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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-29
DOCK STRIKE ENDS
$500 Longshoremen Return tc
Work at Iloilo, Panay Island.

MANILA, January 90. CP).-Dis-
patches to the Executive Bureau said a
strike of $500 longshoremen at Iloilo,
Panay Island, ended yesterday when
the dock workers returned to their jobs.
simultaneously, negotiations were be-
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-06-04
93,S5O In St. Louis;
1854 In Kansas City

WASHINGTON Kansas City has
total population of 36,574 Negroes
and st. Louis. $3.50, according to
figures of the 1880 census.
There were In st. Louis, on April
l, 1880, a total population of S21,-
$50, comprising 401,706 males and
42O, 1854 females. There were 1850
Negroes-45,S32 males and 47,748
females, an excess of 1915 females.
AS compared with the number in
1920 (69,S54) the Negro population
increased $40 per cent while the
white population which numbered
1926 in 1920 was increased only
Is per cent.
Kansas City is reported as having
a total population of 399, TAG; com
prising 1874 ,542 males and 2O5. 204
females. There were in the city
357,741 white persons and 1854
Negroes-18,599 males and 1875
females. an excess of 1876 females
As comprised with the number in
1920 t30,719), the Negro population
increased 25.6 per cent and the white
(Which numbered 293,517
in 1920 increased 21.9 per cent in
the decade.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-06-04
Would Paddock Church
Not Aiding Youth

WASHINGTON Every church
failing to protest against the execu-
ton of the nine innocent Scottsboro
(Ala.), youths. accused of an attack
on two white hobo girls, should be
padlocked."
Thus spoke the Rev. p w. Drew
at a mass meeting (protest meeting)
Sunday, at the Masonic Temple,
which was sponsored by the Minis
tiers and Baymen's Welfare Alliance.
"If such un-American and I'M
Christian wholesale killing of chill
dren is carried out, it will be dis
grace and blot upon Christian civil
ization," he continued. Should
church or minister fail to make a
protest, the doors should be closed.
white supremacy and the al
mighty dollar have crowded out ca
pacity for God in Christian commun-
titles AS a result, there has been
brought forth no leadership to speak
against mob violence"
The Rev. Drew commended the
President for receiving the darker
race Prince of Japan, and the King
of Siam.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-06-04
FLOCK SUES AS
OIL WELL BOOSTS
CHURCH 100000

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. = A
sudden shower of filthy lucre" in
the form of spouting oil wells which
has sent their little two-acre church
lot up in value to 100000, may dis
rupt the Church of God, holiness
congregation of rs souls here.
This probability developed this
week when the congregation brought
suit against the pastor, who was
holding the title to the property in
trust.
Strikes Oil
When the Church of God, typi-
cal holiness congregation, purchased
the two-acre site for its edifice, they
had only in mind the spiritual bless
ing which would shower from above,
but when prospectors traced oil de-
posts under soil of the lot, the
brotherly love which had bound them
all together became less apparent,
and the pastor was loath to turn over
to the congregation any interest in
the property he had bought for them
in his name.
With more than 100000 in sight,
the matter has transcribed the re-
ligious realm and every member is
anxious to have the court define just
how much of this Kingdom here on
earth" they will fall heir to.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-06-04
Worst Southerners Are Those Who Come
From The North" Says Fisk Professor

"By far the most entertaining of
my hosts in the backcountry was
highly respected Negro in a small
village of a certain state, who added
to his income as drayman, a consid-
able sum, derived from the redis-
tilling, for the county sheriff, of the
liquor captured by that functionary
in raids over the countryside. | do
not know what disposition the sher-
if made of the doubly purified stuff,
as my host was a teetotaler.
81 know scores of Negro lads
bearing with unconscious irony the
name of Robert f. Lee. could list
a bakers dozen of Stonewal Jack
sons aud | even know two colored
youngsters who proudly bear the
illustrious cognomen of Jefferson
Davis.
Indeed, I know more Negro lads
named for the great Confederate
general than for Booker T. Washing
ton or for w. E. B. Dubois.
SIN five years of teaching I have
seen only six youngsters of college
grade out of total of four or five
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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-06-04
fight LAUNCHED AGAINST AMOS N ANDY
Carolina Leaders "Ha11ky- Heads" - DePrieSt
Khan Chases Teacher
From Daytona College

