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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-07-15
WE ST SIDE DETROIT
BY BETTE ELLINGTON 5247 vinewood Avenue

was wrong. She went TO work we'll,
the morning before, and he was
very shocked on hearing OF her
instant death.
Mrs. Mcleod was married and had
lived in Detroit two years.
The Deacons Union
The Deacons Union held their
business meeting at New Light Bap-
fist church Monday night They
were surprised to have new church
coming into the Union, which will
add strength to the union. The group
was invited 70 New Bethel Baptist
church, Rev. Mr.. T. Tam Pastor
TO participate on program Sunday
July Is Professor West and his
choir will also appear on program
The Union held their instruction
meeting at the Macedonia Baptist
church. Representatives to affiliate
with the Metropolitan Association,
made their reports, which made
them successful in becoming sue
cessful members OF the Metropolitan
Association.
Protective Association ---
The Juvenile Protective Associa-
ton OF Michigan was well attended
Thursday July g. at the Hibler Fun
eral Home, 3Sl5 McGraw, avenue.
The Association will hold their
final meeting July Is, activities will
be discontinued until September.
Westside Voters League
The Westside Voters League will
have their next meeting Thursday
July Is, at Mt Salem Baptist church
Sab Roosevelt.
Guest Speaker
E. Cunningham. president OF the
First COMPRESSION church. Joseph
Cole and VIM. Sheriff. will be the
guest speakers.
Association
The Young Mems Progressive as
ISOLATION OF N. Detroit is doing
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Dorothy Smith, one OF the sue
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Carriers Is among a group OF girls
attending the Stay at nome camp
held at the Lucy Thurman Branch
r'M.C.A' otners include Elizaoetn
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-07-15

lobe by Stella Gentry sharpe
The University OF North Carolina
Press Chapel Hill, n. c.
sI.O0 1889
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-07-15

BLACK FOLK. THEN AND NOW,
BY W E. Burghardt Dubois
Henry Holt and Company q.
$3.50
This monumental work which is
dedicated to Or. Dubois grand
daughter in the hope that her
bright eyes may one day see some
of the things | dream" represents
a brilliant peak in contemporary
scholarship, As the author states. it
is an essay in the history and
sociology OF the Negro race In
one broad and searching sweep, Dr..
Dubois takes something Of an in
veniory Of his people He indicates
the importance Of Negro history and
establishes a continuity between
the ancient civilizations OF Africa
and Egypt and the Negro culture OF
today
DR.. Dubois who writes with an
admirable mastery Of the language
declares that two reasons account
for the peculiar history OF Africa.
One is climate which made Africa
land Of jungle, desert and dis
ease, and the other is that smsn.
kind in Africa became goods-be-
came merchandise" Beginning with
the fifteenth century and culminst-
ing in the eighteenth and nineteenth
century, Men we're bought and
sold for private profit and on thai
profit Europe. by the use OF every
device Of modern science anc
technique, began to dominate the
world"
The chapter entitled The Trade
in Men" represents one Of the mos
Illuminating essays on African slav
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-07-15
"TELESCOPING INTO THE
FUTURE"

With this instsllment we wind up
our first series Of Africa Views
and Reviews" TO begin a second
series in the. next edition of this
newspaper. But in closing the Sc
ries "Telescoping into the Future"
we must go back where we started
from: George Bernard Shsw's pre-
diction that the next civilization
that the world will know is that of
the black man, with its center in
Africa. In our last installment. we
pictured 10 our readers, as one Of
the aftermaths OF the next world
war, France dominating the Euro
pean theatre OF international poll
tics, backed by the power and the
force OF her black colonials in
order to enforce her leadership on
white Europe. With Canadian
Great Britain and United States
enjoying a white mans Utopia on
this side of the Aelantih, and the
blood purge of all non-Aryans go
ing in full swing. when and il the
British Throne is transferred to
Canada, what can the American
Negro do right now in anticipation
OF the zero hour" which is coming
TO him just as surely as it has come
TO the Jew in certain parts OF
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-07-15

