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The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-02-25
NAACP POSTPONES ANN'L. ELECTION
Ransom Will Sustained - Convict Grocer
onor Crispus AttucI<s or Monday Ma
ROX. GROCER
SENTENCED
RECEIVED STOLEN GOODS, SAYS
JUDGE

eff the defendant had not furnished
a depot for stolen goods, the boys
would not have stolen" remarked
Judge FARMLAND Miles in Roxbury
Court as he sentenced Sweet, white,
RoXbury grocer, to two years in Jail
for receiving stolen goods, such as
lard, poultry and other foodstuffs,
who, it was charged, had fetched the
goods from neighboring cafes and
passing trucks.
Sweet appealed and was held under
$4,000 bail. The boys, colored, were
sentenced to terms in the House of
Correction.
1t is alleged that the boys stole from
Burnett's Cafe and also from SHADES
and disposed of the goods at Sweets
Market located at the corner of Ham
mond Street and Shawmut Avenue.
They were accused also, it was alleged,
of purloining foodstuffs from delivery
trucks.
Sweet recently enlarged his market
by additions on vacant land in the
rear of the original site and has the
employs several colored clerks there
and did employ other colored clerks at
his other grocery store formerly loca-
ted at the corner of fremont and
Mortified Street. The fact that he
was liberal in employing colored help
brought him large amount of patron
age from the neighborhood which COM
prise large colored population.
His rest fortnight ago on chs
serious charge of receiving stolen
goods from the colored boys shocked
the large number of his patrons.
Many could not believe the story and
withheld comment until the case was
heard in court and Sweet was con-
victed.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-02-25
RANSOM ESTATE
OVER $4,000
CONTESTANTS LOSE IN FIGHT
TO BREAK WILL

The will of the late John F. Ransom
was proved and allowed in a decision
by Judge William M. Prest in Probate
Court last Monday.
The testator died on November 16
1888, and the will was presented for
probate, November %. The issues
raised by the contestants were: due
execution of the will. soundness of
mind of the testator, fraud or undue
influence, and forgery. All the issues
We're decided in favor of the propon-
ents of the will.
The will had been drawn bv Attor-
ney Malcolm C. Banks. and he was an
pointed executor. C. H. Greene was
appraiser and Attorney Walter Foster
was counsel for the estate.
Attorneys Edgar P. BENJAMIN and
Eichard K. Sullivan were counsel for
Clarence Hackley, Columbus. Ohio
nephew while Atty. w. H. Lewis. Jr
ana Atty. Thomas j. Barry were coun.
sci Tor the contestants. Witnesses tC
the Will were Raymond Allen. T. G
0OroSSson, Sr., and Atty. Malcolm C
Banks. v
Twenty days were allowed in which
an appeal may be taken.
col me ne estate is estimated at more thar
9zo,ooO, consisting of cash in bank
real estate, and Building and Loar
leaves 81 900 to Resthaven, 5000 to the
ASSOCIATION certificates. The will
0Id Ladies Home on Hancock Street
3IOO to Rev. w. D. Battle. pastor ot
zion Church, $500 to William #
d6 o. od, $500 to Mr.. Batum's daughter
$I'gOO to Mrs. Nellie Thornton S1OC
~ 70 IT IT. DeCoursey Cheeks, $50 and $50
- MISSES Paige. Washington, D. c.
CONTINUED on Page 81
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-02-25
TO COLLEGE
AT fourteen

NEW YORK, Feb. %, (C)-Bernice
Joyce Calvin became a college fresh
man at Ia when she was enrolled in
the arts course with a major in music
by S. N. Hagen, registrar of Brooklyn
College, Bedford Avenue and Avenue
H, Brooklyn, on Tuesday, Feb. ID. Miss
Calvin, elder daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs
Floyd j. Calvin of the Dunbar Apart
ments in Harlem, is also a piano pupil
of Winfield Abel, conductor of a stu
dio for the advancement of music in
Steinway Hall, Manhattan.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-02-25

ALFRED BAKER LEWIS
The efficient secretary of Boston
Branch, NAACP. whose zeal and deep
interest in all human problems was
commended by Rev. w. Lloyd lines
OF New York. guest speaker at annual
banquet.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-02-25
ELKS WORLDWIDE
BIRTHDAY FETE

