Metropolitan news., May 07, 1935, Page 2, Image 2

About Metropolitan news. (Chicago, Ill.) 1935-19??

Image provided by: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library, Urbana, IL

                
BUSINESS MEN WELCOME NEW PUBLICATION
ht# !. .. --—_______
Iriflrf • •
47th St. Business Men
vraf,,*;
Indorse Newspaper
Typical of the many messages and letters of congratula
tion received by the publishers of The Metropolitan News from
various individuals and many of the city’s outstanding civic and
business organizations, is the one sent by the Forty-Seventh
Street Business Men’s Association, Mr. A. Lincoln Wisler, pres
ident.
This group of business leaders
extends a hearty wt^ome to The
Mbtopoutan News and feels that
this Bi-Weekly will do much to
stimulate civic pride and bo an
important factor in the develop
ment of community life. Mr. Wis
ler’s letter to Mr. McGill, presi
dent of the publishing company,
follows;
(Congratulatory Letter)
iftr. N. K. McGill, President,
JipyorouAN News,
3606 South Michigan Ave.,
Chicago, Illinois.
My dear Mr. McGill:
- I was very pleased to learn
that we of this community are
to have a newspaper, namely,
The Metopolitan News.
Ji heartily agree with you
when you state that much needs
to be done to stimulate civic
pride in our community and
more cooperation and team
work for trade development.
. It may surprise you to know
that our community has a pur
chasing power of upwards of
fWenty-five millions of dollars
Beg, year, even now under the
Press of our great economic de
gression.
•fBrie business men are fully
aWare of this fact and know that
lfipat Of this money goes else
IVhfcre, and never comes back to
Us. Arid as a consequence, in
stead of hoping to increase em
ployment we ourselves by our
yery abtlOns of spending our
•* money elsewhere are gradually
Impoverishing our own commu
nity.
Just Visualize for one moment
if the two hundred and thirty
thousand people in our commu
nity made up their minds to use
their purchasing power in our
1 Own community, why over night
httd and Such a new era of pros
perity would dawn upon us in
ohr community that our busi
' riess section would immediate
b’. become one of the most out
j iftjinriing and progressive com
munities in the whole city.
If your newspaper will dedi
cai^y itself to eradicating this
cancerous growth that is gnaw
i'M at the very vitals of our com
munity, I feel confident that the
C^fjfcens and the business men
in bur community will welcome
ybdr newspaper and give you
.jiOTjr wholehearted cooperaation
arid, sUpport, and this organiza
tfeSi both approves and endorses
the paper and the principles for
which it stands.
Congratulations and best
.wishes,
Sincerely yours,
A. Lincoln Wisler,
President, Forty-Seventh
Street Business Men's As
1 sociation.
Dr. Williams
111, At Hospital
* (Continued From Page 1)
attack after being frightened by a
burglar who was found prowling
in„the home at 4940 South Park
iiFor, the past few years, Dr
Williams has made several extend
e4«rips to Europe, each time mak
ing some special study of medi
cfc which he late gave his own
Community the benefit. As proof of
his true community spirit, the
stricken physician has been con
with Provident hospital
tdfee tha tinstitution, in its very
MMi^ days, was located at 29th
UnO TJearborn streets. Year after
year, Dr. Williams, along with
other physicians, convinced the
general public among whom were
• few wealthy philanthropists,
that they were doing a great work
fof the neighborhood. How, as a
result of his keen leadership and
ability to inspire other doctors to
perform meritorious work, many
beJIgVe the present well-equipped
institution was made possible.
Ethopan Soprano
Thrills Easterners
NEWARK,N. J., May 6—(AN
I’)—rPi'incess Heshla Tamanya,
Kthiopian soprrano, appeared at
the Mosque Theater in Newark
Sunday night on an nil star pro
gram of white stage and screen
stars for the benefit of the He
brew Ornhnns Sheltering Home.
' > a on no ►pjwnren ai
Uk iktuht at the icuu^t, ol
Hold So.
Side Soft
Ball Meet
George L. Giles Post Sponsors
Sand Lot Tournament: 400
Teams In Contest.
Sponsored by
Relief Com.
_
Farrar, Bluett and Turner To
Head Organization Work
Among Juveniles.
Sponored, by the George L.
Gile9 Post No. 87 of the Ameri
can Legion, the mammoth soft
ball tournament designed to
take some 2,000 children off
the streets and to put them to
gainful and beneficial recrea
tional activities by playing the
game, is progressing, according
to John Turner, athletic chair
man of the Post. The Chicago
Park District is cooperating in
the gigantic program which will
be financed by the Emergency
Relief Commission.
