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ago, for the Mercantile Bank and Trust Company's Harlem branch, located at 135th street and Seventh avenue, still remains closed for normal business con ditions. Interviewed by a reporter for The New York Age, Charles G. Rapp, manager, was unable to give any statement as to the condition of the bank and said that he hoped to be authorized bv thp main office, to give some in Lne npar iiirnrp. A call to the main office of the lank, hv THE AGE, resulted in a statement made by the president's secretary that the bank had nothing to for publication and when it did it would release a statement to the press. In the meantime, however, depositors all over the city are feeling the effects of the continued closing, being unable to have their checks cashed.

And although the general bank holiday was lifted in New York on Monday, March '1 up to the present time tlie depositors in the Mercantile Bank and Trust Company have only been able to draw 10 per cent of the amount they have on deposit in the bank and no checks have bem honored by the hank. The bank is open for the making of change, is accepting no deposits ind no withdrawals may be made by depositors until the next authorira wi is given. i 0 Max Yergan Gets Spingarn Awardof 1932 JUx Yergan, American Y. AL A. secretary, who has worked fof ten ytars among the native stu dents of South Africa, has been awarded the Spingarn medal for 19,41 the committee announced this week.

The committee statement tavs: "He i( a missionary of intelligence, tact and self sacrifice, representee the gift of cooperation and culture which American Negroes may send back to their motherland, and he inaugurated last year an unnsual local movement for interracial understanding among black and white students." Mr. Yergan was born in Raleigh, a. ana is a graduate of ahaw University. In choosing Sonth Africa for his work, he went into a land with much more color pre! tidice and cruelties based on color tnan the United The racial feeling js so bitter that Mr. Yer gan interracial conference last year was severely criticised by' the government.

Despite great handicaps re has carried forward a great work in South Africa. Mr. Yergan is expected in America in April and will receive the medal at the N. A. A.

C. P. annual conference in Chicago June 27 July 2. Robert Brooks Dismissed From Union League Chb After 23 Years' Smfce Because it was his habit to drive work in his own car with a liv ned chauffeur, Robert Brooks of flushing, an employee in the Union "Rue Club. Park avenue and 37th MNct, was notified Thursday eve "ie.

March 16. that hit services re no longer required. Although crooks had a record for efficiency nd service as head of his depart Jt and had worked at the club 23 year, it was said that the ni oi an employee riding to rk in a big car was too much the club members and they had man once remarked about it wn a salary of $150 per month, 'm tips, it is said that Mr. Brooks able to buy his home in Flush "fcone in Asbury I'ark, N. for "mmcr home and Eire a chauf 'r to drive his car.

It was this his car that is said to have Mr. Krooks his job. ftegroes have always been very treated in their employment union League Club and sur wi ha been expressed at the ae on the part of John Keena wn, white manager, in dismissing Brrk? for such a trivial reason. a Negro employees the Union League Club and My of them are in responsible 'tionk. Many 0f the employees jV been in the sen ice for long Wod, of car.

William S. Miles the senior employee at the club "'tli 45 years service at present it cliargt the cafe. Next in the years service come Joe vuc nan lor lorty years an Mr. Cjucenan is the head 'ter. i a the club insures all of Hilh iirjrj Jifc ifl.

tV r.licj paid op, it given "weutaltie statement for publication lad Gets 6 to 20 Yrs. for Homicide On Friday, March 10 Judge Nott in Part 8, of General Sessions sen tence Karl Hall, 18, 23 West 67th sircei, io a term of from six to twenty years in State Prison after oemg convicted on a charge of manslaughter. Hall was arrested by Detective croquette ot the 28th Squad on uctober 31, 1932, after having evaded the police since March 28, 1931, when about 12:40 p. nr. at the N.

corner, of 118th street and 5th avenue he stabbed Sam 18, 2 "West 120th street in the ngni sine oi me cnest with a knife frorai which wound he died soon after reaching the hospital for Joint mseascs. in a written testimony at time of his arrest by Det. Chiquette Hall declared that on the evening before the day in question he wat beaten by several persons to such an extent that he bad tq be taken home by two of his friends; The next day, about noon, at he wat crossing 118th street the same group attacked him and. without any intention to hurt anyone) he stabbed the lad. Hall was acquitted on a grand larceny charge in G.

