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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-09-20
Death Rate Scars

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(CNA)
An alarming increase in the death
rate among the Negro people is in
dicated in the latest issue of the
Weekly Health Index, published
by the Division of Vital Statistics
of the United States Department
of Commerce.
The bulletin compares death
rates among whites and Negroes
for the first 35 weeks of 1888 and
1884, in the five cities of Balti-
more, Birmingham, Indianapolis,
Nashville and Richmond.
In these five cities, in 1885 the
death rate among whites was, In
rounL figures, from 8 to IL per
thousand, while for Negroes it was
from Ia to 10 per thousand. In
1884, the white death rate rose to
9 to IA per thousand, while the
Negro death rate scared to the un-
precedented height of 16 to % per
thousand.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-09-20
Elder Happy Am T. Michaux
Flags ComInon-Law Marriage

WASHINGTON A crowd esti-
mailed At about 5000 heard Elder
solomon Lightfoot Michaux deliv-
er a driving allack on common
law marriages. at the Griffith sta
dunn, last Sunday night
Using for his text. 'The Man
You Have Is Not Your Husband .
the elder. devlating from his us
ual custom. took text from the
bible ia an attempt to prove that
common-law mating is against the
Biblical law"
Declaring himself to be reading
from the Bible. the elder declared:
"The woman answered and said.
I have no husband. Jesus said to
her, Thou hast well said thou hast
no husband, because you have had
five. and the one you have now
amt yours"
Special emphasis was laid on
the bearing Of children, the elder
declaring that "the purpose of
marrying Is to bear children"
watch Your Child
when the child don't favor the
husband, the husband should keep
a close watch. for you don't know
whose child you are looking at, /"
Elder Michaux shouted.
The crowd began coming early
to the park to purchase their tick
cts to the show" The tickets
were selling for ten cents. and the
members 0f the elders congrega-
ton occupied the several ticket
ticket windows Of the stadium.
The te.robed choir of $50
did q march from the church Of
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-09-20
''Way for Negroes to Get Rights
Is Take Them" Says Baldwin

NEW YORK (ANP) = In the
September issue of Opportunity,
Roger M. Baldwin, director of the
American Civil Liberties Union, Ia
an article entitled Negro Rights
and Class Struggle" says: II can
testify from a long experience that
the way to get rights is to take
them, to exercise them, at what
ever cost"
Mr.. Baldwin, who has been in
the forefront of all struggles for
rights for minority groups in A
r1lerica, does not place much con-
fidence in the ability of the color
ed man to secure his rights by law
ITO talk about obtaining his
rights by law is to ignore the bas-
ic fact of this struggle to keep
him in his place. And his place is
as the serf of white men. The
struggle is bitter because the coll
or line is in fact so artificial, so
weak, that it takes violence and
delusion to maintain it. If race
'inferiority' were real, it would be
universally recognized that no eff
fort would be necessary To main
tain it. What is in fact inferior"
is the whole worl1ing-class. The
spectre of its unity in revolt a.
gainst the rulers of property is
what moves them to s'icn desper-
ate extremes"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-09-20
Dixie Mob Takes Mans Wife;
FIog, Drive Vim From Home

up to my wife's uncle, who was
standing in the house talking to
her and II of them or more sur
rounded the house sticking rifles
and shot-guns thru the windows,
and four with pistols came in, and
threw them ON me, forcing me out
in the woods about 2 miles from
town and 8 of them took turns
beating me with a 4 inch wide gin
belt doubled. When one got tired
he'd sit down and each of the re-
mainder would flog me. After
keeping this up for hours, they
carried me to the nearest place
which freight trains stop. was
in an unconscious state. They give
me orders to get out of the State
and never return. BY the help of
two transients I got aboard of a
freight train bound south. I got
to place called Louisville, Miss.
There railroad commissioner John
son and Constable Cal Capleson
got me off the train.
Seeing my condition (my cloth
es was stuck to me from the bend
of my knees to the middle Of my
back they felt sorry for me. They
carried me to the F.E.R.A. office
and secured medical aid for me
and got me some clean clothes and
got a place for me to stay until I
was able to hobble around"
In his letter the man gives the
name Of the white man who took
his wife, the names of the white
men who beat him and the names
of the Negroes who witnessed the
kidnapping.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-09-20
The Closed Shop

