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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-01-02
House Warming For Young
Couple

On the evening of December 26 a
>surprise house warming party was
given in honor of Mr.. and Mrs. Well
{ington Smouse, of Mountain Lake
Park by their parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Bert Smouse, of Pleasant Valley. A
large number of gifts were received
from friends of the young couple. The
guests present were Van Deems, Mr.
and Mrs. Roy C. Lee and family, Flor
ence Deems, James Deems, Mr.. and
Mrs. Paul Friend, Mr.. and Mrs. H. w
Meese, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Calls
Misses Grace and Emma K. Calls
Mr.. and Mrs. Stanton Whipkey, Mr.
and Mrs. Joe Calls, Mr.. and Mrs. A
A. Calls and family, Mr.. and Mrs. Mil.
ton Riley, Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Sisk
Miss Lena Slabach, Mrs. Russell Beck
man and son, Mr.. and Mrs. B. H
Friend and family, Mr. and Mrs. E
0. Liller, Mr.. and Mrs. Dewey Rice
and family, Mr.. and Mrs. D. P
Smouse, Mrs. Carl Stone, Mr.. and Mrs
Ohio Friend and family, Mr.. and Mrs
Tichnell, Mr.. and Mrs. A. A. Smouse
Charles Messenger, Robert Wilt, vii
lard Riley, Floyd Custer, Arthur King
Junior Paugh, Frank Custer, Haze
Lee, Evelyn Riley. Games were played
and refreshments were served.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-01-02

and son Ray and daughter Lola, Mr..
and Mrs. Owen Broadwater and baby,
of Homecoming, spent Sunday with
their parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis
Broadwater.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hillary Broadwater
and family spent Christmas with
their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis
Broadwater.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ohio Ffke attended
the funeral of Mrs. Glotfelty held in
Frostburg last Sunday. They also Wis
tied Mr.. Jonas Wampler at Eckhart,
who is seriously i'll.
Miss Pearl Miller, of Frostburg,
visited Mildred Fike during the holi-
days.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Robson spent
Wednesday evening at the Fike home
Mr.. and Mrs. William Merrill was
shopping in Frostburg on Saturday
Mr.. and Mrs. Orville Stark had as
their guests all their children for
Christmas dinner.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marvin Warwick and
son, Baltimore, spent Christmas here
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Josh
Turner.
Mr.. and Mrs. Asa Wilhelm and
baby spent Sunday with Leonard Will
helm and family.
Mrs. William Merrill is spending a
few days with her parents near
Grantsville.
Mr.. and Mrs. Enoch Robson took
dinner on Sunday with their son Ed
win and his wife at their new home
on National Pike.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-01-02
AVILTON

Christmas passed off very quietly.
This community visited Christmas
programs at various places.
Miss Edna Copeland, Washington,
D. c., accompanied Miss Mildred Fike
home for the Christmas holidays.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Robson, Mr..
and Mrs. Edwin Robson, Mr.. and
Mrs. Owen Robson and son, Mr.. and
Mrs. William Robson and Albert and
Vernon Robson spent Christmas Day
here with their parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Merrill and
children, Mr.. and Mrs. Gilbert Nc
Kenzie and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs.
Glenn burst and children were home
with their parents on Christmas Day.
Several of this community are suf-
fering with lagrippe and severe colds.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles burst visited
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Grove on Sunday.
Mrs. Laura Hetz and sons, George
Fike, Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar CLANCY and
children, Mr.. and Mrs. Ellis Robson
and family, of Frostburg, Mr. land
Mrs. Asa Wilhelm and baby Doris
Jean, Lilly Dreese and Mary Burdock
of Finzel, Mr.. and Mrs. George Welt
zell, of Accident, spent Christmas Day
with o. S. Fike and family.
Mrs. Fannie Weitzel spent the past
several days in Frostburg with rela.
tives.
Mr. andF Mrs. Arthur Broadwatel
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-01-02
Family Reunion Dinner AT Kitz-
miller on Christmas

The annual family dinner was held
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Grant
Pew in Kitzmiller on Christmas Day.
Those present at the dinner were
Mrs. Wilson Sharpless, Elkins; M. |.
Hammond, Moundsville, w. Va; Mrs.
Sue Long and children, Molly and
Billy, Keyser, w. Va; Mr.. and Mrs.
f. j. Hamill Miss Gladys Hamill
"Pete" Poole, Mrs. Francis Smith and
ildren, Carol "a Dorothy; Mr.. and
$, -Alle'' - 4 Mrs. Grace
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-01-02
Speicher Farm At Accident Pur
chased By DIR. Howard L.
TOlsOn, OF Cumberland

