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GREENASKSLEGION FOR CLOSER BOND Warns Against Communism and Nazi-ism—Gen. Hines Addresses Delegates. Bs the Associated Press. y NEW YORK. September 22.—Closer co-operation between the American Legion and his own organization was recommended today by William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, in an address before 1.339 delegates to the Legion's nineteenth annual convention. Another speaker. Brig. Gen F’-ank T. Hines, administrator of veterans’ affairs, urged upon the Legionnaires and Auxiliaries tolerance towards new Ideas. “It is my well-considered opinion.” Green said, "that the call of the hour is for a closer and stronger relation ship between the American Federation of Labor and the American Legion. "We have so much in common as to make it comparatively easy to pro * mote understanding and co-operation between these two great patriotic forces. Time and experience have shown that the fraternal bonds which were established in the beginning, when the American Legion was formed and which have remained unbroken, have been of mutual benefit and of great public service.” He also w'arned the convention against the destructive forces of com munism and naziism, which he said w-ere at work in this country, and he stressed the necessity of preserving democratic forms of government in the United States. j»negaies Are Weary. * The 1.939 delegates Gen. Hines addressed were weary, extremely weary, after their 17-and-a-half hour parade yesterday, and it was a full hour after the scheduled opening before the session got under way in the great Metropolitan Opera House, to which the business meeting had been transferred from Madison Square Garden. Standing on the stage where once the great Caruso and Scotti and Far rar had sung. National Commander Harry W. Colmery called the con vention to order at 9:14 a m. (Eastern standard time.). National chaplain, Rev. Bivan H. Keathley, offered the invocation. Colmery introduced Gen. Hines. ' \ ou are the kind of citizens always needed to lead our people into proper channels and safeguard our democratic institutions from any disruptive force Inimical to our ideals, and which today »ppear to present a growing threat to world peace," the general remarked in opening. He told the Legionnaires "many con ditions .signify that unemployment Rntong veterans has been materially * reduced during the past year" because of the "intelligent functioning of gov ernmental agencies" and through the efforts of the Legion, as well. And turning to the forthcoming census to determine the extent of un employment in the country, the general said: "It is my intention to recommend to the committee in charge of this census | that appropriate questions be inserted j in the census schedules to ascertain j whether the individuals covered are j veterans, and of what wars. Here j again your organization may be able 1 to render a valuable service by en couraging unemployed veterans to make sure that they are registered in this census.” Outlines Aid to Veterans. The general told the delegates of the progress in Federal aid for veterans In the past 15 years. H.e dealt further, with considerable , detail, upon the benefits received by 1 veterans and dependents from the j , Federal Government, then turned to ! the future. "We went forward,” he said, ‘‘with 1 the hope and not without some faith ; that our children might be spared a similar fate (war). The realization of this ideal now' seems as distant as it did then. With another 20-year turn ! of the tides of time our fortune will be almost entirely in the hands of the children we sought to save. "They will make our laws and fur r nish the funds to secure our care. It is for us now in the maturity of our usefulness to inculcate in them a ! philosophy w hich proves our inspira- |' tkms and ideals to be still unshattered, j, Green Is Applauded. Green was introduced amid noisy I applause. And having called upon the ! ■ Legion for claser co-operation with the federation, he reminded the dele gates of the spread of dictatorship rule ' and the dissolution of free, democratic trade unions in autocrat-ridden lands ' "Their property and funds are im- j . mediately confiscated, their organiza- i tions are dissolved and wiped out by ! dictatorial decree, and, worst of all, i s their leaders are seized and ruthlessly destroyed or consigned to prison or concentration camps. Many of them are never heard from again,” he said. "Happily,” he said after dealing 1 further with the effects of oppressive rule, "the people of the United States still breathe the air of freedom and liberty. Under a beneficent Govern ment, where the people shape and order the administration of their affairs, greater safeguards and protec tion are being accorded the masses of the people. ‘‘This fact is reflected in the enact ment of social security legislation and Other legislative measures which have for their purpose the protection of the aged, the weak and the helpless.” The working people of America, Green said, have won their fight for legal recognition and legal standing, through enactment of the nationai labor relations act, and are now free m to organize into “free, independent, democratic trade unions.” "The American Federation of Labor,” he continued, ‘‘with its membership totaling more than 4,000.000 dues-pay lng men and women, remains stead fast and uncompromising in its oppo