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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-03-09
NANCY CUNARD
BOOK IS READY

NEW Notwithstanding to a
wireless dispatch to the New
York Times, Lady Nancy Cum
ard has completed her quest in
the many countries for evidences
of Negro culture and will short
ly publish the results of her re-
search in comprehensive vol
ume.
Some of the contributors to
the volume will be Norman Doug
las, Ezra Pound. Vance Lowry,
w. C. Handy. Clarence Gamer
on White and Taylor Gordon.
Augustus John has done pic
lures for the book which is to
include also $50 photographs
and selections of Negro music.
Miss Cunard, member of
the famous English shipbuilding
family, Is reported to have had
her interest awakened in the eli
vilized qualities of Negroes by
association with a talented col
ored entertainer In Paris. When
members of her family learned
of their daughters friendship
with a Negro, the ban was i'm
mediately placed upon it. Moth
er and daughter came to a part
ing of the ways.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-03-09
Urban League Buys
Tickets For More
Than 900 Families
MISSOURI BILL
MAY CREATE
NEGRO BOARD

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo- a
III to create a Negro Industrial
Commission for the State of MIS-
.ourl was passed by the lower
house of the Legislature Tuesday
The measure which seems Ger
tain to also pass the senate since
II Is an administration measure.
would permit the appointment
of nine members The duties of
the commission as defined arr
ITO cover. ferret out. survey
and recommend remedies, educa-
tional. moral and industrial, for
the betterment of the Negroes
In Missouri. Section three pro
vides for president, vice-presi-
dent and secretary. The salary
of the secretary is to be $4,000
per year and he is allowed a
stenographer who Is to receive
$1,000. The commissioners will
not be paid a salary but will be
paid $500 per day and expenses
while engaged In business for
the state
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-03-09
.LONNIE AUSTIN HAS
NEXT FIGHT SHOW
AT CRYSTAL POOL

Next Tuesday nights fight
show at Crystal Pool will be
staged by Lonnie Austin who
will present an all-star program
of five contests. The main event
of six rounds will have "Swede"
Berglund, San Bernardino welt
er, meeting Sammy Santos. Fill
Pine slugger. Berglund Is rated
one of the best of the California
welters. He needs to be plenty
good in tackllng the hard-hitting
Santos.
Alvin Lewis will meet Roy
Frakes of California in the six
round semi-final. Frakes Is a
stable mate of Berglund and he
rates near the top in the weller
class. Lewis. next to Henry
Woods Is the most popular col
ored boxer in the Northwest, lie
keeps improving and, like Woods
Is headed for national fame as
boxer. Austin will round out
his card with another six and
two fours. The show next Tues
day night may be the last held
in the Pool this season The
promoters will soon stage the
fight shows in the Civic Arena,
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-03-09

ROLAND HAYES, information
ally known tenor, refuses to
sing over the radio because he
thinks 1t is offering his art too
cheaply.
In statement to the press,
Mr.. Hayes said:
Il believe in my art. l revere
it. | think 1t is culture itself.
For fourteen years l have held
as fixed light before me the
standard of the greats and be-
cause l have always felt that it
was worthy of attainment have
adhered to an ideal.
Behind that ideal there Is a
fixed price. have studied re-
.giously and prepared faithful.
so that If opportunity shoui.
ever knock I'll be ready. d.,
you blame me now for rtfua /. Z
% debauch my art by bein.
cheap? Do you blame me fol
refusing to eliminate myself
Ion the eligibles? All RICH,
pay me for radio and recor,
work the same prices ,shat you
lie willing to pay others who's,
calibre l believe | have matched
II do the work then, but no,
before"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-03-09
NEGkI MIGRANTS RETURNING TO DIXIE
bARBASO[ CO
REbUkEDF FOR
USE Of EP|THET

