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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1936-07-10
DISTINGUISHED FISHERMEN

Minnesota as a vacation field
has a peculiar charm, especially
for those ministers of the Metho-
dist faith who revel in the joy of
fishing. This month several of
them are on their annual outing.
Bishop ]. A. Gregg, Mrs. Gregg
and their daughter, Miss G. Sher-
lott, are at Walker, Minnesota.
With them are Rev. and Mrs. j. A.
Alexander. They plan a two
weeks vacation. Coming from
his home in Quincy, Illinois, the
Rev. H. c. Boyd with Mrs. Boyd
are in Minneapolis at the home of
their relative, Mrs. Nichols, seth
and Clinton. Rev. Boyd is also a
rabid fisherman.
Rev. H. E. Stewart of Carey
Temple, Chicago, father of Rev.
Carlyle F. Stewart, Minneapolis,
will spend ten days with his son
and will occupy st. Peters pulpit
Sunday.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1936-07-10
Pullman Supt.
for rs Years
Goes to Chicago

L. st. John Sheckler, white, Pull
man superintendent in Minneapolis
for 26 years, has been transferred
to Chicago to a similar post over
one of the Chicago districts.
Known as a strict disciplinarian,
Scheckler for many years was
known as one of the toughest"
superintendent. Despite this a
large number of the porters who
worked under him liked and re-
spected him.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1936-07-10
Kansas Woman
Hits LandOn
For UncOncern

Observation-Disclosures to
Mrs. Mayme E. Bowlin of Emporia,
Kan, who attended the Democratic
National Convention here last
week, Gov. ALI. M. Landon has
never made an appearance before
a colored gathering during his adj
ministration as chief executive of
that state.
The first colored woman to be
a delegate to a Democratic Ma
tional Convention, in an interview,
said:
Governor Landon previous to
both the Kansas State and the Ma
Gonal Convention of Republicans
had never encouraged the selec-
ton of colored man for the Kan
sas delegation at the Republican
Convention. In fact / have never
known Landon to attend any col
ored gathering, religious, social or
otherwise, except when politics ex-
clusively in his favor was involved.
"The colored people all over
America should know the real at
titude of Governor Landon towards
them," Mrs. Bowlin added.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1936-07-10
Salvation Army
Head Won't Talk
About J. C.. Camp
FAMILIES MAY GO TO EITHER
CAMP

Investigating reports Of change
in the summer camps policy by the
Salvation Army, Minneapolis, G..
w. Washington, executive secre-
tary Twin City Urban League, and
Miss w. Gertrude Brown, head
resident, called on Col. Pinsold,
Minneapolis district, this week. An
all Negro camp is planned by the
Salvation Army.
Mr.. Washington told this news
paper that the Salvation Army
executive agreed to admit any col
ored applicants who want to go
to the first camp, which originally
was to be an all white camp. This
is according to Mr.. Washington,
since the Army head refused to
give this paper a statement on the
affair.
The proposed camp will be the
first Jim Crow Camp held by the
Minneapolis branch of the Saliva
ton Army. Heretofore the local
Army has served all citizens, re-
CARELESS of race, creed or color.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1936-07-10
Bather Seeking
Relief from Heat
browns i'm Lake

Floyd Isaih Maxey, 33, of SIT
18th Avenue South, Minneapolis, is
the first colored victim of death by
drowning. Maxey, seeking relief
from the heat, was drowned Tues
day night, at Glenwood beach.
The tragedy occurred at 1890
p. m. The lifeguards and members
of the fire department dragged the
lake until past midnight, but were
unable to locate the body. We'd
nesday morning further efforts
brought the body to the surface.
The body was found in ten feet of
water.
Funeral services were held from
Bethesda Baptist Church today
friday, July 10, at 200 p. m.
Rev. VIM. Warrington officiating.
The remains will be shipped to
Omaha, Nebr., for burial.
Survivors are a mother, Mrs.
Ada Maxey of Omaha, a sister,
Mrs. Forestine Burrel, formerly of
this city, now living in Omaha,
Nebr., a brother, Charles Maxey,
and a sister-in-law, Mrs. Charles
Maxey of Minneapolis, MINI.
Woodland funeral home in charge of
remains,
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1936-07-10
North In Power
In Democratic
Ranks--Albright
By Joseph Albright
Duluth Bureau