Some ten or twelve vacant lots
are to be cleared off and convert
into playgrounds under terms of
of the plan. The participants will
be boys in three class divisions, a
gills' division, and an old-timer
division. The plan calls for orga
nization of about 400 teams on
the North, South and West sides.
The tournament will be divid
I ed into six sections, the South side
‘ boundaries being set at 97th street
on the south and 8th street on
] the north. All teams will then be
classified and allowed to compete
for the South side championship.
The section winners in their re
spective brackets, will thou com
pete for the South side title and
later with the North and West
sections for the city title.
There will be thre divisions in
this softball league, the North
side, west and South side. Eddie
Farrar of Olivet Institute, will
sponsor the tournament on the
north side. Mr. Blueitt, in charge
of Union park and the Maxwell
Street Y. M. C. A., will sponsor
the meet on the West side. John
Turner will line up the boys on
the South side.
The 16-inch ball will be used in
all games. Age limits are Class
AA (Boys junior: under 13 years;
ClassA (intermediate: 14 to 17);
Class B seniors, young men, 18
and over. Class C, old timers, un
35. Class D girls, 15 to 17. Class
D girls, 18 and „over.
Civic Clubs
Aid In Food
Distribution
(Continued From page 1)
Wilson Lovett, vice .president,
and treasurer, of the 'Supreme
Liberty Life Insurance company,
expressing bis views to The Met
ropolitan News, stated: “It is de
plorable that such a condition ,had
to arise, but I am rather optimis
tic. I believe that an immediate
remedy to. our troubles will be
be found. Such a condition cannot
exist for too great a time, because
it would result .in disaster. Some
sort of an emergency measure will
be put into action immediately, I
think, that will erase the crisis.”
Monday afternoon, police order
ed a man and a woman to cease
picketing the..35th street relief
station at 35th and Vernon avenue,
with signs on their backs, demand
ing cash relief. Signs were placed
on all relief stations notifying the
public that all relief employees
were suspended; that food tickets
would be sent through the mail;
relief employment checks would al
so '■!> :•«-». 'V "in'! i
C0o2 0. c.u. a....
Doing THeir B*t I or Getting out a metropolitan
• j r* . o • w7 t 1 news paper is no easy job. It re
CtlicSgO S First Bl-VC eel ly,|Ujres p|le combined brains of
many workmen skilled in the operation of many departments. Here
you see a few staff members and employees who helpde in the publi
cation of The Metropolitan News, Chicago’s first newspaper vo he
issued twice weekly. Below, Eneil F. Simpson, secretary of tho cor
poration, and business manager, is shown seated at his desk; next,
below, N. K. McGill, president of The Metropolitan Publishing Com
pany, Inc.; at the top, right is shown a rom in the circulation depart
ment and left to right are N. K. McGill, Jr., Robert W. Chamblie,
(manager), Jumps E. Jackson and Harry Scott; next, below, is the
advertising department, with James G. Marshall, seated at desk and
left to right, W. \Y'. Cowen, Clifton Thomas, John H. Corliss, George
R. Scott, and Harold W. Williams; below, left, is Mrs. Nettie George
Speedy, noted neWspkpey woman, who will have charge of the socie
ty and women's pages; and to her right is F <w. Lawrence compositor.
N-A.A.C.P.Holds
State Conference
The regular quarterly meeting
of-the Illinois Slate Conference of
the National A^socjatiop for the
Advancement of ' Colored People
will be held Sunday ."Slay 5, in the
Masonic Temple, 1259 Emerson
stret,, Evanrton III.
Aside from the local branch
there, Chicago, Bloomington, De
catur, East St. Louis, Rockford,
and Springfield will be represent
ed.
One of the main topics for dis
cussion will be the education of
the colored youth in Illinois. Also
expressions will be made relative
to the flagrant Jim Crow tactics
now being used at the University
of Illinois in regard to keeping
NOTED ARTISTS
TO HOLD NEW
YCHI7 I 7 Y 77rr7
NSW YORK,May 6 (ANP;
colored male students from tak
ing the advanced military course,
from which all admitted are raised
to officers. Thus far these students
have been withheld from the ad
vanced military course, because
examiners claim that not even one
of the many individuals who have
applied for entrance has been able
to pass the physical examination
or meet the academic requirements
of the dean.
