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Sajw Ajvtojvio Register
RIGHT • JUSTICE • PROGRESS
VOL. III.—No. 49.
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1934
6c PER COPY
ORGANIZE NO CASK DOWN
TO GET IN
ON CWA
Finding Skilled Jobs on CWA
Work Garnered by Union
Men. St. Louis Negroes
Take Steps.
ST. LOUIS, Mo.—(ANP) —
Charles A. Collier, Jr., in-
dustrial secretary of the St.
Ixiuis Urban League, has re-
vealed that Negro skilled
workmen have been definitely
•xcluded from CWA jobi in that
tity. The policy of the local CWA
authorities ia that only union mem-
ber! can be employed on CWA jobs,
and to that extent Negroes have
been barred. In order to meet the
situation which has arisen the
League has organized an industrial
union which will be composed of the
various craft units in the building
trades especially. Hod carriers and
laborers are organised, and a unit
of brick masons and a unit of
painters have been organised and
plans are going ahead to organise
carpetners and plasterers.
T. Arnold Hill, Acting executive
(ecretary of the National Urban
League, has lodged a formal com-
plaint with the administration of
the CWA against this discrimina-
tion which has been revealed in St.
Louis and which is said to be
widespread throughout the coun-
try.
It li felt that the situation in St.
Louis offers a definite rase by
which a ruling can be secured and
settle the whole matter of the ex-
clusion of Negroes from CWA jobs
because of non-union
throughout the country,
PLAN SERVES
MANY
Budget Plan Used By Good-
rich Silvertown Firm Said
To Be Only One of Its
Kind In City
T<HE GOODRICH SILVEU-
-* TOWN, INC,,' firm at Lex-
ington and Eucjid has institut-
ed a nefr no-cash-pav-as-you-
ride credit plan on the pur-
chase of automobile tires and bat-
teries that Is meeting with great
favor and la increasing sales In
their line appreciably. According to
reports from the management they
alone have this unique plan where-
in their famous Goodrich Life Sav<
er Golden Ply tires may be installed
during their 10-day special, with no
money down—merely select what
you want and reveal how you want
to pay.
Red tape and investigations un-
der this plan have been eliminated
and numbers of motorists are tak-
ing advantage of the opportunity
to ride on good new tires instead
of inferior old ones.
Goodrich Silvertown, Inc., has
been noted all along for its cour-
teous service to the interested pub-
lic, and this real innovation in
these times offers them a bigger
chance to serve the public.
The only requirement in the
proper carrying out of their Bud-
ffillation get Pay Plan is identification,
through your license certificate.
ONE THIRD NEGRO FAMILIES
KANSAS ON RELIEF ROLLS
HEALTH GROUP SAM. HUSTON
MAKES OFFER CHOIR WELL
TO TEACHERS RECEIVED
Colored Choir jHardships Endured By Special Service
Reserve Winner |7s[egroes Evident In Relief
In Civic Contest Figures Says Director Gill
St. Paul, Minn.—(ANP)— Pil-
grim Baptist Church choir here ran
second in the city wide contest for
the bust non-paid singing group in
St. Paul last week. The finals
were held Friday night and Trinity
Lutheran, white, was selected as
best, Pilgrim being given the title
of reserve winner. There were nine
choirs, all of the others white, in
the final test. Glenn Harrison, ex-
ecutive board member for the
American Association for the Ad-
vancement of Church Music was
master of ceremonies.
Give Money for Warm
Springs Foundation
Chicago. — (ANP) — Chicago
school children joined with their
white classmatcs in,contributing a
small sum of their spare money for
a collection that is to go for the
betterment of the sanitarium in
Warm Springs, Georgia, which
President Roosevelt sponsors. This
offering was taken up as sort of a
present for the President's birth-
day.
Alarming State of Affairs Revealed When
Bulletin Issued By Federal Relief Admin-
istration Shows True Status of Unem-
ployed Negroes in Sunflower State Ac-
cording to Census.
^/ASHINGTON.—(ANP)—According to a
bulletin issued
by the Federal Emergency Relief Administration. Wash-
ington. I). C., the plight of the unemployed Negroes in Kan-
sas is strikingly revealed in the fact that one-third of the
colored families of that state were on the relief rolls at the
time the r"li f census was taken. This group make up one-
|eighth of the total number of families receiving relief in
Kansas, although Negroes are only 4 per cent of the total
number of families in the state, i concentrated in the city of St.
