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to December re. 1838THE CLEVELAND CALI AND POSTPAQf NINENATION SENDS CONGRATULATIONSaft • ’*0fi rtkttd Public# j Hi • p*p*IflU VMM ^1, ,,( Cleveland-..rstion flVftMRitnfltd out toInk, * od flit «rtl«» blflijffl, Mr a *4 Mr*U John-Ml- *Curr^ »«M* «ib. «hen^ dhtfH ibc* **« r,d]7fInf«i. AkillU«rt»r*J«irin«c tli# I Pof fh«* •»**«» NlgrflED IMMORTALSzmiCbiifd). •Dunbar MrUurm lft )| nif 0|^ r*rn LooKntoo Ok to.JOB GETTERAwarded * rnn»,#r * d#iri« ay theBlvlfHly ©f (a bfinms th*nmt lb#*« honoredREV. GLENN T. SETTLE%WELDON JOHNSONtm*n( faced armed op-ia their picketing of store* neighborhood* that hadte fhe emplo mfnt of Ne-(nit^d Male* . InlrratateCommission .ruled .that nt , Vgro . Jim-C rowMOURNEDT. ERN EST HA IXteet the requirements ofIke cav* 0f discrimination ’**nan Arthur .Mitchellwnern Railroad.voters of Cleveland werp itgainst supporting a pro-wrwhich petitions were Be-|««lt;b to fix the numberpancilmen at nine The , Was headed by WilliamVillages.y Edward Hena!ey * -aa denied anew trial at Elyria, Ohio, spurring a drive to ratso money for an appeal to the Ohio Supreme Court,At the end of vhe second week of annual membership drive of the Cleveland Branch NAACP leaders announced the drive would be con* tinued to March 23,The First Annual Convention of the Ohio Beauticians Association was announced lor Cleveland. July”r * - -r 'IThe Ieaiue of Nations, meeting at Geneva, .officially sealed the doom of ancient Ethiopia. It is now to be called Italian E. Africa.Robert A. Taft warned an audience at St James Forum against any attempt to make WPA perma- j nent. It would again enslave the Negro he commentedArguments for a new trial forthe Scottaboro boys were presented to the United States Supreme Court by A tty. Osmond .Frankel, noted constitutional authority. __..Under fire of Negro Citizen* for treatment of Negroes of Cleveland, on WPA projects, Col. Joseph Alexander. refused to see an audience of Negrod* and ignored correspondence from civic bodies. He laterwas asked to resign... .and did.The NAACP violent objections to the setting up of different wage differential* for Northern and southern workers, arguing that the lower wage scale eras deliberately proposed for Negro workers in thlt;* South, under the proposed wages Mrs. Cornelia J. Pickett of Chicago,attractive matron, became thefirst woman of any race to be elected State Central Committeewoman I of the Republican State Central Committee of Illinois.Ernest Bryant, 22 year old thug, who was one of two robbers who slew an aged Quincy avenue confectionery proprietor, was given life imprisonment after a jury recommended mercy. Willie Caldwell triggcr-man in a eries of holdup-with Bryant, was sentenced to theelectric chair.Senator R. J. Bulkley of Ohio was announced as principal speaker at the Wilberforce June Commencement exercises.Fear of the political power of Negroes in the event the ballot was granted to citizens in the nation's capitol, was believed to have hampered a fight in this direction. Negroes represent about 27 per cent of the Washington, \ c. population.that no tvidenca had been produced to justify th« theory that the crimes were the work of Nr g roe* Police molested pedestrians, and searched (illegally» places where Negroes congregated until public resentment caused Police Chief Matowitz to put a stop to the out-■HH.. * • -The successful drive for funds tlt;bin1.1 A new Cedar Rranrh V.Mt'Awas punctured hi a wave of resentment stirred up when the downtown V refused to ghe accommodations to two Negro ministers on *youngest person gvrjby that institution1* C Blount, Secretary of the Great Lakes Mutual, was elected president of the National insurance Association during its Cl*ve-land Convention.Dr. Charles H Oarvin was appointed instructor in genlto-urtaary•urgrry at Western .teaerva University Medical SchoolBennie Mason, incensed by rumors that he was but a “front man for white interejts m the operation of His ( edar Country Club offered a reward of |50u to anyone Who could prove the rumors as true. Negroes in lt;let Hand engaged Inn^ar-hyatertcal rioting, when newso Ihe victory- of Jo# Iuil« over Ma» Hchmeling fi**h*d over the ; radio on June Joining Cleve landers were Negro#* In nearlyeierv urban rotntiiunlfv who de. ,,rn'*d pro|M*rt. pulled street carsoff the track and encaged in anendless scries of “friendly*' de-mnnatrat ions,. 