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LATE AFTERNOON EDITION With J. B. P. O. E. News Also Denies That He Was Once a Follower of Marcus Garvey—Publishers to Claim Truth as Defense. Alleging that The Amsterdam News in its issue of August 3 injured his "credit, reputation and general standing to the extent of $100,000" when it published the statement that he is said to be the owner of an apartment at No. 507 Lenox avenue, Casper Holstein, through his attorneys, has brought an action for that amount in the Supreme Court. The summons and complaint in the suit, drawn up by Jacobson & Jacobson of 299 Broadway, were served on William H. Davis, president and general manager of the newspaper, Wednesday morning. Read Daily Features By W. E. B. DuBois William Pickens DR.E.Elliott Rawlins George S. Schuyler The Cameraman VOL. XVIII. NO. 39-A. CASPER SEEKS $100 ALLEGING TO HIS R Also Denies That He Was Garvey—Publisher as De Alleging that The Amst August 3 injured his "credit, ing to the extent of $100,000 ment that he is said to be to No. 507 Lenox avenue. Caspe neys, has brought an action to Court. The summons and up by Jacobson & Jacobson on William H. Davis, presi- the newspaper. Wednesday r Holstein also took exception to the statement that he is an "erstwhile disciple of Marcus Garvey" in the same report. In fact, the entire report he characterizes as "false, defamatory and libelous." The article in question was occasioned by a raid conducted July 29 on an apartment at No. 507 Lenox avenue by Detectives Baccagliini and Casson of the Sixth division for "number players" and "bankers," during which a woman named Mrs. Emma Jones, 36, a tenant, and Samuel Grey, 34, 257 West 142d street, were placed under arrest. Both defendants were later freed in the Heights Court by Magistrate Ewald. At the time of the raid the detectives seized nearly $3,000 in cash, a tabulating and adding machine and a typewriter, all of which were carted away to the West 135th street police station and later returned when the case was dismissed. Liquor was also said by the detectives to have been found in the apartment, and on this charge Mrs. Today's News Index Editorials ..... 4 General Articles ..... 4 General, Local and National News 1 to 3 News of Society and Women's Ac thicles ..... 5 Sports ..... 6 Classified Section ..... 7 Financial and Miscellaneous ..... 7 Music and the Drama ..... 4 Published Daily by The Amsterdam News (a corporation), 2293 7th Ave. STEIN SU HARL W. E. B. D William Pic Jones was held in bail for the Federal Court. Contrary to a report published in The New York Age, no overtures were made by the publishers of The Amsterdam News to prevent the institution of the suit, and the truth will be set up as its defense. Autopsy Shows Cop's Bullet Killed Man A homicide charge against James Morton, 24, 24S West 41st street, originating from the death of Samuel Golden, of South River, N.J., whose car had been commandeered by Patrolman Ledden of the West Sixty-eighth street station to chase Morton, was dismissed in Homicide Court Thursday. The charge was changed to grand larceny. Morton is said to have stolen the car in which he was being chased. Patrolman Ledden is believed to have fired the shot which killed Golden, the bullet rebounding after striking the choke button. An autopsy revealed that the bullet came from a policeman's service revolver. Morton had been accused of returning the policeman's fire and killing Golden. JACKSON FINDS LOST CHILD. Little Maryland Arrington, 8, 300 South Second street. Brooklyn, got lost in Harlem last Tuesday, and was found at 135th street and Lenox avenue by Patrolman Luther Jackson of the West 135th street station. THE NEW YORK Amsterdam News HARLEM'S MAYOR HELD IN THEFT Police Begin Round-up; Eleven Already Taken Clean-Up Week for crooks began eleven o'clock Thursday night when detectives arrested eleven men said by the police to be known thieves, while they loitered around Convention headquarters, 160 West 129th street. They were: Claude Greenbaum, 32, 138 West 133d street; James Hard, 24, 30 West 131st street; John Maloney, 43, 204 West 138th street; George Thomas, 27, 9 West 129th street; Edward Hawkins, 34, 135 West 133d street; William Fuller, 50, 113 West 133d street; Albert Cilcho, 39; James Harper, 38; Charles Jackson, 36. and William Jones, 29, all of 2149 Fifth avenue, and Charles Walker, 27, 226 West 122d street. Other arrests are anticipated Other arrests are anticipated daily. Kingsway Slayer Gets Ten Years Earl Battice Convicted of Second Degree Murder The intensely dramatic tale of the four-masted schooner Kingsway closed at midnight Friday when Earl Leo Battice, 23, the Kingsway cook, was sentenced for second degree murder by Judge Harry B. Anderson in Federal court to ten years in Atlanta prison for killing his wife, Lucia, while the Kingsway rolled beneath torrid skies off the African Gold Coast on the night of Feb. 5 last. In charging the jury, Judge Anderson said that they were not to find Battice guilty of the act of killing his wife, as that was patent beyond all reasonable doubt, but that they were to judge him upon his mental condition at the time of the killing, deciding in their own minds whether Battice murdered his wife by deliberate premeditation or in a mad or insane frenzy. U. S. Attorney Tuttle demanded a verdict of murder in the first degree, declaring that Battice plotted to kill his wife for the purpose of freeing himself to marry Emily Zamot, pretty Spanish girl from Porto Rico, and said to be Battice's sweetheart. NEW, YORK, MONDAY, AUG. 22, 1927 Prof. S. R. Williams Narrowly Misses Being Committed Without Bail Magistrate Weil Adjourns Case on Summons Until September 7—Woman Says She Gave Him $200 to Buy Stocks. Prof. S. R. Williams, 41, known as "The Mayor of Harlem," was arraigned before Magistrate Weil in Heights Court Thursday, charged with larceny, on complaint of Ruth Morgan, 531 Lenox avenue. The professor narrowly escaped going to jail without bail. as Magistrate Weil said he had no power to fix bail until he had received a certified copy of the defendant's fingerprints, which is required when the charge is a felony. GENERAL NEWS BULLETIN After learning that Prof. Williams was a public man, Magistrate Weil adjourned the case on the summons until September 7. Prof. Williams was then remanded to the custody of Warrant Office Neggesmith, who took him to Police Headquarters to be fingerprinted, after which he was placed on parole upon the personal responsibility of Demerald H. Williams, his attorney, 200 West 135th street. The professor, who lives at 249 West 139th street, gave his occupation as that of journalist. According to the affidavit of the complaint, Mrs. Morgan met Prof. (Continued on Page 2.) GENERAL NE Brandeis Refuses Sacco-Vanzetti Plea. BOSTON. Monday — Justice Louis D. Brandels of the United States Supreme Court refused to halt Sacco-Vanzetti execution tonight. Counsel for the condemned men seek help from Justice Harlan F. Stone in Maine. SAN FRANCISCO, Monday-No clue found relative to the six men and one woman who dared fly from California to the islands of Hawaii. Two of the searchers looking for them have not returned to their bases. "I Can Get That Man! I Feel It in My Bones. I Can Get Him." IT WAS the third time in fifteen minutes that Ivy Trench had said that, and indeed she looked as if she could easily get any man she happened to want. If an artist had made a painting of her, he would have labeled it "The Spirit of Seventh Avenue, Harlem." As she pensively paced the shore in her very modern bathing suit, tall but not too tall, slender but not at all thin, with the sugar maple tints of her tapering limbs glistening in the sun, a judge in a beauty contest would have given her the prize without waiting to see the face that was hidden under her cerise parasol. And his judgment would have been triumphantly confirmed when the sun dropped behind a cloud and Ivy Trench let her parasol fall back over her shoulder and revealed a face that made one think of a star. Of course, no human face is shaped like a star; yet that was the impression that Ivy Trench's gave at first glance. It was curved yet pointed, with straight, pointed nose, delicately pointed chin, and pointed cheeks that rounded themselves symmetrically. Her lips were not quite classic, but what they lost in shape they more than gained in richness, and her eyes were so bright that it was hard at first to tell what was their exact color. Her red bathing cap had concealed her hair, but now she seated herself on a little hill of sand and snatched off the cap and let her curls flutter in the wind like little black flames. "I can get him; something tells me I can get him," she repeated, looking out at the sea with a wrinkle of concentration in her forehead. "I don't care how many have tried and failed. Somebody must succeed, and I feel that Ivy Trench is the somebody." TURN NOW TO PAGE 7 AND CONTINUE READING "BEAUTY WITHOUT CLASS," by Aubrey Bowser Found unconscious and weak from the loss of blood, with his throat and wrists slashed, Julius Dunn, 48, white, 462 West 103d street, near Riverside drive, was taken from the men's washroom on the downtown platform of the Interborough subway station at Seventh avenue and Twenty-eighth street, last Thursday afternoon about 1 o'clock. He was rushed to New York Hospital, where, after regaining consciousness, he told the police that his assailants were three colored men, who held him and cut him after robbing him of his valuables. WS BULLETIN Cave Explorer Trapped; Digs Way Out. SHELLMOUND. Tenn. Monday —Trapped six days in the subter- ranean passages of Nick-a-Jack Cabe and after trumping almost seventy miles beneath the surface of the mountain. Lawrence S. Ashley, geologist and cave guide, dug his way out Saturday night. Major-General Wood Honored. PORT RILEY, Kan. Monday—The life of the late Major General Leonard Wood was eulogized here Saturday by thousands of soldiers. A monument is to be erected in his memory. "I Can G Hit-and=Run Taxi Driver Kills Four=Year=Old Boy Four-year-old Samuel Rahming, 3 East 135th street, was run down and killed Friday night by a hit-and-run white taxi driver on Fifth avenue between 135th and 136th streets. Before the driver fled witnesses noted the number of the cab, and Oscar Carlson was later arrested by Detective Coogan assisted by Detective Scott of the West 135th street station and charged with the crime. Patrolman Kealenhorn of the West 135th street station notified the boy's parents. When Mrs. Alberta Carey and her husband arrived at Harlem Hospital they were told by Dr. Salerno that their son had died at 9:15 p. m. Carlson was arraigned in Homicide Court Saturday. "Herbert Hoover Best Candidate" Bishop Robert E. Jones Tells of His Flood Work. By LOUIS R. LAUTIER. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Aug. 22.—Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, is the best candidate for the Republican nomination for President, from the Negro viewpoint, Bishop Robert E. Jones of the Methodist Episcopal Church declared in an address before the National Negro Business League last Friday on the "Economic Aspects of the Mississippi Flood." After telling of the rehabilitation work of Mr. Hoover in the flood area, Bishop Jones said: "I am thinking that out of that situation, with that marvelous personality, it would be fortunate for us, it would be fortunate for America, it would be fortunate for mankind, if Herbert Hoover should become President of the United States. "I never saw a man who went into the South and understood the South and by the bare dint of his personality and his intent to do right and just and fair by all men win the South. "He looked planters in their faces and said, 'we are dealing with those tenants not as Negro tenants, but as members of the human family.'" Get That Man I Can EXTRA LATE AFTERNOON EDITION THE WEATHER- Fair and slightly warmer today; showers tonight or tomorrow. Temperature yesterday—Max., 72; min., 62 HERE!" ELKS POUR INTO NEW YORK CITY FROM EVERYWHERE Harlem, Bedecked in Bunting and Gay-Colored Lights Extends Greeting—Grand Exalted Ruler Wilson Prepares for Fray. With thousands of gayly colored electric lights stretched across the streets of Harlem and with flags, bunting and decorations in greater profusion than this section has ever seen before, yesterday began to greet the first of the huge throng of visitors who are flocking here for the twenty-eighth grand lodge session of the Improved, Benevolent, Protective Order of Elks of the World. The local committee stood the expense of the decorations and electric lights on Seventh and Lenox avenues, between 125th and 145th streets, as well as on the side streets where the homes of the three entertaining lodges are located, 129th, 137th and 139th streets. For these decorations alone the cost was nearly $10,000. The general work was done under the supervision of Clarence D. Griffits of Richmond, a prominent member of Williams Lodge, of that city. that was the impression that Ivy Trench's gave at first glance. It was curved yet pointed, with straight, pointed nose, delicately pointed chin, and pointed cheeks that rounded themselves symmetrically. Her lips were not quite classic, but what they lost in shape they more than gained in richness, and her eyes were so bright that it was hard at first to tell what was their exact color. Her red bathing cap had concealed her hair, but now she seated herself on a little hill of sand and enatched off the cap and let her curls flutter in the wind like little black flames. "I can get him; something tells me I can get him," she repeated, looking out at the sea with a wrinkle of concentration in her forehead. "I don't care how many have tried and failed. Somebody must succeed, and I feel that Ivy Trench is the somebody." Voodoo Doctors Jailed After Patient Dies MOBILE, Ala., Aug. 21.—William Carpenter, voodoo doctor, and four of his "priests" were imprisoned to-day pending the result of Sheriff Byrnes' investigation of alleged voodoo practices resulting in the death of a Negro, 23 years old. "King" William and his assistants are charged with practicing medicine without a license. Except for Carpenter and his four "priests" the members of the alleged voodoo circle, according to the officers, are women and young girls who believe that Carpenter and his prophets have superhuman powers. A woman, it is said, was bound to a post to await the casting out of "evil spirits." Carpenter's "High Priests" are John Burkett, 70; G. W. Coo, 61; Ben Patton, 26; and George Davis, 67. Man Pleads Guilty to Pleading guilty to an charge of rape, Theodore Waples, 23, 22 West 137th street, waived examination in Heights Court Thursday before Magistrate Well, who sent him to fail under $3,000 ball to await the action of the Grand Jury. On complaint of a 17-year-old girl, Waples was arrested by Detective Winterhalter of the West 135th street station. Waples is said to have also admitted his crime to Queenie Mitchell, of the same address, who said the occurrence took place last Monday. EIGHT PAGES RE!" R INTO MARK CITY VERYWHERE ing and Gay-Colored Lights, and Exalted Ruler Wilson s for Fray. colored electric lights stretched and with flags, bunting and sion than this section has ever to greet the first of the huge parking here for the twenty-eighth improved, Benevolent, Protective The local committee stood the and electric lights on Seventh 125th and 145th streets, as well the homes of the three enter- 29th, 137th and 139th streets, the cost was nearly $10,000. under the supervision of Clar- and, a prominent member of Early Saturday Grand Exalted Ruler J. Finley Wilson and Attorney Perry Howard, the grand legal advisor of the order, arrived. They went at once to the commodious headquarters provided for them at the Association of Trade and Commerce., 2370 Seventh avenue, and prepared for the fray. The Rev. William George Avant of Durham, N. C., the grand chaplain, had already arrived, and yesterday the remainder of the grand exalted ruler's staff got in and were quartered with Mr. Wilson. J. Dalmus Steele, chairman of the Transportation Committee, said today that the indications are New York will entertain the largest crowd of any convention yet held. Because of the uncertainty of New York being the convention city it was feared that the attendance would suffer and it did seem so in view of the few notifications which the local committee received regarding the coming of special trains. But at the last minute Mr. Steele and his committee were deluged with requests to meet specials at all the terminals and regular trains as well. CUBA FIRST, FLORIDA NEXT. A small delegation from Cuba reached here on the steamer Mexican of the Ward Line and were met at Pier 14. North River, by the transportation committee. This was the first of the delegations to arrive. The first big delegation was from Jacksonville, Florida, arriving at the Pennsylvania Station on a special train shortly before midnight Saturday. (Continued on Page 2.) My Bones. Ivy Trench's gave at first pointed, with straight, pointed and pointed cheeks that seriously. Her lips were not PAN-AFRICAN CONGRESS IN SESSION MEETING OF NOTED NEGROES HELD HERE FOR THE FIRST TIME Chief Amoah III of the Gold Coast, Bellegrade of Haiti T. A. Toote of Nassau, Sixto From the Virgin Islands Address Opening Meeting—Dr. Du Bois Presides. By CLIFFORD L. MILLER The opening session of the fourth Pan-African Congress took place yesterday afternoon at St. Mark's Methodist Church. The Congress was held for the first time in the United States. Its aim is to consider the betterment of peoples of African descent the world over. Dr. J. W. Robinson, pastor of the St. Mark's Church, offered the invocation. Then the Negro national anthem was sung. Addie W. Hunton, president of the Circle of Peace and Foreign Relations and Friends, spoke of the vision of brotherhood of the darker races, which had prompted this organization to sponsor the congress. W. E. B. DuBois presided and gave a brief history of the beginning of Pan-African Congress in morning and afternoon, except Paris in 1919. One of the striking Tuesday's at Beth Ephilah Fourth features of his address was to Moravian Church, will be held at illustrate the population of secession Church. The congress under every flag be held a number of James Presbyterian of four counties to carry the Church. Dr. Charles Wesley of a house in different counties with Howard and Prof. Melville Herkko of the Negro group. He visits of Columbia will speak on the expressed the object of the Conn. history of Africa, and M. Dantes press as threefold. Dissemination Bellegrade of Haiti on "Dispersed of information, acquaintanceship Children of Africa." Tuesday evening's session will Greetings were then given by representatives from many different lands. Chief Nana Amoah III of the Gold Coast, West Africa, was the first. His chieftainship is the fruit of election by various tribes. He has a sword symbolic of his election. The chief wore his native costume and turban and flowing robe. The audience almost gasped when he spoke deliberately in English. He especially stressed how history was repeating itself in the women of America, working for the freedom of their men as the African women had on two occasions to knowledge done the same. He is to speak on Africa on the radio tomorrow evening at 7:15 cdtclock. T. Augustus Toote of Nassau, Bahamas, is now a representative of the House of Association, representing San Salvador, the spot where Columbus first planted his feet in the new world. Twice during his public life he has served his government as attorney general. While small of stature, he yet revealed great freedom as a public speaker. He wore an English morning coat and striped trousers and had the air of a man of large affairs. He thought that the grass would bring us together so that by uniting us we would alleviate and avoid the conditions of our society everywhere. Bishop Barrow of Barbados admitted that for the most part most of the natives of that populous island are sleeping, but felt that the influence' of the congress would open their eyes. Dramatic was the oration in French of M. Dantes Bellgrade of Haiti. His first arresting sentence was, "I can't speak