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Evening star., 1939-04-26
F. B. !. Probes Threat
To .kidnap Children
OF bing Crosby
Sirger Carries Gun and
FIoodIiehts l|Iuminote
His Estote

By the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD, April 26.-Croon-
er Bing Crosby carried gun today
while agents of the Federal Bureau
OF Investigation, as usual refusing
comment on their activities, probed
a kidnap threat against the four
children of the actor sportsman and
his wife, the former Dixie Lee of
the Aims.
Floodlights illuminated the Toluca
Lake estate of the screen and radio
star and armed guards patrolled the
grounds Is Mr.. Crosby admitted
he had conferred with G-men but
disclaimed great concern, declaring
ITS really nothing unusual; we get
these (threats) every once in awhile
and I don't pay much attention to
them"
He explained that F. B. I. agents
askvo him not to discuss details of
the case, but added:
Pm still carrying a gun"
Neither he nor Government in
vestigators would discuss the nature
OF the threats. Spokesman at the
singers studio denied a report that
one demand was made for $4,000
Everett Crosby, Bing's brother and
business manager, said a threatening
letter had been received in fan
mail about 10 days ago and was
disposed of in q routine manner"
Mr.. Crosby and his dark-haired
wife are the parents of Gary Evan,
6; Phillip Lang and Dennis Michael.
5-year r-old twins, and Harry L., jr., 18
months. Five years ago threat
was received against Gary, but MOTH
ing came of it. At the time gun
permits were issued to the Crosby
brothers.
mo comment" was the reply of
F.. B. I. officials to reports that
agents in a midwestern city had
learned that one of the Crosby
children was first on a kidnap
gangs list of intended victims or
that, as a result, warnings had been
issued to others prominent in the
motion picture colony. Studio
sources said San Francisco police
first received information that two
men had been overheard plotting
to steal one of the children. Police
there would not confirm the state
ment.
Evening star., 1939-04-26

affairs. M. Huck has appointed the
following chairmen Of committees: !:
Decorations, Mayor John r. Adams;
athletics, Crecent J. Bride; patri-
otic exercises. Councilman Harold
w. Orcutt; finance, Oscar w. Young
blood, chairman and Norman G.
Jones, vice-chairman; parade, E.
Brook Fetty; parade-pageant, Mr..
Bride; marathon. Ralph L. Harries;
police and trafnc, Capt. Joseph w.
Evening star., 1939-04-26
Huck Named Chuirmon
Of July Fourth Fete

Town Councilman Philip w. Huck
Of Takoma Park, Md. has been
elected general chairman Of the
Fourth Of July Community Cele-
bration Committee.
Hardin c. Waters is secretary and
Robert M. Lyons treasurer Of the
Evening star., 1939-04-26

tional Park Service. Interior Depart
ment, tonight at o'clock in the
Departmental Auditorium, Constitu-
ton avenue between Twelfth and
Fourteenth streets NV. Motion
pictures and lantern slides, both in
natural color, will be used to illus
trate the lecture.
Evening star., 1939-04-26

Pierson. sixth precinct, MetropoN-
tan Police; Chairman and Council
man Fred G. Duehring; publicity,
Hardin G. Waters,
Evening star., 1939-04-26

Tears and Trades don't mend bro
ken bones Cooperate for safety.
Evening star., 1939-04-26
Cruise to Be Topic

"A Cruise to Puerto Rico and the
Virgin Islands" will be the subject
Of a lecture to be given by Merel
s. Sager Of the planning staf1, Ma
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-05-20
BUD EROSION IN
ALEADING ROLE

The sight of a colored man in one Of
the leading roles with an entire white
supporting cast will greet theatre goers
in a few days when "The Big Blow,
with "Bud" Crosson in the cast, opens
at the Copley Theatre. The production
will be sponsored by the local Federal
Theatre Project.
Crosson, former Bostonian, will play
the part of CLAY" colored man who
is loved and respected by many citizens
of the southern community in which he
lives, but who is unanswered into a
compromising position by a man who
hates him. A lynching is averted only
by the coming of one of the quick, de
vastating hurricanes peculiar to the
South.
The role is one that has been much
disputed, and is made possible here
only by the advanced nature of Boston
audiences. 1t was created in New York
some months ago by Frank Wilson of
"Porgy" fame, who succeeded so well
in the part that the show ran on Broad
way for more than six months.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-05-20

returned to the drill shed to join the
audience, which applauded the precis-
ion of the officers and enlisted men,
including the "best band" in the Mass.
National guard.
Great as was the interest in the mill
tary movements, the greatest interest
was in the fact that at last a colored
man was officially on the Governors
Staff, thereby giving the colored people
of Massachusetts, recognition for their
military prowess which dates back to
the Revolutionary War and which is
still alive and active in the 372d In
fantry.
Among the many distinguished per-
sons present was Lt.-Col. Larkland F.
Hewitt, the only living former COM
mander of the battalion who is in Mass
achusetts. The late Lt.-Col. Edward
Digger was represented in the ranks
by his son, Corporal Edward Digger,
the famous Tufts track athlete of the
present hour.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-05-20
FAITHS FIGHT
TO END BASEBALL
j. CROW THIS YR.

