Gary American

"The Truth-Quick" In our humble way we strive to serve the Colored people of America by giving them a truthful story of local and world news. Wife Leav Insane Her Wi eaves Hin e Fit He With A Hoover Fails T Race Out In Co Wife Leaves Him; In Insane Fit He Slays Her With A Shotgun Had Worried Over Wife Being Away WASHINGTON, D. C. — President Hoover again treated the Negro as a constituent part of the people of this nation and singled him out for no special reference in his message to the final session of the Seventy-first congress, which convened Monday. The message dealt primarily with economic depression, its causes and cures. Overspeculation in securities and world-wide overproduction of basic commodities and resultant unemployment were given as the chief causes. Case Promised to Be Sensational; Local Hospital Acts Final chapters in a legal battle which promised to prove one of the most sensational in years, left unfinished through delays of both plaintiffs and defendants, were written this week with the withdrawal of the $10,000 libel suit brought in 1929 by the St. Antonio hospital against The Gary American Publishing company, publishers of The Gary American. The withdrawal was made voluntarily by the hospital which charged the defendant company with publishing an article claiming that James Hicks, injured in an accident, was denied proper treatment when taken to the hospital on September 1, 1929. Defense Prepared The withdrawal came upon the eve of the trial in Superior court, where it was to be held last Monday. It followed filing of the answer made by the defendant company to the plaintiff's complaint. A formidable defense had been prepared by The Gary American with the assistance of its legal department, headed by Attorneys Fritz W. Alexander and Ralph Smith. Twenty witnesses had been s:bpenaed by The American during the ten months attorneys for the newspaper had been working on the case and preparing its defense. TRIED TO UPHOLD COLORED PROHIBITION VIOLATOR, DISBARRED VICKSBURG, Miss. — (CNS) — F. H. Jones, a white lawyer of Belzoni, was disbarred and fined $500 in federal court here last week when he is alleged to have advised a prohibition violator to dodge trial. Twice when the case, which was against James Parker, colored, was called, the defendant was absent and the case was passed over on the claim of Jones as counsel for the former that the bad roads and inclement weather had delayed Parker's arrival. ts Talkative in nes Trio of Aids Boy Bandit Gets Ta Trial; He Names T Boy Bandit Gets Talkative in Trial; He Names Trio of Aids lowing his testimony, Corbett was brought in. The story told by Cosby was substantiated by Corbett, who absolved the former from blame. He said that, in company with Adams and Poindexter, they hid in the rear of the Grand theatre to rob a man who was supposed to have $800 on his person. After an hour's wait, their intended victim left the theatre but instead of walking he stepped into a waiting taxi which speeded away. Rather than return home with nothing, they robbed the cafe. Mrs. Mary Foster, white, proprietor, was struck on the head several times with the butt of a gun during the holdup. Adams and Poindexter, when arrested later in the day, were held to the grand jury in bonds of $10,000 each and the case against Cosby was continued until a thorough checkup could be made. --- --- VOL. IV. No. 3 Forces In Door At Home Of Estranged Wife Early Thursday Caught 4 Hours Later In Hammond; Brought Back to Gary Four hours after he had blown half of his wife's head away with a shotgun, Ben Brown, 1249 W. 19th avenue, apparently demented, was in cusody of Hammond police being held for the Gary authorities on a murder charge. He had killed his estranged wife, Mary Brown, 2196 Jefferson, after he had forced his way into her house at 3:30 a.m. Mrs. Brown, who lived with her nephew, Henry Williams, had been separated from her husband for a few months. He is said to have made numerous efforts to effect a reconciliation with her, but to no avail. Breaks Down Door According to police investigation Brown left his home sometime after one o'clock Thursday morning. He is known by his landlord to have retired near one o'clock. Shortly after three Williams was awakened by Brown, who stated he had come to get his wife. He had the shotgun in his arms at the time. Williams is reported to have shut the door in his face, but. Brown pushed it in by breaking the lock. When his wife, who had been asleep in another room came to the front of the house inquiring about the noise, Brown was then coming in the dor. Without speaking a word to his wife he fired a full charge of a twelve guage shotgun into her head. Before he could be detained by Williams he had escaped from the house. Appeared Demented William Riley, with whom Brown lived at the 19th avenue address, claims that Brown has appeared to be demented for more than two weeks. He had acted very queer around the house and had continuously discussed the separation from his wife. Numerous times he he has been heard to say he would "get her back." Riley said that Brown was a former steel mill worker, but had been unemployed for sometime. He permitted himself to worry over that fact also, according to Riley's statement to the police. Carries Gun Back Home It is not known by the police what time Brown returned to his home with the gun, but police found it in his bedroom. Riley told police he did not know what time Brown went out before he killed his wife, nor did he hear him return with the gun. Brown was arrested by Hammond police about seven o'clock. Gary police had notified surrounding towns, giving an exact description of the murderer. He was returned to the Gary city jail Thursday afternoon. INNOCENT MEN ARE VICTIMS KANSAS CITY, Kans. — (ANP) —Garfield Martin and Joseph Jackson decided to stage a duel here Sunday and as a result, Richard Goldman and John Wilson are dead, James McGee is wounded, and the duelists are in jail, but uninjured. The two men quarreled in a house and moved out into the street to "shoot it out." This they did and the only injured and killed people were innocent bystanders. EVANSVILLE, Ind. — On trial in circuit court Tuesday for the holdup of a,restaurant her on November 2, William Cosby told a tale of a bandit ring of four which held up the cafe only after their plans to stage a robbery in the rear of the Grand theatre had been frustrated. Curtiss Corbett, one of the three implicated, was sentenced last week with Cosby to serve five years in the state reformatory for the holdup of another restaurant. Police were ordered to bring in Chester Poindexter and James Adams, others named as members of the ring. Cosby refused to testify until he was told he faced a life term in prison. Then he went to Circuit Judge Charles P. Bock and told him that he was inocent but that he could name the guilty man. The Gary American Hoover Fails To Single Negro Race Out In Congress Message EIGHT PAGES While the short session will not permit of extensive legislative programs, the President recommended for consideration with a view to subsequent action effective regulation of interstate electrical power, a national policy of consolidation of the railways, an inquiry into the workings of the anti-trust laws, a study of the effect of the income tax $10,000 Libel Suit Stopped By Plaintiffs Defense Prepared law, revision of the immigration laws upon a more limited and more selective basis, strengthening of the deportation laws in order to rid the United States of criminal aliens, and authorization for building post offices. Foreign regulations have been maintained upon a high basis of cordiality and good will, the President reported. "A commission which was supported by the congress has completed its investigation and reported upon our future policies in respect to Haiti and proved of high value in securing the acceptance of these policies," he advised the congress. "An election has been held and a new government established. We have replaced our high commissioner with a minister and have begun the gradual withdrawal of our activities with a view to complete retirement at the expiration of the present treaty in 1935." American Fund Already Helps Local Families Job, Fuel, Food Given; Ask Contributions of All Kinds One Gary man was aided in finding employment, two other needy families were given fuel and food and many other persons got a chance to relate their stories of hardship and need as a result of the campaign being conducted by The Gary American to raise a thousand dollar relief fund for Gary's poor colored people. Many Ask Assistance Although the campaign is just entering its second week, the announcement in last week's issue of The American brought many inquiries and many applications for All of those seeking aid may call at the office of The Gary American, 1819 Washington street, and register. Those who know of persons in dire straits may call at The American office and leave their names and addresses. Contributions may be brought to the office of this newspaper. All cases will be taken care of as soon as contributions permit. One Gary man reported that he had been able to secure groceries through the Township Trustee's office, but that he could not obtain coal. Immediately upon hearing his story and investigating it, a job for him was found at the Isaac Bloom Coal company, 945 Broadway. As a result of the effort made by The Gary American, he will give his labor in exchange for fuel with which to give his wife and children sufficient warmth throughout the winter months. He is Jenkins Grays, of 1218 West Sixteenth avenue. Not only did the appeal made by this newspaper bring applications for relief and pleas for help from men and women out of work, but confirmation of the appalling situation on Gary's south side was voiced by Gary leaders both white and black. A preliminary survey up until noon Thursday, revealed that there are more than 500 Negro families in need, many of them without not only food and clothing but without fuel as well. So severe has the situation become among many, according to these reports, that they have been compelled to keep their children out of school. School authorities in confirming these reports, state they are powerless to compel attendance in families where the children are without the essentials of living. All Asked to Contribute Every one is asked to contribute something to the poor relief fund. Upon receipt of their contributions, their names and the amount given will be acknowledged and published in this paper. Persons desiring to contribute something to the fund may do so by sending their contribution or bringing it in. Not only will cash contributions be accepted and acknowledged, but any old clothing or shoes will also be appreciated. Patronize The American advertisers. Business Depression to Help Race Relations, Pastor Says Leaders Claim Dry Law Help To the Negro Say Money Saved From Prohibition; Homes Are Better Kept Few Defy Volstead Act Is the Claim Educators, Churchmen Put Their O. K. on 18th Amendment ORANGEBURG, S. C. — (ANP) Questions which are projected in an article on "Prohibition and the Negro", written by Archibald Rutledge, white, and published in the Outlook and Independent magazine for May 28, 1930, are challenged this week in a report made by Dr. Arthur R. Howard, secretary for colored work of the board of temperance, prohibition and public morals of the Methodist Episcopal church (north). Secretary Howard's report is based on data secured from a three-year survey of the Negro's recitation to prohibition and an exhaustive study of 500,000 temperance pledges made by Negro youths through college presidents, church leaders, and prominent political and civic workers. He discusses the "Negro's Response to the Prohibition Law" from the standpoint of the economic and social effects of the law and the Negro's obedience to it. The allegation is expressed that students of situations frequently treat the Negro in some special manner in relating him to economic and social phenomena, but that deductions drawn from such studies must be misleading because the Negro is forced to meet a law in the same manner as all others. Dr. Howard's studies brought replies on the economic effect of prohibition from Kelly Miller of Howard university; Dr. W. T. B. Williams of Tuskegee Institute, and Professor J. J. Starks of Benedict college. Dr. Miller stated that the Negro has saved money from the cost of drink; Dr. Williams, that there are more home comforts than in the pre-Volstead era, and President Starks, that prohibition has tended to make home more ideal in every respect. Many Supporters These views are reported to have found support from such persons as President J. B. Randolph of Chaflin college; President Mary McLeod Bethune of Bethune-Cookman college; Bishop W. A. Fountain, and the late President George P. Phenix of Hampton Institute. Testimony regarding the social effect of the law came from such leaders as Jesse O. Thomas, southern field director for the National Urban League; Dr. J. W. E. Bowen, Dr. Charles A Tindly, and President D. H. Simms of Allen university. "Disregarding uninformed criticism," reports Dr. Howard, "we may come to the truth that drinking is now done principally by the youth of the wealthy class who can defy the law with safety and by bootleggers with $e$ few patrons. The Negro cannot defy the law and escape the penalty. The number which makes the attempt is negligible." THREE BABIES BURNED TO DEATH DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.—(CNS) — Fire which did only $50 material damage, burned three colored babies to death here last Monday. It is believed an oil lamp left beside the bed where the children were sleeping, exploded. NEW YORK. — A bright side to the present depression in American business was seen by the Rev. S. Parkes Cadman, famous pastor of the Central Congregational church, white, during an interracial meeting Sunday night at the Nazarene Congregational church. Negroes and whites and Gentiles and Jews were in attendance at this eighth annual service, hearing the plea of their representative ministers for better interracial cooperation. "The leading result of this economic depression—which is more severe in Europe than here—will be a more fruitful spiritual-mindedness," Dr. Cadman predicted. "This anomalous situation which has filled our banks with money and our storehouses with harvest while still there are bread lines, will prove that there is something for the wealth of the nation to encompass besides silver and gold." "Religion, the very faculty which should be the cement in humanity, has been its dividing force," Dr. Cadman said. "We have only recently seen the folly of this, but now we may look forward to a more heroic era when more and more brothers are united under the fatherhood of God. Any creeds In The Money SHERIDAN A. BRUSSEAUX The ace of private detectives got almost $34,000 for his investigation in the Granady murder case, it was revealed this week. Another claim for $3,900 was not allowed. Sheriff Hunts Man In Court Contempt Case Told to Produce Records Of Estate of Father, New Decessed W. O. Gibson, 2725 Washington, is being sought by deputy sheriffs to serve a 15 day sentence in jail for contempt of court, occuring last Saturday, and then turn over to the First Indiana State bank all monies and property belonging to the estate of his father, John M. Gibson, deceased. John M. Gibson left an estate of more htan $900 when he died on July 30. This was to be divided equally between his four children: W. O., Corinne and Henry of Gary, and George W. of Chicago. W. O. Gibson acted in behalf of the children in paying the expenses attached to the funeral. The largest item of expense was a funeral bill of $765, presented by the J. D. Smith undertaking company. One Heir Dissatisfied One Heir Dissatisfied According to the records of the court, George W. Gibson was dissatisfied with the accounting made by W. O. Gibson and applied to the court for an administrator. The court named the First Indiana State bank and they called upon Gibson for all of the money and property of the estate. When the case was called last Saturday in Superior court, Gibson failed to appear and present the records of the estate. The contempt citation was issued. They had not been able to locate Gibson as late as Thursday evening. Answer Filed Attorney Lucius H. Brewer, counsel for W. O. Gibson has filed na answer to the court showing where all of the heirs, with the exception of George Gibson, are satisfied with the accounting of the estate, even the undertaker's fee which the court declared was exorbitant. The court has asked for an itemized report of the undertaker's fee. Attorneys Mensynski and Tomisch are representing the First Indiana State bank in the litigation. that stand between us and that realization, whatever they may be, must vanish." Replying to questions, Dr. Cadman defended the honor of the judiciary but "welcomed the Kresel investigation into the lower, or poor man's court." "To avoid having a man on the bench who would play for popular applause or political favor, I think it would be well to place the appointive power over judges in the hands of the Governor, possibly after nominations of the Bar Association," he said. He defended modern youth, and suggested that some unemployed be put to work "scrubbing the city." Rabbi S. F. Tedesche of Union Temple Synagogue deplored religious prejudice as "a boomerang." The Rev. Dr. H. H. Proctor, pastor of the Nazarene colored congregation, urged inter-racial co-operation for good citizenship, health, clean politics and relief of unemployment." An honorary guest was Col. Hubert Julian, lone flier of H. M. R Abyssinian Air Force. The musical program included spirituals by the Nazarene Congregational quartet and the Newman Memorial choir. First A. M. E. Pastor Resigns; See Friction With Carey As Cause Suggest Ways To Help Negro In Industries Place Mexican Under Immigration Quota One Suggestion ATLANTA, Ga. — (ANP) — Definite recommendations looking toward the improvement of the position of the Negro in industry, in which he has made some gains in recent years, were announced here today by the Committee on the Economic Status of the Negro appointed by the United States Secretary of Commerce. The recommendations were worked out and approved at a conference of government experts held in Washington recently. Dr. Woofter's report brought out that at present, in his effort to advance in industry, the Negro is facing a number of obstacles, among them being increasing competition in certain sections, with Mexican labor; lack of recognition by many local and international trade unions; lack of emphasis on vocational education and industrial work in the schools; and the need of more employment offices manned by Negroes. List Recommendations List Recommendations condition, the following recommendations were offered: (1) Since the Negro is found in competition with the Mexican in the southwest and midwest and since this competition seems to be increasing, there would seem to be good reason for protecting this American-born labor from the foreign-born by placing the Mexicans under a quota system similar to other immigrants. (2) The union situation might be bettered by a more effective policy of the American Federation of Labor in urging the organization of Negroes by the internationals and locals and abatement of discriminatory practices by these bodies. (3) Efforts should be made to show the Negro the dignity of labor and the opportunities for him in industry. It is believed that a healthy point of view could be created in Negro communities and among high school pupils by personnel workers or vocational educational guidance counselors. One of the chief services of such a counselor would be to create in the mind of the Negro the right attitude toward work. There is a very natural and strong tendency on the part of Negroes to feel that education consists of a sort of exemption from manual labor and an enjoyment of a life of ease. Negro organizations and individual leaders should also be enlisted in the work of preparing their people for industry, as well as the professions which are too often considered the chief end of education. Trade Schools (4) It is important to strengthen industrial educational facilities by means of schools devoted solely to trade preparation, or where this is impossible, the inclusion of industrial work in the high schools, always under a strong vocational guidance program. (5) Increase in the number and scope of employment offices should help to open new jobs and new plants to the Negro. The efficiency of these offices in handling Negroes is often increased by the addition of a Negro secretary to work with his group. Jazzin' The News (THE WEEK'S NEWS IN VERSE) By F. Marshall Davis GOES ON BUREAU OF NEGRO WORK WASHINGTON. — (CNS) — Dr. Emmett J. Scott, of Howard university, has been elected a member of the Bureau of Negro Work of the Board of Home Missions and Church Extension of the Methodist Episcopal church. During the year Mr. Julius Rosenwald has contributed $5,000 toward the training program of the board for rural pastors and for other programs of the bureau. Final Edition News while it is news and many features of particular interest to all may be found in every issue of this paper. On sale at all news stands. 12 BEAUTIFUL Personal Cards In Any Style of Type Desired GIVEN AWAY FREE With Ten Coupons Cut From This Newspaper And Mailed To Us. COUPON Name ... Address ... Town..... Phone..... EIGHT PAGES M. E. P s; See F Carey A Back In Congress NEA Oscor DePriest, the lone Negro congressman, was back in Washington for the opening of the 71st congress short session. He announced recently that he would again name Parham for West Point. Jury Acquits Murderer On First Ballot Self Defense Plea Gains Gary Man Freedom In Porter County Arthur Lee, Gary, was acquitted of murder in the circuit court in Valparaiso Tuesday on the first ballot of the jury. He was charged with the murder of James Carruthers, also of Gary, on April 19. Lee's plea was self defense. Carruthers was killed in front of the States hotel by a shot from Lee's gun. When Lee took the witness stand in his own defense he told how Carruthers had attacked him with a pocket knife, and that he was forced to shoot to protect his own life. Lee stated that Carruthers had threatened to kill him previously on that day. He accused Lee of telling the police of Carruthers' alleged connection with a local dope ring. That evening when the two men met in front of the hotel, Carruthers attacked him with a knife, Lee tood the jury. Lee was arrested immediately after the killing by Gary police officers and indicted by a Lake county grand jury. Because of what appeared to be prejudiced local public opinion concerning the case, Lees' attorney, James Clark of Hammond, took a change of venue to Porter county. AVERT TEXAS LYNCHING ARLINGTON, Tex. — (ANP) — A lynching was averted today when officers rushed Sam Lauder, slayer of Policeman James E. Johnson, white, to the county jail at Fort Worth for safe-keeping. More than 100 armed men were hunting for Lauder, threatening openly to lynch him, when he surrendered to a posse composed almost exclusively of officers. Arlington is located midway between Dallas and Fort Worth. 