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Florida Charges Negroes
For Free r. c. Flour

NEW YORK.-A complaint from
colored citizens of Clearwater. Fla.
that Negroes are being Disseminated
against in the distribution of relief
Hour and government cloth, has been
forwarded by the N.A.A.C.P. to
Judge John Barton Payne, chairman
of the American Red Cross in Wash.
ington, d. C.
Judge Payne in response to a pre-
vious complaint from Florida for
warded by the N.A.A.C.P. ordered
that there be no discrimination on
color basis.
The letter to the N.A.A.C.P. from
the Clearwater colored citizens
'harges: % that Negroes are being
ienled free flour and free govern
ment cloth while white families are
being fully supplied; CD Negroes
are being made to wait until whites
have been supplied and then. if anv
Is left, they receive the fragments,
accompanied by abuse and insult;
CD before receiving relief, Negroes
are made to do days work for 81
and are paid not in cash but in gro
cries. White people are paid in cash
ard allowed to select their own sup
pics.
The letter charges that a white
woman, M. E. Vaudeville, head of
the unemployment reliee committee.
Is responsible for the abuses to which
Negroes are subjected and alleged
that the relief station "is more for
white suffering and those that are
not suffering, than for the colored
people,"
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70 Are Drowned
When School Bus
Dives Into River

NATCHEZ, Miss.-Josepb Rowman
II, of Moselle, Miss, and Is Negroes
OF Waterproof, La, drowned here
Sunday night when a school bus
driven by Alma Ellzey, white. of
waterproof, crashed through the
guard gates of the dock of the Royal
Route company and went into The
Mississippi river.
Ellzey, Duke Cooley, 10, of Water.
proof, and 14-year-old unidentified
Negro girl were the only passenger,
rescued from the bus. The Others
were trapped in the submerged ma
chine.
Cooley was saved by James Ber-
nard, Negro youth employed on the
dock, and Ellzey by Junior Scott, an
other dock employee, and the girl by
George Lee Trindle, white youth.
The bus had been chartered by its
passengers to take them from Water
proof to Baptist convention At
Meadville, Miss, and was on it's re-
turn trip when the tragedy occurred.
Ellzey said he could not see far
ahead, but that as he approached the
landing he heard some one say
Come ahead"
He said he took this to mean that
the ferry had locked and was ready
for the truck to move ahead. He
started the bus down the hill.
He said that as he reached the
gate of the ferry landing he discov-
cred that it was not open,. but when !
he tried to stop the automobile he
could not do so.
The ferryboat, the George Prince. |
operated by the Royal Route co.n-
oany, had left the Vidalia side Of
he river and was approaching the
Natchez bank when the bus crashed
through the gate.
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Voted 70 Minutes
ePniest Talks
For One Hour
PHILADELPHIA.

PHILADELPHIA. - Extoiline
the virtues of the G. o. p. and de-
nonncing the Democrats after he
had been reluctantly allowed to
speak for 90 minutes, Congressman
Oscar DePriest made a war camp
of the Philadelphia Baptist Minis
ters' Conference for one hour and
twenty minutes. at the Shiloh Bap-
fist Church. Monday, though fail
ing to secure an endorsement of his
candidates.
Madly gesticulating ministers who
jumped to their feet in wild disor-
der when the request was made that
he be allowed to speak were fore
runners of the frequent and bitter
verbal clashes over the merits of
the different party candidates. De-
Priests principal source of worry
was the Rev. ]. E. Philpot, who
constantly challenged his state
'ments. ---..- $685. 9
Complete disorder was the order
of the day throughout the talk of
DePriest. who was an unlimited and
unexpected guest. Scores of full
lunged ministers objected to the
CONTINUED to page ~
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u. S. Census Lists
4,l30 Negro Actors;
1907 Increase

