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WATCH CHICAGO WORLD NEXT WEEK FOR STARTLING LOUIS THEATRE
i CONTEST ^ AT WILL ROCK SOUTH SIDE AS IF STRUK BY THUNDERBOLT
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ACROSS
THE TABLE
By W4LLIAM HENRY HUFF
N
Birds of A Feather
All one does in darkness
Will surely come to light;
Time has long since tested
And proved this saying right.
Nothing can be hidden
From eyes that never sleep;
Ah, such eyes are searching—
Behind our walls they peep.
(Huff)
The old’ saying that birds of
a feather will flock together is
as true today as it was when
first uttered. I came to Chicago
fcight years after ^he century)
tUrfned, and
found all class
es of people
here even at
that early age.
The old red
light district
bloomed Right
ly as a crimson
rose. Many stu
dents and
others, w h o, j
like myselfj
had been rear-[j
ed m unristian
homes by pure A tty Huff
and clean parents,, seeing the
gay life, were engulfed thereby..
Most of them have gone on to
their reward by reason of the
•loathsome disease caught be
neath those red and glaring
lights, and others still linger
amongst us, diseased, crippled,
and blind.
Such people were no good to
begin with, and their wholesome
heme environment, father’s ad
vice and mother’s prayers but
fell on deaf ears. They were of
other kinds of feathers, wlhp,
coming to the great false city,
found their J.ind and flocked
with tfiem. Watch She person
who is presumed to be above the
lo,vand hideous but who is found
with that very class at every
o.i, ji w.nity. Pigeons do not
floi.k with buzzards!
Some few years ago, a certain
:! ng i icfessional man was
u^eply in love with a beautiful
young woman who bad been
graduated by one of the large
universities. In fact, he was en
gaged to lie married to her, but
one nir.it a fraternity brother
calld and requested him to rush
to a certain so-called hotel. At
this so-called hotel, this young
man found the darling of his
heait the central figure in a
ni de. reefer smoking party. His
lite, by that nefarious act on the
pa,t ol the one he loved, and in
whom he had the utmost confid
ence, changed the entire course
o! his lile, and caused him to
lose confidence in all women
folk, even the educated or so
Sec ACROSS Page 2
FLORIDA MOURN
PASSING OF
TAMPA EDITOR
TAMPA, Fla.—All of the state
of Florida are mourning the sud
den passing of Mrs. M. E. Potter,
editor, owner and publisher of
the Tampa Bulletin, Florida’s j
leading weekly.
Only a slight two years ago,
the husband died after years of
service as publisher and found
er of the Bulletin and as a pro
minent pastor and presiding el- |
der of the AME Church.
After the death of her hus- |
bamd, /Mrs. PotJfcjr carried on
with vigor and efficiency, but \
the strain evidently proved too j
much. On Sunday morning she
was present at services in her
beloved Allen Temple AME
Church. Whn the offering was
lifted it was she who went to
the table and made a plea for^a ■
liberal collection because of the
needs of the church. Sitting in j
her iving room just before the
hour for the evening services,!
discussing church matters with
friends visiting from Ports- I
mouth, Va., she was stricken in j
the midst of a sentence. When I
her friends rushed to her chair
she was dead.
Active in the work of the Ur- j
ban League, the Municipal Hos- i
her church, Mrs. Potter was eu- '
pital and most of the divisions of j
logized at her church by its dy-!
namic yioung pastor, the Rev. R. i
J. Blaine.
Directors Plan
Expansion For
Cospetics Corp.
KElW YORK—History was
made last week by the largest
rac cosmetic business in the
country, when the Rose Meta
Cc netics Corporations’ board j
of -directors held their first meet- !
ing at 9 West! 125th st., home of j
the organization, to plan for the
future expansion of the corpor
ate- :i.
Members of the board in at
tendance were Dr. Kenneth Me
dia :n, Br. J. B. Gibson, Dr. Ger
ald Spencer, Br. Gec*^ Dickery
and .1 Johnnie Walker, leading
Hailem businessman.
By grace are ye saved
through faith; and that not of
y/ouilselvesc it is the gift of
God.
