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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-01-14
PRIMARY CASE IN SUPREME COURT
DePriest Non-Partisan
Meet Gets Approval

WASHINGTON. = The Oscar De-
Priest Non-Partisan Group, which
held its first conference here, last
month, has met popular appeal in all
sections of the country, if the letters
being received by the conference of
ficials can be used as a criterion.
The constitution of the body has
already been drawn up, and the spe-
cial committee is now perfecting the
document prior to sending copies to
delegates. This committee includes
w. c. Hueston, assistant solicitor of
the Postoffice Department; Dean
Kelly Miller, of Howard University;
Bishop E. D. w. Jones, of the A. NJ.
E. Zion Church, and Morris Lewis,
secretary to Congressman DePriest.
The letters, which are being re-
ceived daily by Mr.. DePriest and Mr..
Lewis, contain approvals of the re-
port of the finding committee and
data regarding a continuance of the
program.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-01-14
Negro Teachers
In South Paid
Poverty Wages

LYNCHBURG, Va-Teachers in
Virginia as elsewhere in the rural
South are hard hit by the present
Industrial and financial depression
which is seriously affecting all poor
ly paid colored labor.
In normal times, many teachers
are compelled to live on the border
line of poverty by virtue of their
extremely low salaries in rural COM
Even in our cities the sal
airy of the average teacher is low In
comparison with the salary paid to
the average white teacher In 1929,
Scott Nearing brought out the start
ling fact in his "Black America"
that the greatest disparity between
the wages of colored and whites is
to be found in the great difference
between the salary of colored teach
ers and white teachers.
1t is common knowledge that the
minimum salary of white teachers
in many localities in the South is as
high and sometimes higher than the
maximum salary of colored teachers
doing the same grade of work. The
following figures from the Negro
Year Book for 1912, on the av-
erage annual salary of colored and
white teachers, show the extent of
this difference of the salary of col
ored teachers and white teachers:
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-01-14
N.A.A.C.P. Lawyers
Argue Question
Before High Court

WASHINGTON. d. C.--The sec
ond Texas white primary ease carried
to the L. S. Supreme Court by the
National Association for the Ad-
vaneement of Colored People was
heard by the tribunal Wednesday,
James Marshall of the N. A. A. p.
p. legal committee ard Nathan Il.
Margold, presented the arguments
for the association.
Besides Messrs. MARSHALL and Mar
gold, the N. A. A. c. P. was repre-
scented in court by the viee-president
and chairman of its legal committee.
Arthur B. Spingarn.
This second Texas white primary
case concerns the right of state par
ty committees to prescribe a color
bar for party membership, thereby
excluding eolored people from voting
in party primaries.
Exclusion of colored from primary
elections by state law. was oat-lawed
by the u. S. Supreme Court in 1872,
in the first Texas white primary case,
also carried to the nations highest
tribunal by the N. A. A. C. T.
The case involving the right of
eolored people to vote was brought
by l.. A. Nixon of III Paso, against
Democratic election officials there.
He contended they refused 10 permit
him to vote in Democratic primary.
The Supreme Court in 1927 held
invalid Texas law prohibiting col
ored folk from voting at Democratic
primaries and the present law was
enacted as a substitute. Under it, po-
litical parties are autho i "a to pre-
scribe the qualifications f their
members.
The Democratic State executive
committee issued orders under the
new law prohibiting eolored from vo-
ting. he brought suit against two
judges of elections for $4,000 dam
ages, claiming he was being denied
constitutional rights.
Several organizations joined Nix
on in his appeal from the dismissal
of the complaint.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-01-14
DIXIE CITIES LEAD NATION
NkILLINGs, REPORT SHOWS
Report Shows Growth
Of Negro Business

