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Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-06-29
Williams Observe
50th Anniversary

Celebrating their Golden Wed
ding anniversary, Mr.. and Mrs.
Augustus T. Collins, 2727 Wabash
avenue, entertained at their love
" home Wednesday.
Among the guests present were:
Mesdames Estelle Williams,
Estell Dickerson, Patilda hurry,
Leonard Ford, Agnes Young, Mary
Saxton, Ada Barnaby, Minnie
M. Carter, Minnie Robinson, Fan
ME Edwards, Barbara Adams,
Julia NJ. Hughes, Lena Jordan,
Lottie B. Murphy, Henrietta Ber-
~, Mary Spears, Misses Hope
.Dunmore, Mildred Rucks, Maude
Smith;
Vera Smith, Mr.. and Mrs. Bob
Roberts, Arthur L. Trice, Harry
E. Carter, ~ l.. Anterthrope,
James Morris, Robert Dunmore,
William Griffith, F. Wilson, Prof.
John Mayo, Rev. Luther B. Walk
CT:
And NJ. 7. Bailey, Mesdames
Blanche Overstreet, Dorothy
Whitlow and Misses Geraldine
Overstreet and Mary L. Rankins
came over from indianapolis for
the celebration.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-06-29
Olivia P. Stokes
Visitor Here On
Route TO Colo.

Miss Olivia P. Stokes, informa-
ton secretary of the 18th street
branch Of the New York YWCA,
visited Chicago last week enroute
to the National Conference of
Christian Youth leaders which is
converting in Estes Park, Colorado,
from June % to the 18th.
Miss Stokes went as dele
gate of the New York Christian
Youth Council Of which she is
vice-president and the only Ne
gro officer. She is also a member
Of the executive committee Of the
Christian Youth Council Of North
America.
When the conference closes she
Will visit Salt Lake City, San
Francisco, Los angeles and re-
turn to New York by the south
era route. She VIII stop ct New
Orleans, Tuskegee Institute, At
l2nta, Raleigh and Washington.
Miss Stokes, who is greatly in
terested in social work, says that
her trip viii be both cultural and
social
Miss Stokes says that colored
people in Chicago are advanced
III many civic respects over that
Of Harlemites but she prefers New
York, nOnetheless.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-06-29
7. w. 6. A.
News

No program of community
health is complete without at
tention to recreation, says the
Evening Volunteer Group of the
South Parkway Center Y, w. G.
A., 1859 South Parkway. There
fore, to wind up a year which has
included tuberculosis testing pro-
grams, that excellent exhibition
st the Center during Negro Health
Week, and other significant con-
tributions to community welfare,
they propose to give a party at
the center Friday evening, June
81, at eight o'clock which bids
fair to raise the roof with sheer
jcllity.
One hundred and seventy five
women belong to this group. To
their party they are inviting, not
only their own members, but also
an almost equal number Of other
volunteers and association mem
bers connected with the South
Parkway Center. And each invlt-
ed guest is urged to bring with
her two friends who might enjoy
next fall being connected with
YWCA activities.
Miss Eleanor Harper, chairman,
and Miss Dorothy Lewis, secre-
tary Of the Evening Volunteers,
are in charge of party plans
They promise a memorable might
in June, with games, prizes,
songs. refreshments, and r
surprise. Miss Marion Scott,
who has specialized in recreation
work at the University Of Wis
consin, will conduct the games.
The Evening Volunteers, says
Mrs. Ulysses S. Keys, chairman
OF the Center committee of the
South Parkway Z. w. c. A., is
one Of three groups Of volunteers
working with the YWCA this sea-
son. At the beginning Of the year
it was found that some women
preferred evening meetings, some
morning meetings, and some af-
ternoon meetings. The three
groups taking their names from
the time Of day at which they
meet, were set up SO that all Wo-
men might meet and work at the
time most convenient for them.
The plan has worked well and
will undoubtedly be continued
next year.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-06-29

