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BEE’S $490
CHURCH DRIVE
OPENS JUNDAY
16 Cash Awards To
Be Given Away
Next Sunday will mark the offi
cial starting date for the Chicago
Bee’s second annual Good Samari
tan Campaign, which will give
out $400 in free cash to the
churches of Chicago.
Many churches who participat
ed in the campaign last summer
have already thrown in their hats
by signing up to join the race for
tneir share of the 16 cash prizes
to be passed around during the
next sixteen weeks.
Cash awards are made weekly,
following the first month of con
test, on the basis of the church
turning in the most coupons from
advertised products featured on
the Samaritan page in this news
paper. Rules and regulations will
be published in the same sec
tion.
How It Works
The yellow Beech-Nut wrap
pers from the regular 5c package
ot chewing gum is now valued at
five votes for any church partici
pating. Pepsi-Cola tops deposit
ed will count 5 votes for the
church saving them. Big Jack
Laudry Soap wrappers and Kitch
en Klenzer are valued at 5 votes
each; Automatic Soap Flakes tops
count 15 votes.
Hydrox ice cream carton sides
ere worth 22 votes each, and
Thomas J. Webb Coffee can tops
are given a 32 vote value each.
All items are counted, checked
and totaled. The four churches
having the greatest number of
votes are given the first, second,
third, and fourth prize for the
first month . . . the same process
is gone through each month
throughout the campaign . . . .
every church beginning anew at
the first of each month.
A ballot box is placed in each
church. All churches, regardless
of denomination or size, are free
to participate . . . just be located
in the city limits of Chicago, that
is all we ask.
For further information, call at
Samaritan Headquarters, located
at 3456 South State street, any
day between 9:30 a. m. and 5 p.
m., or phone Calumet 8227.
Children Eager
For Reading Game
To Get Underway
“Interest in this yearns summer
reading club promises to exceed
last year,” stated Mrs. Charlemae
Rollins, children’s librarian at the
Hall Branch library Wednesday
in announcing that Friday is the
date when registrations will be
accepted.
Children of the community are
again invited to join the club,
v/hich this year will have aviation
as its interesting theme. Tiny
airplanes encircling the Americas
will tell each child enrolled the
progress he is making on his
.‘ goodwill flight”. The slogan is
“Be a good neighbor, read the
Americas.”
“Any child who can read may
join,” Mrs. Rollins stated. “The
only requirement is a library card.
There are no meetings, no dues.
And at the end of the summer a
party will be given for all club
members. Membership buttons
will be given to those who have
lead six books,” she added.
The awards will be made in
each school whose students en
roll and participate in the activi
ties of the summer reading club.
The presentations will be made
at the first assembly after school
opens. Beginning July 7 and
continuing throughout the sum
mer story hours for children will
be held in Washington Park on
Tuesday at p. m. On Wednesdays
at 4 there will be story and club
hours at Good Shepherd Com
munity Center, and on Mondays
at twilight story hours in the Mi
chigan Gardens.
Woman Victor
In Rent Hike
Case Thursday
(Continued from page 1.)
groes forced to live in an “iron
ring.” Exhorbitant rents and re
strictive housing covenants have
fostered and aggravated the de
plorable housing conditions under
which they live, he charged.
It was disclosed that the real
estate firm’s attitude toward Mrs.
Davis, exhibited in an ultimatum
to “pay or move” came after she
had reported the building’s unsafe
and unsanitary conditions to the
board of health. Coleman and
company were forced to repair the
worst conditions as a result of
this investigation.
This is the second victory scor
ed by Mrs. Davis in her fight a
gsinst the rent increase. In May
Judge Frank M. Padden dismiss
ed. the eviction suit against her
on a technicality.
ATTEND BUSINESS SEMINAR
DR. HARRY H. PACE
J. B. BLAYTON
A. L. HOLSEY
Nationally known business leaders were in New Orleans last week to attend the commencement
and! business seminars of the YMCA School of Commerce, directed by W. H. Mitchell, Jr., execu
tive secretary cf the YMCA. There were 103 graduates. Dr. Harry H. Pace gave the commence
ment address. J. B. Blayton and A. L. Holsey were among those speaking on seminars.
