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Evening star., 1937-09-12
MRS. RENSHAW TO OPEN
HER SCHOOL ON OCT. 4


New Season-Course to Be Given
in Creative Writing.
Mrs. Anne Tillery Renshaw has re-
turned from Banff, Canada, to reopen
the Renshaw School of Speech, 1899
Connecticut avenue, October a. She
has extensive plans for the new sea-
son, including radio broadcasting
mechanism for the mems class in
public speaking.
Two new books by Mrs. Renshaw,
"Salvaging Esteem" and Public
Address" will be ready for use in the
school this Fall. well Bred Speech"
published last year, has had wide
sale in the country, with additional
calls from England and Brazil.
Another new feature of the school
this year will be course in creative
writing which will be given by Miss
Ruth Wakeham, . new teacher.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1937-08-20
Negroes Should
Take The u. S. Civil
Service Examinations

Negro should not enjoy his
reasonable share o fthe spoil
Colored applicants have been
so baffled, buffeted by discri-
minatory tactics that Negroes
hesitate to apply for Civil Serv-
ice examinations feeling con-
WINGED in advance that even if
they succeed, they will be
cheated. out of their merited
appointment. Such timidity
plays in the hands of the I'M
fair and unjust mAnipulators of
the Civil Service machinery. If
there are no coloI ed applicants,
there is no longer any just
complaint about discrimination
against them. 4
If the colored race ceases act
ivity in any field by reason of
race discrimination, it would be-
come completely inactive along
all lines Of endeaHor. There ia
no field in which they can en-
cages except at q racial dis
advantage as compared with
their white competitors. This
is true in affairs of religion,
education and industry as we'll
as in affairs Of State. The
Negro must disedunt his dis
advantage on account Of color
and make the most of what
ever opportunity there is left.
If Negroes would crowd civil
service examinations as they
did forty years ago, many of
them would squeeze through
despite the handicap and bar
rier of discrimination. The
Civil Service Commission could
no longer shield it's conscience
by stating that they find no
occasion to discriminate against
Negro applicants where such
are non-existent. Our high
schools and colleges are turn
ing out yearly, graduates by
the thousands. Hundreds of
them all over the country are
redeemed from idleness only by
temporary positions of the Fed
eral relief agencies. When
this feature of the New Deal
winds up its beneficence, what
will Negro high school and col
lege graduates do? The pro-
fessiors of medicine and teach
ing, it seems, will not absorb
great many more. The incrcas-
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1937-08-20
CHARLES {. BURNS
VISITS KEYSTONE

A young man of Elkhorn in
the person of Mr.. Charles f..
Burns, representing the Sup
rene Liberty Insurance Com
pany, whose general headquart-
ers is in Chicago, Illinois, was
making one of his very success
full rounds throughout the city
of Keystone one day this week.
He was meeting and talking
with his host of friends and
acquaintance. Mr.. Burns is
a recent graduate from the
West Virginia State College in
Kanawha County and comes to
his people well qualified and re-
commended with every imagin-
able certificate 0 f scholastic
training. Then another one
particular thing that goes far
toward recommending t n i S
young man is he is a native
born and reared young man in
the Hills of Mcdowell County.
He also comes from one of the
first families in the State.
He is not a camOullage young
man, but wants you TO know
he is representing the same
kind Of a substantial business
he desires the people TO know
him to be A safe prediction
about this young man is that
he will make "GOOD." When
you meet him, talk with him
and if possible give him your
support. He is an out and out
race man not alone with words
but with deeds.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1937-08-20
H. |. DICKINSON
NAMED Head Of
THE COLLEGE

Charleston, w. Va, Aug. II.
II. K. Wells, secretary of the
Negro state board of education,
announced recently reappoint-
ment of H. L. Dickson as
president of Bluefield State
Teachers college and the ap-
pointment of DR.. H. H. Terrell
as dean of West Virginia State
College.
Terrell succeeds David A.
Lane.
Mr.. Wells said R. P. Simms,
former president would be the
field agent for the Bluefield in
sititution, and G.. w. Whiting,
II years principal at Simmons
high school in Montgomery,
was named dean and acting
education director
Other appointments included
West Virginia schools for the
Negro Deaf and Blind: Vivian
Green. Elkins, teacher of the
deaf; Vernon White, Bluefield,
matron; Gladys Purcell, Blue
field, teacher of music, n d
Georgianna Williams of Point
Pleasant, first cook.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1937-08-20

