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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-01-01
DANCED IN OLD SHOES

ORLEANS. Mass. CUP. Fred
Gill danced recently in shoe thar
were 60 years old. John G. tIIch-
ner purchased the shoes n 1873,
but couldn't wear them. because
they pinched his feet. so he put
them away. Gill hauled them 90.
and wore them.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-01-01

The real thinking part of mans brain
weighs less than a quarter of an ounce
says a Washington scientist. That accounts
for the vast number of useless ideas en-
pressed nowadays.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-01-01
BIRTHDAYS DIFFEREN

WORCHESTER, Mass.
Twins born here TO Mr.. ana VI
Michael A. Magliaro will nav
different birthday annlverSarics
4 boy was born at two n1ca'e,
to midnight and his sister alroc
20 minutes later.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-01-01

President of Detroit's most broke bank
SAYS a big mistake was made in organizing
it at the peak of prosperity. Still, he
wouldn't want to organize new bank
now, either.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-01-01

Prof. Irving Fisher didn't include him.
self in his list of authorities on money. It's
easier to be an authority on authorities on
money than to be an authority on money.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-01-01

We were supposed to have had less
drinking during prohibition, and now we
have more taxes.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-01-01

Surely President Roosevelt didn't nave
20 ros+ore citizenship to 1900 wartime dis
senters lust to get their votes!
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-01-01
NEWSPAPERS. OPINIONS
WHY NECESSARY?

The official entry of Governor Ehringhaus into
the auto tag-buying business suggests parable
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-10-04
5000 In Chicago
Hear Herndon Speak

CHICAGO CAMP Some three
thousand persons crowded Pilgrim
Baptist Church to hear Angelo
Herndon, recently released from
prison at Atlanta, Ca, under SEN
tence for alleged Communistic ac-
tivities in that city, here on We'd
nesday night.
The international Labor Defense
sponsored and arranged the meet
ing. Mrs. Ida Norris, mother of
Clarence Norris, one Of the nine
doomed Scottsboro defendants, was
also speaker.
The Rev. J. c. Austin, pastor of
the church, said: Amy man who
does not want freedom is either a
fool or an idiot, and if to want
freedom is to be o Communist,
then I am a Communist and viii
be until 1 die"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-10-04
COLORED CIRLSLOSE JOBS
NRA Is HELD TO BLAME

ton and asked for an exception
from paying code wages until they
could secure more efficinet girls or
increase the efficiency Of those
they had. The Joint Recovery
Committee, organized to fight CO.
Tor and race discrimination under
codes. fought the factory's appli-
cation for an exemption.
The Joint Committee claimed
that to grant the company oppor-
tunity to pay lower wages than
the code specified for any length
Of time ae all, would be setting up
racial differential. The compa-
ny's application was denied by the
MIRA authorities who are said to
have sympathized with the girls,
but did not wish to be charged
with bias by any organized group.
The opinion has been expressed
that some way should have been
found to uphold the principle of
non-discriminatory wage difficult
ties and to retain the jobs also.
Every factory employing color
ed girls in the South which has
been forced to meet this issue has
either closed its doors or replaced
colored workers with white.
But the effective work Of the
Joint Committee at Washington
has forced recognition of no dis
elimination in principle. Govern
ment relief agencies win take care
of those who have lost their jobs,
When some Of the girls in Mont
gomery applied for relief, they
were offered jobs in the cotton
fields.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-10-04
TEXAS FEDERAL
LAWYER CALLED
LIAR BY NAACP

NEW YORK-W. r. Smith, I'm
tied States District Attorney at
San Antonio, Texas, either has a
poor memory or he is a liar, ac-
cording to Walter White, secreta-
ry Of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored Peo-
pie. The charge was made today
in a letter sent by Mr.. White to
Assistant Attorney General Joseph
B. Keenan, in Washington, D. G.
in connection with the 20 missing
affidavits of qualified Negro vot-
ers barred from the recent Texas
primaries which Mr.. keenan, says
were forwarded with instructions
for action to u. S. Attorney Smith.
Replying to Mr. Whites letter Of
August 81, declaring that Smith
told several Texas Negroes that he
had received no affidavits or in
structions from Washington, Mr..
keenan, wrote on September 6 that
the Texas u. s. Attorney acknow-
lodged receipt of the documents
under date of August 81.
To this letter Mr.. White has re-
piled: 1--WE hand you herewith affi-
dayits of Messrs. J. w. Lowe and
@. F. Cooke. You will note that
Mr.. Cooke declares, under oath,
that when he telephoned Mr.. Smith
on the morning of August 25 anc
asked him If he had any instruc.
lions from Washington relative tt
Negroes voting in the primaries
Mr.. Smith declared that he hae
none.
I'm view of the fact that thi!
conversation took place four days
after Mr.. Smith had written to the
Attorney Generals office acknow
Lodging receipt of your letter, il
is apparent either that his memo
ry is so short as to cast reflection
upon his mental ability or he, il
plain language, lied"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-10-04

