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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-08-20
FOUR THOUSAND MOBILES march IN
COlORFUL PARADE TO CITY HALL
Deny Rumor That
Motion To Retire AS
Head of Tuskegee

NEW YORK CITY.-The persist
ent rnmor that Major II. II. Motion,
nrincipal of Tuskegee Institute, Will
retire before the beginning OF the
next school term as head of the IN
stitution was STYLED AS absolutely
without foundation" by persons III
the confidence and CLOSELY associated
with DIR. Motion this week. me ru-
NOR that DR.. Motion, exhausted by
numerous demands upon his time en-
tailed by his duties as principal, ana
encouraged by the sale of his DOOR
"What the Negro Thinks was plan
ming to retire to his virginia farm
and devote his entire time TO writ
ing. The rumor had even gone so
far as to mention as probable sue
cessors to DR.. Motion Chaning Tobias
Y. M. C. A. official, DR.. II. X. ray
lor, vice principal of Tuskeege. ana
BENJAMIN Huber. president OF the
Georgia State College at savannah
DIR. Motion himself could not De
reached for an interview upon MS
rumored retirement. but persons
close to him scoffed at the report
pointing out that DR.. Motion Is II
excellent health, is only Go years OF
age, and has outlined several I'M
portant projects for the development
of the school to be undertaken un
der his supervision during the com
Ing year,
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DOCTORS RESENT
USE OF NEGRO
BY COMMISSION

.t,,,,,,nY - L.
NE w Am n, ~, J -, -. s9a .l ielte I
OIL objection To tlle use u me Wot ~
Negro on communication M, ,Si sen. sell' 70
me National Meaical AS Asso o'.l,,'l, oy
the Commission lda,, Tor we oelep =,
Of the 2ooth anniversary ol @ m
washington was sent oy VI - w. "
Alexander president 70 ool niooiil'
associate director oil the COMMISSION
last week ,,
IN MS ietlef DOCTOR AieNai'oer
sad
! am at a loss to understand WY
there Is the designation Negro
following the name Of our ofsai ma
ton. VINO IS TO- pc ACQUAINTED WIN
the racial ldehtlty Oh our assoeiatloil
am sure that the members oil the
National Medical ASSOCIATION oei Know
mat II IS CONFUSED OF NEGROES anu
they therefore, 10 not need To DC re-
minded OF the racial status OIL It's
personnel
ne man man 9ellYers 70 oui "
/
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-08-20
ml0RED REPUbLIC OPPOSED
TO DEPRIEST FOR CONGRESS-
White Man, Negro
Take Prisoner From
Sheriff; Lynch Him

Dewitt, Ark.-Two men, one OF
them white, the other colored, are
being held on a charge of murder
here for the lynching of John Par
ker, a colored farmer, whom they
took from the custody of the sheriff
and shot to death on Saturday. the
Staying occurred on the road from
who while Sheriff Henry Cummins
was taking the prisoner back to
Bayou Meto to answer charge oil
killing a white plantation owner,
and John Brooks, colored farmer
in his employ, stopped the sheriff's
car by driving in front of it and
parking their car across the road
Both men were armed, and ordered
Sheriff ,Cummins and Parker ou'
of the car. While the white mar
held his gun on the sheriff. Brooks
fired a load of buckshot into tint
chest of Parker, killing him instant
lily. The two murderers then drov'
off, and the officer returned Will
the dead prisoner to town.
The sheriff secured warrants, ant
arrested both Brooks and Lumsden
and placed them in jail. Lumsdel
was later admitted to bail. No ex
PLANTATION of the motive behind thi
two-man lynching has yet been mad
public.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-08-20
CHICAGO C.O.P. BEGINS fight on DEPRlEST
Summers Hold Annual COncLaUe In Baltimore
Thousands Attend
Funeral of Communists

