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The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-01-20

Motion to adjourn mt IL 30 Il. NJ.
lfy Councilman Mason. supported by
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Street, Magistrate Myles Paige will
address the group in an open
meeting. Everyone is looking for
ward to this address which will
deal with present day trends in
government and the need for COM
petent leadership. Following the
open meeting there will be q re-
ception for visiting Sorors and
their friends. The Augusta Savages S
Salon Of Contemporary Art, 143 w.
l25th Street, will furnish the ar
tistic setting for this affair.
December Robustness sessions
will begin at nine and continue un-
I'll noon. After an intermission Of
one hour, business will be resumed
at one o'clock and follow through
until five pm. To break the strain
Of business there will be a panel
discussion at the hour of three p.
m. The subject: LEADERSHIP AS
AN ART. The Pan-Hellenic Cock
tail Party will be held between the
hours of nine and twelve pm. at
the Witoka Club. 222 West 145th
Street.
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Sigma Gamma Rios To
Hold B0uIe In NY.

Members of Sigma Gamma Rho
Sorority are looking forward to the
1899 boule with a great deal of in
terest and enthusiasm. The pro-
gram promises to be sufficiently
full and varied to take care Of the
interests of ali who will be in New
York for this meeting.
Soror Elizabeth e. Lemon, of At
lanta, chairman Of the National
Program Planning Committee, an
nounces the schedule Oh events
thus: December q, delegates will
report at the YWCA upon arrival;
register, and claim the block OF
rooms which has been reserved Tor
them. At three thirty, all national
officers and board members Will
meet at the home of Soror Ada
Stewart, 1884 Seventh Avenue.
Here, Soror Leslie Taylor, chairman
of the board, will conduct an i'm
portant meeting whiTl will be fol.
lowed by the annual Epsilon Din
ner."
At eight o'clock pm, at Mother
Zion AME Church, lao West 1S7th
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Olympic Champion
Athletic Director
At Claflin i.

ORANGEBURG, S. C.-(sNs) -
Claflin University has obtained the
services of David .. Albritton
Olympic cham ;1ion and co-holder Of
the worlds high jump record at
6 feet 9 ga inches, as Athletic pi-
rector. Coach Albritton recently re
signed his T ost as Poys Work Sec.
retary at the Cedar Avenue Branch
YMCA to join the faculty at Claf-
lin College. His work record, since
leaving Ohio State University
consist OF a series OF distinct
achievements.
Among many accomplishments
Coach Albritton has held the heavy
weight championship at Ohio State
University for three years, travelled
extensively throughout Europe COM
peting in field and track exhibi-
tions, captaineG the Ohio State
University track team in 1888, Col
den Gloves Champion, selected for
three consecutive years on the ALI
American track team by the A.AU.
and has completed partial require
ments on the Masters degree at
Western Reserve University III
Cleveland,
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j dge Hastie
Urges Action

KNOXVILLE, Tsnn.-(SNS) -
"The Negro will make more pro-
gress in the next forty years than
he has in the past forty" pro-
phesied Judge Hastie before stu
dents of Knoxville college at chap
Ell service last week,
Mr.. HASTE, now Dean of the
Howard Law School. expressed dis.
trust, in the faith that time and
patient waiting would solve the
Negro's problems. He urged action.
The speaker explained his be-
lief in an even more rapid pro-
greSS for his race on the ground
that on all fronts, politically, le-
gally, and educationally the Negro
is becoming more aggressive and
going after the privileges which
are rightfully his.
Attorney Hastie returned to
Knoxville College, where he one
time went to school, after an ABB
sence Of twenty years. He was the
first Negro ever appointed to a
federal judgeship.
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Pope's Encyclical Hailed AS Step
TotUard Better Racial Understanding