HISTORY OF lne american NckTO
People. I6I9-l9lS by Elizabeth Law
son Workers Book Shop 50
East Thirteenth Street New
York City 1899 $40
This study outline OF Negro his
tory MaS- prepared from s-Series- 81
lectures by the author who is chair
man OF the History department Of
-tAe New York Workers school Miss
Lawson approaches her subject
from the Marxist viewpoint and by
the nature OF her approach omiis
much material without which her
study is not complete.
Discussion of slavery, the Civil
War, Reconstruction and the Negro
worker rightly occupy most OF the
space OF the book. get there is no
space given to Negro education,
the Negro in business, Negro educa-
ton, the Negro in the professions.
The philosophy Of Negro leadership
is DISMISSED with a section on the
ideas of Booker T Washington,
whose thinking has been opposed by
a large number Of prominent Ne
sroes, chief among whom is DR..
W. E. B. Du Bots Miss Lawson's
picture is no little distorted by these
omissions. The masses are undoub-
teddy important, but they have been
Influenced TO great extent by
their newspapers and leaders, Any
account which discusses the one
and ignores the others leaves an
important gap in Negro thinking.
Miss Lawson gives James Aliens
book on the Reconstruction as ref
erence for all OF a number OF sec
tions on this 5eriod mentioning DR..
Du Bots Black Reconstruction
only once. This procedure is typi-
cal OF the book which presents
only one side OF the question in
every instance. This is particularly
true in one OF the quotations in
cluded which are always those
which bolster the authors argu-
ments. We agree with most OF Miss
LaWsOn's statements, but we believe
that her position would have been
strengthened had she contrasted
her opinions and facts with some Of
those on the other side Of the ar
gument
Students OF Negro history will
find Miss Lawson's work valuable
L. II
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-07-15

Black Dynamite, Vol " by Nat
Fleischer Published by the
author Madison Square Garden
Arcade New York City
1899 $3.50.
Fight fans will be glad to know
that tAe- fourth volume of Mr.
Fleischer's history OF Negro prize
fighters is now available. His
fourth volume deals chiefly with
Jack Johnson, Sam Langtord and
Joe jeanette, all OF whom we're
prominent heavyWeights in the pc
Rod which the author calls the
Golden Era. the early years Of the
twentieth century. There are also
chapters devoted to twelve minor
ring figures The chapters on John
son, his rise to fame and later de-
cline are especially interesting in
view OF the place which Joe Louis
now occupies. Mr.. Flcischer makes
no attempt to compare the two in
their ability, but is high in praise
Of Johnson's fighting tactics. II
Joe Louis. continues along the way
he has begun, his years Of retire
ment from the ring should be more
secure financially and in the favor
Of the public than those OF johnson.
Evening star., 1939-10-26

Wind" is Waterloo Bridge" to be
made at the Metro studio.
All the movie companies are dick
ering for the screen rights to Sky
lark in which Gertrude Lawrence
is knocking 'em cold on Broadway
Billie Burke joins jeanette Mac
Donald and Nelson Eddy in Lover
Come Back to Me" which starts
work sometime next month Lana
Turner gets another picture intend
ed for the late Jean Harlow-'Liv-
ing in a Big Way" to be made in
January. Have you realized how
near We are getting to Christmas?)
Joel McCrea will be Ginger
Rogers opposite for Primrose
Path -. Dorothy Lamour insists
she will not wear a sarong for her
role opposite Tyrone Power in
Johnny Apollo
Released by the North American
Newspa per Alliance. 1ncD
Evening star., 1939-10-26
To Film 'klondike'

Plans for a special production to
be filmed at Warner Bros. under the
title of 'Klondike,' with Wayne
Morris and Humphrey Bogart as
co-stars. were approved by Jack l..
Warner, in charge Of production. be-
fore he left for a New York vaca-
ton.
"Klondike." a story of gold rush
days in that territory during the late
Cos. will be directed by Vincent
Sherman. This is reward for his
first directorial work on the forth
coming Return of Doctor * in
which Morris and Bogart share the
leading roles with Rosemary Lane
and Iva Lys.
Mis- Lys will have what is said
to be her best opportunity to date in
"Klondike. She will portray Rus
sian dance-hall girl in a Klondike
gambling palace
Evening star., 1939-10-26

