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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1939-11-10
Dear Mr.. Wood,

Dear Mr.. Wood,
I hope that I am not taking the
advantage of your good nature by
imposing this note on you. How
ever, feel that it is my duty af-
ter the interest shown in us by
you and your associates.
The complex has changed since
your visit, that is, the bus and our
living-quarters. We use the bus
at will and sit anywhere there is
a seat. We have moved out of
those tents into stone buildings
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1939-11-10

Editor, Northwest Enterprise,
1t has become the fashion in
these days to deplore the absence
of dependable Negro leaders.
This is a lamentable state of af-
fairs, but there is an even more
tragic condition which Is very Of
ten overlooked = the lack of race
consciousness.
Experience has shown that lead
ers can achieve little without the
support of a people aroused and
ready to take an active interest in
matters that affect them vitality.
Whenever we are inclined to be-
moan this condition, it is well to
remember that by our active in
terest in public matters we can
help to remedy this evil.
Attempts are made occasionally
to boycott the goods or services
of corporations which practice dis
elimination against Negroes. Iaud-
able as these efforts are, they are
doomed to failure unless we, as a
people, lend the weight of our sup
port on the side of these move
ments. Unfortunately, many of us
adopt an attitude of indifference,
thereby rendering these attempts
fruitless.
This is only one case cited to
prove the indictment against our
people. Evidence of what can be
accomplished by united action is
furnished every day in the United
States of America. The fact that
"a" or "B" is not affected direct
ly by some question which crops
up is no ground for nonchalance.
There is no telling when this ques-
ton might become personal one;
even if it does not, it is well that
we show some interest in the prin-
ciple involved from a racial stand
point. Let us resolve to do better.
Edward c. Lacey.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1939-11-10

mas gifts, see the display of gifts
at the HOMECOMING FESTIVAL
at the Branch, November II.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1939-11-10

which are beautiful and corfort-
able. Please accept my personal
thanks for your interest shown in
us and any time you can spare,
drop in on us, won't you?
Sincerely yours,
Pvt. Rev. Leroy Porter
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1939-11-10
Timely Topics

XMAS As a fellow said the
SEALS other day, "Thanksgiv-
ing is upon u.s." No matter which
day we celebrate. the fact remains
that Thanksgiving is only a few
days off. and after that-the mad
rush til Christmas. From Thanks
giving until Christmas, most people
have just one thing in mind get
ting ready for Christmas. The
mailing list Is checked for old
friends to whom cards must be
sent; members of the family are
induced to spy on one another to
learn what each wants for Christ
mas. The brief period between
these two holidays is a shoppers
holiday-packages. bundles, bask-
cts, all to be given for the happi-
ness of others.
And speaking of wrapping pack
ages, in doing so, Negroes should
use both the N. A. A. C. p. Christ
mas Seal and the tuberculosis As
ISOLATION stamp when preparing
even the smallest gift. Everyone
knows that the proceeds realized
by the organizations from the sale
of their stamp is used to a good
advantage.
Every day in the year theNation-
al Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People Is fighting
to safeguard the rights of the Me-
gro. To continue the battle for
our rights the Association is us
ually hard pressed 70 rfunds. Every
penny spent for N. A. A. C. p.
Christmas Seals is a thrust at
prejudice and discrimination, and
every single thrust at these two
evils is a step forward in Negro
progress.
1t is a foregone conclusion that
the tuberculosis Association is do
ing more than its share among
Negroes to fight the dread de-
cease and safeguard our health.
We would be guilty of gross in
gratitude if we did not help those
who help us. Let's do our share
by buying the Seals of the two or
CARNATIONS.
NEGRO In the current issue
CENTERS of Silhouette full
page is devoted to prominent Port
land personalities. The pictures of
seven men and woman, all prom
inent in social, political, civic and
fraternal affairs of the Oregon city
appear on the page. Silhouette
pays tribute to Portland as the
largest Negro Center in the Pacific
Northwest
We would like to take issue with
Silhouette without leaving the i'm
preston that we doubt the stand
ing of the Portland leaders whose
minute biographies accompany
their pictures. We are well ac-
quainted with the Portland leaders
because much copy has come to
our desk heralding the progress
, iveness of Portland Negroes. The
records of accomplishments indi-
cate that these people have well
earned their respective places as
leaders of a growing community.
But, Portland is not the largest
Negro Center in the Pacific North
west, if population and ownership
of-homes can be used as a criter-
ion. Unless we have been misin-
formed, Seattle has a greater Ne
gro population than Portland and
more homes are owned by Negroes
in Seattle than by the same group
in the Rose City. There are more
Negro businesses in Seattle than
in the Oregon Metropolis, less seq
regation and discrimination be-
cause of the Negroes alertness and
we believe that during the vacation
season, Seattle attracts more Ne
gro tourists than Portland.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1939-11-10

