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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-20
ERECT BIG GUNS
 NEAR GIBRALTAR

Gibraltar, July 20.-(UP)--A resi- dent of Gibraltar, arriving from Se- vile, asserted today that extensive Notifications are being constructed at Alcala De Los GazIles, 30 miles north of Gibraltar, seemingly in- tended for guns of very long range.
 These would be in addition to the Notifications which have been under construction along the coast near Gibraltar for months.
 In the last few days numerous Germans, alleged to be gun experts, have appeared at Gibraltar and reighboring towns.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-20

Mrs. W. Reynolds of Cook street accompanied by her daughters, Agnes and Jean, and her son Will liam, left Sunday for a motor trip to Niagara Falls and Canada.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-20

Miss Betty Atherton, daughter oi MT. and Mrs. Russell Atherton of Essex avenue, has had as her guest for the past week. Master Donald Schulz of Woodbridge, Conn.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-20

China now has e2,ooo miles of motor roads.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1937-01-29
Senators Probing
Flogging In Ala.

WASHINGTON (CNA) - The
special Senate committee investi-
eating civil liberties violations re-
opened its hearings this week with
an inquiry into the recent flogging
near Birmingham, Ala, of Joseph
S. Belders, white, former Univer-
sity of Alabama physics professor
A representative of the commit
tee spent several weeks in Birm-
ingham gathering evidence on the
flogging. The hearings here will
cover not only the abduction of
Belders but perhaps also influence
,es which operated to prevent the
guilty parties from being brought
to justice.
While Belders was Southern rep
resentative for the National Com
niittee for the Defense of Political
Prisoners, Senate agents asserted,
he was seized on a Birmingham
street, flung into an auto, and TAX
en- to the towns outskirts, where
he was brutally kicked and beaten.
A short time before his seizure,
Belders had accompanied Earl
Browder, Communist Presidential
candidate in the last election, on a
visit to the Scottsboro Boys in JEFF
ferson County Jail, Birmingham.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1937-01-29
Asks Abolition Of
Race Segregation

WASHINGTON ~ Recognizing
only one standard of public rights
duties, and privileges for all Am
erican citizens regardless of race,
creed, and color" the National
Conference on the Problems of the
Negro and Negro Youth, called
here last week by Mrs. Mary Nc
Leod Bethune, Director of the Di-
vision of Negro Affairs of the Ma
tional Administration, went on rec
ord as demanding that "the gov
eminent take the lead and set the
example by abolishing racial seq
regation in all of its departments,
divisions, and branches, and that
it refrain from lending its support
to the extension of segregation in
the United States"
Realizing that this objective
could not be accomplished over
night, the members of the confer
ence asked the assistance of the
Federal government in obtaining
for Negro citizens equality of OPP
portunity with all other citizens
Of the United States werever ra-
cial segregation exists ct present
under authority of the law.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1937-01-29

Apparently in good health, ex-
cept for a slight cold, Mr.. Evans
Miller was stricken with heart
attack from which he died early
Sunday morning Funeral ser
vices were held Wednesday after
noon at the Angelus Chapel with
Rev. Fred A. Hughes officiating,
assisted by Rev. ]. r. Harris and
Rev. T. M. Davis. The choirs of
the First and Grace Church rem
dered music.
Mr.. Miller was born November
Z, 1886, at Arkedelphia, Arkansas.
He received his education at the
Kansas State Normal, and after
wards taught school for three
years in his home town. He came
to Seattle in 1913, and was mar
ried to Miss Geneva Paschal in
April, 1914. One child, Tessie, was
born to this union. The deceased
was employed by the city for a
number of years.
Mr.. Miller, in his quiet way, liv-
ed very effective and exemplary
life in the community. With his
wife, he operated very prosper
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1937-01-29

NEW YORK fCNA) Just Sc
hours heofre they were slated to
take the last march to the electric
chair, three Harlem youths in the
death house in Sing Sing Prison at
ossining. n. y learned that their
sentences had been commuted to
life imprisonment
The three youths. hardly out Of
the marble pitching stage were to
have died on the night Of January
II as a result OF their conviction,
On a forced confession" of the
murder Of Norris Emsrt. white
picture frame store proprietor at
1887 Madison Avenue. In septem-
Der, 1885 They are Wentworth
Springer, Is, Robert Taliaferro,
-. and Lawrence Jackson, IS.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1937-01-29
Harlem Man Held
I'm Bathtub Murder
OF White Woman

