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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-11-02
White Hubby Asks
Dismissal OF Suit
Against Physician
FOREMAN PROMISES
HELP AT BOULDER.

LAS VEGAS, Nevada = Clark
Foreman, Advisor on the Economic
Status of Negroes to the Secretary
of the Interior, has promised fed
eral aid in improving working con-
ditions for Negroes OF the Boulder
dam project, as wen as working
toward obtaining housing for them
in Boulder City itself.
This fact was made clear in a
letter to w. H. Christian, chairman
Of the ColoFea Democratic Club
here. He had complained to the
department of the segregated way
in which Negro labor was being
treated.
In answer Mr.. Foreman said as
far as the employment is concern
ed, the secretary has given this
his attention and Negroes win be
employed" This referred to Ne
groes working in the Bureau of Re-
clamation as well as ON the Boul-
der project. He said that Mr.. lex
es wanted it known that he intends
to see to it that Negroes enjoy
their full share of the recovery
program"
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objects, once human forms proud
of themselves, mingling with wo-
men wearing the seasons latest IA
shion creations, men attired in
their best bibs and fuckers, especi-
ally at the corner of 18th street
where congregste students from
the four corners of the earth, and
crowds of "nothing-to-doers' cry
cheerfully at each other.
The days are the most interest
ing for one sees never ending pro-
cessions of men pushing broken
down baby carriages, little wagons
or carts, or anything on wheels,
containing junk. Junk-and pa
per. They gather paper and sell
it for twenty cents a pound. And
it takes much paper to make a
pound.
The MIRA. parade startled the
town, that is al Of the town save
Harlem-which sent down a few
fraternal workers and so forth to
take part. OF course, it was
parade and Harlem never misses
an opportunity to parade. In fact,
all of Harlem is parade. And
such a paradel
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-11-02
Gets Life for Murder Of White
Man Whose WidON He Married

testified, Gathright and her mother
threatened her with a similar fate
If she told on them.
Sylvia related hearing her moth
er who is now the wife of Cath
right and Gathright discuss several
days previous to the killing, the
necessity of getting rid of Spencer
in order to escape his wrath when
he should learn that the child to be
born to her was Gathright's.
When the verdict was read by
the Judge, Gathright sat quietly
in his chair, and from a remark
which he had made to a news
paper representative during re-
cess of his trial Monday afternoon,
he was pleased with the verdict.
He had expected death sentence.
Spencer's body was found the
morning of the second day after
the killing by two neighbors who
noticed a flock of chickens on a
hillside mile and a half from the
Spencer home. When the men
went to investigate the presence of
the chickens, they found the dead
body of Spencer.
The discovery of the chickens
and two sacks of other fowls in
dicated that he had been chicken
stealing and that Spenser was shot
while returning home.
Mrs. Spencer and daughter went
to DesMoines and were followed
later by Gathright. There they
were married by Negro minister.
Gathright left Des Moines to come
to Galloway county to get some of
his clothing and was arrested
while there.
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FULTON, MO-The eternal tri-
angle but IN different setting.
A circuit court here Wednesday
night found Mrs william Cath
right, 80 white wife Of William
Gathright, Negro. guilty of cocoon
spiracy in connection with the first
degree murder of her former white
husband, Arthur Spencer. Teb-
belts, Mo-. farmer, the night of
February Is. of this year.
The jury fixed the penalty at As
years Imprisonment.
Mrs. Gathright's 25-year-old Ne
gro husband was found guilty of
first degree murder and sentenced
to life Imprisonment Tuesday.
It was Spencer's I3-year-old
daughter, Sylvia, who brought
in the most damaging testimony
in the case. She described how her
father and Gathright, who lived on
an adjoining farm left their homes
together the night Spencer was
killed, with the intention of steal
ing chickens.
Several hours later Gathright
returned, according to the girl.
She told of awakening about 2.SO
o'clock when Gathright came into
the room where she and her moth
err were sleeping the night of the
killing.
She said Cartwright. went to the
stove and put something in it to
be burned. and in doing SO drop
ped the lid Of the stove, arousing
her. She testified that Gathright
told her mother that he had killed
her father and told where the
body could be found. When it was
noted that she was awake, she
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-11-02
HOSPITAL En- DS
JIM CROW RULE
IN Los ANGELES

