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--- SANTA 7 CENTS PER COPY Jim Crow Signs Are Removed from D. C. Garage Following Fight by Tribune and N.A.A.C.P. White Official Plans to Retaliate on Colored by Other Methods FROSTED DOORS FOR WHITE LAVATORIES Offensive jim crow signs posted in the Water Department garage at 204 Bryant Street, Northwest, were ordered down last week by D. W. Holton, superintendent of the department. An investigation by a Tribute reporter revealed that W. V. Robinson, an official at the plan', who was responsible for the signs, had complied with the order. However, Robinson has retaliated by frosting the windows and doors of the white lavatories. He also locked the doors and furnished the white employees with keys and told colored employees to stay out of the white toilets in his newest segregation scheme. Retkinson has tried to find out who reported the jim crow signs and has shown an arrogant attitude toward colored workmen since he was made to have the posters removed. The Tribute in conjunction with A. S. Pinkett, local secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, protested against the signs and plan to make Robinson have the frost removed from the white toilets or have all toilets frosted. Any effort the man makes to take advantage of colored workers as a result of his discrimination attempt will be met with a protest and an effort to have him dismissed from his position. The Jim crow at the Water De- (Continued on page 2) COURT DISMISSES DECREE TO VACATE RECEIVERSHIP Interveners Claim Insurance Commissioner Should Have Filed Suit A motion to vacate the decree appointing receivers for the National Benefit Life Insurance Company was dismissed by Justice Oscar Luhring in the District Supreme Court, Monday. The motion was dismissed on the technical grounds that the intervening petitioners had no right as such to come in and attack the order of the court. It was argued that the original petition of John Pinkett asking for a receivership was premature because when a corporation in the District is insolvent it is the policy of the insurance commissioner to apprise the U. S. District Attorney and the latter files suit for dissolution of the corporation in question. It was said this was not done, but should have been before Pinkett's suit was brought. This argument, however, did not prevail. The interveners were represented by Attorney's Alexander H. Martin, of Cleveland, and Armond W. Scott, of this city. Attorney's Matthew H. O'Brien, Jr., and John E. Lanky, both white, appeared for the receivers. THE CONGRESSIONAL LIBRARY. FIRST ST., S. E. Vol. XII, N Signs Are B C. Garage Tribune and Fled Operation Patient Later Recaptured, Sent to Gallinger Hospital Washington Tribune Apparently lightly impressed with the seriousness of a bullet wound in the abdomen, Clarence Lynch, 24, left the operating table at Freeduen's Hospital early this week and escaped through a rear window, only to be recaptured a few hours later at his home. 121 Reeves Court, Northwest. He was then sent to Gallinger Hospital for treatment. Lynch, police said, was shot by an unidentified man during an altercation in the 1600 block of Seventh Street. He was taken to the hospital, and while being given emergency treatment asked to be allowed to go to the lavatory. He was permitted to go unattended, and escaped through a side window. When he was later found at his home he was placed on a charge of investigation. Physicians said his wound was serious. DRIVER KILLED WHILE ARGUING OVER ASH DUMP Graham Farrell Held for Grand Jury in Death of Alexander Wilson An argument over a place to dump ashes led to the fatal shooting of Alexander F. Wilson, 31, 121 P Street, Southwest, Saturday by Graham H. Lee Farrell, 57, while the two men were in a lot at 1901 First Street, Southwest. Farrell was held for the action of the grand jury following an inquest at the District Morgue Monday morning. Farrell testified that he had a verbal statement from Lewis Jefferson; 447 Delaware Avenue, Southwest, agent for the property, to the effect that he, Farrell, had exclusive rights to dump ashes on the lot. Coleman F. Mason, truck owner and employer of the dead man, exhibited a written agreement between himself and Jefferson which gave the former permission to use the dump. Jefferson said he made this agreement with Mason some years ago, but later rescinded the agreement when Wilson refused to keep the place in order and had been arrested several times for maintaining a misuse. Farrell told the coroner's jury that while at the dump Saturday, Wilson came on the lot with a truckload of ashes. Farrell said he had warned the man several times to stay off of the property and on the day of the shooting. Wilson is alleged to have threatened Farrell and was coming towards him with his hand in his pocket. Farrell said he fired when he thought his life was in danger and Wilson had a pistol in his pocket. Wilson was dead on arrival at the hospital. Heart Attack Blamed for Sudden Death of Aged Man Found in the 1400 block of U Street, Northwest, in an unconscious condition, William T. Ferguson, 71 years old, 1439 T Street, Northwest, was removed to Emergency Hospital where staff physicians pronounced him dead on arrival. The man was found by Fred Young, 1628 Eleventh Street, and Howard Capers, 527 Harvard Street. Relatives of the man said he had been under doctor's care for heart trouble for several years. A certificate of death by natural causes was issued by the District A Meri ashi o. 33 Price of this paper is Removed Following 1 N.A.A.C.P. A Merry Christmas to All CITY CAB DRIVER REFUSES TO HAUL NEGROES Says He is from Florida and It Is Against His Principles Racial prejudice is constantly flaring up here in the nation's capital. Mrs. Repsie Reynolds phoned for a City Cab, to call for her in the 4100 block of Nebraska Avenue, Northwest, Saturday night. Cab No. 2 answered the call, and when the driver saw the colored women wore his prospective fares, he told them the fare would be 60 cents to the address given him. However, the place mentioned is in the second zone from the Nesbraska Avenue address and the fare is 40 cents. The women accepted the raised price for the snow was deep and they did not wish to walk to the car line. When the driver realized that the extra fare did not faze the women he got out of his cab and told them bluntly that he was from Florida and that he would not haul Negroes. He refused to get back into the cab as long as the ladies remained therein. Finally the ladies left the cab and had to walk the long walk to the car line through the deep snow to Wisconsin Avenue. The manager of the City Cab Association was called by The Tribune and he said that a lady had reported the affair to him and that he had apologized to her and reprimanded the driver. Mrs. Reynolds informed The Tribune Wednesday night that the manager did not apologize to her and only said that he would try and see the driver. The Public Utilities Commission was informed of the affair and said that discrimination was not permitted by public carriers in the District and asked for a written report of the case. This has been furnished the Commission. Taxicab Driver Freed of Liquor Charge Charles J. Ray, taxicab driver, was dismissed by Judge Ralph Given in Police Court, Wednesday, on a charge of possession when the court was told that Ray had no knowledge that liquor was in the bag of three passengers who engaged his cab. Ray, who was represented by Attorney Armond Scott, said the three men hired his cab and directed him to an address, but before he reached his destination of officers stopped the cab and arrested the passengers and driver. Liquor was found in a bag carried by one of the men in the machine. The cab was confiscated. High School Officers Visit School Official Officers of the Ninth Brigade, High School Cadets, visited Garnet C. Wilkinson, first assistant superintendent of schools, at the Franklin Administration Building, Thursday morning. While at the building Dr. Frank Ballou, superintendent, had a motion picture made of the officers. Each year officers of the cadet brigade make an official call on the head of the colored schools. Captain Arthur Newman, director of military training, was in charge of Mrs. Ada Wright Returns from Europe with Ashes of Engdahl Mother of Two Scottsboro Boys Greeted by Hundreds on Her Return from Abroad. Scheduled to Speak at Series of Mass Meetings DePRIEST ASKS $460,000 FOR HOWARD PLANT Two New Buildings, to Be Ready in October, Without Heat and Light On Thursday of this week, Congressman DeFriest offered an amendment to the appropriation for Howard University, which asked for $460,000 to erect a heating and power plant so that the two new buildings which are planned for erection in 1933, may have heat and light, and that the whole university and Freedman's Hospital may benefit by the new plant. The plant, he says, would produce light cheaper than is now furnished by the power company here. On Friday of last week Mr. DePriest addressed the House on the matter, giving notice that when the appropriation bill came up for second reading he would offer the amendment. His address was re- (Continued on page 2) New York—First-class passengers, wrapped in costly furs and adorned with glittering jewels froze in their tracks, and suave uniformed port officials halte their duties in amazement as four hundred Negro and white men and women wildly cheered a smiling Negro woman as she stepped down see-through-class gangplank of the luxurious S.S. Bremen, 12 noon, Wednesday, Pier 4, Brooklyn, Port of New York. The cheering men and women recognized the smiling woman as Mrs. Ada Wright, mother of two of the Scottsboro boys and guest of honor of the World Congress of the International Red Aid. She was returning to America after having completed a tour of 16 European countries in behalf of her sons and the other Scottsboro boys held in the death house, Kilby Prison, Alabama. Eight months ago, with the Scottsboro boys under a death sentence, she had ascended this same gangplank with J. Louis Engdahl, then General Secretary of the International Labor Defense. Together, these two turned to the crowded pier and said with quiet conviction, "The Scottsboro Boys Shall Not Die!" ASHES OF ENGDAHL Mrs. Wright was returning with the aches of J. Louis Engdahl, former general chairman of the International Labor Defense, who died of pneumonia last month after a tour of Europe with Mrs. Wright and Mrs. Mary (Mother) Mooney, mother of Tom Mooney, who is servin ga sentence in a California prison in connection with a bombing there several years ago. Hec. tour with Engdahl which reached hundreds of thousands of working men and women in almost every capital and large city of Europe, has internationalized the Scottsboro issue. From just another instance of oppression against the Negro people in an obscure and sleepy Southern town, hardly "worth" more than a paragraph in a Northern newspaper, the case had reached the proportions of an international symbol of systematic and ruthless terror against not only the Negroes in the Southern States, but the colored populations of South Africa, Liberia, South America and the West Indies, and the entire world, in the greatest display of international working-class solidarity in the history of the world. Mrs. Wright's face was wreathed in smiles as she nodded her head and waked her hand to her boisterous reception committee. She undertook their planets. Those Negro and white people were calling to their own ambassadress who had proposed such a tremendous factor in winning a new trial from the United States Supreme Court for the nine innocent boys so brutally trapped in Seattle. She turned MASONIC TEMPLE EQUITY DROPS TO $20,000 National Benefit Life Put $627,007 in the Project, Actuaries Report The report of the actuaries to the receivers of the National Benefit Life Insurance Company filed last week reveals inexcusable manipulations and gross irregularities of the former officers. The various stock transactions, the confusing entries and lack of entries, the muddled records and files all prove the terrible situation into which this great company was permitted to drift. Why Report is Late In a letter the actuaries say: "As you are no doubt aware, the manipulations and irregularities of the former officers, extending over a period of years, resulting in inadequate, confused and 'muddled' records and files are responsible for our having to take nearly three centuries of wear." 21 and spoke to her companions, Carl Hacker, national organizer of the L.L.D. and Miriam Brooks, youth delegate from California, they nodded and the entire group fell in line behind them, singing the "international." TWICE DEPORTED FROM BELGIUM At a nearby hall Mrs. Wright spoke. She explained how with J. Louis Dedahl they had travelled from city to city, from country to country, speaking at meetings, at demonstrations and over the radio; how the authorities of Belgium had twice deported her, how the Czechoslovakian government had arrested her, and how the Bulgarian Government had thrust her back across the border. She also spoke of the thousands who gathered at the stations to cheer her and to pledge that her sons and the other boys would be saved by international solidarity of all workers against oppression. Ada Wright's voice caught a little when she spoke of Engdahl. "He worked day and night to save the Scottsboro boys. He went without sleep, food, and proper care. He was sick, but he refused to stop and rest. He died in Moscow, his health broken in the struggle to prevent the murder of the Scottsboro children. The Negro people have lost one of their staunchest fighters, and I have lost a great friend." Carl Hacker, spoke too. He said Mrs. Wright and Engdahl left a profound effect upon the European labor movement. Every speaker at the World Congress of the International Red Aid spoke of the Scottsdale case, he said. He pointed to Engdahl's ashes which they brought to this country. "We lower our banners in honor of Engdahl only to raise them again in the struggle for which Engdahl died. We shall carry on the fight for the lives of the Scottsdale boys and the struggle against all forms of social oppression until the day when mob and legal lynching, terror and oppression are wiped from off the face of the earth." MASS MEETINGS Mrs. Wright was one of the main speakers at the Engdahl Memorial Meeting at the Bronx Coliseum, Sunday. Mass meetings in honor of the mem- org of Engdahl at which Mrs. Wright and Hacker will speak will be held in many other cities, including Philadel- phia. December 20, Hungarian Hall. 1144 N. Fourth Street. 8 P.M.; Pittsburgh. December 22, Carnegie Hall. 8 P.M.; Cleveland. December 25, Eng- gers. Anchorage. St. Gairn and Ontario Torch. Zoolog. Detroit. December 24, 8 P.M., banquet and reception, Jericho Temple. 2005 Joy Resid. Chicago. December 28. Minneapolis, December 30; Birmingham, January 4; Atlanta and on the West Coast. ENRAGED WOMAN KILLS EX-LOVER WHO BEAT HER Miss Susie Watson Shoots Leo Scott after Being Attacked During a fight with her former common-law husband early Saturday morning, Miss Susie Watson, 32, 462 P Street, Southwest, apartment 1, shot and killed Leo Scott, 42, of Washington Court, Southwest, after he had knocked unconscious her newest paramour and was beating her across the head and body with an iron pipe. Following an inquest at the District Morgue Monday morning Miss Watson was exonerated when a jury brought in a verdict of justified homicide. Miss Watson left the hearing crying and leaning on the arms of Augustus Johnson, her latest lover. She was represented by Attorney John H. Wilson. POLICE SOUGHT SCOTT The young woman in testifying in her own behalf told the jury that she was being attacked at the time she reached under a mattress and fired the fatal shot. She had sworn out a warrant for Scott's arrest the day before the killing. Officer Herbert B. R. Tector, of No.2 Precinct, testified that he told Miss Watson on Friday that she had a right to protect herself in her own home. The policeman said Scott had attacked and beaten Miss Watson on December 10 and on December 15. Both times she appealed to the police who advised her to have him arrested. Police were searching for the man at the time he was killed. JOHNSON KNOCKED UNCONSCIOUS Augustus Johnson who testified that he lived with Miss Watson, said that on Saturday morning as he started to leave the apartment about 5 a.m. he was struck across the head as he opened the door. He said he turned in time to see Scott who struck him again several times across the head and body, rendering him unconscious. He did not remember what took place after that time. Miss Watson stated that after Johnson was knocked out Scott advanced on her with the pipe and struck her several times across the head and arms. While being beaten she reached under a mattress, grabbed her revolver and fired. Scott was pronounced dead at Freedmen's Hospital by Dr. James A. Myles. Dr. Myles also treated Miss Watson who had a badly swollen arm and a cut lip, and Johnson who had a cut across his head which required five stitches. FEARED MAN It was brought out by witnesses and police that Scott weighed 215 pounds, while Miss Watson weighed 110. She said she was a raid of the man who had threatened her life since she refused to live with him. She said at one time he burned all of her clothes and had beaten her several times. The jury of six white men deliberated hardly five minutes before the verdict was returned. Miss Watson, who is a comely woman and was neatly dressed, rushed into the arms of her new lover who said he had been living with her for about two months. She left the morgue clinging to his arm and weeping. Car Skids Into Rear of Machine Injuring Cranker Edward Daniel, 2928 Fourteenth Street. Northwest, was cranking his car at Eleventh and Euclid Streets. Northwest, early this week when a cab skidded in the snow and struck the rear of his machine, throwing him into the air and fracturing, his jaw. Daniel was treated at Garfield Hospital and later removed to his home. Lamp Hurled at Opponent During Altercation During a fight at 2211 Georgia Avenue, Northwest, Dudley Whitehead, 32, 2211 Georgia Avenue Northwest, was hit in the face with a lamp by Orlando Jones, of the same address. The man walked to Fredmen's Hospital where he was treated for severe lacerations of the scalp. Union Station Red Cap Kills Estranged Wife And Commits Suicide Boat's Cook Forced to Leap Overboard When Tug Springs Leak Chester Sterling, 26-year-old cook, of Crisfield, Md., was none the worst today from his thrilling experience. Monday, when he was forced to leap into the icy waters of the Potomac from the tug, S.S. Capitol, which had sprung a leak and began sinking. Leo Lawson and Martin Kenney, white members of the crew, also took to the water. The tug sprang a leak while tied to the wharf. Stirling was sleeping in the kitchen unclothed when he was awakened by the crew and jumped into the water, with the other two men. The captain, Nonie Holland, had been sleeping in the wheel house and managed to leap onto a barge to which the tug was tied. He was fully clothed and suffered no ill effects. Sterling and the other two were in their night clothes when they leaped overboard and a warmer through the icy waters to the barge. They were shuffled to the bone. The men tried to keep warm by building a fire. This proved unavailing. When rescued Sterling and his two companions were suffering from exposure and running a fever. They were taken to Emergency Hospital, where they quickly recovered. TAXI DRIVER HELD ON SERIOUS ASSAULT CHARGE Geo. Robinson Also Fined for Destroying Private Property George Robinson, cab driver, was held for the Grand Jury under bond of $10,000 in Police Court Monday by Judge Ralph Given on a charge of attempting to criminally assault a twenty-year-old girl. He was also sentenced to serve six months in jail and pay a $50 fine on assault and destruction of property charges growing out of attempts by two persons to thwart the attack. The girl told the court that after seeing a movie in Georgetown last week she visited a speakeasy where she had a number of drinks. She hired Robinson's cab, she testified, to drive her home and her next recollection was struggling with the cab driver in a room in the 2100 block of Vermont Avenue, Northwest. Ruth Mills, proprietress of the Vermont Avenue rooming house, and William Dickerson testified that Robinson assaulted them when they attempted to cease the struggle between him and the girl. The Mills girl also said that Robinson kicked down a door during the struggle. Innocent Roomer Struck with Hammer During Melee During an altercation at 2226 Twelfth Street, Northwest, between Henry Clark and Nettie Derrick, both of the same address, Lawrence Griffe, 30, also of the Twelfth Street home, who was sitting at a nearby table, was hit over the head with a hammer, Griffe, a roomer at the house, was treated at Freedmen's Hospital. Clark who, police say, wielded the hammer was arrested and charged with assault. A GOOD SUGGESTION is a Christmas present or a New gift—a year's subscription to theington Tribune would be appreciated her relative or friend. It would be welcome weekly reminder of your lightfulness. May we expect a sub- ion from you? As a Christmas present or a New Year's gift—a year's subscription to the Washington Tribune would be appreciated by either relative or friend. It would be a welcome weekly reminder of your thoughtfulness. May we expect a subscription from you? THREE KILLED BY ALAMABA MOB ```markdown ``` Mrs. Estelle Bolling Dies on Same Day of Four Bullet Wounds COMMON - LAW MATE OF WOMAN ARRESTED Both Bodies Claimed by Brother of Dead Man Two Days Later William H, Bolling, 45-year-old red cap, fatally wounded his estranged wife, Mrs. Estelle Bolling, 34, and then killed himself by firing a bullet through his head during an altercation at his wife's apartment, 14 1 Street, Northwest, Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Bolling died at Carnegie Hospital Sunday night. He was 81 years old instantly, said phylid, or when he was pital who he ended to a dead in the Street address. Woosie is a Down Street. Mrs. Lewis Waters, who lives on the second floor of the house, said she was looking out of the front window when she saw Bolling drive up in his car. Soon after she reached his apartment on the third floor she heard four shots and the sound of a body falling down the stairs. Mrs. Waters said when she went to her door she saw Mrs. Bolling huddled in a corner of the hall and moaning. The hall and steps were covered with blood. Mrs. Waters ran to the janitress's apartment and the two women summoned officers. Mrs. Waters' said on her return to the Bollings' apartment she saw the husband lying on the floor with a bullet wound in his head. OTHER MAN ARRESTED Police were informed that the Bollings were separated and Mrs. Bolling was living with a man named Herman Ladd. This man was arrested by police of No. 1 Precinct, but was released Tuesday. Residents at the house said Mrs. Bolling and Ladd moved into the apartment about two months ago. They told neighbors they were married. Bodies of the dead man and his wife were taken to the District morgue where they were claimed by Samuel Bolling, Sheriff Road and Eastern Avenue, Northeast, a brother. Both bodies were sent to the undertaking parlor of Henry S. Washington, 467 N Street, Northwest. Interment will be this week. Bolling had been a red cap at Union Station for some time and was well liked by his fellow workers. MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Three men were killed here this week by white mobs and six were arrested. The men were killed defending themselves from the whites in a share-croppers' fight. Four deputies were wounded when they sought to attach live stock owned by Cliff James, a colored farmer. Sheriff Sam Stearns, of Montgomery, said the bodies of two of the men were found on a hillside and that of the third in a yard. He said three of the six arrested were placed in jail at Tuskegee and Sheriff Hasty Golden, of Wetumpka, had charges of the others. Sheriff Golden said feeling was high in Tallapoosa County, and that at least 50 cars of armed men were scouring the countryside for men who allegedly engaged in battle with the deputies. Two of the men killed were John Mullen and Judson Simpson, but did not know the other. Mullen was killed at the farmhouse and Simpson was slain by the posse when he was found in his home. White Southerners claim Communistic literature was found in the house. JOHN T. RHINES Leads the Way in SUPERIOR FUNERALS at a NEW LOW COST This Beautiful Casket in a Complete Funeral—Including Everything Except Grave for $275.00 We Buy In Carload Lots Doctors Recommend Our Modern Ambulance This Casket Formerly Sold For . . . $350.00 We Can Also Give You A Complete Funeral $50 Including a Grave for . . . . Other Less Expensive Funerals at Proportional Savings JOHN T. RHINES & CO. 901 3rd St., S.W. Metropolitan 8401 221 N. Patrick Street Alex., Va. Phone 620 BAPTIST DEACONS INSTALL OFFICERS Members of Body Contribute to Baskets for Needy on Christmas Day The General Baptist Deacons' Association of Washington and Vicinity, and its auxiliaries, held installation of officers, Monday night at the Shiloh Baptist Church. The president, James Ross, conducted the service. The inclement weather failed to affect the attendance, and each membc. contributed articles for baskets to be given needy persons in the community on Christmas Day. The Rev. W. B. Robertson, pastor of the Lakeland Baptist Church, installed the officers, including Mr. Ross and Mrs. P. Ross, president of the Ladies' Auxiliary. Emancipation Service to be Held at Metropolitan An emancipation service will be held at Metropolitan A. M. E. Church Sunday, January 1 at 3:30 p. m. under the auspices of the Better Citizens' National Council, formerly Better Citizens' Bureau. The council will be assisted by the Interdenominational Usheres Union. Speakers will be Senator King, of Utah; Dr. John R. Hawkins, W. H. Davis and the Rev. J. C. Olden. The object of the meeting is to launch the 70th anniversary of Negro emancipation with a closer affiliation between the Negro and the government. Officers of the council are: the Rev. W. W. H. Jernagin, president; Morris Lewis, first vice president; Dr. C. Herbert Marshall, second vice president; Campbell C. Johnson, executive secretary; W. H. C. Brown, treasurer, and the Rev. J. C. Olden, field director. WJZ to Broadcast Harlem Choir There will be a special broadcast by the Eva Jessye Choir, Christmas Day, seven o'clock p. m., Eastern Standard Time, over WJZ of New York City or WBAL in Baltimore. For the first time in radio will be revealed the part played by the dark races of earth in the Nativity, Baltasar, the Black Magi, will be portrayed by Frank Wilson, noted actor. The entire episode will be narrated in Negro Spirituals by the Eva Jessye Choir. The Men's Brotherhood of Lincoln Congregational Temple will meet Sunday morning at 9:45. Brief devotions will be led by John H. Williams. The meditation of Christmas will be, given by Prof. Richard H. Hill, of Howard University. At the regular 11 o'clock service, the pastor, the Rev. R. W. Brooks, will speak from the theme, "A Christmas Message for p Hungry World." Special Christmas music will be furnished by the vested chorus choir. The Young People's C. E. Society will present a candle light service at 7 p.m. A special New Year's prayer service will be held Thursday evening. The public is cordially invited to all of these services. Mrs. H. Brown Addresses Art and Literature Group Mrs. Hilda W. Brown gave an illustrated talk to the Art and Literature Group, Saturday evening, December 17th, at the residence of Misses Lois Jones and Gertrude McBrown. Mrs. Brown traced the history of the Christmas story as portrayed in Christian Art, beginning with the Byzantine period to the present time. After her discussion, the members present joined in a group discussion. Members present were Misses Gertrude McBrown, Lois M. Jones, Marion Conover; Mesdames Louise Lovett, Dorothy Porter; Messrs. Ferdinand Rousseve, James Porter, Victor Daly, Eddie Lovett, and Hillary Robinson. To The Tribune: The best way to do you to tell Santa Claus to come to see us children. We live on Spring Street in Cedar Heights. There are eleven of us children. The oldest is 13 years old and the youngest is 12 months old. My father has had but little work to do. My address is Cedar Heights, Seat Pleasant P.O., Md. Hone to hear from you. Christa Dear Santa: Please don't forget us this Christmas. You were real nice to us last Christmas, and we thank you very much. You can bring whatever you want. I live at 719 Columbia Road, Northwest, Henry Smallwood. Dear Santa Claus: You were so good to me last Christmas. I hope you will not forget me this year. I was living at 1327 C Street, Southeast, last Christmas, but have moved to 1374 C Street, Southeast. Argie Hawkins. (Age 6) Statuette Unveiled at at Asbury M.E. Church A bronze statuette, a figure of Jesus Christ holding a colored and a white child in his arms, was unveiled at the Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church on last Sunday night. Kelly Miller of Howard University, Miss Evelyn Green and Dr. R. F. Coates, district superintendent of the church, were among those who participated on the program. The statuette, which is the work of Mae Howard Jackson has been rated by art critics as the best piece of the sculpture. "Southernaires" Render Concert More than 2,000 persons filled the auditorium of Metropolitan A. M.E. Church last Friday night to hear the Southernaires, concert and radio singers, in a recital. An ovation followed a striking rendition of "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny," at the conclusion of the program, in tribute to James Bland, former Howard University student and minstrel, the author of this and other famous Southern melodies. The program, principally of spirituels, added dramatic features, and freak instrumentation, to such songs as "Goin' Down South," "Wade in the Water," "Deep River," and a medley by Will Marion Cook. Especially pleasing was the dramatic rendition of the "Negro Work Song," and a bass solo from the opera, "Old Man Satan." The Sunday afternoon services of the Eliza A. Duffield Service Mission will be held at Trinity Church, Morton Street, between Georgia and Sherman Avenues, Northwest, at 5 o'clock. Christmas carols and good speaking. Hot coffee will be served. Elizabeth Duffield-Wedlake, director. Social Welfare Group to Distribute Baskets The Social Welfare Association through donations of its members has collected food for Christmas baskets, which will be distributed to needy families Christmas Eve. Members of the group will gather at the home of Miss Marvis Taylor, 1255-a Carrollburgh Place, Northwest, chairman of the committee on distribution, prior to taking out the baskets. Paris Henderson is president, Ruth E. Ashton, secretary of the association. Million-Dollar Wedding by Dunbar Center The annual Million Dollar Wedding was given Friday night, under the auspices of Dunbar Community Center. Many beautiful girls, gorgeously gowned, took part in the affair which was quite brilliant. The two blushing brides, the Misses Anna and Lydia Johnson, dressed in pastel shades with long trailing veils escorted by the grooms, Messrs. Fred Norman and Benjamin Jackson made a very impressive and colorful picture. The ring bearer "Skippy" Hammond, two years old, was the sensation of the evening. He was quite grand in full dress suit and carried out his part to the letter. Others who participated were Misses Nettie Hicks, Bernie Bowie, Edna Rayson, Genevieve Smith, Durilla Kent, Fannie Cranton, and Lillian Crawford, Messrs. Howard I. Jones, Jr., Harold Smith, William Thomas, Lee Turner, Charles Norris, James Hooker and Brice. G. A. Jacksin presided at the organ. The rice throwers were Minnie Dorsey and Marion Lewis. The flower girls were Jessie Mae Chinn and Cornelia Johnson. Julia Victor Key Buried at Home in Pomonkey Funeral services for Julia Victor Key who died late last week was held at her home in Pomonkey, Md, her native home, early this week. Mrs. Key who had lived in Washington for sometime was a member of the Metropolitan Church of Pomonkey. NINETEENTH STREET BAPTIST CHURCH Rev Walter H. Brooks, L.D., Pastor Rev. Henry J. Booker, Th.B. Rev. George A. Parker, L.L.B. 5:30 a.m.—The Christian Endeavor Society will conduct the early morning service. 11:00 a.m.—Dr. Benjamin Brawley, of Howard University, will preach. 8:00 p.m.—The Christian Endeavor Society will conduct the service. FRIENDSHIP BAPTIST First and H Stu., S.W. Rev. B, H. Whiting, Paster SUNDAY SERVICES 9:30 a.m.-Sunday School 10:30 a.m.-Monday Service. 6:00 p.m.-B.Y.H.U. 8:00 p.m.-Evening Service. THE WASHINGTON TRIBUNE. DECEMBER 28, 1932 Annual Candlelight Service at Rankin Chapel The annual candlelight services at Howard University were held in the Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel on last Sunday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. These services replaced the usual morning religious services. Miss Mary P. Burrill of the English department of the Dunbar High School, gave her eleventh consecutive reading of Henry Van Dyke's "The Other Wise Man." Music for the occasion was furnished by the university choir and young women of the university, who made up the candlelight procession. SPEAKERS ASK AID FOR BAPTIST HOME FOR AGED Financial Secretary's Report Shows $300 Deficit for Year Meeting at the Florida Avenue Baptist Church Monday afternoon, the Baptist Ministers' Conference of Washington and Vicinity suspended the order of the day to hear a corps of speakers urge the ministry to give its conceitured support for the maintenance of the Stoddard Baptist Home for the Aged. Only forty-two persons, the lowest attendance at a conference session in several years, were present to receive the program sponsored by the Ministers' and Laymen's Union of the Home. The Rev. William Chambers led the singing and the Rev. Robert Anderson led the devotionals. Mrs. T. Sanders, financial secretary of the Home, briefly discussed the financial condition of the organization and reported a deficit of $300 for the current year. Dr. McDonald Harper of Freedmen's Hospital staff, and physician for the inmates of the Home, reviewed the medical care given the inmates. Declaring that the Christians should forget the denominational differences and think of the human needy, Mrs. S. Wheeler of the Shiloh Baptist Church spoke on "Should the Home be Perpetuated by the Baptists?" The Rev. W. H. Jernagin, chairman of the trustee board of the Home, addressed the body on "The Service the Home Renders." Mrs. S. F. Lewis, superintendent of the Home, also gave a short talk on the activities of the inmates. URGES CONSOLIDATION Attorney George W. Parker, legal adviser for the Home, in his appeal for the benefit of the Home charged that the churches had shifted the responsibility to the Community Chest and had failed to continue the support given the Home prior to the organization of the chest in this city. He further urged the Ministers' and Laymen's Union, the governing body of the Home, to merge with the Stoddard Baptist Home thereby making one vast organization in support of the Home instead of two. Attorney Parker suggested the new organization be called the Stoddard Baptist Home Association. Man Scalds Hands by Turning Over Hot Water Johnnie Jones, 27, 1839 T Street, Northwest, was treated at Freedmen's Hospital early this week for severe burns received when he turned a kettle of hot water over at his home. Both of the man's hands were scalded. 198 PUPILS GIVEN 5-POINT AWARDS AT DUNBAR HIGH Dr. Montague Cobb, Speaker at Assembly, Urges Care in Living Dunbar High School held its first annual Five Point assembly Wednesday morning. Health honor awards or Five-Point Certificates were given to 198 pupils. Dr. Montague Cobb, professor of anatomy at Howard Medical School and an alumnus of Dunbar, delivered an illustrated talk to the assembly. Emphasis was placed upon the greater life hazards confronting the lowest down economic class in any society. "Relief from handicapping strains and drains due to physical defects is one way to keep vital and alive," said the speaker. He showed the wise provision of nature in giving growing mankind a long adolescent period in which adjustments may be made, whereas in the animal kingdom next to man this growing period is fast, short and tremendous and is fraught with greatest danger. He urged greater care in laying the physical basis for a long, successful, and happy life. Garnet C, Wilkinson, first assistant superintendent of public schools, urged the maintenance of health as an effective aid to living and not solely to win an award. Edwin B. Henderson indicated that this assembly was chiefly to start the follow-up campaign in which pupils with defects will be constrained to relieve themselves of these handicaps. Dr. Cohn was pointed out as an example of one who engaged in athletics in college and high school yet who did not let down in his aspirations to a life of service. Walter L. Smith, principal of Dunbar, presided and urged the pupils to plan during the coming months of school to join the roll of the Five-Pointers. Girls to whom the awards were made are: Ruth Alexander, Evelyn Davidson, Blanche Jones, Evelyn Lassery, Theresa Gregg, Hope Carrol, Elizabeth Johnson, Julia Brooks, Alice Davis, Naomi Dishman, Louise Foster, Betty Francis, Mabelle Jones, Alice Parker, Altha Saunders, Cyrene Moseley, Sally Tancil, Evelyn Washington, Margery Hubbard, Annie Daniels, Juanita Dickson, Dorothy Simmons, Gwendolyn Walker, Annie Burwell, Dorothy Clark, Ada Dean, Phylis Greefield, Esther Cooper, Ruth Brown, Louise Newman, Margaret Joy, Geraldine Walker, Alice Witherspoon, Catherine Campbell, Camille Ford, Margaret Bell, Francis Curtis, Arleaser Dalton, Jesse Foy, Earline Harrison, Madhra Wikins, Carmetta Bryant, Nora Mae Rasbeh Ertha Hunter, Lorraine McCotry, Matilde Smith, Ruth Smith, Anna Simmons, Edith Lee, Alfreda Wood, Charlotte Stultz, Grace Richardson, Ethel Brown, Thelma Brunner, Omenda Byman, Anna Haywood, Rita Thompson, Octavia Hicks, Bernice Summers, Eloise Smith, Ethel Dyer, Christelle Judkins, Catherine Brooks, Elizabeth Levy, Louise Burwell, Anna Johnson, Hilda Evans, Juanita Evans, Francis Shanklin, Cleo Brown, Mildred Davidson, Mary Moss, Esther Morton, Esther Russel, Alberta Ridgely, Patricia Stewart, Elizabeth Smith, Sary Gary, Margaret Travers, Thelma Wormley, Elanor Carter, India Wallace, Zelma Chaney, Elizabeth Briscoe, Mozelle Wing, Vivian Shaw, Frances Brown, Clara Evans, Frances Hamilton. D1—William Davis, Philip Smith, Oneil Henderson. A3—Oliver Beckwith, Charles Brown, Berkely Burrell, Francis Chunn, William English, Oliver Gilmore, Warren Gordon, James Henderson, Nathaniel Johnson, Stanley Grant, Willis Madden, Joseph Martin, Lee Rayford. C8—Fred Smith, James Page, William Thomas. A7—Alfred Awkard, Algernon Belcher, James Carpenter, Joseph Douglass, James Johnson, James Minor, William Simpson, Richard Ware. B6—Charles Adams, Joseph Bostic, Melvin Jackson, John Lightfoot, Cecil Moorman, William Price, James Porter. E1—Joseph Dyer, Russell Butler, Quintin Newkirk. E3—James Brack, Ralph Crawford, Erlst Duckett, Harry Okelly. K3—Festus Cutherson, Dennette Herrred, Albert Cherry, William Knox, Richard Turley. G4—Charles Clark, Thomas Collins, George Cooper, Granville Johnson, Ignatius Smith. F4—Cross David, William Hightower, Sildons Perry, James Wormley, Richard Smith, William Randolph, Edward Lacey, Cornelius Johnson, Kenneth Garnes, Kato Hunter. F5—Francis Foreman, Charles Moore, George Murray, Eugene Neal, Horae-Randolph, Halley Taylor, Levern Jackson, Ernst Marshall, James Dade, Alexander Merritt. E2—Carrington Davis, Geary Curtis. A4—Kemii McColeman, Ollie Norris, Earl Hyman, James Wood. C2- Jerome' Ford.-Robert. Glenn, Otho Thomas, Leon Turner, Ulysses Banks, Oswald Garner. B8- James Gantt, William McConnell, Kelsey Pharr, Harold Randolph, George Thornton. B7- Harry Barnum, John Murray, Clyde Williams, Wilmer Dickerson, Philip Harris, James Short, William Frazier, Gilbert Diggs. E6- Manuel Brown, Harvey Early, Charles Smith, Percy Waits, William Jones, James Haywood, James Robinson, Rodney Savoy, Walter Stewart, James Tinsley, Jesse Tyler. Scottsboro Decision Helps Man in Georgia M A C O N. Ga.—(CNS)—The speedy trial of John Downer, in a courtroom lined with national guardmen following an effort by a crowd of men to take the man out of jail, was nullified last week in a notice by Federal Judge Basson S. Deaver that on December 23 he would sign an order discharging Downer. The Negro was sentenced to death for an attack on a young white woman at a one-day trial only nine days after the crime and seven days after his arrest. Solicitor-General A. S. Skelton, of the Elberton superior Court, where Downer was convicted, said when notified of Judge Deaver's ruling that officials there had "anticipated such a decision since the supreme court ruling on the Scottsboro case" and had made preparations. A warrant for the re-arrest of Dower had been in the hands of the sheddiff of Bibb county at Macon for sometime. A speedy retrial will be given the prisoner. BISHOP THIRKIELD TO PAY TRIBUTE TO GAMMON'S DONOR Prelate Principal Speaker on Founder's Day Program Atlanta, Ga.—Bishop Wilbur P. Thirkield of New York will deliver the Founder's Day address at Gammon Theological Seminary, this city, at 2:30 Thursday afternoon, the 22nd. An interesting musical program under the direction of Prof. Fred Hall will be rendered also, including selections from "Heritage," Prof. Hall's new pageant of Negro music from primitive days down to the present. Gammon's new president, Dr. Willis J. King, will preside, and will also give a reception in Bishop Thirkield's honor on Thursday evening. The speaker of the occasion, who was then a young preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church, came to Atlanta in 1883 as the first president of Gammon Seminary, and continued in that capacity for seventeen years. Under his administration the institution developed rapidly to a place of first importance among American theological schools. To date it has trained more than 1,700 students for the ministry, many of whom are in positions of notable leadership. The present enrollment is 175, representing seventeen states and seven different denominations. The institution was established and endowed through the generosity of an Illinois Methodist layman, E. H. Gammon, for whom it was named. Youth Hurt Sledding Injured while sledding down Seventh Street, early this week, Charles King, 23, was given treatment at Freedmen's Hospital for finger lacerations. He was later removed to his home, 658 M Street, Northeast. MARRIAGE LICENSES JACKSON-WILLIAMS—Wilbert, 25, to Marie, 26, Rev. W. Westray. BARNES-HILLIAMS-William, 27, to Rev. W. Taylor. GREEN-MITCHELL-James, 21 to Dorothy, 19, Rev. W. L. Washington. CAMPBELL-HOLLOWAY-William, 21 to Okeechobee, 19, Grymes. ORIG-JAVALE-Alfred, 27 to Viola, 26. Judge R. E. Mattingly. FRANKLIN-RUSSELL-Charles, 51 to Lyonna. LUCAS-WILLIAM James, 32 to Howard. 