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FIRST LADY HITS RACIAL HATREDS__ Washington July 19 (CNA) The popularity of the First I-ady a mong groups fighting against re ligious and racial discrimination took a further leap forward this week following two straight-from the-shoulder speeches by Mrs. Franklin D. Rosevelt. Mrs. Roosevelt said that “all A merieans mu;t have tiheir full rights under the Constitution’’ in a speech in Richmond presenting the Spingam Medal of the Nation al Association for the Advance ment of Colored People to the no ted artist Marian Anderson. M:1 A pur** sparkling cola Uevfira^ Enjov ift g(H?dn€W The ceremonies took place in the Mosque Auditorium in Richmond at the closing session of the 30th annual conference of the NAACP. ; More than 5,000 persons packed the hall, with fully 6,000 on the out side listening to a loudspeaker ex tension. They gave Mrs. Roose velt and Miss Anderson an unpre cedented ovation. i “All races and creed must be ab le to understand the problems be fore us,” Mrs. Roosevelt said af ter referring to the “troubled con ditions” in the world. “We can not grow unles8 we are concerned ahout tide environment of all ou: people.” I Mrs, Roosevelt again come to the ! defense of /minority groups in i. | statement /to tine National Confer ence of Christian.; and Jews in Washington, declaring that the promotion of a better understand ing among Protestants, Catholics and Jews in America is “one of the most necessary tasks confronting us.” To the conference founded in 1.928 to further justice, amity an.! understanding among members oJ the three faiths, The First Lady declared that joint action by a! citizens in dealing with commoi problems is urgently neces-ary “i view of much that is happening elsewhere in the world.’’ -0O0 l?Rl!I) HOLLAND PICKKD FOR \LL STAR (.1 ANT GRID GAMK Pittsburgh, July 13 (CNA) J toine Hartwell (Brud) Holland , Cornell’s All-A’.nerica end in 1937 and 1938, Ha* accepted an invita tion to play with t'i0 gRgtei-n Coi lego All-Stars against the cham pion New York Giants, Dr Johu Bain Sutherland, coach of the All Stars announced this week. The game will be played on the night of Sept. 7th at the Polo Grounds in New York. The All-American ace, 210 lbs, 6 feet 2 inches and extremely last, played left end both on of fense and defense through his three varsity years under Carl Snavely at Cornell. -- I". There’s a New Thrill in Picnics... A HOT PICNIC LUNCH Cook It and Carry It in a Modern ELECTRIC ROASTER Here's cm easy way to make your picnics better than ever! Serve a hot lunch. Just prepare it at home in' the Electric ' Roaster before you leave. Then you can carry it to the picnic grounds, right in the Roaster. When that hungry family gathers 'round— the food is piping hot. And will they go for it—for the fried chicken, hot biscuits, creamy potatoes, pie, or whatever their favorites are. A hot lunch is so much easier to digest. Just try it! Everyone wgl scry he never enjoyed a better picnic lunch! Your Dealer has just the Electric Roaster you need for more successful picnic lunches. You'll find it wiU give you better meals all year 'round too! Remember, Electric Cookery is thrifty cook ery, because your electricity costs so little! CHecp Electricity SERVES ond SAVES SEE YOUR DEALER OR NEBRASKA POWER COMPANY SATURDAY NIGHT BACK HOME XpuSr because J(4lM I WAIT MA roM /[ TIL FA AW' Wy ow MCsT f X SIS HAVE WATER LAST VTOPS, MOM? 1 vf!£EK |3 wo KIM l 2/1 <31GM IT’LL —/ \ KAPPEM ^ N AfrAIN / fc - . - • Pittman, Former “Brotherhood Eyes Editor, Paroled from Prison | Dallas, July 19 (ANP) Confirn aiion of the release from Leaven worth prison of W. Sidney Pitt man, former editor of the notorious scandal sheet “Brotherhood Eyes” was noted last week when Pittman arrived in Dallas and started work ing for the Excelsior Life Insur ance Company. Henry Strickland president of the risk firm, re portedly signed the parole papers, rumored to have taken effect last February. Pittman was convicted in Dallas Federal Court in 1936 of sending obscene reading matter through the mails, and given a five year sentence. Unt 1 stopped by action of the Federal Court, “Brotherhood Eyes” allegedly exposed, berated and denounced Negroes of high and low estate, laid bare their pri vate lives omiting no details, held up many a man and woman to public ridicule. Pittman’s foot "lipped when he selected as a victim, Edward L. Snyder, at that time a represent ative of the Universal Life Insur ance Company which Pittman was lambasting in a merciless editorial attack. Snyder fought back ex posed the editor and helped