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The Washington times., 1932-02-12
Births, Deaths and Marriages
Deaths

FAuNCE, JACOB RICE-=Paesed away on
ssgsce Fe9TSSS 9os Srma ali SSS RSsnue a. Wis n.
FRuNcE R1r Shlenqbsl the Beloved husband % Of Mary Mary
ved NJ E'SRof SR es se;Sfs dSen es Ts wS Sn ss Rs
mond T. Faunce and Jacob d. Faunce, OF
Washington, D, c., and one daughter. Mrs
Iowa, and one sister. Miss Elizabeth A.
Funeral services will be, held o,s On sstur;
sFaSt sf!Ssht AHsaas venue NJ vrrnfs 1aiS HFSiaHd: Va
iSterment SIanaS % will follow IN cOnETessionSi
Cemetery.
GRADY. MARGARET-Passed away on
ThTTSdsy RET Gs5uaTy IL 6o,orsS 1SSS@ i{ NAE Of
SeoFEe Sasi eFadS. SH Renal mai ms resting resting at the
W. W. Chambers Co. funeral home, Four
teenth and Chaplin Street Northwest.
Notice of funeral services and inter-
ment hereafter. ------------------
MYERS, ANNE E.-on THURSDAY; Feb Feb;
ruaTy II 1892; ANNIE , F. MYERS MYERS
snd nde bsfSxed mother T Mathew ia j. John
Myers and Mrs. Robert j. Fitzgerald. ,,
coSmba EHnfsa RG tdom heE os ssadSs &
at the Church Of the Immaculate Con.
invited. Interment Mt Oliyet Cemetery.
Tuesday morning. February 3 1882. at
s;1S o'clock; THOMAS 0AKEY. ,t!!yI husband nd
leaves to mourn his departure one daugh-
ter. Miss. Audrey Oakley. and two sisters.
Sng Ms susie DSsey ad aae one nece
Wilhelmina Scott. Remains resting at the
". Ernest Jarvis funeral church. 1882
funeral services will be conducted on
Saturday afternoon. February 13. 1892 at
2 o'clock; from the W: rHs. Ernest Iar,hs Jarvis
west. Interment will follow in Payne's
Cemetery.
ROWE FRENCH-Passed away on Thurs
day Es5E1ary r1 1gS" at Casually I6naX hos h0s.
band of Carrie Rowe. Besides his wife.
he is survived by one son, Lewis Rowe.
Co, C funeral home " Fourteenth and Chapin
Streets Northwest.
Interment .Pearisburg. Va.
SOPER. TRUTHEL, v.-Passed away OF on
TRHTHEf TfaGfsGaV soPER tbe beloved wife 81
Funeral services will be CONDUCTED stoD, from
rTray ray Il Is. 1899. at $40 o'clock, Inter.
GsmseT1 E vs E"g Service. G cSa%91w S7 w. Grams
SPINNER. JESSIE LEE-Passed away on
Friday morning; February II. 1874
5rotSeE JESSIE Of LEE caresda sPNfs Hc Of sS6
Eye Street Northwest Remains resting at
the W. W. Chambers Co. funeral home,
Fourteenth and Chaplin Streets Northwest
Funeral will be conducted on Monday
afternoon. February 15, 1892, at 30
funeral home. 400 Chaplin Street North
vest Services at p; m Ma, at st..t st. Paul nss
Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest. Inter
ment will follow in Congressional Gene
terry.
WHTSPELL. LILLE s. BABCOCK-Passen
Febrnsry SMnS 3. iass. at y ! 80 O'clock. LILLE
$ BABCOCK wH1sPETL at her late resi-
of the late Joseph j Whispell She. is
survived by two loving daughters. Mrs.
Bessie s. Aylor and Mrs. Edna L. Cole
man
her late residence 40 M Street Northwest,
on Friday afternoon. February. IL 1882,
at 2:3n 9'cock Interment will I'll c foIio%S ,S.r. IN
Norfolk and Richmond. Va. papers
n1ease coDv.l
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-09-29
100000 Col0reC
People In 1OStates
Barred From Polls
Harlem Hard Hit By Depression Is
A Drab Town With Mournful AIR

