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Evening star., 1938-02-27
Ta*i Parking at Fire Plugs
Urged to Ease Concession

A plan to increase parking space
in the downtown area by allowing
taxicabs to park in front Of fire plugs
instead of At regularly designated hack
stands was disclosed yesterday by
Representative McSweeney, Demo-
crat, Of Ohio. -..a.. y
Representative McSweeney's plan,
contained in = letter to Charles e.
Schrom. chief Of the fire department,
is based on the regulation that cab
drivers cannot be more than 5 feet
away from their parked cabs. Because
Of this. they could readily pull away
from the plug at the first sound Of
an alarm. he pointed out.
The space around the fire plug, Mr..
McSweeney suggested, could be in
creased to q size sufhcient to accom-
modate four cabs. which, he said,
would give firemen better access to
the plug when the cabs pull away.
II think you will agree" he wrote,
that often people encroach little on
the parking zones Of the fire plugs and
this further limits the space for opera
tion at the plug In case Of emergency.
Therefore. ! an convinced Athat this
Evening star., 1938-02-27
TRANSFER Of D. c.
AGENCIES STUDIED
Three Offices May Be Re.
moved to New Police
Court BuiIdinu.

Transfer of the Offices of the Dis
trict Minimum Wage Board, Alcoholic
Beverage Control Board and District
Real Estate Commission from the
District Building to the new Police
Court Building is being considered by
the Commissioners, it was revealed
yesterday.
One or all Of these possible shifts
will depend on the final answer to
the proposals for consolidation of all
Criminal Court proceedings in the
Police Court Building. it was ex-
planned by Engineer Commissioner
Dan I. Sultan.
The best use that may be made of
extra space ip the new Police Court
Building now Is being studied by a
group of District officials, and next
Saturday group OF legal officers,
headed by Chief Justice Alfred A.
Wheat of District Court and Presid.
ing Judge John P. Mcmahon of Po-
ice Court, will meet with the Com
missioners on the question.
The District Building how Is
crowded, even though numerous agen-
cies are housed in other buildings,
some Of them in old structures left
standing in the Municipal Center site
Some relief would be afforded to de-
partments housed in the District
Building by the transfers of some
agencies to other quarters
Consideration Is being given to hous-
ing Of the three units named above in
the new Police Court Building since
they have less required contacts with
the District Building officers than
other agencies. 1t was said. Desirable
space for holding public hearings, by
the A. B. c. Board, the Minimum Wage
Board and the Real Estate Commits
sion, would be available in the new
Police Court Building, some officials
said.
Evening star., 1938-02-27

the proceedings. Fortunately for. the
photographer, Jobess proved as i'm
mune to camera fright as her daugh-
ters
Jobess. the dam, is q large mare,
weighing 1900 pounds and standing
Is hands l inch high. She is the
daughter Of Job. one-time famous
Army thoroughbred.
The 17-year- old Chilhowee, who has
sired line of splendid Army mounts,
came within half length Of beating
Black Gold in the 1924 Derby. He
was coming up fast at the finish and
had the course been SO feet longer,
might have won, officers at Front Royal
recalled.
The same year he established a
world record for the Ia miles, which
still stands after IA years. He COW
cred this grueling distance in min
utes 542s seconds at the Latonia track
in Kentucky.
Evening star., 1938-02-27

50 pounds and the other "a and both
appeared exceptionally strong and
healthy for twins, it was reported. The
heavier of the pair stood 8 hands IA
inches and the smaller quarter inch
over 8 hands. A hand is inches
Subjected to the ordeal of flashlight
photography at the age Of II hours,
the twins responded skittishly, perking
up their ears and "sashaying around"
Then, with one accord, they headed
for mama and spot of hasty luncn.
Forcibly detached for the sake Of
another picture, they raised strenuous
objection. bouncing around in stiff
legged indignation until captured by a
big g-handed enlisted man and pointed
toward the camera. With the flash of
the bulb, however, they were back at
their interrupted meal and refused to
show any interest even when the pho
tographer reclined in the hay to get
. close-range candid camera view of
Evening star., 1938-02-27
.8,233 33REPORTED
{. 0NA|D ROLLS HERE
Support Costs $3,062,352
Per Month, Taxpayers
Association Finds.

