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The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1939-04-21
ALPHA KAPPA
|ALPHA'S READY
FOR REGIONAL,
CONFERENCE

DAYTON ,O.--Beta Eta Omega
Chapter Of Alpha Kappa Alpha sor-
ority is completing plans for the
Great Lakes Regional Conference TO.
which they will be hostesses for
three days, Friday, Saturday and
Sunday, April 2S, %, and 30.
ella A. Taylor was elected chair
man of the general conference com
mittee. She named the following as
chairmen OF committees:
Viola Lewis Walters, Eta Moten
concert; Ruth Smith, program; Sue
Shields, registration; Shirley Jones,
housing; Julia Richardson, luncheoni
Viola Rife, badges, souvenirs, etc,;
Marguerite J. Taylor, music; Jessie
G. Hathcock. sight seeing, Elizabeth
Ryans, escorts and social eoultesies; !;
Suzanne Bass, health project shower.
The program will include regis-
tration at the Fifth Street Branch
YWCA at $50 Friday Friday night
Alpha Kappa Alpha's own Brown
Thrush Of Song" charming Etta
Moten will be presented ii concert
] at the Art Institute. Following that
will be closed dancing party hon
oring visiting sorors.
On SATURDAY morning April 29tl
d business session Will be held Al
/ 8 o'clock AT the Art Institute, follow
| ed by luncheon and tour Of tbs
/ Art Institute Afternoon session
| will follow, and after that visitors
| will be taken to view the home ane
study of Paul Laurence Dunbar
which has recently been taken un.
\ der state control Ton perpetual car,
/ the grave to pay honor to this fam
and preservation. From tfere K
Gus Dayton Negro.
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority vii
be hostesses to tea III i pm. a
! the YMCA
! Saturday night the fraters Of AL
pha Phi Alpha, Omega i'si Phi an
Kappa Alpha Psi will honor til,
guests with formal dance at tn
beautiful Palace Ballroom.
Sunday morning April 10th vii
close the Great Lake, Regional Con
ference. The public Is invited i
| worship with the Sorors at Ziol
Baptist Church Of which the Rev
II. Laurence Mcneil is the pastor.
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MITCHELL.
TAKES SLAP
AT NEWSMEN
Says They
"Misinterpreted" His
Back-to-the-Farn
Proposal

ATLANTA. Ga. tANP-Stopping
off in Atlanta en- cute to the Capital
City from Tuskegee Institute, where
he delivered the Seth annual Found
er's Day address, Rep. Arthur w.
Mitchell of Chicago's famed First
District and sole Negro in the Halls
Of Congress, last Tuesday took am
other slap at newsmen, angrily
charging that "as usual they had
ssmisinterrreted" his recent farm re-
settlement proposal.
Plainly irritated, the Illinois so
Ion demanded: why can't you fell
lows ever get anything right I've
never proposed anything like mov-
ing those people down there. Such
thing wouldn't work anyway. No
matter if they are out Of work, they
wouldn't be willing to trade the
bright lights of the city for South
ern rural life' He denied that his
plan called for a wholesale shift of
Negroes from Northern cities to
Southern farms.
Stem of the congressman trade
was his recent announcement in
Washington that he planned intro
duction OF legislation setting up: "A
vast program to resettle destitute
city dwelling Negroes on farm lands
in the South In spite of all the
talk or equality, there's no question
that the commercial opportunities
for the Negroes IN cities, even in the
North, are strictly limited. Z
Explaining his plan which he had
talked over with President Roosevelt
at last month-end. Mr. Mitchell said
his chief interest was not in city
residents, but those now suffering
economic want in the poor rural sec
tions of the deep South. His plar
he said, wuld call for possibly To-,
900 farm resettlement units, similar
to the one set up by the Government
near Montgomery, Ala, which h'
visited on his Tuskegee trip.
To illustrate his opposition to th'
city housing program, Mr.. Mitchell
told of visiting the slum clearance
project at Nashville, found it mor'
than half empty after being opel
for year. He said: "They ma.
be all right for people who hav
jobs, but no matter how low the rem
is, man can't move his family i
there unless he has the course o
income to pay it s. Something mus
be done to aid our people alon
these lines and as / sec it, the farr
offers the best opportunity
While in Atlanta, Congressma
Mitchell last Tuesday addressed
crowd Of 1000 at Booker T. Wasl
ingtor High School. Mrs. Mitche
accom-, anied the congressman, wa
introduced 70 the assembly by Prif
cinai 6. Z. HarT@f. snd 81 5r'e
IL, addressing her remarks mainl
to the girl students.
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OF Cleveland, Ohio, well known IN
civic and political circles, nationally,
was elected In Washington. De-
last week, president Of new Ma
tional Organization Of Republican
Women. presidents are to be
elected from number OF states and
the body expects to become an ac-
tive force in the political life of col-
ored people throughout the country
Mrs. Fleming, who resides at 23l2
e. doth Street, Cleveland, during her
political career has been member
Of the state executive committee IN
Ohio, a member Of her county COM
mittee, ward leader, precinct COM
mitteewoman, election officer and
has served in the Colored Women's
Division Of the Ohio State Fedora
tion Of Colored Women's Clubs.
The organization stated as its pur-
pose az Complete cnfranchisement
Of the American Negro (2) To give
support to the men of our group
who seem to be in Il political coma.
(3) To enroll every Negro woman
into huge force that will be felt
in demanding the things Negroes
have been denied. (41 To contribute
to the financial support Of the Re-
publican Party.
Other officers are Mrs. Therese l.
Robinson, secretary and Mrs. Mary
Church Terrell, treasurer.
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features of the festival were con-
certs featuring talent from the
schools of Bogalusa, McComb. Kent
wood, Slidell, Columbia, Franklin
ton, Prentiss, Picayune, Greensbur,
Amite, Hammond, ponchatoula,
Fernwood. Biloxi, Poplaryille, Brook
haven, Vernon, Star Greek, Angie,
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Famous Male Singers
Will Rroadca Sc from
". Y. Worlds Fair