York City, Hollywood and White
Mountain, New Hampshire. These
actions represent the honest de-
termination of the League Of
American Writers to serve the in
terests of the American people
in the pursuit of their democratic
ideals. The attitude Of any or
ganization on the Negro question
can usually be regarded as an ac-
scurate guage Of its progressive
mess, Certainly the actions Of the
League place it definitely on the
side of true democracy, peace and
progress Among the many ma
tional figures participating in the
congress were Edgar Snow, Rich
ard Wright, Dashiel Hammett,
Samuel Putnam, Vito Marcanton-
10, Rockwell Kent, GenevieVe Tag
gard, Art Young, Eugene Holmes,
Millen Brand Albert Maltz, PietrO
di Doanto, William f. Dodd, Jr.,
Herbert Aptheker, Marc Blitz-
stein, John Howard Lawson, Al
fred Kreymborg, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ellie Siegmeister, Samuel Sillen,
Lynd Ward, Isidor Schneider, AL
yah Bessie, Hyde PartnoW, Joshua
White, Leadbelly, Earl Robinson
and others. This is broad cross
section of the most outstanding
contemporary writers and artists
working in this country today.
Their determination that democ-
racy at home can and must be saw
ed will be passed on to people
who comprise their audience. 1t
is not too latel 1t is not necessary
to deny democracy las some would
have US do) in order to preserve
it! This is what the Fourth Amer
lean Writers congress says to the
American people. Their affirma-
ton gives us courage to continue
the fight we have begun -. Next
week this column will carry dis
cussion of Richard Wright's much
praised speech mot My Peoples
War" which was given at the
Writer'S congress and appears in
the June II issue OF the New
Masses. 80. RAD.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-06-29
New Club Is
Formed; VIII
Aid Schools

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, June &c
"A new club, the Kappa MI Ep-
silon, was formed at the home OF
Mrs. Virginia Guyness, 649 Locke
street, for the purpose Of support
ing educational enterprises, do
mating scholarships, aiding worthy
students in school, and improving
the school building Of the Capt.
tol Avenue Seventh Day Adven-
list church.
Mrs. Mary Overstreet was elect
ed president; other officers are
Mrs. Virginia Guyness, vice-presi-
dent; Mrs. Ruby Moore, secretary
and Mrs. Winona Miller, treas
urer. Others present we're Mrs.
JacqueIine Moore, Mrs, Hope
Baldwin, Misses Hood and Geor-
gia Harris
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-06-29
Convent Of The
Cenacle To Give
Interracial Retreat

An interracial retreat for won-
en- is to be given at the Convent
Of the Cenacle, 5l3 Fullerton
Parkway, from July to July 6.
This retreat is being sponsored by
the Teresa Higginson Guild which
meets every third Sunday Of the
month at st. Elizabeth's Convent
at 4lSt street and Michigan ave
nue..
Miss Marie Foote is president
of the Guild and Miss Virginia
Kelly is secretary. The captain
Of the retreat is Miss Delphine
A. Healey who is a member Of
Kappa Gamma Pi, which is the
National Catholic Honor Society
Tor women
Among those who have already
registered for the retreat are the
following ladies:
Mrs. Priscilla Cleveland, 1873 E.
10Th street; Mrs. John Wright,
1896 S. Perry avenue; Mrs. Alice
Taylor, 1891 South Parkway; Mrs.
Florence Elicit, 6343 ST. Lawrence
avenue; Mrs. Beulah Kelley, 435
w. 56th street; Mrs Jessica Co
han, $3.50 Washington Park Court;
Mrs. Hattie Collins, 1447 Ashland
avenue, River Forest, Ill; Mrs.
Mary Sweres, 1880 Wabash ave
nue.
Several others are expected to
register in the near future.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-06-29
Medill High
Graduates 81

Thirty-tWO young people will
be graduated from Medill high
school on June 18th. Those who
will appear On the graduation pro-
gram are Sarah Johnson, pianist;
Arthur Whitehead, who has cho-
sen as his subject Our Patriot
ism" and also will appear as So
loist with the mixed chorus;
Georgia Washington, who will
present the class gift and Blanche
Walters, the valedictorian.
These young people are decid-
edly interesting. Arthur White
head is president Of the class and
president Of the mixed chous,
baritone soloist in the Ballad for
Americans a cantata to be Civ
en- at the commencement exer-
cises. Georgia Washington is Sec
rotary Of the class and of the
chorus and also serves as presi-
cent Of the Scrap Book Club
She is a member Of the @. a. "A.
and one Of the finest typists in
Medill and is noted for her will
ingness to assist anyone ir need
OF help.
Blanche Walters, the valedic-
tOrian, had been a member of the
Honor Society for the past four
years and has been judged by the
physical education supervisor to
have the best posture of all the
girls at Medill Sarah Johnson,
vice president Of the class and of
the mixed chorus, is also a mem
Der Of the. Honor Society and re-
ceived the achievement award at
the Civic Youth Assembly III A
pril, 1941 Lou Villa Carter is
a member of the Honor Society
and the Commercial Law Club.
She is exceptionally talented in
dramatics. James Williams, vot-
ed the most popular boy at Me
Gill, is a member of the chorus,
the Safety Club and the Student
Council. He has done some in
teresting things in photography.
Verne Rousseau and eleven Ward
low are also outstanding honor
students.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-06-29
AMERICAN SIP

