Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 July 1936 — Page 2

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SELASSE: INSULTED BY ITALIANS IN LEADBEAPPREARANCE; DIGNITY CONTRASTS FASCIST HORSE-PLAY

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Many Swiss Sympathetic With Ethiopian King As Hoodlums Parade Mock Blackface Emperor Through Geneva

Hard-boUed Pressmen Embarrased Upon Witnessing “Alley Tactics” Of Duce’s Thugsters.

GENEVA, July 16—(By Nancy Cunard for ANP)—A1 though Haile Selassie, who came here personally to plead before the league of nations for the continuation of sanctions and to obtain a loan by which to fight the Italian invaders, was unsuccessful, he fotlnd sympathy among the Swiss and many enVbarrassed journalists de. # — ^ —

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dnlge In Fascist horee play (Selassie’s impassioned pleas for Ills native land and casUgatioii of the league, which,, had diplpmats squirming in their seats, resulted only in the assembly's decision to ignore Mussolini's conquest of the African nation. But privately it lent diplomatic stature and dignity to the little. King of Kings who was unmffle dat Italian efforts to belittle him. Insolent Impersonation Immediately after Selassie’s arrival two days before the league meeting, a dark-skinned bearded figure wearing a sun helmet and closely resembling the emperor was seen ostentatiously driving through the streets in a smart taxi. It was dfscovered later that this bogus "emperor” who drove up to the palace of the league of nations, visited the market, made some purchases, and believing they beheld a sightseeing monarch was in reality a black, faced Italian Fascist imposter. This act, which was an insult to the league as well as to Ethiopia, ended in the staged seizing iby Fascists of the bogus emperor as he stepped from his taxi. At this moment he wiped off his disguise. Police had not time to intervene as the incident was very quickly carried out. Take Photographs Later the incident was traced to a Swiss Fascist journalist named Tonella. Police questioned him and obliged him to hand over some photographs he was attempting to hide in his pocket. These had been taken by him of the 'blackface imposter for the expressed purpose of publication in the Italian St&mpa: Another patricipant in this affair was Italian journalist Ciucci, who precipitated himself at the door of 'Selassie’s car at the sta. tion and grossly insulted him. using such foul language that even high Fascist officials reprimamded him. This, of course, was prior to the demonstration in the league assembly as the emperor spoke which led to the forcible ejection of a large group of Ital. ian journalists. ‘ Swiss Sympathetic In direct contrast was the atti tude of the majority of the Swiss people when the Negus arrived at Geneva. He came from Paris on the same train bringing Anthony Eden of England and Yvon Delbos, French foreign minister, and was greeted by two pf his ministers already here and the chief of the Geneva police. A large group of Swiss employed was gathered at the station and acclaimed Se. lassie with shouts of “Long live the Negus.” Only a few dissenting Fascist voices were heard as Selassie, accompanied by his suite of 20, drove at once to the Hotel Carlton. , Later I sat writing in a cafe on the banks of the incredibly blue and pure waters of the Rhone. An old Swiss Juggler came by. Announcing his little act he said: ''At your service, ladles and gentlemen—the white Negro, that’s me. Only today I have not put on my dusky mask because the Negus Is In town, and It might be Interpreted as mockery. I respect Haile Selassie in his time of trou-

ble.”

Thfs was no isolated sympathizer workers throughout all of Euroost native Swiss^ by the workers er. His views were reflected by of Paris where I now live, by oth. rope who want only peace among nations. Lived Quietly at Hotel While here, the emperor lived quietly at his hotel, the Carlton, where Anthony Eden also stopped. The Swiss government refused Se. lassie permission to live in his own villa at Vevey. near here, while the league met. Selassie can stay at Vevey only if he agrees to be absolutely inactive politically. A few words with the hall porter at the Carlton revealed that the emperor seldom went out and received few guests. He was understood to he still suffering from the effects of gas during the fighting. Dr. (Martin .the Ethiopian minister to London, was fn Haile's

suite.

Mother Brings 2-Hour-Old Child To Hospital ATLANTA, July 16.—(AiNP> — Internes at Grady hospital Friday niht thought nothing of it when Mrs. Willie Boston, 34, walked in carrying a baby about two hours’ old and asked them if they would look at the child and see if it was all right. After examination, a doctor said, "The baby’s all right. Where’s the mother?” "I am”, said Mrs. Boston. “And now I guess I’d 'better be getting back to my housework. I just wanted to know if the child was all

right.”

The astonished doctor ordered the mother to wait for an examination hut afterward said she seemed quite well and if she wanted to go back to work it was her affair. So Mrs. Boston left with her

baby.

Later she declared she was alone in her room when the baiby came and did not arouse the rest of the family as they were asleep and she hated to disturb them.