22, Rev. K. W. Roy. BROWN-STEADMAN — James, 22 to Esie Mae, 10. Rev. F. Williams. Jones, 10. SMITH-WASHINGTON —Anderson, 33 to Margaret, 20. Rev. W. Jones. SMITH-WASHINGTON —I to Mamie, 18. Judge R. E. Mattingly. SCOTT-CLARK-N. Preston, 23 to Eulalia, 19. Rev. E. C. Smith. MORGAN-HELL-BELL-William, 29 to Frances, 22. Rev. W. Harris. SMITH-JERKINS-James, 36 to Helena, 22. Rev. William Fantroy. STEEN-ART-DICKERSON—John, 34 to Vince, E. Williams. BROWN-TIBBS-George, 23 to Edith, 21. Rev. G. E. Carter. RAGLAND-JOHNSON-Joe, 33 to Mary, Roy. SKEETER-CRISTINA-Joy, 25 to Helen, 24. Rev. O. Tyler. THOMPINKS-PATTERSON-William, 25 to Willie Mae, 18. Rev. K. W. Roy. FOREST-CARNER —Edward, 21 to Thelm, Bebenstein. THOMAS-GRISBY-William, Mamie BIRTHS Clifford G. and Vivian Green, boy Earlie and Edna R. Parish, boy Charles P. and Estelle Gibson, boy, David and Helen Wells, girl Nathan and Neil Watt, boy Joseph I. and Rachael Johnson, boy Nathaniel R. and Annie Green, boy Geo. W. and Thelma Kirksey, girl William W. and Grace Montague, girl Othellia and Virginia Stith, boy Othellia and Virginia Stith, boy William M. and Beulah Daniels, girl Jerome and Edna Hall, girl Chas. A. and Florence Nokes, girl Harry A. and Ellis Paine, boy Othellia and Ellis Paine, boy Lynn and Elizabeth King, girl Lucius and May M. Landers, girl Charles and Alberta James, girl Albert and Bertha Manlin, girl Jasmina and Susie James, girl William and Susie James, girl Fred and Odena Barber, girl Thomas N. and Mary E. Proctor, girl Leonard S. and Estelle E. Smith, girl Holmes N. and Beatrace Handsford, girl Hargareth B. and Ettler, boy James A. and Roen Mullin Charlie A. and Ira M. Saunders, boy Jesse and Marie Stover, boy Charles W. and Geraldine E. Shaw, boy Charles and F. E. Washington, boy Congress and Mabel L. Williams, boy Benj. and Lillian T. Thompson, boy Junior and Lillian Richardson, boy Wildife F. and Mary M. Morton, boy Eddie C. and Everlane Carmichael, boy Alen J. and Annie M. Williams, boy Edward and Anna K. York, boy Jesse and Annie Philson, girl William and Catherine Johnson, girl Colorbus and Dolla L. Murray, girl Melvin and Dovella Young, girl William and Beatrice Bell, girl French E. and Alma B. Carter, girl Thomas N. and Louise I. Corbett, boy Issac J. and Vola Tonkins, boy Oakley and Co. Ockley, boy Harvey and Marie Dockery, boy Spencer and Annie M. Berry, boy SEVEN-FOOT STAR DECORATES CHURCH FOR XMAS SEASON DEATHS Ariaham Champ, 70, U. S. Soldiers Home Hoon. Florence Givings, 56, 1318 Fla. Ave., nw. Jeanneette Thomas, 46, 346 V St. nw. Sammie Richardson, 37, 68 Pierce St., nw. Jinnie Brown, 24, Gallinger Hosp. Infant of Mary Johnson, 10 hrs., Gallinger, Horn. linger Hosp. William T. Naylor, 92, 1133 20th St. n.w. Sytrah Waddell, 32, St. Elizabth. Joseph Rich, 70, Home for Aged and In- firm. William Bolling, 61, 5353 Rd. rd. n.e. Oliver Griffin, 61, Geogetown Hosp. Spencer Martin, 60, Home for Aged and Infirm. William Bolling, 61, 5353 Rd. rd. n.e. Oliver Griffin, 61, Geogetown Hosp. Spencer Martin, 60, Home for Aged and Infirm. William Bolling, 61, 5353 Rd. rd. n.e. Oliver Griffin, 61, Geogetown Hosp. Spencer Martin, 60, Home for Aged and Infirm. Elizabeth Tolson, 66, 529 3rd St. s.w. Annie Johnson, 65, 411 N St. n.w. Jane Williams, 62, 616 11th St. n.w. Gail Williams, 62, 616 11th St. n.w. Clarence Warzen, 44, Gallinger Hosp. Ludora Wilson, 32, Gallinger Hosp. Albert F. Wilson, 31, en route Casualty Hosp. Nora Jones, 1, 643 Girard St. n.w. Anna Kelly, 65, Emergency Hosp. Lucas Davis, 61, Emergency Hosp. Luke Davis, 61, Emergency Hosp. William Kelty, 40, St. Elizabth. Daisy Robinson, 24, Home for Aged and Infirm. Thomas Chavis, 23, Emergency Hosp. James Peoples, 20, Gallinger Hosp. Infant of Joe, and Mary Gibson, 14 days. Infant of Lem and Mary Howard, 13 days, Gallinger Hoop. Gallegos Hosp (Gallegos Hosp and Sarah Kinkle, 2 days, 441 N St., n.w. Leatha Simms, 66. Gallinger Hosp. John Willis Rawlings, 42. Casualty Hosp. Stanley Shephard, 35. Gallinger Hosp. Arthur Massey, 32. 1915 12th St. n.w. Frank Barr, 30. Gallinger Hosp. Charles Washington, 20. Gallinger Hosp. James M. Smeets, 36. Adams Hosp. Thomas H. Hammond, 1830 St. n.w. Abraham Gregory, 52. St. Eliz. Hosp. Emma Butler, 50 Home for Aged and Infirm. Lillian L. Dodson, 49. 203 Elm St. n.w. Hilda P. McCarthy, 39. Casualty Hosp. William H. Powell, 31. Gallinger Hosp. Charles S. Graves, 26. 414 A. A. N. a. Fannie Fountain, 20. Gallinger Hosp. Infant of Hurb and Mary Lyon, 1 day. Gallinger Hosp. Julia McDowell, 79. 1930 Fairmont St. n.w. A. P. Brown, 54. Gallinger Hosp. Alice Noland, 21. Gallinger Hosp. Bernice Cooper, 28. Freedman's Hosp. James Thomas, 4 m. 469 C. St. s.w. Washington at Random (Continued from page 9) a soothing conection for depres- For HIGH-CLASS E Call North 17 MCGUIRE'S FU 1820 to 1824 N Built on Twenty We can plan a MC funeral or as an I vice as you care COST is left ENTIT OWN DECISION. service from the l finish—WHEN CA NO paid SOLICIT NERS." ROBERT G. Mc ETHICAL MC The Osteopat 1826 Ninth Street, N.W. DR. T. THEO. 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The star may be seen from all parts of Anacostia and nearby districts. 1 barspoon of good luck % pony of good cheer 2 shots of good friends 1 dash of good fortune SMILE AT DEPRESSION Louis Armstrong (best known on the great white ways of two continents as the King of Cornetists) is a most devout believer of the cheerful philosophy of that song he made famous, "Keep on Smiling." He's a boom to depression, he smiles all the time at work and at play, and even in his serious moods. As a child (years ago) until now I have always been impressed with the jovial and hilarious moods of "fat people" (they really seem to be jollier than any other group). Louis is true to type. One just can't help laughing with him in his clownish antics—his mithful buoyancy is contagious. When he sings "that freakish voice" enthralls you—sweet, soothing—a vocal symphony of strange harmonies. The man has music in his bones, his whole body works with him when he sings. Off stage he is frank, interesting, amusing. Between shows he was telling a group of admirers of his jolly time in Merrie England and all the while proudly flashing his gold cornet—a gift from English admirers. Yes he was even presented at "courts," but as he laughingly remarks, not the courts of St. James. ETHICAL SERVICE 762 or 3747 MINERAL HOME ninth St., N. W. Years of Merit DESTLY priced Expensive a Ser- to buy. The RELY to YOUR We are at your beginning to the ALLED. We have ORS nor "RUN- GUIRE & SON ORTICIANS Athic Infirmary Washington, D.C. ARKER, in Charge of Osteopathy Systems of Healing has, by results obtained through RING of human ailments, public confidence. Athic Treatment Stands on es Every Form of Disease Gives Surprisingly Quick, hundreds of Cases Which other Acute, Chronic, or --- BEST NEWS OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL ALPHAS TO HOLD PUBLIC SESSION THURSDAY NIGHT Dr. Robert P. Daniel to Address Public Meeting; Social Affairs Planned Dr. Robert P. Daniel, professor of education at Union University, will be the guest speaker at 8 p.m. Thursday, December 29, in Andrew Rankin Chapel, Howard University, at the public session of the regional conference of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. All business sessions of the convention will be held in the auditorium of the Howard University Medical School. The complete program adopted by the Beta and Mu-Lambda chapters in a pre-convention smoker attended by seventy-five brothers last Saturday night at the fraternity house, is as follows: Thursday morning -- Presiding officer, Thomas H. H. Henderson, Virginia Union University, The Rev. R. W. Brooks, pastor of Lincoln Congregational Temple and member of the faculty of Howard University, will pronounce the invocation and benediction. Frank Adams, assistant district attorney of the District of Columbia, will deliver the welcome address. The founder's address will be delivered by George B. Kelly, of Albany, New York. Problems confronting the pledge club, graduate initiation, and grand taxes will be discussed at the opening session. At the afternoon session, Prentice Thomas, member of Beta chapter, will pronounce the invocation, after which there will be a discussion of chapter programs, fraternity houses and scholarships. Under the latter heading consideration will be given to raising standards in the undergraduate chapters, and promoting higher scholarship through the aid of graduate chapters. The public session will be held on Thursday evening, with Attorney Belford V. Lawson, Jr., Beta chapter, and chairman of the general committee, presiding. Invocation and benediction will be offered by the Rev. Richard H. Hill, of the Howard University School of Religion. After the singing of the Negro National Anthem there will be an introduction of fraternity and sorority representatives, including: Alpha Kappa Alpha, Kappa Alpha Psi, Delta Sigma Theta, Omega Psi Phi, Zeta Phi Beta, Phi Beta Sigma, Sigma Gamma Rho, Chi Delta Mu, Phi Delta Kappa, Tau Delta Kappa, Tau Delta Sigma, Epsilon Sigma Iota, Cusp and Crown Fraternity. Musical selections will be given by R. Todd Duncan and Cecil R. Cohen, of the School of Music, Howard University, with the welcome address by Dr. Emmett J. Scott, secretary-treasurer of Howard, and an introduction of the guest speaker by J. H. B. Evans, general secretary of the fraternity. Following the address by Eugene Kinckle Jones will be remarks by Dr. Charles H. Wesley, general president of the fraternity. Introduction of general officers, jewels, and chapter presidents, followed by singing of the Alpha Hymn, will conclude the public session. Following this session, there will be a formal reception in the university dining hall. The session, Friday morning, will be devoted to a discussion on chapter budgets, the educational program of the fraternity, future trends of the organization, the constitution and the general convention. A buffet lunchon will be served by Zeta Phi Beta sorority at the Phyllis Wheatley Y.W.C.A., after which there will be a sight-sseeing tour sponsored by the Delta Sigma Theta sorority at 2 p.m. Beginning at 4 p.m., there will be an "at home" at the fraternity house, 1917 Third Street, Northwest, with Leroy Scurry, of Beta chapter, and George Cochron, of Mu-Lambda chapter, in charge. The convention proper will close with a banquet, Friday evening in the university dining hall, with 1.0fessor Rayford Logan, formerly of Virginia Union University faculty, serving as toastmaster, and Eustace Cann, of the Howard University medical school as pep dispenser. Historical background of the Alpha ritual will be discussed by Leo Hansbringer, of the Howard University faculty, and a graduate student in anthropology at Harvard University. "The Neophyte's Dream" will be presented by John Ragbir, and aspects of anthropodean humor by Dr. O. W. Winters of Philadelphia. The fraternal address will be delivered by Howard H. Long, first assistant superintendent of public schools, D.C. with messages from the chapters and general presidents. The regional vice-president will make the closing address. Chairman of the several committees follow: Attorney B. V. Lawson, general committee; Walter R. Thornhill, of the faculty of romance languages, Howard University, registration committee; Gustav Auzenne, Jr., of the department of commerce and finance at Howard, finance; Attorney Frank Adams, social committee; John H. Williams, registrar of Miner Teachers' College, housing committee; Attorney James G. Tyson, program committee; and Attorney Emery B. Smith, publicity. Gov. Pearson's Reforms Do Not Appeal to Virgin Islanders Gov. Pearson's Reforms Do Not Appeal to Virgin Islanders Capital News Service the Colonial Councils of the Virgin Islands have just sent a letter, formulated by its leaders, to the Joint Congressional Committee on Territorial and Insular Affairs, charging among other things, that Governor Paul M. Pearson is using his influence to make the organic act proposed for Puerto Rico, with slight modifications, applicable to the Virgin Islands. The councils make it plain that such an eventuality would be unacceptable to the islanders themselves. This matter has been in dispute ever since Pearson came to the islands, and it is recalled that prior to Governor Pearson's inauguration President Hoover had informed the councils that a new organic act was under consideration in Washington, but despite this fact the Governor publicly urged the councils to draw up their own plans for purposes of comparison. The position of the councils is that economic conditions, already badly dislocated by resurrection of the rum trade, are such that any change at this time would he highly inadvisable. It is said in some quarters that the assistance of President-elect Roosevelt might be solicited. The letter reads, in part: "We are apprehensive that this unauthorized draft may eventually be submitted to your committee and may be understood to come from the people of these islands, with their approval—something which is entirely foreign to the facts." It concludes by recommending that the committee ignore the Governor's proposals. Health Service of Howard Helps T.B. Association The Howard University Health Service is collaborating with the Washington Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis in the annual seal sale which will be conducted in the university community for the period beginning Monday and ending with the close of school for the Christmas holidays. Class competitions with lectures by Miss Helen Williams, representative of the Washington Tuberculosis Association, and by members of the staff of the university health service are designed to stimulate the seal sale. Booths decorated with posters and attended by students in appropriate costumes are designed to give impetus to sales and to provide a colorful setting for the campaign. The public health angle of the work is being stressed in an effort to develop a community consciousness along this line, an appeal is being made to the entire university community. The health department is placing emphasis upon control of tuberculosis through prevention, early diagnosis, and proper disposition of cases at the university. Extensive facilities are provided for this purpose. Routine tuberculine tests are made of all students examined by the university physicians. X-ray follow-up, together with ultra violet ray therapy, enhance the approach to the problem. The university health service includes three physicians and two trained nurses, with Dr. E. H. Allen as physician in charge. Atlantic City News A novel entertainment was presented at the Asbury M.E. Church, Pleasantvills, Tuesday ni_ht in the form of a "Womanless Wedding." The play was directed by Mrs. M. E. Waters and all the participants were male. John Moody, John Emory and Paul Brown were outstanding. The executive committee of the New Jersey Parent-Teacher Association met Tuesday at the New Jersey Avenue School. Committee members present were Mrs. Eliza Carter, Mrs. Mary Kelley, Mrs. Bessie Walters, Miss Myrtle Wilkins, Mrs. Virginia Dummond, Mrs. Naomi Young, Mrs. Leroy Bundy, Mrs. Mart Peters, Mrs. N. Moore and Mrs. Ruth Avant. Mies Irene Stokes was wedded to Frank; Ross last Wednesday at the residence of Mrs. Harold Gibson, of Baltic Avenue. The Rev. Peter W. Williams officiated. The bride was attired in blue and carried the Holy Bible upon a tray. William Moscly, 52, 1106 Adriatic Avenue, was arrested Sunday night on a warrant issued by Magistrate Allmond charging him with assault and battery with intent to kill. He was held under $5,000 bail. The complainant, his wife, who told Magistrate Allmond her husband pointed a gun at her and threatened to take her life. William Turner, 56, 103 N. Maryland Avenue, was fatally shot in the left leg during an altercation with Raymond Adams early this week. Adams was later arrested and held without bail on a charge of murder. Restaurant Waitress Hurt in Fall Down Stairs Mary Johnson, 22, waitress in a Ninth Street restaurant, was injured early this week when she fell down a flight of stairs at the place of business. She sustained lacerations of the left forearm and was treated at Freedmen's Hospital. L. Louis Engdahl A memorial tribute to J. Louis Engdahl, national chairman of the International Labor Defense, will be held this Sunday night at the Bronx Coliseum, New York City Black and white, native and foreign-born workers and their friends should be there. This is the tribute to man who played a glorious part in the struggle for human liberty. Engdahl died in the service of his class, a fighter for oppressed humanity. He died in the front ranks of the struggle. ***** Whatever Engdahl's political affiliation, or what the intent of his party's use of the Negro—the race will benefit by such men as he was. A new chicken was exhibited at the twenty-fourth annual poultry exposition held in Chicago recently. This new breed is a cross between the Wyandotte and bantam. It was originated in England. It looks like a general mixture of Wayndotes, weighs from three to five and a half pounds, and lays an egg that averages fourteen ounces to the dozen. The average size egg weighs from twenty to twenty-two ounces. This chicken is said to eat only one-third as much as the ordinary size chicken. It is believed that it will make a good "city chicken" as it is large enough to lay eggs and be eaten, yet small enough to find living space in the ordinary city back yard. Suburban residents would do well to send to the Agricultural Department and acquaint themselves with this new variety of chickens—it may prove profitable as a business investment. Birth of a Baby "We have the story of the birth of a baby boy. That Bethlehem should have been so crowded that His mother was housed in a stable adds interest to the story and bespeaks the consideration that was given to an expectant mother. "It is the birth of a babe we commemorate at Christmas time. Unless we hold to the full and perfect humanity of this Babe, His birth means little to us because He does not come to us unless He is human; it is His humanity."—F. B. Stockdale. In America, the richest country in the world, the Christ child does not mean enough to remind us that thousands of babies and mothers are without food or shelter. Dear Ole Southland Solomon Deckins, a Negro worker was picked up on suspicion last week in Tampa, Fla., by Officer Ulz. He had his eyeball completely knocked in. An examination by the city physician states that the eyeball must be removed. Police Officer McKaden says that Deckins was without injury when he was lodged in jail for the night. Deckins says Officer Joe Nance held him while Officer Highland beat him with a blackjack into unconsciousness, clubbed him in the eye and left him a mass of blood. The accused officers deny the charge. **** If it's any consolation—he wasn't lynched (yet). Tribute to a Bishop "I have attended two conferences this season over which Bishop Clair presided. He was never in better physical condition since he became bishop than he has been during this quadrennium. In fact, he seems now just coming up to his real standard in the handling of the duties and responsibilities of his office. "His genial and courteous manner, his entire freedom from the 'official mind,' and his insistent interest in promoting the work of the Church according to our Discipline and traditions, make him universally respected and beloved by both ministers and laymen. "It is unfortunate for us that the little change in the law regarding the retirement of bishops will rob us of his additional four years of service under the old law." The above is a tribute to our own Bishop Matthew W. Clair in an eclicol by A. P. Shaw, editor of the Christian Advocate, of December 15. Worthy Sort of News Mr. Shaw, in the same editorial referred to above makes the following statement: "In spite of the fact that I am a native Mississippian, it was not until November 30 of this year that I had the privilege of visiting Mound Bayou. "... I discovered this: that in his own community and under his own leadership and initiative, the Negro had done not only better for himself, but that what he had done for himself was equal to that which white people had done for themselves in similar communities. "Mound Bayou represents the best in churches, schools, homes, and the culture and spirit of its inhabitants that can be found even in larger towns in the state dominated by white people. It proves conclusively that Negroes are able to build for themselves communities that compare favorably with similar communities built and controlled by white people. "I left Mound you confident that American Negroes are genuine Americans, and, given an opportunity, they will demonstrate their ability to build their com- THE WASHINGTON TRIBUNE. DECEMBER 23. 1932 OMEGA PSI PHI HAS EXHIBIT OF AFRICAN ART A large and enthusiastic gallery of spectators attended a primitive African Art Exhibit sponsored by Alpha Chapter of the Omega Psi Chi Fraternity at the Omega House, 1913 13th Street, N.W., on Sunday, December 18, from 6 to 10 P.M. Under the direction of LeRoy Brannie and LeRoy Jones, over eight African art objects were placed on display in the lounge rooms of the Omega House by Alonzo Aden of the Howard University Gallery of Art. Because of the unusual value of the collection loaned by Dr. Alain LeRoy Locke, Major Harry O. Atwood, and Dutton Ferguson, a heavy guard was placed throughout the lounge rooms of the fraternity house. Art works from the Belgian Congo, the coast Cameroons, Ashanti, Southern Nigeria, Abyssinia, Kasai tribes, and the Gbandi, Bessa, Bossi, Mandingo, and Kpwesi Tribes of Liberia were included in the exhibit on display. Hammered brass, and silver, carved ivory, leopard skin, lion mane, hippotamus skin, coirie shells, and elephant skin decorated many of the works shown to nearly two hundred persons attending the exhibit. DE PRIEST ATTENDS Among the persons attending the showing were: Mrs. Pauline Marshall, Mrs. Aaron Russell, Sr., Dr. Aaron Russell, Jr., Emmett Harmon of Liberia, Dr. Lloyd Newman, Dr. Henry Allen, Representative Oscar DePriest, Dr. Alain Locke, Miss Hallie Queue, Mrs. Marca S, Ogle, Mrs. William Hueston, Mrs. Morris Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A, Scott, Sr. Miss Dorothy Lewis, Mrs. Caro Lewis Jones, Morris Lewis Jr., John Hubbard, Leslie McClennon, Miss Susan Elliott, Miss Joy Powell, Frank Davis, Robert Childs, Miss Dorothy Fitzhugh, Miss Annabelle Green, J.W. Johnson, Miss Margaret B, Morris, Miss Hazel Bruce, T. Alfred Scott, basileus of Alpha Chapter of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity; Miss Elfreda Taylor, Miss Grace Wilkinson, Miss Audrey E. Moseley, Leone Mason. Miss Isabel J. Chisholm, Miss Elsie Cain, John Harris, Robert Broadley, Alonzo Aden, Miss Mathilde Smith, William Frederick Aden, Miss Lunette Logan, LeRoy Brannie, Mrs, Kelsy B. Cooper, W.B. Stinson, Miss Alma Curtis, Nathaniel George, Miss Anna Louise Tucker, William Travis, Miss Edythe O. Mayherry, Lucius Walker, Miss Josephine Griffin, Professor and Mrs. Frank Coleman, Miss Willelmina L. Smith, Mrs. Grodon Wilkins, Miss Marguerite Paxton, Edgar Lewis, Mrs. Isabelle Simms, Miss Bernice Bland, Professor E. S. Busey, John Sharp; A. F. Nixon, Miss Dorothy Herriott, M. A. Barnett, Miss Lillian B. Smith, Emerson Browne, Miss Juanita Williams, Miss Gladys B. Isaacs, Robert Middleton, Miss Grace Roberts, Thomas E. Hopkins, Miss Lula Jackson, and Edward Beaubian. Miss Dorothy Robinson, Miss Margaret Gant, William Jenkins, Miss Molly Jacobson, Kelly Goodwin, Dr. Samuel Cheloff, Dr. Borden Proctor, Miss Ada Fisher, William Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. Louis T. Coates, William Hueston, Jr.; Walter Ridley, Emerson Parker. Miss Suzanne W. Cooke, Charles L. Johnson, Dr. Maurice Johnson, Henry Williams, Benjamin Scott, Miss Nora Rasley, David Brown, Miss Pearl W. Crawford, Marsutus Smith, Miss Charlotte May, Mrs. Marion B. Seymour, Addison Scurlock. Miss Edith Coates, Henry Kone, James A. Fairfax, Jesse McIntosh, John J. Mayo, Jr.; Oscar McIntosh, Miss Elizabeth Dowling, Robert G. McGuire, Jr.; Dutton Ferguson, Miss Florence Dumgee, George Whitted, Harold Whitted, James Gillim, George B. D. Stephens, Charles Miles, James Ward, Miss Juanita Jones, Alfred Pettie, Charles Shorter, Dr. Arthur Thomas, and others. Mrs. Pauline Marshall and Mrs. Aaron Russell, Sr., poured tea which was served to the guests in the maroon room of the fraternity house. The art exhibit was the first affair of its sort sponsored by a fraternity in the city. Gave Hitch-Hikers Ride; Autoist Robbed of $39 James Marshall, of Blue Plains, D. C., reported to police this week that he was robbed of $39 by two men after he had given them a ride in his automobile. Marshall said that he was on his way to work through Anacostia when two hitch-hikers, one white, asked him for a ride. After driving for several blocks both of the men drew revolvers and took his money. They jumped from the car at Nichols Avenue and Portland Street, Southeast, and escaped. TO HOLD FOOTBALL PROM MARSHALL, Texas.—The annual letter award exercises and football prom in honor of the Wiley University team was held Thursday. The Wiley Wildcats are champions of the Texas conference. munities and life after the American pattern, all opraganda to the contrary notwithstanding." The above is the kind of news that the Negro press is most in need of. Less crime—more progress. The Scottsboro Decision The Scottsboro Decision By F. H. M. MURRAY Following the recent decision of the U. S. Supreme Court in the Scottsboro case, there were headlines and comments in the press which indicated that the writers regarded the boys as virtually free. But those persons who carefully read the decision in full and the grounds on which it was based, and who recalled the conditions prevailing in the section where the boys are confined and are to be re-tried, could hardly find much cause for rejoicing. In the New York Nation for December 7, there was a letter from Louis Colman, the director of publicity of the International Labor Defense, which organization bore the main expense of carrying the case through the Alabama State Supreme Court, and, on appeal, to the U. S. Supreme Court. This letter sets forth the work yet to be done and the need of keeping up the agitation of the case. Legal Aspects of Case In an article in the same issue, Morris L. Ernst states some of the legal aspects of the decision which are well worth bearing in mind. He begins by saying: "I am happy that the Scottsboro boys are not to hang." This is a most unfortunate statement as well as a somewhat inaccurate one. The fact is—as he himself indicates later in his article—there are only meagre grounds for believing that the boys will not eventually be executed (by electrocution, not by hanging). There is really little reason for optimism but there is ground for hope, as the letter from Mr. Colman (to be quoted) shows. Mr. Ernst's Article The article by Mr. Ernst says: The article by Mr. Erick says: I am happy that the Scottboro boys are not to hang. But I am shocked at the Supreme Court's decision. It saved lives, but at terrible cost. The court was devious and, it seems to me, cunningly uncourageous. Three points were raised in the appeal: (1) there was not a fair, impartial, and deliberate trial; (2) the boys were denied the right of counsel; and (3) qualified Negroes were systematically excluded from the jury. Points one and three had deep social significance. The court disregarded them, not by a declaration of opinion on the facts or the law, but by the telltale and too light phrase: "The only one of the assignments which we shall consider is the second in respect of the denial of counsel." The dissenting judges, with some justification, accepted this evasion of the majority. Dissenting Justice Butler wrote: "The court, putting aside—they are utterly without merit—all other claims that the constitutional rights of petitioners were infringed, grounds its opinion and judgment upon a single assertion of fact." Where were Brandeis, Cardozo, and Stone when this dissent was read in chambers? "Without merit" was too strong to be disregarded. Other black boys are being tried every day by lily-white injuries. Their silence on the real issues leaves the record in horrid shape. And the one issue decided has little importance. Our liberal justices were out-traded. Mr. Justice Sutherland did a good job. The only point decided—and the court limited the decision or purpose. I suppose—was the following: "Where a defendant is unable to employ counsel and is incapable adequately of making his own defense because of ignorance, feeble-mindedness, illiteracy, or the like, it is the duty of the court to assign counsel." It is an empty and meaningless victory. What if little Wems is now assigned a half-hearted advocate who will saunter through a new trial before a white jury while mobs outside sing anthems and shout for hangings? The majority decision declares: "Attorneys are officers of the court and are bound to render service when required by such appointment." (See Cooley, "Constitutional Limitations.") But what kind of service do bound men supply? Page the lawyers of the Scottsboo bar and require one of them to appear for the defense at the new trial. That would hardly help Wems. Let it be said to the credit of Southern barristers that they cannot be forced to defend earnestly causes they do not favor. I have no sympathy for the Southern bar's prejudice against constitutional trials for Negroes. But it is probable that in the long run the bar and justice will be better served by lawyers who flout the Supreme Court's quotations from Cooley on constitutional law than by those who accept with submarged conscience either side of any cause. MORRIS L. ERNST. EDITOR'S NOTE—The "little Wems" referred to above is one of the younger of the defendants. Mr. Colman's Letter The letter from Mr. Coleman sets forth even more emphatically the critical conditions surrounding the case. His letter says in part: We should like to point out that your editorial on the Scottsboro derision, in your issue of November 16, is misleading. You state, without qualification, that "they (the Scottsboro boys) are to have a new trial under different circumstances from those surrounding the original one, when an atmosphere of hostility and race prejudice made a fair trial impossible." It seems certainly an objective aid to the legal lynchers to make such a statement in the face of the announcement by Judge A. E. Hawkins, who presided over the original lynch trials, that he would set the retrials in his own court for its next term, March, 1933, and that he would feel now more than ever called upon to demand military accompaniment to the trial; in the face of the fact that the prosecutor has announced that he will fight the change of venue which the International Labor Defense has announced that it will seek; in the face of the fact that the trial must be held in Alabama, where the white ruling class will certainly do its best to arouse mob antagonism to the Scottsboro boys in whatever county the trial is held. Such a statement also ignores the class and national character of the case. The Scottsboro verdicts do not constitute an isolated case, but are typical of Southern and capitalist "justice." . . . The Scottsboro decision of the United States Supreme Court bases itself solely on a technicality. The only point sustained is that the Scottsboro boys were not permitted to obtain counsel . . . In this matter the Supreme Court decision becomes a set of instructions to the lower courts on how legally to lynch the Scottsboro boys, and other victims of class and national oppression, without violating the Constitution. By its dismissal of the contentions of the defense that a fair trial was impossible in Scottsboro and that it was illegal to exclude Negroes from the jury, it virtually tells the Scottsboro court, to which it returns the cases, that it can get away with murder so long as it observes the technical forms of court procedure. The International Labor Defense not only intends to fight these cases, point by point and step by step, back to the United States Supreme Court if necessary; it also proposes to intensify the mass pressure against the lynch verdicts throughout the world. Without this intensification of mass pressure, which has forced the new trial, the case cannot be won. You will understand, then that such a misleading statement as that contained in your editorial becomes extremely harmful to the defense of the Scottsboro boys. LOUIS COLMAN, Director, Publicity, International Labor Defense. Now, whether or not each of us individually has faith in the efficacy of what Mr. Colman calls "mass pressure," it is our duty to help the LLD, and all other organizations and persons who are carrying on this struggle—which is essentially, as he says, a class as well as a race struggle. NEGRO FEDERAL NEWS By Laurence J. W. Hayes By Laurence J. W. Hayes This column is intended by its editor to become a medium of expression for Negro federal employees. Since you are to dictate its policies and contents, I am asking that you write to me and tell me the type of news that you think will best reflect credit on us (Negro federal employees) as a group. Last week's column was more or less statistical in nature and contained information which is easily available from four or more public sources of information. It was just something to start the ball rolling Athletic Association Twenty-five messengers of the Department or State, who profess to have an interest in athletic activities, recently conducted a "flying poll" and elected officers for 1932-33 for its recently organized athletic association. This organization will sponsor: volley ball, basketball, baseball, track, swimming, tennis, boxing, wrestling, bowling, and golf. The officers elected were Laurence J. W. Hayes, president; Vassar DuBois Gibson, vice-president; Tompkins George Ricks, secretary; Charles Reseder, treasurer; John W. Taylor, general manager; and N. Howard Stanton, purchasing agent. Th State Department basketball team has scheduled a game with the War College to be played in the Y.M.C.A. gymnasium, Tuesday night, December 27, at 7:30 o'clock. Remember to send your material to Laurence J. W. Hayes, editor, Negro Federal News, 935 R Street, Northwest, Washington, D.C., or telephone North 4017, or Metropolitan 9403. H. U. Teacher Undergoes Operation at Carson's Mrs. Madeline Kirkland, 122 V Street, Northwest, was operated on at Carson's Private Hospital early this week. Mrs. Kirkland is instructor in home economics at Howard University. Her condition was favorable Thursday. John Davis, student at Williams College in Massachusetts, of 923 S Street, Northwest, also underwent an operation at the hospital. PAINT AND REPAIR YOUR OLD TOYS FOR POOR CHILDREN'S CHRISTMAS PAINT AND REPAIR YOUR OLD TOYS FOR POOR CHILDREN'S CHRISTMAS Get out all the old toys in your home. Go through the play room, the attic, the store room, and see what you have that might be mended and painted to look like new. Something must be done for the thousands of little children who might not have any Christmas happiness this year. There are many who give out Christmas dinners, some who give out coal, but so many people forget that a child's soul and his imagination must be fed also. The bare necessities of life are not enough for children. They want their dreams to have substance. Only those who have been forgotten by Santa Claus know the pain of sitting with a wan face glued to a cold window pane, hoping against hope that the grand old Saint will still put in an appearance. Too many little faces have been buried in the pillow on Christmas morning, wet with tears because the stocking they hung up the night before had in it only the hole that was there the night before. Don't bring in battered toys. Paint things and make them look new. Such gifts should have a holiday look. Take wire, screws, bolts and brushes and make your contribution attractive. When the toys are ready bring them to the Editor of Woman's Page, Washington Tribune, 920 U Street, Northwest. Don't bring anything that is perishable—only toys. Before Christmas they will be delivered into the homes of children whose great joy on Christmas morning will be your best Christmas present. GERTRUDE C. FRAZIER. Editor Woman's Page. TENNESSEEANS HOLD INTER-RACE CONFERENCE COLUMBIA, Tenn.—The hundred representative white and colored citizens attended the Middle Tennessee Inter-racial Conference, held in the courthouse here a few days ago, and gave several hours to the consideration of matters of mutual welfare. J. D. Burton, inter-racial secretary for Alabama and Tennessee, stated that the purposes of the commission are to establish better understanding between the races, and to lay upon both the responsibility of improving race relations and bettering the conditions affecting Negroes. Dudley Tanner, of the state department of education, emphasized the need of better school facilities for Negroes and pled for the cooperation of both races to that end. He acknowledged the great service which the Rosenwald Fund has rendered in this regard and commended also the generous contributions which Negroes are making to improve educational conditions. W. J. Hale, president of A.& I. State College, made an impressive address on the value of education, and Mrs. Hale told of the Better Homes Movement. Music was furnished by students of the state college. The following objectives were adopted for the ensuing year: better health conditions; improvement of homes, inside and out; better school equipment; court justice; cooperation in law enforcement; systematic welfare work; higher ideals of Christian religion; universal respect for personality. Christmas Rally and Playlet at Garnet-Patterson School Students of the Garnet-Patterson Junior High School enjoyed several Christmas activities during the week before the holidays. The students exchanged Christmas cards through the medium of a student mail service which is established within the building during every Christmas season. Christmas carols were sung by students not only in their native tongue but also in three foreign languages. Two Christmas trees were provided for the students: one in the school cafeteria and the other as an electrically lighted community tree which may still be seen on the Vermont Avenue and U Street balcony of the school. The two chief events were a Christmas rally in which provision was made for the needy, and the Christmas playlet entitled "Riches in Poverty," presented by a group of students trained by Mrs. M. D. Evans. The principal characters in the play were Leland Brent, Hattie Picerson, Janice Smith, Richard Wells, Ardell Hall, Norman Nicken, Charles Hill, Benjamin Chick, Gloria Osborne, Annie Dodson, Ruth Wheeler, Dick Lee, Marjorie Perry, Sara Mayden, John Phillips, Charles Hill, Eleanor Barnes. Music was furnished by the string orchestra of the school. Lighting and scenery were handled by the electricity department and art department of the school respectively. Community Centers Hold Christmas Programs Two community centers in the city presented Christmas programs this week, prior to the closing of their activities for the holidays. A one-act play, "Christmas at Mother's", was given on Monday night at Birney Center under the direction of Mrs. Nellie Southall. Choirs of various churches of Anacostia and the girls' chorus of Birney Center presented Christmas music as a feature. Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock the Young People's Dramatic Club of Garfield Center presented a musical comedy under the direction of Miss Edna Forrest, assisted by Mrs. Amanda Forrest. Special Christmas music was furnished on this occasion by the Garfield Quartet. AUTHOR FURNITURE ELEVEN Prisons and Prisoners By CLIFFORD C. MITCHELL Jackson, Michigan, Prisoner Win Debate Against Outsiders; Trained by University Professors. A group of Jackson prisoners recently brought much credit to Jackson Prison and their efforts have been published as news in quite a few daily papers, as well as our School News. We refer, specifically, to the debaters who recently won a two to one decision over a group of Detroit debaters in the auditorium at the New Prison. What is written here, therefore, is not news but an analysis of the facts that caused the feat of the debaters to be news. Jackson prisoners have achieved signal success in literary efforts, in musical accomplishments, in general entertaining ability, in the arts, as inventors, as prize-gardener, agriculturists, mechanicians and as experts in a variety of vocations, and now debaters. These achievements have all come about from the same cause, and that is, a policy of educating and encouraging the prisoners to exert every effort towards developing any latent talent that they may possess. Under such a system it is but a natural result that out of several thousand prisoners many individuals will forge to the front displaying an ability equal to, if not actually surpassing, that possessed by others and from the free walks of life. Debaters! That!.. a new one! Who ever heard of a prison debating team contesting with a debating team from the free world? Baseball games, football games, basketball games and many other kinds of athletic sports—yes, but never a debating outfit before. But there is no reason why prisoners shouldn't develop themselves into wonderful debaters; for, in all prisons are to be found many prisoners with a magnificent voluble ability. The only trouble has been in using that ability in the wrong channel. Many prisoners have found themselves in prison simply because they possessed the ability to sell the city hall to some strangers, a masonic temple to some investor, a Brooklyn bridge to a speculator, and "gilt-edge" bonds to bankers. We do not insinuate that any members of the Jackson debating team ever possessed such uncanny voluble ability; we merely mention that many prisoners in many prisons have possessed such ability. Imagine what such ability could do once it is harnessed up with the right kind of useful energy? Such ability, once the mind has become attuned to the right sort of thinking, will carry its possessor far, for the world today is in need of men who can not only think clearly, but who can express themselves clearly to others. Prisoners need missionaries with such ability not only to teach other prisoners the road they should travel but also to teach society how it can best co-operate by so training the youth as to avoid the many entanglements that the youth of today now encounter. In developing this ability the participants must be congratulated for their willingness to study and master technique, language and expression (while others were playing or loafing) and thus preparing themselves for an opportunity, such as they recently enjoyed, winning laurels for themselves and the institution. And, no doubt, the University of Michigan professors who gave of their time, for months, in coming to Jackson, teaching and training the boys in the art of voluble expression, must feel highly complimented in the wonderful demonstration given by their prison-students, and the professors must rejoice with the administration, that their experiment in this form of education has proved entirely justifiable. Miner Teachers' College Student Hurt in Fall Robert Williams, 22-year-old student at Miner Teachers' College, was treated at Freedman's Hospital early this week for lacerations of the hands received during tions of the hands received through a fall at the school. He was removed to his home, 131 T Street, Northwest. TWELVE DROP 3 SCHOOLS FROM CONFERE'CE Southern Association Bans Athletes Who Play Summer Baseball NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Lane College, Jackson, Tenn.; Edward Waters College, Jacksonville, Fla.; and Miles Memorial College, Birmingham, Ala., were removed from the roll of membership of the Southern Conference in annual executive session held on the campus at Fisk University, Monday and Tuesday. Lamoyne College, Memphis, Tenn., and Benedict College, Columbia, S.C., were accepted for membership. Dr. Brady to Probe Rules Dr. St. Elmo Brady, chairman of the athletic board of control of Fisk University, was appointed to represent the conference at the annual meeting of the deans and registrars to take up and work out with that body a plan to clarify the records of athletes entering conference schools and present to them the necessity of co-operating with the secretary-treasurer of the Southern Conference in so far as scholastic standards and transcripts of credits are concerned. The 1933 basketball and football schedule was drawn up and approved. Non-Conference schools may have athletic relationship with conference schools, but they must be four-year colleges and must adhere to all the rules and the letter of the law of the conference with regard to eligibility, scholastic standing requirements, if they wish to play against conference teams. A certified list of athletic conferences and associations and individual schools with which conference members may have athletic relations was adopted Ban Summer Baseball The summer baseball problem was clarified. The conference rules that no athlete would be able to play summer baseball and retain his amateur status. Several of the best athletes in the conference lost their amateur standing because of playing professional and semi-professional baseball on industrial teams. The conference rules that hereafter members who have contracts or who contemplate contracts with Wilberforce University, would have to secure special permission from the conference in order to have athletic relationship with the Ohio school. Basketball Ban Raised The ban on playing club basketball teams was raised. Now the matter is left to the discretion of the athletic directors of the schools concerned. All members received an invitation to the seventh annual Tuskegee Relays and the sixth annual Southern Intercollegiate Tennis Tournament. The tennis tournament is scheduled to be held May 11 and 12; the women's track championships May 12, and the relay events for high schools and colleges, May 13. The following officers were elected: J. B. Bragg, Florida A.