1939-05-12

J Victory Banquet To Mark New Negro Political Era Chicago, May 11.-(Harold Preece for CNA) .-A new chap– ter in the long fight for complete democracy began with the shift of America's 14,000,000 Negroes from the Republican Party to the progressive section of the Demo– cratic Party and its program of the New Deal. iact that the Negro people expect those for whom they cast their votes to give performance rather than lip service when they assume office." Alayor Jmvited Mayor Edward J. Kelly has been invited to be guest of honor at the banquet. Four newly elect– ed New Deal aldermen of the South Side-Earl B. Dickerson of the 2nd Ward; Benjamin Grant of the 3rd, both Negroes; Abraham H. Cohen of the 4th, and Paul H. Douglas of the 5th will be pres– ent to outline their plans for bring– ing thl" New Deal to the South Side. That will be the central thought of the New Deal Victory Banquet commemorating the recent Demo– cratic landslide on Chicago's South Side, to be held Monday, May 15, 6 p. m., at the Savoy Ballroom, 4733 South Parkway. "But," declared William P. Harrison, Chicago Urban League leader and chairman of the citizens More than a score of distin– committee on arrangements, "this guished South Side citizens are act– will be more than a hallelujah and ing as a sponsoring committee of hurrah dinner to celebrate an elec- the affair. Prominent among them tion victory. is William L. Dawson, progressive "It will be a testimony to the Republican leader and until the .-------------ROSENBLATT'S ~I re&enling AMERICA'S SMARTEST 1939 MEN'S SPORTS ENSEMBLE 2-PIECE .Jn-and-Ouler GABERDINE SUITS (BOo/a PURE WORSTED WOOL-20o/a RAYON) FOR ALL OUTDOOR WEAR Here, men, is the smartest, most practical and comfortable sport suit we have seen in many years. 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Breaking the affiliations of a The Fair is being picketed by lifetime, Dawson threw his support Harlem groups, under the leader– to Dickerson after the February ship of the Greater Ne\\ York Co– primaries because the latter ran on ordinating Committee, of which a platform emphasizing the vital the Rev. A. Clayton Powell, Jr., issues which confront the South is chairman. The picketing began Side's 260,000 Negroes. with the official opening of the "These issues," emphasized Har- fair on April 31, when it was dis– rison, "are crucial problems for our continued for the period of Presi- racial group relief for the hungry, d Ro ' address jobs for the unemployed, housing sumtn tmme ta e er t e projects for those who live in dark 1 President got through speaking. ' tenements above unsightly alleys, 1 The pickets carry placards protest- 1 an end to the restrictive covenants j ing the job discrimination policies which help to keep Negroes in these 1 of Grover Whalen. pens, decent transportation, protec- tion from abuses because of our UNITY, EQUALITY color-it was because the New Deal candidates gave emphatic an- MAY DAY KEYNOTE swers on these questions that we voted for them." Push Bill for By Crusader News Agency Most of the placards carried in 1 the May Day demonstrations 1 Tennant Farmers 1 throughout the country stressed la-! bor solidarity and the unit yo£ Ne- ' Washington, May 11-(CNA) gro and white workers. Some of -A special measure for the bene- them read "Admit Negroes to fit of the nation's impoverished ten- Trade Unions With Equal ' ant farmers, known as Senate Bill Rights," "Crush Anti-Semitism," 1836, was introduced recently by "Unite the AFL and the CIO," Senator Josh Leo of Oklahoma and "Unity Will Be a Blow to Reac- 1 has received endorsement of 52 U. tion." J S. senators as co-authors. In the huge New York City! The bill has the endorsement of May Day demonstration, Negro 1 the National Farmers Union Leg- workers "":ere represented in prac-l islative Conference held in Omaha tically all the contingents; the on March 14. Representative building trades, the needle trades, I Martin Jones, Chairman of the the hotels, restaurants and cafe-~ House Committee on Agriculture, teria workers' locals, the furniture after a conference with Senator workers, the so-called "miscella- Lee, has introduced the same meas– ure in the House. The bill has re– ceived favorable comment from President Roosevelt and the De– partment of Agriculture, both of whom are in accord with its prin– ciples. Expansion of the excellent but small scale tenant relief operations carried on experiment~lly during the past two years is provided for in the bill. Meantime, John Vesecky, presi– dent of the National Farmers Un– iun, has confened with Secretary Wallace and Administrator Evans in regard to tenant conditions in neous" unions, the political organi– zations, the artists' local, the frat– ernal organizations, the profession– al and office workers organiza– tions, etc. In Washington, D. C., Charles H. Houston, special counsel for the National Association for the Ad– vancement of Colored People, was one of the speakers who addressed acrowd of 1,600 persons in the beautiful outdoor theatre at the base of the Washington Monu– ment in the largest May Day cele– bration ever held rn the capitaL I Houston evoked long applause ' declared that "the salvation of the Louisiana. Negro is one big union for every Vesecky asked Wallace to take industry and every worker in that steps to prevent the landlords in union. The acid test of May Day [ Louisiana from raising rents from is the Negro worker-organized I a fourth of the crop to a third of labor's ability to absorb him be– the crop in order to either compel cause with him goes the solidarity tenants to pay the exhorbitant rent necessary to preserve democracy in or to vacate the farms so they can the United States." take for themselves all of the bene- Henry ] ohnson, Negro assistant fit payments which might be given national director of the CIO Pack– to farmers under the AAA and soil inghouse Workers' Organizing conservation program. Committee, and Ishmael Flory, Harlem Tenants Threaten Strike I\ew York, May 11.