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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1939-02-11
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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1939-02-11
First baptist Church


The Rev. c. L. Wells preached
2 very practical sermons sunday.
In the morning the subject was
The Man Of the Home, and In
the evening 1.-THE Women OF the
Home"
Mrs. Nancy watkins arranged
the afternoon service. The Rev.
c. l.. Terrell. assistant pastor OF
Detroit's Macedonia church. was
the preacher. He was supported
by the Macedonia Junior choir.
and many OF It's members. The Rev.
Mr.. warren also attended. Mrs.
Pope and Faulkes sang solos
The Rev. @. 4. Penny and mem
bers attended, and his Junior
choir sang.
The Rev. Mr.. Jackson, with his
members, was in attendance. Menu
bers from the Church OF God wor-
shipped in the service also.
At the close OF the evening SER
vice the u. NJ. z. choir, with It's
director. Charles Ball. and the A.
NJ. 4. choir. with Its director. Will
liam Kelly. came and Joined the
choir In recital OF Johnson's
Lift every Voice. Dawson's
king Jesus 10 a Listenin" and
Burleigh-Page's arrangement OF
go Down Moses" for womens
voices. After these numbers the
choirs sang two spirituals which
are hymn tunes. These choirs will
sing in q concert OF Nations on
Thursday Feb. 10, at the walker
Vile Collegiate.
There was waffle supper CIV
en- on Thursday evening. Junior
Salvation Army band played a
musical program. On Feb. II. the
treasure chest committee will have
q program and supper.
Sunday. Feb. II the church will
observe the Lords supper at ths
morning service. The Rev. c. l.
Wells will preach at the evening
service.
MOUNT ZION CHURCH OF GOD
Is CHRIST
During the broadcast which
took place At 1880. Elder Watson
OF Detroit. Elder Tish OF Toledo.
and Elder woods OF Pontiac were
IN the midst.
Elder Morton preached on The
wonderful Healing OF Cod"
Last wednesday thu Tribe OF
Judah had a religious program
and some very good talent was
exhibited BY the young people OF
the church.
Next Tuesday Elder Morton will
Be In Cleveland, on Sunday he will
Be preaching at the Peoples Bap-
fist church. On Monday he will
speak In River Rouge at the Cnurcn
OF God IN Christ.
Elder Phillips. . missionary Y
China for 20 years. vii Be At the
church Friday. cad will show
some war pictures OF the combat
between China and Japan.
Ths v. p. w. w. service lesson
was taken from 10 Ecciesiastis.
A.M.E. CHURCH
The REV. II. Frye was the speak.
or At the II q. m. service sunday
A very appreciative au-
ditnce enjoyed his message. A.
very spiritual class meeting fol-
lowed.
The Rev. Charles Penny. pastor
filled the pulpit At 1880. His text
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1939-02-11

Gene Seals. OF Grand Rapids, also
King EN-" and His Kats. OF Kala-
mazoo.
Second Baptist church's service
club will hold George washin gton
bazaar In the church basement,
February 20. The public Is invit-
ed.
A Kentucky oyster" supper will
be served at the home OF L. G.
warfield. $50 Riverview drive,
February 1e. II will be for the
benefit OF Second Baptist church,
Mrs. Lewis and Mrs. Methery are
are on the sick list.
Mr.. and Mrs. Warren Bradley
entertained at dinner Thursday
night In honor OF their daughter
and son-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. Ell
wood Cash. Mrs. Mary Boyd and
daughter. Miss Marcine German
Ora Russell, Jr.. was also present
Correction
II was incorrectly stated that
the Junior choir OF the Methodist
church participated on the program
at the church. January 20. The
Junior choir did not sing. but In.
stead music was furnished by the
Utility Four, the Cioman trio, and
vocal solos by Miss Maria Alexan-
der.
Kalamazoo sports news Is pub
lished on the Sports Page In this
issue.
Hits and Bits
II seems that the girls started
something In those little books.
Flash
The rumor now making the
rounds is false. Boys. be careful
The girls have told all.
Wonder II NJ. F. A. and 2. II. can
take what they dish out?
What Is F.. MS opinion OF z. H.!
Girls. what happens TO others
may happen 10 you.
What ia the feud between 8. NJ
and F. M. about?
Have B. l.. and r.. G. lost Interest
In each other?
Wonder why the girls burned
their little hooks last Friday even
ing?
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1939-02-11
Port Huron.