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1S, (C)-The
Improved Benevolent Protective order
of Elks of the World will stage a
grand Easter and anniversary birth
day ball throughout the United States
and foreign countries where there are
Elk lodges and temples on Easter
Monday night, April 10, for the build
ing of an Old Folks Home, and to aid
the Educational and Civil Liberties
departments of the order. The an
nouncement was made Tuesday by the
Grand Exalted Ruler, j. Finley Will
son, and the response is already en-
thusiastic throughout the jurisdiction
of the order.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-02-25
REV. A. C. POWELL
ON SCHOOL BOARD

NEW YORK, - Borough President
Stanley M. Isaacs has appointed the
Rev. A. Clayton Powell, Jr., pastor of
the Abyssinian Baptist Church, as a
member of the local School Board Dis
trict II, for a fve-year term. DR..
Powell, who is thirty years old, is an
enrolled member of the American
Labor Party and has been active in
civic affairs for a number of years.
Recently Citizens Committee for EN-
ployment headed by DR.. Powell signed
an agreement with the Uptown Cham
Der of Commerce for employment of
Colored clerks in Harlem stores.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-02-25
FORA HURSTON
WRITES new BOOK

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Feb. %, (C)
Miss Fora Neale Hurston, whose
book on Haiti, "Tell My Horse, was
published last fall by the j. B. Lippin-
colt company, is now working on a
new volume, life of Moses, her pub
fishers announce. The book will be
published this fall.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-02-25
Announce Marriage

DR.. J. Washington Hill of Boston
and Mrs. Estelle Hill Jennings Of East
Orange, N. j., announce the marriage
of their daughter, Gladys L. Hill to
J. Milan Hughes of East Orange, N. j.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hughes will be at home
after March l at 242 Halsted St., East
Orange.
Montana labor news., 1939-07-13
EMERGENCY exists
IN RELIEF SITUATION

A regular meeting of the State
Board of Examiners was held at the
Capitol building, Helena, on July 10,
where a hearing was held to deter
mine whether or not an emergency
exists in the state of Montana re-
garding the administration of pub
lie welfare, particularly in reference
to relief allowances, aid to depend
ent children and aid to needy blind.
Present at the meeting were Frank
Finnegan, president of the Montana
Joint Welfare Council; a special
committee of the Miners Union,
James Burns and Steve Harvey; Phil
O'Donnell, attorney for the state or
~ganization; and Leslie Levingood,
secretary of the Silver Bow Welfare
Council. Witnesses throughout the
state testified as to deplorable con-
ditions in their communities.
Dan D. Sullivan and Emmett
O'Brien of the Silver Bow county
board of commissioners in their tes-
timony submitted figures before the
Board of Examiners to show that
people in Silver Bow county could
not possibly subsist on allowances
now being granted by the Welfare
Commission and particularly empha-
sized the gulf between the budget
originally set up by the commission
and which they should be receiving
and that which they are actually re-
ceiving. Sullivan and O'Brien were
very effective witnesses. The board
summoned the administrator, Mr..
Brandjord, to appear before them
with books and records. It is signifi-
cant and was the cause of consid-
cradle comment by persons at the
hearing that the Welfare Commits
sion did not obey the summons of
the Board of Examiners.
Secretary of State Sam Mitchell, a
member of the board, made a mo-
ton, seconded by Freebourn, which
declared that an unanticipated, I'M
~foreseen emergency exists in the re-
lief situation in Montana and author
lied the administrator to exceed the
budget appropriated by the last
legislature.
Montana labor news., 1939-07-13
Drop in Unidentified
Wage Items

Unidentifiable John Doe" ac-
counts are rapidly disappearing from
the Social Security Boards books,
according to Glenn A. Gardner, act
ing manager of the boards Butte
field office.
TN cases where the employer, in
reporting the wages paid his en-
ployees, fans to give the Social Sc
curity account number or name
along with the wages of each en-
ployees, the board credits such wages
to the anonymous John Doe" ac-
count until complete Identification
is obtained" the acting manager ex-
planned.
MI. Gardner said today that, ac-
cording to information received
from Washington, such unidentifi-
able wage items nov being received
account for a little less than 3 per
cent Of the total-a drop from about
liz per cent in the first half of
1937-just after the federal old-age
insurance provisions of the Social
Security Act went into operation.
Preliminary studies of the wage re-
ports now being made for the first
quarter of 1889 indicate that the per-
centage of unidentifiable wage items
will be still further reduced.
Increasing care and accuracy on
the part Of both employers and en-
ployees is responsible for this i'm
provement," Mr.. Gardner said.
when they understand the relation
ship between the workers Social
Security number and his federal old
age insurance account, they make
every effort to provide complete
and accurate data. Without the ac-
count number as a guide" he con-
tinued, at is impossible for the ac-
counting division to determine, even
if the workers name is given, to
whom the wages should be credited,
because hundreds, and even thou
sands, of other persons may have
practically the same name"
Montana labor news., 1939-07-13
R. {. Heskeih Dies; Was High Official
OF Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union

