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HOUSTON AGAIN FLAYS ARMY NEW NEGRO OPINION WASHINGTON'S PROGRESSIVE WEEKLY BALANCED NEWS FEARLESS OPINIONS Second Year - No. 26 WASHINGTON, D.C., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1934 Price 2 Pennies N.N.A. PICKETS WIN ALLIANCE WINS ROUND IN HIGH JOBS FIGHT Strong Answer of Alliance Attorneys Get Ice Cream Company to Suspend Court Efforts By the refusal of the High Ice Cream Company to prosecute its petition for a preliminary injunction against the picketing of its store by the New Negro Alliance and its decision to dismiss the case, the Alliance won a signal victory yesterday (Friday), in the Supreme Court. The hearing on the rule to show why the Ice Cream Company should not be granted a preliminary injunction against the Alliance was to be held Friday morning before Justice Letts. The night before, however, the attorneys for the High Company telephoned the attorneys for the Alliance that they wished to dismiss the motion without prejudice. Friday morning the Alliance attorneys and Justice Letts agreed that this be done. ALLIANCE ANSWERS The sudden decision of the High Company not to fight the case at this point came as a surprise and was probably due to the puncture proof answer made by the Alliance through its attorneys, Belford V. Lawson, William H. Has- Continued on page 3 [[line]] EX-HOWARD UNIVERSITY OFFICIAL DIES IN WASHINGTON George H. Stafford, white, former secretary-treasurer of Howard University, died here last week, following an extended illness. [[line]] MAN JUMPS FROM THIRD STORY WINDOW After being trapped in a house in the 800 blork of Twenty-third St., N.W., this week, Wilson Owen, 36, jumped from a third story window in an effort to escape. He fractured his jaw and shoulders. Owen was wanted as an escaped inmate of Occoquan. [[line]] SCOTTSB'RO BOYS LOSE APPEALS ON HEARINGS Walter White Told that Every Effort Will Be Made to Get Justice for Negroes By Capital News Service BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Alabama's Supreme Court on Monday, August 27, declined to call a special session to rule on the application for a rehearing of its decision affirming the death sentences of Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris, defendants in the Scottsboro case. The special session was requested by defense counsel and Attorney General Thomas E. Knight, Jr., to obtain an early ruling and if the rehearing is denied, speed up the final appeal to the United States Supreme Court. [[line]] Secretary Ickes Promises Square Deal for Colored Workers NEW YORK - The assurance of Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickles that discrimination against colored labor on public works will be overcome, "if it is legally possible," is contained in a letter made public last week by Walter White, secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored people. The letter, dated August 16, is in reply to telegrams sent to President Roosevelt and Secretary Ickles, on the eve of their inspection of great public works in the Far West, urging that the problem of the discrimination against colored workers again engage their attention. The association has been waging a long fight for the employment of more colored workers at Boulder Dam, Las Vegas, Nevada, and similar projects of the Public Works Administration. Continued from page [[line]] MET. LIFE INS. CO. SPURNS COLORED CLERKS Best Service For All Unobtainable Says Company With Millions of Policy-Holders By Capital News Service NEWARK,N.J. - "The best type of service that its business requires for all its policy-holders cannot be obtained through the employment of a colored clerk." This is the conviction of the officers of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company as expressed in a letter, signed by Arthur Tretheway, superintendent of agencies [[note: there is a tear in the newspaper here and the words cannot be read]] [[line]] REHABILITATION CORPORATION ELECTS HOWARD H. LONG TREASURER At the first meeting of theDistrict of Columbia Rehabilitation Corporation, Howard H. Long, Assistant Superintendent of Schools, was elected Treasurer Commissioner Allen was elected President of the Board of Directors. [[line]] BUS CRASH KILLS 6; INJURES TWENTY RICHMOND, Va. When a chartered Lancaster County school bus crashed into a produce truck on Labor Day, six persons were killed and twenty persons injured. The party was returning to Whitestone from Tappahannock, Va. [[line]] ALLIANCE OFFICIAL LEAVES FOR NEW YORK George H. Rycraw left this week for New York where he will attend the National Convention of the Federation of Government Employees at the Hotel Pennsylvania. Mr. Rycraw is carrying with him for introduction a resolution against discrimination in the Civil Service and urging the President to use his powers in eradicating such discriminatory practices. This resolution was approved unanimously by the D.C. Department of the American Federation of Government Employees. Mr. Rycraw is chairman of the Committee on Public Relations of the New Negro Alliance. FIGHT FOR COLORED A.B.C. CLERKS [[line]] Portsmouth, Va.—Members of the Civic and Political Club, headed by Charles Bowens and members of the Citizens Committee continue their efforts to obtain clerical jobs for Negroes in the ABC liquor store in this city, that are located in colored neighborhoods. Similar stores are now operating with colored employees in Norfolk, Petersburg, and Richmond. [[line]] FINLEY WILSON ADDS YEAR TO RULE OF ELKS Opposition Claims Ruse Was Used to Secure Re-election of Exalted Ruler ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - J. Finley Wilson, grand exalted ruler of Elks, was re-elected by acclamation for a new term of two years, at the convention here last week. If is claimed by some that the election of Mr. Wilson to a two-year term, as announced by the presiding officer, at the time of election, was accomplished by a ruse, and that many voted under the apprehension that they were electing Mr. Wilson to finish out an expired term of two years, and that there would be an election of his successor next year. Other officers re-elected were: Perry W. Howard, grand legal adviser of the order; Judge W.C. Hueston, commissioner of education; James E. Kelley, grand secretary; E.W. Henry grand treasurer. The 1935 grand lodge convention of Elks will meet in Washington next August. [[line]] MCARTHUR REPLY TO HOWARD DEAN DRAWS RETORT Ex-Army Officer "Skeptical" Of Avowed Desire of War Department For No Discrimination Charles H. Houston, Vice-Dean of the Howard Law School, member of the Board of Education, and former artillery officer of the National Army, has again flayed the prejudiced attitude of the National Army in an open letter to General Douglass MacArthur, Chief of Staff, U.S.A. Dean Houston received a letter from Gen.MacArthur in which he was assured that there has been and will be no discrimination against the colored race in the training of the national forces. He replied that discrimination has been and still is in the army. He states further, "We notice that all our officers from Colonel Charles Continued on page 2 [[line]] NEGRO NAMES AS SUPERINTENDENT OF POST OFFICE SUB-STATION IN PHILADELPHIA. By Capital News Service PHILADELPHIA - John Brown, veteran postal employee, has been named superintendent of Station "D," a sub-station post office, at 19th and Montrose Streets, this city. Mr. Brown is the first Negro to be so honored in the city of Philadelphia. University of Michigan Bars Colored Girl From Dormitory BALTIMORE, Md. - Miss Jean Blackwell, daughter of Mrs. Sarah M. Blackwell, is the victim of gross injustice being practiced at the University of Michigan, according to details which were given out last week. Miss Blackwell is a senior at the University,with better than a "B" average. She made application in April for a room in Martha Cook Dormitory, which is restricted to girls with a "B" average. Although she fulfilled all qualifications,she was informed several days later that the senior quota for Martha Cook Hall had been filled. However, a number of girls told her that there were plenty of vacancies in the hall. Shortly afterward, Miss Blackwell was notified that she would be accepted for Mosher Jordan Dormitory, but that she could not have a single room in that hall. Mosher Jordan Hall is the only hall to which colored girls are admitted. Continued on page 4
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Man Jumps From Third Story Window -- typo in original "blork" instead of block
