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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-12-14
ELKS SUSPEND
MANY LODGES

WASHINGTON. D. c. Two
hundred and eighty-six lodges
of the I. B. P. o. E. of w. have
been suspended by the Grand
Lodge for non-payment of as
SeSSments.
So reads the notice that has
been sent to all the lodges from
the Elks headquarters in Wash
ington. The notice is dated No
vember Is.
The greater number of the
lodges that have been suspended
are located in the smaller mum
icipalities and towns. The larg-
est lodge suspended is the Pride
of Ocean City lodge in Philadel-
phia.
The action taken by the Grand
Lodge has been expected for
some time due to the fact that
rumors have been going around
for some time.
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BELIEVE KIP"
PA|DFOR RITES
Of ALICE'S DAD.

NEW ROCHELL. N Y.-From
Exclusive Christ Episcopal church
in Pelham Manor, George Jones.
father of Alice Jones, Rhinelan-
der. divorced wife of Leonard
Kip Rhinelander. prominent Man
haitian scion now in Nevada, was
buried Saturday. A mixed as
sembly Of persons Witnessed the
services. Burial was in Beech
wood Cemetery. Jones died last
Wednesday at his New Rochelle
home.
Mr.. Jones body was in a solid
bronze casket, costing $1,000
which was heaped high with
chrysanthemums. his vorit e
flower. The funeral service was
read by the Rev. j. MacVicker
Haigh, rector, in the presence of
the mixed assembly Of colored
and white.
Attending the services we're
MRS. EllzaDeth Brown Jones, MS
wife whom he married in Eng.
land. Mrs. Rhinelander and two
other daughters. Mrs. Alfred MIL
Ter of New Rochelle and Mrs. Ro-
bert Brooks Of Pelham.
Burial was in Beechwood Ce-
metery.
The impression is widespread
among westminster social circles
of both racial groups that Kip
Rhinelander was financially in
terested in the large exclusive
funeral ceremonies. The cost of
the casket and the very fact Of
the scene Of the burial services
have created this general con-
clusion.
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Sisters, Separated
For Is Yrs. Live
Within 2 Blocks

WASHINGTON, d. C.-Sep-
arated for a period of 1S yrs,
two sisters, Lula Jones, 931
P. Street Northwest, and Flo
renee Weaver, 1881 Champlain
Street Northwest, have been
reunited.
While on q motor trip IN
Virginia Mrs. Jones found an
uncle there and was able to
locate her sister through his
assistance. Upon returning to
this city she called at her sis
ter's home. They became sep
arated shortly after the death
Of their mother at which time
both were very young. A re-
lative brought Mrs. Jones 70
Washington while the sister
was taken TO Hamilton, Va.
Mrs. Jones told a reporter
that II had always been her
ambition to locate her rela-
tives but she had never been
able TO do SO until she and
her husband accidently locat-
ed them while on the motor
trip. For twelve years, she
stated, she had lived within
two blocks Of her sister with
out knowledge Of that fact.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-12-14
Memphis Makes It
Easy on Bone-rollers

MEMPHIS, Tenn.-Local white
crap shooters are viewing with
sardonic disdain an order issued
last week by Police Commission
er Davis whereby Negro men
caught shooting craps may OBJ
tain their release from prison by
the payment of So to the desk
sergeants at the police stations.
After they have done that, it is
unnecessary for them to appear
in court.
White crapshooters, however
are still required to put up the
usual forfeit of $40 and opera
tors of gambling houses a forfeit
of $25.
Fifty-six men arrested over the
week end obtained their freedom
by paying two dollars. The new
order enables the police depart
ment to save money on the feed
ing and care of such prisoners.
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ky singing boss.
''Darkies have WORKED on the
river gang and have had their
own dormitory.
II played football at Hanford
against q burly darby on the
Andover team" Grove was re-
ferring to the late William c.
Matthews. former assistant gem
eral of the United States).
MIR. Hawkins report stated
further:
THE conversation was ex-
tremely cordial. but Mr.. Grove
expressed strong conviction for
segregation. discrimination and
humiliation of all Negroes en-
ployed at the dam, as a precau-
ton to protest them from the
southern white employees. He
did not use the word Niger"
usually darby" "colored," or
NEGRO" and he regretted his
colored cook had the day off as
he was sure she could give much
information about the good
times in Las Vegas"
frS.1&4,,,,a~S -, Deere rTs,~x,A
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Tells Grand Jury
Members of Mob
Were Murderers
Man Still Alive In
Dallas Age of LOG
Has "a Children