OF all congregations OF the com:
munity participated. Groceries a.
mounting to "a were presented to
the pastor and his wife.
The N. A. A. G. p. has opened
a campaign for memberships. Ten
workers have been appointed 70
cover this city. Citizens can help
In, this worthy cause By joining
this N. A. A. C. p. organization,
which IL termed the Watch dog
OF Negro rights"
Metropolitan Baptist Church
A fine service was held at the
Metropolitan Baptist church last
Sunday. Preaching began at 1880
By Pastor l.. c. Collins. OF Detroit,
subject. The New Birth, text,
John 3:s. Rev. Collins delivered
4 very impressive discourse, which
all present enjoyed.
Distinguished visitors present
included DR.. and Mrs. washing
ton. OF South Park: Miss Thelma
Lincoln, and Miss Beuiah James,
OF 81. Paul A. M. r. church.
Miss Bhazelly is church report
Chatter Box
BY The Unseen Friend
8. M. 8. IL quite . heart-brsaker,
since she got her hair bobbed. At
least, r. Nc. thinks so.
B. 3. what happened when Nam
ma intercepted that C. C. C. letter!
She says. "No trouble at ALL
+. s. Loverf No--yes--every-
body's sweetheart.
c. NJ. one, two, three and ten.
He's out. Future Fred Astaire or
is It Bill Robinson
]. W. A. seems to wink his eye
AZ one girl and write notes 10
another at the same time. What
will become OF him!
d. ]. and r. M s.. seem to 20
out to North End often. Wonder
what's UP their sleevesf
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1939-02-11
NEWS

Rev. A. T. Williams pastor
Newman A. NJ r. church. wa
transferred from the General hos
pital in Pontiac. 70 Harper hosp,
tai. Detroit
Allen Day program viii be he'll
at 3 .. m. Sunday February II
J. T. Weakley II chairman Mis-.
Vera Dodsou. mistress OF cere.
monies The chief speakers viii
be William F Davis. morttciar
and Or. NJ L. Spears O. +. Law
son will render a solo Mrs Tishis
Manning, paper.
New Bethel Baptist church NJ
which Rev. T. Tlmberlake is mas
tor will sponsor city-wide cele.
bration from February 10 "a. IN
elusive. featuring Negro Histcr,
Week"
Golden Gloves Bouts
A record crowd witnessed M,
Golden Gloves battle on Februar,
3. Survivors OF the finals ir
Pontiac were: Roland Carr. Eddie
Mosure, Walter Cooper, and Clar.
ence Brown. They will 20 70 Grand
Rapids on February Is and con-
pete for the state championship.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1939-02-11

tioneries at the Basketball game
Friday evening. They realized =
nice profit. The game was played
between Dowsgiac and South Hav
en-.
Troop No. IS has been under or
sanisation for eleven years. The
pres NJ scout master is Carl Ash
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1939-02-11

To lessen night coughs que 70
colds rub Penctro on chest, throat
and back. It's extra-medicated
yapors are inhaled 10 soothe irri-
tated. congested mucous mem
branes. Its counter -irritant ae-
ton increases local blood supply
gives feeling OF local warmth.
Remember: Penetro has base
Of old-fashioncd mutton suet and
more medication" feature tom
tains 2 to times as much medi-
cation as any other nationally sold
salve for cold discomforts). Ask
for stainless, snow-white Peneno.
Twin-City herald., 1939-07-15
PARTICIPATION OF THE
NEGRO IN THE WPA
SUMMARIZED IN
ANNUAL REPORT