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(CNS)-
The effect of a number of Negro
dramatic and musical revues has
had on the larger employment of
Negro actors and actresses during
the last decade Is clearly shown by
the occupation statistics Just released
by the Bureau of the Census here.
Although no comment is made on
the increase in the number of Me-
groes in the profession of acting
over the 1920 census figures. It is
apparent from the large increase that
widespread interest In Negro drama
has been greatly responsible for the
more than 100 per cent increase in
the number of colored men and wo-
men engaged in this profession.
According to the figures released
there are 4,130 Negro men and wo-
men in the United States listing
themselves as actors or showmen
Showmen, as used by the Bureau of
the Census, is taken to mean those
engaged in the production or man.
agement of various types of theat-
ricals. In comparison with the gross
number. of Negro actors and show
men in 1880, the figures for 1920
show that there were only 1878 so
engaged, representing a decrease
from statistics of 1910 of 372.
Increase of women as actresses
following such stage successes as
Shuttle Along" Running Wild,
and the many Lew Leslie productions
as we'll as advances in the number
OF actresses used ON the dramatic
stage, was from 521 in 1920 to l.
299 in 1890 The number of actors
increased from STA in 1920 to L.
S27 in 1890. There were SO4 male
and 70 female showmen listed in
the Negro occupation statistics in
1910 as compared with 1405, males
and 8 females so engaged in 1890.
This includes movie actors and act
resses, of which there are several
both male and female.
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Enterprise News Bureau)


Four million Negro citizens of the
United States are today deprived of
that most elementary democratic
right, the ballot Almost two-thirds
of the American-bOrn Negroes 81
years of age and over, are disfran-
chised.
In ten states of the Union and
the District of Columbia, the ma
tons capital, Negro citizens are to-
day barred from the polls. The
area of Acknowledgement covers an
immense territory of the South -
including the states of North and
South Carolina, Georgia Florida,
Alabama, Mississippi, Virginia. Ar
kansas, Louisiana and Texas. 1t
is through these states that the
Black Belt runs-that great terri
tory in which the majority of the
population is Negro.
Beginning with 1890, Southern
States have by the adoption of con-
stitutional amendment sought to re-
strict Negro suffrage.
Southern States Whose Laws
Restrict the Suffrage
Suffrage amendments have been
adopted by the Southern States in
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airy by Kai Gynt. Swedish woman
writer and agent, in New York CITY.
Also involved in the suit are Laur-
ence Rivers. Inc, the official title of
the company handling the road show
and the Boylston theatre company,
lessee of the Colonial Theatre in
Boston, where the show Is now play
ing.
Miss Gynt asserts that she entered
into an agreement with Haynes to
get him placed with "The Green
Pastures" for which service he was
to pay her 10 per cent of his salary
of $275 week. That was in Octo-
Der, 1928.
She was successful in performing
her part of the contract and, as long
as the production was on in New
York, she admits. Haynes paid her
her ten per cent. AS soon as the
show reached Chicago. however.
Haynes, she charges. failed to remit
and has neglected to do so ever
since. She states he owes her ST.
347.50.
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Universal Studio Hires $50
Extras for Film Magma

Los ANGELES. - One hundred
and fifty motion picture extras were
called by Chas. Butler, colored cast
ing aid for Central Casting Corp,
to complete scenes in "Nagana," a
picture story about a savage African
king, and his Oxford educated son,
and their clash with highly civilized
whites and their prejudices.
Billy McClain plays the African
king, while the important role of the
son, Nogu, goes to Everett Brown.
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Enterprise News Bureau)

enterprise NEWS bureau
BALTIMORE, Md.-(Special) =
The interracial situation is getting
worse in the North but improving
in the South, Mary Mcleod Be-
thune, Florida college president, told
the Young Peoples Forum Friday
night. Appropriations for educa-
ton in the South have increased a
hundred and sometimes thousand
per cent. Bethune Goodman Col
lege and the white colleges of the
town interchange football fields and
game courtesies. Automobile serv-
ice stations in the South give better
service and very few rest rooms are
for white only, the speaker said.
Migration of white Southerners in
to the North where they have in
termarried or entered business, Mrs.
Bethune said, was responsible for
the increase of prejudice in the
North. She predicted calamity if
John Garner of Texas were elect
ed Vice-President of the U. S.
- - Started with $1.5O
Telling In graphic manner how
2S years ago, with $3.50, boxes for
seats, discarded beds that had been
begged, corn-sack mattresses filled
with moss from trees, and five girls
taken from the cotton fields of Flor
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BODY
Reports Gain In
Negro Betterment