DALLAS, Texas-Henry PIu-
mer, log years of age, father
of thirty-fOur children, rail
splitter with Abraham Line
DIN, maker Of medicine, and
now alone in his vine shaped
cottage here since the death
Of his fifth wife, Is consider
ed the oldest resident In Dali
las.
Henry's father, now 13S,
was still enjoying LIE in
Georgetown, ID. c., when Plu-
mer last heard from him two
months ago. His mother liv-
ed to be 70 years of age. Hem
ry himself was one of TWEEN
ty-nine children. Two broth
ers, Jim and Tom PIumer, re-
turned to Africa In one of the
ships that carried slaves to
their original home soon at
ter the close of the Civil War.
Both are in their nineties and
still living, according to Plu-
mer. Henry has survived ali
Of his wives, his fifth one ha-
wing died seventeen years ago
in Dallas at the age Of So.
OF Henry's thirty-four chill
dren, twenty two are living,
the oldest being Nick, "a, Of
Los Angeles, Cal.
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BIZ WILLIAM PIcKENs

Down in Virginia the Judge
ruled that Negroes had not been
disseminated against in max
ing up the Crawford case jury
because Negroes had not even
been thought OF. by the officer
who made UP the jury. The
judges reasoning was somewhat
like this: you cannot be accus-
ed Of keeping a fellow out whom
you never even thought of put
ting in: that if the officer had
said to himself, "Shall I or shall
I not put Negroes on this jury?"
and on asking himself that ques-
ton, had de .41ec to leave Ne
groes off, then maybe the Ne
groes would have been "discrim-
mated against"
Nothing that ever happened
could SHOW the outright idiocy
of technicalities better than
does this judicial sophistry. OF
course, If one is giving a card
party or a dance and happen
not to think of certain people
and therefore fail to invite said
certain people, such unlimited
people could not justly claim to
be snubbed-if they learned all
the facts. But in Virginia the
Negro population is not forgot
ten" in any such way: the tax
collector never forgets them:
they are not excused from pay
ing their share of the burdens
Of the community by any sort
of accidental oversight. Virgin
ians sre SO keenly conscious Of
their Negroes, than when that
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-12-14
More Than 5000 Patents
Held By Negro Inventors

WASHINGTON. D.C.-Although
the U. S. Patent Office does not
record the race of patentees. an
investigation by Henry E. Baker
for the journal of Negro His
tory discloses that more than s.
600 patents are held by members
Of the Negro race. The most pro-
life of Negro inventors was Eli
jah Mccoy Of Detroit, who. from
1872 to 1920. obtained 81 pat
ents. His inventions cover q wide
range Of subjects. says Mr.. Ba-
ker. but relate particularly to
the lubricating Of machinery. He
was a pioneer IN the art of stea-
Oily supplying oil to machinery
in intermittent drops from a cup
so as to avoid the necessity of
stopping the machine to oil it."
The first American Negro to
receive a patent on an invention
was Henry Blair, of Maryland,
who, in 1884 and 1886, was Civ
en- patents on a corn harvester.
It has been claimed but not GER
titled that a slave either invent
ed the cotton gin or gave Eli
Whitney, who obtained the pat
ent for it. valuable suggestions
to aid in the completion of that
invention.
Among the most important in
ventions by a Negro was the ma
chinery for automatically attach
ing soles to shoes. The original
continuance of this sort was de-
vised by John Ernest Matching
er, who was born in Dutch Gui-
ana in 1852, but who came to
the United States and lived in
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Lynn, Mass. His invention re-
volutionized shoe production me-
thods, greatly reduced the cost
Of making shoes, and is said to
have laid the foundation for the
establishment of the United Shoe
Machinery Company, the largest
organization Of its kind in the
world.
Granville T. and Lyates Woods
OF New York were the patentees
OF some so articles. Most Of
these have to do with telegraph
and telephone instruments. cleo
trio railways end electric power
control. Among their devices are
several relating to the transmits
sion of telegraph messages to
moving trains.
Shelby j. Davidson and Robert
Pelham, both of them civil SER
vice employees in Washington, are
the inventors of office machines
now in extensive use by the go
vernment for the tabulation Of
statistics. George w. Murray of
South Carolina, once a member
OF Congress. patented eight in
ventions on agricultural imple-
ments. Frank j. Terrell of New
York has obtained patents on a
dozen or more improvements in
steam engines. Joseph Dickson,
New Jersey, has been responsible
for a number of inventions in
player piano mechanism. most of
them now in general use by pi-
ano manufacturers. William B.
Purvis, Philadelphia, is one of
the principal inventors of mach
inery for making paper bags.
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John Barleycorn

