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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-27
SCIENCE
Haze Fragrance Of
FIowers; Wide Variety Of
Pleasant OdorS Difused.
BY DAVID DIETZ-
MANY butterflies are not only as
1V1 beautiful as flowers. but they

MANY butterflies are not only as
1V1 beautiful as flowers, but they
have the fragrance Of flowers.
This is pointed out by Austin H.
Clark, distinguished biologist of the
Smithsonian Institution, who has
given much time to the study Of
butterflies.
An examination Of some Of the
common American butterflies re-
veals that a wide v-riety Of pleas
ant odors is given of by the scent
scales Of the males, he reports.
Among butterflies with very pro-
nounced odors, he finds, is the
common orange -and-black regal
fritillary.
The male of this special has a
strong odor, which is both sweet
and spicy and resembles that Of
sandalwood. 1t is detected easily,
Clark says, by smelling the upper
surfaces OF the fore wings of the
male.
The female of this special, how
ever, has a special scent-producing
organ, which gives off a powerful
and nauseating odor, ne says.
One usually thinks of the butter
fly as dancing about with an aim
less unconcern, but Clark reports
that the fritillary is shy and sus-
picious.
1t has a decided preference for
the flowers from whose nectar it
feeds, mostly red milkweeds and
thistles. But as rule it visits only
tall, isolated plants and generally
feeds ony on the topmost blossoms
from which the view is uninter-
rupted.
Clark reports that the males are
more shy and more suspicious than
the females of the species.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-27
On Their Merits

Railway consultations under the four-system plan
must be judged on their merits when the carriers
present their formal applications to the interstate
commerce commission.
Some may perceive tact approval of the proposed
final indications in the commissions agreement of
last week to amend it's 1929 consolidation plan and
permit four railroad systems in the east excluding
New England.
But numerous groups including labor, investors
in railway securities, and others, will be prepared at
the appropriate time to present their side of the case
in hope that the commission will conclude it's final
decision on facts presented at that time.
Commissioner Eastman and other members of this
regulatory body clearly have announced their inten
ton of so judging the impending applications.
1t was Eastman who also pointed out that this
four-system plan already has been accomplished
ing companies not under supervision of the federal
government.
2 Several of these concerns apparently without re-
gard to cost, have acquired large blocks of shares
in railroads which are themselves such distressed
financial condition to be large borrowers from the
government through the Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration.
These financial operations will be fruitful fields
of study for the commission at the proper time
Consolidation economies are brought about largely
through reductions in working forces, removals of
shops and roundhouses and other mechanical and
business headquarters; and in these labor suffers
Railway consolidation will be helpful to business
generally, if the L G. c. protects the employees and
minority stockholders by following the Eastman
formula that terms of railway mergers are more i'm
portant than the mergers themselves.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-27

Mr.. Miller, author of 81
Cover the Waterfront" is
conducting this column
during Mr.. BrOun's vaca-
ton.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-27

They're always changing things at the wrong time
Just our stomachs getting accustomed to di-
costing cheesecloth on lunch ham, the packers start
wrapping it in cellophane.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-27
Daily Thought

For ye have need of patience,
that after We have done the will
OF God, We might receive the
promise.-Hebrews 1926.
Great is the advantage Of pa
tience.-Tillotson.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-27

Do the stars have points?
1ney only appear pointed, on ac-
count OF the diffusion Of the light
that Is broken up and interfered
with by tiny particles of dust and
Soho matter in the earth's atmos-
phere.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-27

The names of the Russian towns where new fac
tories being built provide citizens of Pawhuska
Osawatomic and Tuscaloosa with plenty of laughs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-27

At a recent bankers meeting the general opinion
that the future of the United States is still rosy
What whale of a difference a few millions make!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-27

The real meaning of that collateral phrase in the
new relief bill is that the only who borrow
money from the government the ones who don't
need it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-27

