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Evening star., 1932-01-21
Music and Musicians
Reviews and News of Capitals Programs.

ENGLISH tenor, Stuart Wilson
claude Robson, its competent di-
rector led the club in a program of
songs ranging from Rubinstein and
Mozart to Frederic StevenSon's
"Viennese Serenade," and a modern
groun by MacFarlane and Coleridge-
Taylor.
IN he the most interesting number
of the evening 1t was scored for
baritone solo and chorus, two pianos,
violin and cello. Herman Fakler's
easv mellow baritone formed rich
base for the Intervening parts.
Dorothv Seamans played the violin,
Daisv Fickenscher the cello, Edwin
Crnift second piano and Adele Rob-
inson Bush first piano. Mrs. Bush
accompanied throughout the eve
ming The audience was so enthu-
siastic that after some indeciSion
in which the assisting artists were
reassembled the more dramatic
middle section was repeated.
Mr. Wilson reused the audience
to a real appreciation of his stylis-
tic abilities with an anonymous Six
teenth century Italian song and
Galuppi's spirited "Evviva la Bella
Rosa"
His real forte, however, was the
English group. The familiar Drink
tn Me Only" had a charming SIM
plicity and he proved that the Eng
fish language can be a grand and
AT medium for the voice in the
'"Three Songs of Chivalry." The
"Rio Grande" sea chanty which he
gave for an encore, playing his own
accompaniment, brought down the
house.
The program ended very enjoy
able with Coleridge- -Taylor's whim-
sical song of The Pixies" which
MI Robson and the chorus re-
peated to the delight of the au-
dience u. Z.
Potter Organ Recital
Given at Local Church.
T oUIs POTTER F. A. G. o.
gave an interesting and delight
full organ recital last evening under
the auspices of the District Of Co.
lumbia Chapter of the American
Guild of Organists in the National
City Christian Church on Thomas
Circle. Mr.. Potter was assisted by
Ruby Potter, lyric soprano. She sang
two numbers, the first containing
Bach's arioso, MY Heart Is Fixed"
and the aria, 20 Had Jubal's Lyre"
from Handel's Joshua" and her sec
ond number was Gounod's difficult
and very beautiful 20 Divine Re-
deemer." Mrs. Potter has clear
and very high voice, which has
richness in the medium register
unusual in lyric sopranos, Her
enunciation is distinct, and she
Evening star., 1932-01-21

was born November S, 1895; his
birthplace was Lyon, France, but
he is thoroughly German by blood,
training and temperament; MS
father was physician; young
Gieseking entered the conservatory
at Hanover at the age OF l6; at
18 he was recognized as a fne
European concert artiSt-and his
first appearance in America in 1926
was highly successful, in spite
of the fact that little had been SAID
or heard of him prior to his debut.
Yesterday Mr.. Gieseking's program
included four selections from Bach's
list Partiti B Flat Major" the
Brahms Rhapsody G. Minor and
"Intermezzo c Major" Chopin's
"Ballade A Flat Major" Niemann's
Garden Music" the pianist's own
ARRANGEMENT of Strauss "Serenade,"
La Cathedral Engloutie," by De-
busy, and Ravel'S "Ondine." In
these his best moments seemed to
come with the complicated flow Of
the modernists' background and in
the expression of, for instance,
"Golliwogs' Cake Walk" and the
Chopin "Berceuse," which came as
encores. A pianist who causes ad-
miration if there ever was one-al-
though his Brahms seemed not so
perfect as it might have been-Mr.
Gieseking's audience was more than
pleased by him and, like Oliver Twist,
asked for more and more and more.
Maria Muller, soprano of the
Metropolitan. who has been heard
here before, but for a final aria
from Butterfly" devoted her pro-
gram to her native German songs
singing them with great gusto. but
unnecessary shrillness at one or two
stages. Famed for her work at Bay
reuth under Toscanini and at the
Metropolitan, she is perhaps happier
in her operatic medium than on the
concert stage. Her work, however,
yesterday was often more than in
teresting, particularly the rendition
of that well known song by Wolf,
"Verborgenheit.' -
Next weeks soloists at these Town
send musicales will be Claudia
Muzio. soprano. and Cornelius Van
Vliet, cellist.
E. de S. MELCHER.
Rubinstein Club
Evening star., 1932-01-21
AGAINST IMPEACHMENT

A House judiciary subcommittee
voted yesterday that impeachment
charges against Judges John ]. Parker
and Eliot Northcott of the Fourth Fed
eral Circuit be dropped.
The charges against Parker were filed
this session by Mrs. Mary Speers of
Baltimore. Last session she filed SINH
lar charges against Judge Northcott.
Parker's home is in Charlotte, N. c.,
and Northcott's in Huntington, w. Va
Evening star., 1932-01-21
Church Group Elects Officers.

