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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-06-25
COLORED BANK SAFE;
24OTHERS CLOSE Their DOORS
LOAD OF MONEY
PILED IN FRONT
OF CUSTOMERS

GHICAG0.-During the past two
weeks Chicago suffered the worst
financial furry in its history Twen-
ty-four white banks, several of them
with heavy deposits, closed their
doors within a space of three days.
The disaster began with the mer-
ger of the Foreman State National
banks, $500. 100000 institution,
with the First National. Half doz-
en- important outlying institutions
which the Foremans controlled were
forced to close.
Depositors throughout the city be-
came panicky. Runs began on the
smaller Institutions, twenty-four of
which closed.
) in Southside Close
Colored people, scarcely recover
ing from the Binga, Bankers State,
and Citizens Trust crashes, suffered
severely. The Lincoln State, 3lst and
State Streets, with Sl,000,000 de-
posits, good portion of which rs
said to have belonged to colored peo-
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fight LAUNCHED AGAINST BLACK laws
Na11 Load Of Money Hats Run On Douglas Bank
Gusts Manager Who
Insulted Colored

LAWNSIDE, N. il. II. Gales,
white, manager of the local A. & P.
store here, has been discharged and
F. H. Hayes, white, and Sidney Whit
tington placed as manager and assis-
tant, respectively. in the vacancies,
following protest by patrons of the
store.
Gales had, according to report,
shown diseourtesy to the patrons Of
the store. SO per cent of whom are
colored, and had discharged the col
ored assistant, Benjamin Whiting
ton, stating that he would not work
with a colored assistant.
Protest led by the Rev. Earl Fl.
Champion, pastor of the Mt. Zion M,
E. Church, succeeded in having the
man displaced and another colored
assistant employed. Sales have in
creased 33 per cent since the change,
according to reports.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-06-25
LOUISVILLE TO
OPEN COLORED
CITY COLLEGE

LOUISVILLE, Ky. = The Louis
vile Municipal College for Negroes.
the first fully accredited college for
Negroes to be supported by a mum
icipal government, will open in Sept
ember, DIR. Rufus L. Clement, dean,
announced.
To Offer Regular Courses
The college will offer courses in
four years work to an estimated en-
rollment of $50 students. Freshmen
and sophomore courses which OPP
ened in January, have already re-
eeived an A-grade rating from the
Southern Association of Junior Col
leges. The curriculum will include
natural and social sciences, Language
es and literature.
While open to students outside of
the city and State, the college is
planned primarily for Negroes living
in Louisville. 1t expects to enroll
about rs per cent of the graduates
of the local high school for Negroes
the first year. The rest of of the
student body will be made up of
upper classmen who have been at
tending schools elsewhere.
To Be Well Backed
The college was established with
the proceeds of a municipal bond
issue in 1925, of which 100000 was
set aside to purchase grounds and
buildings.
The General Education Board has
contributed $4,000 toward the
equipment of the institution and the
Rosenwald Fund $1,000 toward a
library, the University of Louisville
adding another $4,000 and two full
time trained librarians. Excellent
laboratory equipment has been in
stalled.
Entering students Will be required
to pass psychological and English
placement tests. Second year stu
dents will undergo comprehensive ex-
animation in English and graduates
will be required to pass rigid tests in
their major subjects in addition to
general course requirements.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-06-25
GOVERNOR PLANS
jim CROW FOR
VIRGIN ISLANDS

ST. CROIX, V. 1.-The Common
council of Christianstead, st. Croix,
in the Virgin Islands has declined
the request of Governor NJ Pear
son, white, of the United States,
for a separate bathing beach for
whites at Protestant Kew, an island
100 yards from the city.
Governor Pearson, who halls from
Pennsylvania, and was recently APP
pointed by President Hoover, is
quoted as saying that the Virgin Is
landers, colored and white, get to-
gether in politics and business and
religion, but they are still apart
socially and he saw no reason why
the whites might not have sep
arate bathing beach in this colored
country.
Before the United States purchas-
ed the island from Denmark, the
colored and white attended the gov
ernor's ball, but under u. S. rule
only whites attend the official func-
tons.
Intermarriage also between the
soldiers and native girls was also
common.
Under the U. S. rule. the United
States marines are not compelled to
wed a native girl even if they are
convicted of assault upon them.
Formerly the leading hotel on the
island of st. Thomas was owned by
A. H. Locard, who in recent years
has leased it to U. S. whites and
now no natives are welcome there as
guests.
Gasoline now sells for 80 cents a
gallon retail and % cents gallon
in drums. A four-cent tax is pro-
posed which will be used for the up
keep of $4,000 roads built by the
United States last year.
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No Pure Nordics,
Says Harvard Prof.

