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The Washington times., 1933-02-14
LlGGETT RENTS CUT

The committee which is seeking
from the landlords of the Mggett
Co. reductions in rentals reports
that it has secured promises Of
rental reductions of close to the
total sought, which was 81 400, 600
to $1,5OO.OOO.
The Washington times., 1933-02-14

a B r oadWay
wedding.
A n d n o W
that Carlyle
B ! a C k W ell.
star of the
old silent pic
lures, has es-
t a b ! ished a
residence in
t h e divorce
center, Broad
way is ex-
p e C t ing an
a n n o u n ce-
ment to the
effect t h a t
The Washington times., 1933-02-14

ages filed by the girl month
after the party occurred in July.
1881, at the Red Bank, N. j..
home of Herbert Winn, million
aire polo player and pal Of
Mickey. A general denial has
been entered to Miss Parker's
charges.
The Washington times., 1933-02-14
PEOPLE
Who Interest
You and
What They
Are Doing
Lily Pons to Sing Jazz
Written by Gershwin

NEW YORK, Feb. Lilly
PonS-she will sing jazz?
Yes! And George Gersh-
The Washington times., 1933-02-14
Kearns Wants to Know
More About That Party

NEW YORK, Feb. 14-Dap-
per Jack KearnS, big time fight
manager, wants to know a few
The Washington times., 1933-02-14
Broadway Bride Seen
For Silent Film Idol

NEW YORK, Feb. 14.-They
say in the greenrooms that q
Reno divorce is the prelude to
The Washington times., 1933-02-14
CONDITION OF TREASURY

Treasury balance, $354,273,-
04450; expenditures, $8,276, 56.48;
customs receipts, $6,952,51l.1T.
CLEARINGS
Charlotte .,,.........$912,e1o.24
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-03-02
The Real Negro

The Real Negro is the Negro who
is glad he is black, and if he is 90
or 100 years old, if he knows that
and feels that, he Is a Real Negro.
1t is a great thing to know what
you are and to be proud of it and to
see to make the most and not the
least of it. 1t is just as much honor
to be a black man as it is to be a
white man, and the black man Is no
more responsible for his color than
the white man is for his color. The
black man is in small business when
he dislikes a white man because he
is white, and the white man is in
bad business when he dislikes a
black man because he is black. The
Creator had his own purposes in
making the one white and the other
black, and neither of them can
change his color without running his
complexion, and other things.
The Negro will never amount to
anything until he thinks as much OF
his race and color as the white
man thinks of his, and stands as
ready to endure any sacrifice in de-
Tending his race and color from
wrong and outrage, as the white
man does.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-03-02
White Bishop Makes
Plea for Tolerance

NEW Misunderstanding that the
colored race is one of the most pat
riotic groups in the nation, retired
Bishop w. B. Thirkfeld, of the M.
E. Church, pleaded for the contin-
ued emancipation, tolerance and
equality of opportunity for the group
Sunday, in sermon at the Metro
politan M. +. Temple.
In denouncing the existing race
prejudice, Bishop Thirkield, who is a
member of the Department on Race
Relations of the Federal Council of
the Churches in Christ, stated, "The
colored mans position in cur civili-
cation with respect to the esteem in
which he is held has changed very
little. But the strides forward he
has made in cultural and intellectual
activity have been enormous"
He praised the spirit of the col
ored soldiers in the World War, and
asserted that among strikers, Grim
inals and avengers" members of
the group are seldom found. With
out the aid of the colored group in
dustry in the Southern states would
be helpless, he declared.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-03-02
Harlem Man Files
Complaint Against
Amos And Andy

NEW YORK CITY.-Samuel Ham,
ilton of Harlem is thoroughly dis
gusted with the Amos and Andy
stuff and wants the courts to enjoin
the "blackface" comedians and put
them off the air."
He makes strong complaint against
r. +. Gosden, better known as
Amos and c. j. Ccrrell, the can
dy," of the noted team, and by due
process of law Hamilton, a citizen
of Harlem, has started a suit con
behalf of himself and all other res
idents in the vicinity of Harlem
who are similarly situated" to en-
join Amcs and Andy, the blackface
team of radio, from continuing "to
hold the plaintiffs up to ridicule,
shame, scorn, humiliation and de-
graduation" through remarks which
are generally derogatory, defamato-
ry, slanderous, degrading and hui
initiating" to and of the colored race
and through which "the residents
of Harlem haye been irreparably
injured in their regulations and bus
iness.'
Justice Peter Hating entertained
the complaint and signed an order
requiring the radio blackface team
to show cause why they should not
be restrained from further attacks
on Mr.. Hamilton's dignity.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-03-02
WHIT DAD Wills BLACK SON $4,000
Editorials
The Negroes Place

