Big Utilities' Funds Created Willkie, the "Political Amateur"

Arundel, Martin

Big Utilities' Funds Created ^ ^ Willkie, the "Political Amateur" ENDELL L. WILLKIE, most voluble of mouthpieces for-ths public utilities and current GOP aspirant to the White House, is one of the...

...They were treated most shamefully...
...The democratic peoples of Eng­land and France are deserving of a better fate than to be crushed under the heels of a bnrttl megalomaniac...
...experience whatever in foreign affairs...
...Fritz Feld...
...All firearms in s race courses, golf links, If Rauschning is right these gunsmiths' shops have been aches and the like are bedefenses will have been wasted...
...The other infantry regiment, the Twenty-fourth, is stationed at the Infantry School at rfort Benning,, Ga., where it is reported-to'be doing noncombatant chores...
...Richard H. Waldo, president of the McClure Newspaper Syndicate and pub­lisher of many of the dirty cracks about "that man in the White House," has been booming Willkie stock since the summer of 1987...
...The pay, provisions for additional compensation, allowances, such as for rations and clothing, and.- retirement privileges are identical...
...7. The chief speaker will be Gov­ernor Joseph B. Poindexter, of Hawaii, who will come to New York from Honolulu for the occa­sion, accompanied by a large group of officials and prominent business men of the islands...
...His boast that he bested that "man "in the White House" in getting The Fifteenth New York (369th), inci­$78,600,000 for the Tennessee Power and LightJComp'any, ' dentally, spent longer than any American a C.'4k S. operating subsidiary, from the TVJA...
...j for over a decade and was finally shunted to command of the 369th Infantry (Negro), pRIENDS claim with justification that Wi|kie is vio-New York National Guard, an unprece...
...undr ROXY » the direction Children 1 C* of Erno nfcpnv Always ID* rth ave...
...One would think the Negroes had been traitors to the country...
...Note the as­umption in his first - paragraph that it .ould be impossible to have an efficient rmy without jim-crow- nnits* and his as­ertion that this undemocratic...
...Huge Defense Cast ITERE'S something of record that happened during the * * Akron phase of Willkie's career...
...No one doubts that Morgan the rule...
...And the audi-, ence was as enthusiastic...
...With "Torrid Zone" No picture since Gone With the all these RKO theatres will offer Wind," it is said, has produced Baby Sandy in "Sandy Is a such unanimous audience praise, Lady," a first-run picture...
...During .the Thomas trial Wendell Willkie was conveniently touring Europe...
...The Virginia Bruce, is based on a play program for Tuesday will feature by Frank J. Collins and it was three Russian composers, opening adapted for - the screen by Wal­with the first Stadium perform­ter DeLeon and Earl Baldwin...
...or write to "SANDY IS A LADY" aarc Fein mam...
...Humiliation, And make no mistake—'Willkie has the hacking, both frustration and discrimination have been financial and journalistic...
...He has a smacking of culture, hobnobs with perhaps for fear they would distinguish Dorothy Thompson's set of "intellectuals," wiptes his own themselves...
...Hfe is always troops...
...rodin's Seeond Symphony...
...The Army, Navy and Marines are con­ducting an intensive recruiting drive for enlistments...
...None of the three Ne­attributed to him by a Hearst editorial writer...
...The two lay-airy regiments, the Ninth and the Tefcth, are broken up into detachments at various army service schools and the military acad­emy where thev take care of the horses of officers and cadets...
...These are dubbed to possible moved eliminate a tary guard...
...These organiza­tions heTped" "pacify' the' West, shed their blood in Cuba and helped put down the Filipino "insurrection...
...In the field of economics, the first great casualty of the sec­ end World War must be the financial system...
...THE UJS...
...They played an important part in the subjugation of the Philippines...
...HERE'S World's Faijr's White Way, it is great flag rises over a pepper­ colorful pageant mint Capitol...
...We must prepare to fight with the same effective tools the po­ tential enemy uses...
...fa A NTICIPATING that a vie­ * " torious Germany wiD tBi to the Americas after cleaning sr in Europe, and that the first feet of attack would be eeosav • character in South America ter­ritory, the United States |iw* ment is preparing to set sp » two-billion dollar Inter-Anwicm Export Corporation to control the export and import trade of laa America...
...Tom Brown's School Days," •f the Nightingale...
...wire cutters or adequate preparation...
...V Mwieewd Lyrics*, . „ / Appearing in it is a stage com­pany of two hundred and fifty IRVING BERLIN artists including the Rockettes, Book by MORRIE RYSKIND the Corps de Ballet, Vocal En­IMPFRIAI W...
...It created quite a stir among "thinking Republicans" and "Democrats opposed to New Deal dictatorship...
...White youths can enlist in one branch and transfer to another...
...Kostajanetz, consist of the . "Freischutz" Overture, "After­noon of a Faun" by Debussy, and Stravinsky's "Fire Bird" Suite...
...Negroes, regardless of physical and men­tal fitness, are barred from all service in the United States navy except in the mess department...
...presentation beginning today at For construction of 130 new the Roxy Theatre...
...Music by Arthur ple scope for his staging...
...The Chamberlains, Hows and Simons are merely the British counterparts of the $onneu, Lavals and Daladiers...
...Willkie, early in his career, tried many accident eases in Summitt County (Akron) and he lost few...