S. in 1930 and at time of his arrest was wanted by Detective Davis of the 20th Squad for firing six shots from pistol at a patrolman on April 6, 1932. Patrolman On Way Arrests Woman While passing the apartment house at 159. East 102nd street on Friday evening. March 17, on his way to visit friends living in the neighbor 1iod, Patrolman Benjamin Wallace bf the West 135th street police sta (ton saw a woman coming from the basement 1 apartment The policeman remembering that an alarm had been broadcast tor a woman by the name of Sarah Presi dent who answered that description.

called "Sarah1 and the woman an swered him. She was taken into cus tody and brought by Patrolman Wat lace to the police station, where she admitted that she was aarah 1'resi dent. 34, formerly of 261 West 134th street. According to detectives, Henry Powell was found stabbed to death in a bedroom at 261 West 134th street, apartment 3, on May 15, 1932, following an altercation with Sarah President. police reached the scene the woman had escaped and she had been sought since that time in connection with the murder.

Police StZl Sssk Slayer (HLhrta Harris; Church Dezes He Was Officii While police are still looking for the slayer of Martin L. Harris, "numbers'' banker, who was killed Match 6, denials were made concerning the story published in last week's issue of The New York Age that the slain "numbers' banker was a member, and usher of Abyssinian Baptist Church, i In a letter to the Editor, Rer. A. Clayton Powell, pastor, and Mrs. Dorothy Brooks, clerk, said that Harris had been an usher of the church and was not even a member of the church.

At the same time, Rer. E. Elliott Durant who preached the funeral services, denied that he was a personal friend of the deceased. TWO. AGAINST.

ONE Sophie Thompson. 14 West Ulst street, and her paramour, Raymond Hanna, 40 West 135th street, were held in $500 bail each for Special Sessions when a charge of felonious assault against them was reduced to one of simple assault The couple were accused of at tacking William Watson. 2816 Eighth avenue, at 40 West 135th street, where (he woman is said to have struck him on the head with a bottle and subbed him in the face with a fork while the man. punched him with his fist to one body to include A. M.

rvn i jvfi VI CLASSIFIED ADVERTISMENTS Ranch the People and Bring i Remits at SnaBCoH" A REAL HOME PAPER COMPILED BY NEGROES PRINTED BY NEGROES FOR NEGROES VOL. 47. No. 29. NEW YORR7NrY.7SCTUR0AY7MSllCH25, 1933.

FIVE CENTS PER COPY fiDi JUL T7? 1 II am HERCANTILE BAMC FAILS TO REOPEN DOORS FOR lillM BUSINESS ACIII'ITIES Thousands of Harlem business and are still feeling the effects of the bank which was declared nationally several weeks Lonnie Hicks Opens Unique Employment Agency In Harlem The building which housed the swanky Sunset Marlbrooke Restaurant, at 2256 7th avenue, is now the home of one of the most unique employment agencies in New York. This agency gets jobs for. the unem ployed without cash, leaving it to the honor of those so helped to pay a small fee after they have been working awhile. The author of this idea is Lonnie Hicks, former musician and well known in political circles of Harlem. Mr.

Hicks has, perhaps, one of the largest, personal acquaintances in New York and is using this acquaintance for the benefit of Harlem's unemployed. 1 Associated with him in the project are his son, Pelham Hicks, secretary to the agency, which is operated the trade name, "Hicks House of Service. Inc." Mrs. Mabelle King is vice president, and Aiken A. Pope is attorney.

George S. Schuyler, the author, is also associated with the business. On March 15, Mr. Hicks had Registration Day and about 10,000 unemployed people, men and women, signed up for jobs. Several hundred have already been placed in the past week.

