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The Washington times., 1938-02-15
COUNCIL VOTES ;.
RAD|UM FUNDS
International News Photo

A grant of 100000 for the pur,
chase of five grams of radiurn to
be used in the treatment of can.
Ger and a $4,000 appropriation for
establishment of a "tumor' library
were voted last night by members
o. the National Advisory Cancer
Council meeting in Washington.
Part of the radium will be dis.
tributed to State cancer centerS
and the remainder will be kept
here for use in the National Can.
Ger Institute soon to be construct
ed in Bethesda, Md.
The rrant for "tumor" library
was made to the Army Medical
Museum here for collection and
registry Of cancerous and other
tumors, in addition to complete
medical histories of persons from
whom the tumors were taken.
DR.. Lugwig Hektoen, director Of
the council, said considerable
sums" had been granted for the
modern cancer center to be built
adjoining the Marine Hospital In
Baltimore.
The Washington times., 1938-02-15
4 4CHARGES FACE
DRIVER IN CRASH

ALEXANDRIA, Va, Feb. 15.-A
driver, arrested in Washington last
night after a collision here ir
which one person was injured
faced four charges in police court
today.
The driver, Roy L, Williams, 80
Of the 300 block of South Caro-
lima Ave. S. E., Washington, was
charged with leaving the scene Of
an accident, operating an automo
bile while under the influence OF
liquor, reckless driving and collid
ing.
Police said Williams car crashed
into the rear of an automobile
operated by Walter Boyd, %, col
ored, of Sparrow's Point, Md.
which was halted for a traffic
light on the Alexandria,
ton Road at Hume Avenue.
Sally M. Langford, 26, of the 500
block of Tennessee Ave. N. E., who,
police said, was a passenger in
Williams car, was treated at Provi-
dence Hospital, in Washington, Tor
possible fractured ribs.
The Washington times., 1938-02-15
Wakens Wife,
Is Divorced

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. is d.N.sJ.
Sometimes, when Otis G. Gar.
rett, film director, arrived home
late at night, he would awaken
his wife, the former Earlene
Heath, the "Bluebonnet Grip of
the 1886 Texas Exposition, by
throwing his shoes all over the
bedroom.
"And when protested" she
had told a superior court judge
today in her divorce action, che
would swear at me-"
She was granted a divorce and
custody of their baby son.
The Washington times., 1938-02-15

A 15-year-old boys loyalty to his
school is believed by police 10 have
prompted his disappearance from
home.
The boy is Eugene Crozier
whose family recently moved from
the southeast section to 615 Nine
teenth st. N. W. Because of the
change of address, school authori
ties transferred young Crozier
from the Hine Junior High School
to the Powell Junior High School
But the boy demurred at leaV'
ing the old school. Police learned
he gave the certificate of transfer
to another boy, who, when he pre-
sented it at the Powell School was
refused admission. Yesterday
young Crozier was told at the
Hine School, he would have to
make the transfer. He left the
school and has not been seen since
Two other persons were report
ed missing to police. Norman
William Richards, IA, Of 510O
block G st. S. E., left his home
and his parents told police he may
be headed either for Chesapeake
Beach or Charlottesville, Va,
where he has friends. The other
is Lois Elenore Simms, IS, miss
ing from her home in Riverdale,
Md, since 2 p. m. yesterday.
The Washington times., 1938-02-15
Baby Slain; Unwed
Mother Accused

NEW YORK, Feb. IS G.N.S0'
Physicians said today that Jo'
hanna Myklann, 32-year-old un'
wed mother who slashed her throat
yesterday after allegedly Staying
her newborn daughter, would re-
cover.
But Johanna didn't want to
live. She preferred death. she
sobbed, to naming the child's
father. Authorities said that if
the woman lives, she will be
charged with murder.
The Washington times., 1938-02-15
ak Protest
Sales be6y Opposed
By Citizen Group

