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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-08-09
heM York's Vice Dens
Filled With Dixie Girls
Colored Girls Lured By Hopes OF Getting
Lucrative Jobs Fall Victims of "Creepers'

their first night with the .creeper,
they are taken to a moving pic
ture show, after which they stop
past a friends house for a few
drinks.
Go to Dlsorderly House
The girls do not realize it then,
but they are taken directly to a
disorderly house. where girls of
their same ages are enticing and
enjoying the lustful advances of
men. Once in the house several
of the older girls immediately be-
come friendly with the new arriv-
al and invite her to come around
to see them. Being without friends
and in strange city the victim
easily falls for this assumed friend
ship and leaves feeling that she is
getting along splendidly.
When she is discharged and has
no place to turn. these girls invite
her to spend a few days with them
while she can seek another job.
Day after day she win tramp the
streets in search of jobs that are
not to be found. returning at the
end of the day, sore tired and dis
appointed. Finally she appeals to
her friends for aid. Then the work
of the operatives really begins.
@You,re : Sucker to Work"
The girls tell her that she is a
sucker to work when she can make
money just as easily without man
ual labor. At first she is hesitant,
but as the days slip past and she
is without money and the girls tell
her that they are rather hard
pressed. another innocent victim
has been added. So it continues
a never ending chain.
AS long as these girls remain in
the houses they are not picked up
by the police, bit it Is when they
try to break away and really seek
work, not finding it, try to make
a pickup on the street, that they
are arrested. Out of every ten
girls that are picked up by the
police, the records show that most
of them have been victims of this
racket.
When any of these girls are ar
rested there are others to take
their places. There can be no COM
plant lodged against the employ
ers or employment agency because
their records are in order. The
fact that the girls lost their jobs
is ne concern of theirs.
Ito be continued next week.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-08-09
Nixon to Sue Again
For Franchise Rights

Ell PASO, Texas (ANP)-Fol-
lowing the primary election in this
state Saturday, DR.. L. A. Nixon.
successful in three attacks against
voting restrictions applied to the
colored people in the state, an
nounced that he intended to sue to
force the counting of votes lost by
colored citizens in the Democratic
primary.
Colored persons were allowed to
vote in FL Paso. In some other
sections of the state, they cast
their ballots, but the word 'colored'
was placed upon them. 1t is not
believed those ballots will be coun-
ted unless election officials are
forced to.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-08-09
Phila. Bank Shows
$1O7,16O Resources

Observation-Disclosures of
$573, 443.s9, representing a growth
of $107,16O since June 80, 1888,
were listed in the statement Of con-
dition, as of June 80, recently sub
mitted to the state banking depart
ment and the Federal Deposit In
surance Company by the Citizens
and Southern Bank and Trust Co.
Of which R. r. Wright, ST., is the
president.
Included among the resources
were U. S. Government securities
with total value of $13O,338.33
and state and municipal bonds in
the amount of S27, 650.O5. Deposits
were reported as 1893, 7e742.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-08-09
StreamIine Train, Night Plane
To Affect POrters Employment

eth Century Limited of the New
York Central or the Broadway Lii
mited of the Pennsylvania, which
is seventeen and three-fourths
hours.
From 1927 to 1880, the TWEEN
tieth Century ran in from four to
six sections; earned ten millions
gross each year; required from 20
to S5 porters, four to six maids
every day. Now they use the night
plane; the ''porters-maids" are
white women; Twentieth Century
is usually in single, poorly pat
ronized section, and in outside APP
pearance suggests the bonneville
trolley"
Experiments with New Cars
The railroads are going through
a sort of irresistible metamorpho-
sis. Success of experiments with
the stream-ined Diesel engine
train for short hauls Though the
Burlington's Zephyr" made the
long run of 1o17 miles from Dem
yer to Chicago in little over thir-
teen hours) has led to orders for
long-haul stream-lined trains with
one engine doing the hauling from
Chicago to San Francisco tOak-
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-08-09
4 NEGRO LAWYER
FOR EVERY 9,667
SURVEY SHOWS

