ACTIVITIES AMONG NEGROES
According to a statement received from National Association for the Advancement of Colored People national headquarters in New York city: "Their attorneys in the Scottsboro cases are not waiting for a decision on their motion for a new trial, made last Saturday in Scottsboro, Alabama, in behalf of the eight Negro boys sentenced to death. They are going right ahead, anticipating an unfavorable decision from the Scottsboro judge, and preparing for appeal to the supreme court of Alabama.
"Messrs. Fort, Beddow and Ray, Alabama's foremost law firm. retained by the N. A. A. C. P., under whose direction Attorneys Stephen R. Roddy and Milo Moody will also continue in the case, are now preparing a bill of exceptions and briefs, which will include the record of all procedure at the original trial, as well as all the procedure and affidavits in support of the new trial, which incorporated a motion single bill of exceptions.
“Meanwhile the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People realizing that the cases will be bitterly fought and exceedingly expensive, this week, sent out an appeal to its branches in all parts of the United States to hold mass meetings, cooperate with churches and fraternal groups and in all ways to arouse sentiment, so that funds to pay the expenses of this legal battle might be raised."
HOLD MASS MEETING
In response to a unanimous vote of the Ministers' Alliance, which has decided to support the N. A. A. C. P. defense of the Colored boys, the Interdenominational Ministers' Alliance of Harlem and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is holding a joint meeting today, Sunday, June 28, in the Salem M. E. church, One Hundred Twenty ninth street and Seventh avenue at which William Pickens, N. A. A. C. P. field secretary, will tell the story of the Scottsboro cases and of the eight Negro boys sentenced to death after hasty trials. The meeting will be opened at 3:30 o'clock, Bishop R. C. Lawson of the Apostolic church, presiding and Rev. Clayton Powell delivering the invocation.
Both of the N. A. A. C. P. speakers. William Pickens and Walter White, secretary of the N. A. A. C. P. at the meeting, have been in Alabama on these cases, have visited and talked with the condemned boys in prison, have interviewed many persons, white and colored, in Alabama, obtained a thorough knowledge of the situation there. They will tell the office in detail of what the national office of the N. A. A. C.P. has done from beginning to aid these boys and of the measures now planned by Messrs. Fort, Beddow and Ray. A musical program has been planned for the meeting to be given by the Southernaires quartet and by the Salem choir.
HOLD ANNUAL CONFERENCE
The twenty-second annual conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Pittsburgh, Pa., is to be held from June 30 through July 5. The conference program was made public this week by the national office in New York city. The week's activities include one night mass meeting in Carnegie musical hall, a Sunday mass meeting in Soldiers' Memorial hall, addressed by Clarence Darrow, ten minute daily addresses by conference speaker broadcast over the radio: half-hour musical programs at all-night mass meetings, a song recital at the Friday night mass meeting in Carnegie hall, by the celebrated Negro tenor, George Garner, accompanied by Mrs. Netta Paulen Garner. A comprehensive program of daytime and round table discussions has been arranged for the delegates and visitors to the conference covering the major aspects of race relations in America today. The subjects include the Negro's in politics, the problems of unemployment and of aid to the Negro unemployed; the project of a Negro youth movement, and other vital subjects. The programs for mass meetings are as follow:
Tuesday, June 30: Ebenezer Baptist church, 30 minutes’ musical program, by Mayor Charles H. Kline of Pittsburgh, Governor Gifford Pinchot, of Pennsylvania, and by Thomas A. Dunn, for the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce. Addresses by Norman Thomas, Mary White-Ovington, and Robert W. Bagnall. Wednesday, July 1: "The Negro Woman Comes of Age," by Charlotte Hawkins Brown: "The Negro's Economic Future" by Dr. W. E. B. DuBois. Address by Heywood Broun. Friday, July 2: "The Negro Press Race Relations" by Robert L. Vann; address by Bishop Ed. W. Jones. Friday, July 3: Carnegie hall, song recital, by George Garner; addresses by William Pickens and Professor Herbert Adolphus Miller. Sunday, July 5, Soldiers' Memorial hall, at 3 p. m., addresses by Clarence Darrow, J. E. Spingarn, president of N. A. A. C. P. and Walter White.
Conference headquarters have been established at the Y. M. C. A., 2621 Center avenue, and business sessions will be held at the Warren M. E. church, Center avenue and Watts street.
LOCAL NOTICE
A reception was tendered by the members of Taylor M. E. church Friday evening, June 25, to their pastor, Rev. H. T. S. Johnson, who has just been reappointed by the conference of northern California of the M. E. church (white). This will make his third year as pastor for this Oakland church. He is the president of the local branch N. A. A. C. P. and secretary of the Ministerial Alliance of colored ministers for San Francisco bay district cities.
TO HOLD BANQUET
The club pledged to purchase the carpet for the newly erected North Oakland Baptist church will serve a benefit banquet on the evening of June 29, in the dining hall of this church, at which time the American Legion band of the Col. Charles Young post, No. 269, will render a musical program under the direction of Professor Webb of Eureka, California, who has trained this aggregation of Negro musicians.
ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED
Miss Ruth Baily, an active member of Linden branch Y. W. C. A., and a graduate of Eureka Business college, a daughter of Mrs. Mary E. Watkins, business woman of Eureka, has announced her engagement to Mr. Withers, of Galveston, Texas. The wedding will be July 5, followed by an informal reception held in their future home in Berkeley.
PUBLIC WELFARE LEAGUE
The committee on welfare of the colored group held its regular monthly meeting on Monday evening in the headquarters of Alameda county Public Welfare league in Thayer building, with Miss Ruth Baily, newly elected chairman, presiding. Among the new business presented was a resolution to send a letter of thanks and deep appreciation to The Oakland TRIBUNE, because this paper was the first in the San Francisco bay district to public an editorial on the Scottsboro cases in which eight Negro boys had been condemned to be hanged at a trial dominated by a mob.
The editorial headed "That Scottsboro Case" appeared in The TRIBUNE Friday, June, 19 and was discussed at this meeting and unanimously voted "of value to the Negro race throughout the United States" since it gave the facts in the case.
ANNUAL REPORT
Mrs. Bertha Allen, former chairman of the committee read annual report, which showed that under her direction much relief had been given colored people in Alameda county and a participation in many projects of value. The committee now has 40 members, an average attendance of 15, with 24 active, and seven new members. Collected for the past year, 1930, were $76.64; disbursements $65.50, balance on hand $11.14, receipts annual cosmopolitan dinner $71.14; disbursements for the dinner, $49.75, balance $21.89. This committee went on record in opposing several California legislative bills, namely discrimination against employment of married women in public state or county positions; against dividing the State public welfare bureau or placing in another department, and the proposed introduction of a bill to the California legislature which would discriminate against colored schoolchildren in playgrounds.
RECIPROCITY MEETING
The fourth reciprocity meeting of the northern district California Federation of Colored Women's Clubs will be held Wednesday, July 1, at the First A. M. E. church, Oakland. The Elmhurst Progressive and the Art and Industrial club will serve luncheon. Annual reports of state officers and clubs will be given. Mrs. Hattie DeHart, superintendent of reciprocity, will have charge of the program. Mrs. Chlora Sledge, district president, will preside. All state and national taxes must be in. Send your luncheon fee to Mrs. Ella Hawkins, 1207 Eighty-third avenue, Oakland. Board meeting will open at 9:45 a. m. sharp. The public will be welcome.
