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PLAN RENEWED WARFARE ON NUMBERS LYNCHINGS TOTAL 20 IN 1935 Records Show Five More Than in 1935; Mississippi Lead with Seven A total of 20 perons were lynched in 1935, according to the records compiled in the Department of Research at Tuskegee Institute. This is 5 more than the number 15 for 1934; 8 less than the number 28 for 1933; and 12 more than the number 8 for 1932. Thirteen of the persons lynched were in the hands of the law; 5 were taken from jails, 6 from officers of the law outside of jails and 2 were shot to death in a jail. There were 53 instances in which officers of the law prevented lynching. Nine of these were in Northern and Western States and 44 in Southern States. In 42 of the instances the prisoners were removed or the guards augmented or other precautions taken. In the 11 other instances, armed force was used to repel the would-be lynchers. A total of 84 persons, 17 white and, 67 Negro, were thus saved from death at the hands of mobs. Of the 20 persons lynched, 2 were white and 18 were Negroes. The offenses charged were: murder, 7; attempted rape, 3; rape 3; altercation with man, 1; activity in share cropper organizing, 1; attacking person, 1; taking a prisoner from officer of the law, 1; killed by mob in search of another person, 1; slapping a woman,1; communistic activity, 1. Mississippi Leads The state in which lynching occurred and the number in each state are as follows: California, 1; Florida, 2; Georgia, 2; Louisiana, 4; Mississippi, 7; North Carolina, 1; Tennessee, 1; Texas Ethiopian Riflemen Shoot Down Italian Plane HARAR, Ethiopia—An Italian plane was shot down by Ethiopian forces at Daggah Bur last Thursday, December 26th. Two occupants of the plane are reported to have escaped while a third was captured. The plane was one of two flying over Daggah Bur seeking out the Ethiopian defense positions. Seeing nothing the plane flew low, when a group of cleverly concealed Ethiopian sharpshooters rushed from hiding and opened fire. Two other planes came later looking for the plane that had crashed, but they found nothing. The pilot of the damaged plane was beheaded., HILTON-FERGUSON NUPTIALS The wedding of Miss Rachel Ferguson to Cornelius Hilton took place Monday in this city. The newly-weds are at home to their many friends at 249 Florida Avenue, Northwest. ELK CHIEF SOUNDS 1936 SLOGAN UNITED TO MEET THE FUTURE Just so long as we limit ourselves by thinking we are separate, insignificant; that the great supply of creative separate, insignificant; that energy is outside of us and may be absorbed by a few fortunate people who are ordained, we shall not come into our heritage. Let there be no failure thought, no poverty thought, no discordant thought, but only cheerful, hopeful, helpful, successful thoughts in everything in 1936. LET US CATCH THE INSPIRATION Go forward with united Elkdom, determined and placing our trust in the Grand Exalted Ruler of Us All, who has given us strength of purpose and guided us through world upheavals to an awareness of high destiny as an antlered herd moving courageously on to assemble in Brooklyn as a world convention of 1936. Yours for God and our Order, J. FINLEY WILSON, Grand Exalted Ruler, J.B.P.O.E. of W. National Edition VOL. XV. No. 45. SELA NO "CHI Ethiopians Italians Ter Retake T SELASSIE WINS MAJOR BATTLE NO "CHRISTMAS SPIRIT," WIFE SUES HUSBAND Ethiopians Administer Italians Terrific Defeat, Retake Town, Guns 20 White Officers and A Number of Native Troops Slain in Major Battle ITALIANS RETREAT UNDER HOT FIRE Selassie's Warriors Face Machine Guns to Take ADDIS ABAPA — Proclaiming proudly: "The Lion of Judah is victorious," the Ethiopian government Saturday announced capture of the important fortified town of Abbi, Addi, 25 miles west by north of Makale. At least 20 white officers and a large number of colored troops under the Italian flag were slain, according to the communique, and the Italians retreated in disorder after a furious fight. While the Ethiopians are hastily consolidating the ground they have gained, the Italians are now rushing up reinforcements to fill the gap caused by the retreat of the native troops, and a bitter struggle to regain Abbi Addi is looked for. The communique also claimed that the Italians are retreating in the Scire region northwest of Abbi Addi, burning the native churches that lie in their path. Driving through the wild mountains of the Tembien, the Ethiopian force crept up on the Italian garrison, composed mostly of colored troops—Askaris—and staged a successful surprise attack, according to the government. 20 Officers Killed Although the Ethiopians faced a hail of artillery and machine gun (See WAR, Page 3) IDS 1936 SLOGAN [Image of a man in a suit with a bow tie]. brooklyn as a world convention der, J. FINLEY WILSON, ed Ruler, I.B.P.O.E. of W. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PERIODICAL DIVISION WASHINGTON, D. C. EWED WASHINGTON, D SSIE CHRISTMAS Administer rific Defeat, own, Guns Washington Tribune ONLY NEGRO NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THE NATION'S CAPITAL INSECT BITE IS FATAL TO JUDGE ST. LOUIS, Mo.—The news of the death of Charles Hymen Turpin, who died suddenly at Miami, Florida, December 24, came as a shock to his many friends in St. Louis. His death was said to have been caused by an insect bite suffered on the ain while enroute to Miami. Judge Turpin left St. Louis Friday night, December 20, to visit friends in the peninsula city. The news of his death came through a long distance telephone message from Miss Hannah Blanton a friend of the judge, who was also vacationing in the South. Judge Turpin was born in Columbus, Ga., and was sixty-two years old. He came to St. Louis as a lad with his parents. His first work was that of a boot black. As a young man he worked in the post office and attenty-one he received an appointment in the office of City Assessor and later worked in the office of the Recorder of Deeds. He came into prominent notice in politics in 1910 when he was elected constable of the Fourth Constabulary District, being the first of his race to hold an elective office in the State of Missouri. He was re-elected in 1914 and in 1918. In 1927 he made a race for a member of the Board of Aldermen of the Sixth Ward, losing only by a small margin, and in 1928 he was elected Justice of the Peace and was re-elected in 1934, which office he held until his death. He was the owner of the Booker Washington Theatre, which he successfully operated for about twenty years. He was especially devoted to his niece, Mrs. Nannette Thomas Merrifield, whom he educated. She is the wife of Prof. Norman Merrifield of Indianapolis, Ind. Other relatives surviving are his sister, Mrs. Nannette Thomas of St. Louis and his sister-in-law, Mrs. Willie Mae Turpin of Webster Groves. Funeral arrangements have not been completed though it is understood that his body will arrive from Miami Feriday, accompanied by Miss Blanton, and will lie in state at the Harrison Undertaking parlors. Three Follow Peri Three Followers of Father Divine Ignore Help, Perish in Flames in Apartment House Fire "Peace, peace. It is truly wonderful, Father. Peace, peace,, peace, Father. You will save us, Father. You are God, Father. Father Divine is God, God, God." NEW YORK—Father Divine has such influence over the men and women of his sect that three of his followers, all colored, refused to be rescued from a fire following an explosion in a two-story frame house at 18 Barclay Street in Newark, N. J., Saturday evening. All of them perished. Would Help Us in D. C. THE CHILDREN The two Abyssinian youths are charged together debtor and creditor. The man in rear, who owes the money, or some member of his family must pay, before he is released. This is a rather crude but safe check on living beyond your means. In England less than 100 years ago, one stayed in jail until he paid. In Mississippi you work on chain gang to pay. In Czarist Russia one oftimes went to Siberia. 1935 in Review Highlights of the Passing Year of News of National and Local Interest as Related in The Tribune Over 450 transients employed at the District Woodyard voted to go on strike Thursday morning at a mass meeting when the 6 demands of the group submitted to Commissioner Allen were refused. Trevanion (Fat) Guy for whom troubles have heaped one on another during the course of the past several months found himself faced with still another as a deputy marshal served him with papers informing him of the suit for limited divorce brought against him by his pretty wife, Mrs. Edna (Peggy). Williston Guy, 1512 S Street, Northwest. Jerome Wilson, farmer of Franklinton, Louisiana was lynched in the town jail. This marked the first lynching of the year. Walter White, secretary of the N.A.A.C.P., protests the lynching in a letter to President Roosevelt asking his aid in the Costigan- vers of Father Fish in Flames Firemen, battling through the smoke-filled structure after it had been wrecked by a roaring blaze, found the two men and a woman burned to death. Dan Ruffin, 60 years old, and his son Judd, 33, were a the foot of a smoldering bed, in the attitude of prayer. Miss Elizabeth Dozier, a 53-year-old visitor from an undetermined address on Vesey Street, lay near by. She apparently had toppled from her knees. The blast occurred at 4:50 p.m. in the dim ground-floor flat occupied by Wallace Williams and his wife, Grace. With them at the time was William Davis, 70, said to be a Spanish-American War veteran, blind in one eye. Tongues of flame licked fiercely 1 Wagner Lynching Bill. Francis H. Summer, professor of psychology at Howard University, was ordered to pay $70 monthly alimony to his wife Mrs. Frances Summer, 1129 Fairmont Street by Justice Jesse C. Adkins, in district Supreme Court. Professor Summer was named defendant in a suit for limited divorce filed in late December. A suit for damage in the amount of $25,000 naming the Capital Transit Company as defendant was filed by Attorney George A. Parker on behalf of Mrs. Lottie Banks, 1215½ Carrollburg Street Southwest. Injuries stultified by Mrs. Banks while she was a passenger on a Transit Company bus were cited as the basis for the suit. The present teacher's rating system in the public school of the District came in for another attack, Monday afternoon, when sev- at the walls of the rickety structure and the ground-floor occupants were badly seared before they could run out the back door to a litter-spread yard, where they collapsed. John Wilson, driver for the Roobling Coal Company, s., the smoke and, thinking quickly, backed his loaded truck up on the curb. He pushed the lever that caused the coal-filled body to grind upward, and when three startled faces appeared at the second-story window, yelled: "Jump, jump into the coal!" The trapped persons were only about five feet from the tilted top of the truck. But instead of leaping from the sills, they screamed hysterically, according to onlook- Painted as a Modern "Scrooge," Treasury Man is Sued by Wife LEADERS OF GOP ATTEND SESSION No Discrimination Shown At Mayflower Hotel Committee Meeting Negrees prayed an important part in the sessions of the Republican National Committee which met at the Mayflower Hotel here, recently. Sunday evening prior to the National Committee session on Monday Chairman Fletcher entertained the members of the Committee in his palatial and hospitable home and the guests present were a political "Who's Who." The colored group was represented by the National Committeeman and Committeeman from Mississippi who were received most cordially and treated most graciously. Cleveland Selected The committee voted the convention to Cleveland, June 9, where all visitors will be entertained (See POLITICS, Page 3) Woman Wins Judgment By Default from Company Mrs. Genevieve Brown, 1427 Fifth Street, Northwest, was awarded a default judgment against the Really Investment Company and Securities Corporation in the Distr't, Supreme Court, last week. Mrs. Brown who was represented by Attorney Harry A. Dyson, sued the corporation in April for $15,000 when she sustained a broken leg as the result of a fall when she slipped and fell on the steps of an apartment managed by the company. When the case was called the company failed to appear and the default judgment was awarded by the court. The next day the case was settled out of court when the corporation settled with Mrs. Brown for $750. ers: "Peace, peace. It is truly wonderful, Father. Peace, peace, Father. You will save us, Father. You are God, Father. Father Divine is God, God, God." Wilson, a white man, called at them hoarsely, but in vain. They disappeared inside and in a moment a burst of flame seethed through the window and they were lost in smoke. FiREMEN forced the true driver to pull his vehicle away, for the load was taking fire. They put the blaze out easily, and recovered the bodies. At City and St. Barnabas Hospitals, the three ground-floor tenants were said to be in a critical condition. Painting her husband, Emmitt G. Jackson, an employee or the statistical division of the United States Treasury Department as a modern "Sergeoge" who wouldn't make an enore to brighten the Christmas season for us own three children, ars.atrice Jackson, 1011 Lamont Street, Northwest, hied suit for separate maintenance in the District Supreme Court, Saturday. Listed among the charges she fires at her mate through a petition filed by Attorneys Lawood G. Robert and Alonzo Ware, are constant abuse of herself and their children, two daughters, aged 8 and 1, and one son; age 2, cruelty and refusal to provide her when "pin money" for even the most conservative type of amusement. Mrs. Jackson declares that since their marriage in August of 1920, mr. Jackson has been incessantly abusive. His free usage of protane epithets, hurried at first one and then another of his family, Mrs. Jackson states, kept the children in constant fear of him. It was unnay this attitude, the wife avers, which compelled her to leave his name and seek refuge with her parents. A church worker and a member of the choir of the church which she attended at the time of their marriage, Mrs. Jackson states, she was not permitted to continue this work after the ceremony. She declares that her spouse refused to let her attend church further. She further asserts that Mr. Jackson refused to allow her pitances of money with which she might go to the theatre or take the children to places of amusement for recreational purposes. (See DIVORCE, Page 3) Haile Selassie's Creates Furor A Geneva Delegates Astound Who Refuses to G Haile Selassie's "Peace" Plan Creates Furor Among Diplomats Country to Italians ADDIS ABABA. - Ethiopia revealed its "peace" plans here Friday and when that, were read in Geneva by the League of Nations member, the plans created a furoir. The first of the five-point plan demanded the immediate withdrawal of Italian troops from Ethiopia. The five points were as follows: 1. Withdrawal of Italian troops from Ethiopia. 2. Recognition of Ethiopia's sovi. reignity. 3. Payment of an indemnity by Italy. 4. Delimitation of the boundaries between Ethiopia and the Italian colonies in East Africa by a League of Nations commission. 5. Agreement by Emperor Haile "BIG SHOT GAMBLERS ON SPOT Church, Police and Civic Groups Unite to Fight Rackets and Crime A relentless warfare against the numbers racket is being outlined by Police Superintendent Ernest W. Brown in co-operation with civic associations and the District Government. In a letter to Chairman King, of the Senate District Committee Saturday, Wilbur La Roe, Jr., of the Washington Federation of Churches, cited the need of a larger police force to cope with the growing evil of gambling and drunkenness. Numbers Racket Wit The two worst black spots just now are the numbers racket which is flourishing almost unchecked, and drunkenness, the arrests for drunkenness alone averaging about 22,000 annually. You succeeded in getting a bill through the Senate that would have aided the authorities in fighting the numbers racket but the bill came to a disgrace. fulk in the Judiciary Subcommittee of the House District Committee. "Much remains to be done. The civic position of the Negro must be improved and the handicaps against him removed. We must have a more modern method of dealing with inebriates, experience having demonstrated that just throwing them into jail periodically fails to solve the problem. We ought not to kill a hundred or more persons a year with automobiles even if a drastic remedy is required to prevent the slaughter. If we must have liquor, its distribution should be reasonably restricted. There is need for a strengthening of our parole system, a modernizing of our juvenile court law, better facilities for our courts, and an enlargement of our police force. We should also put a stop to the mixing of young prisoners with hardened criminals at Lorton. And there must be relentless warfare against the gamblers. The proposal to authorize horse racing in the District of Columbia must be written down on the debit side of the ledger not so mucl, because (See NUMBERS, Page ) Ethiopias Soldiers Continue Successful Guerilla Tactics ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia—Chrissitima time was very sad for the facist invaders of Ethiopia. Never letting up from the victorious drive which began more than three weeks the Ethiopian defense forces are still making serious trouble for their weary enemies. Guerrilla attacks by day and by night made it hot for the Italian army in the Tambien region and on the boarder of Eritrea, Italian colony. The Ethiopians have adopted a system of sniping off the black-shirt officers commanding the Native Askari troops. Herndon Appeal Scheduled For Hearing Next Month LL.D. Urges Renewed Protest For Herodus's Freedom Herndon's Freedom .ATLANTA, Ga.-It is expected that the appeal filed by the state of Georgia against the recent Angelo Herndon decision will be heard late in January. Herndon will be represented by Attorney Whitney North Seymour, constitutional authority, associated with W. A. Sutherland leading Southern attorney. Selassie that Ethiopia would seek foreign economic, administrative and financial assistance and advice, but that Italian influence would not be permitted. It was officially denied, however, that the Emperor was offering peace terms or that he had agreed to the points outlined. It was stated the Emperor insisted first on Italian withdrawal from Ethiopia. Meanwhile Ethiopian officials charged that Italians were attempting to stir up natives of Goljam Province to revolt against payment of imperial taxes. Reports that an uprising was already under way as a result of Italian intrigues, however, were Avenue of Youth MOTTO—"The future of the race marches forward on the feet of little children."—Phillip Brooks. Conducted by BEATRICE M. MURPHY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 THE ORACLE Answers to last week's questions: 1. The Italians crossed the border north of Adigrat September 25, 1935. 2. Senior specialist in the education of Negroes. U. S. Department of Interior. 3. Fred G. McCuiston, Nashville, Tennessee. 4. In 1868, by Gen. S. C. Armstrong, for the practical development of Negro leadership. 5. In 1535, the 400th anniversary of which is being celebrated this year. 6. Elmer Anderson Carter is editor. It was founded in 1923 as the official organ of the National Urban League. 7. Truxton, Virginia. Built by the government during the World War at a cost of over a million dollars. It was purchased for $145,000 by a syndicate of Negroes, headed by W. H. C. Brown, of the Industrial Bank on U St. 8. At Howard University, November 17, 1911, first Negro Greek letter society to be started at colored schools. 9. In 1927, a total of 73 Negro banks with total capital of $6,250,000. 10. James Weldon Johnson, in 1927. 11. Approximately 4,500,000. 12. The first "Jim Crow" cars were designed for use of Negro freedmen in Massachusetts in 1841. The idea invaded the South following the Civil War. 13. 12 Negroes attended West Point from 1870 until 1889. Three graduated. 14. In 1919 riots broke out in Chicago, New York, Washington Knoxville, East St. Louis, and other cities North and South. 15. He was convicted of using the U.S. Mail to defraud in connection with the Black Star Line. He served a term in Atlanta Federal Prison and was paroled in 1925 and deported to his native land, Jamaica, West Indies. 16. A group of Negroes met in Paris, France February 1919. Their objects sought equal rights without regard to race, color, or creed, and attempted to arise international public opinion in their behalf. 17. Jeanette Jacobs was adjudged in a contest several hundred white girls at Greensburg, Pa. Soon as they learned her race she was politely but firmly refused. 18. James G. Carter, consul at Calais, France, Wm. H. Hunt, council, St. Michaels, Azores, Clifford R. Wharton, counsel at Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Lester A. Walton, consul, Monrovia Liberia. 19. Benjamin Bauneker in 1754 at Philadelphia, Pa. He was born free in 1731. 20. Edward A. Bouchet received Ph.D. degree Yale University 1876. JOIN THE PARADE The following children have joined our club and become "Charter Members." Send in your application now! Timothy Matthews, 1908 Vt. Avenue, Grimke School, 5B. Everett Hughes, 912 E St., S.W. Randall School, 7B. Irene Pearson, 2109 9th St. Harrison School, 5B. Herbert Smart, 324 M St. S.W. Magruder School, 3A. Tribune Cross Down 1. atupor 2. preposition 3. conjunction 4. point of compass 7. separate into threads 8. boy's name 10. conjunction 11. comparatives 14. printer's measure HAPPY NEW YEAR! New Years! I think — we has for religious things at oft like offering a prayer for New the idea of the New Year as will have no especial appeal. new beginnings...each one Some are better; more are quite fathom whether they are Let us, then, on New Y equilibrium to take our beg best of them. Let us pray which we secretly cherish the new year bring to us now let us pray for strength to be and to joy in what we have. Let us pray, not for par for the happy faculty of finding what is around us. Let us pray for happing if it fails to come! New Years! I think — no matter how little regard one has for religious things at other times of the year, one feels like offering a prayer for New Years! To us, as children, the idea of the New Year as an opportunity to begin again will have no especial appeal. Life, for a child, is full of new beginnings...each one not quite what we expected. Some are better; more are so unexpected that we cannot quite fathom whether they are better or worse. Let us, then, on New Year pray for the courage and equilibrium to take our beginnings calmly and make the best of them. Let us pray for joy and love and all things which we secretly cherish and hold dear. But should the new year bring to us none — or only part — of these, let us pray for strength to bear our disappointment bravely and to joy in what we have. Let us pray, not for particular showers of beauty, but for the happy faculty of finding beauty in what we have and what is around us. Let us pray for happiness, but keep on smiling even if it fails to come! Happy New Year! READ READING IS FUN Book: Around the World With the Alphabet Alphabet. Author: Hendrik Wilem Van Loon Simon and Schuster, New York $1.00. The purpose of this book is given on the frontspiece: "To teach little children their letters and at the same time give their papas and mamas something to think about." It is certainly different from the usual alphabet book—delightfully different. Each letter of the alphabet stands for the name of a town or village, and a short one page history is given of each. The drawings are by the author, and will certainly have an appeal. Mr. Van Loon did this book for his grandson, whom he addresses in the introduction by saying "it will be another ten years or so before you can understand it." It is one of those books that you would like to grow with you. At first you will probably only appreciate the alphabet and the pictures. But later, you will be able to talk intelligently about a lot of towns and villages and give their backgrounds and history. You will have absorbed a lot of knowledge, and had a perfectly splendid time. Book: Boomba Lives In Africa Author: Caroline Singer and Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge. $1.75. Holiday House, New York The Cat and The Mouse Once upon a time a cat lived in a house, and a mouse lived next door. Once the mouse stole the cat's bread, and the cat went to get his bread. He knocked on the door. The mouse came to the door. The cat said: "Let me in. I want my bread." "No, no, this is my bread," said the mouse. But the mouse knew that was not true. A few days later, the cat went 3 4 8 10 12 16 15. Virgin Islands 16. regarding Across 1. relative 5. preposition 6. contraction 9. wise sayings 13. show reverence for 17. one who shows pleasure For The Little Tots: no matter how little regard one her times of the year, one feels new Years! To us, as children, an opportunity to begin again Life, for a child, is full of not quite what we expected. no unexpected that we cannot be better or worse. dear pray for the courage and innings calmly and make the for joy and love and all things and hold dear. But should be — or only part — of these, our disappointment bravely ticular showers of beauty, but big beauty in what we have and less, but keep on smiling even Year! ING IS FUN brown" boy who lives in Africa. His father is Chief's Hunter, and has the sign of a gun on his door, which tells everyone his profession. The story of Boomba's life in the African village is simply and vividly told. There is no seeming attempt to make the book interesting. Therein lies its appeal, for one feels that the authors are having a pleasant chat with him on what they know about village life in Africa. For Older Boys and Girls: Book: H. M. S. Pinafore. Adopted from Gilbert and Sullivan. Author: J. Fletcher Smith, L. C. Page Co., New York. The young Negro child has such little opportunity to see the beauties of the legitimate stage productions, that your editor cannot help being enthusiastic about this adaptation of the Gilbert and Sullivan opera, which is to be the first of a series based on the operas. The beautiful lines of the opera are kept as faithfully as possible, and the story will have an appeal in itself. By all means read this as a part of your necessary knowledge. You will have a good time reading it too! Did you receive any new books for Christmas? Why not read them yourself and then write a letter to us, telling us about them. Any book review which is suitable for our page will be printed. into the mouse's house when he was not at home. He had gone away and left his door unlocked. Then the mouse came home. He stumbled on the doorstep and fell down. The cat heard him fall, and ran to get a knife. He cut the mouse up, and ran home with his bread. That was the end of the mouse. And that is the last of my story. ANSWERS TO PUZZLES Answers to last week's scrambled words: 1. tidings 6. angel 2. manger 7. chimes 3. magi 8. gloria 4. Herod 9. Bethlehem 5. Joseph 10. Jerusalem Change Positions Answers to last week's change position: 1. army—Mary 3. rats—star 2. bleats—stable 4. leon—noel 5. seat—east CHANGE POSITION Change the position of the letters and get a word with the meaning given: 1. pot—a particular Dance 2. meat—not wild 3. ram—part of the body 4. wrote—part of a building 5. lain—a fastener DROP A LETTER Drop a letter and change to get the meaning given: 1. house—footwear 2. stream—more than one horse (plural) 3. hovel—affection 4. travel—a male servant 5. chair—wealthy 6. adorable—worked hard 7. stove—to cast a ballot 8. wren—novel 9. eagle—exuberation 10. first—to trouble --- Wade Green 2 A grade PUZZLERS THE WASHINGTON TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1935 THE WOODEN SOLDIER AND THE WOODEN DOLL Quickly, the wooden soldier sprang up the steps to the high tower and rescued the wooden doll. "Thank you very much, Mr. Lion and Mr. Rabbit," said the wooden soldier, as he walked out of the castle, through the gate and back home with the wooden doll by his side. Leroy Miles 13 years Logan School ECHOES Dear Editor: We have a police dog. When someone comes to my house, Jack always keeps a sharp eye, and if they say a cross word he will begin to bark. If they do not play with him he will get angry and bite them. If you do not feel well, then he gets sick. When we do not tie him up, he jumps the fence. Sometimes he gets angry spells and bites anyone who comes in, but usually he is very nice if you play with him Santa Claus came to visit several people who might otherwise have been missed because of the splendid support you gave our Mickey Mouse show. I am sure you want to know what we did with the money. We gave some toys, dolls with human hair, china dishes, drums, etc. and candy canes. In those families where food was the most pressing need, we gave baskets containing a chicken, cranberry sauce, potatoes, nuts spinach, candy, apples, oranges, butter and other good things that were also useful. Thank you for your help. What do you think of our gifts? Let us know. A RIDDLE: If you write a letter to Mr. Smith, Atlantic Ocean, where would the letter be delivered? Answer: Atlantic City Beatrice Wright Logan School STYLE CHATS By ARDEN H. DUANE I simply lost myself among the lace dresses last week. For the life of me I can't decide whether it is to be a heavy plum lace dress with a miniature flower and leaf design—A delicate rust color with a belt of gold lace—A divine burgundy dinner gown with a matching of corsage of velvet and taffeta flowers—A beautiful raspberry red and a dress among dresses—A luxurious gold metal lace over gold satin. Do you love the color parade this winter? Beautiful winter shades are parading everywhere because everyone loves a colorful parade, I'm thrilled, as the silk parade marches by. The military shades first—soft subtle grays, flaming dashing scarlets—Blues, bright and clear. And interesting shades of wines and purples—rust and yellows, odd and off. The new sandal craze—Schekerazade—An, antique persian brocade worked skillfully into patterns on gold (stimulated). There are strippings of gold kid and black satin heel. There is a little velvet heel cushion to assure comfort and posture and to keep the foot from slipping down to the toe of the shoe. I have visited shoppes and talked with helpful sales ladies until I have some first hand information about the coat wardrobe. There are three top coats that are wantable. The Chesterfield coat is a humdinger. Cut on the lines of a Chesterfield, yes, that's how it gets its name. But double-breasted, made of that new imported tweed and richly trimmed notched collar of beaver. Isn't that nifty? And by the way, this sport coat is dressy enough for you to wear on many occasions. The indispensable Harris Tweed. Every woman who knows what's what about sport clothes knows about the Harris tweed. It is a perfectly tailored coat, cut on comforta!; and roomy Balmacan coats. Ah, just the coat. Something as pretty as a picture—As warm as toast—as soft as a cloud. Fleeces are the coats. And the abuse these coats will stand and yet hold their own—Well, you'll want one. The colors are jolly and loveable—smart grays, soft browns and tans—burnt sienna and blue and green. Now I ask you, isn't this "smooth"? A knitted tailleur! The jacket is a daring and bold plaid and the skirt, my friends, is reversible. Today, plain if you wish tomorrow, plaid, if you wish. There's a tricky scarf to complete this outfit. A strapless brassiere of lastex net. Stop worrying about shoulder straps. Stop worrying about off-the-shoulder frocks. Stop worrying about straps showing through your gossamer chiffon. I've found a cute trick. It molds the bust, gives you that desired uplift line; it can be hooked to your girdle if your evening gown is ever so far down. The clever cutting and fitting of the lastex net provides bands of elastic at the top and bottom designed to hold the brassiere firmly at all times. Do you have the urge for something dashing? It's a furred toppiece! One can't help from having a jubilant feeling while wearing one. A fur ahead even does something: breath-taking to the contours of the face. Smartly fringed is the latest fashion news! And what news. Fringo is an important trimming and adds a devastating sophistication. Kid shoes and kid bags flecked with tiny patinas of gold. And what flitter! Or, choose one or two or three of the ninety-nine shades you can have your new sandals tinted. THINK IT OVER Most of us look on New Years as a fresh opportunity to begin again. Like the child with a slate we can rub out anything which has proven objectionable in the old year—anything of which we are ashamed—and begin all over again on a "clean slate—a fresh page." But life is not a slate and a New Year is not an eraser. That which we have written must remain written. All we can do is, like the artist, sofen some of the harsh lines on our palet rectify as far as possible our mistakes; and try to do better in the future. There is no way of beginning again and rubbing out, as if we had never lived, those years of our life which have passed. Nor should we want to. For they are as much a part of us as our Offspring. We may disclaim them by shouting from the house-tops our denials. But their likenesses belie our words—they bear a striking resemblance. One writer, Cassius J. Keyser, has expressed it thus: "Out of the past we have come. Into it we are constantly returning. Meanwhile, it is of the utmost importance to our lives. It contains the roots of all we are." Sports Mirror Tennis (Cont'd from Preceeding Page) Va., and teamed with his schoolmate, Harold Eaton, to take the collegiate doubles title. Later, Fitch captured the southeastern championship at Petersburg, defeating Eyre Smith, veteran New York racketer and twotimes national champion, in a thrilling five-set match. Dogged determination marked Fitch's play. The North Carolinian won by scores of 6 to 1, 1 to 6, 6 to 2, 5 to 7 and -6 to 4; and later paired with Dr. Leonard C. Downing, of Roanoke, to cop the doubles crown. Miss Ora Washington survived the revolt of challengers to acquire an interest in three titles at this tournament. The veteran Philadelphiaian captured her seventh straight southeastern championship by downing Mrs. Agnes Lawson, of Prairie View, Texas; shared the women's double title with Miss Anita Gant of Washington, and gained a third title in partnership with Dr. Sylvester Smith of Amber, Pa., in the mixed doubles. In short, the Jackson brothers and Miss Washington ruled the national tennis poost, while Tuskegee Institute, perhaps, largely through the inspiration spread by the success of the Jacksons and Miss Ballard, was the outstanding school in net circles. Locally, interest in the net game was also on the increase. Two tournaments, the first sponsored by the Elks' athletic committee as a feature of the convention week, and the second held under the auspices of the newly-organized Bison Athletic Club, claimed the attention of devotees of the racket game. The added interest in the game, plus the admission of the Bison Club as a member of the American Tennis Association, ruling body of Negro tennis, helped boost the net game to a high place among Washington athletics and attracted a number of nationally known tennis players to the city for the tournaments. Baltimore's favorite pair, Warren Weaver and Babe Jones, former Morgan College net stars, captured the lion's share of honors in the Elks' tournament. Weaver, youthful net wielder, who holds the Middle-Atlantic singles championship, easily won the singles title, while he and Jones gained entrance to the final round of the doubles which, unfortunately, has never been played off. Other finalists were Melvin Lancaster and Eddie Davis, former collegiate. Delayed 10 days by a continuous rain, the Bison Athletic Club's initial tournament was a grand success in spite of the long postponement. The tournament drew over 100 entrants and attracted large crowds of enthusiasts each afternoon to the new Banneker courts, where the competition was held. Frank Perkins, veteran racket wielder and net coac. at Dunbar High School, won the singles championship, defeating Slim Thomas, ex-Virginia Seminary player, in the finals after gaining the last round by brilliant victories over Eddie Davis, former CIAA titlist, and Clyde Freeman. Perkins' bid for doubles honors failed, however, as the veteran, teamed with Leroy Millinder, formerly of St. Louis, lost the doubles championship to Eddie Davis and Melvin Lancaster, ex Hampton net captain. Davis and Lancaster were the city's outstanding doubles combination, winning the Bison title and gaining the final round in the Elks' tournament. As usual, the Peters sisters—Margaret and Roumaine — of the-Street Peters, were outstanding among the women. Although they were unable to participate in the nationals or the southeastern championships, the Peters sisters continued to lead the way among Washington feminine ne wielders, scoring sensational victories in Middle-Atlantic competition, the Elks' tournament and the Bison Athletic Club's affair. In each of the tournaments the young sisters won the doubles title. Individually, Margaret, the older sister, was the family's best bet. She captured the Middle-Atlantic singles championship and the Elks' title, defeating her younger sister in the finals of both. In the Bison tourney, Roumaine turned the tables on her sister and captured the title after a hard-fought three set match. Among local school net players, the diminutive Jack Butcher, of Dunbar, was the town's best individual performer. With Butcher winning the singles crown, Dunbar was the victor in South Atlantic High School Conference tournament. Charlie Reeder, Lincoln Playground, won the senior boys' playground championship; while "Redtop" Brown, Howard Playground youngster, took honors in the junior division. Dorothy Morgan and Helen Hatton won the girls' doubles championship for Willowtree Playground, marking the first time the Southwest playground had been victorious in this sport within eight years. Chopsticks are called hashi in Japan. _ EST NEWS OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL (Cont'd from Preceeding Page) able running mate for the dark-skinned regular wingman. Dwight Reed's defensive play had much to do with the success of the Big Ten championship aggregation. A pastmaster at breaking through an opposing line to check aerial attacks, Reed also proved a most valuable asset to the Minnesota in the matter of smearing interference in the opposition's running plays. Chuck Burgwin, at Western Reserve and London Gant, at Cincy, showed to advantage on their respective teams during the year. Negroes were spread throughout the Big Ten, there being colored representation on the squads of Chicago University, Illinois, Indiana, Northwestern and Ohio State. There were also others prominent in the gridiron camps of New England teams. Out on the west coast the name of Al DuValle, a tackle on the Loyola University team, was on the tongues of writers of the leading dailies and weeklies. DuValle was posted on the mythical All-Coast eleven by Howard Jones former coach at Harvard and for many years one of the outstanding mentors in the country This in itself was a distinct honor. But an even greater honor for DuValle—considering the prejudice that ghost-walks through the ranks of the body—was his receipt of a card of merit from the All-America Board of Football, recognized successors to the Walter Camp official selections. Football taken from a local angle, hit a new low. Medioeuro teams were the lot of both the Dunbar and Cardozo High Schools, a discussion of scholastic football in Washington being considered more pleasant by this writer than talk of the city's collegiate efforts; hence the reference to that group before taking up the plight of Howard and Miner Teachers' College. Dunbar won only two games during her entire campaign both against opponents greatly inferior. Cardozo not only lost all her games, but failed to score a touchdown against her opposition as well. The Armstrong High School machine won both the city and South Atlantic High School Athletic Conference championships. The Orange and Blue went through her season undefeated, proving herself far and away superior to her opponents in the scholastic division. It was only the victory she won and the manner of her-winning that gave consolation to local football enthusiasts. In independent circles, the Washington Yellowjackets were again the best of a fair lot. The Jackets took the measure of teams lined up in a local gridiron league, going through their schedule without a defeat and one tie. But the fact that the Stingers only shaded opposition from out of town which they were expected to outclass, took from their season's record. Ebenezer's Church athletes, Willow Tree and the St. Cyprian Catholic eleven were the three local opponents which proved the nearest approach to the championship team. 021 559 327 806 428 215 419 207 633 972 560 727 BASKETBALL SEASON'S OPENING GAME Howard vs.S.C.A. & M. College CIAA Champions Strong Contenders for the Southern Conference Title Thursday, Jan. 2, 1936 Howard University Gymnasium Game Starts at 8:30 P.M. ADMISSION 40 CENTS Football Ye Olde Cock Crows (Cont'd from Preceeding Page) son bore the colors of Columbia University. It was the same in the 220-yard dashes in which the trio participated. It was the same in the broad jump events. Just as Eddie Tolan and Ralph Metcalfe had, between them, monopilized the sprint races of a few years back. the triumvirate of Owens, Peacock and Johnson took charge of the competitions the past year. It is Johnson whom Owens believes holds more promise than either of the three, including himself. In a radio interview with the writer in September, Owens had this to say in reply to one of his interviewer's queries: "I believe Ben Johnson of Columbia University. is going to be the lad they'll all have to beat next year. Johnson, I believe, is one of the fastest boys ever to don spikes. and I expect no little trouble from the Columbia University sophmore in the meets to come." Jimmy LuValle, 1934 Intercollegiate American Amateur Athletic Association quarter-mile champion, did not go so far in the past year's competitions as he did when he captured his title and startled staid old Cambridge by giving the nation's best white 400-metres a good shellacking. The University of California sepian spent most of his time at study during