12 BE Per In Any Style o GIVEN AW With Ten Coupon Price 5 Cents Pastor riction As Cause Bishop Here Friday to Name Successor to Vacating Pastor Minister Popular With Congregation 'Personal Reasons and Climate' Listed as Official Causes After spending two years and three months as pastor of the First A. M. E. church, 20th and Massachusetts streets, the Rev. W. A. McClendon handed in his resignation last Sunday and left Monday night for Atlanta, Georgia, his home. Although Thomas Hightower, chairman of the official committee, stated Wednesday that the reasons for Rev. McClendon's resignation were purely personal and centered abount an oft-expressed desire to return south where the climate was not so severe, it is understood that friction between the local minister and Bishop Archibald J. Carey, head of this district, was the main cause of the resignation. Wanted To Change Him At the end of Rev. McClendon's first year in Gary, he was sent to Indianapolis at the yearly conference. This move was unpopular with members of the church and they asked Bishop Carey to return him here. The bishop acceded to their demands and back Rev. McClendon came. In the conference held last summer the First A. M. E. pastor was again transferred and again the congregation objected. They refused to accept the minister sent to Gary in his place. Bishop Carey reluctantly permitted his return here. Assessments Increase Since Rev. McClendon came back in the summer, assessments and levies against the church have increased, members say. Some express the opinion that this was done by Bishop Carey in an effort to thwart the pastor and make it much more difficult for him to be successful. Others claim that the rise in assessments was general. As a result, the minister is said to have asserted that he was being blocked by the bishop, while the bishop is charged with stating that Rev. McClendon was not doing his best. Hold Rally In order to raise the First A. M. E. church assessment of $250 for the Education fund, a rally was held. It was scheduled to end two weeks ago but due to the fact that contributions were small, the time was extended to last Sunday. The amount raised was reported as being only $50 because of prevailing unemplyoment conditions. Following the closing of the rally Sunday, Rev. McClendon handed in his resignation and stated that he had sent a copy to Bishop Carey. Well Liked Mr. Hightower said that church officials considered the pastor blessed with successful qualities and a very high type of minister. He is given credit for being a conscientious leader in the community and with organizing the Community aid for the unemployed which provides two meals daily for those not working. Bishop Carey and the presiding elder of the district were to be in Gary Friday to announce the successor to Rev. McClendon. The new pastor is to fill the pulpit Sunday. Read, The American. EAUTIFUL Personal Cards of Type Desired WAY FREE PAGE TWO Church Head In Reply to Investigator Answers Criticism of Too Much Spent on Church Building PHILADELPHIA. — (ANP) — In an open letter, published in the current issue of the Christian Recorder, the Rev. R. R. Wright, Jr. editor of the publication, which is the official organ for the African Methodist Episcopal church, challenges recent statements made by Lorenzo J. Green, research investigator for the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History. Dr. Wright's letter reads, in part: "I have just read in the dispatch of the Associated Negro Press from Lynchburg, Va., the statement as follows concerning an address you were said to have delivered on unemployment and its remedies: Advocated Sale "What surprised his audience, however, was the declaration by the speaker that the Negro must stop building so many churches and divert his money into productive channels by erecting factories and stores, thereby creating jobs for their own group. He also advocated the selling of many of the churches already in the possession of the race if anybody would buy them, thus releasing money for business purposes." "Now, if we have more churches than we need, I would like to know on what they are based." "Will you tell me how much the Negro spent last year, 1929, in church building? Will you tell me how much they spent in 1928 and 1927? You are a research investigator, and I know you have those facts. Else you would not make the statement that is attributed to you. "Will you tell me how much of this that was spent was needless? Also what churches would you sell and where? Calls Logic "Quear" "You have said in the same article that the Negroes were unreliable, lacked punctuality, lacked training, etc., and that is one cause for unemployment. Then why do you want the people who have succeeded in their business of church building to put money into the hands of these people who are unemployed because of inefficiency? Your logic seems quer to me particularly for a 'research investigator.' "As a careful student of Negro church building for a quarter of a century, it has been my impression that most of the money that is put in Negro church building has been put into Negro business. The Negro church builder has given more business to the Negro architect than any other group of Negroes. The Negro church builder has given more money to Negro contractors, brick-layers, plasterers, carpenters, than any other one set of people. You would not have us do that, would you? The people who have built Negro theatres have not been Negroes, but mostly whites. Yet you do not say anything against the money put by Negroes by the millions into theatres owned by Jews. The money Negroes put into buying of shoes and hats build factories for whites. You do not advocate collective buying of shoes and hats so as to control factories of that sort. You are just after the churches, aren't you? "I do not want to put you down is a prejudiced knocker of the church and hence I am asking you for the facts. But really, Mr. Lorenzo Green, if you are interested in putting some of the money of church Negroes to constructive purposes, why do you not ask for some of the money which is put into bootleg liquor, or some that is put into number writing? I am sure that if you will investigate in Washington, D. C., you will find more money was put last year into bootlegging among Negroes and into number lottery than was put into church building. Why knock the church?" "Do you know that the Negro gives less than three cents of his dollar a year to his church? Is that too much for religion? Is not religion productive? Do you know what becomes of the other 97 cents? Can't you find some of that for your factories? I think you as a "research investigator" owe it to honest investigation and to the Negro to give us a careful analysis of the Negro's income, and what becomes of it. I do not expect you to follow the unthinking crowd in calling for destroying about the only thing the Negro has independently built up. I will give you a whole page of the Christian Recorder to show how by 'research' and 'investigation' you come to the conclusion that some churches ought to be sold and that Negroes ought to put money in factories rather than churches. Frankly, I do not think you can do it." WASHINGTON, D. C. — Aaron Payne, former varsity full back of Howard university and assistant attorney for the City of Chicago, and a member of the Industrial commission for the state of Illinois, was among the speakers at the football rally on the campus Wednesday noon. Attorney Payne is the son-in-law of Dr. Emmett J. Scott, secretary-treasurer of the university. The little mining town of Flin Flon, Canada, settled two years ago by a few dozen miners, progressed slowly until a small lake on the property was drained. Gold silver and copper ores in abundance were found in the lake's bed and now Flin Flon is a busy place of nearly 4,000 inhabitants and the terminus of a railway line. Business and Industry Man Who Hired Mussolini at $7 Monthly Tells of 'll Duce Our Weekly Lesson in English COMMERCIAL NEWS ITEMS DETROIT (ANP) — The Parker House Sausage Company, Chicago corporation, has recently established a branch office and manufacturing plant here. The company maintains branches in St Louis, East St. Louis and Indianapolis. The local branch is equipped with the latest refrigeration equipment and employs 12 people. WASHINGTON (ANP) — The two Negro banks of this city will pay their 5000 Christmas Savings members more than $120,000, according to reports issued by officers of the banks. The Prudential Bank, of which John R. Hawkins is president, has 3,000 members and the Industrial Bank, of which W. H. V. Brown is president, has 2,400 members. Both banks report increased deposits over the same period of last year. BATTLE CREEK, Mich. (ANP) In a period of 15 years, B. F. Grayson has built up one of the most successful enterprises operated in this city. His business, located in an old time street car and known throughout the city as Grayson's Chicken Car, requires more than 600 pounds of dressed chicken weekly. The business has enabled its proprietor to acquire considerable real estate, including a two flat building, a three entrance store building and a garage. KANSAS CITY, Mo. (ANP) At an executive meeting of the Kansas Association of Commerce held Monday night at the headquarters, 422 Minnesota Avenue, the manager, Rev. L. H Crawford, reported that since March, 325 jobs PARIS — The far-off days when Signor Mussolini was a young man of twenty-five years of age, earning $7.00 a month as assistant to an Italian grocer and pork bucher in Lausanne and when he was considered an advanced Socialist, are recalled in an interesting interview published in "Le Journal." In 1905 Mussolini, who had been expelled from various cantons in Switzerland, arrived at Lausanne and went to see Signor Charles de Paulis for a job. He was engaged as general help and errand boy. He had been recommended to his employer by a friend who attended the same Socialist meetings, and said he was honest and hardworking. "I offered him $7.00 a month and his board," said, Signer de Paulis, "and he jumped at the offer, for he was nearly desistitute. I knew that his political opinions were far in advance of mine, but we kept off the subject. I always found him very likeable, but not especial- --- By W. L. Gordon WORDS OFTEN MISUSED Do not say, "The five boys helped each other." Say "one another" when referring to more than two. Do not say, "She was quite ill yesterday." Say, "very ill." Do not say, "After having eaten I went home." "After" is redundant. Say "Having eaten." Do not say, "This is the best of any I have seen." Say "best of all," or, "better than any other." Do not say, "Mathematics were the most difficult study for me." Say, "was." Do not say, "I have never known a more lovely girl." Say, "a lovlier girl." WORDS OFTEN MISPRO NOUNCED Tete-a-tete. Pronounce tat-a-tat, first and last a's as in "day," second as in "ask," accent last syllable. Melodrama. Pronounce mel-o-dra-ma, first a as in "father," last a as in "ask," accent first or third syllables. Cavalcade. Pronounce kav-al-kad, first and second a's in in "at," last a as in "aid," accent last syllable. Mesdames (plural of "madam.") Pronounce ma-dam, first a as in "may," last a as in "ask," accent last syllable. Sect. Pronounce sekt, not sek. Pronounce the plural sekts, not sex. Reinonstrate. Pronounce the as in "me," o as in "on", and accent second syllable, not the first. WORDS OFTEN MISSPELLED Coop (a cage), coup (a master "Just Imagine" Presents Unique Bill at Chicago "Just Imagine" Presents Unique Bill at Chicago CHICAGO. — One of the first imaginative pictures ever produced is "Just Imagine," coming next Friday to the Chicago theatre. This picture, the first of its kind depicts life as it will be in 1980, showing new modes of living, dressing and activity. John Garrick, through peculiarities of the marriage laws of 1980, cannot marry the girl he loves until he does something sensational. Therefore he applies for the trip to Mars and gets it. His pal, Frank Albertson, insists on going with him. At four in the morning they start their thrilling flight to Mars. Incidentally, El Brendel is the first stowaway on the first trip to Mars. An exceptional cast has been chosen to make this an exceptional picture, such as El Erendel, John Garrick, Maureen O'Sullivan, Frank Albertson, Marjorie White, Kenneth Thomson, Hobart Eosworth and hundreds of others. On the stage next Friday Al Evans and the Chicago theatre orchestra will bring you Chilton and Thomas, A Whale of a Dance. The Morgan Trio, Salt-Water Tricks and the Fred Evans Ensemble in spectacular dance numbers. have been secured through the association. Many have been restored to their old jobs and are reported by the managers of the various firms to be giving better service than before. This organization was formed in March for the purpose of helping those without employment, as well as help the employer to secure more efficient help, and for civic betterment. NEW YORK (ANP)—The Board of Directors of the E. A. Warren-Davis Publishing Company, Inc., publishers of the New York Amsterdam News, have declared a quarterly dividend of seven per cent per annum on the seven per cent stock of the company, payable to stockholders of record at the close of business September 30, 1930. NEW YORK (ANP)—Officers of the Musicians Protective Union, Local 627, A. F. of M., were nominated for the coming year at a meeting held last Sunday. The nomination is virtually election, for at the annual election December 15, one ballot will be cast making the nominated officers, formally take office. Officers nominated were: Ike Franklin, vice-president; Earl Jefferson, secretary; H. D. Massey, treasurer. For Board of Directors: Wm. E. Cooper, Harry Carson, Noble Fine, Robert Simpson, and George Wilkerson. According to reports made, it was indicated that the organization has progressed in all departments. The membership has been increased, a home has been bought and furnished, and new openings have been created for colored musicians through the effort of the local. I Mussolini at ells of 'Il Duce' ly assiduous about his job. Whenever he had to go out on an errand he always took a book with him, and I felt he only thought of his studies at the university. "He then wrote striking articles in an Italian newspaper published in Switzerland," said Signor de Paulis, "and was noticed by many of his professors. He already had most masterful and piercing eyes, which so dislinguishes him today." Mussolini only remained with his employer a year, and then was sent away as business was bad. He found further employment in a short while, but then he was definitely expelled from Switzerland. The curious part of it is that when he attended the Lausanne Conference that order of expulsion was still in force. "Since then," added Signor de Paulis, "I have not spoken to him. I am neither Fascist nor anti-Fascist, and I have no favor to ask. I am quite content with my lot, and he has done very well for himself." sson in English stroke.) Petticoat, not petty. Handkerchief (note the d); plural handkerchiefs (not chieves.) Luminary; not ery. Sphere; not the ere. Tennis; two n's. SYNONYMS Certain, positive, true, undeniable unquestionable, indisputable, sure. Vexation, chagrin, harrassment mortification. Kind (noun), class, sort, species style, character. Booty, plunder, loot, pillage, spoil Cheat (verb), deceive, defraud swindle, dupe, beguile, delude, mislead. Vigorous, strong, robust, powerful, potent, foreible, energetic. WORD STUDY "Use a word three times and it is yours." Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Words for this lesson: COINCIDE; to correspond exactly; agree; concur. "Your opinion coincides with mine." EXCLUDE; to shut out; hinder from entrance or admission. "He was excluded from society." PALLID; deficient in color; pale; wan. "His pallid face told a story of hunger." MEMORABLE; worthy of remembrance. "It was a memorable scene." DIVERSION; that which diverts, or relaxes and amuses; pastime. "Working in his garden is his favorite diversion." RETINUE; the body of retainers who follow a distinguished person. "His retinue consists of three secretaries, a physician and a valet." Sect Requiring Mirth At Services Is Ended DEBRECSIN, Hungary. — A sect founded twenty-five years ago, whose cult was laughter and who required all its adherents to roar with mirth at services, has come to an end Two Hungarian inspectors who visited one of the services reported that the leader started with a roar and the congregation followed. They laughed and laughed until they became hysterical. Services were dismissed when nearly all of the attendants had laughed themselves to fatigue. "BLACK AND WHITE" FOUNTAIN INN, S. C. — (CNS) — The Fountain Inn Tribune said in a script on its editorial pages last week under the caption "Black and White" — Crime in South Carolina has increased greatly in the last ten years. Mean niggers, you will say. But, no; the increase is almost wholly white. Enrollment in the public schools has also greatly increased. White people are getting educated, eh? No; this time the increase is largely black. The ones that go to school most go to jail least—now as always, black or white." THE GARY AMERICAN. GARY. INDIANA Supermen in South Africa Says Scientist 30,000 Years Ago Date Given for Race with Unusual Culture NEW YORK — (ANP) Thirty-thousand years ago there lived a race of, supermen, undoubtedly unmixed Negroes, in South Africa, the kind of supermen that the Shaws, Wellses, and other visionaries expect to see in the distant future. These Negro supermen had big brains, weighing 1,700 cubic centimeter, 200 more than the average European's of today. And they used these brains to produce a marvelous art and to live their lives with the greatest of relish and zest. All this has been conceded by Sir Arthur Keith, the English anthropologist, who a few weeks ago (as reported in a dispatch to the Associated Negro Press) contended that Africa was not the cradle of mankind. These supermen of South Africa were people of exceptional endowments. They were big-headed, small-faced, boy-like in form and body. Their type and culture were ultra-modern. They had an exceptional genius for art, which they have perpetuated and left a legacy of in the famous cave paintings. Their creations are infinitely superior to anything their European contemporaries, the "Solutreans", ever produced. Their descendants to today are the "bushmen" of South Africa, who, although degenerates compared with their supermen forefathers, display still a great genius for art. They still cling to and cherish what their great and illustrious progenitors thought was fit for a "good life." And that is the reason why those supermen lost in the battle of life and that is why the present-day "bushmen" have been robbed of all by European men and women who move with a "modern tempo." Thest supermen of South Africa had the finest capacity to enjoy life—the capacity of love, to feel, to rejoice, which the modern man has lost. They had a keenness and relish in the mere act of living that none of us can fathom today. Measured by the modern standard of commercial success they were a failure. But by that standard the previous generations of whatever race would be a "failure." But measured by the eternal standard of capacity to live and in the untarned, natural world of the prehistoric times, they were the triumphs of their epoch. But why did not these supermen continue to produce better types? Does not evolution teach us that we are destined to produce a better race progressively? To such questions as these, anthropologists are giving answers in hesitant tones, just they might knock down the pedestal their little gods of "race superiority," "scientific spirit," "western civilization," etc. It is claimed that these supermen of South Africa were mere hunters. When Asia discovered the art of agriculture the Negroes from North Africa learned it and carried it southward. Culturally speaking, they were better fitted to survive. Their enslaught could not be checked by the supermen who would not change their ways. Hence the latter had to give away to the northern Negro who was better fitted to carry on the newer mode of life. The modern world has a lesson to learn in this romantic episode of the supermen of South Africa. The economic life is being changed by the new economic theories such as Communism and by new concepts of life that are now rocking the Oriental world, especially China and India. These may affect the standards of living and systems of productions in the "Eastern world, which might lead to the passing of the 'white supermen" of our own time. Christmas Seals Now Ready For N. A. A. C.P. NEW YORK — Mrs. Memphis T. Garrison, of Gary, West Virginia, originator of Christmas Seals for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People announces that this year's supply is now ready and can be obtained from her by writing her at Box 364, Gary, West Virginia. The Christmas stamps affixed to Christmas gifts and letters and parcels, mailed at this time, thus advertising the N. A. A. C. P. and providing funds through their sale. The seals sell for one cent each and may be had in books of 200 for $2.00. When R. L. Dunn, of Los Angeles, Calif., tied one end of a rope around his neck and the other end to a light fixture, and jumped off achair, he accomplished nothing more than dislocating the fixture. He still pursued death by cutting his throat. That didn't kill him either, so he slashed his wrists. He is now recovering. La. Governor Wins Over $25,000 Suit Judge Holds Woman Had No Cause to Sue BATON ROUGE, La. —(CNS) — A damage suit for $25,000 brought against Governor Huey P. Long and others by the widow of a colored convict who was killed by a trusty guard from the state prison in a riot last August was dismissed here last week. Judge Jones in an oral decision handed down after submission of the case on briefs by opposing counsel, held that the window had "no right or cause for action." Girl Defends Herself From Whites With File RICHMOND, Va. — (ANP) Effective wielding of a nail file, perhaps saved the life of Louise Robinson, 18, when she was set upon by a group of white students. Lolise, told the officers, when she was placed under arrest, charged with assault with intent to murder, that the group of white students pushed her off the side-walk, and when she remonstrated with them they attacked her. The leader was Mary Moore, who was stabbed several times in the shoulder with the nail file. Of course, white eye-witnesses described the affair as an unprovoked attack. The pushing of the girl was "accidental" and Mary "had not done a thing to the Negro girl. After the stabbing, Louise escaped and was arrested at her home a few hours later. Nashville Has Mystery Murder; Coal Man Slain NASHVILLE, Tenn. — (ANP) — Police here are searching for the slayer of James Johnson, local coal dealer, whose badly battered and hacked body was found at Tenth street and Johnston avenue, Tuesday night. The coal man had delivered a load of coal in the neighborhood after dark and officers believe that he was set-up by bandits who in addition to killing him robbed him. A hatchet was the weapon used and the man's head was almost severed from the body. CAB CALLOWAY STILL GOING NEW YORK — (CNS) — Cab Calloway, former Baltimore boy and his "Missourians" assisted by his sister, Blanche Calloway, were headliners at the State theatre here last week. The band played at the Cotton club this past summer during the absence of Duke Ellington and his crooners. SHERIFF'S SALE Lake Superior Court, September Term, 1930. Mutual Savings & Loan Association, a corporation, vs. N. Guy Ayers, et al. By virtue of an Order of Sale, to be directed from the Clerk of the Lake Superior Court, I will expose to public sale to the highest bidder for cash in hand, at the east door of the Court House in Crown Point Lake County, Indiana, on Friday, the 19th day of December, 1930, between the hours of ten o'clock A. M. and four o'clock P. M., the rents and profits for a period not exceeding seven years of the following described real estate to wit. Lot No. Seven (7) in Block One (1) as marked and laid down on the recorded plat of Ridge Subdivision, being a subdivision of Block Five (5) Original Town of Miller, in the Southeast quarter of Section Six (6) Township Thirty-six (36), Range Seven (7) West of the 2nd P. M. in Lake County, Indiana. If said rents and profits will not sell for a sufficient sum to satisfy said decree, interest and costs, I will at the same time and place offer for sale the fee simple in and to the said real estate, or so much thereof as may be sufficient to satisfy said judgment, interest, costs and accruing costs. Said sale will be made without relief from valuation or appraisement laws. Taken as the property of N. Guy Ayers, et al, at the suit of Mutual Savings & Loan Association, a corporation. THE MUSIC FESTIVAL FREE With Every One Year Subscription To This Newspaper THE FAMOUS LINDSAY BREAD KNIFE The finest bread knife made at any price. Made of high grade carbon steel and can be re-sharpened in the same manner that you would any knife. New Subscriptions This is your opportunity to get a real bargain. Send in your subscription now—read this newspaper for a full year—and get a LINDSAY BREAD KNIFE absolutely FREE. JUST FILL OUT COUPON BELOW. Retails At $1.00 Cuts bread hot or cold and does it better. Approved by Good Housekeeping Institute FILL OUT THIS BLANK Circulation Dept. The Gary American Gary, Indiana. Gentlemen: I want one of the Famous Lindsay Bread Knives you are giving away with every one year subscription. Send me the knife and put me on your Subscription List. NAME ADDRESS TOWN Women Much Less Faithful Than the Men English Divorce Counsel Bases Statement on Years of Experience LONDON. — Women are less faithful than men, and more wives have lovers than tired business men have flappers. This is not the assertion of an irresponsible one-cent-a-line tear manufacturer. It is the weighty opinion of Sir Ellis Hulme-Williams, a divorce court counsel noted throughout the world as a foremost barrister. He did not state this "awful" opinion at a "bar banquet", but he has written it down in a book which he calls, "The World, The House, and the Bar." He has heard hundreds of marriage secrets. "There are so many phases of life which affect a woman in altogether greater degree than a man, and which make easier the path of would-be lover: curiosity, boredom, love of change, and love of adventure", he writes. "Even the risk of an illicit liaison, with its plotting and planning, its deceptions and its untruths, is sometimes better to a woman than the sameness of uneventful domesticity. Live Without Woman 'A man with a busy life and the occupations of business or sport may possibly live without the affection of a woman. But the average woman cannot live a life of even moderate happiness without love, affection and attention. "If a husband cannot or does not realize what affection means to the woman, and does not posses it and show it by tenderness and constant care for her, he is not entitled to be surprised if she takes a lover. "My experioence is that a woman who is careful to preserve her physical attractions and will take a little trouble to understand and sympathize with her husband's work or his pleasure can keep him just as long as she likes." "If a woman is already in love with another man she cannot be persuaded or argued into a rekindled affection for her husband. "Once a woman who has loved one man has fallen out of love with him and into love with another, there is no cruelty known to any created being — human or animal — to equal that with which she will treat the first man. "Most women believe that if they are divorced they must lose their children altogether nad never see them again. "I could name now a dozen women who would elope tomorrow were it not for the certainty in their minds that to do so would be to lose the children for all time. "I suppose all this sounds very immoral, but there it is. It is my experience culled, it will be said, from the seamy side of life." Happy Gold: "I'm the happiest man alive I've got he finest wife in the country." Cold: "Yes, it does make a man happy having a wife in the country." Shaw Girls' Hall Gets Fire Threat Fire Soon Extinguished In N. Car. College RALEIGH, N. C. — (CNS) — A fire, which a few hours later might have burned to death a score of young women in Estey hall, of Shaw university, was extinguished in the basement of the building here early Thursday evening by local firemen. The blaze started in some oil-soaked rags and mops, lying beside barrels of floor oil and cans of wax and right beside some wooden pillars, in the basement a few feet beneath the wooden floor of the far-from-fire-proof building. John Eaton, a painter, discovered the blaze and gave the alarm. Firemen were able to extinguish the blaze within a short time. White Man Attempts To Rescue Child of 3 JONESBORO, Ark. — (ANP) — The heroic effort of J. Wilkerson, white fireman, to rescue three-year-old Leota Dennis from a burning building, proved futile, but he is no less a hero. The little tot had been locked in the house by her parents who had gone to the store to do some shopping. A fire was left burning brightly in the grate, and it is thought that this caused the fire which resulted in the tragic death of the child. When the firemen arrived on the scene the dwelling was enveloped in flames. They were informed that the child was trapped in the burning dwelling and without hesitation, Wilkerson wrapped a coat saturated with water about his head and entered the home where the child was trapped. From room to room he went, braving death by fire and suffocation, until he reached the room in which the child was left. He found her under the bed, pulled her out and brought her from the building, but she was already dead having suffocated to death. Citizens of both races joined in praising Wilkerson for the daring attempt to rescue the child, who was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dennis. N. A. A. C. P. Branch Started in Missouri SEDALIA, Mo. — With fifty leading white citizens of Sedalia in its membership of 107, the recently organized branch here of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is unique in its composition in the entire country. The new branch has a larger proportion of white membership than any branch organized in a border state. The members include the Mayor of Sedalia, one alderman, three judges, five bankers, six lawyers, two physicians, nineteen teachers, one congressman, the clerk of the Circuit court, the Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce and four clergymen. The persistent and organizer of the branch is C. C. Hubbard, principal of the Lincoln high school and its other officers are C. H. Gooch, vice-president; P. W. Harris, secretary; Mrs. Ida J. Moore, treasurer. December 6, 1936 Women Battle In Show Over Hubby-Lover Broadway Theatre Scene Of Panic as Woman Starts Fighting A near-panic was created in the Broadway theatre Monday night when one woman attacked another who was sitting in the theatre with her hsuband. One of the women and the husband, who was the cause of the fight, were cut in the melee, but none of the wounds was serious. Mrs. Odessa Royal, 1746 Madison, had been suspicious of her husband's attentions to Mrs. Sarah Pry, 1622 Jackson. Monday night she followed them to the theatre and took a seat directly behind them. Near the last of the vaudeville billl, she began attacking the Pry woman with an improvised weapon made of a rock tied with a handkedchief. Mr. Royal, who attempted to separate the two women, was also injured in the scuffle. Mrs. Royal was struck on the head with a plate by Mrs. Pry. Police quelled the disturbance and arrested Mrs. Royal on the charge of assault and battery. The slight wounds of Mrs. Pry and Royal were treated at the St. Antonio hospital, after which they returned to their homes. SHERIFF'S SALE STATE OF INDIANA. Lake Superior Court, September Term, 1930. Mutual Savings & Loan Association, a corporation, vs. William Murdock, et al. By virtue of an Order of Sale, to me directed from the Clerk of the Lake Superior Court, I will expose to public sale to the highest bidder for cash in hand, at the east door of the Court House in Crown Point, Lake County, Indiana, on Friday, the 19th day of December, 1930, between the hours of ten o'clock A. M. and four o'clock P. M., the rents of profits for a period not exceeding seven years of the following described real estate to wit: Lot No. Fourteen (14) in Block No. One (1) Park Ridge Addition, to the City of Hammond, Lake County, Indiana, together with all improvements thereon and otherwise known as 1210 Euclid Ave., Hammond, Lake County, Indiana. If said rents and profits will not sell for a sufficient sum to satisfy said decree, interest and costs, I will at the same time and place offer for sale the fee simple in and to said real estate, or so much thereof as may be sufficient to satisfy said judgment, interest, costs and accruing costs. Said sale will be made without relief from valuation or appraisement laws. Taken as the property of William Murdock, et al at the suit of Mutual Savings & Loan Association, a corporation. GEORGE B. SHEERER, Att'y for Plaintiff. JOSEPH B. KYLE Sheriff Lake County, Indiana (11-22-20 and 12-6-30) National Bank of America 685 BROADWAY December 6. 1930 Negro Group Asks Hoover to Stop Mobs Race Congress Meets in Washington and Visits President WASHINGTON. CNS) President Hoover was urged last Tuesday to secure the enactment by Congress of legislation to stamp out lynching in the United States, by the National Equal Rights League and Race Congress, which held a three day "anti-lynching" congress at the John Wesley A. M. E. Zion church. The delegation led by Monroe Trotter, executive secretary of the league and congress appeared at the White House and conferred with the President in the memorial presented to the chief executive, the petitioners assert that lynching in 1930 more than double either of the two preceding years. "We ask the suppression of lynching," the memorial said, "in the interest of domestic peace and tranquility. States do not stop it and seem unable when willing because of the strength of local prejudice." Others in the delegation were Maurice Spencer, president of the National Equal Rights League and Race Congress; Mrs. Minnie Scott, executive secretary of the National Asociation of Colored Women; George E. Gordon, supreme keeper of records and seal, Knights of Pythias; and Miss E. F. G. Merritt, president of the local National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peopel. Opens Monday The congress opened Monday with addresses by the Rev. H. B. Taylor, W. H. Higgins, president of the National Medical Society, Perry Howard, the Rev. C. C. Williams, of Boston, and Dean Kelly Miller of Howard university. Other participants were the Rev. W. A. Taylor, pastor of Florida Avenue Baptist church; Maurice Spencer, president of the Congress; Monroe Trotter, executive secretary; the Rev. Henry D. Tililman, pastor of John Wesley church; and the Howard university Women's Glee club. The session Tuesday was featured by the trip to the White House. Discussions were led by the Rev. Charles Morris, Sr., of Norfolk, Va., th e Rev. E. C. Smith, pastor of Metropolitan Baptist church; the Rev. W. H. Jernagin, former president of the Congress. Addresses were made by Miss E. F. C. Merritt, the Rev. T. S. Harten of Brooklyn, N. Y., and Monroe Trotter. Musical numbers were rendered by Miss Virginia Williams. Give Addresses The twenty-second annual session of the Equal Rights league was held throughout Wednesday. Addresses were presented by Hon. Jefferson Coage, Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia; Maurice W. Spencer; Harold M. Tyler of Chicago, and W. Ashbie Hawkins, grand chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of Maryland. Others participating in the exercises were the Rev. B. W. Swain, vice-president of the Equal Rights League and Race Congress; the Rev. E. C. Smith, and Lester Dorsey. The officers of the organization, all reelected are : Maurice C. Spencer, president; Bishop J. W. Walls, first vice-president; the Rev. B. W. Swain, second vice-president; James L. Neill, recording secretary; Thomas A. Johnson, assistant recording secretary; Monroe Trotter, executive secretary; J. W. Austin, treasurer; Rev. H. T. Medford, chairman, organizing committee. PLAN TO PUT MORE "LEARNING" INTO FARM HOMES WASHINGTON, D. C. — (ANP) — Parent education, good books, and proper guidance for the school child, access to books, as well as to the village movies for the farm boy and girl, and a need for advance information on radio educational programs, wer the main considerations of the National Committee on Home Education held this week. When a mule on the farm of Robert Gilbert, near York, Pa., moved forward while licking the ground at a feeding trough, one of the animals' hoofs landed on its tongue. The involuntary jerk of the mule's head when the pinch was felt caused the animal to bite a large piece off its tongue. MIDDLE SCHOOL MUSEUM Negro Superior in Many Ways, Says Mencken; Lauds Manners, Complexion Negro Superior in Many Ways, Says Mencken; Lauds Manners, Complexion "NEGRO SUPERIOR IN MANY WAYS", SAYS MENCKEN NEW YORK — (CNS) — "If Negroes threw off their preachers and holy men, who are nothing but racketeers, they would make a huge stride forward," says Henry L Mencken, the editor of the Mercury Magazine and called by many the most distinguished professional iconoclast in the country. Mr. Mencken is posing these days at a Fifth Avenue studio and his likeness is being transferred to canvass by a Negro artist, O. Richard Reid, in a studio at 8144 Fifth avenue. There America's most distinguished professional iconoclast sits on a dais and discourses on this and that while the artist transfers Mr. Mencken's likeness. "Be careful about the eyes," admonishes the Baltimore baron. "I drank some excellent beer last night with the result that they are not so clear as usual." "Try to keep the mouth still for Radio Program Features Work of W.L.Dawson Composer Only Member Of Chicago Civic Orchestra CHICAGO. — (ANP) — William L. Dawson's compositions were featured last Sunday night in the regular musical stars program over Radito Station WLS, owned and opearted by Sears, Roebuck & Company. The musical stars each Sunday night presented the works of some outstanding middlewest composer and in announcing the presentation of Dawson's work paid him many highly deserved economic. His compositions, particularly for choral groups, are being placed by several of Chicago's leading publishers all over the country. Recently, Dawson won two awards in the annual Wanamaker musical contest for Negro composers. For several years, he has been a member of Frederick Stock's Chicago Civic orchestra, which plays at Orchestra hall. He is the only colored member this famous organization has ever had. The Chicago Symphony orchestra, one of the premier musical organizations of the country, also directed by Conductor Stock, is to present a symphony which Dawson is completing in the near future. Among the Dawson compositions which the musical stars presented were: "Sonata for Violin and Piano," "Trio for Violin, Cello, and Piano," "Jump Back, Honey, Jump Back" (song); "Go to Sleep"; "Talls About a Child that do Love Jesus"; "The Mongrel Yank"; "Jesus Walked this Lonesome Valley." Mr. Dawson, who has been recalled to Tuskegee institute to head its musical department, leaves soon to take his new post. VIRGIN INLANDERS SEE A REPEAL ST. THOMAS, Virgin Islands (CNS) So confident are the merchants of this little island of 22,000 people that the dry law will be repealed that they have placed orders for large quantities of wines with European firms. The liquor is to be held in readiness for quick shipment to the island when cabled for. CHICAGO TO HAVE NEW BRANCH LIBRARY CHICAGO — (ANP) The board of directors of the Chicago Public library, announced this week that work would commence at once upon the new George C. Hall branch to be located in the colored district at 48th and Michigan avenue The building will cost with books, furnishings, and ground included $180,000. Are you in need of MONEY See Sam at 1604 Broadway Phone 2-3477 The Limited Income accomplishes more, in the long run, if part of it is put aside regularly in a Savings Acount with the NATIONAL BANK OF AMERICA. Systematic deposits soon build a supstantial fund that enables you to enjoy the bigger things you want. A small deposit will open an account. a few moments, Mr. Mencken," implores Mr. Reid. "Remember I am not doing a motion picture." Mr. Mencken likes his portrait, but has no intention of buying it. It would be intolerable to be forever confronted by a picture of himself, he thinks. He adds, however, that the portrait will exist after his writings are forgottn, prophesying that one hundred years from now few will know that he had lived. Still, as he points out, he was never one who yearned for literary immortality. Recently at one of his sittings he turned to L. S. Alexander Gumby proprieror of the studio, and said: "The trouble with the Negro is that he apes white people. He is superior in many ways. He is better mannered. Who ever heard of a Negro wowser? He has a better complexion. He is never pale or pasty. "If Negroes threw off their preachers and holy men, who are nothing but racketeers, they would make a huge stride forward." Says Liberia In for Era of Readjustment Harley Paints Gloomy Picture of African Nation's Future NEW YORK — (ANP) — That the Republic of Liberia is in for a period of turbulent reform was the brunt of a message brought this week by Dr. George W. Harley, medical missionary in the republic, to members of the board of foreign missions of the Methodist Episcopal church. Drastic recommendations are to be made, according to Dr. Harley, in the report of the international inquiry on slavery and other conditions in Liberia. "The coming year of 1931 will be a turbulent year of readjustment in Liberia," Dr. Harley reported. "No nation is so much the child of philanthropy and never has Methodism been so closely bound up with a growing nation. We must stand shoulder to shoulder with them when their heartstrings will be torn this year as few people's have been torn in history." Dr. Harley further pointed out that the world was looking to Liberia to see what the black man could do if given the opportunity to govern himself. "Now the world will say, 'See, they can't,' he commented, adding, however, that what the world could see did not represent the full story. "The tragedy is," he said, "that people descended from freed slaves have accepted from the natives an age-old system of domestic slavery. It is a situation that needs careful study, and we don't know enough to make many comments now. The American people are partly to blame; they sent the Liberians over and if bad conditions arose, they must bear part of the responsibility." Suits Cleaned and Pressed 69c MON. and TUES. Cloth Dresses Plain 99c Bring them in yourself; do not give them to any-one. We have no boy. Cash and Carry SUPERIOR REMODELERS 2146 Broadway For Complete Demand Superior Meat I For Complete Satisfaction Demand Superior or Master Brand Meat Products MASTER BRAND Sausage, Lu Hams Green Vallen Superior Me Phone THE GARY AMERICAN. GARY. INDIANA Hospital Duke Gave Cripples Is Now Opened Gift of Late Tobacco King 1st Orthopaedic Place in U. S. GASTONIA, N. C. — (ANP) — What was described as the first orthopaedic hospital for Negroes in the United States was formally dedicated here Sunday with impressive ceremonies. It is the B. N. Duke Memorial hospital, named in honor of its donor, the late tobacco magnate and philanthropist. Dedicatory exercises were directed by R. B. Babington, white, president of the board of trustees for the North Carolina Orthopaedic hospital, who first broached the subject of a unit of the hospital for colored patients. Among the speakers were the Rev. E. G. Gregg of