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The Arizona gleam., 1937-08-27
Missouri A. M. e.
Conference Holds
9th Annual Session

KANSAS CITY, Aug. 81
(A.N.P.) With Bishop Noah w.
Williams presiding, the 9th ann
ual session of the Southwest Miss
ouri Conference Branch of the A.
ME. church and the Woman's
Mite Missionary Society was held
last Thursday and Friday at Ward
Chapel church, Of which Rev. c.
A. Williams is the pastor. Other
convention officials included pre-
siding Eldere F. D. L. Mcdonald
and I. S. Wilson and Mrs. Helen
A. Williams and Mrs. Ida Mae
Moten.
The Arizona gleam., 1937-08-27

social hour was enjoyed. Rev.
Favors is very much interested In
the spiritual advancement Of the
younger as well as the older citi-
zens and has had special training
in Vacation Bible School and other
religious work and is willing to
make his contribution toward the
building up Of Phoenix and Ariz-
ona. Rev Favors stated that he
had the help Of very efficient
staff of teachers and helpers and
splendid cooperation from the
First Colored Baptist Church as
well as the Shiloh Baptist Church
spelled the greatest results in any
like endeavor a tested to by many
old timers in religious work here.
The success of the Bible School In
West Phoenix has given the lead
ers greater interest in a plan
for United City Wide Bible insti-
tute for next summer. The preach
ing institute conducted each night
during the period that the Bible
School was held was also a success
the Shiloh Church at present has
no pastor.
The Arizona gleam., 1937-08-27
Vcco+ion Billie School
inspires PIan For
United Institute

The Vacation Bible School that
has been conducted at Shiloh Bap-
tist Church 9th ave and Buckeye
Road for two weeks by Rev. Chas.
Favors, pastor of the First Col
ored Baptist Church closed Friday
evening August 9th at o'clock
with a program. The interest in
this vacation Bible School has in
creased daily, the first day en-
rollment was 25 and each day the
enrolment increased and on the
seventh day the enrolment was
168. Sunday 8 a. M August 22nd
large Vacation Bible School
parade consisting of almost so
cars and trucks with two motor
cycle officers leading the process
ion covered the West and East
side. Tuesday evening August oath
the Bible School rendered a very
good program on the spacious and
beautiful lawn of the Dunbar
School, 9th ave. and Grant st.
A crowd estimated at between
800 and 400 were present. After
the program delicious refresh
ments consisting of cake and
punch was served, a delightful
The Arizona gleam., 1937-08-27
Blind Man Prays: Regdins
Sight; Citizens Flock TO
View Modern Miracle

JAMESTOWN, Ala, Aug. =
(ANP) A steady stream of curious
people, both white and colored, has
flocked to the little ramshackle
edifice of the Church of God in
Christ here, since Monday to view
the site of "a modern miracle, y
through which, by the medium of
prayer, blind Major Barron, sight
less since birth, was made to see.
Barron is well known in West
Annistown where for years he has
made bare existance by begging.
Late Monday, with Rev. S. D.
Brown, pastor Of the church and
H. c. Kidd member, the Major
went to the church, to do--as he
described it-"some heavy prayin'.'
Suddenly, those in the church all
agree, the miracle happened. De-
clares Major Barron: 1--WE had an
inspiration, and suddenly the Lord
lifted the black from my eyes.
All Of a sudden I could see and ]
The Arizona gleam., 1937-08-27

jumped up in the air and praised
the Lord"
Barron, according to witnesses,
ran from the church, shouting
"Hallelujah! Praise God, I can
see." He later ran into a policeman
who was about to arrest him as
drunk, but when he heard his re-
markable story the officer per-
mitted him to continue his wild
celebration. Barron is 81 years old.
The Arizona gleam., 1937-08-27
SOUTHERN AID
SOCIETY PASSES
44tE1 MILESTONE

RICHMOND, Va.,. Aug. 27-
(ANP) Established in 1888, the
Southern Aid Society of Virginia,
Inc: has just released it's 44th
annual statement showing gross
assets of ss1o.Ss6.11; capital,
paid-up. s15o,ooo surplus, s221,-
907.56 and total claims paid to
policyholders to Dec. 81, 1896, ST.
500, 89O.70. James T. Carter is
president of the company.
The Arizona gleam., 1937-08-27

ward and precinct. Mr.. Hamilton
expressed the view that the women
of the party should have as much
say in it's affairs as the men.
They should have and they will
have" he said, because their sin
cere crusading interest has earned
it for them"
The Arizona gleam., 1937-08-27
Mrs. Booze Attends
Republican Pow-Wow

