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The Washington times., 1933-08-11
CODE PROPOSED
BYF|SHERMEN

RICHMOND, Va, Aug. IL
Fishermen from the Mathews (Va)
section conferred with Richard
Armstrong, State fisheries commits
sion, and o. L. Dodson, Of the Co.
operative Fishermen's Association,
on plans for formulating fisher
code to cover all Tidewater Vir-
ginia.
M. C. Burroughs, of New Point,
was chosen chairman, and Paul
Titlow, secretary of the meeting
and served on a committee which
sought to determine the cost of
producing fish with view to
stabilizing the prices under the
national industrial recovery code.
Minimum net prices to fisher
men, tentatively were recon-
mended as follows: Croakers,
trout and other bushel fish, 21a
cents a pound; buck shad, 10
cents; roe shad, 20 cents.
Representatives from Mathews
will confer in Yorktown tomorrow
night at 7:30 o'clock with fisher
men from other tidewater counties
to perfect a code to cover the
whole section,
The Washington times., 1933-08-11
he-CoM Water
In Veins Saves
Sun Victim

HARRISB URG, Aug. 10
G.N.S0. "A quart of ice-cold
salt water drained into the body
Of Harry Morrison, Of Pen
brook, by a rarely performed
operation today was credited
with having saved Morrison's
life.
Overcome by sunstroke, Nor
rison was taken to Polytechnic
Hospital, where his temperature
was recorded at LOT rs degrees
two-fifths Of a degree beyond
the point which usually brings
death.
Doctors suspended a quart
bottle of ice-cold salt water over
the patients head. A rubber
hose, with d hypodermic needle
at one end, was attached to the
water bottle.
The needle was inserted in a
vein in Morrison's elbow and the
ice water gradually drained into
his body. His temperature
dropped to 1O3 degrees and ice
packs kept it there.
The Washington times., 1933-08-11
PANTS DECREED
FOR ANGLERS

Even If you are turtle fishing
in Brentwood, Md, you have to
wear your pants. This was what
Chief of Police Reuben Brown
decreed yesterday when he pulled
two prospective fishermen from
the waters Of the Northwest
Branch.
The men, Carl Braxton and
William Raymond, both of River
dale, were wading III their shirts
only, police said. They were fish
ing for swapping turtles, they
said.
Chief Brown charged the fish
ermen with being drunk and dis
orderly. They were freed on $3.50
collateral for appearance in
Hyattsville police court next
Wednesday.
The Washington times., 1933-08-11
.MOUNTA|NHUNT
SEEKS LAIR Of
MONEY RING

. PITTSBURGH, Aug. II G.N.s0.
10 Secret Service operatives, accom-
panied by a suspected counter
feiter, today combed the noun
tains of southwestern Pennsyl.
vania in an effort to uncover the
headquarters of bogus money
ring.
Five arrests have been made.
HzAn investigation has been going
on for weeks. Agents said the
ring has flooded Pennsylvania,
a. Ohio, West Virginia and New York
: with fake $40 bills.
= One hundred and forty Of the
% bills have been recovered, accord
!. ing to authorities, from Penn J.
Spangler, 40, of Pittsburgh, the
suspect who today accompanied
detectives into the mountains Of
Fayette county in search Of the
headquarters.
Other arrested suspects are Dave
c. Spangler, "a, Of Pittsburgh;
David Moore, 40, and his wife,
= Anna, 81, and Frank Collier 48.
all Of UniontoWn.
The Washington times., 1933-08-11
SEWER SYSTEM
!: To MD ANGLERS

Arlington county streams, long
; considered hopeless for fisher
, men because Of pollution, may
soon be scenes Of delight to 1Saak
Waltons.
The pollution would be removed
by installation of sewers, now be-
ing planned by the county COM
missioners, Roy s. Braden, county
manager, said today.
=. Officials of the Virginia Com
. mission Of Game and Inland Fish
cries have long expressed hope
that streams in Northern Virginia
would be cleared of pollution so
that they might be restocked.
There are at least four streams
In the county that could be made
acceptable for restocking. it IS
thought. These are Pimmett
Run, Four Mile Run, Spout Run
and Rocky Run.
The Washington times., 1933-08-11
BURTNE TAKES
CLAD PRIZE