Partial or complete public support
is being accorded 53,233 persons in
the District. 1t was announced yes
terday by the Washington Taxpayers
Association after 4 study of the relief
problem here.
Such support, the announcement
said, is being extended by either the
District or Federal Governments or
both. and is costing $3,062,352 per
month.
Pointing out that even this total
Of persons may be exceeded at various
times during the year. the association
broke the figure down to show 20,935
persons on home or work relief, 20, ,409
on pension rolls, 5000 in various public
institutions, and 6,2se In public health
institutions or receiving treatment at
publicly supported clinics.
If 1t be assumed" the announce
ment said. that each one receiving
aid, who is not pensioner or in an
Institution, has only two and a half
people dependent upon him, the almost
unbelievable total of about 100 900 are
directly or indirectly receiving assist
ance."
Evening star., 1938-02-27
TEACHER-TRA|N|NG
CHANGESFAV0RED
Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle
Urges More Emphasis on
"Subject Matter"

Less emphasis on teaching methods
and more on subject matter" in
training persons to become teachers
was urged yesterday by Mrs. Henry
Grattan Doyle, president of the Dis
trict Board of Education, as a means
Of raising education standards. She
spoke before the Joint Conference on
Teacher Education in Atlantic City.
The trend in education during the
last few years has been toward lower
standards" Mrs. Doyle declared.
Teacher training institutions" she
said, can restore for American educa-
ton an emphasis on thoroughness, on
fundamentals and on accuracy that is
now lacking. Let teacher-training in
stitutions train their students to de-
velop in our children the ability to
use the brains God gave them, rather
than to devise ways and means to get
children through school painlessly
- =" she said.
Elaborating on Subject matter" in
teaching methods, Mrs. Doyle added:
mo number Of method courses, how
ever good, can substitute for subject
matter. The first two years of q
four-year course should be devoted to
subject matter, and method courses,
both general and specific, should be
used In the later part of the course,
together with practice teaching"
Elsewhere in her address Mrs. Doyle
said, Teacher training institutions to-
day must face the fact that teachers
must be trained to teach all the chill
dren of all the people. rich and poor,
slow and bright. They must take into
account also the many other forces
of education that have a powerful in
1uence on the education OF children
radio, moving pictures, inexpensive
transportation"
Mrs. Doyle declared it "is absolutely
necessary" to use care in the selection
OF those entering teacher training in
stitutions.
Such selectivity should be made.
she said, ION the basis of health, per-
sonality, and love of the profession
as well as on scholarship"
Evening star., 1938-02-27
THREE ROBBER|ES
REPORTED HERE
Police Work Overtime to
Curb Activity-Hazen
Wants More Officers.

Colored robbers held up laundry
branch Office and snatched purses
from two women last night as police
men worked overtime in efforts to curb
such criminal activity. Meanwhile
Commissioner Melvin c. Hazen said
he is convinced 100 men should be
added to the police force.
Miss Doris Padgett, l6, of 76O
Twelfth street Sc, manager of the
Yale Laundry branch at 26O5 Four
teenth street NV, reported colored
bandit escaped with So after threaten
ing to kill her unless she put the money
on the counter. She said he held his
right hand in his pocket as if he had
pistol concealed there.
As soon as the bandit left the office
Miss Padgett called Lou Rose and Will
liam Appel, jr., employees Of a clean
ing establishment next door, who
chased him for about two blocks be-
fore he eluded them.
Commissioner Hazen said he re-
gretted the Commissioners had not
proposed adding 100 instead of only
Is policemen in submitting their
budget estimates. The Budget Bureau
even disallowed the request for an in
crease of Is, providing only for half a
dozen extra clerks to relieve police
men of clerical work.
Hazen Refuses New Plea.
The District supply bill as passed
by the House called for reopening the
old No 2 precinct station, without any
further increase in the number of DO
licemen. Mr.. Hazen said he did not
propose to submit any new recon-
mendations since the Senate District
Appropriations Subcommittee already
has completed its hearings on the
1889 supply bill.
The Commissioner said he was con-
vinced of the need for 100 more DO
licemen by the beating and robbery
of Mrs. Kathryn Goodwin, Social Sc
curity Board official, who was left
lying unconscious in the HOO block of
Sixteenth street NV. recently.
Meanwhile the Police Department
continued practice begun more than
two months ago of requiring one
third of the day force to work over
time at night to reinforce the regular
night police patrols So far as could
be learned, no plan has been worked
out for repaying the overtime to the
extra workers.
Almost 125 Held.
Most of the 125 colored transients
and vagrants arrested for investiga-
ton in a roundup late Friday still were
being held in precinct cells last night.
Police were checking closely on all
those with criminal records. Ofhcers
hoped the arrests would solve some of
the holdups and purse snatchings re-
ported here recently.
Victims of purse snatchers last night
were Bessie Wilcher. so, of 1901 M
street NV, who said a colored man
seized her purse containing 81 as she
was walking near her home. and Coral
Williams, colored, 1874 u street, whose
pocketbook containing IS was snatched
near her home by a l3-year-old COL
ored boy.
Charles E. Marsh, 1926 Cathedral
avenue, reported clothing and a mo-
ton picture camera valued at $45 was
stolen from his automobile while it
was parked at Sixteenth and Irving
streets NV
Evening star., 1938-02-27
Machinists Will Meet.