Charlotte, N.C., the Rev. E. W. Burke, Gastonia, the Rev. C. H. Gannoway, Gastonia, Lieut. Lawrence A. Oxley, Raleigh; the Rev. L. L. Boyd, superintendent of the Morrison Training School for Boys; Dr. O. L. Miller, chief surgeon of the North Carolina Orthopaedic hospital; Paul C. Whitlock, R. R. Ray, W. J. Trent president of Livingstone college and Dr. G. E. Davis, Rosenwald Fund supervisor. Broadcast Exercises The exercises were broadcast over radio station WRBU. Mr. Babington recalled the efforts of the men and women who had worked to make the new hospital an actuality, ending: "Today, after all these years of joyous labor by a number of loyal men and women, we are permitted, through the philanthropy of the late Benjamin N. Duke, to dedicate this hospital, in fulfillment of the wishes of Mr. Duke, who wrote in his last will and testament that this ward should be erected by the trustees of the North Carolina Orthopaedic Hospital as a ward for the scientific treatment of the crippled, indigent Negro children of the state. Lt. Oxley, of the state welfare department, laid emphasis on the extent of Mr. Duke's intelligent and humane benefactions and asserted that "there has never been a white leader, or an outstanding white citizen of this state, who has not been a friend to the Negro." Mr. Oxley also told of the original gift of $15,00 for the hospital and of how Mr. Duke later persuaded to increase this amount to $25,000 just after he had given $1,000,000 to a Negro college in North Carolina. The hospital is a brick, one-story structure, fire-proof throughout. It has accommodations for fifty beds and a staff of six colored nurses. Mrs. Anna B. Crowfard is supervisor. Wm. Whiting, of Port Kells, B. C., is the owner of a hen that has a record of laying 353 eggs in 353 Eat Wholesome Meals Tasty and well cooked food, attractively served, is essential to your health. Your meals should be chosen with the greatest of care and the place where you eat should specialize in delicious victuals easy to digest. Such a place is the ROXY LUNCH 1744 BROADWAY We specialize in wholesome cooking in both regular meals and short orders. We serve only the best quality of foods prepared with an eye toward easy digestion, tastiness and atractiveness. Satisfaction or Master Brand Products anchcon Meat, Bacon Butter and Eggs Meat Products nc.) 9157-8-9 Governor Saves a Slayer from Chair New Trial Too Costly, Executive Claims COLUMBIA, S. C. — (ANP) Because it would be too expensive to hold a "new trial", and because the prosecuting attorney and the pardon requested it, Governor Richards commuted the death sentence imposed on Will Barnett for the murder of his wife, to life imprisonment. The pardon board in its recommendations, reviewed the case and the conviction, and stated: "It apears that the trial judge really charged the jury that if Barnett killed his wife in sudden heat and passion, the verdict should be murder with recompensation to mercy, whereas the law declared by our court is that under these facts the prisoner is really guilty of manslaughter. In case it develops that the courts are no longer open to the prisoner who is really entitled to a new trial, the pardon board recommends that the sentence be commuted to life imprisonment." The solicitor general who prosecuted the case in his letter to the governor referred to the fact that several of the witnesses for the state were now in Detroit, and other mid-western cenetrs, and a new trial would be too expensive for the state. The convicted slayer married a woman with several children, and in December, 1929, he and his wife quarreled. According to the testimony at the trial, one of the womans' sons shot at his step-father and in returning the fire, the wife was killed. NAMED IN INDICTMENT IN LOS ANGELES LOS ANGELES, Calif. — (CNS) — George Brown, alleged "king" of the colored district here, two colored police officers and three "John Does" were named in an indictment charging conspiracy to violate the State liquor law which the county grand jury's investigation of the city administration began as an inquiry into Mayor John C. Porter's election campaign in 1928 brought to light last Saturday. Read, The American. TITL PACKI Meat Merchants 1500-1504 TITTLE BROS. PACKING CO. INC. Meat Merchants - Stores Everywhere 631-633 BRODWAY HANDY DIRECTOR of Gary Firms Who Guarantee Products and Service BEAUTY SHOPS JULIETTE BEAUTY SHOP 16 W. 25th St. COMPLETE BEAUTY SERVICE For Women who are more Fastidious HUNTER'S Home Made Candies Fresh Salted Peanuts Daily 1945 Washington Street CLEANING and PRESSING CENTRAL CLEANERS AND LAUNDRY CO. 10 E. 19th Ave. . Phone 2-5641 TRACEY SMITH, Prop. STEEL CITY FLORISTS Mrs. Briney and Mrs. Menczski, Prop. 17 East 16th Avenue GARY, INDIANA Phone 2-2134 ADVERTISE IN THE GARY AMERICAN Brusseaux Got $33,267 from Granady Case Brusseaux Got $33,267 from Granady Case Disposition of $200,000 In Election Murder Is Made Known CHICAGO. — (ANP) — Publication of the disposition of more than $200,000 which was subscribed by the public for prosecution of crimes growing out of the primary election of April, 1928, when Octavius Granady, Negro candidate for ward committeeman, was murdered, was made this week. The figures made public showed that the largest single block of the money was handled by Sheridan A. Brusseaux, head of the detective agency which bears his name, and through whom a corps of investigators was kept busy in the effort to find the guilty parties. Mr. Brusseaux was paid $33,267. An additional bill for $3,900 has not been allowed by the state's attorney. The next largest sum went to the chief attorney, Frank J. Loesch, white, president of the Chicago Crime Commission. He received $26,000. Haynes Got $14.080 William Haynes, the only color ed attorney employed in the prosecution, was paid $14,080. The figures were printed after the county board had voted to reimburse the private citizens who had subscribed to the original fund. The bills submitted were approved by Frank J. Loesch and State's Attorney John A. Swanson. The so-called Granady trails were strung out through the betetr part of two years, but little, except the imposition of about $8,000 in fines, was accomplished. The last trial, that of a police captain and his squad, for the murder of Granady, blew up when Mr. Loesch, severely castigated by the trial judge, withdrew the action, after challenging the attitude of the court. Nearly 25,000,000 persons in the United States now receive daily mail service over 43,840 rural mail routes. E BROS. NG CO. INC. Stores Everywhere BROADWAY DIRECTORY EXPRESSING FRED'S EXPRESS & COAL CO. Light Hauling 118 W. 17th Ave. 2-4747 FURNITURE STIMSON FURNITURE CO. 1855 Broadway Phone 2-6311 GROCERY STORES JAMES' GROCERY and MEAT MARKET Fresh Vegetables We deliver anywhere in the city. Phone 2-2706. R. JAMES, Prop. 1951 Washington ROTH PACKING CO., Inc. For Good Meats 1729 Broadway Phone 6730 BOLTON'S RESTAURANT Choice Foods Served Open Day and Night 24 W. 17th Street R. BOLTON, Prop. Ph. 2-7847 LOS ANGELES. — (ANP) With the surprise of surprises awaiting vaudeville hungry east-side patrons, the elaborate Florence Mills theatre, at Jefferson and Central will flash on its myriad lights on the night of December 8. Next Thursday there will arrive from New York a troupe of principals and noted comedians that has been making Broadway laugh and go home whistling melodies. Vaudeville is to be featured at the Florence Mills, so to this end Samuel Kramer, director, with his associate of a number of years, Harry Gallup, has planned only the best. The finest first-run picture features will be shown also. A statue of Miss Mills will be in the lobby. Opening night will be a gala premiere night, with the mayor invited to speak and with leading colored citizens in attendance, in addition to several noted movie stars. It is in an ideal location, at the heart of the cross-town traffic, and the luxurious furnishings, plush seats and a splendid orchestra will fill a long-needed want. In addition to the ones arriving from New York, some of the fastest dancing and prettiest chorus girls will be selected from the local colony. All of the employees of the house are to be colored. ATLANTA TO HAVE SLAVES REUNION ATLANTA, Ga. — (CNS) — Plans are being formulated by local citizens to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Ex-Slave Association here on December 24. A tentative program includes a sermon, to be followed by the singing of plantation melodies and spirituals by a group of ex-slaves after which a number of them will relate their experiences. The association will give Christmas gifts to the slaves and aged who are unable to work. THE BEST AND S At your service, our fine qu heat and utmost economy wi We make prompt deliveries. LARSON 1752 MO Phone 2-6414 PARKER HOUSE SAUSAGE There's a Uneo PARKER HOUSE SAUSAGE MEA Parker House Chicago PARKER HOUSE SAUSAGE Good Promptly Do At your service, our fine quality coal ready to give you full heat and utmost economy with a minimum amount of waste. We make prompt deliveries. PARKER HOUSE SAUSAGE There's a Difference Unequaled Quality and Flavor PARKER HOUSE PURE P SAUSA MEA Parker House Chicago PARKER HOUSE SAUSAGE PARKER HOUSE SAUSAGE There's a Difference CALL GARY 7571 A call brings one of our door for your soiled clo he returns them, sweet dirt resist the great an soap we use. For real lau A call brings one of our courteous drivers to your door for your soiled clothes. A few days later, he returns them, sweet and clean. For how can dirt resist the great amount of pure water and soap we use. For real laundry satisfaction, call us! SLICK'S Gary Laundry Co. "The Laundry That Does It Best" FIFTH AND MASSACHUSETTS CLEAN BEA CLEANLINESS AND BEAUTY Restored safely to all wearing apparel. Prompt service, right prices. We subject your clothes to a scientific process that removes every spot and stain. This process brightens the colors without harming the sheerest of fabrics. It results in your garments coming back to you fresh and like new. Phone today for our wagon. Thankful, He Dines 1500 in Sacramento Mass. Man Sends Wire Order for Food SACRAMENTO, Cal. — (CNS) — Charles Bowman, a successful Negro of Fall River, Massachusetts, played absentee host to 1,500 unemployed men for Thanksgiving day, when he telegraphed $750 to Thomas A. Farrell, attorney, requesting that every unemployed man unable to buy a real dinner for himself be fed through contracts with restaurants. It is said that memories of a Thanksgiving Day passed in Sacramento twenty years ago, when he was hungry, cold nad without a dime in his pockets, caused Mr. Bowman to order a real dinner for the unemployed of this city. Sacramento oldtimers remember that Bowman worked in West End saloons and prepared free lunches. Later he operated a barber shop, obtaining enough money to acquire a tavern on the Riverside Road. He subsequently transferred his business to the East. GEORGIA ILLITERACY TWICE THAT OF THE NATION ATHENS, Ga. — (CNS) — The percentage of illiterates in Georgia is twice as large as the country as a whole, and Georgia is spending far less for education than most states, B. M. Grier, white superintendent of schools, stated last week. Fifteen percent of the people of Georgia are illiterate. Between January 1 and April 1, the state illiteracy commission organized 2,000 classes for illiterates, with an enrollment of 4,500 white and 32,000 Negroes. Georgia spends an average of $25.17 each year for each pupil enrolled in school. IVAN C. DUNLAP Jeweler Successor to Stringfellow's Jewelry Department Expert Watch Repairer 548 Broadway IN COAL SERVICE quality coal ready to give you full in a minimum amount of waste. COAL CO. NROE ST. On Penna. R. R. HOUSE SAGE Difference qualed Quality and Flavor PARKER HOUSE SAUSAGE There's a Difference Work ne When You courteous drivers to your clothes. A few days later, and clean. For how can amount of pure water and laundry satisfaction, call us! LINESS ND UTY PAGE THREE @2222 25525555}, » HOSIERY GIFTS i : Full Fashioned Silk to the Top illl i Chiffon and Lisle Hem Service 42 Gauge. Box 3 pairs for tH Hilt a T $2.85 mT Silk Nets, $3.50 Value, $1.95 per pair iill Mens’ Fine Wool Socks, 75c value Wl Ht Size 9'. & 10. 5 pairs for $1.00 ti Size 11 - 11!4 - 12, 3 pairs for $1.00 Wl ui Men’s 50c Wool Socks, 4 pairs for $1.00 UIll a EAT GqEl . 7 | NEUMODE HOSIERY STORE ql ti Palace Theatre Bldg. Fred C. Eakin, Prop. Tm wit SEZB52525B5BPEBEESEEBBEY | feces} } Put speed +3 — Seer in your sales prograiii:! "aa (Q i. ee >) Pah r L\ ya AR i s “heres, 5, ee 4 (oe ‘ \ x v i! se # \ g te | ‘ \ _, Ym Reach out-of-rowr cn | ae “Eas es 4 tomers with the es f light! Your office te phones are ready to “carry” sale:r througheut the state... the nation... ard if need be, will “send” them to cust rs ir foreign lands throughout most of t ¢ wor Modern selling demands modern er Long distance telephone service i3 t a MS means for rapid communication wit’. cut cf “ town buyers. Supplement your y nt sal x . 1 fn r Ym program with telephone selling. Long Di :tan Set BN telephonecalls fiteasily in any budget —t ey are 2 the Quic, Clear and Inexpensive wav to: el Bell Lines Reach Everywher2 Pe, ILLINOIS BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY & BELL SYSTEM One Policy - One System + Universal Sori ana Coffee Served Around a Fire Is Delightful Enameied Spoons Add Charm and Color to Fireside Service . We hear on all sides little whis perings that presently American: are going to really come to a point of spending time and thought or the art of graceful living. Educa- tional centers will stress its value, so they say, and there is a chance that the next generation will frown at frantically rushing hither and thither. Perhaps we will revive the real art of dining, and conversa- tions, and perhaps there will be pleasant dinners, many of them, and coffee afterwards, ‘round a lazing fire; at any rate it is pleasant to contemplate. Coffee afterwards has a pleasant sound; all to few serve it ‘round the fire or in the drawing room. It was served delightfully the other night at a friend's home. ‘The sil- ver coffee service caught the glint of hte flaming logs, and its quaint old pattern blended with the rare ivory and gold china cups. The cups would have seemed a Dit too quiet in tone for modren times if it hadn't been for the spoons. They were lovely bits of art designed for such occasions where there is leisure and time to enjoy their beauty. They were of precious metal and enameled in brilliant colors; on the backs and handles were conventionalized flow- er patterns in contrasting shades of enamel. Theit color gave a charm- ingly festive note to the coffee ser- vice. The hostess was wearing a per- iod gown with some quaint jewelry of antique design, and the enamel- ed spoons seemed to fit into the pic- ture as she placed them on the saucers. The spoons lent an air of grace and charm to the service, reminiscent as they were of days when the art of living was stressed more than now, and time was al- lowed for enjoying friends and fire- lit hearths. De Luxe Club Notes Sunday afternoon from 4 till 8, the popular DeLuxe club is giving a Matinee dance in their beautiful club rooms. All those interested in indoor sports are asked to keep an eye open for the announcement of the schedule of the De Luxe Five. Reindeer brown is in vogue and red brown is also in favor. Rust tones are conspicuously favored now that fur coats are again in order. xega! ‘The. American. Jociely (a | ‘THE SOCIETY NEWS | DEPARTMENT | of The Gary American | aims to give a correct and | comprehensive picture of the | social life of the “Steel City.” | Persons desiring to have.news | aserted in this department | may do so by calling Gary 6134 and giving the news they wish to insert to the tele- phone operator, or call Mrs. Florida J. LeeKe, soclety ed- itor, Gary 6096. "By Florida J. Lecke ity Teachers Spend Vasstion:. Vike ‘Collntaa ee ae ee ee Miss Ruth Hayman, history teach- er at East Pulaski school, and Miss Hope Dennis, primary teacher at Roosevelt school, spent their Thanksgiving holidays visiting Spellman university at Atlanta, Ga The young ladies were the guesis of Miss Naomi Hayman, instructor in music at the university and sis- ter to Miss Ruth Hayman. Miss Nell Howell, clerk at the East Pulaski school visited Fisk university at Nashville, Tennessee. She attended the football game be- tween Tennessee State college and Fisk university. During her stay, Miss Howell was the guest of Miss Jane Leeke who is doing her sophomore year work at Fisk. Walter Potter, instructor in mu sic at Roosevelt high school, also attended the Tennessee State - Fisk university game and spent the Thanksgiving holidays at Nashville visiting friends and eating good old southern turkey. All report having had a most delightful time. Thanksgiving Dinner With Parents Mr. and Mrs. Albert Edwards spent Thanksgiving visiting their parents at Atlanta, Georgia. Mrs. George White, the charming moth- er of Mrs. Edwards, was for several weeks a visitor in Gary this sum- mer. Hostess To Card Club Mrs. Ann Smith of 2370 Washing- ton street was hostess to the “Dames” on Wednesday evening of this week. eee To Entertain Popular Sorority Boule Members of the local chapter of the Sigma Gamma Rho sorority are making preparations to entertain the national body in taeir seventh annual Boule to be held here Dec- ember 26, 27 and 28. These young women are making special efforts to show those teach ers und students who will com: from various cities, to be guests of Gary homes, that hospitality is an outstanding virtue of our city. They are asking the hearty cooperation of all our good citizens and friends The Wonderful East India Remedies Made from Barks, Rocts, Herbs, Seeds and Berries. “The Medicine That Positively Gets Results.” y= », f Re s ‘ ees ‘ f . ¢ . / ¥ f / di \ / \ s” \ : ~ a, \ e ~ y & \ | Pc) f \ | : \ | “— ; I | | Y : zi | we € * ate 4 \ Peete ~ i Ret al Wes ‘a fie? \ 4 Riggs = : . 2 ra Sit oe ie ’ ents qs eS gees: ey GOS. ae Mo \ dees: ieee \. ee Rat tip ea” \ Seon ae, ae “iE PARK? ays pk Saale Ne: Ae Te ay SS me he pg SE age te ee Sie or Tea oat ee . = ‘Ey > . ri T CHARLES ULAYTON INDIAN MEDICINE MAN BACK AGAIN The Medicine Man, formerly on Dunes Highway, near Tre- mont. New location 1204 Washington, Phone or write for information. Tel. 5552. Hours 1p, m, to 9 p. m. Charles Clayton, The Medicine Man, will be at the above address in person every Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wed- nesday, Thursday, Friday. Interview by appointment only. The man you have heard of and his remedies of the East India Medicine Co, have come to Gary to stay for the welfare of those who are safvering Mr. Charles Clayton and his agent offer all commissions realized from these sales to the poor and needy families of this locality. Don’t Forget the Address, 1204 Washington St. ERE Pewee ie hs SSO OS = Pee ae ee ee Sn TE Se in extendin, to the vistors @ warm welcome. soak Noonday Business Club Elects Officers The recent election of officers of the Gary Noon Day Business elub resulted in these men taking office: J. E. Thompson, president; Rev. E. E. Lewis, 1st vice-president; Lu- die Means, 2nd vice-president; Clar- ence Walker, corresponding secre- tary; Rev. Frank S. Denaley, execu- tive secretary and Dr. R. M. Hed- rick, treasurer. The club looks forward to en- joying a very active and worth- while year. 7 T Elk Ledge Notes Lake City Lodge Holds Election The Lake City Lodge No. 182 of I. B. P. O. E. of W., Gary, Indiana, held their election of officers on Tuesday night, in their home, 2174 Broadway. The officers elected were as fol- lows: Brother W. E. Burrus, Exalted Ruler, Brother Roy Hunter, Exalted Leading Knight, Brother Alonzo Spann, Exalted Loyal Knight, Brother George Gatlin, Exalted Lecturing Knight, Brother James Dockins, Esquire, Brother William Tuck, Tiler, Brother J, E, Robinson, Finan- cial Secretary, Brother N. E. Streeter, Treasur- er, Brother Harry St. Clair and Bro- ther M. B. Wilkinson, ‘Trustees. The election was held by Bro- ther Charles B. Ray, Past Exalted Ruler, Each officer elected promis- ed the Exalted Ruler his full sup- port for the next year's program Brother W. E. Burrus was elected for his third term as head of the Elks and he has given to the lodge a progressive program and is planning-a bigger und better year next year. Serve 850 Meals To Unemployed in Week The Lake City Elks Relief club is doing a great work for the un employed by serving three meals a week in the Elks’ home, 2174 Broadway. It is the intention of . hem . Au CLOVER LEA > Tome PRODUCTS Place your order with Clover Leaf Dairy Company and be assured of quality products and prompt service. CLOVER LEAF DAIRY COMPANY 1100 Mass. Phone 9177 THE GARY AMERICAN, GARY, INDIANA the group to continue feeding men until the depression is relieved. Last week the club served 850 meals. Monday, Wednesday and Saturday are the three days meals are served. _ The members of the food com mittee are: Chester Wood, Amos Harris, James London and | William Miller. Charles B. Ray is president and Mr. Owens is secre- tary. W. E. Burrus is director of the club as it consists of members of the Lake City Lodge No. 182. ee Emma Cherry Temple Elects Officers Emma L. Cherry Temple No. 135, I. B. P. O. E. of W., held its elec- tion of officers on Wednesday. Miss Bernice Smith was elected Dt. Ru- ler; Mrs. Anna Balls, vice Dt. Rul- ev; Mrs. Laura Long, Ass't. Dt. Ruler; Mrs. Johnson, Dt. Chaplain; Mrs. Lillian Bates, Fin. Sec.; Mrs. Willa Hardaway, Rec Sec.; Mrs. Anna Bishop, ‘trustee; Mrs. Leona Walls, Treasurer; Mrs. Odie B. Carr, doorkeeper; Mrs. Emma Floyd, gatekeeper, Mrs. Bessie Webster, organist. Members on the sick list are: Mrs. Emma Perkins, and Mrs. Mary L. Stokes, 1624 Broadway and Mrs. Van Henderson, 1536 Adams street. . The Thanksgiving bride of the Temple was Mrs. Mary J. Davis Taylor, who now resides at 1612 Rhode Island street, Mrs. Pearl Smith is the chair- man of the Art and Craft depart- ment, receiving her appointment from the G. Dt. R. Mrs. Clara E. Webster is the Dis- trict Deputy of this district. The Annual Memorial services of the I. B. P. O. E. of W. will be celebrated the second Sunday in December. The church where ser- vices will be held will be announc- ed later. An advertisement in The Ameri- can is the surest way of getting your goods before the Negro pur- chaser. Taffeta petticoats are again with us-—and it is smart to rustle. IRV CA Ma LORe hs p>) ‘Bige Can Fes z om on d oop 100% Va Pure Fit AY) GPs a Barley (od EAA \ Malt ‘Pchaicee a, \eee ee sore ae prs st hah oh Peo Sa cee i 42 oz. Block Optic Tum- } bler free with each can. i Ask your dealer. What’s What Ser) Oe | > DAG Ay 2B %, AG | A BRIDGE “BANQUET” Question—I entered college this fall as a day student, for my home is only twenty miles away. Sever- al other girls and boys are also commutets from our city. I know ‘only two or three of them, but all would like to have more general acquaintance, I think. A. and I thought of giving a bridge party some evening. Our dining-room is not large, so we'd have to serve refreshments on the bridge tables, and I think that makes acquain- tance among only four at a time. Can you suggest any other way? What would be a nice, hot supper to serve informally? JANET. Answer—Why not have a bridge “panquet” following the games? The tables are placed end to end, each covered with a white bridge cloth; the effect is of one long ta- ble. Cards may be drawn by the boys fot banquet partners; the whole affair should serve to pro- mote sociability amotig the day- student commuters . A hot supper suitable for infor- mal service may include chicken a la king, hot rolls, celery salad, ice cream, cakes and coffee or hot chocolate. (Copyright by Public Ledger) Buy now and help bring prosper- ity back, Dixie Dairy Milk A pure fresh milk from content- d cows. Furnished thru a mod- orn plant. Dixie Dairy Co. 1200 W. 15th Ave. Phone 6101 FIRST NATIONAL BANK GARY MEMBER FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM 632 BROADWAY RIDE the WHITE Midwest Coaches to CHICAGO Connections with “L” trains to the Chicago loop at 63rd and South Park Avenue. A Clean, Comfort- able ride to Chi- cago for | Midwest Motor Coach Company BUSINESS IS GOOD— for Those Who Go After It * IT’s time to get down to business—time for executives to get back to their desks—time for salesmen to get back into harness—time for all of us to pay more attention to our own. business. Now, more than ever, we should tell people what we have to sell. The country isn’t going to the dogs. Business is funda- } mentally sound. People are still going to buy. But they need to be sold harder now than ever. Gary American ad- vertising will help you do that. Sell more goods, reap more profits thru advertising in the medium which covers the Negro field like a blanket. To j sell them, you mest tell them. , F Gorn Fel Ameri The Garnhel_ American DY yikep" “THE DISTINGUISHED NEWSPAPER” 1819 Washington St. Phone 6134 Here’s a Menu For a Day Steamed Jam Pudding Breakfast Chilled Orange Juice Cooked Wheat Cereal and Cream French Toast Syrup Toast Luncheon Vegetable Soup and Crackers Apple Sauce Oatmeal Rocks | Hot Chocolate Dinner Baked Hash Escalloped Cabbage Bread Butter Fruit Salad and French Dressing Steamed Jam Pudding Hard Sauce Coffee Oatmeal Rocks 1 cup fat (% lard ‘4 butter) | 2 cups dark brown sugar 1-8 cup sour cream 2 teaspoons cinnamon 1 teaspoon cloves 1 teaspoon nutmeg. % ‘teaspoon salt 1 cup chopped dates. 