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ieting of the executive com-the Harris County Negro c Club, held on Monday of , Julius White, president of announced that he had ap-. M. (Jim) Nabrit, Jr., as of the executive committee, 1 C. F. Richardson, Sr., re-itr. Nabrit has entered up-charge of his duties, having at Monday's meeting and ffered some very valuable is as to the future program b.
titerviewed by a representa-e Informer, Mr. Nabrit gave allowing statement: scessity for paying our poll ore than ever apparent at , when we view the many of taxation ' and unemploy-ch confront a divided con-d when we realize that next city, county, state and fed-ers will be voted upon. We oil tax receipt to vote. We rote as citizens and taxpay-
my sincere belief thai, with ssful filing of the brief of ston Informer, Julius White,
of the Harris County Ne->cratic Club, and C. N. Love, upreme Court of the United ver the objection of white ;s of Texas, a new day is
for Negroes in American life.
ercise the elective franchise ?ht. To organize' is our du-us begin by paying our poll by attending the very inter-ld informative meetings be-
each Monday night by the Poll Tax Campaign. Every 1 Houston is not only wel-.t is urged to attend these
[-LYNCHING
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lie, Tenn.—(CNS)—An anti-hill was introduced into the fislature here last Tuesday esentative George Chamlee, Ela m i 11 o n. Representative is the son of George Cham-the Chatanooga lawyer re~ ' the International Labor De-defend the eight condemned Duths in the Scottsboro case. easure provides for the pay-: $1000 to $5000 to the " or his dependents in event • or death. For a beating or njury, the victim can recover or permanent disability, $5,-a like amount to his depend-nearest relative in case he
the county would be obligat-
amages, it may recover from
iber of the mob or may issue
levy to pay for the lynching
i is described in the bill as "a l of people assembled for an purpose and intending to do or injury to any one or pre-to exercise correctional pow-iolence."
ct of violence is construed as ling" in the language of the ny person present with hos-it" is a member of a mob.
distinct surprise to ner nunareas oi friends, students and former students. She passed away Saturday morning at a local hospital, where she had been taken the previous evening for an emergency operation.
Mrs. Colvin, a native of Galveston, was a graduate of Central High School, and held the degree of A. B. from Fisk University, class of 1908. She was brilliant in literary achievements, author of many short stories, and skilled in dramatics, having produced in Houston, Damon and Pythias, Scenes from Idylls of the King, MacBeth, Hamlet, and other Shakespearean plays.
At Fisk she was a member of the D. L. V. Club, of which she at one time or another held all of the important offices, including that of president. There she was also a member of the Fisk Herald (the student paper) staff, and in this position received her first training in journalism. At the time of her unexpected and premature death she was the society editor of the Houston Defender.
After graduation from Fisk Mrs. Colvin taught at Texas College, Tyler, for two years, after which she began teaching English in Houston. For 20 years she was a ';eacher in the Houston schools. Six or eight years of that time was ispent at Langston, part at old Colored High, and six years at Jack Yat »s High.
In December, 1921, she was married happily to P. C. Colvin, well known citizen of Gil-1* 1 Hous-
ton. Prior to thi' was a member
Church, but in or( » ._» ne
husband she move,' her membership to Bethel Baptist Church, where she gave helpful serv'ee to the time of her death. In connection with the Bethel .Missionary Society, Mrs. Colvin was well known for having produced dramatic readings of Bible stories. The story of Ruth and Naomi was one of her favorites. Hous-tonians will recall that this was given at Antioch, Bethel, Payne's -"Chapel, and several other churches during the past two years.
Mrs. Colvin also attained a reputation as a public speaker. A few years ago she was called to Fisk University, her alma mater, to deliver the annual address to the alumni association. On repeated occasions she performed a similar service for her high school alma mater, Central High at Galveston. It will be remembered that she introduced Congressman DePriest upon the occasion of his visit to Houston last July.
Mrs. Colvin was very much in the hearts of all of the children whom she taught, and especially the girls. More than one young woman in Houston can point to Mrs. Colvin as having helped her over a steep place. She especially delighted in decorating churches and homes for the weddings of the girls whom she loved, and she never failed to be present at the funeral of -the humblest child whom she had ever taught
MRS. E. C. BAUL, who operates one of Houston's most exclusive beauty shoppes, states that since opening her business in this city on Dowling Street, she has built up a large and most exclusive trade among most exacting patrons. Her first venture in business was begun in the Worthing Building about one year ago, but this place became too small for her growing patronage.
