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N't SIDEWALK ALWAYS First With Tie Latest 1 Exclusive A. N. P. SERVICE ESTABLISHES 1 87 9 Read Our; Classified Advertisements as tiSTS moves on, bringing to a close the year of 1934, ft am reminded that I have consistently hnd without malice or ill will called to the attention of the Southern California Telephone Company, that in its program of employment it has definitely discarded Negro. VOLUME 47 PubNthatf wiry Friday by Via Catlfarnla Eaflls Publishing Ca.

1S07 East 103rd SL Entarad at 8 fid Claaa Mattar Nil. 17, 1913, at tha Paat Offlaa at Laa Angalaa, California, under tha Act af March 1S79. Number 2S 12.00 PER YEAR SIX MONTHS. BIAS FIVE CENTS PER COPY SUBSCRIPTION i LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1934 tJ Zeirgs Furniture I Al If the Telephone Com' opes to start the New Yea. right, its 1935 work for the Company program will include Americans of the darker hue on its IT IS ridiculous for the Telephone Company to be assured that dark Americans will always be content tT shuffle up to the windows and pay of their bard earn-1 ed dolars along with others who benefit, and yet know that neither their earning capacity nor their ability has been tested by the Telephone Company except as a subscriber, subject to taxation -without representation, which al-.

has been, is and always shall be tyrannical. IT HAS been called to my atten- tion that there is a Barbers Association on the Eastside. i don't know why there should be sfcch an organization in existence Unless it is for the purpose of protecting the dark brothers' interest in this particular field of Industry. And I hear some folk saying loudly, I dont see why Negroes want to segregate themselves into these separate distinct -organizations. Well I answer this one the Barbers and like organizations by saying, Negroes not wanting to segregate themselves but when they know that certain doors in- the industrial -and professional fields are closed, in -their faces, then they organize their strength for their protection and this is what Negro Barbers have done op the Eastside.

But to their great chagrin a certain gentleman of lanother racial group has come Vight down on the Eastside. In Jthe very heart of the "Black Belt opened three shops, hired Negro barbers to front for him, cut the rate, and in a definite but unspoken language is saying, watch ua put them, out of business. MR- BLACK BROTHER, you may preach all you wish about Black peopld making progress. but if you dont put a stop to these Negroes' fronting for "White Gods In order to bluff you you will wake up one of these mornings with the ecoaomic chains binding you so securely it will take you another two hundred. and fifty years to bleak them.

AGAIN I say that I despise race I think that Negroes like other Americans should eiJoy the fullest freedom In business and industry. When I endorse the organized effort on the part of these Negro. barbels for the protection of their busi-. ness interests, I do so without anv thought of endurc'R segregation, for I realize that segregation would bar Negroes from reading literature produced by whites, and from other business and social contacts by which all parties concerned benefit. FORMER 0.C1A.

STUDENT DENIES ROBBING AGED WHITE WOMAN; TRIAL ON 13TH, DEPARTMENT 13 Suit To Collect BUT 110 i. WIFE OBJECTS TtXHUSBANDS OTHER SPOUSE Asserting that she was married to Ralph Moore In Las Vegas, Nevada, in May of this year. and that. -they took up residence at 2102 Hooper avenue Los Angeles, shortly afterward, Mrs' Moore has had. her husband apprehended on a charge of bigamy, according to police reports, Moore Is alleged to have told hie wife that he had another legal wife living somewhere in Los Angeles, maybe In the 'city jail, by the-name of Jeannette Moore.