NEW YORK.-That any claim by
so-called white Nordics to racial pur-
ity or racial superiority is but "rid-
iculous boast" and that statements
that the Negro race is inferior to
whites are scientifically unfound-
ed" are among statements made in
his new book, ''Up From the Ape
by DR.. Ernest A. Hooton, professor
of anthropology at Harvard Univer-
sity.
"There is not single Nordic of
unmixed racial antecedents, says
the author, and there is great
deal of evidence to show that the
intermarriage of races is good
thing"
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enterprise News Bureau)


NEW YORK.-(By Oscar j. Ben
SOM. ~ Thousands of men, women
and children are facing eviction and
are living from day to day in hopes
of getting some sort of work at some
kind of wage so as to pay for the
necessities Of life. Most anyone liy-
ing in Harlem win acknowledge that
the condition is so alarming that any
sort of suggestion as to how cond-
tions may be alleviated is worth COM
sideration.
All Relief Stopped
Those who are not too proud to
beg find no charity accessible. The
police department and other organ
izations who have served so loyalty
in the past have closed their books
on the long list of the destitute and
needy. The streets are full Of pan.
handlers and beggars, and they ars
arriving every day from other cities.
The increase Of Harlem's black belt
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-06-25
Selected as Juror
to Try Wealthy Man

NEWPORT, r. Edward Har-
ris, wharf builder of this city was
accepted by the defense lawyers on
the jury which will try Elliott R.
Hathaway, white, son of a wealthy
Massachusetts, legislator, for the
murder of Miss Verna Russell, white,
here, Saturday.
Another colored talesman drawn
was William II. Jackson, assistant
doorkeeper of the r h d e Island
House of Representatives, who was
challenged and excused.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-06-25
Haiti Demands Removal
OF United States Marines

PORT au PRTNCE.-The Cham
Der of Deputies will debate this
week, a resolution calling upon
Uncle Sam to remove the marines
from Haiti at once.
The treaty of 1916, under which
the U. s. interfered in Haitian af-
fairs, ran for ten years. and was
extended for ten additional years,
because Haiti borrowed $17000,00
from New York banks.
This extension was not ratified by
the U. S. Senate, hence Haitians
claim that the hated U. S. marines
are there Illegally.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-06-25
Enterprise News Bureaul

CHICAGO. - The mass meeting
held Sunday afternoon at Wendell
Phillips auditorium under the aus
pices of the Chicago branch of the
N. A. A. C. P. for the purpose of
raising funds for the defense of the
eight boys sentenced to death in
Scottsboro, Ala, ended in a minor
riot and utter confusion when group
of radicals demanded the right to
answer charges against the Commu-
mist Party and the international La
Dor Defense League made by Dean
Williams Piekens, the principal
speaker of the occasion.
The outburst occurred at the end
of Dean Pickens' address, when af-
ter appealing for support of the
defense fund Of the N. A. A. C. P.
Dean Piekens declared that "the rad
zeal groups are not interested in
having the lives of these boys 50
much as using the issue to spread
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-06-25
Wanted Her Job

CHARLOTTE, N. C.-The indus
trial squeeze, which has taken many
jobs from colored people here, acted
again last week when Mrs. Belle
Cathey, for IL years in charge of the
culinary department of the Ivy De-
partment Store, was dismissed to
make way for white woman. The
department store is owned by some
of the leading churchmen in the city.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-06-25
Holstein Quits

NEW Workout of sympathy
with the policy of Elk leaders, Cas-
par Holstein, exalted ruler of Mon
arch Lodge of Elks, resigned last
week.
Some years ago the lodge was sus-
pended With Holstein out of the
way it is expected that application
for Reinstatement will be made.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-06-25
Pastor Sues for SIS, 200,
Charges Humiliation

