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The weekly echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1931-1942, 1933-05-26
CHICAGO N. A. A. C. P.
DEMANDS PROTECTION
FOR COLORED CITIZENS

Chicago, May rs (ANP) Officials Of
the South Park and Lincoln Park
Boards, and the Century of Progress
last week were advised that the color
ed citizens of Chicago and visiting col
ored citizens here for the Worlds Fair
were entitled to the full and free use
of ALL or any of Chucago's beaches
and advised that every precaution was
to be used to see it that order was
maintained In the Branch COMMUNICATION,
it was pointed out that small groups
of un-American white people were at
tempting to create race prejudice in
certain section of the city and their
methods were calculated to arouse the
passion of ignorant white people and
thereby create friction between white
and colored people on the beaches this
summer. The communication are
to be followed up by delegations to
to the end that police will be
instructed to maintain order and make
all of the beaches available for ALL
citizens of Chicago who directly or
indirectly through taxes, make them
possible.
The weekly echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1931-1942, 1933-05-26
BAPTIST CONGREGA-
TION RENTERS CHU-
RICH RECENTLY
BURNED

Kansas City, Kansas, May 26 CAMP
Returning to their cherished place Of
worship after many weeks absence,
having been forced out by a disastrous
and destructive fire, the membership
of First Baptist Church, DR.. W. A.
Bowren, pastor, held their first service
in the repaired church Sunday morning
at which time a mammoth audience
was present to rejoice as it has been
termed on the return to Zion" The
speaker on the return occasion was
Dr. r. T. Frye, president of Western
Baptist college. The church's choir
under Prof. Reynolds gave superb
musical numbers.
The weekly echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1931-1942, 1933-05-26
Washington Is Highest

Washington 9.O3 Main 1875
California 8.92 Wisconsin It's
Massachusetts 8.83 N. Jersey 1.31
Oregon 500 Kansas 0.83
The weekly echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1931-1942, 1933-05-26
SCOOBA NEWS
TO OBSERVE CHILDREN'S DAY

The Sunny Mt. Baptist Church School
and the Home Mission will present a
full day program Sunday, June a..
The program is as follows:
$50 o'clock Church School
HOO A. M-The Origin of Children's
Day-Miss Ada Bell Andrews
The weekly echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1931-1942, 1933-05-26
WANTLD

Out Of town agents To sch The Week.,
Echo in all towns. Liberal commits
sion given. Why not let your boy o
girl sell papers In your home town
Your home town folks will be glad t.
read the Echo. We have several Out
of town agents. Send in your nam
o-day.
THE GOODWILL PRINTING co.
25085th Street Meridian Mis-,
The weekly echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1931-1942, 1933-05-26
GOOD MISSION CLUB

The Good Mission Club will meet a
the home of Mrs. L. D. Robinson, 1911
18th Avenue, Monday night, May 18th
The president is asking each membe
to meet early as possible.
Miss Ocie DeBruce, President,
l.. D. Robinson. Reporter
The weekly echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1931-1942, 1933-05-26
WOMAN STAYS WOMAN

Dunn, N. c., May 10Th (ANP) Two
hours after she had cut the throat of
Mrs. Della McAlister, %, from ear to
ear Mrs. Pearly Henry Switzerland was
caught in swamp near here by local
police Mrs. McAlister died from her
wound. The women quarreled in a
tenement house.
The weekly echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1931-1942, 1933-05-26
PASTORS SOCIAL HELPERS CLUB

The Pastors Social Helpers Club met
Thursday night at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Albert Bryant.
An enjoyable program was rendered.
The hostess served her guests cake
and punch.
Miss Naomi Crawford will be the next
hostess.
The weekly echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1931-1942, 1933-05-26
FRIDAY MAY, &c 1888
SUBSCRIPTIONS PAYABLE IN
ADVANCED

Entered as second-class matter
November Is, 1928 at the post office
at Meridian, Mississippi under the
act of March 3, 1879.
The weekly echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1931-1942, 1933-05-26

Published every Friday of each
week at 25OS 5th Street, Meridian,
Mississippi. Phone 1917
The weekly echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1931-1942, 1933-05-26

Rev. R. L. Young, Editor and Bust
ness Manager, Box 1913, Meridian,
Mississippi.
W. c. Baity Asst. Editor and Asst.
Business Manager, 25O8 5th Street,
Meridian, Mississippi. Phone 1917
Evening star., 1933-09-12
Plans Indicate
d. C.. viii HarbOr
Forestry Camps
T,uO or Three May Be
Established around City,
Park Director States.