NEW YORK (CNA)- Police
this week claimed to have an OPP
en- and shut" case against Major
Green, Harlem man arrested last
Tuesday evening in connection
with the bathtub murder of Mrs.
Mary Harriet Robinson Case, %
year-old white writer who was
found beaten and strangled to
death in her apartment at 1896
Eightieth Street. Jackson Heights.
While Green firmly protested
his innocence. police claimed that
finger prints found on the jamb
OF the kitchen door in the Case a.
partment We're his. They also i'd
entitled as his property several ar
ticles found at the bottom of an in
Generator shaft near the Case a
partlnent. These included a blood
staine.l hammer, pair of trous-
ers, also bloodstained, and a ring
Of keys. filed down to fit almost
any apartment in the building. Po-
lice also charged that at the time
of his arrest Green was wearing a
shirt that had been stolen from
Cases apartment several months
ago.
Mrs. Green was dazed at the
news of her husbands arrest. She
tearfully asserted that it was inn
possible that he could have any
connection with that horrible muir
der. He was always pretty good
fellow he sure was
Green's arrest also came as a
surprise and shock to the members
of the Bachelors Club and to var
ious other residents of the neigh
borhood, who knew Green Well and
liked him. In his spare time he
did odd jobs for anyone who need
ed him. was generally trusted, and
though Major is really his name,
most of those who knew him used
it more as an affectionate nick
name.
Although police identified the
blood-stained hammer discovered
in the lncinerator as one regularly
used by Green on his job, none of
the people for whom he did odd
jobs could remember ever seeing
it in his possession.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1937-01-29
William Randolph Hearst Orders
Editors To Omit Word ''EegrO"
From Crime Headlines OF Papers


NEW YORK response to a
protest from the National Associa-
ton for the! Advancement of Col
ored People. William Randolph
Hearst this week ordered his edi-
tors to refrain from using the
word Negro" in bold headlines.
The word viii be used only as
means Of Identification in smaller
headlines or in the body Of news
stories.
The N.A.A.c.P. protest grew out
of the murder of Mrs. Mary Har-
riet Case In the Jackson Heights
section Of New York city, Jenu-
airy Il. The Hearst papers ap-
pearing Tuesday morning, Janu-
airy u, carried a headline, Hunt
Negro in Murder of Bride Wal
ter White, N.A.A.C.P. secretary,
telegraphed Mr.. Hearst
Negro citizens deeply resent
racial labels In crane stories. es-
pecially since no racial desig-
nation is made of other GRIM
inals or suspects"
The N.A.A.C.P. telegram cited
the fact that in the Nancy litter
ton murder last spring in New
York the papers did not headline
the fact that her murderer was
an italian.
In his reply Mr.. Hearst wired
Mr.. White, You are perfectly
right and I am SO instructing edi-
tors Hearst papers this week
have not used the word in any
major headline. Practically all the
New York dailies observed the
same rule referring to the colored
prisoner in the murder case as
porter" or suspect" or tub kill
err"
Several months ago the MA.
C.P. sent a letter to leading daily
papers over the country asking
that racial labels in crime stories
be eliminated. and approximately
fifty papers replied that they were
following this rule.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1937-01-29

GUS grocery store and sub-post Of
flee station prior to their enter
ing their present business OF own
ing and operating the Dunbar Ho-
tel on 21st and e. Madison. Be
sides his success in business, Mr..
Miller was at one time very active
in fraternal circles He has been
member of the First A.M.E.
Church for a number of years.
The deceased is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Geneva Miller, one
daughter, Jessie Miller, who is now
teaching at Talledega College in
Alabama, and two brothers in Ar
kansas, and a host of friends. He
was buried in Mt. Pleasant Gene
terry.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1937-01-29
Natural Man" Original
Ted Browne PlNy, To Be.
Given at Mel BY w. p. A.

