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A Host Of Odd Lots
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The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1934-08-18
ConGUNISlf IN THE
"JUMoL.D"

To the Editor of The Tribune:
As q roamer, I do not suppose
my comments or criticisms will
amount to much. As an ordi.
nary "bo," the last six years, !
have been in every state in the
union and in Canada. The last
two days I've laid in the jungles
in a town near Minneapolis. In
these two days I have read
papers of last week telling
about the major and smaller
strikes in the United States and
the putsch in Austria.
Six years ago you seldom
heard about Communism in the
jungle camps Of weary willies.
Today it is the popular subject.
Recently in the jungles Of
Brainerd, Mimi, a man (well
dressed) came and invited us
(8) to come to the Communist
meeting that evening and gave
us q card Of admittanee. Two
went ; next day we were inform
ed that they held several meet
ings several times a week and
some weeks every evening.
In the papers we'ssw nothing
ofany major or minor strikes in
Canada. Why! Because the
people of Canada have respect
for their laws, the officers en-
trusted with the enforcement Of
their claws are not afraid of
stepping on some one 3 toes, and
enforce the laws regardless Of
whom it concerns. Here in the
United States no one gives
awhoop about laws, and the en-
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1934-08-18

forcing officers are usually
named by ballot; as a conse-
quenee, they not only want the
honest mans vote but make a
special effort to get the crimi-
nas' support. In Canada it is
a grave crime to talk or advo-
cate overthrow of the govern
ment and anyone who tries to
talk or by printed mentions, ad-
vocates it, soon finds him or
herself behind the bars.
Our United States govern
ment must be informed as how
the Communists are working in
the United States and they are
showing the same carefree at
titude toward the Communists
that all officers are showing to-
ward other laws. Evidently
they think there is no danger.
We of the jungles see the putsch
of Austria in the United States
in less than five years unless the
move is stamped out in the very
near future.
When the United States rec
ognized the Soviets last winter
they did nothing more than in
vite the teachers of Lenin and
Stain to the United States.
When England recognized
them, they did it with reserva-
tions, namely that Russian So
vietism should not be taught in
England. What happened9
Communistic work was at once
begun, it didn't take England
long to raid their headquarters
and call a halt, and handed the
Soviets their hats. France did
likewise, but we, the United
States, 60 on and let them do
their worst and pay no atten-
ton to them and before long it
will be too late. This is not idle
talk, but US "bo s" see the hand
Of the Soviets on all sides and
that hand is working overtime.
The damage is already great,
but nothing to what we can look
for unless Uncle Sam yields an
iron club and with a vengeance
and that mighty soon.
Ben Benton.
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1934-08-18

Conductor: Cant you see
that sign, No smoldn ="
Sailor: "Sure, Mate, that's
plain enough, but there are 50
many dippy signs here. One
says, Wear Memo Corsets.' So
I amt paying attention to any
Of them. Rotary Reminder.
Moonshine comes from q Sc
cret, still.
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1934-08-18

The AAA is discovering that
while blowing up every third
row Of cotton will not seriously
affect the seasons supply of
diapers and cotton socks, the
crop-reduction plan is quite apt
to quicker up the usual and nor
NAL supply Of biscuit and corn
poue.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-03-29
WILLIE PETERSON
DEATH SENTENCE
is COMMITTED

