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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-06-22
ALL PRECEDENT
IS BROKEN BY
PRES. ROOSEVELT

WASHINGTON, D. c.. (Spec-
ial) President Roosevelt has adj
vised the Liberian government
that he has appointed Ceney
Werlich, white. one OF the at
taches OF the State Department.
to the post of minister resident
and consul general at MonrovIa.
Liberia.
He will take charge Of the LII
berian legation with q reduced
force.
This is the second white man
to be named minister to Liberia
in its history. The first United
States minister was white. but
he didn't last very long. All Of
the others. including a long line
of notables, have been colorea
Eyen Democratic presidents
like Woodrow Wilson and hostile
Republicans like Taft appointed
eoIored men to the Liberian post
which for some years has been
the only diplomatic post IN the
State nena ftso en avail
colofed people
Major General I3lanton W q
ship who was sent to Liberia By
President Roosevelt February %.
as a special envoy, is now in Ge-
neva.
Relations Strained
U.S.-Liberia diplomatic reIa-
tions have been strained since
Liberia declared moratorium
on It's $5,OOO,O00 Firestone loan.
White Americans administering
the loan collections were fired
by Liberia and sent home
Firestone, seeing HIS Invest
ments In Liberian rubber planta-
tions threatened, is believed to
be behind the State Departments
negotiations at Geneva and be-
hind the decision to break all
precedent for Democrats or Re-
publicans and send white min
lister to this all-Negro republic.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-06-22
COIored High School Youth Is
New Sensation Sprinting Star

CLEVELAND, Ohio-Jess o.
wens, 19-year-old colored high
school boy in this city, has re
turned home to be acclaimed by
his friends as 'the newest fast
est human" At the Chicago in
terscholaatic national games Sat
urday Owens ran 100 yards in
9.4-tying the world record
2zO yards in 20.7, and made a
broad jump Of "a feet 3 inches
all three setting new national
scholastic marks.
The most brilliant American
athletes Charles Paddock, Roll
and Locke, Frank Wykoff, How
ard Drew. George Simpson. De
Hart Hubbard Eddie Tolan. and
Ralph Metcalf never achieved
the one-day triumph Of Owens.
Wording for Six Years
His time In the 100-yard dash
equaled the fastest ever made by
any Splinter in history qualed
the time or Frank Wykoff that
was regarded by the Information
al Athletic federation as sup
rene. It was two-tenths OF a
second faster than the previous
world scholastic standard.
Owens was discovered in The
junior high school Ct this city
six years ago BY Charles Riley.
mathematics teacher and one
time college track star. Owens,
a sober little 13-year-old from
Alabama, Was playground rae
er Of juvenile repilte
Riley took him under his wing
and began six years Of talking
track to him. Three years ago,
Owens began smashing city and
state dash records. At the East
Technical high school here where
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-06-22
Charge Discrimination
At The Worlds Fair

CHICAGO-Cafe de Alex In
the Century of Progress EXPOSE
ton is charged with discrimina-
ton against Negro patrons by
T. P. Scott, of Oklahoma, stu
dent at the University of Chica-
go. Scott took his complaint to
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
whose attorneys, w. H. Temple,
and Graham T. Perry, have pre-
pared the action.
Flat refusal to give service
and a request for Scott and his
girl friend to scram is alleged
to have been made by the cafe
manager.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-06-22
Clarence Lees Racing Dope
They're Off! Watch EmPatsy Carter Atayar. Gabaridn
Ethel Star, Architect Judge Primrose Donate Fair Bill

Received letter from Mont
real from chap named Dasher
wanting to know If Sid Davis
is still on the ground floor.
Dode Jones faith In Santa Claus
has been retained through all
these years of depression. He
knew Goldfinch couldn't hold
out forever! so Dode is on rub
Der again.
The Racing Association here Is
going to have a lot OF trouble
keeping the horses here shipped
In from the States since the
Washington racing dates have
beea announced. The owners
do not like paying 1917 discount
on $500 purses when they get
more IN the States and It IL all
velvet. All OF Us will be across
the line very soon. I just read
Jay Gould's c0lunu in the De-
fender and notice that our YAM
couYer pals, Buddy White and
Laura Lapsley are expected IN
Chicago very soon., Now amt
that sum pin Signing of now
with the reminder to watch this
column for the longest shot OF
the Spring season Write to me
in care Of the Northwest Enter
prise. Listen in next week.
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Owens studied automotive engin-
eering and was graduated this
month with excellent marks, Ril-
ey shared the teaching of track
with Coach Ed Well. I.iley and
We'll brought him to his peak
a. exactly the correct moment.
Taught New Finish
AS recently as five years ago.
Owens was being drilled on a
new style of finish, leap sever
al yards from the tape. He used
It for the first time Yesterday.
Well predicted last week that
this finish. If used right. would
save Owens one-tenth Of Sc
cond in the 1O0-yard dash. He
was wrong It saved him two
tenths Of a second.
When Owens left the broad
jump pit at Chicago, he had re-
gistered his 7srd first place as
against only six defeats, in an
unprecedented high school car
eer.
He Is Shy Lad
He lost two races as a sopAo-
more in the Ohio scholastic fin
ais and he lost the other three
last summer In the semi-finals
of district tryouts for the olym-
pic games. two Of these to Ralph
Metcalfe Of Marquette.
To those who know him from
the time he started setting re-
cords at junior high six seasons
ago. the most remarkable charac-
teRistic Of the boy Is not his
speed but his shyness.
Although he has received flat
tering Invitations frorA almost
every major college IN the mid
west, Owens has not decided
where he VIII go to college.
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silly Ceremony

