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two Negro graduates of the Bowes
school. They are Slim Gaylord
and Leroy Stewart, who first APP
peared on the Majors program as
a part of group of five. After
their radio introduction, they
teamed up as Slim and Slam and
toured the country, during which
time they wrote what later swept
the country as one of the hottest
swing tunes of the season.
Clyde Barry, one of the Majors
first Negro finds" still wins radio
laurels and is well on his way to
share honors with Paul Robson
as one of the finest singers of his
race. After appearing on the ORR
ginal Amateur Hour for his radio
debut, he enjoyed several long con-
tracts as sustaining artist for the
Columbia Broadcasting System.
Helen Humes has been building
name for herself as vocalist with
Count Basic and his orchestra,
while Bob Parrish, a singer, has
travelled on the voice the Major
first recognized as meritorious
from Columbias Broadway Play
house to far-off Australia, where
he is now appearing in concert.
Rhea Parada is another Negro
girl who has done well for her.
self, while Mary Perry, who was
presented a diamond for her tooth
by a listening jeweler, is sue
cessful night club entertainer.
One night young James Ballan-
tine Smith, a Negro youngster of
ten years, appeared on the pro-
gram to sing. He told the Major
that he just had to have a place
ION account of because" he had to
raise two dollars to save his dog
from the pound-and that he and
his dog were so afraid of the dog
catcher that they hid under the
bed every time they heard a knock
at the door. Jimmy won the house
and apparently went over with the
radio audience just as well. Checks
and two dollar bills started rolling
in for Jimmy's dog-but all were
returned with note saying that
the Major had long since given
the pet social security"
Edna Livington, a nurse girl
from New York City, appeared on
the program few nights later,
singing Cant You, Won't You
Hurry Home" She put her own
Interpretation into each chorus of
the Cant You, Won't You" and
the audience liked each one a little
better than the first. The result
was one of the longest ovations
an amateur ever got from a Play
house audience.
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CHURCH NEWS

The Ladies of the Missionary So
ciety and Stewardess Board of the
Allen Chapel A. NJ E. church held
Eye Olde Countrie Socialle and
Dinnere" at the church Wednes-
day. The affair was well enjoyed
and attended.
The Joymakers held Skating
Party Thursday night at the
church. Everyone had a grand
time.
Saturday the Sunday school SUI
perintendent, Mrs. Helen Stafford,
assisted by the teachers, gave the
children a candy pull. Prizes were
awarded Jackie and Bobby Gibson
and to end the evening Ray Gibson
won the cake.
Mrs. Eliza McCabe gave the
message at the morning hour. The
subject and text was God is our
Refuge, a very present help in
trouble" The choir is in the midst
of its Easter preparations and they
are working hard under the direc-
ton of the pastor.
Next Sunday Rev. Allen will dis
cuss 1.-THE Valley of Dry Bones"
Wednesday members of the AL
len Chapel A. M. E. church were
guests of the Power and Light Co.
at 9Th and Broadway. This was
a Trustee benefit.
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Portland Girls Attends
Older Girls Conference
BY Eunis Mott

