khan that the
trouble may break out all over
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-07-07
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS UNITE
FOR INTER-RACIAL COOPERATION

William II. Baldwin, president
of the National Urban League,
thirty-year old interraciaI organ
ization with affiliates in AZ cities
hroughou the United States, made
public today Thursday the fol-
lowing joint statement authorized
at conference of the signers.
The undersigned individuals
who are active in national organ
izations with long records of real,
continuous and effective interra-
cial cooperation have met inform
ally together at the Russell Sage
Foundation in New York City
not only to exchange facts and
opinions as to the current crisis
in interracial relations but more
particularly OF call to the atten-
tion of the American public that
mutual confidence and coopera-
ton are workable and are not at.
work between the whites and the
Negroes of America.
We make this demonstration
of solidarity because series of
outrages eliminating in the De-
troit crisis has created a sense
OF bewilderment and futi1itv
among many decent thinking
Americans - both Negroes and
whites who have not known
where to turn for effective regis
tration of their concern for san
ity and unity among the racial
groups composing our American
democracy. We would point out
that our several national organi-
cations have branches and affil-
iateA in all parts of the nation,
and that these provide rallying
points for modifying the type of
public opinion that local public
Officials will respect.
No industrial center of any size
in the United States can look
complacently or even effectively
on what has happened in Detroit.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-07-07
Breaks Own Record
By ]. A. (Jackl johnson

Making what re announced to
be his last run, Eddie (Schiek)
Gardner, famous long distance
runner covered a distance of for
ty-two miles around Lake Wash
ington in the record time of five
hours and fifteen minutes July
4th. Leaving seventh and Union
at II o'clock midnight the Schiek
arrived at his starting at five-fif-
teen after a steady run of five
hours and fifteen minutes. Gard
ner made running history in the
Phyle Bunion Derby of 1928. He
is now 43 years old but felt re
had to hit the road once more to
determine how kindly Father
Time has been to him.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-07-07

again as soon as the troops
leave" was the blunt appraisal
given the Governor.
Among the other immediate
and long range issues discussed
with the Governor were the wan
ton shooting by State Policeman
Ted Anders of Julian Wither-
spoon, 26-year-old medical stu
dent in the ST. Antoine Y. M. C.
A. June %. the alleged looting
of homes and apartments of Ne
groes by state policemen, the
critical food situation in the Ne
gro areas on the east and north
side, the wholly disproportionate
arrests and convictions of alleg-
ed Negro rioters in contrast with
white rioters, and the failure to
use Negro soldiers, state troopers
and city police. Specific methods
of attack on each of these prob
lens were worked out by the con-
ferees.
The NAACP has announced
that the Detroit Branch legal
staff and Thurgood Marshall
will defend Negroes who were
arrested during the riot who
are without funds If their ser
vices are requested.
CONTINUED on last page)
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-07-07

That outrage can be repeated in
any one of these other cities, and
it can. happen overnight for the
reason that too many of our good
citizens have left to too few an
active interest in combating the
prejudices which condition the
relations between the dominant
and the minority groups.
We urge that meetings similar
to this of ours be organized at
once in other cities as bases for
local remedial action and for con-
ferences with the responsible
public officials to determine not
only the preparations but more
particularly the attitude of those
ocicials toward prevention of such
outrages as have Scared Detroit.
1t has been reported TO us that
responsible eye witnesses allege
that. in Detroit, Negroes have
been victimized by the police in
the name of law and order as
well as by lawless mobs.
The interplay of interracial
relations is no spectator sport.
We are all participants, and the
only partisahship which can re-
fleet the best American tradition
is that which will advance the
mutual interest of whites and
Negroes in preserving and siren
thening our common democracy.
William H. Baldwin, president,
National Urban League
Eugene e. Barnett, General
Secretary, National ouncil,
YMCA
Lester B. Granger, Executive
Secretary. National Urban League
Miss Elsie Harper, Secretary
of uPblic Affairs Committee, MAJ
tional Board, YWCA
DR.. George E. Haynes, Execu-
tive Secretary, Department of
Race Relations of the Federal
Continued on last page)
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-07-07
Z SERVING DOPE
TERMS, GIVEN
new SENTENCES

