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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-11-29

When you want an extra glass of
water you are as apt as not to be
handed a glass and directed to the
cooler with the reminder that Eve
are all home folks here and you
might as well feel at home" This,
with the use of your first name
tossed in, if it is remembered.
This procedure goes for natives
and celebrities alike Tiny Brad
shaw and the Mills Brothers, who
were breakfasting at the same time
I was, Jared no better than 1, de-
spite their corps of Wallets answer
ing their slightest wishes.
Prohibition in Force
Atlanta, in spite of its reputation
for a type of speed, is quite con-
trast to Savannah, Memphis. New
Orleans and other Dixie cities so
far as it's surface moralities are
concerned.
By midnight and long before,
there Is none of the gaiety of Beale
Avenue, the brazenness of Broao
Street. the sensuality of Rampant
Street, to be found on Auburn Az
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DR.. Johnson found one settle
ment of a group of buildings that
were white-washed eighteen years
ago, preparatory to a visit from
Booker Washington. This was the
first and last coating.
Few Know Ages
Few of the older persons know
their ages. Except on several adj
vanced farms, methods of cultiva-
ton are by mule and oxen, as they
were fifty years ago.
To get along with least difficult
ty, families get themselves the pro-
lection Of nearby white family.
Child Labor Everywhere
Children are sent to the fields
to cultivate cotton before they are
twelve. Some 146 Of the 612 fam
lilies have children who do not at
tend school during the five-month
term. nliteracy is twenty percent.
The county spends four dollars
a year for the education Of each
colored child and twenty-eight dol
lars on the education of each white
child. Many children walk five
miles in order to reach the school.
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I VIII Arise Burial Society
Really Exists in Alabama

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (By John
Jasper THE Sons and Daughters
of I viii Arise"-that famous bur
ial society made famous by the
stories of Octavus Roy Cohen, re-
ally exists.
DR.. Charles S. Johnson, profess
sor of sociology at Fisk UNIVERSE
ty, making study Of 612 families
in Macon County, Alabama, not
only found this strangely named
organization but also another by
the name of Love and Do Wells"
The purpose of DR.. Johnson's
study, which was financed by the
Rosenwald Fund, was to make a
picture of typical rural commune
ity in the far South.
Tuskegee the County seat
He chose an area Of some two
hundred square miles in Macon
County Tuskegee is the county
seat. The town and Booker t.
Washington's famous school are,
by horse and wagon, a days jour
ney-fourteen to twenty miles
from many Of these faailies who
seldom If 1t all ever see Tuskegee
Institute.
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Famous DR.. Sweet
Arrested in Detroit

DETROIT, Mich. (ANP) = Last
Tuesday night, DIR. Ossian H. Sweet
was arrested. charged with the sale
of cigarettes, food and beverages
without a license in his drug store
at 100 Chene st.
Just week before DR.. Sweet,
running as a Republican, had been
heralded as the victor in a fight
for seat in the state senate.
After his arrest Tuesday night
he was released under bond of
$500 by Judge Donald Van xile of
the Recorders Court.
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Bishop Grace Indicted
For Tax Evasion

BALTIMORE (CNS)-Marcilina
Manael Graca, who calls himself
the Bishop of the United House of
Prayer for All People, and who is
known as Charles M. Grace, was
indicted last week by a Federal
grand jury on charge of defraud-
ing the Government of more than
$4,000 in income taxes. Bishop
Grace, according to the govern
ment, paid income taxes totaling
$241.23 during the years from 1927
to 1882, while he owed SIS, 441.49
on income totaling $195, O75.3S for
the period.
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Economic Status Of CoIored
AT Low Level in So. Carolina

Charleston. like every other city,
leads in churches. There are sixty
two. The ministers, here as else
where, are living on the fat of the
land. They have fairly decent homes
and ride In sumptuous automobiles,
while those who support them live
in houses not fit for dogs to live in.
From what I had heard and read
about Charleston, the historic city,
I expected to see something when
reached here.
BY the way, did see something,
too. Down on bley Avenue, a
large oak tree seal Is in the center
of the street. It is surrounded by
a wooden fence. I asked another
newspaper man why it was there.
He replied that twenty colored peo-
pie had been hanged on that tree,
and the good white folks are pre-
serving it as a warning to other
dark skinned brethren.
Although the colored fair is now
in progress here, the group has no
thing on the fair ground, not even
chicken or a piece Of canvas. The
whites have everything and our
people merely attend and spend
their money. It reminds me of
carnival more than fair.
The curricula Of the high schools
in South Carolina does not include
civics or foreign languages.
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De Priest Will Run
For Congress in 1886

