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State Theatre building at Broad
way and 10th street, surrounded
by an interested and sympathetic
group of supporters of Ethiopia.
The Emperor's voice came over
the ether waves, across the turbu-
lent North Atlantic, as "clear as
a bell" and millions of American
listeners were fascinated with the
symphony of tones and sounds of
a language not frequently heard,
but which has a superior appeal
to the ear than most foreign
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State OF Alabama To
Drop Charges Owing
To Lack OF Evidence

ASBURY PARK, N. ]. (c)-
The state of Alabama is prepar-
ing to drop charges against
four of the famous Scottsboro
boys due to lack of evidence, it
was announced by the Rev. DR..
Allan Knight Chalmers, chairman
of the Scottsboro Defense commit
tee, in an address at a dinner of
the Race Relations division of the
Federal Council of Churches or
Wednesday night. DIR. Chalmers,
pastor of Broadway Tabernacle of
New York, said his committee has
very good assurance from sources
close to the prosecution" that Ala
bama is ready to act in the free
dom OF the boys DR.. Chalmers
asserted also, that the boys are
"in danger of breaking in mind
and body under the long strain"
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Kid Chocolate Loses

NEW YORK (C) - Before a
crowd of $4,000, Kid Chocolate,
once the idol of the ring lost the
1O-roound comeback fight against
Phil Baker Monday night. Choco-
late won only two rounds, the LIST
and 9Th, but in the others he was
outpoionted. LIN the third round
he was knocked to the convas but
was saved by the bel lat the count
of two.
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Japan Sides With
MussOlini; Slabs
SeIassie's Cause

NEW YORK. (CNA)-The he
roic struggle of the Ethiopian peo-
pie in defense of their national
independence, and the support the
struggle is receiving on a world
wide scale, received a severe set
back last week with the official
announcement by the Japanese
government that it had recognized
Italy's claims to sovereignty, by
right of the sword, over the last
Independent country in Africa.
Announcement of the Japanese
stab in the back of the Negro
peoples of the world was made
jointly in Rome and Toxic on the
same day. In Rome, the Japanese
action was made the occasion for
publication of long articles in the
fascist press, peering at the So
Wet Union, the United States
and other powers that have stood
on the principle of refusing to rec
ognize territorial gains made by
force and conquest. Japan's action
was seen by the fascist editors as
weakening the cause of Emperor
Halle Selassie and his people in
the League of Nations.
Until Japan's sour note, only
Nazi Germany among the great
powers had oneply sided with Mus
solini by extending official rec
ognition to Ttaly's grab of the an
cient African kingdom. Only re-
Gently, the small powers in the
League, following the lead of the
Soviet Union, forced the League
Assembly to reject an ultinlatum
from Mussolini that the Ethiopia
delegation be unseated. Friends Of
Ethiopia throughout the world
nave been putting up an energetic
struggle against recognition, and
the loans to Italy, to help in the
enslavement of the Ethiopian peo-
pie, that would noturally follow
recognition.
In Harlem, the news of Japan's
action evoked outspoken express
sions of indignation from revolu-
tionary workers and progressive
Nationalist, while among confus-
ed Nationalist elements, who har-
bored Illusions at the outbreak of
the Italo-E Ethiopian war that ia
pan would rush to the aid of
Ethiopia, tn ere was stunned
amazement and even expressions
of disbelief, followed by attempts
to rationalize Japan's treschery as
some form of subtle strategy that
would eventually work out to the
benefit" of tthe Negro people.
Even in the face of overwhelming
proof to thecontrary, these ele-
ments found it difficult to aban-
don the great illusion that Japan
csc imperialism is the champion"
of the darker peoples.
In outspoken Indignation, Jas.
w. Ford, Communist vice pres
idential candidate, in the recent
elections, branded the Japanese
action as a blow against Ethiopia
and the Negro people and a threat
to the peace of the world. Ford
warned that Tokio's blow at Ethio-
pia forged one more link in the
criminal plans of Hitler Germany,
Italy and Japan for aggression
against the Soviet Union and the
United States. He saw in the Ber-
linz okio-Rome alignment a move
for increased, even military, inter-
vention by Hitler and Mussolini in
aid of the Spanish fascist rebels
against the democratically elected
Popular Front Government of
Spain, and for renewed attacks
by Japan on the territorial integ-
rity of China.
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Rhythm Revue In N. Y.

