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CONGRESS FACES LYNCHING RELIEF, PROFITEER ISSUES Wash'ngton, Sept. 28 (CNA)— Congress likely will be called or -to settle momentous questions ol internal as well as international policy at the special session start by Presklent Roosevelt to consider revision of the Neutrality Act but it appeared certain this week tha* the session will also considei several explosive domestic issues, including relief, WPA, profiteer ing and anti-lynching legislation A move for adidtional relief, because of war time increases in the prices of commodities, and to “correct the injustices” of the Woodrum Bill which effected drastc cuts on WPA. will be made by Representative Jerry Voorhis, the California New Deal er indicated this week, ing September 21. Tho special session was called The president will have strong popular support in his fight on the isolationists who last session blocked the Administration’s ef fodta to revise the Neutrality Act j to permit a “cash and carry’ ar rangement for the sale of arms to belligerent nations. Recent polls conducted by the Gallup Survey j rbows an overwhelming majority | of the American people in favor of revising the Act, which it is contended, plays into the hands of the fascist aggressor nations by negating the superior sea power of the Europeon democracies. Revision however, will be hotly opposed to Senator Borah ' and other isolationists. Borah has in dicated that he w 11 filibuster a gainst the President’s proposals. I ather Coughlin, too, has called upon his followers to flood Con gross wdth telegrams and letters c.emanding that the Act be re * in its present form. Oppo sition to revision also has been ex pressed by Eritz Kuhn, fuerhei of the Nazi German-American Bund in this country. -0O0-—. COURT CONDEMNS JIM-CROW PRACTICE Trenton, N. J., Sept. 28 (CNA) Vicious jim-crow practices were GLOBE TROTTER'S SKETCH BOOE • . • By HI WATTS * •* CHAND CANAL VENICE Mr. H. F. C. writes in to ask that I do a travelogue on Venice and tell how this famous city happened to be founded in such a strange location. Request* such as this, wh.-n of gen eral interest, arc always welcome and will be included in the "Sketch Book” from time to time. Contrary to the popular belief, Venice is v t a part of the Ita'ian mainland, but i; situated on a group of tiny Hrl? about two and on - half miles olf shore. To this spot the Fc nrti Tribe of Northern Italy fled in 452 A. I), to escape the plundering hordes t.H Atiila lac Ilun. So rapidly did ill 1 r new c 1 ■"■v flourish that, 200 years later. Vert had 1- conic a rec ognized power gc:l in a commerce extending to nearly every part r; the then known world. ("Tr-rcj Polo was one of these uncknt Venetian mer clianls.) THe scene . hove v.::s selected from •mong my Vi ■.!' a ■ ' •■. i . .; two years age. and shows the a...cc ful ninety-foot marble areli of tin; Rialto Bridge, built in 1590. Great est of all the 150 waterways of. Ven ice, the Grand Canal winds through the city like a huge reverse letter “S’’ and divides it into two nearly equal sections. Lining its two-mile length are magnificent palaces of the former aristocracy whose heraldic colors still decorate the mooring posts beside the doorways. One is able to wall: from one end of Venice to the other liy means of nar row back streets and some 400 bridges. But there just aren’t any automobiles or other wheeled ve- i hides. Instead of taxi stands, you will find rows of slender black gon dolas tied up at every important point. In recent years a few motoi launches have made their appearance on romc of the larger canals, and smdl ferry lines operate along the Grand Canal, yet to me the thought of raucous outboard motors echoing through these romantic canals is enough to fiend one sobbing to the f -r d Rild.ii- of ficlis lor the fatal Pi':. ... ! Geography In Stamps _—-— --- —f BAHRAIN ' The British Protectorate of BAH RAIN entered the philatelic picture ki 1933 with an issue of stamps of British India surcharged “BAH RAIN.” To date only nineteen items Save been put out, and all of them are giexpensive. This obscure Island in the Persian pulf has assumed tremendous impor tance in the last few years because of Its oil output. Discovered and ex ploited by the Standard Oil Company of California, this oil field on a sun bak d slab of the Arabian desert now produces and refines 30,000 barrels of petroleum a day, and there are indi cations that production will be stepped up to 100,000 barrels a day in the not-far-distant future. AJthough nominally an independent Cdtanate, Bahrain affairs are admin tered largely by the Government of India. So far as the oil concession Is concerned, however, the Americans are supreme, because the British syn dicate that first acquired a