& M. College, president; vice-presidents, Henderson A. Johnson, Fisk; R. A. Brooks, South Carolina State; W. R. Chivers, Morehouse; R. S. Darnaby, Tuskegee, secretary-treasurer; and W. H. Findel, Talladge College, assistant secretary-treasurer. Next Meeting at S. C. State The next annual meeting will be held at State College, Orangeburg, S.C. Those in attendance at the meeting were W. H. Aiken, M. E. Turrentine, S. H. Archer, Clark University; J. B. Bragg, Theodore Wright, W. H. Stickney, J. B. Bragg, Jr., Florida A.& M. College; W. R. Chivers, Morehouse College; Dr. St. Elmo Brady, Henderson A. Johnson, Fisk University; Robert A. Brooks, H. W. Crawford, and J. L. Montague, South Carolina State College; W. H. Kindle, Gordon H. Kitchen, Talladega College; Wallace O. Hawkins, Knoxville College; President H. C. Trenholm, G. F. Lewis, State Teachers' College; A. J. Lockhart, W. J. Nicks, Morris Brown College; W. P. Adams, Lemoyne College; C. L. Abbott and R. S. Darnaby, Tuskegee Institute. Ralph Metcalfe Candidate for Sullivan Memorial Medal NEW_YORK.—(CNS) — The name of Ralph Metcalfe, American 100-meter and 200-meter champion is one of ten names submitted to the Sullivan Memorial Committee to decide the winner of the James Sullivan Memorial Medal for 1932. The tribunal, composed of a group of 600 leaders in the world of sports, will vote on the award and the athlete receiving the most ballots will be given the medal. SUITS $18 O'coats NOTHING DOWN JUST PAY $6 in January $6 in February >6 in March EISEMANS, 7th & F NEWS OF THE SPORT WORLD New Bison Captain JOHNSON FULLBACK JOHNSON ELECTED HOWARD CAPTAIN JOHNSON ELECTED HOWARD CAPTAIN Eighteen Receive Letters at Annual Banquet of Bisons Letter men of Howard University elected Rufus Johnson, varsity fullback, as football captain for 1933, at the annual banquet held last Friday evening in the trustees' dining room. The presence of 24 high school seniors of the teams at Dunbar, Armstrong, and Cardozo, together with their coaches, provided a lively innovation. Coach Gets Lamp Members of the squad and the board of athletic control presented Coach Tom Verdell a desk lamp and combination smoking stand and coffee table in brown mahogany as an expression of esteem and appreciation for his spiendid work, George Butler, student manager, made the presentation. Brief addresses were delivered by Coach Verdell and Coach Bell, and by the two distinguished quarterbacks of other years, namely: Dean D. O. W. Holmes and President Mordecal W. Johnson. Professor Frank Coleman, chairman of the board of athletic control, and the new president of C.I.A.A., served as master of ceremonies. Johnson Speaks What proved to be the most delightful surprise of the evening was the masterful address of acceptance delivered by the newly-elected captain. The quiet, unassuming chap, called Tarzan by his fellow students, characterized primarily by his slowness of speech, and splendid physical physique, held his hearers spell-bound with his eloquence and choice diction, and at the conclusion of his address he received the longest and loudest applause of the evening. The new captain is from Coatesville, Pa., and is a member of the junior class. As a self-supporting student he was unable to find time from his work and studies to play football during his freshman year, but made a place for himself on the varsity the following year, which position has won for him the favor of coaches, players, and the press. 18 Get Letters The following men were awarded letters: George Butler, manager; Co-Captains Greenlee and Payton, and Shelton, tackles; Bolden, Stewart, McCarter, Chandler, ends; Cole, Dacon, Jarrett, and Palmer, guards; Walker and McGruder, centers; Hall, Howard, Johnson, and Ware, backs. South Carolina College is Admitted to Southern Conference COLUMBIA, S.C.—Word was received at Benedict College today that its application for membership in the Southern Athletic Conference was accepted at the annual meeting held at Nashville, Monday and Tuesday. President Starks made the announcement to the student body at their chapel exercises, Friday afternoon. R. S. Barnaby, secretary of the Southern Conference, wired President Starks that Benedict had been admitted to membership in the conference by a vote of the body in their annual session. Benedict will compete in athletics with Tuskegee, Talladega, Alabama State, Florida A. and M. College, Morris Brown, Morehouse, Clark, Fisk, Knoxville, South Carolina State, another South Carolina state, a member of the Southern Conference. HAMPTON SINKS MINER COLLEGE Seasiders Lead at Half Time by 25 to 5 Score Over Teachers By ENOC P. WATERS, JR. HAMPTON, Va.—Hampton Institute courtmen made an auspicious showing in their annual pre-season game with Miner Teachers' College of Washington, last Saturday at the Hampton gymnasium when they sank the visitors with a 48-24 score. From the very outset Hampton, the relentless aggressor, snatched a five-point lead, White and Lancaster initiating the scoring attack, which did not get well under way until the middle of the first half. Hamm and Captain Carter hit their strides late in the half and joined it: ringing up 26 points for Hampton to their opponents' 5 at the half. With a safe lead, Coach Williams in the second half introduced numerous substitutes. The Hampton defense relented enough for the Miner pedagogues to break through and score. Harlan, lanky blond center for the visitors, was the most dangerous shot with which the Scasiders had to contend. Almost from the center he described graceful parabolas to the basket usually good for two points. Smith, Anthony, Tignor, and Allen were contributors to the nineteen points checked in by Miner for the second half. It was the Hampton offensive at the opening of the contest that had smothered the visitors in the first half, and the return of the original quintet to the floor at the closing minutes of the fray sent the Hampton tally scaring. White, Lancaster, and Hamm led in scoring. White accounting for fifteen points. ST. PAUL BEGINS COURT TRAINING ST. PAUL BEGINS COURT TRAINING Tiger Quint Seeks to Replace Loss with New Candidates By L. B. TIPTON LAWRENCEVILLE, Va.—Coach T. H. Robinson and Captain Edward Alston, of the St. Paul Tiger quintet, a week ago, sounded the call that summoned basketers to their first practices, and to see, who from the den would be among the number that is destined to face the heavy 1933 schedule. To his call came the stumpede of the herd, but among the herd, the veterans of past seasons were found to be diminishing and among those gone were Roland (Skip) Butler, Slim McNair, Squire Haskett, and Benton. Yet, there are some outstanding survivors, including Captain Alston, a Philadelphia; Caldwell, Gill Jones, and Red Carter. To replace Butler and Benton, there hails from the North Clarence (Ski) Williams, and Bill Jenkins to replace McNair and Francis Martin. Norfolk sends Squire Haskett, Herb Smith, and local talent is being exhibited in John (Pree) Brown, a campus resident. Among others of the herd who have elevated themselves from intra-mural to the rank of varsity are Hubbie Strayhorne and Sunny Strayhorne, a former St. Paul scribe. Both are up-state boys, hailing from Philadelphia, and are making excellent showing for their premier season. Despite the loss, Coach Robinson is expecting to hurl a mass of fight into the phalanx of C.I.A.A. competition and emerge with his part of the bacon. NEW YORK CHAMPS TO PLAY HERE Two of the greatest professional basketball teams in the country will oppose each other at the Masonic Temple, Wednesday night, January 4. The world champion Renaissance club of New York will stack up against the famous French Eagles (white), five times South Atlantic champions. The white boys from down town will have their hands full when they meet the famous champs. Although the Eagles boast of such stellar performers as Joe Sweeney, Ralph Bennie, and Moon Evans, they will be matched against the cleverest, most scientific aggregation of basketball players in the world today. In the Rens' line-up will appear Fats Jenkins, Pappy Ricks, Slocum, Tarzan Cooper, Eyre Saitch, Harold Mayers, Bill Yancy, and two new-comers. THE WASHINGTON TRIBUNE. DECEMBER 23, 1932 RENAISSANCE BASKETBALL TEAM. Let Me 'ave It There Big Boy I'm Itching To go. Gee! Bill Yancy Peep 'em up There fellas. Custom Slocom Just a second Boys Chas.Cooper Just Look who we have To Co-operate with. Harold Mayers Come on Cooper Boy, Pass Pappy The Ball Pappy Ricks Eyre Saitch Pardn, my Pass Folks, Just an old Renaissance Custom. Changes in Basketball Rules By BENJAMIN WASHINGTON Secretary, Eastern Board of Officials Now that the season of basketball is about to begin it is worth while for those interested in the game to become acquainted with the changes in the rules. Several radical changes have been introduced into the game this year which will cause quite a surprise to the followers of that sport. The most radical is that one which deals with the team as soon as it gains possession of the ball in its own territory. There can be no more "freezing" of the ball as has been the case in the past when the game is almost over and a team is in the lead. period begins a session of the in the back court When a team the ball over the player touching is considered of the intent of the may not return court until one occur. (a) A try made; or (b) a jump elsewhere or A new marker called the "center line" now is extended all the way across the playing floor parallel with the end lines, dividing the court into a "front court" and a "back court." The team's front court is the half of the court which contains the basket for which this team is throwing: the other half of the court is this team's back court. Now for the radical changes in the playing rule: Note—Player and coaches will profit by reading this twice and then visualizing the situations pictured. Rule 8, Section 8. a. When a team gains possession of the ball in its own back court, that team must advance the ball over the center line within a period of ten seconds unless the ball, while out of control of that team, touches or is touched by an opponent. In the latter event, a new play results and the ten-second Light Tuskegee Eleven to Face Prairie View College Friday Two Squads to Clash in Post Season Game at Houston, Texas. McCarthy, Tiger Halfback, to Be Able to Play TUSKEGEE, Ala.—It is said that the 1932 Tuskegee Institute football team is the lightest that has represented the school in years. The entire team, including the backfield, is said to average not over 175 pounds in weight. been forbidden to play any more this season because of injuries received in the State Teachers' College game, played Thanksgiving Day. Two Changes Two important line changes The line is much heavier than the backfield. Edward Adams, a tackle converted into a back this year, is the heavy weight of the rear works, weighing 190 pounds, and a good man, both on offense and defense. His great asset is his ability to flip forward passes from 40 to 70 yards with apparent ease. At fullback, Smith Thompson, sophomore, balances the scales at 170 pounds and is said to be close to 10 seconds for the hundred. He has some of the dash, fire and elusiveness of a Shanklin, plus the drive of a Bailey. McCarthy to Play James McCarthy, Tuskegee's most outstanding halfback, weighs about 158 pounds. McCarthy, a junior, has been described by sports writers this year as one of the fastest men playing football in the South. However, influenza has kept him in the school infirmary since the Thanksgiving Day game against State Teachers' College, and Dr. E. H. Dibble, the team physician, says he will have to be able to gain his full strength before the game against the Priarie View Panthers at Houston, Texas., December 30. When in condition, McCarthy's speedy ball carrying from scrimmage makes him a constant threat. In the line, Tuskegee will have its full strength against Prairie View. Camp, regular center, has Rule 8. Section 8. period begins again when possession of the ball is regained in the back court. When a team has advanced the ball over the center line, a player touching the center line is considered over the line for the intent of this rule; the team may not return the ball to its court until one of these things occur. (a) A try for goal has been made; or (b) a jump ball at center or elsewhere has taken place; or (c) an out-bounds award has been made; or (d) the ball has been recovered from the possession of the opponents. Now for the exception to the return ball to the back court: Exception—When a team gains possession of the ball in its own front court as a result of either a, b, c, or d, it may cause the ball to go back over the center line once only. Penalty—Failure to comply with any of the provisions of this rule is a violation, and the ball shall be awarded to the opponents, out of bounds, on the side, opposite the point where the violation occurs. Another exception—If a team returns a ball to its back court illegally and the ball is first touched in the back court by an opponent, play shall continue. All of these provisions apply to courts over sixty feet long—ground rules must be made for courts shorter than that. Eleven to Face College Friday First Season Game at Houston, y, Tiger Halfback, been forbidden to play any more this season because of injuries received in the State Teachers' College game, played Thanksgiving Day. 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It was the second game of the night, the Rens having shaded the famous Jewels, former St. John's College champs, by a one-sided score of 41-20. The Jewels just couldn't do the things with the ball that the Rens did, and a crowd of over 5,000 cheered the lads on to victory at the Brooklyn Elks' home. Since Thanksgiving, the Rens have won 19 out of 20 games, losing to Yonkers by one point, defeating in addition to the Jewels, the Brooklyn Visitations. Christmas night, at the Rockland Palace, the Jewels meet the Detroit Clowns, while the Renaissance takes on the Original Celtics for their third meet of the season. from third team center to second. Morelee Singleton was placed in McCarthy's position at left half-back. In the line, Tuskegee has two outstanding men—Ben McKinney, a junior, who plays right tackle, an All-American, if there ever was one; and Raymond Johnson, also a junior, and a Houston, Texas, boy, who made good in the position played by his brother, Develous Johnson. 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The victory gave the schoolboys some revenge for the two defeats suffered last year at the hands of their perennial rivals. The Wildcats jumped off to a six-point lead, relinquishing it at the start of the second quarter, and tied the count at 13-13 as the half whistle blew. The Sea Gulls made a strong threat with five minutes to go in the second half, but the Manual Training School lads tied the count on a beautiful arch by Swann, and went into a three-point lead to close the game at 27-24. Gardiner and Aldrich led the visitors' attack with four field goals apiece. Aldrich, old Bordentown player, was a particular thorn in his opponents' flesh, for the six-foot lad tossed them in from impossible angles while closely guarded. The Bordentown scoring was evenly divided; in fact, the attack was better balanced than in many seasons. The game closed the pre-holiday season for the schoolboys, who open their M.A.A.A. schedule on January 7, with a game at Downingtown. The Williams' Giants of Atlantic City gave the Bordentown Cubs a much-needed lesson in basketball by thrashing them soundly at 41-20. The Ironsides' beginners was completely bewildered by the teamwork of the midget visitors, but fought gamely until the final whistle. BORDENTOWN SEA GULLS G P F Swann,rf. 4 2 10 Young,rf. 1 1 3 F.Mitchell. 1 0 2 Hayman. 1 1 3 Johnson. 0 0 0 Revels. 0 0 Lewis,lf. 2 0 4 Gardiner,lf. 4 2 10 Nelman,c. 1 0 4 Richlec,lf. 4 0 3 Freedman,c. 1 0 4 Watery,lf. 4 0 3 Haywood. 1 0 4 Overby,g. 0 1 1 W.Mitchell,gl. 0 0 0 J.Byrd. 0 1 1 Morris,lg. 1 1 3 Totals. 11 5 27 Totals. 10 4 24 Referee, R. Rainey. 10 Umpire, O. Brown. Billy Townsend and Baby Joe Gans Ring Victors NEW YORK—Billy Townsend, of Vancouver, stopped Andy Saviola, white, of New York, in the third round, Saturday night. Baby Joe Gans, of California, won a decision over Eddie (Kid) Wolfe, white, of Memphis, in eight rounds. NUMBERS NUMBERS "INSIDE INFO" ONCE MORE! 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NUMBERS Direct from Race Track And Stock and Bond Market BY SPECIAL TELEGRAPH MINER BASKETERS BOW TO MORGAN Harlan Leads Washington Team With Seven Field Goals BALTIMORE, Md.—The Morganites inaugurated their basketball season by trouncing a weaker but determined Miner Teachers' College team of Washington, to the tune of 56-26, at the Albert Auditorium, Friday. The Miner quint made a gallant stand against a more efficient and faster Morgan contingent but finally succumbed to Morgan's more skillful playing. The visitors, after being scored on at will during the greater part of the game, rallied in the closing minutes of play, but the lead of the local quint was too great to be endangered. Troupe, at forward, led the Morgan attack, scoring 7 goals and 3 fouls, while Gibson ran a close second with 7 goals and no fouls. **MORGAN** **MINER** | | G | F | T | G | F | T | | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | | Gibson.lf. | 7 | 0 | 14 | Tignor.lf. | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Year.wood.lf. | 0 | 0 | 0 | Powell.lf. | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Troupe.rf. | 7 | 3 | 17 | Brown.lf. | 0 | 0 | 0 | | W.Will.ms.rf. | 0 | 0 | 0 | Smith.rf. | 3 | 0 | 6 | | P.Taylor.rf. | 0 | 0 | 0 | Cooper.rf. | 0 | 0 | 4 | | J.Immere. | 1 | 0 | 0 | Harlan.e | 0 | 0 | 4 | | C.Drake. | 0 | 0 | 0 | Cole.c | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Crawford.lf. | 5 | 1 | 11 | Miles.lg. | 3 | 1 | 7 | | Eaton.lg. | 1 | 0 | 1 | Williams.lg. | 1 | 0 | 2 | | J.Will.ms.lg. | 1 | 0 | 2 | Epps.lg. | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Rasin.lg. | 1 | 0 | 2 | Anthony.lg. | 0 | 1 | 1 | | Dorsey.lg. | 1 | 0 | 2 | Allen.rg. | 1 | 0 | 2 | | Wilson.rg. | 1 | 2 | | | | | | **Totals** | 26 | 6 | Totals | 12 | 2 | 26 **Score by halves:** Morgan | 33 | 23 | 56 Miner | 8 | 18 | 26 Cardozo High to Play Alumni Team Wednesday After starting off the season in the winning column by defeating the Saint Augustine Five this week, the Cardozo High School quintet will engage the alumni team, Wednesday afternoon, at the Garnet-Patterson Junior High School gym. The game is scheduled to get under way at 1:30 o'clock. Milton Robinson, Leroy Lamar and Gus Coleman, trio of stellar football players, will lead the squad of undergraduates while Charley Evasan, Ray Cunningham, Arthur Carter, Jack Harlan, Robert Rush, Linwood Ellis, and John Forsythe, former Purple and Gold athletic stars will probably see action for the alumni. All alumni members are requested to report to the gym a half hour before game time Wednesday. Slow Poke Judge—Why are you here? Autoist—My driving was too slow. Judge—Too slow? Autoist—Yes, the motor cop caught up to me. BE A LUCKY WINNER! LUCKY TIMES SPECIAL NUMBER BOOK Published by LEO THE GREAT Buy the Red Seal Issue. A Special Number Under Each Seal. Get Your Copy Now Large Supply at OLD INDIAN HERB STORE 1728 7th St. N.W. NUMBERS PLAYERS Here Is Your Chance Guaranteed Service for all Cities and Towns in the U.S.A. Daily straight number price $4.00 Daily combo number price $4.00 Weekly list all straight price $4.00; Weekly list combo and straight price $3.00. Life Time Individual Player System with 3 ways to play each number and guarantee it to win, price 3.00. Send birth date. L DABNEY SMITH P. O. Box 1144 HUNTINGTON. W. VA. 1933 AMERICAN RACING ASSO MARVIN SALES 394 BEST NEWS OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL SPORTING NEWS 25 Members of the Talladega College grid team who made a commendable record in the Southern conference. Back row—left to right: W. H. Kindle, director physical education; James Dixon, assistant athletic manager; L. Craig, guard; D. Green, guard; J. McCray, tackle; J. D. Stratton, halfback; H. Pigrom, fullback; C. Pruitt, end; H. Long tackle; J. Speed, halfback; J. Pitts, end; A. Reynolds, center; N. Pendergrass, tackle; L. Gunn, guard; E. Wright, end; Dr. A. C. Webb, medical advisor; L. Washington, trainer; G. H. Kitchen, coach. Second row—left to right: R. Williams, tackle; L. White, center; E. Taylor, tackle; W. Ransom, halfback; P. Ware, halfback; A. Myers, halfback; J. Mitchell, quarterback; A. Clay, end; J. Wilson, tackle; J. Bryant, center; E. Jaton, guard. First row—left to right: J. Moore, halfback; L. Franklin, guard; O. Woolfolk, fullback; F. Ransom, quarterback; C. King, end; L. Simpson, L. DeShield, guard; W. Clement, guard and Herbert Denton, athletic manager, not shown here. HIGH SCHOOL BOY HIGH JUMP STAR New York Youth Clears Bar to Win Praise of Officials New York—(CNS)—The DeWitt Clinton High School, noted as the largest high school in the country—a school of ten thousand boy students—staged a "celebration scene" at the Stuyvestant High School's twenty-eighth annual interscolastic games. At this meet in the 192d Engineers Armory December 10, Ernest Morrison, Clinton's high jumper, won a forty-five minute jump-off from Harold Pearlman of Evander Childs High School, and the celebration immediately followed. Both Morrison and Pearlman cleared 5 feet 10 inches, but in a jump-off that took place for hours after the regular event Morrison out-gained Pearlman and won although the jump was only 5 feet 5 inches. So intense was the interest shown in the outcome that immediately after their schoolmate was declared the winner, Clinton followers crashed past officials, grabbed the cross bar over which Morrison had just leaped, and rendered it into bits—mementos of the triumph. Experts who watched Morrison in action are loud in their praise of the young Negro athlete and predict that he will go much higher than the 5 feet 10 inches he reached Saturday night. He is counted, however, as having a slight "impediment" and "out fault." After his run in the take-off he comes to almost a dead halt before leaping. Only the excellent "spring" in his legs carry him to the heights he gained Saturday night. With that single fault (eradicated from his jumping, Morrison may go as high as the scholastic record performer—6 feet 4½ inches. Public School Boys Give Good Account in Contest NEW YORK — (CNS) — The diminutive track and field athletes of Public school 9 in Brooklyn and of Public school 89, Manhattan, gave good account of themselves in the Public School Athletic League indoor meet Thursday in New York. Brooklyn's No. 9 boys of the seventh and eighth grades won their tenth title in a row with 24 points, leading 13 other schools. Among the smaller pupils, fifth and sixth grades, Manhattan's No. 89 boys again lead the other school with 23 points. The school is located in the heart of Harlem at 135th and Lenox Avenue. Departmental League Schedule Announced At the recent meeting of the executive board of the Colored Departmental basketball league, rules and regulations governing the league were adopted and a tentative schedule formed as follows: Jan. 7—Treasury vs. State. 10—Commerce vs. Liberty Loan. 14—G. P. O. vs. Bureau of Engraving & Printing. 17—Treasury vs. Commerce 21—State vs. Bureau Engraving and Printing. 24—Liberty Loan vs. G.P.O. 28—Treasury vs. Bureau of Engraving & Printing. 31—Commerce vs. G.P.O. Feb. 4—Liberty Loan vs. State. The games will be played at the Y.M.C.A., Twelfth Street Branch, at 7:15 p.m. A meeting of the executive board and the managers and coaches of each team is set for Tuesday, December 27, 7:30 p.m., at the "Y" at which time league matters pertaining to finance, registration, officiating, etc., will be formally adopted. 37 Report for Phelps Basketball Practice Thirty-seven basketball candidates reported to Coach L. P. Wilson, veteran mentor of Phelps Vocational School this week. The trade school faces one of the hardest schedules in its history with games scheduled with Armstrong, Dunbar, Cardozo, Douglass, of Baltimore; Wiley H. Bates, Annapolis, and Howard High, Wilmington. With only four veterans of last year's squad left Coach Wilson will have to practically develop a new team. The squad is hard at work in preparation for the first game on January 4 with the alumni and another contest with Cardozo on January 6. 30 CONTESTS ON STATE'S ROSTER 30 CONTESTS ON STATE'S ROSTER Alabama Teachers' College Faces Heavy Basketball Schedule MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Twenty conference games and probably ten non-conference contests will be the tempting assignment. for the ambitious Alabama State Teachers College basketball quintet now drilling under Coach Gaston F. Lewis, who has been basketball tutor at Bama State for the past six seasons. In addition to probable non-conference games here with the Springfield Owls, the Robnet's Dragons of Colorado and the Wiley College Wildcats five as well as a trip late in February with probable games at Bluefield, West Virginia State, Columbus, Portsmouth, Springfield, Wilberforce, Cincinnati, and Louisville, the Hornets' tentative cage schedule now appears as follows: Jan. 2—24th Infantry (pending). Jan. 6—Tuskergee. Jan. 23—Tuskegee (at Mobile). Jan. 26—Fisk. Feb. 1-2—Morris Brown. Feb. 8-9—Florida. Feb. 16—Tuskegee (at Birmingham). Feb. 17-18—Morris Brown (at Atlanta). Feb. 20—Knoxville (at Knoxville). Feb. 21-Mar. 2—Trip to W. Va. and Ohio. Mar. 6—South Carolina State. Mar. 9—Talladega (at Birmingham). Mar. 10-11—Florida (at Tallahassee). Mar. 15—Tuskegee (at Tuskegee). Return of Bray Adds New Life to Wilberforce Team WILBERFORCE, O.—Basketball hopes at Wilberforce University brightened here this week when it was announced that Agis Bray, star forward, would return to school at the beginning of the new quarter. Tiny Ja: Mann, freshman, will likely hold down the position at center. Mann stands 6 feet 4 inches and is a capable player. Eddie Singer veteran, will be:ifted between center and guard. Beckett Anderson, member of last year's quint, also will play guard. He will have as running mates Scag Gordon, of last year's squad, and McPherson, a freshman candidate for a guard berth. Gas Engine Improvement The power of the average automobile engine has been doubled with only a 6 per cent increase in engine displacement, and a 25 per cent increase in the speed, was accomplished in one decade by various improvements made in the design and construction. THE MURRAY CASINO Depression Prices For Dates Ricks Fall Before Sharp Shooters of Tech Nighters In an extra period contest the Y.M.C.A. Ricks dropped a basketball thriller to the Armstrong Night High School by a score of 30 to 27. The Ricks trailed a 13 to 4 score at the half way mark. Cain led the winners in scoring with a total of eight points. His teammates, Williams and R. Coles, came second with seven and four points, respectively. **RICKS** **ARMSTRONG** G F P R.Coles.f... 2 0 4 W.Logan.f... 1 1 B.Coles.f... 3 0 6 Hamilton.f... 0 0 6 Cain.f... 3 0 6 Groman.f... 5 1 11 Evan.c... 0 1 1 Tobia.c... 4 0 8 Smallwood.c... 0 0 0 Baskerville.c... 2 1 F.Cople.g... 2 0 4 Marting.c... 4 0 1 Williams.g... 3 1 7 Best.g... 0 1 1 Totals... 11 5 27 Totals... 13 4 30 Score at half—13-4 (Armstrong Night School). Referee—Temple. Metcalfe is Waterboy to Marquette Basketball Team DETROIT.—Ralph Metcalfe, Olympic dash star and Marquette University student, is a water boy on the university basketball team. Metcalfe accompanies the team on trips and has established a record time in carrying a pail of water from the sidelines to the players on the floor. THE WASHINGTON TRIBUNE. DECEMBER 23. 1932 "Washington's Most Beautiful Hall" "Y" Exhibitor to Drive 20-Penny Nails in Head The Twelfth Street Y.M.C.A. will hold a two-day exhibition in the "Y" gymnasium, January 29 and 30, to demonstrate physical culture, Hindu magic, contortions, numerology and mental telepathy. Baldemero Fernandez, of Peru, will feature the exhibition with the driving of 20-penny nails into his head up to the hilts. He will eat razor blades and perform various tricks of magic. On the last night, Fernandez will disclose many of the tricks to the audience. Added attractions will include Ruff House Gordon as the strong man, carrying 300 pounds in his teeth. Hornets to Play Two Grid Games at Birmingham MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Birmingham will get two of the eleven football games arranged at Nashville Tuesday for the 1933 edition of the Alabama State Teachers College Hornets on a schedule to be announced in full in several days. The Hornets will open their season at Birmingham on Friday night, September 29 with the coming Le Moyne College eleven [Name] L. CLEMENT SPEED, now the manager of the Raphael Theatre on Ninth Street, Northwest. L. C. Speed, Managing Raphael Theatre L. Clement Speed came to the Raphael Theatre, 1400 block of Ninth Street, Northwest, Thanksgiving Day, when the house began its present policy of first-run pictures. Since then the attendance at this theatre has grown rapidly. The Raphael has contracts for first-run pictures of the Warner Brothers studios, the First National productions, the Fox and World Wide exchanges. The assurance of the showing of these pictures, with the placing of colored help in the theatre has increased its popularity. Mr. Speed is a graduate of Wiley College, Marshall, Texas. He came to Washington in 1919 to enter Howard University where he studied through 1931. While at Wiley, Mr. Speed was president of Beta Chapter of the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity. For sometime Mr. Speec worked in the advertising department of The Washington and Baltimore Tribunes. Last May he went with the Lichtman Theatres and was made manager at the Booke T. Theatre, then to the Lincoln and later to the Olympic Theatre in Alexandria. He came from the Olympic to the Raphael Thanksgiving Day, running "I'm a Fugitive from the Chain Gang," and has helped to make this a popular house. which was granted conference membership this week. The Hornets will go to Birmingham again on Friday afternoon, November 17, for a feature game with Miles Memorial College. YOU GET $15 IN CASH FREE FOR CHRISTMAS SEE PAGE 8 FOR DETAILS Call Potomac 1667 or 1668 Cheyney Normal Is Not a Segregated School, Says State Official CHEYNEY, Pa.—During his recent visit to the Cheyney State Teachers College, Dr. James N. Rule, superintendent, State department of public instruction, said in part: "Cheyney is one of the fourteen Pennsylvania State teachers' colleges; it is strategically located and it is rendering a valuable service to this commonwealth and to the nation. "Cheyney is a laboratory, a center of information, uplift and inspiration. I am most heartily in favor of the kind of work Cheyney is doing. Colored men and women may attend any one of the fourteen State teachers' colleges. White students may attend Cheyney, if they desire. "Cheyney is not a segregated college, the colored students who are here, are enrolled here because it is the college of their choice, not because of any law prohibiting colored men and women from attending any one of the other State teachers' colleges. Cheyney has the opportunity of being a great laboratory for thinking people and for racial contacts. Cheyney is a credit to the colored people and they have every reason to be proud of it. "Cheyney's president, Dr. Leslie Pinckney Hill, is a member of the board of State teachers' college presidents, and is making a substantial educational contribution to the commonwealth of Pennsylvania and to the nation. We are proud of him." A new tongue is the only repain ever made on the one wagon which Almarian Hatt has been using for tje past 65 years on his farm, near Jackson Mich. Columbia Lodge Will Distribute Christmas Baskets At the meeting of Columbia Lodge No. 85, Monday evening, the members voted to distribute Christmas baskets to the poor as is the annual custom of the lodge. Many appeals for help was presented by the chraity committee which met with the sympathy, of the membership present and was given assistance. The installation of the recently elected officers will take place on Monday evening, January 16. Edward W. Bunday, is chairman in charge of arrangements. A special Christmas program will be rendered by the social session committee on Sunday, December 25, at the Elks' home, 391 Rhode Island Avenue, Northwest, 4:30 p.m. James S. Chapman, is in charge of program arrangements and the public is invited. Allan A. C. Griffith, esteemed leading knight and C. A. Cornish, director of publicity of the lodge will spend the Christmas holidays with friends in the East. "Truth That Christmas Brings Sermon Subject "The Truth That Christmas Brings" is the topic from which the Rev. Augustus Lewis, pastor, will preach at the Jerusalem Baptist Church Sunday morning. Special prayer services and the distribution of baskets to the poor will take place at sunrise. At night a special music program will be rendered by the church choir. The Sunday School and B.Y.P.U. will also hold special programs. The program during the week includes a special prayer service Tuesday, a special musical program by the Young Men's Chorus of Friendship Baptist Church, Wednesday and the Christmas tree exercises of the Sunday School Thursday. THIRTEEN Special Christmas Sermon at Mount Carmel Baptist Christmas services at the Mount Carmel Baptist Church will begin at 6 A.M. at which time a special prayer meeting will be conducted by the pastor, the Rev. W. H. Jernagin. The Rev. Mr. Jernagin will prench from the topic, "The Spirit of Christmas" at the regular morning service. Special music will be furnished by the choir. At night there will be a special service to be featured by the showing of stereoicon slides. Christmas baskets will be distributed to the needy Saturday. Flagpole Base Contract for Browne School Awarded A contract for a flag-pole hase at the Hugh M. Browne Junior High School was awarded Friday by the District Commissioners to the Industrial Engineering Company, of this city. The cost of the base will be $1,550. ```markdown ``` UNHAPPY? WHY BE WORRIED? DOWNHEARTED? WHY BE BAD LOOKING? ALL ARE INVITED. NO ONE IS SLIUGHTED. COME BUY THE THINGS YOU NEED AND BE BENEFITED. FOR MONTHS I HAVE TOLD YOU THAT PRO- PERITY IS ALMOST HERE; NOW I WILL SELL YOU THAT PRO- PERITY. I HAVE BEEN IN THE REPORTS COMING IN FROM ALL PARTS OF THE COUNTRY INDICATING THE RETURN OF GOOD TIMES. SO IT IS YOUR DUTY TO GET WELL AND LOOK WELL. TO GET WELL AND LOOK WELL. 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RAPHAEL His love of life? His love of friend? His love of country? Or his love of woman? Which love will he choose with only E T "SIX HOURS TO LIVE" AT RAPHAEL THEATRE SUNDAY No matter what character he may be portraying on the screen, Warner Baxter possesses the rare faculty of walking right into the heart of his role. He is one of the few male stars who can, seemingly without effort, adapt his mental outlook to that of the character he is delineating. "An actor may feel and live the role he is playing before the camera," says this popular player, "but it is imperative that he come out of character immediately the scene is finished. "Unless he has the capacity for returning to his normal self, he is likely to develop temperament and possibly a nervous breakdown may follow." Baxter's creed is: "Never become discouraged; sell yourself to STAGE and yourself and you cannot fail to succeed." Baxter never attempts to cram his beliefs down the throats of his friends. He frankly tells them what he thinks and they can take it or leave it. Experience, he says, has taught him that the world is much the way one takes it—or makes it. When asked what he intends to do when he is done with pictures, Baxter did not hesitate in his reply. "I have it all figured out," he said, "I'm going to my camp in the San Jacinto mountains for a long rest; then I shall start out and see the world. I love travel, but have enjoyed little chance to get far from Hollywood since I began in motion pictures. "I want to see Europe and see it right. I want to go into the country as well as the cities on the oth- AR Seventh & T Sts. Northwest North 5224 ATRE BURRAY, Manager Monday Dec. 24-25-26 ONES in Golden Trail' EXPRESS"—No. 4 Dec. 27-28 g like it ever seen before ad Hunters' Dec. 29-30 FRANK HAWKS in DIKE' HAEL streets, N.W. THREE DAYS ONLY THURS., DEC. 29 to SAT., DEC 31st er side of the Atlantic. I hope to be able to browse here and there and not be interrupted in my holiday." Baxter's latest motion picture appearance is in "Six Hours to Live," the new Fox drama with John Boles and Miriam Jordan, coming on Thursday to the Raphael Theatre. REPUBLIC OFFERS CLARK GABLE IN "RED DUST" One of the most anticipated productions of the new movie season comes to the Republic Theatre on Sunday, December 25, for a one-week run with the co-starring appearances of Clark Gable and Jean Harlow in "Red Dust." Gable, who retains his title as the screen's most popular male star, and Miss Harlow, of the sensational platinum tresses, first appeared together in the racketeer melodrama, "The Secret Six." In "Red Dust," the locale is the picturesque region of Cochin, China, with Gable playing a hardened plantation foreman who has forced himself to become completely brutalized in an effort to remain superior to his environment of deadly fever, tropical heat, and treachacious natives. To Miss Harlow falls the role of Vantine, born to the tropics, hardboiled, perfectly at home on the plantation and equal in strength and animal pugnacity to the men. It is when the beautiful wife of an engineer comes to the plantation and is involved in a love affair with Gable that the jealous and fiery nature of this savage-like creature asserts itself and brings the action of the plot to a dramatically compromising situation. The other woman of the dramatic triangle is played by Mary Astor. Gene Raymond is seen as Gable's rival and the remainder of the cast is made up of Donald Crisp, Tully Marshall, Forrester Harvey, and Willie Fung. The picture is directed by Victor Fleming, who scored with "The Wet Parade" and the Douglas Fairbanks success "Around the World in 80 Minutes." BROADWAY A Lichtman Theatre ADMISSION PRICES Children, 10c Adults, 15c SUNDAY-MONDAY DEC. 25-26 JOAN CRAWFORD with WALTER HUSTON in “RAIN” A Deluge of Passion in a Storm of Emotion TUESDAY DEC. 27 A Millionaire Castaway “Mr. Robinson Crusoe” With Douglas Fairbanks Fighting—Leaping—and Changing a Fema'e Tarzan into a Follies Beauty WED.-THURS.-FRI. DEC. 25-29-30 BORIS KARLOFF His hand hurled lightning—his word hurled doom—but a woman's love was his conqueror ‘The Mask of Fu Manchu’ With Karen Morley — Lewis Stone Myrna Loy “HEROES OF THE WEST” Chapter No. 12 SATURDAY DEC. 31 “THE STOKER” A Heart Touching Romance—Terming with Suspense—Brilliance with Action With Monte Blue “HEROES OF THE WEST” Chapter No. 12 FREE SKATES TO BOYS FREE DOLLS TO GIRLS STRAND 2 Blocks from Suburban Gardens DEANWOOD, D.C. Latest All-Talking Pictures C. J. CLARKE, Mgr. FRIDAY DEC. 23 "Women Men Marry" (Trio) SATURDAY DEC. 24 "Love in High Gear" (Trio) Also "LAST OF THE MOHICANS" Chapter No. 9 SUNDAY-MONDAY DEC. 25-26 "White Eagle" Buck Jones Also "LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE" Mick Jones Sun. Only—"HEROES OF THE WEST" and SCREEN Farina Sacrificed His Curls to Play With Joe E. Brown MATINEE—Children under 12, 10e—Adults 15c NIGHT (after 6 p.m.)—Children under 12, 10e—Adults 25c (The Coin-Flipping Menace of "Scarface") He was the Man Cops and Crooks Hunted—An Ace in a Game Where no Mercy was asked or given He Could Play Society's Game—But Society Dames Played Him Hoof Beats and the Heat of Hate— Heart Beats and the Lure of Love MATINEE—Children under 12, 10c—Adults 15c NIGHT (after 6 p.m.)