CHIC AGO. - Approximately
twelve thousand people both colored
and white crowded State street be-
tween 33rd and 47th streets on Sat
urday afternoon, as spectators and
participants in the Communists DEM
onstration accompanying the funeral
of Abe Grey and John O'Neil, two
of the three men killed on Monday
of last week during clash between
police and radical group which I'M
dertook to move Mrs. Diana Gross
back into the house from which she
had been evicted.
The bodies of the two slain rad
icals lay in state for two days at
the headquarters of the Unemployed
Council, 1927 State with guard OF
honor of white and colored Commu-
nists, amid red flags and bunting
and a profusion of floral decora'
tions, with red color scheme dom
mating. Only limited number coulc
gain access to the public funeral helc
| in the hall, but thousands filed thru
to look at the bodies, while thou
sands more milled about in from
of the place, or lined the street fol
several blocks.
| A special detail of more than 3O'
police officers, on foot, on motor
cycles and in squad cars was on tn
scene, headed by Commissioner o
Police John Alcock. Communists o
both races, from all sections of tn
city formed the funeral cortege un
der escort of motorcycle police, Will
patrolmen were stationed along tn
route. Men, women, and children
wearing red saches, kerchiefs, an
sashes Joined the singing of ties "lr
ternationale" which was led by
small band. The solemn corteg
moved slowly down the stree
stretching from the h al to Al.
street, blocking street cars and mote
traffic for nearly an hour. Ordel
. illness marked the demonstration
its entirety.
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BALTIMORE, Md.--After relat-
ing a story of hectic love affair
that ruined his domestic bliss, sep
arating him from his seven children,
the Rev. John Childs, 55, 1851 Ward
Street, calmly went to his cell in
the Central police station to await
a hearing in connection with the
killing of Mrs. Margaret Casey. alias
Sparrow, AZ, First Avenue Brooklyn,
at a revival meeting, Sunday.
The hundreds of persons who had
attended the revival services at the
Holliay Run Church were thrown in
to a state of excitement when the
Reverend Childs accosted the woman
as she was leaving the steps OF the
church and without a word drew q
razor swiftly across her throat.
Women Scream
The woman screamed and Their
fell to the ground in an unconscious
condition.
Childs walked calmly to an auto
mobile and left the scene. Mrs. Ca
sew was taken to the Annapolis
Emergency Hospital where she wa
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Preacher Stays Affinity AT Meeting
Only WayOut His Excuse For Tragedy

dead.
Several hours later the Reverend
Childs was arrested by Sergeant
Frederick johnson and Joseph Sim
mons at the home of his wife on
Ward Street. On being taken to the
Central police station he readily adj
mitted the killing.
Makes Statement
In a statement to Captain Mem
teins he declared that he would bare
the entire story just to relieve his
conscience which had been troubling
him for a year.
Childs stated that he was born N
King Williams Count, Virginia
About Is years ago he was ordained
in the A. M. E. Conference of that
area. After serving a church there
The was transferred to MARYLAND.
From the time he was transferreS
here until three years ago when h
met Mrs. Casey, he enjoyed the com
partnership Of his wife and seven chill
dren. In describing his relation
with the woman, Childs stated tina
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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-08-20

LIVE IN TO W N
NEAR BUFFALO

TONOWANDO, N. Y.-This town
has become an immigrants paradise,
so much so that the foreign-born
population of Poles, Slavs, Hunga-
rians and Italians has passed law
whereby a colored person cannot
make his home within the town linn
its.
Colored people may work here, but
at nightfall they must wend their
way to Buffalo, the nearest city. Re
Gently these people, some of whom
have not been in the United States
long enough to learn how to speak
English, passed out circulars calling
for a mass meeting to protest against
what they termed the persecution OF
the foreign born.
They claimed their homes were be,
ing disgracefully raided by fedora
agents. They claimed that then
wages were gradually forced dowr
to mere pittance by the omnipres
ent threat of Ellis Island. They
went on to state that farce OF lie
galized deportation is herding per
fectly good-citizens out of the Uni
ted States.
These folks come from countrle
which pay them and munificent wag
es of forty and fifty cents a day t.
country which pays them four
five and six dollars per day. Nov
they protest fifty cent salary de
crease.
Many of them, instead of maxim
an honest attempt to gain admit
lance to this country, will pay froi
500 to 81, 500 to be Struggled II
Then when discovered, they howl 9
the treatment they receive Will
awaiting deportation.
The residents here can't name
single reason why they Cypress tn
coiored man, but are merely follow
ing precedent.
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HARRY KNIGHT,
PHILADELPHIA,
IS POTENTATE