There are those who desire to fix
the Negroes place as just little
lower than that possible for the at
tainment of other Americans.
The dominant group not only de-
sires to fix the position of the Negro,
but uses force to make him accept it.
After forcing the Negro into an in
ferior place. white America points
to this as proof of the Negroes in
ability to compete successfully with
other Americans. 1t never occurs
to most Americans that this is IL
logical reasoning. They prevent Ne
groes from having an equal oppor-
tunity for earning a living and then
point to those in the bread line to
prove that Negroes are shiftless and
lazy.
The State of Washington spends
millions of dollars annually in build
ing roads and highways. More than
two thousand employees work there
on. No Negroes are employed. The
work is done at public expense. Ac-
cording to any fair distribution of
the work, a hundred of the workers
should be Negroes. There are those
who complain that Negroes should
not ask for jobs on account of their
race. That is fundamentally cor
rect; but when Negroes are elimin
ated on account of color there is no
other alternative left. In other
words, white Americans expect Ne
groes to be better Americans than
they are.
America loses by trying to force
the Negro into an inferior position.
A good Negro is worth as much to
this country as a good white man.
A colored citizen who can pay his
rent, maintain telephone, electric
lights and an automobile is worth
more to his community than one
who must depend upon charity for
his subsistence.
The American Negro would be
worth many more million dollars to
business and would add much to
good government and culture were
he permitted to attain any place to
which he is capable. Keeping the
Negro in his place is an expensive
business for America and the sooner
the barriers are removed the better
it will be for both the white and
colored races.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-03-02
Missouri Democrats
Ask For $50 Jobs

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. 49, The
house lounge at the State Capitol
was crowded last Thursday night
with proselytes of the Democratic
party, who appeared before spe-
cial committee appointed by Cover
ncr Park to consider the question
of patronage.
One spokesman said: "The Ne
groes cast at least five per cent of
the vote for the newly elected Gov
ernor Park, and we should get five
per cent of the 1900 available jobs,
or $50" Joseph l.. McLemore, of
st. Louis, who was the Democratic
nominee for Congress in the Twelfth
District Of st. Louis two years ago,
and David NJ. Grant, of st. Louis,
both attorneys, presented the claims
Of Democrats fer state jobs.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-03-02
White Ma Fights
School Board
For Dark Child

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - Accord
ing to a ruling in the Circuit Court,
Wednesday, unfolding the County
Board of Education, the 7-year old
son of Mrs. Lille Boyd, white, cannot
attend the Cedar Cove white school,
where his brothers and sisters go,
because the neighbors say that this
particular son has Negro blood in
his veins.
Judge Henry B. Foster refused
the white mothers petition for a
writ of mandamus which would have
required the school board to admit
the child to the white school.
Wednesdays decision came after
an extended hearing in which Mrs.
Boyd and her white neighbors of
Cedar Cove testified. Mrs. Boyd
was Joined in her plea by her white
husband, Will Boyd, said to be more
than 70 years of age, and i'll for
several years.
The dark child, aged seven years
and eight months, sat in his moth
er's lap during the trial.
Mrs. Boyd testified that the father
of the child was a white man, al
though not Mr.. Boyd. Neighbors of
Mrs. Boyd, testifying in behalf of
the school board, told Judge Foster
that they had cause to believe the
child was of Negro blood and said
they had always believed its dark
complexion and characteristics indi-
Gated Negro ancestry.
1t was also said that Mrs. Boyd
had attempted to enter the dis
puted child in the community white
Sunday school, but there was no
place there for a child with Negro
blood.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-03-02
Colored Girls
Replace Men On
Dining Cars