NEW YORK, N. z (sNs)-.
Strong hope for (! more liberal at
titude toward the Negroes OF
America on the part of this coun-
lry's Catholics is seen by Elmer
Anderson Carter, editor of OP.
PORTUNITY Magazine. IN 81 ed:.
corial appearing in the December
issue Of that magazine, Mr.. Cartet
compares the recent Encyclical Of
Pope Plus XII with a papal Bull
issued a hundred years ago by Pope
Gregory XVI, and expressed the
hope that the latest statement Oil
the Negro to come from the Vati-
car will have an effect equal GO
that of the earlier one.
The papal Bull Of Gregory XVI
denounced the African slave trade
ana the institution Of slavery in
America. According to Mr.. Garter,
t gave hope TO the Abolitionists
caused CONSERVATION and remorse
among the slave~holding Catholics
OF LOUISIANA, ana was used freely
by the anti-slayery propagandistS
in their agitation for the abolition.
Of this traffic in human beings,
"Tt is not too much to expect
that the words of His Holiness
Pope Plus XII will accomplish as
much for the Negro as a freeman
as those of Gregory accomplished
for the Negro as a slave.
1.-THE blessing Of the Pope on the
work of those inspired members of
the church who have been work
ing to eliminate racial discrimina-
ton in Catholic colleges and uni
verSities, and to widen the doors
of employment opportunity for Nc
gro youth should be increased CO.
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PLAN farm SCHOOL
Phi Beta Sigma Closes
National EssayC Contest

WASHINGTON, D. G. - MIR.
James L. Armstrong, Director OF
he Phi Beta Signals Nation-w wide
Essay Contest, an-Aunced that the
ontest closed today.
The subject of the Contest How
Can the Economic Status Of the
negro be Improved" has met with
widespread interest among Senior
High school students Of approved
econdary schools throughout th5
= ton. 1t began on November first
and lasted through November 30th.
On the eve of the close of the con-
est number Of essays came in
rom all parts of the country, in
Guiding the far western states and
he deep South. Dean George A.
Parker, National Director of Edu-
cation of the Phi Beta Sigma fra
ternity, and Mr.. Armstrong ex-
pressed qualification in the way
the contest has been handled and
the interest manifested by high
school students and school officials
throughout the country.
The entrant having the best es-
say will receive a tuition scholar
ship in the sum Of Seventy-five
dollars ($75.00), to be applied to-
ward tuition in one of the approved
colleges or universities of the
country. A second prize of fifty
dollars ($500O) and a third of
twenty-five dollars $2500) ar also
to be awarded. In addition thereto
ten prizes of five dollars ($5.00)
each will go to the writer's Of the
next tsn best essays.
Prizes will be awarded at the
Silver Jubilee Conclave of Phi Beta
Sigma to be held at Howard uni
versity in Washington, D. c., De-
climber 27-3O, 1889.
AT a meeting of the staff Of con-
test directors, Dean Parker for
mally announced the following
list of judges who will determine
the winners of the Essay Contest:
DR.. j. L. S. Holloman, chairman,
president of the Washington Bap-
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Answer
Va. School
Suit Filed
Va. School
Board Answers
Wage Suit

NORFOLK, Va.-(A N P)-Last
week, at almost the same time a
Federal judge in Baltimore hand
ed down a decision favorable to
the Negro teachers of Maryland,
the local Norfolk School board fill
ed its answer to similar suit
brought in Federal District Court
by M. o. Alston, colored teacher
at Booker T. Washington high
school.
Aston seeks for himself and
other colored teachers a pay sche-
dule equal to that now being paid
white teachers doing the same
class Of work. Signed by City At
tornsy Alfred Anderson, the school
boards answer to the suit, declar-
ed: "Under the laws Of the state
Of Virginia the school board is
authorized and empowered to em-
ploy teachers and fix their COM
pensation, and such being the case
they have the right to employ
them for such salary as said board
is willing to pay and the teacher
to accept"
Alston's counsel explained that
if the case is brought to trial a
court Of three judges, sitting en-
banc, will be required to hear it
since a constitutional question IS
involved.
Aston claims that the difference
in the pay of Negro and white
teachers is a violation of the 14th
amendment to the U. S. Consti-
tuition, in that 1t makes discrim-
ination because Of race and
color
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Coop To
Be Run By
FSA Unit
Basic Training
For Youth To
Be Offered

