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rica," DR.. Yergan told his audi
cnce, "the copper IN the Belgian
Congo Is in such extensive de-
posits that its full value cannot
be estimated; in East Africa
there is a large supply of cotton
of which Great Britain has all
ready taken possession: millions
of dollars have been invested in
the rubber industry; coffee is in
creasing In quantities and in
quality and cocoa is fast becom-
ing a great industry, too.
A minority of whites in Afri-
ca, according to DR.. Yergan. has
been able to seize absolute control
over everything through political
force, social force and economic
force. He did not mention mill
tary force.
He declared that the race prob
lem in Africa is the most diff
cult in the world at the present
time, but efforts are being made
to create understanding between
the white and the black groups.
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in such places or not. This gift
for each community and organ
ization is to be a sum equal to
one cent a head for each Negro
of the population Of such COM
munity. and one cent head,
of course, for each member of
every organization, and for each
member of the families repre-
sented in the membership.
A colored man with family
of five can pay for all Of them
by contributing five cents TO the
local N.A.A.C.P. Quarter Cen
tury Committee. But if he con-
tributes one dollar he win pay for
poorer families who cannot be
reached or who cannot contri-
butte. Every community and or
ganization is requested to send
the names and addresses of the
officers Of the committee to
William Pickens, SO Fifth Ave,
New York, N. Y.
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|. ARNOLD HILL
ACTING HEAD Of
URBAN LEAGUE

NEW YORK CSpeciaD = T.
Arnold Hill. director of the De-
partment of Industrial Relations
of the National Urban League,
was on Monday named as act
ing executive secretary during
the period that Eugene Kinckle
Jones will be in the service of
the government as Economic
Advisor of Negro Affairs of the
Department of Commerce.
In March, 1884, Mr.. Hill will
have completed 20 years in the
Urban League movement. He
was executive secretary of the
Chicago Urban League for eight
years. He came to the Nation
al office in 1925 and immedi-
ately began co-ordinating the
industrial activities of the Ur-
ban League branches.
He is a member of the Ma
tional Vocational Guidance AS
ISOLATION and the New York Vo-
cational Guidane Committee. He
was member of the Presidents
Conference on Home Building
and Home Ownership, and the
White House Conference on
Child Health and Protection. He
has contributed articles to var
ious social service and national
magazines.
In order to secure the Negro
his rights under the Recovery
program. T. Arnold Hill car
ried the program of the Urban
League Department of Indust-
rial Relations to the City of
Washington. There he has wag-
ed an unremitting fight in be-
half of Negro workers. He has
won important victories includ-
ing the appointment of Negro
representatives on the Advisory
Council of the United States
Employment Service, the inclu-
sion of larger proportion Of Ne
groes in the Forestry Corps, the
settlement of the st. Louis
Barge Strike with a victory for
Negro workers.
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NAACP To Mark 25th anniversary
With Penny Drive For Defense Fund

NEW YoRK-on February 1
next year the National Associ-
alton for the Advancement of
Colored People will complete its
25th year. It is planned to eel
citrate the achievement of the
Association from coast to coast
and from lakes to gulf. NOT
only N.A.ACP. branches but all
other organizations, secular and
religious, are requested to take
a part in this celebration, which
will aim not only to recognize
the work done in the last IS
years but also to start the As
ISOLATION Oil on the harder and
greater work of the incoming
quarter-eentury.
For that reason it is planned
to make the Association a birth
day gift. to be shared in by ev-
cry community and organization
whether there be a local branch
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Wealthy Undertaken
Stricken In Office

DALLAS, Texas-E. j. Craw-
ford, 4S, for many years one of
the leading Negro morticians Of
the South and one Of the most
influential citizens of Texas,
died last Thursday night at his
home, BIT Good Street. Mr..
Crawford was stricken with an
intercranial hemmorrhage while
at work in his office Thursday
afternoon. Removed to his
home he succumbed despite the
best Of medical service. He is
reputed one of the wealthiest
Negroes in Texas with an estate
estimated at 100000. Besides
owning the Crawford Undertake
ing Company, he was president
of the Lone Star Mutual Bene-
fit Association, president of the
Western Mutual Life Insurance
Co. and Supreme Custodian of
the Knights of Liberty.
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Trade Harlem Butcher Shop
For Everlasting Lift"