NEW YORK-Low price no-tip-
ping cars were placed in service for
commuters on the Bankers express
from New York to Springfield,
Mass, on the New York, New Ha-
ven and Hartford Railroad Monday,
as an experiment in reducing the
cost of transportation.
Eight Negro women dressed in
green or lavender uniforms to match
the colcr scheme of the cars replac-
ed five dining-car wahers. The cars
will be a combination diner and club
equipment. The New Haven started
Counter ear" to provide breakfast
to commuters last November.
eve are making it possible for
passenger using the Bankers Ex-
press To step into the diner and get
coffee and a doughnut for 8 cents"
said r. l.. Pearson, vice president
and general manager Of the road.
"He viii be made TO feel just as
much at home as the man who gets
a hearty breakfast. On the evening
train the top price will be so cents
for a minute steak with fried pota-
toes"
The girls were selected from
among the mattresses of the Alice
Foote McDougal Tea Room. They
will be paid $40 per month, furnish
ed uniforms and free sleeping ac-
ccmmodations nightly in Hartford,
Conn.,, or Springfield, Mass.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-03-02
Jackie Cooper and "Chic"
Sale Coming to Gala
Theatre

Jackie Cooper, the eight-year-old
film star, undertakes type of role
different from anything he had prev
iously attempted in when Feller
Needs a Friend" which will open
Sunday at the Gala Theatre.
In when Teller Needs a
Friend" Jackie Cooper plays a
crippled boy who is unable to par
ticipate in many of the sports of
the other children and seeks COM
partnership and consolation in the
company of Uncle Jonas, played by
"Chic" Sale. who is conductor and
driver of the only street car.
The rest Of the cast, assembled
under direction of Harry Pollard
includes Ralph Graves and Dorothy
Peterson as Jaekies father and
mother; Andy shuford, Helen Par
IRISH, Donald Haines and Gus Leo
nard, as playmates of the juvenile
star; and Oscar APPEL as the doctor
called upon to cure Jackie
Dialogue and continuity for "Whei
a Teller Needs a Friend" were writ
ten by Sylvia Thalberg and Franl
Butler. The story is an adaptation
of William Johnston's popular move
"Limpy"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-03-02
Charge Snow Removers
Were Tricked Out OF Line

NEW YORK CITY-That color
ed applicants for snow removal jobs
were tricked out of line by police
and thus lost their chance to be
among the $4,000 extra snow show
elers hired last week, was charged in
a letter from the N.A.A.C.P. to DR..
William Shredder, Jrs commissioner
of sanitation.
An order to- subordinates telling
them to show absolutely no favor
itism as to race, color or creed"
was issued. The association charg-
ed that the percentage of eolored en-
ployed was low.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-03-02
Dixie Senator'S Bicker
Over Colored Votes

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - After
wrangling ever an amendment to
reapportion 100000 public school
funds, Thursday, the Alabama Sem
ate heard threats of one legislator
that he would seek the support of
colored constituents.
The northern counties, populated
chiefly by whites, were seeking a
larger share of the funds. The
southern counties, where most of the
colored live, have been securing the
large percentage through the same
principle that southern states use
to get greater congressional repre-
sentation.
''If you crowd US we'll register
the Negro, and we know how to vote
them and how to count them,' quip-
ped Senator Charles Mcdowell, of
the northern Barbour County.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-03-02
Labor Defense Says
Vigilantes Plan To
Mob Scottsboro Boys
Organized Move
TOLynch Youths
If Acquitted

