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Imperial Valley press., 1936-04-20
Thieves Get $1767
In Clothing, Jewelry

LOS ANGELES, April 90 W.P)-
Stewart P. Findley reported to the
sheriff's office today that burglars
rifled his home last night of cloth
ing, jewelry and several fine wea-
pons," valued at $l767. The intrud-
ers overlooked $2500 mink coat and
$500 ermine cape, the report states.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-04-20
STATE SCORES RECORD

California, with 2,Ol5,Ol8 fee-paid
automobile registrations, has a
pleasure car for each 30 Of its
population, according to depart
ment of motor vehicles figures.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-04-20
HERE FROM COAST
-OO-

Howard P Meyer, president and
general manager of the Imperial
Valley Hardware company, is spend
ing a few days in El Centro. He
makes his headquarters in Long
Beach.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-04-20
gathering in San Jose
Featured by Disorders

SAN JOSE, Cal, April 20 (UP)-Young Republicans
of California scattered to homes and offices throughout
the state today after weekend convention which ended
in hectic disorder, one-punch fist fight and call which
which brought San Jose police to assist oyertaXed
Imperial Valley press., 1936-04-20

Ask Russ Haas about how De
Soto is selling
Imperial Valley press., 1936-04-20
Safety Zone
BY f. RAYMOND CATO
Chief, Calf. Highway Patrol

Question: When a person OBJ
tains a pink" slip for his auto
mobile, following completion of
payments to a dealer or finance
company. how soon must he trans
fer title to his name?-P. H.
Answer: Transfer of ownership
must be made through department
OF motor vehicles within 10 days
To-
Question: What is required of
me when I sell my automobile
Mrs. f. R.
Answer: You must Immediately
notify the department of motor
vehicles of such sale or transfer,
giving date of sale or transfer, the
name and address of the person to
whom the car is sold or trans
ferred and such description OF the
vehicle as required by the depart
ment. This requirement is your
Arotection.
Question: When an out-of date
visitor in California arrives in this
state must he purchase current
year registration number plates for
S automobile.-NeW Yorker.
Answer: # a valid current years
registration card Is presented to
any department of motor vehicles
office or California Highway Patrol
office. the state of California will
issue a nonresident permit to the
owner of the out-of-state car al
lowing him to operate his vehicle
in this state without cost for the
valid period of the current years
plates from his home state. Appli-
cation for resident permit
must be made within five days af-
ter entering California and per-
mits are issued for pleasure vehicles
only.
Question: If I have not operat-
ed my automobile to date this
year. what procedure must I go
through to obtain 1886 registration
plateS?-O. T. (San JOSEF.
Answer: Present 1885 tax clear
ed registration card. tax clearance
for 1886 and affidavit of non-oper-
alton up to and including the day
of 1896 registration. Fees requir-
ed for registration will be So for
registration number plates and the
vehicle license fee for the full year
of 1886. If the vehicle to be regis
tered is operated on the highways
prior to application for registration
100 per cent penalty will be assess
ed on the So registration fee, and
if the vehicle has been operated
more than 30 days prior to regis
tration 100 per cent will be charg-
ed on the vehicle license fee. These
conditions also apply in the case
Of trailer registration.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1936-04-03
REMINDER

This paper takes much salts
faction in calling attention from
time to time to those business
people who evidence their ap-
probation of Negro business by
advertising their products in
Negro publications. In that
category appears the name of
the Salute Auto Supply Co. It
has made use of this paper to
sell its business to our people.
We urge reciprocal action.
When we need goods of the kind
they carry let US patronize this
firm that helps US to continue.
We invite attention also to the
Chalk Copley Clothing Com
pany. This firm not only adver-
tises with US, but gives employ
ment to colored labor. They
should be remembered when
shopping for clothing.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1936-04-03
CRISPUS ATTACKS HOME

