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T. Arnold Hill Is
Guest Speaker
T. Arnold Hill, director of
industrial relations of the Nation
al Urban League, New York City,
was the principal speaker be
fore members of the Chicago Ur
ban League at their opening cam
paign d'nner of the year Wednes
day in the main dining room of
the Chicago Women’s Club, 72
West 11th street.
The dinner constituted the
opening of a campaign to raise
$15,000 with which to continue
the league’s program to promote
inter-racial goodwill through so
cial service begun twenty-two
years ago in Chicago, according
to A. L. Foster, executive secre
tary of the Chicago league.
“In November, 1915, when the
movement of the Negroes from
the South was at its height, a
small group of white and Negro
citizens met and considered plans
for solving the serious problems
of growing Negro population,’’
Mr. Foster said.
“A year later, the Chicago
League on Urban Conditions A
mong Negroes (now the Chicago
Urban League) was organized,”
he added.
The league’s work has been to
better understanding between the
races in Chicago and to contri
bute toward better living, eco
nomic, schooling, and social con
ditions among Chicago Negroes.
During the past two years, these
developments have occurred in
organization’s program:
K. The creation of a Youth De
poitfirnt to develop a complete
youth program.
2 The development and super
ior! of a National Youth Ad
e in is! rat ion project (NYA-153B)
with the following programs:
(a) Health program under the
direction of Dr. Ruth Howard and
devoted t< health education a
mong Negro youth.
(b) A vocational guidance ser
vice designed to train Negro
youth in the technique of secur
ing jobs.
(c) Better Conduct Program
directed by Joseph Jefferson, for
mer Boy’s Work secretary of the
Wabash YMCA, which through
the public schools and commu
ni1y organizations will attempt
to improve the personal conduct
of boys and girls on the streets,
on common carriers, in theaters
and in other public places.
Officers of the Chicago Urban
League are M. O. Bousfleld, presi
dent; Miss Amelia Sears and Earl
B. Dickerson, vice presidents
Miss Roberla Burgess, secretary
Betram J. Cahn, treasurer, anc
Harry II. Pace, assistant treas
urer.
1st Federal Art
Center for Negro
Opens in South
MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 28—
(ANP)—The first Negro Federal
Art Center in the South was
opened on LeMoyne college cam
pus last week. It is known as
the LeMoyne college Federal Art
Center, and represents a unique
contribution to the cultural life
of the South. It is, according to
LeMoyne college officials, the only
■ art center of the more than half
a hundred Federal Art Projects
to be established in the South,
which is for Negroes, the first on
a Negro college campus, and the
first to be supported mainly by
{ Negroes.
This new project is sponsored
by three agencies—WPA through
| the Federal Art Project, which
supplies the bi-racial staff for the
centre; LeMoyne college, which
has donated the building, light,
heat and other facilities; and the
Negro community of Memphis
through the LeMoyne Art Asso
ciation, which supplies the mon
ey for running expenses of the
institution. The gallery opened
with the Harmon Foundation ex
hibition of paintings by contem
porary Negro artists as its fiist
show, and has been visited by
people of both races. The cur
rent exhibition is a collection ot
contemporary American Art as
developed by the Federal Art
Project. Th;s exhibition was re
cently on view at the Pai is Ex
position.
HICKERSON FREED
OF MURDER,
BURGLARY CHARGES
Murder charges against Mack
Hickerson, 38-y e a r-old cripple
were dismissed Wednesday morn
ing in Judge Jerome Dunne’s
^ ~ courtroom. He was also founc
not guilty of attempted burglary
Hickerson “confessed” to tht
murder of Anna Kuchta, 19
year-old white nurse after he
had allegedly been beaten anc
tortured by police. The murdei
is still unsolved.
The attempted burglary charg
es were preferred against him bs
Jones L. Epple, white, city fire'
man. Hickerson was defended b^
Attys. Ulysses Keys, Joseph E
Clayton and Chas. W. Burton o
the National Negro Congress
Max Neinan, Maurice O. Heu
bsch and Steinberg of the Inter
national Labor Defense.
WHAT’S THE NEWS?.
To Sail —Ruth Ellington, New [
York City, sister of Duke Elling
ton, and a Columbia university
senior, for Paris, to study for
four months at the Sorbonne.
