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The tribune independent of Michigan. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1933-1935, 1934-12-15
Thirteen Are
Given 5 Days
Families Prote 8 t
Sending Children To
Unsafe School
by Loren Miller

Los Angeles, Cal. lamp
Monroyia. California. Is distinctly
a provincial town. Located only a
few miles from Los Angeles. II
has a very small Negro popula-
ton but prejudice is rife as Is at
tested by signs In cafes and res
taurants which inform the public
that only white patronage Is So
licited. All this In open defiance
OF CALIFORNIA; civil rights statue
School Is -FIre Hazard
Monrovia crowned its infamy a
few weeks ago when 1t resorted to
arresting protesting Negroes TO
force them To send their children
to school called fire hazard"
and unsafe by a state architect
The school is the Huntington
Drive School built In 1903 II Is a
brick two-story structure OF the
type frowned upon because OF the
fact that the city is located in an
earthquake region In fact the
school was damaged by the tremor
OF 1892 TO such an extent that all
bricks have been removed from
over the entrance and fence has
been built around the building TO
prevent children from venturing
too close 10 IL.
Those familiar with the work
ings Of segregation viii not be sur
prised 10 learn that this structure
was singled out as the school for
Negro and Mexican children.
Leader Jailed First
The plans 10 set this building
aside net 4 snag this fall when Ne
gro Monrovians determined to
them Milton Smith.
'loor finisher. was the outstanding
leader in the revolt against the
Injustice He took ms
To the two other schools
ind demanded their admittance
They were refused and sent back
o Huntington Drive school Smith
Kept them az home He was arrest
81 and found guilty Of the state
ruancy law Smith was offered a
sentence II he would
agree TO send his children 10 the
school lie refused and bravely ac-
cepted a five day Jail term.
Meanwhile the LOS Angeles n. A.
A. c. = had been enlisted and At
torney Thomas l. Griffith. who de-
Tended Smith. filed a petition for
writ Of mandate seeking 10 force ,
the board TO abandon the &hool. |
In his petition Griffith also alleg-
ed the discrimination Judge En-
nett Wilson who heard the appi-
cation sustained a demurrer TO the
petition ON the technical ground OF !
asserting that allega-
tons OF unsafety and discrimlna-
ton cannot legally be joined to-
gether under the California law.
10 Held In "Mans Arrests |
As soon as the writ was filcd !
Monrovian aIthorities struck back
at the Ne% protestants with a
mass arrest in which 10 people
were Jailed on tho same charges
as those preferred against Smith,
who again was arrested.
The IL we're found guilty and
given five-day jail sentences. They
are now at liberty on bond pend
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SHOT IN THE
HEART THIEF
RUNS 20 FEET

Ashland, Ky.--(ANP)-T h Q
strangest occurrence was climaxed
here last week when a burglar.
shot in the heart by DR.. j. ID. VIII
liams. white. eye. ear and nose ex-
pert. ran 90 feet before falling
dead.
The fellow had leaped from a
second story window with a .3S
caliber slug in his heart and got
up and actually ran the twenty feet
before pitching to the ground.
The doctor reported that the
fellow who has not been identified.
aroused his wife by crawling
through her bedroom on his hands
knees DR. Williams grabbed his
gun and started firing
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to be a real friend OF the Negro
student, took the matter up with
the School Board, and insisted
that the objections made TO the
text were worthy OF consider.
alton. The Board on his advice
ordered the books discarded.
This action means the scrappng
OF some 300 textbooks. Young
Wdite comes OF a we'll known fam
lily. being a cousin OF Rev. G. Lake
lines. Secretary of Tuskegee, and
Rev. lines of New Yory City.
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program" to the Forthcoming Con-
gress.
The Chicago Committee on Anti
Lynching Legislation sent a SINH
lar telegram to the President
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Japan. II is said is also closely
watching the course Of affairs in
Abysslna, and Is cultivating friend
ly relations with the Ethiopian En-
pire Not long ago. II was reported
through the newspapers that a
marriage alliance had been plan
ned between a Prince OF Ethiopia
and a prominent noblewoman OF
Japan
In case Italy should make war
on Abyssinia II is considered pro-
badly that Japan might take a
hand.
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Secures Removal of
Objectional Books
lconrinued from Page u

Continued from rage ~
the ambitions and desires OF their
white ancestors. they are often I'M
able to adjust themselves to their
environment" II also states those
OF pure black blood seem incapable
OF leadership, the "Mulatto group
not only furnishes the leaders but
also the worst degenerates."
Challenging these statements and
others. Young Leroy White, car
ried his protest TO Mr.. Dale Mus
selman, assistant principle OF
the School. who went with him TO
Edmond M. Conklin the School
Principal Mr.. Conklin. who has
proven himself, ny past conduct.
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Abyssinians Attack
Italian Colony