Reading left to right: Dr. Harry H. Pace, Chicago, president of Supreme Liberty Life Ins. Co.; J.
B. Blayton, C.P.A., Atlanta, professor of accounting at Atlanta university and vice president of
Citizens Trust co., and A. L. Holsey, Tuskegee, secretary, National Negro Business League.
MOBILE X ■ RAY UNIT
LOCATED AT 5107 CALUMET
Miss Emily Lawton
Plans To Retire;
Taught S.S. School
Miss Emily M. Lawton, the Ray
mond school kindergarten teach
er, closed the book of Mother
Goose rhymes she had been read
ing to the group of youngsters sit
ting cross-legged on the floor
around her chair. For 34 years
she had been reading the same
stories in the same room. Only
the children changed.
Now Miss Lawton was leaving.
She was retiring after spending 34
years in the same schoo’room.
Next year there will be a new
group of children—and, for the
first time in so many years, a
new teacher.
The children were too small to
understand much about this. Some
of their parents might. For Miss
Lawton had children in her class
whose pai'ents had also gone to
her kindergarten.
The Raymond school is at 3633
South Wabash avenue. When Miss
Lawton took over the kindergar
ten on the first floor, she could
look out the window across Wa
bash avenue to the same brick
houses—newer and wealthier.
Taught 3,500 Kids
Some of Chicago’s first families
sent their children to kindergarten
in Miss Lawton's room. Gradu
ally the neighbornood changed.
Her pupils are now all Negro chil
dren.
“This old room is still the same
and most of the little tables and
chairs are the same that have
served 3,500 children who have
■begun their schooling under me,”
said Miss Lawton.
“I never wanted to graduate
from kindergarten as a teacher. I
love the little folks and a good be
ginning is as important as any
part of schooling.”
Miss Lawton, who lives at 1354
East Marquette road, comes from
a pioneer Chicago family. Her
mother was a member of the Clea
ver familiy for whom the section
known as “Cleaverviile” near 39th
street and Lake Park avenue was
named.
Principal Ralph R. Williams and
other members of the Raymond
school faculty gave a farewell this
afternoon for the teacher who es
tablished a record of 34 years in
one room. John L. Lewis, 7650
Marquette avenue, retired princi
pal who was in charge of the
school from 1907 to 1934 and was
there when Miss Lawton started,
was a guest.
After the party Miss Lawton
took one last look at the room
where she has carried on her life’s
work. Then she left for Cali
fornia and a rest and vacation.
“Strangely, however,” sue said,
“as much as I am attached to
this room, there is something I’ll
r.iss more—my children.
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The Chicago Bee has more net
paid circulation than any other
local newspaper.
Through the cooperation of the
Chicago Relief Administration,
the mobile X-ray unit of the Mu
nicipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium
will be moved to District No. 5
of the Chicago Relief Adminiistra
tion, at 150 W. 54th street, on
June 30th. This district enlarged
with the closing of District No.
3, will make free X-ray avail
able to many thousands of fami
lies, at no cost to them and with
in easy reach, since the X-ray
unit will be directly housed in
the district office.
This, new location is farther
south and west than any previous
ones and is an indication of the
desire of the Sanitarium to com
ply with the desire of the presi
dent of the board of directors, Dr.
Frederick Tice, to make available
this free service ultimately to the
entire citizenry of Chicago. It
will be open to all citizens. An
entrance of easy access will be
be shown by uniformed nurses to
all who report for service.
The present service at 5107 S.
Calumet avenue, in the Good
Shepherd Community Center will
be maintained, as the new 35
millimeter X-ray machine has
been installed there. All X-rays
are free of charge and reports are
made only to the individuals or
to their private physicians, if they
so desire. The whole-hearted re
sponse of the South Side com
munity during the past year
should spur on those who have
not availed themselves of this op
I portunity as yet.
Students Should
Get Their Social
Security Number
Students seeking jobs during
the vacation period were this week
urged to secure a social security
acocunt number card by J. E.
Stamps, manager of the Social
Security Board field office at 417
E. 47th street. This card should
be shown to the employer im
mediately upon commencing work.