CcLORED WORKERS are fac
ed with absolute exclusion from
industry if the Interpretation plac-
ed upon Section z Ca) Of the MIRA
by the National Labor Relations
Board is permitted to staAd.
The United States Government
through one Of its agencies, has
placed its official stamp Of appro-
val upon the closed shop a shop
wherein only union workers may
have employment.
Since Negro workers are exclud-
ed from a majority Of unions and
only union men may work, how
win it be possible for colored peo-
pie to obtain employment
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-09-20

God across the street, to the sta
dium, led by the elders band.
which was playing, Hear the
Tramp Of the Army"
AS they marched around the sta
dunn, the mass congregation and
spectators stood up and applauded.
Chairs for the ehoir We're arrang-
ed in the form of cross and when
the choir was seated. huge white
cross was the picture.
AS the elder called his code,
wJsv, red-capped members Of the
choir would jump up to form the
letter called, while the crowd gave
great ovation.
Grand Stand Rocks
Michaux then led the choir into
singing several songs, that whip
ped the congregation into ecstacv
in double quick time, and before
the singing ceased. the grand stand
was rocking with shouters, and
those who were s'fiIled with the
spirit"
The elder had announced in the
pspers that he would marry up to
100 couples free at the conclusion
Of his services. if they would pre-
sent their marriage licenses. This,
the elder explained. was to help
break up many OF the common-law
marriages in the District.
When the elder was through his
sermon the couples either decided
they had better not dash out be-
fore the large crowd to be united.
or else no one came with that in
tention.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-09-20

Poor Sdn Poor

THE PURCHASER Of a Is cant
package Of cigarettes pays s cents
Federal tax.
When one buys 3 gallon Of gas
oIine. one pays from 70 10 cents
tax. depending upon the tax rate
in tie respective states
Tax on checks IS one 4 the
check.
The Electric Company pays the
tax into the Federal government,
but the Electric Company passes
il On to the consumer with the
monthly electric bin.
This newspaper believes in the
government taking care Of those
in distress But the reckless sqaan-
dering Of money upon high salar-
les for swarm Of administrators
does not help the poor.
The chief beneficsaries of the
New Dear expenditures are gov
9rnment workers. The tiny drops
which seep through to those in dis
tress have done little to help the
unemployed get jobs or to bring
about recovery.
Those who have jobs are taxed
to pay government employees on
the theory that they are helping
the poor.
The poor are still poor, while
the administrators Of government
funds roll In luxury
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-09-20
AS Maine Goes

LAS MAINE GOES, so goes the
nation" is an old political adage.
Maine went for the New Deal =
in spite Of the heaviest Republican
artillery
A Democratic Governor succeeds
ed himself in Maine for the first
time in fifty years. BY the mar
rowest margin a Republican Sena-
tor was reelected.
Chair nan of the Republican Ma
tional Committee Fletcher states
ehat the Republicans win redouble
their efforts. The Republicans re-
fuse to listen to unpleasant facts,
People Who sincerely desire to help
them are considered radical and
stupid.
Perhaps the results in Maine
win make them realize that there
are many adjustments necessary,
and that the 1918 engine win not
function in a 1884 car.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-09-20
n. Y. Governor Sees
369th Infantry March

PEEKSKILL, N. Y.-The 369th
Infantry Regiment, comprising
troops from Manhattan, was re-
viewed Sunday by Governor Her
bert L. Lehman and family who
were among the 10000 persons ar
irving by bus, truck, and pleasure
car for this occasion.
For the first time in the history
of the regiment, the majority of
the officers leading the crack unit
were colored. Four colored ma
jors were leading their units when
the troops left the town, with very
few white officers in the regiment.
The commanding officer is white,
but the staff is fast becoming col
ored throughout.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-09-20
Conductors Lost 800
Jobs, Says r. Lenus

NEW YORK -(ANP)-If Pull
man porters generally regard the
effort of the Pullman Conductors
Union to take them in with the
same skepticism as Rienzi B. Lee
mus, grand president of the Bro
therhood of Dining Car Employ
ees, the move to make the porters'
union an auxiliary to that of the
conductors viii die a-borning.
Mr.. Leinus explained that the
conductors generosity" has come
about because three hundred of
them have lost their jobs to Pull
man porters-in-charge, practice
which conductors would like to
halt.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-09-20
8 Whites Convicted
For Killing Negro