1jBFr jThe proprietor of s Lima. Ohio !drug s ore w«s placet! under ar--e»t when m Negro lawyer. Clarence G Smith, who happened to beprrs.dc t of the Toledo BranchJOHN O. HOIXTif Areplied that provisions had been madr for hiring them. Later some * Mated,The I’eerleea Rubber fompan)junk tire dealers, were -he object fifh* by Negro citizens, led byex-councilman Septimus E, Craig •ltd the E. 58th 8t Improvement Aiscr,*!ion. The firm located onE 88th St between Central and Quincy. wrt* subsequently ordered to tesr down a ten-foot fencearour-d the place by the ZoningBoardA group nf Negro riHten* at To. -•bury were killed in.Unlit, an,IBfltt Hajroa. daughter «f promoter H yea. lingered between life and deolk far nearly four months h#-for# recover tag from a fracturedskull and internal injuriesThe Akron Branch of the NAACT joined In the fight against segrega lion of Negroes on Obi# W !*A pro-fcituphue Jordan, 2C attempt«d•utoide by shooting himself when hie wife refused to make up andrlt;*turn home*. He survived a •hot la his right breastTh i Iota F*hs Lambda. NegroWoman's Business Sorority, .mst in ClevelandtTharle* White Assistant Law Director of Cleveland, was namedExecutive Committee Secretary- of Ithe Ohio Republican* preparing Ifor the Novembsr election*, Chair* | man George Bender promised adequate representation ofcouncils and in'CAPTURED 17th WARD MACHINERYpsrtyNegroes InpatronageNAACT waa refused service at hi*' were fighting furiously to get*torc. Negro citizens of Lima were * Jim-Crow fire unit. The CivilREELECTEDvwXs '• vJCONGRESSMAN MITCHELL♦viait here.. Later, pressed, .for .a statement of policy, Y officials admitted a policy of racial segregation.. Led by the lt;all-Post, Negroeswere asked to withhold their pledges until the policy was rhanged. It has not hern rhanged as the tu s\ \ i flr is born jTyree Jones, Cleveland Branch I manager of the Mammoth Life Insurance was exonerated of blame in the auto death of two white men father and /on, run down by the automobile of D. C. Alexander Simpson, who was found guilty and placed on probation. Simpson had blamed Jones for the accident.not especially interested. Th# proprietor lattr apologized.Lawronca O. Paynt, CTevtland Councilman, was principal speaker at the dedication of the new Brad-field Center at Lima. OhioThe CWclanri School Board announced that one million dollar* would be spent on a new Centrallligb School plant, the first Item on the board* IMA building program with the assistance of VITAiajjgk ^ a j3g|_The jim-rrowing of a NVgm couple at a Columbus, Ohio Theater. sparked the ritirrns to their first open drive for elvil rightsThe iisuually docile eltizenery planned to carry the nun to court.I The Call.Tost modestly took a how after having scooped every Negro newspaper In the countryon action pictures of the Joe Ioui*-Max Schmelling championship fight. The Pittsburgh Courier erroneously claimed the honor.The Ohio State DemocraticLe-gue. under Tom Dsvi.*, mdors-ed the candidacy of ^Martin LDavsy, incumbent for Governor and lost with hum in the primaries H, was defeated by Charles Saw-Cornerstone laying at Pt .Tame*A. M K Church was accomplished by a monster parade and radiobroadcast.Rev, .Tas Foote, 11 vears pastor; . Father Divine, mysterious eultof St. aul'a A. M. £. Zion Chtirch. I leader, figured In a re«l estatewas transfered, over futile protests j transaction that had the countrygasping. He acquired deeds to the property known as Krum El. bow. through a feud between it*owner and President Roosevelt ox-right to its name, and movedbecome a the Presi-river.theScrvic# Commission, however, saved them this ditgrsre. by refusing to juggle the eligible list of appli.r^nts. or to set up a separate Negro list. , William Howard Murrell, member of Police Ambulance Crew No 2, died at lakeside Hospital aftera lO.wttk illness. * * «Charging that Centra? Police Station officers hsd assaulted him, Joe Gray. *107 Scovill Avenue,sued «he police for 17,800.00. The marriage of Dave Albritton,(leveland track star, to Miss Margaret Ann llsliday of Columbus, leaked out they had been married in secrecy since Thanksgiving.Ml ..Miss Dorothy Darby of Tontiac,Mich, former Clevelander, and Miss loin Jones of Chicago, were granted solo 1U enses as private pi.lota by the U. S Aviation Department. • * jOficials of ‘he C and B. Line operators of the Steamer Goodtime,. denied that segregation of race dancers on the pleasure boat was sanctioned by the officers andowner* of thlt;- company.The home of Dr, X O. Baungardner. 