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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-08
CASE CONTINUED

Judge John F. McGrath contin- ued for six months the case of Mike Varnalli. AS. of 3S9 Congress avenue, charged with violating the building ordinance. Building In- spector Patrick J. Carlin said the accused had been building a stone cellar for the last three years with out a permit. Judge McGrath re- ferred to 1t as a "creeping cellar" and told the fellow not to build anymore until he had a permit.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-08

strolled up to halt the throwing and was reaching a successful agreement with the principals when Mir Wyckoff came upon the scene. He scoffed at Officer Kar- pleman's statement that he was a policeman because, as he told Judge John F. McGrath, Karple- man was in plain clothes. He ad- mitted that he laughed at the of- ficer's statements and added that the badge exhibited was just tin and could be purchased in the five and ten cent store.
 "I didn't know he was cop, your honor," said Wyckoff.
 You know 1t now-$5 and costs,' said the judge.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-08
Wins Discharge
 in Borough Court

Naugaturk. Aug 8. - Edwin Johnson et 10th avenue, Jamaica. l.. l.. was given the benefit of the doubt ynen arraigned in police court here this morning before Judge Claremont I. Tolles. The &C., cused, charged with intoxication, admitted he had d dozen bottles of beer yesterday but that he was sick whe,: arrested last night and not intoxicated. He was dis charged
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-08
Lindberghs Have Arrived on Next
 Leg of Flight

Point Barrow. Alaska, Aug s. (UP)-Colonel and Mrs Charles A. Lindbergh landed their monoplane in a lagoon here at 5 a. m. (E. s. ID to-day. thrilling 250 Eskimos and eight adult whites awaiting their arrival from Aklavik.
 The flying couple, enroute to Japan on a leisurely vacation jaunt. made the 535-mile jaunt through fog and against headwinds in six and half hours,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-08
LIGHTNING DID IT..

Colchester. Conn, Aug 8 (UP)- Fire started by lightning destroyed one house and damaged another during storm here last night. Michael Zagria's farm house burn ed completely. A bucket brigade saved the home of Leopold Kutis.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-08
SeatOn Out
 for Alternate

Paige A. Seaton of this city, former state commander of the American Legion, is a candidate for membership on the national executive committee of the Legion 1t was announced to-day. Ken meth Kramer of New Haven is out for alternate to the local Legion naire.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-08

Leona Wallace, daughter of MT and Mrs William Wallace of Fox street, latest of the ex-members of Waterbury's famous Kiddie- Review, to make the big lights of Broadway. Miss Wallace has ap- peared all this week at the Para mount theater in New York in four dance selections. being starred as the premiere danseuse in a bal let number.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-08

Edinburgh, Scotland, had 1,235 arrests for drunkenness in the last three months. compared with 1856 In the corresponding period of last year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-08

Mileage tickets for 1000 to 2.0OO miles are being issued by a rail way in Cuba at rates from two and one-half cents q mile up.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-08

Practically all motion picture theaters in Mexico City are being converted into talkie houses.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-10-15
Census Report Reveals COlored Women
0utnunber Men In 40 Big Cities In U. S

less than that for men. Other cities,
in which the bulk of employment
falls to men, show a preponderance
of males to females in the popula-
ton.
Women Gain on Men
Salt Lake City, Utah, shows a sex
ratio of 1925. Seattle, Washington,
has 1928 ratio, and Reading, Pa,
shows ratio of 1879. All told,
there nre Al cities in which the col
ored male population outnumbers
the female population. Census fig
ures show for all classes, however,
that there are only 27 cities in which
the total male population exceeds
that of the females. In 1920, there
were 43 such cities.
The city with the most evenly
distributed population is Cincinnati,
in which the ratio is exactly even.
Camden, N. j., pushes the Ohio town
closely for this honor, having 5,676
males and 1864 females in its pop
ulation, or a ratio of 1902.
Manufacturing Towns
Among other cities showing an ex-
cess Of males over females are Mil
Continued on Page 3D.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-10-15
Melting Pot" Exhibit AT Paris Shows
Negroes We're In Europe $4,000 Years Ago

