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STOP CRYING"
JEWISH BANKER
TELLS NEGROES

ATLANTIC CITY. - Evidences
of a new awakening of Negroes in
Atlantic City was seen in two mass
meetings held here this week.
At one meeting the seashore town
heard Joseph Salus. bank president,
tell the Negro to stop crying. At the
same meeting was formed the Doug
lass Forum which linked the Ameri-
can and West Indian together.
In outlining the purpose of the
Douglass Forum, James A. Lightfoot,
an attorney, stated that public ques.
tons could not be understood by the
masses unless there was adequate
and impartial discussion by persons
of recognized authority in the va
rious fields.
In dedicating the forum, Joseph
Salus said:
Newspapers, the screen and the
stage at one time did all in their
power to assassinate the whole jew
ish people. Not satisfied with this.
Henry Ford, Americas greatest in
dustrial magnate propagandized this
whole country in order that the jew
would be frozen out.
"The Jew pooled his resources.
Ford was dragged into court and
there got the beating of his life.
Not only that, Jews continued to
pool until their organization, similar
to the N. A. A. c. p, smashed every
obstacle and today the jew is re-
spected.
If you would succeed, get up off
your knees; stop crying and band
together. If the Jew is wronged,
all Jews are wronged. That's our
attitude. That must be your motto
Or you perish"
Another meeting was held in the
interest of the Scottsboro boys and
5000 was raised for the N. A. A. C.
p
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INSURANCE CO.
COLOR CLAUSE
HELD INVALID

DETROIT, Mich. - Because of
discrimination against a polcy-hold-
erf on account of color, ATTORNEY
Chas. B. Berry, waged a relentless
war against the American Bankers
Insurance company, with offices in
the Hoffman building here, when the
company refused to pay death
claim on the grounds that the de-
ceased was colored but carried a
policy designated only for white
people.
The case had to do with Mrs. Lii
lie Hackett whose husband is white.
Mr.. Hackett, already carrying insur-
ance with the American Bankers
sought to have his colored wife in
sured also. The wife being very
fair was not asked any questions
about color when she was insured.
On May 3, 1881, Mrs. Hackett was
killed in an automobile accident. 1t
was learned by the company that
the woman was colored and the COM
pany refused to pay the death claim
The white policy called for the
sum of 1892 while the colored pol
icy carried by Negroes in this COM
pany could not exceed $278.
A check was issued last week for
the S27S death claim which the hus-
band refused to accept. When a
lawyer was called into the case, he
Immediately carried the fight to
State Insurance Commission and
proved that this was case of dis
elimination, based, not upon the
mortality rate, but color. The com
mission decided in favor of the ben
eficiary and the full amount was
paid.
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Majority Of Negroes in New York City
Employed As Laborers or Domestics

600 feet underground and the men
have to work under compressed air.
Many of these employees are colored
Then there are the domestic SER
wants. With the lessening of the flow
of immigrants many more Negroes
have been employed in domestic serv-
ice in New York in the last ten years
than heretofore. Men and women,
but mostly women, perform all kinds
of domestic work in the homes of the
wealthy. Many of them have very
good jobs and receive excellent pay.
Marine and R. r. transportation
New York's prominence is due in
no small measure to its excellent har-
Dor and the ships that come to its
port from all parts of the world.
Many of the great steamship lines
employ Negroes in various capacities,
and most of these Negroes make their
homes in New York and environs.
From ordinary sailors on the lines
going to the West Indies to stewards
and walters of the coastwise lines,
Negroes may be found working.
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National Guard Called
For Chicago Riots

CHICAGO.-The entire National
Guard force of the State of Illinois,
massed at Camp Grant for summer
training, was held in readiness Tues
day for action while hundreds of po-
lice patrolled a riot-torn section of
Chicago where three men were killed
and four wounded in a Communist
headed uprising that developed be-
cause a Negro tenant was evicted
from his home.
The rioting Monday started when
two municipal bailiffs and two po-
licemen accompanied a real estate
agent and moved into the street the
household goods of Negro tenant.
While the eviction was in prog
ress, several thousand Communist
sympathiZers were being organized
for a parade in a park not far away.
When word reached them of the evic-
ton the rioting started.
Reports of what followed were
conflicting. The police were attack
ed. Reserves were rushed out. There
was open fighting in the streets.
Policemen Beaten
One SQUAD car which arrived early
contained three policemen. 1t was
surrounded by the mob, the police
were dragged out and beaten un-
conscious.
Other squads, arriving later, drove
back the rioters and found the three
officers upon the pavement. The
three men killed were all Negroes.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-08-06
OHIO MORTICIAN
ESCAPES DEATH
In POISON PLOT

