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VOLUME 4, NUMBER 140
Launch First Large Interrace Business Organization
PIONEER' |5
NANE O F
NEW (0
Project Headed by
Thomas, Ferguson,
Slater, Davage
and Hanley
A SAVINGS CO.
Formation or the Ploneer Sav
ings Association, a banking and
loan institution of an interracial as
pect, has just been announced
Officers will be located at 180 Au
burn avenue and the new business
will be ready to begin operations
on or about January 1.
It is said vo me +-me first interra
cial movement of any consequence
in the business ficid to take place
in this section of the country. A
very substantial interest in the as
sociation will be owned by the
Quaker Saving Association, onc of
the oldest banking institution in
the Southeast, who will guarantee
all the opcrations of the DPioneer
company.
In opening tme Pioneer Savings
Association office, the full resour
ces oz,p.\z,c,.ri g%% and fifty
thousand i rs —~of the Quaker
Savings Association is behind it
The same as Quakcr, the Pionecer
will confine its operations to In
dustrial Banking, making small
loans at a reasonable rate of inter
est and encourage thrift throuzh
savings.
Mr. Ferguson of the National
Benefit Life Insurance Company is
fully qualified for his new position
and commands the confidence of his
many friends. Associated with him
in the management of the new
bank is the following group of some
of our prominent citizens which
form the advisory board. They are
Messrs. Dr. M, S. Davage, presi
dent of the Clark university and al
s0 chairman of this board, .Jess?
0. Thomas, Field secrctary of the
National Urban l.eaguc, also secre.-
tary of the Pioneer board, T. J
Ferguson, president and manag-r
of the new organization, Dr. Thom
as H. Slater, one of Atlanta’'s prom
inetn physicians and J. C. Hanley,
one of the successful undertakers
of this city."
There has been a long felt nced
for Industrial Banking among our
own people and this opportunity
has more than fulfilled the expec
tations as ft gives us the benefit
of the experience as well as the re
sources from an old established At
lanta institution.
Further announcements will be
made in the near future.
C. M. Johnston, representative of
the Quaker Savings association,
was instrumental in perfecting
plans for the formation of this new
companv and its affiliation with
the Quaker.
A stockhslders meetnisz has been
snnounced for Fridav cvening at
7:15 p. m. at 180 Auburn avenue.
HOLD METHODIST
CONFERENCE
“INF nLUFF. Arx Dec. 0.
fANP)—The Little Ruck annual
conference of the Colored Methnd
ist Episcopal church, with Bishop
Flias Cottrell, founder of Miles Me
morial college, presiding, opened
here Tuesday.
The
Weather
RAIN, NOT SO COLD. Wednes
day; Thursday cloudy; fresh to
strong east shifting to south
winds. Highest temperature 42;
lowest temperature 31; mean
temperature 36.
C. F. von HERRMAN,
Meteorologist, Weather Bureau
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DEACON SLAIN IN PULPIT
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List of Atlantans
Winning Prizes
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Monday Night
Prizes awarded to holders of
lucky numbers went to Andrew
Hammond, 5085 Connally street,
radio; 1. A Brown, 406 Currier
Street, northeast, bridge lamp:
‘Harold Payne, 183 Inman Street,
northeast, vanity bench; Albert H.
Jenkins, 283 Bynum Street, tele
phone set; Mack Dennis, 1030 Cole
man Street, Solomon Poole, 186
Harris Street; John FEctor, 838 Mit
chell Street, southwest; Willie
Jackson., 64 Butler Street, north
cast; W. P. Adams, 970 Palmetto
‘Avenue, southwest: Mrs. L. B
Brown, 97 Randolph Street, Mrs
Ida L. Motherbhood, 611 Fortress
Place, northeast; Miss Sara Haw
kins, 97 Solomon Street, southeast;
Mexico Hembree, 828 Mitchell
Street; Robert Johnson, 138
Howell Street, one share each in
the Atlanta Mutual Building and
Loan Association.
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Frederick Hall Will
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Deliver Series of
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Special Lectures
Bringing forth an original deve
lopment in the field of social work
training, the Atlanta Schon! nf So
cial Work. through its Director,
Forrester B. Washington. institute
this week a course in Socinlized
Music. This is the first attempt in
anv School of Social Work to offer
training in music as a form of
Psycho - therapeutic treatments
The course is not technical, but is
designed to teach social workers
how to apply music in the adjust
ment of abnormal living.