MANCHESTER, Tenn.-A jury
composed of eleven farmers and
one former policeman deliberaie.i
four hours Saturday night and con
victed eight white men charged
with numbering a tenant farmer
three months ago, with three of
the eight being recommended for
the maximum penalty of 5 years.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-09-20
Boston Milk Firm
Employs Salesman,

BOSTON, Mass (ANP) Geo.
Vaughn of Moreland Street, Bos-
ton, who has been employed by
the Whiting Milk Company here
as driver for several years has
been made a salesman. The Whit
ing Co. employs 20 Negroes.
Young Vaughn's father has been
by the company 80 years
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-09-20

Right Reverend John w. Martin
of Los Angeles, Bishop OF the
Ninth African Methodist Episcopal
district, win preside over the ses-
sions of the 22nd annual Oregon
Washington conference for five
days beginning next Wednesday at
Ebenezer Tabernacle, 23rd Ave.
and East Olive Street. A large
number of ministers and delegates
representing churches in Northern
California. Oregon and Washington
will attend Bishop Martin will
preach at II a. M. and 8 p. m.
Sunday, September 80 The Rev.
H. Leo johnson is pastor of Eb-
enezer Tabernacle.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-09-20
Negro Lawyer Will
Defend White Women

ATLANTA, Ca (CNA) For
the first time in the history of the
South, a Negro lawyer will appear
in defense of white woman when
John H. Geer, Atlanta attorney,
defends Mrs. Leah Young and An
ME Mae Leathers, both white, ar
rested for their part in the textile
strikes.
Geer was one of the defense at
torneys in the Herndon case. With
him in his defense of the white
women will be Louis latham, To-
cal white attorney.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-09-20
Invents Non-SIip Mat

PATTERSON, MA small rub
Der mat, which when placed in the
bath-tub prevents slipping and
sliding, invented by DR.. Clifford
M. Gordon, graduate of the How
ard Medical School, has been reg
istered with the patent office in
Washington.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-09-20
School Is Given
$4,000 Library

ATLANTA (ANP)- A $4,000
library has been donated to the
Georgia Normal and Agricultural
School for Colored by Miss Caro-
line Hazard, of Rhode Island.
Miss Hazard was formerly pre-
sident of Wellesley College and has
already given $1,000 of the total
amount, with which construction
of the building win be started.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-09-20
Woman To Run For
Mass. Legislature

: BOSTON, Mass.-(C NA) A col
ored woman will run for office in
the Massachusetts, state legislature
for the first time this fall, when
Mrs. Mary E. Moore opens her
campaign for a seat irl the House
of Representatives. Mrs. Moore
has been nominated by the Com
mInist Party.
Horace Riley, another Negro.
has been named by the Communist
Party as it's candidate for Lieuten-
ant-Governor.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-09-20
Whites Conduct Rites

ALTAMONT, nl.-(ANP) White
residents of this all-white town
conducted funeral services for the
late DR.. George C. Ellis, of Chica-
go, who was buried here recently
beside the remains of seven mem
beis of his family.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-09-20
The Case Of Mabel

TIC Vase VI MduCi
On the uptown platform of the
135th street and Lenox avenue
subway stood young girl waiting
for a train. Dressed in cheap
white cotton blouse and a grey
tweed skirt, she looked every bit
like a school girl on her way to
lessons. The hard, sad look in her
eyes, however, was no school girls
gaze and paper bundle under her
arm did not look like lunch.
I approached and tactfully en-
tered into conversation. Yes, she
was "a her way to the Bronx to
seel work I travelled with her
and she told of the group of wom-
en- and girls who vent up and sat
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TT is OBVIOUS from many view-
points that the colored man has
many friends in the white race.
though often unsupported. Only
a few Of them. however, have the
courage to voice their friendly
feeling publicly where we can
reap the benefits. A few strong
statements from such sources as
quoted below would work Won
ders in our huhaf and be far
reaching in effect. This editorial
IS by w. A. Campbell, editor Of
The Helena, AaCnt. Daily Indepen-
dent and published in issue of
August "a:
NEGRO IN DEPRESSION
No class of American citizen
has better demonstrated ability
to adapt itself to conditions than
the Negro. In the cities and the
towns of the East and North re-
latively fewer Negroes have been
compelled to seek charity than
any other race. Foreign born
whites have suffered more. per-
haps, even than the native born
whites.
the reimbursement In the cotton
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Evening star., 1934-09-24