The Urban League has sent
out a pronouncement urging col
ored men and women to take
Civil Service examinations and
thus qualify for appointment
to the Civil Service. Three
quarters of a million persons
are now in the employ of the
Federal Government some sixty
thousand of whom are colored.
This represents their approx
mate quota in the races popu-
lation. Although these employee
es fall mainly in the lawyer
category of the public service,
both as regards rank and pay,
such position are not to be de-
spised. The $4,000 Negroes on
the Government payroll on the
average receive greater COM
pensation than any like number
of colored persons in any other
walk of life. Indeed, if you
bracket with them the school
teachers who are on the city
and state payroll, the list would
include the vast majority of
Negroes who occupy a comfort
able economic status. Under
the reorganization plans of
President4 Roosevelt, the Civil
Service will be extended up
ward, outward and downward,
so to include a larger and
larger number of employees.
The Negro race is entitled to
its quota in this enlargement.
There seems to be a studied
purpose to keep colored APP
pointees out of the clerical type
of public service. 1t still goes
against the grain of many
white people to see a Negro
sitting at a desk writing with
ink and pen. There are only
a handful of colored appointees
above the Civil Service level.
This number has been consider
ably increased by the President
Roosevelt under the New Deal
Let us hope that this number
will be greatly enhanced by the
liberal policy Of this and future
administrations. AS long as
the recruitment of Government
positions below and above the
Civil Service is allotted to the
successful politician as their
share of the spoils of their off
ice, there is no reason why the
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1937-08-20
EXCITEMENT RUNS HIGH
IN WEST TENNESSEE
TENANT TRIAL,

Huntington. Tenn Aug. 90
The question of whether or not
Il Negro has the right to pro-
tcct his home, his family, and
his own life against white
man in the Irrational South, is
the fundamental issue in Il
tension-packed legal drama,
one phase of which was heard
Friday, growing out of the
shooting of George STANFORD,
white PLANTATION oversecr, by
Is. }. Blcdsoc, colored tenant
farmer. last March.
Another issue, equally inn
portant to the tenant residents
of this West Tennessee farm
ing area, is whether or not the
landlord or his representatives
has the right to use force i'm
dealing with the workers ON
the planations.
The first trial of these is
sues took place at Huntingdon
three weeks ago, when an all
white jury, disregarding the
Evidence as presented by the
defense lawyers, sentenced Mr..
BledSOe to 20 years impriSon-
ment, and charging his uncle,
Curtis Bledsoe, with voluntary
manslaughter, sentenced h m
to two years in the pcnitcntiary.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1937-08-20
JOHN WOODS NOW IN
BLUEFIELD HOSPITAL

Mr.. Johnny Wood of this city
a very likeable and represent
ative citizen, has been forced to
go to the Hospital for an oper-
alton. The nature Of his oper-
alton is not known to this off
ice at this writinv. His host
of friends are very anxious a
bout his welfare and hope for
him a speedy recovery. He
was taken at first to Stephens
Clinic and Thursday morning
it is reported he had to be taken
to another hospital in Bluefield.
His condition is eagerly enquir-
ed of with and by friends.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1937-08-20
CARD OF THANKS

We take this method of max
ing known thru the issue of
this paper, that words would
fail us were we to attempt to ex-
prehs by them how much we
appreciate the many acts of
kindness andN sympathy made
manifest by each who gave it
during the brief illness and
death of our friend and wife,
Mrs. Mary Lockett.
r. N. LOCKETT
THELMA TAYLOR
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1937-08-20
sam PRITChARB DIES
BEnE REgENTLy

Perhaps one of the oldest
and we'll known colored men
who ever made the city of Key
stone his home may be men,
toned Sam Pritchard, aged a
bout CT. He never was marri-
ed. He was well known gener-
ally among the fellows. His
early life was spent in mining
and at times was considered to
be one of the finest and most
successful miners in the State
of West Virginia.
But having received serious in
juries which incapacittated him
form his active mining oper-
ations. His friends were leg
ion. He particularly made his
home with Mr.. and Mrs. Ody.
He was stricken for the second
time with paralysis from which
he soon died. Every imaginable
assistance possible to the mind
of man was renderd this patient
by DR.. ]. f. Brown but no
avail. He died Monday night
about Ais Monday night of
this week. His people are little
known but he is seriously con-
sidered and wished for by his
host of friends. His body was
turned over to Mr.. Patton, the
funeral director and embaler
by whoever had authority but
who they were or are this pub
LEGATION knows not.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1937-08-20

VIVA. STATE COLLEGE
SUMMER THEATER CLOSED
SECOND SEASON AUG. 10.

