Five Million Colored Church Members Rally for Race Progress
Five million colored church members are called to aid in race progress with a Wednesday meeting at Allen Temple led by Pastor Rev. A. C. Sumpter. The first meeting occurred in Washington on January 3, with August set for the third gathering in Chicago. Prominent ministers attended and Bishop Ramson is the moving spirit.
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Allen Temple
A. C. Sumpter
Washington
Chicago
Bishop Ransom
An Editors Prayer From The Frugal Editor
An editor sits in a rickety chair with fringe on his pants and pockets bare. Subscribers pay late or not at all while the editor laments the need to live. Continued on page four.
I L D Protest Frame Up Defense of James Victory
Detroit civil rights groups take over defense of James Victory, a Black man, amid charges framed as a frame up. International Labor Defense and League of Struggle for Negro Rights coordinate legal support details continued on Page 5.
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Labor Defense
League of Struggle For Negro Rights
James Victory
Frick cites daily costs of criminals and disabled in Germany
Frick states the state bears daily costs for each criminal at 3.50 marks and for each lunatic at 4 marks, rising to 5 or 6 marks for each crippled or deaf mute, noting the burden on public finances.
Fisk Graduate School Opens for Summer Quarter
Fisk University in Nashville Tennessee begins its third summer quarter for graduate students on June 14. A larger cohort than ever before enrolls in graduate programs, marking growth since graduate work started.
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Nashville, Tenn
ANP
Fisk University
Fisk
Perfect Score Achieved In CPS Physical Test
Twenty four of eight thousand Cincinnati Public Schools students in grades five through eight made perfect scores in the recent physical achievement test. Twenty one of the scorers are pictured with W. K. Streit, Director of Physical Education, who devised the test, aided by a committee of physical education teachers.
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Cincinnati
W. K. Streit
National Association gathering urged to recruit whites
Mary White Ovington calls the annual meeting of Colored People to drop prejudice and educate whites on the problem while recruiting thousands to join the National Association. Oklahoma City Oklahoma. Thousands of white Americans reportedly would join the NAACP.
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Mary White Ovington
N. A. A. Cop
Oklahoma City
Okla
America
Asso
Americans Withdraw From Haiti Amid U S Troop Move
The departure of the United States army transport from Port-au-Prince marked the first clear signal of American forces pulling back from the island. On board the S S Henderson were 122 wives and children of Marines and sailors stationed there, the vessel sailing for Norfolk, Virginia.
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Port-Au-Prince
Haiti
CNS
S. S. Henderson
Hendersons
Norfolk
Virginia
A Female Methuselah Woman 116 Years Old
Norfolk Virginia report notes Mrs Agnes Hatton of Oakwood suburb as a 116 year old female Methuselah figure. Continued on page 2.
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Norfolk
CNS
Agnes Hatton
Oakwood
Harlem Is Dying But Rent Parties Continue
Fragmentary Times column notes Harlem decline and the end of sugar hill social scene with rent parties fading but community resilience implied. Continued on page seven.
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Harlem
Mrs Roosevelt guest as Spaulding honors event
Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt attended as special guest for the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company event. In New Orleans William Pickens spoke to the Association of Commerce and a resolution was adopted to secure a bathing beach and playgrounds for colored children.
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Washington
CNS
Franklin D. Roosevelt
North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company
New Orleans
William Pickens
New Orleans Association of Commerce
Not Like Negroes Japan Reacts to Nazi Race Policy
A fragmented report notes Japan reacting to Hitler’s racial superiority program, condemning discrimination against Jews, Negroes, and other groups. The piece highlights international tensions and contrasting attitudes toward race ideology.
Boy Wins $50 Prize For Soap Sculpture
Raymond Thomas a 14 year old Armstrong High School student won second prize in a soap sculpture contest in Washington CNS reports.
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Thomas
Armstrong
Moving Picture's moral battle upholds church against indecent cinema
The Moving Picture is described as a world shaping force for good and evil. Archbishop John J. McNicholas leads a united church front including Holy Roman Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish communities rising against the indecencies shown on screen, aiming to curb youth crime and decadence.
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John J. McNicholas
Holy Roman Catholic Church
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