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Evening star., 1938-12-09
Man
Hunted in ATTEMPT
To Assault Girl
AssoiIont Is Frightened d
Away by Screams Of
Intended Victim

An armed white man, who at
tempted to assault a 17-year-old
girl in the '460O block Of Forty
seventh street NV. last night, was
hunted by police today.
Nora Lee Brunt, who lives at the
home of Edward S. Morgan, District
Court accountant, at 1927 Forty
seventh street NV, was approached
by man with long nose and
long arms" as she neared her home
after leaving a bus at Forty eighth
and Chesapeake streets NV.
After the man forced her at the
point of a gun to walk into the
shadows of a neighbor's front yard,
the girl screamed and fled to the
front porch, she told police. Her
assailant then ran down the street,
she said.
The girl was hysterical and was
suffering from shock, but appar-
emily sustained no injuries.
Two years ago women in the same
neighborhood were terrorized by q
white man who threatened his VIC
Tins with knife before attempting
criminal assault. He was never
captured.
A man, dressed similarly to the
one who approached Miss Brunt,
attempted to snatch the pocketbook
of Mrs. Eva Barr, so. as she walked
with her daughter, Miss Esther
Barr, 38. near their home at 32O7
Morrison street NV. Miss Barr
said the man asked street directions
shortly after she and her mother
aIghted from a bus. When she
volunteered the information, she
said, he grabbed her mothers purse.
Mrs Barr held on to the bag, how
ever, and the man fled when the
women began screaming.
Miss Brunt described her assailant
as being about feet 10 inches tall,
IS years old and dressed in a gray
suit and hat.
Evening star., 1938-12-09
{. |. 0. Urges District
Se|f-Government
In Resolution
Wage and Hour Laws
And Graduated Tax
Recommended
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CUMBERLAND. Md, Dec. "a
recommendation that residents of
Washington be given the right to
vote and that the city be given "the
right of government" today bore
the Endorsement of the Maryland
and District of Columbia Industrial
Union Council.
The c. I. o. group also recon-
mended that wage and hour laws
and graduated income taxes be en-
acted for the State and District of
Columbia.
Other recommendations included:
Maryland-A little Wagner Act;
increased rates of workmen's COM
pensation; new social security legis-
1ation, including increased benefits
under unemployment compensation
laws; reorganization of the State
Department of Labor to give real
service; labor representation on all
city, county and State committees;
franchise for seamen.
District of Columbia-Creation of
labor department.; liberalization of
unemployment compensation laws
John T. Jones. Cumberland, presi-
dent of District No. Is, United Mine
Workers of America, was unani-
mously reelected president of the
council late yesterday. Sidney R.
Katz, representative of the Federal
Workers Union, was unanimously
chosen secretary and treasurer.
James Dundon won out over
Arthur Schusterman for one of the
13 vice presidents.
A resolution adopted by the con-
vention called for cooperation with
the State Grange and Farm Bureau
organizations and support of the
Grange proposal for State income
tax.
Officials of the convention denied
that three c. I. O. members were
attacked last night. City police also
said they found no evidence of an
attack.
Two Cumberland men arrested for
fighting, the police said, quarreled
on personal matter.
Evening star., 1938-12-09
Value to Powers Put
On CoustIine Photos
by the Associated Press.


CRISTOBAL, Canal Zone, Dec. 9.
Brig. Gen. Richard c. Moore.
commanding the Atlantic sector of
the Canal Zone, testified today that
photographs of the coastline, used
by a foreign power in connection
with other information, could be
most injurious to the United States
Gen. Moore was a witness at the
trial of 26-year-old Hans Heinrich
Schackow, accused of photograph
ing Canal Zone defenses.
James G. Duvall, United States
radio operator, identified Schackow
and three other young Germans, &C
cused with him in the Canal Zones
first espionage case, as a group
which recently took pictures of an
tenna towers in the Balboa radio
station reservation and sped away
IN an automobile.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1938-09-30
F.. Hill. HEADS
FARM CREDIT
DIVISION

