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Headquarters Set Up
For Wallace Party
Sessions This Week
ly tha Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA, July 17.—Phil
adelphia, still sweeping away the
debris of two national political con
ventions, rolled out the welcome mat
today for the third and last con
clave of this presidential year as
the vanguard of Henry A. Wal
lace’s "new party" began arriving
for next week's session.
Their convention will. officially
get underway July 33 but party
leaders already were setting up
headquarters in the Bellevue-Strat
ford Hotel.
Platform meetings, starting Wed
nesday, are expected to provide the
eenter of Interest since there is no
question about the nomination of
Mr. Wallace for President and
Idaho’s 8enator Taylor for Vice
President. Dr. Rexford Guy Tug
well, professor at the University of
Chicago and former New Dealer, will
head the Platform Committee.
Stand On Russia Awaited.
There has been considerable spec
ulation on how far the Wallaceites
will go in a plank tendering the
olive branch to Russia. Observers
also were awaiting with keen in
terest the party's stand on the
atomic bomb issue.
Feature of the convention will be
a rally at Shibe Park next Satur
day at which Mr. Wallace and Sen
ator Taylor will make their ac
ceptance speeches.
The earlier Democratic and Re
publican conventions were free to
all who could get tickets.
Wallace backers will charge ad
mission to the Shibe Park rally with
tiokets running from 64 cents to
$3.60 for the 33,000 seats.
Name to Be Adopted.
An official name for the party is
to be adopted, Friday after C. B.
Baldwin, campaign manager, makes
his organizational report.
Ed Mayer, convention manager,
described the party as being neither
a labor movement nor a left-wing
group. He said It "takes in all
classes and nationalities where the
people are interested in Wallace's
plea for peace and for economic jus
tice through the Nation.”
Luke W. Wilson, assistant conven
tion manager, said the exact number
of delegates and alternates who will
participate in the convention “isn’t
known yet.”
He said, however, the national
Wallace for President Committee
"has issued our convention call
•broadside’ for 4,248 delegates and
831 alternates.”
Keynote Talk Friday.
The keynote address will be de
livered Friday night by Charles P.
Howard of Des Moines, Negro attor
ney and publisher. The Wallace
spokesman said Mr. Howard has
been a Republican leader in Iowa
for 25 years.
Mr. Wallace is scheduled to ar
rive here late Thursday or early Fri
day after addressing a dinner of
independent’ businessmen in New
York Thursday night. Senator Tay
, lor also is expected Thursday or
Friday.
Sunday the convention will adopt
the party platform and elect a na
tional committee and Sunday night
a youth convention will get under
way, continuing through Monday.
Italy
(Continued From First Page.)
In Milan achieved a partial victory
in their demands when the city’s
food union announced a workers’
"council of management” had been
recognized by the owners. It will
direct production of the plant. The
factory, strikebound for 50 days, was
the scene of recent violence.
Italians, meanwhile, began to look
more coldly at the havoc of the
last three days.
Sixteen persons are dead and 206
wounded. Several thousand demon
atrators are in jail.
Loss to the national economy by
the 36-hour Communist-called gen
eral strike was calculated in press
dispatches at about seventy billion
lire (6104,340,000). This does not
include the material destruction to
party headquarters and other offices
in Italy.
The Communists were flghtingTo
preserve the unity of the Italian
General Confederation of Labor—
until now the single 7,000,000-strong
union of Italian workers.
Group Threatens to Quit
But there was a strong movement
within the Christain Democrat part
of the confederation to pull out, be
cause of what it claimed was the
political use of its ranks.
Togliatti apparently knew nothing
yet of tha threat to the confedera
tion.
He asked for newspapers today
and was told they would not be good
for him considering his condition.
To that he replied he only wanted
to know how a country-wide bicycle
race in France is going.
Many Italians said the great in
terest shown by Italians in their
countryman, Glno Bartali, taking
first place in the race weighed heat -
ily in calming passions here.
Astor s Newport Villa
Sold to Drug Chain Owner
ly Associated
NEWPORT. R, 1., July 17.—They
•old John Jacob Astor's 14-room
French villa today to one buyer for
$72,000 but a short time later, the
•econd highest bidder—$70,000—an
nounced that he was the new owner.
James O'Donnel, drugstore chain
owner with homes in Middletown,
R. I., Catonaville, Md., and Palm
Beach, Fla., reported that his $70,
000 bid ‘‘was accepted.”
Mr. O’Donnell's announcement
came only a short time after the
public auction on the terrace of
•Chetwode” at which Auctioneer
Gustave J. S. White knocked down
Mr. Astor’s 1934 honeymoon home
to Antonio F. Rotelli, a Providence,
R. I., liquor and ice dealer.
Mr. White's office said that Mr.
