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News Of Other Metropolitan Centers - ——■—— — ■ - -- — - ■■ ■ — . . .. — First Negro “Siamese TVins” Shown At Medical Confab TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE HOLDS 54th COMMENCEMENT -1-1 r _ t # -————————————————————* News of East Chicago,Ind. By R. T. AVINGTON 3907 Carey St. East Chicago, Ind., May 20 Rev. J. M. Royster, pastor of the First Baptist church returned to his post Sunday, May 20, and was greeted hy a large congregation. Rev. Royster just closed a great evangelistic campaign in M* in phis, Tonn. He also attended vh Southern Baptist convention while in that icty. Accompanied by Mr. Charlie Scott, he visited his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Jackson f Stanton ,Tcnn. Their trip includ ed a tcur through Mississippi. The Willing Workers c.ub met Tuesday evening at the hurch, 4001 McCook ave., Sol anon White head, pres. The Faithful Few club met Fri day evening at the home of Mrs. Candis Roberson, 1018 Drummond st., Mrs. Mary Newman, pres. First Baptist church choir w ! rehearse Friday evening, 0 p, th at the church, Mrs. B. Vhit, hrad pres. Ti e Red Star Circle and Berean Band will meet Monday eveninf 6:00 p. m., at the church, 190 j ave., Mr. B. B. Roys ten, pres. Iicv. C. G. Holstcn, 1020 Calu met ave, Chicago, visited First Baptist church, Sunday. The Four Wonde r Quartette, Warren Landurum, James Wright Charles I’rotho, and Willie L. Per ry, manager wiil be heard ever radio station WAAF, Hammond, Ind. Mrs. Bettie V.V.litehead, -*31 Vernon, spent the week-end visit ing her sister-in-law in Cnic igo. Rev. S. Ruffins, pastor of Taber nacle Baptist .church is in chaig’ of a “Soul Saving Campagin” at the First Baptist church. The me. ‘■ing started Monday light. The Zion Baptist church en joyed its usual Fourth Sunday program. The morning services were conducted by .acting pastor, George G. GarrCtt. The Zion B. Y. P. U., enjoyed a delightful sesi n onthe third Surday in May. The entire Union was ruled over by a staff of juniors. The officers were Bennie Saunders, pres., Nat’ an iel Nicholas, vice-pres., and Edith London, sec. This new part of the Union’s program was made pos isible by Mr. El Ray Johnson, vie president of the B. Y. P. U. '1 his pait oft,he program was very in spirational to both the Juniors and Seniors. The Zion Bapti t Ch rch will hold its regular business meeting, Friday night, May .'list, 7:30 p. m. The B. B. O. E. Girls Club had four graduates in the class of ’35. aliases Kthelda Love, Anna Mar Samuels, Mamie Adams and Lily Mae Harris. The e girls received flowers on commencement night. An invitational party was given by Mr. and Mrs. John Daniels at their home on Broadway', Friday May 24, in honor of Otis Turner and Quentin Smith. The young ladies and their escorts had a love ly time. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Doneghy were host and hostess to the Idle Hour Club at their home Friday night. Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Avington, entertained the Jcfft^rTwenty So cial club at their home Saturday night. CHURCH ANNIVERSARY Saint Mark’s eighteenth anni versary ended Friday night with much success. The captains work ed zealously and reported as re quested by their pastor, Rev. F. C. Van Buren: Monday night: Mrs. Alma Chan dler, $15.08; Mrs. Myrtle Brown, $13.46. Tuesday night: Mrs. Iola Dilliard, $9:00; Mrs. Henrietta Goodman, $12.50. Wednesday night, Mrs. Anna Vincent, $14.14; Mrs. Christina Jacobs, $17.72. Friday night: Mrs. Mar.v Posey, 8.75; Mrs. Mary Hutchinson $18.90 The week of May 20, Monday night Mrs. Mary Bell. $23.10; Mrs. Laura Passmore, $7,17; Tuesday night, Mrs. Ruth Doneghy, $8-00. Wed nesday night, Mrs. Beulah Walton, $8.26; Mrs. Vera Johnson, $19.10. Thursday night: Mrs. Bobbie Hin ton, $21.00; Mrs. Edward Fritz, $8.20. Friday night: a musical and literary program. The total raised in the two weeks was $244.80 Mrs. E. L. Jacob won first prize. High School Student Slain St. Louis, Mo,. May 29—(AN P).