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DETROIT TRIBUNE SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1936
COURT TO DECIDE WHETHER NEGRO MAY ENTER UNIVERSITYST. LOUIS
YOUTH SEEKS TO
ENTER THE LAW SCHOOLAT THE UNIVERSITY OF MO.
Mourned Vann’s Boasting About “His Money” May ChangePost Master
General Jim Farley’s Flans
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TERRY PARKER, GrundChairman of the Pullman Por-ter’s Benefit
Association whopassed away in Chicago recent-ly. For 41 years a
worker inthe company, beginning as aporter, becoming an
Investiga-tor and finally heading theBenefit Association which
liasgilt-edged assets of a quartermillion and has paid out
$2,000,000 in sick and death bene-fits. Mr. Parker is creditedwith
influencing the employ-ment of 4,200 skilled and semi-skilled men
working in Pull-man Shops in Buffalo, Chicago,St. I.oiiK Atlanta
and Rich-mond, California, lie Is alsoresponsible for the 2,500
menout as Pullman Porters duringhis term as an
investigatory.Pullman officials, porters, im-portant personages and
thepublic generally made his fun-eral held at St. Mark’s M.
E.Church one of the largest heldin Chicago. (A.N.P.)
Columbia, Mo.—(By Elizabeth R.
Cobb for ANP)—A hearing to de-termine whether or not Lloyd
L.Gaines, Segro, of St. Louis may
be admitted to the University of
Missouri law school, was held inBoone circuit court Friday
withcolored spectators occupying athird of the court room.
After a day spent in hearingwitnesses, counsel for both
sideswill submit briefs and Judge Dun-witte will render a decision,
pro-bably not before 10 days.
The case is being pushed by theN. A. A. C. P. Gaines was
repre-sented in his mandamus suit byCharles R. Houston Sydney
Red-mond, Henry D. Espy and Wither-spoon. Then contended
Gainescould receive equaitly of of oppor-tunity only by being
permitted tostudy at Missouri U. Attorneys forthe university
declared separateschools had been provided by statelaw and policy
and university cura-tors had no choice other than torefuse to admit
Gaines.
Senator Rollins, president of theboard of curators of Lincoln
uni-versity, the state supported color-ed school, contended that if
a Ne-gro were admitted to Missouri U.it would cause a breach of
dis-cipline. Dean Houston immediate-ly asked if that had been the
caseat the University of Maryland towhich a Negro was admitted
aftera legal battle. Rollins answeredthat he “didn’t know.”
Redmond in reviewing Gaines’effort to become a student at
theuniversity, said the youth hadbeen completely acceptable until
itwas learned he was a Negro. Al-though it was suggested thatGaines
take advantage of thescholarship provided by the statefor the
instruction of Negro stu-dents at schools outside of Mis-souri in
courses taught by thestate university but not at Lincoln
ECORSE, MICHIGAN(By ALEX DOLTON)
Claims To Have Become A Rich Man DuringThe Depression While
Holding A Big
Federal Position
NEW YORK—(Calvin Service)—Robert L. Vann’s boust that he
hasbecome a rich man during the de-pression, a large part of
whichtime he held a high Federal posi-tion and was head of a
newspaperat the Bame time, may cause Chair-man James A. Farley of
the Demo-
Motor City ElksHold Initiation
There was a large attendance alElks Rest on Chene street,
Sun-day afternoon, July 12 to witnessthe initiation ceremonies
conduct-ed by the Motor City Lodge ofElks No. 962, of which
ExalterGrand Ruler Gregory is head.
Many candidates were initiatedinto the obligations and secrets
ofthe fraternal order. Fallowing theinitiation inspiring
addresseswere delivered by the ExaltedGrand Ruler an other
prominentofficials, including Hon. Brazil J.Bryant, who instructed
the newmembers in the secrets of Elkdom.
Following the ceremonies re-freshments were served in theclub
room on the second floor.
THhe Motor City Lodge is con-ducting a drive for new membersand
a special dispensation is of-fered for a limited period. All
per-sons eligible for membership areinvited to take advantage of
thisdispensation.
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cratic National Committee tochange his plans about letting
Vannhandle all the money among color-ed folk of the $2,000,000
Demo-cratic drive to be made in the na-tion.
Vann, according to an interviewpublished in a daily newspaper
lastweek, said he had about ail a poorman could want, and boasted
thathe owned a $50,000 estate inPittsburgh. Vann sent the Olym-pic
Committee a check for SSOOlast week, and all of this, comingso soon
after it had been announc-ed that there had been a reshufflein the
colored Democratic “HighCommand"’ which narrowed] theone-time “Big
Pour” down to a“Big Two”, with Vann as chief ofthe new set-up, is
causing thesmall-fry politicians to become res-tive, lest these
straws indicatethat not even the crumbs willfall from the “Big Two”
table.