Rotelli withdrew his bid which Mr.
Rotelli told newsmen he made with
out bothering to look inside “Chet
wode.”
Mr. Rotelli said he thought the
mansion "could be used commer
cially,” but that he learned Newport
zoning laws “prohibit its use for
anything but residential purposes.”
The French language grew from
the colloquial Latin of Caesar’s
legions combined with Celtic, Ger
manic and Gallic words. It was not
called “French" until the 11th cen
tury, when it took its name from
the small kingdom of France around
Paris and Orleans.
Partial Text of Revolt Keynote Address
•y *K» Auaciattd Frw
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Jvly 17.—
Following ii a partial text of the
keynote address by former Gov.
Frank M. Dixon of Alabama before
the States’ Rights meeting today:
You are familiar with what hap
pened in Philadelphia. You know
that the definite decision was made
there by the National Democratic
Party to approve Truman's actions
in trying to enforce a social revo
lution in the South. You heard the
jeers of the followers of the city
machines of the North when the
tin# Southerners of Alabama and
Mississippi walked out of that con
vention. You heard the demands
for the destruction of the social
structure of the South coming from
Democrats in sections where not one
single elective public officer is a
Democrat—not even a justice of the
peace. You heard the deliberate
adoption of a program meant to
destroy us.
Every one in America is familiar
with the history of Democratic ac
tion so far as this civil rights pro
gram is concerned. Not all are fa
miliar with the personnel of the
Truman Committee on Civil Rights.
Suffice to say, without attempting to
go into the various personalities, that
it was a committee stacked for the
purpose of rendering the report
which it did, a committee biased
and prejudiced in advance. Its ap
pointment, with that personnel as
if it were a committee to make an
impartial investigation, was a sham
and a fraud on the American people.
The repqrt which it rendered re
quired no deliberation—it required
simply the stenographic services
necessary to write down the preju
dices and the animosities of its mem
bers.
k*views rrogram.
What 1* thl* so-called civil rights
program which Truman, our Demo
cratic President, has recommended
to Congress? I do not want any
misunderstanding about It among
the Southern white people. Here is
part of it:
First: The elimination of segrega
tion in the public schools from grade
schools through colleges. Your chil
dren are to be required to work and
play is the company, with the forced
association, of Negroes. Negroes are
to,teach them, guide them. What
will that mean to your children, to
your hopes for them? What will it
mean in immorality, in vice, in
crime? Just what it means in those
slum areas of the Northern cities
where like conditions prevail, with
results fatal to decency.
Second: The elimination of seg
regation in private and ultimately
in denominational schools, such as
Judson, Huntington, Howard and
Birmingham-Southern, as to stu
dents and teachers as well. Suppose
that you are determined not to sub
ject your children to biracial
schools, and are willing to make any
sacrifice to that end. You arc help
less. since even private schools are
to be forced to permit Negroes
to attend.
Third: The elimination of segre
gation in trains, buses, restaurants,
theaters, beauty shops, hotels, swim
ming pools, ball games, churches
and everywhere else people congre
gate. Picture life with us, men and
women, when every time we leave
our homes thtse; conditions are
forced upon us. Picture the stores,
the streetcars, the buses, restaurants
and churches. Picture the bitter
ness, the racial hostility, the violence
which will follow. -
Boundaries Removed.
Fourth: The elimination of segre
gation in places of residence and
homes. This means that Negroes
can build in any neighborhood, live
in any apartment house.
Fifth: The employment of Negroes
In every business establishment, of
fice, factory and store, in the same
numerical proportion that the Negro
race bears to the white. In Jeffer
son County this is 43 per cent, in
Alabama generally 35 per cent, in
some counties 6 to 1. A department
store in Jefferson County that has
100 clerks must have 43 Negroes
among them; a restaurant or beauty
shop employing 10 must have four
to five; a plant employing 1,000 must
have 430. If this ratio does not
prevail, then enough white em
ployes must be fired to make it
possible. Any law office, any phy
sician's office, comes under the law
just as much as and no more than
any other place of business.
Sixth: There is to be upgrading
in jobs, and promotions on an equal
basis, and the ratio must apply to
all levels. There must be as many
Negro foremen, as many depart
ment heads, as many bosses, as the
ratio calls for. They are to be over
whites and *Negroes alike, mixed to
gether without regard to the wishes
of any one.
Seventh: There is to be no segre
gation in hospitals, either as to
physicians, patients or nurses.
White men and women who must
necessarily use the hospitals, public
and private, are to be attended by
Negro physicians and nurses, as
well as by white.