The Crispus Attacks Home AS
ISOLATION opened its annual mem
bership drive on March II. Mem
bership goal is $4,000. Annual
memberships are $1.OO. Organiza-
ton memberships $500; this en-
titles an organization to have three
representatives at the association
meetings.
Memberships received. Miss Es-
tella Luckie, $1.O0; Mrs. Richard
Chapman, $1.OO; Mrs. Alice Hill
yard, $1.OO; Mrs. Grace Fergerson,
$1.00; Mrs. Edward Graham, $1.OO;
Mr.. William Brown, $1.OO; Mr..
Junius .Condry, $1.00; Mr.. John
Wilson, .$1.0O. Partial member
ships received. Mrs. Margaret
Godette, rs; Mrs. Alberta. Coram,
rs; Mrs. Mable Turner Brown, .25.
Donation Perfect Ashlar Lodge,
$1,000.
Mrs. Mabel McGavock Lee gave
a very interesting talk on "Collec-
tive Efficiency"
Members and friends are urged
to attend the regular meetings,
which are held on the third Tues
day of every month. at the Halle
@. Brown Community House, 500
p. M. The next regular meeting
will be April Fl.
Thank you,
Huron J. Shelton, Jr.,
Secy. Membership Committee,
453 Kent St.,
st. Paul, MINI.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1936-04-03
COOP MEETINGS

The fifth of the series of meet
ings on Consumers Cooperatives
will be held on Monday evening,
April 9th, at Hosmer Branch, Pub
lie Library, 36th and 4th Ave. S.,
and Thursday evening, April 9th,
at Halle @. Brown House in St.
Paul. Both meetings will begin
at 8:15, and will last one hour only.
They will be conducted by c. E.
Rucker of the State Department
of Education. These meetings are
public, and are entirely educa-
tional, and members of the race
are particularly urged to attend.
Banquet
Mrs. Anna B. Lewis, chairman
is arranging a banquet for April
2 at Zion. It is church-wide-a
fellowship affair to hear reports
and give encouragement to mem
bership canvassers.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1936-04-03

To narrowly and miraculously
escape death from jungle beasts;
to set foot in villages never reached
by white men; to be entertained
by the chief of man-eating canni-
balls are some of the hair-raising
encounters that he experienced in
carrying the Gospel into the heart
of deepest Africa. Bishop Gregg
spent several years both as mis-
sionary and later as bishop, de-
veloping the work of the A. M. E..
Church in Africa. He has actual
photographs taken of most unique
scenes which he will show on the
canvass in the illustrated lecture
that he will deliver at st. Peter
A. M. E. Church Friday evening,
April 10, at 8 o'clock, on the sub
ject: "Africa - the Hope and
Despair of the World" The
bishop is being brought to Mime
apolis under the auspices of the
ABG Society of st. Peter Church.
The public is cordially invited.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1936-04-03
Welcome Hall OSkanhes
Boys CIubN>~

Thirty boys at Welcome Hall
from 8 to Is years Of age have or
ganized two clubs for entertain
ment, social, pleasure and athletics.
They also publish a bi-weekly
paper. The younger club is called
''The Lads of the Round Table"
This club will present a program
of young amateur talent, boys and
girls, Friday, April II. The club
meets Wednesdays. The boys play
games before the business session.
Last week it had a "bean feed"
"The Renaissants" is the club of
older boys. They, too, have ath-
letics, discussions and debates.
They plan to have ''movie" night at
Welcome Hall and show real
movies. Officers are: George Dun
can, president; Arthur White,
vice president; Airing Reese, sec
rotary; editors yet to be chosen.
For the Round Table" Ted Mas
sic, president; Melvin Carter, vice
president; Merle Young, secretary
and editor; assistants, Melvin Car
ter, Leroy Gardner and Quentin
Stone. The public is urged to sup
port the programs of these ambi-
tious youths.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1936-04-03
THE CHALLENGE OF THE CROSS

