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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-17
LATE DEVICES
ASSURE RIGHT
BRAKE SERVICE
Indiana Company Equip
ment Also Available for
Carburetor Work.

Since the start of brake service
many new devices have been pat
ented that assure the motorist of
complete confidence when the need
arises to make a sudden stop.
Some service stations and medi-
OGRE garages, realizing that profit
can be made by offering brake re-
pairing, have gone into the bust
ness. The average motorist, not
knowing what the requirements are
for proper brake adjustment. often
receives only temporary brake job.
The service garage today making
a success of the brake business is
well equipped with the machines to
do the work right, such as the In
diana Carburetor and Brake Service
Company, 325 North Delaware street.
E. w. Pummill, general manager,
recently purchased several new de-
vices that will aid in checking every
brake job that enters the place, and
make possible the complete salts
faction of every customer before
making payment.
Experienced brake mechanics for
all types Of brakes are ready during
the day to adjust or refine brakes.
A guarantee goes with every job,
according to Mr.. Pummill.
The Indiana Carburetor and
Brake Service Company also has the
authorized Stromberg carburetor
station for the indianapolis terri
tory and the certified representa-
tives of the Bendix Brake Company.
With the advent of spring
change in carburetor adjustment is
usually necessary to get the most
efficient results. Come in with your
car at the Indiana Carburetor and
Brake Company and ask for a COM
plete motor tune up, which includes
carburetor adjustment, and points
and plugs cleaned, you will be sur
prised at the new low price. This
service alone will undoubtedly save
you considerable money during the
next few months of driving.
The United States contains more
foSsilized remains cd dinosaurs than
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-17

The United States contains more
fossilized remains cd dinosaurs than
any other country in the world.
The Omaha guide., 1934-02-24
CRAWFORD GETS SEC
OND LIFE TERM

LEESBURG, Va. February I'll
(CNS) - On the recommendation Of
Commonwealth Attorney John Gal
leher, George Crawford colored was
sentenced to life Imprisonment on
February 18th, for the murder Of
Mrs. Nina Buckner. He had previous
" been found guilty Of the murder Of
Mrs. Nina Buckner. He had previous
sportswoman and given a life term.
Crawford pleaded guilty to the
murder.
In passing sentence, Judge j. r. H.
Alexander declared that Crawford
had entered the guilty plea without
any arrangement or pressure being
brought to bear. He said that due to
the fact that Crawford was the only
person who was a witness to the
killings and who might testify a
gainst Charles Johnson, accused by
Crawford as the actual murderer, the
life Imprisonment was the sensible
thing to give.
The Omaha guide., 1934-02-24
Protest to MIC Head on
Spingarn Censorship

NEW YORK, February 22-Walter
White, secretary of the National As
ISOLATION for the Advancement of
Colored People, and Roger Baldwin,
director Of the American Civil Liber-
ties Union have written letters to NJ.
H. Aylesworth, president of the Nat
ional Broadcasting Company, pro-
testing against the drastic censoring
Of the speech of j. E. Spingarn, pres
ident of the NAACP. on February IL,
in celebration of the 18th Anniver-
sary of the Association, when all re-
ferences to 'lynching," trace riots"
discrimination" and segregation"
were eliminated from his manuscript.
eve are writing" said Mr.. Whites
letter, ito ask if such censorship is
the official policy of the National
Broadcasting Company, and if it
meets with your approval"
Mr.. Baldwin wrote: 1T seems to
US incredible that anyone with ordin-
airy good sense should object to the
phrases eliminated in Nh. Spingarn's
manuscript The subject is so widely
discussed in the press, magazines and
on the public platform that we should
assume no possible objection could be
raised to it's discussion over the
radio"
The Omaha guide., 1934-02-24
Retired Howard University
Professor Approaching
His Goth Birthday.

