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The Washington times., 1936-12-15
LONDON POLICE
PLAN FOR SAFE
CORONATION

LONDON, Dec. IS GN.SO.
Officials at Scotland Yard and at
the headquarters of the London
military command today were COM
pleting plans for the safety Of the
kings, princes, ENJOYS and missions
who will come to London from all
over the world for the cornation
Of King George VI next May.
Detectives and sentries will
guard the notables night and day
from the moment they set foot in
England until they leave again.
Virtually the entire detective
force of the special branch Of Scot
land Yard, the department chiefly
concerned, will be on emergency
duty during the coronation festiN-
ties.
Aided by Military
The London military command
is arranging to borrow scores OF
extra sentry boxes that will be
needed by the soldiers mounting
guard over the embassies, Palaces,
houses and hotels while the for
eign guests are in town.
At least four kings, those OF
Denmark, Greece, Norway and
Bulgaria, will be housed at Buck
ingham Palace and other royal
residences as private guests OF the
royal family. Three Of the kings,
Christian of Denmark, Haakon OF
Norway, and Boris Of Bulgaria,
are expected to be accompanied
by their queens.
Several crown princes will also
be in London, including Umberto
of italy, Gustav Adolf of Sweden.
and possibly Michael Of Rumania.
Prince Chichibu will represent his
brother, the Emperor Hirohito OF
Japan.
Also expected are the presidents
Of France and Portugal, the kings
of Iraq and Egypt, and the pre-
4OC1 VI L IA ACJ" TO4OASAA
will head official delegations from
Germany, Russia, Hungary, Aus
tria, Czecho-Slovakia, Latvia, Po
land, Lithuania, Estonia, Brazil,
Chill, Argentina and Uruguay.
Gerard for U. S.
For the United States, President
Roosevelt has selected James W.
Gerard, former Ambassador to
Germany, as special envoy to the
coronation. He will be accom-
panied by a distinguished delega-
tion.
Amid this galaxy of royalty,
however, Edwards will be the only
crowned head in the coronation
procession. The other kings will
wear uniforms and robes, but not
their crowns.
The reason for this is that the
coronation is regarded as a do
mestic ceremony.
The Washington times., 1936-12-15
District Gives Alley
To 6, W. for New Gym

A blind alley which has inter
fered with expansion Of George
washington University was ceded
to the university yesterday by the
District Commissioners.
Covering 1,190 square feet, the
alley is situated between Twenty
second and .Twenty-third Streets
and G and H Streets N. w. With
its acquisition, the university now
owns nearly three-quarters Of the
block, President Cloyd Heck Mar.
vim said. The next step planned
by the university is gymnasium,
he added.
The Washington times., 1936-12-15
Entered YARD as Boy:
Worked for 46 Years

When they moved guns from the
east gun carriage shop to be rifled
in the Navy Yard in the days be-
fore the turn of the century, every
body in the yard knew the job was
being done-because they all had
to give hand in moving them.
Those days were recalled today
by j. M. Adams of 256 Eighth st.
S. E., who retired from the yard
in 1880 after As years Of service
there.
Mr.. Adams entered the yard as
an apprentice boy, or rather as a
minor helper" as they called them
in those days, in 1884, having been
born and raised in Washington.
He related that there was no
union then and that the way one
got a job was usually by applying
to the man in charge. Most of
those who got jobs then were sons
of Navy officers. He said:
Everything in those days was
done by hand. When we removed
a gun from the shop to be
rifled the several hundred men
who worked at the yard all were
called to get the gun lifted on
an Ox-cart. 1t was some job. OF
course, today, they lift them
with cranes and move them by
railroad cars and there is moth.
ing to it.
Il also saw the machinery
used in the shops develop from
those of the belt driven type
to those driven by electricity.
This has brought about less &C.
cidentS. Many q time when all
The Washington times., 1936-12-15
Georgia Power Firm
Seeks 10 Buy Plant


