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AUDITORS hint
$4,000 PYTHIAN
LODGE SHORTAGE

JACKSONVILLE. Fla.-A posi-.
bic shortage of $4,000 in the ac.
counts of the state grand lodge of
Pythians of Florida is limited in pre-.
liminary reports of auditors now at
work on the books of the order. it
was rumored this week.
The grand lodge, with w. w. An
drews, grand chancellor. in the chair,
will assemble Tuesday in Ocola.
Ever since April 5 special certi-
fled accountants have been working
on the grand lodge books and rec
ords. They are at work yet and do
not expect to complete the work for
another month.
Financial dealings of Chancellor
Andrews during the last five years
are under investigation.
The printing plant of the Florida
Sentinel, weekly newspaper, was
purchased. This investment alone has
entailed large outlay of funds.
Mr.. Andrews has been a paralytic
for the last two years. yet remained
the brains of the five thousand Pyth-
ians. He has quite an interesting
family. Mrs. Andrews is president of
the State Federation of Women's
Clubs. An older son is editor of the
Florida Sentinel and DR.. w. w. An
drews Jr is a practicing physician at
Parsons, Kan.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-05-28
True Story OF Alleged Attack Upon
Alabama Hobo Women Told By Lawyer

NEW YORK.-The inside story of
the alleged rape case in which eight
men have been convicted and SEN
fenced to die in Scottsboro, Ala, is
told by Allen Taub, counsel for the
international Labor Defense. He
says:
"a freight train left Chattanooga,
Tenn, at 10:45 a. m. Wednesday
March IS, for Memphis. Willie Rob
inson, II years old, from Atlanta,
got into an empty boxcar by himself
and was alone in that car until taken
off by an armed mob at Paint Rock,
Ala. He never saw the girls. the
white boys or the other defendants
up to the time of the arrest.
Clarence Norris, 10, and Charles
Weems, 20, of Atlanta, got on flat
car piled with cross ties as the train
was pulling out of Chattanooga.
They were on this car until taken
off by an armed mob at Paint Rock,
Ala. Their car was near the end Of
the 49-ear train. These two boys
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-05-28
Louisiana Has Negro
Population OF 776,326

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. returns
for Louisiana classified by color
show that the total population of the
state increased from 1.79S,509 in
1920 to 2,101,593. The Negro popu-
lation likewise increased from 700,-
257 to 776.326, gain of 10000 in
the decade from 1920 to 1880.
In 16 of the Ga parishes in the
state, Negroes form a majority of
the population as follows: Bossier,
Claiborne, Concordia. DeSoto, East
Carroll, East Feliciana. Iberville,
Madison, Morehouse, Natchitoches.
Ouachita, Pointe Coupee, Richland,'
st. Helena, Tensas and West Fell
ciana.
New Orleans now shows a NEGRO
population of 1862 as against
10000 in 1920.
Other cities show gains in the Ne
gro population as follows: Alexan-
dria, 954G as against 1863 in 1920;
Baton Rouge. 10,675 against $3.50;
Bogalusa. 4751 as against 2605; Laf-
avette, 5013 as against 2999; Lake
Charles increased from 4472 in 1920
to. 594S; Monroe almost doubled
from 5540 to 1912. and Shreveport
gained nearly 10000, increasing
from 17,485 in 1920 to 27,219.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-05-28
Negroes Believe There Amt No He'll
Says Mencken, Hitting at Political Parsons

NEW YORK.-One of the cheer
ing signs of the times is the appear
ance of an anticlerical movement
among colored people, H. L. Menck-
en-, white editor, declares in the cur
rent issue of the American Mercury.
at was a long time coming, but It
is here at last" Mr.. Mencken de-
clares. He says that preachers or &C.
clesiastical racketeers were turned
loose by slave owners among their
slaves in the early DAYS in order to
keep their slaves pacified and ready
to work hard for their pork chops.
Another reason was that slave
owners did not want to see MODS of
slaves crowding into their very tidy
and charming Episcopal churches"
he says.
Mencken says he never has seen a
colored person executed who wasn't
attended by a pastor and that he
heard one colored Baptist pastor
boast that there wasn't a single
modernist among his own people.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-05-28
Pickens Tells Why
He Wrote Letter
To Communists

