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Ohio Waisenfreund. [volume] (Pomeroy, O. [Ohio]) 1874-1953, 1940-12-11

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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-06-21
Hettie B. Worcuff
OFF To Hollywood

Little Miss Hettie B. Workout,
talented daughter of Mrs. Mabel
Workcuff, 202-23rd Avenue, left
Sunday, June 16 for Hollywood,
Calf. to fill an engagement of sew
eral weeks.
Hettie has been appearing in
vaudeville since she was three
years old. She is a singer and
tap dancer with natural ability and
originating her own dance steps.
She has appeared in numerous va
riety shows. At the age of eight,
she won first prize at the Ford
show Riddle Amateur talent guest.
She has also Travelled extensively
on the circuit through the north
west.
Hettie was born in Helena, Mon
tana and came to Seattle at the
age of three. Seattle claims the
little star as her own. She will be
accompanied to Hollywood by her
aunt, Mrs. J. w. Sims of 546-29th
Ave. In Hollywood, the little Miss
is expected to add to her many
laurels.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-06-21
Atty. Run Out Of Town
By Whites Who Fear
Ballot Campaign

Brownsville, Tenn.-What is re-
garded as one of the most fragrant
violations of civil rights visited
upon Negro citizens in this town in
recent years was revealed today
by ]. L. LeFlore, regional direc-
tor of the N. A. A. c. P, in the
case of ]. Emmett Ballard, a Me-
gro attorney, who was prevented
from arguing case in the local
courthouse June 8, and run out
of town.
According to Mr.. Ballard, he had
come to Brownsville, the county
seat of Haywood County, June 8
to argue a case for his client, So
lomon Bailey, who had been charg-
ed with felonious assault upon a
white man.
Without any warning, or pre-
vious notice to the public, mob
of whites came into the courtroom
where the attorney was, threaten
ed him, attempted to exercise bodi-
ly harm on him, being restrained
only by the judge hearing the
case, and finally drove him out of
the courtroom and out of the city.
Mr.. Ballard, said he was escorted
to the city limits by the sheriff,
with the mob at his heels.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-06-21
Race In Dedication
OF Tx. Wn. Bridge

Water from every important
lake, stream, sound and bay in the
state will merge with that of Lake
Washington at the opening of the
Lake Washington Floating Bridge
at Seattle, July 2, w. w. Williams,
Chairman of the Bridge Dedica-
ton Committee, revealed today.
More than fifty-eight Washing
ton cities located near important
bodies of-water are being asked to
send a bottle of water to Seattle
for the occasion. The water from
each of these communities will be
poured into one large urn which
will be broken on a pylon at the
end of the bridge to officially ded-
icate it.
"The Lake Washington floating
bridge is the largest floating struc-
ture in the world, exceeding the
huge oceon liner Queen Elizabeth
which is now the second largest
floating structure" Chairman Will
liams said, land we feel it should
be fittingly dedicated with an APP
propriate launching ceremony"
With the dedication of this huge
floating structure which will bring
Continued on Page Two)
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-06-21
Marcus Carvey
Dies In London

NEW YORK-Ethel Collins, Sec
rotary of the Universal Negro I'm
provement association, announced
Monday that she had been advised
by cablegram that Marcus Carney
died Monday in London.
Carney, founder of the U. N. 1.
A, was reported dead three weeks
ago but the report was premature
and was retracted the following
week.
The U. N. I. A. secretary said
that Garvey's death followed a par
alytic stroke. Carney was 81.
Carney was founder of the "col-
onize Africa" movement. His
movement had three million fol-
lowers who were ready to leave
this country for the dark continent.
The government investigated the
stock sales of his Black Star Line
and found him guilty of using the
mails to defraud. He was sem
fenced to the Atlanta federal pen
itentiary and after his release he
was deported. He has made his
home in London in recent years.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-06-21
4 Million back Ceyer
Poll Tax Bill In Vote

WASHINGTON, adam Lapin for
CNA)-A poll conducted by the
National Emergency Conference
for Democratic Rights revealed
this week that the overwhelming
sentiment of the American people
is in favor of the Geyer bill to out
law the poll tax in the Southern
States.
Approximately 100000 votes
were cast in the poll with an SO
per cent plurality reported in favor
of the Geyer BILL
A total of 4,104,673 persons vot-
ed for the bill while 236,422 vot-
ed against it and 252, 627 said they
did not know where they stood on
the issue.
Ballots were sent by the Nation
al Emergency Conference to or
CARNATIONS in thirty-five states
with a request that the question
on the ballot be discussed at a
meeting and that the results be
tabulated on printed form and
returned.
Much of the sentiment represen-
ted in the per cent vote against
the Geyer bill, the conference re-
ported, was evidently due to a
feeling that the Geyer bill was not
in itself adequate as solution of
the franchise problems of the
South.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-06-21
EDITORIAL
The Weak Spot In Americas Armor