BALTIMORE, Md.-Nobles of the
Ancient Egyptian Arabic Order of
the Mystietie Shrine and the lmpe-
rial Grand Court. Daughters of Isis
opened their thirty-seeond annual
session at Bethel A. NJ. L. Church,
Druid Hill Avenue an d Lanyale
Street, Monday night.
The session, a memorial, was in
memory of Caesar X. Blake, Jr., I'M
perial Potentate from 1919 to 1881.
Before an assembly of delegates,
members of local lodges and town
guests that filled the lower floor and
the galleries of the church, Noble f.
w. Frazier introduced Bishop w.
Sampson Brooks, head of the A. NJ.
f.. Church, Texas diocese. as tho
eulogist.
Public Session
With Imperial potentate Harry
Knight as master of ceremonies, the
Shriners, and the associated Daugh-
ters of Isis held a public session at
Metropolitan Nj. e. Church, Tuesday
morning.
Paramount was the speech of Gov
ernor Albert c. Richie of Maryland,
who told the assembly that no Ameri-
i can organization measures up better
than the Shrners. The executive
welcomed them to the city and the
state expressing the hope that they
would enjoy themselves and closed
with saying that he was glad to have
them stay.
The governors speech was FIRE.
ouently interrupted by applause, and
at its finish hand claps of approba-
ton continued for more than a min
ute. The band fittingly played
maryland. Ny Maryland as a trib-
ute at the close.
DIR. Banton Scores
Dir. Conwell Banton, grand master
of Masons Of Delaware and jurisdie
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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-08-20
DePRIEST DEFIES
XII KLIJX KHAN
IN ALABAM A

MOBILE, Ala.-Despite tele-
gram from the Ku klux Khan warn
ing him not to set foot in this city,
Representative Oscar DePriest came
to this city last week and addressed
an audience that packed the Pure
Heart of Mary Church.
Many of the churches here closed
their doors to Mr.. DePriest in Tear
of the Khan and some of the city's
most prominent citizens would not
entertain him because Of their lear
of Khan reprisals.
Brought here under the auspices
of the N.A.A.C.P, the fighting con-
gresham, after assuring his listen
ers that the organization is the great
est in the country for the preserva-
ton of law and Justice, warned
against the dangers of affiliatinp
with the Communist party.
"The Communists are your worst
enemy and will lead you into trouble
and won't get you out the speaker
declared. 1.-TWO things" the speaker
continued, Twill aid in the coloret
mans struggle, namely: the ballo
ana IldWlesS IePu1osiNhS -, e'
munities in which you live.
After expressing surprise at TN
objection on the part of whites t
the sending of a eolored boy to Yves
Point, Representative DePriest ure
ed that his listeners be proud of thei
race and do all in their power t
make right prevail over might.
In regard to the Klan, he said:
pay no attention to the XXX, 10
i have right to go wherever tn
stars and stripes of America float.
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Carvey Group Riots As Brigadier General
Is Put On Spot During Heated COnfab

leader Of the Tiger division said that
he had come to the meeting ut the
auditorium at the request Of the par
emf body officials, and that he mad
been attacked the moment he tried to
take advantage Of the opportunity
thew had offered him to speak. Most
seriously injured in the melee was
Mrs. Nj. p. Calender, lady-president
Of the Tiger division, who had accom-
named Grant and twelve other mem-
hers Of the advisory board to the
meeting
Women Beaten
Mrs. Calender was brutally beaten
across the head with a blunt instrn-
ment and was treated by DR.. Cum
mings of Harlem Hospital for deep
decorations Of the head. Her blood
soaked clothing was almost torn from
her body in the fight. Miss Patience
Williams. second lady-president OF
the division, and a member Of the
Grant committee received abras'on'
when she was struck with char.
Continued on Page %
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"Amos N Andy Degrading
Says Fraternal Order

ST. LOUIS, Mo.-With Louisville,
Ky, as their next convention city, the
Ancient United Knights and Daugh-
tiers of Africo of North America end
ed the oath national grand session
last Saturday night, when commit
tee on resolutions declared that the
Amos m Andy" broadcast was HIM
dering the improvement of the race
by picturing Negro secret orders as
dishonest, lawyers as shYstefs and
exploiting the Negro for purely com.
mercial gain. The committee as.
sured that the broadcasts were OBJ.
noxious TO a large group Of American
citizens.
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OSCAR DEPRlEST
DECLARED UNFIT
fORC0N CRESS