Two men serving sentences on
previous violations of narcotics
laws recently were sentenced by
United States District Judge John
c. Bowen for additional viola
tons.
The defendants are James Ma
than Lowery, AZ years old, for
mer wealthy Phoenix, AriZ.,
night-club owner. living at 727
2Sth Ave. s., and John Fletcher
Baker, Al, Los Angeles shipyard
worker, both of whom will begin
serving sentences at the federal
public health institution in Lex
ington. KY, on the expiration OF
sentences they are now serving.
Judge Bowen sentenced Lowery
to six months and fined him ST.
600, while he sentenced Baker
to a year and a day without fine
or court cost.
The men, both Negroes, were
charged with conspiracy, Allan
Pomeroy, assistant United States
attorney, told the court. He said
that last year LOwery Orded two
cans OF smoking Opium, amount
ing to $500, from California and
telegraphed the money to Baker.
He said Baker forwarded the
opium to Seattle.
Lowery was convicted Of hay
ing smuggled opium into Seattle
a year ago and was sentenced to
22 months in Lexington and fin
ed $500. Lowry appealed and
while on appeal bond committed
a second violation, Pomeroy said.
The Circuit Court recently upheld
4 the conviction.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-07-07
How You Can HeIp
Anti-PON Tax Bill

Mr.. Average Citizen, here is
what you can do to help get the
Marcantonio anti-poll tax bill
passed by the senate.
Communicate with each of the
two senators from your state in
sisting;
1. That he pledge himself to
support H. r. 7 on the floor Of
the senate.
2. That he pledge himself to
vote to close debate when a fl
buster is developed.
g. That he oppose any amend
ment to the bill.
This last point is important.
The slightest amendment to the
Oil in the senate would send the
bill back to the house judiciary
committee. or to conference, with
The possibility of no one knows
how much more flibustering and
trickery
There is not the slightest rea-
son for amending the bill-which
is word for word the bill as re
ported out by the senate judici-
airy committee last year.
Similarly, any attempts to
substitute senate bill would
throw the whole poll tax issue
back where it was when We
started on January 3-with a
new drive to get it out of com
mittee by petition. q new fight in
the House. new filibuster in
the Senate.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-07-07
Long War Is Predicted Before Japan's Defeat

LEWISTON, Idaho, July 3. -
Lieut.. Col. Norman b. Addison of
Boise, Idaho selective service di-
rector, declared recently were
in for a long war" and added,
maybe our children and grand.
children will be fighting in it,"
Japan is the winner of the
war in the Pacific to date" he
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-07-07
THE N. "A. c. P. PROMPTLY ON JOB
TN DETROIT
NEGRO FLYERS
VALOR PRAISED

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA, July 4. - A
graphic account of how America
North Afriea-based Negro fight
er squadron scored its first vic
tory in dogfghts during the raid
on Castel Yetrano airfield in ST.
ely was told to Gen. Dwight d.
Eisenhower.
General Eisenhower was visit
ing the Negro squadron's air base
when the fightersr eturned with
out loss from their first encount-
er with enemy planes. Greeting
the Negro pilots, Eisenhower con-
graduated Lieut.. Charles B. Hall,
twenty-five, of Brazil, Indiana,
when Hall described the battle
in which he got an enemy plane.
1T was my eighth mission, but
the first time l got close enough
to shoot" said Hall, who is a
fromer student from the Illinois
State Teachers College.
~ saw two Focke-Wulf 1905
following our Mitchell bombers
just after they got their bombs
away. l headed for the space be-
tween the fighters and the bomb
ers and managed to turn in
alongside the ferries.
Il fired a long burst and saw
my tracers go into the second
plane. He was turning to the
left but suddenly fell off and
headed straight for the ground.
| followed him and saw him
crash. He raised a big cloud of
dust"
Another Negro pilot reported
he hit a Messerschmitt 100 and
probably brought 1t down, but
could not follow to verify it.
General Eisenhower felicitated
Lieut.. Col. Benjdmin o. Davis,
commander of the squadron, on the
work of his fighters.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-07-07
DAVIS DEFENDS
NEGRO PAMPHLET