ored butcher, was persuaded to
trade his butcher store to them
for a slice Of the everlasting life.
The deal was made and every
thing went well. In the mean
time the black Jews waxed fat
on pork chops greasy until one
of the cult died. Ward then rose
up in both might and fear and
wanted to know howcome one of
the cult had to die. When he
could not be given a satisfactory
explanation he resorted to legal
aid to get his store back again.
While the case was pending the
cult slipped out of New York
and had not been heard about
since.
Federal agents stated that
young colored girls were lured
out to the Jersey resort from all
parts under the guise of being
given as much everlasting life as
they could stand. The life" was
given and administered accord
ing to age. Once there, they
were detained and seduced, &C
cording to the detectives.
There is yet bunch of the
cult at a branch Temple in Har-
lem at No. 3O4 West 18th st.
The alleged Messiah of the cult,
Elder w. Robinson, who escaped
was found in Chicago. The trial
is set for the early part of jan
uary.
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TROOPS GUARD
AS CRAWFORD
TRIAL BEGINS

LEESBURG, Va.-(SpeciaD A
sensational under-current of scan
dial and charges of frame-up are
flying about this village this
week while the trial of George
Crawford for the murder OF two
white women is In progress.
Crawford. Negro chauffer, who
was extradited from Boston, af-
ter a long legal battle was es-
corted into court Monday by
state policemen armed with ma
chine guns. State troopers with
sawed-off shot guns are on guard
during the trial.
AT the opening of the trial,
the constitutionality of the in
dictment against Crawford was
challenged by his attorneys on
the ground that Negroes were
not represented on the grand
jury that returned the indict-
ment. The attorneys will also
demand that Negroes be includ-
ed in the jury hearing the case.
Beneath this purely legal slir-
mish however is the swift cur
rent of melodrama of the whole
case.
lid Crawford kill Mrs. Agnes
Boeing nsley, wealthy sportswo-
man, and her maid, Nina Buck
ner. the night of January 10,
1882? Or did someone else do
the deed and is Crawford being
made the goat" because he is
a handy person to accuse Of the
crime? Why were the wealthy
white people In this vicinity, led
by General william d. Mitchell,
SO anxious in January. 1892, to
get hold of Crawford? Why did
General Mitchell declare then
"if we had caught him there
would have been burning?"
If Crawford is being framed,
who is the guilty person, who is
shielding that person and why?
This desperate fight for the
life of man and for justice to
all Negroes against a section
which is both prejudiced and
wealthy and which may have its
reasons for wanting Crawford
out of the way, will be expen-
sive. The NA.A.C.P., which is
handling Crawford's defense, APP
peals to all for funds to carry
on the case. Money is needed
at once. Contributions should
be sent to SO Fifth avenue. New
York, N. Y.
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NEW YORK-The religious cult
of black Jews known as the Live
Evers, Die Movers. are again in
the law-that is some of them
are as others have evaded cap
ture and fled to other cities. Fe-
deral detectives are hunting in
Washington, Philadelphia, and
Baltimore where it is said they
have temples.
This time they are wanted for
practicing baby farming out in
Absecon, N. j., where they re-
Gently escaped from New York
after putting over a slick pork
chop deal IN Harlem with a coll
ored butcher on 18th avenue.
Complaints had begun to pile
UP from both parents and school
authorities about missing girls.
Nobody could get a trace of them
until government detectives dis
covered that a peculiar religious
cult was conducting a resort To-
Gated in a remote section of New
Jersey, where many girls and
young women had been taken
and kept under the promise Of
being given everlasting life after
undergoing immoral operations.
The resort was being run by Ell
der J. Robinson, who, it is said,
has escaped to Chicago. Hattie
Robinson. a young colored wo-
man assistant, and Elder A. J..
Simms with ten others were cap
tured. Many others escaped as
there were thirty four in all who
are now thought to be in other
cities.
They appeared before Judge
Meekins on the charge Of violat-
ing the Man Act. The men were
put under a bail Of $4,000 and
the women $4,000 each. Efforts
are being made to capture the
others.
The Live Evers, Die Movers
were already being sought by
authorities for putting over q
slick pork chop deal in Harlem
recently. Edward Ward, a col
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MEMBERS GAVE
CULTLEADERA ALL
THEIR PROPERTY