NEW YORK.-Explainfnp his let
ter to the Daily Worker. Communist
organ, which was used by Commun-
lists to attack the N A. A. C. p. Will
liam Pickens, field secretary of the
association, made the following state
ment this week.
i have in my hands now evidence
both that my office understands the
real meaning and intent of nv letter
which the Daily Worker published
and that the editors of the Worker
also understood it, for the latter have
written me that they know quite well
that | was not seeking any publicity
whatever when | sent them a word
of cheer and small donation to-
ward the defense of the nine youths
in Alabama.
When | sent it the International
Labor Defense was the only organi-
cation publicly advertised as being in
the case at all. Although | was then
about 1900 miles away from my own
office, | knew that they, too, would
be investigating and getting into the
case, if it were humanity possible for
them to do SO. But the I. l.. d. was
reported in the public press as hav-
ing taken up the defense-and if |
had heard that the devil was PLAN
ming to defend those boys | would
have aided and abetted the devil.
Attacked N. A. A. c. P.
But it is well known Communist
policy to disintegrate and destroy
other agencies, as preliminary to
its own work. 1t must, therefore,
have been in accordance with this
policy, rather than in accordance with
the facts, when they published my
letter choosing their defense move
ment, and in the same paper pub
llshed their own attacks upon the
National Association for the Ad-
Vancement of Colored people, eharg-
ing that the association was indiffer-
emit to or even obstructing the de-
Tense of those boys.
I'm short, they accepted my COM
radely praise and kicked all of my
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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-05-28
Burns Church Which
Led His Wife Astray

JERICHO, N. J.-Enraged because
his wife refused to return to him,
William Johnson. 26, of Woodbury.,
set fire to small church here, tho
institution he blamed for their sepa.
ration.
The fire, started at 2;30 n. M, de-
stroyed the two-room Church Of
Cod" and threatened an adjoining
house in which Mrs. johnson resided.
Depford township police charge
that after setting fire to the church,
johnson ran to the Jericho fire hall
and disconnected wires on the engine
of the fire apparatus to prevent them
from responding to the alarm.
johnson told police he had made
several efforts to become reconciIed
with his wife but that she had re-
fused to live with him.
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saw six or seven white boys on one
Of the first cars, but saw no fight or
attack.
t'oiine Montgomery of Monroe,
Ga, who had been staying in Chat
tanooga, took this train to go to a
free clinic in Memphis. He is suf-
ferinR from serious eye trouble. He
got on a tank car and was on it
when taken off by the same mob at
Paint Rock, Ala.
Four Boys in Group
"0zie Powell also was riding by
himself and knew nothing till taken
off the train by the armed mob at
Paint Rock, Ala.
"The four boys from Chattanooga,
Roy Wright and his brother Andy,
Haywood Patterson and Eugene Will
liams, had been friends for years
and were going to look for jobs on
river boats at Memphis. As the train
was leaving Stevenson, Ala, moving
slowly. they saw ~ or IA Negroes
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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-05-28
WALKER ESTATE
TO Be SOLD
AT AUCTION

NEW YORk.-The palatial $780,
900 show place and marble hall villa
Lewaro Of Madame c. j. Walker
fame, at Irvington on the Hudson.
wlll go under the hammer il was def
lnitely announced this week.
Miss ALelia Walker denied the
statement made in the press recently
that the place was to be converted
INTO tearoom for Harlem's elite.
instead she said. arrangements are
beng made to auction off the build
ing and grounds early in June.
But, like the pomp and glory
winch surrounded the opening of the
magnificent thirty-room dwelling, its
passing will take on an exclusive air
IN a private auction. Invitations will
be issued to prospective buyers by
the Wise Auction Company. 42S CO.
lumbus Avenue, which conducted the
sale of the Iewaro's furnishings.
only those with invitation cards will
be admitted.
Friends of Miss Walker were sur
prised last year when it was an
nounced that she would dispose of
the costly furnishings in the home.
me building was erected and fur
nished at a cost of approximately
100000 and the grounds brought
its total up to 100000. Facing
Broadway on the front and the Hud-
son River on the back. with its col
umns, balconies, trellises, porches,
cupolas and a sunken garden. it was
one Of the outstanding estates in
New York.
1t was the social mecca for promi-
nent visitors to New York and the
social acme of the elite in sophisti-
Gated Harlem. Miss Walker decided
to dispose of the estate last year. She
declared that since she no longer
occupied the place as a home and
since it had served its purpose as a
show place, she had decided to aban-
don it.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-05-28
DEPRIEST BOOM FOR SPEAKER OF HOUSE
'lckens Scores Reds For Attack On A.A.C.P
Newark Elks Broke
Face Bankruptcy

