The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 27, 1935, Page 9

Et i : i i Blood of Cherokee Chieftain Flows in Joe Louis’ Veins “*Bomber’ Oescended Fro im Proud Line; Relatives Re- veal Untold Story ——— ee ‘While vacationing in Alabama” Floyd Tillery, contributor to nu- merous leading American aines, discovered the true story of the birth and back- ground of Joe Louis. Tillery’s findings, a remarkable picture of primitive people of the remote Dilis, is presented here in the first of two special features as an in- ‘ceresting contribution to Ameri- folk lore and hitherto untold shapters in the life of “The Brown Bomber.” — Editor, The Bismarck Tribune. By FLOYD TILLERY I have jist returned from a trip! into the Alabama hill country where Joe Louis was born,,and where many of his relatives now live. Joe Louis spent the first 10 years “of his life in what is known as the Buckalew mountain country, the very Tegion where Carl Carmer’s best sel- ler, “Stars Fell on Alabama,” has its setting. Joe Louis’ full name is Joe Louis Barrow. The name Barrow traces back to @ pre-Civil War landowner, rich old James Barrow, who, in his days, was the reputed owner of hun- dreds of slaves. He was Joe Louis’ great-great-grandfather. There ts Indian blood in Joe Louis’ veins, too. Cherokee. Joe Louis’ grandmother was Victoria Harp Bar- tow, and Victoria Harp was the granddaughter of Charles Hunker-| foot, full-blooded Cherokee chieftain, 2 fabulous character whose influencs among the redmen and the palefaces has been handed down in story and legend from Dixie's real pioneer days. | Show Indian Blood | Tn fact, chance easily might have} made Oklahoma the birthplace of Joe Louis, with his grandfather perhaps 8n oil king. In 1889, when the Jn-! dian Territory was being organized. ‘citizenship papers were sent to Joe's grandmother, but she and her, young husband were “skeered to ride tye «rain, so they stayed on at Buckalew.” The Bomber has first cousins in the southern cottonfields today, who could easily pass for Indian braves and princesses, with their lithe, erect, handsome bodies, their high cheek- bones, straight black hair, and light copper-colored complexious, smooth and rich as Oriental topaz. The photograph of his paternal grandmother, Victoria Harp Barrow. shows a handsome woman with pro- nounced Indian features. “She was a half-breed, proud as a queen, and highly respected by evryone who knew her,” says Aunt Donnie, “and Joe Louis, too, shows he’s full of Indian blood.” The young “Brown Bomber” was born on the farm of Peter Sheley, an uncle on his .nother’s side. His par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. Monroe “Mun” Barrow, had rented the 120-acre tract four years before, when Peter died. ‘There they raised cotton, wheat, and whatnot. Born Into Poverty ‘The farm was near Lafayette, right where the legendary “stars fell thick- est in Alabama,” in the Buckalew mountain country, deep in the hills of Chambers county. This once was the stamping ground of Senator Tom Heflin. | » Joe, to the superstitious, was des- ined for success when he was born the morning of May 13, 1914, for he was the seventh offspring in the fam-| “ily—and there is supposed to he some ducky, charm about No. 7. « But there didn’t appear to be any- thing particularly fortunate facing the baby. It was, if anything, a dreary outlook. folks were poverty “stricken, cotton-picking people, liv- ing as best they could in a squalid, Tamshackle cabin. * Poor all of Joe's kinsfolk may have m—and are—but there never has ween any lack of sturdy pride in them, as I found when I spent a day them. “<I visited the Barrows of Buckalew fountain, Uncle Albert’s folks, Aunt Cora’s, Aunt Donnie’s Aunt Go-In- Tand's, Cousin Near’s, Cousin. Bud's, ‘and all the rest—a hundred, I'm sure ‘And they told me the Barrow history. Forebear Was Chieftain “Mun” Barrow, Joe’s father, was the son of “Lon” and Victoria (Harp) Barrow. Lon’s wife and her mother, Susan belonged to a prominent half- areed; James Harp, a wealthy planter ‘and slave owner. ~ Susan was the daughter of Charles ‘Hunkerfoot, full-blooded Cherokee chieftain, who was a kind of am- bassador from his nation to the Creek Indians of eastern Alabama. Chief Hunkerfoot and other lead- ing redmen intermarried with many ‘of the slave women whom white planters had previously selected as prize specimens, so that scores of Barrows living on their own farms in » the Buckalew mountain are distinct- “fy a mixed race of people, with very little African blood flowing in their veins. “Us is a proud family of folks,” said one of the oldest of the Barrows. 