Bequeathed — Tuskegee Insti
tute, $10,000 by Mrs. Regula W.
Alberta, white widow in San
Anselmo, Calif., in a will that
cut off all her relatives by name.
Found — The bodies of four
people who drowned in a water
filled ditch in Philadelphia. They
had been missing since New
Year’s morning.
Disappeared — Ralph Mat
thews, feature writer for the Af
ro-American, from his office in
Washington, D. C., and cannot
be traced.
Convicted — James Ivey, truck
driver in Sarasota, of the mur
der of Henry Dorsey, in a re
hearing of the case brought about
because one of the jurors was
asleep during the original trial.
Died — Dr. T. Spotuas Bur
well, 62 of Philadelphia, a phy
sician there for 30 years.
Forbidden — Women teachers,
in Bridgeton, N. J., to marry se
cretly, by the board of education.
Died — Former circuit solici- •
tor Wade Wright, assistant pros
ecutor of the Scottsboro cases in
Decatur, Ala.
Married — Miss Connie Pate,
teacher in Burlington, N. J., to
Joseph R. Whiting, graduate of
Howard and employed by the
government in Washington, D. C.
Engaged — Miss Jeannette Al
len of Brunswick, N. J., Rutgers
university student, to George
Reeves, Jr., of Princeton, N. J.
Arrested — Three East Cam
den, N. J., church workers, and
charged with disorderly conduct,
because they refused to sit in
the jim-crow seats designated to
them by the manager of a small
theatre in Camden.
Killed — Albert Lane, 15, of
Chattanooga, Tenn., by injuries
received when he was hit by a
rock thrown by Clarence Congo,
12.
Announced — The marriage
of Georgia Cowen, child special
ist at Spelman college in Atlanta,
Ga., to Oliver Poole of Florence,
Ala.
Died — Harry A. Morgan, 93,
a civil war veteran; in Atlanta
City, N. J.
Announced — The marriage of
Yvette Maxine Davidson, teacher
in Sand Springs, Okla., to James
Murphy, Alpha Phi Alpha fra
ternity man and journalist, Bal
timore, Md.
Eloped — Miss Millicent Hoo
per of Harrisburg, Pa., to Hag
erstown, Md., where she married
Dr. Harrison E. Crampton of
Altoona, Pa., March 28. Plans
had been set for their marriage
on April 18.
Engaged — Miss Helen L.
Hearnes, of York, Pa., associate
director of the Crispus Attucks
Community Center, to Daniel J.
Winge, Yale man, and assistant
manager of the Douglass-Hai’ri
son apartments in Newark, N. J.
Married — Wilhelmina Mc
Clain, teacher in Baltimore and
member of Delta Sigma Theta
sorority, to Eugene C. King,
principal in Portsmouth, Ohio.
Died — George Gilbert of Flo
rida, father of Mercedes Gilbert,
dramatic and character actress
who starred in “Mulatto.”
Died — Edwin Slaughter ol
London, England, who laughed sc
hard at the Peters sisters in “Ali
Baba Goes to Town,” that he
died of heart failure.
To Observe — The 111th an
niversary of Bethel A. M. E.
church in Pittsburgh, Pa. Ac
cording to records, the church
was really established in 1817.
Born — A baby boy, to Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas Lewis. Mrs.
Lewis is 38 and a cripple, Mr.
Lewis is 80 and this is his fourth
mari'iage. This is their 8th child.
Married — Bea Scott of De
troit, honor graduate from Clea
ry college and youngest presid
ing officer over the Oldest East
ern Star Chapter in Michigan, to
Charles Henry Campbell, postal
employee.
Announced — The marriage of
Lillian Johnson of McAlester,
Okla., to Luther Wilburn Elliott.
Both are graduates of Langston
university and both are instruc
tors.
Wed — Miss Helen F. Bucley,
teacher in Cincinnati, to Attor
ney George S. Barnes, of Chica
go.
Married — Miss Catherine
Wyatt, school teacher in Balti
more, to Vernon Greene, Howard
university law student.
Died — Leonard Kyles, of Pa
terson, N. J., who was recently
.acquitted of a manslaughter
charge. He is the brother of
Bishop L. W. Kyles of the A. M.