—Children under 12, 10c—Adults 25c CLARK GABLE, the Greatest Lover on the Screen and JEAN HARLOW, the Red-Hot "Red-Headed Woman" in a Frenzy of Primitive Passion in the Weird and Exotic East Saturday, Dec. 31 ONLY —Saturday, Dec. 31 "THE HURRICANE EXPRESS" — Chapter No. 8 Along came Farina! Farina of "Our Gang" fame, the pickanin of the happy smile, the ragged skirt and the kinky pig-tails. Came with a wide and mischievous grin in the First National Studios in North Hollywood, much to the joy of Director Lloyd Bacon and the star, Joe E. Brown, during the production of "You Said a Mouthful," which will be shown at the Raphael Theatre, Sunday, December 25. For the studio had been at its wit's end to find a colored youth to take the part of Sam, mascot and protege of Joe in the film. The role is one of the most important in the film, next in fact to that of the star and his leading lady, Ginger Rogers. One hundred and fifty-three colored youths had applied for the job, and more than one hundred dismissed at a glance. They were too tall or too short, too fat or too thin. Forty-one tests were taken of the rest in the vain hope of getting someone who could fill the bill. There was no one of just the right size and age, no one with just the happy smile and particularly no one of enough experience to undertake the rather difficult part. Gloom had settled over the studio set when Mrs. Allen Hoskins, mother of Farina, called up the casting director. "But Farina is a Boy." In the midst of his troubles, the casting director, Maxwell Arnow, explained patiently that a boy, not a girl, was wanted. For who didn't remember Farina as a girl. "But Farina is a boy," insisted his mother, "He only played the part of a girl. "Well bring her, or him, around," said Arrow, not very hopefully. Then Farina appeared at the casting office, in pants, a wide grin, and his pigtails tucked under his hat. Director Bacon and Joe Brown were called in to inspect the youth. Then it was discovered BLACK AND WHITE REVUE AT THE HOWARD The 1933 edition of the Black and White Revue will be the attraction offered at the Howard Theatre Christmas Week. Thirty-five colored stars and thirty-five white will furnish the entertainment and the management feel sure of a great week with such an array of talent. The screen offers a thrilling drama, "Cabin in the Cotton", starring Richard Barthelmess Dorothy Jordan and Clarence Muse. This flaming daughter of the South playing love's game with high stakes, offering her all, wanting nothing, but his love. Riches and fame is in his grasp ...should he jilt his sweetheart and ruthlessly betray his people? See this before you decide. "He can't have girl's hair in this picture," said Joe. "No," said Bacon. "You'll have to cut the pigtails." A happy grin spread all over Farina's face, for he has never played anything but a girl's part, and while he has been a hero among his playmates for being a motion picture star, he never was quite reconciled to the pigtails. UNDER-COVER MAN RACKETEER FILM AT LINCOLN As Nick Darrow, small-time racketeer, who becomes an undercover man to help the police find the murderer of his father, George Raft takes another step up the path to moving picture fame. He is aided in this story of the underworld by an excellent supporting cast. Those in the cast are: Nick Darrow, George Raft; Lora Madigan, Nancy Carroll; Dannie, Roscoe Karns; Martoff, Gregory Ratoff; Mason, Lew Cody. Kenneth Mason (Cody), and Martoff (Ratoff) are engaged in the pleasant little business of kill- bank messengers and stealing boots. Martoff also kills a dealer in bonds who refuses to handle their last lot. Jack Holt has a role that is not sympathetic in "This Sporting Age." In this picture you shall see the personable hero of "Flight," "War Correspondence," "Dirigible," "Submarine," and other hero yarns as a human enough fellow but one who takes vengeance in his own hands. When his beloved daughter, played by beautiful blond haired Evalyn Knapp, is harmed by Walter Byron (the scapegrace romantic in the story) Holt takes revenge in his own hands. An army officer and star polo player, he meets his man on the polo field and wreaks justice abruptly. Moreover, he is a flirtatious type of individual, a detached male who lets his eyes wander in the direction of the come-hither vamp essayed by Ruth Weston. Sea H T St. ne WEE Black a 35 COLORED ARTIS Season's Green How THE T St. near 7th, N. W. WEEK BEGINNING S 1933 k and W D ARTISTS Black and White Revue 35 COLORED ARTISTS 35 WHITE ARTISTS On The Screen --- 10 THE MIDNIGHTS he still had long hair. Joan Crawford and Huston in "Rain" at Broadway A deluge of passion in a storm of emotion will be brought to the Broadway Theatre on Sunday and Monday when the management presents "Our Modern Dancing Daughter." Joan Crawford, ably supported by Walter Huston in "Rain." Miss Crawford enacts the part of the notorious Sadie Thompson. It will be remembered that this play was one of the highlights of RAP Home of the Best First Time Shown PICTURES 9th Sts. Admission: Matinee, 11 a.m. to Nights after 5 p.m.—A FOUR D Sunday, Dec. 25th FARINA Joe E. Brown and "You Said A son's Greetings to C Howa THEATRE ar 7th, N. W. K BEGINNING SATURDAY, 1933 EDITIO nd White ETS 35 W Admission: Matinee, 11.a.m. to 5 p.m.—Adults 15¢, Children 10¢ Nights after 5 p.m.—Adults 15¢—Children 15¢ FOUR DAYS ONLY Sunday, Dec. 25th to Wed. Dec. 28th FARINA Star of "Our Gang Comedies" With Joe E. Brown and Ginger Rogers In "You Said A Mouthful" ] BEST NEWS OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL Ford and Huston 7 at Broadway a passion in a storm he be brought to the atre on Sunday and the management pre- dern Dancing Daugh- wford, ably support- Huston in "Rain." ford enacts the part us Sadie Thompson. membered that this of the highlights of Broadway for a period of three years. Miss Crawford has wanted to play this particular piece of work ever since she heard that the play had been purchased at a tremen- dous figure. She had spirited competition for it, as Talullah Bank- head and other stars had been test- ed for it, but she wcn out, even though she had to prevail upon Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to loan her to another company for the first time in the history of her motion picture career. HAEL & O N. W. FOUR DAYS ONLY Starting Sunday Dec. 25th to Wed. 28 AYS ONLY to Wed. Dec. 28th Star of "Our Gang Comedies" d Ginger Rogers Mouthful" Our Patrons ard RE Decatur 5250 DECEMBER 24 Revue WHITE ARTISTS 'CABIN IN THE COTTON' WITH RICHARD BARTHELMESS DOROTHY JORDAN CLARENGE MUSE THE CANDLE Highlights of 1932 Told in Pictures THE TEMPLE OF THE TEMPLE OF THE TEMPLE SCENE AT CAMP BONUS, Anacostia, where thousands of war veterans gathered last summer and threatened to stay until the bonus was paid. They were driven from the camp at night by soldiers and police 1930 PRESIDENT HOOVER meets delegation of Negro Republicans at White House a few days before the election. This was the first time the president ever consented to pose with a colored delegation. BEST NEWS OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL A. B. EDDIE TOLAN, Olympic sprint champion who won honors at the international games. THE DEATH OF THE MAYOR OF BROOKLYN PRESIDENT HOOVER and Dr. MORDECAL JOHNSON at Howard University Commencement. THE MAP OF THE WESTERN STATES CAPTAIN ROSCOE COOPER, commander of Company A, of Dunbar High School, winner of annual cadet competitive drill. He is being presented the medal by General J. Van Horn Moseley, U. S. Army. THE WASHINGTON TRIBUNE. DECEMBER 28. 1932 thousands of war veterans gathered last summer and threatened to stay until the border. TRIAL SAVINGS BANK, at Eleventh and U Streets, N.W., Since combining with the institutions in the country. President W. H. C. Brown is shown in inset. of 1932 Told athered last summer and threatened to stay until the bonus was paid. Welcome NATIONAL NEGRO BANKERS Eleventh and U Streets, N.W., Since combining with the Prudential B resident W. H. C. Brown is shown in inset. Welcome NATIONAL NEGRO BANKERS A. RENCE MUSE, noted actor and singer who is rated one of the most outstanding screen during the year. He will be at the Howard Theatre for one week beginning and singer who is rated one of the most outstanding stars of the will be at the Howard Theatre for one week beginning Saturday. CLARENCE MUSE, noted actor and singer who is rated one of the most outstanding stars of the stage and screen during the year. He will be at the Howard Theatre for one week beginning Saturday. A. H. re-elected to head the Elks at Atlantic City convention. THE BASEBALL PLAYER JUDGMENT OF SOLIDARITY WINNING FLOAT in the annual Firemen's and Policemen's parade. The float, entered by Engine Company No. 4, portrayed "The Judgement of Solomon." MRS. ALMA P. MURRAY "ant 8. weet me ‘Alexcndria. Correspondent Phone: Aiex, 317-W. MRS. KATHLEEN M. LUCKETY 21 Queen Bt ‘Alnanirie Representative Phone: Alex. 689 | His Hearty Endorsement - by A. T. Reid eee eee | ees Rs f Y 3 ‘ Soa ® de Pt.) ale eat) {ih / i Wu i 4% , if LL <n : P oy | SIXTEEN January 1 eet ‘The sale of Alexandria City auto tags will be started January 1, and “it is expected that February:1, will oe the desd line for obtaining these “tags, after this date a fine will be “imposed on all delinquents. © This year the’ sale of the state Aags will not begin until March 15, ‘and car owners. will be given until “April 15 to. obtain these tags. Af- ter April 15, car owners will not ‘be allowed to operate if they have Tot the 1933 ‘tags. Considerable complaint has been ‘made by motorists, of drivers of closed ears who during the cold weather keep their windows, closed and fail to give hand signals in making turns. A number of ac- cidents have resulted from this abghgenes on. the part of drivers tain of Police John S. Arnold has instructed members of the force to arrest persons who, make turns without. giving hand: signals as. required: by the law, + City Taxes G W. Purvis Taylor, city collector, stated that taxpayers now delin- quent-on the second half of their city ‘taxes on which’ a penalty of two-per cent has already been add- ed will have an additional penalty of five per cent added effective January next, ‘Taxpayers who pay “betwen now and the last day in December will save five per cent. ‘There are a great many delin- quents this year. City Council at its meeting last Tuesday elected three’ new school trustees. They are C. Page Wal- ler, Thomas W. Robinson, and Olander R. Kirk. Capital Theatre Opens The former Olympic Theatre on the corner of Henry and Queen Streets will” réopen Monday, De- -cember ‘26. /as>the Capital. “The. theatre fis pen resented and new: ly ee and has «mew ventix Jating system: The theatre, will be operated. by the Capital Cor- Poration' Co. Julian Dove is sup- “exvising manger and projection- Parker-Gray, School Parker-Gray School will close on Feiday, December 28, at noon for the Christmas holidays and will re- open, Tuesday, January 3. The pu- pils are making presents for the needy, some are filling baskets, and ‘many of the rooms will have _ Christmas trees and parties on the day school closes. The Parker: Gray carol singers will visit the Alexandria Hospital and all the churches on Chiistmas, Sunday, morning. General News Notes ‘The junior members of the Fed- ‘erated Women’s Clubs of Virginia fave a card party at the Parker- y school last Friday night: The eds; are to be’ paced to help the jeedy for Christmas, A number of very attractive gar- ments have been completed and ‘burned over to the Red Cross for needy childven of the city. ‘They were. made. by. Mrs. Minnie Brooks, Mrs. H. P. Tancil, Mrs. ‘Btta Bell, Mrs. Katie Franklin, ‘Miss Maggie Townes, Mrs. A. I. “McDowell, Miss, Hattie Darnell, Mrs. M. E. Evans, all members. of the Lookout Club, which is a ranch of the Women’s State Fed- erated Club. “The Lookout Club has. received lathing trom Mrs. FH. M. Mar- yay and Miss: Anna Townes. “The Neighborhood Savings Club met at the residence of Mrs. Bar- bara A. Fortine, December 19, at ‘B p.m. Ten members were pres- ent: Mrs. Elizabeth Taylor, presi- dent; Leon Jacobs, vice-president; Mie VU. Jackson, ‘sccretary; Miss § Alexandria, recorder; . Mrs. ‘Fortune, treasurer; Miss | Nellie ‘Jackson, Miss Thelma Askridge, Mrs. Inez Hargrove, banking com: mittee. “Mr. Benny Mason. Dr. W. H. r, Miss B. V. Skinner, Miss WDelphie Austin, and Miss Bessie ‘Skinner motored to Bristoe, Va. We J. Byron Hopkins, Jr. was among the successful candidates who passed the Virginia State Board of Law last week, ». Barrington Guy, one of Ameri. €a’s leading baritones and radic artists, of Washington, D.C., will che heard-in a song recital at the ‘Bhiloh Baptist Church, Thursday, See ci Ses hte tate ie ee ee eae December 29, at 8 pan. He will ‘be accompanied by Miss Jewell ‘Tenifer, who is also a well known ‘radio artist. - oe Church News Beulah Baptist Church will have ‘Christmas services at 11:30 Sun- day mornings “The children’s pro- gram will be at 8 p.m. Christmas. candy willbe distributed at that ime. ~The Third Baptist Church will have special Christmas ‘music and sermon by the pastor, Rey. S. B. Ross, at 1am. The Sunday school will give out the Christmas candy at 2 p.m, ‘At liam, Rev. F, E Hearns, D.D., pastor. of Shiloh Baptist Chureh, will preach a special Christmas sermon and. the choir will render special Christtaas mu- sic. There will not be any. night services. Meade P-E. Church will hold midnight mass on Christmas eve from 11 to 12 midnight. Christ- nias’ morning, at 11 a.m. Holy Comminion. and. morning- ‘prayer, and sermon. by the pastor, Holy Communion at St, Cyprian P.E. Mission at Seminary, Va., at 8 p.m. Christmas’candy and pres- ents will be given. to the Sunday school children of St. Cyprians at 3 p.m., December 25. Madame M, J. Walker, of D.C, visited Roberts Chapel last Sunday ‘morning, gave an interesting ad- dress on “Business in Our Group.” She was also dinner guest of Rev. and Mrs, T..N. Austin, ‘The program committee of the Citizens’ Association met at Mrs. Margaret Evans’ home, Wednes- day, December: 21, to arrange a program for. Emancipation. Serv iges at the Shiloh Baptist Church, ‘Sunday, January 8, at 3 p.m, Special” Christmas: services will be held at Roberts Chapel, Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. At 7:30, Be, chblr_ will sing Christmas car: ols. “The Sunday school” had ’ their Christmas program Thursday, De- cember 27, at 8 p.m. Among the Sick Mr. Andrew Grady is ill at: the home of his parents. Miss Sadie Mayne is confined to her, home. on N; Columbus Street Miss Earléen Luckett is confined with the grip at her aunt’s in D.C. Miss Ada Ashland is sick at her home. George Turner, whip. hasbeen sick at his home on South Payne Street, ix mach better, Mrs, Hattie Greene, who was.re- ported much better last week, is a patient at Freedmen’s Hospital. “Mrs. Julia Washington contin- nes on the sick list. Mrs, Lettie White, who has been ill at her home on N. West Street, is improying. |, Mrs Susie P. Madden, and: Mrs. Leola Carter are confined to their homes by illness. Mr. and Mrs, Mathew Proctor, of South Alfred Street, who have been very: iN, are-much better. George Cheatman, who has been very ill, is much better. Leon’ Wilkins, of N, Patrick Street, who was in an. accident a few days ago, is much better. Mrs. Louise Ashby is confined to her home in: Seminary, Mrs. Wealthy Taylor is sick at her home on N. Patrick Street, ‘Mrs. Cecila Gaddis is quite ill. Deaths Mrs. Virginia Poindexter, moth- er of Miss Frances Poindexter, Hattie, Wains, Robert and John Poindexter, died at her home on North Patrick Street, last Wednes- day. Funeral services were held from Mt. Jezreal Baptist. Church, Saturday, December 17. RADIO SERVICE Guaranteed Repairs on All Re- ceiving Sets. Prompt Service to AIL Paits: of D.C, and’ County. Leon C. Baltimore, Jr. Certified Radio-Trician 600 S. WASHINGTON ST. Alexandria 1144-W Full Line of Guaranteed Tubes Out-of-Town Calls Paid For Wy ES - $15 CASH SEE PAGE 8 cc ARLINGTON, VA. PENROSE. ‘The Butler-Holmes Gitizens' “Association met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. E.. Wauls, Monday night, and elected the fol- lowing officers for the year of 1933. David Smith, president; Herman. Clifford, vice-president; Mrs.’ Alice Moorman, financial 'sec- retary; Mrs. Esther J. Cooper, te- cording secretary; Charles, B. Hun- ter, treasurer ;Herman Clifford, chaplain; and ‘Oliver Crawford, sergeant-atcarms. ‘These. officers will be installed the second Mon- day night ix January. ‘Acting upon the suggestion of Mrs. Wauls there will be a Christ- mas party for the children of the community during ‘the. holidays. ‘The larger girls will help to en tertain and assist. in serving. the refreshments. Also, three baskets of fruit, tokens of love and esteem will be given to three women; in the neighborhood who are not as actiye as. they have: been, NAUCK. ‘The debate, “Resolved, That This is the Greatest. Age, given at Lomax, Friday night, De- cember 16, was’ indeed interesting and. instructiye.- ‘The participants were Miss Natalie Moorman, a sen- ior at Miner Teachers! College, and William, Mino., superintendent. of St. John’s Sunday school, for the affirmative, and Mrs, Julia E. Dean, president of Mt, Olive B.Y.P.U,, assisted by Mrs, Walker for. the negative. The judges were. the Rev. Carter Taylor, pastor of Lit- [tle Zior Baptist Church, Burke, Va.; the Rey. S. D. Walker, rastor fof St. John Baptist Church; and the Rey. J. J. Robinson, pastor of Lomax A.M.E. Zion Church, Mrs. Marion ‘Thompson High- tower, of Cleveland, Ohio, who is visiting her father and. step-moth- er, Mr. and Mrs. Soloman Thomp- son, for the winter, played a piano selection, Mrs, Nora Drew proved as always, a pleasing and gracious mistress of ceremonies, ‘There were two contestants for the Hope Chest—Mi:s N. Moor- man and Mrs. Lillian ‘Bullock Green; the former turning in $20.05, received the first prize: Mrs. Green reporting $15.55 from the’ sale of tickets received second prize, which was $2, Mrs. Mary Taylor made the pre- sentation. The debate and hope chest were given under the aus- pices of the Jennie Dean Club, Mrs: Edna Howard, president, whose ob- ject is the purchasing of land on which to place recreational: facili- ties for the youth of Arlington County, Mrs. Dean joined the-club. as a representative from Jefferson District. Macedonia Baptist Church, At the morning services, the pastor, the Rey, S. W. Phillips, has ax his subject, “Be of good courage.” At 3 ofclock in the evening, the Rev. L, Phillips preached at the Bbehezer Baptist ‘Church, Alexan- dria. He was accompanied by the Misses Margaret and Mary Harris, Jack Agee, Miss Lowe, and Miss McFadden. At’8 o'clock, the -pastor's- sub- ject. was “Man in Bed With Wo- man Satisfied Until Morning—the Wrong Woman.” HALLS HILL. (Mt. Salvation Baptist Church. The Rev. N..R. Richardson, pastor, preached from the subject, “Gods’ own garden,” ‘The last. communion service of the year will be observed on Sun- day. Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Hicks were host and hostess to the Car- | nation Club at dinner, tast week, at their residence. The members | of the club are: Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ewell, Mr, and Mrs. Mosley, Mrs. M, Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Addison Williams, Miss Harrison, and Mr. and Mrs, Anderson, of’ Rosslyn. ‘The game of bingo was played af- ter dinner with much enjoyment, Mrs, Anderson captured the first prize and Mr. A. Williams, the sec- ond prize. John M. Langston’ Lodge of Elks met in its regular session on Wed- nesday evening, and after the rou- tine of business, Robert I, Terrell, district deputy’ of Northern Vir- ginia, conducted the election of of- ficers, and the following were elect- ed: exalted ruler, D. W. Ferguson; esteemed leading. knight, A. 0. Points; esteemed lecturing knight, Fred Hall; esteemed loyal ‘knight, James I. Gardner; financial secre- tary, E. 0. Snowden; inner guard, Frank Williams; treasurer, C. C. Clement; tiler, Charles Robinson; trustee, G. W. Ferguson; esquire, : ) i. ae WASHING TON TRIBUNE. DECEMBER 23, 1932 THE 18th AMENDMENT | Seabee eect Cee At this crucial period ‘when’ the atmosphere is charged "with the political powder of the liquor prob- Jem, permit me to. make,a few ob- servations on the same. To begin with, I am in favor of an’ unconditional repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. I say this neutrally; that is, I am neither for nor against. the use of aleoholie li- quors. Iam, and have always been a total abstainer, and that, not by Persuasion but from choice. ‘I have never prescribed alcoholic liquor of any sort for my. patients although I have the right to do so. Now, as the question of repeal- ing the liquor laws is coming x before Congress, one hears. all kinds of arguments pro and con on the question, My. interest is aroused’ by. the knowledge of the fact that a very large percentage of our church leaders are preparing to: fight any attempt at repeal. I am not a moralist, but to me it:does not ‘seem to require much moral quali- fication to balance the good and evil of prohibition. i ‘The argument of the. average propounder of the good of prohibi- tion, as, far as I have listened to, revolves. around a series of vague figures and. statistics compiled by some one higher up, which he. takes for granted, T have yet to hear ong: of these persons get down to practical facts as they exist.in our every day ex- perience, and there balance, with- out prejudice, the: evil effects of prohibition ‘against. its” apparent ood. Ty am. not -unmindful that the Eighteenth Amendment isa law of our country, and as such every citizen should respect itr But the question comes, ean any law mor- alize a people? Is it possible to enact any law in this or any. country. ‘that. will forcibly ‘and sucessfully curb the appetite, and proclivity of man- kind? ‘The schoolboy would not hesitate in saying that that is im- possible, But this is exactly what the Jaws on liquor prohibition meant to a large portion of our people in this country, and’for that ‘very reason they have been to large ‘extent unenforcible, From my. personal observation and judgment the condition may ‘be balanced thus: In pre-prohibition days there were men, women and children who drank. Homes -went to the bow- wows because of drunken: parents. Jails. were filled with drunkards who in their drunken state com- mitted various classes of crimes. Saloon keepers violated the laws in order to peddle thelr wares, and so kept the police and the courts busy. On the other hand, in those very days we had the farmers. flourish- ing, selling millions of dollars of their products to. the liquor manu- facturers, hundreds of thousands of persons ‘employed in the liquor manufacturies, in bottle ‘factories, in cork factories, in wire-factories, in Igbel factories, in the crate, keg and barrel industries, ‘There were wagon drivers, pack- ers, bottlers, clerks, bookkeepers, salesmen, agents and runners. Bil- lions of dollars were spent annual- ly for transportation, rent, postal communications, taxes, and revenve charges. Hardly did one'hear of a policeman or any. other. person killed in. a drunken brawl, or in the enforcement of the then regu latory laws. A glance at the: above ;will con- C. H. Chinn; medical advisor, and Dr, Milson E. Holmes. Memorial services were held by the lodge, and the Jennie Dean Temple on the third Sunday eve- ning at Calloway ME. Church. Perry W. Howard, legal advisor of the Elks, delivered the principal address. ' Other participants were the Rev. Mr. Yearwood: pnstor of Calloway; James H. Williams, T. W. Hyson, Viola Bolden, Dorothy Pointer; a solo by. Bessie Wright, and E. Points, master of. ceremon- ios. EAST ARLINGTON. Mt, Zion Baptist Church. Many . attended the last communion service Sun- day. The pastor, the Rey. J. E. Green, took his text from Matthew “Among the visitors were the Rev, H. Miles, pastor of Mt. Jez- reel” Baptist Church, Alexandria, who took charge of the eommun- ion; Deacons Yarbrough and ‘Brooks, of St. John Baptist ‘Church. "The Sunday school will*hold its |Gheistmas exercises on Wednesday, December 28. vince.the most skeptical that the ‘good in the liquor: business:in those days out-balanced the evil. Now, let us examine the prohibi- tion days. It, appears to ‘me that the only apparent good. to which we may point is the wiping out of the saloons and brawls connected with them; while the evils may plainly be ‘seen in the following: men; women, -children still drink and are-drank. Families.still go to the bow-wows because’ of drufiken parents. Jails and prisons ate overcrowded with drupkards and ‘liquor violators. Nearly every.week either a police- man, a prohibition agent or some alleged violator of the liquor: law is killed in the effort of ucoseing prohibition. <Millions of ‘dollars. worth, of: il- licit tiquors: and manufactuting ap- paratuses are being’ destroyed an- nually. Hiindreds of thousands of dolls rs-of the taxpayers’ money is spent annually in the futile attempt to enforce the prohibition laws. Hundreds of automobiles are wrecked: in. liquor. chases. ‘Thousands of persons—male, fe- male, adults and children—either die or! must be sent to. the insane asylums as a result of drinking Doisstious “liquors, ~ : A glance at the above will con- vince the most.easual observer that the evils of prohibition out-balance many times its good, Further, if'you thus compare the irik results of pre-prabibition days with those of prohibition days, you will readily find that, those of pro- hibition days are. unquestionably more-numerous and greater.. Then compare. the good of, pre-prohibi- tion days with those of, prohibition days, and ‘you, will. find also’ that the good’ of, pre-prohibition days is far in excess of that of prohibition days. : 4 _ From, and :by"‘the above ‘reason- ing, 1 declared myself in favor of the’ ‘repeal’ of the . Kighteenth Amendment, and of all laws per- taining to. ‘the’ manufacture and sale of spitituous ‘liquors. Furthermore; it'seems to me that the church could'do.a. great deal more good for the cause of. so- briety and temperance if it would concentrate ‘its efforts in obtaining the enactment of strict: laws. and regulations. to govern. the manu- facture and sale of alcoholic. drinks, and the: laying down of. a severe penalty for the offence of drunk- enness, and also engage in per- sistent’ and intelligent persuasion of its adherents against the evils of drunkenness and intemperance, thus creating a natural resentment against aleoh6lic drinks. Tt seems from the trend’ of. “- present situation, that any. leader who will publicly: ‘etend ‘pro- hibition and the Eighteenth Amend- ment, runs, the risk of becoming unpopular, Because to “drinl something” is as much a part of human nature as to “smoke,” or “eat something.” Men will drink something, if that, something be turpentine mixed with lemon jufce. irrespéctive of the: reaction, Since people must have. it, let them have the properly manufac- tured liquor. I want it ‘distinctly understood that I do not hold any brief for the drinker or drunkard, but.I do USED CAR VALUES That Offer a Wonderful Saving Opportunity nik ine Stee 595 peat DecrWebad...-...... 29D: Wit saten. ictcisse..e $395 wee 2508 neue 7 $285 ones Pale $995 speceaeel. "Sane. Sara S165. Se ieeige ae EMERSON & ORME 17th and M Dist. 8100 ‘Open Evenings PROTECT {them fron: Tuberculosis ee : rg Keep them away from sick peeple.. Insist om plenty of rest .. Train them im health habits .. Consult the doctor coe GOOD DATES OPEN Murray CAsINo During Month of JANUARY Best Winte - Dance Month esr. always remember that the habitual drinker or drunkard. is. a sick pet- son, That both the sensory and motor regions of “his brain are al- ways partially numb~from the ef- fect of the alcoholic poison. enter- ing. those regions through absorp~ tion in. the blood. The. habitual. drunkard is as much a “dope fiend” as. the eater of morphin, codeip, or .eroin. . He develops an insatiable appetite for the liquor and have it he must, and he will allow no law to stand between b's cravings nd. the li- guor. ‘This being 80, prohibition must be, and will always be a fail- ure. A repeal therefore, is the ou- ly° wa yout of it all. ).. THEO. PARKER, D.0. sie Ec ae Pays Installment 20 3 Years to Get Coat INDIANAPOLIS, ‘Ind—(CNS) An official of a local department store here relates the following story for'a place in thé “believe it or not” series of stories. ‘A Negto woman who serubbed floors and washed clothes for twenty years-to make payments weekly on sealskin coat cost- ing $1,000, has paid the last in- stallment and received the gar- ment, “A ‘Seore’of ‘years ago, accord- ing’ to’ the managers, ‘the wo- man, whose name they refused to divalge, selected ‘the gar- ment and had it placed in the Jasy-away department. When she paid off her bill recently, it was discovered the. coat she had chosen—a 1912 model— had been lost. She, was satisfied, how- ever, when the nianagement re- placed it with a 1923. style Jacket-length sealskin, one Se B Rea US Aww G CNY KZ A W E) Jepression days should make you realize the need.of more publicity. You can’t afford to de- pend on the trade that “s based n friendship. Advertise yourself. Our Commercial Printing will help you. MURRAY BROS. 920 U ST.,.N.W OSCE. MADDEN Furnace and Stove Repairing ROOFING Personal Service 1753 T St, NW. Pot. 5956 ——TeRy Tes INCENSE BLOCKS ‘YUMBERS APPEAR INTHE ASHES 25e A Box A.New Supply on Hand at the | OLD INDIAN HERB STORE 1728 7th St. N.W. BEST. NEWS OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL ra O. Vedat stata. A.M. E.. Financial Department Sends Out $27,000. in Xmas Cheer ‘Dr, John R, Hawlkins, ‘nancial secretary of the A:M.E. Church, sent out Christmas checks this week amounting to $27,000. The checks carried thelr message of cheer to 1660 widows of ministers, 485 superannuated ministers, and 420 orphans. This is an antual event of the financial department of this church and Dr.:Hawkins said that he is happy to be able to send out this amount at this time. The checks have gone to many states in the Union, and will prove a blessing of hope and cheer to each reeipient. Eee Overheated Stove Causes Fire Which Damages Shop An overheated’ stove: in a shoe shop at 1207 R Strest, Northwest, early-this week caysed'a fire which did slight \ damage. ~ The, two- story building damaged: hy the flames js occupied by Carrie Spen- cer and S, Thompson, a shoe mak- NOTICE Please get youticlassified ads into the office by Thursday, 10 a.m. Ads will not be taken by telephone. FURNISHED ROOMS LARGE FRONT ROOM, nicely furnished, in-private home. No children, In quiet neighborhood. Near car lines “and bus. Call At- Jantic 5505. ONE LARGE COMFORTABLE front room with entire use. of kitchen, -1107 Kenyon St. naw. ROOM FOR ONE OR TWO MEN. 2008 Fifth St., nw. Been penne Set NEATLY FURNISHED ROOMS; quiet, homelike. 121 T St., nw. Potomac 0641, North 9066. FURNISHED or UNFURNISHED ROOMS ROOMS FOR RENT. 1129 Fair- mont St., nw. FURNISHED or UNFURNISHED apartment; two or three rooms and: kitchen; private home. Tele- phone ‘North 1740. UNFURNISHED ROOMS UNFURNISHED ROOMS for rent reasonable. 1208 Irving St., n.w. Phone, Columbia 2103-W. ROOMS WANTED UNFURNISHED FRONT ROOM. Single gentleman, N.W, section, or will share rent of house or apartment with responsible party. ‘Address this Office, Washington Tribune, Box 102. ‘APARTMENTS en ct THREE ROOMS and Kitchen, ot two rooms and kitchen} bath, La- trobe heat, gas and electricity, 1018 $ St.,"now. Potomac 5574, HAIRDRESSER WANTED HAIRDRESSER wishes co-worker to share beauty. parlor .or booth to Jet. Call North 9066. Se ee aiahitae on J. FRANKLIN WILSON. Attorney suPheme COURT OF THe DISTRICT ‘et Columbia, Holding Probate Court. Noe dozen, ‘Admniateations "This is to Hive Notiep: "That the sumeriber, of the Botnet of columbia hay ialsed" ram Woowie ‘Usteen et ‘eamitrstion on ihe state ‘of Mary M. Browne, late “of the District of Colombia deceased. All yee sonn hevine claims ‘gsigat ‘the deceaped ig hereby’ warned to exible the same, withthe touchere:thereo(, levallyauthen: Tested, to the subscriber, on er before the Hath Waxgot December’ ‘A‘D. 1035 other wise they*maay. by law be exciuded from al Benet ‘ot esid evista,” Given user my and thin 13th ay of ‘December, 1902 Ssmoel W. Walon, iti9) Montals Ave. tee ae’ Wills forthe’ Pinks of Cohimbis Mee Wile Sor. the Diskriet C. M. Thomas Speaks at Men’s Brotherhood Chatles M. ‘Thomas, Armstrong High School teacher, sddressed the Men's Brotherhood of Lincoln Con- spoke at the evening service. The devotional exercises were led by John H. Williams. Dr. Carter G. Woodson, director of the Association fur the Study of the Negro Life and History, ‘spoke on the evening service. The Rev, R. W. Brooks is pastor. pease Columbia Marching Club Starts Membership Drive The Marching Club of the Co- lumbia Temple No, 422, met Wed- nesday.. ‘Two new members were added: to the. club's roster as the start in the membership campaign. Daughters Irene Burris and Alice’V. Chavis were elected escort and gatekeeper, respectively, of the Magnolia Couneil, ee ered . And Vice Versa As @ rule, the men who could say the most intereating things .do the least talking.—Toledo Blade. GEORGE A. PARKER. Attorney, Te U Stet, NW SUPREME COURT OF THE. DISTRICT ‘of Calurebin,- Holding | Protate Court. Nov Gass, Almintstration. This is) 10 sive Notice: "That the mubseriber, of the Bistelct of ‘Cohumbie has obtainsd Cfo ‘the Probate Court of the District of Co Ininhin Testteg of ‘agpinistation onthe state ‘of Henrietta: Blount Drewery. late Sf the District of Columbia, deceased. All Decsone *hgving. elainns. ageimst. the aes Seated are’ hereby “warned to, exhibit the Same, ‘with vouchers thereof Ioeally Rathenticated. to the subscriber: on or be- fore the 14th day of December," A.D. 1033: Sthervwise they may by. law. be excluded from all beneht, of sald extate,” ‘Given in ce my hand thie’ 14th day of December- 1932." Norma: Baker’ Drewery, 1218 Out: ten St, Norfolk. Va. Atlsst: ‘Tyrodore Gouswe'le Registay of Wille for’ the Die fice "ot ‘Columbia, “Clerk. of ‘the Probate Court. W. P. CANNADY, “Attorney IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE District of Co'umbia. Holding a Bro- tate Court In Re Extate. of Daniel A. Ford, deceased. “Nov 44203, ‘Administeatlon, deceased. No. 44203, Administ SoxdthSionoten Geis Valins Woke’ teal Application: having been. made haréin for the probate of the Jast witl and testament of anid deceased, and for’ letters teat mentary on said estate, by Lacy H. Ford. it is. ordered this th’ day of December, 1982, that Jolin W. Ford, George W. Ford, Catherine “C. ‘Saunders, “Elizabeth Alsons, Martha M. Whitley, Mildred M. Ford, Pal'y R. Myers, Celia Ford. “Helene Southern, Marie Southern, Dorothy Coleman, and ali others concefned. appear in said Court: on the 16th day of January. 1995, at 20 o'elook AGM,, to show: cause- why. such application should not be granted. Let notice. hereof be published in. Washington Law Repotter and the Washington Tribune. once in gach Of three succensive welts before the’ re- turn day ‘herein mentioned, the ‘Grst.-pub- slication to. be not less than’ thirty days before-said return day. James M. Proctor. Hostice, A" true ‘copy attest: Thesdore Coxswell, Resister of Wills for the District of Columbia, Cleric of the Probate Court. GEORGE A. PARKER. Atiocmer SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT ‘of Columbia. | Holding Probate Court. Estate of Fannie Grandy, deceased. Na 44.130, ‘Administration ‘Docket 08. App'i= eation’ having been-'made herein for ‘Bro- Ihate of the Inst will and testament of sah deceased, ‘and. for letters, estamentary” oh ‘said estate, by dames F. Phipps, ik is ordered “his tat day of Decembe, AD. 1982, that Georgin Moore, 619 West Eighth Street, Cincianati, Ohio, ‘and the unknown heist ine and next of hin if any a ‘others. concerned. appear in said. coor Sn Tocedays ten. Luh" lay at Janta, Ap. Tats. at 10, clock “A.M. "aha cause why’ such application should ‘act granted. "Lot. notice hereof” be published in’ the “Washington Taw Reporter” anil the Washington Tribune, once’ in each of three successive weeks before the return day herein. mentioned. the frvt publication to be not less than thirty days before said return day. James iM. Proctor, Justies. Attest: “Theodore Coxswell, Rexiater of Wille for the District, of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court ‘THOS. WALKER, A SUPREME COURT. OF THE ‘bisriier ‘of Columbia." Holdine Probate Court. No. 44198, Administration. This Is. ws Give Notice: “That the subscriber. of the District of Columbia has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Co-, Jumbia, Letters testamentary on the estate ef Henry T, Swann. late of the District of Columbia, decoased: All. persons having claims “against. the deceased are hereby warned “to exhibit the same. with. the Youchers thereof, legally authenticated, to the subscriber, on or before the 30th day of November,” A-D. 193%: otherwise they raay by law be exclided from all benefit fof said estate.” Given under my band. thie Se ae ase eee naeline Winters Swann, D Sk. N.W. Attest! ‘Theodore Cogswell, Rex ftir of Wills for the Ditrict of Columbia Clatk of the Prabate. Court. Let Telephone take you back home for the holidays *JOHN AND MARY SAY 'MERRY CHRISTMAS AND'HAPPY NEW YEAR' TO YOU ALL' Telephone your holiday greetings to the folks back home. It's the modern, fast, low-cost way. After 8:30 p.m. you can talk 135 miles for 45c; 275 miles for 75c*; and 400 miles for $1.00° (station-to-station calls). *Exclusive of lag The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company (Fall System) MORRIS LEWIS IS OPPOSED TO CLOSED CHURCHES DePriest's Secretary Condemns Lack of Interest Shown/Youth Morris Lewis, secretary to Congressman DePriest, was the guest speaker in Baltimore, Friday night, on the occasion of the celebration of the intermediate department, Morning Star Baptist Church, the topic being "The Negro Youth in America." The meeting was sponsored by Charles G. Boyd, superintendent of the Sunday school, and by Miss Sylvia C. Ricks, superintendent of the intermediate department. Mr. Lewis emphasized the importance of developing in the Negro youth a pride of race, and vigorously pointed out the responsibility of the home and fireside, parents, Sunday school, and day school teachers, the pulpit and the press, in consideration of the destiny of the race as possible through Negro boys and girls, the men and women of tomorrow. He called attention to the great possibilities of the church and its investment of $205,000,000, saying that the doors of the Negro churches were closed, barred and silent in a degree far beyond warrant when the amount of the investment is taken into consideration. He admitted that much has been done, and is being done, to meet this situation through activities in the more progressive institutions, but condemned those that were open but 52 Sundays and perhaps 52 week days during the year, as an extravagant waste and a forfeiture of a wonderful opportunity for practical service among the young people. The following statistics were presented by the speaker: In eight selected states: Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland, Ohio, Illinois, New Jersey, Indiana, Delaware, and the District of Columbia, there is a total Negro population of 2,244,206, of which there are 338,454 boys and girls between the ages of 10 and 19. Of the 51,044 between the ages 10 and 19 in Maryland, 21,499 reside in the city of Baltimore. For many years Mr. Lewis has been interested in the development of the youth of his race, having organized thirty years ago the Booker T. Washington Boys' Club of Chicago, at a time when lie was superintendent of the Sunday school of Institutional A. M. E. Church. He is now directing his efforts toward a federation of correlated effort in behalf of the development of the Negro youth, illustrating his ever-present example from boyhood to manhood, in Oscar DePriest, the boy in Florence, Ala., to Oscar DePriest, member of Congress. Forces Admission of Negro Jury Exclusion in Atlanta ATLANTA, Ga. — Admission that "Negroes have been systematically excluded from the grand and petit juries for yea.s," was wring from the Rev. John Hudson, assistant solicitor and prosecutor on the witness stand in the Angelo Herndon case, in a hearing on a writ of habeas corpus to dismiss the indictment against Herndon. The writ raised this question of exclusion of Negroes from the jury, and asked dismissal on this ground. This important victory won by the International Labor Defense in the heart of the chain-gang state of Georgia, can become an extremely important factor in smashing Jim-Crowism in the South. This question is inseparably bound up in the defense of the Herndon case. Dancer, Slashed by an Unknown Party During Altercation Cut with a knife during an altercation following a dance at Masonic Temple, Thursday night, Clarence Thomas, 18, was treated at Freedmen's Hospital emergency department early this week. Thomas sustained lacerations of the left arm when cut by an unknown person. After treatment he was removed to his home, 1255 Irving Street, Northwest. OMEGAS TO MEET IN RICHMOND, VA. OMEGAS TO MEET IN RICHMOND, VA. The Omega Psi Phi Fraternity will hold its annual conclave in Richmond, Virginia, December 28, 29 and 30, as the guest of Phi Phi and Zeta chapters. The business sessions will be held in the Southern Aid Building, Third and Clay Streets. According to Attorney Walter H. Mazyck, grand keeper of records, the conclave will undoubtedly stress as its program, the strengthening of the internal organization of the fraternity. Since the last meeting the fraternity has suffered heavy financial losses due to the failure of a bank in which some of the funds were kept, and the general economic condition has contributed to prevent the recouping of the treasury to the extent which would enable the fraternity to resume its altruistic activities. He said, for these reasons such projects as scholarships, essay contest prizes and grants-in-aid of research would probably be relegated to a secondary place, while propositions such as already advanced in circular letters by some chapters pertaining to the reorganization of the fraternity would assume primary proportions. The program of social activities as published in the Omega Bulletin shows that the host chapters splendidly assisted by the local social clubs and other Greek letter organizations have prepared to make the stay of the visitors and delegates very enjoyable. Many of the chapters have already selected their delegates and numerous detached members have signified their intention of being present during the sessions. Indications are that the conclave will attract the largest number of members ever assembled in the history of the fraternity. The Innocef Bystander By Laurence J. W. Hayes You have probably heard about the sentimental gentleman from Georgia who is gentle to the ladies all the time. Here is one about an optimistic Democratic from Texas who wasted a special delivery dime. This gentleman wrote his state chairman a special delivery letter asking for a job as Federal census taker. He does not seem to know that the next Federal census will be taken in 1940. **** Here is one for Winchell's "Things I Never Knew Until Now": "Some of the hottest stars give off less heat than cooler but larger stars. Don't ask me where I got this, since it is said that a good newspaperman never divulges the source of his information." The foregoing line might be used to advantage by some research student, by simply changing the word newspaperman to student. ***** I see by the papers that the House Post Office Committee recommended the immediate return of or to the 2-cents-an-ounce rate for first-class mail in an attempt to end part of the losses of revenue caused by the three-cent rate. Meanwhile the chief executive recommends in his budget message that a further reduction of 11 per cent be made in that part of the government salary in excess of $1,000. Ho Hum. LOS GAUCHITOS IN RECITAL AT NIGHT SCHOOL Christmas Program Also Given at Shaw Night School This Week Gems from South America were presented Friday at the monthly assembly of the evening students of the Dunbar Night High School located in the Shaw Junior High School Building. Under the leadership of Dr. William A. Cameron, the orchestra re-named "Los Gauchitos," numbering thirteen musicians, rendered a program of Spanish classics balanced with serenades and waltzes, representative of the Latin temperament. The program included Doble's "La Vida," "Noche Azul," "La Negra Quirima," a tango, "Mariposita Mia," "Otchi Tchoriya," a Russian gypsy dance, a Brazilian waltz, "A Vida E Sempre Assim," "Canto Biboney," a Cuban rumba, "La Bella Zingara," "Recuerdo de Alzaga" and "Ojos Gitanos," a gypsy seradande. Members of the orchestra were Thomas E. Batsen, Sherman Smith, Ralph Tibbs, Doc Shields, Sylvester Thomas, Richmond Johnson, Arthur Smith, Waverly Baird, Romeo Harris, Lonnie Watkins, and Fred Simpkins. A Christmas program was given Wednesday under the sponsorship of Prof. J.F. Gregory and H.L. Grant, consisted of Yuletide recitations and musical selections. This extra-curricular activity afforded to adult learners experience and training in participating on public occasions. Following the assembly a "get-toogether" social was held in the gymnasium. The College Entrance Committee of Teachers has started holding individual conferences with candidates for graduation in June, 1933. Dean Slowe Addresses the North Jersey Howard Alumni Club MONTCLAIR, N.J.