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THE GUARDI AIM
VOL. 38, NO. 19
LIFT SCHOOL BAN FROM MARIAN
teele Heads New Settlement House
t. Col. Dugger Dies - New Bedford Woman Reaches 92
BURY LT. COL. DUGGER
W MEDFORD, March 9—Final tri
biifes of respect and honor were paid
thi< afternoon to the inspiring life of
unselfish service lived by the late Lieu
’ eunt Colonel Edward Dugger as his
aui tal remains reposed in the little
dnirban Shiloh Baptist Church of
this city.
n spite of the very inclement wintry
v it): r for even Mother Nature seem
। , sorrow in sombre raiment as the
remained hidden behind the clouds
nowflakes fell in silent tribute the
( ■), crowded to capacity over-
f ■ring into the vestry below, and out
into the streets.
' militaries of state and city, high
< of the army, fellow-workers of
f I nited States Postoffiee, friends
neighbors, men, women and chil
li all came to show their apprecia
■ and esteem for this gentleman of
•• i’ -t water, soldier and officer of
an pa ioned calibre, a good husband
and father.
. .1. Frederick Bailey, pastor of
S’ )i Baptist Church, preached the
iin sermon —a literary bouquet, as
' i pastor touched upon the deceased’s
। I '-tant ambition to do everything
I । sible for his people; Rev. Charles
W inthrop. pastor of Gloucester Pres
lni'‘iian Church and former Chaplain
of th World War Veterans, read the
obic.nrv and also paid his tribute; Rev.
I L Thompson, former pastor of
'l.। Ave. Baptist Church, eloquently
extolled the valors of his departed
iriemi; Rev. William H. Smith, former
pastor of New Hope Baptist*"Church,
W oburn, rendered fervent prayer.
f oeal solos were rendered by Miss
Alberta Carrington of Union Baptist
(Imrch, Malden; Mrs. Georgie Bailev,
Shiloh Baptist Church; and John
I’owell of Ebenezer Baptist Church,
Boston.
Ihe long cortege escorted by mem-
25,000 RAISED
for LIVINGSTONE
,p ’ N- C„ Mar. 6—ln an
■Hurt to secure funds to create a big
j and better Livingstone College,
bMops, headed by the Rt. Rev. L. W.
£~ sidins Elders, General
' lurch Officers and numerous lay
IWle from all parts of the country
met in the college auditorium here
last Friday for the annual celebration
ol rounders Day, when tribute was
paid to the memory of the institution’s
"under, the late Joseph Charles Price,
ii ' P ro S r am of musical selections by
the choral union, college octette and
quartette was received with much ap
plause. President William J. Trent,
lead of the college for many years,
was praised for his efficient adminis
tration.
Reports from the vorious connec
tions were made, after which President
Irent gratefully acknowledged the
’•oceipt in cash, of $25,000. This sum,
he distinguished educator said, “rep
resents a determination on the part
° ra y ua t es of Livingstone College
and other persons interested in higher
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AF. AMERICAN
LIFE WORTH
$1,078,240.55
Mar. 6-
p nm _ ‘ lo ‘American Life Insurance
.] i? an \’ L. Lewis, chairman of
lent ? rd ; James H - Lewis, Presi
‘ » l ? ta aSSetS With actual Cash
market value of $1,078,240.55, as of
Dumber 31, last, according to a
u nt J " Bt ma(ie P ubl >c- The com-
S^, h !^ ,nsurance outstanding of
an . d dUr ' nK the last six
months of 38, income was $619,949.08.
moa®™*’ 8 CaSh ° n haild is
DePriest Garage
255 NORTHAMPTON ST.
o'l - Gas - Repairing - Storage
Now Maintaining the
Ford Service
TA KBN “«« «»« H. Thomp.o., Prop .
bers of the 3rd Btn. 372nd Inf. MNG
which Lt.-Colonel Dugger had com
manded as major, wound its way
through the streets of West Medford
to Oak Grove Cemetery to the Veterans
section of this beautiful graveyard.
Here over the flag-draped casket were
held the final rites conducted by the old
comrades of the deceased members of
the Isaac Wilson Taylor Post, Veterans
of Foreign Wars with the final holy
rites administered by Rev. Thompson.
1 hen from the obscure depths beyond
the curtain of falling snow were wafted
the sweet, poignant, sorrowful notes
ot ‘taps’ from the four bugles which
came from the four points of the com
pass. At sharp command, the soldiers
snapped into firing position, the click
of the magazine chambers, a sharp
sudden roll of rifle fire from the squad
of soldiers for the final salutes from
his “men”.
