Blind, Und©rprivil©dg©d N©gr© Boy Writes Best Essay 8 PAGES ACCURATE City, State aad National New* LOCAL AND NATIONAL Scents NEWS COVERAGE Phoenix MsH Index PAY NO MORE PHOENIX, ARIZONA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1939 PRICE FIVE CENTS VOLUME NUMBER Gross Racial Inequalities Scored By Young People JAIL LEADER SOUGHT BY KLAN Had Gun, Former "Red' Testifies Name Johnson To Col. Julian Offers To Put Up Cash To Police Important Post Settle Claims Against Father Divine. Decision In WASHINGTON— (ANP) —Charles This committee is authorized to S. Johnson of Fisk University was investigate conditions in the in- New Heaven" For God recently appointed a member of dustry and recommend to the Ad- Suit Will Be '* * ~ rates Contend ¦¦¦ 9 for the ministrator minimum wage fjß Industry committee, No. Railroad Carrier Industry by for ail employees included in the Known Thursday NAACP Head Harold D. Jacobs, acting admin- act. 1® '^f wage and hour istrator of the NEW YORK—(S N S)—Follow- By division of the department, of labor. Was Hunted ' ¦/-^ a conference 9 Dr. Johnson is one of the four Minister, Unarmed. ing seeking to reach members chosen to represent the an out-ofnrurt setTement, the Hooded Order public. ! trial of Father Divine in a $6,500 equity action brought by Mrs. public Catches Deer Alive Other members if the I Verinda Brown, 54, was recessed GREENVILLE, S.C. (ANP) are: Frank Porter Gra- C.—(ANP)—Last connection committee ABBEVILLE, S Tu°sdav until Thursday. •—There may be no ham. president. Univeruv «>t North week as the deer homing season Supreme Court Justice Benedict between official Greenville and Carolina, chairman; W. H. Spen- gained momentum throughout the Dinpen recessed the case to permit the Ku Klux Klan, but observers cer, University of Chicago; and State, hero of the day was the further negotiations. here are inclined to doubt it fol- Oscar K- Cushing of San Fran- Rev. J. E. Drewer, well known Col. Hube t Fauntleroy Julian, Eight persons here, who a deer lowing arrest last week of cisco. additional com- minister captured Har’em’s “Ba?nk Eagle"* aviator, the group for the em- 69-year-old prise the four alive. who rffered to put up the cash James A. Briar, ployees, and four for the employ- The minister was driving along to settle the claim-; against Fath- N. A. A. C. P. branch president, ers. a highway south of the city when er DMre, told newsmen:. on charges of carrying a gun a 110-pound buck dashed across the “The case is settled, but the and confiscation of the weapon. road, stopped abruptly in front of terms will not be ironed out until Mr. Briar’s home has been visited his car as the auto’s bright lights Thursday.” on several occasions by Klansmen Former “Angel” dazzled him. Acting quickly, Rev. but he was always “out.” The hood- Drewer roped the animal, tied it QUIT-CLAIM AGREEMENT ed order, which began its reign oi For in seat, then drove home. It was understood the plaintiffs Sues Divine the back signed quit-claim terrorism here several months ago next day he presented the deer had already a The agreement, when Negroes registered for the Return Os Money to the City Zoo. but that Father Divine city elections, considers the NAACF waited to guard rfdju.t the ce:a leader responsible hi large extent NEW YORK CITY enrru asps U’-.rA*.' UV'gatljft of a for registrations and the threat to cult- ft is located in New N. and was purchased for the cult advanced the cult leader. She al- .32 1940 Census searching him and finding a down, The First Lady, in an unprecedented visit, listened for one hour ist to account for the fi- For leader lasi June by a white follower, Opening the mansion, Father so sought a court order directing calibre pistol on a .38 calibre and left at noon. (ACME). nances of his peace Mission NEW YORK CITY—(SNS)— Divine and his “angels” dined for four and one-half hours. The Inc- Divine to dissolve the peace mis- frame, officers asked: and dist ibute their assets, movement and to repay to Learning that the mayors of cities urious Dusenberg pictured outside the mansion is Father Divine's per- sions “Who are you going to shoot?” pro-rata, among his followers. “Nobody,'’ of $4,400 she throughout the United States sonal car. her the sum Ibis defense, Father Divine “Then why are you carrying a have been asked by the Census In says she advanced the cult appoint -committees in has insisted that the advances leader. Bureau to (Continued on Back Page) Young Methodists their respective cities to secure made by Mrs. Brown and those Mrs. Brown also seeks a tne cooperation of the residents in associated With her in the suit, 1940, have since been repaid. court order directing Di- the Decennial Census of the Aid urged Promise U. S. peace National Urban League this Chicago Judge vine to dissolve the week that Negro leaders