Relates Flight
From PoIand^s
W ar Zone
popular concert pianitt
•11(1 m^ber of th« Dapmment
of Music it Fiak Univsrslty, r»-
turned from Poland on Friday,
Sept. 2&, aboard the S. S. NieW
Aotterdam. . '
In Poland irnec la»t July,
atudyin; nimic under the inter-
natitonal'ly ^amuu^ nausic^n^l
br. Sgon Petri, Mr. All«n,
force to flee the conntry over
night, caught the laat civilian
train out of Germany anj wit-
neiifed tiie fvrerisli preparations
for war in both Poland and the
Reich during hia three day
flight through both eourtries
and Into Holland where he
succeeded In o^italning home
_£as8age oto the Nei^w Amstei^
Arriving with -1,196 other
passengers fleeing the war lone,
Mr. Allen expressed th»|. feel
ing of Jubilation and relief in
getjting back to America at last.
He stated that this was the reac
tion of the. entire psuenger
group. As one fellow-passenger,
a European, expressed it. "the
sky line of Hiinhattan is like a
fairyland.”
"As a Negro,” Mr. Allen toM
reporter, “conscious of atl the
inequalities in America tnd
the resentment we /eel as a
minority group taward certain
American customs^ "I nev«rthe>
less am more hope the oppor
tunity for comparison witn the
Buropean situation. The relatiye
freedom in America as ugainst
that in Europe today co»vi»e«s
me that at least we have a^basu
from which to work in'*^‘ this
country and the possibility of
making the democratic- tradi
tion a reality.
”I think we will benefit as a
group from the present Euro
pean conflicts. 1'he brutal treat
ment of minorities as sn inte
gral part of faacist policy will
drite heme to Amerft% the
example she ihas set by li^ own
treatment of minority^ gioups,
in spite of the Constitution and
the true meaning democracy
A. jfiswr pnBtireE;-of aagr^tion-,
directed agaiiiat the Jevra ra-
maining in Germany were
modalled after our own laws
and customs of separation. If
we, therefore^ ourselv^. up
a* tte epitome ^ gt democracy,
we must eliminate our own
hypocracles. ,
"The Negro must be prepared
to take .advantage of this new
emphasis on the democratic
ld«^l in jmany unique ways
perhaps. We ourselves must take
the Iniative in bringing alxMit
associations with other races,
ii|itional^es and cultural
groups, particularly in our in
stitutions of higher and identify
our>elv!iM. with the universal
causfts for'justice and humanity
everywhere.”
Colnmenting «o the Polieh
tragedy, Mr. «Allen stated that
thd Foies were totally un^repar
ed in every way for the lightn
ing thrust of Hitler’s forces.
Even though he had heard ru-
moi« from reliable sources as
ea'r^ as “TTtlS'tist i, that Ger
many and Russia were planning
to partition Poland by August
li5th, he said, “the Poles po»hed
the idea.” When asked if ^e
Polfs in the Russian Ukraide
favored the entry of the Rus
sian troops into Polish territory,
he said, that although there had
been some anti governmental
feeling among, the people in
the Ukraine,, at the last they
supported .^e Polish govexn-
memt .as far as couki be de^r-
mined.
Mr. Allen is Chairman of the
Fisk .University LociQ f. the
American Federation of Teach
ers and is a member of the
North Nashville Committee to
Aid Spaniah Rafu^ea. HSa
first cofteert of the season will
be a joint benefit recital with
Si-lan^ Chen, the dancer, here
on November 5th. This recital,
sponsored Jointly by the Negro
Peoples Committee to Aid
Spanish Refugees and C h e
China Aid Council, will be
held for the benefit of the
Elveryone knows that the pre-1 S(>anish and Chinese refugees.
La. Lifeinsurance
Burial Fim
-t
BY LEON LEWIS
NEW ORLBANS, (ANP)—
Announcement was made this
week that the Luisiana Jr.dus-
trial Life fnsurance company,
owned and controlled by Negro
es had taken over the $460,000
business of a burial company
locatO(] at B4lSn Rouge.
Tha- burial concern was or
ganized by whites to write busi
ness on Negrd. fives, a ’'ear Hgo
and had i^own to the ab^ve
status with a weekly delit of
more than $400.00.
