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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-10
FIVE IN NEVADA
FEUDS MAY DIE
BY LETHAL GAS
Two Women, Three Men
Await Trial Under New
Murder Law.

By United Prees
RENO, New, July l0.-The shadow
OF the lethal gas chamber today
hangs over three men and two wom-
en- In Nevada who have been &C
cused- Of first degree murder, for
which the maximum penalty is
death.
Gunplay figured In four OF the
murders and a knife in the fifth.
All of the victims we're men. TWO
other slayings occurred this years
but the Nevada code" of nom
interference In private feuds and
the law Of the range" brought
freedom to both victors in the quar-
reis.
"A Jury freed Frank Blondin,
miner, for shooting and killing
George Indiana, sheepherder, in
the lonely Pyramid Lake section
during an argument over grazing
rights, and coroner's jury exon
Grated Bill Graham, Reno "big shot"
IN sporting circles, for Staying F. r.
McCracken during a gun duel in a
ASA6o AA4CJ cpSdhGdSys
The two women charged with
murder are in the Elko county Jail
awaiting trial. Although one Staying
occurred in Wendover and the other
In Midas, New, there is a strange
parallel between the cases-both of
the men victims were shot in the
back, both women were alone with
the victims when the shootings oc-
Cured, both claim the dead men
committed suicide and in each in
stance the officers claim suicide
would have been impossible.
Beautiful Rita Thurman is
charged with shooting Raw Mon
see at Wendover, New, after their
return from a country dance.
Inc second woman, Mrs. Mary
9oung, was bound over for trial IN
nrst-degree murder charges in the
saying OF her husband, Del H,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-10

shooting and killing Jack OBrien.
prospector. He was killed during an
argument.
l.. Cejas, Mexican, Is held In the
death house at Carson City pending
an appeal in his case.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-10
PLAN VETERANS AID.
Job Agency Combine to Be
Told III Broadcast.

A plan to coordinate all federal,
state, county, city and civic en-
ployment agencies for the purpose
of placing all partially disabled
World war veterans in employment
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-10

day as an amnesia victim, was re-
leased Thursday. Authorities said
he had recovered his memory and
! mental faculties two days ago but
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-10

It's roastin time this much warbed
Wabash country and think that amt should have
Miss singing sister kick
diet into the ashcan reach healthy
OF you didn't witness the
with her cusone blues guessing
in paint alley backsage found the weesever
for that baWed-out, knocked-out feeling
But The Times had Topsy
the roain and here Duncan per
that she likes her Indiana corn--legal variety
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-10

had refused to reveal his name OF
address. It was reported he had
registered in Indianapolis as Jacob
Miller, TT. Worth, Tex.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-10

Amnesia Victim Released
By United PTess
GREENCAsTLE. Ind, July TO-
A man. IS. held here since satur-
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-05-14

NEW YORK-fBy George S.
Schuyler) .-Ameriea is one-third
mulatto.
Americans should be the last peo-
pie in the world to have color pre-
JUDGE. They have an admixture OF
colored blood from at least three
direct sources, and other admixtures
from indirect sources.
First, is direct miscegenation.
Reuter- and other historians have in
formed as that miscegenation has
proceeded apaee since 1880, or for
fifteen generations. Hence assum-
ing that in 1880 there we're no more
than 1000 cases of miseegenation,
this should have resulted by natural
increase according to the established
laws of population growth, to b.
000,0 600 descendants. lntermarriage
was very early made Illegal but
nothing has ever been able to stop
,ntermixture. and the process has
been going on.
Indian Stock
Secondly, Americans sometimes
boast of descent from American In
dian stock. However, for more than
$50 years there have been no In
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-05-14
NATIVES TAKE UP FIGHT AGAINST
GROWTH or AMERICAN PREJUDICE
Pastor Licks Cop
Who Called Names

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi. = The
next time Officer Casey Jones.
white, calls somebody names, he
will probably pick on someone
else other than Baptist preachers.
Jones flung a mouthful of vile
language at the Rev. Jace Clay
burn, here, Wednesday, when the
car which he was driving collid-
ed with that of the officer, and
threatened to wipe up the ground
with him" had he (Clayton) not
had on glasses. The mild-man-
nered minister obligingly.. laid
aside his spectscles and when the
officer made a pass at him, pro-
ceeded to give him the beating of
a lifetime.
Spectators say Jones was in
toxicated, The Reverend Clay
burn says he did not smell the
liquor on the officer because he
did not allow Jones to get closer
than his fist. The officer later
drew a fine of $50.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-05-14
s. FELLOW SHIPS
AWARDED BY The.
ROSENWALD FUND

