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SESSION OFFICIALLY OPENS OVER 50,000 IN PARADE LATE AFTERNOON EDITION With B. P. O. E. News VOL. XVIII. NO. 39-B Current Comment By WILLIAM PICKENS Rotation in Lodge Offices SO FAR in the United States Government we have held to the tradition of two terms only for one man as President—and we have even counted a part of a term as a term—as in the case of Roosevelt and as it seems likely in the case of Coolidge. We would not even give Roosevelt a "third" term, even though he would not have been succeeding himself, but would have been succeeding Taft. But it must be confessed that Roosevelt would have been elected for this third term if he had been able to oust Taft in the convention and had got the regular nomination of his party instead of having to create and lead a new and independent party. Personally, the writer has never seen any evil in a third term. If the candidate were not "succeeding himself" for the third term; that is, if another administration has intervened between his second and his proposed third term. The intervening administration would insure against tyranny and would make possible a check-up on official honesty. The ancients were wise about that; some ancient states made it impossible for the chief executive ever to succeed himself, even once. He could be a candidate and be elected every second term, if he wanted, and hold the office any number of times without limit, provided only he were never elected for two terms in succession. This enabled the succeeding administration to check up on the foregoing, and so helped to keep down corruption and malfeasance in office. The ancients knew, as we know, that a powerful official can hardly be punished for any crime while he holds office, but he can be punished as a private citizen and by his successor in office. Who today would punish the President of the United States, if he should commit any crime? He might be impeached and put out of office, but even that is next to an impossibility, though constitutionally permissible. Who could punish King George? Even though George V is only a figurehead, it would take nothing short of a revolution to reach him. That brings us to our lodge organization; the number of times that the highest officer can succeed himself ought to be constitutionally limited, although he might be allowed to hold the office, if he can recapture it, any number of times. But when he is in office and is a candidate, he is hardly "beatable." He has the "inside track" and owns the judges of the contest. We would suggest that such officers be allowed to succeed themselves only once, and then to "come back" later, from the outside, if they can. This would effectually prevent the all too well-known nuisance of having an executive officer who comes to feel that he owns the whole concern. Lodge officers, re-elected for several terms in succession, are sure to come to feel—worse than that, to act as if the thing is a private personal business of their own. But if they are going to be definitely and constitutionally put out at the end of, say, two terms, and will have to come back later if they can, then it will promote their virtue; for while they are in office they will act in a way to make the people willing to put them into office again. They will know that if they do not "bearache" they will not have the shadow of a chance to break in from the outside again. Rotation in office, especially in the highest executive office, is the only wise policy. Throw 'em out far, and let 'em swim back shore. It will do 'em good. BANDITS LOOT DETROIT BANK (Preston News Service) DETROIT, Mih., Aug. 22—Absence of the regular guard at the Ecourse State Bank enabled two men to hold up two employees and escape with approximately $10,000. Thursday. The bandits escaped in a car driven by a third man. Published Daily by The Amsterdam News (a corporation), 2293 7th Ave. N OF ER 5 DOMINANT AT SECOND AFRICAN MEET Speaks on Native Customs, Re- course—Mrs. Coralie Cook AFRICA DOMINANT NOTE AT SECOND PAN-AFRICAN MEET Dr. W. E. B. DuBois Speaks on Native Customs, Religion and Intercourse—Mrs. Coralie Cook and Others Also Speak. The note of yesterday's session of the Pan-African Conference was dominantly Africa. The session was held at Grace Congregational Church. A huge map of Africa stood in the background and a row of small maps and charts occupied the left aisle. Along with this the flags of every nation in the world where there are people of African descent were strung across the church day's session of the Pan-African Cony Africa. The session was held at Church. A huge map of Africa stood a row of small maps and charts oclong with this the flags of every nae there are people of African descent church. ed in de. The note of yesterday's session of the Pan-African Conference was dominantly Africa. The session was held at Grace Congregational Church. A huge map of Africa stood in the background and a row of small maps and charts occupied the left aisle. Along with this the flags of every nation in the world where there are people of African descent were strung across the church. W. E. B. DuBois explained in detail the various maps. His exposition made apparent five things: Intercourse is difficult in Africa; the Bantu language is more widely spread than any other; the Mohammedan religion has outstripped Christianity; varied races and tribes are so distributed as to make difficult any homogeneous life; the economic life is the tremendous handicap; the educational system is controlled by missions and governments, and is inadequate and not modern. There was a question and answer period. The chairman answered that the missions are maintained by the Negro race in Africa as those of America. Such missions are found in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and some in South Africa. Perhaps the most startling truth brought out was that the partition of Africa by the European governments could never be upheld without native troops officered by the whites. In Africa today there are less than ten thousand white soldiers. The discussion of the exposition of Africa was opened by Mrs. Coralie Franklin Cook of Washington. In the discussion two wings of thought were expressed by Richard B. Moore and the Reverend John W. Robinson. One wished fervently for constructive measures that would inspire action; the other contended for restrained discussion and readiness to welcome all truth, however unpalatable. For the afternoon the Congress considered African Missions, with Coralie Franklin Cook in the chair. Helen Curtis gave the principal address, in which the missionary opportunities were stressed. She believes that the responsibility of Africa's redemption rests with the Negro race of America. She pleaded hard economic opportunities and climatic conditions as arresting agents of the native's progress. (Continued on Page 2.) 15=Year=Old Girl's Charge Holds Young Man Nettleton Wells, 18, elevator boy, 616 St. Nicholas avenue, was assigned before Magistrate Flood in Heights Court yesterday on a serious charge, preferred by Agent Van Norden of the Children's Society. He was released in $1,000 bail. to await the action of the Grand Jury. Wells is said to have had immoral relations with a 15-year-old girl, a student of the Washington Irving High School, on the night of April 1, in a rooming house at 240 West 138th street. The girl admitted to Magistrate Flood that the same thing occurred on three occasions afterward. CORRECTIONS In yesterday's issue of The Amsterdam News it was erroneously reported that Prof. S. R. Williams, Mayor of Harlem, was fingerprinted. Investigation discloses that he was not fingerprinted. His case was adjourned on a summons, which charges unlawful withholding of personal property. No testimony has yet been heard. THE NEW YORK Amsterdam News Fracas Near Police Precinct Lincoln Hospital Waiter Admits Stabbing Couple in Hallway. Totally unmindful of the nearness of the law, Absolom Wallace. 34, nurses waiter at Lincoln Hospital, pleaded guilty in Heights Court yesterday of cutting Leon Spady and his wife in the hallway of 238 West 135th street, directly across from the police station, Saturday night. Magistrate Flood held Wallace for the Grand Jury without ball. Wallace and Spady became engaged in an altercation in the hallway, and Mrs. Spady, it is said, attempted to interfere. Wallace then cut both of them on the legs. Mrs. Spady ran screaming across the street and into the police station, where she told her breathless story to Detective Moore. Moore bounded out the door and saw Wallace running toward Eighth avenue and overtook him. A clip on the jaw brought the runner's pace to a halt, and Detective Moore brought his prisoner to the station house. Knifes Brother-in-Law; Pleads Self-Defense Harry Simmons. 24. 27 West 133d street, accused of beating his sister-in-law, declares that his brother-in-law, Charles Carey, struck him over the head with a beer bottle. He says that Carey bestrode him on a kitchen table and pounded him with his fists. Simmons says that in self-defense he took out his pocket knife and slashed Carey's chest and throat. Both men were taken to the Harlem Hospital. Simmons was arraigned in Heights Court Thursday, where Magistrate Well held him in $1,000 ball for General Sessions. During the testimony Mrs. Carey said that Simmons had beaten her and thrown her down the stairs. Man Runs Away With Stepdaughter; Arrested (Preston News Service.) WISE, N. C., Aug. 22.—Several officers from Granville County came here Sunday night and arrested a young woman named Sally Seats, who has been living here with William Seats, a middle-aged man, alleged to be her stepfather. The man had been arrested in Oxford on a charge of murdering an infant and hiding the body in a sewer. The crime was committed some time back and the father of the child deserted the mother and ran away with his stepdaughter. Warrants against the pair were sworn out by the man's wife. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, AUG. 23, 1927 GENERAL NEWS BULLETIN Boston "Rioter" Dies in Hospital Another White Man Recovering From Stab Wounds. CAMBRIDGE, Aug. 22.—Thomas F. Dignas, 252 Sidney street, a white man who was shot by Russell Banks, 10 Jay street, died at the Cambridge Relief Hospital Thursday. According to Medical Examiner Ronald C. Carrier, however, Dignas did not die as a result of theounds inflicted by the shots. The autopsy revealed that he had died of pneumonia. Banks, it is said by officials, will not be held or a murder charge. not be held or a murder charge. The altercation in which Dignan was shot grew out of a number of recent, racial clashes by groups of rowdies, both white and colored, the policemen say. James J. Hayes, another white youth, is still confined in the hospital suffering from ice-pick wounds in his body which were inflicted at the outset of strained relations between the races in the community surrounding Jay street. A mass meeting of white and colored law-abiding citizens of the community was held recently, in which the city authorities were petitioned to change the policemen in that district. Cities Vie for Next Convention Chicago and Richmond Strongest Bidders to Date. to Date. Two cities loom up as likely Elk convention cities for 1928 and, strangely so, both have but recently entertained the Grand Lodge. They are Richmond and Chicago. The former city was the scene of the most enjoyable Grand Lodge session ever held by I. B. P. O. E. of W. in 1925. Chicago entertained the Elks in 1923. James Martin of Fort Dearborn Lodge, Chicago, said yesterday that the Chicago delegates would go to any lengths to get the convention back again to the Windy City and M. V. Norrell of Richmond said that the Virginia men were determined to capture for Richmond the next Grand Lodge session. Sentiment among the visitors and delegates seems to be overwhelmingly for the southern city in preference to Chicago at this time. They remember the cordialness of the Virginians and freely express the wish to go there again. The outcome cannot be forecast at this time, as both cities could be left out in the final making of deals involving candidates, etc. But if enthusiasm counts for anything, the Richmond lads ought to win. GENERAL NE Wanamaker Winners to Be Announced Thursday. PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 19. (Special)—The award of the $1,000 in cash prizes offered by Mr. Rodman Wanamaker of this city for the best compositions by Negro composers, will be made officially, and the names of the prize winners announced at the annual convention of the National Association of Negro Musicians, Inc., to be held at St. Louis, August 20-26 inclusive. The announcement of the successful contestants will be made at the Artists' Concert on Thursday evening, August 25. Killed in Accident ITHACA, N. Y., Tuesday—Louis A. Fuertes, foremost American painter of bird life and a famous naturalist, was killed yesterday in a grade crossing accident near *nadilla, N. Y.* Officially Opens Session Today [Image of a man in a formal uniform with a sash and medal]. J. Finley Wilson Grand Exalted Ruler, I. B. P. O. E. of W. Girl Refuses to Testify Against Man Arrested on a serious charge. Walter Harold Johnson. 18. 303 West 149th street, was dismissed in Heights Court yesterday by Maxi- trate Flood when the girl whom Johnson is said to have wronged tacitly refused to testify against him. The girl repeatedly accused her mother of trying to place the blame upon Johnson unjustly. "I ought to know who did it," she cried. The alleged assault is said to have occurred at 772 St. Nicholas avenue. The supposedly guilty party is being sought by agents of the Children's Society. WS BULLETIN Sacco-Vanzetti-Madeiros Electrocuted CHARLESTOWN STATE PRISON. Mass. Tuesday.—Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti died in the electric chair early this morning, carrying out the sentence imposed on them for the South Braintree murders of 1920. Celestino F. Madetros died also for the murder of a bank cashier. Wants to Stop "Stunt Flights" SAN FRANCISCO, Tuesday. Because of the fate of the Dole air race entrants, Admiral Eberle, Acting Secretary of the Navy, sug- gests the enactment of a law to prohibit long-distance airplane "stunt flights" except under rigid conditions. Evidence Vague; Pair Get Off Light Robbery Charge Changed to Disorderly Conduct: John Winston, 24, 2089 Madison avenue, and Henry Kenny, 26, 312 West 119th street, after being first arraigned in Heights Court on a charge of robbery, were called yesterday before Magistrate Flood, who changed the charge to disorderly conduct, after listening to conflicting and doubtful testimony on the robbery charge. The men are accused of knocking down and robbing Oscar Robertson, 43, 1150 College avenue, in the hallway of 49 West 133d street on August 11, while Robertson was intoxicated. The men were first arraigned August 12 before Magistrate McQnade, and Robertson, the complainant, was arraigned the same day on a charge of intoxication and sent to the Workhouse for ten days. Patrolman Cooper of the West 133th street station arrested the men on information furnished him by a tenant at 49 West 133d street, who told him that two men were robbing Robertson. Winston was arrested at the scene of the occurrence and Kenny was arrested in a corner restaurant. it is reported. The charge against Kenny was dismissed and Winston received a suspended sentence. EXTRA LATE AFTERNOON EDITION THE WEATHER — Cloudy, with probable showers today; tomorrow partly cloudy. Temperature Yesterday—Max. 72; Min. 63. EIGHT PAGES—FIVE CENTS PER COPY ACTING MAYOR JOSEPH McKEE WELCOMES ELKS Tells Visitors 300,000 Negroes in Greater City Are Less Trouble Than Any Other Resident Group. "There are no doors to our city," said Acting Mayor Joseph V. McKee, at his address of welcome to the visitors and delegates here for the Twenty-eighth Grand Lodge Session of the I. B. P. O. E. of W. at the public meeting held yesterday afternoon at St. Mark's M. E. Church. "For, that reason," he added. "I can't give you the key to the city. Don't ask me for the freedom of the city—you have it; and when you know us like we are, you'll like us a whole lot because we like you a whole lot. Have a good time and enjoy yourself in New York. We bid you a hearty welcome. Busy Man Dr. Hudson J. Oliver Chairman of the General Convention Committee now entertaining the Elks. Judge Edward Henry Not Out of Elks' Contrary to the much-circulated rumor in Eikdom that Judge Edward H. Henry of Philadelphia would not be a candidate for grand exalted ruler, the judge yesterday emphatically stated that he was a candidate. He added that he was not and would not be an active one, but should the members of the order desire him to head the order and thus elect him, he would be glad to accept the office. The judge's headquarters are located in the rooms of the Democratic Club, Seventh avenue at 138th street. Demanded That He Be Arrested; He Was Paul L. Francis, 28 42 West 130th street, was found guilty of disorderly conduct and given a suspended sentence by Magistrate Flood in Heights Court yesterday. Patrolman Bostwick of West 135th street station, the complainant, testified that Francis "refused to move on" when told to do so, and demanded to be arrested. "You should never say that to a policeman," said Magistrate Flood, "as they are very accommodating fellows in that respect." The acting mayor said that there were more than 300,000 Negroes within the confines of Greater New York, making this the greatest city in the world for Negroes. He said that notwithstanding that great number, the Negroes gave the city authorities less trouble than any other race. He referred facetiously to one of the Constitutional amendments and told the visitors that New York was a law-abiding city where all the laws were observed, but if they broke one law it would be all right—if they did not get caught. Charles M. Hanson, secretary of the general convention committee, introduced Dr. Hudson J. Oliver, who was master of ceremonies, the doctor being chairman of the general committee. Dr. Oliver, in his introductory remarks, made a first rate political speech telling why he was a Democrat. To the vast audience, it might have appeared as an apology for the Negroes' allegiance to Tammany Hall. GRAND EXALTED BULLER RESPONDS. Grand Exalted Ruler J. Finley Wilson responded to the acting mayor's speech. He began by saying that he wanted all to know that his main object in this session would be to give a square deal to all and that he had no friends to reward nor enemies to punish. Mr. Wilson said that for the past six months he had been under a terrible strain because he wanted to come to New York feeling that he was not proscribed, and now, since the hated injunction he began, he felt that he could come to the greatest city in the greatest State in the Union with gratification. He called upon the Democrats to repeal the Grattan Law and thus make the "enancipation complete." and urged Acting Mayor McKee to do what he could towards that end, should Governor Alfred Smith not feel called upon to take the initiative in that direction. "And should you, when you become governor, do that, Mister Mayor," said the Grand Exalted Ruler," there's a big house on a beautiful avenue where the peaceful Potomac rolls down on to the sea that will be your reward. And when you get there, if you will function as you talk here, I believe that you will be a second Abraham Lincoln. "Mr. Wilson was loudly cheered (Continued on Page 2.) Today's News Index Editorials ..... 4 Special Articles ..... 4 General, Local and National News 1 to 3 News of Society and Women's Ac ivities ..... 5 Sports ..... 6 Classified Section ..... 7 Financial and Miscellaneous ..... 7 Music and the Drama ..... 