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THE GUARDIAN
VOL. 38, NO. 23
D. C. MECCA FOR THRONGS SUNDAY
Wilberforce Univ. Gets Higher Rating
Bishop Walls at Zion, Easter — Lillian Craig, Joseph Harris Pass
FREE WILL COMMUNITY METHODIST CHURCH Inc.,
107 Cabot St., Rev. J. S. MYRICK, Pastor Extends
Easter Greetings to Members and Friends
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Left to right: Miss Eula Gaines, Miss Fannie Ross, Miss Alberta Ross, Mrs. Abater Moore, Choir Directors:
(2) Miss M. Frances Word, Pianist; James Gaines, John J. Slater, all Choir members; James Ross, Mary Ross
Fannie Gaines, William Reed, Jr. (3) Mrs. Arrie Green, President of the Stewardess Board; John ’ Henry Ross
Mrs. Clora Cofield, Mrs. Mattie Gaines, Rev. J. S. Myrick, Founder and Pastor.
PICKENS TO
SPEAK HERE
William Pickens of New York, field
ecretary of the NAACP will be the
principal speaker for the Boston
branch when it h'elds its mass meet
iifi' on May 8, at the Columbus Ave.
A.M.E. Church.
Ihe membership drive will have its
Iticial opening on April 17 at a public
1 meeting in Metropolitan Baptist
• hurch, Rev. M. J. Minor, pastor. Op
umism reigns at the local branch
headquarters, 464 Massachusetts Ave ,
as officers and members of the cam
paign committee further preparations
•n sranf ' initial meeting which
will be addressed by some notable
speakers.
President Irwin T. Dorch and Dr.
•lohn B. Hall, who is directly in charge
"1 the membership drive, stated that
the campaign for this year promises
to be even a greater than last year’s
phenomenal success. They both look
tnrward in confidence that at the end
..™ P resen *- drive the local branch
will have a membership of more than
2500.
G
ST. LOUIS BRANCH
NAACP NEARS
2,500 GOAL
ST. LOUIS, Mo., Mar. 31—With less
han S2OO needed to complete their
ouota of 2,500 members, the local
nanch of the National Association for
>h<‘ Advancement of Colored People
ls winding up the most successful
inembership campaign in the history
01 W 6 o, 'R a nization here.
Sidney R. Redmond, president of
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I the miracle of the age
“THE OPEN TOMB”
Famous Dramatic Presentation by
DR. W. FREDERICK FISHER
AND HIS GOSPEL PARTY
JORDAN HALL
Laster Morning, April 9, ’39 — 5 A.M.
SEATS FREE 100 VOICE CHORUS
JOSEPH HARRIS
DIES SUDDENLY
Joseph Harris, 69 Waumbeek St.,
Roxbury, former Cambridge resident,
vice president, Rindge Technical School
Alumni Association, died suddenly
Tuesday, April 4, from a heart attack.
Mr. Harris was on his way to the office
of the New England Telephone Co.
where he had been employed as an
architect for more than thirty years
when he felt ill and left the ear at Dud
ley St. and returned home. He went to
bed and passed away within an hour,
after asking his wife for a drink of
water.
The funeral was Friday, April 7,
from Long’s Undertaking rooms in
Cambridge.
Deceased is survived by the widow,
Mrs. Marguerite Harris, son Joseph,
Jr., and step-son Elwood McKenney,
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—G
Ellswer W alker
Marries in D.C.
Mrs. Jessie Walker, of 6 Westmin
ster Ave., Rox., announces the mar
riage of her daughter, Ellswer Marie,
to Edward John Davis of Washington,
D. C„ on March 23, 1939, in Washing
ton, D. C. Mr. Davis is assistant direc
tor of Banneker Recreation Center in
Washington. The newlyweds, now in
Washington will continue to live in
that city.
The bride is very well known in
Greater Boston social circles and has
been unusually active in various com
munity enterprises which affect col
ored people here
Mr. Davis, a former star athlete at
college, is a member of the Alpha Phi
Alpha fraternity.
GUARDIAN, BOSTON, MASS., APRIL 8, 1939
TO SING OPERA
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MILDRED JENKINS
Distinguished soprano who has been
chosen as guest artist by William
Rhodes Opera Society to be heard on
their fourth Opera Programme, which
will be given on Thursday evening,
June 1, at 8:15 o’clock in Brown Hall,
New England Conservatory of Music.