WASHINGTON, Aug. II -
CAMP Mrs. Mary c. Booze Of
Mound Bayou, Miss, Republican
national committeewoman for
that state was one of the women
leaders from Is states and the
District of Columbia who met here
Last week in conference with John
Hamilton national chairman. Plans
were worked out at the meeting
to begin organization throughout
the country in every state, county,
The Arizona gleam., 1937-08-27

Every man speaks well Of his
heart, but no one dares speak well
of his mind.
The Arizona gleam., 1937-08-27
MAYOR NAMES "A. MAN
ON CONSTITUTION DAY
ANNIVERSARY GROUP

and April 80, 1889, anniversary OF
the Inauguration of George Wash
ington as the country's first presi-
dent.
DR.. Hudson is former president
of the local branch Of the N.A.A.-
C.P. He has been active in politics
here since his arrival from Louis
lana, several years ago, and man
aged the mayors campaigns In
the Negro belt, during his candi-
dacy for election to the city coun-
Gil. county board of supervisors
and in his present office of mayor.
The Arizona gleam., 1937-08-27

Patience is the flower Of success
--stone by stone a mountain can.
be moved.
Who can deny that one is rich.
Who is contented.
Evening star., 1937-04-30

"and tell some Of our weakened
Congressmen and Senators how you
stand on the ISSUE
Il say shame on this administra-
ton" he added.
They don't want an infusion Of
new blood. They want a TRANSMISSION
Of blood that matches their own"
But, said keenan,:
Every one agrees nobody can re-
spect the court today and that unless
we can do something within COM
paratively short time to put the court
on an even keel again-make It
nearer one general attitude OF mind
the court never will regain the re-
spect of this generation"
Earlier an official attending the
council meetings said private check
convinced her the resolution would
pass.
Applause greeted the Montana Sen-
ator's remark that, while he had op-
posed confirmation of Chief Justice
Hughes, Il owe him an apology, be-
cause he's been one of the greatest
justices we've ever had"
keenan, asserted a majority has
faith In great leader who has borne
Evening star., 1937-04-30
Eleanor Jarrett
Defends Cigarette
And Champagne
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, April 30.-Cham-
pagne and the cigarette were defended
stanchly here today by Eleanor Holm
Jarrett, the pretty swimmer whose So
cial activities aboard the liner taking
the Olympic team to Berlin last year
caused her suspension.
Il never had a drink or smoked a
cigarette until 1882" she said as she
slipped cocktail, "and I'm a darned
sight better now than I was five years
ago. l don't believe in overtraining
That's sure way to 60 stale A glass
OF champagne now and then and a
cigarette keeps me relaxed"
Here for an exhibition, Mrs. Jarrett
insisted the best American swimmers
today are profesSionals-then pointed
out that "in Chicago last week at the
amateur swimming championships not
a record was broken"
Evening star., 1937-04-30
HOSPITALS DRIVE
OPENS TOMORROW
800 D. c. Women to Help
Meet Deficit of
S12O,OOO.