7 Manhattan Lodge Owed Much to Genial Frank Wheaton, Now Deceased Set Apart by Brooklyn Lodge No. 32 and Progressive Lodge No. 35 in 1904—Old Members Still Active. Manhattan Island's oldest lodge, Manhattan Lodge, No. 45, I. B. P. O. E. of W., was organized Nov. 2, 1904, in West Fifty-third street. It was set apart by Brooklyn Lodge, No. 32, and Progressive Lodge, No. 35, of Jersey City, with thirty-two charter members, among whom were Charles A. Parker, Howard A. Jones, Bernard C. Smith, Dr. A. A. Kellogg, Joseph Burns, Jefferson Jackson, John D. Hadwin and Percy A. Brown; all still active members of Manhattan Lodge. One person who did much to make Manhattan Lodge one of the best known Elk lodges in the country in the old days was the late J. Frank Wheaton. Often referred to as the most loved man in Elkdom, Wheaton, through his geniality, did much to tide over the order during the troubled days of 1898 when the famous split in the order occurred. It was Frank Wheaton who organized the Juvenile Department of the Elks, now one of the important branches of Elkdom. Elks' Convention at a Glance CONVENES officially 10 a.m. Tuesday. ACTIVITIES began with annual sermon Sunday, 8 p.m., at Malee sessions at Mother Zion Church, West 15th street, between Seventh and Lenox avenues. FEMALE sessions at Mt. Olive Baptist Church, Lenox avenue W. W. Winfield, who died Jan. 1, 1905, is credited with founding Manhattan Lodge and was its first Exalted Ruler, reigning from the inception in November, 1904, to Jan. 1, 1905. Following the reorganization of the Grand Lodge in 1906, a new charter was granted Manhattan Lodge and it was incorporated Jan. 26, 1907, with the following names on the charter: James S. Williams, Sandy P. Jones, David W. Parker (deceased), James H. Williams, Wm. R. Banks, Bernard C. Smith, Dr. A. Kelleg, James H. Anderson (founder of the Hermann Adams News), H. D. Murray, T. B. Jones, Jr., and Joshua H. Williams, Sr. STELEE SIXTEENTH EXALTED RULEH The sixteenth exalted ruler of Manhattan Lodge was J. Dalmus Steele and to him is credited much of the remarkable advancement which the lodge has made in these later days. Steele is a native of South Bend, Indiana, and is not of West Indian extraction, as has been erroneously stated at various times. His parents moved to a little hamlet called Eutaw, in Alabama, when Steele was a young boy, and that place he was reared. His parents sent him to Dayton, where he was educated and following his graduation there, he took his first position in Palatina, Florida. In 1904 he came to Newport, where Island, where he first joined the Elks, becoming a member of Trinity Lodge. No. 153, of the city. Coming to New York in 1911, he soon joined Manhattan Lodge. He also entered the field of active church work and is today one of the pillars of Mother Zion Church. He also served in the World War and saw active service with 548 Ensignes in France. After the armistice he returned to New York and entered the business and today is one of the city's successful business men, being the senior member of the printing firm of Steele and Pollard, located on upper Seventh avenue. Mr. Steele was first elected Exalted Ruler of Manhattan Lodge on Jan. 1, 1922, and served successively until, realizing that he was perplexing the office, he stepped down on Jan. 1, 1927, and the present Exalted Ruler, Andrew Mitchell, was elected as the seventeenth ruler of Manhattan Island's silk stocking lodge. Mitchell is now serving his second term, having been re-elected last July. Woman Taken as Fugitive in Newark (Preston News Service.) NEWARK, Aug. 22—Sought for more than a month as a fugitive from justice from Philadelphia, Mrs. Eugenie Middleton, of 105 Pine street, was arrested Thursday of last week at her home here by detectives. The woman stoutly maintained that she was Mrs. Mary Jones until taken to police headquarters. The complaint against the Middleton woman was made by Robert P. Hill and a man who alleged that she had jumped ball after being arrested for having liquor in her possession. She was taken to Philadelphia by Detective May of the Philadelphia police force. Josiah Albright, 17. 182 West 135th street, was held without ball for a hearing today on a charge of felonious assault upon Joseph Prince, 1808 Amsterdam avenue. when arraigned in Heights Court yesterday before Magistrate Flood. Patrolman Henshaw of the Fifteenth Precinct was the arresting officer. Two Men Fined Charged with overcrowding the hack stand at 125th street and Park avenue. William Herbert, 240 West 122nd street, and William King, 54 West 130th street, were fined of each by Magistrate Food Hits Court of South Summons were served on Herbert and King by Officer Sullivan of the East 129th street station TWO STEELE SIXTEENTH EXALTED BULER Boy Denied Bail Two Men Fined A Elks' Convention at a Glance CONVENES officially 10 a.m. Tuesday. ACTIVITIES began with annual parties, at Mother Zion Church. MALE sessions at Mother Zion Church, West 15th street, between Seventh and Lenox avenues. FEMALE sessions at Mt. Olivee Baptist Church. Lenox avenue and 10th Street. DELEGATES expected: Males be- came 900 and 1,100; female, 300 to 500 VISITORS expected: 150,000. New York by visitors. $1,000,000. PUBLIC meeting today: 1:30 p.m. Edgencecom, 185th street PARADE Tuesday, beginning at 1 pm. Line of march. From Stu- lzard north to 110th street to Lenox south to North street. North to Seventh avenue; north on Seventh avenue to 145th street where the pride will disband. OFFICIAL grandstand at 108th STREET, GRAND MARSHAL of parade, Joseph Bondy Brown. NUMBER expected on parade CANDIDATES for grand exalted ruler (known): J. Fletley J. Humphrey, J. Humphrey Edward H. Henry, Possible "dark horse"; George E. Wiberg, J. Humphrey, J. Humphrey grand daughter ruler; "Mrs Ela G. Berry. CONVENTION headquarters: Im- mune House, 100 West 125th STREET. ENTERTAINING lodges: Manhattan Temple, Manhattan, Inclinic and Eureka. *Present incumbent.* Acting Mayor Welcomes Elks (Continued from Page 1.) both at the introduction and at the conclusion of his speech. PROGRAM LENGTHY. A lengthy program was rendered conspicuous by the absence of any or any representative from his office, notwithstanding that the committee had the governor's name printed on the program as delivering an address on behalf of New York State. The Rev. W. George Avant delivered the Invocation. Welcoming addresses on behalf of the citizens were made by Fred R. Moore, Alderman W. Shields and J. Dalmus Steele. They were responded to by Dr. William Tompkins of Kansas City and Judge William Hueston of Gary, Ind. Other addresses were made by Perry W. Howard. Grand Legal Advisor, the Grand Daughter Ruler, Mrs. Ella G. Berry, of Chicago, and a host of other Elk dignitaries. Great Sultan of the Universe, the Elk was sung by the audience and the benediction delivered by the Rev. John W. Robinson, pastor of St. Mark's Church. The auditorium of the church was jammed and hundreds were unable to gain admission. Daughter Ella Moore was in charge of the ushers. Spotlights were used to show up the prominent people on the rostrum, some of the better known in the row with the grand exalted ruler being: Attorney Perry W. Howard, Civil Service Commissioner Fredinand Q. Morton, Arthur W. Froe, recorder of deeds at Washington, and Judge Hueston, the Eks' commissioner of education. STEELE FLAYS WILSON. J. Dalmus Steele, in his address, laughed the grand exalted ruler for his attitude all along in reference to bringing the convention to New York. His remarks made a profound impression on the audience. Steele, who was one of the three who welcomed the visitors to New York, made little effort to conceal the attitude he and many others of his lodge and friends hold towards Mr. Wilson as the result of the bitter fight which preceded the convention's coming to New York. The grand lodge session was officially opened at 10 o'clock today. At Mother Zion Church, 137th street, between Seventh and Lenox NEWARK, N. J., Aug. 22—Commander Karl F. Phillips of the United States Department of Labor has just completed a conference in New Jersey and has returned to his station at Washington, D. C. 一 Returns to Post Candidate J. Dennis Lissie Alleged Rum Runner Nabbed BOSTON, Aug. 22.—A clever ruse was worked on Joseph Barker, alleged rum-runner. 226 Washington street, by Cutsome Pat. Olmena nelpa and R. H. Shean of the Derby Line Office, at St. Albans Vt., last Thursday, according to the reports of the officers at head quarters. The officers say they saw a man drive over the international line at Holland and followed him about 100 yards over the line and into the United States. He then turned back into Canada and went about 100 feet when his car went into the ditch. He asked the officers to help him out. They did so, ashing him to back up. Dinker backed into the United States, the officers claimed, and was arrested. His car contained nearly 200 bottles of choice wines and champagne. He is held in $500 bail. George R. Davis of Lowell, Mass., was also reported arrested in North Troy. He had 216 bottles of ale in his car. Alleged Pickpocket Nabbed by Detective Phillip Patterson. 23. alisa Phillip Patrick, who gave his address as 1015 West 89th street, is said to have been seen place his hand in the pocket of an unknown man three times, by Detective Boyden of the West 135th street station, about three o'clock this morning, on the corner of 135th street and Lenox avenue. Patterson was immediately arrested, and his biography就被 Flood in Heights Court today. The near-victim of Patterson's light fingers will not appear in court as his presence is required today in the Elks' parade. Patterson has six convictions to his discredit, the police say, including petty larceny, grand larceny and disorderly conduct. New Orleans Residents Protest Street's Closing (Preston News Service.) NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 22. The Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for Indians and Colored People Tuesday asked the city government to close Hamilton street between Apple and Nelson streets to make possible the use of the two squares bounded by Holly Grove, Mistletoe, Nelson and Apple streets, for school purposes for Negro children. The request was followed by a petition signed by more than fifty white residents and property owners in the neighborhood objecting to the proposed school. The Sisters explained that they have in view the purchase of the two squares and their use right now as a site for an athletic field for students of the Negro schools in New Orleans. "STRONG MAN" HURT TRYING TO LIFT FORD (Preston News Service.) NEWPORT, Ark. Aug. 22—Benjamin Blassengame, 37, is in a serious condition as the result of internal injuries received Thursday when he tried to lift a Ford automobile out of a mudhole on the road from the Phillips farm to Newport. Blassengame was operative at Newport Hospital when it is said that the chances for his recovery are slight. He has a wife and seven small children. Staging a Comeback Clifford Landrum, well-known spinner in the amateur athletic circles of Harlem, showed last Saturday that he was still a crack shot on the cinders by beating James Allen in the 100-yard dash. Allen is a member of Howard University track team. NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS, TUESDAY, AUG. 23, 1927 Spanish Mess Boy Held Without Bail on Charge of Felonious Assault Detective King Also Says He Kicked Him in the Stomach With His Lame Hosto Martinzo, 25, Spanish mess boy, no home, was arraigned in Heights Court yesterday on a charge of grand larceny preferred by Marie Franklin, 113 West 127th street, and on a charge of felonious assault preferred by Detective King of the West 123rd Street Station. After listening to the highly interesting and sensational story of Martinzo's arrest, Magistrate Flood dismissed the charge of grand larceny, but held him without bail for the Grand Jury on the charge of felonious assault. Mrs. Franklin testified that Martinzo stole a radio from her home on August 9, and positively identified Martinzo as the man she saw in her home at that time. The dramatic incidents of Martinzo's arrest were told by Detective King. Mrs. Franklin, he said, called him on the telephone, and upon arriving at her home related the theft of her racket. Detective King then went to the room of a colored girl with whom Martinzo is said to have been living for two years. He was told that his man could be found at the Savoy Dance Hall, 559 Lenox avenue. "Not wishing to create any disturbance in the place," said Detective King. "I told Martinzo that the Savoy manager wanted to see him at the door. When we came downstairs I questioned him, and he said he knew nothing about the radio, and had never been to the Franklin apartment. Then I started with him to the station house." street station. Martinzo asked them to be allowed to return the Savoy to get his hat. "Let him get it," said Detecto Feeney. "When I first saw the defiant Martinzo," Detective King said, "I observed that he was wearing the leg we got in the Savoy and to me. Don't you think you're going to lock up, and with that same racket leg he kicked me in the stoner." Detective King said he issued him and "fired three shots in the air." Martinzo ran to 125 street and Lenox avenue, and so the hallway of 97 West 125 street, where, according to Detective King, he was captured in the fourth floor. "I then observed that the defendant had been in the leg," the detective added. Martinzo, who has been arrested twice for burglary and convicted once, said he could not speak Eng. Detective King was accompanied by man, Green, also of the West, 1250 Sidelights on the Elks' Convention Bv CHARLES T. MAGILL One of the many interesting characters here for the convention is B. H. Wade of Keystone, West Virginia, a member of Elkhorn Valley Lodge, No. 358. Mr. Wade, who is a United States Special Agent, is the man who uncertaintely the evidence that convicted Jasper Williams and Clyde Manning in 1921 in the famous Williams Farm murder case at Covington, Georgia. Williams, it will be remembered, murdered several Negroes and buried them on his farm. At an initiation Saturday night, the last before the convention, Monarch Lodge took in 165 members. Brooklyn Lodge headquarters are located at 146 West 136th street. There also are located the headquarters of George B. Wheean, candidate for Grand Exalted Ruler. "Negro policemen should form a national organization, and it should be started right here in New York," said Bill Turner, of Wheeling, West Va., himself an officer in that city. "In no city that I have ever been in have I seen such splendid types of Negro officers." Added Turner. The idea might be a good one for the New York cops to look into. The Patriotic Club of Cuba will give a dinner to Mrs. M. Watt Rudd of Havana this evening. The New York Cubans are honoring Mrs. Rudd for the part she played last spring in rescuing several people during a flood in Havana. The dinner will be given at the home of the club, 144 West 132d street. Autos bearing license plates from nearly every State in the Union may see them in Harlem now. The owners have driven here for the convention. Grand Exalted Ruler J. Finley Wilson and his forces held a caucus Sunday afternoon at the Wilson headquarters, 2370 Seventh Tolliver Again in Race for Treasurer C. Tiffany Tolliver of Roanoke is again in the race for the office of grand treasurer. Tiff. as he is known throughout Elkdom, is one of Virginia's prosperous business men, owning the beautiful Strand Theatre in that city and conducting a real estate business C. Tiffany Tolliver, there also Tolliver's headquarters are with the company in Seventh avenue. Tolliver was defeated for that office last year in Cleveland, but he determined to make another effort this year. PETER B. street station. Martinoz ask them to be allowed to return the Savoy to get his hat. "Sir let him get it," said Detective Feeney. "When I first saw the defiant Martinoz." Detective King said it observed that he was lame in the left leg. Before we got at the Savoy he said to me, "Don you think you're going to lock up, and with that same cripple leg he kicked me in the stomach." Detective King said he needed him and "fired three shoots in the air." Martinoz ran to 121st street and Lenox avenue, and the hallway of 97 West 121st street, where, according to Detective King, he was captured in the fourth floor, then obeyed that the defender had benged in the left detective adder. Martinoz, who has been arrested twice for burglary and convicted once, said he could not seek English, until he heard complaints say much with with he did not agree. avenue. Perry heard made the statement Sunday at he expected Wilson's reelection almost by acclamation, and the peace and harmony prevailed. Joseph Blondown, the parade grand marshal, has headquarters at 2168 South avenue. "Harlem isoke," said Alderman Thomas Fleming of Cleveland to the writer's evening. "I have go to a number of places already to make purchases and I find that near all of them are not only owned by white people, but that they employ whites in the majority of cases. Why, there are enough Nacoes in Harlem to elect a preset, yet you seem to be nowhere. And that's that. A group of young Elks from Monarch Lake hired a horse and buggy of the old-time variety and drove through Harlem. Sunday, with the key looking driver of the rig at the reins. They attracted considerable attention. According to Jimmie Martin of Chicago, in Windy City will be the next prevention city. Martin, an influential member of the order in the Wes, said that Chicago, although for having the convention four years ago, wants it again and, he said, "We're going to get it." (Ceston News Service.) WASHINGTON. D. C. Aug. 21.—Mrs. Lilis Griggsby, 1332 Wallace place, was killed, and five other persons were slightly injured at 2:30 o'clock Thursday morning, when an automobile in which they were riding from Baltimore to Washington left the highway near Laurel and overturned in a ditch. According to Dr. B. P. Warren of Laurel, who was called on for assistance, Mrs. Griggsby's death was due to a fractured skull. Four men and one other woman, who composed the party, and whose names Dr. Warren had no record of, received cuts and bruises. They engaged a taxicab and continued their journey. Mrs. Griggsby's body was brought to Washington Thursday afternoon. Dr. Warren said that one of the party told him that the steering wheel broke, causing the car to dish off the road and overturn. Janitor Held for Indecent Exposure Held for the Court of Special Sessions on a charge of indecent exposure. George Williams, janitor, 112 West 134th street, went to Tombs Prison yesterday under $500 bail set by Magistrate Flood. Mary Clarke, white, 128 Convent avenue, told the court of Williams' alleged conduct in her presence after coming out from behind a clump of bushes at 135th street and St. Nicholas terrace. Left Leg. Haitian Here M. African Problem Discussion Topic (Continued from Page 1.) She thought that the churches carrying on missionary labors ought to be diligent in sending supplies and money promptly and ought to pay the workers living wage. She has a prepossessing personality. The discussion was opened by Mrs. A. B. Camphor, the widow of the late Bisonn Camphor. As a speaker she is fluent and convincing. She succeeded in selling the idea that it is worth while to carry on missionary labors as the natives respond with redeemed lives. Addie W. Dickerson, vice-president of the International Council of Women, approached the subject from the point of view of the need of the dispersed brother of America to save his African one. They said "Only as darker people everywhere rise will darker people anywhere rise." The afternoon session was lively. Mrs. Payne made a contribution in showing how the South African governments exclude the Negro missionary from America from their homes. The value of a missionary of this type was shown in their eagerness to save the good of native customs and to discard only those which degrade. The discussion abounded in a number of constructive ideas such as giving to the African a sound economic policy, industrial education, pride of race and the Christian ideal of service and sacrifice. Practical methods of help would be to provide scholarships Africans in all Negro schools, and set aside a day each year when the entire race is asked to contribute to this purpose. We were those who felt that Christianity and the missionaries have served only the interests of commerce. And the first great need is to rid Africa of the missionary, as his work is now done. The possibilities of the African for modern education and Christian love were shown on platform when two bright African children there enfolded by Helen Curtis, who brought them from Liberia and has made her home their ARREST ALLEGED CONJURE DOCTOR (Preston News Service) (Preston News Service, RALEIGH, N. C., Aug. 27—Wille Franks, alleged co-convict doctor, "was bound over to the Superior Court on Wednesday by Judge Arendell, under a $1,000 bond. The president Judge fixed the man's suit as high as the law would allow, stating that he feared that the man was one of a ring of easy talking, "all cure doctors," which is thought to be now operating throughout North Carolina. JAMES WILSON (?), AGE 3. TAKEN TO STATION A little boy answering to the name of James Wilson, or Winston, three and a half years old, was found at 149th street and Third avenue yesterday afternoon by Mamie Green, 203 West 135th street, who took him to the West 135th street police station. The boy is seen holding of light cone and wearing a brown checked linen shirt, blue hat, brown sandals, and light pink socks. In "Policy" Net The following were held in $500 ball for further hearings today and tomorrow. on charges of possessing policy slips in violation of Section 974 of the Penal Law: Lillian White, 38, 49. West 135th street; Letitia Webb, 42, 75. West 115th street, and Rosa Mullin, 26, 305 West 150th street, Patrolman Waterbury of the West 135th Street Station was the arresting officer. Baby Will You Please Come Home Lonnie Johnson Sings to a Guitar Accompaniment "Baby, Will You Please Come Home" and "Treat 'Em Right" Okek ELECTRIC No. 8434 10 In, 75c RECORD OKEH PHONOGRAPH CORPORATION 15 WEST 18th STREET NEW YORK CITY Okek Race Records Highl'd Beach Restricted Says Mayor Henderson HIGHLAND BEACH, Md., Aug. 21.