The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1938-01-14

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Ethiopia. The paper reports thai
"mopping-up" is taking place in
the Beghemeder region and adds
After that will come the turn OF
the rebel bands in Goffam Prov
ince." Peace has been restored in
the Lasta region with the help OF
5000 Gala tribesmen." Gallas cap
tured the rebel leader, Ras HALT
Chebbede and carried his decapi.
tated head to the Italian authori-
ties at Quoram.
A whole district is controlled by
10000 guerrilla fighters and in al
parts of the country smaller bands
are harassing and inflicting heavy
losses on the Italians.
The Italians issue monthly lists
of losses of Italian troops but new
er report the losses among the Err
itreans and other native forces
who do most of the fighting.
ROCHESTER,, N. "a protest
has been lodged with Frank w
Lovejoy, president of the Eastman
Kodak company here, upon the re-
fusal of the company to employ
Arthur Blake, of Rochester, in its
chemical Laboratories, allegedly
because Mr.. Blake is colored.
The protest to President Love-
joy pointed out that Negroes We're
large users of cameras and pho
tographic supplies and that they
were becoming increasingly sensi-
tive to determinations against the
race in the field of employment.
It was suggested that the East
man Kodak company, purely as a
matter of good business, ought to
employ qualified persons without
regard to race or color and make
their policy known.
WASHINGTON (CNA)-Repre-
sentative Arthur w. Mitchell, D.,
ILL.,, only Negro member of Con-
gress, introduced a bill this week
to abolish Jim Crow cars on rail
way trains.
The bill would make illegal the
segregation of passengers on any
carrier subject to the Federal
Transportation Act,
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Co.
Benjamin Green, white, was con-
victed by a jury in Duval county
Circuit court last week for rape
of Alvera Graham, 13-year-old
colored school girl. The prosecu-
tor asked death, but the jury re-
commended life Imprisonment.
Green enticed the girl into his car
on pretense of taking her to a
job. 1t was discovered that Green
had been convicted of rape in
Georgia and declared insane, being
sent to the Milledgeville asylum.
Green will be returned to the
Georgia asylum for examination.
NEW YORK (C) Troy w.
Newkirk, 40, STA st. Nicholas ave-
nue., received much praise and
publicity Monday for successfully
making a forced landing with Miss
Lola Jackson, 172-06 108th ave-
nue., Jamaica, in a park near YAM
kee Stadium Sunday afternoon af-
ter his monoplane got out of con-
troll while flying over the Elk
emancipation parade. Newkirk
said the motor began to miss, and
he guided the plane away from
the parade to an open space across
the Harlem river in the Bronx be-
fore landing. The filler and his COM
panion were unhurt, the only dam
age being to a wire fence and the
plane propeller-about $3.50. Ma
gistrate Harris, praising the flier
dismissed two complaints on Tues
day.
NEW YORK (C)-Rex Ingram
de Lawd" of the screen Green
Pastures, who went into volun-
tary bankruptcy last year, got g
new WPA job in Haiti" playing
"Christophe, the black king, to
be produced at the Lafayette the
atre in Harlem. Ingram, now Al
started his theatrical career as ar
evtra in ''Tarzan of the Apes"
years ago in Hollywood. He made
his stage debut in Lulu Belle" ir
Los Angeles. Important movies If
which he has appeared are Ter
Commandments" king of Kings
1.-The Big Parade" Beau Geste,
"Sign of the Cross" Emperor
Jones" and Captain Blood"
NEW YORK (CNA)-A stock
holder in the Hearst CONSOLIDATED
Publications, Inc, Rudolf Kohl.
roser, 1850 29th ST., Astoria, this
week filed suit in u. S. District
Court asking a receiver for the
Hearst firm and demanding ar
accounting from William Randolph