THE GUARDIAN
VOL. 38, NO. 25
PROMINENT HUB UNDERTAKER DIES
speeds Hub NAACP Membership Drive
to Re-Wed — Chris Winters Passes — Fight for Utility Jobs
UNDERTAKER REID DIES
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LATE MILLARD FILLMORE REID
Millard F. Reid, leading Boston un
dertaker, 81 Dartmouth Street, died
a', his apartment over his undertak
ir- establishment early Wednesday
morning after an illness of several
a eeks, Death was due to a heart ail
ment. He was 43.
Mr. Reid died at sometime during
sleep Tuesday night or early Wednes
day morning and his wife learned of
it Thursday morning when she tried
but was unable to rouse him. He
had been in failing health for the past
si veral months but his condition
Bapl. Convention
May 10,11,12 at Union
she seventh annual session of the
' nited Baptist Convention of Massa
-1 husetts and Rhode Island will con
vene with the Union Baptist Church,
Cambridge, Mass., Wednesday, Thurs
day and Friday, May 10, 11, 12, 1939.
All the departments of the conven
tion will have a full and interesting
program, with speakers of national
an . le -. Corresponding organizations,
and allied conferences will be repre
sented bv their leaders. The public
is cordially welcome to come and take
part. W. H. Hester, D.D., president,
•Johnson W. Hill, M.D., corresponding
secretary, 365 Mass. Ave., Boston,
Mass. Ken. 4137.
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Judge Surprised to
Hear of Bouncer
secon, l session of
the Roxbury court today Judge Samuel
expressed surprise at the
“it that a Tremont St. case has a
bouncer” in these modern times. The
,lt.dge was hearing a case of assault
and battery which took place in the
f s4. n . n f' as k<’d Patrolman O’Connell
oi Division 10 how was it the License
•■olid did not take some action. The
•iC''r replied that no complaint has
1 n made as vet. The defendant was
■mid for the Grand Jury in S3OO bail.
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. PHI BETA SIGMA FRATERNITY J
Augustine A. Austin of N.Y.;
Quest Speaker
BIGGER and BETTER
BUSINESS CELEBRATION !
MASS MEETING
Sunday A£t. APRIL
3 o'clock ><
j METROPOLITAN BAPTIST"
CHURCH
j Shawmut Ave., Boston, Mass.
seemed not serious enough to inter
fere with his work until recently.
Funeral services were held at Zion
A.M.E. Church, Columbus Ave at 1
o’clock Friday, April 21 and were at
tended by a throng that overflowed
the edifice. The pastor, Rev. W. D.
Battle, officiated, assisted by Rev. E.
E. Thompson and other ministers.
There was a profusion of floral trib
utes.
Undertakers Madison Bland, E. L.
Morrison, Norris Davis, led in con
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AUGUSTINE A. AUSTIN
of New York, outstanding business
man who has a special message for
Boston business folks at the meeting
Sunday, April 23, in Metropolitan
Baptist Church under auspices of Phi
Beta Sigma Fraternity, Boston Chap
ters.
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SUNDAY APRIL 23 AT PEOPLES
BAPTIST CHURCH
The annual oratorical contest spon
sored bv the Commonwealth Lodge
No. 19 and Phyllis Wheatlev Temple
No. 22 of the 1.8.P.0.E. of the World
will be held Sunday. April 23, at 3
n.m. in People’s Baptist Church, Cam
den Street. Boston.
The winner in this contest will be
eligible to compete for one of the
meny scholarships which the Elks
award every year. The public is cor
dially invited to attend.
DePriest Garage
255 NORTHAMPTON ST.
Oil - Gas - Repairing - Storage
Now Maintaining the
Ford Service
Tel. KENmore 8358 H. Thompson. Prop.
GUARDIAN, BOSTON, MASS., APRIL 22, 1939
ATTY. DORCH
TO WED AGAIN
Mrs. Olivia Forrester Johnston, 9
Howland Street, Roxbury, announces
the engagement of her daughter Celes
tine to Attorney Irwin T. Dorch.