The little sepia maiden, Gwendolyn Stuart, 2, 415 Minerva street, in the upper right, was just novice at posing for pictures “wantet alone”—at least she acted that way when the staff photographer coaxed for a picture at School No. 4 wadding pool. Children from the neighborhood gather there seeking relief from tin* torrid wheather. Mrs. Janie McKenzie, matron, says that so far this year, the children are just one big happy family with the older boys and girls looking out for such tiny maids as the one shown here.

NAACP FIGHTS DISCRIMINATION IN CLEVELAND

CLEVELAND. July 1(5.— (ANP 1 Because recent discriminatory practices and court decisions af feet the citizenship rights of Negroes of Cnynhogo county and the state of Ohio, the local branch of the National Association Dir the Advancement of Colored People outlined a staunch campaign against these un-American evils within the last week. A committee appearing before Mayor Harold H. Burton early last week requesting that something be done alnnit the threats of violence being made to Colored citizens who sought to enjoy the recreational facilities at Woodland Hills Park swimming pool, were promised adequate police protec tion and also an immediate in vestigation into other cases of discrimination charges against concessions- at the Great Lakes Exposition. Accepting this promise as official yet in view of the fact that Mayor Burton has broken so many of his promises to the colored citizens of Cleveland, the committee preceded with its plans to fight for justified rights from every conceivable angle. At a special meeting of the N. A. A. C. P. at Antioch Baptist church Thursday evening an appeal and resolution condemning discriminatory practices was presented by Att’.v Norman L. McGhee hear of the legal defense committee. The appeal bore the signatures of hundreds of Gleve land citizens and organizations of all races and denominations. The NAACP will circulate thousands of these throughout the city and connty. The resolution was unnuimously adopted by the local branch.

Housing Project Moves Despite Obstacles

CHICAGO, July 16—(ANP)—Despite steps taken by powerful white interests to prevent erection of the proposed federal housing project on Chicago’s Southside, Federal Judge Phillip Sullivan last week directed the cle.rk to pay $35,000 for a parcel of land to be used for erection of the dwellings. The fund set aside for this pur pose totals $1,900,000. Within the past few months efforts to obtain the land on condemnation proceedings have been abandoned. The housing division has been making direct contact with property owners. Before ordering the payment for the land, Judge Sullivan refused to allow the filing of an injunction against it by Atty. Frank D. Ayres, white, in behalf of hmself and other taxpayers. Previous to this, the same lawyer attempted unsuccessfully to block sale of the site on the ground that such a purchase would he unconstitutional.

j : Saturday^ July ,18, 1936

“HM CROW* COMES TO ETHIOPIA UNDER ITALIAN “CIVILIZATION"! NO MULATTOES, SCREAMS IL DUCE Fascist Government Doing Everything To Discourage Race

Mixture. Separate Sections In Buses;

Equality Not Considered.

K. OF V. SUPREME CHANCELLOR WATKINS ON EXTENSIVE TOI R

CHICAGO. July 1*;. (ANP Attorney S. A. T. Watkins, of this city. Supreme Chancellor, Knights of Pythias, will leave this week for p.n extended tour, which will include visits to the Grand Lodges of Savannah. <4a., .Columbia, S. C., Charlotte. N. Cincinnati, Nashville and Birmingham. Returning from this jaunt, he plans a trip to Omaha Neb., and Denver, Colo., and in the latter city will meet representatives «>f subordinate lodges of Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming. Later in the fall, a visit to Pennsylvania and the New Jersey const is planned. The Supreme Chancellor's itinerary is of a promotional nature and in the inter est of the membership drive of the (Mdcr. He has recently returned from a trip to St. Louis. Hot Springs. Aik., and to the Grand Lodge of Texas, at Dallas. Asked his opinion of eonditions affecting the Order in the South, he declared. "Despite the ravages of the depression, which weie hard upon all fratern als. i found the Jurisdictions of Texas and Missouri doing well. The Pvtliians and Calanthians <>f Texas have Jissets of one million dollars.”

NEW YORK, July 16.—(ANP)—“Jim Crow” is the first innovation of “Civilization” to be brought to Ethiopia by the Italian regime under Mussolini’s puppets, according to a dispatch from Rome, modeled after the pernicious system

which prevails in some parts of the U. S.

“The Fascist Empire must not become an empire of mulattoes,” said one government inspired editorial recently pub-

lished in Rome.

A provincial commissioner for the examination of peasant aspirants for Ethiopian home-•

steads said the government

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doing everything possible to remove any temptation to race mix-

ture.