There are twenty-seven well known
singers in the cast who will be sup
ported by a twelve piece concert orch
estra, conducted by William A Rhodes,
composer, music critic, and organizer
of the Opera Society. The programme
will include Opera Acts from “Der
Freischutz,” Weber, “Das Rheingold,”
Wagner, and “Erminie,” by Jakobow
ski. James William Henderson is the
stage director, and John Powell is
business supervisor. Admission, 85
cents, reserved seats sl.lO and $1.65
including tax.
SAVOY CLUB
THANKS PATRONS
The management of the Savoy Bil
liard Parlor at 547 and 549 Columbus
Avenue takes this opportunity to
thank our many friends for making it
necessary to enlarge our establish
ment.
In return for your patronage we
offer you the best equipment available,
attendants who will courteously fulfill
your needs, and a clean wholesome en
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BISHOP W. J. WALLS
Great A.M.E. Zion Church man, who
will preach the Easter morning ser
mon at Columbus Ave. A.M.E. Zion
Church, Sunday at 10:30.
LILLIAN CRAIG
PASSES
Mrs. Lillian Gideon Craig, of Wyo
ming St., Roxbury, well known nurse,
died April 1, 1939, of a rheumatic
heart, after several months of ill
health, one of which she spent under
hospital treatment. —The funeral was
held at St. Mark Congregational
Church, April 3, Rev. S. L. Laviscount
officiating. Interment was in Mount
Hope Cemetery. .1. B. Johnson was
the undertaker.
Mrs. Craig, the daughter of Charles I
Gideon and Mary Gideon Hogan was
born on Dec. 20, 1888 in Liverpool,
Nova Scotia, but spent many years of
her life in Boston where she was es
ceedingly well known and popular.
She trained as a nurse in 1903 at the
Plymouth Hospital, Dr. C. N. Garland,
head physician, and specialized in all
subjects pertaining to hei’ profession.
She was regarded as a most efficient
and dependable nurse and has served
in many well known white and colored
families. For a number of years she
conducted a nursing home at 16 Wyo
ming St. Surviving are husband,
Ceptimus Craig; mother, Mrs. Mary
E. Hagan: two sisters, Dr. Jessie Gar
nett and Miss Annie Gideon.
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WILBER FORCE
ADMITTED TO NO.
CENTRAL ASSN.
WILBERFORCE, O. Mar. 31—Wil
berforce University, founded in 1856
by the A.M.E. Church, was admitted
to membership in the North Central
Association of Colleges and Secondary
Schools yesterday, marking the first
time in its eighty-three year history
that the university has been thus
recognized.
The vote admitting Wilberforce to
the select group of 253 other colleges
and universities in twenty-eight, states
was taken by the full membership at
a meeting in Chicago, following a
special examination of the university
by two North Central examiners last
week. It was specified that Wilber
force be subject to supervision of a
guidance committee until 1942.
President Walker, former Cleve
land, O. minister, declared his efforts
have always been devoted to the ulti
mate accrediting of Wilberforce since
he became president in 1936.
Upon receipt of word of the uni
versity’s recognition by the North
Central, jubilant Wilberforce students
staged a demonstration, climaxed
when Dr. Walker was lifted to theii
shoulders and carried around the
campus.
Friends of Dr. Walker considered
the accrediting of Wilberforce a vindi
cation of his three-year administration,
which has been under fire in the state
legislature from Rep. Chester K.
Gillespie (R) Cleveland, who is seek
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FOR EASTER
MEN’S FINE SHOES
$3.95 up
REED’S FACTORY SHOE SERVICE
507 COLUMBUS AVE.
100,000 MAY HEAR
MARIAN ANDERSON at
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
WASHINGTON, D. C., Apr. 3-
Marian Anderson, the internationally
famous singer who has been denied
the use of both the D.A.R.’s Constitu
tion Hall and the (white) Central
High School auditorium here for a
scheduled concert April 9, will sing in
the Nation’s capital on schedule and I
under auspices never enjoyed before
by a singer of any race.
Miss Anderson will give a free open ■
air concert at Lincoln Memorial on |
Easter Sunday afternoon at 5, the
first person ever to be granted the
opportunity to sing at the majestic
shrine of the Great Emancipator.
Representative Caroline O’Day, of
New York, has issued invitations to
more than forty persons, including
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, who re
signed from the D.A.R. because of
their action, to act as sponsors for
the concert. The list of names includes !
high government officials and persons
prominent in local and national life.