your language but I acknowledge you as my brothers." When the first congress met in Paris he was then the Haitian Minister. He told how he pleaded for the liberty of the black race before the League of Nations. Tomorrow he promises to unburden his heart on the injustices done the Haitian Republic by the Caribbean policy of the United States Government. Logan proved a resourceful interpreter. Sleek, Lone's representative, Bordierchick, confessed that he never became race-conscious until he came to the United States. He made the audience smile when he raid, "I do not sing 'God Save the King,' I cannot sing 'My Country, Tls of Thee.'" Adolphe Sixto of the Virgin Islands is a man mature in years. He knows the art of holding an audience and had it laughing at will. Universal education he gave as the solvent of most of the Negroes' ills. Other speakers were H. K. Robkitt of India and Thorgie Sie of Liberia. William Pickens gave the closing address, telling how the Brussels Conference of Oppressed Races, held last February, is the next lordical step for the Pan-African Congress to take. He stressed how the problem of the man that is down is fundamentally the same wherever it is met—and it's nine-tenths ecumenical. The benediction was given by the venerable Bishop C. H. Phillips. Over 150 delegates are already registered. Beatrice Cannady, associate editor of The Advocate, Portland, Ore., has come from the most distant point in this country. The headquarters are at Grace Catholic School. In addition, 11th session, all the day sessions, morning and afternoon, except Tuesday's at Beth Ephallah Fourth Moravian Church, will be held at Grace Church. Tonight's session will be at St. James Presbyterian Church. Dr. Charles Wesley of Howard and Prof. Melville Herkovits of Columbia will speak on the history of Africa, and M. D. Martes Belllegarde of Haiti on "Dispersed Children of Africa." Tuesday evening's session will be held at Salem M. E. Church, and Wednesday's at Abyssinian Baptist Church. All sessions are open to the public. FOREIGN Mayor, Walker Goes to London. DUBLIN. Monday—Mayor James J. Walker has gone to London from Ireland; cancels tour of Killarney. He is due in Berlin Wednesday. LONDON, Monday—About 12:20 000 Sacco-Vanzetti sympathizers attended a protest meeting in Hyde Park Saturday night. Dr. Locke in Geneva. GENEVA—Dr. Alain Locke, professor of philosophy at Howard University, Washington, has arrived at Geneva to make a first visit to the League of Nations in African reconstruction, with particular reference to the administration of the African mandates. The investigation is under the Foreign Policy Office and is made possible by a grant from the Pauline Wells McCane Memorial Fund. Dr. Locke, formerly a Rhodes scholar, is author of the *New Negro* book and is promoting the educational and cultural approach to the race problems of America and Africa. On in Africa. GENEVA—"Chained by the neck, dragged from their tribal homes and forced to labor ten hours a day under the most abject conditions, native blacks of Africa to be cheapest to replace them than care for them in many instances of colonial forced labor." Such was a part of the graphic story recounted here by Mr. Grimshaw, chief of Native Labor Section, or the international Labor Office. Mr. Grimshaw stressed the importance of public opinion as a main factor in binding each individual to the agreements he or a committee of colonial experts in Genera. Cut One-Fifth. GENEVA—If the birthrate in Europe today were the same as it was in 1875, the babies born yearly would exceed the recorded number of more than 2,500,000, according to Dr. Edward A. Ross, a professor of sociology. According to Dr. Ross, during the three decades before the war, eighteen countries cut their racial fertility by at least one-fifth in order to maintain the new social structure. But while over one-third billion people, mostly white, have turned their backs to the quagmire of over-population and raised their standard of living and longevity, there are a billion human beings of color who live in conditions resembling "rabbit warrants." Big Feet Cost Life CHICAGO. (ANP)—When Robert Carrick, 45, teased Water Hill, 25, abbot the size of his feet Hill grew angry and struck at Carrick with a knife. Carrick ran a short distance, turned round with a gun and shot Hill three times, killing him. Carrick is held in jail. Speaks —Chier Amoan 111— To Film Elks' Convention Here Pictures to Be Released to Negro Theatres All Over Country. Announcement is made this week that arrangements have been made to make motion picture of the I. B. P. O. E. of W. convention in its entirety, which will be released to the theaters throughout the United States and foreign countries that cater to Negro patronage. Exclusive privilege of filming the event was granted to the Famous Colored Artists and a romantic comedy story will be interwoven in the picture to enhance its value as entertainment. The screen record will take in all the principal events of the convention with Monday morning and continue on through until Saturday night. Such celebrities as Higgs and Byrd, Ethel Waters, Miller and Lyles, Glenn and Jenkins, Bill ("Bojangles") Robinson, the cast from Miller and Lyles "Broadway hit, 'Rang Tanz,' and the cast of "Africana." Leut Julian, the only navigator, and many others are scheduled to appear. Twenty thousand feet of negative of the convention will be taken and "the shooting" will start with the public reception at St Mark's Church, 138th street and Edgecombe avenue, on Monday morning. At this reception Joseph McKee will see several address lodge officers off duty and general public. From then on the camera will follow through the convention, taking in each and every important event until its conclusion. The making of this production marks the inauguration of the Famous Colored Artists' Company who propose the continuation of production in this field. It is the work of the company headed by well known film men, to produce a series of feature pictures. Postal Alliance Head Seeks New Members ST. LOUIS, Mo. Aug. 20. The National Alliance of Postal Employees has adopted a new method of procuring members at the Memphis convention in July. The president of the organization, Roy O. Wilhoit of St. Louis, has been delegated to act as organizer for the body and to visit the different cities where large groups of these employees reside in order to come in direct contact with them and explain the objects and benefits of the organization. The organization, founded in 1913 for the direct purpose of opposing segregation and unfair treatment in the railway mail service, now admits to membership all groups of postal employees under the Civil Service and has a membership of 2,500 men. There are 22,000 Negroes employed in the postal service of the United States. Prays While Dying COLUMBIA. S. C. Auk. 20 (ANP)—McKinley Thomasson, I. was electrocuted Friday morning for the murder of Mrs. Frances Thomasson. He admitted his guilt in the death chair and was praying for forgiveness when the switch on the fire alarm ber was crowded with whites. A fiery cross was burned by the Ku Klux Klan over Thomasson's grave. NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS. MONDAY. AUG. 22, 1927 Elks' Convention at a Glance CONVENES officially 10 a.m. Tuesday ACTIVITIES began with annual permission. Sunday, 5 p.m. at the Library. MALE sessions at Mother Zion Church, West 133th street, between Seventh and Lenox avenues. FEMALE sessions at M. Olive Baptist Church, Lenox avenue DELIMITES expected: Males between 900 and 1,100; female 300 VISITORS expected: 150,000. NY, by visitors: 150,000. New York by visitors: 150,000. PUBLIC meeting today, 1:30 p.m. St. Mary's College Edgecombe 134th street PARADE Tuesday, beginning at 1 10th street and Fifth avenue 11th street and Fifth avenue north to 11th street to Lenox north to Seventh avenue; north on Seventh avenue to 14th street where the bridge will disband. OFFICIAL grandstand at 10:11 AM, Grand Central Station GAKAND MAHAL of parade, Joseph Blondy Brown. NUMBER expected on parade. CANDIDATES for grand exalted ruler (known): J. Finley Willi. ruler (known): J. Edward Edward H. Henry. Possible "dark horseman" George E. Whose- grand daughter ruler: *Mrs Ella G. Berry. CHAIRMAN of local conglomeration in Hudson J. Other. secretary: Charles M. Hanson. treasurer: Samuel J. Batten. chairman: Michael E. Methil Fraser. CONVENTION headquarters: Imperial House, 120 West 193th ENTERTAINMENT] lodges: Manhattan, Tampa, Manhattan, Invincible and Burke. *Present incumbent.* Elks Pour Into New York City (Continued from Page 1.) Maceo Lodge No. 8 was in charge of the special. Cuyahoga and King Tut Lodges from Cleveland, with a host of Elks and Daughter Elks from that city, were the next in, arriving at 8:40 Sunday morning on a special over the Erie. Both came with their bands. The next big special was that from Chicago, bringing both lodges from the Windy City, Great Lakes and Fort Dearborn, together with their temples. They came over the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western and were met at Hoboken by the local committee and conducted across the river to the Twenty-third street ferry terminal. From the size of the Chicago space it is certain that Great Lakes and Fort Dearborn will both have a large delegation in the line of march Tuesday. Not until the last minute did Richmond charter a special train, as at first it did not appear that enough people from that section would attend the convention, making a special unnecessary. But they did need one, and at 5:30 Sunday evening the Virginia lads and lashes arrived, more than 60 being on the special train that came in at the Pennsylvania station. Williams Lodge No. 11 was in charge, and Capitol City Lodge of that city was also along with the temples of the two lodges. Both lodges had their own streets. ATLANTA CITY HERE STRONG. The last special in Sunday came from Atlanta. Georgia, in charge of Gate City Lodge No. 51. They too, had delegations from other parts of Georgia and brought a big crowd. If one would judge by the number of people who same in on the Atlantic City special this morning there will be a tremendous falling off of familiar faces in that city for the next few days. Lighthouse Lodge No. 9 undoubtedly brought in what will likely prove the biggest delegation to arrive in New York for the convention. Something novel in the parade will be the marching in their uniforms of the police officers from other cities. Permission to appear on the streets of New York garbred by Detective Samuel J. Battles from Police Commissioner Warren last Friday. BATTLES TO LEAD POLICE. BATTLES TO LEAD POLICE There will be several police officers from the city, among them being William A. Turner, the officer who is the only Nero officer in the city of Wheeling, West Virginia, where the big form of Turner, who directs traffic at one of Wheeling's busiest crossings, is well known. Another innovation will be a platoon of Negro policemen at the head of the parade led by Sergeant Battles in the city. It will be remembered that in Cleveland when Battles was pleading with the delegates to vote come to New York for 1927 convention, he promised them that he would walk up Fifth avenue leading the parade with a squad of Negro policemen behind him. Battles will keep his word Tuesday afternoon when the big parade gets under way. Incidentally, to Sam Battles goes a good deal of credit for the happy consummation of the convention. No member of the local committee worked harder than did Battles to bring about a successful victory, and expressed admiration of the courtesies shown them, and the extent that the city Elks' Student M. PAUL R. S. KING. Evansville, Indiana, was awarded an Elks' Scholarship last year. Paul is 18 years of age and a graduate of the Frederick Douglass High School of Evansville, Indiana. His mother is a widow in poor circumstances. He attended Hampton Institute last year on a scholarship given by the Committee on Education of the I. B. P. O. E. of W. and曼加德琳did record. He is photographed above holding an electric clock, which he invented. He plans to come to New York to personally thank the Elks for what they have done for him. has gone to decorate. They predict a wonderful session. Prominent Members to Attend Session Mayor of Harlem' Held in Theft (Continued from Page 1.) Williams May 4, 1924, at $23 cent avenue, New Rochalo, and he offered to retain her for 2,100 of the Granny Branch Coal Company, at the price of $10 per one hundred shares. At that time, she states, she gave Prof. Williams $10 deposit on account. Later in the month, the charge continues, she sent $200 to Prof. Williams by Western Union money order, which he is said to have cashed on May 31 at the West 125th street Western Union office. Since that time, having received no shares of stock, she made redeem requests for the return of her money and has not received any portion of it. Mrs. Morgan stated. No testimony was heard, but Prod. Williams, in a statement to a reporter, denied offering her any stock for sale, but introduced her to the head of a well-known Negro stock brokerage firm on Broadway, whom he says sold her the stock. He declared that the $260 was a personal loan, which he obtained from Mrs. Morgan at a time when they were very friendly. Mrs. Morgan is represented by Attorney Miles A. Paige, 2256 Seventh avenue. B. S. C. P. Rally Tonight The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters will hold three victory rallies at St. Luke's Hall, 125 West 130th street, the first of which will be held tonight. A. Philip Randolph, the general organizer, will outline the next step to be taken by the organization. The other meeting will be held tomorrow and Thursday evenings. BLUE BELLE EXCLUSIVE ONLY ARTIST SINGS HIGH WATER BLUES and "CRYIN' FOR DADDY BLUES" No. 8483 10 inch, 75c (C) OKEH PHONOGRAPH CORPORATION, 15 West 18th Street, New York City Rev. Wm. George Avant Sermon to Elks at Mother Zion Dr. Avant Pays Stirring Tribute to the Elks' Sunday evening at eight, at Mother Zion Church, the first activity of the Elks' convention occurred when the annual sermon was preached by the grand chaplain, the Rev. Dr. William George Avant of Durham, N. C., on the rostrum was the Grand Exalted Ruler, J. Finley Wilson, and his staff, and the Reverends J. W. Brown, pastor of Mother Zion Church, and W. P. Hayes, pastor of M. Olivet Baptist Church. This annual sermon is to commemorate the memory of those brothers and daughters who have left the ranks for the Great Beyond during the past year. The church was filled with members and friends of the order. Dr. Avant took his test "Though your heart was as scarlet, shall be as white as snow." He traced the fall of man from the Garden of Eden and showed his rise through evolution. He paid a touching tribute to the dead brothers of Elkdom. Boy Shot in Chase Detective Joseph Van Wagner of the Brownsville precinct, in chasing Howard Thompson, 25, 215 Watkins street. Brooklyn, last week, shot a 12-year-old boy in the thigh. Thompson was captured. Monarch Band to Conduct Greatest Band Concert in History of Elks One of the outstanding features of the present Ellis convention will be the band contest, an annual event, which will be conducted under the auspices of Monarch Band, with Monarch's Band leader, Lieut. Fred W. Simpson, in charge. The contest will be held at Manhattan-Casino Tuesday night. For the past five years Monarch Band has regularly won first prize at all of these annual contests. So much so, that last year in Cleveland no bands would compete against the New Yorkers, and when the contest was called at Luna Park in Cleveland, only Monarch played and they were awarded the first prize without a struggle. This year the famous Monarchs will not be in the contest. The local committee has appropriated larger prizes and there will be better arrangements than any other band contests ever held at an Elk's convention. The bands of the three entertaining lodges will not be entered in the contest. To date Leint. Simpson has received entries from the following organizations: Philadelphia, Pride of the Camden Lodge of Camden, King Tut Lodge of Cleveland, Ultra of Orange, N. J.; Norfolk Military Band of Eureka Lodge, Norfolk Va., and the Jar of Liberty Band of Philadelphia, a female organization. tained, Leint. Simpson and his outfit became attached to Monarch Lodge No. 45, I. B. P. O. E. of W. and as such has steadily climbed the ladder of fame. PERSONNEL OF MONARCH. One of the reasons for Monarch Band's excellence is that it consistently stuck together. They have an organization which is regularly elected, A. N. Hayne now being president and R. H. Jackson, secretary. The personnel of the band is as follows: Leint. Fred W. Simpson. All inquiries have been answered and all bands have been instructed as to what they will be expected to play. This in itself is an innovation, as heretofore it has always been difficult to get advance information on what the band committee would require played at these contests. MONARCH BAND SUPREME. The judges of the contest will be Leit, Clifford Ridgley, bandmaster of the Sixty-ninth Regiment, N. Y. C. G., and Ernest Williams, a symphony soloist of the Philadelphia Symphony orchestra, both selected that night and his name announced before the contest. Still another innovation will be the awarding of the prizes that night by Leit. Simpson and his committee immediately after the judges have decided. Last year in Cleveland the withdrawal of all bands and their refusal to compete with the Mi-Tee Monarchs, was mute evidence of the high place which Lieut. Simpson's outfit has now attained in the musical world. Organized in 1915 as a part of the Old Fifteenth Infantry this band was assigned along with the regiment at various camps and finally went overseas with the outfit. After the armistice and the return to this country of the Old Fifteenth Infantry together, with its band were covered with glory, the band became a part of the newly organized 388th Regiment, New York. After a process of reorganization, in which many of the former "Hell Fighters" were re- tained. Lleant. Simpson and his outfit became attacked to Monarch Lodge No. 45. I. B. P. O. E. of W. and as such has steadily climbed the ladder of fame. PERSONNEL OF MONARCH. One of the reasons for Monarch Band's excellence is that it consistently stuck together. They have an organization which is regularly elected; A. N. Hayne now being president and R. H. Jackson secretary. The personnel of the band is as follows: Lient. Fred W. Simpson, bandmaster; Albert W. Maxwell, assistant bandmaster; Gillard Thompson, drum major; Sidney Davis and Clarence P. Jones, fiddle and piccolo; Albert B. William Thompson, oboe; Roy Scotland, bassoon; Henry Ewell, bass clarinet; Acisco Valpaste and Lee Ocamo; Eb chanter; Eddie Mannan; Silney Decker; Philip Carruth Arthur Boycher; William Francis, Lorena Stuardo; William Carrrell, Charles Davis; John Brosson; Emory Moore; Richard Baker; Samuel Taylor, clarinetist. Halver Adams. Albeet Jarrett. Robert Jackson. Theo Hope, also sax. Andyley Love. soprano sax. Joseph Allen. Leon Montague. tenor sax. Henry Walker. battons sax. Srank Robinson. bass sax. Charles Ayrantz. bass sax. Herbert Flahay. Eric McLarry. William Lewis. Cyril-Mickens. George McMilan. Richmond Hazzard. Garland. Joseph Douglas. F. De Soto. trumpets. Othello Jackson, George Otlet, James Ferguson, Joseph Bonneau, James Middleton, John Bryant, horn; Rutherford Boynton, Bea- vington, Armenus Hayne, James Sammis, Leslie Booker, Harry Turner, Clavence Holmes, Daniel Taylor, trombone; Ballard Ed- wards, euphonium; E. M. Ray, James Lewis, Islah Rivers, Fran- ces Joseph, bass; James Salus, Arthur Scott. A. Osborne, sore- phone; Lloyd Gray, bass drum; Ambry Brooks, snare drum; James Wilson, snare drum; Walter Thompson, tympani and bellst, Thomas Rasey, trumpet, and Sey- born Smith, sergeant-atarms. ANOTHER ROW AT HARLEM HOSPITAL SUPERINTENDENT CALLS POLICE TO ARREST NURSE Agnes Boozer, Graduate Nurse and Head of Alumni Association, Slapped Face of Switchboard Operator After He Insulted Her. The physical safety of patients and the maintenance of even a semblance of discipline between the races would indicate that Harlem Hospital