The Democratic Convention at
Philadelphia is now a matter Of
history. You are doubtlessly con-
versant with its highlights, the re-
nomination of Roosevelt and Gar
ner by reclamation, the adoption
of the platform by the same pro-
cedure, and the abolition of the
two-thirds majority rule by which
candidates have in the past been
nominated. But what you proba-
bly, do not know is just what did
take place at Philadelphia behind
the scenes.
The death of the two-thirds rule
did two things and effected two
far-reaching results. 1t (a) brought
about the end of the reign of the
Solid South in the party, and OBJ
placed the power in the hands of
Northern labor and the farmers
in the great grain belt of the Mid
west. 1t, incidentally, raised the
prestige of Northern Negro Demo
Gratis. Now you can bet your last
plugged jitney that the South did
not accept this defeat with much
grace. On all sides one heard the
bitterness voiced by Southern dele
gates. Threats of political retail
alton were heard wherever crack
ers gathered. The omission of any
frank statement relative to the
Negro in the platform was a sop to
placate the rebelhous South, but
even that questionable victory in
view of the prominent part played
by Negroes at Philadelphia was a
mighty empty gesture, and the
South knew it. When "Cotton
Ed" Smith tore up his program
and walked out of the convention
the act symbolized the animosity
in the hearts of the Southerners
at the racial iberality of the party.
But no one seemed to care a whoop
about it all but the frustrated
crackers. Now the South finds it
self in the unenviable position of
boiling the party from which it
has gotten everything and joining
one which has frankly angled for
Negro support, or swallowing its
CONTINUED on page y
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1936-07-10
Man Gets go
Days On Drunk
Driving Charge

Lester Barnett, 1921 Elliot Ave.
S., Minneapolis, was sentenced to
ninety days in the St. Paul work
house for driving while drunk.
Judge Clayton Parks at first found
Barnett guilty and sentenced him
to pay a fine of $275.00. When a
sister stepped forward to pay the
fine the judge refused to accept it
and changed his sentence to ninety
days in the workhouse.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1936-07-10
DIR. II. P. Jones
at st. James,
st. Paul, Sunday
PHILADELPHIA MINISTER TO
PREACH IN ST. PAUL

DR.. H. Pincney Jones, pastor of
Mother Bethel, A. M. E. Church,
Philadelphia, will deliver one of
his famous soul-stirring sermons
at st. James A. M. E. Church, Dale
and w. Central, Sunday morning,
July IL, at IL a. m.
DIR. Jones needs no introduction
to Twin Citians as he was formerly
pastor of st. James A. M. E.
Gopher Lodge No. los, 1. B. P.
0. E. w., installed officers We'd
nesday night for the ensuing year.
j. w. Clemmons is exalted ruler
of the lodge.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1936-07-10
FARMER, 1O4, TILLS ACRE

ROANOKE, Va. Living in a
log hut he built fifty years ago,
Bailey Banner, a 104-year-old
farmer, daily walks back and forth
to his farm, located three miles
from his cabin, and digs up an
acre of land.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1936-07-10
WOMAN CHEWs COPS LEG

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Mrs.
N. B. Smith, 203 Mallory Ave-,
was fined $32.45 last week, for tax
ing two bites in an officers leg as
he tried to arrest her on a drunk
enness charge.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1936-07-10
UNDER THE CLOCK