The prospective bride is a graduate
of Boston University and at this time
conducts courses in handicraft at the
st. Mark Center in Roxbury.
Well known for her unusual ability
as an artist, she is rated one of the
foremost women portrait painters in
the country. Among her recent works
are a portrait in oils of Dr. Charlotte
Hawkins Brown, and four mural
paintings that are hanging in the
Palmer Memorial College at Sedalia,
N. C. Other works of Miss Johnston
have been in the leading exhibitions
of the country, including the Harmon
Exhibit in New York and a number
of leading Boston galleries.
Mr. Dorch came into national promi
nence a few years ago when as head
of the local NAACP he began a series
of brilliant fights against the extra
dition of prisoners to the South with
the result that he is considered person
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HUB UNITED FOR JOB FIGHT
Boston made history Tuesday night
at the Shaw House when over 100 or
ganizations were united through their
chosen representatives in a movement
to secure employment for colored in
the public utilities. Many other orgarf
izations unable to be present sent let
ters of wholehearted support and prom
ised action of any kind that was de
cided upon by the group gathered.
Attorney I. T. Dorch presided. Mrs.
Thomasina Walker Johnson told of the
beginning of the movement. Seaton
Manning spoke on the labor unions and
how they might affect the movement.
Impromptu speeches were then made
by many persons on just what coopera
tion could be expected, from the group
assembled, in the movement, among
them. Attorney Matthew W. Bullock,
J. Caswell Smith, Rev. S. L. La vis
count,, Rev. M. J. Minor, Rev. D. Leroy
Ferguson, Dr. Marron Fort, Victor
Bynoe, Miss Edna Shelton, Mrs. Gratia
Terrell, Joseph Nelson, Mrs. Catherine
Averett Lawson, Onnie Jordan, Ed
ward Dixon, David Kenney, William A.
FETE N.Y. BEAUTY
SPECIALIST
The officers and members of the
Apex Beauticians Club honored their
guest demonstrator, Mrs. Dorothy
Chapman of New York, with a delight
ful banquet Monday night in the ban
quet room of Estelle’s Case.
Mrs. Chapman is managerand teach
er of the Apex School of Beauty Cul
ture, located at the corner of 7th Ave
nue and 135th St., New York, vice
president of the National Beauty CuL
turist League, President of League 26
of N. Y. C., Educational Adviser of
Modern Beauticians in the state of N.
J., and also a licensed undertaker and
embalmer.
She came here to demonstrate to
local beauticians the latest develop
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GREATER BOSTON MEN’S CHORUS
To be presented by Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Sunday, April 30, 8 p.m. at St. Mark (Congregational) Church
CHRIS. WINTER
PASSES
FRATERNAL LEADER
AND PROMINENT CITIZEN
Christopher Winter of 15 Warwick
St., a familiar Boston figure during
the forty odd years he had lived here,
died at his home April 15, at 8:30
p.m. In failing health the past two
years, since the passing of his wife,
Mrs. Nellie Winter, April 11, 1937,
death came to the well known citizen
as the result of a shock on Good Fri
day. April 7.
The funeral was held on April 19, at
10 a.m. from St. Augustine and St.
Martin’s Episcopal Church on Lenox
St., with Father Fitz officiating.
Solos were sung by Dorothy Richard
son. The pall bearers were: Herbert
Donaldson. Edward Moore, Dr. E. S.
Nairne, Walter Isaacs, Benjamin
Jones. Interment was in Forest Hills
Cemetery in the family lot beside the
grave of deceased’s late wife. Norris
Davis was the undertaker. A son, St.
Clair Winter, grandson, Willard Win-
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Morgan, Mrs. Harriett Hall, Morris
Taylor and many others.
