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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-03-17
NegrODe1nOcratS
Hold COnferenC
:. In Was hing 0n
Several Leaders
Seek To Be Boss
In Coming Campaign

4 ~
WASHINGTON. = Speculation as
to who would lead the colored De
mocracy in the coming Presidential
campaign, was rife here this week,
following a pow WOW held by ma
tional leaders over the weekend.
Among the politicians who were
in the city and held conferences
were: Ferdinand Q. Morton, New
York Civil Service Commissioner,
and prominent Tammanyite, who
dropped in town with Judge Charles
F. Tonev, of the New York munlc-
ipal courts.
The presence of Robert l.. Mel
son, now of Philadelphia, who was
the chief lieutenant to Julian Raj
ney, of Boston, four years ago, when
the latter headed the colored Demo-
Gratis aided in the complications. Mr..
Nelson disclaimed any political sig
nificance as being attached to his
visit, giving out the word that he
was here on business for the Elks'
Civil Liberties Bureau.
!, According to political workers,
Mr.. Nelson is not considered as a
Democrat now, because of his recent
appointment by the Republican Gov
ernor Pinchot, of Pennsylvania, as
boxing commissioner, at salary of
$4,000 annually.
The m e of DR.. William j.
Thompkins, of Kansas City, is also
identified with the scramble for ma
tional leadership, and it is reported
that he hopes to edge out Morton
in the race.
WiIliston in Saddle
The activities of the colored Dem
ocrats at the present time are being
directed ..hw. DIR. i. o. Willistoae lilo
Fairmont Street, who is chairman OF
the National Democratic Negro Vo.
ters' League. The organization was
launched year ago, and at the pres
ent time has branches in 20 states, II
is claimed.
1t is the consensus of opinion
among Democrats that DIR. Willistor
has the edge in the leadership race
because it is reputed that the ma
tional Democratic leaders want t.
head up the colored group with ;
man from the South. DR.. ID. Willis
ton is from North Carolina. Morton
Continued on page Al
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-03-17
Lindbergh Kidnap
Ladder Traced To
Negro Settlement
African Films
Must Uphold
White Supremacy

NEW YORk.-Censors in South
Africa are going to be busy, busy
men. They will have to watch films
for almost everything as result
of one of the most complete censor
ship bills ever enacted. 1t was
passed few weeks ago.
The primary purpose of the bill
was to prevent the natives from
viewing the white man as an in
ferior or as ridiculous person.
Customs which would appear fun
ny" to the African were ordered
stricken from the films. Anything
which hints at the white man as
not being superior will have to be
eliminated.
Among the things forbidden by
the new censorship rules are:
1mpersonation of the King.
Holding to ridicule or contempt
any member of the Kings military
or naval forces.
Treatment of death.
Nude human figures.
Passionate love scenes.
Illustrating night life.
ternational politics.
Antagonistic relations between
capital and labor.
Disparaging public characters.
Creating public alarm.
The drug habit, white slave traf-
fic, vice or loose morals.
Religious convictions or feeling of
any section of the public.
Ridicule or contempt.
Juvenile crime and, in case of
older persons. brutal fighting, drunk.
enness aud brawling.
Pugilistic encounters between
Europeans and non-Europeans.
lntermingling of Europeans and
non Europeans.
Rough handling or illtreatment OF
women and children.
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Prisoners Take Flight
On Wings Of Song

HATTIESBURG, Miss.--Twp col
ored prisoners lodged in the city
jail here sawed mcrrily away at the
prison bars last Tuesday, while the
other coloret prisoners sang, 81
Wish | Had the Wings of An Angel"
20 banjo accompaniment. Sudden
ly the singing ceased, and the prison
attendants presumed that all the
prisoners had safely retired for the
night, until one of the employees at
the Jail reported seeing two men
fleeing their "duress VILE
Investigation was quickly made
and showed several sawed bars, leav-
ing an opening just sufficient for
body to squeeze through. W. M.
Lee and Levi Donaldson were re-
ported missing when the checkup was
made, Lee, "A preacher, was in Jail
charged with whiskey possession on
two counts and had been convicted
and given 500 and 30 days on each
Donaldson was beiny held or an old
charge.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-03-17