EDITORIALS


NOW THAT cHAs. a. LIND
BERG win get some Of his sec. 900
rshssn money back. perhaps he
Win donate q portion Of It to the
colored man who found the body
az his kidnapped son. It win be re-
naenbefed that Isndv did net
coueh-up a single quarter to the
man who naved him sleepless
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-10-04
CONDUCTORS PLAN
PORTERS UNION

CHICAGO CAMP - Pullman
conductors are to attempt to or
ganize pullman porters into UNI
ion affiliated with and subsidiary
to the Order of Sleeping Car Con-
ductors. This decision was made
at the recent convention of the
conductors order according to an
official proclamation bearing the
signature of M. Warfield, grand
president, and which has been re-
ceived by all Chicago members.
It is presumed that the conduc-
tors are thus throwing down the
gauntlet to the Brotherhood of
Sleeping Car Porters headed by A.
Philip Randolph. There are no Ne
gro pullman conductors. Colored
men have not been hired for such
posts by the Pullman company and
so have not been eligible to join
the Order of Sleeping Car Conduc-
tors.
In many instances, however, the
conductors have encouraged the or
ganization of pullman porters.
They realized that they needed the
porter. The conductors union has
never been particularly effective.
The conductors and the company
knew that If the former ever at
tempted strike, the porters could
be used to man the trains and car
ry on with the utmost efficiency.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-10-04
Buffalo Hotel Opens
With 81 Employees

BUFFALO, N.Y.-A total of six
ty-one persons are employed in the
newly renovated $15O,OOO Vendome
Hotel, lit Clinton St., where some
seven hundred persons were greet
ed, last Thursday, at the hotels
opening night.
Aside from the fifty residence
rooms, the hotel contains dining
room with seating capacity of six
hundred, grill seating sixty peo-
pie, summer garden where sew
eral hundred can be accommodate
ed, and a newly installed semi-cir-
cular bar.
william C. Glore, who was born
in Virginia forty-eight years ago
and came to Buffalo in 1911, is the
proprietor.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-10-04
Charge Negro Medical School
DiscriIninates Against Jews

al offer of the General Education
Board, which gave $25O,0O0 to-
ward the fund.
Mr.. Rosenwald was also a mem
Der of committee OF three chos-
en- by the executors of the estate
Of Conrad Hubert, who awarded
$685. 900 from this estate to How
ard University for the development
of the School Of Medicine. The O.
Their members Of this committee
were late President Calvin Coo
lidge, and former Governor Alfred
e. Smith.
Got RosenwaId Grants
The university has also received
grants from the Julius Rosenwald
Fund. In the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1880, the fund gave the
university $7O.656. It also made
a grant OF $4,000 to the univer-
sity for the development of the
department of zoology.
Applicants for admission to the
Medical Schol average about Doc
year. About 60 applicants are
admitted each year to the fresh
man class Of the Medical College
How Admissions Are Determined
Admissions are determined by q
committee on the basic Of academ-
ic training, and caliber Of the cur
riculum, teaching staff and teach
ing processes in the college where
the applicant prepared, special
consideration being given to those
applicants who had shown more
than ordinary aptitude in chemis-
try and the biological sciences.
Jews and colored persons are
Disseminated against in medical
schools of eastern universities be-
cause of prejudice against then
doing clinical work in obstetrics
and gynecology.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-10-04
THREE HELD FOR /
KILLING BOY TO
GET INSURANCE

