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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-09
Caroline Chatfield
DEAR MISS cHATF1ELD:
Saw To-day
as Is.

DEAR MISS CHATFIEID:
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 y well that he hasn't changed one bit and know when right thing by everybody. PERPLEXED ANSWER:
 Maybe you poor a got a Indian should have been married but that married hfe the arguments all in favor of your going back
 you your long husband divorce the deseon casting around for another wife and wouldn't take him long fool another since wants fooled husband home that Wouldn't this heart out by the roos yourself suppanted another moving into your placer
 claim them It's his father and his home and happens less disposition will need husband help that little 
 go try your might main to let husband feel that he free despite the fact that he's married Many husbands free hunting and fishing take their buddes and home to wives who welcome without exhibiting wounded feelings and reproachfu gances No doubt of these wise wives have shed few But they knew better than o be disasreeable when their Nimrods and went
 Presumably not until the millennium will poor
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-09

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-09

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-09
ANSWER:

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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09
Cullum Says Horace Bell
Most Powerful Kicker
Minnesota Has Ever Had

It is not often that the opponent
receiving a kickoff can start its
first scrimmage play any farther
up the field than the 20-yard line.
Most of the time it is not wise to
try to return the ball at all. Bet
ter take a touchback.
Bell is effective at kicking for
the extra point, too; and as long
as he is in the lineup or eligible to
be inserted he has a fair chance to
make a field goal from any point
inside the 30-yard line.
In guard play he has exceptional
speed. It is easy for him to pull out
of the line and get ahead of the
ball carrier. In fact, there will be
fewer faster guards around this
season. His blocking, however, is
not always consistent.
His agility makes him a fairly
competent defensive guard, too;
but there are others on the squad
who probably outrank him a little
on defense.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09
Urban League
AUX Elects
Years Officers

The Women's Auxiliary of the
st. Paul Urban League held its
first regular meeting of the season
September l at the home of Mrs.
Josie Williams, 657 Iglehart Ave.
Officers elected for the ensuing
year are: Mrs. Mary D. McFar-
land, president; Mrs. Gladys Wig
ington, vice-president; Mrs. Carrie
Robinson, secretary; Mrs. Iseta
Mcknight, assistant secretary; Mrs.
Carrie Lindsay, treasurer. Plans
were made for the reception for
Mr.. Clarence M. Mitchell, executive
secretary of the st. Paul Urban
League, and his bride, to be held
at the Halle Q. Brown Community
House Sunday, September 25, from
A to p. m.
Committees will be appointed at
the next regular meeting to be held
September Is at the home of Mrs.
Carrie Robinson, $50 w. Central
Ave.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09

In a series of short sketches of
Minnesota football players by Dick
Cullum, MINNEAPOLIS JOUR
NAL sports writer, Horace Bell,
Minnesota Race player, is given the
Cullum critical analysis.
Cullum writes of him:
Bell will start the season as a
regular guard and, although his
first team position may later be
challenged by Allen Rork, Don
Twedell younger brother of Fran
cis), Kenneth Hilbert, Bill Kuusis-
to or others, he is certain to play a
lot of minutes of football because
of his ability at place-kicking.
Without question he has the
most powerful kicking leg ever
to swing on a Minnesota football
field; and with his power he has
at least a moderate amount of ac-
curacy.
On the kickoff he can send the
ball well into the opponents end
zone in a high, lazy arc which
gives his mates abundant time to
cover it.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09
Insulting Signs
at State Fair
Ordered Down