OLD JOHN BARLEYCORNa at
ter an absence of more than a
decade has returned. 1t isn't ex-
actly that Old John has been
completely missing all these ma
ny years; indeed not. His spirit
has been lowering around in one
form or another ever since his
banishment. Now that he is back
again without disguise, great is
the rejoicing among the faithful
of his disciples. Even those who
profess no love nor devotion for
him are expressing no regret at
his return feeling that with all
his faults and failings he is more
to be desired than the imposJer
who has been masquerading in
his clothes. Then, too. there are
those who think that Johns re-
turn will improve the economic
as well as the gastronomic health
Of the nation Colored acquaint-
ances of John Barleycorn are
sure glad he is back again. The
vile wretch just banished from
this country was a deadly energy
of our race. The Villain with
his poisonous concoctioGs kept
the hospitals and graveyards full
Of our folk. Now that Old John
is back the undertakes will have
a chance to rest and preachers
can sing another hymn besides
"Hark from the tomb"
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LINDBERCH BABY
FINDER GETS JOB

TRENTON, N. found with
his family in dire poverty at
their home here. william Allen,
finder of the Lindbergh baby,
has been given a job by Cover
nor Harry Moore as yard man
at the State Home for Girls.
Allen was never rewarded and
was practically untnanked by
the famous flyer, although his
find averted the expenditure of
thousands of dollars. In addi-
ton. he was prevented from cap
italizing his good fortune on the
stage.
The Governor found the job
for Allen after a committee had
placed the facts before him.
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EDlORIRe
Aid ScottsbOro Boys

THE FIGHT 10 save the Scots
boro boys must go onl But It
can not De continued without the
necessary funos. The lnterna-
tional Labor DEFENSE that IS DIR
ectlng the de1ense Tor the boys
s appealing Tor funds to carry
on the fight. Negroes must do
more than talk. Tney must givel
Give TIL it hurts. We must win
freedom for the Scottsboro boys.
Deny yourself some pleasure dur
ing the holidays and make a cen
trlounen for the defense Of the
ScottsDoro boys. The Northwest
Enterprise viii acknowledge all
contributions, however small. and
forward them to the proper au-
thority. Give something. Send
your contriputicn to the North
west Enterprise. P. o. Box 1873,
Seattle.
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Legal CeIIOphane," PickeRs
Says Of Crawford Decision

white woman was murdered they
thought Immediately of Craw-
ford, the Negro who had not
been seen on the woman's pre-
misses for many days.-but they
have not even yet thought of a
certain white man. who was
seen at the house the very night
of the murder and in a half
drunk, half-crazy state of mind.
Indeed, Virginia officers are very
keenly aware Of their Negroes
when 1t is a question of taking
something from the Negro or
doing something to him. But
when it is a question of con-
ceding the Negro his constitu-
tional rights, then (eccording to
this judge) a Virginia officer Of
the law may not even so much
as have the Negro "in mind"
Begging the judges pardon,
that judicial verbiage is nothing
but bunk. If a fellow omits in
viting you to his bridge party
10y an oversight Of course he has
not snubbed you or wronged you
in any way, because you had no
rights at stake; he could have
left you out, at his own discre-
ton. even If he had remembered
you.
But If you had fright" to
be invited and if it were a ques-
ton Of life and death to you
that you should not be discrim-
mated against when this fellow
gave bridge parties. then It
would have been not only his
privilege
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TWO SCOTTSBORO
BOYS SENTENCED
TO CHAIR FEB z