LIMA, o. - Announcement was
made this week that the alpha
Marcus Chorus would go to the
New York Worlds Fair around the
last of May to broadcast for a we'll
known corporation who is sponsoring
the group over national network
Of radio stations.
A number of engagements have
been turned down because Of the
contract which states that the Choir
US may make only two engagements
in this territory before leaving for
New York.
April 80, last Lima Engagement
The last Lima engagement will be
Sunday afternoon April 80 at 2;3O
pm. in the Memorial Hall on West
Elm Street, at which time the boys
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Says he did it to get
even" with pastor-owner
of the rooming House
15-room building. housing
43 occupants, branded q
firetrap Youth shows
no remorse over heinous
crime.
CHICAGO - CAMP )--Stoic
and impassive when taken to
police headquarters, William
Warren, 21-yearaoid iirehug,
showed no remorse as he con-
fessed setting FIRE to the room
ing house al 2s35 s. Michigan
Avenue, which early Tuesday
morning claimed the lives of
eight persons and injured ten
ohers so seriously they had to
others SO seriously they had TO
Warren, former janitor at tn
house he fred, told police he ha'
auarreled with the lessee Of th
building, The Rev. James NJ. Stone
pastor, Second Timothy Baptis
Church, and that out Of revenge h
had started fires in both entrances
thus trapping the occupants Of tn
3-story residence which had bee
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1939-04-21

WASHINGTON Senator Robert
A. Taft Of Ohio, knows how it feels
to occupy the vice presidents seat
as presiding officer Of the Senate.
On recent occasion, when called
from the legislative chamber, Vice
President Garner extended his gavel
to Senator Taft with the request
that the Ohioan take charge. All of
the powers Of the nations No. 2
man were Senator Tafts during
Garner's absence.
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Covington, Baton Rouge, and New
Orleans.
Prof. Frederick Hall, Director of
Music at billiard University who had
charge Of the entertainment stated
annual music festival to be held
that the Festival is not competitive,
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will sing several selections in
French and Spanish along with the
spirituals that they make sound 50
rich.
Marian Anderson sends Wishes
On last Monday morning Miss
Marian Anderson sent the following
message to this group: i have just
been Informed of your contract and
I'm sending my best wishes and con-
gratulations. Very truly yours
Along with Miss Anderson's tele-
gram came several other messages
of congratulations to this splendid
chorus.
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PRINCIPAL.
|MAcFARLANE
20 Address Allen
Young Peoples
Meeting April %