At public auction conducted in
front of the Court House in Oakland
last Saturday morning, DR.. Howard
L. Tolson, of Cumberland, purchased
for $7,52500, the Harvey j. Speicher
farm, containing approximately 100
acres, located adjacent to the town of
Accident on Route 219. The improve
ment consist of a frame dwelling, a
barn and other farm buildings.
The Phoenix index., 1941-10-11
Negro Manager
Is Appointed

Observation-Disclosures
Rochelle, 22-year-old Houston
raised youth, was named man
ager of the Holman theatre this
week, thus becoming the firs@
colored manager q any of the
Lewis theatre chain, the largest
chain the city which caters to
all-co' Il ordiences. There are
five I -atrcs n 80 chain.
There are rine l->& IS in all
colored sections Of the city, and
prior to Rochelle's appointment,
only one, the Bowling, employed
colored manager. 4 lone cam
paign waged by columnist for
the Negro Labor News over a
period cf six weeks resulted in
the appointment of Rochelle.
Some support was given by mem
bers Of civic organizations.
Rochelle has seven workers In
his employ.
The Phoenix index., 1941-10-11

This weekly spot program is
conducted by Jimmy Jemail. ia
NOUS inquiring reporter Of the New
York Daily News and was seen and
heard Wednesday night by an audi
cnce of over 60.00G within a 25 mile
radius of New York City.
Burlev was interviewed on facts
peculiar to Harlem's background:
his work as newspaper columnist,
editor, pianist-composer; and orig
inator of the Give talk craze which
has swept the nation
On the program spot with Bur
ley were Princess Xenia Estisaza.
dazzlingly beautiful red-headed
RussiOn nohleWoman from the Sec
ond highest family in pre-revolu-
tion Russia, who is a blood rola-
tive of King George Of England.
and who is appearing at Ben Mar
den's Fiveria here as glamour
girl. Bill MacPhaiI son of Larry
S. MacPhail, president Of the
Brooklyn Dodgers baseball club.
who recently Joined the U S. Navy:
Margaret Heslin. who has the l1n-
usual occupation of being copy
boy on thc New York Daily News:
and Muriel Morand PROMISING New
York Singer.
The Phoenix index., 1941-10-11

CHATTER ON The IDOLS
"Birth of the Blues, which high"
lights the Immortality of w. G
Handy's music will be premiereo
oct. 31St way, down in Memphis
Tenn. and that is not his
home town as John Chapman
Holly ace reporter states, but his
adopted town. He is q native OF
Florence, Ala. and is mighty prouc
of it.
Eddie (Rochester) Anderson ano
the charming missus are in town
until the 18th resting up at the
Hotel Theresa from the strenuous
tour before back to Hollywood. .
After the broadcasting with Jack
Benny this week, he may be featur-
ed at the Apollo. if he stays long
enough. But "RoCh" took time
out to see Joe Louis slaughter Nova.
1t seems that the ''Cosmic' punch
forget to materializeA That
dandy colored piano team of Fran
els Carter and Arthur Bowie will
star in the new Olsen and john
son show ''Son O'Fun" opens. E.
They'll form the nucleus of the
orchestra and will entertain during
intermission.
"Porgy Bess' in their eternal
roles, will appear at Maplewood, N.
J. under the direction of superb
Alexander Smallens next week.
And gossip from the coast:
Tails Of Manhattan" seems to be
definitely. slated as the biggest
break for colored actors of the
yearl. Ethel Waters, Paul Rob-
eson, the Hall-Johnson Choir and
Rochester take the top leads. g.. =.
Boris MorroS, producer, who has
Joined goth Century-F'ox, explains
Tails of Manhattan which depicts
the career of dress suit from cafe
society to shattered scare-crow
Rochester, Of all things, plays
the role of an aging minister!
JUST HARLEMTOWNE. Down
the dingy streets we stumbled
across a very fat woman leading
pup very thin (exactly 5 1-2 inch
long and calling him Thunder"
Heard a Mississippi cracker COM
plain of having to share a seat with
a colored girl in high school rather
than stand Father Divine'3
"angels" want to immortalize him
with a bronze statue on one of
Harlem'S main avenues. Harlem S
dancing school teacher, Mary Bruce
has little kids in George Kauf-
mans "Mr. Big with movie stars
Fay Wray and Betty Furness
premiered this week Lyceum Thea
tie of Broadway. The dancers
are between and years old. =.
And they are really cute!
The Phoenix index., 1941-10-11
Await Fourth
Annual Artists
And Models Ball
Katherine Dunham
To Be Honoree
For This Year