Promising improved service with
no increase in rates, the Georgia
Power & Light Company has for.
nnally laid before the Federal
power Commission its application
for purchase of the plant ana
equipment Of the isolated Folk,
ston, Ca, power company.
The Georgia power secretary,
w. C. Schoeppe, and its general
counsel, K. E. Henderson, pre-
sented the application in a 4O-mn-
ute hearing before Power Com
mission Examiner F. M. Durrance.
When the hearing concluded, Dur
rance asked for additional data by
mail, and took the application un-
der adviSement.
The Washington times., 1936-12-15

the machines were uncovered,
as in the old days, 1 have seen
men cut their fingers off or get
their OverallS caught in ma
chimes and be torn off. Now &C
cidentS are few and far be-
tween"
The Washington times., 1936-12-15
MOUNTED FISH.
ON DISPLAY

NEW YORK.-A mounted spec
linen Of the whale shark has been
placed on view in the Roosevelt
Memorial Hall of the American
Museum of Natural History.
The shark, measuring eighteen
feet from the tip of the nose to
the end of the flukes, was cap
tured this fall at Acapulco Bay,
off the southern coast of Mexico,
by o party led by Charles T. Viii
son of New York. The specimen,
female, is considered the finest
ever exhibited in a museum.
The work of mounting the shark
was carried out by Ludwig C. Fer
raglio under the direction of DR..
James L. Clark, head of the de-
partment of preparation, and DR..
Eugene w. Gudger of the depart
ment of ichthyology. The skin
was stretched over a manikin Of
Stiffened burlap and plaster and
then painted the characteristic
dark gray color.
The specimen is nine feet eight
inches in girth around the head,
and the mouth, stretching three
feet from corner to corner, could
hold a small man. The hide
weighed 200 pounds.
The Washington times., 1936-12-15

College Revives Sports
st. Louis University will revive
three varsity sports this year,
hockey, baseball and track.
The Washington times., 1936-12-15

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The Washington times., 1936-12-15

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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-07-18
REV. D. G.. HILL
TO PREACH
AT BETHEL

Rev. Daniel G. Hill, nephew
of Rev. William II. Peck, Will de-
liver the message at the Mems Day
Program given by Bethel A. M. E.
Church at the regular HOO
o'clock service, this Sunday, July
10. Rev. Hill, son of the late Dan
iel G. Hill, of the Baltimore Con-
ference is pastor of the A. M. E.
Church of Oakland, California. He
is a graduate of Lincoln University
and received his Masters degree
from Washington University. Re-
turning from a travel tour of the
East which included a visit to his
home in Baltimore, Rev. Hill and
his family will stop in Detroit for
the weekend. Rev. Hill is also a
World War Veteran and special
invitation is extended to all vet
Grams to attend his meeting.
At 400 o'clock Sunday after
noon, Rev. Hill will be entertained
at a buffet luncheon in the Par
sonage. All men are cordially in
We'd to attend both of these gath
erings.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-07-18
Italians Admit Guerilla War Is On Again:
Warriors Cut R. R. Line Near Adds Ababa

PARIS-(C)-The French Press
was all agog Fri. with news of the
1st battle in the resumption of war
against Italy by Ethiopia near Ad-
dis Ababa Thursday, in which the
one railroad line in Ethiopia was
cut by Ethiopian soldiers. Dis
patches from r m e admitted
fighting was in progress, but said
Italian troops had quelled a band
of "marauding" Philippians. Dis
patches from French Somaliland,
however, adjacent to Ethiopia, re-
ported Ethiopian regular troops in
a surprise attack on the Italians,
which caused Col. Graziani to rush
a detachment of soldiers from Adj
dis Ababa to the scene Of battle.
Awriter in Petit Journal said: 1.-THE
young Philippians educated in the
European manner have organized
armed bands in preparation for
guerrilla raids. Fresh attacks on
the military routes of Gondar, Des-
sye and Garpar and the Adds Aba
ba-Jibuti railway are considered
imminent"
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-07-18
JOE AND ROXBORVGH
DENY DOPE STORY
2 BOYS DROWN
in DETROIT
RIVER