DAYTON - The Rev. John R..
Irwin, pastor of Allen A. M. E.
Church and members Of the Young
Peoples Department arc happy to
present as guest speaker at the
fourth monthly program Mr.. r. G,
MacFarlane, principal eff the Dunbar
High School. We are indeed for
tunate to get a man whose rich ex.
periences and background are IN.
Continued on page two)
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PROF. FREDERICK HALL,
Director Of Music at nillard Uni
versltg. New Orleans, La, who d.
rerted the Second Annual REGIONAL
Music Festival at Boealusa. "a. on
March 81, at the YMGA, IN which
three universities participated Dill
lard. Sou harn and Alcorn. Concerts
were given presenting talent from
Louisiana and Mississippi; and an
institute on school and church music
was conducted, led by experts in
each field. The DiIlard quartet and
the Aleorn quartet rendered pecial
selections. Calvin Seryice)
Evening star., 1939-06-18
Room Packed
With Debris
Greets Firemen

If all the odds and ends. all the
newspapers and magazines you'd
thought of saving over, say. a 10
year period. were collected in q
two-room apartment, you'd get some
picture of what firemen found yes
terday when they answered a call
in the 1400 block of Irving street
NV.
They discovered a shoulder-h high
pile of periodicals. cardboard boxes
many of them unopened-letters,
empty bottles, tin cans and other
trinkets. Not an inch of floor space
was bare in the two rooms. kitchen
and bath. A folding bed apparently
unused for months, was hidden
behind ceiling-high stack Of debris
The single clothes closet was a
solid wall of papers from floor to
ceiling. Cobwebs decked the musty
walls and insects scurried across the
brown-stained papers.
Lying atop the dressing table was
a red-bound volume entitled Home
Entertaining
The firemen extinguished the
blaze, which rose sheet-like from
the wall of paper. by tossing the
burning debris out the window
Later, the single occupant of the
apartment, woman. was taken to
Gallinger Hospital for mental OBJ
servation.
Evening star., 1939-06-18
Bigger Fund Sought
For Fairgrounds
As Safety Aid
Keystone Club Urges
Additional $4,000
Appropriation

A $25 900 increase in funds for
District Fairgrounds to prevent as
many deaths and injuries among
children playing in the streets as
occurred here last summer was called
for yesterday by the Keystone Au-
tomobile Club.
Pointing out that school closing
is only three days off, the club
urged Congress to take swift and
decisive action" on the Districts ap-
preparation bill.
UNLESS the bill is passed and
signed Immediately" it said, "in-
stead of being able to open the
81 Fairgrounds planned. a scant 16
will be open during the Today
period to July /. Furthermore, Key
stone again emphasizes as strongly
as possible that the 81 grounds
which can be kept open on the
funds provided in the measure are
four fewer than last year"
With $25,000 additional. 1t was
pointed out, authorities will be able
to operate 100 Fairgrounds. This
number. the club declared, is needed
to take care of thousands Of WASH
ington school children who must be
kept of the streets in the interest
of safety"
The 81 Fairgrounds provided for
by the $25,000 appropriation in the
bill is held inadequate.
Evening star., 1939-06-18
Reunion Held by 10
Dental School Graduates

Ten members of the George
Washington University Dental
School graduating class of 1919 held
a reunion at Burning Tree Club
yesterday, engaging in informal golf
matches and concluding the day
with dinner in the club house.
DR.. Carl J. Mess, who was dean of
the school when the class of 20
years ago received its diplomas, was
guest of honor and spoke briefly.
Letters of greeting from erstwhile
fellow students who were unable to
attend the reunion because of resi-
dence in other cities were read to
the 10 who gathered to exchange
"reminiscences of their college days.
Those in attendance were Drs.
Ralph Morrison, E. B. Erikson,
Walter Sullivan, Clarence Kelly,
Earle B. White, Elliott Hunt, Robert
Mccullough, Charles Gordon, w. S.
Rhodes and M. C. Secrist.
Evening star., 1939-06-18
ProhibitionFiqht
Is Renewedby
Methodists
Baltimore Conference
Report Outlaws All
Liquor, Gambling