All kinds of help is supplied and a thorough investigation of every applicant is made before he is sent on a job. FORGES RELIEF CHECK Oscar Baildwin. 304 West 119th street, was held in $500 bail by Magistrate: Oreyer in Vaahnigton Heights Court on a charge of having rendered a forged check for $25 payable to James Joseph of 2704 Eighth avenue. The check was sent from the Home Relief Bureau t0 Joseph but instead Baldwin signed the name of Joseph and took it to Hyman Shapiro, furniture dealer, who gave the man $15 in cash and credited $10 to his furniture bill. To Visit Friend Wanted For Murder P.

ad H. Taiicab Co. Pets 200 Mca To Work After 6 Heaths Layoff Announcement was made on Monday that 100 cabs of the P. and H. Taxicab Co.

were again placed in operation, with jobs being given to about 200 chauffeurs and a half dozen supervisors and mechanics. It was also announced that the other 150 cabs of this company would be in operation by March 31. The company's garage is located on West 141st street, between Lenox and Fifth avenues. William H. Peters and Samuel Hamilton are president and secre tary treasurer of the1 company.

They formerly operated over 500 cabs in uptown New York as part of the Parmalee System. Last summer business conditions forced them to suspend operations, Medical Scckty Protests Of (He For Vetral Diseases At the regular monthly meeting of the North Harlem Medical ciety held on Thursday, the follow ing resolution was passed: This Society co on record ts protesting against the establishment of a separate venereal clinic in Harlem and urge that tne prop er authorities provide adequate fa eilities for handling venereal dis ease rases at Harlem Hospital, and that this policy be used in further discussion of tne problem witn in, Kaliskt Committee. Among the reasons given for the adoption of the resolution are that the establishment of a venereal clinic will be a stigma to the com munity and will work a distinct hardship to a large, number of dcodIc in maintaining and obtain inff emoloyment. especially as do mestics. Another reason advanced was that it would aggravate the oresent economic hazard of the profession.

Follow SAM. ouf comic strip. each week in The Age. the rlltl itarieitf tM iMlf tMMfl (rtfls Tttl MW YORK AOC la tolaf lf mints. riw his awtivlUss avart wst jfate.

Police Policy Ilea Haid Schultz (By Correspondent of The N. Age) Whether or not the publicity given by The New York Age in recent issues about a war between the Negro and white factions of the friumbers racket, which was followed two weeto ago by the killing of a Negro banker in his 13Qth street home, was the cause of a spectacular raid; made by police on the 550 West 146th street of J)utch Schultz, is not known, however detectivea of 19th Division headed by Sergeant Grey, paid a surprise visit to the place, seized several thousands of policy slips, over $4000 cash and arrested fourteen operators. The fact that. the white race now" enjoys quite a monopoly on the game was easily seen in thil in stance as all of the fourteen per sons, all men, arrested at the, time were white. The officers, three in number, are said to have arrived in the vicinity sometime in the afternoon and waited until all the collections had been received, Sergt.

Gray, who headed the party, then broke the glass in the fire escape window ot the apartment and with drawn gun opened the door for his two Officer. Magnus andlfTV0 ou? Canavan, Knd charge. him. with possession Iid yon ever get a convicition in i ac men. wno were a i ont on ball, when arraigned before Magistrate.

Dreyer in Washington Heights Court on Thursday were held for a further hearing on Thursday, March 23, on the plea of their counsel It might be remembered that the fifteen persons seized in a similar raid at 500 West 145th street sev eral months ago, along with thou sands ot policy tabulating machines and what not, were not even held for Special Sessions but the case being thrown out of court by Magistrate Capshaw after a couple of adjournments. However, several persons, mostly Ne groes, seized tn another raid on an apartment at the Park Lincoln Apartments were held for Special Sessions by the same magistrate toe following day. Just how far the present case will go, even if held for Special Sessions, mieht be easily seen in a few questions asked one of the onicers by Magistrate Drcver ci en after the defendants' attorney naa asitea tor the week adjourn ment. The magistrate asked the cop wnere. tne sups were found, and when the nffirr rrnlirH "nn a table in the room," the juror replied: "Under the law there must be more than How are you case lika thisr "The officer then replied that this was the first cae like, this.