1501 VVIimar Road wa* bombed by white resident* in the neighhorhnod who resented the presence of a Negro in Ihe section. Only slight damage was done. .The doc ter and hi* wife expressed defer ruination to ronttnuc their residence1 IJ, FinJay Wilson was relectcd i Grand Exalted Ruler of the I R P (O. E of VV. at the grand conven':onat Baltimore, Md. Mrs, Abbi • ( Johnson retained her post as1 Daughter Elk Ruler. The die-1gruntled Collins' faction was defeated In their ouster move againstilwgX; . •. ICleveland Negroes, divided Into; several factions over selection of a| site for the proposed new CentralHigh School. Majority desire location outside of blighted area** Mias Hynter want* it next to Phillis Wheatley A*sociat,on.Manhattenville College, a Catholic school in New York State, admitted its first Negro student letting down bars against Negro girls Senator William Gibbs MrAdoo who waa defeated In California for renomination a* Senator, suffered because It wxs brought out during the campaign that he had formerlyRALPH TYLERcan ticketFor the first tims in th# historyof New Jersey, a Negro, Alvah Sidney Leacock appeared on the ballot a» candidate for sheriff in th-general election.State examiner J. E. Ormea opened the first of a series of classes.lt; nmpensation Buieau Classes were held at the Funeral Home of Boydand Sons.Court agreed Lloyd Gaines had been de-i*w school ofmember of thr Ku HintBURNED!twice ceremonies, 86 Un!r» High School.wlt;Te inducted into theHonor Society, becomingtaembero or ihe ClVveland«ong with students from k w aiul Lilu'°ln High.lt;Jm » lrFrlt;''i?) policyCluh i ,, Srt anlt Cedar P b for ^''Rrocs in SolonASSING WEEKd fr°ni Editorial ^ge)jn7r°'lr Cmerging»5 , of s,e!f-rule and cut the change will notUrt, h0 ,’e,lev'1,1 after aThe NAACP took the- case of Lloyd Gaines, St. Louis Negro who was refused admission to the University of Missouri Law School to the United States Supreme Court.Mayor Harold H. Burton designated June 5-11 as Community Safety Week in Cleveland.The Insurance Managers Council of Cleveland laid plans for entertainment of the National Negro Insurance Association to convenein Cleveland, June 15.First fruits of a CaU-Post drive against discrimination of Negroeson WPA, came in June with an announcement from Harry Hopkins WPA national director, that 8 supervisors and other white collar appointments would be made in theCleveland area.A reign of terror in the NegroCleveland Negroes started agita tion for a position of Cleveland's Library Board, a vacancy having been created by the death of Emil Joseph a veteran member. The name of J. .Walter Wills, Sr., was prominently mentioned for the post.The National Insurance Association was shocked by a speech delivered before its delegates by Robert Vann, who literally “laid out” Negro business and .its” .slipshod methods of operation.”. The Associ ation subsequently decided not. to enter Vann’s speech into its officialminutes.The Forest City Deqfal Association held its annual election of officers. selecting Dr. A. G. Redmond president.Gus Grayson, 14 year old student at Outhwaite, ran away from home after a teacher at the school threaten^d him with 60 lashes for misbehavior. The event led to a probe of the situation at Outhwaite The Call-Post began a series of articles that ..furnished .definite proof that local .WPA officialsrtv to a deliberate pro-In with his angels tonext door neighbor of dent across the HudsoncamWM GENTRY PETERSfrom a minority of members, to a charge at Akron, Ohio. He was succeeded by Rev. J. L. B.'ack.James Weldon Johnson, famed Negro poet.author, and leading spirit in the NAACP, was killed inan auto crash at a railroad cross-His wife was seri-fatally injured.ing in Maine, ously, but notiyThe Spingarn Award Committee, was under fire because of its refusal to select another Negro for the honor turned down by its selection. Dr. William A., Hinton, noted