Atlanta world. (Atlanta, Ga.) 192?-1932, December 06, 1931, Sunday City Edition, Image 7

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Newspaper Page TextSUNDAY, DECEMBER 0, 1931 FULL PAGE - - WORLD COMICS OL‘ HOT. I 4 IFL-, 'AI IH II 71,5"°"^^^ PAP.rW I Suit) wf weae^ Z ~ "‘Xi'l Wsr TAlkm.Afcor Tft" \ * - — tup Dull pulse. Lj* ? ft z ft OF tVEIZH THING- / .1 .5 A-tV Oh lor-d! be with ) YOU< HUMBLE SERVANT GLo^ ! NOW. BE W'TH US’ J GLO^Z ! . — w ■'SfJ ■' dKtSpy^ ,€$ a 1 ’if J \ । 11 X -X ? ? V /Mz ~ ‘ _ M?la aiiW» ry ?THE MAIN THING ON MAIN STREET” Batly fez * JtAIN ATf2EET'<; INVESTIGATING PaPEQ OIL SCANDAL SPOUTS ON MAIN ST. J.P. COXNE cue LOCAL BANKER i$ CERTAIN LN TmE PROUD Financier <^imce we HA<5 BEEN SUMMONED TO WASHINGTON T& BE GGILLBD in The. LATENT OIL INVESTIGA TION. A "THE MAIN THING ON MAIN STREET’’ a ~ - * Baily fez MAIN ‘STREET'S CLEAN NEWSPAPER CITIZENS SAVE HOTEL ■MBI I>?HEN TmE FIRE HOSE went ON The Elink AT The JSAY-PO HOTEL FiRE , The CROWD HAD To Pitch in and cave what They could of the HOTEI and IT3 Belonging^. "ITS A GREAT LIFE IF. 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VatT Zelm By Jack Rabbit MSBffl OF mIE MITCHELL, NOTED SIM, BEKOS CHRISTMAS CHICAGO, Dec 2 <ANP) Al though a few months ago when the report was published that a divorce was contemplated between Abbie Mitchell, celebrated songstrees. end Leslie Anthony Tompkins, Nev.- York postal clerk, there were oui-ck denials from both parties, Mis Grace Johnson of tl . : city called together twenty-five l of her gml friends nt her home, F 147 Indiana Avene, this week and annoiinc'd that she would wed Mr Tompkins on this Christmas day coming. Thus it wouM seem that the divine diva a n d her erstwhile spouse kept the act of their separa tion and divorce in perfect conceal ment until Miss J< hnson prepared to make know her plans. Mr. Tompkins, was M - Mil chell's third husband. They had Divines Give Pickens a Middle Name BUFFALO, N. Y., Dee. 2— (ANP) —William Pickens never had a middle name, —at least not until November, 19.31, when he reached this city, and the Rev. Richard A. G- Foster, a young minister and admirer, told him what the Pickens “middle name might Ve”. The four syllables that make up William Pickens seem so short and informal that for some years people have tried to give him a middle name, for the mere sound of the thing, when introducing him to audiences or when publish .ll . name on handbills and pla n : announcing his. lectures. At -arious times he Las been called: Wiliiam E Pickens”; William <’. I'.keb ”; "William Dean Pn-k -"n-", a . ort of perversion of his former title as dean of a college; out the mo-t frequent misnomer ' in been "William IL Pickens.” I:, advirtising his November White Ala. Divine Joins NAACP; He Hits Prejudice NEW YORK. D c-rnber 2—Albert lE. Barrcti. native o f Alabama ■Professor of LileratU’e and History ■of the BTio : ‘ Scarritt College . Nashville. Tcnne- -■. has sent h ■ .heck f'»r St! a covering meinlr- ■ ! 'P in the National Association for fiie Advamcmc ;t of Colored P-’n ■'!■? and . übscription’ 4 to the Crisis In a letter emdosing his check lie .rites ■ > Waiter White. N. A. A. C P., '(' i*ftft "I thank you for your letter and h n folder giving the foil inform.i s:n ro'tardu.g the Scott.'boro Ca Tv p . ttion you take in the mat ter is legitimate and I most heimt ,y commend it. At a later date it will be my pleasure to make s .n - small contribution to the ex)>ot.