1 cup broken nuts 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 cup oatmeal flakes. 3 cups flour | 1 teaspoon soda Cream the fat and add the sugar. ‘Add eggs and cream and beat 2 minutes. Add rest of ingredients and drop portions from end of a spoon onto greased baking sheets. Space 3 inches. Bake 12 minutes in moderate oven. Steamed Jam Pudding (Apricot jam suggested) 1 cup jam 4 tablespoons sugar % teaspoon nutmeg 1, teaspoon salt ” NEW Super Amazing VALUES moon Fi oe PN eeu 18 4 ag mah ' i q | ov J SPECIAL TRADE IN ALLOWANCE J ON THE , ZENITH | C. J. Kramer | Music Co. 852-856 BROADWAY Open Evenings. ANE 7614 0 L Pri Coal | ower irices on Uda Thru our connections with some of the k foremost mines in the country we are en- abled to buy in quantity lots at prices that mean much to you. |Let us quote you today. % 1051 DELAWARE PHONE 7614 § ° A TON in the BIN Is Worth TEN in the YARD Order Coal At Present Low Prices. Franklin County | Pocahontas BIG LUMP ....... $6.50/LUMP ............ $8.50 = ga (EGG couse cs de SOD Eas srrseeseesees 650 RUN 0... 650 NUT ............. 650/CAR LOAD ........$6.25 MINE RUN ....... 6.90! ee ee ~ | Little Betty ; fer. EGG ...... 4... $6.00 Kentucky lon COKE ........ $5.25 BROCK 222+ P00 WHEELING «27,72. 20g BGG ah thes 7.00 | CARRIED conte pn O0e These prices are on load lots over five tons. Pennsylvania Iee & Coal Co. 300 W. 21st. Avenue Phone $467 2 cups flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 egg 1 cup milk 3 tablespoons fat, melted _ Mix all ingredients and beat three ‘minutes. Half fill a well greased mold, Cover tightly and steam for 2% hours. Unmold carefully and serve warm. When a food is steaming the ‘steamer should be tightly covered during the steaming period. Of ‘course more water may need to be ‘added as the mold should always have half its depth covered with ‘water. Each time that water is jadded add 4 minutes on the boiling | period. | Hard Sauce | 4% cup butter | 8 tablespoons hot cream 1 teaspoon vanilla %4 teaspoon lemon extract 1, teaspoon salt 2 cups sifted confectioner’s sugar. | Mix ingredients with a fork and beat until very creamy. Chill. Norman Flood, convicted biga- mist, told Oakland (Cal.) police he had ‘married and divorced 29 wo- ‘men during the last 23 years be- sides courting 40 sweethearts. ' Among the off-black shades in ‘favor are those designated as \“Black coffee.” December 6, 1530: é Household Hints The Needle Book Make the leaves of your new needle book of chamois skin in- stead of flannel. Needles thrust through chamois skin will never rust. Two In One A container filled with salt and pepper, well mixed, is convenient for the invalid’s tray. It eliminates anextra shaker and is easier for the sick person to handle. Oh, Those Feet! If you are troubled with cold feet in the winter time, try sprinkling a little salt in the bottoms of your shoes. This will help circulation and prevent your feet from getting cold. Oranve And Lemon Rind Never grate orange or lemon rind until you have scrubbed the fruit well. The fruit has been handled by doubtful hands and has gather- de many microbes before it has reached us. She: “Darling, father has gone bankrupt.” He: “I've always said he would find ways and means of sepsrating us.” e TOPICS OF THE DAY Each edition of The American carries articles on subjects of interest alike to men, women and children, making this paper "a newspaper for the whole family" as well as a responsive advertising medium for advertisers. HELLO, EVERYBODY! Little Dickie Dishwater, the office pest, says a friend of his was so dirty that the other night the law made him take a bath and after washing and washing for a half hour he came to another suit of clothes. DIRTY EATS THANKSGIVING DINNER Hot Stuff: Eye bin doun in New Orleans tha las phew months cause tha law tole me 2 fine a healthier climate an my broad say 4 me 2 go 2 a warmer place but eye kums back heah 4 Thanksgiving an goes ovah 2 her house 2 eat. Incidentally, eye fines she is now sew fat yew has 2 look twice 2 see if she is walking or rollin' but eye doan mine caws eye is got that much moah woman 2 love. Eye doan no when eye is drank such a good meal. Howevah, tha food aint much caws it seem lak my broad's pappy gut tha toikey in a Thanksgivin raffle an sumbuddy else claimed it was his sew tha ole man brot home just a neck an a wing an sum feathahs an a black eye, tha lass 2 named knot bein good 4 eatin. We goes in tha frunt room aftah tha meal an lissens 2 my broad play tha piano. It aint gut but wun key but my gal caint keep in tune with that. But we doan suffah long caws tha naybers cum ovah an offah 2 give her a brick house, wun at a time, if she doan quit. Sew she does an then she an her mammy git tha idea of stagin a whistlin doet an soon tha naybors cum back an say, it's alright to play the piano, it doan soun sew bad as they thot. Eye hangs aroun 4 sum time more until my broad's pappy, who is kinda absentminded, puts tha clock outdoors and stahts windin tha cat, then eye stahts to git up Ever so often, something happens to show up New York's reputation for hard-boiled cold-heartedness as the groundless myth that it is. New Yorkers are fond of calling Broadway the Hardened Artery and of boasting that others' luck, starvation and penury inspire not so much as a flicker of compassion in the collective bosom of the White Way's habitues. Whereas, the truth is that no crossroads village is more sentimental, soft-hearted and gullible toward evidences of misfortune than this supposedly sophistocated metropolis. The current unemployment situation is going to leave many lasting marks upon the social life of America, but one of the foremost of the early results here is new and emphatic proof of New York's flair for throwing itself into a hysteria of garbled and misdirected effort. After all the tear-soaked tales we have been hearing about jobless men starving in the city's streets, a couple of sober-minded welfare organizations have come forward with the truth about it. When they were last counted, there were 53 bread lines, soup kitchens, free dining rooms and the like in the city, where any weary wayfarer may have his capacious stomach filled by merely presenting himself and looking hungry. But the fact that yields guffaws and horse laughs is that careful surveys have revealed that from 70 to 90 per cent of the beneficiaries of these generous charities are professional knights of the road who have been lured to New York by the national publicity given to the town's largesse to all and sundry needy. Hundreds of these insatiable panhandlers have not lived so well in years, for they systematically move from one bread line to another and manage with little effort to eke out as many as eight or ten meals a day. Of course, they are unemployed — sure, unemployment always has been and will continue to be a chronic state for most of them. Of some 600,000 unemployed in New York, it is recorded reliably that not less than 100,00 are homeless and unattached men, and that the majority of these are migrants. There are dozens of places where they can get free warm beds every night and they have the run of the town. They loaf and panhandle under the tolerant eyes of the police and arrests for vagrancy are becoming a thing of the past. One can scarcely walk a block without being accosted by a bum brazenly demanding: "Gimme a dime, brother, and help the unemployed." Another side of the picture is that not a few of the big-hearted corporations, many of them getting a lot of fulsome publicity for their contributions to relief funds, are quietly dismissing older and higher-salaried employees on the plaint of hard times, and are replacing them with lower-salaried or part-time workers. And the irony of it is that these public donations, which in reality are made at the expense of the discharged employees, are paying for the free meals that an army of recently arrived tramps is consuming. Perhaps the finest relief work being accomplished in New York is attributable to the police. With funds donated from their own salaries and those of other city employees and augmented by unheralded outside contributions, they are administering prompt and efficient VOL. IV. No. 3 White House Confab Takes Up the Child Study Problems Faced By Negro Children; 1st Real Attempt WASHINGTON, D. C. — (ANP) — The Negro child came into its own at President Hoovers' White House conference on Child Health and Protection. Although President Roosevelt called such a conference in 1909, and President Wilson in 1919, the 1930 conference marks the first time that Negroes have served as members of the committee personnel and as delegates. As a general result, qf this participation due recognition was given to the problems of Negro children heretofore overlooked. Preliminary reports as well as discussions at the sessions indicated thorough-going analysis by the several committees of the special problems faced by Negroes in the field of Health, Education, and Dependency. Tuberculosis Still a Problem Special problems were found to exist in the field of medical care where tuberculosis among the Negro children was twice as great as among white children under five years of age, four times as great as among white children 5 to 9 and five times as great as among white young people 10 to 19 years of age. Discussions in the section on Education disclosed that if Negro children in southern schools are to secure adequate provision for health and protection more money should be provided from some sources other than the public taxes. More than two thirds of the counties and most of the smaller urban communities in the southern states have scarcely any health programs or Negro school children. This neglect is due, it is said, almost entirely to lack of public funds. There was a special subcommittee on Negro schools. Murderess Held To Court; Bond $5,000 Fatally Shot Lover In Hotel September 13 Margaret Smith, 28, who shot and fatally wounded her paramour Tom Martin, on September 13, was held to the criminal court Wednesday by Judge Herman Key on a charge of murder. Her bond was set at $5,000. According to the report of the police investigation Martin had continuously upbraided the woman because she was not furnishing him with enough money, although at the time of the shooting he had more than $200 on his person. On the evening of the shooting he and the woman had engaged in a heated argument in Martin's room at the States hotel. The Smith woman claimed that she shot in self defense. Martin was removed to Mercy hospital, where he died from the effects of his wounds two weeks later. The woman surrendered to detectives Bolden and Fields, and on the death of Martin, she was indicted by the grand jury for murder. An advertisement in The American is the surest way of getting your goods before the Negro purchaser. Lake Superior Court, September Term, 1930. Mutual Savings & Loan Association, a corporation, vs. Wilson F. Grunt, et al. By virtue of an Order of Sale, me directed from the Clerk of the Lake Superior Court, I will expose to public sale to the highest bidder for cash in hand, at the east door of the Court House in Crown Point, Lake County, Indiana, on Monday, the 5th day of January, 1931, between the hours of ten o'clock A. M. and four o'clock P. M., the rents and profits for a period not exceeding seven years of the following described real estate to wit: Lot No. One (1) and the South Ten (10) feet of the Vacated Alley in Block Five (5) as marked and laid down on the Recorded plat of Hyde Park Addition to the City of Hammond, Lake County, Indiana. Said South Ten (10) feet of the above alley being vacated under Resolution No. 1775. If said rents and profit will not sell for a sufficient sum to satisfy said decree, interest and costs, I will at the same time and place offer for sale the fee simple in and so said real estate, or so much thereof as may be sufficient to satisfy said judgment, interest, costs and accruing costs. Said sale will be made without relief from valuation or appraisement laws. Taken as the property of Wilson F. Brunt, et al, at the suit of Mu- ual Savings & Loan Association, a corporation. G. B. SHEERER, Att'y for Plaintiff JOSEPH B. KYLE, Sheriff Lake County, Indiana 12-6-13-20 The Gary American PAGE FIVE GARY, INDIANA, SATUEDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1930 PAG MustarD That's New York! THE WISEST CRACKS IN AMERICA By Crerar Harris SERVED RED HOT EVERY ISSUE suddenly an go but eye caint make it caws my broad is sittin on my lap, but eye finally gits away an leaves 4 home, only when eye gits theah eye finds evah cell is crowded an tha cop makes me leave. —Dirty Twelve * * * * ONCE THERE WAS A BIRD CALLED THE MOA. BUT THEY- 'RE ALL GONE. NOW THERE AIN'T NO MOA. * * * * MY GAL SUE The gal I crave Is a broad named Sue Got a 44 bust Wears a size nine shoe She looks like somethin' The cat dragged in Folks think she's cryin' When she starts to grin. She drinks her likker By the pint She knows every Bootleg jint. When in a restaurant Eating her soup She sounds like a singer Going boop-oop-a-doop. Not a tooth in her head Has this broad o' mine Her legs look like The edge of a dime But I tell her she's The prettiest gal I know— And that's the reason why I don't' work no mo'! —Jesse Jimmy NO WOMAN SHOULD MARRY UNLESS SHE IS SURE HER HUSBAND CAN PROVIDE HER WITH SUFFICIENT ALIMONY. This is the time of the year when it's going to be mighty hard to make your favorite girl mad. —Marshall Mellows. --- aid through the policemen on the beats to families which those policemen know to be in need. It is a constructive bit of missionary work, in a big city, for a cop to take a basket of food to a hungry family, pay the back rent to forestall eviction, provide some shoes and warm clothing for the children and perhaps put an overcoat on the discouraged breadwinner and help him to start out again on the heart-breaking search for that scarceest of possessions — a job. The spectacle of 10,000 men and women selling apples on the street corners of New York has inspired the prediction that among them will be found many of the merchant-monarchs of the future. That is the type of origin of some of today's greatest fortunes — selling apples today, apples and oranges tomorrow, adding candy after that, and so on until a fruit store, candy store or restaurant has come into being as the reward of industry and thrift. The store becomes a larger store, then a chain of stores — and before you know it Mr. Mogglinsky, ertswhile apple-seller, is mentioned reverently in the newspapers as a famous capitalist and philanthropist. Thats' New York! Speaking of success A thoughtful young man stood on a New York street corner not many months ago with no more backing than the gray matter in the back of his head. A big covered motor truck passed him, and it occurred to him that if stationary billboards in vacant lots and on buildings are worth so much to advertisers, why should not moving billboards on the sides of city trucks be worth more. Teh young man found out that they were worth plenty, for today he presides over a big advertising organization which rents space on billboards placed on the sides of express trucks to the biggest advertisers in the land. My favorite story about the hellishness of scorned women and the resourcefulness of head waiters is growing old, it is told so often, and probably it has been printed and reprinted, but here it is anyhow: A suave gentleman and a very lovely lady were supping late one night in a night club. A woman not so lovely but very, very determined approached the table. "I may be only your wife," she said to the gentleman, whose suavity was fast diminishing, "but—" And she delicately lifted a cup of tomato bisque from his plate and poured it down his expensive shirt-front. The head waiter arrived a moment too late, but as he firmly led the unlovely lady away, he chided in purring tones: "My dear lady, the place for that is in the home!" HAITIANS AND DOMINICANS CLASH; ONE KILLED PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti. — (CNS) Age-old feelings between Haitian and Dominican troops resulted in the death of a soldier and injuries to several others in a clash last Monday at Thomozeau, a remote frontier outpost, it was learned here Tuesday. This is the second instance of border trouble within two months, and intense feeling is evidence at all border outposts. Second Group Of Ad Contest Victors Named Contest Continues With Third Group of Ten Easy Questions Read the ads and win a prize! Two more readers of The Gary American followed this advice last week. As a result, they won brand new dollar bills, first and second prizes in this newspaper's prize contest. Winners of last week's contest, who received cash prizes of one dollar each, were: Mrs. Fannie Roberts-Johnson, 2409 Monroe street, and Mrs. Hervey Powell, 1709 Monroe street. They successfully answered the ten questions concerning advertisements appearing in the last issue. "It was fascinating as well as easy," declared Mrs. Johnson when informed that she had won one of the prizes. "Well, I'll tell all my friends to take part in these contests," stated Mrs. Powell when informed that she too had won one of the prizes offered. Each week, a set of ten questions concerning things advertised in The American are published in this paper. To take part in the contest, all that's necessary is to carefully read advertisements in the paper, carefully noting the things advertised and the price asked for it as well as the address and telephone numbers of the advertisers. Then answer as many of the questions asked about the ads as you can. To the first three persons who send in the most correct answers, a cash prize of $1 each will be given by The American as a reward. To the first three persons who send in the next most correct answers to the questions will be given free passes to the Roosevelt theatre where tickets will be accepted for any performance, matinee or night. Each week, a contest is held and each week a set of ten questions is asked. Persons who have participated in any previous contest and have won prizes are not eligible to take part in this week's contest. Aside from a few questions concerning the merchandise advertised and its price, this week's questions are chiefly concerned with the physical attributes of the advertisements in this issue. See if you can answer them. Send in your answers before Tuesday night to the Contest Editor, The Gary American, Gary, Ind. Here they are: 1. What is the name of the radio on which you can get a special trade in allowance on your present radio, and what is the name of the music store which offers this proposition? 2. How many "C's" are there in the advertisement carried in this issue by the Real Art Tailoring company? 3. What is the name of the store offering gift suggestions for those who can't easily think of something to give for Christmas? 4. What are the gifts suggested? 5. Wher can Charles Clayton be see in person each Friday afternoon? 6. What is the cheapest grade of coal offered by a well known coal company, and what is the price? 7. What kind of service is offered by customers who get their printing done at The Gary American, and what does this service include? 8. Which advertisement in this issue contains three misspelled words? Give the correct spelling. 