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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-07-14

The Womens Improvement Associa-
ton held its July meeting, on Thurs
day at Plainfield, the home of Mrs.
William w. Moore. Miss Mary Ma
eruder presided and the usual items
OF interest were contributed by the
members. Mrs. Ivan Weld reported on
the Community Council. Miss Eliza
beth T. Stabler will be hostess for the
next meeting at "The Cottage.
Mrs. William Dinwiddie entertained
her cousins, Mrs. William Dosher and
Miss Lucy Peasants at a luncheon
and bridge on Wednesday.
Miss Mary and Lille Stabler were
hostesses at a family party on their
lawn at "Edgewood" July 4. The
Misses Stabler also held a dinner
party of ten on Thursday.
The Horticultural Society met on
Thursday at the home of Mr.. and
The Omaha guide., 1938-12-24
Staying OF FOUR NEGROES
IN WEEK AROUSES CITIZENS
TWO OTHERS DIE AS RESULT
OF OLD SHOOTINGS; DEC
BEGINS AS MONTH OF
VIOLENCE; YEARS
TOTAL TO 80

Kansas City, Mo.,-Four Negroes
were slain here by Negroes dur
ing the seven days of last week.
Two others died from results of
old shootings.
Last weeks toll of four lives
brings the number of violent deaths
among Negroes to the appalling to-
tai of 80 so far in 1888.
This record of violence which
ushered in the month of Deem
Der has aroused citizens here like
nothing else has done in recent
years. Many have telepphoned The
Call asking that Something be
done to stop the march of the
slaper."
Heads of civic organizations and
clubs are outspoken in their de-
mands that the killers be brought
The Omaha guide., 1938-12-24
MO-. U. GRADUATE LAUDS
GAINES DECISION

New York, Dec. Pat least
one graduate of the University of
Missouri is happy over the sup
RENE court decision ordering the
state university TO open its doors
to Negro citizens for professional
training.
The graduate is George Hamil-
ton Combs, Jr., white liberal law
yer and a news commentator who
broadcasts every evening over radio
station WIN here.
In his broadcast, December IL,
Combs termed the decision one of
the "milestones witnessing the pro-
gress of the Negro race"
"Your reporter" he AIDED, "has
only this to say-that a san alum
nus of the University of Missouri
and of that law school, this is one
decision of the Supreme Court
which he heartily applauds-it is
democracy at work."
The Omaha guide., 1938-12-24
BROTHERHOOD TO EXPRESS
VOICE IN REORGANIZINGs
THE RAILROAD PROGRAR

New York, City December i5@
According to information received
at the international Headquarters
of the Brotherhood of Sleeping
Car Porters, pit w. 125th Street,
plans are being developed for the
Brotherhood to express its voice
in the determination of legislative
policies for the reorganization OF
the Railroads of the nation along
with the two tone standard rail-
road unions and the great railway
carriers.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
following the settlement Of the dis
pute between the railway carriers
and their employees on the proposed
Is per cent cut, appointed 2 COIN
mittee composed of representatives
of carriers and railway unions. to
formulate a program of railroad
reorganization to submit to the
forthcoming Congress. states a
Philip Randolph, International
President of the Brotherhood.
The Omaha guide., 1938-12-24
Catholics Demand All
State Universities Admit
ll'Negro Students

New York, Dec. 81 (C)-In a
dramatic editorial, Checking the
Epidemic of Prejudice" the In
terracial Review, 200 West 42th
Street published by the Catholic In
terracial Council, in its current is
sue unfolds a six point program IN
which extremely progressive de-
mands are made in behalf of the
Negro.
Among the points are, that eve
ny state university should admit
Negro students, ALL public hospi-
tails should admit colored internes
and nurses, and that EVERY labor
organization and local union should
admit Negroes to membership on
the basis of equality.
Other points are that the anti
lynching bill should be enacted at
the next session OF Congress; the
President should integrate the alb
clifton of racial Determinations in
to his program for economic recov-
cry, and that public service COM
missions should insist that all pub
lie utility corporations comply with
the provisions of the laws against
racial discriminate min employ
ment.
"Justice and consistency require"
says the editorial, "that American
principles be applied to ALL Amer
leans. The Negro is entitled to the
The Omaha guide., 1938-12-24
HEAD WOUlD ADMIT WHITE
ARK. COtLEGE NEGROES
To UNIVERSITIES