Mt. Stamps also reminded Sum
mer resort owners to prepare their
records this year to show the
name, social security account
number and earnings of each em
ployee so that a complete return
can be made, to the collector of
internal revenue at the colse of
each calendar quarter.
!“he Federal act requires, the
employer to have the name and
account number of each employee
even if an employee works for
one day or less,” Mr. Stamps said.
“An employer who files a com
plete return without any miss
ing names or account numbers
saves himself considerable annoy
ance in trying to locate employees
who have left his employment.”
Mr Stamps said it is the policy
of the Federal Government to
credit the employee with every
cent of earnings from jobs cov
ered by the law. Negligence in
reporting even small amounts may
make an important difference in
the benefits paid to an individual
upon retirement or to his widow
and children in case of his death,
he declared.
Workers expecting to be em
ployed soon and who have no so
cial security account card should
make application to the Social Se»
curity Board, 417 E. 47th street,
or the office nearest their home
W'hich will be found listed in the
telephone directory. Those who
have lost their original social se
curity card may obtain a duplicate
card with the same name and ac
count number at any field office of
the boai’d.
AUTHOR
W. C. HANDY
Has just completed the biogra
phy cf his life in which he trac
es the history of Negro music
ar»l especially describes the ori
gin of the blues. The book is
published by the McMillan com
pany. (ANP Photo.)
Cemetery Probe
On; A Former
Worker Testifies
(Continued from page 1.)
which had been lost from the au
tomobile of Mrs. Inez Mayo, 4714
Champlain.
At the hearing Wednesday
White and Baker denied having'
removed the body and said that
the casket which was buried in
the second grave was that of a
‘‘roundout” which they explained,
w as a body that is buried without
a funeral party. Burns’ affidavit
is expected to blast the case wide
open.
The body w'as disinterred tw?o
days after burial by cemetery of
ficials and in the presence of some
oil the witnesses. They testified
that the casket had been replaced
in the proper grave and that it
showed signs of having been
washed.
Water in Casket
Mrs. Mayo said that the casket
was so full of water the body was
floating, interpreting this as due
to the attempt to wash the mud
from the casket and to remove
signs that it had been interred in
the grave without having been
protected by the box.
Dr. Charles Lowinger, who is
in charge of burial permits in the
health department, told Attys. A.
M. Burroughs and U. S. Keys,
Murphy's lawyers, that he will
use his influence to effect a full
and thorough investigation into
the matter. He was present Wed
nesday at the hearing in the
state’s attorney’s office and ques
tioned some of the witnesses.
an ice cream party in their hon
or.
For further information call
Calumet 8227 and the representa
tive will make an appointment to
visit your school during the Sun
day school hour any Sunday to
explain in detail this plan.
Beech Nut Club
To Help Good
Samaritan Drive
The organizers of the Good Sa
maritan campaign have organized
a BeechNut club among thej
Sunday schools of the churches
participating in the campaign.
This, plan will give the Sunday
schools a chance to help their
church share in the $400 cash a
ward.
The sponsors are giving to the
Sunday schools showing the most
interest by turning in the most
>ellow wrappers from a package
of Beech-Nut gum each month,
an opportunity to receive part of
the $20 prize.
The Beech-Nut club will begin
immediately and the winners will
be picked each month. There will
be no 2nd . or 3rd prizes.
In addition to the cash award,
the Sunday school proving most
active each month will be given
rpjppip
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CITY COUNCIL PUTS TEETH IN
LONG FOUGHT TRACTION BILL
The Chicago City council last
Thursday adopted an amendment
to a traction ordinance which not
only prohibits discrimination in
the selection of employes but
gives the additional protection of
redress in the case of any denial
of employment because of race.
This amendment, for which Aid.
Earl B. Dickerson, assisted by
Aid. Benjamin A. Grant, has
sought for a number of months
to have adopted represents a defi
nite gain in Negro employment
rights.
The clause written by Alderman
Dickerson is specifically designed
to protect the prosepective Negro
employe of private traction lines
whose contracts are being renew
ed by the city council.
Permission to operate will be
given the transportation company
upon condition that the company
“agrees that there shall be no dis
crimination exercised against any
person because of color, race,
creed, or religious affiliation.”