WASHINGTON, d. c. II There
are only 1850 Negro lawyers in
the United States.
That means there is only one
lawyer of the race to every 1857
of the Negro population. There are
$780, white lawyers, or one for
every 500 of the white population.
These figures were brought out
last week by the School of Law of
Howard University here. Such
glaring inequalities as the follow
ing are presented by the schools
study. In Georgia with over a mill
lion Negroes, there are IA Negro
lawyers and are white barrist-
ers. In Mississippi. with slightly
over a million Negroes and where
they outnumber the white popula
ton by nine thousand there are
only five colored lawyers.
That there is direct relation
between the number of represen-
tatives in the courts. and the mea-
sure of protection afforded to their
clientele, is amply demonstrated
by a comparison of any of the
Southern states with the northern.
In New York, Massachusetts, and
Illinois the civil, economic and po-
litical rights of the Negroes are
enforced and protected more than
in any other portion of the Union.
The need of Negroes in the
courts of America can be met only
by an ever-increasing number Of
competent trained Negro lawyers,
the Law school declares.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-08-09

NEW YORK Organization
mass meetings, picketing, and boy
colt against L. M. Blumstein's,
Harlem's largest department store,
brought jobs this week to colored
clerks and salespeople, after four
months fight IN which preachers,
physicians, fraternal societies, the
press, and other groups took part.
After conferences last week.
slunastein's agreed to begin filling
vacancies with colored girls. and
on Sunday the Citizens League
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-08-09
BY RIENZI B. LEMuS
Brotherhood of Dining
Car En1nIoueeS

FTeSlueUty oTOtucTlOOu u Ottitt9
Car Employees
The last Congress changed the
Railroad Labor Act of 1926 which
became law with affizing of Pre-
sident Roosevelt's signature on
June 81. The act governs the con-
tract relations of the railroads and
the employees. 1t is now drastic
in imposing penalties on railroad
officials who would insist on conn
pany unions" and the Pullman
porters' union promoters are there
fore elated.
Dining car employees, being en-
ployees of the railroads, which
Pullmans are not, have always
been free to organize and maintain
regular unions.
Ten Years Too Late
The new law, however, came
just ten years too late. The same
newspapers carrying accounts of it
also printed first advertisements Of
the new night Pullman airline
sleepers between New York and
Chicago and announced white wo-
men stewardesses, in lieu of Pull
man sleeping-car porters. The trip
requires six hours, in contrast to
the fastest by rail on the Twenti-
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-08-09
Urban League Sec'y.
Faces Moral Charge

LOUISVILLE, KY. Bursting
like a bombshell on a starless
night, the charges of indecent &C
tivities by ]. A. Thomas, local
Urban League secretary, created a
sensation in social and civic circles
Of the Derby City last week.
Thomas was charged with poll
tical and partisan maneuvers and
with having affairs" with we'll
known local matrons by Attorney
c. Ewbanks Tucker, who sent a
copy of his insinuating claims to
the New York office of the Ma
tional Urban League.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-08-09
CORPSE WALKS
AND MOURNERS
TAKE TO HEELS

cHEsTERTON. Md. (special) -
A corpse" walked here Friday
and some of the Negro mourners
who witnessed the phenomenon
were still missing hours later.
They brought Wilbur Stewart
home in a hearse from the hospi-
tai IN Easton, some 30 miles away.
When neighbors and friends
heard that the hearse had been dis
patched for the so year old man,
they arranged funeral plans and
assembled at the Stewart home
for the arrival of the body.
The hearse drew up IN front of
the house and stopped
Immediately the door flew open
and Stewart, clad in long white
gown, spryly leaped to the ground
and walked into the house.
The mourners scattered and
how they scattered.
In very few seconds Wilbur
had the entire neighborhood to
himself. Friends, neighbors, and
members of his family fled. Two
leaped from a second story win
dow One husky mourner dashed
right through a screen door with
out waiting to open it.
Wilbur later tried to explain that
he rode home in the hearse because
no ambulance was available and
wore his long, white hospital robe
to keep cool. but he had great diff
ficulty in finding anyone to whom
he could address his remarks.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-08-09
Dining Car Chef To
Retire After 81 Years