NEW YORK (C)-"The League
of Rhythm" revue came to the
Harlem Apollo Theatre for the
week beginning December IL. It
is staged by Leonard Harper, from
music and lyrics by Donald Hey
wood, Andy Razaf and Paul Dem
nicker. 1t includes Erskine Haw-
kins and the 'Bama State Colleg-
ians, with Billy Daniels as soloist,
Bessie Smith of Blues fame, the
sensational Apache dancer, Brown
and Brown, and Three Giants of
Rhythm, who have just returned
from a tour of Europe.
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gave me my compass bearings III
my haphazard navigation of the
social plan. attended my first
meetings. heard speakers of the
Council and of the local branch of
the Communist party. They spoke
and I listened with unbelieving
ears, until bit by bit, my confu-
sion vanished. At last, I discov-
cred the true nature of the class
struggle and was dazzled by the
compellin truth. I hunrily bean
readin the little pamphlets, those
humble but insistent little teach
ers of the Communist movement.
They brouht new understand'u
and courage to me.
I became active in the Unem-
ployment Council, in the National
Miners Union, and in the Com
munist Party. was II years old
and consumed by a burning need
to work for the liberation of the
working class. But my efforts
aroused the bitter animosity of
the authorities. Again and again,
on trumped-up charges, I was ar
rested, bullied, given the third de-
gree, beaten brutally and finally
jailed-all because of my unbend-
ing militancy in organizing the
workers, both Negro and white.
When the Scottsboro frame-up
took place I went to New Orleans
to form a defense committee. My
efforts in behalf of the nine inno-
cent Negro boys was so success
full that became a marked man.
The police were constantly after
me, constantly framing me. Mat
tiers came to such~a pass thai
every time I saw a policeman I
expected to be arrested.
Tells of Atlantic Arrest
In 1882 l was in Atlanta, Ca,
when the relief authorities, out
of a passion for economy, decided
to drop $4,000 families from the
relief rolls. This decision was to
carried out though it meant the
condemnation of 100000 men, wo-
men and children to starvation.
The workers of Atlanta were
deeply aroused. The time was
ripe for mass action. So I helped
organize a demonstration of the
unemployed of the city.
For the first time in the sordid
history of the South, black and
white workers demonstrated to-
gether to improve their condition.
Frightened out of their wits, the
authorities not only rescinded the
order to cut the relief rolls, but
voted an additional sum of money
to increase the amount of relief.
However, for that victory, / was
to pay very dearly. In the eyes
of the Southern Bourbons it was
bad enough for me to attempt to
organize Negro workers, but to
have proceeded to work for the
unity of both black and white
workers u that was a crime for
which they were determined to
punish me with all the power at
their command.
Aided By /. L. d. Workers.
Shortly after the demonstration
I was arrested. On July %, 1882,
was indicted for 'fnciting an in
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He1.ndon Is 'SUnafraid''
AS He Awaits Decision
OF S. Supreme Court

