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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-02-26
Crispus Attacks
Member Drive
Begins March l

The Annual Membership Drive
of the Crispus Attacks Home As
ISOLATION will be launched on Mon
day, March 1, and will extend to
June Is. The campaign will be con-
Quoted by Mrs. Monjoy Jones,
chairman and Huron Shelton; Jr.,
Campaign Secretary.
The annual quota is decided by
the st. Paul Community Chest.
The 1896 quota was subscribed to
126 per cent; the workers, through
diligent, perseyering effort, ac-
complished a rating hitherto un-
known. 1t is the. intention of the
workers to even surpass the 1886
drive. All former members are ex-
pected to renew memberships and
at least one hundred new members
are expected to join the Associa-
ton.
The president, John Lawrence,
Jr., asked that civic or social clubs,
societies or lodges, as well as in
diyiduals, respond to the appeal to
put the 1887 drive "over the top"
There are three classes of mem
bers in the Association.
1. Annual members or persons
who pay membership fee of one
dollar annually.
2. Contributing members who
contribute five dollars or more at
periods of not more than three
years apart.
8. Affiliated members or or
CARNATIONS that pay five dollars
or more annually. Such organiza-
lions are entitled to three repre-
sentatives in the Home Associa-
ton.
A spirit of optimism was mani
tested, by the officers and members
at the. last meeting in laying the
drive plans A ,one-dollar member
ship was received from Mrs. Mabel
Lee and a fiye-dollar membership
from the Cameo Social Club.
After the regular business Miss
Beneta. Edwards. Program Chair
man, gave very fine review of the
article "My Great, Wide, Beauti-
full World" by Juamta Harrison.
Miss Edwards is arranging inter
esting programs to be presented at
future meetings of the Association.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-02-26
Rally To Aid .......
Flood uferers
b Sunday atSp. m.

Sunday February g. 300 P. NJ,
the st. Peter A. M. E. Church and
the pastor, the Rev. Carlyle F..
Stewart, will be hest. to the Min
neapolis Emergency Relief Club at
a rally to aid flood victims.
The Rev. H, M. .Marbly, pastor
of Camphor M. E. Church, St. Paul,
who will be the principal speaker
on the afternoons program, has
chosen for his subject "The Cry of
the .Perishing," -t .--..-
Miss w. Gertrude Brown, chair
man of the clubs Advisory Board,
win speak on Cooperation"
The clubs president, Mrs. M.
Burrill, will give a summary of
the clubs activities from the. time
of organizing up to the present.
There will be music and singing
by the St. Peter Choir and the
male quartette from the Zion Bap-
fist Church. .
With such an interesting pro-
gram in store for those who will
come to this rally, and with such
an opportunity for them to get ac-
curate information concerning the
needs of those in the floor area and
what has been done so far to re-
heve their distress, we feel certain
that all those who possibly can will
respond to the clubs invitation to
be present at this rally, The in
vitation is extended to everyone in
the Twin Cities.
Those who need help and those
who want to give help are counting
on YOU.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-02-26
White Folks
Find Suzy-Q
Hard To Master
White Society Writer Tells How
Harlem Teaches Park Avenue
How To truck" and "Suzy-Q"

NEW YORK-(Calvin Service)
Many thought it was just a
song when "Truckin' came out,
telling how fashionable Park Ave-
nue. came up to Harlem to learn
new steps. Now it is published
right in the society columns of the
New York Daily News by Nancy
Randolph, for all the world to see.
Under the headline: castor Heir
ess Tolls On Truckin' Lessons, 2
the article last Wednesday reads:
"Maybe the present heat wave
should be held accountable, but
at all odds - Nine. Raimund Won
Hofmannstahl, the former Alice
Muriel A. lor, and Cecil Beaton
have hired themselves a Harlem
dance instructor and are learning
to truck.
"At the moment they are abb
sorbed in the intricacies of the
Suzy-Q, which is neither a Mon
tana gold mine nor Wyoming
cattle ranch, as the name implies,
but a branch of truclcin'. One of
the outstanding Suzy-Q artistes of
the Savoy Ballroom, Lenox Ave.
and 40 St., comes down to Park
Ave. every other day to tutor the
Astor heiress and the British pho
tographer extraordinary to the
Four Hundred.
Suzy-Q Hard on NOrdics
"The Suzy-Q doesn't come easy
for the Nordic blonde races of this
world. It's rhythms are essentially
patterned for Harlem feet. How
ever, Nine. Won Hofmannstahl and
the indefatigable Cecil are getting
along nicely and are completely
crooked on the matter.
Remnants of the Old Guard,
who can still remember Nine. Won
Hofmannstahls grandmother, Mrs.
William Astor, the czarina of New
York society in the 'Nineties,
doubtless are completely crooked
at the idea of an Astor in the
throes of truckin' lessonsl"
"MR. FATS" WALLER MEN.
TONED IN SPICY SUIT
New York (C)-The name of
"Mr. Fats" Waller was. mentioned
in the half million dollar breach of
promise suit of Miss Peggy Garcia,
Virginia blonde, against Dave Rub
inoff, celebrated violinist, in Su-
preme Court before Justice Cotille
last week. Miss Garcia blandly
admitted she didn't have any idea
Dave had any really serious affairs
with other women until one night
as she entered a night club with
the defendant, "Mr. Fats" impro-
vised a tune saying that this was
the fourth blonde Dave had been
seen with that week. 1t was also
brought out that Miss Garcia at
one time worked at the Cotton Club
when it was located in Harlem
and that Dave came up to see her
sometimes.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-02-26
Negro Papers
Labor Support
Court Reform