A committee was elected to have a
conference with the president of the
electric company who has made an ap
ybintment for sueh a conference and
to meet with the gas and phone com
panies as soon as a conference can be
arranged. I. T. Dorch, attorney, presi
dent of the local NAACP, of the Geor
gia-chain-gang cases fame and Mrs.
fhomasina Walker Johnson, graduate
social worker, one of the most civic
minded of the younger set and a form
er teacher in the Manual Training
School of Bordentown, N. J. are mem
bers of the committee ex officio. Seaton
Manning Industrial Secretary of the
I rban League and a scholarship stu
dent graduating with honors from Har
vard is chairman; Mrs. Olga Ferguson
Jackson, fromer director of St. Mark
Center, Rev. S. L. Laviscount one of
the most liberal and militant pastors
in the city; Dr. Marron Forte, Ph.D.
of Harvard and who has an outstand
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On Thursday evening, June 1, at
8:15 o’clock, in Brown Hall, New
England Conservatory of Mus'c,
'Dons and those of us who
mus j c w ju have an oppor
unty to hear one of the greatest
Opera Artsists and Singers. The n-’r
" nmn-e will be given by William
Rhodes Opera Society, a group of
twenty-seven selected well-trained
singers supported by a
Concert Orchestra. Mildred Jenkins
has been chosen as guest artist. Opera
Acts from “Dei- Freischutz,” Weber,
“Das Rheingold,” Wagner, and “Er
minie.” bv Jakobowski, will be per
fo med. William A. Rhodes, Composer
r n I Music Critic, will conduct the
performance. John Powell is Business
rvisor, and James W. Henderson,
is stage director. Other prominent
nv-mbers of the Opera Society will be
mentioned in next week’s “Gua’dian.”
Rush seats 85 cents, reserved seats
sl.lO and $1.65 including tax.
NAACP SPURS DRIVE
“Unless all thinking citizens get be
hind the fight for full citizenship
rights for the race now, at a time
when democracy is being assailed on
all sides, we will find that democracy
will soon be denied to all our citizens.”
This was the statement by George
B. Murphy, Jr., at Metropolitan Bap
tist Church Monday night, when the
Boston branch of the National Associ
ation for the Advancement of Colored
People opened a drive to enroll 2,500
members.
Mr. Murphy, publicity director of
the national organization in New
York, is here to manage the local
campaign which runs from April 17
to May 8. He pointed to the fight
for the Anti-lynching bill, the support
given the federal government’s plan
for broader health protection to all
citizens, the national drive to equalize
white and colored teachers’ salaries
in southern and border states, battling
discrimination in public places, the
supreme court decision opening up the
University of Missouri to colored
students, the full support given to the
drive to eliminate discrimination in
WPA, and the fight against job dis
crimination at the New York World’s
Fair, as examples of the wide front
on which the N.A.A.C.P. is fighting.
Attorney Irwin T. Dorch, president
of the local branch, urged citizens to
support the drive, and pointed to the
OFFICER BANKS
STRUCK BY AUTO
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OFFICER LUCIUS BANKS
Who escaped serious injury in an
auto collision.
BOSTON, (KNS) — When Lucius
.'V ?- po P u N r patrolman attached to
D : v sien 10. Roxbur’’ Crossing, started
•— -'S'- th? intersection at Mass. Ave.
n 1 Columbus Ave. on Wednesday
n n™ of last week during the snow
'"m. little did he realize that at the
"’V spot where he directed traffic for
"rs while he was attached to Divi
: n 4 ; n the old days, he would be
t u-k bv an automobile. However,
v-rs. and suffered a concussion of
'o b -sin and a la-ration of the face,
i’-'s happening on his day off.
T * was taken to the office of Dr.
B A McCurdy, who stitched the
<n his face and saw to it that
’ - ' eh- d his home at 119 Har
sh"ff St . Roxbury.
' ’ " e ' Bonks as a traffic officer at
'h > above intersection did so well that
■■ "s called on° of the best, if not
the best traffic officer in Boston back
in 1920. At last report Mr. Banks is
up and around and “raring” to go.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
work of the organization in Boston.