...The P. & 0. subsidized politicians of both parties, from police court prosecutors . Both his mother and father had social , , to county Common Pieas judges, with entirecity admin-, consciences, admired Gene Debs, defended Indiana strikers, : and both were reputed by the townspeople to possess "strange ideas" for lawyers...
...neverrudeness...
...This,was the gist...
...A Civil War dance stem, 2nd...
...France went .under because her leaders, as exemplified by the Bonnets, L aval 8, Fl and ins and Daladiers, •wed: their first allegiance not to the Republic bat to the Bank of France...
...A SIDE from a few Negro soldiers in the *** quartermaster corps, colored men are entirely barred from our military service...
...Rough Riders troop...
...The purely orchestral numbers, under Mr...
...The American people can afford the cost of an adequate defense program—even if it runs to over one hundred billion dollars...
...and Eighth Illinois regiments were bri­ gaded were high in their praise of fhe Willkie's recent fame rests on his infamous rear­bravery and exemplary conduct of these guard attack on the Tennessee Valley Authority- and the Negro troops...
...The latest issue of "Crisis," the magazine of the National Association fox : the . - Advancement of Colored People, reports that two cases sion in time of war without major changes in the basic peace-time organi­zation...
...saw him kissing babies, shaking hands with dirt farmers, pow-wowing with'small-town politicos, eating home-made pie at box-lunch "picnics...
...JULY 1 "TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL LILY PONS DAYS" AT THE MUSIC HALL Miss Pan* will sine "Message of Love" from "Mireille": "Echo Son...
...Ev*.S:3( ImTbltlAJL, (Air-Conditioned) semble, Symphony Orchestra and Matinee...
...It is this sort of petty vasion and ducking of toe fundamental is­ues that destroy free government...
...March of Time on "U...
...M-G-M Hit Starring MARGARET SULLAVAN • JAMES STEWART ROBERT YOUNG • FRANK YOUNG Two Big Features THEATRE JAMES CAGNEY PARTIES FAT O'BRIEN ANN SHERIDAN Party thetie organiurl—a"TORRID ZONE" eaeetoi when pis—tag i ­parties to 4c so OrtmAM — PLUS — Theatrical Department* erf BABY SANDY SEW LEADER...
...In New York City they were told to write to the commanding officer of the Jim Grow unit at West Point to determine if there were any vacancies...
...It all starts in a class room, Brady, and much ado...
...N. Y. WORLD'S FAIR TO CELEBRATE "HAWAII" DAT' AUGUST 7th Harvey D. Gibson, chairman of the board of the New York' World's Fair, has announced the appointment of Charles E. Roch­ester, vice president' and manag­ing director of the Hotel Lexing­ton, New York, as master of cer­emonies for the celebration of "Hawaii Day" at the Fair on Wednesday, Aug...
...Willkie joined Bernard...
...Thomas denounced Engle on the floor of the Youngs­town City Council, and Engle went to the governor with vhis story...
...Ray Thomas, then Mahoning County prosecutor and the leader of the company-backed "back-to-work move­ment" in the 1937 Little Steel strike, was indicted for misfeasance and malfeasance in office...
...But during,the trial of Thomas it came out that two Mahoning County Common Pleas judges—David Jenkins of application" in the air service have been tentatively accepted in the air service...
...The Germans did not vote themselves fourhiBios billion money units for defense...
...fiation and a»­^**J^^Ee^ prcssiou ^^"^ France...
...of the Islands, his orchestra and male singers and hula dancers by "the Five Aloha Maids in native "TORRID ZONE" HEADS ti-leaf costumes, from the Ha­waiian Room of the Hotel Lex­ FILM PROGRAM AT ington, N. Y. THE RKO TREATRES James Cagney, Ann Sheridan and Pat O'Brien are the triple-"THE MORTAL STORM" threat star trio heading the cast HOLDS AT THE CAPITOL of "Torrid Zone" opening to­ , Margaret Sullavan and James morrow at RKO's Manhattan, Stewart in "The Mortal Storm" Bronx and Westchester neighbor­will remain a second week, start­hood houses and at the Palace en ing today at the Capitol Theatre...
...For example: a Nasi JP****Jf will undersell an Americas *•**• ware dealer in the South As*" ican market by offering til* B man goods at a price the As* ican dealer cannot meet If"* results in a loss to the business man, the Geerms* a**" ernment makes it up to M»-* United States seems del***" to resist greater economic • » sion by Germany in Lsti* ica, for we know that "sew*** penetration" is followed »lj political and propaganda *c*™ which aims to undermine Aa*j ican influence in the conB"** south of the Rio Grand...
...Public Utility Holding Company Act...
...is estimated that about a hundred years ago a large minority of United States sail­ors were colored, and they performed all kinds of duties...
...application of labor to materials...
...dispose, of the hard fact that Ne-roes are barred from almost all army ser­ istrations thrown in for good measure...
...Says Woodring, in part: "In time of peace the army must be so organized as to secure a balanced force, containing, in the proper propor­ tions, elements of all arms and services, and capable of rapid and orderly expan­ W HILE the Federal government ran­sacks the lists of the Social Security Board, the National Association of Credit Agencies, Board of Registry voting lists, and scores of other media, to secure a cross-index of male America, George Schuyler raises the pertinent problem of Negro discrimination is the Array...
...The New York Times editorially recognized Willkie's "good sense...
...People, who a few weeks earlier had never heard of Wendell Willkie, began to talk about him...