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.-The
Ku klux Klan scored a victory over
Daytona-Cookman College, of which
Mary Bethune is president.
A white woman from Chicago was
recently appointed teacher by the
NJ. l.. Board which controls the
school. She lived on the beach front
for the winter months but moved
two weeks ago into one of the dor
mitories of the school.
The kluxers notified her to move
among white people. When she re-
fused hansmen marched to the
school last week. She escaped from
them by rear door, going to Jack
sonviHe, Fla, and later to st. Angus
tine
Dean A. II. Coleman, who was in
charge of the institution in the alb
sence of Mrs. NJ. M. Bethune, who
is in New York undergoing medical
treatment, advised the white teacher
to go and let peace reign.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-06-04
"A Bigger Lot Of Fools Never Lived Than
Are Down Here In Vrginia" --DePriest

voting in the Republican primaries in
the South is a vote thrown away.
"When you vote in the Democratic
primaries, you are voting for the
man who will be elected, for the
nomination in the Democratic pri-
maries here is equivalent to election.
All your enemies are not in the DEM
cratic party, neither are all your
friends in the Republican party. The
Democrats are antagonistic to the
Negro because he always has voted
against them.
"Your vote is a weapon of power,
the only weapon with which you can
fight your battles, and is the only
weapon that the white man will rec
ognize. In the days of our grand
fathers they considered the Repub-
lican party as their party, but it has
gotten so now that the Republicans
don't want you much more than the
Democrats do.
81 am travelling over the country
because | want first-hand informa-
ton so that l may be able to do my
duty in Congress. | never knew be-
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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-06-04
TABLOID PAPER
THREATENS TO
DISRUPT TEXAS

AUSTIN, Texas-Aid of the court
has been solicited in order to re-
strain publication of brotherhood
Eyes" chart which publishes the I'M
usual happenings among church and
society folk Of the Lone Star State.
According to County Attorney
Blalock, white, the publications. plan
of operation was to charge a MEM
bership of $3.50 in order to become
a Brotherhood Eve"
Membership entitled the holder To
turn in articles for publication, it
was said.
The tabloid smart chart kept a
wicked eye on all of the prominent
people in large Texas cities. 1t has
a circulation of 10000. and was
growing by leaps and bounds.
It's leading article last week told
of the "peeping Tom" activities of
a well-known minister whom his
neighbor found in his yard watching
the members Of his family disrobe.
According to the county attorney,
no publication has created such a fu-
ror in the history of the city as
Brotherhood Eyes"
Families have been broken up,
churches split, duels fought and in
general a disturbance created.
Sample of headlines from the
(B.E.) brotherhood Eyes:
4'Parson catches cold feet and star
deacon remains on board"
Eye follows parson to church
to witness trial of deacon"
"Parson wanted to use shooting
IRON"
Holiness Big likes give big ball
with all Holy Saints"
''When two sweeties claim box Of
candy, which one gets it?0
.White mule adds kick in the bat.
tie at church door"
Buck horses take allev cats on
wild ride and corn bath.
One article under a Dallas date
line begins: "There is a jink on
10th Street who meets his gal in a
cemetery. Yes, sir, in a graveyard
and this Papa has a wife and chill
dren
Items like these are standing Tex
ans on their heads, and they are
seeking peace at any price
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-06-04
ROSENWALD AIDS.
TALENTED RACE
YOUTHS CAREERS

GHICAGO.-Fe fellowship awards to
enable Negro students to continue
advanced work were announced
Tuesday by Edwin II. Emhree, pres
ident of the julius Rosenwald fund.
A few special awards were made TO
persons of unusual distinction in
literature and fine arts TO allow
them to carry on important creative
work. Fellowships were also grant
ed in medicine and public health
nursing, and the teaching and libra
ry fields.
Some of the most famous Negro
artists in America were numbered
among the recipients of the fellow
ships for research and creative
work. Richard Barte. sculptor, w.
E. b. Du Bots. author. and James
Weldon Johnson. author, We're given
fellowships to allow them to con
tinue their work. d. o. w. Holmes
dean of Howard university, was CIV
en- a special fellowship for study at
Columbia university.
Augusta Savage, sculptor. and
Clarence Cameron White, composer,
are to be sent to Paris to study.
and w. Edouard Scott. artist. to
Haiti. John Work, director of music
at Fisk university. won the fellow
ship to study at Harvard university,
and Monroe Work, sociologist, was
awarded one for special study at the
University of Chicago.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-06-04
CONGRES SMANS SPEECHES ARE
SENSATION IN NORTH CAROLINA
Fires Professor With
Race Equality Views