must be investigated. That conditions are growing momentarily worse was strikingly indicated when the superintendent, Rudolf Rapp, called in the police to arrest Agnes Boozer, a graduate nurse, who had been insulted and bullied Thursday night by one Legassi, white switchboard operator on night duty. In the language of "Emmy," Miss Boozer had "slapped his sassy face," after he called her a "nigger," it is said. The trouble is said to have originated over a phone call Miss. Boozer was trying to put through, and the two had some words over the wire. Legassi is said to have left his post and gone upstairs to give Miss Boozer a calldown, and the face slapping resulted. Other nurses gathered around her immediately and dared Legassi to lay hands on her. Superintendent Rapp called the pair into his office and immediately assumed Miss Boozer to be in the wrong, witnesses declare. Feeling keenly the injustice of the superintendent's attitude, Miss Boozer is said to have delivered some exceedingly plain talk, which Rapp highly resented. He shouted at her at the top of his voice, it is said, distressing the patients greatly. Rapp then called a white policeman, then on duty in the hospital, and told him to arrest Miss Boozer. The policeman said he had no authority to do so. He then called for a patrolman from the West 135th street station, it is reported, and demanded Miss Boozer's arrest, with the same result. Miss Boozer, it is said, even asked to be arrested. The following night Miss Boozer was dismissed from Harlem Hospital. She is president of the Harlem Hospital Alumni. In the office of Superintendent of Nurses Sadie S. O'Brien, white, recently, Nurse Louise Potts is said to have become engaged in a dispute with Nurse H. Cassidy, white, a supervisor, said to have been discharged two years ago for inefficient service. When the argument started Superintendent O'Brien is said to have walked on Nurse Cassidy accused Nurse Potts of insubordination. Nurse Potts refused to apologize, insisting that she was within her rights, and she took the case. it is said, before the Board of Trustees, and Miss Rothman of the Bellevue and Allied Hospitals. Nurse Cassidy is said to be trying to split the ranks of the nurses by originating a rumor concerning the promotion of Nurse Potts to the position of supervisor. Superintendent O'Brien, who trained the Negro nurses in her own school, which is rated very high, has declared, according to a number of witnesses, that there is not a Negro nurse in Harlem who is capable of holding the position of supervisor. Yet these nurses attained the highest rating in the State Board examinations over their white fellow students. Nurse O'Brien, the girls declare, asked them not to mention her remarks, and after being given no such assurance she is said to have denied making such statement relative to the capability of the nurses. She has refused, it is reported, to meet the nurses at a special meeting to be held tonight. Murder Indictment Sought for Boy, 15 A murder indictment is being sought for Jackson, Johnson, 15, 829 East 109th street, who is said to have stabbed his stepfather with a ten-cent bread knife while his mother, Alberta Carter, held him. Edward Carter, 43, the stepfather, is said to have made this deathbed accusation at Reception Hospital, where he died last Wednesday morning. Mrs. Carter was arraigned in Harlem Court on a homicide charge, and her thirteen-year-old child. Nellie, was remanded to the custody of the Children's Society, was Johnson also. cleft ab The boy is said to have killed his father because, he insisted upon waking him at nine o'clock every morning, following his coming in at $ a. m. from an all-night job in bakery. Gene Ferguson, 27, 227. West Sixty-second street, died at Roosevelt Hospital. Saturday, where he was taken in a taxicab earlier that day by two other men who had called for him from his apartment and then fired three shots into his head and neck. His assailants, after leaving him at the hospital, disappeared. Magistrate Moved as Three Homeless Youths Tell Story in Heights Court Gives Lad Dollar Bill to Buy Meal nad Clean Self Up —Bondsman Green to Send Another to School. The social problem of youth was touchingly and strikingly demonstrated last Wednesday when Gustav Kopetski, 16, and Dominick Melle, 16, both white, and William McPherson, 17-year-old orphan, were arraigned on a charge of vagrancy in Heights Court before Magistrate Weil. Not only was Magistrate Weil plainly moved by the youths' stories, in addition he handed over a dollar bill to one of them and told him to "clean up, get a bite to eat, and go home in a presentable condition" to his parents. The social problem of youth was touchingly and strikingly demonstrated last Wednesday when Gustav Kopetski, 16, and Dominick Melle, 16, both white, and William McPherson, 17-year-old orphan, were arraigned on a charge of vagrancy in Heights Court before Magistrate Weil. Not only was Magistrate Weil plainly moved by the youths' stories, in addition he handed over a dollar bill to one of them and told him to "clean up, get a bite to eat, and go home in a presentable condition" to his parents. Melle told the Magistrate that he didn't want to be separated from his colored pal, whom he said was "as honest and as clean as they make 'em." Kopetski consented to go and live with his aunt. When the forlorn orphan related his sad story, Junius M. Green, bondsman, 168 West 136th street, came forward and assumed responsibility for McPherson's care. 369th Regiment Off to Camp Famous Outfit to Undergo Two Weeks' Training The vagabond trio were found by Patrolman O'Connor of the Wadsworth avenue station living in a tent on a vacant lot at Dyckman street, and Sherman avenue. They said they had no homes. Mr. Green took his orphan in charge, giving him clothes, cash and comfortable quarters at the Hotel, Press, 19-21 West 135th street, where McPherson freely dined. The boy will be legally adopted by Mr. Green and sent to a Catholic school, and to church every Sunday, and given every possible chance to make something of himself. For several years Mr. Green has interested himself in young people's social problems, and has spent several hundreds of dollars from his own pocket to pay the fines of "growing vines" brought before the magistrates. He has helped many young men to get an even break and to go straight. Last May Mr. Green tried to inaugurate a movement with the Ministers' Conference, to give one Sunday's collections in each month from every church, to pool into a fund, to assist worthy under-aged young men and women to escape from the demoralizing influence of prison. Coblem Dismissed on Charge of Larceny After several adjournments of his case, Victor Coblem, 21, 2400 Seventh avenue, charged with larceny, was dismissed by Magistrate Well in Heights Court Thursday following the repeated absence of Mabel Russell, 342 St. Nicholas avenue, who accused Coblem of stealing $25 and household goods valued at $250 from her apartment. Coblem was arrested by Detective Hodge of the West 123d street station Cornfield Convicts Escape NASHVILLE. Aug. 20 (ANP)—Jake West, 57, and Matthews Mallory, 35, serving five and one year terms. In the state prison, escaped Thursday from a cornfield on the prison farm. As the corn was high, the guards did not discover the escape for two hours. The men are still at large. Man Held, one Sought, for Assault on Girl While Harold Johnson, 18, elevator boy, 303 West 139th street, is at liberty under $1,000 ball, charged with immoral assault, one Billy Brown is being sought by officers of the Children's Society, charged with improper relations with the same girl, Eunice Rakstraw, 15, an incorrigible girl now confined in the Home of the Good Shephard. Officier Clarence Van Norden of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children was dubbed a "fat something" when the girl flew into a tranrum in the district attorney's office. She accused her mother of falsely blaming Johnson for the act when Brown is the guilty party. The girl is said to have admitted, however, that she was intimate with Johnson last March at 783 St. Nicholas avenue. Contractors Increase WASHINGTON.-The large and increasing number of successful builders and contractors will be interested in the result of a nationwide survey recently made by the American Builder, a builder's magazine, which points out that new housing valued at nearly two billion dollars yearly, and more schools, stores, churches, hotels and other structures are required to meet the demands of the annual population increase of approximately 1,730,000 people. Attention is also directed to the fact that the largest single requirement is due to depreciation, which is conservatively estimated at three per cent. was Three Homeless Story in Heights Court Buy Meal nad Clean Self Up en to Send Another School. South was touchingly and strik- nesday when Gustav Kopetski, both white, and William Mc- were arraigned on a charge of before Magistrate Weil. The Weil plainly moved by the handed over a dollar bill to one on up, get a bite to eat, and go on". to his parents. 369th Regiment Off to Camp Famous Outfit to Undergo Two Weeks' Training The 369th Regiment, the pride of New York, under command of William A. Taylor, entrained yesterday at 2 p. m. from the West 125th street station of the New York Central railroad for Camp Smith, Peekskill, N. Y., where it went into field training today under orders from the War Department. The regiment will undergo intensive training for two weeks, returning Sept. 4. The line of march was from the Armory at 143d street and Harlem River, to Lenox avenue, south to East 126th street, to the railroad station. The first call for assembly was at 1:30 o'clock. Arriving at Camp Smith, the advance guards took their posts and prepared the streets, to which each company was assigned. The guard mount on the first night is informal. Purades at the camp will be held daily. The first four days are to be spent on the rifle range. A peep into the brown doughboys' activities might be gleaned from the schedule of Machine Gun Company H, under command of Captain Ira L, Aldridge. This activity embraces the entire period of training. Sight blacking, cleaning materials, score card work and instructions in machine gun marksmanship will occupy the first days. Battle practice begins in the second week, when the men will be tutored in machine gun extended orders, section and platoon attack, and defense. On September 1, field firing problems will be taken up, while war strength in attack and bayonet work will be considered during the next two days. Visitors' day will be Sunday, August 28. Burns Wife's Clothes ANNISTON, Ala., Aug. 20' (ANP) —Frank Jones' wife, Anna, was about to leave him last Tuesday, as he had invited her to. She needed some money to get away and she had to call the police to help her get it. The police arrived just in time to keep Frank from burning the suitecase, clothes and all. The couple soon made up. NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS, MONDAY, AUG. 22, 1927 James S. Watson Designated for Judge of Municipal Court Stormy Meeting at Mother Zion Church Results in Two Designations—Ifill Also Assistant Corporation Counsel James S. Watson was designated as Democratic candidate for judge of the Municipal Court at a mass meeting held last Tuesday night in the Community House of Mother Zion M. E. Church. Dr. Charles A. Butler, president of the Citizens' Welfare Council of Harlem, presided, and had his hands full. Counsellor Watson addressed the meeting, and all went well till he referred to the subject of the West Indians and Americans, which had recently caused a stir at a meeting of the Harlem Lawyers' Association. U. S. Poston, the real estate broker, rose and objected. Though the chairman tried to silence him and the meeting voted not to hear him, he made his objection good. He said the speaker's remarks were a personal offense and entirely out of order, that they had met to discuss the judgeship and nothing else. He was applauded. Attorney Cornelius MacDougall then asked the speaker if he would run as an independent candidate in case he was not accepted as the regular Democratic candidate in the judicial convention. Mr. Watson said he would not, and continued his speech, saying that Negroes should be big enough to give their whole support to one man and that he himself would support any man placed in nomination. Though it was the purpose of the meeting to designate one man for the judgeship and present him to the judicial convention of his party and back him with the voting strength of both parties, it was voted that a man be selected from each party and presented to the Republican and the Democratic conventions. Mr. Poston declared himself in favor of an independent candidate, saying that race should be placed above party. This was received with emphatic disfavor. Attorney Hubert T. Delaney explaining that the cost of supporting an independent candidate would be prohibitive. After more speaking, Theodore Smith, president of the Coachmen's League, asked the chairman what all the fuss was about and told the meeting that it was time to stop talking and do something. Then nominations were in order. Attorney MacDougald, Democrat, was placed in nomination by Attorney William T. Andrews, seconded by Attorney George Hall. He declined. Attorney Eustace Williams then placed Attorney Watson in nomination, seconded by Attorney Delaney. For the Republican, Attorney Pope Billups was placed in nomination by Mr. Smith, but he declined, and placed Attorney James B. Illl. who was absent. He was seconded by Attorney Demerald H. Williams. Nominations were then closed. Other speakers were Noah D. Thompson, business manager of Opportunity Magazine; the Rev. George Frazier Miller, president of the Howard University Alumni; Brooklyn; Attorney Vernal Williams; Attorney Arthur A. Madison, president of the Harlem Lawyers' Association, and A. G. Dill, business manager of The Crisis. Attorney MacDougall later said that it was too late to make a gesture for a Negro judge and that no lawyer who was a regular member of any party would accept nomination on an independent ticket, as it would ruin him for life politically. Committees were appointed to present the names of the candidates to the judicial conventions of their respective parties. Attorney James B. Ill will be presented to the Republicans by Attorneys Pope B. Billups, Arthur A. Madison and Theodore B. Smith. Attorneys Demerald H. Williams, Hubert T. Delaney and Vernal S. Williams will present Counselor James S. Watson to the Democratic convention. The charge of felonious assault against James H. Robinson, 27, musician, 4 West 129th street, was dismissed by Magistrate Well in Heights Court Thursday, following his indictment by a Grand Jury in homicide court on a charge of killing Johnny Brent, Seventh avenue chop house proprietor, 209 West 102d street, early on the morning of August 2. While intoxicated, Robinson entered Brent's restaurant, 2155 Seventh avenue, and ordered a cup of coffee. When asked to pay, he refused and told Garfield Tracy, the waiter, that he had left his banjo there. An argument arose, which Brent Delegates and Visitors Beware of Crooks BOULIN'S DETECTIVE AGENCY 110 EAST 125TH ST. Harlem 5342-5656 Come and Bring Your Brother Elks to Trade Economically at Our Drug Store Here You Will Find All Your Necessities Supplied and a Considerable Part of Your Money Saved Bring this Coupon along with you. For only 10 cents as an added inducement attempted to settle, and Robinson, after being ejected from the place, returned and shot him, the police said. Robinson escaped with a bullet wound in the right arm, fired from the gun of Policeman Roberts of the West 135th street station. Robinson surrendered to the police voluntarily, and, according to Detective Short of the West 123d street station, made a "clean breast of the affair." On August 10, Robinson was arraigned before Magistrate Ewald in Heights Court and held without bail for examination in homicide court. On the same date he was indicted for murder in the first degree by a Grand Jury. Magistrate Macreary dismissed Robinson in General Sessions on the felonious assault charge, and he was immediately rearrested on a bench warrant on the murder charge. Robinson will be tried in General Sessions, Part L FINED FOR DISORDERLY CONDUCT. Louis Carey, 29, 254 West 131st street, paid a fine of $5 when found guilty of disorderly conduct by Magistrate Well in Heights Court of the State of New York on the West 135th street station, preferred the charge. Held in $2,500 Bail Charged With Stabbing Charles Risper, 28, 109 East 109th street, was held in $2,500 ball by Magistrate Flood in Harlem Court on Thursday, charged with stabbing Ernest Stays of 57 East 111th street. Stays told the Magistrate that he had been sleeping and that a mutual friend entered his room, awakening him to inform him that Risper threatened a stabbing. Risper immediately entered and slashed him on the cheek, Stays said. He was treated at Reception Hospital, where three stitches were taken in the wound. Risper waived examination when arraigned. Manhandled in the Nest Club, She Says White Woman Claims She Lost Valuable Bracelet. "I was raised by a colored mammy, but was never manhandled like this before," said May Bradley Howard, white, 167 West Seventy-first street, to Police Leutenant Cabill, about four o'clock Friday morning at the West 135th street station, where she told a story of being robbed of a valuable bracelet containing four sapphires and four diamonds, while she danced on the floor of the Nest Club Cabaret, 168 West 133d street, near Seventh avenue. "Look what these colored men did to me," she cried, showing black and blue marks on her right arm. She appeared to be partly intoxicated. Her escort, J. H. Cuevas, white, living at the Pasedena Hotel, Sixty-first street and Broadway, told the police that she had been put out of The Nest after she tried to wreck the place because of the alleged robbery. "I didn't see any bracelet." Cuevas said. A taxi driver said he was called to the Nest Club and saw the woman lying on the pavement screaming, with her shoes off. When she entered the cab her escort "pasted her one to make her pipe down," the chauffeur said. The Nest Club manager was called to the police station and questioned, but no corroboration of the woman's charge could be obtained. HELLO WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—Mrs. Lillian Evans Tibbs well-known as Mme. Evanti, coloratura soprano, has first suit in the District. Supreme Court against her husband, Roy Alfred Tibbs, for separate maintenance. Mrs. Tibbs, daughter of the late Bruce Evans of Washington has studied in Paris. She has appeared in grand opera in Nice and Monte Carlo and in recital in other cities in continental Europe, as well as in the United States. Mr. Tibbs is a professor of piano and organ in the Howard University school of music. They were married in 1918. They had one child, a son. Mrs. Tibbs continued teaching in the public schools of Washington until 1924, when she resigned to go abroad to study. Mrs. Tibbs, in her bill of complaint, says that her husband encouraged her to go abroad. In 1925, she says, she returned home and found her husband ill and living in private quarters. After nursing him she returned to France and remained there till 1926. Again, she says, she returned and found Mr. Tibbs living in a rented room with no place to receive her. Again she returned to France. When she came back to Washington she found her husband living in T. Street. She charges that he had not even answered her letter from France asking for funds with which to return home. She says she sought to return to him and that he refused to see her, that when she went to see him he left the house, and that she and her son remained. She wrote urging him to return home, she declares, but he refused. She further alleges that when she was away he came to the house and ordered her mother out, locking the door. Mrs. Tibbs then had to live at her mother's house. She says her husband had her clothes brought to her mother's house and thrown into the hallway. Mrs. Tibbs states that from 1924 to 1927 she did not receive more than $225 from her husband for her support and assistance maintenance. From the time of their marriage in 1924 she says that she contributed all the money she earned for the benefit of her husband and herself. Professor. Tibbs receives a salary of $2,600 a year from Howard University, his wife asserts. She says he receives approximately $500 a year for summer courses and additional pay for night classes, also that he is employed as a church organist at $500 a year, and that he owns two pieces of property, from one of which he receives a yearly rental of $1,080. Mrs. Tibbs says that she is without means and would have no place to sleep if it were not for her mother. She says her husband, after urging her to pursue her career, has tried to make it appear that her ambition is the cause of their separation. She asks the court for separate maintenance and the custody of their son. Her counsel of Henry. F. Woodard. Mims Hits and Runs BARNWELL, S. C., Aug. 20 (ANP)—Two white men, Supervisor J. S. Still and a policeman named John Hogg, went to the home of Richard Mims "to show him something." Mims met them with an axe and laid the supervisor low. He struck at the policeman but missed and ran, being wounded twice by the policeman's bullets. He was captured. Se THE NEW YORK - mee 2293 SEVENTH AVE. - fe Telephone Morningside 3701-3702 “= Published daliy ty, The Amsterdam News (a. corporation). 