A girl may wear golf outfit
when she can't play golf and a
bathing suit when she can't swim,
but when she puts on a wedding
gown, she means business.
Seasick Passenger: What kind of
food do you recommend in rough
weather?
Steward: Mush, it doesn't
scratch on the way back.
Son: What is meant when some
one speaks of an empty title?
Dad: A very good example of
that is when your mother refers to
me as the head of the house,
Evening star., 1939-07-09
Navy 10 Lay KeeIs
OF -Four New Craft
Within 10 Days
Material Assembled
For Others, Including
Five BottIeships
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Navy, pushing construction Of
81 300 ,000,0 900 worth of warships, will
lay the keels of four new craft
within the next 10 days.
Materials, meanwhile, are being
manufactured and collected at Navy
and commercial shipbuilding yards
for a score of other craft, including
flve battleships. The first rivets Of
those ships will be hammered prob
ably in a few weeks.
The keel of a sixth battleship
the 35,000ton South Dakota, was
laid July 5 at Camden, N. j.
After repeated delays, American
warship building, by all indications,
Is clicking" Assistant Secretary
Charles Edison used the term in
allotting work on "a craft last month,
weeks before the actual funds voted
by Congress were available.
The next keels to be laid are:
July 15-Destroyer Monssen, Pu-
get Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton,
Wash.
July IT, Destroyer Grayson,
Charleston IS. c. Navy Yard.
July l9-Submarine Tuna and the
submarine tender Fulton, both at
Mare Island (Calif) Navy Yard.
The start of work on these four
Evening star., 1939-07-09
Tribute 10 Be Paid
Swanson in Senate
Rites Tomorrow
Battalion and Bend
Will Escort Body to
Union Stution

Claude A. Swanson will go back
to the Capitol for the last time to-
morrow to receive solemn tribute in
the Senate chamber where he rep
resented his native Virginia for %
years.
The body of the 77-year-old Sec
retary of the Navy now lies in the
chapel at Naval Hospital, but it will
be conveyed to the Capitol tomorrow
prior to services at pm.
Full State honors will be accorded
the cabinet officer, with honorary
pallbearers including Charles Edi-
son, Assistant Secretary of the Navy;
Admiral William D. Leahy, retiring
chief of naval operations; the chiefs
of all bureaus in the Navy Depart
ment; Rear Admiral Walter B.
Wooderson, the judge advocate gen.
eral, and Maj. Gen. Thomas Hol-
comb. Marine Corps commandant.
A battalion of bluejackets and
another of marines and the Navy
Band will escort the body as it is
taken from the Capitol to Union Sta
ton. and there entrained for Rich
mond for burial
Salute to Be Fired.
AS the body leaves the Senate
chamber, the guns at the Washing
ton Navy Yard will start firing a
salute. And as the train leaves the
city, taps will be sounded and
volley fired
The Navy Department will be
closed tomorrow afternoon in trib-
ute to Mr. Swanson. All employees
of the department will be dismissed
at noon. And for the next 30 days
naval officers will wear black arm
bands and black tassels on their
swords
Virginia will pay her final tribute
to the former Governor, Senator
and cabinet officer late tomorrow
afternoon.
Messages Pour In.
Mr.. Swanson body will arrive at
Broad Street Station in Richmond
at $50 pm 1t will be met by a
guard of honor and State and city
officials, and the procession will go
Immediately to Hollywood Cemetery,
the resting place of two Presidents
John Tyler and James Monroe
and other famous sons of the Old
Dominion.
1nterment will be in the Swanson
family plot, but just what form the
State services at Richmond will take
was not revealed late last night.
Messages of coincidence still
poured into the Navy Department
yesterday. Among them were notes
from many foreign governments, in
cluding Germany, Japan and Italy.
Evening star., 1939-07-09
Fears Of Epidemic
Ahayed in Kentucky
Flood Section
Volunteers Press
Hunt for Bodies
OF Victims
BY the Associa ted Press.