Richmond, Va. Dec. 16-Reply-
ing to a question from the Rich
mond Times Dispatch on what to
do about the U. S. Supreme courts
ruling that the University of Miss
ouri must admit q Negro to its
law school, DIR, John Hugh Rey-
holds, president of Hendrix college,
(white) conway, Arkansas, comes
out flatfootedly for the admission
OF Negroes to white graduate and
professional schools. He is quoted
by the Times Dispatch as saying:
Separate schools are now main
tanned in Arkansas for courses in
which Negroes are largely inter-
ested. If any Negroes wishes to
study law or medicine or such
and there would be few desiring
this-they should be admitted to
tho regular classes at the univer-
SHY. There probably would be
trouble at first-some hot headed
southern boy might mash a Me-
grc's nose-but in a year or two
we would get used to it."
Tbs Times-D Dispatch asked nu-
m ,.ous white and colored educa-
tors in the south for their opin-
ions and printed the replies under
the headl ne: High Court gives
South Hard Puzzle in Education"
The Omaha guide., 1938-12-24
YOUNG ACTORS WIN ACCLAIM

"a night Beware presented By
members from the Girl Reserves
and Boy and Girl Forum Of tbs
YWCA, presented at the Urban
League Community Center Fri
day and Saturday nights was more
than a grand success. Each park-
cipant was a star in themselves
and could compete with any adult
amateur group. Mr.. Andrew Reed
is to be commended on his ex-
cellent work as director with this
group. Everyone who had the plea
sure of seeing these young peopE
are looking forward to seeing tke#zs
in another production soon.
The Omaha guide., 1938-12-24

quarreled with his wife over the
use of blankets by one of his four
children born of a previous mar
riage in South America. Words be-
tween the children and stepmother
led to difficulty between Mr.. and
Mrs. Diaz. The wife's nephew, who
came recently to the community
interviewed and slew the husband.
The shooting occurred in Green
wood, the village just outside Tus-
kegee. Diaz, who failed in the
restaurant business some years age
and lost a job at the government
hospital, was employed by school
officials in an effort to help him
support his large family. The ne
phew was arrested and lodged in
Jail.
The Omaha guide., 1938-12-24
"HMTI" UPHELD IN DIES
HEARING

Washington, Dec. "a (CNA)-
Haiti" the Federal Theater drama
of the great Haitian Revolution,
and other WPA theater productions
were vigorously upheld this week
by Mrs. Ellen S. Woodward, as
sistant administrator of the Works
Progress Administration, in her
testimony before the iDes Commit
tee.
Subpoenaed as a witness before
the matchmaking body of the Tex
as Congressman, Mrs. Woodward
not only stoutly defended the Fed
eral production from charges Of
Communism and subversivism, but
accused the Committee of violating
the american tradition of fair
play and unbiased Investigation"
She ppointed out that the ma
tons leading drama critics" had
described the Project plays gen
orally as Outstanding contribu-
tions to the American theater.'
Dies attack upon Haiti was a
continuatio nof the calumny heap
ed on the great Negro drama by
race hating elements when it was
presented. The production which
had a record run in New York was
viciously attacked because it por-
trayed Negroes in the roles Of
heroes instead of the usual %carica-
lures and buttons. It was greatly
praised by wide sections of the pop
ulation and enthusiastically ac-
claimed by the Negro people.
The Omaha guide., 1938-12-24
HAS $72,965
IN CASH ON HAND