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it is continually from Him, as ,
As grace is first from God, so !
much as light is all day long >
from the sun„ as well at first
awn or at sun-riising.
ALL HARLEM DEMOCRATS WIN AS
ASSEMBLYMEN;ALP LOSESBADLY
NEW YORK—Elijah Crump, |
cigai’-puffing candidate for" the
Assembly from the 12th district,
won by a landslide of 26,793 on
a straight Democratic ticket,
against his nearest opponent, |
Eugene E. Kemp, Republican,
with 9,306 votes. Crump won the
nomination several months ago
over William T. Andrews, form
er Assemblyman, who n asking
for a recount from the Supreme
Court, was notified that when
votes had been recounted, the
official word was that he had
lost by a slim margin of 54 votes.
The 13th district, headed by
Commissioner J. Raymond Jones,
boasted the victory of Harold A.
Stevens, Democrat, wrho got 20,
23S votes from the people. The
14th district stood its own ih get
ting' in Hulan E. Jack with 11,
406, •who was running for office
for the thircUtime. Assemblyman
Jack did vigorous campaigning
during registration week under
the guidance of seasoned dis
trict leader C. Mott Shavers.
Back to the 11th district, at
torney Thomas Dickens, Demo
crat, and from a family of pion
eer politicians, won by a vote I
of 16,048. This was his first try i
in running for office. * '
Two Negro vromen, running in
Brooklyn, were losers when tlhe
results came in. They were Ada
B. Jackson, candidate for Con
See ALL HARLEM Page 2
One Reporter
Foresaw Victory
NEW YORK—Carl Lawrence,
a local /political newsman for
the Dewey-proclaimed News and
who as a rule is never right on
a prediction, for once came
through with the foresight that
Harry S. Truman would be our
next President. Lawrence, who
predicted that either Warren or
Eisenhower would get the no
mination instead of Dewey, gave
th enboys” a bum stegr when he
stuck by his guns until the Re
publican convention. But three
weeks ago, Lawrence insisted
Truman would make it by some
miracle, though Dewey admitted
he plainly saw his victory writ
ten in the stars.
Wish 2S Pleasant
Thanksgiving to
Her Many Friends
Mollie Mae,'
Gates, nationa1*
gospel singe I
and recordinjI
artist of 460' |
Prairie av., CJhi 1
c a g o, wishe:
her many ac
quaintandes ant
friends a love-lj
and very plea
sant Thanfcs
giving day, a?
we all have so 1
.^ m
trankful for in Miss Gates
these United States. God Bless
you all.
The being of grace must go
before the increase of it; for
there is no growth rollout life,
and no building without a
foundation.
KLAN FAILS TO!
SCARE NEGROES
IN ‘DRESS UP'
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The
Ku Klux Klan seems unable to
become conscious of its unpopu
larity in the estimation of all
decent people. On election eve,
th Florida divisionparadd
through the central part of the
state burning fiery crosses,
principally in the yai’us of Ne
gro citizens. Winding up in:
Wildwood, canter of tlie Sea-•
board railroad shops.
Driving through several towns !
with their automobile license
tags covered, they declared that (
the parade was only a warning
to communists. However, every
one knows that there are not '
enough Communists in Florida j
to fill a Mother Hubbard’s cup- j
board, it is all too clear that the j
display was intended only to ;
frighten Negroes away from the !
polls. Negroes took the whole
matter as a joke and went to
the polls the next day by the l
thousands. Evidently it takes '
more than white sheet these I
days to frighten Negroes wlio |
faced Germans and Japanese in
the last war, over major por
tions of the globe.
Florida’s Governor Caldwell,
quite incensed about the whole
affair has ordered a full investi-'
gation to determine why state
and county officers made no at
tempt to arrest or step drivers
of cars traveling with covered
license plates, which is against
state law.
Precepts are the rules by
which we ought to square our
i lives.
PRINCE HALL
NOBLES AT BIG
SKRINERS BALL
MILWAUKEE, -Wis—For the
irst time Tri 'the history of Mil
waukee and in the state of Wis
consin, Arabic Temple No. 44, A. ■
E. A. O., Nobles of the Mystic ,
Shrine, Chicago, of Prince Hall ]
Affiliation of Negro Free Mason- !
ry, will publicly appear at a '
Shriners’ Ball, Saturday night,
November 20, at O. K. U. V. hall'
1218 West North ave., Milwau
kee, Wis. at 8:00 p. m.