A man whose sole interest lay
in being himself, who had no de-
sire to become famous or rich, who
only wanted work and to be left
alone, forms the centrla figure of
the play, Natural Man." due to
show at the Metropolitan Theatre
in Seattle on January %, 20, and
30, as the latest production of the
WPA Federal Theatre Project.
Produced with a Negro cast,
Natural Man" is based on Negro
legends surrounding the black
Paul Bunyan of the South, John
Henry. Theodore Browne, talent
ed young acknowledgements. wrote
the script and all details of pro-
duction have been worked out by
the Negro unit, under the direc-
ton of Florence James. Music,
supplied by male chorus of II
Negroes, is also mainly original
with the workers, making the en-
tire show definitely Seattle pro-
duction.
An interesting technical develop
ment was used in building the
show, in that it win run in cine
matte fashion, with no stops for
scenes or intermissions. Scenery
changes will he effected with the
chorus carrying the mood of the
play from one transition to an
other
Only two white actors appear
in the show, Paul Travers and To-
by Leitch, both old-time Seattle
stock actors. Leitch will be par
ticularly remembered for his re-
cent part as Buzz" Windrip in
the Federal Theatre production of
1T Can't Happen Here"
Low price rates, which have al
ways marked the Federal Theatre
shows, will still be in vogue for
the showings of Natural Man"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1937-01-29

WASHINGTON (CNA) The
Social Security Board announced
last week that workers who have
not yet registered for participa-
ton in the Governments old age
pension system win be given fur
Their opportunity to do 50. The
deadline. originally fixed for mid
night, Dec. IS, has been extended
indefinitely, it was said.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1937-01-29

WASHINGTON fcNA1-Forty-
ope persons had million-dollar In
1omea in 1855. according to q pre-
llminafy report Tor that year IS
sued By the Internal Revenue
Board last week This compares
with thirty-three who had such in-
comes the previous year. The IN
come Of several was well above
the mlIIion-dolIar mark, ia one
case exceeding sz.0oo.00o.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1937-01-29

Of the country the like of which
had not been seen since Recon
struction
A check-up on the underlying
causes for political change among
colored people viii reveal such
depths as win shock the reaction
aries and give a warning to those
who dare ignore the desires of an
oppressed peopie for justice, OPP
portunity and freedom.
This triumphal political awaken
ing, which is IN the process of
transformation, Is a logical part of
the developments shaking and re-
shaping the political structure Of
the whole country. The Negro
people face the struggle to pre-
serve and extend democracy in
America with their heads up, just
fighting and ready to play their
part in building Peoples Front
IN the United States
Hearst Lundon Soundly Thrashed
The Republican Party, which
under Lincoln successfully fought
the slave-owning class, has now
become the most reactionary Jarty
IN American peliticsthe party Of
modern Industrial slavery and re-
action. It's reactionary character
was the principal cause of it's de-
feat in 1886. It was defeated by
a combination of decisive sections
of the population, by an aroused
popular sentiment which saw IN
the forces behind Landon man-eat-.
ing tigers ready to devour every
thing held dear by liberty-loving
people.
The Republican-Liherty League
group had shocking program.
They intended to assault workers
and toilers generally with a hatred
and vengeance never before seen
in the country, cut their wages
and throw them off relief. They
intended to prosecute the foreign
born and strengthen the incite-
ment of murderous jingoism, anti
Semitism, racial discrimination,
and lynchings in the spirit of the
Black Legion and the Ku Klux
Khan, and to throw the United
States in its foreign policy on the
side of fascist instigators of war
everywhere. This Hearst-Landon
program was defeated.
Life Against Death
The Communist Party at it's 9th
Convention held in June, 1886,
stated:
THE Negro people are be-
coming deeply conscious of the
sinister forces of reaction that
are arising in the country. We
see, most of ell the Hoovers,
the Al Smiths, the Talmadges.
and william Randolph Hearst
with the Liberty League behind
them, making energetic efforts
to foster the reactionary Repub-
lican program on the country.
How terrible would be the fate
of the Negroes if the Republican
Liberty Leagrers came to power.
The notorious Black Legion is a
child of Republican reaction"
The demands of the Negro peo-
pie are age-old and were set forth
in programmatic form as follows
l. Real emancipation of the Me-
gro people.
2. The right of colored men and
women to complete equality, equal
rights to jobs, equal pay for equal
work, the full right to organize,
vote, serve on juries and hold pub
lie office.
8. The establishment of heavy
penalties against mob murder,
floggers and kidnappers, with the
death penalty for lynchers.
4. The enforcement Of the 18th,
14th and 18th Amendments to the
Constitution Of the United States.
5. Full cooperation in building
a Farmer-Labor Party, a Peoples
Front to preserve and extend de-
Continued on Page Three
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1937-01-29