Concerted action to end baseball
Jim Crow has been started by a ma
tional committee of the World Fellow
shipship of Faiths, world, wide organi-
cation working for racial unity.
Baron Frary Won Blomberg has been
appointed to represent this committee
in New England.
Many sport editors and baseball
writers are already against discrimi-
nation with Colored players and others
will be approached by this committee
very shortly. 1t is planned to have
petitions filed by baseball fans.
Baron Won Blomberg believes that
any poll of American sports fans
would be 81 for ending the ban on
talented performers for reason of the
color of the skin. It is hoped that
this Jim Crow in baseball will be ended
this year.
At his office, SO Devonshire Street,
the Baron points out that one million
baseball fans in eastern and western
cities watch fifteen teams in the
western cities watch Is teams in the
two major colored leagues play organ
lied baseball each year from May Is
until September Is and in these
months they see batters as great as
Babe Ruth and pitchers more colorful
and skillful than Dizzy Dean or Lefty
Gomez.
These teams spend on an average of
over half million dollars a season in
overhead, salaries, publicity, the finest
of uniforms, and transportation. Each
maintains spring training camps in
the South such as the major leagues
do. The two leagues meet regularly
trade players, make outright pur-
chases of players, decide on regulation
balls to use, experience "hold-outs'
and duplicate the activities of the
majors in practically every detail-to
such an extent that both weekly and
daily newspapers throughout the
country have insisted that top-notch-
ers in the colored leagues be taken
into the big leagues.
Baron Won Blomberg believes that
such names as Leon Day, Satchell
Paige, Cool Papa Bell, Willie Wells,
Johnny Taylor and Newt Allen will
one day be as familiar to the white
baseball fans of the nation as they are
to the million colored fans of today.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-05-20

Eastern audiences, and more par
ticularly Bostonians who attend the
concert at Steinert's Hall on next
Tuesday evening are to have a real
treat. Kenneth Spencer makes his
first appearance in this section in a
program for the benefit of the Chill
dren's Summer Camp Fund of the
Church of st. John the Evangelist,
Boston and st. Augustine's, Lenox
Street, RoXbury
Mr.. Spencer, basso who has gained
unanimous acclaim from the West
Coast critics for the rich fullness of
his tones and his technique will add
further laurels to himself in the pro-
gram he is to present.
He is to be accompanied by the we'll
known Boston pianist, Justin Sand
ridge. This combination of singer and
accompanist will long be remembered
as one of the leading attractions pre-
scented in Boston this season.
The committee in charge, headed by
Mrs. Edward w. Grew, chairman,
Mrs. Albert Arnold, vice chairman
Continued on Page 81
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-05-20
GOV. APPOINTS McKANE
ON OFFICIAL STAFF

(KNS) = History among colored
people of Massachusetts was made on
Wednesday evening, May IL, 1899
when His Excellency Governor Leverett
Saltonstall entered the drill shed at the
South Armory accompanied by his mil
itary staff. On this staff in full uniform
marched colored officer who is first
lieutenant Cornelius McKane, former
Sergeant in the 37th Infantry.
The occasion of the Governors en-
trance was because of his acceptance
of an invitation to review the Third
Battalion, 372d Infantry, Mass. Ma
tional Guard commanded by Major
Alexander R. Davis, of which His Elk
cellency, ex-oficio, is Commander-in-
Chief.
The review to the Governor was ex-
cellent and the persons who crowded
the large armOry enjoyed both the re-
view and the evening parade held after
his Excellency had inspected the sup
ply rooms Of each company and then
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-05-20
RACE MEMBER ON MASS. COWS. STAFF
faiths Group In War On Baseball J. Crow
BOSTON PLANNING
BIGGEST POPS" EVER