COLUMBUS. Ohio.-Herbert Mil
Ter (white), Ohio State University
soeiologist, was not re-appointed for
next year.
Among the reasons for dismissal
were his liberal attitude on the race
question, intermarriage of the races,
and absolute equality Of black,
whites. yellows and browns.
Professor Miller has also taught
at Oberlin. fohio) College, white,
and at Fisk University.
Professor Miller recently returned
from abroad, where he was closely
associated with the non-violence
campaign of Mahatma Gandhi in In
dia. He is a native of Tuftonboro,
N. IL.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-06-04
Mime. Schuman-Heink
Rebukes War Mothers

SACRAMENTO, Cal.-When In
formed that the white war mothers
who attended musical dedication
of the city's new war memorial au-
ditorium were bitterly opposed to
the presence of Negroes. Portuguese,
Japanese, Filipinos, Chinese and
Italians among the school children s
chorus which sang on the program
with her. Nine. Ernestine Schu-
mann-IIeink. world famous opera
singer. delivered a stirring rebuke
to the audience for its un-American
principles. Nine. Schumann-Heink
IN ned Ter back upon the audience,
and crooned a soothing lullaby to
the 500 children ranged on the stage
with her, and then led them In the
singing of THE Star Spangled Ban
ner.'
When Schumann-Heink finished
her singing and the applause died
down she stepped to the footlights
and said:
''As a war mother ] know what it
means to suffer. | gave five sons.
four to Uncle Sam and one to his
old Iratherland.
ut is up to the war mothers to
teach their children the love of law,
and not make a difference between
black, or yellow. or brown, or white
skins"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-06-04
Police Club Men
In Akron Riot

AKRON, Ohio.-Five men were in
Barberton and Akron hospitals as
the result of being dubbed and
gassed when police of the suburb
last night broke up a meeting spon-
sored by the International Labor De-
Tense to protest the alleged abduc-
ton and possible death of Louis
Alexander, unemployed Negro, last
February.
Miss Jennie Cooper of Cleveland,
district organizer of the Internation-
al Labor Defense. in a speech be-
fore several hundred persons gath
cred in Barberton hall, charged
that police there had abducted the
Negro and beaten him to death.
A number of police guards swung
into action and the audience was
driven to the sidewalks, where Miss
Cooper again launched into her
speech.
The policemen tossed several tear
gas bombs among the demonstrators
and the crowd moved to hall in
Akron, where the meeting continued
without interruption.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-06-04

RICHMOND, Va. = Speaking to
one of the largest audiences ever as
sembled in the True Reformers' Hall
here, Congressman Oscar De Priest
urged Negro voters to enter the
Democratic primaries and organize to
bring out their full voting strength
Friday night.
what my race needs in Virginia, "
said the Congressman, SIS new
birth in citizenship. Out of $4,000
colored persons in Richmond they
ought to have fifteen thousand vot-
ers. This number of qualified voters
would give you the balance of power
in Richmond. If you were the bal
ance of power your city would stop
the practice of taxation without
representation.
Law Against Employing Negroes
81 understand that you pay taxes
here and that you also have law
that no Negro can be employed on
the city payroll. He who would be
free must strike the first blowi
congratulate YOU on your winning Tie
case here recently permitting you to
vote in the Democratic primaries, for
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-06-04
Replace White Help
With Negro Employees

NEW YORK. - The huge Hotel
Manager, built in conjunction with
the magnificent Roxy Theatre at
50th street and Seventh avenue, re.
Gently changed ownership and name,
now being known as the Hotel Taft.
One of the first moves of the man.
agement was to replace the white
elevator operators with colored
youths. The same system may be
followed in other service depart
ments if this experiment proves sue
cessful.
This is the first big hotel in cen
trail Manhattan to utilize colored en-
ployes in the service departments.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-06-04
Voters
To Support the
Dem ocrats