hotel, Fire Department Building,
numerous residences and remodeled
the Warren County Court House.
Capt Macatee, for a number Of
years, commanded the Warren Rifles,
militia company which later was in
corporated in the Virginia National
Guard.
In more recent years he was a Spe-
cial agent Of the United States De-
partment of the Treasury and served
assignments in New York, Baltimore,
Norfolk, Savannah and San Juan,
Puerto Rico. About Is years ago he
was retired, while in service in Puerto
Rico, and since that time made his
Winter home at San Juan, spending
his Summer months in Front Royal.
He was a native of Hartford County,
Md. and came here as young man
where he married Miss Mary Cook,
who died in 1909. He Is survived by
his second wife, the former Mrs. Amy
B. zimmerman of San Juan, Puerto
Rico, and six sons and three daugh-
tiers. These are: Charles A. Macatee,
jr., Ashland, KY: DR.. Henry c. Mac
atee, George Macatee and Mrs c. B.
Calvert, Washington, D. c.; Robert B.
Macatee, United States consul. Lon
don, England; Capt. Edward B. Mac
atee, U. s. A Virginia Polytechnic
Institute, Blacksburg; Walter r.
Macatee, Richmond; Mrs. Walter G.
Olmstead, Front Royal; Mrs. e. D.
Poulton, Front Royal and Hollins
College.
Funeral services were held here this
afternoon with interment in Prospect
Hill Cemetery.
Evening star., 1934-09-24
THREE MEN SLAIN
IN JERSEY AMBUSH
Shotguns Blast Out Lives
in Well Planned Plot
in Pine BarrenS.

BY the Associated Press.
MOUNT HOLLY. N J.. September
PA shotgun ambush blasted out
the lives Of three men in Southern
New Jerseys pine barrens.
Their bodies were found yesterday,
lying face up beside q small motor
car | | miles southeast Of Mount Holly,
and police theorized they were moved
down by unseen killers as they
stepped from their machine after
being lured to the lonely spot.
The victims Of what police de-
scribed as a mass gang murder, were
identified as Stanley thinner. %;
William Schwar. -, and Edward
Rehl, 81, all of Easton, Pa,
Spot Mapped Out.
Investigations were begun immedi-
ately in this area. in Philadelphia
and in Easton. Police at the latter
city said a suspect has been taken
into custody.
Investigation at the scene showed
how completely the killers had
planned the crime.
The slayers had the spot all
mapped out" said Ellis Parker. vet
eran Burlington County detective.
who is leading the investigating
forces. II found marks around on
the trees indicating the place had
been 'blazed' One tree, q small pine,
had been freshly stripped Of Its
limbs
Empty Shells Discovered.
He called the slayings the most
brutal and vengeful murders have
ever seen" and added:
These fellows came here to meet
some other mobsters, possibly to split
some loot or make plans for another
job"
Mute evidence Of the thoroughness
Of the killers was found in several
empty shotgun and pistol shells, ap-
parently from the slayers' weapons.
Police say they believe the victims
were slain as early as last Wednes-
day. So secluded was the spot that
the crime was not discovered until q
farmer stumbled on the bloody scene
yesterday.
thinner, police state, was the
owner and driver of the car. He
was identified through records he had
made at his home while studying nm
gerprintins. Schwar had . police
record in Pennsylvania.
Evening star., 1934-09-24
NEW UNION DRIVE ON.

