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BARKLEY ASKED TO SET DATE ON TAKING UP LYNCHING BILL Washington, D. C.—Now that the Sehate judiciary committee has reported the anti-lynching bill fa vorably. Senator Alben W. Bark ley of Kentucky, majority leader, is being asked to set a date when the bill will come up in the Sen ate for debate and action. Supporters of the bill were urg ed by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo ple to take the following steps: (1) Write Senator Alben W. Barkley, Senate Office Building, Washington, D. C., urging him to set a date when the anti-lynching bill will be considered. (2) Write to senators from their states urging them to work to bring the anti-lynching bill to a vote and to vote for it; also urge them to vote for cloture (limita- i tion of debate) if a filibuster should develop against the bill. (3) Get as many individuals and organizations as possible to write senators urging that the anti lynching bill be passed. Form let ters, form telegrams, and printed post cards are not very effective. Letters should be individually writ ten to have the most weight. The NAACP also has issued an appeal for funds to help carry on the fight, pointing out that the bill now has the best chance of of passing in the long history of the fight for this type of legisla tion. Before leaving for Washington Thursday, March 28, to organize the political forces working for passage of the Bill, Walter White, executive secretary of the NAACP termed a recent column written by Mark Sullivan, New York Herald Tribune columnist, the “last stand of a confirmed reactionery, a stand based on the deliberate distortion of facts, and calculated to do JOHN C. BARRETT FOR District Judge He was born in Omaha and is a man of fine character and abil ity. He stands for a square deal to all regardless of race, color or creed. POLm5A?A^ERT!sEMEi5T IDEAL FURNITURE MART R. H. Spiegal, Prop. We Buy, Sell & Exchange Jlew and Used We Pay Highest Prices fur Merchandise Sell Us Yog>i WE. 2224 2511-13 Jff. 24th St. —REPUBLICANS— Remember A Friend— Walter A. NIELSEN FOR Public Defender The Colored People Need An Agggressive lawyer and A Friend in L'.'ip Office. POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT considerable harm to democratic goodwill, because of the author’s pron. inence.” Suilivan had said in his column, dated March 28, that lynching has been diminishing for the past seventy years and declared the an ti-lynching fight was being pursu ed without sincerity by both major parties in order to snare the Negro vote. Senator Tom Connally, of Texas, who led the filibuster against the bill in the special session of Con gress in 1937 and in the regular session in 1938, announced that passage of the bill would be “re sisted to the utmost." The vote of the judiciary com mittee was 12 to 4 with the follow ing members voting favorably: Committee Chairman Henry F. Ashurst, (D) of Arizona; M. M. Neely, (D) of West Virginia; Pat McCarran, (D) of Nevada; Van Nuys, (D) Ind.; Carl A. Hatch, (D) of New Mexico; Edward R. Burke, (D) of Nebraska; Joseph C. O’Mahoney, (D) of Wyoming; James H. Hughes, (D) of Dela ware; George W. Norris, (Ind.) of Nebraska; Warren R. Austin (R) of Vermont; Elexander Wiley, (R) of Wisconsin, and Robert A. Taft (R) of Ohio. Senator Taft is a candidate for President. Voting against the measure were: Key Pittman (D) of Neve da; John E. Fuller, (D) of Arkan sas; Connally, and A. B. Chandler, (D) of Kentucky. Senators Taft and Pittman were absent when the ballot was taken but they had their votes recorded. PLANS SECRET CODE CLUBS AMONG YOUTH TO FIGHT CRIME -1 Greenville, Tex., April (by Geo. L. Crockett for ANP)—A national drive to get boys and young men to join an organization called the “Secret Code Club” was to get un der way this week by Morris O. Turner, founder and president of the local chapter. Purpose of the club is to curb crime among Negro youth. Mr. Turner said his goal was or ganization of a Secret Code Club in every city in the United States with Greenville as headquarters. He proposes meetjngs twice weekly with talks on crime prevention and refreshments to make colored youth forget about law breaking. Further information may be ob tained by writing to Secret Code club headquarters at 3018 Johnson Street, Greenville, Texas. NINE KILLED IN BUILDING CRASH Santa, Rosa, Calif., April 4 — (ANP)—The bodies of seven men ind two women, mostly Indians ind Negroes, were recovered from he debris of a floor that collopsed nto the basement of the Petaluma ind Santa Railroad warehouse lere Tuesday. Most of the victims were itinerant workers who sought shelter from a rainstorm in the oasement of the building a few minutes before the floor above them, weighed by 350 tons of prunes, collapsed and crushed them to death. 