—Assassins boro down on Pr.ui Watt, 25 year old Vashon Kigii scln ol student with automatic pistol*, shooting him to death on Shaw avenue, just west of King - highway, here last Friday morn ing. Police are investigating. Watt, who lived at "012 Rutger street, had driven but a few block from the home of Joseph Caleat erra, Italian, £"06 Shaw avenue owner of a tavern at 3100 Rutger street, whom Watt had taken home in his car. A new black Oldsmobile redan, occupied by two white men, pulled along side of Watt’s car and six shots wore fired into the car from automatic pistols. One of them hit Watt in the abdomen and hr- died an hour later at City hospital No Calcaterra, questioned by the police, said he had not head th sh as ami knrxv of rio reason f' r che shooting. He said he had paid Watt 25 cents for taking him home, and that on the way he had taken two others, ore of whom was Watts’ brother, Chari s, to their homes. “When we turned into Shaw boulevard, off of Yarn! venter,” Calcatcrra said, “I saw a new black sedan parked on Shaw fac ing east. The other car turned iround and continued to follow him. That's ail I know about it.” Watt, wounded, drove hi ; ear into an all night fil ing station and collapsed after asking an at tendant to call an ambulance. In the operating room he regained consciousness long enough to hell police that there were iw.> white men in the car which had followed him and to say that hr; had oaken Calcatcrra home before oho .-hoot ing. Says Public Gets Too Much Free Music Philadelphia Pa.. May 30—(A NP) — A ringing challenge di rected at the public was hurled from the studio of Dr. M. Frank lin Hoster, well known musician here this week, when he declared that “so much free music has been donated f-r teas. concerts and programs of various types, that individuals and commii.ce: who arrange these programs see.r. to resent the thought that some of us will not work unless some consideration is shewn f.r the service rendered. “The best available tale t amour musicians will be invited to per form at some affair which lasts over a period of several heus,’ Dr. Hoster continued. “An offer i' g is expected, whether y^u giv it or not. “The public is gencrcus and tolerant. They give the offerin' because they are usual’y interest ed in the cause it will benent When they want to hear a pro g am thov go. If Cab Calloway or Duke Ellington or Noble Sissh is appearing, the public pays for a ticket and goes to hear them. The reason they don’t buy ticket t> h ar ou" seri'u5 artists is be cause they have heard Mary Smith or John Jones free many time before. If Cah Calloway and the rest played for a half dozen teas and charity affairs this month, who would pay to go to the thea ter to hear them? I think the public is right. The fault is with us as musicians. W,e should be gin to remedy it now. I am al toady organizing the members of our profession, iooking forward to the establishment of this object ive.” New Yorker Named Aid to Relief Head New York, May 30 (ANP) — Announce ment was made this week of the appointment of Dean S. Yarbrough, of the personnel department of the Emergency Relief bureau of the City of New York to the post of as istant t> Oswald W. Knauth, executive di rector of the Emergency bureau. Mr. Knauth, in a speech before the Brooklyn Urban League, an nounced Mr. Yarborough’s ap pointment, and said there would be no prejudice nor discriminati >n in the administration of the Emergency Relief bureau on the basis of race or color. Dean Yarbrough is a product of the Urban league, having been appointed a fellow of the leagu at the University of Pittsburgh in 1925, after his graduation from Springfield college in Springfield, Mass. He received the degree of matser of arts at the University of Pittsburgh in 1926, and was awarded the degree of doctor of philosophy by the same institution in 1934, while research a sistant in the national rflice of the Ur ban league. Mr. Yarbrough was ’industrial, secretary of the Brook lyn Urban league for two and one-half years, and executive of the Warren, Ohio, Urban league for four years. The Emergency Relief bureau of the City of New York is the in-ct, f^anzstio” f "• th» ad ministration and distribution of relief in America, or in the world, and the appointment of Dean Yarbrough is unquestionably a tribute to his ability which has been demonstrated in the person nel department of the bureau, where he has been for the past six months; and to the desire cf the executive director, Mr. Knauth to eliminate discrimination on ac count