Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 226, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 February 1929 — Page 12

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MUSICAL WORK BRINGS HONOR TO J. HJROWN Governor Will Make Award to Negro at Racial Meeting on Sunday. The third annual local meetine of the national race relations committee is to be held Sunday afternoon, Feb. 10, at the First Baptist church, Meridian and Vermont streets, at 3 o’clock. Dr. Howard E. Jensen, instructor of sociology at Missouri university, will be the speaker. Dr. Jensen formerly was a teacher at Butler university. Presentation of the Harmon Foundation award to J. Harold Brown for excellency in music will be a feature of the meeting. Governor Harry G. Leslie will make the ■presentation and the prize composition will be played by Mr. Brown as a response. The Rev. J. A. Brock will conduct community singing and musical selections are to be given by the Attucks high school Glee Club and quartet. Representative leaders of both races will attend the meeting. The speaker will be introduced by Miss Mae B. Belcher, secretary of the Phyllis Wheatley branch of the Y. W- C. A. Quarterly meeting services at Allen Chapel A. M. E. church, Tenth and Broadway, for Sunday, Feb, 10, have been announced. The Rev. J. P. Q. Wallace, district superintendent, will preach at the morning services. The Rev. Charles Sumner Williams of St. John’s A. M. E. church will preach at the communion (services at 3 o’clock and St. John’s choir will give the musical numbers. Richard Allen anniversary program is scheduled for the evening services: “A Historic Preface,” Spurgeon Davenport: "A Biographical Sketch of Richard Allen,” Mrs. A. C. Moss; ‘‘Richard Allen Asa Race Leader,” Miss Elizabeth Stovall; ‘‘Richard Allen's Inspiration to the Young,” the Rev. B. F. Lowe. The musical program will be given by the Rogers’ and ‘‘Hi-Y” boys’ quartet. Tournament in March A thirty-day campaign to raise funds for a mortgage is to close with a rally at St. John's A. M. E. church, Sunday Feb. 10. The Rev. Charles Sumner Williams, pastor, will preach at both services. The annual Invitational State Basketball Tournament of the Y. M. C. A. is scheduled for March 29 and 30. The tournament is sponsored by the physical department and is to be held in the “Y” auditorium. Teams from South Bend, Terre Haute. Ft. Wayne. Richmond, Muncie. Shelbyville, Columbus and Fountain City already are entered in the contest. A twelve inch mounted silver basketball trophy

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will be presented to the winning j team. . The financial drive at Scott’s I chapel M. E. church is to close with a rally between the men and women of the church, Sunday, Feb. 10. Dr. D. E. Skelton, pastor, will speak at the morning and evening services. Dr. Brooks of St. Peter's Central M. j E. church is to .preach at 3 p. m. Scott's M. E. church maintains a free employment agency for all 5 persons. The office is open each ! day. “What Hast Thou in Thine | Hand?” is the sermon topic of the | |tev. D. F. White at the Sunday morning services at the Witherspoon United Presbyterian church. Attorney E. Louis Moore will ad- : dress the Women’s Missionary society at the evening services on "Prohibition.” Sunday services at Barnes Methodist Episcopal church will be conducted by the pastor, the Rev. J C. Hayes, who will preach at 11 o’clock on “From Jerusalem to Jericho.” At 7:30 the topic will be “The Cloud j of Witnesses.” Mrs. Minnie Roper was hostess to ] the Mary B. Talbert Club at the i women’s club home in North Cap- j itol avenue Thursday. The club will meet Feb. 14 with Mrs. Mary Thompson, 1832 North Capitol avenue. Need New Playhouse E. B. Dudley, manager of the Koppin theater, Detroit, was in the city Wednesday on business. Dudley pointed out the need of another Negro playhouse in the downtown section of Indianapolis. Further announcements are to be made within the next thirty days, according to Dudley. The executive board of the State Association of Negro Musicians met recently with F. D. Haselwood. The president, Mrs. Clara Mill, appointed district organizers: Northwest district. Miss Ethel Hyte; northeast district, Mrs. Alstock of Ft. Wayne and Louis Scott of Anderson; southeast district, Mrs. Pansy Burley of Richmond and Wallace Woolfolk of Indianapolis, assistant; southwest district, Alfred Porter of Evansville and Nathan Hill, assistant. The members of the advisory board are Mrs. Lena K. Lewis chairman and J. Harold Brown, both of Indianapolis; Mrs. Ellen Dennis of Richmond; Miss Ellen V. Thomas and Wallace Woolfolk, Indianapolis. Mrs. Clara Hill is state president, Mrs. Lillian Lebon, local president and Miss Theresa Genus was named reporter. Personals The Poro club will hold its regular meeting Monday Feb. 11, with the president, Mrs. Parthenia Crawford, 450 Blake street. Mrs. Clara B. Jones has returned from St. Louis, where she was a student at the Poro college of beauty culture. W. V. Casey, local manager of the Victory Life Insurance Company, is in Columbus, 0., attending regional conference sessions of the company. Mrs. Amanda Carpenter, w T ho has been ill at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. C. Hays, is recovering from an illness of several weeks. Rev. Charles S. Williams is recovering from a recent illness. • The next meeting of the Old Settlers Civic and Social Club is to be

held Tuesday, Feb. 12, at the home of Mrs. Viola Wilson, 4066 Rookwood avenue, Mrs. Ella Covington is president. Mrs. Stella Fisher is secretary. Those wishing any information concerning the music promoters cabaret musical to be held Feb. 19, are requested to call Mrs. Elizabeth Stewart. College Quintet Sings The Rust college quintet billed for the%impson Methodist Episcopal church last month made its appearance at the church last night. A. L. Reynolds is manager of the company and G. S. Murray js musical director. Text of a recent letter received states: “The undersigned, feeling that some formal recognition of the service rendered this city by him whose guilding genius gave this building, hereby invite you to a

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supreme court, where it was ruled unconstitutional. He had been a member of the Notre Dame faculty since 1924. and was active in national Democratic politics for many years. It is a fallacy that cutting off a man’s beard will prevent his head from becoming bald.