WASHINGTON February 21-(C
NS)-Professor George J. Cummings
who was Dean Of the Academy of
Howard University until its discon-
tinuance in 1919 and also Professor
Of Latin and Greek at the time of his
retirement in the same year is now a
resident Of Andover Massachusetts,.
He is approaching his ninety-sixth
birthday. He and Mrs. Cummings re-
Gently celebrated their six~ty-fourth
wedding anniversary. Professor
Cummings has attained greater long
evity than any individual ever con
nected with Howard University. He
and his wife are also the oldest liv-
ing graduates Of Kimball Academy of
which he is the oldest living exprin-
cipal. He is further the oldest living
citizen of Andover Massachusetts, and
carries a gold-headed came which Is
owned in perpetuity BY that city and
is reserved for use Of its Oldest living
citizen. Professor Cummings and his
wife are both il good health and ia
ful possession Of ali their powers.
Professor Cummings taught many
of those now connected with Howard
University in professorial capacities
and is greatly revered by the Alumni
Of the University.
The Omaha guide., 1934-02-24
Doris Weaver Decision May
Block Judge from U. S.
Post
N. A. A. c. p. Protests Naming Judge
Allen to Circuit Court of APP
peals Bench.

Cleveland, Feb. 16.-Declaring that
~the history of the world will show
that n who discriminates against
the fellow lowest down units him.
self to sit in judgment on the matters
of the fellow highest up, the legal
defense committee of the Cleveland
Branch of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored Peo-
pie in a letter to President Roosevelt,
Vice President Garner and the two
U. S. senators from Ohio, opposed the
appointment of Ohio Supreme Court
Justice Florence Allen to the U. s.
Circuit Court of Appeals at Cincin-
natl, 0. The protest was voted at a
meeting of the legal defense commit
tee in Cleveland, February 10.
The opposition to the appointment
Of Justice Allen to the position to
which she aspires is based on "the
infamous opinion Of herself and ash
sociates in the case Of Doris Weaver
vs. The Board Of Trustees Of Ohio
State University, ct al, rendered
February 1882. The opinion, the
committee holds"is contrary to the
policy and law of Ohio for the past
fifty years" and was based on the
notorious "black laws" of Ohio, re-
pealed fifty years age.
Miss Weaver applied for a labora-
tory course in Home Economics at
Ohio State University, without which
she could not complete her course
This involved keeping house for a
number of white persons approximate
The Omaha guide., 1934-02-24
W VIEWS ON
SILVER

After the first flush of enthusiasm
over President R~oosevelt's proclama-
ton fixing the value of silver had
waned somewhat two distinct views
concerning the move appeared. One
is that it will cause a worldwide in
crease in the value of the metal thus
restoring the lost purchasing power
of the silver-standard nations. The
other is that its Importance has been
exaggerated and that it will be neces
sary to decree unlimited silver coin
age at a fixed ratio with gold before
the Presidents purpose is achieved.
Mr.. Roosevelt can do this under au-
thority contained in a rider to the
Agricultural Adjustment Act
The President himself has empha-
sized the Importance he places on
this power and that has lent weight
to the belief that he will exercise it
in the near future. Until that is done
it is the general opinion Of the silver
producers hat stimulation of their
industry will be limited and qualified
and of trade experts that the silver
standard countries will remain under
the general level so far as purchas-
ing power is concerned The next
move whatever it is will be of vital
Importance to the commercial well
being and the economic recovery Of
the world.
The Omaha guide., 1934-02-24
Will Tour South To Study
Negro Cookery

New York, Feb. 16.-Mrs. Carl L.
Cannon, wife of Professor Cannon Of
the Yale University library, and Miss
Hope Spingarn, daughter Of j. E.
Spingarn, president of the N. A. A.
C. p, will make a tour Of the South
early in March for the purpose Of
studying Negro cooking recipes and
other matters Of colored folklore
Their tour will extend from Philadel-
phia and Baltimore to Charleston,
Savannah, and New Orleans. Mrs.
Cannon is writing a Negro cook book,
in conjunction with Walter White,
secretary Of the N. A. A. C. P, and is
anxious to obtain as many recipes as
possible, and to meet famous cooks
throughout the South.
The Omaha guide., 1934-02-24
Georgians Get Light Terms
Al Ter Death Sentence
Reversal

