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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-09
Annual Meeting of
 Real Estate Board

John M. Hutchinson succeeded Joseph Hosey as president of the Watergury Real Estate Board al the annual meeting held last eves ming at the '. M. c. A. Mortimer Connor is president, and Harry F. Gregory secretary and treasurer. The members approved the work of the present city administration in endeavoring to cut the expenses of operating the city and that splendid job had been accomplish4 ed in the past two years.
 speaking on the topic, Bringing the Unemployment Situation Up te Date" s
 Floods h-ve | Ised food short- ages in parts of Burma.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-09
HUMAN SCARECROW
 PUZZLES DOCTORS

Denver, Oct 0-(UP)-Con- vinced that he is q scarecrow, Charles Mays, Beardsley, Kan sas, farmer, continued to stand all day at the Colorado psyche. pathic hospital with his arms outstretched, his loose clothes dangling from his slender frame. a blank look on his face, pug zling the scientists of two states.
 Whatever alteration made him decide he is an effigy also cost him his memory for no sign or recognition came from him when greeted by his brother. Wesley, who rushed here from Kansas when the scarecrow man was rescued from his eerie po- sition in a cornfield near Hol- yoke, Colo, a few days ago.
 Hello Charley, don't you rec- ognize me?" he asked, when he recognized hls missing brother.
 The scarecrow man made no reply. He continued to stare blankly ahead. his outstretched arms waving as if in the wind.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-09
Business in
 Bankruptcy

The regular session of the United States Bankruptcy court will he held Monday morning at 10 o'clock. with Referee Carlton E. Hoadley presiding. Provided a court room can be had. 1t will be the only court to hold session in the court house. The other courts, common pleas. superior and compensation. will be closed in observance of Co., lumbus day.
 Two first meetings are slated for hearings at the bankruptcy ses- sion. They are the cases of John Jenkins and Murray L. Grossman. An important matter to come is the hearing on the petition to com promise the claim of the Water bury Button Company in the mat ter of Ferdinand Strauss. Inc. The trustees report will be given by Attorney Walter E. Monagan. Trus- tees reports will also be given in the cases of Emil Well. Alfonso
 and John Sirica, Gotlieb. Inc,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-09
FULL WEATHER REPORT

Washington, Oct 9.-(UP)-Fore- cast for Friday and Saturday:
 Maine: Fair tonight and Satur- day. heavy frost in the interior and light frost near the coast tonight; rising temperature Saturday.
 New Hampshire and Vermont: Fair tonight and Saturday; heavy frost tonight; rising temperature Saturday.
 Massachusetts: Fair tonight and Saturday; slightly cooler in extreme east and probably light frost in perature in the interior Saturday.
 Rhode Island and Connecticut: Fair tonight and Saturday; slight ly cooler tonight; rising tempera- ture in the interior Saturday.
 Washington, Oct 9.-(UP)-High est temperatures yesterday and lowest last night in 20 cities were reported by the weather bureau to-day as follows:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-09
Sunday Noon
 Club Meeting
Rev Mir Lowell to Address
 Members Next Sunday

Rev Moses R. Lowell, pastor of the Second Congregational church, will speak on 'Is Democracy Done For?" at the meeting of the Sum- day Noon club of the church to be held next Sunday.
 The usual question period will follow the Rev. Dr Lovell's speech and some interesting questions are expected. The public is invited to attend.
 The period for Sunday. October IS, will be William M. Harris
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-09

Joseph B. Smith, Mary Anne Shop, Brophy's Clothes Shop, Albert Erb. Andrew K. Stohl and I. M. Sha- piro Company.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-09
Mrs. Anna Tillinghast To
 Address Women's Club

At o'clock on Tuesday after noon, Mrs. Anna Tillinghast, Uni ted States commissioner of immi- grafton for New England at the port of Boston, will speak at the meeting of the Waterbury Wom- ems club. She is appointed by the president and holds a very impor- tant job. The first fall meeting of the New Haven County clubs will be held Tuesday morning in the Women's club with Mrs. Robert F. Gadd as speaker.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-09
LATE REALTY NEWS
Mortgage Deeds :

Mortgage Deeus'
 Rose Schembriski to Mary Pajaujis, real estate on the north side of Norton street, $500.
 Warranty Deeds:
 Mary Yurkauskas to Rose Schem briski, real estate on the eas; side of Norton street.
 Rose Schembriski to Mary Yur- kauskis, real estate at the corner of Bank street and Greenmount terrace.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-09
Friday Evening At
 Beth Ell Synagogue

"Man or Monkey" will be the topic on which Rabbi Harry E. Schwartz will speak on at the first fall services of the Beth Fl syna- gogue this evening at S:15 o'clock. There will be an o'clock service tomorrow morning followed by the children's service at 9:30 o'clock.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-09
"THE MELANCHOLY DAYS.