—Responsibility for the illegal stopping of persons entering this summer resort and the questioning of them about their destination rests with the town commissioners who are carrying out the will of the residents. Mayor Edwin B. Henderson said in an interview yesterday. He declared, however, that he is opposed to discrimination in public places based on color. He said that he had no knowledge of gambling here. He admitted that use of the beach is restricted to residents and their house guests and suggested that persons wishing to bathe in Chesapeake Bay at this point register in one of the two hotels. Highland Beach is a summer colony of the fashionable set from Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Altoona, Pa. It is an incorporated town. It has a commission form of government. Its commissioners are Mayor Edwin B. Henderson, Haley G. Douglass, Dr. Milton A. Francis, Norman Murray and Mrs. James E. Walker. It has its cottages, modest and palatial. It has two hotels. Ware's Hotel and the McKinley Manor. Man, With Blackjack, Caught Stealing Articles Harry Brown of Newark was arraigned before Magistrate Flood in Harlem Court, Sunday, on a charge of grand larceny and the possession of a blackjack, and was held without ball for a hearing on Monday before Magistrate Farrell. The complainant, Louisa Ward, a furnished room housekeeper at 2074 Madison avenue, stated that she entered her home on Saturday and found Brown, who is a roomer there, taking articles, which she values at $100. out. While her husband Brown, Mrs. Ward summoned a active servant of the 1868 Street Station. During the scuffle, Brown threw the blackjack in the bathroom. On Monday he waived examination and was held for the grand jury on both charges. If convicted, he will be sentenced to a life term under the Baumes Law because of previous records. Young Men Escape Assault Charge Trouble Started When Chauffeur Parked on First Base. Charged with felonious assault, Thomas Streeter, 18, 70 West 123th street, and John Henry, 18, 39 West 129th street, were arraigned before Magistrate Flood in Heights Court yesterday, on complaint of Hensel Sanguinette, 31 West 129th street. After calling the case up twice during the morning session of the court, Magistrate Flood listened carefully to the testimony, and discharged both youths immediately after Henry testified. The case had been adjourned from July 9, at which time Magistrate McQuade released the boys under $1,000 ball, for a further hearing, Attorney James J. Low, 331. Madison avenue, was defense counsel. The story goes, as revealed by the testimony, that a crowd of boys were playing ball in front of Streeter's home, and Sanguinette drove up in taxi and parked on first base. After much persistence on the part of the players he was induced to move—to third base. He was again requested to move and he said he would gladly do "tomorrow." The boys then got rough, it is said, and beat him up with sticks, and he was unconscious for ten minutes. Mrs. Sanguinette, testified excitedly that she positively identified Streeter and Henry as the boys who assaulted her husband, Attorney Low proved to the satisfaction of the court that neither Sanguinette nor his, wife knows which particular boy struck him. To Get Further Hearing Bernard Coleman, 26, 203 West 120th street, was arrested early yesterday morning by Detective Spittke, of the Thirteenth Squad, charged with carrying a dangerous weapon. At Heights Court Magistrate Flood held him in $500 bail for further hearing today on a charge of violating section 1897 of the Penal Law. SLEEPING CAR MEN TO FIGHT ON Pullman Porters Practically Sure of Victory, Says A. Phillip Randolph Rousing Rally Held Last Night at St. Luke's Hall No Sign of Weakening of Absolute and unqualified victory for the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters is considered as good as a definite and firmly established fact, declared A. Phillip Randolph, general organizer, at a well attended meeting at St. Luke's Hall, 125 West 130th street, last night. The refusal of the Pullman Company to confer in mediation with the B.S.C.P. before the United States Mediation Board is stressed as the most signal victory the Brotherhood has ever won, for by so doing the Pullman Company has been forced to assume some definite attitude in the matter. Workers. W. H. Des Verney, assistant general organizer, was chairman of the meeting, and cogent remarks were heard by A. L. Totten, assistant general organizer, and Frank R. Crosswash, special organizer. Mr. Randolph unfolded to his audience the dramatic details of his mighty battle with the U. S. Mediation Board in the hot, close rooms of the Congress Hotel in Chicago for three weeks. The Brotherhood contended, he said, that it represented the Pullman porters and maids because a majority of them were members. The company contended that eleven five per cent of the porters and maids had served in the Employee Representation Plan, but the Brotherhood replied that both votes were obtained under intimidation, interference and coercion, and offered in evidence 1,000 affidavits to prove its contention. For the same reason the brotherhood declared such a contract to be illegal in any court of law. "The Employee Representation Plan has no lawful standing under the new Railway Labor Act. since it is company organized and company controlled, whereas the Railroad Labor Act provides for the self-organization of employees and the selection of representation without coercion, influence and interference," the brotherhood said. The Pullman Company based that refusal to arbitrate upon the claim that no dispute existed, although the Mediation Board said there was a dispute. Mr. Rndlohp pictured the eighteen Pullman porters delegates of the Employee "Representation Plan as "little boys sitting on the knees of the Pullman Company, the ventriloquist, who caused the delegates' mouths to fly open and their heads to go up and down every time the ventriloquist pulled the string. Their voice is the voice of the company." The speaker related how, after four weeks in Chicago, he became impatient and demanded immediate action of Edwin P. Morrow of the U. S. Mediation-Board, who said, became excited and asked for more time. Through their attorney, Donald R. Buehberg, counsel for the Standard Railway Unions, the brotherhood proposes to drive the Pullman Company before the United States Emergency Board, whose members are appointed by the President of the United States. This extreme measure against the Pullman Company will be forced, the speaker said, upon recommendation by the Mediation Board, who will seek to show that condition warrant such action. "The Pullman Company, in refusing to arbitrate, have violated a Federal statute," said Mr. Randolph. "Instead of weakening the brotherhood, the Pullman Company's intolerant and unreasonable attitude has strengthened its position before the bar of public opinion," the general organizer said. "This is the strongest Negro organization in the world. . . . The Pullman Company has about as much chance of tricking the brotherhood as a snowball has in hell. . . . Vicory for the brotherhood 'is as certain as the night follows the day.' PULLMAN PORTER GETS SIX MONTHS PITTSBURGH, Aug. 22—Pleading guilty to the theft of a gold watch and other jewelry, A. W. East, a Pullman porter, was sentenced to serve six months in the workhouse by Judge Moore in criminal court Wednesday. It is said that the watch and jewelry was stolen from W. H. Frank of this city while he was a passenger on a train between Pittsburgh and Buffalo. Man Acquitted LUMBERTON, N. C., Aug. 22. — A cornerer juries Thursday understaffed Andrew McIntyre of the death of John Burns of Alfordsda township, who died shortly after taking a drink of liquor Saturday, August 6. It was alleged that McIntyre sold, Burns whiskey that killed him, but the jury found that Burns died from natural causes. Won't Press Charge Edward De Costa, 24, 109 West 129th street, is said to have been stabbed in the left chest by Phillip Green, 17 West 134th street, while the men were intoxicated. De Costa to press to be against Green the stabbed man was treated by Dr. Salerno at Harlem Hospital. Boston's Assistant U. S. Attorney Chokes White Ruffian Into Submission Police Station. BOSTON, Aug. 22.—John W. Schencks, assistant United States district attorney here, choked a white ruffian into humble submission in Central Square, Cambridge, a day or so ago. John Powers, a white laundry wagon driver, who lives in the South End, had insulted Mr. Schencks while the two were eating in a Central Square restaurant. According to witnesses, Mr. Schencks had pushed aside two trays of food while she thought were only dirty dishes when he sat down to the table. Mr. Schencks proached him and demanded to know if he was out over fresh in doing so. Mr. Schencks apologized for his mistake in a polite manner, whereupon Bowers, sneeringly alluding to the lawyer's color, said: "You're lucky to be allowed in here under any circumstances." Mr. Schencks demanded to know the purpose of the insinulation and immediately called the attention of the restaurant manager to Bowers' remarks. The manager unpaid Bowers for insulting patron in his place, and ordered him out, then apologized to Mr. Schencks for not furnishance incident. Bowers continued his slurring, as he left the place, asking the ir of the attorney to testiment. Mr. Schencks, gored to the point of action, doffed his coat and hat and went after the ruffian in the street. "You're outside, now. Repeat what you said in the restaurant and I'll give you a thrashing," therate attorney dared Bowers. Thedriver still persisted and Mr. Schencks grabbed him by the throat. Bowers was freed from thelawyer's grip only whenPoliceman Ryan arrived on the scene andpried him loose. Theairman was explained to the officer byMr. Schencks, who was requested togo to the police station and enter a formal complaint against Bowers. At the station the exonerated the district attorney andgave Bowers a caustic reprimand for having the temerity to come into Cambridge and viciously slurpeaed and respected citizens.You can't act a gentleman, stayout of Cambridge," the captain told him. Several white students of Harvard who had witnessed the altercation gave their cards to Mr. Schenck, expressing eagerness to testify for him whenever the case comes up. S. C. MAN BROUGHT BACK TO NEW YORK (Preston News Service). GREENBORO, N. C., Aug. 25. —Thomas Bryant, of Greenwood, S. C., was returned to Nassau County, N. Y., Thursday morning in custody of Officer Morse to face a charge of murdering William Richards on July 27, after a quarrel over the wite of Richards. Bryant had been serving as a convict here in Greenboro since August 2 when he was sentenced for trespass and vagrancy. He is said to have cut Richard's throat. ALA. HOUSE PASSES ANTI-LASH BILL g2- MONTGOMERY, Aug. 22.—The House of Representatives of Alabama, by a record vote of 92 to 1, passed the Tompkins anti-flogging bill Tuesday. The bill passed easily after a bitter fight between Representative Tompkins and the Goodwyn measure (a substitute) which would also make wearing a mask in public illegal. Edward Brown, 22, 18 West 133d street, during a fight with his common-law wife, Eva Taylor, Sunday night, was cut in the scalp and left arm, and the woman was cut in the left palm. Both were treated at Harlem Hospital by Dr. Danetz and sent home. Neither would lodge a complaint against the other. Two Cut in Fight Seven Houses Collapse; Dwellers Homeless ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. J. Aug. 23. About nine a 'clock Friday' the occupants of wooden row on Rosemont avenue, Nos. 301 to 313, were thrown into a state of panic when the entire row began to quiver and sway, and then with a resounding crash sank into the ground about six feet. The 'roots and walls of 301 and 303, cracked wide open. The surrounding blocks were thrown into an uproar as firemen arrived and rescue squads were formed to release the panic stricken occupants. Firemen ran ladders to the upper floors rescuing dwellers from precarious positions. Nielboyd Boyd and Mary Quillian, both of 303 Rosemont avenue, suffered injuries to the back and arms. Alex Smith, 309 Rosemont avenue, received severe cuts about the face. They were rushed to the Atlantic City Hospital. The occupants of the entire seven dwellings were rendered homeless. U. S. Attorney Brian Into Submission To His Color in Cambridge Exonerated at Station. John W. Schencks, assistant here, choked a white ruffian Central Square, Cambridge, a day andry wagon driver, who lives and Mr. Schencks while the two are restaurant. Hot Party; Two Cut Harvey Johnson, 30, 426 West 133d street, was cut on the back of the head Sunday night when he became involved in an argument with someone while attending a party at 57 West 127th street. Anthony Howard, 19, at whose house the party was held, was cut on the left side of the face and right hand during a fight with David Gardner, 25 West 133d street, a member of the party. CITY NEW CITY NEWS BRIEFS Removed to Hospitals James Williams, 40, 22 West 1338 street, suffered lacerations of the left shoulder during an alleged altercation with one Charlie Treadwell of the same address. He was treated by Dr. Polombo. Detective Burns of the West 135th street station was assigned to the case. Ethel Butler, 22, 304 West 147th street; illness; treated by Dr. Hughson. Earl Haynes, 29, 138 West 139th street; illness of long standing; treated by Dr. Wilkinson. Julia Dickerson, 27, 12 Broadhurst avenuc; treated by Dr. Lynch. Andrew Martin, 9, 7 West 133d street; treated by Dr. Lynch; Sunday. John Davis, 214 West 144th street; lacerations of the scalp while intoxicated; found lying with his feet on the stoop and his head on the sidewalk, flat of his back, with no hat on. Treated by Dr. Danetz. John Williams, 34, 302 West 140th street; lacerations of the left cheek, received in some unknown manner while intoxicated. Attended at home by Dr. Fugassi. Emma Williams, 21, 145 West 135th street; found about eleven o'clock yesterday morning suffering from gas poisoning; treated by Dr. Lynch and sent home. Jack Rose, 44, 448 Lenox avenue; intoxication; treated by Dr. Lynch. Archie Bride, 12, 54 West 144th street; fell while playing on the roof at 91 West 143d street; no apparent injury. James Kelly, white, 44, 230 Brad hurst avenue; suffered lacerations of the forehead and scalp at Brad; hurst avenue and 155th street; treated by Dr. Rothfus. Bellevue Jessie Holland, 32, 238 West 144th street; found at 144th street and Seventh avenue; taken to hospital for observation by Nurse Delaney. Struck by Automobiles Bert Woods, 27, 42 West 130th Bert street, suffered lacerations of the chin and upper lip when cut by glass when he was riding collided with which he was riding collided with Harlem Bellevue NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS, TUESDAY, AUG. 23, 1927 Retired Capital Language Professor Committed to St. Elizabeth's Hospital WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 22.—A jury in Circuit Court last Friday found Amplias H. Glenn, retired head on the Department of Languages of the Negro high schools, mentally unbalanced. He was committed to the St. Elizabeth's Hospital for the Insane for treatment. Chief Justice McCoy presided. There was no testimony that his mind was affected. Dr. Percy D. Hickling District alienist, testified that Mr. Glenn was suffering from chores, a physical ailment commonly called St. Vitus dance. He said that Mr. Glenn was unable to care for himself and is in need of treatment. Mrs. Glenn told the jury that her husband was without means. She said that he had no property. He has not disposed of any property since his commitment to St. Elizabeth's for mental observation, she said, for the reason that he had none. She also stated that she thought he needed treatment. Montgomery Poison for Daughter of Mound Bay Story Is The Do Mr. Glenn himself testified. He said that since he had been taken to St. Elizabeth's everybody there had been kind to him and he felt he had been benefited. He stated that he thought the treatment would do him good and that he would like to be treated. His desire, he said, is to get well and return to his home. He was not represented by counsel. Neither Dr. A. M. Curtis nor Dr. Algernon B. Jackson was present. They together with Mrs. Glenn and Mrs. Inez Bruce signed the certificate having Mr. Glenn committed to the asylum for observation. Chief Justice McCoy ruled that it was not necessary for either of the physicians to testify. Mr. Glenn was committed to St. Elizabeth's Hospital for mental observation July 16. He was retired from the public schools February 2 last. He is a graduate of Oberlin College. He was appointed a teacher of languages in the old M.D. high school in 1904. In 1906 he was promoted to the head of the department of languages of the colored high schools. His retirement was on account of physical disability. another at Seventh avenue and 140th street. The drivers of the cars were Ned Boyonak, white, 108 103d street, and Charles Smith, white, 2160 Mayes avenue. Benjamin Scott, 144 West 139th street, was a witness, Samuel Johnson, 27, 102 West 137th street, while riding in one of these cabs, sustained contusions of the right side of the body. Robert Porter, 27, taxi driver, 2384 Seventh avenue, was slightly injured when his cab collided with that of Uell Monroe, 2636 Eighth avenue. The accident occurred at Edgecombe avenue and 139th street at 6 p. m. John Varence, 68 West 134th street, while playing in front of 49 West 134th street, was struck by an automobile driven by Ernest Lyons, 167 West 130th street. The child suffered abrasions and contusions of the body. Benjamin Stevens; 28, 163 West 143d street, was bruised and cut on the left hand when a wheel broke loose from the auto of Henry Gills, 67 West 101st street. He was treated at Harlem Hospital. Julius Spencer; 23, 142 West 142d street, refused medical aid after he was struck and knocked down by an automobile driven by Ethel Smithlein, white, 561 West 147th street, at Eighth avenue and 137th street, yesterday, shortly after midnight. Charles Watson; 10, 227 East 119th street, suffered contusions of the forehead as he fell and bumped into the front fender of a car driven by Samuel Goldstone, 560 Fox street, the Bronx. The child was treated by Dr. Stern at Harlem Hospital and sent home. Melvin Royal, 9, 244 West 148th street, was struck by a hit-and-run driver in front of his home, suffering a depression or the skull. He was rushed to Harlem Hospital. Detective Coogan of the West 135th street station is investigating. O'Cella Foster, 12, 70 West 134th street, was injured on the legs and head while she was skating on 134th street between Lenox and Fifth avenues, where she ran into an automobile. She was treated at Harlem Hospital and sent home. Delegatea and Visitors Beware of Crooks BOULIN'S DETECTIVE AGENCY 110 EAST 125TH ST. Harlem 5342-5655 Montgomery Poison Case Dismissed for Lack of Evidence ROSEDALE, Miss., Aug. 22 (A.N.P.). — "Case dismissed for lack of evidence" was the decision of Justice of the Peace Robert Arnold in the county court here today, disposing of the poison-murder case in which it was charged that the late Isaiah T. Montgomery, founder of Mound Bayou, had been poisoned. The five defendants in the case were Mrs. Mary C. Booze, daughter of Isaiah Montgomery, National Committeewoman for Mississippi, and mother of Mrs. Thornton Wood; of New York; her husband, E. P. Booze, politician, planter and member of the executive committee of the National Negro Business League; Postmaster C. V. Thurmond and his wife, Ben A. Green, Jr., the Mayor. his wife, and Ben A. Green, The defendants were arrested ten days ago as a result of adavits filed by Estelle Mongt- sister of Mrs Bocce, and S. H. Branch, detective from Little Rock Ark. The decision was re- nounced within two minutes after court had opened. District Attorney Smith rose and notified the court that he had gone over the evidence and found it insufficient to work on. With the consent of the county prosecutor he asked that the defendants be released. The case aroused national interest, Isaiah L. Montgomery was an intimate friend of Booker T. Washington and a former slave of the brother of Jefferson Davis, leader of the Confederacy. He founded Mound Bayou, which became famous as an all-Negro city. When the defendants were arrested ed each gave bond for one thousand dollars. They denied all knowledge of the rumor that Isaiah Montgomery, who was 74 years old when he died in 1924, had come to his death from other than natural causes. Citizens of Mound Bayon attributed the charges to the bitter fight which Miss Estelle Montgomery, who had resumed her maiden name after separation from her husband, Richard Kent, had made against her brother-in-law, E. P. Booze, the administrator of her father's estate. She charges him with looting the estate and permitting white people to get control of much of it. Originally it was estimated at $150,000, but is said to have become heavily involved. Miss Montgomery and Detective Branch still insist that their story is true. They contend that the failure of their case was due to a change of front in the doctor who examined Isaiah Montgomery's body after it was exhumed. She is said to be without means. Mr. Booze, when intertwined, said that he regretted that the case had not gone to trial so that whatever charges might have been filed could have been refuted in open court. He attributed the inclusion of Mayor Green and Postmaster Thurmond and his wife in the charges as part of a plot to intimidate his friends. He said he felt nothing but sorrow for his sister-in-law, whom he thought was misguided. "This is a dastardly attempt to bemirch my reputation and hamper the work of my wife," he said. Welcome, Elks, to New York TREAT YOURSELF Hav Eyes I Scien Eye-Gla and MA SAM PRICE Registered Optician and Optometrist 478 LENOX AVE. --- Cor. 134th St. Boston Pocketbook BOSTON, Aug. 22.