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The Washington times., 1932-08-12
DAIRY PRODUCTS

CHICAGO. Aug. 10 N.S).-Butter,
1885 tubs: creamery extras, 1870:
standards zoe: extra firsts, 1S% @19Ac:
firsts. 17% @1SAc; packing stock, 1Oc;
specials. 2OA 020%c.
Eggs-6.171 cases. Ordinary current
receipts, 12@14hc: fresh graded extra
firsts. 16c: fresh graded frsts 15hc;
dirties. 1O@12hc; checks 9611c.
Cheese-Young Americas and long
horns. 13@1313c: brick. fancy, lie;
daisies and prints 130l3l2c; twins,
12L m1o3Ic-
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Snappy Trade
News Grist

Wheat, rye, oats, cotton,
silk, hides; rubber stocks
and bonds all rise in day.
Pennsylvania RailrOa d
makes jobs for 5000 more
employees.
Hatters are busy at Nor.
walk, Conn.
Failures are fewer and
liabilities decline.
Insurance stocks add so
per cent market value in
month. :
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CLOTH DEALS HEAVY

NEW YORK, Aug. ~ GN.s).-
There were heavy dealings in coarse
yarn cloths today, with total turnover
for the day promising to be the
largest for any single session since the
current covering movement got under
way. Price advances were fairly gem
eral with certain constructions ad-
vanCed more than once in the day.
Some styles which previously had
been burdensome from the standpoint
of selling pressure we're now difficult
10 find for carly deliveries.
The Washington times., 1932-08-12
WARWICKS SCORE

Arthur Chopin's and Ed Keith's
big bats aided the Warwicks to
dispose of the Public Documents,
10 to 4, yesterday in an indie
pendent League game. Keith also
pitched fine ball,
The Washington times., 1932-08-12
Olympic Dope
TODAY'S SCHEDULE
Swimming


900 a. m.-Finals, high diving,
women.
GAS a. m.-4OO-meter free style,
women, semi-finals, two heats.
800 p. m.-2O0-meter breast stroke,
men, semi-finals two heats.
1920 p. MI, ,5O0-meter free styl, e
men. semi-fnals. two heats.
4:20 p. m.-Finals, 1OO-meter back
stroke, men.
ABS p. m.-Finals, 1OO-:neter relay,
women.
4:55 p. m.-water polo, Germany vs..
Japan.
Rowing
800 p. m.-Four oar with coxswain.
3:4O p. m.-Two oar without cox
swain.
APO p. m.-Single sculls.
5:00-Two oar with coxswain.
Miscellaneous
sis a. m.-Equestran sports, three
day event, steeple and cross-cpuntry.
2:3G p. m.-Lacrosse, United States
VS.. Canada.
$500 p. m. and s p. m.-Boxing.
$500 a. m. and 100 p. m.-Fencing.
500 q. m.--Gypnastics: Parallel bars
and flying rings.
900 a. m. and 200 p. m.-shooting:
Pistols.
1900 noon-Yachting.
All SPORTS STAMINA
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LGnstOn Company
Will Pau Dividend

The board of directors of Lam
ston Monotype Machine Company
yesterday declared the regular
quarterly dividend of $l.5O
share payable August 81 to stock
holders of record August 10.
The Washington times., 1932-08-12
WOOL PRICES FIRM

NEW YORK. Aug 12 UN.sD.-wool
firm, domestic fleece. unwashed Ohio
and Pennsylva 11915hc: domestic.
pulled, secured basis. 276SSc; domes-
tic. Texas, clean basis, 25 637c; domes-
tic, territory, clean basis. 24937c.
The Washington times., 1932-08-12
MAJESTICS AT ORANGE

The Majestics will play the
Orange (Va) Boosters a double
header Sunday at the latter's
stadium instead of the Howitzer
Giants as previously announced.
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NAVAL STORES

NEW YORK. Aug. 12 G.N.SD.-Lin-
seed oil. car lots. Sc.
Turpentine firm, 4@%.
Rosin, firm, common, %S5.
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POLO TEAM DRILLS

The Airport water polo team
drills tonight at 7:30 o'clock at
the Airport Pool.
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N. Y. Curb Stocks
High Low l1:15

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Alum Co of Amer. So so So
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Amer Founders....... Ia 1ls IL
Amer Gas & El........ 30as 20 20
Amer Light / T....... 21H SOis 2O$s
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Amer Superpwr. "...... 4i2 4is As
Amer Superpr LIST pfd So I 52isI SO
Am Natl Gas A...... 2hI ga 2S
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Asso Elec Ind....,,.. 3ls as 3ls
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Buff N G. f ? pf..... % 20 %
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Interst Equities .... l
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HISERS SEE ACTION