u (NOTE: The deeply moving
human document which follows,
was written by Angelo Herndon,
for the Crusader News Agency.
In his article, the heroic young
organizer, whose appeal against a
chain gang conviction is now be-
fore the u. s. Supreme Court, re-
views the high spots of his life
as a Negro and aw orker." and
his transition from the confused
position of the average Negro reb-
ell to a clear undo cstanding of the
conflicting forces d, the world in
which we live, and of the relation
Of the Negro people to these for
ces and vice-versa. - Crusader
News Agency.
By ANGELO HERNDON
In this hour of crisis, when my
life is hanging in the balance,
when the U. S. Supreme court is
about to render its final decision
which win either make me a free
man again or else condemn me to
the indescribable tortures and to
the certain death of a 20-year SEN
tence on the Georgia Chain Gang
lin this hour / must take a
strict accounting of myself. For
I am no mere puppet who dances
when the forces of blind circum-
stances pull the strings, but a
thinking, feeling creature of flesh
and blood who at all times has
been concerned with the under
standing himself and his fellow
men and with final moral justifi-
cation for all his actions.
l believe I have had my share,
perhaps even more than my share
of the bitterness of the worlo.
Sunless and gray was my child
hood. My father was miner. 1
rarely saw him for he worked,
always worked, but we starved.
I. too, became worker and at
the time when other boys of my
age were still regarded as chill
dren and were playing in The sun,
I was already entombed miles
deep in the bowels of the earth,
digging away from sunrise to
shutdown, digging the grave Of my
boyhood in the Shiny coal pits of
Birmingham There it was that I
first learned the tragedy of being
a Negro ard a worker.
In Blind Rebellion
When I regarded my own life,
and when I looked about me and
saw the hopelessness of the lives
of my family and OF all Negro
workers saw our dire poverty
and despdir-saw how we were
being warped, brutalized, MANNED
and bll:dg eoned with Jim Crow
ism aud With lynch terror, with
starvation and with thel egar
frame-up. ] ragged inside of me
and rebeIled. Rebelled!
But for all the effectiveness of
by rebellion | might as well have
shaken my fist at the moon had
no ualer standing what it was all
about. had never even heard
of such a thing as q trade union.
1t finally was leaflet issued
by the Unemployment Council of
Birmingham which I found lying
on the sidewalk, soiled and mud
died by unheeding feet, that first
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Illiteracy Decreases

WASHINGTON (C) - Approx
imately 10000 colored illiterate
enrollees in the CCC have been
taught to read and write during
the past three and a half years,
according to Howard w. Oxley,
director of CCC camp education.
Reduction of illiteracy is one of
the major detectives of the educa-
tional program in the camps.
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NOTICE
CLUB MEETING

The King County Colored Re-
publican Club will hold their meet
ing on Sunday, December 20, at
Chandler Hall, at 8 p. nc. r.
Anderson, secy.
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WASHINGTON (c) = Roy VII
lkins. editor of The Crisis. and f.
K. Jones, speaking for Opportun-
ity, protested the Boar dof Edu-
cation ban on these magazines last
week.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala (c) The
birmingham World is sponsoring
a NEGRO Business Appreciation
Week, and white and colored lead
ers are cooperating.
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NEW YORK (C) Sweet
Land viii open at the Lafayette
theatre in Harlem as WPA play
on january 19, as production of
the Negro Youth division.
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PHILADELPHIA Co = Mayor
S. David Wilson has designated
the Philadelphia Tribune building
as the John P. Turner Christmas
Party Receiving Station" for his
committee.
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WASHINGTON co. DR.. Mary
Mcleod Bethune is urging col
ored people to buy land at Wilbur
by-the-Sea, near Daytona Beach,
Fla. for recreational advantages.
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:.1O FREE FOUR SCOTTSB0R0 BOYS
NEWS
FLASHES

ROME (C)-Luigi Pirandello,
playwright and Nobel prize win
ner who On his visit to America
during the Ethiopian war, praised
Mussolini's INVASION, died Thurs
day.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala (C) Mrs.
Wilson L. Driver, wife of the band
instructor at the Industrial High
school and staff member Of the
Weekly Review, died last We'd
nesday.
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AUGUSTA, a, Thomas J.
Walker. secretary treasurer and
one of the founders of the Pilgrim
Life Insurance company, died last
week
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LOS ANGELES (C) Il Death
took the Rev. ]. f. Williams, not
ed A. M. z. minister, formerly of
Columbus, Ohio, last week. He will
be buried at Dallas, Texas
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WASHINGTON (C) L DR.. Mary
Mcleod Bethune addressed How
ard University students last Tues
day, being introduced by Dean
Lucy D. Stowe.
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BUFFALO, N. Y (C)- Miss
Helen c. Irappant, head of the
Student Government association of
D'Youville College, spoke on THE
Inter-Racial Problem" before 200
last week.
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NEW YORK Co. Joe Loouis
was left out as James ]. Brad
dock and Max Schmeling signed
to fight for the heavyweight title
next June 3 at MADISON Square
Garden.
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CLEVELAND, o. (C) = The
sixth gas station opened by Alon-
20 G. Wright is the finest in the
state and worth $25O,OOO.
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ATLANTA, Ga. (C)-An inn
pressive academic procession, seen
oonly at commencement, was wit
messed as the memory Of Or. John
Hope was honored by nationally
known educators.
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pHILADELPHIA (C) = The
Cheyney GLORIOUS, directed by DR..
Leslie P. Hill, broadcast Sunday
afternoon from KYW. sponsored
by the Newton Coal company.
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SAVANNAH, Ca. (C) IT The
Savannah Tribune, last week edi-
toriaIIy endorsed President John
W. Davis of West Virginia State
Coolidge for the presidency of At
lanta University.
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WASHINGTON (C) = Miss
Louise washington, retired teacher
who taught 4S years, died last
week.
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WIBERFORCE, o. (C) An
editorial in the current Negro
Journal of Religion praises Bishop
R. r. Wright, Jr., predicting sue
cess for him in his South African
work.
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WASHINGTON (C) Failure
ito invite Jefferson S. Coage, for
mer Recorder of Deeds, to I'M
yelling ceremony of pictures of
former recorders, has drawn pro-
tests.
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PITTSBURGH, Pa. (C) Geo.
S. Schuyler of New oYrk was the
second guest speaker of the sea-
son at the YMCA last Sunday af-
ternoon.
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BARTLEsvILLE, Okla (c) =
Miss Rosa Belle Johnson ans Jas.
Ross, missing two days, were found
dead of monoxide gas poisoning in
a parked car at Torpedo Switch.
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u8RARY

