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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1937-03-19
Guilty in Black
Legion Murder Plot

DETROIT, (CNA)-Nine mem
bers of the terroristic, anti-Negro
Black Legion were found guilty
this week of ccaspiring to murder
Arthur L. Kingsley, Highland Park
publisher, during 1888 and 1884.
Previously five other Legion
naires were convicted of the
thrill murder of a Negro, and
six others Of kidnapping OF false
Imprisonment.
The recent trial, which lasted
several weeks, came seven months
after the terrorists were indicted.
It was held up mainly because
of manouvers Of former RepuEii-
can state officials who sought an
opportunity to suash the charges.
Tr.ggerman Dayton Dean was a.
gain the star witness.
Acquitted were Leslie j. Black,
former republican leader who fl
cured prominently in several OF
the Legion's terror acts, Frank
Rice, Albert Schneider, Walter
Pierce, Rowland Hasselbach, John
Goodwin and William Keller.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1937-03-19
LondSs>> >ars Italians Facing Food
ShOrtS> VOr Mass Slaughter"
Farmel> sc BOycOtting Markets

LONDON lc1-Informatlon has
reached here through reliable chan
nels which causes grave concern
for the future of Italy in Ethie pia.
Observers now are convinced t,et
there is plenty Of trouble ahead"
Of italy in Adds Ababa.
Reactions by the Philippians to
the recent mass slaughter Of
their countrymen for the attempt
to a~ssasinate Marshal GRAHAM
have been. not to yield to Fascist
ruthlessness. but to resist all the
more. The Ethiopian farmers have
practically decerted the markets
of the capital, and the food short
age has become so serious that all
italian government workers are on
rations.
Meat Is now q luxury, and there
is a continued scarcity Of every
day requirements. Farmers who
formerly came to market. due to
wholesale executions recently, are
staying away from the city.
Fear is also gripping the Ital-
Ians, since the hurting Of the bomb
which It Is just now reported
wounded Graziani thirty eight
times, and caused the loss of the
rigLs leg and right eye of General
Lolita, air chief. who was standing
beside him. Now the Italians do
not dare go far from the city un-
less in large groups, and it is ex-
pected that when the rainy ea-
son comes, the Philippians will clio
sc in on the capital and similarly
slaughter the Italians.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1937-03-19
S~chmeling Tour Faces
Ban by Anei-Na

NEW YORK, (CNA)-In an eff
fort to whip up public sentiment
for a schmeling-Braddo cham
pionship fight as against the Louis
-Braddock go in Chicago in June,
Nazi advisers and manager of the
boycotted Uhlan who arrived in
this country this week, hive sche-
duled a series of exhibitions thru
out the country. Bouts have been
booked in Is cities, II - them
significantly in the South
Schmeling, however seems to
be doomed to disappointment as
the Anti-Nazi Non-sectarian Lea-
que has announced that it win en-
list the service of liberaIly-minded
groups in the community where
these exhibitions are scheduled
with a view to establishing an ef-
fective boycott Of the Nazi ar
var. hope. The boycott move
ment has been gaining momentum
IN recent weeks and was directly
responsible for the arrangements
for the Braddock-Louis champ
ionship match on June 20 in Chi
cago.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1937-03-19
Dunbar National Bank Pleased
With Newspaper Endorsement

