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Imperial Valley press., 1931-02-13
Red Cross Fund
Moving Slowly

Although tagging considerably. El
Centro's quota toward the Red
Cross fund is gradually nearing the
goal of $1,000.
Contributions have been coVing in
spasmodically since the last report
was made in the Press two weeks
ago.
Report has not been made as yet
on the final results of the lettuce
sale conducted by the lettuce grow
ers, and it is believed that this
sum, plus that received otherwise
will bring the total well up toward
the quota.
Max Hoffert, auctioneer at the Cut
Rate Furniture House, stated today
that he will give his commission on
tomorrow sales to the fund as his
contribution to aid in drought re-
lief.
The Press reports the following
Imperial Valley press., 1931-02-13

What folks say about concern
tells you exactly how good il is.
Follow your friends to Hafer's for
sheet metal and radiator cleaning
and repair satisfaction.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-04-30
U. 5. Supreme Court UphOlds Right
To Probe Junies for Race Prejudice

WASHINGTON, D. C.-The Su-
preme Court, highest in the land,
decided Tuesday that in cases in
volving colored and white people,
prospective jurors NAV be quizzed to
determine whether they have race
prejudice.
Seventy-four years after a Demo-
cratic Chief Justice, Roger fancy,
gave his infamous decision on the
fugitive slave in the bred Scott Case,
saying: "the Negro has no rights
which the white man is bound to re-
spect," a Republican Chief Justice,
Charles Evans Hughes, delivered his
decision directly to the contrary.
The decision was almost unani-
nous.
Mr.. Chief Justice Hughes, New
York born and educated, delivered
the majority opinion.
Mr.. Justice McReynolds, Kentucky
born, Vanderbilt NASHVILLE, TENN 4,
educated, a bachelor and the only
Southerner on the bench, was the
only director, and delivered minor
ity opinion, referring to the terms
race prejudice" and "Southerner,"
he inserted the words in parenthesls
"(Whatever that may bel. e"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-04-30
ALL NEGROES ARE
BLACK, +" BOSTON
JUD &c RULES

BOSTON, Mass.-All Negro chill
dren, without regard to color, are
black children" according to a rul-
ing interpreting a win of the late
Helen Lambert, white, by Judge Ar
thur w. Dolan in the Suffolk Pro-
bate Court, Thursday.
The Interpretation was made on
the petition of the Old Colony Trust
Company, executor Of the estate. be-
cause of the INDIGESTION as to wheth-
er the words meant children of Ne
gro blood. or children black in color
and irrespective of race.
Five BLACK Children"
Miss Lambert, W hose estate
amounted to $81,717.71. left 1000
pounds sterling to the Worthley Chill
dren's Home, Jamaica, w. l., pro-
viding that arrangements be made
chat five children be received,
trained and cared for exactly like
all the rest of the children.
The trust company asked also for
instructions as to whether the exec
utor could pay the 1000 pounds to
the home, which was not incorpor-
ated. Judge Dolan appointed Mrs.
Worthley, head Of the school. trus-
tee of the fund, and has instructed
the executor that the Lambert will
bequest can be paid for.
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NEGRO OIL CO.
JUBILANT OVER
BIG G USH E R

SHREVEPORT, La. - (INS) -
The Negro population of Texas,
Louisiana and Arkansas, is all en-
thousand barrel oil well which was
brought in by the Universal Oil, Gas
and Mining Company this week near
Henderson, Texas. This enthusiasm
is caused, among other things, by the
fact that the Universal Oil, Gas and
Mining Company is a Negro owned
and operated company, the stock be-
ing held by members of the Negro
race in the three states mentioned
above. The well is considered one
of the prize wells in the Henderson
district, and thousands of people of
all races have been making pilgrim
all about. The offset well to the
UniversaPs well is only making three
thousand barrels daily, and this is
another reason why the colored
stockholders of the Universal Oil.
Gas and Mining Company are jubi-
liant.
This well was due to be completed
about month ago, but on Febru-
airy 20, last. an acid bottle test was
made and it was discovered that the
we'll had not been drilled entirely
straight. that. in fact, it was inclined
about 20 degrees from the vertical
which is ordinarily expected in drill
ing operations. 1t became necessary
to plug the hole back to the 2400-
foot level and begin drilling again
from that point in an effort to
straighten the hole. There seems to
be something in the formation of the
soil which caused this tendency of
The well not to go down straight for,
while the UniversaPs we'll was the
first crooked well to be found in the
field, several have been discovered
since this one.
The well is located in the Maria
Iosefa Pru Survey, $50 it. north and
$50 feet west of the southeast corr
ner of the north 36-acre lease of the
j. T. Brown 76-acre tract. The Of
ficials of the Universal Oil Company
announce that they plan to drill
their second well at once.
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UNIVERSAL
INSURANCE co.
PAID BIG GRAFT