2E FE H i H 5 fF i by cf 3BEE: i i i i fs le F i i i A] i HE i ' yellow with wavy hair. end brow and brown or blue cyes. All the Barrows are intelligent, in fact the most Inielligent and inde- pendent colored folks I have met in the south. And they are all land | owners, “But us and our chiliun ain’t got no education to speak of,” said Joe's Aunt. Cora. “Us don’t have no schools to go to. Joe’s Aunt Donnie said, “I’ve got 15 chillun and none. of 'em has had schoolin’.” Fully a dozen of Donnie’s drove were crowded around the three- room Barrow cabin—the old home place where the reunion is going to be sigs “when, oper ion Lillie come back home.for a wi Lite Hard-in Hills Every Barrow man, woman, and child is proud of Joe. They look on him as a new and faer-away god who'll soon be coming down to Ala- bams to see them. It’s hard scratching ilies to make a living. It takes all they can rake and scrape to pay taxes and buy half enough to live on, they declare. Their farms resemble large crazy and 5 The Barrow people up there in the mountains seem to be living wholly unto themselves, utterly apart from the surrounding civilisation. But they impress you (with some- thing of a tug at your heart) with for these fam- | { “Mun” Barrow, father of Joe, is shown in the top picture taken before Joe was born, with four of the Bomber’s brothers and sis- ters, Emerelle, Alvania, DeLeon and Susie. The picture at the left could pass for Joe Louis when he left Alabama at the age of 10, say the Bomber’s kin. It shows & cousin of Joe’s in his picturesque everyday tatters’at his Buckalew mountain home. - Directly above is a picture of Victoria Harp Bar- row, Joe’s grandmother. She was half Cherokee, a descendant of Charles Hungerfoot, Cherokee chieftain, *“[PRESIDENT SPEEDS WEST ON VACATION Saag te Ne Pronouncements on 1936 Cam- paign Expected From Roose- velt in Four Speeches En Route With President Roose- velt to the Pacific Coast, Sept. 27— (The bearing the chief executive to four | a, speaking engagements, 0 visit to the California-International exposition at Gan Diego, and then @ 20-day fishing cue back through the Panama canal. During the trip, the politically-wise ipaign. Heading across Ohio, Indiana and Mlinols Friday, President Roosevelt journeys Friday night into Nebraska, home state of Senator Norris, veter- ‘an Republican insurgent and friend of Mr. Roosevelt. At Fremont, Sat- WISCONSIN SOL TONS les SET UP NEW RECORD re fHE BISMARCK TRIBUNE. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 1935 MEAT PACKERS ASK CORN-HOG CONTROL AND TAX ABOLITION Ctaim No Disparity Exists To- day Between Values, Com- modities Farmer Buys ” Washington, Sept. 27.—(?)—Meat packers presented to the AAA Friday & demand for abolition of corn-hog production control and the process- tax. ‘William Whitfield Woods, Chicago, president of the Institute of American Meat Packers, asserted the fate of many small businesses rests in the hands of the farm administration. ‘Woods was a witness in a hearing called by the AAA to determine whether there should be a corn-hog adjustment program next year, and if so, what that program should be. Proponents of a program, represent- ing farmers from the corn belt, were heard Thursday. Woods declared the emergency which brought about the AAA and corn-hog adjustment had passed, and that there is today no disparity be- tween hog prices and prices of com- modities farmers buy. A scarcity of hogs, he said, has “de- creased our export trade, alienated domestic consumers from pork, and become the occasion of demonstra- tions by consumers and general com- Lend in connection with hog prod- ome asserted the processing tax has “provoked the hostility of consumers” and that the return to farmers is far above the level contemplated by con- gress. Higher prices for the winter season have been forecast by the agriculture department, Woods said. Had the supply of hogs this year been equal to that of 1933, “Woods said, the