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THE: EVANSVILLE ARGUS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1939
LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL NEWS
BAND DELIGHTS PUBLIC Last week thq Lincoln Band at the Lincoln-Sumner football game surprised the public with lights on their caps. When the lights on the field were turned out, the band lights blazed forth forming the letters L. and S. All the members of the band marched and did their formation perfectly. The band is under the leadership of Mr. A. R. Porter and the drum major is Miss Helen Forte. The members of the, Junior Tuberculosis Club initiated new members last Wednesday. Games were played, after which a bean dinner* was served consisting of baked beans, hot dogs, ice cream, and pop. The 1 new officers elected were: Bernice Matthews, President; Jean Niles, Vice President; Margaret Davie, Secretary; Glora Thompkins, Asst. Secretary; Marshal Tyler, Treasurer. The Boys Sports Club members will act as greeters at the socials given following athletic
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contests and will see to it that visitors are introduced to our boys and girl s and made to feel at home. The inter-class football game between the Seniors, and Sopho-more-Freshman classes was held Friday afternoon at 2:30. All the pupils of Lincoln School witnessed this game. There was a party given Tuesday evening at Lincoln Auditorium. • This party wag given in behalf of the Craftsmen Club; hours from 4:30-7:30 sponsored by ]V!fr. Fields. The clu,b is composed of girls who served delicious drinks and sandwiches. Music was furnished by the WPA Orchestra. Games were played such as bobbing for apples, and an airplane which dropped numbers and the person getting your opposite number was your partner for the first dance and taking stunts out of a pumpkin. ELEMENTARY NEWS The 1-A and 2-B children in room 105 invited Mr. Spottsville into their room to discuss the the interesting;, features of Yellowstone National Park. The children had pictures of the beautiful scenes to show him. The children in the second grade in Miss Gracey’s room have five junior leaders. They lake Donald Ricketts!, Virginia Kelly, Joseph Davis and Charles Christian. We had a very good time at our pre-Hallowe’en party. We played “Stoop Stand,” “Gentlemen From Spain” and sang “I Had A Little Doggie,” “Rags” and “Hallowe’en Bright.” Mrs. Owens, Junior Owens’ mother, came to our party. We ate apples, and candy. The candy was fixfed in red arid white cups. In our Social Studies class we are studying foods. We are bringing in vegetables to make vegetable soup.- Each boy
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and giri will bring a bowl and a spoon Friday. We are going to learn tihe corirecft way to eat soup. The following boys and girls are going to help prepare the soup: Charles Christian, Edan Williams, MayLynn Kendrick, Edward Hall and Betty Brown. The class has been reading and talking about how the farmer raises vegetables and how they are brought to town for our use. Our room sold tickets for the Hallowe’en Festival given for Lincoln Elementary School by the PTA. We sold $1.45 worth of tickets. May Lynn Kendrick was voted to represent our room, with Louise Broudy, Nancy Brown and Annie Pearl Brown running second, third and fourth. The following boys and girls wrote stories in our language class about things they had read or seen. These are the stories: “We had a Hallowe’en Party; we ate apples and candy; wet sent some to Mr. Fields because his boys made our grocery store.” By Bernstine Wilson. “We are happy the boys in Mr. Fields shop fixed our tables and library shelvesl.” By Marlynn Kendrick. “I read a story' about Betty visiting grandmolher. Grandmother gave her| some carrots; she didn’t like them, hut learned to eat them.” By Julius Washington. “I read about how to make buttermilk in a jar; I saw my grandmother feed the cows, milk them and make butter for my bread.” By Joseph McElroy. “My dad gave me a canoe; I brought it to school; It has an Indian in it and some Writing.” By John Snorton. News reporters for thi s week: Virginia Ryder, Beatrice Woods, Kurnie Sanders, Samuel Carter. The children in Mrs. Anglin’s room were shown 1 some very interesting slides on Indian life Tuesday. They are making Indian books for American Education Week. This activity is a combination of_ the Social