In the development o f this
course there will be two approach
es: the Mass and the Individual
“A properly trained social work
er should be able at times 1o
utilize music as a contributing
factor in checking the impending
distintegration of certain personal
ities,"” said Mr. Washington. “Like
wise, a social worker should be
able through intelligent use of
choruses, choirs and other mas:
musical . efforts to develop social
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Jazzin' The
News
FRANK b—i-;\I?SyH:LL DAVIS
Deacon killed in row at church;
slayer gets away
Business started by two groups; be
gins near New Year's day;
IHoover meet hears home report;
was interrace confab
Crime still strong in this city; us
ual number stabbed.
Daily lambasts white erime wave;
says it is a problem
Harr'son says its frameup case;
trial end finds him sobbin’;
Lucky 'Lantans win big gifts; many
atiend Home meet
All wise people read The World;
for news it can't be beat!
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HOMEMEET
i}lubert, Blayton Talk
on Conference, How
~ to Finance Home
‘A GOOD PROGRAM
The '‘Better Home Week” pro
ject being sponsored by the At
lanta World in connection with
the closing of the President's Con
’ Next Meeting Monday
l The second and last meeting of
l'T‘hc World’s Better Home Week
will not be held until next Monday
g A el i
the fime e of m gflmd
'the program will be announced in
‘la later issue of The World.
ll‘erencc on Home Building and
‘Home Ownership swung into full]
power Monday night when the
initial meeting was held at Big
Bethel A. M. E. church, Auburn
Avenue at Butler Street.
More than 700 persons interes! ¢
in improving their residences turn
ed out to hear Z. T. Hubert, form
erly president of Langston univer
citv of Oklahrma, one of Atlanta
drlegates tn the conference, who
delivered the principal address at
the meeting.
Difference in Income
Introduced by President John
Hope of Atlanta university who
served as master of ceremonies,
Dr. Hubert told his hearers that
though his work was limited sole
ly to discussing the Negro housing
problem, observations gained from
white delegates to the conierence
revealed that there was little dif
ference between the two as far as
rates go. The big difference came, |
he said, belween the family in
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Final preparations have been
made by Morehouse college forne
sic fans to take the negative side
against the craclie debuating team of
Oxford university of England in a
discussion of the resolution that
“The press is America’s Greatest
Danger” Wednesday night at 8 p
m.
| The debate is scheduled to take
place in Sale hail cn the More
' house clash has been set at 25¢
| which is making its annual tour
tnf the United States met the de
}bnting unit of Emory university.
}Atlanta Tuesday night in a heated
discussion of the same proposition.
’ The admission fee to the More
'house clash has ben set at 25 cents
| CENTENARIAN DIES
| GOLDSBORO. N. C.. Dec. 9
“/\NP)——-Mrs, Mary Spencer, aged
1105, died Tuesday morning at the
(home of her daughter, Mrs A. B
Lane. Mrs. Spencer was in good
health until recently and had kent
actively at work in the ficlds
during the cotton season.
Beautify the home for Christmas. Attend
the meetings sponsored by The Atlanta World
this week. Many free prizes will be given away
by The World and local merchants.
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1931
Hoover Housing Conference
Suggest Home Improvements
GHURGH OFFIGERS
AT BELOW S
ISTOR PREACHE
} A factional disagreement which
3has been going on for sometime at
’Cosmopnli!un A M E Church
Fountain and Vine Streets, came
{o a head Sunday morning during
!services when J. M. Thorne, a
pastor's steward, sought to settle
his differences against William
Shaw, a trustee, in true pugilistic
style, according to members of the
church who were present at the
Sunday morning services
The altercation occurred in the
social room. located in the base
ment of the church, while the
Rev. A. R. Cooper, pastor of the
church, over whom, all the differ
ences are occurring according to per
sons active in the west Atlanta
church. was delivering his regular
Sunday morning sermon.
According to one man, an officer
‘of Cosmopolitan and prominent in
church affairs, the fight has been
going on against Rev. Cooper as
pastor of the church for sometime.
The opposing faction, it is said, is
led by C. J Smith, ehairman of
the trustee board. who lives at 435
Grant Street, southeast.
Many members of the church, it
is said. have disagreed with Rev.
