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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-26
Unused Statute Cited in $25, 900 Act
Dispute Ended And All's Well

Did Postmaster General James
A. Farley call senator Hugo Black
upper photo) a publicity hound'''
or did he not? F'arley's predeces.
sor, Walter f. Brown, said he did.
Farley said he didn't. Anyway.
there were no hard feelings, for
you see in the lower photo Farley
Geft) and Brown shaking hands
after each had had his say at the
laugh-provOking hearing OF the
airmal investigating committee, OF
which Senator Black is chairman.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-08-02
Surprises Found in Harlem,
Worlds Largest Negro City

NEW YORK (By S M = On
18Th Street we found ourselves in
the heart of Harlem and gazed GU
riously at the black faces and the
narrow low apartment houses.
Harlem, the place of black-and-tan
clubs, illicit loves and corrupt mite
clubs.
We closely examine the windows
as we pass, hoping to catch some
breath of the lurid tales we have
heard in small towns away from
the metropolis. In one window we
find q sign stating there's branch
Of the Rosicrucion order, and be-
side it is a Spiritualist church.
Further down the street is a sign
telling us that here was the Mwa-
linnu school for the preservation Of
the good, the true and the beauti-
full
We enter the building to find
out more about this interesting
sign, and that was the beginning
Of losing all interest in the dens OF
vice. The night clubs are an old
story, but here was something new.
The room into which we were ush-
cred was clean and neatly furnish
ed, and the walls were decorated
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-08-02
JAMES STEPHENSON
DIES in ROSLYN WIN.

ROSLYN, Wash.-Funeral rites
under auspices of the Grand Lodge
of Masons were held here Thurs
day for James E. Shepperson, re,
pioneer resident who died in a To-
cal hospital last Saturday after Sc
veral months illness due to dropsy.
The rites were conducted by JOS
eph T. Simms, grand master of
Masons of which the deceased was
the second grand master and one
of the organizers of the grand
lodge. Shepperson, a native of
Tennessee, resided in this vicinity
A years, coming here from Iowa
with Negro coal miners to be en-
ployed in the mines at New Cas-
tie and Roslyn. He took an active
part in politics and for several
years he was president of the
Washington State Colored Repub-
lican Clubs. During the Governor
Hartley administration he was en-
ployed at the State Capitol. Shep-
person was robust figure, weigh
ing 800 ppunlis, and was well Xix
ed for his jovial disposition.
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with signed pictures Of Hall John
son, Paul Robson, and a signed
picture Of Toscanini thanking the
school for its contribution tC the
Philharmonic Symphony Society
of New York. Several interesting
studies of African life hung at the
further end Of the room, and hand
made mats of great beauty and
symmetry lay on the floor.
Founder Explains
Soon short, stocky, hght-col-
ored woman entered the room and
introduced herself as Manet Fow-
Ter, original founder of the school
in Fort Worth, Texas, five years
before. She told us that the school
was for the education of the color
ed person in his own background,
and folk lore, and teaching him
how to put some Of his primitive
heritage into a useful form.
MRaIimu school has given an
excellent account Of itself in many
downtown recitals by its arrange
ments of African spirituals.
Many things are happening in
Harlem besides shootings and de-
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-08-02
Battering Barriers Of Prejudice
Stirring Chapters From the 25-Year History
OF the National Association for the
Advancement of CoIored People
Unusual findings for the Usual
"Crlme

Unusual findings for the Usual
"Crime
Thanks to the efforts of the n.
A.A.C.P. Negroes accused of rap
ing white women are not always
lynched or sentenced to death. In
1922 Luther Collins was arrested
in Houston, Texas, charged with
criminal assault upon a white wo
man. He was hastily tried, evil
dence favoring him was excluded,
he was convicted and sentenced to
death. The Houston Branch enter
ed the case and secured a reversal
of the conviction on the basis of
the excluded testimony. The sec
ond trial ended in a hung jury,
eight jurors being for acquittal,
and four for a lighter sentence
than the death penalty. On Octo-
Der 20, 1924, Collins was again
tried and this time sentenced 70
SO years Imprisonment. The
Branch attorneys promptly APP
pealed and in January, 1925, the
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
reversed the decision and ordered
retrial. The fourth trial in
1925, the case was dismissed. Luz
Their Collins was freed in septem-
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-08-02
NEGROES CAN GET
MESS JOBS ONLY.
IN j. 5: NAVY