concession there failed to renlize the possibili ties and finally transferred it to American oil interests. Curiously enough, the first drilling that took place in Bahrain was not for oil, but for water. Until that time there had been no fresh water on the island, and the native Arabs were dependent for their supply on springs that arose offshore in the sea. They would go out in bouts and dip it up, but whenever storms came the sweet water would become mixed with salt water before the boats could get there. To relieve this situation, ar tesian wells were sunk, and subse quently oil was found in such quan tities that this now has become one of the world’s great oil fields. j harpy condemned this week when the New Jersey State Supreme Court ruled that Negroes have the right to bathe at any of the four beaches at Long Brancth, N. J. The hated anti-Negro practice, long in effect in I>ong Branch, i was finally challenged by Mrs. Al Jio Bullock, property owner of that city, by an action before the State's highest tribunal. In her petition, filed last Octo ber, Mrs. Bullock, a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, t contended that persons seeking to bathe at any of the city’s four beaches, were required to register et the City Hall, where they were given badgesm. The Badges were in four colors, one for each beach, and Negroes received oinly red badges which restricted them ex clusively to beach No. 3. The city administration, it was stated, pas sed two ordinances to legalize the 1 scrimination. Mis. Bullock sued to have the ordinances declared invalid. Although the court dismissed tho petition becaue Mrs. Bullock 1 avc not been convicted of viola ting the ordinances, Justice Joseph B. Perskie ruled t was clear that l tho purpose of the laws was to “prevent Vnembers of the black i raco from intermingling with members of the white race on the beaches.” He told Mrs. Bullock ’ ■ho could compel the city to grant; her a permit to use any of tihe | beaches “without regard to the l color question; a permit we have stated she was entitled to have.” Members of the Negro commun ity hailed tho decision and an nounced they would insist on use oi wall the beaches. -0O0-— ALLIANCE STARTS DRIVE FOR FOOD STAMPS New York, Sept. 28 (CNA,— A drive designed to obtain for New York’s needy population the benefits of the free food stair,ps distributed by the Department of Agriculture and the Federal Sur plus Commodities Corporation was started this week by the Workers Alliance of this city. The stamps, first used in Ro chester, N. Y., then in a number ^ 9i (4,'cxJ c/o you DOODLE?) ■II— I. ■■■ I I. .... I imm I recently p»vfessors arm psycholo gists have had much to say regarding Hie “character” revealed in a person’s “Doodles”—those unconscious little scrawls and scribbles one makes oi newspaper margins, telephone pads «nd the like. Hut in offering this en tertaining scries of “Doodle-bug' tends, we claim no ulterior motive We prefer to think Hint most folks just “doodle” for fun! So go to ii with n soft pencil, and see how many varied and amusing expressions and types you can create from the simple outline heads which will appear in this paper. Hemcmbcr, it’s the latest 'jusliinc, und “Everybody’s Doodling t!” of mid-westorn cit es, have beer repor t'd of great help to persons on relief or employed on WPA. In Rochester they were said to have greatly aided the Negro common ity, a considerable number of whom were unemployed. In announcing the drive, lead era of the Alliance said they will immediately circulate petitions a mong grocers and consumers in support o f ho campaign. The pe titions will be addressed to Pres ident Roosevelt, Milo Perkins head of the Federal, Surplus Commodi ties Division and to Mayor La Git \rdia. The petition will make three re quests, it was s ated: It will urge the government to institute a “system of price control by the government for the duration of the war,” a food stamp plan for New York, and pro eeut.on of war profiteers. --ono I NEW YORK TO GET TWO NEW HOUSING PROJECTS New York, Sept. 28 (CNA)— Negro residents of two congested slum districts in the metropolitan area will benef.t from two hous Q's and il'a 1. Who was the only one of our thirly-lwo pic ,Ulc us wlio-.c t rm of office began during an even year? 2. In parliamentary practice Is It proper to preface a motion wiihi “I move you, cie.’’? 3. Since cheque Is 1 ’i'll for check, is it right to u ; iho French word claque for clack? 4 What is the rr, -anitig of “Sartor Itcnnrtus,” title of u work by Carlyle? 5. lien a subject and a predicate ‘ interchange ]daces, are they «lc- | fined as (1) vice versa, (2) vice visa, or (3) vise versa? 6. is it true or false to say that the year Ireland’s poet Goldsmith died (1774) England’s poet I Southey was born? 7. If a puffin is an auk, what are | meant by the terms aukcry und puffery? 