= Navy Yard machinists will meet at
the Avenue Grand Theater. GAS Penn
sylvania avenue Sc, at IL am. today
to consider protests regarding changes
In the manner of selecting men for
promotion, it was announced yesterday
by 4. ]. McGuigan, president of Co.
lumhls Lodge No. l74, International
Association Of Machinists.
Evening star., 1938-02-27
Mems Club Sponsors Talk.

Thephiluu ]. Houston, attorney, will
speak on Civil Rights and Suffrage"
at a meeting to be sponsored by the
Mems Club Of the Nineteenth Street
Baptist Church tomorrow At $50 pm.
ut the church The public y In.
vited -... ....
Evening star., 1938-02-27
BAND CONCERT.

BY the Navy Band, at 2 pm. tomor-
row in the Sail Loft, Navy Yard. 1t.
Charles Benter. leader. Alexander
Morris, assistant leader. I
Evening star., 1938-02-27
FOUNDERS DAY DINNER
American University to Celebrate
Charter Granting March T.

The granting Of its charter by Con-
gress in 1893 will be celebrated by
American University with q founders
day dinner at the Willard Hotel
March 7.
Guest speaker will be DR.. Fred P.
Corson. president of Dickinson COL
iege, Carlisle. Pa, and toastmaster
will be DR.. A. c. Christie. president
OF the Board of Trustees. Other
speakers will include E. F.. Colladay
and Chancellor Joseph M. M. Gray Of
the university.
Evening star., 1938-02-27
TORSE history is being made by
= two trembling, spindly-legged
little fillies, IL hours old
Il yesterday afternoon, at the


big Army Remount Depot, Front
Royal. Va.
They are twins. daughters of g.
year-old Jobess and the famous race
horse, Chilhowee, world record
holder, who finished second in the 1924
Kentucky Derby and who won some
sos, 900 on the Nations tracks.
What is more to the point, however,
Is that they are the only horse twins
ever born At Front Royal in its %
years history to survive the first half
day. One pair Of horse twins out Of
$4,000 lives, according to the records
at Front Royal and the little fillies
couldn't get better care If they were
the daughters Of kings
The twins. sorrel, with blazes, were
born at , am. yesterday. One weighed
Evening star., 1938-02-27
BOOK BILL SIGNED
Virginia Measure Fixes Price of
Texts for School Pupils.
the Associated prSss

- sAAe fASSo0AAtcu TEee8.
RICHMOND. Va, Feb. 26.-Gov.
Price today signed the vaden-Garrett-
Heller bill requiring the State Board
OF Education to supply school chill
dren with basal and elementary text
books at . cost not more than 8 per
cent above wholesale.
The Washington times., 1938-12-17
Welcome
u::s

e.
course. The sanely conservative
Is still I'm fashion!
JANUARY ~ TO FEBRUARY
20 (AquariuS) Friendly infIu-
enceS. Today can be one of con-
tentment for you born February
7-2O. Other Aquarians may
have to be especially patient in
dealings with others and pru-
dent in expenditures. Forenoon
under hest rays.
FEBRUARY 81 TO MARCH
20 Pisces)-COngenial surround
ings. The emotions may be
tempted to indulge extremes,
but II you will strike . happy
medium with this part Of your
The Washington times., 1938-12-17
Sc

20" .:"
day, but with your ingenious
mind wen leave 1t to you to fur
nish the interest and pep needed
for your program!
NOVEMBER 20 TO DECEM-
Der ~ (Sagittarius) = Finish
ing odds and ends concerning
business or the home, making So
cial calls, INDUCING your pet ayO-
cation, interesting yourself In
civic affairs most favored.
DECENBER % TO JANUARY
81 (CapricOrn) - Stars advise
caution in deals entailing finan-
Cial responsibilities, signing
agreements and making drastic
changes from the prescribed
The Washington times., 1938-12-17

A CHILD BORN TODAY will
be Of an intense nature, fond of
artistic pursuits, travelling, meet
ing interesting people. This
child will be especially fitted for
stage or screen work and should
be encouraged to develop its
many talents. Politics and
world affairs have had many
noted Figures of this birthdate.
Curb stubborn tendencies.
This feature also appears IN
the Sunday Herald TimeS.)
The Washington times., 1938-12-17
BY Frances Drake
BY Aherm
BY Beck

nature, you'll experience helpful
adjustments.
Twin-City herald., 1938-09-10
F. D. R. SURE DIVINE rs GOOD
NEIGHBOR