WaYERSlTY OF WtsAi88Ioa
crIITtE
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EPISCOPAL
GAINS RECITED
Change in S. S. Program,
Assurance of Peace
Made Goal

NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 10. -
(UP).-The Synod of the Prov
ince of Sewanee of the Episcopal
church, embracing ii southern
states, yesterday voted to hold
it's 1888 meeting at Winston
Salem, n. c., and It's 1889 gather
ing at Tampa, Fla.
The meetings will be, respec-
lively, at St. Paul'S church and
st. Andrews church. The 1887
Synod will be omitted as it CO.
incided with the church triennial
in Cincinnati. Officers of the
synod and of the woman's auXil-
iary will serve again this year,
but council members will be named
today.
Total increase of l5,304 church,
and 1876 Sunday school mem
hers, with rs active ministers,
was reported.
The church must change its edu-
Cational program to meet the
needs of children coming to Sun
day schools with virtually no pre-
vious religious training Mrs. B. j.
Reynolds of New York told dele
gates. In older generations she
explained most families provided
Il background of religious knowl-
edge.
The committee on moral and So
cal welfare said it is the church'S
duty to create a will for peace"
and called on President Roosevelt
"to keep our nation free from
any involvement growing out of
the desire of any selfish group to
profit at the expense of the mis-
cry and death of other men"
eve often hear that war is in
evitable" the report said "but we
cannot believe that it is the will
of God that the innocent multi
tudes shall live in fear of this
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-11-19
EMERGENCY SCHOOL
LEVY MAY BE MADE
IN MISSISSIPPI, SAID

JACKSON, Miss, Nov. 49,
(UP).-Beyond being perfectly
satisfied" with findings of the
joint legislative committee investi-
eating conditions that threatened
to close common schools in half of
Mississippi, Governor Hugh White
last night ha dino further COM
ment.
Recommendations made by the
committee will be presented to a
special session of the Legislature
here Monday when it considers an
emergency appropriation for the
current schol term.
The governor conferred with
the committee last night and it
was rumored the group urged an
additional appropriation; a 10
mill Iad valorem tax in all coun-
ties, and that county supervisors
be empowered to order school lev
les in an emergency without re-
cciving n petition from citizens.
Senator Kyle, chairman Of the
acknowledgements is expect
ed to reveal some of the recon-
mendations Friday when he adj
dressed the superintendent de-
Of the Mississippi Educa-
ton association.
School leaders have asked for
81, 100000 beyond the current
100000 school appropriation
which is largest in history of the
state
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-11-19
Cities Hoping To.
Delay Conference
On Power Pool