looked SO glamorous in only An
gels Have Wings. gets the top femi-
nine role opposite Tony Martin in
Passport to Happiness" Jean
Parker joins Binnie Barnes, Harry
Carey, Maria Ouspenskaya and c.
Aubrey Smith in And So Goodbye, u
to be made in New York .. Day
time Wife" starring Tyrone Power
and Linda Darnell, which was
changed to First Kiss" has now
been changed back to Daytime
Wife 3" Old-tlmer Betty Compson
gets her best break in years with
the second feminine lead in Not
Too Narrow, Not Too Deep" star
ring Joan Crawford and Clark
Gable.
In sudden iastminute switch,
Miriam Hopkins replaces Brenda
Marshall, who replaced Olivia de
Havilland in Virginia City," STAR
ring Enrol Flynn. Noah Beery,
jr. goes into Light of the Western
Stars" the Zane Grey epic. .. Did
you know that They Shall Meet
Again" in which Merle Oberon re-
places Bette Davis with George
Brent, is remake of "One-W Way
Passage which starred William
Powell with Kay Francis? :. The
French film companies are making
pictures again-for which, three
cheers-sOme of them were very
good And the French government
has demobilized top-ranking French
actors in order to keep the studios
going-among them, Charles Boyer,
Pierre Fresnay and Jean Cabin.
Zorina will be the feminine interest
in Sam GoldWyn's The Outlaw
x X i; x
A slight hitch has occurred in the
plan to complete-or. rather, re-
make-"I Take This Woman" Hedy
Lamar says she won't return to
work unless Metro pays her $1,000
week. 1t may be cheaper to let
the epic. on which 100000 has al
ready been spent. remain on the
shelf Il Was an Adventures
sounds like the right cup of tea for
Madeleine Carroll, TO be made by
Twentieth Centurv-FoX There
is elorification in store for Maj. R. B.
Neyland, football coach for the Uni
versity of Tennessee. Clarence
Brown. who went to college there, is
doing the negotiating, which. if sue
cessful, will result in a film directed
by him . Vivien Leigh's next in
Hollywood after Gone With the
Evening star., 1939-10-26
Gale Sondergaard
Plays Catty Role

Academy Award Winner Gale
Sondergaard has just been pro-
NOTED. In THE Cat and the Ca
nary" she carried a cat around on
her shoulder. Now she plays the
role of Tylette the Cat in Goth Cen
tury-Fox' technicolor production OF
THE Blue Bird"
Odd thing about the new role for
Miss Sondergaard is that it repre-
sents the first time a woman has
played the role of a cat on the
stage or screen without the aid of
trick makeup. In the stage pres
entations of "The Blue Bird the
cat was always man. But in the
present Shirley Temple vehicle the
Evening star., 1939-10-26

IN spite OF MS ~
great boon for mankind. The ethics
of his profession had prevented the
sale of his discovery.
II Had a Comrade,' from the pen
of Viscount Castlerosse. will now be
made in Metros studio here-and
not in England, as originally
planned. Spencer Tracy and Mar
garet SULLIVAN have been penciled in
for top roles Five hundred
women have requested the motion
picture theater exhibitors of Lynn,
Mass. to refrain from showing pic
lures of star actors and actresses
who have been divorced. This would
cut out some of our best thespianS-
Bette Davis for one. Margaret Sulla-
van, for another; Clark Gable, and
many more.
!: y; x X
Aldous Huxley is working on the
screen play of Pride and Preiu-
dice for Metro. .. Virginia Weld
Ter gets lift in salary and the lead
in "Kathleen,' an original by Kay
Van Ripper -. Rita HayWorth, who
Evening star., 1939-10-26
Dorothy's Happy

Superlatives come easily to many
Hollywood players. Evidently mind
full of this and desiring to lend her
observation some emphasis, Dorothy
Lamour says "all kidding aside
when she describes her sarongless
role in Disputed Passage" as "the
best role I've had since I've been in
Hollywood" About it, Miss Lamour
reports:
Il don't sing, but I really get a
chance to act little. In the role
I am an American girl who has been
orphaned in infancy and raised in
Evening star., 1939-10-26

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Evening star., 1939-10-26

Producer Arthur
HornbloWer for
the lead in "Tri-
u m p h Ov e I
Pain" the story
of William T.
Green Morton,
t h G American
dentist and sur
geon who was
the first person
to give a public
demonstra ton of
ether as an an
esthetic for pain.
DR.. Morton died
in 1868, penniless
Evening star., 1939-10-26

to his bride for as long as they both
shall live.
Gary Cooper is ready to sign with
Evening star., 1939-10-26
ADJUSTMENTS. A
Theaters Having Matinees.