Mrs. Moore, who lives at 1681, East 33rd street, says that she was first- married in Wichita Falls, Texas, and that aha. can, locate the other "Mrs. Moore through; friends. BEATS WOMAN WHO WOULD NOT TALK WITHfHIM she refused to talk with him aa she was leaving the Club Alabam early last Friday Curtis Hamilton, 28, of 1312 Walnut street; is said to have dragged Geraldine Houchlns of 11420 South Compton into an alley and beat her until police arrived.

i Miss Houchlns. told Officers Drew and Clark that' she was leaving the club with Florence Harrington, of 1657 East 115th street and Roy Brame of. 4701 Compton; when Hamilton accosted her and then attacked her. Hamilton told police that he had been going with the woman and wanted to talk to her. He denied striking her, but was held on a charge of Charges Police Slugged, Threatened Him In Attempt To Force Confession For Alleged Crime Witnesses No Commotion Heard Before Tragedy; Victim Was Employed! City Hall TO LECTURE Unlawful Entry.

Of Customers Home Compromised Ibe Zerg's Furniture company who: won considerable notoriety in this community by its removal from Central avenue before, giving employment to Negroes, was dealt a stinging blow in Municipal Judge Clement D. Nyes Court last; Friday when the company through its Attorney compromised a damage suit brought by 'Mrs. Ada Williams by giving Mrs. Wil-, Hams a clear bill of sale to the furniture which she was purchasing from the company and a substantial cash settlement 3w suit arose over- the unlaw ful entry of Mrs. Williams' home at 1132.

E- 25th street by representatives of the furniture company who sought repossess the furniture on which there were delinquent payments. According to Williams the men came to her home and exhibited a document wbich proved1 to be a fake Court' summons, and attempted to take the furniture. She im- Asks $10,000 To Send Pickens Visits Marianna, Honda -V 't '1 iy-t, i- 1 'J -w NEGROES "AFRAID TO TALK" New York. Nov. 30.

Warned by Jacksonville Negroes not to risk visiting Marianna, scene of the recent torture-lynching of Claude mediately contacted her Attorney Ncal William Pickens secre-Curtla C. Taylor, who hurried to tary of the National Association for New York, Nov. 30. The Na tional Association for the Advance ment of Colored People announced today, that it is appealing for contributions to. a fund of ten thousand dollars with which to send a copy of the illustrated report of the horrible Claude Neal lynching at Marianna, Fla, on October 26, to clergymen of all faiths, denominations and races in all parts of the country, in an effort to arouse, the conscience of enlightened Americans, to force passage of the Costi-'yafBer federal anti-lynching MIS8 KATHLEEN WILLIAMS Protesting his innocence, Joel Matlock, former UCLA student, is at liberty on bail awaiting trial on charges of having held' up, robbed-' and brutally beaten an aged white early Saturday morning last October 27, at 16th and Hooper.

Matlock was taken into custody by police Sunday morning, October 29. in Huntington Park, where he had wandered after a night of revelry, in night clubs. According to his story, when he came to Vernon and Central, he turned east Instead of west, the direction of hlg home. When he came to himself he was behind the bars in the Huntington Jail: Newton police had been on the lookout for. the woman's assailant and.

were. told, that he had been picked up. Officers. Evans and Slater, according, to his statement, said he was the man they were looking for. Handcuffing him, he was taken to Newton station.

After several hours, Matlock says he was taken out, again handcuffed and placed a car by the same officers. "Somewhere off Hooper ave nue, he stated, "they drove into an alley. After having gone for some distance the car was brought to a stop. I was ordered to get out front of me' was a srick wall. Evans said that this was the scene of where I had robbed and beaten an elderly woman.

was the first time since my apprehension that I was told of what I was accused. Suddenly Evans proceeded to slug me In the solar plexus, while Slater on my other side returned rights to the chin For several the battle raged. Slater standing in front of me and saying that he should smash my jaw in and leave me on the spot, because a guy like me should be dead. I wap thrown into the car, carried back to the station with all kinds of unpleasant and unwarranted remarks ringing Jn my ears, and thrown into Matlock says number of persons will testify that be was with them at, the time of the crime." A preliminary hearing held, at the home of the woman, according -(Continued on Page Twelve) the but the men in the meantime had fled, leaving the furniture The Attorney then filed a damage suit against the company on behalf Mrs. Williams, and when the case came up foj trial i the company realiz- Continued -on Page Training, plus experience, have combined to make Miss, Kathleen Williams, riurse-in-charge at the Health Institute, .4920 Central.