ACCOKEEK, Md, January 81 (Spe-
ciaD At a meeting of the Young Peo-
piles Division of Shiloh Methodist Epis-
copal Church South the following OFF,
GERS were elected: Donald Kenlon, pres
ident Vernon Ayres, vice president;
Miss Mildred Wilson, secretary; HALEY
Downs, treasurer; Mrs. Martin Lessuer,
agent. B. w. Downs presided at the
meeting.
Evening star., 1932-01-21

b e I o r e. ana
this b e C a u S e
Mr.. Gieseking
displayed him
self as a rare
artist W h Of S e
technical pro-
nciencies, par
ticularly among
the m o d e r n S,
we're a definite
inspiration, and
whose program
was a lustrous
affair provoca-
tive of many
encoreS.
The data on
t his splendid
pianist are as
- ~ g. Hn
Evening star., 1932-01-21
Muller and Gieseking
Stars of Morning Musicale.

NJ ANY people at yesterdays
M Townsend musicale at the
IVt Mayflower asked, Who Is
L i Walter Gieseking2" And
the more he played the
more anxious they became about his
methods, his nationality, and why
oh, why-they had never heard him
Evening star., 1932-01-21

dance enthusiasts of this city, Bess
Davis Schreiner and Helen Fetter
Cook, both Of whom have long been
prominently identified with the
dance and music circles of this city.
Evening star., 1932-01-21

Rubinstein Club
Gives Interesting Concert.
THE large ball room of the New
II Willard was full last evening for
the first concert of the season, given
by the Rubinstein Club and the
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-01-28
Girl Says She
Lied On Youths
D.
AT ScottsbOro

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - Police
of Huntsville, Ala, are said to be
trying to suppress letter written
by Ruby Bates in which she is said
to admit that she lied against the
eight Scottsboro youths who are
awaiting a new trial on charges OF
attacking her and companion, VIC
toria Price, both accused of prostl-
tuition.
The letter, said to have been writ
ten by the Bates girl to her lover,
states that the boys never touched
her. It was obtained from her by
Niron Pearlman, worker, who was
later arrested by Huntsville police,
who took the letter from him and
terrorized him into stating that he
made the girl drunk in order to get
her to write the letter.
Cleared of Bribery
Police charged that George ".
Ghamlee, chief of counsel for the In,
ternational Labor Defense, bribed
Pearlman to get the girl drunk:
Chamlee, however, was cleared OF
the fake bribery and frame-up
charges by George Proctor, special
writer for the New Masses, a New
York magazine.
Proctor, in a public statement, de-
clared that he sent Pearlman te
Huntsville to gather evidence ane
denied that he instructed the latte
to get the girl intoxicated. he ma
further charged the Huntsville pc
lice with suppressing evidence AM
has demanded the publication OF TN
letter. Pearlman has admitted tina
Chamlee never gave him any none,
and his lawyers declare that tn
Chattanooga News is exerting pres
sure upon him to prevent his teilin
the truth.
Stephen Roddy, N.A.A.C.P. attol
new. has withdrawn from the case
his action following that Of Clarenc
barrow and Arthur Garfield HAY,
who were employed by the N. "A. =
G. P. to assist in the defense OF Tn
Scottsboro youths.
Spy on LID.
Chattanooga police are said to !
Swing upon the local offices OF u
TT. %. The national office OF II
organization has telegraphed II
chief of police at Huntsville, deman
ing that the letter be made publ
and turned over to defense attorne'
for examination.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-01-28
70 Negro Murders In
Philadelphia In 1881

PHILADELPHIA. The Homicide
Squad of the Bureau of Police sta
tistics for 1881 murders shows that
out of 121 murders for the year, ~
were Negroes.
The bureau reports that rs Ne.
groes killed Negroes; a were killed
by Officers during commission OF
crime; 8 Negroes killed 2 white men,
and 2 Negroes were killed by white
men. :.
The report further shows the dis,
positions of homicides for the fiscal
year. Three Negroes were dis
charged by the coroner; one died IN
prison; two killed each other;
pleaded guilty and sentenced to first
degree murder; 8 tried by jury ant
found guilty of second degree murd
er; tried by jury and acquitted
Thirteen Negro murderers are fugi
tives and 8 committed suicide ate
committing murder.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-01-28
One , y ed As
l.. ..oit Leader
Pickets Store