Magistrate Dreyer then wound up with: think it over." Those arrested gave their names and addresses as: James Quirk, 430 West 124th street; Albert Spcctor, 401 West 183rd street; Arthur Carroll, 656 Leonard treet, Brooklyn. Edward Murray, 168 East lOoth street; John. Clancy, 501 West 164th street; Jack O'Brien, 612 East 180th street; Harry Martin, 293 Lenox avenue. Harry Schwartz, 314. DeKalb avenue, Brooklyn; James Mason, 1088 Walton avenue; Edward Carson, 120 West 122nd street; Morris Golstein, 2430 Walton avenue; John Wilner.

322 E. 162nd street; Ernest Maroney, 322 East 162nd street, and Joseph Rocco, 1172 Washington avenue. National ilenseffes CONGRESSMAN DEPRIEST ASSIGNED TO IMPORTANT COMMITTEES WASHINGTON, D. House committee assignments were coat' pleted Friday when Republican 38 committees. The action completed third Congress and all committees Representative Oscar DePriest of leaders nominated member! for the ing four important committees: Enrolled Bills, Indian Affairs, Invalid Pensions and Postoffice anl Post INDIANA GOVERNOR SIGNS JIM INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.

Governor Paul V. McNutt signed the bill introduced by Representative Henry tractors doing work for the state ers of any race or color who pply NEGRO SUES) TO ENTER UNIVERSITY OF NO. CAROLINA DURHAM, N. Judge M. Thomas J.

Wilson registrar at to show cause before bim in Durham next Friday why a writ of man the organization of the Seventy are now authorized to function. Illinois waa assigned! to the follow Roads. BILL BARRING EMPLOYMENT CROW J. Richardson providing that con must not discriminate against work for Jobs. V.

Barnhill on Saturday ordered the University of North Carolina, of pharmacy. The case is a test courts if necessary. Baptist Unions and other religious committee to woik out the unifica of a life sentence on conviction of damus should not be issued compelling him to admit Thomas R. Hocutt to the university's school to decide the university's legal right to bar Negrees from matriculation. Attorneys A.

McCoy and C. O. Pearson for Hocutt declare they will take the fight to higher TO UNIFY ALL CHURCH CROUPS IN GEORGIA. ATLANTA, Ga. (CNS) Unification of all ministerial groups in connections in being favorably considered here.

Rev. J. A. Martin and Rev. J.

A. Baxter are leading a tion plans. GOVERNOR GRANTS FULL PARDON TO PHYSICIAN MASON, Ga. (CNS) A full pardon with the restoration of all civil rights has been granted by Governor Talmadge to Dr. it.

Clarence Mitchell, colored physician of Macon, who was paroled some time ago after. serving ten years murder. ADMITTED TO PRACTICE BEFORE U. S. SUPREME COURT Washington, D.

C. (CNS) Hubert T. Delany, formerly an as sistant United States Attorney in New York, City, has been admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States upon motion of the Hon. Thomas Day Thatcher, Solicitor General of the United States. (Continued oa Paga 2 N.

J. Assembly Passes Tiligrant TRENTON, N. J. A State Com mission composed of seven colored citizens to study the. problems of New Jersey's migrant population was authorized by the House of Assembly last Wednesday.

The resolution setting up. the Migrant Welfare. Commission was introduced by J. Mercer Burrell, colored Assemblyman from Essex County. Assemblyman Burrell made an eloquent plea for recognition of the colored citizens and was supported by Assemblywoman Emma Peters, of Fergen County and Assemblyman Edwin Carpenten of Mercer County.

John J. Rafferty of Middlesex County, leader of the Democratic minority, spoke in opposition but could not hold his forces in line against the measure. Only ten of twenty two Democrats in the House voted against the resolution. A number of other measures have been introduced by Burrell, including several bills relating to taxation, one concerning the regu lation of billboard advertising and a bill relating to appointment of County Detectives in counties of the first class. One bill providing lor distribution to the municipal ities annually of the sum of $6,500,000 from the State gasoline tax was passed several weeks ago.