R. H. Burtne last night won the
sweepstakes prize in the tenth
annual gladioluS show of the Ia
koma Park Horticultural Club
with a white Alaska.
Second honors went to H. ".
Wright with a Picardy entry,
while Capt. M. H. Davis took
third place with a Carolina Clu-
SiuS.
Captain Davis also won the
silver medal offered by the
American Gladiolus Society for its
member scoring most points in
the first three divisions Of the
show. Capt. w. J. Ungthuem, Of
the Edgewood Arsenal, took the
bronze second prize in the same
event.
With an entry of red, white
and blue spikes, H. w. Young
man won the special class for
unique display.
The Washington times., 1933-08-11
KiU0nis Names Carl
AS Convention Aide

Herman F.. Carl, of the Wash
angton Kiwanis Club, has been
appointed chairman of the On
to-Lynchburg Committee for the
District convention to be held
there October 10 to 21, 1t was
announced yesterday at the
luncheon meeting Of the club
at the Mayflower Hotel. A two
reel motion picture, entitled ''The
: Worlds Greatest Thrills" Spon-
sored by Kemper Mohler and
Fred A. Schultz, was a feature
Of the meeting. President Dewey
Zirkin presided.
The Washington times., 1933-08-11
Weather Holds Up
. Golf Championship

Recent warm days and humid
xEights have wrought such havoc
with putting greens on the Ana
costa golf course that the Open
Amateur golf championship sched-
"uled for this month has been pest
. ,poned until September.
In announcing the postpone
'rnent, Capt. F. w. Hoover, man.
ager Of the Welfare and Recrea-
. ,tional Association, set September
g as the opening day for qualify.
ing rounds and September 1S for
the starting of match play.
The Washington times., 1933-08-11
Filler Breaks
Upside DOwn
Record

LOS ANGELES, Aug. II Il.
N.SO.-Milo Burcham, Long
Beach (Cal.) aviator, today
held a new worlds record for
upside down flight.
With his head pointed earth
ward and his planes landing
gear skyward, Burcham flew
here from San Diego in one
hour, 46 minutes, SO seconds.
The previous record was
held by Lieut.. Tito Falconi, Of
Italy, now in Los Angeles, who
flew upside down at Torento,
Italy, for one hour and seven
minutes.
Lieutenant Falconi was to
attempt later today to break
Burcham's record, in a project
ed flight from Los Angeles to
San Diego, then to Ventura,
Cal, IS miles north OF here,
and back to Los Angeles.
The Washington times., 1933-08-11
PREMIER VISITS U, 9.

NEW YORK, Aug. II O.N.SJ.
G. w. Forbes, prime minister of
New Zealand, will arrive here to-
day with Mrs. Forbes on the
Aquitania.
The Washington times., 1933-08-11
JEWELS TAKEN
FROM WINDOW

Pawnbrokers in nearby Virginia
and in Baltimore have been noti-
fled to be on the lookout for sew
eral rings and watches stolen early
today in a "hit-and-rn play" on
the show window Of Joseph j.
Berlin's jewelry store.
Shortly before a. m. police
discovered the window had been
smashed and a number Of articles
hastily grabbed from the display.
The store is in the 5000 block Of
M st. N. w.
Police were unable to locate
anyone who had heard the win
dow broken, and that led them to
believe the job had been done by,
members of a gang who knew
enough to wrap a brick in carpet
ing.
The value Of the loot was esti-
mated at 5000. - !
The Washington times., 1933-08-11
.HUNCH TRIPS UP
THEFT Of CAR

Prince Georges Police Officer
r. A. Naylor, of Upper Marlboro,
found a car before it was report
ed stolen yesterday in acting on a
hunch.
. Something told him that the
large sedan John Washington, %,
colored, 5000 block Fifteenth st.
s. E., was driving wasn't his and
began a chase. The race ended
when Naylor captured the youth
@t Chalk Point.
, On returning to Upper Marl-
horo, Naylor found the car had
been stolen from an employe Of
Walter Reed Hospital.
The Washington times., 1933-08-11
Gen. LejelIne Denies
{; Y. NJ. I. RESIGNATION

Emphatic denial was received
yesterday from Maj. Gen. John
A. Lejeune, U. s. M. c., retired,
now summering in Long Beach,
Calf, regarding his reported
resignation as superintendent Of
the Virginia Military Institute.
. Rumors have been current for
several weeks that Lejeune would
be succeeded as head of the inSti
tuition by Brig. Gen. Charles 4.
.Kilbourne. of the War Depart
ment general staff, who is now
eligible for retirement.
The Washington times., 1933-08-11
PecOra Aide Freed
Of Drinkinu Charge

A charge Of drunkenness
against William L. Law, 81, Of
the 5000 block of Thirty-fifth
St. N. w., aide to Ferdinand
Pecora, was dismissed in Police
Court yesterday.
Asked whether he could swear
that Laws mental faculties were
affected by liquor, Policeman G..
M. Wilson, Fourth Precinct. an
swered mo" Law told the court
he was on the verge Of a nervous
breakdown from overwork. Judge
Isaac r. Hit dismissed the case.
The Washington times., 1933-08-11
Busy Month ShOWn
By County Hospital