JACKSON, KY, July 8.-Fears of
an epidemic in the flood-ravaged
Eastern Kentucky mountain section,
where 81 persons are known to have
died, were allayed today by health
authorities.
Both DR.. Fred E. Caudill, State
epidemiologist on duty in Breathitt
Countys stricken Frozen Creek COM
munity, and DR.. P. E. Blackerby, as
sistant Kentucky health commits
sioner, said There is no danger of
an epidemic"
While nurses, physicians and sani-
tation officials fastened their task
OF incubation and quarantine, weary
volunteers pushed apace with their
search for additional bodies.
Approximately AZ persons still are
reported missing, 33 in the Frozer
Greek vicinity and 13 in Rowan
County, also hard hit by cloudburst-
fed flash" floods early Wednesday.
Recovery of six more bodies-in-
cluding one Tentatively identified as
that of the Rev H. P. Myers, pro-
lessor at the Kentucky Mountain
Bible Institute near Vancleve-
brought to 40 the total of known
dead in Breathitt County.
twenty-five bodies have been
found in Rowan County and two in
Lewis County
The other bodies recovered today
were two of Myers sons, Titus, 6,
and Phillip, 5; Gary Nathan Pei
frey, /, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Nathan
Pelfrey; Miss Florence Noble, the
Pelfreys' maid, and the body of
baby of the John King family.
The last house left by the flood
at nearby Vancleve, a town of IS.
was destroyed by fire shortly after
last midnight. Sheriff Walter Dea-
ton. investigating evidence of in
cendiarism, said four armed men
approached guard at the home and
ordered him away few minutes
before the structure was fired.
Evening star., 1939-07-09
Mrs. Biggers Funeral
Services Today

Funeral services for Mrs. Barbara
Sudie Biggers, SO, who died Fri
day at Sibley Memorial Hospital
Will be held at the Hines funeral
home, 290l Fourteenth street NV,
today at l pm, with the Esther
Chapter, No S, Order of the Eastern
Star, officiating. Mrs. Biggers was
member of that chapter.
The wife of Brice Biggers, chief
cle.H of the Bureau of Engineering,
Navy Department, Mrs. Biggers
came to Washington in 1915. She
was born in North Carolina and
took nurses training at Whining
ton, N. C.
Besides her husband, she is sur
vlved by two sons, Cecil H. Will
llams. a petty officer in the NAVY
stationed at San Diego, Calf, and
Marvin E. Williams of Oakland.
Calf.
After the funeral the BODY will
be sent to Covington, Ga, for in
terment.
Evening star., 1939-07-09