9. What is the name of the tailor who cleans and presses suits for 69c? 10. What is the name of the typewriter designed for the use of everybody? Why, is it true that any one may use it? Answers to these questions must be mailed in the to the Contest Editor by Tuesday night. Try it. You may win a prize! NOTICE OF NON-RESIDENT STATE OF INDIANA, LAKE COUNTY, In the Lake Superior Court, sitting at Gary, November Term, 1930 Cause No. 23074. Action to Divorce. John Brzeski vs. Laura D. Erzeski. Now comes the plaintiff by Emet N. White, his Attorney, and files complaint herein, together with an affidavit of a competent person, showing that the defendant thereto, to wit: Laura D. Brzeski is not a resident of the State of Indiana. Said defendant is therefore hereby notified of the pendency of said action and that the same will stand for trial at the next term of said Court, and that unless she appear and answer or demur therein, at the calling of said cause, on the 9th day of February, A. D., 1531, the same being the 25th day of the next term of said Court to be begun and held in the Court Room No. 4, at Gary, in said County and State at the 2nd Monday of January A. D., 1531, said action will be heard and determined in her absence. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court, at Gary, this 2nd day of December, A. D., 1530. ALVINA M. KILLIGREW MARION VINOIRCH, Deputy Clerk. Amaze a Minute Scientifics by Arnold THE RUMORED GERMAN PERI-SCOPELESS SUBMARINES NEVER EXISTED. PERISCOPES WERE RENDERED INVISIBLE BY ATTACHING VERTICAL MIRRORS WHICH REPLECTED SURFACE OF SURROUNDING WATER AND WERE STREAM-LINED TO ELIMINATE SPRAY FROM WAKE. 1947 ONCE IN 17 YEARS THE 17 YEAR CICADA WHICH APPEARED IN THE AREA FROM IOWA TO OKLAHOMA THIS SUMMER WILL NOT REAPPEAR UNTIL 1947. THE LONGEST-LIVED INSECT KNOWN IT SPENDS YEARS UNDERGROUND IN THE FORM OF A ROOT-SUCKING LARVA. DON'T MISS THE NEXT ECLIPSE! VACATIONISTS IN NEW ENGLAND WILL VIEW WHAT ASTROMOMERS CLAIM WILL BE ONE OF THE FINEST AND LONGEST TOTAL ECLIPSES OF THE SUM ON AUGUST 31, 1932. A PARTIAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN WILL BE VISIBLE THROUGHOUT THE EASTERN PART OF THE UNITED STATES. YOU CAN SPLIT THE EARTH IN HALF! IF IT WERE POSSIBLE FOR A MAN TO TIME HIS BLOWS ACCURATELY THE WORLD COULD BE SPLIT IN HALF BECAUSE OF RESONANCE AND THE REFLECTING OF ACCUMULATING VIBRATIONS. Classified Ads ROOMS FOR RENT — HELP WANTED HOUSEHOLD ARTICLES Troop No. 5 of the Boy Scouts of America, under the leadership of Clark Eullett Sr., assisted by members of troops 16 and 36, will broadcast a special scout program on station WJKS next Thursday evening during the all-Negro hour under the direction of Hermes Zimmerman. Troop No. 5 is made up of boys who are members of St. Paul Baptist church. They will be on the air between 7 and 8 p. m. The first selection by the scouts will be the scout bugle call, in which members of all the troops will participate. Four boys from troop 5 will give the oath and law; other boys will give the pledge and toast to the flag, followed by the scout song, "There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea." A dialogue on scoutcraft will be given by two boys. Remarks by Scoutmaster Bullet concerning the work of the boys will be followed by "taps" by the Classif ROOMS FOR RENT HOUSEHOL To place a Classified Ad in The Gary American, phone Gary 6134 and give your message to the telephone operator. Rates gladly given upon request. HOUSES FOR SALE FOR SALE - 3-4 and 5 room houses. All modern improvements. Close to school. Good garden soil. Can be purchased with as little as $25.00 down. Balance like rent. Superior Realty & Building Co., 2000 Broadway. Phone 9229. HOUSEHOLD REPAIRS HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCE pairing and refinishing service; irons, vacuum cleaners, washing machines, stoves, lamps, door checks, locks and keys; complete mail box service. Free call and livery service. Hasco, phone 2-3528 FURNACE FOR SALE FURNACE—Used one year, A-1 shape. Will heat 6 rooms. Only $20. Can install. 614 Massachusetts. Dial 2-1837. MICHIGAN LAND----$135 READ THIS AD—Michigan, 5 acres near Idlewild, surveyed, warranty deed and abstract, $135 cash. Call Mr. Branch, Broadway Hotel (owner), phone 7483. Salespeople wanted. FOR RENT — 2057 Washington. 5 rm. steam heated apartment newly decorated. Janitor service. Very low rental. Superior Realty and Bldg. Co., 2000 Broadway. Phone 9229. Open evenings. Youth Cut During Razor Altercation on Streets Levi Campbell, 18, 2530 Adams, was injured Sunday night during an altercation with J. W. Handley, 2573 Delaware. He was cut on the right arm, which required five stitches to be taken by the police physician. Campbell told the police that he and Handley disagreed over a small loan he had made to Handley. While they were standing on 25th avenue, between Jefferson and Madison, discussing when the money would be returned, Handley became angry and attacked Campbell with a razor. Handley is being neid by police on charges of assault and battery. While Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Hardy, of Ardmore, Okla., were motoring to their home from a hunting trip, Mrs. Hardy was shot and killed by their dog when the animal pawed the trigger of a shotgun in the car. ied Ads — HELP WANTED D ARTICLES SALESMEN WANTED SALESMEN WANTED—To those who can qualify we have a high grade opening with no limit to opportunity if you are honest and ambitious. Call Mr. Branch, Broadway Hotel. ROSES—TREES—SHRUBBERY ROSES—Ever-blooming. Perennials, hedge, shrubbery, trees, evergreens. Guaranteed. Order for spring delivery. Dial 2-7696. ROOM FOR RENT FOR RENT - Furnished room Reasonable. 2215 Washington, 2nd floor front. Mrs. Wise. DEATH NOTICE AUGUST — Mrs. Nora August, age 43, died Saturday, Nov. 29 at her home, 2448 Connecticut St. She is survived by her husband, Lee August. Services were Tuesday, Dec. 2 in the chapel of Smith's Funeral Home. Interment at Oak Hill. NOTICE TO CREDITORS I will only be responsible for debts contracted by myself. HENRY WASHINGTON, 2488 Washington St. 12-6-13-20 WHY PAY ANOTHER MONTH'S RENT? We have a comfortable 3 rm. bungalow for you. Only $25.00 down. Move in and pay $15.00 per month. Call for an appointment to see it today. Superior Realty and Bldg. Co. 2000 Broadway. Phone 9229. Open evenings. APARTMENTS FOR RENT FOR RENT — 4 and 6 rm. apartments with bath. Strictly modern new brick. $25 and $30 per month. 21/2 blocks from Roosevelt high school, 2574 Madison. Dial 4-1243. ```markdown ``` For years, Baslyan has been the favorite photo studio among people who want something more than an ordinary likeness of themselves — something which will represent them to the best advantage. Baslyan's reputation of making "Portraits that Please" is based upon the excellent equipment and materials used as well as the care with which the work is done from the beginning to end. Come in today, tomorrow or anytime. No appointment necessary. PAGE FIVE MISS THE NEXT ECLIPSE! IONISTS IN NEW ENGLAND WILL WHAT ASTROMETERS CLAIM WILL BE OF THE FINEST AND LONGEST ECLIPSES OF THE SUM ON AUGUST 1822. A PARTIAL ECLIPSE OF THE WILL BE VISIBLE THROUGHOUT THE NORN PART OF THE UNITED STATES. IN SPLIT THE EARTH IN HALF! WERE POSSIBLE FOR A MAN TO THIS BLOWS ACCURATELY THE HOUSE OF RESONANCE AND THE REFLECTING OF ACCUMULATING VIBRATIONS. Arnold Broadway Theatre In Varied Program Buster Keaton, the solemn faced comedian, comes to the Broadway theatre today in his latest talking comedy riot, "Dough Boys." The picture has played to capacity houses wherever shown and is filled to the brim with roaring comedy. On the same bill is another chapter of Rin-Tin-Tin in "The Lone Defender." On Sunday and Monday the feature attraction is "East is West," co-starring Lewis Ayres and the beautiful Mexican actress, Lupe Velz. The story is one of Chinese intrigue, and develops to a smashing elitmax. Short attractions on the program include an Our Gang talking comedy, Pathe sound news and a novelty act. A double feature will be shown next Tuesday and Wednesday consisting of "Little Accident," with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Anita Page, and "Phantoms of the Desert" starring Jack Perrin. "Good News" with Bessie Love and Stanley Smith will be shown on Thursday and Friday. Patronize The American advertisers. [Picture of a woman with a white headband and a smile. She is wearing a dark dress with a white collar.] For years, Baslyan has been among people who want something likeness of themselves — some them to the best advantage, making "Portraits that Please" equipment and materials used which the work is done from today, tomorrow or anytime sary. FINAL EDITION Insurance Co. Will Not Pay Death Claims Says Local Undertaker Gave False Answers In Application Charging that J. Dalton Smith, proprietor of Smith's Funeral home, had made false statements in securing a policy on the life of Mrs. Frances Cowan, now deceased, the Citizens Life Insurance company of Indiana, through its legal counsel, Attorney R. L. Eailey of Indianapolis, and Attorney Milo C. Murray, local representative, has filed answer to the suit of Mrs. Claudia Smith against the insurance company. Mrs. Smith's suit was filed about two months ago, charging that the company had failed to pay claims on the death of Mrs. Cowan, her mother, who died January 4, 1930. Attorney Bailey, in his answer to Mrs. Smith's suit, claims that the deceased, Mrs. Cowan, was not the mother of Mrs. Smith. He charges that when the policy was secured from the company in 1929, Smith signed for the applicant. At that time it was stated that the applicant was 56 years of age, was the mother of Mrs. Claudia Smith and had been in perfect health for more than ten years. Claims Statements False Attorney Bailey charges that Mrs. Cowan was the grandmother of Mrs. Smith, instead of mother, as stated in the application. Also, that she was at least twenty years older than the age sworn to in the application made by Smith. The attorney charges that Mrs. Cowan had a daughter, Mrs. Ella Sanford, who was the mother of Mrs. Smith, and that the age of Mrs. Sanford was given in the application, instead of the age of Mrs. Cowan. It is also claimed in the answer filed by the insurance company that Smith made false statements concerning the health of Mrs. Cowan. They purport to have records to show that Mrs. Cowan collected various sums of money from two insurance companies for illness within five years of the time her application was filed in 1920. In his answer charging false statements made by Smith, the attorney for the insurance company claims that when an investigator from the company attempted to view the body of Mrs. Cowan, he was refused permission by Smith, and threatened with bodily harm if he did not leave the funeral establishment. The attorney charges that doctors employed by the insurance company were not permitted to perform an examination of the body of Mrs. Cowan to determine the cause of her death. Attorney L. Lawrence Anderson, Gary, is counsel for Mrs. Smith during the litigation. Bandit Takes 50 Cents; Slashes Victim on Arm Because he had only 50 cents when he was held up Sunday night at 20th and Connecticut, Samuel Fairchild, 1936 Georgia, was attacked by the robber with a knife. He suffered wounds on his right hand and arm, and left side of the face. Fairchild had his wounds treated at St. Antonio hospital. Police are looking for his assailant. An advertisement in The American brings results. ```markdown ``` An Ideal Christmas Present What could be more appreciated than your photograph? Here's a gift which expresses your personality a gift which is likely to be appreciated more than any other. Give photographs this Christmas! Be earn ee cop ee SE Be Ee gt EOE ny ee ee eee ee - » he ee i ease gee Bie Gan rmtcan, cany, rian sisace 6 1 KON DYE . EVER i . > PX ¢ a ae ‘x 3 NA == y : © : a—— a a in’ Bout S Speakin’ "Bout Sports By Frank Boganey Now comes the open season on rabbits, big gat All-America football teams. Your columnist never be left behind and has'a mania for following the crow accordingly, he is going to pick an All-Time All-A1 ped aggregation composed of Negro players from wh leges. And let he who is without sin cast the firs Now comes the open season on rabbits, big game, and All-America football teams. Your columnist never likes to be left behind and has'a mania for following the crowds. So, accordingly, he is going to pick an All-Time All-American fen aggregation composed of Negro players from white col- eaee. And let he who is without sin cast the first stone at us. NAME COLLEGE POSITION Paul Robeson Rutgers R. End Duke Slater Iowa. R. Tackle Brice Taylor Southern Cal. R. Guard Lester Foust Wichita Center Holloway Smith Iowa State L. Guard Tom Verdell Northwestern L. End Ink Williams Brown L. Tackle Harry C. Graves Michigan State H. B. Fritz Pollard (c.) | Brown H. B. Dave Myers New York Q. B. Bullock Dartmouth F. B. dneiudea in the iist are TOUr ADl-AMePICaNs, Mdaihery Robeson, Slater, Taylor and Pollard. Several others have done some mighty fine work nad still others are compara- tively unknown either generally or to the Negor sport world. Smith of Iowa State was picked on one of the All- Western teams in 1927 by Eckersall, but we doubt whether any of our readers ever heard of him. Foust is another boy who raised Ned, playing at Wichita, down in Kansas. He weighed more than 200 and was fast enough to run the 220 on the relay team. By choice he was a tackle but was able to fill the gap at center with great ability. By the way, your correspondent doesn’t know of a single Negro center on a white grid team of any real ability. It seems that more good tackles, ends and halfbacks have been produced than anything else. For that reason, we have had to do some plain and fancy shifting. Brice Taylor, if we remember correctly, was a tackle. Holloway Smith was a tackle. Verdell was an end but he was almost great at tackling and such, and indifferent at pass snaring. Ac- cordingly, he makes way for Ink Williams, who was a real end. To tell the truth, you’ve got four tackles and three ends in the line, but we defy you to do better. To Dave Myers of New York U. falls the role of quar- terback, a great big reason being the fact that he is the only one who, to our knowledge, held such a position with an outstanding eleven. Bullock is about the best bet at full. Bill O’Shields, who alternated between hetf and full for Minnesota several years ago, might have been considered had he stayed at it. Of course Pollard is one half and we chose Graves for the other because we thought it was due him. You need not bother to shoot at us because we might have used Ed Gray of Amherst just as well. Others in the money include Cleve Abbott of North Dakota and Brown of Oregon. We don’t claim to be aware of the merits of all the Ne- gro players who starred on white college teams. But if you can name a better All-Time All-American, let us hear it. Florida Normal Upsets A. and M. by 20-6 Score ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (ANP) — The hard-fighting, hard-runing, and hard-charging Lions of Florida Normal and Collegiate Institute, trampled over the Florida A. and M. college Rattle Snakes here Thursday 20 to 6, in one of the most thrilling battles of the sea- son. Many notables, old grads, and football fans from all over the state, journeyed to the historical city to watch these two rivals bat- tle for local football supremacy. One of the most thrilling moments of the day occurred when Gerald Thomas intercepted a pass from Sampson to Taylor on the 20-yard line and raced down the side line 80 yards to score the second touch- down of the game in favor of the ions. Knoxville and Smith in Post Season Grid Game KNOXVILLE, Tean. (ANP) Bulldogs and Bulls will clash in a Tennessee-North Carolina football classic when Knoxville college and Johnson C. Smith university meet in a post-season football game to be played at Asheville (N. C.) Memor- ial Stadium on Saturday, December 6. The game is being promoted by the Asheville Athletic Association and is the first intercollegiate game to be played in that city. Smith and Knoxville have had fairly successful grid seasons. Each has a powerful team and spectacu- lar playing backs. 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Alvin Jackson, former star cen- ter at Froebel and a member of the freshman basketball team at the University of Chicago, and William “Bill” Exum, former Froebel star and letter man from the University of Wisconsin, are with the Avon- dale team and are showing the stuff that won them high honors in high school and college. Wilbur Byrd is fast developing as a center, and showing the same stride with which he thrilled many fans last season . A new forward, Wayne, who formerly was with the Twin City Elks of Pittsburgh, has joined the team. He was a member of the Elks team when it won the championship of the East for the last two years. Huckle, who in former years played a stellar role on the Avon- dale football team, is a candidate for the position of back guard. From the class he has been show- ing during the practice games he looks like a sure winner for the position ‘The Gary boys will taste their first bit of basketball competition for the season Sunday when they meet the Legionaires at the 8th Regiment armory in Chicago. The Legionaires, led by Sol Butler, for- mer Butler college star and a member of the 1920 Olympic team, will furnish stiff opposition for the Avondales in their first game. The members of the Avondale team are :Smith, Morgan, Exum, Wayne, Jackson, P. Davis, C. Spears, Price, A. Sanders, Bozeman, Gipson, Compton, Huckle and Byrd FISK ACCEPTS $300,000 FROM EDUCATION BOARD NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ANP) The Board of Trustees of Fisk uni- versity in a meeting in Nashville on November 21, accepted formally 1 gift of $300,000 from the general education board for the building ind equipping of a chemistry build- ing and let the contract for the building. The chairman of the board, Paul D. Cravath of New York City, presided Otficer:; “Is there a Man cailed Dashington-Binks betng married here today?’ Chureh Usher: “Wedding new in progress Omeer “Well, | have a warrant for his arrest” Chureh Usher Friends of the bridegroom on the right-hand side ot the church, please.” caeerion Near‘End Of-Unbeaten Year Play Fisk Today; Team Claims U. S. Title LANGSTON, Okla. — (ANP) On Thanksgivng day, Langston foot: ball team had as its guests the Knoxville squad which it proceeded to handle at the tune of 39 to 0. It was, @ beautiful exhibition of aggressive football before an ap- preciative crowd. At no time was Langston’s goal in danger except in case of a few severe penalties which gave Knoxville the ball in- side the 10-yard line. But with three chances, Knoxville could not make the grade. Langston plays Fisk at Oklahoma City December 6, a post season game, and this bids fair to be the most spectacular football event of the season among Negro college football teams. Teams in the far East may claim what they will, but here is a team in the West that has not known defeat in years. This year it has beaten Texas, Alabama, Kansas and Knoxville, and two other teams have forfeited rather than face the music. This team in- vaded Atlanta last season and crushed the Morehouse college squad and all Oklahoma expects that Coach Gayles’ squad will on Saturday, the 6th, write the usual Finis to the hopes of the Fisk ag- pregation. Gus Moore Takes 2nd Cross Country Title NEW YORK (CNS) Gus Moore, the two-time national champion, who succeeded Willie Ritola as the harrier King two years ago, opened another autumn campaign Sunday on Staten Is- land, with a clean triumph in the anual senior hill-and-dale run of the Metropolitan A. A. U. Moore got away in the lead and made it a procession all the way. The distance was called approxi- mately six miles, but as Moore was clocked in 33.03 it indicates the course was well beyond six and one quarter miles. At the finish Moore was sixty yards in front of the sec- ond man, George H. Barker, white, sophomore of New York university, who was timed in 33.12. This was Moore's second victory in the senior Metropolitan chase. He won in his last start in 1928 at Van Cortland park, New York City in 30.28. ARGUS FIVE STARTS SEASON WITH VICTORY ST. LOUIS, Mo. — (ANP) — The St. Lovis Argus Bulldogs, claimants to the Independent — basketball championship of the West, blew the lid off the 1930-31 season at the Pine Street ¥. M. C. A, Saturday night with a 52 to 29 victory over the Duqoin Purple Swans, southern Illinois champs. In a preliminary game, the Scullin Horsemen of the “Y” league defeated the Knights A. C. of East St. Louis, 24-9. SEEK COLORED FIREMEN DETROIT. — (ANP) — A peti- tion is being circulated here by ex- service men of the 372nd Infantry to have colored men placed in the fire department of this city. 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It was one of the most thrilling and closely contested games seen in the Hub gym in some time. Both teams played good basketball from the opening tip-off to the final gun. The Wonders managed to stay one or two baskets ahead of the Craw- ford Shoes during the entire first half and led, 9 to 8, at the inter- mission. More Offense During the second half both teams cut loose with powerful of- fensives an dit was nip and tuck with neither team in the lead for long. The issue was in doubt un- til the final gun. Robinson was high point man for the Wonders, annexing a total of 11 points on five field goals and one free throw. Everett and Margison were equally as effective for the Crawford Shoes getting 9 and 15 points respectively. An advertisement in The Ameri- can is the surest way of getting your goods before the Negro pur- chaser. RE 9 Lork’s Confectionery Ice Cream, Fruits Candy and Cold Drinks, C. LORK, Prop. 2500 Adams Street Jack’s Wonders FG FT. 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Gilliam, a former Booker high school player of Columbia, scored three touchdowns, ‘Baby Ray” Davis scored one, Joe Gregg one, and the “Mighty” Cain one. “Broad River” Dawkins at end, Evans, the bestroving center of the conference, “Diminutive” Joe Green and Moore, backfield aces, were’ other Bulldogs who starred. An advertisement in The Ameri- can brings results. an se Ontial kee VIENNA The Best Loaf of Bread Money Can Buy HOT From 7 P. M. until 12 P. M. at Spanish & Italian Bakery Shop 1623 Washington @=ZBES=SSEEEE E55 225 Mm DIATE . Tm Na | y ae eal ne HS vo THAT FITS: mh “ana” () mi wl I ;. initiate AS a anor 5 m nga ; AS tl i FREE EXAMINATION , tH ae EXTRACTING _ z , Mm We save we palnand money. 