Washington, DC, Wages paid near
ly four hundred thousand Negro
workers employed on projects of the
Works Progress Administration in
1893 and the early part of this year
benefited some 1,504,000 persons in
cluding dependents, counting an aver
age of $40 persons in each WPA
workers family,
Southern States having the highest
percentage of Negro workers to total
WPA employment were louisiana,
South Carolina, and Georgia; lowest
percentages were in Tennessee and
Arkansas. The proportion of Negro
women to total employment on pro-
jects was highest in Texas, Virginia
and North Carolina and lowest in Ten
nessee and Florida.
Twin-City herald., 1939-07-15
Ex-Slave95 Retires.
From Pulpit; Built
eChurches

Louisville, (ANP)-After serving Al
years as pastor Of Emanuel Baptist
church, the Rev. John H: Pefdue,
born 95 years ago in slavery, retired
last Saturday He was succeeded by
his son, the Rev. NJ M. D. Perdue.
The retired minister was believed to
be the oldest active pastor in the
country. Most of the So years in the
ministry were spent in country church
es after teaching school during the
week. He also built five churches,
AMONG them the $4,000 Emanuel
church.
Born on a plantation neaf Gallatin,
Tenfi., he learned to write, read and
figure from the three books to which
he had accessible Bible, a life of
George Washington and a hy1inal.
Later he taught himself Latin, Greek
and mathematics and obtained a first
class teachers license in Kentucky.
He is trustee Of Simmons ~"
and has sefved as treasurer of the
Foreign Mission Board Of the National
Baptist Convention, Inc.
Twin-City herald., 1939-07-15

MANY songwFitefs are agreed
U1 that a good way to start is by
writing parodies on song hits, and
1t is by this road that the author
af long line of successful songs
commenced mis- career. He is that
rarity, a native New Yorker, but is
fond Of travelling. Besides cruising
he enjoys deep sea fishing and polo
matches (as spectator). He has
been married for twenty.one years.
His earliest hits were I'm A Yid-
dishef Cowboy" and In collabora.
tion with Irving Berlin, Sadie
Salofhe; Go Home" then through
Succession Of years, "Get Out And
Get Undef," America, Love You,"
For Me And My Cali "Oh, What
A Pal Was Mary" II Left Her By
The River st. Marie" etc. He wrote
Among Ny Souvenirs" in London
to the music Of H5fa.io Nichols,
pen name of Lawrence Wright, Eng
lands largest music publisher. Re-
turiiihg to America, he produced
ION The Gifl; Gin, Ginny Shore"
written with walter Donaldson,
"Hey, Hey, Farmer Cray" ETC.; etc.
Collaborates now with an old friend
from Philadelphia: Joseph Burke,
and in the last two years they have
turned out such national favorites
as "In A Little Gypsy Tea Room"
'"On Treasure Island" "A Little Bit
Independent" Moon Over Miami"
Robins and Roses" and "It Looks
Like Rain In Cherry Blossom Lane"
In thirty years Of song writing he
has hevef beeii Under contract.
A charter member Of the Amerf-
can Society of Composers, Authors
and Publishers, he has been for
years one of its board of directors.
His name is
s!Iss7 Le6p3
Music Features & Photo syndicate-N. II
Twin-City herald., 1939-07-15

There is term in the English Ian
guage, the use of which has always
seemed to me to be most unkind, most
discriminating, presumputous and
most pathetic. 1t is the term fallen
woman"
1t is unkind because it singles out
the situation into which many of our
sisters and our daughters are segre-
gated by the so-called righteous sec
ton OF society; it is discriminating and
presumptuous because it suggests that
the rest of Gods sons and daughters
are not fallen, and it is pathetic be-
cause the group thus called and thus
set apart often represents the most af-
fectionate natures of our lovely girls.
My prelude has no brief for sin,
whether of the flesh or of the spirit,
although in passing, if there is any de-
gree at all, it seems to me that mental
and spiritual sin is infinitely more
damning than sins of the physical ap-
petite, such, for example, as drink,
dancing and the like.
Restricting myself to what we calf
the social evil" let me say that my
observation and study of this sad
problem has revealed two outstanding
Twin-City herald., 1939-07-15
EAST WEST GAME TO BE
PLAYED IN CHICAGO