Among the Fourth of July cele-
orators booked in Minneapolis on
drunk charges were Theo. Ware
and B. M. Gibson, both were given
suspended sentences and released.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1936-07-10
Herr and
THERE,
By w. M. Smith


was interesting and enlightening,
for the men who took part were
well informed and in some cases
engaged in cooperative enter
prises. But it was not completely
satisfying because there was not
time for a full discussion; many
times the speaker was shut of
just as he got to the explanation
of the thing in which many of US
were most deeply interested. But
the theme of cO-operatives is vital,
especially in the economy of the
colOred people; we are destined to
hear much more and learn much
more about it. 1t will require lots
of study and necessitate the en-
gaging of the informed attention
and interest of many people be-
fore a successful beginning can be
made.
And in the meanwhile / am won
dering If il is not possible to give
some thought to things near at
hand in which a few can work to-
gether to make more sure fOun-
datiOn upon which a cooperative
society can be built. For instance:
In this same community of which
I write, live many thousands of
colored people who spend a con-
siderable amount of money and
who could, if they would, build
more important business enter
prises. On a certain prominent
corner there is q drug store-much
like the chain of stores the Wal
green firm conducts here. It is
well equipped, carries a full stock,
a fine soda fountain and lunch
counter, its personnel is all col
ored and its patrons, who ill
the place continuously, are all col
ored, too. But its owner is white.
Now what's wrong with that?
Nothing except that as its success
is due to competent colored help
and its supporting patrons are col
ored, there is no reason why the
great advantages Of ownership
should not be in the hands of the
colored people, also. Colored-owned
it would still give employment to
the same number and perhaps a
larger number of colored en-
ployees; it would still be patron
lied by the same colored clientele.
But the 10, 10 or 209O of net profit
now going back to the white COM
munity through white ownership,
would go instead into building a
more important colored commu-
nifty. Some of these profits, at
least, would go in to further sup
port of the churches, some into
larger support of the N. A. A.
c. p, the Urban League or other
civic organizations, some into ex-
banding present colored businesses
or starting new ones; all Of it
would help to increase the impor-
lance and respect, the colored citi-
Eens of that community would
command in the eyes of their white
fellow citizens. Can it be done
Of course. What is lacking? Just
that individual initiative so force
fully brought to attention by Nam
ME Burroughs in her brilliant Kan
sas City address. In any of the
larger churches of this community,
Of which / write, there are enough
men holding good positions, with
money in the bank or invested in
non-proft making real estate to
carry such an undertaking to COM
plete success. And this drug store
is only one Of many enterprises
where smart white men are ex-
plotting the colored people to their
own enrichment and to the dis
enlargement Of the future welfare
Of young colored boys or girls
wondering this minute what the
(Cnnfin,,aJ an Doro oN
The Washington times., 1936-02-03

mo! 1uA11k 62cdNC14O i uO44
have to depend on you for my
bread and butter. I have one
child who had sense enough tc
marry in her own clasS!"
Eve. you're forgetting your
sclf!"
Christie held to Donald's arm
with her tense, helpless hands
The flames leapt in the fireplace
and the whole room seemed hot
and red as the flame Of theil
burning anger.
sits you and I together now
Donald said when Eve was gone
"The last links broken"
She held her arms tighter about
him. She thought he looked a
little frightened. And so she made
herself seem brave and gay be
cause she felt frightened. too.
Eve Latham had frightened her
II it was true that she had spoiled
all Donald's chances for success as
q physician and surgeon because
she was q nobody and didn't be-
long to clubs and get her name in
the society columns, then she'd
just have to be a success as a
scientists wife.
Shed have to take more interest
in the things he tried to explain to
her, have to stop wishing they had
q little more money and, above all,
she mustn't show that she. too. was
worried.
For she knew that he was wor-
ried about the break with bis
mother. The visit that began so
well and ended so miserably.
Eve putting on her hat and coat
with hands that shook. Saying to
Donald in the voice one uses to a
stranger:
Eff you will be good enough to
drive me to the Station-I hate to
ask you at this hour, but it is
really impossible for me to remain.
and I'm afraid it is too far for me
to walk"
Walking out of the door, a slim.
youngish woman, in fashionable
black. "Goodby, Christine, my
dear. I'm sorry you couldn't CO.
operate. Things might have ended
differently"
Things might have ended differ
When Christine thought Of all
that she felt lonely and afraid, In
spite Of all her endeavor to be
brave and gay.
For it was true that Donald
never saw any Of his old friends
any more, and what he called "the
fashionable practice" was almost
gone.
But the worst of it was losing his
mother. She couldn't help worry
ing about it.
Donald said that she was nerv-
Gus and blue because she was going
to have a baby. Maybe it made
some girls nervous and blue to
know that they were going to be
mothers, but it didn't make Chris
tie feel that way. 1t just made her
happy! She tried to explain, but
It was just one Of those things
that they never could get quite
clear between them.
Because he worried about her
health and made her make fre.
duent visits to see some friend Of
his uvho WAS a Snecia1iSt she said
The Washington times., 1936-02-03