NEWARK, N. Pride of New
ark Lodge of Elks here is broke and
faces financial crisis, it was learned
last week.
1t is said that because the assets
of the lodge are far exceeded by the
liabilities, a voluntary bankruptcy
petition may be filed in order to
straighten matters out. The previous
administration of the lodge is alleged
to be blamed for the existing condi-
ton. The assessed value of the home
is $4,000, the possible selling price
no more than $4,000, while the
price paid for the property was
100000, much in excess of its
value.
1t is said there is no reason for a
probe of finances because there are
no finances. However, a sensational
exposure is expected to come to light
when the election of officers takes
place next month.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-05-28
Colored Leader
Has Support OF
Other Delegations

CAMDEN, N. J.-Swiftly follow
ing the Camden municipal election,
IN which the candidates for CITY com
mlssloners favored by David Baird
Jr. won out, a boom for Congressman
Oscar De Priest for speaker of The
national House of Representatives
suddenly appeared.
In the final hours of the local
campaign Congressman De Priest
Cancelled important speaking engage
ments and rushed to Camden from
the Middle West to help salvage the
local ticket. The Baird folks CRATE
fully acclaimed the support the lone
Negro Congressman gave them in
their hour of need, and are vocifer-
Gus on promises and pledges for bet
ter political conduct, especially to-
ward the colored voters of Camden
and the remainder of the state.
The launching of the speakership
boom or De Priest following the
new understanding with t he New
Jersey leader has upset the politi-
clans. 1t is rumored that more than
one member of the New JERSEY dele
cation in Congress stands ready to
vote for De Priest if a showdown
comes.
1t is known that Representative
Wolverton of the first New JERSEY
district is closely associated with De
Priest in Congress and regards him
as possessing craftsmanship qualities.
De Priest is friendly with other
delegations who play politics with
him, among them being Representa-
tives La Guardia of New York, VOL
fenden of Pennsylvania and Con-
gresham Vesta of Indiana.
Vesta was returned to the 72nd
Congress by scant majority of two
hundred votes and he is grateful for
the work done in his district by Oscar
De Priest, who came to Indiana at a
time when his own seat was being
contested. The Chicago Congressman
generously overlooked the attempted
humiliation of his wife, one of the
unfortunate incidents which an ex-
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"Piety of colored people," he says,
costs them more than anything else
they pay for in cash; more than rent
or taxes.
"Their churches represent an in
vestment greater than their outlay
on land; worse, their equity remains
small and so they stagger under a
dreadful burden of debt. Even in
Harlem there is scarcely a tabernacle
without a mortgage and some of
them run to such huge amounts that
paying them off probably will be for
ever impossible
"What the upkeep of the pastors
comes to ! do not know, but it must
be staggering sum, for they are
much more numerous, relatively
speaking, than white agents of the
Word, and on the whole they seem to
be better kept.
Better Incomes
II am informed, indeed. by Afra-
merican statistieians that they make
Continued on page 30
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-05-28
CIRCUIT COURT
UPHOLDS TEXAS
PRIMARY BAR

NEW ORLEANS, lathe United
States Circuit Court of Appeals in
session here upheld the right of Tex
as Democrats to bar Negroes from
primary elections this week when it
affirmed the decision rendered in the
case brought up from the FL Paso
district by N. C. Nixon against pre-
cinct judges of that district.
By affirming the decision the
Democratic party of the state of
Texas is given the right to bar Ne
g'roes from participating in the Dem
ocrstic primaries of the state.
Nixon filed suit against the pri-
mary election Judges after he was
barred from voting in the 1920 Dem
oeratie primary. His contentious
were that both the fourteenth and
fifteenth amendments to the Consti-
tuition of the United States had been
violated when he was deprived of his
right to vote.
The fight of Nixon began in 1924
when he took a similar fight to the
Supreme Court of the U. S. and won
his case.
At that time there was in opera
ton state law which provided that.
"1n no event shall Negro be allowed
to participate in a Democratic pri-
mary held in the state of Texas"
Passed New Law
After the Supreme Court decision.
the Texas legislature, in 1927. re-
pealed the state law which prohibited
Negroes from taking part in the
Democratic primaries and enacted
another law providing that: every
political party in the state of Texas,
through the state executive commit
tee, shall have the power to prescribe
the qualifications of its own men,
bers and shall in its own way deter
mine who shall be qualified to par
ticipate in the party"
The circuit courts opinion rem
dered this week says:
CONTINUED on Page Two.)
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-05-28
CHAUFFEUR And
WHITE MISTRESS
Roll XII KLUX