Other speakers included: John S.
Bourne, president of the Congress for
Equal Opportunity, and Albert G.
Wolff, president of the National Equal
Rights League, both of whom pledged
the support of their organizations in
the local campaign; Rev. M. J. Minor,
pastor of the Metropolitan Baptist
Church, who is campaign manager;
Edward Dixon, a campaign worker;
and Rev. S. L. Laviscount, pastor of
St. Mark Congregational Church.
Heads of campaign committees in
clude: Rev. M. J. Minor, Dr. John B.
Hall, Oscar Fitzallen, Louis E. Pasco,
Mrs. Minnie T. Wright, Mrs. Nellie
Harris, Everett Yates, Nathaniel Cot
ton, and Victor Bynos, who heads the
youth division.
Other ersons who are enlisted in the
drive are: Mesdames Sarah Martin,
E. Gilbert, Ruth Pasco, Carolyn D.
Jones, Ruth Stewart, Fannie Eubanks,
Helen Perkins, Thelma McNaire and
Florence Lewis; M. Bernard, Dr. Wil
liam Cox, Hayes Alexander, James
Jones, Reynold Costa, Sumner Mills,
Mathew Coles, William Morgan, Mil
ton Snowden, Francis P. Hazel, Lloyd
Howard, and Charles Hibler.
Mr. Murphy stated that the first
campaign workers’ meeting will be
held Monday night, April 24, at 8 p. m.,
at campaign headquarters, 454 Mass.
Avenue.
iKirharbsmi
Saib tn Sent
Little ( Frapcev » ( .se Richardson,
(laughter of Mr. and Mrs. Martin D.
Richardson, a child of rare intelligence
and charm, whose untimely passing
Thursday of last week brought grief
to all who knew her, was buried during
all the rain on Tuesday afternoon,
April 18, from the John A. O’Brien
Funeral Chapel with interment in Mt.
Hope Cemetery.
Touching was the service for the
cherished one, nestling amidst flowers
she loved, beautiful in her final sleep.
Mildred Jenkins Haughton sang sweet
solos, “Abide with me” was sung by the
assembled friends and Rev. S. L. Lavis
count of St. Mark Church conducted
in adequate manner, reading the
following exquisite obituary of an un
usual and exquisite child:
OF JOSE
It is not for Man to understand the
ways of the Almighty.
We often find ourselves in wonder,
therefore, that the Creator takes from
among us those that we thought we
should have almost forever.
Such a one was Frances Jose Rich
ardson, whose remains lie here before
us. Brilliant and talented far beyond
her years and with a generous loyalty
and love for her parents and friends,
and loved by nearly everyone who knew
her, she had known scarcely an un
happy moment in her whole brief life.
Due to the jealous care of her de
voted mother, the child had enjoyed al
most phenomenal health until a few
days before she left this realm. Even
in her last few days she was spared
nearly every pain by a merciful uncon
sciousness in her illness.
There is little more to say of one
whose opportunity to bring sunshine
and light into the world was cut so
short by a Wisdom we can so little un
derstand, yet cannot doubt. We can
only say on behalf of those who loved
her most that if she could come to us
for another time even so brief, and we
had to again endure all the pain of
losing her, we would still welcome her
for this little while.
It is with this attitude that we com
mend her soul to some higher Power.
Left to mourn, beesides father and
mother, are: baby brother, Martin I).
Richardson, Jr.; grandmothers, Mrs.
Bertha Richardson and Mrs. Frances
Watt, several aunts and uncles and
other relatives, godmother, and many
friends. They are grateful to all for
sympathy extended in their great be
reavement.
Delta Sigma Thsta Sorority
Presents the
GREATER BOSTON MALE
CHORUS
Dorothy Richardson, Director
ST. MARK CHURCH
Townsend St., Roxbury
Sunday, Apr. so, 8 P.M.
Committee: Dorothy Jones, Vivian Hodge,
Myrtis Andrews
Admission 25 Cents