CHICAGO - (ANP) - Cf1clally
opening the south sides fall and
winte,. social season. the fourth
annual Artists and Models ball will
be held at Savoy ballroom here Oct.
25. The show which Miss Rosalie
Dorsey, versatile young school
teacher and member of Dancers OF
the Masque, has organized promised
to be the best ever presented on
Chicago's south side, and will take
its keynote from the national Good
Neighbor policy.
The PRODUCTIONS theme number
will be Americana in which
models from throughout the Mid
die West will participate, repre-
ecnting various Central and South
American countries One of these
models will be chosen "Queen OF
the Ball" Following its custom of
dodlcating. one of the major num-
hers Of the ball 10 some outstand-
ing Negro artist, the ball commit
tee has selected Katherine Dun
ham. sensational dancer and chore-
grapher, as this years honoree. The
dedication number has been de-
signed by Frank Neal, young Chica-
90 artist and dancer who recently
joined Miss Durham and her troupe
at the TrOcadero in Hollywood.
The Artists ard Models Ball is
sponsored annually by the South
Size Community Art center, pub
lie institution which opened last
December and was dedicated in
May by Mrs. Franklin D. Roose-
velt. The center offers free pro-
gram of art classes exhibitions and
lectures, giving encouragement to
embryo artists of the city. In ad-
ditiOn, this art ball sponsored by
the art center offers young artists
designers, dancers and craftsmen
Az opportunity to give expression
to their talent.
Selection of Indianapolis candi-
date, Miss Louis Duval. has already
been made; she is being sponsored
by Mrs Joyce Thompson and Mrs.
0. Ralph Bryant of that city; Gin
cinnati's candidate. Miss Henry, is
being piloted by Mrs. Kathleen
Canady, Cincinnati school teach
err. Other entrants in the ball pro-
duction come from Detroit Cleve-
land, Columbus, st. Louis, Louis
vile, Gary. Evansville, Kansas City,
Mo, and Evanston, Ill.
The Phoenix index., 1941-10-11
RATING THE RECORDS
BLUES REBORN WITH LENA
Bv FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS

BLUES REBORN WITH LENA
This is quite an album that Vic
tor has released, the Birth CT the
Blues collection of eight famous
blues written by w. c.. Handy
and played by the Dixieland jazz
group of MICS Chamber Music
Society of Lower Basin Street with
lovely Lena Horne singing four of
the sides. Numbers are ct. LOUIS
BLUES, MEMPHIS BLUES,
BEALE STREET BLUES. JOE
TURNER BLUES. AUN T
HAGAR'S BLUES, EAST ST.
LOUIS BLUES, CARELESS LOVE
and JOHN HENRY BLUES.
Miss Horne canarieS OH st. Louis.
Beale, Aunt Hagar's end Careless
Love. The gal is good sounding
considerably like Ethel Waters
when the latter started becoming
famous as g blues singer in the
very early 2C'5. end Lena olSo has
an intense quality that is thorough
ly her own. The music itself is
two-beat stuff and is more than
adequate While this is not the
best band in the world, it does
know how to turn in an enjoyable
job. All in all. this is fine tribute
to the grand old man Of the blues.
MORE OR LESS GROOVEY
Cab Galloway has a new Okeh
of ST. JAMES INFIRMARY that's
mainly show for his vocal pc
culiarities and it comes out Al eX-
cept for the final bars In slow
tempo, there's fine clarinet at the
start, a spot of hot trumpet. and
then Cab with a vocal background.
Flipover is YOU ARE THE ONE
IN MY HEART, slow and Slickly
commercial. Bob Fherle takes the
vocals on both sides of the Jimmy
dorsey Decca of MOONLIGHT
MASQUERADE and WASN'T TT
The Phoenix index., 1941-10-11