Chicago, Dec. % (C)@The Pull
man Porters Benefit Association
of America P. A. Sample, control
Ter, reports net worth of $249,2l5.-
80. as of November Is, last. Cash
o inland in bank is $72,965.39. The
Association collected $135,985.98 in
assessments during the current
year., and was paid -6,343.75 as in
terest on U. S. government bonds
making a total income of S142,-
329.73. During the year, death
benefits of 500, 1880, and sick and
accident benefits of $37,828.78 were
paid. Disbursements totaled $780,
892.9 90. Assets of the association in
clude $183,619.46 in the mortuary
fund and $29, 44O.26 in the sick
and accident fund.
The Omaha guide., 1938-12-24
essentia opportunities of life and
the full measure of social justice,
as a matter of right"
Interracial Courtesy
Too Much for White
Customer

Birmingham, Ala.-The first
known Ease of Expensive courtesy"
resulting from the recent South
ern Conference for Human Welfare
that was held here last month oc-
cured last Saturday and involved
an outstanding Baptist minister
and an official of a leading chain
of service stations.
The minister who reported the
incident stated that on last Satur-
day, December 10, he drove TO a
service station. located on the cor
ner of 9Th avenue and 10Th Street
and was greeted by a white gentle
man that he had known for many
years. The friend of the minister
was at. the time talking to a white
customer about the purchase of
some automobile tires and when the
minister approached the white man
turned, and after speaking to the
minister extended his hand.
The white prospective tire GUS
toner seemed astounded and was
quoted as saying: "the deal is off;
I won't buy tires from any white
man who shakes hands with a
n" The oil company official
then said, I'm sorry you feel that
way about it."
When the leading minister drove
away in his car the surprised man
was heard to say words to the eff
feet that the recent Southern Con
ference for Human Welfare has
proven that white people cannot
associate with D. n
Colored citizens have expressed
repeatedly ideas that local citizens
Of color would feel the effects of
the conference that brought the
race question into every meeting
and to the city hall and headlined
the press of the South and the ma
ton for it's liberal views on equal
educational opportunities and the
application Of laws permitting all
citizens TO vote.
No other known cases resulting
directly from the conference are
known.
The Omaha guide., 1938-12-24

financing education in law and
other professions for Negroes in
near by state-a practice which
the Supreme Court ruled is not
equality" of opportunity.
Establishment of law school in
Lincoln university, however, would
probably serve as only a stop-gap
in the campaign of Negroes for
admission to the university here.
At the same time Gaines was
applying for admission to the law
school to start the present litiga-
ton, another Negro sought to enter
the school of journalism, another
field in which professional educa-
ton is not offered in Lincoln uni
versity.
Presumably Negro organizations
which have backed Gaines suit
will Shift their attack to other pro-
fessional divisions of the universe
ty until Negroes are admitted to
all of them or like educational ia
cilities for Negroes are offered at
other state institutions.
The Omaha guide., 1938-12-24
MISSOURI u. is SILENT ON
CASE

Columbia, Mo.,-University of
Missouri officials We're silent this
week upon a Supreme Court ruling
that Lloyd l.. Gaines, st. Louis,
Negro, should be permitted to en-
roll in the university's law school
becoming the first Negro to attend
the university in its nearly 100
years of history, but there was
a tendency elsewhere on the cam
pus to look toward the forthcoming
session of the Legislature for an
answer to the problem which the
court decision created.
theoretically the Supreme Court
decision offered two ways out, for
admittance to its law school-eith-
er abandonment of the law school
or providing for law training for
Negroes at Lincoln university at
Jefferson City. Either would pro-
vide Equality" in educational pri-
vileges for the two races. Aban-
donment of the law school is ap-
parently beyond the realm of pos
sibility for the legislature to meet
the satuation by providing in
struction in law for Negroes at
Lincoln university.
The state in the past has at
tempted to meet the situation by
The Omaha guide., 1938-12-24
WAR DEPARTMENT REFUSES
NEGROES IN AIR CORPS,
SAYING RACE APPROVES