NASHVILLE, Tenn. CAMP =
Three persons are in jail here
charged with choking 1S-year-oId
John Henry Beasley to death last
Saturday night in order that two
Of them might collect Insurance.
money.
One is a woman, Ella Mae Beas-
ley, % years old. The two men
are. Virgil Bell. 30, and James
Maxwell, "a.
After the boy was choked to
death, police allege his boey was
placed on the railroad tracks so
that it might be struck by train
and suspicion averted.
Virgil Bell, interviewed by the
Associated Negro Press in his jail
cell, denied completely.
1T tell you the truth" he said.
when / got home John Henry
was dead. 1 didn't Kill him and l
don't know nothing about it at all. !"
Bell had 1904 in insurance mon
ey coming and hospital records
showed that John Henry nearly
died from e drink of Coca Cola
which Bell gave him last year.
Maxwell, who is a brother Of
Mrs. Beasley, stated when I come
home, 1 stopped by my sisters
house and I found her old man g.
choking John Henry but he was
dead then. Later, he asked me
where I could get somebody to
haul him away"
ella Mae also stated that the
boy was already dead when she
reached home. She had insurance
to the amount Of $500 on him.
After the body had been recov-
cred from the railroad tracks the
insurance company started the in
vestigation which resulted in the
arrest of the trio.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-10-04
MISSOURI SUPREME COURT
ORDERS THE RELEASE OF
'PAC. MOVEMENT LEADERS
FOREMAN DENIES
WOMAN'S CHARGE
OF DISCRIMINATION

WASHINGTON (ANP) Stat
ing that Negroes had received more
positions requiring executive \ d.
ity under the present admin1stra-
ton than under any other, Clark
Foreman, white, Advisor on the
Economic Status of Negroes in the
Department of the Interior, this
week spiked charges made by Miss
Gretchen McRae. Of this city, that
he was sponsoring a policy Of seq
regation within the department.
Miss McRae, in a statement is
sued to the press last week, stated
that lack of appointments in the
Public Works Administration is a
good example of how the policy of
exclusion is working against the
interests of colored applicants and
taxpayers, and also good exam
pie of what the inexperienced adj
visor on Negro affairs is doing
a
about it."
Foreman answered by announc-
ing the appointment of John Lang
ford, prominent local architect, as
architectural engineer in the hous-
ing division of the P.W.A., and
promising that other appointments
of similar nature would be forth
coming as soon as they are approx
ed by the Secretary of the Interior.
Employees already ranking high
infthe IVA. setup, he stated, are
b Es0ESs weaver. VINO holds the
title of Assistant Advisor on the
Economic Status of Negroes, At
torney Theophilus Mann, of Chica-
ga, who is employed in the legal
division of the administration. and
William H. HASTE, also assigned
to the legal division.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-10-04
CHICAGO AGAINST
SEPARATE SCHOOL

CHICAGO, Ill. CAMP = I'M
pending threats of Jim Crow in
Morgan Park High School caused
delegation of parents and public
spirited citizens to call upon Sup
erintendent William J. Began at
the Chicago Board of Education
last Wednesday to demand infor-
nation as to why their children
are being forced out of the institu-
ton, located in one of the city's
popular suburbs. Mr.. Began, pre-
siding for a while, had to leave
suddenly ito meet" a train. Will
liam j. Buck then took over the
discussion.
81 am quoting others now" Buck
is reported to have told the assem-
bled Negroes, "but isn't the real
trouble out there due to the color
ed students being after the white
girls?"
This statement of his brought
chorus of angry retorts from the
delegation. Buck tried to give it
the appearance that the informa-
ton hal come from what people
had told him" Nevertheless, the
thinking colored citizens are of the
opinion that there is a definitely
well-laid plot afoot to organize a
movement for separate public
schools for Chicago.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-10-04
NEGRO DIRECTOR
QUITS NRA JOB

WASHINGTON, D. CDR. Abb
ram L. Harris, who held the only
important post given a Negro in
the MIRA, has resigned from the
Consumers Advisory Board. This
action followed close on the resig-
nation Of Forester B. Washington
from the FERA because of disgust
in the administration of the New
Deal.
DR.. Harris announced to Mrs.
Ramsey, chairman of the board,
that he would no longer serve. The
letter expressed no reason for the
resignation, but it is known that
DR.. Harris was unwilling to con-
tinue in the MIRA because of its
unfair attitude toward Negro la
Dor. He was appointed to the
board last May following a long
fight by the Joint Committee on
National Recovery to secure Ne
gro representation. Eminently qua
lifted, DR.. Harris was admittedly
of distinct value to the board and
aided in determining some of its
most important policies.
His resignation is certain to
cause embarrassment to the New
Deal administration which has be-
gun a concerted effort to persuade
Negroes that the MIRA has been of
benefit to them.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-10-04
Keep On Fighting