CHICAGO, III. - The current fell
lowship awards by the Julius Rosen-
valid Fund have just been announc-
ed by Edwin X. Embree. president
of the fund
These fellowships. Mr.. Embree ex-
planned, are granted chiefly for the
purpose of giving opportunities for
advanced study by southern teach
ers and librarians in northern uni
versities.
A few special awards are made to
persons of unusual distinction in lit
erature and the fine arts to enable
them to carry on some important
piece of creative work. The fund
and public health nursing with a
view to developing teachers in medi-
cal schools and hospitals and COM
munity centers. The awards in med
icine and nursing will be announced
later.
The special fellowships for re-
search and creative work in the fine
arts were granted as follows:
Richard Barthe, sculptor; w. +.
B. Dubois. author; ID. O. w. Holmes,
dean of Howard University, for spe-
cial study at Columbia University;
Henry A. Hunt, principal of Fort
Valley High and Industrial School,
For Valley, Georgia, for visit to
agricultural demonstrations in Den
mark.
James Weldon Johnson, author
Augusta Savage, sculptor, for study
in Paris; W. Edouard Scott, artist,
for study in Haiti; Clarence Gamer
onWhite, composer, for study in Par
is; John Work, director of music,
Fisk University, for study at Har-
ward University; Monroe Work, So
biologist, for special study at the
| University of Chicago.
Fifty-eight regular fellowships for
advanced study for teachers and IL
hrarians, were granted.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-05-14
Fires Are Wiping Out
Business Mans Fortune

RUTHERFORDToN, N. Con
sternation reigns here as the result
of mysterious fires which have de-
stroyed the funeral home, the gro
Gerry store and market and the gas
and oil station of John II. Mitchell,
wealthy resident of this place, with
in the past year.
A few months ago n $4,000 fun
eral home went up in flames, the
origin of which has not yet been
discovered. Ae few weeks ago a
mysterious fire starting on the sec
ond floor of rooming house owned
by Mr.. Mitchell, swept through the
building, destroying the building and
several thousands of dollars worth
of fixtures in the grocery store and
market located on the ground floor.
This week the cafe. pas and oil
station, valued at over $4,000. went
up in flames.
Mr.. Mitchell can give no reason
for the fires, nor has the cause been
determined by officials. Mr.. Mitch
ell, who is now suffering from a
stroke of paralysis, is well-known
throughout this section, and is one
of the wealthest men of the city.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-05-14
Dixie Town Hates Negroes So 1t Stops
Buying Amos N Andy Toothpaste

NEW Y0RK.-Dr. Gilbert S. Cox,
white, pastor of First M. f. Church,
South Bend, Ind, sent to Maryville,
Mo-, by the Federal Council of
Churches to investigate the recent
lynching, reported that white pas
tors chose other texts beside lynch
ing on the Sunday after the mob
uprising. He said also:
"There was also the age-old race
prejudice. And of the nearby pa
pers averred that it was so bad that
the sale of Pepsodent had rapidly
decreased (due to the Amos m Andy
dialect program over the radio).
"The whole Negro population
numbered only Lightweight. The
feeling ran so strong that members
Of the Negro group persuaded TWEEN
ty of their number to leave the city
for the sake of peace. The threat
was made to burn all of their homes.
College Student Fired
Zone college student, working
part-time in the county court house
wrote to the local paper, The Ne
gro is a citizen of the United State:
and should be treated as such. Lei
Us not be guided by blind and I'm.
reasoning prejudice. Let us accord
the black man all the justice that
is due him from a liberty-loving peo
ple.' For this statement he wal
dismissed from his position by one
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-05-14
Pure Blood Theory Is Bunk; Whites Got
Black Blood When Africa Invaded Europe