The District will harbor two or three
Civilian Conservation Corps camps II
plans now in the making by Govern
ment officials materialize.
Arno B. Cammerer. director OF the
Office of National Parks, Buildings and
Reservations, Interior Department, said
today the Capital offers possibilities Tor
locating some of the camps here and
that the matter is now under discus
sion
We have been particularly impressed
with the work done by these young men
in our national parks said the direc-
tor. Perhaps something along the
same lines may be accomplished here. y
Opportunities exist for locating
camp along the future George Washing
ton Memorial Parkway, which will run
southwark from Great Falls along the
banks of the Potomac River to Fort
Washington. Md. and Mount Vernon,
Va, Mr.. Cammerer pointed out. In
Fort Dupont a large tract OF unim-
proved land in the northeast section OF
the CITY between Alabama avenue and
the Anacostia River. there exists fine
chance for the young woodsmen to open
I'D this picturesque territory for the
en- ioyment of the public, in Mr.. Cam
merer's opinion.
Similarly suggestions have been put
forward that these young men might
we'll be placed in Rock Greek Park, so
that they could be put to work In
Continued on Page 2, Column -
Evening star., 1933-09-12
STRAUS BOND CASE
HELD BLACKMAIL
Defense Attorney Declares Roberts
Prosecution Is Effort to Shake
down Officers.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September 12-Resent-
full holders of S. w. Straus & Co. Sc
curities assembled at Tombs Court
again today when Nicholas Roberts,
former president of the company. ap-
peared for hearing on a charge Of
suspicion Of grand larceny.
He was surrounded by six bodyguards
and no attempt was made. as on an
other occasion, to throw bonds at his
face.
The case was adjourned until later in
the day and about $50 angry bondhold-
ers waited in the corridors for court to
reconvene Saul Streit, attorney for
Roberts, charged in the court that the
case was "blackmail."
This Is the most outrageous ABUSE
of legal procedure I have seen in ~
years experience in the criminal
courts he said This respectable
man. enjoying a remarkable reputation
for So years, is arrested, fingerprinted,
booked and mugged and he and his
associates are held up to ridicule. They
pack the court room with bondholders,
knowing they can do nothing for them
This is just plain blackmail, an attempt
to shakedown the officers Of this Or
ganization."
Evening star., 1933-09-12
Youth Haring T,co
Sets of Parents
Is Barred by Both
Stepmother Refuses to
Aid Hin, After Mother
Is Stricken.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. September 12-Willard
Williams, aged is. has two sets Of
parents and no home.
Tears streaming from his eyes. he
told Chicago police today of bouncing
back and forth between the homes of
his divorced parents in Royal Oak.
Mich. and Chicago-refused the shell
ter Of either home
His own father and mother were di-
vorced 10 years ago, he said, and for a
decade he had lived happily with his
mother and stepfather, Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Sadler. at Royal Oak.
A month ago his mother became i'll.
underwent major operations. and the
Sadlers felt they could not support
Willard, he said.
The boy said his mother gave him
a letter to his father. Richard A. Will
liams, coal company official here My
dad was willing to take me in but his
wife. my stepmother, wouldn't even let
me stay overnight" he said.
Evening star., 1933-09-12
TWO INVESTIGATIONS
PLANNED BY SENATE
Banking and Ocean Mail Sub
sides Scheduled to Be
Heard Soon.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
Two senatorial investigations-one
new-will get under way late this
month and early next
Ferdiard Pecora, counsel for the
Senate Banking Committee, which has
ben investigating the banking and
stock market situations for months, will
come to Washington this week to con-
fer with Chairman Fletcher regarding
resumption Of the inquiry.
Ended early in July for the Summer,
the investigation has been set tenta-
lively for resumption october 3.
The new inquiry. concerning air and
ocean mail subsidies. starts September
&c. This was to have begun tomorrow,
but previous engagements of Senators
White. Maine. and Austin, Vermont,
Republicans, caused the postponement.
Other members of this committee
are Senators Black, Alabama, chair
man; King, Utah, and McCarran. Ne
vada. all Democrats.
A. G. Patterson of Alabama. COM
mittee counsel. has been assembling
data for the inquiry. He expects 1t
to last several months.
Evening star., 1933-09-12
REPEAL ELECTIONS
ON IN ; STATES;
MAINE WET, z TO |
Anti-DryS Confident of Mary
land, Colorado and Minne-
sofa Victories.
IDAHO AND NEW MEXICO
TO VOTE NEXT TUESDAY
Arizona Files Formal Notification
of Ratification, Increasing
Total to 20.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Maine. where prohibition was Graded
away back before the Civil War, has
voted to strike the eighteenth amend
ment from the National Constitution.
Repealists expressed confidence Of
similar results today in Maryland, Colo.
RADIO and Minnesota, where elections on
the repeal proposal were being held
Prohibitionists. dsputing the ground,
kept on fighting
Maine. which passed State prohibi-
ton law in 1851 voted yesterday about
2 to l for the proposed twenty-first
amendment, which would delete the
eighteenth. 1t was the twenty-sixth
Stale to enter tie repeal column
Thirty-six are necessary under the Con-
stitution before an amendment becomes
the law of the land.
Twenty States have now taken all
the steps to ratify repeal. Arizona, the
latest of them, filed its formal notifica-
ton Of ratification with the Secretary
of State at Washington yesterday.
At least 80 States will have voted on
the repeal proposal by November 7. The
next States to vote after today are
Idaho and New Mexico. Both have
called elections for next Tuesday.
The 26 States which have voted to
ratify repeal are: Michigan, wisconsin,
Rhode Island, wyoming New Jersey,
New York. Delaware. Nevada. Illinois,
Indiana. Massachusetts. Connecticut,
New Hampshire, Iowa. West Virginia,
California Alabama. Arkansas, Ten
nessee Oregon Arizona, Missouri,
Texas. Washington. Vermont and
Maine.
Evening star., 1933-09-12
COY. MURRAY THREATENS TO USE
GUARDSMEN IN PAY-CUT Battle

