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PAGE EIGHTTHE CLEVELAND CALL AND POSTThursday, December ?9 ^MInHiThr* |NitH i»ff|«tr4 In IN#(tffVMI' U§«'«t%«Hir fatwtt#\r|fil reof *in iNr mltioiiM tif \rfro , Nn»|was kprinklnl it till att almost Ha iMrfd an muni ofinH |n*|Mn»lilt;»n Thai I hr *h«*rl*ir»s Urn I tslmro decision «t an IlftNmi* rnurt mini *ttt! rnnata a stigma an IM rftriitfMn of American rhUtsatinft Hi In • large IWMIII*biwiffHt by the shaft *r-4prM«n lt;tf th# I nitrd btatr* * Nfttif rflurt, zuaranteetrif equal not Mr nI Ira M MJuralhn*! la*is fin# nil statesThr »(irf| rr of n madman. 1111*1 Item (i Prtrr*. afalklng through (lrtelsnd %»rwh on a ramiafr ml'murder fnttmf it* halanrm* reuniarpart In the rfr*»tl«n i»f a CVw* tend Natn, Hr ( harlm (*»n in la a (Million on thr t Irirlnnd Ijbrsry Hoard Dr (i«nln had prr»mu*lr hmuchl honor la thr rarr Ihroughhi* appointment a* Inatnrlor atH rata#n Rr*rr%r Medical Vhool.Ta morr than off*rt thr week-fttnrrd **| neleToittlsm*' of local TMfA official* oho first anlitrd In ffatrrtng a ampaltn to hulldl afim-crrm (rdar A»rnuo Branch.and mho tatrr refused to rrinxllatr thr unrhrt»tian |*rlm*lplr* of thrlrrrntral organiiatlon. thrrr werehundred* of Item* trlling of thr courage with which Negraes Inanry action met thr serpent ofprrjudlrr Thrrr number* arc Irg-lon. hut thr* arc brat exemplifiedby thr Allen uho rrgi*terrd at Tes-aa Inlxeralv. thr Murray who amaahed the color harrier at Maryland I'alvrraH). The Future Outlook league and It* job campaign*thr Walter 11 hite who defied southern moh* to plead the cause of the Negro, and thr score who sought relief from jlm-erowr treatment through the Ohio Civil Right* tear.The staff of thr Call-Post is gratified that no event of national nr local significance escaped theattention of it* new* gatheringforce. It* column* kept its reader* abreast of the time*, and attuned to the constant. and often bHter battle of the American Negro for hi* rightful place in thr •un. It'* pledge for 193* I* a larger and fuller service to it* reader*.CLEVELAND CITIZEN NUMBER ONEin record form illy on Pith 1* approx ing admission of Negra^ sin dents, to unit realty dormitories andunixersit.% cotta***, after student* refused ta sale a Negro girt ad*mission ta one railage. M wBishop ft R Wright. Jr. returtied to America after a yea* anda half nf labor tit Bouth Africa fortil* A Mis: Church , ,Utilities Department head* refused the request of Herman HPinkie. 13 Ward councilman, thatadditional tights he erected in hitward Their «*CUM wras * no funds(hiin.„ L *-\\fee#poirMsof•s*availableraa Moot I'.sonand as 1*2* roll*tug collection. ■ _am Bill Kent of Akrond Governor’* Di**y • ap-tot as deputy registrarAutomobile Lie# nee plate*, tahl»*hed office* *t Akron * UreenTun I. Hotel. _Rev ft. Allen Tone* of Akron. |begin hi* 44th year a* pastor ofhistoric Stocond Baptist ChurchMen.hers feted him at an elaboratsbanquet ,U. it Senator Bilbo, caused a ral “raisin* of eyebrows * andforemeni f «**STEERED NEGRO BACK TO G.O.Ppl«-adedfDR, CHARLES If, GIHVINan*The world was marveling at the heroism and courage displayed by a young Akron Ohio girl. Salaria Kee. only Negro nurse In war-torn Spain. With Miss K*e in the sector near Valencia, was one Negro doctor Dr. Do now* a.What later proved to be the forerunner of a more liberal adminis-Ashland Symphony Orchestra,organization of AT musicians.It was announced that the G- th-ftemnne Baptist Church Choir, and pastor, Glenn T- Settle would beginning January 9th, be featured j over The Columbia Broadcasting System as Wings Over Jordan *instead of * The Negro Hour a localWGAR program, . •r.^C * ]On New- Years morning historicSt. James AMU Church was razed bv flames and within a few hoursMrafter flames had subsided, a ug-orous drive was under w-ajr to rebuild the church led by Rev. Joseph Gomez, new pastor.City Hospital aunouneed that beginning Jut) t*t, Dr. I’. 