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I £ ==^- —s'AtO rd^y7c^Tqr^i oTi93 i ==" twelve PAdH Member* of the Negro Kmployees Improvement V- ■>ci tirtn, the group which established a picket on the 47.h in Power* restaurant in their tight to ecu re jobs a* counter men. Cooks and cashiers in this and other reman-int* of the c m munity claim this week (bat the Power- Kestauraut c pany used a fake injunction to to r- .e th pi . : d i hood-winked the police into enforcing the : ike rit. via Sander* president ol the e c-aelcn. Mid leader nl the picket movement points o-t that although Itta picket was removed through the *u* o< fh.« wohna.wiil) me • iioro-.'C .neimwatum c,l y.a ccu> served o' the aanelahon revetted that li hid not been signed bv * court cITtc'al and did not bear the official stamp or a docket number. In further support of the charge that the Powers restaurant reures-ntattves resorted to a slick trick to remove the nteket. Sanders points out teat on the next dav Sept. ZO another eopv of an injunction was served which did bear the sitnat r" of a court officer, official stamp, end a docket number This second and reil injunction vrs doled Sent in a day after the fake writ had br» served and enforced bv the police Involving the arrest of one rf ih" p.fkets. Seek To ni. olve Writ The officials of the Negro Km pic,res Improvement A"' iatlon retained Atty. Arthur V.7. Mitchell to represent them in their light to h/\e the Injunction dissolved At torney Mitchell has made his ap pearance in court, and will pr test the Injunction before Judge Llnd i3j of the Superior eeur:, who granted the true injunction to Pow ers. The injunction -.as granted hi Judge Lindsay after hearing cnlj ‘Continued cn page Zi Q.K s Change - - - »-—■ .. DR. F.. R. MOTON Following the conference between coaches and athletic representatives this week, l)r. K. Is. Moton, principal of Ttt kegee, gave his consent to bring the Tuskcgee-Wilhcr force grid classic back here. Receiver Says Only $1,200 Cash At Roosevelt Bank; No Hope Of Dividends ■The 25.030 rr ir. .re depositors, whese savings were t ed tip in the closing of the Ro.csevelt-Banktrs state bank, most ef "hem arc resi dents of the south s.de have but small hope of even a very small return on the depcsit in th; form of dividends, judging from the i: - pert of the receivers which «... made miblic last week. The tot .1 re courses of the bank, according to the report, tot il onlv *920,842.75 while the balan-e due to the c tors and other creditors f the bank are placed at *1,189,791.40 Of the teta! ac-.tets of the bank, the ri iv ers have b n able to real.; util" *1.200 !n cash fcthe d . it nr during the fe rler Irani1’'. tin e the bank was clewed Whik only djplh’v more than a thousand doi l/.'i is available fur the drpo-.t •>. ft' Is significant that the process of he id. tin- tile bat.k the receiver1 hsve deducted *20 000 for rr • ivrr fees. *1*000 for t,1 : ns fees, and *22 287.25 for clerk and sleno ■ aph er coippersation. Another Item of expense which lift., not been full' *■ o'-i-cd in the published renort ... one of $20.090 79 for “miscellan eous expt—';?." Thus the total ex penses.' Thus the tots! expyr.se ■or llouldstlng the bank amount tr *86.328.03, in erder to retrive a total of $1,200 for th? i'ev ogitors •'aPcd '(> rr ml Stepl" .At the fine when the bank '• e.cfed by the state auditor ;n Au gust 2. 1930. it. wa« found that tl finances of the institutic. had bee: hopelessly involved by the maneu verings of the officers. Indictments were returned and arc still pending against Samuel Flowers, president of the bank. Alexander Flowers chaii man of the board of direectors Frank Flowers, vice president, and Louis Franks, cashier of the bank. Trie feur bank officials were tried c.i one in ment of accepting de pt • v. hii ’ the bank was known to 'Continued on page 3' STEALS $3,000 FUND FOR NEGRO FLOOD RELIEF MEMPHIS. Tenn., Oct. 7—Mrs Marah S. Dcuslng. white, former posttnisLress *at Ravenwoodd, La., was arrested here Wednesday on a warrant charging her with having embezzled $3000 during her term of office. Police has been searching for her through Arkansas, Louisiana! and Tenncss, discovering her work ing as a cashier is her brother's “driv-yourself automobile office." Mrs. Deusing's brother, H. H Spiller. acted as hei spokesman and exrlaln 1 that she was the only , white person in or near Ravemvocd during the 1927 flood and that she | had user some of the money to feed the hungry and distressed Negroes there. The balance was supposed to '-a- e ben burnt i: a fire whir' '7 stroved her home last year. Police skeptical, said thev also wanted to talk to her a^out her possible com plicity in the operation cf auto theft ring Open 100 Graves Seeking Lost Corpse 1 KILLED; 4 HURT. AS 200 REDS BATTLE THE POLICE IN CLEVELAND CLKVKLAMI. Ohio. Ort. 7.