The campaign to make this years
"uope' concert of Afro-American mu-
-ir p greater success even than the last
r.. wears have been entered its final
-tr.e~ this week as the large committee
arranging the affair flooded the mails
with invitations to noted citizens to at
tend the concert.
Thousands of letters of special invi-
tation were sent out, the publicity COM
ui."c reported, and other special in
yita'ious are still to be sent to figures
O. rational prominence. eve wish we
ua. r.om for every noted persons in
t. country to listen to this great con-
t1ynlou to American race culture,
DR. Il. A. Simmons of the Publicity
luMDjttoe commented. eve are sim
ccru our belief that Boston's Oops"
night each year is doing a grand job
Cd preserving and popularizing the
g contribution of our race to the
nrn of the country, he added.
0ror q dozen additional organiza-
aonr attended the enlarged sponsoring
maojug that was held at 558 Massa-
caus,tts Ave last Wednesday night, it
was learned, and an urgent appeal was
made by President John S. r. Bourne
of tho New England Congress for other
bodies to send their representatives to
subsequent meetings. These, he said,
are being held every Wednesday night
until the Pops" concert on June 26.
The Music Committee of the com
bined organizations reported Wednes-
day that it viii soon maIa public its
selections of a colored singer and plan
I,t to appear with the Symphony Hall
orchestra on the Pops" program.
These artists are expected to be the
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-05-20
new HEAD OF
WPA PROJECT


NEW YORK-Edna Thomas, the
former Edna Lewis of Boston, last
week succeeded J. Augustus Smith as
head of a WPA Federal Theatre Pro-
ject's unit here.
She began her career in 1918 with
the famous Lafayette Stock Company.
She appeared in the role of Clara in
the Theatre Guilds "Porgy," here and
in Europe. Later, she played the part
of Ella in Hall Johnson's "Run Liz
Chillun" and Ruby in the Theatre
Unions "Stevedore."
In 1886 Edna Thomas appeared as
lady Macbeth in the WPA's Macbeth"
and more recently she played the part
of Lavinia in the Federal Theatres
all-colored production of Bernard
Shaw's "Androcles and the Lion"
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-05-20

Ora Wake, soprano, has an unusual
voice, which has been carefully trained.
she IS also one of the principal singers
OF William Rhodes Opera Society, and
she will be heard in Wagner's "Das
RIthemgold', singing the Role of Wog-
!nde' This performance will be given
IN Brown Hall, New England Conserv-
2lory OF Music, on Thursday evening,
June l, at 8:15 o'clock. Opera Acts
from lTG Der Freischutz," by Weber, and
Ermlnie," by Jakobowski will also be
performed by an all star cast of promi-
nent slngers,supported by concert
orchestra William Rhodes will con-
auct the performance. John Powell,
BUSINESS Supervisor, and James Hen
oerson, stage director. Rush seats IS
cents reserved seats $1.1O and 81. 65
including tax.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-05-20

outstanding ones in the New England
area.
Tickets for the concert are being sold
in every section of the city this week,
and may be obtained from heads of
most organizations or by calling Atty.
}. S. R. Bourne, HANCOCK 1924. Mr..
Bourne urged early reservations, stat
ing that he did not believe the number
of tickets available will satisfy more
than fraction of the people who will
want them.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-05-20
WOMEN TO LOBBY
IN WASHINGTON

Action against lynching in Boston
will take a concrete form within few
weeks when newly-formed lobbying
committee of local young women leave
this city for Washington to lobby in be-
half of the Wagner Van Mugs Bill.
The group of women are members of
the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, and
have been given the task of following
local and national legislation during
the coming year Included ON the visit
to the United States Congress will be
Continued on Page 81
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-05-20

NEW YORK, May II (CNA)-
Paul Robson, internationally famous
actor and singer, arrived in New York
this week on the SIS. Normandie. He
explained that he had returned to
the United States in connection with
a concert tour and possibly to act in
the legitimate theatre. Robson said
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-05-20

A step forward in business was
taken this month by Irene E. Beck
ford, beauty culturist when she opened
her new salon at 80 Humboldt Avenue,
just few doors from her former
location.
The new salon, in color scheme and
tasteful decoration and equipped with
the most modern beauty culture APP
planes, reflects the artistic taste
and progressiveness of Miss Beckford
who says that you "can sell beauty
better in beautiful surroundings"
The telephone number is the same
as before her removal, Highlands
$685.; but in the telephone book the
number is listed only under her name,
Irene E. Bedford
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-05-20

that his son Paul, Jr., who has attend
ed school in Moscow, is now in a
Soviet school in London. Pointing out
that under the Soviet system there is
no discrimination, Robson declared:
"The boy gets a cultural advantage in
that school that he would not have in
Continued on Page 81
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-02
STAMP SALES
BREAK RECORD
INCREASE ALSO NOTED IN
POSTAL SAVINGS Ac-
COUNTS