The Baltimore Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church mill
tantly renewed the fight for pro-
hibition at its session yesterday at
the Douglas Memorial Church,
Eleventh and H streets NE.
A joint conference of laymen and
clergymen unanimously adopted a
report of the Committee on Chris
tlan Citizenship outlawing all alco-
holic beverages and all forms of
gambling.
I'VE are profoundly stirred" the
report said. lover the awful con-
dltions brought about by the Or
ganized liquor traffic in the bounds
Of the conference and the Nation.
I'VE believe it we'll that the people
be informed of these evils and that
an appeal should be made to
churches, church schools and young
peoples organizations for total alb
stinence from all alcoholic bever-
ages"
Prohibition Work IndOrSed.
The conference indorsed the work
Of its Board of Temperance, the
Anti-saloon League of America, and
the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union. and pledged support to the
education efforts of these organi-
cations for prohibition.
The report also called for the
repeal 'at the earliest possible
time" OF the Bouse Act in Maryland
which, 1t said, serves as an actual
fact the criminals and encourages
lawlessness." The act regulates and
limits the use of search warrants.
Another resolution adopted at the
meeting placed the conference on
record with the action taken by
the Southern Baptist Convention in
May opposing the establishment by
the United States of diplomatic
relations with any church.
Officers Reelected.
The lay conference held its clos
Ing meeting yesterday afternoon,
re-electing all officers. These are:
j. Harry Grace of Baltimore. presi-
dent; Mrs. w. A. Beall of Laurel,
Md, secretary, and c. l.. Russell of
Hagerstown, Mo, treasurer.
The youth council anniversary
service was held last night with
program depicting the conference
work for the year.
Today's program begins with the
conference love feast" under di-
rection of the Rev. Frank G.. Porter.
The conference sermon will be de-
livered at IL am. by Bishop Edwin
H. Hughes, who is presiding over
the sessions.
Also on today's program is the un-
yelling of a bronze tablet marking
the original site of the Foundry
Methodist Church, at the Colorado
Building, Fourteenth and G streets
NV. DR.. Frederick Brown Harris.
pastor of the Foundry Church, will
be in charge of this program and
Bishop Hughes will give the dedica-
tory remarks.
The conference closes tomorrow,
when assignments will be an
nounced.
Evening star., 1939-06-18
Citizens With Desire
To Air Grievances Gel
Chance Wednesday
Suffrage Association
PIons Open Meeting
For Free Speech

Washingtonians wishing to air
their views concerning the Districts
government may do so at an open
meeting of the District of Columbia
Suffrage Association to be held at
8 pm. Wednesday in the auditorium
of the United States Chamber of
Commerce.
In leaf1et announcing the meet
ing the association said:
This meeting is held to give you
chance to say what you think of
recent developments in our city
government, especially in view of
the helpless condition of Washing
ton residents, and in view Of the
arbitrary attitude Of the Congress
in denying them the right to be
heard.
"The association wants to know if
you are satisfied to live under a die
tatorship. This is an open meeting.
You may talk about taxes, milk, as
phalt, public welfare conditions, or
anything concerning the present
District of Columbia government" ;"
In the meantime, william H. Mon
dell. vice chairman of the Citizens
Conference on District Suffrage and
vice president Of the District Of Co.
lumbia Suffrage Association. de-
clared In q 15-minute radio address
yesterday that only the creation OF
q District government elected by its
residents can put an end to "intol-
cradle conditions" in the District.
"Only the creation Of an elective
legislative body of and for the peo-
pie can give the District the same
and healthy municipal administra-
ton to which we are entitled" he
declared, I'VE want a body with au-
thority to legislate on all municipal
questions"
Mr.. Mondell's address was "de-
scribed as. the opening gun" in
preparation for the Speak Your
Mind" meeting to be held at 8 pm.
Wednesday at the United States
Chamber Of Commerce Auditorium
under the auspices Of the District of
Columbia Suffrage Association. At
this open meeting, District residents
will have a chance to air their views
on any matter pertaining to District
government. No person will be al
lowed to speak more than four
minutes.
Evening star., 1939-06-18
Strange Names
Ion Roster of
| 4-H Club Camp