By the Associated Press.
The hum Of looms from Maine to
Alabama singing the end of the Ma
tion's largest textile strike today, sig
nailed a fight to unionize the indus
try 100 per cent"
I'VE shall organize all textile work
ers," said Francis j. German, vice
chairman of the United Textile Work
ers and national leader of the strike
Union chiefs, who led the three
weeks strike that was marked by
death for IA persons, injuries to about
200 and millions of dollars in losses
to both sides, said the membership
drive would be particularly intensive
in the South.
Opinions about the outcome Of the
strike varied. Union leaders claimed
a victory in getting complaints be-
fore impartial bodies, in regulation of
the stretch-out and in taking the ad-
ministration of labor provisions OF
the codes away from N. r. A. Hill
owners expressed themselves other
wise, one declaring that the only gain
for strikers was "a three weeks vaca-
ton without pay"
In the case of some scattered mills,
strikers we're reported determined to
stay out pending the ironing out Of
local situations. The demobinZation
of troops called in several States was
already begun and is to be completed
In few days.
Evening star., 1934-09-24
j. s. MOVES TO end
STAMPS RACKET
Branch Announces Changes
in Handling Of Special
Delivery Mail.

In an effort to break up philatelic
racket of many years standing, the
Post Once Department today an
nounced three regulation changes re-
garding special delivery mail.
Acting Postmaster General Harllee
Branch signed an order forbidding re-
batting or refunding special delivery
fees, the employment Of special mes
sengers where regular special delivery
messengers are not available to handle
large mailings, and reducing the fee
paid special delivery messengers from
8 cents per letter to S cents where
100 or more pieces are designated to
one address on one trip.
Effective October /, the changes will
put q stop to q practice whereby
wholesale dealers in stamps have been
able to obtain used commemorative in
large quantities at low cost.
The problem came to the attention
of the department last year when
imperforate sheets of the Century Of
Progress and Byrd Expedition stamps
appeared on the market with the
post mark of a small Office in Ne
braska. Two men were arrested for
attempting to defraud the Govern
ment by claiming special delivery fees
Evening star., 1934-09-24

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position until July /, 1926. when the
latter board was succeeded by the
Board Of Public Welfare. Mr.. Wilson
was named director of the new Or
ganiZation.
He also had served as secretary to
the Washington Sanitary Improve
ment Co. since 1915 and was secretary
to the Washington Sanitary Housing
Co. since 1916. These organizations
are of a limited dividend character
and are engaged in the development
of modern housing within the financial
reach of persons in the lower income
brackets.
Mr.. Wilson also was q member of
the National Conference on Charities
and Corrections, the American Prison
Association, the International Prison
Association and the International
Congress on tuberculosis.
He was a member Of Phi Beta
Kappa and the Monday Evening Club.
Successor Voices Praise.
When word of Mr.. Wilson's death
reached the District Building today,
ElWood Street, his successor as di-
rector of the Welfare Board, char
acterized his death as "a severe loss
to the District"
"Mr. Wilson's death is a shock"
Street said, because all who knew
him have been happy in the thought
that after "a years of arduous service
to the District and to the Board of
Public Welfare and penal institutions
he was about to enjoy long years of
rest and happy activity In my opin-
ion, he was one of Washington's fore
most social workers and had a dis
tinguished career in public social
service. He was responsible for the
development of the scattered activi-
ties which now are included in the
Department of Public Welfare. one of
the most important departments in
the District"
Mr.. Wilson was born in County
Antrim, Ireland, and came to the
United States in 1889. He studied
at Lawrence University at Appleton.
Wis, and received the bachelor of
laws degree from the University Of
Wisconsin in 1894.
Besides his two sons, he Is sur
vived by a daughter, Miss Fannie S.
Wilson. His wife, formerly Miss Ada
Byron Shaw, died last December ~.
Evening star., 1934-09-24
RUSSIA AND JAPAN
REACH RAIL PEACE
Agree on Transfer Price
of Soviet Share in
China Road.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TOXIC, September 24.-It was OH
cially announced yesterday that For
eign Minister Koh Hirota and DIR.
Constantine Youreneff, Russian AM
bassador. have agreed upon price for
transfer of Soviet Russia's half-share
in the Chinese Eastern Railway to
Manchukuo.
Fundamental conditions OF the
transfer have also been agreed upon.
1t was announced. thereby solving an
issue which for three years has car
ried the most dangerous threat OF any
single factor pointing toward Russo
Japanese war.
Unofficial Price.
The price was not officially dis
closed, but 1t was learned on excellent
authority that Manchukuo will pay
100000 yen t$40600. .0O0) for the
railway. plus discharge allowances for
Soviet employees estimated at 3O,00O,-
900 yen (s8,700O0O additional.
This amount. approximating $5o,-
1000. halves the difference in the
last offers Of both sides prior to .