—A helter-skelter chase through Bedford, Beach, Oxford and Edinburgh streets, in which several shots were fired by Patrolmen Callahan and Murphy of Station 4, culminated at 36 Edinburgh street, where Charles Alexander, 19, 1207 Washington street, darted in after snatching a pocketbook from Miss Francis Covert, of Liberty street, Rockland, yesterday morning. Policemen surrounded the house and two of them entered and found Alexander hiding in a coal bin in the cellar. Miss Covert's bag was recovered intact. It contained eighty dollars in cash, a railroad ticket and other valued property. In Case Dismissed. Lack of Evidence You Founder Still Insists Jue—Blames Actor. Fig. 22 (A.N.P.). — "Case dis- was the decision of Justice of the county court here today, dis- case in which it was charged ntgomery, founder of Mound the case were Mrs. Mary C. ntgomery, National Committee- mother of Mrs. Thornton Wood; E. P. Booze, politician, planter e committee of the National ntmaster C. V. Thurmond and Jr., the Mayor. Troopers Find Slayer When Air Hunt Fails BATAVIA, N. Y., Aug. 22.—A man hunt which started last Thursday morning in the woods of Northern Genesee County culminated today in the arrest of Chester Ball, aged 26, accused of the murder of Fredd Knobloch, a Stafford Country Club employee. Two of the twenty-five State troopers who have taken part in the search came upon Ball shortly before noon today in a wood lot north of Leroy, near here. He was exhausted from traveling through the rough country and from lack of food, and was brought at-once to the barracks of Troop A in this city. During the search an airplane was used to survey the forest land, and early today Monroe and Genease County Deputy Sheriffs started out with police dogs to comb the woods again. Every member of Troop A of the State Police had been called in from substations and special assignments to work on the case and practically all Deputy Sheriffs of the two counties took part in the hunt. Held on Burglary Charge Miller Meneanea, 46, 301 East 102d street, was held in a $2,500 ball for the grand jury by Magistrate Flood in Harlem Court, Sunday, on a charge of burglary. Jesus Rivera of the same address said that he returned home on Saturday night and found clothing and other articles valued at $100 stolen from his entrance had been sent to the apartment by means of the fire escape. Rivera called Detective Lynch of the East 104th Street Station, who charged Meneanea with the crime. Man Drowned in Ohio LAKESIDE, O. Aug. 22. Bernard Jones, aged 19 years, was drowned Wednesday when he dove into 12 feet of water from a row boat and is believed to have struck his head on a rock. It was found that his skull was fractured when the body was recovered. Have Your Eyes Examined Scientifically Eye-Glasses Fitted and MADE THE SAME DAY PRICES LOW derman in and Optometrist . --- Cor. 134th St. Doctor. TO ALL THE PEOPLE NOW IN NEW YORK The SAVOY BALLROOM has never been more delightful than it is at the present moment. The two wonderful orchestras, the gorgeous interior, the exciting attractions are all at a point today which has no equal in any part of the world. Welcome is not a mere word here, but an actual sentiment of warmth on the part of our two hundred employees, who will make you feel as though you are really wanted and will do their utmost to provide your visit with the happiness it deserves. The folks back home will want to know all about the SAVOY --- because the SAVOY is the greatest institution in Harlem. 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NELSON'S HAIR DRESSING Be here you get the original—Nelson's, Packed in a metal box, in a cardboard container, Foreign War Correspondent Dies MOSCOW, Tuesday—Walter C. Whiffen, noted war correspondent died Monday after an operation THREE He covered the Mexican and Russian revolutions for the Associated Perss. Rioters Smash Wilson-Memorial GENEVA. Tuesday—The Woodrow Wilson memorial was demolished and the conference hall of the League of Nations damaged yesterday by the sympathizers of Sacco-Venzetti. Amsterdam News 2293 SEVENTH AVE. Telephone Morningside 3701-3702 Published daily by The Amsterdam News (a corporation). 2292 Seventh Avenue, New York. William H. Davis, President and General Manager; James H. Anderson, Vice-President; Sadie Warren-Davis, Treasurer. STAFF. WILLIAM M. KELLEY Editor-Managing Editor THELMA E. BERLACK Asst Managing Editor and Editor Women's Page AUBREY BOWSER City Editor L. BAYNARD WHITNEY Asst City Editor KOMEO L. DOUGHERTY Editor of Sports and Amusements JACK DROTTER Advertising Manager LOUIS GARCIA Asst Advertising Manager H. COURTNEY PRYCE Special Advertising Manager for Daily (Except Wednesday) EDITIONS. Tuesday, August 23, 1927 Wherever Possible Trade With Stores in Harlem Who Do Not Practice Discrimination in the Selection of Their Employees. Possible Trade With Stores in Harlem or Primination in the Selection of Their Wherever Possible Trade With Stores in Harlem Who Do Not Practice Discrimination in the Selection of Their Employees. Sacco and Vanzetti Pay Penalty Last night the electric Nicolo Sacco and Bartolomeo been sustained. Some man has been committed, but not been done. Certainly no had their day in court—the could have had more time, behalf, more painstaking off. A great deal of agitation half, some of it with the even if they were guilty, murder. It was no killing or by accident; it was the harmless man who was given cannot condone such thing. Now we shall see how with zeal for justice in this for justice in cases deserving how much of the force and cause of Sacco and Vanzee blackest disgrace of America. The sentencing of Earl murdering his wife on the most remarkable news made readers rub their eyes reading a newspaper and not Conrad. The ghost of Conrad missed. Here was more than it was a complete novel in days. The setting was picture vessel, an old four-masted name of Kingways. There with his wife aboard; and the sailor fostered by mate, supposedly the right heroes; then the brutal new time-cursed weapon, a rage horror; the capture of Bar overboard, only to call for the substitute cook, called sick with his wretched coederer to cook for the crew's sweetheart, left behind arrival in port and reimprisonment nine hundred wounds, antiquated phraseology. Battice getting off with a from a Memphis-born juvenile woman. Conrad would have called ways" and made six hundred right the electric chair ended the taco and Bartolommeo Vanzetti. Tried. Some may say that a judge committed, but more will feel that. Certainly no one can deny that lay in court—they had years. No had more time, more influence exe the painstaking consideration of his deal of agitation was carried on of it with the purpose of saving they were guilty. Their crime was no killing in self-defense, in incident; it was the cold-blooded shan who was going about his work done such things and live. He shall see how many of those for justice in this case will show the in cases deserving it far more. For of the force and sentiment gathaco and Vanzetti will now be a grace of America—lynching? Last night the electric chair ended the lives of Nicolo Sacco and Bartolommeo Vanzetti. The law has been sustained. Some may say that a judicial murder has been committed, but more will feel that justice has been done. Certainly no one can deny that these men had their day in court—they had years. No rich man could have had more time, more influence exerted in his behalf, more painstaking consideration of his case. A great deal of agitation was carried on in their behalf, some of it with the purpose of saving their lives even if they were guilty. Their crime was a cruel murder. It was no killing in self-defense, in vengeance or by accident; it was the cold-blooded shooting of a harmless man who was going about his work. Society cannot condone such things and live. Now we shall see how many of those who burned with zeal for justice in this case will show the same zeal for justice in cases deserving it far more. For instance, how much of the force and sentiment gathered for the cause of Sacco and Vanzetti will now be aimed at the blackest disgrace of America—lynching? The Ghost of Conrad contending of Earl Battice to tenure his wife on the high seas conclude remarkable news stories of moderners rub their eyes to make sure newspaper and not a novel of the sea. Most of Conrad must be weeping on there was more than the material in complete novel in itself, with a fine setting was picturesque: an antique old four-masted schooner with longways. There were Battice, the life aboard; the alleged intrigue color fostered by Battice; the old closely the original of one of Jack on the brutal murder with the time, weapon, a razor, the captain's capture of Battice; his escape and only to call for help when he saute cook, called Congo, making his wretched cooking; the release look for the crew; the young Spanish heart, left behind to weep for her report and reimprisonment of Battice, one hundred words long and couched phraseology, and the final sitting off with a sentence of only semphis-born judge after an affair. would have called it "The Cook or made six hundred pages of it. LORFUL "MOVIE By THE CAMERAMAN PRESTON NEWS SERVICE The sentencing of Earl Battice to ten years for murdering his wife on the high seas concludes one of the most remarkable news stories of modern times. It made readers rub their eyes to make sure they were reading a newspaper and not a novel of the sea by Joseph Conrad. The ghost of Conrad must be weeping over what it missed. Here was more than the material for a novel; it was a complete novel in itself, with a flavor of old days. The setting was picturesque: an antique type of vessel, an old four-masted schooner with the unusual name of Kingways. There were Battice, the Negro cook, with his wife aboard; the alleged intrigue between her and the sailor fostered by Battice; the old captain; the mate, supposedly the original of one of Jack London's heroes; then the brutal murder with the time-honored, or time-cursed, weapon, a razor, the captain retreating in horror; the capture of Battice; his escape and jumping overboard, only to call for help when he saw a shark; the substitute cook, called Congo, making everybody sick with his wretched cooking; the release of the murderer to cook for the crew; the young Spanish girl. Battice's sweetheart, left behind to weep for her lover; the arrival in port and reimprisonment of Battice: the indictment nine hundred words long and couched in curious, antiquated phraseology, and the final surprise—Battice getting off with a sentence of only ten years from a Memphis-born judge after an affair with a white woman. Conrad would have called it "The Cook of the Kingways" and made six hundred pages of it. "I'm a Mason, I'm an Eagle. I'm an Elk. I'm a Knight; (Boom. Boom)—I'm ragged but right." NOW that convention season is about over, and the fraternal hoofs, horns, swords plumes and epatites of the fifty-seven or more varieties of race fraternities are wending their weary way homeward, with empty "gas" tanks, thin purses, and an appetite which years heartily for some good old home-made corn-bread and home-cooked country bacon, together with a pay-day which will partially take care of the bills which the delegates didn't have time to pay before leaving home, our mind reverts to both the menaces and the promises which annual fraternalistic camp meetings have for the brother and the race. There's no use of talking; this race of ours sure is strong on the go-to-church, go-to-convention movement. They have the go-to-school, go-to-college, go-to-work campaign pushed clear off the map; and our annual contribution to the railroads and the gasoline stations would make Booker T. Washington were he alive today, think that the endowments to Tuskegee and Hampton institutes compare merely with the "tips" which convention delegates hand out on the way to—not from—the meeting place. What a unanimity of good opinion there is about the virtues of annual conclaves. What a store of energy and finance FOUR "Fraternity of Fraternities." Stores in Harlem Who Do Not Selection of Their Employees. chair ended the lives of meo Vanzetti. The law has say that a judicial murder more will feel that justice has he can deny that these men y had years. No rich man more influence exerted in his consideration of his case. was carried on in their be- purpose of saving their lives. Their crime was a cruel in self-defense, in vengeance cold-blooded shooting of a ing about his work. Society and live. many of those who burned case will show the same zeal it far more. For instance, sentiment gathered for the ii will now be aimed at the a-lynching? Battice to ten years for high seas concludes one of histories of modern times. It is to make sure they were a novel of the sea by Joseph must be weeping over what it can the material for a novel; itself, with a flavor of olduresque: an antique type of schooner with the unusual were Battice, the Negro cook, alleged intrigue between her Battice; the old captain; the final of one of Jack London's older with the time-honored, or, the captain retreating in ice; his escape and jumping help when he saw a shark; Congo, making everybody ring; the release of the murder of the young Spanish girl. Batall to weep for her lover; the ensonment of Battice; the inis long and couched in curi- and the final surprise—sentence of only ten years age after an affair with a it "The Cook of the King-ed pages of it. "MOVIES" AMERAMAN NEWS SERVICE they exact from the group—a quantity which would endow a university, capitalize a gigantic laundry, build half a dozen old folks' homes, and educate and maintain fifty per cent of all our widows and orphans. Could not some of this potential force and finance be diverted into some substantial projects which would survive the tumult and shouting of the convention season? If this is an unreasonable hope, then could not the idea of the late Joseph L. Jones, of Cincinnati, who made a small fortune manufacturing regalia for the fraternal brethren, be put into effect? Jones asserted that there should be a "Fraternity of Fraternities" composed of quotation membership from each of our leading orders. He believed that such a body could meet each year, consider the problems of each unit, and construct a national program which would bring honor and assistance to the various orders and to the race as a whole. Jones believed that such a plan would conserve the intraracial bankroll, by doing away with a deal of the reckless convention-time squandering, and that universal good-will and real fraternal growth would inure to the credit of each racial fraternal unit and to America's component Negro population. So do we think Caucasian Life in Harlem. The reading public has been regaled with two literary feasts The Soap Box By George S. Schuyler PURITANS and other such disagreeable ninnies around Harlem are given lustly to cursing the cabarets and dance halls as sinks of iniquity, breeding places of crime and hotbeds of immorality. They are strong for putting these places out of business on the theory that goodness and morality will then reign supreme from 25th street to 153th street, and from St. Nicholas avenue to the New York Central viaduct. They beat the air like a traffic policeman at Times Square at 8 p. m. and froth at the mouth like a Klausman who comes to Harlem and sees a spade boy dancing with an ofay gal. They vociferously wall about the rule of the younger generation and clamor to the gendarmes to suppress these places that offend their righteousness. Now even a Holy Roller or a Christian Scientist can see that all of these complaints are unadulterated nonsense. Long before cabarets, dance halls and bootleg emporiums came into being there was sin, iniquity and crime. So far as I have been able to ascertain, there was neither institution in the Garden of Eden nor on Mount Ararat. Eve was not a cabaret habitue nor was Adam a bar fly, and from all accounts Ham was perfectly sober when he burst out in gales of laughter after viewing his daddy in the altogether. Far from being a menace, I believe the cabarets, dance halls and gin mills are important social assets; not perhaps as important as the churches, "Christian" associations and the various societies for the uplift of this and that, but important nevertheless. They all need in the community: they add contrast and color to life; they round out the humdrum of existence in our canyons of steel, brick and asphalt. This is true because most every individual has many sides to his character and his physical and spiritual needs are varied and complex. Every puritan has some pagan in him, and every pagan conceals a little puritan complex. There is not a jolly rounder, rouse or tippler who doesn't occasionally have illusions about improving the world and making things better than they are, and hardly a bluened puritan but feels like downing a drink of gin, watching a half-nude girl trip across the stage or attempt to execute the less intricate step of the Black Bottom, at least once in a while. What puts this right tight little Harlem above all of the rest of the communities on the map is the fact that one can here find more varied pleasures and amusements than in any other place under the dear, old stars and stripes. Here one can live the complete life. One can come directly from church and get a substantial drink of intoxicant, or one can leave the Young Men's Christian Association and walking a half block descend into the realm of unrestrained jazz. This is what makes Harlem the civilized community it is. And from all indications both churches and cabbages seem to be flourishing side by side, and often with much the same patronage. It is seriously to be doubted whether the cabaret and the dance hall make the community any worse, but a whole lot of people are ready to assert that they make it better. What, indeed, would Harlem be without its pleasure resorts? It would. I assure you, be as dull as the wastes of the Bronx or the desert of Washington Heights. People who have been abroad come back and enthusiastically acclaim the pleasures of Harlem night life. It is the only place in America, say they, that has a European atmosphere. Here people laugh and enjoy life, with a saving grace of cynicism, as it is enjoyed nowhere in this country. Added to the boisterousness and exuberance of our black population is the sophistication and effeness of the great metropolis with its tolerance and smartness born of 300 years of cosmopolitanism. One great point in favor of the cabaret and dance hall as