NEW YORK (Co-op)-That the
peak of advancement possibilities
in the U. S. Navy, for any but
white persons, is the post of offic-
ers' steward, was revealed In an
interview with an officer on the
flagship Pennsylvania while the
U. S. fleet was anchored here last
week.
Colored people, Fil!pinos, and
foreigners are denied regular en-
listment in the Navy, according to
the officer, who would not allow
his name TO be used, but they may
secure limited employment in the
mess department.
Only 1875 on 90 Ships
Ninety-six ships were included
in the fleet, massed here for the
naval review, with combined crews
of approximately 10000 officers
and men. Of this number, 125 are
colored.
In spite of their restriction TO
the mess department, the colored
sailors enlistments are binding to
practically the same degree as are
those of the whites.
Enlistments are for a period Of
four years, and may be extended
or renewed. Colored recruits are
sent to a training school at Hamp-
ton Roads, Va, to learn the Navy s
standardized mess service.
Officers Need Special Touch
Promotions within the depart
ment are available with cores
ponding increase in pay. Colored
cooks, it was explained, serve only
portion of the crews, principally
officers and other special groups,
while white messmen usually pre-
pare the food for the masses of the
crew, where individual touch is not
expected.
The officer stated that colored
firemen were used in the navy at
one time, but that the practice of
enlisting them had been discontip-
ued and probably not more than
one or two were left in the SER
vice.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-08-02
ALL SHADES TO Be
IN LEW LESLIE'S
1885 BLACKBIRDS

NEW YORK; What is regarded
as the best news of the year am
ong the many idle actors was the
announcement by Lew Leslie that
he intended to take 1895 Black
birds to London within two weeks
Leslie says that plans have been
complete for some time and that
all remained was the formal sign
ing of the contracts by the cast
which includes many new stars
and feature acts.
Searches Harlem for Talent
The very shrewd Mr.. Leslie mas
spent the week in Harlem search
ing for pretty new faces for his
chorus.
He insists that he does not care
what complexion the girl comes
just as long as she is pretty and
shapely.
She may be a coal black or she
may resemble lily white, as long
as she displays that Venus some
thing she can make the grade.
They will sail in two weeks.
The show is already booked on
the other side. Lew Leslie's come
back to the big show tent at this
time was not at all anticipated.
Declared broke and beat to his
socks a year ago when lack Of
finances compelled him to close mis-
"a show, the maker of stars was
thought finished.
He is the only producer who
seems to be willing to take a
chance with colored actors.
In his new 1885 edition he WIN
present: valaida Snow, Anninlas
Berry, Bessie Dudley, The -Four
Gobs, Jigsaw, and star from the
coast whose name Leslie would not
divulge.
With the signing of the contracts
it looks as if the non-employed ac-
tor will hit the high seas.
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WORKER
IS LASHED TO DEATH
FOR TALKING BACK
BLACK EAGLE ON
WAY TO LIBERIA

NEW YORK IL Col. Hubert F.
Julian, Harlem Black Eagle, .
one-time air ministe. of Abyssinia,
who has been promoting a hop ac-
ross the Atlantic for the past nine
years, sailed on the liner Europa.
Tuesday night.
Colonel Julian is said to DE on
his way to Liberia to get help for
his long-projected flight between
this country and the little African
republic. With a handbag full of
photographs of the Diesel-power-
ed Bellanca, on which a few more
payments are needed, he was OPP
timistic.
In 1924, Colonel Julian started
to Africa from New York in a
plane but crashed a few miles off
shore.
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High Death Rate Due
To Ignorance, Claim

MEMPHIS - That the higher
death rate in the colored popula-
ton as compared with that of the
whites is due to ignorance of
mothers about prenatal care, was
the indictment made in a recent
report by public health authorities
concerning infant mortality.
The report also took cognizance
of the unsanitary conditions in
which the group must live, the
lack of public health facilities, dis
criminatory distribution of educa-
tional funds, and low wages as
contributing factors in boosting
the death rate of the colorad
population.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-08-02
NRA HARMFUL To.
COLORED LABOR;
OFFICIAL ADMITS