Certain .tfonditicms iffoie't jQ)
the company wherei>y it
necessary to reinsure this vast
business in mother company.
Because of the financial stand
Ihg and reputation of Louisiana
Lifej- Secretary of State E. A.
Conway readily approved ils'
plan to take over this business:
This is the third company rein
Eured by LouTsiana Life during
the past four years.
. Since its organisation Louis-
\na Life ha* grown consistent
ly, and is now considered the
lai^est Negro * owned and con
trolled institutions of this state.
Among its assets in the home
office building in be 2100 blwk
of Dryades streret, one of %e
finesl| stiuctUlrea in the state
owned and maintained by Ne
gro capital.
The reinsuring of the Baton
Rouge businefis wiU ’op#’*,, .addi
tional ,yemployinentB for Negro
es. Dr. Rover Frederick, presi
dent of the Louisiana Life stat
ed: “We are continually on the
look out fpr "Sny fpprtunity to
raise the status of race business
ift*‘keeping with .our policy .to
grow in our ability toi employ
more Negroes.
youth of the race can
feel assured that the Louisiana
wil Icontinue doing mor«t, than
Its share in this direction, with-
ou any infringement upon racial
economic development.” _
MOTENON loted Lawyer
CONCERT
fi
Mis
ATliANTIC city, N. 3.—
Oest^oadent over ffnaneitri con-
dltiona, Walter pomer, 56, well
known lawyer and at one time
one of the wealthiest men on
the Northside, committed suicide
Tuesday by *** "*he
Penrose eanal, Venice park.
The 4>ody wjui diiicovered
shortly after 9:30, by William
Wtfbb as he was headed on a
fishing ttip. He towed the
body to the Abescon buulevard
bridge and summoned police,
Betective Allmond and Frye,
investigating, said they learned
that Comer had been talking
with his sister, Louise, in his
office Tuesday morning about
830.
Police say Comer attempted
to commit suicide Mon Jay, but
was pulled from the bay near
Altwny and taken home. In
additisajf.!^ .his law nractice
Gomer at one time was the
proprietor of a sucaessful loan
broker’s estsftilishment on Atlan
tic Avenue. He at one time was
reported worth over $80,000
cash, and a cmisiderable anr.ount
of property. Most of his* n.cney
was lost in the bank crasn, and
since that time he also I st his
property.
practically all of the Southern,
Eastern and •Midwestern state#
during the 19'39-40 season. Her
concerts this year, as in Tfie
past, have been uniformly suc
cessful and well received, and
she has appeared for every type
of -organization Tiefdr^ enfhuslas
tic ''audiences white and colored,
'presented, she will appear in
to the Chicago Concert bureau, under whose' management she
^ CHIpAQQi,—Continuing ^
•oncert tour whch is in " it*
second month. Mis* Etta Moten,
best known to the public fpr her
lovely contralto voice as heard
on radio and concert stage, has
spent almv*t the-'* "entire month
of Sept. in her hom* ttatei,
Texas. Her tour has Included
Waco, Wkhita Palls, Fort
Worth and Dallas, with « return
trip to Wkhita Springs at the
request of white nyisic lovers
there. Alter going up^“to Miss,
for an engagement there early
ip O^tobe^, she will return to
Texas to appear in othar key
cities there-^Marshall, tor Wi
ley college, Austin, ana one
or two others.
Miss Moten* spent the latter
part of August in Flordia, where
she attended the convention of
the Home anj Foreign . Mission
ary society of the 'AM*E chucch
upon invitation from ita presi
dent, Mrs. Lucy M. Hughes.
ITie popular songstress will re
turn to Florida in January to
l^pear in several cities there
vuider the auspices of the local
Missionary societies, as well as
for white and colored educa
tional institutions of the state.
