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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, 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.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09
Samuel Crosby,
st. Paul Taxi
Driver, Dies
PIONEER TAxIcAB MAN DIES

Samuel W. Crosby, 6S, 1854 St.
Anthony Ave., st. Paul, died at
Ancker Hospital Thursday, Sep
TENDER 1. 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 a taxicab in st. Paul for
over twenty years.
Funeral services were held Tues
day, September 6, at the McGav-
ock Mortuary, 697 Rondo St., with
Rev. ]. w. Phelps officiating. The
deceased is survived by 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.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, 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
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 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 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
strong protest.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09
n. sr Push Ferries

H. er Push Ferries
In some parts of Europe they
have neat way of making ferry
boats cross rivers without any APP
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-rmning at the crossing. The
line Is made tight and 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 viii cross,
without engines or work by its
crew.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, 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.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, 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
ba1na 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 to
Minneapolis, according to Chief of
Detectives James Mullen.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, 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.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09
Harlem Loses
Interest In
Numbers Trial

New York, Sept. 8.-Negro wit
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 Su-
preme Court by District Attorney
Thos. Dewey, New York's famous
Notwithstanding 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. 1t 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
1884 and 1886.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09
NAMES MAKE NEWS

In this paper you viii find hum
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 week. ADV.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, 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.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, 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"
g A little more kindness,
A little less creed;
A little more giving,
A little less greed,
A little more smile,
Exchange.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09
Captain William Davenport
Succumbs at Lake Home
at Chisago, Minnesota

Cago City, Mimi, Sept captain William Davenport of St.
Paul. Mnnesoas only Negro fire department captain dropped
here today at his summer home
Captain Davenport years leading citizens
had been charge Engine Edmund and
Marion Streets. He lived Central Avenue
He joined the ST. Paul department was promoted
captancy in 1923 serving credit
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09
SWEEPSTAKES WINNER
WHO LOST TICKET, To
COLLECT HER $4,000

New York, Sept. 8-(ANP).-
Although Mildred Small lost win
ming ticket last spring in the Irish
Sweepstakes worth $4,000, she
revealed last week she expected
through affidavits to soon have her
fortune.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, 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.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09

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

Leon Burnett, GOA West Broad
way, st. Paul, has entered st.
Mary's Hospital, Rochester, Mimi,
where he viii undergo an opera
ton. Mail will reach him at Room
226, that institution.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09
Sumner Field
Mass Meeting
Sunday Afternoon

A public mass meeting to dis
cuss the Summer Field Housing
project will be held Sunday after
noon at 4 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.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09
Howard Williams
Speaks at ROndO
FL 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,
viii speak.
The public is invited.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09

He viii weigh about 1876 pounds
and is always in splendid condi-
ton. He plays chatting, grinning,
spirited game. Seems to enjoy it.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, 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. &c.,
Minneapolis, Monday night, Sep
TENDER IL. Tournament begins at
8i15 p. m.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, 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 businessl-Advt.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, 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.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09
TOO LATE

Much social news reached US too
late for publication.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, 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.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09
Taken For Ride

The trial has been full of shock
ing revelations of the cupidity of
Negro bankers, who, with astound-
ing meekness, turned all their
profits over to the gangsters and
went to work for them for an aver
age of $40 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 a 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
(Dide) 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 if
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 1886.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09

Advertising campaign in this
paper viii reach more Negroes
than any other method for less
money-Advt.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09

Courteous treatment assured
those wise folk who patronize this
papers advertisers.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, 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 viii 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.
HShangallas"
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. Nor
did the Philippians, 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, DR.. Bayen, who is now in Har-
lem yelling, "Black Men, Black
Men, Black Men," louder but less
earnestly than Garvey 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 to
French or British territory. Not
even to East New York. Some of
them might come ''Home to Har-
lem," as few have already been
wise enough to do.
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.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, 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.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-09-09
ST. PAUL FIRE CAPTAIN DROPS DEAD

The greatest genius is never SO
great, as when it is chastised and
subdued by the Highest Reason
Cotton.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, 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.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-01
Records Burned
ToAvoid Inquiry

WASHINGTON. July /. CUP)-
Chairman Martin Dies, D., Tex, OF
the house n-American activities
investigating committee, said today
he had evidence that one organiza-
ton burned its records just before
the committee agents arrived.
He declined to reveal the name
of the organization or its location
and said no word of operations
now under way could be divulged
because of the danger that other
records would be destroyed,
Chairman Samuel Dickstein, D..
N. Y. of the house immigration
committee, charged recently that
delay in beginning investigations
had allowed organizations to de-
stroy evidence of vital Importance
Dies said his group now plans
to meet in Washington early in
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-01
Restaurant Opens
Here Tuesday