Negro baseball fandom of the Mid
dlewest is awaiting with keen interest
and excitement, the seventh annual
East VS.. West colored championship
classic at Comiskey Park, Chicago, the
afternoon of Sunday, August 9th.
Since July 6, their votes have been
tending to decide the personnel of the
two great squads in nationwide bal
loting conducted by q Negro news
papers and from all indications, a re-
cord vote will be cast this year The
balloting ends July 29. From all over
the Midd1ewest and points event fur
ther away the fans flock to Chicago
for this baseball battle between the
two high-powered teams of stars and
never have they been denied contest
replete with thrills.
1t is estimated some 300,500 votes
will be cast deciding the makeup of
the two brigades, including managers.
The East players are being selected
from the Negro National League
New York Black Yankees, Philadel-
phia Stars, Baltimore Elites, Pitts
burgh Homestead Grays, New York
Cubans and Newark Eagles. The West
Players come from the Negro Ameri-
can League comprising the Chicago
American Giants, Kansas City Mon
archs, Memphis Red Sox, Toledo
Crawfords, Cleveland Bears and ST.
Louis Stars.
The series at present stands 3 and g.
All games have been played at gigantic
Comiskey Park, home of the Chicago
White Sox, and have drawn an esti-
mated audience of 10000 for the six
games played.
Twin-City herald., 1939-07-15
THIRD ANNUAL RURAL LIFE
coNFAB HELD TUSKEGEE

Tuskegee Institute, Ala.-The third
annual Rural Life conference opened at
Tuskegee institute July E, with DIR.
w. T. B. Williams, vice-president of
Tuskegee institute and N. F. Herriford,
acting director of the summer school
presiding.
A. L. Holsey, field officer Agricul-
tural Adjustment Administration adj
dressed the conference on "Some Pro-
blems of the Southern Farmer."A pan
e1 discussion on Farm Tenancy" was
engaged in by Rebecca E. Davis, sup
ervisor, Tuskegee institute rural labor
atory schools, L. R. Daily, home dem
onstration agent, U. S. Extension Ser
vice, Charles G. Gomillion, instructor
sociology, H. B. Price, head, division
economics, and B. B. Walcott director
of public relations, Tuskegee institute
and Victor Turner, state director of
boys All clubs in Alabama.
Twin-City herald., 1939-07-15
MORO WIDOW OF WHITE MAN
GETS HALF OF ESTATE

Manila, PHILIPPINES, July, (CNA)-
Kentuckey's ban on inter-racial mar
riages was not valid in the PHILIPPINES,
a Manila court ruled this week in
awarding one-half of a white Kentuck-
ian's $4,000 estate in his Moro widow.
The court held that David Staples, a
white native of Kentucky, was legally
married to Maria Rivera de Staples, a
Moro woman, before Moro Datu
Mohammedan priest in 1913.
Charles Staples, a brother of the de-
ceased, contested the case, claiming the
marriage was not legal, since Ken
lucky law does not permit marriage
between white and colored persons.
The court held the question of valid
ity of the marriage rested in the Phil
lipines. not Kentucky.
Twin-City herald., 1939-07-15
RAILROAD UNION WINS
EMPLOYEES BACK PAY FIGHT

