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. . be a ° , -"* — 40 DES MOINES REGIST Hedging on © . LynchLaw |. _ByTruman i WASHINGTON, D. C. G)~A national conference on lynching ¢ Monday mapped a program aimed 4s at curbing mob : $violence and 4sent a deleza- sas Don which told . President ‘Tru- man that if the government ;: doesn’t do some- * ~ thing about the hm, Faul Robeson, S Negro singer % who was @ spon- me mS sor of the con- ROBESON, ference, said Mr. ag NY ae RL Feed LOLS ARLE ee eh Wey SM ered meee eee Raa *s . Truman had objected to parte of the proposed program. Robeson said he read a message to Mr. Truman asking him to issue “a formal public statement expressing your views on lynch- Ing, and recommending a definite jegisiative pnd educational pro- gTam to end the disgrace of mob violence.” : The president, Robeson sald, {Indicated political Tunitric see it difficult to issue a staternent ef his views at this time. ‘, ‘Timing Important.’ “Robeson said that as to possibie federal legislation to curb lynch- ing, the president expressed the wiew that passage is 4 political matter in which timing is im-|. portant. . | [The president took excep- . tion, Robeson said, to = sug- . gestion by the delegation that . . fit “seemed iriept for the United States to take the lead \ f the Nuernberg trials and j~ all eo far behind in respect; justice to Negroes in this, Bpuntry ; " "| Phe’ presidential view, Ro : said, was that Americans sho’ ‘not tle domestic matters ¢, : International situation. The organization also sent » Matter “the Ne- groes will.” gations to Attorney General - ‘Clark and to the Republican Democratic national committg men Fre ae 7 RID, TeEAc ree Peer § PN same a ee hele so ce abe be DATE_Magis \ Tt gave as} ts platy “The 8Pprd@hension and pu Ment of eve lyncher, Pp of a federal anti-lynching b, Keeping the klan out of ¢on- £ress—no senate 8 {Senator Bilbo, Missippi).* Mocrat, of Mis. -» Ina message ‘8onference J . though there hayes been ai ~~ + Ported lynchings since the ar ended “not one single arrest, _Andictment or Conviction i any participant in any of the tynchings has been made.” It urged the justice department . » fo “use all its a. ut . determined drive” hority ial . bend the lynchers, “PP to Clark, the Mocratic and Re Publi . es insist in the forthoomin election that all party Candidates ment oa fo and FUPPort the enect- ment o law a anti-lynching owt an. eat for Bilbo} ae PE RSC PIM