race-mixing in Washington, d. c.
caused a great sensation and ended
in Congressional inquiry Prof.
Moens declared that the statement
of the speaker was directly opposed
to modern scientific thought which
held to the inherent equality Of
race.
This point Prof Moons amplified
on the sixth day of the session.
when he was the principal speaker.
Inieriority Speaker Runs Out
AT the third days session, Prof.
Moens caused considerable laughter
when as presiding officer he sent
note to Gregoire Michel, colored,
of Guadeloupe, asking him to take
the floor. The days speaker, Prof.
l.. Cipriani who was to speak on
THE Mental lnferiority of the
Negro Race. did not appear. where
upon Prof. Moens asked NJ. Michel
TO address the Congress on THE
Mental lnteriority of a Large Por-
ton of the White Race" NJ. Michel
asked for time TO prepare a paper.
and will give his address towards
the close of the Congress
Blacks in Europe $4,000 Years Ago
In the Permanent Museum of the
Continued on Page 2.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-10-15
WHY C0L0RED
WORKERS ARE
JOINING REDS

WASHINGTON, d. C.-If iobless
moneyless, homeless, and hungry
black workers are called Reds this
winter, it will not be their own
fault.
The constitution of labor unions
of railway workers, rural letter car
rlers, telegraphers, weavers, seamen
and many others restrict the mem
bership of these unions to whites
only.
The following schedule from the
Hand Book of the American Trade
Unions, Bulletin SOC, published by
the U. S. Department of Labor,
shows the necessary qualification for
membership in selected list of labor
unions:
By way of contrast, the Industrial
Workers of the World Il. w. W.
expressly forbid any color bar.
Industrial Workers of the World
a. w. W.) -" None but actual
wage workers shall be members"
but mo working man shall be ex-
eluded from membership because of
CREED or COLOR" etc.
American Federation of Railroad
-"Any WHITE persons of good
moral character under 65 years of
age, etc, and who is employed as a
wage worker on a railroad"
Brotherhood of Railway Carmen
of America-'Any WHITE person
between the ages of 16 and SIS, etc.
who believes in the existence Of a
SUPREME BEING, etc"
Switchmen's Union of North
Ameriea-"Any WHITE male per-
son of good moral character who is
actually engaged in railroad yards,
etc"
Brotherhood of Dining Car Con-
ductors-"An applicant for member
shin must be of the CAUCASIAN
race, ETC."
Order of Railroad Telegraphers-
ANY WHITE person of good moral
character who is actually employed
on a railroad, etc"
American Train Dispatchers As
sociation-"Any train dispatcher.
WHITE, of good moral character,
etc"
(Note-in 1920 there were an
proximately 100000 colored work
Continued on Page 2.)
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-10-15
Court Upholds Rights
OF Colored Voters

HAMPTON, Va.-What promises
to be a far reaching decision for
colored voters of this state was
handed down by the Supreme Court
of Virginia, Saturday.
The decision, concerning the quail
fications of voters for registration,
was made in the case of w. +. Davis
VS.. Thomas Allen, registrar of
Staunton, Virginia, and holds that in
the future, registration will require
mo test of knowledge or under
standing or educational require
ments other than that the applicant
must be able to make application
in his own handwriting without aid
or suggestion or memoranda"
A. W. f. Bassette, Jr., local at
torney, and instructor in the school
of business administration at Hamp-
ton Institute, supported by the civic
league of Elizabeth City County,
carried the fight to the high court,
after the circuit court had ruled
against Mr.. Davis.
The plaintiff, who presented him
self at the local court house for reg
istration, was denied the right to
register himself on the ground that
he had failed to make application
in proper form and had failed to
answer certain questions asked by
the registrar.
Local citizens plan public testi-
monial to Mr.. Bassette, who, it is
said, served without fee.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-10-15
VICTIM KILLED after DESPERATE
STRUGGLE IN MURDERER'S HOME
Negro Public Market
Opens In Chicago

CHICAGo.-A new project was
started by local business men here
Thursday when the doors of a huge
market in the center of the colored
district at 51st Street and Wabash
Avenue were thrown open. 1t is
known as the Southside Marketing
Place. Its establishment was held
necessary because of the distance
from the Southside of other mar
kets in the city where country pro-
duce may be purchased cheaply.
A part of the opening announce
ment reads: "The market which will
deal in fruits, vegetables, fish, poul-
try, bread, meats and other house
hold necessities. 1t is expected to fur
nish colored men and women with
opportunities to enter Independent
business with small capital and to
produce many jobs"
The buildino has $4,000 square
feet of floor space, frontage of
90 feet on 51st Street and of 245
feet on Wabash Avenue.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-10-15
WSKEGEE LEADER MAKES APPEAL
AGAINST STIRRING lip STRIFE
zoo Reds Battle
Police In Cleveland

