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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1944-05-31
Negro Service Men
Get USO Club -
Forecasts ArmiStice

Work has been started on Sc
attles' new USO Club for Negro
Service men. The club to be in
the old Orpheum Theatre Build
ing, Bird and Madison, will give
needed recreation facilities for
Negroes stationed in this area.
We are particularly indebted
to the Pacific Telephone and
Telegraph Co. for making the pre-
misses available" Paul P. Ashley,
president of the War and Com
munity Chest, said. The tele-
phone company which had pre-
viously used the theatre for a
store room, rented it to the USO
for 81 a year.
Club facilities will include a
large oom for recreation and
dancing; reading and writing, a
eanteen and checking rooms,
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LET'S ALL GO
Il. e. r. CHAINEY

Dedication ceremonies hailing
the opening of the Service Club
at Camp George Jordan is an
event which citizens of all races
whose husbands, sons and daugh-
tiers all over the world are fight
ing the battle for freedom.
Our men in the service at home
daily pass the ammunition to the
men on the firing line. Those
here complete the team.
THE TIME
Dedication ceremonies will be-
gin at 3 o'clock Sunday after
noon, June 4. The Place-Camp
George Jordan, LIST Ave. and Spo-
kane st.
Opepn House from 2 to 4 p. m.
Let's make it a date.
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JUSTICE STARR, SEAFTLE'S PORTIA
HONORS KING COUNTY JUDICIARY

perience eminently qualified her,
in the justice court, to be of great
assistance in bringing families to-
gether, and in preventing broken
homes. A large percentage of
these cases, 1 learn, ire dismissed
following a reconciliation of hus-
band and wife, and the husband
resumes his responsibility to his
family.
No n feels that he is going
to be punished u~njustly, taken
advantage of, or dealt with UNI
fairly in Judge STAIRS court. Her
favorite expression is "but we
must help the situation" On the
other hand no one who is guilty
and deserves punishment needs to
feel that he can escape through
Continued on Page ~
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u KHCE 4 QUII
DORIAN BRASS FOUNDRY IN
FIGHT AGAINST JIM CROW

who were going to quit because
those boys (eolored) continue to
battle there are worth more than
all the colored employees Of the
company. This despite the fact
that we all we're doing the same
tpye Of work. Further, we were
informed that We would have to
tease using the showers.
Dotson. as spokesman, left i'm
mediately to contact the War La
Dor Board and other agencies. to
e what could be done. Return
ing he had difficulty getting back
through the gate, learning he had
been fired for leaving without
permission. Asking to get his
clothes, an armed guard was in
structed to escort him to the
locker but not to allow him to
say anything to other colored fell
lows, and, should he get tough,
not to forget what his rod" was
for. The guards name was
Thompson.
Il saw all the colored fellows
looking, and upon tehir inquiry
l answered, at which the guard
drew and brandished his gun in
a menacing manner. To protect
myself and knowing the guards
instructions, | took the gun and
walked away. l proceeded out
of the place and reported the oc-
currance to the police, where l
was held, finding that the COM
pany's lawyer, Boscoe had filed
a charge of d~isorderly conduct
and of drawing a knife on the
guard, when I didn't even have
a knife, as 30 or more witnesses
verified.
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81 Edward Tarver