WASHINGTON - (ANP)
PLANS for an ''interneship"
farm project to be conduct
ed OF land adjoining Flint
River farms, Montezuma, Ga.
are nearing completion, ac-
cording to information releas-
ed this week by the Farm
Security office here.
The project which has for its
chief purpose the training of young
farmers under typical farm situa.
tlons, will be operated on co.
operative basis. Units vacated by
farmers who have completed train
ing will be taken by new families
Operated in this fashion, the prof.
ect will provide interneships in CO.
operative operation and modern
farm methods for a large number
of new families, enabling them
within reasonable length of time.
to maintain themselves and con-
serve the land they use in accord-
aace with accepted, progressive
agricultural practice.
Within the 40 year period Of
operation planned for it, between
three and four hundred families
will receive basic training during
their interneship residence of this
40-unit tract. Each family will con-
tribute its quota toward property
payments. AT the end of the 60
years, when payment is complete,
the lard will be added to Flirlt
River farms, the parent project,
where 102 Negro families are al
ready established on an ownershiE
basis.
Young married farmers from 1s
to 80 years old are now being Sc.
lected from among many applicants
Each family Of three to five per-
sons will be situated on a one-horse
farm, in comfortable five-room
cottage, with five acres of land,
poultry house, smoke-house, garden
lot and cow barn. Cash crops will
be raised under guidance Of trained
agricultural experts, on land used
comparatively with labor on the coor
farm and elsewhere on the prof.
al Eax
of 75c a day, plus dividends from
the crops.
Existing housing will be used
temporarily until new, modern
farm homes are completed. Super
vision and direction will be sup.
piled by the personnel of the Flint
River farms project, with the co.
operation of state officials.
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N O &c E.! (!


Most Of the grocery stores in
town are making a great colt
tribution to the public for
Xmas, by making more i'm
provement for bigger stocks and
better places to serve the pub
lie.
Some are building new build
ings, some are remodeling, some
have moved. Cool spots and
meat casese for those meats,
turkey, chicken, cakes, pies,
bread and all kinds of good
things to eat, that you will want
for Xmas.
Among the many improve
fnents that are being made. In
grocery lines-The Rainoo
Bread Co. is responsible for a
good number of bread counters,
pies, tray and bag hangers that
have been put into stores where
such equipmet was needed. In
cluaed were three colored stores
on Chichuchua in West Phoenix.
IA Rainbow driver who wears
a smile all the time because he
knows that he delivered fifty
lOaves Of bread, which were Civ
en- to a colored church dinner
and found that many other
people had been made to know
what he knows about Rainbow
Bread.
If you live in West Phoenix
and want good bread, rolls and
pies for Christmas, do your
shopping with the three coIored
stores on Chichuchua Ave-, in
West Phoenix.
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ist Seminary, and member of Phi
Beta Sigma.
DR.. Alain Leroy Locke, Rhodes
Scholar and Professor Of Philoso-
ply, Howard University, Washing
ton, d. c., and member Of Phi
eta Sigma.
Miss Elsie Austin, national presi-
dent, Delta Sigma Theta Soror-
ity and former assistant attorney
general of the State of Ohio.
DR.. Frank s. Horne, assistant
consultant on Racial Relations U
S. Housing Authority, and member
of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.
DR.. John Lavalle, Professor of
English, Howard University, Wash
ington, D. G.
Mr.. James A. Atkins. specialist
in Negro e1uca tion, Works Prog
ress Administration.
Mr.. r. O'Hara Lanier, assistant
director, Division of Negro Affairs,
National Youth Administration.
DR.. Eva B. Dykes, Professor of
English, Howard University, and
member of Delta Sigma Theta
Sorority.
Mrs. Blanche B. Clark, English
Department, Garnet-Patterson Ju-
nior High school, Washington, D,
c., and member of zeta Phi Beta
Sorority, and Prof. jesse w. Lewis.
head of the Department of Com
merce, College of Liberal Arts,
Howard University, and member of
Phi Beta Sigma.
The decision of the judges in all
cases Is final
The Phoenix index., 1939-12-16