CLEVELAND, Ohio. - Special-
Three colored men and white DO
ice lieutenant were seriously wound.
ed here late Tuesday night as a no.
ice squad battled with a crowd of
colored Communists estimated at
200. The fighting was precipitated
when the police slugged several of
the crowd who were carrying furni-
ture back into the home of an evict-
ed tenant.
Earlier in the evening crowd
had gathered near the scene of the
eviction. Communist leaders ad-
dressed them, urging them to re-
place the furniture in the home from
which it had been removed
When police arrived the furni-
ture was being carried back into the
house. When police struck a mem
Der of the gathering a general fight
started
Several blocks away the body of
a colored man was found, shot
through the head. He is believed to
have been struck by stray bullet.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-10-15
Veteran Linesman
Dies After Fall

YAZQO CITY, Miss.-Death sue
ceeded where both race prejudice
and labor union restrictions had
failed, when Alex Sims, 60-year-old
linesman in the employ of the Delta
Electric Company died last week
from the effects of fall from the
top of high tension power pole. Sims
was one of the last of the colored
electric linesmen in the employ of
the power company, having served
for over 20 years, and was receiving
the top salary. White employees in
the company had used every device
to bring about his discharge, and
the unions had refused to admit him.
while at the same time demanding
his discharge as non-union work
er. Because of his record, Sims was
retained. While working on the line
last week he suffered a heart at
tack and fell, his safety belt pre-
venting his falling to the ground,
but he struck his head against the
pole, and was dead when brought
down.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-10-15
MOTION ADVISES
AGAINST THOSE
WHO ACETATE

TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, Ala. -
In my judgment" said Principal II.
X. Motion in an open letter to the
South last Monday, "There is enough
common sense and enough of the
spirit of justice and fairness among
the leaders of both races here in
the South to settle whatever diff
culties may arise without Interior
ence from the outside
The letter, printed in full in sew
eral of the leading dailies of the
South and carried as a news story
by the Associated Press early this
week. was an appeal to bankers,
merchants and business men to be
considerate in their dealings with
their Negro farmers, who may be
unable to meet their obligations be-
cause of the low price of cotton.
Besides being an appeal for relief
from the burdens of the present
economic depression, a considerable
portion of the letter was devoted as
a warning against the communist
agitation in this section of the
country, He advised the leaders
among his people to warn the men,
bers of their race against permitting
agitators from the outside, Com
munists and others, to stir up strife
between black and white with coun-
sells of violence.
The letter in full is as follows
OPEN LETTER TO THE SOUTH
The South is approaching what is
for thousands of people both black
and white, the most critical time of
the year. As everyone knows a
Continued from Page 81
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-10-15
FIGHT JIM CROW
SCHOOLS, WHITE
TELLS OHIOANS

COLUMBUS, Ohio. Launching
an active campaign to fight anti
intermarriage legislation and re
districting of school districts with
the end in view of race segregation,
the Ohio Conference of N. A. A. C.
p. Branches held its second annual
meeting here last week.
Welcomed by Mayor j. J Thomas,
of Columbus, and addressed by Wal
ter White, etary of the N. A. A.
c. p. and by representatives of lead
ing branches throughout the State
of Ohio, the conference carefully re-
viewed the CRITICAL situation which
the colored man is now facing, and
passed resolutions setting forth
their conclusions.
In his address Mr.. White called
attention to the fact that there were
100000 colored people in Ohio
enough to be a political power, and
called for a crusading spirit in order
to realize the program of the N. A.
A. C. P. Mr.. White called attention
especially to the danger of fallacy of
the argument made by those who
justified segregated schools in order
that colored teachers might have
jobs. This short-sighted policy, Mr.
White urged, would fasten school
segregation on the race, and he
stated his belief that it would be
better temporarily to have fewer or
no colored teachers than to have col
ored children in the Northern States
condemned to segregated institu-
tions.
"But we must guard against ac-
ceptance of this fallacious argu-
nrent," Mr.. White warned. at is adj
rittedly longer and more difficult
road, but our goal must be employ
ment of our teachers not as colored
teachers, but as teachers. as in New
York, where of more than 800 col
ored men and women only a few
teach In colored districts. More
segregated schools always mean in
ferior accommodations and poison
ing of the minds of white and col
ored children alike with false no
tions of NEGRO inferiority."
c. +. Dickinson, president of the
Ohio State Conference of N. A. A.
c. P. Branches, was unanimously re
elected and the resolutions paid his
leadership a warm tribute. The con
ference also adopted unanimously a
$4,000 budget to take care of nee
essary administrative, travelling and
clerical expenses.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-10-15
(Enterpriso News Bureau