Henry Hiser's All-Stars play the
Griffith Blue Goals Sunday at
3 o'clock at Riverdale Park.
The Washington times., 1932-08-12
Stand-Out Sandlot Games
On Ellipse Today
Bv SID KATZNELL


Sandlot baseball hosttes the Elipse today
The Washington times., 1932-08-12
WASHINGTON STOCKS
SALES

SALES
Capital Traction SIS $1,000@50.
Potomac Electric go pfd So
1O9.
Potomac Electric 51a6 pfd, 5
@103A.
Washington Railway & Elec
pfd 1O@86, 1O@86, 2O@86, 1O@86,
50@86.
AFTER CALL
Washington Gas 5s, $1,000
1914.
Potomac Electric 5129o pfd, l
@104.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-06-02
Save The Victory Life

The unfortunate closing of the
Douglass National Bank does not ne
cessarily imply that a similar fate
awaits the Victory Life of which
Anthony Overton is president. In
stead of becoming unduly alarmed or
panicky over the situation, it is the
duty of every stakeholder and policy
holder to Join in the movement, to
save the insurance company. This
can be done if there is cooperation
and advice is taken from those who
have the best interests of Victory
Life at heart.
With the Douglass National Bank
involved in its present financial diff
ficulties the bank stock Mr.. Overton
sold to the Victory Life and all loans
made by the insurance company in
which Douglass National Bank stock
was put up as collateral are of doubt
full value. The insurance depart
ments of states in which the Victory
Life operates will move to protect
polscyholders by demanding thak
new money be substituted for the
bank stock in question.
If the BUSINESS of Victory Life is
to be conserved and the affairs OF
the company put on firm basis, it
will depend very largely on the abil-
ity of the stockholders to get to-
gether and agree upon construc-
tive plan of action. This can be
done il selfish considerations and
fractional strife are swept aside. Al
randy thara hae hppp too much of
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-06-02
Part Negro" The New American Race

with any Negro, were dealing with
part Negro. That is about the
only type of Negro to be found any
where between these oceans.
And to rub it in a little more
Whenever one of the same Negroids
commits an offense of any kind, his
partness is never then mentioned by
any newspaper. If Toomer had COM
mitted rape against some white wo-
man. do you suppose any newspaper
from Maine to Golden Gate would
have referred to him as being after
all only a small part Negro, and
therefore not to be credited to the
Negro race in his crime? Not on
your tin type: any mix-blooded Ne
gro criminal is just a plain Negro
and that's chiefly what is the mat
ter with him.
BY the way that reminds us: why
80 cut of the 100 of all of those
Negroes that have stolen chickens
were only part Negroes, some of
them only in small part. So that
the record ought to be corrected ::
perhaps it was not the Negro in
them that made them steal after all,
especially since white blood knows
much more about the taste of chick
on than black blood knows.-And
now, really, if we go on in this way,
there won't be thing left to credit
to the Negro-nothing either good
or bad, and all debts and credits
on the ledger will just have to be
set down to an oldfashioned some
hing sometimes referred to as "hu-
man nature.
But let us watch the developments
and the future course of this race
which I have just watched the news
papers manufacture here in Frisco
this PART-NEGRO. He may be
in the end the complete solution OF
he whole problem.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-06-02
Colored Bank In
Chicago Closed
{ Continued from Page II

had worked prodigiously and sue
cessfully to restore an impairment
of $113, 900. Fifty per cent of this
impairment was made up by assess
ments on stockholders and so per
cent through the collection of loans.
The closed bank has notes and
securities of about 100000, half of
which are in mortgages and loans
and the other half in bonds, So
called gilt-edged which suffer be-
cause of the depressed markets. The
deposits at the time the bank closed
amounted to 100000. About $751;
600 vas in commercial accounts and
the rest in savings.
AT one time we purchased 500
600 worth of bonds of the Youngs-
town Steel and Tube Company" ex-
planned Anthony Overton, 66year-
old chairman of the board. I'VE
bought them at SOL and later had
purchaser at SIP, making eleven
dollars on each bond. They seemed
worth more at $99-today they're
worthy only $50"
We could open tomorrow with
100000" Overton stated, "and run
for four or five months. But we
would be forced to lead the same
hand-to-mouth existence which has
been ours for the past year. The
depositors themselves can open the
bank if they want TO.
The permit to organize the Doug
lass National Bank was granted by
the comptroller of the currency. APP
pointed by President Harding soon
after he was inaugurated on March
A, 1921. The organization drifted
for several months, during which
less than $4,000 of the proposed
$25O,000 capital was paid in. Dur
ing May of 1922, about twelve
months after the permit was grant
ed, the organization then having
raised less than $4,000 of the
$3.50, ZOO, Overton was called in to
assist in raising. the additional mon
ey. The necessary money was raised
and verified and the charter granted
June 81, 1922, and the bank was
opened on July /. Oyerton was pres
ident.
At its peak, the Douglass Bank
had on deposit more than million
and half dollars. These deposits
were cut down, either from neces-
sity or fear to $405,000. More than
seventy banks, only one of them col
ored, failed in Chicago, and, as their
lights blinked out, public confidence
was shaken. The bank withstood
three runs.
The public can only conjure the
effect of permanent closing of the
Douglass Bank, if only the associated
Overton interests are taken into ac-
count. Mr. Overton admits that If
the bank is to remain closed per-
manently, it would cause some con-
Germ as to the position of the Vic
tory Life Insurance Company. There
is some disposition to believe that
the Overton-Hygienic Company has
been kept free from ENHANCEMENT,
but it is not possible to report as
much of the Chicago Bee and the
subsidiary printing company of
which the other Overton businesses
were large customers.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-06-02
U.S.. SUPREME Court
Grants Rehearillg'