Having inaugurated a new
program, upon which sne has
beeii working for severiSl years
—a program including just the
right number of formal gohcert
nun^ber, spirituals, lullabies and
other types of ' Compositions
calculated- to satisfy every
musical .taste. Miss Moten’s fall
and winter conceW itin'erary iSs
rapidly taking shape. Aceording
Joe Louis* Mother Proud Of
m _ ■
her Famous Son... Rodney
BY LiSTES RODNEK
Crusader I'News Ag.:nc^
laa JOJiST Idling that, htts
the eye as you walk into the
pleasant home of Mrs. Lily
Brooks Barrow at 2100 Mk;>
Dougal Street in Detroit, is • 1»
striking drawing of her smiling
.World's Heavyweight Champion^
ship at,n on tiie mantle. *‘T« my
mother with lAve-Joe,” Is the
inscription. Alongside of it is a
picture of Joe’s pretty wife with
the inscription, “To'a real mo-
' ther^ with love-Marva.”
Mrs. Bariofi' settled ba 'k jn a
chair. “I'm -glad that fight is
over. I'm always’worried about
■ Joe’s getting hurt. Of course I
.^lo'v *l«,:|j ^ t,. tfclqe
care of himself—very well equip
ped—but 1 guess a moth»r Just
has to. worry abiiut her son,”
Joe Loum’ mo.licr is a s^ft
spoken middle age^‘ woman with
a fine sensitive face, a face
bearing the lin^s that any mo
ther , who brought up eight
children through the jSoverty of
an Alabama Cotton ^ plantation
hut and the Detroit slums must
have.
“Then you didn’t approve
when Joe . first started liprhtiiig
as an amateur ” I asked.
She laughteTI. “No, I thought
fighting was a pretty awful
thing. -4 wanted him to be a
musician, and ^ave him violin
lessons for « while. You knowji
Joe is very interested in hiusic.
Bnt he never gave that fiddljf
much attention once he started
to fi^ht. I guess he knew he
could go farther in fig;hting. I
guess Ire wW right=^t tl^t."
What kiftd of younster was
Dining Car Meet
Asks Nal’i Pact
BY HAROLD PREECE
CHiaA'GO, (CNA)~Negro
Oct. 15.demands that:
1- Working hours be reduc-
-ed from a0 to 181 per mnnth
Joe? Dfd he faav* aay afreet
ifigl4t*>as $ kid?
I "^o, Joe was a guod bojr, as
gQod aa «cy^ that is. Not « aiiiy.
lie could oiiiy go to the seventF'^
grade in school because he had
to go to work. We had a hard
time aft«r moving up from
Alabama. ,,
“Joe was at/ouT 12 when we
left the plantation, and came to
Detroit. He began to work on
ice wagon'' when he left arhool
at 14. Then, later when he ws
16 he got a Job at Briggs Fac
tory, then at Ford.” ’ C
1 asked Mrs. Barrow''If sHe
had ever had occasion to apank
Joe when be was little. She
smiled at the memory. “1 guess
I had a few decisions over
him." J j , ..
“But you muat. be pretty
proud of his success, even at
tae fighting yod don’t like.
“Proud? Why! ,I should say!
keep all his clippings. Whenever
Joe finishes a fight he comes
here with Marva to stay for a
few days and w« go over the
clippings together. It’s just that
you never can. tell»ia.-|49hting,
and you know, some of the
best have been upset bat I’m
pretty confident Woe will taike
care of himself all right in
there.”
“Mrs. Barrow, after wh^t
fight would you say Joe «eemed
the happiest?” 1>
3,i^“Oh, thaft second {^chmeling
fight,” she smiled. „‘^e got the
biggest kick out of that,^ even
bigger than winning the cham
pionship ff that was possible.
“An impression thiS' papers
sometimes convey is thjit Jo*
isn’t interested in anything
a»tt«h,- fcfiidti iljiikting. Tliat ha
little awareness ot social con
tions asd such things aa the
wretched h«uatog eonditiona for
the of Marina.’'
Again Joe’a motner mailad
softly,. ^
“Of Course he’s interested in
thing* besides fighting. J'>e was
brought up in a family of eight
poor, ebiidren in Wiserabte cod-
ditiuns. He had t^ leave *euoo2.
Do you think he’d' ever forget
that, or that he doesn't know
other boys like him have a bard
time of it? You see, he rushes
around ao much, training and
fighting and all, that he doesn’t
get around to talking about
such things. Like I said, he cob
centr|tea. But I know hs gives
very liberally to charttiei and
would do what he coul^. My
lord, of course lie knows!”