Among those who already have con
sented to be sponsors are Mrs. Roose
velt, Chief Justice and Mrs. Charles
Evans Hughes, Mayor La Guardia of
New York; Justice Black; Katherine j
Hepburn, the actress and others.
The NAACP urged organizations
within easy train distance of Wash
ington to send large delegations to
the concert. Delegations are expected
from New Yyk, Baltimore, Richmond
■Hid Norfolk,' Virginia, and other neah
by places.
In New York, officials of the NAA
CP said that between t 50,000 and
100,000 persons would attend the con-
I cert. Three broadcasting companies
will carry the half-hour program out
over national networks. Miss Ander-
PRESS CLUB
MAKES AWARD
By PAUL JORDAN
Palm Sunday was the occasion for
a double event of unusual importance
to the colored race in Boston when the
Press Club of Boston made its First
Annual Awards of Merit to Rev
Samuel L. Laviscount of the St. Mark
Church in Roxbury and Dr. Mary
Crutchfield Wright at the Union Bap
tist Church in Cambridge. The con
gregation at each edifice made a rec
ord attendance despite the inclement
weather. Significant of the unanimity
and impartiality of the selections was
the simple fact that no member of the
Press Club is enrolled at either church.
These are the first of annual awards
to be made and it is felt that the care
ful selection and judging of the win
ning recipients will result in a deeper
appreciation of their true value by the
respective communities in which they
labor. Pres. Bill Howard made the
presentation at St. Marks with the
following words—“ Rev Leviscount aid
friends: The columnists, writers,
• and others of the working press
in Boston representing two local
newspapers, five national weeklies
and one Press Association considered
many things before selecting one
Boston man as having made the out
standing contribution to this city’s
welfare and progress during the past
twelve months.
“In finally deciding on the name of
Rev. Samuel L. Laviscount to receive
this award the Press Club of Boston
considered these things:
“That Rev. Laviscount’s activities
in interracial bodies, his frequent ap
pearances before Christian and Jew
ish groups, and his participation in
many broad movements involving
other people and faiths have estab
lished a precedent, for the race in
Boston:
“That Rev. Laviscount has pushed
his own church forward into a broad
civic, social and political program that
is destined to still be felt here long
after he, himself shall no longer be
with us; and
“That the readiness with which Rev.
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PRICE FIVE CENTS
son will lead the audience, which will
hear her through loudspeakers, in the
singing of “America.” The broad
areas within range of the memorial,
will be roped off for several blocks.
The NAACP which has waged a
strong behind the scenes fight since
last January, when Miss Anderson’s
management first learned that the
Constitution Hall would be denied the
singer, passed a strong resolution at
its monthly board meeting early in
March, urging no compromise with the
District of Columbia board of educa
tion.
The D.C. board agreed to allow use
of a (white) high school auditorium
provided such a request would never
be made in the future.
While agreeing to the open-air con
cert. the Washington Citizens Com
! mittee, headed by Charles H. Houston,
pledged themselves to finish their
fight with the District of Columbia
education board.
The Lincoln Memorial is under the
jurisdiction of the National Park Ser
vice of the Department of the In-
I terior. In granting the request for
the Marian Anderson concert, Secre
tary Ickes said: ‘This seems to me to
be a good use of the public facilities.”
The Memorial on the banks of the
Potomac shelters the heroic statue of
Lincoln by Daniel Chester French.
This great flight of steps to a large
level renace at the to The
monument makes an excellent place
for the singe)- and Committee guests.
The public will be accommodated in
the park on both sides of the reflecting
pool which stretches from the entrance
to the Memorial eastward towards the
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LAYMON T. HUNTER
Director of the chorus of over 100
voices for the Easter early morn
service at Jordan Hall and whose
original compositions will be sung.
ALA. TEACHERS
PAY S6OO
IN SALARY FIGHT
MONTGOMERY, Ala.—April 4—
Backing up their unanimous approval
with an initial cash contribution of
S6OO to a campaign war chest, the
Alabama State Teachers’ Association
in session here voted full support for
a fight to equalize the salaries of Col
ored and white teachers in the state.
The fight, which will be conducted
bv a committee of prominent citizens,
together with the National Associa-
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Phi Beth Sigma Fraternity
BIGGER and BETTER
BUSINESS
MASS MEETING
Sunday Ait. APRIL
;; 3 o'clock
BAPTIST;;
CHURCH
;; Shawmut Ave., Boston, Mass.