DETROIT, Mich.-A concentrated
campaign to place colored laborers
and clerks in chain stores located on
the Lower East Side, was instituted
last week by the Progressive Negro
League of Detroit.
Pickets were stationed Saturday in
front of a C. F. Smith Store at Jay
and Joseph Campau Streets in the
midst of district where 10000 col
ored people reside exclusively. Eu-
gene Lewis, one of the young lead
ers of the League of nephew of G. B.
Hosmer, former western field agent
for Tuskegee Institute, was arrested
Saturday evening while standing
near the store after being pointed
out to city detectives by the store
manager. Mr.. Lewis was held UNI
til Monday at Hunt Street Police sta
ton without being permitted to COM
municate even with relatives or CO.
workers.
Mr.. Hosmer is one of the foremost
leaders of this militant economic
movement. Others active in it are
J. r. jackson, president, and w. A.
Mcknight, who is general director
The League has over 400 members
with headquarters at 2201 st. Aubir
Avenue State Senator Charles A
Roxborough was instrumental in Sc
curing the release of Mr.. Lewis.
The C. +. Smith grocery business
a Detroit concern with stores in ev
cry section of the city, and Eastern
Michigan, which has existed nearl.
29 years, has steadily refused t.
agree to the hiring of colored in it
stores regardless of the fact that eco
nomic boycott threats have beel
partly effective with the great A
and p, and Krpger enterprises. !.
The Progressive Negro League,
statement to the press maintaine
that the boycott has only just begur
and that arrestssln o matter how .sll
merous, will not retard the figt
The boycott campaign will be carrie
into the entire Ia communities !!
Greater Detroit where colored peopl
reside, Immediately after the Eas
Side fight has be n won, state
: Messrs. Hosmer, Jackson and Lew
this week.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-01-28
LETTER ADMITS CoLORED BOYS
never ATTACKED WHITE GIRLS
Children Get Estate
OF White Father

LOS ANGELES Calif.-Fighting
numerous county suits of the white
relatives of the late j. E. Mason,
wealthy business man. attorneys for
Mabel and Roland Mason, age 10
and IL respectively, established the
claims of the children as legal heirs
of their fathers $4,000 estate.
After a long litigation attorneys
Lewis Becks and Edward Manson
established the fact that the father
had lived with the colored mother OF
the children for many years and
openly treated them and claimed
them in the presence of witnesses as
his children.
More than rs witnesses were call
ed during the trial by both sides
The. white faction headed by Mrs
Susan Cooney, member of an i'll
fluential California family, tried ey'
cry conceivable means to prevent the
establishment of the legitimacy OF
the children.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-01-28
ALLEGED PAYROLL PADDING
UNCOVERED BY OFFICIALS
Oscar DePriest Urges
Non-Partisan Vote

JACKSONVILLE, Fla.-Gongress-
man Oscar DePriest was the guest
speaker of the State Non-Partlsan
Conference Tuesday night. Throngss
of white and colored citizens packed
the Masonic Temple to hear the dis
tinguished visitor.
Mr.. DePriest spoke more than an
hour, relating his experiences about
the country, telling of the program
of Congress and urging the Negro to
become qualified voters.
"All your friends are not Repub-
leans" declared Mr.. DePriest. All
your enemies are not Democrats.
Vote for your best interests, wheth-
er they be Democrats or Republi-
cans"
He urged the Negro to vote for
men and measures, to forget the ke-
publican party and to vote for their
own best interests.
He declared that Republicans are
just as much against Negroes as
| Democrats. The Negro, he stated
must fight with the ballot to gam
his rights.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-01-28
Johnson
University Head
Faces Criticism

WASHINGTON, D. C.--S we're
criticism of the administration of DIR.
Mordecai W. Johnson, president of
University, has broken out
afresh as result of recent disclos-
ures respecting his management OF
the affairs of the University.
The renewed criticism is due chief
" to two causes. One, an alleged ef-
fort to mortgage property of the uni
versity, which was thwarted by the
Interior Depai tment. The other is
the protection and relief said to have
been given t. an employee of the
university, Who is alleged to have
padded payroll OF the janitof force.
6 Per Cent Interest
For a long period of years, How
ard University has been borrowing
money from local bank, paying 8
per cent year on the money bor-
rowed. 1t owed this bank about
$50,
According to reports. the univer-
sity recently needed to borrow add
tional funds. The administration
had charged two members of the
board of trustees of the university
with using their positions on the
! board for financial gain. These
trustees demanded an apology and
considerable i'll feeling was engen-
| dered.
The university administration pro-
posed to borrow the money rom an
other source. The finance commit
tee authorized the president and DR..
Louise C. Ball, trustee, to borrow
the sum of $165,000 in New York
City at a lower rate of interest than
the university was paying.
Mortgage ON University
1t developed that the loan was to
be made by another local bank at an
interest rate of x per cent year
but this bank wanted as security a
mortgage on the property of the uni.
vorsity and also demanded the priv
lege of writing oil the insurance on
nc buildings, valued at 100000
which would have made its tota
earnings by reason of its loan TO the
university greatly exceed the amount
Continued ON page a
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-01-28
Alabama Supreme Court
Hears Arguments For
New Trial Of
Scottsboro Boys