NEW YORK Displacement of
colored workers as a result of the
National Recovery program and
the question of wage differentials
for the group were discussed by
DR.. Gustav Peck, white, executive
director of the Labor Advisory
Board of the NRA, at the labor in
stitute, Saturday.
DIR. Peck upheld the program
but an opposite position was taken
by Emmett Dorsey, of the depart
ment of political science of How
ard University, and John P. Davis
director of the joint committee of
the National Negro Alliance.
The white speaker admitted that
colored workers would not benefit
as much as the whites from the
recovery program because large
numbers of colored persons, due
to their occupation, do not come
under the MIRA provisions.
Domestics Have NO Code
"A proportionately large num-
Der of colored people are farm
ers," he explained; "a proportion
ately large number are also DOM
estes and in the unskilled classes,
and in each of these cases there
is no code for such workers"
The speaker pointed out that no
code authorized a differential bas-
ed on race, but only on region, the
North and South. He declared al
so, that white workers are also
victims of the North-South differ
entail.
Organization Urged
There is no plot in Washington
or among capitalists to keep the
colored people down economical
ly," continued the speaker. Until
the group is organized so that it
may bring influence to bear, in the
interests of the labor class, it will
not get full deserts"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-08-02
FT.DEARBORN ELKS
RENT FAMOUS CLUB
HOME in CHICAGO


CHICAGO (ANP)- For Rent"
signs in the front windows of the
home of FIT. Dearborn Lodge, No.
A, 1920 South Parkway, tell a
story of the decline in what was
once said to be the largest lodge
in the entire Elks jurisdiction.
The lodges membership rolls
have included some of the most
outstanding men in Chicago and
the nation. The home, once known
as the most valuable in the order,
was founded by James c. Martin,
for many years exalted ruler of
the lodge.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-08-02
FOUR HELD IN
DEATH BEATING
Of AGED NEGRO

PELAHATCHIE, Miss. Tile
whipping to death of Henry Bed
ford, a Negro born in slave days.
sent anger surging through this
little town Saturday.
Four white men, accused of MUIR
der, were hurried to Jail at Bran
don. Sheriff Virden Therril Of
Rankin County, who made the ar
rests, said be had delayed prelim-
mary hearings because feeling was
running high.
Bedford, victim of the flogging,
had been known to almost every
resident here for years.
Alex Murray, John Scales and
Benny Cawthorne, all of Pelahat-
chic, and M. M. Dotso,, of Shiloh,
were under arrest. They were de.
MED bond, pending a hearing next
Wednesday.
Cawthorne charged that Bedfori
a tenant of his father. D. w. Cav
thorne, talked back disrespectful-
ly' when they disputed a rental a
greement.
The sheriff said the men took
the 70-year-old colored man to
secluded spot outside of town We'd
nesday and whipped him with a
heavy leather strap.
The sheriff said he was notified
of the beating five hours later and
went to the scene with Cawthorne
and a doctor.
He said the old colored man was
lying on the ground, unable to
move, and although he was taken
into town and given medical treat
ment, he died that night.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-08-02
ON SPOKANE
WATERS CLUB IS
HELD AS ILLEGAL


SPOKANE, Wash.-Ruling that
search of the Waters and Porters'
club June 6, which resulted in the
arrest of Algie Ball, Fred Ray AM
william Johnson, colored, was IL
legal, Police Judge Stocker Tues
day discharged the defendants,
who had been arraigned on charg-
es of violating the Steele liquor act
Motorcycle Officer Walter John
son and State Highway Patrolman
Cashatt conducted the raid, walk
ing in behind some soldiers who
were being admitted.
Counsel for the Negroes argued
that the search was illegal and
asked that the evidence be sup
pressed. The court sustained this
motion. The liquor seized win be
returned to the Negroes.
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BISHOP YOUNG IS
ASSIGNED TO TEX.

ST. LOUIS, Mo. = Under the
new rule of the A.M.E. General
Conference by which the senior
bishop assigns the work in event
of the death of a bishop, Bishop
H. B. Parks assigned Bishop G. B.
Young to take the Texas area, for
merly held by Bishop Brooks.
Bishop s. L. Greene will take
Mississippi and Arkansas, the dis
trict formerly held by Bishop
Young.
The Louisiana district, formerly
assigned to Bishop Greene, was
given to Bishop w. Decker John
son.
After the funeral in Baltimore,
the bishops present did not over
rule the deuision of Bishop Parks.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-08-02
Alike or Different?