Corrington Gill, director of re- I.ouis.
search and statistics of the Federal In the State of Washington Ne-
Emergency Relief Administration, I ?ro families total 412 and were
points out that children under work-1 but a small part of tha relief load,
ing age represented a large propor- In Louisiana two-fifths of the
Capacity Attendance At
Y.W.C. A. School Sessions
Demonstration Classes in Salads, Cooking,
Dressings and Other Culinary Artistry
Close First Half February 8 at Y. W. C. A.
on North Pine Street.
T jNDER the able direction of Mrs. Anthony Van Tuyl of
the Educational Department, Wesson Oil and Snowdrift
Sales Co., the Thursday afternoon classes in mayonnaise
making, salads, deep fat frying and baking attended by a
capacity number will close
with a big demonstration next
Thursday afternoon at the Y. W
C. A. building.
These classes were organised un-
der the sponsorship of the Pine
street branch of the Y. W. C. A.
and San Antonio Register, for the
Wesson Oil-Snowdrift demonstra-
tions and all ingredients for the
work have been furnished by that
firm. Much enthusiasm has been
ahown at all sessions as those at-
tending the classcs do the actual
demonstrating themselves under
the guidance of the astute Mrs.
Van Tuyl. Other classes for tbe
second half are in process of or-
ganization. Call the "Y"—F. 8742.
La. Farmers To
Hold Conference
16 Research Workers
at Fisk University
Nashville, Tenn.—(ANP)— Un-
der the T. V. A. and CWA authori-
ties, the Department of Social
Sciences at Fisk University is di-
recting a research project. There
are sixteen research workers en-
gaged on the study gathering ma-
terial.
Poro Building at
St. Louis to House
Movie Theatre
St. Louis.—(ANP)—A moving
picture house is to invade the sanc-
tity of the stately and famous Poro
building here. Mrs. Annie Malone
announced this week that she had
leased the auditorium of the build-
ing to an organization which will
operate a cinema house, showing
only the finest of pictures. Mrs.
Malone selected the name for the
theater which will be known as
"The Amytis." The name is that of
a daughter of an Egyptian king, fa-
mous as having inspired the beau-
tiful hanging gardens of the period
in which she lived. The auditorium
which seats GOO is being remodeled
and redecorated and will serve a
large residential area here which
now has no recreational facilities
of this type.
Baton Rouge, La.—(ANP) —The
Farmers of Louisiana will gather
at Southern University, at Scot-
landville, near here February IB,
for their 19th annual conference.
Tho conference has played an im-
portant part in the lives of the
agricultural residents of the state,
helping them In securing better
land and homes, better stock, larg-
er yields per acre, a better system
of marketing products and better
educational advantages.
President J. S. Clark in announc-
ing the conference topics, outlined
them as follows:
How the Colored Farmer may as-
sist in the Agricultural Adjustment
Program; How the Colored Farmer
May Benefit Through Production
Loans; and How the Colored Farm-
er May Benefit Through Marketing
Loans. Cornelius King, director of
Agriculture for Southern is active
in the affairs of the conference.
tion of the total number of per-
sons and families reeslving relief
as is evidenced by the fact that
children of these ages made up
about two-fifths of the total num-
ber of persons.
In Colorado, Negro and Mexican
families made up about 16 per cent
of the total number of families re-
ceiving relief. While thia percent-
age la rot overly Urge, acc
Itn Mr ifiill its Saiprif'aTti li
mented somewhat by the realtxa
tion that the Mexican and Negro
population of the State ia only
about 7 per cent. Half the families
receiving relief from public funds
of all races are located in Denver.
In Missouri, according to the
relief rolls were Negroes, although
Negro families are only about 6
per cent of the total families in
the State. One fourth of all tho
Negro families in the State are on
relief rolls and the problem of re-
lief for colored families is largely
To Be Held Felt.
II at Auditorium
Special anniversary exercises
have been planned for Sunday aft-
ernoon, February 11 at the Library
auditorium as • memorial to Ab-
raham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass,
Booker T. Washington and our own
Texas celebrity, Wright Cuney. The
affair is sponsored by the N. A. A.
C. P., taking the place of its reg-
ular monthly meeting and directed
by a large committee of prominent tl ,"
citliens; among those who will de-1 sn"'ng
liver addresses are: Reverends E
Tex it* Tuberculosis A ssocia-
tion Announces Two Sum-
mer School Scholarships
In Health Education
{ I'STIN, Texas.—The Tevas
* Tuberculosis Association
announced today the offer of
two summer school scholar-
ships in health education for
teachers in service. Each scholar-
ship amounts to seventy-five dol-
lars.