addresses to be made by him dur
ing the summer in various parts of
the country.
Presidents Choice Unknown.
II Mr.. McNutt is appointed Fed
erai security administrator, he will
receive a salary of $4,000 a year,
$4,000 less than his salary as high
commissioner to the Philippines. At
the same time. he will be right on
the ground and he will have an op-
portunlty to demonstrate his capac-
lty as an administrator and eXecu-
tive, as head of one of the big
agencies of the Federal Govern
ment.
President Roosevelt so far has
given no definite sign of preference
for any candidate He has declared
however, that if the Democrats ale
to win next year and retain cor-
troll of Government, they must put
forward liberal-not a cOnserva-
tlVe-candidate.
II ne now appoints Mr.. McNutt
to another Office in his administra.
ton, 1t does not necessarily mea,
that he is favoring the Indianan for
the nomination. He will have done
nothing for him which he has not
done for others who have been even
Evening star., 1939-07-09

more prominent as presidential cam
didates.
At the same time, such an ap-
pointment would be interpreted as
meaning the President had by no
means turned thumbs down on Nc
Mutt.
Co-operated as Governor.
During his term as Governor of
Indiana, to which he was elected in
1882, Mr.. McNutt co-operated closely
with the Roosevelt administration in
Washington. He put through the
Indiana Legislature a set of New
Deal laws. He strongly supported
the President for reelection in 1896
Mr.. McNutt has the whole hearted
support of Indiana Democrats for
the presidential nomination. He will
have the Hoosier delegation as a
formidable nest-egg at the national
convention-always supposing that
the President is not to be a candi-
date. He is widely known through
out the country and is former ma
tlonal commander of the American
Legion. In addition, he is a great
campaigner on the stump.
Should Mr.. McNutt be appointed
to Office here, he will be definitely
regarded as an addition to the forces
determined to maintain control of
the Democratic party on the side Of
President Roosevelt and the New
Deal in the next national convention
and in the next administration, if a
Democrat be elected.
AT the same time, Mr.. McNutt has
been aloof from the legislative
battles between the President and
Democrats on Capitol Hill during
the last two years, thousands of
miles away. His friends say he has
not, therefore, incurred the enmities
OF the more conservative Democrats.
Evening star., 1939-07-09
George A. Hamilton
Dies After Illness

George A. Hamilton, IS. chief of
the specifications division, Veterans
Administration. died yesterday at
his mothers home. Three Mile Bay,
New York. He had been ill for sew
eral months with heart trouble.
Mr.. Hamilton lived at 1903 Edge
wood street. Arlington, Va. Besides
his mother, he is survived by his
widow. Mrs. Grace Hamilton; two
sons, Robert and Charles Hamilton,
and two daughters, Martha Louise.
and Mrs. Wayne Miller, all of Ar
lington; brother, A. r. Hamilton.
also of Arlington, and a sister, Mrs.
Ada Stage of Three Mile Bay.
Funeral services and burial will
take place Tuesday in Three Mile
Bay.
Evening star., 1939-07-09
lit Mrntrrtunt
J. FRANKLIN WILSON. Commander.
ERNEST NJ HARDY. Adiutant