State Chairman, Register TO Vote
Committee
This case" is significant in
Seattle and in the Northwest in
that it traces the seeming de-
velopment of undemocratic. ra-
cist and n%ear-fascist attitudes and
policy of an industry doing de-
Tense work for metal that is to
be nodded into goods and Neap-
ons that in turn are to be used
against the Axis enemies who
propagate and execute these very
policies we are fighting against.
1t is a very paradoxieai and
confusing thing.
Trouble arose at the Doron
Foundry, rs Horton St. Seattle,
when two white prejudieed mi
grant workers allegedly protested
violently and consistently against
taking showers in the common
shower where white and eolored
bathed.
The two white foundry workers
allegedly found the matter of
cleansing the grit and CRIME ac-
cumulated in a days work most
distasteful if they had to do it
in the same shower room with
colored foundry workers who had
accumulated grit and CRIME at
similar tasks and for the same
purpose-to defeat the Axis n
emies who propagate things hat
are not democratic.
Twenty-Five colored workers
we're on the same shift with the
two white workers who objected
to using the shower installed by
the company for all workers.
They objected to the point of
saying that either jim o
showers be installed or they
would quit. This was told to one
Geter, a foreman, according to
Dotson. The foreman reflected
a bit. consulted with superiors a
bit and made it plain that
changes would be made to please
these two white workers. The
colored fellow workers continued
to use the showers despite the
furore and agitation, malicious in
nature, kept up by their two
prejudiced white workers who
were all at the foundry to war
work towards the defeat of
things undemocratic.
The next evening, however, the
entire shower was locked and
nailed up. Nobody used them
that day, to the disgust of all
workers. When officials were
confronted, Geter, a foreman,
particularly, he informed all Tin
Guiding Dotson,) elected as the
spokesman by his colored CO.
workers) that the two white men
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IN REVERSE

PHILADELPHIA - Resent
ment against the treatment of
8 Negroe workers resulted in
the walkout of $50 white en-
ployes of the Continental-Dia-
.mond Fibre company plant at
Bridgeport, Pa, last week.
Strike leaders, during an un-
successful 2O-hour meeting
with company officials and U.
s. Conciliator Peter Manno,
said that the sole issue was
equal treatment for the eight
Negroes" Frank Hoffman,
vice president of Local 50, of
United Textile Workers Union,
ALL, told the officials that
when the workers we're assured
the Negroes i'm the rotary de-
partment were to b treated de-
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1944-05-31
REV. PENICK MAKES STATEMENT
AS CANDIDATE FOR LEGISLATURE

In the last two weeks, News
papers have published the unoffi-
cial announcement of my can
didacy for State Representative
for the 37th District. Therefore,
I think it only fair and reason
able that l make clear to the
voters of the 37th District and
friends and citizens of Seattle
and the State of Washington, my
reasons for seeking a seat in the
State Legislature. and the kind
of government l will work for II
elected. 1t would not be fair to
you, the voters of the 37th Dis
trict to request you to elect one
to such an important office, with
out knowing something about
ones qualifications to meet the
requirements of the office which
they seek. In this article, / shall
endeavor to briefly give my views
on many of the important issues
which will doubtlessly claim the
attention of the next legislature,
together, with such information,
as l believe, will help you to
judge as to my qualifications to
fill the office.
l AN AN
am an American citizen, born
In Halifax County Virginia, July
10. 1888, was brought to Illinois
by my mother, when a small boy
nine years of age. My father who
was a country mail carrier and
farmer died before I was horn
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ed over by ouGgo Evangeline
Starr.
1t was fortunate that the
county commissioners saw fit to
appoint Judge Evangeiine Starr to
fill out the unexpired term of
Judge Reah NJ. Whitehead. And
it was extremely fortunate that
the prosecuting attorney assigned
to Judge Starts court, the Court
of Domestic Relations along with
a good portion of the civil and
criminal cases. The Court OF
Domestic Relations was formerly
presided owe by the late Justice
of Peace Charles E. Claypool.
Cases in domestic relations are
brought about by reason of aban-
donment or failure of the hus-
band to provide support of a
wife or minor children.
Judge Starr served as divorce
proctor for six and a half years
where she handled hundreds of
domestic relation cases. This ex-
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1944-05-31
Rehearsal for
Inter-RaciaI Chorus

The second rehearsal for the
Third Annual Inter-Racial Con-
cert will be held at the Parish
House of Trinity Church, 9Th and
James ST., Sunday afternoon,
June 4, at 3 o'clock. Voice trials
for the chorus for those inter
ested who have ont already Joined
the group will be available at
2;30 under supervision of Mrs.
A. e. Boardman. Lovers of good
music are urged to join in pre-
pairing what promises to be one
Of the outstanding musical at
fractions of the year.
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Mexico Protests
Determinations