PARIS.-In the presence of NJ.
Paul Doumer. president of France,
Pierre Laval, prime minister; Blaise
Diagne. cabinet minister; distng-
uished scientists from the leading
countries of the world; native AZ
rican princes and dignitaries. and
other members of the darker races
from Frances vast colonial empire.
and to the music of the French
National Guard, the 18th Interna-
tional Congress of Anthropology
was opened here.
After the speeches of welcome,
there We're exhibitions by native At
rican dancers, including those by
the Madagascar troupe
Race Mixing
During the twelve days session
the race question was discussed pro
and con. In the second days SEES
sion white speaker from the
colonies denounced race-mixiug al
leging that the miXed-bloods were
less dependable and less energetic
than the pure" white or the pure
black
This was denied by several speak
ers, most notably by Prof. Fl. Bernie
OF Moons, white, whose studies in
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-10-15
COLORED RACE
LOCATED In
SOVIET RUSSIA

LENlNGRAD, Russia. = Negroes
brought as captives and sold as
slaves into region that once sup
piled the fairest white captives for
the harems of Oriental potentates
are the singular discovery that has
been made by a European anthro-
pologist, Professor B. Adler, now
working in the u. S. S. r.
Recently he visited the Caucasian
district of Abchasia and found there
small colonies of Negroes, living
quietly by themselves and keeping
their blood relatively unmixed in
spite of encouragement recently re-
ceived from Soviet officials to inter
marry with the surrounding white
population.
By following all local sources of
information, Professor Adler OBJ
tanned something of their history.
AT the beginning of the nineteenth
century Mingrelian, Circassian and
Alchasians chieftains used to raid
Abchasia and sell their captives as
slaves in Turkey, Egypt, Algiers and
elsewhere in the East; frequently
they exchanged them for Negro
slaves. In this manner at various
times several hundred Negroes came
to Abchasia and their descendants
are living there today in various vii
lagos in each of which some Negro
families are to be found.
The oldest Negro in Abchasia, one
of the name of Seid, said that he
had been brought there from Africa
as a four-year-old boy with two or
three hundred others.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-10-15
BODY CARRIED
TO TRESTLEAND
TOSSED ON RAILS

EVERETT, Wash. - Especially -
information charging first degree
murder was filed Saturday morning
by Prosecuting Attorney Charles
Denney against Jack Jackson, 55.
blacksmith. Jackson, a white man.
is accused of having slain Herbert
Coleman, 81, colored, whose hor-
rlbly mutilated body was found on
the Great Northern railroad tracks
beneath the Norton Avenue trestle
Friday morning. Jackson was ar
ralgned before Judge Guy C. Aston
tuesday, and entered a plea of not
guilty. Coleman's mutilated BODY.
clad only in underwear, was found
beneath a Great Northern trestle nv
Carl Oliver, traffic manager for the
robinson Manufacturing Company
who notified the police. Coleman.
whose home is said to be Baltimore.
Nd, arrived here Thursday night on
a freight train from Spokane. He
was accompanied by Richard Lati-
mer, 20, colored. They met Jack
son on the street and he invited
them to his bachelor home to spend
the night. Accompanied by Elmer
white, they went to Jack
sons home and had several rounds
Of drinks. Raborde left and the 9TH
ers went to bed. Latimer. the prose-
'utor's affidavit states, will testify
that he awakened to hear Jackson
shout, Get out of my house! What
are you doing here" Latimer, the
affidavit states, ran to the kitchen
and saw Jackson shooting at Cole
MAJ With shotgun. After the shot
gun had been emptied, jackson shot
at Coleman with a pistol, states the
affidavit. Latimer then ran out of
Continued on Page 81
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-10-15
THREE COLORED
DELEGATES 7 O
SOVIET RUSSIA