CINCINNATI, Ohio W
Robert Bruce Hesketh, general Sec
retary-treasurer of the Hotel and
Restaurant Employees international
Alliance and Bartenders' Interna-
tional League of America, died here
July 3 at the age of SO.
Born in Lancashire, England, in
1870 of Scotch %parentage, he came
to the United States as a young man
and was initiated as a member of
Cooks and Walters Union No. l,
Seattle, Wash, in 1889. During 1902
and 1903 he served as president OF
the Seattle Central Labor Council,
He was elected sixth vice presi-
dent of the Hotel and Restaurant
Employees International Alliance
and Bartenders International League
at the twelfth general convention
held in Rochester, N. Y, in 1904
He succeeded Jere L. Sullivan as
general secretary-treasurer of the
international Union in 1928, and
occupied that position continuously
until the time of his death.
For many years Mr.. Hesketh was
active in the labor movement Of
Washington State, where he led &
successful fight for the six-day week
and the eight-hour day. He was
elected to the Seattle City Council
as a labor member in 1911 and re-
elected six times; he was president
of the city council four terms and
acting mayor several months.
Montana labor news., 1939-07-13

Adversely is easier borne than
prosperity forgot.
Montana labor news., 1939-07-13

kane, Washington, declared the In
land Casket Company unfair and
are asking the unions to interview
u~ndertakers in their town and urge
them not to buy the products of this
company. The Trades and Labor
Council referred the letter to its
union label committee.
A report was made by Delegate
Mernin on a relief meeting held in
Helena last Sunday. The subject is
covered more fully in another
article.
A committee from the National
Youth Administration consisting of
Mr.. Patterson and Mr.. Murphy. sub
mitted a plan of proposed expan-
sion by the NYA in Silver Bow
county. The proposition included a
youths center where young men
and women could be taught definite
behavior, habits and also be given
an opportunity to learn the rudi-
ments of various trades and oca
tons. The Trades and Labor Coun-
Gil submitted a resolution on the
matter to its legislative committee
for its consideration.
At this time the Trades and Labor
Council adjourned and a combined
meeting of the Silver Bow Trades
and Labor Council with the Butte
Building Trades Council was held
with President Jap of the Trades
Council acting as chairman of the
joint meeting.
After adopting the acts of the
joint state WPA meeting held Mon
day and appointing a committee
composed of one from each union
in Butte and drafting resolutions of
protest to President Roosevelt, Mon
ana senators, and Col. Harrington,
the meeting adjourned with instruc-
tons to attend the mass meeting
Wednesday night at the high school
stadium.
Montana labor news., 1939-07-13
FAMOUS LAST REMARKS

The Washington Merry-G o-Round
reports that Dist. Atty. Thomas E.
Dewey of New York, prospective
Republican presidential candidate
said to a group of friends:
do you know the first thing ]
am going to do when I go to the
White House? I am going to issue
an executive order abolishing all
pressure groups"
Montana labor news., 1939-07-13

A little absence does much good.
Montana labor news., 1939-07-13
What The WpA Strike
For Prevailing Wages
Is All About
BY LOUIS F. STONE