— Special—Three colored men and a white police lieutenant were seriously wounded here late rut i night as • nolice squad tattled with a crowd of colored Communists e timated at 'too was precipitated when the pel* c slugged several cf the crowd who were carrying furnitu * | 2ok int a the home cf an evicted t?rant. I'.srlier -in the evening a crowd hud gathered near the •ene of the cvletiton. Commu nist 1 tier*. addressed them. »irgh«g them to replace the fur niture in the home from which it had bee a rtm»>ei). r^'h- «* arriv'd iU" for iiciurc nets *W*«W currie I hack In in I he bouse When police ntmrh memSm^r of the gathering a general tight started. Sever:*I blocks away the bodv cf a i drsred man was fo?l id. ml through the head. He I* believed to have been etruek hy a etrey huHet. By GEORGE SYDNEY \fter much flickering on the | pari oi the directors of athlet ics of Tuskcgee Institute and Wilbcrtorce university, at the ; latter institution over the week-end, a last-minute de cision was reached at 4:17 Monday afternoon when two p u h I i c-spiritcd Chicagoans, lending their assistance to the cause, mapped out ways and means to stage the annual ‘'Tusk-T'orte" gridiron classic here on October 24 as w as pre arranged. The heralding of its cancellation last Wednesday, Sept. 40. doesn't hold good— the football game positively will In' held here, the scene of battle being the Mills Stadium at Lake street and Kilpatrick avenue. Through the efforts of Mr. Clif- j ferd O Starks, owners of the Chi cago American Giants garage and j King Cole, of the Metropolitan Fun- I oral systc- the site was secured for | : aging of the game after plans to i play a* Soldiers Field had fallen hrough. Much credit is due these | men for their initiative and In- | tercst in -seeing what pcssible 1 terest in football, ana their timely j action to bring the midwest classic j to Chicago again. 4 Sox Park IJeniea What came as a distinct shock to the athletic councils of both schools and to the football-loving public was the announcement eight days ago that the Tuskegee-Wilber force date was dropped from the Soldier Field list in favor of Hastings col i Continued to page 9.' 1V Gets Chance On ‘Big lime’ Substitutions in the cust of Lew Leslie's “Rhapsody in Black" before it-fioes on the road have made a place for Grayce MiMer. dainty CJiicago n.ulit >'luh entertainer, who is reported to be on her way to join the show, GIRL GETS $3,000 FOR INJURIES IN TAXI CAB CRASH Miss Martha Matthews. 3903 Michigan avenue, was awarded judgment of $3,000 by Judge E. I Frankhausen of the Superior court last week in a suit for damages a gainst the Year Motor Car corn pan.' for injuries sustained in accident while she was a passenger in the cab on June 17th of 1933 While Miss Matthews and three iriends were proceeding across South Park way in the cab, it. was struck by the speeding car of Mrs. B. S. O'Connor, white, which was going south on South Park way. The cab was turned over by the impact, and the passengers thrown to the ground. Miss Matthews was serious ly injured, and remained in the hos pital tor several weeks. Miss Mat thews was represented In the suit by Atty. Biain O. Alston. OR. A. E. BOYD ENDS LIFE IN BAIT. RiVER ANNAPOLIS, Md„ Oct. 1—fTM j body of Dr. A. E. Boyd, one of the leading physicians of this city was found floating in a river about five miles from this city Sunday morn ing. Dr. Boyd's hat «ral cost were found in his automobile near by with all the evidence pointing to, suicide. He had left home Saturday eve nine and his wife becoming alarmed . notified the authorities with the re sult of the discovery of his body. Dr.' Boyd was a man of fine per- . sonality, a fine physician and en joyed a large practice. * ‘PUT MAN ON SPOT’ IN HARLEM DANCE HALL; JEALOUSY IS CAUSE NEW YORK, Oct. 7.—Steered to a certain position on the crowded floor of the Renaissance Casino Sunday ' night, Wesley Carter, 27, was shot three times by an assailant who mad'* his escape through a handy d^or. Carter was shot in the left side, stomach, and leg. Police believe that Carter was deliberately “put on the spot” by friends of the gunman. Trouble over the affections of a woman is believed to be at the | bottom of the sensational attack. 1 Carter, seriously wounded, refus ed to say - ho had shot him. I I GREENSBORO. S. C.. Oct. 7.— Enrage:; because one of his colored tenants dared to talk back to him Bcardus Hughes, 40-ycar-old white man rushed home, secured his shot gun ar.d calmly fired into a group of colored persons, wounding si:-: These wounded Dy Hugnes arc Will Jones Jones. 65. and his chil dren Odes, 10, Eldrcd. 15. Clara, 12. Isable. 