Institute, VIVA, August IS.
The West Virginia State Col
lege Summer Theater, under
the direction of Fannin S. Bel
cher closed its second season fo
activity on August 10th. The
program this summer consisted
of a variety of popular one act
and three act plays, with come
dy, tragedy and melodrama
marking the dramatic types
produced. Each production sym
bolized a praiseworthy drama
tic effort on the part of the
cast Of players, the technical
staff, assistants and the dire
ctor.
The actors and the members
of the technical staff were stu
dents of the college, and men,
bers of the play production
class. The work of the sum-
mer theater attracted a num-
Der of amateur actors IN d
teachers of dramatics who ably
assisted in the summer per-
formances. Among the visit
ing actors who participated in
the productions were: Lewis
Barnes of Charleston, Caro-
lyn Stewart of Lynchburg, Va.
Virgil Gilmore, Charleston,
Russell Stewart, Lynchburg,
Va, Muriel Fawcett and Con-
stance r. Davis of Institute.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1937-08-20
EIGHT DOUBLE HOUSES
BURN SUN. MORNING
Loss Estimated At $4,000
Red Cross Aids Fire
Victims

Fire swept through a Negro
section of Elkhorn early Sum
day morning, destroying eight
doubrTframc houses and MAX
ing Is families homeless.
The blaze, of unknown ORR
gin, swept swiftly through the
row of houses built closely to-
gcthrr
Families of the victims wo9c
given assistance by the McD6
wei County Chapter of the
American Red Cross and the
koppcrs company.
Gordon Cox, general supcrint-
cndcnt of the koppers company
operations in this district, csti-
mated the loss from the burn
ing of the eight houcS at $40
600. He estimated that lost
furnishings and pcronAl effects
of occupants would increase
the loss to $4,000.
Miners living at Elkhorn are
employed at the Keystone oper-
aticn Of the Koppcrs Company.
Kcystonc's fire appatus re-
spondcd to Il call from Elkhorn
and had the fire under control
by about 2:30. An effort w;h
first made to connect the first
truck with a hydrant near the
Koppers store bpta the hose
was not long enough to reach
the blaze. Water was pumped
from the Elkhorn creek.
The blaze was started in an
unoccupied house in the mid
die of the row. From here it
spread rapidly in both direct
ions. A house occupied by
Charley Harris, colored school
bus driver. was the first one
saved at the west end of the
row. The home of Ohio Fuller
on the east end was partly de-
stroyed.
Heat from the blaze was so
intense that the work of battl-
ing the flames was extremely
difficult. 1t burned high tens
ion wires on the railroad behind
the houses and scorched empty
railroad cars on the track. The
heat was keenly felt by motor
lists who stopped on the high
way TO watch the blaze.
A large crowd soon collected
and traffic on the highway was
practically at a standstill for
several hours.
Though many Of the families
were able to save their belong
ings some lost everything. The
Koppcrs company at once start
ed plans for finding their en-
Iployccs homes in other COM
munitics for the present and
by Sunday night furniture that
had been saved from the fire
had been moved.
During the fire it was APP
parent that many Of the homes
had contained firearms, there
being frequent explosions.
Several stories concerning
the origin Of the fire were cur
rent in Elkhorn Sunday morn
ing. One small colored boy
said that a number of men had
been playing cards in an UNI
occupied house and that they
had been burning paper torches
one Of which ignited the house.
Many Of the families were in
bed at the time Of the blaze
and were forced to leave most
Of their clothing behind.
Families whose homes we're
reported as destroyed by the
fire included Ohio Fuller, Os-
car Martin, James Alexander,
John Martin, Paul Patterson,
George Clayton, Mr.. Parser,
Stuart Smith, Arthur Wilson,
Henry Jackson, Bal Perdue,
Love Browkn, Mr.. Cheeks and
BoPc Estes. -ss
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1937-08-20
CameIs Used in Australia

Camcls have been in use in Aus
tralia for nearly q hundred years.
and are found hauling wool e.
railway sidings from "out-back sta
tons" in West Australia. Twelve 10
fifteen are hitched TO o huge truck.
An old gold miner from Ballarat
rccounted how camcls were used 70
pull the stage coaches from Mel.
bourne 90 the mining towns before
the railways we're built. The stage
coaches we're duplicates Of our own
in the 'DcadWood Dick" days. And
alongside the driver rode an armed
guard for protection against the out
law "bush rangers"
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1937-08-20
PROMINENT PIONEER
IN MCDOWELL CO.