Mary, off Bermuda, and into our
own port at home not many years
ago was brought the three-masted
Marion G.. Douglas.
She had been found outside with
only one man aboard, and he was
dazed. He knew nothing of what
had happened.
Some ships, like some men, it
would seem, just suddenly become
weary of being told where to go
each day and at what time. The
ships, unable to stand it any longer,
blow a magic poof, the crew disap-
pears and the ship for the first
time in its life is free to go on it's
own for awhile. Though it does,
naturally, make frightful mess of
the going.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-27
Crowds Instead of Waves

OUCH funny ideas as these, any
~ way, are what can overtake a
fellow who has been out of his ele-
ment for week I must be crack
ing. The sight of the hundreds of
folks stampeding into the subway
mines here exactly at 8, then STAN
peding into them again at 6, must
be doing this to me.
And the first thing this little boy
does on returning to his own coast
will be to yank off these clothes,
pounce down to the ocean and there
try to put together, piece by piece,
just what all has happened here,
anyway.
Copyright. 1892. bv The Timesl
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-10-13
Negro Communist
Leader Kidnapped
In Birmingham, Ala.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.-With Otto
Hall. Negro organizer who returned
here on Wednesday despite death
threats. defying the forces of white
supremacy mobsterism by his pres
ence. the All Southern Scottsboro
and Civil Rights Conference sched-
uied was held here on October 3.
The conference. which marked the
first meeting of black and white
workers in the South for mutual
protection against economic and po-
litieal oppression. aimed to achieve
freedom of speech, press and as
sembly
Hall was kidnapped on Monday
as he entered Birmingham, and
taken far beyond the city limits by
several armed men in an automobile
and ordered not to return on pain
of death.
Halls kidnapping in Birmingham
was preceded by his arrest in At
lanta, where he was held incom-
municado for As hours, beaten and
released under threats of further
orture If he returned to Atlanta.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-10-13
Photographs

Among the photographs taken by
Mr.. Spivak and reproduced in the
book, are ID convict hanging un-
conscious on the Georgia rack--a va
ration of the Spanish Inquisition
torture of breaking person on the
wheel. Cd A convict with excru-
ciating pain showing on his face,
hanging in stocks such as the Puri-
tans used 800 years ago and which
historians say are no longer used
anywhere In the civilized world. CD
An unconscious boy of about 16 lying
under the blazing tropic sun hog
tied" form of punishment which
Mortified the civilized world when it
was used during the Belgian Congo
atrocities. "a Spikes-twenty-pou
instruments of torture used by the
Russian ezars for convicts in Sibe-
ria. go A convict chained with an
iron collar around his neck like an
ancient Roman slave.
George Not Alone
1t is with reference to these shock
ing tortures that Mr.. Spivak states
in his foreword to the appendix
Georgia does not stand alone as
Continued on page 81
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-10-13
US. Supreme Court
Hears Arguments
For "A NezV Trial
Court Guarded
While Lawyers
Argue { as e

WASHINGTON. Oct. 0.-(Spc-
cial-Amid attentive silence from
the bench and closely packed spec
tators alike opposing counsel today
argued before the supreme court the
cases of seven Negro bows condemn
ed to death in Seottsboro, Ala; for
an alleged assault on two white
girls. All through the courts ses-
sion secret service operatives and Of
ficers closely guarded the court
room. Spectators were closely scan
ned before admitted to the hearing.
In number of instances they were
searched for weapons. In front of
the capitol a large SQUAD of police
were on guard prepared to act
promptly if demonstration were at
tempted. The guards were on duty
because of threats that communist
demonstration would be held urging
freedom for the Negro youths. Prior
to session of the court police broke
up a parade of communists carrying
banners with Inscriptions "They Shall
Continued to page ~
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-10-13
Georgia Niger Exposes lnhuman
Treatment OF Negroes In Dixie Prisons
Enterprise News Bureau)


NEW YORK.-Evidence that Geor-
gia officially tortures its chain gang
convicts with devices similar to the
Spanish Iquisition, is offered in the
form of photographs and official doc
uments in the appendix to John l..
Spivak's novel, Georgia Niger
published by Brewer, Warren and
Putnam of New York
The startling Photographic record
of inhuman punishment inflicted by
this state, was personally made by
the author during his Investigations
in 193O-31 of peonage and convict
camps in Georgia. The documents
are "a few of the many gathering
dust in the State Capitol in Atlanta, :"
SAYS Spivak in his foreword to the
appendix.
These official records reveal an
amazing group of tortures, heart
breaking scrawled pleas from con-
victs for mercy as you would ask on
the Judgment day." death certificates
showing peculiar" deaths, such as
tubercular convict who should have
been In a hospital but who died in
camp, heart failures" "apoplexies, .
etc.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-10-13
Sc, ators to Ask
Probe Of Slavery