In Staying
Is Found
District Atty
Certain He Can
Find Killers

MOUND BAYOU, Miss
(ANP)-- Acting on orders
from Gov. White, four squad
rons of Mississippi national
guardsmen under command
Of Major I. B. Birdsong, Jr:,
state commissioner of public
safety and head of the state
riot division, raided this al
Negro town tuesday night
and arrested II persons in 16
whiskey and gambling places.
District Attorney Greek p. Rice
Of Clarksdale, who asked the gov
erner to order the raid, said addi-
tional evidence had been produced
in the November 6 ambush Staying
Of Eugene P. Booze, Republican
leader, whose car was riddled with
26 bullets.
The Phoenix index., 1939-12-16
Force Agent To
Halt Sales Of
Negro Paper

COLUMBUS. Miss.-(A N PJ--
Ffar Of bodily injury or some
Sther form Of physical violence
has caused D. 4. Murray, agent
Ibr the Black Dispatch, Oklahoma
City newspaper, to cancel his
'sgency and abandon his rapidly
Increasing circulation of the Okla
.hcma publication.
Murray, VINO has been repre-
senting the paper in this little
county seat city for several
months, alleges that last Saturday
he was approached by an unidenti.
fieG white man on the streets OF
Columbus who asked What kind
Qf paper is that2"
On ksi,4s advised that it was an
Oklahoma paper which Murray
sold weekly, the white man de-
manded copy. Following perusal
OF the edition the man said, 'Ill
take all of thern,' pro, eeding to
Snatch them away from Murray
without paying. '-.
He later gaze them back to the
news agent but warned him not
to be caught selling another one in
the town.
81 carried my papers to the city
hall and reported what had hap
pened to the city marshall" said
Murray, in telling about the Incl.
dent. The marshall told Murray
that no one had a legal right to
prevent him from the sale OF the
papers, but if some white man had
told me not to sell them I had bet
ter do so because this is Missis-
sippi, you know"
The Phoenix index., 1939-12-16
MRS. ROOSEVELT JR.
VISITS PUERTO RICAN COLONY

NEW YORK-(ANP)-Mrs. The
odore Roosevelt, 'Tr., wife OF the
former governor Of Puerto Rico,
was honor guest at the open celeo
bration for the supporters of Casl-
toal Maria, Catholic Settlement
house for Puerto Ricans, this week
Archbishop Francis j. Spellman
was principal speaker at the celee
bration, attended by more than 800
people. While here he inspected an
exhibit Of some Of the handiwork
of the more than 5000 persons who
atte-4d the csater eacn month.
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Wins National
Essay Contest

NEW YORK CITY-(A (ANP)-Last
summer when Ma2hattans World
Of Tomorrow was opened to the
public, contest was started, billed
as the 9th annual competition Of
the New History Society, and held
in conjunction with the publica-
ton of THE BIBLE OF MAN.
KIND, compiled and edited by
Mira Ahmad Sohrab.
Open tu Fair visitors and to all
Americans and Canadians. con-
The Phoenix index., 1939-12-16
Discrimination lr, Jury
Panel Ends In AcquittaZ

Judge Beavers sustained the mo-
tioIls after the defense counsel Gin
Guiding AttyS. NJ H. Martin and ].
w. Casey Of Boley) had present.
ed testimony of many former
members Of the Okfuskee county
jury commission in which they
were asked about the selection OF
Negroes for the jury panel.
Some admitted they left them eff
pllrposely, while others explained
they happened to be omitted as the
commissioners were hunting good
Jurors. A few stated that it was nc.
a custom in the south to do bust
ness this wav. One Juror frank
ly stated that ne was born il
Tennessee and raised n Arkansas
and that he knew no other than to
act accordingly.
The judge Of this jurisdiction
was disqualified py the defense
The Phoenix index., 1939-12-16
Four Of Family
Perish In Fire