This impressive religious drama
will be given by the Gospel Chorus
of Bethesda Baptist Church Sun
day night, April s, at 8 o'clock.
The work of this organization has
won high acclaim not only for its
captivating singing Of gospel
songs, but as well for its generous
and unstinted contribution to the
religious life of its church and the
excellent and unusual character of
the programs it has given from
time to time. The chorus ON Sun
day night will have the valued as
sistance of Bethesda's senior choir
which for many years under Mrs.
Katherine L. Smith has been the
foundation and support of the
music that has drawn large audi
ences to this church.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1936-04-03
Prominent Church
Woman Succurnbs

Mrs. Lettie B. Hill of 1873 Uni
versity Ave. passed away at Be-
thesda Hospital, Friday, March 81,
at 2:37 p. M, after having become
suddenly i'll from an acute attack
of bladder trouble. With her at
the time of her death was a niece,
Mrs. Georgia Miller Smith of Min
neapolis, and Mrs. Edith Modem
and Mrs. Nixon, also of Minneapo-
lis. She was sixty-three years old,
and had been a resident of st. Paul
for thirty years.
She was an old and faithful
member of Pilgrim Baptist Church
and Household of Ruth No. 4671,
which order had charge of the fu-
neral services, Monday, March 80,
at 2 p. M, from the family resi-
dence and 2:30 p. m. from the Pill
grim Baptist Church. Rev. L. w.
Harris officiated at the services
and was assisted by Rev. Carlyle
F. Stewart and Rev. johnson of
Minneapolis, and Rev. H. M. Mar
bley of st. Paul. Mrs. Hazel Craig
very beautifully rendered, "I've
Done My Work." and Mr.. J. E.
Jackson, "The Lord Is My Shep-
herd"
Survivors include beloved hus-
band, Edmund Hill, to whom she
had been married for forty-seven
years; niece, Mrs. Georgia Smith;
sister-in-law, Mrs. Patsy Eaton;
niece, Lettie Eaton; nephew,
George Eaton, and a host of other
relatives in Chicago and st. Louis.
The numerous beautiful floral
tributes attested to the numerous
Twin City friends of the deceased.
Interment was in st. Louis. Neal
Funeral Home, Inc, was in charge.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1936-04-03
URBAN LEAGUE ST. PAUL
ANNUAL MEETING
By Wyllie Eastman

Elmer Anderson Carter Of the
National Urban League and editor
of the Opportunity Magazine, full
filed in full measure the introduce
ton by Mr.. S. E. Hall at the An
nual Meeting of the Twin City
Urban League at the Y. w. C. A.
in st. Paul, Friday, March ~, in
which he quoted, Disraeli's GA
great thing is a great book, but
greater than all is the talk of a
great man."
The essence of Mr.. Carter's adj
dress was that dissatisfaction with
existing civil, economic, and social
discrimination was indicative of
growth and that just as soon as a
group of people became content
with conditions as they are, their
future was sealed. .
Mr.. Carter is an impressive
speaker possessing the ability to
charm his audience with deep
axioms which serve to emphasize
his thoughts. He is at all times
composed and utterly at ease. Be-
ing a learned man and knowing
people, he is a master of the art
of using subtleties to inject ideas
and comments into the audience.
Following the partial trail Of
Eskimo Caldwell in Georgia, Ala
bama, and Mississippi, he saw
equality being achieved by whites
and blacks-the equality of wretch
edness, and by the undertones of
his voice was sensed the thought
that out of equality of wretched-
ness would come unity for better
ment.
Mr.. Carter, in his own words, no
longer becomes angry-only curl
Gus.
A very large audience listened
to the fluent and inspiring address
of Mr.. Carter and enjoyed the
singing of the Twin City Jubilee
Singers, under the direction of Mr..
Samuel A. Harrod.
In Minneapolis Mr.. Carter's
address was listened to with
equal interest by large group
of people, white and colored,
who braved the inclement
weather to hear the important
message he came to deliver.
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Something New Under the Sun