Theaters Having Matinees.
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Evening star., 1939-10-26

cat is woman. ALI Of the essen
tial "cattiness" of the role comes
out as a result of Miss Sonder-
gaard's acting.
Evening star., 1939-10-26

a high-class Chinese family (hence,
the ORIENT. Physically I am an
Occidental but psychologically I am
an Oriental. John Howard and Akin
Tamiroff, who are in the cast, are
just as enthusiastic over their roles
as I am over mine"
Evening star., 1939-10-26
Don Ameche at Last Agrees
To Il Want a Divorce Title
But the Film Must Favor Wedlock;
Gary Cooper May Play Lead
In Triumph Over Pain
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM.


After much mndchangng finally Il Want
Before Don who ardent Catholic
the radio seeSParamomt
spite OF its title would be peachment against divorce
in
wood, and is likely to married
Evening star., 1939-10-26
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Automobile horns have been ban.
ned in Kuala Lumpur.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1939-01-07
SCOTS Return Elated
Over Progress Of
Group In East

Harry L. Scott, local attorney who
visited his boyhood home after an alb
sence of over twenty years, is elated
over the progress that has been made
by the group on the Atlantic seaboard.
When Mr.. Scott left to try his
fortunes in the west, the south had not
begun to come into its own, now after
two decades, her strides have left her
son speeches..
While in Maryland, Mr.. Scott was
entertained by Carl Murphy, Editor
of the Baltimore Afro American, in
Parksburg, Pa, by cousin, Mr.. and
Mrs. Marshall c. Crawford.
The visit planned that the holidays
were to be spent with Mr.. Scott's
mother. Mrs. John T. WEIGH, wife of
John T. WEIGH of WEIGH and Sons
Contractors. They are the leading
contractors and builders of Reisters-
town, Md.
One of the highlights of the visit in
cluded the yuletide prom of the Zeta
Sigma Chapter of the Phi Beta Sigma,
Fraternity.
This dance was attended by not
ables as far as Washington, D. c.
Mr.. Scott was accompanied by his
daughter, Helen.
Miss Scott was escorted to the dance
by Professor Luther Mitchell of
Douglass High School, Baltimore,
Md. #,
One interesting bit of news comes
with the reaction of Negroes in rural
Maryland, to the Supreme court deci-
sion regarding the Gaines case
Meetings are being held in Baltimore
county to force the building of neces-
sary high schools. Heretofore stud
ents were sent to Baltimore and the
rural schoolboards paid part of the
carfare Baltimore City High Schools
have subsequently been filled beyond
their capacity, and the issue is being
met by the coiored citizens demanding
either prevailing high school privileges,
or the necessary provision of such.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1939-01-07
3 RACE SHOWS HAVE UPS AND
DOWNS ON BROADWAY

New York, CO. - Lew Leslie's
"Blackbirds of 1882, scheduled to
open at the 44th Street Theatre Thurs
day night, ran into financial trouble
and failed to show. 1t may open next
week, but where, is the question.
POLICY Kings" by Michael Ash
wood, brother of the first Mrs. Marcus
Carney, tried for week to open at
the Nora Bayes theatre, but up to De-
cember % had not been able to make
it. There was still hope, however, &C
cording to the management. Promi-
nent Harlemites had been invited to
the premiere.
'Mamba's Daughters" a play by
Dorothy and DuBose Hayward, based
on the novel by Mr.. Hayward, is set
to open Wednesday night, January a.
at the Empire Theatre, with Ethel
Waters as star. A large company OF
colored and white players will sur
round Miss Waters. The star is to
sing moving song, Lonesome
Walls" by Jerome Kern.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1939-01-07
HOLIDAY DoINGs ABOUT THE
TWIN CITIES

Hospitality was not the least of the
offerings the Twin Cities made over
he holiday season.
Out of town guests, many of them
distinguished, were among those who
will remember charming hostesses, and
gallant hosts, during the 1888 season.
Miss Ann Horris, was visited by Mr..
John T. Jackson, of Atlanta, Ga, and
Washington, D. c. Employed in the
Department of Agriculture, Mr.. jack
son is a graduate of Clark, and men,
Der of the Omega Frat. Miss Horris
and Mr.. Jackson were playmates when
they were a couple of kids in Newman,
Georgia.
Miss Nellie Bowman of Kansas City
was the house guest OF Miss Edna
Russell, of 2201 Fifth Ave. So, during
the holidays. Miss Bowman was the
recipient of several social courtesies,
one of which was house coat break
fast Christmas morning. She was al
so out of town guest at cocktail
party Christmas night. The following
Monday she was the breakfast guest
of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Neal.
Miss Josephine Roberts and Mrs.
Leona Searcy, of Chicago, have been
house guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Ear
Lacy, popular southsiders, during the
holiday season.
Mr.. and Mrs. William A. Richard
son entertained several guests with a
holiday dinner
Mrs. Cora Parker, of St. Anthony
Avenue, entertained with house
coat party Christmas afternoon. Bingc
was one OF the games featured.
Mrs. Catherine Walker, of Central
Ave, ST. Paul, held open house New
Years Day. Bingo and other games
, were played
Mrs. Jessie Thomas, 1886 4th Ave
South, entertained members of her
immediate family, Christmas Day.
December 10th, the AKA. Sorority
gave a mixer" for new women stu
dents on the campus, at the home Of
Mrs. Leroy Lazenberry, 993 Central
Eva Lee led the singing of Christmas
carols and spirituals. During the eve.
ming, weiners and marshmallows were
roasted in the fireplace.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1939-01-07
FALLS AND FALLS INTO
HANDS OF THE LAW