social assets is the fact that they do what the church and the social organizations do not do; they afford a meeting place for the individuals of the two races where they can know each other on a plane of equality and good-will. In many ways they are more valuable in breaking down racial barriers than all of the whooping of the interracial leagues from one end of the country to the other. People who chat, drink and dance together are not apt to harbor ignorant and unreasonable prejudices, or to indulge in lynching ories. The crux of the race problem in this country is getting white and black people to see each other as individuals and not as race representatives. The cabarets and dance halls of Harlem are doing this to a larger extent all of the time, and this, coupled with the joy and gaiety they dispense, certainly marks them as more of a promise than a menace, despite the fervent yawping of our distressing puritans. this month from the pen of Rudolph Fisher, one, "Blades of Steel," appearing in the August Atlantic Monthly, and the other, "The Caucasian Storms Harlem," appearing in the American Mercury for the same month—and yet we are not satiated. These two productions, differing essentially, tend to show the versatility of our talented author. In the latter article he gives us a resume of his "come-back" to Harlem, after an absence of five NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS, TUESDAY, AUG. 23, 1927 ELATED Intimate Glimpses of Harlem THE physicians and dentists are still permitted by the community to eke out an existence by competition with white dentists and physicians. While there are few of these who may be considered efficient and to a degree wealthy, the pace which they have had to make in competition with the white men of their professions has left them for the most part so tired of body and mind that they have but little love for study. The drug stores are mainly in the hands of the eternal white man — mostly Jews. A few colored men have been able to barely maintain life in this business, but they are hard pressed for the rents and for cash to purchase stocks. Even in this profession the white man's hand is heavy fisted. The colored doctors are so hungry for money that they send their prescriptions to the white druggists, where high percentages are al- years—and five years in these modern days can be an age, as far as changes go. Mr. Fisher finds himself all at "sea." He says, "I was entirely unprepared for what I found on my return." Upon entering one of his old haunts, he says, "the old familiar planket-plunk welcomed me from below. I looked about seeking familiar faces. What a lot of "fays!" "Then I gasped; I was the only Negro in the place, aside from the orchestra and waiters." "Then I wandered from night club to night club. I tried the Nest. Small's, Connie's Inn, the Cotton Club, and other rendezvous of Harlem. There was no mistake," he says. "The best of Harlem's black cabarets had changed their names and turned "Nordic." Fisher grows reminiscent over the old days, when there was no cover charge, and when a fifteen cent bottle of "whistle" lasted an hour. "This was just after the war. The heroes were home. Cabaretts were the thing. The Lybla was the swell resort in those happy days. How it shook with the singing and dancing of the merry, dark crowd. Pretty girls from Brooklyn, handsome captains and lieutenants from Camp Upton, and poor non-coms, not wanted by any girl." All this in the old-fashioned house on 133th street, near Seventh avenue, since torn down. There was the Chinese cabaret in 136th street, later known as the Oriental, with the Cuban girl entertainer and the cute little brown, who could sing so as to make a man forget to eat his food. Here one danced to piano music only. Here Henry Creamer, Turner, Layton, Paul Robeson and others assembled of evenings; and Bert Williams usually ate his dinner. Countee Cullen, Asst. Editor Nouch D. Thompson, Business Mgr. 17 MADISON AVENUE—NEW YORK CITY "A magazine which should be followed by all who are intellectually curious and interested in America's cultural advance."—Boston Transcript. "ONE of the most interesting magazines published in the United States."—New York Herald-Tribune. By EDGAR M. GREY lowed them, in exchange for the trade received. There is only one hospital in the community which takes care of the abundant sick of the population. This one, Harlem Hospital, has for years been the eye-sore of the colored doctors, who claim that because of its location and the complexion of its patients it should be controlled by them. After years of agitation on the part of the leaders of the settlement several colored doctors have been admitted to this institution. But, if the reports which have come out of Nazaroth are true, the conditions in the hospital are worse today than ever before; and the only section of the community which has been benefited is that made up of the doctors. The police authority in the settlement is in the control of white men, as usual, and while there are more than fifty colored officers doing duty in the settlement, they are mostly of the rank of patrolmen, without any other than fifth-rate power. Among these are several sergeants of detectives and one sergeant of patrolmen, doing plainclothes duty. Crime has not decreased, but this may be traced to other causes than the presence of the colored "cops." The courts of justice are still without a colored representative upon their benches, and the community is so hopelessly divided into political blocks that the white politicians sueer up their long sleeves at the colored agitators who rave to and fro at the top of their voices for the appointment or election of a colored judge. At the present writing there have been designated three colored men for the city and state legislatures; but these are old and long enjoyed privileges, and hence do not cause any excitement in the community. The race of a colored man for the Congress of the United States was respectable and serious and had frightened the white politicians to such an extent that at last election for this office a white man was selected to make the race. And the Negro was so weak and cowardly, so wedded to parties, that he refused to place an independent candidate in the race. Recent developments among the colored political leaders would indicate that they are not serious and consequently should not be taken at their face value. They are more interested in fighting each other than they are in gaining points of political advancement for the community. Each colored politician is bent upon vonting his own spleen upon the other and disregards the mission for which he was originally selected by the group. The white man is therefore secure in the political leadership of the community which he now enjoys, and according to present indications will enjoy for a long time to come. By E. ELLIOTT RAWLINS, M.D. Hello, Bill! What of the Future? ELKDOM has prospered nume during the last twenty years. proved its strength in laws and crises of the order. It still stands a tion, fealty to leadership and fraternity. What are you going to do for the mensurate with your organized street sick and bury your dead? If that is Elkdom is not bright! The power of be utilized in other constructive way. ABOUT BOOKS ELKDOM has prospered numerically and financially during the last twenty years. The organization has proved its strength in laws and solidarity in many crises of the order. It still stands a Gibraltar in organization, fealty to leadership and fraternalism in membership. What are you going to do for the good of the race commensurate with your organized strength? Just pay your sick and bury your dead? If that is all, then the future of Elkdom is not bright! The power of your organization can be utilized in other constructive ways. More Poems IDLE HOURS. By Henry B. Wilkinson (Frederick H. Hitchkock). Grafton Press. This collection of poems has the interest of a family album. The author calls them "the sayings of a soldier," and they are dedicated to the memory of "the boys who, when the life of their country was at stake, gave of their best to uphold the rights which they held dear, and who at great sacrifices contributed to this cause." Sincerity is one of the needed qualities of a poet and in that respect, at least, this book qualifies. It is patently straightforward and entirely without sophistication. Like the family album, it will be interesting to those who know the author personally and have shared the experience he describes. It is written in the style of the old street ballads that used to be sold by itinerant singers. The author would profit by a wider acquaintance with the classics of verse and a study of the technique of verse forms. Even in this anarchic day some attention to meter is imperative. The two fundamentals of poetry are beauty and rhythm. Originality is almost indispensable, but it is included in beauty; beauty is always original. Lack of originality is the main fault of this volume. Too many quotations are used. Edgar Allan Poe was accused of having a genius for quotation, but his quotations, if such they be, are so fused and beautiful by his nature that they are all Poe. He was like the oyster who receives a tiny stone and surrounds it with his own secretions till it becomes a pearl. If this author could do that there would be no complaint of his quoting. But when a poet writes badly and barely, he is not expressing himself, and his own self is all we want to hear from. A. B. New Yorkers to Vote on Nine Amendments ALBANY, Aug. 22.—When the voters of New York State express themselves this coming fall on the nine proposed amendments to the Constitution, they will vote first upon the proposal calling for the establishment of an executive, budget which places upon the Governor of the state the responsibility for infiltrating the budget for the support of the government. The order of arrangement on the ballot has been decided upon and the second place will go to the proposed amendment extending the borrowing capacity of New York City by $300,000,000 to facilitate subway construction. The other proposed amendments will appear in the following order: Making counties instead of towns and villages the local unit for assessing costs of railroad grade crossing eliminations; increasing the salary of the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor and legislators; designating the Governor as head of the Executive department; making a four-year term for Governor and State Senators, and a two-year term for Assemblymen; authorizing a road in the Forest Preserve; authorizing the Legislature to confer on counties powers in excess condemnation for public improvements; providing that no territory shall be annexed to a city without the consent of a majority in such. Can You Tell? In the course of slavery in the United States, how many slaves were owned by Negro slave owners? (Answer on Back Page.) At a meeting of Imperial Lodge last Saturday night, the lodge unanimously endorsed its secretary, Charles M. Hanson, for Educational Commissioner. That position is now held by Judge Wm. Hueston of Gary, Ind. Young's Book Exchange The Mecca of Negro History and Literature 255 WEST 144TH ST. NEW YORK Buy a Book M. B. H. numerically and financially years. The organization has laws and solidarity in many lands a Gibraltar in organiza fraternalism in membership, or the good of the race comed strength? Just pay your that is all, then the future of power of your organization can be ways. You have started in the right direction with your educational scholarships. And yet do I hear murmurings that these scholarships will be discontinued! Elkdom cannot, must not go backward in its effort of racial help. What, Brother Elk, is your organization doing along lines of health education? Insurance companies are now entering the field of health education; the lowered death rate and sickness reduction by such a program keeps dollars in the common treasury; it also enhances the economic efficiency of the individual policy holders. Cannot Elkdom do the same and reap the resulting rewards? Each lodge of Elkns should have its health lecturing doctors; each temple should have its nurse division, helping and advising its needed members along proper health activities. Health literature, pamphlets and circulars should be sent out from the national offices to the local lodges for distribution. With such a constructive program of service, Elkdom will have reached the pinnacle of efficiency. Well, Bill! May the future for Elkdom be greater than the past! Pen Pointers By Clifford L. Miller. The "Mouthy Mags" always reveal more about their own corrupt hearts than the short comings of others. In gazing for the stars of first magnitude we often overlook lesser but more glorious lights. The great star is only great by way of comparison. To be everywhere and know everything may be the gifts of immortality. If you have a way of stirring up hornets' nests, remember it is the part of an adventurer to set in motion forces he cannot control. Don't bury your ox without first salvaging his skin. The masses seem to live by heart beats and heaven-born impulses more than the classes. A sip of life comes to us from God's spoon of eternity day by day. Homely Philosophy BY GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON A Day Off HE who works incessantly year in year out is a poor philosopher. He works better who takes a day off—plays a while—relaxes, for the returns to his task reinforced, restored, renewed Saving at the expense of one's vitality is poor economy. Go to the woods, the city, anywhere. Just make a change in the daily routine. Take a day off-in time! THE POETS' CORNER Poems submitted for publication in The Poet's Corner' will not be returned unless accompanied with a self-addressed and stamped envelope. Palm Fronds — The Souls of Black and White THE souls of both black and white were made. By the oakame tid, of the By the self-same God, of the self-same shade. God made both pure, and he left one white; God laughed over the other, and wrapped it in night. "Said He, I've a flower, and none can unfold it." Ive a breath of great mystery. I can hold it. nothing can hold it: Spirit so illusive, the wind cannot sway it. A force of such might, even death cannot slay it. But so, that He might conceal its glow. He wrapped it in darkness, that men might not know. Oh the wonderful souls of both black and white. Were made by one God; of one sod—on one night. —By GLADYS HAYFORD or ESQUAH LALUCH, a native African. PION Ve <x ya oY j az : FER NS Ro_<. Za Ne i fox Ae is THE APEX AGENT jk Ad Renders a service of uncqualled distinction ¥ ine . FATRONIZE HER iy i Apex system excels others because it makes your {PIN + hair look bester and stay nice longer ry f fi APEX PRODUCTS ra | Are of the highest standard and produce amazing PIN A resulte—Buy them from your hairdresser + i BECOME IND! 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Theodore Dotis, 8 West 130th stron, is leaving the eity Saturday fo epend some time with his father to Washington and then go to At- bntic City. He ts a New York University student. ‘A closed dance in honor of visit- fnz brothers was iven Friday erening by the Pb! Geta Sigma Frateralty at the Unique Colony. West 135th street. stiscos Tielen and Dorothy Gorgas spent Saturday afternoon in Jer- ger City as the guests of the Browns, 120 Glenwood avenue. Dz, Artrelle Levy and Miss Dor- car Kavouln are spending their va- tu:ioa in Boston, Waiter Jones, Mrs. Lillian Smel- los and famfly of Philadelphia, af- ter visiting Niagara Falls, il be the house guests of Mr. and Mrs. ‘N. A. Burrell Jr, 180 Edgecombe ayentie. * E H, James Cooper, $16 West 136h sireot, bas ebosen Atlantic High- Isnis as the place to spend his twa weeks’ vacation. He leaves tomorrow to be the guest of Mrs. FE. Schanck. While in the eify this week, Dan- fe) Ware af Cambridge. Mass.. 1s Usixg at 230 West 136:h street, Herman Pinado,” who was in Sicaisburg, N.Y. has returned to the chy. ees A spectal_ meeting was held_a° the YW. C. A. 179 West 137th Pee DRESS SALE | gn ere 95 We ees 1295 Say een ess ee cece and rolors #898 ang ups MUR-CEL DRESS SHOP 2201 SEVENTH AVENUE Near 130th St. —_—_ C—O SRS. ; | a3 y » E>. ie” Be se i VY 4 Bs i Vo ES a Mme. Celestine Beavers Daventer Ek— Enreka Temple So. 23 Hair Calturist.Poro System Maniearing—Facial Marencing gen WEAT 14th MT~ pent Sih AT, Shoppe Phone Realdence Phone ies Brachuree —” T519 Bradnurst Mme. Hilda Snape, Mme. Dorothy Roakins, Mme. Ethel "Wallace, Mme, erirade Biackette, “Mme. Landes Hiack, Mmes Lelia ‘Mutt, RECEPTION COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN ee premrerremmmarar SE e ee Soe Se ee Seta ore ok SENS Cc eae Se es Fee eer eet each etme ates Saye ee ee en, eae tees oS" der ee ee Sy rai Wie a ae Se, ee eee MME IRE SS ge ME Sa eee Gee em Hi a a ccm eS EG LS esac RR aes eee Bera Rag NS Ns 55 Sele cE | ee ree ae sc SO ee Pca Se ea oT Ee ay oe pe es heen re tae ty cee See RES Be OE RGR See 2 1, Ba io ied iia cenertae eee Ee came a nie Nearer fy tage seat Pree cae te iSR i cee aN a Fee RAN GARE te AS Sot eee Ren Cite recat cc cia nto AGED Ct aE < (SOE ESR OP SE NES eS, CE CER SD Pe teNMREE Con Wire cpt cca ae AE CECA N “Cpsaaan tans: Sree Gere eR eae me gaia ess Seay frye amr athena ee: orton Vas eer co ee. ee Pea nei nen cee aca Pe ti ee AR oie eer be i ea ges ASE neat rae Ge ante Te RAS Sane aA eA ne a ea arian ——Mirz. Bessie O. Miller-—— Delegates and friends of the Pan-African Congress were given a reception at the Y. W. C, A. 179 West 137th street. yesterday afternoon at dvo'vlock. Heading the recep- tion committee was Mrs. Bes- sie O. Miller, wife of the well- known comedian, F. E. Miller. sirset. last Thursday evening to discuss plans for a banquet and reception ia honor of Major and Mrs, Edward Duvalle Colley on September 19, The Colleys are now visiting the clinles {2 Europe. Heading this committee are aliss Saruh E. Jenkins, Mrs. Martha Best and Dr, Caaries A. Butler. Major William S. Braddon, chap- jain, with the Eishth Mlinois Reg!- ment, sailed from New York Sat- urday for a tour of Burope. He is one of the few chaplains with the rank of major. He has seen twen- ty-seven years’ service with mill- tary outfits. Mrs. 1. E, Williams of Jackson- ville, Fla. is ilving at G66 St. Nich- las avenue, apartment 25, while here, | Thomas W. Fleming, a member of the Cleveland City Council, is ere attending the convention. | Mrs, William Booker and daugh- ter, Mrs. Bertha Stewart of Wash. ington. D. C., fave a surprise party last. ‘Thursday evening at 2613 Eighth avenue in honor of William Booker. Among those present were: Mr. and Mrs. William Baxter, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Riley, Mr. and Mrs. HATIONAL BEAUTY CULTURIST LEAGUE Eighth Annual Convention Aug. 30-31—Sept. 1-2 ABYSSINIAN BAPTIST CHURCH COMMUNITY HOUSE Public Sessions Evéry Afternoon Coiffure Review and Dansante. Friday, Sepember 2, 1927 Sponsored by Local No. 26, No. 25, te by Taal Ne. ot Those who assisted in the receiving Hine were: Mesdames Ada Thomas. Lottie Cooper, Lela S$. Kellar, Minnte Pick- ens, L. M. Fayerweather, Sadie Ellison Stackton, Helen Curtis, Addie W. Hunton, Misses Frun- cis Gunner and Elizabeth Cur ter. Refreshments were served. William Tyler, Mrs. Mamie Cols- ton, Mrs. Corrie Gibbs. Miss Louise Terry. Dr. J. 0. Jarmon. Mr. aad Mrs, Reginald Wilkins, Mr. Scott. aAmoag the out-of-town visitors to the city are Mrs, Gussie Square of Pittsburgh: Miss O. B. Winbush of Augusta, Ga; Herman R. Lee. Chauncey Parker and Mr. Edlea. students of HoWard University. wee | Miss Olyve Mae Thomas, 2041 Fifth avenue, spent the week-end in Atlantic City. Harry Robeson was entertained dy Irtends on bis birthday anniver sary Friday night on St. Nicholas javenue. Sunday Mr. Robeson lef: ‘with the 369th Infantry for Peeks. ‘kill. Upon his return to the city, Ae is going to Kansas City, Kans. | Mrs. C. Gordon Smith and daugh- fter, Mildred, who came to Nex 'York last week, have taken an ‘apartment at 723 St. Nicholas ave- eee ane | Contes Cullen, Richard Bruce Edward G. Perry and Harold Jack- man were Suerte of Hemsley Win field and Albert Patrick at the Triangle Theatre Saturday after noon. “Bare Facts of 1927" was me show they saw, | Miss Nellie “Owens of Washing. ton arrived Sunday, Sho is living at 215 West 137th street. | Mrs. Marle Shaw. Mrs. Cora |Whye and James Davenport of Buffalo are the guests of | Mrs. Gladys Fitchett. 