Opposition to a District sales
tax and to the present business
privilege tax was voiced yester-
day in a letter to the House Dis.
trict Affairs subcommittee by the
Citizens Committee on Fair Tax
alton of the United Federal Work.
ers Of America.
The committee opposed the
sales tax because "it is not based
on ability Of the consumer to pay"
The business privilege tax was hit
because 'it is in reality a sales
tax"
A corporation profits tax on the
net profits and a graduated per-
Sonal income tax on all incomes
earned in the District were recon-
mended as substitute revenue-raiS.
ing measures.
The Washington times., 1938-02-15
Prayer Answered,
Clothes Returned

MAYSVILLE. Ohio, Feb. IS
G.N.S0.-Someone stole J. H.
Clarke's hat and overcoat while
he was attending church. Being q
religious person Clarke figured the
Lord would see that the wearing
apparel was discovered. Sure
enough! A few days later the ap-
parel was seen walking down the
street with someone else in it. The
alleged thief was turned over to
police,
The Washington times., 1938-02-15
State Will Demand
Penalty of Death
For O'Connor Girl
Prosecution to PrOUe First Degree Murder
In Philadelphia Puddle Staying of Child

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. Is 0NS.) 1.-THE Commonwealth
will then show that done with premedtaton and will
seek to raise the to first degree
The Washington times., 1938-02-15
Student "CritiCs"
Fined S. Each

ANN ARBOR, Mich, Feb. Is
G.N.SO.-Four University Of Mich
igan freshmen who expressed their
dislike of a movie with alarm clock
gongs today paid IS each in court
costs after they pleaded guilty to
disturbing the peace charges. The
four. Marvin Skowronek. Summer
vile, N. j., and Glenn Kendell,
Robert Hague and Edward Pun
man, all of Birmingham, Mich,
set the alarm clock off at regular
intervals to show their dislike.
The Washington times., 1938-02-15
PeephOle Provides
Privacy for Cops

PITTSBURGH, Feb. IS G.N.S)
Chalk up something new today in
police station equipment-to wit,
a wall with peephole.
Suburban Avalon Borough Of
ficials replaced the railing Gus
tomarily found in police stations
with a wall, equipped with a YES
tibule and peephole. 1t insured
more privacy. they said,
The Washington times., 1938-02-15
RAIL HEADS NAMED

CLEVELAND, Feb. Is G.N.S0.
Charles E. Denny, president of the
Erie railroad, and John A. Had
den, Cleveland attorney, yesterday
were appointed trustees of the
railroad by Federal Judge Samuel
H. West. Both appointments
must be approved by the Inter
state Commerce Commission.
The Washington times., 1938-02-15
Mother, 4 Children
Barred From u. S.

BOSTON, Feb. 15.-Leaving her
husband and her youngest child.
girl Of 5, in this country, Mrs.
Abraham Joseph sailed on the
Cunard White Star liner Samaria
with her four other children, all
deported because they have ira
choma, an eye disease.
The mother and five children
came from Arabia to join the
father, who had established him.
self in New York and become a
citizen, but all except the young
est was found to have the disease
and they never got beyond the i'm
migration station in east Boston.
The Washington times., 1938-02-15
Fort Stevens Post
Ball Is Saturday

The sixth birthday ball Of Fort
Stevens Post of the American
Legion will be held Saturday eve
ming at the Indian Spring Coun-
try Club.
Arrangements for the birthday
celebration are being made by a
committee headed by Vice Com
lmander Harold w. Britain.
The Washington times., 1938-02-15
WRIGHT S A n E,
3 3AL|ENISTSSAY;
VERDICT WAITS
Jurors Resume Study
Of Evidence Today