steal one Or two of her best mu-
sicians =. Top hit tune, "YOU
AND T. is your New York CORES.
pcndents favorite. APUS AMI
FSTRFLLITA JOIN FATS WAL
LER after making a week at the
Howard Theatre in Washington,
D. c.. ANDY Kinks BAND
with Mary Lou Williams, Henry
Wells, June Richmond, and Floyd
Smith clicking at the Famous Door
Olk is broadCasting over CBS
coast forecast network ERSKINR
HAWKINS DANCE tour Is solid
SRC
LOUISE McCARROLL NOW
with Ovir Allston's Band at Bill
Rchinson's Mimo Club hero in New
York. COUNT BASIES ORK
Jumped" at The Arena IN New
Haven on last Sunday night. Con-
neCticut, like all New England
states likes "the Count Hear
that DUKE ELLINGTONfS DUF
East. New Workers. have missed
the master and we'll cheer some
Ellingtonia rhythm n jump for
joy
Talking moving machines will
feature four Of FATS WALLER1S
LATEST recordings, namely: "The
Joints Jumpin", "Honeysuckle
Rose. Fleets Too Big, and "Ain't
MiSbehavin" Jitterbugs have
gone solid for LUCKY MILLIND.
ER'S WAXING of, Slide. Mr..
Trombone" NEVER HEARD
TELL of such sweeping rise to
popularity as that of Lii Green's
whose Decca recordings Of popu-
lar blues is revolUtionizing the en-
tertainment world.
The Phoenix index., 1941-10-11
Roland Hayes
Starts New Tour

NEW YORK CITY - CO. -.
Roland Hayes, who has been
summering on his Georgia farm,
began his Fail tour in the South
and will work North. First re-
cital, on the famous tenor's itin-
erary was at Nashville, Tenn, on
Oct. 9Th.
Next is Winston-Salem, N. c.,
Washington, D. c., where he has
been reengaged by Howard U.
and Trenton, N. J. Then Mr..
Hayes is scheduled for acoast-to-
coast tour after the first Of next
year.
New Workers will have the Op
portunity of hearing him when
he appears as soloist with the
New York Symphony Orchestra
at Carnegie Hall, New York 5
largest.
The Phoenix index., 1941-10-11

JACK and JILL by Will Bradley.
A fast, ride tune, it's not as good
as many previous efforts. The
other side, DON'T LET JULIA
FOOL VA, is a nice, easy rocker.
Erskine Hawkins, with that
smokey, rough and ready rhythm,
has a solid version of HEY DOC on
Bluebird with fine tenor sax
chorus. Tenor also stars. in the
rhapsodic Hawkins fashion. on
SOMEONE'S ROCKING MY
DREAM BOAT, a slow and torchy
ballad -lErskine Buttterfieid is
only moderately interesting on
Decca this release with the 1--WE
tune, FOO-GEE, paired with you
SHOULD LIVE SO LONG. Pleas
ant jazz and bouncing, but not a
StandOut.
The Phoenix index., 1941-10-11

YOU, and the results will please
his fans as we'll as lovers Of ro-
mantle ballads. -.. Claude Thorn
hills economical piano sparkleS on
the majestic CONCERTO FOR
TWO. Columbia, which Irving Fa-
zola leads off with few bars of
brilliant clarinet. Companion
piece IS JIM, a good version, but
topped by several previous waxings.
The Maurice Rocco Decca Of
TEA FOR TWO is a steamirg po-
ton and this So specialist brews a
mess Of hot backed by drums. He
goes on the boogie woogie side in
the plattermate, THE ONE J
LOVE. Speaking of hooSe
Woogie, dig IN PINETOP'S FOOT
STEPS by Teddy Powell on Blue
bird. Powell consistently gives out
the best full band bocgie i'll the
business and this side has quits
and meat. Flipover is the oldie
MICKEY, soft and slow Still
more big band bw. plus vocal
live is found on the Columbia Of
The Phoenix index., 1941-10-11

Of a dress suit that starts out
elegantly and ends up on scare
crow. AS the plot unfolds, each
sequence, a complete movie, is (,
dramatic incident all its own.
The most intel esting scene is that
Of the sharecropper sequence, in
volving Negroes who live in a
small shabby village.
1t is to be Boris Morros pro-
duction, and under the direction
Of julien Duviyier.
The Phoenix index., 1941-10-11
Genius Brewer
Missing After
Body Is Found
Was Paroled
After Staying
Wife in 1922