MEXICO CITY-Mexican coun-
suls in Laredo, Tex, and Los An
geles, have been asked to report
on two cases of alleged discrim-
nation against Mexicans, Foreign
Minister Ezequiel Padilla said to-
day.
Reports OF the two cases, as
published here, said a Mexican
veteran of Tarawa had been re-
fused admission to a Los Angeles
theatre and the Mexican mother
of two United States soldiers had
been refused disqualification in
Laredo.
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suddenly occurring problems of
these extraordinary times, and
the youthful aggressiveness of a
man in his early forties. M. b..
Nike Mitchell is making a de-
termined drive for the Republic
can nomination for Congress in
this district.
Mitchell has given two decades
of service to this community, in
Guiding four years in the state
legislature and three years on the
Seattle city council. This has
given him experience In the ma
chinery of government and a
wide knowledge of the needs of
the city and state.
He has served as president of
the North End Associated Clubs,
a group of 80 community clubs,
and two terms as chairman of the
community CLUBS ADVISORY cOun-
Gil, composed of more than one-
hundred clubs of the city and
county. He is now serving his
fourth term as president of the
Seattle Association of Community
Newspapers.
Mitchell has lived in Seattle
since 1916, was a private in the
infantry in the last war, and has
operated a community newspaper
in Seattle since that time. He is
married, owns his own home and
has two boys, one six and one
nine.
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CLUB TO
BE DEDICATED

Citywide interest is being di-
rected to the opening of the SER
vice club at Camp George Jordan,
located in the heart of Seattle.
This camp is one of the major
encampments that keeps the
wheels turning on the docks and
installations at the Seattle Port
of Embarkation.
The dedication ceremonies will
be held Sunday afternoon, June
4, at 3 o'clock. Open house will
be from 2 to 4 p. m. This pro-
ject marks a great step in a Sc
ries of planned recreational c
tivities for enlisted men at the
camp, situated at LIST and Spo-
kane st.
Upon entering the grounds, one
admires the approach to the club
with its broad sweeping lawn and
unusual l~andscaping, with well
flowered edges and trees, the
broad walk that brings one to
the entrance of the patio. Cross
ing through the glass-enclosed
patio which is tastefully furn-
ished brings one to the entrance
Of tho main lounge and ~cluhrOOm
The appointments were designed
especially for men. To the right
is the library well stocked with
books and current literature. At
the left of the lounge is the
club restaurant, one of the finest
equipped for a service club of
this type in the Seattle area
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1944-05-31
Switch in Votes Saves
FEPC From Abolition

WASHINGTON ~ Saved from
abolition by a four-vote margin
in the House late Friday, pro-
posed new moneys for President
Roosevelte's Fair Employment
Practices Committee headed Sat
urday for the Senate and a new
challenge from the southern leg
islators.
Most controversial item in the
S1,033.35S,367 omnibus bill. car
rying funds for almost a score
of home front war agencies for
the new fiscal year, the $4,000
FEPC fund was tentatively killed
by the house by a vote of III
to 103 only to be reseeed an
hour later by a count of 123 to
119. Both votes we're by teller,
individual votes being unreeord-
ed. Southern Democrats led the
fight against the agency they
said was promoting racial disun-
ity. On final passage. not a
single item in the overall mea-
sure was changed.
That the FEPC would eneoun-
ter almost as rough riding in the
Copafa nc ~ faooa Ia tba Has,ga
was indicated by the fact that or
March "a, when it passed the in
dependent offices supply bill. that
body tackled a rider denying any
funds to a presidentially-created
agency in existence IL months or
longer and not expressly author
lied by statute.
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my mother was a public school
teacher. When we first moved
to Braidwood, Illinois, I attend
ed the grade school of that little
coal mining town, and later
worked in the coal mines to help
scpport my mother. A few years
later my people moved TO Joliet,
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1944-05-31
FL S H
For Quick Sale
$500

7-ReOm house, in Excellent Con-
lition. Corner lot 6Ox72. -Four
bedrooms; large living room;
Kitchen; pantry; built-in fix
lures; bath and toilet; half ce-
ment basement; fine sawdust
furnace heats all rooms; ga
rage; 5 cherry trees, shrub
berry. Shown by appointment
only. w. II. Frantzel, Lander
return to his Dakota farm.
Quick possession. If desired
this house may be bought as
is-completely furnished.
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Henry Clay Agnew