LOS ANGELES, Feb. Is d.N.So.
The jury deciding the insanity plea
of Paul A. Wright, killer Of his wife
and John B. Kimmel, was to re.
sumo deliberations today.
Wright, found guilty Of man.
slaughter by the same jury of four
women and eight men Saturday,
sat through a one-day sanity trial
yesterday on his plea of not guilty
by reason of insanity.
The case was given to the jury
late yesterday, and when the jurors
failed to reach a verdict by 10
Ip. m, they we're sent to bed.
THREE COURSES OPEN
Should this jury find that
Wright was sane when he shot
Evelyn Wright and Kimmel on No
vember 9, his mansalughter convic-
ton stands.
Should the jurors find he was
temporarily insane he will be
freed, and if they fail to reach an
agreement, it will be necessary to
impane' another jury and retry
the entire case.
This is because a second jury
would not have heard the testi-
mony concerning the shooting.
Wright, IN i'll health as the re-
suit of heavy cold during the
final days of his long trial, waited
in the court room for an hour
after the jury retired yesterday
and then went back to his cell. He
appeared tired and nervous.
His present sanity was not in
question. The plea, covered only
the actual minutes during which
he killed his two victims, when, he
claimed, he found them in an I'M
usual embrace.
BELIEVE HIM SANE
The only testimony was that Of
three court-appointed alienists
and Chief E. H. Adams of the Bur.
bank police, a business associate
Of Wright.
The three alienists, Drs. Gus
tave Boehme, jr., M. E. Rowe and
Victor Parkins, all declared in
their opinion Wright was sane
when he killed his wife and Kim
mel.
Chief Defense Counsel Jerry
GieSler called no witnesses, but
created a furor in the court room
when he delivered an argument
defending his conduct in the muir
der trial.
The Omaha guide., 1938-06-11
Home For COlOred
Women, Girls, Open

The Phyllis Wheatley Club of
South Omaha will open the Home
for colored girls and women at
1928 South oath ST., Sunday June
18th, 1888.
This Home is for colored women
who make small wages and for
girls who have no homes. Our OBJ
ject is to moke this Rome self
supporting and give employment
to as many girls and women as
possible.
Our friends are asked to help
us with donations of money and
household furnishings. We wish
to thank tHose who have helped
Any woman in need of a friend
may call on this institution for as
sistance.
Mr.. C. M. Farmer, Mrs. Anna
Austin, Mrs. Lydio Austin, are tn
committee who have succeeded
thus far in getting the institution
going. Vesper services at 400 o.
clock, Tea from 500 to 500 Sun
day evening.
The Omaha guide., 1938-06-11
Judge Cobb To Fioht
For Job at Howard

Washington, June 9 (ANP)-
Calm on Howard University's sea
does not appear to last very long.
for scarcely has one wave receded
before another billow rolls. This
time James A. Cobb, ESQ, one of
the city's most prominent LAWYERS
has instituted proceedings in which
he asks that the District Court is
sue an injunction to restrain Ho-
ward university from removing
him as a professor of law. The
board Of trustees has ordered his
removal as Of date June 30. ATTY
Cobb has taught at the university
since 1919. He blames differences
between himself and the president
OF the university as a basis for his
removal.
The Omaha guide., 1938-06-11
Teachers Get Grant
For Library Study

Hampton Institute, Va, June {
(ANP)-The American Library
Association of Chicago, through
the financial assistance of the
General Education Board of New
York, is assisting Negro teachers
in-service in the field of teacher
Guardianship to attend the Hamp-
ton Institute Summer School which
will open on June 13.
Last summer AZ Negro teachers
followed p. carefully made plan in
library science. For the 1888
Summer school, plans have been
made to take care of 33 teachers
who will complete the work which
was begun in 1887.
It was also announced that the
American Library Association is
ready to start a new group of
teacher-librarians I'M their course
covering two summers of work in
three fields: Adolescent Literature,
High-School Reference Materials,
and tn Management of School Lii
braries.
The Omaha guide., 1938-06-11
Defend Wage,
Hour Agree
nent