''NEITHER BY UPROAR or le-
gal processes is the Negro likely
to secure the rights he Graves" is
the opinion Of H. Z. Mencken, for
mer editor of the American Mer-
curry
Mr.. Menclxen holds that the pre-
sent state Of mind in America, as
he sees it, is that the Negro has
gone far enough and should be
content for the present.
There is much evidence to sup
port his point Of view. White A.
merica is apparently determined
to check any progress that black
America tries to make. Segrega-
ton and discrimination seem to
gain in spite Of desperate efforts
to check them.
Opportunities for gainful en-
ployment grow less plentiful. And
are out Of all proportion to the I'M
employment situation which is the
result Of the depression. White
+, lends become less vocal as their
needs become more imperative
In the face Of these apparent
barriers. colored Americans must
keep a stiff upper-lip and keep on
fighting. All progress depends
upon constant agitation. If color
ed people become respondent and
quit hoping and working, they are
lost.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-10-04
BAR SCOTTSBORO.
DELEGATION At
WHITE HOUSE

WASHINGTON II A delegation
Of five persons, two of whom were
white, were refused admission to
the White House grounds last
week by White House attaches and
detectives from headquarters, when
they attempted to present a reso-
luton to the President in behalf
of the Scottsboro boys and Angelo
Herndon.
On the committee were David
Burr, F. Williams, Stephen Black,
c. Dangerfield, and Joe zameres,
the latter two white.
The five men had been selected
at a meeting held last Thursday
at Moses Hall to present the reso-
luton to one of the Presidents Sc
cretaries. The same committee
was also selected to welcome Hern-
don upon his arrival here to speak
October Q.
When the delegation arrived at
the White House, they were stop
ped before they entered the ground
and were told that one of their
number, zameres, the spokesman,
could go in alone and present it,
but that the other four had to stay
outside. Zameres refused to go in
alone and the delegation left with
out presenting the resolution.
The resolution demanded the re-
lease of the Scottsboro boys and
the unconditional release of Ange-
10 Herndon, who is now free on
SIS, 900 bond from the Atlanta PEN
itentiary.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-10-04

MONTGOMERY, Ala. The
Southland Manufacturing Plant, To-
Gated here, and the finest shirt fac
tory IN America employing colored
girls. has closed It's doors. throw
ing out Of work nearly tb- nun-
bred young eolored women and a
number OF colored men.
For six years the factory which
is owned BY The Reliance Manu-
featuring Co. Of Chicago, makers
Of big Yanks shirts, carried .
payroll Of $4,000 per year and
the merchants of Montgomery as
wei as the colored families which
were supported through that fac
tory. are deeply concerned.
Piece Work Halted
The factory was closed accord
ing to company officials. because
under the cotton textile code, they
were forced to pay q minimum
wage Of $1,000 per week instead
Of the piece work basis upon
which they had formerly operated
The piece work basis upon which
the girls worked was the same us
ed in the other 20 factories oper-
atsd by the company and employ
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-10-04
The Word Die