the year just closed. A candidate for the Rhodes Scholarship, LuValle found that it was necessary to neglect his track work if he was to get any where in his academic ambition. This he did, and when time for track work came around he found himself only half prepared. As a result his work on the cinders suffered. Another far far west youngster, however, Cornelius Johnson, of Compton Junior College, held his own among the high jumpers of two continents. He not only took off many major prizes with his leaps into the air on this side of the Atlantic, but crossed the waters with a team which included Eulace Peacock. On that side, Johnson and Peacock collaborated to bring to the American team more honors than any other two teammates on the cruise. Never the most popular of sports, track and field found itself relegated to a declining position locally in 1935. Except for a few unimportant playground meets, independent athletes were wont to call the scholastic season curtains. Howard did little in the annual Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association competitions a t Hampton. Howard did little, if any, more in her own national track and field championships, both of which were won by Union, of Richmond. In the South Atlantic High School Conference. Armstrong High School tied with Douglass for the school boy championships. Dunbar and Cardozo had nothing to boast of in the way of cinder accomplishments. N.Y. GARDEN SEEKS ANOTHER LOUIS Madison, Square Arena to be Scene of Tourney Among 30 Boxers NEW YORK — Thirty young boxers have been signed for a tourney by Madison Square Garden officials who hope to discover in the bunch one capable of making the progress—in his division—that has been the lot of Joe Louis. The tourney is slated for tonight (Friday). The group includes four heavies, sixlight-heavy-weights six middleweights, eight welterweights and six lightweights. Among the most promising are Eddie Blunt and Roy Williams, heavies; Leo Duncan, a light heavy; Eddie Saxon, a middleweight; Dewy (Deo-Dab) Anderson and Bob Perry, welterweights and Tiger Taylor, a lightweight. The Lion of the Tribe of Judah seems to have fallen among jackals. BEST NEWS OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL The Black X A little fun now and then Is cherished by the best of men Knowing where and when Is WISDOM maids and men. Many club members in various sets have asked the aid of this department in crusading against those who persist in ruining every affair, regardless of place, cause, or time... As much as this space would like to aid the situation we consider such a plan as adverse publicity a futile and mis-used jesture... A careful selection of the guest based on behavior and not NAME will alleviate to a great degree this situation... This department does not make at any time the news, we PRINT it... Someone said—"The perfect man died yesterday, and another will not be born until tomorrow." Ho-Hum — A new year is about to drop in on us. Some will drink it in; others will play it in, shoot it in, sing it in and sleep it in. THE GOSSIP GOES AROUND AND AROUND, BUT IT COMES OUT HERE: LUCIA HILL a Recorder of Deeds stenog., and WILLIAM BEVERLY, a former member of the H. U. players, made it Mr. and Mrs. in a quiet ceremony on the 29th. of November. The merge may be quite a surprise to friends of the couple. JOSEPHINE VANBRACKLE and LINWOOD WELCH resembled two floundering ships at sea, as they wobbled along the rialto about 5 a.m. Friday....Twas rather raw of EDGAR LEE to accept a loan from his love in Richmond to make the trip down to the A. K. A. Boule, and then use the cash to hustle to the side of his Lynchburg cutie-Why you meanie....CORRINE DANIELS didn't seem to have her mind on her wandering boy friend as she cavorted in the C.P.C. Club 'till the wee hours of Thursday morning...."TURKEY" THOMPSON practised the words 'yes suh' for two weeks and their jumped in his car and headed for Atlanta, Ga....THEODORE HOMER of N. Y. and DOROTHY ROBINSON merged on Xmas eve....Mrs. LAURA GLASCOE WRIGHT will join her husband DR. LOUIS WRIGHT, a W. Va. physician on the idees of January....CORTEZ PETERS, of typing fame gave a snappy little party for his pupils in his studio last Friday night....JULIA DOBSON dropped into town for the holidays, quite pleased with the south and its attractions....Margaret Barnes former H. U. student, wrote several poems that were given the once over and approval by the celebrated LANGSTON HUGHES who has been spending a great deal of time in and around Oberlin, Ohio, MARGARET'S home town....Tis rumored that CAB CALLOWAY was suspended from all broadcasting privileges for jazzing the Star Spangle Banner....JEAN WESTMORE-LAND entertained intimate friends at a party at her residence Friday night....HELENE SOUTHERN moved about D. C., over the past week-end with a chap named JAMES SAUNDERS from up BOSTON way....PAULINE ROBB gathered a few friends together for an informal get-to-gether for HELENE. The Zeta Phi Beta Sorority gave their annual formal Friday night. As usual the affair was very entertaining. However, several out-of-town sorors were without escorts. The ultra swank Bachelor Benedicts gave their formal dance at the Lincoln Colonnade Monday night..... A well known local columnist who chunks orchids at "ye smarrrert sette," was the recipient of a Xmas card from Washington's best exponent of free love. Just another climber eh, palzy-walzy??? Bus Schank passed through just to pick up Bill Stansbury in Phillily and returned to Washington for Xmas frolicing. Flaxie Pinkett was all smiles although Buss was hustling and bustling with Lenora Stewart....We wonder if Grace Wilkinson is aware of the latest venture of her future just past...James Fairfax of the house of Fairfax is seeing Gene Taylor with milkman regularity—Quite Kay-ute, me lad, quite kay-ute...Louis Welters and Lottie Outen were the stems most perfect two-some for '35...Maxine Cooper is the latest worth while addition to the femme lovelies—man slaughter in the first degree... An admirer of Gladys Jeffries' voice placed a five spot atop the piano in the Pirates-Den for any song Gladys chose to chirp. She thanked the modern Santa Claus, but had to refuse because of her laryngitis...better luck next time...Billy Brooks is enjoying the dates of his Carolina heart attack during her yuletide visit, as Lucille Davis and a Freedmen's interne cavort..... One never appreciates water until he has experienced thirst...A certain Treasury Department messenger doesn't know that the grass is greener in his own back yard, but if he doesn't stick closer to S Street, D Daniels will be femme hunting soon..... ALLAH BE PRAISED cried several members of the Twelfth and U Street round table group when they heard that Dr. Goodloe was not hurt when his auto collided head on...Willie Wilson brought back the happy tidings..... Mary Suttun, Philly bookkeeper, wore her distraction's Que pin conspiciously enough to leave no doubt in the minds of local lads that she had at least "twenty friends".Now that Norma Artie has adorned the wrist of Henry Williams with a ticker he will have to find other excuses for being late...Laura Lee, will return to Graduate from M. Holyoke after visiting her mater and pater...She is the only Sepia to receive the sheep skin from the exclusive school this year...Ruth Smith, a neighbor will graduate next fall... Norma Murray Stark accompanied by hubby will visit her mother New Years. Wonder how this will affect Charlie Craft? ? ? THE UBIQUITOUS JOE RIVMU RECORDS A FEW JOTTINGS: 3 "WHOOZITS"—PART 1. Local "Whooozits" entertained friends and visiting guests at an informal dance at the Whitelaw Hotel, Friday, December 27. An atmosphere of jollity reigned supreme as the select group danced and made merry. Among the Philly guests seen mingling with the crowd were GLADYS CAPPS, LOU WARRICK, SUTTON sisters, MARJORY CHISOLM and BETTY HOWARD. "WHOOZITS"—PART 2. Pugilism-Fisticuffs and general boistrouness disturbed the latter part of the Whooozits affair. The inebriated belligerents were well known to the Washington folks that attended, but all persons present hated to have the Philadelphia club members witness a typical Joe Eingham brawl. One of the contestants in the main event is known to be a peace-loving chap when he is sober—BUT he wasn't sober, and it took half of the male guests present to hold the raging young man that threatened to break everybody's neck in the hall, including the piano players'... Later that night the quasi gentlemen retired to their respective homes to grab their heavy artillery. A spot of honor was decided upon, but to the disgust of a few thrill-seeking spectators no shots were fired. Latest reports have it that the two contestants were searching for each other to shake hands. Atta boys. EIGHMOND AND THE A. K. A. BOULE: As we predicted in this column last week, there was a felt shortage of men at the A. K. A. confab in Richmond. There were at least three women to every man, at all of the social gatherings. The escort committee of the sorority was flooded with request for dates for the visiting sorors. The fact that girls that asked for escorts were perfectly willing to share the expenses of the night served as a special lure to some of the male Union students that lacked pecuniary strength. Among the D. C. sorors and guests seen at the elaborate affairs were BENNETTA BULLOCK, MARIANA BECK, ANGELLA TURPEAU, EUNICE NICKENS, JUANITA SMACKUM, LUCILLE ORR, ANNE SWANSON, RUTH LEWIS, LUCY SCOTT JESSE PERKINS, ALMA ROULAC, JAMES WATSON "BUS" STOKES, MARSUTUS SMITH, THEUS SMITH, CHUM REID, IKE WOODWARD and "BABE SWIFT." VIVIAN CHISOL route to Atlanta, Ga. the Phi Beta Sigma, more night spot that band was flooded with writing there are no over First Street way That was BERTRAM night spot. Saturday whiskey tagged "Will drinking that made family...." "PICKLES" BLACK WOMAN TO HOLD H VIVIAN CHISOLM came through D. C. route to Atlanta, Ga. to join her sister, Isabell the Phi Beta Sigmas and Omega Psi Phi for noose night spot that has been featuring the band was flooded with reservations for New writing there are no tables available. ...Tower First Street way, plan an elaborate par. That was BERTRAM STARKS and wife e night spot Saturday night. ...A yokel whiskey tagged "Wilkins Family" was the drinking that made them give serious the family.. "PICKLES" BLAND WILL TELL YOU WOMAN TO HOLD HIS CONSTANT ATTEN VIVIAN CHISOLM came through D. C., a few days ago enroute to Atlanta, Ga. to join her sister, Isabelle, and the delegates of the Phi Beta Sigmas and Omega Psi Phi fraternities. . . . That Baltimore night spot that has been featuring the music of the Blue Ribbon band was flooded with reservations for New Year's night. At this writing there are no tables available. . . . The popular Shaed girls over First Street way, plan an elaborate party for New Years Eve. That was BERTRAM STARKS and wife enjoying Richmond's only night spot Saturday night. . . . A yokel asked me did I think the whiskey tagged "Wilkens Family" was the stuff that the lads were drinking that made them give serious thoughts toward raising a family. "PICKLES" BLAND WILL TELL YOU, IT TAKES A GOOD WOMAN TO HOLD HIS CONSTANT ATTENTIONS, and "PICKLES" THE WASHINGTON TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1935 thought VIOLA FLEMING was just the girl to turn the trick but along comes the constant and steady "NEWT" JACKSON, for a week and presto-PICKLES dropped back to second place. MARIANNA BECK missed out on several A. K. K. A. affairs because she picked a suburban spot to stop during her stay in Richmond... LEANARD HILL brought DOT. GREEN to the "Whoozits" but one of the Philly gals made him forget Dot. was at the dance... They tell me JACK DEMPSEY is in search of a "White Hope" to fight JOE LOUIS. It looked like DEMPSEY could have found what he was looking for at the "Whoozits"—that is, if we could eliminate the "White"... It seems we offended when we mentioned Major Bowe's "CHIMES"—may we say a word about his amateurs?... The increasing number of exceptionally talented young amateurs that are finding their way on the other side of the footlights through the Major Bowe's Amateur Hour will in time begin to disturb the security of the older professional troupers who are shaded by the ability of these amateurs that will work for less money... JOHN BURTON angled into the "Whoozits" swinger with a smile so impressive it could be heard. JOHN has a particular penchant for Philadelphia women.... RIVMU takes this opportunity to wish that the ensuing year will bring you lots of luck; So I bid you and 1935 a fond adieu until next week—and remember our song on New Year's Eve will be — "WE WON'T GET HOME UNTIL MORNING." ... Chewin' the Rag By MORRIS L. MURRAY Santa has gone back to his North Pole layout, which causes one to ponder over this situation. Since it's the belief that Santa Claus is a hugh fellow, with rosy cheeks and snow white hair and of the Caucasian race, I wonder who plays Santa during the uletide along the streets of Addis Ababa? ... The O.C.O.'s. shim-dig was Sadee nite and many of the hibrows turned out for the affair ... It's the talk that Mary Dowling was in a jam, trying to hunt someone to drag her to the swinger ... Gloria Osborne stays home to count the lights on her tree, while Thadus Mitchell trots Gerald Wilson to the dance ... A Slumming Party ... William Eullock, of cadet fame, with some of his sissiety pals were patrons at the Jungle Inn (a You Street hotcha spot), during the holidays . . . Fats Waller's conception of "the music goes down and round." smells so help me . . . Is She reading? . . . Eddie Brooke received blows from M. Webb because he had ideas of dragging an out-of-town gal to the O-C.O. hep. The Webb lassie was finally carried . . . Maude Lewis, a Alex, damsel, had D. C. visitors at her wigwam during the holidays. The local lads went wild. You see a strange face in that berg is as unusual as an interesting column . . . Therell Smith came home from Fisk U. Duana Wells did the prom-trotting . . . Sam Poole, a Xmas "G" relief worker, drives a mail truck in front of Ruth Coleman's hut and tames the horn, so she'll see he's working at last . . . ONE REASON WHY THE EDITOR LEAVES BY THE BACK DOOR EVENINGS . . . A scandal yarn broke across the city desk concerning a medic, who practices across the Potomac, and who was alleged to have broken up a happy home by making love to a client's wife, while the client was cooped up in a sanitarium by orders of the physician. The yarn was phoned in to the desk by the broken-hearted wife, who insisted that the medic's name be dragged in the mud. After checking the tale through police records, it was revealed that the woman was partly cooft. The snag of the story comes when a policeman was sent to the woman's house to warn her to stop annoying the medic. She raved, claiming that the "blue coat" made love to her. She was jailed, but later released. All Northern Virginia is chattering . . . Street Movies . . . "Sporting" Daniels singing a nine part opera in a conceived section of downtown . . . The Temple Luncheonette closed up by "G" orders. Looks like a Republican political headquarters after the last election . . . A downtown barber shop that does nothing but shave ofws, but has colored barbers, with its title in gold across the plate glass, reading. "Midnight Barber Shop" . . . And so on until another week, I'll say A Happy New Year . . . The Younger Set By DANIEL PARKER THE M. G. N. The weekend was filled with many social entertainments. Heading this list of social affairs was a party given by the M. G. N's. at 158 Adams Street, last Tuesday night. The snow dotting the streets and banking high around the trees did not prevent members of Baltimore and Washington's younger set from attending this affair. Three rousing cheers for Nannie White, Vera Coleman, Olive Jones, Helen Barnes, Viola Scruggs and Cleo Whittley for giving such a splendid affair. Although the music made it impossible to swing at time, the boys and girls enjoyed themselves by beating up their gums about Santa Claus and cocktail parties. Barrington Tate latched on to Pauline Broughton all the evening. Keep up the good work Tate, some day you will be the one and only. Helen Barnes gave H. Penn the air for a young lass from the "city of white stems" Horold Tinsley is Nannie White's heart pounder when a certain fellow from Baltimore is not around. Lillian Adams and Fred Smoot attended the Duke's formal dance after leaving the party. Lucretia Clayborne. didn't you know that Scarface Reevis was very lonely while you were having your ball? How could you do him that way after the Friday night on O Street? Since Julia Barret has railed it to the Carolinas, Morris Murray is out looking for new territory to conquer. Joseph Overton is trying to keep the wolf away from his door by jumping bundles on one of Mr. Hecht's trucks. How is the madam Overton? When Dough Boys Get Together Tuesday night, Nat Dixon gave a stag and after the boys finished breaking the joint up, Nat dismissed the company. Mama Dixon stated that someone must buy her some more dishes. Thaddux Mitchell is on the war path for Lucretia Matthews because she would not let him in on her swinger Friday night. The sassiety folks' kids not only hustle for their beatie (money) but they are some of the biggest sports in the city. Among those we find: Percy Pitts, George Scurlock, Edward Brook, "Dub" Bullock and Louis Cook. Margaret Jackson has been given the names of the mouthpiece of Dunbar. Her latest piece of blabbing is about the Nat Dixon and Doris Mason affair. SHAW The program of Mrs. G. S. Johnson's section was presented under this caption—"Section 8A8 Appears in Nazareth." Under Mrs. Johnson's direction the Christmas anthem, "Nazareth" was dramatized. The following pupils participated: Richard Ridout, James Primus, Jayle Mitchell, Andrew Lucas, John Moore, Elwood Nelson, Benjamin Jackson, Howard Lyons, Benjamin Stith, Alonzo Beasley Raymond Boggs, Bernard Burke, Kingsly Davis, Lawrence Day, James Freeland, Silas Goodall, James McDade, Talmadge Moore, Paul Nelson, Lewis Rhodes, James Sanders, Francis Stewart, Harris Stewart. Frederick Watkins, Oliver Weaver, Clement Williams, William White. The following teachers assisted Mrs. Johnson with the music: Miss R. R. W. Brown, Miss S. M. Edelin, Mrs. P. T. Parks, and Dr. I. N. Cupid. Shaw's effort to brighten the Christmas of many little children, Carols were sung by a sextet from the school, and musical numbers were rendered by Mrs. I. H. Seldon and Dr. I. N. Cupid. A play was presented by Section 847 under the direction of Fiss A. W. Thomas. The title was "On Christmas Eve." The following pupils participated: Harvey Banks, Mildred Gillison, Ray Campbell, Emanuel Carr, Frederick Lathern, David Jenkins, Arthur Gross, Armstead Walker, Robert Johnson, Carroll Tyler, John Whitaker, Arthur Woods, Bernard Johnson, Carroll Tyler, Markley Hendrick, Xavier Butler, George White, William Tyler Markley Hendrick, Xavier Butler, George White William Thomas, Carl Baylor, Joseph Hicks, Lawrence Graves Paul Duffey, Julia Tobin, William Simmon, and Gwendolyn Belasco. Dr. Garnet C. Wilkinson, first assistant superintendent, and Mrs. Wilkinson, and A. H. Johnson, director of music, were present. Toys were given to the children. The Honor Society of Shaw under the sponsorship of Miss B. S. Catlett has the following members: Gwendolyn Belasco, Emeline Banks, Theresa Berry, Jeanette Blake, Teresa Braxton, Eline Brazier, Bessie Brewer, Warren Brooks, Doris Brown, Orville Crutchfield, Catherine Darden, Olive Dedeaux, Holloman, Frances Johnson, Malone, Clinton Mattingly, Dolyn Ore, Harriet Pearson, Charlotte Pinkett, Lena Toms, and Nerissa Whitlock. In addition to these, the following names appeared on the advisory honor roll: Jean Southall, Audrey Stevenson, Frances Walker, Naomi Cassell, Nellie Shapman, Camille Cottrell, Helen Harris, Peggy Lucas, Jane Martin, Anna Mattingly, Constance Quarles, Barbara Scott, Maurea Washington, Julia Black, Jean Cooper, Ruth McKissick, Mriam Millard, Annie Morehead, Anita Ford, Louise Anderson, Elizabeth Breckenridge, Margaret Campbell, Callie Cunningham, Jessie Dedeaux. Kathryn Elmes, Georgia Gray, Zada Lewis, Sylvia Jefferson, Alice Tompkins, Madeline Truehart, Stephen Lewis, William Banton, Harry Lynch, Rudolph Miller Waldron Coleman, Harvey Banks. John Lane, Francis Handy, Wm. Cimons, Carl Baylor, James Primus, Annie Ma Houston, Josephine Le Bon, Sterling Derricot, Ashton Robinson, Mabel Bomar, Amelia Bryant, Vivian Butler. Eudore Gilmore, Anita Kennison, Marian Moseley, Dorothy Saunders, Gladys Smith, Bernice Sorrell, Janie Watts, Israel Crin, Samuel Frazier, John Posey, Jackson Davis, Wm. Henderson, Gloria Tompkins. THE MIDDLE SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF AND Hearing Impaired More than 100 employees of the Stix, Baer and Fuller Department Store of St. Louis, were honored recently by store officials at a dinner at the Thomas Jefferson Club 11 St. Louis. Thirty years ago Stix, Baer and Fuller led the way of the city's big stores by giving employment to Negroes. Stix, Baer and Fuller is one of the few if not the only, large department stores in this section of the country which employees so large a number of Negroes. Four employees who had worked for the store 25 years or more received gold medals in appreciation for long and faithful service. Business, Built Because of Dream Keeps Step with the Times CITY OF NEW YORK MASSACHUSETTS MASSACHUSETTS The house that a good product t has built, which is a monument to Negro business. Branch Wins Victory Over Rape Frame-up CHICAGO.—After a three-year struggle the Chicago Branch of the N.A.A.C.P. last week won a signal victory over the attempted persecution of three Negroes by prejudiced officials when the Illinois Supreme Court reversed the convictions of John Thompson, Levi Minter and Viletta Lowe, in the notorious Vivian Ranz (white) alleged rape case. The supposed rape was charged as having occurred November 9, 1931, in Viletta Lowe's apartment in Chicago. The defendants were convicted in 1932 after a bitterly fought trial, and Thompson sentenced to 20 years imprisonment. Minter to 10 years, and Lowe to 30 years. Theodore Roosevelt had the distinction of being the youngest pressident of the United States. He lacked a month of being 43 years of age when inaugurated. Football is a sport of great antiquity. A form of the game was played by the ancient Greeks and a similar game by the Romans. Business, Built B Keeps Step w The house that a good produc to Negro business. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — The vast business organization built by the genius of the greatest woman the race has produced, Mme. C. J. Walker, continues to serve, inspire and represent the group sixteen years after the death of the founder, and four years lated the death of the founder's daughter Mme. A'Lelia Walker. This studpendous achieverant is realized when the great number of casualties of the depression are recalled, and the Walker flag is seen still flying over the beautiful factory and office building in the prominent triangle at North and West Street in this thriving midwestern city that is the capital of the great state of Indiana. The managerial genius and loyalty of F. B. Ransom, on whom the late Mme. Walker herself depended to promote the best interests of the enterprise, has been tried and found able to meet any test in the success his ideas have brought to the company. One of the guiding principles of Mr. Ransom's administration has been to see to it that this great institution continue to make jobs for members of the race. Not only was it to help beautify our women but to give employment to both our women and men. In the manufacturing and selling, as well as the actual using of the Walker toilet articles, race employment has ever been kept to the front of Mr. Ransom's plans. The Walker preparations, beautifully illustrated in the Walker booklet "The Key to Beauty, Success and Happiness", is among the leaders in the cosmetic industry, NAACP Publishes Photo Of Florida Lynching NEW YORK.—What has been described by a number of individuals as being one of the most effective propaganda pamphlets ever published" is now being distributed by the N.A.A.C.P. The leaflet contains a photograph of the lynched body of Rubin Stacy, Negro sharecropper killed by a mob at Fort Lauderdale, Fla. on July 19, 1935. Around the tree stand a group of white people, among them seven neatly-dressed young white children, upon whose faces as they gazed at the gruesome figure are mirrored expressions of horror, gloating, and excitement. Keelhauling was a form of punishment inflicted in the navies of the British Empire and the Netherlands. Scientists have never been able to ascertain why moths and millers are attracted by a light. The Last Judgment by Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel, Rome, is said to be the largest painting in the world. Because of Dream, with the Times t has built, which is a monument and are favorites of many of our beautiful and race-loving women and discriminating and race-loyal men. Beauty Course is Popular Thousands of agents are joining the Mme. Walker selling organization and are making good incomes, even in these times. Hundreds who have been with the company for years are enjoying lucrative full time and part time work, which keeps them independent of charity and relief. The Mme. Walker agent's plan is worth investigating. The Mme. Walker beauty course is taught in branch schools in New York, Cleveland, Detroit Washington, Philadelphia, Chicago and Kansas City, and by demonstrators and licensed Walker operators throughout the country. Women are making good as Walker beauty shop operators in all parts of the country. Not only has the Walker factory kept the face beautiful ad proud of its successful withstanding of the storm and stress of depression, but the race has also had reason to be proud of the vast real estate holdings the sale of these popular preparations have made possible—Villa Lewaro and A'Lelia College in New York and the great Walker factory and office building, which is a landmark in the city of Indianapolis. Mme. C. J. Walker was truly a "Patron Saint of the Race," and the business she built goes on proving that she built true, on the foundation of quality and economic aid to her group through profitable employment It has been truthfully said that of a dream—a reality has been created. --- NOW!! TWO PAPERS WEEKLY TUESDAYS FRIDAYS The Tribune AGENTS MAKE BIG MONEY SELLING The Tribune BECOME AN AGENT TODAY. For particulars, write— CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 920 U St., N.W. Phone Pot. 1667 THE NONQUITTERS Announce their MATINEE AND CABARET DANCES Wednesday, January 1, 1936 AT THE CRYSTAL CAVERNS Featuring Alderson Garrison Louis Diggs AND REVUE From 2 to 5 P. M. and 11 P. M. to 3 A. M. Lindbergh Flight Due Partly to Lynching NEW YORR.—That the growing lawlessness in the United States which caused Colonel Charles Lindbergh and his family to flee from the United States for safety is caused in part by "the complacency with which America has accepted the brutal lynchings of scores of Negroes annually" was charged today in letters to the New York papers by Channing H. Tobias, Senior Secretary for Colored Work of the Y.M.C.A. With his letter Mr. Tobias sent copies of the leaflet recently published by the N.A.A.C.P., containing a photograph of the lynching of Rubin Stacy at Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in which well-dressed white children stand looking at the suspended body. Mr. Tobias also declares that "the apathy on the part of some, and hostility on the part of others in the last Congress when an anti-lynching bill was proposed for passage" is responsible for the growing indifference to human life which is becoming so acute a problem in the United States. ELEVEN ELK OFFICER TO FACE WIFE IN D. C. COURT Accused of desertion and misconduct by his wife Mrs. Viola Walker, 119 Division Avenue, Northeast, Joseph A. Walker, chairman of the house committee of the Morning Star Lodge of Elks, will be called on during the coming court calendar to face his accuser in a District Supreme Court trial room. The case was requested calendared late last week by Attorney J. Flipper Derricotte, counsel for Mrs. Walker. Walker, a prominent Elk and one time well known in District athletic circles, was sued on November 2 Mrs. Walker setting forth charges that he had left her at the home of her parents and gone to live at a Fifteenth Street, Northwest, residence. She states that following his departure from their home, he began associating with one Evelyn Pollard, whom she names as correspondent. Moved Together After having lived a time at the Fifteenth Street address, Mrs. Walker asserted, her husband moved, accompanied by the correspondent to 1833 Fifth Street, Northwest where they were living at the time of the filing of her complaint. Throughout the wife's accusations are references to alleged misconduct on the part of the two defendants. On November 26, Walker was ordered to pay his wife $30 monthly temporary alimony. They have one child. On December 4, through Attorney Malcolm Daniels, both defendants filed answers calling on the wife to prove her charges, neither admitting nor denying the allegations she made. Methodists Foresee Complete Protestant Merger All Protestant denominations may be expected to rejoin their various divisions, including those split asunder by the Civil War, it was foreseen by Methodist leaders convening here this week to work out plans for the consolidation of the three Methodist groups. Such a merger is already being drafted by the Northern and Southern Presbyterian churches, it was announced. According to Dr. Harry E. Woolever, secretary of the M. E. joint commission on union, the three branches cannot be consolidated before 1940 as the Southern group will not meet until 1938. Lincoln's New Year Show Presents a Strong Cast "Transatlantic," Long-Awaited Picture, Includes Richard Dix, Madge Evans, Helen Vinson, Leslie Banks; George Arliss, Walter Huston in Minor Roles Radio Artists Active During the Year:18 Heard Last Week The long-heralded and eagerly expected "Transatlantic" which has for the principal motif the construction of an under-ocean tube between America and England is the current attraction at the Lincoln and will run until Tuesday, January 7, Richard Dix, Madge Evans, Helen Vinson, Leslie Banks Basil Sidney and C. Aubrey Smith are starred. Maurice Elvey directed the production, which both from the spectacular and dramatic viewpoints, provides entertainment of unqualified excellence. The many perils besetting the workers in a strange world of heroic endeavor underneath Neptune's domain are set forth in situations of thrilling intensity. Chief among these is the awful moment when the boring encounters a volcano in eruption, and hundreds of lives are lost in the twin menace of fire and water. The picture offers a powerful appeal and its engrossing romance of a young wife's loyalty to her husband temporarily estranged from her by over-devotion to his strenuous duties as head engineer of the mighty project, and the soft seductions of a beautiful siren. The picture's background provides wonders of mechanical inventions unknown in this century, that are so cunningly devised as to make this brilliant conception of what the future may bring singularly convincing in its stark real- NEW YORK (ANP)—Broadcasting by colored artists during the past week from major stations in this city, showed eighteen performances listed. The stations included WEAF,WJZ, WOR and WABC. Sunday had the largest number with four broadcasts, not that of Ruby Elzi, appearing as guest star on a late program. The programs included the Southernaires, Chariotees Quartette, Earl Hines's Orchestra, Bianhe Calloway's Orchestra spotted at various hours, chiefly, "off hours" that is early in the morning or late in the evening. The others appearing on the program for the week included the "Three Keys" now with WABC instead of the National Broad-Louis Armstrong's orchestra and Claude Hopkins's orchestra. Many of the programmed numbers occupied more than one spot and were heard at different times during the day. Eva Taylor Missing Notable among the absentees was Eva Taylor, who for a long time held down a choice spot with the National Broadcasting Company. Ernest Whitman and his group formerly with the Gibson Family passed on with that program. The biggest artist appearing on the air during the year was Paul Robeson in a special program for the Ford Motor Company singing with the symphony orchestra. Numerous other colored artist appered from time to time on programs as "guest stars" including the top tap dancer, Bojangles Robinson, a guest with Ben Bernie Guest Artist Rudy Vallee also had several performers on his programs. Josephine Baker was a guest star one night and made an instant hit, although she hasn't been heard since. Joe Louis was also on several broadcasts as guest star. Colored announcers and programs didn't hit so well this year, although WMCA in cooperation with the Amsterdam News and a merchant in Harlem had a spot broadcasting news of colored America, similar to the program some years ago featuring the Associated Negro Press representative in a series of news broadcasts. Lone Announcer A peculiar thing about, Miss Elzy's appearance as guest star was that she was advertised as such and when the program unfolded, Miss Elzy had the role of a servant and as such was asked to sing. One colored announcer remains in Nw York's sations Jocko Maxwell broadcasting from staring WHOM, the station of All Nations. This little station has six different nationality groups using time, Italian, Polish, German, Irish, Ukrainian, Spanish are among those using the place. Preachers Decreasing Fading from the air like dew before the morning's sun, are the religious programs which cluttered up the place at one time. Remaining now are only Sister Rosa Horn on station WMAC and Elder Lawson, Refuge Church of Christ, station WENX. Station WEVD carried programs devoted to Negro enterprises now and then, but they take the form of forums. But the pay off comes with the one and only (Thank God) "Pork Chops" who broad- ism. The acting is on a scale that would be expected from such an aggregation of talent. And the appearance for a few A. RICHARD DIX, star in "Transatlantic Tunnel." at Lincoln. brief moments of Messrs. George Arliss and Walter Huston, in their respective roles of England's Premier and President of the United States, engaged in simultaneously announcing the conception of the gigantic project, comes as a gratifying dynamic surprise. casts over station WHN. Others who have won fame during the past year include Bob Howard, one of the real features of the hour and the little lady from Chicago who created such a furore over WABC, Cleo Brown; Charley Beale over Station WINS. These are the outstanding performers over the air during 1935, although many have been overlooked in this brief resume. On the Air A full program of deep South "river songs" will make up the "Oleanders" program for Thursday, to be heard over the WABC-Columbia network from 3:00 to 3:15 p. m. (EST). Beginning with "O, Wasn't That a Wide River," the quartet will continue with "Down by the River," "Rollin Down the River," "Way Down Upon the Swanee River" and "River Stay 'Way from My Door." The first of a series of weekly programs by Clyde Barrie, CBS baritone, will be heard over the WABC-Columbia net work on New Year's Day, Wednesday from 5:15 to 5:30 p.m. (EST). The broadcast will consist of "Landlord, Fill the Flowing Bowl," an old English drinking song; "My Lawd, What a morning," a spiritual; "Auld Lang Syne," the Scotch classic, and Fisher's "At Tankerton Inn." Barrie will also continue his regular Saturday programs, which are heard rom 10:15 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. (EST). SHORT WAVES Ernest Charles's old-fashioned song, "My Lady Walks in Loveliness," will be featured by Mr. Barrie over the WABC-CBS network, Saturday. He also will sing a spiritual entitled "Let Us Break Bread Together." Respighi's "Nebbie" and Powell-Weaver's "The Abbot of Derry." **** Lawrence Tibbett, dramatic baritone, will sing "Standing in the Need of Prayer," a spiritual from the opera, "Emperor Jones," on his New Year's Eve program tonight (tuesday)...The Chariooteers will render music for Ted Husing's new broadcasts to start January 6 (7:15 to 7:30 p.m.)...the program sponsored by the Wildroot Co. will be heard every week thereafter...the rise of Joe Louis in the pugilistic world received 50 votes as the year's outstanding news story in the Columbia Broadcasting Company's poll...the Italo-Ethiopian War received 152 APEX EMPLOYEES RECEIVE CHRISTMAS BONUS ATLANTIC CITY—Mme. Sarr- Spencer Washington, founder and president of the Apex Hair Co- mpany, played Santa Clause last Thursday when she personally handed Christmas bonus checks to the office and laboratory em- ployees at the home office and mailed checks to each employee in the nine schools of the company, situated in various cities throughout the country. Over two hundred were benefitted by Mme. Washington's generosity. It depends on which way you're looking. Liberals see the Golden Age in the future and conservatives see it in the past. STAGE and SCREEN 12-Year-Old Pupil in Kansas City Given Radio Spot on WDAF CHARIOTEER FOUR TO BE HEARD ON NEW HOOKUP Three of Columbia Radio Artists Wilberforce Graduates The Charioteers, a sensational quartet who have made radio history in recent months, will be a feature of the new Wildroot programs, with Ted Husing as raconteur, starting Monday, from 7:15 to 7:30 p.m., (EST). The Charioteers will be heard every week at this time over an extensive coast-to-coast hookup. The four lads from Texas, Onio, and Kentucky present the novel spectacle of four singers with the range of a sextet. The youngest Charioteer, William B. Williams, 22, possesses a remarkable voice capable of singing baritone, tenor, and soprano. The quartet's versatility, their extensive repertoire of numbers ranging from spirituals and the classes to rhythm numbers and popular hits in every field of music, have already won them a wide following. They will provide a rich musical background for Husing's vivid talks which will feature the latter's colorful reminiscences during the past decade of radio's dramatic development. Found in Ohio The Charioteers were brought to New York a few months ago by Jean Goldkette, the noted orchestra leader, who heard them singing over a local Ohio station two years ago. Williams, the three-voice member of the Charioteers, is a graduate of Wilberforce University with a B.S. degree in chemistry. Born in Waco, Texas, he is a champion chess and checker player and a Second Lieutenant in the Officers Reserve Corps. George D. Lubers, 28-year-old Charioteer, halls from Zanesville, Ohio, and is also a graduate of Wilberforce University with a degree in business administration. KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Eldon Turner, 12-year-old seventh grade pupil at the W. W. Yates School is "tops" among local entertainers. critics heard this clever youngster sing two years ago and said he of the children's hour over WDAF, was good. "Uncle Bob", conductor heard him and gave him a radio contract. Eldon, who possesses a deep, baritone voice, has been signed to sing twice a week over station WDAF during the "Uncle Bob and Scrappy" children's program sponsored by the Holsum Bread company. After the holidays he will appear on Tuesdays and Fridays. ffEldon was given the radio "spot" through a challenge issued by Joe E. Herriford, principal of Yates school. Heard at School "Uncle Bob" and other principals on the Holms Pals program, "Scrappy", "Toby", and "Whitey", all familiar characters to the children gave a free show for the pupils at the Yates school. After the show, Mr. Herriford said to "Uncle Bob" "I have a boy in my school, who is a good singer." When "Uncle Bob" answered, "All right, let's meet him." Mr. Herriford presented young Eldon, a pupil of Miss Adela Newcoms. Eldon was given a quick audition by "Uncle Bob" who immediately recognized the boy's talent, signed him up for a twice weekly appearance. He sang on the program for the first time Tuesday afternoon. December 17, under the name of "Lucky", the name given him by "Uncle Bob." All of the participants on the program appear under assumed names. Lives With Aunt "Lucky" lives at 1515 Harrison street with his aunt, Mrs. Marie Kenny. His mother is dead. His father, a Pullman porter, lives in Spokane. He has been singing for about three years, he says. He began his vocal career in Columbia. Mo., where he lived before coming here. There, he and three other boys, Bert Gray, William Washington and Alfred Lee Nichols, formed a quartet and sang gratis at restaurants and cafes. Sang For Bing Crosby One of the greatest thrills "Lucky" ever had before he was given this contract over WDEF came when Bing Crosby, the radio and screen crooner, heard him sing out THE WASHINGTON TRIBUNE. TUESDAY. DECEMBER 31. 1935 Lowe Returns to Detective Role at Republic Theatre Edmund Lowe, Ann Sothern Star in "Grand Exit" At U Street House; "Stars Over Broadway" To Complete Split Week at Play Mart Edmund Lowe in "Grand Exit" with Ann Sothern will show at the Republic Theatre until Friday, Jan. 3. Lowe is seen as the G-Man of the fire fighters—running down clues and men who have started mysterious fires. Suspecting Miss Sothern's complicity in a series of mysterious fires, Lowe, chief detective of the fire insurance company, plans a stragetic move to trap the real criminal and clears the name of the girl he has learned to love. Starting Saturday and running through the following Thursday, the attraction at the Republic will be "Stars Over Broadway" with an all-star cast, including Pat O'Brien, James Melton, Jane Froman, Jean Muir, Frank Mc Hugh and Phil Reagan. The plot concerns the rise and fall, the loves, the lives and the struggles of Broadway radio aspirants with an inner glimpse of the hidden portals of the broadcasting studios. There is a large variety of musical numbers, including new and catchy airs by Harry Warren and Al Dubin, famous song writers. The picture also serves to introduce James Melton, one of the ace singers of the air. Two beautiful and spectacular dance numbers were created for "Stars Over Broadway" by two of Another Ohioan from Cambridge, O., is John W. Harewood, 24, who is the treasurer of the group and holds a B.S. degree from Wilberforce. Howard D. Daniel, from Louis- ville, Kentucky is a graduate of Northwestern University in Chicago with a degree of Bachelor of Music. He also holds a master's degree from Wittenburg College, where he took graduate work in music and psychology. Teddy Wilson is their pianist. ```markdown ``` ELDON TURNER in Spokane and gave him a few points of advise. Eldon's aunt works for Crosby's parents in Spokane. During the year 1933-34 which Eldon spent with his father in Spokane, Bing frequently visited his parents and each time that he came, Eldon would sing for the crooner. Crosby told Eldon that his voice showed promise but advised him not to begin any formal training until he was about 16 years old. While in Spokane, Eldon won first prize of $10 in an amateur contest over radio station KGA. When Elden returned to Kansas City he began to sing on various programs at Yates school, minstrels, operettas and other entertainments the school had. It was through these programs that Mr. Herrick discovered the boy had an unusual voice. Besides appearing on the Holsum Pals program, Eldon makes personal appearances with other members of "Uncle Bob's staff at various schools, hotels and other public places two or three times a week. He is paid extra for each appearance. 