direct the legal attack which soon placed tlhe paper on the defunct list, its editor behind prison bara. Plenty of Excitement As Cash Coals Beat 0. K. Hard .vare Team — by Richard Stanley— • On Wednesday night July l‘2th at 16th and Boyd St.. United Cash Coal boat. O. K. Hardware 6 to 4 in the six inning came which was called on account of darkness. The game was thrilled with ex citement. The manager of the 0. K. Hardware team took a poke at the old umpire for calling a beau tiful curved ball a strike in the 5th innning- He called ono just ex actly the same on the ('ash Coal boys but nothing was said—but when the old ump called one on the 0. K. boys a yell went up that could have been heard on 24th and Lake St. A woman caused all the trouble by poking the ump in the eye, but old John law waa there to quiet Gold Medal 1 HAARLEM OIL CAPSULES FINE FOR SLUGGISH KIDNEYS AND BLADDER IRRITATION STOP GETTING UP NIGHTS One 35 cent box of these famous capsules should help put more healthy activity into your kidneys and bladder—flush out harmful excess was to poisons and acid and prove to you that at last you have a grand safe and harmless diuretic and stimulant that will start at one© to relieve these troubles. But be sure and get GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules — safe and harmless—the original and genuine—right from Haarlem in Holland. Millions have kidney ami bladder trouble and never sus pect it—some symptoms besides visits to bathroom at night may be backache, moist palms, puffy eyes and scanty passage that oft-times smarts and bums. the situation down and nobody was hurt and the best part of it all was that no Colored people were involved in the melee. Willis, the pitcher, started the game off, but was pulled in favor of Grandpappy Morton who retired .he side. Scott’s homer with Tapley on was the outstanding event of the afternoon. New Deal Battles Drive to Destroy WPA Washington, July 12, (CNA)— A shap fight of which will decide the fate of the nation’s unemploy ed, was under way this week as New' Deal forces prepared to de fend the progressive and humani tarian program of the W'PA. Led by Representative Woodrum of Virginia, the tory Democratic Republican coalition in the House reported out the 1940 Relief Bill, drawn by the Woodrum witch hunting appropriations sug-com initte0 which has been investigat ing relief. The bill calls for the liquidation of the Federal Theatre Project, a New Deal agency that has pro vided jobs for hundreds of Negro professional people for whom op portunities in private enterprise are practically nil, drastic re ductions in the personnel of other white collars projects that employ considerable percentages of Ne groes, limitation of construction projects to a $*6,000 maximum, as well as other prohibitions which, social workers agree, wVuld have disastrous results on the welfare of the needy and on the whole re covery program. The bill was vigorously opposed by Colonel Harrington, WPA ad in inistrator, who warned that its f revisions Woul d "practically wreck the program now in opera tion.” He assailed the "glaring misstatements of facts” of anti WPA witnesses, who testified be fore the Woodrum committee. New Deal forces in Congresj, fighting desperately to save WPA, were being backed by progressives and organizations of WPA work ers throughout the country. The Workers Alliance issued a call for the broadest mascs sup port for defense of the New' Deal program and the preservation of WPA. Denouncing the dismissal of 1,500 persons from the Federal Theatre in New York, and the plans for the complete abolition of the Project by June 30, Al liance leaders urged the people to flood tbo F«r»«e and Senate with letters and telegrams of pro test, and to demand the passage of the Casey-Murray Bill which calls for an appropriation of $2, 250,000,000 to provide jobs for at least 3,000,000 workers. ———-uvy.» • ■—— Mitchell Asks Aid for Puerto Rico Washington, July 19, (ONA)— Belief that Congress should pursue a very liberal policy toward Puer to Rica was expressed here this week by Congressman Arthur W. Mitchell of Chicago in a special in terview on Puerto Rican affairs. Mitchell said that, in furtherance of the democratic ideal, the Puer to Ricans should he encouraged to look forward to self-government and eventually to statehood. The Illinois Congressman, who is advocating apointment of a na tive judge for the Virgin Islands, said he looked forward to the day when Puerto Rica will have all na tive officials, including a native governor. “It is only natural that native officials should know more about the needs