584 Lenox avenue. They are returning home Wedues- aay. Miss Ann Sawyer was enter. ‘tained by Miss Louise Smith at 315 ‘Edgecombe avenue on Saturday night. Brooklyn and L. I. Society News Edward Barrow recently returned, after spending his vacation In At- fantic Fighlandy and Montreal, Car~ ada, Mr. Harrow formerly’ lived at No.2 “Verona place, but is now. re- fiding with Ris mother at sti Han- cock street. ‘Mra. Ortle R. Brown, the popular modiste of 449 Classon avenue, left Friday for her vacation at Hampton, va Mrs. Gertrude Brawner, county leader of the 17th, Asvembly District, han been requested by the women of the district to call them together as An organization to be Known aa the Colored Women's Civic and Political Associntion of the lith Assembly Din- iret. ‘Their first fall, meeting will de held on ‘Thursday, September 29, at thelr “termporary headquarters, ‘492 Hancock street. ‘Mrs. Portla Washington Pitman and daughter, Fanny, were the dinner guests of Mr, and Mrs. W. R. Howard, 249 Decatur street, last Friday. Mine J. Moseley ave x surprine patie’ tor Shimnes, Kina Slay vane Gracievelle “Sprueil, twins, at thelr Rome, “art Waverly, avenbe, 8, fom evenings ago. Une len Were taken to the Albee Theatre and fo their surprise on their return they wore, grocted ‘by m host of young Frionds, Dancing, music and games rere the featuren of the evening. A Gelighttul repast was served. Covers were laid for fitty. ‘Mrs, Ruth J. Middleton and her lt- tle daughter Dorothy of Philadelphia, Pa., are spending the summer vinit- Ing relatives in Brooklyn. 3trs, Mtid- dieton will be remembered as Miss Ruth Jones, daughter of the late Mr. gnd, Sra Austin’ Jones of Columbie, Mr. and rx, Leslie Ellsworth and Mra. Fannie McLeod have returned ee ee ee. aaka tar See NEW YGRK AMSTERDAM NEWS, TUESDAY, AUG. 23, 1927 ° ° ° | Radio Highlights | WEAF — 6:00 p.m—Waldorf-Astoria Dinner Mu- sic WGBS — 7:30 p.m—‘“Metropolitan Mirror” En- tertainers WOR — 8:00 p.m—'The Pedestrian Must Help,” - C. S. Carstens WRNY — 8:00 p.m—Edison Hour of Music WPAP — 9:00 pm—“Paramount Three” Har- mony WNYC — 10:20 p.m.—Facts About New York WJZ — 10:30 pm—Pennsylvania Orchestra Pineapple—crushed or sliced—can be used in no" many dif. ferent ways, Here are two recipes worth having in your valuable collection: BROWN-EYED SUSAN SALAD Place slice of pineapple on a] slice like petals of » flower. lettuce leat. Mold pimlenta) Stone a ripe olfve aud place in cheese, or cream cheese, ta! center, trimming underside to which batter coloring acd <ay-| make it fit. Garnish with may- gnne pepper have been added.; onnaise. (Whites of hard-boiled into slender pointed rolls long|eggs colored in best vinegar enough to cover pineapple from| may be used to make a pink center to edge. Lay rolls on; fower.) CHICKEN SALAD SUPREME Mix 3% cup of drained crush-ped walnuts, 1% teaspoon salt. ed pineapple with 2 cups chop-Garnish with lettuce or celery ped cooked chicken or veal, ltips and serve with cooked or cup chopped ceiery, 5 cup chop- mayonnaise dressing, Beauty Hints | Bea MINA TEMPLE s | What Mutton Tallow Will Do There was a beauty prescription in use once for which I paid $5 for the tinlest jar. It was delight fully scented and the effect was marvelous upon the skin. After itg continued use for about four weeks my friends began to take notice and worried me with ques Uons. ‘Then the firm went out of busi- ness. J could not get any more. I was desperate. T examined with microscopic care the little bit that remained and this is what I found out. The base of that prepara- tion was plain mutton tallow. So now, when I bake my roast of lamb, I keep and strain my tallow and lo! beauty is mine for a trifle: —— ees ; | Confidences Questions and Answerr By EGYPSY ANN - Leok for the Best Always Dear Egypsy Ann: Jam a young man now entering my thirty-first year and have spent a. part of my Ife in New York ‘City, and would you believe me, I have never walked out with a gir! or knewn one! And now it worries 'me to think that I work very bard every day in the year. Some money I save, with the rest 1 buy | good clothing and all that sort of thing. But yet I can't keep money. Kt makes me become disagreeable lwith my boss. To tell you the |truth, it’s just this! I have very homely features, and I have one arm amputated from the wrist but yet Iam able to make $25 per week. As for my character or qual- ity, ft can be given by my boss or friends. 5 In the August 17 Question I see a. young Iady refers to “men who pity’ themselves.” Sho went fitty- fitty with her friend in anything, a [bit expensive and yet he did not jtreat her right. Her name fs Leona. ‘I hope to God I can get one such ‘as her. Wouldn't I De happy! But, as I sald in the adore, there ts quite » drawback, my, face and physical ability. Yet my friends tell me there 1s nothing wrong with me. I don't know if you can ‘make any $ntroduction through your lady correspondents. 1 would be glad to know one of them and maybe she would give me a trial if she so cares. But please let me know what you think about it. It may decide whether J will be a married man or not. : Yours respectfully, SAMUEL. Dear Sam: Do you know what's bandicap- Ping you? You're picking out all your little defects, grieving over them and enlarging them in your imagination instead of amplifying your good features and qualities. ‘There’s something attractive in everyone. Perhaps rou have nice eyes or teeth or a soft skin. Per- haps you have a good figure. Per- haps you bave @ lot of style in the way you wear your clothes. ‘Then again, you may have a good voice or have wit. Whatever you hare, find it and take advan- tage of it. Make use of what God has given you and don't be satis. fied with a back seat where you ‘will sit end grieve because you don’t look Hie someone else, “If you look around at your mar- ‘ried acquaintances your eyes and commonsense will tell you that many of them surely didn’t marry tor looks. “It you make yourself pleasant, you'll be wanted mostly anywhere. How many tinies haven't you seen pretty girls flocking around home- ly men? It’s your actions that connt, honey, Why not make mea. friends. slice like petals of a flower. Stone a ripe oltve and place in center, trimming underside to make it fit. Garnish with may- omnaise. (Whites of hard-boiled eggs colored in best vinegar may be used to make a pink flower.) Y= We are graciously indulged in taking meat and fowl bones io the fingers when eating; never- theless, it {s incorret. Loaf-sugar should pot be picked up by the fingers. lf tongs are lacking the teaspoon should be utilized, Hard cheese may be eaten with the knife, but crumbling cheese should be spread with the knife blade. Sea foods (lobsters, crabs, shrimps, etc.) may be pulled apart with the fingers. Radishes, cel- ery. puts, raisins, olives, raw freits, dates, ind{vidual cakes. treads, candies, burr artichokes, asparagus and green cora on the cod are recognized as what may be termed finger foods. Thearcher Says— August 22 begins the transit of the sun through Virgo, the Virgin, Augurt 22 to September 21. These people have not been very fortun- ate in the past, but there {s a splen- did change of fortune ahead for them in the new year, abcut the ume of their next birthdate. This {s a rather ordinary birthdate and its children should stick to regular affairs and leave Smportant mat- ters for their next birthdate, Ther may a$ well do so, since any news plans and ventures will fail. It is 8 good year for study and to de- velop the mind for future advance- ment, Poise and patience will be needed to get the best out of the year, Through them you'll meet their sisters and girl friends. One sure way for a man to be popular with the girls ts by being popular with men, Join a club and go out among people. Go to the churches. You'll surely be asked to go to some en- tertainment or social gathering that they're having. I bave explained that The Am- sterdam News does not believe {n fostering acquaintances between those of differet sex and I'm sure we all feel it's tor the best. Sincerely. 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Avg, 22.—Prominent New Yorkers figured in a gala week of entertain. ment prepared by Hampton Inst!- tute, host to the eleventh annual national championships of the American Tennis Association. August 15-20, at the seaside Mecca of tennis. | The program of events afte: tennis hours was extensive and in cluded besides the regular business Meeting of the association Monday ain @ reception to the ladies at the Katherine House, clud quarters ‘of the faculty. | Tuesday “evening a good ld. ‘Ume watermelon cut was given on the campus lawn in front of Vir inja Hall. Three hundred of the favorite southern frult fell vietims te the cutters. Following this event the caravan of cats and merrymakers journeyed to Bay Shore hotel, Buckroe Beach, tu ‘complete the evening dancing. Overlooking moonlit Chesapeake Bay, the hall made an {deal setting for the affair. A sail on the steamer Genevai Matthews over Hampton Roads was the Wednesday evening fe ture. Five hundred players and fans joined the cruise and enjoyed dancing as well. An impromptu program arrang- ed by Miss Constantia Wharton of Baltimore and Charles P. Buchan- an of New York was held in Oxden Hail Thursday evening. Several musical numbers, a fire- eating stunt by Alexander Ab dullah of Astoria, Long Island, and Teadings constituted the program. A heavy downpour of rain did not dampen the spirits of three hun: dred Joymakers who moved on down to Bay Shore hotel for an evening of dancing following the performances. Friday night climaxed the off- cial program when the American Tennis Asxociation held its annual ball at Bay Shore.in the beautiful- ly decorated dancing pavilion. Players and officials were guests of the association, A ten-piece band furnished entiging music by which fully $00 danced, Following the fireworks of six final matches and several semi. finals Saturday, Tennisiana joined fn the celebration at Bay Shore and danced gleefully untli morn- ing. ‘Among those who attended were FOR MILADY’S BOUDOIR git a, ae “ eg * was B mae, \ ‘aca a _ i ee) Sean 9 eh 4 oe /, ae Z\\ al —- i <a cf me tl ig) | i “ i : i Hy ah WA ! MA) i CL i — : ‘The fastidious perton site Minti FRENCH PERFUME Sie erfume, powder and creak me User y i The fellows cling to her just ay POWDER, COLD CREAM ge ana ech Be or pen Get_your favorite Perfume. Powder and Cold Cream today. 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Norman of Flushing, Arthur Francis. Mr. and Mrs. E. K. Jones, A, E. McDowell. assistant execu- tive secretary of the association, Eyre Saitch, last year's champion and runner-up this season, Miss Bessie E. Nurse. Also E. Braithwaite, Mrs. Emand Edmond. Mr, end Mrs. Alfred Git- tens, Miss Hellen A. Langford, Mrs. Susie Madison, E. Carlton Nurse, Oswald C. Newton. Dr. and Mrs. Albert S. Reed of Corona, James S. Watson, Mr. and Mrs. FIVE Felix Weir. Charles W. +Villiams, Mrs. Emma Leonard, Mrs. Estéllo Allston and Fred Johnson, Hotel Press W. Wilson, Mrs. Carre Banks, Mrs. Alma Johnson, J. A. Dicker son, Mr. and Mrs. 'E. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Fairbanks. Mr. and’ Mrs, L. Forde, Harold Jackson. Phila- detphia; Miss Betty Earl, L. Win- ston, Passaic: Mr. and’ Mrs, R. Hodges. Oscar Mevers, Landsdale, X. J. William “Willtamly, Wesley Barrell, Mr. and Mra. J. Hill, Mr. and Mrs. James Brown, Mr, and Mrs. D, Foster, Boston; ‘D. Rivers, Paris, France: H. A. Chapman, Mr, and Mrs. William Brown, Asbury Park. . J. L. Gresham. Mose Scott, But- falo; Mrs. Metta Bonner, Miss L. Talley. Gordon Bowler, J. A, Walker, Washiagion; | itr. and Mrs. A. L. Deaton, Baltimore; P. ©. Braden, Cape Charles, Va.: "Mr. and Mrs. 5. Wood, Plainfield, N. J.: Mr. and Mrs. L. F, Martin, Mr. and Mrs, Byron Cox, Scarsdale, N. ¥.: H.-S. Bolden, Tarrytown, N.Y. Mr. and Mrs. Byrd, Atlantic City! Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Gaeng, Chicago. KID BULLER HANDED FIRST KNOCKOUT M. JOEY HICKS. Better Known as "Allentown Joe Gans," Left Recently for Chicago. From Which Place He Will Head for Jack Dempsey's Training Camp to Help the Former Champion Get Into Shape for His Battle With Gene Tunney. Hicks Helped Dempsey When Jack Was in Training for His Battle With Sharkey. JOEY HICKS. Better Known as "Allentown Joe Gans," Left Recently for Chicago. From Which Place He Will Head for Jack Dempsey's Training Camp to Help the Former Champion Get Into Shape for His Battle With Gene Tunney. Hicks Helped Dempsey When Jack Was in Training for His Battle With Sharkey. SIX WITH all due respect to our friends in the basketball world entertaining thoughts of a big basketball league, the sheer chances of such a league operating with any kind of success from this end are remote—very remote. OUTSIDE of the Renaissance Five there isn't another combination of ball players that can be assembled at this time with a chance to提升 the pulses of the players, to approach their supporters to support such a venture. We saw the attempt last winter and those of us viewing the situation from business standpoint can at this time. THE first thing—and something very necessary—is to place the public in a receptive mood for the return of basketball on a large plane here. At the time when such a league is possible, the return of the league and it was nothing unusual for the big college teams to appear here, sometimes twice in the same month. Better brains with basketball, UCLA's real motive, and if it failed to go over then you can just imagine what will happen now. Watch and see who is right. A WELL-MEANING but misguided contemporary came forth with the idea that "Cum" Posey plans an invasion of Gotham with a big basketball team the coming season. Inking first have come to terms to be dictated by one Robert Dhu Douklas, and as Douglas is as big in basketball as Posey is in baseball you can very well be receptionist there is of coming here under the terms to be set forth by Douglas. VET we make hold to assert that such terms will be reasonable. Douglas is big in every way, and it has only been the obstacle of his basketball in basketball. Pitzerurgers of the limelight which was necessary for the comeback planned by "Cum" during the past few years. And, believe it or not, Mr. Posey will also be the friend of Friendship in other quarters here before he can come in. Perhaps he will need the services of a Jimmie Keenan to bring him in in manner befitting one who really held the spotlight in his day. AND now we come to the dark shadow, George Godfrey, the Dark Shadow of Lieperville, has thrown a wrench in fastic circles by clouding the entire country by that of Pennsylvania. Jimmie Dougherty is looked upon as the Count. Godfrey took Mr. Maloney, and before they knew what was going on he coached merger honors into the discard. Which, if they want to be fair, should bring Godfrey his chance. IN the meantime our own Jack McVey has been slowly but surely piling up a wonderful record which will william be able to follow that he'll be in static circles when the snow starts a flying around these diggings a few months hence. Jack McVey will be able to hold up humps, continues to make good with every start, and if he fails to get his chance when the time comes you can just set it down to the fear of the pitfallfaces. McVEY has been named in third place for a shot at Mickey Walters, and he has had a great deal to do with Jack Dempsey steering clear of Harry Wilks, will have a great deal to say to his father, and we doubt he will allow the man parading with the stolen title to face ANSELL BELL GETS FIRST K.0. ANSELL BELL GETS FIRST K.0. Bruce Flowers Gives Kochansky Bad Beating at Coney Same Night. There were plenty of the thrills at the reopening of the Coney Island Stadium for professional boxing last Friday night. It was only the second show of the season at the Island club, but it is planned to run every week now until the close of the outdoor season. The night's thrills started with a sensational knockout victory for Lew Perfetti, the Long Island ind. over Ansel Beil, better known to Harlemites as Kid Buller. Bell has been living in Brooklyn since his return from Australia so one months ago and was at one time one of the best featherweights making a bid for static honors at the old Commonwealth. The star bout of the night brought together Bruce Flowers, the New Rochelle wonder and a most promising lightweight, and Johnny Kochansky from Bayonne. A well-directed right hander from the colored fighter almost knocked the Pole out cold in the first round. The blow knocked the white boy into the ropes and he went down and was decidedly dizzy when he resumed his pins. Flowers, tasting another quick victory, became too excited and, though he tried hard, was unable to land the punch that would have placed Kochansky "hors de combat" for the night. Kochansky managed to weather the storm of blows from: Flowers for seven rounds, but in the eighth Flowers uncovered his big guns and it was all Kochansky could do to stick it out until the limit. The Pole was a badly beaten fighter at the end of the bout. Flowers ripped right and left torpedoes to the body and had his man in distress. The boys tipped the beam with Flowers weighting 134½ and Kochansky 135. Perfetti's knockout of Bell was quick and snappy. The boys had been fiddling around for only a few seconds when Lew threw two lefts at his opponent's jaw and followed them up with a right to the same spot and Bell went down half way through the ropes. He was unable to get up and after the count had been finished had to be dragged to his corner. Perfetti weighed 123½ and Bell was one pound heavier. another mitt pusher of color. Mr. Kearns will reason that any colored fighter lined up for it to give the famous "go-boy," and he will resent to the Kearns way of doing things to keep mitt pushers of sundown hue from getting a chance at the title. WELL, now, with your permission we'll allow that the above few lines are enough and do all assigned to us to do, but we rise to tell the cocky-world we could do more if we were to give every day don't scare us. We have had some practice at it, brothers. NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS, TUESDAY, AUG. 23, 1927 AFFEY DAVEY---I Got Your Number By CHARLES ROBINSON By GOLLY IF THIS ISNT FINLEY WILSON CAR I'M A MONKEYS UNCLE, HE IS A LUCKY GUY. AH! HERE IS A GOOD NUMBER TO PLAY. HEY! HEY! HEY! HEY! I JUST PUT THREE BUCKS ON THAT NUMBER. DID JA HEAR 'AT? 987 IS THE NUMBER TODAY BOY JUST OUT! IF! I! IF! I! OH! OH! OH! IF! THUD! IF! Chas H. Robinson. AMATEURS IN HECTIC BOUTS Rash Also Comes Home Winner in Bay Ridge Contests. Harold (Westy) Dawson, of Day Ridge, scored his thirty-third consecutive ring trump at the expense of Charley Young, of the Trinity Club, when he caught the judges' eye in the final eight-round bout at the Fort Hamilton Army Reservation last Friday night. The decision was justified but unpopular. Young's strong finish swung the fans to his side. Dawson tipped the beam at 122, while Young scaled 121%. The first round found the boys sparring. Dawson tried to hit at long range, but they clinched and neither got over any good blows. In the second, the fighters mixed things at a much livelier clip. Young was forcing the battle in an exchange of blows in the center of the ring and against the ropes. Dawson attempted to jab and keep. Young away, but the latter was eager to mix it up. ON RECEIVING In the third Dawson sent a stiff right to the head which did not seem to bother the Trinity boxer. Young missed a right to the jaw, as the latter backed away. Dawson landed rights and lefts as Young tried to ward off his attack by straight lefts. At the start of the fourth Dawson connected with a right and left to the jaw. Then he pounded under Young's heart, but these blows failed to do much damage. In the fifth there was a short exchange in the middle of the ring. Dawson had a slight advantage and just before the bell sounded landed a hard right to the jaw. Young took a new lease on life in the sixth and battled savagely. The Trinity Club fighter forced Dawson to slow up and pinned him against the ropes. The seventh found Young in the same mood. He was jabbing Dawson continually with his left, exchanging blows at close quarters and meting out plenty of body punishment. In the final chapter, both boys started off with a rush. Dawson landed a stiff right under the heart and Young seemed to be a little punch-drunk, but he kept on swinging his hands until the finish. Had Young started a little earlier in the bout he might have earned a draw and perhaps a victory for himself. In the eight-round semifinal Kid Rash, of the 369th Coast Artillery, the colored bantamweight champion of the New York National Guard, won the decision over Frankie Knapp, of Bay Ridge. The boys mixed it at a fast clip throughout, Rash proving the more aggressive and superior Lexer, Rash wethed 119½ and Kuapp 126. With the Cricketers Gaining the victory by four runs in