CHICAGO amp - After ex-
pressing the appreciation of Con-
gresham Oscar DePriest for the
support which voters gave him in
the recent election, Morris Lewis,
Mr.. DePriest's secretary, stated
Monday:
IT am glad also to announce that
the Citizens DeIriest-for- Congress
Committee is preparing to petition
Mr.. DePriest to enter the race for
reelection in 1886.
This statement is made regard
less of the fact that the official
canvass or the Tuesday vote will
not be declared until next week. 1t
is my opinion that Mr.. DePriest
win comply with the petition and
again be candidate in 1886"
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CHARLESTON, sc. (By David
Lee)-The economic status of the
colored group in South Carolina is
at low level. Those in the rural
districts fare no better than those
in the cities.
In my travels through the farm
ing sections. found tenant farm
ers on the verge Of starvation.
Their crops are poor; their stocks
are poorer, and they have no home.
The farmers in Maryland and 9TH
er Eastern states have barns sup
erior to the houses in which the
average South Carolinian lives.
In Charleston, the social and &c
onomic status is at it's lowest. The
residents here are wholly at the
mercy of the whites. The housing
conditions are deplorable. In the
colored ghetto of this historic city
of the South there are no paved
streets, no Sidewalks, no sewers.
These streets have such bad odors
that one has to hold his nose when
passing through.
Business? Such a thing doesn't
exist. There are 10000 people here,
and they do not have one decent
restaurant, store, or barber shop.
There is not single coIored laun-
dry in the city. There is one col
ored lawyer here, but the average
man doesn't know he is in town.
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COIOred Good Will Flyers Are
Forced Down in Haitian Mis-.

SANTO DOMINGO (By Cable)
The an-AmerIcan goodwill fly
ers. Anderson and Forsythe, who
made a forced landing near here
Sunday morning, announced today
(Tuesday) that they nope to have
completed repairs on their plane
by Wednesday night and win prob
ably take off for San Juan Thurs
day.
SANTO DOMINGO The Pan
American goodwill plane, Booker
T. Washington, made the second
forced landing of its 1s,665-mile
tour, Sunday morning in a hilly re-
gion west of Lake EnriquD.o, In the
province of Barahona.
rhe plane. manned ~ DR.. Albert
E. Forsythe of Atlanta City. Nj,
and C. Alfred Anderson of Bryn
Mawr, Pa. had covered slightly
more than 26cO miles of it's trip.
and was en- route here from Port
au-Prince, 161 miles away, when
the crash occurred, approximately
$50 miles west Of here.
Government planes were sent
from here Ia search of the flyers
when they failed TO arrive at 1920
a. m, when expected.
The plane suffered some damage,
the extent Of which was not inme-
diately determined, but the motor
is reported to be intact. Neither
Of the flyers was reported injured.
The flyers first misfortune occur
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M|DN|TE RAMBLE.
WITH GOD IS NEW
PREACHING SIGN

NEW YORK - Loew's Seventh
Avenue Theatre, located in the
heart of Harlem, 124th st. and Sc
venth Ave, is flashing new, at
tractive signs these days, stretch
ing across and alongside of the the
atre-auspicious advertising boards
fsading e1Iidnite Ramble with God
Sunday, Midnite and Tuesday eve
ming JOY Ride"
This is the modern advertising
method used by the young and
dashing evangelist, the Rev. ].
Carlton McClendor, to pull in the
crowds to the big Loew's Seventh
Avenue Theatre, which he leased
on Thursday last to dedicate as a
shr to the evangelistic efforts of
the late G. Wilson Becton.
The Rev. McClendon styles him
self as bishop of the new temple,
and says that such a big project
was only half the respect due so
eminent a minister as the deceased
Becton.
Dedication Sunday
Sunday marked the dedication
of the new temple marked by serv-
ices all day and participated in by
thousands Of Becton followers from
10 o'clock in the morning and con-
tinuing through to midnite.
Train and bus loads of commun-
icants flowed in from Philadelphia,
joining the throngs from this city.
Almost the entire theatrical setting
including picturesque silk curtain
drops, glaring footlights and over
head stage lights, featured the
morning service setting. Bishop
McClendon, occupying the pulpit
in spats, London tails and gray
trousers, completed a picture of a
debonair Chesterfield and made his
sermon short and spicy, at the
same time presenting all the foot
light antics of a well-trained actor.
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WILSON THREATENS
TO IMPEACH GRAND
DAUGHTER RULER