LOS ANGELES-As a result Of
a citizens meeting held last week
under auspices of the Colored
Women's Political Study Clubs to
protest discrimination against coll
ored nurses and employees Of the
Los Angeles County Hospital, or
ders were given to discontinue
segregation of colored employees
in the dining rooms. Since erees
ton of the new hospital colored
employees have been required to
eat in a dining room separated
from white employees.
Although a series of investiga-
lions of the hospital is said to
have been conducted by various
groups and individuals Interest,"
ed in the case Supervisor McDon-
ough declared at the meeting that
he had never heard of the unjust
practices against Negroes and was
heartily against any form Of dis
elimination in public institutions.
His order to the hospital head
followed and bulletins announc-
Ing the new policy were sent out
throughout the hospital.
Still Face Color Line
Negro nurses are still housed
in a shack far removed from the
regular nurses dormitory and un-
til the new order. were required
to eat behind a screen near the
kitchen. Regardless of their SEN
iority, they are not allowed to
take charge OF ward and b.
many cases colored graduate nur-
ses have been placed on duty in
technical charge of white student
nurses.
The only Negro ever to serve
as inferno, DR.. John M. Robin,
son, Jr.. was admitted under an
agreement that he would not ex-
anime, treat. or be present during
the examination or anoesthetica-
ton of white patients, particular
-ly white women. Since that time
all applicants for internship have
been required to submit photo
graphs before taking the civil
service examination.
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Right here I want to tell you
that the biggest suckers today
are the men who are supposed to
have the educated brain. I know
some people viii disagree with me,
but I know, maybe they haven't
come in contact with such. have
seen college professors judges and
bankers toss away their money
In games IN which they didn't have
a Chinaman's chance. If they had
as much money as there is tea in
China they couldn't beat the games.
Many Of the colored walters in ca
barets I discovered were college
graduates. I have even seen sew
sral serving as porters and fun
kys This does not lower ones
character nor do 1 mean this for
sIiir. One has to make a living
you know Especially In Chicago
and New York City / found the
cabarets a source of employment
for educated young men and wo-
men.
In all of the colored cabarets,
you viii find the best looking coli
ored women In the city working
as mattresses. those that are not
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TAKE A GOOD LOOK at the
photo at the head Of this column.
Use all your powers Of discern
ment and then decide whether or
not healthy male Of any race
could even desire to have illicit re-
lationship with the dear old lady.
Only fool, a moron or a jack
ass would even think Of attacking
an 80 year old woman with intent
to rape. George Armwood. a tram
silent Negro, who was accused of
such an act. has been lynched IN
the Christian state Of Maryland.
Unless Armwood was pervert or
crack Drained IDIOT I would not
believe all the signed confessions
piled as high as the L. G. Smith
Tower
THERE ARE some things which
do not tie in with nature and COM
mon sense, and normal man att
lacking an old woman Of 80 years
is one of them. Look at the pic
ture above! Do you believe such
a cock and bull story? No intel
ligent man viii believe it. The
old lady's clothing was torn and
she described an individual similar
to Armwood She never saw him
before and he was never identified
by her. Upon those facts Mary
land reyerts to barbarism and plac-
es another blot upon the already
blackened record of that state. The
old lady had an illusion or else
some relatives were trying to get
rid of her. If George did attack
the woman he was crazy and
should have been sent to a hospital
for the insane. And if he was not
crazy some one is lying.
AND ANOTHER THING, since
I am on the subject, 90 per cent
Of all the rape accusations are fai-
ry tales-lies. And that goes for
both white and colored women. Is
it not peculiar that SO many Ne
groes attack white women in the
same section Of Maryland where
the alleged culprit is almost sure
to be lynched? Most papers as
sumo that Armwood committed
the "atrocious crime" But con-
denim the lynching. Look at the
picture! Consider the evidence!
The cries of innocent victims OF
lynch laws rise to heaven. Some
thing must be done to stop Ameri-
cas- great crime.
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VOTED PENSION
FOR HIS ORDEAL
IN DEATH ROW

