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iiXCANTACT IN RECENT LYNCHIN6S
Qov’t. Powerless
ToIntefereSays
Att’y. General '
Special To TH* Tint®*
NEW YORK, Jufy 22 T e
federal jriivprnment is powerless,
tw-i> recent lynehitifr* ift Gfoigia
under the law to act in the
and United States
Atlomey Gonersl Homer Cum
mings said' Thursday.
T^biffl^ngrs madt the state
ment in ■ a telegram dated July
13 which he sent to Senator
Robert F. Wagner at Albany,
New York, where the latter is
attending the New York ^tat«
Constitution convention.
The attorney grfeiierar# tele-
gT^jn, a reply t® o^e sent him
by Wapner July 12,'asking the
U. ,S- department of ^Justice for
an immediate *igvestigBt^on of
the Rolling Fork, Miss, and
Arabi, Ga. lynchings on July 6
and 9 respeefively follows:
In absence o£ any federal
statute dealing with lynchings
Department of Justice is power
less, under the law, to take any
action,,,with reference to the de
plorable crimes ta whifi y|ou
refer in your telegp'am of today.
Of!icials of the NAACP here
interpreted the attorney gener
al telegram as showing con
clusively the necessity of a
federal statute dealing with
lynchings, since the U. S. Jus
tice Department cTnef admitted
that n«( action can fie taken by
the government in cases involv
ing lynchings without the au-
thority of a federal anti-lyncfcinf
bill.'
Senator Wagner, co-aulor of
the Wagner-Van Nuys anti lynch
iig bill, which waa filibuatered
death in the last aeswon of Con-
gresi, said in hi« telegram to
Attorney general;
News reports in recent days
carry the tragic story of two
lynohings rapjA auoceaaion
at Rolling Fork, Missiuippi,
and Arabi, Georgia. With all the
earnestness at my command 1
respectfully urge immediate
investigation of- these lynching*
by the Department of Justice,
to ascertain violation* of the
Fourteenth Amendment. Prompt
action in thfs respect will tend
to forestall a new wage of lynch
ing during the adjournment of
Congress.
In a statement issued t° the
press at the same time he sent
his telegram tlo Gumming*,
Senator Wagner said, The anti-
lynching bill will be re-introduc-
ed (in the next session of
Congress, and I am confident
it will be ^tiacted into law.
Victims of the twot lynchings,
which marked the firsi such
crimes in IflSS were Tom
Green, 48 year old blacksmith
of Rolling Fork, Miss, who was
shot down by a molb after he
had killed his white plantation
boss in an argument over wag
es; and John Dukes, 60, whom
an Arabi, Ga. mob burned to
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NEW YORK, July 21it—Be
cause greatnesi in maa is a
quality that does not know tha
fi'dlandariea of race or cr«ed...
the wboJS nation mourns the
tragic death of James Weldon
Jotinson, Mayor Fiorello H. La-
Guardia said here Thursday in
speecjh broadcast over WYNC
New “^York's municipal radio
station. ■ ^
The mayor waa* tk« chief
•fteaker in what he described as
the city's official memorial tri
bute to one. of its distinguished
citizens, a*poet, itbvelist,
mat and former secretary of
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored Peo
ple.
Praising Mr- Johnson as a
leaders in the Negroes second
emancipation lihe mayor added:
As executire secretary of, the
NAACP he was in the forefront
of the battle for the Negro in
every part of the United States.
His work will forever stand as a
true sym'bol of man's figtit
i^in^t pr^udice, and for the
eternal values of truth, justice
and equity. , ,
“UMOIR.THI IAMSOQ.TRII*
By Jamai Wajd^ Jehnton, J. RoMmend Johnson ^and Bob Cola
BIRTH OF A SONG
From ASCAP Filo^i • »
3y Jotoph R. FR»sl«r»n«t P^Carruth
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'fHE roeanf Irogie d*«lh ol Jomoi WoMoni
I Joimtofi MpoNrtod broriiors, who IkkI,'
baon eompoilii9 tonai lor two ftMrorioni.
