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    PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT CHALLENGED BY
CONGRESSMAN HAMILTON FISH OF NEW
YORK TO DECLARE HIS STAND ON ANTI
LYNCHING BILL
FROM REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE PUBLICITY
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EXCITING COLLOQUY WITH
CONGRESSMAN MITCHELL OF
ILLINOIS REGARDING NEGRO
EMPLOYMENT UNDER
NEW DEAL
By Emmett J. Scott
Washington, D. C.—Congress
man Hamilton Fish of New York,
in a recent running colloguy with
Congressman Arthur W. Mitchell
of Illinois, in the House of Repre
sentatives, challenged President
Roosevelt to declare his stand on
the Anti-Lynching Bill now pend
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Republican Candidate
UNITED STATES
SENATOR OF
NEBRASKA
A. W. Jefferis
Former Congressman
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Primaries April 9, 1940
Let us rebuild American pro
gress through private enterprise.
Liberty in a government of the
people, by the people and for the
people must not perish.
Scarcity of production in our
country will not create jobs on
our farms, in our factories or up
on our common carriers.
Government competition, bur
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\ ing in the Senate.
The challenge came when Mr.
Mitchell, only colored democrat in
Congress, was eulogzing the New
Deal and Mr. Roosevelt. The New
York Congressman inquired of Mr.
Mitchell where the President stands
on the Anti-Lynching Bill. Mr.
Mitchell could not enlighten him,
“We know,” said Mr. Fish,
“where the President of the
United States stands on all racial
and religious questions in foreign
lands, but we should like to know
where he stands on enacting an
Anti-Lynching Bill at the present
time in the United States of
America. He has been strangely
silent about that, a matter which
vitally affects the security of
some 13,000,000 Colored people
in America.
“One word from the White
House,” he said, “and that Bill
would come flying through the
Senate and be enacted into law.
Day after day we hear about
President Roosevelt’s’ views af
fecting foreign lands, but when it
comes to making democracy safe
in America and safe for 13,000,
000 Colored people, he is strange
ly silent. The White House con
tinues to be as slient as a tomb
when the Colored people ask for
an endorsement of the Gavagan
Fish Anti-Lynching Bill.”
With reference to Mr. Mitchell’s
statistics regarding employment
of Negroes under the New Deal,
the New York Congressman ask
ed if it is not true that a far
larger number of Colored persons
remain unemployed, after seven
years of the New Deal, in propor
tion to population than any other
group in America; and if it is
not true that the Colored people
have suffered more under the
New Deal because of unemploy
ment than any other single group.
Again Mr. Mitchell was unable
to enlighten him.
“I am convinced,” Mr. Fish
said, “that there have been more
unemployed Negroes during the
past seven years than ever before
in our history.”
Entering the colloquy, Con
gressman John C. Schafer of Wis
consin, also propounded a ques
tion or two. He pointed out that
Mr. Mitchell has “boasted about
the virtues of the New Deal as
they affect the people of the Col
ored race in America.”
“I wanted to ask him,” he con
tinued, “whether he realizes that
below the Mason and Dixon Line,
which is in complete control of
the New Deal, they drive the Col
ored people away from the polls
and will not even let them vote?
They also make our Colored citi
zens ride in Jim Crow cars,” etc.
Mr. Fish resumed with a few
more question, inquiring as to
how many colored men in Ameri
ca have been appointed to high
offices under the New Deal,
whether any colored men have
been appointed to important of
fices in States North of the Ma
son and Dixon Line. “Under Re
publican administrations,” he said
“the Colored people did receive
important appointments in Wash
ington and in the South as well
as in the North.”
Further, the New York Con
gressman wanted M r. Mitchell
along with his praise of the New
Deal, and what it is doing for the
Colored people, to put in the Con
gressional Record the number of
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They’ll Choose Nation’s Leading Community 1
Shown above are the five nationally prominent judges who, short
ly after May 1, will select the Negro community which has contributed
the most to the welfare of its residents in the past year. The winner is
to receive an International motor truck valued at $1,000. The judges
are, top, left to right: Walter White, executive secretary of the NAACP;
Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, director of NY A. Negro activities and pres
ident of Bethune-Cookman college; Dr. Frederick D. Patterson, presi
dent of Tuskegee institute. Bottom, left is Dr. Channing Tobias, of the
national council YMCA., and bottom, right, is Dr. M. O. Bousfield, Ne
gro health director of the Julius Rosenwald fund. (ANP Photos)
Colored persons holding impor
tant. jobs in the different agencies
and bureaucracies of the Govern
ment.
When Mr. Mitchell confessed he
was unable to answer the ques
tions that had been put to him,
Mr. Fish countered wifh the re
mark that the New Deal has made
abundant promises to the Colored
people but about all they had re
ceived is more abundant debts, de
ficits, and unemployment. He also
said the Colored people want per
manent jobs to provide adequately
for their families and not relief at
50 cents a day.