To be found on the roster of the
National All Club Encampment,
now in progress here, are two
names which seem to introduce an
international flavor to a list DOM
mated by such thoroughly American
family designations as Jones, Reed,
Stone, Davis, Harris and Brown.
They are Carmen Luisa Cruz and
Obdulio Melendez Mena.
The names are virtually the only
foreign items in the makeup of
these young people, however, for they
consider themselves quite as Ameri-
can as any of the other tenants of
the camp in Potomac Park near the
Tidal Basin. They are giving Puerto
Rico representation at the annual
gathering for the first time.
Senorita Cruz has been active in
club work for three years. She
makes her own clothes. Her in
terests include gardening Cher yard
has become a model, canning and
room improvement.
Her fellow delegate, Obdulio, has
been vice president and president
Of his club during four years as a
4-H'er Swine, tobacco and sugar
cane are among the items he has
exhibited at fairs in Puerto Rico.
Evening star., 1939-06-18
|Fire!men Called
When Archers'
7orqet Burns

On q warm night like last
night. the Fire Department reports
strange doings, like these:
No. 81 engine responded to an
alarm at Connecticut avenue and
Albemarle street NV. to flnd that
q straw-stuffed target at the Idle
Hour Archery Club, 4430 Connecti-
cut avenue, was afire.
No. 81 hurried to the Spanish En-
bassy, at Sixteenth and Fuller
streets, In response to an excited
summons that made them think the
Spanish War had started anew,
to find that a motor in an elevator
at the Embassy had overheated and
started smoking.
It was no night for cribbage, the
fire laddies agreed.
Evening star., 1939-06-18
hootine-Affroy Bullet
Goes Wild, Hits Girl

A shooting ARRAY near her home
last night resulted in the wounding
Of an 8-year-old colored girl.
Myrtle Blair was sitting in the
kitchen window Of her home, 638 M
street Sc, when she heard gunfire.
Suddenly she collapsed with a bullet
wound In her left shoulder. She was
taken to Casualty Hospital for treat
ment, where 1t was said her copdi-
ton was not serious.
Police arrested three colored men
and recovered .3S-caliber revolver
from which the bullet which struck
the little girl is believed to have
been fred.
Evening star., 1939-06-18
Stundurd Brands Cited
In Order by F. T. G.

Ey the Associated Press.
The Federal Trade Commission
yesterday ordered Standard Brands,
Inc, New York, to cease what 1t
said were price determinations in
violation Of the Robinson-Patman
Act.
The order, also directed at Stand
ard Brands of California San Fran
cisco, subsidiary. prohibits price
discrimination between different
buyers Of bakers yeast of like quail
ity where the effect may be to in
jure competition.
The commission said these COM
panies are the country's largest
makers of yeast, producing about
120, 900 900 pounds year, or between
IS and IS per cent Of the national
production.
Evening star., 1939-06-18
U. S. Planes Get Riqht
To Lond in Liberia
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated fresS.
Looking to future developments
in international aviation, the State
Department announced yesterday
consummation of an agreement Civ
ing American planes the right to
land in the African republic of
Liberia.
Liberia is strategica1ly situated
just of the 1900-mile direct Europe
Africa South America air route used
now by German and French planes.
Oficials said the agreement was
designed only to protect American
interests in the future and denied
knowledge of plans for early use of
the landing privileges.
The agreement was made effective
Thursday by an exchange Of notes
at Monrovia, Liberals capital.
Evening star., 1939-06-18
Dr.. Smith Hearings
To End Tomorrow

Protracted hearings on reasons
for the dismissal Of DR.. Carrie
Weaver Smith as superintendent Of
the National Training School for
Girls in October, 1887, are destined
to come to an end tomorrow after
noon.
The final sessions originally were
scheduled to begin at 10 am, but
the Commissioners have changed
the time to 2 pm. DR.. Smith and
Oliver D. Gasch, assistant corpora
ton counsel, each will be allowed IS
minutes for summation Of their re-
spective sides Of the case.
Evening star., 1939-06-18
Fuvors Third Term

The Patuxent Democratic Club,
which claims to be the largest in
Maryland, has gone on record in
favor Of President Roosevelt run
ming for a third term. The club has
contacted Central Labor Unions and
chairmen Of railroad boards in vari-
GUS parts of the country and all
replies have been favorable to the
move, according to John Riggles,
club press representative.