Two days before the opening Of
the State Fair the st. Paul Re-
corder and the Minneapolis Spokes-
man received reports that some
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS on the
fair grounds were displaying large
signs reading "Colored Trade Not
Solicited"
Cecil Newman, publisher Of the
newspapers, Immediately protested
by phone to Raymond Lee, fair
secretary, and followed the phone
call by a communication by letter.
Mr.. Lee assured the paper by phone
Thursday that he would order the
signs removed.
Friday morning he called the
newspaper Office, saying that "the
matter had been disposed Of"
Refused Admission to Show
Sunday at the Fair Midway sew
eral colored citizens were refused
admittance to one of the shows OPP
Grated by the Royal American Car
nival, fair amusement concession
aires. Lathrop Rogers, teacher and
Minnesota Negro Council member,
reported the matter to C. E. Ruck-
er, Council chairman.
Attorney General Acts Promptly
Mr.. Rucker lodged a protest with
Attorney-General W. S. Erwin, who
Immediately notified Mr.. Lee that
Minnesota laws were being vio-
lated. He also instructed Assistant
Attorney-General Joseph Donahue,
who supervises State Fair police, to
warn all concessionaires that any
one refusing to serve any citizen
would have to suffer the conse-
quences.
In addition to the protest made
by the newspaper, the Minnesota
Negro Council sent fair officials a
strong protest.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09
Woman Pastor
Dies; Had Lived
Here Is Years

Mrs. Edwina Carr, 48, 315 18th
Ave. &c., resident of Minneapolis
for % years, died Monday.
Mrs. Carr, born in indianapolis,
was pastor of the General Assem-
bly, Church at 313 14th Ave. So.
She had been i'll for eight weeks
with heart trouble.
Funeral services will be held to-
day friday at / p. m. at the
church and at the Neal Funeral
Home chapel at 2:30 p. m.
Surviving her are a son, Leon
Lewis, sister, Mrs. Nancy Wat
kins, brother, Geo. Taylor, all of
Minneapolis, and a brother, Rev.
Dave Taylor, Of Cincinnati.
Rev. Herbert Davis of Leaven-
worth, Kans., will officiate at fu-
neral services.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09
Samuel Crosby,
st. Paul Taxi
Driver, Dies
PIONEER TAxIcAB MAN DIES

Samuel w. Crosby, So, 1854 St.
Anthony Ave., st. Paul, died at
Ancker Hospital Thursday, Sep
TENDER /. He was removed to the
hospital several days prior to his
death when he was stricken i'll at
the wheel of his car. Crosby had
operated taxicab in st. Paul fol-
over twenty years.
Funeral services were held Tues
day, September 6, at the McGav-
ock Mortuary, 697 Rondo St., with
Rev. J. w. Phelps officiating. The
deceased is survived by a brother in
Philadelphia and a sister in Balti-
more, neither of whom were pres
ent for the funeral services.
Interment was in Elmhurst
Cemetery. A. ]. McGavock Funeral
Home, Inc, had charge Of arrange
ments.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09
Boston Woman
Attempts Suicide
Husband Hero

Boston, Sept. 8 (ANP).-As the
climax of heated argument with
her husband last Tuesday night,
Mrs. Emma Walcott, 19-year-old
mother of two children, suddenly
walked out on the window ledge of
their third-foor apartment, threat
ened to throw herself to the street
so feet below.
Just as suddenly, however, she
changed her mind and a moment
later, hanging in a precarious po-
sition onto the window sill, her
ebbing strength about to catapult
her into the street below, she let
out a lusty scream for help. Her
husband reached her in time to
drag her back into the room.
Considerable excitement prevailed
in the crowd which gathered in the
street to watch the suspended
woman fall. Headed by Edgar
Bailey, several young men at
tempted to improvise a life saving
net to catch the woman should she
fall. Husband Walcott's heroic ac-
ton saved the day. A few min
utes later, police arrived at the
home and investigated the affair.
No arrests were made. The couple
have been married two years. The
husband is % years old.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09
.ar Push Ferries

Ms---~ ..er rush Ferries
In some parts of Europe they
have a neat way of making ferry
boats cross rivers without any ap-
parent motive power whatsoever.
They have no engine, neither do
they use wind, nor does man-power
or the strength of animals pull them
across. Instead, according to a
writer in the Philadelphia Inquirer,
the natives use the river itself to
push the boat across. A heavy
line Is stretched ACROSS the stream,
which must be clear and fairly
Swift-rnning at the crossing. The
line Is made tight and a pulley
attached. The pulley is fastened to
the boat In such a way as to keep
her pointed diagonally across the
current All that is now necessary
is to loosen the ropes holding the
boat to shore. The current press
ing against the side Of the boat,
which Is presented at, an angle;
drives the boat across at quite a
speed. When the return crossing Is
to be made, the boat Is turned to
cross the current in the other di-
rection and the current obediently
drives the boat back. As long as
the river runs the boat win cross,
without engines or work by its
crew.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09

