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AL ACTION POSSIBLE
AGAINST MOBS
New York, Dec. 8—The brief show
ing the federal government has the
power under existing laws to inter
vene and press the prosecution of the
Tuscaloosa, Ala., officers who Per
mitted a double lynching was printed
and distributed this week by the Na
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People. The brief
was drawn by Messrs. Charles H.
Houston, Edward P. Lovett and Leon
A. Ransom of Washington, D. C.
The general contention is that un
der section 52, chapter 3, title 18 of
the United States code (R. S. 5510)
the sheriff of Tuscaloosa county can
be prosecuted in the federal courts
because he willfully subjected two in
habitants (Dan Pippen, jr. and A T.
Harden) of the state of Alabama to
the deprivation of rights secured and
protected by the constitution and laws
of the United States or to different
punishments, pains or penalties, by
reason of their race and color, than
are prescribed for the punishment of
citizens.
' The brief was drawn at the request
of Attorney General Homer S. Cum
mings. It has been submitted to his
office and is being studied by him
and his assistants. Because of the
importance of the subject, the N A A
C P has sent the brief to all senators,
governors, attorneys general and
state bar associations. Also to a se
lected list of daily newspapers cov
ering all states in the country, to
weekly papers, leading magazines of
opinion, to leading newspapers in
Canada, Mexico, South America,
Europe, including Russia and Japan.
Also the Philippine and Hawaiian Is
lands, Cuba and Jamaica. Interested
persons can secure copies by sending
or mailing fifteen cents in stamps to
the N A A C P, 69 Fifth avenue, New
York.
WORKMAN'S FORUM TO HOLD
CHURCH MEETING
Executive Committee Make Arrange
ments.
At a meeting of the Workman’s
Forum, onday night, at the Urban
League, acting upon the suggestions
of M. L. Harris, it was decided that a
meeting would be held in a Church
every other week, rotating from one
church to anotheh, for the purpose
that more men of our group may
know of the purposes of this organ
isation. At these meetings programs
will e rendered and guest speakers
will be presented, both of our group
and members of the white group, to
the end that a better understanding
may be obtained between the work
ers and the employers.
ROSENWALD FUND PAYS $2,000,
000 TO BENEFICIARIES IN
LAST TWO YEARRS
Washington—(CNS) — Edwin R.
Embree, president of the Julius Ros-!
enwald Fund, reports that during the J
last two years nearly $2,000,000 has
been paid to beneficiaries; and while
the fund had no cash income during
the latter part of the period, the |
trustees followed the wish of the
founder that principal be drawn up
on if necessary.
The report said that $1,980,080 had
been paid out to educational and phil
anthropic programs during the last
two fiscal years despite the fact that
the income of the fund had ceased.
The payments were made, Embree
said, by using principal funds.
The work among Negroes was ini
tiated in 1913 by Mr. Rosenwald and
; was continued after his death. Since
i it began, the report said, some 5,300
i school houses had been built in 883
counties in 15 Southern States.
600,000 Pupils Accommodated
The schools have accommodations
| for more than 600,000 pupils and a
| staff of some 15,000 teachers. Since
1913 the fund has contributed $4,365,
000 to the schools, Negroes, $4,725,
000; whites $1,212,000, and public
funds, $18,100,000.
.Embree said the fund had given in
creasing attention to schools of high
er learning for Negroes to promote,
the development of adequate leader
ship for the race- He said the fund
will continue this phase of its work,
but “will not carry further this spec
ial program of aid in the building of
school houses.”
The report said special aid had been
given the Howard University in
Washington, among other institu
tions.
“The fund came to the conclusion
several years ago,” the report stated,
“that hospital provision for Negroes
was not only too large and varied a
problem to be dealt with by a founda
tion, but was essentially a local or
State responsibility. We have aided
a few institutions which it is believed
will serve as educational centers for
Negro physicians and nurses and
peacemakers in hospital service for
Negroes.”
