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in the meetings.
The GINA. stores have their own
private brand of coffee and cigars.
In the thirty years Mrs. Charlotte
Hawkins Browne has been connected
with Palmer Memorial Institute at
100000 for buildings, endowment.
etc. Most of the money put in con-
tracts for buildings went to whites.
In Montgomery, Ala, because of
the entrance of the GINA. stores,
two colored clerks are employed reg
ularly on week-ends at a Piggy
Wiggly store.
The right side of a store is the
most> important position to display
goods, it has been found, because
people let their eyes wander in this
direction more often.
The National Negro Business
League, now 80 years old, was
founded by the late Booker T. Wash
ington at Tuskegee.
Albon l.. Holsey is the most i'm
portant contact man in interracial
business relationships in this country.
Mr.. Clarence R. Vena. a realtor of
Toledo, Ohio (colored), put up the
first $500 for the operation of the
national GINA. stores project UNI
der Mr.. Holsey in New York.
In Rocky Mount, N. c., strong op-
position to the GINA. stores project
has been encountered by colored men
from the whites.
The food bill of Negroes in Amer
lea is $1,650,000,000 a year.
The T.J. Elliot Department store
in Muskogee, Okla, hires twenty
people, gets SIS per cent of it's trade
from whites and Indians in a town
of 10000 people, 5000 of whom are
Negroes. The store does an annual
business of S140,000 and it's highest
year was $250,000 worth of business.
The GINA. stores of Selma, Ala,
kept the doors of Selma University
open this winter by donating 1900
pounds of groceries and $102 to the
school.
Anthony Overton started the VI y
tory Life Insurance Company bysu .
derwriting the $150,000 capital hiJ
self thus enabling the company %.
start operation at once without wait
ing to complete subscription of cap
ital stock from the public.
Mrs t. J. Nevins and her husband
operate grocery store in St. Louis.
They have been doing so for 81
years. They started from $500 and
now do an annual business of around
$4,000.
The New York Bible Society dis
tributes free 1875 small bibles to reg
istered members of the National Ne
gro Business League.
There are 10 applicants for every
job in New York City.
Thirty-five per cent of the ma
tons food business is done by chain
stores.
There are about 500 cooperative
groups in this country; $50 are
sponsored by the wholesale dealers
and the rest by the retailers. Fifty
voluntary chains have failed in the
past two years.
About 20 per cent of the grocers
fail in this country each year.
It is estimated that Negro schools
spend $50,O00,0O0 a year for main
tenance exclusive Of tuition and sal
aries. Buyers in schools handle
about SO per cent of the schools ex-
penditures.
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ONE CENT A DAY PAYS
UP TO 500 A MONTH

The Postal Life G. Casualty Insur-
ance Co, 9l32 Moriarty Bldg. Kansas
CITY, Mo-. is offering a new accident
policy that pays up to 500 month
100000 for deaths-costs less than
1cs a sday--S3.b0s a. year. Over $4,000
already have this protection. Simply
send name, address. age, beneficiary's
name and relationship and they will
send this policy on 10 days FREE in
spection. No examination is required.
This offer is limited, SO write them
today.
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About 20 per cent of the grocers
fail in this country each year.
It is estimated that Negro schools
spend $50,000,0O0 a year for main
tenance exclusive of tuition and sal
aries. Buyers in schools handle
about SO per cent of the schools ex-
penditures.
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Don't spend your money with
firms that refuse your race employ
ment.
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There are about 500 cooperative
groups in this country; ESQ are
sponsored by the wholesale dealers
and the rest by the retailers. Fifty
voluntary chains have failed in the
past two wears.
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Thirty-five per cent of the ma
tons food business is done by chain
stores.
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There are 10 applicants for every
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Interesting Items
OF Convention

Continued from Page y
in the meetings.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-07-16

The New York Bible Society dis
tributes free 1875 small bibles to reg
istered members of the National Ne
gro Business League.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-07-16

Mrs. T. J. Nevins and her husband
operate grocery store in St. Louis.
They have been doing so for 81
years. They started from $500 and
now do an annual business of around
$4,000.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-07-16

In Montgomery, Ala, because of
the entrance of the GINA. stores,
two colored clerks are employed reg
ularly on week-ends at Piggy
Wiggly store.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-07-16

Anthony Overton started the VI Y
tory Life Insurance Company bysu
derwriting the $15O,000 capital hi,
self thus enabling the company 20,
start operation at once without wait
ing to complete subscription of cap
ital stock from the public.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-07-16

The National Negro Business
League, now 80 years old, was
founded by the late Booker T. Wash
ington at Tuskegee.
Evening star., 1931-06-19
POLICE URGED TO AID
CHILDREN IN TRAFFIC
Maj. Pratt Issues Message to De-
partment to Protect Them
at. Play.