Eighth: All segregation in labor
unions and professional associations
such as the Bar Association and
the Medical Association is to be
done away with.
Ninth: The poll tax is to be elimi
nated, all Negroes to be registered
to vote without regard to intelli
gence or capacity, and all segrega
tion is to be done away with in the
armed services.
sees uanger u ueaaiy.
Is all this a real threat, or is it
just politics? Are these so-called
Democrats actually determined to
destroy our way of life? I assure
you that the danger is deadly in
the seriousness.
The civil rights section of the
Department of Justice is to be re
organised to enforce it. Constant
police inspection and supervision,
through a Federal Gestapo, is rec
ommended, without waiting for
complaints. The law is to be
changed to make conviction easy.
Enforcement is to be taken away
from the local officials. Civil court
orders, punished as contempt of
court, are to supplement the crim
inal proceedings enforceable by the
FBI. Criminal penalties are to be
by fine up to $8,000, and imprison
ment up to 10 years. Every local
police officer and deputy sheriff is
to be subject to Federal criminal
and civil laws, and under constant
scrutiny.
Tax exemption privileges are to be
taken away from the private and
ultimately denominational schools
which resist, and from the churches.
Fines and jail terms are to be
the part of local officials or private
citizens who resist.
Assails Program as Vicious.
This vicious program means to
eliminate all differences, all separa
tion between black and white. It
so declares itself, in words. It
means to create a great melting pot
of the South with white and
Negroes intermingled socially, politi
cally, economically. It means to
reduce us to the status of a mon
grel, inferior race, mixed in blood,
our Anglo - Saxon heritage a
mockery; to crush with imprison
ment our leadership, and thereby
kill our hopes, our aspirations, our
future and the future of our chil
dren.
It aeems to me to be useless to re
peat the arguments as to the un
constitutionality of the proposed
enactment by Congress of an anti
lynching act. Such an act was
declared unconstitutional by the
Supreme Court of the United States
in the ’70s, when it bore the nomen
clature of the Force Bill. Such an
act has been fought by some of the
best and most distinguished Ameri
cans of other sections of the country
—men of the character of President
McKinley, and Senators Norris and
Borah. The proposed anti-lynching
act, as recommneded by the commit
' tee and as supported by Truman,
goes far beyond the old iniquitous
Force Bills. It was written patently
and obviously to buy the Negro vote
in the doubtful States—we of the
South know that there is no lynch
ing in the South. They of the North
know it. And they also know that the
race riots and the killings which
have made some Northern cities
famous in these last few-years have
no duplicate in any State or city in
the South.
Cites Laws Against Lynching.
They know also, these who seek to
create a police state, that the surest
way to do it is to take over the en
forcement of criminal law. Lynch
ing is murder. There is a law in
every State against it, and these
laws are enforced. Bring the Fed
eral Government into the field of
local law enforcement and you have
broken down one of the great safe
guards of personal freedom. • • •
In this so-called civil rights pro
gram, Truman advocates granting
the power to the Federal Govern
ment to Invade these and all other
freedoms. The program is aimed
at us; of course, since it is to secure
Negro votes in the doubtful States.
But those leaders hostile to us will
find their people, as well as we, come
under such a program. They will
find that their freedom, as well as
ours, is gone. Properly under
stood in all its viciousness and dan
ger. this program will receive the
condemnation of right-thinking peo
ple everywhere. We will not stand
alone in this fight.
The term -States’ Rights” is an
unfortunate term, it does not ex
press the meaning of the thought
which is in our minds. In the be
ginning of this republic,- the States
were supreme. They surrendered
a potion of their power to the
Federal Government in order that
the union might exist. But there
were three great bodies of rights.
There were the rights which the
State had over its citisena—there
were the rights which the States
surrendered to the Federal Govern
ment—there were the great body of
rights which neither State nor Fed
eral Governments ever had over its
citizens, those rights which contain
personal liberty and the freedoms
which make life worthwhile. When
the Federal Government moves
against rights which the States had,
then the term “States’ Rights” is
applicable. When it moves against
that great body outside any Govern
ment to control, as it is doing now,
then it becomes thfc enemy of every
free American. That will not stop
Government—that thought, since
Government lives and thrives on
power. But it behooves those of us
over our citizens in a republic still
free to be on guard always against
this invasion of our freedoms and
to remain determined to resist to
the end.
Sees Boom For Both Bares.
As most of Alabama knows, I
have never been one of those who
fomented hatred between the two
races. There is room for both, sep
arate and apart. Segregation is our
way of life, essential to peace and
good will. There are many Negroes
among us completely worthy of full
citizenship, honest, decent, self-re
specting and Ood-fearing people.