SOCIAL CIRCLE, Georgia
(SNS)-Ed Holland, his wife,
Mamie; son, Robert; and aI
infant baby, peri6hed in ten
ant house fire near here at
midnight Sunday.
- The Hollands were living in
a fiVe-r0OTn tenant house on
the farm Of A. J, Watson.
Four other children Of the
Hollands were saved by a bro
ther who was not liz the Mouse
when tire fire broke ont,
The Phoenix index., 1939-12-16

Plus XII and have high hopes Ct
future accomplishments by the
Catholic Church in the field OF
race relations"
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operation and support from their
co-religionists. And Negroes OF
every faith welcome the interest
and sympathy expressed by Pope
The Phoenix index., 1939-12-16

These motions were filed in con .
nection with the grand jury in
dictments Of Williams (Bill) Hazel,
prominent leader and merchant,
charged with forgery in connec-
ton with the handling of relief
funds, and w. e. Owens charged
with neglect of duty as an elec-
tion official.
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testants were to write on the SUBJ
ject: WHAT INFLUENCE WOULD
A HTBLE OF MANKIND EXERT
ON THE WORLD CT TOMOR.
ROW. The award committee Sat.
urday handed down It's decision.
declared that the best essay on the
subject had been written by d Me-
gro: Cornelius Lacy GolightIy LAB,
AND, % years old, new serving as
Continued on Back Parel
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Judge Sustains Motion
To Quash' Indictments
By T. A. DOUGLAS

BOLEY, Okla.-lANP)-One of the most significant cour
decisions affecting Negroes handed down Friday in the COUNTY
by District Judge c. c. Beavers when sustained motion
quah three indictments returned by the Okuskee county
jury allegations of racial discrimination"
The Phoenix index., 1939-12-16
SEIZE WIsKEY

According to Rice, this 52-year.
old town which until recently had
reputation as a model community
S "an intolerabla den OF vice. The
,uardsmen seized 80 gallons Of
vhiskey and smashed gaming Ia
les and slot machines in IL Of the
>laces raided.
IT feel certain now that we can
ring about the arrest and convic-
ion of Booze's slayers," Rice de-
Jared Friday. "Vice OF all kinds
The Phoenix index., 1939-12-16

Continued on Back Page)
Evening star., 1939-07-25

one of the most revealing and inter-
esting of those carried on by the
committee 1t disclosed that the
laws enacted by Congress to extend
to inventors the monopoly intended
by the drafters of the Constitution
to be a personal reward for their
genius is sometimes used to harass
inventors, to deprive them of the use
of their discoveries, to control and
direct industry, to restrict produc-
ton and to fix prices.
Finally. the Federal Trade Com
mission, which was created by Con-
gress in 1914 in the effort to keep
business free, presented to the COM
mittee the story of its experience
during the last seven years with the
practices which have been used to
suppress competition and to build up
concentrated control of American
business. Instances were marshalled
to describe As different monopolistic
practices, all of them recognized to
be unfair and unethical as we'll as
illegal, all of them obviously founded
in fraud, force and sharp practice
and all of them also practices which
were used by some businessmen to
crush other businessmen.
Protection Sought.
Additional evidence presented by
the Trade Commission told the
stories of formal complaints filed
with the Federal Trade Commission
by business executives seeking the
aid of Government to protect them
from what they alleged to be the
predatory practices of other business
executives. This was not the story
of voluntary Government interfer-
ence with business, but rather the
story of Government protecting
business from aggressive attacks by
other business which was not con-
tent to observe the law intended to
prevent unreasonable restraints of
trade.
If you seek the first cause of un-
employment and economic distress,
you will find it in the adoption by
men in economic warfare of those
devices which the law defines as un-
reasonable restraints of trade.
When men resort to coercion, fraud,
Misrepresentation and manipulation
to prevent other men from succeed
ing, they inevitably close the door
to opportunity. That trade has been
restrained no one can doubt who
has reviewed the testimony pre-
sented to this committee. That
trade must be kept free if it is to be
kept private is to me, after II
months work with this committee,
an inescapable conclusion. More
over, to keep it free is an objective
to the attainment of which all the
patience and ability of the people
of America must be directed if the
America we love is to be preserved.
All distinctions of property, of edu-
cation, social standing, ability, skill
or geographical location vanish be-
fore the primary and essential neces-
sity of keeping the door of opportu-
nifty open to all. There is no worker,
Evening star., 1939-07-25