Hon. f. L. Bowman Of Charles
ton, whose special headquarters
is at the Holly Hotel passed
through the city of Keystone,
shaking hands with a number
of old-time friends. He is
without one of the most widely
known and generally liked
white men in the state of West
Virginia.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1937-08-20
ALONG ELM ST.
Greensboro, North Carolina
BY CAPTAIN ID. ]. GILMER

I was born and reared about
a hundred yards from the curb
line of Elm Street, and am liv-
ing where not only | see her
roadway and hear the traffic
hounds but | see the tombstones
of my parents, and of the par
ents of my boyhood friends, as
they go back to the ground from
which they came. However, |
say that to say this:
There is a five human spirit
in this city now, along Elm
street, between the races. Re-
Gently white and Negro prof
essional baseball teams played
here at a night game where
thousands of people attended,
the finest feeling prevailed
and the game Sc in favor of
the white team ended.
Mr.. George Crawford, one of
the finest men along Elm ST.,
a clerk in a great dry goods
store, who, When he was born,
his father, the late Mr.. John
Crawford, was measuring a
man for suit of clothes. And
there may be seen his sons
calling, a fine salesman in a
dry goods store.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1937-08-20
PapiIIon, Native Of Mexlcn

The papillon is not thought to be
a European dog but q native Of
Mexico and brought to Spain by
returning soldiers, says a writer in
the Los Angeles Times. There is a
striking similarity between this tiny
stout-hearted pal and that Of the
lovely long-haired Chihuahua. This
breed was interbred with the dwarf
spaniel, and the offspring the true
papillon.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1937-08-20
10000 People
NOW ELIGIBLE
FOR BENEFITS

Nationwide action to bring
about 4 more general filing of
claims under the old-apc bcnc-
fits program has been begun
by the Social Security Board
Mr.. L. A. Knapp, Manager of
the Charleston Field Office of
the Board announced today.
Evidence that approximate
ly 10000 workers, or their cS-
tatrs, ON whose behalf claims
have not been filed, are eli
giblc for benefits has been
sent by the Board to its 200
field offices throughout the
country, Mr.. A. u. Knapp said.
Several hundred of this num-
Der are i'm Region w, compris-
ing the District of Columbia,
Maryland, North Carolina, Vir-
ginia and West Virginia.. The
number in the area of the
Charleston Field Office is 20
.Undcr the requirements of
the Treasury, an employer is
obligated TO make Il report
when one Of his workers dies
or reaches the age of 65. The
Treasury recently Translated
to the Board its accumulation
Of such reports, now amounts
ing to q few more .thaHs 2G 600.
and the Social Security Board
is sending them to its field re-
representatives. with Instructions
to give every possible assist
ancc to the aged workers, or
the heirs Of those who have
died in the preparation and fill
ing Of claims
The field offices have been
furnished the names of the
localities in which the work
crs applied for their social Sc
curity account numbers, and
have been told TO make every
reasonable effort to locate pot
cntial claimants
The number Of claims which
had been certified for payment
up TO August 5 was 10,188. The
rumbcr of Gains which have
been fled but not yet passed
upon is given as 1,403 and the
number Of those which have
been disallowed, SIS.
There have been 76 claims
filed and 22 claims paid in the
area Of the Charleston Field
Office. Some additional claims
may have been filed directly
with the Social Security Board
in Washington, Of which the
Charleston Field Office has not
yet been appraised
Almost all the claims which
have been paid are for small
amounts because, it was cX-
planned, the wages Of the aver
age worker, in the six months
in which the program has been
under way, have not been large
enough TO entitIc the worker
TO larger benefits.
The largest lump-sum pay
mcnt yet to be approved is that
for 1892 30. This was paid to
the estate Of an official Of an
oil company who died in Texas,
on March II. His earnings since
the first Of the year totalled
almost $4,000 and came from
two different Jobs. Another
claim Of uusual size has been
reported from Pennsylvania
office. Il is that Of a retired
executive who was employed
.bv three different corporation,
receiving from each $4,000 IN
wages.
If a claim filed by close re-
lative Of a worker who has died
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1937-08-20
Odd Weather Forecastinn