NEW YORK.-Six United States
senators have assured the N.A.A.
CP. that they will support Senator
Robert F. Wagner's resolution call
ing for a senatorial probe of the
peonage and slavery conditions al
legged. to exist on the Mississippi
Flood Control project.
Letters from additional senators
are arriving daily and many of
them promise favorable considera-
ton for the resolution. The sena-
tors already definitely committed to
support of a senatorial probe are:
Robert J. Buckley. Of Ohio; Hiram
Bingham. of Connecticut; Arthur II.
Yandenberg, of Michigan; Willard
e. Tydings, of Maryland; p. L.
Goldsborough. of Maryland and
Daniel O. Hastings, of Delaware.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-10-13
On
Federal Building
Projects Banned
Harlem's Smart Set Feel Poverty Pinch;
Desert Sugar Hill For Cheaper Quarters

Welfare Bureau, many of the last
hired, first fired" were on easy street,
and even among the employees of
the welfare agencies there was snob-
bishness-a manifest depreciation of
those who had no alternative but to
seek help.
But, with the Rockefeller fortune,
for example, down from billion to
a hundred and half million and phi
lanthropists like George Foster Peo-
body crying wolf" it's diffe'nt---
NOW.
A big-time Harlem church is about
gone; from either the community or
UNCONVENTIONAL standpoint, however,
it was super superfluous, anyway, but
the towns most beautiful edifice--
st. Marks M. Els in a difficult sit
uation and, obviously, the one way
out is via God.
People are leaving Harlem = as
much to get away from its bombast,
its specifically, its spiritual empti-
ness - as to find CHEAP rents.
They are going anywhere and every
where. Couples who could live only
n the commodious LUXURY of $500
Sugar Hill" apartment two years,
one year, six months, back - now
elate over $35 flats and wedge in
among the Jews, the Italians of the
Bronx, the Polacks of Queens and
"what-nots of anywhere"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-10-13
Census Reports
Only 1880 Negro
Dentists In j. s.

WASHINGTON = CONSUMING
Negro dentists in the United States
have increased more than so per
cent in the past decade. statistics
indicate that the profession is still
far from overcrowded.
> On the contrary, the distribu-
ton of dentists throughout the coun-
try as revealed by the occupation
statistics for 1880 recently released
by the bureau of the Census, De-
partment of Commerce, seems to in
dicate that there is great need for
them in many communities. Negro
dentists numbered 1773 in 1890 as
compared with 1909 for 1920.
These figures include women dem
lists, who Interestingly enough, show
a decrease of eight or more than 20
per cent during the ten-year period,
there being 81 reported in 1920 and
only 81 in 1880, instead of the AT
which might be expected on the pa
sis of an increase equivalent to that
Of the male dentists.
There is no means of determin-
ing the location of the 81 females
practicing dentistry in the country
from the figures released by the
Census Bureau, but 1t has been no.
ed that practically 10 per cent
Of the male dentists are located in
the following twelve states: Penn
sylvania, which leads with 176; New
York and Illinois, next with 15f
each; Texas, 80; Ohio. 90; New Jer-
sey, TO; District of Columbia anc
Missouri, each 10; Tennessee, 50
North Carolina, 81; Virginia, 81
eorgia. SO, and South Carolina
CONTINUED on Page ~
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-10-13
Unreliable Worker"
AID Won Man A Job

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Notice Col
ored past 40; poor worker; un-
reliable; wants responsible job with
good pay; Call Mitch. alias George,
Harrison 4465."
Disappointed over failure to OBJ
tain job from classified adver-
tisement that stated he was honest
and would work for anything George
Mitchell, Kansas City. inserted the
above in the Kansas City Journal
Post last week. The lad brought
him many calls and finally job.
His employer found him to be reli-
able and good worker.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-10-13
Yakima Elk Shot
ByFenow Member
After Initiation