Already attacked in his homestate as “a most thoroughly
dis-liked man”, Vann has now addedto his woes by announcing to
thewhite folks that he is rich whenthousands of Negroes are on
reliefand yet insisting that he handleALL the funds to get those
relief-voters to mark their ballots forRoosevelt. New York
politicians,who opposed Vann anyway as an“outsider”, now say if Big
JimFarley still insists on letting Vannrun the show, it will be
just toobad for the Democrats. A driveis already under way on
Farley toforce him to change his plans forVann.
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2476 St. Antoine St.Ilenry J. Preyer, Prop. Detroit
Finds SIO,OOO Note;Deposits It In BankAlbany, Ga.—(ANP)—If it
is
any good, Will Moore will be ex-actly SIO,OOO richer as the
resultof a pocketbook he found in At-lanta on July 4 containing a
goldcertificate of that denomination.md u bill.
Moore kept the treasury noteseveral days before he decided outof
curiosity to see if it was anygood. He took it to the City
Nation-al Bank which accepted it for col-lection. but it has not
yet beendetermined whether it is good. Itis of the size which was
in circu-lation several years ago.
Sports Scribblings(Continued from Page 6)
postponed from the original date,July 23, to July 30.
A slight eye injury received byLewis in his recent victory
overMax Merak necessitated the post-ponement.
Lewis, as champion, has beencleaning up all of the competitionin
the light heavy ranks and isnow contemplatrng stepping Intothe
heavier division and is report-ed to be seeking a fight with
theheavy title holder, James J.
i Braddock.Lewis fought Braddock once be-
fore the latter became champ andwas virtually robbed of the
de-cision in the fight, so he has amplereason to yell for a go with
“Jer-sey Jim.”
i Owens At Berlin1
When Jesse Owens steps into thevast Olympic Stadium at
Berlinnext month he will be the markedathlete. The news of his
unbe-lievable track exploits have reach-ed into the four corners of
the
.earth and every sprinter that en-counters Owens cannot help
buthave a slight feeling of inferioritywhen he toes the mark.
Thereforewith this feeling prevailingaround him, Jesse should be
ableto clean up at Berlin.
Then on the other hand there isOwens himself. What thoughts
willcreep through his head as he findshimself the center of
attraction ofthe 1936 Olympic Games. He willundoubtedly suffer some
mentalstrain that may or may not hamp-er his running form. He will
beconscious of the fact that all of hisopponents are laying for
him. Bythat I mean that some of thoserunners w'ould be as happy to
gohome and tell the folks that theybeat Owens as they would to
takean Olympic title back with them.
Owens will also realize that theUnited States is counting on
himto capture three first places. Hecan’t disappoint his country.
Hewill also know that of the. 17 Ne-groes representing Uncle Sam,
heis the main hope of Black Ameri-cans at Berlin.
He is in something of the samespot that Louis was in at NewYork
when he met Schmeling June18th last. Experts all over theworld are
conceding the 100 and200 meters and the hroadjump toOwens. The
experts were almostunanimous in their choice of Louisover
Schmeling.
Jesse is on the spot. Hitler willbe watching him as well as the
16other brown skin Americans. Thewhole stadium will be
watchingthem. But Jesse will be the markedman at Berlin.
The experts say that past per-formances and records mean
verylittle at the Olympic Games. I dis-agree. i personally am
cocksurethat he will come through onehundred percent, but he will
bethe marked man at Berlin.
Hello, my reading friends! 1am very glad to be writing youfrom
Cordele, Georgia. At thiswriting, it is quite hot here—almosttoo
hot for me.
Last Sunday, I attended SnowhillBaptist Church, of which
Rev.Franklin is pastor. Rev. Frank-lin delivered a forceful sermon
toa well-packed house. After thediscourse, lunch was served in
theschoolhouse, and all present hadan enjoyable time.
People here all go to church onSunday and all the churches
arecrowded.
I am in the section of Georgiawhere the recent storm
passedthrough. The U. S. Governmenthas replaced all property
destroy-ed by the storm.
It has been so dry here, thatfarmers were afraid that their
comand cotton would not grow. Cropswere all drying up. but last
Sun-day a heavy rain fell.
I was very much impressed by acourt trial recently held here,
inwhich a colored man, charged withstealing a cow and selling it to
awhite man, was brought into court.He had no witnesses and no
at-torney, although the plaintiff hadboth. The colored man’s
inno-cence was so evident that he wasacquitted. Now, he will have
toleave this part of Georgia, becausehe believes those who tried to
con-vict him will continue to pick athim, until he is forced to
commitsome serious crime. Had he beenfound guilty by the courts,
hewould have been sentenced to twoyears on the Georgia chain
gang.
Wages are very cheap. Men areforking on turpentine farms inthis
vicinity, for fifty cents a day.Even the colored WPA workersget
only $3.50 a week, sometimesless. Food, however, is rathercheap and
no sales tax has to bepaid here.
Next w'eek. I shall write youmore about the South and
livingconditions of the colored people inthis locality.