The Montgomery County Cen
eral Hospital admitted liz cases
during July, 81 of which were
paying cases, and the balance
State cases.
During the month a total Of
lis cases we're discharged from
the hospital. There were five
deaths and IL births in the in.
Stitution during July.
The Washington times., 1933-08-11
Three ThieUes Take
His Shoes and $3.50

Robert Harrison, 1900 block G
st, N. W., Is inclined to agree with
the governor of North Carolina
that it was a long time between
drinks.
Harrison told police three men
in a car approached him south
of Botanical Gardens and offered
him a drink, which he accepted.
He said they asked him if he
wanted another and he got in the
car. Then they attacked him and
robbed him Of his shoes and $1.SO
and put him out Of the car.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-02-09

Angelo Herndon. Negro Commun-
ist, was sen enced to Is to 20 years
on the chain gang because he or
ganized a group of Negro and white
workers in Atlanta, Ga.
The Indictment on which he was
sentenced is based on the Georgia
Code of 1861" a slave law, and
charges him with melting to insur-
rection." Attorneys Benjamin j.
Davis, Jr., and John II. Geer, re-
tanned for his defense by the Inter-
national Labor Defense, have filed
a notice of an appeal, and a motion
for a new trial. Negro exclusion
from grand and petit juries in
Georgia will be one of the main
bases for the demand to have the
verdict set aside, and the indictment
quashed.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-02-09
University "Jim Crow
Hearing In c ourI

CLEVELAND, GA writ of man
damus Is being sought by lawyers re-
tanned by the Cleveland branch of
the N.A.A.C.P. to force Ohio State
university to admit Miss Doris Weav-
err, Cleveland student at the univer-
sity, to the home management prac.
tice cottage on the campus.
Miss Weaver is senior student
and is seeking degree in home
economics. One of the required
courses for graduation is six weeks
residence in the practice cottage
where twelve girls live together in
a double house and actually run
the house. Miss Weaver registered
for the course last fall, as is re-
quired, hut when time came for her
to move into the house she was
told she could not do so.
DR.. George Rightmire, president
of the university. used the old ex.
cuse, saying he did not believe Ne
groes wanted intimate contact with
whites such as residence in this
practice cottage would give.
The national office of the MA
A.C.P. has contributed $4,000 toward
the expenses of the case.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-02-09
VIRGE IA MURDER IS SOMETHING QUEER
Editorials
Moratorium On Taxes
Needed To Save Homes

Millions of dollars in unpaid tax
es. Thousands of mortgages are
foreclosed. The homes of citizens
are being taken away for unpaid
interest and delinquent taxes. In
every county and hamlet in this
country the properties of citizens
are being sold at Sheriff's sales each
month. After years of sacrifice and
saving these citizens in the midst
of hard times stand helpless and
see their homes swept away.
Millions of dollars have been pour
ed into the railroads and big banks
by the Federal Government to pro-
tect them from bankruptcy and to
rave invested capital. Nothing has
been done to prevent the average
home owner from being wiped out.
The Home Loan Bank created to
help the small home owner has not
functioned. If 1t has done anything
except pay out large salaries, it is
invisible to those who watch homes
go on the auction block by the thou
sands.
1t is silly to advise people to pay
their taxes when if they had the
money they would pay them. And
gladly pay. Why not give these
property owners relief? Why not
give them additional time to pay
their taxes? Foreign countries were
given additional time to pay. Banks
and railroads have been advanced
money to tide them over, but If
small home owner fails to pay on
the dot all of his earthly possessions
are taken away.
In proportion to what he owns
the average home owner pays an
unreasonable tax. The tax rate is
too high. In proportion to what he
earns the small home owner pays
more taxes than banks or railroads.
And the interest charged delinquent
tax payers amounts to usury. In the
face of these conditions that are
running honest, handwriting (when
they cam home owning citizens, the
government needs to do something
and do it quickly. A moratorium
mortgages.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-02-09
North Carolina
Has 1907 Negro
Business Places