The Assemblyman also took a prominent part in the recent defeat of Senate Bill No. 80, which proposed to disrupt the Borough of Lawnside in Camden County which is entirely controlled by colored people, Due to the vigorous opposition ot the Lawnside representatives at the public hearing in the Senate last week, the attempt to set up the Borough of Wood crest Heights with a few white families said to have Ku KIux Klan backing, was definitely blocked. Horace Bryant of the Lawnside Borough Council. Capt Richard Williams, Secretary of the Board ot education and Assemblyman Burrell were the principal speakers for Lawnside. The clear and force ful summary of the matter by the colored Assemblyman and his as sociates so impressed the Senators that it was voted not to permit the hill to come out of Committee for.

a vote on the floor. Senator Woodruff of Camden County who introduced The Bill is reported as having admitted that it is dead for the session. WOLIAN KILLED, ANO IBER SHOT UN JAN GOES ON RAMPAGE INT1H0LEIT1I7ALI Police, of the West 135th street station are searching for a man who shortly after midnight, Sunday, March 19, drew his revolver and fired sev eral shots in a basement cafe known as 'The Hole i In The Wall," located at 135 West 132nd street; Sey eral of the shots took effect and as a result one an is dead and another woman seriously injured, confined to Harlem Hospital. The crowded resorV was thrown into an uproar as the assailant pushed through patrons and escaped. When police arrived, they sum 1 Ban on Negroes In Alabama Juries To Be Chief Issca In' Scottsboro Case: Prisoners to be Transferred BIRMINGHAM.

Ala. The In ternational Labor Defense will continue its fight for a change of venue for. the trial of the nine Negro boys in the Scottsboro Case. The ILD's request that the 8 boys now in Kilby i'Prison at Montgomery be moved tq. Birmingham County jail where they may have private interviews With their attorneys before the trial, has been granted, and the defense is con tinuing to quash the indictments on the ground that Negroes are and have been excluded from Alabama grand juries.

The trial is likely to open on March 29 in Decatur. AH of the witneses for whom subpoenas will be requested this week by Chamlee of the defense counsel are with one exception colored residents ot Jackson County where the crime is supposed to t.ve occurred. Samuel Liebowitz, famous New York criminal lawyer who has "been added to the staff of the defer: counsel, will attempt to show by examination of these if Judge Horton permits, that they are qualified to serve as jurors witnin trie meaning of the Alabama statute ex Tries To KQ Htrstlf .1 After Stabiig lha An early Sunday morninc altercation resulted in the treatment rf two Harlemites by an ambulance surgeon from Harlem Hospi'al. Ancrding to police after 8 a. March 19, Fred Washington, 30, and Gertrude King, 30, both of 125 West 127th itreet, had an argument, The argument became hrated and the woman is said to have subbed Washington in the left shtmldcf and then, it is said, she ran iii'o another room, locked herself jn and turned a gas jet on.

Dr. Elliott of Harlem Ijjspjtal treated both for their injuries and tney trained at home. Thtrt wt jrpdic action, Mays Young Wife, Then Self Jealousy, born of suspicion, and incompatabihty caused by the 17 years' difference in the ages of John B. Jones. 40, and his wife, Leona, 23, must have caused the former to decide on the tragic climax of hrs marital relations after they had failed to "make a.

go" of a reconciliation agreement after a separation of a few months. On evenjns, Jones is laid to have gone to the home of a friend and told her that when hi wifeame horn? he would call her. but initead, soon 'after the wife reached home neighbors heard several pistol shots 'in succession. When they reached the apartment they found a note addressed to the same friend, the wife, Leona already dead and the husband dying with bollet wounds through' the temple. The couple had no children.

The bodies were taken to the morgue and following an inquest, the were turned over to James P. Collins, funeral director of 106 West 129th street, to be prepared for burial. A double funeral service was conducted from Mr. Collins' chapel on Tuesday night and burial followed Wednesday morning at Sil ver Mount Cemetery, Staten Is land. cept (or the color for their skins.