Negro ■’crmatologist..Governor Bibb Graves of Ala. bania, commuted the senfenee of Clarence Norris from death to, life imprisonment. He was to he electrocuted on August 19. Norris was•fidprayer.s.w .aueve, kTX I Cl§u \JL tc-iw* ..... m mof fV-ation do! districts followed the wounding ofPeriod of medi-1 one white police officer and theslaying of another, despite the factwere a pa..., -- - .gram of keeping Cleveland Negroes,'one of the Seottsboro hoys.La. ciinon lenrk nil I Dr Puill Rfl 11 U.Q niftVpl;DOWN THE BIG ROAD(lt; ontinued from Editorial Page)•Henipt on cither subject.Hal |o„(|However, I realize that until wefarveryThe eportsleadership and state leadership, we won’t getjj Pr*l»ip.it api*,], ''K ronv’Pntion meets, a Committee on State of theIq0 wh'T*^* nnlt;i *** report breathlessly awaited, cr f,'1 ° ,,loy contain mostly platitudes, a few sane progres-retninm'f.H Ho'vrv®r, when it comes to trying to put into ef-lea«lf.nf,a-**°n*’ convention machinery breaks down.%llfrp ttw.df,MJ °f ,,,e N®kro is going to ennie in the cities amiA ^7** • ____f._ _ _ . « _fnfor%iho isanv (ilt; 'f',0Ping political strength. Any man his nej ,i f ofHce, must of necessitj’ have some In-ho h«. K ,10r,1°od. It is unfortunate that neither of the two' n elected to Congress from Chicago, has had the ^ a(l°rship. Their elective position automatically position for the toga, but lack of statesmanship» InhasP**' * look #Pn,r!* fhem from assuming It.If we can achieve this step,^n,ls nipt r *llP deve*°Pnr)ent of a better type of local leadersWin h, ropo,|WRl communities.^ lt;u, 7arJr,,Pd-u» -N'pu t- fT *rt *or 1838,/l wish all my readers, a HappyH tear. rout of positions as supervisors on WPA projects.Atty. Charles Carr filed a suit against John O Holly of the Future Outlook League, charging that Holly owed him money for his work in settling a damage suit brought by Holly against the McCrory Stores. Holly collected the * damages through Atty. Alexander H. Martin.lt;Srr lost his suit to collect from Holly.The Ohio NAACP meeting in Akron, went on record as endorsing a fight against text books used in Ohio public schools which fail tomention the contribution made byNegroes to the .progress .of theUnited States. ■St. James AME Church rebuild-ed* after a fire removed the cornerstone of their razed building, to reveal among other things, a 1926 copy of THE CLEVELAND CALL.A Chicago judge held that residential covenants barring Negroesfrom buying property in certainrestricted neighborhoods was legal.Delegates to the National Negro Insurance Convention miss an uncomfortable meal, when clt; sampling the dinner to be served, were made quits sick by a quanity of roach powder that had been used to season part of the meal thi were to eat at St. Johns AMEcooks,Dr. Paul Banks, Cleveland dentist. failed in his third recordedattempt to end his life. He slashed his right wrist, then took poison, and had almost bled to death when discovered. Despondency over “bad breaks” was blamed.Shortly after publication of figures or —lack of them —showing that there had been no recorded lynchings during the first six months of 1838, two lynchings for July were recorded, one in Georgia, one in Mississippi.Cleveland “Y” officials found inJuly, that the determination of Negroes to withhold support from a jim-crow Cedar Avenuue Branch was a reality few, if any, made goo'1 their pledges, signed during the “Forward Movement”.Segregation on buses -in theSouth was dealt a ho(1' blow whpn the North Carolina Supreme Court reversed a ruling of a lower court that permitted would have impris. oned a Negro woman for having violated a state law that provides thai Negroes should enter publicbuses from the rear.Rev. Joseph Gomez, pastor ofSt. James mT M E Church was called upon to explain why Negro skil.ed mechanics and artisans were not working on the new Church structure. The pastorWith the opening ofpaign to elect a governor and miscellaneous senators and legislator* in Ohio. The Call.Post hended a drive to register every Cleveland Negro voter.Miss Geneiveve Storey, veteran public School Teacher, and as*is-tant Junior High School principal at Fremont School, was elevated to the prineipalshlp of Gladstone School, bringing the number of Negro principals to two.. The Call-Post