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The Phoenix index., 1940-04-20
Seek Reunion Of
u. S. Undertakers

KANSAS CITY, (ANP)- A
definite step toward the reconcil.
iation of the two national funeral
directors associations-the Inde-
pendent and the Progressive was
taken here Tuesday, at the annual
mid-winter meeting of the associa-
tion.
The Independent executive board
had as its guests four representa-
tives of the Progressive National
Funeral Directors association and
together, at an all-day session at
the Paseo YMCA, the two groups
worked out a plan which is ex-
pected to bring about a reunion of
the two associations next August in
Memphis, where both associations
will hold their annual conventions
at the same time and place fer the
first time since the undertakers
split into two organizations at Phil
adelphia in 1888.
The funeral directors IN session
here were unanimous i'll the belief
that only through a reconciliation
of the Progressive and the Inde-
pendent association can the best
interests of the undertakers as a
whole be served. Two motions were
passed without dissenting vote.
/. That both groups hold their
convention together in Memphis
August 4, S, 6, and 7 for the pllr-
pose of reconciliation.
2. That both groups be given
equal representation on the pro-
gram and that the presidents and
official families of both groups be
recognized equally.
It was decided that representa-
tives of both associations would
share equally on the first public
meeting to be held Sunday, August
4, and that on Monday afternoon,
August s, meeting be held at
which time recommendations for
reconciliation, made by the execu-
tive boards of 10th associations,
be presented to the entire body for
The Phoenix index., 1940-04-20
Says High Rent Charged
ByLandlords OfRace

According to Mr.. King, there are
two groups of people in America
One is the satisfied group and the
other the dissatisfied group. The
satisfied are those who possess
wealth and the others who must
work for a wage scarcely sufficient
for a decent livelihood although
capable of earning more.
The organization currently has
over 400 active members, a presi-
dent treasurer, secretary and a
board of directors. It has the sup
port of many churches and civic
organizations. The forum is not
actively interested in the housing
problem at present.
The Phoenix index., 1940-04-20
Music Teachers
To Meet In
West Virginia

The Fourth Annual meeting of
| the Association of Music Teachers
in Negro Schools which will be
held at West Virginia State Col
lege, Institute, West Virginia, ON
April 26, 81. and 28 promises to
draw musicians and music teach
ers from all parts of the country
Theodore Phillips, Director OF
music at West Virginia State Is
working hard to make it pleasant
for the delegates. William Allen,
chairman of the program commit
tee is preparing program of events
that will keep everybody busy and
interested during the three days OF
meeting.
SMITH PRINCIPAL SFEAhEit
Carleton Sprague Smith, director
Of the music division in the New
York Public Library will be the
principal speaker. Among other
speakers and artists expected to
appear on the program are Harold
G. Schmidt, chairman of the music
division of Fisk University, VIM. L.
Dawson, TuSkegee Institute, j.
Harold Brown, Florida A. and M.
College, Warner Lawson and
Bernard Mason, A. and T. College.
Greensboro, North Carolina, John
Work and Robert Hemingway, Fisk
University, Camille Nickerson
Howard University, Newell Fftz-
patrick, Knoxville College, Edgar
Clark, Fort Valley State College
and others.
Marian Anderson, who sings In
Charleston, West Virginia on April
% and whose recital the members
and friends of the Association wild
attend in a body, is expected TO be
special guest of the convention in
the final meeting on Sunday even
ing.
This organization which Is de-
signed to cause music to function
more efficiently in education has
had tremendous growth and has
rendered great service since Its
founding at billiard University fou1
years ago. Frederick Hall is presi'
dent and there are members from
seventeen states.
The Phoenix index., 1940-04-20
Virginia State
Hears Davis
In Ceremonies

PETERSBURG, Va.-Dr. John
w. Davis, presicent of West Vir-
einia State College, in an address
at the dedication last Friday, April
IL, of six new buildings and a
bridga at Virginia State College
told a large audience of white
and Negro persons to seek isldivid-
Ilal freedom and not social equaH-
iy.
DR.. Sidney B. Hall, State super
intenderlt of public instruction in
Virginia, and Colonel E. W.
Clark, acting commissioner OF
PWA, also participated in the
ceremonies.
NO SOCIAL EQUALITY
Speaking on the program at
which more than a million dollars
in buildings and campus improve
-nents were being dedicated, DR..
Davis cautioned his listeners not
to be mislead by tricky and mean
ingless phases, mainly, social
equality. What we want" he said,
"iS individual freedom. j.. not So
cal equality. The freedom to marry
whom we will. The freedom to sleep
where we will; eat where we will
The freedom to righteous partici-
patton in government. The free
dom to be friends with whom We
will.
Freedom is the need of the in
dividual. Equality is a social need,
but in the attainment of so-called
social equality there is obviously
a limitation of the individuals
freedom" said DR.. Davis.
At another point in his scholar
ly address, DR.. Davis pointed to
the great wake differential in Vir-
gina between white and Negro
The Phoenix index., 1940-04-20