NEW YORK. - (FP) Two hun
bred thousand skilled WPA workers
are striking all over the nation to
defend the principle of the prevail
ing wage on work relief projects.
Just what do they want and why is
it important to stage a nationwide
strike to get it?
It was in September 1895 that the
New Deal recognized the economic
Importance of established prevailing
wages on work relief projects. New
Deal advisers called off Gen. Hugh
S. johnson who at that time was
cracking down" on strikers at the
Aston housing project here to take
a far below union scale security"
wage or leave it. The strikers neither
took it nor left it. They won their
strike and the prevailing wage.
New Dealers claimed adequate
wage rates would have to be pro-
tected if the nationwide drive for
recovery was to be successful. En-
ployers would have less opportunity
to cut wages below union standards
if prevailing wages on work projects
gave workers the independence to
refuse low wages and get their union
rate on WPA.
1t was also pointed out that build
ing trades supply only a few months
out of the year of steady work. The
high prevailing wage is necessary
to sustain the worker through the
idle months. Building trades union
leaders claim now as in 1885 that
the y%ear-round livelihood and Sc
curity of members are in grave dan
ger. Their strike demands that
Congress restore the prevailing
wage, wiped out by the notorious,
anti-progressive law sponsored by
Rep. Clifton A. Woodrum 3D., Va.)
A coalition of economy howlers
and New Deal baiters has upset what
over four years has proven good
practice. With some variations on
the exact rate of pay and the exact
number of hours, the WPAers are
striking because of the following
results of the action of Congress.
Seven thousand carpenters who for
merly got SITS an hour now get
II cents. Twenty-Five hundred
painters got $3.50 and now get 70
cents. The same number of brick
layers were cut from $1.88 to sc
cents. Timbermen were reduced
from $1.20 to So cents. Other SINH
lar cuts were made in all the skilled
groups. All these figures are for
New York City.
Under the old law a skilled crafts
man worked only so long as his
hourly rate of pay took to make up
his security" wage. This meant
he usually worked about so or so
hours over a period of about two
weeks. He earned about $82, a "se-
curity" wage. The new law makes
him work two and three times the
number of hours at much lower than
prevailing rate of pay. Now, not
only must the WPAer do twice as
much work for his money but the
projects will need less men because
of the longer hours.
1t has been estimated that unem-
ployment resulting from these cuts
will effect a $3O, OO0, 900 loss in con-
sumner purchasing power. 1t will
amount to about 100000 0 in New
York City alone.
Montana labor news., 1939-07-13

The Upholsterers Union of Spo-
Montana labor news., 1939-07-13
WHETHER OR NOT YOU'RE A
COUNT COUNTS

On the day after Count Cassini
Washington columnist, was tarrec
and feathered, three were arrested
for the offense.
In the deep south, lynchers are
often never found.
Montana labor news., 1939-07-13
GOD SEEN INFLUENCING
DEMOCRATIC RACE

Scripps-Howard Washington Col
umnist Raymond Clapper told 200
publishers at Long Beach, N. Y,
what he would do if he were in the
Almighty's place at the Democratic
national convention.
"If I we're God" Clapper advised,
81 would make Cordell Hull presi-
dental candidate of the Democratic
party"
God was reported heading a pow
erful anti-R Roosevelt delegation.
Montana labor news., 1939-07-13

Superior Workers Alliance.
Roundup Industrial Council.
Montana Workers Alliance.
Transfers Union No. $40, Deer
Lodge.
Deer Lodge Workers Alliance.
Transfers Union No. SO, Miles
City.
Federal Labor Union No. 1872,
Miles City.
Miles City Workers Alliance.
Lewis and Clark County Workers
Alliance.
Painters Union No. 100, Butte.
l. A. of M. No. 1O46, Great Falls.
Hold Carriers No. $50, Butte.
Hold Carriers and Laborers No.
535, Deer Lodge,
Transfers Union No. 101, Ana
conda.
General Laborers No. 1853, Butte.
Butte Bus Drivers Union.
Butte Workers Alliance.
Butte Miners Union No. l.
Montana labor news., 1939-07-13

Head of the bullfighters' syndicate
in Spain has announced that NOR
phine injections he%nceforth would be
given to all horses used in bullfights
to ease the suffering of the horses
if they r gored.
Under Frances regime only hui
man beings are allowed to suffer.
Montana labor news., 1939-07-13

"This administration will not
c%ountenance theft" says Earl K.
Long, new governor Of Louisiana.
From the past history of the state,
we'd say anything else goes.
Montana labor news., 1939-07-13

City Councilman Michael A. Sui
livan of Cambridge, Mass, wants to
have the name of Harvard So.
changed because John Harvard,
after whom Harvard University was
named, was Gust another foreigner"
Harvard was one of those foreigners
who arrived here in 1887.
Evening star., 1939-11-13

opposing the "ham and eggs" prop

opposing the ham and eggs" prop
osition.
Il express no opinion upon the
possibility Of recalling Gov. Olson, u
he said. "but I am confident that
an attempted recall would sadly in
jure the State of California and
inevitably weaken the economic
cause for which we struggle"
The Governor said in his address
that the States rejection of the
$50 every Thursday" scheme at last
Tuesdays special election may have
cleared the political atmosphere, "
but 1t did not settle the basic prob
lem besetting people-the problem
Of making living"
All Pensions Not Rejected,
California voters did not intend
by their refusal of the ham and
eggs proposal to say NO to every
pension proposal" Gov. Olson con-
tinued. Most assuredly I did not
so intend when I voiced my criti-
cism of the measure"
He added that the special election
aroused public sentiment in support
OF a sound, feasible, workable old
age pension program; pensions paid
IN the lawful money Of the United
States"
No provision is made for persons
between the ages of 60 and 65. he
said, IN citing one criticism of the
Evening star., 1939-11-13
Most People
| Sondburg Says
By the Associated Press,