It is impossible to name all of the
celebrities who came to pay honor to
Lieutenant Colonel Dugger. Among
them were seen Warren Fowler who
represented the Alayor, John C. Can-,
who had left a week ago on a vacation;
C ity Messenger Philip Hogan who bore
the eagle as a symbol of the City of
Medford officialdom; Representative
Walter Lawrence, Ex-Mayors Larkin,
Irwin (who appointed Dugger on the
Planning Board), Gilbert Robinson,
Chairman of the Planning Board,
Chiefs of the Fire and Police Depart
ments, Lt.-Colonel Hewitt, a conting
ent from the Medford Boy Scouts, a
representation from Tufts College,
Mrs. Bussell of the School Committee,
also from St. Marks’ Brotherhood and
the Alens’ Community Club of AVest
Medford of which Lt.-Colonel Dugger
was founder and first president. Rev.
Laviseount sent his regrets that owing
to sickness he was unable to attend.
The floral tributes were of great abund
ance and beauty.—R.J.B.
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JOSEPH H. NELSON
Who delivered a splendid address on
James Weldon Johnson at the Me
morial services by the S. Coleridge-
Taylor Music Association.
Rev. Fuller Dines
Dr. Alfred Lane
CHELSEA—Dr. Alfred C. Lane,
former professor of Geology at Tufts
College, was the dinner guest last Sun
day afternoon of Rev. Fuller and the
Trustee Board of People’s Church at
the parsonage, 60 Hawthorn Street.
Rev. Fuller has receiver a letter from
Dr. Lane saying: “I have you to thank
for meeting such an interesting group
of people last Sunday. I should ap
preciate it if you would send me their
exact names.”
Among those present at the dinner
were George A. Paine, General Secre
tary of the Chelsea Y.M.C.A., and
Mrs. Paine, Messrs. Jack L. Rosen
field, School Committeeman of Chelsea
Samuel Paulive, prominent real estate
man and former pres, of the Chelsea
Chamber of Commerce, Dr. M. Crav
ath Simpson of Boston, Miss lola Mur
ray, Conference Superintendent of
Young People’s Work of the A.M.E
Church of New England Ralph Wood
ley, Rev. Harvey H. Stanford, and
Mesdames ‘Levina Milliken, chairman
of the Trustee Board and Marguerite
Tate, stewardess, of People’s Church.
The very delicious meal was cooked
and served by Mrs. Tate and Mrs.
Milliken.
At 7 in the evening Dr. Lane was
greeted at People’s Church by a fine
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GUARDIAN, BOSTON, MASS., MARCH 11, 1939
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ln c^ ar 9® of the Armstrong-Hemingway Foundation on W. Rutland Sq.,
which will be ready for community service in April—The new House will
offer Mr. Steele the greatest opportunity in his career and will start an
inter-racial project.
Story on Page 4
M. ANDERSON
TO SING AT
WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON, March 10, (CNA)
—Sources close to the White House
this week disclosed that Marian An
derson is being considered among the
talent that will be invited to the Ex
ecutive Mansion to entertain King
George VI and Queen Marv of Eng
land during their visit to this country.
The presence of Miss Anderson at
the White House would be a dramatic
slap at the reactionary Daughters of
the American Revolution, and in line
with Mrs. Roosevelt’s action in re
signing from that organization fol
lowing its refusal to permit the use
of the auditorium of its Constitution
Hall for the April 9 concert of Miss
Anderson.
In Boston, progressive members of
the D. A. R. have issued a call for
organization of a new group, the
Descendants of the American Revolu
tion. Mrs. Edward Sohier Welch, one
of the leaders of the secession move
ment declared:
“This move is symptomatic of the
growing dissension in the D. A. R.
ranks. There is a feeling that the
D. A. R. has become too hide-bound
and reactionary, and has forgotten the
principles of democracy for which
their ancestors fought.”
ANNUAL ATTUCKS EXERCISES
The annual exercises commemorat
ing the heroic deeds of the black
American, Crispus Attucks, and his
fellow patriots, who fell on State St.,
169 years ago, (March 5, 1770) were
held on Monday last, under the aus
pices of the Boston Branch National
Equal Rights League. A feature was
the presence of the St. Cyprian drum
and bugle corps., a large group of
young boys, nattily dressed, who par
aded from State St. to the Granary
Burying Ground and thence to the
monument on the common. They
played at each service.
At State St., short addresses were
made by Atty. John S. R. Bourne and
Ralph J. Banks who presided and a
wreath from the city was hung on the
Merchants National Bank nearby. A
large crowd gathered in spite of the
rain that was falling steadily.