Tho oMor wot, botkfoi, on ovHtandhg
luror ond taodar of hl» roe*.
Thay wtrt bom in ,Jacktonvilla, Florida,
•dueotad in Atlanta Umvarsily, Atlanta, Go.
J. Roiomond want to Boston to itudy muik,
Jam«| Waldon bacom# principal of tna Ston^
Ion School in JacktonviM.
Tha tummar qf 1199, rttay loft (or Naw
YoHt City to intaras^roducan in tomo ton^t
lhay hod written. Tnay war* tokan up by
many catabriliai, including tha famout vouda*
i villa parformar, Bob Cola.
Hiay toofl formad a
and craotad many lOflQt
lha rounds tofjathar.
partnarthip with Mm
and
. sOV> O**"' Ot*T Uof
U*« tl>yp _
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death ta avenge the fatal ahpot-
ing of a white town constable,
who sought to ai-rest Dukes on
a charge of drunkeness.
In connection with two
lynchings in Mississippi a n d |
Ge«rgia within a perod of 721
hours, the NAACP has written
Governors E. D. Rivers of Ga.
and Hugh White of Miss.J; re
minding them of their telegrams
sent last January t/ Senator
Kenneth McKellarJ of Tenn.,
pledging to do everything in
their pow«r to wipe out the
criftie of lynching.
SenatK>.r M^KeJhar' jwlicited
the telegrams from southern
senators in their fight against
the federal anti lyncl;iinjr bill
then before the Seijate. llie
NAACP has also written Sena-
i tor McKellar pointing. out that
although the go,vernors promised
to act against lynching, nothing
has been done thus far by
them. This is but one more
in the long list of instances,
wfote th^ as£ioqia^on, wiiere
the, st&%es, through their high
est as well as lowest officers,
have refused y^to act against
Walking up lowar Broadway, J. Roiomond Thay wrota riia ton^,^but tha publishar
hummed a nam ipirituri, and B^ Cola was didn't fika it, and kapt it in a drawar until
quick to Ml it had popular pottibilitfat. Maria Cahill sang it to tuccaas. • «.
Tha Johnsons ond Cola wara
lha songwriring sansoHons of tha
world in tha first dacada of tha
canhjry.
Whan tho American Society of Composart, Authors
and Publishers was formad in 1914 ihiA brothers war*
e' 'a to protact their copyrighted songt against infring»v
mant by commercial users of music. .
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NEW YORK, Floyd J. Calvin,
editor of Calvins Newspaper
Servic6, was 36 years old on
Wednesday, July 13. Hr. Calvin
took time out to check up on
his third annual forecast of
events made last January 1,
and found that i^ the first six
months of the year he had
scored five direct hits out of
the ten forecastmade. The five
events whieh came true ars:
Joe Louis kept the heavyweight
championship; Hollywood is em
ploying more colored talent (see
The Brat now playing. New York
has won jobs in the public utili
ties interviewers and meter read
ers with Con5ol;dated Edison
company, Rtchar*d Wfjghit au-.
thor Uncle Tom's Children,
is the new literary sensation,
and Philip Jones was recently
appointed Assisltai|t: Allborney
General of New York, confirm
ing Point 10: Expect more high
Negro Federal and State ap
pointments.
Charles Houston Leaves
NAACP hew York Office
lynching; and this inaction but
ftdds to the already overwhelm
ing proof that 6nly federal ac
tion has any chance of check
ing mob violence. «
Sttaff Correspondent
“new YORK, July 22nd—
Charles H. Houston, whoi has
been special counsel of the Na
tional Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People
since July 1, 193'5, today ended
work in the New York office to
resume private law practice in
Washington, D; C., with his
his father, William L. Houston,
in the firm of Houstoji 'and
Houston.