8. llow is an object shaped when it j is described ns rostrate, rostri- ! form, rostroid or rliamphoid? 9. Our modern English language j dates from what year? ». During the War of 1812, when ■ the ilritisli burned parts of the I National Capitol, what was the | name of the Admiral and what , designation did he give Wrasking- 1 ton, I). C.? ANSWERS 1. Fillmore, 1850. 2. No. The correct form is “I move that, etc.” 3. No. Claque means hired applaud ers, and clack means clatter. 4. “The patcher, repatched.” A patcher is a tailor. 6. Vice versa; visa is the same as vise, which is a passport. G. True. 7. First term is the nesting—or re sorting—grounds of those birds, whilst the second is overpraise. 8. Beaked or beak-shaped. _From 1845, when inflections largely disappeared. 10. Cockburn. “This harbor of i i Ey KOPAC THE FIGHTING CONTINUES The falling warrior struck the hard stone floor with a dull thud! By this time Leo and ltccards were having a difficult time of it—the palace was filled with soldiers and bowmen! Sud denly an Oriental gong sounded throughout the hall; the alarm had been given for the reserves! Escape was impossible! And if it weren’t for the fact that the ascent to the ex plorers’ position was made extremely difficult by the very narrow palace steps, Leo and Recards would hove been overwhelmed at the very begin ning of the miniature war. However, since the steps were built in tliis fashion, the adventurers man aged with fighting effort to keep the soldiers from surrounding them in a mass! Early during the fight Leo had managed to obtain a powerful, strong bow, und he also made accurate use of the quiver of arrows which he had taken with the bow from an ill-fated Inca warrior. Two '/ the explorer’s speeding arrows bit deeply into a mean-looking soldier’s thigh. Tills particular Inca had maneuvered be hind Recards and was about to plunge his sharp hunting spear into Recards’, back wiien Leo noticed him! “Thanks,” whispered Recards as he took in the scene at a glance. “I’d hate to die that way.” But there was little time to be spent in talking; the Americans were now hard pressed and were compelled to fight for their lives! Half the Incas’ fighting forces were in the throne room! Skilled swordsmen and hard ened fighters were in the melee—the king's best! Arrows and javelins spun through the air dangerously close to the in trepid Americans! Suddenly Leo and Recards were surrounded! Javelin points encircled the pair on all sides 1 H GEOGRAPHIC ODDITIES . LAKE TITICACA,on the border between Peru and Bolivia is the highest navigable body of water in the Vicrta. It is 12,645 feet above sea level. nig projects recently approved for j Greater New York, according to an announcement by the New J York City Housing Authority. Contracts for the first project, to bo located in a predominantly Negro neighborhood in South Ja maica, already have been let. The iiW project, to cost a total of a round $2, 489,000, will be built by the H. R. H. Construction Cor poration. It will contain 448 a partments, two to five rooms in size, on a 9 1-2 acre site, bounded by 158th an 1 ’59th Streets, and 107ih and 109th Avenues. Negro residents of the Redford Sluyvesant section of Brooklyn liuvo aTo won their two yeai fight through ther civic and so c 'al organizations for better hous- [ in;;. That congested slum area will bo the site of the second hous ing development. The Bedford Stuyvesant project will cost ap pnoximutely $0,558,000, and will provide 1,188 apartments for faim ilies o flow incomes now restric ted to sub-standard houses, accor ding to an announcement by A1 fred Rheinstein, Commissioner of Housing and Chairman of the Housing Authority. ———oOo EIGHT FILE FOR ENTRANCE * AS NAACP PUSHES DRIVE TO OPEN COLLEGE DOORS TO NEGRO STUDENTS New York, Sept. 21—With eight persons filing application for en trance to graduate schools in three states for the fall term, the National Association for the Advance of Colored People an nounced today that it will push its drive at once to open colleges in southern and border states to Ne groes, in Missouri, Tennessee and Maryland. All the persons have sought the aid of the NAACP in pre;s- | ing their cases. According to the Association,; applications are listed in the fol- j lowing categories: Law, 3; bology ; 1; sociology, 1; education, 1; chemistry, 1; journalism, 1. Tho names of the students and the universities to which they seek admission, follow: University of Tennessee, Knox ville; P. L. Smith, Joseph Michael law; Clinton Marsh, sociology'; Homer L. Saunders, education; Ezra Totten, chemistry, all resi dents of Knoxville; and Walter S. E. Hardy, Charlotte, „N. C. chemsitry. University of Missouri, Colum bia: Miss