predicted the victory of Robert A. Taft, picking him to lead the Republican ticket. Candidate John Bricker for Gov. ernor on the ticket was unopposed.Judge Ackerman dismissed charges against William P. Williamson and his wife, who were first brutally beaten by Euclid Bench private-police w'hen they at. tempted to enter the beach, and later arrested by Cleveland police for creating a disturbance . The couple entered a suit against thepark management.Thugs at the Woodland HillsPark pool assaulted Raymond Hightower, Negro postal employeeand his two young companions a*they entered the pool to swim, per-eipitating a near-riot and subsequent court scrape. ’.Of six whites arrested. 8 pleaded guilty and were given suspended sentences and an Admonition by the Judge, the seventh was found not guilty in a jury trial In which all* Negroes were systematically .removed from .the jury.A falling wall, being removed by U'orkmen, crushed to death Mrs. Elizabeth Eskridge. 63. *in one of the most ghastly accidents of the year. The body of the woman, un_ earthed from under tons of brick, was torn in half, and emained un-heenHBfc, 7 y. jy. »Mr*. WHhretta H. Pope was named principal of \8onlrldge school bythe Cleveland Board to become the third Negro school principal In the Cleveland *y*tem.Air*. Myrtle Bell was named assistant principal at Central High School. ;Councilman IJiwrrencc O. Paynewas named director of the Negro Dhision of the State G. O. P. Osm-naign. and established offices at Columbus. W. O. Walker, editor of the Call-Po*t was made director ofpublicity. * 1The Republican State Conrentipn meeting at Columbus, adopted the most liberal Negro plank In It* history. .The plank was written by Negroes and titled “Equality In Citizenship.The NAACP confirmed the fifth lynching since July, and was probing the sixth at Rolling Fork, Mississippi. on July 6th.A legal w’ife of the late Monroe Motley w-on her case, a suit to wrest th* SI0,000 estate ^e left from Mrs. Geneva Motley of Cleveland, hiscommon-law-wife. The case involved Attorney Harold Gassaway In charge* of malpractice, charges which were later disproven by a committee of investigators from the Cleveland Bar Association.Charles E Dickerson of Columbus was named an Investigator fn the office of the Columbus WPA set-up. A similar appointment had been made in Cleveland, with Jack Elder assuming duties as an Investigator in WPA Cleveland headquarters. 1275 Ontario Ave.William Gentry Peters was elec trnruted on Monday, September 26,for the murder of three persons In Cleveland. His plea of insanity wxm not believed by a Cleveland jury.Miss Jane E. Hunter. Executive Secretary of the Phillis Wheatley Association was charged by Attorney Chester K. Gillespie with “selfish interests in opposing the majority decision of Negro citizens tothe new Central High School E. 69th-71st street district.$ State heads and supervisor# eo tinued to uu the threat of diamuh sal to forca employees to vote for Democrats. '*Just before the election, Negrq employees who were prominent Republican workers in their ward%were fired from the Garbage PlanV sponsored by the Call-Poet, at which'Civil service qualifications-or lad|free marking wasa given (leieland of them was the explanation”.era who desired to mskr the ei-. Cleveland's .Negvt ,«snta ,weidand nations tor position* under civil bock Into the Republican column at sen ire in the Ohio unemployment the November election* aiding i«the election of John Bricker, Governor; Robert Taft, U. 8. Senator! (’better K. GI lie* pie. to State Housi^and putting Republicans In controFof both house* In State Legislatureat Columbus.Dr. DeWitt Turpeau of Cincinnati was elected to Ihe house of representatives by Cincinnati votera Harry Davis waa defeated for Stati’ senate.In November, the entire world was to be shocked by brutal and barbaric treatment of Jew* in Germany. Negroes In America joined in the general, worldwide condemnation of the outrages.Mrs Justine Scott, mother of ten children, was killed In Cleveland traffic when a speeding automobile snatched her arm from her body as she attempted to cross a busy tho-rofare. Th# driver was charged with manslaughter.Representative-elect Chester K. Gillsapie threatened to kick Rev, D. Ormand Walker out of Wilberforce'• where he