Race prejudice is the damned spot" American de-
mocracy This country has welcomed whites from every
where and assmated them though they brought from their
homelands ideas and habits not When they subvert
American standards argues that they test democracy
and continues to give them sanctuary and opportunity But
law and custom withhold this right to work and aspire from
Negroes who born here and American to the bone
Old deal and deal, handicap citizens of color is
the American way The miles of government offices in Wash
gon bare of dark faces beaurocratc rules setting
color line that make mockery of civil service At the
time labor through collective bargaining and other deal
laws acts for the white majority and against Negroes in
dustry when in the of southern railroads the
blacks have the seniority.
With this its record the United States is about to cham
pion democracy But while spending billions of dollars for
that purpose welded to it's old habits that it denies
Negroes chance to fight work for that like other
Unashamed it gives the lie to its profession of demo-
cracy in this crisis It is still the nation that prays
our Father and copes Negroes to live in disease breeding
houses across the tracks
Like Babylon the United States has to its day
of reckonng The chickens have home to roost To
off the btzkreg besides digging deep in pocket the
United States is depending forming alAmerca pact
Continued Page Two)
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-06-21
PIONEER is STRICKEN while ON DUTY
Entire Community Deeply Shocked By
Sudden Death OF Ira F. Norris

Ira F. Norris, operator of the
Jail elevator at the County-City
Building, died Sunday, June 16
while on duty, apparently from a
heart attack.
Milton Nelson, operator on duty
on the regular building passenger
elevators, told Deputy Coroner Au-
gust Ghiglione that he heard some
one moaning and made search of
the first floor corridors without To-
eating the sound.
A short time later he observed
two men ringing the bell of the
Jail elevator for a long time and
went to investigate. The cage was
on the first floor, and by peering
through a crack in the door he
could see Mr.. Norris sprawled in
a chair.
Norris was 81 years old, had
been resident of Seattle 81 years
and lived at 1816-23rd ave. For
many years he was engaged in
the transfer business, becoming
sole owner at the retirement of
his father in 1918. He lately oper-
ated the Mardi Gras Tavern, but
sold his interests when he was
appointed an aid to Sheriff Seve-
ryns.
Norris has been very active in
Democratic politics and was the
temporary chairman of the State
convention of Negro Democrats
which convened in Seattle June
Is. He would have been elected
State chairman, but yielded in a
courteous gesture to Tacoma in
a more equitable distribution of
offices.
For many years, Norris has
been an active member of the Pu-
get Sound Lodge of Elks, serving
8 years as it's treasurer. The Elks
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-06-21
Brand A. NJ. i. No.
Isl Un-American
RACE DISCRIMINATION
To The POst-Intelligencer:


zone person in every twenty
families residing in Seattle now
works for the Boeing Company
said a speaker before the Rotary
Club last week. This speaker could
have told his audience that among
the thousands employed by the
Boeing company, no Negro citizens
are hired. So also could he have
told them, that Aeronautica Mech
anics Union No. 751 has a clause
that reads: 81 will not recon-
mend for membership i'm this union
any other than members of the
white race"
Some day the Boeing Company
may learn that it is dangerous
bushes to bargain with a union
that does not specify that its men,
bers be Americans; just that they
must be white.
So, too, may Aeronautical Union
No. 751 learn, that American JUS
time and fair play will not long
permit this type of organization to
enjoy the rights to collective bar
banning. Because of his birth, be-
cause of his toll in the building of
America, because of his loyalty in
protecting her, and because he has
no connection with any foreign
country, the Negro is 100 per cent
American. w. J. HYATT,
Seattle
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-06-21
u. Graduate Wins
Coveted Honor
Airline English Paiya

Graduated cum laude from the
University of Washington. Thought
to be the first Negro student to
be graduated with such an honor.
Formerly assistant secretary of
the Seattle Urban League, a po-
sition she held for over eight years.
During part of this time she at
tended early morning and evening
classes at the University working
toward her degree in Sociology
which has just been awarded her
Besides her scholastic achieve
ments, Mrs. Paiya is active in
community Scholarship Fund, an
organization that grants scholar
ships to worthy high school grad
yates each year. She Is also a
member of the Y. w. C. A. Bust
ness and Industrial Girls Commit
tee, and a member of the First
A. M. e. Church.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-06-21
.Cayton Heads
Mar. Convention