New York, Dec. % "A vigour-
BUS protest against what is con-
sidered a totally unwarranted as
sumption on the part of the United
States War Department, namely
that the majority of the Negro ci-
tizens indorse the principle of Sc
gregated army units was made this
week by Walter White, executive
secretary of the National Associa-
ton for the Advancement of Col
ored People.
White had written to Secretary
of War, Harry H. Wording, asking
the opening up of the Army Air
Corps to Negro citizens. The War
Secretary replied:
Following a well established
principle that the races should not
be mixed within organizations, a
principle which is indorsed by your
own people, it is necessary to set
up specific units to which colored
personnel may be assigned, and
these organizations must have a
definite and proper place in the ba-
lanced force organization of the
Army as a whole.
"Since no colored units of the Air
Corps are provided for in the Army
of the United States, it is impos-
sible for the War Department to
accept colored applicants at Air
Corps schools"
Taking issue sharply with this
statement in his protest, White adj
yised the Secretary hat despite
tho fact that some Negro citizens
may favor Segregated ior Jim
Grow units in the United States
Army" the Association is not on
ly un%equivocally opposed to it but
Estates that the majority of A
merican Negroes are opposed to it,
The Omaha guide., 1938-12-24

Grand Chancellor S. w. Green
of the Knights of Pythias Of
Louisiana, popularity termed "New
Orleans, Black Mayor who recent
ly announced the reclamation of
the mammonth Pythias Temple
through a RFC loan of more than
$4,000. The Temple has long been
tho pride of Southern Negro In
stitutions and has been the show
spot of New Orleans. Chancellor
Green has been connected with the
Pythians since July 1883, and from
then on has been n of the most
outstanding characters in national
~fraternal and business circles. He
is also president of the Liberty
Industrial Insurance company of
Louisiana.
The Omaha guide., 1938-12-24
Wisecracks About
Hat Starts A
Fight In Church

Gulfport, Miss, Dec. % tANPe
-Caustic criticism by one wosEsaIs
of a hat worn by another resulted
in a hair pulling and choking on
test in the midst of the Sunday
night services at Ebenezer Baptis&
Church.
Testimony next day in Mayor W
Miners court indicated that Lula
Belle Watts was the aggressor IN
the battle. Her opponent was Els
Their Anderson who essayed the
role of critic. Mayor Miner fined
Mrs. Watts $3.50 and gave her \
30 day suspended sentence.
The Omaha guide., 1938-12-24

SOUTH FUMES; MRS. FL
ROOSEVELT IGNORED I'M
CROW

Birmingham, Ala. Dee. "a (ANPA
Southern resentment against xIss
New Deal Flared mp this week x7th
the revelation that Mrs. Frankkn
d. Roosevelt, wife of the President,
had demonstratively shown her
dislike of Jim rowism and il
enforcement by Birmingham city
authorities at the meetings Of thu
Southern Conference for HunaR
Welfare held here three weeks aga
Mrs. Roosevelt, who spoke at one
Of the sessions of the conferences
and later took her seat among the
delegate, had been told that the
police had forbidden white people
to sit on the 'colored side" OF the
hall. The Presidents wife there
upon placed her chair directly in
tho m ddle of the convention rcsm.
thus sitting partly on the white side
and partly on the colored side of
the ROOM Mrs. Roosevelt further
showed her contempt of Southsrfa
jim-crow practices by publScify
embracing Mrs. Mary Mcleod Be
thume, after the latter had publicly
assailed a white ALBANIAN wo<1aaH
for referring to her as Mary
in line with the Southern ban sn
the use of Mr.. and Mrs. for Ne
groes.
The Omaha guide., 1938-12-24
HILLSIDE PRESBYTERIAN
= CANDLELIGHT SERVICE

On Sunday morning, eleven o.
clock wonshippers will hear the
Christmas message by the pastor,
Rev. J. S. Williams. They will
see and hear the Junior Choir in
their new vestments of white and
orange, and will hear Sixteenth
Century Music by the Senior Choir,
At 500 the Third Annual Can
die Light Service will he held. The
Choir will sing excerpts from Han
del's messiah"
The Omaha guide., 1938-12-24