CLEVELAND, Ohio-C ompensa-
ton of $4,000 for the % months
he spent in the Ohio penitenti-
airy death row" and the five diff
ferent times he faced electrocu-
ton before he was freed on
murder charge was voted Joseph
Weaver, Negro, by the Cuyahoga
county commissioners Monday.
The award was made possible
through legislation passed by the
last general assembly which au-
thorized the commissioners to
make compensation up to $4,000
Funds to pay the award are not
available now, however.
Weaver was convicted of kill
ing a night watchmanin April,
1927, and sentenced to death.
Five gubernatorial reprieves were
granted and finally the stare SUI
preme court granted the con-
demned man a new trial. He was
freed by a direct verdict of not
guilty on April 5, 1929.
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FoIIow Ne

TOO MANY PARENTS say,
Let my child come up like I did"
That same parent viii then pro-
coed to show how little education
he had, (Which is evident) that he
never had fathers or mothers
care, land you ask yourself why
he doesn't poison HIMSELF; that he
went to work when he was eight
years old, (and you ask what has
he to show for it, and he goes on
in this manner till you are nause-
ated. To us it has always seemed
like the supreme example Of ego
tisrn for a parent to want his child
to be an imitation Of himself. A
liberal, far visioned parent should
hope for better things for his off
spring. He should long for his
children to avoid the obstacles he
met and to have smoother sailing
upon life's sea. The Chinese lag
ged for centuries because they
made their philosophy; following
in the footsteps Of the fathers. An
cestor worship is the ignorant past
bullying the enlightened present.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-11-02
CoIored Giants Win
Winter League Opener

LOS ANGELES Before crowd
of 5000 persons witnessing the OPP
ening game of the Winter Baseball
League at the White Sox Park
Sunday, Wilson's Royal Colored
Giants won a twelve inning game
from the White Kings composed
of big league stars, score 4-3. Tur-
key Stearns, left fielder, won the
game for the Giants when he
smashed long home-run over the
right centerfield fence. Satchel
Paige, sensational colored pitcher,
struck out 1S of the white players.
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EUGENE K: JONES
GETS PLACE N
I. COMMERCE DEPT

WASHINGTON, D. C. An
nouncement was made here on
Wednesday of the appointment of
Eugene Kinclle Jones of New
York City as a special assistant
in the Department Of Commerce
to head unit for the study of the
economic problems of the Negro.
Mr. Jones, it is reported, win re-
ceive a salary Of $500 per year.
His is the second major appoint
snent Of a Negro by the new De-
nocratic administrator.
Mr.. Jones, who for more than
twenty-three years has been the
executive secretary of the Nation
al Urban League, is considered one
of the foremost authorities on the
problems OF Negro life in cities.
He was born in Richmond, Va,
in 1885 and is graduate of Win
gate Academy and virginia Union
University, where his father was
a member of the faculty. He re-
ceived his Master of Arts degree
from Cornell University in 1908.
Before becoming affiliated with the
work of the National Urban League
he taught school in Kentucky.
At the office of the National Ur-
ban League in New York it was
announced that Mr. Jones would
not retire from the work of the
organization but would be granted
a sabbatical leave during his ten
ure of office in Washington.
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THE LOVE LIFE Of
NELSON
IS SMOOTH AGAIN