At one time the law firm
consisted of William L. Hous
ton, Charles H. Houston and
^William H. Hastfe, but Cbaj^es
H‘. came t,Q New York to wgrk
with the NAACP, Mr. Hastie
was named federal judge in the
Virgin Islands, and 'William L.
was appointed special assistant
to thf atl^rney general of the
U. S., Jf#^g the office without
During Mb work with the
NAACP, Mr. Houston has had
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, supervision over all legal work, *
9‘ I
with special emphasis upon the
campaign in the courts against.
inequalities in public education, j
Tha financial grant to the
NAACP to carry on this work
was not renewed this year, and
although some groups are mak
ing ap.^iaji^ ck'tntr^bUltiona ao
th«l the work will not cease
entirely, the amount is not
sufficient to maintain tihe legal
iictivity on the same scale as
in the past three years. ,
Mr. Houston will retain his
title of special counsel and will
continue to avise the NAACP j
on legal matters, as well as act
as a liason officer between the
JJew York office and national
affairs in Washington. Thur-
good Marshall, who, has V^orked
with Mr. Houston on NAACPj
cases, will have charge of legral
affairs in the New York office. ^
Ih commenting on Mr. Hous- 1
ton's work, Walter Whjte, NA'
ACP secretary said: |
Mr. Houston be%an his, work
with the NAACP long before'
he joined the staff in New York. '
He gave us invaluable counsel
ariff Isslstance, wfthour re-^
muneration. Since joining the
staff, he has laid before the'
gpuntry and the courts in brill-}
ia^t fashioh w the inequolities |
POPE BLESSES CATHOLIC
INTERRACIAL MOVEMENT
Yt)RK, _His I Holiness
Pope Piua XI, in a private audi
ence granted to the Rev.- John
LaFarge,' S. J., Chaplain of the
Catholic |]fiteeracial Council re-
centljf, expressed his keen in
terest in the Catholic Tn’^rra-
cial Ptograq^ in the United
States and his approval of the
work of ^ those who are colla
ting in it, the Interracial Re
view, organ j,of the Council,
made public on Saturday.
While in Rome, F\ither La
Farge, who is also author 61
Intesracial Justice at t^e request
of the students of the Institute
Massimo,“Celebrated Mass for
their brethren, the colored Ca
tholics of the United States and
for th)/^ who are working for
the colored Catholics.
suflfered^by the Negro and hap
sought uncompromisingly for
redress. We regret greatly
that' circumstances dictate his
return io Washington, but we
will not be whoUjr deprived of
his services, for will stilt
available for consultation and
aid, with some .field wbrfe in
neanby .territory, as his time
will permit.
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the National Association for
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PREACHERS IN SOUTH A.
NEW YORK, (Sptecial Rev.
J. Roosevelt Coan, former pro
fessor of theology of •* Morris
Brown, Atlanta, Ga. and holder
of the M. A. degree from Yale
university sailed on Wednesjday
for Cape Town, South Africa,
from where he will proceed in
land toWilfcerfioi^ce In0itute,
the A. M .E. school at Evaton,
near Johannesburg, to becoma
dean of the School of Theolon^.
Tile Institute is under t h
principalship of Prof. Amos J.
White, Harvard graduate and
former Wilb«rfore ulnix^rsity
instructor, who sailed last June
’a year ago at the request of
Bishop R. R. Wright, Jr., who
supervises the AME work in
South Africa. Bishop Wrigfrt
was notified by Rev. Coan early
in May that he would go to. the
African work.^
In seeking to build up WiJ-
berforce Institute in South
Africa, Oishop Wright says that
the big cost of sending African
students to America for educa
tion has made that plan impracti
cal. It costs about f 1,100 for
rone student to comeTIT" r~r^SuZr
African tb* America and spe^
a year in study, while that sum
■3^11 educate^ • ten students in
Siuth Africa, a
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