NEW ORK.-Three Negro work
ers have been elected members of
the American Workers Delegation
to Soviet Russia that will sail
Wednesday to attend the 14th an
niversary celebration of the Russian
Revolution. The delegation is being
organized by the Friends of the
Soviet Union, 80 Il. 18th street.
New York City, as an expression of
solidarity between the American
masses and the workers and peas
ants of the L. S. s. r. 1t will con-
sist of IA workers from the metal,
marine and mining industries and
five fraternal delegates. A mass
send-off for the delegation will be
held in New York, Monday.
One of the Negro delegates is a
marine worker, Morris Wikman, of
New York. member of the Marine
Workers Industrial Union. Another
is j. w. Jones, of the Upper Mon
ongahela bituminous coal district of
Pennsylvania, who was elected by
the striking miners. A third is a
Gary, Ind, steel worker whose name
is not yet known.
The delegates will spend about
five weeks in the Soviet Union,
visiting the chief industrial and ag-
ricultural areas and observing the
great progress that is being made
under the Five Year Plan of Social
list Construction. The Negro dele
cation will be given special oppor-
tunities to study the situation of
he formerly oppressed national mi |
norities and to compare the freedom |
hey have won with the persecution |
of the Negro people in the United |
States.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-10-15
Editor Raises Ire
Of White Daily

JACKSON, Miss.-What seemed
to be a carefully planned attempt
at coercion on the part of jackson
Daily News, white daily of this city,
to prevent Editor M. T. Rogers of
the Southern Register, colored week
ly here, from writing editorials on
race prejudice, appeared in news
article in the News which said that
action was being taken "by prom
inent Negro leaders" because Mr..
Rogers had written an editorial zeal
culated to inspire race violence"
The article in the News says that
H. Walter Woods and S. C. CAVITY,
who are called leaders of the com.
munity'' called a meeting at the
Christian Church to see to it that
mo repetition of Rogers utterances
will occur"
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enterprise News Bureau)


WASHINGTON. - Women out
number men in 40 of SO cities in
the United States having a popu-
lation of 100000 or more, accord
ing to 1880 census figures just re-
leased.
Baltimore, with colored male
population of 70,043, has 72,063 fe-
males, or a ratio of 97.2 males to
each 100 females. Washington, with
a sex ratio of 89.1, has 69,S43 fe-
males, but only 62,225 males in its
population.
More Women in Atlanta
Atlanta, Georgia, with a male pop
ulation of 1929, has 50,152 fe-
males, or a sex ratio of 1915 males
per 100 females. This ratio repre-
sents the lowest percentage Of males
to females of any of the three cities
surveyed. Marriage-minded m e n
should find Atlanta a haven.
The city with the highest ratio
of males to females is San Diego,
California, where there the sex ratio
is 1853 males per 100 females. In
this instance the opportunity for
female employment is considerably
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-10-15
M OTON WARNS SOUTH AGAINST REDS
COlOred Transient Murdered In EUerett Home
Presidents Had
Brown Sweeties
Writer Asserts

CHICAGO.-Edward r. Embree,
sociologist and president of the
Julius Rosenwald Fund. in his new
book just published, states that the
indiscriminate mingling for many
generations of white. colored and
Indian blood has given to the
world new and powerful race of
people who will be known as
brown Americans"
Evolution of the new race began,
writes Embree, when slave traders
began bringing their cargoes to
this country from Africa 1t was
then, he says, the process of mixing
the blood of native Africans with
that of their white masters and the
American Indians began. No spe-
c1al odium was attached then to
the begetting of mulatto children"
he writes.
1T was regarded almost as a
matter of course. Thomas Jefferson
was reported when president to
have regretted certain of his own
children were stopped from voting
because of the conditions imposed
by their maternity.
Monroe's Yellow Gal
When yellow girl, reputed to
be the daughter of President Tyler,
and living in his encourage in the
White House, eloped with a white
man, and in punishment, was sold
down the river the matter was so
as to cause only piquant
wave of gossip in Washington's
society"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-10-15
New York Urban League
Asks For $14,400

NEW Notwithstanding to pro-
vide increased care for convalescent
patients at their home in Verplanck,
New York, the New York Urban
League has started a campaign to
raise $14,40O
Although the colored population
of the city has almost doubled since
1920, officials say there has been
no general increase in convalescent
facilities.