'House Card Tough ATLANTA, GA. -With 22 candidates for the varsity team out out for practice and with seven of last year's letter men back for the season. Morehouse College faces a strenuous basketball season, which begins January 4 and includes sixteen conference games. LINCOLN 1215 You St., N.W. Phone North 3000 NOW PLAYING UNTIL TUESDAY, JAN. 7, INCLUSIVE THE NEXT WONDER OF THE WORLD! TRANSATLANTIC TUNNEL NEW YORK TO LONDON with RICHARD DIX, MADGE EVANS, HELEN VINSON, C. AUBRY SMITH, GEORGE ARLISS and WALTER HUSTON A PRODUCTION Saturday Only—Chapter No. 14, "THE ROARING WEST" Starring BUCK JONES DUNBAR Seventh & T Sts. Northwest North 5224 THEATRE TUESDAY 1 DAY ONLY DEC. 31 A thrilling sound motion picture epic of romantic BALI "Isle of Paradise" RUSS COLUMBO "WAKE UP AND DREAM" with June Knight WED., THURS., FRI. 1936 JAN. 1, 2, 3 TIM McCOY in "THE MAN FROM GUNTOWN" with Billie Seward and Rex Lease Thurs. and Fri., Chap. 10—"CALL OF THE SAVAGE" (Starring Noah Beery, Jr.) COMEDY — CARTOON, "THE HARE and THE TORTOISE" the country's best known dance directors, Busby Berkeley and Bobby Connolly. Incidentally, in this picture the THE FIRST WEDDING OF THEIR FIRST MARRIAGE "Stars Over Broadway" feature James Melton and Jane Froman. at Republic. love affair of Pat O'Brien and Jean Muir has a happy ending. Both stars have been noted for their unfortunate film romances. Provide Housing for Dam Works LOS ANGELES. — Through its Water and Power department, took steps to provide proper housing for the employees of the Bureau of Power and Light who will handle the operations of the power plants at the foot of Boulder Dam officials announced. It was estimated that 50 men and their families will be established at Boulder City. LINCOLN MINTO CATO AND FATS WALLER PACK HOWARD Special New Year's Eve Midnight Show Slated For Tonight Fats Waller, radio's "harmful little armful" and his rhythmic orchestra, which opened at Howard Theatre Friday and will continue shows until Thursday night is a real holiday treat for local theatre-goers. Indications that Waller's present seven-day stand at the T-Street House would probably break the season's capacity record were evident Friday as "standing room only" signs were put out by the management at the opening show, and subsequent crowds necessitated the calling off of the scheduled audition night performance. Waller received vociferous applause from the large audience. With his incomparable style on the piano and his witty presentations, "Eats" and his band literally bring the house down with their renditions of "Lula Is Back In Town," "I'm Going Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter," "Rockin' in Rhythm," and a novelty arrangement of "Music Goes Round and Round." Another headliner in the show in Minto Cato who won an unusually big hand with her singing of old favorites, "The Peanut Vendor" and "Memories." Miss Cato is a Washington girl and former Broadway star. She led the dancing chorines in a novelty singing and dance number featuring pumpet daniels. Others in the stellar revue were Sally Gooding, Harlem torch singer; Jerry and Turk, a clever comedy duo; Bill Bailey, ace among the tap comedians, and Swan and Lee, who provided the comedy skits. James Dunn is featured in "Bad Boy" on the screen. A special New Year's Eve midnight show will be held tonight (Tuesday). Business is sprinting nobly for the year's finish. BEST NEWS OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL ar Opens New at the Booker T of Moviedom's Most Cunning Child in "This Is the Life"; Last Of how "Feather in Her Hat" Juvenile. Star Opens New Year at the Booker T Jane Withers, One of Moviedom's Most Cunning Child Stars, Listed in "This Is the Life"; Last Of Week to Show "Feather in Her Hat" OKER T 3 U STREET, N.W. G! 5-DAYS-5 SUNDAY to THURSDAY JAN. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 BOOKER T 1433 U STREET, N.W. NOW PLAYING! BRING THE CHILDREN! “This is the Life” With Jane Withers The Kid You Can’t Resist! 5—DAYS—5 SUNDAY to THURSDAY JAN. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 “A FEATHER IN HER HAT” The Sweetest Love Story Ever Told, with PAULINE LORD BASIL RATHBONE BILLIE BURKE REPUBLIC 1343 You Street, N.W. NOW PLAYING Edmund Lowe as the G-Man of the fire fighters in “GRAND EXIT” with ANN SOTHERN 6 DAYS—SATURDAY to THURSDAY JAN. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 STARS OVER BROADWAY With PAT O’BRIEN JANE FROMAN JAMES MELTON JEAN MUIR FRANK McHUGH FRANK FAY As different as the musicales you’ve been seeing as “42nd Street” and “Gold Diggers” were from the films that went before! 4 Song Hits by Warren & Dubin Meet and hear magnetic JIMMY MELTON—a new face on the screen but a voice known to millions Saturday Only—Chapter No. 4, “THE MIRACLE RIDER” Starring TOM MIX Jane Withers, the kid you can't resist, in "This Is The Life" is now playing at the Booker T and will run through Saturday, January 4. This picture is especially appealing to all children and they will enjoy a real treat when they see it. Following the little actress's triumph in her first starring picture, "Ginger," this new and scintillating personality has been cast in a role in which she emerges as a full-fledged singing and dancing star as well as a dramatic actress of the first rank. In "This Is the Life," which is set in the glamour of the theatre, little Jane Withers plays her most dramatic role as a child performer who years to be just a "regular kid" and travels the road from riches to rags to achieve that desire. "A Feather in Her Hat" There have been good pictures and great ones, but for sheer humanistic warmth and soul-satisfying gentleness, the picturization of I.A.R. Wylie's noted love story, "A Feather In Her Hat" which will be at the Booker T, starting Sunday and run through Thursday, tops them all. And this is one instance where perfect casting and subsequent perfect performances materially aid in making the film something of which to be proud. Pauline Lored, Basil Rathbone, Louis Hayward, Billie Burke, Wendy Barrie, Victor Varconi and others act as though they were not on the screen at all, but in the heart of London where the action takes place. Miss Lord's 'Clarissa Phipps' leaves nothing to be desired. It is always apparent that she is enjoying the role as much as the aud- CCC WORKERS AID FOLKS BACK HOME BY 7 MILLION The War Department today, advised Robert Fechner, Director of Emergency Conversion Work, that approximately 50,000 young colored men and war veterans of the Civilian Conservation Corps camps have sent home to dependents more than $7,000,000 out of their earn- ence, which is considerable. Rathbone, as the rum-soaked but genteel Captain Courtney, whom she gives shelter so that he may rear her lower class son to be a gentleman, acquits himself only as so experienced an actor might. Louis THE FILM "THE LOVE OF THE WEEK" BARRIE AND HAYWARD in "A Feather In Her Hat" at Booker T Hayward, the son becomes through his performance, a decided threat to Hollywood's currently favored juveniles. Billie Burke, playing the actress to whom Clarissa sacrifices her son so that he may live with the upper class, does her best job to date. No sweeter and dramatic love story has ever been told, no greater acting ever glorified the screen than you will see in "A Feather in Her Hat." ings since April 1, 1935. The Department stated that most of this amount was allotted to dependents by enrollees when they entered the CCC camps and forwarded direct to the families of officers of the Office of the Chief of Finance of the U. S. Army. The best husbands are to be found next door, either way. The Tribune Sport Review BEST NEWS OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL The ball from the fingers of the Cuban hurler and sent it out of the park for a home-run tying the score. The deciding game was played on Saturday and was featured by home runs by Gibson, Charleston, Spearman, Dixon; a triple and 2 doubles by Chester Williams and the effective batting of Patterson and Bankhead. The Cubans rallied in the ninth when Spearman clouted a home-run with Salazar on, but Oms could not connect, and his grounder to Davis retired the side. The mix-up came about when the Georgies were unable to properly dispose of the Aztec A. C., a Southwest aggregation, after having beaten every other team of repute in the city. Despite these setbacks, the Georgetown aggregation held the upper hand among local teams. Whitlock's crew defeated the Hillsdales, 1934 city champions; the LeDroit Tigers. Tri State league champions; the Anacostia Athletics, the Coleville Tigers, and other leading teams of the city. --- Baseball The Pittsburgh Crawfords baseball team again led the pack of national diamond aggregations by taking the measure of the New York Cubans in the play-off series for the National Negro Baseball Association crown. Led by the inimitable Oscar Charleston, the Crawfords pounded their way to the first half championship of the league—the league operating in a split-season. The Smoky City outfit then coasted through its second half of the schedule while the Philadelphia Stars, Homestead Grays and the New York Cubans battled it out, the last named being returned the victor. The New Yorkers, headed by Martin Dihigo, veteran Cuban all round star, went into the van in the series, a best 4-of-5 game affair, when the contests were carried to Philadelphia and later New York. The Crawfords scored behind their ace right-hander Davis to move the count to 3 to 2. In the clash in the Quaker City, the Cubans were cheated of the spoils by a most timely (or untimely, depending on the way you look at it) home run with two on by Charleston. The New Yorkers, leading 6-3 as they went into the ninth inning, had the championship within their grasp. But the big bat of Charleston connected with a fast Basketball When we reach a general roundup of the past basketball season, we find ourselves unable to find a better starting point than our own fair city, Washington. In these discussions, one is supposed to select a national representative and take it into the discourse as the initial subject. Nationally, the Renaissance are best known, but the fact that the Howard University and Armstrong High School teams of our own native Capital City took the measure of teams of national repute places those two machines in the category—in our mind—of national standouts. The Blue and White of Howard was floated atop the Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association for the second successive year. When any college team in the country twice outpaces the floor representation of the nationally famous Morgan College team of Baltimore, that team is worthy of national recognition. Although the Howard team of the past year was not the equal of the 1934 outfit—to our way of thinking—the 1935 Bisons had much stronger opposition to wade through than that through which the previous representative iterally coasted. In many quarters, the Blue and White of the last campaign were considered decidedly lucky. Another CIAA team was believed by some to be better than the Burr-coached outfit which copped the second consecutive title. And at the same time that there was one team believed to be Howard's superior, there were at least two others in the same conference taken to be the Bisons' equal. But the fact remains. Howard won the title. And she won it by one of the fairest methods of rating now in use—the Dickinson System. While we're in the collegiate ranks, it should be considered no more than right to take up the record of the other local entrant in that division, Miner Teachers' College. The Maroon and Gold of the Georgia Avenue institution held its own wherever and whenever it was called on to perform. Tripping such teams as Howard and Virginia State in the year's two biggest upsets, the Teachers, coached by Harold D. Martin, threw a scare into the ranks of all who had visions of occupying the throne in the Court of 1935 Basketball. Although the Virginia outfit had its revenge in a later contest and for some reason or other there could be no agreement between officials of the two schools for a second Miner-Howard game, the Georgia Avenue lads had done their dirt and were considered entitled to a voice in the talk of champions. Another cracker-jack team was turned out at Armstrong High School during the past floor season. South Atlantic contender were consistently overmatched in engagements with the Generals, Sports Mirror of 1935 Although the local baseball situation ended in pretty much of a muddle, partial observers were of the opinion that Lefty Whitlock's Georgetown Athletics were best of the diamond outfits. The South Atlantic High School Athletic Conference championship was garnered by Douglass High School of Baltimore. coached by Edgar P. Westmoreland. Winning all the laurels there were for them in this section, the Techites turned their eyes toward Gary, Ind., and the national scholastic tournament. Inability to get permission to take the necessa time off from school to make a trip, though, forced the Generals to abandon the idea of conteting for the larger prize. For that reason the Orange and Blue did not take the pains to question the monopoly held on the national championship by the Roosevelt High School of Gary, which, incidentally, is the sponsor of the affair. Dunbar and Cardozo, the other two senior high schools engaged in the sport locally, did not quite reach the calibre of the Generals, but were by no means disgraced by their efforts afloor. Though handicapped by lack of capable material, Coaches Perry L. Jacobs and Jack Young, Dunhar and Cardozo respectively, placed representative fives on the floor. From a general angle, the Renaissance of New York did not fare so well as has been their lot in the past half-decade. The Harlem, outfit, holders of several national titles in that course of time, during the year just passed, twice fell victims in series with the New York Celtics, white. The two teams have been identified as unquestionably the greatest floor outfits seeing action at the present. Wherever great basketball is discussed, there is invariably some mention of either the one or the other of these two aggregations. Unusually they re both spoken of in the same breath. Because of numerous barnstorming trips, the Rens and the Green Clover have been hooked up as the only two major outfits doing business. Although this is not true in the full sense of the meaning, the Harlemites and the off-spring of the East side settlement house do occupy the main spotlight in winter sport. In 1935, the Renaissance bowed in an early-season seven-game series. This was taken by many to mean that the colored machine had not quite reached its peak of perfection. But when the Green Clovered uniforms were again sported to victory in another series of the same length—this time with more to spare—the superiority of the white team was acknowledged. A review of basketball could not be complete without some mention of the advancement of the sport among night high schools in the District and Maryland. Largely through the efforts of James O. (Horse) Williams, basketball in the ranks of noturnal students flourished during the year just ended. Williams, who acts as organizer, coach, manager and captain of the team at the Armstrong High School in Washington, has built the sport to such an extent that enthusiasm among the night students—many of whom hardly un- THE WASHINGTON TRIBUNE. TUESDAY. DECEMBER 31. 1935 Football Despite the fact that Negroes received comparatively little recognition for their accomplishments on the gridiron the past season, the year of 1935 saw colored athletes playing a more prominent role in the game than they have ever had in the annals of the fall sport. Nineteen hundred sixteen was no more, nor less, an exception than 1918 in this respect. Fritz Pollard, who was chosen for the first All-America team of 1915, nor Paul Robeson, a choice on the leading mythical eleven of 1918, showed no more—in the eyes of many—than did several of the outstanding performers of the grid season just ended. This statement is made regardless of the fact that Pollard and Robeson were named to the all-star teams in their respective seasons of stardom, whereas the leading athlete of the 1935 campaign, Oze Simmons, not accorded the same respect by the generally accepted selectors. The brown University of Iowa sensation did everything that asked of him and more, his name and tales of his accomplishments crowding out many, many lines of type in Sunday morning sports pages during the year. Whereas Pollard played havoc with the elevens representing Yale and Harvard while cavorting at a halfback position for Brown University back in his heyday, Simmons took much of the "chest" out of such outfits as the Colgate, Illinois and Minnesota football teams. Simmons had much to do with the defeats of the first two named. And against the latter team, adjudged the greatest football machine of the 1935 season by most experts, found the task of "stopping Simmons" none too simple. Robeson was a top-notcher while holding down an end position for the Rutgers aggregation. His feats both on offense and defense were the subject of reams on reams of copy by sports editors of the nation's daily press. And it was agreed far and wide that the way he played against the leading elevens of his day was a revelation to followers of Negro athletic history. Back further in the annals of the sport will be found the name of one William H. (Bill) Lewis, a center while at Harvard University. Lewis, like Pollard and Robeson, was a colored youth and a choice of an All-America team. Many are of the opinion that the All-America team of that day nor this have had a pivot-man the equal of Lewis. Although Simmons was not fortunate enough to be named to the select group on which the three senians snooked of above find themselves, there is strong public sentiment to the effect that the chon-hued lad who bore the brunt of the Hawkeve attack the pass season deserved such an honor. Simmons, though placed on only one All-America team worth mentioning (that of Radio Announcer Tud Husing), was called the equal of Jav Berwange (an unanimous choice) by a leading Associated Press columnist and special writer. Still another highly-regarded critic said that the Iowa flash was so near to Bill Shakespeare (another widely-selected athlete) that "there was hardly any choice between them." "Wizard of Oz," as he was often called, led a marade of colored stars of the gridiron for 1935. On the same team with him, though hardly the class of player he was, was a colored end. Homer Harris. A Negro, Dwight Reed proved to be the only end fixture on the Minnesota "Pile Driver." Gopher coaches experimented with no less than a quintet of other flank candidates in an effort to find a can- (Continued on Next Page) derstood the game before its introduction by Williams—is at its highest peak for the approach of the 1936 campaign. His influence had much to do with the adoption of the sport as an extra-curricular activity at the Douglass Night High School of Balitmore and the Shaw Night School in this city. Very little was done among independent teams in Washington, there being decline in the sport in this particular division ever since the loss of a suitable place for the promotion of independent or semi-pro contests. Community Center and YMCA leagues were carried on, but the interest, we regret having to admit, was deplorable low. 1935 - The Season's Greetings- JOHN H. BROWN JOHN H. BROWN = To All Our Friends = 1936 ```markdown ``` Joe Louis led, not only the race, but the rest of the world in achievements in the prize ring during the year just closed. The Brown Bomber went from an above-the-clock fighter to the greatest ring machine of the now-all inside the short span of little more than 14 months. In 25 professional bouts, the olive-complexioned, Alabama born Detroiter succeeded in stopping all types and classes of ring roes. Inside of three months, Louis knocked out two former world heavyweight champions; one in six rounds, the other in four. In the second of these fights, the Detroit Dynamiter was largely responsible for the return to the record books of the "million-dollar gate." It was Max Baer perhaps one of the most widely exploited titleholders the ring has ever known, who was the victim in the latter of those two brawls. In the other Primo Carrera Italian man-mountain, proved the Louis chopping-block. Other sacrificial lambs offered up for the Negro sensation were many. Of these, King Levinsky, Paulino Uzcudun, Nat Brown. Red Barry (two, Washingtonians, Patsy Perroni, Roy Lazer, Biff Bennett, Lee Ramage and Adolph Wiater, all white, perhaps stand out as the most important. The two feats which perhaps stand out as the most spectacular of Louis's year were his quick Kayoes of two mer, who had never previously been floored, to say nothing of being knocked out. Baer and Uzcudun were the two 1935 - The Sea SAM LACY = To All Our and after suffering this new experience both agreed that the protege of Jack Blackburn is the most dangerous man in the business today. A poll of the nation's leading sports experts found Louis ranking head and shoulders above the principal athletes of the year. He was given a comfortable margin over W. Lawson Little, white, amateur golfer, his closest rival in the voting. Critics did not seem able to get over the fact that Louis had created such a furore without even bothering with winning the championship first. The consensus of opinion seems to be that the title awaits merely the matching of the colored phenom with the now champion, James J. Braddock. Braddock dethroned Baer during the year. But there was a Negro pugilist who did feel that it was necessary to cop the crown of his division, there being little money for the underlines in the group in which he was fighting. And so John Henry Lewis, a product of Phoenix, Ariz., and a youngster who had taken his Track The year of 1855 saw an unprecedented show-off of a rite by the nation's daily press. Spread over the front rages of Sunday sports sections of every metropolitan daily in the United --- fighting seriously from the ground up, went out and in the waning months of the year defeated Bob Olin, white, for the light-heavy weight title. By so doing he endeared himself to Madison Square Garden officials and thus—the bigger money. Lewis, during his climb, had defeated Olin in a previous right. The latter, on that occasion, had insisted that his negro opponent come into the ring over weight in this way. Olin did not risk his title. But Lewis administered such a severe pasting on that occasion, that when he and the champ were later booked for a title go, the latter took a "run out powder" and asked for cancellation because of a tooth-ache or somethin'. Finally, however, after the Phoenix fisticuffer had been trimmed by Lew Feldman and Maxie Rosenbloom, former champion, in fights on the west coast. Olin was persuaded to climb through the same ropes with the brown boy. And it was to be his sorrow that he did. The fight was staged in St. Louis, Mo., but that didn't help Olin any. Lewis won—hands down. The colored battler is now being primed for a proposed meeting with Jack McAvoy, crack English pugilist, who recently trounced the middleweight champion. Babe Risko white. In the other divisions, the colored boys did not go far. Wesley Farrell and Holman Williams, lightweights, were probably the best of the lot of little fellows seeing action. Neither of these, however, approached the calibre of son's Greetings= ART CARTER Friends = 1936 Barney Ross, Tony Canzoneri, etc. Panama Al Brown, the bantam-weight star who has remained in Europe the past four years, did not fare so well as in the past. He had several defeats chalked up against him. Boxing came into the limelight locally with legalization of the sport here. But except for the development of Billy Eley, welter-weight of promise, Washington had little to crow about. Boxing shows of all descriptions were experimented with by groups of promoters of both races, but little was netted in the way of financial gain. Therefore life for pugilism here was short and sweet. The Lincoln A. C. however, has by no means given up hope, and promise is made that the sport will be made to go before another year has passed. Meanwhile local sports writers are watching with interest the progress of the Jim Nash charge, Eley. His removal of all doubts as to his superiority over the colorful Gene Puffalo of Philadelphia, in the third meeting between the two, aroused the interest of the city's press. States last May 19, were word and picture descriptions of the accomplishments of Jesse Owens. speed demon of the Ohio State University track and field team. at the annual Big Ten track and Golf, from a local standpoint, found itself on the decline among Negores during the year of 1935. A sport which had shown much promise as a means of recreation for colored people of all walks of life in previous years, took a decided drop the season just closed. This was largely because of the deplorable facilities in the nation's capital. A 9-hole course at Twenty-fifth Street and B, Northwest, which had been used with a "let's-make-the-best-of-it-attitude," found fewer users. With a fewer number interested, the game naturally lost its popularity with the race. A dyed-in-the-wool handful, however, led by the Royal Golf Club membership, stuck to the past time. Several tournaments we held for local players and the competition was keen at all times. A burning pace which won for him the 1933 championship carried Jimmie Williams, veteran local Preston—Galley 2 golfer, to an almost overwhelming victory over Dr. Albert R, Harris. Spring Invitation titleholder, in the finals of the District Amateur championship, here in October. Playing cintillating golf, marred only once or twice by lapses in consistency, Williams turned back his opponent on the thirtieth hole of the 36-hole match. The margin of triumph was 7 up and 6 to play. In the second division, anoh stirring match was staged in which Anthony Proctor defeated Herbert Bethea, 5 and 4. It was largely through Proctor's brilliant work on the greens that Bethea was topped. The most outstanding achievements were probably those of Dr. Albert R. Harris and Pleasant Goodwin. They competed in the national open championships held over the Lake Mohansic Golf Course, New York, in September. Both of them reached the semifinals rounds in the tourney. The former was defeated 2 up and 1 to play, by Charlie Radcliffe, of New York. The latter went down to defeat at the hands of Edward Brent, also of New York. His loss was by the margin of 4 up and 3 to play. Probably the outstanding achievement nationally, was the winning of the open tournament by Solomon Hughes of Gadsden, Alabama. Hughes topped a strong field by carding a 314 for the championship. His score bettered that of Howard Wheeler, of Atlanta, Ga., winner of the second prize, by 4 strokes. Mrs. Ella C. Abal, of Indianapolis, captured the women's event in the national open. Second place went to Mrs. Laura Thorogood, of New York. field championships held at Ann Arbor, Mich.; the day previous. How the lithe-limbed youngster from the sidewalks of Cleveland had stepped his way to three new world records and to the another, was the subject beneath the pens of every scribe who has gained his place in the sun as well as their novice associates. Owens had startled a universe with an individual performance never before equalled in the history of man's physical competitions. Later on these marks were accepted by the Amateur Athletic Union as official marks for the various events, the 100-yard dash, the 220-yard dash, the 220-yard low hurdles and the running broad jump. And as if it was nothing more than the most casual sort of a workout, Owens went to a fraternity dance that night. Although the Ohio State star took part in meets on an average of once weekly throughout the track and field season, he never deported himself in such a manner as to justify an opinion he was a mere "flash in the pan." Owens was as consistent as any athlete has ever proved himself to be. He was twice defeated by Eulace Peacock, Temple University dash star. But there was no trace of an alibi in Owens' behavior at the close of those matches. Whether or not Owens is the faster or Peacock can probably be taken only from the records of the two. The Ohioan boasts better time than the Pennslyanian. He also has more victories to his credit than does Peacock. In invariably during the course of the year's running events. Owens was chased across the finish line of the short races by either Peacock or Dan Johnson another colored in writing occasion. John- (Continued on Next Page) Horse Racing The rise of Negroes in the Sport of Kings was as marked during the year just closed as it was in any other field of athletic endeavor. In the branches where colored persons had already attained the peak, there was no visible let down. And in the matter of riding, sepia youngsters found more success. Jockeys of color worked to advantage throughout the summer. Last year, like the coming one, found no colored boys aspiring to the winter racing. Most of this is done in Florida, Kentucky, Texas and other southern sections, which makes Negroes none too anxious to pit their skill against riders of the other hue. California racing appears to be open to colored hardboots, but the fact that there are so few colored boys riding continuously adds to the poor promise for work in that section for today's Ike Murphys and Willie Simms. The Spring, Summer and Fall racing holding forth around Massachusetts, Khode Island, New York, New Hampshire and Maryland, however, felt the presence of Negro riders no little. The year saw two veterans of the booting brigade, Charlie Jackson and Skeets Holland, moving into the background. The former rode only two or three times during the early Spring and late Fall meetings at Charlestown, West Va., and the latter took time out from his riding duties to take over the more serious and more important role of trainer. In this latter business, Holland has been none too successful. In their places, however, came two little colored boys whose work was the topic of conversation wherever racing was thought and talked during the late Summer and Fall activities of the oval strip. Clarence Reid and Raymond Booker were the lads who gained the upper strata of race-riding. Both of these boys deserted the ranks of apprentices during the past year; the first named at Havre de Grace and the latter at Charlestown. The winning of a $25 bonus for an exceptional display of courage was probably the crowning event of Reid's turf activities. The bonus was given the Upperville, Va., youngster following his voluntary ride of a horse which was determined not be ridden in a race at Narragansett Park, R.I. The horse, Staked Plains, had already unseated one rider (white) on his way to the post, injuring him and forcing him into temporary retirement for several weeks to recover. A survey of all the other riders on the grounds found none of them willing to take the mount. Reid volunteered. He was thrown once, remounted, and thrown again. He again asked an assistant starter to put him aboard. The horse reared and pitched and the fans who had placed bets on him were already bemoaning the loss of the race without even a run for their money. But Reid had other ideas. Staked Plains did everything a horse has been seen to do except get down and actually roll on the ground. But when the barrier was sprung, the little Negro Jockey had him away with the field. Staked Plains did not win, but those who had wagered on him were satisfied. Tennis The game of net, ball and racket, like many of the so-called minor sports, took a decided rise in popularity in 1935. A revival of the court interest as manifested in the early twenties, seems to have cropped up overnight. From the untutored novice on Whoozit Playground to the seasoned veteran who annually tours the country following the larger tournaments, a greater interest in the net game appeared throughout the country, particularly the South. Incidentally, the South, as proof of the section's rise in tennis circles, garnered the majority of the national net titles. The Jackson brothers, Nathaniel and Franklin, of Laurinburg, N.C., and formerly of Tuskegee Institute, continued to reign among the men. The Jackson's retained their national doubles title at the nineteenth annual national championships held at West Virginia State College under auspices of the American Tennis Association, while the younger brother, Franklin, won the national singles title, formerly possessed by his older kin, Nathaniel, Young Jackson defeated Harmon Fitz, Colored In The entire gathering applauded Reid's salute of the judges. The youngster was paid even greater tribute than the jockey on the victor, Lady Higloss. Officials of the track voted Reid the bonus in recognition of his courageous act. Booker, after riding sensationally at Charlestown in the Spring, continued his good work at the four major tracks in Maryland. (His saddle work at the half-mile tracks. Timonium, Mariboro, Hagerstown, etc., has never been found wanting). The Bel Air, Md., hardboot showed, to advantage at Havre, Pimlico, Laurel and Bowie. At Laurel he rode the horse, Braw Scot, to victory on closing day for a pay-off of $220.90 in the mutuels. An otherwise successful campaign was climaxed, however, when Booker rode in such spectacular fashion at Bowie as to gain assignments in two stake events on the same day, something which is not ordinarily done by the nation's leading white boys, and which is certainly unheard of in modern-day Negro race-riding. The first of these mounts was Dancing Doll, a reformed plater, which he promptly rode to a nose decision over the strong Ascot Stable's Stocks, Strung out in the field behind Dancing Doll and its colored cargo were such as: the Howe Stable's entry of Nautch and Cycle; A. C. Compton's Dantle, trained by H. Guy Bedwell, and several others equally as well known in horse-flesh headlines. In the $5,000 Bryan and O'Hara Memorial. Booker and his mount, Weston, were unplaced. In the other lines of the sport colored persons as has been said before, held on to their spurra Wm. (Bill) Ricker retained his position as the nation's ranking paddock judge. He continued to stand alone as an unerring "spotter." Ricker identified horses as they entered the paddock prior to a race. If he could not identify the animal, it was excused by the stewards in order to prevent the running of "ringers." Ricker, formerly an assistant trainer of one of the large Whitney Stables traveled the country over in his work. He was on duty at the leading tracks of the circuit. Matt Smart, venerable Washingtonian who has gained the nod of some of the country's most severe critic as a keen judge of horse-flesh. held on to his job as trainer for Admiral Cary T. Grayson and Breckenridge Long. Coups that were spruced with Happy Dear and Tiana, two first-time starters, proved that Smart had lost none of his cunning in the preparation of two-year-old racers of the plater variety. Two stake victories with Legume. a Long property, and timely scores with Stage Whisper, another juvenile. were also recorded in Smart's 1935 book. Locally, there was a new interest in the sport with the announcement of Walter E. O'Hara, New England metal-gadget millionaire, to the effect that he was anxious to revive horse racing in Washington on the old Benning Race Track. Mr. O'Hara, who built the Narragansett Park Plant, antichates passage of a bill legalizing the sport in the District during the next session of Congress. tercollegiate Athletic Association champion and winner of the annual southeastern championship at Petersburg, in straight sets to cop the title. Fitch represented Johnson C. Smith University, of Charlotte, N.C. Miss Ora Washington, perennial champion from Germantown, Pa., continued her rule among the women, winning her sixth consecutive national title, and sharing the women's doubles championship again with Miss Lula Ballard, formerly of Philadelphia but more recently of Tuskegee, Ala. Among the juniors, Ernest Mc-Campbell, of Tuskegee, dethroned Theodore Cousins; of New Jersey. The veteran men's championship, once ruled by Johnny Wilkinson, of Washington, was captured by Dr. C. W. Furlone, of Smithfield, N.C. Preceding the nationals, Harmon W. Fitch chop-stroke artist of Johnson C. Smith University, was the outstanding tennis player of the year. Fitch captured the 1935 singles championship in the CIAA tournament held at St. Paul Industrial School at Lawrenceburg. (Continued on Next Page) Pictures Tell Story of the Year 1935 in Sports 29 DUNBAR ARMSTRONG ARMSTRONG ARMSTRONG CARDOZA Three Armstrong High School basketers were chosen to the 1935 All-High cage team selected by sports writers of the Washington Tribune last Spring. One Dunbar and one Cardozo player rounded out the mythical aggregation. Holding balls are, left to right. Wee Willie Watts, Armstrong, and Ralchick Hawkins, Cardozo. Standing, left to right, are Maurice Jackson, Armstrong, Frank Fenwick, Dunbar, and Herman Watley, Armstrong D. C. Gridder Makes Good at Virginia State a State-Howard University football game showing Henry (Reds) Briscoe, former gridiron star, (No. 13) 'trucking for a slab' gain around the Bison right fank. The Petersburg school, was an outstanding ground gainer for the Trojans. He Continues Winning Pace SATCHELL PAIGE, 13 Scene from the Virginia's State-Howard University football game showing Henry (Reds) Briscoe, former Armstrong High School gridiron star, (No. 13) trucking for a single gain around the Bison right fank. Briscoe, a freshman at the Petersburg school, was an outstanding ground gainer for the Trojans throughout the season. --- He's the Champ MEXICO after an uphill battle which would have taxed the courage of an ordinary athlete, trounced Bob Olin, white, to gain the world's light-heavy weight, boxing championship. The title changed hands at St. Louis, Mo. premier pitcher in colored baseball for he past three years, found his way into the barns of fans from coast to coast again during 1935. Although he spent most of ht. time in the midwest with Kansas City Monarchs, eastern fans were aware of the fact that the speed ball artist, formerly with the Pittsburgh Crawfords, had lost none of his cunning. TENNIS seven times national women's tennis champion, snapped in the midst of turn of a volley at Petersburg, Va., where she scored her annual Southeastern triumph. Miss Washington also excels as a member of the Philadelphia Tribune national girls basketball champion team. Boston Tar Baby Downed Twice—But JIMMY THE BATTLE FOR THE CITY OF BIRMINGHAM EYRE SAITCH. New York City star raccquetter, is show embraced by Harmon Fitch, Vanity Salm colligate sonant, just prior to their thrilling set in at Peer eraug. Va, in which Fitch took the measure of the New Yorker to cop the Southeastern tennis championships, EYRE SAITCH. New York City star raccquetter, is show embraced by Harmon Fitch, Vanity Salm colligate sonant, just prior to their thrilling set in at Peer eraug. Va, in which Fitch took the measure of the New Yorker to cop the Southeastern tennis championships, OTIS THOMAS, Arkansas-born. Chicago-raised boxer who has been traveling at a rapid clip up the road to the "Prim- rose path" of fistiana. Thomas, who is being hailed as a second Joe Louis, is following fast in the wake of the Brown Bomber. Like Louis he is a graduate of Golden Gloves ranks. And like Louis he has won his first four fights since turning professional in June. And like Louis he has beaten Chuck Weim- er. And like Louis he had trouble with Adolph Waiter. Waiter lost to Louis but gained a draw with Thomas. Thrills for Fans of Color at Chicago not the annual East-West baseball classic, staged at Comiskey, the many exciting plays that went to make up a fast game decision when Mule Sutkes, former Washington Pilot player with two men on bases. 10 The above shot taken at the annual East-West baseball classic, staged at Comiskey Park, Chicago, last August, shows one of the many exciting plays that went to make up a fast game between all stars. The West team copped the decision when Mule Sutles, former Washington Pilot player, knocked a home run with two men on bases. The Brown Bomber and His Board of Strategy --- THE FOUR MEN POMPTON LAKES, N.J.