Regardless of the fine weather. leaves are falling so fast that men gagged in keeping the streets clean are having a hard time of 1t, ecially along highways skirtod by large trees. To the average man who ], ields n broom and has q long stretch of street to cover. the coming of the fall season means additional labor without any extra compensation
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-09
INFANTILE PARALYSIS
 CASES DOWN TO

The infantile paralysis spread is now confined to just one dozen cases, there being three releases to- day. This figure of twelve cases. representing the lowest number since the outbreak of the epidemic. is the smallest one on the health records in weeks and considering the fact that not one case has been reported since last Saturday. Is said to be suffi tent proof that the epidemic Is broken.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-09
Protestant Churches
 Week Day Schools

The second season of the week day schools of religious education, conducted by the Protestant churches of the city, began yester- day with large enrolment. There are centers at the First Baptist church, Mill PlaIn Union church, st. Paul's Episcopal church, Grace Methodist church in Waterville, St. Paups Methodist church, North End ~" the Bunker Hill Congre- gational church and the South Wa terbury Federated church.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-10-01
Negroes With Less Than % OF Wealth
Own 81 OF Church Property In America

1t is very difficult to determine
exactly how much property colored
people own because the most nearly
accurate figures betray fluctuation.
Several persons who have compiled
such data, however, have estimated
that the property owned by eolored
is worth about two billion dollars.
"The Census Of Religious Bodies
of 1926" giving even an incomplete
report. estimates the value of col
ored church edifiees at almost two
hundred and six million dollars. If
data from all colored churches had
been included in this report, this
amount would be much higher.
One Tenth
This means that more than one
tenth or about one-nnth of our prop
erty is in church property, and al
though we do not own more than
one and one-half per cent Of all The
property in the U. s., We own five
and four-tenths per cent Of church
property Of this country. Our inter
est in religion, then, has been mate
rally expressed as greater than that
in anything else.
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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-10-01
Chicago Black Belt In Panic As Police
Launch Crusade Against South Side Vice

CHICAGO. -(Special) = A new
challenge to that class of underworld
cyneism which masquerades under
guise of assumed hardboiled indif-
ference was issued by Mayor Anton
j. Cermak last week when he deereed
new sensational shake-up in the
police department which was imme-
diately followed by a series of raids
upon vice and gambling in the So
called black belt and other sections
of the city.
Strikes On South Side
When the Mayor learned through
information received from private
citizens that he was not getting any
where in his efforts to have the po-
lice do thorough job, the mayor
did some sleuthing on his own part.
He organized a squad and visited sew
eral police stations between midnight
and six O'Clock in the morning. What
he saw did not please him.
The lid is on good and tight, and
the underworld citizens are scurrying
for cover in frenzied fashion as the
newly assigned captain on the south
side unleashed a relentless attack on
all who are in 'raekets." Policy
bosses" heretofore apparently i'm
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mune from arrest, have been seized
and allowed to cool off their ire in
Jail. The Jones Brothers and Trap
Lewis being the latest to be confined
in cells because of their policy ana
gambling activities.
In the most recent shakeup, the po-
lice commanders at all the stations in
the Negro district, the Pekin, Stan
ton Avenue and Wabash Avenue,
were changed for the third time
since Cermak has been mayor. 1t is
reported that he sent the toughest
captains on the force out to clean
out policy. Darkroom gambling and
vice in the entire district. The new
southside commanders who started
work Saturday morning are: Capt.
John Siege, former chief of detee-
tiyes, at the Wabash Avenue station
Capt. Chas. Larkin, at Pekin, and
Capt Thomas Condor at Stanton
Avenue. The reputation of Condor
is that he cannot be bought.
"When he learned of his trans
fer to the Wabash station, Capt.
Siege said:
CHOSE policy operators are adding
to the misery which the depression
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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-10-01
SEVEN COLORED
DIPLOMATS IN
u. S. SERVICE