WASHINGTON, D. C. Especially
-"Obey my orders or I will de-
clare your office vacant" is, in eff
feet, what Grand Exalted Ruler j.
Finley Wilson wrote to Grand
Daughter Ruler Abbie M. johnson.
Mrs. Johnson had been ordered
by Mr. Wilson to order the Irwin
chile Temple of New York to rein
state a former member who had
been forced out of the order of
Elks Ia years ago because of GER
tain alleged improper conduct.
The Grand Exalted Ruler made
this unusual request during the
Elks Convention in Atlantic City
last summer.
The Grand Daughter Ruler, who
is elected by the women who are
affiliated with the Elks, did not is
sue the mandate at once because
she felt it would be an imposition
to force any Temple to accept a
member it did not want.
There are all kinds of wild ru-
mors which threaten to split the
Empire of Finley Wilson wide OPP
en-.
Certain high Elk officials of
Philadelphia and Washington have
given as their opinions that the
Grand Exalted Ruler does not have
the power to impeach or discharge
the Grand Daughter Ruler.
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EOTORIALS


TRUTH Is STRANGER than
fiction. Go where you viii, seek
through the pages Of history and
you viii not find . more atrocious
crime, IN or out Of the law. than
the scottsboro tragedy.
Lynchings. burnings at the stake,
breaking on the rack. and the
horrors Of the ancient torture
chambers fade into mere trifles
when compared with the SCOTS
boro trial
Within the shrine Of justice, q
court sworn to uphold the law per-
nlits a conviction for crime which
carries with It the sentence Of
death upon evidences which no per-
son not bound by prejudice would
even consider.
The Supreme Court of the Tn
tied States granted a new trial
when the case first came before it
on the theory that the defendant
had not had adequate counsel with
IN the meaning OF the Constitution.
Again the boys were tried before
an Alabama court and found guilty
Of rape after one Of the alleged VIC
TINS had testified that the whole
case was a frame up.
A PETITION has been filed with
the u. S. Supreme Court seeking
new trial. The Alabama Court
has allowed an extension of sixty
days which now sets the date Of
execution Of two Of the boys for
February 8, 1885
Unless the Supreme Court takes
definite action, those boys who are
innocent Of any crime which war
rants death win be killed. Because
CT legal technicalities it Is impos-
sible for the supreme Court to de-
clare the boys innocent However.
the Court can express an opinion
as to what it thinks of the whole
trial
In all events the Supreme Couit
should go into the merits of the
case in reaching its conclusion. 1t
Is well known that the finding of
fact in a given case is left to the
jury However, in case Of the
kind at bar it is common know
ledge that the copper-headed mon
ster prejudice swayed the jury and
not the evidence.
If JUSTICE is to be done, the
Supreme Court Justices must find
a way, within the law, to allow a
new trial. Prejudice must not be
/, permitted to murder the Scottsboro
boys because courts follow the let
ter of the law instead of its spirit.
The Supreme Court has the
power to prevent the murders Of
the Scottsbcvo boys. Already the
case is a stencil in the nostrils Of
the civilized world. If the execu-
ton is not stopped Alabama win
commit crime which for sheer
brutality vii be unlike any ever
perpetrated ii the history Of the
world.
The Scottsboro boys must not
die, If American courts are to mean
anything in the future.
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Very Satisfactory