In the days Of Caesar the Roman
weather men called haruspices, did
their forecasting by looking at en-
trails and birds flying. Their re-
suits were such that Cato, the CEN
sor, is reported to have said "that
he wondered how one haruspex
could look another in the face with
out laughingl"
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1937-08-20
GOES TO WASHING
TON ON VACATION

Mrs. Harry J. Capehart, of
Welch accompanied by her two
sons left this week for Wash
ington, d. G.. where she and
they will spend several days
with relatives on their vaca-
ton. They will extend their
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1937-08-20
Pies for the Poor

ITO cat humble-pie" means 10
eat our words, to be humblcd: the
old expression was "umbles pic. q"
pie made from inferior portions Of
deer and given to the poor.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1937-08-20
Continued On Page Three)

trip to the City of Philadelphia,
Pa. where they will be the
guests of other immediate fri
ends. -..-
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1937-08-20

Some of the finest gentlemen
along Elm Street speak of Mr..
Logan Swain native of Green's
boro, but now of West Virginia,
at the Elks Home. Mr.. Logan
Swain is one of the finest
gentlemen you'll ever know.
Peace be to him.
Why is it we do not ever
read of Wade's Cafe, Keystone,
where l used to sit and admire
its fine service / hope his
flag is still there, as Francis
Key would say of Fort Henry,
Md, in his Star Spangled Ban
ner. 80.
The other day along Elm
street, one of the most reliable
and property owning men, of
the colored people, said to me:
Captain Gilmer, / am afraid
that certain of our young edu-
Gated fellows are building an
auction block in their set up
CONTINUED On Page FOur)
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-04-09
Union StOgie Makers
Receive Wage Raise

Wheeling, w. Va. (ILNS)-I. NJ.
Ornburn, secretary treasurer of the
union label trades department, Amer
ican Federation of Labor, acting as
representative for R. E. Van Horn,
president of the Cigar Makers Inter
national Union of America, negotiated
new agreement, which includes ten
per cent increase in pay for 500 stogie
makers, strippers, and other employees
of the firm of M. Marsh and Sons of
this city.
The Stogie Makers Union is an
affiliate of the Cigar Makers Interna-
tional Union of America. 1t has
adopted it's own union label which ap-
pears on the boxes in which union made
stogies are contained. M. Marsh and
Son will continue to display the blue
emblem for union-made stogies as it
has done in the past.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-04-09
Railway Brotherhoods
Ask Increase in Wages

Cleveland (ILNS)-David B. Rob-
ertson, president of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Firemen and Engine
men, announces that the five train and
engine service brotherhoods-
senting engineers, firemen, conductors,
trainmen and switchmen-have de-
manded a 20 per cent wage increase
from all the railroads in the United
States.
The five brotherhoods have about
100000 members. 1t was estimated
in railroad management quarters
that the proposed increase would add
$120,000,000 year to the railroad
wage bills. The 16 other railroad un-
ions recently made demand for 20
cents an hour increase in wages; and
the train dispatchers are asking a
six-hour day
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-04-09
Six Found Guilty in Collapse
of N. Y. Apartment House

New York (ILNS)-Six men, own
ers, architect, contractor, examiner
and inspector, have been found guilty
of second degree manslaughter as a
result of the collapse last June of a
7-story apartment house under con-
struction in the Bronx Eighteen men
were killed in the catastrophe.
In the trial, bricklayers testified
that more than half the brick used
were second hand, and that the mortar
was of poor quality. Other witnesses
testified that the steel in the building
was fabricated and put together by
men who knew nothing of steel work.
The architects plans came in for a
condemnation which leaves him liable
to a jail sentence of considerable
length.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-04-09
Columbus Citizen
Signs Guild Pact

Columbus, Ohio (OLNS)-The Co
lumbus Citizen, daily afternoon news
paper, last week joined five other
Scripps- Howard papers throughout
the country in contract relations with
the American Newspaper Guild when
Editor Nelson Poynter signed pact
with the Columbus unit of the Guild.
Terms of the contract, announced
by President Frank Bear, of the CO.
lumbus Guild Unit, include provisions
for minimum wage schedule of $40
per week for experienced newsmen,
sick leave, vacations with pay and dis
missal bonus.
Scripps- Howard newspapers in
Cleveland, Akron, Pittsburgh, Mem
phis and Knoxville have recently sign
ed contracts with units of the Amer
lean Newspaper Guild, affiliated with
the American Federation of Labor.