CHICAGO SpeciaD A fed
eral drive to arrest .he leaders
and break up religious sect
known as Live and Never Die"
went on Ia three states this
week.
The Black Messiah" was ar
rested in Chicago. AS head of
the order he is said to have ac-
cumulated $8,O00,0 900 and is the
husband" of all the young wo-
men of the church. Elder w.
Robertson, also known as Eli.
and twelve of his followers in
the Holy Ecclesiastic Apostolic
Church of America" appeared
this week before United States
Commissioner James r. Glass.
for hearing on their removal
to New York where federal in
dictments have been returned
against Robertson and thirty-
three of his followers, charging
violations of the Mann Act.
Robertson and his followers
were arrested in raids on south
and west side churches" main
tanned by the cult. Three wo-
men were among those seized.
Federal agents said the cult,
which effects long boards and
skull caps and follows the He
brew ritual, inveigled young col
ored girls into its membership
and then sent them to other
cities.
Robertson had a home at 4940
Vincennes avenue. Other es-
Establishments are said to have
been maintaied at 1850 West
Lake Street, 1928 West Fulton
Street. 1924 Warren Avenue,
and 261 West 159th Street. Ro-
berson had confided to his zap
ostles" that he was "the Mes
siah," federal agents said.
In New York
NEW YORK Sixteen members
of the Live and Never Die"
sect, known also as Black Jews,
were arrested and arraigned in
federal court.
They are charged with assist
ing Elder Robertson, "the black
Messiah" in trafficking in wo-
men for immoral purposes. The
Messiah has a temple in Chica-
go and a mansion at Absecon.
N. J.
In Atlantic City
ATLANTIC CITY Three
homes of the Live and Never
Die" sect were raided here by
federal agents last week.
Seven elders" and sisters"
were arrested with six younger
women whom agents charge
were the victims of the "Black
Messiah" one Elder E. w. Rob-
erson, head Of the sect. They
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St. Louis Urban League
Sets up Uniform Wages

ST. LOUIS. Mo.-In a move
to halt the practice of wealthy
white housewives who offer
room and board in payment for
household service the st. Louis
Branch of the Urban League at
mass meeting Sunday adopt
ed a uniform wage code for
such services. 1900 colored wo-
men signed an agreement not to.
accept employment for less than
$3.50 and carefare for a days
work. 1t was further agreed
that $500 and carfare be the
minimum wage per week for in
experienced help in household
service.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-11-09
Balcony Only In New
Wilmington Court House

Wilmington, N. C.-Hanover
county commissioners have
turned down the requect of the
Negro Chamber of Commerce to
abolish jim crow rules in the
new court house here. At pres
ent colored folk may be seated
only in the balcony Of the Su-
perior Court, from whence they
are called as witnesses or ligi-
tants. .,tt0ptstnTnw
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-11-09
CARLTON TANNER
NOTED MINISTER
DIES IN CHICAGO

CHICAGO-(SpeciaD Rev.
Carlton NJ. Tanner, fourth child
of Bishop Benjamin T. and Sa-
re- E. Tanner, died here early
this week He was 81 years old.
Mr.. Tanner, whose early days
were spent at 631 Pine st.. Phil
adelphia was the brother of n.
Owassa Tanner. celebrated ar
fist. who now resides in Paris.
Mary Mosselle of Philadelphia.
Belle Temple Of Pittsburgh, and
Bertha Stafford. st. Louis.
A member of one Of Americas
foremost Negro families, the late
Rev. Tanner led an illustrious
and monumental career in the
service Of African Methodist
Episcopal Church. He became
noted for solidjsging the finan-
cial structure of several church.
es.
He placed on a firm financial
basis Brown Chapel, Pittsburgh;
Bethel, Atlanta; Metropolitan,
Washington, D. c.; Ebenezer,
Baltimore; and Bethel, Chicago.
In more recent years though
his health was impaired he
served as presiding elder for the
South Chicago and Gary dis /,
trict.
In 1900 he went to South At
RIGA with Bishop Coppin as a
volunteer minister. While there
he established Bethel Institute.
He leaves several literary mo-
numents such as Manual At
rican A. M. E. Church." end
Practitioners Guide"
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Parents Keep Children
From Jim Crow School

Berwyn, Pa. = Climaxing a
fight of more than two years be-
tween the school board of this
city and colored citizens, nine
parents were arrested late on
Thursday afternoon, for not
sending their children to the
Jim Crow school, which has
been set aside for colored stu
dents.
-Four of this number announ-
ced that they would not pay the
$500 fine. imposed upon them
and would serve jail sentences if
necessary.
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New Law Firm Open
In jefferson City, Mo.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -
Under the name of Cobb. Red
mond and Clark, a new law
firm was launched in this city
Monday. Its members are Ro-
bert S. Cobb of jefferson City.
Sydney R. Redmond, st. Louis,
and w. Franklin Clark of Kan
sas City. The firm will con-
duct a general law business and
is the first firm of Negro law
yers to be established in the
Capitol City of the state.
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Goes To Death Saying,
''I'rn sorry for my race. "