JEAN TOOMER, the author of
Cane" a novel, and contributor to
many magazines, married tn
daughter Of a white Wall Street
broker last week. His first wife
was also a white woman.
Asked whether he is colored or
white, Mr.. Toomer, who was born
in Washington and graduated from
Dunbar High School. vas quoted
in the press as saying;
Il would not consider it libeIous
for anyone to refer to me as col
ored man, but have not lived as
one, nor do / really know whether
there is any colored blood in me or
not.
My maternal grandfather, Pick
ney Bentor Stewart Pinchback, was
the 'carpet-bag' governor of Louis
lana In order TO gain colored votes
he referred to himself as having
cOtOreQ DiOOu.
His two brothers never did so,
however; so the fact is, I do not
know whether colored blood flows
through my veins"
That answer win probably salts
~ those who questioned Mr.. Toom-
err It satisfies us. For every time
the races are scrambled by legal
marriage we set an example for
thousands Of white residents in
Dixie who believe in social equality
only after dark.
To Mr.. Toomer and his bride, a
blissful honeymoon and years of
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red on the day OF their tale-off
from Atlantic City, Thursday, No
vember 8, when they were forced
down near Beaufort, s. C., because
of a broken gas line.
Entertained En- Route
They assembled again, however,
the following day, and reached
Kingston, Jamaica, on Monday of
last week, without further difficult
ty. They were entertained for three
days in Kingston, Or. Forsythe's
native home
They We're also entertained for
several days at Port-au-P Prince,
their next stop, and took up from
there at $3.50 a M. Sunday, shortly
before the crash.
1000 Miles to Go
Other stops made before reach
ing Kingston included Miami, Mas
sau. where they were met by
crowd of five thousand. including
the acting colonial secretary, Chas.
B. Bethel, representing Gov. Sir
Bede Clifford of the Bahamas, 9TH
er government officials and j. P.
Hurley. U. S. consul; Havana,
where Cuban officials acted as
hosts; and Santiago.
It is understood that the flyers
win continue their flight as plan
ned when repairs are made. More
than eleven thousand miles of the
tour of Central and South Ameri-
can countries remain to be covered.
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ELK CONVENTION
IS CALLED OFF BY
]. FINLEY WILSON

WASHTNGTON--In procIama-
ton sent to the printer Wednesday,
J. Finley Wilson, grand exalted ru-
Ter of the Elks, ia calling off the
grand convention of that body,
scheduled to meet here next Aug
ust.
The proclamation, Wilson told
the American Negro Press, will be
off the press and in circulation by
Thursday afternoon. The procla-
nation, according to the grand ex-
allied ruler, provides that any lodge
may bid for the rand convention,
Authority to call off the grand
convention meeting in Washington
was given the grand exalted ruler
last week by the grand trustees, In
the event the two local lodges
would not recognize orders from
Wilson, pertaining to the scheduled
meeting of the Elks here next sum-
mer.
Dlssension Noted
When the two lodges voted to
turn thumbs down on DR.. Charles
B. Fisher, appointed by Wilson to
head the committee on arrange
ments for the grand lodge, and
could not be persuaded to accept
the Wilson appointee, it was decid-
ed that more profitable conven-
ton could be held elsewhere.
In the proclamation, the grand
exalted ruler cites Article 6, Sec
ton \, of the constitution and by
lews OF the grand lodge and sub
ordinate lodges. In which he claims
his authority to appoint the chair
man of the committee on arrange
ments and all other committees of
the grand lodge when the grand
lodge is not in session.
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New Congressman Elect
Resting in Hot Springs

HOT SPRINGS, Ark.-Congress-
man-elect Arthur w. Mitchell of
the First Congressional District of
Illinois, has just arrived at the Ply
THAN Hotel and Bath House in this
city for a period of rest and recu-
peration from the strenuous cam
paign in which he defeated Con-
gresham DePriest by a substan-
tial majority. The Congressman
is in fine physical condition, but
desires a period of rest before en-
tering upon his duties early in the
new year.
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FAMOUS CASE IN
SUPREME COURT
FOR SECOND TINE

WASHINGTON - Close behind
the granting by the Alabama SUI
preme Court of a sixty-day stay of
execution to Haywood Patterson
and Clarence Norris. two Scots
boro, Ala, youths under sentence
to die, the United States Supreme
Court Saturday received its second
petition asked that body to review
the conviction of Norris.
Action of the Alabama tribunal
on Friday moved the date of the
two youths, sentenced on charge
of alleged assault on two white
women on a railroad train near
Scottsboro in 1881, from Decem-
Der Z to February 8, 1885.
Patterson and Norris were con-
victed in Morgan County (Ala.)
last December of an attack on Vic
toria Price and Ruby Bates. Hunts
vile mill workers, aboard a South
ern Railway freight train March
%, 1881. The Bates woman has
since repudi1ted testimony offered
at the first trial.
Seven Others Under Sentence
Osmond K. Fraenkel, New York
attorney, retained BY the Interna4
tional Labor Defense to handle the
appeals of Patterson and Norris,
made the request by mail. Seven
other youths, under indictment for
the alleged offense, look to Samuel
S. Leibowitz of New York as their
counsel. Setting Of the remaining
trials probably viii be deferred UNI
til the U. S. Supreme Court acts,
since the Alabama jury system has
been made one of the bases of the
Mr.. Leibowitz was at one time
in charge of the cases of Patter-
son and Norris, in addition to those
of the seven other boys, but an an
of a change in de-
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Cullen To Teach
French in Harlem