The purpose of the scholarships,
according to Miss i'ac.-y Nichols,
executive secretary of the Associa-
tion, is to encouraire teachers if
service to take training in health
education so that their training
may be comj^'.able to that of
teachers just.leaving college.
"Much of our work for the pre-
vention and control of tuberculo-
Miss Nichols stated, "U
schoat children. The co-
peration *37 teachers trained tr.
•spirituals, and Other Number*
Rendered With Rcmarkabla
Finesse By Young (.roup
Singers.
I
Neirro families receiving relief arc
located in the city of New Orleans,
although only one-fifth of all the
N'egro families in the State live in
this city. Of the total number of
families on relief two-thirds were
Negro, whereas the oolored popula-
tion of the city is less than one-
third.
According to Mr. Gill's report for
Michigan: "Hardships endured by
■ SK« i*
relief figures. Negro families made
up about one-fifth of the total
number of families on the relief
rolls, while the total Negro families
in the City was approximately one-
fifteenth of the total in 1930. It
was pointed out that these figues
do not Indicate that Negro families
were receiving relief which is out
of proportion to their needs, but
rather that the hardships due to
unemployment have fallen with
particular severity upon Negro
families."
_ , _ , _ . . ; health education is of inestimable
D. Dukes, Deslandes, Dean J. L.. va]ue jn furthering the campaign
Hawkins and Sirs. Edna Morris: against tuberculosis."
the Juvenile department of the N ! One scholarship is offered to ele-
A. A. C. P. will appear on the pro mwitary teacher* ami administra-
gram as will group, of singers un- tor"' ,Tht °th<T " f ""Vl t0 ,hi*h
....... - ^ „ school physical and health educa-
der the direct.on of Profs. 0. R. tion tea(.hers art administrator*.
Thomas. Tom Lowery and a grou; | The scholarships may be used in
from Douglass Junior high. Meet-1 any Texas university or teacher
ings of this character have beer j training c^JJego offering summer
held annually In recent years, and i school *-th.es in health education
bring out large audiences of those j lea<Htig tf. the standard require-
who are interested in race culture|meiiis ui that subject proposed by
and progress.
'the State Department of Education, iGreen.
rPHE Samuel Huston a Capel-
' la choir of Austin, Texas,
under the able direction of
I'rof. Boatner rendered a
splendid program at the Mu-
nicipal auditorium last Monday
r.ight before an audience that num.
bered nearly 2,000 of both races
The reception of the numbers sung
by this highly trained group was
very enthusiastic and the singing
of the local chorus gathered to-
gether and instructed by Prof.
Buatncr during recent week end
visits here was little short of mar-
velous.
The choir showed its artistry toi
numbers other than folk songs de-
lighting their hearers with such
selections as "Kol Nidre" from ths
Hebrew melody arranged by Rob-
erts, the "Volga Boatman"
"Hospodi' Pumilui"—a Russian re-
ligious song by I.vonsky.
(Picture on rase Fit.)
« PERSONS KILLED IN CRASH
Natchez, Miss.—(ANP) — Six
persons were killed near FtrridWj
when an automobile driver so
to p&98 two cars in front. The dead
are: Grorgc Sims, 13-year-ol i Mary
Boll, Willie A. Mays, Mrs. Ida
Crawford, Vernon Lee and Numaa
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Culture Project Taken
To Harlem By T
APPEAL DEATH
<*F\TTFVfF<s Inst'tut,on Tfiat Had Humble Beginning In
Fort Worth I'nder Guidance of Mrs. Fow-
ler Moves to New York to Enjoy Bigger
Opportunities.
Greenville, Miss.—(ANP)— Mil-
drich Tinsley and Oliver fiuckler,
convicted of murder and sentenced
to hang, have taken an appeal of
their sentences to the state Su-
preme court, automatically staying
their execution which had been set
for Feb. 23.
JUDGES FOR 'OPPORTUNITY
LITERARY CONTEST' NAMED
New York.—(ANP) — Elmer A.
Carter, editor of OPPORTUNITY,
announces that the judges for the
OPPORTUNITY Literary Compe-
tition will be as follows: John A.
Farrar, president of Farrar and
Rinehart, Publishers; Jamc! Wel-
don Johnson, Spence Professor of
Creative Literature, Fisk univer-
sity; and Royal J. Davis of the
editorial staff of the New York
Evening Post.