They are being given the vote; they
live their own lives, leaders among
their own. They wish no forced
association with white people; they
know its consequences in bitterness
and terror. They, as we, arfr victims
of the political situation in the
doubtful States, where Republican
and Democrat alike offer us as the
mess of pottage with which elections
are to be purchased—cynically be
traying their own blood and heritage
for political spoils.
We are faced by facts, not theories,
Weihave worked out a way of life,
in difficult circumstances, between
the two races. The Negro race has
progressed further in threescore
years than any race In history. It
has progressed because it has had
the sympathetic help of the South
ern white people of good will. It
can continue to progress only with
a continuance of that sympathetic
help. That assistance Is based on
segregation, on keeping the races;
apart, a system necessary for white
as well as blacks. Destroy It and
chaos will result.
The question is continually asked,
"What can we do? Where are we
going?” This is what the conven
tion is here to decide. We have
several possible courses of action.
I will mention only two. We can
name a candidate for President and
Vice President and recommend to
the people of the several States that
they elect electors pledged to those
nominees. It Is thought by some
that this is the proper method of
procedure. Another route which
can be followed is to suggest to the
various Southern States the selec
tion of free electors.
Vied in Alabama.
This is the system that we have
followed In Alabama, and at the
time we originated it, we plahned
that the electors from Alabama
should, after the general elections
in November, meet with the electors
from the other Southern States and
agree upon a candidate for whom
their votes should be cast. This was
the system which was planned by
the founding fathers of this re
public, and this is the system which
we in Alabama have determined to
follow, but we are willing to defer
of course to the needs and neces
sities of the other Southern States.
We are willing to go to any length
to secure unanimity of action.
Should this be a Republican year,
then, of course, we will have ac
complished nothing, save to enforce
our demands for recognition in the
Democratic Party. Should the party
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of Truman succeed between now
the general election In gaining
enough strength to be a real con
tender, then this movement could
easily become thar deciding factor
In the American political scene,
since we would have approximately
139 electors and might easily be able
to throw the election into Congress.
• * •
Points te Messages.
A word of caution also to those
who are of the opinion that this
is not a “grass roots" movement. Z
have been in receipt of hundreds
of telephone calls, most of them
from so-called “little people,” not
office holders, , not people of partic
ular prominence. There Is a firm
conviction in their minds that they
are not being properly represented
by those who are in position of au
thority over them. There is a feel
ing in their minds that the office
holder is more afraid of the loss of
his job and of his prerequisites than
he is enthusiastic for the call of the
people. I have been amased at the
intensity of this action. There may
be those among the occupiers of
high public positions in the South
who think they can weasel their
way through and weather the storm.
But if I am any political prophet, our
people are more aroused than they
have been in many, many years, and
they will repay by retirement to
private life the efforts of any so
called Southern leaden who hope
to carry them into the eamp of Harry
8. Truman in the coming election.
We people of the South have had
our divisions. The Nation was
treated to a sample of those divi
sions at the Philadelphia convention,
when a portion of the Alabama dele
gation and the Mississippi delegation
in a body walked out, while other
States with people just as truly
Southern and as truly loyal as ours
remained in their seats after the i
adoption of the plank approving this
iniquitous so-called civil rights leg
islation. We have our divisions in
Alabama politics; every Southern
State has divisions within itself in
its political life. These are pert of :
the workings of democracy itself.
These divisions, however, cease in
the face of a common danger to us
and to our wives and children. These
divisions cease in the face of the :
threat to our very existence. Vic '
who are active in this movement :
want the help of every man and
woman and chlld—we want all divi
sions forgotten. We want the
strength that comes with unity. We :
want and we must have, if we are to
have any hope of success, the men
and women of the South united,
determined, self-sacrificing, devoted
to this common cause. * • *
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Mexico Seeks Political Ik
In Cuban Consulate Killing
ly Mm AtmiatoM Nu
MEXICO CITY, July 17.-Pallc«
art seeking political reasons for yes
terday's assassination of Cuba’s
former assistant chief of police la
the Cuban consulate.
Neither Cuban Consul Raul VI*
nelo, his Mexican secretary nor
the widow of Rogello Hemandes
Vega has testlflsd to having seen
the fact of any of the three men
they say entered the consulate.
Cuban Ambassador Oonsalo Quell
y Morales de los Rios said today he
saw no political aspect In the killing
and suggested it was personal ven
geance. -
Hemandes Vega, who resigned
from the Cuban police lest October,
wes hit by 10 or 12 shots fired while
he was alone In the consul's office.
He was found dying on a sofa. The
police said tha shots were fired from
the doorway.
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