CLEVELAND, Ohio. = rofiteer-
ing from racial prejudice almost
caused Arthur E. Wynne, under
taker, his life on Tuesday.
Mr.. Wynne entered into a trans
action with white real estate man
whereby after the down payment of
$1,000 on piece of property in Sha-
ker Heights the pair could sell the
property, making a quick profit of
$4,000 because of the undesirable
ity of Negroes in Shaker Heights.
This profit was to be divided.
Mr.. Wynne, later realizing the ra-
cial situation, and wishing to relieve
himself of such responsibility, called
the bank and stopped payment on
his check. The next day he received
telephone call from Mrs. Lillian
Downey, asking him to call, as she
had business proposition to discuss
with him. The undertaken called at
her home, where she told him that
she had friend in Pittsburgh near
death, and insured for $4,000. If
Mr.. Wynne would aid her as admin
istratrix of the estate, she said, he
would receive a good profit. The
undertaken refused.
When the door bell rang, Mrs.
Downey answered, returning with
two dishes of ice cream which she
claimed neighbor had sent, and
asked Mr.. Wynne to take one. When
Mr.. Wynne bit what he thought was
a nut, he received a bitter burning
sensation, whereupon he examined
the cream, finding small capsule
filled with a green substance. He
asked Mrs. Downey what it was and
she expressed dismay and ignorance.
Thereupon he found four other such
capsules.
Mr.. Wynne went Immediately to
the city chemist, and was told that
there was enough potassium cyai
hide in the capsules to kill fifteen
persons. Police Immediately arrest
ed Mrs. Downey, who admitted hav-
ing been hired by the white agent
to feed Mr.. Wynne the poison for
the sum of 5000. She was placed in
Jail and later released on $1,000
bond. The real estate agent has not
been apprehended.
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u Drowned When Bus
Dives Through Bridge

GEORGETOWN, S. C. "A bus
loaded with picnickers returning
from a beach outing plunged into
an open drawbridge near here Mon
day night and carried twenty Me-
groes and two white men to their
DEATH
Only one person, Jerome Frazier.
a Negro newsboy, escaped. He said
he broke a window in the bus and
jumped to safety as the vehicle hurtl-
ed into the forty-foot water of the
Sampit River.
The two white men who drowned
were Warren Newton, II years old,
owner and driver of the bus, and
DIN Newton, 20, his son.
Only one body, that of an uniden.
titled Negro, was recovered when
the truck was brought up. The top
of the vehicle had been torn off in
the lifting operation. Elo8en bodies
were recovered later.
The names of the NEGROES drown
ed could not be ascertained early
Tuesday. They were residents Of
Georgetown and had engaged New
ton, a farmer, to drive them to the
beach for picnic.
Authorities said they were at loss
to explain what caused the driver to
run the bus into the river. They
said red light danger signals to warn
that the drawbridge had been lifted
for the passage of a boat were clear
ly visible.
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(Enterprise Now Burean

Enterprise news bureau
WASHINGTON, ID. C. - Fights
within the national order Of Elks
ragged on three fronts as the indie
pendent Virginia group employed
Colonel Henry w. Anderson for le-
gal defense, Grand Exalted Ruler
Finley Wilson frightened his grip Of
control and the three lodges recent
ly suspended sought reinstatement
last week.
Over one hundred prominent
Elks, representing New York, New
Jersey, and Virginia, gathered in
Richmond Sunday afternoon. at the
home Of Williams Lodge and laid
plans for a finish fight against the
recent reversal Of Judge Lawrence
Groner's ruling, by the U. S. Circuit
Court of Appeals, and featured the
meeting by announcing h t Col.
Henry W. Anderson, prominent
white lawyer Of this city and MEM
Der of the Wickersham Commission,
would head the legal defense Of the
group which already lists j. r. Car
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-08-06
DIR. Charles Florence Named
President OF Lincoln gu"