New York City, June 9 (ANP)
-Answesring a recent statement
by I. j. Reid, president of the
Pullman Porters and Maids Pro-
teetiye Association that $500 por-
ters have recently lost their jobs
or been furloughed and holding the
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Por-
ters responsible for the Pullman
employees predieament, A. Philip
Randolph, international president
of the Brotherhood this week
branded the charges as pure "com-
peny union propaganda" and mis-
representation. Declared President
Randolph.
Concerning the charge that 3
500 porters have lost their jobs or
been furloughed, in the first place,
this is not true. In the second
place, the several hundred porters
who have been furloughed would
have been furloughed if the Bro
therhood was not in existence. The
Pullman Company has been fur
Laughing porters ever since there
mas been 2 Pullman company, at
the close of seasonal business, such
as the winter and summer resort
seasons This is so simple and OBJ
vious to anyone in the railroad
business that to raise it as a cri-
ticism of the Brotherhood is redi-
culous.
They charge also that there are
700 Filipinos in the service. that
white hostesses have supplanted
eolored maids, implying that the
brotherhood is responsible for it.
How true is this? It is simply n
tissue of misrepresentation. Ac-
cording to Mr.. Kelly, vice presi-
dent and attorney for the Pullman
Company in 1884, there were less
than 400 Filipinos in the service.
working on club cars. is there any
sane reason to assume that the
number would increase whileAbus-
mess got worse? Of course not.
But the Brotherhood cannot pre-
vent the company from employing
Continued on Page q
The Omaha guide., 1938-06-11
Girl Wanted Some
thing TO~Eat; Put In
Jail
GIRL INDICTED FOR
SENDING PRESIDENT
A THREATING NOTE

Topeka, Kan, June I'm Jail
here since last December on a
charge Of sending a threading let
ter to President Roosevelt, the
plight of Miss Lucille Harris, Is
years old, has attracted wide at
tention among Kansans of both
races.
Lest Friday the Federal grand
jury returned an Indictment
against the girl charging her with
sending through the mails a threat
to kill the president. She is being
represented by Atty. Elisha Scott.
Interested in her cas- has been
aroused because of her winning
personality and intelligence, and
her solicitude for her mother, an
invalid living in Virginia. Her
father is dead; she is a member
of the Roman Catholic church.
Miss Harris found herself
stranded here last winter without
a job when the army officer she
had been working was transferred
to another city. Her futile quest
for a job and the circumstances
which prompted her to write the
damaging letter.
She explained "After being With
out a job for over a week applying
to welf0re authorities, begging for
work and being turned down go
ing without food for five days.
knowing of no one else to ask for
aid, | thought surely I could write
the President of the United States
telling him of my situation as
best l could. l wrote him and I re-
ceived no answer, I grew franctic
and wrote again what they call
p "threating" letter. l don't re-
member just what l wrote, but /
dinn't know I had written any
thing wrong until I was arrested
at Junction City, Dec. %, 1887 and
brought to Topeka on Christmas
day"
The Omaha guide., 1938-06-11
Relief Bill Includes Two Milton
Dollars For household Workers

Washington, June 9-The first
federal legislation specifically in
Guiding benefits for household
workers was recommended for
passing to congress last week by
the powerful Senate Approprio-
lions committee in charge of the
presidents four billion dollar re-
lief bill.
The language of Joint Resolu-
ton 679 continuing work relief
for 1898 to March, 1899. specifi-
cally appropriated 285 million dol
lars for white collar projects end
enumerated them as educational,
professional, clerical, culture. re-
creational, production, service. and
miscellaneous non-construction
products" This favorable action
of congress came as a result of the
presentation before the House and
Senate Appropriations committee
of the recent survey of the u. S.
Employment Service, by Edgar G..
Brown, president of the United
Government Employees Inc, point
ing out there were four hundred
thousands available jobs through
out the country for trained house
hold workers.
Congressman and senators
agreed with the plan and recon-
mendation of Mr.. Brown to expend
2 million dollars to furnish house
hold workers training centers I'M
der WPA in $50 cities and to hire
some 600 colored graduates in
home economies rs taachers Of
The Omaha guide., 1938-06-11
Man In Court
House :.

