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The British public is puzzled by the number of persons who are at-

TUESDAY, ~AUGUST-

1933

HARLEM IN HEART OF LONDON

NEGRO GALA TO AID U.S.

COMPATRIOTS

thorised to speak more or less of SCOTTSBOROUGH CASE RECALLED

cially for President Roosevelt.

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(By Louis Golding.)

The Latest Presidential spokesmann was Mr. Louis Howe, who declared in broadcast speech that the World Economic Conference was to

London. Nine negro boys, the eldest 21 be adjourned for several weeks.

It was a pity it was on a Sun-years old, the youngest 13, were The name of Louis McHenry

hoboing it on a freight train in Howe is one to be remembered. If day night the London Negroes had Alabama. There were also come there is a mystery man in the Roose-to have their gala performance in white lads in the train, and two

"easy". velt entourage it is this courtesy aid of the Scottsborough Negroas, white, riria, as free and Colonel whose official status. to-day

Some of the negroes ventured to is that of the President's principal On a Sunday night in London you couple as girls might be. ̈ ̈

are allowed to dance before the go into one of the cars occupied private secretary:

He is, like Professor Moley, one public, even if your purpose is to by the whites

A row followed of those advisers whom the Presice nine negro striplings out of this art of insolence. The whites dent calls by their Christian namen.

jyears.

to accommodate them.

t.

The

All

There

His friendship with Mr. Roosevelt the electric chair which stretches Jumped off the train and reported to the nearest sheriff, that the s.stood the text of more than 20 forth its comfortable wooden seat negroes had molested the girls. ·

The girls denied it. It was sug-- His New Sait

I am sorry. I should say eight. Eested to them, forcefully and com- Mr. Howe is a small, clean-shaven The ninth boy was 18 years old tinuously, that they had been molested. They then admitted it. man in the middle forties. He has a high forehead, a heavily lined and, by a miracle of clemency, it One of the girls has since cate face, and iron-grey hair. His suit was decided he should not be elec- gorically denied that she ever saw. hangs loosely on his lean frors. The trocuted. He could die after a few any of the negro lads who are to President chaffs him about his decades of Imprisonment, or, if he die because they were rude to her. The tocsin was sounded. That | bargy trousers. He has the-reputa- tion of being the worst dressed man should at any time before then be quick metabolism was achieved released, he could be lynched from overnight in the veins of those in Washington,

When he toured the country with a tall tree. That would teach him Alabamans who are normally so

gentle and lackadaisical. his chief during the presidential to have a black skin.

As I say, it was a pity the Lon-blood roared in their veins. They campaign he put on a new auit. The fact did not escape Mr. Roose doa Negroes were not allowed to gathered round the court-house, de-

dance. Even those negro perform manding that the

negro lads velt.

Addressing the assembled Pressrs who are only singers dance in should be handed over to them..

Their fingers twitched to be ty men, be declared; "Boys, take a very nerve of their bodies all the good look at Louis Howe's new suit. time they sing, as aspen leaves and ing nooses for negra necks. Their It won't keep its shape long, and bare-bells in the wind do. So it nostrils ached for the small of The lads severely cramped the style of the burning negro flesh. dancers that they could not dance were tried before a jury consisting upon which a prospector or you'll never see another."

Highly Paid Broadcaster

Now and again, you could Ree exclusively of whites, in direct drover might rely for direction f

of those Amend- a professional them rebuking themselves in the contravention The funeral of Lady Shou-son proved to be wrongly located Mr. Howe was

He does not see truncation of a dance gesture ments to the Constitution which Chow will take place on Sunday, and several could not be found at newspaper man.

at the all. In extenuation of the carto-many Pressman nowadays. When which had escaped them despite grant the negro juridical equality. The judge quite blandly confess- August 27, at 2.30 p.m. Chinese Permanent Cemetery, Aber graphical deficiencies that have does he is not communicative. their vigilance. And yet there was

He makes no attempt to obtrude a symbolical appropriateness ined himself a "nigger-hater." Įdeen.

been remedied it should be re- his personality. Yet in his quiet the sense of incarceration that had nine were declared guilty. Eight membered that aircraft can in way he has probably far more in-been imposed upon them and was were condemned to death.

was to be no lynching, alas! but an hour, with comparative case, fluence with the President than the transferred to you.

Prison Pictures Recalled. there would be ample "frying," as" out quite like the explorer of other days strug

public he is no mean talker. He danked and backed the stage lost It hasn't turned gled painfully for weeks: they is the finest political broadcaster in their folds. They stiffened into that, yet. A sort of horror has are unimpeded by obstacles in- Washington. He receives the high-concrete walls. They contracted been thudding and drumming, all superable to him; and a bird's-est lee of all the political broad-upon themselves; they enclosed ajover the five continents ever since, Between you and there have been retriale and leye view, recorded and interpret casiers.

tiny prison cell lelling upon your cushioned seat stays of execution and changes of jed by the, most modern appara- tus, gives a far more faithful

and the undancing negro on whose venue, and all those cat-and-mouse anguished eyeballs the chalky spot-prolongations of legal agony, ̈in Shortage of stores has com impression of the topographical

light fell a grille of iron bars which the American system in at features observed than can be ob pelled the Mackay aerial expedi-tained from the ground. Well-

Terrifying Performance. tion, which left Sydney for Cen-ington once eaid that the art of headline states: $250,000 clanked slowly down into the slots once so prodigal and ingenious.

Will Sult" I should think it would prepared for it.