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.-The forces
fighting for the release of the nine
Scottsboro boys and the forces at
tempting to burn these boys in the
electric chair came to grips last week
with the hearing before the Supreme
Court of Alabama for a new trial
for the defendants.
The battery of five lawyers re-
tanned by the International Labor
Defense made impassioned appeals
in behalf of the boys. The attor-
news are George w. Chamlee, Allan
Taub, Joseph Brodsky, Irving Schwab
and Schwartzhart.
The appeal for new trial for'the
nine Negro boys was made on the
basis of a mass of evidence collected
by the LID, pointing to the inno-
cence of the boys and discrediting
the characters of Ruby Bates, and
Victoria Price, two white prostitutes
on whose unsupported evidence eight
of the boys were condemned to die
| Attorney Chamlee opened the ap-
peal for the defense by reading an
article from the Jackson County Sen
tinel, newspaper published II
Scottsboro. The Sentinel whipped
; up lynch spirit against the boys, ere
ating an atmosphere in which a dealt
! verdict was inevitable. The man!
contradictions in the testimony o.
. the two girls were clearly shown
! Fifteen affidavits gathered by tn
defense show the girls to be of
most disreputable character. lnclud
ed in this evidence is an affidavi
bv Percy Hicks, fireman of tn
freight train, declaring that the girl
were in a box car and not in tn
gondola in which the boys were rid
ing.
7 The circumstances under whie
the trial took place were cited by Al
torney Brodsky as evidence of tn
\ lynch character of the verdict. II
q described the mobs inside and GU
side the courtroom, the brass ban
a which greeted the first verdict {
q guilty, the facts that there were 4
: Negroes on the Jury and no prop'
s, counsel for defense.
% That there is no race prelude
20 in Alabama was the astounding co
ltention made by Thomas E. Knight
lie the prosecution. Knight then pr
is ceeded to call the boys "niggeri
% and to state that there was no m'
n spirit in the Scottsboro case.
r. The presiding judge created som
nj what of a sensation when he a
y uounced "this court has receiv
t5' many letters and kilograms TIRES
ening the lives of its members unle
a favorable decision for the defen
% ants is rendered. This court is L
- afraid. Decision will be render
,r- according to law and facts presei
he ed" The decision will probably
rendered early in February.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-01-28
10000 Colored Civil Service Employees
NEW York City Earn s5,OO,OOO Yearly

of Brooklyn, Queens ana
Richmond postoffices OF the city OIL
New York.
In Manhattan and the Bronx, the
regular Negro postal employees nave
an annual payroll of over 80, 1867
$50. About Ats substitute workers,
at SIS cents per hour, averaging lVV
days per year, will add $24s,0oO 70
this, a grand total of $5,S83,sbO.
That these employees have made
good in their respective JOBS Is
shown by the fact that there are 70
supervisors in the group, whose MN
imum salary is $4,000 per year.
There is one Negro superintendent
Of branch postoffice In the CITY
several assistant superintendent
l and about eight or ten foremen'
$50 Regular Carriers
Then there are 100 special clerks
l89 window clerks. and 1850 genera
clerks. There are 230 regular car
Iriers. and about ESQ substitute car
lr;ers Of color in Manhattan and th'
CONTINUED to page ~
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-01-28
Mutual Insurance
Did 100000
Business In 1881