A new restaurant will open in FL
Centre Tuesday, on the northeast
corner of Sixth and Main streets,
formerly occupied by Christen-
sens pharmacy.
The owner. j. Gardner. announc-
ed the opening follows $4,000 re-
modelling that includes elaborate
fixtures and kitchen equipments,
new wiring and decorations,
Bill Ramel will be in charge of
the soda fountain and the chef will
be Louise Waldstein, formerly
with Christensens, Gardner said.
Gardner comes to Ell Centre from
Coronado where he worked ID
years with the Orange Caterers.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-01
Union Vet Here
Recalls War Days

Continued from Page One
victory.
I'VE could see the Rebs coming
that afternoon" Clements declared,
land it didn't seem like more than
minute before they were on us,
We settled down in trenches and
fought 'em until we dropped. |
was mighty scared at first, but it's
funny how quick I got over it,"
The remnants of Clements regi-
ment then went on to Nashville
and helped drive out General Hood,
who held the city.
THAT battle at Nashville was a
quick one" Clements recalled. ut
was over by in the afternoon and
we started right out after HOOD
with only our three day battle ra.
tions We made them last ten days
while we chased the rebs to Cliff
ton"
Devastation of the south in the
last year of the war was frightful,
Clements declared
"On that jaunt to Clifton, we
sent hunters out ahead to forage
for US. One time they brought in
an old rooster that we cooked all
night and still couldn't eat. He
was tough enough to be older than
I am now"
The battle of Spanish Fort, in
Louisiana, was Clements last. Dur
ing the less than year he served,
however, he saw more concentrated
action than many veterans did dur
ing the entire war. In none was
he wounded.
Il haven't even been in a hos
pital, to speak Of" he commented,
Clements, who lives at the home
of his grandson, j. A. Clements OF
514 Hamilton street, showed friends
Thursday night that he hadn't losl
his skill at pitch. He took the
prize at a surprise party in his
honor.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-01

son, 40, father of the victim, anC
Nelson. were under arrest. Gibson
said he had obtained a confession
from Nelson. which said that be-
Verna Mae Clark, l8. and Mary
Kent, II. had plotted to kill the
boy, known as j. c., in order to
collect 5000 insurance on his life
The confession climaxed two
months of investigation into the
mysterious Staying of the boy last
April 26. Authorities described the
crime. citing the fathers confession.
as follows:
The three had plotted for many
weeks on ways to dispose of u. c."
They agreed that the girls should
draw straws to decide who should
be the actual slayer and also agreed
on the division of the blood money.
AS the child ate, the three were
watching. from windows and doors.
Miss Clark. the confession said, hav'
ing drawn the longer straw, had a
pistol. loaded and cooked. The chilo
finished his supper walked out to
the porch. A Shot rang out and he
fell dead.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-01
Migratory Horde
Storms Shasta
Continued From Page u

Continued From Page II
against the elements and are wag-
ing the even worse fight against
hunger and protection. The Off
cials of the city and the county
say they are looking economic ruin
in the face.
The influx of migratory workers
did not come suddenly. 1t has beet,
growing for years-ever since it be-
came apparent the government
would build Shasta dam u miles
north of here and the central valley
water project which will affect the
interior of California for several
hundred miles.
Work for years on the vast project
has been the prospect which has
brought the hundreds crowding into
Shasta county from every part OF
the country.
The answer. as far as the county
officials are concerned, was relief
or starvation for the strangers. Now
they see that unless the situation
is solved, bankruptcy will result.
Threats of taxpayers strike have
been heard. The grand jury has
taken up the problem and made
recommendations. including a plea
to the federal government to hasten
the dam construction as a means
Of alleviating the burden.
Health officers are watching
closely the situation, fearful of an
epidemic among the ill-fed and ILL
cared for persons.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-01
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
S u NJ NJ o N 5
No. 182O2

"
No. 1902
In the Superior Court of the State
of California i'm and for the
County of Imperial
IMPERIAL IRRIGATION
DISTRICT, Plaintiff
PEARL R. MILAN, ct al,
Defendants.
Harry w. Horton and Geo. r.
Kirk, Attorneys for Plaintiff.
The People of The State of Cali
fornia Send Greetings to:
PEARL r. MILAN, JOHN DOE,
JANE DOE. RICHARD ROE. JOHN
DOE COMPANY, A Corporation,
RICHARD ROE COMPANY, A Co
Partnership, and JOHN DOE as
Administrator of the Estate OF
Richard Roe, Deceased, Defendants.
You Are Hereby Directed to APP
pear and answer the Complaint III
an action entitled as above, brought
against you in the Superior Court OF
the County of Imperial, State OF
California, within ten days after the
service on you of this Summons-lf
served within this county; or with
in thirty days if served elsewhere.
And you are hereby notified that
unless you appear and answer as
above required, the said plaintiff
will take judgment for any money
or damages demanded in the COM
plant, as arising upon contract, or
it will apply to the Court for any
other relief demanded in the Com
plant.
Given under my hand and the
seal of the Superior Court of the
County of Imperial. State of Cali
fornia, this 18th day Of May, 1898.
w. J. McCLELLAND,
(SEAL) County Clerk.
j. PA. l 8 IS % ga. IL 10 rs
BY CITHA LAMSON,
Deputy Clerk.