KINGSTON, N. ca suit de-
manding $4,000 was filed by the
Rev. Fl. Y. billiard who was barred
from the pulpit of the United Amer
lean Free Will Baptist Church of
Grifton by an injunction.
The pastor declared that he was
Inundated when an officer forced
him to halt an elaborate service af-
ter an injunction had been obtained
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-06-25
Communists Pelt u. S.
Consulate in Germany

DRESDEN, Germany. - Bottles
containing such messages as Down
with American murder and imperial
ism,v 'tHail the brotherly union Of
black and white young proletarians,
and down with the bloody lynch
law on our Negro comrades were
hurled by communist youths in the
American consulate, here, Sunday.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-06-25
White Speaks In Jamaica

JAMAICA.-More than 500 peo-
pie heard Walter White, secretary
of the N. A. A. C. P, score Amer
lean race prejudice in a speech here
last week. The occasion was the
closing of a membership drive in
which the branch raised its list to
400.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-06-25
Suburb Named After
Oscar DePriest

WASHINGTON = Congressman
Oscar DePriest will be the principal
speaker at the dedication exercises
of the suburb named in his honor,
DePriest Village, Sunday afternoon,
at 4 30.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-12-31
Too Much

An actress who has standing In
vitation TO visit any theater she
chooses and ask for box. took adj
vantage OF this privilege night or
two ago. with disastrous results.
Presenting herself At the box office,
she gave her name and demanded a
free pass.
-Never heard OF you." replied the
booking clerk, tersely. 1T can't be
done"
Furious. she sought the manage
ment, who apologized profusey. and
sent commissionaire back with her
to the box Office
But an even worse humiliation
awaited her here. for the good fello"
bundered horribly.
give this Indy free seat al once,
he insisted. pompously. Shes a well
known actors mother" - London
Opinion.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-12-31
MONTANA WEEKLY
INDUSTRIAL REVIEW

Helena-Montana State Highway
Commission spent or contracted to
spend nearly s10,0OO,O0O in improve
ments of States principal highways
during calendar year 1881
Havre-Mountain States Tel. q Tel.
Co. placed two copper telephone cir
cults in service between Shelby and
this place, at cost of about $4,000.
Survey completed for new highway
between Glacier Park station and
Lubec
Deer Lodge-Fred Tamcke, Lew
Curn and Butte parties leased Elk mine,
eight miles south OF city for period OF
two years,
Construction of bridge
across Missouri River near here as
sured by approval Of Federal Depart
ment OF Agriculture.
Miles City--Bids to be called soon
| for construction Of two earth dams
across old channel of Tongue River
at south end of Montana Ave. to form
pool for artificial lake and fish cul-
tural pond sponsored by Custer Rod
and Gun Club.
Billings-Meeting held to discuss
plans for paving south side next spring
Rapid progress being made on new
Custer -Hysham highway
Tomlinson-A rkwright Co. received
s76.64O contract for construction o
1854 miles of Upper Madison road
Sheridan, Madison Co, Forum.
Missoula-Construct completed OF
new dam of Missoula Irrigation Distric
across Missoula River east of Vai
Buren, street bridge.
i Butte-Conerston of new St. Mary
Catholic Church edifice laid.
Troy-Geo. H. Whitefield leased oil
Troy Echo building and opened Tro
Radio and Electric Shop.
Helena Construction progressln
, rapidly on new addition to Fedora
building.
: Winnett-Constructi underway 0
State highway east of town.
Milestone Minnesota FlatWillow Pc
troleum Co. preparing to start wor
on Ivanhoe dome north of town.
Conrad Modern Woodmen plan
erect lodge hall, club room and gym
nasium.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-12-31
Scientists on Track of
Suns Effect on Plants

The old astrologers imagined that
the conhguration Of the planets con-
trolled the destinies Of individual men.
The modern astronomer regards as
trology as nonsense.
It Is interesting. however, to note
that each day brings to light moro con-
nectiOns between the earth and the
rest OF the universe. not erratic and
superstItious connections such as the
old astrologers imagined. but physical
connections which can be explained on
the basis of science.
The sun Is important to life. With.
out its heat and light life would not
be possible. The process by which
plants convert the carbon dioxlde OF
the air and the water OF tile soil into
starches and sugars Is only possible
with the energy OF sunlight
In addition. recent studies at thu
Mayo foundation tend to Indicate thai
the various wavelengths Of sunlish
have varying effects upon plants. some
even acting as brakes or checks upoI
certain processes.
Finally. there are the mysterious
cosmic rays coming In from outer stel
lar space. These rays are so penetrat
Ing that they pass through mt
through all living organisms. Perhap
some dnv they will be found to pla,
some fundamental role In life proc
enses.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-12-31
"Red Hat" Bestowed on
Cardinals as a Symbol