An American Sip was given by
the South Side Independent Re-
publican Club on Sunday at the
home of Rev. and Mrs. Foster,
421l Champlain avenue. Those on
the program were Prof. Hendricks
who sang God Bless America" 4;
Pledge to the American Flag,
Miss Velma Stampley; "Star
Spangled Banner; talk by Rev.
"A. i. Foster. There was q piano
duet and Spanish dance by
Charles and Emma Kendrick.
There was a short talk by the
president, Mrs. Foster.
Among those present were Mrs.
Essie Stocks, Prof. and Mrs. Ken
bricks, Mrs BOarman, Mrs. Q.
Hall, Mrs. Q. Hare, Mrs. Elizabeth
Scott, Mrs. Julia Cisney Wilson
Mrs. Ellen Harris, Mrs. Laeker
Jones, Mrs. Elena NJ. Smith, Mrs.
@. w. Stampley, secretary; Mrs.
+. "A. Foster, pres.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-06-29
Saint Marks
To Present
Young Artists

The st. Mark Recreation Coun-
Gil will present Misses Halle
Gibbs and Betty Pryor in a dra-
matte violin concert at the church,
at 50th street and Wabash, Mon
day evening, July 7. Both young
ladies are very well versed in
their respective fields Of drama
and violin music. They have ap-
peared--i11 many concerts in Iii
nois, Indiana and Michigan
A fine program is III store for
all those who attend.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-06-29
The Queen Esther
Circle Gives A
June Rose Tea

Queen Esther Circle Of OliVet
Baptist church gave its annual
June rose tea on Sunday at POro
college. There was a large crowd
present and the dainty refresh
nents were served from beautiful
tables carrying out lovely and I'M
usual color schemes Many love
ly summer flowers, beautiful ma
perry and colorful tapers added
to the beauty of the scene.
Mrs. Julia S. Wilson was mis-
tress Of ceremonies. She pre-
sented Jackson d. Smith, Jr.,
youthful basso with very unusu-
al voice; Louzena Irby, reader;
Napoleon Reed, who sang a group
and there was a short talk by
THE president, Mrs. Mcfarland
Stephens. James Barr and Hen
ny Fitzpatrick were accompanies.
The officers Of the Queen Esther
Circle are Mrs. McF arland Ste
phens, pres; Mrs. Anna Owens,
Mrs. Dollie Butler, Mrs. A. M
Ward and Mrs. Leila Parks, vice
presidents; j.. r. Eastman Is man
ager; Amos Meridity, asst. mana
ger.
The hostesses were Mesdames
and Misses Maude Briggs, Anna
Owen. OsceOla Sims. DOllie But
lei, Anna Mae Ward, Bessie Hay
wood, Elizabeth Carruthers, Leila
Parks, Clara McAdams, Lucerne
Fannie Lawson, Gather
me McBeth, Beatrice Watts, Ra-
chel Sallards, Mary Gage, Ruby
Ramsey and Julia Clsney.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-06-29
ROYAL TWELVE
CLUB MEETS

The Royal Twelve Social club
met at the home of Mrs. Fannie
Young, 1910 Vernon, Friday, June
20. A lovely repast was served.
The club is also planning their
first annual dance to be given
July II at the Elks' Rest, 40O6
Indiana avenue. Mrs. H. Reid,
president; Mrs. Myrtle Brown,
business manager; G. Miles, re-
porter.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-06-29
The Art Notebook
By ROBERT A. DAVIS
By ROBERT A. DAVIS