PHlBADEI PHIA. - Some o5O
white members of the Ku Klux Khan.
properly attired in pillow cases and
nlehtgowns, turned out at SPRING
field Road, near Sproul Road. on
the West Chester Pike, Monday and
kindled fiery cross close to an
automobile in which couple sat
spooning.
The spot is development started
about year ago. Although there
are no lights. the streets are paved
and the section has become a favor
lite parking place for PETERS in auto
mobiles.
To autoists. police and newspaper
men who were attracted by the glow.
members of the hooded order stated
frankly that they had lighted the
blazing torch as a reminder to a
wealthy white woman who used the
place nightly for the last several
months for her petting parties.
kluxers declined to identify the
white woman for whom the warning
was meant except to say that she
was a wealthy matron of the upper
class.
They say that the matron and her
chauffeur had been parked in one
OF the secluded hooks that lure lovers
to the section every night. They
have been cen by many of the
members of the nightgown order.
Kluxers said the couple was en-
gagged in their usual display of mu-
tual affection when the torch was
touched to the oil-soaked cloth bind
ing the cross. As the flames shot up
the chauffeur sprang to the wheel
and shot the high powered car away.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-05-28
Dixie Mayor Declines
To Greet DePriest

WILMINGTON, N. C. - Mayor
Walter H. Blair has refused to make
the welcome address at st. Luke A.
NJ. j.. Zion Church Wednesday, at
which time Congressman Oscar De
Priest of CHICAGO is scheduled to
speak on "Americanism"
He declared that because of his
Democratic affiliations it would be
unwise for him to welcome the Con-
gresham of the opposite party He
also refused to designate another in
his stead
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-05-28
Bank AT Tuskegee
Closes Doors

TUSKEGEE, Ala.-Macon County
Bank, white, was closed by order of
the state bank examiner last week.
Some $4,000 belonging to the Vet
erans' Hospital is tied up. The bank
has many colored stockholders as
well as depositors.
Tuskegee Institute is only slightly
affected, as it has its own bank,
which is not involved.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-05-28
Treat Negro AS Equal
Or Make Him A Radical

NEW YORK. - (A.NP.) - Miss
Marian V. Cuthbert, formerly dean
of women at the Taladega College,
Alabama, speaking Tuesday before
a meeting of the Women's Home
Missionary Society of the First Pres
byterian Church Of Brooklyn, threw
a bombshell into the meeting.
you will have to accept the Ne
gro as an equal; that will mean the
sharing Of everything" Miss Cuth-
bert said. 'They are being forced
into radicalism because you are not
Christian enough to permit them to
earn a living the same as a white
man"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-05-28
Chinese Change Features
Now Looks Like Negro

PARIS.-Newspapers of this city
carry the picture of a rich Chinese
merchant Of Shanghai, who, discon.
tented with his slit eyes, has had
them enlarged by an American sur
geon.
Henceforward this happy Celestial
will be able to open on this vast
world an eye built on the European
plan. But with this alteration he had
better be wise and remain in China,
at least not go to America, for with
his flat nose, full lips and new eyes
he looks like a Negro. 1t is impos-
sible to tell him from a mulatto.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-05-28
Retires After 40 Years
AS Chef on Railroad

DULUTH. MINI Charles Colby,
who has served as chef on the pri-
vate car of presidents Of the Duluth
& Iron Range Railroad for nearly 40
years, was retired last week
Mr.. Colby recalls baking apple pics
for President Coolidge and the late
Judge Ebert Gary.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-05-28
New Office Building

DALLAS, Texas The new office
building erected by DR.. M. II. Leach
was thrown open to the public here
last week. The new structure is two
stories with two large storerooms on
the first floor and six offices on the
second floor. 1t is built of common
red and ginger eolored face brick
and all of the work was done by Ne
gro eontraetors and workman.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-05-28
Housewives League Boost
Your Store Movement