“The New Deal for seven lean
years,” he continued, “has failed
to give them permanent jobs and
the only way I know of for them
to once agin become employed at
the American standard of wages
and living is through the election
of a Republican President. The
gentleman from Illinois has made
a speech about employment
among the Colored people and
yet does not know how many are
unemployed. That is the most im
portant political and economic is
sue confronting his group.”
The Illinois Congressman had
refused to yield to Congressman
Fish and Congressman Schafer
for questioning during his presen
tation of a statement, written for
the purpose of showing that the
New Deal has given wide-spread
employment to colored men and
women during the past seven
years.
The statement, undoubtedly
prepared for proganda purposes,
to be franked at the expense of
the Government, that is, at the
expense of tax-payers, including
colored tax-payers, is apparently
designed to explain the failures
of New Deal agencies, particular
ly their mishandling of colored
beneficiaries in the South where
the great masses of the Negro
population live, and those living
in the great cities of the North.
21 Years of Business
Experience
Morton Lipsey, Omaha business
man and World War machine-gun
ner, who is a candidate for county
commissioner in the fifth district
on the republican ticket, today
urged race members to exercise
their right to vote in the forth
coming elections.
Many of his friends are planning
numerous home meetings as the
campaign progresses to acquaint
the public with Mr. Lipsey’s quali
fications for this office. They point
to his 212 years of business exper
ience as an operator of one of
Omaha’s finest independent stores
to prove his sound administrative
ability.
Mr. Lipsey is active in many
patriotic and civic organizations.
He is a member of American le
gion Post No. 1; a member of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars. St.
Michiel Post No. 247; a member
of 341st Machine Gun Ba.tallion
of the Eighty-Ninth Division; a
member of the executive commit
tee of the Independent Grocers
and Meat Dealers Association and
of various improvement clubs. He
has held office in many of these
organizations.
Mr. Lipsey is married and de
voted to his family.
E. A. Gardiner, and J. W. Line
han, Omaha business men who
are directing Mr. Lipsey’s cam
paign, state that if elected, Mr.
Lipsey will use the same type of
courage and judgment that he used
in his twelve months’ overseas in
the World War. The attention of
the voters is called to the marked
ability he has shown in building a
small store to one of the finest in
Douglas County. He has proved
himself to be an alert, competent
businessm man which should re
commend him to the voters as a
proper person to conduct the af
fairs of the county at a minimum
cost to the tax payers,
j Emmet A. Gardiner, Campaign
! Manager.
‘LAWYER’S LAWYER’
Upholding his reputation as a
“lawyer’s lawyer” during his 16
months on the Nebraska Supreme
Court, Judge Harvey Johnsen, a
candidate to succeed himself, has
been receiving enthusiastic sup
port from members of his profes
sion.
He was appointed to the Su
preme Court in November, 1938, by
Governor R. L. Cochran to succeed
the late L. B. Day. Judge Johnsen
is seeking election to that post for
the first time.
Judge Johnsen, 44, has given 20
years of his life to the law pro
fession and in that time has gain
ed a reputation as one of the state’s
most brilliant lawyers. His stand
ing with his profession is attested
by the fact he served 11 years as
Secretary of the Nebraska State
Bar Association, from 1926 to 1936,
and was President of the Associa
I tion in 1938. He was foremost in
reorganization of the Association
recently into the integrated bar.
Judge Johnsen was born in
Hastings, raised in Fremont. His
father was a railroad machinist
and foreman. Judge Johnsen was
grr, luated from the University of
Nebraska Law School in 1919 and
came to Omaha in 1920 to become
associated with the firm of Mont
gomery, Hall and Young. He was
admitted to the firm a few years
later but resigned from the firm
in 1931 to become General Counsel
for the Federal Land Bank, now
the FCA. In 1934 he entered pri
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Judge Johnsen also taught at
the Creighton University College
of Law for five years.
CANDIDATES FOR BOARD OF
DIRECTORS OF THE METRO
POLITAN UTILITIES
Omaha politicians, candidates for
the board of directors of the Metro
politan Utilities District, are at
tempting to unseat present direct
ors Linn P. Campbell, and Edward
F. Leary.
Although Omaha has the lowest
manufactured gas rate in the na
tion and wates rates among the
lowest in American, political as
pirants to the Ut
ilities board are
criticizing the
business like, non
political policies
of the District.
For more than
25 years Omaha
voters have de
feated any effort
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Edward F. Leary into the gas and
i water services of
I the city by elect
ing eminent busi
ness and profes
sional men to the
board.
Fulfilling the
non-partisan re
quirements of e
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tion on the boardLinn P. Campbell
by members of the two major pol
itical parties, Mr. Leary is a repub
lican, and Mr. Campbell, a demo
crat. Neither man, however, has
ever held any party, political office
1 nor taken active part in affairs of
these political parties in official
capacities.
Their work on the Metropolitan
Utilities board in the past several
months since their appointments to
I f'll the vacancies caused by the re
j ^iffnations of Frank J. Burkley and
i H. Malcolm Baldrige, merits their
| election to these posts in the April
election.