Older Girls Conference as three
ideal days that every girl must
surely, at some- time, desire.
Picture a Greyhound bus carry
ing 35 girls past buildings, homes,
farms, yellow fields in which cat
tie Craze, past huge frs, ripping
streams, under bridges, over bridg-
es and on and on until it reaches
Salem. During this time these 35
young people are singing, laugh
ing, munching candy and peanuts,
making new acquaintance. The
bus stops and the gaiety ceases
while registrations are made. Girls
--Girls-Girls, hundreds of them
Negroes, Chinese, Japanese, In
dians, Eskimos. English and White
girls all smiling, excitedly ex-
changing names with new and in
teresting faces. Almost 400 of
them joining hands, eagerly and
frankly discussing tne theme,
Faith" Connecting religion, la
Dor, politics, arts and races with
their theme. Girls, each taking
advantage of an opportunity to il
lustrate those high ideals which
are characteristic of female intel
ligencia, these girls, doing their
best to illustrate their faith in
God, man, and in each other.
This year, the conference was
held in the capital city of Oregon,
on the campus of that old tradi-
tional university, Willamette, ar
ound the beautiful, modernistic ca
pital buildings. Tours were made
through the new capital building
where guides pointed out the i'm
portant works of art, where the
senate was in session and where
we climbed the winding steps to
the dome to stand in awe and gaze
heavenward at the gold statue
topping the white building. Then
the tours of the campus, visiting
Willamette's law buildings, libra
ry, dormitories, fraternal houses
and Beta houses; going to the tea
Nv Pn< yfnfs in
our honor; then the banquet given
in the spacious hall of the First
Methodist Church. Conference me-
moirs of the 7:45 morning worship
held on the steps of the capital
building where Governor Sprague
spoke to us; memoirs of the choir,
of which I was a member, singing
1.-THE Green Cathedral" in the
beautiful, morning hush of the ca
pital building; memoirs of the lun-
cheon and breakfast in the Marion
Hotel, and always the memory of
the last candlelight service in the
chapel of Willamette University.
A service accumulated by the pie
ty, the inermost self of mankind
at it's best, the vivid personalities
and characters of almost 400 girls
pledging themselves to God = to
life, by the Pickering glow of the
candles, symbolizing faith is the
substance of things hoped for, the
evidence of things not SEEN" And
in the background of this wonder
full service, came the pealing notes
of the mammoth pipe organ-cap-
tivating the atmosphere by its
swelling sounds rising, rising =
higher and higher, reaching God
to bring His devout presence into
the midst of girls searching for
life ideal.
The parting of friends, ideal life
and fun; but not the parting of
conference memories as the Grey
hound bus again carries singing,
laughing inspirational girls back
to Portland.
Always I shall refer to Oregon
Older Girls Conference as three
ideal days that every girl must
surely, at some time, desire.
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To protect the master, Roman
law was very stringent, and pro-
vided that, where the master was
found murdered in his house, and
no discovery of the perpetrator,
all the domestic slaves should be
put to death. But the law was not
enforced in all cases.
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Churches
Bethel A.M.E., Rev. Geo. f. Mar

Betnel A.M.E., Rev. Geo. +. Mar
tin, minister.
The large audience at Bethel
Sunday was given rare treat in
the message, subject, "a Rule for
Correct Living" by Rev. Martin.
The Allen Christian Endeavor met
at Z p. m. Miss Josephine Dancey
is president. The League has miss
ed their advisor, Mrs. Myrtle Mar
tin, who has been quite ill. The
evening services were inspirational
and educational. Mrs. Matte Mae
Stafford, editor and publisher of
the Western Informer, was guest
speaker. On the calendar you'll
find for March "a, the play, You
Can't Take it With You," spon-
sored by the choir at the play box
theatre. The following trustees
were reelected: Bros. D. N. I'm
thank, budget; w. B. Brown, Sec. !;
Will Gragg, Loomis Harris, treas;
w. A. Reed, L. R. Blackburn, G..
w. Ford, ]. w. Stanley and S.
| Golden. Bro. S. A Dawson was
elected honorary trustee; Bro. w.
B. Brown was elected delegate to
the ELECTORAL college to be held
the first Wednesday in May. The
men of the church are sponsoring
a Pew Rally Sunday, March 10.
The Klub Kradyeufawn is rehears-
ing for another play to be pre-
scented April &c.
st. Phillips Episcopal, N. e.
Rodney, Father L. o. Stone, Vicar.
Worship services include regu-
lar prayer services. The Ladies
Guild met last week at the home
of Father Stone. Fourteen were
present to enjoy an inspirational
meeting. AS a part of their edu-
cational program the Guild financ-
ed Miss Eunis Mott as delegate
to the Older Girls Conference of
Salem last week. Mrs. Robena
Martin is president.
The Boosters" a mems club of
st. Phillips, met Monday evening
Thursday, March %, Mr.. e. A.
Brown will be the special Lenten
speaker. Sunday evening, March
&c, Bishop Dagwell will confirm a
large class. Services for Good
Friday will be held from IL noon
to p. m.
Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, Rev.
j. j. Glow, minister
The subject for Sunday morning
What Love Does Mercy Beget ?"
Following the sermon Rev. Glow
administered the rite of baptism
to Miss Jeanette Mcdonald and
Mr.. Strawder. Mr.. Kidd Morgan
led the discussion at the BYPU
hour. Rev. CLOVIS subject for the
evening service, 1.-THE Heart A
Treasury" The SOC. Club will
have charge of the fourth Sunday,
March 26, at which time SPLEEN
did program will be presented. All
services at Mt. Olivet are being
largely attended.
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SOCIAL NOTES