L0UIsNILLEl KY, Sept. 28.
II T. Hill has been appointed GOV
ernor Of the Farm Credit Admins
tration at Washington, succeeding
w. l. Myers, recently named head
Of the Department Of Agricultural
Economics at Cornell university.
Hill has worked continuously at the
Farm Credit Administration since
it was organized in 1888, and has
been deputy governor since 1884,
according TO statement by Ernest
Rice, general agent of the Farm
Credit Administration of Louisville.
Although only 81 years old, Hill
is widely known for his work i'll
agricultural economics and farm
financing. His experience was drawn
upon heavily by the Farm Credit
Administration in perfecting the
normal value" appraisal policy
which enabled the Federal Land
Banks and Commissioner OF refin-
ance over two million dollars OF
farm mortgage debts following the
breakdown of agricultural credit
ia 1928.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1938-09-30

f. Al think / have one of the
most inferiority complexes Of one
Of the worst cases Of emotional inn
maturity on record. am ashamed to
admit at my age that am 50 com
pletely at sea about a lot Of thing.
What should I do to understand
myself better and will | ever enjoy
u state Of moderate economic secu--
rity through my work or otherwise?
Ans: Young lady you are taking
life entirely too seriously. You must
ge. out and make friends. You are
going to meet i certain individual
This winter who will change your life
completely and BY this time next
year ... life will be wonderful for
you Create an interest in all kinds
of sports.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1938-09-30

D. il am writing you to find
ont il there il any way that you Or
anyone else can break up my son
II m this other woman? | am wor-
ried to death?
There isn't anything that can do
~ anyone else could do 10 make
him give up the woman he tees ne
is IN love with. Try not TO become
involved in the affair for il will ees--
ta,nIv end up in family fuss. It's
likely that he will see his mistake
later on.
NJ. p. IL. The woman that Ives
next door to me Il she q friend ahe
makes like She likes me, does She
Ans: The WOMAN means well She
does like you and is only trying 70
be friendly. Don't feel that she -
taking advantage Of you IN any way
for she isn't
>. i. VIII my mamma ever
leave my haaDand and my business
alone? !.
Ans: Yes hut she is the type ct
,ar.on ,gho worries continually about
so,neth;na ana your affairs seem io
n,en On her mind Don't hold any
~ t,s5se
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1938-09-30
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1888

Through endowment and annual
contributions from personnel it is
enabled TO render assistance to fin
ancially distressed members Of the
Service, aid in disqualification Of
their families, help ii the schooling
Of bereft Navy children, take charge
n distress II the absence Of the
Fleet, and in general, as far as it's
funds allow, perform the service of
an agency not otherwise provided for
the personnel Id the service of their
country and their families.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1938-09-30
j. w. johnson Left
Records OF Four
Of His Poems


NEW YORK, Sept. 28.Two
records, which will keep alive the
voice Of James Weldon Johnson for
posterity went on sale this week, i
was announced by officials Of the
NATIONAL Association for the Adj
vancement Of Colored People here
recordings have been made
of four readings by the famed poet
made before his death June 26 and.
include his 1.-The Creation 60.
Down Death" "The Prodigal Son.
and Listen, Lord-A Prayer" Tbs
album containing the records may
be ordered from The Crisis. SO Fifth
avenue, New York, n. <.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1938-09-30
Navy Schools

Navy Schools
The Navy has splendid eduea-
tional program for both the officer
and enlisted personnel. Advance
ment in rating courses are suppliSd
for various ratings Of the Navy.
Service schools are established for
the furtherance of speciality know
ledge Of particular ratings, such as
the Cooks and Bakers school and the
Fire Control Schools. Other special
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1938-09-30

The Navy Relief Society
Our organization existing through
out the Navy for charity and relief
purposes is the Navy Relief Society.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1938-09-30

ever make up, and does he care for
me yet, and what must ] do?
Ans: Sop worrying and frstting
about this boy for he doesn't 10 e
you. Make up your mind to spend
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1938-09-30
NAVY NEWS AND ODDITIES
United StatesxNavy Recruiting Servic'
Main Station Cincinnati, Ohio
Columbus, Athens, Marion, Springfield,
and Chillicothe, Ohio


service schools prepare any rating
for further efficiency. One Of this
type Of school is the effective Ma
chine Gun School located On the
Navy's San Clemente Island off Cali
fornia.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1938-09-30

/. II Well, tell me II we viii
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1938-09-30
Names Fer New Navy Vessels

President Roosevelt has announced
the names of four new battleships
and four new cruisers.
The president said the next battle
ships would be named Indiana, Mas
sacfnsetts, Alabama, and south pa
kota. The cruisers will be christen-
ed Atlanta, San Juan, juneau and
San Diego.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1938-09-30

your spare time some other way !.
read good books and you will profit
more. II viii be quite some time
before you meet your future has
band.
The Washington times., 1938-06-02
HELENE IN ROLE.
OF SPECTATOR.