The funny negroes were quite And the negroes in London gave what tral Australia on May 21, to re-tactics consisted in guessing suit most people.

funny; the singing negroes sangja gala performance to see their spirituals with their accus- they could do about it. It was a turn, its programme uncomplet-rightly what lay behind the hill In the tactics of exploration the

tomed woeful beauty. But those little grotesque, a little terrifying," ed. This does not by any meansaviator does not need to guess. Medical Note.

"Apples contain electricity," says negroes not many yards away be- to sit in the stalls of the elegant imply failure. "Uncompleted" is He goes, sees, and reports. The a relative term. An area of 30 mobility of aircraft continually a news item: one a day, of course, hind the footlights were the phan-ttle theatre on he Charling Cross- toms. The presences who were road, while three negroes with most real were the condemned lads white handkerchiefs round their miles square had perforce to be unfolds new horizons in spying is sufficient to shock any doctor. jout the land, It is a cliche to

in the cells 4,000 miles away in the black browa 'beat desperately upon left unexamined. But, inasmuch speak of Australia's vast dis-

the blue saucepan, the rusty frying prison in Decatur, Alabama. as Captain Neale had already tances... But do 'Australians, es-

And slowly, the noise the musi-pan, the taut tomtom, while they flown 14,000 miles over desert pecially those who dwell in the

cians made in their pit and the noise juttered words of hoodoo in the south-eastern parts, really ap country and a total area of 280,-preciate their magnitude? They

the audience made in their seats as Yoruba dialect of the West Coast they laughed and clapped was in the endeavour to restore to 000 square miles had been in are apt to think in terms of their

eerily transformed into the noise their kinsmen the threatened For example, the spected, the slight omission from own millieu. the agenda planned need cause no average Sydney-sider probably A gadget which prevents punt the southern mob made that day sidue of their brief lives, to give regards New South Wales as apoles from sticking in mud has been in April over two years ago, when them the freedom of cotton-field THE KWONG KWUI CO., LTD.poignant regrets. The achieve "big" State. It could contain invented by a London engineer, they went round and round the and river again, of the song

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with ukeleles and banjos singing their feet... lustily: cause several days were spent by land thrown in and something

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CITY TOTS MARVEL

Since that holiday of the nkeleles, as each fresh day fixed

AT TURKEY

ed by Mr. Donald Mackay, in the Queensland frontier, 5440, he's all right, my first he 1980 have added enormously to miles, seem a long way away, says that two and two makes four,

But, actually, these spans are and then he changes his mind and lads

four" the knowledge of the untravers-only a step in Australia's immen tells us that three and one make fed interior. Mr. Mackay must sity, and New South Wales is

for an electrocution has approach- Pony More Captivating the "little sisters."' feel that

his public-spirited one of

Jed, the authorities have remember Among the various; unfts, which efforts in the cause of explors comprise the Commonwealth, A doctor says that bad-tempered ed to wheel the chair up to the tion have been amply rewarded. New South Wales yields in res- people are more susceptible to dis prison cell some days previously. The Arst expedition took as its pect of area to: Western Austra ease. Just another cost of the surly It seems to me rather an over base bilba, on the hither side lig, Queensland, the Northern bird catching the germ.

Territory, and South Australia in

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Than Lion,

LURE OF THE FARMYARD

Baltimore, Maryland. --- Molested GEC

City-bred children find. much of the Western Australian bor that order. Together the first HARI HARI HARI-M

Who ara. the Scottsborough interest in the barnyard varieties der, and surveyed a circle with a and third mentioned of these ac In the opinion of a dentist, diameter of roughly 420 miles, count for more than one-half of soldiers make the best patients, boys? What is their alleged of the animal kingdom than, in the whole of the continent, and, They are thoroughly accustomed to offence? I think it might be the rarer creatures exhibited at The second expedition's venture

with the addition of Queensland, drilling. has been on a far larger scale, for three-quarters. In consider-

It had three bases, all in the ing the geography of their western State. The main one country, Australians should bear in mind Lord Salisbury's injune- was at the north end of the ion to consult large scale maps. Peterman Range, 400 miles west It is very necessary to do so in

Know.

savoursome to recall the occasion the zoo, states the general super- on which I heard of their existence intendent of parks Bere, svens "To the younger generation, a Facts You Did Not for the first time

It was In Berlin, and on a day pigeon is more attractive than an towards the end of June, 1951, A eagle, a live, turkey is something tually I had spent some days out to wonder at, a pony is more. Germans have produced a high on the canals of the Spree-wald captivating than an African lion, of speed camera lens that enables map and had come back after midday and the elephant takes second of Alice Springs, with sub- the case of Australia.

Central Australia show a few shots to be taken in the light from to stumble on a huge manifesta place as compared to the proud Midiaries at the Fitzroy Crossing widely-separated threads the ordinary Incandescent lamps tion. It was rather

and at Roy Hills, another. 400 hitherto untrodden, pathe opened miles to the south. From these by Jumping-off places a huge rhom-

Loid was examined. The result

of these ventures has

to fill

In many lacunae in

He added that althought "born in the city, many of the children have never been near a barn- yard.”

day, peacock".?

few

orkd

and and a few akulls were crac ing A Boston Laboratory is studying a poor policeman was killed, ther prob atical samples of roads from all over the lng up for the good name of justice

m. Alabama.

I-didn't

hat nigh

#fany children have never seen a live turkey until they visit

200 and chickens appara pon delightful adventure. There is not a girl or boy have watched who has not displayed keen interest in the ponies. **** Reuter

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