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KLAN VICTIMS AND GEORGIA PEONS LAY PROBLEMS BE FORE DEPT. OF JUSTICE Washington, March 25 In Wash ington this week are victims of brutal treatment by the Ku Klux Klan in South Carolina and two es caped Negro farm workers from a Georgia peonage farm who were held in bondage for more than ten years. They were brought here by the National Negro Congress for the purpose of presenting their com plaints to officials of the United States Department of Justice. An appointment for them is scheduled for sometime during the coming week with Assistant Attorney Gen eral O. John Rogge. At a meeting held here Tuesday of this week, at which Congressman Vito Marehantonio, president of the International Labor Defense, presided, the witnesses who came to Washington told a tragic story of brutal terror and semi-slave condi tions in South Carolina and Geor gia. One witness, Will Fleming, the father of ten children, told a horror stricken audience of Washington citizens, that he had been chained in his cabin at night to prevent his escape from a peonage farm in Og lethrope County, Georgia. Te test ified before the audience that he and his wife and his children had all been forced to work on the plan tation during a period of some 25 years and that in that whole period the family earnings for any one had never been more than $10.00. IDEAL FURNITURE MART R. H. Spiegal, Prop. We Buy, Sell & Exchange .\ew and Used We Pay Highest Prices for Merchandise Sell Us Yours WE. 2224 2511-13 N. 24th St. A high point in the testimony be fore the audience was reached when a southern white woman told the story of how the Klan in South Carolina had left a disabled Negro war veteran naked on her front porch at night after he had been beaten by the Klan nearly to death. John P. Davis, national secret ary of the Congress, in a statement to the press following the meeting lashed out vigorously at what he termed the “gross negligence of the Attorney General of the United States in refusing to bring instant federal prosecution in these flag rant cases of violations of the fed eral statutes on peonage and night riding.” The Congress official declared, "The Attorney General of the Uni ted States may not escape the re sponsibility for having failed even to investigate grave charges of violation of federal law brought be fore the Department of Justice by many indiivduals and organizations involved in these cases. In the Georgia peonage cases, despite the sworn affidavits of numerous Ne gro peons who escaped from a Geo rgia plantation to Chicago, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has refused to conduct an inquiry into the facts and has informed the organization presenting the in formation to them that the case is closed. In the South Carolina cas es, the Civil Liberties Unit of the Department of Justice has declar ed that there was in most of the cases no federal jurisdiction and that they could not act. But in oth^r cases where the head of the Civil Liberties Unit, Mr. Harry Schweinhaut, admitted jurisdiction the Department of Justice has re fused even to investigate. In the latter case involving a reign of terror b the KKK. against Negro children at an NY A. camp in Lex ington County, South Carolina, the Department of Justice has refused to act. “We hare brought these witness es to Washington,” said Mr. Davis Need Laxative take All- Vegetable O ne Don’t let impatience lead you into harsh measures for the relief of constipation!. There’s no use, for a little spicy, all-vegetable, BLACK-DRAUGHT, taken by simple directions^ will gently persuade your bowels. Taken at bedtime, it generally al lows time for a good night’s rest. 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However, we are de teremined not to let the witnesses leave Washington until an official of the Department of Justice, who can speak with full authority for the Department and the Attorney General, gives us a hearing.” We Want Dewey For President Because— By his ability and courage and his faculty of surrounding himself with competent assistants, Dewey won nation-wide attention through ! his campaign against rackets and ! political corruption in New York, j Because— | He is America at her best— I clean, strong, courageous, hopeful and able. Because— He belongs to the generation which will have to correct today’s mistakes and solve tomorrow’s problems. Because— His stout heart and fresh cour age will enable him to carry ef fectively the heavy burdens of the nation’s highest office. Because— He is able to state the case against the New Deal in convinc ing terms and to show up the New Deal’s