BALTIMORE Marching to the
jazzy strains of Mendelssohn' we'd
ding march. and ignoring the frowns
of disapproval. of the local clergy,
Miss Rosa Wheeler, pretty local girl,
added a touch of modernism to the
marriage ceremony as she became
the charming bride of George E. Ed
wards, former Chicago medical eT-
pert. at the New Albert Auditorium.
Preceded by a sextet of brides
maids in evening gowns of pink
satin cut in the latest mode, with
a flower girl carrying a basket OF
American beauty roses and a small
boy carrying her train, the bride,
in a flowing gown OF white, walked
between the lines formed by the
dancers on either side, on the arm
of Herman Higgs, a mutual friend OF
the pair.
The Rev. c. II. Lowery. 525 Lau-
reus Street, performed the ceremony
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-03-17
COLONY near LINDBERGH
HOME UNDER INVESTIGATION
Negro-Indian
Clan Quizzed
By Officers

TRENTON, N during the past
week the most important develop
ment in the Lindbergh baby kidnap-
ping led to the strange. but little
known. colored colony Of the Jack
son-White clan in the Sourland
Mountains not far from tn Lind
bergh home.
TO that colony. the now famous
three -section ladder used in the kid
mapping. has been definitely traced.
The Jackson Whites are all part of
very old colored and Indian family
and have Inhabited this section of
Jersey for generations. Intermar-
riage is the means by which the clan
Is kept intact Only seldom do mem
bers mix with the outside world.
except some of tho men who some
times work on jobs in neighboring
districts.
AS the result of such work recent
ly done by members of the clan in
Skillman. N. j.. the ladder was trac-
ed to their colony.
At Skillman members of the col
ony worked as laborers in the recent
construction of the state home for
epileptics there. The lumber from
which the ladder Is constructed came
from this job, an unnamed official
declared, ,,--.,.s 49,
AT the conclusion of the contrac-
tors work, the lumber was distribut-
ed among the workmen. Consider
Continued on Page a
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N.A.A.C.P. Aroused
Over 100000 Cut
OF Howard Budget


NEW Notwithstanding kilograms
to 35 leading United States Senators
were dispatched Friday by the Ma
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People, giving no
tice of bitter opposition to a budget
cut by the Senate which would ham,
string the work of Howard Univer-
sity.
Among the 35 senators telegraph
ed to by the N.A.A.C.P. are Sena-
tors Wagner of New York, La Fol-
lette of Wisconsin, Borah of Idaho,
Hatfield of West Virginia, Hiram
Johnson of California, King of Utah,
Walsh of Massachusetts, j. Hamil
ton Lewis of Illinois, Smoot of Utah
Bronson Cutting. of New Mexico
Norris of Nebraska, Capper of Kan
sas, CouZens of Michigan, Buckley OF
Ohio, and Fess of Ohio.
The text of the N.A.A.C.P. tele-
gram to the 35 senators is as fol
lows:
1--WE learn that subcommittee OF
Senate Appropriations Committed
has cut Howard University budget
from one million six hundred ter
thousand dollars, to six hundred sew
enty five thousand dollars, a cut o.
nine hundred thirty-five Thousand
dollars or SO per cent. Reeommen
dation is 100000 lower THAI
amount voted by House.
1--WE learn that original bulge
was recommended by Secretary In
terror and approved by President
bureau of budget. We further learl
Department of Interior items othe
than Howard University were GU
only three per cent as against 80 pc
cent for Howard University.
National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People speak
ing for Negroes of country bitterl
opposes this action and urges yol
work assiduously against this dis
! criminatory action"
(Signed) WALTER WHITE,
Secretary.
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ATLANTA, Ga. - The suggestion
that the striking students of Gam
mon Theological Seminary resort to
prayer as a means of settling OF
their grievances made by President
Clapp, was declined by the students
last week.
The students demanded the resig-
nation Of Dr.. ID. d. Martin, white,
professor OF missions and editor Of
the Foundation" a magazine pub
lished bi-monthly by Cannon for
the Missionary Foundation, for an
unwarranted attack on q student.
The assault was made upon p. M.
Hurdle, a senior from Dallas, Tex
as, when the latter WIS kicked out
of the instructors office.
Students Protest
The students in a signed protest
urged the faculty to take action
against the professor after a thor
ough investigation. The faculty de-
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Dance Hall Wedding
Shocks Clergym en-