NEW YORK-A sharp letter
of protest has been sent to the
Barbssol Company shaving cream
manufacturers and the National
Jroadcast.ng Company because a
niger on the Barbasol radio
program February % referred
o the spiritual, Swing Low,
Sweet Chariot" as a "darky
song"
The letter, sent by the NA.A.
= p, says in part.
We hope you are not going
, reply to this letter by repeat
the old excuse that the
Droadcasting troupe and you
thought that the term 'darky'
was tender and endearlng word
employed by those who know the
Negro to express their regard
for him. The word 'darky' Is
resented by all colored people,
and they are particularly re-
sentful when this term Is used
over the air because 1t tends to
stigmatize a whole race and
plant In the minds of millions
Of listeners who have few, II
aay, powers of discretion the
impression that Negroes are
darkies.'
THE term is on par with
'sheeny,' 'chink,' 'wop,' 'dago,
mick and other such designa-
lions of racial groups, which
are known to be offensive and
which no newspaper editor or
.ad blpadcaster would whiting
ly tse."
The N.A.A.C.P. letter further
pointed that Swing Low Sweet
Chariot" was the special spiri-
tual which has been called the
finest expression of true Ameri1
can folk music and that the bad
taste and insult of calling 1t
darby song" was thus doubly
offensive. The word was used
during the fifteen-minute broad
cast of Carson Robinson's Buck
aroos for the Barbasol Company
over station WIZ and the Blue
Network.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-03-09
PAIR
FREED ON BAIL

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.-Charles
Burden and his white wife, for
merly Ruth Mason, both of Rich
mond, Indiana, who were ar
rested on a charge of amalga-
nation after being married here
two weeks ago, were released
from jail Tuesday.
Bail was set at 800 but
they were released on their own
recognizance" when r. l.. Bail
ey, attorney, who represented
them, stood for Burden and Miss
Maspn's father agreed to be re-
sponsible for her.
Both returned to their homes
In Richmond. The decision on
the motion to quash argument
on which by Mr.. Bailey attract
ed wide attention, is, to quote
Mr.. Bailey "still in the bosom
of the court" The Judge has
not indicated when he will give
his opinion.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-03-09
PORCY SHOWING
BRINGS WRATH

LINCOLN, Neb.-The dramat-
ie club of the University Of Ne
braska rought concentrated
wrath from the colored popula-
tion against both the play. "Por-
gy." and school.
Citizens contend that 1t de
picts the colored man as a crap
shooting low lifer.
Representative owen, colored,
has taken action in the state
legislature. He says that the
university is degrading the Ne
gro. Numerous colored defend
ers have come to the fore. how
ever. Among them is W Rob
ert Smalls, secretary Of the Ur-
ban League of Kansas City. pro
motion group Of Negroes. He
stated the play to be an artistic
attempt to portray the primitive
fe OF C red community.
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SOUTH IS GROWING TOLERANT, BLACKS
AND WHITESLIVE TOGETHER PEACEABLY

LIBERAL and If Kelly Miller, the
Uncle Tom of the Potomac, does
not watch out the South will get
rid of most of its Jim-crpwism
by the time he and his co-work-
ers thoroughly establish it in
the East and North. Under the
guidance of our genuflecting
leaders We are losing in one
section while gaining in the 9TH
er under more intelligent direc-
ton.
Constructive Program
In most cases of the contact
of white and colored people in
the South you see the opportun-
ity for constructive effort. Few
of them think of using the Ne
gro politically because of their
small vote. and the economic ex-
ploitation of the Negro in the
South is not always the domin-
ant motive in such contacts. The
Northern white man, then, is
approached by the Negro for a
handout or for a sinecure in re-
turn for questionable political
service, vile the Southern white
man seeks him to enhance his
social and civic worth by better
schools and efficient social well
fare agencies. In most of these
approaches the Southern white
man does not need the Negro
except as a desirable citizen so
developed as to make a larger
contribution to the public good.
Out of such cooperation must
come a more constructive pro-
gram than that of merely using
the Negro politically as a means
to an end. The political con-
sideration, too, will come in the
South as matter of conse-
quence. Already the Negroes in
the South are voting in larger
numbers. and the whites of lib
CONTINUED on page twol
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OSCAR DePRIEST, Negro Con
gresham. representing the First
Illinois district. is So years old
today, March 9. DePriest Is
the only Negro in Congress and
the first in that body for thirty
years. He Is now serving his
third term.
Born in Alabama in direst po-
verify, DePriest when young
man went to Chicago where he
made fortune in real estate
and other business. He Is rated
a millionaire.
DePriest has met with unus-
ual success as Congressman
and every bill he has introduced
has been approved He is Re
publican but announced this
week that he will not be bound
by party lines and will support
administration measures of Pre-
sldent Roosevelt
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-03-09
Church FIGHT To
Be HEARD IN THE
SUPREME COURT