WAKE FORREST COLLEGE.
u. G.. white Institution. unyeil-
ga a tablet to 'Dr." Tom Jeff
rlea, faithful Negro janitor
For fifty years this r1an was
janitor at the college, planted
the trees on the csnpus ard
built the stone wall around It.
What q silly eeiemony What
mOckery Is tablet in ex-
change for mans service
Men Who appreciate other men
do not merely erect tablets to
them. First they treat them as
men and brothers. No prattle.
no empty ceremony, can take
the place q that.
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Fire Completely Destroys
Negro Taxicab Concern

NEW YORK-Fire resulting
from an explosion Of a gasoline
tank completely destroyed the
garage Of the P and H Taxicab
Corporation early Saturday MORN
ing. The P. and H. Taxicab
Corp. Is the largest exclusively
owned and operated Negro BUSH
ness In Harlem. having a fleet
Of so cabs which are kept In
continuous operation by about
400 men.
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Democrats Take
Last Diplomatic
Post From Negroes
NAACP SCOTTSBORO
FUND $2,223.73

NEW Y0RK-A total of 81
223.7S has been received to date
by the National Association for
the Advancement OF Colored Peo-
pie. SO Fifth Avenue. for the de-
Tense OF the Scottsboro boys.
The money is being held In a
separate fund from other MA.
.C.P. monies aud Is being used
to assist the LID. in the pay
ment OF legal expenses. The ann
Gun t previously acknowledged
was $1.9ss.S9.
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The Stars Where They Are

b, skine Tate and Band are
scheduled to open the Sunset Ca
fe one of the bright night life
spots in Chicago.
plantation Follies," Jimmie
Johnson's new show had It's OPP
ening Sunday at the RKO Ritz
Theatre in Chicago and went
over big. 70 wonder. look who's
In the cast. Billy Higgins. Snake
Hips Tucker. Beaman and Scott,
Carrie Marerro and the Twelve
sepian Dancers.
Bill Robinson's Coin To
Town" this week at the Main
Street Theatre. Kansas City.
Change Your Luck" Company
of so people with two bands,
opened this week at the Premier
Theatre in Oakland. Among the
stars in the show are Cleo Thorn
son, Flora Washington, Sleepy
Williams. Alec Loge3oy. Besthel
Gibson, Marie Dlckerson, and
Marguerite Jones. The show viii
play San Francisco. Portland,
and Seattle.
sClnb Ebony opened last
week IN Los Angeles. Earl Dane
q Is staging a floor show which
features such stars as salIee
Harper, Patsy Hunter, Alma Tra-
TsTs. Eddie anderson and Rub
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ledge and Taylor.
49,
The .Silas Green from New
Orleans Company, owned by
Charles Collier. is playing to a
good business throughout North
Carolina and Virginia. The show
IS under the management OF 8.
H. Dudley Sr. this season.
Paul Robson, Is busy at As
tnria completing his part for the
talkie film version of Eugene o.
Neill's 1.-THE Emperor Jones. =
About one-third of the play is
finished. Music for the picture
has been written by ]. Rosa
mond Johnson.
The Famous Blue Jay Singers
Of Birmingham, Alabama, who
sing with their heads, hands and
feet. are creating quite sensa-
ton in Oklahoma City. The sing
ers with their novel harmonic
renditions are. incidentally. Par
amount record and radio artists.
The singing quintet is composed
Of Dennis Parnell, Charles Beale,
silas Steele, Jimmie Hellingworth
and A. d. Parnell.
Mills's Musical Playboys, who
we're formerly the Mnls's Blue
Ribbon Band, have replaced
Duke Ellington and orchestra at
the Cotton Club IN Harlem.
ttopRpV
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-06-22
NOTICE
EIk's Convention