Studies, Language and Art period. Mamie- Jone g moved to Louisville, Ky.. The following pupils have been present every day: Henry Berryman, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Vanleer, Florence Collins, Joan Holley, Gloria Rucker, Bernice Talley, and Josephine Smalling. These children are doing good work in arithmetic: John Thoimas, Harold McElroy, Andrew Jjackson, Annette Washington, Florence Collins, Isabel Snorton, and Mattie Williams. The children in Miss Crowe’s room planted wheat last weekend, and wish to report it growsteadily on. We are sorry to lose our classmate, Rose Mary Jones, who has gone to Louisville, Ky. to finish her schooling. IVIiss Patricia Anglin was crowned queen of the Hallowe’en Festivities in the school gym Tuesday, p. m., Oct. 31. She ruled over the Hallowe’en party held in her honor Hallowe’en night. Miss Anglin is a member of the 4-B class ''of Mrs. Tyler’s room. The children of her class sold the largest number of votes in the elementary school. They will start composing their own songs of different orations 1 next week. The Home room of the 5-A and 6-B grades organized its club! with the following officers. Pres., Della Mae Johnson; Vice Pres., Patricia Thompson; Treas., Alice Alston; Sec., Gladys William; Asst. Sec., Johnetta Williams. The home, room club of Miss Adams room is selling tickets for the Hallowe’en Social. We are making Hallowe’en decorations and would like for you to come and see them. The house -keepers of Miss Adams room are James Querrls; Mary Ann Robinson, The 6-El Monitors are: Juanita Leathers, Robert Merritt. The 6-A Monitors are: Irma Killebrew, Venston Holland. The Librarians are: Eugene Byrd Leonard Banks. These are the cnes who are outstanding in th'ir work: Elizabeth Stark, Helen Kerr, Helen Markham, Norman Johnson, Humoresque Burriss, Aliceteen Wilford, Dolores Edward, Marian Proudy, Prarline Gant, Jacquline Wiley, Bet 1 ie, Parren. These are the ones that had one hundred in arithmetic ever since school started: Elizabeth Stark, Helen Burris, Humoresque Markham, Norman Johnson. We had two new girls to enter our room last week, Ethel Ruth Jones, from Jackson, Miss., Geraldine Davis, from Whea‘croft, Ky. Christine Field was absent Monday and Tuesday and William Loving has been absent, too. Clark Johnson, Paul Vinson, look after the boys’ lavatory. Constance Snorton and Humor-
raised the most money in the esque Burris, look after the girls, lavatory. Lillian Calhoun room for the PTA. These are thq ones who look after the children that are absent: Paul Vinson, Colemar Taylor, Roderick Matchen, and Milton Lambert. Gwendolyn Lauderdale and Marian Proudy see to it that children get in room on time after intermissions. The 8-A girls are very glad that our classmate, Virgie Shleard, is better. Hope she will soon be back with us.' Our N. A. C. G. girls are planning to do some handicraft and beading. We want to make some Christmas presents. The boys class in home making had a| Hallowe’en luncheon this week. ■ The N. A. C. G. girls had a Hallowe’en party Tuesday. Games were played and thei club was served. Ollie Bell Ford won a prize.
MOTORED TO KOKOMO, IND. Mr. and Mrs. James Greene, Paul Stone, captain of the Waiters’ Staff at the Hotel McCurdy and Dr. A. H. Wilson motored to Indianapolis and Kokomo*, Ind., Saturday morning where they attended the birthday dinner given in honor of Mr. Stone, the father of Paul. There were eighteen persons honored at the dinner. While in Kokomo they attended the services of the church pastored by Rev. M. Riearod Dixon Jr„ former pastor of Alexander A.M.E. Church of this city. They returned to the city Sunday night.
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HOWARD SECRETARY
The trustees also announced t’ e appointment of Mrs. Susie Ell'ott, head of the departments of women’s industries and commercial dietetics at Tuskegee institute as dean of women at Howard. Dr. i, Nabrit is a graduate of Morehouse College, Atlanta, and of Northwestern University, where he received a doctor of jurisprudence degree and was elected to the Order of the Coif. He served as dean of Arkansas State College Pine Bluff, and practiced law in Houston prior to joining the faculty of Howard. He Is a member of the bar of the supreme court of the United States. Mrs. Elliott was born near Baltimore, graduated from Pratt Institute and has taught in Durham and Winston-Salem, N. C.