DR.. M. ASHBY JONES, white,
pastor of Central Congregational
Church, Atlanta, was the keynoter
at the third annual goodwill and
interraciaI conference in Memphis,
recently.
Among other things, he said;
IF we really wish to understand
the great difference between the
two races, we must remember the
sensational distance there is oe-
tween the Anglo-saxon and the
Negro. There are shocking and
obvious difference in color, feature
and temperament. Despite the
long years of close association, the
mysterious experiences of centur-
les of different heredity speak in
tones which are strange and alien
to each other. To what extent is
there not, at the back of all racial
problems between the Negro and
the white man in the South, the
conscious or unconscious assump-
ton that TIE Negro is not hum
am"
Following DR.. Jones, Professor
william Coker, also white, Of Man
assas High School, urged the tea
ching Of African history in the
schools, because:
III you get the Negro wanting
to be a white man too badly, he
won't make a decent Negro"
This statement was vigorously
applauded.
THE TROUBLE with most IN
terracial conferences is that they
stress differences and fail to men
ton likenesses.
DR.. Jones might well have called
attention to the fact that these two
races. originally entirely separate.
have lived together for more than
three centuries.
So closely have they lived toge-
Their that today there are five mil
lion Americans Of known mixed
blood and other millions Of unde-
termined racial mixture. DR.. Jones
might mention parenthetically that
most Of this mixing was done ~
white men who took advantage OF
helpless slaves and servants.
Certainly he ought to add that
so much alike have the two races
grown during the years that it is
frequently difficult 20 distinguish
between them except you see them.
professor Cookers allusion to the
races infers that there is a differ
ence between a decent colored per-
son and a decent white one.
If the professor dares suggest
that the coIored men who mattel
with white woman is trying to
oe white, we should have to ask
him whether the millions of white
men who mate with colored wo-
men are trying to be coiored?
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-08-02
EDITORIAL
Who Will Lead

IN THIS ZERO HOUR when
labor and capital are engaged in
a death struggle. who is leading
our labor group?
Nct since Emancipation have
there been such far-reaching is
sues involving the fate of colored
men and women as those involved
in the labor war waging on many
fronts in this country today
Where win we be when the
smoke of battle has cleared away?
Are we depending upon the Ann
erican Federation of Labor TO look
after colored workers in the new
order that may come out of the
present depression?
Are we looking to the New Deal
under the government to fix our
labor status for the next era?
WIN the new set-up being organ
lied by the National Urban League
swing into action and safeguard
the interests of colored workers?
Shall we turn to the Commun-
lists or the Socialists?
Or shall we just let matters
drift and settle down wherever
fate leaves US when the labor war
is over?
AT ANY RATE, it seems that
there is at the present time no ID
Dor movement guided by and Of US
among labor peop.e themselves,
through which all efforts may be
directed to bring US out of this
struggle, nearer TIE economic E.
quality status. That looked-for
minority group strategist labor
leader has not yet emerged from
the womb of these troubled times.
Let US keep on hoping though.
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Der from the cell he had occupied
since 1922. The Houston Branch
raised by itself the $1,000 needed
for his defense. The defense law
yers were Houston white men.
A Kansas "Scottsboro" Case
On March II, 1927, two white
girls, Margaret Akers and Julia
Mooney, claimed to have been as
saulted by two men at Coffey-
vile, Kansas. Three colored men
were arrested. A riotous mob
stormed the Jail and racial feeling
ran high. Three Negroes were
jailed on a charge of melting to
riot.
At the urgent request of the
Coffeyville Branch, the National
Legal Committee of the N.A.A.C.
P. sent Attorney Elisha Scott (col-
ored) to that city to defend the
Negroes.
Ir. Scott persuaded the Grand
Jury to investigate the rape charge
which resulted in the arrest of
Julia Mooney and Ira Kennedy,
white salesman, and the revelation
that white men and not Negroes
were involved in the rape charge.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-08-02
Harlem Group Forms
Cooperative League

NEW YORK-Five young men
attending Harlem Evening High
School and two young women re-
Gently formed national coopera-
tive organization called the Ne
groes' National Cooperative Lea
que, with headquarters ats East
18th Street. They wish to estab-
fish branches throughout the u. s..
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"Strivers' Row" Objects To
Father Divine $ New Heaven