PACKARD
STOLEN

Monday night, Mrs. Joseph
Staurt, had a very shocking sur
prise in the form of finding her
Packard car gone when she went
out to drive it. After calling the
police. Mrs. Staurt found that the
Finance CO., had taken it by mis-
take for mis-payments. One won
ders who owned the Packard that
the Finance Co, wants? There are
ony a few others in town.
The Omaha guide., 1938-12-24
SUPREME COURT SPURS
DRIVE FOR BETTER
EDUCATION IN SOUTH
NAACP PLANS TO USE SWEEP
ING DECISION IN UNIVERSITY
OF MISSOURI CASE IN CAM
PAIGN FOR BETTER SCHOOLS
ALL DOWN THE LINE

New York, Dec. 22-The sweep
ing opinion of the United States
Supreme court issued December IL
ordering the tSate of Missouri to
provide Negro students with the
same facilities for studying law as
+ provided for white students
will be the entering wedge in a
campaign to improve the education
Of Negroes in the South all down
the line to the smallest rural school
it was announced here today by of
ficials of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People.
Must Be Equal if Separate
NAACP officials and their le-
gal staff point to another sentence
in the broad opinion Of the supreme
court as one of the most signifi-
cant in the whole opinion and one
upon which a further campaign for
equality of elementary and Sc
oondary education will be based. 1t
Isl:
"The admissibility of laws separ-
ating the races in the enjoyment
of privileges afforded by the state
rests wholly upon the equality of
tho privileges which the laws give
to the separated groups.
The Omaha guide., 1938-12-24
GHOST STORY ANOTHER
HOAX

Kansas City, Mo.-The Twelfth
street cabby who took his ghost.
girl-friend' for a ride recently
ought to team up with Orsor
welles. They might go places TO-
ggthef.
On his Mercury Theatre of the
Air program, Welles had a whole
nation terrified one Sunday eve
ufng. But he had nothing on the
Ingenious taxi-cab driver, who with
out the aid of radio or sound eff
feots, has had two cities on the
jittery-side for nearly two weeks.
1t all began Sunday night, No
veunber 81, when a driver on a
Twelfth street stand went off on q
"trip" that kept him away an hour
er-so overtime. AS far as his fri
ends have been able to ascertain
the fellow really was off on a
'sdate," and it wasn't with a wrath,
But he had to return to the
stahd, and he had to account
sssaehow-for his absence.
The following story accounted
FAY his overtime himself: Early
that evening he had been drinking
at the Bar at a Twelfth Street
night spot, when he noticed an at
tractive girl seatsd alone at a table.
He joined her. They talked. He
bought a few drinks, and alone
abou midnight, the young woman
showed signs of r-estlessness, which
her impromptu escort interpreted
as a desire to go home He asked
If ne might escort her home. She
said, "Yes."
When he asked where she lived
she replied, AT Highland GENE
tary, and the gates r always
open." They got into his cab, the
story goes, and proceeded to the
cemetery. On the way, they chat
ted amiably, and the girl told the
driver that her mother lived on
Woodlawn avenue She gave him
the address and telephone number.
adding that she had not lived at
home in about three years.
Arriving at the cemetery, the
cabby got out and went around to
the other side of his cab to let his
fair passenger out. When he open
ed the door the seat was empty and
out of his wits, the fellow related
that he drove back to town and to
the Woodland avenue address
where he told the woman of the
house what had happened and
his erstwhile companion was no
where to be seen. Half frightened
described the girl.
"That sounds like my daughter
the woman is supposed to have re-
marked. She went into the living
and returned with a picture
as that the girl you took to the
cemetery" she asked the half
fainting taxi driver. who nodded a
mute, Eyes"
WELL" the woman replied, ac-
cording to the cabby's tale, that's
my daughter, who's been dead three
years. But it's nothing to be alarm
ed about. She usually comes back
about once a year." The taxi-cab
driver said he then tainted.
Of curse when he told this tale
embellished with all the versimili-
tude at his command and then pro-
ceeded to pass out like a lighted
match in a vacuum his fellow cab
bies believed him. In fact they be-
lieved him so thoroughly that they
took him to a hospital.
The imaginative taxi driver did
not mind that, because the strain
of thinking-up and telling that tale
had nearly exhaused him.
Back this week at the stand for
which he drives for, the driver-of-
ghosts was a very much chastened
young man-none the worse for his
narrowing experience of almost
a fortnight ago, and much the bet
ter for his restful sojourn at the
hospital.
The Omaha guide., 1938-12-24
LABORER KILLED AT
TUSKEGEE DURING
FAMILY ALTERATION