NEW YORK Calvin Service)-Executives of the Dun
bar National Bank of New York, Seventh Avenue and 135th
ments of its inter-racial policy in employment which was
made recently by publication of the story of the banks
growth in Harlem on the basis of giving Harlemites an OPP
portunity to work for the institution.
twenty-five newspapers, from New York to Seattle,
Washington, carried the story, and c. c. Huitt, president of
the bank, expressed keen appreciation of the support, and
stated again he hoped other business institutions in other
cities would be influenced by the Dunbar's example to give
colored people new and higher work opportunities.
Cleveland Editor Writes
The Cleveland Cal-Post, of which William o. Walker is
editor, in a strong editorial urged Cleveland white banks to
study the record of the Dunbar in Harlem, and see if they
cannot put into practice the principles which have caused
the resources of this bark to come near the four million dol
lar mark in the eight years of its existence.
The Indianapolis Recorder, one of the largest papers in
the Middle-West, and the Tampa Bulletin and the Atlanta
Daily World, two of the largest papers of the South; the New
Age Dispatch of Los Angeles, the Northwest Enterprise of
Seattle, and the st. Louis American are among the more
prominent papers which have spread before their readers
the story of Harlem's support of the Dunbar Bank.
New Economic Movement
Harlemites themselves are not fully aware of the depth
of the effort to start a new economic movement which will
mean wider opportunity for work in the higher brackets,
which the success of the Dunbar experiment up to now has
greatly reinforced. On the surface there is business routine
OF the s~trictest order; but underneath, due mainly to the
carrying out, by Mr.. C. C. Huitt, the president, of the earn
est and sincere desire of Mr.. John D. Rockefeller, Jr, prn-
cipal owner of the bank, there is a larger objective which is
meant to benefit a whole racial group.
Mr.. Huitt has been fortunate in being ably seconded in
sound banking practice and a sympathetic racial view by his
chief assistants, Mr.. A. n. Then, vice-president; and Mr.
Albert w. Eichenberger, vce-president and cashier, both of
whom have developed warm and lasting friendships in Har-
lem, and both of whom have shown a deeper interest in
T1arlem's welfare than their business connections
Rockefeller Interested
The coming of Mr.. Rockefeller into the economic work
a-day life of Harlem, through the financing of the Dunbar
Bank and the Dunbar Apartments, bringing more than three
-nfs - III e -.-.E.I ~ Az ~~o,rs4 - oOnasnO non
and more to be appreciated for the real raising of the econ
omic status of the Negro group which this Investment has
entailed. Nowhere else in America has a capitalist stepped
in and, in such a large way, attempted to make a contribu-
ton outside of the field of ~eddcad6n, to the definite improve
ment of the colored citizekA4 Nome environment and his en-
ployment and business ~ipbuilding SN'"S'O"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1937-03-19
Find Preacher
Hanged In Cell
AT Nazi Camp

BERLIN, (CNA)- Protestant
Germany was stirred this week
when a clergyman revealed in two
church addresses that the body OF
the Rev. Nj. Wiesler. secretary
Of the National Confessional Synod
had been found hanging in a cell
at a Nazi concentration
According to the Secret Po-
Ices report, he hanged himself
with a towel" declared the Rev.
Martin Niemoeller. when placed
in custody last summer he was
accused Of giving to the foreign
press the text of a statement by
the Brotherhood Council of the
Confessional Church. So far as
we know. no proof has been pre-
scented substantiating the charge,
The revelation created a ire
mendous stir in the religious com
muntty III this city, and is expected
to serve to stiffen the resistance
Of the militsnt wing Of the Pro-
testant Church to the Hitler muir
der regime.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1937-03-19
Cartwright House at Cold
HaFhoF 70 Be Restored

Restoration of the old Garth
right house that served as q field
hospital after the battle of Cold
Harbor, in June, 1864, has been
made as q part Of the work pro-
gram OF Company 1875. q junior
colored unit OF the Civilian Conser-
walton Corps which has been wor-
king for the past two years on the
Richmond Battlefield Park, vir-
ginia. Robert Fechner, Director
Of cCc activities, was advised by
the National Park Service.
Blood stains dating back to the
war can still be seen on the rough,
wide board floor. The owners OF
the building were sent to live in
the cellar during the bloody fight
ing and all other rooms in the
house were used as a hospital.
The house was riddIed with bullets
and grapeshot from the nearby
battle lines.
The brick lower floor half story
is estimated to date back to the
early zoos while the wooden
framework Of the second story
was built at a later date, probably
just before the War Between the
States.
Enrollees have practically COM
pleted necessary repairs and brac-
ing operations to preserve the bull
ding. particularly two old chin
neys, and are now working on the
interiors, attempting to restore
them to something of their Civil
War appearance.
The restoration of the ole
Cartwright House is a part of q
general program of restoration
and reconstruction being carried
out by the CCC at the Richmond
Battlefield Park TO preserve the
historical landmarks Of the battle
field.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1937-03-19
James Ford Urges Support Of FD.R.
Court Plan, Hits BOrah's Proposal