NEW YORK; June 2.-Denied a
stellar role in a drawing room
comedy, Helene Fortescue Rey-
rolds, Washington and Long
Island "madcap matron," had to
be content with a bit part in a
courtroom drama today.
Helene-whoSe carefree larkS in
clude borrowing a butchers truck
foz a drive-weS a spectator in
court here as her husband, Julian
Reynolds, explained why he re-
fused to angel" Johnnie Walkers
show, This Pretty World"
Reynolds insisted that his inter-
est in the show was contingent on
his beautiful wife getting the lead
ing part. Walker, the producer,
had other ideas, however, and gave
top billing to equally beautiful
Dorothy Burgess. Reynolds there
upon folded his checkbook and put
his fountain pen away.
Helene and her sister Thalia
have managed to keep in the news
for a number of years. Thalia
Fortesque Massie figured in the
sensational attack case at Homo
lulu several years ago.
Four years ago Helene made the
front pages with mock marriage
to John Marshall, jr., of Wash
ington, D. c., which was all ex-
planned as another girlish prank
while Helene was practicing dra-
mates at the Rockridge Theater,
Carmel, N. Y.
The Washington times., 1938-06-02
CONNIE BENNETT
TO TAKE STAND,
MINUS GIGCLES
Rebuked by Judge on
Portrait Testimony

LOS ANGELES, June 2 G.N.S0.
Connie Bennett, the glamorous
blonde film star, who believes her
portrait should display her red
colored finger nails, will have to
testify again today in court with
out giggling or making faces.
She is fighting an action brought
by Willie Pogany, noted artist. who
wants $500 for a portrait he
painted of her.
GIGGLES ON STAND
AS she sat on the witness stand
and testified late yesterday, she
was seized several times with
spells of giggling and face-making.
Superior Judge Jess E. Stephens
looked stern and shook his head.
Then he ordered the actress to
stop giggling or displaying similar
emotions while testifying.
OLlC NCAAACA TO6oAAJ . NAAlA 6Co AAN
agreed to copy a photograph of
her for $500, but that she later
changed her mind and asked him
to make an oil portrait of her
worth $500, for which she re-
fused to pay.
She declared that when the pic
ture was completed, it was not
satisfactory and that Pogany had
failed to depict her red-polish fin
ger nails.
Pogany declared he would not
under any circumstances paint
the nails because they did not
harmonic with the rest of the
portrait"
Miss Bennett was to resume her
testimony today, but in more SOL
'emn vein than previously.
The Washington times., 1938-06-02
SEC Aides Given
Boost in Rank

GN.S) The Securities and Ex-
change Commission today an
nounced promotion of John H.
Kelley and George S. Parlin Of
the New York regional office to
the rank of assistant general
counsel. Kelley is assistant ad-
ministrator of the Manhattan of.
flee and Parlin assistant regional
administrator. Robert E. Kline of
the Washington staff received a
similar promotion.
The Washington times., 1938-06-02
RARE BARGAIN

In a Beautiful Dutch Colonial
vA.-New Dutch Colonial. rm., 1s inch
insulated stone walls. Large lot. clear
stream 10c bus. A rare bargain. Less
than FLA. appraisal. Some cash, balance
monthly. F.H.A. plan.
. . Q Q
For further details see the
Classified Real Estate Columns
The Omaha guide., 1938-10-29
HOME BUILDING IS NEWS