Albany, Ca, Feb. 16.--Oscar Cor
don and his son Oscar, jr, two col
ored farmers near here, were found
guilty of manslaughter and sentenced
to one to three years in prison by
the Grady county superior court for
the killing of a white man last June.
Gordon and his son were convicted
last year of murder in the first degree
and sentenced to death in the electric
chair. Their two white attorneys,
James W. Smith and Delacey Allen
of this city appealed to the Georgia
supreme court and secured a reversal
of the verdict and a new trial.
The Albany branch of the National
Association for the Advancement Of
Colored People and the national Of
fee in New York employed Messrs.
Allen and Smith after the first YER
dict and enabled them to press the
appeal and second trial.
The two lawyers secured a change
of venue from Baker county to Grady
county and virtually worked a miracle
in securing the light granddaughter
verdict They write:
1--WE doubt whether there has been
a case in the history of your ~associa-
ton under the circumstances
little help that we could secure from
our witnesses, some of them had been
lynched and some had been driven to
the four corners of the earth we
feel very proud of our efforts in this
case"
The murder occurred on June 3,
1888, when four drunken white men
Of the locality entered the Gordon
house where a party was in progress,
In a fight with a Negro outside the
house one of the white men was shot
and later died. 1t has never been
exxactly determined who fired the
fatal shot Gordon and his son were
jailed in Albany, Pa, whence Mrs.
Gordon also fed in terror. Their
crops, stock and belongings were con-
fiscated.
The Omaha guide., 1934-02-24
ECONOMIC
HIGHLIGHTS

was still worth 81 cents. Result of
that was that banks could buy gold
there for S34 ship it to Washington
and sell it for $35-a profit of 3 per
cent in a week. At last reports the
fast liners for America were solidly
booked with gold freight for more
than two weeks in advance. Much of
the worlds supply of gold came out
of the treasures of Holland Belgium
Switzerland and Italy to the United
States. France sent most of all-105
100000 francs worth. This exactly
what the Treasury wants. So long as
gold flows into the country there will
be no difficulty in keeping the dol
lars exchange value down. There is
danger that France however will pro-
hibit gold exports. In that case the
American Treasury will have to sell
dollars to keep their value down pre-
cisely as stock manipulators throw
great blocks of shares on the open
market to ~depreciate their value. But
the burning problem of lethargic
commodity markets remains to be
solved
The Omaha guide., 1934-02-24
Woman Causes Arrest OF
Bishop In Brooklyn For
Violation Of Mann Act

The long arm of the law reached
out Monday and caused the arrest of
Charles Manuel Brace, So, self-styled
founder and bishop of the House of
Prayer for All Peoples, a non-sec-
tartan order which maintain churches
at 965 Herkimer street, Brooklyn, and
sc West 10th street, Manhattan.
The bishop is said to be the head
Of some 100000 white and colored
followers who have seventeen
churches in all parts Of the United
States.
He was arrested on complaint Of
Minnie Lee Campbell, 21, of 20 Whip
PIE street, Brooklyn and is being held
in $1,000 bail on a charge Of violating
the Mann white slavery act. The
young woman, a native Of Savannah,
Ga, recently became a mother and
charges that the prelate brought her
north in his limousine, in violation
Of this law.
The bishop appeared at the Brook
lyn Federal court on Monday in a
large sedan with a uniformed chauf-
feur at the wheel A short, stocky
man, weighing about $50 pounds, the
defendant told the court that he was
of Portuguese origin and that his de-
nomination makes no distinction as
to race or color.
He pleaded not guilty in broken
The Omaha guide., 1934-02-24
English Paper Scores
American Lynching Orgy

New York, Feb. ia copy of the
Liverpool Echo, an influential Eng
ish has been received at
the office of the National Association
for the Advancement Of Colored Peo-
pie here, containing a scathing fea-
ture article by Harold Butcher,
American correspondent.
Charging that "The clue to lynch
ing is largely economies, the article
saws, 1.-THE swift terror Of lynching
faces the Negro who gets 'uppitty'.
His employers want to keep him as a
cheap tool in the labor market; even
N. r. A. is permitting differentlal
wage scales against Negroes as COM
pared with whites. But a cheap Ne
gro is bad for a white worker, whose
chance of a job is jeopardised by the
colored man, who will work for less
1t is a vicious circle leading to per
petual terror, especially in districts
where Negro citizens outnumber
whites"
Citing the N. A. A. G. ?. lynching
statistics and Walter Whites state
ment on "the futility of depending on
local officials to stamp out moi vo-
lcnce', the article declares that the
excuse of the usual crime" is gen
orally without foundation. 1t goes
on to say: "Often these assault
charges are untrue. They merely
serve, like war atrocity stories as q
convenient weapon to infame the
mob In many ways other than
attacking white women the Negroes
have qualified for lynchings".
Asserting that the recently intro
duced Costigan-Wagner federal lynch
ing bill would be a boon. the article
concludes: perhaps at 10 time since
the days of Uncle Toms Cabin have
Negroes been so near to slavery as
they are today"
The Omaha guide., 1934-02-24
A. M. E. Minister Sues
Church For $1,000 Expense
Account.