0. Mason. Negro physician would become a Resident Physician at the hospital. He ha* been assistant resident physician since duly '37. THUBSDAY, JANl AR? ISWilliam Allen, who discovered the body of the kidnapp-d Lin-bergh baby was given a reward of■Hml - j ■ -JThe Brotherhood of Red Capswas launched at Chicago. Itsmembership included Negroes, whites and Japanese Red Caps, and sought regulation of wages and hours for these long neglected railway workers, ■■ •ij jSeottsboro Boys greeted in Cleveland. .lt; ■ /V'- ..Time carried Walter White * picture on front cover ana article onaft ■Effie l*e Morris. 1* year-old Cleveland Negro girl, boasting the highest four year average in her class was nam.'J valiedlctortan of the John Adams High School graduating class of February 1934.Rev. R Robert Lawson celebrated his third anniversary as pastorof Emmanuel Baptist Church.Senator William E. Borah of Idaho made possibly the most vicious speech of many vicious ones against the anti-lynching bill, up before theCongress for passage He virtually, according to commentators, outCrayton s Breakfast Bell 6ausage product of Leroy Crayton, ran n .full page advt., in the Call-Post ia-| sues of January iTth and FebruaryIKC-*'* *'Z*1 * ’ : * -■ - IflLAW rrnt o rtYM!GEORGE BENDERGeorge Fags ter. wife murderer^? so in*- plain, unvarnished cussing,tration of the Cleveland SchoolBoard occured on the first Monday .cracked the southerners In January whea Thomas J. Mart-* Roy Wright and Olin Montgom-ln and a liberal bloc were elected ery two of four Scottsboro BoysPRINCIPAL AT WOOLRIDGE SCHOOLM. C. Clarke, president of theDunbar Mutual Insurance Society was named as one of the “small business men” who were to attend a conference at Washington called by the President for Feb. 12 He was one of only three Negroes who attended. . ■ r 7Eugene Williams one of the four freed Scottsboro Boys entered Western Baptist Seminary at Kan-mmm' •... ,'■■■ *; ' m \The Mississippi Legislature, in an effort to turn attention away from a Federal Anti-Lynching Bill, proposed a State law against lynching.Itjpd not pass.Wilberforce University celebrated its annual founder's day on February 21.Gordon J. Bunch, noted magician lecturer, actor and humorist, died at Lakeside Hospital, February 3. at the age of 35, after undergoing an operation for ulcers.William McKitty. 2216 E. 97th st. was awarded 150.00 damages on February 2. when Castantino Petro-porullous refused him service at a restaurant at 1982 E. 55th st. McKitty was represented by E. W.Rossi n.George Fagalar, 23, who shot and killed his wife, Hilda on October 20 1937, went on trial for his life, February 9th. His attempt at suicide at the time of the murder having failed. . - ^1M. Monnerville, the deputy for the Guianas, was named Undersecretary for the Colonies in the new French Government, becoming the: third Negro to be named a minister in France. |JThe politically divided New YorkLegislature went on record as unanimously endorsing passage of the Anti-Lynching Bill before Congress.James Tat*- quit as Director of the “Negro Hour” choir, when it became known as “Wings Over Jordan’’ and mu deal direction was placed in the hands of Worth Kramer WGAR program manager.Atlanta University paid tribute to Editor-author W. E. B. DuBois on his 70th Birthday on February23rd. . ■ ■ '.Don Taylor, of Wadsworth. Ohiowas found guilty, and sentenced to life imprisonment after a Jury of six men and six women recommended mercy.Southern Senators rejoiced as theCongress resolved to shelve th* Federal Anti-Lynching Bill. Failure to vote for cloture ended hopes for its passage.The YMCA Forward Movement drive including a drive to raise funds to build a new Cedar Branch were hailed with mingled elation and condemnation by Cleveland Negroes. The opponents predicted the drive as forerunner of a Jim-Crow YMCA. .