...Army's Jim Crowism Spikes Effective Democratic Defense By GEORGE S. SCHUYLER I T IS well known that both Hitler, infl •* Mussolini have barred their Jewish na­tionals from service in the armed forces of Germany and Italy, even ousting high offi­cers of so-called Jewish descent...
...Wood­ing admits that Negroes are herded into im-crow units like pariahs...
...mother and father of Baby Sandy...
...Germany hat ceeded in carrying on CSS* * able trade with Balkan sad <ft* nations by an ingenious.*^||" of bartering goods...
...Smallens for the Fourth of July program...
...We have the men, money and machinery to create the mightiest war ma­chine the world has ever known...
...which has resulted in attendance Designed for laughing purposes, increasing every day since it "Sandy Is a Lady" embraces in opened last week...
...with not a spill despite the rain-Way down at the far end of the Then the .great stage fills with slippery flooring...
...They noW include units o'f toe1 infantry, cavalry, quartermaster corps and medical corps, which meet our peace-time require­ments, and provide the necessary nu­cleus for war-time expansion...
...Negro soldiers as cowards and rapists, all Weadock & Willkie took over the legal wor involved Without the slightest justification...
...defense has been prepared but the censor would clip it out if this correspondent attempted any AN ADCIiT GAMP IN further description...
...In Point graduate, is military instructor at that field he probably intends to rely on the "|orse sense" Tuskegee Institute...
...The beloved book, published in a o. DesnvA tttsBtn 1857 and today on the New York WILLIAM VERA { VICTOR Public Library's list of ten lead­ GAXTON • ZORINA• MOORE ing volumes most frequently bor­rowed, has been produced for the screen by Gene Towne and' Graham Baker of "The Play's the Thing Productions...
...which resulted in the scrapping of more than half a million tons "SAILOR'S LADY-of U. S. warships, including un­ OPENS AT THE ROir finished cruisers and dread­"Sailor's Lady," co-starring naughts that had already cost Nancy Kelly and Jon Hall, is the American taxpayers hundreds of new 20th Century-Fox screen millions of dollars...
...But it wasn't the forty-hour week in France that weakened the country...
...VUR survival depends upon the thorough, immediate and comprehensive disciplining and organizing of every single unit of human and industrial energy...
...series, brings to the screen of sThe film shows the enlistment the Embassy Newsreel theatre, and training of young bluejackets Broadway and 46th St., the story today, the operation of Naval of a vitally important part of the RO.T.C...
...THE story goes that the "Willkie boom" began last December, when General "Iron Pants'' .Hugh Johcson told a Wail Street bond salesmen's luncheon that Wtlkie was "presidential timber...
...It is all the A c remarkable because Willkie loudly proclaims that he leKn "amateur" in politics...
...The judges were censured . . . County...
...A fuller system of military 'ng of zigzag trencheV^ first to turn Hitler back...
...See and Hear RAYMOND GRAM SWING in His Analysis of "WAR IN EUROPE" Plus—42 Worldwide News Events and Selected Shorti IT A/%D ACC V NEWSREEL THEATRE CiTlO/\vJ»J I B'way and 46th Street 1/10 R 1 %\ "Orchids to Mortal Storm" —Walter Winohell 2nd Thrilling Week...
...gro officers in the United States army dur­A spinner of homey yarns, Willkie is a likable man...
...Broadway...
...He claimed to have a written promise from the law firm of Nesbitt, Mather & Willkie that the utility would pay him that sum...
...the a/tpj...
...to 1 F. K Symphony Orcbr*tra...
...C. Lyons—thad not paid electricity bills for over railroads, from Akron (Summitt County) eastward ten years and had taken ocean cruises at the P. A O.'s through Canton and Massillon (Stark County) and north­expense, They had both tried cases in which the utility ward to Youngs town and the Mahoning Valley (Mahoning company was involved...
...ships and maintenance of the The Del Rios and William general Naval establishment dur­Heyer's famous educated horse...
...Today they are confined to the mess'service, although there are tens of thousands of grammar and high school graduates who would eagerly enlist if they could get something'else to do or had any chance of advancement...
...A League of Nations' study places our productive ca­ pacity index at 45...
...Several proposals are in Congress for youth training programs...
...AMERICAN JUBILEE" a and graceful of our history that makes the walk worth -.vhile...
...They cannot enlist for or transfer to the coastj artillery, the field artillery, ttie sig­nal corps, the engineer corps, the air corps'^ the tank corps, the nurse corps, the anti-aircraft units or the chemical warfare service...
...James C. Petrillo, newly elected On Wednesday the program is national president of the Ameri­Schubert-Wagner...
...vice, it is as if a department store barred Negroes from making purchases except in the basement, and then pleaded non-dis­ crimination because they were charged the same prices as white customers for what was available for them to buy...
...But this oes not...
...Willkie hasn't certain Negro units were given to white straightened up Engle's charges...
...Even live-stock in South­rail 'approaches to vital centers troopsjf strongly armed, have eastern England are being re­ are under'heavy police and mili­ganized...
...ssst«Mtas-fflB||f!ippi§B^^ Lily Pons Stadium Soloist Under Kostelanetz Monday the episodes: Washington, Lin­coln's Gettysburg address, Lin­ By Joseph T. Shipley=*= coln on the way to the fatal Ford's Theatre in 1865, Teddy Roosevelt and his...
...While in reorganizing Commonwealth and Southern ^933, Bullard was circulating his canards, French Lee Cobb, president and board chairman of C. S., died...
...i and..J...