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The state
wide financial-pohtical eandal
which has already caused five white
suicides and led half dozen of the
states proud Nordics to the very
threshold of the penitentiary, in
volved the Negro group last week
when it was revealed that the Uni
versal Life Insurance Company had
been compelled to pay $4,000 graft
to State insurance official.
The revelation came out during
the probe into the administration of
Governor Horton by the state affairs
investigating committee when DR.. j..
4. Walker, president of the Unver-
sal Life, told the committee that he
had paid James H. Washburn, white
state actuary, $4,000 for fixing a
rate for the company"
Three Checks .-.
The graft money was paid in three
checks, one for $1,000 and two for
$500, documentary evidence dis
closed. Walker intimated that but
for this payment the operation of his
company in the state might not have
been approved by the State Insur-
ance Commission. The Universal
Life Insurance Company, is one of
the largest companies operating in
the Mississippi Delta.
A state of political corruption
which even Southern white news
papers say make the worst days of
the Tweed regime seem decent, is
being revealed by the probe, it is
said.
DIR. Walker, who is one of the most
successful physicians in the state,
and who had his first insurance ex-
perience with the Mississippi Insur-
anee Company some years ago, re-
tired in 1923 to organize the Uni
versal Life. In 1927 this company
began writing group policies and
Walker went to Nashville to confer
with the State Insurance Depart
ment as to rates.
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Colored Boy Defeats
$50 White Orators

LOS ANGELES, Calif.-A col
ored youth, Emit Smith, II years
old, of the Venice High School has
reached the district semifinals IN
the National Oratorical contest on
the Constitution. The boy has been
reared by a white family in Palms
and has been given every education
al advantage.
Forged Ahead
In the elimination contests in the
Venice High School Smith was vic
torious over $50 white contestants,
winning the right to represent his
school in the district contest, No
81, comprising the important high
schools of Venice, Rendondo Union,
San Pedro and Santa Monica City.
And in this meet again he triumphed,
thus working his way up to the semi
finals, where he will contest with
the winners of seven other districts
at Beverly Hills High School on this
Friday, April %.
Smith offered as his Grafton
abraham Lincoln, the Practical Ex-
FOUNDER of the Constitution.
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Records Show 100 Mixed Births Each
Year and 1000 Pass As White In Virginia

Our office detects perhaps over
a hundred each year of those known
to be Of Negro ancestry who are list
ing their births and deaths as white
and are securing white marriage IL
censes, either to marry those of their
kind Of they take the final step and
marry whites.
"If the state is really intent upon
preserving the racial purity Of its
white population it will be necessary
to employ one or more officials
whose duty it is to see that the race
integrity law is enforced. The Blu
reau of Vital Statistics can do no
more than record facts and point out
the danger.
Risk Is Slight
1.-THE risk Of conviction before an
average jury is so slight that they
gladly take the chance. No question
was ever raised as to our colored
people being other than Negro or
mulatto while now with the great
scramble by some 1000 or 5000
near whites to secure ultimate or
immediate classification as white.
usually first as Indians we find
that many false claims have erept
into our records"
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Dance Floor Staying
Witnessed By Patrons