Mai. Henry G. Pratt. chief of police,
yesterday issued a message to the
department urging officers to cooperate
in the effort to prevent injury to school
children during the Summer vacation
Pointing out that many more youngsters
will be apt to play in the streets during
the coming months, Maj. Pratt recon-
mends increased vigilance on the part
of policemen in guarding against traftlc
accidents.
His message to the force reads:
with the advent of the school vaca-
ton season it is anticipated that larger
use will be made of the streets by the
children for purposes OF play, which
practice, If INDUCED in to any great
extent, will almost certainly mean an
increase in accidents to the children
with the probable loss Of life and limb
This is a condition which must be
met and corrected as far as possible by
the individual officers on the beat, and
you will, therefore; whenever children
are observed at play in the streets on
your beat, warn them against such prac-
tice and of the dangers attending the
use Of the public highways as play
grounds and at the same time direct
them to the nearest playground.
THE individual officer on the beat
can accomplish great results for the
personal safety of the children in a
missionary way. He should make it a
point always to have the children look
upon him as their best friend. He can
by his mere interest in them bring them
to believe that he is their protector
rather than their enemy, and he should
strive at all times to secure their conf
dence and assist them whenever possi-
BILE in their personal safety and asso-
Citations"
Evening star., 1931-06-19
u S. BACKS SEIZURE
OF PITTS RECORDS
Objections to Motion Seeking Writ
Against Revenue Men
Are Filed.

Objections by the Government to the
recent motion of G. Bryan Pitts, former
head of the F. H. Smith Co.. seeking
to enjoin prosecuting authorities from
using against him records seized in his
Florida home by Internal Revenue
agents last February, were filed In DIS
trict Supreme Court yesterday.
The objections were filed on behalf OF
Assistant Attorney General Nugent
Dodds, United States Attorney Leo A.
Rover, Marshal Edgar c. Snyder and
Frank Cunningham, clerk Of the court,
by Assistant United States Attorney
William A. Gallagher.
Gallagher contended the Government
was within its rights in invading a
private vault containing Pitts personal
records because an additional income
tax assessment had been filed against
Pitts and his wife.
Pitts claimed the prosecutors were
using the papers to secure an 1ndict-
ment against him and that they were
seized without due process OF law by
the revenue agents seeking property
upon which to levy for the alleged tax
arrears.
The District Court Of Appeals yes
terday denied a second application by
Pitts for bail. He is In the District
Jail pending appeal of his recent con-
viction on conspiracy-embezzlement
charges.
Evening star., 1931-06-19
PRIVATE ZOO SITE
PURCHASED BY u. S.
Property of Victor J. Evans
Estate to Be Used in Fort
Drive Project.

The site of the famous 700 OF the
late Victor J. Evans, prominent patent
attorney, at Cathedral avenue and
Forty-sixth street, was acquired by the
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission today as part of the Fort
drive project that will link the group
of Civil War forts encircling Wash
ington.
H. Tudor Morsell, the commission'S S
land purchasing officer, made the an
nouncement, explaining that the Gov
ernment's purchase totals Is acres on
which the ZOO stands and is but part
of the Evans estate. The purchase
price was not made public. A number
of the animals on the zoo property were
donated in Mr.. Evans will to the Ma
tional Geological Park, and it Is; un-
derstood some of the animals still are
on the property.
The land adjoins Fort Kemble, one
of the famous o5d Civil War batteries,
and fronts on Chain Bridge road along
Maddox Branch. Although the prep
erty was purchased from the Evans
estate, Mr.. Evans had contracted to sell
it before his death and had signed the
papers.
Mr.. Evans, who permitted children
of the neighborhood to play on the zoo
grounds, .ad made the collection of
animals a hobby. Friends said it cost
him about $4,000 annually to con-
duct his private zoo.
The Park and Planning Commission
has tentative plans for utilizing the old
ZOO house, which was substantially
built, as recreation club for persons
in that vicinity. Tennis courts will be
constructed and athletic facilities in
stalled to take the place of those taken
from the residents of Wesley Heights
and that vicinity. There are no i'm
mediate plans for developing the area
but Mr.. Morsell proposes to preserve
the wooded region on the heights OF
Maddox Branch as part of Washing
tons park system.
Discuss Fairgrounds.
Proposed playground and park sites
were discussed by the commission today
The members later inspected the new
Mount Vernon Memorial Highway.
officials were instructed to prepare
estimates on the cost of suggested
changes at the approaches to the
Highway Bridge. One proposal would
involve extension of Fifteenth street
and construction of new bridge across
the Tidal Basin.
Evening star., 1931-06-19
800 co ON OUTING
TO MARSHALL HALL
PIT. A. and Citizens Fed
GRAFTON Group Inaugurate
Annual Excursion.