a difficult up-hill game at Dunwoodie Park in Yonkers, the team of the Brooklyn Cricket Club defeated the Camerons by 92 to 88 in their Metropolitan League fixture last Sunday. F. Winter, E. Butcher and R. Young contributed most to the compiling of the Cameron's total. The Brooklyns followed and would have fared badly but for the splendid stand made by P. B. Green and A. Edwards, who scored 35 and 34, respectively. Green was also successful with the ball, taking five wickets for 37 runs. A large crowd witnessed the contest, which was played on a fairly fast wicket. The visiting team of picked Bermudian cricketers made a fine start of their tour in this country by easily defeating a strong eleven representing the New York League by 100 runs at New York Oval on Saturday. A Famous Old Owl JOHN H. HARRIS KIRK MARROW, Now a Detective on the Elizabeth, N. J. Police Force. Is in Town With a Host of Brother Elks From New Jersey. Kirk Will Be Remembered for His Prowess in the Athletic World as a Member of the Owls A. C. HELLO, BILL! WELCOME TO The World Tea Garden HARLEM'S FINEST RESTAURANT LENOX AVENUE AND 140TH STREET QUALITY FOOD EXCELLENT MUSIC DINING — DANCING POPULAR PRICES "Ask Anybody" Roses are red, violets are blue I eat at Rose's, why don't you? Phone: Harlem 6389 RAYMOND D. ROSE Prop. It's Harlem's Oldest Favorite ROSE'S ESTABLISHED 1910 Restaurant and Dining Room 430 LENOX AVENUE Bet. 131st and 132nd Sts. Harlem 3322 J. W. ROSE & SON, Proprietors "THE UTMOST IN SANITATION" 432 LENOX AVENUE, Bet. 131st and 132nd Sts. NEW YORK CITY GEO. W. McLAIN, Mgr. Two Manicurists Beauty Parlor Nine Chairs—No Waiting Well-Known Jerseyites Drop in to Say Hello Kirk Marrow and Jimmie Fultz Call to Speak of Old Days—Attending Convention Messrs Jimmie Fultz, known far and near as the "Czar of Newark," and Kirk Marrow, who used to be up front in the days when basketball was at its peak and who played a mean game on the famous old Owls, blew in to say that they had the keys of the town in their vests and would help paint the old city red in conjunction with the Elks. Both boys are "members in good standing." Kirk is here to let the world know that Elizabeth, N. J., is still on the map, incidentally Kirk is also the only colared detective in Elizabeth and doing good work in the department. The boys have promised to try and induce Art Vandeveer to drop over during the week to share in the spotlight of the big doings, but Art, who used to jump center (you know what we mean Art, you played a real game in the old days) is apparently satisfied to remain in the land of the world famous mosquito. A New Athletic Club The Les Chevailers Club of Brooklyn, a newly organized athletic outfit, expect to make their how to the public at an early date. The club will participate in all branches of athletic sports. The officers for the present term are: Jesse E. Wright, pres.; Clarence Merritt, vice-pres.; LeRoy Browne, sec., and Walter Dorrell, treasurer. The Les Chevailers will start basketball practice next month and expect to send a strong team to New York City and vicinity. Some of the material to choose from for the team are: Cecil Jones, Roland Cunningham, Jullus Harrison, Clarence Merritt, Walter Hare, Morris Harris and other former high school and college students. BROOKLYN LODGE NO.32 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 trolicy 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 HELLO, BILL! The competitors who will make up the field for the national A. A. U. 10 mile championship run, to be held in connection with the Richmond County Track and Field Championships, at Curtis Athletic Field, on Saturday afternoon, September 17, will be sent away from the mark by the world's fastest quarter-mile hurdler. Johnny Gibson, of the Bloomfield Lyceum, who gained that distinction by his victory in the national A. A. U. quarter mile championship at Lincoln, Neb., last month in new world's record time, and also by defeating Lord Burghley at the Penn relays, has consented to act as starter for this championship race. Herbert Daniel, S. of 172 Putnam avenue, was riding his bicycle on Bedford avenue near Halsey street on Wednesday, Aug. 18, when he was struck by an automobile-driven by Joseph Weir, white. The boy was taken to the Kings County Hospital suffering from a fracture of the ankle. PRICILLA RICE Successor to Robert Rice FRATERNAL REGALIA Badges, Aprons, Banners, Etc. Mall Orders a Specialty 408 LENOX AVE. Morningside 7410 and the cooking and service are fit for a king LIONEL LOUISE DINING ROOM Home Cooking Exclusive - Refined 113 WEST 127TH STREET MRS. MAREE FRANKLIN Proprietor Phone Morningside 7439 A CORDIAL WELCOME TO ELKDOM h 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 Tiles QUALITY SERVICE FAIR PRICES HARLEM'S ONLY NEGRO HABERDASHERS News of the. Theatres GREETINGS .--- ELKS, VISITORS --- and --- — MR. AND MRS, HARLEM PUBLIC! NewAlhambra Theatre -126th Street and Seventh Avenue 5 OPENS TODAY With a -Feast of Novelties The Troubadours | 12 Comedians - :-- 20 Girls --- 50 People Glorifying Bronze Beauty FAVORITES AMONG. THE TROUBADOURS ARE Tin Moore --- George W. Cooper IDA BROWN, “BABY BLUES" CItARICE 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 | “The Greatest Artist of Her Race and Generation"— Ashton ‘Stevens, Chicago Herald Examiner. Ethel Waters IN EARL DANCER’S “AFRICANA” | With GLENN and JENKINS _ The Greatest Colored Revue of | - | All Time “Ethel Waters Is the Most Intriguing of All Come- .dians, Whatever Their Race, Age or Sex, on the Stage Today.” yr ‘Harriet Underhill, N. Y. Herald Tribune | Mis Great Show Has Moved to Shubert NATIONAL Theatre 4ist St. West of Broadway MIDNITE SHOW THURSDAY Egbert Thompson, Noted Musician, Dies in France qhe news of the death of Egbert ¢ Thompson, one of the most joainent musicians of color in Trrepe, ard widely known tm this Ramry, has caused @ great deal inrearet among the inany friends {made while here, Mr, Thomp- dh sas one of the best cornetists Sir ever anpeared before the (aericast and European public, and jai a reat deal to do with round- ge the band of the 369th Infantry fio the splendid shape ft was in fan they sailed for France, ‘Mthough = the glory of the sdevement of the band went ‘to te late Lieut, James Reese Bu- ne. thos: In a position to know bye uever dented Thompson the gory which accrued by right to fin through the masterly manner fg shich he handled the band. ‘While on the other side he trav- ded extensively and appeared be- fore the crowned heads in Europe. Mz. Thompson died at the Amori- can Hospital in Parls of cancer, aad Me news of his passing came qn this paoer through the American Consul. Dramatic and Social Club on Outing Last Sunday ‘The Literary and Dramatic So- dis} Club, composed of a number of well known residents of Harlem. went to Felham Bay last Sunday on a day's outing and report a very enjoyable time, Among some of the members were: Misses Alice Thompson, Zena Warren, Fer:s Warren and Lena Hunter. Also Messrs. Harlan Jackson, Ray- mond ‘Thompson, Hubert ' Van. Paul King, William Wrench’ and Monroe Jones... Elkins Rehearsing Chorus for Big Downtown Show William Elkins is busily engaged in rehearsing a chorus of volces for one of the biz downtown shows slated to open some time in the fall, | The work of this popular enter- jiainer_has stood the test from the early days of the late Will'ams and Walker shows and many of the oth- ler successes, So well did be do bis work it,has been conceded that the onl¥ approach to hich class chorus singing sincé his earlier ac- tivities in a musical comedy show was in the “Darktown Follies," produced by the late John Leubrie HEN cae Sugar" Slated Or DOwWatown TOuse. | “Brown Sugar.” which closed a successful date at the Lafayette Theatre on Sunday night {s billed for an early appearance at one of ‘the downtown bouses. The show wills be placed into rehearsal on Thursday and many additions will ‘be made. vy urs suce-~ ANEW: YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS, TUESDAY, AUG. 23, 1927 By AUBREY BOWSER WITHOUT CLASS oe tee ore loa + - Be White” and Other Stories ¢a Read This Firat you're staying there; it's the only jas a litecaver.” 132D es: colored place in the neighborhood.! “Not generally. It's only on va-| is! iey Trench. of Beventh avenue, [Im there too, just came an bour|cations.that I let my tongue loose) [2! Ancien, ie at a remote renehors |ago: You're all right nows you to have its way. It doesn't cost|_“€™ pyice (or the summicr. She dreams Thad no water In you. Come on.” | anything then.” ist tal Thorns, he Thitadcipnie bank- .| She stood up. She had not in-| They had reached the house, It| ly ose. ee she has een in {tended to; she was not used to| was a good-sized old cottage, some-| ble Buewapaper, “She wscimn out into” | Such prueque commands from|what in need of paint but roomy | _9t3 Gere Sacer Ss eee young men. They generally await-}and comfortable inside. Its cook-| jgap | SS a’ TT, next thing sbe became con sclons of was a vigorous rub /bing. She opened her eyes; she ‘was lying on the beach. Bending over her, working her arms and rubbing her as if he would break her skin, was a youngish man with the most determined look she had ever scen. His mouth was set, and his eyes, were grim, as if he would force her back to life by. shee: strength of purpose. “Good!” .he _ muttered. “She's coming to. A “little more rub bing—" “Ouch!” “Well, well," he laughed, “That's a sure sign of life.” “It's a. sign that I want to keep my skin whole.” she replied. “Oh, what beavy hands: | Yes." hé admitted, “they're a: ihesty and clumsy as feet.” ‘She sat up. “Where did you come from: There was nobody on the beach when I went into the water.” “You're mistaken. I got- her: just as you went-in: You should have heard me, but you seemed tc be in deep thought about some thing, or someone.” “Yes, 1 was thinking about— | something.” “Well. you started in. and just las 1 was criticising your style—" | SCriticising!” | “To be stire. Have you never ‘been criticised? Well, anyhow |something or other happened an¢ you went under and I jumped in. | reached you just as you went dows the second time. You had fainted $0 you were easy to handle—like a log. in tact” . |" ike a log: You're not very |satlant T see.” i pene? T never have time to tel i ites.” She bridied, she shot him & loos that had never failed to subdue her Harlem admirers, It was lost, fo he was looking at the sea, as 4 he had momentarily forgotten her |presence. Tren be turned to her | briskly. Z “See here, young lady. you've n¢ | nusiness sitting here ike this | Come, get your beach coat om anc get back to the house. I presume Marriage Licenses. Issued Last Week j Attar, Willtam, 3$ West 116th | Mreet: “Silse Almeeta Wilson, "2133 i Blentn avenue. ‘ Eames. John, 222 Wert 133d street: Mite’ Wa'urpin, go) Wese “Gisen Breet. i Been, William, 14° West 183th street: | sissy Ammes” Grats Weve "S8S0h Breve. | Bennese, Granvilie, 124 Weet 130th Mtzect, Mise Iva Bell Hunt, eame | address, | Hinke, Allen, 268° West 18th “street [WMisa Stary Deas dat Went ash street, : 3 Bonaparte, John H.. 99% Brook: ave. fue Resist Mine Eva Siller, “101 ese Tan serene | Bon, John, 267 West 143d street: Miss" Besato Woodrow, | 320 West it20" street, Bryant, "Washington G., 2432. Eighth | vende? Silay Sdella Coleman, same | agarose. Brown, Atthur, 221 West, Fighteenth Street: Mira’ Helena Philips, 349 Hambr mreet, Tsostan, ‘Minne Rrown, Calvin, 230 West Fourteenth Street: Sites Sulla, Gordon, 327 West | Foret street, j Brown. lense E, 3343 Fifth avenue {Pike “Milinine’ Richardson, “eune | _ieadrose. ‘ciltten Fhowas, 19 Wast 124th street {OMiss’ Marah Yarbro, une addrere i cooper, Wiklam A, 440-St) Nicholas jSttenues Mine “Hannah Gourens sume address Deaine, Albert, 654 Herkimer atreet. i Brooklyn: -stias Aimeta” Johnson, Jo West 126th ntreet, Bbron, John. 159 Bord street, New. ek; Mim Chriss Corey, S17 Clinton Dace, Newark. plitera, “Scotts. 124 West 129th | “street; Miss Johnnie Mae Hanker- Son, 14 Went iisth -gireet Egunhason, Gaeard, 195 West 317th Mreet; Silas Amelia Fomies, same address, Faulkner, Clygia, 53 West 177th sires “Mice Ethel Turner, 313 West seth treet Fonck Bennie, 122 Seventh avenue; Mins Berths Winiams, 120 Union Mtreet, derney Cite. | cine Sreteins 204 Bast 114th mtreet | tise Gertrude Scott, 306 West 13th rect Gordon, Arthur, 258 West 128th street : Site iilda ‘Noble, 218 ‘Were desth street, Gray. Martin A, 220. West 240m street: Miss Mary Grice, 137 West iisth atrects Greenwood, John, 2619 Eichin ave. Tue? Mise Mary (Grice, iat Went | eth street | orecnwoods John, 2619 Eighth awe. | nua: ‘Miss Mary Duberry, same ad- Ores. $ Ghugen Willie: 208 Eléridxe, street SHER" sary van, same nudrena, Hal Rabert A. alt Weet 138en ateet ‘Mine Marguerite Burton, 100 West 1asth ateeet Haltantlerssde, Vincent, 117 Wert Pith mereses Mee Muriel J. Ellen, | 281 Edgecombe avesue. Hanon samen, 18” West | 144th Srey sien Josephine Stinnts, 118 Were takin saireet Heath! Alexanders 408 Lenox avenue: Suis Siafeeline’ Thomes.""same ad: rene. Hens Clarence, 251 Went 1224 street : ‘Siies Emma Day, 25. West 13d Rirect. Sa Hens Clement, 220 Went 1934' street : ‘flew Sellfe Jacknon,. same naddrent. ilbert Robert, tens. Scoond, Rene’ isc Agnes ‘Tenny,, samme addrecn, Holden, “Weitiam. 217 Wert 1ikth irect: Mist Mary Taylor, 198 Union Street, Jorrey Clo: Hiaghee: Lewin, 243 Went 1281n street : Sie 'Mariom err, S47 West iiith irect. JoGMnOn, Exnent. 402° Weat_Fiftleth ‘Mineet], Miss Floretta Husse, same ndaress. Johnson. Matthew. 255 Wert 137% Greet; Miss. Ciara 3tltehell, 263 AWistottyteeventh treet, . Jones.’ Winteldy 31 West Sixty-firt ‘Rfsety sis Violet, Meares, same aaaress. Majole George. 172 Went 130th street ‘Mine Marie Lambert, 112 West 109th serves | startin, Joseph, 223 Went 126th atreet:: ‘Mee’ “Mildred Butcher, lat Weet iasth mtreet ners MeKentze, Luther: 1493- Fifth avenue: ‘Stiss Mabel Jobnson, 327 Edgecombe Avenue. cw) ee see eee you're staying there; it's the onl3 colored place in the neighborhood I'm there too, just came an hout ago. You're all right now; you ‘had no water In you. Come on.” She stood up. She had not in tended to; she was not used tc stch brusque commands ror young men, They generally await ed her queenly pleasure. This man seemed to take her obedience for granted and she was vexed with herself for having obeyed. She wished to sit down again to rebuke him, but that would be childish She made up her mind to put this impudent person in his place al the first opportunity. She looked at him sidewise as they turned toward the house. He was somewhat taller than she and strongly built, with a dark browr complexion and large, clear eyes His face was pleasant but serlous and just now there was none of the fron strength she had sez when she first opened her eyes ot the beach, He was decidedly In teresting, much more so than her Harlem ‘suitors. He had thelr assnrance Without their self-satis faction. | Now." he sald unexpectedly “you've about completed you silent examination of me—" “Who says I was examining you?” ““s do," he returned, unperturh ed. “But never mind: I am used ‘to being looked at. As I was 50 ‘ing to say, now that you've ex amined me. 0 on and hate me.” - “Why should I hate you?" “Because I've saved your life You may be one of those people who hate to be placed under obli gation, You needn't hesitate to hate me; I'm used to that too,” “Well!” she rejoined, “I really don’t know what to say to you. You talk as if you didn’t care whether ‘Uhated you or not.” “As a matter of fact.” he: sate coolly. “I don’t.” “Well, of all the—you talk like a woman hater!” “1 haven't hated any of then enough to marry her. TI don't in tend to, Of course. a man never ‘Knows when be may be struck )s ightning, typhoid fever. or love but in my vase the probabilitie gre against it.” * “I see you don't think much ¢ love.” - “No. Love is an. old sypsr.-al ways sneaking around to * cate! somebody unawares. stee! his hear and sive it to someone -{t doesn’ belong to.” 7 “You're a good talker, sir, as wel xtreet; SMfisn Cora Newton, same ac- ire gratat. 120 AMehane, ‘Tousraint, WOverture, 277 SWESS Med “treet: Miss. Branees SHR SF Spring” street, Sorris- Oe RR oe ‘Mursayy Alexander, of Wong 723th Rareet: Mins Mary Wilson, 73 Wert Tkth street, Namen, uilo, 107 West 128th nrect Mise’ Flor ‘ae. Maria. Jimines, 311 East Ninety-ninth strect. Norel, “Holden. 67 Ruteern street Newark: Mins Gertrnde Brown. 13¢ Horton street. Newark. Oliver, George S.. 6 Wes 114th street Ming Eernice Styles, same address Patterson, Herbert, 2213 Fifth ave- Tue: Mise Alma Johnson, a8 West Taeth street! Pleasant, Leon, 470 Lenox avenue: ‘Mist Annet White, same address Reid, Herbert, 181 West 135th street Mim “Oveda Marshall, 126" West Listh, street. Richardson. Alfred F., 223 West 140th Mrect Sfise Juanita West, 440 West Thirey.tth street, Roach, Frederick C., 268 Edgecombe Avenue; Miss Lililan Brook, sot Broadway, Rogers, William, 179 Bast 100th Mreet: Miss Core Erown, same Address RoMin, deasle, 276 West, 127th street: Miss Virginia Battle, 267 West 106th mireet. Sadler, John Wiliam, $2 ¥: ext 13i3t Street: ‘Sin Marie” Mac ics, 2085 Fifth avenue. : Santos, Rafael 63 Fast Nv sty-ninth nipeet Stisn Mercedes Hivers, eat address, Smith, John S.. 43 Humboldt avenue, Toston; Mies’ sary Venoble, 613 Co- iumbia ‘avenue, Boston. Steele, Arthur Pq 2230, FI avenue ‘Mins Emily Brown, 239 West 148th aireet. Stinim. Jonph. 1513 Charlotte street Tron: Mim Anna Hachaan, 3: East Third street, s Tai, Harold, 350 Went 143th. ntreet : Mine ‘Exhline Johnson, 238" West 144th street. Taylor. Eenest, 60 West 128th street : Siew’ Sally Mitchell, 80S Manhattan avenue, Thomas, Dave, 961 Garfield avenue, ‘Tersey Clty; Miss Litlle Moorer, 464 Johuson avenue, Torney City. Thorman ‘Lioyd, 170 Went 14let atrect Stine Ursuline Pope, 20 West 137th mireet Thorne. Roy, 107 West 129th, street: Mina Alico ‘Davis, 6 West "158th treet Vaden Felix, 211 East Eighty-elghth Street: Miss Plan Santaria, same address, Voorhees, George, 100 Went 139th Greet) Mfles Bina Hayes, emo ad- rere Waddell, William G., 2212 Fifth ave. ‘Rue! “Mine. Wilkeimine Hale, “147 West iatd street Wallbrook, sinraford, 224 East Ninc- ‘iyeninth’ street; Atlan Luciile i Bryant. gg Enat, Ninoie-ninth street Weakley. Sark Anthony, 984. 3forris avenue; Miss “Mary Landers, 141 Aweet Lien strect, Wheeler, Enoch, 664 Lenox avenue: Sinn “Sosephine Donable, mame ad- ene, Whiteman, Beaton. 228 West 41st mireet: Mise Daisy ‘Tyson, 2530 Seventh avenue. White, David. 10, Bast 130th street: ‘Mies Ieabelie Benjamin, 153 West Jasth street. a Williams, James Thomas, 201 Wert 320th ntreet; Sflss Dorothy Drown, same address, Williams, John’ A. 9301, Teanton ave. Rue, Woodhnves, 1. J; sine Bdna Stay Charles 73 North "Clinton Mireet, Boat Orange, N. J. Willington, Davia, 26 West Xinety- ‘ninth sifect ; Sfles Violet Young, 164 Geom font caret Labor Office Opens for Cotton Pickers (Preston News Service.) DALLAS, Tex, Aug 21—The Federal branch. of the labor serv- ice. Department of Labor, which will aid Texas cotton growers to obtain pickers throughout the ses- son, started functioning with: the arrival of G. T. Adams, who will be in charge of the office of the Dallas Chamber of Commerce. Texas farmers seeking pickers will register with the bureau at once, stating the number of pickers de- SPECIAL SALE -- Monday, Au; "$1,000 Cash, Bal: WALTER E. REIFER, Inc., 100: pga i gecaro | “Not generally. It’s only on va- Hcations. that I let my tongue loose to have its way. It doesn't cost anything then.” ‘They had reached the house, It was a good-sized old cottage, some- what in need of paint but roomy and comfortable inside. Its cook. ing was {rreproachable, even re- Juvenating, The proprietors were Mr. and Mrs. Hall, a good old couple about sixty years old and almost as active as youths. “Now, Miss Trench,” began her companion. She nterrupted bim. “How did you know my name?” she asked ay they opened the gate. “Mrs, Hall told me a lady of that name was here. But I saw you a ‘year ago on a visit to New York.” “Where wag it?", “I didn’t meet you. 1, was stand- ing in front of a drugstore on Seventh avenue, talking with a friend, and you ‘came out of the store.” My friend said to me, ‘Gee, man, ain't that a pretty girl?"” Ivy stopped short. » She. well re- membered that conversation. Her companton looked at her ‘curiously as her eyes flashed in anger. “I know just what you said to your friend. You said ‘What {s beauty without class?" “i happened to overhear every word both of you said. I didn't see you plainly but T heard ‘that biting remark, Aren't you sorry you didn’t save the life of agirl with more class than I have?" “Just as T sald,” he bantered, “you hate me already, with a good. jold fashioned, red-eyed hate, Tt never fails.” | “*Oh, no, I mean I hate that nasty remark you made in New York.” "You should thank me for it. You ‘have so much sugar thrown at you that a dash of salt might do you ‘good. If you're an intelligent girl my tart words must have made you do a-lot of thinking. You prob- ably thought about them for days.” He was right, but she would not give him the satisfaction of know- ing it: She kept silence, and he spoke again. “As @ direct result, you ought to fhave more class now than a year }ago. No, no," he sald’ as she-made an angry gesture, “you can't sweey your skirts about’ you in scorn: you haven't any on, you know. Perhaps on closer acquaintance— “There will be fo Closer acquaint: ance, Mr—Mr.