“Most of our peasant boys are either married or hound in engagements in their early twenties or late ‘teens’, he said.' “We have found that is mostly the ones with

Drought, Heat,

Explained

JIM CROW SIGNS AT TEXAS FAIR

MUST GO

DALLAS. July 15.— (ANP)—In-

air that is coming from the gulf I f ^ r,, ^* ons ,*hat “colored” signs bo

WASHINGTON, July 18—(Special)—Here’s the weather bureau's explanation of the “fundamental”

cause of the drought:

A hit block of ocean-cooled air somewhere between Alaska and Hawaii has failed to move east ward and break up the flow of hot

Always grease dishes in which chocolate is melted. This avoids sticking. Grease the cup with which you measure molasses to be sure it will pour smoothly. Take a cleansing hath in soap and water and thoroughly rinse off all soap suds before putting on a bathing suit.

DIES FOR STARRING FELLOW CONVICT MONTGOMERY. Ala.. .Inly 10. - (ANP)—A. B. Smiley. Negro convict, died in the electric '■hair Thursday night for fatally stabbing Pete Berry, another convict, at Sindgner prison a year ago in .lime. Gov. Bibb Graves refused Smiley’s i»etitioii fer commutation of the death sentence to life imprisonment after the state pardon board refused to interfefe.

1500 INFLAMED WHITES FOILED IN LYNCHING

MONTGOMERY. Ala.. July Iff — (Special)—In a pitiable condition physically after fleeing twentyfour hours through swamps and woods from a murderous mob numbering 1500 pursuers, denying tie <hargo of attacking a young white woman a thin trembling 32 year Id colored man was hidden in Kil by State Prison to forestall a < rowd determined to lynch him Previously, he had been identified by the woman in a small hotel in which be was being held before being taken to prison. He was strong in his denial of guilt. JAIL 11 NEGROES IN DEATH OF WHITE MAN TEXARKANA. Ark.. July Iff. (ANP (-—Eleven Negroes have been arrested and held in jail in eon iifction with the death of a white farmer, W. J. Adcock, who had been shot and stru: k by som< weapon. I. V. Jackson, one of the arrested, is said to have confessed to the actual slaying and Mrs. Dixie Lawson told poHee she saw the killing. The other nine have heel held until white residents, who threatened mob violence, are convinced Jackson is the real slayer. 1- -?■- —

young wives or sweethearts who want a chance to make something of themselves in the new colonies.” Other authorities revealed that a color line and race segregation

already had started.

The new bus services in the vicinity of Addis Ababa. Harrar, Gomlar and other cities have two sections in each vehicle, one for i whites and the other for natives, i Two forms of town-hips in sectors of intense agricultural or other development are planned. Where i large concentrations of Italians i are settled, Ethiopians will be

J largely excluded.

Wncve Ethiopians receive the ’ major task of resource exploitation, ihey will do so under command of only a few married white officers. The press campaign at home to disillusion proponents of race amalI carnation was inspired an authority said, by Fa-scist detestation of

false sentiment.

“Facotta Nora” with its pic*ure of Italian knighthood liberating a charming Ethiopian slave girl was all right as a war song, but dangerous he said as an in•piration to sentiment. Dangerous too was the wave of exhibitionist offers from well-to-do Italian families to adopt homeless Ethiopian

children.”

The government, the informants aid. has had to throw overboard a former mode of Italian thought which was incapable of under-., standing the North American colirline. Rather it intends to create an understanding of the race prob’em based on woeful experiences in the Americas. Mussolini intends to follow in nart the policy responsible for the Negro educational institutions in America. He has laid his ground\vo’k in his program for secondary schools in Ethiopia. But a-l- ♦ licueh this program may eventually evolve a race of Ethiopians of great value to the fatherland, there is not talk about their equality.

and nothern Mexico to sweep the

United States.

The bureau said the same phenomenon was responsible for tho droughts of 1930 and 1934.

CANADIAN NEGRO CONVICT STARS TWO GUARDS

KINGSTON, Out., July Iff.— (AND)—Chester Crossley. Negro convict in the Kingston iKiiiten tiary, Saturday stabbed two guards as the guard was being changed. Crossley was a leader in tho St. Vincent Do Paul prison riot at. Quebec on Nov. 4, R».”2, when three guards were injured. One "f the guards stabbed Sal unlay, Jack Twomey. sustained in juries in the abdomen and arm and is believed to be seriously hurt. John McCormick, the other, was wounded in the chest.

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Democratic Confab Fall Short Of Mark Several Local Delegates Sag; Many Folk Left Meeting Disgruntled, * Displeased

DOCTORS GET FREE POST GRADUATE COURSE

NEW ORLEANS, July 16.—Six ty-eight colored doctors from the Southern states began a twoweeks* jKwrtgraduate (course on July 6. at Flint-Good rid ee Hospital o< Dillard .Fnhreraitjr, the instruction being given the. medics without coat, as,a gift from a University trustee. Lectures, clinics and ope&rtions will he conducted daily throughout the course, which cuds on July IK. Dr. \ AV. Dent la sunerintendent of Flint-Good ridge and the Instructors in. the various courses, are.faculty memlters of Tulane Univ. and LntfTslarta State Unlr. Schools of Med!c4ne. This is the first fhne such a. course has been offered to Negro . physicians of this section.