and requirements of the island,” he pointed out And as a part of the democratic principle, it is necessary, of course, that we give their economic sit uation close afiteiution and help them in every way,” he added. —--0O0 Three Arrested in Job Racket New York, July 19 (CNA) Three men were arrested in Brooklyn this week on charges of operating an unliscensed employment a geney which specialized in luring Negro girls from the South with promises of lucrative johg as domestics in ti»s city. The men, all Negroes, are Curtiss Rateliffe, 27 years old, of 171 East Ninety-fifth St., Brook lyn, and John Pickens 47 and Bria Forty of Nation’s Leaders Urge Passage of Anti- Lynching Bill NEW YORK CITY, July 20— (ANP)—A strongly worded letter [ sent last Wednesday to members of the House of Representatives and the Senate by the Volunteer Christian CommitJ.ee to Boycott Nazi Germany, urged passage of the Gavagan amti-lynching bill through the House and Senate be fore the present Congress ad journs. The letter was signed by Committee Chairman William Jay Sohieffelin who is also a member of the board of trustees at Tusk egee Institute—and by more than 40 others, prominent in art, science religion, civil rights and national affairs in America. The letter concluded: “Above all, we urge that this grave issue must come to a vote, for if the Anti-lynching bill were defeated it would be bad enough, but trie cowardly and un democratic tactics of avoiding a vote, which were resorted to last year, were a double defeat for De mocracy.” Queens Official, Former Kluxer Blocks Negro Housing Project ton Kelley, farmers from Bennetts ville, S. C. Paul Moss, Liscense Commisson er, appealed in Brooklyn magis trates’ courts to press charges a gainst the three defendants. Moss told reporters that in most instan ces the girls brought here as do mestics were soon discharged “for incompetence’’ and then turned out on the streets and made dependent upon public relief. --0O0 ETITIOPA DRAINS ITALIAN TREASURY ROME. July 20—(CNA)—Fas cist leaders admit that Laly’s new "Africa empire” has a-sumed the shape of a “white elephant,” which already ha3 cost the fascist government more than two billion and a half dollai-s. The exploitation of Ethiopia i proving, Fascist admit, even a big ger job than its conquest, which, incidcntly is far from complete. . Before the Chamber of Fasfist: & Corporations, Duke Thao di Re Van Minister of Prance recently admitted that in 5 years Ethiopia had cost Italy $2,500,000,000 in cluding the heavy expenses of the military campaign. This represents the equivalent of four annual bud gets for the entire Italian Govern ment. General Attilio Toruzzi, Under I Secretary for Colonies admitted before the same body that native resistance to the fascist invaders was still it a high point. -oOo-—• Manila, FCiillipines, July 19 CNA Rejecting the protests of large landowners, President Manuel Que zon this week signed the Rice Ten ancy act, prohibiting hacienda ow ners from rejecting tenants without legal cajuse. New York, July 19 (Harry Ray ^mond for CNA).— Queens Borough President George U. Harvey’s loud spoken opposition to the Projec ted $2,500,000 South Jamaica Low-rent Federal housing devel opment for Negro slunT dwellers aroused vigorous protests this week from both Negro and white organ izations in Queens County. Har vey was onec a member of a local Ku Klux Klan outfit. Protests came from Joseph Roth man, white chairman of the South Jamaica Housing Commision, and Dr. John A. Singleton, chairman of the Jamaica branch of the Nation a As-ociation fo rthe Advance ment of Colored People. Harvey denounced the slum clear ance project and public housing in general at a Board of Estimate mee.ing last week when by his ob jection he blocked immediate con sideration o fa letter from Alfred Rheinstein, chairman of the City Housing Authority asking the Board to authorize condemnation proceedings to acquire the South Jamaica site in tine vicinity of 159th St. The matter was laid over for a week on the pretext that Har vey was not familiar with the met ' hods of financing the project, j Rothman characterized the Queens Borough President as a po l.tical 'hypocrite1" and) a ‘Isocial snail” in answer to Harvey’s de clared oposition to government housing “because they have Fed eral housing in Russia." Harvey’s opposition to an hon 1 est Federal slum clearance plan I was laid by his opponents to his close tie with rich white real es tate interests and rent gougers. It was noted that his closest ad visor and political friend is John J. 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