Last week two youths were
drowned in the Detroit River
while seeking relief from the re-
cord breaking heat which is eweep-
ing the entire country.
The body of Charles Mitchell,
Is, 13463 Orleans, was recovered
from the Belle Isle Bathing Beach
at 500 Sunday afternoon. His
friends did not notice that any
thing was wrong until he failed to
reappear after disappearing under
the water.
First a d W a s admins
tered but failed to revive him.
Half an hour later he was pro-
nounced dead.
Isaac Erwin, Jr., 10, 7O3 Winder
was drowned last Friday at lis
p. m. while swimming in the De-
troit River at the rear of the Naval
Armory. His parents, relatives,
and many friends are mourning his
loss.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-07-18

admitted appropriating one hun
dred dollars worth of food which
belonged to the commissary.
Government Sets Trap
For the past year John c. Gal
braith, ace investigator from the
Veterans Bureau, has been seek
ing evidence at the hospital. The
first results were the dismissal Of
Colonel Ward, his secretary, Mrs.
Patterson, Chief Guard Reid, Chief
Dietician Peterson and several or
derlies. A lull followed during
which DR.. Eugene II. Dibble was
appointed head of the institution.
Then new activity-inspired, some
say, by a letter written by Mrs
Ward in which she charged her
husband had been made the vic
tim of enemies or, as others claim,
by a desire on the part of the de-
partment to get" Burke, long re-
garded as the senegambian in the
woodpile at the hospital-brought
Galbraith to the reservation again.
He has been there three months
this time and it is charged that
he has used every method known
to modern investigation, pitting
gossip of one group against anoth-
er, hiring former guard Reid as
his chauffeur, threatening people
with the loss of their jobs and
then having them rehired in his
efforts TO make folk talk. He fin
ally succeeded and orderlies and
attendants as well as higher-ups
are said to have worn a trail to his
office belching up all the gossip
and rumors which have prevailed
the place for years.
Important Race Institution
The actual trouble at the Tus-
kegee hospital had its inception in
internal difficulties. Here was the
most important governmental in
Continued on page 81
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-07-18

tailed to the hospital as superin-
tendant of construction, was nam
ed acting utility officer; Miss
Olivette A. Mason was designated
as acting chief nurse and Mrs.
Julia L. Alexander was named as
sisting chief nurse. Both of these
latter have been at the hospital
some ten years.
Trouble Long Brewing
The indictments bring to a head
a year or two of bizarre rumors,
secret and open investigations,
gossip, chicanery and third degree
methods on the part of govern
ment Investigators which have
kept the hospital a seething mass
of unrest and uncertainty. Just
Just how serious the charges are
It is impossible to predict since
the grand jury has not completed
its work nor filed its report. Col
Ward was dismissed because he
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-07-18

This picture shows the lovely
residence and family of l.. G.
Bloup., local insurance expert, at
430 Chandler.
l.. c. Blount was elected Second
President by the N. n. l. A,
which opened it's 10th Annual
Convention Wednesday, July Sth
at 10 a. m, in Detroit, Michigan.
President Gilpin presided over the
Convention.
All the papers read were interest
ing and helpful to the insurance
officials and delegates. The Con-
vention, observers agreed, will
mean much if some of the thoughts
are actually put into practice.
Mr.. Blount has been actively en-
gagged in the Life Insurance bust
ness for nearly twenty-five years.
He was born in Washington, ID. C..
He received his education at M. St.
High and Howard University,
Washington, q. c., and has studied
Insurance, Economics, Sociology,
Banking and Investments at var
ious other institutions.
The National Benefit of Washing
ton gave him his first insurance ex-
Continued on page 1O)
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-07-18