2293 Seventh Avenues Wow sori” Nitin Ee Davin ronident aod General Manager ‘Saimen i Anderson, Viee-Drenident? Sadle, Warren-Davia, ‘Freasurer. ~ oe STAFF. Witt sc weuer ge ae, Balto aannxing, Baitor THEERAE.BERUACK . 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We welcome you—one hundred thousand strong—to the City of New’ York. > You are living testimonials of Negro promise, pros- perity and power to organize. You are the youngest and jastest growing of our great fraternal orders. ‘In your twenty-eight years you have steadily gone forward to a membership of more than one hundred thousand, with more than four hundred lodges and assets of two million dollars. You have disproved the taunts of the critics of our race. who say that Negroes do not know how to get together and work for a common end. You have Fiumphantly. survived attacks from without and dis- sension within, Your growth is evidence of splendid ability and in- iegrity in the ledders and. steadiast faith in the fotlow- ers. You have brought into your ranks some of the best men of your race or of any race. men whose stand- ing, achievements and culture cannot be questioned by the most carping critics. Among you we have noted lawyers, doctors, teachers, authors, publicists, journal- ists, political leaders, business men, and your prestige is growing as fast as your membership. Today any man €an be proud to lift his head and say. “I am an Elk.” How we wish that your oppressed and suffering an- cestors could have lived to see this day! We can hear them chanting the words of the Bible: “Behold. how good it is for brothers to dwell together in unity!” Xnd.we say to you. as Dunbar would have said: a Go on and up! Our souls and eves | Shall follow thy continuous rise. The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti Sacco and Vanzetti are about to die. In spite of all the attempts to save them they have been declared guilty by every legal auchority chosen to hear or re- Flew the case. Many critics still contend that the. guilt of these two men has not been certainly established, that it is an outrage upon liberty and civilization to send men to death under such circumstances. Against their opinion we have the word of lifelong students of Jaw, who went over every word of the testimony. We wonder just how much of the objection to this execution is due to sincere horror, to a fear that the men have not had a fair trial. ‘Such things have hap- pened before in America, hundreds of times. without 2 Word irom the present objectors. Hundreds? We should Say thousands. thousands of loyal American citizens put to death, not only without a fair trial. but without fay kind of trial, Yet. here are two avowed anarchists. anemies of everything America has stood for. fought for, bled for; they are allowed to live seven years aiter IRE Commission of the crime of witich they are accused. ‘They are tried and found guilty: they are tried again and found guilty: their case is reviewed by three legal sages and they are found guilty. When they are await- ing execution. a stay comes at the last hour and they are given eleven more days to live. In the face of all this procedure some people pro- fess to be shocked. If they had been equally shocked by the thousands of lynchings we might be more ine ined to believe them now.. Inconsistency in matters of justice begets mistrust. . The sincere and consistent liberal opinion, such as that of The New York World, carries much more weight. Tr holds that, in view of the repeated trials and reviews af the ease, the two men should be punished, but that Because of the pervading doubt of their guilt they rettd be sentenced to lite imprisonment only, so that fhe law's mistake, if there should be one, could be rec~ tified later. With this logic we dc not agree. According to American law, 2 man is innocent till he is proved guilty beyond a doubt. As Jong as there is a doubt geyan is legally innocent. If there is a certanity of Seccn's and Vanzetti’s guilt they should receive the full penalty of the law: If there is a doubt of their guilt they should be set free. a LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The Daily X Editor of The’ Amsterdam okews. Si: FPlease allos me to consratu- ate you on the proposed publica fon of The Amsterdam News as Vdally for a week. I sincerely pope it will be a sugcessy, and hat the public will avince songh interest so that fc will be Gssfble to do so permanently Sethe future. om 1919 I have been saying Age daily newspaper and a the pri:ae needs of the ‘const: The modern world Gee and credit, and without these we cannot hope to. get anywhere. ‘Now is the time for public: spirited Negroes to support you and show the world that we 2ave faith in the future of Harlem and the race. (Signed) Arthur E. King. 180 St. Nicholas Ave,, New York City, Aug. 16, 1927. Ex-Slaves’ Convention BIRMINGHAM, Miss. Aug. 20 (ANP)—Simon = Phillips, = who styles himself president and man- ager, donousices that the Ex-Siaves | Association will bold a convention here. Phillips promises a dinner wie white and colored speakers end old-time religion songs and stories. Colored citizens are look- ing for Phillips, who sent his no- tice to white papers. NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS, MONDAY, AUG. 22, 1927 The Soap Box _Sy George S. Schuyler— “ throughout Aframerica 18 damning New York City. Visl- tors fick to Harlem from all sec- tions of Negrodom. They ride Dack and forth on the street cars, the buses, the subways and the elevateds without being Jim- Crowed or insulted. They stroll through or sit down {n all of the parks, wander around the mu: seums and ert galleries and at- tend the theatres “without mo- lestation. They view the splen- ald public ‘schools where chil- dren of all races attend and re- ceive instruction trom teachers of all races. They visit the cabarets and dance halla where the two races mingle freely to the syncopated strains of Jazz orchestras, They notice our stalwart patrolmen. traffic police and detectives, In their ambles around town they find a Negro here and there hold- ing a very responsible position. They do not fail to observe that the masses of Negroes in New York are living in moce senitary and modern habitations than the dark brethren elsewhere. And yet they continue to dazn New York as backward. ‘One would suppose that most of the other Negro communities fn these delightful stares were ahead of sophisticated Harlem. Travel, however. enlightens one. What one finds in the average Negro. community qutside of New York {s precisely what one finds in New York: monopoly of business by Jews, Greeks, Ital- fans, Americans of Nordic des: cent, and other non-Negroes. uring my sojourn on this whirl ing mndball, it has been my good fortune to vistt every Negro com- munity of Importance in the country, and {f there {5 any siz able community of Negroes any- where living better and having rrore social advantages than they have in New York I have yet to see or hear of it. Our critical visitére forget that to a lerce extent businesses owned 07 op- crated by Negroes must stand the general competition hero with all other businesses. ‘There are not many of the in- centives in New York for start: ing strictly Negro, business that fone finds elsewhere. And that fs quite as it should be and is fn Une with what the {deals of all people of color ought to be. ‘There is too much talk of Nerro this and that, where color should be the leaat consideration. And certainly New York can- not be said to de inferior to the other Necro communities in at- tractiveness, Where will one find finer boulevards than Sev- enth avenue, Lenox avenue, St Nicholas avenue. Edgecombe avenue. St Nicholas place and Bradhurst avenue? Here are wide, airy and clean thorough fares in one of the finest sec- ons of Manhattan, What other Negro community can show any- thing Detter? In many ways Seventh avenue is one of the most colorful thor- oughfares in the world, One can stand in front of the Chelsea Bank any day Or night and see pase in review the Dest dressed men and women fn New York, which meang fn the world, These men and women know how to wear their clothes and ther Took well in them, Here ane sees at tractive women in larger num- bere than on ary other street cover I know of: and I have siood on a whole lot of sirect cornecs in different parts of the world, The person with an ere to: beauty never tires of watch- ing the parade of comely girls and women; girls and women, fa the main, who have learned the secret of how to array them- selves attractively. Then there are the educational and cultural advantages In New York which are open to black and white allke. Here are scores “t picture galleries, con- certs, recitals, lectures and doz- ens of private schools-—many open at night—to which Negroes are freély admitted if they have the {nelination and the price to enter. if they haven't the lat- ter there are free concerts, re- cltals, lectures and scbools that can be reached by paying tho cheapest carfare in America. AS & consequence there is more in- tellectual ferment among New Yorkers, black and white, than exists elsewhere in this country. Harlem has rightfully been called the Mecca of tha New Negro. Come to think of it, I belleve this damning of New York's lov- abla Harlem by Negroes else- Intimate Glimpses of Harlem HE Negro settlement Dei rrartem, about which so many people all-over the world have worried and wondered, may be deserib- ed as an island surrounded by parks and a strip’ of water. Contrary to popular belief, its population is not made up of Negroes alone, but cf mixed bloods gen- erally —_ Mexicans, Porto Ricans, Cubans, East In- dians. | Chinese, Japanese, half-Jews. Jews, “Filipinos and a few Negroes. . ‘Until recently, open lots were scattered all over the settle- ment; but the Jews, realizing the worlderful material {from which to extract high rents Which the population offered, formed construction organiza- tions and erected houses cover- ing up the open spaces. Home life. or rather the individual fa- mily home life, as this {s known to Americans, is tmpossible in Harlem, because of the general housing conditions which prevail. In the old days, before the va- cant lots became -covered with houses, the population enjoyed Keeping Fit By E. ELLIOTT RAWLINS, M.D. —HELLO, BILL!— LIS salutation is reverberating all T City during the convention days | this salutation goes a hand shake, slep_on the shoulder and a—drink! “This drink to an Elk is elmost 2 sc a sign of brotherly love. This being : the members of this very large and i tion to think twice after the first drint ehe <ecand drink. LUIS salutation is reverberating all through New York T City during the convention days of the Elks. With this salutation goes a hand shake, = fraternal grip, = slep_on the shoulder and a—drink! we "This drink to an Elk is almost a scerementel ienetic:, a sign of brotherly love. This being so. | am imploring the members of this very large and important organiza~ tion to think twice after the first drink, before they take Prohibition time is no time for fraternal drinks promiscuously taken. When Elkdom first came into ‘existence, good whiskey, brands, wine and gin could de had for the asking. Eleven o'clock was indeed a refreshing ume. But, alas, those days are gone! Today is the dar of pro- hibition, wood alcohol. fusel off and furfurol substance. The pur ity of the drink cannot be rouch- ed for. The bootleggers have been walting to give you a con coction of poison, Make sure, brothers, that their drinks do not make you sick. The stuff that these “prohibition vendors” hare deen keeping for you, brothers, fs surely “too bad:” | Blindness, cirrhosis of the liver, kidney dis- ease. alcobolic neuritis and oth- er things are in every drink, Apoplexy. acute gastritis and dysentery await the drinking of the fraternal toast or the cock- tail of salutation. New York welcomes rou. Har- lem extends to you her culture. her privileses, er places of in- terest, her metropolitan atmos. phere. But for God's sake. re- ject her whiskey and her gin. It you desire to be sure of your drink, then by all means get the best. Good, pure. unadulterated bonded whiskey or gin can be had, I am told, from the preach- ers, the judges, the seaators and the doctors. This fs a friendly advice from one who hopes that your stay in the metropolis will be pleasant and profitable. | erie Can You Tell? |) Seam | for his ness 8 When did Congress pass the | sketch first fugitive slave law? ‘What | and pu was the text of it? ink. 7 (Answers on Back Page.) in this JOURNAL OF NEGR Published by the National U: Charles S, Johnson, I Countee Cullen, Asst. Editor Noah D. 7 17 MADISON AVENTE—NEW - “A mexazine which should be followed aity furlous and interested in America’s © Bacto AONE. of, the mow soterering magazines Siauaa"'New York Heralé-Tribune. 18c. PER COPY SUBSCRIBE TODA JOURNAL OF NEGRO LIFE Published by the National Urban League Charles S, Johneon, Editor Countee Cullen, Asst. Editor Noah D. Thompson, Business Mer. 17 MADISON AVENUB—NEW YORK CITY + A. maxazine which should be followed by all who aro {ntellectt- sty Sef eM SG Beas “Gultirat “advance! Bostos AES WQSE. foe tering magaaines pubtshed tm the United Seca New York Beralé-Pribane- 1Se. PER COPY SUBSCRIBE TODAY! 1c. PER COPY $1.00 FOR SPECIAL EIGHT MONTHS’ SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 FOR ONE YEAR’S SUBSCRIPTION (FOREIGN $1.75) ‘Agents Wanted. Everywhere | READ. BATTLING SIKI; * : = | CIVILIZATION’S DUPE The Sensation of the Year By ELMER CARTER AND A DOZEN OTHER BIG FEATURES IN THE MESSENGER, September, 1927 10c A COPY EVERYWHERE By EDGAR M. GREY 6 tae the unenviable practice of help- ing the city’s scavengers to do thetr jobs by dumping their ref use upon these lots. At present. however, this social deficiency is compensated for by the other. wise spacious back yards and, courts which are now used a8 the refuse ground by the resi- dents. ‘The stores are owned and con- trolled, for the most part. Dy whites, as are’ also the houses and homes of the residents. The shopkeepers, mostly Jews, act as conduits through which pass the earnings of the residents to the great pool of white American wealth. If a Negro opens a store the word is passed around the community requesting it Tesi- dents to go around to his store and look the curlosity over. _ Until very recently the Chin- ase were content to serve chop suey in their eating places and to permit the so-called Nexro restanrants to conipete with the Hungarian and Italian food ven- dors. But lately’ these Orientals have all remodeled their institu- tions upon more or less Western Mines and are today enjoying the increased income which comes from serving American food and thereby seriously reducing the trade of the so-called Negro food BOSTON ARTIST'S WORK ON EXHIBITION HERE The work of Alfred Dickson, Boston artist, is on exhibition this week in New York at head- quarters of the Harmon Prize Awards, 105 East Twenty-second street. It was through Lewis B. Caution. also of Boston. that Mr. Dickson was prevailed upon to submit’bis work. He has been private chauffeur to Calvin Aus- Un, president of the Eastern Steamship Co. for the past twenty years, and, while awalting for his employer to transact busi- ness at the various waterfroncs, sketched scenes with his pencil ‘and put them in watercolor and ink. There are twenty pictures in this exhibit, ee ‘UNITY y NEGRO LIFE fonal Urban League pnéon, Editor yah D. Thompson, Business ter. D—-NEW YORK CITY followed by all who are {ntelleci~ eae cultural ‘advance.”—Bomon agazines published in the United ‘ibune. E TODAY! 15c. PER COPY Fe a houses to & dangerous margin. ‘The theatres are owned and contretied by whites, +n har- mopy with the aims and desires of the residents of the commu. nity. Until the early part of 3827 a colored man struggled along in an already aborted at- Yempt to operate a moving, pic- ture house, which he had erect- ed in the heart of the settle ment., Debts mounted, and credi- tors drove him into the Bad Debts columns; as a result the house was taken over by bis creditors and he in shame and Sith broken health has left the city. Even the dance halls are operated by white folks. the Sa- Yoy being the largest of its kind in the community. The Renats- sance Casino was at one time owned by the same colored com- pany which owned the theatre Bearing its name: but this o1s0 met with the fate of the already mentioned theatre. AS a con- sequence, the only control which the community bas of its own amusement {s the revenue which flows from the dances which ure held by -private social, fraternal and, civic organizations. And everi these must rent the hails In which their dances are kept trom the white owners of nals. MUSIC ‘A chorus of 75 voices from the Nixon Music School, under the direction of A. Eugene Nixon, gave an all-Negro musicale Fri day evening at the Grace Congre- gatfonal Church before a large and highly appreciative audi- ence. ‘The program, featuring the works of well-known com- posers, was made up of solos ard, Choral’ singing. The work of the chorus, as far ax Interpretation, tone and dic- tion are concerned, gave a fine example of ensembie singing. The composers represented on the program were Johnson. Bur- leigh, Nixon. Coleridge Taylor, White and Dett. Eolos were sung by Mrs. Angle Lewis, Miss Daisy Thomas, Mrs. Bessie Roberts, A. E. Nixon, Mrs. Delia Richardson. Mrs. W. E. Ashton. Miss Queen Esther Barnes, Miss Vessie Miller, Mrs. Elizabeth Dudley. A violin solo was played by Prof. H. L. Gall- way, and pisno solo by Miss Fe- lice Sadgwar, both guest artists. ‘The program served to call at tention to. the serious work that Negro composers have done in the field of composition, as well as to the strength and beauty of Negro music. Mrs. E. S. Johnson, accom: panist, gave excellent support. 