In recent issue, the magazine Life
published handsome housing portfol-
10 that should come as news to mil
lions of American families.
The purpose of the portfolio is to
point out that these families can build
and buy far better homes than they
now rent without Increasing their
housing budgets, with the aid of mod
ern construction methods and long
time, low interest mortgage loans.
Life does not simply illustrate
variety of homes, with dry-as-dust sta
tistics concerning costs. Instead it
takes four actual families, one each in
the $4,000, $4,000, $4,000 and $4,000 in
come groups, and discusses their hous-
ing needs, wants and ambitions. As it
says, it invited them to make their in
dividual housing problems laboratory
test tube"
In pursuing this idea, it retained
eight of Americas foremost architects
to design actual houses for these fam
lilies. Two architects were assigned to
each income level-one to plan a mod
ern house, the other an up-to-date ira
dltlonal house. 1t is pointed out that
building costs in 1888 average full ten
percent below 1926-and that it is pos
slble for the same amount, to build a
far more efficient, attractive and liv-
able home than you could build ten or
twelve years ago.
This country needs home building
on vast scale. 1t needs it because so
many families today live in inadequate
houses, and can afford better. 1t
needs it because residential construc-
ton provides big answer to the recov-
ry problem. Every dollar spent for a
home creates one hour of labor for
workman. It stimulates the great
heavy industries, such as metals. ce-
ment and lumber, which are now dor
mant. Life, and other publications
which have taken an interest in this
question, are performing fine public
service by dramatizing home building
to the public.
The Omaha guide., 1938-10-29

And equally important, according to
reports, the public showed an increas-
ed appetite for information.
So far as you are concerned, every
week should be fire prevntion week.
You have learned of the Importance of
periodically repairing your heating
plant-of the dangers inherent in i'm
proper storage of inflamables-of the
hazards of accumulations of old news
papers, clothes and other stuff that
should go to the junkman- of the
chance you take when you amateurish-
ly repair electric cords or put a penny
behind burned-out. fuse. If you're
wise, you eliminated these hazards in
your home during the Week. Now
make note in your memorandum book
to keep your own fire prevention cam
paign continuously
The Omaha guide., 1938-10-29
A SIGN OF THE TIMES
600.

A news story yesterday told how
the Rev. T. H. Gibson, white minister
refused to be inundated by Ku Klux
gang, which invaded his church down
in Miami, Florida. The mob threatened
Rev. Gibson unless he would consent to
GUST group of Negro chorus singers
who were participating in the church
services
One of the Ku Kluxers, serving
as stooge for political reaction de-
manded that the minister observe "the
unwritten law in this town that color
ed people cannot take part in the SER
vices at the white church." But when
Rev. Gibson stood his ground and re-
fused to be browbeaten or frightened
the news story reports that the cow
ardly terrorists 'went away quietly"
Buried away in the Daily press, it
was made to appeal that this item had
little or mo- sigi.ificance-or that, at
best, it fell in believe it or not" ca
tegOry.
In actuality, this little story is a
sign of the times.
1t is what is taking place more
frequently in the South, although the
Tory Cd fon Ed Smiths and Walter
Georges try frantically to conceal it
behind a smoke-screen of Negro-bait-
ing and white supremacy" nonsense.
It shows that the lynch oppression
Of the Negro people hits the civil
The Omaha guide., 1938-10-29

the establishment of federal compet'-
ion with private enterprise.
1--WE live in land of plenty-cf
surplus in many commodities. And
still we have MILLIONS who are under
fed, poorly housed, lily clothed. What
paradox!
Hundreds of millions have beer
expended for relief in its various
forms, and other hundreds of millions
to control surpluses through reducing
production.
''Why not expend these hundreds
of millions in distributing Americas
products to the far corners of our land
thus enlarging consumption, prodnc-
ton, payrolls, reducing relief and fio-
ally restoring private industry to the
position of absorbing unemployment
''The interests of producers, ship
pers, railroads and labor, are identjc-
al. Only one thing will increase traf-
fic and that is greater consumption
which in turn means greater produc-
or potatoes, or anything else, if you de-
crease production or choke consump.
ton. Only by narrowing distribution
costs through volume distribution and
working together unselfishly with g
creased production. And only by
consumption is it possible to utilize in
mutual appreciation of fair play car
that be brought about
The Omaha guide., 1938-10-29
BUY :: RS

While some advancement has been
made in the political and social life of
the Negroes in Harlem, their econo-
mic status has changed but little with
in the last ten years. In October 1923,
the Advertising And Selling" maga-
zine published an article by H. A. Har-
ing called Selling to Harlem" The
following excerpts from this article
will give clear picture of some of
the conditions that exist in this COM
munity and in other cities where there
is a large concentration of Colored
people.
Indigention, and vanity, laxatives,
cosmetics and silk stockings are the
outstanding traits of Harlem. They
point to the secret of Harlems mer-
chandising, for within the district are
hundreds of small merchants growing
rich by catering to these traits, per-
fectly willing for Harlemites to go to
The Omaha guide., 1938-10-29
NOW THAT THE WEEK is OVER