E. church.
Appointed — Magaret Louise
Garrett, student at the Univer
sity of Kansas, by the YWCA,
to be its representative in the
Women’s Self-Governing Associ
ation.
Freed —Charles Guerand, for
mer New Orleans white police
man, who was convicted for the
murder of Hattie McCray, 14
year-old Negro waitress, after
serving a year.
Married — Sufi Abdul Hamid,
: to Madame Fu Futtam, spirit
ualist and publisher of a dream
book. Sufi’s “trial wife,” Ma
dame St. Clair, is in jail for tak
ing a shot at Sufi.
Died — Mrs. Malinda Norton
Easley, 94, well-known lodge
woman in Omaha, Nebr.
Married—Miss E. Caruthers of
Kansas City, Kans., graduate of
Kansas State teachers’ college, to
Alrice A. Berry, manager of
Smith’s business college.
Died — Harry C. Peri’y, re
tired postal clerk in New York,
having servevd for 30 years.
Died — Thomas Ira Galbreath,
86, former postmaster at Provi
dence, La. He was deputy Unit
ed States Marshall in New Or
leans, for 43 years.
Killed — Lewis Shirley of
Cleveland, Ohio, by his wife,
Izola, because he came home
drunk. She was permitted to go
to his funeral and became so
hysterical it took six to hold her.
Announced — The marriage
of Pierre D. Landry, local school
teacher in New Orleans, La., to
Lady Duff Doyle of Chicago. The
couple have been married since
August 16, 1937.
Married — Miss Helen Brown
of St. Louis, Mo., to Harry G.
Phillips, principal of Lincoln
school in Vandalia, Mo.
Died — Henry Clemons, Jr.,
18 months old baby, from eating
frankfurters believed to be taint
ed.
Refused — The editor of the
Alliance Review, Alliance, Ohio
to apologize for calling a Negr^
in a story, a “Dixie Darkey.”
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thers, famous singing quartette
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Plan — Paul Robeson and his
family, to return to New York
for good, because Robeson fears
a major European war which
will involve Russia.
Won — Walter Simmonds of
New York, the amateur camera
contest sponsored by the Saks
department store, with his pic
ture of a woman sleeping over
her wash tub and her baby
sleeping in his high chair.
Burned — Teddy Roosevelt
Cobb, 19, of St. Louis, Mo., when
he poured gasoline on his hand
kerchief and it ignited. He is
employed in a carnival as a fire
eater.
Rewarded — Lizzie Kent of
Knoxville, Tenn., for her 43
years of service to Miss Kate
White, white clubwoman, who
left her faithful maid the major
part of her estate. Among the
things Miss Kent received were
three houses, $7,000 in cash and
$5,000 in bonds.
Died — Louis W. Ford, 68, in
Nashville, Tenn, shoe-maker
there for 35 years.
To Desert — Carl (Hamtree)
Harrington, internationally fa
mous comedian who played in
the Chicago production of “You
Cant’ Take It With You,” ■ the
stage for the art of photography.
Showered — Dorothy Ander
son, nurse at Harlem hospital,
who is to marry Ralph Alexan
der, postal employee in New
York.
Died — Joe “King” Oliver, one
of the greatest pioneers of the
trumpet; in Savannah, Ga.
Lost — Mary Nolan, former
motion picture actress, a $25,000
suit against a newspaper in New
York, for reporting that she mar
ried a Negro physician.
Died — William H. Robinson,
pioneer of Negro journalism in
Detroit, Mich., who was honored
early this year by the Fortune
Press club.
Found — A cache of jewelry
valued at $100,000 to $150,000 in
a colored cemetery in Miami. It
is believed to be stolen property.
Man Slays Three
Whites When His
Wife Loses Job
CLEVELAND, April 28—Be
lieved to have gone insane be
cause his wife was fired last
week from a job as elevator op
erator she had held 14 years,
William Peters, 43, shot and kill
ed two white men and a woman
i Friday.
Hans Getslaff, 33, custodian of
the building where Mrs. Peters
had worked, and Mitchell Paser,
the engineer, were the men slain.
The woman was Evelyn Bvnes,
24. The whites were killed in
a fashionable aparlment with a
revolver after the woman was
thrown from the slayer’s car near
the apartment building 15 min
utes earlier.