concluding by requesting the dancers
to stand and repeat the Lords pray
err
The brides attendants were all
members Of the Boots and Her Bud
dies Club. who acted as hostesses at
The affair. The bridesmaids We're:
Misses Myrtle Mills, Elizabeth Mills,
Ella johnson. Irene Johnson, Nam
mic Johnson and Gladys Johnson.
Robert Mills, Jr was trainbearer
and Roberta Hughes was flower
girl. The wedding ceremony was per
formed at - o'clock, after which
dancing was resumed. The couple
left on a honeymoon in Philadelphia.
Mr.. Edwards is vice president OF
The Metropolitan Drug Syndicate
Inc. The company distributes patent
medicines. Mr. Edwards was formerly
associated with the Steers Medicine
Company Of Indianapolis, Ind, and
CONTINUED on Page a
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-03-17
Detroit Warns
Laborers Away;
No Ford Jobs

DETROIT, Mich. Members of the
unemployed armies of other cities,
having read the recent press an
nouncement that the Ford Motor
Company had again started produc-
ton ON the new car and would hire
1000 men, are congregating in De
troit.
From throughout the u II { d
States they have assembled with the
expectation of being among the num-
Der employed at the River Rouge
plant.
And what a disillusioned group of
men they are! Instead of finding
employment. the majority of them
are becoming wards of the city; they
are just increasing the burdens OF
the welfare department.
A case in point is that of Paul
Jones. This uneducated boy was
lured from farm in Alabama by
the smooth talk of a well-dressed
Northcrner who told him that work
was plentiful in Detroit and labor
ers were making from 10 to IL dol
lars a day.
Young Jones arrived in Detroit
last week, but instead of finding
work he landed in Jail on a breaking
and entering charge when he entered
a dance hall to seek rest for the eve
ming. And Jones is just one of many
who find the Jail instead of work.
The migration of labor, both white
and colored has reached such a high
peak that state police are now stop
ping cars on the outskirts of the
city and warning those coming to
Detroit with the expectation of find
ing work to go back whence they
came. Ss
The Ford Motor Company is only
rehiring old employees. The hiring
is done through cards sent to the
former employees, telling them to re-
turn to their old jobs. And there
are thousands still waiting to receive
these cards.
The various radio stations are
broadcasting warnings every day tt
those expecting to come to Detrol'
and find work, to stay away. The IN
| flux of outsiders only adds to the
already complex problem of aidint
the needy. Thousands are on The
welfare list now for assistance, ant
a Job is hard to find.
Those seeking employment should
stay away from Detroit.
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Student Preachers
Refuse To "Pray''

cided that DR.. Martins action did
permanently impair his services,
but the trustee board took the posi-
ton that the faculty had no right
to pass upon Dr. Martins conduct.
Through the chairman, Bishop T..
F.. Kenney, the board ruled that DR..
Martins action did not affect his
usefulness and ordered the students
TO return to their classes.
Evidences of race prejudice dis
played by Dr. Martin on previous
occasions infatuated the students and
they threatened TO withdraw. The
president at a protest meeting, ask
ed the students to pray.
One student rose and replied; u
did not come here to pray. We came
to tell you we are leaving here. ana
that we are not going to attend the
classes Of DR.. Martin no matter who
says so"
Continued on page ~
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Few Negroes In Utah
But They Are All Busy

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah. =
There are 1,l0S Negroes in Utah 33l
Negro families. The average num-
Der of persons in the Negro family
in Utah is 2.12 as opposed to an av-
erage size for all families of $50.
OF the 331 Negro families, 109
either owned or were buying their
own homes when the census was TAX
en- and 209 lived in rented dwellings.
The average value of homes owned
by 100 NEGRO families for whom re-
ports were given was 1927 slightly
more than the $9,O9S representing
the medium value of all homes own
ed in the State. The median rental
paid by the Negro families renting
dwellings was 1881 per month as
opposed to the median rental for all
families of S20.79.
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Negro Rent Bill ~
$623,S5S Month
In Washington