NEW YORK, QCNA)-President
Roosevelt's proposals for reorgan-
izatlon Of the United states SUI
preme Court were supported this
week by James w. Ford. 1885
Communist Vice Presidential can
didate, as "a feeble step in the
right direction" in carrying out
the 1896 elections mandate Of the
American people to curb the po-
wer Of the court.
In an interview with a crucader
News Agency reporter, Ford as
serted thai slonl the pre-Civil
War days Of the Infamous Dred
Scott decision. upholding the right
of a slave owner to repossess a
runaway slave. the court has been
a bulwark against the progress
o. the Negro people. He at the
same time denounced the Borah
proposal for the repeal of the
Fourteenth amendment, warning
that such a step would give each
state the right to legisIate as 1t
sees fit on social issues and would
mean giving the Southern states
a political weapon for still further
.enslaving the Negro people.
In recent history" Ford assert
ed, the courts action on vital
social issues has also affected the
Negro people adversely. Decisions
like that multiplying the MIRA show
the complete .reactionary charac-
ter of the court and its need for
reorganization"
The whole history of the court
has been marked with an anti
Negro bias, Ford stated in answer
to a question. Both the Herndon
and the Scottsboro cases show
this. True. i'll the S~cottsboro Case,
mass Indignation forced the court
to make a few minimum conces-
sions to the Negro people, such
as the right to sit on juries. But
the court at the same time lodged
other fundamental issues raised
by the defense; the right of the
franchise, enforcement Of the 18th
18th and 18th amendments"
He expressed the opinion that
every Negro and every person,
who stands for progress should
support the proposals of the Pre-
sident for judiciary reform.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1937-03-19
Amsterdam News
Hit For Firing Of
Guild Members

NEW YORK. GINA Charges
that the publishers of the Am
sterdam News, Harlem's leading
newspaper, carried out unfair la
Dor practices by recently discharg
ing two of its editorial writer's.
were made this week by the New
York Newspaper Guild, SO w. 45th
Street. The charges were con-
tanned in a letter sent to Harlem
trade unionists, labor supporters
and advertisers of the paper.
Obie McCoIIum, former editor
of the paper, and Roi Ottley, thea
tire and sports writer, both MEM
bers of the Guilds Amsterdam
News unit which several months
ago conducted a successful strug-
gle for recognition, have been dis
missed. Ottley received notice of
his dismissal on Feb. ~.
The paper is published by the
Powell Savory Corporation, with
controlling interests owned by Dr..
P.M.H. Savory and DR.. c. B. Po-
well, prominent Harlem physi-
The Guilds letter charged that
the two dismissals were the c,d-
mination of a series of owners
anti-labor practices which have
resulted in the loss of jobs to
several of the IS staff writer's who
participated in the successful Guild
strike.
DR.. Savory refused this week
to comment on the dismissals,
other than to confirm the reports
that McCullum and Ottley have
been discharged.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1937-03-19
by Jobless Man
Spur Drive for Relief

DENVER, tCNA) Governor
Teller Ammons planned to declare
a state of emergency in the Dem
yer public welfare situation this
week as a result Of the killing of
three white relief workers and the
wounding Of a fourth by an ap-
plicant who had been refused re
lief.
Ammons said he would try to
borrow 100000 for relief. He
feared further trouble unless the
money was fortI coming.
The Frank Bailey, former prea-
cher, who did the shooting, was
removed from the city jail to the
county Jail to await trial. Bailey
had been given the familiar rum
around for several weeks before
privation and worry drove him to
his desperate act. In jail, Bailey
said, God told me to do it,"
FIFTY waiting relief clients saw
the shootings. James Tunnel,
white director Of the agency, was
one of the three persons killed.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1937-03-19

NEW YORK sC)-Jack Miley,
sports columnist of the Daily
News who saw more flaws in Joe
Louis following the bout with Bob
Pastor. than in Pastors tactic
Of running away. now says in his
column Of Friday that: "Artie
Donovan would have been per-
fectly Justified IN tossing Pastor
out Of the ring when he started
hack-pedi1ing on Louis. Bobble
1ast didn't choose to fight, and
/ can't say that / blame him. I'd
probably have done the same
thing myself. except that I could
Mt run as fast as Pastor. But
the fellow billed himself as q box
er. ne was paid nearly $4,000
for his services, and he should
have delivered" MiIeys editor,
Jimmy Powers. voted to give the
LouIs-Pastor bout decision to Pas
tor.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1937-03-19