NEW YORK Action on an
application for a writ of manda-
mus 10 compel the former off
GERS of All Souls Protestant Ep-
iscopal Church to give up th
records of the church in order
that IL may continue TO func-
ton, is scheduled TO take place
in the Supreme Court this week.
The petition was submitted by
the Rev. Rollin Dodd, who, IT
is revealed, called me citing of
the vestry on January 10. at
which time his opponents were
voted out of office. Discussion
in the vestry of the church re-
suited over admitting Negroes
to services on equal terms with
white parishloners and resulting
in the locking of the church
doors for three Sundays in Sep
TENDER and October.
Broke Church Locks
The triumph of the rector's
faction, after Bishop William T.
Manning had gone there TO
preach on october % and the
rector and friendly vestrymen
had broken the lock on the
church gates as they did on the
following Sunday, is not yet re-
corded in the church minutes.
The action. consequently, Is
termed unofficial, because Man
uel ]. Roure, deposed clerk of
the vestry, has refused to give
up the minute book, it is as
serted. The church's financial
operations have also been ham,
pered because 1t is alleged that
Frederick G. Shaughnessy. who
was ousted as treasurer, has re-
tanned possession of the bank
books, check books, cancelled
checks and other financial re
cords.
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The Progressive Herald
New Monthly Journal

Announcing It was created
and sponsored by the South End
Civic and Progressive Club. the
Progressive II erald d. Seattle's
ewest journalistic venture,
made its first appearance Sat
urday. The new journal will be
published once a month in the
interest of the South End or
ganization of which Edward j.
Robinson Is president. The Her
aids editorial staff is headed by
Zelmar Lawrence, who is assist
ed by thirteen contributing edi-
tors, all Of whom had their pic
lures on the front page.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-03-09
NEGRO MINISTER
To LIBERIA IS
COMING HOME

WASHINGTON, D.C.-(Special)
Appointment of Major General
Winship, U. S. A.. to represent
the United States in a special
mission to Monrovia, Liberia,
was announced by the State De
partment In Washington, Tues
day.
General Winship sailed for
his new post Wednesday from
New York, accompanied by Ellis
o. Briggs, a diplomatic officer,
Both Briggs and Winship, who
is Judge Advocate General of the
U. s. Army, are white.
Mitchell Sails
They succeed Charles e. Nit
chell, U. s. Minister to Liberia,
who left Monrovia for home on
Wednesday accompanied by Mrs.
Mitchell.
The appointment of special
white commissioner to Liberia
just three days after the new
President took office, is regard
ed as something unusual. The
State Department said Tuesday
that this change had the appro-
val OF President Roosevelt.
Not Officially Recalled
The State Department advised
the Associated Negro Press on
Wednesday that the return oil
Mr.. Mitchell does not mean that
he has been officially recalled
but that he will probably resign
as will all other ambassadors
and his resignation will be ac-
cepted so as to make way for
the new Roosevelt appointees.
Will Remain a Month
The two white commissioners
will remain about a month in
Liberia, the State Department
added, and each is suitable for
the part he is to play in seek
ing to pacify Liberia.
Their appointment does not
mean that no other colored per-
sons will be named as us. Mi
mister to Liberia, it was said
And it Is assumed, as in the
past, that President Roosevelt
will select suitable person for
the Monrovian post.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-03-09
WOODS KAYOS
BABY SAL SORIO
in One ROUND

To Henry Woods of Yakima,
high school student and the fist
ic sensation of the Northwest,
Baby Sal Sorio of California is
rightly named for he proved to
be only a baby at the hands of
Woods Tuesday night at Crystal
Pool. Sal Sorio, rated one of
the best lightweights of the Pa
cific Coast, was knocked out by
Henry in one minute and a quar-
ter of the opening round. At
the clang of the bell, Woods
fairly leaped to the center of
the ring to meet Sal Sorio. Hen
ry danced around jabbing, and
then sent two short left hooks
to Sal Sorio's head, who went
down for a count of nine. Ev-
erybody thought Baby was out,
as he lay flat on his face. He
slowly got to his feet and bare
ly raised his hands before Hen
ry had him down again and this
time for keeps. Woods was in
superb condition. He was light
ming fast, and eager for battle.
Henry is going places and 1t
looks like he is headed for the
junior weller championship. Be
sides Woods, Nate Druxman,
who staged the show had two
other colored boxers on the pro-
gram. AL Lewis, ace lightweight
of Gus Vests stable, took every
round of the six in a battle with
Bobby LaSalle of California. La
Sale took severe drubbing
from Lewis. Bobby Jones, col
ored featherweight, lost a close
decision to Billy Gray, white
scrapper from Fort Lewis. Had
Bobby waded into Billy as he
did in the fourth round he would
have won the bout. Chris Angel
kayoed Hector Somers in one.
Both are Filipino bantams. john
ny Martinez of California beat
Jack Rosander of Portland in
six. A big crowd attended the
Druxman show which proved to
be one of the best in recent
months.
Johnny Jones, colored feather
weight blew in from California
last week and Joined Gus Weeks
stable of boxers. Besides Jones,
West now has Lee Paige, Alvin
Lewis and Bobby Jones under
his management. West is keep
ing his boxers busy. Tuesday
night he had Lewis and Bobby
Jones on Druxman's card. Next
Thursday he sends Paige and
Bobby to Tacoma where Paige
will meet Leonard Bennett and
Jones viii meet Billy Gray.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-03-09
Lorenza Jordan Cole
With Philharmonic