NOTES: Perhaps the most sig
nificant event in recent months in
regard to American letters is the
Fourth American Writer'S con-
gress held in New York City on
June 6, z and 8. The congress is
the biennial meeting of the League
nj American Writers and affords
an opportunity for dramatists,
noVelists, poets, critics, scenarists
to discuss the problems of their
crafts, new developments and
trends in their fields and their
relationship to the society and
times in which we live. Certainly
the period in which we live to-
day offers much important and
thought-prOVoking material for
discussion. The keynote Of the
congress was sounded in the title
Of its printed program-"In De-
tense Of Culture" By culture
is meant those proved ways of
doing things which man, over the
whole period Of his evolution, has
discovered to be beneficial for the
greatest number Of his fellows.
In the foreWord Of its program,
the work and program Of the
League Of American Writers is
stated by Henry Hart. 6" In
addition to the enormous labors
for the Loyalist cause in Spain and
for exiled writers, the League has
published books on the three con
crosses; a dozen pamphlets; and
innumerable bulletins in all of
which writers have been informed
Of the critical problems Of con-
temporary man. The League has
organized three writer's schools,
held over a hundred public meet
ingS, arranged a score of broad
casts, and protested, on countless
occasion, against anti-democratic
llIlberal and repressive acts in this
country. In such activity there
can be discerned the fulfillment
Of the Leagues "raison d'etre: so
to clarity and enrich the writer's
understanding of life that the lit
erature he produces will enrich
and clarity the lives Of the great
masses Of men and women, the
lives of the people.
"Since the outbreak of the pres
ent war in Europe the League has
not failed or tagged in espousing
that traditional Americanism
which has always opposed econo-
mic royalists, their wars and their
fascism: As step after step was
taken toward entrance into the
current European conflict and to-
ward fascination Of this country,
the League uneQuivocally declared
that such steps constitute a vast
betrayal Of the American people,
and that the true destiny of the
United States lies in the solution
Of those domestic problems which
Illustrate the growth of genuine
democracy.
The League convenes the pres
ent congress-its fourth, its fin
est and its proudest, and its most
important-in an hour when a
handful Of men, clad in brief
care to command the
American people to 60 to their de-
In similar hours of past
tyrannies, the American people
have insisted and fought-as the
League now insists and shall fight
that government of the peo-
pie, by the people and for the
people shall not perish from the
earth This is a strong and no
BILE statement. Its sentiment was
upheld in every session of the
Evidences of the unani-
nifty Of feeling for democracy at
home were the actions taken with
regard to the Negro question. They
demanded equality for the Negro
throughout the nation, scored lyn-
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-06-29
CHEERFUL COPPINETTES
PLAN PINEAPPLE SIP

The Cheerful Coppinettes will
have a pineapple sip Sunday,
June 20 from to p. m. at the
home Of Mrs. Carrie Moon, 1923
Wabash avenue. Mrs. Beulah
Thornton, mistress of ceremonies;
Rev. Joseph Roberts, guest speak
er; Miss Carlotta Stevens, guest
soloist; Miss Aleatha Baham,
guest pianist Nola Jean Davis,
president; Jacqueline Williams,
secretary; MS. Leila z. Price,
sponsor.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-06-29

Miss Madeline Coleman Of Dan
vile, Ill, is here visiting her
mother, Mrs. Blanche Davis.
Miss Coleman, a student at Will
berforce university, is a member
Of the Pyramid club there. Mrs.
Davis has been i'll for three weeks.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-06-29

ching and disfranchisement Of the
colored people, selected Native
Son. as the most distinguished
novel produced in the United
States during the past two years,
elected Richard Wright as one
Of its vice presidents, established
scholarships to enable Negro writ
ers, in particular, to attend its
three Writer'S Schools in New
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-06-29

Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Hendon,
6O35 S. Aberdeen street, are
spending their vacation in Mexico.
Mrs. Hendon, the former Ethel
Warren, is a librarian, while Mr.
Hendon is a city fireman.
Evening star., 1941-04-08
Nazis Issue White Book
On Balkan Invasion
Rs tie Associated Press.