him l didn't know. Then he start
ed telling me about the story be-
ing circulated around that Joe was
doped.
II told him l knew nothing
about it. l suspected he was up to
something at the time," Mrs. Gaines
continued.
81 never told any one that l was
doped," Joe replied to queries by
reporters.
Joe And RoxbOrOugh Talk
,Fsne only thing my mother SAID
to me when / got back home was
You can't win them all son. She
doesn't know enough about fight
ing to ask me why / didn't use my
left more in the fight.
There is absolutely no truth in
the charges made by Bruseaux,"
declared John w. Roxborough. II
was with Joe from the time he
left the training camp at Lake
wood until he entered the ring
the night of the fight. I'm positive
Continued on page A.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-07-18

The affidavit, copy of which
Bruseaux claims he has sent to
the New York Boxing Commission,
states that the charge that Louis
was needed" the day of the fight,
which Joe lost by a knockout in
the 18th round, was made by Mrs.
Gaines on the evening of July 2 at
the Grand Hotel.
The affidavit was signed, accord
ing to Bruseaux in the presence of
AL Monroe, sports editor Chicago
Defender; Edward Picque, fight
promoter iii Chicago, and Miss
Benny Mitchell, 274 Garfield ave-
nue., Detroit.
Mrs. Gaines Makes Denial
Mrs. Gaines, in an interview with
a reporter from this paper, admit
ted going to the Grand Hotel with
AL Monroe and Benny Mitchell
but denied that she had signed
anything while in the room with
the party.
"I didn't know what it was all
about. I went there and he asked
me what happened to Joe. l told
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-07-18
Elks Look For
Mammoth Meeting

Department of which William G.
Hueston is the director and Thorn
as l.. Higgins, exalted ruler of
Brooklyn Lodge, the assistant di-
rector.
Sunday morning at IL o'clock,
August 23 the annual Baccalau-
reate sermon will be preached by
the Rev. Emory b. Smith of Wash
ington, d. c., at Concord Baptist
church, 166 Adelphi street. Music
on that occasion will be rendered
by the church choir under the lea
dership of Mrs. Ellsworth Patter-
son. That night at s o'clock in
Bridge Street A. M. r. Church, 3l5
Bridge street the annual memorial
services will be conducted under
the direction of the grand chap
lain, the Rev. w. George Avant,
of Durham, N. c. The Rev. M. E.
Jackson is the pastor of Bridge
Street Church.
Continued on page y
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-07-18

The charges filed were "conspl-
racy and converting government
property to their own USE" The
four others held were G. b. Peter
son, chauffeur at the hospital
and husband of the dietician, Mrs.
Nellie Cooper Frazier, II. f. Ma
son and George b. Williams. Ru-
mors that Colonel Joseph II. Ward,
former commandant who had re-
turned to Alabama last week from
his present home in indianapolis,
would also be indicted were inn
possible of verifcation at the time
this story reached deadline. The
grand jury had not, however, COM
pleted its work. w. p. Reid plead
ed guilty as soon as he was taken
into custody, an action rumored
part of a prearranged plan for him
TO turn states evidence against
the others.
White Man Takes Place
Edward b. Williams, white, de-
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-07-18

BROOKLYN, n. Y.-(By Charles
T. Magill for A. N. P.(-With the
thirty-seventh annual convention
of the Improved Benevolent Pro-
tective Order Elks of the World
but six weeks off, the local COM
mittee has announced that all is
in readiness to make the session.
which will be held here, the most
successful ever held.
Brooklyn Lodge No. 81, together
with Excelsior Temple No. 80 and
Progressive Temple No. 70 are the
entertaining organizations and the
general convention committee is
headed by John H. Folder, for ten
years financial secretary of Brook
Ign Lodge.
Plans already made include the
holding of an Educational and Eco
. nomic Congress in the auditorium
of Brooklyn Lodge Home at 1ooS
Fulton street, Friday and Saturday,
August 81 and % under the aus
pices of the National Educational
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-07-18