Negroes Shorn Of Jobs Wholesale By New La. Governor
FOOTBALL RESULTS
(By The Associated Nesro Press)
Alabama 13—Xavier 7
Florida A. and M. 14—M. Brown LeMoyne 12—Lincoln (Mo.) 7
Knoxville 6—Fisk 0 Bluefield 6—Morgan 6
Johnson C. Smith IS—Shaw 6 Tougaloo 13—Talladega 0 Virginia Union 20—St. Paul 2
Wilbei-force 20—Tennessee State 0 Benedict:-: 22—Allen 0 r . . . - Kentucky State 18—W. Virginia 6
N. Carolina 19—Howard 0
Time Griffin
Tells Of Frankie And Johnny Act
SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI —
All traces of the sordid, defamed cnaracter previously pictured of Miss Frankie Baker, principal in the recent Frankie i-.aker versus KepuoUc Pictures suit were wiped away when Mrs. Tillie Griffin, 4019 Finney avenue, gave her deposition in the
case. Attended Old Sumner According to Mrs. Griffin, one of St. Louis’ most colorful and respected citizens, Mrs. Baxter was a nice, clean Christian woman, with whom she was personally acquainted way back in the days of 1899 when they were neighbors in old Targee street. She described her as a clean girl, who worked at something— scrubbing, cleaning, washing, Ironing, etc., and who lived in the house with her younger brother and another girl named Pansy. ~ The victim of the shooting A1 Britt, she remembered to be a fine looking, dark skinned boy, and added “all the girls looked for Al.” He did not work, but was a student at the old Sumner High School. . When asked if she had ever noticed her friend, Frankie, wearing silk party frocks or diamond rings, she vehemently denied that Frankie wore them, adding that “she didn’t know anything about them. We didn’t have any parties in them days. All she wore" were calico and gingham dresses and I made all of them.” Mrs. Griffin had no knowledge that Mrs. Baker had ever been referred to as the “Queen Sport of Targee Street,” nor that she had ever been known to frequent saloons. Tells of Shooting In telling the story of the shooting, the seventy-three-year-old politician told how, hearing the commotion shortly after she and her husband had retired for the night, they hurriedly went to their back door to see what the commotion was and they observed Al running through the gangway and on toward his mother’s house. Frankie was Seen coming down the stairs in her night clothes, but she did not have the gun in her hand. When she attempted to go to her friend, her husband (Mr. Griffin) pulled her back into the house. In her testimony, Mrs. Griffin said she had never known Al to be a man who got drunk nor did she know of him and Frankie ever having any previous trouble. ; Shortly after the shobting, the song, sometimes termed “Frankie and Al,” became very popular, and because of the reflection cast upon the character of the victim, his parents sought to have it stopped. Recently the moving picture, “Frankie and Johnny,” was said to have been based upon this shooting, which in' its presentation allegedly defamed the "haracter of the now living Frankie Baker, causing the suit. The incident was first called to the attention of Mrs. Baker when Mrs. Griffin had made a trip to Jefferson CPy and saw the Thomas Muriel painting, which she was told was of Frankie. “I never was more surprised in all my life!” said Mrs. Griffin Further questioning brought outVthe fact that the people w-ere not prejudiced to Frankie after she was acquitted, but thiw Fra-'.ie “reiyrefrted it so mufch and wept bit + erly over it and fe-'t very bad over it, but felt that if she had not done it prohnbly he would have done it to
BATON ROUGE,,La., (By Leon Lewis for ANP)—Earl Long, brother of the famed Huey Long, who ascended to the gubernatorial chair when the G-men turned the heat on Ex-Gov. Dick Leche l and scores of other Louisiana politicians for corrupt practices, extended his ousting panic to in. elude 32 Negroes employed in various , capacities at t**a state capitol here. Statements have come that the 32 Negroes fired will be replaced by white employees, as a patronage, move to secure votes for his re-election, since Negroes cannot vote in state elections. Colored leaders and organiza. (ions are up in protest to the precedent that they may be extended to-affect hundreds of others, in state employ. Several resolutions and letters of protest hav e been sent the governor.
Fayetteville 6—Livingstone 2 Prairie View" 22—Arkansas State u
Langston 18—Texas e
Philander Smith 27—Tillotson 19
Campbell 13—Rush 6
S. Carolina State 7—Clark 6
Alcorn 6—Jarvis 0
Morehouse 18—Tuskegee 0, Hampton 12—Lincoln (Pa.) 6 Cheyney 26—Princess Ann 0
WORK PROBLEMS OF THE NEGRO
Historic Temple Redeemed by K.P’s
NEW ORLEANS, (ANP) 7^ The civil district ' court presided over by Judge Gleason has approved the plan of reorganization as petitioned by the receiver and the officials of the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias, which provides for the payment of 45 per cent of the claims of deceased members in cash: The organization will issue bonds for the balance due the claimants in second mortgage payable over a period of ten years. The $500,000 Temple building will be renovated and placed in condition for occupancy by the Negro public a® it was before the receivership. S. W. Green is grand chancellor of the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias, avj -John D. Brown, the grand keeper of records and seals.
Jeni Legon Gets Star Role In All
Negro Feature Film LOS ANGELES, (ANPWeni LeGon, famed dancer and star of the stage and screen, last Tuesday was signed to play the leading role in Argus Picture Corporation’s first major Negro feature film, according to an announcement by James Asendio. Argus oublicity director. In the supporting cast will be Monte Hawley, Florence , O’Brien and Eddie Thomas. All Argus pictures will be produced and released under supervision of International Road Shows, Inc., headed by Bert Goldberg -and Jack Port, former manager of the late Bessie Smith, famous aviatrix.