The Northwest States Assoc
citation Of Elks of the World
will convene In Tacoma, SAT-
nrday and Sunday, July / and
2. Meetings will be held at
the Elks Rest. 1929 So. Taco
mo Ave. Opening session at
10 a. m. sharp. Reception and
Dance Saturday night. Rooms
for delegates reserved at Ev-
erglade Apartments. Let your
slogan be ION to Tacoma.
F. q. Harris, president
g. r. chainey Dist Deputy
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Woman To Be Supervisor
OF Unemployment Relief

CHICAGO. Ill.-For the first
time, here. a colored person has
been appointed to the office of
supervisor of the Unemployment
Relief Service. Mrs. Ina Aber-
nathy has been appointed to the
position.
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Anti-Negro Judge Is
Defsassd II Illinois

SPRINGFIELD, Ill.-Due to
his prejudice showed toward the
colored people while on the cir
cult court bench, Judge James
s. Baldwin was defeated, largely
because of the opposition Of the
colored people in his efforts to
get on the Supreme Court Bench
of this state. Tuesday.
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Victoria Price on Run

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. = (CNS)
Victoria. Price. the principal wit
ness In the Scottsboro cases, re-
ported missing. has been located
visiting relatives in nearby Ten
nessee.
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lcOntInued On .Page Threel
The Washington times., 1933-08-12
TRAFFIC LIGHTS
CD HAYN|RE'

Hundreds Of Washingtonians
had a valid excuse for being late
to work today. Traffic lights in
the downtown section went out OF
commission during the early morn
ing rush, causing one Of the worst
traffic jams in a long time.
Irate motorists blew horns,
shouted and cussed until motor
cycle police rushed from head
quarters managed to straighten
things out.
Electricians who were rushed
on the job as soon as the first
complaints were received found
that the master timer located in
No. IA engine house at Eighth and
E Streets Northwest was hung up,
causing the lights to go. hay
wire"
The lights went out shortly
after 8 o'clock and it was not until
$50 when they we're again operat-
ing and traffic returned to nor
malcy.
Zone l, in which the lights were
out, extends from Seventh to Fiji
teents SITS. and from Pennsylvania
to New York Avenues.
More than $50 telephone COM
plants were received at the traf-
fic bureau from stalled and irate
drivers while the lights were out.
The Washington times., 1933-08-12
j. 8. SUPPORTS
NRA STORES

Falling in line with rule
laid down by the Federal Relief
Administration that relief funds
must be spent at NRA stores,
the District Emergency Relief
Commission hereafter will issue
food and clothing vouchers for
use in only such stores as display
the NRA Blue Eagle.
This was announced today by
Leroy A. Halbert, local relief ad-
ministrator, who added he will
order an immediate check of the
eight chain store systems and of
other approved shops where per-
sons receiving relief now ex-
change vouchers for food, medi-
cal supplies and clothing.
Stores lacking the Eagle will be
stricken from the list of ap-
proved supply depots.
Fuel vouchers present no prob
lem here, Halbert pointed out, as
coal is purchased from the Bu-
reau of Mines and wood from the
municipal wood yard.
The Washington times., 1933-08-12
UT|L|T|ESS|GN
MODIFIED
CODES
| 500, 1000 Employees Affected
BY Action of Power, Te|e-
phone, Other Industries
BY International News Service

More than 100000 en-
ployes of the electric light and
power, gas, telephone, canning,
construction, and other indus
tries were blanketed under the
wings Of the NRA "Blue
Eagle" today.
Recovery Administrator Hugh
S. Johnson brought the industries
under the Presidents reemploy"
ment agreement by approving
modification proposals.
Jobs for 10000
The recovery administration
claimed that new jobs for at least
10000 workers will be provided
and purchasing power added by
the payment of minimum wage
rates.
In the electric light and power
industry it is expected that 10000
new jobs will be created. The
blanket code affects 236,00O en-
ployers of 5000 utilities.
Prediction was made by ad'
ministration experts that 10000
to 10000 new jobs would be
opened in the canning industry.
All of the Is companies of the
Bell telephone system were
blanketed under the NRA, but no
estimate was made of the number
of new jobs to be created.
Phone Companies Covered
The companies operate 80 per
cent of the telephones of the
country. Although they will go
on a 40-hour week for most en-
ployes, the companies pledged
themselves to maintain the pres
ent service.
Other industries brought under
blanket codes as a result OF
Johnson's approval of modifica-
tions of the wage and hours pro-
visions of the Presidents agree
CONTINUED on Page 2, Col. p
The Washington times., 1933-08-12
WOMAN : BODY
UNCLAIMED
MACHADO