Miss Shirley Reed, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Willis Reed, is visit
ing Miss Maxine Brown and par
ents while her parents are out of
the city.
Mrs. Ernest Strawder's daughter
Jeanette, and son Jimmy motored
to Seattle last week to visit their
sister, Helene.
Mrs. Phillip Reynolds and her
daughter Phyllis are visiting Mrs.
Reynolds mother in Seattle where
they are combining business with
pleasure.
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Bethel A.M.E. Celebrates 47th
Anniversary With Huge Banquet

preachers have come; preach
ers have gone; loved ones have
come and loved ones have gone;
Sunshine and rain, shadows and
fog, but Bethel has lived through
it ALL" The above sentiment sti-
mulated the general theme Friday
evening when Bethel A.M.E. OBJ
served the forty-seventh anniver-
sary of its organization in Port
land, with an elaborate banquet.
The downstairs assembly room
provided ample space for several
long tables beautiful with snow
white linen, yellow daffodils en-
twined with sprigs of green fol-
iage.
On the platform was a table
with large three-tiered birthday
cake with AT candles. Seated at
this table were Bethel's 1888 and
1889 Queen, Mrs. J. A. Wisdom,
and four pioneer women members
whose "reminiscences of BethePs
origin in Portland dated back to
1892. These were Mrs. Lenora
Henderson, Mrs. Mary Fullilove,
Mrs. N. Rodes and Mrs. Marie
Penny.
Mr.. w. E. Blown, POSTMASTER,
had an honored place at the pion-
GERS table. Seated at the other
tables were members of Bethel,
friends of other churches and
Fraternal and Civic organizations.
After dining, Mr.. w. B. Brown
asked the audience to sing BLESS
Be The Tie That Binds" follow
ing this Rev. Geo. F. Martin gave
a fervent prayer.
After brief preliminaries, the
POSTMASTER presented BethePs
Queen, Mrs. j. A. Wisdom, who
read beautiful poem as a greet
ing on Betheps 47th anniversary.
Mrs. Fullilove spoke of the early
church, the Sunday School and the
first Missionary Society. Mrs. Rho
DIES was with Bethel when the
Church was on 18th and Gleason
st. Relating the hardships en-
countered, Mrs. Henderson climax
ed the history of Bethel as she re-
ferred to the purchase of the first
church property and the struggle
and efforts to maintain it.
She urged the youth of today to
put the church first.
Mrs. Lula Gragg, president of
the Bethel-Iite Club, represented
the women of the church; DR.. D.
N. Unthank, budget chairman, re-
presented the men, centering his
comments on Cooperation and
Growth" Mrs. Martha Johnson,
assistant superintendent of Sum-
day School, gave talk on "Rela-
ton of Sunday School to Church
and Home" Mrs. ]. ]. Glow ex-
tended greetings to Bethel from
Mt. Olivet Baptist Church; Mr..
j. C. Baker brought greetings of
Local 465, Protective Order of
Dining Car Walters; Mr.. Baker
spoke on Solidarity" Mr.. Kelly
Foster represented the Brother
hood of Sleeping Car Porters, and
stated that 85 per cent of the por-
tiers were churchmen; Father L..
o. Stone, expressed greetings from
st. Phillips Episcopal; Mr.. Wilbur
Marshall, Noble Grand, represent
ed the newly set-up Odd Fellows
Lodge; The International Brother
hood of Red Caps, Local 901, was
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In August, 1927, Judge Walter
A. White of Harrison County, Mis-
sissippi, dismissed the whole jury
list because Negroes had been bar
red from said list.
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Portland Association of Youth
extends a cordial invitation to the
Youth Council and NAACP on
Monday to attend their meeting
to be held March 20 at the central
"Y." Three important questions
will be on the slate for discussion:
The coming election; The skating
parties for mixed groups; and The
N.Y.A.
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Keep off April 18th
DOLL HOUSE CONTEST

Keep Off May 19th-Ways and
Means Committee O.A.C.W. Dance
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Keep Off May 19th-Ways and
Means Committee O.A.C.W. Dance
Evening star., 1939-02-24
Hopkins Talk Tonight
Expected 10 Sound
Conci|iatory Note
Business Leaders Awoit
Speech for indication
Of New Deal PIuns
BY the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
Businessmen and. politicians alike
turned to the Midwest today for an
indication of the administration S
plans affecting industry, taxes and
labor.
When Harry L. Hopkins speaks to-
night at 1890 o'clock (E. S. T.) in
Des Moines, Iowa, many persons in
the Capital expect his first major
address since becoming Secretary of
Commerce will sound a conciliatory
note to business.
Secretary of the Treasury Nor
genthau's repetition yesterday of the
presidential promise of no new taxes
heightened interest in the Hopkins
address.
Secretary Morgenthau said he was
considering no new tax legislation,
except re-enactment of so-called
nuisance" excise lerles and possibly
plan to raise extra funds for farm
benefits. He told reporters President
Roosevelt wants . businessmen to
make money.
More Important Tasks.
Attention was focused on Secretary
Hopkins talk partly because of his
close connection with the White
House. There is a widespread belief
that the energetic former head of
the w. P. A. was placed in the cab
met by President Roosevelt in the
expectation that he would do far
more tcan administer the routine
business of the Commerce Depart
ment.
There have been ascribed to him a
multitude of potential tasks, includ-
ing effecting reconciliation between
the A. F. l.. and the C. I. o. Mr..
Hopkins has remained silent on such
speculation, but he has been con-
ducting series of conferences with
business leaders for nearly two
months.
Secretary Hopkins told reporters
three weeks ago that reasonable
profits to business" were among the
things necessary to achieve higher
national income. He said then he
Evening star., 1939-02-24
Hungary
Continued FROM First Page.)