Sale of stamps at the post of
flee during the month of Feb
ruary this year is the largest re-
ported in the history of the Key
West office, according to infor-
nation given out by Postmaster
Sam Harris today. For 1899,
sales totalled $4,930.44, and for
the same period in 1888, the sales
totalled $3,39057.
Another increase is noted in
the postal savings accounts, said
Mr.. Harris. The report of the
office on February l, showed saw
ings to the amount of 1922, 1873
and at the close of the month,
February %, savings totalled
$306,428, an increase of $14,24O.
This, it is shown, in a month
which has but % days, and one
holiday on which the post office
was closed for business.
Money orders issued during
the month of February totalled
$50,705.98. In December, a month
which is conceded to be the bus
lest in the year, there was but
$42,478.18 issued. Money orders
paid out during February totalled
$48,263.O9, making a total of al
most 100000 handled during the
period.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-02
RETURN FROM
HAITI AND
PANAMA TRIP
JOHNSON ARRIvEsfoN YACHT
ELSIE KENMORE TO TAKE
UNDERsEA COLOR FILMS
IN KEY WEST

Just returning from a fishing
and hunting trip to Chiriqui La
COON, 100 miles north of Colon,
in Panama, is party of six, who
are aboard the Elsie Kenmore,
87-foot motor-sailer, berthing at
the Yacht Basin this morning
The trip to the Chiriqui La
COON was made expressly for the
purpose of hunting the game. and
catching the sport fish of the
area. The lagoon is wild and
inhabited solely by Indians. The
party went first to Port Au
Prince, Haiti, then travelled to
Colon, Panama, and finally to
Chiriqui Lagoon. The Elsie has
a draft of IL feet and tapers to
a foot at the bow. 1t is a real
deep-water boat and there are no
women passengers in the party
Owner aboard is E. Fenimore
Johnson of Moorestown, N. j.,
who will remain in Key West
waters to take color motion pic
lures of the strange and beauti1
full sights of marine gardens sur
rounding Key West. Mr. john
son was here last year taking
the films. Most of them are dis
tributed through educational film
agencies.
Others in the party are Col.
Nicholas Biddle of Philadelphia,
Leonard Kent of Philadelphia
and Meredith Jack of Philadel-
phia, Bruce Middleton and Rob-
ert Hewes of Moorestown, N. j.
The group left Norfolk February
2and proceeded straightway to
Haiti.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-02

New Pontif Assumes
Name OF Plus Twelfth

PAID VISIT TO UNITED STATES IN 1886 DUR
ING WHICH TIME HE WAS RECEIVED BY
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT; JOURNEYED TO
SEVERAL OF LARGER CITIES WHILE IN
THIS COUNTRY
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-02
MAKE REPORT ON
GASOLINE TAXES
OVER TWO HUNDRED MIL
LION TURNED IN DUR.
ING 20-YEAR PERIOD

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, March
2 FNS).-A total of $233,877 900
in gasoline taxes! That's the
amount Florida taxpayers have
turned over to State and Federal
Golfers since the first gasoline
tax was levied twenty years ago,
according to T. N. Asbury, chair
man of the Florida Petroleum
Industries Committee. His an
nouncement was made on the
twentieth anniversary of the
passage of the first tax on gaso-
line in this country-Oregon's
one-cent g gallon tax for highway
improvement.
Oregon set a style which every
state soon copied. Florida fell in
line with her first gasoline tax in
1891. and since that year Asbury
estimates that $216,379,000 has
been paid in state taxes on gaso-
line alone. In addition, he fig
ures $l7,498,O00 has gone to Fed
eral gasoline taxes since 1882,
when the government levy was
inaugurated.
THE gasoline tax is an unusual
taxi, stated Asbury, ''There is no
levy that has done more to make
this country great, and there is
no levy that is sounder in prin-
ciple, so long as the revenues
from it are properly applied to
highways.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-02
tBy associated PressD