CHICAGO, Ill. Opposition to
the denomination of Oscar DePfiest
as the Republican candidate for re-
election to the United States Con-
press has crystallized here, taking
the form of direct invitation to
Alderman Louis Bernard Anderson
to enter the congressional race IN
the First Congressional District OF
Illinois.
This invitation is extended by the
Third Ward Republican .OTe'aniza-
tIon. through its committee on res
,olutions of which Chandler Owens
"a chairman, in q document setting
forth what it terms an "indictment
~ sDePriest negligence, inefficiency
and incompetency."
Untitled for Position
The statement declares that while
the race in general looked upon thu
election of Mr.. DePriest in 1881 al
the dawning of a new day, after more
than q quarter century without rep
resentation in Congress, with, the sin
,cere hone that he would he a eredi
70 the entire Negro population thru
ont the United States, those VIII
knew him best had no high hopes TO
distinguished service from him.
It is declared that they kneS
that by temperament and ability n
was untitled for the position. %
temperament he was bully and
braggart---his chief output BEN
bluff and buster, ballyhoo and BUM
without tact or diplomacy, devoid Q
sall sense of propriety and dignity
he entered upon his career in Cor
gress ike veritable OK in the pal
Tor or bull in china closet
The charge is made that Deprle:
has failed and failed miserably
every crisis affecting the interest
the race. "A
ton came up, it is alleged that Il
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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-08-20
COMMUNISTSARE
NOT SAVING BOYS
AT SCOTTSBORO

NEW YORK.-"If the Commu-
nists want those lads murdered, then
their tactics of threatening judges
and yelling for mass action on the
mart of white Southern workers is
calculated to insure this" declares
DR.. W. F. B. Dubois in the Septem-
her issue of the Crisis, which has
Just been published
DR.. DuBois's article, "The Negro
and Communism" is a comprehen-
siye examination not only of the
facts involved in the Scottsboro case
but in the philosophy and practlca-
bility of Communism, especially as II
relates to colored people. He scores
the tactics used by the Communists
in attempting to capitalize the plight
of the eight helpless and frlendiess
Youths recently sentenced to deatf
at Scottsboro. Instead of its bitter
attacks upon leadership of all class
es which do not submit to Commu
mist dictation, the efforts of tbs
Communistic leadership in the I'M
ted States, in attempt to sow seed
of distrust and schism have done IN
finite harm. :.
IF the Communistic leadership i
the United States had been broad
minded and far-reaching, it woul
have acknowledged frankly that tn
honesty, earnestness and intelligence
of the N.A.A.C.P. during twent
years of desperate struggle prov
this organization under present ell
cumstances to be the only one, an
its methods the only methods avail
able to defend these boys" declare
DR.. Dubois.
UNFORTUNATELY, American Con
munists are neither wise nor INTEL
gent" asserts the editor of the Cri
Is. "They sought to accomplish t.
much at one stroke. They tried
prove at once that the N.A.A.C.l
did not wish to defend the victim
at Scottsboro and that the reasC
for this was that Negro leadersh
in the N.A.AC.P was allied wi
the capitalists. The first Of the
two efforts was silly and the Con
manists tried to accomplish it
desperate lying and deception"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-08-20
MILLION MARK
IS REACHED BY
INSURANCE co.

MEMPHIS, TENN. - Co-ineident
with the announcement that the Uni
versal Life Insurance Company had
received certificate of authority
authorizing the organization to
transact business in the state of Lou
isiana, officers made public the fact
that last year the income of the COM
pany was approximately one million
dollars.
The Universal Life commenced
business on September 6, 1923. Its
growth has been rapid. At the close
of business December 81, 1880, de-
spite the general depression, the
statement of the company shows an
annual collection of $914,27 S.1S,
with total admitted assets of more
than $500, 900, 900, and with more
than seventeen million dollars OF
business in force.
The company built recently a
beautiful new Home Office building
modernly equipped. The office per
sonnet of the company is composed
entirely of men of long insurance
and business experiences. Their bus
mess progress has been marked by 1
careful and conservative policy, but
also with initiative, yigor and origin
atty, and officers say that the Stat'
of Louisiana will be developed will
the same vigor that has accomplished
such a creditable showing and sucl
substantial progress in the othe
states composing its territory.
The officers of the company ar
DIR. j. b. Walker, president; Dr. J. I
Wilson, vice president; A. W. Willis
vice presidents NJ. S. Stuart, genera
manager; M. w. Bonner, secretary
]. A. Swayze, assistant secretary
DIR. r. S. Fields, medical director; N
liz. Anderson, assistant general mar
ager.
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Women Jurors Save
Alleged Child Attackel

LOS ANGELES, Calif.-Two sin
gle.,women who could not make up
their minds whether to find George
Pitts, tried for an alleged attack on
a 6.year-old girl, guilty, caused the
Jury which heard the case to fail to
render a verdict in the case, with the
result that Pitts will be given am
other trial at the end of sixty days.
Pitts, attorney described the evi.
dence against him as being highly
circumstantial and warned the jury
against being party to plot to ran
road the defendant.
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White Employees Donate
To Sick Colored Worker