avenue, one of the states most the forthcoming Congress, efficient registered In the opinion-of Dr. Ruth physician and surgeon and other, directors of the institute. A coroners jury sitting at the in quest last Wednesday morning; found that Thomas G. Capers, 33, janitor at the City Hall, had met his death early on the -morning of December 3 at 823 East 40th St, from a knife wound penetrating his heart inflicted December 3 by Ruth Reed, and recommended that woman -be held for triaL- When police answered the all about 1:30 last Monday morning, according to the report, George Hunt. Josephine and Robert Carter, Essie Mae all of the same Fortieth street address, and A.

Capers, a brother, of 2519 Naomi street, stated that they had heard no commotion, except a sound like a falling body. further alleged they heard Mrs. Ruth Reed say, "Thomas, did I cut you? Testimony that the woman- was seen to go downstairs and leave the premises. Radio Officers Towns and LeRoy Kelley picked her up about three o'clock of. the same morning at 57th and Central, in -company' with.

Richard Dillard of. 5535 Central avenue, and Alice Garland, of 2120 Live Oak Drive, Hollywood. i Taken to scene of the tragedy, the woman told the officers that about fifteen minutes before the stabbing she and Capers had returned from a card party at her sister-in-laws house; that he had undressed and she had partly undressed. An argument starting, Mrs- Reed stated that the man struck her three times and otherwise abused her. i During, the quarrel, she alleges that she picked up a knife which they -iised for bread and stabbed him.

Examination of woman's revealed qo signs of assault, according to police records. -The which Mrs. Reed says she threw away, could not be found by. detectives- after a thorough of the The couple' are said, to-have sweethearts for some time. Capers was divorced a native of.

Oklahoma. Jealousy is-said to have been the motive for the stabbing reports that Mrs; Reed waS' either white or passing" were denied to Funeral services' will be 'held for Mr. Capers from the Rideout 4100 Central, Tuesday 'at I oclock. i the Advancement of Colored Peo pie, visited (he Florida town on November 24, a month following the sadistic orgy, and found Negroes cowed and afraid to talk. Had quite a long stop at Marianna; Mr.

Pickens reports. "All seems -quiet, as if no madness had ever been until you attempt to elicit any REAL information from one of these -slaves (the NcgrR). Then you are answered, by a iMft-sensical grunt, and a vacant stare. They are AFRAID to talk about it. "Even big.

Negroes. some professional people, are afraid to talk out in Florida. When I went -with one to see a white man whom HE knew. I had to do all the -talking my self'. Mr.

Pickens a'dds that all these little tourns are just the DR. Noted' anthropologist, former professor at -Fisk University, who will lecture Wednesday, night, Dec. 12, at the First Unitarian Church on "The Contributions of the Negro to the (Story on Page 3.) i i A Better Picture A.A.C.P. ELECTS OFFICERS NEXT UNDAY P. M.

7(KPound, Tumor Taken. From Woman The Los Angeles Branch of. the NAACP will' have its annual meeting and election of officers on Sunday afternoon, December 9, at, the First AME Zion church, Pico and Paloma streets. rt There, will 'be' annual, reports from the. officers and committees.

Alll members are, urged to be vote for the officers for. -the ensuing year. Be sure your mem befship is paid The' titne is 3:30 oclock. DALLAS, By ANP One of the largest tumors known to medical science was removed last Monday from the abdomen of Mrs. Sophie Johnson weight 350 pounds.

-Originally the tumor 125 pounds, hut by drainage during the last few weeks its size was reduced to 70 pounds. Mrs. Johnson was on the operating table for nearly three hours. TWO KILLED BY TiRAIN North Little Rock, Ark (AN F) Clarence McGehee, 28 and Bill Windy Needham, 35tboth residents of Jacksonville, were instantly killed here last week when they jumped off a truck right in the pathway of a Rock Island passenger train. The accident happened near Prothos gin.