WASHINGTON, ID. c. - Seven
colored men now comprise the total
list of those who are engaged in the
inquiry at the State Department here
revealed this week. OF this number,
one, Charles f. Mitchell, is an ac-
credited minister, four are career
men, with the rank of consul and two
are non-career men with the rank
of vice consul. A career man is one
who does not hold office at the will
of any political party.
These seven are scattered in all
parts of the globe as the accredited
ENJOYS -ef-the government. By rank,
the highest position held by colored
man is that of Minister of Liberia,
held by Mr.. Mitchell, whose home IS
West Virginia. Mr.. Mitchell is now
in Liberia, but has not presented his
credentials to the Liberian govern
ment, having been instructed not
to by this government until the sit
uation with respect to Slavery is set
tied by the present Barclay govern
ment.
The oldest foreign officer in point
of service is James G. Carter, now
consul at Calais. Mr.. Carter, whose
birthplace is Brunswick, Georgia,
was formerly consul at Tamatave,
Madagascar. Next in service is Will
liam H. Hunt, formerly of Nashville,
Tenn, consul and secretary to the
legation at Monorvia, Liberia. Mr..
Hunt was formerly consul at st.
Etiene, France. William J. VERIFY of
Memphis, Tennessee, is now consul
at Nantes, France. Prior to this as
signment he was consul at Dakar,
West Africa. The only other consul
of the seven is Clifton r. Wharton
of Baltimore, who is now stationed
at Las Palmas in the Canary Islands
Mr.. Wharton was formerly at Mon
rovia These four just mentioned
are career men.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-10-01
CHICAGO ALDERMAN ANNOUNCES
HIS CANDIDACY FOR CONGRESS
10Th Cavalry On Guard
with Their Fists

NEW YORK.-That the 10th Cav
airy at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, has
already turned in its arms, and that
the troopers are doing guard duty
with their fists" is the latest in
formation coming to the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People which is urging all
colored citizens to continue unremit-
ting pressure on congressman and
senators against the War Depart
ment's Jim-Crow rehabilitation plan
for colored regiments.
The N. A. A. C. P. is also Informed
that the plan now being turned
against the loyal colored soldiers Of
the republic emanatcs from Presi-
dent Hoover himself, and that, as
commander-in-chief of the armed
forces of the United States. he could
suspend the operation of this plan if
he so desired.
Meanwhile the N. A. A. C. p. is
continuing in its endeavor to enlist
the action of the American Legion
against the outrage upon the colored
soldiers.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-10-01
NATL BENEFIT
CLAIMS FUNDS
ARE MIXED Up

WASHINGTON, d. C. Jude.
ments of condemnation totaling ST.
23l,2l against credits of S. W. Ruth
erford, Il. II. Rutherford, and Nor.
timer f. Smith in three banks were
given Mrs. Clara h. Christopher, an
employee of the National Benefit
Life Insurance Company, by Chief
Justice Alfred A. Wheat in the cir
cult division Of the District Supreme
Court last Thursday.
This money is to be applied to n
Judgment which Mrs. Christopher OBJ
tanned against the Rutherfords and
Smith by default for $4,000, with
interest, protest fees and costs in
the circuit court, Tuesday of last
week
The condemnation judgments were
for $967.25 in the Franklin National
Bank, $257.91 in the Liberty Nation
al Bank. and 5000 in the Washing
ton Loan 81 Trust Company. These
sums were the only cash found on
the attachment writs.
Mrs. Christopher also has attached
promissory notes totaling $780, 9A.-
Oh deposited for collection and cred
it to the joint account of the Ruth
erfords and Smith in the Franklin
National Bank, and 80 shares of Tri-
Continental common and sc shares
Of Tri-Continental preferred stock
pledged as collateral at the Wash
ington Loan a Trust Company for a
loan Of $4,000 by K. II. Rutherford.
An Injunction was asked against
Mrs. Christopher by the company,
which claimed that the funds were
not properly subject to her attach
ment because the Rutherfords and
Smith intermingled their personal
funds with funds belonging to the
company
Attorney Augustus " Gray repre-
scented her
Judgment Against Mrs. Christopher
In return confessed Judgment
has been entered against Mrs. Chris
topher by the company.
Before she can obtain payment OF
judgments of condemnation, she
must give a bond indemnifying the
company against any loss which it
might sustain if the court should
decide that the money and property
she attached belongs to the company.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-10-01
ANDERSON SETS
HIMSELF UP AS
IDEAL CANDIDATE