...I t Is not well known that the United SJptes has barred its Negro citizens,, in large measure, from service in its armed forces and has been doing so since long before either Hitler or Mussolini were born...
...The chorus through the drenching rain shows where a teacher is telling an at­of boys and jrirls on bicycles it needs little help from the gods tentive and eager class all about weaves intricately and deftly, of chance, for a crowded season...
...It is interesting to Power and Light was $23,000,000...
...Big Utilities' Funds Created ^ ^ Willkie, the "Political Amateur" ENDELL L. WILLKIE, most voluble of mouthpieces for-ths public utilities and current GOP aspirant to the White House, is one of the shrewdest political manipu­lators practicing...
...lently anti-Hitler...
...The Morgan Associates warehouses for' a half century, thus hu­were expanding the Commonwealth and Southefn Corpo­miliating these soldiers before their fel­ration into a billion dollar public utility holding com­lows...
...George Schuyler, who sharply sketches the problem here, is one of the foremost Negro journalists in the United States...
...each type of vessel in the Navy, The huge sums, now being ap­the strategic importance and propriated by Congress for re­elaborate defenses of the Panama armament are to be spent largely Canal, and how the U. S. Coast on the Army Air Corps and the Guard and Marine Corps are •Navy...
...It is true that Willkie had no organization in the^BHy days of his "boom...
...II' Russell Davenport, managing editor...
...The Willkie home is said to have been the intellectual centers of Elwood (popu­lation 6303...
...screen of the Radio City Music POPULAR PRICES: 25c...
...J*f*HjS policy is traditional...
...The Germans had no money, but did produce them...
...It...
...Yet the records show that sev­eral thousand colored troops served in the Revolutionary army, fighting and dying in all - important battles from Bunker Hill to Yorktown...
...With Wings," this new issue pic­Many-excellent scenes of Nival tures the Navy as it is today and units in action were filmed for shows how it will be developed this issue of The March of Tim* and expanded under the current by special camera crews assigned building program...
...In the Wat of 1812 they were commended by "Perry for their service in the Battle of Lake Erie and by Jackson for their valiant service at the Battle of New Orleans...
...The tables are all sold for the concert but re­served seats are still available...
...Big Utilities Fund Backs Jim Crowism Willkie for Nomination Spikes 'Defense .' . ^ soldiers and the Negroes dressed in old W ••* * * blue uniforms of Civil War vintage with ILLKIE came to New York City at the lehest of red and yellow lining which had been in J. P. Morgan & Company...
...A cojored youth can only transfer to an­other Negro unit...
...Colonel B. O. preferably company unions—but genuine trade unions Davis has not served with regular troops when he is forced to...
...Our electric power output is 900 Kwh...
...Or, if they are serving in, say, an infantry regiment in the continental United State's they may transfer to another infantry regiment in the Hawaiian Islands or the Canal Zone...
...They cannot enlist in the United States marine corps at .all...
...The cry of uW Amer­ican people must be: "Wlioni for defense, but not f^fmny of tribute to the...
...his craft in the United States...
...California during Featured in "The U. S. Navy recent maneuvers in the Pacific...
...Freddie Bartholomew, Jimmy Ly­don .Josephine Hutchinson, and Billy Halop in leading roles...
...Back from war, he practiced law in Elwood for another •» few months, helped organize the local American Legion, then moved on to Akron, Ohio, where his career in public utilities began...
...Lincoln stated that the Union could not have been saved with­out them...
...drama, will have its Broadway Alexander Smallens, who has premiere at the New York Strand already conducted the Ballet this Theatre today,- The new film, season, will direct six concerts which stars George Brent and beginning with Tuesday...
...TDEACTIONARIES everywhere, trying tet conceal their own responsibility 'for the breakdown of peace and the destruction of democratic institutions, are at­tempting to shift the blame to such men as former Premier Leon Blum, who 'pushed social and welfare legislation for the benefit of the workers...
...Rod­ "MAN WHO TALKED TOO zinski has chosen an all-Russian MUCH" OPENS AT STRAND program: Overture to "Ruslan and Ludmilla," the Shostakovich "The Man Who Talked Too First Symphony, and the Tchai­Much," Warner Bros.' new screen kovsky Fjfth Symphony...
...Last winter, in the New...
...but the way in which Johnson an9 Oscar Hammerstein, Lillian Russell, Diamond Jim "American Jubilee'' rolled on 2nd...
...of the arguments pot forward by P. & O. critics—and the utility's critics wera legion...
...and Weds, at lit* In Robert EL Sherwood's Stirring Drama \lfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne are the stars of "There ShaH Be No Night" at the Alvin Theatre...
...Today, colored youth can only serve in colored units...
...above TVAfe original -note that Negro units accused of cowardice offer...
...a seth st...
...Book With a stage as large as a torical moments come the live­ and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstadium, Leon Leonidoff has am­ lier episodes...
...degree in 1913 at Indiana Uni­versity, where he was "interested in Socialist theories.** He received an L.L.B...
...We are now following Britain and France in our defense program...
...Colored units are given the same forms of field and combat training as white units...
...Old automobiles, veritable relics of the first horseless days, with­out a single breakdown,'brought the company in...
...Thomas was aquitted of having misused his public office, but the mystery of the $250,000 promise hasn't yet been cleared up...
...Hall, with Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Stadium Box-Office: AUdubon 3-3400...
...Negro ap­plicants in Kansas City were advised to malu similar inquiry of the commanders of colSkd detachments at Fort Riley and Fort Let^Kworth, Kansas...