WASHINGTON, d. Cone hun
dred and twenty-four Negro indus
trial, commercial and research organ
izations are listed alphabetically
wherever they happen to fit into the
general lists of the new issue of 1n-
dustrial and Commercial Organiza-
tons of the United States" revised
edition for 1881. This represents an
increase from Sd listed in the 1928
issue; and only two in the issue of
1926. The improved representation
is creditable reflection upon the
efforts of James A. jackson, Bus
mess Specialist to garner such infor-
nation concerning Negro business or
carnations as would assist in placing
our commercial interests in a taken
for-granted place with the business
folk of the country.
The book contains 1856 pages, and
lists 1854 Interstate, National and
international organizations, 1850
state and territorial bodies, and 49,
625 local organizations, making 49,
600 in all.
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Half OF Colored
Foreign Born
Live In New York

WASHINGTON, D. C.-There are
98,620 foreign-born colored people in
the United States, 1880 census fig
ures show, and $685., over SO per
cent of them, are in New York.
The colored foreign-born popula-
ton increased 24,817, or SO per cent,
in the past ten years. White foreign
born decreased and foreign-born of
other races increased 25 per cent.
Of the 9S,620 colored foreign
born, 24,815 are naturalized, 9,719
have taken out first papers, 55,496
(56 per cent? are still aliens, and 81
500 are unknown.
Florida is second to New York,
with 10,347 colored foreign-born
Massachusetts third, with 1884
Then comes New Jersey, with 3,719;
Pennsylvania, with 2,951, and Michi-
gan, with 2,262.
Maryland is way down the line,
with 872; D. c., 457; Virginia, 800
North Carolina. 119.
By Sections
By sections, 82,036 colored for.
eign-born live in the North, 14,52s
in the South, and 2,056 in the West
The Census Bureau report OF
colored foreign-born by states is as
follows:
Colored Foreign-born Population
of the United States
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-01-14
South Still Has
Highest Murder
Rate In Country

NEW ORLEANS.-Of the thirty
American cities with the highest
murder rate, twenty-three are below
the Mason and Dixon line. five are
near the Southern border, and but
two. Hamtramck. Mich. and Gary.
Ind, are In the North.
Memphis, Tenn, which has long
held the worlds murder crown, still
leads, with Atlanta second, and Lex
ington, Ky, third. Chicago comes
fortieth on the list, and New York
seventy eighth.
Prof Kenneth E. Barnhart, of the
Department of Sociology of South
ern University, Birmingham, in his
address to the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, at
tributes the high murder rate of the
South to the high rate of illiteracy,
and cites Birmingham, Ala, where
the murder rate has dropped with
the drop in illiteracy.
But If illiteracy were the princi-
pal inciter of murder why do coun-
tries with a far higher illiteracy rate
than the South have a far lower
murder rate? 1t would be easy to
name at least forty such, as Spain,
Portugal, Italy. Egypt, Russia.
To the immediate South of the
United States is Mexico, where IL
literacy is almost general; there are
others as Nicaragua and Panama, in
short, every country south of the Rio
Grande has higher illiteracy than
the Southern states.
Continued to page ~
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-01-14
Reds To Control
Within Five Years
N.A.A.C.P. Told

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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-01-14
Colored Army Officer Passed For 70
Years; Tired OF Being White, Suicide

LOS ANGELES, Calif.-A seven
days sensation has been created by
the discovery in death that Lieu
tenant William ]. French, found
dead near Gilroy Saturday morning,
was not a white man after all, but
a colored man who has had a bril-
liant career in the United States
army for twenty years.
Lieutenant French was stationed
at Camp Devens, Massachusetts,, but
had come to California on leave for
the holidays and had been visiting
with his mother at Pasadena.
He was a great fayorite among his
fellow officers and had been royalty
entertained by friends here and in
San Francisco when he reported at
the Preside.
A white woman, Mrs. Gertrude
McEnroe, was the only person able
to thrown any light on the strange
circumstances Of Lieutenant French's
death She stated that she and the
army officer had left San Francisco
together in his car at five o'clock
Saturday morning to come to this
city.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-01-14
Senate Committee
On Unemployment
Ignores Negroes