NEW YORK-(C)-ghis week,
police in nine states are hunting
q solemn little man with rllnleSS
glasses perched on his thick nose,
Clinton P. Brewer, who was CIV
Ell an extraordinary chance py
Richard Native Son. Wright and
Count Basic. not to mention the
job as an arranger for Colulmbi9
Recording Corp.
He had been in Jail 10 years,
living on WebSter's. dictionary and
learning music from correspon-
dence course He was paroled
from the Trenton State Prison for
killing his wife in 1922 last July
Being such polished converse =
tionalist and a composer SO tall
ented, that swing experts predicted
a brilliant future for him. But
those things are all eternals.
TODAY, he's being hunted again,
for killing another woman.
The month he was paroled, he
met Mrs. Wilnelmina Washington
35, of 474 West 147th Street, in
Waterbury, Conn. She was sepa-
rated from her husband and she
and Brewer became close friends.
Her two sons, Everett and Alfred
IS and Is, left them together to
go to school,
When they returned both were
gone and closet, where they kept
their COT, was locked. They slept
on the sofa. But when she was
missing the next day, Friday, that
night they took the closet door off
its hinges and discovered their
mothers body fatally stabbed four
times. Brewer had disappeared
from his aunt's home. where he
stayed.
In the past year, Brewer wrote
an original composition for dance,
while in prison, stampede III q
Minor which won him his chance
with Count Basic. When he left
prison, he had many sympathetic
friends waiting to help him. But
with all of that chance, he Just
wasn't destined to become any,
body.
The Phoenix index., 1941-10-11


They are raving about IVY AN
DERSON'S RECORDING of, u
Got 1t Bad And That Amt Good
which rs good! UNA MAE
CARLISLE'S LEAVING the Green
room in the Hotel Edison here in
New York only means that she
will 60 On the air thrice weekly-at
an early date. This charming Ill
gal who seemingly thrives at writ
inc hits has come through with
two more in, COFFEE n Cakes
ard "My Wish. "SNUB" NOSE
LY'S DOING ALOTTA JAM in his
Decca recording of, "Swingin' With
Nose, Louisiana Purchase
is On another road jump N1CO-
DEMUS, who, incidently, is the
only sepia in the cast of this hit
show, told us when he was here
fortnight ago that he plans to have
his wife and their sight -weekS-old
baby join him when the musical
comedy lands in Chicago. BILLY
HOLIDAY IS WOW-ING EN- on
the west coast STUFF"
SMITH A SENSATION at The Ken
in Boston where he opened last
Wednesday night. Nitery caters eX-
Glusively to collelyiates and the
smart set. Smiths band, six
piece combo, being booked by Joe
CHASER is managed by Barney
Young who brought Una Mae
Carlisle out in front
ELLA FITZGERAID'S BAND
getting a good looking into since
it has been found that several of
the First Lady's bandsmen are so
good other maestros are seeking to
The Phoenix index., 1941-10-11
Stars Of Tomorrow
Seen At Town Hall

NEW YORK = CAMP
The women'se council of the
New York Urban League,
James HI. Hubert, executive
director with the cooperation
of w. c. Handy information
ally famous "Father of the
Blues" presented Sunday af-
ternoon their second annual
variety concert at the accus-
toned Town Hall.
Ii is interesting to note
that this special feature work
of the league is not new,
having sponsored other en-
terprises, for example, the
Harlem Negro theatre in past
years. Singers popular and
classic, pianists, dancers con-
tributed, from the very
young to the more matured.
The Phoenix index., 1941-10-11

Even the pipe organ was
represented. Among the,
groups were two major ag-
gregations cf unusual in
terest: the Steel Symptom
cite players conducted by
John Farnsworth and the
philharmonic Glee Club, di-
rected by Elfrieda -Sanifer
which sang some of the un-
forgettable music from Paul
Robeson's last season play,
John Henry"
Not the least important in
an interesting afternoons
program was check for
500 by Bill ("Bojangles")
Robinson, world-famous tap
dancer. The audience was en-
thusiastic and of good size.
The Phoenix index., 1941-10-11
Tails OF Manhattan
Is Star Studded Show

WOOD - (ANP) --
Word was given out Tuesday
that the cast of "Tails of Man.
haitian" will be composed of
Ethel Waters, Paul Robson, the
Hall-Johnson choir and Eddie
Rochester" Anderson. Rochester
steps out of character to play
a serious role-that of an aging
minister.
Composed Of seven series, each
scripted by a different writer,
the picture deals with the career
The Phoenix index., 1941-10-11
Suspend Radio Actor
Who Offended Negroes

ton by the local branch of the
NAACP, Papas was called TO
task for this branch of radio
ethics and his program cancelled.
George j. Dow, program direc-
ter Of the station, wrote the
branch an apology and an assur-
ance that sucha an occurrence
would never be allowed again.