James L. Duncan, young man of
Washington Ave-, made falling his vo-
cation.
He went into Dayton's department
store, and while walking down the
steps, he fell.
He claimed small amount of dam
ages for his supposed injuries, and
tried the same thing in several other
places with some success. Feeling
prosperous he ordered taxi, when he
arrived at his destination he fell.
He ordered several others and fell.
Each time he collected, until one alert
taxi driver became suspicious.
He asked the taxi office to check,
and Mr.. Duncan found himself i'll the
tolls of the law.
In court Mr. Duncan proved an
alert witness for himself. He con-
vulsed the courtroom with his With
cisms, and ready answers. Accom-
panying him was his light of love
from Virginia, Minnesota. When ask
ed the status of the romance, he said
he was on his way to get a marriage
license when arrested.
Both received ninety days for vag-
rancy.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1939-01-07
Council of Negro
Woman Aid Needy

The Council of Negro Women met
Dec. 9TH, at the home of Mrs. Matte
Owens, 1886 Clinton Ave. So. Mem
bers decided to give basket of gro
ceries to one of our needy families on
Dec. 18th, which was duly carried out.
At the close of other business the fol-
lowing officers were elected and in
stalled for 1939-Mesdames F. Dun
can, Pres; M. Wright, Vice-Pres.; S.
Paul, Sec'y; c. Robinson, Treas, and
M. Owens, Chaplain. Our next meet
ing will be held Wednesday, Jan. 18th,
3 p. m, at the home of Mrs. F. Dun
can, 1913 18th Ave. South. All mem
bers are urged to attend.
Mrs. F. Duncan, Pres,
S. Paul, Sec'y.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1939-01-07
REV. T. J. MILES OUT FOR
A. M. E. BISHOPRIc

Columbia, S. c., (C)-Rev. T. J.
Miles, graduate of Brewer Academy,
Greenwood, and Allen University, and
for Sc years a minister in this state,
where he began rural mission and
has worked up to a Presiding Elder
ship, is a candidate for the bishopric
at the A. M. E. General Conference
in Detroit in 1910. a HAN of charac-
:er and achievement, Rev. Niles great
est contribution to African Methodisn,
was the rebuilding of the great Ebe-
nezer Church in the City of Charles
ton.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1939-01-07
LOUIS STARTS TRAINING
FOR TITLE BOUT WITH
JOHN HENRY

Pompton Lakes, N. J., JAM, (CNA)
Joe Louis arrived here this week
from Chicago to prepare for the de-
Tense of his world heavyweight crown
against John Henry Lewis, light
heavyweight titleholder, in a fifteen
round bout scheduled for January Is
in Madison Square Garden, New York
City.
Louis was accompanied by Trainer
Jack Blackburn and several others of
his immediate staff Managers Julian
Black and John Roxborouh Joined
him later.
81 haven't had a glove on since the
fight with Schmeling last June, but
have managed to keep in condition by
roughing it and exercising regularly,
Louis told reporters. ..s.
The champion had slight cold, but
did not expect it to delay his training
His weight now is about 2l0 pounds.
He expressed the opinion that in his
training he will need to concentrate
"on boxing more than anything else
plenty of sparing sharpens the eye
But I'll overlook no detail in my pre-
paration for Lewis. You can't take
anything for granted in this game"
Lewis has established his training
quarters at Summit, N. J., and will
spend few days roughing it before
undertaking sparring. He intends tt
work with heavy sparmates to accus
tom himself to the weight conditions
he will face against the heavyweight
champion.