Mr. Leary was born in Omaha 66
I years ago. He was graduated
from the college of law, Creighton
: University, in 1907 and has prac
| ticed his profession here since that
date. He has gained an enviable
local and national reputation as an
attorney and as a man of sound
judgement in legal and business af
fairs. Since 1913 he has served as
legal counsel of the Omaha Catho
lic diocese, and in 1931 in reward
for this and much other public ser
vice, the rank of Knight of the Or
der of St. Gregory was conferred
upon him by the late Pope Pius XI.
Mr. Campbell, 51, has been a res
ident of Omaha since 1900. For
the past thirty-five years he has
! been connected with the Bryon Reed
Company, Omaha real estate firm,
of which he has been president since
1934. He also is a director of the
United States National bank and
member of the First Presbyterian
church and the Masonic Order.
Both Mr. Leary and Mr. Camp
bell seek to continue as members of
the Metropolitan Utilities District
Board of directors as an avenue for
public service to the city in which
all of their interests are found.
Neither looks upon the office as a
political stepping-stone or a means
of building a political following.
Partisan politics have not the
slightest consideration in their ,
candidacies as their present servic
es on the board testify.
2% COMMISSION TO
MINISTERS AND
CHURCHES
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to the ministers of any churches a
2% commission on all the purchas
es made by the members or friends
of their congregations. All the
puixhasers have to do is to ask for
his 2% discount slip at the time
the purchase is made. Then turn
them over to your minister and
when they have accumulated in
sufficient quantities, The Square
Deal Stores will give him in cash
2%.
Largest “Fight
Net Work” Airs
Joe Louis Bout
—
When World’s Heavyweight
Champion Joe Louis engages
Johnny Paycheck, rangy Des
Moines battler, Friday, March 29,
in the 10th defense of his title, the
melee will be broadcast over 103
stations of the NBC Blue network,
largest single network ever to
carry a fight.
Veteran blow-by-blow announcer
Sam Taub, and Bill Stern, ace
NBC sportscaster who has covered
many of Louis’ title defenses since
he won the fistic diadem in 1937,
will describe the battle from the
ringside at Madison Square Gar
den, New York.
The new station total represents
an almost 500 per cent increase in
the size of the network first con
tracted for when the program
sponsor purchsaed the broadcast
ing rights to fightcasts in 1937.
That year the fights were car
ried by 21 NBC stations.
That hot trumpet solo and equal
ly torrid vocal him on Mildred
Bailey’s new platter of “Wham”
is contributed by none other than
“Little Jazz” Roy Eldredge. Beat
the drums for Benny Goodman’s
latest sextet version of “Gone With
What Wind” and “Till-Tom Spe
cial” for record fans. Count Basie
sits in at piano and Lionel Hamp
ton contributes some of the finest
vibe-pounding ever recorded. Good
man himself thinks it’s the best
sextet waxing he’s ever done and
so far the feeing’s unanimous. One
of the most important features of
any record catalogue is the race
department. Looking through the
recent releases, that everyone can
enjoy for listening and dancing as
well, are quite a few discs. Louis
Jordan and His Tympany Five
have made “You Run Your Mouth,
and I” Run My Business” plus
LEGAL NOTICES
W. B. Bryant, Attys—Wells Mar
tin and Lane.
PROBATE NOTICE
In the matter of the estate of
Thomas Frazier, deceased.
Notice is hereby given: That the
creditors of said deceased will meet
the administrator of said estate
before me, County Judge of Doug
las County, Nebraska, at the county
Court Room, in said County, on the
6th day of April, 1940 and on the
66th day of May, 1940, at 9 o’clock
A. M., each day, for the purpose of
presenting their claims for exam
ination, adjustment and allowance.
Three months are allowed for the
creditors to present their claims,
from the 6th day of July, 1940.
Bryce Crawford,
County Judge.
beg. March 16
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THE TAPPER TATTLES:—
Mildred Bailey has postponed until
November her Town Hall concert
originally scheduled for May. Rea
son: To allow Duke Ellington, com
poser, more time to create a series
of original songs. Richard Huey,
who jovially conducts Mutual’s
SHEEP AND GOATS CLUB re
vue, is a 240-pounder who says he
got that stout eating barbecues in
his own Harlem restaurant, “Aunt
Dinah’s Kitchen.” The National
Urban League’s Eighth Anlnual
Vocational Opportunity Campaign
program with Speaker Dr. Chan
ning H. Tobias, senior secretary
for colored work of National Coun
cil of YMCA, talked on “Employ
ment Problems of the Negro,” via
NBC, Fri., March 22. Charlie
Christian and Lionel Hampton,
guitarist and vibe man, respectively
with Benny Goodman’s top swing
band can be once again heard
broadcasting over NBC since they
opened at the swanky Ambassador
Hotel in L. A. Rochester’s most
recently revealed hobby is a model
railway, most of which he built
himself. He has been working on
it secretly ever since Jack Benny
gave him his first radio bit, the
role of a Pullman Porter. Don’t
forget Marian Anderson’s appear
ance with the Ford Symphony
Hour, Sunday, March 31, 9 P.M.
EST, over CBS.
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