BirminghamaAla., June 9-H. E.
'Colburn, white who shot and killed
John Lewis Smith, a young Negro
m the corridor of, the court house
here May IL, just as the colored
Trisoner had been sentenced to 80
years for carmel knowledge of Col
burns z year old daughter, has
been refused bail and will be held
in Jail pending trial on the charges
of first degree murder.
The Birmingham branch of the
NAACP registered protest with
the city authorities on the cold
blooded shooting of Smith and ask
ed that the law take its course.
Colburn was searched when he
entered the court room on the
morning young Smith was tobe
sentenced. About ten minutes be-
fore sentence was passed. Colburn
left the courtroom and when Smith
was being moved to an elevator
to take him to the Jail on the
eight floor, Colburn suddenly pa
peared and fired six shots into
the convicted man who died almost
instantly.
The Omaha guide., 1938-06-11
Coronation of King
and Queen, Monday
Night, June 9th

Mr.. Charles Dickerson sr. King
Borealis VIII and Miss Alernon
Pryor Queen Aurora VIII were
crowned at the 9Th annual fCoro-
nation Pageant sponsored by st.
Phillips church. = ,
The Pageant opened wjth- Choir
ais by the Sunday Music Club con-
Quoted by Mrs. Alyce Wilson.
The trumpeters were Lawrence
Parker, and Llyod Marshall; Mr..
w. Gaitha Pegg was Grand Poten-
tate; The crown-bearei was Ken
meth Young; Pages. to the King
were Lewis Waites and Harold
Mcdonald. The Princesses were
Dovie Carter, Elizabeth Davis
4tllia Gordon, Margaret Dortch,
%ay L. Harris, Lorraine Irving,
Mary III. Virgins, Pauline Will
liams, Louise Wright, Betty Jean
James, Elaine Mease, Marian
Shaw, Elnora Smith, Marion
Stewart, Francis Thomas, Ouch
esses were: Daisy Cole, Rachel
Covingtoh, Darlene Craig, Anna
Franklin, Mary Greene, Althea
Lightner, Hortense Harper, Pearl
Winston, Olive Willis, Mable Rich
ardson, Ora Mae Milan, r. Louise
Newand.
The C~ountesses were: Korea
Clark st. Joseph, Mo, Geraldine
Cooper, Texarkana Ark, Marga-
ret Griggs, Marysville, Mi Betty
Majors, Macon Mo. Celia Miehan
White, Lincoln, Nebr.
Flower girls were Barbara Sell,
Shirley Curry, Ruth D~elespine
Elaine Embry, Beverly Ann Ma
olson, Valaria Joan McCaw, Evelyn
Rogers, Joan Squires, Mary Ine2
Hunter, Barbara Walker. The
crown bearer was little Ritchetta
Lewis, ring bearer was Margit
Payne, and J. Carey jr. was Page
with Kenneth Rogers.
The Committee was headed by
Mrs. Cecilia Jewell. 1t was a beau
tiful affair and very successful.
The Omaha guide., 1938-06-11
HUSBAN Md XII. IS
AAHuW HELD
& BOND &

Mrs. Hattie Brownlow Knight,
58, was shot to death by her hus-
band, Joseph Knight, So at their
home 2810 Ohio St., at 1856 4. M.
Monday morning. According to
Mr.. Knight, the shooting "a the
result of five years of family
trouble. Knight stated that he
had returned from work where he
was employed as @ night watch
mar and janitor; and that he and
his wife had >. quarrel in which
he decided to nov from the
home. He said, that he started TO
pack his clothes and in his bed
room and saw his wife coming at
him with a knife; and he grabbed
his gun and shot her in the door
way of the kitchen. Mrs. Knight
then ran to the yard where some
more shots were fired, five bull
lets entered Mrs. Knights body.
Knight waived preliminary hear
ing and was bound over to district
court for trisl. The charge is LIST
degree murder. He is being held
without bail.
Mrs. Knight was a very active.
worker at Bethel AME. Church,
the Eastern Star of which she wos
Grand Matron, and leaves to
mourn her passing, one son Don
aid Brownlow and a host of
friends. The body is at the Mey-
ers Funerol Home. AS we go to
press final arrangements for the
burial have not been made
The Omaha guide., 1938-06-11
BilbO Tirage Against
Negroes Falls Flat