CHICAGO. = Twenty-Five horri-
fled patrons in the Panama Inn,
black and tan night club at 1920
Indiana avenue, looked on early Sat
urday as John Wooley, manager,
shot and killed James ("Buster")
Oliver, 45-year-old former pugilist
and employee at the place, on the
dance floor.
When police arrived all the pa
irons had fled. Wooley admitted the
killing, police said, but insisted he
shot in self defense. He said that
he and Oliver quarreled because the
victim was standing in front of the
cabaret handing out bills advertis-
ing a rival resort.
Oliver walked in and, according
to the SLAYER, said: "We1l settle this
by shooting it out now" Wooley
said the man reached for gun and
he then fired twice.
Some witnesses are alleged To
have said that Oliver was unarmed
and that the gun found near his
body was planted there.
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RICHMOND, Va.-Claiming that
the increasing numbers of inter
marriages between whites and Ne
groes is a reflection of incompetency
on the part of the commonwealth's
attorneys in Virginia, DIR. W. A.
Picker, state registrar of vital STA
tistics, has submitted his report for
the year 1929 to Governor Pollard.
DR.. Picker mentioned the fact
that the favorite method of evading
the racial integrity law Of Virginia
was in the employment of subter-
fuge tactics by law breakers. He
cited the case Of a white girl Of
thirteen who eloped with a mulatto
of sixteen and in some manner Sc
cured marriage license and they
were married in a Maryland town.
"The birth certificate of their
first child is already on file in our
office as white. The Commonwealth's
attorney has been notified but no ac-
ton taken. In another similar case,
North Carolina was the Gretna
Green" he added.
Hundreds Pass Annually
Continuing to espouse his cause
for the preservation Of the Nordic
stock from contamination, the vital
statistician maintains:
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The decision saved from the cleo
trio chair a Washington man, Alfred
Scott Aldrige, who was convicted of
the murder, in July, 1929, of Harry
J. Macdonald (white), a policeman,
and had been sentenced to die on
May 8.
His appeal was won by James F.
Reilly (white), former page in the
Senate, now a 28-year-old lawyer
appearing for the first time in the
Supreme Court. Reilly held the trial
court erred in not permitting tales
men to be asked whether they would
have prejudice in a case when the
defendant was colored and the vic
tim white.
The Supreme Courts decision up
set a decision of the d. C. Court
of Appeals.
One Jury Had Disagreed
Aldridge was tried once in the
District Court, but there was a dis
agreement. In the second trial in
the same court, in which Aldridge
was convicted, his counsel, James A.
Reilly. told the Judge he had heard
that in the first trial a Southern
woman juror had said the fact that
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HAYES FORCED
TO SEEK ROOM IN
PRIVATE HOME

LONDON, England.-The Daily
Press says London hotels have re-
fused to receive Mr.. Roland Hayes,
the distinguished tenor, who will ar
rive here early next month to give
q series of concerts.
The prejudice against colored peo-
ple---mild though it is compared with
the feeling in the United States
has proved insuperable; and those
friends of Mr.. Hayes who were seek
ing to book rooms for him in hotel
have given up their task.
Private accommodation has been
arranged instead.
Mr.. Loens, honorary secretary of
the African Club, expressed his dis
appointment at the situation to a
Daily Express representative yester-
day "Mr. Hayes is famous man.
he said, "and great artist. Hotels,
however, choose to regard his blood
as a disgrace"
Mr.. Hayes first visit to England
ten years ago was extraordinarily
successful, and eliminated in COM
mand performance at Buckingham
Palace before the King and Queen.
They expressed their appreciation,
especially of his singing of Negro
spirituals, and presented him with a
diamond pin.
Mr.. Hayes, whom European pa
pers reported engaged to the Coun-
tess, Helena Koloyrda, white, of Aus
tria, was more recently said to have
engaged himself to New York de-
butante.
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SHERIFFS ALLOWS
0 N E LYNCHINC;
WOMAN ENDS One

UNION CITY, Tenn. = While
Sheriff j. D. Hubs, white, stood by,
mob of white men went into the
county Jail here, took George Smith,
accused of entering the room of a
young white woman, and hanged him
from tree in the yard of the court
house Saturday.
At the time of the lynching all
the evidence against the victim of
the mob was the fact that blood
hounds took up trail which led to
his home.
In contract to the action of the
Union City sheriff, Mrs. J. c. But
Ter, white, wife of the sheriff of Car
roll County, prevented the lynching
of Henry Mauford, accused Of
shooting an officer at Humboldt,
Tenn. when she stood guard at the
Jail door and told them that "you
can't run anything like that over
on me-"
The Buffers expected visit from
the mob and made preparations to
save their prisoner, she said.
In Girls Room
Smith. who was lynched by the
Union City mob, was accused of en-
tering the home of the young woman
in the night and attempting to as
sault her. He is said to have fled
when the father of the girl heard her
screams.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-04-30
REDS PREVENT
COLOR BAR AT
BOSTON DANCE