Hyde Park, N. Y, Sept-(CNA)-
Speaking before 500 neighbors at the
annual outdoor meeting of the Roose-
velt Home Club, President Roosevelt
this week declared he was confident
that Father Divine's followers, his new
neighbors across the river, would
prove to be good neighbors.
I'm confident that the people in
that heaven in Ulster County will be
good neighbors to us here in Dutchess
County" F. D. R. said
The Presidents statement was APP
plauded by all present, including New
York's Mayor La Guardia, who with
his wife had taken five lchildren, in
Guiding the Negro son Of their cook,
to visit the nations Chief Executive
The youngsters dined together in the
Summer White House at side table
near the Presidents and later consum-
ed hot dogs and soda at picnic staged
on the Presidents 1000 acre Hyde
Park estate.
Twin-City herald., 1938-09-10
ALL QUIET ON THE
POLICY FRONT


Seemingly to have tired of picking
up the little men of policy, the writers
police active on the policy front have
seemingly decided to rest, forgetful OF
the fact that the "big shots" of the
racket have not been n1clested.
The tottering old gentlemen and
ladies, who are surviving by cid age
pensiones and relief, are taking their
daily constitutional in the direction OF
the policy shops.
The grizzled WPA workers and re-
liefers still refuse to abandon hope in
the twelve little numbers which mean
prosperity for the magnates, an occa-
sional exciting moment for the boys
and girls who dreamed wisely and well.
Apropos of the voodoo letter we re-
ceived last week, we wished we knew
how to make fifty dollars out of a
dime, if we did we assure you it would
make the front page of the Twin City
Herald.
Twin-City herald., 1938-09-10
Highway Department
Postponed Eviction

Negroes living along the proposed
route of Olson Boulevard will not be
evicted, according to statements re.
ceived from the State Highway De.
partment, until low rent houses in the
Sumner Field Slum Clearance Project
are available for occupancy.
Latitude was given the residents OF
the condemned area because the sever
ity of the handicap in finding proper
shelter for the group was realized.
Meanwhile bids have been requested
in the matter of wrecking or moving
buildings along the proposed boule-
ward.
Another mass meeting of citizens
has been called by the Citizens Volun-
teer Committee on Housing, to be held
at Phyllis Wheatley house at P. M.
There is vacancy in the Chairman
ship due to the resignation of c. E.
Rucker, Rev. Damon Young is at pre-
sent acting as Chairman According
to authorities on the housing project
itself, there have been no new develop
ments during the past week.
Twin-City herald., 1938-09-10
Mess Line

We wonder what would have hap.
pened, had the leaders in those days
when race policies were being moulded
had swung over to the theory of the
caste system, instead of the ultra demo
cratic attitude that has characterized
us.
There may be more than idle specu-
lation in this, when we stop to con-
slider that we are the only minority
group in America who are actually
submitted to special laws regarding our
conduct off reservations. These laws
were not result of misunderstanding
than any particular group of acts that
set us apart from the rest of the hu-
man family. 1t strikes us that they
were caused as much by the peculiar
mental attitude of the white, as they
were by any remiss on the part of his
darker brother.
sincerely believe that there is hard
ly Negro in America today, that is
not considered the only good Negro in
America, by some particular white per-
son.
No matter how much a white man
may hate Negroes, somewhere along
the line he finds one that is different.
Suppose all of the white men, when
they were planning just what course to
pursue in regard to treatment of the
Negro, had heard the entreaty of some
of our leaders to discriminate between
the good and the bad, rather than make
the good suffer with the bad. A SEN
sible plea, that undoubtedly would have
gwen birth to a caste system. Those
OF the pure would necessarily have to
have some means of identification, and
it would naturally have to be in either
the raiment or some badge to set them
apart We~fear that in the matter of
identity would have been the weakness
and perhaps the ultimate destruction OIL
Twin-City herald., 1938-09-10
IS MINNEAPOLIS ASKING
FOR 1T AGAIN

Two years ago Minneapolis was
rocked, and the colored citizens of
the twin cities were placed in an
embarrassing position by the arrest
and conviction of Rayfield Johnson,
charged with high immoral crime.
Minneapolis is again being over
run by panderers who seem to have
found that we offer refuge from the
heat that is now going on in Chi
cago and St. Louis.
Should another scandal of such
proportions occur here, we wonder
if the attitude of the white citizen
ry toward our group, will be as lib
eral and forgetful as it was in the
past?
Many decent citizens lost their
jobs and many jobs were closed en-
tirely to Negroes due to the pres
sure of prejudice engendered in the
other case. We respectfully urge
all citizens interested in the well
fare of their community, and in
their individual security take some
measures to prevent another holo-
caust.
Twin-City herald., 1938-09-10
JUDGMENT SATISFIED IN
SHAMWELL CASE
DODSON CASE APPEALED