NEW YORK.-Plans for the lynch
ing of the Scottsboro boys by a
vigilance" committee in the event
they are acquitted by the court are
under way in an organized manner
in Alabama, the International Labor
Defense learned, last week.
The new trial of the youths has
been set for March 6, in Scottsboro,
before Judge Alfred w. Hawkins,
who presided over the original hear
ing which resulted in death penalties
for eight of them.
According to information received
by William l.. Patterson, national
secretary of the !. l.. D., there is
growing uneasiness throughout the
state that with the irrefutable evil
dence of the boys innocence which
the defense expects to- bring for
ward, the lynchers will lose their
prey in the courts. A committee
was organized in Huntsville and it
has extended its purposes and ter
ritory over surrounding counties.
Responsibility for the organization
is placed by Mr.. Patterson upon an
editorial in the Huntsville Times
following the November 7 decision
of the U. S. Supreme Court, which
granted the innocent boys new
trial, and reprinted in the Jackson
County Sentinel.
The editorial suggested a "vigi-
lance" committee for two announced
purposes. One was to see that Vic
toria Price and Ruby Bates, states
witnesses, one of whom has retract-
ed her testimony of Grape" in
letter, be so we'll taken care of they
would not dare to tell the truth
when called for the new trial.
The second suggested ITO keep
Communists out of Huntsville" if
change of venue brought the trial to
that city, Mr.. Patterson stressed this
as the obvious aim to- intimidate the
legal defenders OF the boys.
General George W. Chamlee, SAM
uel S. Leibowitz, Joseph Brodsky,
and Irving Schwab, /. l.. d. at
torneys, and if they can be spared
from the Angelo Herndon case, John
H. Geer and Benjamin j. Davis, Jr.,
will ask for change of venue from
the town in which the band played
"There1l be Hot Time" while the
jury handed down the death verdict
in April, 1881.
They will ask that the case be car
ried to Birmingham, on the grounds
that it will be more difficult to or
ganize gangs to lynch the boys, and.
on the grounds that Jackson County
landlords have reused lynching hys-
terra, and trial at Scottsboro would
be legal mockery preceding a legal
lynching.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-03-02
Douglass Would Be
Socialist IL Alive

LOUISVILLE, KY. - Frederick
Douglass, if alive, would be a So
cialist, according to the opinion of
Charles w. Anderson, Jr., attorney,
speaking before the Ferguson Pres
byterian Church, last week.
The attorney gave as his reasons
for this belief that. "From a study
of the doctrines and principles which
Douglass advocated, cannot recon
ellie Douglass submitting to the pol
icies that have been so glaringly
prominent at the White House and
in the major political parties
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-03-02
Claims Coach Fixed
Athletes Jim Crow

NEW YORK-D. /. Altman, coach
of the Michigan Normal Schools
track team, consented to, and help
ed in the arrangements for the sep
arate room accommodations for Eu-
gene Beatty and Munice Walton, col
ored members of the team, on a
recent visit to New York, Charles L..
Ornstein, manager of the Paramount
Hotel here, has written the MA.
C.P.
Mr.. Ornstein said he had CORES
pondence prior to the coming of
the Michigan athletes with the coach
ing staff and that his plan to send
the colored boys to a Harlem no.
tel was known before the team left
the West.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-03-02
Scottsboro Picture
Destroyed BY Cops

LOS ANGELES, Cal.-The police
"Red Squad" mutiated valuable
paintings belonging to a club which
police accuse of holding Commu-
mist meeting last Sunday.
Among the paintings destroyed by
the police was a mural Of the Scotts-
boro boys which was found with
marks Of a heavy instrument on each
of the figures. Three were arrested
and sent to Jail being charged with
being criminal syndicaism sus-
pects."
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-03-02
Dixie Episcopalians
Keep Jim Crow Bar

SUFFOLK, Va. - One vote kept
the Southern Diocese of the Episco-
pal Church from accepting colored
clergymen on an equal basis in the
Diocesan Council, during the forty
first annual convocation of the body
at st. Paul Church here, last week
The resolution which would have
taken the racial discrimination prac-
tise out of the highest body of
the church, along with the other
two dioceses of the church, was In
troduced by DR.. w. A. II. Goodwin
of Williamsburg.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-03-02
Italian Cafe Owner
Leaves Estate To
Adopted Negro Boy
Mother Was Former
E m ployee Of
Restaurant Owner