The other phase of the fund’s work
—spreading the cost of medical care
—has resulted in some improvement,
the report said. The fund has provid
ed aid in starting or continuing ex
periments concerned with the pro
vision and payment for medical ser
vice. The largest single expenditure
of the fund in the last year it said
was made for this work in medical
economics.
It is reported here that the Rosen
wald Fund is backing in a financial
way the Joint Committee on Nation
al Recovery, headed by Dr. W. E.
Haynes, and of which John P. Davis
is executive secretary. Clark Fore
man, Economic Advisor on the Staus
of the Negro under the U. S. Depart-'
ment of the Interior is said to be a
dollar a year man in the service of
the Government, his actual salary be
ing paid by the Rosenwald Fund. The
same is said t obe true of Weaver. J
It is also reported that John P. Davis,!
executive secretary of the Joint Com- j
mittee is under pay from the ^ener- j
ous Rosenwald Fund, having been re- j
cently given a $200 per month Fel-1
lowship to pursue studies in relation
to the NRA and the Negro.
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Salisbury, Md.—(CNS)—A state
ment signed by “three prominent col-!
ored men” living in the accursed sec-1
tion of Maryland, which has within |
the past two years disgraced Amer- j
ican civilization by outbreaks of law-!
lessness against defenseless Negroes,
and even the authority of the Gover
nor of the State, attribute the dis
turbances to the activities of Bernard
Ades, attorney for the International
Labor Defense League.
The statement, signed by James F.
Stewart, member of the Maryland
Interracial Commission; J. M. Dicker
son, colored pastor here, and James
L. • Johnson, retired school teacher,
said:
“As is well known, the entire dis
turbances have grown out/ of the
Euel Lee case into which he (Ades
injected himself not at the request
of nor in behalf of the people of our
race.
The statement said that Ades’
claims incensed the people of the
Eastern Shore and that the attorney’s
contentions that a fair trial could
not be had for Lee on the Eastern
Shore was unfounded. The state
ment continued:
,“We had seen the orderly process
of law carried out for so many, many
years here that it would have been
foolish and unfair to make any other
presumption about the people of the
peninsula.
“We state, without fear of contra
diction, that it was the tactics of
Ades employed in that case which
caused the death of Mathew Williams
and George Armwood. (Williams
was lynched two years ago at Salis
bury and Armwood in October at
| Princess Anne.' We sincerely regret
that our race has been exploited by
this man Ades, who is only a self
seeking individual and one who can
not possibly contribute anything to
the happiness and stability of the
colored people in this State.”
This movement of the three “prom
inent Negro leaders" was stigma
tized by many as the forerunner of a
campaign to “keep the Negro in his
place” among the savages of the
Eastern Shore. It brought a quick
reply from Bernard Ades, the Balti
more attorney who said that a coun
ter-movement would be started.
Terming the three signers as “the
mouthpieces of lynchers and white
bosses,” Ades said such a move would
be met by a campaign among the
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Negroes of the section. He did not
elaborate on the plan for his organi
zation, but said he would give it fur
ther study today.
ANTI-LYNCHING BILL TO BE IN
TRODUCED IN CONGRESS BY
CELLER AND COSTIGAN
Washington — (CNS‘—A Federal
anti-lynching bill will be introduced
concurrently in the House and Senate
at the January session of Congress.
Representative Emanuel Celler of
Brooklyn, New York, and Senator Ed
ward P. Costigan of Colorado; both
Democrats, will cooperate in introduc
ing the measure.
The model for the bill will be the
Dyer bill, passed in the House in!
1922 by a vote of 230 to 119, but'
killed in the Senate by a filibuster.!