ATLANTA. The Inter Racial
Cooperation reports gains for the
Race in education, health, protec-
ton by courts and political recog-
milton. failure of commission to
flourish among the group in the
South was also noted.
The survey set forth that favor.
able trends have been offset to an
axtent by economic losses attribut-
able to the general economic
breakdown the situation was re-
ported as reducing the number of
Negro land owners and driving
many tenant farmers and wage
hands TO the cities.
Depression Causes Woes
Many white farmers. likewise.
ave grown discouraged or des-
berate and have sought refuge in
Urban industries" the report said.
and the results have been pathet-
&c and even tragic for multitudes.
The Negro, constituting tradition
ally the marginal Industrial group
has undoubtedly been the greatest
The commission added that eco
monte necessity has forced group
competition along racial lines with
personal competition and wide
spread replacement of Negroes by
white workers.
Marks Favorable Trends
Whatever their sympathy with
he economic and social ideals of
Negroes apparently
ave little faith in the Communist
echnique of violence and revolution
nd no disposition to seek help In
hat direction" the report declared
The commission noted growing
ense Of responsibility for Negro
ducation and of confidence in its
alue; gain Of five years in tho
ealth span of the Negro Indicative
1 health Improvement; the fall of
he lynching record Of 100 victims
nnually for the forty-period. ending
1921 to the present level Of ten
twelve a year, and the wide
ioption of the principles of the
.ter-racial cooperation.
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How They Maintain,
White Supremacy "
In Mississippi

JACKSON, Miss. -- "White su.
premacy' has flared again here i'm
fractional campaign between for
mer Governor Theodore G.. Bilbo and
Congressman VIII Wilmington, both
Democratic nominees. in bitter
factional fight in this state.
One of the Interesting things
about the campaign is that Whit
tington is charging Bilbo, known as
one of the most blatant exponents
OF white supremacy" in the state.
with supporting measure which
could be used by colored voters to
guarantee themselves the right to
vote.
MudsilIs of Hell
In reply in debates which remind
of the old-fashioned
controversy, Bilbo
declares that Wilmington Is trying
% ride to Congress ION the back
of a niger" and says that there
lis no more connection between
Niger and the issue now before
The people than there is between the
of heaven and the mIidsills
Of hell" He says the Negro will
never vote in Mississippi unless the
whites want him to vote.
Bilbo is quoted as saying:
General George saw to that in
he constitution of 1890. General
ieorge said wei get rid of the
Negro in three ways first, with a
provision in precinct for one year
the Negro is nomadic, he moves
bont-second, to vote a man must
'ay his taxes for two years prior to
February | of the year in which |
ne wants to vote-the Negro is /
argely thriftless. He won't pay his |
aXes-and third, to vote man |
must be able to read or understand .
he Constitution when read to him.
hen, said General George. Wen
write Constitution that few white
zen and no niggers at all can un-
erstand."
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Get 33rd Masonic Degrees

WASHINGTON. - At a special
meeting of the United Supreme
Council of the Ancient and Accept
ed Scottish Rite Masons, four were
elevated to the thirty-third degree
by Willard W. Allen, sovereign grand
commander, here Tuesday.
Those who received the degrees
were: Grand Master Frank d. Nc
Kinney, Maurice w. Spencer and
William A. Davis of Washington,
d. c., and members of Jonathan Da-
Wis Consistory, and William A. Da-
Wis, of Lanham. Nd.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-10-27
Here's An Apple Problem

This Brain Teaser problem
is printed of the published Enterprise
A young wanted a farmers he
conferred with the
have five cans the
orchard and pick Of
have and half apple orchard and half
Of what then have and half
each orchard bring
daughter and I'll give choice
The problem is it be DONE
The answer will weeks
Last weeks is answered on page A.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-10-27
Nez0 York Bishop
RebukeS Church for
Jim CrO1v POLicv
Jim Crow Auto Parking
Latest D. c. Devilment