NOT SEGREGATION, but race consciousness is what, we need. It would- be. inconsistent to desire that Negroes should own- and control all the business the East-aide, hut let us take a little pride in Negro business and instead of praying' for entrance to Heaven when we pass from this plane, "let us create a little heavenly atmosphere here on this earth. If a wife has faith in her husband's ability to get and hold a good job by which he accumulates sufficient to make home" comfortable and happy, and if a husband believes- his wife is the best houae-keep. in Los Angeles, these forces combine to make a home a heaven; and this same principle can be worked out in business.

Negroes cannot object to segregation in busines in one breath and advocate it in the next. The theme of our text is not that Negroes should boycott other business places that operate on a fair' and Impartial basis, but as in the case of this barber wrho attempts to put the quietus on Negro barbers by cutting prices until he can get control and by using other Negro barbers to pull chestnuts from the fire for him we should as a group put our stamp of. disapproval on this sort of procedure; and believe me when I tell you that this sort of thing is not only true In the case of the barbers. often those who desire to keep Negroes in busines oblivion when they note some particular business enterprise making strides to compete In efficiency with them, they immediately seek a buffer wno stands on his toes and tells the 'crowd what a failure such- and such a Negro business is and the crowd (Negroes) applaud and the next breath hi 'tells them what he has to offer, they (the crowd) fall not for- what the buffer has to offer, for he has nothing of his own creation to sell, he Is merely in- terpreting the wishes of his boss who desires the support of Ne- groes to put over his business at the expense of Negro business a Negro or mixed community. I believe that, the thinking Negroes realize that this Is the selfish white mans method -to keep Ne- groes' economic slaves.

RIDEOUT MORTUARY OPENS DOORS TO PUBLIC SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9 KARL'S NEW DRUG STORE HOLDS OPENING; EMPLOYS 90 COLORED Woman Beats, Cop Given 30 Days i i If I were, called, upon to. pass my opinion of the best picture of the year, I would readily choose "Imitation of Life. Truly "Imitation of Life has several cross currents, of plot which is unusual in a successful play or picture, and yet so sincerely, and artistically, developed is this picture, "Imitation of Life that one loses sight of everything but genius and ability, of Director John Stahl to bring to Hollywood something, different, and when I use the. term, different, in this. case; mean something more profound-than the difference in scenery-and thrill.

Most of the pictures described, as good that have seen are so called, because of some' sickening love mess reaching a paradox in sex appeal or some blood curdling murder plot. "Imitation of Life is a presentation of the social, problem thatjs on trial in-this Nation today. The play opens with the struggle of a widowed white, mother to provide a living for herself and little daughter. At the close of a days search for sympathy and support from, the public, as a maple-syrup sales-woman, the white mother.1; which part: is-ably depicted by Claudette Colbert, meets Louise the colored -'mother in the -picture, who is' confronted with-a similar problem in life's struggle for existence. contrasting difference however is the fact that while the colored is pleasingly Black, her.

offspring is the same color of the white mother's child. It seems that fate designed that the. two mothers should meet and work ouf their destinies. first mistress'and' servant and finally as buiiiess partners; -and the little girls playing together grew up in the same social atmosphere. But the inevitable problem that arose in the lives of these four people is true to life as we know.

it. The -time came there was to be a parting of ways. The colored woman was content with her lot in life. but the colored daughter, which. part is very, ably played by Fredi -Washington, a tragic picture of what happens every day Vin.reil The -thrilling of the presentation of a -picture on a Hollywood screen dealing with real life could not close without the interwoying of isome sort of love scene; hence AVarren William the lover of; Claudette Colbert, who' had become wealthy through the invention and sale 'of ammy.

Pancake flour, is a happy realization that something dean can even come from Hollywood. Miss who been' in for! about ten years found her masterpiece In "Imitation of Life. CJU5. NEW ORLEANS, By ANP Mrs. Mary Allen.