dams, cast Of the Appalaehians I'M
mixed with Negro blood. Thus, for
an American aristocratic family To
boast of Indian descent is to admit
having a strain of Negro blood.
Thirdly, every year a large num-
Der of octoroons "cross the line, .
that is, hide their Negro identity and
mingle with the whites as whites.
The discrepancy between the decen-
NAL rate Of expected Negro popula-
ton growth and the actual census
figures shows that the annual num-
Der of such crossings must run into
thousands.
II Per Cent of Indians Colored
In my book, "Black No More,
which has just been published by
the Macaulay Company, | have tried
to present this situation in a satiri-
cal way. [ have attempted to show
up not only white pretensions to race
purity but the pretensions Of my own
race. The pure blooded Negro is a
myth. According to the we'll known
anthropologist, Melville Herskovitz,
p per cent Of the American Negro
population has Indian. ancestry and
Continued on Page Two0
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-05-14
HOOVER CONFRONTED WITH TASK
OF HEALING PARTY SQUABBLE
First Said Negro Did
1t, Now Says He Did 1t

MACON, Gs.-(ANP)- After
attempting for more than three
weeks to fasten the crime on two
Negroes, DeLois Clements, 49,
year-old white boy, and the son
of Telfair County's representa-
tive-elect in the state legislature,
confessed that he alone was re-
sponsible for the killing of l.. J.
Clegg, wealthy white citizen of
McRse, Georgia.
His first confession fastened
the actual killing on two Negroes
in McRae and named a promi-
nent white man as the instigator
of the crime.
He stuck steadfastIy to this
statement for four weeks, despite
the denials on the part of the
other three persons named, who
were also arrested.
Tuesday night he sent for the
Jail warden and told him that he
wanted to tell the truth about the
whole matter.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-05-14
CENSUS SHOWS
COLORED FOLK
MOVING NORTH
DETROIT SNTH CITY IN NEGRO
POPULATION

WASHINGTON. - Despite the
slump in the automobile industry, the
colored population of Detroit, Mich
igan, took decided Jump in num-
bers in the decade from 1920 to
1890, according to the figures just
released by the Census Bureau. The
Negro population of Detroit num-
bered 40,83S in 1920. The 1880
figure is 100000, a gain of nearly
two hundred per cent.
The rate Of gain is higher than
that. for any other large city in the
north.
Detroit is now in sixth position,
according to announcements so far
made, in the Negro population CEN
ters for the country. New York
leads with an estimated 100000 /;
Chicago is second with 224,000;
Philadelphia is third with 219,599.
Then comes Baltimore, $4,000;
Washington, $4,000, and Detroit,
100000. New Orleans is close be-
hind. The figures for st. Louis have
not yet been announced.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-05-14
Rich Realty Owner
Cannot Buy Water

WILSON, N. C.-Samuel II. Wick,
for many years the postmaster here,
and at one time considered one of
the wealthiest colored men in North
Carolina, is now land poor, it was
learned here last week.
Notwithstanding the fact that
Wick owns enough tenant homes in
East Wilson to make good sized
town, on account of the financial de-
preston and the great number of his
renters out of employment, he has
been unable to collect enough to pay
his town taxes and water bills.
1t is said that he owes his town
taxes, which amount to around 3d.
900, and that the water has been
cut off from one hundred of his
houses because he has failed to pay
for the month of March, and now his
tenants are begging water from
their more fortunate neighbors.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-05-14
NEGRO POET
FINDS JIM CROW
AT CUBAN BEACH

HAVANA, Cuba.-Striking proof
CT the rapid strides which Ameri-
can race prejudice is taking to create
a dangerous race problem In Cuba
came to light this week when Lang
ston Hughes, noted American poet,
was arrested and sent to jail when
he sought to battle at an exclusive
beach which is reserved for White
American tourists.
Hughes and Zell Ingram, Cleve-
land, Ohio artists, who are touring
in the caribbean Islands, spent sew
eral DAYS here, and were highly en-
tertained by prominent persons in
social and literary circles. On Mon
day afternoon they went to the Ca
rala beach to battle, but when they
sought admission, they were told by
the manager Of the pavilion that
they could not enter because they
were colored, and that the white
Americans would object to them.
Hughes demonstrated with the man.
arer, and stepped aside to await sew
eral friends who were to meet MN
there.
Police Reprimanded
The manager called policeman,
and ordered Hughes and Ingram ar
rested for disturbing the peace. Both
were taken to jail, but were later
released on $50 bonds.
When the case came to trial, the
two young men were released, and
the Judge delivered scathing re-
primand to the manager and owner
CONTINUED on Page Two.)
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of the county officers.
Since the lynching, many citizens
have been asked to discharge all Ne
gro employees, even those in domes-
tic service.
Pastors Agree to Keep Quiet
even after the lynching, when
many began to realize the enormity
of the deed, only one minister made
mention of the affair in the pulpit !;
the other four ministers agreed to
keep silent. On account of a re-
quest by the Negro minister, one of
the other ministers stated that he
was asked to say that the Maryyille
Negroes wanted peace and goodwill
and that perhaps some other time
] may speak upon this, but | think
that now we need to quiet our minds
and turn our thoughts to making
our lives the best we can and doing
what God would want us to do
This minister preached on Chris
tians giving evidence of the grace
Of God in their daily living, and IL
Illustrated it by the story of the con.
yersati0n of a drunkard.
Talks ON Taking Christ Aboard
Another minister preached on the
Eleventh Commandment and saie
among other things: There are meT
and women today who claim to be
Christians but refuse to give on'
fContinued on Page Two.)
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-05-14
SPLIT
IN R AN Ks OF
COLORED COP.