Marshall Hall, Md, amusement re-
sort, became a playground for more
than 300 men, women and children yes
terday, as a group formed by the Fed
Grafton of Citizens Associations and the
District Of Columbia Congress OF Par
ent-Teacher Associations inaugurated
an annual excursion down the Potomac
aboard the S. S. Charles Manchester
Games and various forms of athletic
diversion were conducted at the park,
interspersed with community singing.
Basket luncheon was served at o'clock.
The outing arrangements were in the
hands of Thomas J. Llewellyn and
George E. Sullivan, chairman of the
Invitation and Reception Committee;
Mrs E. C. Rittue, chairman of the En-
tertainment and Program Committee;
Thomas E. Lodge. Publicity Commit
tee, and H. c. Phillips, Ticket Commit
tee.
Mrs. Rittue conducted the afternoon
meeting. at which speakers were Mrs.
c. M. Johnson. Mrs. T. E. Griffith, Mrs.
Susanna Rauscher. Mr. Llewellyn, Mrs.
Rafter and Mrs. r. W. Rawlings.
Mr.. Sullivan presided over the eve
ming program aboard the steamer re-
turning to Washington. Musical en-
tertainment was furnished by the Nc
Kinley High School Band, under the
direction of Capt. L. E. Manoly: the
Edmonds- -Maury Glee Club, under the
direction of Mrs. Cecile E. Clark, and
by H. Phelps Clark, Edith Martin, Ina
Holtzcheiter, Lillian Llewellyn, Miss
Margery League and Francis H. Greg
ory. William r. Schumacher conducted
the group singing. and led the assembly
i'll America" as the boat passed Mount
Vernon.
A special bicentennial program, at
which DR.. George c. Havenner, presi-
dent of the Federation of Citizens AS
sociations, presided, was a part of the
evening schedule. Representative Sol
Bloom, who was unable to attend be-
cause of illness, was represented by
John M. Gibbs, member of the National
Bicentennial Committee, the principal
speaker of this session. Honor guests
of the occasion were Maj. Gen. Herbert
B. Crosby, Judge and Mrs. Gus A.
Schuldt, Maj. and Mrs. H. L. Robb, Mr.
and Mrs. William A. Roberts and Col
A. B. Barber. The guests were intro
duced by DR.. Havenner and each re-
sponded with a brief talk.
The following young people were Win
ners in athletics games:
William Gorham, Richard BarSe, John
Kaiser, Charles Hughes, Thomas Grit
fifth. Maston Rhodes, William Rollins
Henry Club, James Richards, Robert
Bartlett, Robert Shay, Martin Hery
jeanette Griffith, Margaret Anthony
Mary Ann Brown, Dorothy Parker, Mary
Parker, Doris Shay, Margaret Reece
Jean Parker, Violet Dawson, Emma
Howard, Helen Hagler and Virginia
Ives
Evening star., 1931-06-19
VT. v. Of DISTRICT
OPEN CONVENTION
1891 Reunion to Continue
Through Today and
Tomorrow.