The tumultous love life' Of
DR.. Eugene c. Nelson seems to
have drifted into becalmed seas
here with the announcement on
Wednesday by Attorney Harold L.
Davis of the dismissal Of the
100000 alienation of affections
suit brought against the Doctor
by a white man, Leo F. Desmond,
who charged that the attractive
Negro physician "stole the love of
his wife, Margaret Fay Desmond.
while she acted as his secretary"
LII. Nelson was W nave lesced
DESMOND III court wednesday pe-
lore superior Juoge n. k-arker
WOOD, Out Inc wnACe man Iaaa0u
TO appear, and II was runl0red
that the couple hau reconclled
their differences ana hau agreed
to forget pne past. Accornnsly,
Judge WOOD, on the mosion OF
Attorney Hugh CuIier, represent
ing Dr. Nelson, dlsmasseo Lile case.
ACCORDING 10 Attorney Laws. al
torney Tor Desmond, ne INFORMED
the court that desmond hau call
ed at hls oII1ce apouD Jn1ee weeks
ago to discuss the case. SINCE
that time, the lawyer stated, he
had heard nothing OF desmond
and believed that the man had
left the city. he also intlmated
that it was possible that Mrs.
Desmond had accompanied her
husband.
Accused of the theft of the love
of the white woman, DR.. Nelson
in his answer filed for court re-
cord stated that although he had
fallen in love with Mrs. Desmond,
his former secretary, he hao been
under the impression that she
was a single woman.
Suit Filed
During the first week of July
1888, Leo F. Desmond, engineer
and mechanic, whose wife acted
as secretady for Eugene C. Nell
son, filed suit for annulment Of
his marriage to the Virginia wo-
man, alleging that DR.. Nelson had
stolen her affections, and asked
the court for 100000 damages.
Mrs. Desmond in a counter ac-
ton. alleged that she was in love
with the Doctor whom she de-
scribed as "the handsomest man
she had ever met" and that
she would stick to him in spite
of all" The action created quite
! a stir in certain circles in the
city.
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NELSON love CASE QUASHED
KILLER
WILL FACE TRIAL

TUsKEcEE, Ala.-The District
jury, IN session here on Wednes-
day. returned a true bill charging
first degree murder against J. D.
Thompson, former cafe proprietor
ia the Tuskegee Institute commun-
lily, for the killing of Russell C. At
lins on the morning of July l. Mr..
Atkins was Director of Agriculture
at the Institute and acting princi-
pal at the time of his death.
The District Court viii convene
Monday, at which time Thompson
win be arraigned before Judge w.
3. Bowling and the date of his
trial set.
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entertainers.
WITH The LADY


You ask her for dance and she
readily consents. In a few mo-
ments you two are gliding over the
floor to the strains Of music.
When the dance is over, instead
of you going back to your original
seat at your table, you take seat
at your lady friends table. OF
course she orders a drink and you,
of course, you pay for it.
This is really the beginning of
the end, of what was meant for a
perfect night and we viii see.
Here your lady friend discovers
couple of her friends at a table
alone.
OF course she calls them. They
order and order and you pay, al
ways pay
Always remember, these places
are made for money and if you do
not want to spend. keep away, do
not enter. they can get along with
out you, don't forget it.
SLOT MACHINES
One thing they have done and
that is. they have done away with
the five, ten and twenty-five cent
1rontinuad IN pace Threel
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Lucy Laney, Educator
Dies in Augusta, Ga.

ATLANTA, Ga.-Miss Lucy La
ney, president and founder of the
Haines Junior College, died in Au-
gusta, Ga, last Monday, at the
age of 81 years. Funeral services
will be held today Thursday.
Miss Laney graduated from At
lanta University and taught school
in Georgia for several years. In
1886 she embarked or a plan for
the establishment of a school for
training young men and women in
useful and cultural arts. The out
come of this plan was the Haines
Junior College.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-11-02
Phil Edwards Wins
And Loses on Track

KINGSTON, Ont.-Phil Edwards
Canadian Olympic middle. distance
star, Friday won the $50 yard run,
but was defeated in the 440 yard
event in the annual intercollegiate
track md field meet here. Run
ming for McGill University, the
former New York University ace
finished 10 feet back of Bill Fritz,
of Queens, in the quarter mile.
Fritz was timed in so 40 seconds.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-11-02
Noted Minister Dies