WASHINGTON, d. G. - of the
28.723 homes occupied by colored
people in the nj let of Columbia.
21t0e are roBtca. according ~ ro
DlU of thc Fifteenth GnnHu 80 =
mtd, p0hi'.
There are pa homes yia- illcl
as owned by me Hember of the
family oceups ny them.
Average Rental $29.I4
While the report shows that the
largest number of renter live in
homes renting from $40 to $50 per
month, the medium rental price IL
S29.14. Based on this median fig
ure the colored people in the district
pay monthly renal III Of $62s,S5s
or the enormous SUM OF $if86,2le
each year
As there ar no cal0red opera
building and loan socialions or
mortgage finance companies, praeh-
cally the bulk of the financing II
these homes in the District is done
by white concerns.
Own 7,314 Homes
The report also shows that the
1914 homes classified as owned b.
colored residents have median va
ue of 5000 and that .heir total
value is approximately S47,050.9 62.
Seventy-three of the homes reach
the pretentious cost Of $4,000 or
more, while just a cost under the
81 900 mark the relative number
of the homes in various last groups
owned by colored people given as
follows: Between $1,000 md ST.
400. 1856; between $500 and ST.
999, 166; between $1,000 nd 81
099, 81; between $4,000 anu 1899
lab; between $1,000 and S7,499.
2,21G; between $500 and 5000,
/ ABB; between $4,000 and S14,-
500, S97; betw $4,000 and St9,-
900, 167, and 70 own homes costing
more than 100000.
/ Cost Less
The report also shows that the me-
/ dian price of all non-farm home
owned homes is $9,246. The median
value Of those owned by native born
whites is S9,722 and Of foreign born
white, $9,567
A comparison Of rental prices for
whites and colored shows about the
same ratio. The median monthly
rental Of native born whites is S49.55
while that of foreign born whites is
S44.26 and colored S29,l4.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-03-17
Mrs. Pickens Resigns "Y"

PHILADELPHIA. - The resig-
nation of Mrs. Emile Brown Pick
ems, as Girl Reserve Secretary of the
Southwest Branch Y. VIC. A, was
announced here last week. Mrs.
Pickens, the wife of William Pickens
il, who has served efficiently as Girl
Reserve secretary for the past five
years, has resigned to join her hus-
band in New York City, who expects
to begin practicing law there in APP
ril. Her work was highly praised by
her superior officers of the Y. w. c.
A.. who accepted her resignation
with regret. Mrs. Pickens IS the
daughter-in-law of Dean William
Pickens, N. A. A. c. P. executive
She is a former resident of Seattle
Washington.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-03-17
DEFIES
PENNSYLVANIA SENATOR

NEW YORK-Strong protest has
been made to Senator David A. Reed
of Pennsylvania, by the N.A.A.C.P.
against his bill which would establish
a iimerow hospital for colored ex-
soldiers in this state.
The association characterizes the
bill as an insult, and asserts that
soldiers should be received in any
and all government hospitals on the
basis of their needs. Color, it is en-
phasized,. should not be considered
at all
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-03-17
ASSOCIATION SENDS CHECK
TO AID DOOMED MAN

NEW YORk. = The N.A.A.C.P
has sent it's check for $500 to aid in
the defense of Willie Peterson, SEN
fenced to death after two trials on
a charge of having murdered a white
woman in Birmingham, Ala.
Many think the case is Crane
up" Peterson has repeatedly de-
MED his guilt, and much Of the tes-
timony, given against him has prov
ed false. Church, business, and pro-
fessional people here are rallying to
his aid
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-03-17
Mob of 1000 Force
Release of Prisoners

TOLEDO. Ohio. - Two thousand
persons under the leadership of of
ficials of the international Defense
are said to have forced the release
of two colored men from the court
house. who objected to the eviction
of family here.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-03-17
Howard University
+ Observes 65th
Anniversary