BALTIMORE, Md. = After a
legal battle of two years and
several last minute futile at
tempts were made to save his life
Fuel Lee, alias Orphan Jones,
convicted of the murder of Green
Davis, white farmer, died on the
gallows in the state prison Fri
day morning. Lee stoutly main
tainel his innocence and declar-
ed he was victim Of race pre-
judice. His last words were IT
am more sorry for my race race
than for myself"
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David Stays Goliath

NEW ORLEANS-Dr. Robert
Leslie CHM, two feet, three in
ches tall and Weighing SO
pounds, a practicing physician,
shot and killed Charles Daniels,
6 feet tall. and weighing 200
pounds.
Dariels made love to Dr..
Ginn's bride of five months. TIL
doctor put three bullets through
the giants breast.
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mot EVERYONE that saith"
lie a friend not everyone that fiat
tiers and smiles. nor those who de-
sert you when they can no longer
use you for selfish purposes, or
forsake you at critical moments in
your life. These are not your real
friends, however much they may
smile, bow or grin.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-11-09
New Publication Makes
Debut in Detroit. Mich.

DETROIT = The Broadcaster.
a 16 page monthly magazine,
made It's debut to the public in
the city last week. The pubn-
cation is edited by Petry Fisher
and j. Elliott Douglass.
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N. y. Neero Daily Start

NEW YORK-"The Citizen -
Harlem's daily, edited by William
e. Kelly, former editor in chief Of
the Amsterdam News, makes its
bow Monday. It is a tabloid re-
plete with pictures and features.
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Continued on Page Two)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-15
29 GIVEN JOBS
AS ASSISTANTS
Students Are Named to
Posts by Butler U: Sci
enCe Instructors.

Science professors Of Butler uni
verSity have named twenty-nine
students to assistantships for the
second semester.
Selections were made on a basis
of scholarship and general interest
in science.
The students will aid professors in
collecting material, organizing
equipment and checking exper-
iments in laboratory work at the
university.
DR.. Guy H. Shadinger, head of
the chemistry department, has
selected Sam Jeffries, George Lin
denborg, Stewart Smith, Dorothy
Stewart, Rudolph Pfster, joseph
Qulgley and Harold Worth for that
department.
DR.. Henry Lane Bruner has
selected Stanley Hammond, Mary
Frances Diggs, Byron Kilgore Jr,.
Max Mansfield, j. w. Thomas and
Sidney Stevens to aid in the zoology
department., while Rebecca Allen
and Catherine Thurston have been
named by Professor Ida B. Wilhite,
to the home economics department.
The following were selected bv
DR.. Ray G. Friesner, professor of
botany as assistants in that DEPART
ment Dwight Billings, Charlene
Coffing, Joanna Guss, Richard
Ravens, Charlene Heard, Noe Higin-
botham, Evelyn Hoober, Marjorie
McConaha, Robert Prettyman, Rex
Webster, Jean Yates, Betty Lou
Wilson, Faye Kenoyer and John
Howell.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-15
SO PUPILS TO
VISIT ASSEMBLY
New Bethel Group to Make
Legislature Trip on
Thursday.

Approximately sixty pupils of the
New Bethel consolidated grade ana
high school will visit the legisla-
ture Thursday for the afternoon SEES
sion.
The trip had been planned for
Wednesday, but postponement was
necessary to complete arrangements.
Two school buses will furnish
transportation for the pupils and
three history department teachers
of the school will accompany them.
The teachers, Mrs. Mary Thomas,
senior government teacher; Mrs.
Amy Raburn, sponsor of the seventh
grade, and Mrs. Verna Dargos,
seventh and eighth grade history
teacher, suggested the trip and Fred
Gotten, principal, made the ar
rangements.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-15
EIGHTH GRADE
STUDENTS TAKE
PART IN PLAY
'Feathertop' Is Presented
Before PIT. A. Group
at School 81.