NGTON.-Despite the fact
that one-seventh of the unemployed
workers in the country are Negroes,
the Senate Committee on Manufac-
lures, which held hearings last week
on the bills for direct Federal grants
for unemployment relief introduced
by Senators Costigan and LaFollette,
no Negro organizations were among
the score or more called to testify
as to unemployment conditions
throughout the country.
Advices received from the office
of Senator LaFollette. who is chair
man of the committee, were to the
effect that no Negroes had been
called before the committee and
none were contemplated. Thus far
the only evidence to the sad con-
dition of Negro unemployed work
ers given at the hearing were those
introduced by Herbert Benjamin,
white communist leader of the
Hunger Marehers," who came here
recently. Mr.. Benjamin. accom-
panied by a Negro Communist, de-
manded to be heard on the unem-
ployment problem.
The Senate Committee was sub
iect to criticism for its failure to
investigate unemployment condi-
lions among Negroes from varied
sources. 1t was pointed out that
the hearing was being conducted to
determine the full extent of I'M
employment and that in as much as
Senator LaFollette, the sponsor of
the bill, did not call on such ma
tional agencies as the National Ur-
ban League. The National Associa-
ton for the Advancement of Colored
PpOnle
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She claimed that he began acting
queerly and that she suggested that
they stop at San Jose. French, how
ever, drove around San Jose and
when they were near Gilroy, accord
ing to Mrs. MeEnroe, he struck her
in the face. He then drove the car
off the road, through a fence and
straight into a tree.
She jumped out of the automobile
and fled A passing truck picked her
up and took her to Gilroy.
Police officers later went to search
for the car. They found French
dead, his body lying beside the ma
chine with a bullet hole in the head.
A pistol with one chamber empty
lay on the running board of the
ear.
Second Wife Negro Halter
The dead officer was born in Chi
cago 40 years ago and educated in
the public and high schools there.
lie had been in the army for twenty
years He married twice.
His first wife was a colored wo-
man. When she died. French told
Continued on Page 4
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.Colored r. s. 81
Mail T. - Win
HighSel .te Ratings

WASHINGTON. D. CA survey
of railway mail clerks by postal of
ficials shows that colored employees
of the service hold an exceedingly
high rating.
There are approximately $4,000
coiored men and women in the U. S.
mail service as whole, representing
a yearly average of S40,000,000 in
salaries which make them a substan-
tial factor in the economic existence
of the country.
Many substantial contributions
were made to national life by color
ed persons during the past year, and
the postal service men of the group,
have played their part in those con-
tributions. With their own national
organization, the National Alliance
of Postal Employees, endorsed by
postal officials, who attend their ma
tional conventions each year, they
are making active contributions to-
wards the Standardization of the
branch of service which is beginning
more and more to recognize colored
persons.
National officers of the Postal AL
lance represent some of the best
brains in the race and incidentally
hold some of the most responsible
positions on the road. Roy o. Will
hottie, of st. Louis, is clerk in the
st. Louis and Omaha r. P. o., one of
the heavy western trunk lines, which
handles heavy bulk of coast bound
mails; Sidney M. Jackson is clerk
in-charge in the Washington and
Florence Is. CD R. P. o., on the fl
nest and fastest train running south
ward, the Havana Special" In this
same r. P. o. are several other clerks
in-charge, Richard A. Lee, and Gar
field Chapman. Mr.. Jackson has a
crew in which also run several white
clerks. There are also several
second clerks, whose response
bilities rank next to those of the
clerk-in-charge This line is pointed
out mainly because it is one of the
heaviest mail lines in the service, and
also the longest run being we'll over
400 miles in distance of clerk runs.
William J. Arnold, Atlanta, Ga, is
a clerk-in-charge in the Atlanta and
Jacksonville r. P. o., another heavy
line, which is a through trunk from
Chicago and Cincinnati to Florida.
The South, despite the ideas of jim
Crowism, shows a larger number of
colored R. P. o. clerks, in proportion
to other sections of the country. Sew
eral lines in the south have a heavy
ratio of colored men. The Whining
ton IN. Co. and Augusta (Ga.) R..
P. o. has ten clerks-in-c charge, and
nine of them are colored, with the
majority of the second clerks being
colored also. The Charlotte IN. Co.
and Augusta r. P. o. also has high
er proportion of colored clerks-in-
charge and second clerks than white.
Georgia has more colored r. P. O..
clerks than any other state in the
south. Alabama, Tennessee, Ohio and
North Carolina, along with South
Carolina, all have their numbers of
colored railway postal clerks. There
are still some lines which are con-
sidering "non-colored" lines, in that
they have no colored clerks assigned
to them.
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lEnterprise News Bureaul