The Ball will be preceded by
a parade of Nobles of Arabic
Temple No. 44 from Chicago. The
parade will be headed by the
band and patrol team of Arabic
Temple No. 44. Said parade will ,
start at 7:00 p. m., Saturday,]
from the North Shore depot, go
ing north on North Sixth st. to
West Kilbourne, west ori Kil
bourne to North 7th st., west on
West Walnut st. to North 12th
st., north on North 12th st. to
West North ave. and west on
West North ave. to the hall.
The Prince Hall Affiliated Ne
gro Freemasons of Milwaukee—
four Blue Lodges— Widows’ Son
Lodge, No. 1, Blazing Star Lodge,
No. 4, Corinthian Lodge, No. 5
and Ashler Lodge, No. 7, have
combined their financial resour
See SHRINERS Page 2
Street Lights to
Be Controlled By
An Electric Eye
STREET LIGHTS TO BE
LYNN,' Mass.—Engineers of
the General Electrict company j
.announced last week that an elec- ]
Ironic eye, which is able to see !
dusk and dawn approaching, arid !
turn off individual stret lights,
; ras been developed.
This photo-electric control de- ]
vice will be installed on single j
street lights, instead of the pre- ]
sent system of installing them"
on a series of street lights,
where they have heretofore
turned off these lights at a pre
determined time.
The engneers explained that
a photo tube, sensitive -£o red 1
light, gass-filled, will be used as
the brain of this dev^e. A tube
sensitive to red light was1 select- !
ed because the light of the sun j
in early evening is nearer the 1
red end of the color spectrum.
The new device can be plugged j
into a single street Tight equip- !
ped with a plug receptable. A
small window, shielded from the
direct rays of the setting sun or
rising sun, will face north and '
receive the light impulses, so
that the. stret light will go on I
shortly -before darkness.
Streamliner Hits
Coaches at Dolton,
5 Negroes Hurt
Thirty-three passengers and
members of the crew of a Chi
cago and Eastern Illinois rail
road streamliner were known to
ha|ve been injured Wednesday
night when the engine of the
diesel propelled train crashed
into a four coach commuter
train of the Chicago and Wes
tern Indiana railroad at the
Dolton station, near Blue Island.
Although none suffered cri
tical injuries, most of them had
to be removed from the scene in
ambulances. The injured were
takn to Dr. Philip Thomsen
clinic in Dolton and St. Francis
hospital, Blue Island.
Engine Crew Trapped
The engineer and the fireman
of the C. and E. I. train were
trapped in the cab of the diesel
locomotive |vhen the baggage
car of the commuter train tele
soped over the engine. They had
to be ut out by policemen and
and firemen.
Although only the engine of
the streamliner and the rear car
of. the commuter train were di
rectly involved in the wreck, the
first two cars of the commuter
train were hurled nearly 70d
feet down the track by the im
pact. "None of the sevfen pas
senger cars of the C. and E. I.
train, called the Meadowlark,
was derailed, but most of the
cars were twisted off their trucks
at an an angle.
Merchandise Litters Scene
The confusion at the scene
was heightened by quantities of
clothing, yard goods, and vari
ous merchandise strewn widely
from the wrecked baggage car.
Cans of tomato sauce were bro
ken and made splotches which
many persons mistook for blood.
The wreck apparently occurred
when trainmen of the C. and W.
I. train attempted to switch
their cars before the arrival cf
the southbound C. and E. I.
streamliner. The commuter train
had pulled into the Dolton sta
tion and discharged its passen-;
gers about 10 minutes before the j
crash.
Five colored were among the :
injured. They were:
B Alt LOW, Dan, Hopkins Park, ;
111., bruises.
DIAL, Louis, 3844 Dearborn j
st., Chicago, train waiter, bruis- !
es.
JOHNSON, Bishop, Hopkine
Park, 111., knee and shoulder.
LIVINGSTON, E. V. Chicago,
train cook, bruises.