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - After
naming one man, who refused and
considering several others, DR..
Charles w. Florence, has been an
nounced as president of Lincoln Uni
versity of Missouri.
Following the resignation this
spring of N. B. Young, as head OF
the Institution, the trustees named
DR.. Ambrose Caliver, specialist in
Negro education, United States Of
flee of Education at Washington, as
president.
DR.. Caliver declined the post.
DIR. Florence is a former profess
sor at Virginia State College at
Petersburg and graduate of the
University of Pittsburgh and Har-
ward University.
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Elk Factions Prepare For Legal Battle
As Virginia Court Suspends Decision

ter, W. w. Foreman, Joseph r. Pol
lard and j. Bernard Johnson, attor-
neys.
To Supreme Court
The Virginia Elks announce that
they will fight the case TO the last
ditch and in the Sunday meeting as
surances were received from the fl
nancal committee of the group that
all the necessary funds for The hand
ling Of the case will be provided in
order to place it before the nations
highest tribunal
A pledge being circulated among
the Elks who are fighting the case
declares that the group is "unalter-
ably opposed to the administration
Of j. Finley Wilson, denounee his
rule and will never, regardless of the
sacrifices entailed, submit 10 his
leadership" This pledge has been
signed by over one thousand Elks
in this state, and on the eastern sea-
board. The sunday meeting brought
in a large sum of money TO be app
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(Enternrise News Bureaul

NEW YORK C1TY.-Since the Bu-
reau of the Census made public fig
ures from the 1880 census showing
that New York City has more than
1927, 900 Negroes, and that there are
a half million Negroes i'm the metro
politan area of New York City, which
includes northern New Jersey New
ark, Jersey City, Paterson, ETC. /,
there have been inquiries as to what
this vast horde of colored city dwell
ers do for living.
Charles f. Hail. expert statisticiaD
in the Bureau of the Census, writes
as follows concerning this:
The vast majority of Negroes in
New York, as in most other places,
are yet common laborers or employed
in domestic service. In this class are
the stevedores, the ditch diggers, the
unskilled workers in the vast public
works, such as the new subway sys-
TENS, the new water supply system.
system that includes a thirty mile
tunnel under New York City from
Yonkers to Brooklyn. This tunnel is
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-08-06
Baby Swallows Needle;
Mother Jerks Thread

BROOKSVILLE, Okla. = Oklaho-
ma mothers have learned a new way
to care for their babies while away
at work. Thread your needles and
everything is all right
Little J. B. johnson, three years
old, swallowed needle while play
ing alone last week His terrified
mother, when she returned, discov-
cred about ten inches of white thread
protruding from the child's mouth.
Pulling upon the string, Mrs. John
son soon extracted a large needle
from the infants larnyx. The child,
according to physicians, is none the
worse for h av ng swallowed his
mothers sewing eQuipment
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-08-06
HELL-BELIEVINC
PASTOR POKES
AT EDUCATION

CINCINNATI. Ohio. 49, DR.. J. c.
Robinson, editor of the A. VI. r. Re-
view. Of Philadelphia, in sermon at
Allen Temple A. NJ. e. Church Sun
day morning, admitted the story
FROM Boston, in which it was stated
that young candidate for the min
istry. NJ. Fuller, had "A tilt with him
ON the doctrine of eternal punish
ment
In the course Of his sermon, DR..
Robinson said:
Two weeks ago, many Negro pa
pors carried a story from Boston, in
which the young minister. a grad
rate from Yale Unworthy, took is
sue with me, and stated that the doe
trine of eternal hell is foolish, and
that the church which believes in it
is back number.
"Nes, the young man made some
such statement as that as he stood
before the altar while | was exam
ming him to be ordained a deacon.
said TO him then, and | say to you
now. that he would never amount to
anything in the Christian ministry.
~ would not pay any attention 10
the story at ALL but it is stated that
] told him tina he should go and unite
with the Episcopal Church. ] want
it understood that | would not be
guilty of so slandering the great
Episcopal church as To- suggest to one
so unfit to preach, TO join that
church
81 fear that the educated, or ra-
krts LOT ].
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-08-06
Pennsylvania Is First
In Negro Population