If our county officials would
listen to the advice of Henry
Clay Agnew they would save us
a tidy sum of money.
If you don't believe it ask Mr..
Carroll Carter and Mr.. Frank
McCaffrey.
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There will be no dormitory.
The new center will be fl
nanced by the War and Commun-
ity Chest and the National USO.
The club will be operated jointly
by the national Army-Navy Y. NJ.
G. A. and Y. w. C. A.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1944-05-31
By Prentice |. Frazier

by TfenIICe I. FRAZIER
This week l shall deviate from
my series of articles on the De-
partment of State to tell you how
justice can and does prevail in
one of our justice courts, presid-
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1944-05-31
Registration Facts
For the State of Washington

May 27-The first day to apply for an absentee ballot
for the primary.
June 24@ast day to register for the primary.
July 11-PRIMARY. Polls open 8 a. m. to 8 p. M.
September 23-First day to apply for absentee ballot for
General Election.
October 21-Last day to register for General Election.
November GENERAL ELECTION. Polls open from
8 a. m. to 8 p. m.
REGISTRATION = You May Register if :
1. You are a citizen of the United States.
2. You can read and speak the English language.
3. You will be FL years of age by the next election.
a. You will have lived in the state one year, the
county 80 days and the precinct 80 days by the next
election.
o MUST REGISTER IF II. You have moved.
2. You have never registered.
8. You have not voted in at least one election since
December, 1910.
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Gently, work would be resumed
in three minutes.
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TItFlN rs I.
partements of State and is
to give you a few facts
about the Public Service
Department, as directed by
Chas. F. Schaeffer.
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8 a. m. to 8 p. m.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-27
held Friday at 7:sO.

The Grace Methodist church held a family night Tuesday evening during which the outstanding feat ure was a membership contest. The Sunday school was entertained by the winning class. The teacher and class were awarded a prize.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-27

Chile has passed a law permit ting only. it's national air line to carry trafac between any two Chilean points.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-27

The world is full of people who are merely tied together. They appear to hold together very well; they are shored up by an estab- lished social position, secure family, a misfortune and assured environment. They are like a sheaf of wheat tied together, like collection of iron filings clus- tered on 8 magnet, like mosaic of separate pieces held in place by cement. Their seeming integra- tion is not inherent but is depend ent on the continuance of their outward situation.
 No wonder the statistics of 1n- sanity mount so that there are more hospitalized cases of men, tai disease than of all physical diseases put together. To remedy such social evils as shatter per- sonality is imperative, but nc remedy can ever make . merely propped up person immune to the shocks and changes that knock the props away and reveal that his coherence was a sham.
 All great living must spring, like a fountain, from within. The man of honor is not merely shored up by external supports; he lives by an interior scale of values that are his very own, like Will liam Penn in London Tower, say ing, My prison shall be my grave
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-27
JAMES AHRENS DINNER GUEST
MiddIesex Ave. Resident Celebrates Birthday at
 House Party
WATERVILLE Correspondent, Alice MacMul-
 len, Phone 3-7217

Waterville, Jan. 27 James Ahrens of Middlesex avenue was honored at his home last Saturday at a party celebrating his birthday.
 Decorations for the festive occa- sion were in red and white follow ing a valentine pattern. Many gifts were received by the honored guest. Entrtainment in the form of an imitation of Frank Sinatra was given by George Dwy, songs by Ray AhrenS and a soft shoe dance by Gladys and Jackie Cunningham were enjoyed.
 Following playing of games din- ner was served to those present who included: Maureen Connors, Jacquelyn Cunningham, Jeanette Wright, John Hyrnes, William Col lins, George Dwy, Martin Scanlon, Gladys Cunningham, Ronald Sic del, Raymond and James Ahrens, Jr.
 Girl Scouts of Troop No. 16 met Tuesday night at the home of Mrs. Frank. Carney of Chapel street. Further instructions on First Aid were given. Next week the girls will go to Chapter House of the Red Cross for more instructions in First
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-27