of race. Mr. Yarbrough is married and has two children. Murder Case Stirs Boston Social Set Boston, Mass., May HO,—(ANP) —Citizens here are following with avid interest the murder case in which Mrs. Ernestine Henderson, well knov/n and highly respected young Roxbury matron, was al leged to have fatally wounded her husband last Thursday* night. An alleged argument is supposed to have taken place between the1 couple over "another woman” and i the husband pulled out a revol-1 ver and threatened to kill her. The w< man claimed that in th truggle over the weapon it was' discharged with fatal results to j her husband. The last registration for the' city-wide bridge tournament being j conducted by the Metropolitan 1 News is Tuesday, June 4, at 5 p, m. Register now. Dr. R! R. Moton, Retiring Prexy, Gives Grads Their \ Diplomas Tuskrgee Institute,—M ay 3 0 -Shortly after dt ?break Thurs day, th” larges^j owd that ha: gatheri d at tht*^» tute .since the :10th anniversary, s arted pouring into the campus to ttend the 54th commencement ext -ernes of Tu» krgee Institute an! the last at which the degrees uni diplomas would he awarded >y Dr. Robert R. Moton, retiring i resident. The influx of visitors, raduates and friends of the schot began arriv ing as early as Si nday for the baccalaureate addrt a which wa delivered by Dr. La ens H. Thom as, III, professor o religious d ucation at Emory university, At lanta, Ga., and by [Thursday, vhf campus had taken iui a real fes tive appearance. V The program, divifccd into two parts, began in Logan hall al 10 o’clock Thured®r morning The following students sp k': Eustace R. Campfleltll “The Shoe maker in the Community; Artie I Lewis, “Home Crafts In the Com munity;” Green Pslroer, “Th Dairy in the Commi|nity;’’ Cle Belle Sharpe, “The Dres=make ;n the Community;” Letiti* C. Woods, “Trends in Negro Educn tion in Alabama;” John C. Greene, Jr., “Electronic Tubes in Sound Projection;” Grace M. Higgs, “The Nurse’s Place in the Com munity;” Nathaniel J. Cox, “The Nature and Scope of the Work of the Teacher cf Vocational Agri cultre,” and Bobbie M. McClas key, “The Negro and Home Eco nomics in the New Day.” Moton Leads Procession In the academic procession for the afternoon exercises which be gan at 2 o'clock wore President Robert R, Moton, the Rev. Rich ard H. Bowling, > p^akcr of the day; Or. 1. D. PatterSufIT-presi dent-elect; Dr. Nathaniel 0. Cal loway, alumni speaker, represent ing the class of 1925, celebrating its tenth anniversary reunion; four members of the class of 1885, who returned for th'ir 50th anniversary reunion; members of the faculty, vi iting alumni and friends. j Bachelor of scierc d’gree were awarded by Dr. Mm on to M) candidates representing the school of < ducation, home economics, ag riculture, mechanic arts and bust msr. College trade certificate; were awarded to three and dotes diplomas in nurse training to fix high school diploma;? to 47 and trade certificates to 11. The Rev. Richard 11. Bowling, pastor of (he First Bajpthc church Norfolk. Va.. in a stirring rd education not a? a tl ing finished, but a* a tool fox- work to bo Ac complished. lie taped then; to make a study of ihtfachief-'mc t; of members of their'race; to ,vo'; opportunities of social and com munity and to seej; high sta r! aids of womanhood land manhood. Up strongly appealed to the mem bers of the graduating class n seek the fullness of life in con tinued study. Warren Logan, retired treas urer of Tuskegee Institute, the only member of tile present fac ulty who witnessed the first com mencement exerciser, presented Mrs. Virginia Driver, Tuskegee Institute, Ala.; Mrs Josenhine Ty son, Opelika, Ala.; Miss Ellen McCullough, Tuskegee, Ala., and El. H. Twheatt, Moultrie, Ga., Oil four «urviving members of th class of 1885, who celeberat d their 50th anniversary rcuni n Thursday. Mrs. Mary Gunn, Tus kegee, Ala., who joined the class in the day Tuskegee Institute was opened, July 4, 1881, but did lot remain to complete the course, was also presented to the audi ence. c,ias:; aiaaea uonauon At the conclusion of the con ferring of degress, Dr. 