Some 800 Washington women today
norroW's United Hospitals drive, in
which they will occupy key locations
throughout the city wearing white silk
ribbons and armed with contribution
boxes for those who will help hos
pitfalls, help health" and buy a badge
10 help overcome the present $4,000
deficit Of the nine local hospitals.
The first badge of the drive was sold
yesterday to Vice President Garner by
Mrs. Ross Garrett and Mrs. Daniel L.
Sechinger, both team captains for to-
morrow's program.
Charles D. Drayton, chairman of the
Hospital Presidents Committee, has
estimated that 1850 cared-for pa
tients certified by the Central Auditing
Bureau for Hospitals and 10000 pre-
natal, syphilis and other clinic visits
during the first two months of the
current year remain unpaid, and it is
for this deficit contributions are asked
The city has been zoned into nine
sections. with headquarters at each
OF the hospitals. Miss Anne Carter
Green will coordinate the work of
the following nine field generals: Law
renee Choate at Emergency, Col P. M
Ashburn at Providence, Mrs. Clifford
Bangs at George Washington, Col E.
G.. Bliss at Garfield, Miss Laura Cook
At Homeopathic, Mrs. D. Lawrence
Groner at Georgetown, Mrs. Pierce
Van Week at Columbis, Mrs Charles
D. Drayton at Episcopal and Mrs. j.
L. B. Murray at Children5s.
A pyramidal sign appeal drawn by
4 team of four horses, will circulate
through the streets tomorrow and a
series of radoo talks will punctuate the
progress of the drive today and to-
morrow. Tonight at 635 o'clock
Drayton Will broadcast over Station
VOL to drive home the point that
every so cents means a clinic visit for
some one and protects the health of
every one.
At 10 o'clock tonight Rev. Calvert
E. Buck, superintendent of Episcopal
Hospital, and Ross Garrett, director
OF the Central Admitting Bureau for
Hospitals, will broadcast stories of
four typical cases from the records
Of the bureau.
At II am. tomorrow a special
descriptive program of the work going
on at Childrens Hospital will go on
the air from the hospital itself Miss
Matte Gibson, superintendent of the
hospital, will participate. Other radio
programs dealing with the appeal are
being planned for tomorrow.
A total of 500 letters has been sent
to private contributors in the last
II days. Most of these Drayton hopes,
will qualify for his battalion of 500
each to contribute 500 to the drive
fund. The resulting sum would pro-
vide for 100000 clinic visits and l2.500
hospital days in the nine institutions
he said.
Evening star., 1937-04-30
CLUBW0MEN FIGHT.
COURT PROPOSALS
Members Ballot Six to One
Against Program OF
President.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TULSA, Okla, April 30.-Mrs. Ro-
berta Campbell Lawson, president of
the General Federation of Women's
Clubs, informed the annual council
meeting today that national mail
poll showed club members voted six
to one against President Roosevelt's S
Judiciary program.
The result of the poll was announced
as the council neared formal vote on
a statement of principle opposing the
Presidents plan.
The poll of more than $1,000 club
women in 1881 clubs, in every State Of
the Union, showed 7,476 women IA
Evening star., 1937-04-30
vored the plan, while more than a.
900 were against it,

vored the plan, while more than a.
900 were against it.
Report Based on Clubs.
Mrs. Lawson did not announce the
totals of the individual vote, but her
report was made on the basis of clubs.
She said 113 women's clubs reported =
majority of the membership in sup
port Of the proposal while 1853 clubs
or 92.9 per cent-reported q majority
against.
Mrs. Lawson raped repeatedly for
orde' at council meeting last night
as Senator Burton K. Wheeler con-
cluded an address in which he said:
There are not six men in the
Senate today who would vote for the
court plan if political pressure were
removed"
Roosevelt Name Brings Cheers.
Cheers greeted mention of Presi-
dent Roosevelt's name by Assistant
Attorney General Joseph B. keenan,,
who spoke in favor of the reorganiza-
ton plan.
keenan, urged the change "to put
the court on an even keel again."
Senator Wheeler called upon the
club women to pass the resolution
Evening star., 1937-04-30

manship in criticizing the court
breaking all the proprieties by giving
advisory opinions in this struggle in
Congress"
Said Wheeler:
If the friendship Of my Democratic
friends is dependent on my voting to
pack the court-then 1 say their
friendship is not worth the price /
have to pay"
Evening star., 1937-04-30

the battle brunt and achieved the
victory"
Senator Wheeler agreed the Presi-
dent was worthy Of cheers "for all the
good he has done" but I'VE refuse to
give him a subservient court"
Said keenan,:
I'VE have judges Of the court scold-
ing each other in the open court
scolding the public for poor sports
Evening star., 1937-04-30
Edgar Brown to Speak.

Edgar G. Brown, president of the
United Government Employees, will
talk on Justice and Pay Increase
for Elevator Operators. CharWomen
and Laborers of the National Park
Service" at mass meeting at 7:30
tonight in Garnet-Patterson Junior
High School auditorium, Tenth and
u streets.
Evening star., 1937-04-30
A ER}|E(.1[N. E

And here they are at their
best. Herringbones, Invisible Plaids.
New shades of gray and tan. Double
breasted drapes and single-breasted
sport models with slack pants.
They hold their shape throughout
their long life J.. Best-looking suits
you have seen for many a day ).
smart and softly-draping.
Evening star., 1937-05-05
WOMAN FOUND DEAD
IN GAS-FILLED ROOM
Mrs. Violet schaff, 38, Beauty
Parlor Proprietress, Recently
Operated Upon.