oy Cne ASSOC1Ateo fIeS8.
HARBERT, Mich, Nov. 13.-Carl
sandburg, poet and Lipcoln biog-
rapher, declared today that "the
propagandists are the ones that have
made the grade in history"
- and in art, too, perhaps" he
amended.
THE non-propagandists," he said,
haven't ever really figured in his
tory, and Notwithstanding the wide
spread view that art in order to be
art should be divorced from propa-
ganda, there are too many known
examples to the contrary for us to
accept any such glib absolutes.
Quite an argument could be made
that all artists and political and
social leaders, including Jesus and
Shakespeare, have been propaganda
lists. Lincoln was a propagandist.
Most Of us are propagandists."
Evening star., 1939-11-13
Roosevelt Has More
Than 5000 Federal
Jobs 10 Fiji
List includes Cabinet
office, Four Diplomatic
Posts. Two Judgeships
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt, with II
months to 60 on his present term
of office, still has more than 5000
Federal jobs to fill.
Postmasterships make up the bulk
Of the prospective appointments,
but cabinet Office, four important
diplomatic posts, two circuit judge
ships and other less important
places are vacant.
Senate clerks expect $500 post
masters to be appointed when Con-
gress meets in January, and an
equal number later in the session.
Legislators who talked recently
with the President came away with
the impression that Mr.. Roosevelt
was in no hurry to appoint a new
Secretary of Navy. Charles Edison,
Assistant Secretary, has been act
ing Navy chief since the death of
Secretary Swanson several months
ago. The President has kept in
close touch with naval affairs, espe-
cially since the outbreak of the Eu-
ropean war.
Diplomatic Posts Vacant.
Diplomatic posts are vacant in
Germany, Peru, Canada and Bull
garia. No indication has been given
when new ENJOYS will be chosen.
Judgeships on the Federal circuit
bench are vacant in the first cir
cult (Maine, New Hampshire, Mas
sachusetts. Rhode Island and Puerto
Rico) and the fourth circuit MARY
land. West Virginia, Virginia, North
Carolina and South Carolina).
There will be a vacancy on the
Interstate Commerce Commission
with expiration December 81 of the
term of Carroll Miller, Virginia-born
utilities engineer.
None of the 10 recess appointments
made by the President after Con-
gress adjourned in August was acted
on by the Senate during the special
session.
Undersecretary Post Untitled.
If the appointees are to hold their
Jobs, the Senate must give its ap-
Evening star., 1939-11-13

proval. When the special session
ended, their pay stopped, but Con-
gress may vote each a belated
Christmas present in the form Of
back pay after he is confirmed.
Among these 10 are Thomas M.
Woodward, a member of the Mari
time Commission; Henry Slattery,
rural electrification administrator,
and Ernest H. Gruening, Governor
of Alaska. State w. P. A. admin
istrators and customs collectors also
are involved.
Mr.. Slattery's former job as Un-
dersecretary of the Interior, a long
standing vacancy on the Board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve
System and the post of commits
sioner Of fisheries remain untitled.
Evening star., 1939-11-13

present pension systems Of both
State and Federal governments. Yet
he said. there were thousands OF
citizens" in this age classification
who have no means of subsistence
and no hope Of employment"
If the $50-at-60 plan does not ma
terialize, Gov. Olson advocated that
California endeavor to secure an
immediate increase of aid now given
by the Federal Government from
$40 to $50 per month in order to
pay pension Of "at least" $50.
Evening star., 1939-11-13
Service Council to Meet

A meeting Of the Service Council
Of the Jewish Community Center
will be held tomorrow at 8:15 pm.
in the Cafritz Auditorium. It will
also be athletic night, with wrestling,
boxing, fencing and jui-jitsu. All
members and friends are invited.
Evening star., 1939-11-13
Golf BoIIs Auctioned

After losing to James Adams in
golf match for the Red Cross, in
Glasgow, Scotland, Henry Cotton
auctioned the balls he and Adams
had used and raised $110.