aries of elected officers may not be
changed during their tenure and that
the full appropriation was made auto
matte under the constitution.
Threatening to seek removal of the
Supreme Court members by submitting
constitutional amendment to a
popular vote, the Governor wrote
Carter, his political enemy, to uphold
the law" and added:
I'm the event you are found rs for
contempt by any court, I shall i'm
mediately pardon you for the act of
maintaining the law. and we have
5000 National Guards to enforce the
order"
Asserting Il can do my duty under
the law and look out for myself" Carter
said he would not call upon the Cover
nor for a pardon or for the aid Of
guardsmen
The Governor directed w. A. Ledbet-
ter, Oklahoma City attorney, to file
suit to vacate the special courts salary
| ruling.
Evening star., 1933-09-12
FLAG IMPLIES NAZI TROOPS HAVE
GARRISON IN FRENCH TERRITORY

Virtually all the French newspapers
today are relating the incident and
comment that 'Hitlerian provocatton Is
clear. 1t shows plainly that the Sd
Battalion of the l69th Standard is gar
risoned not at Kehl but Straspourg"
The Nationalist newspaper L'Echo de
Pari adds: The gravity of this affair
can scarcely be exaggerated. 1t
furnishes one more particularly cynical
proof of Germany's will to revenge and
its certainty of victory"
Figaro, another journal. says: THUS
the Sd Battalion claims Strasbourg
as its true garrison. Unless it crosses
the Rhine to install itself, more pro-
vocative manifestation is scarcely con-
ceivable"
Meanwhile it is uncertain what the
reaction of the French government IS
going to be if from Germany there con-
tlnue to be reported speeches, demon.
strations and incidents tending to tinply
that Germany Is rearming to attack
France.
Copyright, 1e33J -
Evening star., 1933-09-12
Groups in Every City Will
Investigate Complaints
and Hold Hearings.
WASHINGTON TO PROVIDE
DISCIPLINARY MEASURES
Administration Moves to Bring
Shoes, Silks and Films
Under Blue Eagle.
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press
NJ R. A. compliance boards" are to
be set up in every city and town to
assure observance of the Blue Eagle
agreements.
AS outlined to reporters today by
Hugh S. johnson, the administrator, the
duty Of each board will be to investi-
gate complaints Of violations, hold
hearings and seek to obtain voluntary
compliance.
II this is not forthcoming, they will
report to washington for disciplinary
action.
The local board will have no execu-
tive authority
This endeavor to enhance results for
the Blue Eagle campaign was launched
as the N R. A. advanced to consolidate
its permanent industrial control work,
holding hearings on codes for motion
pictures, boots and shoes. silk textiles
and other industries.
Also approaching was a showdown on
the bituminouS coal code with an ait
ernoon open hearing for final presenta-
ton of objections by mine operators to
the compact. which johnson himself
drafted after the various factions in
the industry failed to get together.
Intensive committee work was
planned Immediately after the hearing
to work out agreement on each contro-
verted section.
johnson Going to New York.
johnson, after starting the coal hear
ing. was to hurry off to New York for
participation in the city's huge n. r. A
parade.
The compliance boards set up by TO-
day's order will be named by the N.
r. A. Campaign Committees IN each
community.
They shall consist of two employe
representatives, one for industrial Work
ers and the other for trade, two en-
ployers' spokesmen, one consumer rep,
resentative, preferably woman ana
one lawyer. ,,
These are to pick a chairman VINO
shall be a citizen of unquestioned hlgh
standing and neutral as between tne
various interests.
Besides dealing with complaints OF
agreement violation, the Compliance
Boards will be charged with passing
upon requests for exemptions presented
by individual employers who claim
great hardship would be caused them
bv N r. A. compliance, and also to
consider applications for continuance OF
loneer-hour schedules now being WORKED
by employees under union contracts.
Hays Presents Evidence.
Will H Hays. motion picture "czar,
led in presentation of evidence at the
hearing on the Hollywood industry.
To an audience Of Government repre-
sentatives. producers. distributors, ex-
hibitors and spokesnen for actors,
HAYES declared mo section OF this code
is more important from the standpoint,
of public interest and sound business
than the morality section.
Regarding the fair.trade practice sec,
ton of the code, which was presented
bv the Motion Picture Producers ano
Continued on Page 4. Column %
Evening star., 1933-09-12
SLAIN GIRLS FRIEND
SOUGHT IN BAY STATE
Mans Abandoned Car Discovered
as Police Seek Mccarthy
Slayer.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LAWRENCE, Mass. September IL
Lawrence police. searching for Harry
Cahill of this city, who has been miss
ing since his abandoned automobile was
found near Silver Lake, Wilmington
Yesterday, were told today that Cahill
was an acquaintance of Margaret
Mccarthy, slain Somerville child.
The 1O-year -old girls body was found
SATURDAY. near the Harvard Divinity
School in Cambridge, where it appar :
emily had been thrown after she mad
been strangled.
Thomas P. Cahill of Lawrence. father
of the missing man, visited police TO-DAY
in connection with the search for his
son and told them of the acquaintance
with the Mccarthy family.
The son, Harry. he said. drove from
Lawrence to Somerville Sunday to visit
one of the sisters and later started back
to Lawrence. ,..,,.
His automobile was found on little
used road near Silver Lake, winning
ton. yesterday. His coat was near the
car.
The father told police his two daugh-
ters in Somerville lived near the home
of the Mccarthy girls parents and tnat
the son. Harry. knew the child and hao
taken her riding.
Evening star., 1933-09-12
so VETS WIN IN MAINE.
Made Clean Sweep of Delegates in Re-
neal Election.