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He later departed for the east. ithibune Hboio.i / (Story on pago 1.) CHICAGO HEARS DEWEY J — CHICAGO, April 4 (ANP)— A good sized number of colored peo ple were sprinkled through the large crowd of Dewey enthusiasts which thronged the Union station here as Thomas E. Dewey and his staff, swept up from SI. Louis, Thursday. Mrs. Eunice Carter, assistant to Mr. Dewey, and an im portant member of his staff in the district attorney’s office in New York City, was among the dozen people who were hustled through the crowd by a flying squadron of policemen as the delegation left the train and headed for an infor mal reception at the Palmer House. Among those seen at the station were former Senator Wm. E. King, committeeman of the Second ward; former Congressman Oscar De Priest, committeeman of the Third Ward; Mrs. Cornelia Pickett, state committee member; Jacob Tipper, editor of The Chicago World; Stan ton Dewiest, Roscoe Conkling Sim mons, N. D. Brascher of National Committeeman’s Blackett’s office and numerous personages import ant in local political affairs. “This has been a grand trip and we are very much pleased with the reception given Mr. Dewey every where,” said Mrs. Carter. “As we made two minute stops at Alton, Springfield, Lincoln, Bloomington, Pontiac and Joliet, each of which places Mr. Dewey greeted the crowds in brief addresses, there were thousands of people at the stations in spite of the rain and in clement weather and everywhere colored people were to be seen in th crowds.” In Chicago whn Mr. Dewey lash ed out at the New Deal in his speech at night time half a score of colored people graced the plat form. At the Palmer House con ferences and wherver he went col ored people were on hand either to confer with his staff, to shake his hand, or merely to look upon thej widely publicized gang buster who ( is occupying so important a place in the public eye. Mr. Dewey went to Milwaukee j i the same night he spoke but Mrs. Carter remained behind to arrange I a conference with Negro leaders upon his return Sunday. FIGHT FOR VOTE TOLD I N EQUALITY MAGAZINE ARTICLE New York—The quiet courage and determination with which Ne groes in various southern commun ities are insisting on their right to register and vote “will be mem orable in the annals of democratic America," a lead article declares in the April issue of Equality Mag azine. The article, entitled "Catholics, Jews, Negroes, Labor . . . the Klan Hates Them All,” gives detailed accounts of the hard-fought cam paigns in Greenville, South Caro lina; Miami, Florida, as well as the story of Klan raids on the Negro NYA camp in Lexington County, S. C. The article is pre pared by Harold Coy, managing editor of the magazine, which is1 an independent non-sectarian jour nal published at 512 Fifth Avenue, New York City. WHITE WOMEN HAVE PRI VATE ROOM. COLORED WOMEN USE PUBLIC BENCH AT ARMY HOSPITAL IN FORT RILEY Junction City, Kan., April 4 — (ANP)—At the army hospital lo cated at Fort Riley near here, where the 9th cavalry and several white units are posted, wives of white enlisted men have a special private waiting room while the wives of colored soldiers must wait on a public bench used by civilian Vote for Our Own Judge John W, YEAGER —FOR— SUPREME JUDGE [El JOHN W. YEAGER HOME OWNER MARRIED FINE FAMILY VETERAN, 88 I»IV. I Political advertisement^^"™ political"advertisement men working for the government, it was learned here last week. Should a colored woman go to he white women’s waiting room. « I lurse will order her outside to the / bench. There are also separate rest rooms for women, with large signs designating them “white" and “colored”. NEGROES FORCE APOLOGY FOR “DARKY” AT STATE GOP. MEET COLUMBIA, S. C., April 6 (AN P)—Threatening to have all Ne gro delegates present at the State Republican convention here last week, walk out, R. A. Brooks of Aiken, obtained an apology for use of the term, “darky" by a white speaker at the session. The issue was not raised until shortly before adjournment. The Brooks arose from one side of the hall and walked toward the front. He spoke of his services as a dele gate and his desire to treat all fair ly. “We feci we have been insulted here and we want an apology. We feel we were insultd when we were called “darkies”, he stated. A few minutes before, M. O. Dunning, white, former collector of the port of Savannah, now with law offices in Washington, had made a short speech in which he told several humorous stories in which he referred to “darkies” on his father’s place. Dunning stood up and said, “You Free Delivery from 8 a. m. to 1 a. m. JA. 9411 McGILL’S — BAR & BLUE ROOM E. 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GUTTERY Democratic Candidate for Governor Advocates a lower real estate tax as a help to Nebraska farm own ers, during this period of low prices for farm products. Also op poses any form of direct sales tax. To replace the revenue lost by a reduced property tax, advocates licensing of the saloon (permitted to sell both beer and hard liquor), with a license fee of $750 annually. Of this amount would credit $500 to the schools of the county in which the saloon is located, and the remaining $250 to the old age assistance fund. -EXPERIENCE Teacher — Farmer — Huainema Man PoTit!caTi^f3vert?sementT,<"M,M"i,,<^^^^^^^^^ This Crisis Demands Someone Who is... 1. An inspiring LEADER with unlimited COURAGE 2. A man whose chief AIM is RESTORING JOBS TO THE UNEMPLOYED 3. A man of unquestionable HONESTY and CHARACTER 4. A man who has PROVED his ABILITY to get things DONE—RIGHT 5. A man who is FREE from political EN TANGLEMENTS and so can make the RIGHT DECISIONS 6. A man who is DETERMINED to KEEP us OUT OF WAR 7. A RECORD BREAKER in EVERY JOB he has done 8. A man who can GET VOTES ■ If You Want THIS Type of Man You Will Vote for... Thomas E. Dewey