Police captured Peters after an
80 mile an hour auto chase which
ended in a gasoline filling station
lot. When 1he slayer was cap
tured, he told police, “I hope
they’re all dead.”
FIND BODIES OF SEVEN
SMITHVILLE, Tex., April 28
—(ANP)—Bodies of seven Ne
groes, trapped in their car whei:
a bridge across flooded Pinej
creek collapsed, were recoverec
Wednesday. Searchers are seek
ing the eighth victim of the mas:
drowning, all of them member:
of the family of Lee Lemuel, ;
farmer.
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PERRY HOWARD
SEES RETURN
OF G.O.P. PARTY
Believes Old Deal
Was Best
By KELLY MILLER
In an interview with Peri’y W.
Howard on the political situation
from the standpoint of the Re
publican, Kelly Miller asked the
following:
“Mr. Howard, you are looked
upon as an arch Negro Republi
can in the United Sta'es, there
fore. your seasoned views and
opinions will carry great weight
not only with Negro readers, but
throughout nation-wide circles.
1. Q.—What do you consider
the chances of the Republican
Party for a comeback in the ap
proaching elections of 1938 and
1940?
A.—I think that there is no
doubt whatsoever that we double
our vote in the House, increase
our number in the Senate by fif
teen in 1938, and there is no
doubt in the world of our elect
ing a Republican President in
1940.
2. Q.—What particular benefit
would accrue to the Negro from
the success of the Grand Old Par
ty?
A.—It would blaze a new trail
of manhood rights as the party
has always done and not like the
Democrats, predicate what they
do upon the Negroes’ stomachs.
3. Q-—Is there any indication
that the new Republican Leader
ship would revert to the doctrine
of polit cal and civil equality set
forth in the Fourteenth and Fif
teenth Amendments?
A.—Yes, as evidenced by the
most active efforts of Republicans
to get more Negroes into Con
gress at this time.
4. Q.—Would the Republican
Party be more generous to Ne
groes in governmental service
than its Democratic rival?
A.—Most assuredly, as evi
denced by the past. Compared
with the number of white em
ployees, there are less Negroes in
the employment of the Govern
ment now than there has ever
been in the history of our Gov
ernment.
5. Q.—Do you consider that the
Old Deal under Harding, Coolidge
and Hoover held out greater pro
mise to the Negro than the New
Deal of Franklin D. Roosevelt?
A —Most assuredly.
6. Q.—What industrial or eco
nomic program has the Republi
can Party under the new leader
ship which promises better things
for the nation and therefore for
the Negro?
A.—By stabilizing industry and
commerce, unfreeze assets so that
an individual would earn an hon
est living as compared with the
pump-priming and spending our- i
selves back to prosperity.
7. Q.—Are the Republicans' of j
the North and West any more fa- j
vorably disposed to the political
and civil rights of the Negro than
the Democrats of that section?
A.—Yes, of course.
8. Q.—Are Lily White Repub
licans of the South any more fa
vorably disposed to the political
and civil rights of the Negro than
the Democrats of that section?
A.—Yes. Any kind of Repub
lican will at least consent to the
Negro voting anywhere.
9. Q.—How do you account for
the wholesale shift of qualified
Negro voters in the North and
West from Republican to the
Democratic fold in the last two
Presidential elections and how do
you propose to stem the drift of
the tide in 1940?
A.—They went away because
they did not believe that Mr.
Hoover wanted them, but they
have been kept away by the flesh
; pots of the relief scandal. They
; will return because a new lead
i ership of the Republican Party
stands for the full and equal
Chattanoogans
Fight Mortuary
Among Homes
By KATIE E. JOHNSON for ANP
CHATTANOOGA, Term., April
28—A group of home owners and
other residents of West Ninth
street last week filed a petition
in Chancery court to enjoin fu
neral director Ot s F. Cox from
operating his undertaking busi
ness in the exclusive residence
district. The petition asked for
a perpetual injunction against
Cox and requested that the case
be heard on oral testimony.
The petitioners assert that un
der the zoning ordinance passed
in 1926, construction of business
houses in the district is prohib
ited. They also declare Cox was
refused a license by the license
inspector and his action was sus
tained by the c:ty commission,
but that “in defiance of that or
der” Cox has been conducting his
undertaking business there for
several months.