NEW YORK (ANP) = Countee
Cullen, poet, was appointed French
teacher at Frederick Douglas Ju-
nior high school in West 14Oth St.,
in the list made public by the
Board of Education last week. His
appointment takes effect Decem-
Der 3.
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Baby Orchestra Wins
Praise in Los Angeles

Los ANGELES, Calf. (ANP)-
Performing with the poise and re-
lative artistry Of seasoned troopers,
Brooks Baby Orchestra was heard
in its first recital here last Sunday,
by a large and appreciative audi
ence.
The orchestra is composed of
youngsters ranging from four to
nine years in age. They are taught
on free instruments by Mrs. Ethel
Brooks. ekRY
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Wiley College Is
Under Quarantine

HOUSTON, Texas (CNS)-Wil-
ey College was placed under quar-
antine due to an epidemic of ty-
phoid pneumonia, which swept the
campus early last week. Nearly
fifty persons were stricken. Pub
lie health authorities used every
precaution to prevent the epidemic
from getting a greater Roadway.
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First Negro Named
AS Rosenwald Trustee

CHICAGO-Dr. Charles S. John
son, head of the department of So
cial science at Fisk University in
Nashville, Tenn, has the distinct
ion of being the first member OF
his race to. be elected as a trustee
of the julius Rosenwald Fund.
DR.. Johnson was named at the
annual election held last Saturday
here as one of three trustees, the
other two being Robert M. Hutch
ms, president of the University Of
Chicago, and Frank L. Sulzberger,
president of the Jewish Charities
of Chicago.
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Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, a
sisterhood, was organized at How
ard University in 1908.
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Evening star., 1934-06-20
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Manufacturers Samples
Is % Less Than Regularly

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from one of our makers of fine furniture we are able
to give you this opportunity choose the latest styles
and covers of upholstered living room furniture. at
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Fine heavy English club furniture. and many other
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All Subject to Prior Sale
Occasional Chairs ........... $40 to $40
Overstuffed Easy Chairs :. .S35 to $40
Living Room Suites .$l25 to 5000
One-of-a-Kiind Sofas .$125 to $50
FURNITURE,
Evening star., 1934-06-20

school for fashion illustration class;
Natalie Beaumont. scholarship for de-
sign class: Vaughan Darby, Firman
Wilson and Marsdon Lore, honorable
mention for commercial Illustration:
Jean Ritchie, Gloria Newton, Jala
McNeely and william Hicks, honor
able mention for fashion illustration
class: Vaughan Darby, Myra Bray
and Diana Hearne, honorable men
ton for design class; Frances Cole
and James Triantafillos, honorable
mention for the life class; Ruth Muir
ray, honorable mention for oil paint
ing; Lala McNeely and Lillian Nalle,
honorable mention for water colored
painting; Ann Combs. scholarship for
the junior department fashion illus
tration: Mitchell Jamison, Aline Whar-
ton and Marian Falk, honorable men,
tion for junior department water
color class; Lillian Bass, and Phillip
Kromas, honorable mention for in
termediate class; Raphael Yingling
and Marcus Uhler, honorable men,
ton for elementary class; Eleanor
Kane. Miriam Milestone and Valrie
Loomis, honorable mention for junior
Evening star., 1934-06-20

Louis Mann, Charles America Mar
shall, jr.; George virgile Myles, Her.
man Wilmington Phynes, jr.: Horace
James Preston, John Lee Reeder. VII
liam Norris Rich, Casper Garrett
Simons, Frederick Augustine Smith,
ir; Maurice Harold Spriggs. Wilson
Stevens, Robert Cecil Tate, jr.;
Charles Taylor Terry, jr.; Earl Mon
roe Thomas, Lawrence Montgomery
Thomas, Robert Eugene Thompson.
Andrew Frank Toliver and Henry
Fremont williams.
Evening star., 1934-06-20
AWARD H0N0RS AT
ABBOTT ART SCHOOL
Phoebe Hyatt Wins General
Scholarship in Exercise Held
Yesterday.

Phoebe Hyatt was awarded a gen.
eral scholarship in the day school of
the Abbott School of Fine and Com
mercial Art, during presentation of
scholarships and certificates at the
school yesterday.
Charles Bittinger, Washington art
ist, and Henry Salem Hubbell, who is
now making a portrait of Secretary
Ickes. were the Judges in making the
following awards:
Eleanor Harlee. certificate with hon.
orable mention in costume design; !;
Ellen Coward, scholarship in day