defeatist policies as they affect everybody. Because— He is quick to root out misuse of public funds and public authority. Because— His plurality in 1937 when he was elected district attorney and La Guardia was elected Mayor, was 20 per cent greater than La Guar dia’s thus demonstrating that he can get the support of voters in great cities — voters who usually support Democratic candidates. Because— He received more votes as Ke publican candidate for Governor in 1938 than any Republican Presiden tial candidate ever received in New York State. Because— He, more surely than any other Republican candidate, can carry New York State. Because— He does not trust to luck,—in stead he weighs each factor care fully, reaches his decision, then drives unhesitatingly ahead. Because— He would re-create the Cabinet form of government and by team work with able department heads give the nation a balanced admin istration. Because— He picks good assistants, gives them authority and responsibility and public credit for successful performance of duties. Because— He is an able administrator as shown by the efficient way he runs one of the largest public legal offices in the country with a staff of 85 lawyers and a total office staff of 250 men and women. Because— His experience during the past ten years has given him a clear insight into and a broad knowledge of every important line of human endeavor such as only one man in a million gets in a long life time. Because— ' He comes from a small town in the Middle West where he learned reverence for American institu tions and the American way of life. Because— He is a Republican born and bred; the son of a Republican edi tor, the grandson of George Martin Dewey, Sr., a founder of the Re publican party. Because— He can win the election and in winning enable the Republican party of today to meet its chal lenge as successfully as the Repub lican party of his grandfather’s day helped Lincoln meet the challenge to the American form of govern ment. Thomas E. Dewey says . . . “We in America have made up our minds. If there is one thing upon which we are all agreed, it is that we shall send no American to die on the battlefields of Europe.” * * * “Only a new broom can sweep clean the budgetary litter of the New Deal’.’ • * * “We can and will again have a government which keeps the faith. We will keep faith with the needs of every man on relief. And in a larger sense we will keep the faith so that he may again recover his American birthright— an oppor tunity to earn his livelihood in a proper place among his fellow men.’ * * * “If any business man violates the law, name him, indict him, con vict him, fine him, jail him. But stop bringing the whole of a group i into disrepute and discouragement. Stop punishing the innocent and the guilty alike.” * * * “What we need is to be shown that the climb back up the hard road toward solvency has begun. Show it." * * * “After seven years of harrowing the country the New Deal has not yet scratched the surface of the farm problem.” . . . “In working toward a solution, I believe govern- ] ment must first seek the advice of the farmers rather than the ad vice of cloistered theorists." . . . “Politiculture has triumphed over agriculture." * * * “I say to you that both capital and labor want work, that both ,F - detest idleness. We are going to get exactly nowhere tolling lies and libels about one another.” DEWEY’S FARM PROGRAM HAILED Favorable reaction rising often to the most enthusiastic applause in both agricultural states and in dustrial centers has followed | Thomas E. Dewey’s announcement, of his eight-point farm program j in his address at Lincoln, Neb., in early March. I Measured by editorial expres j sions, Mr. Dewey, leading candi | date for the Republican presiden ' tial nomination, has laid down a series of suggestions on which town and country can at late unite. Along with the attractiveness of the program, many commentators found occasion for praise in the candor with which it was pre sented. “Dewey’s Best Speech,”’ said a Sioux Cty (Iowa) Tribune head line. "Thus speaks a man of ac tion,” declared the Renville Minn., Star Farmer. The latter paper found “works, not theory,” to be Mr. Dewey’s method and asserted that a Dewey Administration with a sympathetic Congress would go far in “repairing the oss due to New Deal bungling,” and putting “agriculture, our nation’s greatest industry, on the road to prosperity, the balance of the nation with it.’ The Rockford (111.) Star headed its comment, “Sense, Not Pana ceas,” while the Topeka (Kans.) Vote for Our Own Judge John W YEAGER —FOR— SUPREME JUDGE 0 JOHN W. YEAGER HOME OWNER MARRIED FINE FAMILY VETERAN, 88 DIV. PoHticaratlvertisenitnf "**"""TPontjciuadvertisenient Official Whisker Song—Sing It Everywhere THE WHISKER SONG By Lester Palmer (Official) Here is the official Whisker Son written by Judge Lester Palmer. Copies of the song are limit ed so clip this song from the paper and save it. Sing and play it everywhere. Journal observed: “There is punch in Mr. Dewey's speeches. His statement snap and crackle. He finds the tender spots and hits hard. That is why the New Deal fears him more than it does any other Republican candidate at this time.” The Johnstown (Pa.) Tri bune thought it evident that Mr. Dewey “understood what he was talking about,” and added: “Thom as E. Dewey grows in political stature as the pre-convention cam paign advances.” Similarity of viewpoint appear ed in the opinions of the Baltimore Sun and the Detroit Free Press. The Sun pointed out that Dewey did not slight the need of business prosperity in a program of farm parity. “In his approach to the farm problem," it continued, “he thus seems aware of one of the New Deal’s gravest errors." The Free Press felt that “Thomas E. Dewey hit the nail on the head, when he said that any plan to get American agriculture back on its feet is bound to fail unless it is a part of a larger program to get the whole national economy back on its feet.” The New York Herald Tribune registered the same point: “The candidate for the Republican Presi dents nomination is putting his finger on the chief weakness of the New Deal ‘farm policy’ when he declares: :‘We cannot have a pros perous agriculture amid a prostrate America.’ ” In Chicago, the Tribune judged that Dewey proved his statement that “politiculture has triumphed over agriculture” under the New Deal. It continued: “Mr. Dewey is proving in his successive speeches that his extraordinary record in the courts is no accident. His talent for analyzing and simplifying com plicated material is of a high or der; his ability to discover the es sential weakness Jn his opponent’s armour, and without tiring his au dience with repitition, to attack the weak point, is astonishing.” The Salt Lake City Tribune felt that the people of Utah “are par tial to doers” and said many ol both parties were inclined to look upon Mr. Dewey as the kind of :i leader they had been seeking. The Anderson (Ind.) Herald saws “words of wisdom” in his asser tion that “government must first seek the advice of farmers rather than ‘cloistered theorists,’ and then act on that advice.” “Dewey is No Quack-Salver,” declared the Wat erbury (Conn.) American, and D“ewey Is Alert,” summarized the Savannah (Ga.) Press. The latter found he “is setting a hot pace” and asserted that “the New Yorker seems to be the best cam paigner of the GOP side of politics at the moment.” “He left a peasant impression in Nebraska,” said the Nebraska State Journal of Lincoln. “He is quick at repartee. His eyes twinkle as he parries impertinent ques tions. He has magnetism and a smile that does not appear to be forced. He is in excellent physical health, and with that has youth. Even those who are supporting other candidates for the Republican nomination were pleased with Dewey. They found no fault.” BRITISH PRESENT RADIO VERSION OF PAUL ROBE SON'S LATEST PICTURE _ 1 London, England, March 28— (ANP)— The popularity of Paul Robeson in the British Isles rose to new heights last week when a radio version of his latest picture "The Proud Valley" was given a highly successful broadcast from Wales. The broadcast from Wales was noteworthy because seldom is a version of a new British film presented over the air. "The Proud Valley" deals with the homes and hearts of a Welsh colliery valley and Robeson plays the part of David Goliath, an un employed Negro stoker. Paul Robeson was not u stranger in this life of colliers and choirs, for he had sung at Mountain Ash, Neath, Swanson, and Cardiff, and on each occasion had felt at home among the Welsh people. After one great concert at Neath he had been presented with a volume of ‘Songs of Wales,’ and in speech of thanks had told the audience that he looked forward to the day when he would be privileged to sing a Welsh folk song in an important | British film. The opportunity has ' come in The Proud Valley, a film in which he sings, among other songs, ‘AH Through the Night’ and the Welsh national anthem. Wales was combed for actors to support Robeson. The players finally selected were drawn from the ranks of South Wales artists, and one of them, Rachel Thomas, has already been hailed by critics as a sensational film discovery. 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