Mrs. Baul is a finished product of some of the best beauty schools in the country and has demonstrated to the Houston public her ability as a business woman. She has found it necessary to seek larger quarters and to this end she has removed her shoppe to the Ferrill Building just across the street from her former place. Her shoppe is now located at 23201 Dowling Street, and her phone number is the same—Capital 6782. Mrs. Baul is extending an invitation to her patrons to visit her in her new quarters where she will be glad to serve them in a more effective manner than before because of her larger quarters.
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Washington, D. C—(CNS)—The officers of the National Postal Alliance, an association of 5,000 Negro postal employees and members of the Negro press were present last Friday at a banquet given in their honor by the local branch of the association which has its national headquarters in this city. At this meeting the officers announced their intention of increasing membership to include at least 10,000 new postal employees. Roy D. Wilhoite of St. Louis, the national president of the organization, pointed out that it was the only one of its kind for colored postal workers. It served the purpose of bringing together in the common cause all employees of this branch of the federal government.
V. David Bond, president of the Chicago branch of the organization, spoke of the need of getting before the workers in the post office the essential facts relative to Negro workers. He said that in a number of instances, the association had been able to accomplish real benefits for them
At Jack Yates F:gh School she was and he felt that the acquisition of a
sponsor of the arlowe Dramatic Club, whose mer -s are plunged in deep grief at he,r .. dden demise.
Mrs. Colvin was a member of the Household of Ruth and also of the Eastern Star. She took an active part in these organizations.
For more than six weeks Mrs. colvin had been complaining about a pain in her side. She prided herself in her reputation of perfect attendance at Jack Yates, and when urged by students and co-workers to go home, she expressed the desire to stay on until the holidays, at which time she said she would go to a physician. She completed her day on Wednesday of last week, the eve of Thanksgiving, her last official duty being
Negro supervisor in Chicago was largely due to the activity of the association.
Other speakers at the meeting were Judge Edward W. Henry of Philadelphia; Colonel West A. Hamilton, Robert J. Nelson, Trezevant Anderson of the Associated Negro Press, and John Davis of the Capital News Service.
Judge Henry Boomed
At the meeting Judge Henry was introduced as the next congressional representative from the new second district of Pennsylvania. The representatives of the association from Philadelphia, pledged their support to
Freeman to help bring the ballot to Houston and Texas Negroes as well as Negroes all over the South, was achieved on Tuesday of this week, when the brief on the merits in the famous Nixon primary case, signed by C, N. Love, Julius White, and The Houston Informer and Texas Freeman, was filed after leave to do so had been granted by the Supreme Court of the United States over the vigorous protest of the attorney for the white Democratic election judges, who are defendants in the case. It is apparent that these white Texas Democrats, judging from their objection to the filing of The Informer's brief, feared the contents of this brief, and were anxious to keep it out of the record in the case. Washington Lawyer Presents Motion
The motion for leave to file the brief and the brief itself were prepared by the law firm of Nabrit, Atkins and Wesley of Houston, Attorney J. Alston (Jack) Atkins representing the firm in this assignment. The motion was presented to the Supreme Court of the United States on behalf of the Houston law firm by Hon. Charles H. Houston, vice dean of the Howard University School of Law, located in Washington, D. C. Attorney Houston is an honor graduate of the Harvard Law School and is an old friend of Attorney Atkins, the former having attended Harvard at the same time that the latter was at Yale. Upon his graduation from Harvard Mr. Houston studied one yeai? iu- §pain, and is generally con-
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ids in the Negro ra The progressive development of the Howard Law School in the last year or two has been due almost entirely to his keen brain and great vision. Second Brief to be Filed
This is the second brief in support of the contention of Dr. L. A. Nixon of El Paso, who is the plaintiff in the case, which the Supreme Court of the United States has given The Houston Informer leave to file, the first having been filed in support of the 'petition for the writ of certiorari, when Attorney J. Alston Atkins personally presented the motion for filing to he Supreme Court on October 5th last. Upon the consideration of the brief filed by The Informer, along with the brief filed by attorneys for Dr. Nixon (who are being employed by the N. A. A. C. P.), the Supreme Court granted the writ, which means that they decided to hear the case on the merits and to review the decision of the Circuit Court of Appeals at New Orleans.
Upon the granting of this writ on October 19th last, The Informer instructed its attorneys to begin the immediate preparation of a full brief on the merits of the case, in which all of the questions involved in the sented to the Supreme Court. This brief was prepared and submitted to Dr. Nixon's attorneys and also to counsel for the white election judges. Dr. Nixon's attorneys readily and fully consented to the filing of the brief as amici curiae, but counsel for the election judges entered a vigorous protest and objection to the filing of The Informer's brief. In their letter of consent the N. A. A. C. P. lawyers in New York stated that they were "delighted" that The Informer would file this brief as amici curiae, and that they had taken the liberty of using some of the "valuable material" which they found in The Informer's brief before Judge Hutche-son, in their brief.