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, March %
Willie Peterson, sentenced to
death in the electric chair for the
murder of two white society girls
in August, 1881, had his sentence
committed to life Imprisonment on
Tuesday by Governor B. M. Mil
Ter.
Thus ended another stage in the
two-and-a-half year fight for Pc
terson's freedom, which has been
packed with melodrama including
attempted murder of the defend
ant in Jail and a near race riot,
since Peterson's arrest in the fall
of 1881. Since his arrest he has
been defended by the N.A.A.C.P.
Peterson was picked up off the
streets Of Birmingham when Miss
Nell Williams, the only surviving
girl of the trio that went for a
drive in the late afternoon of Aug
ust 4, 1881, to park on the out
skirts of the city, saw him as she
was driving down a street. Peter
son made no effort to run away
since he has steadfastly maintain
ed he knows nothing of the crime.
His first trial resulted in a hung
jury. While confined in the jail,
the brother of Miss Williams and
several others visited him for a
conference and there, before the
eyes of the sheriff Williams shot
Peterson down. The latter recov-
cred, however.
The second trial resulted in a
conviction after the charge Of rape
had been added to the original one
of murder. Nothing had ever been
said, even in the very first news
paper reports of the crime, about
rape. The brother of Miss Wilt
ans was then tried and acquitted
of attempted murder.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-03-29
NAACP CAMPAIGN
DIRECTOR COMING
TO PACIFIC COAST

PITTSBURGH, Pa.-Mrs. Daisy
e. Lampkin, regional field secreta-
ry of the N.A.A.C.P. and campaign
director, left here Friday night on
swing to Pacific Coast points
and the Southwest which will not
end until the annual conference Of
the association in Oklahoma City,
Okla, the latter part of June.
Her first stop will be brief one
in Chicago, then she will visit Las
Vegas, New, and Boulder Dam, ar
irving in Los Angeles March 81.
One month will be spent with the
Los Angeles and the surrounding
branches. May 1-6 Mrs. Lampkn
will be in San Diego and from then
until May 80 in the San Francisco
area. She will come back by the
southern route into Oklahoma, do
ing WORK N the Southwest, until
the conference.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-03-29
SOLONS Of NORTH
TRY To POSTPONE
BILL VOTE

WASHINGTON With the Cos
Wagner anti-lynching bill
ready for reporting out of the sub
committee on the judiciary favor.
ably, persistent reports have it
that a number of northern and
western senators are pulling wires
behind the scenes to sidetrack the
bill until the next session of con-
gress-which will be after the fall
elections.
These senators are said to be un-
easy. They want to postpone the
anti-lynching law, which is full Of
dynamite" as far as their politi-
cal fortunes are concerned, hoping
they can stall off the voters at the
fall elections.
Meanwhile Senator Frederick C.
Van Mugs of Indiana, chairman Of
the subcommittee is going ahead
with his work. He declares he is
ready to defend the bill and is
known to be intellectually in ia
vor of prompt passage of it by the
Senate.
Friends of the bill here state
that so far, the total of letters
from individuals and organizations
to members of the Senate judici-
airy committee and to individual
senators has not been mountain
high. Support for this legislation
should be pouring in upon sena-
tors by every mail so that there
will be no excuse for postponement.
The N.A.A.C.P., which is fight
ing for the bill, has urged every
one of its branches to personally
canvass members and have them
write letters to their senators nrg-
ing passage of the bill. Other Or
CARNATIONS are urged to do like
wise. Every person who believes
lynching should be stamped out
should write his senator to vote
for this bill, which is known as S.
1878, the Costigan-Wagner anti
lynching bill.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-03-29
Harlem Facts and Fancies

Harlem has as many pretty girls
as any other city its size in the
world.
Harlem has quite few who are
neither ugly nor pretty-just pass
able.
Harlem's men set the pace for
outlandish fashions.
Harlem is the only place a per-
son can see the style affected by
the men.
Harlem is the only section of
the city where you can buy a COM
plete lunch (alraost) in the thea
tres-to the complete annoyance
of the better class patrons who
hate to be interrupted during a
performance.
Harlem, like all sections of the
city recognizes the dollar as the
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-03-29
Mayor Orders
INVESTIGATION
Of HARLEM RIOT