Revels Cayton, Secretary-Trea-
surer of District Council No. 2,
Maritime Federation of the Pa
cific, led the powerful San
Francisco delegation to the Third
Annual Convention of the Mari
time Federation of the Pacific
which was held in Astoria, Oregon,
June 8, 1910.
The Maritime Federation of the
Pacific represents 10000 organ
lied maritime workers, many of
whom areNegroes. Revels Cayton,
himself seaman, has been a
ranking official in the maritime
unions for the past six years
Mr.. Cayton stated when inter-
viewed, that it is expected that the
Federation will Fundamentally
endorse the progressive stand taxi
en- by John L. Lewis in regard to
cooperation with the Negro people
and that it was his intention to
present to the convention a pro-
posal for joint collaboration be-
tween the Maritime Federation
and Negro organizations on the
Pacific coast.
An interesting sidelight is that
Mr.. Revels Cayton is the grand
son of the late Hiram Revels,
United States Senator from Mis-
sissippi, the first Negro to serve
in the Senate.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-06-21
Brotherhood Sleep.-Car Porters Win
Against Bill to Abolish In Charge Runs

Especial to Northwest En-
terprise. New York, June 14.)
Declaring that there need
be no further fear by Pull
man porters of losing their
jobs through the passage of
Senate Bill 3798 on the Super
vision of Sleeping Cars, be-
cause the Brotherhood of
Sleeping Car Porters succeed
ed last Monday in killing the
measure in committee" Ash
ley L. Totten, international
secretary-treasurer of t h e
Brotherhood, charged that
the spokesman of the conduc-
tors attempted to deceive the
senators at public hearings to
force enactment which would
eliminate the porters from
"in-charge" services.
According to Mr.. Totten, who,
with Thomas T. Patterson, vice.
president of the Brotherhood, APP
peared before Senator Sherman
Minton of Indiana, chairman of
the Senate subcommittee, the pur-
pose of the bill was to eliminate
Pullman porters from serving as
conductors have a contract with
the Pullman Company stipulating
that there shall be a Pullman, con-
ductor on all trains with three or
more cars.
1.-THE Putnam Company is with
in its right to continue to use the
Pullman porter to operate Gin
charge" for the 1900 porters run
ming "in-charge" have been doing
this work long before conductors
were hired to do it," Mr.. Patter-
son said. Senator Minton after
hearing the case for the porters
ordered the measure killed, it was
asserted.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-06-21
F. D. r. Asked To Lift
Color Bar In U. S. Army

New York President Roose-
welt, as Commander in chief of the
United States armed forces, was
asked by the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People to rescind a recent War
Department order designating the
New York 369th Infantry as Co
lored," and to order immediate
abolition of the "color line" in the
armed forces of the government.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-06-21
Colored Delegates
AT COP Nat. Con.
BY Emmett j. Scott

Washington D. C.-The Republic
can National Convention which
meets in Philadelphia beginning
June "a will be called to order at
II o'clock noon by the Hon. John
Hamilton, Chairman of the Repub-
lican National Committee.
This is the twenty-first Quad
rennial gathering of the members
of the Republican party to nomin-
ate candidates for president and
vice-president of the United States.
1t is the fourth Republican Con-
vention to be held in Philadelphia.
Colored Bishop to Pray
Bishop John A. Gregg of the
Fourth Episcopal District, African
Methodist Episcopal Church, is to
be one of the Chaplains of the
Convention; also an outstanding
musical representative of the race
will be asked to sing America
or some other patriotic selection
at one of the opening sessions.
There has been compiled at Re-
Continued on Page Two)
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-06-21

Leagues letter to Sutherlin. Co.
pies also have been sent to each
member of the commission.
Labor's Non-Partisan League of
Connecticut" the letter states, lis
vitality interested in the problems
of employment for all sections of
the population, and since there is
discrimination against our colored
brothers, in the problems of en-
ployment for Negroes in Connecti-
cut we therefore take this oppor-
tunity to put before you for con-
sideration three suggestions.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-06-21
Conn. Labor Backs
Job Bias Fight

New Haven, June-(Special to
CNA)-Labor's demand for aboli-
ton of racial discrimination in this
state have been forwarded to the
commission recently appointed by
Gov. Calvin j. Sutherlin to study
the Problems Concerning the EN-
ployment of Negroes in Connecti-
cut" by Labor's Non-Partisan
League.
Jobs in utilities, creation of
scholarships for Negro youth and
in increased penalty for violation
of the state law on discrimination
are the three points raised in the
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-06-21
Ella Fitzgerald Queen Northwest
all Room