To Settle Primary Question
The decision by the Supreme Court of the United States will settle once and for all the questions which have been decided adversely to Negroes in
ed for argument during the week of January 4, 1932. The argument on behalf of Dr. Nixon will be presented by a member of the national legal staff of the N. A. A. C. P., after which the Supreme Court will consider in preparing its decision both the brief filed by Dr. Nixon's lawyers and that by the lawyers for The Houston Informer. It is felt that, if the Supreme Court decides this case as quickly as it did the other case brought by Dr. Nixon, the opinion of the court will be handed down before the spring is over.
Houston Negroes Hopeful Hopeful that the Supreme Court of the United States will again decide that Negroes cannot be legally denied the right to vote in the Texas Democratic primaries, Negroes of Houston have launched a great city-wide poll tax campaign, in which it is confidently expected that at least 25,000 Negroes will pay their poll tax and thus prepare themselves to exercise the only real badge of American citizenship.
MARYLAND MO BURNS INJURE AND DYING NH
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ston, N. J.-(CNS)—The Rev. arge Johnson, dean of the ical Seminary and professor ematic theology at Lincoln ity delivered the annual series res of the L. P. Stone Foun-at Princeton Seminary here [onday through Friday. Dr. 's subject was, "Evangelical m and Modern Problems." He ght at Lincoln University in vania since 1902.
BUILDING IS DEDICATED
na, Miss.—( CNS )—McDou-.11, newly erected building of olona Industrial School, was r dedicated last Friday. The • is to be used as a girls' hall. Hon. T. A. Stovall, it of the board of trustees and Theodore Bratton were the ,1 speakers at the ceremonies.
ers ware shocked that she did not reappear on the following Monday morning.
Late Friday afternoon she was removed to a local hospital, where she underwent an operation on Saturday morning. As the word flashed over the wire about 10:30 a. m., that Viola Webber-Colvin had just died on the operating table, her friends were dumb with grief.
Mrs. Colvin leaves to mourn her loss a husband, P. C. Colvin of Houston; two sisters, a nephew and niece of Galveston, and a host of sorrowing friends, co-wcrkers, and devoted pupils.
Funeral services were held from Bethel Baptist Church, Tuesday afternoon of this week at 2 o'clock, with Rev. A. J. Newton, pastor of Trinity M. E. Church, officiating. Interment was in Oak Park Cemetery.
the campaign of the Quaker City jurist, and indicated that his nomina-, all of the lower federal courts and m
This is the second the" second time during the week that lease brought by Dr. L. A. Nixon of
the oversight of the student Thanks-
giving program. Children and teach- tl0n was almost a certainty. This was | the state courts
UNCLE TOM'S CABIN SHOWN
AT AUSTRALIAN CHURCHES
Sydney, Australia.—(CNS)—Uncle Tom's Cabin, the photoplay based on the famous novel of Harriet Beecher Stowe, has been shown here and elsewhere in various churches in Australia and New Zealand.
large organizations had endorsed the candidacy of Judge Henry. Earlier in the week J. Finley Wilson and other Elks leaders • had issued public statements endorsing him. The fact that there are 1,500 colored postal employees in Judge Henry's district made the endorsement of the National Postal Alliance a valuable one.
DAROW COMPLETES STORY
Chicago, 111.—(CNS)—Clarence S. Darrow, veteran of many court battles, and the great champion of human rights, has completed his autobiography, which is to be published in February as "The Story of My Life."
"There will be no bragging in the book," he stated, rec'ently. "It will tell the experiences of almost seventy-five years of living, which might be of interest. There will be more than a half century of experience before the bar.
"There will be something—and a good bit of it—on my ideas. Such things I hold to be an integral part of a man's life. Religion and my agnos ticism, prohibition, crime and the rest will be there."
El Paso, financed by the N. A. A. C P., to test the right of discrimination against Negroes in the Texas Democratic primaries. The first case reached the Supreme Court in 1926, and was decided in March, 1927. In that case the Supreme Court held that a Texas statute which said that Negroes could not vote in the Texas Democratic primaries was unconstitutional and void. The Texas legislature then passed a new statute which gave the power to the State Democratic Executive Committee to say who should vote in the primaries. Under this statute Dr. Nixon was excluded, and, backed by the N. A. A. C. P., he is again before the highest tribunal of the land, asking that high court to decide whether it was legal to deprive him of his right to vote in the Texas Democratic primaries. The Informer has consistently taken the position that Dr. Nixon's contentions that he was illegally deprived of his right to vote are correct, and it has asked and been granted permission to file two briefs supporting Dr. Nixon's and the N. A. A. C. P.'s claims. To Be Argued in January According to a telegram received by The Informer's lawyers from the
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