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Periodic Anti
Lynching Debate
On In Coi ] stress
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By Preston Grover
WASHINGTON—Congress nev
■er stages a better show than in
its periodic anti-lynching debat
es.
Half the members are furious
ly serious. Some don't care. Oth
ers accept the business light
heartedly as a political gesture
by which members with northern
negro constituencies, such as in
Chicago and New York, try to
put the bill across. Represent
-ative Gavigan author of this
year’s bill, comes from New
York’s Harlem although he is
white and Irish as he can be.
There isn’t a solitary member
of Congress who honestly thinks
the bill will get through the Sen
ate this year even though it went
through the House by a wide
margin. Southern Senators would
■die in their scats before they
would let it get to a vote. It
would pass for sure of the Sen
ate had a chance to vote on it.
There were only three lynch
ings last year. That proves say
southern members that lynching
is under control and the southern
states need no Federal whiplash
to make them end it. The bill
would permit the Federal govern
ment to jail local officials where
a lynching occurred and make
the county pay up to $10,000 to
relatives of the victim.
Privately some southern mem
bers will tell you that w'hile they
don’t approve of mob operations
there is nothing that quiets the
southern negro populat'ons so
""’much as "a damn good lynch
ing.”
Not so, says Representative
Cieal of Kentucky a southerner
who thinks the bill should pass.
"There is a theory” he says
"that mob violence terrorizes
and thereby has a better effect
than an ordinary electrocution.
Why not adopt a law we had in
Kentucky which provided that in
case of rape the execution should
be by public hanging? In the
case of a public hanging they
came from miles around & when
that public execution took place
it had a more deterrent effect
than 75 or 100 people dragging
a man off in the dark and hang
ing him.”
Once, he says he forestalled a
lynching by p • iving that a little
girl the supposed victim had
lied.
Hotly Representative Cox of
Georgia bounds to his feet:
“The gentleman is casting a
damnable reflection upon the
young womanhood of the south.”
»
‘‘The thing which I regret most
eases in Representative Sum
ners of Texas “is this attempted
new concentration of the great
House of Representatives that
democratic institutions in the
United States have failed and
that it is required that the great
Federal government shall step in
and be given the power to take
the officers of a state from their
business and send them to the
penitentiary because, forsooth,
they have not carried out a con
gressional edict. That is what is
destroying this democracy—a na
tion of people afflicted with Fed
eralitis.”
Northern members argue that
lynchings are a blatant violation
of the 14th amendment design
ed to give equal legal rights to
negroes.
Rees of Kansas wishes the ju
diciary committee had passed on
the constitutionality of the bill
before the House had to vote on
it.
“I say to my friend from Kan
sas” replies Sam Hobbs of Ala
bama “that I do not believe that
he would have paid a bit more
attention to the opinion of the
committee on the judiciary if it
had been adverse to his belief
than the colored man in Union
town, Ala., did to a newly in
stalled traffic light. He stood
parked in his Model T for 15
minutes watching the new con
traption and then went right
through on the red light. He was
arrested and taken before the
Mayor. He said to be Mayor:
“I didnt mean no harm, I nev
er seed one of them things be
fore. I stood there for 15 min
\ utes and seed all the white
folks going through on the
green light so I figured naturally
that the red must be for us nig
gers.”
Pontifically R e p r e s e ntative
Fish of New York gets up.
“As long is there is one single
lynching in the land,” says he "if
this bill fails to pass the Senate
another anti-lynching bill will
be introduced here, because we
proposed to enact a federal law
against lynching until lynching
is wiped out in this country. As
long as life and liberty are pro
tected by guarantee of the con
stitution how can anyone ask for
less?"
A husky communist, Benjamin
Davis of New York, threw the
Senate hearing on anti-lynching
legislation into a turmoil calling
, southern senators “stooges” and
Vice President John Garner an
“evil old labor baiter.”
Senator Frederick Van Nuys,
chairman and cosponsor of the
bill shouted “That’s an insult”
and should be struck from the
record.
Senator Van Nuys told Davis
"you have done more harm to
prevent the passage of this bill
than anyone who has appeared.”
The witness had protested again
st questions about freedom of
speech and the press in Russia.
Earlier, 'John Davis, secretary
of the National negro congress,
testified the Klu Klux Klan re
vival included the recent demon
stration at Aberdeen. Washing
ton.
Drama Club To Present Play
On Good Friday evening March
22. the Federated Drama Club
will present the Easter play “The
Half of My Goods.” The play does
not give the familiar story of the
cross, but tells of the imaginat
ive incident of a family which
was deeply affected by the first
stories of the risen Christ. The
cast of character will be listed
in next week’s issue of this pa
per.
OVERWORKED PROSECUTOR
DIES IN DETROIT
DETROIT, Mach 12 — Special
Prosecutor William Buckingham
of the graft and gambling grand
jury was a victim of what his
physician called “strain from ov
erwork" during months of investi
gation which sprang sensational
charges of official corruption and
died after a stroke.
Buckingham, 42, was the chief
figure gathering evidence in the
case which rocked Waine county
with indictment after indictment.
He collapsed at his Dearborn
home where death came at a mo
merit when the case had reached
another climax the suspension of
Fi ■ editor Duncan McCrea by
Gov. Dickinson and the promise
of a fight over it by McCrea.