packing industry would have required approximately 34,000 additional workers and would have made additional wage payments of $40,000,000. Weather Report For Bismarck and vicinity: Partly cloudy to cloudy ‘tonight and Satur- day, rising tem- perature tonight. For North Da- kota: Partly clou- dy to cloudy to- night and Satur- day; rising tem- perature tonight CONTINUED Slope Woman Gets Life for Slaying Husband With Lye Quinn into the ‘murder and the reba Quinn explained. Malloy Agreed The deputy state fire marshal said he conferred with H. L. Malloy, Dunn county state's attorney, who, he said, agreed to a three-way investigation. “Mrs, Kainz told us she intended to hang herself in the barn,” Quinn Telated. “She said that she lighted matches to adjust a rope, but lost her nerve and left thp barn, and stored hay was fired by’the matches, She also confessed the murder of her hus- band to Martineson and me, while we wer investigating on the farm.” Quinn said he was “not satisfied” with the statement of Mrs. . Kainz relative to the fire, and that he Planned to question her at the state penitentiary, which she entered late ‘Thursday. MONEY PASSER HELD St. Paul, Sept. 27.—(?)—The federal government Friday had snared in its trap another of its long sought list in the Edward G. Bremer $200,000 kidnaping. Under arrest at Detroit, Mich., was Cassius M. McDonald, an engineer. alleged by federal authorities to be one of the ransom money passers. U. S. Commissioner Frank Q. Quinn fixed McDonald's bond at $100,000 and set the removal hearing for Oct. 8. McDonald aiready had been at lib- erty on $10,000 bond for allegedly har- boring Alvin Karpis, the nation's public enemy No. 1, in Florida. Karpts, under indictment here as one of the actual Bremer kidnapers, is still at large. He and others were accused by federal officers of passing $107,000 of the ransom money in Cuba, There are approximately two birds to the acre in the United States. (03 JAPANESE NAVY OFFICERS AND, MEN KILLED BY TYPHOON; Newspapers Expect Toll of Storms to Reach 500; Pa- cific Maneuvers Proceed Tokyo, Sept. 27.—The Japanese navy’s grand maneuvers in the northwest Pacific went ahead Friday in defiance of # typhoon which claimed the lives of 53 officers and men, A navy office communique said 27/ men were swept overboard from the destroyer Yugiri, 24 from the de- stroyer Hatsuyuki and one from the aircraft carrier Hoso. One officer was killed aboard the destroyer Nutsuki, Eight officers and two enlisted men were wedi: seriously when the |destroyer tilla of the fourth fleet jcontinued to plough the rough rag- ing seas east of the main island of Honshu Thursday. ‘The destroyers were not caught un- awares by the sudden rise of the seas, but carried out the program for the annual war games in the face of a 78-mile gale. The storm was the same that rav- aged the northeastern prefectures of Japan proper this week, killing 350 persons. The total number of deaths from the maneuvers rose to 68, including one aviator who was lost. ‘The government listed 280 dead, 195 missing and feared dead, and 84 in- jured as the result of typhoons. Newspaper compilations indicated the death toll would exceed 500. and southeast por- tion Saturday. For South Da- kota: Fair tonight and Saturday; ris- For Fair tonight and Saturday; not so cold. tonight; warmer Saturday. For Minnesota: Fair, cising tem- | eabodeas in west and north; heavy t in east and south tonight; Sate urday increasing cloudiness, warmer. GENERAL CONDITIONS A high pressure area is centered over the Dakotas, Rapid City, 30.58, and extends northeastward and north- westward to the Canadian Border. Lower pressure is reported over the central Canadian Provinces, Prince Albert, 19.96, and over the southwest, Phoenix, 29. Colder weather pre- vails Tro the eastern Rocky Moun- tain Igbo to a Great Lakes region, with f1 ng temperatures in Dakotas and Minnesota and as far south as Sioux City, Iowa. Warmer weather prevails in the western Can- adian Provinces. Heavy showers fell in the lower Great Lakes region and ae Mississi ippt Valley and scat- precipitation has occurred in BaskatSnewan along the prea Mountain slope and in southern Plains Stat wists the Missouri river e at 11a hour change F01 fh. 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