WASHINGTON. d. c. - (CNS)-
Census reports of 1880 covering the
year 1929, show that North Caro-
lima stood second in the list of
states, with 1907 business units con-
Quoted by Negro proprietors.
Altogether, there are 25.701 col
ored stores in the United States.
This tabulation does not include
wholly service businesses. such as
launderers, dry cleaners, barber
shops, and the like, nor does 1t
include the professions. such as
medicine and law. Some service
businesses, such as garages. sell
substantial amount of merchandise
in addition to service, and are in
cluded.
General stores (also called coun-
try stores) of which North Caro-
lima had SO, are nearly always To-
Gated in cities and places of less
than 10000 population, and as a
uit iOOu iintS WHICH, COu-
stitute an important part of their
sales.
North Cardinals food group shows
956 establishments. with an addi-
tional 4S7 classified as restau-
rants, cafeterias. and eating places
Next in group order comes the au-
tomobile group with 1872 individual
establishments classified as filling
stations, garages and repair shops.
Among the stores classified are
81 general stores, 956 food stores,
1,43 filling stations, furniture,
shoe stores and six and 1O-cent
stores. These stores do a business
of five millions every year.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-02-09
Airship Akron
Solves SO-Day
Death Mystery

TRENTON, N. J.-Seventy days
ago on Thanksgiving eve, Miss Su-
san E. Anderson trudged UP the
oaken stairway of her once wealthy
white employers at Al Sanhickon
Drive, reached her room, turned on
the light and prepared to retire at
1880.
She was not seen again until last
Thursday afternoon when her life
less, water-soaked, decomposing body
was spotted by the dirigfble, Akron,
as 1t flew low over the broad Della
ware River at Bristol, Pa, 16 miles
from the backyard of her employers
which also faces the shallow Della
ware in this city.
Saturday at eleven in the morn
ing, twenty people gathered at the
undertaking parlor of S. S. Dade,
10S Bellvue Avenue, and paid hur-
ried respects to the maids remains
which lay unembalmed in a sealed
steel casket that was later borne
silently to a lonely grave in Green
wood Cemetery.
These three events with their dra-
matte and even CHASTITY significance
have stirred Trenton deeply and
have created a second mystery even
greater than that which attended
her vanishing.
The lurid tale of Susan Ander.
sons death as based on opinions ad
vanced in the beginning by Mr.. and
Mrs. Byron J. Newell, her employ
ers for over thirty years, is believed
by some and doubted by others. The
Trenton police department has con
sistently assumed the theory of the
Newells' and has refused to probe
any other probabilities.
According to the Newells' theory
the fifty-yea9-old maid yoluntaril!
walked out of her room sometime
during the early hours of Thanks
giving morning, clad in an old coat
a union suit, gray stockings ant
black shoes. She walked out tn
back door, through the back var,
to the Sanhickon Greek which flow
past the rear Of the Newells' home
jumped into the creek and drownet
herself because, they claim, she wa
melancholy.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-02-09
Colored Democrats
Hope Roosevelt Will
Provide More Jobs
Few Negroes
Hold Important
Government Posts

WASHINGTON.--Replacements Of
colored Republicans by colored Dem.
ocrats under the incoming Roose-
welt administration will necessarily
be limited. There are only few
colored Republicans holding jobs in
the higher ranks of the Federal serv.
ice.
A study of the official "Job Book, u
which lists every position in the
Federal service not covered by civil
service, with its salary, reveals that
only few colored persons are &C.
cupying positions which may be clas-
sified as either administrative or
supervisory in the executive and
judicial departments of the govern
ment and the District of Columbia.
Only one colored man is in the
Legislative branch Of the Govern
ment. He is Representative Oscar
DePriest, Of Chicago, Illinois. His
salary is $4,000 year. His posi-
ton, however, is elective.
Printing Office
The Government Printing Office,
the Library of Congress, and the
United States Botanic Garden be-
long to the legislative branch, but
in none of them Is ascolored man
occupying either an administrative
or supervisory position.
Diplomatic Service
In the diplomatic service, Charles
E. Mitchell, United States Minister
to Liberia, Is the only colored rep
resentative of the American Govern
ment. The American Minister to the
Dominican Republic, whose popula-
ton is a race of mixed European,
African and Indian blood, is white
The same is true of the Minister to
Ethiopia, whose population is a
mixed Hamito-Semitic people, and
the Minister to Haiti. Their salary
is $4,000 a year each.
In the Foreign Service, James G..
Carter is the United States Consul
at Calais, France, and William c..
George is a vice consul at Mon
rovia. They are career men and
would not be affected by change
of administration.
There are no colored persons
holding an administrative or SUPER
visory position in the office of the
Comptroller of the Currency, the
office of the Treasurer Of the United
Continued on Page .
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-02-09
Birmingham Names IL
Most Useful Citizens