Roy Wilkins, one of the execu
tives of the national headquarters
of the N. A. A. C. P., in New York,
is now on route to Chicago from
Lhe west. He may attend the con
ference Sunday.
\ private showing of the produc
tions of the late Melvin Gray
Johnson, Richmond Barthe and
Sarcenl Johnson, was held here
. 2' i la:1 f •
Johnson, were done in the rural
Howard Fairfax, scion of a re
puted wealthy Maywood family,
the sheriff’s office by moving his
added to the compexities of the
sheriff’s office by moving his per
sonal effects from place to place
for fiive times. Hayward is thr
defendant in divorce proceeding,
filed in Circuit Court by his Bei
nice, prominently known in club
circles. Mrs. Fairfax charges her
husband with desertion. She if
being represented by Attoroev
Benjamin Clayton. Deputy Sher
iffs upon reaching his last known
address to i 110 Hush street, Mon
day, learned that he had again
evaded them.
Mrs. Fairfax’s attorney stated
that he could not understand wrhy
Fairfax was playing a game of
hide-and-seek, because his wife was
•lot seeking alimony; all she wants
is a divorce.
Fisk Jubilee
Singers At
Studebaker
The Fisk Singers, an octette
from Fisk University, appeared in
concert at the Studebaker theatre.
Sunday afternoon, under the di
rection of Bertha Ott. The person
nel of the singers are as follows:
Cecil Reeves, Arthur Bostic, Wil
liam Collier, Edward Mitchell,
Harold I'atton, Clifton Dyson, Wil
liam Henry at the piano, and Mrs.
James Myers, director. The Min
neapolis Journal had this to sav
about them: “Their tone balance
is excellent ar.d their vocal ef
fects o fphrasing and general mu
sicality exquisite as well as the
impeccability of their good taste.
One can well understand how a
singer of such delicacy of method
as Roland Hayes can have risen
from their midst,
heard in a group of songs. Ilis
voice was clear and sweet and it
had much of the timbre of Ro
land Hayes. He was well support
at Fisk.
20th Century
Women Hold
Baby Contest
Peaks, Jr., of Evanston, Illinois,
■va.r awarded the third prize, for
receiving 414 votes.
Nine Receive Silver Spoons
Nino other babies received en
•raved silver spoons as tokens from
he sorority. They were Stacia
aryl King, 432 votes; Xardra
sax Ion, 432 votes; Gwendolyn
Prescott, 3.li2 votes; P:chard Dale
Brown, Evanston, Illinois, 36;
votes; Lewey Grant, 242 votes;
Mary I.ouiso Anderson, Evanston,
Illinois, 138 votes; Janice Roberts,
George E. Jenkins, Jr., 140 votes:
and Quincy D. Jones, Jr., 130
votes. Other contestants were: Ma
r:a Nimrocks, Sandra Taylor, Ev
anton, Illinois; Ilawrence Martin,
June Hutchins, Baby Elanchott,
and the Mitchell twins.
Miss Beal rice Green, who sold
306 votes, was recipient of an en
graved gold compact, which was
offered to the Ivy Leaf girl sell
| :ng the highest number of votes,
j Miss Green is a senior at the Uni
| versity of Chicago.
The chairman of the contest,
Soror Elizabeth Tanner, was ably
] assisted by Sorors Josephine Pres
cott, Eu!a Martin and Gwendolyn
Bryant.
Modern Plant
Installed for
Bi-Weekly
Continued From Page 1)
woman's page and society; F.arl
■I. Morris, theatricals; James-Mar
- shall, advertising; Robert W.
| office.
FOREWORD
(Continued From Page J)
feelings and to bring all men, races and religious classes closer
together; with, and resting upon the doctrine and teaching that
all men are created equal and that we' are our brother s keeper.
We wish to be a part of all these things in the church, in business
and in politics—with God as our leader and guide, and firm in
the belief that "RIGHT IS MIGHT.."
We wish to be an integral part of all civic and commu
nity interests and stand firmly convinced that these interests
should go hand in hand and be guided by the spiritual, uplifting
influence of our churches; that we should so organize for mutual
help and act,so as to use the 25-million dollar purchasing pow
er of the citizens in our district. By this act of consolida
tion,, a larger part of the money spent by us would remain in
the community; the merchants thereby could sell cheaper and
i consumers could buy at a saving; there would be a resultant trade
stimulation and a greater “turn-over" for business of all sorts;
the citizens, profiting by the economic upturn, would be better
able to pay their bils; business men, doctors, dentists, lawyers
and other professional men would be able to reduce their pile
of "delinquent" accounts; “lean" pocketbooks would become
but a memory and the ultimate result of this trade rejuvenation
would be that thousands of additional jobs could be secured for
the residents of the community, both young and old.