The streets of Columbia Heights were
bedecked in colorful array last night
as uptown residents turned out to view
the pagaantry incident to the twelfth
annual encampment of the District of
Columbia Department Of the Veterans
of Foreign Wars. The 1881 military re-
union will continue today and tomorrow
Behind a motor cycle police escort the
parade marking the initiation of the
three-day encampment fell into line at
Shepherd street, marching southwark
on Fourteenth street to Fairmont street.
Led by Veterans Of Foreign Wars and
joined by delegations of uniformed vet
Grams from other organizations, wom-
ems auxiliaries. Boy Scouts. groups from
fraternal bodies and representatives oi
the Columbia Heights Business Mems
Association. the march continued east
ward on Fairmcnt to Eleventh street
thence north to Wilson Teachers Col
lege at Eleventh and Harvard streets
where the convention was called to or
der. Past Comdr. Joseph F. Beattie
parade marshal, headed the procession.
Addressed by Rodman.
The march along the brilliantly IL
Illuminated route was punctuated by tbs
blare of military ands and of the
bugle, fife and drum corps Of the city.
William L. Thomas, department COM
mander of the local chapter, presided
at the convention, which was addressed
by a group of prominent guests, includ-
ing Admiral Hugh L. Rodman. retired.
former commander of Battleship Divi-
sion No 9 of the Atlantic Fleet, during
the Wcrld War.
In the course Of plea for prepared
ness in naval strength, Admiral Rod
man quoted the story of the middle who
wrote in an examination that the Bat
tie of Trafalgar was lost by the con-
tinental allies because of the need OF
three ships-"leaderShip, seamanShip
and marks manship" He added that
another Ship-StateSInanShip - might
we'll be needed from Capitol Hill in
strengthening defense.
Other Speakers.
Other speakers at the convention
opening included Rear Admiral F. c.
Billiard, commandant of the United
States Coast Guard; r. B. Lawrence OF
the George Washington Bicentennial
Commission, Barney Levinson, presi-
dent of the Columbia Heights Business
Mems Association: Lee Turner. depart
ment commander of the Disabled Amer
ican Veterans; Bernard C.. McNeill. de-
partment commander of the American
Legion; Charles A. McWilliams, depart
ment commander of the United Span
ish War Veterans; Representative John
C. Cochran Of Missouri. Maj. 0. w.
Clark of the Veterans Bureau, Judge
Robert E. Mattingly of Municipal Court
and Isaac Cans, local business man.
Election of officers tonight will be
the high point of the second day OF
the encampment. Among the outstand-
ing candidates for department COM
mander is Senior Vice Comdr. Oscar
W. Hollingsworth.
Cups and cash prizes were awarded
to best marching units last night by
group of judges composed Of Maj.
Frank Lockhead, u. S. A; Maj. Charles
Demonet, U. S. A. Reserve, and Barney
Levinson. Campbell Murray headed a
committee designated by the Advertis-
ing Club of Washington to award prizes
for the best dressed show windows along
the route of march.
Evening star., 1931-06-19

A rare collection of foreign coins was
on exhibition today at the first precinct
police station.
According to the records, David Ster-
man. Al, who told police he lived on
AFour-and- One Half street near E, Is
fhe owner of the exhibit. The Chesa-
'Aneake & Potomac Telephone Co. Is ex-
Ipected to take charge of the collection
after Sterman's case is disposed OF in
court.
sherman is charged with having
worked for three months the ancient
pay telephone and vending machine
racket. According to police, his system
r.ss to drop part of his collection, espe-
aiaIly Chinese coins, in pay telephones,
Evening star., 1931-06-19

Forrest S. Hayden, a young fellow
trying TO get along in the Commerce
Department, now has clear conscience.
And all for the sum Of a dollar.
The plot-if any-of the story goes
back a half dozen years or so.
Forrest and Some other roiStering
blades of the early teen age from New
ark N. J. were on hike through the
neighboring town of Irvington. Forrest
hao lcaoed singshot: and irvington
had a street light. He took aim
admits it was deliberate-but the result
was surprising, for Forrest didn't know
his own skill.
Anyway. the remnants OF the light
clattered to the ground, and the New
arkitsS clattered away.
Then Forrest began to do some OF
the thinking that he realizes he could
we'll have done before he got so active
with the slingshot.
His conscience began to haunt him
and as haunter it was no slouch.
Even when he was deeply involved
with the files in the Bureau of Foreign
and Domestic Commerce he could pic
ture the fall of that street light. AT
night in his home, % Denwood avenue
Takoma Park. Md, he still could hear
the crash of glass.
Along about the dawn Of the present
year the haunting got so pronounced
that Forrest wrote to the mayor OF
Irvington and asked what price recon-
pense The mayor was way behind
with his correspondence-or something
however-for the letter was never an
swered.
But he reckoned without Forests
conscience. which by this time was
showing wear around the edges from
constant gnaWing.
Three days ago Forrest sent dollar
and hoped that it would square things.
The Associated Press announces to-
day that Mayor John F. Lowell is writ
ing to tell Forrest that all IS forgiven.
Forrest says that the fact his father
is minister has no bearing on the
matter.
Evening star., 1931-06-19
CANADIAN WAR NURSE APPEALS
FROM DENIAL OF CITIZENSHIP
Miss Bland Holds Supreme Court Decision Limits Religious
Liberty and Violates American Civilization Traditions.