BUTLER. JOHN r. In loving remem
oHS RH5 fsyee9 9bG and S 2ephsw
one year ago today, July Q, 1898.
Today We turn back the PAGES
And the book of memory
AND the face Of a vanished loved one
AGAIN in our THOUGHTS we see
It's sweet to know we'll meet again.
Where parting is no more
For the one We loved so dearly
Has only gone before
HIS DEVOTED SISTERS. ELNORA AND
HATTIE, AND AUNTS
CIssEL, HARRY TYLER In loving MEM
HARRY TYER ssL Wbo ana f. heT tS
life ten wears ago todav July q 1879
He had smile for every one.
heart as GOOD as gold
Those who knew him loved him:
His memory VII never grow old
WIFE AND CHILDREN.
CLIFFORD, MILDRED A. In sad but low
MLDED 4HGGsTh cI1rroRbe Eli r9sR2oed ubo ssSr da
p2arted 2,I this life eighteen wears ago today.
july ~ l"@l THE FAMILY
DAVIS, Lucy F, In loving memory of
away ten years ago today. July Q. 1858
He who knows our need is lust
"' j. J'F ?. TAYhoR. "a n1oFs {.
FRAZIER, LUCY SHAW. Sacred to the
SHAW FRAZIER. Who left mes me six YEAR years
AGO todav. july O. 1923
HER DEVOTED FRIEND. MARIE.
GILL. CHARLES w In loving memory
q our devoted husband ana father
CHARLES w. GILL who departed this life
one wear AGO today. july Q. 1898
Mav his soul rest in peace
HIS LOVING WIFE AND DAUGHTER. {.
GILLIAN. JAMES HENRY. In sad but
gAMEs !1y,qE mHsrqg HaMRv I,1.u 81 ny dear husband
tn1s lie one wear ago today, July 9, 1898.
The rolling stream of life rolls on.
But still the vacant chair
RECALLS the love, the voice the smile
, " one who once sat there
HlS DEVOTED WIFE, MARGARET GIL
HUNT. WILLIAM CLAUDE In sad but
!ovIng remembrance Of our devoted son
WILLIAM CLAUDE HUNT who departed
Ihls lie one year ago today, July Q, 1898
There is a sad, but sweet remembrance,
mere Is memory fond and true:
mere is a token of affection. son.
And heartache still for YOU.
From this world of pain and sorrow.
10 the land Of peace and rest.
COG has taken you. dear Claude
Wnere you have found eternal rest
The pearly gates were opened
gentle voice said Come
And with farewells unspoken
He gently entered home
MOTHER AND DAD .
Evening star., 1939-07-09

and the South Dakota will swell to
7S the number of vessels actually
on the way or in the final stages
OF completion. Another, the de-
Stroyer Wilson, was commissioned
July S at the Puget Sound yard
BY the end of the year, allowing
Tor vessels to be completed in the
meantime. fleet OF about 80 war
craft will be building. Two 5000 ton
cruisers Of a new design, about which
Assistant Secretary Edison said the
Navy was mot doing much talk
ing" are to be started probably in
September.
The dates for formal laying of
keels on five battleships, two of
them OF record 45,000-ton size, re-
main to be scheduled. They are the
Indiana, Massachusetts and Ala
bama and the two unnamed 45,ooO-
tonners.
Evening star., 1939-07-09
In Mrntnrta11t

LINN, SAMUEL d. In loving remcm-
grange OF our dear husband and father
SAMUEL D. LINN. who passed away two
years ago today July 9. 1887
IN our hearts your memory fingers.
You were faithful, fond and true:
lhsre is not day that passes
That We do not think of YOU
LOVING WIFE AND CHILDREN. .
OTTEY HERBERT Fl. In memory of orr
gear q Son; grandson and brother HERBERT
n " Ely, who derarted this life one year
ago today. July Q. 1898 'N"'
When the dav is done
?. And the twilight shadows fall
II IS then. dear Herbert
We miss you most of all
MolHER GRANDMOTHER AND SISTER.
Evening star., 1939-07-09
Woman Is SIushed
By WouId-Be Abductor

Edith Barbour, 26, of ll12 l. street
NV, shortly before midnight was
the victim of an attempt by an I'M
Identified white man to force her
into his car in front of her home.
During the struggle, according to
ponce, she was cut on the right
forearm. She was taken in passing
CAB to Emergency Hospital, treated
and sent home.
Evening star., 1939-07-09

County. died instantly of a broken
neck and Bernard Dame, %, Of
Longdale died just after he had been
admitted to the Clifton Forge Hos
pital. Aaron Nicely, jr., 18, received
head injury and a broken arm.
The accident occurred on route
220 at the Botetourt-Allegheny
County line.
Evening star., 1939-07-09
McNutt

Continued From First Paee.)
Evening star., 1939-07-09
Two Young Men Die
In Virginia Crash
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CONVICTION, Va, July 8-Two
young men were killed and a third
seriously hurt when their automo-
bile left the highway on a curve
and struck telephone pole today.
James Armstrong, %, of Allegheny
Evening star., 1939-07-09
Mansfield to Speak