...Our immediate responsibility is to organize, as effectively as pos­ sible,the industrial power of this nation...
...Engle further claimed that Willkie was present when the utility promised him $250,000...
...K o at want l° Daladier* find the real "Mtt column" of France, one en readily find it in the counting, houses in the financial district...
...The "Willkie boom" went skyrocketing...
...OLSEN and JOHNSON'S 3V IS W "Another riotous erenlnr...
...worth of entertainment...
...The German economy is an economy of things and men...
...U.S...
...Congress must vote so many war-planes (is it 50,000 we need ?), so many warships^ and such quantities of munitions as will constitute adequate defense...
...Germany wins battles because she fights with men and things...
...Phone Alt** quia 4-462...
...Una -race papa based on Thomas Hughes' world-fa" from "Barber pt Seville...
...these units having a definite and proper place in the balanced Organization of...
...course...
...and under the new Naval reNANCY JON RADIO Cln KELLY HALL MUSIC HAf B«th Street A 6th Jt...
...Republic, Willkie [! penned a * * * stirring appeal for civil liberties for all, even Cbnimunists...
...Like Barkus, Willkie was "willing:" to accept the COP designation...
...But, unfortunately for these millions, neither a* French or English people wt able to throw off the yoke «f i financial system which Irtibsec the process of their desMvc...
...after their quick ca­.vortihgs, sweepers were not speedy enough to clear the way for the swift surge of dancers...
...We can't fight Hitler's economy with a financial economy...
...The P. & O., as the utility was known to Ohioians, con­ trolled all electric power and transportation, exclusive of...
...The horses of Teddy's Rough Riders were less successful...
...After the intermission comes Tchaikov­PETftlLLO HONORED sky's Suite from "Swan Lake" and "Romeo and Juliet...
...E^^Fw^|J...
...A RECENT letter from Secretary of War **• Harry H. Woodring to Representative Bloom in reply to an inquiry the latter made at my urgent request blandly admits the Nazi racial system in vogue in the United States army...
...A T one time when •khaki uniforms were "«*arce , those which had been issued to •y IRVING B. ALTMAN Editor of Dynamic America •THERE are heavy hearts throughout the civilizflfd worJi * It is impossible to comprehend at once the full sigmfcaa!* of such news...
...Ijjarty...
...officers with whom the Fifteenth New York Morgan appointed Willkie to fill Cobb's place...
...and inter urban car fares were extremely high...
...Joan Crawford its cast such popular comics as and Fredric March in "Susan and Mischa Auer, Eugene Pallette, God" is scheduled as the next at­Billy Gilbert, Edgar Kennedy and traction...
...Charles Lamont di­rected the comedy from-an origi­nal play by Charles Grayson, and Nan Grey and Tom Brown play STADIUM CONCERTS the only "straight" roles as the Amsterdam AT*, and 118th St...
...Hitler is destroying democracy by the sword, and by revolution, because democracy has already gone f» on the road to self-destruction...
...Our appro­ priations for "defense hereafter must be' expressed in terms of war goods and not bookkeeping figures...
...doesn't regiment in the front lines and was first hold water...
...ance of Balakirew's Overture on Vincent Sherman directed the Russian Themes, followed by Bo­picture...
...In places where there are no such groups—the Army and Navy flying corps—these boys are not per­mitted to enlist...
...Balance d against these is the single-handed clowning of Joe Jackson in his James Stewart, Margaret Sulla van and Robert Young rags, on and off his bicyele that comes to pieces as he rides...
...And, too, he had" left Akron for New York City in 1929.' As yet...
...S. Navy" Opens at the Embassy Newsreel Theatre—Also Up=to-the-Minute World News "The U. S. Navy—1940," latest armament program they mutt issue in the March of Time film .spend many biHions more...
...The percentage of Negroes in the navy has been steadily, declining for the past century...
...A French program is scheduled for Friday, consisting of Berlioz's Overture to "Beatrice and Bene­dict," Chabrier's Joyeuse Marche, Ravel's Pavane, Debussy's Fetes, the first Stadium performance of Milhaud's "Creation du Monde" and the Chausson Symphony in B flat...
...j Nearly four hundred thousand Negro sol­diers served during the First World War...
...pany at the time...
...1940" are several scenes of the Supplementing this special short now historic Washington Naval are selected shorts and up-to-the-Disarmament Conference of 1922, minute newsreels...
...MUS'CAI ^SaS**^ mii On the Music Hall stage is a coMor IRENE BORO0N1 new revue proBuced by Russell A AND A STELLAR CAST OF 100 . Markert and titled "Scrap Book...
...Robert Lee Bul­which spends millions in spreading public utility, propa lard, who took particular pains to disparage ganda) in forming the new law firm, We a dock & illkie...
...B'wxy ft ican influence in the conB"** south of the Rio Grand...
...Miss Pons will be heard in the Message of Love from Gounod's "Mireille," The Bishop-Laforge Echo Song, Saint-Saens' Song, of the Nightingale, the "Una voce poco fa" from "The Barber of Se­ville," and the Mad Scene from "Lucia di Lammermoor...
...Are we going to fight back with paper symbols of wealth...
...Robert Stev­• N?W enson directed...
...Mantle...
...5" " ' The recent recruiting drive with its bally­hoo in the newspapers and over the radio naturally attracted' many Negro youths un­aware of the system of color discrimination in vogue...