Tuskegee, Ala, Dec. "a (ANP)-
Albert Diaz, a helper in the print
ing office at Tuskegee institute,
was shot and killed Saturday af-
ternoon by his wife's nephew fol-
lowing a family alteration.
Diaz, a native of British Guiana,
The Omaha guide., 1938-12-24
FATHER MULLANEY
REVIEWS BOOK

On Dec. 18th, the Booklovers
Club of the YWCA heard Father
Mullaney review "Listen to The
Wind" by Ann Lingbergh.
The Omaha guide., 1938-12-24
Omaha, Nebr., Saturday, Dec. "a, 1888

to trial and punished. Ministers de-
nounced the wave of violence from
their pulpits last Sunday.
The Omaha guide., 1938-12-24
City
LQlLIOH

The Weather
Weather outlook for 4e
period Dec. 10 to "a.
Upper Miss. and lower
Mo. valleys. little precip-
itation indicated, except
possibly l or 2 periods
light snow extreme north
mostly near or above nor
NAL.
The Washington times., 1938-05-30
PONTIAC

PONTIAC, 1894 6-Wheel 4-Door Sedan
Economical operation, fine motor. spot
less interior excellent tires. Truly fine
little car for only &275. Packard Wash
ington Motor Car Co., 24th, NJ and N
SITS. N. W. Republic 0145. Open evenings.
The Washington times., 1938-05-30
SUBURBAN PROP'TY FOR RENT
REAL ESTATE
HOUSES FOR SALE

CHAPLIN ST. s. E. 1126-Near Ala.
bama Ave. and Hillside Rd Newly
built. detached. 6-room brick house; oil
heat, ami: only $3.50. Small cash pay
ment. Open. D. Tropea. owner. s21 9Th
st. N. E., IL to p. m. daily.
The Washington times., 1938-05-30

Plymouth 1885 Touring 4-Door CATO
Sedan-Beautiful black finish Df y
like new, spotless mohair upholstery,
excellent tires and motor
SEMMES SALES, INC.
4l21 18th st. N. W. Adams $500
The Washington times., 1938-05-30

Plymouth 1898 Sedan Demonstrator-
Driven little for display purposes only.
exactly like brand-new. tremendous re-
duction. full new-car terms and guar
antee.
LEO ROCCA. INC.
No New York Ave. N. f. NAT. 1922
Direct Factory Dodge-Plymouth Dealers
The Washington times., 1938-05-30
PLYMOUTH

1884 Plymouth 4-Door Sedan COAX
Original black finish. custom GOAfO
made seat covers. fine tires. quiet mo-
tor. Very attractive and good for
many miles of fine service.
POHANKA SERVICE
1925 goth st. N. w. District 9141
The Washington times., 1938-05-30
AUTO LOANS

AUTO LoANs-confidentiaI. quick service.
1l02 11th St. 8. E. Lincoln 1879.
AUTO LOANS In 8 minutes. Auto credtt
CO. e05 N 7 Ave N. " RE 1877.
AUTO LOANS-Immediate cash. FINANCE
SERV. g39 N. Y Ave. N W. MA. 3S04.
The Washington times., 1938-05-30

Nash 1892 4-Door sedan-Just Q1GE
recently refinishsd in black. O1VO
clean interior and II runs perfectly.
An attractive car that will give some
one many miles of fine service.
POHAEKA SERVICE
1925 goth st. N. w District O1t1
The Washington times., 1938-05-30

sTUDEBAKER 1888 Sedan. S195-TermS.
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