—Here is Joe Louis, of Detroit and environs and the men who are dir ir; him along the path to pugilistic fame—Left to right: Juli Black Jack Blackburn Joe Louis John R.borough and Russell Cowan. Troubles Trebled For Dr. L. C. Whiting As First Wife Now Sues but the defendant escaped the teils of punishment, ‘Aang about this time, a friend placed a TRIBUNE in the hands of the first Mrs Eloise Whiting in Newport News. From its columns she learned—for the first time, she says—of the marriage of Dr. Whiting to another woman. Early this week, Attorney J. Franklin Wilson instituted pro- ceedings on behalf of the first Mrs. Whiting. This action asks that the court grant her divorce from her erring spouse, Became Dictatorial In this latest bill, Dr. Whiting ig accused of having become abu: sive, thveatening and dictatorial in his attitude toward Mrs. Eloise Whiting shortly after she left Washington for Virginia. The plaintiff asserts that his treatment of her was uncalled for because he had knowledge of her going to the home of her mother for her health. Mrs. Eloise Whiting claims the nervous breakdown. from which she was suffering at the time had heen brought on by the mistreatment to which she had been subjected as the wife of the defendant. She avers that she made numer- ous requests of him to support her during her stay in Newport News. but she never succeeded in -per- suading him. Was Prepared to Come Back Always affectionate, Mrs. Eloise Whiting declares in her bill, she had her belongings packed and was prepared *o return to Washington and him when she learned of the court fight between a second wife and him. . It was not until after she became aware of the condition of things, Mrs. Eloise Whiting avers, that she also learned of a vain atteinpt he had made to divorce her in the Virginia courts, As things now stand, Dr. Whit- ing is faced with the divorce ac- tions of two wives each of whom he admits marrying, Would Be Annulment Asked if there was any likelihood of a court ordering the defendant to pay two wives separate alimon- ies, Attorney Wilson stated this was not probable. The ceremony through which he went with wife number two would most likely be disposed of as an annulment. In her original bill, Mrs. Lucille Whiting told the court that the doctor had forced her to find @ place to live and had abandoned her-despiterthe fact she had always conducted herse'f as she should have as a wife. & beautician by trade, the orig- inal complainant declared Dr. Whiting would not permit her even to conduct a beauty parlor busirress which she had installed at 1514 U Street, Northwest, their home be- fore the marital ship went aground primarily to attract students. An Elks Past Exalted Rulers | example of this he added, was the son |Temoving of all specific require- Council Plans Reception) tren, for admission except. four —_— years of English ang the placing of The annual New Year reception |emphasis upon the ability of the of the group will be held Mon-4 student to do one thing well. day, January 6; at the home of) Mr. Bowles urged the adoption Columbia Lodge No. 85, from 4] of higher qualitative requirements p-m. until 8 p.m. A committee] to eliminate poorly equipped ap- on ararngements headed by How- | plicants for higher degrees, « meas- ard A. Scott, chairman; Ethel | ure which, he asserted, would “im- Sesco, vice ' chairman; Mamie | prove the quality of the graduate Wheeler; secretry; and Harold | student body and the quality of Hatcher, assistant secretary. work done by that body.” ~The annual election of ° .cer fem Sige ok ‘of the council was held last Mon-} 4. x. 4. PRESIDENT lay evening an the following |" ‘G | ‘officers, elected Solomon “Alexan- Ee Oe ler, chief antler; vice chief antler; | Chicago—(ANP)—Miss Ida L. ‘Theodore Jackson, first scribe; | Jackson of Oakland, Calif., arrived George Mitchell, second scribe; | in Chicago in a blizzard Thursday Samuel M. Graham, burser Oliver | morning, on her, way to Washing- H. Campbell, forester; Andrew | ton for a committee meeting of Gainor. trustees Edward Janifer, | the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority James W. Hayes, and Dr. Heath. ' of which she is president. Th larke i i omas H.R. Clarke is Appointed Thomas H. R_ Clarke, 1225 T Street, Northwest, former clerk in the United States Treasury De- partment, was this week appointed Deputy Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia. The appointment was made by Dr. William J. Thempkins, Record- er, of Deeds, after it had been urged by strong forees in the Democratic line-up, Washingtorian Mr. Clarke is = native of Wash- ington and has lived here all ‘is fe, His formal education was re- ceived in private 0 and in the Howard’ Usivereiey School of Law, from where he was eraduated in 1904 Treasury Aide For fitiaen years he served as 8 clerk in the United States Depart- ment of the Treasury and also served in confidential capacities to Judson W. Lyons, W. T. Vernon and J. C. Napier, when they were Registers of the Treasury. During the Spanish-American War, Mr. Glaske: sucved, ae Saet States Volunteer Infantry, reach- ing the grades of regimental ad- jutant and Judge Advocate of a Local Chiropractor Faces Second Divorce Action As New Bill is Filed MRS. ELOISE WHITING RAISES OBJECTION Man, Who Was Sued, Then Arrested for Bigamy, Now Sued Again Pe ori it. Fe tea SOIT EE SS An old, old saying goes like that, Agd if Dr, Levi. C. Whiting, prominent local chiropractor, should say what must be upper most in his mind at the present, “heve’s “more truth than poetry” wn that expression, Dr, Whiting, it seems, hag just cot from under a bigamy enarge hrought against him in a.Virginia court. Now he occupies — the vnique position of being one man who is two husbands and two di- vorce suit defendants, Here is how it all happened: On September 28, 1928, Dr. Whiting married to a Mrs, Eloise M., Whiting, now residing in New- nor News, Va. The ship craised happily about the sea of matri- mony until a short time prior to June of 1982 when it floundered. 2°) Left City for Heath Qn June 10, of that year, Mrs. Whiting took leave of her husband 1o.go to the home of her parents in Newport News for the purpore of vegaining her falling health, ‘Two years elapsed. On July 8, 1934, the local chiro- ptactor went through the wedding ceremony with another. This time the result was a Mrs. Lucille L. Whiting. ‘This second niatrimonial bark struck a reef when Mrs, Lucille Whiting had papers served on the doctor charging him with, among other things, mistreatment, cruelty, nbuse, non-support, and,” finally; desertion, Shortly after the filing’ of her ill of complaint which started the ‘ivoroe idea among the several Whitings, Mrs. Lucille Whiting was apprised of the existence of a living wife of the chiropractor’s, Married 4 Years This other wife, she learned, had been married to the doctor for ful 'y four —years- before “he “went through a ceremony with her, The nformation was brought to. her through Dr. Whiting’s answer, in which he sought to show that his experience with the second wife was not altogether in accordance with! the law. ‘A warrant charging bigamy was avorn to by Mrs. Lucille Whiting, Gaithersburg, Md.—A young mother and her 4-year-old son were burned to death and four other members of the family barely es- caped gimilar fates when fire de- stroyed their 3-foom bungalow near vere early Thursday. ‘The dead are Virginia Frazier, 35, and her youngest child, Mar- shall. They were sleeping together n the room where the fire started from an overheated stove. Those who escaped were Isaih Fraziee, 00, father of Virginia, anc James, 13; Joseph, 12, and Charles, 10, all’ children of ‘the dead woman ‘A neighbor discovered the fire shortly after 1 a, m., but the Gaith- ersburg-Washington Grove Volun- teer Fire Department was unable to reach the house because of snow- drifts, The Fraziers_ lived twe miles west of here on Route 4. Dr. W. A. Goodloe and Party in Auto Crash Dr. William A. Goodloe, 1836 S Street, Northwest; sustained a sprained right ankle and an. in- jured hip when he was injured in an_automobile accident this week. The car in which the physician was riding crashd head-on into another ear driven by two alleged- ly dranken white men. In the car with Dr. Goodlos were Mrs. Ethel Blake, Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Camp- hell, Willie Wilson and Mise Elizabeth Gains. Other members. of the party suffered a shaking np. A motorist took the phy- sictan auih oleae thar tae ct their homes. 4. U. PROFESSOR IN LONDON London, Eng.—(ANP)—William Aten of the Howard University School of Musie is en. here with Egon Petri, the. pianist. Comments and criticisms upon his ~ork hsve been mont flattering. He sails January 8 for America cmthe Tie de France after spending Cfristmas in Parle and will resume study at Oberlin where he is spend- tug part of his sabbatical leave. Spanish-American War Veteran Was Formerly Clerk In U.S. Treasury Department and Aide to Regis- ters of the Treasury Lyons, Vernon and Napier THE WASHINGTON TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1935 HOLSTEIN ARRESTED ON POLICY CHARGES NEW YORK.—<asper Hol- stein. jrominent Haricm busi- ness men, was arrested Mon- day by detectives at the Tu-f * Cink, 111. W. , 136th’ Street, and. charged with being = policy. banker. Arrested at the same time were {wo women who ideati- fied themselves “as Carmen Lopez, 35, of 2230 Bighth Avenue, and Ethel Jones, 30; of 119 W 115th Street, “Hol- stein denied the charge in Night Court. Entry Requirements Eased to Get More Students, Says Columbia Official | Standards of higner education have been lowered through the ef- forta of colleges to maintain the size of their student bodies at pre- depression levels, Frank Bowles, acting director of admissions in Co- lumbia University, asserted in his annual report to the trustees of the university recently. Mr. Bowles criti¢ized the “re- cruiting” of high school graduate: ou a ‘commission basis” by field agents, high school teachers and alumni of colleges. Scholarships, he added. no longer were used primar- ily as a reward for merit, /but to help needy students ‘and stimulate enrollment. Negroes of institutions that enroll and graduate students who finished in the lowest quarter o their secondary school classes, -in his opinion, “no longer have the value they once had.” If no improvement in national financial conditions takes place, ac- cording to Mr, Bowles, weaker in- stitutions will ‘be forced ultimately to cease operation. However, this may be the best thing for the American educational structure, he added, ““The depressiun made itself felt in the colleges in two ways,” Mr. Bowles wrote. “Tuition income diminished, since students were few in number and less able to pay, and endowment income fell off. Since the endowment income was difficult to increase, the colleges turned to other methods and the majority of them chose to attempt to increase enrollment as the best means to that end, “One of the important methods of obtaining students has been al- teration of college , entrance re- quirements, with or without public announcement Some of the ‘lib- cralizations’ of college re- quirements nich have taken plac have been. actuated by very real educationa! considerations.” But other changes, Mr. Bowles said, appear to have been designed primarily to attract students. An example of this he added, was the removing of all specific require- ments for admission except four years of English ang the placing of emphasis upon the ability of the student to do one thing well. ‘Mr. Bowles urged the adoption of higher qualitative requirements to eliminate poorly equipped ap- plicants for higher degrees, a meas- ure which, he asserted, would “im- prove the quality of the graduate student body and the quality of work done by that body.” A. K. A. PRESIDENT CHICAGO VISITOR Chicago—(ANP)—Miss Ida L. Jackson of Oakland, Calif., arrived in Chicago in a blizzard Thursday morning, on her way to Washing- ton for a committee meeting of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority of ‘which she {is president. General Court Martial, For many years he was associat- ed in the real estate business with Whitefield McKinley and has been frequently called upon to serve as an expert on real estate appraisals in estates under litigation. He supported Governor Alfred E, Smith of New York in 1928 when he was running for president of the United States. Mr, Clarke campaigned extensively delivering speeches and writing news articles for the press. Heads Democrats To the campaign of 1932, Mr. Clarke again took the stump for the Democratic candidates, sup- porting President Roosevelt and various Democratic Senators and “itcied president of the Rational Sadleatir west isu money ia ibing out the campaign defies of the Democratic party. His appointment to the Recorder of Deeds office a oe with = haat approval’ of jis filates and the cfizens of Wesh- ington who are familiar with Mr. Clarke's activities in eivie affairs of Washington. REVOLT LAW DECISION IS APPEALED Atlanta, Ga.—(CNA)—The de- cision of ‘Judge Hugh M. Dorsey holding the Georgia ‘insurrection’ law unconstitutional on.a writ of habeas corpus in the celebrated Angelo Herndon case, was appealed by John Boykin, Fulton County Solicitor-General, last week. This move will again carry the case to the Supreme Court of the State of Georgia, the highest court of appeal in the State. The ease may for a second time reach the United States Supreme Court. Whitney North Seymour, in charge of the Herndon appeals and retained by the International Labor Defense, will file counter-briefs_ in support of the decision of Judge Dorsey. Out on Bail Herndon i free on $8,000 bail provided by the T. 1. D. Anna amon, acting national secretafy of the I. L. D., announced that the “fight for the freedom of Angelo Herndon will continue until he is unconditionally freed. The ‘united front”, comprising people from all walks’ of American life, having tasted a great victory’ in Herndon’r release, will now be inspired to push on to a successful end.” ‘Two Million Signatures Needed “We now have more than a mil- lion names to the Herndon peti- tions,” Miss Damon declared, “but We must continue to circulate pet tions until the goal of two million signatures is reached.” Contributions to defray the ex- penses of the Herndon campaign should be sent to the I. L. D, 80 E, 11th Street, New York City, Miss Damon stated. G.P.0. EMPLOYE IN ALIMONY ARREARS, FACES ARREST An order requiring the arrest of Richard V. Stewart, an emplove of the Government Printing Office, for failure-to abide by an alimony order of the District Supreme Court, was issued early this week by Justice Jennings Bailey. Stewart, who was sued for a limited divorce last Spring by his wife, Mrs. Dorothy Stewart, of Hyattsvilie, Md. is according to the petition of Mrs. Stewart, $102.50 in arrears in his alimony ‘payments. The wife states Stew- art has paid nothing since Septem: ber last. Accused of Woman The Printing Office employe was hailed into court following his wife's complaint that she had been cruelly abused when she questioned him about an illicit affair with another woman. She stated in het original bill that her husband at- tacked her when she upbraided him for having brought the woman to their home. ‘On Apri? 2, following a hearing Justice James N. Proctor ordered Stewart to pay his wife alimony ir the amount of $12.50 twice mouth ly. Stewart, Mrs Stewart aver: ip her latest action, paid her. in lay, June, August and in Septem- ber, $10. He has given her notning since, PTA. PLANS TO _ BEAUTY SUHO0 The parent-teacher meeting for the Slater-Langston School group was held in Langston School, Thursday evening, The presiding officer was Benjamin Biayton, President of the association. A very important matter dis- cussed was the beautifying of the school building and grounds. Miss Arnold, principal of Siater-Lang- ston School; reminded the asso- ciation of the need for a gymna- sium-auditorium. She urged the parents and teachers to lend their support to the effort to get one. A demonstration of instrument- al work in music was afforded by the community center music de- partment, One of the teachers in the community cester music work explained the purpose nd set up afterschool classes Pupils of the Slater-Langston Schoo's who are in these classes were used in the de sonstration. An award, a silved cup, was of- fered for the room whose pupils had the largest number of parents vresent. Thie award wa: won by Miss Hattie Dixon. ‘Re aritiesl — of yourself NURSERY SCHOOLS TO RE-OPEN JAN. 2 Ten nursery schools wil! be re-opened as a PWA project January 2, when all public schools zesume sessions, it was announced by District WAP authorities." . _ ‘The nursery schools were closed early in November when their old authorization as a work relief project ex- pired and Federal authorities were tardy in approval to con- ‘tinue them Instant protests arose / and 50 mothers stormed the offices of Commissioner Allen and Federal Relief Director Hop- kins. At both\ places they were assured the nursery schools would soon be re- ‘opened. Five of the schools are for colored children and. five for white. 3 MORE DOCTORS ARE SENTENCED IN MEMPHIS RACKET (By Jasper T. Duncan for ANP) Memphis.—Three more doctors and one undertaker have joined Dr. J. W, Beckett in prison for participation in the insurance fraud cases against the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, which involved two white men, former agents of the company, as principals. Sev- eral thousand dollars were obtained by the ‘conspirators who signed false death certificates to collect on policies, only to have the “dead” policyholders parade past the jury when the first trial was held e few weeks ago. Next to Beckett, Dr. A. Ross received the longest term when Federal Judge John D, Martin_sen- tenced the physician to 21 years imprisonment and a fine of $14,000 Saturday after bitterly denouncing the medico for swearing to “a pack of lies” on the stand in denying his participation in mail fraud anc conspiracy charges ‘The jue o> out only 45 minutes in the case, Puts Up Fight Like Dr. Beckett, who received 25 years sentence and $22,000 fine several days ago at the hands of the same judge, an appeal and ex- ceptions were noted by Attorney Josiah T. Settle, who hopes to have the cases reversed at the Circuit Court of sppent in Cincinnati. In contrast with the sentences meted out to Beckett and Ross are the sentences given to Dr. F. D. Harrel, who turned ‘states’ evidence” in testifying against Beckett, Harrel received only three years and a fine of $7,500. Gets Five Years Dr. Daniel J. Thomas, elderly practitioner and former proprietor of the Life Line Drug Store in Orange Mound, thickly populated Negro settlement in the -eastern section of Memphis, on a plea of guilty received five years and $5,000 ine. A. E. Byers, undertaker, pleaded guilty when charges were first brought and was sentenced to a term of three years which he is now serving. The least sentence eS to any of the alleged de- frauders and conspirers was) thet given Amanda Smith, unlettered colored woman who received two years. Beckett and Ross chose to fight their cases after Lawyer Settle filed a plea in abatement aes the jury venire offered by the jury commissioners on which there were no Negroes. Settle hopes for reversal on this ground. FACULTY GROUP, STUDENTS HONOR JAMES WRIGHT “Father of Three-Cent Car SS Former students and members of the Dunbar High School faculty honored James C. Wright, “Father of Three-Cent Car Fare” and local public school teacher for 37 years, upon his retirement from the school system, Friday. Climaxing 37 years of public service during which he has dis- tinguished himself as an educator, civic leader, writer and sponsor of the reduced car fare bill, Mr. Wright retired from the public school system on his sixty-fourth birthday, Present Gifts - A group of nine former students who at one time or another hed the erudite professor as a type- writing instructor at Dunbar, vis- ited him at his home, 514 T Street, Northwest, Friday, and presented him swith & modernistic easy chair. Members of the Dunbar faculty presented the veteran teacher an expensive traveling bag. The ——— was by Miss ulin Brooks, viee principal at Dun- bar, on behalf of the faculty, a ‘What is an opportunist ? One who meets the wolf at the door and appears the next day in a fur cont, Bennett College President Wins $100 Rosenwald Story Contest J. J. Starks Awarded for His Life History Which Began with Early Struggles to Gain an Education : to Head an Institution | “RED” RIDER MAY APPLY TO HOWARD ‘Teaching of communism at How- ard University may be barred in the future, according to _Repre- sentative “Thomas L, Blanton (Democrat) of Texas, author of the anti-communism ride on the 1936 District appropriation act which prohibits the teaching or advocat- ing of communism in the public schools . Teuchers who fail to carry out the provision will not be paid. In addition they have to state before receiving their money that they have not taught or advocated com- munism. It has been reported that communism has been taught at Howard University. » Professors there claim such a provision would curb academic freedom- Blanton revealed his ‘ntention of broadening the scope of his anti- red curb on education in stating that in' Howard University, a Gov- ernment institution, communism {s being “propagated opencly and without restraint.” He recalled what he termed ‘he disgraceful raid communisticly inclined stu- dents from Howard Universit made on the Capitol” during trou- ble over the barring of Negroes from the House restaurant, While he would not discuss his plans specifically, the Texan inti- mated that a similar rider would be proposed for the Howard Uni versity section of the Interior De- partment appropriations, Other Movex Weighed Consideration also is being given by some Congressmen, it is under stood, to extend the teaching re- striction to the 58 land-grant col- leges which last year were given 124,000,000 by the Federal Govern- ment, Blanton, in exp.aining the pro- cedure that prefaced the passage of the District anti-communism rider in the utmost secrecy, cited the Congressional Record to show that the proviso became law without _ dessenting vote, —"Tf-ny Representative or Sena- tor didn't know about it,” he said, “it was because he was not pres- ent looking after public business.” Discussing the background of | the rider, he recailed that in 1919 Western High School teacher was suspended on charges: of “propa- | gating bolshevism and communism while discussing current events in an English class.’ The organized teachers protested en masse, ‘The Board of Education was un- der duress,” he said, “There owas then'no law preventing eommuftism in otr Washington schools, The Board of Education was forced to pay said’teacher and communism won its first battle in the Wash- ington schools.” ‘Tells of Lectures Following the first appropria tion pf 63,385 for character edu- cation in the Washington schools. Blanton said, complaints came to the House sub-committee on Dis- trict appropriations that “nothing worth-while was being acookaplish: ed,” that the money was “being wasted,” ahd “that H. W. Chart- ers, who was being paid $50 per lecture, to come to Washington twice a month, was advertised by the Unversity of Moscow as one of its lecturers, “We felt that if communistic Russia would permit its communis tie Moscow University to pay for lectures delivered by Dr, W. W. Charters they would not be the kind we would want in Washing- ton schools.” Blanton then explained the pre- viously exposed negotiations, a- mong Blanton Chairman Clarence Cannon and Senator Copeland (Democrat), of New York, to at- tach the rider so that the House conferees would agree to reinsert the $87,540 character education appropriation in the 1936 bill. + The House sub-committee, he said, believed that “a majority of the ‘2,900 teachers in the Wash- ingon schools are the finest men and women in the world” but it “had reliable complaints that un- der the guise of merely teaching the fundamentals of communism some teachers ware propoeating it.” Columbia, 8. C.—President J. J. Starks, Benedict College, was in- formed this week that he had been awarded the first prize of $100 for the story of his career in the Na, tional Rosenwald Contest sponsored z the Commission on Interracial A —_— of the letter to Doctor Star sod by R. B. Eleazer, educational director of the Com: mission on Interracial Cooperation, reads as ere “It gives me pleasure to inform you that the story of your career has been awarded a prize of $100 in the ° e Presbyterian, Baptist, : Congregational and e e ° Methodist Admitted Lincoln T. nple, Mt. Car-| received your application from vineh 15th St. Prodbyte-| ir tect sonata fan, Asbury Join Be] "nt REREGAN ? YEARS AGO| {sts fies: Seer of delay. rust that your ad- Colored Churches. t@ Have| stil, fo. all concerted." he bs ee coe churches were re- vo Power On “At a laver time I shall talk eneral Council with you abov your representa- _ Four Washington churches were admitted to the Washington Fed- eration of Churches during the Christmas holidays, according to the Rev. W. L. Darby, white; ex- ecutive secretary of the federa- tion. The churches were the Lincoin Congregational Temple, of. which the Rev, Robert W. Brooks is pas- tor; . Mount Carmel Baptist Church, the Rev. William H. Jer- nagin, pastor; Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church, the Rev. H. B. Taylor, pastor; and the As- bury Methodist Episcopal Church, the Rev. R. M. Williams, pastor, The fight to have colored churches admitted to the federa- tion was begun seven years ago by the Rev, Mr. Brooks, of the Lincoln Temple. In approving the application of the Lincoln Temple, the Rev, Mr. Darby wrote the fol- lowing letter: “Tam pleaséd to inform you that the board of directors at’ its meeting yeaterday (December 19), DIVORCE SUIT VICTOR SUED BY LAWYER Freon? fear Wie A rule to show cause why he should not be adjudged in contempt of court for failing to pay counsel feon to ia wife’s attorney in & recent, dyiorce action, was. se on John, Mitchell, 2967 Chanicld Street, Northwest, early this week, ‘The rule called for his appear- snce.in court on ara it was mar! , a Dror to inde date Dusted nings Bailey was responsible for its issuance. Won Divorce Suit Mitchell, on October 24 was given a fina) decree of divoree from his wife, Mrs, Thaddie Vivian Mitchell,” 637 L Street, Northwest, following a bitter court battle in which charge of in- fidelity and misconduct were flung from first one to the other and back. The husband finally convinced Justice Oncar R. Luhring that ‘there was more justification for the cross-bill filed by himself than for the original complaint insti- tuted by Mrs Mitchell. Upon issuance of the decree, Justice Luhring ordered Mitchell to pay counsel of both sides, He was represented by Attorney Nathan A. Dobbins. Attorney J. Franklin Wilson bought this latest suit. H.U. Professor Honored With Chicago U. Degree Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, Dean of the School of Religion at Howard University, received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the Uni- versity of Chicago last week, Dean Mays specialized in the department of Christian ‘Theology and Ethics, Last. June he was elected to membership in the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Bates Cel lege and also the Delta Sigma Rho national forensic society. These honors from the Maine school have come since the graduating of Dean Mays from the College severa! com et National Rosenwald Contest which closed October 1.” ‘The use to be made of these stories is still to be determined by. the “Rosenwald Fund which financed the contest. fa: dive Attorney Dodson to Speak The Emancipation Axsociation. Tpe., will hold ta annual elebra- Mon Jaouary 2, at Mount Cartel rect, Nothiwest. A ‘Thar. poy Brey ecidese or the Baz Association, will speak. : received your application from Lincoln Temple, and upon notion the church was admitted into our federation. You will be glad to know of this action and we hope that the membership of your church will be pleased also that it has been taken after these years of delay. I trust that your ad- mission ‘to the federation may be helpful to all concerned. The other three churches were re- ceived also. “At a laver time I shall talk with you abov. your representa- tives on our general council, which meets each April. These official delegates from the church- es have voting power in connection with the election held at the an- nual meeting, and will be invited to attend that gathering. The number depends upon the mem- bership of each individual chureh, and it includes the pastor in each enne. “A committee on membcrahip was also appointed, with Dr. R. H. Miller as chairman. You ‘were designated as one of its members, A meeting will be called when there are other applications. How- ever, the board will not have a regular session during January because of the pressure of so many matters that month; s0 ac- tion cannot be taken on any «p= plications until the third Thurs- day in February. “With the assurance of our good wishes as your church comes into the federation, and sending you hearty Christmas. greetings, I am, “WL. DARBY.” 1ST WPA PLAYS TO OPEN ATN. Y. LAFAYETTE SOON “St. Louis Woman” Slated Peas soe a'r ny NEW YORK—The first produc tions scheduled under the new Federal ‘Theater project were named here this week by Elmer Rico, noted author, who is head- ing up this division of the WPA. And « signal honor was accorded colored authors oe in that a colored unit will the first to present a play. Under the direction of John Housman, the old Lafayette Thea- tre blossomes fo “ the first or} show opening between January and February 1, “St. Louis Woman,” by Countee Cullen and Ama Bontemps, It is a play of Negro life in St, Louis in the 1890's, Also on the list of this unit are an untitled play by Zora Neale Hurston; “Walk Together, Children,” by Frank Wilson; and a revival.of “Macbeth. Cecil McPherson will direct a choir to be heard in some of these plays as well as in special ¢con- certs, The Lafayette has been leased outright for the productions, which will be offered the public at ex- tremely low prices. Authors will be paid at the rate of $50 per week for use of their works, Thus far, 2.6000 persons have been signed for the work unit, Lincoln University To _ Celebrate 70th Birthday Jefferson Sy. Mo.—Marking the beginning of ite 70th year ‘since ite original organization in. 1866 Lincoln University of this city hold its annual founder's day exer- cises at 1:30 p. m., January 14, in Page Auditorium.” The peinipal speaker for. the exercises. will Br. Homer V, Wilburn of the class of 1905, ma ae ee “Some of These Days” Is Revived in N.Y, by Author NEW YORK—Revival of “Some of These Days,” one of the most popular and enturing of iaodern- day song hits, was noted here this week a most of on bands and jig-time cabaret 5 rs Mickel we Ge wane to aeak again. ; Shelton Brooks, writer ef the famous number, was honored by a visit from Will Rossiter, Chicago publisher, whose concern ‘published the number. Brooks is leo putting much energy “ a A get ee nenhi? Sele tio Sam DR. AND MRS. PATTERSON GUESTS OF TUSKEGEE CLUB ‘Tuskegee Institute, Ala—Dr, F. D, Patterson and irs, Pathereen ware tendered, 8. Sinpar Bachelor-Benedict Club. of whieh. me ape is = — on ms. The deme dee of Dorathy Hall where the dinner was solved was beautifully deco« Tated for 1c season Eweley round aman grou an ret manner cosine the nuts as ae Highlights of the Ethiopian-Italo War in Pictures Aerial view of a large-scale agricultural field with rows of crops. Below, three farmers are standing together, smiling and holding spears. The above photographs show the contract in forces on the Ethiopian front. Italy's strength is shown in the air as hundreds of planes are massed at the Campo Di Ferrara Aerodrome. Lower is a group of smiling Ethiopian warriors with spears and long-sheated knives. A group of Ekhilian soldiers in trenches looking for Italian planes. These men are born fighters and do not fear death. THE MASSIVE MOVEMENT OF THE TORO MEN Even the children of Ethiopia have caught the spirit of war. They are shown here drilling with woo Jews. They have pledged to help their fathers and brothers halt the march of the Italians. THE WASHINGTON TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1935 Mali. Selassie, Lion of Judah and Emperor of Ethiopia who was the big 14 news of 1935. The Emperor shown here in field uniform won the plaudits of the world with his excellent conduct of the war situation in his country. ASMARA FRIDAY ADIGRAT SEA AKSUM ADUWA MAKALE SAKOTA GONDAR LAKE TANA FRENCH SOMALIA DJIBOUTI LAND GULF OF ADEN DESSYE BRITISH SOMALILAND JIJIGA HARAR ADDIS ABABA SASSA BANEH ADO OGADEN GINIR GÓRAHAI QUATZERA DOLO ITALIAN SOMALILAND KENYA Map showing the "hot spot" in Ethiopia where Italian planes rained bombs on the inhabitants of Dessye where hundreds of women, children and non-combatants were killed. An American Red Cross hospital was hit during the outrage. Emperor Haile Selassie is shown in the royal robes of his office. The king of kings has left his golden throne to take personal command of his troops at the front as they battle to halt the invasion of the Italian Blackshirts. BEST NEWS OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL MAJOR BATTLE EXPECTED ERITREA Asmara ADIGRAT AKSUM Aduwa BANAKIL DESSERT MAKALE Lake Tana DESSYE TAKEN WITHOUT OPPOSITION ADDIS ABABA DIREDAWA Harar FRENCH MUSSA ALI SOM Djibouti Berbera BRITISH SOMALILAND ETHIOPIA SASA BANEH WALWAL GORAHAI ITALIANS PUSH NORTH-TOWNS TO EAST BOMBED DOLO BELET UEN ITALIAN SOMALILAND UGANDA KENYA 0 100 200 SCALE OF MILES Mogadiscio Indian THE GUNS Here is a sample of what the Italians are getting in Ethiopia. These machine-gunners are looking for planes. They are already credited with bring-ing down about a dozen planes. These anti-aircraft guns are of the latest make and the men behind the guns are trained by expert European army officers. Already Mussolini is talking peace and has ad-mitted conquering Ethiopia is not as easy as was-thought. Here is a sample of what the Italians are getting in Ethiopia. These machine-gunners are looking for planes. They are already credited with bring-ing down about a dozen planes. These anti-aircraft guns are of the latest make and the men behind the guns are trained by expert European army officers. Already Mussolini is talking peace and has ad-mitted conquering Ethiopia is not as easy as was-thought. THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES RECEIVES THE GREETING FROM THE KING OF BANGLADESH. THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES RECEIVES THE GREETING FROM THE KING OF BANGLADESH. THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES RECEIVES THE GREETING FROM THE KING OF BANGLADESH. This picture shows a scene in July 1933, when His Highness, Prince Ras Desta Demtu, son-in-law of Emperor Haile Selassie, as he was received at Union Station by high U. S. government officials. Reading left to right: Ato Paulos Mannano Ethiopian Counsel general at Jerusalem; Prince Ras Desta Demtu; Acting Secretary of State, William Phillips and Marvin McIntyre, secretary to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. agedy, Crime, Love, Hate, War, Dot Pages of 1935 TWO PS or =o Paze aes icers and three teacher: ei before the Board of Educa- ‘tion that the system as now used is faulty and could be improved. ® February 16 ‘Walter L. Carter, former cashier @f the Industria] Bank of Wash- ington, was charged with grand Tareeny in connection with the ‘theft of $9,100 from a safety de- Posit box in the bank by the grand dery. V. D. Johnston treasurer at Howard University, was repri- manded by Secretary of Interior Tkes for irregularities (not due to ishonesty) in the handling of Pub- lic Works Administration funds disclosed by+a recent investigation, The sum involved about $29,000. As a result of the investigation the Secretary may enforce the uni- versity to comply with PWA regu- lation by refusing to advance fur- ther funds to the institution until the Secretary is convinced that the money will be spent solely on the improvements for which it is al- lotted. February 23 » Approva] of the Costigan-Wag- ner anti-lynching bill by the Sen- ate judiciary sub-committee was Predicted, following sharp denunei- ation of the lynching crime and pleas for early passage of a Fed- eral measure against the evil by Walter White, secretary of he Na- tional Association for the Advance- ment of Colored People; Charles H. Houston, dean of Howard Uni- Yersity Law School and attorney for the NAACP, and seven others including H.’L, Mencken, Baltimore writer. Senators Costi- Fan {Pemocrat of Clorado) and rt, Wayner (Demorrat of New York), co-authors of the bill, Columbia Ladge of Elks refused to rescind its action taken several weeks ago when it vated to refuse to have anything to do with the sunee enreremant of, the grand session which is sched- uled to be held heré next August. Congressmen Arthur W.. Mit- chell, Chicago Democrat, last wee's introduced a measure for the crea- tion of an Industrial Commission on Negro Affairs to be composed of five members, which has already been popularly dubbed “the watch dog bill,” March 2 ‘CHICAGO.—Jesse Binga, found- er and president of the now de- funct Binga Sate Bank, was de- nied a new trial in an opinion ren- dered Thursday by the Illinois Su- preme Court, Lonnie Stillwell, so-called “tooth- Pickburglar,” who was to have fac. edtrial Monday in District Supreme Court was, instead, remanded for &@ lunacy hearing, when the case was called before Justice Adkins. William H. Hastie, assistant so- Heitor in the Departmnt of Inter- ior, was married late last week following a whirlwind trip to Elk- ton, Md. | His bride was the form- er Miss Alma Syphax, only daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Marcellus Syphax. 1384 Riggs Street, North. west. . A March 92 NEW ae a gal ~ sole lity of the iscopal church, faners] sctvices werre held Sunday for Richard B, Harrison, the man who created the roie of “De Lawd” 2 Green ae tures,” with Bishop Manning of t] Dioces of New York conducting the services in the majectic cathe- dral of St, John Divine, Set for two o'clock, the funeral ‘of the noted actor who died Tues- day at the Fifth Avenue Hospital where he had been taken following his collapse early in the month the ccasion attracted people from all walks = life many of whom a tended the morning servige at the Cathedral, remaining qyagh for the funeral). x Beltran D. Barker poprietor of the Barker Service Station, Eleventh and V Streets, North. west, and a well known’ business man of this city, filed suit, late this afternoon (Thursday) for recovery of $9,100, reputedly taken from & safety deposit box of the Indus- trial Savings Bank, last December. March 30. The familiar figure of Lonnie Lewis Stillwell, once an ardent de- Votee of the loca! tennis courts and formerly a junior at Howard Uni- versity, will be missing from the clay courts of Washington for at least five years, Stillwell, lately known as the “Toothpick Burglar,” Was given an indeterminate’ sen. tence of five to fifteen years in the itentiary by Justice Jesse C Kakine in District Supreme Court, Friday afternoon, following his guilty plea on ten charges of rob- and grand larceny. The term wil be scrved at Lorton Reforma. tory. ‘The proposed Senate investiga- tion into alleged irregularities in- volving P.W.A. funds at Howard mr bone ate toe when itor Hastings liean), of Delaware, demanded Feport on the speuding ef mon nt ee es to do u - Plained that he believed the infor= mation should be made available. « April 6 Laying down in sharp language a ruling that Negroes can not be barred from: jury service by-sub- terfuge the United States Supreme Court Monday directed new trials for two of the seven boys recently convicted of assaulting two white women in the famous Scottsboro case. In no uncertain terms the court directed the State of Alabama not only re-try Clarence Norris but held that the indictment on which he was brought to trial was defec- tive, Consequently a new indict- ment must be returned if Alabama wishes to prosecute the men, The Supreme Court held he had been deprived of consitutional rights because Negroes were bar- red from jury jservice in Alabama. The Board of Education Wed- nesday refused the request of the Central Strike Committee for ap- proval of a one hour student strike on April 12. Charles H. Houston was the only member to favor the request. He voted “no” when the motion was put ‘April 13 Dr. Frederick Douglass Patter- son, 83-year-old Washingtonian, was elected president of Tuskegee Institute, the nation’s largest and best known industrial school, this week, What is considered a sweeping victory for the Howard University administration was registered at the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees. Tuesday, Not only was Dr. Mordecai W, Johnson, president of the univer- sity, reelected a trustee for three years, but % D. Johnston, treasur- er, Was again named to that office. April 20 ‘Trapped on the third floor of a blazing tenement house at 732 Columbia Road, Northwest, late Tharsday night, five children. and two women, all relatives. were asphyxiated in what is believed to be the worst disaster in Washing- ton.in recent years. i Five others, all occupants of the house, who were sleeping when fire broke out. inthe premises escaped serious injury but only after dar- ing rescues by relatives and close friends. Homicide squad detectives are following out » long’ line of clews in an eflort to apprehend the slay- er or slayers of Mrs. Florence Dancy, 65 wife of the late John » Dancy, former recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia, Mrs. Daney was found strangled to death in her hom, 2139 L Street, Northwest last Friday night. Walter L. Carter former cashier of the Industrial Bank of Wash- ington, ‘pleaded guilty to taking $9,100 from a safety deposit box at the bank, Wednesday morning. and his case was referred to the Probation officer, April 27 Armond W, Scott, prominent member of the local bar was se- lected by President Roosevelt, Monday for appointment to the Municipal Court, to succeed Judge James A. Cobb, whose term expir- ed more than a year ago. Mrs. Robert G. McGuire, presi- dent of the local branch of the National Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored People ten- dered her resignation to the execu- tive body of that organization this week to take effect immediately, Approval of tubercular examina- tion of all senior Washington high school students providing parents agree to the examination was given by"the Board of Education at its meeting, Thursday, May 4 0 A surprise attack by Senator William E. Borah (Republican), of Idaho, sent the Wagner-Costigan anti-lynching bill into the discard yesterday (Wednsday). As a re- sult the. administration emerged victorious in its effort to side-track the highly controversial sectional matter. Hurling charges of miscondget at each other, Mr. and Mrs, Thom- as W. Parks well known Washing- tonians, aired their domestic diffi- culties before Justice Letts in the District Supreme Court this week. Mrs. Ethel Parks is sueing her hus- band for separate maintenance, “The Board of Education at its regular meeting, Wednesday, ap- préved the reappointment of Mrs. Sylvia P. Patterson, Industrial Arts instructor without an exami- nation, who resigred under the Economy Act, and at the same time refused the reappointment of Mrs. Bernice Lumpkins Brandon, teach- er of kindergarten-primary grades, unless she submits to another ex- lgmatnetincn” f May 11 For the first time since its or- fanization Cardozo High School ‘won the annual competitive drill held at Griffith Stadium, today. Company A, commanded by Capt. John Evell was the victorious unit. Arnistrong companies were second a thind. = oe 5 tale |ARLBORO, Md—Here. in the coyrtroom where seven years he was convicted of an ascault shite may, Charles W. Flory, THE WASHINGTON TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1935 white Bladensburg town policeman, ‘Monday, was exonerated for shoot- ing to’ death a Negro, Kater Stevens 31, 941 P Street, Nortle west, last July, Accused of brutally treating three members of the pledge club at an initiatory session late last ‘week, five members of the under- graduate chapter of the Delta ‘Sigma Theta Sorority at Howard ‘University were suspended from ‘the sorority, early this week. May 18 W. Herman Lucas, 68-year-old natixe Washingtonian, of 1401 Irv- ing Street, Northeast lost a $50,- 000 “damage suit against Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux, radio minister last Friday in the Dis- trict Supreme Court when a jury of seven men and five women return- ed a verdict in favor of the preach- er after two hours deliberation, More than 50 church leaders and pastors representing every denomi- nation in the District, descended on the District Commissioners Tuesday morning to voice a united protest against discrimination in the local relief program, The resignation of Mrs. Virginia R. McGuire, president of the local pach of N.A.A.C.P., was accepted at a heated meeting held at, the Phyllis ‘Wheatley YAW.CA., ‘Tues- day. Mrs. Estelle Jackson was elected president of the Howard Alumni Association of the Distret of Co- lumbia at a meeting of the associ ation Friday in Miner Hall on the university campus, Anna Holmes, the girl that nev- er had a lover for the reason that she sacrificed herself to minister to an aged and invalid mother, was found g city of the brutal ax mur- der of that mother by a jury in Criminal Court late Wednsd-y evening. A jury of 10 men and two wo- men took three hours to reach the verdict that the daughter of Mrs. Charlotte Holmes, 75-year-old bed- ridden woman, was the one to chop the aged woman's head off last Oc- tober 20 in one of the most das- tardly murders in police annals, Seiee. 