Cooper over his position of laud
ing college trained church mem
bers, over against those not so
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HEADS TEXAS TEACHERS
BEAUMONT Texx. Deéc 9
(ANP)—A. W. McDonald. of Gal
veston was elected president for
the Negro State Teachers' associa
tion at the closing convention ses
sion held at the South Texas State
fair grounds. R. T. Tatum of Beau
mont was reelected executive sec
retary for a two-year period
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Stop-and-Go Rabbits Found
A TALE FROM MISSISSIPPI
COOLA GOOLA, Miss., Dec. 9—City-bred hunters who
have brought their dogs here to engage in rabbit hunting
report extreme difficulty in bagging cottontails in the coun
try nearby.
According to Ralph Johnson, city sportsman, who left
here three days ago with a pack of well trained hunting
dogs and returned empty-handed, cottontail rabbits in the
vicinity of Chitlin Switch can change their tails from plain
white to red.
Johnson said this change takes place when the rabbit
is hard pressed by a pack of hounds. The rabbit suddenly
changes its tail from white to red and the dogs, knowing
that at street intersections a red signal means ‘stop’, come
to a sudden halt and wait for a blug light to come on. The
rabbit then keeps running until it is out of danger.
Natives of the ecommunity claim rabbits got this way
from a steady diet of erimson lightning bugs which migrate
here every vear from the Red Sea.
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L WASHINGTON. D). € Dec. 9
(By T. W. Anderson, Staff Corre
spondent of The Associated Negro
Press)--The Committe on Negro
Housing in session Dec. 2-5 here.
propsed to the President’s confer
ence a number of steps to improve
the housing situation of this large
section of the population. These
steps included among other things
the establishment of a national
housing commission to carry on re
search and encourage the passing
and enforcement of adequate hous
ing laws; the stimulation of Ne
groes to move into sub-divisions in
which modern homes can be built,
adequate financing agencies at rea
sonable interest for people of low
incomes, and researches on sub
jects such as changes in land va
lues incident to Negro invasion of
an area.
| The committee’s report to the
|conference was based upon an ana
lysis of recent studies made in most
wof the large cities of the North and
'South and on a limited number of
surveys of Negro housing in the
rural south.
. Review of Reported Conditions
The rapid increase in the Negro
population has not been accom
panied by an expansion of Negro
neighborhoods. The result is a se
rious overcrowding. Thus Negro
density was twice as great as the
average in Chicago and nearly five
times as great in Philadelphia. In
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Sells Owl to Man
for Parrot to
“ .
Give Wife
Farly Sundavy “Tom” a well
known bootblack, and familiar
figure on Decatur Street and
employed at the “Queen Gty
bootblack parlor, sold an owl
to Jack, the proprietor of a
rival bootblack parlor, for a
baby parrot.
The anxious Jack wanted to
give his wife something in
memory of their anniversary
and decided that a parrot
would be the very thing for
his wife's gift. He was advised
fo split the '‘parrots’ ftongue
before it would talk. Soon aft
cor the angry Jack came back
DAD GIVES UF
SON D SLEH
AN T0 POLICE
Failure to pay five cents, the
loser's fee in a pool game played on
‘a miniature table at the Watson
' barbecue stand. 82 West Hunter
;Street. cost the life of Robert
‘'Walker, Monday afternoon, when
‘he was alleged to have been stab
3b,ed i tqhx:fa‘x,h .by_ Britten Ellington,
the dead man’s opponent in the
game, who lives at 79 Dorsay
Street.
Ellington escaped following the
fatal stabbing but was turned over
to county police at Fulton tower
Monday night by his father who
brought the 18-year old youth to
the jail. He was booked on a
formal charge of murder. ,
Ellington declares that he stab
bed Walker only after the dead
man, had attempted to attack him
with the butt end of a cue stick.
He said he resorted to his knife
only as a means of protecting his
life.
Though no witnesses could be
found by police, according fo in
formation gathered from bystand
ers, the altercation followed a
short but heated argument over
who was the victor in the pool
game. Walker, it is said, who in
reality lost the game. was due to
put a nickel in the slot but refused
to do so.
- Before bystanders knew to what
extent the argument had progress
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‘ Not satisfied at his having
'successfully robbed the barbecue
Istand at 161 Chapell Street, the
Saturday night before, Morris L.es
lie, 426 Mitchell Street, 23 year
old bandit, was shot by the vro
prietor, John Talley who hid in
Iambmh. The shooting occurred
after midnight Saturday.
' Tally accompanied IlL.eslie to the
hospital where it was discovered
|that he had been wounded serious
ily. one bullet hitting him in the
'abdomen and the other taking ef-
If(’(‘t in his right leg and travelling
(through to his left, breaking the
| latter.