BS IrS ASSOCldIeQ Press
BERLIN, April 8.-The German
Foreign Office made public today
its White Book No. containing
documents cited by Adolf Hitler
and Foreign Minister Joachim Won
Ribbentrop in announcing the be-
ginning of hoStilities against Yugo-
slavia and Greece Sunday morning.
The first of nine documents pre-
sented purported to show that the
high command of the French Army
in the Levant, in December, 1899
had indicated move by the Allies
to intervene in the Balkans.
Other allegations included: That
Gen. Maurice Gamelin, then COM
mander in chief of Allied land
forces, had suggested a Balkan
campaign was more desirable from
the French standpoint than one in
Scandinavia. because Yugoslavia
Greece, Turkey and Rumania would
provide 100 divisions as against 10
divisions by Norway and Sweden;
that Gen. Maxine Weygand wrote
to Gen. Gamelin in September
1899, that Greece had sanctioned
secret military conversations and
that Yugoslavia contemplated aid
ing in solving the Allied transporta-
ton problems
The book charged Yugoslav and
Greek policies in 1889 were CON
trary to neutrality"
The alleged documents were
claimed to have been discovered at
La Charlie, France.
Evening star., 1941-04-08
Centennial Of Honolulu
School Marked Here

About so graduates, former stu
dents and friends of the Punahou
School in Honolulu last night cele-
brated the centennial of "the oldest
boarding school in English west of
the Rockies" at a dinner at the
Cosmos Club.
Former Undersecretary Of State
William r. Castle, an alumnus OF
the school. was to have been toast
master but was kept away by i'll
ness. Delegate Samuel w. King of
Hawaii, who, though not graduate
himself. is the father of five chill
dren who attended the school, pre-
sided in Mr.. Castles place.
Oscar F. Shepherd. president of
the school. who has been attending
similar dinners throughout the
country, outlined plans for the cele-
bration of the centenary in June
at the school and invited his au-
dience to attend Recorded talks
of centennial officials were heard
and movies shown of campus life
at the school. which was opened in
1841 for children of missionaries.
DR.. Shepherd explained that a
centennial fund is being established
for three proposed buildings and
an endowment for additional fac
ulty members. Mrs Castle was one
of the guests.
Evening star., 1941-04-08
New York ParIeys
For WiIIkie-Dewey
Deal Reported
Indionon FIotIy Denies
Engaging in ToIks or
Authorizing Discussions
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Attempts were reported under way
today to effect a working agreement
under which Wendell L. Willkie
would support Thomas E. Dewey for
the Republican nomination for Gov
ernoI of New York in 1912 in return
for backing by Mr.. Dewey if Mr.
Willkie bids for the Republican
presidential nomination in 1914.
In New York Mr.. Willkie denied
the report.
Groundwork for the prospective
alliance was said to have been laid in
weekend conferences here during
which mutual friends of the two were
reported TO have had satisfactory
conversations" on the matter.
Those who have been working to
bring about such an arrangement
were said to be actuated not alone
by interest in the two prospective
candidates, but in advancing Re
publican chances generally in the
1912 off year elections.
They were said to feel that har-
moniously conducted campaign in
New York might go a long way
toward solidifying the party's ranks
elsewhere in its efforts to capture
governorships, senatorial places and
seats in the House of Representatives
from the Democrats.
Mr.. Willkie issued the following
statement in New York:
There is not a single word OF
truth in that report.
Il have had no such conferences
as suggested nor have l authorized
any one to engage in any such dis
cussions on my behalf. have at no
time discussed either candidates OF
future campaigns.
II am not interested at this time
in candidates. of any one for either
1912 or 1914, as have stated repeat
edly. With the world in flames this
is no time to engage in the nonsense
Of talking about candidates.
I'm no event would I enter into
such an alliance as suggested, by
which trading of support for myself
or any other candidate for any Office
were involved. I do not believe in
political trading"
Mr.. Dewey, in New York, also said
he did not know of such conference
and that he had no political plans
Evening star., 1941-04-08

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Evening star., 1941-04-08
Police Question Suspect
As Bedroom ProwIer

A 23-year-old colored man, said
by police to have been in possession
of bloody knife when arrested, was
being questioned today in Second
Precinct station as Investigators
sought to solve three beating cases
and several intrusions in which
a prowler was frightened away.
Police said the arrested suspect
was picked up shortly after Mrs.
Mae Inman, 40, of 1856 v street
NV, reported her screams had
frightened off colored man who
was climbing through a window of
her bedroom last night. In addi-
ton to the knife, the colored man
carried obscene pictures, police
revealed.
The arrest followed beating of a
telegraph messenger yesterday in
front of the Italian Embassy and
two paving block assaults upon
sleepers in the same neighborhood
Friday morning.