WASHINGTON. - Beginning his
popularity campaign for renomina-
ton in 1882, President Hoover is
confronted with the task of patch
ing up internal unrest among col
ored Republican leaders, split by par
ty differences and Jealousy into
three factions.
The ending Of the presidents two
year silence by an address during the
50th anniversary exercises at Tuske-
gee Institute recently and his trib-
ute paid to the race on the appoint
ment of the housing committee are
regarded favorably by the politicians
and are deemed as bids for eolored
votes.
But whatever favorable reaction
the president may have caused them
is offset at the present time by the
three-cornered fight for supremacy.
DIR. John K. Hawkins, churchman,
banker, and director of the coored
division Of the National committee,
during the last Hoover campaign,
apparently has the edge now, but OPP
posing forces make his position in
secure.
Aligned against Hawkins are Per-
ny W. Howard, national Republi-
can committeeman from Mississippi
and Southern political boss, and w.
C. Hneston, power in the West who
is Just making his debut here.
Associated with DIR. Hawkins. it
Is said. are W. D. Henderson, of Kan
sas City, recently appointed special
assistant to the attorney-genera by
the President; DR.. Emmett j. Scott,
secretary-treasurer of Howard Uni
yersity and Judge James A. Cobb,
of the District Municipal Court.
Linked with Howard in his bid for
supremacy is the name of Benjamin
Davis, editor and former national
Republican committeeman of Geor-
gia, who was in Washington several
weeks ago and confabbed with How
Continued on Page Two.)
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-05-14
Department Store
Sells Stock To
Colored Patrons

WASHINGTON. - The Fair De-
partment Store has inaugurated a
campaign to sell half of its capital
stock to colored investors, it was an
nouneed a few days ago.
The Fair is owned by Emanuel
and Herman Bernstein. About fiji
teen months AFRO they decided to
employ colored men and women as
statesmen in their store. This was
the first experiment of its kind ever
undertaken in the Nations Capt.
tai. Today over eighty per cent of
the stores employees are colored.
Shore Management
So successful has been the innova-
ton of employing colored persons as
statesmen that the two brothers have
decided to share the management
with colored patrons. In carrying
out this idea, they are offering a
one-half interest for sale. The stock
will be sold at one dollar share.
Preceding the offering of this
stock for sale to the public, three
colored men have been added to the
board of directors of the company.
They are: the Rev. Hampton T. Gas
kins, pastor of Liberty Baptist
Church, vice-president; Thomas Fra
zier, prominent undertaken and bus
mess man, treasurer, and George A.
Parker, civic and religious leader,
attorney for the company.
Help Training School
On Tuesday, May s, Miss Mamie
II. Burroughs, head of the Nation
al Training School for Girls, received
a check for $50 to apply on her
campaign for funds.
This money was donated by the
employees of the Fair Department
Store. This store is the only one
of its kind in Washington employing
colored men and women as sales.
men.
Mrs. Eva Bouldin Slade, head OF
! the millinery department of the
store, has completed her first years
work at the Fair, during which time
she has not been absent one day
either because of Illness or other
wise.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-05-14
PULLMAN PORTER
YIELDS AXE IN
FIGHT ON TRAIN