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With Mitchell, Ellis, Stanback, and Lightener leading the Bull at- tack, the Smith aggregation swept to victory on three touchdowns, coming in hte first, second and last periods, when Wright smashed the Bear line for the first pointer, after he and Dunn, midget quarter, had brought the ball to the 3-yard line; the second came when “Red” Wil- liams, punter de luxe, drove eleven yards off tackle( after Miller had turned in two consecutive first downs, on straight line play; the Bears tallied next by virtue of blocked kick by “Dip” Ormanc Bear captain, who broke up Walk er’s effort to punt on the 20-yar line and recovered to gain the coy eted goal for the only Livingston) score of the day; Buford’s try fc point failed. Smith came bac strong in the last half, with Mi) ler and Walker alternating in i ging the ball, to score when Wal er, who gave A. & T. fits last wel crashed through the Bear forwar, wall for the last touchdown. 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Gala Theatre Program Now Ready; Opens Dec. 1 NEW YORK - With added stars from Broadway hastening to volunteer their services, the program for the benefit concert on Sunday night, December 7, at the Waldorf theatre, for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is now practically complete. The latest to offer their talent to the affair are Molly Picon, well known star of New York's Yiddish stage, and Borah Minevitch, comedian and one of the stars of the musical comedy, "Sweet and Low." Many Stars on Bill The complete program for the affair, which is to be staged by George Oberland of R. K. O. Keith Orpheum, is as follows: Heywood Broun and Alexander Woollcott, masters of ceremonies introducing: Molly Picon, Cecil Mack's "Blackbirds" choir; Ada Brown, Adelaide Hall, Libby Holman, one of the stars of "Three's A Crowd"; Alberta Hunter, Rosamond Johnson and Taylor Gordon; Naomi Ray, Jimmy Savo and Eddie Harrison of Earl Carroll's "Vanities"; Bill Robinson, world's most celebrated tap dancer; the Log Cabineers quartet; Ethel Waters, star of Lew Leslie's "Blackbirds"; Esther Junger, who recently gave a program of dances; Berry Brothers, Duke Ellington and his Orchestra; Deacon Johnson's orchestra, which will furnish the music for the entire benefit from the orchestra pit; Richard B. Harrison, the Lord of "Green Pastures"; Miller and Mantan, and George Randol. The Women's Auxiliary of the N. A. A. C. P. has held a number of enthusiastic meetings to organize sale of seats, and has arranged for membzers of Junior branches in New York and New Jersey to be present on the night of the performance to sell programs. Sinclair Lewis, celebrated novelist and Nobel prize winner has sent a message to the N. A. A. C. P. which will be printed in the program and other literary contributions to the program include a message from Frank Sullivan, humorist of the N. Y. World and New Yorker; original poems from Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes; and a telegraphic greeting from the well known actress, Jane Cowl. "Hell's Angels" Still Great at United Artists CHICAGO — "Hell's Angels," that sensational air spectacle, continues to its third big week at the United Artists theatre. No other picture has equaled the daring and breath-taking magnitude of this mighty drama of the skies, which required three years to make and cost millions. Critics of Chicago have raved over "Hell's Angels." Here are some excerpts from their reviews. "Four" Stars from Mae Tinee! She says, "Please make up your minds to see 'Hell's Angels.' It's worth while." Doris Arden of the Times says, "It isn't just another war picture—it's one of the most remarkable air spectacles ever produced, and the scenes will make you marvel and gasp. You can't have seen anything like them before. You'll be amazed that such things could ever happen." Carol Knink of the Examiner writes, "This picture oughtn't to be missed by anyone." Rob Reel of the American says, "You don't want to miss it, though—that's certain—any more than you'd want to miss the 'biggest show on earth.'" Ben Lyon, James Hall and Jean Harlow are co-featured in the leading roles of this mighty air spectacle. COMMUNIST RAN A NEGRO FOR THE U. S. SENATE IN TENNESSEE CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. —(CNS) Representative Hamilton Fish, of New York, chairman of the pilgrimage group that is touring the South to get the extent of the strength of Communism among Negroes, found the Reds active here. The recent election reveals that in Tennessee, the Reds ran a Negro, Sherman Bell, Chattanooga plasterer, against Cordell Hull for the United States Senate. He got 200 votes in Hamilton county. His associate on the ticket, Samuel Borenstein, who runs a grocery in a Negro secession of the city, polled 71 votes for governor. The vote for the Negro probably represents the full Communist strength in Chattanooga after months of effort. In a 93-page pamphlet, just issued, Gen. Erich Ludendorff, one of Germany's foremost strategists, predicts another great European war in 1932, resulting in the annihilation of Germany. NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE In the Lake Superior Court, Gary, November term, 1930. In the matter of the estate of Jake Thomas, No. 1332. Notice is hereby given to the heirs, legatees and creditors of Jake Thomas, deceased, to appear in the Lake Superior Court, held at Gary, Indiana, on the 13th day of December, 1930 and show cause, if any, why the Final Settlement Accounts with the estate of said decedent should not be approved; and said heirs are notified to then and there make proof of heirship, and receive their distributive shares. Witness the Clerk of the Lake Superior Court, at Gary, this 15th day of November, 1930. ALVINA M. KILLIGREW Clerk Lake Superior Court Patronize The American advertisers. CAGE EIGHT The Gary American "The Distinguished Newspaper" Owned and published every Friday morning in the year by The American Publishing Company, Inc. an Indiana corporation. Arthur B. Whitlock, President; Chauncey Townsend, Vice-President; Fritz W. Alexander, Treasurer. Address 1819 Washington Street, Gary, Indiana. TELEPHONE GARY 6134 Subscription price: $2.00 per year in advance; for six months, $1.50. Single copies, five cents. Advertising rates upon request. Copyright, 1930, by The American Publishing Company, Inc. CHAUNCEY TOWNSEND .....Executive Editor BOOKER T. THOMAS .....Business Manager Managing Editor: F. Marshall Davis; News Editor: Rudolf Jonson; Director of Advertising: William C. Hicks; Contributors: Florida J. Leeke, Dennis A. Bethea, William A. Lorden. "The Gary American enters the field without malice or envy toward anyone; it has no axe to grind, neither has it anyone to punish; it has but one aim, to which it will cling with pious devotion, and that is to stand squarely in defense of the rights of the black American."—Prospectus of The Gary American Number One, November 10, 1927. VOL. IV. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1930 No. 3 The Central District Investigation The Central District Investigation ALDERMAN Michael Yesh of the Third Ward in council meeting Monday night presented a petition asking for bigger and better protection in the district which he represents. He claims he knows of 200 vice resorts there and would have the public believe that conditions are worse in the Third than anywhere else in Gary. For the sake of intelligent sobriety, Mr. Yesh should have waited until after the case involving the five white youths and the assaulted girl had blown over. The central district, with all its alleged rampant vice conditions, has yet to give birth to any such sexual atrocity as the heinous north side case. Mr. Yesh's contentions are a comic anti-climax to the sordidness of real and dark tragedy. Michael Yesh is white. Practically all of his constituency is of Negro extraction. Charges against his district are charges against those who put him in office. We make no attempt to defend beer flats or houses of prostitution. But we do claim that conditions in the central district are no worse than those elsewhere in Gary. There is hardly a neighborhood which does not stage its drinking orgies. Neither crime nor vice chooses its district. On the other hand, monthly crime reports show greater police activity on the south side than elsewhere. When a crime is committed, Negroes are arrested in wholesale lots. Officers patrol the streets constantly and late at night few pedestrians pass without being stopped and frisked for weapons or booze. It is strange that conditions in the district never became unbearable until police raided a poker game in the basement of a pool room owned by Mr. Yesh. Such a reminder is, however, offensive to the alderman and he has assured the public that his motives are not based on vengeance but rather on the good of his constituency. Society for Altruism and Public Spiritedness in Office, here's your man. Believe it or not, but he had an investigation in mind all the time. We suppose dive keepers in other parts of the city will welcome the investigation if it results in a central district cleanup. The lessening of competition may be a godsend these hard times. These vice-lords may continue indefinitely as, in the eyes of the investigating committee, they don't exist. Church Erecting SEVERAL nationally prominent leaders, including college presidents, high church officials and social service workers, this week sainted Prohibition, the impish and unruly little stepchild forced on the republican party. Dr. Arthur R. Howard, secretary for colored work of the board of temperance, prohibition and public morals of the M. E. Church (north) acted as spokesman and issued the statement that "drinking is now done principally by youth of the wealthy class who can defy the law with safety and by bootleggers with a few patrons. The Negro cannot defy the law and escape the penalty. The number which makes the attempt is negligible." It is almost inconceivable to believe that any intelligent body of men could come to such conclusions. The mentality evidenced is equalled only by the collective unintelligence of an institution for the feeble minded. Here is a virgin field for the sellers of fake oil stock. It would be easier and less troublesome to count those of our race who neither drink nor sell intoxicants. Moonshine whiskey, gin, homebrew or wine are considered by many as necessary in the home as furniture. Where prohibition enforcement is lax, the flow of intoxicants is proportionately open. Where the authorities are conscientious, violations are more carefully hid — but they go on just the same. The temperance board of the Methodist church has long been naive and infantile in its logic. Standing at the foot of the mountain of sentiment against and ill results of prohibition, it has closed its eyes so that it might truthfully say that it "ain't seen nothin'." Now it tries its simple tricks on the Negro side of the question. Dean Kelly Miller, who is old enough to know better, says the Negro has saved money from the cost of drink; Dr. W. T. B. Williams of Tuskegee soberly announces that there are more home comforts, and President J. J. Starks of Benedict college puts in his nickel's worth and says that prohibition has tended to make the home more ideal in every respect. Whiskey costs more now than in the preVolstead era and the quality is inferior. Those who drank before the Eighteenth amendment became a law have not been halted by it and now quench their thirst in company with those who drink because drinking is popular. We have not yet heard of the populace going thirsty because no liquor could be found. The only economic effects of prohibition, this newspaper again states, comes from the money obtained by selling liquor. There are numerous instances of Negroes taking their earnings and going into legitimate business. The other financial progress of the race has been made in spite of and not because of prohibition. If the learned persons who gave their names and aid to the Methodist board's tomfooleries are as gullible a they seem, it would appear that the wrong people are leading the race, for they are walking through forests without finding trees. Prohibition Puppets DR. R. R. WRIGHT Jr., editor of the Christian Recorder and a recognized spokesman for the A. M. E. church, stepped to the front this week and assumed the role of champion by attacking the statements of Lorenzo J. Green, research investigator for the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History. Mr. Green had previously stated that the Negro must stop building so many churches and instead build factories and stores, thereby creating jobs for the members of the race. In answer Dr. Wright says, among other things, that the erection of churches furnishes work for Negro architects, carpenters, masons, brick layers, etc. He says also that only three cents of every dollar is spent in the church, and asks the research investigator to demand some of the money spent on whiskey, motion pictures, and the various forms of lotteries. He further asserts that there are not too many churches. Practically all the church official says can be conceded — and the fact will still remain that too much is spent on the erection of religious edifices. A church building may be erected with Negro labor. But as soon as the last worker is paid the economic benefits are brought almost to a standstill. A business place considers the erection of its home to be of negligible financial benefit in comparison with the continued employment it gives. What would it profit a merchant to build a $100,000 edifice then let it lay idle as far as monetary benefit was concerned? Continuing with Dr. Wright's line of reasoning, it is obviously poor economic policy for a mainly laboring people to construct costly temples when they themselves live in quite unpretentious dwellings. In Gary alone there are twenty-five sizeable Negro churches, twelve missions, and a host of smaller store front places of worship. The Negro population here is only 20,000. The total capitalization of all the Negro businesses here in Gary would amount to only a fraction of the money tied up in churches. If the many churches have been built and kept up out of only three per cent of the money the race earned, that three per cent has worked with the strength of a Hercules. Churches are essential and religion fills a void in the life of any race, but when they become too numerous a rivalry springs up which nullifies the good they might otherwise do. Other Papers Say The world-wide color bar received such an assault last week that it is important that Americans take note of it. Similar to the color line in the U. S. A., is the operation of the caste system in British India, which separates light high caste Hindus from the low class Untouchables or Scavenger caste. Indian Untouchables are barred from public schools, churches, bathing beaches, public wells, the police force, the army, commercial, industrial and professional posts. American Negroes know all of these varied types of discrimination. However, the Indian caste system goes even further and forbids the Untouchables from approaching nearer than 60 to 90 feet to the higher castes. Corresponding to our 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments, the Indian Government has regulations declaring equality of all citizens but likewise as in the U. S. A., certain classes object and no effort is made to enforce these laws. This is the sad picture upon which new light was thrown last week in London. High caste Indians in order to obtain a unanimous plea to England for Indian independence signed an agreement with representatives of the Untouchables designed to wipe out the Indian color line. All Indian delegates at the London Conference, high and low, light and dark, met with absolute social equality, and agreed that caste lines must go. They pointed to a Youth League and a Woman's Movement which have been responsible for 1,000 intermarriages in the last three months. England had relied upon India's color bar and caste system to prevent a united and determined appeal for independence. Patriotic Indians, put to the test, put the love of country above the love of color, another evidence of what is going to happen to racial lines in the United States when a real test comes. Balancing the Budget. (Cleveland News) A unique plan for balancing the budget has been adopted in Italy. Faced with a deficit of $38,000,000 for the first year, the cabinet council at Rome has ordered a 12 per cent cut in the salaries of state employees. It applies to all officials, from cabinet members on down. By the salary reduction the government expects to save approximately $67,000,000 out of the $580,000,000 paid out annually in salaries. THE GARY AMERICAN. GARY. INDIANA A Diploma at Large A Diploma at Large out of ten cutting scrapes here in the great and small interesting city of Gary, during November, my members of our own kaleidescopic Aframerican days through various sections of these United States convinced me that the brethren take pride in their ability and try to hang up records in all cities to inhabit in any appreciable number. If sometimes get the impression that it's just essential as hugging and kissing for some women to wear sweethearts take a knife or a razor and make a strokes on some part of their anatomy. Any a woman or a man, I fear, confines these men of the sappier emotion with purely selfish motive carving is done it's in a definite way for speedy men in a crowd. This may be the influence of the beach ranch has an individual brand. But at any great help. A man can take a look at a scar after he did the job or somebody else is due the creep. Perhaps one of the happiest (or worst, if you look at that way) aspects of the whole situation is the those getting cut generally don't seem to me by a gal knifes her paramour and when he gets on hospital he protests to high heaven if police office of boarding her at the state's expense. I hope that the habit of plain and fancy slashing lies general through the entire race. It would be less for some woman who wanted me to know she loved me to make the supreme gesture of affishing at me with a knife. Knowing that it was of devotion, if I acted mean and refused her I'd time easing my conscience which tells me to never at a lady. On the other hand, if all classes frown on cutting, might work untold hardships on those who consist essential to human happiness and actually born on bliss. However the bootleg knife artist me and a brand new racket be born. But for the time being I shall do no more than conceive of interested observer. I have no intention of being and experience has taught me that I can. Cuttings there are and cuttings there will be, it is for it be between lovers, rivals for the hand of a man, or people with no other convenient way of anselves. Wishing that those whom this concerns would hate something not quite so messy is there in the great and sociology during November, nine inidescopic Aframerican races of these United Statesethren take pride in their up records in all cities which number. expression that it's just as easy for some women to have for a razor and make a few their anatomy. ear, confines these manifests, purely selfish motives and finite way for speedy identity the influence of the Western brand. But at any rate, like a look at a scar and tellly else is due the credit. (or worst, if you look at whole situation is the fact really don't seem to mind. and when he gets out of heaven if police officials hate's expense. and fancy slashing never tire race. It would be emerged me to know how supreme gesture of affection Knowing that it was a disbanded refused her I'd have a which tells me to never dis- classes frown on cuttings, is on those who consider mess and actually border-rotleg knife artist might be born. I do no more than continue. I have no intention of paring me that I can't stop things there will be, it seems, as for the hand of a damself convenient way of amusing this concerns would sub-nessy is Out of ten cutting scrapes here in the great and sociologically interesting city of Gary, during November, nine involved members of our own kaleidescopic Aframerican race. Journeys through various sections of these United States have convinced me that the brethren take pride in their slashing ability and try to hang up records in all cities which they inhabit in any appreciable number. I sometimes get the impression that it's just as essential as hugging and kissing for some women to have their sweethearts take a knife or a razor and make a few deft strokes on some part of their anatomy. Many a woman or a man, I fear, confines these manifestations of the sappier emotion with purely selfish motives and when carving is done it's in a definite way for speedy identification in a crowd. This may be the influence of the West where each ranch has an individual brand. But at any rate, it's a great help. A man can take a look at a scar and tell whether he did the job or somebody else is due the credit. Perhaps one of the happiest (or worst, if you look at it that way) aspects of the whole situation is the fact that those getting cut generally don't seem to mind. Many a gal knifes her paramour and when he gets out of the hospital he protests to high heaven if police officials think of boarding her at the state's expense. I hope that the habit of plain and fancy slashing never becomes general through the entire race. It would be embarrassing for some woman who wanted me to know how much she loved me to make the supreme gesture of affection by slashing at me with a knife. Knowing that it was a display of devotion, if I acted mean and refused her I'd have a hard time easing my conscience which tells me to never disappoint a lady. On the other hand, if all classes frown on cuttings, it might work untold hardships on those who consider them essential to human happiness and actually bordering on bliss. However the bootleg knife artist might enter and a brand new racket be born. But for the time being I shall do no more than continue in the role of interested observer. I have no intention of participating and experience has taught me that I can't stop them. Cuttings there are and cuttings there will be, it seems, whether it be between lovers, rivals for the hand of a damsel or male, or people with no other convenient way of amusing themselves. Wishing that those whom this concerns would substitute something not quite so messy is —F. MARSHALL DAVIS. The Health