*when he proposed legislation designed to deport some 2.000,000 Negroes back to Africa. He said heplanned to ask the federal government Tor funds to transport them.Mrs. Lula Boydston, mother of Lemuel T. Boydston, founder of the Boydston Post No. 94 of the American Legion was guest of hon-Ah* w miAreagrs—ntaa had fcsM jlm-erowrd#l»Tduring a tHf* tlt;* Hal Hpring*, ftblLester A• Walton, II. i* Hinisterto Liberia was a visitor It) Cleveland. * IA (MTmI editorial nailed attention to flagrant notation of the right* of Negroes on WPA project* The editorial marked the tMSftMdtoVjof a rruaade h the paper, ta correct discrimination against and; segregation of worker* on CTava-teiut sod Ohio project*. Demand mi made for more skilled workersand added supervisors and as well as esreutixe*.Mr* Emma Pollard. 3*. guilty of emboss!tag 12*0*7 from the Alton Hocial Club, when she appeared before Judge Alva Corlett, Wednesday. March 14th.An Urban* III, court upheld thesegregation of four Negro studentsof Illinois University who were do. nled service at Henley s. largestcampus restaurant,Wm. O. Conners, Executive Secretary of the Negro Welfare Association. Cleveland, was honored at a testimonial banquet given byCleveland citizens.Portsmouth Ohio Negro citizens refused to attend a special Jim Crow showing of Joe Louis* first motion picture ’Spirit of Youtli”, at a Portsmouth theatre. They boycotted the show..Charlie Weems, one of th# stlll-Impriaoned Scottsboro boys, was shot by an Alabama Prison guard who claimed the boy tried to knife him.Another damage registered by a March, under the Ohio Civil Rights Commodore Hotel pay him, Clinton Grier, 2215 E. 100 •t, $100.00 for refusal of an elavator operator to take him up on a front elevator to his employers' apartment.. He was told to use .the frieght elevator.Policewoman Agn»*s B. Kennedy, w'hite. was “put on th# carpet‘» at headquarters for deliberately obstructing a Negro funeral procession bearing the body of Mrs. Lola Shepherd, 2202 E. 55th, Street toth* cemetery,Walter White. NAACP Secretary.was enthusiastically received in Cleveland when he appeared at Antioch Baptist Church.The Future Outlook League launched a mammoth Job Finders Drive with a Mass Meeting at Second Mt. Sinai Baptist Church, March 29.Cleveland NAAOP officials join-the fight to secure a new trial for Edward Hertsley, convicted of the murder of a Grafton, Ohio white girLELEVATED TO PRINCIPAISHIPcollection ww* (levelander inprovision of thelaw, when thewas ordered toMRS. GENEVIEVE STORF.YCVlnie *#*ii«n»tj„n of th* irurrd in April, wHen \\^try Peter*, *|eU . \ffrv sweetheart, and killed is East Hide men in • Hrtgktment, .pre*utuanl over ,| charge of hi* wife M u operator Hr u ,% itt,r e and electrocuted at Colon)CITY HOSPITAL RESIDENT PHYSICIANMiss Vivian CrawTord of Akron again won the Pixley Scholarship award at Akron University for outstanding ability in dramatics, music and literature. She is the first Negro ever to win this award.Angelo Herndon, CommunistSWIM.OR ELSEMRS. WILBRETTA POPEto the board. As a member of the board for many ,ears, Mr, Martin elected president, had already supported several important measures of the board favoring Negroes.sh Charleen G, Horn, Ashland j Negro girl, was reported as lone Negro member of theHiiiiiwwwiiimiiiwni mmmm. •WHITE FRONTPROVISION CO.CHARLES KREJCI, Prop.who had been freed by Alabama, were announced as speakers at St, John's AME church on January 21.Columbus, Ohio citizens opened the first forthright fight for equal rights under the law in many years in connection with the refusal of the White Castle System, Inc., restaurant chain, to serve a Negro.Greyhound Bus lanes dismissed without notice, more than 450 Negro employees.These Negroes had refused to strike along with union bus drivers and on settlement of the strike were dismissed. • ,V-;-.v'1 v '-V;Fresh and Smoked MeatsCedar 9370 8412 Quincy Av.iiiiitmiiiiiuuHtuuMiiijiiitHHtarI,gKwrmtiimiiittlHiHiiiui»iiaiiuihinuintiuiHi«mmuiMiHHiii«iiiuiiiinRifi iUiutnifSHAUTER’SDrug f Stores iWe Are As Close AsYour PhoneNo. 1Ce 8570PhonesNo. 2En. 06229208RELIABLESCedar2316PRESCRIPTIONSE. 