THE CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE
Of September IS reported the fol-
lowing 'eThe Rev. P. A. Morrow
has passed.
The gentleman referred to was
q Missouri minister who having
served his church and community
for long and honorable period,
died recently
The Advocate Is the official or
gan Of the NJ. Z. Church, and what
is pertinent here is Chat its editor
partakes Of the common inelina-
ton not to use the word die or
dead" except when all other
words have been exhausted.
reSa=r= that accounts for the
reason there are so many substi-
utes for these two words IL the
English language.
Nobody likes to say die 50 In
stead we say that SOME one has
expired. passed away, persisted, de-
parted this life, gone TO rest, Civ
en- up the Ghost. breathed his last.
We speak Of him as deceased, Of
his demise. we say he is at rest
or has sunk into the grave.
we even prefer such longer ex-
pressions a.. to go TO ones last
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-10-04
COUR I RULES 4
PRISONERS WERE
ILLEGALLY TRIED.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.-Four
st. Louis Negroes under sentence
of year in jail in Pemiscot coun
ty as result of their work as or
ganizers for Pacific Movement of
the Eastern World were discharg
ed by the Missouri Supreme court
sitting en- blanc here Monday.
A unanimous verdict was rem
dered by the high court within a
few minutes in which it was decid-
ed that the four, Ella Brown. Sam
Sawyer, Robert Thomas and Dave
Johnson, were not given a legal
trial.
Supreme Court Marshal John
Dalton brought the prisoners here
after serving a writ of habeas cor
pus at the charlottesville jail.
The prisoners had not commit
ted an Illegal act, the court held.
Testimony on the part of Attorney
William A. Cole, who was badly
beaten as were the defendants by
a mob of white people in the court
room at Steele, two weeks ago, was
heard in which he stated that the
defendants were attat ked before
sentence was imposed.
He did not learn Of the fate of
his clients, he said, until he got to
Cape Girardeau, the lawyer stated.
He was fleeing for his life.
During the trial the court.-oo
was crowded with spectators and
open resentment was shown byEhe
noisy crowd who tainted the prhs-
oners as "biggotty city nigger'
looking for trouble" At the con.
clusion of the trial Judge Kelley
lectured the prisoners, accusing
them with disturbing the peaceful
relationship existing between the
whites and blacks of the commune
ity. Each was fined $1,000 and
sentenced to a year in Jail.
An additional SOC days in jail
would have been added following
inability on the part of the four
prisoners to pay their fines. The
work rate IN prison in Pemiscot
County is 50 a day
The purpose Of the "Afro-Paci-
fic Movement OF the East is to or
ganize Negroes as unit to fight
injustice heaped upon them. The
organization is reported to have
more than 10000 members in Mis-
souri, Kansas and Illinois.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-10-04
.NRA Official Advises
Group to Join Unions

WASHINGTON, 1.-THE best
way to obtain results said Hon.
Edward F. McGrady, Assistant
Secretary of Labor and Assistant
Administrator of NRA, lis for the
Negro to join with his fellow-man
in a trade union. The Negro must
and will receive his portion of the
benefits along with all the other
groups" The official was speaking
before the Sleeping Car Porters,
last Saturday.
He scored the differential in the
wage rates between workers on ac-
count of race or color and said
that a corporation did not deserve
to exist that could only pay star
walton wages.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-10-04

WASHINGTON. D.C.-Discrim-
nation against Jews in a like man
ner to that followed with respect
to both Jewish and colored appli-
cants for admission to the medical
schools of most eastern universe
ties, is being practiced at Howard
University, it was learned Monday
According to information from
an authoritative source, Jewish APP
plicants for admission to the How
ard Medical School are being arbi-
trarily rejected.
Committee Failed TO Act
While they are not being told
they are not wanted as students
because they are Jews, they are
advised that the committee on ad.
missions failed to act on their ap-
plications and the hope is held Out
that their applications may be act
ed upon at a later date.
Out Of $50 applications for adj
mission to the Medical School said
u have been made by Jews, only
six were favorably considered, -four
for the College of Medicine and
two for the Dental College.
The reported discrimination Is
all the more startling because DR.
Abraham Flexner, a Jew, is chair
man of the board of trustees
Howard a U. s. School
Howard University is q quasi
Government institution. It is sup
ported chiefly by Federal appro-
priations. The Medical School
building was erected through q
Federal appropriation of $500, 900
To the Medical School endow-
ment fund of $52S,153, Julius Ro-
senwald, Jew, contributed $685.
900 of the $250,OOO the university
had to raise to meet the conditions
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-10-04
InterraciaI Love Affairs Are
Blamed For Pittsburgh Riot

PTTTsBURGH-With one Ital-
ian dead. many others nursing va
rious injuries, and nearly a score
Of colored persons languishing in
prison, hordes Of heavily-armed
police are patrolling the East Lib
erty riot section to prevent fur
ther bloody conflicts, as we're wit
messed in racial clashes last week.
Joseph Lazzaro, SO. Italian, 500
Lorimer Street, where the heavy
fighting took place died at the
Pittsburgh Hospital, Sunday night.
He had been shot in the abdomen.
Casualties among the coIOred ci-