-Miss Lucy D. Slowe, dean of women, Howard University, and a graduate of the class of 1908, college of arts and sciences, Howard University, was the guest speaker before the monthly meeting of the North Jersey Howard Alumni Club at the residence of Dr. George E. Bell, here Tuesday evening. Dean Slowe discussed "The Responsibility of the Alumni to Their Alma Mater." She pointed out that no institution can be greater than its alumni and that it is the duty of the alumni to guide their alma mater in all of its major programs. She cited the fact that Harvard University had become one of the greatest universities in the world chiefly through placing its destiny in the hands of its graduates. Dean Slowe advised the club to keep in constant touch with their alma mater, appealed to the group to support their school financially, stressed the need for a vigorous organization of the alumni throughout the country, and advised the members to work for an independent and self-respecting alumni group. She contended that Howard University, like every other university, will be a great institution largely through the intelligent and consistent influence of its graduates. The graduates should never relinquish the right to guide the destiny of their school, but this right must carry with it the willingness to shoulder responsibility whenever the need arises. Dean Slowe's address was enthusiastically received by the large group present and a vote of thanks was extended her by the entire body. Dr. Lena Edwards, of Jersey City, introduced the speaker, and the response to her address was made by Dr. A. Maurice Curtis, of Paterson. Burrville Raises Money for Scholarship The Women's Club of Burrville entertained Thursday evening, December 15, with a card party at the residence of Mrs. Carrie Knox of 901 Division Avenue. Many beautiful prizes were donated and a large crowd was in attendance. The purpose of the tournament was to raise a scholarship fund for a worthy community child. Prize winners in bridge were: Mrs. Morgan, Mrs. Scott, Mr. Richardson, Mrs. E. Richardson and Mrs. A. B. Smith. Whist prize winners were: Mr. J. M Knox, Miss Edna Ryan, A. D Smith, Thomas Ross, and Dr. J. A Porter. Others present were: Mrs. Morgan, Mrs. Richardson, Miss Shumate, Mrs. Scott, Mrs. B. Richardson, Miss Alice Tolson, Mrs. A. B. Smith, Mrs. Mitchell, Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler, Mrs. Duckett, Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Smith, Mr. Freeman, Thomas Ross, Nettie Hicks, C. R. Norris, Lydia Johnson. Fred Norman, Mrs. C. Thomas, L. Wilson, Mrs. C. Anderson, Clarice Wilson, A. D. Smith, Mrs. Marvette, A. W. Knox Mrs. Duckett, J. M. Knox, Dr. J. A. Porter, Mr. Dangerfield, Mr. and Mrs. Hammond, Mrs. Williamson, Mr. and Mrs. Bernard C. Chapman, Lendal Chase, Mrs. Nellie Knox, Lucian Wilson, Mrs. J. A. Porter, Mrs. Sissney, Mrs. F. K. Williamson and many others. THE WASHINGTON TRIBUNE. DECEMBER 23. 1932 AN APPEAL TO SOLITHERN YOUNG WORKERS The cover of the leaflet issued by the Young Communist League, on which the Southern rulers place their charge of "insurrection" because it shows a Negro and a white boy shaking hands Because a pamphlet they distributed had the above illustration, the State of Georgia is seeking to impose the death penalty on six workers, two Negro and four white, on charges of "Ineiting to Iusurrection." Similar charges, carrying the same penalty, are hanging over Angelo Herndon, 19-year-old Negro organizer of Atlanta. The International Labor Defense, defending him as well as the other six, last week won two signal victories against Jim-Crowism, through the two Negro attorneys representing Herndon in court, John H. Geer, and Benjamin J. Davis, Jr. Subpeonaing the Rev. John Hudson, state prosecutor, and other white officials they wrung from them on the witness stand the admission that "Negroes have been systematically excluded from the grand and petit juries for years" in Georgia. Bail for Herndon was reduced from $25,000 to $2,500 in the court fight. Herndon's trial, over objection of the defense, was postponed until the first week in January. UNTO THE LEAST OF THESE One bright star 'oer a And shadows like glo They've heard of a S And the WISE MEN Gifts of love did they Gold, myrrh, and fram They were worn and s To kneel at his baby One bright star o'er a darkening night, And shadows like ghosts in gray; They've heard of a Saviour born to earth, And the WISE MEN are on their way. Gifts of love did they bring to him, Gold, myrrh, and frankincense sweet; They were worn and spent, for they'd traveled far, To kneel at his baby feet. Seek you the Saviour, friend, today? What are the gifts you bring? What manner of sacrifice is yours, As you go in quest of your king? Hungry and cold you will find him still, Perhaps in a manger bed; Lonely, unsheltered, and unloved,— No place for his little head. Night's dark shadows around him fall, And roughly the cold winds blow, "The Inn is full," the keeper says, And he has no place to go. Lone and weary the mother waits, As the hours drag, one by one; Lifting sad, wistful eyes to you For help for her little son. Love and pity and kindly help In places where want holds sway, These are the gifts, O seeker dear, You should offer your king today. Bring the gifts that the Wise Men brought, First myrrh, that their fears are dead; Frankincense for a loving thought, And gold to exchange for bread. Unless you have brightened some lonely heart Or made some heart to sing, Your quest was a failure, seeker dear, And you have not found the King. Bessie Brent Ma Unless you have brightened some lonely hearth, Or made some heart to sing. Your quest was a failure, seeker dear, And you have not found the King. Phyllis Wheatley Y.W.C.A. to Distribute 200 Toys Sunday, January 1st, the "Y" will observe open house. The New Year reception from 6 to 9 p.m. is in charge of a committee, Mrs. H. Childs, chairman—At this time the board of directors will receive the guests. All friends are invited to attend the Recognition Service at 4 p.m. Sunday, January 1, under the direction of "the membership committee, Mrs. Cleo Key chairman and Mrs. Mary E. Thompson, secretary—all departments will be represented on the program. The Industrial Department clubs' Christmas activities will include the Christmas Vesper program, Sunday at 4 p.m. sponsored by the Avalon Players and participation in the Hostess Club party on December 28th. The upper class girls of Freedmen's Hospital will play the lower class girls basketball in the "Y" gym Saturday. No regular club and class meetings will be held during the Christmas holidays. Plans are being made for the opening of a social dancing class under the direction of Mrs. Josephine Van Brackle who conducts the Thursday evening tap dancing class. Vespers last Sunday were sponsored by the girl reserves. The theme was "Christmas around the World." Miss Davis gave a description of Yuleide season in Germany; Miss Dorothy Fagin told of Russia; Miss Arbutus Johnson told of France and Miss Cleo Brown told of our own America with a history of the girl reserve toy project. Christmas carols were sung by the junior glee club. A playful "Santa in the Rueau," was presented by the faithful Workers' Club under the direction of Miss Delores Lampkin and Miss Mamie Young. The toys renovated --- darkening night, ats in gray; aviour born to earth, are on their way. bring to him, kineense sweet; gent, for they'd traveled far, sweet. Bessie Brent Madison. and now ready for distribution at the party are on dis play in the the party are on display in the Thursday after noon the Metropolitan Four L Club will sing carols and distribute toys to the children of Eighth Street Home. The club is under the supervision of Mrs. Mamie Davis. Friday afternoon at 4 p.m. the Christmas party for underprivileged children will be given in the gym. Two hundred children will be the guests and will be entertained by the Nursery School of Mrs. Anita Anderson in a playlet-after refreshments are served, Santa will distribute the toys. Morning Star Lodge to Distribute Baskets The charity committee of Morning Star Lodge of Elks, headed by William Millard, will distribute Christmas baskets to needy members, Saturday. The lodge voted, Tuesday night, to give William Walker a Christmas basket. Mr. Walker is one of the founders of Morning Star Lodge. The Rev. W. L. Washington, pastor of Zion Baptist Church, was the guest speaker, Tuesday night. He addressed the lodge on "Personality." John T. Rhines, exalted ruler, had various speakers address the lodge from time to time. He had a physician, a dentist, a business man, an educator, and a minister. Mr. Rhines was ill Tuesday, and was unable to preside over the lodge. This was the last meeting of his administration. William B. Harris, exalted ruler-elect, will be installed at the first meeting in January, Tuesday, the third. Ways and means were discussed to build up a substantial treasury. It was voted that each member pay an annual fee for that purpose. Jonathan Davis Consistory to Have Busy Year By Cisco A. Lee December 16 marked the close of Sublime Prince William M. Butler's administration as commander-in-chief of Jonathan Davis Consistory and the beginning of Chas. H. Anderson's administration. After; the usual routine of work incident to the regular rendezvous the following officers were installed by Henry A. Brown, supreme legal advisor: Chas. H. Anderson, $33^{\circ}$, illustrious commander-in-chief; Henry B. Gee, $32^{\circ}$, first lieutenant commander; Chester H. Jarvis, $32^{\circ}$, second lieutenant commander; James E. Thomas, $33^{\circ}$, grand minister of state; Hartwell T. Willis, $33^{\circ}$, grand chancellor; George R. Brown, $33^{\circ}$, grand prior; Cicero A. Lee, $33^{\circ}$, grand keeper of seals and archives; Robert H. Harrison, $32^{\circ}$, grand treasurer. After having been installed the commander-in-chief made the following appointments: Gregory W. Shaed, $32^{\circ}$, assistant keeper of seals and archives; Henry E. Cook, $33^{\circ}$, grand hospitaler; Richard A. Whaley, $32^{\circ}$, grand master of ceremonies; Alexander F. Hicks, $32^{\circ}$, grand engineer and architect; Bert McCoy, $32^{\circ}$, grand standard bearer. Joseph H. Sampson, $33^{\circ}$, grand captain of the guard; Malachai Hunt, $33^{\circ}$, grand sentinel; William L. Gibson, $32^{\circ}$, grand commander of the House of Kadosh; Gregory W. Shaed, $32^{\circ}$, most wise, Buddah Chapter, Rose Croix; Samuel W. Hebron, $32^{\circ}$, thrice puissant commander, Lodge of Perfection He also outlined his program covering the entire year's work to be done which is as follows: January 1, New Year's reception, jointly with Richard Howell Cleaves Circle, Ladies of the Golden Circle from 8 to 9 o'clock p.m. During the month of February each house ill be required to exemplify the work included in the degrees covered by their respective departments. March, conferring the degrees on the Easter class. Each house held responsible for its section of the work. April, the usual Easter observances by Buddah Chapter, Lodge of Rose Croix, including the usual Maundy Thursday banquet. On the fourth Monday night a reception will be tendered the ladies of the Golden Circle (after a short session of the consistory). During the month of June the Boosters' Club, consisting of some 15 captains to be named during the month of January, will make reports. A feature of this club will be a contest, the winner to be entertained by the other clubs. On the fourth Monday in September a home coming celebration will be observed. Cicero A, Lee, $33^{\circ}$ has been selected as chairman of this activity. The boosters' club will be headed by the officers of the consistory. The membership committee will be headed by Sublime Prince Robert H. Harrison. The second Sunday evening in November has been selected as the date on which a consistory of sorrow to the memory of the departed will be observed. During the rendezvous a communication from Willard W. Allen, 83°, M.P.S.G.C. ,of Baltimore, was read and brought much joy to the hearts of the members of the consistory. To Enlist Negroes As Messmen in U. S. Navy Capital News Service The Navy Department has authorized an enlistment quota of two Negroes each month for the messman branch of the United States Navy from certain States. Selections are now being made for applicants in North and South Carolina. Applicants for the messmen branch must be between 21' and 27 years of age and unmarried. Men with previous hotel, restaurant or domestic service experience will be given consideration in making selections. The quota for January, 1933 has been set as double the standard quota, or four men. DePRIEST ASKS (Continued from page 1) ported in the Congressional Record as follows: Mr. DePRIEST. Mr. Chairman, I wisl to discuss with the Members of the House this morning an item that will be up in the Interior Department appropriation bill in regard to Howard University. Howard University was established some years ago for the express purpose of giving those of my group an opportunity for a higher education. This Government has been appropriating money for several years to help rebuild the institution and to pay some of the educational expenses. During the great economy wave of the last two years there have been no appropriations made for new buildings, but an emergency has arisen now whereby, carrying out the 20-year building program, it is necessary to build a new power plant to generate heat and electricity for the institution. The Bureau of the Budget, in the first session of the Seventy-second Congress, recommended an appropriation for this purpose. The Bureau of the Budget, when the first estimates came up this year, also made this recommendation but changed it later on, and the bill as now proposed does not carry any appropriation for the building of a power plant. The present plant is inadequate and antiquated. It is overloaded at the present time. There are two buildings now under construction that will be finished next fall and, if there is not a new power plant constructed, these buildings can not be occupied when they are finished, because the present facilities for heat and light are thoroughly inadequate. I am going to ask the Members of the House, when the bill comes up—and it will be on its second reading in a few days—to assist me in putting through an amendment to build an emergency power plant. provements, but they have made no provision for them because of economic conditions, and want to pay my respects to Mr Murphy and Mr. French at Mr. Cramton, if you please, a ex-Member of this House, and Mr. Taylor of Colorado, an other member of the committee for the efficient work they have done to promote educational work at this institution. All of them have been loyal supporters of the institution, and I also wish to express my regret that Mr. French and M Murphy will be out of the net Congress. Howard Universal is losing two of its best friend I appreciate the economic condition the Government is in, but it does seem to me we would be penny-wise and pound-foolish to spend money there constructing new buildings and not provide heat and light for them, as the present plant absolutely can not do the work, as we will show you by a letter from the Bureau of Mines stating the conditions, checking the cost, and showing that this money is absolutely necessary to take care of an emergency now existing. I want to recite to you a few of the buildings that the Government has taken part in helping to construct there. This Congress ought to know that we have expended and it has contributed to and assisted this institution to the tune of $3,612,000 up to this time. You also authorized in the Seventy-first Congress an appropriation of $400,000 with an additional authorization of $400,000 to build a new library building. This we are not asking for now. Knowing the situation as we do, we do not think the Government is able to carry on any new building program there except in providing for those things that are an emergency and call for immediate action. I want to read you some of the activities the Government has put there: Science hall, built in 1909, at an expense of $85,000. Manual art building, in 1910, at an expense of $25,000. at an expense of $201,000. Dining hall, built in 1920, at an expense of $201,000. The gymnasium and athletic field, in 1925, at a cost of $197, 500. The medical school, in 1927, at an expense of $370,000. Woman's dormitory, in 1929 and 1930, at an expense of $729,000. Chemistry building, in 1929 and this is one of the new buildings to be finished next fall -$390,000. Educational classroom building, which is one of the buildings to be finished next fall, at an expense of $460,000. In 1931 we appropriated $225,000 to build a tunnel for distributing heat and light, and this work is almost finished and was built to connect up with the proposed power and light plant. On emergency construction we spent $200,000 last year to create employment for the unemployed of Washington, beautifying the grounds and terracing the grounds just back of where the administration building now stands. No matter what happens, Howard University must have at least a heating plant ready by the beginning of the heating season, October 1, 1933, or else the chemistry building and educational classroom building, which will be completed by that date, will be without heat, and therefore not possible of use. Such a heating plant alone, without the generating equipment, would cost $370,000; but it should be distinctly understood that in addition to this $370,000 there will have to be an immediate appropriation of a minimum of $40,000 to take care of the item of changing over direct current wiring and equipment of Howard University and Freedmen's Hospital so that alternating current could be used. There must, therefore, be a minimum outlay of at least $410,000 to solve this problem. The Bureau of Mines has officially certified, under the date of November 30, 1932, that there will be a yearly saving of from seven to eight thousand dollars if the university generates its current in its own power plant, instead of purchasing the same from public-utility sources. It may therefore be seen clearly that if the $460,000 is made available for the construction and equipment of the power plant, including the generating equipment, that in a period of seven years all the added cost of the generating equipment—$50,000, when it is understood that $40,000 must be appropriated to change over the equipment from direct to alternating—will have been refunded by yearly savings and thereafter there will be a clear yearly saving of from $6,000 to $7,000 by reason of this current being generated, if the load on the plant does not increase over and above the present load. It is certain that the load will be increased over the present load by two additional buildings to be completed by October 1, 1933, and that this load will be further materially increased to 4,000 horsepower in the future by the construction of the following buildings: Library, the college of liberal arts, the college of fine arts, the school of law, the green house, the biology building, the combined auditorium, conservatory of music and union building, the men's dormitory, the armory, and the administration building. I may say to you that the members of the subcommittee are all favorable to these im provements, but they have made no provision for them because of economic conditions, and I want to pay my respects to Mr. Murphy and Mr. French and Mr. Cramton, if you please, an ex-Member of this House, and Mr. Taylor of Colorado, and other members of the committee for the efficient work they have done to promote educational work at this institution. All of them have been loyal supporters of the institution, and I also wish to express my regret that Mr. French and Mr. Murphy will be out of the next Congress. Howard University is losing two of its best friends. They lost one friend in Mr. Cramton, and we are now losing two more through the unwise action of the people of their districts in not appreciating the very best of talent possible. I want to submit and have the Clerk read the letters just received from the Bureau of Mines, showing the necessity for these buildings in answer to a letter written by the architect of Howard University, Mr. Cassell, showing you it is more economical for the university to furnish its own heat and power than it is to purchase it from the utility interests in Washington. I understand there has been some effort on the part of the public utilities of Washington to control the heating and light system up there. I wish to say further that the report of the Bureau of Mines shows that it is more economical to furnish their own light and power than to purchase it from the utilities of Washington. Mr. MOUSER. Will the gentleman yield? Mr. DePRIEST. I yield. Mr. MOUSER. I want to say that I know of no institution that is doing more for the colored race than Howard University. It is a great training school for professional men of the gentleman's race. I have a profound respect for the gentleman who is representing his race, and I am in favor of giving them this power plant which will enable them to furnish their heat and light. Can the gentleman state the cost of this power plant which will permit Howard University to furnish its own heat and light? Mr. MURPHY. It will cost about $460,000. Mr. MOUSER. Is there any conflict with the utility interests of Washington, that they may capitalize the Government expenditure for light and heat? Of course, I know that the gentleman mentioned by the gentleman from Illinois and the members of the subcommittee have no such intent, but it seems to me, in view of the interest and obligation the Government has assumed for the colored race, that it would be the proper thing to construct this plant. I hope the gentleman will offer an amendment for that purpose. Mr. DePRIEST. Mr. Chairman, I wish to state further that we found out on investigation that the Government through Howard University can manufacture and furnish electricity at 4.9 mills per kilowatt-hour, while the utility firms would charge 6 mills per kilowatt-hour. Not only that, but the schools of this country where those of our race can go are very limited in number as compared to the schools for the rest of the people. These boys taking the engineering course up there will have a practical school to go to where they can get the practical as well as the theoretical knowledge about power and light and heat. It has some value along that line in addition. I wish to ask unanimous consent to place in the Record at this point a letter from the architect at Howard University, addressed to the Bureau of Mines. The letter referred to was from Albert I. Cassell, the architect for the university, and gave every detail of the proposed plant. Mr. DePriest stated to a representative of the Tribune that he felt sure the amendment would go through, and that Howard University would get its much-needed heating and power plant. JIM CROW (Continued from page 1) partment was brought to the attention of the Tribune and the N. A. A. C. P. three weeks ago when Robinson had "white" and "colored" signs placed on the lavatories. A delegation including Mr. Pinkett, James A. G. LuValle, editor of the Washington Tribune, and Garland Mackey, also of the Tribune, called at the plant and pointed out the offensive signs to Robinson. He became angry and demanded to know who reported the matter. When refused this information he insulted the delegation and told them, "Don't bother me." Georgia Tactics Later the delegation appealed to Mr. Holton, who's Robinson's superior. The latter official promised an investigation, which resulted in th. removal of the jincrow signs. Workmen at the Bryant Street garage informed the Tribune that Robinson was responsible for other segregation attempts in his department and he was made to have the jim crew signs removed from another section following a protest. This latest move by Robinson in an effort to force separate accommodations in the District will be reported and any attempt to bring Georgia tacilities to Washington will be met with opposition. BEST NEWS OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL YOU GET $15 IN CASH FREE FOR CHRISTMAS SEE PAGE 8 FOR DETAILS ALLEYS BREEDING PLACES FOR VICE SAYS U. S. GRANT Urges Citizens to Wipe Out Hidden Streets Mass action to wipe out alley homes in Washington was urged this week by Lieut. Col. U.S. Grant, 3d, executive officer of the National Park and Planning Commission, in a radio broadcast over Station WJSV. The talk was under the auspices of the Tuberculosis Association. Col. Grant pointed out that alleys are breeding places for crime, vice and disease, and are places where these elements find protection against the safeguards and efforts of civilization. Part of his address follows: DEATH RATE HIGH "The last complete survey," Col. Grant said, "showed the astounding prevalence of disease and a death rate of 10 per 1,000 in the alley dwellings, as compared with 17.56 per 1,000 in the street population, or nearly double. The death rate for infants under one year was 373.49, as compared with 158.66 per 1,000 in the street population. When we come to transmittable disease, we had a death rate from pneumonia of 310.9 per 100,000 among the white people in the alleys to 417.9 outside, and of 432.8 among the colored alley dwellers to 188.1 outside; the corresponding comparative figures for tuberculosis were 186.5 to 121.2 for the whites and 521.3 to 433.7 for the colored. WORST ALLEYS REMAIN "The city health officer within the last two years gave the comparative figures for deaths from tuberculosis as 280 per 100,000 in the alleys, to 86 in the rest of the city. While the total alley population has decreased very slowly as buildings have become entirely unservicable or reconstruction has been justified for garages and other commercial use, the worst alleys have persisted and the relative sanitary conditions have become worse." "The slums of Washington are less extensive than those of other cities, but it is a fact that the conditions existing in them are as bad as anywhere in the country, if not worse. The slums here are largely concentrated in self-contained little communities or in the alleys within the squares over the residential areas of the city. VICE HIDDEN "Because of their hidden character and freedom from observation, they afford especially favorable hiding places for criminals and for those elements of the population which most want to escape notice," Col. Grant said. "While in individual cases other slum conditions may still be found outside the alley, they are mostly due to poverty and are to a greater extent temporary. In the alley, slum conditions are permanent and have held their own against every effort made for over 60 years to rout them out." Since the majority of the alley habitations are in the interior of many good residential and first commercial squares, the speaker asserted they constitute a menace to the city at large. "Such conditions should not be allowed to persist in any civilized community," he declared. MAKE ALLEYS STREETS Under existing law, Col. Grant said, much could be accomplished toward wiping out alley dwellings or reconstructing alleyes into minor streets. Discussing the matter from the health standpoint, Col. Grant praised the efforts of the Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis against these "conditions of overcrowding, filth, improper housing, bad nourishment and bad company," favorable to the spread of tuberculosis and other diseases. Monoxide Gas Overcomes Driver in Parked Machine John Freeman, 29, 945 Rhode Island Avenue, Northwest, was nearly overcome by carbon monoxide gas from his machine early this week. The man was found in an unconscious condition in his sedan car, parked in a closed garage in the read of 1542 Columbia Street, Northwest. Police said, he had been inhaling the gas for approximately 40 minutes. James Simms of the Columbia Street address found the man. First aid was administered by the Fire Rescue Squad and he was later sent to Emergency Hospital for treatment. His condition was serious. Mob Threatens Man Who Protected His Brother PHOENIX, Ariz.—Cuntis Crisp, a suspect in the slaying of C. G. Fountain, white farmer, was held in the local county jail this week after he had been rushed here from Yuma County jail where he was threatened by a mob of white people. Crisp is alleged to have shot Fountain after the latter had killed Crisp's brother, Aldover. Coroner's juries returned open verdicts in both killings. Elks Would Restore Full Fighting Status to Negro Troops Capital News Service The Civil Liberties Bureau of the Elks is making a strong effort seeking restoration of the Negro troopers to the same status as they had before being detailed to Fort Meyer. The matter was originally brought up in the grand lodge at its Philadelphia session, following which a delegation called on Secretary Hurley and Gen. Douglas MacArthur. An extended report was made to President Hoover by Gen. MacArthur, on request of Representative DePriest, and referred to the Elk committee. This committee conducted its own investigation, however, and took issue with the general report. The matter of colored troopers being reduced to subalterns and hostlers, the grand exalted ruler stated had wide influence in swinging the Negro vote away from the party in power in the late election. The Elk committee will seek the support of William J. Thompkins, of Kansas City, and Ferdinand R. Morton, of New York, Negro Democratic leaders, in restoring all colored army units to regular status. Government Employees' Lodge Receives Charter The Inter-Departmental Lodge No. 20, Federation of Government Employees, was presented its charter Saturday, by John Arthur Shaw, national president, Federation of Government Employees, in the Department of Commerce conference room. The officers of the lodge are John W. Charleston, president; George H. Rycraw, vice president; Frederick L. Slade, secretary; Gozele Brown, treasurer; C. S. Jons, chaplain; Rufus Mundy, sergeant-at-arms and George H. Rycraw, publicity officer. Members of the executive committee, Frank D. McKinney and Miss Eunice V. Diggs. Membership of this lodge is made up of government employees in the several government departments and independent establishments. The lodge is affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. MERRY CHRISTMAS 1932 Save the Children Christmas belongs to the children. Despite privation, undernourishment and even want, there are few firesides where somebody's sacrifice, or somebody's inventive genius, will not make possible a recognition of the day so children's voices may be raised in gladness. Christmas Seals belong to the children, too. The most important work they do is to protect children from tuberculosis. This year the seal itself shows two youngsters with faces upturned in gladness as they sing carols in the snow. Each seal is a direct appeal for help from the children of America, who suffer most from the effects of privation, undernourishment and want. Christmas comes but once a year, and childhood once a lifetime. Masonic Temple Equity (Continued from page 1) times as long as we had at first anticipated in completing this work. Though, with a previous experience in examinations of all kinds of life insurance companies extending over twenty-five years past, we could not have conceived, in advance, of the situation we found here." Receiver's fees and expenses, attorneys' fees and court costs take precedence, it seems, over all other bills against the remaining assets of the company. On this point the report says: Receiver's Fees First "Receiver's fees and expenses, attorneys' fees and court costs are, of course, a first charge against assets, taking, precedence over any claims outstanding September 9. 1931. As these receiverships are continuing, so that complete accounting thereof cannot as yet be effected, it is manifestly impossible for us to fix, or even satisfactorily estimate, at this time what such expenses will aggregate in excess of earnings after September 9. 1931, on the assets then held. That, however, will have to be taken account of in fixing upon the equities of all claims in the assets owned September 9. 1931. The accounting system which you have been able to institute since you have been appointed in most of the jurisdictions will soon permit of determining what the actual expenses will have been to any particular date though of course the determination of certain expenses, such as final receiver's and attorneys' fees will probably have to await the time of discharge of all receiverships." May Recover Something "We have likewise reviewed, and are still engaged upon, a large number of payments made by the Company or transactions involving it, in the effort to ascertain if any recoveries may be had from any source. Among these are: Large payments for supposedly personal services to a number of individuals, including payments to, on account of, and withdrawals by, certain officers. Transactions with one B. O. McReynolds. Transactions in connection with Company stock, involving loans by certain officers at certain banks. Losses through marginal trading in securities. Transactions with the Citizens Trust Company of Atlanta. Financing of the Masonic Temple, Washington, D.C. Financing of the Wheeling Pythian Building, Wheeling, W.Va. Acquisition of real estate from the Fraternal Solvent Bank, Memphis, Tennessee. Acquisition of the Balfour Apartments, Washington, D.C. "From time to time we have reported to you upon certain transactions, payments, and peculiar and lacking entries and defective documents. More detailed and comprehensive reports thereon are now in preparation. These are intended to be for your information and guidance as to correction of records and for determining what, if any, steps should be taken to attempt recoveries." **Stock Manipulation** The report shows many and varied peculiar stock transactions, even an overissue of stock and a subsequent surrender of some of the stock by Dr. Warfield, I. S. Burke, and C. B. Lee. Insurance Examiners Erred The actuaries quote from "the report of an examination by several Insurance Departments shortly after December 31, 1927," which reads in part as follows: "The Capital Stock of the Company, divided into shares with a par value of $10.00 each, was verified as of December 31, 1927, and was found to be over-issued to the extent of Three Hundred and Sixty-nine (369) Shares. However, in order to correct this over-issue, during the month of February, 1928, three Directors of the Company (W. A. Warfield, I. S. Burke and C. B. Lee) donated a total of Four Hundred and Sixty-six (466) shares to the Company, which were cancelled as of December 31, 1927, and each signed a certificate of release to the Company, without recourse, for the individual numbers of shares involved." Stock "Donated" to Company the actuarials then go on, thus: "We find that according to the stock certificate books there were outstanding on December 31, 1927, the following: W. A. Warfield, 107 shares; I. S. Burke, 32 shares; C. B. Lee, 328 shares,—total 466 shares. We also find that the certificates of Warfield and Burke, totalling 138 shares, were in fact cancelled, but that the C. B. Lee certificates were not then, nor later, cancelled. Instead of the Lee stock, 187 shares owned by M. E. Lowery were cancelled. The total shares cancelled were thus only 325 shares, not 369 as supposedly necessary to correct the over-issue. "W. A. Warfield 'donation' of 106 shares: On March 21, 1928, 50 shares were transferred to him from John E. Murrell, and on December 19, 1928, 30 shares from William H. Hughes. New issues of stock, apparently not transfers, were made to Warfield as follows: March 26, 1929—13 shares; March 30, 1929—2 shares, and April 17, 1929, 11 shares, bringing the total to 106 shares. "I. S. Burke 'donation' of 52 shares: On December 19, 1928, 32 shares standing in the name of William H. Hughes were transferred to Burke." Then follows a detailed report of the Lowery "donation," after which the actuaries go on: "We found no evidence as to how THE WASHINGTON TRIBUNE, DECEMBER 23, 1932. CUP The cup shown here was recently presented as first prize for the best Flower Gardens in any colored community in the District by the National Benefit Life insurance Company, through the Bi-Centennial Committee, to Capital View Community. This cup is now on display at Reid's Corner at Eleventh and U Streets, Northwest. these transfers were effected not as to any consideration having been paid therefor." A Curious Hand Out In another place the actuaries say: "The Stock Certificate Books show that on, or as of, December 31, 1926, there were drawn up certificates for 2475 shares (not 2455 as indicated by the foregoing book entry) of which, certificates for 845 shares were apparently never signed or detached from the book. These were as follows: Samuel W. Rutherford: 850 shares actually issued, 150 never executed. R. H. Rutherford: 430 shares actually issued, 490 never executed. M. F. Smith: 350 shares actually issued, 205 never executed. 1630 shares actually issued, 845 never executed. "In March, 1927, there were cancelled on the stock certificate book without any corresponding General Ledger entry, 650 shares standing in the name of S. W. Rutherford and 300 shares standing in the name of R. H. Rutherford. No reason is stated in the stock certificate book, but there appears a notation 'Per Order M.F.S.' It will thus be seen that neither was the stock truly issued nor was the money made available to the Company." The "Surplus" The actuaries explain the basis of the surplus at the end of 1927, thus: "At the close of the year 1927, in order to again create the appearance of a surplus it was arranged to issue 9,000 shares of stock, at $50 per share, and thus produce an apparent increase in Capital Stock account of $90,000 and an apparent increase in the Surplus Account of $360,000, less 'selling' expense. As in the previous year, in order to have it appear as if the cash from the sale of stock had been received before the close of the year 1927 the new stock was to be issued to the three aforementioned officers, who in turn were to sell the stock to others, with an allowance of 15 per cent for expense, which was later raised to 20 per cent. "Here again the device used was to negotiate a loan, in the name of the three officers jointly at a bank in New York and to show in the Company's books the proceeds of such loan as cash or bank balance belonging to the Company. The book entry purporting to show the source of this new money was a most remarkable legerdemain. It was made to appear as if much of the cash, which it then showed as having been received, came from the settlement of the fictitious loans set up the previous year." A sample of queer bookkeeping is shown in the following: S. W. Rutherford's Account "During the year 1927 Company checks aggregating $13,675, were deposited in the 'S. W. Rutherford, Trustee' account, and charged to various expense accounts, such as 'commission on stock sales,' 'interest paid,' 'expense,' and others. An account was also carried with the Liberty National Bank in the name of the Company. During that year, the aforementioned officers made deposits to this account aggregating $13,299.82, which were not reported to the Company's bookkeepers or entered on the Home Office books. On the other hand those officers drew checks on this account, mostly deposited to their own (S. W. Rutherford, Trustee) account, aggregating $45,-315.57, which checks were never entered on the Company's books. This left the Company's account in the Liberty National apparently overdrawn' or 'short' by $52,-185.75." The Masonic Temple deal is reported, and, from a book value of $627,007.68, drops the company's equity to $20,000. The report says: "The New Masonic Temple, 1000-1010 U Street, Northwest, Washington, D.C., represents a very substantial investment on the part of the National Benefit Division. It was carried at a book value of $627,007.69 (many items having been charged to that account which were no part of the cost) with a mortgage payable of $205,000 against it, and is appraised by the Washington Real OUR HOLIDAY SPECIAL VALUE SEE THIS AMAZING VALUE NO MONEY DOWN NORGE Rollator refrigeration Come in and let us show you this simple Rollator mechanism and how it refrigerates. Inspect this new Norge Alaska...see its conveniences. The handy shelves are arranged at waist height, and every inside corner is rounded for easy cleaning. A spring-hinged door protects the odor-proof freezing compartment. The defrosting switch and cold accelerator are inside on the freezer shield. The cabinet is well made, sturdy, hand-some and enduring. 