PHILADELPHIA rown-skinned
Pasqualc Curatola, 10, of tag S.
Sth Street, fell heir to an estate
valued at $4,000 when Raymond
Curatola, 70, an Italian restaurant
proprietor, died ON January Is, it
was learned by the Associated Negro
Press last Saturday.
Speaking the Italian language
more fluently than he does English,
his associates entirely Italian, Pas
quale, adopted son of Curatola,
haltingly told his story. The story
of how his mother, for years before
his birth am employee of Curatola.
upon her death left him an orphan,
without a relative. A story of how
the aged Italian restaurateur, at
tached to the brown-skinned boy.
decided to adopt him and raise him
as his own.
Today PasQualc sits in the LARGO
building which a few months ago
housed one of the busiest and gay
est Italian restaurants in the Italian
colony here and mcpes about, I'M
happy in the loss of the best friend
he had known
Doesn't Remember Father
81 don't remember my father"
he stated Saturday, "and barely re-
member my mother. do remember
when first went to school how
| had to be taught to speak and
read and write English. | could
speak nothing but Italian. My name
when | was bern was James Liver
man, but when Mr.. Curatola adopt
ed me changed my name at his
suggestion.
Has Orchestra
"My mother was named Arnetta
Livcrman, and was born in North
Carolina. At present | have an or
chestra, all of the members of which
are Italian and white Americans"
he continued.
When asked what his plans for
the future were, Pasquale expressed
the intention of continuing in his
musical studies. ...
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-03-02
Private Home Meeting
Crime In Alabama

BIRMINGHAM. = Because they met
together in a private house in Fair
ED, Ala, ten persons were arrested,
last week, and eight were fined $50
each, which means at least three
months on the Changing or in a
workhouse.
Fairfield is a Tennessee Coal and
Iron Company town on the out
skirts of this city, which has an
ordinance that workers must not
even meet in the private homes of
their friends without police permits
sion.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-03-02
Shaw's Book, Adventures
OF The Black Girl Out

NEW Y0RK-Literary circles are
looking forward to the issuance this
month of George Bernard Shaw's
new book, "The Adventures of a
Black Girl in Her Search for Gcd."
This latest work Of the great Eng
lish author is being published by
bod, Mead and Company.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-03-02
Aviator's Widow Destitute

LOS ANGELES, Calf. - Mrs. ].
Herman Banning, widow of the late
flyer, is reported to be i'll and
destitute at her home following
the death Of her husband Who had
made little money after his aerial
exploits. Insurance fer ayiators is
practically impossible to obtain.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-03-02
SSH Jobless Fed In
Delta Soup Kitchen

INDIANAPOLIS-Five thousand,
six hundred and seventy-two hungry
persons have been served food from
the soup kitchen maintained by the
local chapter of the Delta Sigma
Theta sorority, since it opened in
December, past.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-03-02
Atlanta N.A.A.C.P. Goes
Over ST., 600 In Campaign

ATLANTA, Ga.-The membership
campaign of the Atlanta branch of
the N.A.A.c.P. exceeded its goal Of
$1,000 when the final reports show
ed $1,006.25 at the meeting Mon
day Fifteen hundred persons attend
ed and heard DR.. W. +. B. Dubois
and the Rev. Charles Sumner Will
liams speak.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-03-02
Memphis Cleans Up

MEMPHIS, Tenn. ~ Nearly 800
persons had been caught in the
arms Of the law early Tuesday morn
ing as police and detectives raided
gambling places liquor houses and
arrested gun toters, policy writer's
and other petty criminals in an i'm
promptu Cleanup"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-03-02
Girl Passes Bar

INDIANAPOLIS-(CNS) - Miss
Helen E. Austin, Of Cincinnati, Ohio,
a member of the Delta Sigma Theta
Sorority, with Sc others, all Of the
latter white, passed the 1882 state
bar examination, ranking second.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-03-02
North Carolina Town
Has First Negro Lawyer

KITTRELL, N. C.-For the first
time in the history Of this city, a
colored lawyer will practice at the
local bar when Charles H. William
son, formerly Of Durham, but now
of East Orange, N. j. will hang out
his single.
Mr.. Williamson is Kittrell Col
lege alumnus.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-03-02
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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-03-02
Red Candidate For Mayor
Speaker AT Harlem "Y''

NEW YORK CITY. 49, William
Patterson, Communist candidate for
mayor of New York in the past cleo
ton, was the guest speaker at the
monthly dinner of the membership
cabinet at the Y. NJ. C. A., Monday.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-03-02

Ralph Metcalfe, of Marquette Uni
versity, captured the A. A. U. CO.
meter sprint championship, Saturday
night in Madison Square Garden,
New York City, outspeeding a brill
liant field which included the Nigh
ty Emmett TOPPING of New Orleans
and Frank Wykoff of Los Angeles,
worlds record holder for the 100
yard dash.
Metcalfe was timed at :06.7 which
equaled the worlds record.