7 GA New York Celebrates Slavery Abolition This city recently celebrated the J00ch” anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the State of New York. In 1S20 there were still 15,000 slaves in the state, and the anti-slavery element was | growing restless with the slow- ness of the elimination process. In 2817, when DeWitt Clinton was governor, x btil was signed, on March 31, providing that “any Negro, mulatto or mustee with- in this state born before the fourth day of July, 1799, shall from and after the fourth day of July. 1827, be free.” and that children born of slaves between S17 and 1827 should be born free, but held to service until "twenty-one years of age. | ‘This provision was later con- firmed by the revised statutes passed and signed December 3, 1827, which declares, “every per> | son dorn within this state, whether white or colored, is free; every person who shall hereafter ‘be born within this | state shall be fr" - r s Sept. “Opportunity” Presents New Studies ‘The September issue of Op- portunity promises to be. bril- lant, both pictorially and in the art'sies it will contain. The cov- er will be a beautiful black and white Grawing by Charles Cullen, the young artist whose illustra tions of “Copper Sun” hare met such favorable criticism. Seasonally appropriate will be found the articles on freshmen by Prof, Ambrose ‘Caliver, re- cently appointed dean at Fisk and’ the first, Negro to hold that position: a timely supplement is supplied by Prof. Robert Kerlin's expose of the Negro undergrad. nate mind. Dr. H. L, Harris of Chicago furnishes a scientific and informative paper on Negro health, * ‘Eugene Gordon's prize winning story, “Game,” from the recent Opportunity contest, having as its protagonist 2 magnigcent and malevolent yellow cat called Mussolini, $3 churacteristically uetrated by Richard Bruce. John E. Matheus contributes a special article on the Poetry of Haitt. “God's Trombones" is review- ed, as is Eva Jessye's beautiful collection, “My Spirituals”; and as a literary piece de resistance there will be E. Merrill Root's review of Countee Cullen's sec- ‘ond book of verse, “Copper Sun” —a review that ig a marvel of starkly beautiful creative criti ‘cism, Books I Have Read. Recently _ By W.E.B. DU BOIS + ‘ gt “The Anatomy of African Misery” Y FAR the most, interesting recent book on Africa is “The Anatomy of African Misery,” by Lord Olivier, We ail talk about South Africa. Some of us recog- nize it on the map. Others know that there is a Negro problem down there that has some resemblance to outs, Dut they are mot clear as to just how it resembles our problem and How it differs. This book will tell them, he man who wrote it was former Governor of Jamaica, He is not simply a “friend” of the Negro race, he is an intelligent student of their difficulties. ‘and in this book of 234 pages, published in England, he explains the Ne- f 234 pages, publisned in & Be eee ee te tae e tee: It 1s a problem that differs in several fundamental respects from our problem in the United States, Instead of having population predominately white with less than one-tenth oNNegro descent, the Unfon of South Africa bas a population pre- dominately black and brown of which less than 25 per cent-are white. The black population for ‘the most part is without educa- tion and 1s only recently getting leadership. This shows that the white people are in great fear of Negroes and this fear is shown in the way in which they are try- ing to put even the lowest of the whites above the best of the packs. Lord Olivier says: “The matured and combined result of this economic and poll- ——_—————— Between Two Extremes. COPPER SUN—By Countee Cul Jen. Harper and Bros. $2.00. OUNTEE CULLEN Is uke ‘an Urn with three coats of enamel. The basic coat is the emotional richness of the Negro. Over this is the lacquer of Twentieth century jntellectual- {sm. The final coat, of course, 4g the melodic aestheticism of the poet. “Copper Sun.” his latest volume, strikes the medium be- tween the two extremes of Negro Mterary opinion. One of these schools holds that 2 Negro poet should write only as a Negro: the other contends that he ghould never write as a Negro. Cullen ignores both schools and ‘writes only as Countee Cullen, which Is the best thing any writ- er could do. Writing as himself, he will at times “inevitably write from a Negro viewpoint, but his fancy js just 28 Mkely to lead Bim to thoughts of Queens Guinevere, Endymion or the animals in 2 zoo. Poetry was not born to harpion one string. In other respects. too, Cullen's ‘verse has balance. He succumbs neither to the temptation to say pretty nothings nor to the other danger of saying some things too crudely. “Copper Sun contains pooms whose impact will be felt When their words if not their thoughts have been forgotten by the reader. “Threnody to a Brown Girl." “Colored Blues Singer” ond “From the Dark Tower” have a feeling not often seen in the verse of today. “The Litany of the Dark People” ex- presses perfectly the Christian spirit of the Negro. We quote one of its stanzas: ; And if we hunger now and thirst, Grant our withholders may ‘When heaven's constellatie=3 ‘burst : Upon Thy crowning day, Be fed by us. and given to sco The mercy in our eyes, ‘When Bethlehem and Calvary ‘Are merged in Paradise. Froni this the book goes on to poems of untversal application. *Thougats in a Zoo,” with its last two Hnes of philosophy, the sardonic “Im, Memoriam," “The Loss of Love,” with its pure lytic note. and the poem on the Medi- terranean Sea are all notable. “In Spite of Death,” @ sonnet, has a note of triumph not gener- ally seen tn Cullen. His verse hag always bad @ fsvor of sad- ness, as if the poet felt and fore- saw nothing but defest at the hands of love, race-hate, diseaso and death. In this book, too he seems obsessed at times with death, dust and the grave. Youns poets’ ere always looking for death; older poets turn their backs on it ax long as possible. It ts the old men, Browning, Tennyson, Emerson, whom we find facing death with optimism and a sense of victory. In the sonnet we refer to Cullen writes Ake them: Though death should closet me tonight. I swear Tomorrow's sun would find his ‘cupboard bare—A. B. L Homely Philosophy | By GEORGIA DOLGLAS gaaved Boasting T= man who boasts is rarely courageous. He is like the barking dog. But beware of the silent man, with him to speak is to act. .We fear the roaring thunder but it fs the swift stroke of the lightning that ‘works havoc. “L will do this.” “I will do that,” says the braggart. Fear not. Boasting is not courage, tical history has been to estab Ush throughout South Africa, Dut most Uncompromisingly ig the Bantu lands outside of the Cape Province, colonized br the Boers, a discrimipation between white man's statts and Kattr gtatus—and. correspondingly, white man’s work and Kaflirs work—the latter facluding all unskilled manual labor. ‘The white man commands, directs, supervises; the black maa works. Further, the employer fa all classes. acting in accordance with the essential principles of capitalist economics, has con sistently taken advantage of the cheapness of the sudsistence needs of the Kaftir, of his tgnor ance of the ways of white civilt zation and of his political im potence to keep down the wages of all unskilled labor to levels at which the white man cannot live on them. Agriculture pre dorsinated, and im other hascent industries it equld not be permit: ted that wagés should tempt black labor away from the farms.” To all this has been added the great investments in diamonds and gold mines and the cou sequent exploitation of labor. Here there is a tremendous dir crimination fn wages: “The white man’s wages, then, for all employments on tbe Rand, average seven times those of the Diack, Including rations and housing, and tu nifaing work with machines, done by Kaifirs boss- ed by white men, the proportion 4s from ten to oue upwards. The proportion of the wages of skill ed to unskilled labor in Ensland in simflar work averages tfteen to eleven—in the “engineering trades about fourteen to ten. The high white wages, it is uncom promisingly recognized and stat- ed, can only be paid on condl- tion of natives alone being ex: ployed for all unskilled and sexi skilled labor, and being paid at 2 sweated wage. “The miniug mdustry sets the standard of wages for all white South African skilled labor, and a ratio between white and black wages of from over ten to one down to six to one runs through the whole structure of industry. This direct dependence of the white worker's very high wages (the bighest in the Old World) upon the very low wages of the native laborer is the secret of the philosophy of the industrial color bar, extensively applied proviously tn practice, and re- cently embodied in legislation at the demand of the white South African Labor Party.” One can imagine from this the situation in this land and the way St {s differing, No wonder that a native South African white author writes: “The attitude of the colonists 4s absolutely suicidal. They rely solely on machine guns for their supremacy. All the labor of the country {s preformed by nailves: the whites are degenerating very quickly; they have been morally defeated by tho native’s power of sufferings, by his tenacity of life, and lastly but most import- antly, of the Diack man's sense ‘of humour.” THE POETS’ CORNER area Sar seen a a In Spite of Death Ae Sine cotta oe the thought that dust Once raised to monumecial Pride of breath, To no extent affirms the right of death To raze cuch splendor to am ‘ancient rust, “Grass witheréth, the Somer tadeth;~ yea, But in’ the ‘violated seed exults, ‘The Dleakest winter throush. ‘a deathless poise. Beating. “Spring, wipes tis ‘sacrilege away.” No less shall 1 ing some ne? fashion fare by, Again, when death ge 210° my candles out: Although my blood went dows in shamefsl rout Tonight, by all this ins ‘fame holds fair. Though death should close: He romight, I swear Tomorrox's yun would 4nd his cupboard dare. COUNTEE CULLEN, Grom “Copper Se". Side Lights on SOCIETY Mr. and Mrs. Harry C. Waters. 736 St. Nicholas avenue, were hosts at an informal house party last Monday evening in honor of Mrs. Hadda Jackson Coleman of Pittsburgh. Cards and dancing were the diversions of the evening. A buffet lunch was served. Some of the guests present were: Dr. and Mrs. E. E. Best, Mr. and Mrs. H. Miller, Dr. and Mrs. Ralph Young, Dr. John Randolph, Dr. Joseph Forrester, Mrs. William Randolph and daughter, Elizabeth, of Pittsburgh; Mr. and Mrs. Arlington Payton; Mrs. Evelyn Mayhood of St. Louis; Dr. and Mrs. Terry. Also Miss Katherine Mars, Mrs. Ellizabeth Younger, E. Durham, Miss Audrey Saunders, Miss Norma Griffin, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Brad- dicks, Mrs. Cornie Bishop, Mrs. Edward T. Diggs, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Austin. Also the Rev. McClain of Cam- bridge, Mass.; M. C. Perry of Lite Lock, Ark.; Mr. and Mrs. P. Bolin, Dr. and Mrs. Clifton, Norman, Harry Bragg, Mr. and Mrs. A. Lewis, Amanda and Mrs. Charles Joy, Attorney Ellis Rivers, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Moore, Mrs. Marion Seymore of Charleston, Va. Miss Tennel Sebastian is visiti- ng Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mead of Monongan, W. Va. Miss Amelia Anderson, secre- tory of the Buffalo branch of the N. A. C. P. is the house guest of Miss Richetta Randolph, 334 West Fifty-fourth street, during the session of the Pan-African Congre- tion, to which she is a delegate. Mr. and Mrs. Deaver Young of Athens, Ga. are the guests of Mrs. Viola Woodlyn James on St. Nicholas avenue. A part of Miss Lydia E. Holly's vacation was spent in Buffalo and Niagara Falls last week. The Rev. Clifford T. Miller, pastor of St. Mark's Congregational Church, Boston, is living at 238 West 122nd street, care of Haynes, while he is in the city. Before they return to Talladega College, Mr. and Mrs. William Kindle are spending a few weeks in the city. Misses Alice V. and Ruth N. Johnson are the guests of their brothers, L. C. and C. P. Johnson, 128 West 143rd street. The young ladies are from Greenville, N. C. Arthur Logan, 130 West 150th street, was the dinner guest of Dr. and Mrs. Charles Roberts, West 150th street, last Tuesday evening. Jesse Lewis, who is now a life insurance man in Norfolk and Richmond, Va. arrived in the city last Wednesday. Mrs. Mae Martin, 121 West 144th street, who spent her vacation in Chicago and New Orleans, arrived home Friday. To New York has come Miss Marian Robeson, a teacher in Philadelphia. She is a sister of Paul Robeson, who lives at 355 West 145th street. Miss Addie L. Davis of Wilson, N. C., is visiting friends here. Mrs. Carolina Nichols, 203 West 122d street, was operated on Saturday by Dr. Peter Murray at the Wiley Wilson Santarium. Attorney John E. Roundtree of 4405 Woodland avenue. Cleveland, Ohio, is among the many visitors to the city. Eighth Annual Convention Aug. 30-31—Sept. 1-2 ABYSSINIAN BAPTIST CHURCH COMMUNITY HOUSE Public Sessions Every Afternoon Colifure Review and Dansante Friday, September 2, 1927 Sponsored by Local No. 26, No. 35, No. 37 and No. 38 Mme. Celestine Beavers Daughter Elk— Eureka Temple No. 22 Hair Culturist.Poro System Manfeuring—Facial Massaging 524 Wingrove 145th ST., near 11th AV. Shoppe Phone 6998 Bradhurst 1819 Bradhurst Mme. Hiila Snupe, Mme. Dorothy Bokins, Mme. Holly Whitace, Mme. Jordie, Blackett, Mme. Lander Black, Mme. Leta Ruff. WELCOME Elks and Daughter Elks LILLIAN B. GILLUM BERNICE M. BURR Hairdressing and Massaging 559 LENOX AVE. Bradhurst 7461 THE LADY OF BELGIUM Mrs. Lewis Yinghe Miss Marion Kerr and Lewis Hughes were married 1 Friday evening, August 19. by the Rev. A. C. Garner at 250 West 136th Street. Only members of both families were present. Miss Marion Kerr and Lew evening, August 19. by the Rev. street. Only members of both f Mrs. Hughes is the daughte of Virginia. The groom is the Bridges avenue, Henderson, N. C Mr. and Mrs. Hughes, both Social Club, who left the city their honeymoon with the groom Mrs. Hughes is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Kerr of Virginia. The groom is the son of Mrs. Clara Hughes, 912 Bridges avenue, Henderson, N. C. Mr. and Mrs. Hughes, both members of The Round Table Social Club, who left the city Saturday morning, are spending their honeymoon with the groom's mother. Miss Alma Gray and mother, Mrs. Mayme Gray, of Camden, N. J., and Miss Mary Hill of Philadelphia, Pa., were the guests of their cousins, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Jacobs and Mr. and Mrs. L. E Stakomann last week. Since that time the Jacobs and Stakomanns have moved to Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia. Mrs. Charles Moore and Miss Edith McAllister entertained friends Thursday evening at 140 West 142d street in honor of Miss Oculars Palmer and Miss Gladys Brown visitors here. Confidences Questions and Answer By EGYPSY ANN "Feven's Sake" Dear Eggypsy Ann: I was so glad to read Loona letter in the issue of August I Men are delectable, conceived, mea-sneaky, selfish animals. Just as they find an honest r Some of those present were: Miss Alva Daves, George Rivera, Miss Mabel Robinson, Cornellus Johnson, Miss Carrie Dunlap, Archie Glover, Miss Elizabeth Nixon, Frank Walker, Miss Verdelle Day, Miss Ruth Thomas, Mr. and Mrs, Bouchet Day, Dr. and Mrs, Oma H. Price, Miss Bullock, Countseller Mylea A. Paige, Miss Olyse Mae Thomas, Melvin Sykes, Countseller Lama Perkins, Elmorlitz Young, Mr. Johnson, Dr. Gerald Sean. Mrs Cora Gary Hildge and son, Conrad, returned to city Sunday after spending a month at Narragansett Pier. Mrs Anna Jones Robinson, 103 West 141st street, is the house guest at the summer home of the Huberts, Gray Head, Mass. Prof. Paul Bolin spent his vacation in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. CLUB chats The board of managers of Hope Day Nursery, 33 West 133d street, meet this afternoon at 4 oclock. Miss Maybelle McAdoo is the president; Mrs. P. F. Anderson, secretary. Invitations have been issued to the formal dance of the Criterion Club on Friday evening. September 2, at Imperial Auditorium. In this club are: Alfred S. Coleman, president; Herbert H. Brown, vice-president; W. Harry Wiggins, treasurer; Robert H. Brauer, financial secretary; Oliver C. Wiggins, corresponding secretary; C. Henry Jones, H. Charles Cantwell, W. August LeMonier, Kenneth Williams and Robert L. Alexander. The Morgan College Club of New York on Wednesday evening. August 17, formally opened the new Rose dining room with its first dinner party of the year. Officers of the club are: Mark Smith, president; Rudolph Davidson, secretary; William Bany treasurer. Members were: Members of Morgan College faculty—Dean Hayward, Professors Milton Louis Calloway, George Grant, Edmons, Howard Cornish, Miss Lavinia Kemp and Miss Beulah Davis; students of the college—James Williams, Miss Hilda V. Anthony, chairman of committee, John Gundy, Miss Hilda Armstrong, Coleridge Moore, Miss Ruth Moore, Miss Eleanor Gee. Ms Hughes were married Friday A. C. Garner at 250 West 135th families were present. Mr of Mr. and Mrs. George Kerr son of Mrs. Clara Hughes, 912 members of The Round Table. Saturday morning, are spending m's mother. Confidences Questions and Answers By EGYPSY ANN "F'even's Sake" Dear Eugysp Ann: I was so glad to read Leona's letter in the issue of August 17. Men are deceitful, conceited, mean, sneaky, selfish animals. List as soon as they find an honest girl with good morals they try every means possible to make her give in to their desires. If she does they get tired of her and tell her she is just like all the rest. They figure that now since she's crazy about me I'll look around for another one to break in. If she holds her own they figure that they're wasting time and that she can't have much sense or she'd realize what a prize she's missing. You're true to a man he thinks you're wild about him. Treat 'em mean. Lie to them, make them spend money on you, boss them and hawk 'em out before people. They'll appreciate you then. They like to consider themselves master. Please print this letter. It's exactly how I feel and I want Leona to know that I sympathize with her. ANITA. Dear Anita: I'm terribly afraid that you're doing what so many of us do—that is, judging many by a few. Hey, you can't make a set of rules and say, "Now here's how I'm going to treat men." Treat one man that way and he'll like it; treat another that way and hell! MOST EXCLUSIVE Marcel Waw You can come as near perfection in the development of YOUR BEAUTY if you will always use EYHEL'S Beauty Preparations. If you would know just how very satisfactory our BEAUTY SERVICE is, ask any one of our many customers Telephone AUDUBON 4694 2354 Seventh Avenue, N. Y. C. Southwest Corner of 138th Street NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS, MONDAY, AUG. 22, 1927 Radio Highlights WEAF—7:15 p.m.—"Afternoon A 9:00 p.m.—Gray WJZ — 7:30 p.m.—Rox WGBS — 6:00 p.m.—Luc WHN — 8:00 p.m.—Rose WOR — 10:00 p.m.—The WNYC—10:20 p.m.—Fac Try Your He Muffins—muffins—muffins! how to make good muffins. Try PECAN 1 cup graham flour 1 cup flour 4 tablespoons brown sugar ¼ teaspoon salt 4 tablespoons Mix together dry ingredient ed shortening and boat well. or small muffin ring; put half in hot oven about 15 minutes. This recipe makes 12 muffin rings. 