NEW YORK Coop Residents
of "striver's Row." Harlem's most
exclusive residential block, are ex-
pressing bitter opposition to the
presence of Father Divine's latest
heaven" opened Thursday last at
2O3 West 13eth street.
Numerous and varied complaints
have been registered with West
135th Street police by members Of
the block association, who object
ed to the singing and hand-clap-
ping, odors of low cost meals be-
ing prepared in the mission. the
throngs of curious spectators and
the inconvenience caused to mo-
florists of the block by the buses
and other vehicles of the Divine
followers.
5000 Greet Cult Leader
A crowd of approximately three
thousand was on hand for the first
appearance Of the cult leader, on
Sunday following the opening, and
all efforts of the police to Keep
the subsequent throngs in order
have been ineffective.
William Pickens, field secretary
of the NAACP, visited one of the
meetings recently and reported his
findings" as follows:
Zone saint after another, black
and white, was bearing fervent
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-08-02
White MOther-In-Law Blasts
Interracial Honeymoon

"I love him and I'll follow him
to the end Of the world If neces-
sary to live with him." the girl
said. I'm not the first white girl
to marry a colored man and I
won't be the last one. I'm told
they can send me away for four
years. All right. I'll wait until
my time is up and then wen be
reunited. We viii never agree to
an annulment. If they try that,
Wen elope to some other state.
where minors can be legally mar
ried."
One BIIssful Week
Thinking of the blissful week
the couple spent together before
she and the law caught up with
them, Ma McClintock said:
wait till he gets out-if he ev-
er does-and see what happens.
Roosevelt didn't hear her and, be-
sides, he's kinda used to Ma Nc
Clinsock's opinions by now, for she
told him plenty.
MaroIe Says Ma is coIored
Besides Ma is sore on Margie
because her daughter, in order to
get the marriage license, put her
age up to Fl and told the clerk
her father was white, but her mo-
Their was a full-blooded colored
woman.
There's not one drop of colored
blood In the family" said Mrs. Nc
Clintock. forgetting that Roosevelt
has been in the family.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-08-02
Jobless Medics Are
Sought By N. M. A

CHICAGO (ANP)-Of Officials of
the National Medical Association
announced desire, this week, to
secure the names and addresses of
all trained, graduated, licensed and
reputable doctors, dentists, pha--
macists, and nurses who are not
practicing their respective profess
sions. Those who have these qua
lifications are asked to commune
cate with the general secretary Of
the National Medical Association,
ADJ Green Street, South Browns
vile, Pa.
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UNIONTOWN, Pa.-Margaretta
(Margie) Mae Bailey, 16, a roman
tic North Union Township high
school student married Roosevelt
williams, 20, and even this stolid
town was shocked by the holiness
of their interracial marriage.
But the fact remains that they
are honeymooning in the Fayette
County Jail, separated by two
floors of concrete and STEEL
Held for Court
They were held for Court by Al
derman Frank Foster, white. on
charges of conspiracy and perjury
and subornation of perjury be-
cause Of the tales they told in or
der to get a marriage license.
Margie's Mothers Turn
Margie's mother, Mrs. Caroline
Mcclintocl, who says she is white.
carried plenty of steam. She said
the couple were married on Friday
the 18th, which was bad luck to
everybody.
She not only asked that the mar
rage be annulled, but she vowed
to get even with her colored SON.
in-law.
Much Love, Little Money
Bail was fixed at $4,000, and
since many people with q lot of
love have only little money, they
went to Jail swearing undying love
and affection.
Given a chance to express her
self, Margie said:
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testimony to the godhead of this
black leader. The vehement way
in which they shouted and ranted
about his omnipotence and all
goodness, however, made the So
phisticated onlooker suspect their
faith was not as deep as their will
to make others believe; they seem
to try to make up in violence for
what they lacked in rational ar
gumert.
"Firss one colored sister was do
ing her stunt, to the loud 'amens'
of the other sisters and the more
tame looking brethren. She was a
heavy sister, but she would jump
up and come down on the floor
with both feet and with all her
weight and might. Those are stout
floors: the great architect, Stan
ford White, built them long before
he was slain by Harry X. Thaw.
This sister told how by simple
faith" in the newly discovered God
she had been cured of all manner
of diseases, including female
troubles"
White and Black Mix
Another put in that she had
not been able to see without glas-
ses, but now her eyes were open
When this black sister had done