Washington, Dc, June 34Thg
four hour speech by Senator Theos
dore G.. Bilbo of Mississippi "A
gainst Negroes, urging deport2
atom of $4,000, 900 colored people
to Africa in order to solve the uns
employment problem, fell flattet
than a pancake. #aa
The Bilbo TRADE was so nausz5
eating and so silly, by turns, that
the Mississippi race hater did not
have even a half dozen senators to-
listen to him. AS soon as he got
into his speech they left the floors
Bilbo admitted after his talk
hat he really did not wish to make
an amendment to the relief blk
as he stated in order to get the
floor, but solely to make a speech
against Negroes. This admis-
sion Disguised the senators and
even the veteran news c%orrespon-
dnts so that Bilbo did not get one
tenth the publicity he expected
even in the southern press. Ono
of the ~so-c7lled wisecracks of the
speech was the quotation God
created the whites. I know not
who created the blacks. Surely
a devil created the mongrels."
Bilbo has served a term in jail
for contempt of court, once adj
mitted a charge of bribery, and
was once indicted for corruption.
In spite of this he served three
years in the Mississippi state leg
islature ana was twice elected gov
ernor. IT. was elected to the SEN
ate four Years ago.
The Omaha guide., 1938-06-11
Says Farley Sane
When He Slew
Deputies .
WHITE REVENGE SLAYER
is HELD WITHOUT BOND

Los Angeles, June 9 (ANP)-
Shattering the hopes of many citi-
ems who had hoped to see George
Farley go FREQ, the jury in Super
ior Judge In~all w. Bulls court
returned a verdict last Friday that
he was sane when he shot to
death two white deputy city mar
shols last February.
Farley hal already been convict
ed last week on two counts of man
slaughter after the all-white jury
had been deadlocked for more than
p hours, A pandemonium of
cheering and rejoicing had broken
out in the court corridors by the
The Omaha guide., 1938-06-11

+. MISS ALGERNoN PRYOR,
QUEEN AURORA VIII. Miss
Pryor is the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. r. P. Pryor. She is a grad
ucte of North High School and
very prominent in st. Phillips
Church activities. She S also very
popular in the younger social set
MIR. CHARLES DICKERSON
Sr., KING BOREALIS VIE Mr.,
Dickerson is a veteran employee
of the Omaha National Bank. He
has for years been active in the
Episcopal Church. He has also
been very active in the Masonic
Lodge of Nebraska, having served
as Grand Master of the State
Lodge.
The Omaha guide., 1938-06-11

crowd that had packed the court
room for over q. week. Mrs. Farley
the accused elderly wife who had
broken down in tears several times
during the trial had hysterically
wept, laughed and wept, embrace
ing Loren Miller, brilliant young
attorney head of defense, had kiss
ed him on the cheek again end
again.
All the local group and many
white had hopedl for an acquittal
on a verdict of "Not guilty by rea-
son of insanity" which would have
automatically freed Harley from
the manslanghter conviction. Their
hopes were braced up the stronger
due to the fact tina he was being
tried before the same judge and
Continued on Page p
The Omaha guide., 1938-06-11
School Founder
Visits Omahans

Professor Floyd Brown, found
err and President of Fargo Agri-
cultural School at Fargo. Ark
anscs, visited at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. A. Hamler, 961 North
18th St. Professor Brown has
met with much success sinee the
rounding of the school at Fargo
seventeen years ago. He left for
Lincoln, Nebraska, Saturday June
4th.
The Omaha guide., 1938-06-11

these projects. Members of con-
gress were impressed with the ex-
perimentol household training cen
ter sponsored by the United Gov
eminent Employees organization
under the leadership of Mrs. Eliza
beth H. McDuffie, for the past
three month, just two blocks from
the senate and house office build
ings on Capital Hill in Washing
ton.
The Omaha guide., 1938-06-11
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