David M. Hall of St. Paul, a
student at the West Virginia State
College, is one of the most active
and popular college men in the
East.
Graduate of Central High School
st. Paul, he is now a senior in
Business Administration at the
West Virginia school.
He is president of the Student
Council for 193S-39; poIemarch OF
Tau chapter, Kappa Alpha Psi fra
ternity, and vice-president of the
West Virginia Federation of Col
lege Students, comprised of repre-
sentatives from the Is white col
leges and universities and the one
Negro college of that state.
Mr.. Hall heads the State College
Chamber of Commerce; is a mem
Der of the John Dewey Society; a
cappella choir, and the Mems Glee
Club. He manages the college book
store, is a member of the college
boxing team and is listed in "Who's
Who Among Students in American
Colleges and Universities" which
lists outstanding students of the
nation.
Mr.. Hall is the son of David Hall
of Chicago. His mother was the
late Annie Hall, st. Paul newspa-
per woman.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09
Alabama Sends
for Man Who
Admits Murder

Alquin higgins, 28-year-old Ala
bamian who has been living in Min
neapolis for four years, will get
his wish. An Alabama sheriff is on
his way to Minneapolis to take
Higgins back to Shelby County.
Alabama, to stand trial for the
murder of his wife there five years
ago. ....
Higgins walked into detective
headquarters in Minneapolis last
Wednesday and announced that he
was wanted for murder in Ala
bama, explaining that if the Ala
bama authorities did not come for
him he would walk back to that
state.
He claimed that he shot his wife
accidentally in a scuffle after re-
turning from a rabbit hunt. Rig
gins, arrested after the death Of
his wife, escaped jail and wan
dered around for several months
finally coming to Minneapolis
where other relatives lived.
higgins told Minneapolis police
that he wanted to get the matter
cleared, though it may mean long
years in Jail or death by hanging
The killing occurred in Column
biana, Alabama. Sheriff c. H. Fore
of Shelby County is en- route tc
Minneapolis, according to Chief ot
Detectives James Mullen.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09

The Girls Work Department Of
Phyllis Wheatley House is pleased
to announce the beginning of a
"Little Theatre Group" which will
meet every Tuesday and Thursday
evening at Phyllis Wheatley House
at seven 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
expected from this group. The
'Little Theatre Group" under the
direction Of Mr.. Val Sandeen will
hold its first meeting Tuesday eve
ming, September 18th, at seven
P. M.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09

On August 9Th, while fighting a
fire he became i'll. Next day he
went to his summer cottage at
Russell Lake near Chisago City.
Funeral services will be held to-
day, Friday, from his home at 993
West Central, at 1000 A NJ, with
Rev. Victor E. Holly, rector of St.
Phillips Church, reading the serv-
ice. Mrs. Belle Salter Tyler will
sing.
Interment will be in Oakland
Cemetery. The McGavock Funer-
al Home, Inc, in charge of ar
rangements.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09

who will appear in her first re-
cital tonight friday at the Phyl-
lis Wheatley House at 8 p. m. She
will be accompanied by jeanette
Dorsey, head of the instrumental
department of music at Phyllis
Wheatley House.
Miss Hawkins, a student in the
music department at the Univer-
sity of Minnesota, is the only Ne
gro to receive the honor of being
high school commencement soloist.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09
NAMES MAKE NEWS

In this paper you will find hun
dreds of names of people you
know, people who are your friends,
people whom you admire every
week in the year.
There is no substitute for your
community paper. Subscribe to it
or buy it each weekday.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09
A LITTLE MORE

A little less frown;
A little less kicking a
Man when he's down;
A little more 'we,'
A little less II;
A little more laugh,
A little less cry;
A little more flowers on
The Pathway of life;
And fewer on graves at
The end of the strife"
"A little more kindness,
A little less creed;
A little more giving,
A little less greed,
A little more smile,
Exchange.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09
SWEEPSTAKES WINNER
WHO LOST TICKET, TO
COLLECT HER $4,000