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FRENCH MUFFINS 1½ cups flour ½ teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons baking powder ½ cup Sift flour, salt and baking p shortening which has been melt make soft batter and mix well. fin tin and bake in moderate ov This recipe makes 12 muffins 11½ cups flour ½ teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 cup honey 1 egg 3 tablespoons shortening 1 cup rich milk or thin cream Sift flour, salt and baking powder together; add beaten egg, shortening which has been melted, and honey. Add milk to make soft barter and mix well. Half fill each well-greased muffin tin and bake it moderate oven about 20 minutes. Beauty Hints Sr. MINA TEMPLE Do You Hide Your Hands? Do you hide your hands? If so, I'll tell you some secrets that you may use and then you will proudly bring them forward. Are they calloused with housework or farm work? Then hold the calloused place to the grindstone very carefully and roughness will disappear, also stains. I will give you a very good receipt for whitening hands: half pound of softsoap, a gill of salad oil, an ounce of mutton tallow and boil together. After boiling coarses, add one gill spritze of wine and one spruce of amaragus. Flip pair of gloves too large, spread with this paste and seep up. Wear these at night. A quick night treatment is to rub the hands well with almond oil and plaster them with as much fine chalk as they will hold. After three days they will look splendid. A Motorist's Prayer Teach us to drive through life without skidding into other people's business. Preserve our brake linings that we may stop before we go too far. Help us to hear the knocks in our own motors and close our ears to the clashing of other people's gears. Keep alcohol in our radiators and out of our stomachs. Absolve us from the mains of trying to pass the other automobile on a narrow road. Open our eyes to the traffic signs and keep our feet on the brakes. be among the missing; treat still another that way and he'll cut you up with a razor. Study your man! If you find you've got a good upright man give him a square deal too. If he is a conceited, smart aleck show him up a couple of times. Remember that you can't feed grass to a lion or ment to a sheep. Don't be discouraged. The right man will come and the longer you wait the more you'll be able to appreciate him. Cheer up, Anita. EGYPSY ANN. USIVE ETH ving You can come as near perfection in the development of YOUR BEAUTY if you will always use ETHEL'S Beauty Preparations. how.very satisfactory our BEA BON 2354 Seventh A Arica and Its Needs," Chief moah. and Opera Artists Brys Gang Ky Roberts' Entertainers Ireland Dance Orchestra Collegians Us About New York und at These Every good cook has to know your hand at these recipes: 4 teaspoons baking powder ½ cup chopped pecan nuts 1 cup milk 1 egg as shortening s: add nuts, milk, egg and melt- half fill each greased muffin tin pecan on each muffin and bake s, or 24 if baked in small muffin 1 egg 3 tablespoons shortening 1 cup rich milk or thin cream honey powder together; add beaten egg. ed, and honey. Add milk to Half fill each well-greased mu- fen about 20 minutes. Key to Culture By LEOLA LILLARD "Hotel Bound" RESERVE your room in advance. Relinquish your bags at the door to the attendants. Women and men alike are expected to sign themselves in the hotel register with the title they are known by, as "Miss," "Mrs.", "Mr." "Dr." etc. Husbands and wives sign "Mr. and Mrs." After the name, the State and town from which the visitors have come should be written. When eating if one drops a fork or any part of the dinner service, he should not pick it up, but ignore the incident and request another from the waiter in charge. When departing, leave no trace of your bad habits behind to bother you. Do not attempt to carry your bags down to the entrance. Call for the attendant. Return all keys to the clerk at the desk, pay all outstanding bills, and request the attendant to call your cab. If you are leaving in this manner. It is dignified to leave the address of your next stopping place with the desk clerk so that mail or information may be forwarded to you. Thearcher Says— August 21 is a very good birthdate for those who are musical and for those who are in high places, although there is a tendency to adverse happenings from travel, and also possible friction with the opera orchestra. These authors and authors may expect a very good year. These natives should take out an accident policy before traveling. Hotel Olga Guests The Rev. J. R. Harris Jr., R. C. Terry, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mirror. William Tapley, Mr. and Mrs. William Harrison, Philadelphia; Mrs. M. C. Baylor, Milwaukee; Dr. and Mrs. W. L. Berry, Baltimore; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dickerson; Canton; Atty. and Mrs. H. A. Rucker, New York City; Joe H. James Jr., Jacksonville; James Williams. EL'S BEAU M BUTY SERVICE is, ask any or Avenue, N. Y. C. THE STUDIO Her Heart is Yours IMPOEW Miss New York Atlantic City; Mr. and Mrs. George W. Reynolds, Washington, D. 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Misses Vashtl Maxwell and Wharton left the city for Hampton, Va, last Friday. The members of Bethel A. M. E. Church will tender their pastor, the Rev. C. Harold Stepteau, a reception. Bishop A. L. Galnes left last Friday for Chicago. Mrs. Sarah B. Holmes of 638 West Mosher street, widow of the late Rev. J. A. Holmes, was buried FOR MILADY FRENCH PERFUME POWDER, COLD CREAM Get your favorite Perfume. Powders for discriminating women: Coty's & Houbigaint's Bottle $1.00 Special Price .85c " 2.00 " " $1.50 " 3.75 " " 2.75 " 6.75 " " 5.75 CHRISTMAS EVE PEACHES AND CREAM AN FIVE last Sunday, Funeral services were held from Whatcoat M. E. Church, which charge the Rev. Holmes served prior to his death. Mrs. Holmes is survived by the following children: John Clay Holmes of Chicago; Mrs. Violet James of New York; Prof. D. O. W. Holmes of Howard University, and Mrs. Halle Burton. The deceased was 73 years of age. Samuel T. Hemsley, undertaker, is spending two weeks in New York. Mrs. Cora Hawkins, 514 Oxford street, and Mrs. Grace Raiff, 1220 W. Lafayette avenue, motored to Newark last week. They are now attending the Elks' convention in New York. Mrs. Sarah E Burgess, matron of the Y. W. C. A., has left the city to spend a few weeks in Atlantic City. Mrs. Violet Manokoo, 634 George street, spent last week visiting in Washington. Dr. Frank Saunders, accompanied by his mother, Mrs. Hattie Saunders, and aunt, Mrs. Fannie Young, of Twoson, and Mrs. Ethel J. Day, motored to Harpers Ferry on last Sunday. 'S BOUDOIR The fastidious person is distin- guishable in any gathering by her pertume, powder and cream she uses. The fellows cling to her just as the aromas of these French Per- fumes, Powders and Creams cling to her person. er and Cold Cream today. Sugger. Adam & Eve Gottle $1.50 Special Price 75c " 2.50 " " $1.50 " 5.00 " " 3.00 " 10.00 " " 7.00 $27.00 NOW $21.00 D HIGH BROWN POWDER IcVEY KNOCKS OUT EDDIE DEMPSEY England Beats France B. B. 5370 J. E. LONDON of the British Track Team shown running the 200-metre final at Stamford Bridge, London, team De Greele of France. London's time was 22 and 129th tenth seconds. The British track men won by 66 OUT of the turmoll of fouls and 'bewarous' fighting turned in here of late we pause to ponder: How long, O Lord, how long" will it be long now? Will it be a ducked. Time was when boxing was referred to as an entertainment, but it won't be long now unless we see a change for the best. STARTING with the Paolina Wills caster, when the Old Brunswick Panzer, and when the Purple owl had juvenile baskets bell recently cloaked and covered, and we discovered Harry can still beat most any rassler in the rackets he enmeshed Poorlem in, the lab of the wolf. He would have tested the skill of Houdini and Farmer Berna-to escape. HARRY was slower than a century plant, and the Basque was having no more luck than a woodpecker in a petrified willow. Fourth, when he swished an overhand right to Harry's pork pressers and he went down like a California Redwood. He finally obtained the upright and Usedomounahed have taken the right Byrd, but when he did he knocked Wills lower than contempt. In the brief Tom Heeney-Bud Gorman tracs Heeney showed himself more to be one of, if not the best, heavies of the show. He always gives you a run for your money. He and Bud were stepping faster than a Hula dancer with her grass. He was the one when several volleys below the dead line. From then on Bud got more action for his money than a man purse. He referred to the showers when he still aimed at the knees. THE Delaney-Usedgum affair, the most recent of the series, had it continued along the last half as the first. Umsi's map would show at the finish. His backstage work was superb and his 'said Ray Schalk, sitting at the ropes, green with envy on his hand, and thought he told Bell. Delaney said he understood it was the Woodman birthday, so he presented him with several pairs of socks. If he didn't, Bellman traveled ten thousand miles. He couldn't have been more helpless in a straitjacket and Gregon boots. His left hook was an O'Dess as life was a joke with 'suspects.' He didn't quite get you, he said, as he missed the stealth time: DELANEY stepped inside his hook on several occasions and drove a right into his dimples that made his tasks snap his shoestrings apart, his heels jarred out more window panes than the subway bombs. Delayed anyone tell you shenny to SMALL for the door locker. He has arms and shoulders large enough for any of them. If he doesn't measure up, it's due to other reasons. At the maze Poorlena was setting Delaye could have doubtless gone the entire distance and raised his foot as though hurt. In the seventh somewhere, but he certainly appeared able to continue. A VERY different picture was presented at the Garden the night Paul Berlenbach and Bob Lawson met, one striving to regain mer laurels, the other him enclosing a ladder. Starting at the bell, they began matching punches, Lawson sending murderous rights to the head, dropping Paul to the base three times, hitting it off and fighting. Berly was plooding forward under a withering barrage of rights and trading left hooks to the body for them, and just he appeared, the man, Sandy, rallied and would drive Lawson to the rope with a crumpling spray of body blows. Finally, in the seventh, Lawson, battles to the less put by Berlenbach, bombarded Berlenbach, went down, cramped into such a position he was conscious but unable to get up, and was carried to his corner. THIS was one of the most spectacular aight of the year and the customers were highly pleased with their efforts. More bouts of this sort would go a long way toward stimulating the fading fistfulting interest. Fair View Golf Club to Hold Big Tourney PHILIDELPHIA, Pa.—The Fair View Golf Club, newly organized sports body of the Quaker Club, will hold an invitation Golf Tourna- JACK McVEY K.O.S DEMPSEY JACK McVEY K.O.S DEMPSEY Had White Boy Down in Fourth Round for Five Count in Great Bout. ALBANY, Aug 20—(Special to The Amsterdam News)—In one of the most splendid bouts in which he has taken part recently Jack McVey, the crack New York fighter, knocked out Eddie Dempsey in the fourth round of a scheduled twelve-round bout there tonight. From the first round McVey was master of the situation. In the third round he sent some wicked body blows into Dempsey that made the white fighter curl up and hold. Coming out in the fourth he caught everything sent his way almost before the blows were started, and as Dempsey tried to fight to the floor for the count of five, Dempsey was groggy as he rose to his feet and the referee humanely stopped the bout. With his recent defeat of K. O. Kelly and his knockout of Johnnie Saxton at Goshen, N. Y., McVey continues, on his campaign of removing every obstacle in his way towards a fight with Pete Latzo, which it was announced would take place in the near future. MANDELL FEARS 'BABY JOE' GANS Will Have No Part of the Great Little Western Fighter. Word from the West brings the information that Sammy Mandell, so-called lightweight champion of the world, has issued a statement that he will have to be given a large part of the United States to induce him to enter the roped arena with "Baby" Joe Gans, the lightweight out California way who has been creating a sensation. This informant also states that an attempt will be made to force Mandell into a match with Gans the coming winter, as the Negro fighter will be brought East and given a chance to show his wares. Already tentative bookings have been made with local managers for the invasion of the Californian. It is being whispered in boxing circles that plans are on foot to attempt to dethrone Bruce Flowers from his place in the spotlight, although nothing has been said about matching Gans with the New Rochelle lad. The coming of Gans to this part of the country will also do a great deal in arousing the waning interest in the lightweight division, as Mandell is far from being a popular champion. ment, consisting of match play only, on the Korokung golf course on September 12, 13 and 14. The tourney will follow in the wake of the National Open at the Mapleleda Country Club of Stowe, Massachusetts, and the Shady Rest Club Open, held at Westfield, N. J., on September 8, 9, and 10. The Fairview tourney will be the first one held over the Korokung course and the first all colored tourney held in Philadelphia. Cups and trophies will be awarded to each sixteen and runner up. A gold medal goes for the low score. WHOOOE! this paper gives me the willies every day there is an Accident! GOSH! I'll turn to the back of the page and see what the number report is. People should be careful when walking. Doggone it I can't find the page. Never Mind the Number you need to know Where Bellevue Hospital is located. Say! There is a good NUMBER 34967 AL BROWN TO FIGHT TAYLOR Championship Match to Be Staged by Tex Rickard at the Garden. Al Brown who has been creating a sensation in Europe, will be returning to this country early next month to prepare for his fight with Bud Taylor at Madison Square Garden. While some o. is friends are doubtful that Brown will be able to make the weigh ...as advised the sporting editor of The Amsterdam News by cable that he will be ready when the gong rings if Taylor can be induced to go through with the battle. Jess McMahon, matchmaker at Tex Richard's Home of Swat, in THE NEW YORK TIMES AL BROWN The Above Is the Latest Picture of the Popular Little Fighter Taken in Paris. formed the writer recently that he is very much pleased with the showing made by Brown in Europe and will do everything in his power to bring about this fight. "I believe," said Jess, "that this battle will have much to do with creating interest among the little fellows. Since the campaigning among the big fellows our smaller fighters have been forced into the background, but with the Taylor-Brown match I believe that the feathers and bantams will return to their rightful place in the limelight." AMUSEMENT Palisades Restaurant and Grill 155 ATKINS AVE. ASBURY PARK, N. J. Special Accommodations for Week- End Guests and Automobile Parties MR. AND MRS. BEENT Owner and Proprietor H. GLASS VALET AND TAILORING ESTABLISHMENT Also Repairing, Altering and Dyeing 115 W. 142D ST. N. W. Cor. Lenox Ave. N. Y. C. WE SUGGEST The Spar Restaurant 464 Lenox Ave. N. E. Cor. 133rd St. NEW YORK CITY McCLEAN & WATSON Proprietors NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS, MONDAY, AUG. 22, 1927 FREDERICK The "Panama Puma" Hasn't Done so Well in Australia and Would Like to Return to the States. TUSKEGEE GETS READY FOR FALL Great Schedules Laid Out for Southern Gridiron Warriors. TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE. Ala. In another ten days Tuskegee's football campaign will be launched. Notices have been sent out to members of last year's varsity squad, prospects from the scrub teams, and others listed as available to play to report to the Alumni Bowl on Thursday, September 1. for the initial workout and practice. This will give the squad four weeks' preparation before opening game with Straight College of Now Orleans, Louisiana, on October 1. Only six of the first string ever victorious team of last fall are among those who will report when Head Coach Abbott starts his search for men to fill the other five positions. The outlook for the backfield is very bright. The great forward wall that held all comers --- --- for the last three years has been sadly depleted. The opening of football practice coming one week before the beginning of the school term, allows only six hours of instruction for the week. The presence of sterling backfield material is the one bright spot in the outlook for the eleven, and if the line comes through in good fashion, followers of the team expect a good season. Commetning on the general prospects for the Tigers, Coach Abbott stated that the main handicaps at present are the lack of a forward passer and the absence of reserves for the line. "I propose to devote a great deal of time to the development of a forward passer and line replacements," stated Coach Abbott. "The first two weeks will consist of light drills, limbering-up exercises and the combining of new material for likely prospects," he continued. Incoming football material is of unknown quality, but the hope is expressed that promising line timber will be located among the new comers. Ernest T. Bailey, of Columbus, Mississippi, Tuskegee's great plunging halfback, will lead the 1927 Tigers, and will report for the first practice along with the other regulars from last year's eleven. THE FRENCH LADIES' AND GENTS' TAILOR 615 LENOX AVE. Bet. 140th and 141st Sts. M. TILATNIKOFF, Proprietor NEW YORK J. FLICKER Ladles' and Gents' Tailor FRENCH DRY CLEANING REPAIRING AND PRESSING CLOTHING FOR SALE 101 W. 136TH ST. Near Lenox Ave. New York City and the cooking and service are fit for a king LIONEL LOUISE DINING ROOM Home Cooking Exclusive - Refined 113 WEST 127TH STREET MRS. MARIE FRANKLIN Proprietor Phone Morningside 7499 A CORDIAL WELCOME TO ELKDOM O, BILL! COME TO Tea Garden BEST RESTAURANT AND 140TH STREET EXCELLENT MUSIC — DANCING ER PRICES Phone: Harlem 6389 RAYMOND D. ROSE Prop. It's Harlem's Oldest Favorite ROSE'S ESTABLISHED 1910 d Dining Room E Bet. 131st and 132nd Sts. J. W. ROSE & SON, Proprietors IN SANITATION" AMATEUR BOUTS TONIGHT, AUG.22 Simon Pures Will Again Perform at Tex Rickard's Home of Swat. The third weekly amateur boxing tournament of the Metropolitan Association A. A. U. will take place at Madison Square Garden on Monday evening, Aug. 22. BROOKLYN BROOKLYN LODGE NO.32 BROOKLYN LODGE NO.32 I. B. P. O. E. OF W. Extends a welcome to the visiting members of Elkdom and invites them to visit its Home at 1068 FULTON ST., BROOKLYN, N. Y. Our Home will be open for the entertainment and pleasure of the visiting Brothers and Daughters from 1 P. M. to 12 midnight during the entire week of the convention. DIRECTIONS TO HOME: From Harlem—Take subway at 135th Street. direct to Brooklyn. At Hoyt Street, Brooklyn, take Fulton Street trolley to Classon Avenue. OPEN HOUSE NIGHT, FRIDAY, AUGUST 26 Cabaret, Dancing, Dining, Beautiful Surroundings. Do Not Fail to Visit New York State's Oldest Lodge Before Leaving BROOKLYN LODGE NO. 32, I. B. P. O. E. OF W. 1068 FULTON STREET, BROOKLYN, N. Y. WELCOME "PRINCE" ELKS TO Prince's Cafes 2243—7th Ave. at 132d St. 2280—7th Ave. at 134th St. and 2398—7th Ave., at 140th St. EVERYBODY GOES TO Al's Billiard Parlor 2493 SEVENTH AVENUE Bet. 144th and 145th Streets Phone Audubon 9989 Refreshments of All Kinds High Grade Cigars and Cigarettes The Place to Meet Your Friends ALBERT M. SMITH Something Doing Every Minute from 7 A. M. to 1 A. M. Extends a Hearty Welcome to Visiting Elks ers in the Metropolitan District will compete. The winners of last Monday's bouts will also be on hand. They are, namely: Nick Antonelll, Beecher's Club; Joe Barrows, unattached; Phil Leun, Astoria K. of C.; Ruby Berger, Bush Terminal Y. M, C, A., and Robert Olin, Park Boro Club. These weekly amateur bouts have become very popular with the amateur boxing fans and it is expected that a very large crowd will be on hand to root for their favorites. A bantamweight special has been arranged between George Ross of the Seward Gym and San Fortitta, Yorkville Boys' Club. This bout has aroused a great deal ODGE NO.32 By CHARLES ROBINSON of enthusiasm among the two rival clubs and the members of both will be on hand. There will be, fourteen bouts contested and the first one will be put on at 8:30 p. m. Entry blanks can be had at the Metropolitan Association A. A. U. headquarters. Room 303, 305 Broadway, N. Y. C. A Welcome I. B. P. O. E. of W. Bell & Delany, Inc. 202 W. 135th St., Near 7th Ave. The best that New York City affords in men's furnishings have been secured for the con- venience of the visiting Elks at REGULAR PRICES. Ide and Phillips-Jones Shirts Arrow and Van Heusen Collars Beautiful Assortment of Ties QUALITY SERVICE FAIR PRICES HARLEM'S ONLY NEGRO HABERDASHERS Visiting Elks and Friends You Are Welcome at the Headquarters of Henry Lincoln Johnson Lodge No. 630 321 West 126th Street Open House Always The Members of New York's Youngest Lodge Greet With Characteristic Cordialness All Elkdom and Wish the Visitors a Pleasant Stay. Welcome, Elks, to Our City WILLIAM BANKS 107 WEST 132ND ST. Phones: Harlem 6976—Morningside 0859 Hello, Bill! JIMMIE 2175 Seventh Ave. Welcomes You "Troubadours" Feature Opening Alhambra Bill The Alhambra Theatre, 125th street and Seventh avenue, opened again this afternoon. George Cooper, formerly of Robinson and Cooper, is taking a prominent part in the week's convention, offering " The Troubadours." Other performers in the cast include: Tim Moore, formerly of "Africana": Ida Brown, the original "Baby Blues" of the show by that name, written by Alex Rogos and Luckeyth Roberts; Mattle Harries, Toy Brown, Clarice Mudglin, Lollipop Jones, Amanda Randolph, George Booker, Hilda Pearlina, Angelina Mitchell, Al Watts, Sheldon Hoskins, the Troubadour Dancing Trio, the Dixie Songblirds, the Sunski; Dancing Dolls. Edgar Hayes and his Symphonic Orchestra will be in the pit. George Stamper is responsible for the dance numbers in the show. "Africana" Reopens "Africana," headed by Ethel Waters, reopened Saturday at Shubert's National Theatre. Forty-first street west of Broadway. For five weeks this show played at Daly's Sixty-fourth Street Theatre. Waller Sailing for France Walter Saling for France Thomas ("Fats") Waller, organist at the Lafayette Theatre, salis for Paris, France, Sept. 5, to play at the Gaumont Palace Motion Picture Theatre. Through the efforts of William Morris, he will officiate at this theatre as chief organists for eight months. Mr. Waller is not only an organist of distinction, but is known as one of the cleverest pianists in America. His Q. R. S. and Victor records rank with the best sellers. He is also a promising composer. "Senorita Mine" and "Squeeze Me" are examples of his work. The New Manhattan Casino, one of New York's largest and most beautiful ballrooms, which is now under new ownership, has recently been completely reconstructed and is now open for bookings for next season. The rates of this spacious ballroom have been greatly reduced, thus making it more desirable for exclusive balls, fashion shows, games, banquets, amateur theatricals and other publis functions. On the Screen Commencing today the Lafayette Theatre is presenting Buck Jones in "The Whispering Sage." This picture is being run in conjunction with the Dewey Wineglass revue which opened this afternoon. Laura La Plante and Tom Moore opened at the Roosevelt Theatre last Saturday in a three-day run in "The Love Thrill." It will continue as the Roosevelt's special attraction this evening. At the Douglas Theatre, Glen Tyron is showing in "Painting the Town," while Richard Talmadge appears in "Stepping Lively." The Alhambra Theatre, which GREETINGS --- MR. AND MRS. NewAlhamb MR. AND MRS. HARLEM PUBLIC NewAlhambra Theatre 126th Street and Seventh Avenue OPENS TODAY With a Feel Novelties The Troubado 12 Comedians --- 20 Girls --- 50 Glorifying Bronze Be OPENS TODAY With a Feast of Novelties 12 Comedians --- 20 Girls --- 50 People IDA BROWN, "BABY BLUES" CLARICE MUNDGIN, MATTIE HARRIS, TROY BROWN AND LOLLIPOP JONES, AMANDA RANDOLPH, HILDA PEARLINA, ANGELINE MITCHELL, GEORGE BOOKER, AL F. WATTS, SHELDON HOSKINS, TROUBADOUR DANCING TRIO, DIXIE SONGBIRDS. 