In the oponion of several Marlton County followers of the Indiana Negro Democratic Central Association, a goldeif opportunity to become the most important political organization of Negroes has slipped. This opinion was voiced because of the glaring failures and general muddle of the program by which the invention was to have been lun along with many inconveniences that the visitors had to undergo while in West Baden. It was pointed out that the lack of political experience was one thing; promiscuous inviting of national speakers was another, too many factions over which there was no control was another, and no one really to blame for the whole thing but the officials of the body. Congressman Mitchel shouldn’t be wholly blamed - for his not speaking to the three hundred persons who had assembled, because it is not known what he had lieen told or under what circumstances he had been Invited; the least thing in the cause of the party could have been his appearance at the hotel. All went well, until that afternoon session which should have been held on the inside instead of in the dark: there were no lights on the grounds and the speakers could not see the faces of their audience as they spoke, then on top of all that, it was learned In the interview that other things were going on which were disapproved by many of those present. The most remarkable thing of the political group was that there

was no open hostility on the floor ami everything appeared to be moving in an harmonious way; even those who carried grievances moved to make the meeting as successful as possible. The interviewed went on. “from the stand point of ‘numbers, the meeting was an indication of whai can and will be. done under proper circumstances, and planning. It shows that Indiana Negroes analert, on their toes, and ready to put over the campaign for E’rnnUlin Delano Roosevelt and Clift Townsend, however, if we expect to act in a body, we’ll have to do some reorganizing, plan better meetings with greater signiticance.

Scholarship Award

James Edward Martin, a June, 1936, graduate of Crispus Attucks high school, has received a $100.00 Tuition scholarship to Wilherforce University. This scholarship was granted by Bishop R. A. Wright. Jr., retiring President, of the college. More Scholarships were awarded to graduates of this high school last June than at any other time in the history of the school.

SUMMER CLASSES END Summer school closes July 24th. 103 students enrolled this summer, the largest number in six years. A large percentage of these students are making extra credits, while others are making up lost credits. A record breaking enrollment is expected fof the next school £ear.

removed from the lavatory doors in the Negro Exhibits building, and that colored visitors be arco inodaled on the bus used on the centennial grounds have been giv en following protests by Jesse O. Thomas, general manager of the Negro advisory committee, it was

revealed this week.

According to Mr. Thomas, a letter on the colored signs in the Negro building was sent June ff to W. 1 >. Yeaker. executive sere (ary of the U. S. C’ontennial commission, pointing out they were unnecessary and objectionable on the Negro building. They were soon removed, yet many weeklies hive carried news of their being in existence but none of th«*jr re

moval. officials say.

The bus complaint was caused by re|H>rts of Negro centennial visitors that they were not a< c' pted as passengers on buses riding through the ground. Mr. ’rhombs, in a letter to Air. Eastland of the Bowen Motor Coach concern, pointed out that this action was cans ing a drop in Negro attendance and was uncalled for. particularly as both races ride street cars and

buses on city streets.

Immediately the owner of the company. Mr. Bowen, issued an or der to all employes telling them to show every courtesy to Negroes and bow and where to seat them. “As you know." Mr. Bowen’s order says. “Texans should be nroud of the part played by the colored race in the development of our great empire. Any discourtesy shown by an employe will be eause

for instant dismissal.”

PURVEYOR OF MAGIC WATER’ GETS PRISON FURLOUGH

LITTLE ROCK. Ark.. Julp Iff.— (ANP) — Willie Price, Phillips 1‘ounty crystal gazer and chaser of evil spirits, was given it 30 day furlough last week. He had been sentenced May 8 to a year in prison lifter pleading guilty to taking a large sum of money from a woman for sprinkling “magic water” on the gables of her house to chase away evil spirits, and still more for telling her where to find hidden treasure. The furlough was granted after all the costs of the case and had officials declared Price had paid given back her money to the woman.

A. AT. E. ROOK CONCERN HEAD ILL, GETS LEAVE OF ABSENCE

PHILADELPHIA. July 16.— (ANP)—Meeting here on July 7. in a special session, the Board of Publication of the A. M. E. church granted Dr. D. M. Baxter, manager of the Board, a leave of absence on account of illness. R. R. Wright ITT. was appointed Deputy Manager by Dr. Baxter and the action was approved by the Board. Bishop William H. Heard presided at the sessign.

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