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At our suggestion, you have instituted a careful recheck of these by Company employees. The result of this will be made available in the work of determining individual equities. "(2) In the present report we have assumed title to real estate, or sufficiency of lien upon real estate where mortgage loans have been made, sometimes upon title documents not up to proper standards of completeness. These files should have the attention of the attorneys and title searchers. "(3) It appears that prior to September 9, 1931, the records of certain outstanding paid-up policies were completely destroyed, so that only a crude estimate of the total equity of such policyholders is available. "There are presented from time to time, claims of various kinds against the Company, which do not appear in any way in the Company's own records. "Furthermore, there appear upon the Company's records notes and accounts payable which cannot be identified as to payee, or verified in any way. "It is consequently recommended that an appropriate order be asked of the Court, specifying the manner of filing claims, specifying what claimants may be exempted from filing such claims, and specifying the date before which such claim must be filed to receive the benefit of any distribution of assets. "(4) It also appears that one John T. Risher holds possession of certain mortgage notes, once belonging to the Company and still carried on its books as owned, and claims that he is rightfully entitled thereto. "Likewise, that one R. R. Church holds or claims title to certain real estate, once belonging to the Company and still carried on its books as owned, and claims that he is a rightful claimant thereto. "We understand that these matters are having the attention of your attorneys. "(5) It appears that certain creditors of the Company are secured by mortgages upon real estate owned by the Company, or by the assignment of mortgages owned, or by the deposit of bonds or securities owned. We would suggest that the Court be asked to rule upon the status of such creditors, to the end that they may not be in effect permitted to claim both against the general assets held by you and the specific collateral assets held by them." The report is signed by William Brieby, for the actuaries, Fackler and Brieby, of New York City. DEANWOOD. D.C V. A. Bunch, Reporter The Northeast Women's W.V.W. Club held its last meeting of the year Thursday, December 15; at the residence of Mrs. Maria H. Yancey. Mrs. Slaughter presided in the absence of the president, and plans were made for the club's activities next year. The members present decided to work for expectant mothers' chests, to provide clothing for the little newcomer, where the family is destitute and without any means of support. Each member or friend who desires to become a member is asked to give two new baby garments during the year of 1933. The club decided to continue its sewing activities for destitute school children. The club hostesses, Madames Fannie B. Overton and Roselia Bryant, served the club with refreshments. All ladies are asked to meet the club again the first Thursday night in January. Mrs. Fannie Fountain, wife of Edward Fountain, and the mother of four babies, ranging in age from less than a year to five years old, died at her home last week. She was sick only a shoot, time, and was buried Friday from the Central Baptist Church, the Rev. G. Broadas officiating. Mrs. Catherine Smart, of 4340 Sheriff Road, Northeast, has returned from an extended visit in the state of New York. The small son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Carter is on the sick list. The Children's Xmas Shoe Benefit that was to be given at WILLIAM'S AUDITORIUM SEVENTH & S STREET, N.W. The Postponement is Due to Delay in Remodeling the Auditorium Caused by Recent Severe Weather The Children's Shoes will be given away from the William's Auditorium, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2 P.M. FRANCIS SCHOOL NEWS The Francis group leaders entertained the assistant group leaders at a party last Friday afternoon from three o'clock until five. The Francis Tigers (men teachers) were defecated by the Francis Bears (boys' team) in a volleyball game last week. The teachers are planning to take their revenge on the boys' team in a return game in the near future. The two student teachers from Miner College who are practicing at Francis this term were formerly taught by some of the Francis faculty. The Junior Christmas Savings Club composed of three Eight A sections and sponsored by O. R. Rogers received their Christmas Savings checks Tuesday. They are planning to spend only a small part of their savings and to redeposit the remainder and continue their club as a permanent savings organization. The Francis library, a project started a little over two years ago by the Francis Home and School Association now contains nearly thirteen hundred volumes. These books have been received through appropriation of the board of education, through individual gifts of parents and through appropriations of the association. The library is supervised during each period of the day by teachers who give their free periods to this work. Mrs. R. L. Clifford who THREE is charge of the library givea time before and after school for th. circulation of books. In addition to the books owned by the school 120 books are borrowed from the public library every six weeks and circulated among the students. PULLMAN NEWS V. A. Bunch, Reporter J. R. Turpin, who resides at 1400 Half Street, Southwest, has been ill, but he expects to be out soon. S. F. Johnson of the P. T. District has been visiting in the city for a few days. Since R. H. Willis resides in Baltimore, he makes semi-weekly runs out from Washington to Chicago, on the Capital Limited. John Hammond, 1937 17 h Street, Northwest, is holding his own in spite of his long illness. Stricken suddenly Ii last week. Henry Rhodes is still confined to his bed at his home, 1122 Q Street, Northwest. The porters look forward to Sunday and the message brought them weekly by Rev. N. C. Bobinson, who acts as volunteer chaplain for them. All of the women of the company, including, Mrs. Cross, Mrs. Catherine Cley, Miss Louise Burton, Mrs. Brown, and others, are planning to hang up their stockings for Christmas. Anybody's Santa Claus can fill them. Liberal Progressive Independent CHRISTMAS GREETINGS brothers, lift on high your voice; Christ is born, let us rejoice! For all mankind let us pray getting wrongs upon this day. Was despised, and so are we, him we go to Calvary; leads us by his bleeding hand, though ways we may not understand, brothers, lift on high your voice; Christ is born, let us rejoice! We not to the whole world say bless you! It is Christmas Day! Georgia Douglass WE THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT upon the waters: for thou shall be to seven, and also to eight; for upon the earth, is be full of rain, they empty the tree fall toward the south, or to the tree falleth, there it shall be, to wrest the wind shall not sow; and it reap, is best not what is the way of the sun, the womb of her that is with childs of God who maketh all. sowing thy seed, and in the ever you knowest not whether (which) is whether they both shall be alike good Ecclesiast. Christmas Day—a day celebrate the birthday of Christ. They called "Christmas season" and asked to as "The Christmas spirit we ask, "Do we really have, we not prostituted the Christmas selfishness? Has not greed of Christmas? More than than one thousand was born. On this occasion, one seeking him and although old men, found him living in an arisen him and gave gold, for gifts, or tokens of respect. It is recorded that an angel of him, good-will toward men." The spirit which prompts our selfishness? The masses, even you please, only give their gift a gift in return. If the who failed to return their gift, those persons will be erased from the spirit of Christmas? He for present Christmas season. Those who are able to give gift them most, like the wise man use their gifts to help them day. All over this country there are reasons, are poor and are will be rather meagre. Instead Christmas spirit by seeking with real, tangible gifts, we of our notice. When whose birthday we shall Sunday demonstrated a far cry, is now prevailing throughout, about helping those who needed care out "Peace on earth." Spirit of the world today? Times and navies by the various mainly does not presage peace. Are scraps of paper with the "good-will toward men" ring rampant over this country. We world by the bigots of America of Christ which should pervade, we do see racial intial proscription instead of the freed Christians may tell us that there is good-will toward men it seeking out persons needing to reply that we cannot help what you do; your actions, declarations; your actions sparcerful it would be if we could sit and place real gifts, service the hands of the thousands; we begin this season and many existing right in the blooc cannot find a worthy object for constrate the spirit of "On eaen." Come, brothers, lift on high your voice, The Christ is born, let us rejoice! And for all mankind let us pray Forgetting wrongs upon this day. He was despised, and so are we, Like him we go to Calvary; He leads us by his bleeding hand, Through ways we may not understand. Come, brothers, lift on high your voice, The Christ is born, let us rejoice! Shall we not to the whole world say God bless you! It is Christmas Day! Georgia Douglass Johnson. HAVE WE THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT? "Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days. "Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth. "If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth; and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be. "He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not ream." "As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child; even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all. "In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether (which) shall prosper either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good." Ecclesiastes 11:1-6. Sunday is Christmas Day—a day celebrated throughout Christendom as the birthday of Christ. Therefore, this time of the year is called "Christmas season" and the spirit of the season is referred to as "The Christmas spirit." Seriously we ask, "Do we really have the Christmas spirit?" Have we not prostituted the Christmas spirit by our avaricious selfishness? Has not greed supplanted the spirit of Christmas? A little more than than one thousand nine hundred years ago Jesus was born. On this occasion three wise men of the East came seeking him and although they, the wise men, the learned men, found him living in a cave used as a stable, they worshiped him and gave gold, frankincense and myrrh as their gifts, or tokens of respect. And too, it is recorded that an angel of heaven sang out, "On earth peace, good-will toward men." What is the spirit which prompts our present-day giving if it is not selfishness? The masses, even the so-called Christians if you please, only give their gifts to those from whom they expect a gift in return. If they gave gifts to persons last year who failed to return their gifts with one of equal value, those persons will be erased from their list this year. Is that the spirit of Christmas? However, that is the spirit of our present Christmas season. Instead of those who are able to give gifts seeking out those who need them most, like the wise men sought for Jesus, they even use their gifts to help them climb in a social or economic way. All over this country there are good people who for various reasons, are poor and are in actual want. Their Christmas will be rather meagre. Instead of demonstrating the real Christmas spirit by seeking them and making them happy with real, tangible gifts, we will pass them up as unworthy of our notice. Yet, the man whose birthday we shall celebrate and desecrate next Sunday demonstrated a far different spirit from that which is now prevailing throughout Christendom. He went about helping those who needed help the most. The angel cried out "Peace on earth." To what extent is that the spirit of the world today? The large maintenance of armies and navies by the various governments of the world, certainly does not presage peace. The so-called Kellogg treaties are scraps of paper with the selfish nations. Where is the "good-will toward men"? With racial prejudice running rampant over this country and being carried around the world by the bigots of America we cannot see the spirit of Christ which should pervade this season of the year. However, we do see racial intolerance, racial segregation, racial proscription instead of the beautiful spirit of Christ. The so-called Christians may tell us that there is peace on earth, that there is good-will toward men, that there is a Christmas spirit seeking out persons needing gifts most; but we are compelled to reply that we cannot hear what you say because of seeing what you do; your actions are not in keeping with your declarations; your actions speak louder than your words. How wonderful it would be if we could catch the real Christmas spirit and place real gifts, serviceable gifts, lasting gifts, into the hands of the thousands that need them most. Suppose we begin this season and make an actual survey of conditions existing right in the block where we live and see if we cannot find a worthy object for our real giving, and truly demonstrate the spirit of "On earth peace, good-will toward men." Harry A. Moore, of New York, for his wise decision in refusing papers asking for the return of men, who twice escaped the city. Moore has said by his action system is below the stand. Its violators of the law are affiliated in the eyes of the world as unfortunate prisoners. Russell, of Georgia, was stu Moore's action. What effect governor of Georgia and it is to be seen. Send Governor Moore for the feel that the Negroes of New Governor Harry A. Moore, of New Jersey, is to be commended for his wise decision in refusing to sign the extradition papers asking for the return to Georgia of Robert E. Burns, who twice escaped the iniquitous chain gang there. Governor Moore has said by his action that Georgia's infamous convict system is below the standard for a state's punishment of its violators of the law and that Georgia should be humiliated in the eyes of the world for its inhuman treatment of its unfortunate prisoners. Governor Russell, of Georgia, was stung to the quick by Governor Moore's action. What effect, if any, it will have on the governor of Georgia and its prison commission remains to be seen. We commend Governor Moore for the courage of his conviction and feel that the Negroes of New Jersey can take pride in the part they played in electing this Democrat for Governor over Baird the Republican nominee, who, as Senator, voted for the confirmation of Judge Parker for the U.S. Supreme Court. What would have been the result if Baird had been Governor and this case had come before him? COL. GRANT'S CLOVEN FOOT. Colonel U. S. Grant, who is in charge of the U. S. parks, buildings and grounds of the District of Columbia, in a statement concerning the alleys here, shows his racial prejudice and capitalistic idea of the control of economics. FOUR Washington Tribune Published Weekly at Washington, D.C., by THE WASHINGTON TRIBUNE PUBLISHING COMPANY, Inc. 820 U Street, N.W. Phone, Potomac 1667 Entitled as second-class matter July 7, 1922, at the Post Office at Washington, under the Boston Public Library. Act of March 8. Subscription Rates One Cane $2.00; Six Months $1.50; Three Months 75c. For sale at all news stands, 7 cents per copy. Advertising rates furnished on request. ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE W. B. ZIF CO., Chicago, New York, Los Angeles DECEMBER 23,1932 the waters: for thou shalt find it after many men, and also to eight; for thou knowest not earth. of rain, they empty themselves upon the toward the south, or toward the north, in milleth, there it shall be. wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth what is the way of the spirit, nor how the lab of her that is with child; even so thou God who maketh all. thy seed, and in the evening withhold not not whether (which) shall prosper either y both shall be alike good." Ecclesiastes 11:1-6. As Day—a day celebrated throughout hday of Christ. Therefore, this time Christmas season" and the spirit of the sus "The Christmas spirit." "Do we really have the Christmas prostituted the Christmas spirit by less? Has not greed supplanted the less than one thousand nine hundred born. On this occasion three wise men sing him and although they, the wise found him living in a cave used as a him and gave gold, frankincense and tokens of respect. added that an angel of heaven sang out, will toward men." which prompts our present-day givess? The masses, even the so-called, only give their gifts to those from gift in return. If they gave gifts to trailed to return their gifts with one of ons will be erased from their list this suit of Christmas? However, that is at Christmas season. so are able to give gifts seeking out most, like the wise men sought for gifts to help them climb in a social over this country there are good peo- sons, are poor and are in actual want. be rather meagre. Instead of demon- mas spirit by seeking them and make- tangible gifts, we will pass them notice. On your birthday we shall celebrate and demonstrated a far different spirit by prevailing throughout Christendom. going those who needed help the most. at "Peace on earth." To what extent the world today? The large main- navies by the various governments of does not presage peace. The so-called raps of paper with the selfish nations. good-will toward men"? With racial spirit over this country and being car- by the bigots of America we cannot which should pervade this season of we do see racial intolerance, racial description instead of the beautiful spirit estians may tell us that there is peace good-will toward men, that there is a ag out persons needing gifts most; but only that we cannot hear what you say you do; your actions are not in keeps; your actions speak louder than would be if we could catch the real place real gifts, serviceable gifts, last- ands of the thousands that need them in this season and make an actual sur- ting right in the block where we live and a worthy object for our real giving, the spirit of "On earth peace, good- "I'M A FUGITIVE" A. Moore, of New Jersey, is to be wise decision in refusing to sign the asking for the return to Georgia of two twice escaped the iniquitous chain has said by his action that Georgia's men is below the standard for a state's legislators of the law and that Georgia in the eyes of the world for its inhuman torture prisoners. of Georgia, was stung to the quick action. What effect, if any, it will or of Georgia and its prison comseen. governor Moore for the courage of his act the Negroes of New Jersey can take EDITORIAL FEATURES KELLY MILLER SAYS: KELLY MILLER SAYS: Is the City Negro Doomed? Dean Miller Voices a Jeremiad Over Our Present and Our Prospective Economic Plight. I do not wish to strike a note of pessimism or despair but to arouse the race to a conscious sense of the seriousness of the situation, Optimism is the philosophy of the fatalist and the fool. They were eating and drinking and making merry in the days of Noah while the waters of the devouring flood were gathering in the skies over-head. Our civilization is being battered with the shocks of doom. The machine has won the first battle between man and mechanism. The creature has for the moment outmastered the creator. The Frankenstein has overmastered its maker. But the victory is only temporary. The evil is obviously medicable by human genius and enterprise. Our fields are yielding in over abundance, our factories have overstocked the market with goods. And yet we have starvation in the midst of plenty, a condition which can last only until the human mind adjusts itself to the anomaly. Some look to Moscow, some to Rome, and some to New York and London to point out the way and to point the way out. But no serious minded student doubts that the way will be found. Man will sooner or later—rather sooner than later—dominate the machine and make it his obedient and docile servant. There will be work and wealth sufficient for all. The present depression will lift, but just how soon we dare not prophesy. President Hoover, with a fatal optimism, has been telling us for the past three years that prosperity is just around the corner. His intentions were good but his judgment bad. He misjudged the direction in which prosperity was moving. It was indeed around the corner; instead of approaching us it was moving in the other direction. It has turned two corners and is still receding WHERE WILL WE BE IN THE READJUSTMENT? We are now concerned with immediate illis rather than ultimate prophecy. What will happen to the city Negro while this readjustment between man and the machine is taking place and after it has been accomplished? The Negro is the victim of the machine. He has little or no function where machinery prevails. He can raise cotton by hand labor but must not manufacture it into cloth. He used to be in great request as a coachman, but never as an engineer. As a chauffeur he is entrusted to run a single automobile about the crowded streets without tracks, but must not be CHRISTMAS SPIRIT If only at this Christmas time Its spirit we could capture— Its love of all the human kind, Its music and its rapture— And if that spirit we could spread Through all the years ensuing, So that its radiance might be shed On every day and doing, Then would the earth a place become Of happiness and healing, Of righteousness and peace the home, Of heaven the pre-revealing. Anonymous I'll love you till my heart the last But now in clay am I yet while I drop drips, speak, And life's pulsations cease and be And never near the tree of life no more And should the gift of love in man And should my quest bear fruit I'll endure blaze the trail. Colonel Grant said that the alley population were a menace to the adjacent property owners, meaning the white people living on the streets adjacent to the alleys. The alley agitation started during the Wilson administration before the war when there were any number of vacant houses. By forcing people out of the alleys the vacant houses could be rented. Now there are hundreds of vacant houses here and the real estate hogs are clamoring for revenue and holding up "the menace to adjacent property" as a reason for eliminating the alley inhabitants. The humane side of it for the people living in these alleys does not enter into Colonel Grant's plea. The betterment of health and home for these poor people is lost sight of in view of "menace to the adjacent property owners." The economics come in because of the vacant houses and the clamor of the capitalistic owners for more tenants to gouge for more revenue to maintain their inflated rentals. THE ECONOMIC SKIES WILL CLEAR allowed as motorman to operate a street car with fixed tracks. He may "tote" bricks to the top of a building but must not lay them in their place on the wall by means of a trowel. THE WHITE MAN AND THE MACHINE MENACE US The white man and his machine seem calculated to eliminate the Negro or to flatten him out at the bottom. When there is work enough for all, the Negro may be called on as the surplus man. He is, to use a much used and trite phrase, "the last to be hired and the first to be fired." In times of unemployment, he is made the chief sufferer. In all of our great cities today fully a third of the race is unemployed and another third under-employed. The white workman will not combine with him and will not allow him to compete with himself on equal terms. He has very feeble capacity for self help. Large aggregations of wealth and capital are controlling whatever residue of work there may be. THE NEGRO ALWAYS THE LEFT-OUT OR THE LEFT-OVER The Negro is always the left-out or left-over man. White competition is taking away the manual and munial work of which he once had a monopoly. The chain store and the merger curtail his chance as a small self-proprietor. All attempts at organized and concerted big business seem destined to end in failure and humiliation. In all of our large cities the colored man has been loaded down with cast-off homes by shrewd white realtors, whose cost and upkeep are impossible on the basis of their occupation and income. The economic fate of any group is easy to foretell who must pay half of their income for rent under the guise of purchasing a home. The constable, auctioneer and the sheriff will be kept busy. WE CANNOT SUBSIST ON CHARITY FOREVER Today our great business and financial corporations are living on public dole. The Negro inevitably becomes the object of charity, but we cannot live on charity forever. The Government itself has but one source of revenue—and that is from the people. Our state governments and our proudest municipalities are now looking to Washington for help. Unless the depression lifts within a very short while, the whole situation will be come impossible, the lot of the Negro worst of all. During the last two decades, lured on by the semblance of opportunity white a shortage of white labor afforded, the Negro has been rushing into the large cities in unprecedented numbers. But now the cityward tide has ceased to flow. The reflux tide has set in. The city Negro will hardly increase in numbers in the face of the threatening conditions. The future of the urban Negro, to say the least, is not roseate. The outlook for the rural Negro will be treated in my next release. MY DESIRE THE WASHINGTON TRIBUNE. DECEMBER 23, 1932 A New Note in Negro Education Pictures of Those Who Have Achieved Something Are an Asset in a School Room. By CARTER G. WOODSON Editor of the Journal of Negro History A professor of the teachers' college of Columbia University, addressing the Associated Publishers at 1538 Ninth Street, N. W., Washington, D. C., sounds a new note in the education of the Negro. It may be fortunate that it comes from a white institution, for the "miseducated Negro" may now heed this advice which I have been giving for many years. This professor says. "I should like very much to list in a pamphlet on research sources, the addresses of publishing houses from which good pictures of prominent Negroes can be obtained. I have always been a great believer in a school's putting up before its pupils the pictures of men and women who have made notable achievements. I have been unable by myself, however, to locate the addresses of such publishing houses from which schools could secure such pictures." OUR TEACHERS HAVE IGNORED OPPORTUNITY The Associated Publishers took occasion to remind the professor that for a number of years it has been supplying pictures of all prominent and useful Negroes, ranging from the very smallest to life size pictures suitable for display in assembly halls. While the effort has been given adequate publicity, our teachers have not thought of this unusual opportunity. They have probably been waiting for some one else to approve the plan. Now they have the necessary endorsement. Commenting on the educational value of such service this professor says: "In my judgment, in issuing these pictures you are doing a splendid work. A picture of a man or woman who has achieved something worth while is a distinct asset in a school room, particularly if the individual represents a practical and attainable ideal for the pupils. When I was professor of school administration in the George Peabody College for Teachers nearly 20 years ago, I used to go out each year for a week or so to visit Negro schools. PICTURES OF LINCOLN "On these visits, I was struck with the fact that about the only pictures of persons in the schools were the conventional ones of Lincoln and Washington, or the artistic calendars gotten out by advertising companies. In very rare instances I saw an old dilapidated picture of Frederick Douglass or Booker T. Washington. I took the matter up vigorously with various people at the time, but could find no such offering as you now make available. Accordingly, I wish you every success in this work." This professor might have added that in some of these schools you find no pictures at all but those of the sort advertising chewing tobacco, showing how Doc Suter's "Old Reliable Bitters" has weaked men, and what Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has done for the relief of women. It can hardly be believed that such as these are placed on the walls to inspire the pupils. They indicate rather a lack of aesthetic ideal and the failure to make use of visualization in education. PICTURES FROM TWO CENTS TO A DOLLAR When sold now for low prices ranging between two cents and a dollar almost any school may place on its walls the pictures of distinguished Negroes. The higher institutions, moreover, may do more than decorate rooms with ordinary pictures. With the large number of rising artists in the race like Aaron Douglas, J. L. Wells and Lois M. Jones, it is possible to place in our schools the panititions of the outstanding Negroes for whom these buildings are named. Why do we name our buildings for Dunbar, Douglass and Washington and then do not show enough interest to hang before the student body paintings of these world characters? It is unfortunate that we find teachers themselves utterly unconcerned about such an important aspect of our education. You often see in buildings named for Crispus Attuces, Benjamin Banneker, Phillis Wheatley or Daniel A. Payne teachers who do not know anything about these characters or why these buildings are thus designated. These employees are there not to teach, but to make a living easily. Their bosses are not interested in the Negro. Why should they be? PASTORS ARE IGNORANT OF THEIR FOUNDERS Pastors of churches, too, are equally as ignorant of the founders of these institutions. A church recently celebrating its anniversary, instead of having its own story to give to the world, had to write to us for a sketch and a picture of its founder, Pastors DIGESTING THE NEWS By CLIFFORD C. MITCHELL To every reader of this column, extending from the Pacific to the Atlantic coast, and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, the most sincere greetings are extended. To each editor, publisher, staff employee and writer on the nearly one hundred "exchanges" that reach me regularly I extend the season's greetings. To each of the eighty-six book publishers, and authors, who have co-operated with me, and their employees, I take this method of wishing you much joy and merriment at this season of the year. To the hundreds of correspondents who have communicated with me, from all parts of the North American continent, I want you to know that I am hoping for each one of you, success and happiness. To my fellow "villagers," officials and inmates alike, I am glad that I am able to publicly proclaim the respect and heartiest feeling that your spirit of co-operation so forcibly demonstrates a mutual interest among men. If, in after years, I can always be assured of the same co-operation among free people as I have received here in Jackson Prison, among prisoners and officials, I shall be divinely blessed. And to that group of personal friends who have brought so much cheer, hope and help into my life there have come and gone, but they were not interested in the written record. They were seeking collections to pay off mortgages and to buy gewgaws and toys. I this way we have lost ground and have tended to become a negligible factor in the thought of the world. Thus it happens with people when they forget what they have thought and felt and attempted and accomplished. This failure to appreciate the men who have made the past and the consequent emphasis upon trifles of the present resulted from the terrible blow which slavery dealt us. That nefarious system severed our connection with the glorious past of the race and left us unable to evaluate the great factors which in their cumulative effect with the years have made life worth while. We no longer think of our race as having great traditions; and, being unable to look back far into the past we cannot look far into the future. People who came from nowhere may not get anywhere. From one of the philosophers, however, we may learn "What an 'enormous camera-obscura' magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory, in the human imagination, when love' worship and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it; and in the darkness in the entire ignorance, without date or document, no book, no Arundel marble, only here and there some dull monumental cairn!" We must go back to the achievements of these black men, then and, looking into these black faces of heroes and heroines, get inspiration to achieve as well as they did. With a vision of these great souls looking down upon us and urging us on to complete the unfinished task to the performance of which they made an outstanding contribution, let us press forward to the next objective in the development and uplift of the despised and rejected of men. The Century Guild Makes Apology The attention of those responsible for the publication of an article which appeared in the social columns of this paper (the Washington Tribune), under the name of the club "Non Pareil," dated November 25, has been called to the fact that there is a club now existent which has prior rights to the use of this name, in addition to being incorporated under the laws of the District of Columbia. Consequently, we wish to apologize to the original club "Non Pareil" for inadvertently trespassing upon their rights and regret the creation of any confusion which may have resulted therefrom. At a meeting Sunday evening, as guests of Alphonso Swann, it was agreed upon that this club shall henceforth be known as "The Century Guild." The discussion at this gathering assumed a literary aspect. From the subject of books generally, arose the question of how literature could be distinguished as being worthwhile literature or otherwise. The principal contributors to the pro and con of this argument were, Messrs, Alphonso Swann, Otis Boyd, and Misses Mansfield and Gaskins, and Mrs. Brooks. GREETINGS! TRADITION IS A MAGNIFIER through their communications at regular intervals I am sincere in wishing for them the very best that the season affords, even though I am unable, even to these select friends, to offer by Yuletide sentiment in any other manner than through these words in this column. * * * * Continuing further in this personal vein I wish to explain that any seeming success that I have achieved in the field of Negro journalism has been earned, not from a flash of brilliance but purely through a regular, systematic never-failing, weekly contribution of thought. In order to keep well-informed it is, and always has been, necessary to spend many hours in daily research work, making notes and checking data that appears from week to week in our publications. As my list of co-operators, both newspapers and book publishers, and also a growing list of magazine publishers, increases, so also does the detailed research work in connection therewith. With this feature of my work alone, not to mention the handling of much correspondence, it can be readily seen that each moment of my spare time in prison finds some task to be performed and less and less am I able to give utterance in any other form than through the various weekly columns that I write. Week-End Mosaics By Algernon B. Jackson, M.D. "TONY" CHAIRS In a recent edition of the Washington Star there appeared an editorial which I take pleasure in passing on to my readers. The editorial follows: Beyond the limits of Randolph County, North Carolina, "Tony" chairs may be unknown or unappreciated. But within those confines they are famous. They were made in three types or varieties—rockers, straight armchairs and children's rockers. They sold for $2.50, $2.06 and $1.25 respectively. And, since that was more than a half century ago, they brought "a good price" as prices went. Today they are worth many times their original value. "Tony" was a Negro carpenter or cabinet-maker. His real name was Charles Tony. It is said that he owned a small farm, "but took no delight in it, preferring to 'make things'." Few thought of him as a genius while yet he lived; but since his demise five decades have passed and appreciation of him has grown until now it is a veritable passion. He was a great designer and builder of chairs. He belonged to the art which Inigo Jones, John Webb, Grinling Gibbons, the Adam brothers, Thomas Sheraton and Thomas Chippendale adorned. Was he their peer? Certainly not. He was only a peasant with an artist's hands. But suppose he had been accorded their advantages, their opportunities—who shall say he inevitably would have failed? Granted that he might not have succeeded, is it not a matter for regret that he did not have the chance? The world is filled with "mute inglorious Milton." There are thousands of men and women, boys and girls who have in their hearts the instinct to create lovely and useful things, yet lack the training, the experience and the capital to develop that longing. It is from among them that cultural standards rise, are established, and are maintained. They have that elemental "genius of appreciation" which is the foundation of cultural progress. Possibly that is their function, their value in the world. But the example of "Tony" is worth recalling for another reason—his capacity to do exceedingly well the work he was qualified to attempt, the work for which he was prepared. Every individual has a similar power. It is innate. The difficulty is that not all consciously endeavor to reach approximate perfection. Too many are satisfied to be shipshod and careless. That may be because they are not really interested in their work. If so, it may be of service to call attention to the fact that such an attitude of mind renders labor more arduous and unpleasant than ever it ought to be. "Tony" loved his work. That is evident from his story and from the surviving products of his toil. So viewed, his chairs are sermons, and "Tony" himself was a teacher, Peace to his ashes, then, wherever they may lie in the sweet, warm earth of Randolph County. Lacking formal monument, his handicraft constitutes his memorial. Working the old adage, "Silence is golden," and making no utterance during their performance, the chorus girls of the Lugovslavian State Opera forced payment of their long overdue salaries. BEST NEWS OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL IN THE REALM OF BOOKS By C. LESLIE FRAZIER Alpheus Butler's Poems Gain Critical Acclaim. Although "Make Way for Happiness," the attractive and inspiring new volume of sonnets and lyrics by Alpheus Butler has only recently been published, interest in the volume has increased rapidly and steadily and favorable notices have appeared in periodicals all over the country. ics by Alpheus Butler has only reviews follow: Harold Vinal, editor of "Voices," says: "Mr. Butler has, in this first collection of his, achieved a few poems of more than fragmentary interest. In his sonnets he arises above the hackneyed, finding in this special form an excellent medium for his lyrical gift. His sonnets are rather radiantly and musically written. No doubt future work will add austerity to his manner and style." The Portland Oregonian says: "A collection of worthwhile poems by a young American Negro author . . . Mr. Butler's poems deal more with the soft Southern climes than with the stern and rockbound slopes of the Colorados. . . He is editor of The Literary Alcove" in The Washington Tribune and has a large following in that work. The poetry of Butler extols the beauty in life. His form is excellent and his art is well worth while." Dr. W. E. B. DuBois says in The Crisis: "This is Mr. Butler's first published collection of poems. They are pleasant, readable things." The West Los Angeles Independent says: "Mr. Butler is no doubt conscientious." Prophesy, Manchester, New Hampshire says: "This book is a collection of poems, including Travel, Lyrical, and Nature Sonnets, and Miscellaneous Lyrics, written in a style peculiar to the author, who has contributed numcrous poems to the public press and magazines." The Waycross Journal-Herald says: "In this volume is presented a pleasing, thoroughly delightful collection of verses by Alpheus Butler, young Jacksonville poet. The verses are as luxurious and romantic as the tropics of which he sings; alluring as the broad highway which he pictures, thoughtful and steeped in brilliant beauty." In addition, notices have appeared in the San Jose News, San Jose, California; The Christian Advocate, the New York Herald Tribune, The Hartford Courant, the New York Times, The Boston Transcript, The Living Church, The Boston Globe, The Presbyterian Advance, and The Saturday Review of Literature. Mr. Butler is at the present time a Fellow in English at Fisk University, where he is taking a few courses in literature. "Make Way for Happiness" is published by Christopher Publishing House, Boston. Two New Books Sally Chayes, author of "The Way of Some Flesh," "The Landlady on Riverside Drive," etc. has just been signed up by William Godwin, Inc. "Jail Bait," her newest book, will be published by Godwin, Inc., in January. It is a "young" novel, dealing with the problems of high school boys and girls, who, left too much to themselves by pleasure-seeking parents, endeavor to emulate their moral code. Tre consequences are not always pleasant. Another new novel deals with a young society girl, who chooses to call herself Ann Hathaway, who ran over a child. Her arrest and contact with several members of the police force led to the writing of an amazing novel, "The Man in the Monkey Suit," which Godwin will publish in the early winter. A "monkey suit" is more commonly known as a uniform. **** Of "Making You Sell!" by R. S. (Bob) Andrews (Fireside Publications, Inc., Chicago, Ill.) Clifford C. Mitchell writes: "For many weeks I had been reading an advertisement that appeared in a great many of our colored papers which contained the caption: "This Man is Never Out of Work—He's a Salesman" and being somewhat interested, from a psychological standpoint, in all manner of salesmanship and advertising, I answered one of the advertisements, which, in time, brought me the book, 'Making You Sell.' "Apparently, Bob Andrews is some salesman and is at home in any line that he tackles. He is not only a salesman but he is now an author as well. In fact he has to be a successful salesman in order to be an author. Selling his little forty-seven page "pep" book throughout the country for a dollar proves conclusively that he is a cracker-jack good salesman. "Making You Sell" contains many pointers that will prove helpful for those engaged in the selling field and should be an inspiration book of much value to be distributed among the selling organization of many of our large concerns." BEST NEWS OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL ° . | Society to Be Busy During | . Christmas Week | | By Capitola Nature has set the stage perfectly for the celebration of Christ- mas, and Capital society is experiencing a full and busy week of rush- ing here and there to put the final touches on everything before Santa Claus makes his holiday debut. ‘The Omega Psi Phi fraternity held a pre-Christmas activity on Jast Sunday evening which proved to be a fitting lead to the forthcom- ing holiday season, ‘The card party given by the Women’s Club, of Burrville, and the Million Dollar wedding which was given under the auspices of the Dunbar Community Center, served to eliven the week which would have otherwise proved to be a dull week-end. ‘With a number of interesting social affairs in the offing, things will be pretty lively here next week and well in the new year. Apple Blossom Club Jolly Dames Hold Initial Entertains With Dance Dance of Season ‘The club entertained with its first dance of the season at the Homestead, 1825 Thirteenth Street, Northwest, this week, The ball- room was beautifully decorated and music was furnished by Dick Hall's orchestra with Monty Pol- lard, radio entertainer as an added attraction. ‘Among those present were Mr. ‘and Mrs, Lee Howell, Mr..and Mrs. Jacob MeDowell, Mr.'and Mrs. R, T Greenfield, Mr. and Mrs, H. Patter- son, Mrs. R. L. Wicks, Mrs, Ber- nice Washington, Mrs, A, Shipman, Mrs. Edith Lewis, Mrs. ‘A. Young, Mrs. Catherine Joseph, Mrs. Mar- garct Foreman, Misses Lola Jat- vis, Anna Pagains and Ardell Griee, Dr. E.R. Elliott, Messrs, R. H. Barnes, Don Gauntt, R. S. Gaither, Robert Gray, 0. C. Clinton, Wil- liam Thompson, Alex Davis, Bern- ard Brown, M, J. Tillghman, Jas. Jones, Julius Whittington, Walter Harris, Joe Moudrey, Louis Davis Garner Whittington, S, Guntt anc the club members, Mesdames S Whittington, H. Keebler, I. Jack son, E. Billups, G. Roan, C. Mans. field, Fay Gooden, Adell Grice anc W. Roberts. pa rea HOWARD UNIVERSITY GLEE CLUB BROADCASTS ‘The Howard University Men’s Glee Club was heard over Station ‘WOL, Monday night, in a number of spirituals and other songs, This gee cd is under the direction of f. Roy W. Tibbs, of the music department. LID FSM GSS Of Se . a” SB, ee Wishing All of:Our Patrons and Friends A MBRRY a CHRISTMAS a ‘2 i Start the New Year Right om ON ees paPaet Vilas a me ESR iio PAE) ITAL VIEN Ny Re REAL 00 NeW. 997 New York Ave. YY en National 9590 M pe ee caw, ~ “Yipee Sars Re Be ane (2 kod ¢ property. > SSeS SSRI Jolly Dames Hold Initial Dance of Season The Jolly Dames Social Club held its initial dance of the season Thursday at the residence of Mrs. Juanita Crumpton, 1232 Duncan Street, Northwest. The home was beautifully decorated with the club colors. Members of the club agg Mes. dames Phyllis Coates, president; Edna Washington, secretary; and Juanita Crumpton, treasurer. ‘Those present ‘were Mesdames Georgia. Parker, Sarah Keyser, Ruth Brown, Beatrice Freeman, Pearl Brown, Estelle Clagett, Mary illiams, Marie Kinard, Pauline Baylock, Teresa Porter, Margurite Davis and Elenor Howkins, Misses Helen Stewart, Magda- lene Pye, Alice Smith, Gretchen Hart, and Messrs. Russell Hamil- ton, Nichols Hamilton, Milton Brooks, Theodore Stevenson, Irving Riggs, Ernest Moore, John King, C.D. Griffin, James Waller, Doug: las Griffin, Herbert King, Thoma: Smallwood, Clarence Chisolm James Washington, Jr. ‘Thomas Pierson, George Bryant Richard Morten, A. Holt, Willian Parker, Arthur Murray, _Joht Queen, Joseph Slaughter, Henr; Wood, James Washington, Mr. an Mrs. Walter Douglas, Mr. and Mrs Leroy Simms, Mr. and Mrs. Henr; Pye, Melvin Stewart, and the mem bers of the Improved Capital Cit Soci] Club. Oscar DePriest, Ilinois _repre- sentative was among the 96 Repub- licans of the House to vote in fa- vor of beer, Thursday. DePRIEST WANTS BEER areas cr] zp Lass ¥] v Gers, -&7 : eee a ) AS TAs = : gaunt i ai etc eminem Mid-night Cabaret at Mr. and Mrs. Greenfield Corinthian Lodge Elects | LUB NBONTE Mi Casi Hl Cabaret P. Klub Neonte met at the murray, ino lost at Cabaret Party} 4, tno annual convocation of | dence of Mrs. Adlena Howard ees eee CoE A eee eee A A.A, | Ltving- Street, Northwest, Tu mhe social set of the nation's | The beautiful récreation room in] held December 17, the following | M8ht Bricge was the featu capital awaits with eager anticipa- | the house of Mr, and Mrs. Joseph officers were elected: Ellis J. Reig | the evening. The club mer tion the mid-nite cabaret at the | Greenfield, 415 Twenty-third Place,| Worshipful master; Samuel D. greatly missed Miss Viola beautifel Murray Casino Christ- | Northeast, was the scene of a cab-| Smith, senior warden; Clifton’ 0.