Los ANGELES. Cal.--As the re-
suit of well displayed execu-
tiOn of the first movement OF
one of Grieg's Conchattas. Lor-
enza Jordan Cole was placed in
the schedule of the Phllharmon-
lie concerts beginning in October
of this year.
There Is no doubt that with
this accomplishment she will
soon have mounted the ladder of
world renown in the field of
concert music. Her ability has
been carefully analysed by the
music committee of the Philhar-
monte Orchestra and has been
judged technically as complete.
and her Interpretation most ar
tistic.
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White Minister Is
Sent To Liberia:
Mitchell Recalled
HABEAS CORPUS
HALTS RETURN
OF CRAWFORD

BOSTON, Nasty Wire
A writ of habeas corpus to. pre-
vent Massachusetts, from turn
ing George Crawford over to
the Virginia authorities was is.
sued by Judge Mcclellan in us
District Court, Monday. Craw-
ford was represented by Butler
r. Wilson, president of the To-
cal branch of the National As
ISOLATION for the Advancement
Of Colored People. Assist ant
Acknowledgement Stephen D. ba-
ciaglugo represented the COM
monwealth.
March Is is the date for hear
ing.
Crawford is the accused MUIR
derer of Mrs. Agnes Boeing lis
ley and her maid In Loudon
County, Va.
In spite of a consecutive alibi
for Crawford movements be-
fore, after and during January
18th. the date of the crime, In
spite of the fact that witnesses
sttested to his extreme poverty
during this period, making il
impossible for him to have paid
for a railroad ticket, in spite Of
the reliable testimony of 8
young man who had slept with
him in Boston on the night o.
the crime in the boiler room Of
the Hutchins Undertaking Els
Establishment, Governor Ely oil
of Massachusetts issued the ex.
tradition warrant for Crawford
return to Virginia where he is
likely to be victim of a mob
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-03-09
South Hears Radio
Talk on Negro Histor,

MONTGOMERY, Ala Presi-
dent H. Council Trenholm of
the Alabama State Teachers Col
lege, made his second radio ad-
dress within seven days over
Station VISTA located at the
jefferson Davis Hotel here on
Wednesday night when he inter
preted the National Negro His
tory Week observance in a talk
that was a part of the weekly
forty-five minute program.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-03-09
ALL AFRICAN RACES WERE NOT BLACK.
some WERE BLONDES and BRUNETTES

the existence of brown as well
as white Africans. with hair
ranging from short and frlzzled
to long and straight, has been
definitely proved.
Blondes of Norway
The blondes of Norway. Swe-
den and other parts of Northern
Europe are descendants of Ar
RIGA and this Norwegian family
is no freak" but simply few
who show more clearly than
others the characteristics of their
ancestors, the Blondes of Africa
There is no mystery to 1t and
Professor Mohr could have cas-
lily cleared up the dilemma had
he so desired. We presume he
is not ignorant of the facts.
Long Haired Africans
Professor Mohr's statement
that short. frizzled hair is an
alagous to the Negro race. has
no historical backing and must
be emphatically nailed as falla-
cious. Either he Is ignorant of
recorded discoveries by noted
historians and travellers or he
Is Clike 80 many of his ilk). de-
liberately suppressing the facts.
One of the greatest, Bishop Gre
goire, in his Monumental Works
writes But we find by the
narratives of travellers that on
the African continent as well as
In Madagascar. there are also
Negroes with long hair.
Such are the inhabitants OF
Bornon in the middle parts of
Africa; such were also the Neg
gro shepherds Of the Isle Of
Eerne where the Carthagenians
had factories"
These few items were among
a wealth of historical knowledge
will clarity the perplexity of the
people OF Norway and, as for
the family in question, there is
no cause for alarm. for, II the
truth is known. there are so
many people In Europe (Sean-
dinayla, Wales. France. SPAIN
who are direct descendants OF
Africa. that they would find
themselves not freaks, but in
very excellent company.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-03-09
HORDES TREK
SOUTH FROM
GLAD HARLEM