Residents of the district say op
eration of the funeral home is
destroying the value of adjacent
property for resident:al purposes.
1 The petition was filed by the law
firm of Cantrell, Meachem and
Moon. Cox, according to reports,
was recently discharged from the
Buchanan home on a theft charge.
Makes Speech on
Easter at YMCA
DALLAS, Tex. April 28—(AN
P)—Prof. C. H. Bynum. II, pro
fessor of English at Booker T.
Washington high school, spoke to
more than 50 men of the YMCA
last Sunday on the occasion of
the annual Easter breakfast of
the guests in the Y Residence
Halls. In a brilliant and schol
arly address, the speaker declar
ed his belief in the reality of
Easter, and urged the young men
to develop the proper attitude
toward the real and worthwhile
things of life. He commended
worship as a helpful and neces
sary attitude for the development
of personality and stressed appre
ciation for the beautiful in na
ture and in life.
rights of all American citizens
and not a few meal tickets as are
being thrown out under this ad
m nistration.
10. Q.—Do you think the atti
tude of the Republican Party to
ward Cloture of the Wagner-Van
Nuys Bill is calculated to induce
former Negro Republicans to re
turn to the fold of their political
first love?
A—Yes. Those who under
stand it was a move to prevent
the establishment of general rule
of shutting off debate by the mi
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Kansas City, Mo.
Jno. Alexander,
I Father of Mrs. M
Martin, Buried
Funeral services were held
‘ Sunday afternoon at 4 o’clock
j from the Banks Funeral Chapel
for John Alexander, 6558 Rhodes
avenue, pioneer Chicagoan who
died Thursday mght after an ill
ness of several months. Mr.
Alexander was 70 years old.
Interment was Monday in Lin
coln cemetery. Mr. Alexander
was the father of Mrs. Mattie
Martin, prominent Chicago busi
ness woman.
He is survived by five sons, Ri
chard, Baltimore, Md.; Charles,
John Henry, Joseph and Herman
Alexander, all of Chicago; and six
daughters, Mesdames Mattie Mar
tin, Allie Mae Murray, New York
Ci‘y; Clara Clay, Emma Young,
Chicago; Misses Gertha and Oli
via Alexander,' also of Chicago.
Mr. Martin had been ill in a
local hospital s'nce November.
He died Thursday night shortly
after 12 o’clock.
Fugitive Blacks
Face, Red Hair
Gives Him Away
WASHINGTON, April 28—(A
NP)—If it weren’t for his hair,
Jesse Jacob Castor, 26, might still
be a fugitive from a Florida chain
gang.
Castor blacked his face to re
semble a Negro in his efforts to
escape apprehension. But a po
liceman in nearby Maryland saw
this combination of red hair and
black face and arrested Castor
for investigation. That’s how
they found he was an escaped
convict.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 28.
— (Special).—Three outstanding
Sunday school and church work
ing citizens of the twin cities
have just been named to head
departments in the coming Sun
day School Congress to be held
here June 8-12 in the municipal
auditorium. The appointment
was made and the announcement
released here last week by Hen
ry Allen Boyd, who had only
recently visited the city.
Mrs. D. M. Miller, who has
served as organist at St. Steph
en’s Baptist church for many
years, was appointed as musi
cian to the mammoth congress
that will be rehearsing here for
a month preceding the congress
session. Mrs. Miller is the wife
of Dr. D. M. Miller. She is a na
tive Tennesseean, and was mar
ried to Dr. Miller, who himself
is a graduate of Meharry Medi
cal college, after he finished
school.
The next is the appointment
of Mrs. Lula Mae Butler Hurse
in the music department. Mrs.
Hurse is a native Texan, but has
made Kansas City her home for
the past few years. She is na
tionally known as a gospel sin
ger, and will direct, teach and
instruct in gospel music during
the congress session.
The third appointment was
that of Mrs. Clara James as a
conductor of the Intermediate
Teachers and Class Department
during the five days’ session of
this thirty-fourth Summer School
of Methods.
While all of these are menv
bers of St. Stephen’s Baptist
church’s congregation, the Kan
sas City people feel that it is
quite an honor, in that they are
three outstanding, well- known
artisans in their particular pro
fession.
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