| Ya,.whe wee il nas Night, given by the Original | aret party this week. Covers were| Lyles, junior warden; Oscar L.| Members present, were Community club. laid for fifty-two guests. Deane, secretary; Primus B. Bag-| Rbe®, Ruth Mason, Willie Cc ‘The committee has labored con-| Members of the Madrillioniers’| py, treasurer." B28") Blondell Moten, Mattie Mar scientiously to make this yuletide | Club and their guests were honored Ree say aes) Pearl Coleman, Adlena Ho seiebration a beaming success, The | uests of the evening. Those pres- and Jessie Conway. Mrs. eer eaen a decorations will no [ent Were Mr. and Mrs, George H. Reed was guest. gaherate fal vestticet in the his. | Greenfield, Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Prizes were won by Mrs. | Sony of olabaieas Rhea, Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Collins, first, and Mrs. Bl Whe Young Men’s Pleasure Club, | Reeds Mr. and Mrs, Ignatius Mar- Moten,'second, The club adjoi the Bacon the Jolly Bight. the | Shall, Dallis, Shephard, Harl H. until <fter the Christmas holi astoerats, the Brown Buddies | Ross, and Miss Mayme Day. | Mr.| BROWNIES ENJOY srt anda number of other clubs will | Greenfield is a member of the Mad.) DEPRESSION PARTY FRIENDSHIP CLUB Ce eee oe ey car: | Hilcaless. ‘The Brownie Club met this week] "The vegular Tuesday mecti SGurlding the erystal dance floor. | Others present were Mr. and/ with Mrs. Rebecca Powell and Ws the Friendship Ple sure Clut "The epecial cabaret revue under | Mt. Perry Leonard, Mr. and Mrs.| entertained with a depression Par-| nold a tthe resid nce of Mrs Care aera rer Gout in |X, Weatherall, Mr.’and Mrs, Ar-/ty. Each guest was requested to| i, "Fenwick. Members. ae the direction of Hartwell Cook in | roid Stephens, Mr. and Mrs. Ches-| send or bring a new or used gat-| weve Mrs, Ciara Hill, Maggie Fendy fo entertain wpe many Pai |ter Curtis, Mr. and Mrs, “Austin| ment for the less fortunate. ‘These | 1, Dora Lee Boy, Masie D ae Sewall, Mr. and Mrs, Arthur How-| garments and money usually spent | Hi.1y° Tolives” Joseph Le eg ee ane ee ee 1 cdkerkitaathet will Be elven te | eee: cee VOReDR LES: DEMOCRATS HONOR MACK D. ROWE A number of citizens of Wash- ington paid homage to Mack D. Rowe on last Friday evening in the form of a testimonial banquet in the junior ball-room of the Ma- sonic Temple. Mr. Rowe, who is one of the organizers and leaders of the local Democratic Club here in the capital, was lauded most highly for the stand which he took and the accomplishments which were made in the last national campaign. Among the speakers were Messrs, W. L. Houston, Emory B. Smith, and P..B. Morse, of Mis- sour.” James Howard was toast- master. Be pes MR, EUGENE JONES VISITING MOTHER HERE Mr. Eugene Jones, of 14 W 135th Street, New York City, and former Washingtonian, has been here for the past week visiting his mother, Mrs. Savada Jones, of 754 Irving Street, Northwest, eg ee MRS, SEWELL, DINNER HOSTESS Mrs. Lillian Sewell cf 1127 Eigh- teenth Street, Northwest, was dinner hostess Sunday to Dr. and Mrs. Frank Davis and Mrs. P. W. and Miss Lyneir Price, ee Spee MRS, INEZ DAWES HOSTESS Mrs, Inez Dawes was hostess to the La Java Art Club at her residence, 628 ‘Thirteenth Street, Northeast. Mem- bers present were’ Miss Mae Davis, ‘Mesdames Nan Ball, Beatrice Bland, Florence Brooks, Lillian Gibbs, Louise Seli and Helen Davis, * tention CHRISTMAS PARTY AT SHAW JUNIOR HIGH A, Christmas party was given by students of the Shaw Junior High School, Tuesday. Candy and toys pete distributed among the pupils. The program was directed by Mrs. M. C, Cottrell and Miss C. M. Houston. eeepc NURSE IS CONVALESCING Miss Roberta Walton, graduate nurse at Carson’s Private Hos- pital, who underwent an operation at the institution last week was reported in a fine condition and ready to go home this week. Miss Walton will be convalescing at her home during the holidays. MISS LUCILLE WELLS WILL BE HOME DURING HOLIDAYS Migs Lucille Welly daughter of Dr and Mrs, William Wells, will spend the holidays with her parents in the city. She is a student of Virginia State College and will be at home after ‘Thursday. Miss Wells expects to re- turn to Petersburg, January 2. as ie ft DRUM AND BUGLE CORPS HOSTS The Drum and Bugle section of the James Reese Europe Past, No. 5 ‘American Legion, entertained their guests with a stag, Friday, at the resi- dnce of Sgt and Mrs, Joseph Clomax, 424 Twenty-fourth Street, Northeast First Sergeant E. G. Jackson (re- tired) Tenth Cavalry, was the guest speaker of the evening. Cards, checkers, singing and joking were the main features of the evening. Members present were : L. Williams, manager; Sergeants Jo- seph Clomax, J. R. Branson, W. L. Patrick, Joseph Johnson ; R. J. Brown G. W. Belton, A. Nash, J. Gamble, Clinton Randolph, D. Weaver, H. L- Bean, Thomas Holland, Clarence Rol- and, Fred Dawes, P, A. Clark, J. Car. roll, G. W. Edmunds, Richard Brown, Percy Browne, William Wood, M. Herod, B. Thornton, William Jenkins drum major, O. Washington, F. Craw- ford, R. Reed, C. Brown, J. R. Perry and Reginald Wilkes. | The guests included: First Sergan E.G. Jackson (retired) Tenth Cavalry Messis. E. Yergen, W. W. Boggs. C T. MBoran, T..T. Alston, Willian McK. Lewis, John M. Newman, Mur. ray Barton, John H. Fells, J. H. Neal and RN. Brown, ~ a HCUSE GUESTS OF MISS GLADYS BOOKER | Miss Miriam Price, of Atlanta, Ga., and D. C. Hobson, of Winston- Salem, N.C, were the recent house of Miss Gladys Booker, of BSéeeet Necthwect THE WASHINGTON TRIBUNE, DECEMBER 23, 1932 Mr. and Mrs. Greenfield Host at Cabaret Party |The beautiful récreation room in the house of Mr, and Mrs. Joseph Greenfield, 415 Twenty-third Place, Northeast, was the scene of a cab- aret party this week. Covers were laid for fifty-two guests. Members of the Madrillioniers’ Club and their guests were honored guests of the evening. Those pres: ent were Mr. and Mrs. George H. Greenfield, Mr. and Mrs, Robert P. Rhea, Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Reed, Mr. ani Mrs, Ignatius Mar- shall, Dallis Shephard, Earl _H. Ross, and Miss Mayme Day. Mr Greenfield is a member of the Mad. rillioniers. Others present were Mr. and Mrs. Perry Leonard, Mr, and Mrs. ¥,, Weatherall, Mr.’ and Mrs, Ar- nold Stephens, Mr. and Mrs. Ches. ter Curtis, Mr. and Mrs. Austin Sewall, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur How: ard, Mr. and Mrs, W. H, Barnes Mr. and Mrs, Reginald Wilkes, Mr. and Mrs, W. A. Glenn, Mr. and Mrs, Mordicai Harris, Mr, and Mrs. Clarence Gardiner, Mr cand Mrs Eugene Greenfield, Mrs. Fred B, Reeves, Mrs. Eu- nice Ashby, Mrs. Austin Belasco, Misses Ethel Vanderville, Bea trice Davis, Willie D, Williams Marguerite Lemson, Mayme Meh linger, Fannie Allen, H. H. Neely, Wm. Holmes, Rich ard Robinson, C. T. Taylor, an Harry, Jesse, William and Byr ' Leonard. “The Other Wise Man” to Be Dramatized Here | Sir Henry Von Dyke’s famous Christmas story, “The Other Wise Man,” will be presented by Madam Senora Gratton, dramatic reader, of Philadelphia, at the Vermont Avenue Baptist Church, Wednes- day night. Mme. Gratton will be assisted by local talent, feces trots: MISS LUCY G. GRIMES MOTORS TO PHILADELPHIA Mrs. Lucy J. Grimes motored to Philadelphia Friday to visit her aunt, Mrs. Lucy Harris, formerly of this city, who is seriously ill. Mrs. Grimes’s mother, Mrs. Susan Arnold, and three brothers, Ned, Ralph and George Ar- nold, accompanied ber, MRS. MAUDE JAMES HOSTESS Mrs. Maude James entertained at bridge last Thursday evening at her residence, 1300 Division Ave., North- cast. The guests included Mr, and Mrs. Donald Lovett, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Carter, Preston Moon BY. Stephen Butler, Mr. and Mrs, Carter William Watkins, William Vaughn, Blair, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Smith, Mrs. Carter and Mrs. Wokins were thy tack) rotindece ob ere, South Carolina State Society Entertained Mrs. Marian D. Butler, of 1752 T Street, Northwest, and C, G. Maxwell,’ of Howard University, were joint hostess and host to the South Carolina State Society at its ‘regular monthly meeting, Thurs- day night. W. A. Outten, presi- dent, presided, and Mr, and Mrs. James R. Clark, of Greenville, 8.C., were received as new members, Those present were the Rev. J. C. McEaddy, W. A. Outten, Mr. and Mrs, A. £, Simons, Miss Fran- ‘ees Doyle, John H. Walker, Mrs. N. Brunnette, Miss Lydia G. Me- ‘Twain, Mrs. G. C. MeDaniels, Mrs. Marian D. Butler, Mis¥ Lillian Madison, P. H. Bethea, J. J. Beal, C. G. Maxwell, and Mrs, Katie Tho- ‘mas, club members. Dr. G. L. Johnson, Mr, and Mrs. Percy Head, Miss Hattie Gladden, Mrs. R. Harrison, Mrs, A. E. So- bers, Miss Marie Myers, Mrs. Vio- la Thompson, and Mr. and Mrs. James R. Clark, guests, eee Pad) Le Save the Children Christmas belongs to the children. Despite privation, underaourish- ment and even want, there are few firesides where somebody's sacrifice, or somebody's inventive genius, will not make possible a recognition of the day so children’s voices may be raised in gladness. Christmas Seals belong to the ehildren, toc. The most important ‘work they do is to protect children from tuberculosis. This year the seal Steelf shows two youngsters with faces upturned in gladness as they sing carols in the snow. Rach seal is a direct appeal for hilp from the children of America, who suffer most from the effects of pri- vation, undernourishment and want. Christmas comes but once a peat, and childhood once a lifetime. Corinthian Lodge Elects At the annual convocation of Corinthian Lodge No. 18, F.A.A.M, held December 17, the following officers were elected: Ellis J. Reid, worshipful master; Samuel D. Smith, senior warden; Clifton’ 0. Lyles, junior warden; Oscar L. Deane, secretary; Primus B. Bag- by, treasurer. epee BROWNIES ENJOY DEPRESSION PARTY The Brownie Club met this week with Mrs, Rebecea Powell and was entertained with a depression par- ty. Each guest was requested to send or bring a new or used gar- ment for the less fortunate. These garments and money usually spent in entertainment will be given to needy people. "Mts. Gabrielle Pelham and Miss ‘Etta Johnson spoke in behalf of the various charities, stressing the many calls for aid, and the oppor- tunities for service. Each Brownie was given a gar- ment to be made for the Red Cross, Light refreshments were served af: ter an unusually interesting an¢ thatructive “wes THE STRUGGLERS | BRIDGE CLUB ‘The Strugglers Bridge. Club which meets. semi-monthly, wa entertained, Saturday evening, al the home of Mrs. Frankie Hill 1111 Columbia Road, Mrs. Hill had as her guests, Mrs. Grace Cooper, and. Mrs. May. Irv ing. The club members preséni were Mesdames Georgia Gant Hattie Garner, Sarah Taylor, Ber tha Throckmorton, Alice Lewis ani May Wilson. ‘The guest prize was awarded to Mrs, Grace Cooper while first and second club prites were awarded to Sarah Taylor and May Wilson, respectively. THE SILHOUETTES ho SiThounties were énteri4 they Wednesday evening by Mrs. Babe Hundley, 1634 Fifteenth Street Northwest, ‘The guest of the eve- ning was Mrs. Arcelia Garnett. ‘Club members present were Misses Delma Thompson and Ma- rie Washington, Mesdames Mae Irving, _ Bertha — Throckmorton, Edith’ Williams, Viola Sullivan, Mildred Williams, Mae Wilson and Mabel Hundley. First, second and third prizes were awarded to Mil- dred Williams, Bertha Throckmor- ton and Delma Thompson, respec- tively. SEMPER FIDELES “Mrs. G. Dorsey was hostess to the club Tuesday at her residence, 1304 R Street, Northwest. Bridge featured the ‘evening's entertain- ment. Mesdames B. Rucker, M. Wal- ton, A. Daughtry, H. Williams, A. Brumfield, A. Hockaday, A. Vass, L. Webb’ and G. Sutton, Misses A, Willis and D. Hamilton, PETITE BELLES The club was entertained by Miss Valerie Plater, 1234 Walter Street, Southeast, Tuesday eve- ning. E. R. Shipley was guest. embers are Ethel Barnes, Lucille Brown, Marion Brown, Thelma Dudley, Antoinette Har- rison, Ida D. Mack and Florence , Turner. STARLIGHT SOCIAL CLUB ‘The club met at the residence of Mrs. Martha Turner, 2311 E Street, Northwest, at which time lane ‘were made for compll- mentary dance Wednesday. The hostess served a buffet supper. Members present were Mrs. Maude Pierson, Mrs. Martha Turner, Mrs. Bertha Henderson, Mrs. Gertrude Dawson, Miss Jane V. Sedgwick, Mrs. Mary Rose, Mrs. Alice Irvin’ and Mrs, Gertrude “Young. . pa SN MADRILLIONIERS. the Madriliioniers and = their wives and girl friends, were enter- tained Satuiday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Greenfield, 415 Twenty-third Place, Northeast. The house was beautifully decor ai ‘The basement of the house was decorated with a cabaret effect, BARONS Over 1,000 guests were enter tained at ‘the formal dance given by the Barons at the Masonic Temple Thursday. The affair ‘marked the initial dance of the season for the club. Members of the club are Rich- ard Cannady, Eugene R. Andrews, William Hackney, James H. Gray- son, Lewis McLaughlin, William Jennings, Alphonza Logan, James Edmonds, Osear Washington, Har- vey Strothers and Johnny Frye. hae NEONTE MEMBERS AT CRYSTAL CAVERNS Klub Neonte was well represent- ed at the Crystal Caverns’ party on Monday, night. Those in, the party included Mr. and Mrs. Rob- ert Rhea, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Con- way, Jr, Mrs, Ruth Mason, Mrs. Blondell’ Moten, William Irving, Earl Ross, and Mr. and Mrs. Mer- cer Conway. THE IDEAL PLEASURE CLUB Miss Bessie Norris entertained the SS 2 1754 S Street, North- west, on evening. Cords was aaah Mba present were Misses Pauline Hawkins, Ma- ry Lee, Anna M. Fisher, and Ro- zella E. Morton, Mesdames Anna Hawkins, Ida Lee, and Anna Jones. 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Seo sift to q 7 BREESE ES aie teesns The, ete brash BUILDING | pp ie DOLL aND| 'BLOGKS | Eu Mickey anc Minnie Core | OC | on rn Mouse Trapeze a 98c |ST=E=) vous oe AOU (ieee eee eee papi by \\ |] SEES “es] “aranese 98c Boe £Y tage aa 9 SARE | seer e Wawa Ke OY eo ie 186 Bere | KLUB NEONTE Klub Neonte met at the resi- dence of Mrs. Adlena Howard, 719 Irving Street, Northwest, Tuesday night. Bridge was the feature of the evening. The club members greatly missed Miss Viola Sulli- van, who wes ill. Members“ prespnt | ware fet Rhea, Ruth Mason, Willie Collins, Blondell Mcten, Mattie Marshall, Pearl Coleman, Adiena Howard, and Jessie Conway. Mrs. Sadie Reed was guest, Prites were won by Mrs, Willie Collins, first, and Mrs. Blondel Moten, second. The club adjourned until :{fter the Christmas holidays. FRIENDSHIP CLUB The regular Tuesday meeting of the Friendship Pleasure Club was held a tthe residence of Mrs, Ophe- lia Fenwick, Members attending were Mrs; Clara Hill, Maggie Mur- ry, Dora Lee Boyd, Masie Durett, Harry Tolive:, Joseph Lane, and Emmet Thomas. MERRILY FOUR CLUB ‘The weekly meeting of the group was held at the residence of Mrs. Cecelia Holly, 1030 Lamont Street, Northwest. "Whist prizes were awarded Misses Edith Brooks and Priscilla Marshall, first; and Miss- os va Clay and Mary Barton, sec- ond. BLACK AND GOLD CLUL Officers for the 1933 season worg elected at a meeting of the Blac! and Gold Art Club held this week at the residence of Miss R. Dines, 1103 Q Street, Northwest. Those elected were Miss A. Col- ston, president; Mrs, L. Wallace, vice-president; Miss M. White, sec- retary; Miss A. Hearne, treasurer; Miss F. Hearne, chaplain; Mrs. E. Watts, business manager; Miss R. Dines, ‘reporter; and Mrs. E. Lang, sergeant-at-arms. Miss A. M. Colston was hostess to the club at her home, 57 0 Street, Northwest, last week. THE ODD CARD WHIST CLUB The Odd Card Whist Club held its meeting at the residence of the sccre- tary, Clarence Vanghn, 1734 T Street Northwest. ‘The major portion of the evening [was spent in arranging the club's ros ‘ter in preparation for the annual report The remaining part of the evening was given over to card playing, the team of Conway and Olfus taking the honors ‘The members are: William Baker Lawrence Moten, Clarence Vaughn, Boyd Clarke, Mercer Conway, Edward Arthur, Goslee Brown, Andrew Otfus and James Wood. ALGONOQUIANS Miss Essie Ayers was hostess to the Alfonguiian Pleasure Clnub at her resi- dence, 1534 Eighth Street, Northwest, ‘Wednesday night. ‘After the regular. meeting a few friends were entertained at cards by the club. ‘They were William Ayers, Oliver Alexander, Henry Johnson, Jack Johnson, Edgar Jackson and Ed- ward Sentt. FLVE SPECIAL NOTICE! Beware of any person rep senting either The Old indie Herb Store or Leo set sige who is selling any m or cards other than the Lue Times Number Book. This is the only number book agents are permitted to sell for us and all other representations are fraudulent. OLD INDIAN HERB STORE 1728 Tth St., N.W. Leo S. Osman, Prop, )Williams Institute Of Music | all terrane ae Lenvese Meth DAY AND NIGHT CLASSE 813 Tea St. N,W. i ame Tensile 4 KARRY ‘RARRy SPECIAL | All Ladies” Dresses, $1.00 Ties, 6 for 580 Men's Suits & Overceats, 750 a. Hats Cleaned & Blocked, 560 » neater Don't Forget Our Laundry Service Christmas and the Depression Christmas and the Depression By BEATRICE M. MURPHY For the past week or two I've been going around enthusing all over the place about Christmas. At first the very thought of Christmas gave me the shivers. For many reasons I dreaded it. Then I just made up my mind that "come what may, I'm going to be happy this Christmas. I'm going to enjoy myself." So, as I said, I've been enthusing and trying to affect all of my friends with the same enthusiasm. But it won't work. I was talking to one of my friends yesterday, who said, "This Christmas is going to be a dull one for me." Another one remarked, "The Depression killed Santa Claus." And I felt just like saying, "Oh yeah!" This Christmas, like every other one before it, is going to mean just what each of us as individuals allows it to mean. If we want to be selfish and think only of ourselves and our miseries, then we're going to be happily miserable. That's really where the big test comes—the test to show what kind of stuff you're made of. Life brings us sorrow, despair, pain, and there isn't any getting around it, we have to take them. There's a certain amount of gray days that belong to each of us. But the question isn't whether you accepted your share of the dark side or not. You have to do that. But how did you accept it? How did you meet the blow life dealt you yesterday? 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THE ```markdown ``` Don't go around telling your children that the depression killed Santa Claus. March yourself off to the ten-cent store; forget the depression, and go on a shopping spree. Of course I know you're used to better things. Most of us are. But what of it? Find out how much joy can be had in simple things. And anyhow, why all this racket about Christmas? Why should a little thing like a depression affect the celebration of the biggest thing that has ever happened to humanity — Christmas ... Christ Mass? Have we forgotten the meaning of it all? Doesn't the same God smile down on us? Doesn't Christmas still represent the birth of the greatest man the world has ever known? Doesn't His spirit of peace and love and brotherliness still permeate the world? Depression or no depression, I ask you, isn't Christmas still Christmas? It's not the size of the gift you give that counts; it's the spirit in which you give it. It isn't the amount of money you have to spend, but how much happiness you can squeeze for yourself and others out of a meager purse. And if there's any among you who feel that the thing which happened two thousand years ago is greater than this depression, that's happening today, let the world know about it. You don't have to give elaborate presents to be happy on Christmas. It isn't what you give, but how you feel about it. Don't let life and the depression beat you. Beat them. Sure this Christmas is going to be dull and cheerless if you've made up your mind to it. There won't be any joy or good cheer if you don't want it. But remember the message is still ringing down the ages of "Peace on earth; good will to men." It will take more than a depression to kill Santa Claus; more than a depression to stamp out the spirit of Christmas and make the world forget that on this wondrous night a Saviour was born; more than a mere depression to take away the happiness and good will of Christmas. And it's entirely up to you—and you—and you, as to whether you're going to have a dull Christmas or whether your voice is going to chime with the world in singing "Gloria in Excelsis Deo." It Pays To Visit W. R. Dudley's Duty Shoppe Oil, Scalp Treatment, Sham- Press and Curls, all for only 75 cents. Reset FREE. 5 Expert Operators. ORIDA AVENUE, N.W. 9. Hours 9 to 9 Preparations for Lovelier Hair and Skin 5 IN CASH REE CHRISTMAS PAGE 8 DETAILS Someone's Xmas Xmas Savings A now and save as much or little as you wish for next year. You will never miss the small deposits. You can save from 25c up weekly. OUR CHRISTMAS CLUB OFFERS a Plan for EVERY PURSE PRACTICAL FOOD RECIPES Plum Pudding With Bread Crumbs! An entirely unique plum pudding made of bread crumbs! Rich and light and inexpensive—those are the qualities that distinguish this recipe among the many plum puddings you know. And, we are told, this is one of the few of which every one can manage large helpings, even after an elaborate holiday meal. You will find the dough has a honeycomb texture between the fruit—ideally right. The vinegar, soda and evaporated milk combination helps to produce a lightness not ordinarily found in plum pudding. Plum Pudding. inness f and g you hap- igo is that's world 1 cup bread, crumbs 1 cup suet, chopped 1 cup nuts, chopped ½ cup figs, chopped ½ cup dates, chopped ¼ cup citron, chopped 1 cup raisin 1 cup molasses 2 cups flour 1 teaspoon soda 2 teaspoon cinnamon ½ teaspoon cloves Mix bread crumbs, suet, nuts, fruit and molasses. Add milk, that has been combined with the vinegar. Sift flour, then measure. Resift with soda, cinnamon and cloves into first mixture. Pour into well greased pudding molds and steam 25 minutes for individual molds and 45 minutes for large molds. When ready to serve, reheat in steamer and serve with Hard Sauce Hard Sauce. 2 tablespoons evaporated milk 1 teaspoon vanilla Cream butter and gradually add the sugar and milk. When light and creamy, add the vanilla. Keep chilled until ready to serve. Yield: Sufficient for 8 desserts. To make Raisin Hard Sauce: Add $ \frac{1}{2} $ cup raisins. The hard sauce is easily and successfully made with concentrated evaporated milk. A good hard sauce recipe is indeed a thing to welcome. These Recipes Are For the Sweet Tooth One would not really have any appreciation of how good pumpkin is aside from pie filling unless one has tasted: Pumpkin Preserves. Remove the rind and seeds from a small sweet pumpkin, sometimes called "pie pumpkins." Cut the pumpkin into small cubes and cook in a very little water until tender. Drain and weigh; for every pound PYTHIAN GREETINGS TO THE MEMBERS OF THE ORDER EXHIBITIONS OF PYTHIAS OF THE JURISDICTION OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; We take this opportunity to express our kindest thoughts, and all best wishes that joy and success will be yours in the coming year. We encourage you for your loyalty throughout the passing year, and it is our sincerе hope that all through the year you will find the path where opportunity leads, with joy and Benevolence smiling at the end. CHAS. H. NEAL, Grand Chancellor. M. J. SHELBY. Grand Keeper of Records and Seals. Christas Happy! s Account RIAL BANK ent Supervision Open Daily Until 5 O'clock Saturdays 9-12; 6-8 of pumpkin use one pound of sugar, two lemons or two ounces of ginger root, or both may be used if desired. Slice the lemons and cook in a very little water until quite tender, then add water and all; there should be very little water left to the pumpkin. Soak the ginger root over night and add that to the pumpkin and sugar. Cook, stirring until the pumpkin is transparent. Drain, pack in jars and cook down the sirup until it is thick, pour over the preserves and seal. A CHRISTMAS POEM The grandest story ever told, The blessed story that ne'e grows old Is of that dearest and truest friend, Whose love for mankind has no end. Near two thousand years ago, When man's own state was wretched and low, When no one was found to loose the seal Pear and Apple Conserve. Take one pint of each of diced pears and tart apples. Steam one cupful of well-washed seedless raisins for 30 minutes. Add them with the juice and grated rind of a lemon, three and one half cupfuls of sugar and one-half cupful of walnuts. Cook until clear, adding the nuts ten minutes before taking off. Nuts may be omitted and a little preserved ginger added. Turn into glass and seal with paraffin. The mixture should be cooked until thick and clear. Peach Chutney. Take four pounds of peaches, one-half cupful of chopped onion, one-half pound of seeded raisins, one red pepper pod, two table-spoonfuls of chili powder, two teaspoonfuls of ground ginger, one-fourth cupful of mustard seed, six tablespoonfuls of salt and one and one-fourth pounds of brown sugar. Put the onion, raisins and red pepper through the food chopper. Peel the peaches, cut into pieces and mix with the other ingredients. Cook slowly for fully an hour or until the chutney attains a rich brown color. It should resemble gruel. Pack in hot sterile bottles, seal and cook fifteen minutes below boiling. A worn whisk broom trimmed down to its stiffest part makes a very good scrubbing brush for the sink. Tinware will not rust if it is rubbed with fresh lard when it is new, and placed in a hot oven for an hour. White sauce or cream sauce is the foundation for so many delicious, quickly prepared dishes every one should learn its secrets. All ingredients used in making pastry should be cold. The colder pastry is when put it to the oven, the flakier it will be when cooked. When scisgors are dull, run the blade across the neck of a small bottle in the position as though cutting off the neck of the bottle. Bread dried crisp in oven is easily crushed when put in muslin bag and rolled with rolling pin, no crumbs litter the table or floor. WILLIAMS Christmas Greetings and best wishes for good luck in the New Year. GraceGray DeLong "The Little White Mother" America's "Ace" Adviser New Address: 725 Eleventh S., N.W. Between "G" and "H" Streets Near Palais Royal Store Phone: Metropolitan 5234 (Formerly at 917 N. Y. Avenue) PROTECT them from Tuberculosis Keep them away from sick people.. Insist on plenty of rest . . Train them in health habits.. Consult the doctor regularly.. + The grandest story ever told. The blessed story that ne'er grows old. Is of that dearest and truest friend Whose love for mankind has no end. Near two thousand years ago, When man's own state was wretched and low. When no one was found to loose the seal— Our sorrows bear, infirmries heal. This friend of all the earth did come To the lowly town of "Bethle- hem." Lowly he came to that manger, mean There, and by mortal eyes, un- seen Save the aged Joseph,—and virgin fair And by the drowsy cattle kneeling there While the poles of heav'n, motion- less stood The stars lingered beyond their time To shed sweet influence on sun subline While gathered flocks at river's brink With heads kneeled down but could not drink While shepherds lay, prone on the ground And gazed in awe at sights around Of heav'nly hosts that joyously sang "Glory in the highest to the new-born King." While everything which was forward propelled Then with tender hands, the mother fair Wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him there In manger so bare, so humble and low, Washington Clubs Mrs. Lillian Lee, president, entertained the club and their friends at 1013 Lamont Street, Northwest, Cards was played. The house was decorated with holly and mistletoe. Mrs. Beatrice Davis, Miss Louise Matthews, Mrs. Lucille Carey, Mrs. Loretta Lacey, Miss Corentia Whitby, Edward Lacy, Alfonsa Carey, Ernest Branch, William Lee, and Freddie Mayers, were present. ROSEBUD SOCIAL CLUB Members of the Rosebud Social Club entertained nine of its associated clubs at the home of Percy Taylor, 217 F Street, Southwest, this week. Over 100 guests attended the affair. BROADMOOR WHIST CLUB The club held its regular weekly meeting at the residence of Ernestine Cooper, 327 O Street, Southwest. Card prizes were awarded Mrs. Minnie Smith, Mrs. Madeline Christian, and Mrs. Lida Smith. Mrs. Edith Smith won guest honors. Those present were Mrs. Consul Hill, guest; Mesdames Lida and Minnie Smith, Laura Johnson, Loretta Johnson, Madeline Christian, Bertha Fillmore, Cooper and Bessie Lee, members of the club. JUSTAMERE CLUB Mrs. Alberta Lacy was hostess to the club at her home, 1216 Kenyon Street, Northwest, Tuesday night. Plans for a complimentary dance were formulated, after which bridge was played. Members present were Mesdames Marie Smith, Aida Chambers, Ethel Bridgeford, Lola Miller, Clarice Prather, Charlotte Burke, and Mary W. Bacon. SLAMS BRIDGE CLUB Mrs. Leola Carter was hostess to the Slams Bridge Club Monday at her residence, J13 Elm Street, Northwest. Club prizes were won by Ella Mitchell, first; Juanita Conway, second; and Jessie Conway, third, while Miss Henrietta Taylor was awarded guest prize. Members attending were Mesdames Juanita and Jessie Conway, Leola Carter, Delmae Arthur, Bertha Mitchell, Marie Rose and Mabel Rose and Miss Ella Mitchell. The club was entertained by Miss Florence Nutt at her residence, 902 S Street, Northwest, Wednesday evening. Cards were played. Members attending were Mesdames M. Ricks, R. Green, E. Warren, M. Clark, E. Wilson and R. Johnson and Misses M. Ridgely and B. Smith. PANTHER WHIST CLUB Th Panther Whist Club defeated the Scoofer's Whist Club last Thursday night for the fourth consecutive time. Miss C. Merrweather, secretary, is receiving challenges for the club at her home, 1815 S Street, Northwst. CIMARRONS The Cimarron Whist Club held its weekly meeting Monday at the residence of Charles Richardson, 150 Rhode Island Avenue, Northwest. Plans for the club's whist tournament to be held in January were made. Members present were James Johnson, Arthur Forman, W. T. Brown, Charles Richardson, William Forman, Richard Cannady, Richard Love, Matthew Fazar, Harry Hall, Ellis Jackson and Carroll Smith. WHIFIPI WHIS TCLUB The Whifipi Whist Club defeated ASTERBULA CLUB JUSTAMERE CLUB KLUB LE PARADIS CIMARRONS The Christ-child born near two thousand years ago,— So, grateful; all we mortals should be No matter wherever a mortal may be Let all tongues of mankind and kin Voice "Peace on earth—good will toward men, Glory in the highest to him whose birth Nellie Phroneberger Davidson Business Opportunity Two LADIES to sell SMITH'S THREE-WAY STRAIGHTENING COMB and Smith's Hair Pomade. DR. AGNES J. SMITH 935 R St., N.W. Nor. 4017 HOPWOOD'S LURNITURE Cor. 8th & K Sts., N.W. 815 H St., N.E. HAWAIIAN Beauty Shop No. 2 1929 14th Street, N.W. North 6634 Hours: 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Super Service Guaranteed THE HAWAIIAN WAY BUILT ON MERIT Pillsbury This Perfect Flour Means B Economic 5 lbs. 17c 12 lb. l LIBBY'S TO Keep a supply will like it an appetizer or o quencher. Dromedary Made from s NOTES CAMPFIRE Cubes of fresh tasty. LANG'S the Maestro Whist Club, Thursday, December 15, at the residence of Louis Meredith, 1907 Fifteenth Street, Northwest, by a score of 72 points to 222. PERSONALS Miss Gladys Booker, of 221 N Street, Northwest, is ill at her home. Miss Booker has been tracing in Winston-Salem, N.C. Mrs. Grace Dumas left Monday night for Natchezz, Miss., where she joins her husband, Alexander Dumas. Mrs. Dumas was accom- Christmas FOOD SUGGESTIONS Finest Quality Turkeys ```markdown ``` Christmas FOOD SUGGESTIONS! Finest Quality Turkeys You'll soon be buying for your holiday dinner serve your every need—and at reasonable expecting you. You'll soon be buying for your holiday dinner and celebration and we are prepared to serve your every need—and at reasonable prices. Visit our nearest store—We are expecting you. Christmas Candies Assorted Chocolates... 5 lb. box 89¢ Ideally suited for home or gift—five pounds of pure chocolate-covered candies in a most attractive box. 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You'll like our fruit cakes: they are wonderfully good . . . made of only quality ingredients by expert bakers in our own modern-plant. Our name on a cake is your guarantee of perfect satisfaction. Jumbo Dark. 1-lb. 25¢; 5-lb. $1.25 Size Miss Marion Mannum, of Philadelphia, spent several days in the city with friends. Mrs. Eugene H. Smith (nee Julia Smith) is confined to her home, 1757 U Street, Northwest, as a result of illness. Miss Evelyn E. Walker of Baltimore, was guest of her cousin, Miss Edna Mae Hawkins, Friday, at her suburban residence in Deanwood. Miss Connie C. McIlwain will arrive Saturday from South Carolina to spend the holidays at her local home, 1714 Second Street, Northwest. Several Southern friends are expected to accompany her. Mrs. Lena W. Hall, of 617 U Street, Northwest, who left to visit friends in Illinois, will not return until after the holidays. GERY STORES INC Call Met. 4662 PECIALS Y'S CLOSING Softasilk Cake FLOUR You will like your Christmas Cake when baked with this improved cake flour. pkg. 22c E ator. You kfast as an as a thirst 3 cans 23c sauce fried berries. holiday meals.17-oz. cans 29c BLOWS Deliciously 1-lb. pkgs. 29c ES or add tang d sandwich 2 qt. jars 29c E best flavor— . A juice qt. 21c LIMES wonderfully impagne, it 6 bottles contents 67c gal. 23c meals. Keep will like its gal. 39c as Fruit Cakes don't seem like Christmas un- fruit cake. You'll like our fruit onderfully good . . . made of edients by expert bakers in plant. Our name on a cake of perfect satisfaction. ```markdown ``` ‘ES? NEWS OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL eee ener NS AT nt <a Diaaaa | CN gall Gs ae ae ga@gay : iri es Aarure roVeds-i ees ee ee ee ee a 2 ‘390° F.) 1 minute, or il golde: Some Suggestions on Ussitag, |trrrs, beat” Sire wi ta Sapte Garnish with parsley, ° lakes to 12 croquettes. Christmas Left-Overs Shepherd's Pie 4 tablespoons quick-cooking tap. By Cetende © Ruane 1 teaspoon salt 8 egg whites, stiffly beaten, ” ‘Add quick-cooking tapioca and salt to milk and stock, and cook in double bciler 15 minutes, or un- til tapioca is clear, stirring fre- quently. Cool, Add chicken and ege yolks, Fold in egg whites. Turn into greased baking dish. Place. pan of hot water, and bake in- moderate oven (350° F.) ‘Lhour, or until done, Serve at ou.2e-with creamed peas or a sauce. Serves: 8. ‘Turkey Croquettes 4 tablespoons quick-cooking tap- ioca 44 teaspoon salt 1% cups hot turkey or chicken stock 2 cups cooked turkey, finely chopped 1 egg, beaten with 8 tablespoons milk or stock, and % tea- spoon salt Sifted bread crumbs Add. quick-cooking tapioca and salt to stock, and Cook in double boiler 15 minutes, or until tapioca is clear and mixture thickened, stirring frequently. Add turkey and cook 5 minutes longer. Chill Shape into cones, Dip in egg, rol in crumbs and fry in deep’ fat The Educational Department & ICE CREAM CO. MANUFACTURERS OF MEADOW GOLD SMOOTH, FREEZE ICE CREAM AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS OF THE GARRY EDUCATIONAL BLOTTERS--WHICH HAVE BECOME NATIONALLY FAMOUS Announce Their Gift of : FOR THE BEST STORIES ABOUT THE LIVES OF THESE FAMOUS AMERICANS = Br) 7 =i Ct zi; . i“ tea Sim 0h ae : Stories of only 200 wee = longhand or type written, Get full sear ts a I: 0 psize D rae 10 prize | PRIZE | $3 teas ($3 feue ($2 “teas |$2 Fare. Write a story of not more than To have eres entered in Your story must be mailed not 200 Teerds abowt one of the four {| thir comtent"you mast Muy spit || later than mid-night, January aist, Write a story of not more than 200 words about one of the four famous Patriots whose pictures ap- pear on this page. ‘When you select the Patriot you are going to write about, write [; his or her name at the top of your “paper and then write your story. Be sure to sia your name aind ad- [- dress plainly at the end of your F story. ENDORSED BY PHYLLIS WHEATLEY Y.W.C.A. 9th and Rhode Island Ave., NW. ~ NOTICE: 2 es Sy —————————— EE “What can we have that will use up the left-overs attractively, and -clieve the strain on both the bills ond our d‘. gestion?” think thoa- nds of homemakers the first few ‘ays: after Christmas. Good main lishes’ which: are. nourishing but sot heavy are much in demand. Chicken souffle, turkey croquet- ‘es, shepherd's pie, or escalloped Aish or meat just fit this need. They took, and taste, like special treats, retcthey are easy to make, when nade by ‘these four recipes. A ‘mall quantity. ef quick-cooking ‘apfoca keens the souffle from fall- ng} gives just the right firmness ‘n ‘these croquettes, and insures ood results for the other two ‘ishes, as well. Tapioca, you know, * one of the most useful and sur- sising ingredients in the whole pantry parade. Chicken Souflle 8 tablespoons quick-cooking tap- ioca 4 teaspoon salt. 1 eun milk, scalded 1 cup hot chicken stock, or 1 eup boiling water and 2 bouillon cubes (chicken flavor) 1 cup cooked chicken, finely ~. chopped 3 egg yolks, beaten until thick and lemon-color ENDORSED BY WASHINGTON TRIBUNE 920 U Street, N.W. ; on it. i (390° F.) 1 minute, or until golden. brown. Drain. Serve with tart red. jelly. Garnish with. parsley, Makes 10 to 12 croquettes. Shepherd's Pie 4 tablespoons quick-cooking tap- 1 te Ke lt easpoon sa ¥% teaspoo. paprika ‘Ys teaspoon pepper 1% cups hot water 1 cup hot gravy or meat stock 1 onion, finely chopped 1 tablespcon parsley, chopped 1 tablespoon ketchup, or 2 tea- spoons Worcestershire sauce 2 cups covked meat, diced 2 os meshed potatoes, season- Add quick-cooking tapioca, salt, paprika, and pepper to water, and gravy. Cook in double hoiler 15 minutes, or until tapioca is clear, stirring’ frequently. Add onion, parsley, ketchup, and meat. Mix well. Pour into greased. baking dish, spread potatoes over top, and bake in moderate oven (350° F:) 20 minutes or until potatoes are brown. Serves 6. | Esealloped Fish’ or Meat 3 tablespoons quick-cooking tap- joca + * 3% teaspoon. salt 1-16 teaspoon pepper - 1-% cups milk, scalded™ 1 cup cooked fich or meat coarsely cut Legg yolk, slightly beaten 1 egg white, stiffly beaten 4 tablespoons cracker crumbs 2 tablespoons butter ‘Add quick-cooking tapioca, salt and pepper to milk, and cook ir THE WASHINGTON TRIBUNE, DECEMBER 23, 1952 double oiler 10 minutes, stirring * + frequently. Add fish or meat and Relish, P udding cook 5 minutes longer. Fold egg Scik into ege white end combine) Croquettes Are with fee a Pour oe Ss a used ish, cover. wi Pitter Ronn dot with butter uggeste ‘and bake in moderate oven (350° ¥) 40 minutes, or until brown. eae Satke ROE ene a: Although the main Christm | eee dinner dishes seldom vary, mode cooks constantly seek surprise 1 HOUSEHOLD HINTS — [Since co that this dinner of di A way to test the quality of cof- fee is to put.a spoonful in'a gas of cold water and add a few drops cof lemon juice. If the coffee is pure it will remain on top of the water; if not, the water will be- come brown in color. To enrich the earth’ around plants, water them with a solution consisting of 150 grains of glue to two gallons of water, To renovate a soiled couch ham. mock try painting it any desired color. The canvas will take the paint_very well. Two coats are senerally needed. Potatoes bake more quickly. if placed on the broiler instead of the floor of the gas oven and the flavor will be much improved by quick baking. EAS eed By NINA TEMPLE ~The Dry Brush Wash Take a daily dry brush wash. Just take a medium stiff bath brush and go over the body. This loosen’ and removes the dry skin and causes a rush of new blood to the surface, making the skin soft and smooth like satin. Your story must be maiieo nov later than mid-night, January 31st, 1933. No story will be considered after that" date. Prizes: will be awarded Friday, February 3rd. You may send in as many stories as you want to, but each story must be sent in a separate envelope and most include the side of a pint aarton of GARRY'S. MEADOW LD ICE SREAM. ; Y decision of winners will piptee’ o4 FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD ALMOST TO YOUR VERY DOOR LOWEST CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY FARES < re na REDUCTION: REDUCTION TO THE SOUTH KC 384 % TEAR GA ennien-neecnseae yaaa We ais soe iee as fenaee SSSR a0 oe OE RR Ritayndie pews co2sssssi1200 dae iis Fier a Be att aM toa, ans | Te, ogee Perse ier ri.age prsge meme Oene ROUND TRIP PULLMAN BATES 25% REDUCTION Pe Eee ee — . ec eRe. SC mee ‘Telephones, Setlons! 