professional talent who have Of
fered their services to make the
evening enjoyable, but these peo-
pie are not eligible for prizes.
Some of them: The Pittman Sis
tiers, the N. Y. A. Quintette, con-
sisting of Dorothy Early, Dorothy
Pittman, Esther Jackson, Alice
Gibson and June Hawkins; frankie
Wyche will dance; Tom Lewis and
others win sing. The admission is
ten cents for adults and five cents
for children.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1936-04-03
MINNEAPOLIS FORUM PRESENTS.
FAMOUS SINGERS PALM SUNDAY
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ALPHA PHI ALPHA

A very fine meeting of Mu chap
ter, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity,
was held at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. William Cassius of 989 W.
Central Ave-, with Mr.. Leon M.
Smith as the host, Tuesday eve
ming, March "a. The chapter presi-
dent, Mr.. John R. Lawrence, .Jr.,
appointed committees to carry on
the spring work. The social COM
mittee is Leon Smith, chairman,
assisted by William Cassius, Ollie
Griffin, and Lafayette Fields. The
ritual and initiation committee is
Raymond w. Cannon, chairman,
assisted by Ollie Griffin, C. w.
Washington, and John M. Patton.
Plans were made for Founders
Day, April 26, when the Chapter
will be twenty-four years old, be-
ing established at the University
Of Minnesota in April, 1912, and
for the Education for Citizenship"
campaign which is a part of the
national program of the Alphas.
A plentiful and delicious repast
was served after the meeting.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1936-04-03
FREDERICK DOUGLAS CIVIC
LEAGUE MEETS

The Frederick Douglas Civic
League held a very interesting
meeting at the Phyllis Wheatley
House, Wednesday night. Organi-
zation plans were completed and
plans for the year were launched.
The league will meet again next
Wednesday, promptly at 500 p, m,
at which time the subject: "Was
the National Negro Congress
Worth While?" will be discussed.
Recent delegates to the Congress
have been asked to attend. The
public is cordially invited.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1936-04-03

Elder T. Harrison Allison
and director, and Mr.. W. M. Smith
who sings short but interesting
part. ...
The cantata will be presented at
Phyllis Wheatley House Sunday
afternoon at 400, at the Forum
hour. Preceding the oratorio, it is.
hoped that Elder T. r.. Allison,
basso and former Fisk Jubilee
singer, can be persuaded to sing,
"Why Do the Nations Rage" from
Handel's Messiah" Elder ALI
son will be in the cities to deliver
a series of sermons for the Beacon
Light Church of Minneapolis and
Berean Mission of st. Paul.
Rev. D. P. Young, Pastor of
Border M. E. Church, will give a
short stereopticon lecture in con-
nection with the oratorio. Many
will want to hear this treat.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1936-04-03
MINNEAPOLIS SUNDAY
FORUM

The Minneapolis Sunday Forum
will meet Sunday, April 5, at the
Phyllis Wheatley House at 400
p. m. The Beacon Light choir will
present the cantata, "The Seven
Last Words of Christ" by Dubois.
Elder A. Gaynes Thompson, pastor
of the Beacon Light Mission, is the
director. The choir will be assisted
by other talent. Rev. D. P. Young,
pastor of Border M. E. Church, will
give the narration. Those singing
solo parts will be Robert E. Bel
ton, A. Sway, Mrs. Grace Wilson,
Miss June Hawkins, and W. M.
Smith. The accompanist is Miss
Marienne E. Jeffrey.
Remember the Forum, April 8,
Phyllis Wheatley House.
Boyd Atkins and his orchestra
opened at the FL Patio Cafe, st.
Louis Park, formerly the Cotton
Club, Wednesday, April 1.
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Program