Civic Leaders Indorses
The Metropolitan News
See Bi-Weekly As A Prover
For Good in the Community
The South Central Community Council, Inc., composed
of a group of prominent Southside business and professional
men and interested primarily in business and civic improve
! ment, sent greetings this week to the pubishers of the Metro
politan News, congratulating them for presenting a Bi-weekly
newspaper to the readers of the Greater Chicago community.
3 Students
Win Honor
As Athletes
LEAD FIELD OF 1,800 IN
ATLANTIC CITY CONTEST
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., May
1i—(ANP)—Miss Agnes Curtis,
senior student in the senior class
f the Atlantic City high school,
was the surprised recipient of a
coveted honor here last week. Miss
Curtis was named among the five
seniors from whom will be chosen
he commencement speaker for
he Normal Preparatory Course.
Raring their choice on scholarship,
'ersonal fitness, speaking ability,
platform presence and other ad
mirable qualities, the faculty a
' out this time everyyear names
five studentsfrom each course who
compete with each other for the
final honor of a place on tie Com
mencement program. Twice with
in recent years this distinction
has gone to a Negro girl. She is
the daughter of Mrs. Nicey Cur
is and has pursu 'd her course un
ler themost extreme economic con
litions. Her father is dead. There
ire two other girls,Clara, a high
iehool junior and Eva, who is still
n grammar school.
It was almost impossible to
make a distinction bstween th?
two gils, Dorothy Stokes, and
Carmen Chisholm, but Miss Ma
zie Scanlan, white director of
physical education, in the Atian
! ic City public schools, finally de
cided that the work of Dorothy
was superior to that of all oth
i r competing girls. Edward Wil
liams was unhesitatingly declared
the outstanding boy.
These children, with their clos
■st runners-up, one girl and .wo
'-oys, all white, led eighteen hun
dred hays and girls from the sev
enth grades of the city in a spec
tacular mass drill which was the
closing events in the spring show.
One of the most popular num
bers of' the evening was the stunt
drill directed by Ralph P. Greene
in which seven hundred Colored
children took part. These children
represented seventh and eighth
grades from the Lndiana and the
New Jersey Avenue schools.
In a series of races the boys
from these schools won all the e
vents except two. Twenty thous
c,u ... Vvbl '. yvul .'u i,, A
bail
I The council endorses the princi
I pies for which The Metbopolitan
! News stands and ajrees that it
will wield a powerful Inducn^ lor I
good in the community. (
1 he letter President McGilt, of
the publishing compart"from Pres
ident William H. Riley of the Com
munity Council, follows: •'
Mr. N. K. McGill, President
Tub Metropolitan News,
3506-08 South Michigan Ave.
Chicago, Illinois.
My dear Mr. McGill:
I am very happy to learn that
you are to present to the com
munity a new newspaper. In
asmuch as you are one of the
original founders of the South
Central Community Council, I
am fully convinced that your pol
icy will be identically the same
as that of the South Central
Community Council.
I feel confident that your pa
per will give to the community
the civic stimulus which it so
badly needs. We are also con
vinced that with the knowledge
and intimate contacts that you
have with our community, we
feel confident that you will tac
kle the vital problems that are
confronting us and that you will
help us through the columns of
The Metropolitan News to de
velop the social and economic
welfare of our community.
We heartily endorse the prin
ciples for which your publica
tion stands.
Sincerely your,
William H. Riley,
President.
Son of Dr. Williams
Returns From College
The Rev. Lacy Kirk Williams,
Jr., son of the president of the
National Baptist Convention, back
in the city from school at Bishop
Bishop College at Marshall, Tex
as, delivered the convocation ad
dress at Greater St. John Baptist
Church at 48th street and Michi
gan avenue, Sunday atfernoon. A
packed house heard the young
churchman in one of his major
appearances since joining the min
| istry.
Last year, young Williams
j preached his first sermon at his
father’s pastorate, Olivet Baptist
| Church, and at the time the opin
ion was expressed that he would
i make a fit successor to his distin
guished father. He was later sent
Bishop College, where he is ina
! joring in theology.
Visiting the young minister are
Melvin “Nero” Conley, a student
: atBishon College, and an end on
< ’ • t ’ . " Tig i - , i i me. i, > !
'i'll ''rings, Ark.
I