DURHAM, N. CA spirit of OPP
timism prevailed as members OF the
board of directors of the N. Z. Mu-
tual Life Insurance Company held
their annual meeting here last week.
Following a report that the com.
pany enjoyed a highly successful
year during 1881, collecting more
than two million dollars, announce
ments were made concerning promo
tions and elections. The following
men were added to the board of di-
rectors: w. D. Hill, assistant sec
retary and auditor, and q. w. Cox,
director of agents.
The officers for the ensuing year
C. C. Spaulding, president; W. D.
Kennedy, Jr., vice-president and sec
rotary; E. R. Merrick, treasurer; X
L. McDougald, vice-president; Dr.
CLYDE Donnell, medical director; W
d. Hill, assistant secretary and audi
tor; M. A. Coins, assistant secretary
| G. w. elk, director of agents; ID. G
Deans, assistant director of agents
J. L. Wheeler, regional supervisor; y
G. Spaulding, claims supervisor; Mrs
B, A. J. Whitfield, cashier.
| According to the latest report o
the statistician of the National In
surance Association, colored com
panies have in force about three hun
bred million dollars distribute
among 100000 policyholders
These figures appear small whe
compared with the total insuranc
| in force in the United States, br
when it is taken into considerable
that the older life companies wer
writing business fifty-eight years b.
fore colored companies began an
that the business of these companl'
l is confined almost exclusively to Il
poorest racial group in the natlo
the record does not seem so bad.
n That the colored man has learnt
+ TO regard life insurance as Deepen
4, able investment, and family nece
g sity, is shown by the fact that Il
k North Carolina Mutual, during 1913
lie placed on its books new insuran
1t aggregating $15,201, 653, W hi
S, amount is over three million dolla
more than that so placed in 1896
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-01-28
Dixie Solons Kill
Bill To Jim Crow
Black-White Labor

COLUMBIA, S. C.-Without dis
senting voice, the South Carolina
House of Delegates voted to advance
to third reading i bill which prohib-
its employers in the textile industry
from allowing white and colored la
borers to work in the same factories,
here last Thursday.
The bill was killed, Friday, on the
adoption of a motion to postpone
consideration of it until July Ia,
1882, when the legislature will not
be in session. :,
The measure, in effect. practically
barred colored people from work IN
the numerous cotton textile mills oil
the state. except in the engine and
machine rooms as helpers or as floor
scrubbers.
Is Drastic
The measure, which was the most
drastic i'm crow law ever proposed
in the state, not only prohibited
working together of white and col
ored people in the same rooms, de
partments and buildings, but prohlb,
tied them from using the same exits
and the same pay window. 1t was
introduced last year by Senator Mac
beth Young of Union, and passed
the upper body.
For years whites alone were EN-
ployed at looms in the cotton mill
of the state, but in several other ca
pacities colored help was employed
The new measure would praetlcall
close the textile trade to colored EN-
ployees. Most of the mills are owne
ard controlled by Northern and East
ern capital.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-01-28
Enterprise News Bureau)

enterprise NGWo
NEW YORK.-"What kind OF
work do these people do?" is
query often heard from visitors TO
Harlem. They are puzzled to know
Just how so many Negroes can make
a living in so small and congested
an area of New York City.
Investigation shows that one Oh
the biggest sources of income for
The New York Negro is the civil
service. In the city, state and fed
eral service, in New York City It Is Is
estimated that no less than lO,ooo
Negroes are employed. of this group
bv far. the largest number are en-
pIoyees of the postoffice service.
5000 In Postoffice
Some recent figures on the num-
her of Negroes in the postofhce De
nartment in Manhattan and IN,
Pronx. show that 20 per cent o.
line personnel of these postoffiees arr
Negroes, numbering about S'oVo
Then there are at least anotheI
thousand eolored employees in TN
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-01-28
Tells Democrats
Nail Lynching;;
Get Negro Vote

NEW YORK. - In the principal
speech before the Chicopoo Demo-
cratic club of the 21st Assembly Dis
trict, the largest Democratic club in
the Negro district in New York City.
James c. Thomas, former Assistant
United States Attorney, drove the
opening wedge in campaign seek
ing the aid of the Democratic Party
in arousing public sentiment against
lynching in the United States.
He told his audience that the
greatest weapon against lynching IN
the United States is 10 mould public
opinion to the ex.ant il will react to
MI such pfa and finally result
in its abolition. Legislation will not
cure the situation. i. needs an
aroused publ, opinion.
He referred to a recent demon
stration of the lew in New York
City when several of their people
were massacred in Palestine, ard
called attention to how public opin-
ion was generated by silent parade
and large mass meetings whieh re
suited in SOW ng the see3 so tina he
entire world heard ard the massacre
of Jews IL Pal sti 5opped.
He ealle8 atIsH.a# = lie taa
thai the Rep h'ian ADMINISTRATION
has remained silent and IT, t its
spokesman, the President Of The I'M
| ted States, has done nothing to help
arouse public opinion in the United
States against such practices, aid
that il was his duty to 90 so.
Mr.. Thomas stated that tn was
the opportunity for the Democratic
Party to sponsor demonstrations to
create public opinion, ana that if i
did so. the party could count up
ON the loyal support Of millions OF
Negro voters this coming election.
He stated in conclusion that the
Negro had tried the Republican Par
ty for so many years. had trusted it
and has found it wanting, and thaf
on the other hand, the Negro is will
, ing to support the Democrat Part.
lif it will support him.