One hundred manuscripts from
all sections of the country have
been submitted and the winner will
be announced at a dinner given in
the early spring in the city of New
York
Filling Station
Bandit Slain
Indianapolis, Ind.—(ANP)—Ezell
Johnson, 27, was shot dead last
Wednesday night, when he at-
tempted to hold up a filling station
proprietor and his son at 3901
Southeastern avenue. His compan-
ion, driving an automobile, escaped
when Johnson started gunfire with
the proprietor, his son and a cus-
tomer. In a search for the other
bandit, police threw eight other
colored men in jail.
Hold High School
Studc for Shooting
Chicago.—(ANP)— Crazed by
his love and maddened because she
quit him, King Jackson, 19-year
old Wendell Phillips high school
pupil, took Adella Hollins, his high
school sweetheart, to Washington
park Wednesday afternoon and shot
her in the back.
At Provident hospital, the girl's
condition is said to be serious.
Jackson is alleged to have brood-
ed after the girl gave him up when
he failed to give her a present for
Christmas.
In his cell at the Wabash Avenue
station, the boy claimed that he
had sought to make up with her,
but she would not listen to him and
his feelings got the better of him.
After he had shot her, he called
help to see that she was taken to
the hospital, then gave himself up
to the police.
Both are reported to have been
good students in the high school.
CHURCHES MEET IN D. C.; TO TAKE
HAND IN LIBERIAN SITUATION
VEW YORK—(ANP)—To (he heart of Harlem, the Negro
1' capital of the world, inspired by (he encouragement which
the folk down home gave to her vision and planning, to put
a spade in the ground, dig up some of the roots of Negro
culture, those which relate to his music, his language, his
customs, and to place them on display because she believes
in their intrinsic value has come.
The intrepid, charming and scholarly Mrs. Manet Harri*
son Fowler. She was the organizer of the Texas Association
of Negro Musician?, a unit which i —■—
Round Table Conference on Pending Crisis
To Be Held at Colored Y. M. C. A. Febru-
ary Seventh Will Be Participated In By
Representatives of Five Million Negro
Church Members.
LYE THROWER ARRESTED
Columbia, S. C.—(ANP) —Police
arrested Miss Wilheminn Thomas
1225 Gates street, Saturday night,
after they learned that she had
thrown lye in the face of a man,
partially blinding him in one eye.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.—(ANP)—Secretaries of foreign
mission boards of colored churches doing work in Libe-
ria, met here January 24, and formulated plans for the hold-
ing of a round table conference on the Liberian crisis Feb-
ruary 7, at the Colored Y. M. C. A., Washington, D. C., to be
participated in by representatives of denominations having
a Negro church membership of 5,000,000 people.
Those sponsoring this important conference are Dr. J. E.
East, secretary of the Foreign
Mission Board of the National Bap-
tist Convention, Inc.; Dr. L. L
Berry, secretary of the Foreign
Mission Board of the A. M. E.
church; Dr. H. T. Medford, secre-
tary of the Foreign Mission Board
of the A. M. E. Zion church, and
Dr. J. H. Randolph, secretary of
the Foreign Mission Board of the
A. M. E. Zion church.
Greatly disturbed over the pos-
sibility of Liberia losing its polit-
ical independence and becoming
mandated by either France or
Great Britain, leaders of the race
in religious circles have been in-
vited to meet in Washington in the
hope of preventing such an even-
tuality.
Among those expected to take
part in the historic deliberations
are Dr. L. K. Williams, president
National Baptist Convention, Inc.;
Dr. W. H. Jernagin, president Sun-
day School and B. Y. P. U. Con-
gress; Dr. J. C. Jackson, president
New England Baptist CAvention;
Dr. J. M. Nabrit, secrepry Na-
(Continued on page 2)
Jackson, Miss.— (ANP) —Leon-
ard Hill, C3 years old, was found
dead on the Redfield plantation
near Edwards, Monday afternoon.
1932 Graduate
Studes Get Jota
Nashville, Tenn.—(ANP) — All
of the graduate stduents of the So-
cial Science department last year
were immediately placed in good
positions. Miss Melissa Elliott, of
Nashville, Tenn., is director of re-
search and Personnel in Bishop
college, Marshall, Texas; Miss N
dine Roberts of Clarksville, Tenn.,
is secretary of the Y. W. C. A.,
Roanoke, Va.; Miss Julia Johnson,
of Bristol, Va.. is educational sec-
retary of the Phyllis Wheatley as-
sociation in Cleveland. Ohio; Miss
Mary L. Huff, of St. Louis, Mo., is
with the Provident Association in
St. Louis; and Mr. W. Cleo Black-
burn of Indianapolis, Ind., is a Fel-
lowship student at Pendle Hill, Pa.