—" " “Thorné, Hannibal . Thorne, al your service.” | End Second Instalment. | “(Continued tomorrow) sired and arrange for the trans: portation with the government, Mr. Adams sald. .. Several_ thousand _farmers_were ‘aided by the bureau last yeat and a3 Many more are. expected to. call ‘onzhe Office for help again this year, b? said. There is no charge for the service; either to the farm. er or to ti® person seeking’ Work fa the cotton -Zelds. Cotton plck- Ing will get uncer Way within a week or two. 7 THIRTY-SIX INJURED IN RAILROAD CRASH (Preston News Service)’ HOUSTON, Miss. Aug. 22. section foreman and thirty-five laborers were injured, many of them seriously, near here Tuesday when the motor car on which they were riding collided head-on with a gravel train, Three of the men are not expected to live, The wreck occurred on the Gulf, Mobile and Northern railroad. ANNOUNCEMENT. The Moonlight Excursion to have been siven by St. Luke's Missiou Wednesday, August 24, has been postponed until ureters Sept. T,on account of the Elks’ Con- Yention—(Advt.} HELLO, BILL! Don't leave town until you ree the Root men, KOLES HUB TEA Co. 16 WEST ta2nd. ST. Ground Floor West ROOTS, HERBS, NARKS, SVEKY INCENME ‘Morningside i222 ae————_ 1926 1927 WELCOME, ELKS! WILLIAM H. WALLACE ASSOCIATION Present to Their Many Friend | br ‘Popular Request The Firet Annual Water Carnival and Boat Excursion To FOREST VIEW GROVE “ON THE HUDSON” Thursday, August 25, 1927 TICKETS, ROTND TRIP, #150 me ot ee stenmes ienven Jewel's, Wharf, foot of Fulten St, Brooklyn, 9:30 Rose mar. ‘Directions. to Ferry: From New York, tae Eat Side or Wert Side Eubway to borough Hal’ then fake Fulton Stapet ‘Trolley marked BAe Perry Get of Se est stop. SW. HL Wallace, 31 Fleet Strect. Tickets may be reserved by phon= ing “Triangle “242 oF Bushwick FURNISHED ROOMS ~ NEW YORK 133D ST., 252 W., 3d flocr west— Comfortabie room in refined home. Unthank. Auz.22-23 132D ST. 69 W. (Apt. 5)—Fur- nished room; quiet. homelike. Call evenings. Telephone, Har- lem ' 9675. ‘Aug.22-3—4-7 118TH ST., 15 W. (Apt. 2)—Neat- ly furnished rooms; refined cou- ple or single person. University 5134. Aug.22-3t 132D ST., 279 W.—Furnished rooms, large and medium, all conveniences, Audubon $908. . Aug.22-6t 143D ST., 146 Ww. (Apt. 23)—Fur- nished room to let, all privileges. Couple or single, $6. Call oll week... 7TH AVE. 2505 (Apt. 40)—Large and smail room, neat, clean per- | son only. 9 A, M, or evenings. | AUR. 2351 BUGECUMBE AVE. 10d - (Apt. 12-A)—Neutly furnished * room for-men. Call after -5 o'clock. Jackson, : 7 MAN DRUGGED AND.: ROBBED-OF $595 PITTSBURGH, Aus. 22,—Mur- tock Monroe, aged 45 years, re- ported to police Wednesday tnat he had been robbed of $595 by two strangers whom he met on Monday. Monroe told the police that he felt asleep and that when he awoke ‘his money and his companions were missing. CONVENTION PICTURES Official convention pictures of the I. B. P. O. E. of W.. grand lodge were sturted on Sunday. August 21, The cameramen took [scenes of the Chicago delegation arriving in New York and of their street parade to headquarters and fof the activities throughout Har- Jem, espectally at headquarters of ‘Monarch and. Imperial lodges. where most delegates reported im- mediately tpon arrival. On Monday the crowds parad: ing through the streets were enter tained for hours by the antics of the comedy team, Higrins and |Byrd. who are being featured in the offelal motien picture, “Hello ' Bill.” sake, | Pictures were made Monday at | o'clock in the morning in the |Rrand exalted ruler’s headquarters of Judze Edward Heerr, the only Negro judge in Philadelphia: Frank H. Hunter of ‘St. Louis, who is the daddy of all the Elks; Frank Sutton, grand marshal of the |zrend lodge of Pittsburgh: J. Dal [mas Steele of Manhattan Lodge. who: is a candidate, opposing the re-election of J. Finley Wilson as grand exalted ruler; G. L. Pendle ton, prominent attorney at law of Baltimore, who recently acquired recognition, due to his handling o Ithe famous “Candy Kid" case: James. Martin, past exalted rule: [of Fort DuBouis Lodge, who Js now [police Meutenant of the | Chicagc Ipolice force; William A. Middleton jof Chicago, who is also a lienten jant of police; Major A. E. Patt |ron, who was judge advocate: of the Ninety-second Division of the lA. EB. FL | Others of whom pictures were made were: Monroe Elgin.’ ex sited ruler of Golden West Lodge [No.8 the only delesate who was jsent here from the state of Calt fornia; the Rev. Dr. Joha W. Rob: linson, pastor of St. Mark's M. E IChurch: King Watkins of Durham. IN. C.. who ‘fs grand esteemed lec ‘uring knight and also famous jmavie king of the South; Alder mali Henti W. Shields of | th iTwentyfirst Assembly District, | at tke opening meeting yester ‘day picWites were taken of Acting ‘Mayor McKee in the St. Mark's |Churen; Wartin J. Healey. com missioner Of public works; Com missioner Ferdinand Q. Mortor \an Perry W- Howard of Missle = Tho igyspecial assistant t | Sint. eno ie neral of the Unitee | States. tAdvt)® a Ue oe Superb Lame Company, Inc. | 8 West 140th St. Phone Bradhurst 4309 - ' WET WASH, FLAT AND FINISHED- WORK 182.St. Nicholas Ave. is now open to recelve 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 recelved for first of September occupancy. ‘ APPLY DAY OR NIGHT 182 ST. NICHOLAS AVE. Near xxgth St, University 3620 MOVE TO. THE PELHAMS MODERN TWO-FAMILY HOUSES With Four-Car Garage Heat --- Electric --- Oak Floors oe N. ¥. APTS. FOR RENT’ aera ST... 76 E—Five rooms; ; bath, eléctric, white sinks, hot water; concession; $35. “Ash- and 2124, Ang.22-2t IBIST ST. 200 W, (Apt. 15)—Large front room overlooking 7th Ave. furnished.” . ~ Aug 23-4 ISTH ST. 306 W—Firstclass 6 yoom apartment. all improve: ments... Ground: floor, ’ middle floors and fourth-floor. Aug., 233 ST, NICHOLAS AVE. 182 (Hotel Grampion)—Completely furnish- | ed dining: room in hotel to: let at moderate rental, Inquire Man. ager. . 7 * + ST, NICHOLAS PL., 80 (Florida Court)—New house, just opened for respectable colored people: 3 and’4 rooms, all improvements, each room private: near 153th St. and Polo Grounds. Phone or inquire. Supt. Audubon 2200. 7 AUg. 22-3-4-6-67 PARLOR FLOOR for business or professionnl: bert -section in Harlem. Edgecombe $800-8900. Shapiro, | . APT. TO. RENT ‘NEWTOWN 2121—Three and four- Foam apartments to tent. Ris | ing Sun Realty Corp... 100-13 | -Northern Bivd. F WANTED a INFANT, about 3 weeks to month old, .at once. Apply to Hochoy, 2al W. 130th St. Aug.22-23 DETECTIVE AGENCY, 285 Lenox Ave. Phone Morningside 5876. Established 4 years, strictly con- fidential. Frank Hork, Ang. 23-24 FOR SALE SPANISH-AMERICAN barber sop] for sale; exceptional bargain: easy terms. Robert Isaac, 1953 ith ave. cor, 118th St. ‘Monu- ment 2512. AUg.22-3t 2-FAMILY brick houses for sale at cost by the Rising Sun Realty Corp.. 10013 Northern Blvd. Co- rong, L. 1, Phone Ntwtown Sut RESTAURANT. for sale: excellent | Tocation; on Seventh Ave. Phone 1280 Edgecombe. MASON & HAMLIN ORGANS $35, player organs $150 up, mahogany Pianos $65-up, Victrola one-nalt price; payments. We do repalr- ing: also. buy pianos. | Yetts, 20 yrs. at 239 W. 145th St. Audu- bon 7192. Aug.22-4¢ 21ST ST. 257 W—Furnished 10 room house, lease. Rent $150. Gocd income, Uninvited; Cuts Host | ROCHESTER, Aug, 22.—Thomas Walker gave a party at his home on Saturday night to which he did not invite-Jeff-Alston, Jeff came, . SEVEN | a “> BR FOR SALE eel FURNISHED one-room apt., new, “Taw building, desirable locality. o ‘No reasonable offer refused: | Bradburst 2188. . po a es R. E. FOR SALE REMODELLED building. fully “tarnished, best section in Har. lem. Little cash needed. Edge- combe $800-8900.. Shapiro. 2 ee FOR SALE — CORONA NEWTOWN 2121—Onefamily frame house, in good locality. - NEWTOWN 2121—One and two- family brick houses for sale, in good locality. however, armed with a knife and a revolver, determined to revenge the slight. The host is in a hos- pital with severe knife wounds and the unbidden guest is being enter- tained by the sheriff. “ The H. P. Dream Book” Welcome ce Elks CF ‘Welcome Prof, Kone é Welegmes (G soa ske J Se" Sou snot fo, forget 29 a take w few Pe H. P. Dream ie By yous hen with y NE cy @ees See Get them at zs Sit Sitio: 736 Sh “Bones Sha «news: Stands. 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 : o | Wilfred R. Bain (Licensed Broker) - “2350 7TH AVENUE " ° N. ¥. City EDGECOME 6197 Room 202 Madame Selika A YOUNG artist, after list of Madame Selika's acco on musical heights attai of our race, asked of me, "ho her!" I replied by saying, "by cause Negroes are too prone cared nothing for racial trad this generation hears of Rol eration glorified Selika. But was served to the younger gracial accomplishment. I am we can fire the imaginations rived musicians with the acc A YOUNG artist, after listening to my telling the story of Madame Selika's accomplishment, which placed her on musical heights attained by no other woman artist of our race, asked of me, "how is it I have never heard of her?" I replied by saying, "you have not heard of her because Negroes are too prone to forget and until now have cared nothing for racial tradition and the pity of it." As this generation hears of Roland Hayes, our parents' generation 'glorified Selika. But the white face at that time was served to the younger generation as the ideal for our racial accomplishment. I am glad the day has arrived when we can fire the imaginations of the coming and already arrived musicians with the accomplishments of Marie Selika. In my allotted space I shall tell of her triumphs. In 1882 Madame Selika had made such an artistic record for herself in this country that a committee of citizens in Boston tendered her a testimonial in "appreciation of your attainments and promise in your profession and our cordial interest in your behalf." And then Madame went abroad. Her first appearance was in London, October 14, 1882. Her success was immediate. It is said, with the pens of the great critics of the Old World, she had a perfect trill and staccato. She continued to study in London and counted Mazzoni and Lamperti among her teachers. Madame Selika knows the traditions of the operas and oratories Leonard E. Kenerly Profitable Garage Hearses, Limousines, Sta- Battery Service Are Service at Five years ago Leonard Motor Inn at 39-41 West 144 James W. Peters, now a rea- 131st street. Motor Inn. co- garages in the East, came into Peters, Inc., found their fun- 1917, declining. Their funeral parlors were near Lenox avenue, and overh- ing the business. In order to cided to run a garage in connec- search for larger quarters. Leonard E. Kenerly Has Built Up Profitable Garage Business in Harlem Hearses, Limousines, Standard Makes Tires and Battery Service Are Part of Equipment of Service at Motor Inn. Five years ago Leonard E. Kenerly, 40, established Motor Inn at 39-41 West 144th street, in partnership with James W. Peters, now a real estate broker at 203 West 131st street. Motor Inn, considered one of the largest garages in the East, came into existence when Kenerly and Peters, Inc., found their funeral business, which began in 1917, declining. Their funeral parlors were located in West 139th street, near Lenox avenue, and overhead expenses were undermining the business. In order to save the business, they decided to run a garage in connection with it, and began their search for larger quarters. In October, 1922, with the assistance of a building loan from a downtown friend, Mr. Kenerly bought the ground at 39-41 West 144th street and built Motor Inn. The partners slaved and the business prospered. The task proved too arduous and the work too confining for Mr. Peters, who severed his connections with the business September 15, 1924, and established himself in real estate. Motor Inn still bears the trade name of Kenerly and Peters, Inc., however. Associated with Mr. Kenerly was the late William De Kalb, whose indefatigable energy assisted in establishing the business on a firm foundation. His interest in the growth of the business was deeply personal, said Mr. Kenerly. Mr. De Kalb, who lived at 126 West 139th street, died last January 27 at the age of sixty-four. Motor Inn is said to be the only Negro official Goodyear Tire and Exide Battery service station in the East. Firestone, Goodrich and Kelly-Springfield official tire service is also established there. Mr. Kenerly is said to be the first Negro in the East to use limousines for funeral service. Five hearses and five Cadillac limousines from Motor Inn are serving the needs of Harlem's, foremost funeral directors. Motor Inn is strictly a private garage, admitting no commercial cars or taxicabs. It employs twelve people regularly. A list of prominent and millionaire patrons of Motor Inn include the residents of the White Motor ```markdown ``` EIGHT. ening to my telling the story omplishment, which placed her named by no other woman artist now is it I have never heard of you have not heard of her be to forget and until now have tition and the pity of it." As and Hayes, our parents' gen- the white face at that time generation as the ideal for our glad the day has arrived when of the coming and already ar- omplishments of Marie Selika. as they were given her by those Old World masters of song. Over the hands of this gracious woman, whom it is the good fortune for New York City to have in its midst, have men of royalty clocked their heels in military manner and bent their heads to kiss her hand in appreciation of her art. She, in truth, has sung for Kings and Queens and has carried the race banner to artistic victory each time. She was singing when Adelina Patti was in her zenith and had to come under the eyes of the same critics who were seeing only Patti. And Madame has press comments to show she came out "more than conqueror." Let me quote from the Figaro in Hy Has Built Up Business in Harlem Standard Makes Tires and Part of Equipment of Motor Inn. E. Kenerly, 40, established 9th street, in partnership with real estate broker at 203 West considered one of the largest to existence when Kenerly and rural business, which began in located in West 139th street. Head expenses were undermined to save the business, they de- tection with it, and began their F. Baking Company, the president of the Skinner organization, the vicepresident of the Manufacturers Corporation, the president of Fiat Motors, the president of the Scoval Manufacturing Company, and many others. Mr. Kenerely is a Mason, and is a member of the Urban League, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the Young Men's Christian Association. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Northeastern Life Insurance Company. . NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS. TUESDAY, AUG. 23, 1927 Paris. "Madame Selika sang in great style. She has a very strong voice of depth and compass, rising with perfect ease from C to C and she trills like a feathered songster, whose notes suddenly fall upon your ear in the solitude of the woodland on a perfect day in June. Her range is marvelous, and her execution and style of rendition show perfect cultivation. Her 'Echo Song' cannot be surpassed. It was beyond any criticism. It was an artistic triumph." From the Berlin Tageblatt we have: "The concert by Madame Sellka was given yesterday and this distinguished artist gave us a genuine pleasure. Madame Sellka with her singing roused the audience to the highest pitch of enthusiasm, and after her first Aria she was twice recalled, and could only quiet the vociferous applause by rendering a selection with orchestral accompaniment. Of this wonderful singer we can only say she is endowed with a voice of surpassing sweetness and extraordinary compass. With her pure tones, her wonderful trills and roulades, her correct rendering of the most difficult intervals, she not only gains the admiration of amateurs, but also that of professional musicians and critics. It is almost impossible to describe the effect of her voice; one must hear it to appreciate its thrilling beauty." I could fill pages with press comments like these. What singer of today possess such? She is indeed an inspiration to the Negro musician. As president of the New York Local of Negro Musicians, I have already proposed giving a monster testimonial to this singer of singers. Mrs. Jessie Zackery is most Timely "DO Visi SAFETY DON'T forget your res ment, and don't for DON'T stick your head trolley windows. DON'T try to board a c get off before it stop DON'T sleep in trolley. DON'T fall for every m good to you. Timely "DON'TS" for Visitors SAFETY FIRST DON'T forget your residence, floor and apartment, and don't forget to go to it. DON'T stick your head or arms out of train or trolley windows. DON'T try to board a car when it is moving, or get off before it stops. DON'T sleep in trolley, elevated or subway trains. DON'T fall for every man or woman who looks good to you. CARE OF YOUR MONEY DON'T display large bill book in public. Have ting about town. DON'T let it be know sums of money on you. DON'T make change for it elsewhere. DON'T ask strangers for to do with them. e work the old pocket MANY DON'T argue with cone DON'T smoke in cars, there is a place espe DON'T fail to give you DON'T wear turbans or order in public. exce official occasion. DRINK DON'T drink too much DON'T carry liquor in DON'T leave your drink Don't Fail to Visit The DON'T display large bills or show your pocketbook in public. Have small change for getting about town. DON'T ask strangers for change; have nothing to do with them, especially if they try to work the old pocketbook trick, on you. DON'T argue with conductors or motormen. DON'T smoke in cars, trains or stations unless there is a place especially provided for it. DON'T fail to give your seat to elderly people. DON'T wear turbans or other insignia of your order in public, except in a parade or other official occasion. MODEL SCHOOL Shorthand and Typewriting Teaches Pitman's American System and Touch Typewriting Individual Instruction 357 Lenox Ave., near 128th St. Tol. Morningside 4927 Geo. F. Henderson, C. S. T. Director JOB PRINTING When you wish some special printing correctly and carefully done, Phone Bradhurst 6152. Not only can we do the work in the best manner, but we have a splendid collection of pictures with which to illustrate it and give the work added pulling power. eagor to place herself at our disposal for the program to show her appreciation of this woman who has paved the way. The late Eugene Mars Martin, the night I made the proposal, said "I gladly give my services and offer those of my sister and brother for that program whenever it is given." His sister and brother will carry out his wishes. Boy Scout News By Scout Edward Lewle Scoutmaster N. Cobbs and Assistant Scoutmaster Charles Fisher have returned from Manhattan Boys' Scout Camp. Wackswahl-Kanohwoke Lakes, N. Y., with twenty-two boys. Their camping was a success. This is the first time that any troop from New York spent two weeks in camp and returned with 104 merit badges and eight honor campers. Troop 776 led in scout instruction every morning. Among the things indulged in by the boys were track meets and amusements around the camp fire. Medals will be awarded the troop by the church and Ex-Scoutmaster Ison for their wonderful work at camp. CAN YOU TELL ANSWER. Eighteen thousand slaves were owned by Negroes. ON'TS" for tors FIRST evidence, floor and apart- set to go to it. or arms out of train or ar when it is moving, or elevated or subway trains. an or woman who looks or show your pocket- e small change for get- n that you carry large you. or anybody: let him get or change: have nothing especially if they try to book trick on you. NERS ductors or motormen. trains or stations unless specially provided for it. seat to elderly people. other insignia of your apt in a parade or other NKS at one time. your pocket. is exposed. 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