600 detectives and by hundreds more
throughout the country.
Though party leaders had sus-
pected the scholarly new premier
might make some move against their
organization, which had irritated the
government with an increasing
number of acts of violence, none had
believed he would strike quite so
swiftly.
Raiding squads gathered at po-
lice stations at midnight (6 pm,
E. S. T., Thursday and at am. 1l
pm, E. S. T. Thursday they went
in riot cars and trucks to national
and ward party headquarters
throughout the city.
At the Andrassy street building
they seized uniformed Nazi guards
But Hungarian law provides that
no house may be searched before
6 am, and the officers waited in
the chilly morning until precisely
that hour.
Membership Lists Seized.
In the offices two long member
ship lists were seized. One bore
names and addresses; the other was
just list of numbers. Officers said
these referred to persons who wished
to conceal their identity, but at an
other house a master list was found
which was said to have identified
those to whom numbers had been
assigned.
Police were anxious particularly
to identify members of the party's
so-called BLACK Front" The front
was described as party police force
ard to 1t was attributed the recent
bombing Of Dohany street syna-
gogue and Nazt disorders in the
city Of Sopron, south of Vienna
and Szeged, on the Southern Hun
l sarian border.
Evening star., 1939-02-24
So Coal Miners
Continue Sit-|n
For Back Wages
Men Refuse to Come
Up Until Pay Received;
Sickness Takes 3
By the Associated Press,

6y tne Associated Fre&S.
HAZLETON, Pa, Feb. 24.-Cheer-
full in defiance of health-ravagine
dampness and cold, band of 5s
hardy coal miners carried on a SUBJ
terranean "sit-down" today-deter-
mined to stay deep in a mine al
nearby Oneida until their demands
for back pay were met in full.
The miners refused to accept the
Wolfe Golfers Co.'S offer to pay
current wages due four days ago
providing they would abandon their
voluntary prison. They sent ur
word they would stay underground
until they also received pay they
claim is due for two weeks in Jan
uary
Undaunted by sickness, which
toe$ three of the number from the
shaft since the strike began We'd
nesday, the miners hu ddled in
blankets around. steam I,wer pipes
on levels $50 and 500 feet below
the surface, sang, played cards and
listened to a radio sent down by
friends.
Outside their wives took over a
makeshift kittren. set up to supply
them with hot coffee and fHod. An
appeal went out to the local Rec
Cross chapter for blankets, and the
company ordered an ambulance te
stand by at the mine entrance.
Most Of the men were on the $50.
foot level. They kept in communi-
cation with fellow workers through
mine telephone system. Persons
entering the shaft said the workers
frequently sang over the system
the telephone receiver being held
so the men huddled in a group or
the other level could hear.
Among the underground visitors
was the parish priest, the Rev. JOS
eph Baran. He conveyed word from
Hugh V. Brown, district president
OF the United Mine Workers OF
America, that the strike was "un-
authorized" and pleaded for the
men to come out. His plea failed
to change their position.
Evening star., 1939-02-24
New York Milk Pact
Unconstitutional,
Court Rules
Boston Area Murketino
Agreement Upheld
By Another Judge
BY the Associated Press.