MID-YEAR AWARD MADE
FOUR HIGH SCHOOL STUDES
Veterans Planning
Flight Over Ocean
Brooklyn, N. Y.—(ANP)—Chas.
M. Bolden, 34, and Lloyd V. Cox,
32, have announced their intention
of attempting to make a non-stop
flight to Paris in June in the in-
terests of the American Legion.
They claim to have purchased a
monoplane which was used by two
women who established a refueling
endurance record at Curtiss field.
Bolden and Cox intend to follow
the southern route to Paris by way
of Bermuda and the Azores.
Marshall, Tex.—(spl) — Bishop
College awarded scholarships to
four members of the mid-year grad-
uating class of the Central High
School Thursday night. Those re-
ceiving the awards were: Mary
Lee Byrd, Verdell Goodspeed, AI-
freda Thompson and Ernestine
Horton.
These and a majority of their
classmates will enter Bishop Col-
lege. Those who rank in the upper
half of the class will be given par-
tial scholarships on March 5, the
date on which the third quarter
begins, according to President Jo-
seph J. Rhoads.
has figured conspicuously in the
development of the National Asso-
ciation of Negro Musicians.
Between Seventh and Lenox
avenues on 139th street, Mrs. Fow-
ler has established the Mwalimu
Studios. It is the purpose of the
school to develop African music
and creative art and to perpetuate
the good, the true and the beauti-
ful.
Already the Mwalimu school has
made its imprint in the city of Tin
Pan Alley, in the midst of tene-
ments where "blues" are the lit-
anies to sorrow, on the ground
where "arty" whites come looking
for "jungle rhythm*."
Two December issues of West
Africa, a weekly magazine circu-
lating in Nigeria. Sierra Leone, the
Gold Coast, and other West Afri-
can subdivisions, carried notices of
the work of Mwalimu and pictures.
The point in each case was to show
the cultural bond between the peo-
ples on each side of the ocean. A
photograph of the Mwalimu Festi-
val Chorus which sang in the Y
W. C. A. auditorium was published.
An entire concert program is to
be given by the group in Steinway
hall March 15 of African music in
the Yoruba language by the Fes-
tival chorus with Mrs. Fowler di-
recting.
Mwalimu school was born in Ft.
Worth, Texas, in 1928, under the
leadership of Mrs. Fowler and with
the encouragement of her husband,
Stephen Hamilton Fowler, vice
president and treasurer. After two
years, the school was moved to
Houston where it was located for
three years.
While in Texas, it was supported
by tuition fees from students and
through benefactions from individ-
uals and organizations which ap-
preciated its service.
Until the second year in Houston,
the school was known as the Mas-
ter Summer School of Music, but
at that time Mrs. Fowler began to
cast it in the larger mold which
Southern Editor
Addresses Group
In Atlanta, Ga.
Atlanta, Ga.—(ANP)The annual
meeting of the Atlanta Urban
Leenic is being haled here as on
of most successful meetings
ever neld in the City of Atlanta.
Between six and sevA hundred
people of both races were present
to hear William T. Anderson, the
fearless editor of The Macon Tele-
graph. Mr. Anderson, one of tho
leading white newspaper men of the
South, has fought consistently and
courageously against wage differ-
entials for Negroes, and his speech
is considered one of the most out-
spoken and frank statements on
race relations in the South ever
delivered.
Mr. Reginald A. Johnson is tha
executive secretary of the Atlanta
Urban League and is making an
enviable record in securing jobi
and relief for the Negro citizens
of Atlanta.
she had had in mind.
From the beginning, the school
has had what might be described as
a distinguished faculty of whito
and colored persons.
At Ft. Worth, members of tha
faculty were: Martha Broadus An-
derson, Jessie Covington Dent, Eu-
lalia Abner Randle; Eliza Champ
Gordon, F. Rivers Barnwell, E.
Clyde Whitlock. music critic for
the Ft. Worth Record - Telegram,
Dr. Albert Venting, white, and
Prof. I. E. Reynolds, white.
During the second and third
years, members added to the fac-
ulty were: Maynard Jackson,
Mmes. P. o. Smith, C. O. Carring.
ton, M. B. Smith, Florence Sledge
and Florence Cole Talbert-M«-
Cleavea. „
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