WASiIlNGTON-In an effort to
nip in the bud the spread of further
segregation measures rampant in
washington, the Washington branch
or the N.A.A.C.P. took steps this
week, to halt an order in the treas
ury department providing that col
ored clerks and messengers park
their cars more than block from
the Treasury Building in order to
make room for white clerks and
messengers.
The order sent to colored messen
gers and clerks in the division of
loans and currency. was Signed by
). j. Wilson, assistant chief of this
division.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-10-27
Communists Must
Advocate Equal Rights

MOSCOW, Russia. THE American
Communists must advocate equal
rights for eolored people as part
of their policy, according to latest
written order handed down by the
Communist International.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-10-27
Houston Editor Heads
MA" Ferguson Group

HOUSTON, Tex.-C. f. Richard
son, editor of the Houston Defender
now heads the statewide Ferguson
for Governor Club of this state with
headquarters here.
Ma" Ferguson is running on the
Democratic ticket and is being on
posed by Burlington, the Republican
candidate, who has gone on record as
favoring the repeal of the fourteenth
and fifteenth amendments.
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Sissle at Palace

NEW YORK. - Noble Sissle and
his Park Central Band will be one
of the features at the Palace Theatre
this week The Four Flash Devils
will also be on the program.
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DePrieSt'S Speech
Turns Baptist Meet
Into Battle Camp
South Is Getting Better And North Worse
In Treatment OF Negro Says Mary Bethune

ida, she had begun the Bethune
school, in Southern section where
there were no schools for Negroes;
and how following her vision of
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Woman Files q
Suit Against
Daniel Haynes

NEW YORK-Daniel Haynes, who
plays the parts oil Adam and Hez-
drel in THE Green Pastures" is be-
ing sued for ten per cent of his sal
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MARY MCLEOD BgrHUne
service to her race. she had worked, ;.
begged and sacrificed until she had
seen her dream OF model institu-
ton come true, Mrs. Bethune swept
her audience by the thrilling theme
of her achievement.
Continued on mage az
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-03-10
TURKEY REPORTS

Farm prices for turkeys for the 1881
Thanksgiving market of the United
States as a whole were 2 to 3 cents
lower per pound than the previous year.
In Washington, the farm price Of tur-
keys on December Is, 1881, was esti-
mated at % cents per pound, the same
as on that date in 1880.
The decline in price for the country
as whole had been generally antici-
pated on account of the estimated in
crease of nearly 2 per cent in the 1881
crop and the uncertainty of consumer
demand.
Demand favored the smaller birds.
If continued, this tendency will re-
quire breeders and producers to pay
more attention to quick maturity. The
relatively favorable outcome of the 1881
turkey deal may tend to stimulate ex-
cessive promotion of turkey produce
ton in 1882, with resulting disappoint-
ment, say officials of the college of
agriculture, Washington State College.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-03-10
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
FOR AUTOMOBILE DRIVING

If drivers will keep in mind the rules
and suggestions for safe driving, acct
dents resulting from automobile traf-
fic will be reduced, it has been pointed
out all during 1891 by A. A. Bastian,
manager, North American Automobile
Association. The 365-day safety CAM
paign of this association offers this
for consideration of all drivers:
l. Do not speed.
2. Use your arm signals.
g. Give right-of- to pedestrians
at all times.
a. Don't pass another car on hill
Or ON curve.
S. Always keep to the right side Of
the road. Don't pass loading or un-
loading street car, and never pass a
street car on the left.
6.Test your brakes regularly.
7. Always be careful near schools.
g. Observe all intersection signals,
and always go across intersections
slowly.
9. Stop, before entering all main
traffic streets, never leave the curb
without arm signal.
TO- And, remember, waste a minute,
save life.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-03-10
FERTILIZER BULLETIN