The Glee Club of Phyllis Wheat
ley will present at its annual YES
per service Sunday, April 10, the
development of hymns through the
ages sung by the chorus, panto-
mines by Miss Mary Louise
Bohanon. Mrs. Blanche o. Mason
arranges the program and directs
the music.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1936-04-03
A. GAYNES THOMPSON
WILL DIRECT

The oratorio, ''The Seven Last
Words of Christ" by Theodore Du
Bots is a seasonable and beautiful
work. It's presentation by the
augmented Beacon Light Jubilee
Choir should be very well done and
enjoyable. The list of soloists are
popular Minneapolis people. The
soloists are:
Mrs. Grace Wilson, soprano;
Mr.. R. E. Bolton, well known wit
and singer; Mr.. A. Swayza, tenor;
Miss June Hawkins, soprano; Pas
tor A. Gaynes Thompson, tenor
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1936-04-03

An amateur contest will be con-
Quoted at the Phyllis Wheatley
House on Thursday evening, April
9. It will be carried out with a
master of ceremonies playing the
roll of Major Bowes, and a splen-
did program will be presented.
Anyone is eligible to register. En-
try blanks may be obtained at the
Phyllis Wheatley House, or you
may phone in. Prizes will be given
the winners. There is also some
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1936-04-03
THESE FIRMS
ARE UNFAIR!

Minneapolis Brewing Co.
Schmidt's Brewing Co.
Hamm's Brewing Co.
Gluek's Brewing Co.
YOERG BREWING co.
No Negroes are among the
employed personnel Of any Of
these breweriss. Don't spend
your money with firms that
practica race diSerimination b
the salsGtinn Of their employees.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1936-04-03
COMMENT
By w. M. SMITH

is advertising in Minneapolis and,
presumably in other sectors, for
colored men to enter the navy as
"messmen." Everyone knows what
what a mess" is, and a "mess-
man" undoubtedly would be one
who would take care of it; clean
it up. In another sense "mess"
refers to eating and messmen
would be those who served the
food-or walters. But whether it
is intended to clean up some dirty
spot or waiting on table it is very
evident that the government has
developed the courage to definitely
assign to the Negro the lowest
place in its navy personnel.
Experience also makes plain that
once in the assigned place there is
no further promotion to anything
better.
1t is utterly amazing to see the
complacency with which the Negro
accepts this Jim Crow practice of
the government. There isn't an
other race of people in the entire
nation that would not raise the
roof until such unfair and I'M
American attitude was changed.
And again
Some weeks ago it was called to
the attention of certain of our well
fare agencies that transient camp
had been set up at Mendoza for
colored men. From all over the
state they were brought from other
camps and located in the separate
camp at Mendoza. The agencies
indicated, arranged and did carry
to the 125 men in the colored camp,
some entertainment and religious
oversight. Scarcely had this been
done when certain white people in
Mendoza, who disliked the idea of
having colored men in their midst,
made complaint and asked to have
the men transferred.
Before a conference to discuss
the matter, in which the above
agencies were to present the posi-
ton of the men, the authorities al
lowed them to be removed over
night to a spot some 200 miles
further north, where the nearest
town is rs miles away. And we
are expected to take this lying
down. Be assured that will not be
the case.
The constant repetition of this
sort of thing government in
spired) has called into being the
National Negro Congress.
Men like Kelly Miller, editors of
big eastern papers, high officials in
church circles, other men who have
been honored with leadership and
whose dictums heretofore have had
the weight of law, are numbered
among those who have failed to
move these distractions from the
pathway of the Negro. They also
oppose the effectiveness of the
Congress called to take direct &C
ton upon such matters.
Thank God for the young men
and young women, who undeterred
by difficulty or danger, have
placed results above personal am
bition; hundreds of them came to
inaugurate the Congress and hun
dreds more of whom at home stand
ready to support and follow them.
I repeat the words of A. Phillip
Randolph, president of. the Con-
gress, "This is a serious time and
serious business upon which we
are engaged"
The time for weak and ineffec-
tive leadership is past. Only those
who have the courage of their con-
victions are fitted for this new day.
Past regulations will not avail. We
must move with the times or we
won't move at all.
The Washington times., 1936-09-30
Greatest Show on Earth
Bu Frank Miller Smith
; tinguished nam