is president. Gillespie charged Walker with low poli- The U. S. Supreme to rehear the case ofSt. Louts Negro who nied admission to the the University of Missouri.Negro students at Ohio University reported that racial discrimination at the university was flagrant and that university officials **#ink-ed“ at it. An investigation was startedU. S. Senator Robert J. Bulkley. Democratic candidate for return to the Senate, admitted that *THA,i federal housing unit, was not designed for Negroes *' He waj defeated in the elections,Rev. Charie* H. Crabl# of Cleveland was chosen president of the Ohio Baptist General Association at the Association s Cincinnati conven-tion..For the Brst time la hlfltory aNegro, George L Allen was admitted as a student in a regular bust-ness at Texas University Allen had tical activity“ and ’lies” he claimedlocate in theidentified for trataors were ing properly demolition.Chester K. E. Davi* wonseveral days. Con-blamed for not hav-braccd wall duringGillespie and HarryRepublican nom-i riion for legislature and Senate respectively to become the only Negroes on the Ohio ticket in the November elections. Joseph Bow. man, who had been leading the race for nomination to State Supreme Court, wa* nosed out at the last minute by Dixon. Vote wa* Dixon 172.999. Bowman, 170,892. ..Governor 5Iartin L. Davey wa* defeated for re-noniination a* Governor of Ohio by Qharleo Sawyer. Taft, as predicted, won the Republican Senatorial nomination.Ralph Tyler emerged from a bit. ter battle for control of the 17thWard organization by capturing36 of the 17 committeemen to his banner, gi.ving him complete charge of the party machinery in the 37th. and ringing out the already waning influence of Councilman Leroy N. Bundy.Tragedy *truok in August, at a railroad crossing of the New York Central lines crossing E. 40th St. James Tsompson and Georir- Gold-The Call-Post popularity contest opened. #The U, S.. Government sued Jesse Owens for tax evasion. ~ s former world sprint champ, “patci.ed things up and stayed out of jail.The congregation of Mt. Zion Congregational Church, which for years occupied the imposing edifice at E. 55th and Central Avehue, moved to a smaller church on October 2. The costly structure at E. 55th St., a former Jewish Synagogue, becoming too large for its small membership.Thousands of curious Clevelanders swarmed around C. B. Miller Funeral Home on Quincy Avenue to witness the funeral of William Gentry Peters, triple slayer, who had been electrocuted for his crime on the last Monday In September.The NAACP opened a probe into the beating of Prof. George F. Porter. President of Wiley Junior College, at Dallas. Texas, who was beaten and thrown from a Texas courtroom after his refusal to “be excused from jury duty. The Association, at the same time opened a fight on all tax requirements in southern states which have for years been used to disfranchise Negroes and many poor whites.Little, effeminate, moustached Adolph Hitler of Germany told the world to go jump in the lake’’... The world jumped, and Hitler began the “peaceful division of Czechoslovakia.J. Finley Wilson, Elk’s head, entered Ohio for a series of stump speeches in behalf of the Republi-applied by mail. He did not stay long. Protests from prejudiced whites caused University officials to bar him from classes.Tho sixth lynching of the year oreurrd at Rouston. La. when a mob cf 1000 hanged 19-year-old TommieWilliams to a tree, while the sheriff, who had tracked him down with the aid of bloodhounds, “looked the other way ’. After the lynching. It was generally admitted that the Negro did not commit he crimes which led to his death-assault and murder. *The Alabama Pardon Board refused to recommend the pardon of the four Seottsboro hoys remaining in prison on faked charge# of rape.John W. Bricker, Republican candidate for Governer received a tremendous ovation when he appeared before a large Negro audience at Cleveland. The candidate pledged support of the anti-lynching bill and more recognition of Negroea with State patronage If elected. He waa elected.Cleveland School Board officials refused to release information on where the proposed new Central School plant would be located. !Robert Vann. Negro publisher, added to his reputation as the Jumping Jack** when he deserted the Democrats to support the Republican candidate for governor of Pennsylvania. The Republican won.The body of Fred Loffin, Re-venna. Ohio youth was found battered to death on an isolated farm near Kent. Ohio. Citizens of Ravenna demanded action by the Sheriff in the ca#e, pointing out that previous murders of several Negroes had remained unsolved because of lassitude in the Sheriffs office. The murder is still unsolved.