NEW YORK lC)--The Colonel
Memorial Foundation, 4 Neral
wills. president. 112 ". 1s5th
St. held rehabilitation dinner
On Tuesday evening
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1937-01-29

PHILADELPHIA (CNA) City
employees were informed by May
or S. Davis Wilson last week that
it was illegal for them to join
a union.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1937-01-29

NEW YORK lC) Robert F..
Leftridge. a former Philadelphia
banker, vas named Saturday as
chairman FOR Harlem for selling
1889 Worlds Fair Bonds.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1937-01-29

NEW YORK (c) A white drug
store at 142nd St & 9Th Ave. in
Harlem has a sign posted in the
WINDOW saying it Is fair to color
ed people. and naming three color
ed persons in its employ. A pick
citing campaign against Harlem
drug stores not employing colored
is in progress.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1937-01-29

ATLANTA, Ca. (C) Publica-
ton Of the TMorehouse Alumnus''
founded IN 1925 and out Of print
for several years, has been resum-
ed by Dean b R Brazeal.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1937-01-29

COLUMBUS. o.. Clarence
william Wright has just received
the NJ. s. degree IN Anatomy from
Ohio State University, the first
colored man to receive this degree
ia the history Of the institution.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1937-01-29

DALLAS, Tex. fc) A verdict
for $500 was awarded S. w.
Green, former head Of the knights
Pythias. against Sydney Pitt
man. publishers Of The Brother
hood Eyes" in the U. s. Court by
4 jury. The jury was out less
than fifteen minutes to decide
whether articles published had de-
famed the complainant.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1937-01-29

NEW YORK fC) 1T has been
revealed that Bill Robinson made
S29, 900 and stepin Fetchit $4,000
IN 1885.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1937-01-29

WASHINGTON (C)- A plea
that the Social Security act be a.
mended to include domestic and
agricultural workers so more coll
ored citizens win benefit from the
provisions was filed with Presi-
dent Roosevelt Friday by the Ma
tional Urban League
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1937-01-29

AMSTERDAM fCNA)-A prin-
ter in semarang. Dutch East In
dies, has been sentenced to ~
years for issuing book on work.
ing conditions in Java.
The Washington times., 1937-12-09
Taxes Force
Duke to Quit
Estate

LONDON, Dec. 9 U.N.s).-Im-
poverished by two inheritance
taxes since 1928, the Duke of
Richmond has decided to sell his
estate in Scotland for $4,000, 900.
Ten years ago the dukedom of
Richmond was one Of the wealth
lest in England, but an inherit
ance tax of about $5,000,000 in
1928 when the seventh Duke Of
Richmond died, followed by a
similar tax in 1885 at the death
Of the eighth Duke, has caused
the present Duke to attempt to
recoup some of his losses.
The estate, comprised Of a
castle, six villages, and 10000
acres of land, covers 140 square
miles in Morayshire and Banff-
shire in the Scottish Highlands. It
has been bought by the commits
sionerS Of crown lands, who look
upon the investment as a going
concern.
The Washington times., 1937-12-09
Ne1Us Tips!

The symbol (PALJ beside
your name or "pen name" in.
UiteS you to call at this desk
for tlDo passes to LoeD's Pal.
ace TheGter, noD showing
Jeanette Macdonald in "The
Firetly." Those tabled
(CAP) are entitled to ttOo
free dUcGtS for the Capitol,
showing William PotDeu and
MyrnG 10y in Double Wed.
ding" and those NTH (COLJ
mag call for ttDo Columbia
tickets for ''NGUy Blue and
Gold"
Tickets are GtDGrded for
best "netUS tips" about Coz.
ernment conditions, Which
may be mailed or phoned
and should carry q MON de
plume" or "pen name" II of
the "tonchy" UGriety, irritGt-
ing to Officials or stooges.
General netUS about "toIkS in
the office" may also min, and
often the tickets are GtDGTded
Just as q Oood-tDiH gesture
from The Times.
The Washington times., 1937-12-09
CP0 Legion Gathering

Motion pictures Of the dedica-
ton Of American War Memorial at
Bellicourt, France, will be shown
Monday Q3th) in Harding Hall,
Government Printing Office, fol.
lowing regular meeting Of Post
No. 80, American Legion, in the
Green Room J. Walter Lam.
beth, chairman Of the Joint Com.
mittee on Printing and member
Of Battle Monuments Commission,
will tell Of the commissions tour
through Europe during which he
officiated ct the Bellicourt dedica.
ton.
The Washington times., 1937-12-09