window revealing empty apartments,
and remaining through still numer-
Gus grubrys have brought their eats
down to almost ground prices.
1t is predicted that a bucket of
chitlins won't fetch over thirty
cents this winter and where the
maws are mixed with them, twenty
cents will be the top price.
The Negro World, like the Mes
senger, the Crusader, the Challenge
and other journals of the race-bally-
hoo era of 1915-1927, has returned
to Riker's Island.
It's companion en- route was Ber-
narr McFadden's Evening Graphic
that enjoyed noisy season OF
feeding the metropolis on filth. The
Interstate Tattler disappeared two
weeks without being missed until
the pet cat of Seventh Avenue
newsman took sick. The cat bedded
among the papers on the indoor
newsstand, manifesting a peculiar
fondness for Tattler to which 1t ap-
parently looked for weekly change
of bed sheets, and when there was
no change for two weeks the ca
took to ailing. 1t, the cat, is still
ailing. And so is Harlem-like the
rest of Greater New York.
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NEW York; is no longer pos
sible for Harlem resident or WIS.,
itor to say the place shows no evil
dences of the depression and the
crowds along Seventh Avenue are
just the same. The community is
taking on a depressed aspect and
folks are disappearing as fast as the
publications that once and recently
served them news and fed them
gossip.
The city's emergency relief sta
ton that looked out for the desti-
tute and near destitute since last
November, will be closed October 1
It is located at the Club Caroline
in West 127th Street, and though
the head worker is white a goodly
number of the staff is colored, in
Guiding Mrs. Eva Rochon Bouette
Mrs. Lottie Cooper, Mrs. Mamie
Robinson Rucker, Mrs. Roy wilkins,
Eugene Roundtree, Jr., and some
others, all of whom have rendered
good service and who will go out
with the discontinuance of the place.
In the cross streets, look from
many a back window will disclose
that the. garbage and other refuse
piles which ever found Judgement
on fire escapes now have as gloomy
companions many an uncurta1ned
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-09-29
Police Smash Meeting
For James Ford

LOS ANGELES.-A Communist
meeting slated to be held Tuesday
night in hall on Central Avenue
at which their candidate for vice
president James w Ford, Negro.
was scheduled to speak, was broken
up by the police. A squad of plain
clothes men and uniform officers
raided the meeting and beat up sew.
eral people in attendance. Walter
Martin, Negro, Communist eandi-
date for Assemblyman, received q
broken arm; Paul Walton, Negro
was sent to the prison hospital with
broken nose and leg. Scores re
ceived minor bruises from the Off
GERS clubs After the attack on the
L s Angeles meeting. Ford left for
San Francisco, where he is slated
TO speak Thursday night.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-09-29
BY J. A. ROGERS
For Cooperative Newspapers

fOf 1O-OptIhllFF AfDNob"i ~
PARIs.-Do black people, in imi-
tation of the whites OF the Middle
Ages, attempt in our day to sell
their souls to the deyil' in ex-
change for gold.
The Paris-Midi. leading afternoon
paper Of this city, carries an amaz-
ing story of considerable length Of
how a group OF West Indians on
August 81 at midnight in the depths
of the Forest OF Vineennes. near
Paris. performed lncantations to the
Devil offering him their souls on
condition that he reveal TO them
The large sum of gold and treasure
that was supposed to be hidden
there during the French Revolution
The writer of the story Andre
rhibaud. vouches for its truth. Each
August 81 for the past fixe years
he said. they have been going there
and he had planned to see them this
time. He says.
1T is a fact. If had not seen
them with my own eyes, would
not have believed it. There are
san in 1892 men VINO try TO ex-
cite the devil. according to rites
that one had thought abolished. alb
solntely in the 18th Century.
A well-kaown eoiored writer OF
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-09-29
Pullman Porters
Face Wage Cut
And More Work

NEW YORK CITY.-In addition
to rumors of another per cent
wage cut early in 1898, Pullman
porters are suffering other tribula-
lions as a result of the depression
A recent order issued by the Pull
man company makes it compulsory
for the porter to clean every car
which he operates. The order is to
leave the car in the same condition
in which you find It," Hundreds of
car cleaners have been laid off dur
ing the past few months and, in or
der to supply the deficiency. Pullman
porters must do the work of car
cleaners in addition to their own
work The men have been instruct
ed and have been informed that in
spectors will check up on the man
ner in which the work is done. A
sufficient number of unfavorable re-
ports will be considered just cause
for dismissal.
The order operates in such man
ner that the porter will be com
PEELED to remain on the car and
clean it each time that he arrives
at destination. 1t is said that this
plan will work great hardship up
on porters who operate what is
known as six day week cars. These
porters spend the night on the road
and arrive in the morning With but
few hours to reach home and take
a brief rest, they go out again the
night of the day ON which they ar
rive. They say that 1t viii be al
most impossible to clean the car af-
ter arrival and get home in time tc
rest enough to be in fit condition t'
90 out the same night.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-09-29
Three Negroes In Paris Seek To Sell
Souls To Devil In Exchange For Gold