Continued from Page -
miles OF rich table land governed
by Emperor Selassle. who claims
to be direct descendant of King
Solomon and the Queen of Shebs.
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Evening star., 1934-04-07
BARITONE IN
RECITAL At
ARTS CLUB

Richard Crawford, baritone, as
sisted by Harrison Potter, pianist,
were presented in recital last evening
by Anne Thompson Winecoff, the
program being given in the Arts
Club. Mr. Crawford, who was heard
here two years ago has voice of
wide range and rich, resonant quail
ity, his tone placement excellent in
the medium and lower range. His
program last evening was varied, con-
tanning music written as far back as
1850 UP to the present day moderns
of Stravinsky and including Fri tn"
the aria from Verdi's I'm ballo in
Maschera." He was equally at ease
in them all. showing much versatility.
He sings with we'll finished phrases.
delicate shading and really beautiful
diction. his clear enunciation in both
French and English adding charm.
Debussy's Romance" and Green"
were outstanding for delicacy and
beautiful legato and Stravinsky's
Histories des enfants," which he ex-
planned before he sang them, were
descriptive and interesting.
The aria was well done and ac-
cording to traditions, and the last
number contained "Kusehani" a song
written by Carol Berry Davis after
an Indian theme collected by Miss
Davis in Alaska where, Mr. Crawford
explained, the traditional sGng and
story are fast dying out She has
made a beautiful song, bit ~ doing
so has wandered from the Indian
atmosphere. The singer closed the
program with Wolfe's DE Glory
Road" which he sang with excellent
effect
After the close of the program Mr.
Crawford responded to several encores,
all music of the lighter vein
Mr. Potter, who not only played
the accompaniments but a group of
seven or eight short compositions.
showed excellent technic, and proved
himself an accompanist above the
average. His solos were delightful,
particularly those requiring facility of
fingers and delicacy of tou III An in
formal reception followed the pro-
gram. K. B.
Evening star., 1934-04-07
OLDEN DAYS
IN AFRICA
ARE FILMED
"Wharf Angel" Is
Story of Early
Sailors.

It's all about the kind of men that
go down to the sea in ships and the
kind of women who wait for them to
come back-this saga of the Bar
barry Coast which Paramount has
fashioned with a water front tav-
ern as a background and enough
foggy, dilapidated sea front scenery
to make you thing that the African
sun never appeared in the days de-
picted by the Aim Wharf Angel"
which holds the screen at the Metro
politan this week.
The film is tale Of hard-drinking
seamen and women of the Mae West
type. without the West finery and
witticisms. 1t has been filmed and
Is played with genuine realism so that
there Is nothing soft, nothing bright
and nothing romantic about it.
Toy dorothy DelD is q saloon
belle in Mother Brights (Alison Skip
worth) tavern on the Barbary water
front. She befriends Como preston
FoSteD, soap-boX orator, whom
police want for the murder of
policeman. and falls in love with him.
Como ships aboard freighter as
stevedore with the aid Of Turk Victor
McLaglen), the head stoker of the en-
gine room, in order to escape the
police. Como and Turk become pals
during their stocking voyage to China,
not knowing that they both are in
love with Toy, and she in the mean
time has hard time waiting for them
to come back
All of the action takes place either in
the saloon along the dingy water front
or in the stokehold OF the freighter
McLaglen and Foster play their he
man seaman roles with plenty of scowls
and much show Of Drawn. Miss Dell is
almost too convincing as q good-ba
woman and Alison Skipworth is good
as the tavern mother who looks after
all the little sailor boys and saloon
girls.
A characteristic shot is McLaglen
hitting another Stoker over the head
with a shovel'to finish a nip -and-tuck
fight the two stage in the stokehold of
the freighter.
An excellent pictorial narrative of
the recent successful climb of an in
ternational expedition to the top of the
Himalayas, which constitutes almost
full-length picture; several shorts and
news reel supplement the weeks bill
at the Metropolitan. The expedition
film contains some marvellous photog
raphy and number of thrilling Incl
dents that make it we'll worth seeing
The films narrative is given by Lowell
Thomas. NJ. w. B.
Evening star., 1934-04-07
Where and When
| Current Theater Attractions
and Time Of Showing.