0 Walter L. Carter, former cash- ier of the Industrial Bank of Washington, became a number Wednesday morning’ when he was sentenced to from 18 months to three -years in Lorton. Reforma- tory by dustice Joseph W. Cox in the District Criminal Court, Mrs. N. F, Gilliam was approv- ed as administrative principal of the new Logan School by the Board of Education, Wednesday. ge bise, Gilling, principal “af, the x School, ‘will swap positions watt itiss Matheil Williams, bw principal of Logan. Setting aside a sum of $10 » month for the upkeep, care and custody of his deceased wife's pet- cat, “Lovey,” during the animal's life, was one of the chief items in the will of Thomas Walker vet- eran member of the Washington har, who died Tuesday of last Wednesday, June 15 Honorary degrecs were confer- red upon Dr. William A. Warfield, Surgevn-in-Chief, Freedmen's Hos- pital. and Miss Mary Elizabeth Branch, president of Tillotson Col- lege, Austin, Texas, hy President Morflecai Johnson ‘at the sixty- sixth commencemnt of the. uni- versity, Friday in front of the new Frederick Douglass Memorial Hall, In addition, 277 graduates, in- cluding 55 doctors of medicine were given degrees at the open-air exercises attended by nearly 4,000 persons, : In a stormy session which lasted from 9 o'clock in the evening to 4 o'clock in the morning the Gen- eral Alumni Association of Howard University ousted its secretary, Michael (Casey) Jones, elected of- ficers and an executive committee and over the protest of the locai alumni association No 1. admitted the Howard Law Alumni Associa- tion of Washington, Eugene Davidson, well known @lumnus and intinerant writer, was elected general alumni secretary to succeed Jones. ‘The funeral of Bighop E. D. W. Jones, who died Susday, June 16, at Garfield Hospital, after an ill- ness of sixteen months, will be ‘conducted from Union Wesley A.M. E. Zion Church Twenty-third and L__ Streets, “Northwest, today, Thursday, at 1 o'clock. Riled because The Tribune pub- lished a story last week about a fight between a teacher and an Armstrong High School student, J. Q. Adams, physical education teacher, threatened to beat Joseph Overton, Tribune columnist and Tech post-graduate student, Sat- urday. Benjamin L. Gaskins well known | local attorney, was late today (Thursday) named a member of the Board of Education of the Dis- trict of Columbia. Mr. Gaskins was advised of his selection folléwing confirmation by justices of the Su- preme Court. July 6 J..Q. Adams, Armstrong High School teacher, was found guilty of striking a student following an investigation of a fight between Adams and Harry Carter, a stu- dent, recently, Circumstances surrounding the drowning of 2-year-old Geraldine Lattimore, 1825- Wallach Place, Northwest, were still being probed by police ‘and homicide squad de- tectives up to a late hour Tuesday night. The child’s mother, Mrs. Cleo Elmira Lattimore. is still be- ing held and questioned, July 13 Sufferingwih a broken arm, two knocked out teeth, abresions of the knee, a swollen lip and se- vere nervous shock, Mrs. Jessie Sterling 56-year-old woman, lay in her bed at 807 Virginia Ayenne, Southwest, last night (Wednes- day), a victim of the police brutal. ity of a Fourth Precinct officer. Officer G. B. Reid, white of the Southwest Precinct, is charged with having brually beat the aged woman while arresting her last Wednesday night, on « charge of disorderly conduct, Another white policeman, J. Mayo, also of the Fourth Precinct accompanied the accused officer during the arrest of Mrs. Sterling. Launching a vigorous and con- certed attack on the discriminatory practices of various trade and draft unions throughout the coun- try against Negro workers, and seeking representation on the American Federation of Labor Executive Committee, a group of Negro economic leaders, led by A. Phillip Randolph, national presi- dent of the Brotherhood of Sleep- ing Car Porters an affiliate of the Labor organization, appeared be- fore the Americn Federation of Labor Committee Investigating Discrimination, early this week. July 20 At a special memorial meeting in honor of Sterling Calhoun, 82- year-old relief worker, who died in a heroic attempt to save two chil- dren from drowning, last Wednes- day, held at the John Wesley A.M, E. Zion Church last night (Wed- nesday), an announcement was made that the sum of $307.07 had been raised by the Southwest Civ- ie Association for the Calhoun Fund. Edward A. and Clarence S. Baker, brothers and former em- ployees of the Prudential Bank, were sentenced to serve from 18 months to three years in prison by Justice Joseph W. Cox in the Dis- trict, Supreme \Court Monday. hd brothers pleaded guilty to the theft ‘of $500 from the bank in 1934, Holding that the government's condemnation proceedings are il- Jega! and deliberately in violation of her rights as a property owner, Miss Minnie Keyes, white, Ti Seventh Street, Southwest. thrat. ened to throw a bombshell into’ the $8,000,000, housing project propos- ed by Secretary Ickes here, late this week, July 27 Charged with bigamy, Julius Alfred Lee, 30, of the 1900 block of Fifteenth Street, Northwest, was held for the action of the Grand Jury under $1,000 bond, when arraigned in Police Court, Monday morning. Two™ projects giving employ- ment to 153 white collar workers were approved Monday by the pro- Jects board of the District Works Progress Administration, Negroes will-not be barred from the Arlington County Democratic primaries, according to the Chronicle, leading newsaper of the county, whose editor is Cran- dall Mackey nationally known lawyer and Democrat with offices in Washington, and leader in Ar- ington and Virginia politics, , Aucust 2 ADDIS ghBABA—The wits iat Dedjazmatth Haptemikael, | grand- daughter of Ras Tessamma, late regent of Ethiopia during’ Em- peror Menelik’s illness and high- est of the ndbiliy, demanded of Emperor Haile Selassie arms and volunteers to join the army and fight in her nation’s defense, She will lead and command the troops. Less than 10 hours after Miss Minnie Keyes. white, 714 Seventh Street, Southwest, had withdrawn her suit which threatened to block the PWA slum clearance project in Southwest Washington, eight other property owners in that sec- tion filed legal objections to the project. Charges of disorderiy in a move to have the’ Alcoholic Beverage Control Board close the Cotton Club, US street night spot, were aired before th board Friday, by a group of residents living in the neighborhood of the club. August 10 ‘PETERSBURG. Va.—The bat- tered a of Miss Annie L. Gresh- am, 25 of Glen Cove, N.Y..and stu- dent at Virginia State College, was pe here near the collegs on the of Appomattox River early, Friday morning. . Columbia Lodge of Elks voted to withdraw from the grand lodge parade during the convention of the order here this month and Sipiih a watbeh Of its owe. August 17 Cease oe Se pete against George B. Reid, white policeman, of the Fourth Precinct, by Mrs. Jessie Sterling, 56-year- old woman, of 507 Virginia Ave- nue, Southwest, *hy District At- torney ‘Leslie ‘C. Garnett “were ignored by the grand jury in its repor, to Justice F. "Dickerson Letts, of D, C. Supreme Court, Wednesday, Sam Lacy, Tribune Sports Editor and veteran writer, was signed early this week for a series of broadcasts over Station WOL. Lacy will diseuss Negro athletes and athletics. in 15-minute week- ly talk beginning Wednesday night at 8:80 o'clock, mae FAIRMOUNT HEIGHTS, Md— ‘The mayor, Robert S, Nichols, and the Common Couneil of the, newly- organized town of Fairmount Heights. Md., composed of James F. Armstrong, Ernest D, Kirklan, Edward Ferguson, 8. Q. Charity, J. Atwood and Andrew Harrison, held their ‘first meeting at the home of Mrs. Sadie Q. Charity. Aumrust 27 Elks from all over the country converged on Washington for the annual Convention to be held here next week. J. Finley Wilson, Grand Exalted Ruler, will welcome the incoming fraternal brothers at the opening session Sunday. Before an audience estimated at two thousand, Vietoria Todd, a graduate of Dunbar High School, Washington, D. C., spoke her way to first place to claim the first prize of the national ora- tofical contest sponsored by the LB.P.O.E. of W,, at the Metropoli- tan AME, Church, last night. J. Finley Wilson, Grand Exalt- ed Ruler of Elks, and John Car- ter, promoter of the Lincoln Athletic Club, denied Fesponibility for Joe Louis's share of the gate receipts of the’ Elks boxing card held at Griffith Stadium Tuesday night. Joe Louis appeared as honored guest of the Elks along with Jesse Owens, Ohio State track star. Before a crowd estimated at 50,000 people, both white and col- ored, 5,349 members of the im- proved Benovelent and Protective Order of Elks of the World, dressed in gay and gaudy attire, marched down historical Consti- tution Ave., passed the State, War and Navy Building, and the White House down elaborately decorated ‘U Street, where they were re- privwed by the grand — ruler ‘and members of his staff, Tues- day afternoon. September 7 POMPTON LAKES, N. J. —Joe Louis sensational Detroit Brown Bomber, wag reported engaged to Miss Marva Trotter, Chicago tenographer, today. ‘Louis is expected to marry Miss Trotter af- ter the Baer fight on September 24, *. PHILADELPHIA — Judge Ei- ward W. Henry, only Negro magis- Elks, was indicted by the grand trate and grand treasurer of the jury here Saturday along: with 27 white judges on charges of mis- conduct in office, Charges ‘made by Dean Kelly Miller, retired Howard University professor. that communism was being taught openly at Howard University have caused the bu- reau of investigation of the In- terior Department to conduct an investigation, it was made known this week, September 14 The grand lodge of Elks, through its grand legal advisor, Perry W. Howard thig week de- nied any liability or responsibility for any of the obligations incurred by the local committee of arrange- ments. The dismissal of J. Q. Adams from the public schools system of the District for conduct unbecom- itig @ teacher and violation of the rules of the Board of Education, was recommended to the board Wednesday, by Supedintendent of Schools, Frank W. Ballou and As- sistant Sueprintendent Garnet C. Wilkinson, Despondent because his home at 1023 Lamont Street Northwest, was sold over his head, Roy Hughes, prominent local attorney, gommittted suicide last Sunday night by turning on the gas in his kitchen and allowing himself to become asphyxiated. September 21 William H. Bullock _ 15-year-old son ofthe Rev. and Mrs. George 0. Bullock, will head the Ninth Brigade of the Washington High ‘School cadets for the second year, 1935-36. Young Bullock, scion of | the pastor of Third Baptist Church. was appointed colonel, the highest ranking officer of the Ninth Bri- gade, Friday, by Garnet C. Wilkin- son ‘first assistant superintendent of schools. PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — “Mrs. Alice Dunbar Nelson, well known teacher, writer and lecturer died Wednesday at the University of Pennylvania ‘Hospital. J..Q, Adams, a teacher in the physical education department of the Armstrong High School at a salary of $2,600. wee. suspended for three months on order of the board of education at its regular meeting held Wednesday after- noon. September 28 NEW YORK CITY — Joe Louis, conqueror of two former world champions within the short space of three months, married Miss Marva Trotter. Chicago girl, four houts before his victory over Max Baer, Monday night. Continuing’ their probe of al- leged irregularities in the handling of funds imtended for the grand lodge of E™ks, the general com- mittee on arrangements for the 1935 grand lodge convention last Saturday night ordered‘the investi- gating committee to seize the re- port and records of Dr. Charles B. Fisher general chairman, unless he had turned them over to the committee by Monday, September f October 5 : ADUWA, Ethiopia, Hundreds of women and children were killed here today (Thursday) when Ttal- ian planes flew over this mountain town and dropped bombs on a help- less population, Emperor Haile Selassie has issued @ proclamation ordering the entire population of his country to arms. | The Howard University campus was thrown into a turmoil and an antagonistic uprising —_ loomed among the student body as Dean of Men William B. West announced the suspension of two students, one @ senior, the other a sophomore, last Saturday afternoon. ‘The students, James Boyd, soph- omore of Jamaica, L.I., and Elihu Morson,senior, from White Plains, N, Y., were suspended by Dean West for one semester when it was learned that the boys had been sleeping in Clark Hall _ without having a room assigned to them. October 12 Public Works — Administrator Harold L. Ickes this week an- nounced. the allotment of $525,000 to Howard University for the erec- tion of dormitories to be be used for male students. The work is to begin immediately, ADDIS ABABA—Emperor Haile Selassie, Monday, delivered an out- spoken indictment of the war methods of Mussolini and. bitterly assailed them for what he called their measures for “civilizing” the -African empire. Less than @ year out of the divorce courts as a result of a ‘marital rift with his first wife, Mrs. Pearl: Gray, Dr. Hugh M. Gray, prominent local physician, was again hauled into the toils of the District Supreme Court. late this week. His second: wife, Mrs, Marietta . Gray, whom he married with- in the short space of a week after divorcing his first mate, entered suit for divoree a mensa’ et thoro, late yesterday (Wednesday). October 19 While residents of the 1700 block of Euclid Street, Northwest, threatened to blow up the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hayes, when a letter was delivered at their home Wednesday morning by the postman, b MARLBORO Md. — A vedict of $1,200 was awarded Mrs. Mildred Stevens, widow of Kater Stevens, the youth who was shot to death by a white Bladensburg town po- liceman last October. by a jury in Cireuit Court here yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon, October 26 Washington society wag shocked this week when it was disclosed that two prominent couples of the younger set recently eloped to An- hapolis where they were married in a double ceremony. Miss Doris Carter, 1316 Riggs Stret( Northwest, was married to John R. Risher, son Dr. John’ H. Risher former’ president of the National Benefit. Life Insurance Company, and Miss Caroline Har- ris, 1731 § Street, became the bride of William Grayer Williams Jr., » student at Howard University. All were students st the university last semester, The Howard University Board ot ‘Trustess, at its innaci meeting here. Tuesday, approved the ap- pointment of Hilyard Robinson and Paul Williams as architects for the new men's dormitories to be erected out of a PWA allotment of 525,000. November 2 Policeman Phillip Burton, white, of the Eleventh Precinct was ex. onetated by a coroner's jury in the death of Andrew Evans 24, of 5800 ‘Hayes Street, Northeast, Fri- y.. Unable to reach a verdict, a jury trying the gaming thar; against Earl H. McDonald well known local sportsman, was of lered discharged by wus A. Schuldt in Police Court. | ST. LOUIS, Mo. (Special) — ‘A comfortable margin in points gained: for John Henry Lewis, sen- sational Phoenix Ariz., bexer, the decision over Bob Olin, white, in their 15-round championship bat- Ue, here last night (Thursday). eigen November 5 _ The U. S. Court of Appeals for po iad ert fg) eser oe 2. eae @ Merry Vuletide TO ALL OUR FRIENDS ; = SS SS Serving Washington for More Than Half a Century j ENJOYING A TIME-TRIED REPUTATION 5 S56 Sh SS 5 BARNES and MATTHEWS FUNERAL DIRECTORS 614 4th St., S.W. Met. 9643 5 i eS SS EO TN a Se eee NOTICE The Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of the FEDERAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY Will convene st the office of the Company, now located at 1815 Seventh Street, Northwest, on Tuesday, January 14th; 1936; at 5 o'clock, P.M., for the Election of Trustees and the transac- tion of such other business as may properly come before it. €. BERNARD GILPIN, * Secretary. the Disrict of Columbia upheld the decision of the Supreme Gourt of the District. this week in a- warding Mrs, Effie Bostic damages of $1,500, § Mrs. Bostic was injured in an automobile belonging to W. Ernest Jarvis, well known /Washington funeral director. ATLANTA, Ga. — Angelo Hern- don America’s most famous poli- tical prisoner, gave himself up last Monday, October 28. He was immediately placed ig Fulton County Tower where he was imprisoncd for 26 months prior to his release on $15,000 bail in August, 1934, November & Dr. Arthur Kennedy, 47, of 301 © Street, Southwest. was sentenced to three years in District Supreme Court this week, on two charges of performing illegal operations. Chief Justice Alfred A, Wheat, of the District Supreme Court, Monday afternoon granted an ab- solute divorce to Mrs, Bessie Ar- rington Lee, from her husband, Julius Alfred (Bus) Lee, November 12 OHICAGO.—Information _subse- quent to. the inquest See held into the slaying of Enoch Houser, 69-year-old Tuskegee graduate, now in the hands of Frank J. Loesch, chairman of the Chitago Crime Commission, is expected to effect @ sweeping investigation into methods used by the coroner's office and the police department in inves- tigating and prosecuting the case. FAIRMONT HEIGHTS, Md— Mrs. Anna Knox, 47, victom of a ferocious pack of dogs, was in the Emergency Hospital in Washing- ton early this week suffering with bites sustained when the animals attacked her near her home here Friday. ; . November 15 A. resolution ordering Frederick S. Weaver, Tribune columnist, and student in the Howard Law School, to appear beore the faculty of thy school at its next meeting, to show cause why he should mot be disci- plined for his column which ap- peared in The Tribune September 21, was adopted by the faculty at its last meeting. SCOTTSBORO, Ala.—The nine youths, defendants in the famous Scottsboro case were re-indicted, Wednesday, by a special grand jury Which included one colored man, Miss Lydia Brown’ Cardozo High Schoo! teacher, is in a serious ‘condition in Freedmen's Hospital, suffering from bites from a girl pupil, during class last Friday. pial Z November 19 ‘The Rev. Edward M. Tyree, 1324 First Street Northwest; pastor of the Shiloh Baptist Chureh, and former paktor of the Rehoboth Baptist Church, this week, filed a petition for the issuance of a rule to show cause why the church he formerly pastored should not be restrained from molesting him and ordered to restore him to its membership, Unknown hands which reputed- ly performed an illegal operation on a senior nurse in the Freed- men’s Hospital training school, from which the latter developed sceptic poisoning and died are be- ing sought by local police. The nurse, Miss Florence Bailey, 21, Roxboro, Philadelphia. Pa., died At the hospital Friday morning. . November 22 CHICAGO.—The case involving Jaik Blackburn ang John Bowman in @ gun battle alleged to. have been staged by the two men re- cently in which Enoch Houser, 69 ‘was fatally wounded and Lucy Can. non nine-year-old girl was ser- iously injured, was reopened here Tuesday and again became the “topic of the town” when Black- burn_and Bowman were charged in felony court with assault ith ioe veepon with intent to John C. Bruce, supervising” prin- cipal in the public schools of the District of Columbia. chairman of the lexecutive committee of the NAACP. since March 3, 1928, ang three times acting president of the branch was elected pres!- dent Tuesday to fill the unexpired term of Mrs, Virginia R. MeGuire, resigned. ; November 26 Mrs. Namah G. Curtis, wife of Dr, A.M. Curtis, professor of Sur- gery at Howard University died at her late residence, 1736 U Street, Northwest, early Monday morning. As predicted exclusively in @ previous issue of the Tribune, the petition for receivership for The Federal Life Insurance Company, @ local, coxporation, instituted by. John A- Marshall. insurance super- intendent of the District of Colum- bia was dismissed in the Supreme Court, Friday. November 29 NEW YORK CITY.—The twen- ity-fifth anniversary celebration of the National Urban League opened here Monday. ATLANTIC CITY, NJ.—Lit- coln University defeated Howard ‘University, 13-7. in the annual ‘Thanksgiving Night football tilt for tha cot ices fa decade: BALTIMORE, Md.—Morgan Col- lege clinched ‘its fourth consecu- tive C.LA.A. football championship by downing Virginia State College eleven in a downpour of rain, 82-7, here Thanksgiving Day. December 3 Holding thet the president of Howard University is not account- able to anyone for recommenda- tions he makes tothe Board of Trustees Justice Cox, of the Dis- trict Supreme Court, Monday af- ternoon directed a verdict in favor of Dr. Mordecai W. Johnson, presi- dent of Howard University, and Dean Numa P. G. Adams, dean of the Medical School who were be- ing sued for $10,000 by Dr. Charles B. Fisher, former assistant at the Medical School. Expanding activities of the In- terstate Commerce Commission, including. bus and truck. control units, Saturday caused the Federal Government to lease the. Masoni¢ Temple, Tenth and U Streets. A. E. Demaray, acting: director ‘of the National Park Service, In« terior Department, under which the division of Government space control comes announced the few tenants now occupying the build- ing will arrange to vacate within 80 days~ The five-story structure contains some 40,000 square feet net of usable floor space, - December 6 ‘The appearance of Mrs, Frank- lin D. Roosevelt at 2 regular meet- ing of the Women's Faculty Club of Howard University, last night, created a disturbance as officers of the club headed by {tx president, Miss R. Arliner Young, sought to bgr representatives of the press from the meeting which was held in Frazier Hall. : ADDIS ABABA.—Although Eu- rope and especially France, js busy among themselves. dividing ‘up Ethiopia to satisfy Mussolini, Em- peror Haile Selassie sent | word Wednesday that -Ethiopia never will surrender “a single foot of land” under any plan. A stirring plea for the adoption of corporal punishment in the Dis trict public schools was made be- fore the Boary a Education at its (See REVIEW. Page 3) 1935 in R 1935 in Review Headed by Dr. R. R. Wright, Jr., president of Wilberforce University, a committee of five church leaders, representing the Fraternal Council of Negro Churches of American, conferred with President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the White House, Thursday afternoon on problems vitally effecting the Negro today. Harvard Liquor 2901 Sherman A Wishes You a Harvard Liquor Store 2901 Sherman Ave., N.W. Wishes You a Happy and Prosperous New Year Just Arrived! The Greatest Whiskey Buy Since Repeal !! ASK FOR Harvard Reserve Straight Whiskey 22 Months Old 95c 93 Proof PINT We Deliver Free. Call Col. 3040-3041-9755 "The Uptown Store with the Downtown Prices" AGENTS MAKE BIG MONEY SELLING The Tribune BECOME AN AGENT TODAY. For particulars, write— CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 920 U St., N.W. Phone Pot. 1667 (Continued from page 2) Wednesday meeting by Dr. C. Herbert Marshall, prominent physician and president of the Rock Creek Citizens' Association. December 10 ATLANTA.—Georgia's old anti-sedition statute of 1866, under which Angelo Herndon communist, was sentenced to 18 to 20 years in prison, was held unconstitutional. Saturday. It was declared invalid in a habeas corpus ruling by Judge Hugh M. Dorsey in Fulton County Superior Court, who freed Herndon in $8,000 bail and allowed the state 20 days for an appeal to the Georgia Supreme Court. Suffering from a sudden attack of pneumonia, Joseph H. Douglass, grandson of the late abolitionist and statesman, Frederick Douglass, passed away at his home; 1816 Eleventh Street, Northwest, Saturday morning at 2 o'clock. December 13 Dr. Garnet C. Wilkinson first assistant superintendent of schools, and Harold Haines, principal of Browne Junior High School, barely escaped death this week when the car in which they were riding skidded over an embankment and turned over ten miles west of Lexington, Va. A city-wide search was launched late Wednesday night by local police in an effort to apprehend the three white yeggs who beat bound and gagged Detective Sergeant Howard W. Smith of the Central Bureau, and left him unconscious in a basement of a house in the 1800 block of Fourth Street, Northwest. Inadequate street-car service for Northwest Washington was the main topic up for discussion before the regular meeting of the Central Northwest Civic Association, held Friday at the Garnet Patterson Junior High School. December 17 CHARLOTTE, N.C.—Eleven of the thirteen colleges comprising the Intercollegiate Athletic Association voted to suspend all athletic teams of Morgan College pending a settlement of differences on student eligibility existing between the association eligibility committee and the Baltimore institution, at the annual meeting of the body here at Johnson C. Smith University, last Friday and Saturday. December 20 The special committee appointed by the Board of Education to investigate the complaint made by the Federation of Citizens' Associations, that three books in history were in use in the public school system, which taught and advocated Communism, exploded a bombshell when they disclosed that two of the history books criticized, had never been, and are not now, in use in any of the colored schools of the District of Columbia. Arrested December 9 and booked on a statutory charge on the complaint of Fred J. Whipps, 1128 Columbia Road, Dr. Walter Washington, prominent dentist, 1720 Willard Street, Northwest, was later released on $300 bond. FREDERICK, Md.—A Circuit Court jury, which deliberated only 40 minutes, Tuesday, convicted Alfred Brown, 21-year-old boxer, of slaying Manuel Silva Varela, and partially burning the body. December 24 Reports that Robert L. Vann special assistant to the Attorney General of the United States, had resigned his position were confirmed by the Department of Justice here in an exclusive statement to the Tribune. HOPEWELL, Va.—Two sisters, both of McKenney, Va., were identified among the dead here today (Tuesday) following a bus accident here early Sunday morning, when a Greyhound bus crashed through a draw bridge and plunged into the icy waters of the Appomattox River. December 27 ATLANTA, Ga.—The decision of Judge Hugh M. Dorsey holding the Georgia "insurrection" law unconstitutional on a writ of habeas corpus in the celebrated Angelc Herndon case, was appealed by John Boykin, Fulton County Solicitor-General. Former students and members of the Dunbar High School faculty honored James C. Wright, "Father of Three-Cent Car Fare" and local public school teacher for 37 years upon his retirement from the school system, Friday. THE WASHINGTON TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1935 NUMBERS (Continued from page 1) racing is bad in itself but because gamblers, dope fiends and crooks hang like parasites around every race track." Praises Court Mr. La Roe's letter, which was approved by the board of directors of the church federation, read further, in part, as follows: "Our court system deserves high praise. Admitting that there is a weak spot here and there, our judges are not only honest, but, on the whole, highly competent. Our judicial system does not suffer by comparison with those in the States. Juvenile Court Changes "Our juvenile court is rendering a high quality of service. There is need for the rewriting of the basic juvenile court law to make it more modern and more flexible and to expand the function of the court so as to make it less a criminal court and more an institution of correction and rehabilitation. "Our police system we may well be proud of. It is not perfect, but the system as a whole is both honest and efficient and those at the head of it have a high conception of their duty to the public. We believe the system to be seriously undermanned. "Our Board of Education and our school system as a whole are of very high order, and are probably above the average in the several States. "We can boast of an excellent health department under highly competent leadership. Prosecutors Found Alert "Our district attorney has been rather severely criticized, but largely on the ground of insincient training for this particular work. Our federation has had frequent dealings with the district attorney and his assistants, in connection with the prosecution of crime in the District, and we have round the officials in charge, on the whole, alert in prosecuting criminals. "Our federation has been critical of the Alcohol Beverage Control Board, which seems to us to have been extremely liberal in the granting of licenses. But after all the basic trouble lies with the law itself, which expressly authorizes the license system. While we believe that the board should be much more stringent in administering the law, it is only fair to recognize that no board can create an ideal situation as long as the present statute remains unchanged. There is no excuse for a law that authorizes the dispensing of liquor in almost every drug store and grocery store. "Much has been done to improve conditions in our city. So-called 'big-shot' gambling has been greatly reduced. The police report a material decrease in immoral solicitation on our streets." Mr. La Roe is chairman of the Civic Affairs Committee of the church federation. POLITICS without discrimination. The delegated representation will be the same as in 1928, that is to say it will remain the same except hat the six states which gave a majority of Republican votes will have three additional delegates at large. No discrimination was made in the selection of members of the sub-committees, as evidenced by the fact that for the first time in the history of the party a colored Committeeman Perry W. Howard, National Committeeman for Mississippi, was placed on the powerful Rules Committee, and Mrs. Mary C. Booze, the National Committeewoman for Mississippi, was appointed a member on the Memorial Committee to deceased members. Among the colored political leaders visiting the session of the committee were, Grand Exalted Ruler J. Finley Wilson, of the Elks, Former Ambassador to Liberia, Charles E. Mitchell, State Chairman, S. D. Redmond from Mississippi, Colonel Röscoe Conkling Simmons, Chicago, Judge James A. Cobb Colonel West A. Hamilton, Former Recorder of Deeds, Jefferson A. Coage, J. T. Risher, Dr. Emmett J. Scott, secretary of Howard University, and others. While much is being said about the prominence of Congressman Mitchell at the President's Chicago reception colored Republican leaders are stressing the fact that Chairman Fletcher and his associates are showing the Coolidge liberalism by the fact that the National Committeeman and Committeewoman of Mississippi were shown the same consideration at the luncheon at the Mayflower to the National Committee that was given to other members. COMMUNISTS EXPEL WERLIN FOR ANTI-NEGRO PRACTICES NEW YORK, N. Y.—For maintaining a "white chauminist" (anti-Negro) attitude on a Federal Negro Theatre Project, Jerry Werlin, white amateur actor, was expelled from the Communist Party last week. The action was taken after Werlin had himself appointed Senior Project supervisor of a Negro Theatre project which was subsequently sponsored by the Harlem Branch of the National Urban League. The Communist Party held that Werlin should have "fought for the appointment of a Negro to this position." Even the stubbornest man is easily convinced that the world wants him in public office. Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot! When Auld Lang Syne rings 1935 out and 1936 in, remember this—there's good cheer in good beer, and that means ARROW BEER. May your New Year be happy and prosperous. THE GLOBE BREWING COMPANY WASHINGTON DISTRIBUTORS • Rock Creek Ginger Ale Company • Telephone National 5880 • The Globe Distributing Company • Telephone North 3500 DIVORCE (Continued from Fage 1) The wife also declares that this attitude was taken by the husband in spite of the fact that he would never take her out for social purposes. Kelused Christmas for Kiddies On December 3, the complainant avers, she returned nome about 10:30 p.m., after having visited with her next-door neighbor, to and all the doors and windows locked by her husband. When usually she goes in and was about to retire, she states, Mr. Jackson now into a n't of rage, accusing her of being unfortunate and threatening her with oodily harm. A heated argument also resulted from her suggestion that he make some plans to give the children a Christmas, Mrs. Jackson declares. And to her pleas, the wife states, Mr. Jackson answered if she didn't like it, to go elsewhere. Ordered out of the house, the wife asserts, she and the children were forced to go to the home of her mother. Mrs. Jackson states her husband receives an approximate salary of $110 monthly at his Treasury Department post, and, in addition, gets a $90 monthly retirement pension from the United States Army. She urges the court to order maintenance of herself and children. fire, supplemented by bombing by the ever-present Italian fighting planes, they managed to inflict severe losses on the Italians as they drove out the defenders. One hundred native soldiers were taken prisoner. The bodies of 20 Italian officers and non-commissioned officers and men were found on the battlefield after the Italian retreat. River Blamed ASMARA, Eritrea—Ebbing was ters of the temperamental Takkaze River were blamed by the Italians today for their admitted inability to hold that front intact against the thrusts of Ethiopian tribesmen. On the eastern wing of the northern front, however, Italian positions in the Makale region are slowly being pushed to the south, at the same time bulging out to the flanks, and Italian advance guards are today reported within a short distance of Amba Alagi. Forty miles straight south through the mountain passes from Makale, Amba Alagi was the scene of a crushing defeat 40 years ago, and has long been regarded as the possible site of the Ethiopians' major stand. Thomas Talks Business To Waitresses In a Sunday morning breakfast talk to the employees of Vincent Thomas's Cafe, Eleventh and U Street's, Challes M. Thomas, teacher of economics at Armstrong High, outlined how service next to cooking made restaurant business profitable. Analyzing the costs of business he indicated how each employee earned a share of the dollar spent in the enterprise and could increase profits by reducing cost and selling products. "With the increase in the number eating outside of the home today," he said, "restaurant business falls within business organization in cities." Twenty-five cents out of every one of the million and half dollars spent in Negro retail business in Washington, was spent in restaurants was pointed out. Employees asked questions and commented. Methods of handling differing human nature aspects of customers were discussed along with the responsibilities of management. The Tribune plans to make these business talks by Prof. Thomas available to firms requesting them. J. Audrey Davis Speaker at Youth Conference J. Aubrey Davis, assistant to Lieutenant Lawrence A. Oxley, chief. Division of Negro Labor, represented the Department of Labor and Negro youth at the Youth Conference held under the auspices of the Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior. The conference was held at the Powhattan Hotel Eighteenth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, December 21. The purpose was to discover youth's attitude on how government sponsored forums should be run, what they should discuss, and what place youth should have in such forums. This information was being gathered by the Office of Education preliminary to the establishment of model community forums in ten American cities with WPA funds and workers. Represented at the conference were such youth organizations as the Peace Action Service, World Peace Foundation, Allied Youth of the National Education Association, the Association of College Student Unions, Phi Beta Kappa, the 4-H Clubs, the Young Democrats and the Young Republicans, the National Student Federation, the American Jewish Congress, and the Junior Chamber of Commerce. Jackson Day Dinner Staged To commemorate the occasion of 100 years ago, when President Andrew Jackson offered military protection to John F. Cook, who maintained a school for free colored children and was pastor of the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian forced to free a mob who burned every church in which was a school, every church in which a school, colored citizens will stage a Jackson Day dinner at Crystal Caverns, Eleventh and U Streets, Northwest. Plates will cost $1.50. W. Tecumseh Bradshaw is chair man; Charles M. Thomas, toastmaster; Recorder of Deeds Dr. William J. Thompkins; Lieut. Thomas H. R. Clarks, Municipal Judge Armond W. Scott and others will speak. Dr. F. O. Williston, head of the Colored National Democrats, is executive officer. Arkansas State Grid Campaign Pleases PINE BLUFF Ark.—The football season at Arkansas State College turned out to be a rather successful one in spite of the fact that it started off in a very discouraging manner. After taking defeats from Texas College, Wiley, Xavier, Prairie View, they came back strong to swamp Dillard, Southern, and West Kentucky State. Coaches Brute Russell and Jim McCraary, working with little material, most of which was green, turned in a good job in the absence of Skip Hazzard, and are to be commended for taking the team as far as they did. As a tribute to their leader, Chester White, the players reelected him captain for next year. WASHINGTON TRIBUNE Published Tuesday and Friday of Each Week Subscription Rates (By Mail, Including Postage) National Edition 1 yr. $2.50 6 mos. 1.25 3 mos. .65 Capital Edition 1 yr. $2.50 6 mos. 1.25 3 mos. .65 Rates, Both Editions Combination Subscription 1 yr. $4.50 6 mos. 2.25 3 mos. 1.25 In Canada and Foreign Coun- tries, Single Edition 1 yr. $7.00 6 mos. 4.00 3 mos. 1.65 Entered as Second-Class Matter --- THRE Auditorium Program Features Night School Reception and Dance Under the sponsorship of the Committee on Extra Activities, the Armstrong Night School presented a student directed program which included Christmas carols, Christmas choruses, recitations and solos. The following features represented were: a chorus by the students belonging to the class of Miss E. V. Payne, domestic art teacher; a recitation, "Angels Message" by Miss Cozella Holland of Miss E. F. Bensley's class; a piano solo, "O Holy Night" by Walter Webb, from E. L. Brown's class, wood-work department; a piano solo, "Mother" by William Wheeler, of J. U. Hunter's class, automobile mechanics; "Christmas As It Used to Be," by Miss Mary Holley, domestic art department; singing by the Armstrong Night Chorus, under the direction of Miss Nessessniah Bell. Mrs. Hood, who was at the piano was assisted by the following musicians: Mrs. E. F. Beasley, Henry Buckner, and George Ford. There were also remarks by W. H. Payne, Jr., chairman of the extra activities committee and C. W. Adams, principal. The remainder of the evening was given over to a reception and dancing held in the gymnasium. Contributions to the auditorium decorations were made by Mrs. M-W. Russell and her committee and Mrs. H. B. Allen and her section of the Armstrong Day School. The faculty was addressed the week prior to Christmas by Dr. E. Y. Williams of the Medical School of Howard University. The committee under the chairmanship of F. A. Gregory succeeded in bringing Dr. Williams to the school. These meetings are held on the third Thursday of each month at 7:30 o'clock. A German professor says Hitler has ended the Middle Ages. We thought he had brought 'em back. YOUR The Washington Tribune Publicize Semi-Weekly at Washington, D.C., by NEW HAMINGTON TRIBUNE PUBLISHING COMPANY, Inc. 829 U Street, N.W. Phone. Potomac 1667 Entered as second-class matter, July 7, 1922, at the Post Office at Washington D.C. under the Act of March 8, 1879 Subscription Rates: One Year, $2.50; Six Months, $1.25; Three Months, 65c. For sale at all news stands, a cents per copy. Advertising rates furnished on request. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1935 Politics Still Make Strange Bedfellows In a desperate effort to re-capture this government with its four billion dollars of annual revenue and its potential control of other billions, the Republican Party, using the method of trial and error, and that of dragging a red herring across the trail to throw the dogs off the track, while the Roosevelt administration aids Negroes as Americans, it seems that the two major parties have switched party policies. That is not the first time it has been done. In both State and national campaigns, the mass of voters is treated like sheep and led frequently to political slaughter or to self-destruction by calls, slogans, false promises of feeding grounds and the like. Today, we have the strange sight of big business turning on the hand that fed it (the New Deal) when it was dying of lack of nourishment, and the old opposition party (Bourbon Democrats) opposing the leadership that brought it into power and control when it had no method nor programs nor possibility of winning, except its general principle that it was "the party of the people." First the Supreme Court tells the Democrats how to stay a "white man's party," then we have the announcement that one of the court's members is "a dark horse" of the Republican Party, backed by its money-baron, Mr. Mellon, of Pennsylvania. Next, we have a western Senator of every hue of party alignment coming out as an anti-Negro candidate for the Republican nomination, just about as James Buchannan did before the Dread Scott decision and the Civil War. It is clear that the increasing co-alignment of white and colored labor, and the fact that the masses of white and colored voters are in an unfavorable economic position, produces the real problem in the efforts to secure control of the government. Government is for the property class. At the dawn of the nation, rich men even in the Congress bought government obligations at panic prices and then voted them of value. That was a Hamiltonian policy and from him the Republican Party traces its development. Even the Civil War was an anti-labor movement to increase the competition between men who were forced to work for wages, by freeing black hands who would have to work and buy for themselves. Fundamentally there is no possibility of intelligent men acting except in their own interests, and it is because the masses refuse to become intelligent that they are lured first this way and then that way to their perpetual disdress. In a pinch, just as was true among ancient Hebrews, "It is the law!" destroy every gain made by struggling masses. When every other appeal fails, back to the jungle goes the party slogan and like Hitler in Germany, race antagonism is hauled forth to play upon elemental passions. "No Negro domination" becomes the cry that brings unthinking whites flocking to the polls. First the leaders drive the Negro out of politics in the deep South, then they trot out a "white hope" in the far West aided by conservative Eastern sponsorship, then they claim support from that South which has so often upset political calculations by voting with the West, all by clasping hands over the back of the poor Negro following his bell wethers, battening upon better-paying jobs and high-sounding titles. Thus Mark Hanna elected McKinley with high tariff, high prices and millions taken from the pockets of American labor and farmers. He bought the Negro delegates to the Republican convention. Today, we have the strange sight of big business turning on the hand that fed it (the New Deal) when it was dying of lack of nourishment, and the old opposition party (Bourbon Democrats) opposing the leadership that brought it into power and control when it had no method nor programs nor possibility of winning, except its general principle that it was "the party of the people." First the Supreme Court tells the Democrats how to stay a "white man's party," then we have the announcement that one of the court's members is "a dark horse" of the Republican Party, backed by its money-baron, Mr. Mellon, of Pennsylvania. Next, we have a western Senator of every hue of party alignment coming out as an anti-Negro candidate for the Republican nomination, just about as James Buchannan did before the Dread Scott decision and the Civil War. It is clear that the increasing co-alignment of white and colored labor, and the fact that the masses of white and colored voters are in an unfavorable economic position, produces the real problem in the efforts to secure control of the government. Government is for the propertied class. At the dawn of the nation, rich men even in the Congress bought government obligations at panic prices and then voted them of value. That was a Hamiltonian policy and from him the Republican Party traces its development. Even the Civil War was an anti-labor movement to increase the competition between men who were forced to work for wages, by freeing black hands who would have to work and buy for themselves. Fundamentally there is no possibility of intelligent men acting except in their own interests, and it is because the masses refuse to become intelligent that they are lured first this way and then that way to their perpetual disdress. In a pinch, just as was true among ancient Hebrews, "It is the law!" destroy every gain made by struggling masses. When every other appeal fails, back to the jungle goes the party slogan and like Hitler in Germany, race antagonism is hauled forth to play upon elemental passions. "No Negro domination" becomes the cry that brings unthinking whites flocking to the poll. First the leaders drive the Negro out of politics in the deep South, then they trot out a "white hope" in the far West aided by conservative Eastern sponsorship, then they claim support from that South which has so often upset political calculations by voting with the West, all by clasping hands over the back of the poor Negro following his bell wethers, battening upon better-paying jobs and high-sounding titles. Thus Mark Hanna elected McKinley with high tariff, high prices and millions taken from the pockets of American labor and farmers. He bought the Negro delegates to the Republican convention. More Enemies Within the Ranks Our grandfather, member of the Underground Railroad, said: "We never had the presence of a slave revealed to the enemy, except by means of some Negro busybody." In the Great Drama of American Negro Life, we are soon to run in the Tribune, the betrayal of the successfully planned escape to freedom of seventy-seven fugitive slaves, including women of culture, Christianity and refinement, was due to one of the race who enjoyed the friendship but was refused the love of one of the fugitives. Ninety years have not changed the conditions among us, for we have here among us those who sell the race either Our grandfather, member of the Underground Railroad, said: "We never had the presence of a slave revealed to the enemy, except by means of some Negro busybody." In the Great Drama of American Negro Life, we are soon to run in the Tribune, the betrayal of the successfully planned escape to freedom of seventy-seven fugitive slaves, including women of culture, Christianity and refinement, was due to one of the race who enjoyed the friendship but was refused the love of one of the fugitives. Ninety years have not changed the conditions among us, for we have here among us those who sell the race either for greed, envy or revenge. Failing to show cause why Masonic Temple recreation should be barred from the only business region we have slowly built up, persons with that mind that "rules or ruins," so common among us, engaged the aid of one white man known to favor racial separation. That party insisted that white and colored should not mix here so close to the South, which battens upon "no social equality," and thus the Masonic Temple not only passes out of our use, but the luncheonette will bar colored patrons; eighty people lose their jobs. It was the uncontrolled conduct of colored people that caused the protest against the vote in the District of Columbia. It was a protest against our management of our own schools that lost us our colored superintendent of schools and our own distinct board of education. Our schools were not even involved, but envious souls saw the chance to ruin what was the pride of the action and, like thieves in the night, spread their nets. Repeatedly, here, fools rush in where angels fear to tread, and colored men and women, drawing salaries because they are colored, presume upon their positions because of some mean streak of selfishness, to strike down race progress. The great Frederick Doughlass found that kind of conduct most troublesome in his efforts to save the race. Booker Washington met the same kind of obstacle, and Marcus Garvey was deliberately betrayed into the hands of the enemy by prominent colored men and women, made so by their racial identity and by nothing else. If our ambitious young people want some real dragon for sharpening their axes, here is one of long residence in Washington, for while the youth try to create jobs, these sneaks destroy them by scores. When Will We Wake Up? Like moths in a flame or fish caught with worms, the common man is snared in a net of tangled deception by key slogans such as "Freedom! Liberty!" and the like. Unable to see that contending parties seek primarily their own gains, but must use the masses to lend weight to the force of their grab of public property under color of law, the common man allows his value to become a zero placed to the right side of some other fellow's personality. Let colored Americans examine the Liberty League with care. Even in Africa, leadership follows the ability to make wise-cracks, because it is when common men laugh or stop to repeat the three or four catchy words, that they are undone. Thinking is personal, if man would survive. You are free to found a church, but must buy a license and pay taxes to found a business. Thus you are free to get into debt, but not free to get out of poverty; free to go to heaven, but not to live on earth. You are free to buy reading matter and to have some printed, but not free to meet and talk about your condition (in Georgia). You are free to vote your property as guarantee for bonds in a county and city, but not free to vote or to stand for office to administer the spending of the borrowed money. You are free to read of any ist and ism sold in printed form, but you are not free to discuss that ist or ism. You are free to get electricity or gas for death, but you must pay for it to use for life. You are free to form a combination in restraint of trade with the aid of an expensive lawyer, but not free to restrain the corporation from robbing you. You are free to look at all women pictured in all forms of undress, but you are not free to take off your coats without their permission. You are free to exercise avarice, but your ambition is curtailed by the color bar. You are free to lose your all through mismanagement by some banker, but not free to risk a penny, nickel or dime in some game of chance. You are free to live in slums, but taxed for every device to overcome a slump. You are free to buy books presenting the most intimate sex details, but you are not free to see a fellow kiss a girl in the films longer than some censor thinks proper. You are free to accept any warge the boss will give you, but you are not free to organize to get a wage necessary to replace the energy used in doing his work; to keep on living. Be sure "Liberty!" is not a hoot call for the other fellow's Thanksgiving dinner. Do your own thinking, or find yourselves in greater slavery. Woman flew 4,000 miles without a stop. Gosh, let's hope the women don't start making the men walk back. Spring is the season of the year when the trees and the husbands get trimmed. It's a question of whether the dollar is up or down. We all know it is not in. A one-legged man won a ski-jumping contest in Canada. Something like a one-eyed guy wanting a job as bathing suit inspector. Couple left Chicago recently in a car to go to New York and found themselves in Davenport, In, two days later. Will someone page Daniel Boone? THE WASHINGTON TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1935 The Right to Organize By A. PHILIP RANDOLPH, (President, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters) We must consider the one and only issue in this lockout of the editorial staff by the owners and publishers of The Amsterdam News is the right of the workers to organize. There is no other issue. The editorial workers have not demanded one cent increase in wages. They have not asked for a reduction in hours of work. They have not requested any unreasonable change in working conditions. They do, however, insist upon exercising the right of self-organization, without interference, coercion or intimidation, as guaranteed under the National Labor Relations Act. These editorial workers, as one of the sections of the Newspaper Guild, merely requested The Amsterdam News to sign an agreement recognizing the Newspaper Guild as the lawful agency for negotiating with the owners of the paper, contracts concerning rates of pay hours of work and rules governing working conditions. The Amsterdam News editorial workers have watched with considerable misgiving and concern the unhappy habits of their employer to cut off faithful employees, who have given some of the best years of their lives to the paper without the slightest ceremony. If the employee dared to ask the "why" or "wherefore," he was promptly told in language, colorful and strong, if not indecorous, by Mrs. Sadia Warren Davis, the owner, that the paper belongs to her and she would and could fire anybody who worked for her whenever and for whatever she pleased and nobody could do anything about it. Now, the owners of The Amsterdam News have sought to drag in the false issue of race, simply because the editorial workers, who, incidentally, are Negroes, joined the Newspaper Guild, a union of white and Negro newspapermen. The owners know this has nothing whatever to do with the question. It's just a clumsy smoke screen to conceal the real issue of the workers' right to form a union of their own. The Amsterdam News owners seem strangely inconsistent to say the least for while they object to their editorial workers joining a "white" union of newspaper writers, the owners themselves boast of their membership in the A.B.C., a white circulation medium for national advertising. But of course, A.B.C. is simply a means of enabling The Amsterdam News to get big advertising and large profits. A word about the locked-out editorial staff. The workers consist of young men and women, Most of them are community products. By diligence and devotion, they have made The Amsterdam News a profitable enterprise which has rendered, through these workers, a splendid community service. These workers will compare favorably, in esprit de corps and fine workmanship, with any group of newspaper workers in the city. They have fully earned the right to demand and secure a conference with their employer on matters of mutual interest. They are supported by practically every single section of Harlem opinion among thoughtful Negroes. In support of these workers, readers are refusing to buy The Amsterdam News. The constancy and courage of these workers presage victory. Mrs. Davis has said she would rather close the doors of The Amsterdam News than to negotiate with the Newsman Guild. This, of course, is obstinacy, sheer and tragic. If she continues in this purpose the doors of that publication will soon close and the responsibility for the death of this quarter-century old institution will rest with its principal owner, who has continued to refuse to meet with her workers for the purpose of a collective agreement. These workers made repeated efforts to reach an agreement with Mrs. Davis; they called in a committee of citizens; they sought the intervention of the Ministers' Union; they presented the matter before the Mayor of New York; they met with Mrs. Elinor M. Herrick, chairman of the Regional Labor Board. All of these urged Mrs. Davis to get together with her organized workers. She refused and if this refusal causes the death of The Amsterdam News, it will be solely due to Mrs. Davis's actions. The editorial workers have not demanded one cent increase in wages. They have not asked for a reduction in hours of work. They have not requested any unreasonable change in working conditions. They do, however, insist upon exercising the right of self-organization, without interference, coercion or intimidation, as guaranteed under the National Labor Relations Act. These editorial workers, as one of the sections of the Newspaper Guild, merely requested The Amsterdam News to sign an agreement recognizing the Newspaper Guild as the lawful agency for negotiating with the owners of the paper, contracts concerning rates of pay hours of work and rules governing working conditions. The Amsterdam News editorial workers have watched with considerable misgiving and concern the unhappy habits of their employer to cut off faithful employees, who have given some of the best years of their lives to the paper without the slightest ceremony. If the employee dared to ask the "why" or "wherefore," he was promptly told in language, colorful and strong, if not indecorous, by Mrs. Sadia Warren Davis, the owner, that the paper belongs to her and she would and could fire anybody who worked for her whenever and for whatever she pleased and nobody could do anything about it. Now, the owners of The Amsterdam News have sought to drag in the false issue of race, simply because the editorial workers, who, incidentally, are Negroes, joined the Newspaper Guild, a union of white and Negro newspapermen. The owners know this has nothing whatever to do with the question. It's just a clumsy smoke screen to conceal the real issue of the workers' right to form a union of their own. The Amsterdam News owners seem strangely inconsistent to say the least for while they object to their editorial workers joining a "white" union of newspaper writers, the owners themselves boast of their membership in the A.B.C., a white circulation medium for national advertising. But of course, A.B.C. is simply a means of enabling The Amsterdam News to get big advertising and large profits. A word about the locked-out editorial staff. The workers consist of young men and women. Most of them are community products. By diligence and devotion, they have made The Amsterdam News a profitable enterprise which has rendered, through these workers, a splendid community service. These workers will compare favorably, in esprit de corps and fine workmanship, with any group of newspaper workers in the city. They have fully earned the right to demand and secure a conference with their employer on matters of mutual interest. They are supported by practically every single section of Harlem opinion among thoughtful Negroes. In support of these workers, readers are refusing to buy The Amsterdam News. The constancy and courage of these workers presage victory. Mrs. Davis has said she would rather close the doors of The Amsterdam News than to negotiate with the Newsman Guild. This, of course, is obstinacy, sheer and tragic. If she continues in this purpose the doors of that publication will soon close and the responsibility for the death of this quarter-century old institution will rest with its principal owner, who has continued to refuse to meet with her workers for the purpose of a collective agreement. These workers made repeated efforts to reach an agreement with Mrs. Davis; they called in a committee of citizens; they sought the intervention of the Ministers' Union; they pressed the matter before the Mayor of New York; they met with Mrs. Elinor M. Herrick, chairman of the Regional Labor Board. All of these urged Mrs. Davis to get together with her organized workers. She refused and if this refusal causes the death of The Amsterdam News, it will be solely due to Mrs. Davis's actions. Other Papers Say Other Papers Say ROLL CALL (California Eagle) As one looks back over 1935, Negroes have achieved many worthwhile things, and have been awarded many signal honors such as the artistic success scored by the players in the opera "Porgy and Bess." Dr. Johnson's appointment on the board of lecturers at New York University. The selecting of Dr. Patterson to succeed Dr. Moton at Tuskegee, to mention a few. A survey of the west also calls for honorable mention for a number of personages and events, therefore we call attention to: Negro Day at San Diego and the world broadcast of the combined Exposition choruses under the direction of Prof. George Garner, Madame Minnie Albritton and Miss Frieta Shaw; the appointing of Paul R. Williams as associate As one looks back over 1935, Negroes have achieved many worthwhile things, and have been awarded many signal honors such as the artistic success scored by the players in the opera "Porgy and Bess," Dr. Johnson's appointment on the board of lecturers at New York University The selecting of Dr. Patterson to succeed Dr. Moton at Tuskegee, to mention a few. A survey of the west also calls for honorable mention for a number of personages and events, therefore we call attention to: Negro Day at San Diego and the world broadcast of the combined Exposition choruses under the direction of Prof. George Garner. Madame Minnie Albritton and Miss Frieta Shaw; the appointing of Paul R. Williams as associate architect on the NHA and to design Howard University buildings; the sensational rise of Louise Beavers in the motion picture world and her splendid portrayal of "Delliah" in "Imitation of Life"; the artistic recital of Luther King, tenor; the winning of the Monrovia school case by Attorney Thomas L. Griffith for the N.A.A.C.P.; the creation of Benton's laboratory and the manufacture of Benton products; the meeting of the Delta Convention; the Republican Study Club's successful convention presided over by Mrs. Betty Hill; Bill Robinson's acclaim in Hollywood; Clarence Muse and the cast of Doc Lincoln; Dr. W. R. Carter's Exposition in Pasadena, and Dr. Isadora Mitchell's play "Should: We Always Tell the Truth?" Quite nonetheless, the anniversary of the birth of the Christ child comes to find two nations, Ethiopia and Italy at swords' points Ethiopia, the oldest Christian nation in the modern world, and Italy, supposedly the leader of Christian religion today. Ethiopia, fighting to keep what she has, can be forgiven for defending her own land, but what excuse has Italy to offer for taking something that is already another's? Christian missionaries will have a hard time showing this point to an honest savage, and probably would have to fall back on "the will of God" angle to gracefully carry out his argument. However, if the savage had at some distant time heard of the Nazareny's message of peace and good will, the missionary would probably have to shuffle on first one foot and then the other, and admit that Italy's invasion in Ethiopia is due solely to man's greed—and pure cussedness. Observations on the Passing Parade BY CHARLES M. THOMAS Observations on the Passing Parade BY CHARLES M. THOMAS YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW Little does man realize that what happens around him determines that which he in his conceit, says, "I know." With all nature against him, man either found ways to overcome his disharmony or he disappeared. Today, man cails it science and claims such mastery of the earth as no longer to offer "acts of God" as an excuse for non-performance. "Floods and droughts, hurricanes and dust storms, famines and pestilences touch him but lightly. From what such similar forces did to man he has learned how to offset their age-long casualties. He has appropriated by trial and error Nature's most intimate secrets. He has slowed the starvation rate of the masses to the tune of radios, the kick of beer and escape by means of the auto In man's body he has caused repair to damages, reform in the blood stream, increase or decrease in the glandular deposits which govern conduct, and lengthened life. Only in man's relation to other men do the centuries mark slow progress. Killing, stealing, covetousness, false witness against neighbors, disobedience are still animal weaknesses that retar civilization. More men are moved by fear than by hope; by avarice and greed than by human brotherhood. The millennium is still distant. Indicated by deaths in autoes, man moves in space faster than AS ONE WRITER TO ANOTHER For the pest eight years, a Baltimore newspaper has set aside space which has been dedicated to Howard University, in which space the university is severely criticized weekly. The fact that this bla-bla correspondent refuses to sign his name to his unjustified attacks is prima facie evidence that he is either lying or a coward, probably both. No person who writes the truth has fear of signing his name. Having been a member of the staff of this publication for three years, the author of those succilious series is well-known to this columnist, but it would be a serious breach of ethics to spill his name. Suffice it to say, however, that this self-styled "special correspondent," who might well be called "special prevaricator," receives his larger salary from the same institution which makes large annual appropriations toward the maintenance of Howard University. A high official in the Government branch in which he is employed, very recently called him in and raked him over the coals, for false statements he wrote under his name, on the complaint of a well-known local organization which was held up to public ridicule. Being a member of the organization ridiculed by the "special prevaricator's" pen, and promulgator of the department's investigation, it was expected that some type of tribute would be forthcoming. Because of the many kind things said about me in the column of the "special prevaricator," I feel obligated to the extent of seeing that the bonnet thrown at me recently is returned to him. That is usually what one expects when he lands the activities of his colleague. Claim No Credit However, I cannot claim credit for all the nice thingsgs attributed to me. This columnist has never been a harsh critic of the Howard administration or the university itself. The fact that I was identified for three years with a Baltimore publication, which itself is a harsh critic of the university is not just grounds for giving me the credit for its acts. It was because this columnist, then on the staff of this Baltimore publication, on which the special correspondent is now writing, disagreed with the paper's long-term policy of criticizing the university and other creditable institutions, that he caught the train to Baltimore and presented his resignation in person to the editor. The editor refused to accept and agreed to refrain from his attacks on a certain organization. This writer returned to his work only to find that the next issue of the publication had another attack on the same organization, whereupon he again tendered his resignation, effective immediately. This columnist is also given credit for something which can only be given to the special correspondent when he says, that I was the one to whom a "high official" of Howard University alluded during a recent meeting of the Baptist Convention at which time, the correspondent says, "a certain newspaper" was accused of "publishing lies," by the official. That "certain paper" the correspondent refers to was the paper on which he is at present employed, and on which I was his nerves react, and nations move slowly from laws of the horde to individuality and then to cooperation toward some worthwhile end for humanity. England and France separated by a narrow stream are as far apart in detective methods as Whites and Negroes side by side in Amrica are socially. England depends upon witnesses while France uses scientific methods of deduction from details. So whites seek power and money while Blacks want prestige and expression. The former laugh at fortune, and suicide upon failure, while the later laugh at failure and die hourly. One has to be photographed and interviewed while the other talks loudly even with no audience and asks, "Do you see me?" by dress and action. Values are emotional and cannot be compared. All human advancement is traveling on a 1936 highway with diverse back-seat drivers but without any idea of what is at the end of the road. It takes nerve, ability to talk, and "stuff" to make the front page, Congress, or be the puppet dictator or emperor of some rich backer. There are still but 24 hours in a day, but we live by split-seconds coca cola, coffee and cigarettes and die by carbon monoxide unless we become bored with life at 19 and turn against society as a gangster. Alabama has made Chicago the capital of Negro achievement and added politics, boxing, and sprinting to our contribution of spirituals, jazz, dancing and loving in America. Taken all in all it has been a great show, and we gladly await the next act. employed at the time. The high official did not hesitate to make it plain which paper he was talking about, for he called the name of the paper several times, and that same paper published that fact. Unless the correspondent can prove that I am that "certain paper" or its editor, credit can not justifiably be given me as the person "alluded to." For many years the editor of the publication which carries the attacks of the special correspondent, received his bread and butter for teaching German at Howard University. While that was being done, he didn't open his mouth once in opposition to the manner in which the school was being run. But as soon as his service ended, and he became editor of this Baltimore publication, the vitriolic attacks on the university and its head began. If conditions at the university are as bad as his paper pictures them, why did the editor take his daughter out of a Baltimore college and send her to Howard University where she is now spending her second year? Is that not sufficient proof that the university and its administration is not so bad after all? If it was good enough for his daughter to be educated in its environment, what is all the howl about? Why does not the "special prevaricator" tell all the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? Prevarication seems to be his profession. He is looking for someone to join with him, so he attempts to put this writer in the boat with him, but the inviation is ignored. What better evidence is needed to prove that the "high official" of Howard University was right when he said the publication had thrived off of prevarication, than that submitted by the special correspondent in his recent article attacking this columnist. His expression of abhorrence for "liers" should be an abmittance that in the future he will refrain from committing the act. Having confessed that his paper has published false articles, and having acknowledged the evil there, this columnist is wondering will the correspondent practice what he preaches. Will he abstain from that which is evil and cleav to that which is good? Carter Woodson- During the celebration of Negro History Week, beginning February 9, it will be ior the participants to concentrate on actual achievements. Over-estimation of the unimportant and unmerited eulogy of the insignificant will do much harm. The Negro needs to know his shortcomings as well as his virtues, his failures as well as his successes. To be very frank about the matter, the Negro in America must understand that he has not risen to the high standard set for the race in Africa by those natives who achieved all but wonders without help from others. Our record in the Western Hemisphere does not compare with that in Africa. American Negroes, still under the influence of the lash, could not offer such resistance as do the Ethiopians today. Our system of education would have forced our leaders to the conclusion that surrender is the only remedy. In the United States the Negroes have made the important contribution of supplying labor, developing music and defending this soil. A few individuals like Philiss Wheatley, Beniamin Banneker, Richard Allen; Nat Turner; Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Paul Laurence Dunbar and H. O. Turner have risen to the greatest heights showing the possibilities of the race. In BEST NEWS OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL the essentials of life, however, the American Negroes are almost blank. To overlook this important fact or leave an impression to the contrary would do the Negro youth a great injustice. Those now in the leadership of the race who have failed to direct their course other than in the direction of the make-believe will soon be off the stage of action, but the youths who are to face the ordeal of tomorrow which this inexorable truth portends should know the facts in time to govern themselves accordingly. Generally speaking, a foreigner takes it for granted that since the American Negroes constitute one-tenth of the population of the United States, that this element possesses one-tenth of the wealth, constitutes one-tenth of the personnel of the government, and contributes proportionately to the literature, the art, the philosophy and science accredited to Americans. Without going into the embarrassing census details to figure out how little we can claim, let us examine ourselves in order to understand why we do not have our one-tenth of these things. Out of such a survey, from this sort of self-examination the Negroes may develop a program of achievement which will bring great results. Experience has shown that Negroes spend too much time censuring others for not doing something for them when they have it within their power to do for themselves. The usual excuse given for the failure of the American Negroes to have their tenth is that they have not had time; but this will not hold, for they have had all the time which there has been. Another excuse is that Negroes were once enslaved in this country; but this also proves to be untenable, for the poor whites, the indentured servants of the colonial period, were also enslaved; and two-thirds or three-fourths of all white persons whom one meets today are descendants of serfs or slaves. Bondage was the normal condition of man in the ancient world. The whites, when emerging from bondage, freed also their minds, but the Negroes in the United States are still mentally enslaved. For this reason, the "most highly developed American Negroes," as a rule, are the least useful to themselves, but most useful to the selfish guardians of their development toward the ghetto. The whole thing is a vicious circle. For example, the Negro lawyer who may have a little larger income than the average of his class falls seriously sick, but he does not always call in the Negro physician. In that community is some white physician who has the reputation for effecting such wonderful cures that he passes as the "Black Man's Jesus." This white expert does not care for the life of the Negro; but, desiring the large fee the patient is able to pay, operates on him, and for want of proper care, the Negro dies. About the only advantage gained is that the patient had a white man rather than a Negro make out his death certificate. If the lawyer is fortunate enough to recover, the Negro physician, vindictive because of this slight, turns all of his patients' business to some white lawyer, and in the natural outcome both Negro professionals descend toward starvation. The Negro business man a little prosperous, too, often considers himself in a position to secure the best medical and legal advice available. He sometimes overlooks both the lawyer and the physician of his race. These professionals refuse to patronize his business and use their influence against his establishment. Prosperity under the circumstances becomes adversity, and the entire group remains on the lowest economic level. This ambition to get the best and to provide oneself with the best is mainly nonsense. We are too often led to think that the highest-priced service is best, when often it works to the contrary. In most cases of legal and medical advice one may be served just as efficiently by the average practitioner as by an expert. Only once or twice in a lifetime does a person need an expert, and the honest practitioner himself will suggest the consultation of a specialist when necessary. Most laymen cannot distinguish between the expert and the "humbug." and therefore fill the coffers of those who acquire new power to oppress us. Our Income Does Not Waste It is equally unfortunate, too, that in cases of adequate support of our professional and business men they fail to advance in their accumulations beyond what is necessary to supply the usual gawgaws and toys or the dress parade. With their increased income they provide immediately finery for their wives and children and trappings for themselves just as costly as those of millionaires who control the financial institutions and industries of the world. Any income beyond this point is unnecessary in this sort of man's scheme of life, and he begins thereafter to neglect his business or profession to allow time to spend what he does not see any need for. Most Negroes in a position to earn money, then, have done little more than to live selfishly. Only occasionally is a Negro sufficiently trifly and businesslike to develop his interests to help the unemployed in the community in which he lives. We should learn that one must five within his income; and re- Proportion Does Not Represent Contribution A Circle Within A Circle Warrant Extravagance GLOOM IN ITALY "Feeling of Gloom Dominant in Italy;" reads a headline over a dispatch from Rome. "The feeling of triumph that pervaded Italy when the terms of the Franco-British peace proposals were made public again has yielded to gloom;" writes Arnaldo Cortesi by wireless to the New York Times. "As late as yesterday the Italians still thought they had the whip hand over the situation and that the decision rested with them whether the solution of the Italo-Ethiopian controversy was reached by negotiation or war. "Now they are aware that the reins are slipping from their fingers and that forces over which they have no control are in charge. They are beginning to realize that the peace proposals; perhaps already; virtually have been withdrawn and they must rely on the force of their arms and on their resistance to sanctions if they are to bring the African venture to a successful conclusion." Since this dispatch was...received, Anthony Eden has succeeded Sir Samuel Hoare as British foreign secretary, an event which responsible organs of opinion say means an aggressive policy against Italy will now be the British attitude. An end to the temporizing with Mussolini by John Bull has been reached. The young man who put sanctions in force against Italy is now in full charge of the British foreign policy. This is enough to cause gloom in Italy. Of all men, Mussolini hates Eden. "Appointment of League Champion Viewed As Warning to Italy to Quit Africa," writes William Hillman to the New York American from London. The die is cast, and in Ethiopia's favor. CHALLENGED ANEW Lynching was challenged anew recently by Dr. James E. Shepard, president of the North Carolina College, of Durham. The challenge; issued in the form of a letter to the governor of the Old North State and to the governors of the southern states, was manly; vigorous and to the point. Dr. Shepard argued that Federal intervention in the lynching situation is not needed, although he noted that it was Federal intervention that restored the right of jury duty to southern N. Roes, Dr. Shepard urged the governors "to arouse the public to an understanding of the petil to society in the increasing of these crimes against law." "We desire," he said; "that our own neighbors and friends enforce the law, and if our southern governors will take a stand against lynching and protect prisoners at any cost, this dreadful evil will soon be eradicated from American life and there will be no need of a Federal anti-lynching law..." One challenging lynching in the South must necessarily do so with reservations. It is not meet to defy a dragon when to crush you he has but to open his mouth. But the fact that southern Negro leaders are speaking out against this evil and are being taken seriously by white public opinion in the South, is a hopeful sign. The Durham Sun, of Dr. Shepard's own city; not only published the long letter, but said editorially: "And so we are reduced to the conclusion that literacy is the chief weapon against lynchings, as it probably is against crimes which prompt lynchings. Dr. Shepard's plea for a greater investment in Negro education is based on sound logic." The Winston-Salem Journal discussed the letter at length, and favorably. All of which helps to further weaken the lynching monster. gardless of what it may be, he must save some part of it. The income of the average Negro family is only about three hundred dollars a year. A Negro earning as much as a hundred dollars a month, then, is the same to our group as a white millionaire is to his. If this man sanduwers his million, the community suffers. If the Negro who earns as much as a hundred dollars a month saves no part of it as an accumulation and never rises to a higher economic level, there is no hope for the economic advancement of the race. Through such Negroes thus favored, and through them only, can the Negro with an income of only twenty-five dollars a month rise. The Filipinos, Chinese, Japanese and Jews coming into the United States learn the virtues of the American in developing his country and accumulating wealth; and they avoid the pitfall of imitating the American in his weaknesses. We add to our weaknesses those manifested among the whites, and thus take on a heavy burden which handicaps us in the race set before us. A Negro can do just as much swearing, drinking, gambling and vicious indulgence as the white man can, but the Negro does not develop, produce and accumulate as the other fellow does. In Africa the natives are learning to participate in these industrial and economic enterprises; but in the United States we, as a rule, have done little more than to give such things an occasional thought and to laugh at the few enterprising Negroes who have made such efforts in these spheres. BEST NEWS OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL News of Nearby Virginia HERNDON, VA. HERNDON, Va.