Continued from page one.)
Scottsboro case has attracted world
wide attention and even before the
petitions for review of the convic-
ton of the seven youths had been
filed, letters have been received from
Communists in different countries,
urging the court to intervene in the
case.
Mrs. Ada Wright, mother of two
of the Scottsboro prisoners is now in
Hamburg, Germany with J. Louis
Engdahl, secretary of the lnterna-
tional Labor Defense raising funds
A dispatch from Hamburg received
Saturday stated Mrs Wright on Fri
day spoke. before the First Congress
of the International Seaman and
Harbor Workers. At this confer
ence, where delegates met represent
ing the dock and harbor workers of
27 countries, the Workers hung in
their hall an enormous banner call
ing for the freedom of the Scots
boro boys. Mrs. Wright was greet
ed with a tumultuous ovation from
the delegates.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-06-02
Social Equality Bugaboo

wants to sleep in public hotels like
other men and women; he wants to
ride on public carriers and mingle
with friends and conduct his bus
mess Of living just like other human
beings. He wants whatever social
contacts he makes open. above board
and honest. But in asking this free
dom of American life he is willing
to grant it to all whites who also
want the freedom to choose their
own friends and the people with
whom they desire to associate.
When the sordid sex complex,
which has produced so many mulat-
toes in this country, is taken out of
consideration of normal human rela-
tions between races, there will be
clear thinking and clear action
When the minds of the Christian
element become less clouded and
their spines more rugged, as was
evidenced at Atlantic City last Sat
urday, there will be less fear of the
consequences of complete racial
equality of treatment Of men and
women in America.
The fact is the constant friction
growing out of one race having to
face humiliation daily, and the cow
ardly and shameful completes ii
creates in the finds of some whites
that they cannot trust their women
in the presence of decent and re-
spectacle colored men. is at the bot
tom of most Embellishments, social
and economic, in this country 1t is
keeping the South poverty stricken
it is making hypoerites of Negro
leaders. it is planting the seeds OF
cowardice and dishonesty in the
minds of white youth, and it is cor
rupting American morals.
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Have To Make A
Living Says Darrow
Continued from Page y

tSOHIlHueu lIOnl rage
of Parker. 1t showed strength and
caused a new respect for the Negro
vote. You have one man in Con-
CESS now. You ought to have 20 to
25 on the basis of your voting pow
er. New York should send one;
Cleveland should send one; st. Louis
should certainly send one, and so on.
'Just now New York cannot be
handled because Negroes hands are
tied with the present system of dis
tricting. If Negroes would get be-
hind the kind of governor, however,
who would remedy that fault, they
could easily achieve national repre-
sentation.
Negroes in the mass are inlprov-
ing and they are also making ire
mendous progress Individually Men
like Weldon johnson, Roland Hayes,
Walker White, and dozens of others
and | hate to start naming because
there are so many Negroes of prom
inence who are bound to be left out
of anyones list
I'm any social order. The class
which is away down the scale is go
ing to try to find someone else lower
than they are to kick around. In this
country it is the unfortunate lot of
the Negro, no matter what his ae-
complishments, to be the one select
ed for the kicking. This condition
will not always remain. With the
advance the Negro has already made
in spite of everything, | believe that
it win be only matter of further
line to achieve the goals which he
seeks and should have"
The interview was over. As Oar
row talked | had been more and
more impressed with the idea that
here was indeed man of genuine
human sentiments uncolored by
prejudice or by mawkish sentimental
ity. Here was a man who has open
and bold opinions about things and
people. Here was a man who was
unafraid of criticism, unafraid of ad-
verse publicity, unafraid of all the
petty things which are shackles re-
straining the Independent thinking
and acting of most people.
His explanation of his work in the
Massie case, matter which has per-
turbed Negroes immensely, was sim
ply statement of fact, not by any
means an apology, for none was
necessary. His work in the Sweet
case was the effort of a great hui
manitarian / had expected to meet
a roaring lion full of narratives of
past achievements and casting eager.
D l.- aN OF
found a gentle voiced old man, kind
4 ly, tolerant, YEARLY critical. and
wise with the wisdom attained from
IS years Of colorful active exis-
tence.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-06-02
Somebody Do Something