UTICA, N. Y, Feb. pa Federal
State milk-marketing agreement for
the Metropolitan New York area
was held unconstitutional today by
Federal District Judge Frank Cooper
The decision was made known in
an opinion filed here "a hours after
similar order for the Greater Bos-
ton area was upheld by a Federal
judge. Two days ago, two provisions
of New York States Rogers-Allen
Milk-Control Law were invalidated
by Supreme Court Justice Francis
Bergan in Albany. N. Y.
Judge Cooper said:
The final conclusion is that the
statute as applied in the order is
unconstitutional as to all the de-
PENDANTS in its application to the
situation and conditions here exist
ing; that the order was not approved
in accordance with the provisions
of the statute and should not be en-
forced"
The decision was made in an ac-
ton brought by the Government
against four milk distributors-the
letter Dairy Co., Oriskany Falls;
Central New York Cooperative,
Cortland; Schuyler Junction Co.
Operative, Frankfort, and the Rock
Royal Cooperative, Delhi.
The Government contended the
concerns refused to comply with the
milk marketing pact, which became
effective last September /, by fail
ing to participate in a producers
settlement pool as required by its
provisions.
The order affects more than 60 900
dairymen in New York, Vermont,
Massachusetts, Connecticut, Penn
sylvania, New Jersey and Maryland
who ship milk to New York City and
is binding on approximately TOO
handlers in New York State.
Handlers contribute to the settle
ment pool from which producers
are paid, sum based on the amount
of milk sold in nine classifications
An average minimum price paid
producers is fixed each month by
Administrator Erskine M. Harmon
Judge Cooper invalidated the act
on the ground operation of an equal
lzation fund was "con6scatory, and
because. he said, there was misrepre-
sentation as to terms of the order on
the part of the Dairymen's League,
the Metropolitan Cooperative Milk
Bargaining Agency. Inc; the United
States Secretary of Agriculture and
the New York State Agricultural
commissioner.
Evening star., 1939-02-24
Citizens Forget
Half Million
In Cash Yearly
BY the Associated Press.

The Post Office Department dis
closed today that Americans forget
to cash from $50O,OOO to s7OO.OOO
worth of money orders every year.
THE great bulk of these money
ORDERS" said Charles E. Matthews,
superintendent of the division, ARE
simply those that are purchased for
one purpose or another and those
in whose favor they are drawn for
get to cash them or lay them aside"
The forgotten orders average So,
but some of them are the $lOO kind.
Officials are convinced that if the
Government issued $1,000 money or
ders some one would forget them,
too.
The law prescribes that local
post office cannot redeem a money
order more than a year old. The
customer doesn't lose the money,
hoWever-he receives a warrant from
the Treasury.
There's another thing about cit
liens that irks the postal officials
the way they drive their automobiles
into the corner mail boxes.
Evening star., 1939-02-24
Chesapeake Bay Used
By 5mugg|ers 10
Land Shipments
Narcotics Runners Slip
Into Horbors at Night,
Coast Guard Reveals
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Smugglers speeding into deserted
inlets or slipping into harbors by
night to unload shipments of mar
cotics are the biggest problems OF
the Coast Guard.
And, according to Rear Admiral
R. R. Waesche, commandant of the
Coast Guard. favored spot for the
smugglers activities is the entrance
to Chesapeake Bay, not far from
Washington.
He told. in records published to-
day of hearing on Coast Guard
appropriations, of intensifying the
drive against narcotic smuggling
and said:
Some idea of the magnitude of
the task may be had from the fact
that all of the principal ports of
Continental Europe. the Mediter-
ranean and the Far East are re-
garded as points of shipments of
narcotic drugs intended for clan
destine introduction into the United
States"
Special Patrols Ordered Out.
TO combat smugglers, he said, the
Coast Guard found it necessary to
establish during the last fiscal year
special patrols to cover Delaware
Bay and River, Chesapeake Bay and
the Jacksonville and New Orleans
areas. Those districts. he said, were
considered especially Vulnerable in
the narcotic traffic due to the pres
ence of a large amount of foreign
shipping"
He described the mouth of Chesa-
peake Bay, where vessels bound for
Baltimore pass Cape Charles. as
"one of the vulnerable entrances for
narcotic smuggling
But lest there be any thought that
the Coast Guard had devoted too
much of its attention to the drive
against smuggling, Admiral Waesche
reported that his force had saved
the lives of 8.643 persons last year,
had assisted 33,90l persons aboard
distressed vessels, and had gone to
aid of vessels valued at $59, 755 ,039.
Maine Case Watched.
Admiral Waesche said smuggling
of liquor is not a problem at pres
ent, although patrols are maintained
on the Maine coast to make sure
liquor intended to be smuggled into
Canada is not brought into Maine.
Alien smuggling, he said, con-
tinues to be quite a problem in
Florida, mostly from Cuba and
other West Indies islands.
On another phase of the narcotics
problem, Commissioner H. J. Ans
linger of the Narcotics Bureau says
the race horse doping problem has
really been whipped"
Out of 5000 saliva tests made last
year to determine whether horses
had been stimulated, only six were
positive" he testified during hear
ings.