NEW YORK = Five thousand
men and women ricted in Harlem
Saturday afternoon when detect
ives used tear-gas bombs to dis
perse meeting staged at Lenox
avenue and 126th street to vel
come Mrs. Ada Wright, mother Of
two of the Scottsboro boys, wno
was just returning from Alabama
where she visited her sons in prl-
son. When Samuel Stain introduc-
ed Mr.. Wright to the crowd she
was received with cheers.
The riot started while Mrs.
Wright was addressing the crowd.
AS she told of cruelty the SCOTS
boro boys were subjected to in Biz
mingham jail. it is reported, POI
liceman in the crowd remarked, ut
serves them right" He was knock
ed down and kicked by the crowd
who attacked other officers.
Four police emergency squads,
a squad of motorcycle policemen,
ten radio cars, and half a dozen
automobiles filled with detectives
were rushed to the scene, with all
available reserves from four police
stations, but fighting continued for
more than an hour before the pc.
lice succeeded in clearing the
street.
Although a dozen of the police
men had their uniforms torn. a do
zen more were severely pummeled
and score or more were struck
by ripe fruit and missiles hurled
from tenement windows, they us
ed neither blackjacks nor pistols.
Solomon Harper Of the defense
committee of the League of Strug-
gle for Negro Rights protested Vi
gorously against what he termed
police brutality" and declared
that Mrs. Wright would have been
killed when police drove their au-
tomobile upon the sidewalk, had
not someone pulled her away.
Monday Chief Inspector Lewis ).
Valentine received communications
from Mayor LaGuardia and from
Police Commissioner Organ or
dering an investigation, and In
spector Louis Dittman, Deputy
Chief Inspector David J. McAul-
life and Assistant Chief Inspector
John ]. Sullivan were ordered to
investigate to determine whether
the use of tear gas bombs was ne
cessary.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-03-29
400 Leaders At
25th Banquet OF
Negro Organization
MOVIE STARS SEE.
BAND HEAD WE'D
CLUB CHORUS GIRL

HOLLYWOOD (Ws) Sur
rounded by host of stars and
would-be stars and with kIeig
lights burning down with all
their intensity, Buck Clayton,
leader of the Harlem Gentlemen
band and Gladys Henderson, a
comely Cotton Club chlorine,
were united in marriage by the
Rev. N. p. creggs, of the indie
pendent Church.
This was believed to be the
first time that a Hollywood
wedding of colored couple has
ever been made into a newsreeI.
The bride introduced a new
vogue in bridal attire when she
and her attendants were becom-
ingly dressed in pants.
Duke Ellington and his or
chestra gave their version of
the wedding march and the
bride was given away by Dir
ector Liesner, now working on
the filmization of murder at
the vanities." Duke Ellington
played what many consider his
greatest piece, Sophisticated
Lady" and then gave the seat
to Harvey Brooks who acted as
accompa,ist for Flora Washing
ton as she sang "As You Desire
Me-"
After the Rev. Mr.. Gregus
had united them in holy matri-
mony, the crowd, which includ-
ed Alison Skipworth, Aurora
Greeley, The Mills Brothers,
Jack oakie, Les Hite, Charles
Butler, Joe Trent, Mae West,
Johnny Taylor, Mildred Glover,
Duke Ellington and many 9TH
ers, began to throw rice.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-03-29
Queen Of Portland Night Life
Wife Of Italian Silver Miner


PORTLAND. Ore. Coop Ser
vice. The hottest spot in town at
the present is the Cotton Club, one
Of the most beautiful on the coast,
located beneath the Golden West
Hotel on Broadway.
Woman Operator
The sovereign on Portland's mite
life throne is a colored woman.
Mrs. Catherine Byrd, energetic bu-
siness woman who operates both
the Golden West Hotel and the
Cotton Club.
The Golden West caters to col
ored trade and Is right IN the heart
Of the business section
Uniformed bellboys meet the
guests at the door and an elevator
lifts them to their rooms.
Black silhouettes of Harlem nu-
dists adorn the walls of the Cot
ton Club, finely carved mahog
any bar improves one end, booths
in eggshell and green lend privacy
to the mixed couples who hold a
tete-a-tete in the mellow softness
of the room and the orchestra, all
dressed in naval costumes in keep
ing with the marine spirit which
joins the industrial background of
the town, nroadcasts nightly.
Married Miner
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In private life Mrs. Byrd, as she
is known to thousands, is really
Mrs. Joseph Filoda. Her husband
Joe Filoda, is an Italian silver mi
ner, who came to Portland with
bags full of money and fell madly
in love with her. Most of the mo-
ney used in making the Golden
West and the Cotton Club the
show places of Portland came out
Of those silver ore sacks, but today
Joe, a rough looking and rough
acting man, hardened by contact
with nature back in the Oregon
hills. is willing to remain in the
background and just be Mr.. Byrd
To him Mrs. Fiioda. a stout, brown
skinned woman, weighing about
10 pounds, is the queen of the
Golden West.
ToIan's classmate
The master of ceremonies at the
Cotton Club is Herman Whaley. an
elongated dancer, who conceived
the idea of staging shows in the
far West, took off his apron as a
dining car waiter and set out to
realize his dream.
Gathering about him all of the
available young girls of Portland,
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Watch En-