She .aifkled that Joe and Marva
■WMit to t^fe’^flaptist Churcb With
her on occasions and that the
pastor was one of the many
fighting for better housing for
Detroit’s harlem, and against
the police brutality prevalent in
Detroit of late.
“Of course, even thougb Joe
likes to go to church, I would
jt say that ha prays before
his fights. I guess he’s found
out that the Lord helps thoae
who hit the hardest.”
We chatleff a while more
and then the clock struck three,
Mrs. Barrow jumped up. “You
will ■ have to excue me for a
little while. I’ve got to senj my
®IL to school.”
'The! .^^baby” turhed out to be
dlttlrtg car employua who u»uk
and serve the meals for the
travelling puyie ^ are out to get
a signed contract from the coun
try’s maJor railroads,
Determinied cookp, waiters,
an^ lounge porters on tffe Big
coaches gathered with ope
thought in mind at session hfere
of the AFL Joint Council of
Dining Car Ein.ployes—tho con*
tiact. The proj^bsed agreement, "hBlf be made for overtime,
which will be submitted in 4 That eight hours be allow-
liminary fica-m to the National ed for any job assigned. ‘Under
Railroad Mediation Board by Please furiT toi page six
“So we can spentd more time
with our families,” Ishmael P.
Fljry, secretary-treasurer of
the body which includes all
dining car locals of the AFL
Hotel and ^Restaurant Workers
International Alliance. >
2 Paid vacations be,grant
ed. i 1
8 Payment of time and one
NEW WBDUOTP rARV*;
for Ecmomicalinavl
.cojicHncnm
ONE WAT MW
Round Tfip 10%
th« on«*way coi^h ttutm. Hahssii Undl 60_j|yt
^mUND TKI» nCMMXm-^
Jte’# pretty 19 year
Vunles.
old sister.
Itarsleti
OXFORD,
The farmers of the ^ak,
Grove Commnnity were eal.f:ti
together at the. Oak Grove
•ehool 06 laat WediMetiajr
Oct. 4, IS^ for the pur^uee i
organising a Better Horn* anit
Farm Club, Approxiaateiy aa
farmers and their wivea Iwiea
with interest whije th« phi •
poses and obJeetivea were given
for an organiaaliij n of thin
kind.
Robert A ICewia, teacher «f
Vocational Apicuhon at the
Mary Potter Seftool gave tne
iectivea, and placed ■ grt^t
deal cf emphasis en the ‘ldt^u'
of Improved Practieea being
j^followed on the hone far>ns.
The farmers expreaaed them- '
selvea in a very favorabta w^y
In pledging their support and
full eooperaUoa ia akisg ia a
successful organization.
The foflowizig officers wcie
elected:
Nick Parker, President
Sherly Allen^ Vice-Pres.
Miss Blanche Allen, Sec’y
Mias Lucille Strater, Aiat-Sec. ^
Georqe Strater, Reporter
D. W. Allen, Treasurer
Robert A. Lewis^ Adviser.
The first major * project~tne
club ia expecting to do is to set
up a commnnity Exhibition a£
the Exhibit whiclv ia to Mi held
tt the Mary PoRer "School Oct.
26, 1939. This is tff^ - rtT'
Agriculture and Hoiww-Bfconom-
ics Ehibit, sponsoreu "^y * the
NFA boys and the Home Eeono-
mics Girls. ■■
for each mile teateledLllalwB———.-^-
ROPWPTKIP WCMTiT# ,
2^-*
'2'mM
* xnont 01 pfopM cnfliQV iw ipnw
AIR-CONDITIONBD StMptarToar
Pixting Cars and Coach«
lasttre Safety • Avoid
TRAVEL in CQMFOKT hr fSSST
for each mil* tfa»«hd.>alm«
Hi! iiii, /;-.00. $ sn ou ' 1 •'
By Relaxing
B U
In The
^oi'ng to and from work can be a pleasure if you ride ^
the but. You get kome earlier. You spend less ntouey
for trsBiportstion (4 toltens for 2So). You eni^y a safe,
eomforta|>le
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