Montgomery Ala-(ANP)-Water 5. Burke uull-
ty officer off the United States Veterans Facility at
kegee; Preston H. Roney custodian Miss Esther D. Bull
lock- head nurse Miss Amelia j. Gears, assistant head
nurse Mrs G. B. Peterson former head dietician Dr. H.
q Matthews and Villa P Reid former chief guard all
If the same institution arrested together with four
other minor employees Tuesday an indictment voted by
the Federal Grand Jury sitting at Montgomery, Ala
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-07-18
BRAND DETECTIVES CLAIM
THAT HYPODERMIC WASUSED
AS ABSOLUTE FALSEHOOD
Joe's Sister Denies Making 81 g d
Statement To Detective Bruseaux
(BY STAFF REPORTER

An emphatic denial that definitely dispes any auth
entciy to the charges made Wednesday by Sheridan A.
Bruseaux private detective of Chicago, made by
Joe Louis his sister, Mrs. Eulaa Barrow Gaines, and
John W. Roxborough manager of Louis
Bruseaux who said in the story that he had been re-
tanned by group of dsgruntled beters who had lost
heavily the fight, declared that he had afda
Wit signed by Mrs Gaines in which it charged that
Joe was doped the day he fought Max Schmeling.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-07-18
Flogged Victims
Speak In Chicago

Southern Tenant Farmers union.
Bennett, a union member, left
Forrest City, Arkansas, after some
trouble with an overseer follow
ing the launching of the strike. II
he is returned to the Southern
state, it is feared he will be
lynched.
Rev. Williams and II. L. Mitch
ell, union president, were also
scheduled to testify at the special
eXtradition hearing Tuesday. Gov
ernor Horner signed an extradi-
ton warrant for BENEFITS arrest
but after protests by the Workers
Right league he suspended the
warrant pending the hearing.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-07-18

Chicago-(ANP)-Miss Willie
Sue Blagden of Memphis, social
worker and member of a promi-
nent Tennessee family, and the
Rev. Claude Williams of Little
Rock, Ark, both of them white
and victims of a flogging in Ark
ansas recently, were scheduled to
address mass meetings in Chica-
so Friday and Monday on behalf
Of Sam Bennett, former share
cropper now fighting extradition
to Arkansas.
Miss Blagden and Rev Williams
were severely beaten when they
attempted to investigate the muir
der of a striking member of the
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-07-18
YOUNG GIRLS
ATTEMPT TO
N D LIVE

Two young girls attempted to
take their lives by drinking iodine
last week end. One was Eileen
Wallace, pretty sixteen year old
girl, living at 500 e. Montcalm,
who gave as her reason the fact
that she had an argument with
her sister, Louise Wallace, about
her boyfriend. Eileens' condition
is temporarily serious.
The other was Mrs. Juanita
Galloway, II, 964 Brady, who was
respondent as a result of an al
tercation with her husband, James
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-07-18
YOUNG WIFE.
ATTEM PTS
S u | { D {

Elizabeth Howard, pretty eigh-
teen year old wife of bad Man"
Howard of 954 L. Vernon High
way. attempted to end her life ut
the Howard home Monday even
ing, after a heated argument with
her husband.
Hospital officials predict her
recovery. Mrs. Towards husband
stated that weather conditions
caused her to lose control of her
self.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-07-18
JOE LOUIS STEP DAD,
PAT BROOKS, BURIED

More than fifteen hundred per-
sons of various ranks in life, in
Guiding humble citizens and not
ables of both races, crowded into
Calvary Baptist Church, i'm Detroit,
at l p, m. Monday, to pay their
last respects to the late Patterson
Brooks, step-father of Joe Louis,
The Brown Bomber" Mr. Brooks
who was stricken with para
lytic stroke two days prior to the
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-07-18
LOCAL BRANCH n. A. A. c. p.
TO MEET MONDAY