While Uncle Sam is sick unto death
with "depressionists." DR.. Herbert
Hoover and his consultants. the Dem
ocratic Congress, stand by the he'd
side and squabble over the kind of
knife that must be used to make the
incision in the operation that needs
to be performed. Hoover, fighting
doggedly for his monied masters,
halts every program hich may
wrench goodly sums from the only
place left where they may be OBJ
tanned, while the Democrats play pol
tiles in a gigantic public works pro-
posal.
What the American public wants
at this time is that somebody do
something.
For two years now the national
administration has been squahblmg
along in an impaired economic ma
chine that was not only missing fire
and leaking water, but which needed
other major repairs. Certainly 1t
must be realized that the time for
quibbling over what is needed to be
done is past. Direct action is imper-
dLlNk IL we are 70 bNAiu a oNAiths
national collapse. Every dav some
thing happens to indicate that The
economic blood pressure is getting
higher and respiration quicker.
Why quibble? Why delay? The
only possible way out is to start
wheels to turning and commodities
moving. The only way to start
wheels to turning and commodities
moving is to start men to working
gainfully at something. President
Hoover, protecting the wealthy, the
only source from which money can
come now, says, 1--WE cannot squan-
! der ourselves back into prosperity"
i True but we squandered ourselves
into war and it is Just as logical to
squander ourselves back into pros
perity At any rate, let us do some
/ thing.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-06-02
Radios Best

Amos n Andy, according to the
latest figures issued still lead the
crop of radio entertainers.
Their comedy is of the blackface
variety. This always is "surefre.
From time immemorial, people have
always made fun of those minorities
among them who did not speak TIE
language well.
As for situation, Amos n Andy
use the time-honored device of the
big fellow bullying the little fellow,
who, however, triumphs in the end
by dint of greater smartness.
Andy is lazy, stupid, conceited,
domineering. Amos is industrious,
submissive, modest, but comparative
~ clever. This, too, is '.sure-fire."
1t is the idea underlying the Mutt
and Jeff comic strip, the widest
read of all newspaper cartoons. 1t
is also the secret of Charlie Chap
Inns success.
Another "sure-fire" quality in the
Amos m Andy comedy is that their
humor is grim. Carefully analysed,
there is nothing jolly about their ma
terial. The characters are in con-
slant difficulty; their financial and
love affairs are always in muddle.
But they make the best of bad
bargain.
This is known as "the humor of
the gallows." 1t is the kind of hui
NOR that makes the spectator or lis
tener feel "Well, if those fellows
with all their troubles can laugh at
their hard luck, am, after all, not
so badly off myself"
We are all oppressed by somebody
or something. One man is oppressed
by his boss second by his compel
itors; third by his bank; fourth
by the stock ticker. Government op-
presses some of us; religion others.
Many people are oppressed by power
ty; few by riches. Thousands are
oppressed by ill-health and by real
or fancied hard luck. Children are
oppressed by their parents, their old
er brothers and sisters, their teach
ers.
One quick and easy escape from
all these forms of stress is wit and
humor.
Amos m Andy are still popular be-
cause America gets kick out of the
tribulations of two poor black men.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-06-02
Rv WILLIAM PICKENSl

Certain San Francisco papers have
been apologizing for the white race
because white woman married a
Negro who is in every respect her
equal, and these papers have been
coming new sociological race
part Negro" The occasion of this
nonsense is the marriage of Margery
Latimer, a very nice woman whom
many of us know well. to Jean Too
mer, whom some of us know as a
of the millions of mix
hlcoded Negroes in the United
States
The fact is, that nine-tenths of all
the Negroes met on any city street
anywhere in America are part Ne
groes" Even the blacklist one you
see and who you think surely must
he one hundred percent African.
may turn out on investigation to
nave a mulatto grandmother. That
is, he is white" in his great grand
father.
But to the Joke: because the white
world, especially the male part Of it
in the United States, continues to
live the fiction that respectable
white woman will not get interested
enough to marry a Negro. when one
does just that (as Margery Latimer
has done, with many others), then
the white American builds him an
illusion by referring to said Negro
as part Negro" You see: that
helps to correct the error. 1t is
somewhat like this: Well. after all,
the rule Of prejudice is not quite
broken, inasmuch as the person is
only part Negro. and therefore the
erring white woman has not COM
pletelv violated her caste. And the
absurdity is. that perhaps 80 out of
every hundred white women that
ever had any dealings whatsoever