VATICAN CITY, March 2 - Eugenio Cardinal
?acell Italian who papal secretary under
Pux Xl, elected 262nd pope by the college card
mails the third ballot He will take name of Plus
XII. Today is his 63rd birthday.
The pope, spiritual head of 331 500, 900 Catho-
lies, is Italian.
Camille Cardinal Caccia Dominion made the an
of the election and the name from the
central balcony of St. Peters.
Cheers of the great crowd in the piazza prevented
him from speaking for several moments.
Then, speaking in Latin, he said:
81 announce the glad tiding-we have a pope"
~ As he uttered the first of Plus xPs
secretary of state the crowd understood that Pace had
been chosen
Their cheers drowned out his next word and it was
several seconds before he able to say "Pacel".
The pontff visited the United States in October
and November in 1886.
He was received by President Roosevelt, two days
after the latters election Hyde Park On the quick
the country by air. he visited Chicago, San
Francisco ST. Louis and Cincinnati in less than six days
He is a member of the Italian noble family whose
relations with the Vatican always had been intimate.
During the period since the death of Plus XI, he
served Cardinal Camerlengo administrative head of
the church.
NEW PONTIFF IMPARTS BLESSING
The pontiff has thorough knowledge of the
church in the United States.
Date of his coronation will be announced later.
Election of Pope Plus XII shattered another tradition
that rarely has the secretary of the preceding
pope been elevated to the papal seat.
Before the conclave opened, Cardinal Pacel
ported be the favore of ~ foreign cardinals because
he believed be the best qualified to continue the
policies of Plus XI, who died Feb. 10.
Plus XII impaired the first papal benediction from
the central balcony of ST. Peters to wdlycheering
throng shortly after the of his election
Camille Cardinal Caccia Doninioni, dean of the Or
der of Cardinal Deacons, appearing the balcony at
6:O7 p. G2:O7 EST, made the announcement into
mcrophone which carried his voice to the oudspeakers in
the before the basica and to the world by
radio.
Latin he proclaimed: "I give you tidngs of great
joy; have pope-the Most Eminent and Reverend
Cardinal Eugenio Pace who has taken himself the
name of Plus KIP. -
AMERICAN CARDINALS VOTE -
Cardinal O'ConneI archbishop of Boston; Cardinal
Copelo archbishop of Buenos Aires and Cardinal Leme
Rio De Janero who had raced the Atlantic to
present arrived Naples in the liner Neptuna early
Yesterday and with Cardinal Dougherty archbishop of
and Cardinal Mundelen, archbishop of Chi
cago who had preceded him, took part in the election of
the pope.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-02
ANNOUNCE DEMISE
OF MRS. GOODMAN

News has been received in Key
West announcing the death of
Mrs. Louella May Goodman,
widow of Df.~F. S. Goodman, IN
Baltimore,
Mrs Goodman nads<sSSssms
in this city many years ago 1t
which time her husband was
connected with the United States
Marine Hospital.
The deceased was an intimate
friend of Mrs. Florence Curry,
who resides at the corner of
Eaton and Elizabeth streets, and
was also known to many others
during her residence in Key West.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-02
PROGRAMS
IBEINC OUTLINED y.
FOR LEGISLATION.
COVER VARIOUS FORMS OF
TAXATION AND SUBSTITU-
TON OF MANY METHODS
NOW PROPOSED

! TALLAHASSEE, March g.
Ems Tax reform programs,
ranging all the way from the
abolition of all ad valorem levieS
and the substitution of pro-
posed transaction tax to a five
per cent tax on hotels, apartment
and rooming house accommoda-
tons and restaurant meals, will
be tossed into the legislative
hoppers during the 1889 session,
converting here next month.
Advanced by the Florida State
Chamber of Commerce, the trans
action tax proposal is expected
to take the form of double
barreled referendum, one to
abolish all ad valorem taxes and
the other to substitute a tax up
on all retail and wholesale trans
actions. Directors and members
of the state chamber are express
ing their opinion on the trans
action tax proposal in a referen-
dunn, which will be completed
shortly. Harold Colee, president
of the organization, recently
went on record as opposed to the
single tax plan.
Rep. j. Ed Stokes, of Panama
City, is proposing the tax on
hotels, apartments, rooming
houses and restaurants. In ex-
planning his plan at the recent
county commissioners association
meeting in Jacksonville, Rep.
Stokes said he believed the tax
would be paid chiefly by Florida
tourists.
HACdAIWIAAAS, ICDOIIS were cur
rent here that efforts will be
made to reenact in modified form
the present Murphy law, which
granted low settlements of delin-
quent taxes. The law has been
blamed by many city and county
officials as being responsible for
compromising tax debts running
into the millions. Proponents of
the law, however, defend the
measure as having restored to
the tax rolls vast areas as dead"
property.
Gasoline tax diversion also is
in prospect, chiefly a plan by a
group of good road advocates to
impound part of the gas tax
money now going to the state
road department as Florida's con-
tribution towards a gigantic fed
eral highway program for the
entire state. Reenactment of the
seventh cent gas tax, originally
levied as an emergency, appear
ed certainty, visiting Iegisla-
tors declared, in view of the
states financial plight.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-02

Key West, Florida, has the
most equable climate in the
country; with an average
range of only IA Fahrenheit