-(CNA). -Tenants in the Dunbar Apart– ments this week threatened a rent strike unless an eviction order against their chairman is rescinded. The apartment occupies a full block between Seventh and Eighth I Avenues and 149th and 150 Streets I and have 521 family units. The eviction order was served on George W. Streator, chairman of the Dunbar Tenants League and son-in-law of Colonel Benja– min 0. Davis, commander of the 369th Infantry Regiment. Colonel Davis is also a resident of the Dun– bar Apartments. Charging that Streator was be– ing evicted because of his activities in organizing and heading the league, leaders of the organization have threatened court action as ·well as a rent strike. Lehmann Asks Probe of Bias In Fair Hiring New Yor, May 11.-(CNA). -Governor Lehman has asked Grover Whalen, head of the New York World's Fair Corporation, to investigate charges of discrimin– ation at ilie \Vorld's Fair, it was announced this week by the New I York Joint Council of the United ! Office and Professional Workers, l CIO, in making public a letter I from the Governor. I Fair authorities have been ac-~ cused of discriminating against Ne- 1 groes, JJews and Catholics in the secretary-treasurer of the AFL Dining Car, Employes Union, were tmong the speakers at a Chicago May Day demonstration of I 00,- 000 persons, with many Negroes in the line of march. Hunters Find Moose Are The Wariest of Animala The moose is capable of great speed and has remarkable powers of endurance, writes Mortimer Nor– ton in the Montreal Star. It is an awkward, clumsy animal, but nev– er fails to inspire interest and re– spect when seen iu the forests or feeding on lily pads in wilderness river. In winter moose seek the elevated. ridges where hardwood trees abound, and when the snow gets deep they "yard up" in the valleys as do the whitetailed deer. They move about according to the supply of food available-stripping maple, buttonwood, birch and aspen trees of their leaves and small twigs. 1 A moose will trot, run and jump when occasion demands and can crash through thick underbrush with ease. It is also a good swimmer. When stalking a moose, the hunter must go quietly and proceed against the wind, for these animals have keen sense of hearini and smell This is why, together with the den– sity of the forest, it is so difficult for the hunter to see or get within tiring range of one of these wary I creatures. Indeed, moose will often locate in almost impenetrable swamps, where I the only practicable means of bring– in? them within reach is to use a moose call. Where possible the 1 method of still-hunting is to be rec– ommended, so that the quarry will have a reasonable chance for its life. An experienced moose caller is frequently able to lure a bull moose out of the swamps where the waiting hunter can drop it with a well placed shot. This method en– tices the game to its death withcut the slightest warning and under this practice a section of the country can easily be depleted of its necessary breed.ini stock. Pagoda Tree From Orient Sophora japonica, or the Pagoda Hitchcock Originator of tree, was one of the first to be intra- Chair Bearing His Name duced from the Orient to the western In 1818, Lambert Hitchcock, a na- world. It landed in France as long tive of Cheshire, Conn., settled near ago as 1747. Widely cultivated in the little town of Winsted and es- the Far East, it is usua].J.y seen by tablished a cabinet and chair fac- visitors around Buddhist temples tory there which soon became the and other religious sanctuaries. The leading industry of the town. His pointed leaves of the Pagoda tree business prospered from the first are dark green above, gray under– and by 1821 a small settlement neath. The bark is deeply fissured. grew up around his factory which and corrugated. The older trees was called Hitchcockville, relates have much of the appearance of the Alice R. Rollins in the Los Angeles white ash. It is especially valuable Times. I because of its late flowering habit. At first Hitchcock made only chair The flowers are cream-colored and parts and these were shipped in ~orne in large m':lch-branched pan– large quantities to Charleston, s. ~ 1cles. . In the Or1ent tt:ees. 80 feet c., and other places in the South. I tall. w1th trunks 12 feet m gu-th and After a few years he gave up the an abundance of_ picturesque business of making and shipping gnarled, wide-spreadmg roots, are chair parts and devoted himself frequent!