sition to communism, fascism, naziism : and the different philosophies which all these ‘isms’ represent.” Secretary of War Harry H. Wood ring, another speaker, greeted the -Legionnaires as comrades, praised the * administration’s foreign policy as “open and direct,” and warned against propaganda which would create sym pathy for those engaged in conflicts abroad with the consequent attempts to influence government at home.” The convention selected Los An geles, Calif., as the city of its 1938 convention. -0 ■—- . . . Boys’ Band Elects Wedding. Leon Wedding, 1511 A street north east, has been elected business man ager in charge of engagements for the Holy Comforter Boys’ Band, it was announced yesterday. His election - came at a meeting of the band's " parent organization Monday. r ' l ■ .i i n i„i _ -—"T a* W 4 O.VL/ • • New York Again Hears Sound of Marching Feet as Boys of ’18 Parade ———————^^. — — nm ••-v.awrowwwwvv.y. : . . « « y h « HMHa 'QHHMmHIHKHHr couldn't Vool his 9feet iZZeZtop^tTgifZfheZ out toffffhfZ fla°S’ ^ marchers pass u? Fi1th avenue- while more than a million spectators turn The paradewas nothing but sound to this air. iust as he did 20 years ago mem. youngster until he switched to a submarine aU _ lack and got a clear vieiv. Members of the Chattanooga Drum and Bugle Corps “making up’’ in Times Square. The mud ". .......Mfff ~ 1 urns brought from their home city to make certain an adequate amount was on hand to sunvlu that v* • ■%. • » realistic touch. a a 10 suPPlV tfiat Stepping briskly to the beat of rolling drums, the Washington. D. C.. colorguard leads its -—-----delegation in the American Legion parade yesterday. —A. P. and Wide World Photos i t ” —-—---—______ c d Charges Alabaman Gained Court Seat “by Deception” Through Silence. By the Associated Press. v WORCESTER. Mass.. September 22— Senator David I. Walsh. Demo crat. of Massachusetts today declared Justice Hugo L. Black of Alabama, by not “disclasing his previous member ship in the Ku Klux Klan.” had ob tained his elevation to the Supreme Court “by deception.” By his silence, Walsh contended, Slack had grossly imposed on Presi dent Roasevelt and his colleagues, rven before his confirmation. Walsh said any impeachment pro ■eedings would have to originate in he House, and expressed the opinion he most feasible way in which Black could be eliminated would be for the ^resident to obtain his resignation. “From interviews and correspond >nce I have had with several Demo cratic members of the Senate,” Walsh aid in an interview, "I find that prac ically all of them express the view hat Senator Black, by permitting the Resident to nominate him for the United States Supreme Court, and for tie Senate to confirm him without iisclosing to the President, or his col eagues in the Senate, his previous nembership in the Ku Klux Klan, ind by his silence inferentially deny ng the rumors of his Klan member ship, imposed grossly on the President ind the Senate and amounted to ob aining his elevation to the United States Supreme Court by deception. “This group of Senators is of the opinion that this alone is sufficient to iisqualify Senator Black.” Walsh said, in his opinion, the most feasible way Black could be eliminated would be “for the President to de nand and obtain Black’s resignation." “There is still one other possibility,” -he Senator added, "namely, that the Supreme Court will rule on the ques tion of Black’s eligibility.” Walsh declared: “It now seems that he real issue in the Black case is not whether he is a member of the Klan Jr whether he repudiates the Klan jpenly. There are two counts against him, Jne, that Black for political advan tages joined the Klan and took the jath of a Klansman and subscribed to its creeds; two, that Black obtained his nomination and confirmation by concealment and thereby deceived the President and his fellow Senators, es pecially the latter, because he had knowledge it was rumored he was a member of the Klan and supporters in the Senate denied it.” Walsh said that probably, after the Senate convened next January, unless Black made some statement, "the Senators who claim to be misled will record themselves, through some form of resolution, as opposed to Mr. Justice Black's membership on the Supreme Court bench, thereby publicly asserting * * * they were misled and deceived.” Emancipation Proclamation Is on Display Celebrated Document Is 75 Years Old T oday. By the Associated Press. The archivist of the United States dusted off the emancipation proclama tion today on its seventy-fifth birth day anniversary and placed it on display. The proclamation, issued on Sep tember 22, 1862, by President Lincoln and numbered among the most cele brated of American state papers, lay buried in the musty files of the State Department until removed to the vaults of the Archives Building a few months ago. Lincoln’s own account of the events which prompted him to issue the proclamation was recorded by Frank B. Carpenter, an artist, who made a life sized painting of the President reading the document to his cabinet. "It had got to be Midsummer of 1862,” Lincoln told him. "Things (in the Civil War) had gone on from bad to worse until I felt that we had reached the end of our rope. “I determined upon the adoption of the emancipation policy, and without consultation with, or the knowledge of the cabinet, I prepared the original draft.” On the advice of Secretary of State Seward. Lincoln