WASHINGTON, July / ~ Ell
mer Davis was disclosed today
to have told the Senate appro-
priations committee he had no
information to indicate that the
distribution of an Office of War
Information pamphlet contributed
to Detroits recent race riot.
The pamphlet, entitled, NE.
groes in the War" was distribu-
ted by o. w. 1 among Negroes
throughout the nation. Davis as
serted. to combat Japanese pro
paganda.
The committee made public the
testimony today as funds for o.
w. Is domestic branch were tied
up in a conference committee.
How largely was this distri-
button in the Detroit area prior
to the race riots the other day."
asked Senator Nye, Republican,
North Dakota.
"a good deal of it, sir" Davis
replied.
Have you had some com
plants that this contributed to
that very unfortunate situation
there?"
mo sir" said Davis.
The pamphlet, Nye asserted,
represented the New Deal in "the,
most favorable kind of light to
the Negro people," and quoted
from a New York speech by Vice
President Wallace. "The peoples
revolution is on the March and
the devil and all his angels could
not prevail against it,"
Davis said there had been a
great deal of enemy propaganda,
particularly Japanese propaganda,
among the Negroes" and added
I'VE had evidence from Chica-
go. Detroit and New York that
they were circulating story
around among them This enemy
propaganda asked: What have
the Negroes got to lose? What
is their interest in American vic
tory?"
The whole point of this
pamphlet was to show that they
are better off under our form of
government and our structure of
society than they would be any
where else" He quoted. a New
Herald-Tribune editorial COM
mending the pamphlet.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-07-07
The Industrial Council for
Minority Rights Speak

Chinese, Filipino, Mexican. Ne
gro and all other minority groups
must be upgraded into the skill
ed Crafts. The Industrial Coun-
ell for Minority Rights is COM
posed of the above mentioned to
break down all discrimination of
any kind in any company, Union
and all training schools.
The Industrial Council for Mi
nority Rights recognizes the eco
nomic aspect, Cor the wider mar
gin in dollars between expense
and the amount of weekly pay
check in getting rid of the ban
members of color by unions as
practieed by the Boeing Mechan-
les union and the discriminatory
cooperation of industry manifest
ed by the Boeing Aircraft Co.
AS economic suppression is the
root of all discrimination and
segregation, restrictions, racial
friction, religious differences, and
class prejudice. sThe organization
is going after the causes instead
of dealing with the multiple eff
fects.
This, to the imam on the
street" means better housing,
varied and better types of bust
nesses which in it's development
is the backbone of the community
and nation.
He would have the benefit of
better schooling and vocational
training for himself and family.
Improved religious standards and
institutions.
There would be adequate facil-
tiles and programs for the child
rem of every poor and impoverish-
ed family, who through no fault
of their own, view the tragic re-
suits for lack of proper equip
ment or planned activity for
their offsprings.
Racial relationship will auto
matieally improve with the good
will and respect a community
pays to a man or woman who
knows their business" when 1t
comes to some skill work they
can perform efficiently.
Now that we are working on
the production lines to crush the
fascist enslavers. discrimination,
iimcrow or any acts of prejudice
basically are blows against the
effective pro-prosecution Of the
war.
We, the Industrial Council for
Minority Rights know that, in
line with the above program, this
is labors war.
The Industrial Council for Mi
nority Rights will hold "a mass
meeting on Sunday, July eigh-
tenth at the Savoy Community
Center, 21st and Madison at 400
p. m.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-07-07
CONTROL VICE SAY
BUSINESS MEN

Appointment of a committee of
seven citizens to act in an advis-
DRY capacity to the chief of po-
lice was suggested to the city
council recently by ]. E. Drum
mey. president of the Bonney-
Watson Company.
THE committee should be APP
pointed by the mayor" Drummey
declared in his letter to the coun-
Gil. "Thiss hould afford the ma
yor and the police chief the sup
port they need. It is definitely
too large an undertaking for any
one man or two men.
"Some of our good citizens
should make study of this for
themselves so that they, too,
might know the possibilities for
Improvement"
Drummey said he has been a
resident of Seattle for thirty
eight years and during that time
have never known of a chief of
police who performed his duties
better than Mr.. Kimsey.'
Most of the large cities of the
United States are confronted whit
problems similar to ours, Drum
nfey asserted. Il have been in
most of them and have not found
any better conditions than exist
here. However, / can name a few
that are worse.
1--WE should not ask any one
human being TO do the impossi-
Bile. We know that drinking
gambling and other vices cannot
be prevented any more than you
can stop the flow Of the Missis-
sippi River.
Then why not handle this sub
ieet the same way they do this
mighy rivetr? Control it as mucf
as possible, thereby keeping these
vices down to the minimum.
II feel confident Chief Kimsel
is capable of doing this if he il
given proper support I am sur'
he will be glad to cooperate bu
We have given him very little as
sistaace. We are all too willinl
and ready to criticize"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-07-07
CONGRESS SOUNDS
NYA DEATH KNELL