r. CHICAGO. = With a formal an
nouncement which covered his own
qualifications to represent the First
District of Illinois in Congress, the
qualification or lack of merit of the
present incumbent, the needs of his
country and his race at this time and
his program for using his experience
and talent in solution of the prob
lens which beset us, Louis B. Ander-
son, for Id years a member of the
city council, threw his hat into the
ring Monday as a candidate to sue
coed Oscar DePriest in Congress.
Mr.. Anderson's statement was flat
footed and unequivocal
He enters the race, he asserts. be-
cause he has been urged to do 50 by
political and civic organizations in
the district he aspires to represent
and, he adds significantly, "the great
business interest, constituting Chica-
COS wealthy Loop, has been sounded
and is found to be strongly in accord
with my candidacy. He has agreed
to run, he continues, not only be-
cause of the urgent appeals of these
interests, but also because it seems
the thing to do after Securing the
opinion of that group of common peo-
pie with which the district is SO heavi-
ly populated"
The primary election, in which the
real battle between Mr.. De Priest and
Mr.. Anderson will eliminate. will
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N.A.A.C.P. Pays barrow
$1,000 Scottsboro F e e

NEW YORK.-The National As
ISOLATION for the Advancement of
Colored People has sent its check
for $4,000 to Clarence barrow as a
retainer on his fee for participating
in the defense of the eight Negro
boys senteneedNto death in. Scotts-
boro, Alabama.
Mr.. barrow has consented to go
before the Supreme Court bf the
State of Alabama and make one of
the arguments on appeal for a re-
versal of the convictions and new
trials.
The N.A.A.C.P. is prepared. if
necessary, to carry these cases on APP
peal to the U. S. Supreme Court, re-
lying on the precedent set in the
Arkansas cases, where that court held
that mob-dominated trial was not
due process of law.
Bills of exceptions supporting the
petition for appeal We're submitted
to the Judge in Scottsboro, by MA.
A.C.P. attorneys on September IT.
Sixty days are allowed the Judge to
sign the bills of exceptions.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-10-01
ANDERSON LAUNCHES FIGHT ON DEPRIEST
Oklahoma Seeks To Gust COIOred Teachers
Exposes Conditions
AT Vets Hospital

NASHVILLE, Tenn.-An expose
of conditions at tie u. S. Veterans
Hospital at Memphis, which is ex-
pected to have its effect in Washing
ton, was made at the Department,
American Legion Convention by DIR.
X. q. Venson in a report given here
this week
Among the charges, DIR. Venson
stated that there was only one toile
for all of the patients in the ward,
although there were facilities for
three. One was reserved for the
white nurse, so she would not have
to use the same one used by the col
red maid.
The white nurses also forced the
patients to walk to them to have
their temperatures taken and there
are no recreational facilities provid-
ed at all, although there are plenty
for the whites.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-10-01
CARNEY ELECTED
OFF TO LONDON
TO SEE CANDHl

ST. ANDREW, Jamaica. - Mar
Gus Carney, founder of the U. N. l.
A. and popular leader of the masses,
was again returned to the Kingston
and st. Andrew Corporation (Citv
CounciD as the choice of the cleo
toriate.
Immediately after the election re-
turns We're made public, Garvey bid
adieu 10 10000 of his followers and
friends at Edelwes Park and sailed
fer London to keep his rendezvous
with Mahatma Gandhi and a group
of African chiefs.
His private secretary, Miss Hazel
Escridge, of Ithaca, N. Y, accom-
panied him. While in London he
will be the guest of DR.. Doesdall, i
Westbourn Road, Forest Hill, S. E.
23.
Contrary to current reports, Gar.
vey will not move the headquarters
of the U. N. |. A. to London but will
travel in Europe for two months, re-
turning to Jamaica in November.
Garvey's ! announcement s o m q
months ago that he would quit jana
lea was but clever ruse to con
fuse those who opposed his policies
in administering the affairs of the
U. N. |. A. and its subsidiaries. FL
nancial support from the American
field has fallen to zero.
Carney was forced to accept a
compromise with his opponents
whereby he agreed to confine his
activities to the fields of politics
and propaganda, leaving the business
side of the organization to more core-
petent minds.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-10-01
COLORED TOWN
REJECTS NEGRO
ELECTS WHITE