Belasco-"Her Majesty the Widow.
at 2:30 and $50 pm.
National-"Richard of Bordeaux" !"
at 2:20 and $40 pm.
PaIace-"Riptide," at 1l:40 am,
lao, $40, $40, TAO and $40 pm.
Riato-"All Quiet on the Western
Front" at 11:ll am. 1855, 2:39
4:23. 6:07, ISL and 9:35 pm.
Fox-"Looking for Trouble" al
1890 am, ITO, 4:10, tbs and 9:55
pm. Stage shows, Jimmy Durante in
person, at 1910, $40, Sis and 8:55
pm.
Gayety-"Silk Stocking Revue" at
IL noon, 2:15 and 8:l5 pm.
Columbia-"Sin of Nora Moran" al
1875 am, 30, 3, 4:25, $50, 8:15 and
10 pm.
Metropolitan-"Wharf Angel" al
1920, 2:45, sos, 7:30 and $50 pm.
R-K-O Keith's-"Wild Cargo" al
11:43. 1:48, 1853, SAB, TAB and
9:38 pm.
EarIe-"Gambling Lady" at 10:l5
am, 1890, $50, $40, 7:45 and II
pm. Stage shows at ll:30 am, l:5O
4:10, 6:45 and 9:05 pm.
Tivoli-"Let's Fall in Love-" at 2:25
4:3O, $50, 8:l5 and 9:55 pm.
Ambassador-"The Last Round Up. u
at 2, 4, 8, 7:55 and GAS pm.
Evening star., 1934-04-07
BAND CONCERTS.

BY the United States Soldiers Home
Band this evening in Stanley Hall at
$50 o'clock. John S. M. thinner
mann, bandmaster; Anton Pointner,
assistant.
March. THE Gladiator. ... Sousa
Overture. "Romantique". .Keler-Bela
Rhapsodie espagnole. "Ferroni."
Excerpts from Hippodrome show.
Top O. the World. ........ Klein
Waltz suite, "Marianna'. Waldteufel
A desert episode, Sahara. Cobb
Finale, Beau ldeal". ......... .Sousa
THE Star Spangled Banner"
BY the United States Marine Band
this evening at 8 o'clock in the audi
torium. Marine Barracks. Capt. Tay-
lor Branson, leader; Arthur S. Whit
comb, second leader:
Marines Hymn
The Halls of Montezuma."
Overture, william Tell. go. Rossini
Basso solo, Charlie Is My Darling"
Winterbottom
Musician Emil eraser.
ride of the Valkyries" 80. Wagner
March. '"Laurentian" 80. Laurendeau
"reminiscences of Tschaikowsky.
Arr. Godfrey
THE Star SpanGled Banner"
Evening star., 1934-04-07
MISSION CURI0 DISPLAY
TO CLOSE HERE TONIGHT
Collection on Display at Catholic
q. Has Attra cted Huge Throngs
During Week.

The exposition of the Oblate Mis-
sions, which has attracted thousands
OF visitors to Catholic University this
week, will close tonight at 9 o'clock.
Since the solemn opening last SUM-
day morning a constant stream of
sightseers from many States has visit
ed the Oblate Scholasticate to see the
collection of mission curios from all
over the world The illustrated lee
lures on the missionary work of the
Far North. South Africa and Ceylon,
fields in which the Oblates of Mary
Immaculate are laboring, have been
so popular that it has been necessary
to hold six lectures a day to accom-
modate the crowds
Very Rev. William w. Noonan,
o. M. l., j. c. D., superior of the
Oblate House of Studies, where the
exposition is being held, extended a
cordial invitation to all Washing
tonians to take advantage of the last
opportunity today and tonight to visit
this unique display, the first of its
kind to be held in this city.
Evening star., 1934-04-07
COMMUNITY PLAYERS
IN TREASURE ISLAND
Robert Louis Stevenson Thriller
of Pirate Days Is Realistically
Produced by Amateurs.