~ ~o be se_en: There are to the making· of complete chairs s~veral d1shnct .vanehes, the most which he sold in great quantities. p1cturesque havmg pendant, crowd– ed branches (pendula). Lambert Hitchcock was in all Patronize Our Advertisers YOUR OWN DEALER FLOWERS' AUTO DEALERS TRinity 6553 Music Ba.r-B-Cue American Harmony Assn. 522 N. W. HOYT STREET BRoadlwa.y 2006 Portland, Ore. We Deliver Soft Drinks Music DELICIOUS SANDWICHES AT BIRD'S Open until 3 a. m. probability the originator of the +--·-.. -·_.,_.,_,_,._,_,_,_,'!' 20 N. Cherry sturdy, distinct type of chair which j I -------------- bears his name. This form of chair,, j Phone EAst 1166 j MUrdock 2025 however, was produced in quantities 1 • by hundreds of other chairmakers J ! PORTLAND ! HOTEL MEDLEY during the first half of the 1800s. j I 2272 N. Interstate Avenue On the chairs previously made by j j Hitchcock, across the back of the • Laundrv ""o seat on the narrow strip was always I rl '-' • placed the stencil of the maker. "L. i MUrdock 4016 Portland Special ra.tes to Railroad Men Stephen Wright, Manager Hitchcock, Hitchcockville, Conn., ·.1 Launders and Warranted," usually all in one line. + Lambert Hitchcock was one of the ii Dry Cleaners i ,_,._,__ ,_,_,_,,_.,_,_,_,r first tc turn out rocking chairs as a 1 B d t M ' 1 : 1740 S. E. UNION AVENUE f 1 roa way a ornson .1 factory product, although they had 1 been made much earlier than his .j.,._.,_,._,_.,_.,_.,_,_,_._,_,.f. i i factory produced them. Jewelrv ! 1 One feature that contributed to the rl popularity o:t these chairs was the Chicken Dinners Open after 8 p.m. s•1 1 decoration. Added to that is their I verware I general fitness tor a t.rpe of furnish- IRENE and TOBY 1 f ing. The chairs were first painted a deep red, then black with slight 1936 N. Vancouver Avenue I ZELL BRQS. 1 = irainings. The red coat sometimes Portland, oregon showed through, especially on the I Portland's Loveliest i wooden seats. Striping and stencil- Phone for reservations MU. 8491 j i ing in illt were then applied. .j.,_.,_.,_.,_.,__ ,._,._,_,_.._,+ Mind Your P'a and Q's Numbered Pints, Quarts When we say "Mind your P's and Q's," we mean we must be careful-especially of what we say. But in former days it wasn't used that way. It had another meaning, says a correspondent in Pearson's London Weekly. The generally accepted explana– tion of the phrase is that it came trom the inn-keeper of olden days who displayed his customer's ac– counts on a slate. For pint he en– tered "P" and for quart "Q." Nat– urally, a heavy drinker would very soon have a succession of "P's" or "Q's" (or both) to his "credit"; and the landlord's warning would very probably be "Mind your P's and Q's.''• Another explanation attributed to this phrase is that it originated in the composing room of the printing office. In the small letters of type, known as lower case, the "p" and "q" can very easily be mistaken tor each other; and in the days be– tore machinery-when hand-setting was the only method in use among printers, there was a real danger that the wrong letter would be in– serted. Hence the overseer's cau– tionary "Mind your P's and Q's." First Canadian Settlement Following the discoveries of John and Sebastian Cabot and Jacques Cartier, attempts were made during the Sixteenth century to found col– onies in what is now Canada, but the first permanent settlement was not made until 1605. Pierre du Gast, Sieur de Monts left Havre de Grace, France, in April, 1604, for Acadia, which is now Nova Scotia. Samuel Champlain, the great explorer, was with him and the first place they selected tor a settlement was an island at the south of the St. Croix river. This was a failure and in the following year they planted a colony at Port Royal (now Annapolis, Nova Scotia). In the summer of 1608 Champlain sailed up the St. Law– rence and founded the city of Que– bec on July 3. Champlain was a native of Brouage, on the Bay· of Biscay, in southern France, and was the son of a sea captain. The early settlers of Canada were, of course, French. The Man of Straw Long years ago, men could be seen walking in Westminster hall– then the courts of justice-with a straw in one of their shoes, to indi– cate that they were prepared to act as witnesses. The custom, however, goes much farther back to ancient Greek days, asserts a writer in Lon– don Tit-Bits Magazine. A lawyer with, probably, a weak case, would approach one of these "men of straw," show him a tee, and ask: "Don't you remember so-and-so?" Not always did the man of straw remember-until the fee was in– creased when, strangely enough, there was an access of memory, the fee changed hands, and the "wit– ness" went into court and took the oath. Trotters Traced Far Back The founder of the United States trOttini horse family was Messen- ger, which never trotted in his life, nor did any of his children. His I children were bred to Canadian ani- I mals, early in the Nineteenth cen· 1 tury. The United States then was enjoying a horse-and-buggy era. It was noticed that offspring of the descendants of Messenger, and the QUALITY PRODUCTS COMMERCIAL HOUSEHOLD 203 N. E. Weidler Street MACEO J. HICKS Portland, Ore. Holliday's Barber Shop 511 N. W. 6th STREET "We need your bead in our bDI!Ii:nea" W. H. Holliday C. H. Rucker SUnset 5551 HOWARD FUEL CO. 82nd and Flavel K. HOWARD, Prop. Wm. Gregory GREGORY'S MARKET QUALITY Meats, Fish, Poultry 1500 N. Williams Ave. EAst 5029 BUSY BEE CLEANERS "Don't Forget Your Spring Cleaning" 1612 N. 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