WASHINGTON. - Congress
agreed July 8 to kill the National
Youth Administration.
The decision to end the agency
which was created eight years ago
as work relief organization
came when the senate accepted
by a thirty-nine to thirty-four
vote a house demand taht NYA
be given only three million dol
lars to finance its liquidation at
the end of 1913. Originally, the
senate had voted the agency S4S,-
100000 to continue operation for
the fiscal year ending next June
80.
The argument of Senator Tru-
man, Democrat, Missouri, of the
senate's war investigating COM
mittee that NYA's program of
training youths for war industry
work is absolutely essential"
failed to save the agency. Oppo-
nents of NYA, inducing youths
to leave farms for work in ship
yards and was engaged in SILLY,
crazy, cock-eyed" activities.
WRITTEN INTO BILL
The provision abolishing NYA
was written into a 81, 900, 900
appropriation bill for labor-secur-
ity programs. Agreement of the
house and senate on the NYA
amendment brought the two
houses a long step nearer final
accord on the appropriation meas
ure, one of a group of big money
bills to supply funds for the ifs
cal year started three days ago
and over which congress has been
in dispute.
The senate postponed final ac
ton on an eight hundred and
fifty million dollar farm appro-
priations bill after Senator Reed,
Republican, Kansas, protested
against surrendering to house de-
mands for abandonment of fed
eral insurance on wheat and cot
ton crops.
at isn't legislative procedure,
it is legislative lynching,' Reed
declared, land I'm not going to
be a party to it."
Reed voiced his protest when
Senaor Russetn, Democrat, Geor-
gia, in charge of the bill moved
reluctantly a second time to re-
cede from a senate amendment
continuing the life of the Federal
Crop Insurance Corporation an
other year. Russell said he made
the motion only because he felt
that the amendment was losing
ground steadily" in the house and
tina further insistence might i'm
peril final passage of the big farm
measure.
WILL VOTE MONDAY
On a motion by majority leader
Barley, Kentucky, the senate
agreed to vote formally on Rus
sells motion on Monday. Admin
istration leaders said it would be
accepted in all probability, send
ing the measure to the White
House.
! Congressional action was com
pleted by the senate on a hun
dred and forty-three million-dol-
lar deficiency appropriation bill
containing provision cutting
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-07-07
Vancouver Negro
Injured in Dispute

VANCOUVER, Wash, June 30.
- A 29-year-old Negro is the
second victim of racial disputes
within the past week. He is con-
fined in local hospital here.
Otto Johnson, resident of the
Hudson House Shipyard Dormi-
tories was chased from a bus and
beaten into Inconsistencies by
two white men who formerly liv-
ed in the South.
The two are held in jail pend
ing result of Johnson's injuries.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-07-07
G. C. 0. E, S, COnvenes
In Seattle July Il

The Both Annual Session of the
United Grand Chapter Of Wash
ington and its jurisdiction viii
convene at Zion A. NJ. e. Church
23rd and East Olive. July HIP
IS.
Mrs. Zelma Derrick, Worthy
Grand Mauon, Edna Taylor, Re
serve Chapter; J. T. Bradley.
Worthy Grand aPtron.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-07-07

told the Lewiston Chamber of
Commerce.
Every man, woman, and child
on the home front will have to
devote all his physical, mental
and moral energies toward back
ing our fighting men. 1t is no
time for business men to think
of profits or for workers to
strike"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-07-07
Big Success

Dusty Fletcher, ace comedian
and dancer, was one of the most
poular race artists to appear in
Seattle for some time. The show
fans at the Palomar demonstrat-
ed their approval of his act by
stopping the show at every per-
Torrance, This is my first trip
to the Northwest, but it will not
be my last. like Seattle" said
Mr.. Fletcher to the Enterprise
reporter.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-07-07
LEST WE FORGET:

Chief Criminal Deputy Floyd W. ReschIing,
public prosecutor of King County said: He person
ally does not like Negroes. He opposed to Ne
groes coming into Seattle, despite their intensive
work to help win the war. This is the man in whose
hands has been placed the impartial administration
of law.
This statement made during a conference
with protest committee directed by the w F. c.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-07-07
Madame Chang
To Leave for China

Wa SHINGTON. Nine.
Chang Kai-shek will return to
Chungking soon, 7. V. Soong, the
Chinese foreign minister, said on
June Is. He added that she does
not plan to visit London en- route.
Soong called on Secretary Of
State Hull for an exchange of
views on the international situa-
ton ana told reporters of Mad
anne Chiang's plans.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-07-07
NOTICE

To Subscribers of the North
west Enterprise and the Public.
Vonn Upton is no longer asso-
ciated with the Northwest Enter
prise as photographer. or in any
other capacity.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-07-07

Mayor William f. Devin today
withdrew his custer charges
against Chief of Police Kimsey.-
Editor.