DURHAM. N. C.-Calling certain
Negro leaders in Durham "handker-
ehief-heads' and urging North Caro-
lima voters to support the Democratic
ticket in their state, Congressman
ment as a result of two addresses
delivered at Durham and Green's
boro, NJ c.. last week.
Referring to the Judge Parker
incident. the Congressman declared
that number of Negroes from that
state and especially from Durham
had supported the judge for the
Supreme Court. These Negroes are
nothing but handkerchief heads" he
saiG.
Endorsed Judge
IL was believed that Congressman
De Priests chief thrust was aimed at
Dir. James +. Sheppard, president of
the North Carolina State College.
who endorsed the appointment of
Parker when his name was before
the Senate.
Mr.. De Priest also laid the lash
on the G. o. p. before huge audi
ence of Southerners. including the
mayor of this city and outstanding
white politicians of the state, and
literally declared that the Republic
an party wasn't worth a cuss to the
Southern NEGRO; that its past treat
ment of the Southern Negro was not
calculated to add to the party
strength.
Join Democrats
The gray-hairetl gentleman from
the state of Illinois raised the roof
when he 'emphatically declared that
the only hope of the Negro in poll
ties in this region depended upon his
forming a connection with the DEM
oeratic party, the ruling powers of
this region. and using this contact to
his own advantage He declared that
the Republicans of the South do not
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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-06-04
NEGRO INSURANCE
COMPANIES HIT
BY DEPRESSION

WASHINGTON, D. C.-The an
nual Negro Insurance Association
shows that the 81 reporting COM
panies have lost more than $780,
600, 900 of business during the Sc
we're period of unemployment which
continues on.
The total amount of insurance In
force by all companies was $780,
Ss1 .556 at the close of 1929, where
as il had decreased to $205,SS1 $50
by December 81, 1880. The loss
was undoubtedly oceasioned by the
heavy lapse ratio borne by all col
ored companies.
5000, 900, 900 Bapses
The report shows total lapses for
all companies of nearly 5000 100000
against the $101, 158,721 of new
business written and put on the
books for the year. This volume
of business, however, gave employ
ment to 1888 persons, including 179
officers. During the same period the
creased their business by four and
one-half billion dollars.
Although the total premium in
come for all companies was eonsid-
erably lower than during 1929, the
combined assets of the various COM
Danies do not show a considerable
loss. The 81 reporting companies
have total assets of $14.650,629 at
the end of 1890. OF this amount,
$2.535.05s was invested in bonds
and securities and s1,S56,4S3 was
invested in real estate loans on col
ored property.
These figures show approximately
8 per cent of the Negro companies
money invested In mortgages. The
remaining assets are accounted for
by policy loans. real estate holdings
and cash resources.
Income Sf3,150,5O
The years premium income from
all reporting companies amounted to-
$15.150.5 500. This Is less than the
previous years income by several
thousands of dollars. From these
receipts a total of s5,052.4s7 was
paid out in claims of all kinds and
a total of $4.sS1.735 was paid in
salaries to officers and clerks and
commissions to agents.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-06-04
Delaware Fisherman
Takes 5000 Herring

LEWES, Del.-Said by his friends
to have an uncanny knowledge of
the movements of fish, Captain w.
II. Davenport, veteran fisherman,
broke all records here last week
when he made single haul of TO-
900 herring.
The feat is regarded as all the
more noteworthy because of the fact
that this has been an unusually poor
fishing season.
$4,000 In Week
Counting his complete catch with
haul sein from Tuesday until Fri
day, Captain Davenport brought his
record up to $4,000. Most of the
regular fishermen had given up hope
this season, and stopped their reg
ular trips out.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-06-04

NASHVILLE, Tenn.-In the South
the white man is the Sontherner, the
Negro-well, a Negro is a Southern
er, too, writes Horace Mann Bond,
instructor in sociology at Fisk Uni
versity, in an article. "a Negro
Looks at His South" which appears
in the June issue of Harper's Maya
zine.
For the last two years Mr.. Bond
has been released from his duties in
the department of social sciences at
Fisk University to make a study of
the Negro elementary schools of the
South on behalf Of the julius Rosen-
valid Fund. This study has taken
him into the back country of this
region which he claims as his own.
He says:
Those Who Come From North
charleston would be devoid Of its
graces without the Negro, and Loui-
siana have no tradition of good So
ciety nor even the crown of the cos
mopolitan city Of New Orleans, had
there been no striving, sweating,
singing Negroes to make secure a
foundation for culture.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-06-04
r. r. Workers Meet