'V. T. K. Williams, dean of the college, p e sented Robert R. Moton, Jr., pres ident of the class of 1935, who in turn presented to President Moton a cash donation of fifty dollars from the class which was designated as a fund for prizes for the best all-around senior in each succeeding graduating cla s. Nathaniel 0. Calloway, Ph. B, head of the department of chem istry, Tuskegee Institute and a member of the class of 1925, de livered the alumni address. In a survey of his class, he made the significant statement that 35 per :ent of the members of the class were following the trades that they had taken at Tuskegee; 36 per cent were in the teaching pro fession, a very large per cent had "on«nued their academic train ing J .nftj’- leaving_Tntkf.yyp-a/Jfi that u considerable rumBer were1 engaged in work in Alabama. At thef conclusion hf his address he iresented, on behalf of his class, substantial donation to Dr. Mo rn, to be used in furthering the -oik of Tuskeeee Dr. Moton, after expre'sing his rep love for Tuskegee Institute, ;s higl ideals, its students, its acuity and its friends, as-ured all that although he was giving up active duties, Tuskegee would continue to have not only his in terest, but his presence as well as his loyal and faithful support. He then said that although the inauguration of Dr. Patterson would not rake the plrce until the coming October, ho felt .hat Tus kcgee.’s new president should be presented at this time. In acknowledging Dr. M .ton's tribute, Dr. Tattersen said: “It shall then be a great prlvileg: and a pleasure to cooperate with you, Dr. Moton, and frierd;, that we may maintain the higli ideal on which this institution wa3 founded that it may always in terpret its extreme worth >n terms of usefulness to the youth of our country and particularly cf our race.” Gov. Pearson Welcomes Quiz in Virgin Isles St. Croix, Virgin Islands, May 27(ANP)—Gov. Taul Pearson, commenting upon the postpone ment of the investigation of the administration of affairs in the Virgin Islands, said Monday: “While I am disappointed that a thorough investigation into the administration of the Virpin Islands is not to be completed im mediately, yet I welcome the statement of Senator Reynolds that, with an extension of time, the committee will be able to make a complete investigation. “I trust the inquiry will be ex tended to include those factors of tradition, history and social con ditions which adhere in the situ ation. Such an investigation would have enormous construtive value. It would be particularly valuable that Congress have a statement of the problems and conditions of the Virgin Islands, as well as that they have a report on the facts of the present administration. “I sincerely hope that when the full committee comes to us in the fall they will carry through the complete study of what the ad ministration has done, and a con structive study of what conditions here require congressional ac tion. With such a complete re port, by the senators, the entire Congress can plan wisely to co operate with the department of the Interior for a long-time pro gram for the deserving people of the Virgin Islands." Senator Reynolds, who was to conduct the investigation ordered by the U. S. Senate, sailed for his home May 29, after a pleasant stay in the Islands, but without accomplishing anything. Dixie Fete Is —Interracial By S. H. WALLACE Augusta, Ga„ May 30—(AN j P)—The Augusta Bi-eentennial j has come and gone, and Colored people are wondering what has come over Augusta—whether we' have seen the birth of a new spirit, or just the ghost of that | which we have hoped for, but are not to realize for a long time to come. At any rate, the people in charge of the Bi-centennial ar rangements are to be roundly com mended. The Colored committee was called into being at the ninth hour, yet it functioned grand ly. Jim-crow had only a small part in the arrangements. In the pa rades, there was no effort to ar range the Colored floats at the tail-end of the parade, and they appeared sandwiched in from the head to the rear of the line. In the pageant, the organizations appeared accord'ng to the date of their organization, white and Colored alike. While there seemed to be some light effort to jim crow in the seating arrangement, this was not rigidly enforced, and Colored people sat where they de sired. New Deal Discussed At Howard University Washington, May 29—(ANP —At the concluding session of the three-day conference