POLK, John, 5S53 Michigan
ave.„ Chicago, train waiter, left
knee, right hand.
NEGRO POLICEMEN IN SOUTH
By DR. LEONARD F. MORSE
MACON, Ga.—Seemingly some
southern Negro policemen do
not idealize the importance of
• ici'r positions, nor (the harm
their careless conduct may work
up fy the entire movement to
secure more police officers in
south™ cities.
In this city, Ben Savis, a pol
ice officer has been arrested and
discharged from the department.
Caught with numbers tickets in
his possession, he admitted that
he had been engaged in the
numbers, racket. K"e ies sched
ul’d to appear in court in the
near future. Such conduct makes
it all the more difficult for Ne
gro leaders struggling in many
southern cities to convince pre
judiced white citizens arid city
commissions that Negro police
men are an asset to law and or
der.
MILLIE HOLIDAY , ,A t * ^
Billie Holiday, the Nation’s
No. 1 Songstress who will ap
pear at the Opera House here,
in Chicago, November 21, on a 1
Bop, swing and jazz bill, includ
Charlie Ventura; AllanfCagen,
Gen© Ammons, and a host of
other well known personalities.
Full Details of the Louis
Theatre Startling New
Contest Next Week
$60 A Day For •
New Hair Process
NEiW YORK—Beauty parlor
operators were disappointed tills
week when the process on which
they expected to make $60 a day
backfired temporarily. It seems
all the exclusive beauty salons
were excited over a new perman
ent hair straightening process
which paid the $60 a day to
operators but according to reli
able information, they could not
get tlhe job. What seems to be
missing is a reliable themiost i- j
tic comb and electric ccmb-curl
er.
Inventor Solomon Harper, who
has been offered', $100,000 for ex
clusive patent rights, has gone
on |:ti:Jce and lpfused to co
operate with the company be
cause under the terms lie would
lose all rights within si:: months
due to the heavy interest rates.
He issued a statement however
that he’s going to put the comb
on the open market where every,
beautician who wants one can
buy it directly. Harper is work
ing in cooperation with Earl
Snavely, offic ail ofthe Thomas
A. Edison Company of New Jer
sey and will maintain sales of
fices at 308 Lenox are., New
York, under his own name.
Powell Seeks to Make
Pollsters Liable
NEW YORK—Incumbent Re
presentative Adam 'Clayton Po
well, who was re-elected in Man
hattan’s 22nd Congressional Dis
trict with Democratic and ALP
support announced /last week
that he would seek to introduce
legislation in Congress to force
all individuals, groups, and com
panies engaged directly or in
directly in the taking of pells to
be licensed and methods and pub
lished reports to be supervised
by mi appropriate federal agenc.
The Chicago World is calling
all south side contest fans to
participate in their big new,
novel and different) type of
newspaper contest, sponsored by
the Louis Theatre and the Chi
cago World.
Nothing to Send In
You don’t have to gather box
tops, write no letters, or fill out
and complete some sentence.
And list of all there are no en
try planks to mail in.
A Different Contest.
It is not ai movie star, or mer
chant, and it is not a lucky num
ber contest. It is just a simple,
easy contest that everyone will
enjoy to prticipte in nd every
on will have an equal chance o
win.
WHAT CAN THIS NEW CON
TEST BE THAT WILL ROCK
THE SOUHSIDE WITH AMAZE
MENT?
While you are trying to guess
what this new contest is, watcfa
your curosity pressure so it does
n’t go to the danger mark. 0. K.
we will give you a little clue, but
watch your curosity pressure.
Here’s the clue—F. Y. Y. C.
Well, we have given you some
thing to think about, whether
you solve it or not before next
week, be sure to buy the Chicago
World for the Big Contest an
nouncement and you’ll say “I am
glad that I bought the Chicago
World today, instead of another
paper.”
All eyes of the Sonthside will
be on the Chicago ^1*brld next
week
Nurses Head Gets
Sudden Dismissal
TAMPA, Fla—Climaxing the
lofg series of disputes and dis
turbances at-the Clara Frye
Municipal Hospital here, an
nouncement was made of the
sudden dismissal f -Mrs.,' Edith
Clark, superintendent f nurses.