The Detroit Branch n. A. A. G..
p. will hold a meeting, Monday
July 20, at the st. Antoine Y. M.
G.. A., at s p. m.
The chairman of the committee
will make a report and delegates
who attended the Baltimore con-
vention will speak. Everybody is
welcome.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-07-18

Louis-Schmeling bout, suffered a
second stroke and died last We'd
nesday, at his residence on McDou-
gall street.
Rev. J. H. Mastin, pastor of Cal
vary Church, officiated, his theme
centering around the simplicity Of
Mr.. Brooks life Rev. J. A..
Charleston, of st. Paul A. NJ. r..
Church. and DR.. Moore assisted.
Continued on page ~
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-07-18
Infant Hurt In
Fall From Porch

Emma Jean Broadus, months
old, 93S Medbury, Apt. A, was fore
ed to use her porch for sleeping
quarters because of the intense
heat. At 5 o'clock Monday morn
ing little Emma rolled off the
porch and fell about 20 feet. She
is now at the Receiving Hospital
where she is in a serious condi-
tiOn
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-07-18
TO HOLD 1897
NAACP MEET
IN DETROIT

BALTIMORE, Md.-The 1887 con
ference Of the N. A. A. C. p. will
meet in Detroit, Michigan, June %
July 4, inclusive, it was voted here
by delegates to the 1886 meeting
The delegates also voted that after
the 1888 conference is held, the
meetings will be held every two
years. There was some oppositios
to this plan and indications are
that the vote will be reconsidered
either at the 1897 or the 1888 meet?
ing
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-07-18
Eleuen Are Indicted At
Tuskegee Veterans Hospital

TUSKEGEE, Ala-(ANP)-COl Joseph H. Ward, former CON-
mandan mt Veterans Hospital indicted by the
Federal Jury sitting mt Montgomery Aa Oh thursday
Tho was the government through
diversion supplies Colonel Ward presented hmseh
a the office States Marshall bail and was I'M
medaey, r2epsed The bond was S7'ooo ID o'her eHp!e
o indicted this week on the Charge group expect
ed to come to November unless special session OF the
federal Is called.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-07-18
Ethiopians Resume Fighting


Mrs. Lille Nj.
Jackson, presI-
dent of Baltimore
Branch of the n.
A. A. c. =. who
recently, was e.
lected by that
body to the NOmi-
mating Commit
tee, which will e.
lect members to
til e National
Board OF Direct
Ors. The Balti-
more Branch, in
the p a S { six
months, has on
roll 1926 men,
bers, and at pre-
sent Is fighting
for high school
educational OPP
pOrtunities I o r
N egr o children
and for equal
salaries for Negro
teachers in the
counties Of Mary
land.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-07-18
John Roxborough
10 e S Manager
Gets Divorc e

Judge Ira Jayne awarded a di-
vorce Tuesday to John RoXborough
and Mrs. Dora Roxborough, after
the latter had agreed to ask for
an absolute divorce, instead of sep
arate maintenance.
Judge Jayne agreed that Mr.. RoX-
borough settle $4,000 on his wife
and that $1,000 should go for at
torneys fees.
In event either party should OBJ
ject to this settlement, Judge
jayne reserved the right to go in
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-07-18
VIM, PICKENS
FIR ED IN
AUTODEATH

BAKERSFIELD, Calif-William
Pickens, director of branches Of
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People,
was completely exonerated of any
criminal negligence in an automo-
bile accident, May 80, near here,
in which a young hitch-hiker, rid
ing with Mr.. Pickens, was fatally
injured and Mr.. Pickens suffered
a broken right arm.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-07-18

to Mr. RoXborough's income.
Roxborough refused to accept the
ject to this settlement, Judge
Jayne and settlement of the case
was postponed Wednesday until
September 16.