NEW ORLEANS, La.-(ANP.)-
A meeting of the colored railway
workers will be held here Tuesday,
July Is, for the purpose of federat-
ing all groups of colored people en-
ployed in the railway service. Plans
to provide adequate insurance pro-
lection and develop a pension sys-
tenn for aged colored railway work
ers is the chief objective. The Pat
terson Hotel, 759 S. Rampant Street,
will serve as the organizations head
quarters
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-06-04
WOMEN BATTLE
FOR MONEY LEFT
BY BOOTBLACK

Los ANGELES, Cal.-Fight for
possession of the $4,000 estate of
the late Edward L. Boyd, wealthy
chain bootback stand owner and
realtor, was begun here last week
when his stepdaughter, Mrs. Helen
Reyes, filed suit against her mother
in-law who married Mr.. Boyd four
months ago.
In her petition Mrs. Reyes declares
that the estate was ACQUIRED by her
father and mother while they lived
together. Two months after her
mother died six months ago. she sets
forth, her father was reported to be
married to her mother-in-law, then
Mrs. Matte E. Brister. Mrs. Reyes
doubts the validity of this marriage,
and asks that the court take the
property in trust for her benefit.
Starts at Funeral
property started on the day of the
funeral when the new wife applied
for papers of administration and
proceeded to move furniture from
the house. Manuel Reyes, husband
of the daughter-in-law, also entered
the fight between the women when
he filed a 100000 damage suit
against Mrs. Boyd, alleging that she
caused his arrest on grand theft
charge without cause. This suit was
filed after he had been exonerated
in the Magistrate Court.
The late Mr.. Boyd was well known
here, having also engaged in the real
estate business the latter years of
his life.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-06-04
Leaders Say
Comedy Team
ISLANDERS Race

NEW enthusiastically. - The
colored people Of America, acting
through the National Association for
the Advancement of the Colored
People, are preparing to demand
that Amos m Andy be barred from
the air as slanderous to the colored
race.
The N.A.A.C.P. will first present
their demands to the National Broad
casting Company, it is understood,
and, if refused there, will take what
ever other steps they think adyis-
able.
A growing resentment amongst
the colored people as the Amos m
Andy story unfolded was finally
crystallized into action by the Pitts
burgh Courier, a paper for colored
people, with wide and authoritative
circulation. This journal is running
front page smashes on the subject,
including four-column cartoons, and
several columns of letters of protest
from all parts of the country.
The Courier's campaign declares
that the Amos m Andy skits are en-
tirely derogatory to the colored race
in that there is not in them any
colored person of the admirable
qualities which is a general attribute
of the race. 1t is pointed out that
all colored people involved in the
skits are either terrifically ignorant
or else crooks. It is, stated that
there are undoubtedly ignorant peo-
pie and also crooks in the colored
race, as there is in any other race,
but that no other race would stand
for itself being represented as COM
posed entirely of ignorant and
crooked people.
They say that whenever a white
person is introduced, the white per-
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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-06-04
SENTIMENT AGAINST AMOS N ANDY
RADIO SKIT BECOMES NATIONWIDE
Color Bars Youth
From Training Camp

NEW YORK.-Race prejudice
raised its head again in the U. s.
Army last week when Milton F.
Quander, New York City College
R.o.T.G. first lieutenant. was barred
from Joining his white classmates
in going to Plattsburg, N. Y, for
training.
Instead young Quander, who is
the son of John P. Quander. Jr., as
sistant cashier at the Dunbar Ma
tional Bank, was ordered to Fort
Hunt, Va. under the War Depart
ments policy of separating white
and colored students.
A flood of protests have been
sent to the Department against this
insult, many of them from white
classmates of the young officer.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-06-04
Business Items
Start Insurance Company

NEW ORLEANS. La.-(ANP) -
The Booker T. Washington Mutual
Aid and Burial Association opened
here this week with befitting cere-
mony The newly organized enter
prise Is Incorporated under the laws
Of the State of Louisiana, with the
following officers: DR.. A. c. Year
wood, president; ID. r. Martinez,
vice-president and general manager;
J. L. Edinburgh, secretary Miss M.
A. Payton, assistant secretary; Miss
V. M. Ferris, treasurer. and DR.. A.
w. Brazier, medical director.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-06-04
Lynching Town Discharges
MANY Workers

MARYVILLE, Mo.-The recent
lynching of Raymond Gum, who was
burned to death while chained to a
school house, has created such a
tense feeling here that many Colored
persons have been dismissed from
their mental jobs.