held under the auspices of the Joint Commit tee on National Recovery, and the Social Science Division of Howard university last Monday evening, an almost unanimous voice of pro test was raised against the treat ment accorded Negroes under the New Deal, hy a variety of speak ers, representing all phases of in telligent Negro thought. Under the impartial gavel of Dr. Mordecai Johnson, president of the university, who presided, opinions ranged from the mild dis sent to tile generld program of revolt expressed bjL .he vcnerabl. retired dean Milierlof the school, to the bitterly ^compromising arraignment of they.apitalist sys tem in general, and].he American government in particular, as wa voiced by James \Ford, Com munist organiser ind vice-presi dential candidate during the la. t campaign. j Although the fact that Howard university supplied a forum for the free expression of radicai opinion is s^id to ave aroused the ire of certain of the conservative alumni of the school, this confer ence was a far cry from the time, more than a dozen years ago, when, under the admisistration of president, Dr. J. Stanley Durk e, the university was threatened with less titan its annual appro priation, due to the discovery of a radical phamplet in the school library. Prof. Miller, wtio for years has held the balance between the rad ical and conservative eier.i nts within the group , stated from the floor rf the conference, “It would he suicide for the Colored race to join a revolution.” Whereupon, Ford retorted: “The revolution is coming, in spite of the F. D. Roos evelts and the Kelly Millers.” Others who presided at the con ference included: Dr. Charles W-esley, Howard professor; Miss Nannie Burroughs, heed of the National Training School for Wo men and Girls; Dr. A. Howard Long, Assistant Superintendent of Schools; Miss Elizabeth Eastman, National Women’s Trade Union League and Professor Alain Locke professor of Philosophy, Howard university. Healthy Infants, Boys, Joined Together At The Chest By R. C. FISHER St. Louis, Mo., May 29—(AN P)—Siamese twins of an unusu al type, first on record to be born of Negro parents, were displayed at the Missouri Pan-Medieal as sociation which closed its 25th annual session here last Thurs day. The twin« were delivered hy a Caesarian operation April 13, at Sedalia, Mo., hospital. Dr. R. A. Maddox, physician, who brought the twins to the convention, said they weighed 11 pounds and 8 ourfces and were joined at the chest; both w'ere males, full formed and faced each other. Dr Maddox read an excellent scien tific paper pertaining to the rar< discovery. He explained that such types of Siamese tW'ins are styled Thorocopagus, due to t^ie peculiar union. They have fully developed heads, upper and lower extremi ties and their hips are separate and normal. The Pan-Missouri Medical as sociation has no record of this type of twins in our race. They never live over a few hour», Dr. Maddox related. More than 100 delegates from Kansas City and out-state, includ ing St. Louis, were in attendance. Dr W. B. Christian of St. Louis, secretary of the association, 1925 35, and Dr. I. W. Brown, St Louis, treasurer, 1920-35, received awards for distinguished service during the year Dr. J. Owen Bloche, resident pathologist of City Hospital No. 2, was awarded a certificate for most valuable contribution to the 1935 program. Officers elected were: Presi dent, E. T. Taylor, St. Louis; president-elect, Chas. R. Humbert, Kansas City; vice president, E. L. Harper, St. Louis; secretary, A'.i -|. .(.iiitffiiiiiii. ant secretary, W. II. Madison, Marshall; teasurer, I. W. Brown, St. Louis; censor, Earl Williams, Lovejoy, 111. The 1936 convention will be held in Kansas City, Mo. LINCOLN UNIV. PLANS 81st COMMENCMENT Lincoln University, Pa., May 30 — (ANP)—The 81st annual com mencement of Lincoln university the oldest institution for the high education of Negro young men in the United States, which is lo cated near Oxford, in Chester County, Pa., will be held at 2 o’clock, Tuesday afternoon, June 4. % Insanity Plea Fails; Youth Sent To Pen Birmingham, Ala, May 29 (ANP)—An indication that in sanity pleas in the south are for whites only was seen in the denial Of the plea to Willie Jones, ac ! cused and convicted of robbing a girl of 7fi cents