Largest VT ion sjightly n^ore than 40 per cent of these applications have been refused. -O WHITE GIRL KILLS SELF OVER NEGRO LOVER Los Angeles, Calif.. Sept. 22, (A.N.P.)—Inerracial love brought suicide to a beautiful young dark haired white woman, who preferred death rather than life without the Jovo of her Negro Borneo. Th0 woman, Evelyn Stewart, 25 Monday afternoon drank a quan. Southern Elections Hurt Lynch Bill i-< URBAN LEAGUE AWARUS FELLOWSHIPS FOR 1939 New York, Sept. 22 (ANP)— Tho National Urban League an nounces through its Executive Secretary Eugene Kincle Jones, threo fellowships awards for 1939 two for $1,000 and one for $1,200 for study in social work The re cipients are Charles C. Beckett of Philadelphia, Pa., A. B. Wilber force university, B. D., Yale uni versity Divinity School; George H. Robinson of Montaclair, N. J., A ,B. Oberlin college; and Albert N. Whiting of Jersey City, N. J., A. B. Amhert college. Mr. Beckett and Mr. .Robinson have been assignel to the New York School of Social Work as ‘Benezet Fellowship in Memory of Anthony Benezet," and the “Ella Bachs Plotz fellowship respectively Mr. Whiting has been assigned to the university of Pittsburg. Since the organization of the National Urban Laague in 1910, eighty-seven fellowships have been awarded to Negro students. PURGE FAILURE SEEN AS DOOM TO LYNCH BILL USED RACE ISSUE I Washington.— (ANP)— Failure of President Roosevelt's “purge” of such southern senators as Smith of South Carolina is seen hero as a blow to passagei of the federal anti-lynching bill at the next session of congress. Smith and George were two of the bill’s greatest opponents, and rodo to victory in the recent pri mary on the race issue. Astute and experienced, they know all the tricks of combating such legisla tion. Where newly elected southern senator might be just as anxious to defeat the measure, they would be handicapped because of their newness in preventing the bill from coming to a vote as Smith and George did last January. Tho result is that the strong est of the southern senators will present the same old unbroken pha lanx against the bill which Sena tors Wakner and Van Nuys have promised to bring up again this session of congress. CLEVELAND APPOINTS WOMAN HIGH SCHOOL ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL -'0 tity of lysol, following a drink ing party with her lover and others Witnesses stated that her lover, Harry Armstrong, had broken re lations with the woman because of his recent marriage to another woman, and Miss Stewart, becom ing heartbroken, drank the fatal potion. She died two hours af ter the dose at the Georgia Street Receiving hospital. Harry Jack son of Pasadena discovered tho body. __( FORMER TECH STUDENT DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS Burnell Johnson, 20, 3020 Pin kney, St. former student of Tech, nical High School died Wednesday morning after having failed to ral ly from a third operation necessi tated by internal disorder. Burnell was a member of Zion Baptist Church and his funeral will be held this after noon at 2 o’clock. He leaves to mourn his loss, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Johnson, mother and father; Mrs. Herbert Patton, sister; Bruce and J. C. Jr. brothers and a host of other relatives and friends. Cleveland, Sept. 22 (ANP)— Continuing the remarkable record of the Cleveland Board of Educa tion which has appointed 2 color ed women principals already this year, making three in service in the Cleveland schools, Mrs. Myr tle Johnson Bell has been named assistant principal. Mrs. Bell will serve at Central High school, the institution which most of the city’s colored students attend. Her duties will consist of acting as Dean of Girls at Central high. The principal is a man and white. Mrs. Bell received her first teaching experience at Tuskegee institute and took her master’s degree at WesternReserve. -0O0 SAYS SUICIDE RUMOURS NOT TRUE Miss Alma Goodlet, 1423 No 24th St. called the Guide Thursday morning and asked that it be stat ed that she was not dead from suicide or any other cause and that the constant telephone calls and inquires were only serving to aggrevate the condition of her mother who is ill. KLAN FAILS TO HALT NEGRO VOTE IN FLORIDA TOWN __