- fund for the case. "Attached is my check for $2 50 which, your pamphlet state., will enroll me as a member of the N. A. A. C. P. and entitle me to a sub scription to the Crisis. "You may be interested to know that I am an Alabamian and a min ister in the Southern Methodist Church. I have never shared the at ’ tildes toward Ihe Negroes that are regarded as typically 'Southern' and I like to feel that there is in vreasir.gly a thorough going ro oudiation <>f that attitude among flu- d's-erning leadership of our section." —and the Worst is Yetto Come —- — - __ ( g . / -- ft- - - —ft - fiiftftX,. —ftft( Jftftftft’u.-. -ft ms r ja '-» x frSrSuTl Va j? . - ML ' \ ^^*l-1 ... ft ll&xjgg «» T» .V It -ariiW!. - . Mi rM« I — ■«— - . PAGE SEVEN been married .-•bout four years. Miss Johnson i; » Chicago girl a piar.i t of cxcepfi.m.ii ability and a teacher in the local schools Mr. Thompkins is thought to have mot her while accompanying Miss Mit chell to Chicago as her manager. Mi.s Mitchel! ha. been living in Chicago for two years singing on radio programs for the National Broader ting company She gave up thi work recently to accept the p . ition of director of the school of l ocal ins'ruction at Tuskegee in stitute. Cine of Mr Thompkins' poems, all whi'h are of lyric quality, was com posed in the days when he first met the great singer It is called "My Heart's Aflame" and was set to music Ia William I. Dawson. Abbie ang it frequently on her programs. meit ng in Buffalo the handbills i ,! : "William IL Pickens,” and th.- dean thought he would start । littb- fun by asking some one in tl •■ audience to tell him what the "if " ’ ir.d for, “since his mother a-d f. I her never gave him any nrddle name-.” Whcreuupon the rmi' h-initialed Rev. R. A. G Fos t' :, who happened to be in a hu morou vein also, explained: that .on 1 " ‘me ago the dean had com r. "ol .'mething like lese majette av --t "Hi Majesty Satan” by r K - a doubt a- to the material ■ ' • of "His Majesty’s Em- ad that, perhaps in retali a’ v:. th: i-Kire fundamentalist n■: tor had entered into a con s; i-aev with the Devil “to give the d> an Hell a hi middle name!” Nothing daunted the dean re plied: "Then it's a devil of trick nd that’, a hell of an explana tion!" TRUSTY ESCAPES-, TURNSROBBER Golumb:.!. S. C Dec 2— f ANP) — J ■ • befo-e Thanksgiving T. B. Rip lev. not the Beli C ve-It Or-Not ex plorer w । a more or less happy r.,. !i with samething. though little to be thankful for. Bit right after T ‘.H: . Mr. Riplev had noth in-! at a'l to be thankful for .and I. m is: upon .in idle mind in which . o'.' Satan had been working the series of misfortunes which befell him. 1 - before Thanksgiving, Ripley v 1 a t i iy. doing odd .jobs with '.he chair gang on the Leesburg roar! But the truNy's heel began to ; h and he walked off. Seventeen miles furthe'- on. at Bookman, he noticed a store owner closing up f. . the evening and the devil in Mr Ripley's mind told I 'm he ought te w-.it and try h's luck on that store later on. He did. He was successful The next morning he entered an other store, loaded down with a part of his swag-four hundred pennies. He asked the proprietor, who happened to be a justice of the justice of th" neace. if he would give him some silver pieces for the pennies. The justice of the peace became suspicious at the sight of a colored gentleman bearing so many pennies. When he sought to oues tion Mr Riplov. the tatter made a pass him and fled But Ripley was slower ri-foot than the ju dice was in hi:; automobile.