20 — THE SUNKIST DANCING DOLLS — 20 EDGAR HAYES AND HIS SYMPHONIC ORCHESTRA DANCE NUMBERS BY GEORGE STAMPER To Home Folks a Glad Surprise--- ---To Visitors a Positive Revelation This Whirlwind of Merriment at the NEW ALHAMBRA MARY MAY New Playing at the Alhaba With the "Trombadours!" Removed to Hospitals Bob Lee. 36. 118 West. 137th street; lacerations of the left shoulder during an altercation with Edward Thews. 251 Edgecombe avenue. last Wednesday. Dorothy Sonson. 30. 206 West 145th street; childbirth; last Wednesday. Sarade McDonald. 40. 10 West 138th street; gastritis; last Wednesday. Beatrice Brodie. 32. 225 West 136th street; removed in ambulance by Dr Lynch; last Tuesday. Eletha McKay. 24. 159 Edgecombe avenue; childbirth; last Monday; the child died. Johnnie Powell. 36. 67 West 132d street; was taken ill last Wednesday. Margarette Bartlett, 41, 43 West 1322 street; observation, by Nurse Smith. - Morris Bernstein, 55, white, 55 Riverside drive; fractured skull; struck by car at 155th street and Eighth avenue "L" station. Robert Bacon. 35, white. 586 East 169th street, a motorman on the l. R. T., found unconscious in his cab by Stationmaster Harry T. Broughton, white. Bacon suffered a fractured skull in some unknown manner at the 145th street and Lenox avenue subway station. Struck by Automobiles Charles Thorpe, 46. 168 West 144th street; contusions of the left ELKS, VISITORS ARLEM PUBLIC! With a Feast of elties badours Girls --- 50 People ronze Beauty Harlem Columbus Fordham "The Greatest Artist of Her Race and Generation" Ashton Stevens, Chicago Herald Examiner. "AFRICANA" With The Greatest Colored Revue of All Time "Ethel Waters Is the Most Intriguing of All Comedians, Whatever Their Race, Age or Sex, on the Stage Today." — Harriet Underhill, N. Y. Herald Tribune This Great Show Has Moved to Shubert NATIONAL Theatre 41st St., West of Broadway MIDNITE SHOW THURSDAY Continued From Page One By AUBREY BOWSER HE unrolled a strip of paper in her hand. It was a clipping from the Philadelphia Challenger, one of the most prominent Negro newspapers of the country. The clipping contained the photograph of Hannibal Thorne and an account of his career. Only thirty-five years old, he was already the leading Negro banker in the United States; his bank in Philadelphia was held forth as an example of what Negroes could do in business. After graduation from Howard University at the age of twenty-two, he had worked as an elevator boy while he studied banking at New York University. Then, with the optimism of youth, he had tried clerking in the New York banks. His Negro face was against him, but, in his determination to be somehow connected with banking, he had finally taken a job as a bank porter, with the duty of sweeping out the bank every day after closing hours. It turned out, however, that this was not the worst way to learn banking. He often said in later years that he had learned the business by studying the waste-basket. He went South to work in a Negro bank, and finally he organized and opened a bank in Philadelphia. In a few years he was one of the biggest business men of his race. Ivy Trench read these details for the twentythird time as she sat at the edge of the sea; then she pondered over the detail that was of paramount interest to her. Hannibal Thorne, big banker and reputed millionaire, was unmarried. She had never seen him, but she had often heard of him and his imperviousness to the clever women who had tried and were still trying to catapult him. She had longed for the chance to meet him personally. It was not that she had fallen in love with him; indeed, as she looked at the newspaper clipping in her hand, she felt that there were some hundreds of men whom she would have preferred as lovers. Ivory lived in New York, and every Sunday on Seventh avenue she saw at least ten young men who appealed to her more than the man whose photo shoulder and hip; struck at Seventh avenue and 136th street by a truck driven by Richard Stevenson, white. 460 Audubon bvenue; last Wednesday. Vincent, David. 6, 2799 Elizhth avenue; abrasions of both knees and left arm, by a motor cycle last Wednesday on Eighth avenue between 147th and 148th streets. James Richardson, 29, 130 West 136th street; abrasions of both legs and right arm when his car collided with that of Bayard Sprattte, 152 West 123d street; last Wednesday. Dorothy Jessamy, 16. student of Washington Irving. High School. 305 West 144th street; abrasions and contusions of the body; struck by taxi driven by James Smith, 598 East 140th street; last Tuesday, Charles Morris, 300 West 147th street, was a witness. COMELY APHASIA VICTIM FOUND. Said to be striken with aphasia. NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS, MONDAY, AUG. 22, 1927 THOUT CLASS By AUBREY BOWSER Author of "The Man Who Would Be White" and Other Stories The face she saw was rather handsome but empty, the face of a man in his thirties; there was nothing distinguished about it, nothing to suggest the mental power and strength of will that had carried Hannibal Thorne from elevator boy to bank president. Indeed she thought she detected a smirk in his features, the conceited smirk of the lady-killer, of the man who feels that all the feminine part of the world is at his feet. She vainly searched the man's face for some hint of Napoleonic strategy, swiftness of decision, acuteness of perception, culture, and all the other qualities of the Hannibal Thorne she had heard so much of. Nor could she understand how this man could have had the strength of power to resist so many women. Amount the mouth he looked like a man who would indulge himself with little provocation. At any rate, she felt, it would be rather easy for Ivy Trench to lead him to the altar. And if she did, what a triumph it would be! Riches, a brilliant social position, a great house, endless clothes to bedeck her beautiful person, Rolls-Royce cars, European trips, "What steamer would Mrs. Hannibal Thorne prefer?" A Cunarder, or the White Star Line? Cunarders, she thought; their smokestacks would do. That limited her choice to the Mauretania and the Aquitania. The Mauretania was the faster, but the Aquitania might be more comfortable. After all, the Aquit—but wait a minute, there's the France, and the Paris. Dear me, what trouble we rich fok have making up our minds! "Oh, come out of the clouds, Ivy!" she laughed, shaking herself "You haven't met him yet. And Lord knows how you're going to meet him in the way you want. If you meet him conventionally he'll think you're just one more woman running after him, or after his money. And so you are: be honest with yourself, if not with him, You'll never really love him, but a girl can't expect to have everything." She folded the clipping and tucked it in the tiny side pocket of her bathing suit. She looked up and down the stretch of Sandy shore that showed tawny against the blue and white of the surf. She was the only person on the beach; there never were more than four or five people there. The place was too far away from New York to be desirable and the only accommodation for colored people was an old house kept by an old couple. Its roof and upper windows were just visible over the brow of a high sand dune. It could take only five boarders at a time, and at present there were only two there besides Ivy, a just-narried young couple who saw nothing but each other. Ivy had chosen this an unknown girl scout eighteen years old was found wandering in St. Nicholas Park recently, between 13th and 133d streets, by M. C. Holland, 2449 Eighth avenue, and Clarence Poung, 71 West 133d street. She was taken to Harlem Hospital, Dr. Wilkinson, and sent to the Bellevue Hospitol for observation. CUTTING COUPLE RECONCILED. After slashing each other contentedly, Alice Wright, 35, and her hubby, Edward, 32, 43 West 132d street, withdrew their complaints against each other last Monday when they appeared before Magistrate Well in Heilts Court. Poverty is one of the handicaps of life that can be narrowed and pushed back by wise saving, sound investing, bold risking of new ventures. Our passions are the stones we quarry to erect the catbedrals of character. SPECIAL SALE --- Monday, August 22nd, to Monday, August 29th WALTER E. REIFER, Inc., 100-13 Northern Boulevard, Corona, N. Y. place because of its remoteness and comparative solitude; she needed a real rest instead of the activities of other resorts, where vacations are more wearing than work. Solitude was a refreshing novelty to a young woman whose admirers in New York almost nightly invited her to a dance, a theatre, a motion picture, or whatnot. The incessant entertainment had begun to affect her nerves. In the spring her facial muscles had contracted a habit of twitching suddenly. She had consulted a doctor, who had told her that she needed an absolute change. She must go to some quiet place, as different from Harlem as possible, and stay there till her nerves grew normal again. She had recommended the old place where she was now staying, about two hundred miles from New York. Here she had been for two weeks, reading, dreaming, swimming, rolling in the sand and feeling natural. It was a real relief to get away from the inane and endless compliments to her beauty. She had been told so often that she was the prettiest girl in the world that it no longer meant anything to her. Besides, a conversation that she had overheard in New York a year before had taken the vanity out of her. A man had said to another, as she passed by, "Gee, man, ain't that a-pretty girl?" "Aw. hell!" said the other man, "what's beauty without class?" The remark had reduced her to numbility and many hours of self-examination. "Well," she said, glancing at the declining sun, "one more dip, back to the house for dinner. Wonder if any new boarders came this afternoon." She rose and flexed her litle body. Her legs felt strangely stiff, but she would kick off the stiffness when she started swimming. The beach shelved sharply at the point where she entered the water, and she had taken hardly three steps before she had to start swimming. She struck out confidently; a mere thirty yards out and back was nothing. A dozen strokes took her into very deep water. She was about to turn over and float, when suddenly she felt that something was wrong. Her right leg refused to kick, then a cold rigidity seized it. "A cramp!" she exclaimed, and tried to swing round for the shore. But the cold, dearthlike thing was climbing, and in a moment her whole right side was locked and dumb. Before she knew it her head was under water. Down, down she went, then up again to the surface. In a panic she cried out, realizing as she did so that she had been alone on the beach. Down again she went, in spite of her thrashing arms; and then—oblivion. (To be continued tomorrow.) Hugging Results in Death CHICAGO, Aug. 20 (ANP)—Miss Inota Monger, 23, and Levy Haskon lost their balance while they were hugging each other in a window three stories above the ground Saturday afternoon, and fell. The girl was killed. Haskon's skull was crushed, but he will recover. Snake Bites Charmer HIGHLAND. Tenn. Aug. 20 (ANP)—Rufus Porter, twenty, a snake charmer in: the Ralph B. Miller carnival, is seriously ill at the General Hospital. A ten-foot rattlesnake bit his finger, and though its fangs were supposed to have been treated Porter became violently ill. MEMORIAM. In memory of Junius P. Christian, who died Saturday, August 13, 1927. He was born in Richmond, a. March 14, 1898. He leaves a mother, Christian, a brother, and a host of relatives and friends to mourn their loss. The Moonlight Excursion to have been given by St. Luke's Mission Wednesday, August 24, has been postponed until Thursday, Sept. 1, on account of the Elks' Convention.—(Advt.) HELLO, BILL! Don't leave town until you see the Root men. KOLES HUB TEA CO. 131 WEST 123nd ST. Ground Floor West ROOTS, HERBS, BARKS, SVERY INDUSTRIE Morningside 1232 WANTED AT ONCE 100 men and women to take orders for our products. We pay you every day. No waiting for your money. The F. B. H. Service Bureau, Inc., College Station, Box 51, Agency Dept. New York City, N. Y. ST. NICHOLAS AVE., 684 (Apt. 4), cor. 145th St.-Large and small, furnished or unfurnished. Bradhurst 0211. Aug.22-24 1232D ST., 252 W., 3d floor west-Comfortable room in refined home. Unhank. Aug.22-23 122D ST., 69 W. (Apt. 5)—Furnished room; quiet homelike. Call evenings. Telephone Harlem 9675. Aug.22-3-4-7 140TH ST., 133 W. (Apt. 30)—Large neatly furnished room; steam, hot water. 118TH ST., 15 W. (Apt. 2)—Nearly furnished rooms; refined couple or single person. University 5734. Aug.22-3t MANHATTAN AVE., 408 (Apt. 2)—Furnished room, private, reasonable. 122D ST., 279 W.—Furnished rooms, large and medium, all conveniences. Audubon S908. Aug.22-6t Deaths Reported Alken, Estelle, 24; 155 West 143d street. Bowers, Lucy, 48; 200 West 131st street. Brown, George, 32; 38 West 142d street. Brown, Herbert, 35; 298 West 147th street. Cook, Alonzo, 75; 314 West 140th street. LaRoche, Augustine, 58; 226 Edgecombe avenue. Legree, Paul, 30; 16 West 133d street. Lucas, Sophie, 65; 397 West 144th street. Neyland, Dora, 79; 15 West 128th street. Puller, Ida, 35; 143 West 143d street. Seymour, Hannah E., 52; 39 West 127th street. Shackleford, Ada, 25; 235 West 146th street. Washington, Henry, 29; 46 West 133d street. Edet Effiong West African Scientist and Herbist Has just received from his native land a strong and powerful incense that will touch the spot, namely, Ebose and Congo Herb Incense—50 cents per box, with the kind family Incense and the Jerusalem Dreaming Incense at the small price of 50 cents per box each. If you need a relief in any form, come and see me. I am sure you will find hands fixed recording to your desire. Life is not an acident. It has its laws and its secrets and its mysteries, and happy is the man whoarmares and happy is the woman whoarmares and except you know how, and you cannot know how except with someone who has the knowledge to import it to you. No more worries. 165 West 127th Street Room 1-k PHONE: MORNINGSIDE 9048 What Is Your Trouble? I will help you out of your difficulties; that is, if you are sufferers of mental illness or human interest. Don't stay behind in your struggle for existence. Remember your health and well-being are worth more to you than gold. E. UDOBIA MOHAMEDAN SCIENTIST 225 WEST 138th ST. Hogrs A. M. to 10 P. M. JOSEPH J. YANCEY Funeral Director and Embalmer Lady Attendant Prompt Service Notary Public 225 W. 134th ST., NEW YORK Broadway 1241 Res. Aud. 2855 RRF THE WORLD'S GREATEST BLOOD PEP- A DRUGLESS TREATMENT KILLS DRYVESTIMUM NEVROUWES CONSTRUCTION BENEATING STREAK REYNOLD'S HEALTH BUILDER SOLD IN ALL DRUG STORES. PRICE $1.00 WRITE R. R. F. LABORATORY 192 WEST 120TH STREET PONDER SEVENTH AVE. NEW YORK CITY Superb Laundry Company, Inc. 8 West 140th St. Phone Bradhurst 4309 WET WASH, FLAT AND FINISHED WORK E --- Monday, Aug. Plot 25x100 — Private Drive Improvements — New Section 0 1000 Cash, Bala REIFER, Inc., 100- Call New NEWTOWN 2121—Three and four-room apartments to rent. Rising Sun Realty Corp., 100-13 Northern Blvd. WANTED INFANT, about 3 weeks to month old, at once. Apply to Hochoy, 251 W. 130th St. Aug.22-23 FOR SALE SPANISH-AMERICAN barber shop for sale; exceptional bargain; easy terms. Robert Isaac, 1953 7th Ave., cor. 118th St. Monument 2512. Aug.22-3t FURNISHED 4-room apartment for sale. Bargain. 18 E. 117th St., Apt. 3. 2-FAMILY brick houses for sale at cost by the Rising Sun Realty Corp., 100-13 Northern Blvd., Corona, L.T. Phone Ntown: 2121. RESTAURANT for sale; excellent location; on Seventh Ave. Phone 1280 Edgecombe MASON & HAMLIN ORGANS $35, player organs $150 up, mahogany pianos $65 up, Victrola one-half price; payments. We do repairing; also buy pianos. Yetts. 20 yrs. at 239 W. 145th St. Audubon 7192. Aug 22-4t DINING ROOM SET. 10 pieces, good condition, $35; also Morris chair, $1; chiffonler, $3; settee, $5. 393 Edgecombe Ave., Apt. 42. THE HOTEL 182 St. Nicholas Ave. is now open Apartments of 1, 2 and 3 rooms, service, can be had at moderate received for first of September c APPLY DAY THE HOTEL GRAMPION 182 St. Nicholas Ave. is now open to receive elite colored guests. Apartments of 1, 2 and 3 rooms, with private bath and full hotel service, can be had at moderate weekly rates. Applications now received for first of September occupancy. HOTEL GRAMPION 182 ST. NICHOLAS AVE. Universi MOVE TO TH University 3620 MOVE TO THE PELHAMS Heat --- Electric --- Oak Floors Tile Kitchens and Baths Overhead Showers 20 Minutes From Harlem High Class Colored People Desired Reasonable Rents Terms Sale $15,500 --- $2,500 Cash APPLY OWNERS 512 Sixth Ave., N. Pelham, N. Y. Telephone 1657 Pelham This Is a Personal Invitation to You The RAHWAY DEVELOPING CO. Has Opened New Offices at 2149 Seventh Ave., New York City Near the Corner of 127th St. COME AND CONSULT US regarding all your Real Estate matters. Our competent staff will ably advise you. This service is absolutely without charge. We are in a position to handle all mortgage loans, insurance, rentals, manage estates and land developers. 