Tally told police that T.eslie
l(‘amo first to the Iunch stand.
looked in the window and walked
away. Later he returned, broke
open the window, and entered the
stand.
Leslie admitted having entered
'the stand the Saturday before and
'stealing a large quantity of bar
'becued meat and other fond.
! Another man known only as
“Roy,” who escaped, was with T.es
lie on his last attempt. He is said
to live in an alley off Chapell
Street.
Next pneeting of The World's Better Home
Week will be held Monday. Time, program, place
of meeting, as well as a list of prizes to be award
ed, will be given in a future issue of The World.
Flees After Suddenly Hacking to Death
Young Church Official; Woman Barely
Escapes Injury at East Point Row
VICTIM FALLS DYING IN PULPIT
What turned out to be murder in a house of worship
occurred when Deacon G. W. Bradley was fatally wounded
by a deacon up for election, C. J. Phillips, Friday evening at
the Union Baptist church at East Point, a local suburb. The
' wounded deacon fell in the pulpit and was hurried to Grady
hospital where he died the following day. Phillips fled and
{is still at large. :
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i A hunting trip ended tragically
for John Smith, 111 Ashby Strect,
who was brought to Grady hos
ipital Saturday night suffering
from shotgun wounds in his left
arm and right breast.
According to Smith, the accid
ent happened on the Fayette coun
ty line just as he was returning
from a hunting trip. The injured
man savs he was inspecting his
gun. A Remington double-barrel
led weapon, when the instrument
discharged wounding him in the
hand and breast
He was admi'ted to Grady hos
pital for treatment
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Chooses Peachtree
as Place to Get
Drunk; Nabbed
Apparently George IHunter.
467 Fair Street, does n o t
choose when and where to get
drunk. For the quietness of a
Sunday afternoon was selected
as the time and the heart of
Atlanta the place.
Hunter staggered down Peach
tree Street in the heart of the
city, Five Points, and selected
one of the largest plate glass
es of one of the businesses lo
cated in that vicinity to fall
through. The glass was that of
the Klien shoe store, 41 Peach
tree street.
To heighten the setting., the
lights of the city and the show
windows had just been turned
on. The owner was notified of
the broken window. Hunter
was treated at the hospital,
and arrested, according to po-,
lice records.
HOLD BOY ON THREE
SERIOUS CHARGES
RALEIGH, N. ., Dec. 9-—(ANP)
—-Jacob Jones, 19-year-old boy, was
held without bond here Monday
when he pleaded guilty to two
charges of burglary and one charge
of murder. The murder admitted
was that of J. H. Pool, 55-year
old white man.
MWEDNESDAY
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¢ The funeral, which was to take
'place at the church in which he
was stabbed, was postponed from
Tuesday morning indefinitely be
cause of lack of funds needed for
n burial. The funds are now being
'solicited by the chairman of the
mother's board, Mrs. Ada Jones,
714 Ayer street.
Attacked Without Warning
The assailant attacked Deacon
Bradley without a n ¥ warning
whatsoever, it was reported, stab
bing him about the arm and slash
ing his throat. So angered was
Phillips that he paid no attention
to Mrs. Ada Jones who stepped
between him and Deacon Bradlev,
barely missing slashing her by
inches, she said.
It is said that the board had met
in the pastor's study and wns just
leaving to return again into the
church when Phillips attacked
Deacon Bradley. Not even the
pastor, the Rev. P. J. Dadson, oF
any of the others nearbv knew of
Phillips motive, so quickly was it
executed.
Thought Questionab'e Ciaractor
According to Mrs. Jones, who
stood between the two 1.0 hil
lips, who was nominated s rmictime
before, had circulated a rumor that
any one speaking against his
character on the night of install
ment of the Deacons wonld surely
receive injury at his hands
Mrs. Jones deciared thit pracs
tically everyone knew that the
new deacon had beon arrested on
charge of drunkepcis and disorder
ly conduct. Mareover. he had
“confidenced” the chief " police
at Fast Point to grant hic release
because he was a hirh official in
the church and held the honka that
were very much needed by them.
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“DEACON JONES” .
By L. P. Reynide i
The Deacon who was eloch‘?:
take Brother Bell’s place starteg
to humming, “I will be rel *'_,
WHEN the roll is called” Brofhes
Bell as he got out his razor S8ifhes
change the WHEN because Jous
name is going to be cafled NOW, &
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