YAKIMA, Oct. 13.-Harold NJ
Carr. 40, Yakima Negro, who stun
bled into the Yakima police station
at O'Clock Tuesday morning, one
arm shattered and his left side pep
pered by shot, told officers his shot
gun was discharge accidentally when
he was cleaning it.
Cars refusal to answer questions
caused suspicion and police and sher.
ifs officers began an investigation
which resulted late this afternoon in
the arrest of Curley Artigo, 40, Ne
gro barber, who, officers said, shot
Carr.
The officers said Artigo told them
Carr was initiated last night into
the colored Elks' lodge and that later,
Carr and Artigo, living in adjoin-
ing apartments, celebrated until
morning.
Artigo heard his wife scream and
found her unconscious on the floor
When she said that Carr had attack
ed her, Artigo got his shotgun, shot
Carr and pursued him to the home
of friend, whom Artigo persuaded
to take Carr to the police station.
Doctors attending Carr said thai
the shot probably had penetrated his
abdominal cavity and they gave him
not more than an even chance to
live.
Artigo was held without specific
charge pending developments in
CArr's condition.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-10-13

NEW YORK.-Despite the uplift-
cry slogan-"the Negro Is the last
hired and first fired ''--Harlem's up
per circles are just beginning to
face the reality of worldwide So
cial upheaval that's sparing nobody,
in inevitable sequence to which
Bucks and Cadillacs, Fords and
Franklins, Chevrolets and Chryslers
are disappearing, along with the look
of smugness, that was ever present
over the last three years during
which whites and other blacks drop
ped down to the breadline.
Many a smart-set couple that for
merly never missed Craiggs for a
dollar per plate dinner has came to
find the Monterey's Accent feed en-
tirely adequate and the Y. w. C. A.
cafeteria, where two can get filled
for a $1.2O. peculiarly okey. Negroes
who have been the first hired and
last fired are now beginning to re-
alize what it's all about, and instead
of lining up to get invites to the
swanky Alcidian affair of this social
season are bordering whether there
will be a place to sleep. this winter.
In 1880 and 1881, when blacks
and whites were lined up five wide,
helpless, HOMELESS, eatless, seeking
what they might get at the Urban
League the Salvation Army, the
Emergency Relief Station, the Home
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-10-13
Leaders Praise
President Hoover;
Pledge Support

NEW YORK; Special Seventy
six delegates OF the national and
state advisory committee for colored
voters assembled from far and near,
sat with almost breathless anticipa-
tion at the pointed plea of a United
States Senator asking the Negro
leaders to appeal to their people
not to be bought on election day for
a few paltry dollars last Thursday.
The speaker was Senator Daniel
Hastings of Delaware. His hearers
were seated at a luncheon in the
Central Republican Club, Lenox Ave-
nue..
After a few remarks in which the
fiery Senator voiced his loyalty to
the Negroes of Delaware and his
confidence in the group at large,
Senator Hastings said: you can't
and do the decent and respectable
thing"
1t was the keynote of the speech.
Resolutions drawn by the commit
tee and read by Hon. John Marques
of Philadelphia, set for the pledge
of the Negro voters to President
Hoover through the united efforts
OF the delegates assembled to COM
plete a national organization of Re-
nuhl;oau x,ot orc ay,,onp Naoro voters
everywhere in the United States.
1t was along this line that AM
bassador Mitchell to Liberia, who
was called home to help run the
Hoover campaign, directed his brief
remarks. Other delegate speakers
urging loyalty to party and party
principles we're Mrs. Mary Church
Terrell. Magistrate Henry of Phila-
delphia, Mrs. Lawton of Brooklyn
Mrs Maude Morrissette of Philadel
phia, Jas. Stockett, Jr., of Rhode
Island, e. Washington Rhodes o
Philadelphia, Mrs. Memphis of Yves
Virginia, Mrs. A. Hall of Boston
Rev. Paterson of Connecticut ant
George E. Bates of East Orange, N
j. All were introduced by Johl
Marques, master Of ceremonies. |
was his masterful Introductory re
marks that set the spark of real pc
litical enthusiasm which permeatel
the meeting throughout.
Incorporated in the resolution
read was paragraph praising tn
Negro press OF the country whic
read: I'VE appreciate the spiendi
services which have been rendere
the cause of the American Negro b
the Negro press. The delegates lei
for washington, d. c., headed by tn
national chairman, Hon. Franc
Rivers, to be presented to Presider
Hoover in a body
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-10-13
Business Uplft
Promises More
Jobs For Race