Advocates of the measure believe
such a law would be constitutional.
under the Fourteenth Amendment,1
which guarantees due process of law J
to all citizens, although it would in
volve Federal interference within the j
boundaries of the individual States, j
They face the tremendous opposi-;
tion, however, of States where tense
racial probems have come to make!
the population extremely resentful
against any interference in what they
consider their personal and internal
affairs. Prejudice against any law
yer in the notorious Scottsboro case
is one example of- this, while an even
more striking one is the recent armed
resistance of the citizens of the East
ern Shore of Maryland to the Use of
State militia by Gov. Albert C. Rit
chie in an effort to bring lynchers to
trial.
Somel5 States have anti-lynching
laws, about seven of which are con
sidered effective. The proposed leg
islation would make local officials re
sponsible for the lives of prisoners in
their custody and permit heirs of a
lynched person to sue for damages.
Agitation for Federal power to
fight lynching results from a sudden
and distressing increase in the na
tional average after a period during
which the crime was steadily decreas
ing. The last three cases brought the
total for the present year to 27, the
highest mark since 1926 when there
were 32, In 1932 there were only 10
lynchings.
Both major parties put anti-lynch
ing planks in their 1928 platforms,
but the steady decline in the rate
made it appear by 1932 that lynching
was no longer a serious problem, nor
an issue.
Records have been kept on this
grisly subject only since 1882. Dur
ing this half century there have been
6060 victims of mob fury in the
United States. Of these 1450 were
whites and 3600 Negroes.
The average of lynchings ran about
150 per year up to 1900. Since then
the average has dropped to about 60
with the exception of 1915 when there
were 145.
The record of the past 10 years as
compiled by the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored Peo
ple, follows: 1923—28; 1924—16;
1925—18; 1926—34; 1927—18; 1928—
11; 1929—12; 1930—25; 1931—14;
1932—10.
COURT INVESTIGATES 'FATHER
DIVINE* AND HIS ‘ANGEL’
CULT
Newark, N. J.—(CNS) — George
Baker, better known as “Father Di
vine,” who has been in trouble with
the police o fSayville, New York,
Orange and Newark, New Jersey in
the last two years, and made two un
successful attempts recently to get a
foot-hold in Washington, D. C., has
been Investigated most thoroughly by
a committee appointed last September
by Judge Richard Hartshorne of the
Common Pleas Court.
In the words of the street the com
mittee has “succeeded in getting the
low down on the creed of Major J.
Divine” and reports the same to the
Court in a thirty-six page report.
The committee found that Divine,
convinced his followers that he is
who likes to be called “Father,” has
God, and that by accepting his teach
ings they will be exempt from cer
tain social, biological and economic
realities of life; that he manages
somehow to live in luxury, with a
private airplane at his disposal; that
he has enlisted several thousand per
sons, Negroes and whites, under his
aegis, some of whom actually have
been benefited by the association, and
that his nan^e is nato' Dtyine but
George Baker. ,
The services in Divine’s kingdoms”
in Newark and New York disturb the
peace, the committee reported, and
in some of the kingdoms the sanitary
conditions leave something to be de
sired. Enlistments in the kingdoms
have broken up a number of homes
and the committee hinted that there
was a lot of minor chiseling. The
question of exactly where the money
comes from to run the organization
and keep Divine in the style to which
he has become accustomed was unde
cided.
Judge Hartshome appointed the
committee after Divine had been de
clared a public nuisance in Newark.
Edgar S. Bamberger, former vice
president of L. Bamberger & Co., was
fchaSrman, and the other members
were Joseph P. Murphy, probation
officer of Essex County, and Arthur
W. Hardy, a lawyer. Mr. Bamberger j
did not sign the report because he;
was unable to attend the committee
meetings.”
In accepting the report, Judge j
Hartshorne said that he would take
no action against the cult, but would
leave the facts in the hands of the
public and the prosecuting authirities. |
He quoted Abraham Lincoln's aphor
ism about fooling all of the people all
of the time.