catwaIk $3.50, $3.50, $500 and
War Tide, $500, $40, $3.50 were
winners last week. Reverberate
and Golden Fate were second while
Dornock was third. Jim Dandy,
Annie N. Seymour, Finnic and Fire
Mask also ran
My remaining selections, Collier,
Wee Drop, kieva, FeudaI Lord, Le-
gaIity, Garlic, Contribute, and Luz
oi;le x. did not enter.
Here are some horses now at
top form that should finish in the
money next time out.
FLORIDA
General A. Lofty Lady
Ladogan Mountain Elk
Flying Sailor Luck In
oAkLAWN
Northern Spy swagger Stick
Mentality Justice q
EPSON DOWNS
Mona Keala Labor
Half Day Broomshot
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-03-29
Frisco S Chinatown Is Yellow;
HerbaIists to Bathing Beauties

SAN FRANcISCo-(co-op Ser
vice. The most energetic person
ages among the rising generation
Of Negroes in San Francisco are
three young bachelors.
This is not due to the fact that
there are not many eligible young
women in the vicinity, but largely
due to the fact that, so far. they
have been too busy to be ensnared
BY Cupid.
One Dentist in Town
The only dentist in the city is
DR.. NJ Davis, who has been MAX
ing name for himself in this p-o-
fession, and one of the busiest Of
physicians is DR.. Stuart F. David
son, who occupies palatial offices
in y towering building in the busi-
ness center, which overloolxs Chi
natown. the Italian quarter and the
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-03-29

EDITORIAL
EASTER

EASTER commentaries the re
appearance on earth Of Him who
died that man might attain unto
life everlasting. It suggests con-
quering hero. It suggests life and
activity, a getting out Of the old
and entering into the new.
Not revelry and sport but sol
emnity and thought should engage
our attention. Instead of new
dress. a new life win be in order.
Instead of moving along in the
same old rut. strike out for new
paths, new friends and new asso-
ciates.
Throw off tho tomb Of lethargy
and rise IN new thoughts, con-
quering hero. The letters Of ignor-
ance, superstition and indifference
hold us because we let them.
THERE ARE MANY things to
defect the thoughts OF men from
the religious life and we ought not
to Judge them too severely If they
seem to lose all thought Of God.
The saving thing Is the persistent
inner testimony in each mans own
heart. Even while he Is flying his
little flags Of defiance and bravely
shouting his unbeIief. there is the
uneasy consciousness within him
that there is some mysterious and
external mixture IN his nature. He
proclaims himself a child Of earth
but knows himself to be child Of
God. He disclairns all faith in a
future life and yet, despite him
self, looks forward, beyond the
grave, to some higher fulfillment
Of himself.
YOU MAY HEAR labored argu-
ments about immortality Sunday.
You may refuse to be convinced.
But all the time you win believe,
because you cannot help believing
Il Is because Of this. not because
Of a preachers e1oquence or church
power, that millions viii go TO
their place Of worship Sunday and
sing the songs Of immortal hope
Surely Easter is good time t.
think. larry as it were a little
while, mediate, listen, and maybe
you win hear the call: Arise a
coDauering hero. Take on new life
The grave of unbelief cannot hold
thee"
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Continued on Page Two)
Worked With Bert