Burial in Potters Field awaits
Mrs. Helen Cooley, attractive
young woman whose body was
found in her apartment in the
HOO block Eleventh st. N. w.
on August 1, unless some rela-
tive is found soon to claim her
body.
The woman's husband, James
Cooley, was located in Memphis,
Tenn, but telegraphed police
that he had no money to pro-
vide burial for his wife.
The woman was at first believed
to be a victim of a killer, as her
body was covered with bruises.
Police investigated, however, and
learned that she had been injured
when she fell down stairs at her
home several days before.
An autopsy showed that her
death was due to an overdose of
a sleeping powder.
The Washington times., 1933-08-12
4 MEN KILLED
IN PENNSY
WRECK
Engineer, Firemen, and Two
Unidentified Persons Die
In MARYLAND Accident

SALISBURY, Md, Aug. Il
NIN.S. .).-Four men were
killed and four other persons
were injured today when the
Cavalier, a New York-bound
Pennsylvania express train,
ran through a split rail and
was wrecked one mile south
of here.
The dead:
Engineer w. Oscar Brown,
DeImar, Del.
Fireman E. r. Massey, Del
mar, Del.
Two unidentified men, one a
negro, who were believed to
have been "riding the rods"
The injured were Thomas Don
Ohio, Wilmington; H. c. Kitchens,
wyoming, Del; Samuel Wilson,
Delmar, and William l.. Simmons,
Salisbury, Md.
A. F. McIntire, trainmaster at
Cape Charles expressed the
opinion that malicious tamperlng
with the rails may have been re-
Sponsible for the wreck.
The train was en- route from
Cape Charles, Va, to New York.
Three baggage cars and two day
coaches followed the locomotive
off the rails, leaving only two
sleepers still on the tracks. Two
of the baggage cars upset.
Physicians and ambulances were
rushed from Salisbury and fire en-
gines and automobiles followed,
the latter being pressed into ser
vice on a nearby hill to flood the
scene with light.
Preliminary investigation reveal
ed the plate holding fast two rails
had broken or become loosened,
allowing the rails to part.
The Washington times., 1933-08-12
Red Haired Woman Stages
Jail Break, Captured

of th9 building when a number
of policemen sitting in the sta
tion noticed her and called to
her to halt.
Instead, she rushed out and up
the street with the police in
pursuit. A number of citizens
joined in the chase. She was
captured when she sought to
elude pursuit by running into an
apartment house.
Locked in Cell.
She was returned to the city
prison and locked in a barred
cell to prevent a further break.
The woman is charged with
marrying Robert H. McAdams,
a soldier at Fort Howard, Md,
in Alexandria on July IL without
obtaining divorce from a
former husband, E. j. Block.
She was arrested in Baltimore
several days ago and returned to
Alexandria to stand trial.
The Washington times., 1933-08-12
Text of Cuban
HierS Attack
On Herrera

HAVANA, Aug. IL Q.N.S0.
Text of a proclamation by the
army air corps and officers Of
the sixth military district op-
posing Gen. Alberto Herrera,
temporary military dictator, as
president Of Cuba follows:
"In a meeting held by Off
GERS of the sixth military dis
trict and air corps to learn Of
the results of an interview held
by Julio Sanguily with United
States Ambassador WelleS, it
was decided to accept in prin-
ciple the terms of the said am
bassadOr to designate Herrera
president of the provisional re-
public, under the following ir-
revOcabIe conditions:
First, a secretary Of State
be appointed who is not at
tached to military forces nor
Is a politician, but is Impair
tial and not likely to be biased
and not connected in any
shape or manner with the
actual situation;
Second, that Herrera, who
has neither the sympathy Of
the army or the Cuban people,
turn over the presidency of the
republic to the secretary of
state designated to substitute
for him before IL o'clock noon
today;
"That said meeting decided
the much desired solution Of
the Cuban problem cannot be
achieved by exaulting Herrera
to the presidency"
The Washington times., 1933-08-12
j. s. ENVOY
CHEERED
BY WILD
CROWDS
Throngs Gather at Embassy
To Hail WeIIes; Disorder
Rules Havana Streets
By WIN. K. HUTCHINSON