NEW YORK-Labor spokesman
and several of the most influential
Negro newspapers in the country
rallied this week to the support of
President Roosevelt's plans to re-
form the United States Supreme
Court as Liberty Leaguers and
other reactionaries opened a bar
rage of hysterical attacks on the
Presidents proposals to add new
blood to the present aggregation
of nine doddering old men.
The st. Louis Argus hailed the
Presidents plan as ga progressive
move" and pointed out that "the
Court as now constituted has little
respect for the rights of Negroes
as citizens" The paper recalled
that the Court has with one or two
exceptions consistently lodged the
question of the fundamental rights
of Negroes in it's decisions, includ-
ing the question of jim-crowism on
public carriers in the South. "Most
assuredly," the paper concludes,
1--WE cannot think, we cannot con-
template, that the Negroes case,
so far as citizens rights are con-
cerned, can possibly be in worse
hands than in the past"
The powerful Baltimore Afro
American took caustic dig at the
retention of their posts by the Su-
preme Court justices "after they
have reached doddering old age or
second childhood" 1t predicted
"There'll be squawking a-plenty,
but F. D. will win his point, be-
cause he is right"
In the same issue of the Afro
American, William N. Jones, in his
weekly column, indicted the Court
as the force that has most effect
lively blocked the Negroes path to
full citizenship rights. Mr.. Jones
predicted that Except for those
whose political alignments are such
that they cannot do otherwise, COL
ored America will fall into the fight
behind the President in solid pha-
lanx."
The Presidents plan was backed
by the craft union faction in the
American Federation of Labor as
well as by the progressive indus
trial unions affiliated with the Com
mittee for Industrial Organization,
headed by John L. Lewis. The New
York State American Labor Party
also came out in support of the
President.
Among the country's lawyers, the
issue cut a sharp cleavage between
reactionaries and progressives,
with the newly organized National
Lawyers Guild approving the re-
form move, while Bar Association
leaders dutifully kept step with
their corporation clients in opposi-
ton to any reform that would
loosen the grip of Big Business on
the nations highest tribunal.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-02-26
FATHER OF MRS. COMBS DIES

MEMPHIS, Tennessee - DR.. E.
w. Moseley of, Memphis, Tenn,
died there at the Collins Chapel
hospital, Saturday, February 20!
Funeral services were held We'd
nesday afternoon, February %, at
the Lane Tabernacle at Jackson
Tenn.
DIR. Moseley was the father of
Mrs. Harold C. Combs of Mime
apolis. Owing to the critical illness
of her husband, Mrs. Combs was
unable to be with her father in
his last hours.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-02-26
Rev. Bolts Bans
Sale of Paper
AT Zion Church

Rev. H. W. Bolts, pastor Zion
Baptist Church, 18th and Lyndale
Ave. N, Minneapolis, ordered sale
of the Minneapolis Spokesman
stopped at the church according
to the young woman who had
charge of sale of the paper at. the
church.
The Zion Usher board formerly
sold the Spokesman at Zion earn
ing about $4,000 for it's treasury in
this manner.
The only excuse Rev. Bolts gave
foss his order in answer to the
young lady's query was, "Did you
see this weeks paper?" evidently
referring, to the Spokesman pub
isher's statement in the last weeks
edition in which. he outlined the
papers attitude toward the Mime
apolis ministry's refusal to CO.
operate with the. paper. It is the
consensus of opinion that. there was
something in last weeks paper
that Rev. Bolts didn't want his
members to see.
Requests for last weeks papers
were so great that. the Feb. 10 is
sue of the Spokesman, according
to the circulation department, was
completely sold out. ID
Article Reprinted ..
Due to the insistent demand of
church members the, article is re-
printed in the current issue.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-02-26
REV. CLANCY TO SPEAK