*“Wings over Jordan choir started w'hat proved to be a very successful tour.Edward L. Mix, Columbus, Ohio postal clerk, became the first Negro in the history of Columbus to be appointed superintendent of apostal station.».Thornton Taylor, Negro employee of the Cleveland School Board for 19 years was promoted to custodian of the Board’s administration building. .The Negro Progress Hour” aSunday symposium feature was in-auugurated by the Call-Post. Withthe eooperatiop of Rev. Glenn Settle of the .“Wings .Over .Jordan group, noted speakers of national reputation were secured to addressthe public at St. Mark’s Presbyterian Church. Rev. CL l^e Jefferson Pastor, each Sunday at 8:80 p. m.William Hstie, Virgin Island’s Federal District Judge, was announced as the dean of the LawSchool at Howard University for 1939.were uttered from public platforms by the College president ex-pastor of St. James A. M. E. when he campaigned for the Democratic party. Local ‘Force alumni paseed a resolt;%. lution condemning the activity ofWalker. JTgJ; ” # *City Council of Cleveland passes a resolution condemning the prac«* tiee of downtown office building, managements in their refusal to-rent office space to Negro lawyers/ They had refused apace to Attorney” Thomas Frye. **Scandal of the year was perdpK hated by Rev. Charles E. Aller, Bap*, tist pastor, who sued his wife for divorce, charging another pastor and Mr*. Ailer with adultery. Mrs. Ailer countered by fifing a gross-* petition charging the pastor witif infidelity, cruelty, and curruptng the morale of minors. Case still unheard. *Dr. Chas. H. Garvin was named to the Cleveland Library Board, to become the first Negro ever to holdt the position. , 'TSRacial segregation was blasted by Negro and white leaders at the Southern Conference held at Bir« mingham, Ala., after city officials had insisted on jim-crowing Negrd delegates to the meetBoyd W. Overton, for 19 yearf Secretary of the 9th St. Branch of the Cincinnati, Ohio Y. M. G. A. resigned to take the position as director of the Wilmington, DelawareY. T'Cleveland paid homage to the memory of the late James Weldon Johnson at a memorial mass meeting held at Antioch Baptist Church.The United States Government Employee’s Union planned a campaign to fight for the elimination jfit photographs in applications foriivi:44The New Deal, Wagec. and Hours Bill passed the Senate and became law. Immediately Negro workers in the South began to lose theirjobs.WPA Administrator, Harry Hopkins. announced that WPA workers could feel free to vote anyway they desired during the November elections. but underlings, includingCivil Service positions.A- man who clamed he was the Sither of Joe Louis, World's Heavyweight Champion, died at Mobile. Ala. Mrs. Lillie Barrow Brooks, mother of the champion, declared at Detroit, that she wasn't sure” whether the dead man was her first husband. »The Future Outlook League, through peacful picketing, secured full time employment at the E. 55th. Woodland Market for Negro em* ployees. “Atty. A. J. Worsham of Columbus was named Enrolling Clerk at tho* first caucus of victorius Republican candidates to state offices. ..Cleveland mourned the loss of Rev. Ernest Hall, scholarly pastor of East Mt. Zion Baptist Church, who died after a long illness atSpringfield, HI. .Prominent* of both races paid him tribute at impressive funeral rites.William Thomas of Toledo wasappointed Ohio NYA Supervisor.In what took honors as the most significant court decision of the year, The United States Supreme * Couurt ruled that the University of Missouri must admit to Its law school, Lloyd L. Gaines, and any other Negro who qualifies training for admission. The decision iR expected to dsrupt the mequaiabl* jim-crow #choo! arrangement* of It' Southern States.
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