WASHINGTON = The Rev. DR..
Alexander Willbanks, 81, died at
bis residence last Friday. Funeral
services were held Tuesday. He
was. pastor of Tenth Avenue Bap-
fist church for II years and for
many years official evangelist for
the National Baptist Convention.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-11-02

PHILADELPHIA Especially -
Speaking to crowd of 1000 per-
sons attending political meet
ing at ZION A.Nh.E. Church Mon
uay nignG. Congressman oscar
Det,aesC OF Limos plJUerIy tiay-
ca negroes wglo pretend they
are democrats. Inc Congress
man SAID many Negroes are
reaoy 10 hop ABOARD anything
from a mule 70 a Tying machine
out / can't Deileye any sane Me-
gro VINO knows the history OF the
Democraglo party would LABEL
niInseu a Democrat. lie might
90 II Tor money or JOB, De-
triesJ SAID, puJ after spenulng
the money or losing the JOB a
negro Win an ounce OF brains
would return to the RepuDncan
RANKS" A near riot broke out
resulting ID the calling OF po-
Ice squad wnen several Negro
democrats sought to heckle De-
rrIesU. The Congressman just
IlnIsned h1s speech lauolng the
rtepuoncan party wnlcn has CIV
en- nonors ana high poslJlons to
negroes when Ernest Phlelds and
jarrett Jackson, TWO young De-
mocratic leauerS, Jumped from
Cne4r seats and hurled several
questions at the surprised legls-
iaJor. Several of the G. o. p.
workers sought to stop them ana
when the two pontlcians con-
tlnued in their efforts the police
were called and the men were
asked to leave. During the whole
time the church was in an up
roar. Half of the immense mob
shouted let them talk" and the
other half, composed mostly of
organizauon hangers-on, yelled,
throw them out"
Before any of the Republican
cohorts coul stop them, they a.
gain asked DePrlest several ques-
lions. who killed the Dyer bill?
Who knitted the Civil Rights
bill?" DePriest answered. Il do
not know anything about local
or state politics" Then what
right have you to come and
speak here?" hi was challenged.
The Congressm N heatedly re-
piled II have & right to speak
wherever I pleast," BY this time
the two men were again quoted
and asked u lecve.
In the speech by DePriest,
which occassioned the questions,
he criticized Magistrate Henry
for boiling the Republican party.
However, he said that he didn't
say not to vote for Henry as he
never told Negdoes to defeat a
Negro. He pointed out the fact
that Henry was sometimes re-
publican and sometimes Demo
GRAFT. The Congressman said that
all the honors Negroes had re-
ceived were given them by the
Republicans The lynchings in
Maryland and the South ne
blamed on the Democrats and
said that Negroes would have
thirty congressman if Democrats
allowed them to vote. "No race
would support a party that had
treated it like the Democrats
have treated the Negro"
Turning to national affairs
he attacked the MIRA, labelling it
the Nothing Accomplished Act"
THE only things Negroes get out
Of it is the loss Of their jobs"
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Olden Days: A stocking was an
article worn on the foot.
Modern: A stocking is worn on
foot and head
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Keep Away from the Bright Lights"
Says Oh Timer, They'll Get You"
esY OLD TlNER)

Concluded from last week.
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Evening star., 1933-03-12
Engraving Process Simplifed.

The art of making engravings for
printing in newspapers and books has
been greatly sinlplifled by the invention
of Walter HOWE. director of Interna-
tional News Photos. The process now
in general use requires many hours,
whereas the new method performs the
operation in half hour. As matter
of fact. at a recent demonstration Mr..
Howie and his assistants took a photo
graph Of the gathering and showed the
finished cut in Is minutes. The appa-
ratus resembles lathe and the photo
graph to be reproduced is mounted upon
revolving cylinder which passes in
front of an electric eye" The faint
electrical impulses sent out by this eve
are sufficient to excite a 60-watt bulb,
controlling the depth of the cut of
tool on the zinc plate and the picture is
thereby reproduced on the metal sur
face. Half-tones have been made in
newspaper Office at cost OF "a Of q
cent per square inch. Single column
cuts have been made n four minutes