So far as has been learned, it will hr the first time in history that such an attempt has been made to prove racial discrimination in the selection of southern juries. One white man, a witness who resides in "Chattanooga but who formerly was a resident of Jackson County, is expected to testify that in all the time he lived in the county no Negro's name ever appeared upon a jury roll. The state's answer, it is will be given by Attorney General Thorn as E. Knight, to the effect that the Alabama laws do not disqualify Negroes as jurors, but that they have Jailed to satisfy the jury commissioners appointed by the Governor that they are persons of sound judg men. Attorney General Knight and the defense attorneys have agreed that the" 'Negroes, now confined in the death.

house of Kilby prison Mont gomery, shall be transferred to the Jefferson County jail in Birmin ham, pending their new but as yet the necessary orders have not been signed. MGizaGttTkrce toSaYabsStitePrbcD On Thursday Judgo Freschl presiding, Part II of General Sessions' sentenced George Beaslev. 29 lj west 139th street, and Will ie Cooper, 26, 225 West 133rd street. to serve a period of from three to six years in Mate Prison on charg es of assault and robbery. About 9 p.

m. on December 23 the two men entered the store of Samuel Halpern. 418 Lenox ave nue and at the point of a gun took IJ3 from the cash register, Halpern gave chase after they lelt the store and succeeded in having Cooper arrested by Patrol man Beasler was later arrested by Detectives Hoyden and Wuuaxni ot the 32aA Precinct. moned an ambulance from Harlem Hospital and Dr. Freed pronounced one of the women dead and took the other woman to the hospital.

The dead woman was identified as Flora Pessoa, 30, of 2676 Eighth avenue, apartment 6. The injured woman is her friend. Irene McCoy, 35, of the same address, who wat y' confined to the hospital with a gun shot wound of the face. r1 As police pjeced the story together, the two women were seated at one of the tables when the assailant and another friend, said to be of the third sex. entered, and sat at an adjoining table.

For some reason or another, the man drew a revolver and befort the women could duck beneath their table, the shots rang out and they fell before the bullets. Detectives Winterhalter, Nelson and O'Leary of the West i35th sueet station, questioned fmrpaliuni and later irt the day detained Hugh Riv 'V ers. 28, of 102 West 118th street, said to be a friend of the escaped assail ant, as a material witness. Noah Thompson, Veteran Nevspapr Han, Js Noah D. Thompson, veteran news paper man and business manager of Opportunity Magazine, died Monday'.

momir at the Mesencordia Hospital, 5 East 86th street, following a cerebral hemorrhage. The late Mr. Thompson is said to have suffered a slight pa ralytic stroke last week and wii're moved to the hospital. He was years of age. Bom Baltimore, he was associated with the late John Murphv, founder, in the early dart of the Afro American.

He married Miss Lil Murphy, daughter of John H. Murphy, who died at the birth of his only surviving son, M. hompson. now connected with the mechanical staff of the Afro Ameri 1 can. After a few years as a teacher at Tuskegee, Mr.

Thompson wenf to California and succeeded in settina' a position with the Los Angeles Ex aminer, one of the leading dailies ot the West. Through his connections with this paper, he became one of the best known Negroes in the news paper field and married Eloise Bibb, well known poet and scenarist He resigned his position with the Examiner ten years ago and came to New York and took ua work who, the National Urban League and its official orgaB( Opportunity Magaiine. About three years ago the second Mrs. Thompson died and a year la ter Mr. Thompson again married.

The present Mrs, Thompson was formerly Hattie They resid ed in the Dunbar Garden ApartmenU and the late Mr. Thompson took an active interest in the community life there. He was a member of the house committee of the 211 West 149th street house and his ascociates the apartment held special funeral services lor him at the Chapel of Mary Lane. West 133rd street oa Wednesday night. Solemn requiem mass was held at the Church of the Resurrection on Thursday morning and burial followed at Calvary Cemetery.

The late Mr. Thompson was on of the most active laymen of the Catholic faith in Harlem and always took an active part in any activity of his denomination. a 1' BURGLAR GETS JAIL TERM Willie Smith, of 314 West 143id street, was on Thursday sentenced to an indefinite period in the Penitentiary by Judge Collina in Part 2 of General Sessions On February 16, about 4.45 a. m. while Officer Wheeler of the 32nd Precinct was on duty in the vicinity of 2667 Eighth avenue he heard a crash as of fallen glass and observed.

Smith running away from the scene He had broken the glass window of the store with a brick and had taken six dresses, one fur coat and two cards of earrings..