WASHINGTON.-The total Ne
gro population of Pennsylvania,
shown at 43l,257, places the Key
stone State first in point of mum,
bers of the Northern States. New
York with 412,814 is in second place
followed by Illinois with 32S,972;
Ohio with 100000, and New DER
sey with POSSESS.
The leading counties of Pennsyl-
vania are Philadelphia with 1885
Allegheny with 1896, Delaware
with 21,S42, Chester with ID, 1853, and
Montgomery with 12,572.
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Census Shows -
Rapid Growth
In Ten Years

WASHINGTON. = The colored
population of the United States is
now 11,563,131, a gain of 1,100,-
900 over the figures of 1920. The
census figures, according to the bu-
reau, are approximate, and subject
to final correction.
The rate of gain in the past ten
years was 11.5 per cent, compared
with rate of Ga for the previous
decade. In 1880 the decades growth
was 100000, and in 1900, 1885,
600.
Improved educational facilities
and more sanitary environments
probably have been important fac
tors in bringing about this higher
rate of growth, inasmuch as the i'm
migration of colored people has been
relatively negligible during the Pc
riod in which the rate has become
higher, it was said. Additional in
formation made available at the Bu-
reau follows:
Death Rate Reduced
Despite the apparent falling off in
the colored death rate, which has
been and is considerably higher than
that of whites, the rate of increase
in colored population during the last
decade (on the basis of as states
and the District of Columbia) was
still substantially lower than that of
the total population which showed
a gain of 16 per cent.
The numerical gain in colored
population in the nation with the
exception of two states) was ap-
proximately 100000 as compared
to the total population gain for the
entire country of approximately IT,
100000.
The migration of colored people
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Proves He's No Bandit

TURNER'S STATION. - Failure
of Stephen Kubisak to identify Jo-
seph Crosby of Turner's Station, Bal
timore County, as the bandit that
held him up on July Is. brought in
slant release of the latter from the
Dundalk Police Station, Friday. Ku-
bisak, a sixty-five-year-old cripple,
was robbed of 500. he claims.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-08-06
Chicago Cops Fired

CHICAGO. = Policemen Yelling
ton "Dick" Britton and James H.
"Jessie James" Rowland, were dis
charged from the local police force
Monday by action of the civil serv,
ice commission.
Before the commission the two po-
licemen were charged with accept
ing brides to release narcotic ped
dlers and with framing the case to
obtain possession of the drugs.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-08-06
Chain Stores For Florida

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Three
of the leading merchants here have
put their ideas and cash together
and will soon operate a chain of
stores.
The men who are responsible for
this movement are b. J. Hearn, B.
f. Livingston and j. r.. Paul.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-08-06
Organize Aero Club

VICKSBURG, Miss.-What is be-
lieved to be the first Negro aero
club in this State has been organ
lied in this city with Jessie Jones,
Jr., as president, with forty men,
bers in the roster An aeroplane
from the Mississippi Airway Com
pany at Jackson will be used by the
club.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-08-06
Admit Negro Tale Fake

KANSAS CITY, Kas. = Three
white youths arrested here last week
admitted that they had "faked" a
story told police that Negro had
shot Albert Loncarich. Loncarich,
they said, was in pistol fight with
them, and feared recommitment to
the state reform school.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-08-06
Approval Given
New Title To
Designate Race

JEANETTE, Pa. - Congressman
Oscar DePriest gave his approval to
a resolution against the use of the
word Negro" to designate members
of the colored race and urged the
adoption of a resolution offered by
&. Nj. johnson at a meeting of the
Colored American Day celebration at
which he was the chief speaker.
The resolution. which was passed
unanimously. urged the adoption of
the constitutional title of "Colored
Americans" as authorized by the
Fourteenth Amendment TO the Con-
stitution, instead of the word me
gro"
5000 Hear Congressman
More than 5000 people were pres
ent at the celebration. Reciting his
own struggles for leadership, Com
gresham DePriest urged his hearers
to organize and cooperate for uni
ted efforts. you people can't get
any place by acting as individuals.
You must fight for everything you
get because people aren't going to
give you anything"
More than nine thousand colored
and one thousand whites have signed
the petition in favor of the resolu-
ton to ban the word NEGRO as des-
ignation of colored people, accord
ing 10 Mr.. johnson, and the moves
ment has resulted in several papers
changing their policy along this line,
he said:
The resolution follows:
1-Whereas-the Colored Citizens
Of the United States of America,
have increased from a population of
approximately 100000 people to
more than 100000 citizens during
the period from 1868 to 1880 - or
over 800 per cent in 63 years.
2-Whereas-the Colored Citizens
have advanced from a practically
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Employee Gets ST., GOO