less and less about it as time went
on.
There was really no one that she
could talk to.
Aunt Nettie Even Aunt
Nettie would have been helpful.
Aunt Nettie hadn't been sorry. But
because Aunt Nettie wasn't home,
or said she wasn't home, the one
time Christie went to call, right
after her marriage, Donald ruled
against going again.
"She knows where we are. She
can visit you If she choses!" he had
said angrily, and Christie had
agreed reluctantly tn at perhaps
she had better not go back.
If only dad had lived-and
Mimi! Tears stood in her eyes as
she got out the old pictures,
looked at the pretty. laughing face
Of the woman they told her wasn't
really her mother. Well, she Just
hoped that she'd be able to be as
good a mother to her baby as
Mimi was TO ner.
She knew that she was strong
and healthy, and nothing would
happen to her but people do
die! Mimi had died. Suppose
she, too, were to die, what would
become of HER baby, with no one
even interested in it, and Donald
always working on his experiments
and not even seeming to care very
much whether he ever became a
father or not?
At times like that she never
could quite hold back the tears,
and it was always her luck to have
Donald come home early on that
particular day and find her, red
eyed and bedraggled, with the
little dresses and nighties she had
collected lying in their box on the
bed beside her and nothing in the
house for dinner.
He was so tender and solicitous
she wanted to scream.
why make so much FUSS
about it?" she'd demand irritably,
only to have him answer in the
patient tone he probably used for
sick children:
Darling, am I the one who's
making the fuSS?"
He just couldn't understand.
Nobody understood. For a while
it seemed that Mrs. Mitchell, the
big rosy woman who came in twice
a week to help with the work now,
was one who might understand.
Mrs. Mitchell was very interested
and would lean on her broom for a
half hour at a time, listening,
while Christie told her how well
she really was and how glad she'd
be when June and the baby finally
arrived and people would stop
sympathizing with her and asking
her how she felt.
But it turned out that Mrs.
Mitchell's talents as a listener
were limited and she'd much
rather talk about the trouble she'd
had having her four than the ease
with which Christie planned to
have her one, if folks would only
stop bothering her.
Still, Mrs. Mitchell was better
than no one to talk to and Christie
and Donald had an argument that
ended in tears on her part and
sighs on his when she innocently
repeated some of Mrs. Mitchell'S
theories and he told her that his
patience was about at an end and
it was just too much when she
quoted old wives tales to HIM!
CHAPTER XIV
So it was a relief all around
when they at last bundled a badly
frightened but stubbornly noncha-
liant Christie off to the hospital
one quiet, starlit June night.
More of a relief when she
opened dull, troubled eyes on a
brand-new day and smiled YEARLY
when a strange nurse said:
(TO be Continually
Copyright. 1885. King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
The Washington times., 1936-02-03
NOW READ ON

Donny It's because what I'm saying true that it hurts!
You know it's true And blame you than Christie
According her lights SHE'S done very well for herself
But you knew better-you know better You know
that every word I'm saying true you know you've failed
me"
Failed you Then it's yourself you're worrying about?"
The Washington times., 1936-02-03
'sLOve'S Litany''
Defrauded of Inheritance
Christine Fights Way
To Social Heights
WHAT HAS HAPPENED
BIZ HAZEL LIVINGSTON