BOSTON, Mass. - Following a
demonstration by the League of
Struggle for Negro Rights, which
was staged outside the hotel where
the Boston Girls High School dance
was being given, three seniors, with
their escorts who had been asked
not to attend on account of their
color, were admitted.
The admittance of the Negro MEM
bers of the class was a last minute
decision, it was stated by the man
agement of the hotel.
Last year couple was barred
from the prom and when three NOM
berg of the class secured invitations
and. tickets to the affair this year, a
group of Southern white girls went
to them and asked them not to at
tend. Upon advice of Assistant Cor
poration Council Julian d. Rainey
they decided to present themselves
anyway. 1t was said that Principal
Denham advised the girls to stay
away as the Southern white girls OBJ
jected to their presence.
The League of Struggle for Negro
Rights, comprising white and Negro
members, which is a Communist or
ganization, gathered in front of the
hotel with banners reading "down
with segregation" The girls who
attended were Misses Nettie Harris
5on. Gwendolyn Robinson and Cher
ry Belle Mason. Their escorts were
Herbert Jackson, Arthur Powell and
M. Hanson.
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COLOR BAN IS DRAWN AGAINST
distinguished AMERICAN TENOR
Second Sweet Case
Results In Dismissal

DETROIT, Mich. (CNS)-The
suit for $4,000 damages for the
death of Leon B. Breiner. white.
shot during the Sweet riots in
1925, was dismissed Wednesday
by visiting judge Charles f.
White, of Berrien County. in the
Wayne County Circuit Court here.
The suit was started by Leon
Breiner. special administrator for
the Breiner estate, and named DIR.
Ossian l.. Sweet, Henry Sweet
and eight others.
Breiner was shot and wounded
fatally in riot at Garland Ave
nue. and Charlevoix Street. In
giving his decision, Judge White
said that Sweet had legal right
to protect himself when harassed
by mob and that there was no
cause for action against him.
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HIGH SCHOOL GIRL
KILLS BOY WHO
BETRAYED HER

SHREVESPORT, La. - Naming
him as the father of her unborn babe
end claiming that he had betrayed
her, Miss Peeolia Hawkins, 17-year-
old attractive senior in the Central
High School here, shot and instant
ly killed Charles Jackson, 18-year-
old member of the junior class as
he sat studying in his classroom at
the school Tuesday morning.
Released on bail after bei n g
booked on a charge of murder pend
ing a hearing before the Caddo Par
ish grand jury, the girl declined to
discuss the killing with newspaper
men or to pose for a photograph.
She told police officers that jack
son had been her lover for over a
year and that when she told him of
her delicate Condition several weeks
ago, he ceased to pay her his atten-
lions, but began to court the favors,
of other girls. She said that sher
father had Joined her in begging him
to marry her.
On the morning of the staying.
she says, she went to his room at
the school while he was alone study
ing and without warning, fired a
bullet into the back of his neck. Ac-
cording to student witnesses, who
rushed into the room after hearing
the shot, jackson sprang to his feet.
attempted to walk, but staggered and
fell dead.
As his lifeless form lay at her
feet, the girl fired another shot
into the body, which lodged in the
left side.
In the midst of the excitement
which prevailed at the school follow
ing the killing, the girl quietly
walked to the home of Mrs. Lulu
Hunter, 1445 Ashton Street, with
whom she roomed, where she re-
manned until arrested by the police.
Her home was in the country, but
she was here attending high school.
The boy also lived in the country
and while going to the same school
with the girl resided with relatives
at 1875 Garden Street.
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LONDON HOTELS BAR ROLAND HAYES
"A. Leila Walker Again DiUOrced
Exclusive Dance Bars
Mime. Walkers Kin

ATLANTIC CITY, N. 1.-The
South Jersey Club Of Lincoln I'm
iversity gave recently, one of the
most excluding" dances ever
held in Atlantic City.
The elite of the college, big
time fraternity men and college
athletes attended in large num-
bers.
To the ticket office came none
other than the daughter of Madam
C. Walker-Mrs. O'Lelia Walk
er-Kennedy. She was requested
to show her invitation, which her
escort had left at home, and it
looked like the couple was crash
ing the gate.
"This is the daughter of Ma
dame Walker said the escort.
81 don't care if she is Jimmy
Walkers daughter, you can't get
in here without your invitation"
answered the firm ticket-taker.
After a lengthy but futile argu-
ment, the couple left.
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MIXED COUPLE
FAIL AGAIN TO
GET LICENSE

