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cc: Mr. Tony Weitzerl,
co/ Chicago Daily News,
Chicago, Illinois

cc: John C. Richling, Jr.,
Disable Amer. Veterans
Veterans Administration,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

cc: Alderman Vel Phillips,
Common Council, City Hall,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Resale Shop
1866 North 12th Street,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

January 31, 1960

cc: Miss Grace Kelly,
2534 N. Prospect Ave.,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

cc: House Veterans Affairs Committee
House of Representatives,
Washington, D. C.

Editor,
Milwaukee Journal,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Dear sir:

I have read the very wise comments made by Mr. Ben Barking, at the
recent B'nai B'rith Awards and wholeheartedly concurred with him that
human rights are indivisible and when evil is done to one it is done to
all. Of course, it is. Consequently, it is the duty of every decent person
to help destroy evil of every kind and description wherever it may exist,
on a strictly fair, impartial and intelligent basis. This, so far, certainly
has not been done. For example, I repeatedly have requested restriction of
the filthy falsehoods contained in the rotten and ridiculous report that
had been made by Negro detective Dewey Russ in connection with the utterly
unprovoked attack that had been made on my sick person, some time ago, at a
Goodwill store, while I was there with my wife, with whom the trouble had
started, and who also had witnessed the incident from beginning to end. As
a witness Mrs. Evans had told Russ exactly what I had told him. In his false,
malicious and misleading report, however, he mentioned my name only and then
in a highly degrading and discreditable manner. In his phony report he had
asserted that the incident did not happen the way I said it had happened
and that I was "only trying to make trouble." This was a deliberate and
downright lie and he knew it. He had absolutely no right or reason to dis-
credit me the entirely blameless victim of this vicious attack. He was 100%
per cent wrong, self-evidently wrong. He had knowingly and wittingly wronged
me and deserved to be discharged from the police force. However, I'm not seek-
ing revenge, only a retraction of his rotten and ridiculous report. If I
accepted this asinine report, I'd abase myself, I'd be denying the evidence of
my senses as well as my wife's who had witnessed the incident, which had
involved the BOTH of us, and, naturally both of our names should have been re-
flected in the report. My attacker, for no reason at all, hit me hard and
chopping blow on the back of the neck which, of course, but for the grace of
God might have killed me and this cannot be taken lightly or minimized just
because he belonged to the "minority race." Oh, no. I have been thrice attacked
for nothing by the Negroes, and this sort of thing is getting to be a little
tiresome. I'm getting awfully tired of being slapped around by stupid jerks.
The whole trouble, of course, is the fact that human rights are strong for the
blacks and weak for we white people, who have been attacked and physically
abused by them. If the races were reversed then needless to say, it would be
an entirely different story. Then it would be called "race hatred" or "pre-
judice." It all depends on whose ox has been gored.