Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-07-09


breaks and made Is recommenda-
tons for the alienation Of racial
strife in the II or more fever spots
in the United States where rioting
is likely to break out at any mo-
ment.
The suggestions, which were
specific respect to the Detroit
situation, were also applicable to
the country at large, the NAACP
said. They included:
1. The urging by the NAACP
once again as it has repeatedly
urged for the past two years of a
freside chat appealing to the
people of the country to refrain
from rioting, pointing out the
global nature of the problem of
race and the utilization by our enc
mics of reports of rioting.
2. Retention of Federal troops
in Detroit.
3. Investigation by a Federal
Grand Jury of the city Police De-
partments.
4. & 5. Federal Grand Jury in
vestigations of the Mayor of De-
troit and the Michigan State Police.
6. An investigation of reports
that workers in certain Detroit war
plants several weeks ago began to
make daggers and other weapons
out of tool steel.
Z. The introduction and passage
of legislation to make violence
against members of the armed
forces and violence to prevent mi
nority groups from performing
war work a federal offense.
8. 1t was asked too that Navy
orders regarding the
conduct of sailors at the Belle Isle
training station be enforced and
that an investigation of these
sailors participation in the riots be
made.
The release by the Federal
Government of building material
for the construction of houses for
workers in defense areas was also
urged.
Finally the NAACP charged that
the failure of the War Manpower
Commission to prohibit recruit
ment of workers elsewhere before
all available local labor had been
resulted in an enormous
and increasing strain on housing
facilities in Detroit and led to, in
part, the creation of conditions
eliminating in rioting.
The NAACP told the President
that it was gratifed by the report
that the Department of Justice has
all United States attor-
neys to meet in Philadelphia this
week to discuss the obligation and
duty of each of them to preserve
civil rights of American citizens.
The NAACP suggested that the
federal government through the
Department of Justice weed out
from federal, city and state police
forces all members of the Ku Klux
Khan, the Nazi Bund and the Black
Legion or any other anti-minority
and anti-American organization.
Vigorous support of FEPC was
asked of the President and greater
use of the radio, press and moving
picture by the owl in the dis
semination of information that will
create a better understanding be-
tween whites and Negroes.
The NAACP expressed amaze
ment at the silence of the Presi-
dent, who as far as printed stories
reveal, did not mention the riot
during his press conference this
week. The most charitable ex-
PLANTATION of the Presidents be-
havior, the NAACP said, is that he
was waiting until he had gotten
his appropriation bill thru the
southern anti-new deal and republi-
can bloc in view of the needs of
owl, FSA, NYA and other similar
agencies.
Riot Pictures Answer to Jeffries'
white Paper"
The full answer to Mayor JEFF
fries efforts to absolve completely
the Detroit police force in a white
paper, the NAACP declared are
to be found in the more than 100
action pictures it has on file that
were taken by newsmen during the
height of the fight. Among these
pictures of whites manning help
less and hopelessly outnumbered
Negroes is the now famous shot of
a Negro on Woodward Avenue sur
rounded by a crowd of civilians and
mounted police and supposedly in
the custody of two policemen who
grip his arms while a white as
sailant strikes him full in the face.
Another is a picture of covering
fear-stricken Negro on whom sew
eral white police are closing in.
The NAACP again asked why
Jeffries and police commissioner
Witherspoon could not make ar
rests out of the nearly 1000 white