The Federal Drug Company, cor
poration recently sued by Earl Sham
well, has satisfied judgment in the
case. Hs
Mr.. Shamwell was represented by
Attorney R. Augustine Skinner. In tn,
case of Miss Nellie Dodson, The
Bridgman Ice Cream Store, has filed
an appeal requesting that the case be
removed to municipal court to be tried
before jury.
In view of the fact that the judg-
tnents in these cases were so small, it
is assumed that the attorney for Bridg-
mans is making a desperate effort to
find some loophole whereby the po-
tency of the law may be destroyed.
The former plea that an offensive
odor rather than color discrimination
was responsible for refusal of service
to the group who accompanied Miss
Dodson, may hint at a new argument
to be advanced in the appealed case.
Judgment in each case was fifteen
dollars
Twin-City herald., 1938-09-10
AIR-LEAP RECORD BROKEN
BY WILLIE SUICIDE
JONES

Chicago, Ill-Willie "Suicide" Jonet
established a new worlds record fo
delayed parachute leaping here Sun
day. He stepped out of a plane near.
ly six miles in the air and landed safe
ly after travelling $50 miles per hour
on terra firna two and one-half min.
utes later.
The Memphis daredevil, who close
ly resembled an Eskimo when he
climbed into plane piloted by Major
Charles H. Wassel, white, United
States test pilot, fell a distance of
1900 feet before opening his chute
approximately 2,400 feet from the
ground. He bailed out at height of
2o,4O0 feet.
The jump which was the feature of
an air show staged at Markham field,
here, was inspired by desire on the
part of Jones to bring the worlds de
layed parachute jump record back to
the United States.
The old record was claimed by a
Russian, who descended from height
of 26,500 feet before pulling the rip
cord 500 feet from the ground.
Twin-City herald., 1938-09-10
LITTLE THEATER GROUP
ANNOUNCES MEETINGS

The Girls Work Department of
Phyllis Wheatley House is pleased to
announce the beginning of little
Theater Group" which will meet every
Tuesday and Thursday evening at
Phyllis Wheatley House at o'clock.
This dramatic group will be open to
all interested persons sixteen years and
older. Much interest has already been
manifested and great things are ex-
pected from this group. The Little
Theater Group" under the direction of
Mr.. Val Sandeen will hold its first
meeting Tuesday evening, September
18th at seven P. M.
Respectfully,
Ruth G. Hamlin,
Director of Girls
Work Depart.
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Twin-City herald., 1938-09-10
Wholesale Discrimination
Attempted At Fair Grounds
c. E. Rucker Wins One Man Fight
at Fair

The Minnesota State Fair brought a
new surprise to Negroes of Minnesota
when it flagrantly greeted them with
signs in various places stating that col
ored trade was not solicited.
Chief and largest of the offenders
was the eating house sponsored by Lu-
theran Church Organizations, which
have been very active recently in mis-
sionary work among Negroes of the
southland.
First news of the jim crow effort re-
suited in desultory telephone calls to
various officials, which produced small
results.
c. E. Rucker, Council Chairman of
the Minnesota Negro Council, threw
the matter squarely in the lap of the
State Attorney General, William s.
Erwin, who Immediately advised au-
thorities at the fair ground that anv
violations of the States Civil Rights
Law should be promptly placed under
arrest.
Vehement in his denunciation of the
attitude on the part of some of the
concessionairres in practicing discrim-
ination, the Attorney General pointed
out that not only persons actually in
dulging in the violations were liable to
court action, but that the State may
easily be involved in a legal battle
which it would have a small chance of
winning. He further emphasized the
fact, that it is the policy of the pres
ent administration to make no COM
promise where the rights of any citi-
zen are Threatened, and that such
rights at all times must be preserved.
Only one concession actually owned
and operated by Negroes was noticed
at the fair this year, the Oh Boy
Chicken Shack operated by Mrs. Ce-
leste Phelps.
Discrimination is becoming more
rampant in the Twin Cities, being
practiced by many of the larger Negro
businesses, as well as the white. At
least four places in St. Paul and Min
neapolis do not cater to or allow Ne
groes to patronize them.
Some of our veteran campaigners
for race rights and privileges believe
that vigorous campaign should be
launched against jim crowism in all
quarters, and among all groups.