no employer, no executive. no in
vestor who does not have a vital
stake in making certain that private
enterprise shall not be controlled by
any form of arbitrary power, either
private or public.
The preliminary recommendations
which are to be found in this re-
port are all directed toward this
end. The first group have to do
with matters of patent law proce-
dure. Amendments have been sug-
gested to reduce the possibility of
the perversion of the spirit of the
patent laws by legalistic manipula-
ton Of the letter of the law. These
recommendations are already in the
form of bills now pending in Con-
gress, five of them having been
passed by the House of Representa-
tives are now upon the calendar of
the Senate. Accompanying them are
several other suggestions for legisla-
ton in the field of patents. all de-
Continued on Page B-9J
Evening star., 1939-07-25
There Are Two Ways
to Get at Constipation

Yes, and only two ways-betore
and after tt happens! Instead Of
enduring those dull, tired, head
achy days and then hauing to
take an emergency medicine-why
not KEEP regular with Kellogg's
All-Bran? You can, If your con-
stipation is the kind millions have
due to the lack Of bulk" in
modern diets. For All-Bran goes
right to the cause of this trouble
by supplying the bulk" you need.
Eat this toasted nutritious ce-
real every day-with milk or cream,
or baked into muffins-drink
plenty of water, and see If your
life isn't a whole lot brighter!
Made by Kellogg's in Battle Creek.
Sold by every grocer.
Evening star., 1939-07-25

New Super Beom-o-Scope ends
need Of aerial and ground wires
reduces local stotic and noises.
Provides better reception and
permits plugging in your rodio
os you do q lamp.
Evening star., 1939-07-25

TeIevision Audio or Phono-
graphic Key supplies 1.-THE voice
of teIevision" through your
rodo's loud speaker when used
in connection with sight re-
ceiver.
Evening star., 1939-07-25
p1v:< |M<luf

New l4-inch Dynopower Speak
er. Another 6. E. Radio first.
TroubIe-free and charged to
maximum capacity for Ione-lfe
performance.
Evening star., 1939-07-25

New Sight Angle VisuoIuxDioI-
making it easier to read. Kilo-
cycle numbers ore deep nodded
three dimension block numerals,
edge lighted for noximum visi-
bility from any angle.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-12-20
POLICE APPEAR
AGAINST SEAMAN
COURT MARTIAL PROCEED
INGS HELD ON BOARD GAN
NETT THIS MORNING

Police officers were asked to
appear before the officers in
charge of the Tender Gannett
and give evidence against Charles
F. Cliff, who was arrested Mon
day morning by Police Officer
Jose Espinosa, riding in one of
the cars which he had used
without permission.
He was tried Monday afternoon
in police court on a charge of
driving while drunk, and SEN
tence was that he be turned over
to the ship to be tried by the of
ficerS at court martial.
The cars which he is accused of
using belonged to Professor Du-
mont Huddleston, Manuel Perez
and a clerk in the store of Charles
Tiff. who have all been summon
ed to appear and testify. Officer
Perez and Traffic Officer Ray
mond Cabrera went on board the
Gannett this morning and told
their story.