Paris. he said, told him of these
sorcerefs. and accompanied him
thither
The West Indians. says Tribaud.
arriving at the accustomed spot.
took with great care from their
auto number of objects. one OF
which WIS brazier, which they
lit. soon Illuminating the depths OF
the forest.
Then the leader. with dried
sleeps foot. drew three great CON
centric circles around The brazier.
ON the back of his black coat in
chalk we're a. II. s." tJesus Homi-
nun Salvatore. Two OF the Negroes
each lit a candle from the brazier.
on which incense had been thrown.
The nominations began, accord
ing To the old rites. the leader call
ing upon Taglon. the Nation. Flo
him and Zariatnamik to hear him
ending with Satan, of sanat! l
give thee my soul. but help me to
get this treasure"
But the Devil does not answer:
and they begin all over again the
ineantations. Three and half hours
pass in other rites Finally hurting
curses at the Devil. they leave in
disgust
Are they fools OF iokers2' [ III
auire OF my friend.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-09-29
BY J. A. ROGERS

(For Cooperative Newspapers)
PARIS.-As i said in my article
on comic bull-fighting in Spain, one
of the most popular bands, perhaps
the most popular, is composed en-
tirely of Negroes, and is known
as Las Estrellas Negras, or Black
Stars.
It's rs members are chiefly Cen
trail and South Americans, but there
are five American Negroes: Robert
e. Wilson of Chicago, Albert M.
Barnes of Washington. D. c., Joseph
Jones of Baltimore, James Holmes
of Glencoe, ILL.,. and Albert E. Hol-
man of New York City.
Mr.. Holman has been in Spain
for more than thirty years, and Is
one of the best known comedians
of the peninsula. He has long been
an attraction in the leading night
clubs and casinos of Spain and Por-
tugal. When | was in Madrid, he
was nursing a great wide bruise on
his head sustained while serenading
an angry young bull.
Bull Fighters
In Madrid these black stars draw
immense crowds and fill the largest
bull rings. In Barcelona. where
also saw them. they filled to over
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-09-29
How Did They Do 1t?

problem dealing with getting people
This be done IN nine
Is
travelling when they come to
three 1t
king unless her
that the four are
that they going to
have trouble getting the river
The problem transport the
without violating the rule.
The nne-move viii printed in weeks Enterprise
Last weeks Brain Teaser 5
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-09-29
Court To
Hear Scottsboro
Case October 10

NEW YORK CITY.-tGNA)-
widespread preparations are now
going forward for the hearing before
the Supreme Court on October 10, of
the appeals of seven of the Scots
boro boys. the headquarters of the
International Labor Defense an
nounced last week.
These preparations include a ma
tional tag-day on October l and 2
for the Seottsboro defense fund;
giant mass meetings on October s.,
in almost every city of the United
States; and the election, at the ma
tional convention of the Internation-
al Labor Defense, on October and
in Cleveland, of delegation of
Negro and white workers to present
themselves in Washington on the
day of the plea.
Walter H. Pollak, who has argued
many cases before the Supreme
Court, will be the petitioner for the
boys. The brief has been prepared
by Pollak and by George w Cham
lee of Chattanooga.
The nine Scottsboro boys were
arrested March rs. 1881, at Paint
Rock. Ala. They had been travel
ing on a freight train on which
some other Negroes had had fight
with some white boys. The white
boys were thrown off; the Negroes
who had beaten them jumped off
shortly afterwards. The white boys
telegraphed ahead to have the Ne
groes on the train arrested. A
sheriff's posse which met the train
at Paint Rock took off the remain
| ing Negroes-the Scottsboro nine
They found on the train two wilt,
prostitutes, whom they induced tc
charge the boys with rape.
The boys were tried at Scottsborc
on April 10. 1881. in the midst Of
bowling mob of 10000 mountain
GERS. All were quickly sentenced tf
die except the youngest, Roy Wright
in whose case mistrial was de
clared. Roy was sent to Birming
ham County Jail-where he still
remains-and the other eight to thu
death house of Kilby Prison, Mont
gomery.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-09-29
Two Wives Claim
Estate Left By
Wealthy Surgeon