Social Security Boards Potomac
Park Apartment staff expects to
wax hefty in the future +. UFWA
group recently talked with Capt.
F. w. Hoover, Welfare and Recrea.
ton Association, about slow serv.
ice and lack Of food variety !.
Hoover answered by letter that he
would be glad to receive specific
recommendations which you feel
would be good business moves on
the part Of the cafeteria and would
better satisfy the patrons"
The Washington times., 1937-12-09

employees today
q nd tomorrow
at the Arcade
Ball r 90 m, is
blue-eyed Nor
ma Mitchell
She's one of
four girls in the
orchestra, the
others bein g
Becky Shaeffer
and Julia Whit
tington, violin
lists, and Phyllis
Curry, cellist -.
Miss Mitchell
halls from Buf-
The Washington times., 1937-12-09

Of permanent status to five adju-
dicators Of your board upon con.
dition that they sign a letter
agreeing to resign voluntarily at
the end Of three months.
This is a matter which is not
properly within the Jurisdiction
Of this commission, and we rec
ognize that there Is no ground for
any action in the matter by us.
We, therefore, do not feel that we
should make any request to your
board in this matter. At the same
time, we believe it entirely proper
to express to you our belief that
it would be q dangerous prece-
dent for any appointing officer Of
the Government to establish q
practice of appointing employees
pursuant to the civil service law
upon any condition not contem.
plated in the act.
By direction Of the Commission: {:
Very respectfully,
HARRY B. MITCHELL.
Gains and Losses
Bright Note: During October
gains in Washington personnel
were shown by Railroad Retire
ment Board, 274, General Account.
ing Office, 1S1, and Social Secur.
ity, 81. Sad note: Almost every
other agency reduced.
The Washington times., 1937-12-09

enthusiasts on
the Columbia
Alleys And
seldom pops up
with a slim
score j.. I. To
day: Mississippi
State folk hold
reception and
ball, Wardman
Park Continen,
tai Room . .
Detective school
in N e W York
has b e e n
SOU elc he'd by
Federal Trade
The Washington times., 1937-12-09
A Rip-SnOrter

Wonder what D. c. Department,
AFGE, thinks of the rip-Snorting
defense Of the Civil Liberties
Union given last night by Secre.
tary Ickes, entitled Nations in
NightShirtS"? Declaring
changing times brings new dan.
gers, Ickes said Civil Liberties
Union lis the devoted servant of
freedom, a brave volunteer in the
finest cause a citizen can serve
Clyde Seavey, Federal Power
Commissioner, fills vacant mem.
berShip in the Central Statistical
Board, Chairman Stuart A. Rice
has announced.
The Washington times., 1937-12-09
Vets' "'Preference''

Two veterans applied for jobs as
attendants at Mt. Alto recently.
One, q former sergeant Of the
Army Medical Corps, was turned
down because he had had such
excellent experience ce that he
would not be satisfied in an at
tendar1ts' job. The second was
turned down because he had no ex-
perience. The next day q man
who had driven a truck all his life
got the Job,
The Washington times., 1937-12-09
Bargain Agency
Named for Firm

(I.N.S.0-The National Labor
Relations Board, with Edwin s.
Smith dissenting, today certified
the Pattern Makers Association Of
New York and vicinity as the ex-
elusive bargaining representative
Of the wood-pattern makers and
apprentices employed by Worth
ington Pump and Machinery Cor
pOratio1. Harrison, N. j.
The Washington times., 1937-12-09
Paper for Linen

Employees Of GPO miss the
clean linen towels which they used
to receive each morning in ex-
change for their dirty ones Of the
previous day This practice
was discontinued some time ago
and replaced with paper towel
service as a temporary" measure
A great many now feel that
this change may turn out to be
permanent but hope not.
The Washington times., 1937-12-09
A Bit Antique

A Bit Antique
A thigh bone 10000, 600 years
old and document signed by VIII
liam Penn will be among objects
to be exhibited at Civil Service
Commission December 21-22-23 as
the agency holds its first annual
art and hobby" exhibition. The
bone is that Of a dinosaur, dug UP
In Wyoming by an employe, and
its age is authenticated by the
Smithsonian. Many m ploy es
are reported as artistically
talented, and numerous fine paint
ings and drawings are anticipated
as entries.