HAVANA, Aug. II (LN.S.).
Broken by a revolt of the army
which made him a dictator for
years, Gen. Gerardo Machado
resigned as President of Cuba
today amid a scene Of riotous
disorder.
Gen. Alberto Herrera, minister
of war and temporary military
dictator, became acting president
until congress is able to meet and
accept Machado's resignation, at
which time Carlos Manuel de CeS-
pedes, son of Cuba's greatest pa
triot, will be named secretary Of
state, making him acting presi.
dent.
Herrera will resign completely
from the government as soon as
congress ratifies de Cespedes' Sc
lection.
An immediate solution of the
probe mariSing from Machado'S
long-expected resignation was i'm
possible, however, owing to the
complete disorder prevailing
throughout the city.
United States Ambassador Sum-
ner WelleS approved the arrange
ment.
Rioting mobs streamed through
out the city, looting the presiden.
tial palace of everything Of value.
Koodlums mounted on motr.
cycles rared through the streets,
attacking members of Machado's
dreaded strong-arm squad, the
Porra, causing chaos throughout
the city.
MObs Bar Congress
Police and troops stood idly by,
making no attempt to quell the
rioting.
While the capital rang with
oathS and imprecations against
the retiring Machado, who capitu-
lated to popular opposition only
when his army rose against him,
members of congress strove to
enter the capitol to act upon his
resignation.
Seething crowds blocked the
streets to the building and for
some time after the resignation
was announced the parliament
tarians were kept out of their
own meeting place.
Hundreds of persons stormed
the palace, stealing clothing,
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The Washington times., 1933-08-12
Roosevelt 7.
PAYS VISIT
TOCANPS
Motoring From Harrisonburg
Into Mountains; Keeps
In Touch With Cuba

HARRISONBURG, Va, Aug.
- (I.N.S.).-President Roose-
velt arrived here early today,
to be greeted by an enthusiastic
crowd and begin a motor tour
through three of the Civilian
Conservation Corps camps To-
Gated in Virginia's mountains.
His special train arrived at
$50 a. m. after an all night run
from Hyde Park, where the Ex-
ecutive spent two weeks vaca-
tioning at his family home.
A number Of papers and dis
patches were placed on the train
as it passed through washington
at S o'clock this morning. The
President was studying reports
which told him of latest develop
ments in Cuba. He made no
comment.
Mr.. Roosevelt's inspection tour
will last virtually all day. He
expects to be in the White House
about S p. m. or little later.
To Lunch at Camp
One of the camps to be visited
is in the process of construction,
have lunch at one of the camps.
Conservation camps located in
Virginia have a particular inter
est for the President at this time.
He has been studying the prob.
lem of continuing operation OF
the more southerly ones through
the winter, and the Virginia
camps come within this belt.
Mr.. Roosevelt continued con-
stantly in touch with the State
Department. He has instructed
officials where they may locate
the aides he has with him by tele-
phone and directed that anything
of Importance touching on Cuba
be transmitted to. him as quickly
as possible.
Leaves Next Saturday
The President will leave the
Capital again next Saturday night
for Hyde Park, under present
plans. He will stay in his family
home there for the remainder Of
the month, and on or about
August 81 will board Vincent
Astor's yacht, the Nourmahal,
for a cruise back to Washington,
arriving on Labor Day.
With the President on the
Astor yacht will be Kermit Roose-
velt, a distant cousin; DR.. Leslie
Heiter, of Mobile, Ala; Judge
Frederick Kernochal, of New
York, and George st. George, of
Tuxedo, N. Y, in addition to
Astor.
The Washington times., 1933-08-12

A one-woman Jail break was
staged by an attractive red-haired
woman from the Alexandria
House of Detention above the
town police headquarters today.
Mrs. Ethel S. Moxley, alias Mrs.
Ethel McAdams, Is, of Baltimore,
charged with bigamy, staged the
break. She was captured after
a chase of several blocks through
the heart of the city.
Breaks Through Wall
Mrs. Moxley had just been re-
turned from police court, where
she had pleaded not guilty to the
charge.
Breaking the leg off a chair in
her room, she used it to poke
a hole through the plaster wall,
climbed through and found her.
self in the upper hall directly
above headquarters.
Slipping quietly down the
stairs, she gained the front door
The Washington times., 1933-08-12
Sea Breeze Checks
Heat in California

LOS ANGELES, Aug. IL GN.S0.
Ocean breezes brought relief to
Los Angeles today after the mer-
curry had scared to 90, the Sec
ond hottest day of the summer.
Imperial Valley in Southern Cali
fornia, near the Mexican border,
had a maximum of 113 yesterday.
Yuma, Ariz., with 118, was the
hottest spot in the Southwest.
while Reno, New, had a maxi
mum heat Of 100 degrees.