The worlds most popular tale of
pirates, buccaneers and search for
buried treasure was realistically por-
trayed last night in the presentation,
by the Washington Community Play
ers, of Robert Louis Stevenson's
Treasure Island" The play was pre-
sented in Roosevelt High Auditorium
under the auspices OF the Community
Center Department.
Jim Hawkins was fine" At least.
this was the impression the popular
boy hero, as portrayed by Andrew
Dent. jr., left with the audience as he
uncovered plot after plot, outwitted
the pirates and finally located Cap
tain Flint's" buried treasure in the
cave Of old Ben Gum. With the find
ing OF the buried treasure, the boys
dream Ito go to sea on a ship. with
piping boatswain, and pig-tailed sing
Ing seamen. to search for buried
treasure" came true.
However, Jim Hawkins did not by
and means steal the whole show. H.
K. Baukhage gave a sterling per-
formance in the role of old Bill Bones.
The acting Of John Sikken, as Long
John Silver, the one-legged pirate,
and Eugene Stevens. as Black Dog,
was particularly noteworthy.
Other important roles were in the
capable hands of Thomas NJ. Cahill,
as DR.. Livesay; George Harrington
as Ben Gum and as Pew, a blind
man; Arthur Bradley White as Capt.
Smollett; Joe N. Bourne as Squire
Trelawney. and Maud Howell Smith
as Mrs. Hawkins. The roles Of pirates
were ably filled by Jesse Veitch, Wade
Robinson, Howard Whitfield, Walter
Bucher. George Wilcox, and Barry
Simpson. Members of Capt. Smollett's
crew were Kent Dyer, H. Stanley
Protheroe and E. H Stevens. Wilma
Wright Flood, as fruit seller, and
Captain Flint" parrot, completed
the cast.
Special mention should be made of
the costumes by Jack Mullane, and
the stage scenery used. The play was
directed by Elizabeth Gatlin Pritchard
and will be presented again at 2:3O
this afternoon and at $50 this eve
ming. &c,
Evening star., 1934-04-07
"WILD CARGO" HELD
FOR ANOTHER WEEK
Frank Bucks Jungle Film Proves
Popular at Keith's, and
So It Goes On.

Those roars, grunts and groans
emanatlng from R-K-O Keith's these
changeful afternoons represent the
sentiments of certain Malayan wild
beasts Mr.. Frank Buck is capturing
inside for the benefit of a cameraman n
IN Wild Cargo" So popular we're Mr..
Buck and his vicious little menagerie
last week that Manager Hardie Mea-
KIN, noticing the only Kisses in the
mouse came from a few bad-tempered
cobras, decided to hold the show over
Tor another seven-day period.
In case your jungle books were
showed under in the late unpleasant
ness, you will be able to catch I'D
on your homework on leopards, py-
thons, apes and other diverting crea-
lures by visit to Wild Cargo
The bouts between Mr. Buck and a
python, which accommodatinelv
crawled always where the camera
could see; between another python
and a leopard, between a comical
honey bear and silly monkey are
guaranteed to relieve the ennui of
citizens weary of watching wrestlers
gnaw one another playfully in fond
embrace.
Mr.. Buck accompanies the film with
a recited explanation of everything
that happens, an ingenious prop man
provides very fetching noises to in
dlcate the distempers of sundry cap
tured animals, and the daring tree
climbing performances of several ma
tives in the picture give rise to re-
Election that perhaps man is a more
notable animal than it would appear
from the office window. What withal.
this is one of the better ferocity films.
The neWsreel, colored comic and
traVeloeue again complete the pro-
gram. R.B.P. Jr.
Evening star., 1934-04-07
NORA'S STORY
is 4 RAMBLING
SCREEN PLAY
Sin OfNOr0M Moran
ReUOIUes around
Lore Letters.

It's a queer film, this "Sin of Nora
Moran" current on the Columbia
screen. 1t is morose and tangled. and
whatever merit may be due, it is
due only TO the heroic efforts of its
cast to uphold the material given
them.
Majestic may have had a definite
purpose in mind in producing Nora
Moran but just where it lies one is
at loss to explain. We, for one,
cannot understand why a Governor S
wife would be SO concerned over a
few love letters that were evidently
found only after that Governor S
death by suicide. And this situa-
ton is what confronts the viewer
from the beginning The main char
acters are dead. One died in the
electric chair and the other by sui
eide. The whole affair is then re-
lated by District Attorney Alan Dine
hart, and the camera swings first
from girl in prison cell waiting
to die. to scenes of happiness in a
lovers cottage and then to scenes of
murder. Here Director Phil Gold
stone has tried to introduce a sin
gular method Of story telling-that
of having the plot related through
the WanderingS of the mind of a per-
son about to die, coupled with the
telling of her story through another S
lips.
Nora. played by Zita Johann to the
best of her ability, was an adopted
orphan and after the death of her
guardian joined a circus to keep from
starving. This was an unhappy step
for there she met Pauline, lion tanner,
and general bad character. After
leaving the circus ard taking a job in
a Jersey night club she met Paul
Cavenaugh. then on the way to OBJ
tanning the governorship. For months
they lived happily, she in a little cot
tage where he visited her on Mondays
and Fridays. and he in the Governor S
mansion. This is ultimatly interrupt
ed by both District Attorney Dinehart
and Pauline. Dinehart leaves and re-
turns in few hours to find Pauline
murdered. Nora, to save the Cover
nor's reputation enlistS the aid of the
district attorney to help her get the
body out of the cottage Nora is
found with the body, convicted and
sentenced to the chair. Repenting too
late, Cavenaugh tries to pardon her
unsuccessfully. Thus baked in saw
ing her life he kills himself. leaving
a letter explaining that he killed
Pauline.
The supplementary bill is of a much
lighter vein. which offsets to some de-
gree the morbidity of the feature and
includes a Charley Chase comedy. a
short featuring the singing of Cert
rude Niesson and the newsreel
j. N. H.
Evening star., 1934-04-07
rhe IadieS!" ,