Shelton Brooks Moves Residence to Hollywood LOS ANGELES, (ANP)—Lucrative Hollywood offers and California sunshine have lured the family of Shelton Brooks, composer and producer, to the coast where they have taken a .lovely home in one of the nicer residential districts. Mrs. Alice Boyd, mother of the composer, and Mrs. Thelma Jackson, his sister-in-law, arrived last week from New York. Coming via train they reached Los Angeles several days ahead of Brooks’ wife and Shelton Brooks, Jr., who motored through.
her. But she was greatly grieved over it and I don’t think she has ever,, gotten over it,” Mrs. Griffin concluded. The witness, who was characterized by one of the reporters present as a “remarkable woman,” proudly wore upon her breast a gold badge of honor of White Temple Lodge No. 19, Daughter of Elks, as th e Past Daughter Ruler, I.B.P.O.E., December 25, 1931. Rev. Mrs. Griffin is assistant pastor of Weatherford Christian Spiritual Temple, 4150 W. Belle, and is prominently known for her political, civic, religious and fraternal activites, and in the days of the incident at issue was a dressmaker, doing all the sew-'ng-for dry goods stores and individuals. Denositions will be continued this Friday evening and later, when Miss Baker is expected to be brought to St. Louis from Portland. Oregon, to testify. Attorney Joseph L. McLemore represents the defendant.
Discussed at A State-Wide Conference at Jefferson City Monday JEFFERSON CITY. Mo.—As a result of the discussions of the employment problems of the Negroes during a conference in this city Monday, a committee was appointed to report the “findings” of the conference to the governor at an early date. The, meeting was opened with greetings from Governor Lloyd C. Stark, who pointed out that the conference was a part of a nat’on-wide attack on the problems of Negro unemployment and was designed to find a way of helping Negro citizens establish themselves in productive and permanent employment. Lieut. Lawrence A. Oxley, chief of Negro Placement Service. Washington, D. ’•C., stated that as an employee of the government he would suggest that this Was not a “fault-finding” conference, but rather a “helpfinding” one like those which are being held i n 27 different states. During the day the several speakers discussed the many phases of the difficult problems which confront the Negro in his endeavor to find employment. The findings committee, which is headed by Dr. C. T. Philbald, associate 'professor of sociology at the JJniversity of Missouri, is composed of the following persons: Dean Sidney Sweet of Christ Church Cathedral; C. L, Wetzel of the Hadley Vocational School: C. R. Kammerer, manager of the St. Louis' office of the Missouri State Employment Service, and James L. Russell, state supervisor of Negro projects for th e National Youth Administration) all of St. Louis, and Prof. M Brent Oldham, of Lincoln University; Prof. J. N. Freeman, of Lincoln University; Wm. M Kirby, manager of the Kansas City office of the Missouri State Employment Service; Miss Marcaret Burns Bush of the Lincoln University faculty; Travis B. Howard, principal of O’Bannon High School, New Madrid, Mo.; A. R. Houston, principal of Lincoln High School, Springfield, Mo.; Dr. Russell Bauder, associate professor of economics of the University of Missouri, and Thomas A. Webster of Kansas City. Dr. Pihlblad said he planned to call the committee into session within the next two weeks to draw up a formal report of find ings on the conference and recommendations for handling employment problems of Missouri Negroes. The meeting will be held either here or in Columbia, and the report will be submitted to Governor Stark, who called the conference.
Mrs. Mary M. Bethvne Heads History Ass’n
Land Grant Presidents
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WASHINGTON, D. C., (ANP) —The Conference of Presidents of Negro Land Grant Colleges will hold its 17th annual convention, November 13, 14, and 15, at Howard university, Washington D. C., Secretary Wm. H. Bell announced this week. Addresses and discussions will be centered around the theme, “Adult Education and the Negro Land Grant Gollege.” Part 1 will deal with “The Need for Adult Education,” Part II, “Trends of Significance for Adult Education,” Part HI, “Teaching Adults,” Part IV, “Projects in Adult Education, Part V, “The Philosophy of Adult Education.”
Robeson In John Henry
LOS ANGELES, (ANP)— Ruby Elzy, who scored such a tremendous hit as Serena in the George Gershwin opera “Porgy and Bess” returns to New York this week to play the lead opposite Paul Robeson in the opera “John Henry.” Miss Elzy, one of the most promising of the younger sopranos, has been on the coast for the past two years filling radio and concert engagements and starring in the Hall Johnson folk-play, “Run Little Chillun.”
SCORE NEW YORK SCHOOLS’ TEXTBOOKS NEW YORK CITY, (ANP)— Three Negro scholars, Dr. L. D. Reddick, curator of the Schomburg collection of Negro literature, Dr. Charles S. Johnson of Fisk university and Dr. E. Franklin Frazier of Howard, roundly scored the textbooks used in the New York City public school system. The three scholars spoke before the public meeting of the New York branch of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History.
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COLUMBIA, S. C., (By I. M. A. Myers for ANP)—Mrs. Christina Banks, for 50 years a loyal supporter and member of Bethel A. M.E. church of Columbia, left in her will property and money amounting to $27,500 to be used in the liquidation of the church debt.
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