NEWARK. N. j. lC)-Tho New
Jersey Guardian. 100 West Mar
ket Street. IN reporting the visit
of William Andrew Johnson. 70,
st The White House. called him an
4ex-slave ana son Of former Presi-
dent, Andrew Johnson" The pa
per said further; johnson was
born IN GreenviIle. Tenn. His
mothers name was Dolly. She
was never married but was a ser
want il the Presidents home. she
had three children BY her master.
Her son. William Andrew johnson
= the nephew Of samual johnson.
the father Of Beatrice N. johnson.
now Mrs. Beatrice N. Clark Of
Newark, whose father, samual
johnson, also was q slave of Pre-
sident johnson
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1937-03-19

NEW YORK fc)-A two-day
conference o. Negro problems ia
labor and Industry ATTENDED BY
more than a hundred educators
ana social workers, at 2o4 ".
i13egh street, which wa called by
the New York Urban League. end
ed with a luncheon Saturday. and
an address by Dr.. Eugene Klnckle
Jones. Or. Jones said the prob
lens Of the Negro are now ma
tional, declaring The difficulties
which face Negroes are directly
r>sated to those which the entire
nation rsust meet. And in pro-
portion as these difficulties are
overcome BY the general popula-
ton they win be surmounted by
Negroes provided they gain re-
cognitlon aa an integral part Of
the nation
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1937-03-19
Kid Chocolate Scores
CLYn RARRIE

NEW YORK, (cNA)- Kid caoc-
olate, former world featherweight
champion. scored another smash
ing victory in his fight back to the
championship when he outpunched
Jimmy Lancaster of Wilmington,
Del, in q bout at Ridgewood Grove.
Chocolate at 12s pounds, sent
deadly blows into his opponent at
1888 and forced a fast pace in the
early rounds.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1937-03-19
Six Governors Hit
Relief Wage Cuts,
Ask More WPA Jobs

New York. CcNA1 six
governors, meeting In the home
of Gov. Herbert H. Lehman of
New York, this week sent a tele-
gram to President Roosevelt pro-
testing against an order reducing
WPA rolls, and asking a con-
ference on relief at the White
House.
The governors were Benson of
Minnesota, Horner of Illinois, Hur-
ley Of Massachusetts, La Toilette
Of Wisconsin, Quinn Of Rhode
Island, and Governor Lehman.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1937-03-19
Negroes Aided
clio. Victories
In Steel, Auto

PITTSBURGH, (CNA)-Nagro
labor and civic leaders who met
here last honth from all parts OF
the country to support the steel
drive of the Committee for In
dustrial Organization aided great
ly in the tremendous victories
scored by the CLIO. in the steel
and auto industry, Ben Carea-
theirs, Negro Steel Workers Or
ganization Committee organizer
asserCed this week.
Commenting on its unpreceden-
ted action of the United States
Steel Corp, in scrapping its fifty
year anti-labor policy to sign a
contract with the C.I.O., Carea-
theirs declared that the union vic
tory would greatly benefit the
100000 odd Negro workers in steel
who now suffer discrimination In
wages and III the better paid jobs.
He pointed 10 the nncompromising
stand taken by The CLIO. and
its representatives on the question
of equal rights for Negroes. both
in the union and in the shop.
Already Negroes have benefited.
Careathers pointed out, by the
wage raises announced by several
units of United States steel and
other steel companies. The sud-
oen willingness of the steel barons
to recognize the union and to raise
wages is a result of the tremen-
dous success scored by the SWOC
in recruiting tens of thousands
of Negro and white steel workers
to the union, Careathers asserted,
Careathers declared that the
wage increases In several other in-
dustries which followed settlement
of the General Motors strike in
Detroit was proof that the mill
tant unionization activities Of the
CLIO. were benefitting all work.
ers. He sharply assailed as ''sabo-
tage of the worst sort" the order
sent out by Willlarn Green, presi-
dent of the American Federation
of Labor, for the expulsion of all
CLIO. affiliates from the A. f. Of
L.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1937-03-19
Now
Worlds Largest
In Negro Group