PHILADELPHIA, Pa.-The back
ground of the colored American is
not an African jungle; and the best
and truest manifestation of his hopes
and aspirations are not found in the
Harlem section of New York.
These facts, all along recognized
by sensible members of our group as
beyond contradiction, are just begin
ing to receive recognition by GER
tain moulders of public opinion in the
white group.
But the Harlem myth is not the
only cherished bit Of bunk Ameri-
ca has fostered with respect to col
ored people. A writer in the Forum
Magazine for January names this
myth and two others, the plantation
myth and the savage myth, as the
very worst fictions that have sprung
up about colored folk in the past
fifty years.
Repudiste Nonsense
This writer calls upon America to
repudiate the whole batch of nonsense
concerning It's colored citizens, be
cause in every vital sense we are
/ just like the general run Of other
Americans. The better class amont
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Porter S Quarters
In Great Falls
Scene OF Murder

GREAT FALLS, Mont.-Jealousy
augmented by excessive drinking, led
to the fatal shooting of Luella New
man, %, by Marine Perkins. So,
both colored in the "Porter's Quar-
ters," 303 Third street south, Nor
day morning. She died at the Co
lumbus hospital at 10 :55 a. m. from
the effects of a .32-caliber bullet
wound in ner left breast.
The shooting took place in the hall
way on the second floor just outside
the kitchen and room No. of the
place. According to the witnesses,
none of whom saw the actual shoot
ing, four shots were fired. It is sup
posed two of these were fired by
Perkins and two by the woman.
After the shooting Perkins fled
from the scene, but shortly after G
Monday morning he went to the po-
lice station and gave himself up.
A number of witnesses were taken
into custody. Mamie Meadows who
was with Luella Newman and Per-
kins before the shooting, told of the
tragedy and gave what is alleged to
be the dying statement of Luella
Newman.
'Luella and I were sitting in the
room next to the kitchen having
something to eat" said Mamie Mead
ows, when Perkins came in. He or
dered some drinks and little later
he and Luella started out into the
hall. I heard some scuffling and
then heard a shot and following this
three more shots. ran into the kit
chen and found Luella lying on the
floor with blood coming from her
breast.
81 raised her head and asked her
what had happened and she told me,
'Perk shot me-
After Perkins gave himself up, he
gave statement to County Attorney
Frank p Gault at the county jail
In this he disclaimed remembering
that he had shot anyone. He said he
was at the ''Porter's Quarters with
Luella Newman, but he does not rec
ollect firing at her. He said he did
leave there and went up to Third
and Central and there he heard that
BILLY was shot" He said he got a
taxi and went to the hospital and in
quired about her and then went to
the police station and gave himself
up.
Perkins said he had been carrying
the revolver around with him and
had it at the show he attended last
evening. He said he came from Bill
lings in 1929 and that he was wait
er and spent part of his time gam
bling.
The gun used by Perkins was
found outside where he had thrown
it. Those arrested and held at wit
nesses in addition to Mamie Mead
ows, who gave her age as 81 and her
occupation that of housewife, were
Dick Chivers, As, laborer, Elmer Sim
mons, 38, laborer, Albert Taylor, %,
laborer, and Lester Holmes, 46, la
borer.
They were all taken to the county
Jail and later were finger printed at
the Identification bureau.
The body of the dead woman was
removed to the Merrill mortuaries.
She leaves a mother, Mrs. Rebecca
Buford, of Topeka, Kan, and word
has been sent to her of the death of
her daughter.
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Hotel Accepts Colored;
Property Owners Protest