| Chicago, (ANP)-The Joint Council
of Dining Car Employees was sustained
Hast week by the National Railroad
board in its claim against the New
York; New Haven and Hartford rail-
road for compensation retroactive to
April, 1888, lost t6 its member walters
as result Of replacing walters with
mattresses on grill cars introduced in
ll933.
In sister award, the board sus-
tanned the councils claim for addition
! al compensation for mattresses work
ing OH the grill cars at rates of pay
below those provided in the contract
fof walters.
These two cases date back to 1858
when union, headed by Reinzi B.
Lemus, represented the workers.
At that time the New Haven in
treduced the grill car service using
mattresses instead of walters, Older in
| the einbl6y of the company. Seniority
of the walters was ignored and the
mattresses were put to work at rates of
pay lower than those provided for the
position of walters.
All of this was done with the bless
ings-or without protests-of the COM
pany union:
Later the New Haven dining car en-
ployes chose Local $40, New York,
council affiliate, to represent them.
Shortly thereafter, claim was made for
the seniority rights and compensation
for time loss of the walters and addi-
ional compensation for the Mattresses.
Being unable to force the company
to live up to the terms of the contract,
the union, through the council, filed
the case with the National Railroad
Adjustment board.
AS result of the boards decision,
all senior walters who were unable to
work as a result of having mattresses
placed over them will receive full
monthly wages from April, 1888, to
the present and the mattresses the diff
ference between $44 per month and
500 pr month from the same date.
Dozier A. DeVane refereed the
case.
Twin-City herald., 1939-07-15

reasons why our sisters ''go wrong
as we say:
The first one is disappointed love
the second is poverty:
A most normal need of the human
heart is love and fellowship. The most
pathetic picture in large city is the
stream of human life in the unfulfillet
quest for love and companionship.
Believe it or not, it is love, not lust
that is at the bottom OF the sexual
urge in men and women. 1t Inlay end
in lust but it begins in love-
Oh, l know there are plenty of self
righteousness, fashionable church folks
who would like to burn this prelude
for the statement you have just read
but what | have written l have writ
ten," and it will never be retracted
though the hand that wrote it be am
putated.
If my Saviour "ate with publicans
and sinners" if the Magdalene found
sweet refuge in His gracious words,
Neither do l condemn thee go and
sin no more" who are the church
members that dare draw the mantle
of social responsibility about them,
while daughters of God are starving
for love. Shame ON us!
My subject is too much for my pen.
Let me submit one of the most
searching challenges ever set forth in
words. 1t was written by drunk
ard while he was serving sentence in
saltwater State prison for forgery.
He was friend of mine. if YOU
please, and when he was pardoned in
1922, we knelt side by side before the
altar in one of the Episcopal churches
here in Minneapolis and received the
Holy Communion together.
SHIPS THAT PASS IN THE
NIGHT
There's an ache in the heart of a
poor little ship,
And the port is hell where she docks.
Her sails are in tatters-she's lost the
grip
That would keep her away from the
rocks.
Her cheeks are too red to be real,
Her eyes mark her salvage, to all she
may meet,
She's only a ship of the street.
Yet one day a trim craft, white-souled,
unafraid,
In the land of the long, long ago,
Believed a mans promise, believed,
was betrayed,
Continued on Page Two)
Twin-City herald., 1939-07-15
'Melvina Potter
Workhouse Blackjack
Victim Freed

Melvina Potter, storm center of
several houses of incarceration, and
who was allegedly blackjacked by a
guard from the city workhouse, was
released from the house of correction
and ordered to leave town. The order
for her release was issued last Friday,
following an investigation by the Twin
City Herald, concerning the treatment
of prisoners generally.
Thorough investigation of the affair
was never completed, although con-
ferences had been held with members
of the Board of Public Welfare, and
other officials. Most serious of Of
fenses against the Public Welfare were
found to be segregation in the dining
room which is not based on color so
much as socal relations.
This, however, is matter for the
N.A.A.C.P., which was organized
sometime since with membership of
over two hundred persons. The or
ganization, however, has not been
cognizant of any similar injustices
peculiar to Minneapolis, nor has there
been meeting since the first at
which the reorganization was COM
pleted. Miss Potter had served II days
of ninety day additional sentence i'm
posed by Judge Anderson, following a
fracas at the Women's House of Cor
rection, during which the b1ackiacking
was claimed to have occurred.
Twin-City herald., 1939-07-15
RECORDER OF DEEDS POST
THREATENED