Rev. c. F. Clancy of Milwaukee.
former Minneapolis pastor, will
address a series of meetings be-
ginning Sunday at the Church of
God In Christ, 92S 18th Ave. S.,
Feb. q, 1887. Rev. R. Thompson
is pastor of this church.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-02-26

ALFRED EDGAR SMITH, WPA
Assistant, who this week is touring
the food area of the Ohio and Mis-
sissippi Valleys, to gather infOr-
nation for Washington work-relief
officials on how hard colOred per-
sons were hit by the food, and how
they are sharing in the rehabilita-
ton efforts of the WPA and other
agencies. Starting at Memphis, Mr..
Smith will work nOrthward through
Louisville, Cairo and way points, to
Cincinnati.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-02-26
Article Reprinted

ArLIcIe Reprlnted -" I
Due to the insistent demand of
church members the, article is re-
printed in the current issue.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-02-26
Judges Illness
POstp0nes Trial
OF Joe Taylor

The trial of Joe Taylor, Mime
apolis, for second degree murder
growing out of the fatal shooting
of Harry Peterson, white, on jan
uary %, was halted temporarily
Tuesday by the illness of Judge
w. w. Bardwell of the Hennepin
county district court.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-02-26
FLA s H !

NEW YORK--CC)--It is report
ed that the publication of an edi-
tOrial by the Richmond Tines Dis
patch indOrsing the Wagner anti
lynehing bill has caused a wave of
sentiment to sweep over the South
favorable to anti-lynching legisla-
tiOn.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-02-26
GETS 80 DAYS IN WORKS

John Thurston, 558 St. Anthony
Ave-, st. Paul, was given 80 days
in the workhouse when found gull
ty. on an assault and battery
charge. 500.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1937-05-20
.OCOnOr Rules On
Bill Prohibiting
Charges By Banks
Acknowledgement Says No Fee
Should Be Collected For
Cashing Checks

The bill prohibiting banks from
making a service charge in cashing
checks was upheld as constitutions!
and valid, in an opinion rendered this
week by Herbert R. O'Conor, Attor-
ney General of Maryland.
Passed by the Regular Session of
the Legislature, the bill was referred
to the Attorney General by Governor
Harry w. Nice, for a ruling to guide
him in approving or vetoing the
measure. The bill applies only to Ale
gany County and had been attacked
by interested persons on the grounds
that it forced banks to cash checks
for no compensation, and that it dis
eliminated against State banks and in
favor of national banks.
These objections were carefully
considered in the opinion to the Gov
ernor. But Mr.. O'Conor held: at is
clear that it is within the police pow
er of the State to throw protection
around wage payments" The opinion
concluded with this expression:
"While the question of the validity
of the proposed bill is not free from
doubt, / feel that you would be justi-
fed in signing the bill, if you would
otherwise sign the bill except for the
objections to its validity, and thus
permit the question of it's validity to
be presented to the court for determ-
nation"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1937-05-20
Commissioners Are
Slated To Start
Work On Budget
Authority Voted To Sell Tax
Certificates-Gas Tax
Studied

Consideration of the Montgomery
County budget for the fiscal year
beginning June l will be started by
the board of county commissioners
today.
The study will be devoted largely
to proposed departmental budgets.
The actual budget probably will not
take shape for several weeks.
The commissioners also will act
on proposal of Commissioner Rich
ard H. Lansdale that the attorney
general of Maryland be asked to
give an opinion concerning the au-
thority of the board to use part of
the gasoline tax funds allocated to
the county for retirement of road
bonds.
Two rezoning applications were
approved. They provide for chang
ing from residential "a" to COM
mercial sd" of land at the southeast
corner of Georgia Avenue and James
street in Silver Spring and from
residential "a" to residential &c"
of tract of land on Blair road in
Takoma Park adjacent to the north
Takoma railroad overpass.
Authority was voted to the clerk
to sell $4,000 of tax sale certifi-
Gates and $1,000 of front-1foot ben
eft assessment certificates to the
Montgomery County National Bank
in Rockville at 3A per cent.
The commissioners approved con-
struction of curbs and cutters on
Garfield street in Woodside, APP
poitned Marshall Heffner, of Dick
erson, as a truck driver for the
county dispensary at $110 per month
and declared Monday, May 81, a
holiday.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1937-05-20
Telephone Co. Employees
Win Service Emblems