...and his cohorts have amply dis­in which Lincoln rode...
...seized, and every resident must de useless for the landing If he's wrong, the British are now carry his or her identity an transport planes by sure these defenses will be the card...
...In a few short months Willkie jumped from mere men­tion as a "possible dark horse" to second place in the race for the Republican presidential nomination on the eve of the GOP convention...
...At the World's Fair...
...In Akron, Willkie went to work for the law firm of Mather & Nesbitt, counsel for the Pennsylvania and Ohio • 'Power and Light Company, northeastern Ohio's largest public utility...
...x pOLONEL CHARLES E. YOUNG was Willkie's position on labor is similar to Dorothy, retired for "disability" at the outbreak Thompson's, one of his "intellectual pals...
...45 St...
...R was WBttie's jo6 to see that the utility company was protected...
...It is true that the price paid for Tennessee to cross the Rhine...
...The wind-driven rain, however it drenched the performers, could not dampen their spirits...
...The potential productive power of these United States is greater ttian that of England, France, Germany and Russia combined...
...This vow, however, didn't prevent Willkie worn expounding his political views before Rotary Club luncheons, conventions of business men and bank'ers, and outright political clubs...
...He has never held public office, nor has he ever military history, however, is the snide treat­before thrown his hat in the political ring...
...Wednesday & Saturday 2:3* specialty artists...
...This artful dodging is characteristic of 11 our government officials from President loosevelt on down...
...A lively and graceful dance follows, with Paul Haakon — as throughout—light as Puck himself...
...Not one has ever been that Willkie supported Bob LaFollette, Sr., inf 1924, and assigned to staff duty, and as much as pos­that he gave $100 to the first Roosevelt campaign...
...that of Eng­ land at 10...
...WINTER GARDEN Mats...
...it was the totally, irresponsible position of the Frtaci financiers whs, under the leadership of Bonnet tad Flandin, held France fist to i gold standard • fo r «ftt p V-Wi t h e r rations /cS 7$ ha d ***•*»• ^e /^S ^/fBfc bringing^fe...
...Open spaces who might land...
...In the late Sixties Congress authorized two infantry and two cavalry regiments to be composed of Negroes...
...recounted if space permitted...
...But we must stop voting billions for so many tanks, ships and guns...
...France at 8; Germany at 12, and the Soviet Union' at 5. Our capacity to produce steel is 66 million tons as against 23 million tons for Germany...
...London's arterial des" after the commander source of food for any invaders roads and the Thames are con­e defense...
...For his final program Dr...
...at picayune Negro colleges...
...Then Orin Root, Jr., a Wall jBeet uitilities lawyer, inserted advertisements in the Pvblic Notice columns of New York papers asking for public contributions to finance Willkie's campaign...
...ing the past seven years...
...There is much that a young man can learnl in the special services which will be useful in civil life, but these services are restricted to white youths, and the tech­nical schools which feed these services are, of course, lily-white...
...To conform with these requirements, specific units to which colored personnel may be assigned have been set up...
...At once, Willkie lost his "amateur" cloak...
...Colored troop's, -individually anaoollec­tively, are subject to the same regula­tions as other troops...
...According to court records in Mahoning, Trumbull, Stark, Summitt- and -"Columbiana Counties, he did an excellent job...
...In truth—in size, in quality and quantity, in color and grace of movement—American Jubilee is not only a reminder of our his­ In a scene from the much-discussed M-G-5 film "The Mortal tory but more than your money's Storm," now in its second week at the pitol Theatre...
...To vis P hold this trade the NSXH h«* reduced prices to a mmta""1 P subsidized these exports hf I*" ernment financial aid...
...then come A rainy start is a lucky start, played the°%onception of Albert the gay Nineties, with Rector's, they say...
...CAPITOL B B'way A 5ist • Major Edward Bowes...
...of France...
...Two years later, in 1921, the law firm became Mather, Nesbitt & Willkie...
...He is business managerof "Crisis" and is a columnist on the Pittsburgh Courier...
...speeches and articles, and to many of his illiterate utility A hundred shameful incidents could be pals Willkie is an "intellectual genius...
...Since the March of Time geared to cooperate with the has previously surveyed fhe Air Navy in times of national emer­Corps in the recent film, "Soldiers gency...
...Heads stage bill at Strand this Sunday marks Artur Rodzin­ week, where he appears with his ski's last Stadium appearance band...
...Today only one in­fantry regiment, the Twenty-fifth United States Infantry, is a true combat unit...
...Before the Ohio State Public Utilities Commission Willkie fougfft the lowering of electricity rates and ear fares, and, so far as is known, neither have been, lowered...
...Son...
...what of .the role of the six million Negro males in the United States, a tremendous proportion of whom are of defense age...
...Governor White appointed a special prosecutor and judge to sift the charges...
...Green retired to curb irresponsible trade unions...
...ney, Sleepy Hall and Ray Kin­The first performance of "This ney...
...And yet the Negroes have helped interests are behind his campaign financially.feie Scripps-with their taxes to support the military Howard chain, the New York Times, Heait, the Luce machine, and they are expected to be pa­snooty publications and the Knight chain Qmidwest and triotic and do their bit—segregated, of southern) are'some of his journalistic pluggers...
...The vast financial system wiD set up a number of rahasarj institutions in which the wp* sentatives of Latin-American ra­tions will participate...
...National need may yet crack this invidious system...