CHIC O-(ANP)-With entries
from all sections Of the nation,
both rural and urban, tine national
contest to select the Negro COM
munity which has made the great
est recent contribution to the well
fare of its residents is fast draw
ing to a close. Entries, to be eligible
must be received not later than
May /.
The International Harvester Co.,
sponsor OF the contest, is awarding
an International truck valued at
$1,000 to the community adjudged
the winner. A special committee OF
judges, whose decision will be final,
is to meet shortly after May and
choose the group or organization
which, in their opinion, has carried
out a program that has best bene-
fitted residents OF that area.
These judges are DIR. M. Q. Bous-
field, Negro health director OF the
julius Rosenwald fund; Mrs. Mary
Mcleod Betllune, NYA Negro
The Phoenix index., 1940-04-20

E. l.. HI have been reader
your column for sometime and I
am undecided about problem.
There is a Young man have been
friendly with some years ago ano
we fell out and now he has come
back to see me again and wants to
marry me. He used to run around
with lots of women and throw his
money away but he says he has
changed. There is another man
much older than I that I met not
so long ago who wants me to break
with this man and marry him.
What would yoh advise me to do?
Ans: Your old sweetie is the boy
for YOU. He means it when he says
changed Tor ne's older now and
more satisfied. II you investigate
into his private affairs you will
find he is buying himself home.
You couldn't be happy for long
with the older man for he's not the
man he thinks Himself to be.
The Phoenix index., 1940-04-20
Studies Class Within Race
Not Typical Of That Race

PETERSBURG, Vas N 81
Using a group of Virginia State
College students as subjects,
James A Dayton, acting head of
the Extension Department at the
College, has recently completed
a study on social attitudes with
reference to racial stereotypes
which showed a situation Of "a
class of people within a race who
do not consider themselves typical
of that race"
Speaking before the eleventh
annual meeting of the Eastern
Psychological Association, april s.
6, Mr.. Dayton, the only Negro on
the entire program, said in effect
that for the most part the Negro
students assigned the same ad-
Jectives to the white American,
Jew, Negro, English, German,
The Phoenix index., 1940-04-20

in both instances. We seem tt
have, then, this situation-a class
of people within a race who dc
not consider themselves typical OF
that race"
Mr.. Dayton has been recently
informed by Edwin B. Williams
Dean of the Graduate School OF
the University of Pennsylvania
that in addition to being nonli-
mated for a University of Pennsyl.
vania scholarship, he has aeen
named an alternate for a Harri-
son scholarship. Whether he re-
ceives the latter award or not will
depend ON the number of resigna-
tions that may develop later in
the, year. 4
The Phoenix index., 1940-04-20
Need Of Anti-Lyneh Bill Seen
In Revival Of xxx. Terror

NEW YORK (SNS)-Concrete evidence of the
invitation to continued violence which lag in Senate
action the Antlynching bill has produced is contain
ed in article entitled 'The Khan Rides Again.,
which appears in the April issue of the NATION
magazine
The resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan in the South
during years. has resulted in the death of three
persons in Fulton County, Georgia. according to Rich
ard Rovere author of the piece Revere names Ike
Benton Ford as the Klan terror victims who died in
March.
The Phoenix index., 1940-04-20
Cities From All
Sections Entered
In Novel Contest

activities director and president of
Bethune Goodman college: Walter
White, secretary of the NAACP,
Dr.. Charming Tobias, national
council of the YMCA, and DIR.
F. D. Patterson president of TuS-
kegee Institute.
DR.. Bousfield, TO whom all en-
tries must be addressed care of the
International Harvester company,
180 North Michigan avenue, Chi
cago, pointed out that there was
still time for those contestants not
having already done so to send In
typewriter digests of their work,
not to exceed 500 words.
The winner, whether urban or
The Phoenix index., 1940-04-20