Eighth grade pupils Of School ST,
at 36l5 West Walnut street. last
week presented three-act playlet
"Feathertop, before the Parent
Teacher Association.
Cast of characters included
Mother Rigby, Virginia, Davis;
Feathertop, Jean Lieske; Dickon. a
ghost, James Gastine; Squire Good
kin. Ned Sharp; Dame Goodkin,
Venice Underhill; Polly Goodkin,
Jewel Thompson; Footman, War
rem Hill, and announcements by
Omer Scott.
Others in the cast who played
parts as citizens on the street and
guests at the party include: Ruth
Wood, Anna Cox, Elene Lakewood
Marie Lambert, Marie Little, julius
Hancock, Chester Yovanovich, Ercel
I.HWery, Carroll Perry, Marietta
Father Lee Blackwell Arvilla
Lish, Jean Lentz, Louise Schneider,
Fay Hildebrand, Neva Danner,
Kathryn Harlan, Clarence Scott,
Hubert Weatherman, James Smith
and Richard Blackwell.
Following the playlet, the mothers
and teachers were served, seated at
tables decorated for Valentines day.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-15
Supervisor of ShOrtridge
Cafeteria on job Is Years
Mrs. Nellie Craig Known to
Every Pupil and
Teacher.

Mrs. Nellie Craig, supervisor Of
the Shortridge high school lunch
room, is known to every pupil and
teacher. In September, 1918, Mrs.
Craig was appointed director of the
lunchroom, and, for fifteen years,
she has worked daily with the en-
ployes preparing daily lunches for
pupils, teachers and employees.
Work has increased since she first
started, Mrs. Craig points out, for
now more than two thousand of the
5000 pupils of the school lunch
daily during the fourth, fifth, sixth
and seventh periods from 1920 to
LAS. a number almost double of
that when she started.
One of her proudest possessions
in the lunch room is new machine
for MASKING potatoes.
You just put a buShel of pota-
toes in the machine and it mashes
them all at once" she explains.
A list of the articles used daily
in luncheon preparation by Mrs.
Craig follow: Six hundred sand
wiches, Seventy-five pies, cut in
flfths; $50 pounds of meat except
on Friday when fifty pounds of fish
are bought and only 100 pounds of
meat; six bushels of potatoes; sew
enty-five loaves of bread; fourteen
gallons of gravy; fifty pounds of
beans; 900 half-pints of milk; sixty
gallons Of chile each Monday; fifty
gallons Of soup on other days and
Seventy-f1ve gallons of ice cream.
Twenty-seven women and three
men also are employed in the cafe
terra now, along with forty-f1ve pu-
pills who work one period daily for
their meals.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-15
ROOM 10 BOYS
Give PROGRAM !
AT SCHOOL Il
Valentine Entertainment Is
Provided by Members of
Opportunity Class.

A Valentine party was presented
Tuesday at School -. at 1888 South
West street, and an entertainment
was provided by boys of the oppor-
tunity class Of Room 10.
The program of entertainment
consisted of stunts, arranged from
the leisure time activities of the
boys and included songs, a whistling
chorus, a talking book worm. aero
battles. dancing tricks, musical
combs. harmonica solos, rhythmic
rattle bones and a living valentine.
The master of ceremonies was
Harold Whitney. Boys in the pro-
gram included: Frank Alderman.
Leroy Anderson, Edmond Adams,
Thomas Davis, Edward Fades,
James Enlow, Ollie Honeycutt. Ar
thur HornSby. Paul Hutton, Charles
McAllister Wayne Maragon. Walter
Parker, Charles Partin. Condie Pow
erS, Edward Ray, Thomas Skaggs
and Harold Whitney.
Mrs. Margaret McCarty arranged
the program and costumes of the
boys.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-15
5 CLUBS TO BE FORMED
School 81 Junior High Pupils Will
Organize Groups.

Junior high school pupils of
School 81, at 3615 West Walnut
street, will organize five clubs which
will meet each Tuesday during the
activity period.
The clubs suggested are: Glee
club, science club, etiquette club,
dramatic club, cartoon club, cleo
trical club, fin, furs and feather
club, and the athletic club.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-15
JODLESS GROUP
PLANS BENEFIT
More Than 600 Tickets Are
Sold for Show at
WASHINGTON Hiuh.

The Old Trails Unemployed coun-
Gil will give a benefit show Thurs
day at 730 in the Washington high
school auditorium, with proceeds to
be used for benefit of the unem-
ployed of the Old Trails council.
More than 600 tickets have been
sold for the show which will fea-
ture Laverne Hayden and his golden
Marimba, Pete the magician, Dor
othy Keller and Doris Smith, tap
dancers; Eddie Wilson, harmonica
wizard; chalk sketches by Russell o.
Berg, songs by the Mt. Jackson
harmony four and string music by
ST Perkins Korn Huskers.
The council last week distributed
food to 1874 needy families.