Mrs. Violet Schaff, 38, beauty parlor
proprietress, was found dead this
morning in the gas-filled kitchen of
her apartment at 1921 Kenyon street.
The discovery was made when Mrs.
Gertrude Melcher, l412 Chapin street,
called at Mrs. Schaff's fourth-foor
apartment after trying unsuccessfully
to get in touch with her by telephone.
Mrs. Melcher and her husband, Henry,
called the fire rescue squad.
The apartment door was found
locked and chained, with chair
against it. When rescue squad men,
bers broke in they found Mrs. Schaf
on the floor in front of the open door
of the oven of the gas stove. An
Emergency Hospital physician pro-
nounced her dead.
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
visited the apartment to examine the
rooms and question Charles Green,
u, colored janitor, who told police
he detected the odor of gas yesterday
afternoon, but was unable to trace
its origin.
Relatives said Mrs. Schaff, a
divorce, underwent an operation and
was confined to hospital three weeks
in March. Her father, R. E. Rowe
lives in Deerfield, Va.
An empty purse was found in the
apartment, but there were no notes
police said Mrs. Schan operated a
small beauty parlor at l474 Columbia
road.
Evening star., 1937-05-05
Windsor Wedding Date Believed
Fixed for Late This M0nt1,

Police at the various gates were
doubled to keep the curious out, and
Rogers said neither the duke nor his
flancee planned to leave the estate
today.
Tomorrow, 1t was stated, the famous
couple may visit some neighbfing
chateau.
The Chateau de Cande grounds were
bathed in a warm sun as Edward and
Mrs. Simpson walked and. presumably,
made their wedding plans.
Rogers. coming out to greet news
paper men before the stroll, refused
for the first time to accept telephone
calls. He also declined to discuss
plans for the wedding-presumably
put of until after mid-May, when
Edwards youngest brother, the Duke
of Kent, may be best man.
In regard to their plans for future
home Mrs. Simpson was understood
to be urging America as . land in
which the tumult surrounding her
Csee WINDSOR, Page A-5)
Evening star., 1937-05-05
HUFF TO SUCCEED
BARNARDASHEAD
OF PENAL SYSTEM
Commissioners Name Pa.
role Executive of u. S.
Bureau of Prisons.
DECISION ENDS LONG
CONTEST OVER POST
Pennsylvania Man Selected in
Preference to Peak or
Capt. Rieves.

Ray L. Huff of Pennsylvania, parole
Prisons, today was named by the
Commissioners to be superintendent
OF District penal institutions, succeed
ing Capt. M. NJ Barnard
The appointment was made on rec
ommendation by the Board of Public
Welfare, which has been surveying
the field of candidates actively for sew
eral months, since Capt. Barnard ap-
piled for retirement.
The decision ended the contest of
two full years standing as to who
should succeed Capt Barnard, now "a,
who has been largely responsible for
the development of the District Re-
formatory at Lorton
Named Over Two Others.
Huff was selected in preference to
Col William L. Peak, now superin-
tendent at Lorton, and Capt Thomas
M. Rieves, superintendent of the Dis
trict Jail, both of whom had received
Endorsements for the post.
Nearly two years ago the Welfare
Board, anticipating the retirement of
Capt. Barnard had recommended
Harold E. Donnell of Baltimore,
Commissioners set the recommended
ton aside. Commissioner George E.
Allen said Capt. Barnard could hold
the post as long as he wished and was
able. Barnard had been kept in SER
vice beyond normal retirement age
by direction of the President.
Donnell's recommendation stirred
protest from civic groups and some
members Of Congress over appoint
ment of an outsider" When there
was delay over action on Donnell's
recommendation, he let it be known
he was no longer a candidate.
Educated in Pittsburgh.
Ruff is Al years old. He was edu-
Gated in Pittsburgh and holds a mas
ter's degree in arts from the Univer-
sity of Pittsburgh. He took gradu-
ate study both at Harvard and the
University of Alabama. He has
served as high school principal and
university professor, as lecturer for
the educational administration of
Southern Methodist University and
then took the part Of director of the
Bureau Of Restoration of the Pennsyl-
vania Department of Welfare. For
the last three years he has served as
parole executive in the Bureau of
Prisons, Department of Justice.
During the war he served with the
9Th Field Artillery with the A. E. F.
and the Army of Occupation and was
commissioned captain in the 107tn
Field Artillery, Pennsylvania National
Guard and the Officers Reserve Corps.
Evening star., 1937-05-05
More of Torso
OfSlain Woman
Found IL, Lake
Linked to Remains
Discovered Tu0
Months Ago.
BY the Associated Press.