The second exercise was at the Old
Granary Burying Ground on Tremont
St., where Mayor Tobin laid the city’s
wreath and spoke briefly to the crowd
assembled on the sidewalk. Maude
Trotter Steward presided and intro
duced Mrs. M. Cravath Simpson, John
C. Marshall and Attorney Wolff for
short” addresses. A wreath from the
Crispus Attucks High School in Indi
anapolis an annual offering, was also
at the grave.
N.A.A.C.P. Joins
President Irwin T. Dorch of the Bos
ton Branch, NAACP, unable to be
present at the exercises sent the follow
ing letter which was read by Mrs.
Maude Trotter Steward who presided
SPORTSMEN
MAKE MERRY
AT BANQUET
The twenty-second annual banquet
of the Sportsmen Club of Greater Bos
ton, Inc., was held Monday evening at
the Masonic Temple, Roxbury, and was
attended by almost all the members
with their wives or other relatives and
several invited guests.
The banqueters occupied five or six
tables running the width of Smith Hall
and another, the head table, along the
length of the hall. At the head table
were seated officers of the club, their
ladies and other invited guests. Fol
lowing was the menu served by Church
ill, caterer, and a corps of colored
white-jacketed waiters: fruit cocktail
or tomato juice, queen olives, mixed
pickles, hot roast turkey, giblet gravy,
cranberry sauce, creamed mashed po
tato, green peas, banana fritters, pine
apple fritters, fruit sauce, frozen pud
ding, ice creams, sherbets, assorted
cakes, macaroons, rolls, coffee.
Fancy paper hats, noise makers, in
formal speech - making, interspersed
with lively songs, heightened the fes
tivity. Leon Lomax, chairman of the
banquet committee, introduced the
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at the Granary Burying Ground Serv
ice:
In behalf of the Boston Branch of
the National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People, I am
joining you in your commemoration
exercises of the life and death of Cris
pus Attucks, who fought and died, in
order that a democracy might be estab
lished upon this soil.
His life and sacrifice was a divine
contribution, not only to his race, but
to all liberty-loving people. The full
ness of his sacrifice will never be real
ized until we are able to share in all of
those things that stand today as a
monument to the blood that he" spilled
lon State Street in the City of Boston,
'March 5, 1770.
IRWIN T. DORCH.
President, Boston Branch NAACP
j At the monument on Boston Com
|mon the principal exercises were held.
Attorney John S. A. Bourne presided.
ißev. Jacob W. Powell offered the in
,vocation. Wreaths were brought from
(state and city.
Lieut. Governor Cahill reresented
ithe Governor and recalled the days
iof the Massacre and pointed out the
important lessons to be learned from
it. Mayor Maurice J. Tobin again
was present, as last year, and made
a most impressive address.
Other speakers were Attorney
Albert G. Wolff, President of the Na
tional Equal Rights League, under
whose auspices the celebration was
MARIAN ANDERSON
OFFERED USE OF SCHOOL
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Mar. 6—
After a stormy session last Friday
the Board of Education reversed itself
by voting the use of Central High
School (white) for a concert on April
But the motion had a big, ominous
string tied to it. The Board’s deci
sion, a compromise, carried the pro
viso that no similar request would be
made again.
Rescinding of the Board’s former
vote to bar Marian Anderson’s appear
ance was regarded here as only a par-
ASKS 500 PLANES
FOR RACE AVIATORS
M ASHINGTON, (C) —In an open
letter to the U. S. Senate, Edgar G.
Brown, president of the United Gov
ernment Employes, on Monday made
a plea for 500 combat planes to be
earmarked for air pilots to be trained
“at the direction of the Secretary of
BROWDER DENIES
BOSTON, March, (CNA)—A flat
denial that the Communist Party seeks
to dejaMy-iengion or religious lioerty
was made by Earl Browder, general
secretary of that party, in an address
before 3,000 persons in Boston’s Sym
phony.
Browder asserted that there is an
extensive newspaper campaign being
conducted in this country, designed
to unite all persons of religious belief
in a common front against Commu
nism and the Communist Party, on the
ground that Communism and the Com
munists threaten to destroy their reli
gions and their religious freedom. He
then proceeded to make the position
of his Party on this question clear,
declaring:
“My Party stands for unconditional
freedom of religious beliefs and wor
ship, as a matter of principle, for the
complete separation of church and
State, for the removal of every ele
ment of coercion in matters of con
science.”