418 Burgundy street, was sentenced to spend 20 days in jail after being convicted of assault on Patrolman Eugene Dakin, November 8. The policeman accused her of stealing merchandise from the McCrory store, whereupon Mrs. Allien slapped him end threw him to the ground. Oklahoma Doctor Praised For Fine Tumor Operation Chickasha, Okla. (ANP) One of the rarest specimens of -calcified tumors known to the medical profession was removed from Mrs.

Sadie Avery, 36, who lives at 714 South First street, here in Chicka-sha, last Tuesday, when W. A. J. Bullock, well-known colored ohysician fthis city was -called in. The eight-pound tumor was hard es cement.

The tumor removed from the patient has been viewed by various medical experts In this section and each hae expressed surprise that such a rare calcified ovary had not caused death. Formal opening ceremonies -for the new Rideout Mortuary, 4100 Central Avenue, -will be held next Sunday, December' 9 it was1 announced today by George Rideout, president, of the concern. -The, property has been' purchased. by the company headed by Mr. Rideout and for the first: etma in history the comer is now owned In -an effort to equip the place-to give -the best possible service -Mr.

Rideout has had building completely -renovated' and redecorated and the funeral home be one the jmost, modem and best equipped places of kind in the community. The formal opening' exercises will begin Sunday at 12 noon and will continue throughout the day. A number of attendants will be 'on hand to greet visitors and Show them Part of the all modem equips ment -was obtained "from Negro concerns a feature which Mr. Rideout beUeves Is. unique in tht city.

'We stress and strict attention to the wants of the public, Mr. Rideout told the i i (Continued on-Page Twelve) Hiawatha Temple lects Officer. At Meeting This Week Hiawatha Temple No. 1, Daughters of IBPOEW fit a recent meeting, elected the following officers: Dtr. Ruler, Rhonie vice, Eva W.

Young; Mollle Hayes; financial secretary, Adele B. Ashford (reelected); treasurer, Estella A. Broady; recorder, Le-nora Mahoney; chaplain, Virginia Walker; Susie Klrt-ley; medical examiner, Dr. -S. S.

Turner; gatekeeper, Mildred Love; trustee, Missouri ONeal; senior mother, Anneal Taylor; Junior mother, 'Mamie Thompson; senior Elizabeth. Kimbrough: second Eamerella Moore and deputy, Lela O. Murray. -c GETS 500.00 IN JEWELS MEMPHIS, Tenn. AN?) Mrs.

Morris Llppman, white, told police that a colored had snatched and fled with her purse containing jewels valued at more than-50L Making a steady increash in their vplume of business, cut-rate drug store at 421820 South Central, avenue, found it'xllcessary to enlarge. their store in to efficiently serve the large number of patrons. Formal opening of the new store began yestedraynnd will continue through Saturday night, Dec. 8 Elaborate preparations have been made to receive the public according to the usual Karls hospitality." The following east-side 'business men were engaged to make the attractive remodeling: V. A.

Morrow, electrician; Dickey Transfer Company, all the hauling; W. Neilson, Interior decorator; W. A. Lewis, cabinetmaker; C-DeLoache, carpenter; CL Neal Bowie, sign -painter. Ninety percent of the employees of Karls Cut-rate Drug Store are colored, among whom, are Walter Gregory, drug clerk; Dorothy Williams, toilet goods; Emma Williams, cook; Joe Rakestraw, No-vellette.

Harrison, Julia Houston and at: the fountain 'm I A BEGINNING THIS ISSUE WHITE FEVER ALICE DUNBAR NELSON ILL THE. FOLLOWING, is from one of the columns of the llustrated Dally News. I wonder 'why friend. Tipton should pick on' Negro preachers. I am sure the Negro clergy wil resent this un- Continued on Pae Two) a gripping, story of the Oklahoma In -dian Reservation BY MATTIE if A Z.

STAFFORD- Philadelphia, Pa (ANP) AJ-je Dunbar Nelson, former wife of the noted poet. Paul Laurence Dunbar nationally known herself as a poet and woman of public affairs. Is dangerously 111 in her home here. 4.