CHICAGO.-Relatiy rose up to
claim a share of the estate of the
late DR.. John T. Wilson, famous
Chicago surgeon and hospital head,
of Nashville, Tenn, former wife
of the dead physician, and Thomas
Wilson, her son, entered suit in pro-
bate court here to establish kinship
and heirship.
vember 10, 1881, and his will was
filed for probate April s, 1892. The
will named as executrix and as prin-
cipal beneficiary, Mrs. Hattie C.
Wilson, the wife with whom he was
living when he passed away. The
only other bequest as set forth in
the will was to "Thomas Wilson, son
of my former WIFE" to whom was
bequeathed 500.
Wilson and his mother in their
appearance before Deputy Probate
Judge Oscar Kaplain said that they
would endeavor to show that the
will was forgery, the result of a
| conspiracy and that it was made un-
| der duress. They contended thai
| DR. Wilson recognized Thomas vii.
son as his son and brought into
court with them, a witness from
Tennessee VIM. c. Oldham. rs
years old who testified that DR.
Wilson and his former wife lived
at his home in Nashville and that
| the physician called Thomas Wilson
son"
Mrs. Carrie Wilson, whose maiden
name was Green, contended that she
was married to the then young DIR
Wilson, near Atlanta, in 1889 ano
presented in evidence license as
well as a certificate showing that 4
son was born on November 20. Sh'
testified that they were divorced II
1910 after two bills had been filed
Neither of these bills, however, men
tions son.
That the case will be yigorousl.
fought is promised by Mrs HATH
Wilson, the widow. and her attor
ney, j. Gray Lucas. Their contention
will be that DIR. Wilson never ad
mitted the fatherhood of Thoma
Wilson.
An inventory of the estate ha
never been filed, but estimates hay
placed 1t in the neighborhood o
100000. DR.. Wilson was said t
be the principal stakeholder in tn
! Universal Life Insurance Compan
of Memphis, and formerly operate
the Wilson Hospital here. He enjoy
ed a phenomenal success. as a SUI
geon and had many outside bus
ness interests.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-09-29
War Department
Fails in ATTEMPT to
Hush Testimony
Only 80 Negroes
On Hoover Dam Job

NEW YORK, Sept. %. - Report
from Las Vegas. Nevada. TO the
National Association for the Adj
vaneement of Colored People. shows
that only 30 Negroes are being EN-
ployed ON the Hoover Dam project
cut of total working force not far
short of 1000 men, with a daily
payroll of about $4,000.
For the last three weeks says
the report to the N.A.A.C.P., there
have been 500 white names on the
board AWAITING lisD and no colored
but we, cant say how many go GU
iaily, but quite a few. The shee
is put out daily.
"There has been over zoo coloret
men waiting for work but they arr
eaving for the lack of support. =
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-09-29
Over One-Haf OF
Negro Citizens
Are DISTINGUISHED

NEW ENTHUSIASTICALLY - Four
million Negro citizens of the Uni
ted 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 territory in
which the majority of the popu-
lation is Negro.
Some Recent Examples
Here are the most recent ex-
amples from the field of struggle
for the suffrage:
North Carolina: Negroes of Ra.
leigh who were unable to pronounce
words in the state constitution or
explain them to the satisfaction
.4~ t.Ix
from the lists. Two hundred and
ten colored Democrats were de
prived of their ballot in this way
In other North Carolina localities
a last-minute challenge to Negro
voters-so late that there was nc
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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-09-29
Nurse Tells Story
OF Cruelty To
Negro Laborers

WASHINGTON. Sept 2S.-rhe
War Department has failed in an
attempt to hush up testimony con-
corning the treatment on a peonage
and slavery basis of Negroes work
ing in the Mississippi River flood
control camps.
Brigadier General G. b. pillsbury
who last Thursday heard Miss Helen
Boardman, investigator for the Ma
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People. who made
the charges, excluded the press from
the hearing. But Miss Boardman.
accompanied by Walter White. MA.
ACP. secretary. handed out "A re-
lease prepared in New York con-
tanning the essential points in her
testimony and this release has swept
the press of the country.
The story of the hearing, in which
the War Department was severely
scored, was told today by Mr. White
who made notes on the questions
and answers.
Story of Hearing
when we arrived at the NUM-
tions building in which the hearing
was to be held" said Mr.. White,
Two found group of excited news
paper men and women who had been
told by General Pillsbury they must
stay out.
I'VE had n prepared statement
setting forth in detail Miss Board
mans charges and this we gave them
al once
AT The hearing itself there were
present only five people: General
Pillsbury, Miss Boardman, an army
captain, stenographer. and myself.
General Pillsbury read from
prepared list of questions and sought
10 Obtain the names OF Miss Board
man informants. These she de-
clined 10 give for to have done so
would have been 10 lose their Jobs
and endanger their lives.
Continued on page three.)
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-09-29
National Bankers Call
Off 1892 Convention