both. What kind of business would
I progress best in?
Ans: Your life would most success
fuI in some business which you
could own and operate yourself.
doubt seriously if you will ever
gain the financial independence
you crave working for someone else
-. so begin laying your plans to
open up a business in the trade
you know best.
w. D. K.-I am deeply in love
with H. j. but he doesn't seem so
much in love with me. Should ]
save myself for him or string along
with his other friend?
Ans: String along with G. b. He's
reliaDIe and wOrships you, what
more do you want. 1 am afraid you
are influenced by II. US looks
rather than by his character. Save
yourself but not for II. J.
r. D. T.-Please tell me how I can
find my people. My mother and IA
ther left me when was quite young
and I haven't seen any of them
since. Hoping (Sir) to hear from
my question as soon as possible.
Ans: Your search for your people
will be hopeless one. they DIED
WHEN YOU WERE VERY YOUNG.
The Phoenix index., 1940-04-20

men. "ThS occasion is a challenge
to the wide wage differential not
only in Virginia but in the entire
country. Those young men and
women who will go forth from
these buildings will help lessen the
Wage differential between Negro
and white workers on Gomorrow's
The Phoenix index., 1940-04-20

L. E. III am q young man of 25
years Of age, very active and am
bilious. L learn trades very easily,
but somehow 1 don't seem to pro-
gress very much from the financial
part. I probably would get married
but I'm afraid my salary would
not be enough 10 provide for us
The Phoenix index., 1940-04-20
By BEKNICE HALL

CHICAGO-CANP)- ANY fight
against the high rents on Chicago's
southside should be aimed first to-
ward the Negro kitchenette opera
tor who IS definitely exploiting his
own people, believes the Washing
ton Park forum, an organization
formed ten years ago to help solve
the Negro's economic problem.
To quote Mack King, president
of the organization, "We found
upon investigation that Negroes
are paying higher rents though
living in the more ancient and less
desirable buildings, and in many
cases dangerously poor housing
was found to occur mainly among
employed laIborers with large famil-
les who have always lived on the
border of poverty.
If the Negro newspapers pub
ushed more about these conditions
and more of our influential men
and women gave their cooperation,
much good might be accomplished
and restrictive covenants would not
be known. But they are skepticaJ
lest they be identified with our
organization. These people do not
want relief. they want work at a
wage that is adequate to the cost
of living in Chicago and this or
ganization is built upon the prin-
ciple to work in the interest OF
the masses"
TO ASSIST LIVING WAGES
The main objective of the forum
is to assist III obtaining living
wages and better housing for the
families who are either self-sup-
porting or receiving adequate relief,
and also lessen the great amount
of unemployment among them in
Chicago.
The Phoenix index., 1940-04-20
milIi0n-D0lIar School
Program Is Dedicated

tomorrow Continuing he said
that the theme of the occasion and
the underlying philosophy of
American education point to the
need of literacy for everv iudivid-
ual of our body polite as a neces-
sary supporting basis for proper
ly functioning democracy.
The Phoenix index., 1940-04-20

Quested to send out information on
the broadcast and to urge it's mem
bers to write senators and the
President to get the bill taken lip
at this session.
The Phoenix index., 1940-04-20

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ONLY when include clipping of this column and
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The Phoenix index., 1940-04-20
Nations Leading Community To
Be Selected After First Of Nav

rural, will have its choice of several
different types of truck bodies. The
truck will be assembled and placed
ON exhibition at the American Ne
gro Exposition at the Coliseum
from July 4 to Sept. 2 with suitable
matter describing the winners
achievements. Shortly after Labor
Day, it will be turned over to the
winner for use.
The Phoenix index., 1940-04-20
r p v LUCKY 2 HERBS
FROM z LANDS

Herbs from Lands, believed most
powerful ever found for 7 YEARS
GOOD LUCK. Send &c stamp for FREE
OFFER - SEVEN HERBS CO., 1901 f.
s3rd St., Kansas City, Mo.
The Phoenix index., 1940-04-20

9 I, HI have been 3 a young
The Key West citizen., 1940-10-23
TRANSPORTATION
SIS. CUBA

Steamship Cuba, of the P. & o.
SIS. Company, arrived in Key
West from Tampa at ZOO o'clock
Monday morning with seven
firSt-claSS passengers and "a tons
of freight on board for this port.
Embarking here for Havana were
25 firSt-claSS passengers, and two
autos were taken on board be-
fore the ship sailed at HOO
o'clock. Through traffic from
Tampa to Havana was listed as
IS firSt-claSS and three second
class.
Returning yesterday afternoon
at 3:15 O'Clock, the Cuba brought
26 firSt-claSs and one second
class passengers for this port,
five tons of freight and two
autos. Traffic to Tampa from
the Cuban capital included nine
firSt-claSS and one second-class
passengers and the manifest
showed q tons of freight. Five
firSt-claSS and one second-claSS
passengers embarked here for
Tampa and the ship sailed at 4:45
o'clock.
The Key West citizen., 1940-10-23
SWING SWUNG, SWEET SWUNG
THEY MERGED AS SWEET SWING
(ASsoeiated Press Feature Serviee)