...The German economy recognizes that a 11 wealth is in goods, particularly in capital goods, and that these are not created by money, which is only a medium of exchange, but by the...
...Weaiiock, ex-Equally shameful were the efforts of pre­Detroit utility lawyer and now secretary of tile Edison judiced American officers, especially Ala­Institute (formerly the National Electrical flnstitute, bama-born Lieut...
...The Yo Yo, head'the stage presenta­ March of Time points out, the tion also starting today on the people of the U. S. have spent Roxy stage and produced e» four and a half billion dollars, Fanchon and Marco...
...Iron pants" was a couple of years late in "discovering" the "business' men's candi­date," as his admirers refer to Willkie...
...Negrophobia is much more widespread and intense in the United States army _ and navy than anti-Semitism has ever been in the German, Italian or French armed forces...
...highly industrialized sections...
...that about six in all, and their treatment has the Democratic Party left him...
...In his own com­voluntarily when he was refused a proper pany Willkie recognizes collective bargaining— field assignment with troops...
...Here, too, (tee sffl find the Munichmen and- the be­trayers of the Spanish repab­licans...
...A quarter million Negro soldiers fought in toe Civil War and a score won Congres­sional medals of honor...
...gaily and gracefully they moved as though their colorful costumes were fluffy-dry...
...of Fortune and one of Henry Luce's jack-of-all-trades, was granted a leave of absence from editorial duties by his boss to manage the Willkie campaign...
...this summer, following which he goes to Ravinia for a fortnight...
...combined German and Italian production per person...
...RapiaM­ment today...
...In the Spanish-American War they fought brilliantly at the Battles of San Juan Hill and El Caney, saving Teddy Roosevelt'and his much-touted Rough Rid­ers from extermination...
...fTho's Who ment of the handful of Negroes who have he is listed as a Democrat,' and there's a yarn making served as commissioned officers in the regthe rounds that Willkie told one of his wife's democratic ularUnited States- army...
...Lieut...
...This chunk of Ohio is one of the nation's most but not removed...
...he is followed by the very carriage Schwartz...
...arrange-lent is "proper...
...Electric rates were high, street car...
...per person as against 825 Kwh...
...Using the trite political catch-all phrase, "We, the people, accuse," Willkie lambasted New Dealers for their lack of optimism, shrieking'that -President Roosevelt had lulled the "people" into believing that the "frontiers of America" were locked and the key thrown away...
...h« WrJi­tarians will attempt io trw* the South American market* RJ a ' system of subsidised econoa* j penetration designed ts wis • * these1 countries...
...With minor excep­tions the organization and strength of colored units and detachments are the same as white'units.' Colored units have the same proportions of grades and rat­ings and accorded the same opportunities for promotion through the several grades* as corresponding white units...
...In connectiorl -with the above, it may be stated that there are no regulations that apply especially to colored soldiers...
...America...
...But we in America muTIm re­peat the mistakes of tacfagtsk and French...
...NAVY—1940* Presents exritinc appraisal of can fleets today and shews haw they MARCH oi TIME will be expanded nnder L'.S...
...ing the World War was sent abroad with He is careless—perhaps studied—in dress...
...But he vowed to reporters and magAine writers that he wouldn't 'lift a finger" to get the nomi­nation...
...As Dorothy Thompson » realistically points out: "Hitler is winning the war Mean* he has been fighting it with an industrial and engineeriBi economy, while the democracies have been fighting ft w^ a money or financial economy, and fighting it singfly...
...barkers...
...Engle claimed that Willkie had told him that John Bricker, then a member of the Ohio State Public Utilities Commission and now governor of Ohio and a "darkhorse" GOP presi­dential possibility, would help him...
...A $500,000,000 Maginot Line was built to keep oat the enemy, but an open door as wide as the Belgian frontier leading into this de­fense-system was left open be­cause It would cost another $100,000,000 to' extend the sys­tem of fortifications to the English Channel...
...In the charges the name of Wendell Willkie was mentioned frequently...
...Ex­cellent foolery, even when he is one man on three acres of stage...
...i IlflLLKIE'S career of twenty-three* years is the story " of i the country bumpkin outwitting the city slicker.Born in Elwood (Indiana) in 1892, both Willkie's parents were lawyers...
...r >*•*•'•• * *f' • ' ­Obviously within this Negrophobic ar­angement - colored: soldiers get the same ay and allowances as whites...
...The first half can Federation of Musicians, will consists of the "Rosamunde" be tendered a giant reception on Overture and the "Unfinished" his arrival Monday morning at Symphony...
...Alva Johnsoa, Saturday' Evening Post ace writer, "discovered" Willkie^ "presidential quali­ties" in a Saturday Evening Post article in .AugustiA38...
...and the raising of iron obstruc­buildings-, utilities, factories 'and Sma'.I bodies of highly mobile tions...
...The question is a vital one for a democracy which in its graven symbols —and in its dead on the battlefields— knows no distinction of race, color, or creed...
...Reserved section nightly: SljO a seat...
...Indeed, not a single regular army democratic in He has beenf accused of Negro unit was permitted to go to Europe, manner...
...The defense I POTTCP -smLki Mcw.vom THE ADIRONDACKS program has the unanimous sup­Directors: • Complete Sports and port of all England...
...Mth ft, m Erenlnrs...
...Ben Bernie, Abe Lyman, Horace Siegfried's Rhine Journey, and Heidt, Tommy Dorsey, Charlie the Prelude and Libestod from Barnet, Larry Clinton, Del Court­"Tristan und Isolde...