WASHINGTON February 21-(C
NS)-The Rev. "A. B. Farmer Of
1850 Eighth Avenue Huntington
West Virginia is seeking through the
Supreme Court of the District of
Columbia to collect a judgment Of 81
990.17 awarded him in the Court of
Common Pleas in Philadelphia The
local suit is filed against the A. NJ.
E. Church Of Philadelphia a corpora
ton doing business at 1541 Fourteen
tn Street the location of the office Of
the Financial Secretary Of the "A. NJ
E. Church.
The petition filed through Max Ten
der sets forth that the A.M.E Church
was ordered to pay him $2;97O Octob-
Der 10 1888; and to pay the costs Of
$2O.17. The Rev. Mr.. Farmer claims
that this amount not been paid and
to collect it together with interest
from the date of action and the costs
of the present suit. ------ -----.---- ----
According to the bill the Rev Mr..
Farmer was employed by the A NJ z
Church through Presiding Elder Al.
Smoot November 29 1882 to take over
the pastoral charge Of twin branch an
Fall River w Va. in the capacity of 4
itinerant pastor with salary as such
In addition the minister contends that
he was to receive fuel travel expenses
and house rent for self and family
during the conference year
The Rev. Mr.. Farmer states that
he was dismissed without trial in ac-
cordance with the Book of Discipline
on April 20, 1888. The bill cites ac-
cording to the Discipline the salary
Of an itinerant pastor shall be $4,000
a year. 1t is claimed hat the Rev.
Mr.. Farmer received only $50 COM
pensation during the period he ser
we'd.
In addition the minister AYERS that
through failure of the church to
make proper provisions he spent
$500 a year for house rent and $40O
for travelling expenses and contends
that his dismissal non-payment Of
salary and miscellaneous items are
not in accord with the Book of Dis
cipline therefore asks the court to
correct the reputed error by giving
him Judgment for $2990.17-
The Omaha guide., 1934-02-24

slow to move for any cause, that he
thinks will better the condition of his
race. Now that the doctor is trying to
get school teachers in pubic schools
and doing all in his power to get en-
ployment for Negro laborers, in city
county and state government as well
as attempting to place skilled labor
ers and clerks in the various govern
ment departments and utility corpor-
atoms employment; let every colored
citizen help him.
Too much credit cannot be given
to Mr.. C. c. Galloway, Editor and
manager Of the Omaha Guide. who SO
aoly comes with his assistance to aid
Dr.. Lennox in his loyalty for race
betterment.
The Guide has a local platform to
seek a pro-rata Of employment with
the business interest of Omaha for
colored people. With this personified
faith by doing and asking what right
fully should be given Omaha colored
citizens is a command, however such
employment is withheld and why; IS
a question.
Ministers during church service
should tell their congregations what
they must accomplish for their fu-
ture. Each leader Of each groups of
colored people must get busy and
help bring about IN understanding to
the best interest of all; aiding Dr. G.
B. Lennox the Omaha Guide and 9TH
er colored leaders who are cooperat-
ing in this great movement for race
betterment-
Signed MARK TALKSWELL.
The Omaha guide., 1934-02-24
Back To Africa Movement
Starts With Plan To Send
500 Artisans To Liberia