BOSTON, Mass.-'I love him and
hell combined will not prevent me
from marrying him some day." was
the statement made by Cecile Lab
bic, pretty lS-year-old white girl Of
Lewiston, Maine, when her attemp-
ted marriage to Sherman Ferguson,
colored boxer, was thwarted with
her arrest, Monday by Policewoman
irene McAuliffe on advices from
the police of Lewiston to hold her
until officers could come here and
return the girl to Lewiston.
Ferguson and his fiancee, were
waiting for the arrival of birth cer-
tificate in order to obtain a mar
riage license at City Hall.
This was the second attempt made
by the couple to obtain marriage
license. An attempt was made in
Lewiston several weeks ago, but the
license was refused on the ground
that the girl was too young to marry.
Ferguson visited the City Hall last
Saturday without the girl and filed
marriage application. He was in
formed that he must produce birth
certificate for the girl before they
could be married. Accordingly the
girl wrote to Maine for the certifi-
cate.
According to Miss Labbie, she has
known Ferguson for three years and
that she was deeply in love with him.
The girl showed police letter
she had written to her mother but
had never mailed it. In it she said
she was going to marry Ferguson
because she loved him and that
everything was fine. She said she
was going to start looking for "A job
Ferguson said he is determined to
marry the girl and will find some
way to do so in few weeks.
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Tacoma Boy Awarded
Columbia Scholarship

TACOMA-A scholarship in Eng
lish at Columbia university in New
York city has been won by Hugh
Annette, a senior at the College of
Puget Sound. according to announce
ment at the college Thursday. Arm
cite applied for the scholarship some
time ago and his acceptance came
from the dean of English at Column
bia. The scholarship provides tut
ton and $500 in addition for ex-
penses.
Hugh is an honor roll student Of
Puget Sound College and is a mem
Der of the COLLEGE orchestra and sew
eral societies He is the son Of Mrs.
Oscar Annette of Tacoma.
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DIVORCE DECREE
Is GRAN TED
AT TUSKECEE

TUSkEGEE. Ala. Attendance
of newspapermen at the 50th ami
versary of Tuskegee uncovered the
third divorce of Nine. A Lelia Walk
er, president of the Nine. c. J. Walk
er Manufacturing Company, of In
dlanapolis, since 1918, and heiress
of the original Nine. Walker $780,
900 estate.
The decree was secured by DR..
James H. Kennedy, of the staff of
the Tuskegee Veterans Hospital
and World war captain, on the
ground of desertion.
They We're married in Chicago in
May, 1925, but soon separated, the
doctor going to his work at Tuske-
gee and the heiress steadfastly re-
fusing to live in Dixie.
Captain Kennedy is a native of
Arkansas and a graduate of Meharry
Medical School. He said that his
eX-wife did not contest the proceed
ings.
DIR. Kennedy was physician to the
original Nine. Walker and it was one
of her dying requests in 1919 that
he marry her daughter.
MIle. n Lena walker second
husband was DR.. Wiley Wilson, a
New York physician, whom she di-
vorced in November, 1924. She al
legged desertion and incompatibility.
Her first husband was Mr.. Robin
son, of whom very little was known.
Sold Villa Le-Waro
Nine. Walker has given society
plenty TO talk about in recent years.
First came the $4,000 wedding of
her adopted daughter, Mae Walker,
to DR.. Gordon II. Jackson of Chica-
go. There were 5000 guests in the
expensive villa for the fete.
Subsequently Mrs. jackson di-
vorced her husband and married Ma
rion Perry. Last week the Walker
Company announced that Mrs. Perry,
who may one day be Nine. Walker.
III, had succeeded Mrs. Alice Kelly,
deceased, as forelady in the plant,
and guardian of the Walker manu-
featuring secrets.
Two years ago, the company, head
ed by Nine. A'Lelia Walker, erected
in indianapolis a S350.000 manufac-
turing plant containing theatre, au-
dltorlum, factory and several stores.
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New Orleans Woodmen
Can't Paw Claims

NEW ORLEANS, La. = Because
the local unit of the w. o. u, whose
national headquarters are in Hot
Springs, Ark, can't pay its sick
claim, members of its band have
decided to disband and send their in.
struments to the parent body, Fl.
Pritchard, bandmaster, declared last
week. Pritchard, DIR. A. w. Brazier
and Organizer Crane, lodged a com
plant and stated that although the
monthly collections have amounted
to as much as 500, less than SIC
was ever allowed the local sick men,
bers.