Ky's Miss Home-Coming [Photo] MATTIE GREENWOOD The old timers say that Kentucky has always been noted for its fast horses and beautiful women. Kentucky State's Miss Homecoming for 1935 holds up for the side of feminine beauty. Miss Greenwood is from Atlanta and is a member of the junior class.
Navy to Use Negroes Only As Mess Men Navy Accepts Negroes Only As Mess Boys, Says Admiral Recruiting Stations Instructed to Restrict Enlistments to "Best Meet Needs And Efficiency" Of Navy
Congressman Mitchell's Activities In Virgin Islands Told
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Richardson were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. William Tucker in Lawrenceburg Sunday.
No Memphis Rules for Italy
Anderson Is Winner ANDERSON IS ELECTED TO KENTUCKY STATE LEGISLATURE Leads Tucker By More Than 1,000 Votes; First Negro To Sit In General Assembly As the Leader goes to press Charles W. Anderson, young attorney, is a certain winner over C. Eubanks Tucker, attorney and minister, as representative from the 58th District to the State Legislature. Mr. Anderson, Republican, is leading Mr. Tucker, Democrat, by more than one thohsand votes. Late Thursday the vote was Anderson 2,255; Tucker 866. Mr. Anderson will be the first colored man to sit in the State Legislature at Frankfort, and it is a recognition for the race which Negroes in Louisville have been fighting for many years. Mr. Anderson was born in Louisville in 1907. He is the son of the late Dr. Charles W. Anderson and Mrs. Tabitha L. Anderson of Frankfort. Mr. Anderson received his early education in the grammar schools of Frankfort and on the side worked in the State Capitol of that city. He graduated from the State College of Frankfort in 1925, from Wilberforce University in 1927 and Howard University Law School in 1932. While in the national capital Mr. Anderson worked for the U.S. Veteran Bureau. He came to Louisville to practice at the bar in 1932 and soon allied himself with a church and uplift organizations. He is a member of Quinn Chapel A.M.E. Church, a member of the Elks and Masonic Lodge, Paul Lawrence Dunbar Republican Club, Frederick Douglass Protective Club, Advisory Committee of the Family Service Organization, Women's Progressive League and Central High School Parent-Teachers Association and president of the local branch of the N.A.A.C.P.
REV. C. J. HENDERSON ELECTED LEADER OF LAYMEN'S MISSIONARY MOVEMENT The Rev. C. J. Henderson, Pastor of the Broadway Temple, A. M. E. Zion church has been elected to represent the Laymen's Missionary Movement as key man in Louisville, one of the thousand cities to observe the fifth annual Men and Missions Sunday, November 17 under the auspices of the Laymen's Missionary Movement and the Missionary boards of cooperating denominations. There are already 879 cities lined up for this observance. Special services are being planned for local churches. The pastor and officers of each church will observe the day in their own way, but the object is every where the same. The theme is Jesus Christ and the World Today, in which attention will be called to the present day needs and progress of the Christian movement. Special consideration will be given to the Christian way of meeting the needs of men - and its superiority to the atheistic and Marxian communistic approach as adopted in Russia and parts of China. A special appeal to the younger men, in the churches a younger man will make a four-minute missionary appeal preceding the sermon of the pastor. Professor Arthur H. Compton, Nobel prize winner and now the Charles H. Swift distinguished service professor of physics, of Chicago; Harry H. Wheeler also of Chicago, first President of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, President (Continued on page 8)
NEELEY GETS LIFE FOR ROBBERY By James Brown A Criminal Court Jury returned with a verdict of guilty against Ben Neely, ex convict in judge Larraine Mix Sr. Court Monday. Neely was charged with robbery at the point of a gun, growing out of an identification by Dr. Samuel Levinstein, druggist and owner of a drug store at Tenth and Walnut. He said that Neely was the man who robbed him last August 10 at his closing time. Neely, represented by Attorney Brialy tried to establish an alibi that around 10:30 he was in bed out on 12th St. in the Oldham Apartments. He had witnesses on the stand to show that Neely was there playing cards and retired there. But officers Shepherd and Detectives Walk- (Continued on page 8)
HONORED [photo] REV. C.J. HENDERSON Pastor of Broadway Temple who heads the Laymen's Missionary Movement in Louisville.
ADVENTISTS HIT MOVIES, SPORTS At the annual session of the Seventh day Adventists here at the Columbia Hall, rules of conduct governing dress, movies, the radio comic strips, eating, and drinking were included in the denominational standards adopted. The theatre movie, commercialized baseball and other professional sports were condemned. Clergymen were instructed not to give license by their presence or in any other manner, to attendance at these amusements, not to attend "the worldy party of pleasure even though held in the homes of personal friends." Said the order, dignity, modesty and simplicity were designated as guiding principles for Adventists pastors in choosing their attire. Preachers of the gospel were forbidden to participate in politics. Christian reserve should characterize the relations governing the association of men and women it was further stated. The conference brought a large delegation to the city, including a large number of colored Adventist leaders, who met with the general sessions in the Columbia Hall, and had special meetings at the First Adventist Church on West Chestnut Street, Rev. J. H. Jones, pastor. At the session which closed here Tuesday a total of $50,129.50 was appropriated for the advancement of the gospel among the Negroes of the South and $4,000 for the Negro nurses' training school soon to the establish in connection with the sanitarium just purchased in Nashville for Negroes.
PRINCIPAL HURT IN AUTO CRASH Miss Mable Coleman, principal of the Georgia G. Moore School swore to a warrant that caused the arrest of Clifford McDowell, white. Miss Coleman and Sada Yewell who was with her suffered bodily lacerations and had to be treated at the City Hospital when her car was struck by McDowells after he failed to make a boulevard stop at Shelby and Ken- (Continued on page 8)
Son-In-Law of Emperor Puppet Surrender To Italians Arranged Months Ago Had Always Been Jealous And Marriage Failed to Allay Envy of Selassie
KENTUCKIAN ONLY NEGRO TO HOLD DEGREE, DOCTOR OF EDUCATION New York, N.Y., Nov. 7. - By Ella J. Baker - The double distinction of being the only Negro, as far as available records reveal, to hold the degree of Doctor of Education from one of the major universities of the country and the first one to qualify for the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Physical Education goes to Edward L. Washington, a resident of New York City. Dr. Washington is acting head of the Thomas Jefferson High School Annex, Brooklyn, N.Y., where he directs the health education of 200,000 boys ninety-nine percent of whom are white. He is one of two Negro teachers on a faculty of 350, and his four immediate assistants are white.The doctor in education was awarded by the School of Education of New York University, on October 10, after the requirements for degree of Doctor of Philosophy had been completed at both Teachers' College, Columbia University and New York University. The significance of such a degree lies in the fact that "it places major emphasis upon demonstrated ability to achieve in the actual work of education teaching, supervision and administration," and as such represents a more specialized attainment than does the Ph.D. degree. Far more important than the degree, itself, is the fact that the study upon which the award was based literally revamps the health education standards used in the junior high schools of all New York City. Dr. Washington's thesis, "An Evaluation of the New York City Junior High School Physical Fitness Test," represents four years intense study and practical experimentation, and is based upon the records of 10,000 junior high school boys in thirteen junior high schools of the city. The Health Education Committee of the Board of Education of New York City on June 18th, '34, unanimously adopted Dr. Washington's findings to revise the old physical fitness test that has been in the city's junior high schools for the past twenty-five years. The new standards will affect some 100,000 junior high school boys. The practical value of the party is that, under the new test, students can (Continued on page 8)
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