CHICAGO.-Despite the fight be-
ing made by white property owners,
Z. L. Harris, white, manager of the
Southway Hotel, 6012 South Park
way, is yet admitting colored pa
irons to the hostelry as guests.
Recently Harris threw open the
doors to all races and the howl went
up that he had broken covenant.
The manager apparently was not
concerned with the covenant and
continued to admit citizens of every
color.
Following a series of meetings on
the part of the property owners,
some six hundred of them affixed
their names to an appeal for an in
junction prohibiting Harris from
renting to colored.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-01-14
Equal Rights League
Asks Observance
Douglass Day

BOSTON, Mass.-A call to color
ed Americans to estabishf and OBJ
serve national Douglass Day in
honor of Frederick Douglass is ad-
voeated by the National Equal Rights
League.
The league claims that Frederick
Douglass makes an ideal character
for celebration from the standpoint
of the races contention against in
equality and prescription since in
his own person and remarkable
career he exemplified the innate
physical, intellectual and moral
equality of the Afro-American with
all whittier races of Americans. Doug
lass was also benefaetor of the
country.
all-American
A very general observance, each
bringing out all these points. to-
gether with every possible effort for
publicity and the participation of
other Americans on the program, is
held to afford splendid opportun-
ity to agitate against any and all
the disrespeets and wrongs TO the
race.
Want League
February Ia, his birthday. comes
on Sunday. The league advises that
Lincoln Day obseryances be held on
the 14th instead of the 18th as an
extra feature of Douglass Day eXer-
cises.
An early start, in order to make
the celebration elaborate, is espe-
cially emphasized in the call issued
by Maurice w. Spencer, president,
and William Monroe Trotter, secre-
tary. which also. takes occasion to
strongly suggest the formation of
league branches for this and other
patriotic work.
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Washington N. A. A. c. P.
Seeks 10000 Member,

WASHINGT0N.--Mrs. Daisy f..
Lampkin, regional secretary of the
N. A. A. C. p, will lead the member
ship drive of the local branch for TO-
900 members which begins on March
1, and continues throughout the
month.
Five hundred persons will be asked
to confer with Mrs. Lampkin just
prior to the campaign in order to
perfect plans and assist the officials.
Enthusiasm in the drive has already
been expressed by the persons APP
preached, according to S. A. Pinkett,
secretary of the district branch.
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Leaves Son $500, 900

CHICAG0.--An estate valued at
100000 was willed Martin L. How
ard, %, by his mother, who died
here recently.
Howard, who is now in New York,
studied medicine for while at Me
harry College.
Under the mothers will, the son
must wait 18 months before the for
tune becomes available.
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100000 Printing Plant

NASHVILLE, Tenn. = The A. NJ.
E. Sunday School Union, of which
Ira Bryant is secretary, is complet-
ing remodeling and renovating of
its printing plant here, costing $780,
900.
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The Northwest's Most si'6I
Popular and Widely "
Read Newspaper
Evening star., 1932-05-22
GEM THEFT SUSPECT
TO BE BROUGHT HERE
Effort Will Be Made to Link Bal
timore Prisoner With Rob-
berries Netting SIS, 1000.

After questioning william H Preston,
colored, who was arrested in Baltimore
Wednesday while trying to pawn ap-
proximately $1,000 worth of jewelry,
Washington detectives said last night
the man would be brought here in an
effort to link him with jewel robberieS
totaling $4,000 of fashionable north
west homes during the last few months.
Lieut.. c. P. Cox and Detective A. M.
TolSon said the colored man denied
any connection with the Washington
thefts, but some of the jewelry found
in his possession closely resembled
articles stolen here. The officers intend
to go to Baltimore again Monday or
Tuesday and bring him back to the
District Meanwhile Baltimore police
are investigating his possible connection.
with several recent robberies there.
Lieut.. Cox said the man would be
Questioned in connection with burglaries
at the homes of David Friday, 4525
Garfield street, May 4; John M. Swart-
zell, 2725 Thirty-fourth place. April "a;
Mrs. Mary Rodenberg. 350l Macomb
street, April 3, and John Phillips, 4300
Thirty seventh street, February 8, and
others.