The amendment further pro
vides that a reviewing commit
tee be maintained by the company
to hear complaints from persons
denied employment. “If upon
such hearing the reviewing com
mittee on employment policy
shall find that the denial of em
ployment to the applicant was
made on account of race, creed,
color or religious affiliation, it
shall enter an appropriate order
disciplining the officer or officers,
employe or employes responsible
for so denying said applicant em
ployment,” the bill reads.
FDR OPPOSES D.C. JOB MARCH
BRANDS IT ‘UNINTELLIGENT’
WASHINGTON. — At a White
House conference which saw the
appointment of a committee to
investigate and eliminate discrim
ination in the national defense
program, President Roosevelt was
emphatic in his disapproval of the
Negro March - on - Washington,
scheduled for July 1.
At the beginning of the confer
ence President Rooseveit opened up
the discussion by expressing his
firm positive and definite opposi
tion to the march for jobs. He
stated in bis characteristic, em
phatic manner, that it is bad and
unintelligent.
He continued that problems of
discrimination from which Negroes
suffer have to be dealt with by
methoc’s that are well thought out
and planned, stating that a march
on Washington would give the im
pression to the American people
that Negroes are seeking to ex
ercise force to compel the govern
ment to do certain things. This at
titude. he stated, will do more
harm than good.
Randolph explained the cause
and nature of the proposed job
march, and pointed to a wave of
resentment, bitterness, disillusion
ment and desperation sweeping
the Negroes throughout the coun
try because of discriminations in
national defense and federal de
partments of the government.
He insisted that the Negroes are
demanding action that will provide
jobs for them in all national de
fense industries, adding that the
march on Washington movement
was not planned, developed and
fostered by irresponsible, wild
eyed crackpots, but that it is
sponsored and carried on by a
national committee composed of
sane, sober and responsible Ne
gro citizens.
Reiterating his stand as opposing
the march, President Roosevelt
definitely stated that he wanted to
see discriminations against Ne
groes in national defense eliminat
ed, and that he would put the
force and weight of the office of
President behind efforts to se
cure jobs for qualified Negroes in
the national defense program.
Mitchell Spikes
Retirement Rumor
To Remain Active
(Continued from page 1.)
fair and just to all Americans, re
gfVdless of race or color.”
Congressman Mitchell, who fi
nanced his suit without outside
aid, argued the case before the
United States Supreme court a
long with Atty. Westbrooks.
Atty. Westbrooks, in a brief
address, said modestly that the
case of Mitchell vs. the United
States was simply another case
v/ith him. He pointed out that his
was an age of preparation and
the “man who prepares succeeds.”
Firecracker Sale
Gets Storekeeper
In Bad With Law
Levi Bryant, 3106 Indiana ave
nue, was arrested last Thursday
when police were informed he had
sold firecrackers to a minor. Bry
ant was taken into custody on
complaint of Mrs. Robert Jones,
mother of Robert Jones to whom
Bryant allegedly sold the explo
sives.
The complaint was signed after
John Gales, 3102 Cottage Grove
avenue and Dennis Creighton,
3019 Vernon avenue, had been in
jured while playing with Robert in
front of his home. The boy took
police to the notions store operated
by Bryant where they recovered
a small quantity of firecrackers.
Selassie Orders
Son-In-Law Jailed
In Enemy Purge
CAIRO, Egypt, June 26—The
arrest of Ras Gugsa, Ras Seyoum
and Ras Hailu, tribal leaders who
sold out to their Italian conquer
ors was ordered, it was disclosed
this week, by Emperor Haile Se
lassie of Ethiopia in a sweeping
move to rid his kingdom of those
who betrayed the cause of the na
tion during the Italo-Ethiopian
war in 1935.
Gugsa married the emperor’s
daughter, Zenab Wark. Ras Se
youm is a stout old hereditary
ruler of Tigre province and fa
ther-in-law of Ethiopia’s crown
prince. Ras Hailu, who had been
m exile in 1932 for plotting against
the throne, was reconciled with
Selassie in 1935 when he joined
in the last defense of Addis A
baba against the Italians.
Following the kingdom’s con
quering, however, and Selassie’s
subsequent flight to England, he
stayed and made peace with the
Fascists. Gugsa’s father led an
ill-fated revolt against Selassie
in 1930, and his family relation
ships with Ethiopia’s ruling clan
has been adverse for more than
half a century.