Preacher Small But Eloquent
“While the report shows that the!
cult is misleading a substantial num-1
ber of credulous people,” the judge |
said, “The ‘some of the people’ who,
continue to be fooled after the publi
cation of this report will have only
themselves to blame if they suffer.” j
Divine is only four feet six inches
tall, but he has a tongue which can
move multitudes. The committee
traces his work from the time when
he began in Sayville, operating an
employment agency which did a legi
timate business among Negroes and
grew into a home for his cult. Then
the police drove him out of town
after Judge Lewis J. Smith, of Suf
folk County Court, had sentenced
him to a year in jail and a $500 fine
for maintaining a nuisance. The
clapping of hands, stamping of feet
and vocal hullabaloo had annoyed the
neighbors.
*He had a similar experience in Or
ange and in Newark, and now is op
erating a “kingdom" of his own at 67
West 130th Street, New York, but!
two Newark kingdoms are running,
one at 51 Bedford Street, under
“Faithful Mary,” who in private life
is Miss Viola Wilson, and one at Un
ion Temple, Wickliffe and School
Streets, under “Bishop” John Selk
ridge.
All Are Angels In The Cult
In these kingdoms live men, wo
men and children of the cult, all of
whom are “angels” in Divine's cos
mos. As far as the committee could
determine, the angelic condition de
pended on the surrender by the can
didate of all his worldly goods. The
furniture in the kingdoms apparent
ly was donated by the neophytes and
the committee heard witnesses who
said they had contributed cash to
feed Divine and the faithful. Each
angel has a given name, of which
Faithihil, True Love, Peaceful and
Bouquet are samples.
Besides living, eating and sleeping
in the kingdoms the diciples attend
services from 10 a. m. to 10 p. m.
each day, at which they give testi
monials of the blessings they have
received and worship in an endless
anti phonal of “Peace, It’s Wonder
ful.” Much of the worship, the com
mittee said, is of Divine. When the
committee went to a couple of ser
vices the windows were closed because
it was cold, but the members remark
ed that in fine weather, with open
windows, it was not surprising that
the neighbors complained.
Indigent Are Fed Free
According to members of the cult,
the operating expenses—the bill in
New York alone was said to be $30,
000 a year—are met by receipts from
the sale of meals at 15 cents each and
the sale of candy, soft drinks and
various refreshments. The indigent
are fed free. Once Divine, with a
pocket full of money, appeared in
court and said that God had given it
to him. The committee noted, how
ever, that he owned an airplane and
several automobiles, including a
Packard with a chauffeur, which car
ried him between New Yark and Ne
wark.
“It is apparent from these signs of
affluence that Major J. Divine has
prospered during the five years since
he began to operate a small employ
ment bureau in the town of Sayville,
Long Island,” the committee re
marked.
There was no doubt, according to
the committee, that the cult had done
some good. “Witness after witness, I
the report said, “testified that many
of them had actually experienced,
from the practice of this religious be
lief, what they called ‘joy, peace, hap
piness and contentment.’ The growth
of the movement is natural, the com
mittee said, impelled by a search for
economic security, a search for an
escape, and a social status and “an
instinctive search for God and assur
ance of a life hereafter; also that it
fed many impoverished persons at
low cost or free of charge, and per
formed other works of charity.
DR. CALIVER TO ASSIST IN
NEGRO RELIEF WORK
Washington — (CNS) — Harry L.
Hopkins, Federal Emergency Relief
Administrator, has announced the ap
pointment of Dr. Ambrose Caliver,
specialist in the Education of Ne
groes, Federal Office of Education;
as a part-time specialist in Federal
emergency relief work involving Ne
gro education.
Dr. Caliver, who has been loaned
by the Commissioner of Education to
the relief administration for part
time services, will continue his work
in the Office of Education. His ad
ditional part-time duties will be to
give advice in connection with spec
ial problems concerning emergency
eduoational program for Negroes,
and to help in disseminating informa
tion to Negroes and other persons in
terested in their education.
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