A fertilizer bulletin in line with the
information given out last year at the
horticultural schools and mimeo-
graphed and mailed to leading farmers
of the county is in preparation at this
time. This bulletin aims to give to the
reader fundamental facts in regard to
fertilizers. This will include compost
ton, uses by the plant of the various
elements, methods of combining var
ious fertilizers, methods of observation
whereby farmers may study their own
crops and come reasonably close to
working out their own fertilizer pro-
gram and many other like problems.
This bulletin will be mimeograp hed
as last year and will be available to
any farmer of the county wishing a
copy. If you are interested in funda-
mentals of fertilization including the
use of farm manures, write to your
county agent for a copy of this bull
letin
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-03-10

my son took down his conclusions re-
garding the Benton county field. He
said: "That gas is undoubtedly oil gas
There may be oil directly under the
wells but in all probability the oil is
miles away from the gas and if any
one ever drills for oil he will have to
go several thousand feet to find It,"
My son has studied geology and
have often heard him say: IT went
over that Benton county field thor
oughly when I was there and there is
every indication Of oil. feel that some
time that will be great oil field"
At the time Calvert was in that
field, to sink a well several thousand
feet through hard rock was considered
hazardous undertaking but now they
have machinery that easily goes that
depth and it is conceded that deep
wells are the largest producers espec-
tally when pool is encountered.
I sincerely hope that that field proves
to be as great as the Oklahoma City
field.
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OF Interest To Farmers
effect in the future.
BY County Agent E. C. Durdle

cumulative effect in the future.
Washington's commercial apple crop
increased over two-thirds between the
period of 1916-20 to 1929-31. The in
crease is still going on though not so
rapidly as 10 years ago. There was an
increase Of II per cent in the number
of apple trees in the state between
1909 and 1919, and decrease of AZ
per cent or about 100000 trees be-
tween 1919 and 1929. The total number
of trees in 1929 was about 1,750,O00
or about 30 per cent below the number
in 1909. Orchard spacing and aband-
onment of marginal orchards account
ed for large part of the decrease.
The shift from farm to commercial
orchards, however, increased produce
ton per tree over so per cent in the
United States during the last 20 years.
Nearly half of the young trees in
the state in 1928 were Delicious, while
slightly over one-quarter were Wine
saps. This points to more stable
condition, since these varieties at pres
ellC IcCulu W growers UIle QlRIleSC
prices of any of the important vari-
cites.
New paintings should only be made
| in favorable locations and only the
most promising should be chosen. Even
choosing the best of the present var
ieties may not insure profits from the
orchards, since there appears to be a
tendency toward the reducing of the
present price differentials between De-
licious and Winesaps. and those re-
turning lower prices.
Prices for the 1882 crop will depend
largely upon the size of the crop of
the United States, and upon business
conditions and purchasing power both
in this country and abroad. They will
also depend upon tariffs and other
trade restrictions, since we export so
large a proportion of our crop. A fav-
orable factor is the unusually large
commercial barrel crop in 1881, as there
| is a tendency toward alternate large
and small crops in the barreled apple
areas.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-03-10

The Junior Woman's Club held its
Silver Tea Friday, March 4, in the
assembly room of the Lutheran church
The program consisted of the fol-
lowing numbers:
Singing, america the Beautiful
Audience
Recitation, washington
Muriel Beldin
Address, Life of George Washington
Mrs M. S. Meeks
Vocal solo, "Just Pansy Blossom
Miss Ethel Woods
Minuet, by Betty Beyers, Alice Mae
Miller, Carrie Jean Codding, Patsy
Morford. Accompaniment by Gloria
HaWley.
Reading, America for Me-
Mrs. Cora Soden
Tea and cakes were served at the
close of the program.
The proceeds of the afternoon am
ounted to $5.75.
CORA E. soDEN, sec'y.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-03-10

Word was received this morning by
the Courier-Reporter in a telegram
from DR.. H. j. Capell, in California,
announcing his marriage to Mrs. Ger
maine Bechtel on February &c, at the
Episcopal church in San Francisco
Mrs. Capell has been visiting her
mother in San Francisco for the past
month. Dr. Capell left a week ago for
a. little vacation in California" Mrs
Capell has been conducting the Bechtel
sanitarium for several years here
where DR.. Capell has large practice
-Kennewick Courier Reporter.