PRETTY 17-yearo Christine Cooper daughter of the rich
and lovq but nonetheess meglectfm Adophus becomes
secretlv enoaqed to childhood saOeethear Gene Dubois
when Adophus dies his daughter feeling all alone sends
for Gene 1o breaks her heart by telling her that he is to
marry someone else.
finds 1cor for her day nursery But Adele, Chrstes
stepsiste ho Udnts to marry the DOCTOR becomes jealous
Aunt Nee tells her step-daughter, Christie that the
latter is Adophus real daughter but had been adopted
By him. She tells her, too that she Is to see more Of
Latham.
Stunned Christie seeks soork in the hospital that she
might become independent But the doctor has other ideas
he and Christie married.
The avedding takes place midst pomp and Splendor as
dictated By Aunt Nettie After the honeymoon aOork is
be0un on q small house.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1936-01-16
HOWE REMEMBERED
ONLY AS BAD MAN
Continued from page y

The fact that Howe was unknown
to the early settlers along the river
here would indicate that he had
disappeared before Booths arrival
in 1868.
Jack Splawn relates that in 1865,
on his return from Lewiston, he
found quite a little town at White
Bluffs. At that time there were two
stores, a saloon, blacksmith shop,
livery stable, with many freight wa
CONS loading up with all kinds Of
goods for the newly discovered
gold mines at Blackfoot It was dur
ing the years 186O-65 that rich gold
mines were discovered on Orofino
Greek, in what is now Idaho; in the
Cariboo country, and in other parts
of British Columbia, Idaho and
Montana.
References by pioneers to being
taken across the Columbia by In
dams during the 1905 lead one to
believe that no regular ferry cross
ings were made after Booths time
until the 1905 when the business
was reestablished.
The legislative act authorized
Howe to establish and keep ferry
across the Columbia river within
certain limits commencing at the
point where the wagon road now
crosses the Columbia river at White
Bluffs, to land and deposit from
each shore of the Columbia river,
or either side thereof, one mile each
way and giving him and his heirs
or assigns the exclusive privilege
of ferrying across the river within
these limits for a period of ten
years.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1936-01-16
HERE & THERE
in the
HEADLINES

SINCE THE DAYS, probably
more than three hundred years
ago, when an unknown Spanish
ga1leon went ashore along the coast
near the Columbia river, depositing
a cargo of beeswax in the sands,
the Pacific coast near the mouth of
the Columbia river has been the
scene of many wrecks.
One of the worst reefs in this ter
ritory is Peacock Spit, at the mouth
of the river, a sandbar which has
been the scene of many famous
wrecks. Sunday, as a fierce gale
whipped along the coast from Cali
fornia to Alaska, Peacock Spit
claimed it's ninetieth victim, the
steamer Iowa, sailing out of Port
land, which went down with a crew
of thirty-four.
A lone mast piercing the huge
breakers was the only mark Of the
wreck as continued heavy seas kept
coast guardsmen from their efforts
to recover the bodies of the victims.
A NEW CHAPTER was opened
in the Lindbergh kidnapping case to-
day when Governor Hoffman Of
New Jersey granted a reprieve to
Hauptmann, convicted Of the muir
der of the Lindbergh baby, who was
| to have been electrocuted Friday,
january IL.
To many, who believe that Amer
lea needs speedier administration
of justice, the reprieve was an un-
popular one, but others, who cling
to the belief that the whole story
of the case has not yet been un-
raveled, it Indicated that in the
near future America may learn fur
ther details Of the crime.
INTO THE LONG LINE of those
desiring American citizenship came
today Albert E1nstein, world-famous
scientist, whose relatively theory
has puzzled the world since he first
expounded it. Dr. Einstein, who left
Germany when the Nazi anti-Jew-
ish campaign began, is now lectur-
ing at Princeton University
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1936-01-16

TOTAL. including Capt.
tai Account -.....-.... $33, 374.27
State of Washington, County Of
Benton, SIS.
I, w. j. Kincaid, Cashier of the
above named bank, or trust CONF
pany, do solemnly swear that the
foregoing statement is true to the
best of my knowledge and belief.
w. j. KINCAID, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before
me this 18th day of January, 1896.
FRED GILHULY,
Notary Public, in and for the State
of Washington, residing at White
Bluffs.
Correct. Attest: D. S. Wilkinson,
e. B. Kincaid, Directors,