736 WELCOME To New York, Elks of the World! If you like the city and you want to stay, we will help you find your home CONSULT US FOR ANYTHING IN REAL ESTATE Wilfred R. Bain (Licensed Broker) 2350 7TH AVENUE N. Y. City EDGECOME 6197 Room 202 GRAMPION to receive elite colored guests. with private bath and full hotel weekly rates. Applications now occupancy. OR NIGHT E PELHAMS SEVEN Near 119th St. Member of Original "Black Patti" Troupe Inspired First Elk Lodge Here Talked Elkdom to Billy Pope and Latter Interested McFarland, Roberts, Brawner, Evans and Others in Organizing Lodge. Back in the days when the name of the late John Connors was as well known in Brooklyn as any by-name was ever known in any community, the famous Black Patti (Sisseretta Jones), came to sing at the old Hyde and Beeman's Theatre, long since gone. With Black Patti's troupe was a man named William Nickols, who had just a few days before his entry into Brooklyn been initiated into the order of Negro Elks. In those days Myrtle avenue was in its glory, and to Myrtle avenue came the Black Patti Company members for their recreation after the show. At 166 Myrtle avenue Billy Pope, then a handsome young man-about-town, kept such a place as would be certain to attract the travelers who might wish refined recreation and contact with their fellow race members. Back in the days when the name of the late John Connors was as well known in Brooklyn as any by-name was ever known in any community, the famous Black Patti (Sissetta Jones), came to sing at the old Hyde and Beeman's Theatre, long since gone. With Black Patti's troupe was a man named William Nickols, who had just a few days before his entry into Brooklyn been initiated into the order of Negro Elks. In those days Myrtle avenue was in its glory, and to Myrtle avenue came the Black Patti Company members for their recreation after the show. At 166 Myrtle avenue Billy Pope, then a handsome young man-about-town, kept such a place as would be certain to attract the travelers who might wish refined recreation and contact with their fellow race members. To 166 Myrtle drifted Billy Nickols one night. A typical showman, he made friends with the proprietor, and almost at once be gan talking Elkdom with Pope, attempting to show the Myrtle avenue business man the expediency of organizing a lodge in Brooklyn. instance to Brooklyn Lodge. New Brooklyn Lodge has a membership of 1,500. It meets in a beautiful home at 1085 Fulton street, Brooklyn. It owns real estate valued at $75,000. Among its members will be found prob So convincingly did Nickels talk that Pope became interested. He gathered around him about thirty men of Brooklyn, among whom were William H. McFarland, Charles Roberts, Frank Brawner and Edward Evans, and, after telling them of the fine points of Elkdom as had been told him by Nickels, they formed a club and were finally set up as the first lodge in the State of New York, on December 30, 1903, by O. V. Catto Lodge. No. 20. of Philadelphia, with Pope as its first exalted ruler. The late John Connors was the first treasurer of Brooklyn Lodge No. 32. In 1905, at Washington, the delegates to the convention were voted to hold their next session in Brooklyn. In the meantime, Brooklyn Lodge had spread the seed of Elkdom and brought into being Progressive Lodge. No. 35, of Jersey City, and Manhattan Lodge. No. 45, of New York City. BROOKLYN LODGE IN SPLIT. Just at that time occurred the famous split when the late B. H. Howard, then grand exalted ruler of the order, declared that the convention would not be held in Brooklyn, notwithstanding the vote of the delegates. But the convention was held in Brooklyn even though the grand exalted ruler did not show up. Followed then a period when the order was seemingly hopelessly split. The work of the late Frank Wheston, in conjunction with Brooklyn Lodge, saved the day for the time being. Until the now world famous injunction proceedings were brought about against Brooklyn Lodge, the new lodge in Brooklyn prospered. After the injunction the lodge hit to the ground and then began in period that made the pioneer members of Brooklyn go in their own pockets for money and give their labor unstintingly, in order to keep the lodge together. But the clouds passed and out of the split came again a united order. Not, however, before Howard had created a lodge in New York. Monarch Lodge, which was given the number 45, identical to that of Manhattan Lodge. In addition to the Jersey City and the Manhattan Lodge, formation for which Brooklyn Lodge is responsible. Empire State Lodge of Albany and several small New York State lodges owe their ex- Past Exal Past Exalted Ruler Attorney Thomas L. Higgins (Brooklyn Lodge No. 32) EIGHT istance to `Brooklyn Lodge.` New Brooklyn Lodge. Now, Brooklyn Lodge has a membership of 1,500. It meets in a beautiful home at 108S Fulton street, Brooklyn. It owns real estate valued at $75,000. Among its members will be found professional and business men, clergymen and men from all walks of life, mingling fraternally in a true democracy. PAST AND PRESENT RULERS. Some well-known Brooklynites who were exalted rulers of Brooklyn Lodge in the old days were: Edward Brock and E. B. Cerutl, both deceased, and William H. McFurland, George W. Billups, Walter A. Peterson, George E. Wibean, Thomas Scott, William H. Jones, John H. Felder, all active and influential members of the lodge today. Of the latter day exalted rulers the following have served Brooklyn Lodge: L. Abrams, Robert L. Zeno, Attorney Thomas L. Higgins, under whose regime the present home at 1068 Fulton street was purchased, and the now presiding exalted ruler, Joseph M. Washington, one of Brooklyn's young business men who has the distinction of being one of the youngest men to preside over Brooklyn Lodge. Boy Scout News WELCOME. Oh, boy. buy clothes everywhere you turn—especially after you leave 125th street from 115th avenue to Seventh avenue. A large elk—not a man, but an animal. A general of the Seventh avenue corners. Well, just put a couple of hundred trees up, and Scouts, we'll think we are in the woods camping. But wait a minute! I forgot the most important part of the camping—the pork and beans! Every Scout in Harlem would like to come every Elk in the city, but to save trouble I'll say it for all the Scouts. We are sorry the Scouts are not holding regular meetings now, so that all the visitors could see us. But wait, here's one chance to see Scouts. I watch the Scouts will act as escorts in the evening parade for the Elks. NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS.MONDAY.AUG.22,1927 Exalted Ruler A. HISTORY OF N. Y. ELKS' LODGES There are five Filip Lodges within the limits of Greater New York. In their numerical order the lodges are Boston, No. 46; Monarch, No. 44; Imperial, No. 127; and Henry Lincoln, No. 128. In each of these THE AMSTERDAM NEWS will on each day. In the order of their age, give their names. Today's history begins with BROOKLYN LODGE No. 22. I. B. P. O. E. of New York State. Where to Go in New York Where to Go in New York PARKS. Central: Take Seventh avenue bus to 110th street. Bronx: Take subway express at 135th street to Bronx Park; also Zoological Park (Free except Mondays and Thursdays, 25 cents.) Prospect: Brooklyn: Subway to Times Square; B. M. T. subway to Prospect Park. Statue of Liberty: Subway to South Ferry, bont to Bedloe Island. Museum of Natural History: Ninth or Sixth avenue "L" to Eighty-first street. Aquarium: Battery Park: Subway to South Ferry. Botanical Gardens: Third avenue "L" to 209th street. Metropolitan Museum of Art: Seventh avenue bus to Eighty-second street. (Free except Mondays and Fridays, 25 cents.) Van Cortlandt Park Museum: Subway to Ninety-sixth street; Van Cortlandt Park subway there direct. (Free except Thursdays, 25 cents). Grant's Tomb: 125th street trolley westbound, cross-town, to end of line. Woolworth Building: Subway (Brooklyn) to Park place. Public Library: Sebenth avenue bus to Port-second street. Columbia University: Subway to Ninety-sixth street; Broadway subway (uptown side) there to 116th street. City Hall: Brooklyn subway to Park place. Chinatown: Third avenue "L" to Chatham Square. General Post Office: Subway to Pennsylvania station. Custom House: Subway to Bowling Green or South Perry. Lincoln Hospital: 135th street cross-town car to Southern Boulevard. Would-Be Slayer Shot by Sleuth George Jackson, 29, son of Mrs Grace L. Trice, prominent worker in Mother Zion A. M. E. Church, was shot to death by Detective Merrill Moore of the West 100th street station early last Wednesday morning at the Kenmare Apartments, 327 Central Park West, following his alleged attempt to kill his cousin, George Dixon, superintendent of the building. Dixon declared, when interviewed, that he had hired Jackson to work with him for nearly five years, even providing sleeping quarters for Jackson, his wife, and his two children. On one occasion, said Dixon. Jackson was given some cleaning to do, for which he was to be paid $5, but the work was very unsatisfactory and the rent would pay only $2, which Mrs. Jackson accepted when she called for her husband's pay. Jackson believed that Dixon had received the full $5 with which to pay him. The Jacksons were angry and moved to 71 West. 13th street. On the night of the tragedy, it is said, Jackson had been drinking and he came downto them "get" Dixon. He forced Toran, the night elevator man at the Kennmare, at a gun's point, to take him to the basement. Toran closed the door and Jackson began shooting. In the meantime Dixon, who had been away, returned to the Kennmare. Leo Stogel, white, a tax driver, 1350 Grand Concourse, said that he had driven Jackson downtown, that after shooting up the basement Jackson ordored him to drive him back to Harlem, and that when he refused Jackson fired at the dog house, Jackson fired at the West 100th street station and turned with Detective Moore and Patrolman Smith. Among Noted Negro Musicians By Minnie Brown Among Noted Negro Musicians By Minnie Brown ABOUT a year before I left my home in Spokane, Wash. I was told by a white musician, who had not long been from New York, of the baritone soloist St. George's Episcopal Church; a man who had a wonderful voice, was considered to be one of the finest of New York's artists, and a Negro! My imagination of musical opportunity, financial returns and ideal musical association was fired by the achievement of this man and I decided more firmly to go to New York. Fate brought this about the next year through the famous Williams and Walker aggregation, fresh from London triumphs, coming to our town. It was my only chance to get to New York. My parents finally consented, conditioned by my traveling with the late Mrs. Daisy Tapley, who was a friend of our family friend, and her husband. Almost my first question of Mrs. Tapley was "do you know Mr. Harry T. Burleigh?" and when she answered in the affirmative I became awe-stricken that she knew so well this man whom I had already begun to idealize and idolize. Shortly after reaching New York Mrs. Tapley took me to St. George's to hear and meet Mr. Eurleigh. I soo realized the great respect he had for Mrs. Tapley's musicianship and that they had so much in common—musically and mentally. After questioning me a bit concerning my own ambitions, Mr. Burleigh invited us to his home (he was then living on Park avenue) and there I met his wife and small son, Alston, who is now grown, and who in turn has a small son who is named Harry T. Burleigh II. Such a glorious afternoon! Mr. Burleigh was at that time revelling in MacDowell, and he and Mrg. Tapley took turns playing MacDowell's compositions. Then he brought forth manuscripts of his own songs; some about to be published; some not finished. We three discussed music, literature and art. And from that day I have enjoyed the privilege of his friendship and have had a keen interest in the development of his wonderful career. Those were history making days for Harry Burleigh. It would take pauses to tell the story. We can only bring to the memory the story of his love of music in his boyhood, that caused him to stand knee-deep in the snow outside Mrs. Russell's home to hear the great Jossefy, and the little Harry contracted pneumonia. When Mrs. Russell heard of the cause of his illness she permitted him to open the door for her guests at all future musicales that he might hear the world's best artists and music. It was there he heard of Edward MacDowell, who was such a stunck friend when he made his application among the "400" for a scholarship at the National Conservatory of Music here, and was the one to win it. He was chosen soiolist of St. George's out of sixty applicants because he had the best musicianship as well as voice. He taught voice for two years in the conservatory where he had done his work on a scholarship. Messrs. William and George Maxwell in those days saw the gift of composition and encouraged Mr. Burleigh along that line by publishing his songs, and today these three men are still associated in the great musical house of Ricordi. Aside from composition of songs, Mr. Burleigh saw early the need for the preservation of Negro Spirituals and finally began to arrange them in dignified settings that the world may know and sing with all the reverence due these "sorrow songs" of our enlisted parents. Mr. Burleigh has enjoyed and still enjoys the intimate association of the greatest musicians of our time. I have seen notes from Nordica and Caruso complimenting him upon his beautiful voice and artistry and assuring him of their happiness because of being on a program with him. Daily he still receives such tributes from artists whose names are househeld words. As a taken of appreciation the Rev. Reiland, and the vestry of St. George's set aside the Sunday marking his thirty years of service there, devoting the vesper hour to the singing by that great choir of his choral arrangements of the spirituals, and people, black and white, from various parts of the country crowded that edifice and stood in the streets to add to their appreciation of America's great Negro musician. One white woman of culture and wealth told me that day she was present the first Palm Sunday Mr. Burleigh sang "The Palms" at St. George's and it mattered not even if she were in Europe she had returned during all those years every Palm Sunday to hear him sing "The Palms." The rector paid him a glorious tribute and closed his talk by calling Mr. Burleigh to the pulpit and extending his hand addressed him as "my friend and my brother." Mr. Burleigh has won a Spingarn medal, has been honored by Master of Arts degree from Atlanta University and musical doctor from Harvard University. This year he delivered the address to the graduates of Cheyney Normal School. He is philanthropic, generous to a fault, and very human. His hobby is reading romantic literature. A. Walter Kramer says of him: "I had for the first time since I met him—that was several years ago—acquainted myself with his fine mental equipment. This man is a composer by divine right, and, what is more, he is a thinker, a man who writes music not because he enjoys seeing the pianist, the programmer, the singer, but because he feels deeply, profoundly in the language of tone. I left him with my firm conviction that H. T. Burleigh is contributing to American art-song examples of creative music that deserve world-wide attention and respect." Mrs. Ballatunga Hamachandra The Elks. At last they are in New York City, after a hard and cunning fight of their administration to keep them out of New York, as it seemed to us, for purely lodge-political reasons. Certainly New York, the most cosmopolitan city in the United States, is no more affection to the name and insignity of a Negro lodge. Were "Masons" and "Negro Masons"; "Pythians" and "Negro Pythians," and so are there "Elks" and "Negro Elks." In America the word "Negro" sufficiently distinguishes anything from anything else: there are "Baptists" and "Negro Baptists"; "Methodists" and "Negro Methodists." If any white lodgeman, churchman, lawyer or court pretends that there is any confusion or overlapping of domain (in America) between any organization and its counterpart labeled "Negro," such white man or court is not honest and has some other motive for action. If white Elks do not admit colored Elks, and if white men do not join colored Elks, what conflict of interest is there? We do believe that anybody was ever afraid of interference in New York City. We think somebody was afraid of chances for election and re-election in New York City, and therefore magnified a molehill of. ancient dead-lettle law into a mountain of difficulty. But at last the Grand "Exhausted" Ruler has given in, and here we are! Welcome to you! The Pan-African Congress, which met on Sunday, Aug. 21, for a four-day session, ought to have a bigger success in New York City than it has had in any of the previous meetings. New York the world biggest "Negro City" in the world there is no other to see in Africa or out of it which means as many Negro people as Haitian and its environs. When the first Pan-African Congress was organized in Paris by W. E. B. DuBois in 1919, some people asked: "What is it all about?" What is it going to do?" Some are still asking that question. Most men can never see the meaning of a thing until the meaning comes out obviously. When the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was organized in 1909, men asked those very same questions. Now every intelligent person knows "what it was all about" and "what it has already done." The world is just a little larger community than the United States, and the Negroes of the world have the same cause for cooperation as have the Negroes of America. The international problem is a little wider, and perhaps a bit more difficult, than the interstate problem, but not otherwise vastly different. Garvey was right in the general aim to get the Negroes of the world together. Garvey was wrong in beginning with an "army" in Harlem. The only beginning that has a ghost of a show to succeed must be on the plane of intellectual and social "polemics." alleged finding of a loaded revolver in his home by Patrolman Smith of the Sullivan law charge brought a no-ball penalty, the police say, because of Hunter's police record. Are You Lonely? 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Proposal Period of Harmon Awards Closes The period for proposal of candidates in the Harmon Awards for Distinguished Achievement among Negroes closed at midnight August 15, according to a statement issued by Dr. George E. Haynes, secretary Commission on Church and Race Relations of the Federal Council of Churches, 105 East Twenty-second street. He said that a larger number of candidates have been nominated this year than last. The exact number could not be given because of the heavy mails bringing in nominations and data about the candidates during the last four or five days. "The correspondence with the commission this year indicates that a number of people seem to be under the impression that the Harmon Awards are a contest, but they are different," said Dr. Haynes. "They are not offered for some special effort which the candidate may make to win a prize, but are designed to bring recognition of persons who have done creative work of national significance through their strivings for self-expression and creative achievement in the various fields of art, science, education, etc." The names of the candidates chosen by the judges will be announced on or about January 1. Student Seriously Ill Suffering from a ruptured appendix, Arthur Boatswain, 28, 119 West 127th street, popular student of law at New York University, lies in Harlem Hospital between life and death, the death being the hospital at 3:45 pm. Thursday, Boatswain is a member of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. SMOKING SLEEPER BURNED While smoking in bed last Tuesday night. Alexander Haiton. 34, 11 West 115th street, accidentally hit by a car badly burned about the chest and left arm. He had apparently fallen asleep with the lighted cigar in his hand. He was treated for burns at Harlem Hospital by Dr. Danetz. He rang the bell at No. 10, and a dog jumped out of No. 9, and bit him. He was told by John Halpryn, white, 36, 2117 Daly avenue, when he called at 2492 Seventh avenue last Monday. The pup's owner is Mrs. J. B. Halpryn was treated by Dr. Kimbrough, 129 West 144th street. SHOT BY TAXI DRIVER. Following an argument over taxi fare, Robert McDuffy, 28, 267 West 136th street, declares that the driver shot him in the thigh, in front of the Nissan Ave. he last lest Tuesday morning. He was taken in an ambulance to Harlem Hospital where Dr. Thomens pronounced his condition as being not serious. Detective King of the West 133d street station is searching for the gunman chauffeur. HELD WITHOUT BAIL ON SULLIVAN LAW CHARGE. "Pigtail" Samuel Hunter, 28, a cook (specializing perhaps in pigtails), West 130th street, was shot by a police officer. 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