see to it Hit Discrimination missions and distribute that colored persons are appoint- their assets, pro rata, ed to the committee representing Hints Father Spend Less On essary environmental changes among his followers. Attor- their city. To Mo. ’Croppers Bars Return Os The principal work of the com- LOOK DOWN ON NEGRO neys declare hearings in mittees will be to disseminate pub- WASHINGTON, D. C— (ANP)— those found in need May Criminals, More ••White people in Atlanta look the case will continue for licity and educational material It was learned here this week that Divine down upon the Negro. Perhaps this which will make the community aid is in prospect for indigent, H L. Mitchell of Memphis Mississippian several weeks. In his de- the ” For Prevention can be explained as a hangover fense, Father Divine in- recognize that its interest in a disnlaced sharecroppers of South- (white) and F. R. Betton, STFC CHICAGO (ANP) Federal t from slavery. Yet there is no ex- good and complete Census is as eastern Dr W. Al- president and vice president, *Evaporate sists that the advances Missouri. W re- Judge Michael Igoe last Monday cuse for It. We should remember great as the interest of the Census exander, Farm Security Adminis- spectively, told Dr. Alexander that blocked the attempt of Federal of- ATLANTA, Ga.— (SNS) that you can’t keep a man in a made by Mrs. Brown and Bureau itself. The committees will trator reportedly promised officials approximately 15,000 former share- NEW YORK ClTY—(ANP)—De- More parks and other necessary claring that “Father is very, very a ditch without staying down your- those associated with her direct their efforts toward creat- of the Southern Tenant Farmers croppers in Southeastern Missouri -of Mississippi to return improvements disgusted; he may just evaporate,” prisoner to state for In the environment pelf’,” the report continued. suit, since been ing a spirit of cooperation on the Union that his agency -would make were without employment and In woman that young white in the have an alleged liquor violation. of Colored people living in Atlanta The people revealed repaid. | part of all residents of the city an early investigation and provide need, that in a makeshift camp a discipl? of Father Divine de- in findings police The judge ordered release ol had been suggested ’Saturday In their that “Atlanta to the end that individuals and whatever financial aid it could for near Poplar Bluff, Mo., 84 displaced scribed his reaction to the lawsuit courts were found to cruel to will report free- Mrs. Carrie Crystal, Brookhaven, findings and recommendations re- be business concerns tenant families faced “death from brought by a former “angel”, Mrs. ; Negroes. ly to the enumerators with the exposure Mississippi and charges against he- sulting from Youth Crusade Week, to The respectable white starvation and this win- Verind Brown. full that, under the law, The cult went on trial for violating the internal Revenue conducted by the senior and young is assumed innocent until he Is i assurance ter.” leader information they give is Monday in State Supreme Court in Act in 1937, were continued get- people’s departments of St Mark proved gUilty, but the Negro is as- Mrs. Bethune ali the Right confidential. Sues For Betton told the administrator equity for repayment erally. She represented by At- white sinned guilty until is proved in- an action the was Methodist church, j he that a shift to was by James and machinery of $4,476, brought Mrs. Brown, torneys A- McLendon The white group made an urgent Ij nocent.” causing displacement of thousands William Henry Huff of Chicago. who said: plea that steps be taken to eiimi- I i The report discussed the various Endorses T-B of tenants and sharecroppers from all money in be- appearing to testify against ! Woman Found Dead, To Take Civil “I paid this the Those nate'the poverty, suffering and lack phases of colored placing cotton plantations not only m Mis- Crystal were S. Con)- life, em- Mrs. U. of opportunity among colored 1 phasis on the discriminatory souri but in other Southern slates. (Continued on back page) missioner C, Rickett, jack-' side. Baron persons- It cited the inequalities exist Gun Her Side son, Mississippi; Julian C. Weed, I that Seal Drive At Exam ; between colored and white people, Service officer and U, S, The report pointed Internal Revenue out that the dciuca tion, parks, playgrounds, DAYTONA BEACH, Fia, SPARTA, Ga.