Lucille Bluford, Kan sas City, Mo., journalism. University of Maryland, Balti more: William Murphy Baltimore law. Ransom to Handle Tennessee Case S The NAACP announcement said that L. A. Ransom, professor of law at Howard University and a member of the Association s na tional legal committee, will han dle the University of Tennessee cases. He will be assisted by the law firm of Cowan and Looby, of Nashville. Ransom is scheduled to go to Nashville September 19 to prepare the ground for court action. Gains Case to be Revived Charles H. Houston, special counsel of the NAACP will han dle the case of Miss Bluford at the University of Missouri. He is expected to leave shortly for Col umbia, Mo. It was also stated that Houston plans to seek further court action in the Lloyd Gaines case. The U. S. Supreme Court handed down a decision December 12 1938, or dering the University of Missoun to open its law school to Gaines or offer him identical training within the state. Since that time the Supreme Court of Missouri has appropriaited some $200,000 in an effort to establish a law school at Lincoln University at Jefferson City for Negro stud ents. Houston will seek a hearing in the State Supreme Court in an effort to de ermine whether the state of Missouri has compiled wirn the h gh court’s deci ion. Thurgood Marshall, special le gal counsel for the NAACP will handle the case of William Mur phy, involving the University of Maryland, the NAACP stated. Murphy’s case, if he is denied ud mission, will represent the second time that the Association has gone to court in an effort to force this border state to admit Ne groes to its law school. In 1936 the NAACP won a vic tory at the hands of the state Su preme Court of Maryland in the Murray ca-e. The court ruled at that time that no adequate train ing in law was available for Ne groes in Maryland comparable to that offered by the state univer sity, and ordered the school to admit Donald Murray. I lie Dni ver-iity compiled and Murray was graduated from the school, uune, 1P38. This week he passed the Maryland State bar, the NAACI learned. Howard I.aw Dean Aids Fight Arthur B. Spingarn, chan man Need Laxative? Take An All-Vegetable One Don’1; let impatience lead you n <. to harsh measures for the rchef ol constipation! There’s no use. 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Unlike most creams, Nadinola speeds up the natural process of exfoliation— bleaches the skin to a lighter shade, loosens blackheads, clears up surface pimples and other ex ternally caused blemishes. Soon you begin to see wonderful im provement—your skin becoming lighter, softer and smoother. AW by pr*fet*u>n*i mtnUi Coarseness and ugly shine are im proved at the same time. Nadinola is Tried and Trusted Don’t take chances with unproved bleaches, ointments or salves. De mand genuine Nadinola, tried and trusted for two generations. You Get Results, or Money Back Every jar of Nadinola contains full instructions and positive money-back guarantee. For sale at good drug stores in two sires, 50c and $1. : of the NAACP’s national legal committee, in a statement issued here today, said that William II. Hastie, former University law J-hool, and Edward P. Lovett, at torney connected with the United States Housing Administration, would be associated with the or ganization’s defense of these cases. “This is our answer,” de clared Mr. Spingarn, “to the question as to how we shall fal low up the Supreme Court decl aim in the Lloyd Gaines case.” j Urging the public to send funds ] for carry ng forward these and | other cases in the association’s i educational program Mr. Spin : garr. added: “In our fight to correct the evils in our educational system both as they affect the ab lity of Negro citizens to gain an educa tion and to be paid equally for their services when they become a part of the teaching personnel in tha school system, it is neces sary to be realistic about the cost of this fight. “Because we carried the Gaines ca e to the U. S. Supreme Court at the same time other education case were be ng fought, we are now faced with a $4,000 deficit in this phase of our work. Within the next six years we will need to spend more than $1,000 in court costs, printing and travel expenses. All of our lawyers, ex cept Mr. Mar hall who is a re gular member of our legal staff, are serving without pay. With this fine example before us, and the excellent cooperation of our members and the public as a whole we feel that all will understand the pressing need which makea us come forward again to ask that funds be sent immediately to the NAACP, 00 Fifth Avenue, New' York C ty, in order that this fight, which affects millions of Negro youth and brings thou sands of dollars in wages to Negro teachers, may be carried on with vigor.”