116% 1468 os i860, SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM Relish, Pudding Croquettes Are Suggested Although the main Christmas dinner dishes seldom vary, modern cooks constantly seek surprise re- cipes so that this dinner of din- ners will have a novelty or two. Follow one or more ofthe sugges- tions given below and see how pleased your family and guests will be: Have you made a holiday: supply of candied orange and lemon peel? This candied peel is an expensive confection which uses citrus fruit rinds that would otherwise be dis- carded, . » It is = delicious accompaniment for tea or similar service at any time of the year but it is especial- ly useful now, since it may be used to lend flavor to fruit cakes, plum puddings, Christmas cakes and cookies of all kinds. Strips of the candied peel may be used to deco- rte Christmas cookies. The can- died peel is also a delightful addi- tion to Christmas gift boxes and baskets. Candied Orange or Lemon Peel Remove peel from 3 oranges (or 4 lemons) in quarters. (The meat of the fruit is, of course used for fruit cups, salads, desserts and beverages,” which’ aro especially needed to balance the Meartiex types of foods served at this sea- son of the year.) Cover peel with water to which 1 teaspoon salt has been added, Boil 30 minutes. Drain, Boil. in fresh water until tender, about. % hour longer. Drain, Bring 1 ew sugar and. %4 cup water to. boil Add peel, Boil gently until syrup is nearly abgorbed, Drain, Roll in sugar. Cut with scissors into strips for serving or into tiny: bits for cooking purposes. For variation roll peel in colored sugar. Or tint’ peel with red or green vegetable coloring added to syrup in final boiling, A little cin- namon, clove or ginger may be added to syrup to vary flavor, Add as whole spices tied in cloth, to prevent darkening in the color of the peel. Another variation is to coat the strips of candied peel with melted. dipping chocolate. Christmas Relish, ‘(Salad or Relish) 6 whole cloves 1 pint boiling water 1 package lemon-flavored gelatin \% teaspoon salt % cup vinegar from sweet pickles. 12 maraschino cherries, sliced 6 sweet pickles, sliced. Boil cloves in water 3 minutes. Strain. Dissolve gelatin in 1% cups of this liquid. Add salt, and vinegar. Chill. When slightly Ghickened, fold in cherries and eo adsee Tush. soko? inataaeal “T always enjoy shopping in my Neighborhood ASCO Store,” said Mrs. Jones to her friend recently, “there is always such a wonderful display of Merchandise, I often wonder where it all comes from.” This conversation brought up the subject of the far-reaching advant~ ages of ASCO Service, and for the information of our tenders. who have often thought of this same question, the Merchandise which is xo attractively displayed on. the shelves of your Neighborhood ASCO Store may be brought to zou from, the, othey: side of the ‘orld. The next time you go out, stop in your nearby ASCO Store, and look at the fascinating dis- play. There are more than four- teen hundred items--and each one has been selected for you, with your individual needs jn mind. The Busy Homekesper, who has so many demands on her time, finds her Nearby ASCO Store a great convenience. And she can consistently save money, too. ASCO Producer to Consumer Plan of foc and the taking of but one small profit, means money saved for our good friends, ‘With the facilities that ASCO Service offers, every Housewife, even of moderate means, can draw upon the Products of all the World for her own jin use. Foods, Table Needs, luce, Meats, ete. in luxurious and endless variety may be selected in her Nearby ASCO Store just Around the Cor- ner, * Take Coffee and Tea—used in al- most every American Home. We Coffee comes from South America, and your favorite Tea. may, come from India, Ceylon, Java, Formosa, China or Japan. California's sunny climate gives import direct from the growers. the delightful flavors to-the citrus SEVEN $100 IN GASH PRIZES GIVEN BY CARRY ICE CREAM [Aierrcrd\) For Satisfaction i Buy Christmas Poultry Where Quality Counts —, Fancy sla, y i ores A \, Fresh Killed aS) TURKEYS TE RAR p ak. ‘i ak? \ » 21e NRSC Finest Quality Tender Young Birds Fresh-Killed st Fancy Fresh-Killed Roasting ewing Roasting ». 21 || chickes “2LC (4 to 5 Ibs) (4 to 5 Tbs) te Spring Geese >. 19¢ : {i2t, Ducklings "19¢ Satisfaction guaranteed z Selected Chuck Roast... .... 1 Small Lean Fresh Hams... .,. . th 25 Pork Loin Roast Getceraes Shoulder Lamb Roast. .......:.: pbc canes cheeses Tender Round Steak... ....:.cu-1.. Ib 23e Savory Sirloin Steak, beeen ope eee Delicious Porterhouse Steak ......-..1:-. Ib Sle Freshly Ground Beef... .. ....-.-.-..-... tb 15¢ oi Sa eer ae alae Standard Oysters | Select Oysters Pt. 25¢ Ot. 45c | Pt. 30¢ Qt. 60e Our Stores will be closed Monday, Dec, 26th |p | Open late Friday and Saturday Nights. We use Fresh Dggs Fifty-Two ‘Weeks in the Year in. «+ Hom-de-Lite ive 8 ott 1 om 5 Mayonnaise is’ OC. 's" 3c: #25¢ ASCO Sandwich Spread ae 8c Products of our own kitchens Bell's» Poultry Seasoning...........Dkg. 10¢ Marjoram, Sage, Thyme.........+-Dkg. Be Glenwood Fruit Preserves......52-ou jar 25e S00 Choice Peaches..........2 big cans 25¢ California ‘Seedless Raisins......2 pkgs. 15¢ California Seeded Raisins......++..Dkg. 10e Fancy Glace Citron. .....0+ «+a so e+ lB. 296 Glace Orange or Lemon Peel........ «1b. 2%¢ New Imported Currants.....-...+ pkg. 10¢ 4800 Whole or Ground Spices.can or pkg. ibe A500 Findit | Glenwood. 5 | Mince Meat '” 15 Ganberry Jelly #99- Lor ali a tener ee Glenwood Apple Sauce.....,++-+-3 one ASCO Sauer Kraut ......eee++-++2 canh 150 wad Fancy Sugar Corn.....5-++.. Gam 10¢ Solid Pack Tomatocs.. 3 med, cans 25¢ ASCO Tiny Sifted Peas...........3 cans 50e Farmdale Sifted Peas .... ...++-2 cans 25¢ Farmdale Lima Beans...........-2 cans 25¢ ASCO Oliv Stuffed it-ov. bot 19¢ : ives Plain 11-07. bot 17e sO) Gelsiney tT % | Jello 2 15¢ Desserts 2! 13¢ Supreme Fruit Cake zn. 89c Holiday Assorted Chocolates... .5-Ib. box 79¢ Patsy Ann Assorted Chocolates .5-Ib. box $1.49 Fireside Assorted Chocolates.....lb. box 39¢ Mixed Hard Candy...ssssesesesese elds 150 Famous Mixed Candy....+++++++++0db. 19¢ Chocolate Drops ...+seeeecee++++ Dkg, 10¢ Be sure to have plenty of Bread for Poultry Fillng Bread = 915.» 15 {Victor 45 ‘ | va careeieee C\Bread =~ IC Keops sweet and fresh, | ‘The economy loaf. R &R or Atmore’s Plum Puddings. .Ib. can 27¢ VanDyk’s Pitted Dates.........+-Dkg 15¢ Calimyra Layer Figs...........2 pkgs. 19¢ California»Budded Walnuts..........1b. 25¢ J Large Washed Brazil Nuts...........lb. 17e ° Paper Shell Almonds.........+.+.++-lb. 19e Choice Mixed Nuts..........+«+.-2 Ibs. 85¢ of | Nationally advertised ‘Bie the lhe Saved > | 7 i 2 ay 4SC0 Coffee i Big. Educational Contest features 4 Famous Colored Americans ‘Tie Camry Tce. Cream Company, mnakers of Meadow Gold Tee Cream, io earting a big educational pris contest this week. Carry's is iv- {ne away £100 in cash prizes for the ‘eight best stories about the four — great. Americans — Phyllis Wheatley, Benjamin Banneker Frederick Douglass, and Paul Laur: ence Dunbar, Garry's is sage the spon- soring of educational movements {n Washington. Tt is the belief of the management that this contest will be an inspiration to many to Study and refresh themselves about the ‘achievements of these fous great American Negroes. Ttules of Contest This contest is open. to every: body, regardless to age or educa tion,’ All you have todo is to send in the side of a pint carton with ‘every letter, Letters may be writ- fon about cach or all of the four colored Americans named above. I Would be wise to read the rules of the contest eltewhere on this pag and start writing your 200-wore story now. molds, filling them % full. Chill until firm. Unmold, . Serve with fowl or ham. Makes 12 half-molds, Holiday Fruit Pudding % pound prunes 1 inch stick cimamon 6 whole cloves 1 package quick setting gelatin dessert (lemon flavor) 1 cup hot prune juice % to % cup brown sugar % cup orange juice 2 tablespoons jemon juice % cup seeded raisins % cup sliced citron 44 cup shredded almonds Soak prunes in enough water to cover, Add cinnamon and cloves and cook slowly:in same water un- Lil soft, Remove pits and chop prunes, Measure 1 cup prune juice, heat to boiling. Dissolve quick-setting gelatin in prune juice. Add sugar and orange and lemon juice. Chill until. mix- ture begins to thicken, then add chopped pruties ‘and remaining tn. gredients. Chill in pudding mould ‘until them. Serve. with icp cream sauce, flavored with grated orange rind. Serves 8 to 10, ft which we all need and use Tapioca, ‘enjoyed by millions of opletravels thourands of tiles ore. it ean be placed on your lable-—from the West Indies, South America, Java, Malay Pen- insula or Florida, Great canning industries are. lo- eaten in Alaska, where Salmon is caught and canned. Sea-going bouts, stocked for a month, put oul of San Diego or San Piedro to ¢atch the World's greatest wander- ers, the Tuna Fish. Peanuts, eaten and enjoyed by oung and old, are grown in Ala- Hama; Georgia, ‘Texas, Carolinas, Florida, Virginia, Africa, Spain, China, Japan and Java. ‘Of interest to all readers is the {act that the America Stores Com- Pany in making Homvde-Lite May- onnaise, uses fresh ¢ggs fifty-two weeks jn the year. Ik takes the rich cream from ten quarts of sweet milk to make one pound of Louella Butter, one of the prided products of The American Stores Company. Louella Butter ‘wins first place in Statewide con- tests, proving that it is The Finest ‘Butter in America, Nine Large Bakeries are needed to supply you with Bread, etc. ‘They. are located in. Philadelphia, Camden, Harrisburg, Wilkes-Bar- re, Baltimore, Washington, Johns- town and Syracuse. The equip- ‘ment is the very newest, and the Bakeries are modern in evéry re- spect. - A cordial invitation is extended to every reader. of this paper-to stop in your Neighborhood ASCO. Store and look at the Merchandise offered for your selection, Many worthwhile values are arranged for our readers weekly, and you can alway be eure of, receiving Quality at 2 Saving, which means much to a well-regulated home. Grilune: : :| timc FRIDAY, SATURDAY AND MONDAY ONLY! IWRC RDcod low Pricea on |\hnistmaa Menchandine /t To:make the most of your last minute shopping, buy from these merchan [es Your Xmas PHILCO at Miller’s f COT ag A! ies 8 8 = aNDonLy *] a weex. ( Sc fo PHILCO’S oe aN | & Las Rawest- Medel 7 aa WAG UN MY ee ; $ 75 a wee 1 oe WE 185; Oo , Be ee: mee = — plete with Tubes. 3 % PHILCO’S NEW MODEL 71X [ircwsmacmwanrsicwsmaia § . eager agp tr almamen wil cal ad expan thee prt ff Pigs toemdaginnie > os apunmas bi oS : wa, E. MILLER FURNITURE Co. ; ey & E Sts. S. W. Sth & Pa. Ave. S. E. § NAtional 8070 ATlantic 6061 nal Da AS DR SD" AS-D 5 DD SDD AF DD nF BS DD eS Dh os DD OSSD BF. 2S DD ESD | BRIGHT | 9@ DRESS | | J EAN S SHOP | 706 7th Street, N. W. THEY'RE MOVING FAST A : FUR TRIMMED | 3K) | DRESS = SPORT ge, /ae mee s Q: | [ee ee Lal ee : Je He can : EVENING DRESSES , Wh Ae AL aL Nat) a= SLIPS Oy Safi soses msn’ OA THE WASHINGTON TRIBUNE, DECEMBER 23, 1932: WILL GIVE DEV CHASER L a N 9 Ss 804 7th St. N.W. eee Ts Just a Matter of Hours Now to Christmas! YOU STILL HAVE TIME TO SHOP THE LAN’S WAY... QUALITY FIRST! MILLINERY and SHOES featuring HAT ear Scarf ie $Y .98 and ae Pocket- sual! SPECIAL Book 4 a x Pre- Christmas SETS ¢c rm Price The Ideal se | OR Christmas Jn Brows and ——— i /) ‘ New Metallic ae ~ : AMSizes FELT AND a ma en SATIN. $0 as ee H ATS Shades Visit Our CHILDREN’S SHOE DEPARTMENT eg Stie eE, we, 1 i TEND B And OTHER NEW. MERCHANDISE Tre IL, CLOTHING JBE House § as wi Ye iene Ce crs Tuxedo Shirts $1:95 $12.50 4S ona Novelty ~ PAJAMAS (ae) x 95 \ ou We SU} eS \ xy J] TS gr HART 50, y amd MangeneR A | we SG Ang on PARK | ¥ TS) oe CER, ask iene oo eae \ Fj en, Lollywood ean Saiveyota| SUITS, CVERUOATS | eee SS eel? Roos wens Wl qopcoas (2 ZF Ferree Tee ona ela echo to the Person Making the:Second Largest $5 Purchase Before 10; P.M., December 23, Buy Now and Get' $15. Cash for.Christmas FOR CHRISTMAS a giaa$ 1 a” FULL LINE" OF PHILCO HOUSE SETS Motorola * PHILCO ANT LISTEN IN: score once Presenting Hartwell Cook and, His Casino Orchestra Md rl te es LVN AUTO € RADIO CO. 1706 Seventh St.N.W. ee eee COLQRED DOLLS They Cry and in 9 = Go To Sleep @ we: by ‘gs2 gm Beautifully: dressed in col- fe eae | ors, and have very lovely {. _ — cris, Make your little “Soy 0 9) oe Sie taehabau | ; ) ; ns REID'S Corner =F i ; ' 1ith & U Streets, N. W. Washington, D. C. BUY TODAY AND GET $15.00 IN CASH SEE ABOVE OFFER BEST NEWS OF THE NATION'S CAPITA'. gee om te el \ Over the River] Anacostia, D. C. to Lower Prices Bie ee Zhe Give A--- f \ CROSLEY J For Christmas The Junior $ ] 9.99 Complete TAX PAID ot, SUHEEDE: Swi saoebleaes fo comely helasced Dial | ike cabinet i ueauticany fc | | ished in Adam Brown, ; ey The Fiver yi, LOWBOY a $99.99 2 Complete. Yi TAX PAID i 5-Tube’ Superheterodyne in a tullsize cabinet, the latest: de- | velopment in compactness of shassis, It's a marvel at bring: ng in stations. EASY. TERMS THOMPSON BROS. FURNITURE ViSIT,, OUR TOYLAND ‘TODAY! Stovet—Floor Coverings—Radios rs cctaa’"“A NACOSTIA TWO CHILDREN FATALLY BURNED DURING LIQUOR PARTY SECOND SECTION MEN, WOMEN FLEE FIRE, LEAVING TWO SMALL CHILDREN Mary Contee, Bertha Robinson and Thomas Wright Held for Jury During a drinking orgy in an apartment at 1928 Fourteenth Street, Northwest, Sunday, two small children were fatally burned before they could be rescued from their bed by the revellers. The dead children are Dorothy Summerville, 5, and Gerald Sharp, 2. Both died at Children's Hospital on Monday as a result of universal burns. Their small bodies were burned beyond recognition Thomas Wright, 28, 2028. Thirteenth Street; Mary Alice Contee, 21, 1336 T Street; and Bertha Robinson, of the Fourteenth Street apartment, were held for the action of the grand jury following an inquest at the District Morgue Wednesday morning. Miss Robinson was held as an assessory and material witness. According to testimony of participants at the party Miss Contee and Wright were fighting when the girl is alleged to have knocked an oil stove in the room over during the altercation. Oil immediately set fire to the room and all of the occupants fled, leaving the children and Mrs. Jennie Summerville, aged woman, sick in bed. Children Placed in Snow Miss Robinson said she returned and helped the ill woman from the burning room and later came back for the children. With the aid of a man whose name was said to be Hall, the children were carried out into the street and placed in the snow. They were later taken to the hospital. Miss Robinson also testified before a coroner's jury that Miss Contee came into the kitchen and asked for a pint of liquor. An argument ensued and Miss Robinson said she knocked the Contee woman down. Miss Contee is said to have run from the kitchen into the bedroom and fell against the stove knocking it over. Andy Johnson, 1352 Wallach Street, stated that he was in the room with the children and sick woman when Miss Contee came in screaming. She fell on the floor and Wright went to her. Johnson said he did not know whether Wright and the girl were fighting on the floor or whether he was trying to assist her to her feet. During the melee the stove was overturned. Detective Sergeant Walter S. Beck, of the homicide squad who investigated the case, said the and he had learned that Wright apartment was a "liquor joint," and Miss Contee had been fighting prior to the fire. Sergeant Beck said Wright asked to take the blame for the affair in order to protect the woman. Ill Woman Guardian The ill woman was said to be guardian of the two children. The boy's mother and father are living in Washington. The parentage of the girl is unknown, police said. Others at the party to be summoned were James Martin, a room at the apartment; Mrs. Earl Idella Hamilton, 1833 Fourteenth Street; and Carrie Morrison, 1928 Fourteenth Street. Firemen quickly extinguished the blaze in the room before any considerable damage was done. All-Day Exercises at Vermont Avenue Church to Benefit Missionaries A foreign mission mass meeting and Christmas tree exercises will be held at the Vermont Avenue Baptist Church, Monday, under the auspices of the foreign mission committee of the National Baptist Convention and the local Baptist Ministers' Conference. The program will start at 11 a.m., and continue until 5 p.m. Miss Nannie H. Burroughs, Dr. J. E. East, secretary of the Foreign Mission Board; the Rev. Earl L. Harrison, Dr. B. B. Kooker, Dr. J. H Randolph, Dr. Samuel J. Porter, Mrs. D. E. Clark, and the Rev. W. H. Brooks will speak at the morning session. At the late session beginning at 8 p.m., Dr. East will give an exhibition of the work being done in Africa and the tree exercises will take place. The Rev. E. C. Smith and the Rev. W. H. Jernagin are heading the committee in charge of the affair. IF YOUR BOY WANTS NICE, " CLEAN PROFITABLE WORK. HAVE HIM SELL THE TRIBUNE 3,889 Students Report Shows Three High Schools are Overtaxed By 589 Students The three colored high schools in the District show a total enrollment of 3,885 as of November 1, according to a report made to the board of education, Wednesday. The report also revealed that the capacity of the three schools is 3,300, which makes a total of 589 above the number that the schools were built to accommodate. Armstrong has an enrollment of 1,559, with a capacity of 1,250. This school has shown a steady growth since 1920, when the enrollment was 300. The pupils at Dunbar numbered 1,676, with a capacity of 1,400. In 1920 Dunbar had an enrollment of 1,200. Cardozo is the least overtaxed of the three schools, with 664 pupils, while the school's capacity is 650. The total enrollment in the junior high schools was 4,835, with a capacity of 5,170. The latter schools are under capacity by 235. PLAYLET FEATURES XMAS PROGRAM AT VOCATION'L SCHOOL PLAYLET FEATURES XMAS PROGRAM AT VOCATION'L SCHOOL Annual Exhibition of Work Also Held at Washington School This Week The annual Christmas program and exhibition of the Margaret Murray Washington Vocational School held Tuesday night at the school was featured by a playlet, "Dame Fashion," presented by the students of Section D44. Mrs. P. R. Bentley is section teacher. The playlet was given in two parts, the second, part including a candlelight procession. Juanita Williams read a "Christmas Carol" by Samuel T. Coleridge. Christmas carols were sung by the children and audience. Special exhibits of the work done during the year and demonstrations were given in each classroom. Dresses, aprons, coats, millinery, novelty decorations and many other articles were on exhibition. Participants in the playlet included Evelyn Ayers, Daisy Griggs, Anne Posey, Margaret Hagar, Lavanda Johnson, Bernice Johnson, Geraldine Primrose, Arbutus Dowery, Virginia Marshall, Alice Brown, Mary Pindell, Rosemary Newman, Lucille Jackson, Beulah Austin, Laura Robinson, Irya Jones, Inez Bostic, Lena Adams, and Mary Cooper. TONER STUDENTS PRESENT TWO XMAS PLAYLETS Two playlets, "Scrooge and the Christmas Fairy," given by pupils of grades 3-6, and "On Christmas Eve," presented by grades 5-8, featured the annual Christmas program given at the Toner School for tuberculous children, on Tuesday morning. School officials, members of the board of education and parents attended the exercises. Another feature of the program was the playing of several songs on a self-constructed musical water bottle instrument by Corrine Pollard, who also opened the exercises with a welcome address. The school orchestra which used specially arranged musical notes and instruments of its own rendered "Pizzicato" and "Valse Bleue." Mrs. H. M. McDuffie, principal of the school, was in charge of the program. Community Aid Group to Hear Charity Lecture The Rev, E. L. Harrison, pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church, will lecture to the community aid organization at the church, Tuesday night, on how they can best serve and aid the poor and needy. Mrs. Julia West Hamilton will also give a short talk. "The Ten Virgins." a Biblical play, will be presented on the same night. The Junior Boys' Club will also take part in the program. THREE TEACHERS TO RETIRE FROM PUBLIC SCHOOLS THREE TEACHERS TO RETIRE FROM PUBLIC SCHOOLS Total Service of Three, Who Leave Dec. 30 Equals 110 Years Three teachers with a total service of 110 years will be retired from the District public schools on December 31, according to a report made to the board of education, Wednesday, at Franklin Administration Building. Miss H. H. Beason, a teacher at Briggs-Montgomery School, will retire next Saturday. She was appointed September 26, 1883, and has a record of 49 years in public service. Miss V. A. Jones, teacher at Cleveland-Morse School, entered the service September 1, 1891, and has been in the service for 41 years Miss H. S. Brown, teacher at Garnet-Patterson Junior High School, has taught continuously since July 1, 1902. She has a record of 30 years. Miss Brown retired on account of personal illness. A report of the death of Mrs. Lillian L. Dodson, assistant to the director of art in elementary schools, was made to the board. Mrs. Dodson died December 12, and her funeral was held on last Thursday from Third Baptist Church. Mrs. Dodson lived at 201 Elm Street, Northwest, and had been in the service for 15 years. The appointment of Mrs. M. C. Taylor as attendance officer was approved by the board. The retirement of E. W. Crump engineer at Miner Teachers' College, was approved as of November 30, this year. HOWARD U. AND FREEDMEN'S IN REORGANIZATION President Hoover Groups Them Under "Education and Health" Division and Health Division (CNS)—President Hoover on December 9 sent a special message to Congress in which he presented for its approval plans for the reorganization of the executive and administrative agencies of the Federal Government. Under the provisions of the act of Congress providing for the reorganizations of the executive departments, these orders will lie before that body for 60 calendar days and then become effective unless in the meantime adverse action is taken. Under the head of "Education and Health," President Hoover reported that he had established a Division of Education, Health, and Recreation in the Department of the Interior and had designated that one of the assistant secretaries shall be called Assistant Secretary of Interior for Education, Health, and Recreation, and had transferred to that division several different officers and institutions, including Howard University and Freedmen's Hospital. Department of Commerce Specialist Speaks to Insurance Men James A. Jackson, Department of Commerce specialist, was the guest speaker at the weekly luncheon meeting of the Insurance Managers' Association at the Whitelaw Hotel, Tuesday. Attention was directed to the great service which insurance companies have been able to render to the thousand of policyholders through the medium of policy loans, matured endowments, sick benefits and other payments to policyholders, thus preventing much suffering as well as saving many homes from foreclosure. The speaker commended the insurance representatives for the manner in which the business has been conducted through the period since 1929. Optimism was the keynote of the speaker's expression. The meeting was presided over by John E. Hall, Southern Aid Society, president, while Chas. H. Fearing, North Carolina Mutual Life, as monthly chairman, introduced the speaker. Other association members present were Leroy Thornton, Victory Life; Simeon Cunningham, Federal Life; Tecumseh Bradshaw, Wm. H. Fearonce and Henry I. Polk, National Benefit Life. Washington Tribune WASHINGTON, D.C., DECEMBER 23, 1932 Demand from Poor Greater Than Ever, Says Captain Key. Company Receives Awards for Having Most Beautiful Float in Parade Garnet - Patterson Students Rally to Aid Poor and Needy Garnet - Patterson Students Rally to Aid Poor and Needy Individual Contributions by Pupils Provide Several Tons of Clothing and Food for Distribu- Members of No. 4 Engine Company will play Santa Claus to 50 families Saturday when that number of baskets will be distributed to needy families in Southwest Washington. Captain J. G. B. Key, of the firefighters, will have supervision of the distribution. The men under his command raised practically the entire amount with which to purchase the baskets. The No. 4 Company is a member of the local association of fremen, but this organization only contributed about four baskets to each company in the District. Added relief has to be raised by the men. Demand Greater This Year Captain Key said the requests from poor people has been greater this year than ever before. The men made unusual sacrifices to meet this demand. Each basket will contain a chicken, a ham, a 12-pound sack of flour, fruit and vegetables. Due to the large number to be taken care of and the added financial burdens which have to be placed on the men this year, candy and nuts have been eliminated from the baskets. Chief Engineer George S. Wat Cognizant of the fact that hundreds of persons are desperately in need of aid this year, the students of the Garnet-Patterson Junior High School didn't forget the poor and needy while celebrating the Yuletide season at the school this week. With a desire to provide the less fortunate children of Washington with a happy and joyous Christmas, the entire student body of the school, individually, contributed articles of every kind to the huge collection of clothes and foodstuffs to be given to the poor. As preparations for the distribution of the collection was being mapped out yesterday by the principal, W. L. Savoy, the stage of the school where the contributions were deposited represented a veritable "Santa Claus's warehouse." Among this vast collection were several hundred pairs of shoes, coats, caps, dresses, stockings, ties, sacks of coal—obtained through several small contributions by individual students—foodstuffs, including sugar, potatoes, apples and canned goods of every kind, and of course, dolls and toys. This marks the third annual Christmas rally of the Garnet-Patterson pupils and faculty. Distributed by Groups After distributing some of the collections to the needy pupils in the school, the remainder of the contributions will be sent to five charity organizations in the city for distribution to the District's Former Washington Girl to Sing in Germany Capital News Service NEW YORK—Miss Sylvia Garner, formerly of Washington, daughter of the Rev. A. C. Garner, pastor of Grace Congregational Church, West 139th Street, has recently signed a contract to sing in Berlin Germany. Miss Garner, who left New York several months ago with a company of specially chosen performers booked to appear in the cancelled film, "Black and White," under the auspices of the Soviet Government of Russia, has been making tour of Europe en route back to the States, and two days after arriving in Berlin on November 18, was given a contract to sing at the "Vanities" Theatre there. Her performances in the "Vanities" will run for the entire month of December, after which time another contrast calls for appearances at different theatres in Germany, singing Negro Spirituals and folk songs in a plantation setting, during the months of January and February, 1983. While in Moscow, Russia, Miss Garner took up an intensive study of voice for eight weeks, and after being enthusiastically received in that city she toured the U.S.S.R. with signal success. son, of the District fire department presented the company with the Charlotte Randall silver traphy recently. This award was made by Mrs. Randall, a local white woman, to the company having the most beautiful float in the annual Firemen's and Policemen's Labor Day parade. The presentation was made at the fire house. Chief Watson praised the company and said that the entire department was proud of the record made by No. 4. Other officials accompanying the chief were Chief Pierce, executive officer of the fire department; and Battalion Chiefs P. J. Sullivan and A. C. Buscher. Captain Key accepted the award on behalf of his command. Members of the company were presented the Board of Trade trophy on Monday and a $50 cash prize which went with the award. This trophy, a silver cup, was also given for having the most beautiful float in the parade. The District officials made the awards this year at individual company houses instead of holding joint ceremonies at the Washington auditorium. This was done, it was said, to economize. needy. The organizations to whom the contributions will be sent are the Associated Charities, Rhode Island Avenue Branch; the Harriet Tubman Home for the Blind, the Southeast House, the Mother-Child Center of Southwest, and the Relief Association of the Shiloh Baptist Church. A community Christmas tree, electrically lighted, stands on the balcony of the school located at Vermont Avenue and U Street. This tree was decorated by the students' contributions and will be lighted throughout the Yuletide season. At the school, yesterday, several sections were given a Christmas party featured by an especially prepared turkey dinner. In order that all the students would have a taste of turkey for Christmas, the school sold a "depression turkey dinner" for five cents at the regular lunch hour. In the afternoon, Christmas carols were sung in four languages—English, Latin, French and Spanish. A Christmas post office was also maintained at the school. A Christmas play, "Riches in Poverty," written by Mrs. Mary Delaney Evans, English teacher, was presented at the school Wednesday. The play, which depicted the manner in which everyone could enjoy the Yuletide season regardless of the depression, and the carols will be repeated at a meeting of the Parent-Teacher Association, January 12. Another of Booker T.'s Associates Dies Capital News Service Telegramatic despatches reaching Washington this week advise of the death at the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, on Tuesday evening, December 13, of Mrs. Susan Washington, widow of the late John H. Washington, who was from almost the foundation of the Tuskegee Institute his brother's loyal and devoted assistant, being general superintendent of industries. Mr. Washington died several years ago leaving a wife and seven children. The late Mrs. Washington was one of the most helpful influences in the life of the Tuskegee Institute community, sharing with her husband the aspiration and achievements of the founder, the late Booker T. Washington. With her death practically all of the older teachers and others associated with the founder in the early beginnings of Tuskegee Institute have died. Mrs. Washington was beloved by the community and throughout a period of nearly 50 years was in touch with the general life of the community. Modest, self-effacing she nevertheless wielded a potent influence in hr home and in the community. OUR READERS ARE ASKED TO PATRONIZE THE ADVERTISERS IN YOUR PAPER DePriest Visits Government Printing Office Congressman Oscar DePriest, accompanied by his secretary, Morris Lewis, visited the Government Printing Office Tuesday. They were personally conducted through the plant by Martin R. Steelman. Mr. DePriest expressed himself as being surprised at the magnitude of the work done there. WOMAN FALLS THREE STORIES EVADING INTRUDER WOMAN FALLS THREE STORIES EVADING INTRUDER The attempts of an allegedly drunken housebreaker to enter a woman's apartment at 318 New York Avenue, Northwest, early this week, resulted in the woman, Mrs. Essie Ward, 34, Sunday school teacher at Mount Carmel Baptist Church, being confined to the hospital suffering with severe body bruises. The housebreaker, Joseph Harris, 22, 1032 Fourth Street, Northwest, whom police said, was under the influence of intoxicating liquor, was arrested and fined $10 on a drunk charge. Broke Glass Window According to the report, the woman in company with Marion Wrench, of the same address, was in her apartment when the sound of someone moving was heard coming from the fire escape. When the intruder tried unsuccessfully to enter the apartment by opening the window, he broke the glass window. Mrs. Ward became frightened at the breaking of the glass and ran to the kitchen window where she attempted to lower herself, but slipped and fell three stories to the ground. She was removed to the hospital where physicians said her condition was serious. Burning of Body of Negro in Virginia Classed as Lynching The burning of the body of Shadrock Thompson, a Negro suspect, in Fauquier County, Virginia some months ago is to be included in the list of lynchings for 1932 soon to be released by the research department of Tuskegee Institute. A few weeks ago proud Virginians started a movement to have the burning of the body of Thompson excluded from the lynching statistics of the year. Tuskegee Institute which has collected, tabulated and published such statistics for many years was appealed to, but after a careful scrutiny of all the known facts has classified it as a lynching and will include it in its compilation of lynchings for 1932 to be published January 1. Stories to the effect that the man Shadrock Thompson accused of attacking a white farmer and his wife in July, had been hanged by a posse gained so much credence that the case was laid before the grand jury who held the suspect had committed suicide and that they were unable to affix blame for the burning of his body. This verdict, however, failed to quiet and "hush up" the case as hundreds of citizens admitted freely taking part in the ghastly midnight scene on Rattlesnake Mountain, and several admitted after finding the body, that they had taken part in Thompson's lynching two months before. The Richmond News Leader sought to show that many of the reports about it were imaginary stories. The newspaper report of affair was sent to Tuskegee Institute as evidence indicating that this case should not be classed as lynching under the known circumstances unless the term "lynching" can be applied to violence against a long-dead corpse. There is no doubt however, that the burned man's teeth were carried away as souvenirs by a mob made up of people from Fauquier and Warren counties, and that his skull was carried to Warrenton and exhibited there. 11-Year-Old Lass Breaks Leg While Playing in Snow While playing in the snow near First and M Streets, Northwest, Rosa Tobin, 11 years of age, fell and broke her leg early this week. The girl was taken to Sibley Hospital for treatment and later transferred to Children's Hospital Capital News Service NEW 40-ROOM WING READY FOR USE AT FREEDMEN'S NEW 40-ROOM WING READY FOR USE AT FREEDMEN'S Clinical Building Designed to Take Care of Huge Out-Patient Service The newly constructed $97,000 Freedmen's Hospital clinical building, recently completed, will be formally opened to the public the first week in the year, Dr. William A. Warfield, surgeon-in-chief of the hospital, announced early this week. Most of the new equipment for the addition will not be in place until this time, although the building has been completed for several days. While the opening of this 40-room wing will mean no increase in hospital beds, Dr. Warfield said, the addition will enable the hospital to adequately treat the 15,000 patients now handled in this department. For years the hospital's out-patient department has been overcrowded, and this addition will take care of the situation now. Of modern fireproof construction conforming to the design of the main building, the new building which faces the street in the rear of the main plant, will house the following clinics: medical, eye, ear, nose and throat, skin, orthopaedic, gynecology, physical therapy, basal metabolism, electro-cardiograph pediatric and surgical dressing. The building contains an auditorium with a capacity of 200, and a smoking and lounging room for staff members. Clinics were formerly operated in cramped quarters in the hospital's emergency wing, but completion of the new wing allows the old emergency wing offices to be used for two social workers, office for the clerk of the emergency clinic, admission room, surgical dressing room, and waiting room. The two waiting rooms on the first and basement floors of the hospital will accommodate seventy-two persons each. ARTHUR CHILDERS FREED OF FIRST DEGREE MURDER Jury Brings in Not Guilty Verdict Freeing Slayer of Asbury Lewis Arthur Childers, 700 block of Rhode Island Avenue, Northwest, was acquitted of a charge of first degree murder Friday when a jury in the District Supreme Court returned a verdict of not guilty. Childers who is well known in local sporting circles was charged with the murder of Asbury Lewis, 51, a furniture mover last July 2 during a fight in a rear room over a barber shop at 437% R Street, Northwest, Childers was indicted by a grand jury on a first-degree murder charge. IN POKER GAME According to testimony produced at an inquest into the death of Lewis at Childers' trial, the two men were engaged in a poker game over the barber shop. Childers is alleged to have won the pot and on taking up the money Lewis objected and struck Childers across the face, knocking him down a flight of steps. Childers said in falling his revolver which was strapped in a hinder around his waist, exploded. The man said on regaining his feet he saw Lewis coming towards him in a threatening attitude. He said he reached for his pistol and fired one shot at the approaching man. Lewis fell mortally wounded and was pronounced dead at Freedmen's Hospital. Childers claimed he shot Lewis in self-defense and at the time of the inquest he appeared at the hearing with a badly bruised face. Street Car Employee Frostbitten on Hands Alee Powell, 27, 125 Francis Street, Southeast, suffered frost-bite of the hands and feet while cleaning tracks for the Capital Traction Company early this week. He was taken to Garfield Hospital for treatment. J. FINLEY WILSON IN BROOKLYN. J. Finley Wilson delivered the eulogy at the annual memorial services of Brooklyn Lodge, I.B.P.O.E. of W., on last Sunday, in New York. THEATERS SPORTS Washington at Random by George T. Waugh WHAT—NO TURKEY? YES—COLD I had gone, with some other curiosity mongers, to visit the hunger marchers' camp at the edge of the town. While aimlessly rambling about I was attracted to a big bearded husky, with the physique and the pigment hue of a Nubian god. The lusty fellow was idling about with a devil-may-care nonchalance and with a serene indifference to his surroundings. After debating with myself for some minutes, I finally mustered up enough courage to go chat with the nomad. So I walked over and as a gesture of comradeship, I gave him what I thought a hearty slap on the back. In my best reportorial mien, I said to him—says I, "Say, chappie old deah, just what is your reason for being among the hunger marchers?" At first I thought the fellow had not heard me, but after a time, with a careless gesture as if tossing a piece of dirt over his shoulder, the handsome brute turned slowly and faced me—with one of those perfectly blank expressions, yet, touched with, insination. With a condescending politeness he mockingly replied, "A hamburger." Much frigidity of atmosphere—I sulked away like a brat who had just been spanked. AUF WIEDERSEHEN Bravo and good luck in the same breath to Byron Hopkins, town boy who hasn't let his famous cousin Claude, outsmart him in the least. This suave young barrister will swing his shingle in Richmond, or environs, early in the New Year. Here's hoping—and more power to you "Baron." So long. That mother you are always talking about is mighty proud of you. KNOW YE One generally associates "apes" with trees, cocoanuts and the like, but being a member of the Jungle Family I'll tell the world that there'll be gobbs of fun, some tall skiing and smooth skating o'er ice and snow, when the Alphas hold forth here during the Xmas holidays. The "cage" on Third Street will be open house and the head keeper is waiting to welcome visiting "Apes." Greetings, bothers, Salaam Alaikum!" A CHRISTMAS TALE 'Tis the night before Christmas (three nights to be correct), darkness and the snow is falling—falling—(down). With my coat collar up and my hat pulled down, I stumble on and against the weather. On past homing pedestrians with arms abundantly with Christmas cheer in red and green tissue; past shop windows brilliantly illuminated—fairy-lands of toys, urchins with faces pressed close to window -panes, standing spell-bound before the panoramic display. On past houses I go, the cozy glow of soft, lights shining through windows—lighted candles and wreaths of holly and ivy; on past (some fool radio shop) where "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" blasts out disturbing the solemnity of Christmas Eve. Past beggers who croak "Thank ye, mister", as a coin is tossed tinkling into their cups. Oh, would that I could tarry—but I hasten on. I turn into a narrow dark street. I count the houses down from the corner, and at the seventh I mount the snow-banked stone steps and timidly I raise the ancient brass knocker three times. I hear the hollow echo in the death-like emptiness of the house. I wait—knock again—hark, footsteps. The door creaks on its hinges as it is opened, and in the shaft of light from within I see a seedy old man—monk-like and as ancient as the house itself. I wish him a happy Yuletide and hand him a gift. With an uncanny quietness he accepts and in return he gives me a sealed envelope—then very softly he closes himself again into the monastic depths of the house as I hasten (gallop) homeward. Back again in the sanctuary of my domicile I actually tear the envelope open and eagerly begin—(because 'tis Christmas time, and I am happy of heart, I shall read its contents aloud): "Dear friend, "I am sending to you my Yuletide cocktail recipe that will prove (Continued on page 10)