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.-(ANP) =
Birmingham decided who are the
twelve most useful citizens here last
week when by popular vote five
social workers, four educators, one
editor and publisher, one physician
and one fraternal leader were placed
in the coveted places of honor.
Group Is Chosen
Those designated were:
Mrs. Pauline B. Fletcher, Foun-
der The Girls Service League and
Camp Margaret Murray Washington;
Brooks Dickens, President Miles Me-
mortal College and Prominent Au-
thor; DR.. P. S. Moten, Founder
Southside Clinic for Negro Mothers:
Mrs. H. C. Bryant, Chairman Man
agement Committee Y.W.C.A., Col
ored Secretary Y.W.C.A. Colored
Branch; Mrs. c. II. Johnson, Social
Worker, outstanding Negro Lead
er and Writer; W. M. McAlpine,
President State Federation of Civic
Leagues; Oscar Adams, Editor and
Publisher of the Birmingham Re-
porter and Grand Chancellor of Py-
thians of Alabama; Walter Thomas
Woods, Grand Master, Grand Lodge
Free and Accepted Masons of Ala
bama; Carl Mays, Supervisor of Ne
gro Schools; Mrs. Elvira Woods
Principal School for Colored Blind
of Alabama. and Carrie Tuggls
Founder of Tuggle orphanage and
Institute.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-02-09
White Merchants
Seek To Break
Up Colored Town

CHARLESTON, S. C.-The intro
duction in the state legislature OF
bill to abolish the town of Mary
vile, Charleston County's Oldest
municipality, is blamed upon three
white resident merchants who re-
sent the payment of a small annual
business tax. it was reported here
this week.
The town, incorporated for so
years, was created primarily for col
ored citizens and has only a few
white residents and merchants
among its population of approx
mately 500.
Thomas Carr, a carpenter in his
spare time, is mayor, and is given
the powers of magistrate in hold
ing court for offenses committed.
The court may assess fines not ex-
ceeding 500. Cases involving white
persons or mayor cases, however,
have always been referred to Mag
istrate Henry Struhs, white, of St.
Andrews parish, for disposal. May
or Carr's court, county officials re-
port, has always observed order in
the town efficiently.
Whites Balk at Talk
The town has the right to levy
small annual business tax on mer-
chants and the objection of white
merchants to paying this assessment
precipitated the trouble. Senator ].
c. Long, who introduced the bill in
the House, said that he had no in
terest in the matter, except that
some of the citizens had asked for
the abolition of the charter. The
introduction of the bill, he said, is
the best method of getting the pro-
posal in a definite form so that
hearing may be held. The time for
the hearing has not yet been estab-
lished.
In addition to Mayor Carr, the
town government consists of four
wardens, who compose the town
council. Under provisions which ap-
ply to municipalities of less then
1000 inhabitants, the town has the
authority to levy tax not exceed
ing one-half mill. This annual levy
brings total revenue of approx
mately 5000. The Seaboard Airline
Railroad, the tracks of which pass
through the town. is the largest
single taxpayer with an annual tax
of approximately $25.
The citizens of Maryville are
planning determined fight and
have asked for a hearing on the
bill before it is further considered
by the Senate The House passed
fayorably on the bill last week.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-02-09
White Girl Saves
Negro Boys Life

PITTSBURGH, Pa. (CSN)--Ten-
year-old Evelyn e. Overstreet, OF
Panama City, Fla, has been award
ed a bronze medal of Carnegie here
fund commission.
Evelyn saved Willie S. Hicks, a
IL year-old Negro, much larger and
heavier than herself, from drowning
at Panama City, July rs, 1881. Ig-
noring warnings of an older sister,
the girl leaped into Saint Andrews
bay and saved Willie by having
him hold to one of her feet while
she swan, towing him 90 feet to
wadeable water.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-02-09
Baptists Adopt Censorship

RICHMOND, Va. - Following a
hectic church meeting, characterized
by fiery speeches. charges and coun-
ter charges, officers of the Fifth
Baptist Church here adopted rule
which prohibits any member from
giving out any information pertain
ing to the affairs of the church,
unless such information has been
voted on and approved by the church
body in business session.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-02-09
Pickens Cites Plight
Of Race Over Radio

NEW YORK CITY-The severe
plight of the American Negro dur
ing the depression was cited by
William Pickens, field secretary OF
the N.A.A.C.P. in radio address
over station WEvD here, Wednes-
day.
Mr.. Pickens pointed out that the
accumulated wealth of the colored
people, estimated at two billions OF
dollars, was less than one-half OF
one per cent of the total wealth OF
the nation according to prosperity
estimates and that much of this
was lost as soon as the depression
set in and jobs were lost.