NEW YORK, Oct. 23.-The
handsome little guy behind the
drums put up his sticks, jumped
off the bandstand, sat down, and
mopped his brow as he explain
ed:
There's what l mean. Swing
has swung to sweet, sweet has
swung TO swing and whadda va
got?
Sweet swing
That from Gene Krupa. the
drummer man who helped beat
swing into public favor back in
1884. His band had just finished
its arrangement of "Tn Never
Smile Again.
A ballad. A swing band play
ing a ballad. And getting a big
hand for it. Unheard of four
years ago, says Gene. But let
him explain:
Swing roared in brand new.
1t was popular. So. every new
band took it up. became a blast
band. Played every number the
hot way, the raucous way.
The Key West citizen., 1940-10-23

For a while the roarin'est
band was the best one. Every one
tried to outroar the other. Final
ly. you couldn't tell whether a
band was good or not. Too much
noise to hear the music.
Then the smart leaders, like
to think I was one of them-de-
cided that to show off their real
band. get the instruments heard
properly, they should modulate
that blaring swing.
IN the meantime the honey
sweet outfits saw. the kids-and
they make dance bandS-goine
for the hot stuff. The syrupy
bloola just didn't lure EN-. So
those leaders stuck in few
swing licks-their style-and put
on a little exhibition sauce.
There you have If. The swing
boys swung to sweet. The sweet
boys swung to swing. Neither one
all the way, you understand, and
there's still a difference.
But the two-way swing to
sweet swing is still on, Gene
says.
The Key West citizen., 1940-10-23
Florida Medical Association
InFourthAnnualM MeetNov. 2
Especial to The Cftfzen)

CORAL GABLES, Oct. 23.-Il-
lustrated lectures by Tampa, Fort
Lauderdale and Miami Beach
physicians will feature the fourth
annual meeting of the Southeast
Medical District here on Novem-
Der 2.
Members of the Florida Medi-
cal Association in Palm Beach,
Broward, Dade and Monroe coun-
ties will attend, with DR.. Kenneth
Phillips of Miami, senior coun-
cilor for the district presiding at
the general sessions. DR.. r. L.
Elliston of Fort Lauderdale, the
junior councillor, will preside dur
ing the scientific program.
DR.. J. r. Boiling of Tampa will
be the guest speaker on the pro-
gram District members to be on
that program include: DR.. F. H.
Dieterich of Miami, DR.. E. M.
Hendricks of Fort Lauderdale
and DIR. Russell B. Carson of Fort
Lauderdale. DR.. Boiling will IL
fustrate his lecture with a mo-
ton picture, the others by Ian
tern slides.
DR.. ]. Sam Turberville of Cen
tury, president of the Associa-
ton, will head a group of Off
cials to attend the meeting, in
cluding: DR.. Walter c. Jones,
Jr. of Miami, president-elect; DIR.
Shaler Richardson of Jackson
vile, secretary-treasurer; DR..
Robert B. McIver of Jacksonville,
chairman of the Council; and DR..
Stewart G. Thompson, Jackson
vile, managing director.
DR.. Joseph S. Stewart, Miami,
president of the Dade County
Medical Society, has named the
The Key West citizen., 1940-10-23

The Bellamar Apartments
beautiful seal, Gonzalo Bez-
anilla, owner and manager, were
completed and thrown open for
occupancy last week.
Purchasing the building carly
this year, at 3l6 Elizabeth street,
Mr.. Bezanilla has conducted a
thorough remodelling job on the
structure during the summer, re-
arranging both floors into three,
complete apartments on each
floor.
Some of the appointments that
make this apartment building
one of the finest in Key West are
listed as follows:
All inlaid linoleum; sound
proof walls; complete bath with
tile floor, showers, hot water;
electric refrigeration and gas
range; large closets and baggage
storage compartments; twin beds
and inner-spring mattresses and
entirely new furnishings through
out; door chimes for each apart
ment with poStal-approved, new
type mail boxes.
Situated only two blocks from
the center of town, the Bellamar
The Key West citizen., 1940-10-23
CONGRESS SETS
SPENDING RECORD