Fire Prevention Week is over,
But it will be major tragedy for the
nation if we simply forget about it, as
if it had never been.
This year unprecedented effort was
given to instructing the public on the
hazards that breed fire and how they
may be eliminated. The radio, news
papers, magazines-all avenues of com
munication joined in the great work.
The Omaha guide., 1938-10-29
LIFE MAGAZINE FOULS

A Recent issue of Life Magazine
presented pictorial study of the grow
tn OF the Negro in America, during the
last seventy-five years. Along with
this presentation, the Editor took the
opportunity, in cowardly way, to hit
the race below the belt. This was done
by the use of one of those anonymous
quotations that might have been writ
ten t1 almost anyone, even the Editor
himself
Such drivel smacks of Georgia. 1t
is as if it were written for the consump
ton OF the deep South. 1t is like saying
the Negro has done we'll, but of course
you understand he has his limits. A
pronouncement of this kind leaves the
reader with the feeling that the Editor
is reassuring his subscribers in this
wise, I'VE have neither hope, nor brief
for the Negro
If Life wanted to tell the story of
the Negroes growth, that was enough.
Ii was not necessary to raise the social
issue. The mere story of the Negroes
struggles makes complete picture.
II one just wants TO be mean the
story of the white man can be told
with the sad commentary that after
thousands of years of enlightment.
millions of whites have yet to be cult
urally absorbed. If you desire proof,
GO to the slums.
The Omaha guide., 1938-10-29
EDITORIALS
Abundance or Depression!!!

Speaking on the Importance OF nor
NAL consumption of basic products
Mr.. w. M. Jeffers, President OF the
Union Pacific Railroad, expresses the
following common sense ideas that
show there is no dividing line between
the interests of production, distrlbu-
tion, transportation and employment.
The business depression of the past
eight or nine years has focused nation
al attention on the railroads and their
problems. It has placed them IN the po-
sition of parading their troubles before
the world and of continually complain
ing of regulation, taxes and wages,
while trying to meet the other fellows
problems as well as their own.
They have given faster service, la
ter departures, earlier arrivals, mod
ernized equipment, smoother handling
any one or all of which may easily
be factors of far more Importance than
a fractional reduction in rate, in the
solution of shippers difficulties.
Distribution costs have grown tre-
mendously in many lines of business.
This may be traced to the merchandise
ing or selling methods of the produc-
er, or to federal or state legislation, or
TO competitive conditions.
"The grading of agricultural prod
ucts, the packing of merchandise for
sale, the cleaning of your Windshield
or putting air in your tires when you
buy gasoline-all of these and many
other services have added to the cost
of distribution have no quarrel with
any of them. They are praiseworthy
and successful methods of merchandis-
ing. But railroad freight rates and
charges have not increased, and today
revenue per ton mile is only fraction
of what it was twenty years ago" said
MI. Jeffers.
"This problem of distribution con
Germs us all. There is need for proper
government regulation in connection
with distribution, but not for govern
ment control. Control can only result
in putting the government in business
The Omaha guide., 1938-10-29
by Clarence II. Peacock

can't get by my window any more than
her man can get by the one next door"
1t was found that the window next
door was filled with soft-shelled crab.
The writer might add, that today
ten years later, fundamentally these
same conditions exist. These condi-
tions are challenge to all thinking
Colored Americans. Will we at the end
of the next ten years be in the same
rut or will we take advantage of the
existing opportunities to solve our eco
nomic problems. A planned program
for mass action, both for publicizing
discrimination and for extending op-
portunites, further union with or
ganized labor and an extended pro-
gram of vocational guidance for Ne
gro youth will do much to correct some
Of these economic injusticies.
The Omaha guide., 1938-10-29
GUlD ::

125th Street for their shoes and hats,
suits and cloaks, and furniture.
Four times, too was told, If you
want to get rich, come up here and
open delicatessen store. The chain
store groceries cant make go here,
but a delicatessen-that't different
story
Throughout Harlem excepting
125th St. there is not a single de-
partment store or dry goods store that
is worthy of name. On Sunday after
noon, at haberdashery window next
door to moving picture house, 81
Negroes were found crowding to the
window. Without, apparently being
observed it was possible to get near
enough to discover the cause of their
gesticulations. The % men aided by the
s girls were discussing ties!
After the movie doors had opened
and the crowd was gone, it was rather