GETS DEGREE
I » u 11 L
Approximately 4,000 Negro
workers available in Cleveland
should be given employment in
keeping with their skills or tal
ents, according to a statement by
C F. Palmer, Defense Housing
Coordinator, made June 19 before
a joint meeting of the Metropoli
tan Housing Authority and the
Cleveland Chamber of Commerce.
“Importation of labor for defense
industries, with consequent exag
geration of the need for defense
housing could be considerably les
sened if employers would relax
their specifications to permit a
greater use of the Negro labor
market,” the coordinator said.
According to surveys available
to the Division of Defense Hous
ing Coordination, defense manu
facturing alone in Cleveland will
require 14,350 skilled and 11,283
semi-skilled workers during the
next 12 months. The locality will
rot be able to supply that volume
of labor, and importation will be
necessary. However, utilization
of Negro workers present I v a
vailable could reduce the total,
number to be imported to a con
siderable extent.
emerged from the theatre around
9:30 by a bo ywho asked him for
some money. “I told him I did
not have any,” young White told.
police. “Before I knew what was
up he had stabbed me and run.”
WELTON IVAN TAYLOR
Recent University of Illinois
graduate who received his B.A.
in bacteriology is one of the two
Negroes who ever completed the
advanced course offered by the
university ROTC, in which lie is
a first lieutenant in the Cadet
Corps. He received a commis
sion as secord lieutenant. Field
Artillery Reserve, and has-been
assigned to extended duty at
Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
News? Well
Man Bites Man
It’s generally considered news
when dog bites man. Classify the
following item.
On Monday at 9:15 p.m., Dave
Peal, 333 E. Garfield boulevard,
and Luther Hylton, who gave his
occupation as a minister, engage:
in a heated altercation in front of
a gas station at 39th an 1 Michi
gan avenue.
Words were followed by blows
and blows? Both men s:t to it
using weapons so effective that
both bear scars of battle this week.
Hylton’s right ear is minus its
tip. Peal’s chest shows v vii teet'
marks. The cause of the quarrel?
A lowly spark plug.
YOUTH INJURED
Sixteen-year-old Arthur White
3354 Wabash avenue is in a seri
ous condition this week in county
hospital, suffering from knife
wounds of the chest inflicted by
an unknown youth in front of the
Grand theatre, 31st and State
street last Friday night. Young
White could not identify his as
sailant.
He said he was accosted as he
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The following funerals were licid from the Metropolitan Funeral
Parlors, 4445 South Parkway, between June 18 and June 24: .. . ... .
Florence 5, K^dzfe^ve^ June^O^1'^ °f De,ivcrance on
1®U f rom “injuries' ’ s us tai nZd "fn "fui *£“ ' _ The Metropolitan quintet
eral>1 services6were h^fl-T’ ^"Zo Fun* MRS. GERTRUDE WHEELER, born in renders music for all
Day Adventist church on "june 23Venth S®’La^i' rnoth°r °V ^sTalie fi,ol.e- services.
Langley avenue, died Jupie 11 in
MRS RORiRiir uADDio _ #, t the ^°ok county hospital. Funeral ser- GUS SCOTT u, .. r
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17 in the Peeples nospital. Body shipped 33r£ str.?T died June 20 in Cook co in
to Kansas City, Mo., for funeral serv- Vv J10jipit*»1- Funeral services were (un
ices and burial._ MRS. BABE PRTAH REED, born in d d m °Ul' chai>el 011 June 24
MRS F.SUTF i* Mec u • Freetown, South Africa, sister of J. P. ---—
ville Mias wife of RrjJ^tT ,n Henderson. Widener. Ark., died June MRS. MARY CROSS horn -1 Mil-,.
June 17 at her home 3^20 PrS a? Furtral’61’ h°me' 1227 8t^et* .T«nn- Jnotl}er of Oscar’Cross, died' June
aue. Funeral services were conducted Ljt "rvicea wen h«ld fr?m lc.r' i? at ^ 4 431 L.-uurley avenue.
ere condUcted centenary A. M. E. church on June 26. Funeral arrangement* incomplete.