The red hat, the most conspicuous
feature of the insignia of Roman Cath
Ollie cardinals, dates as gestmens
from 1916. In that year 1t was be-
slowed on secular cardinals by Pope
Innocent " as a symbol OF their read
mess to shed their blood for Christ
and the church. Gregory NV In lo9l
extended the privilege Of wearing the
red hal to cardinals belonging to re-
ligious orders. AS now made, the &C.
clesiastical hat is scarlet In color and
has small. fiat crown and broad
brim with cords and tassels of special
patterns hanging over 1t. 1t is placed
on the head of the newly appointed
cardinal by the hand of the pope at a
public consstory, but the hat Is very
seldom worn afterward. Instead 1t Is
usually laid aside until the funeral
ohsequies of the cardinal, when 1t Is
placed on his catafalque. In the alb
sence OF the cardinal, and sometimes
after his death. the red hat may be
hung from the roof OF the cathedral,
The color OF the cardinals hat has be-
come known as cardinal red, and q
species Of American finch Is called the
cardinal birf or the red cardinal be-
cause OF the brilliant plumage OF the
male.-Pathfnder Magazine.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-12-31
36 CARLOADS TREES SHIPPED
FROM STATE FOR CHRISTMAS

HELENA. -Thirty-six carloads of
Christmas trees from western Montana
were shipped to eastern points this
year, and about 100 carloads will be
shipped next year, George L. Knight,
chief of the horticulture division for
the state department of agriculture, said
today. One car will carry about 3,O0t
trees. Knight said Shipments were
made as far east as Philadelphia as fan
south as Atlanta, and a great number
sent to Texas.-Great Falls Tribune.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-12-31
Once-Glorious Babylon
Pathetic in Its Fall

Always the hostile nations OF the
Near East have largely prevented
psychologists from digging into the re-
mains of the ancient cities there, Dut
since the World war overturned au-
thoritv there, the excavations are be-
ginning to look like the Kimberley dia-
mond mines. Museums in all civilized
countries are piling up the remnants
of the early peoples.
But we learn little about them. rot
terry, though 1t be collected by tons,
and necklaces. earrings and indestruc-
tible personal adornments tell US little
of the inhabitants of Ur. of. Assyria
and Babylon. The lack of u literature
makes everything lack. We can un-
derstand what the Greeks thought
what they said and their daily be-
havior, but the older races are DUMB.
AS Bill Nye said. Babylon Is a good
illustration Of town that does not
keep up with the procession. Compare
her today with Kansas City We
were reading about this Babylon. just
the other day. Every twenty-four
hours the train to Bagdad snorts by
Babylon that way. 1t whistles. but
doee not stop. and If the traveller Is
rapid of eye he may read on a rail-
road sign. "Bahylon-Traln Hall
Here to Pick Up Passengers, Coule
any of the shattering denunciations Of
this great and terrible city to be reaf
In the Bible be more bitter?-St. Loui!
| Globe Democrat.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-12-31
Moons Named Months

The names OF the Indian months or
moons were usually derived from ma
ture, says Dan Beard, famous woods
man in Boys Life. Thus. the Black
feet say winter is the first moon, after
the first snowfall, the time when thu
year changes. What we call January
thaw they call Chinook, the thawlnl
wind the moon when the buffalo
calves are black. In speaking of sprin1
they say, when the geese comes1
June is time for high waters. JUL
and August are home days. Oct0be1
is real fall month. for 1t Is the moo1
when the leaves fall.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-12-31
Many Showing
Interest In Mining
Short Course
Butte School Finds Miners Are MOI
Only Ones Who Want to Know
More About the Industry.