Question Dr. Dennis A. Bethea (Health Editor, The Gary American) NERVOUS BREAKDOWN nervous breakdown, or what doctors call neuras- terious malady — so serious that every mother's son never should try to prevent it. If one should be late as to be taken down with this affliction, it moons before he will be well again. It used to mingle among the non-white group, but today it is a white Christmas or a white haired man of six, there is always a background for this condition; not "just grow up", like Topsy in Uncle Tom's times you just inherit weak nervous tissue, like money or their father's temper. If your stand this respect you are severely handicapped and it are important that you "walk the chalk line." But in most cases our parents did not leave us a and money in the bank, but they did leave us a solution. Those dear old people stayed in at night their rest, and they ate plenty good wholesome for no more than natural that they should be bequeathed ing physique. But their disobedient children just s totality like a spoiled child his toys the day after O here is hope, however, when you can get folk to new leaf." When you feel yourself slipping, it cutting down on your meat, your coffee, your co our moonshine. It would not hurt if you cut one o altogether. In this age of hurry, flurry and worry incident to make both ends meet, it is an easy matter for its balance. The excitement that a man gets during a day trying to make a living, is equal to that during the whole life of the hero in a Mid-Victorian. In view of this one must stop every once in a where he is "at". If you go right along day and year after year doing the same thing, with one of these days something will snap. It has well been said that "variety is the spice of this is the oil that will keep this human mach- unning smoothly, until we reach our final journey. A worker should spend as much time as possible when his day's work is done. On the other hand, a man should spend a lot of his spare time re- studying. It is all right to listen to the radio pro- working man should do some real mental work be a mighty fine thing for most workers to take of study in one of the night schools that have led by our public school systems. In this way he two birds with one stone" — get the relaxation to for his health and also learn something worth wi- sis far as possible, one should follow the line of work. This will make work a joy instead of a grief of us, nowadays, must "do whatever our hands be thankful for it. So it is well for one to try with his work, just as many married persons have. People have married who did not love each other but by daily thinking of each other's good point fanned it into a fiery furnace of love. doctors call neurasthenia, that every mother's son and If one should be so unith this affliction, it will be well again. It used to be a group, but today it is comite haired man of sixty. d for this condition; for it upsy in Uncle Tom's Cabin Nervous breakdown, or what doctors call neurasthenia, is a serious malady — so serious that every mother's son and daughter should try to prevent it. If one should be so unfortunate as to be taken down with this affliction, it will be many moons before he will be well again. It used to be a rare thing among the non-white group, but today it is common as a white Christmas or a white haired man of sixty. There is always a background for this condition; for it does not "just grow up", like Topsy in Uncle Tom's Cabin. Sometimes you just inherit weak nervous tissue, like people inherit money or their father's temper. If your standard is low in this respect you are severely handicapped and it is all the more important that you "walk the chalk line." But in most cases our parents did not leave us a corner lot and money in the bank, but they did leave us a strong constitution. Those dear old people stayed in at night and took their rest, and they ate plenty good wholesome food, so it was no more than natural that they should bequeath to us a strong physique. But their disobedient children just shatter their vitality like a spoiled child his toys the day after Christmas. There is hope, however, when you can get folk to "turn over a new leaf." When you feel yourself slipping, it is well to start cutting down on your meat, your coffee, your cigarets and your moonshine. It would not hurt if you cut out the last two altogether. In this age of hurry, flurry and worry incident to trying to make both ends meet, it is an easy matter for one to lose his balance. The excitement that a man gets during the run of a day trying to make a living, is equal to that experienced during the whole life of the hero in a Mid-Victorian novel. In view of this one must stop every once in a while and see where he is "at". If you go right along day after day and year after year doing the same thing, without a break; one of these days something will snap. It has well been said that "variety is the spice of life." Surely this is the oil that will keep this human machine of ours running smoothly, until we reach our final journey's end. The brain worker should spend as much time as possible, out doors, when his day's work is done. On the other hand, the laboring man should spend a lot of his spare time reading and studying. It is all right to listen to the radio program, but the working man should do some real mental work. It would be a mighty fine thing for most workers to take up a course of study in one of the night schools that have been provided by our public school systems. In this way he would "kill two birds with one stone" — get the relaxation that he needs for his health and also learn something worth while. As far as possible, one should follow the line of work that he likes. This will make work a joy instead of a grief. But most of us, nowadays, must "do whatever our hands find to do" and be thankful for it. So it is well for one to try to fall in love with his work, just as many married persons have had to do. People have married who did not love each other at first, but by daily thinking of each other's good points they soon fanned it into a fiery furnace of love. What's In A Name. he judge was questioninga woman witness on the What's your husband's vocation?" he asked. He's a vegetarian," she replied haughtily. He judge looked puzzled. No, no," he said tersely. "I mean what does he beg?" told you once," she replied. "He's a vegetarian vegetables." Not So Dull. Darling," said Bertram, taking his beloved one "will you marry me?" I don't know," said Marjorie offhandedly; "I've that the man I marry must be both strong and Well," spoke up Bertram, "I saved you from dreas summer." Yes," she agreed, "I admit that was a brave acti The judge was questioninga woman witness on the stand "What's your husband's vocation?" he asked. "No, no," he said tersely. "I mean what does he do for a living?" 'I told you once," she replied. "He's a vegetarian. He sells vegetables." "Darling," said Bertram, taking his beloved one in his arms, "will you marry me?" "I don't know," said Marjorie offhandedly; "I've always said that the man I marry must be both strong and intelligent." "Well," spoke up Bertram, "I saved you from drowning in the summer." "Yes," she agreed, "I admit that was a brave action, but it didn't prove you to be intelligent." "Oh, but it did," confessed the young man. "I upset the boat on purpose." * * * Not So Dull. By Clifford C. Mitchell In this age of "standardization" nearly every week is symbolic of some particular observance or celebration. Beginning Sunday, December 7th, we will celebrate "Negro Authors Week." The various social and literary clubs throughout the country will focus their thought on our authors, while Philadelphia audiences will be honored with and by a large number of our successful authors in the flesh who are to assemble in the city of "brotherly love." Our authors have a wonderful opportunity to put across a program of much needed constructive literary service that would aid greatly in the solving of our peculiar racial problems. We need the services of those gifted in rhetoric to portray for our masses the conditions as they actually exist and to expound corrective remedial measures. Many white authors, as well as a few of our own, have grown affluent in their portrayals of the Negro. They have in their exaggeration and erroneous concept made us appear very ridiculous in their efforts to amuse with the result that the Negro in literature is usually of the clownish, irresponsible, lustful or despicable types. It may be that this type in literature is more salable but our authors, like the leaders of all other classes, especially in these times, should willingly accept some monetary sacrifices and confine their efforts in turning out literature that will reflect upon our race more creditably. For plots, material and facts, our writers have only to look about us to see men and women of our race whose life history would defy the most imaginative skill of the best writers. The white writers delight in depicting the lives of their great men and women. Within a few pages their characters spring from the log cabin to rail-splitting and from there to the white house or perhaps their character begins life as a water-boy for a section gang and on the next page he is president of the road. You have read in their literature thousands of such characters, all of which is skillful propaganda, weaving into story nad fiction form the finer characteristics of their race. It si this same form of propaganda that our writers should put across an dwithout stretching the truth or actual facts we can show characters born without a name, without any of the comforts or rights of a lowly citizen, whose whole life has ben one of denial, kicked and cuffed about through prejudice and ignorance, accepting what the others can't use or don't want, yet, in the end a career of success and a life of usefulness is reached . Plot, what other race is so full of it? Some might answer that the white publishers do not and will not cater to this class of literature, protesting a lack of demand for such types, etc. The solution for this is very simple. There are ample facilities in our publishing plants to turn such work out in large quantities nad we have thousands of social and literary organizations who should get behind such literary propaganda, purchasing same and seeing that it is widely distributed among all classes of readers in their particular community. This writer is aware of the fact that we have authors and that we have historical works that treat on the worthwhile and meritorious aspects of our race but they are the exception and their work is not generally known or read and outside of actual students and followers of the subject it is doubtful if the average reader, white or black, knows of their existence or if they desired to secure such a treatise would they know where to go or what to ask for or by whom. It would evxen be a simple matter, properly handled, for our writers to alleviate a lot of the conditions caused by prejudice, etc. The white writers make our types very grotesque in their physical antics and actions. They do not even show any distinction but group us all as one class. We do not need to be so unreasonable but we could show that some of the mental antics and actions of some of the whites are even more grotesque than some of our physical antics. In doing this we would not have to alter any facts or exaggerate conditions, simply hold up to ridicule the unwise and unjust system of color caste that is prevalent in this country. To those clubs and organizations throughout the country who will be celebrating "Negro Authors Week" this column would suggest that you not confine your celebrations to oratory alone but that you purchase some of the worthwhile books of our authors and donate them to those that need to learn more of the real Negro and thus help to cement the bond of friendship and unity based on mutual understanding. That is a practical way of celebrating "Negro Authors Week." LOUISVILLE, Ky. — (CNS) — Sid Wimsett, 44, was sentenced to two life terms in the state prisons on indictments for the murder of Henry Bivens and his sister, Alice Hemphill, in Criminal Court last Monday. Wimsett shot and killed Bivens and his sister at their home, October 11, during a quarrel over some sandwiches. The accused alleged that Bivens drew a knife. The latter's sister, however, on her deathbent alleged that the quarrel was over the payment of $500 which Wimsett is alleged to have promised Bivens if he would take a "rap" in the Federal Court on a liquor charge both had been indicted on. December 6. 1930 Pertinent Paragraphs By Rudolf Jonson are all prominent in high school and by the police authorities on the action of the grand jury. Notitting a fiendish assault upon set last Saturday night, after dancing. None of these youths claim that five youths, will be on trial." They was not suffering under the law, a similar condition could not be acted that attorneys would find in the lives of these young men. We expect them to advance. But that does not detract he was committed; and in the youths were in a sober mind, for every thing that happened nolic insanity. Law law is a very weak "noble purpose," it does not serve as of such a crime. It has been acts the subconscious mind to and other brain workers have work in that condition than deeds while slightly under the thickest of battle, have been be the case in those instances, that alcohol portrayed the truths. It is not easily conceived would retract their admissions of mandatory death in the elec- congress under the 1930 census to lose members in the house or states to gain. The states representation, because of the centers, have begun to howl. States is Mississippi. One of the known the fact that he will act of congress because the cenilien population in New York, over industrial centers. Representers claim they will fight aliens as long as the southern entation on the basis of their that citizenry is not allowed to nation will be required to vote on it. It will be interesting to the census status of the aliens the Negro in the south. Five white Gary youths, all prominent in high school athletic circles, are being held by the police authorities on a murder indictment, awaiting the action of the grand jury. They have confessed to committing a fiendish assault upon an 18 year old girl in their set last Saturday night, after a wild night of drinking and dancing. Attorneys for the defense of these youths claim that "prohibition, instead of the five youths, will be on trial." They claim that if the country was not suffering under the yoke of such an infamous law, a similar condition could not happen. Of course it is to be expected that attorneys would find some contributing influence in the lives of these young men to make them appear innocent. We expect them to advance a plea of temporary insanity. But that does not detract from the fact that the crime was committed; and in the confessions, made while the youths were in a sober mind, they were able to remember every thing that happened while they suffered from alcoholic insanity. Admitting that the prohibition law is a very weak "noble experiment, far reaching in purpose," it does not serve as an excuse for the commission of such a crime. It has been argued that intoxication starts the subconscious mind to working; artists, musicians, and other brain workers have been known to produce better work in that condition than known to accomplish braver deeds while slightly under the while sober; soldiers, in the thickest of battle, have been influence of alcohol. If such be the case in those instances, why can it not be reasoned that alcohol portrayed the true character of these white youths. It is not easily conceived how "prohibition on trial" could retract their admissions of guilt, and save them from a mandatory death in the electric chair. The reapportionment of congress under the 1930 census will cause some of the states to lose members in the house of representatives, and other states to gain. The states which will suffer a loss of representation, because of the shiftings of the population centers, have begun to howl "unfair representation." Noticably among these states is Mississippi. One of her representatives has made known the fact that he will object to the reapportionment of congress because the census takers counted the vast alien population in New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania and other industrial centers. Representatives of these industrial centers claim they will fight for the counting of their aliens as long as the southern states continue to get representation on the basis of their Negro citizenry, although that citizenry is not allowed to vote. The congress now in session will be required to vote on the proposed reapportionment. It will be interesting to watch them "play ball" with the census status of the aliens and the franchise status of the Negro in the south. Letters to the Editor Letters to the Editor of the president of one of our strongest financial institutions the fact that a million dollar factory building was on the south side that should be used for some of the new industries that would come to Gary if they were interested and welcomed to our city. The president of this bank, with which I am pleased to be affiliated even in a small way, was interested and paved the way for 100% cooperation on the part of the U. S Steel corporation, not only for the new industries that use women workers but for any and all bonafide manufacturers who desire to come to Gary. We wish to thank our members for the faith they had in the success of this campaign, although this time of depression through which we are passing made it hard to wait for the benefit that all of us sorely need. We are only 10% of the population and should at all times cooperate 100% with the Chamber of Commerce, and all civic bodies who are striving to benefit all of the people. May we learn to continue to work together for the common good of the whole community of which we are a vital part. Heimes Zimmerman, Organizer Cornerstone Trust Foundation Victorious Candidates Praise N.A.A.C.P. Help Robeson Statue Barred Victorious Candidates From New York Exhibt Praise N.A.A.C.P. Help NEW YORK - Three senators one republican, and two democrats have expressed their thanks to Walter White, acting secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for aid rendered them in the recent election by colored votore. From the republican senator, Arthur Capper, of Kansas, who kept faith with his colored constituents by voting against the seating of Judge John J. Parker on the Supreme Court bench comes the following: "I wish you to know that your assistance is greatly appreciated. I think the Negro vote was practically solid for me. I shall continue to stand for justice to the Negro as I have always stood. D not hesitate to command me where ever I can be of service to you or the Association." Robert J. Bulkley, democrat elected in place of Roscoe C. Mo Culloth in Ohio writes: "I am very much appreciative of the important part which you played in bringing about the splendid result on election day. Please keep in touch with me as you know that I want to help all I can in your work." Senator Thomas J. Walsh, o Montana, democrat, endorsed by the N. A. A. C. P. for his vote against Parker, writes: "Thanks for your message and more for you loyalty and invaluable aid toward the gratifying result. It was smashing victory." MAN BURNED TO DEATH IN HOSPITAL FIRE JACKSON, Miss. — (CNS) — A unidentified colored man was burn ed to death here Thursday when fire destroyed the three story war of the State Hospital for the Ir sane. Three hundred other in mates were marched to safety. Want a free ticket? Read the ad Win a prize. See page one. Gary's Latest Murder. Reapportionment of Congress. SAYS DISMISSAL UNFAIR Editor, Gary American: I was made a martyr to appease the sinister motives of one foreman, Carnett, and one general foreman, McDonald, at the Coke Plant, Illinois Steel Co., Gary, Ind. If at any time during my connection with the Steel Co., my work or service was not satisfactory; I have never been told or informed of it. On June 10, I got too hot and was unable to work for two days. And again June, 1930, I got too hot while in the discharge of my duty. And when I reported for duty June 15 I was laid off. I depend upon my labor for the suport of my family and self. And when I am deprived of a chance to labor, I am deprived of all. Elijah C. Reed 2141 Madison St. TO MEMBERS AND FRIENDS CORNERSTONE TRUST FOUNDATION: Through the courtesy of The Gary American I wish to thank the members and friends of the Cornerstone Trust Foundation for their moral support in our campaign for new industries for Gary. Our drive began in July, 1928, when we brought to the attention NEW YORK — (CNS) — The celebrated bronze figure of Paul Robeson, by Antonio Saleme, which was recently carted out of Philadelphia, has now been removed from the exhibition room in the Union League club, it was learned this week. The statute, which stood for a year in the Palace of the Legion of Honor at San Francisco without stirring untoward feelings among the Californians, received much publicity after its removal from Philadelphia because, as a letter from the executive committee of the Philadelphia Art Alliance stated, "the colored problem seems to be unusually great," in that city. The Union League Committee, however, raised no such objection, nor would it think of doing so. "It is a work of art of much vigor and force," a member of the art committee said. "It was removed because of the rather ecclesiastical nature of the accompanying exhibition. It simply did not seem to be fitting in such surroundings." When Prince Danioni, of Turin, Italy, made a call at a laundry to personally compliment the girl who laundered his shirts the girl NU laundered his shirts so immaculately he was introduced to pretty 17-year-old Maria Rizzati. Despite the fact that the girl came from an obscure family the prince was unable to resist her feminine charm and the little laundry maid recently became the wife of the prince at his ancestral home. CROSS SHOT KILLS TWO RABBITS YORK, S. C. — (CNS) — Two partridges at one shot is no feat at all for a fairly good hunter. George Wright was hunting on the edge of a briar thicket near here when he saw two rabbits jump from the same spot, crossing each other in the jump. He fired and killer both. Ss — : : : — : " ie xv S u :