4. and the baby, Annie. All of the Jones’ were seriously wound ed. One of the victims was a baoy. and two others, young girls. The baby 14 months cld. will probably die. , Shortly after the attack Hughes was arrested and jailed cn a charge of assault with intent to kill. He told officers that, he was getting a drink from a spring on his own farm and Odue threatened him. tiling him not to drink out of the spring. ; Returns Home \ • ' * • Dr. \V. If. Hunt, Spiugarn medalist for 1930, who has jeen abroad for several months s returning this week, laden id with educational honors eccivcd in Denmark. Following a frantic but futile search for the remains of Henry Ganaway, her late husband, in which nearly a hundred graves in the Burr Oak Cemetery wcr^uyened in vain, Mrs, . Ada Ganaway of 4643 Indiana avenue mis filed suit for $100. b ' -"h:1 Lj.. t . m I i;iTun, tm'clcrttjkcr who had charge of the buria1. M MS mu WITH BILLIARD CUEOVERGAME CINCINNATI, Ohio, Oct. 7.— A heated quarrel over a billiard game ended in murder in a billiard par lor here last week when an uni dentified man beat to death George Jones. 28 years old. with the heavy rnd of a billiard cue. The two men came into the hall and began a game of billiard" for money. Ap-. parently the both had been drink ing. an.i became involved in a quar rel over the game. Twice the pro prietor was forced to quiet them under threat of putting them cut of the place. The unknown man wen the last saint, and the quarrel was resumed. Before any one could stop him. the unknown man began to beat Jones on the head with hir cue. In her declaration. Mrs. Gana /way seeks damages for the reason that she has suffered great mental anguish and physical disabilities because of loss of the body of her dec-pared husband, Henry Ganaway, who was supposed to have been buried in Burr Oak Cemetery short. 11/ after his death in May 1929, and ] in addition has been deprived of | (he sacred right of decorating her ! husband's grave. When pressed by ! the widow, the officials of the cem etery. arP said to have dug up more than seventy-five bodies in a fran tic effort to locate Ganaway’s body. Widow Demands Search According to report. Mrs. Gan gway let: the city for about six months immediately after the al leged burial. Upon her arrival back into the city, she went to visit her husband's grave. At the entranca of the cemetery, Mrs. Ganaway met a Mr. Folsum, white superintend ent or the plot, who directed her ta Grave 1. Lot I ID as that of her husband. But upon arriving there, Mrs. Ganawav is said io have dif fered with Mr. Folsum. because she said she remembered walking up a slope nearly fifty feet at the time ■ Continued rn page 3) BINES BANK DIVIDEND CHECKS TURNED INTO NEW ACCDUNTS„WITH THE BOUELASS NATIONAL8 ANK rhi announcenymt ladt week that [the Douglass National Bank was i willing and prepared to accomodate I the thousands o£ Binga Bank de positors who had received their first dividend from the B‘nga Bank by I cashing their checks won a definite and fine response from those who had checks frcm the receiver of 1 Binga Bank. According to officials oi the Douglass Bank many of the depositors of the Binga Bank in face of all the bank closings were at last | willing to recognize the fact that The Douglass National Bank had withstood all the storms and was 1 still serving the community, and ! should have the wholehearted sup port of the people of thP southside Officials Pleased The Douglass Bank officials were gratified to see that the willingness of the people to cooperate was still strong in face of their losses. This return of confidence is thought by many to be the forerunner of great er things for the colored people in Chicago in that with this return of confidence in themselves and their institutions means that anything, no matter how large, can be at tempted in spite of the current de pression. Once again, said one Drominent business man. the far* is borne home to us that if the people of the southside nut their ten or twenty million dollars which os spread all over the city in the Doug lass National Bank there would be an institution which would then be capable of Giving the district all the aid it now neat's for its full and free commercial development. Such as sistance is not now forthcoming trom any other source. Offers Convenience And Service The fact that the Douglass Bank is located in the very heart of the colored district means that there is a natutral convenience which no other bank offers. Combined with this fact is the fact that it is offi cered and owner by colored people who know the needs of the commu nity and by experience should know the best manner In which to meet these needs. The confidence ex pressed by the former depositors of the Binga Bank who started new accounts at the Douglass expressed both willingness and a desire to reward service as well as merit while taking advantage of the conven ience. The continued indifference which many banks show colored depositors when approached for assistance ap , -ently for no other reason than the matter of color may be another reason for this swing to the Doug lass National, said one keen observ er on commercial affairs and is perhaps just the beginning of a new awakening among a people who have been kicked about just once too often.