The terrific heat spell in this
Screen ShowingsAt The Local
Theatres(Continued rrom Page 6)
ing the picture. The outstandingtopic of conversation
concerningthe picture centers around thethrills of the
“earth-quake” sceneswhich surpasses In shock most ofthe spectacles
heretofore staged forthe screen. Spencer Tracy, JackHolt and Ted
Healy support thepopular stars in the drama,two popular stars in
the drama.
“Two Against The World,” withHumphrey Bogart, the screen’snumber
one “bad man”, and Bev-erly Roberts in the leading roles,is now
showing at the State Thea-tre on the same program with
RossAlexander in “Hot Money.’ “TwoAgainst the World” concerns
a/oman who is pilloried by the greedof a radio syndicate, catering
tothe whims of a sensation lovingpublic.
Just as her daughter is aboutto be married to a wealthy
youth,the radio company digs up a storyfrom the past, to dramatize
it forairing. Disgrace drives the motherand husband to seek death,
leavingthe daughter to face the criticismof the world.
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Negro “High-Brows”Take Second Place
WASHINGTON—>(C)—The “full-blooded” American Negro is sec-ond
among the highbrows’’ of theworld, according to Dr. Oles Hrd-licka,
anthropoligist of the UnitedStates National Museum.
state was broken Sunday nightand Monday, when a severe
stormswept through Athens, Macon, andneighboring areas, damaging
thecorn and other crops considerably.Many people were injured.
Oneboy was killed by lightning, whichalso injured other members of
hisfamily and damaged the house.
The crops here will be verysmall, due to the drought
andstorm.
Roosevelt Collins, a young col-ored man of 25 years, was
recent-ly arrested here as a suspect inconnection with an afisault
on awhite woman. A mob of 1,500 con-gregated around the jail in
whichthe prisoner was supposed to belodged; but Collins was
secretlyspirited away in a highway patroland taken to Kilby State
Prison,
! near Montgomery, Ala., to avert aI possible lynching.John
Henry Thomas, colored,
was convicted iu Athen last week,for the murder of a white
fillingstation operator, and sentenced todie in the electric chair,
August(5. During the court trial, the pris-oner was protected by
nationalguardsmen and civilian authori-ties. The jury returned a
verdictin nineteen minutes. There wasno demonstration.
Witnessesclaimed that Thomas attempted tohold up Charles L. Rice
and thatthe latter was killed. After thetrial, Thomas was taken to
Ful-ton Tower, under guard of severalmilitiamen, where he will be
helduntil the day for his execution.
Snowhill Baptist Church, atPittsburgh, Georgia closed its
one-
i week of service Sunday, with Rev.Street, of Macon, Ga.
conducting.
I The pastor of the church is Rev.Franklin. Ministers in this
local-ity often pastor as many as four
i churches, preaching at each church'once a month. The majority
of| people attend church. There are
I no places here, where young flock1 can hang out on Sundays.
Start-
! ing, next Sunday, services will beheld at Pine City Baptist
Church
j and will continue every night forone week.
in a report published by thesured were “full-blooded,”
sug-world, in a report published by theSmithsonian Institution. In
mea-suring the height of the foreheadof different races, Dr.
Hrdlickafinds Eskinmos first, with 2.81 in-ches, Negroes second
with 2.47,North American Indians third, with2.60, Irish fourth, Old
Americans(first families) fifth, Tennesseemountaineers, sixth, etc.
It waspointed out that the Negroes mea-sured were ((full-blooded”,
sug-gesting that mixed bloods were in-ferior in intelligence
quotients.The doctor has measured heads for40 years.
Col. Julian FindsCompetition At TheAirplane Game
NEW YORK—(C)— WhenCol. Huberto Juliano arrivedin New York last
week fromhis tour of his new country,Italy, he found his old
foe,Col. John C. Robinson, withwhom Julian had a fistic en-counter
in Addis Ababa be-fore the Italians took thecountry, had “horned
in” onwhat is termed by some asJuliano's exclusive
“racket”,airplane promotion. Julianofound an organization busy
col-lecting funds to give Col. Rob-inson, and not him, an
airplane.This is the first time such athing has ever been
suggestedto leave the Colonel (Juliano)out in a public subscription
foran ariplane.
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extinguisher on the bus, but hefaces a more Berious charge
later.It would Beem that upon arrivalin New York City through
theHolland Tunnel, Gordon’s bus didnot have a certificate of
inspectiongiven by the city from which hehad journeyed.
The driver who came from Van-couver, said the bus didn’t
belongto him, he just drove it because hewas paid to do it and made
thetrip here in record time, drivingthe entire distance himself.
Hishelper or assistant was of littleassistance sleeping most of
thetime they were en route to NewYork. Many in the party werewhite
and were welcomed here byFather Divine’s white aid.
fice. This office, which antedatesevery other county office,
wasfounded in 1788 with the dutiesthen much the same as they
arenow. However, if it is at all possi-ble to eliminate it thereby
reduc-ing the, cost of government I amvery much in favor and will
lendall my aid to accomplish such achange in Wayne County.”
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