WASHINGTON, d. c. Con-
gressmen and officials of the De-
partment of the Interior joined with
the Trustees, faculty, and alumni
and students in the celebration of
the 65th anniversary of the grant
ing of the charter to Howard Uni
versity in special exercises held in
Andrew Rankin Chapel last Wednes-
day morning.
President Mordecai w. Johnson
was accorded one of the longest and
loudest ovations that has greeted him
during the five and half years OF
his administration, as he arose to
speak at the alumni-senior charter
day dinner which crowded the uni
versity hall as the conclusion of the
days celebration.
Concerning the cut in the Howard
University appropriation, the Hon.
Edward T. Taylor, chairman of the
subcommittee of the House Commit
tee on Appropriations in charge of
the Interior Department Appropria-
ton Bill for 1888, stated in the ex-
ercises Wednesday morning, that
"the reduction does not mean any
reflection on Howard University; il
means we must furlough these mat
tiers until we get back to a norma
basis"
Compare Howard and Harvard
DR.. Walton C. John, specialist il
the United States office of Educa
ton, compared Towards 65 year
with the 800 years Of growth and de
y@opment of Harvard University
aid stated that Howard is yet in It
q vouth and as such must experience
the "sauawks", misunderstanding
and difficulties Of boys in thei
teens.
He urged the university to loo
forward to the completion of its te
Fear program, despite all setback
caused by the depression, as some
ching that will eventually be a MAJ
"a to the world.
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DR.. VIM. Jennifer Receivers

DETROIT.-Dr. William Jennifer,
director of the bureau of Negro wei
fare, Michigan State Labor Depart
ment, has returned to his desk after
an extended absence of ten months
due TO illness.
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Jim Crow Theatre Now
Asks Colored Patronage

NEW YORK. - Loew's Theatre
here that formerly discouraged the
attendance Of colored persons has
had a change of heart since the
whites have left the district. Col
ored patrons are now begged to come
in
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-11-11
DRIVE MILLIONS OF
TOILERS BY HUNGER

In the first three months of 1882 nearly ONE
persons, the majority of them destitute vor- .DNlO0
farmers have been driven from the cities TO tba and
and from the farms to the cities in order to trv 70
an existence for themselves and their families = ino
During the first three months of the nrao.n.
here net increase of 263,00O persons in The f
population of the country, according to the Daa.m
of Agriculture. The Department estimates that Je
these three months 452 900 persons moved fr 1cms
to the cities while $4,000 moved from the cea lo'
farms NE
The Department suggests that the increase f., Il.
first three months, which resulted from the mover y
one million workers and farmers will be continued u
out the rest of the year. This makes total of FOp
MILLION jobless workers and Impoverished fr10oI
who are being driven about like cattle on barren
to find the means of existence
These figures of the Department of Agr;cnIt,,.
not include the hundreds of thousands of farmers a
from farm to another, the millions of v,orL
driven from city to another find sometime 70 M
Nor do these figures include those workers living IN ~
incorporated places of $500 or less.
The increase in the farm population by 263 OOO
the result OF the net increase in the movement from c
to farm the movement from farm to civ. which
amounted to $4,000 in addition to the increase of IA
900 resulting from the of births over deaths on
the farms
This driving of FOUR MILLIONS of worker. and
farmers like hungry cattle about the country during 1882
is the result of the hunger program decreed by Wall
street and its government for the oing masses Tbe
-FOUR MILLION driven about in 1882 demonstrates
with unimagnabe brutality that capitalism has deprived
the toiling millions of security of existence.
Only united action of the farmers and of the work
ers employed and unemployed in the cities can win re-
lief from this hunger program.
Under capitalism there will never however be Sc
curity for the toilng Only Socialist system
under workers and farmers government can bring
security of existence to the toing millions Such sys
tenn that security, that life and progress
that rising living standards, only be brought
about by revolutionary overthrow of the capitalist sys
ITEM and the hunger and misery that it breeds.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-11-11
DOings of the
Advance Guard

Once more the country is saved The majority of
the people have spoken Four years ago they elected
Hoover and soon found out they had made mistake.
This time the people tried their mistake of four
years ago by making another mistake The day after
election the price of wheat dropped another That
does not spell prosperity for the farmers does ita
The farmers have a lot to learn yet about voting.
They have lot learn about organizing themselves
They learning fast wherever there any organza
ton work going on but beware of the fake leaders who
tell you that Roosevelt is going bring prosperity the
farmers. They will learn that this is not so and
will be looking for something else 1t is up everybody
who knows better way out tell the farmers about
land get them read about it. People realize that
ing in country with overproduction just because
body must make profit on what we eat is crazy sys
tenn, but how to go about and change it be ex
Ipained to them. That's the Advance Guards Job.