...His publicity jjmen claim ' been shameful...
...Rauschning Predicts Hitler Will Seek Caucasian Oil Supply Before Invasion of Great Britain (Continued from Page Three) mans...
...They voted thirty thousand airplanes, so and So many guns, so and so many thousands of tons Of reserves of oil and raw ma­terials...
...Hitler's European rape began bear this-out...
...The outdoor entertainment in Ann Sheridan heads film program the Court of Peace will be pro­at Palace this week in "Torrid vided by Ray Kinney, singing idol Zone...
...This is' a remarkable feat, even in the current hetter­skelter uncertainty of national politics...
...Willkie spent ten years in Akron as a member of that firm...
...Even Lloyd HARRY N. BOARDMAN Social Activities George, who may soon enter the LOUIS A. EOTHBLATT cabinet, is helping to devise means 43 St.—PE...
...The common people of France can thank their banker - politicians for their present plight...
...Thomas' indict­ment grew out of charges filed with the then Governor George White by Harry Engle, one-time Youngs town traction commissioner and later a P. & O. lobbyist, accus­ing Thomas of being a "tool'' of the P. & O. At the time Engle was trying to collect $250,000 from the P. & O. for services -he rendered- to the utility in fighting the lowering of rates...
...The Pennsylvania and Ohio Power and Light Company, U. S. Can Afford now the Ohio •Edison, is part of the Commonwealth and Southern, billion dollar utility holding company, which Willkie now heads at $75,000 per year...
...the Allied economy is an economy of symbols: money...
...Sailor's Lady" TOM BRO#S with Joan DAVIS - Dana ANDREWS SCHOOL nm Mary NASH - Larry CRABBE A Others Sir Cedric Hardwicke •A 2oira Century-Fox PictureBartholomew - Jimmy Ljd« Josephine Hatchinsta ON OUR STAGE Billy Halop New Variety Presentation Gae Paater Girls ON THE GREAT STaOt Paul Ash • Roxy Orchestra "THE SCRAP BOOK"—rolorw scmic pa ties filler, with hidf Any Day lights of music, sang and dsns...
...units in U. S. colleges nation's newly-inaugurated de­and universities, the work of fense .program...
...4 Willkie took an A.B...
...to the U.S.S...
...Manager, R* COOL Leader TbeatrieaJ DuiauUsmM THEATRE r~ L± i a. i t* 7 BmM Llta Street Mm T«* IPALACE «Tth St...
...Eng­land did not prepare herself adequately for the present war, because she Measured pre­paredness in terms of pounds and shillings, instead of air­planes, tanks, ships and muni­tion...
...The Allies had money, but failed to produce goods...
...In 1931, a scandal involving the courts and officials of Mahoning County rocked the state of Ohio, a state that looks with com­placence on political skullduggery...
...sible they have been shunted to jobs suit­ His political philosophy—at least that whjph he now able for sergeants as military instructors spouts—has the color of liberalism,' but not -file insides...
...There have been friends that he .didn't leave the Democratic...
...And a final scene in which This Week on the Stage any president—he might nave been' of any party, but he's an American!—is inaugurated, as a HELLO, FOLKS...
...He's "for" of the World War to avoid commissioning labor, but thinks the Wagner Act ought to be amended - him as a general...
...But Willkie His son, a first lieutenant and a West has had no...
...The United States Government even went so far as to have an order Bent to the French populace, through Tardieu, the French high commissioner, not to treat the Negro sol­diers Sd kindly because they were an in­ferior caste at home...
...But the selling price was -arrived at after dis­by General Bullard had been sent against interested engineers and accountants had appraised the barbed wire in the Argonne Forest without property...
...And the same is true of England...
...stantly patrolled...
...After this patriotic service they were told by the sainted Washington to "Return to your masters like good nig­gers...
...50c a $1.00...
...Had famous book, is now on the Scene from "Lncia...
...PHILHARMONIC-SYMPHONY EVERY EVENING AT 6:45 MONDAY...
...Many of his public uttefances since dented step...
...6-7663 JUNE RATES: of once more beating off the Ger­"The Rare Charm of an Intimate Congenial Group Smallens Conductor Bob Crosby Rest of Week Lily Pons and Andre Kostela­netz, a combination which drew • a record crowd to the Stadium last summer, will be the attraction on Monday evening...
...It has con­ * tinued down through to^ygirs.regaxd-.­less of "which wing, of the capitalist bird was ruling from Washington...
...the second half of the 8:45, Grand Central, by all of the Entrance of the Gods into Val­ orchestra leaders in New York, halla, the Magic Fire Scene and headed by Jimmy Dorsey, Phil Wotan's Farewell from "Wal-Spitalny and his all-girl band, kuere," the Ride of the Valkyrie...
...from the same university m 1916...
...News pic­tures of him began to appear daily...
...j . -Came April and Henry R. Luce's corporation-conscious Fortune magazine' carried an article by Willkie on/the issues of the approaching national campaign...
...It is literally true that Willkie is an "amateur" in • One of the sorriest chapters in American politics...
...Around and between these his­ "AMERICAN JUBILEE...
...He practiced law in Elwood for a few months, then joined the army as an artillery officer, and served overseas...
...Is Our 'Time," a "secular can­tata" for chorus and orchestra by At Palace the twenty-nine-year-old New York born composer, William Schuman, with text by Genevieve Taggard, is announced by Mr...

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