55We Meet All AdvertisedPrices—Shop HerenuMiiiiniiiimuniiiiiauuHftntniiiuiiWilliam Dawson, Chicago Alderman and Oscar De Priest, former Congressman, both Republicans hnd already thrown their hats in the ring in the race for the seat occupied hv Arthur Mitchell of Chicago. Democratic congressman, and lone Negro in the United States House of Representatives.Bishop Charles Henry Phillips, senior bishop of the rME Church was tendered a reception by admirers in Cleveland on the oecas-sion of his birthday Notables from every section of the country attended.Yellow Cab Company hires Negro drivers in Los AngelesArthur Bryant, Cedar Avenue Barber shop opeiator, and his wife Dot, were cleared of charges lhat they tried to defraud Lucille Hardin Bryant of ner share of th** estate of the late Lucille Hardin Bry-CRASHED!y* -errv .■# 'rite!:1%mV.mtewri • !•rI*■lt;•\vVv.-y-*1 VWwi., j,K ■ ♦cutlve said that * The rolored people^) Negro student* and their friends should continue the fight for federal legislationagainst lynching.”Miss Ethel Storey, assistant to Miss Jane Hunter of the Phillis Wheatley Association resigned her post. Miss Hunter, disclaiming internal friction, declared that “Miss Storey desires to further her education.”Dr. E. B Spencer was shot and seriously wounded during an altercation growing out of hit running into the rear of the automobile driven by Johnell Copeland who was arrested for the shooting was later exonerated in court.Mrs. Minnie Gentles Turner celebrated her 12th Anniversary as Cleveland s leading Negro Florist.Senator Ellender of Louisiana, leader of the filibuster against the Anti-Lynching Bill, introduced in Congress a bill calling for a thorough investigation of Civil Service Discrimination in the Federal Government Service. The Senator a interest was in southern workers, but Negroes throughout America hailed the legislation as helpful to their cause. ^John W. Hartwell was elected exalted Ruler of King Tut Lodge, I.B. P. O. E. of W.William L. Dawson nosed out Louis B. Anderson at Chicago in a race to run against Democrat. Arthur Mitchel for a seat in the United States Congress. He was defeated in the election.The family of Lewis Shirley, whoLEGISLATORCHESTER K GILLESF£BwSvvy.W'/.v.',- • *.-* ,y.vij^7 i mmmDR. V. G. M ASONu. ,v.VVv’.VV’.'.V.'.Vor at the Legion's annual banquet^ on March 3rd.Elmer F. Boyd, veteran Cleveland mortician, purchased the beautiful Slaughter Brothers building at E 89th and Cedar avenue through P. W. Lemon, Real Estate broker. Mr. Boyd planned to maintain his original establishment at E. 43rd and Central and operate it as a branch.Edward Hensley, son of a Youngstown policeman, went on trial at Elyria, Ohio, March 8th for the murder of a Grafton, Ohio w'hite girl, Louise Hornbeck, was convicted amid an atmosphere of race hatred and mob threats, and is now fighting for a new trial with the assistance of Negro citizens of the state working for his freedom as the Hensley Defense committee.Official driv#* for funds to rebuild St. James AME Church destroyed by fire on New Year’s morning, be-gpn March 14th under a citizens committee of 100 prominent Clevelanders.-V. AV.RAYMOND HIGHTOWER/Aff.A TTY. EARL FOXwas grant'd a patent on a device 1halt; incrpasr-d the accuracy and efficiency of the machine gun,The University of Minnesota wentLeader and Sharcscropper was Wf-d to Miss Joyce M. Chellis stenographer of Gadson, Ala., in New York.Commissioner C. E. Irons of the Cleveland School Board, recommended a new ouilding for overcrowded and antiquated Central High School] in his annual report to the board.The National Urban I.eague announced the observance of its 6th Vocational Opportunity Campaign for March 20-27, 1938.159 prisoners, including George Fagalar, convicted wife-murdcrer, were quarantined in County Jail after an outbreak of chicken-pox Miss Josephine Myers, filed suit on Monday Feb. 281 li against Booker “Itsybitsy” Collins bass viol player in Andy Kirk's orchestra, for the sum $10,000 charging breach of promise. Atty. for. MissMrs. Callie Lee Streeter was elected president of the 17th WardHousewives League.Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune was announced as one of the nationally known speakers scheduled to address the NYA Conference at Columbus. Ohio on March 25th.AME Bishops, meeting at Montgomery. Ala., voted to take the leadership in uniting all Methodists under onr* program.As a result of a boycott by Negro citizens, the A and P store at Mt. Vernon avenue, Columbus, O., hired a Negro woman, Mrs. Peter Smith as cashier and permitted additional employment of Negroes to the Civil Liberty League. NWelfare Director Ramsey named Attorney Alexander H. Martin, prominent Cleveland lawyer, to a committee of nine civic leaders, who were to select a new head for City Hospital to replace the anti-Ncgro superintendent,- James A Hamilton, who resigned.. .Congressman Arthur \V. .Mitchell preferred charges aginst the KockIsland and Pacific Railroad. The..Tribute was paid at Akron, Ohio to Harvey S. Firestone, Sr., founder of the great Firestone Rubber Company, by Robert A. Taft, addressing a group of Negro citizens at Second Baptist Church, Akron.A Supreme Court decision making it legal to peacefully picket places in Negro neighborhoods that refuse to employ Negro workers, greatly accelerated drives in various cities for employment of .Negroes, .and added impetus to the program of Cleveland's Future Outlook league.Miss Florence Nelson, Negro wro-man, held out for the acquittal of Willie Caldwell, alleged murderer who was subsequently convicted,causing the discharge of the jury on which she was the only Negro woman, and precipitating a lively debate.was shot and Killed by his wife, Izola Shirley, resented the presence of the wife (later cleared in court)at the funeral. E Vu. aStewart Phillips, last of the Texas Martyrs, Negro soldiers of the old 24th Infantry, who rioted in resentment against treatment accorded them in Houston in 1917, was freed from Leavenworth on April■MIS HMBFuWhite students at the University of Illinois, joined with Negro students to fight Jim-Crow on the university campus. Action followed the awarding of a $2,000 Circuit Court verdict against a campus restaurant which had denied service toThe appointment of L Lof Cleveland a* serrctiry City Commission and Boarding Appeals was hailed a* tjrecognition of tin* NTr® Mayor Harold H. Burton.Woodland E. 55th St signed an as;rceincnt, » spirited picketing by Futui look league, in which »t*n4 placed Negro clerk* in theat part and full-tii^e j°bs-The Methodist EpiscopalSouth, by an ovorwlHmmr434 to 26. decided to un,te ™ Northern Mdlhodistheal the breach that dcveoflthe issue of slavery. JShauter Drug c ompany Psive Negro-owned m«der5macy operated by Ro r JJ ohserved its second annheriWhite. f=poKe 1rhtirdDr-observedWalter ..lynching at Dallas. Tc*;the receipt of throats agalife. As he spoke a mob ifmilled around outsidebut did not harm him.Thb Ohio mLeague announced tna nual convention Cleveland on May 28;‘ . Earl J. Bryant,(Continued on P«*MbeASSISTANT PRINCIPAL AT CENTRAL HDr. Willis J. King, President of Gammon Theological Seminajy* Atlanta, Ga., was deliberately slapped in'the face by a white worban editor Mrs. J. E. Andrews of )N^e race-baiting “Georgia Woman's ^World” when he refused to allow he^ jHioto-grapher to take pictures of a meeting of Negro and white students. Nothirig was ever done about it.Congressman Hamilton Fish, Republican of New York, proposed to introduce legislation to open all branches of the military service to Negroes. He. however never got farther than proposals during 1938.Honorable Ben Green, Mayor of Mound Bayou, all-Negro town in Mississippi was given a motorcycle escort and key to the city during a Cleveland visit in April.Rev. Sylvester Williams, Director of .the Christian .Community Center was honored at a Banquet sponsored by leading citizens, who lauded him for unselfish service to the community.President Roosevelt made his first (open.) statement on lynching to a committee from the NAAOP headed by Walter White. The exe-MRS. MYRTLE BELL
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