CRESMONT, Pa. - This sleepy
little suburban town, with less than
a five percent white population, and
with 700 registered voters on its
books. has yet to learn the value of
the ballot.
Last week. with the election of a
township commissioner at stake. and
with a fight being staged between
William Fl. Jones, white. incumbent,
and John W. Love, local citizens cast
more than $50 votes for the white
candidate and gave Mr.. Jones about
l45 votes.
The victor in the election has held
the office for eight years. Most of
the citizens here are originally resi-
dents of Culpeper and Orange Coun-
ties, Virginia, North and South Car
Dina and other Southern states, and
those who voted for the white poll
tician did SO with the slogans, "He
will get us out of iaiP' and "He will
give us basket this winter if we
need one"
Mr.. Love, who is the first colored
candidate to contest for the office,
had the support of T. Duncan Just.
white, Pinchot leader. who was allied
with State Senator James Boyd. He
has been employed by the Wana-
maker firm in Philadelphia for 40
years, and is now director of the bu-
reau of information at the new Lin
coin County Building in the Quak-
err City.
His wife is Madame Lucretia Law
son Love, soprano, and the couple
owns a beautiful home here. Crest
mont is Just As minutes ride from
Philadelphia, and boasts two church
es, pharmacy, a physician, contrac-
tors and mechanics. There is a
mixed school and until last year al
of the teachers were white. Two col
ored teachers have only recently
been appointed.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-10-01
Eddie" Savoy Stays
On Sixty-Year Job


WESTINGHOUSE Retired or other
wise, Edward Eddie" Savoy. chief
messenger of the State Department.
who has rounded out 60 years and
two months service with the govern
ment, is still on the job.
On the expiration of one of several
extensions, Savoy was retired ON
August 81, under the age limitation
statute. Prior to the return of See
rotary of State Stimson from abroad
on Thursday, there was much spec
ulation as to whether or not Savoy
would be made his personal servant,
have another time extension, or
whether the Secretary would per
sonally defray the expense Of keep
ing the veteran messenger at his
post.
Clayborne Tennille, a native OF
Mount Meigs, Ala, who first entered
the government service as a sublet-
ter carrier at Montgomery, Ala, had
been selected to fill the post on Sa-
voy's retirement. When Mr.. Savoy
returned to his post as usual, in spite
of his retirement, there was some APP
prehension as to who would be re
sponsible for his salary.
Personal Employee
The situation has been cleared up
with the return of Secretary Stimsou
by an announcement that he 'is be-
ing retained as personal employee
of Secretary Stimson and will be en-
gagged upon personal work for tho
Secretary"
Mr.. Savoy, although an octogenar-
ian, is active and is acquainted with
the diplomats. He is also we'll versed
in the niceties of diplomatic etiquette
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-10-01
Women Wage Charts
Ready For Distribution

WASHINGTON.-Graphic and IL
Eliminating are the sets of charts on
colored women workers now being
circulated by the Women's Bureau of
the U. S. Department of Labor.
Study of the problems pertaining
to the more than one million and
a half colored women wage earners
in the United States. is an important
part of the big and varied task of
the Women's Bureau. These workers
constitute 1874 per cent of all wom-
en- in gainful employment in the
United States, this total being over
eight and a half million, whose in
terests come within the scope Of the
bureau activities.
Facts about the industrial classifi-
cation of all the eolored women re-
ported by the 1920 census, and the
oecupational distribution, earnings
hours. and time in the trade of sew
eral thousand Of them included in .
special study by the Bureau, are pre-
scented in a set of five charts, each
"a inches by "a inches.
All organizations planning confer
ences or meetings on the subject oil
coored wage earners, all schools on
colleges including study and discus
sion of this subject in their curricu
lum, women's clubs, and labor groups
will find these charts an interesting
and educational exhibit feature.
Anyone wishing to borrow thu
charts can obtain them by writinl
direct to the Women's Bureau. U. s
Department Of Labor. Washington
I D. C. The charts will be sent GU
free. the borrower paying only tn
return postage.