BUTTE, Dec. 28.-Miners are not
alone interested in mining, but also
postmasters, forest rangers, lawyers,
merchants and even the states audi
tor it is learned at Montana School
of Mines.
When college officials recently an
nounced that prospectors short course
would be offered for laymen from jan
uary 4 to February 10, one of the first
persons to express interest was George
P. Porter, auditor of the state of Mon
tana.
Now Mr.. Porter informs Francis A.
Thomson that he will attend the course
If he can obtain leave of absence from
i his pressing duties. Mr.. Porter has adj
ministration of the Blue Sky law in
Montana and is anxious to advise him.
self on certain aspects of the mineral
industry Of value to him in his work.
Many men engaged in prospecting
and mining operations in the Treasure
State have made inquiries about the
course. But letters have been received
too from a postmaster, forest ranger
lawyer, merchant and men in othel
fields who recognize its informationa
value.
/ This six-week miners short cours'
is being offered for the first time a
Montana School of Mines. Work vii
be given in assaying, mlneralogy
quartz and placer mining, geology, or
dressing and kindred subjects. Tn
State Department of Vocational Edu
. cation is cooperating, and the onl
charge is a laboratory deposit OF 81
, to help defray the cost of materials.
: The Registrar, Montana School
!. Mines, Butte, will supply additional III
formation.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-12-31
Old Warships Used Again

Old fighting ships that have out
lived their first usefulness serve an.
other purpose equally good In its way.
The formidable warshins Of 80 years
ago look like model boats beside the
present-day fighting machines. one OF
which weighs more than hnlf-dozcn
Of the old type. Their ultimate fate Is
the junk pile but not pound Of metaI
II lost. The old wood is burned out,
then ali convertible metal liz broken
nh. copper and brass separated from
steel and everything manufactured into
something else. The discarded ships
are generally bought by firms who
specialize In breaking up old vessels
for their metal and the work is done
Glmost as scientifically as In the build
ing process.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-12-31

The late Raymond Hitchcock was
asked In Los Angeles one day II II
was true that when he was present
ed to Queen Alexandra he said.
well, queen, | am sure glad to
have you know me.
The comedian denied the story.
"That would have heen y Tx pas
or bad break" he said. 1t would
have been worse than Cornelius
Huck's hospitable inv tation to HI city
guests at supper. Have some more,
folks Ye Jest got to have some more
he said. We're goin' t give 1t TO the
hawgs anyway
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-12-31

Plans for a flotation mill of $50 to
200 tons daily capacity will be pre-
pared by A. w. Fahrenwald, metallurgi-
cal engineer, for the Bell Boy Gold
Mine company, with property near
Marysville, Montana, according to a
report in Spokane. M. J. Savage, KEEL
logg. Idaho, is president and manager of
the company.
In Spokane this week, MIR. Savage
said the plant would be erected below
the Tousley tunnel. Building would be
started as soon as the weather condi-
tons permitted.
The Tousley tunnel had been cleared
for use and driven into the Bell Boy
property, adjoining. 1t is 200 feet below
the Bell Boy workings The ore is
so plentiful that there is no purpose
in raising at once for a connection,
said Mr.. Savage. Eve are we'll pleased
with the showing. There is large ton
mage of milling ore that averages 8
to $40 in gold, 3 per cent lead, tW'
ounces of silver and little copper
THE Bell Boy holdings consist 0
four groups, the Tousley, Gleason
Zimmerman and Bell Boy. Ore ha
/ been exposed in all of them and crud
ore, broken in development, has beel
shipped from them
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-12-31

the happiest Christmas of his life. Thus
eagerly did the victor of the war for
our independence forget military glory
and return to the ranks of his fellow
citizens
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-12-31

can be traced 100 feet From parallel
vein a small shipment of $50 ore was
recently made.
The Gold Drop is held under lease
by R. L. Clothier and Vancouver as
sociates. The lease was obtained from
Henry Fritz and w. w. E Macarthur.
Sensational values also have recent
" been obtained by the Hecla Mining
company from the Union mine near
Grand Forks.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-12-31
DEEP SNOWFALL :.
RECALLS STORMS


was solid and packed but in "a it was
quite light and fluffy,
Both these years saw extremely
high water in the spring, but it was
especially high in "a. The water of the
Kootenai river overlooked its banks
and backed up into the town to points
between Second and Third streets, al
though these streets were lower
then in many places than they are
now, having since then been filled
and graded. The water came up to the
floor of the depot and covered the rails
Of the railroad in many places. On Sec
ond street it was knee deep although
one must remember the street was then
Iouer