UTICA, N. Y.-"Use in Case of
Emergency read the sign over an
ak on the Pullman Car, and when
passengers and train crew attacked
him, j. f. Smith. porter on the
New York Central train, decided it
was an emergency, and he followed
the directions. In fact, so effective
ly did he use the ak and a ventilator
stick that when the smoke of bat
tie cleared away eight of his oppon-
ents were stretched out in the car.
The fight started as the train was
climbing up the Adirondack Noun
tains enroute to Montreal, and ragged
for more than an hour, stopping
only when state troopers boarded the
train at Thenandara and placed
Smith under arrest.
Two versions of the cause of the
battle was given. The first being
that of Edward English. the con-
ductor on the car with Smith. The
conductor claimed that he discovered
Smith in woman's berth and that
they were drinking. He ordered him
out of the birth and Smith became
enragcd and struck him over the
head with a ventilator stick
Smith, on the other hand. told
the troopers that he was not in the
berth with the woman and that she
had not Given him anything to drink.
He said that he was arranging the
woman's baggage and English came
up and ordered him away. using
abusive language. He resented it,
and the fight started,
As the battle ragged passengers and
crew joined in al Of them aiding the
conducted Smith then pulled down
the ak and began swinging. As he
swung his adyersaries decreased one
! by one as he made his way through
four cars, finally reaching a private
car in which he barricaded himself.
4 The troopers boarded the train, and
/ he surrendered to them and was tax
en- eff here.
Charges Of assault viii be placed
against him. and he will be tried in
the courts here
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-05-14
219,59e COLORED FOLK
NOW IN PHILADELPHIA

The Bureau of the Census an
nounces the Negro population of
Philadelphia as 219,599 an increase
of 63.3 per cent or $3.50 over the
number ,134, 299) as shown in 1920.
The white population of the city
increased only "a per cent during
the decade, a jump from 1858, 1870
in 1920 to 1,950,961 in 1880.
Adult portion of the Negro popu-
lation increase is shown at 51,918
or over so per cent of the total in
crease. This element of the popu-
lation was given at 94,316 in 1920
but jumps to 146,234 in 1880; 49,
$50 males and 72,674 females.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-05-14
LANCSTON HUGHES, POET JAILED IN CUBA
Republican Leaders Quarrel
Social Equality Don't
Bother The French

PARiS-Thst the French press
or theatre in general cares little
about hurting white American
color sepsibilities, in spite of the
enormous amount of money
Americans spend in France is of
ten amply demonstrated.
Recently lie Journal, one of the
Leading morning papers, had for
its usual front-page cartoon, the
picture of a very black African
dressed in evening clothes. In
the salon with him are a number
of white persons, men and women,
also dressed in evening clothes.
Beside the African, on the sofa,
is a white girl, who seeing the
Negroes tightly curled hair, says
to him, innocently and in sdmira-
ton: Just between us, cher ami,
will you tell me where you had
your permanent wave done"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-05-14
NORFOLK POPULATION
INCREASES ONLY $50

While the State of Virginia lots
nearly 40 per cent of its Negro pop
ulation in the decade 1920 to 1890,
and Richmond its principal city has
shown decrease in its Negro popu.
lation, Norfolk held its own and a
gain of 1.3 per cent. In 1920 at
1892, while in 1880 it increased to
1892, a gain of $50 persons.
The total population of the city
was on April l, 1880, 129,710, COM
prising IS, 514 whites and 43,942
Negroes and 254 of other races. OF
the total Negro population, 20,790
are males and 23,152 females; an
excess of 1882 females over males.
The Negro population 81 years of
age and over in 1920 was 28,507.
This element of the population de-
creased in 1880 to 1890; 1873
males and 14,782 females.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-05-14
White Wife Of Suicide
Is Found Murdered

LOS ANGELES, Calif.-When F.
B. c"Diamond Dolly") Bibbens,
white, was found murdered at San
Diego week ago, Investigation re-
vealed her to be the wife of w. b.
Bibbens, who committed suicide at
1888 E. 41st Street, here last Sep
TENDER.
Rumor has it that he did not kill
himself about her, but that he was
infatuated with colored girl, whom
he telephoned just before he COM
mitted the rash deed.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-05-14
Uses Corpse AS AID

NEW YORK. - When am $
Finch, the 675-pound giant, died
here Monday night, it took seven
men to bring his body out of the
Harlem Hospital, whore he had been
taken, to the undertaken wagon.
However, the climax came Thursday
when boys distributed handbills all
over. Harlem, some of which were
pasted on windows, reading, Come
to Blanks Undertaking Establish
ment and see Jim Finch, the CTS
mound man.