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. Nov
19.-(UP) .-- Potential municipal
customers for IVA electrical en-,
ergy moved yesterday to delay u
conference Of federal officials on
creation of a great southeastern
power pool"
Col. Harold Fiskc, chairman of
the Chattanooga electric power
board, wrote IVA officials ask
ing that projected conference
on pooling" be delayed until af-
ter q conference Of 1853 potential
iva customers here December 2.
Representatives from 16S cities
in Tennessee. Kentucky. Georgia,
Mississippi and Florida which
someday may buy IVA power
have been invited to the confer
ence here. It's sponsors hope to
develop a permanent organiHa-
ton to provide an articulate
group to speak for municipal in
terests in the IVA area.
Cities in the IVA section fear
an agreement between the gov
eminent and private utilities for
a power spool" may create bar
riers which might prevent their
eventual contract for "yardstick"
electrical energy.
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Nhen lou Want Help Or Position ADVERTISE The Following Adv Results

the regulation of working hours,
aou5ted if anything like the
old MIA would be revived but he
was sure that he would work for
wages and hours regulation, either
within OF without the limits of the
present constitution.
He was not certain that the bill
Tor the regulation of hours that
he intends to introduce would con-
tain the flat S0-hour clause that
the one the senate passed and the
house killed at the last session,
but he was certain that he would
sponsor legislation of a similar
nature.
ut is my intention" he said,
Ito offer legislation covering
these (labor) subjects, particular
ly relating to hours and minimum
wages. Of course l want to act in
harmony with the administration
on the proposals | have in mind to
carry out the Democratic plat
FORM"
The youthful senator was APP
parently basing his attitude on
the platform, the labor sections
of which he helped to draft as a
member of the platform commit
tee of the Philadelphia conven-
ton.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-11-19
N. CC0ASTAL
AREA ISURCED
AS PARK SITE
U. 5. Erosion Board Man
Says It's Ideal for New
Type Of Project

RALEIGH. Nov. 10. (UP)--
Capt. Frank O. Bowman, recorder
of the U. S. Beach Erosion board,
today told officials OF the State
Department of Conservation and
Development that North Carroll
mas coastline is the logical locn
ton for development of coastal
national park.
Here for conference concern
ing cooperative beach erosion
studies being carried out by the
Beach Erosion board and the
state department. Bowman said
ne had studied the location pnd
was particularly impressed with
that portion If the coast from
Cape Hatter&S north.
Bowman said the beach board
would like to Sec the culnin1tion
Of SUCH q project.
Eve quite agree with the op'n-
ion CT others that the section Of
the Nrrtn Carolina coast from
Cap4 itattcras north is one - tie
best IN tAe country for no"
type Of national park Bowman
said.
"Therc is a natural charm
, about the area which commerda
it for "a national park, and be-
sides, the development of The
coast north 81 the proposed area
virtually r"cc!Hdes the type OF
develop:ncn, proposed here. From
Cape Cha"!cS in Virginia north
ward the coast is developed E2nv-
lily, and the North Carolina coast
offeyS about the first opportunity
for great park development
whare it would appear tina: the
necessary area could be Obt&ined
in the large body that would be
reqIyca."
Caatain Bowman said he beiicI-
ed tina. rh2 erosion studies now
BENZ mady Jointly by the u. S.
Beacn Erosion service and the
Dgpa rmcnt or Conservation aud
Development will be extremely
valuable in guiding the develop
ment Of the proposed project In
event it is approved. This work,
he added, which includes record
ing the trends of erosive i?creas-
es in value with the length of the
records.
The studies, he pointed out, are
in addition, the basis for data that
should be increasingly helpful to
the commercial fisheries of the
state in indicating measures re-
iating to the permanency OF IN
lets, which. are the pasSageways
for fish and because of their in
flucnce on the shclltish industry.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-11-19
EXECUTORS NOTICE

Having qualified as executors
Of tho last will and testament Of
J. Roland Wilson, deceased, late
resident Of Henderson County, N.
g., this is to notify all persons
having claims against said estate
to present them on or before
November 10. 1887, or this no.
ticc will be pleaded in bar of re-.
covcry; and all persons indebted
to said estate will please make
settlement at once. Notice is also
hereby given that o. B. Crowell,
attorney, has been duly constitut-
ed resident process agent, TO rep
resent the undersigned executors.
This November 10, 1896.
ALAN WOOD. 3rd, ~
Il. ALEXANDER WILSON,
Executors.
11-l9-Thurs-6t