WARRINGTON While it is ad
mitted that the coming winter is go
ing to be season of considerable
distress for the unemployed because
after the many months of living
from savings. by the sacrifice of
ones possessions, and for many, up
on charity, it is pleasant to eontem-
plate the many signs of renewed
business which means eventual re-
employment for all.
Various Fields Need Help
The freight loading story is espe-
cially significant to the Negro work
err for he is a large factor in tho
work of loading and unloading
freight cars in the country as a
whole.
The chain drug store means some
thing too, for If only as porter aud
delivery man. The group finds con
siderable employment with these
concerns. A large number of the
warehouses of chain organizations
have Negro workers. many of whom
were laid off when business became
slack.
The office equipment business
means considerable. too. for Negro
workers deliver and set up much of
the office furniture sold IN American
cities.
Insurance is Firm
our Insurance agents aud com
panies participate in any improve
ment in that field. As TO the other
fields. and IN the selling branches
of all commercial fields. the restora-
ton of earnings in the form of com
missions aud salaries means the re-
employment of the domestic sery-
ants, chauffeurs, etc. by families
who have for some months been do
ing without such assistance.
Altogether the situation Is made
brighter by the news we are realiz-
ing from day to day. but don't get
100 optimistic aud be careless with
that last dime. for it Will take a long
time to re-employ an who are idle.
but its nice to know that the move
ment has started
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-10-13
Urban League
Secures Pledge
OF Square Deal

NEW enthusiastically An
swering a communication from T.
Arnold Hill of the National Urban
League, Secretary of the Treasury,
Ogden L. Mills denied knowledge
of instances of discrimination on
account of color by contractors
erecting Government buildings.
However, to make sure that dis
elimination is not practiced, he dis
patched the following to all con-
struction engineers in charge of the
Continued on page 81
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-10-13
Ku Klux Threatens Foster

NEW YORK "A threatening wire
was received IRON the Birmingham,
Ala. Ku Klux Khan warning vii
liam z. Foster. Communist candi-
date. to stay away from that city
The telegram read. "Your presence
in Birmingham Sunday is not want
ed. Send Niger Ford KU KLUN
KHAN"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-10-13
COP. Victory
March Is On,
Sanders Says

CHICAGO - Especially - In the
face of adverse polls and other In
1ications that this is Democratic
year." Everett Sanders, chairman OF
the Republican national committee,
whose early party training was I'M
Ter President Coolidge and who has
been considered by some as about as
as his preceptor,
issued a statement Saturday that
vas full of optimism.
1.-THE campaign this week 1t read,
became a Republican victory march
As the first week OF October draws
to close assurances of Republican
success on Nov. s appears in every
quarter.
Aided by Hoover Speech
president Hooyers fighting
,peech at Des Moines, we find, has
resulted in two definite reactions.
First, our reports from every mid
dlewest agricultural state Indicate
that the Presidents clear statements
of what he has accomplished and
what he proposes to do in the way
of helping agriculture and TO whip
the depression form a concrete pro
gram far more acceptable to the yot.
ers than the visionary and haz,
promises of Gov Roosevelt and his
lieutenants
Second. the fearless, smashing
attack of the President instllled
morale in congressional, state ano
local Republican campaign organiza
lions that makes them unbeatable
in the coming weeks.
In the last two days there IS
new punch in the fight all along the
line that will not be stopped.
We feel Republican victory II
the air. Scores of letters and tele
grams reaching headquarters from
every state all have a tone Of vic
tory"