DECATUR. Ala. (SpeciaD =
with heads bowed Haywood Pat
terson and Clarence Norris, two
youthful defendants in the now
famous Scottsboro case, Monday
afternoon stood before Judge w.
w. Callahan and heard their
sentence to die in the electric
chair in Kilby prison on Feb
ruary 2. Before pronouncing
sentence, Judge Callahan asked
the boys if they had anything
to say. st am innocent, but 1t
doesn't help me any to say so,
I haven't got a chance and I
know it. I have been sentenced
twice before in this court to die
and this is the third time." Pat
terson told the court. st have
been. framed, judge. You are
sending an innocent man to the
chair" Norris said. Judge Cal
lahan ignored their statements
and Immediately pronounced
sentence as follows: 81 order the
warden of Kilby prison or his
deputies to put you to death by
causing a current of electricity
of sufficient voltage to be APP
piled, and that he cause this
current to go through your body
and be continued until you are
dead. And may God have mer-
fContinuod - pooo Too,rA
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Maid Gave Clues In
Wynekoop Killing

CHICAGO, Ill. = Mrs. Mary
Hughes. for ten years a domestic
employed in the home of DR.. Al
ice Wynekoop, noted Chicago
woman physician, white, gave the
first information which led to
DR.. Wynekoop's confession in the
startling murder of her daugh-
ter-in-law. Mrs. Hughes told of
the strange activities in the home
and of finding three blood stain
ed blankets in the room Of Mrs.
Rheta Wynekoop. the slain
daughter-in-law. The maid had
been sent to suburb to remain
until the case "blew over" but
was discovered by detectives.
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Elder Michaux; The Happy Am l"
Preacher, Formerly a Fish PeddIer

WASHINGTON D.C.-Special
From fish peddler to pastor of
one Of the most unusual church,
es in tne land, is the story of the
rise of Elder Solomon Lightfoot
Michaux, the Happy am I" Ne
gro preacher heard with his
singing congregation over ma
tionwide Columbia network every
Saturday. The elder has been a
familiar figure in the nations
capital. but not until Columbia
put a microphone in his church
on the banks of the Potomac
river did he and his homely ex-
preston Of religion become the
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INDICT EVERY
MEMBER OF MOB
URGES JURIST

ST. JOSEPH, Mo.,-In q stern
denunciation Of lynch law. Cir
cult Judge !. v. Gaddy told a
special grand jury Monday that
every person VINO was active IN
the mob that lynched Lloyd
Warner. Negro youth. November
70. lis gullIy OF murder Ia me
Ilrst degree"
The Jurlst called upon the
grand jury 10 retlun Inducements.
1t is necessary TO pulllslI the
guilty memoirs OF thai moo II
we are TO protect Ourselves a.
gainst the danger OF tue moo,
Judge Gadoy said.
All Equally Guilty
The man VINO puleu off the
jail door. or any man VINO heIp-
ed in any way TO preak lnGv Tue
jail is Just as gully OF muraer
as the man VINO placeG the rope
around warmers neck"
Warner, suspected Of attack
ing a white woman, was se.zsd
a1Jer the mob had stofmea tne
county jail. he was Beaten,
STABBED, hanged to a tree near
the courthouse and his pouy
burned in the presence OF a
crowd Of 5000.
EVERY man who was active
IN that mob is guilty or muruer
IN the FIRST degree and snOuld
be indicted" Judge Gaooy oe-
clared to the grand jury, which
Is made up OF prominent cI.l-
zens and headed by henry hrag,
banker and president OF the puo-
lie library borard.
The danger of the mob lies
ID the letting down OF inolvlou-
al responsibility. 1t wasn't a oe-
sire to administer justice or to
prevent a recurrence Of Warm
ers crime which sent the mob
against the jail. It was hate,
the same passion that engend-
erS any murder.
Morals Are Degraded
When you find the real lead
ers of that mob, you will lind
men OF not much higher moral
standards than the man they
murdered. If you had been
there that night, I DOUBT if you
could have picked II men from
that mob who would have had
the courage to convict and to
hang Warner as members of
a Jury in a court of Justice.
Their action was murder in its
most despicable form, ana an
assault on the institutions you
pay for and charge to admin s.
ter justice.
Women are no safer in ST.
Joseph today by reason of thai
murder. And I want to tell you
men of the grand jury that the
Negroes of this community are
as law-abiding as our white CT
tizens. I am not offering a de-
Tense Of the victim of the lynch
ing. Perhaps he has no defense.
If Buchanan county institutions
are to exist there must be a
complete investigation of this
lynching."
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Alaska Woman
Is Sentenced