busy with "Hadesl The LADIES' {.
who" said passerbys. ARE those
three tripping sisters?" =. they were
of course the Heigh-Ho's three maids
on a mike" . . who intuned pastoral
and not such pastoral ditties
to delighted Cambridge youths
. and elegant matrons such
as Mrs. Joseph Letter :. who with
mother Ma Williams sat sur
rounded By collegiate cronies . :.
and the Pinckney . :. who came all
the way from Richmond and
Mary Isabelle voorhees, . the belle
of the ball tall and handsome
with some kind of a gadget
around her neck and Freddie
Hibbsrd who the next night gave
distinguished dinner for
Herschel johnson State De-
partment ace -. who sails tomorrow
for London with a pair OF silk
stockings for use at court which
were given him at Mr.. Hibberd's
dinner.
Evening star., 1934-04-07

If you are a bug on telephone
communication and agree with us
that anything Constance Cummings
does is swell; if you think Spencer
Tracy is a good actor, and he is, and
If you laugh when you see Jack Oakie
(Which we do, occasionally then you
will probably get some enjoyment out
of this film which opened yesterday
at Loew's Fox. 1t isn't by any means
a top-notch picture. But. it has its
moments. And at the very end Miss
Cummings gets the man she has been
hankering for ! through the story
and goes off to her Tracy eternity
with that look of joy in both her
eyes which We wish We might inspire
The basis of the whole business is,
matter in what sorrow or what emo
tional crisis, the telephone boys will
get you out of it. Thus. if you are
down and out in country lane and
wish to get in touch with the world.
all you have to do is to get sniper
to fix up those telephone wires over
your head. and by doing something
or other in a jlfy you will be talking
with your mother or your mother-ln-
law and be able to tell her what she
wants to know. We didn't quite un-
derStand that last maneuVer when
Tracy climbs up into the skies in the
middle of last years California Quake
and suddenly produced a telephone
out of nowhere so that a dying cutie
can whisper over it that she has
murdered the villain. and still, the
local telephone department tells us
that it is all quite legitimate and
that the film has done nothing that
may not legally and normally be
DONE
AL of the trouble is really in
spired by Tracy, who refuses to quit
being a telephone bug. By his deter
mination to wander out in the cold,
to fix and unfiX wires and phone sta
tionS, to attend to widows whose
number please" doesn't work. and
otherwise to be of use both locally and
universally. he skaters the patience
of Miss Cummings who would like
Evening star., 1934-04-07
"D0N'T VOTE FOR ME"
IS OFFICIALS PLATFORM
Woman Register of Deeds De-
cides She Has Held the Job
Long Enough.

BY the Associated Press
HART, Mich, April THE Oceana
County register of deeds has opened
her political campaign. Don't vote
for me" is her platform.
Mrs. Myrtle E. Splitter, who has held
the Job for 10 years, started cam
palgning with the usual political ad-
vertisement.
Explaining she had learned plans
were being made to draft her after
an announcement she intended to re-
tire Mrs. Splitter nailed in these
planks:
Ten years is long enough for any
one to hold a political job
L no longer need the money"
1t would be nice for some one else
to have the job and the salary"
Evening star., 1934-04-07
FRONT PORCH DAMAGED
AS BOMB is EXPLODED
Family of Employment Officer
Escapes Injury-Report of
Threats Denied.
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio April T.
Several shots were fired by Frank
TITS, employment officer of the Briar
Hill plant of the Youngstown Sheet
d Tube Co. after a homemade bomb
had been exploded on the front porch
OF his home yesterday, Police Sergt
Richard Ward reported.
The sergeant's report said the porch
was damaged only slightly. Mr.. and
Mrs. Tits and their two children, who
were asleep at the time, were not
hurt.
Mrs. tits denied the family had re-
ceived threats. In January, 1888, the
home of U. W. Smith, now district
manager of Sheet & Tube, was
bombed in a similar manner.