The "Back-to-Africa Movement"
appeared to have another tangible
beginning Sunday afternoon when
Samuel. Daniels, head Of a new
organization known as the African
Reconstruction Association discussed
plans for sending 500 skilled workers
in the trades, professions and sciences
to Liberia.
The meeting was held in the Henry
Lincoln Johnson Elks Hall, 272 West
both street. Daniels collected $1-1O,
which he declared was the first de-
post in the African Homeland fund
He sees the fund growing to n mil
lion dollars.
At the meeting a Western Union
telegram was read from the Overseas
Trading Company, 116 Broad street,
stating that a vessel would leave for
Africa about April l; that they could
carry not less than so workers at one
hundred dollars each, as a lesser nun--
Der would not pay at that figure Al
though the vessel does not plan to
stop at Liberia, the telegram said
that if at least so. workers are car
ried at 500 each, they will be landed
at the port of Liberia
When asked if he had the consent
of the Liberian Government in his
"back to Africa" movement, Daniels
said that he negotiated Walter F.
Walker, the Liberian Consul here, SO
Park Row, and with Liberian officials
through that he had been instructed
to organize a body of skilled workers
to 20 to Liberia to assist in building
up the country.
Daniels said he contemplates form
ing an african Institute of Technol-
ogy" and an african Geological
Survey" Maybelle Berre and S. N
Galloway are secretary and treasurer
of the association, respectively.
The Omaha guide., 1934-02-24
CWA and FERA Discrimi-
nation Charged In
Richmond

Richmond, Feb. 16.-In a letter TO
Secretary of the Interior Harold L.
Ickes, DR.. j. nj. Tinsley, President Of
the Richmond branch of the N. A. A.
C. P. has protested against wide
spread determinations against Ne
groes in the ocal administration Of
the CWA and the FERA, and claimed
inability or unwillingness on the part
Of local administrators to remedy the
situation,
Dr.. Tinsley charges that on teach
ing projects Negroes are receiving a
over scale Of pay than whites; that
on nursing projects coloren nurses are
paid $75 and white nurses 500; that
no Negroes have been appointed to
administrative positions or s~o-called
white collar jobs; that very few Ne
groes have been hired as skilled me-
chanics and that except on a few pro-
jects instituted by Negro agencies,
Negroes are only employed as labor
erS.
DR.. Tinsley asks that there be a
Negro on each advisory committee in
each city, town and state; that a
Negro be employed in each federal
employment bureau to insure fair
treatment in the selection of work
ers."
The Omaha guide., 1934-02-24
Senate Committee To Quiz
Maryland Attorney General
At Anti-Lynching Hearing
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Radio, News Reel to Be on Hand
The hearings will be held in the
caucus room Of the senate office build
ing on Feb. 20 and 81, beginning at
1890 each morning. Arrangements
have been made to take sound pict-
ures during the heraing and the Ma
tional Broadcasting Company has re-
quested permission to broadcast at
the opening of the hearing. The
Paramount News has already made
a short reel of Senator Costigan talk
ing about the bill.
Senators and Congressman are be-
ing swamped by an avalanche of let
tiers and kilograms from Negroes and
whites urging them to support the
anti-lynching bill.
Southerners To Testify.
In spite of the continuing cold
weather two automobile loads of
PROMINENT DOuClicIH Wn1LC pCOP1S
from Nashville are j~ourneying to
Washington to testify in behalf of the
Costigan-W Wagner bill. Owing to lack
of funds the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People
was unable to pay their transporta-
ton by train.
Several other prominent Southern
whites will be on hand when the hear
ing begins to testify in favor of the
bill. Outstanding among these will
be Mrs. Elizabeth Yates Webb, a pro-
fessor at Vasser College and a native
of North Carolina, being the niece Of
former Governor o. Max Gardner of
that state.
interviewed here yesterday, Walter
White stated that the Costigan-Wag-
ner bill would by no means have
clear sailing as the opposition is al
ready forming its ranks. Senator
Huey Long has already given notice
that he will fight the bill tooth and
nail.
The Omaha guide., 1934-02-24

English and Judge Grover nj. Mos
cowitz held him in $500 bail for
trial on February IA.
Denounced BY District Attorney
Assistant u. S. Attorney Murray
Kriendler declared to representatives
Of the press that Bishop Grace was a
"faker." He charged that the bishop
was the father Of the Campbell girls
baby.
THE bishop is constantly on the
move from church to church. In ad-
dition he publishes a magazine to
which a large majority Of his flock
subscribe. He is reputed wealthy"
said the Assistant U. S. Attorney