DETROIT, Mich.-With an obiec-
tive to boost the patronage of Negro
business, the Detroit Housewives
League, which has seven branches
throughout the city, has started a
drive for 5000 members. A "Your
Store" movement in which women
are urged to buy where Negro boys
and girls can secure work also is a
part of the program.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-05-28
Southern Aid Statement

RICHMOND, Va.-The statement
of the Southern Aid Society, which
boasts of being the Oldest Industrial
insurance company owned and oper-
ated by the group, shows that the
company has assets totaling $751;
821.72; capital and surplus of $780,
1920 and claims paid up to the
close of the year as $500, 754.96.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1931-03-12
WHAT WENT BEFORE

With his English wife, Cath
crime, and twelve-year-o old son,
Jeems, Henri Bulain, French set
tier in Canada in 1749, is return
ing to his farm after a visit to
the Tonteur seigneurie. They meet
GATHERINGS brother, Hepsibah.
He distributes presents to the
family. To Jeems he gives a pis-
toll and advises him to perfect
himself in craftsmanship. Jeems
gives Toinette Tonteur a present
which Hepsibah had furnished
Tor that purpose. Jeems fights
with Paul Taehe, cousin of Toin-
cite. Jeems Apologies to Toinette
for brawling in front of her. The
Tonteurs go to Quebec, where
Toinette Is to be educated. -Four
years pass. War between Britain
ana France flames. Returning
from hunt, Jeems finds his
home in flames. and his father
and mother slain. He goes to the
seigneurie and nds the manor
burned and Tonteur and his serv-
ants dead Believing him an en-
envy, Toinette tries to kill Jeems.
Jeems returns to his murdered
parents. The girl follows and be-
comes convinced that her sus-
picions of the youth were wrong.
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them again, twoscore warriors in
single file were following in the
footsteps of the leader and passed
within a hundred feet of what once
had been Lussan's home, casting
furtive sidewise glances as they
went. In more than one belt,
fresh scalps shone in the sun
shine, and two white men and a
boy with their hands tied and
prisoner thongs about their
threats walked in the line.
Not until the trees on the other
side of the clearing had swallowed
the last of the Mohawks did Toi-
nette's strai1ing eyes turn to
Jeems. There had been no sound
in the passing of the red scourge,
no cautious voice, no clatter Of
wood on steel, no crackle of
brittle grass or weeds under four
score moccasined feet. Where
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1931-03-12
LEAv|TT INTRODUCES
BILL FOR EROSIONAL.
STREAMFLOW SURVEY

Washington, March 11-Erosion
and streamflow Investigations on
forest and range lands at an an
nual cost of half a million dollars
would be authorized by a bill in
troduced in Congress, just before
adjournment, by Representative
Scott Leavitt of Montana.
The 100000 would be used in
experiments and Investigations at
forest experiment stations or else
where to determine definitely the
benefits of forest, chaparral, grass
and other natural vegetation coy
er IN prevention of soil erosion
and flood control. It would ir-
clude in its scope determination of
methods of extending this protec-
ton to its greatest advantage and
limits the survey to areas drained
by rivers subject to destructive
floods or important for navigation.
irrigation and power
use, mentioning specifically the
Mississippi and Colorado River
drainage areas.
In a statement today Congress
man Leavitt said the matter was
being presented in definite form
at this time with a view to secur-
ing discussion in the interested
states, the intention being to re-
introduce the measure upon the re.
converting of the new Congress
next fall. The matter is being
urged by the American Forestry
Association, the American Farm
Bureau Federation, the Society Of
American Foresters, the National
Grange and several other civic or
CARNATIONS.
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Jeems shook his head.

oftiliS SHbbh tilo hIdus
.He would have come to us. He
is Dead .
His voice possessed the unemo-
tional certainty with Which she
had referred to her father and
Heloise. There was no POSSIBLE
ity of his uncle being alive. He
repeated that belief, and added
that their salvation was little
short of a miracle. But now. he
thought. their way would be clear
to friends farther down the river.
The Indians could not have gone
many miles in that direction. for
evidently they were hurfying back
before Baron Dieskau learned of
their presence in the French coun.
try and set out forces 10 cut them
off. 1t did not occur to Jeems
that the baron and his men might
have been defeated. as was true
in that very hour.
He produced apples and pair
of purple-topped turnips from the
provision pouch which he wore at
his belt, and they ate these as
they waited. Meanwhile. he told