DURHAM, NC, (c)-Revealing
a cash income of S2,187, 474.32,
and assets of 81, ZIG, 500. SO, in the
thirty-eighth annual statement of
his company's condition for the
year 1886, President C.C.spauld-
ing, also president of the Mech
anics & Farmers Bank, shows by
figures that the North Carolina
Mutual Life Insurance Company
is now the worlds largest Negro
business enterprise.
Mr.. Spaulding, now So, having
been born at Clarkton, N. c., on
August ], 1874, and who barely
had his trainfare from Raleigh to
Durham when he first visited the
town many years ago, has devel-
oped with this company in a COM
paratively small town about
10000 Negroes to where he is
a nationally known and even in
ternationally known leader, as
we'll as his company to where it
is world famous for its successful
operation.
Income Grows
Giving a comparative statement
of the growth in income of his
company up to two million dollars,
Spaulding pointed out that the
rise since the first annual report
of 1899 which showed income of
1898. 95, has been as follows: 1904,
$26, 91O.28; 1909, $40, 100. 76; 1914,
$404, 766. 80; 1919, 81, 267 ,039.62;
1924, $1,000, 357.74.
In addition to his heavy bust
ness duties, Mr. Spaulding has
always found tinne to render edu-
cational and civic service, both
at home and throughout the ma
ton. Last year he was honored
with the LID. degree by Shaw
University. For a number of
years he has been chairman OF
the executive committee of the
National Negro Business League,
and a member of the board OF
the John F. Slater Fund, which
finances Negro education in rural
southern areas, and a member OF
the board of TIE National Urban
League.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1937-03-19
Mayor Breaks Ground
For Harlem School

NEW YORK, (CNA)-Mayor
LaGuardia was at the controls
of the steam shovel that turned
the first scoop of earth or the
site OF Public School No. So, West
127th Street near Lenox Avenue,
this week.
Appropriations for the school
were made as a result of the
historic March 10, 1885 outbreak
in Harlem against jim-crow con-
ditiorfs and school overcrowding.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1937-03-19

DETROIT (CNA)-Keeping its
pledge to Negro workers, the u
nited Automobile Workers Union
has included equal pay for equal
work. regardless OF age, sex, color
or locality in its demands on Cen
eral Motors.
Most Of the other demands made
BY the union have been conceded
BY General Motors. but the COM
pany Is resisting the unions de-
mand for q national minimum
hourly wage and for equal pay
for equal work without discrimin-
alton.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1937-03-19
Prof. v. r. Valentine

Principal Of the Manual Train
ing School at Bordentown n. J.,
who presided at the recent Indus
trial Conference held at his school
at which Dr.. Robert Weaver of the
Department Of the Interior. Wash
ington, d. c.. and other prominent
speakers appeared. DR. Weaver
advocated that Negroes Join labor
unions anyhow. whether they like
the idea Of unionized labor or not F"
More than zoe skilled and unskilled
workers attended the conference.
(calvin service).
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1937-03-19

ALBANY. (CNA) Governor
Lehman this week announced his
support Of appointment Of a spe-
cial commission to study cultural,
health and living conditions Of
urban Negroes with a view toward
improvement.
The Governor set fourth his
view IN reply to a letter from
James II. Hubert, executive direc-
tor of The New York Urban Lea
que, Assemblyman Herbert Brow
nell, New York Republican, has
introduced a bill for such a COM
mission.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-11-18
MINES CLOSE FOR WINTER

Florida has coast line of 3,75l miles.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-11-18
Ensy BllIs1aers Are Taboo
 At Mouie Gag Sessions

then most of the iaces present drop. CThis is business, boys9
 Fellows some discussion of ways and means of getting rid of the car, but they don't decide anything. They've got to get names for those mousetraps. Something cute, that will fit into song, and yet not give away the gag in the trap, specifics Stan.
 Out of the silence comes a sug- gestion. It's terrible. Another that brings smile to Laurel's face. still another that brings laugh.
 Anyone Can Play the Game
 Felix Adler makes pun, so ter rible that he and all the rest break out laughing. That's so lousy have to laugh at it myself he says.
 Everything comes out at a time like this,' explains Charlie Rug CTS. We don't hold anything back" 4
 It's true - they d Q n |. Adler makes more tries" than anybody He gives his gag and then laughs ha-ha The first ha is loud and strong. If nobody else laughs, the second ha is hollow and sour, dying in his throat. But trying oftener he gets, I think, better batting average in the end.
 Ut ghosts to show you contri- buted someone. Laughter break into the general gloom. Anything ghosts here--they've got me doing it now
 Just to experience first-hand how Adler feels when one of his gags freezes, I offer one, because under the rules anybody present can play. I write out my contribution, hand it to Adler He is not amused. He hands it to Laurel. who is not amused By that time. neither am I. I wanna go way back and sit down But gag man--his hide is thick. He can-and must-take 1t and come up with another gag that