NEW YORK, N. Y.-Mrs. Willie
Mae Reynolds, 1877 w. 123rd Street,
was beneficiary in the will of her
employer who left her a sum Of
81, 900 this week.
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Another Goes By Chair

HUNTSVILLE, Texas. - Denying
his guilt as he went to the electric
chair, convicted of attacking a white
woman, in Galveston in March, 1880,
Joshua Rifles was put to death on
Thursday.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-08-06
Man Quits, Wife Shoots

TOLEDO, Ohio. - Charged with
shooting her husband, Arthur Snow
den, with intent to kill, Mrs. Essie
Snowden, Scott Street. was arrested
The couple were separat-
ed
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-11
CITY HOSPITALS
TO HOLD open
HOUSE TOURS
Local Institutions Join in
National Ceremonies
on tuesday.

Hospitals of the city and state
will celebrate National Hospital day
Tuesday with open house" and in
spection tours of the institutions
conducted by officials throughout
the day.
Open house will be held at the
Indiana university's hospital group
and the medical school Tuesday
afternoon between 2 and 4 p. m.
The Indiana Christian hospital
will receive visitors throughout the
day.
Tours will be conducted over city
hospitals new Impatient building
and the entire structure during the
day.
st. Vincent's hospital will have
open house from 9 to IL a. m. and
from 2 to 4 p. m. with the day cI-
NAKED by a meeting of the Indiana
Medical Association in the hospital
in the evening.
The Methodist hospital celebrated
the day Sunday with the unveiline
OF the Fairbanks plaque.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-11
RENO GAMBLING
TABLES SLUMP
ON Wash Day
Forget Roulette and Gold
Strike in Interest on
Divorce Crop.
BIZ United Press

BV United Press
RENO, New, May 11.-Gambling
tables, overfowing hotels and the
latest Nevada gold strike temporor-
lily we're forgotten today as another
bumper crop of divorce colonists
focked to Reno courts for the sec
ond wash day" proceedings under
the new six weeks residence law.
Roulette wheels, spinning busily
all last week, experienced a decided
slump while Washoe county gave
itself over to the business Of grant
ing DEGREES to seventy wives and
husbands.
While not expecting to reach the
all-tine record set last week, when
100 divorces were grained in two
days, Judges Ben Curler and
Thomas Moran had enough cases to
keep them busy all day.
County Clerk Kept Busy
The office Of E. H. BOSS Beemer,
county clerk, continued to receive
great sheafs of divorce papers while
his staff was busy handling various
proceedings necessary to granting
default d3crees. The marriage Ii
cense register, also was in constant
use.
AT times the line of prospective
brides and bridegroopls was fifteen
deep.
Practically all the women who
signed divorce papers and marriage
licenses with successive strokes of
the pen had three legal names in
almost as many minutes.
First a woman had her married
name then her maiden name when
the divorce was granted and, finally.
the name of her new husband.
The east provided the majority of
those who joined in the rush for
divorces.
Rival to Gold Rush
After the ten-minute hearing,
many joined in the ancient Reno
ritual of kissing the pillar of the
courthouse.
Some followed tradition further
and threw their wedding rings into
the Truckee river.
In another section of the state,
near Yerington, desert proSpectors
were rushing to Smith valley at
news of another gold strike, but the
rush to Washoe county courthouse
was just as brisk and determined.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-11
He Dances for Python

BIZ United Press
CHICAGO, May 11-Being con-
~ fronted suddenly by live
and hungry twenty-foot snake in
the baggage car of a train moving
more than sixty miles an hour
was the experience recounted by
William Stewart, express messen-
ger, upon arrival Of his train
here from the east.
The snake, a python, was en-
route from Singapore to Browns
vile, Tex. It was in crate in
car where Stewart, who lives at
Jamestown, N. Y, was working.
The train was several miles
from Barberton, O., when Stew
art heard a hiss, turned quickly,
and discovered that the huge
snake had escaped from its crate
and was sliding across the car to-
ward him.
Stewart first tried lodging be-
hind baggage, but the snake, ap-
parently very hungry after a long
sleep, followed him.
Stewart raced to a door, opened
it, found handhold on the out
side, worked the door shut and