The Communist Party, he continued,
sets up no religious tests for member
ship, and has members of all shades
and tendencies of religious belief, as
well as skeptics, agnostics and athe
ists.
G
William H. Mason of 74 American
Legion Highway, Dorchester, has re
turned from Hopeton, Va., where he
was called by the sudden illness and
death of his father. He renewed many
old friendships with people he had not
seen for many years.
given, Rev. D. Leroy Ferguson, of St.
Cyprian’s Church, who introduced the
drum and bugle corps connected with
his church, Percival Adams, leader,
and Sam’l Edwards, drum major; and
Ralph J. Banks, vice pres, of the
League. The drum and bugle corps
played and made a highly creditable
performance, each in uniform with a
drum major manipulating his baton.
Volleys were fired over the monu
ment by a squad from the 3rd batta
lion of the 372nd Reg. Lieut Hatton
in charge, and taps were sounded.
Rev. Jacob W. Powell pronounced the
benediction.
Mrs. Gratia Tyrrell, leader of the
Jr. Wellington St. Group, placed an
American flag at the foot of the monu
ment in behalf of the club.
Pythians Honor Attucks
The 169th anniversary of the Bos
ton Massacre was observed by Gladi
ator Lodge No. 10, Knights of Pythias,
Monday eve., March 6, at their Castle
Hall, Tremont St., Boston. Past Vice
Chancellor Joseph Osler gave a very
interesting talk on Crispus Attucks
and the Boston Massacre. The pro
gram followed the regular business
meeting presided over by Chancellor
Commander James E. Henderson.
Supreme Representative Wm. A.
Howard was a visitor and highly com
mended the lodge on its activity, pro
gressiveness and type of programs
being presented.
At the April meeting Past Grand
Chancellor Elmer J. Puello will be
the speaker.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
tial victory for equality. It failed to
allay the storm of angry protests over
what is generally termed a monstrous
insult not only to the great singer but
to the entire Race. The Board’s com
promise is humiliating and permission
so grudgingly given that citizens saw
a probability that the offer would be
rejected.
Many indignant citizens openly ex
pressed the hope that Miss Anderson
and her managers would refuse to
accept the permit with its prejudiced
limitations.
War at Howard University, Wilber
force University and Tuskegee In
stitute, where there are at present
Reserve Officers Training Corps
under the command of the U. S.
Army.” The plea was in support of
the National Defense Act.
Memorial Service
for Rev. Dabbs
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THE LATE REV. W. H. DABBS
At Concord Baptist Church on Tre
mont Street, Sunday evening, a
Memorial Service will be held for Rev.
W. H. Dabbs, late pastor of the church.
There will be addresses by Deacon
Fred D. Jeter, and Mrs. Sadie Sewell.
The pastor will recite certain poems.
Flowers given by Mrs. Jessie Harris,
daughter of Rev. Dabbs, will decorate
the pulpit. The public is invited to
attend.
Mrs. Dandridge Heads
Housewives' League
At the first general meeting of the
Housewives’ League of Greater Bos
ton, held at 522 Columbus Ave., Sun
day, March 5. Mrs. M. J. Dandridge
was elected to head the organization
with the following associate officers:
Mrs. Hazel E. Wilson McCree, first
vice president; Mrs. Gladys F. Howard,
2nd vice president; Mrs. Jessie M.
Harris, secretary; Mrs. Estelle Lee
Crosby, assistant secretary; Gertrude
Chandler, corresponding secretary;
Mfrs. Caroline L. Lynch, treasurer.
Representing Boston, Roxbury, Cam
bridge, Malden, Everett, Somerville,
West Newton and Lynn, the following
ladies were present as charter mem
bers: Mesdames: Blanche A. Lambert,
Mary E. Luck, Lara A. Stratmon,
Alexander M. Gilbert, Alice Davis,
Alma Harris, Margaret R. Greene, E.
Alice Taylor, Irma Thomas, Beatrice
Jackson, Jessie Walker, Elizabeth
Jackson, Rosa C. Brown, Mildred
Davenport-Carter, Bessie H. Hipkins.
Hattie A. Davis, Vera E. Mayers and
Miss Marian E. McCree. The follow
ing auxiliary, composed of members
of the Boston Trade association of the
Housewives League was named to act
as a steering committee: Mesdames
Estelle L. Crosby, E. Alice Taylor,
M. J. Dandridge, Messrs. Leon Lomax,
C. Hilton Greene, Bill Howard, and
Russell S. Gideon.
At present twenty-five active wo
mens’ clubs comprise the Housewives’
League which is ready to take an
active part in community work.