NEW YORK Conditions may
not be as favorable as they
could be for Negroes down South
nevertheless with the advent of
Spring, thousands are returning
TO their native Dixie. Harlem.
Brooklyn and Jersey City are
losing great numbers OF their
black population. This Is the
report of James II. Hubert, exc
Cutive secretary of the New York
Urban League who states his
organization does not take the
position of favorlng the return
of the Negro to the South but
presents facts as disclosed in
recent survey. Mr.. Hubert ad-
mits that his organization OBJ
tanned half-rate railroad tickets
for over 900 families during the
past year and that he Is obtain
ing transportation to the South
for approximately three families
each day. Almost every chart
table and religious organization
In Harlem Is assisting in some
degree In the migration. he said.
Southern agricultural colonies
in Georgia to which the mig
rants are going are described In
the article. One of these. own
ed by Roland Hayes. has forty
families on It.
Faced With Problem
People In Harlem have their
backs to the wall" Mr.. Hubert
is quoted as saying; "A migra-
ton is their only salvation.
More than 65 per cent OF the
inhabitants are receiving some
form of relief Two or three
families are doubling up in the
same flat. More people are ask
ing for help each day. They
don't know how to go about
getting relief
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-03-09
BY Carter G. WoodsOn


Editor, Journal of Negro History
WASHINGTON, D.C.-On my re-
cent trip to the Southwest l was
unusually, as well as agreeably,
surprised to find the whites so
deeply interested in the uplift
OF the colored people. In the
North and East the whites may
seek the Negro occasionally to
exploit him and to vote him to
their side; but, as a rule, they
do not care whether the Negro
goes up or down. In Texas,
however, I found here and there
prominent white men and wo-
men who go out of their way
to help the Negro. At certain
points they seem to be more an
xious to hear the story of the
achievements of the Negro than
the Negroes were themselves.
They wanted to take me away
from meetings where l had to
address my own people because
they believed that it would do
just as much good to tell this
story to the whites.
Observing these whites in &C
ton, too, l discovered that they
are much more liberal than we
often say they are. OF course,
the provisions for the Jim Crow
are there, and they generally ad-
here to them. Yet they are In
consistent. For example. the
railroad company refused to sell
me the usual Lower 10 to go
from Houston to Dallas, unless
l bought two tickets; but the
bus line on which l made the
trip had me sitting all the way
between a white man and a
white woman. At times, then,
l had to look for evidences of
carrying out the provisions for
caste provided by law. 1t ap-
pears that in this respect the
South desired to become more
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Daughter Ruler I'LL

Hill A DELPHIA, Pa.-Be-
cause of the strenuous work
thrown upon her office since
the death of the Grand Secre-
tary, Mrs. Kelley, of the Daugh-
ter Elks, the Grand Daughter
Ruler, Mrs. Abbie NJ. Johnson,
has been confined to bed for
more than a week.
The high Elk figure was Or
dered to bed by her physician
after an extended trip to Rich
mond, Norfolk and Washington
where she took over much of
the business formerly handled
by the Grand Secretary's office.
Her present condition is report
ed favorable.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-03-09
Casket Draped With
Confederate F a g

HATTIESBURG, Miss.-After
funeral services for Romeo An
derson, who died here at the
age of 80, his casket was draped
with the Stars and Bars OF the
Confederacy. He was the only
Negro member of the j. r. Car
ter post of the United Confeder-
ate Veterans.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-03-09
Movies Paid SIS, 600

HOLLYWOOD-It is estimated
by officials from one Of the prin-
cipal casting bureaus that APP
proxlmately $4,000 has found
It's way into the pockets Of col
ored people who have been EN-
ployed In pictures this year by
the major studios.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-03-09
Slashes Girls Throat

Los ANGELBS-George Gro
well, 40. commonly known ar
ound Twelfth Street and Central
Avenue as Big Foot. severely
slashed the throat of Roberta
Wright, 28. beautiful blonde col
ored girl, as she stood in the
doorway Of the house Of friends
on 18th Street here last week.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-03-09
so, 900 Idle Negroes
In NetO York City

NEW YORK CITY-Relief di-
rector, James T. Hubert, makes
the statement that there are So
900 unemployed heads Of famil-
les within the boundaries Of
New York's black belt. "-Har-
lem,