Washington. - Negro organizations
here are uniting to fight bill which
would reorganize the governmental
set-up in the District of Columbia in
such way as to abolish the office of
Recorder of Deeds, the post held by
Negroes since Frederick Douglass was
appointed in 1881.
Under the provisions of the bill, H.
R. ZOOS, the function of the Recorders
office would be transferred to- the
director of finance.
The bill is said to have presidential
approcal. Efforts are being made by
the President to get the bill through
congress before adjournment
If the bill passes, it will mean the
loss of the last major job held by Ne
groes through presidential appoint
ment
Various organizations, including the
'N.A.A.C.P., appeared at congression-
! al hearing Tuesday morning to state
their opposition to the bill and to urge
that the Recorder of Deeds office re.
main independent and intact.
The Recorder of Deeds post now is
held by Dr. William ]. Thompkins O.
Kansas City, Mo.
Twin-City herald., 1939-07-15
FIRST LADY HITS RACIAL
HATREDS

Washington, July, (CNA) The
popularity of the First Lady among
groups fighting against religious and
racial discrimination took a further leap
forward this week following two
straight from shoulder speeches by
Mrs. Franklin ID. Roosevelt
Mrs Roosevelt said that "all Ameri-
,, cans must have their full rights under
the Constitutions" in speech in Rich
mond presenting the Spingarn Medal
of the National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People to the
noted artist Marian Anderson.
The ceremonies took place in the
Mosque Auditorium in Richmond at
the closing session of the 30th con-
ference of the NAACP. More than
5000 persons packed the hall, with full
ly 5000 on the outside listening to a
leudspeaker extension. They gave Mrs.
Roosevelt and Miss Anderson an un-
precedented ovation.
Cali races and creed must be able
to understand the problems before us"
Mrs. Roosevelt said after referring to
the troubled conditions" in the world.
"We cannot grow unless we are con-
/ cerned about the envirement of all our
people"
Mrs. Roosevelt again came to de-
fense of minority groups in state
ment to the National Conference of
Christians and Jews in Washington,
declaring that the promotion of a bet
ter understanding among Protestants,
Catholics and Jews in America is zone
Of the most necessary tasks confront
ing u.s." sa
To the conference founded in 1923
to further justice, amity and under
standing among members of the three
faiths. The First Lady declared that
joint action by all citizens in dealing
with common problems is urgently
necessary "in view of much that is
happening elsewhere in the world"
Twin-City herald., 1939-07-15
By Edward 'Corneaby

1t is common belief by most peo-
pie that President of the United
States has an unbroken rise to power
and that his climb to success is hot
encountered with feverses. However,
we find that more than half have met
with defeat along the road to success.
Lincoln lost his fight for a seat in the
United States Senate. He might not
have been president had he been
elected Senator. Benjamin Harrison
was defeated for United States Senator
as we'll as Governor of Indiana. Hard
ing met defeat when seeking the
Governorship of Ohio. After ii years
of faithful service in Congress, McKin-
ley was not reelected. Previous to
the Civil War, Grant, who was facing
court martial, resigned from the army.
Twice Polk was unsuccessful as a
candidate for governor of Tennessee.
Jackson was defeated for the presi-
dency in 1924. Madison was defeated
for the Virginia legislature While
minister to Columbia, South America,
Vim. H. Harrison was recalled. Twice
Buchanan met defeat as the Demo-
cratic nominee for president Fillmore
lost the governorship in New York.
Cleveland was defeated for prosecuting
attorney at Buffalo. VanBuren was
recalled while minister to England.
Arthur was dismissed from his duties
as collector of the port of New York.
Theodore Roosevelt lost the mayor
atty race in the City of New York.
Coolidge was defeated for school