PHILADELPHIA The National
Negro Bankers Association of which
Major R. r. Wright, ST., is presi-
dent. has decided 10 postpone its
annual meeting which was to be
held In Richmond. Va, from Sep
TENDER 21st to oath, until next year.
There are fifteen Negro banks In
the country. members Of the Assoc
citation which have withstood the
strained economic situation There
are two in Georgia. one In Texas.
one in Tennessee, two in South Caro-
lima, one in North Carolina. four In
Virginia. one in Oklahoma one 70
the District of Columbia, one IN
Maryland and one in Pennsylvania
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-09-29
Delaware Names First
Negro Grand Juror

WILMINGTON ror the first
time since the Civil War, colored
man was named ON grand jury in
this state when Edgar Sterling OF
the Fifth Ward was selected on the
grand inquest last week.
Three years ago the state admit
ted its first eolored lawyer to prae-
tice at Delaware bar, and William
Winchester is serving as the member
of the city council in this city
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-09-29
Black Stars Group OF All Negro Matadors
Most Popular Bull Fighters In Spain

flowing the great Plaza de Toros
Monumental on the feast of ST. John,
while the excited Spanish audience
gave them a great ovation. While
in Barcelona, | saw some fine COM
mendation of their work in news
papers there. All are well paid,
for bull fighters are among the high
est paid workers of the world. In
a coming article, l shall tell of the
serious bull fighters and their work
When You're Broke
Madrid has very few Negroes
perhaps only few hundreds. Most
of the American Negroes there are
doing we'll, or at least, seeming to
be able to find work to keep them
a-going. Such say that they have
no intention of returning to Ameri-
ca, even at higher salary, as they
find the Spaniard particularly kind
to colored people. Those, however
who are out of work-and just now
in Spain, as elsewhere, work is diff
cult to get-are most eager to ge
back to America, and would swim
it back If they could. He who hal
not been broke in a European coun
try, has never been really broke
The man without money in Europi
sinks to the bottom of society a
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Dunbar Apt. Employees
Salaries Are Reduced

NEW YORK Despite the man
agements promise not to reduce the
pay of its help, the Dunbar Apart
ments, built and controlled by John
ID. Rockefeller and his interests, has
cut the pay of its employees twenty
per cent. About % of the Sill apart
ments are vacant There has been
no reduction In rent. The reason
given is that most of the tenants
have stopped paying rent, and in
one case, the tenants back rent
more than covered her capital stock
money.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-09-29
Negro Flyers On
Transcontinental Dash

Los ANGELES. Herman Ban
ming, pi.ct, and Thos. C. Allen, me-
ehanie, left here on Monday in an
airplane called Eagle Rock" on a
transcontinental flight. The plane
contained a Curtis motor and Is
registered ITO horse power At noon
on Wednesday the flyers were at
Wichita. Kansas.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-09-29
Death Claims Conner,
Los Angeles Mortican

Los ANGELES.-Chas. .. Con-
ner. president Of the conner-Johnson
Undertaking Company, died on Mon
day. at Bear Valley, a mountain
retreat about AZ miles northeast Of
San Bernardina. after a lingering
illness extending over year or
more.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-01
Smith Joins Plea Against First Amendment

Albany, N. Y., Oct 1.-(VP)-- Alfred E. smith joined Governor Roosevelt and Conservation : CoIninlssiOncr Henry Morgan- thau. Jr, today in opposing the Porte. BreretOn constitutional forrest rccreationar' amend mcnf. Y. ],
 1T hase always been absolute Iy opposed to unnecessary. in- . definite, lOng-winded and nI- wOrficd constitutional amend nacnts,'' Smith declared. "Tlle present amendment comes with- fin this c1nss.' z. -'1 . q me anIcndnent would eIiAt nOwer msnnlcipa lftles to devclg1t s5S1 cfnls lsrccgcs fion6l fheil1fies 5!s -Iofyst saxtslIs v tisss lst q isttss '.