—Local police offi- attorney John A. Loobey, the latter city spawns more money on Friday investigating NORFOLK, (ANP)—Earnest colored health facilities and wage hours. (A N P)) —Mary McLeod Bethune, I cials were of Chicago. After being convicted criminals, but insisted that this Wrijght, well known Norfolkian, The report pointed out that. $3,- president of Bethune-Cbokman the slaying of a woman listed as Boy selling whiskey, prevented by filed suit U. S. District Best for Writes Mrs stopping j was lias in Blind in 1937 could be Mrs. Baifley, who 1 000,000 is spent on parks for white college, Tuesday sent an endorse- Florence city grant Crystal, the following year was crime at its source, bv building near her home. The officers Court to compel the to the annual found privilege taking found guilty of possessing three more parks and making other net- (Continued on back page) ment of 83rd Christ- had shot In the Negroes the of campaign said she been po- gallons liquor, in Lincoln county, man Seal of the Na- head. A pistol with one empty civil service examinations for a Tuberculosis association to At- Mississippi. Given 60-day sen- tional chamber was found near her sitions on the police force. Essay Emerson, tence and fine of SIOO, she was Dr. Kendall managing torney J. Thurgood is repre- Americanism F. director of the side. unable to pay the fine, worked it association. The senting Wright. CHICAGO—(ANP)—An year America,’’ Simpson said. “It is m by campaign opened on 1 18 out in County Work House Say December CAROLINA TO BUILD applica- Phillips high a struggle he is making Miss NORTH Wright he filea an old junior *it Wendell such as Bluford continue said washing, scrubbing s-nd ironing. and will through Christ- FOR NEGRO HOSPITAL tion early in October with the school, who is blind, fatherless ana and in such pride he takes in his mas. TB Negro, country that the history of the “The efforts of SUFFERERS the underprivileged even for a the tuberculosis WILSON, N. C.—(ANP)—Plans Civil Service Commission, for deeply about nation has been written. Somehow association in their fight against 21, but on nevertheless feels so Robbed Os $6.24 for a special hospital unit for Ne- exam set for October this nation that he just won a $25 I am more stirred than 1 have been tuberculosis are to be commend- October 17 was informed that Should gro tuberculosis sufferers have been he prize for the best essay on Ameri- in years when I contemplate that (SNS)— Sue Lincoln Ga ed and should be of vital import- only men were eligible for ATLANTA. decided on it was learned this white canism written by any high school among all the rich and poor, the A drug store delivery boy re- COLUMBIA. Mo.—(ANP)—Miss ance to the entire country,” Pres- | The university, which also asked week, with announcement that the the test. pupil in Cook county. over, privileged and the under- ported to city police Saturday that Lucile Bluford, managing i ident Bethune wrote. The suit. was brought, said editor of that it be awarded costs, in its separate building will adjoin the This boy, William King, was privileged youth of our high two men robbed him of $3.24 at the Kansas City Call, should have “Tnere Is a special need for plant to Wright: ‘For the benefit of him- schools, best , : contention new $500,000 TB hospital guest of honor Thursday downtown the one to write the the point of a knife. The victim, filed suit against Lincoln university that Lincoln should have health education among the Ne- the Wilson-Rocky self and other qualified members several essay on is boy been sued declared that Missouri be erected on and at the Kiwanis club where Americanism this listed as Fred Phillips, 13. of a instead of the University of Miss- gro group in order to check and Mount highway. of the Negro race who were clubmen had gathered who battles sucn handicaps. ouri, attorneys the latter law provides offer combat denied examinations hundred Pulliam Street address, gave of- for insti- that. Lincoln ed- this dreaded disease. The are lawful The Kiwanians cheered as the “1 predict that when those more asking » opportunities Negroes fire extinguishers appointment members of ficers description of two persona tution stated Friday in the ucational for sale of the Christmas seals and Automatic for as youth led to the platform and fortunate than he are writing , equal a suspended weight police city was whom he said took the momjy from Boone county circuit court to dis- to those afforded whites at the nation-wide activities of the operated when the division of of the introduced by President Herbert S. alibis for their failures he will be making a de- miss Biuford’s suit for admission Missouri U. and failure to do National Tuberculosis association reacts to any abnormal shock have of Norfolk,” Members of the city him while he was i so air- Simpson of the club. creating a record of real success Georgia phar- to the university’s school of jour- makes Lincoln liable for court will always have my hearty ap«= been invented in England for j livery for a Avenue ac« Page) “Billy King represents- the true All honor to him.” macy. nalism. ! tion. prevail,” planes. 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