NEW YORK-George Haywood,
veteran chef of the New Haven
Railroad Company, who goes into
voluntary retirement, August 10,
after thirty-seven years continu-
GUS employment, will receive the
biggest pension award by a rail-
road to a dining car employee.
Announcement of the above was
made by E. P. Perry assistant
general manager of the railroad, to
Rienzi B. Lemus, president of the
Brotherhood of Dining Car EN-
ployees, this week.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-08-09
North Carolina Bank
Has Over A Million

DURHAM, N. C.-The resources
of the Mechanics and Farmers
Bank total $1,241, 495.37 according
to a recently published condensed
statement of the condition Of the
institution.
The cash in vaults and due from
banks is $11, 794.33; on bonds and
notes 1928, 900; loans and discounts
5000, 154.82; and the bank has no
bills payable nor rediscounts.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-08-09
Margie Macs Ma Lives In
Shack Beside Cinder Road

a thin, yellow-haired woman thru
tightly compressed lips in answer
to her visitors. what do you
want 2" she added and narrowed
the lids of q pair of rather pale
blue eyes.
Front Teeth Out
Told that her side of the story
of her daughters marriage would
be of interest tc the public, she
drew back her lips in smile, re-
vealing upper gums from which
two front teeth were missing.
Come in" she said, with a show
of coyness, and waved her hand,
which held a cigarette, in the dir
ection of her homes interior.
Once inside of the home, one re-
allied that the poverty-sticken out
frtov.&gv.,,a,4 -, qaoera rTsxyr.N
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-08-09
]. Weldon johnson
Writes Another Book

NEW YoRK-(ANP) = James
Weldon Johnson, head of the de-
partment of creative literature at
Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn,
has written another book, expected
to be published in September of
this year.
DR.. Johnson's latest book is nom
fiction and is entitled, Negro A
mericans, What Now" 1t will be
issued by the Viking Press.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-08-09
Making Reds

IT COSTS LITTLE 9-year old
Lucy Cotton Thomas $1,000 per
month to live, according to a state
ment made by her mother
One Of the items Of expense is
$3.50 a month to keep the piano in
tune. Some music box! Another
is $500 a month for rent.
These are the kind Of things
that make Reds redder.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-08-09
Father Divine Cult
Buys Hotel Dunbar

LOS ANGELES CAMP = The
Hotel Dunbar, one of the largest
and most deliberately furnished
houses of its kind west of Chica-
go, built in 1928 by DR.. John A.
somerville, has been recently pur-
chased by the Father Divine king
dom" it was announced this week.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-08-09
EIks Pay $4,000
In SCHOLARSHIPS

NASHVILLE, Tenn.-(ANP -
During the nine years Of its exist
ence, the educational department
of the IBPOEW has paid out $110,-
900 in scholarship awards to near
ly one thousand girls and boys.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-08-09
Department Store Boycott
Wins IS Girls Employment

for Fair Play officially called off
the pickets. The Rev. John H.
johnson, rector Of st. Martins E.
piscopal Church, is head of the lea
que.
100 Applicants on Hand
Fifteen girls are to be hired by
August Is, and twenty more by
September 1, according to the
written agreement between the
store and the league. Over one
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-08-09
Only One-sixth OF
Atlanta Is Voting

ATLANTA, Ga. CAMP Only
1908 of the 10000 colored popu-
lation here are registered for the
September mayoralty primary de-
spite the recent campaign to in
crease the number of registered
voters.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-08-09
Sues Skating Ring

Los ANGELES, (CP)-Assert-
ing that he was denied entrance
because of his race on March s,
George Prioleau. young student,
this week filed suit for $500 a.
gainst the Rollerdrome skating
rink.
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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1934-10-12
ST. PAUL CLASSIFIED

Elks' Rest hall for rent, enter
tainments, card parties, etc., at
reasonable price. Call CEDAR 3190,
H. Hunter, Chairman of trustee
board.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1934-10-12
What We Eat