.
CLEVELAND, May 5.-Coast Guards
took the lower portion Of a woman s
torso from Lake Erie today, giving
new impetus to the police investiga-
ton Of Cleveland's series of behead-
ings.
Coroner Samuel r. Gerber reported
to police that the piece of human flesh
found today definitely was the lower
part of the torso found in the lake
nearly 10 miles away about two months
ago-the eighth victim of the killer.
The vertebrae of the two portions
matched, as did the angles of the
cuts, he said.
Coroner Gerber, who has made a
thorough study of the killings, said
he believed all were committed by
the same person. The cutting in each
case was neatly done, apparently by
a person acquainted with body struc-
ture. Police theories range from a
mad butcher to a sex-crazed maniac
as the killer
DR.. Gerber said friendship" prob
ably is the lure which led the VIC
TINS into the killers hands. He
warned the police several weeks ago
that the slayer probably is making
friends with his next victim.
Evening star., 1937-05-05
800 IN ST. LOUIS
G. N, PLANTS BEGIN
S|T-DOWN STRIKE
Dismissal of 81 Employees
Protested by Chevrolet
and Fisher Men.
COMPLETE SHUTDOWN
IN OPERATIONS FORCED
Union Offer to "Share the Work"
to Save Workers Jobs
Was Rejected.
BY the Associated Press.

ST. LOUIS, May 5.-Members of the
United Automobile Workers Of Amer
ica at General Motors Chevrolet and
Fisher Body plants began sit-doWn
strike today in protest against the dis
charge Of 81 employees
Norman Smith, organizer for the
Committee for Industrial Organiza-
tion, with which the Automobile Work.
ers' Union is affiliated said 300 men
ceased work an hour after the plants
opened this morning, forcing a COM
plete halt in operations.
Employed on Truck Line
John Livingston, president of the st.
Louis local of the union said the 81
discharged men were employed on
a truck assembly line in the Chevro-
let plant, where the work week is
five 7-hour days
In an effort to return the men to
their jobs, he said union shop COM
mlttee conferred Monday and yester-
day with the Chevrolet plant manager,
Phil Baugh, and offered to share the
work" ON the assembly line, reducing
the Work-week pf each man to five
6 4/l0-hour days Baugh refused to
agree to the unions plan, he asserted.
Fisher Strike in Sympathy.
The negotiations having failed, the
strike was called by prearranged sig
nal this morning, Livingston said.
Workers in the Fisher Body division
struck in sympathy" with the Chew
rolet employees, he explained.
The sit-down demonstration was the
third at the plants since the nation
wide General Motors strike was set
tied. On February l8 the union men
went on STRIFE for one day after a
series Of fights with non-union en-
ployes. Another one-day sit-down
occurred March II, when the union
protested against organization activi-
ties of the United Chevrolet Workers
Guild which it termed a company
union" "a
MARINE WORKERS STRIKE.
Evening star., 1937-05-05
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
The Senate Civil Liberties Commit
tee summoned Merle Middleton, deputy
sheriff Of Harlan County, KY, rs the
final witness today in its inquiry into
industrial strife in the county's coal
fields.
Middleton is a cousin of Sheriff
T.. R. Middleton, whose deputies have
been accused by witnesses of attacks
Oh union organizers and their helpers.
The committee indicated it would
recess for several weeks before con-
sidering complaints of other civil lib
critics violations.
Pearl Bassham; proprietor of one
of Harlan's largest coal companies,
was on the stand yesterday His
answers caused Chairman La Toilette
to exclaim:
Il am convinced that of the evasive
witnesses who have appeared before
the committee you are the worst"
La Toilette Warns Bassham.
La Toilette then warned Bassham
that there is penalty for perjury
before this committee"
Bassham repeatedly told the COM
mittee he did not remember discus
sions with deputies or incidents con-
nected with the Staying last week Of
a union miner.
Bassman admitted he had employed
Bill Thug" johnson, who testified at
an earlier session that he was a mem
(see LA TOILETTE, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1937-05-05
GLOBE GIRDLER TAKES
CLIPPER TO HONOLULU
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
OAKLAND, Calf, May 5-One day
of the 10 days DR.. Reginald D. Marge-
son, Boston, Mass, surgeon, has al
lotted himself to fly around the world
lay behind today as he packed his
single bag and got ready to take the 3
pm. American AirWays clipper
ship for Honolulu.
He flew into San Francisco Munich
pal Airport at ll:58 pm. last night
after a transcontinental flight from
Boston.
D Margeson said he expected to
establish a record for the fastest
world d-encircling flight by scheduled air
lines commercial service.
H. r. Ekins, New York newspaper
man, recently flew around the world
in seven hours less than 10 days.
Ekins' flight was made before regular
air routes encircled the globe.