Now will you see that your pa
pers get a copy of this and give it
the same publicity that they did
the other, or at least run it?
worked in a show with Bert Will
liams for years. I could show you
a dozen complimentary things that
I have written about him. He was
the greatest comedian the stage
has had in my time, he and Frank
Tinney. Bert was the most gentle
manly fellow you ever saw.
"A colored cowpuncher taught
me how to rope and contributed
to him and his wife and went out
of my way to drive by to see them
every time went to my old home
in Oklahoma. Up to the time of
their death, he never worked for a
soul during his long lifetime but
us. All of these things make this
criticism the more unfair and hard
on me.
No Effort to Humiiiate
IF there is a colored performer
whom 1 might have known in the
old vaudeville days (and I knew
many, if there is a colored por-
ter, waiter or anyone of your race
that l have come in contact with
in all my travels-if you or any
one else can find one that will say
that I ever by action or word ever
did one thing to humiliate or show
in any way that 1 was antagonis-
tic to him, / viii, ali well, 1 would
do anything, for you can't find
him, for never did.
NOW you know your periodicals
and I don't; so as a favor to me
send them a copy of this. But you
must also use tolerance toward
millions of fine white people who
use the word but who at heart are
really friends"
(Signed) WILL ROGERS
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almighty ruler of this mundane,
sphere.
Harlem has more than its share
of white as well as eolored ladies'
of easy virtue.
Harlem is the most gullible sec
ton of the city. To wit. all of the
famous "cults," ''isms,o "spiritual-
ists," fortune tellers," "quack doc
tors and their nostrums," takers,
and what have you.
Harlem has its share of ludi-
crous signs adjoining buildings,
stores and windows.
Harlem has the same sunshine
which the other sections of the ci-
ty have-yet it seems to shine just
a little brighter On these corners
and with a little more warmth
according to the number of loafers
it attracts.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-03-29
CAFE Eating IS
SOCIAL EQUALITY.
SAYS Texas REP

WASHINGTON Southern OPP
position cropped out last week in
the campaign of Congressman Os-
car DePriest to eliminate discrim-
nation from the House restaurant
when Congressman George B. Ter
rell CD, of Alto, Texas, sent no.
tice TO the Illinois Congressman
stating that he would not support
his resolution calling for investiga-
ton into the ousting of colored
from the House dining room.
Congressman DePriest had sent
out form letters to all members of
Congress in an attempt to obtain
their aid in forcing the resolution
from the rules committee, which
had refused to consider it after
having had it for thirty days.
In an interview Representative
Terrell told the AMP that his rea-
son for opposing the DePriest re-
solution was because he did not
approve of social equality be-
tween the races"
Asked if eating in the public
dining room of the Capitol would
put colored on an equal basis with
whites or vice versa, Terrell repli-
ed: ''It certainly would"
Cooking All Right
When asked the reason why col
ored people were good enough to
prepare the meals in the public
dining room and not good enough
to eat it with the people for whom
they prepare it, the Congressman
said:
Cooking the food and eating it
with whites are two altogether diff
ferent things, and 1 certainly win
not support any resolution that
will tend to put colored people on
the same social basis with whites"
He asserted that he would sup
port a bill that would favor a sep
arate dining room for colored add
ing:
There are enough colored peo-
pie there to warrant a separate
dining room, and I told DePriest
that"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-03-29
The First Lady

THE FIRST LADY Of the land
does not play to the galleries. She
does not have to. With a social
background that makes her the
equal of the best, she did not need
the added prestige that comes from
her position as wife of the Presi-
dent to make her a shining social
light in whatever company she
chose to place herself. When we
see her, then, bending over a little
colored child while its father or
older brother and another child
serenaded her, in which posture
she was pictured with them, we
know that her act was motivated
alone by her broad humanity that
enables her to extend sympathy to