w. IS. Beall, Jr., an employee in
the Kensington office of the Chesa-
paeke and Potomac Telephone Com
pany, has just been awarded two
star emblem in recognition of ten
years of service, and Esther R.
Miller an employee in the Rockville
office received two-star emblem in
recognition of ten years of service,
according to a statement made by
H. C. Ransom, manager of the COM
pany.
A total of Al employees have been
awarded emblems in Maryland for
the month of May. The aggregate
service of these employees is 300
years.
Two employees in the state re-
ceived emblems denoting 35 years Of
service; two received sapphire en-
blems for 80 years service; 6 re-
ceived ruby emblems for rs years
service; 10 four-star ernblems for
20 years service; IL three-star en-
blems for Is years service; Ii two
star emblems for ten years service;
and 2 one-star emblems for five
years. service.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1937-05-20
Tour Of Old Houses
In Sandy Spring Planned

There will be a tour of old houses
in Sandy Spring on Monday, May "a,
from II o'clock A. M. to six o'clock
F. M. Bowling Green" the residence
of Mrs. French Green and Miss Mary
Brook; Clifton" the residence of Mr..
and Mrs. John Thomas; Cherry
Grove" the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Howard Gill; and Norwood. the resi-
dence of Mr.. and Mrs. Milton Ban
croft, all dated from the middle of
the 18th century, while "The Cedars,"
the residence of the Misses Hutton;
"Alloway," the residence of the
Misses Miller; "Edgewood," the resi-
dence of the Misses Stabler, and ''The
Porches," the residence of Mr.. and
Mrs. William Hurd Hill, are places of
beauty and interest. The Friends
Meeting House, rebuilt in 1917, will
also be open.
A silver offering will be given at
each place for the benefit of the Sher-
wood School library.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1937-05-20
AS WE SEE TT
By MoNTCo

MARYLAND WILL SEEK to win
on award offered annually by the
Steel Institute. The State Roads Com
mission dominates the grade crossing
elimination bridge at Rockville. Well,
maybe our ideas of art are all wrong.
Rut we simply cannot envision this
proiect, at least as it looks now, as
any subject worthy Of Nobel prize
for architecture. What we want is
decent approaches to this bridge.
1T APPEARS THAT President
Roosevelt still has luck on his side.
With his Court Plan doomed to de-
feat, here comes resignation and
rumors of others. There is more than
one way to kill a cat.
WHY ALL THIS FUSS between
Baltimore City and Annapolis? The
same old story of the Democrats not
agreeing among themselves? Why in
the name of commonsense should
there not be an office building at
Annapolis, the capitol of Maryland?
1t seems that everything goes wrong
since Albert C. Richie left the helm
Of State. 1t reminds US of when we
use to play as children and yell "cry-
baby, cry-baby," when the other side
didn't want to play.
JUST LET THE BOYS play along
like they are doing at present and
watch Republican slip into the State
House again. The only time they get
in is when they slip in because of
Democratic fumbles. 1t is enough to
disgust the shades of Smith, Rasin,
Kelly and others who hated petty
intra-party quarrels. If they want to
fight why don't they pick a worth
while issue?
GASOLINE TAXES INCREASE
and the revenue, if expended in the
proper places, should aid our road
program if there is no diversion of
funds which are needed to bring our
highways up-to-date. During January,
February and March of this year the
State tax on actual sales of gasoline
in Maryland totaled $2,149,657, as
compared to $1,811,754 in the same
months of 1886. Last year new license
tags were required on all motor We
hlcles on New Years Day. This year
they had to be attached to the cars
on April /.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1937-05-20
Rep. And Mrs. John TOlan
Entertain At Party