New York, Sept. s-(ANP).-
Although Mildred Small lost a win
ming ticket last spring in the Irish
Sweepstakes worth $4,000, she
revealed last week she expected
through affidayits to soon have her
fortune.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09
Captain William Davenport
Succumbs at Lake Home
at ChisagO, Minnesota

Chsago City, Minn Sept captain William Davenport
Paul. Mnnesoa only Negro fire department captain dropped dead
here today at his summer home
Captain Davenport years DID, leading citizens
had been charge Engine House
Marion Streets. He lived 993 Central Avenue
He joined the ST. Paul promoted
captancy in 1928 serving with credit.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09
Howard Williams
Speaks at ROndO
FIN Meeting

The regular meeting of the Ron
do Farmer-Labor Club will hold
its regular meeting Sunday, Sep
TENDER IL, 1888, at 4 p. m. sharp
at 588 Rondo St., st. Paul, MINI.
Howard Y. Williams, candidate
for Congress in the Fourth District,
will speak.
The public is invited.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09
Seven Mill
City Boys at
CCC Camp

Seven Minneapolis youths are
members of Co. 725, Citizens Con-
servation Corps, at Cusson, MINI.
The boys are Wendell johnson,
Harold Jeffries, Henry Lacey,
Douglas Moses, Wesley Whitaker,
Frank Thomas, Thess Smallwood
and George A. Tyrell.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09
Sumner Field
Mass Meeting
Sunday Afternoon

A public mass meeting to dis
cuss the Sumner Field Housing
project will be held Sunday after
noon at a p. m. at Phyllis Wheat
ley House, Rev. Damon P. Young,
vice-chairman, announced Wednes-
day.
All persons interested in the
project should be present.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09
WHIST AND BRIDGE
TOURNAMENT AT
IOWA CLUB

A prize whist and bridge tour
nament will be held at the Mime
sota-Iowa Club, 343 18th st. So,
Minneapolis, Monday night, Sep
TENDER IL. Tournament begins at
8:15 p. m.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09

Wise sponsors Of public enter
tainments who want to show q
profit always utilize the columns
of this newspaper to reach pros
pective ticket buyers and patrons.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09
LEON BURNETT IN
ROCHESTER, HOSPITAL

Leon Burnett, 6O4 West Broad
way, st. Paul, has entered st.
Mary's Hospital, Rochester, Mimi,
where he win undergo an opera
ton. Mail will reach him at Room
226, that institution.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09

He will weigh about 1916 pounds
and is always in splendid condi-
ton. He plays a chatting, grinning,
spirited game. Seems to enjoy it.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09
No Guessing

You don't have to guess about
the friendship of firms which adj
vertise in this paper. They want
your business!-Advt.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09
OFF TO TUSKEGEE

Alexander o. Jordan, 662 st. An
thony Ave., left last week for Tus-
kegee, Alabama, where he attends
Tuskegee Institute.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09
TOO LATE

Much social news reached us too
late for publication.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09
Playing as Usual

Harlemites, after reading how
they were shellacked, have taken
the attitude that it is useless to cry
over spilled milk. A brand new
batch of policy bankers have
sprung to prominence overnight,
and the whole town is playing the
numbers, as usual, and showing
only the most casual interest in the
ultimate outcome Of the trial. In
terest will well up again when the
various Negro bankers and other
witnesses come up for sentence.
They agreed to turn States evil
dence and were allowed to plead
guilty to misdemeanors. The in
dictments against some of them
have been dropped.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09

Advertising campaign in this
paper will reach more Negroes
than any other method for less
mOney.-AdVt.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09
Free to Oil
Burner Users

Borg and Powers Furniture Com
pany, st. Paul, are Offering an un-
usual bargain this week in our adj
vertising columns.
Families who are in the market
for circulating heaters will do well
to read Borg and Powers great Of
fer in Norge heaters.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09
No Hiding Place

