Unemployed Starving
Report Thousands of Unemployed Workers Starving in South
White and Black Suffer, But Plight of Negroes is Terrible
10,000 Manuscripts on the Negro Collected by Historical Association
CHURCH DRIVE CLOSES TOMORROW Tomorrow closes one of the biggest campaigns ever launched by a church in this community. The R. E. Jones Temple, headed by its pastor Rev. N. D. Shamborguer, has been in a Zeppelin Contest with trips around the world as a goal with many of the members as commanders for several weeks, and it is reported that after the count of the many dollars at the close of the drive tomorrow it will be found that several of the commanders have won the trips. The campaign and contest has not been confined to the members of Jones Temple but the whole community has been reached and many friends of the church are interested in the outcome of their favorite commanders and the success of the church effort. Rev. Shamborguer is to preach special sermons tomorrow and a large crowd is expected to be present throughout the day.
Bishop George C. Clement will preach at Quinn Chapel A. M. E. Church Sunday morning at 10:45. The pastor, Rev. J. C. Caldwell, will be present. You are invited to attend.
BANK HONORS HIS MEMORY [Photo] THE LATE W. H. WRIGHT Lawyer and Business Man, the Founder and First President of the American Mutual Savings Bank. The public is asked to help celebrate his memory by starting a savings account Tuesday, February 18, the Eighth Anniversary of the American Mutual Bank.
Explains Smuts Howard Conference
Conference of Gen'l Smuts At Howard University Explained
INEZ ELLIS GIVEN SIX MONTHS Inez Ellis was sentenced to six months in jail by a jury in the Criminal Court Monday morning for the fatal shooting of Newton Bibb, who Miss Ellis alleged beat and kicked her unmercifully on the streets. She pleaded involuntary manslaughter. The jury gave Bradshaw Smith two years in the penitentiary for the alleged robbing of Leo H. Gray at 415 W. Bloom St., of $19.00. Smith pleaded guilty.
BISHOPS COUNCIL ATTRACTS LEADERS The Bishops' Council of the C. M. E. Church which met in Memphis, Tenn., attracted leaders of the church from all sections of the country. All the bishops were present including Bishops R. S. Williams, Augusta, Ga.; E. Cottrell, Holly Springs, Miss.; C. H. Phillips, Cleveland, Ohio; R. A. Carter, Chicago, Ill.; N. C. Cleaves, St. Louis, Mo., I. C. Martin, Memphis, Tenn.; R. T. Brown, Birmingham, Ala., J. A. Hamlett, Kansas City, Kan.; J. W. McKenney, Sherman, Texas and Bishop Isaac Lane, retired, of Jackson, Tenn, the oldest living bishop in the world. The sessions were presided over by Senior Bishop Williams, and among the most important matters taken up by the C. M. E. prelates was the General Conference meeting to be held here in Louisville three weeks in May beginning Wednesday, May 7. At the opening session of the Council Bishop Phillips of the Kentucky and Ohio Conferences delivered one of the ablest of sermons. The bishop delivered his  classic without manuscript and after he had finished, many who sat under his voice, among whom were ministers of other denominations marched up to grasp the Bishop's hand. Dr. A. W. Womack, pastor of the Lane Tabernacle C. M. E. Church at St. Louis presided over the "lower house" sessions of the ministers and laymen.
HE DROPPED IN ON HIS FRIENDS [Photo] HON. MELVIN J. CHISUM Field Organizer of the National Negro Press Association, politician and efficiency man, our friend from Illinois who dropped in on us as we were closing our forms. But Mr. Chism is here on a mission which will keep him here a few days and we'll know more about it in succeeding issues.
SPREADING THE MAMMOTH [Photo] MR. A. D. DOSS Well known Louisville citizen and energetic insurance man, who has done as much as any body to put the Mammoth Life Insurance Co., in the homes and minds of local citizens and make the Mammoth one of the most popular Negro institutions in Indiana. For several months he was manager of the Mammoth in Indiana. He has gone over the top in Indianapolis and now he is in Gary and both the town and the Mammoth are to be put on the map. Mr. Doss is the kind of business man who usually makes good, the type that people like to see do well.
BARBERS ASK DEFEAT OF BILL The barbers' registration and license bill, providing a state Board of Examiners now before the 1930 Legislature at Frankfort is causing some white and many colored barbers over the state much concern; a plea is being made for the defeat of the bill, and the naming of a colored man on the Board of examiners if the bill goes over. Says a well known barber of many years, "Unless a colored man is named on the State Board of Examiners the proposed barber bill will make it hard for the colored man who knows more about the business than any body else, but may be discriminated against and find the passing mighty hard, if his business is for the white trade, a right that has been his, and a privilege he should continue to have.' Barbers are urged to have their legislature friends at Frankfort defeat the bill.
Would Organize Colored Women
Proposed Gigantic Body Favored by Mrs. Mary Bethune
National Council Would Link Leaders of All Groups
WOMEN'S CLUB PRESENTED BIG LINCOLN PROGRAM AT C. M. E. CHURCH Perhaps one of the highest class literary and musical programs was heard by those who were at the Chestnut St. C. M. E. Church Tuesday night. The Ladies Auxiliary of the First Standard Bank presented the Mu-So-Lit Club under the auspices of the Laymen's League of the church which includes in its program the creating of a greater interest in the social, educational and business activities of the race. The Mu-So-Lit Club is composed of some of the most prominent and talented women of the community, and that fact was borne out by the Douglass-Lincoln program they presented Tuesday night. Remarks by Mrs. Julia Russell, President of the Club and Miss Armah Wilson, former president; paper by Mrs. Bertha Callery on Douglass; Miss Eula Vertrease on Lincoln and Mrs. Rose L. Cole on the Progress the Negro has made since the Emancipation, respectively were splendid, as were the poems the Negro by Miss Lucretia Gibson and Linc  oln and Douglass by Mrs. Norian White. Mrs. Edna Hughes, ex-president of the club was at her best as a soloist, and the duet by Mrs. Hughes and Miss Wilson, and the trio by Mesdames Hughes, White and Miss Gibson were very much enjoyed. The congregation sang America and the Negro National Anthem. Remarks were made by Rev. C. L. Knox, pastor of the Chestnut Street C. M. E. Church, L. T. Phillips, cashier of the First Standard Bank and I. Willis Cole, president of the Laymen's League. Miss Gladys Foust, popular teacher who is chairman of the program committee of the Ladies Auxiliary, was mistress of ceremonies.
BANK FORMS "BUY A BOND" CLUB In keeping with its program in rendering service to its customers and community, the First Standard Bank is forming a "Buy A Bond" Club. Mr. Ray, President, states that he finds that his customers and friends do not own enough real good high-class securities such as government bonds, first mortgage real estate bonds, industrial, municipal, etc. He has inaugurated a plan whereby a customer may set aside from one dollar to five dollars each week on a bond account, and when the amount reaches one hundred dollars he will assist in selecting a bond which is not only safe but has a ready market and yields a reasonable rate of income. The Club was opened Monday, February 3, and it is reported that a good number have joined.