Representative and Mrs. John
H. Tolan of California, who are
sepnding the summer at Grove Hill,
gave one of the most unique parties
of the season on Sunday afternoon
when they had the California dele
cation from Congress, some other
friends from the official set" with
few from Sandy Spring to a
"Gone With the Wind" party.
Pre1Civil war costumes and a close
following of the characters in the
book made most amusing affair,
the guests being met at the gate by
Mr.. Tolan on horse back, represent
ing Gerald O'Hara.
Refreshments were served on the
lovely lawn of Grove Hill, typical
Southern Barbecue as per book being
enacted.
The Tolans were assisted by their
son and daughter-in-law, Mr.. and
Mrs. John H. Tolan, Jr., of Wash
ington, Miss Adrienne Tolan, their
daughter and their sons, with their
house guests, Mr.. and Mrs. Morris
Hovey of Berkely, Cal.
An amusing feature Of the after
noon was the arrival by old wagon
of the few local guests. Mrs. Doug
las Whitlock dressed as Prissy lead
ig the famous COW, which incident
ally was Mr.. Whitlock.
A small organ was on the lawn,
and Mrs. Tolan who was Mrs.
O'Hara, of the book, played for the
Virginia Reel, danced under the
spreading trees Of Grove Hill, which,
with croquet swings and riding, were
the amusements furnished the guests
in aye Ode Style.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1937-05-20
Social Security
Board Urges All
Accounts Filed
Some Eligible Workers Have
Not Yet Turned In Cards,
1t Is Reported

The Social Security Board TODAY
urged all eligible workers who have
not yet applied for social, security ac-
count numbers to do so promptly to
expedite the setting up by June 80 Of
wage records for their participation
IN the federal old-age benefits pro-
gram under the Social Security Act.
For more than months the Posi-
once Department has cooperated in
this program of obtaining application
Tor social security account numbers
from workers in the fields OF COM
merce and industry, Mr.. Ralph B.
Harris, in charge of the Social secur-
lty Board field Office at Room GOO
Bond Building, 18th and New York
avenue Northwest, in Washington.
u. O, said. The Departments ma
cninery now is operating SO smoothly
throughout the country thew on the
average only two days elapse from
the time a worker files his applica.
tion until he receives his account
number, Mr.. Harris pointed out He
furthere emphasized that in Washing
ton account cards are delivered at onca
70 those who apply at the city Post
omce IN person, and applications by
mall are filed the day they are re-
ceived.
After June 80, the Post Office De-
partment will, under present plans,
be assisted in receiving applications
for social security account numbers
by the Social Security Board field
office in Washington and Others To-
Gated in strategic centers throughout
the country. More than 100 such
offices are open now and others are To
be opened shortly.
"Obtaining a social security ac-
count number is an important step in
providing protection against the haz-
ards of old age for any wage Garner
who might at future time be en-
titled to Federal benefits" Leroy
Hodges, Director of the Federal Old
Age Benefits Bureau of the Board.
said in statement given Mr.. Harris.
Workers in covered employments
who have not applied for account
numbers" Mr.. Hodges warned, may
be creating difficulties in determining
the proper amount of old-age benefits
to which they will be entitled. EN-
ployers will make periodic reports to
the Bureau of Internal Revenue of
wages paid to each of their employ
ees. Account numbers assigned will
appear on these returns. A record of
the wages so reported will be kept by
the Board for use whenever claim,
based on the employees wages, is
filed.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1937-05-20
Commencement Dates Are
Named By School Board

The following dates have been set
for the high school commencements
in this county. Those who will repre-
sent the board are also selected:
Monday, June 18th: - Poolesville
High School, Mrs. Julius Hall; Rich
ard Montgomery High School, DR.
Edwin W. Broome; Damascus High
School, Julius P. Stadler; Montgom-
cry Blair High School, DR.. E. F.
Holman.
Tuesday, June 18th: - Sherwood
High School, Mrs. Daniel C. Walser;
Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School
Elmer E. Boyner; Gaithersburg High
School, Thomas C. Darby and Lincoln
High School (colored) DR.. Edwin w.
Broome.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1937-05-20
VIM. Elkins, John Seybold
Win HOnOrs At School

John Seybold, a student at the
Richard Montgomery High School,
Rockville, has been awarded the
State prize for Maryland in this
years essay contest conducted by
the Gorgas Memorial Institute of
tropical and Preventive Medicine,
washington, according to an an
nouncement received by DR.. R. H.
Niiey, Director of the State Depart
ment OF Health, from Admiral Cary
|. Grayson, Chairman of the Board
VI Directors of the Institute. Forty
seven states and the District of Co
iulSola were represented in the
awards. Each of the State prize
winners receives a cash pride of
$1,000.
William Elkins of the Richard
montgomery High School, Rockville,
aeieated five boys for the scholarship
!" the General College of North
Daroilna University at Chapel Hill.
IlAins is an honor student and
,eaoer in many activities at the
montgomery High School, being on
'.ie STATS of the school paper, maya
siie and yearbook and active in
ueoa0lng, dramatic, leadership and
citizenship club.