Practically every living thing is
used as food by somebody. The
known exceptions are a few poison
Gus species of plants and animals,
notes a writer in the Missouri Farm
err What is disregarded In one part
Of the world, may be great deli
cacy in another part. Grasshoppers
are poisoned and murdered by the
millions in our country, and none
thinks of eating them, while in Cal
cutta they are served in every res
taurant The Arabs grind them and
use. the flour for baking pancakes.
Other tropical people roast them
and eat them with butter and salt
much as we do parched corn. The
Arabs also like crickets served In
the same way.
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THE JOB -.
COUNTY SURVEYOR

The County Surveyor is the en-
cheering and surveying officer of
the County, and engineering advis-
err to the Board of County CON-
missioners. He has jurisdiction
over the construction and mainte-
nance of county highways, roads,
bridges, and other physical proper
ties, as well as Lake improvements
and maintenance. He also has
charge of the county's recreational
facilities.
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Modern room, private bath, for
rent, reasonable. Call D. j. Thor
son, Dupont 1922. 10-6-34
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LOOK OUT!

Keep off October %, Halloween
Dance at Southside Auditorium
given by NJ Jour Club.-Adver
FRATERNAL NOTICES
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1934-10-12

Ames Lodge, No. 106, I. B. P. o.
e. W., meets first and third Mon
days of each month at Elts' Rest,
14S Hyland Ave. N. ]. w. Pate,
exalted ruler; Cecil E. Newman,
financial secretary. Downtown Of
flee, 800 South Third st. Phone
Bridgeport 1895. Elks' Rest phone,
HyIand 1925. Visiting brothers
welcome.
ST. PAUL FRATERNAL
NOTICES
Gopher Lodge No. los, I. B. p.
O.. E. W., meets the first and third
Wednesdays of each month at the
Elks' Rest, 2O7 w. Central. A. ].
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-23

A S all Indianapolis fishermen
L n know by now the strawboard
plant at NobleSville, controlled by
the Ball family, Muncie philanthro-
pists, last week was responsible for
poisons from settling ponds pollut-
ing White river.
An accident" is the explanation
of company officials, but excuses
can not repair the damage.
Game wardens who rushed to the
scene tell of thousands Of dead fish
lining the river bank for miles be-
low the plant. Bass, redeye, blue
gills, sunfiSh and catfish, as we'll as
carp and suckers, were dead and
dying.
Every living thing IN the river
was killed for several miles" said
a warden. 1T will be many days
before we know the full extent of
the damage"
A letter from the warden at Mo-
blesville to officials at the conServa-
ton department says, in part:
L don't know what would happen
to me if I should make an arrest for
an undersize fish with this wholesale
slaughter going on. People are rails
ing the devil"
COTTAGE owners on the banks
~ of the river sadly watched the
poisoned, blackened waters creep
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-23
Baltimore Grappler Is Reported
Set for Hard Go With SlageI

Lou Plummer, the rough and
tumble Baltimore mat husky. Will
be aiming toward two detectives
here tomorrow night at Sports
Arena when he clashes with Sol
SlageI, the powerful Kansan, in the
main go on the Hercules A. c..
wrestling card.
First Of all, the former Notre
Dame athlete hopes to conquer
Slagel and thereby continue a win
ming streak which he has been en-
joying in indianapolis. And, sec
ond, but just as important to Lou
he wants to avenge a defeat that
he suffered at the hands of Sol
here last winter.
The Slagel-Plummer tussle has
stirred up considerable interest
among Hercules fans, and the bout
promises to be filed with action.
Sol tossed Plummer in a one-fall
event during the winter season, but
the bout tomorrow calls for two
falls out Of three.
Slagel who scales 230, is listed
we'll up among the prominent
heavyweights. He has beaten
numerous top ranking grapplers
and has won and lost in bouts with
Joe Savoldi.
Dick Texas Tornado Raines and
Jim McMillen will meet in a spe-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-23