Capt. Richard H Mansfield of the
ninth police precinct will discuss
traffic problems at 1890 pm. Tues
day at a luncheon meeting of the
Washington Civitan Club. President
George H. Markward will preside.
Evening star., 1939-07-09
UarAH uf Chunks

fAGANS, ANNIE c. We wish to express
our. thanks and appreciation to our friends
and relatives for their kind expressions Of
sympathy and beautiful floral tributes at
the time of our bereavement
MISS ALICE PAGANS AND FAMILY.
RATCLIFF, THOMAS c. The family
of the late THOMAS c, RATCLIFF crate
fully acknowledge with deep apprecia ton
the sympathy, flowers and other expressions
of kindness extended by friends. co-workers
and ORGANIZATIONS at the passing OF our
loved one -
ROBERTSON GEORGE W. We wish to
thank our friends and relatives, Wilson
Memorial Church, Dewey. Camp. No. :. and
Old Glory Council for the kind sylnpa thy
and foral pieces in the death of our father.
GEORGE w ROBERTSON
y GLADYS, RAYMOND AND EVA.
WATERS. VIRGINIA A. We wish to ex-
press our thanks and apprecia ton TO our
friends and relatives for their kind express
slons of sympathy and beautiful floral
tributes at the time of our bereavement
ELMER N WATERS AND FAMILY.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-25
MANY FLEE FROM PROVIDENCE FIRE


 Providence, R. T., May 25-(UP)- A girl worker was burned, two oth- CTS were rescued over ladders and 175 other persons fled today when fire flared suddenly in stored cllo- phane on the fifth floor of WPA headquarters building in the bus mess center.
 Most of the 150 girls and 25 men of the office staff escaped down stairs or over fire escapes.
 The injured girl. Katherine M. Dolan. a. and those rescued. veron- ica 0agnon and Bertha Ward, were trapped by the flames in wash room. Miss Dolan hraved the fire and was burned on the left arm and shoulders as she ran from the room. The other two were removed from window.
 Among those who fled was state WpA cobrdinator Byron Hopkins Miss Doian is secretary to state wRAis administrator Farrell D. coyle.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-25
AMERICANS GAIN
 QUARTER FINAL
Dick Chapman of Green- wich, Bill Holt of Syra-
 cuse Are Winners

Holyoke, England, May 9. = UP) - Rallying on the back nine, Dick Chap of Greenwich, Conn.,, gained the quarter-f finals of the British amateur golf championship today along with another fellow Ameri- can, dark-haired Bill Holt, Jr., of Syracuse, N. Y.
 Two down at the turn and run ming into serious trouble with his tee shots and butts, Chapman. who yesterday eliminated defending champion, Charlie Yates, of Atlanta, defeated Gordon Peters, on of Eng lands best players. two up.
 Holt moved along with a pair of close victories. In the fourth round, played this morning. he defeated j.. w. Jones of England, one up, and then halted Edward Nugent-head of England, one up. this afternoon in the fifth round. Chapman's fourth round victim was A. s. c. Thompson whom he defeated one up in 10 holes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-25
GROVER BERCDOLL
 ARRIVES TODAY
Will Be Seized at Once By One of Three Depart
 ments of Government

New York, May 25.-CUP)-Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, most notorious of Americas 163,738 World War draft dodgers, returns today from Germany, to take his punishment and claim his family fortune.
 State, labor and war departments were ready to bounce on him when the North German Lloyd liner Bremen lands him at quarantine, about 8 p. m. (EDT).
 The labor department gets him first and hustles him off to a de- tention cell at Ellis Island. The state department cooperated with the labor department in plans to give him civil justice, but the army wanted him surrendered to the mili- tary post at Governors Island for court martial.
 His Status Questioned
 A dispute was raging in Washing ton as to his status and his right to return. The house has passed a bill excluding him forever from this country and the senate military ef. fairs committee Is debating the bill. His s0-yoar-oid mother. Emma
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