told Carpenter, he put the original draft aside "until the Union had won a decisive victory." "Finally came the Battle of An tietam,” Carpenter quoted Lincoln. “The advantage was on our side. I determined to wait no longer.” Treaties With Indians. In the first hundred years of the United States, 653 treaties were made with 97 Indian tribes. F. B. I. TO EXPLAIN tlGHTTOVE 500 Criminology Experts to Be Shown New Aid in Iden tifying Suspects. How a finger of light is “putting the finger” on burglars, murderers and other criminals will be demonstrated by laboratory experts of the Federal Bureau of Investigation at the con vention here next week of the Inter national Association for Identification. The light, generated by a powerful arc, paints a prismatic rainbow, the color, components of which my paint a picture of guilt or innocence for a suspect in a crime. Advances made by F. B. I. technicians in development of this modern method of detecting crime will be revealed to the 500-odd identification specialists from several countries during their four-day visit, beginning next Wednesday. The process is an adaptation of the spectrograph principle,in analyzing various elements. Actual crimes that have been solved by spectographic analysts of dust, metal filings or other debris found at the scene of a crime and on the clothes, body or possessions of a suspect will be outlined, it was announced today. This and other scientific crime de tection developments will be discussed by the delegates and speakers at the meetings and will be studied during a tour of the F. B. I. technical labora tory. Heads of criminal identifica tion bureaus in many parts of the United States, Canada, Mexico, Cuba and probably other countries will attend. One of the latest identification bu reau aids—color photographs of crimi nals—will be explained by Lieut. Wil liam C. Gordon, superintendent of the police bureau of identification at Kansas City, Mo. Lieut. Gordon is a vice president of the International Association for Identification. Color photography in police work is an in novation in most departments. The program includes a message from President Roosevelt, addresses by Attorney General Cummings, J. Edgar Hoover, director of the F. B. I.; Rev. Edmund A. Walsh, vice presi dent of Georgetown University, sev eral members of Congress and others. f1 Black _'Continued From First Page.l it clear that hi* department has made no investigation of recently published charges that Black was. and perhaps still is, a member of the Klan. He said no one has requested such an investi gation and that he does not expect to make one. Cummings refused to comment on two suits now pending in the Supreme Court attacking Black's eligibility to ierve on the tribunal on the dual theory that Be was a member of the Senate when a law was passed in creasing the emoluments of Supreme Court justices and creating an addi tional judgeship. He Indicated that should the Su preme Court decide to hear arguments in these cases Black would be expected to engage his own counsel and could not look to the Department of Justice for representation. The Attorney General refused to answer a question as to whether he thought past membership in the Klan should bar a man from serving on the Supreme Court. Refuses Comment on Fort. Refusing comment on the story con cerning Fort, the Attorney General said he knew only what he had read | in the newspapers and "probably hadn't seen Judge Fort in a year.” "I will talk to him about the matter when I get around to it." he added. Fort, according to the New York Times, was one of the witnesses Sena tor Burke, Democrat, of Nebraska said he was prepared to call before the j Senate Judiciary Committee had that j body investigated the charges of Black's connection with the Klan. Fort said today he would leave it to Black to say whether he and the jurist were fellow members of the Ku Klux Klan. ‘‘Mr. Black is on his way home,” Fort told rep6rters, ‘‘and I am sure that any statement he makes on his arrival will be the truth.’* Port and Black formed a law part nership in Birmingham, Ala., in 1925 and continued it for two years. Port has been on Cummings’ legal staff since August 1, 1933. He has pre pared evidence in numerous Govern ment court cases, including the kid- j naping of Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll of j Louisville, one of the gold hoarding j cases and the Tennessee Valley Au- | thority litigation. Representative Pish. Republican, of New York, said yesterday that Presi- j dent Roosevelt is taking his Western trip to avoid meeting Justice Black be fore the latter takes his seat on the high bench. “The President is solely responsible for the appointment and cannot evade the issue by remaining silent or-run ning away from it,’’ Pish was quoted as saving in Associated Press dis patches. Fish asserted that Charles 'Michel son, publicity director of the Demo cratic National Committee, has known for years that Black was a Klansman. He said he was beginning to think there was a “conspiracy of silence” in order to rush the Black appointment. Visible Charcoal Grill Third Floor 7LAWYERS’ BRIEFS 8 COMMERCIAL PRINTING 8 ADVERTISING SERVICE : BYRON S. ADAMS (222B25S3iiLlli!!JL 5522 Georgia Ave. Randolph 0022 For Economical Installation Chock THERM-O-LATION _WHERE TO PINE SILVER SPRING HOTEL Official A. A. A. Ga. Ave. and Diat. 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