Continued from Page One)
to battleships and from forks to
flying fortresses.
From June l to October l.
Congress voted defense funds at
the rate of S82,536 minute for
every minute, night and day.
The 10th Congress also made
history by ordering the mobiliza-
ton of military manpower on
scale heretofore unapproached in
peacetime.
The conScription law called for
the registration of more than 16.-
100000 men-every eighth per-
son in the country-for selective
military service.
More Income Taxes
The defense tax law. designed
to raise S1.OO6, 100000 a year, puts
the heaviest federal tax load on
US. citizens since the World war.
An additional 2,O50.OOO persons
with small incomes will become
federal taxpayers next March Is
Exemptions are reduced and a
"Super-tax" of 10 percent is
added.
Congress also boosted by 10
percent most of the excise taxes
on tobacco, liquor, tires, ra-
dios, etc.
A ''no-war-millionaireS" law
puts a graduated tax of 25-to-5O
percent on excess profits. A 81
percent levy is added to the nor
NAL income tax rate for corpora
tions earning more than S25.
making the effective rate "a per
cent.
Congress voted S9I8. 600. 900 for
farm aid; Sl.157,0O0,000 to finance
relief for at least eight months
beginning last July l.
1t frightened the Hatch act. ex-
tending to federal-State employees
restrictions on political activities
and limiting single campaign con-
tributions to $4,000.
The administrations reciprocal
trade program was extended for
three years. And Congress began
hearings on proposed anti-third
term legislation.
The Key West citizen., 1940-10-23
AT II, HE GOES
BACK TO WARS
CRy Associated Presal

HANOVER, Germany, Oct %.
"A few gray hairs didn't keep
Captain Zohn sitting in his easy
chair when guns began booming
in the west offensive during the
summer.
At the age of 72 he spryly
jumped back into the boots of
1919 and reported for duty with
the army engineers.
At the head of his company he
crossed the Somme under the
hail of French artillery. For brav-
cry before the enemy he received
the Iron Cross first class. He
wears it with the Iron Cross first
and second class awarded him
during the World war.
The Key West citizen., 1940-10-23
BERN is CENTER
FOR COURIERS OF
U.S.. EMISSARIES
(By Associated PreSs)

BERN, Switzerland, Oct. 23.-
The iron gate of the United
States legation at Bern swings
open several times each week to
admit travel-weary young men
bearing sealed gray sacks toward
which their manner is something
akin to that of a mother hen to-
ward her. chicks.
They deposit their burdens and
hasten off for a shave, a thick
Swiss steak, a stroll through
Bern's sedate but well-lighted
streets and a nights sleep in an
immobile bed.
Next day, surrounded by more
bulging sacks, they will be roll
ing off to distant frontiers,
through countries where no lights
glow at night, where air raids
may halt trains and where food
rationing makes thick steaks rare
indeed.
The gray sacks are the diplo-
matte pouches of the United
States Department of State. They
are stuffed with the reports
which influence American for
eign policy and the departments
confidential instructions to its
emisSaries abroad. The young
men are the couriers who chap
eron this freight hither and yon
over Europe's war-disrupted
transportation systems.
The legation in Bern is small,
. but war has made it the State
! Departments central postoffice
in Europe.
The Key West citizen., 1940-10-23
:: SOCIETY ::
Large Crowd Reserves Tables
For Knights Of Marti Dance

Although reservations are 60
ing fast there are still quite a
few more left and those inter-
ested are asked to phone 9157 and
have their tables for any size
party reserved.
Elizabeth Gartenmeyer. pop
ular little singing star of this city
will render a couple of numbers
as part of the entertainment Of
fered by the committee in charge
of arrangements.
Halloween favors have arrived
and will be distributed to all at
tending. Prizes for the funniest.
prettieSt and most appropriate
costumes will be awarded.
The Key West citizen., 1940-10-23
BAPTIST LOYALTY
CAMPAIGN PROCEEDS

In connection with the Loyalty
Campaign in the First Baptist
church, every Baptist in Key
West, whether affiliated with the
local church or not, has been
urged by pastor Rev. Ted Jones
to attend the Mass Prayer Meeting
at the church tonight, starting at
7:30 o'clock.
Special music will be given by
the choir and a fellowship meet
ing is planned. Strangers in the
city have been especially invited
as well as the general public.
The Key West citizen., 1940-10-23
AwZwLAw ~ ((AwAwAwz
ONE TIME THE BOSS
HAD TO COUGH UP
CBy Associated Pressl

my LEeS8f
VIENNA. Oct. 23.-Kickinq
the hired help in Vienna
costs exactly Sl6o.
This expensive pastime
was indulged in by a factory
owner here. during a dis
agreement with a woman en-
ploYe. When he let loose a
stream of invective and un-
gentlemanlY talk at her. she
cracked him across the
cheek.
He countered with swift
one.
AT the first session of the
social court of honor flor the
protection of the honor of
workersl. the lady got her
slap free but the boss had to
pay.
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