marie was given the most difficult
assignments but her most difficult
one was when she unwillingly fell
in love with George Brent who
plays the role of Beal, a young
American medical student in Berlin
at the time Germany first went to
war.
BeaIl is an impulsive lad who be-
lieveS that when a fellow and a
girl fall in love they should get
married.
The real struggle is faced by the
woman spy when she goes to Tur-
key to find a traitor to the German
cause.
Here is exciting melodrama, well
acted and intelligently directed. 1t
is not necessary to give too much of
the story because it will destroy
some Of the suspense.
The fact is that Miss 10y turns
in magnificent performance. She
has to wear many DISCUSSES but
some of her society clothes are
beautiful
STEAMBOAT Quest" comes under
the head of intriguing theater.
Now at LoeW's Palace.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-23
American Net
Stars Playing
at Seabright
Sarah Palfrey Defends Title
Against Helen Jacobs;
Van Ryn Entered.
By Unitcd Press

~ tNtftH ETeSs
SEABRIGHT, N. j., Juy 23-
Ranking stars Of American tennis
meet today in the forty-seventh an
nual renewal Of the Seabright in
vitational play, drawing four of the
top-ranking men players and the
full list of women's players, headed
by Helen Jacobs of Berkeley, Cal,
the American champion.
The only missing first ten play
ers among the women are Mrs.
Helen Wills Moody and Alice Mar
bic, ranked second and third, and
both out Of competition.
On the mems side, the chief
missing numbers are with the
American Davis Cup squad in Eng
land-Frank Shields, NO. l in the
national ranking; Lester Stoefen,
No. 3; Sidney Wood, No. 6, and
George M. Lott, No. TO- The mems
list at Seabright is headed by Will
mer Allison of Austin, Texas, second
ranking American.
The ranking women stars include
Carolin Babcock, Josephine Cruik-
shank, the Baroness Maud Levi,
Mrs. Marjorie Gladman Van Ryn,
Virginia Rice; while the mems list
includes Bryan Grant of Atlanta,
Ga, frankie Parker, former Mil
waukee youth now living at Spring
Lake, N. j.; Berkeley Bell of New
York, Greg Mangin of Newark, n
j., and John Van Ryn of Phila-
delphia, former first ten" player.
Frank Shields, last years title
holder, will not defend, but Man
gin, the other finalist, will be in the
current play. Miss Palfrey, who de-
feated Miss Jacobs in the final last
year, will defend her title. Shields
and Parker hold the doubles title,
while Miss Cruickshank and Miss
Marble are womens doubles cham
pions. The mixed doubles title is
held by Mrs. Van Ryn and Grant.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-23
Lott and StOefen
Defeat Australia
Team in Doubles
U. S. Needs Both Singles
Finals to Win.

- = AaH#'fe f'"1
WIMBLEDON. England, July %.
Americas Davis cup hopes we're
bolstered today when George Lott
and Lester StOefen defeated Jack
Crawford and Adrian Quist Of Aus
tralia in the lone doubles contest
Of the interzone final Scores were
Ga, Ga. 30. Ga.
T-he Americans played magnifi-
cent tennis except in the third set
When StOffen lost control, twice al
lowing the Australians to break
through.
The interzone final now stands
at two matches for the Australians
and one for the United States. Thus
the Americans must win both of
tOmOrrOw's final singles contests if
they are to meet England, the
holder of the cup, in the challenge
round starting at the weekend.
The American hopes were brighter
at the conclusion of the play than
had been expected The United
States pair virtually was conceded
the doubles victory. But nobody
had counted on the distinct fall
from form displayed by Crawford.
He was visibly nervous in the first
set. losing the first game of that
set on his own service. having COM
mitted three double faults.
Had it not been for the brilliant
play of Ouist the Americans might
well have won in straight sets and
surely would have won the sets
they did by wider margins.
Tomorrow Crawford plays Sidney
3. Wood of New York and Vivian
McGrath. who upset Wood on Sat-
urday. plays Frank Shields. also Of
New York Experts named Craw-
ford and Shields as the probable
winners.