-Mr. and Mrs. Willie Waters and their two children of Washington, were visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Washington of Herndon last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Page, of Halls Hill, were Sunday evening guests of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Jackson of Herndon last Sunday. The Oak Grove public rendered a Christmas tree program last Friday night. In connection with the program was a play by the smaller children, entitled, "The Babe of Bethlehem." Each child received a box of candy. Miss Julia Hall, of Chesterbrook, is principal of the school. Among the visitors attending this program were the Rev. and Mrs. Oliver Hall, Miss Vashti, Master Douglas and their cousin. Miss Lola E. Allen spent the Christmas holidays with her mother. Mrs. Anthony Allen of Fairfax. Miss Clara L. Bush, of Vienna, is opening the Christmas holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Bush, of Herndon. We regret to note the death of Mrs. Susie Harris of Washington, who made her summer home in Oak Grove. Miss Doris Branhan and Gladys Jackson and Master Frank Allen who are attending school in Washington are spending the Christmas holidays with their parents. The Christmas tree exercises of the Oak Grove Baptist Sunday School were held Wednesday night at the church. The school rendered a very interesting program. At the close of the program each pupilceived a present and a bag of candy. Many of the members of the community also received presents BRANDY. Va. BRANDY. Va. — Mrs. Francis Suillman, Mrs. Lottie Shephard and Mrs. Ellen Banks are confined to their homes on account of illness. Mrs. Eula Your and Mrs. Ruth Thompson visited Mrs. Jane Gray on last Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Banks were Christmas guests of Mrs. Banks' mother. Mrs. Florence Gray, daughter-in- law of Mrs. Ella Gray is on a trip to California. A number of persons attended the sunrise service and prayer meeting on Christmas day. Smoot Harper of Washington is visiting here during the holidays. On Jan. 1, 1917, the estimated number of men under arms in Aust- ria-Hungary was 3,000,000; in Germany, 7,000,000. WANT TO MAKE MONEY? He Bought a New Car! She Bought 5 New Dresses Can you use $10 extra every month? To buy new clothes, new shoes, hats, help pay for furniture, a car and lots of other things you may have to now do without. Of course you can. Who can't these days? So I'm going to tell you how to get it—and more too—without working hard or running a penny's risk. Just fill out the coupon and mail it today. This isn't a contract you are under no obligation. Just mast you the coupon today sure. Then Do This One Thing Just read the most amazing offer you ever heard off! It will come to you by return mail if you write your name and address on the coupon and mail it to FAN TAN ANNE today. Don't wait. Don't send one penny. Be the first in your community to make this real money. Mail the coupon. It puts you in the lead to real success. Tomorrow may be too late. Only honest, reliable folks wanted. But mail the coupon now. Without obligation or cost, tell me how I can easily make up to $10.00 a month, and more, just in my spare time. Richmond, Va. By WORTHY JONES Richmond Bureau, 618 St. Peter Street RICHMOND, VA.—The annual Christmas party of the Apex School of Beauty was held at the school in the Southern Aid Building, Friday. Miss Pauline Wilkerson was mistress of ceremonies. B. L. Jordan and Attorney James T. Carter delivered addresses. Others taking part in the program were Mrs. Esther Dowe, Misses Sarah Johnson, Nina Woodward, Ray Lind-say and Clara Hill. George Hayes, the school's representative, played Santa Claus and distributed gifts from a lighted tree. The school made a donation to the Richmond Community Hospital, distributed baskets of food to sick persons and presented Mrs. Sarah Washington, of Atlantic City, head of the Apex College, a gift. Street, Monday. Members of the club are planning to give a dance next week at the Roseland Ball Room. Mrs. Mattie Hewin, the wife of Attorney J. Thomas Hewin, died last week. Funeral services will be held this week. Cliton Forge Man Shoots Calf for Deer By CARL H. CRAWFORD CLIFTON FORGE, Va.—Santa Claus visited everyone in the community Christmas eve. Among students visiting here are Arthur Jordan, Carlyle Jones, John Tyler; George Crawford and Misa Alterra, Colleagues of Win- Among those present at the exercises were Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Woolridge, Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Scott, Mr. and Mrs. Linwood Harris, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wilkerson, Mr. and Mrs. George T. Walker, Mesdames Sarah Johnson, Marie Yancey, Sallie Owens, Beatrice Smith, Maude Smith, Mildred Johnson, Misses Rosa Elridge, Maxine Woodard, Ruby Whitaker, Ruby Barnette, Annie Colez, Esther Tyree, Annie Hammie, Esther Parrott, Pearl V. Howell, John Armstrong, Curtis Smith, Elijah Washington, A. Thomas, R. C. Mitchell, Alvin Walden, Walter Fields, Sherman Hinton, Rufus Callis and Earl Brooks. The West End Praying Band donated and distributed 11 baskets of food to the needy of the city during the holidays. The band was founded by L. E. Ruffin who is its director. Mrs. Alfred Whiteman, of 608 N. Fifth Street, has returned from a lengthy visit with Mrs. Fred Sawyer, of Baltimore. She was accompanied by J. W. Gaines. Mrs. Alease Fields and two children, of 115 S. First Street, are spending the holidays in New York. Mrs. Thela Brockenborough Johnson, of New York, is the guest of her parents, Mr. and M. J. A. Brockenborough, of N. Twenty-fifth Street. Mrs. Alice Harryis, 423 Gilmer Street, is confined to her home on account of illness. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Spain, of 106 E. Marshall Street, have returned to the city from Chase City, Va., where they spent the Christmas with Mrs. Spain's parents. The final dedicatory service of the New Mount Hermon Baptist Church, Graham and Catherine Streets, was held last week. Many local pastors and their congrega-tions took part in the services which lasted for a week. Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Cephas, sr., announce the marriage of their daughter, Helen Louise to Mr. William St. Elmo Reede which took place on Christmas day at the home of the bride's parents, 509 E. Leigh Street. The Rev. E. E. Smith, pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church, performed the ceremony which was witnessed by members of the immediate families. The Dukes Social Club which is composed of the 1935 graduates of the Armstrong High School, met at the residence of the president, Herbert Jones, 712 St. James Mrs. Hewin Dead RICHMOND, Va.—Mrs. Mattie Hewin, wife of Attorney J. Thomas Hewin, prominent member of the Richmond bar died early this week. Funeral services have not been arranged. Students Build $12,500 Automobile Shop at Kansas City THE FACTORY This brick building is the new home of the automobile mechanics shop of Lincoln High School, Nineteenth and Lylia Streets, Kanasas City, Me. erected at a cost of $12,500. Machinery and equipment valued at $2,600 is installed in the shop which is directed by J. K. Russell. The building was erected entirely by student labor, 11 boys under the direction of William Smith, instructor of brick masonry, putting up the brick structure. Boys in the paint shop instructed by H. D. Massey painted the interior and youths in the carpentry shop of Joseph E. Herrick, Jr., built the work benches. Boys who constructed the building are shown in the picture. —Williams Studio Photo Street, Monday. Members of the club are planning to give a dance next week at the Roseland Ball Room. Mrs. Mattie Hewin, the wife of Attorney J. Thomas Hewin, died last week. Funeral services will be held this week. Cliton Forge Man Shoots Calf for Deer By CARL H. CRAWEORD BY CARL H. CRAWFORD CLELTON FORGE, Va.—Santa Claus visited everyone in the community Christmas eve. Among students visiting here are Arthur Jordan, Carlyle Jones, John Tyler; George Crawford and Miss Altamae Callender, of Virginia State College; Lester Baker and Miss Lorraine Pendleton, West Virginia State College, and Miss Beatrice Clarke, Morgan College. Professor Lawrence McFarlin, accompanied by friends, is visiting Dr. and Mrs. S. G. Gibbs. Professor McFarlin came here from Benedict College, Columbia, S.C. Among the sick are: Catherine Cash and Adrain Sledd. Mr. Blight who works at Anderson's meat market, was struck by an automobile last Saturday and suffered a broken leg. Many forms of gaiety were enjoyed during the holidays. A dance was held Tuesday 'at the Silver Leaf Hall. It was given by the Jolly Eight Club, with Tommy's Rhythmites. On Christmas night, another dance was given. On Thursday a formal ball was given at the hall by the seniors of the Jefferson High School, with Father Tynes's orchestra of Roanoke furnishing the music. The G. T. Club, on Christmas presented a free formal ball to the citizens of the community on Friday. Parties given during the holidays included those at the homes of Frank Jackson, J. C. Brown, Henry Shaffer, Samuel Knight, Bob Rogers and Artist Wood. The cold weather and deep snow picture the little community as it should be at Yuletide season. While hunting on Christmas Day in the snow-covered woodlands, your writer fell prey to a most embarrassing occurrence. He saw the head of a calf from behind bushes, mistook it for a deer and killed it. The owner, a Jew, came up and demanded $8 for the calf and threatened to take legal stens. On discovering that I had only $1.89 on my person, the owner took the money, my gun and hunting coat, and wished me a Merry Christmas! Bah! Man Who Quit After 3 Years Sued for Divorce Charging that her husband left her three years after they were pronounced man and wife, and without just cause, Mrs. Pauline Green, 1905 Fifteenth Street; entered the courts late last week seeking absolute divorce under the new desertion law. Mrs. Green states in an original petition, filed through the offices of Cobb, Howard and Hayes that she was married to Phillip B. Green, 1901 Fifteenth Street; Northwest; in March; 1918. In August, 1921; she avers; her husband took leave of their home. This action, she further states; climaxed a systematic course of argument and abuse to which she was subjected while they lived together. THE WASHINGTON TRIBUNE. TUESDAY. DECEMBER 31. 1935 THE WEDDING OF MARY AND JOHN Promient Philadelphians who were wedded during the holidays. They are left to right: Miss Vera Hurd, maid of honor; Mrs. Frank B. Mitchell, formerly Miss Cornelia Stevens; and the Rev. Frank B. Mitchell pastor of Galilee Baptist Church. The wedding was the culmination of a childhood romance. The groom is one of the youngest ministers in the city. IS THE NEGRO IN TEXASSUCCEEDING? By JOHN R. WILLIAMS Note: This is the second of a Series of articles by Mr. Williams. In a previous install- ment he discussed education. This time he sheds light on the New Deal in Texas. Quite a few persons outside of the state of Texas are interested to know how the Negroes of Texas are fareing under the New Deal. All told, the New Deal Program has benefited the Texas Negro. True he does not get a just proportion of the vast amount of Relief funds in a direct way, but the whites who are the direct benefactor are giving to the Negro such employment as tradition sanctions. This is in striking contrast to conditions in most other parts of the country where Negro laborers and domestics are facing a constantly clouding situation, even under the New Deal. In Texas the masses of Negroes, rather than the classes, were the first to enjoy New Deal prosperity, but since the professional and business men and women depend, in large measure, upon the "under-crust" for their daily bread it might be said that the race at large, here in Texas, is able to look upon the New Deal as a blessing. Of course, money does not flow today even in Texas, as it did in the good days of '29, but even an approach to the Golden Era is heartening indeed. Texas was never as hard hit by the depression as most other states. Its reasources are too staple for a complete eclipse. Whatever it was that former President Hoover saw "just around the corner" four years ago but which has not been visible as yet will be seen first by Texas no doubt, because "the corner" is nearer The Lone Star State than anywhere else. To be sure cotton is not selling for 20 cents a pound in Texas again as it once was, but it is bringing from 12 to 15 cents per pound, a gain of about 100 per cent in two years. This most certainly concerns the Negro because more than 75 per cent of his income here is derived from cotton. Thus, we find the Negro's spirits taking on an effervescence as he is able to pay delinquent taxes and meet mortgage notes with increasing regularity. Bank deposits of Negroes too are increasing. In Houston alone Negroes are said to have $3,000,000 on deposit in savings accounts, despite the fact that the vicious lottery sharks (mostly white), are getting their daily share of Negro earnings. Not only is this true in Houston but in practically all urban localities through out the State. Much of this comes from cotton. Negroes who may have deserted the farm—as a permanent place to abode flock to the flossy white fields when cotton is ripe to "make their season." God only knows what would become of thousands of Negroes here in the deep south if a satisfactory cotton picking machine would find its way to the market. As usual the most successful business enterprises among Negroes represent those that have less competition from the whites who despite their increasing encroachments have spared Negro franteral organizations, undertaking establishments, barber shops, beauty parlors, cafes, restaurants and burial societies, not to mention the churches of course, which are still perhaps our most sacred and best business enterprises. Yes, even in Texas, every thickly populated Negro neighborhood or settlement is saturated with various kinds of temples of worship with the ever popular Baptist denomination holding he upper hand. Quite often the edifices owned Harlem Dispatch FINAL "MURDER IN THE GARDEN" by the pastor or controlled by an obligarchy of deacons or trustees who sometimes obligingly permit a mere worshiper to enjoy the distinction of holding various varieties of "holy" mortgages, beyond the first. The latter is usually held by some "altruistic" white banker. Deprived of many of the avenus of social intercourse partionized by whites, the Negro Church in Texas is the center of most activities. Let us now turn for a moment to some aspects of Negro life in Texas that are not quite so pleasant to dwell upon. Despite the fact that the New Deal set-up provides that local boards shall have direct charge EXTRA All-Class Matter "MURDEI 50 TO 1 FOR MUSSOLINI For his attacks on Ethiopia, including air raids, and the bombing of a Red Cross hospital, Premier Mussolini is offered 50 square miles of Emperor Haile Selassie's Kingdom for every square mile he must give to his highness, Haile Selassie. The proposal is evidently designed to establish peace at any price as long as Italy gets the piece. The proposed peace plan would take from Ethiopia approximately 180,000 square miles. Total area given to Ethiopia would be less than 3,000 square miles. The small nation members of the League of Nations will now understand the full benefit and protection of League Membership. FEATURE STORY Martin Jones, producer of "Mulatto," decided to write an additional role into his play two weeks ago. He scoured Harlem for a capable actress to take the part, and after a lently search located Olive Burgoyne, one of Harlem's fairest, who had been aspiring for many years to an opportunity on Broadway. Misfortune, however, had dogged the lady, and she had accepted a job with the P.W.A. dramatic groups. Miss Burgoyne read the new part, and Mr. Jones offered her the long-awaited opportunity. Then came the amazing news. Miss Burgoyne couldn't accept, because the Relief Workers Theatre was putting on a show, and wouldn't release her! It seems new that Miss Opportunity knocked at her door. POLITICS Politically, Harlem has had many lean years. This condition has to a great extent been the fault of the voters of the community. With the recent election of a Negro leader in the 21st district Salting peanuts in the shell is done quite extensively in the tropics. The peanuts are boiled in a salt liquid and then allowed to dry after which they are roasted. No special equipment is required for this process. "The medium of radio," says a radio poet, "is such that it requires of each poem the capacity to create an instantaneous emotional shock." Some of the stuff that passes for poetry shocks us, all right. No wonder nations get mad at each other—they're so much like each other. The Expected, The Inevitable Happens We wish you a Happy and Prosperous New Year COGAN'S 712 7th St. N. W. Since these boards are understandingly political it is not difficult to see that the disfranchised Negro is largely at the mercy of the other fellow. The executives in Washington have made valiant efforts to prevent misappropriation of funds and have doubtless halted a great deal of graft and favoritism. But there are not sufficient Federal agents to handle the direct distribution of so much money in so many different forms over so large an area. Even if there were sufficient disinterested outsiders to administer relief they would not be permitted to function impartially in this feudalistic section. The local whites would drive them out rather than see people they didn't wish helped receive funds they do not wish them to have. Men who can commit murder without being brought to trial because they are so powerful in their own communities are not going to be intimidated by some Yankee who in the picturesque words of a white politician with whom I spoke "don't know no more about our problems than a hog knows about Sunday School." In such cities as Galveston and San Antonio where there is found a more sympathetic sentiment, and where Negroes vote to some extent, there is not such a wanton disregard for Negro's right to share the Roosevelt benevolence, but in the more backward communities hardboiled local white cliques have control of all Relief funds and their chief function and pleasure seem to be to see how completely they can rule the Negro out If the Negro protests too freely he may be driven out of the community or he may lose both his life and what ever property he has. When a dispute between a white man and a Negro arises in Texas the Negro is always wrong. In certain places public sentiment may sometimes be in favor of the Negro who has difficulties with a white man, but if the white man sees fit to do away with the Negro public sentiment is never in favor of punishment for the white man. "Sure enough" (a real Texas idiom) the average Texas white man would not wantonly murder a Negro in cold blood, but if placed on a jury to mete out punishment to another white man who may have seen fit to do so he would not vote to punish the white murderer according to law. Yet, in spite of the proscriptions FRIDAY, DECEMBER, 1957 WHITES HEAD LIST OF MARLEM THEATRE PROJECT The published list of the personnel for the new Federal Theatre Project for the aid of needy Harlem actors shows that it is composed largely of whites. It would seem that among a group from which has come Paul Robeson, Will Marion Cook, Jesse Shipp, S. H. Dudley, Rose McClendon, Rosamond Johnson, Bert Williams, Ethel Waters, Florence Mills, Will Vodery, Aida Walker, and a host of others who have played so large a part in the American theatre, there could be found members of our race who could administer a project of this kind. We hope the Urban League will receive the right answer from the great white fathers. K. O. FOR STEPIN FETCHIT Without benefit of purse and audience, Stepin Fetchit scored a quick knockout over a white process server backstage at the Apollo Theatre, last Wednesday, according to a complaint which put him behind the bars for the night. Despite his firstcuff victory, Fetchit was served with a legal paper, contents unknown. With ensuing threats of suit, the spoils may not go to the victor. Calm, indolent as when he is in character, Stepin Fetchit drawled his innocence. "Must a been a stage hand hit him," he said. and the fight for Negro leadership in the 19th, it would seem that Harlem's "representation without taxation," will be removed. Copyright, 1935. International Negro Press FIVE Roy Washburn ROY WEIGLE one of the youngest of the Scottsboro boys who are their fifth year in Alabam. These boys are still fighting their lives. and handicaps under which he labors, the Texas Negro remains optimistic and cheerful. It cannot be said justly that he sees nothing ahead but despair. As one sunny dispositioned fellow-raceman in Dallas said, a day or two ago, he gets along in Texas because he forgets that he is supposed to enjoy the rights and privileges of an American citizen Doubtless the average Negro in Texas is glad that Texas does offer opportunity along with many harrassing anoyances. Maybe he rejoices in the realization that after all he does not live in Alabama Mississippi or Florida. Did You Know... There's plenty of dictation in this country, but the people dictated to don't take it. The Yule log has given place to the Yule radiator, and the Yule candle to the Yule bulb. The Ethiopian cannot change his skin, but right now he's in danger of being skinned. FINAL Robert Nelson, Editor GARDEN" Inevitable Happens "Stop the fight . . . "It's murder" . . . Just as these words were uttered by fight fans in Madison Square Garden Friday night, Referee Don- ovan stepped in front of Joe Louis the Brown Bomber and prevented the killing of Paulino Uscudun . . . a technical knock- out . . . the expected, the in- evitable has happened. Referee Praises Brown Bomber The critics now agree that Referee Donovan stopped the fight at the right moment. After the fight the referee remarked, "I'll add my words of praise to Louis. He stopped a good man tonight in a way that stamps him as one of the greatest heavyweights we ever had, if not the greatest. You can't take that away from him." As his end for his victory, the Brown Bomber was paid $38,800 and he graciously donated $6,800 to charity, leaving a net $32,000 or approximately $2,500 for each minute he spent in the ring. MUSIC Hall Johnson was guest of honor at a musical celebrating the 10th anniversary of his successful leadership of choral groups last Tuesday night at Public School No. 136. Mr. Johnson, directed a chorus of 150 voices, who sang several of his especially arranged spirituals. A W.P.A. band unit of 50 pieces under the direction of the well known Negro composer, William H. Lawrence, was presented on the same program. Mr. Johnson left immediately after the concert for Hollywood where he will direct his famous choir in the film version of "The Green Pastures." a Happy and superous Year AN'S St. N. W. PELHAM GIVES EVIDENCE AT CAR INQUIRY Citizens' Associations Protest Because of Poor Service on Street-Car Lines Last week we carried a resume of testimony given by Robert A. Pelham before the Public Utilities Commission relative to the poor street car and bus service that prevails in the city since the recent merger of the street car companies. The conclusion of Mr. Pelham's testimony was: Mr. Pelham: "I went over to the Capital Transit Company. I want to say that on my visits there I was received very courteously. We got along. I stayed there in the building three hours. I conferred with Mr. Lustig, Mr. Dunn and several others in the schedule room. Mr. Stephens, vice president in charge of transportation was away on vacation. I was given a schedule. I checked up on it, so I know exactly what I am talking about. Now, what was your question?" Mr. Roberts: "How would you route the bus line on the P Street line north of Freedmen's Hospital." Mr. Pelham: "There is no through street there. You should take up the old tracks which are just wrecking your buses. At both ends of the P Street line one feels like he's riding on the rocky road to Dublin. Mr. Hanna: "I suggest you make the suggestion to Colonel Sultan, not me. Mr. Roberts: "I assume the company is unwilling to take the tracks up without a repaving. Mr. Pelham: "I assume that is the reason. The Transit Company did not take the track up because the District of Columbia people did not have the money to repave the streets. They wreck the buses. They follow the old Le Droit Park line from 5th and W Streets around the curve at 4th Street into Elm Street, through Elm Street a block— Mr. Roberts: "We know how it goes. Have you a suggestion as to the routing of that line?" Mr. Pelham: "I have not. I think some 300 people have asked to have this route run north—Mr. Roberts: "That is the 4th Street line?" Mr. Pelham: "Continue up 4th Street along the west side of the Reservoir, probably into Warder Street west of the Soldiers' Home, along Warder Street." Mr. Roberts: "I think I can complete that record, Mr. Commissioner, by asking that the petition concerning the extension of the 4th Street line north to Howard University be made a part of the record by reference. Further testimony was given as follows: W. R. Williams, 813 T Street, Northwest, representing the Central Northwest Citizen's Association, and speaking also for seventeen ministers, with churches in the mid-northwest section, claimed a lack of cars on all lines except the Seventh Street line, in his associations' area. Mr. Williams recited many instances of over-crowded cars on U street, and suggested the establishment of three loop lines to better serve the residents of his community. When asked for an expression on the proposed express line on Ninth Street, he jocularly replied: "I might suggest airplanes for those up north of us who want to get down town." Continuing, he said: "They very nearly all lived around us a short time ago. How seemingly exclusive they've gotten since they moved." The Rev. John M. Harrison, an A. M. E. pastor, 2412 Alabama Avenue, Southeast, appeared for the Garfield Heights Citizens Association, and urged a change of name on the buses, running through their territory. Said he: "Barry Farms is a misnomer. There is no Barry Farms out our way now. Such designation signs mislead strangers. They do recognize that name and often stand in the streets waiting the coming of the bus to Garfield Heights." He suggested numerous changes in bus stops. Felham Testimone Again Demand for "equality of consideration for the benefits of a public utility" was made by Robert A. Pelham, 153 T Street, Northwest, representing the Howard Park Citizens Association. "Before the merger we had fairly good transit facilities that allowed us to go out and return to our homes. Soon after the merger, the Public Utilities Commission very percipitously allowed the abandonment of the LeDroit Park Street car service, line' so called by our children, because the cars generally rap in bunches, was thrown into the discard," he said. "The Capital Transit Company then furnished what they called a substitute, a bus loop that wasoon dubbed 'the Nixie line.' because it times the bus did not run at all. After one breakdown of bus No. 206, I with others waited for forty-five minutes for a replacement." Northeast Suburbs Appeal A plea for transportation service for the outlying section of northwest Washington was made by George H. Geneaway of the Marshall Heights Citizens Association. Genaway, the thirty-second of a hundred and fifty civic representatives, who asked for an opportunity to discuss the Washington street car and bus service, told the commission the residents of Marshall Heights have to walk a mile to the nearest transportation line. "We are all working people out there," he declare "and are en- trusted." THE WASHINGTON TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1935 tild to some convenience, in getting to the down town area from our homes.' He exhibited a diagram of a bus route he suggested and Mr. Hanna and his experts examined it closely. It was placed in the record for consideration. The hearing was recessed to January 2, when the company's side of the controversy will be presented, by Mr. Hanna and his assistants. Later a hearing on "one man cars" will be held and it is incumbent upon those who have complaints to formulate them and present them at the coming hearing of the commission if they desire the proper consideration. Mrs. Mary Tayor of the Southwest Citizens' Association was present at the hearing and both she and Guy Tinner of the Bloomingdale Citizens' Association were scheduled to take the stand and air the street car grievances of their separate communities and ask for the correction of the delinquencies of the Capital Transit Company in the operation of cars and busses in their areas. Classified Ads UURNISHED or UNFURNISHED 2-ROOMS, for light housekeeping; married couple; no children. 947 T St., N.W. FURNISHED POOM ROOM TO EMPLOYED COUPLE or man; well heated. Call in afternoon or night, 1915 14th St., N.W.; Apt. 8. Legal Notices L. MELENDEZ KING, Attorney SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT of Columbia-Holding Probate Court. N. 48.205. Administration. This is to give notice: That the subscriber, of the Probate Court, obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia. Letters Testamentary on the estate of Paul McGee, lates of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, legally authenticated. The deceased, on the 16th day of December, A. D. 1985, otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this-16th day of December, 1985, Charles W. Fortune, 1201 Street, Northwest. Attest: Victor S. McCauley County Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. Turkey Cutlets Cut slices from the breast of a cold turkey, dip in beaten egg and then cracker dust, fry to a nice brown in melted butter of beef dripping. Cut slices of stale bread in quarters, dip quickly in hot water, then in beaten egg, dust with the crackers and fry same as the meat. Send to the table on the same or separate dishes as preferred. Carnish the meat with bits of parsley. A nice dish for breakfast or luncheon. This is coming to be the most fair-minded country on earth. Meaning that we have the most fairs. NEW YEAR 1935 Was the Tribune's Best Year More than 25% Ahead of 1934 in Volume and Quality of Paid Advertizing Maintaining Our Position of World Leader in Volume and Quality of Paid Advertising in Negro Newspapers - Watch The Tribunes - TO ALL Washington Tribune Tuesday BEST NEWS OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL Event You Have Been Waiting For ETHYL WISE, D. C. ARTIST. PRESENTS RECITAL AT STATE GREENSBORO, N. C.—Saturday evening, the students and faculty and friends of Virginia State witnessed a brilliant recital rendered by Ethyl Wise, coloratura soprano, and Bernard Lee Mason, concert violinist. Mr. Mason, a graduate of Oberlin is an artist of exceptional and unusual ability; for by his up and down bows there emanates from his instrument all the pathos, beauty and joy that a composer ever meant to have interpreted. His encore, "Old Folks at Hone," a difficult seemingly two violin piece, was especially well done, and enthusiastically received. It followed the famous Wienarski concerto. Julia Sessoms, a sympathetic accompanist, ably assisted. The technique of Ethyl Wise, Howard Conservatory, was remarkable. This young singer has an unusual personality with the capacity for holding her audience because of her sweet and mellow bones. Her best number was The Indian Bell Song; from Lakme—Pace Pace Mio Dio was beseeching, and she showed distinct dramatic ability in the last section of that number. The audience enjoyed her interpretation of the spirituals. Both artists and accompanist are members of the faculty at A and P College. Mrs. Sessoms is a graduate of Talledega. Justice Club Has Grand Time at First Banquet The first annual banquet of the Justice Club was held at Harrison's Cafe. The Justice Club is composed of employees of the Department of Justice. Morrissey S. Koonce, head of the files section of the division of records of the Department of Justice and president of the Justice Club, was toastmaster. Entertainment was furnished by Piccolo Pete and his orchestra, together with skits by Messrs. Brown and Gearing, club members, known as the team of Loud Mouth and Easy. Special tribute was paid to W. S. Noisette employee of the division of investigation, for his recent successful art exhibit at the Phyllis Wheatley Y.W.C.A. An article was read from the Investigator, the official news organ of the division of Investigation, which was devoted entirely to Mr. Noisette and his recent exhibit. Vann Absent The Hon. Robert L. Vann, special assistant to the Attorney General and a club member, sent a message expressing his regret for not being able to be present at the banquet, due to the fact that he was called out of town on official business. Members of the club present were: G. W. Bailey, W. L. Beamon, Augustine Bell, H. W. Brown, Charles Cutch, L. H. Ferguson; M. H. Ferguson, Louis Gearing; L. D. Helms; Thomas Holland; W. C. Killingsworth; M. S. Koonce, J. H. Lee, F. D. McLeod; P. Reiss Moss; W. T. Parker; V. C. Pharr, J. T. Rucker; Howard Thomas; L. L. Thompson, W. H. Yerby; W. L. Clarke; H. A. Spriggs, R. H. Thompson; Guests present were: W. L. Brown. R. E. Pryor, S. S. Fletcher; Mack K. Steele; Bernard Cooper, J. H. Greene, M. W. Spencer; Dr. J. C. Brazier, R. J. Drs. J. D. S. Thompson, J. Bowes; P. L. Johnson; M. P. Jones and Herman Moore. Mr. and Mrs. Shearin Feted On Anniversary Mr. and Mrs. Elliot Shearin 3005$^2$ Sherman Avenue, Northwest, celebrated their twenty-second anniversary, Sunday. The house was brilliantly decorated with palms and flowers and the Yuletide trimmings. Mesdames Lena Powell and Julia Boggs were hostesses on the occasion. Out-of-town guests included Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Holly of Baltimore and Mr. and Mrs. H. Jackson of Halls Hill, Virginia. Among others present were Mr. and Mrs. John Powell; Mr. and Mrs. T. Hines; Mr. and Mrs. Gorens; Mr. and Mrs. Fields; Mr. and Mrs. Vowells; Mr. and Mrs. Badford J. Simms, Mesdames Harriet Sheffard; Mary Dorsey; and Marie Dixon. SURPRISE BIRTHDAY PARTY Among those present were Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Harrison, Mr. and Mrs. Julius Manning, Mesdames Mabel Coles, Gertrude Green, Bessie Lewis; Mary Alston; Cordelia Henry, Mary Warren, Lorretta Nesbit. Miss Marguerite Evans, John Crawford; William Dotson, Robert Thorpe; Frederick Monroe and C. Cheek. SEA SCOUTS PLAN PROGRAM Sea Scouts of Troop 525 have already informed Scoutmasters of the other troops of the Sixth Division of a novel program of entertainment they have planned for January 17. Sea Scout Elwood Payne is business manager of the Scout group. And a Good Time Was Had by All, Says Vivian Christmas has come and gone. What a happy day for the kids, who had a plenty of everything and what a sorrowful one for he destitute. Christmas is the time for giving, for spreading peace and good will. How happy those persons must feel who srived their bit with those less fortunate! And now the Old Year draws to a close. The New Year brings with it many hopes of success. It bids everyone cast aside all bitterness, hate and jealousy of the past year and resolve to think only of the good which is visible everyday. The Derby dance last Friday was quite pretty. The Colonnade was ablaze with Christmas lights and decorations. Holly wreaths, electrically lighted made a most beautiful background for the beautful gowns worn by the ladies, "Ye Old Derby." hung in its usual place near the orchestra bidding all guests a hearty welcome. Every member present was solicitus for the welfare and enjoyment of the guests. Certainly everyone had a most pleasurable evening. Huestes Honored At Wedding Anniversary Judge and Mrs. William C. Hueston were honored by a number of friends last Sunday at their home, 744 Park Road, in honor of their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. Among the guests were: Dr. and Mrs. Ambroe Caliver, Dr. and Mrs. Emmett J. Scott, The pupils of the Gregorian Studio of Music and Art, 2019, Thirteenth Street, Northwest, were heard in a "Studio Recital on last Friday evening, December 20 at 8 o'clock. After introductory remarks by Mrs Gregoria Frazier Goins, director, Christmas Carols were sung. Those taking part on the program were Joseph Gathers, William Nelson, William Banton, Edwin Crummie, Anna Ma Blackney, Roberta Wheeler, Vivian Turner, Eunice Coleman, Jean Thomas, Odessa Davis, Ophelia Quander, Evangeline Crummie, Mary Barrage Yvonne Gray, Elizabeth Scurlock and Louise Nelson. After the recital the pupils were served refreshments and presented with Christmas greeting cards from Mrs. Goins. The pupils in the Glee Club of Margret Washington Vocational School under the leadership of Mrs. L, H. Pinchback, sang Christmas Carols in the corridor of Franklin School on last Thursday morning to bring the Christmas spirit to the executives and officers of the public schools of the city. Many friends came from their desks and sat on the steps and listened intently. They were great. They touched by the old but sweet songs and expressed their sincere appreciation for the visit. Miss L. C. Randolph, principal, Mrs. W. C. Dodson, the counsellor, Mrs. B. C. Edwards, Mrs. O. J. Lancaster, Mrs. V. T. Turner and Mr. Edwards accompanied the group. They also visited the Children's Hospital, where Miss Marjorie Coleman Smith, and Miss Margaret Johnson gave a dramatic number in the Children's ward. From the Children's Hospital went to the Stoddard Baptist Home and sang several numbers with a prayer by Miss Coleman Dr. and Mrs. Kelly Miller, Jr. spent Christmas in the city visiting their parents, Prof. and Mrs. Kelly Miller. They returned to their home in New York on Thursday. Mrs. Estelle Myer, of the Margaret, Washington Vocational School, left the city last Friday to spend the holidays with her daughter in Cleveland, Ohio. Mr and Mrs. J. Finley Wilson are spending Christmas in Richmond, Va. visiting relatives and friends. Mrs. Bessie Russell Mornelius, is spending the holidays in Pittsburgh with her husband, Dr. Ira Cornelius. Miss Corrine C. McIlwain, of 1714 Second Street, Northwest, arrived in the city Saturday morning to spend the holidays with relatives and friends. Miss McIlwain is a teacher in the public schools of Great Falls, S.C. Prof F. D. Drew, principal of the public school of Great Falls, S.C., passed through the city, Saturday morning enroute to his home in Boston, Mass, to spend the Christmas holidays, with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Drew. He was met here in the city by his mother, Mrs. Drew and together they motored to Boston. The Tempo Choral Society of the Dunbar Community Center will be heard in its second annual candlelight service at Dunbar High School auditorium, Sunday, December 29 at 5 p.m. This choral society owes whatever little success it has attained to the untiring efforts of its director, Dr. W Scott Mayo, the accompanist, Mrs. Montrose Eldoe and Mrs. Carrie Knox, community secretary. This year's Yule presentation of Handel's Messiah will surpass anything they have ever attempted. The following will be guest soloists: Miss Maude Smothers, soprano; Mrs. Evelyn Russ, contralto; Mr. John Barnes, tenor; Mr. Curtis Mayo, pianist. Washington music lovers will enjoy this program from the opening number to the final triumph chorus. The club was entertained, by Mrs. Helena Kirkland at her home in Fairmount Heights, Saturday night. The guest of honor was Miss Ella Mundon, of Youngstown, Ohio. Prizes were won by Mrs. Clarice Wilson and Phillip Lloyd. Guests were Miss Ella Mundon, Mesdames Reth Jolie, Marie Johnson, Miss Clara Serreant; Thomas Frye, Mr. and Mrs. Lucien Wilson. Members present were Mr. and Mrs. Norman P. Gunn. Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Lloyd and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Mackin. A serve-self cafeteria is a good place to practice sales resistance. DILLY-DALLY Huestons Honored At Wedding Anniversary Judge and Mrs. William C. Hueston was honored by a number of friends last Sunday at their home, 744 Park Road, in honor of their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. Among the guests were: Dr. and Mrs. Ambroe Caliver, Dr. and Mrs. Emmett J. Scott, Magistrate Edward W. Henry of Philadelphia, Judge Armond W. Scott, Mr. and Mrs. Rolert Weaver, former Judge James A. Cobb, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. B. Evans, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Hastie, Mrs. Buena Kelly of Norfolk, Va.; Mr. and Mrs. Carrington Davis of Baltimore, and Mrs. Mercer Daniels, Mrs. Hattie Chisholm and Mrs. Milton Chisholm, of Brooklyn; Mrs. J. Finley Wilson, Truly Hatchett of Baltimore, Mrs. Sallie Fisher Clark, Dr. Charles B. Fisher, Prof. Mercer Cook, Dr. and Mrs. Walter Garvin, Mr. and Mrs. James Costley; Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Spivey, Mr. and Mrs. John W. Carter, Mr. and Mrs. Morris Lewis, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Phillips, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Robt Ogle, Mrs. Thomas H. R. Clarke, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Coates, Robert J. Neeson of Philadelphia; Miss Rosa Montgomery, John C. Bruce, Louis R. Lautier, C. Tiffany Tolliver, Edward H. Lawson, Herbert E. Jones, Shep Allen, William Hueston, Jr. Harry Hueston, Earl S. Hyman, Jr.; Roy S. Bond of Baltimore, Dr. James E. Walker, Charles E. Hall, the Rev. and Mrs. James H. Marshall. Derby Club Host at Gay Formal at Colonnade The annual winter dance of the popular Derby Club was held last Friday at the Lincoln Colonnade. Several hundred guests, attired in evening dress, danced to the syncopation of the Blue Birds Orchestra until the wee hours of the morning. Special mention must be made of the beautiful decorations which represented a winter scene with an array of lights beaming across the hall; a huge snow man in the center blended with noise makers and favors of hats with colors of red, green and yellow added another historical setting of the dance which the many guests present enjoyed during an evening long to be remembered. The committee of gentlemen responsible for the affair consisted of Dr. Walter G. Daniels, president of the club: Sidney Washington. chairman of the social committee; and the following members of the committee, Dr. John Turner, Attorney Edward W. Howard. Horace Dowling, Charles A. Cornish, J. Parker Kelly, and Willis Richardson, who had charge of decorations. Mrs. Jackson Honored By Sorority Members Members of Xi Omega Chapter of the A. K. A. Sorority began its pre-Bouie' celebration last Saturday with a theatre party in honor of the supreme basileus, Miss Ida L. Jackson, Late, sorors and their escorts greeted Miss Jackson at an informal reception held at the home of Mrs. Ethel Harris Brubbs, 751 Fairmont Street, Northwest. Entertainment centered around recorded greetings of the basileus of Xi Omega*, Miss Sadie L. Daniels, to Miss Jackson and the latter's response. Miss Jackson whose home is in Oakland, California, was the house guest of Dr. and Mrs. C. Thurston Ferebee en route to the boule' which opens in Richmond Friday, December 27. Among those present were Misses Beulah and Lillie Burge, founders of A. K. A.; Misses Norma Boyd, Sadie Daniel, Corrine Martin, Cora Ruff, Sophie Edelin, Mollie Gibson, Carlotta Peters, Naomi Rushing and Thomasine Carrothers; Mesdames Bobbie Scott and Mattie C. Lee. Messers, and Mesdames Giles Hubert, Earl; Moses, Harry Honesty, Joseph Reason, Raymond Alexander, Lawrence W. Ivey, C. Thurston Ferebee and Starks; and Messers. Fowler, McClendon and Robeson. Misses Mariana Beck, Lucille Orr, Reba Cox and Eunice Nickens brought greetings from Alpha Chapter, Howard University. RETURNS FOR HOLIDAYS Miss Rosa Williams, former Miner Teachers' College student, who has been in New York City for the past three months, returned to the city to visit her parents, Mr and Mrs. Herbert Pope, 212 Elm Street, Notthwalt, for the holidays. Miss Williams will return to Gotham Sunday night. Willie Evans spend the Christmas holidays in Richmond, Vir. Miss Gertrude Walker was the guest of friends in Richmond during the Christmas season. THE WASHINGTON TRIBUNE. TUESDAY. DECEMBER 31, 1935 Santa Claus Comes to Town THE CHILDREN ARE READING THE BOOKS. A group of children on last Tuesday received their annual visit from Santa Claus at the offices of the National Tribune with Sid Houston as host. The annual occasion was a joyous one, with Santa distributing gifts and telling stories while youngsters listen with rapt attention. PEARLIE'S PRATTLE All About Lovely Ladies and Big, Bold, Wonderful Men "And we'll be married when Santa Claus comes" the sweet maid said when asked to name the date. And so on a perfect Christmas Day with softly falling snow and a million shining lights from windows, trees, and porches helping to tell the story of "Peace on earth, good will to men", lovely Jane Evelyn Peyton, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Robert Peyton, and Mr. John Francis Harris, son of Mrs. Smallwood of Pittsburgh, Pa., stood 'neath a silver-flowered arch and answered pretty "I do's" to the questions of Rev. Bullock. The four ushers, Messrs. Robinson, Wm. Cheney, Richard Latney, Carl Ennis had already led the fashionably gowned guests to their places. Mr. Josh Levingston had sung "I Love You You Truth". Then "Here Comes the Bride" rang out in loud clear tones from the big pipe organ. And immediately everybody forget his etiquette and strained his neck to the utmost. The six sweet bridesmaids, Misses Jean Dunn, Viola Fleming, Beatrice Fleming, Mrs. Hermione Porter, Mrs. Elsie Shamwell, Mrs. Maisie Stewart, wore long white dresses, fashioned with puffed sleeves, flaring skirts and peplums. They were cunning frilled net hats designed by Mrs. Tenetta Chiles, and carried arm bouquets of pink rose buds and baby's breath tied with shell pink ribbon. The bond-haired maid of honor, Miss Dorothy Reed, was lovely in green, with gown and hat fashioned to match those of the bridesmaids. The dainty flower girl had her own little white frock trimmed with pink and blue rose buds. And then came the bride leaning on the arm of her father. The soft whiteness of her gown with its long sleeves, cowl neck line, many buttons down the back and pointed train; the folds of flowing tulle that formed her veil; the gleaming coronet (pearl-trimmed) that held them in place and the white roses and lilies of the valley that made up her shower bouquet, turned the charming Evelyn into a regular Christmas princess. The bride's mother wore black velvet and the mother of the groom, maroon. Mr. Glascoe Mack acted as best man for Mr. Harris. And immediately following the wedding a reception was held at the home of the bride's parents. Then the bride cut her pretty cake, and tossed her bouquet right into the arms of Miss Dorothy Reed. After the dainty repast was served there were the hundreds of gifts to be seen and the too, too pretty room of the bride with its ever so modern furniture and exquisite hangings of brown and ivory. Mrs. Christine Bridgers told you where to go to find the pretty sandwiches and Christmas pouch. Mrs. Evelyn Starks told you anything you happened to want to know. And you told the happy bride and bridegroom that you hoped they'd live happily ever afterward. Didn't see any photographers around, but if somebody didn't get a picture of that beautiful wedding it's really and truly a shame. You might, have known the Derby's would pull a pretty stunt the other Friday night. They turned the Colonnade into a sort of Christmas Eve dream, with holly wreaths, shining stars and soft red lights. So vivid was the picture that you expected any minute to see old Santa Claus himself, peep jolly-faced into the place. Even the fat snow man that had settled down with comfort on a silver-speckled pedestal in the center of the hall, seemed ever so happy and satisfied as he puffed away on his pipe and went round and round throughout the night watching the merry whirl. And although I didn't see him do it, I'd surely be willing to wager that old Mr. Snow-Man winked one eye at Dr. Woodward, Messrs. Cornish, Kelly, and Howard, Washington, Thoms and all the others just to let the Club members know how well they were putting things over. And the guests—twould take a more efficient pen --- A brand new nappy will come to town next week. No, he isn't being brought by good "Sir Stork." He's the happy cherub that's rapidly advancing toward the calendar and his name is "Glad New Year." And the Prattler hopes that day by day as he grows older and older he will be kinder and kinder to all the Lovely Ladies and Big, Bold Wonderful Men that have made this column possible. And to be a bit specific, may the New Year repeat 1935's "travel schedule" for Mrs. Robert Holley of 2651 15th St. That vivacious little lady went almost from Maine to Mexico and took several months to do it in May shopping bags be bigger for the sake of Dr. and Mrs. Wm. T. Parker. They told old Santa Claus so many places to go that they had to take along a traveling bag to help him out. (Saw 'em with it.) And if you could have peeped at the Parker's list, you'd have found, somewhere near the top, the cripples, the shut-ins, the broken-hearted (Mrs. Parker would surely have seen to that). Her name really should be Ella "Bountiful" Parker. Here's hoping, too, that hats fashioned in 1936 will be as charmingly suited to Mrs. Manie Lewis Williams' piquant type of beauty as the black little "off-the-face" she's been wearing lately. ... That Miss Hortense Tinsley of S St. will find many things to smile about (her kind of smile goes a long way toward making this old world a pretty place to be in). ... That the rich tenor voice of Mr. James Holmes will always retain its power to charm. It's really a set of "Stop" and "Go" signs for the happiness of a certain Randolph Place lady. (When she hears the voice she's happy; when she doesn't of course she isn't.) ... That Miss Louise Alexander will keep a lot of green in her wardrobe. ... Here's hoping that the undertakers will continue giving holiday greetings if they choose to do so. (Saw Merry Christmas signs in some of their windows and Mr. Samuel Morrow is keeping "open house" on New Year's Day Etta Moten in Brilliant Recital at A. and T. Zeta Phi Beta Sorors Launch Program Among Washington Clubs Greensboro, N. C.—Etta Moten, noted mezzo-contraito of radio, stage and screen fame, gave a very brilliant performance at A. and T. College Thursday evening, when she was presented by the local institution in her first personal appearance in Greensboro. The spacious college gymnasium was filled and the audience gave evidence of the fact that it was highly appreciative of the art of Miss Moten, as she sang French, Italian and German, concluding the program with modern songs. Negro spirituals and motion picture songs, by request. She did each group Atlanta, Ga.—With the advent of the Christmas holidays Sigma men from all over the country began moving toward the Gate City of the South, and at present more than 300 delegates have assembled here for the twenty-third annual conclave of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, which is now in session at the Butler St. Branch Y. M. C. A., the official conclave headquarters, located in the heart of the Atlanta Negro business section. Every member of the Phi Beta Every member of the Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity present at this MODERNETTE WHIST CLUB The club's weekly meeting was held at the home of Mrs. Lillian Green, 326 T Street, Northwest; with all members present. The roster includes Mrs. Maggie Dodson, Miss Belle Bristol, Miss Mattie Jenkins; Mrs. Lillian Green; Mrs. Lenora Henderson, Mrs. Josephine Keys and Miss Marie Lee. AUTOCRATS The club held its initial card tournament Tuesday night at the home of Mrs. Mildred Lloyd. Prizes were won by Messrs. Edgar and George Patterson, William Timmons and Robert Frisby. Mrs. Sena Harrison entertained the club at Eastland Gardens, Thursday night. The group also plans a New Year's Day party. SENATORS WHIST CLUB The club won an uphill battle from the Universal Whist Club, 349 to 306, last week. Trailing at the recess period, the Senators put on the steam with Gordon and Rogers leading the way in two thrilling sets that resulted in 25-0 and 25-4 scores for the winners. HARLEM GIRLS CLUB Mrs. Maggie Tyree entertained the club at the residence of Mrs. Annie Long, 2238 Eleventh Street, Northwest. Members present were: Miss Frances Millenger Mesdames Alvira Adams, Marie Dockett, Beesie Webster; Maggie Tryee; Annie Broadnick, Ella Barnes, Effie Fryee; Virginia Cunningham; Virginia Duffin, Lottie Mosely and Annie Long. FRIENDLY WHIST CLUB The Friendly Whist Club met at the residence of Mrs. Etta Williams, 610 R Street, Northwest; for the last meeting; Tuesday. Prizes were awarded Mrs. Sarah Gatewood, first; second, Mrs. Nina Harrison. Guest pribze went to Mrs. Washington. Guests of the evening were: Mr. and Mrs. Washington, William Dotson, William Bigham; Roosevelt Harrison, Julius Manning; Harry Freeman and Eugene Harrison. The club members are: Mrs. V. Manning, Eva Queen, S. Gatewood; G. Green; Nina Harrison; Bessie Lewis, Mary Alston, Icelean Richardson and Etta Williams. KLUB SORORITY The regular weekly meeting of the club was held at the home of Miss Bobbie Jackson, 626 L Street, Northwest. Final plans were completed for the New Year's party. Christmas gifts were exchanged by members, of the group: SENATORS WHIST CLUB The Senators defeated the Korn Kob Klub by a score of 350 to 262 last week. The feature of the game was a score of 25-0 made by Newborn and Cook of the Senators. in his big new place on V St.) But may they never get hold of you or me (I mean in a business way) till—well, you fill in the blank. I can't think of a time that's far enough away. . . That Mrs. Elizabeth Jefferson (sister of Mrs. Walter Tate) who has fully recovered from her recent illness, will stay in one place long enough for her friends to get a good look at her. It was to be expected that in a pretty place like Brookland Mrs. Jefferson would get well very soon. And now there's a big problem, and that is how to keep Elizabeth home. . . . That Mr. Wm. Grady will always stay as sweet and demure as she seems today. . . That those who sent the postman to the Prattler with greetings in his bag; those who sent the messenger boys with packages in their hands; those who found time to call in person or by telephone and those who had the intent but lacked the hours or minutes may some day know exactly how much joy their kind remembrances brought the bum reporter. BEST NEWS OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL in Brilliant A. and T. well, exhibiting poise and grace. Among the numbers receiving great applause were "Si tra i Ceppi" by Handel; "Lungi, Dal Caro Bene" by Sechi; "Die Lorelei" by Liszt; "Little Black Boy" by Dawson; "March Down to Jordan" and "I've Been Buked" by Jessye and "De Glory Road" by Wolfe. By request, Miss Moten sang "My Forgotten Man", "Carioca", "My Man" and a medley of popular pieces, which was very effective. Enid Esta Lee of Boston, Mass., accompanied Miss Moten and ably supported her throughout the program. meeting, the greatest in the history of the fraternity, are not only interested in putting through legislation of vital interest to the fraternity, but are chiefly concerned with the formation of its program on social action, which will include: (1) National and State antilynch legislation; (2) equality of occupational opportunities, wages, and working conditions for Negroes; (3) elimination of race discrimination in federal, state and municipal employment; (4) equalization of educational opportunities ington Clubs Guests were Miss Sadie Timberlake, Leroy Dawkins and Multril Wilson. The club met at the residence of Mrs. Olive Kimborough, 1421 Twelfth Street, Northwest, last week. Prizes were won by Porter Smith, Mrs. Olive Kimborough who were playing for Mrs. Edna Daniels and Mrs. Jane Furbey. Others present were Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Blayton, Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Furbey; Mrs. Olive Kimborough, Misses Gladys Handy and Maybel Clifford, Porter Smith and John Daniel. The club met at the home of Miss Sarah F. Tatum, 2317-a N Street, Northwest, Monday, when one of the club member's theme song was adopted. The song was written by Shermont Jackson. Members present were Misses Gladys Aylor; Helen Butler; Thelma Hill; Rosa Newman; Fannie Skipper; Ann E. Skipper; Natalie Tatum; Sarah Tatum; Raymond Coles, Edward Gilbert, Wilmont Jackson, Shermont Jackson. The club met at the home of the president, Mrs. Gladys Baldwin, 2125 Twelfth Street; Northwest, where plans were made for a party. The Avalon Whist Club held its regular meeting at the residence of the vice-president, Alexander Ware, 22 L. Street; Northwest. Plans were formulated for the coming year. The club defeated the Lone Deuce Whist Club by a score of 340 to 301. The club met at the residence of Mrs. Ruth B. Johnson, 1829 Ninth Street, Northwest. Those present were Mrs. Julia Butler, Mrs. Nancy Jackson, Mrs. Julia McCain, Mrs. Beulah Graves; Mrs. Ollie Mason French and Mrs. Lucille Archer. Mrs. Matilda Wimberley entertained the club Friday at her home, 2024 Fourteenth Strtet, Northwest. Members present were Mildred Crawford, Manizer Hines, Martha Hatcher, Eleanora Walter and Flora Gray. Miss Ida Booth was hostess to the club at 341 Elm Street; Northwest; last week. Guests of the evening were Mrs. Julia Coleman; Simon Holiday and Harrison M. Pauls. Troop Mothers Club Gives Scouts Valuable Gifts Boy Scouts of Troop 508 were surprised at their meeting last Friday night. The Troop Mothers Club, with the cooperation of Scoutmaster Dickerson, arranged a program for the occasion. Addresses were made by District Commissioner Young; Mrs. Wentz former president of the club, and Mrs. Ballard, present president of the club. Mrs. Wentz concluded her remarks with the presentation of a fully equipped First Aid Kit to the Troop. The president, Mrs. Ballard, then presented a set of beautiful Troop flags. Remarks expressing appreciation were made by all the Scouts and the Scoutmaster. Officers of the Mothers Club are Mrs. Emily Ballard, president; Mrs. Phyllis Wentz, secretary; and Mrs. Susie Jones, treasurer. Mrs. Louise Naylor, 1402 Twelfth Street, Northwest. Is still confined to her bed although she is improving slowly. RULE OF EIGHT CLUB FRIENDLY KEEDS SOCIAL CLUB GIGOLETTES SOCIAL CLUB AVALON WHIST CLUB SIX OF US WHIST CLUB CARNATION ART CLUB DARING DAMES CLUB NEW YORK City—The Ile De France steamed majestically into port here last Monday and among the passengers who descended the gang plank, eager to reach home for the Yule holidays was a young colored woman. Simply but smartly dressed, she bore quietly what was undeniably an air of distinction. Her fellow passengers in first-class and even the ship's attaches seemed to extend her unusual deference. It had been that way during the entire voyage. The young woman was Marian Anderson, the golden voice singer to whom Europe for two years has been paying the greatest homage it has even paid an American artist. After capturing music lovers from Paris to Russia, in Sweden, Warsaw, Haag, Zurich Copenhagen, and even in Nazi Austria, where she was hailed as marvelous at the Salzburg Music Festival, the gathering place of the musical elite of the world, Marian Anderson was retiring her native land. So startling, so complete has been the success of Miss Anderson abroad, that even her own America, following Europe as it is wants to do, seems certain to be singing her praises before many months. It is not that her art has been completely unrecognized at home. She has had triumph after triumph here, but not the spontaneous adulation which she has received in Europe. Had she not been colored and a woman, America would have resounded with praises long ago. Sanitary Grocery Play Santa to 175 Children The Sanitary Grocery Company entertained 175 children of their employees in the auditorium of Garnet-Patterson School, Tenth and U Streets, Northwest, Saturday evening. When the guests arrived, the exercises opened with prayer by the Rev. Kato Roy, and carol singing by the audience. W. H. Sheeler, magician, held the parents $a_{s}$ well $a_{s}$ the children spellbound with many tricks and received prolonged applause for his contribution to an enjoyable evening. Then came the grand and glorious part of the program. Santa Claus and his big bag of toys, and the drawing of the curtains, disclosing a beautifully decorated tree with the star above. It was a wonderful sight and the children were made very happy. Each one received a gift and a bag containing fruit, candies, nuts etc. There were drums, washing machines, candles, tov dogs; skates and many other worth while presents. Mr. Deane, superintendent of warehouses; Gordon Stokes, assistant superintendent and W. E. Cortori, division secretary were present and mde short talks. Miss Ella Mundon of Youngstown, Ohio, is spending the Christmas holidays at the home of Mrs. Helena Kirkland. Miss Mundon was honored guest at a party given in her honor by Mrs. Helen Peckins, Sunday. IT ALL DEPENDS-- When surveys are made, the result depends entirely on who makes the survey. Figures can be juggled to suit one's fancy. With enough pencils and paper one can figure himself a 'pauper or millionaire. However, facts do not lie. Here are the facts. The Tribune is the only Negro paper published in Washington. Our readers are invited to visit the Tribune plant IN WASHINGTON. The Tribune is published twice a week. You get the news FIRST while it is news. Now you don't have to wait until later in the week to read stories re-written from Tuesday's Tribune. 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WORLD'S RICHEST NEGRO MARKET USE WASHINGTON'S ONLY NEGRO NEWSPAPER The Washington Tribune Twice Weekly FRIDAY Local News Washington Tribune POTOMAC 1667 Ss E G O N D- ARG MOE. NOLEEHE eis a ~ [sion BTOWN PAPER, OF, BY | THEATRES SECTION | ee | Eee OT [2 | | aS ees sst NEWS OF THE NATION’s CAPITAL Meee ees WASHINGTON, D.C, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1935 Charles Winter Wood Accepts Position at Bennett College 5, J. THOMAS, D. 6, MUSICIAN, DIES SUDDENLY St. cn wens Sylester Thomas, veteran Wash- ington musician, died suddenly early this morning (Tuesday). Mr. ‘Thomas, oldest son of Mrs. Rache! Thomas and brother of Dr. Vincent Taomas, druggist at ‘Twelfth and U Streets, Northwest, was fatally stricken while visiting friends in Northeast Washington. He. was nearly 60 years old. Church Organist A native of Wasnington, Mr. Thomas was educated in the local public schools and well known in Tocal musicgl circles. He had played with many promient Wash- ington orchestras and was organist for the St. Cyprian — Catholic Church, Thirteenth and C Streets, Southeast. He resided at 1519 K Street, Southeast. Besides his mother, Mrs, Rachel ‘Thomas; and a brother, Lewis Thomas, Dr. Thomas. he’ is sur- vived by two other brothers, Lewis Thomas and A. J. Thomas, a daughter, Mrs. Nolye By High- tower and a host of grandchildren and other relatives, * Funeral’ arrangements had. not heen made at press. time (Tues- day). Bs Professor Questions Borah On Anti-Lynching Bill NEW YORK—K, N. Liewellyn, member of the faculty of the law school of Columbia university, an of, the legal committees of the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Association for the Advancement ‘of Colored Peo- ple, has written Senator William E, Borah concerning the constitu- tionality of the Costigan:Wagner anti-lynching bill., Mr, Llewellyn’s letter poses the question as to whether the supreme court ought not be allowed to pass upon the constitutionality of mea- sures when there is on both sides in the legislating chamber a ques: tion as to its constitutionality, Former D.C. Cateress Opens N.J. Tea Room Mrs, Ella M. Garrison, well- known caterecs and _ formerly stewardess of the Woodward and Lothrop tea room 0: this city, has ‘opened a tea room at Magnolia, N.J.. near the White Horse Pike, familiar thoroughfare’ on the way to Atlantic City am? seashore re- sorts, Mrs, Gatrison’s. announcement cards, received early this week by local friends. identifies the tea room as. “The Magnolia” and places jt on Evesham Avenue, the second house from the pike... The sard invites tourists ta bey one of ‘See famous chicken dinncrs. . Former “Green Pastures” Understudy Made Dramatic Coach GREENSBORO, N. C.—Charles Winter Wood of “Green Pastures” fame has been appointed dramatic coach at Bennett College according to an announcement from the office of President Jones. He will begin his duties at the college on Jan- uary 1. A series of dramatic pro- ductions will be presented during the spring under his directorship. Winter Wood was called from Tuskegee Institute in 1930 to un- derstudy Richard B. Harrison. in the role of “De Lawd” in Mare Connelly’s success “Green Pas- tures.” For five years, Richard Harrison didn’t miss a performance but on March 2, 1935 he was stricken before a matinee perform. ance and Charles Winter Wood stepped into the role. The play. scheduled to run nine weeks, was held over an additional week and critics were generous praise of his work in the dificalt: role charles Winter, Wood iss grad- uate loit College an: ni- versity of Chicago. He also stud- fed at Columbia University on 2 General Education Board scholar- During’ his life time he has ar- carised «number of dramatic erovrps and. ha< interpreted les from the classics on the boards thr-w~hont the country.; He went © Tockegee during the time: of SCOTTSBORO BOYS TD BE AIDED BY JOINT DEFENSE ae NEW YORK—Defense for the nine Seottsbora boys; charged wit attacking two: white women on a freight train in Alabama in 1931, will henceforth be conducted by 2 joint defense committze, it was a: nounced here today. New trials fo'lowing the rever- sal of the Alabama courts. last April by the Uniteq States Su- ‘preme Court are scheduled to be- gin on Monday, January 13, New indictments. were returned. by’ & new grand jury in November. Dr, Allan Knight Chaimers, churchman and ‘pastor of _ the Broadway ‘Tabernacle in New York Gity. wil! serve as chairman. Dr. Chamers. is speaking Sunday at Memphis, Tenn. to fiye thou- san young people of the Methodist Epissopal Chureh, South. Colona] William J. Schieffelin of New York is treasurer. Colonel Schieffelin formerly commanded the famous 369th Infariry, is presi- dent of the American Chareh Mis- sionary Society and of the Cilizena Union of New York City, and is a trustee of numerous associacions and schools among tiem Tuskezce and Hampton Institutes. Direetion ofthe legal defense and exclusive control of the raising of funds and of publicity and tech- niques of the cooperating organ'- zations are vested under the new agreement in an executive com- mittee. Invitations have been extended to.and are now being considered by the exccutive committess of other national’. organizations inviting thent to join in ‘the joint defense. The statement is signed by the following, representatives: Walter White, Executive Secretary, Na- tiona! Association for the Ad- vancement of Coloved People; Rog- er N. Baldwin, Director, American Civil Liberties’ Union; Robert Min- or, for the Internaional Labor De- fense; Norman Tomas for the League for Industrial Democracy; and Bishop. France's J. McConnell for the Methodist Federation. for Social Service, Attorney J. B. Honkins Visits Relatives Attorney J. Byron Hopkins. araduate of Howard Law School, now practicing in Richmond Va., was a visitor in the city during the holidays, He returned to Rich- mon Saturday night, to meet his wife, who is teaching in Little Rock, Arkansas, His wife, formerly. Mae Iris Davis, was will known in Howard's igscut, Gielen uavecnlintice acer "4s ate “ . ex x 3) em ‘ i Pe a." Pra ies i j Cc. WINTER wen ¥ Booker ‘T. Washington and stayed there a While there, he taught English, dramatics, and public speaking. Since the close i ae be bas been ing throughout the cquntry onthe religious element in ‘the drama. . Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Celebrates Birthday 2 == i 3 _ | ie. Ana. on rr PAL. er 7 es iz é oe a) * ) oy ia a ar A a | Caer Oe a Se ae Ye ar i eetaaee dee a Cae baa ei eer 1s, Baer Sets Gane rte eee Ee eh! Pe | es ics s fi LTR ‘ ‘ad } eee a8 i ms & <a! ; bd é x ~ 5 rae — ps 4 Ms i Vite on - in ar | ie ea os eee | Bea . ' Hh iges Sei ewe ama Prominent Physician Dead \§ ee fd a ¥ ‘ < es sa DR. NORMAN A, JENKINS, founder end superintendent of +! Waverly Frat¢é.aa! Hospital, Co- | jumbia S.C., whose funers\ was, held last Thursday. | Final Rites Held For | Dr. Norman A. Jenkins! COLLMMA S.C.—Impressive tributes wee paid at the funeral services of Dr. ltorman A. Jenkins, Prominent physician, founder and superintendent of the Waverty Fraterna! Hospital, Thursday af- ternoon, December’ 26, at Second Calvary. Baptist Church, the Rev, M. M. Peace, officiating. Many leaders from every part ef South Carolina and adjoining states attended the last rites. Dr. N. A, Jenkins, whose accomplish- ments “and achievements reached beyond his profession as physician and svrgeon was paid, glowing tri- butes by members of his profes- sion, educators, religious, fratern- al and business leaders. Workmen Injured in 40- Foot Fall in Icy Tank Elmore Davis, 37@ 1518 Eighth Street, Northwest, is recovering from injuries in Emergency Hospital sustained last week when he fell 40 feet from the top of one of the new tanks under construe- tion at the sewage disposal plant at Blue’Plains. Davis was on top of the tank when he slipped and fell, breaking through. the ice, which covered about five feet of water in the tank. Fellaw workmen entered the iey water and drazged him out. He is being treated at the hesrita! for leg injuries and shock. His condition is not serious. Police Red-mble FAort- to Capture Carter Murderer ARLINGTON COURT HOUSE. ee Following the death of rt Carter, 32. of Sduth Wash- ington, from ' bullet wounds _ in Emergency Hosnita! Sunday, police today redoubled efforts. to anpre herd an unnamed man, reported es his assailant. Carter was taken to the hospital late Friday following a disnnte with the mizsine man, accofdine to police. A third man is being detained in the county jail as a witness to the shooting. Why ret out » more -rtistic dolar FN? Any dollar bill looks ‘beautiful Members of the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority who are celebrating the 15th birthday of the sorority. at Howard University this week. Out- standing women in the educational, civic and church life are attending the sessions, A number of social affairs are being given in. honor of the members and friends. Zeta Phi Beta Sorority celebrat- cd. its fifteenth birthday at its birthplace — Howard University, Washington, December 27-30 inelu- sive, with Grand Basi‘eus Attorney Violette M. Anderson, presiding. ‘The objectives of finer woman- hood, sisterly love and scholarship brought together women fyom all parts of the country to this Boule in an effort for concerted action on the parts of this group, Aside from thé closed business sessions, one public meeting was held in Rankin Memorial Chapel at which time greetings were brought by the following representatives of the: fraternal groups: Alpha. Phi Alpha, Prof. Leo Hansberry; Delta Sigma Theta, Mrs. Ixadore’ Miles; Phi Betta Sigma, Prof. Charles Williams; Alpha’ Kappa Alpha. Lorélie Murray; Sigma De‘ta Tau, Hubert Pair; Phi Delta Kappa, Marian, Sparks; — Inter-Fraternal Council, Grace Dodson; Omega Psi Phi, Dean: Benjamin E. Mays, Dr. Benjamin Brawley wag the main speaker of this session and musical selections were rendered by the following: Jennie Green ‘Smith, Goldie Guy Martin Ion Trice, of Chicago; Maude Smoth- ers, all members of, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority. Presetitations were made, to Georgia Johnson, founder of Zeta Beta Chapter; ‘Beatrice Catlett, basileus of Beta Chapter; Arizona Cleaver Stemorts, one of the foun- drs of Zeta Phigeta Sorority, and Violette M. Andgrson, grand basi- leus, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, by Mary H. Plummer. principal Fran- If you have: Died, moved, eloped, been ill, sold out, sold hogs, heen suot, heen born, had a baby, beer drunk, been gypped, and had a fight broken a leg, had a par- ty, caught cold, been robbed, _ had company, been married, bought, a car, been visiting, broken an arm, been courting. heen divorced, ‘been arrested, stolen anything, gone bug- house lost your hair, had = birthday, had an anniv-r-ary, been bitten by a snake, had an accident, cut a new tooth o> had an operation— Get in touch with a repre- centative of the Tribune. sea Woman Overcome By Gas In Home of Employer Mrs. Essie. Washington, 45, 234° Massachusetts “Avenue, pac over- come by gas in her employer's fome today, when water which the was heating for washing machine boiled over, extinguishing the flame. Escaping gas attract- ea the attention of another em- ployee who summoned an Emer- gency Hospital auabulance. Firrt-aid treatment revived the women who lives at 1102 Sixth ‘Street, Police said, cis Junior High Schoo, At the end of this mecting, a public reception was held at the Phyllis’ Wheatley Y. W. C. A., where the visiting grouy was pre- sented to the citizens of Washing- ton. Among thé otner social affairs held in, honor of this group “were: a fprmal reception held at the Lin- coin Colonnade with Beta Zeta Chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority as hostess; Coffee Hour Sojourn- er Truth Hall, Howard University, with Delta Sigma Theta Sorority as hostess; musical tea at the Phyllis Wheatley Y, W.. C. A. with the Inter-Fraternal Council as>host; a dawn frolic with the Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Coun- cil as host; a bridge party with the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority of Howard University as hostess: buffet supper with the Kappa Al- Pha Psias host; and a tor at ts home of Mme Lillian Evanti. Zeta Phi Beta worshipped at the Nineteenth Street Baptist. Chureh at which time the pastor the Rey. Walter H. Brooks. delivered 8 special sermon to the group. A sight-secing trip carried the delegates to the historic paints of ‘Washington. | Mrs, A.D. Cary, Mme. Lillian Evanti, Mrs, J. C! Napier, Mrs. Sallie W. Stewart, Mrs. A. Turnbo Malone, and Mrs. Casey Hayford are honorary ‘members of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority with Mrs, Julia West-Hamilton of Washington, and Mrs, Dixie Brooks, of Chicago. elevated to honorary membership ‘at this session of the Boule, Howard University’s varsity basketball team will open the 1936 season, Thursday, against the South Carolina A,'and M. College quint, The game will start at 8:30 p.m. in the university gym- nasium The Bison line-up will, in all probability, be as follows: Willie Wynne and Herbie Jones. forwards; Tom Reid or Millard Williams at center, and Justin Plummer and Pie Hampton at the guard posts. RACE HAS THREE NATIONAL CHAMPS The year 1935 goes out with three members of the race in possession of four national championships: re John Henry Lew's Arizona, light-heayvweight boxer. : Eulace Peacock, New Jersey. 100-meter dash. (417 Nat'l.) Patch Metcslf-. Marquette University. 200-meter dash. (AAU Nath) . Fulsce Peacock. running bread jump. (AAU Nat'l) he BAILIFF ILL Richard £, Hughes, for 53 years bailiff in Police Court. is confined to his home, 2416 Argyie Avenue, Baltimore, on account of illness. More than 4,000 young | mien, elassedl as ‘literate when they en- rolled in the Civilian Conservation Corps, were taught to read and write during the fiscal year end- ing June 30,1935, according to Robert Fechner direetor of Ermer- gency Conservation Work, ‘The director's statement was hased on a letter forwarded from the U.S, Office of Education which diclosed the results of a survey of the extent of illiteracy in the CCC camps, The communiciation, which was prepared by Howard W. Oxley, director of CCC Camp Edu- cation, pointed out that the survey disclosed that during the month of July there were 7,369 illiterates in the conservation corps, Of this number, Mr. Oxley said aw total of 5,406 were subsequently persuaded by educational advisers to attend classes, He added that during the fiscal year witich ended June 30, 1935, a total of 4,939 men who en- tered the COC camps iliterate had been taught to read and write. Dr. White Is Reelected T. B. Association Head With 1,000,000 of its penny Christmas Seals still to be convert- ed into $10,000 cash in order to make up the minimum’ fund e- quired to carry on through the coming yoar the various. health services of the D. ©, Tuberculosis Association, in the fight to lower Washington's dangerously _ high tuberculosis death rate, the Board of Directors of this organuation has reelected unanimously its pres ent officer, as follows: Dr. William Char'es White, pres- ident; Dr. Luther H. Reichelderfer, vice president; Walter S. Pratt, Jr, treasurer; and Willard ¢. Smith, secretary. Many more than a. million of the seals sent to friends on approval are yet to be accounted for =e as the association has repeatedly urged, people to use the sea'y and pay fof them later, the directors felt confident that the after-Christ- tas sales might be expected to prevent any serious curtailment of services during 1936, If all of the peonte to whom the seals have been sent but who have not so far been heard from wil later pay for them the total will surely mect shat bodbet. seduireniaatas Driver Sentenced for Fatal Auto Accident Jordan Trollinger, 25, of the 1600 black of Twelfth Street, the first man convict- ed by a jury und-r the new negligent homicide act, was sentenced by Juige Gus A. Schulit in Police Jury Court Saturday to pay a fine of $500 or serve 90 days in jail, He; was unable to pay the fine and was committed. Trollinger wax accused of having struck and fatally in- jured Adam Abrahams, white, 40, of 1014 I Street, on Octob- er 12 at Vermont Avenue and T Street. Originally arrested on a reckless drivin: charge, he Tas charged with “negligent homicide hy a coroner's jury October 23 following the death of Abrahams from « fractured skoll and compound fracture of the right leg. Liberia’s President Views Italian Agression in Ethiopia with Alarm Only Independent State in Africa Besides Abyssinia Cements Bonds With United States; Two Countries Renew Friendship HIGH SCHOOL BOY FORCED 70 SPEND HOLIDAYS IN JAIL A Visi Autberies on” Robbery Charge CLIFTON FORGE, Va—Unable to raise bond when he was held for action of the Grand Jury in court, last week, Albert Poindex- ter, 18-year-old high school youth, was forced to spend the Christmas holidays in jail and may have to vemain in the county prison until early February if the amount of hond is not raised, Poindexter, a brilliant, high school youth, was taken into cus- tody by Chief of Police J. W. Huf- man, white, and Patrolman Carron, white, last’ Sunday, at his home on Ridgeway Street on a charge of holding up Charles Ingle, white, and robbing him of $20.00 In spite of conflicting. testimony at the pre- liminary hearing held on December 24 before Major Frank Wheeler, white, the youth was sent to jail after his failure to make bond for the grand jury. Ingle identihed Poindexter as the youth who stuck a pistol in his side and took his money the previ- ous night while he-was intoxicated. His identification, according to his court testimony, was based on his remembrance of the youth who he alleged lived across the street from him. /The robbery is alleged to have taken place at the C, & 0. Station, Poindexter denied the charge. ‘The youth stated that he was at- tending a movie at Masonic Thea. tre during the time of his alleged crime: The money found on Poin- dexter at the time of his arrest was earned by him while working on the city welfare force, accord: ing to his story, Ethiopian Prelate to Speak at Mount Carmel Arch Bishop W. 8. J. Chal- loughlicrilesise of the Reformed Coptic Church of Ethiopia will de- liver an address on Ethionia at tht Mount Carmel Baptist Church, Third and I Streets, Northwest, Tuesday, December 81, at 9 o'clock, Musie will be furnished by the senior choir. Immediately. fol- Jernazin, the pastor, will conduct lowing the address the Rey. W. H. the rerular Watch Night Service, The public is invited to attend both of these services. , American Scottsboro . Committee Disbands NEW YORK, — The American Seottshoro Committee. formed in the fall of 1934 to aid in the de- fense of the nine Negro boys charged with attacking two white women ons freigt train in Alaba- ma in 1931, has voted to disband. This action was taken upon the formation last week*of the Scotts bore Defense Comshit:ce, which will henceforth have exclusive charge of the cases. The Italo-Ethiopian conflict was significantly dealt upon by Presi- dent Edwin Barclay in his message to the Liberian Legislature on Friday. He said in part: ‘On the surface, it would appcar that the matters in dispute between Ethio- pia and Italy could have only aza- demic inerests for Liberia, But a more proiound consideration of the implications inhcrent in the facts surrounding the dispute would con- vince the most unthinking mind that the situation is of the highest significance to a state situated as Liberia. Should the League of Na- tions be unable to assert its moral inf:sence in the maintenance of international decency, decorum and security, then the smaller rtates in the world will become as in fat they have always been the prey of imperialistic states.” In consequen-e of these conside- rations, President Barclay stat-d he had thought it imperative for Liberia a3 a member of the Teazue, to atscciate itself in out- ‘owing Er - President Barclay evoked loudest HOLD 7 IN SERIES OF ROBBERIES The arrest of six men and one woman by Precinct Detectives D. D, Pittman and F. B. Ashe, Inte Inst week, were said by police authorities to haye brought to a solution a series of housebreakings in the Northwest. section over. the past several months. ‘The detectives told the Tribune Monday that all seven c. the gang had been ordered held for the ac- tion of the grand jury following their arraignment in police court earlier that morning. The group were booked as: Ed- ward Hawkins, 25, 1336 R Street, Northwest; his wife, Cord, 26, of the same address; Clarence Hub- bard, 20, 1816 ‘Twelfth Street, Northwest, Samuel Thompkins, 30, 1427 U “Street, Northwest; Me- Konist Dixon, 20, 20 Hesketh Street Chevy Chase; James Hare ris, 26; 101 Euclid Street, Nortr- west;.and Willie Washan, 25, 1648 Florida Avenue, Northwest, , Posed as Salesmen Police declared each of the mem- bers of the ganz posed as Christ- mas wreath salesmen when they Visited the homes of the intended victims, When no one answered their ring, entrence to the house was forced, : 2 Detectives Pitiman and Ashe first placed Hawkins under arrest. Questioning brought other mem- bers of the gang to light and the parts they played in the series of urglaries. Going to the U-Street residence of Thompkins, the officers found what, they claimed to have been the “hang-out” of. the group. While there, they said, Dixon came in. He was immediately subjected to questioning, during the course of which Officer Asha is said to have intercepted a long screwdriver whieh Dixon was try- ing to hand to Thompkins, Recover Loot ‘A search of the Thompkins place revealed a loot. of surgical instrunrsnts, kodaks; lamps; ete; valued rt close @o $700, , ‘These arrests were made on lact Monday. On Christmas Day, Mrs. Haws kins was apprebonded. She was charged with being an aceomplice, the charge being based on infors mation the officers declared they received during the questioning. More loot was discovered in @ cedar chest, the key to which the owner declared was lost, in the home of Nellie Wiseman, 1222 5 Street, Northwest, Mrs. Wise- man is said to be the sister of Mrs. Hawkins. She was not are rested but was ordered held as @ government witners. The entire loot, valued at close to $7.000, was said to have in- cluded fur coats and jewelry in addition to the items found at the | U-Street house. erp cine he. Welhes We Mien eee “pplause when he spoke about th reestablishment of cordial relations between Liberia and the United States. He sald “Special reference must be made to the resumption of norma! relations with the gov- ernment of the United States. The appointment of Lester A. Walton ®s envoy extraordinary and Min‘s- ter Plenipoentiary _reestablishes the traditional relations of the two governments and emphasizes the deep interests which America has always manifested in the a of this Republic. It was indéed « source of gratification to me, and 1 am sure of pleasure to the peo- ple of this country that all the causes of Sean between the two governments ve been removed, and thet relations hawe been recsteblished,” ee The Eenublic of Liberis, tha on= ly other independent state in Afri- on besides Abvesinia, not European domination has its own program of reform the more: capport ef the United Steces, Ls