H. J. Taylor aniar ds. In Sweden I was told that Stockholm has the largest per-capita movie att tendance of any city in the world. Madrid must be second. The Spani- ards are just plain movie-mad.
 This is only the superficial evil dence of an economic change in Spain-a change that started with gasoline. The improvement picked up speed as the Span 'sh people be- came more and more confident that their country was not to be dragged into the war.
 Gasoline is more desperately nec- eSsary in Spain than in any country on the continent. Spain lost her rail- road in the Spanish civil war; the system just fell to pieces. She must depend on trucks to distribute food from the surplus producing areas, and for all forms of commercial life. She must depend on tractors for her large farming operations.
 CAN BUY AND IMPORT OIL
 Since Pearl Harbor, Great Britain and the United States have spent something like $2O0, ,000, 900 in Spain for strategic war materials and bad ly needed commodities-wo -wolframite mercury, olive oil, iron ore, copper hides. This money has given Spain sufficient balances to buy petroleum products in the Venezuelan fields and transport them from the Carib- bean in Spain's own tankers. And it is this which has broken the log jam in the Spanish enonomy.
 Spain'S full peace time capacity for petroleum is 100000, 900 tons per year." the chief of the American Petroleum Commission explained to me in Madrid. Today Spain is bringing in 60 per cent of tn | amount" This percentage is larg 1T than for any other country in Eur ope.
 With the increased flow of food and merchandise, the Spanish wheels began to turn in a great re- placement boom. And after our troops landed in North Africa, Spain began demobilizing her army to something like 10000 men. Spain'S economy received another virtuous impact from ex-soldiers' re-employ- ment in useful work.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-27
Spain, With War Behind It, Is Europe's Brightest Spot
PURCHASES BY ALLIES PERMIT INDUSTRIAL REVIVAL; GERMANY FAILS TO DELIVER PROMISED GOODS

Madrid itself is in the middle of a building boom. New modernistic apartment houses, offices and stores are going up everywhere. The fam ous University City district, so bad ly damaged during the civil war, has been entirely rebuilt. The university has been made twice its former size and the moderniStic buildings look like a worlds Tail.
 IRRIGATION HELPS FOOD
 SUPPLY
 The food situation is uneven and by no means solved. But 1t is SO much better than it used to be, and so much better than elsewhere in Europe, that by continental Stan- dardS the improvement is dramatic. Only bread is rationed today. From an agricultural standpoint, Spain always has been a marginal country at best, and she is not now on the high road toward ample food. But there is much valuable land in Spain which is being developed by the new irrigation projects in the south, and at the same time the waterways are being harnessed into a new indus trial development through hydro electrical systems.
 Commercial articles are actually plentiful; woolens, textiles, shoes and linens, radios, household access sories, furniture, electrical appliances and luxury items of every sort are on sale. Madrid is the best place in Europe to buy what you want. The streets are crowded, the shops are full and the people are spending.
 It is this spending rather than &C., tual scarcity which now represents Spain's real problem. Farmers and employees of every sort are exchang-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-27

i ing their pesos in a big way, and the velocity of this money turnover has set the whole country on an in flationary whirl. Prices are high and that is the rub. AS all over Eur ope, including England, the official attempt to control prices has been a big help to the Black Market. It is this factor in Spain-the whirling currency factor-which is the big feature now.
 NAZIS CAN'T PAY DEBTS
 Germany still owes Spain vast sums of money for materials pur- chased in the past. When the Span- iards became convinced that Ger many cannot win the war, they pressed her for the payment of these balances. Not in German funds, which they felt would finally be worthless, but by the delivery into Spain of ordinary commercial goods.
 This demand has embarrassed the Germans-for, of course, the Ger mans are long on worthless money and short on commercial goods. The effect has been to further widen the breach between Germany and Spain. For as the Germans fail to pay their debts by shipping electrical goods, street cars, structural steel and everything else from sealing wax to ships, and tried instead to sub- stitute bookkeeping entry within Germany, the Spaniards feel swind- led by the "good neighbor policy" which the Germans have touted so loudly in the years just past.
 Spain has had her war. It is some thing of surprise to realize that she is the first country in Europe to emerge in a postwar revival.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-27
Rebearse Tonight

Aid which cannot be held at home.