ELLA FITZGERALD AND
HER INTERN ALTON AL
BAND AND FAMOUS ENTER
TANNERS WILL HEAD THE
DIST ANNIVERSARY OF THE
NORTHWEST ENTERPRISE
AT THE TRIANON BALL
ROOM AND GARDENS MON
DAY EVENING JULY 22, 1910.
Tickets ON Sale at Sherman g.
Clay, Robinson's Drug Store,
Atlas Hotel, and Y. w. @. A.
Admission couples $1.5O, Gentle
men, s1.0O, Ladies coo.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-06-21

had charge of the funeral rites
which were conducted from the
Angelus Mortuary, at 1 p. m.
Thursday, June 20.
He is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Octavia Norris; his mother
Mrs. S. r. Norris, and three bro
theirs, w. B., Claude D., and c. L.
Norris, the latter two Seattle po-
licemen.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-06-21

1t is the wise and good that
designing men select to deceive.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-06-21

Eve honor the American
Flag, symbol of our Ameri-
can heritage. The right to
life, liberty, and the pursuit
Of happiness in a free ma
ton"
Evening star., 1940-06-06

And will right on this mattress getting fine
this mighty Quotybut from the
floral cotton don1osk okng Why has built border
firm and and virtually soeproo so padding
entoto of this
and relaxation hot nights o me
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-01-18
FACTS ON LABELS


Since the first of the New Year all
foods, drugs and cosmetics moving in in
terstate commerce, have been required to
bear labels listing all the ingredients they
contain.
The contents must be stated in
plain English that the average housewife
can understand. If any habit-forming
drug is included a warning must be printed
on the package.
The revised regulations as to foods
and drugs are necessary in the interest of
the public. They may lead to wiser buying
and they should result in the purchaser
getting more for his, or her, money.
There will be those to denounce the
regulations as an infraction upon the in
dividual right of every American to buy
what he pleases. The real objection will
come from those who want to sell cheap
stuff at a fancy price and under a diff
ferent name.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-01-18
BIDDING FOR THE NEGRO VOTE

Two negroes and one white were
lynched in the South last year, in two states.
Nevertheless the anti-lynching bill
was one of the first issues to excite debate
and action in the House Of Representatives.
From the House to the Senate Chamber is
only a short distance down the main cor
ridor of the National Capitol. And there
this same question will come up, and likely
be thrown out.
Lynching is decadent custom in the
South. The Southern States have met the
issue--until there is no issue left.
Congressman Boren of Oklahoma said
a few days ago that the Gavagan anti
lynching bill is being used as dema-
gogery's tool to mislead the Negro race in
America" He said the bill would die in
the Senate after absorbing a great deal of
time. latter remaining an obstruction in
the legislative channels throughout this
session of Congress-" He complained that
it was "unpatriotic and unfair to the ma
ton to handle this subject in "wasteful
fa ShiOn -
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-01-18
CITY-COUNTY EXPENSES

Consolidation of County and City
Governments
For many years this proposal has
been carried among the improvements
listed on the editorial page masthead of
The Citizen and advocated by this pub
LEGATION. Nearly everyone agrees that it
would be a great improvement, one that
would give the taxpayers some relief but
10 one seems to be doing anything about
it. Like the weather, it has beenneglected
Recently The Citizen carried story
regarding the discovery by the Florida
Tax Revision League that Monroe county's
operating expenses are higher per capita
than the general average Of such expenses
in other counties of the state. This state
ment Immediately was challenged by men,
bers of Monroe County
While not denying that Monroe's
operating expenses were high, they con-
tended they were higher than the average
of the state because the county has to con-
tribute so much toward operating certain
necessary services for the city of Key
West. It was stated that the county an
nually assumes approximately $4,000 of
the city's obligations.
This may be true, but every Key
Wester knows that it has been very neces-
sary for the county to assume some of the
burden of operating the city of Key West.
If the county did not assume these obliga-
items such services as fire and hospitaliza-
ton protection carried on by the city
would have been seriously impaired. Such
impairment would have resulted dis
astrously in many directions-at expense
of the taxpayers, city and county.
Monroe county's total population is only
about 1890, nearly all of it concentrated
in Key West. Therefore, what benefits the
city benefits the majority of the citizens of
the county. If the county taxpayers pay
some of the burden of supporting the es-
sential services of the city Of Key West, the
city taxpayers are relieved of part of their
burden. Since city and county taxpayers
are nearly all residents of Key West-who
loses?
The fact is that the services main
tanned by the county are duplicated in the
city, and vice versa. 1t seems to The Citi-
zen that one of the projects that should be
undertaken in the near future is formation
of commission to study program that
would effect consolidation of city and
county governments. It would effect
substantial saving and give the taxpayers
better service all around.