MARTIAL LAW
IN Til ENETHERLANDS
THE HAGUE, March 11 —Min
ister of Defense Kijxhoorn an
nounced a royal decree extend
ing martial law to the “greater
part" of the country in answer
ing a question of the upper cham
jber and that the steps the govern
ment is taking is in view of the
dangers of espionage.
EXTENSION OF HATCH
ACT IS DESTRUCTIVE
WASHINGTON. March 12 —
Senator Joseph H. Guffey told
the Senate that the measure to
extend the Hatch anti-polities
law to cover state employees
paid partly from federal funds,
would be the most destructive
piece of legislation for the two
party system ever written into
the statute books.
Leading off in the fifth day of
debate, Guffey said he always be
lieved in the two-party system
but pending legislation will re
strict political activity and make
possible “partisan control’’ by
moneyed interests,
i The bill he said will eliminate
; the two-bit and two-dollar party
contributions and will not pre
vent influential persons not con
| nected with the government to
make large gifts.
FOUND—Top to a Shcaffer Life
Time fountain Pen. Owner
may have same by identifying
and paying for this ad.
RACE DOPE
All is in readiness for the great
dog day classic,
the cheechacco burden race (own
er riding) with two drivers . . the
race to ibe run in relays . . the
man driver to take the team
around the coure the first lap,
and the lady driver to take the
team over the same course . . .
for the finnish lap . . .
the winning time to be the com
bined racing time of both driv
ers . . .
The course is good and fast—
and is laid out on the ice
in the form of a loop,
The start and finish of which
is just south of Federal Square.
The officials of the race are
as follows:
Timekeepers—Haryr Hagen and
David Livingston.
Judges— Stuart Stangroom, Leo
nard Knohlow and Charles D.
Jones.
The Starter . . in the absence of
the Queen, Miss Nome 1939 will
be the official race starter ....
The first team will leave the
starting point at 1:30 pm and
the starting time of the teams
will be three minutes apart. . . .
Rules of the race and of the
course will be read at the time
of drawing for place . . . which
will be at the office of the North
ern Light & Power Co. ... at
2:00 o’clock pm Saturday . . .
The drivers should all be present.
Dog Derby Ticket Holders
—
Following are the names of the
holders of winning tickets in the
Fairganks Dod Derby.
Denis Richardson, Atlin, B. C.,
$110.
B. A. Stromkins, Dawson, Y T,
$675.
Louis Ohman, Chatanika, $110. |
Bobie Esiae, Medfra, Alaska.)
$110.
Sharon Rae Thatcher, Seattle,
$110.
Jack Fletcher, Dawson, $110.
Faye Delzene, Central, Alaska,
$1,375.
Hazel Scanlon, Anchorage, j
$450.
Helen Patton, Chatanika. Alas
ka, $110.
Chas. Levien, Nome, $220.
Mrs. Jack Salais, Dawson $110.
Y. Langow, Central, Alaska,
$110.
$110. each—
Carl A Bergstorm, Juneau.
B A Klessingcr, Fairbanks.
Peter Wallis. Ft. Yukon.
Iris Jones, Fairbanks.
Dan Kelly, Nome.
V A Scordan, Seattle.
J J Gallagher, Berkeley, Cal
ifornia.
H H Mandigo, Fairbanks.
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ARMY TESTS NEW ‘FLYING MOTORCYCLE —This is the new ‘‘flying motorcycle” plane, tested at San Diego
for army officials and given this name because of its skimpy lines and build, and its operation. I he ship can take off in cramped space
at high speed and then hover almost motionless; it comes to a full stop 10 feet after its wheels touch the ground. Officials pointed
. out that its value would increase in war times, when space for taking off and landing would be greatly restricted. _ _J
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Trapper and Sled Dog Pull
Ailing Man Fifty Miles
To Hospital at Wrangell
WRANGELL, March 12 —With
his paralyzed partner safe in a
hospital, a weary Athabascan
trapper told how he had alter
nated with his lone dog in pull
ing an ambulance sled over a tor
tuous 50-miles route with ailing
trapper Mike Williams, 42, of
Telegraph Creek.
His grizzled companian, Henry
Gleason shared a hero’s role with
his dog. Williams was stricken
more than two weeks ago with a
malady which paralyzed one arm
and his body from the waist
down. Physicians attributed his
ailment to the men’s all-meat
diet at their isloated camp.
The trip was made over frozen
snow and glare ice and Gleason
made camp only twice. He was
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held up for 10 days during a rag
ing storm at the mouth of the Sti
kine river before making the fin
al leg of the trip in a borrowed
skiff.
The condition of Williams is se
rious and Dr. Bruce Milligan was
unable to say whether complete
recovery may be in six weeks or
six months. However his strong
physique may pull him through.
Gleason is remaining here to
“see how Mike comes out.”
NOTICE
Registration now open for com
bined Cheechacco Dog Race. En
tries apply at office of Northern
L & P Co., Thos O Givan. Draw
ing for place Saturday noon.
Arctic Club
Save $2 by paying in advance
or your subscription.
Clyde (Tex) Cockburn
For Representative
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Democratic Ticket
“Devoted to the best In
terest of the 2nd Division
and Alaska as a whole.” i
Primary Election
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Elizabeth M. Cross
FOR REPRESENTATIVE
On The Democratic Ticket
Quarter Century In Alaska
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Primary Election April 30, 1940
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