JUNEAU. Alaska-Mrs. Blanch
Ridley Nichia, colored woman
convicted of granddaughter for
shooting Ole Storset at Yakutat
last September, was sentenced to
serve 10 years In prison.
A suspension Of sentence for
30 days was granted to Mrs. MI
CHA by the court at the request
OF her counsel. George B. Grigs-
by, who said he expected to take
an appeal and that it wou take
a week or more to make the me-
cessary financial arrangement.
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Girl To Be Hanged

Jackson, Miss.-Execution Of a
17-year-old Jackson colored girl
was ordered by the Mississippi
supreme court Monday and Feb
ruary II fixed as the hanging
date.
The girl, Annie May Harmon,
VISA convicted of killing her hus-
band, Joseph Harmon, December
81, 1882. Her defense was that
her husband had ben unfaithful
and that when she remonstrat-
ed, he threatened to get an ak
from the woodpile and "come
back and split her head open.
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Doctors Wife Suicide

LOS ANGELES-As a tragic
aftermath to financial reverses
and prolonged illness of her hus-
band, Mrs. Dixie Greenlee, wife
Of DR.. N. B. Greenlee of Phoen-
tx, Ariz., committed suicide here
Wednesday. The respondent wo-
man placed a 32-calibre revolv-
er in her mouth and fired the
fatal shot,
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Nineteen Jailed In
Cal. Refer Raid

LOS ANGELES, cal.-On char
ges Of the violation OF the state
poison act, nineteen suspects
we're jailed last Tuesday night
when officers raided an alleged
dive of marihuana smokers at
1902 E. 18th street, charged to
have been run by Miss Ruby
Robinson and Wesley Wright.
Miss Robinson and Wright are
charged with the sale of drugs
as officers claim they sold Gig
arettes to two detectives. The
money used in the purchase is
said to have been marked.
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Church Refuses
X. K. K. Money

NEwBURG, N. Y Ebenezer
Baptist Church turned over to
TIE police 5000. a sum which
80 white-robed Klansmen who
attended the services Sunday
night, left in an envelope mark
ed xxx. Greetings"
I'VE refuse to accept it. We
viii be glad to rid ourselves OF
the money much as we need it. !"
the police were told.
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Singers in Spokane

SPOKANE, Wash.-The Cotton
Blossom Negro male quartet from
Piney Woods school, south of
Jackson, Miss, entertained the
Spokane County Bar association
at noon meeting Fri
day. The singers presented some
spirituals.
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subject # household appreciation
from coast to coast.
Born in Virginia, home OF
natural orators. Elder Michaux
eventually worked his way to the
establishment of the present
Church of God" in the nations
Capital. The edifice often is
often graced by the presence Of
Capital dignitaries, ex-Secretary
of State Henry L. Stimson more
than once having visited the
church to see and hear the SER
vice. From this Church Elder
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NAACP RECORDS
/ % LYNCHINGS
FOR THIS YEAR

NEW YORK - Forty-four
white people have been lynched
by mobs In the United States
from 1919 to date, according
to records kept by the Nation
al Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People. -Four
whites have been lynched this
year out of a total so far Of
twenty-five. Two white men,
Harvey Winchester and Jerome
Boyett. were lynched June g..
1898. at Huntsville, Tenn. Both
were charged with double muir
der.
III White Women Lynched
The associations compilation
OF lynchings for thirty years,
shows that 702 white persons
nsye been lynched. including
II white women. For the same
period 3,472 colored men and so
colored women were lynched.
Since 1919 mobs have lynched
443 Negroes, including six color
ed women, and A whites. In one
year. 1929 whites were lynched
out of a total of IL for the year.
rs Lynched in 1888
The associations tabulation
shows rs lynchlngs thus far in
1888.
Beginning with 1919, the lyn-
ching total by years has been:
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