tinguished name on the list in
BOies PenrOSe, jr., running as
you would expect on the Repub-
lican ticket against j. Bur.
wood DAILY, Democratic incum-
bent. His father beat out quite
a path for him to follow.
And in Massachusetts another
name that rings the bell in
American history is that of
Henry Cabot Lodge, jr., who
runs on the Republican slate as
senatorial candidate against
James NJ. Curley, Democrat.
And it was suggested you ought
to be able to pick good Notre
Dame football team from the
sound of some of the names Of
the candidates. There appears on
the list a Goldstick, a DeNapol
a Bodfish, a Jaggers, a Kowal.
kowski, Flaiani, an AXelrod and
an Oberkirch.
The Let also shows that John C.
Shafer, of Milwaukee, whose voice
won him recognition when he ap-
peared in Congress before. is the
nominee running
against Raymond j. Cannon, in
cumbent Democrat, and Paul
Gauer, Progressive.
The Washington times., 1936-09-30
POSSIBILITIES

Regardless of the outcome Of
the presidential race, the experts
on congressional trends look for a
lot of fur to fly before the Seventy
fifth Congress quits sine die.
In the House the fight over ma
jority leader is expected to be
hot one. There are about umpteen
hundred aspirants for the job and
the Democrats, should they keep
control, are faced with wedding
out these boys in a gentle man.
ner so as not to hurt too many
feelings.
Eventually it is believed they
will have to decide between Rep.
resentative John j. O'Connor,
New York, chairman of the Rules
Committee, and Representative
Sam Rayburn, Texas, chairman
of the Speakers Bureau. A very,
very delicate situation to say the
least.
AS for what is going to happen
to the legislation-there are those
who accredit the Democrats with
enough power to keep their ma.
jority in the House with the aid
of Progressive Republicans. They
look for the ProgressiveS to WELD
the balance of power to push
through the pets. On the other
hand they see distinctly that the
Anti-New Deal Senators are going
to look on things whole lot diff.
ferent if Mr.. Roosevelt is elected.
1t is freely predicted that
the mumblings and mutteringS
against the Chief Executive on
the right side of the aisle will
break out into the open.
In that case with Progressive
Republicans helping the Dem.
Ocrats to put through legisIa-
tiOn on the House side you
would have dissatisfied Dem
Ocrats in the Senate helping the
Republicans to block the kick.
A most interesting hole for any
President to be in.
The Washington times., 1936-09-30
Marry-GO-ROund
By Helen ROWLGnd
HARVEST MOON-INGS

ITO make her so miserable when
he wants to, 1t is a sign that he
will make her perfectly happy for
life.
That there will always be more
kick in sitting at home and lis
tening for his key in the latch or
his ring on the phone than in
going out and listening to an
other mans love-making.
That, no matter how many
married philanderers have made
passes at her, she has found the
one invincible, woman-proof hu-
man being who will never glance
at another girl or be tempted to
let his eyes rove.
That she will get bigger thrill
out of keeping a budget, sewing
on his buttons and keeping his
dinner waiting than she would
out Of wearing another mans
orchids and dining at a night
club.
That, because they both love
to swim and to dance, and pre-
fer roast beef medium to broiled
lobster and Ogden Nash to MaSe.
field, and a good Oman movie
to a Theater Guild play, they are
mentally mated" and will never
differ about the temperature Of
a room, the height of the window
shades or who shall drive the
car.
That his kisses will never grow
cold or stale or caSual-as other
mems have. And that his love
making will always b. ardent and
thrilling-instead OF perfunctory
or automatic like that of other
husbands.
In short, that the ran-ofthe-