and stabbing he". He was sentenced to 10 year ' imprisonment. His lawyers con tended before .Judge J. Q. Smith that he was insane. The judge called in Dr. Jamc A. Collins, county jail physician. Collins examined Willie in bis cell and pronounced him sane. Willie'-, lawyer, however, produced Pr bate court papers showing that I had been sent to the asylum in 1931 on Dr. Collins’ testimony that : he was insane. I Judge Smith scarcely knew I what to do, but ended the case by I sending the prisoner to the slate | penitentiary. Nurses Hold Graduation Boston. Mass., R'ay 30 (AN P)—Graduation exercises of the Red Cross Hygienic and First Aid classes sponsored by the Boston Tuberculosis association were held here at the Everett school on last Friday, with Mrs. Fred erick T. Lord presiding and the Rev. Richard Owens of the Peo Mrs. BerniCe Hillings, R. N., executive sp'-retai y of the asso ciation, sketched an outline of its program for health and Dr. James J. Keenan, director of the Boston Sc^bol Hygiene depart ment, was the principal speaker. In his talk, he touched on the pro gram being followed in his de partment. Mrs. Jessie Higgs, R. N., awarded the home hygiene certificates. SING FOR INMATES Boston. Mass.. May 30 (ANP) — —Inmates at the Charlestown prison last week listened to a mu sical rendered by the Traveling Choir of St. Mark Congregation al church, Roxbury. Convict Clever Woman Thief MEN, WOMEN, GYPPED LOOKING FOR WORK Charleston. S. C., May 30—(A NP)—Forty-six men and women, recruited from the potato fields in Hastings, Fla., on the pretext work in Charleston county, this state, were left stranded here without jobs by the white men who drove them up in trucks. The white truckmen made each man and woman pay $1.50 in advance for transportation and promised the jobs upon the payment of 50 cents after arriving here. But af ter unloading their passengers, the truckmen disappeared. WOMAN “RUNS INTO TRUCK;” KILLED New Bern, N. C., May 27—(A NP)—A coroner’s jury, after au inquest into the death of Mrs Hattie Lee, 48. returned a ver diet thnt Mrs. Lee had “run into’ a truck driven by J. C. Redd, white, and killed herself. The white man was exonerated of all blame. TALLY YANCY &*? _P^ _By Williams A G-IRL WHO CLAIMS TO HAl/E BEEN THE MUR DERED woman’s MAID AND GAVE THE NAPAE OF MOLLY CRAIG WAS CAUGHT WW(£ TRYING TO GET IN THRU A BATH ROOPV WINDOW-TALLY REPORTER FOR, THE LOCAL NEWS PAPER PICKED UP A PECULIAR lOOK ING INSTRUMENT WHICH PWy BE A CLUE INTHtMYSTfcR* LOOK'S LIKE- A Y6AW OUT ITS A .'vE frOTIT RAOIO TUBE TO , NOT-1 YOU SEC /THATS WHAT TO Me I IT JUS1 COUlb BE ]thE CORONER * AVIBFjATOROf / SAIb-NERVOUi TbHOCK-VIBRft CAolf5^NTO jTOR-THATS rr/ DID tally get IT- and WHV C>II> THey WANTTOGtT HIMOUT Of THE WAy-WHfll <S BEHIND.ALL Of THIS? New York, My 29—(ANP) — LouW Dunbar, 33, the only wo man the police department's re eently issued "Wanted List” in cluded, wa» sentenced to ten years imprisonment in Bronx county last week for grand larcony. Police accused the woman of stealing cb thing and jewelry worth ?30,000 from Bronx, Long Island and Wfcstchcstor home . They termed her one of the clever est woman theives. She made a practice of accept ing employment as a domestic in wealthy homes. After a few' days’ tvork .police charged, she would loot her employer’s home and dis appear. Kappas Hold Educational Meet in East Atlantic Oitv, N. May 30 (ANP)--A capacity rudience l - warded the efforts of 1 t:i chapter of Phi Delta Kapoa rorority when they held the first of a te rms of educational conf renc -s here last week at the Y. M. C. A Miss Elbe Brcwn, vice president of the chapter, directed the meet ing and introduced Miss Mary K. Laws, a popular teacher from the Atlantic City high school. Miss Laws spoke sympathetical ly on the problems that confront modern high school youths and their parents. She spt ke particu arly of the need for intelligent guidance if boys and girls a e to lerive the maximum benefit from ur effort to educate them. Miss ' s" s stressed the fact th ’t we must look beyond mark s on r • ort cards to the p tych 1 gical idjustmont r.f the child and hi u'urc spiritual as well a m to ial success. The m cting v a Ti er broken up into sectional groups where a niore intimate study of different age gtoups was attempted.