PORTLAND. Me. September II NP)
Not one voice will be heard in de-
fense of prohibition when the 80 dele
gates to this longtime dry States
repeal convention meets in Augusta on
December 6. ,
Every one of the organization vets
won in Yesterdays election, in which
the birthplace of prohibition and the
home of Neal Dow. pioneer prohibition
ist, voted more than two-to-one for re-
peal.
Although the State wide vote was
known last night, it could not oe def
nitely determined until today just how
all the delegates Jared
Elected by Counties.
The delegates were elected by coun-
ties, and because of an advisory Opin-
ion of the Supreme Judicial Court were
not designated on the ballots, their
names being arranged alphabetically
This delayed final analysis Of the vote.
Taking the high wet and dry candi-
dates vote in each county, the State
total with 81 of the States 632 pre-
cincts missing. was
For, 112249; against, 52358.
The cities did the expected in re-
turning liberal majorities for repeal.
Continued on Page 3, Column p
Evening star., 1933-09-12
President Grau San Martin
Allows SO Hours for De-
posed Army Leaders to
Make Peace With Regime.
TROOPS KEEP CLOSE LINE
AROUND NATIONAL HOTEL
New Cabinet, With Only Two Posts
Remaining Vacant, Takes Oath
of Office-Mediators Who Dealt
With Welles in Machado Over
throw Are Excluded.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HAVANA, September 12-Def1-
ant army officers, barricaded and
besieged in the sumptuous Ma
tional Hotel, resisted the new gov
ernment's demands today that
they come to terms Immediately
They scoffed at an ultimatum
from President Ramon Grau San
Martin that they yield in "a OF
SO hours and made ready for a
showdown on their stand that
former President de CeSpedeS
administration be reinstated.
Backed by the powerful A. B. C
and o. C. R. R. secret societies
the erstwhile commanders, esti-
mated from 800 to 500 in number
were armed and prepared for any
contingency-continued siege or,
as some predicted, battle.
Hotel Under Guard.
Soldiers who arose against them las
Monday and toppled over the De Ces'
pedes regime-which was supplantee
first by a revolutionary junta. and or
Sunday by Grau San Martin-kept al
alright line about the building.
Capt Mario Torres Menier, formel
head of the aviation corps. was one who
saw trouble and possible bloodsheo
ahead
This can't go on he said. We've
got to do something, even If 1t means
fight"
Paving no outward attention to the
beleaguered officers, President Grau San
Martin proceeded with his prepared
schedule and shortly before noon the
members of his cabinet took the oath
of Office.
A meeting of the ministers was called
directly after the ceremony. the purpose
being to outline the next steps the gov
ernment will take in its efforts tc
strengthen its hold Aside from the
situation at the National Hotel, the
city was tranquil. But political leaders
believed that the trouble at the Ma
tional was close to showdown
The President issued his ultimatun
to Col. Horacio Ferrer, De Cespedes
secretary Of the army and navy, during
a conference at the presidential palace
On his return to the hotel, Col. Fer
rer maintained the officers were deter
mined to hold to their stand for th'
return of De Cespedes. and that ii
is impossible for these officers to return
to their posts now: they cannot be ex-
pected to take orders from their formel
sergeants."
Officers Man Hotel.
Ever since the enlisted mems couI
d'etat of last week the army officer!
