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State Li^ary THE Capitol Bldg Volume 6 First Colored Baptist Church Celebrates Third Anniversary The First Colored Baptist church at Jefferson and Fifth street is brating the third anniversary of the Pastor Rev. Chas. Favors 1 reign and the thirty-first anniver nary of the church. This event in the church’s program is one of the most outstandiong during the year in yhich the church has operated. The church has accomplished so f.many great things for which the ! i pastor, officers and members of the community are glad. Reverend Favors arrived in Phoe •* nix the latter part of September 1933, and began as pastor of the 2 PAPERS tor “POLITICAL CHISELERS” s' -■ . v. COLUMBUS, O. (C)—The re print by the Ohio State News of an Editorial from The Pittsburgh Crusader headed “Political Chisel ers,” and the advertising of the editorial on the first page by the News, points to a unaminity of opinion by many editors on a cer tain type of politician. o MAN INJURED IN HOPE, ARK., FIGHT HOPE, Ark. (C)—Moses Strau ghter was seriously injured Wed nesday in a fight with O. D. Grace in the yard of the Hope Basket Company where they were em ployed. Grace is in jail pending the outcome of Straughter’s injur ies. O Boys Drown on ■ Labor Day Masters Virgil Favors and Oliver Roseby, jr., of Elwood, Kan., came to their death by drowning on La bor day at their home. It is re ported that Virgil went into the water first and when Oliver saw him he was drowning. The young est and smaller of the two Olivers jumped into save his friend and they boht were drowned. ARIZONA'S PREMIER RACE WEEKLY PHOENIX, ARIZONA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1936 Filrst Colored Baptist church he has done a great work and con tinues with a very constructive and progressive program. He has been elected president of the Para dise Missionary Baptist Conven tion of Arizona and is also active in the National Baptist Convention of Arizona. Reverend Favors is active in the National Baptist Convention ,Inc., of which Dr. L. K. Williams Os Chicago is president. In fact he is tiie key man of the above na tional convention in Arizona. Woman Dies from Robbery Beating ' i GALESBURG, 111., Sept. 24. (C) —Mrs. Matilda Green, 143 South West street, who was reported to have been attacked and seriously injured by two robbers in her home August 26, died Wednesday after noon in St. Mary’s hospital. Mrs. Green was an old and high ly respected citizen of Galsburg and a faithful member of the Sec ond Baptist church. Her funeral services were conducted on Friday afternoon, with the pastor, Rev. W. T. Green, in charge. o Italy Moves Into New Area ADDIS ABABA, Sept. 24. (C)~ An Italian motorized column left here Sunday for Gore, in Western Ethiopia where it is reported an Ethiopian government is operating The army was composed of Erit reans and Ethiopians loyal to Italy. With the troops were Ras Ailu and his Gojjam warriors. Ailu had been kept a prisoner for months by Haile Selassie, who suspected him of pro-Italian sympathies. In a renewed attack on the capital • last Thursday, it was reported 600 Ethiopians and 60 Italians were killed. Night School Classes Open Enrollment 4n the adult night school at the Phoenix Union Col ored High School, Fifth and Grant streets, began last Monday, Sep tember 21. Registration will con tinue for the next few days. Classes will begin Monday evening, September 28, at 7:30 o’clock. The school is a project of the Works Progress Administration’s emergency educational program. Mr. Roy A. Leen, principal of the Colored High school, is in charge of the instruction program. Instruction \yill be given in Eng lish, Spanish, shorthand, typing, arithmetic, beginners reading ana writing, homemaking courses. Oth er courses will be given as the needs arise. Those who have registered will be perfitted ton enroll during next week. From all indications the enroll ment this year will be much larger than that of of last year. Much in terest has been shown in these classes and the public in general is being aroused to the advantages of adult education, according to Mr. Lee. ■ o- WOMAN GETS THREE YEARS FOR MURDER UTTL EROCK, Ark. (C) Miss Mary Bradley got three years in state prison Friday for the slay ing of Miss Winona Sims on July 1, when she pleaded guilty to vol untary manslaughter. Two White Men Sent to Jail for Beatina Colored DURAHM, N. C. (C)—Coleman Noell and Claude Greenhill, white youths, were sentenced to serve nine months on the roads (chain gang) by Judge Walter Bass in recorder's court Friday for the brutal beating of Solomon Bennett on the lawn of the Durham Hos Fight N. J. School "Color Line" EAST ORANGE, N. J. (C) —A strike ordered by their parents kept 17 colored pupils from Ash land School Thursday because the children were herded together in one room of the school. Dr. Cl if * -A , ford J. Scott, superintendent of schools commented: “It is one of the nicest rooms in the school." No colored teacher is in the East Orange School system. o FOURTH OF JULY PISTOL WOUND IS FATAL ATHENS, Tenn. (C) —Robert Peoples, 30, shot during a July 4 fight, died of his wounds Wednes day night. “Boots” Emmons, 27, arrested at the time and charged with felonious assault, is being held in the McMinn county jail without bond, now charged with murder. o DR. PRINCE AGAIN HEADS BOYD GROUP BAPTISTS COLUMBIA, S. C. (C)—Dr. G. L. Prince was re-elected to head the National Baptist Convention Os American (Boyd group) here Friday. o ENVOYS TO SELASSIE IDLE IN ADDIS ABABA ADDIS ABABA (C)—The rep resentatives of the American, French and British legations, ac credited to the exiled Emperor Haile Selassie, are idle here, not being recognized by the Italian Government, which is now in charge of the country. iery mills on the night of August 9. Bennett was severely beaten on the head with a brick and a stick of wood, the injuries sending him to the hospital for two weeks, Noell drew six months when he nleaded guilty, and Greenhill, who V7i.s found guilty, got • 3 months. No. 18