when the "men Of this country will
never allow women to do their fighting
for them"
The reading into the naturalization
act of a congressional direction that
women must promise to bear arms to
become citizens, she argued, was run
ming contrary to every instinct and
tradition of American civilization.
Referring to parts of the courts de-
cision which suggested that obedience
to the laws of the land is not incon-
sistent with the will of God, the petition
said that 'if Congress is the oracle
through which the will of God is an
nounced to this Nation, what has be-
come of the right of the individual to
determine for himself his relations to
his Creator?"
The decision of the court. she de-
clared. had imposed a limitation upon
religious liberty In advance Of congress
sional action.
Evening star., 1931-06-19
DEAN DENIES CHARGE
HE EVER TOOK POISON
Replies to Brides Parents by In
sisting He Is Ready to Pro-
vide for Her.

william Harper Dean, who recently
asked the District Supreme Court to
compel his wife's parents to return her
to him. yesterday filed an affidavit de-
nying he had ever taken an overdose OF
poison. or that he was ever charged or
convicted OF driving an automobile while
intoxicated.
The drunken driving and drunk
charge were made against him in the
answer filed by his wife's parents to
his petition.
Deans af1davit admits that he was
convicted of colliding as the result of
an automobile accident. He asserts
he is willing and ready to provide a
home for his wife, Elizabeth Love Dean,
who, according to the parents, is a pa
tient at the Laurel Sanitariun1.
The affidavit was filed through At
torney Aubrey st. Clair, Wardwell
Evening star., 1931-06-19
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Marie Averil Bland, q Canadian
nurse residing in New York City, who
was refused naturalization by the Su-
preme Court following its decision in
the Macintosh case, today filed petit
ton for rehearing.
Miss Bland nursed American soldiers
at Brest, France, following the World
War and expressed her willingness to
go into front line trenches to nurse
in case of another war, but she was
denied citizenship because she refused
to promise to bear arms.
In her petition for rehearing, Miss
Bland urged the grounds advanced by
Prof. Douglas Macintosh of Yale UNI
versity in his request for a review as
reasons for reversing the decision in
her case. She added that she was re-
quired by the decision to consent to
take up arms to acquire citizenship
Evening star., 1931-06-19
POLICE OPERATORS ASK
HIGHER CLASSIFICATION

Basing their request on the training
required for the work, civilian employees
Of the Police Department operating
telephone and teletype machines in the
Central Bureau and recording to all
messages, have asked the Classification
Board for higher ratings.
The request states that the operators
must be skilled in telephone work before
they are employed, and that at least a
years training is necessary to fit them
sor efficient police work.
Their communication to the board
outlining their duties says that their
hours are virtually the same as those
of the police, and adds that in other
cities, clerks In the communication sys-
tenn receive larger salaries for telephone
work alone.
Evening star., 1931-06-19
POLICE DISPLAY FOREIGN COINS
ALLEGEDLY USED TO ROB PHONES
Money Worthless in u S. Exchange Through Slot for
Good Nickels, Accusers Charge.

call a number which he knew would
register and when the automatic ma
chine would return the coin he would
receive a nickel in United States money.
Gordon B. Macke, owner and operator
of several vending machines, is the
complainant. Macke claims Sherman
worked the same game on his machine,
causing heavy losses.
Sherman is being held at the first
precinct station awaiting the next move
by the prosecution. Police said he ad-
mitted the coins were his property and
that he used them in his scheme to de-
fraud the telephone company and
Macke. He also said he purchased the
foreign coins from an antique store
here.