have defied the executive commission
ers. and since Sunday the government
of Dr.. Grau San Martin.
"Mutinous soldiers" the officers de-
clare must step aside and let De Ces'
pedes return to power"
Excitement at the hotel ran higi
when all employees walked cut, fearing
bodily harm if they continued to serve
the officers.
The officers met the contingency
Continued on Page g. Column So
Evening star., 1933-09-12
CALVERT BRIDGE
PLANS ARE D. KID
Arts Commission Asks Only
Minor Changes for New
Structure.

The Fine Arts Commission today
notified the District Commissioners il
had approved a sketch of plans for a
new Calvert Street Bridge, subject to
minor notifications The city heads
Immediately will call for completion OF
detailed specifications for the bridge.
The Districts program for replace
ment Of the old Calvert street span
thus has successfully taken a major
hurdle in the development of the prof.
ect, but the Commissioners still are
awaiting word from Budget Director
Louis Douglas of his approval of funds
for the District project.
Congress made available out of sur.
plus gasoline tax funds for this purpose
a total of s575, 600, subject to a fina
release of the funds by the director o.
the budget In including this item il
the District budget for the current fisca
year Congress set sl250,000 as limit
Of cost on the new bridge.
Release Of Funds Asked.
About two months ago the District
budget director to release $500 900 OF
the gasoline tax surplus, as provided BY
Congress, for various street improve
ment projects. which would improve the
employment situation here, including
the item for the Calvert Bridge.
Notice of approval of the general
scheme for the new Calvert Bridge
came to the Commissioners today in q
special delivery letter from Charles
More, Fine Arts Commission chairman
The new plans were drawn by Pau
Cret, architect. in association with
ModjeSki. Masters & Chase an engin-
eering firm engaged by the Commits
sioners to prepare plans for the bridge
The approved sketch calls for a struc-
ture of rubble stone masonry type hav-
ing three arches.
The new structure is to be erected
on the present line of Calvert street
with a provision for a common bridge
head for this bridge and the Taft
Bridge at the western ends. While the
common bridge head will not be de-
veloped now. such a future development
is to be taken into account in the
Calvert Bridge plans.
Change Suggested.
The Fine Arts Commission approved
use of solid Spandrels for the new
bridge. the arches of which will be ap-
proximately the same order of length
of the Taft Bridge. One change sug-
gested by the Fine ARTS Commission
was that there be used an open meta
rail on the new Calvert Bridge. SO as
to permit view from the bridge into
the valley. The commission had be-
fore it two different plans submitted
by the architect and selected the more
simple one, which is almost devoid oi
ornamentation.
Mr.. Moore also notified the Commits.
sioners the Fine Arts body has in minC
for the not distant future a project
for widening Taft Bridge, as to the
traffic surface.
1t is expected the Commissioners will
inform Budget Director Douglas of tn.
new development in the plans for tht
Calvert Street Bridge and again ash
him to release the District funds avail.
able for starting this project.
Engineer Commissioner John c. Got.
/, walls estimated it would require about
two months for completion of the de-
tailed specifications for the new bridge