DETROIT, Mich.-The Fellowcraft
Club, which is composed OF white
employees of the R. H. Fyfes Shoe
Company, proved their fairness to all
employees of the company regardless
of color this week, when employees
from the first to the tenth floors DO
mated TO Sandy Redding, colored, VINO
has been i'll for several months.
Mr.. Redding did not request the
aid. but officials of the club explain
ed that 1t had been the custom Of
the club to make such gifts to slci
members.
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Kills Estranaed Wife

FULLERTON, CaI.-Broodlng uYeI
the fact that his wife, Mrs. Bertha
Mitchell. would not return to ms
home, oscar Mitchell, janitor, shot
and instantly killed his wife at their
home in Santa Ana. After repeated
attempts for a reconciliation had
failed. Mitchell lured his wife into
their house on the Dretext OF diYid-
ing the furniture.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-08-20
Cleveland Gets .Colored
Manager For kroger Store

CLEVELAND, Ohio.-The success
of the militant campaign for jobs
waged in this city by the Colored
Citizens Improvement Association re-
ceiyed further support this week
when James d. Turner was nameu
manager for the Kroger store at
43rd and Central Avenue. This store
Is located in the heart of the coloreu
district, and is the second store OF
the Kroger chain to have a eolored
manager appointed in response to
the united demand of the coloreo
patrons.
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Oppose Color Bar
In Y. M. c. A. Camps

TORONTO, Can. = Discrimination
in the Y. M. c. A. on account of race
or color with particular reference to
camps and the fuse of privilege IN
association buildings" was bitterly
denounced in formal resolution by
the boys assembly at the closing SEES
sion of the worlds conference OF the
Young Mems Christian Association.
After a week passed in discussing
the policies of their organization and
the problems of modern youth, the
conference adjourned to meet next
year at Cleveland, Ohio. The boys
assembly represents AZ countries.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-08-20
Came Near Being
A Real Angel

NEW YORK. - Reginald Blythe
wood. one of the little angels of the
Green Pastures, came near getting
a real pair of wings last Saturday eve
ming when he was hit by a fast NOV
ing automobile at the corner OF l4oth
Street and st. Nicholas Avenue. keg-
maid has been unable to appear IN
his part since the accident.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-08-20
New Meharry College
Ready For Opening

NASHVILLE, Tenn.-The two mil
lion dollar plant of Meharry Medical
College has been completed and the
new equipment is being moved in so
as to be ready when the fall term
opens in September.
The plant is composed of four
buildings covering six city blocks.
The main building houses under one
roof a school of medicine, school
of pharmacy, school of dentistry, a
dental hygiene department and a
school for the training of nurses aon
one side and on the other is com.
plete and fully equipped modern hos.
pital,
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Okehs School Color Bar

NEW YORK. - C h n e l 10 r
Charles Flint, white, of Syracuse
University, last week backed up Act
ing Dean Eugene Leonard, white,
who wrote Miss Gertrude Charles adj
yising her that she should not come
to Syracuse where she would be So
cially isolated.
Flint approved his deans action in
a letter addressed to Mr.. Claiming
Tobias, Y. w. C. A.. senior seere-
tary.
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Can't Ride Buses
In Portsmouth

PORTSMOUTH, Va.-colored per
sons are barred from riding on the
bus lines of this city and they are not
nermjtted to establish line of their
own. Recently a prominent young
woman was asked to alight from one
Of the iim-crow vehicles and take a
trolley car
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Los Angeles Market
Stated With Negroes

LOS ANGELES, Calif.-When the
third of the chain of big markets OPP
Grated by E. P. Smith was opened
here at Ard Street and Central Ave
nue., Is colored persons were EN-
ployed as clerks, helpers and porters.
Curtis Carpenter, former manager OF
the Lincoln Theater, is in charge oil
the storerooms.
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Wages Low, Workers Quit

NORFOLK, Va.-Colored laborers
who refused to accept from $l.5O to
So for ten-hour day have been re-
placed by white workmen who are
paid from SO to $3.50 for eight hours
labor, working on the buildings the
recent fire destroyed.
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Butcher Feeds Hungry
Folk Daily In Chicago

CHICAGO. = Sidney AIeKaHueTi
butcher, 5058 State Street, gives
away 1900 loayes of bread, z,ooo
mounds of meat and l 900 pounds OF
potatoes In free lunches daily to the
hungry eolored people of the city.