But the Fascists won't expel
them. They may eventually "paci-
fly" them and put them to work.
Selassie himself, but doubtless
Bayen, may before long show up in
Adds Ababa. The point in this lit
tie article is, that, all members of
the race, black or octOroon, should
stand up and be counted. For they
will find out, sooner or later, and
often very bitterly, that there is no
hiding place for them within the
white race. $50
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09

Courteous treatment assured
those wise folk who patrOnize this
papers advertisers.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09
Harlem Loses
Interest In
Numbers" Trial

view 1OrhJ Eoepb. O.-GNS&rO VIII
nesses, like actors in a big variety
show, have already said their piece
and are now practically out of the
picture in the big policy trial being
conducted in the New York SUI
preme Court by District Attorney
Thos. Dewey, New York's famous
rackets-busting prosecutor.
Essentially, the trial is an at
tempt by the District Attorneys
office to expose the tieup between
graft and politics. 1t has been
made all the more dramatic be-
cause the chief defendant is New
York's most powerful politician,
James ]. (Jimmy) Hines. It is
Dewey's contention that Hines ac-
cepted a weekly fee Of between
$500 and $3.50 per week to Elk" the
courts and hamstring the police de-
partment for a group of white
gangsters who were operating the
policy racket in Harlem between
1881 and 1886.
Taken For Ride
The trial has been full of shock
ing revelations of the cupidity of
Negro bankers, who, with astound-
ing meelmess, turned all their
profits over to the gangsters and
went to work for them for an aver
age of $75 per week. During much
of this period, the gangsters were
having the winning number fixed at
the race tracks and the Harlem
public, which was playing about
$4,000 day on the numbers, was
taken for a grand ride.
District Attorney Dewey played
his ace in the hole last week when
he produced the first piece Of docu-
mentary evidence purporting to
prove that Politician Hines received
remuneration from the racket. A
check for $500 was produced, which
the prosecution claimed was paid
to Mr.. Hines by a sister of Richard
(Dixie) Davis, the self-confessed
attorney for the racket.
In presenting the check, the Dis
trict Attorney conceded that the
signature 81. Hines" on the back
of the check, was not in the hand
writing of the defendant, unless
the handwriting was disguised
Another important witness last
week was Attorney Max D. Steur
famous trial expert, who testified
for the State that Politician Hines
had asked him on one occasion il
he would care to handle an income
tax case for Arthur Dutch Shultz)
Flegenheimer, who was admittedly
the brains of the policy empire,
Schultz was murdered in Newark
in 1885.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09
Ethiopia Open
To Jews Who
Italy Exiles
Fascist Action Raises New Prob
lem for Halle Selassie; Belief
Prevalent That All EthiOpians
"Semites'
BY Willis N. Higgins

New York, Sept. 8.-The recent
Fascist decree expelling Jews from
Italy and certain Italian territories,
probably will not be rigidly applied
to Ethiopia, if at all. Up to the
Italo- Ethiopian war, all Philippians
were loosely considered to be
"Semites," especially the Amhara
"ruling race" to which Emperor
Halle Selassie belongs.
"Shangallas"
The ruling clique in Ethiopia, has
long scorned the "Shangallas," an
ex-Ethiopian word for the Ameri-
can term NEGRO" when used in its
most corrupt and basest form. MOI
did the Ethiopians, before the war
seek, in any sincerity, any form OF
genuine con-fraternity with black
men in the Americas.
The war proved that the Ethio-
plans are all Negroid, all members
of the black race. Such is grudg-
ingly backed up by Selassie
through his American representa-
tive, DIR. Bayen, who is now in Har-
lem yelling, "Black Men, Black
Men, Black Men," louder but less
earnestly than Carney ever did.
Where Will "Black Jews" Go?
If the Fascists apply the decree
to Ethiopia and hold the erstwhile
"Semites" to their racial record, be-
fore the war, where would they
go? Not to Palestine. Not tx
French or British territory. Not
even to East New York. Some Of
them might come "Home to Har.
lem," as a few have already beer
wise enough to do.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09

The greatest genius is never so
great, as when it is chastised and
subdued by the Highest Reason
Cotton.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09

No man ever offended his own
conscience, but first or last it was
revenged upon him for it.-SOuth.